I found this interesting enough to share, obviously. It’s called An Anthem for Justice. It is a way to frame the “calculated intentionality underlying the COVID tyranny.”

 

This Anthem for Justice is my attempt to succinctly chronicle the calculated intentionality underlying the COVID tyranny, and I ask your help in spreading the clear message that #MistakesWereNOTMade. Please share this poem and keep it handy for the next time anybody uses verbiage to gloss over the atrocities committed. Let’s make 2023 the Year of Accountability so none dare repeat such acts in the future.

 

GraniteGrok and its readers have plodded, raced, walked, stumbled, and run through the evidence from the early months. There is no shortage of substantiation on these pages to justify the case for calculated intentionality. From pandemic war-panning to hostility toward safe prophylactic treatments to openly blatant statements by elites about depopulation, resets, and a new world order, the only thing standing between the average normal global citizen and acceptance is a paradigm. That “they” would never do it, couldn’t, but they did.

 

The following poem was inspired by a conversation with Mike Yeadon. We have both independently noticed the increasing use of terms like “bungled” and “blunder” to describe the crimes against humanity perpetrated under the cloak of COVID. 

The presumption is that mistakes were made and, in some respect, at least lower on the food chain, they were, as I wrote in April of 2021, regarding Republican Governor Sununu’s response here in New Hampshire.

 

Given a taste of power, [the] first instinct is not just to abuse it but with blatant disregard for the limitations placed on them by State and Federal Constitutions.

This, by the way, is why we refuse to give New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu a break.

This was a test. He failed it. Miserably. As did all of his lickspittle sycophants. You put politics ahead of principle, treated your citizens like a rental car. Demonstrated without any doubt that you are incapable of being entrusted with authority.

You arbitrarily closed businesses, fined otherwise law-abiding citizens, constrained movement, killed jobs, allowed warrantless searches and seizures of property.

And what is truly disgusting is that people on the right are still making excuses for this.

 

Mistakes were made. We elected people to our legislatures, town, and city councils, and select boards that, when given the opportunity, tried to bend us over a rail and rape our liberties. Businesses died. People lost their livelihoods.  Many died alone. Hospitals and doctors murdered patients for money. And those who pushed back were called cranks, extremists, and deniers. They were surveilled, censored, and even detained. Medical experts were panned by media clowns, late-nite stooges, hags, ruffians,  and ignorant politicos.

To protect the orders passed down from a cabal that Margaret Anna Alice rightly calls out.

 

Name your genocide—it was not a mistake.
That includes the Great Democide of the 2020s.
To imply otherwise is to give Them the out they are seeking.

 

Whether you were a planner or just their tool, the end remains the same. It always is. Name your genocide, and the “response” to the Wuhan Flu resulted in a genocide that has not yet ended. And the planners and facilitators do not deserve a way out.

War crimes were committed. When do the hearings begin, because if they do not, history will repeat itself.

 

The poem is in text form here, with links for those who do not prefer the audio-video experience (below).

 

HT | Margaret Anna Alice Substack

 

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If you are an adult and into drag shows (being in them or watching them), that’s your business. I don’t care. But I oppose subjecting children to these degrading sexualized clown shows. And the President of Texas A&M finds them demeaning to women.

 

“Does a drag show preserve a single thread of human dignity? I think not. As a performance of exaggerating aspects of womanhood (sexuality, femininity, gender), drag shows stereotype women in cartoon-like extremes for the amusement of others and discriminate against womanhood. Any event that diminishes an individual or group through representation is wrong,” Wendler wrote.

…

“As a university president, I would not support ‘blackface’ performances on our campus, even if told the performance is a form of free speech or intended as humor. It is wrong. I do not support any show, performance or artistic expression which denigrates others—in this case, women—for any reason,” he wrote.

Forward-thinking women and men have worked together for nearly two centuries to eliminate sexism. Women have fought valiantly, seeking equality in the voting booth, marketplace and court of public opinion. No one should claim a right to contribute to women’s suffering via a slapstick sideshow that erodes the worth of women.”

 

You’ll find similar sentiments in these recently added remarks by (no longer a registered Democrat) Tulsi Gabbard.

 

There is no greater expression of hatred and hostility towards women than to try to erase our existence as a category of people and to minimize us to being a construction of anyone’s imagination.

 

Amen, sister of the traveling objective truth!

Now. Let us repeat, echo, renew, and reaffirm that if all the adults in the room consent, it’s none of our business. That includes mudwrestling, tossing midgets, furry conventions, and whatever they do at Spring Break these days. Consenting adults deserve a wide birth when it comes to making choices about their idle amusements if they do not harm others, just like they do with first amendment rights to association, redress, religion, and speech, especially the sort others may find offensive. Wide berth!

Everyone is entitled to express an opinion about the value of everything, including these ‘past times’ for or against. That is how adults work things out as individuals, couples, groups, communities, states, and nations, and the higher up that chain you go, the wider the berth necessary.

As for drag shows, the present vaudeville-esque misogynistic cartoon-like stereotypes of women. Feel free to be offended, but isn’t it more offensive for so-called forward-thinking liberals to imprint that image on children’s minds? We are not just subjecting them to a wholly age-inappropriate characterized sexualization. We impress upon them that a man in clown makeup acting like a sex worker is a reasonable (sensible, plausible) example of womanhood.

A form of cultural proselytizing with which they are so obsessed that they demand adults dressed like caricatures of women in terrible makeup perform for other people’s children.

The President of Texas A&M has nailed it, if not to the castle church door in Wittenberg, then at least the internet’s virtual door. The left is preoccupied with making fun of women while encouraging men to mock them using stereotypes Democrats claim to despise.

And they are proud of that. They brag about it. Defend it. It’s a hill to die on for them. But it is not a positive image, nor is it empowering unless by which you mean empowering men to erase women and decades of progress, those nearly two centuries invested in eliminating sexism.

It’s not surprising. The left has been working to undo the emancipation of black slaves since the day it happened, so it was only a matter of time before they came for women. But, like blacks, they continue to lie and insist they are their best advocates.

It’s simply not so.

 

 

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Things have happened since the last demand for a school district’s card catalog – all local.  That Gunstock thing. The primary and general elections. And now we’ve got the Belknap Delegation Budget screwup. But it is time to get back to that card catalog.

This research project has a number of facets based on findings from the various Districts within NH. Not least of which is how well they are willing to follow the law (the listing of all the books in a District’s libraries is not exempted from right-to-know like personnel records or school safety plans).

Some complied immediately and without complaints or concern (Gilford). Some had questions and a bit of pushback (Berlin).  Others I have to circle back on because they refused. Thankfully, I have a persistent streak in me (even if it takes some amount o time).

So today, it was Hinsdale’s turn. I generally send these RSA 91-A Right To Know emails out to all of the members of the School Board; after all, they are the representatives that have been elected to manage the District, and they should be aware of legal items like this.  It turned out, however, that NO emails were listed on their new website, so I had to call in to get one – no email failure message yet, so I hope that it has been received. It follows along with the other emails I have sent:

From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To CommunityConnections@Hnhsd.org
Date 3/22/2023 3:07:49 PM
Subject An RSA 91-A (Right To Know ) demand for the Hinsdale Scrhool District Library card catalog.

Good afternoon. This email is intended to be received by the Hinsdale School District  SAU 92’s school board:

• Holly Kennedy, Chair
• Jeana Woodbury
• Julia Klelee
• April Anderson
• Sean Leary.Vice-Chair

Please find attached to this email a Right To Know demand for the card catalog covering all of the libraries within the District.  This Right To Know is copied below.

It is requested that the Responsive Records be returned in a spreadsheet file which all current Library content management systems can do.

Kindest regards,

-Skip

Skip Murphy
Founder, co-owner
GraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com |
Dominating the political Bandwidth in New Hampshire

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A:4 (I) ), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the below enumerated governmental records. Otherwise, if this cannot be fulfilled within that mandated window per RSA 91-A, please advise when the Responsive Records will be made available.

This request is for the Hinsdale / SAU92 School District library “card catalog”. This is for any and all books located in the following:

• District-wide “main” library
• Each school within the District’s “main” library
• If a school has multiple “main” libraries (such as Brockton High, Brockton, MA)
• All classrooms with cataloged books that are tracked by the District.

The information for each Responsive Record shall include:

• Name of the book
• Name of the Author(s)
• Content Summary
• ISBN identification (or other such designated ID)
• Name of the School
• If a School has multiple libraries, a designation of which library is being referenced (in the case of Brockton High, the five libraries: Red, Azure/Blue, Green, Yellow, and the Science libraries)
• Name/designation of the Classroom within a School

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, unavailable for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016) . Unless there is some reason that it is not reasonably practical to produce such, explain why it is not practical to comply. I am asking that the Responsive Records be returned in a spreadsheet file (e.g., EXCEL, OpenOffice) which your library system can produce.

Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails, query files) which may have been deleted from respective Inboxes but are still available on the applicable email server or in your / email host backup system(s).

Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection. You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder to use in uploading those responsive records.

Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Skip Murphy
GraniteGrok.com

 

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I have to be upfront that I heard about this comparison from Kevin O’Leary, the Chairman of O’Leary Ventures. He drew the differences over the last twenty-five years of Moorhead, Minnesota, and Fargo, North Dakota.

These two towns are less than two miles apart, but their stories could not be more distant. Less than a quarter century ago, both were small towns with an equal population of 50,000. Fargo is now the home of 140,000, and Moorhead boasts 45,000. The change indicates the exact reasons for the New York to Florida or California to Texas migrations. People will move their families to a better place for their families. Let’s look at some interesting features of these neighboring towns separated by a state line, a bridge, and powerfully different governing policies.

On the surface, these two Midwest towns are very similar. They have the same demographic makeup, virtually the same political alignment with over 40% Republican, and comparable property values, with the edge going to Fargo with many more homes over $500,000. Fargo is growing, housing is booming, and people cannot say enough positive. Not your typical North Dakota town and has over 25% of the state’s population. Folks that are still in Moorhead or have already left talk about a broken infrastructure, rising crime, and a clueless, corrupt government.

The job growth is about 25% greater in Fargo versus Moorhead, and Moorhead has a 7% income tax versus 2% in Fargo. That tax savings is huge when combined with the quality of life differential and the opportunities offered in Fargo. Fargo has invested in itself with a renovated downtown, museums, theaters, and a world-class zoo are some of the attractions that make people call Fargo home, many of them from neighboring Moorhead.

Why are we using today’s article to discuss two small towns in the heartland? Because it highlights why we need to start looking at taking care of our issues. Banks fail in California, and banks all over the country have to bail them out. New York and California spent their way to huge budget shortfalls and took COVID funds to make them whole. That relief will work for now until they find themselves in the same fiscal state. That was COVID money from every American used to bail out two mismanaged states. Why? Why do people and governments that do the right thing for their citizens have to ante up to save cities or states that waste money on foolish programs that only make them feel good? It is wrong and a practice that has to stop.

We have seen significant movement of people looking for a better place for their family. It may be because of financial parameters, better schools, or a better way of life. It is obvious that the destination for many of these migrants is the Red states. Democrat states are expensive, crime is rising, taxes are excessive, and the schools are centers for indoctrination. Just like elections, policies have consequences. Red states have proven policies that better align with the American principles we learned as children. We have to be cognizant of not allowing these “Blue” migrants to bring their failed policies with them. They are welcome. Their old ways are not.

 

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Anyone who knows me has heard me quote Confucius:  The first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right names.

What we call things determines how we think about them and how we act toward them. This is why it’s time for us to stop using the term public school and replace it with a term that is both more accurate and more precise: welfare school.

By welfare, I mean ‘Money that is taken from someone else to be given to you or spent on you.’  So food stamps are welfare. But so is Social Security.

(People don’t want to believe that, but more than 60 years ago, in Fleming v. Nestor, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that you have no legally binding contractual rights to Social Security benefits and that those benefits can be cut or even eliminated at any time.)

Some types of welfare require you to demonstrate need, while others don’t.  But welfare is welfare.

Using the name welfare school would force us to confront an inconvenient truth:  that these institutions exist primarily to provide schooling — i.e., daycare, transportation, recreation, nutrition, therapy, and so on, with the possibility of a little education occurring — for the children of parents who are unable — or more often, simply unwilling — to take responsibility for educating them.

Imagine how just changing the name might affect decisions by parents about how to educate their children.  You’re not going to send your kids to the Croydon Welfare School if you can help it.  And that would be better for the kids, since less than half the children at that school are performing at proficiency by the time they leave.

(That’s also true at the overwhelming majority of welfare schools in New Hampshire. But even at schools near the top of the rankings, as many as 1/4 of the kids fail to reach even the most basic levels of  proficiency by graduation.  Which doesn’t stop them from graduating.)

Imagine how just changing the name might affect decisions by taxpayers about what kinds of subjects should be taught, what kinds of activities should be subsidized, and so on.  You’re not going to support sports and other hobbies at your local welfare school — especially if those schools are being subsidized by people who are on fixed incomes, and being taxed out of their homes.

We have enough experience by now to know that a welfare school shouldn’t be any parent’s first choice for educating his kids.  It should be a last resort.

But the lofty-sounding name public school disguises the nature and distorts the perceptions of what happens there — and more importantly, what fails to happen there.  It encourages parents to believe that they are providing their children with an opportunity, when it’s closer to the truth to say that they are imposing on those children an opportunity cost.

Perhaps worst of all, it props up the idea that it’s reasonable for the state to exercise a monopoly on education — even though that flies in the face of our state constitution, which charges the state with protecting us from monopolies.

Changing the name public school to welfare school would be one small step towards climbing out of the hole we’ve dug for ourselves.  But it may be an essential one.

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We learned that it was a very disappointing day for House Republicans and we lost many good bills either to Inexpedient To Legislate (ITL) or to the Table, and had some really bad bills move onto the Senate. House Democrats had many wins. Again, numbers matter.

We learned that one bill can take as much as an hour and 15 minutes to work through, as we started off the morning with a special ordered bill. HB49 was a Finance bill which had to do with the closure date of the Sununu Youth Services Center. Two amendments were passed on this bill with regard to plans on how to deal with the closure, the finances, departmental/agency responsibilities of dealing with new care management of at risk youth, and a new 18 bed facility. Let’s hope that with this legislation the broken mess of how the State deals with these troubled kids will improve. We’re certainly throwing enough money at it, some of it federal, and some of it state money ($21.6 million).

We learned that we couldn’t get any good health bills passed today as three were ITL’d and one was tabled. HB557, regarding removing the rulemaking authority of Dept. of Health and Human Service with regard to immunization requirements beyond the diseases mentioned in statute. The roll called Ought To Pass (OTP) motion of that bill died 184-193, and then the subsequent ITL motion passed 194-185. The status quo of DHHS making vaccine requirements remains a sure shot.

Additionally, we learned that HB575 was ITL’d with a roll called vote of 192-186. That bill would have prevented the purchase, promotion, and distribution of vaccine and pharma products, by the state and its political subdivisions, which have not been tested with voluntary human, clinical trials. So the State can continue using our citizens as guinea pigs and taxpayer money can be used to promote untested experimental drugs and vaccines for Big Pharma.

Then we learned that HB582 died with an ITL vote of 205-177. This bill would have allowed us to finally just be able to get a count (with no names attached) of how many abortions are actually performed in New Hampshire. House Democrats do not want you to know… because of privacy … or something. After that, we Tabled HB615 with a vote of 354-29 which would have required independent audits of reproductive healthcare facilities, so we could determine whether there is true fiscal separation between family planning activities and providing abortions. Remember we didn’t want tax dollars paying for abortions in these facilities? Audits would help prove that.

We learned that CACR2 did not garner the required 3/5ths votes to pass, but the OTP motion ended up 193-191 on a roll call vote. This bill would have proposed a constitutional amendment to establish a state constitutional right to “reproductive autonomy” and provide that such right could not be denied or infringed “unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means. No matter… this unnecessary bill was aborted.

We learned that HB88 passed with an OTP vote of 199-185. This bill adds a provision to the fetal life protection act (FLPA) that was passed in the last biennium. House Democrats wanted to be assured that they can have an absolute statutory right to an abortion before the 24 weeks, since Roe V Wade was reversed. It’s dumb because the FLPA already allows for anyone to have an abortion for any reason before 24 weeks.

We learned that HB224 also passed on a roll called vote for OTP of 205-178. This bill removes the criminal and civil penalties for doctors who perform an illegal abortion under the provisions of FLPA. Interesting to note that House Democrats passed HB231 last session to punish veterinarians with civil penalties for declawing a cat, but voted today to remove criminal and civil penalties for doctors who abort healthy babies after 24 weeks (6 months) gestation. They apparently wish to give cats better protection than human beings in the womb.

We learned that HB271, repealing the Fetal Life Protection Act (FLPA), narrowly died when the roll called OTP vote ended in a tie 192-192 and was subsequently Tabled by a voice vote. You can see who wants absolute unconditional abortion in NH by looking at the roll call votes on this.

We learned that HB562, requiring informed consent prior to having an abortion was ITL’d by a voice vote. Also HB591, the prohibition of abortion after detection of fetal heartbeat was ITL’d 271-110. There were Republicans who voted to ITL the bill because they feel our current law of a 24 week ban with the Fetal Life Protection Act reflects what most NH voters (even pro choice people) feel is reasonable with regard to abortion. Rep. Candace Moulton (D-Manchester) said in her floor speech that she was giving us a science lesson and that the heartbeat is actually just an electrical signal between ions and not an indication of life. She’s a registered nurse and certified teacher who has a bachelors in biochemistry and nursing – so she should know. Trust the science… right?

We learned that CACR4 also could not garner 3/5ths required vote to pass. You will be able to see, through roll call votes, which of your elected House members want $5000 instead of $200 for their services. After a tabling motion failed, the bill was ITL’d 239-145. The majority felt they wanted to keep the tradition of $200 pay and remain a voluntary legislature. Rep. Walter Stapleton (R-Claremont) said that we have many great traditions in the House but this is not one of them. Supporters seeking this “inflationary upgrade” to the pay level said that this was not a raise in pay – just an update. Yeah – a $2.3 million dollar upgrade, at taxpayers expense.

Finally, we learned that HB142 relative to the operation of the Burgess biomass powerplant passed OTP 269-109. We can now throw more money ($48 million) at this unsustainable facility in Berlin and help them to reset the contractual terms of their purchase power agreement with Eversource. Yes, a bailout helps the local economy and the timber industry in the North Country, but no doubt Burgess will be in the same financial mess with Eversource in a year or two, as they were 2 years ago.  Federally, taxpayers bail out banks, but here in NH we bail out biomass plants.

Up next on April 6th will be House votes on the Biennium Budget and is a House deadline for all bills that was set in January.  I will not be reporting on this House Session as I will not be in attendance.  It will be the first House session that I have missed since I was elected in Nov. 2018.  It is Passover on April 6th, and I will be celebrating this important holiday with my family.  It is the Exodus from Egypt… from slavery to freedom.

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Care of the Hal Turner Radio Show, we’ve got their list of 100 things that disappear first during war. In other words, items you may want on hand just in case the SHTF.

It’s not my list, and it may not be yours. Feel free to make add or subtract suggestions in the comments. Fans of Nitzakhon’s Survival Sunday may have some thoughts as well, or could point you to links or posts of relevance.

Until then, here’s the K.I.S.S. list care of Hal Turner Radio Show.com; ‘This list was made by a person who survived the Bosnian War. It shows the 100 items to disappear first in war.’

 

Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy…target of thieves; maintenance etc.)
Water Filters/Purifiers
Portable Toilets
Seasoned Firewood. Wood takes about 6 – 12 months to become dried, for home uses.
Lamp Oil, Wicks, Lamps (First Choice: Buy CLEAR oil. If scarce, stockpile ANY!)
Coleman Fuel. Impossible to stockpile too much.
Guns, Ammunition, Pepper Spray, Knives, Clubs, Bats & Slingshots.
Hand-can openers, & hand egg beaters, whisks.
Honey/Syrups/white, brown sugar
Rice – Beans – Wheat
Vegetable Oil (for cooking) Without it food burns/must be boiled etc.,)
Charcoal, Lighter Fluid (Will become scarce suddenly)
Water Containers (Urgent Item to obtain.) Any size. Small: HARD CLEAR PLASTIC ONLY – note – food grade if for drinking.
Mini Heater head (Propane) (Without this item, propane won’t heat a room.)
Grain Grinder (Non-electric)
Propane Cylinders (Urgent: Definite shortages will occur.
Survival Guide Book.
Mantles: Aladdin, Coleman, etc. (Without this item, longer-term lighting is difficult.)
Baby Supplies: Diapers/formula. ointments/aspirin, etc.
Washboards, Mop Bucket w/wringer (for Laundry)
Cookstoves (Propane, Coleman & Kerosene)
Vitamins
Propane Cylinder Handle-Holder (Urgent: Small canister use is dangerous without this item)
Feminine Hygiene/Haircare/Skin products.
Thermal underwear (Tops & Bottoms)
Bow saws, axes and hatchets, Wedges (also, honing oil)
Aluminum Foil Reg. & Heavy Duty (Great Cooking and Barter Item)
Gasoline Containers (Plastic & Metal)
Garbage Bags (Impossible To Have Too Many).
Toilet Paper, Kleenex, Paper Towels
Milk – Powdered & Condensed (Shake Liquid every 3 to 4 months)
Garden Seeds (Non-Hybrid) (A MUST)
Clothes pins/line/hangers (A MUST)
Coleman’s Pump Repair Kit
Tuna Fish (in oil)
Fire Extinguishers (or..large box of Baking Soda in every room)
First aid kits
Batteries (all sizes…buy furthest-out for Expiration Dates)
Garlic, spices & vinegar, baking supplies
Big Dogs (and plenty of dog food)
Flour, yeast & salt
Matches. {“Strike Anywhere” preferred.) Boxed, wooden matches will go first
Writing paper/pads/pencils, solar calculators
Insulated ice chests (good for keeping items from freezing in Wintertime.)
Workboots, belts, Levis & durable shirts
Flashlights/LIGHTSTICKS & torches, “No. 76 Dietz” Lanterns
Journals, Diaries & Scrapbooks (jot down ideas, feelings, experience; Historic Times)
Garbage cans Plastic (great for storage, water, transporting – if with wheels)
Men’s Hygiene: Shampoo, Toothbrush/paste, Mouthwash/floss, nail clippers, etc
Cast iron cookware (sturdy, efficient)
Fishing supplies/tools
Mosquito coils/repellent, sprays/creams
Duct Tape
Tarps/stakes/twine/nails/rope/spikes
Candles
Laundry Detergent (liquid)
Backpacks, Duffel Bags
Garden tools & supplies
Scissors, fabrics & sewing supplies
Canned Fruits, Veggies, Soups, stews, etc.
Bleach (plain, NOT scented: 4 to 6% sodium hypochlorite)
Canning supplies, (Jars/lids/wax)
Knives & Sharpening tools: files, stones, steel
Bicycles…Tires/tubes/pumps/chains, etc
Sleeping Bags & blankets/pillows/mats
Carbon Monoxide Alarm (battery powered)
Board Games, Cards, Dice
d-con Rat poison, MOUSE PRUFE II, Roach Killer
Mousetraps, Ant traps & cockroach magnets
Paper plates/cups/utensils (stock up, folks)
Baby wipes, oils, waterless & Antibacterial soap (saves a lot of water)
Rain gear, rubberized boots, etc.
Shaving supplies (razors & creams, talc, after shave)
Hand pumps & siphons (for water and for fuels)
Soysauce, vinegar, bullions/gravy/soupbase
Reading glasses
Chocolate/Cocoa/Tang/Punch (water enhancers)
“Survival-in-a-Can”
Woolen clothing, scarves/ear-muffs/mittens
Boy Scout Handbook, / also Leaders Catalog
Roll-on Window Insulation Kit (MANCO)
Graham crackers, saltines, pretzels, Trail mix/Jerky
Popcorn, Peanut Butter, Nuts
Socks, Underwear, T-shirts, etc. (extras)
Lumber (all types)
Wagons & carts (for transport to and from)
Cots & Inflatable mattress’s
Gloves: Work/warming/gardening, etc.
Lantern Hangers
Screen Patches, glue, nails, screws,, nuts & bolts
Teas
Coffee
Cigarettes
Wine/Liquors (for bribes, medicinal, etc,)
Paraffin wax
Glue, nails, nuts, bolts, screws, etc.
Chewing gum/candies
Atomizers (for cooling/bathing)
Hats & cotton neckerchiefs
Goats/chickens

 

 

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Will the new chair of the NH GOP, Chris Ager, change course?  Or will the same old same old continue where hairs are split, and business as usual continues?

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Will the NH GOP continue selectively applying rules when convenient and ignore the organization’s by-laws?  Does public perception matter?  Will he put principle above politics?

Questions are permeating social media, as well as your articles on GraniteGrok.

Public perception matters. When notable “Republicans” endorse Democrats, does that count as bi-partisanship?

Thad Riley is only the tip of the iceberg. Now Kevin Smith has followed suit. And it isn’t just Republicans endorsing Democrats.

The NHGOP By-laws clearly state, (emphasis added)

 

Any registered Republican who, at the same time joins or allows his or her name to be used in support of a political committee or a defined group of individuals, that, in title or effect, is intended to be understood by the public to be a committee or group comprised in whole or in part of members of the Republican Party endorsing a candidate for elected office from another political party, when there is a candidate nominated by the Republican Party for that office, shall be disqualified during the then present and the next biennium from holding an office of the State Committee or any County or City Committee, from being a member of the Executive Committee and from being a member of the State Committee.

 

Here the famed NH9, FaceBook We the People, and Resolve organizer, Terese Grinnel, has violated this by-law multiple times.  Terese currently sits as a member of the Merrimack County Republican Committee.  In the 2022 general election, you can see her post endorsing Libertarian Lily Tang Williams against Republican Bob Burns.

 

From Telegram Terese, a primary organizer of the Resolve Initiative, is promoting Libertarian Ben Weir over Republican Keith Mitchell for Sheriff in the 2022 election.  Did this cost the GOP a sheriff in Merrimack County?

 

 

Most recently, she posted this video on Facebook.  Here she is promoting and fostering the establishment of another party while serving as a member of the State Committee of the NHGOP.  To save time, there are two places where she announces this while working from within using those resources at 12:50 and then again from 27:35 to 45:08.  Why is this okay?

It appears Chairman Chris Ager can choose to adhere to rules, including the NH GOP Platform as stated in the bylaws or he can just be one of the deep state.

 

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Skittles® were always “gay,” so there’s no excuse for a bigoted California lawmaker’s proposed legislation that could ban them from the state.

That’s a joke—Skittles®, Taste The Rainbow. The proposed ban is real, however, if these food additive restrictions were to become law.

 

California State lawmakers are considering legislation which could ban the sale of multiple candies such as Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, and jelly beans. Other foods such as Campbell’s Soup would be face possible bans as well.

Forget about the homelessness crisis and skyrocketing crime which are causing endless misery for the state’s residents. The most immediate threats to Californians according to the state politicians are candy and soup.

The bill, which was introduced far-left Democrat Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, targets the following five additives: propylparaben, red dye 3, brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate and titanium dioxide.

 

I did a little research on Titanium Dioxide. “Small amounts of titanium dioxide are added to certain foods to enhance their white color or opacity .” I can imagine not caring about the appearance enhancement, so maybe it’s a moot point, but as with all things in nature, the dose makes the poison. In quantity, there is any number of things that could do harm or even kill you but, in small amounts are beneficial or harmless.

Titanium Dioxide appears to be one of them.

The EU’s objections are speculative and based on more than a few presumptions for which insufficient research exists. Again, if you don’t care about the supposed benefits, then I can’t see why you need the additive, but a one-state ban creates what may be an unnecessary limitation that will increase costs and reduce access for no benefit, b this is California, where that should be the state motto.

We virtue signal you pay the price.

 

Californians shouldn’t have to worry that the food they buy in their neighborhood grocery store might be full of dangerous additives or toxic chemicals.

This bill will correct for a concerning lack of federal oversight and help protect our kids, public health, and the safety of our food supply.

 

I imagine that if you’d never mentioned it, no one would know, and therefore no worry. Even now, there’s probably a limited amount of concern. But again, here is California, where harmful masks, lockdowns, and covid vaccines are forced on people who don’t even need them.

Skittles®? Those have to go. And hey, that sounds a little anti-gay to me.

Note: I like Skittles® ( or used to), and no, they don’t make you gay (and yes, I have to add that). They could make you obese or Type II Diabetic if you ate enough of them, but then that’s true if you take in “enough” of just about anything – except perhaps Kale or Quinoa (blech!).

 

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This article was prompted by Stephen Peterson’s March 16, 2023 article at GraniteGrok.com, entitled “New Hampshire Constitutional Militia.” Peterson referred to the essay by Edwin Vieira, which is reprinted in the book by Daniel McGonigle.

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Vieira has a very boots-on-the-ground approach, in which every able-bodied person should join in the effort to defend the nation and the Constitution.

In a Comment to Peterson’s article, I invited all Grokkers (and all NH cops) to come to my house in Concord, NH, on March 19, 2023, for a discussion of the matter.  Nobody showed up, but below is the Handout we would have used to investigate what can actually be done by private militias.

Three things seem to stand in the way of our becoming Vieira-type troops:

1. Per NH Statute 110-B:3, II, “the governor may call for and accept from the unorganized militia as many volunteers as are required for service in the national guard, or the governor may direct the members of the unorganized militia or such of them as may be necessary to be drafted into the national guard.” (Well, that will quickly put paid to your private militia.)
2. Per federal law, codified at 18 USC 2384, if citizens conspire  — merely conspire — “to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof,” they risk arrest as felons. (The fact that “the authority thereof may be illegitimate” is a nice talking point, but it won’t save you.)
3. Per the 2004 US Supreme Court ruling in Hamdi, a US citizen — such as Hamdi and Jose Padilla — can be categorized as an enemy combatant. (I’ve included below the little interaction that occurred during the US Senate hearings for Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a justice, but I don’t agree with the rumor that Graham was trying to prove that Hamdi is icumen-in.)

I don’t plan to debate these three obstacles here today. The present article is but a vehicle for passing along the quotes I had gathered for a handout.  See below. It’s bad enough that the March 19 chocolate cake went to waste (or to waist, as the case may be); the research is salvageable!

Bottom line: the Second Amendment is surprisingly insufficient to make the citizenry a force for defending, by itself, the Constitution. Quoting 2A and puffing up one’s patriotic feelings is not enough.  I may be wrong; please correct me in the Comments.

Here is the “attachment.” If you print it in Garamond font, size 11.5, it will fit nicely onto the front and back of one letter-size page.

 

RELEVANT QUOTES ON MILITIAS AND MILITARY COMMISSIONS — MARCH 19, 2023 from US Constitution, federal and New Hampshire statutes, court rulings.  MaxwellMaryLLB@gmail.com

Article I, section 8, clause 11: “[Congress shall have the Power] to declare war. Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions.”

Article I, section 8, clause 16: “[The Congress shall have the Power]… To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress….”

Article II, section 3: “[The President] shall take care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

Article IV, section 4: “The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a Republican Form of government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the [State] Legislature, against domestic Violence.”

Second Amendment:   “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

NH statute, revised; 110-B:1 (2018) I. “The militia shall be divided into 3 classes, namely the national guard, the state guard, and the unorganized militia. …IV. The unorganized militia shall consist of all able-bodied residents of the state who are 18 years of age or older, who are, or have declared their intention to become, citizens of the US, and who are not serving in the national guard or state guard.”

NH statute 110-B:3 Registration and Draft of Unorganized Militia:  I. “Whenever it shall be deemed necessary, the governor may direct the members of the unorganized militia to present themselves for and submit to registration at such time and place and in such manner as the governor may prescribe in regulations issued pursuant to this chapter.”

1. “Whenever it shall be necessary in case of invasion, disaster, insurrection, riot, breach of the peace, or imminent danger thereof, or to maintain the national guard at the number required for public safety or prescribed by the laws of the United States, the governor may call for and accept from the unorganized militia as many volunteers as are required for service in the national guard, or the governor may direct the members of the unorganized militia or such of them as may be necessary to be drafted into the national guard.”

 

Resolution introduced into NH House 2009 sponsored by Reps. Itse, Ingbretson, Comerford, Senator Denley: “That the several States… are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that, by a compact…, they constituted a General Government for  special  purposes,  …reserving,  each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; that the gov’t [is not] the final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself….” [This was inspired by Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798]

1878 The Posse Comitatus Act: “Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army … as a posse comitatus … to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.” (10 USC 341 for foreign troops in US.)  Note: today under the Pentagon’s National Guard Bureau’s Partners for Peace, begun in 1990s, there are foreign troops in every state. New Hampshire’s partner is El Salvador.

Page 2. Federal law, codified at 18 USC 2384:  “If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, …. they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.”

NH Revised Statute sec 104:28 “Who wears or displays without authority any uniform or badge by which a sheriff, officer, or investigator is lawfully identified … shall be guilty of a class B felony.” [There’s a list of each state’s laws on “prohibiting private armies, i.e., militias, at public rallies,” at Law.Georgetown.edu.]

Treason 18 USC 2381: “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the US.”

Presidential Decision Directive 39, June 21, 1995: [Clinton, after the OKC bombing]: “The United States regards all such terrorism as a criminal act and will pursue vigorously efforts to deter and preempt, apprehend and prosecute… individuals who perpetrate or plan to perpetrate such attacks….”  

In Home Building and Loan Association v Blaisdell (1931) SCOTUS said: “Emergency does not create power. Emergency does not increase granted power …. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power … were not altered by emergency.”

MILITARY COMMISSIONS.  Hamdi v Rumsfeld, 2004. Note: Hamdi was a US citizen captured in Afghanistan and accused of aiding the enemy.  SCOTUS ruled that a US citizen can be designated an enemy combatant. Jose Padilla was included in Hamdi case. Under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, the decision as to whether he is a combatant can be made by an executive branch’s Combat Status Review Tribunal. (Sen Graham: “What’s the name of the case, if you can recall, that reaffirmed the concept that you can hold one of our own as an enemy combatant?” SCOTUS nominee Kavanaugh “Hamdi.”)

The Military Commissions Act of 2009 is “to authorize trial by military commission for violations of the law of war, and for other purposes”.  The MCA was prompted by Hamdan v Rumsfeld, where a Gitmo plaintiff asked for rights, and in 2009 Boumedienne. For War Crimes Act, see 18 USC 2441. (Note: ‘Military Tribunal‘ is not the same as Military Commission. A tribunal is part of the UCMJ for soldiers.)

FDR issued a Proclamation: “all persons who are subjects, citizens or residents of any nation at war with the US [and who enter the US] through coastal or boundary defenses, and are charged with committing … sabotage, espionage shall be subject to the law of war and to the jurisdiction of military tribunals”.

Military Tribunals, 1942. (US president, FDR, used a military tribunal to convict six German saboteurs; caught in US. The decision of a justice matter, normally held in a court, was taken by the executive branch. The saboteurs were enemies of the US, as Germany and the US were at war. On the battlefield, the president could order them killed.  But did he have the right to “tribunalize” the captives in the US?)

The US Supreme Court in Ex Parte Quirin, 1942, held: “There is a class of unlawful belligerents not entitled to [POW] privilege… And by Article 15 of the Articles of War Congress has made provision for their trial and punishment by military commission, according to ‘the law of war’.” [Quirin is still law.]

POSTSCRIPT — VERDICT.JUSTIA.COM has just come out with an essay by Prof Vikram Amar of relevance to these matters. I will now quote a portion of his essay, verbatim:

In the summer of 2021, the Missouri governor signed into law the state’s so-called “Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA),” whose preamble (a section styled as “findings”) declares that the “supremacy” of federal law “does not extend to various federal statutes, executive orders, [etc., that regulate firearms and ammunition in various ways].”…

The district court ruled, among other things, that SAPA’s declaratory centerpiece, §§ 1.410, 1.420, and 1.430, violates the Supremacy Clause because it constitutes an “unconstitutional ‘interposition’ against federal law and is designed to be just that.” From there, the district court reflexively invalidated the rest of SAPA on the ground that no part of the statute was severable from the statute’s interpositional core.

The big problem with the district court’s “interposition” reasoning is that it cuts too broadly, and would essentially prevent a state from engaging in any government speech to register disagreement with federal laws and policies that might violate various limitations in the Constitution. The district court rightly points out (quoting seminal Supreme Court cases) that “states have no power . . . to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations” of the federal government in arenas where the federal government has lawful power. But the declaratory centerpiece of SAPA does no such thing. It does not impede, burden, or control federal operations; it merely makes clear Missouri’s belief that certain federal laws violate the Second Amendment, and that such federal laws will not be respected by, or enforced by, the state. Importantly, §1.430’s words say that ostensibly illegal federal laws will not be enforced “by” the state, not that such laws will not be enforced “in” the state, the latter phrase being one that would suggest active interference by state officials in the efforts of federal officials to enforce federal law.

— end of my except form Prof Amar. You cand “Read More” at https://verdict.justia.com/2023/03/21/what-role-can-states-properly-play-in-resisting-potential-federal-overreach

And don’t forget the unanimous decision in Prinz v United States (1997) — a case that was initiated by Sheriff Richard Mack and which ruled, if not is so many words, that state law enforcement is not the servant of the federal government.

Now here is a 59-minute lecture by Daniel McGonigle, given at Camp Constitution in NH in 2015, on the History of “the Militia” in America

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Sic transit Gloria, as the saying goes.  Nowhere is this more true than Vermont where the fading charm of being a dairy farmer’s delight, a land flowing with maple syrup and RBST free cream to help wash down your organic coffee, has been replaced by becoming a third-residence getaway for the uber-wealthy who excel at creating third-world conditions to exploit.

So if you’re a fan of bananas and use the word democracy when you really mean republic, the time is ripe for you to make your way in this brave new Banana Republic of Vermont!

How can Vermont be a Banana Republic when it’s so far above the tropical zone you can barely find bananas at the store?  Silly commonsensitarianist, you don’t need bananas.  You don’t even need a republic.  Here is a list of the things you will need to make Vermont a first-class, first-world Banana Republic.

Monteverde Monte Venality – You will want piles of green to pay off politicians.  With this capital you get to encourage them to say they’re “for the people”, but we know which people they’ll really mean (wink-wink). In a Banana Republic this is called a capital gains tan because you’ll be on the beach counting greenbacks knowing you’ve got Montpelier in your back pocket. Feel that Bern!

Character Assassinations and Real Assassinations – operating in a Banana Republic means dealing with difficult people, such as do-gooders who believe in antiquated ideas like “the rule of law” and “citizens rights”.  You’re not just a citizen you’re an elite and you have the right to rule, am I right? So when these chatterbox knights of the people start yammering on about “civil liberties” you get some of your friends in the news media to take some un-civil liberties with their character.  If that doesn’t work, you take some liberties with their life.  It’s not personal, it’s political.

This Land Is Our Land This Land Was Your Land – have you ever tried to hold a conversation with a Vermont farmer?  You need an interpreter who speaks fluent Green Mountain redneck or some dialect of Bidenese.  Seriously, you can’t tell if they’re yawning or tongue wrestling themselves.  C’mon man! People this incapable of coherent speech cannot be trusted with owning land, especially after making the conscious choice to shovel animal crap for a living.  As the saying goes, the pen is mightier than the shovel, so grease up some palms and buy that parcel at a discount.  Weed is the new cattle and the nice thing about weed?  It poops piles of revenue.

Hello Guvnah! – if you  want to succeed in a Banana Republic you have to be on a first name basis with the governor.  Right now his name is Phil, as in “Phil my right hand with some money and see if my left hand doesn’t get you that contract to put windmills on those wetlands”.  It’s not called the green movement because they love trees you silly hippies!

Vocab Enrichment – terms like “coup” and “failed state” will no longer be vague ideas as you race to finish the Time’s crossword puzzle.  They will be right outside your property value depressed door amigo!

All the Trans Run On Time – one sure fire sign of a Banana Republic is the timely rise of all things trans.  Trans-rights, trans-lefts, what difference does it make?  One thing is certain, your old republic is now a trans republic.

Sponsor A Child In Need – For those children strong enough to make it past the angry forceps and out of the womb at the local “medical clinic” the future is brighter than a fresh pack of C4.  Banana Republics are incredible employment opportunities for children looking to make a lasting impression on a cruel world that wasn’t good enough to deserve them.  The savvy investor who wishes to up their game to warlord will sponsor a child terrorist and deploy them accordingly.  Few things say “I’m the new boss” as well as paying a youngin’ to blow themselves up at your expense.

El Presidente – once the thrill of being a local warlord has worn off there is only one last hurdle to overcome.  Do you have what it takes?  Well, if you can explain why you need to defund the police while paying them to beat the citizenry into submission, raise concerns about the threat of corrupt countries like China and Ukraine while using them to raise the number of commas in your bank account, and have your competition arrested despite overcoming your own child-like arrested development, then by golly you can smell the sweet scent of victory like it’s a 9 year-olds head full of shampoo at a 2a.m. ballot harvesting party.  Hail to the Cheiftan!

So whether you plan to tame the turf in your tiny hamlet or power move your posterior to the presidency the Banana’s Guide to Living In A Banana Republic for Vermonter’s is a step by step process to coming out on top while everything is sinking to the bo

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The following 91-a Right To Know Request was sent to the Superintendent in SAU33/Raymond School District after I received notification that students were wearing digital badges to track their behavior. I’ve also been told that other districts are using the same surveillance devices on their students. New Hampshire law requires a digital tracking device to have school board approval after a public hearing, and parents/ guardians must consent. Teachers are using their personal phones to scan the badges and students PII (personally identifiable information) and school photos are all shared with PBIS Rewards. Cellphones are not secure devices.

NOTE: Nothing about parental consent when sharing this sensitive data, or anything about parents or guardians in this statement:

There is nothing in the documents about a student’s right to privacy that is now included in The New Hampshire Constitution.
An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.

This is government surveillance, and includes the sharing of personal information with a 3rd party vendor. There are no privacy protections in place to secure this data because in December 2011, the U.S. Department of Education changed the regulations governing the release of student data to the private sector, without Congressional authorization to do so.

From the information provided by the school district, I am unable to confirm that the district followed the law. I have asked for in investigation by The New Hampshire Department of Education.
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Dear Superintendent Leatherman:

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA, 91-1), I am requesting public access, within 5 business days, to the governmental records:

1) All documentation on any and all PBIS systems used in the SAU33/Raymond School district.

2) Any and all consent forms sent to parents or guardians by SAU33 so they could approve the use of a digital badge or technology device used to transmit information, or monitor the students.

3) Copies of school board notes from any discussions or votes by the school board approving the use of a digital badge or technology devices used to transmit information, or to monitor the students.

Per RSA 91-A:4IV(C) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

Please let me know when these records are available for inspection or you may email the records to me at Banfieldannmarie@gmail.com.

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Ann Marie Banfield
TRUST REQUIRES TRANSPARENCY

RECEIVED FROM:
Jennifer Heywood <j.heywood@sau33.com>
Attachments

to me, Terry

Good morning. In response to your Right to Know Request dated March 14, 2023, please see the attached documents.

Regarding school board discussions or votes, we’ve searched by keyword for items relevant to your request and we did not find any matches. However, there may be instances of board discussion that didn’t appear in our search results. You are welcome to view board meeting minutes and backup documentation. Minutes and backup are readily available on our website dating back several years: minutes may be found here, and backup documents may be found here. Alternatively, you are also welcome to view minutes at the SAU Office – please contact me to set up a time and what timeframe for minutes you would like to view, and we will have them available for you.

Kindly,

Jennifer.
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Jennifer Heywood
Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools
Raymond School District, SAU 33
43 Harriman Hill Road
Raymond, NH 03077
603-895-4299 x1103
Fax 603-895-0147
j.heywood@sau33.com

COMPLAINT SENT TO The New Hampshire Department of Education: 

Dear Ms. Fenton, Per the correspondence below involving a 91-a Right to Know Request sent to SAU33  Superintendent Leatherman, I am asking you to begin an investigation to determine if the district administrators violated RSA 189:68-II. II. No school shall require a student to use an identification device that uses radio frequency identification, or similar technology, to identify the student, transmit information regarding the student, or monitor or track the student without approval of the school board, after a public hearing, and without the written consent of a parent of legal guardian of an affected student which may be withheld without consequence. 

 

It appears the district is currently using a digital badge device to track students. Based on the email I received back I have not been able to confirm that this device was approved by the school board, or that parents have consented as required by RSA189:68-II. State statute requires school board approval after a public hearing, and this must be done with written consent by a parent or legal guardian. Respectfully, Ann Marie Banfield

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3.20.23 RTK PBIS

 

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Forewarned is forearmed.  Thus, this is intended to be a compilation of articles, with my commentary, to try and get like-minded people to grasp what’s coming.  Even merely being aware of events in the world will make you better prepared than the hordes of sheeple.  Note that these compilations are catch-as-catch can, and presented as is.  I make no guarantee of accuracy or complete coverage of the world.

Please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site.  And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.

For prep materials, please see:

Survival Sunday – PREP Edition – Granite Grok

 

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Lynching the Deplorables: Leftist Speaks Out Against Detention of Jan. 6 Defendants

 

 

I watch the above, and the clown show called GET TRUMP BAMN, and this excellent scene comes to mind:

 

A Man for All Seasons – The Devil Speech

 

 

 

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Top of the fold:

Jan 6 Videos Show Antifa Infiltrating Trump Supporters, Inciting Violence

Remember, these people are MISSIONARIES.  They are determined to succeed BAMN.

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Trump Vows to Break Up Department of Education, Redistribute Its Functions to States

Just for this I’d vote for him.  But related to Trump:

“If the Democratic Party is Allowed to Crush Donald Trump, We’re Done!”- Tucker Carlson GOES OFF on Democrats Over Potential Trump Indictment and Issues a Dire Warning for America (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

IMHO we’re done anyway.  Certainly the Left isn’t going to fix elections.  The Right (GOP squishes) aren’t either.  No, TINVOWOOT.

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Ellen Brown: The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami  – scheerpost.com

Holy G-d, if this starts cracking, it’s going to be bad.  Bad.  Double-plus ungood level Bad.  And in light of the above, this is small potatoes:

Banks are hiding at least $620 billion in losses, creating a ticking time bomb of financial disaster – DC Clothesline

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The Needle and the Damage Done – by Jerome V. (substack.com)

My worldview has changed forever.

I am also now like a wary dog, constantly watchful of the abusive master should he attempt to raise his hand again.

Only now I know that no one is my master – or ever will be.

And do you know what else? I am one of a huge pack.

 

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FEMOIDS

 

 

I’ve related this before, but… after my divorce from “Satan’s Favorite Daughter” I was, admittedly, not really ready to date.  But I did go out on dates, and yes they were disasters – some on my side, some on the other side.  Then I took a step back, and wend on eharmony.  You know, “29 dimensions of compatibility”… and it was a great date.  We laughed, seemed to have a lot in common, etc.  I walked her back to her car, I told her I’d like to see her again, and she said no, “I just wanted to be treated tonight”.  Apparently this is not uncommon.  (Let me be clear: not every date is going to work out, but to start it off with the idea that you’re just in it for the free food???)

No wonder I went with an import.  Though, in retrospect – hindsight and my faith awakening – if I could go back to my high school years I’d have joined an Orthodox shul and looked there.

 

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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):

10,000 Dutch Farmers Protest Government’s Crippling Nitrogen Emissions Target in the Hague

OOH, good for them.  OTOH, it won’t make a lick of difference.  The course has been locked in.  Remember, the system will react to protect itself and its goals:

BBB Won a (Useless) Landslide Victory

Related:

Berlin’s March 26th Climate Referendum… Berlin Leaders Could Have Immediate Dictatorial Powers

When politicians get power through emergencies… they create emergencies to rationalize power grabs.  On even the most trivial of things:

Michael Swartz: The Left Now Wants Our Washing Machines | The Patriot Post

Stove Restrictions Expand to Other Appliances

This Is How The Government Is Stopping You From Living Independently (askaprepper.com)

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Western governments are on the verge of introducing expiring money (reclaimthenet.org)

So, saving is punished.  Assuming, through a CBDC, you can access it at all.  Related:

Deutsche Bank and WEF Look Towards the End of Cash

ECB Chief Lagarde Makes a Stunning Admission About CBDCs (independentsentinel.com)

More on CBDC in general:

The Creepy Advent of Digital Currency – American Thinker

When a government no longer trusts its citizens with their own labor, it is no longer a free society.  In the near future, we may recall the days when kids earned a menial side income babysitting or mowing lawns without Uncle Sam inserting himself into the equation.  Though the taxing side of the equation is a nuisance, the control side of surveillance banking to engineer the end user’s behavior is far more concerning.  If ever there was a time to push back, we are swiftly approaching zero hour.

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FBI thugs harass New York woman for criticizing Pfizer on Twitter (pacificpundit.com)

Criticize a private company, and the FBI shows up????  More on censorship:

Uncovered: Feds’ disturbing plan to control your speech (wnd.com)

Arrested for Memes: In Defense of Ricky Vaughn – Intellectual Takeout

 

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Protecting Children:

How Drag Queens Became a Trojan Horse to Promote Militant Trans Ideology to Children…

They don’t reproduce.  They convert.  And they’re stealthy:

‘It’s Happening Everywhere’: Lawmakers Push To Ban Secret Student Pronoun Changes, Keep Parents Involved | The Daily Caller

“Parental Rights End When You Send Your Kids to Public School” – New Mexico Attorney In Training Session to Teachers (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

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Utah School Feeds Insects to Children, Teaches Them Cows Are Destroying the Planet

Brainwashing.

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Idaho Library Board flees meeting to avoid outraged parents. (massresistance.org)

Cowards!

 

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National Security (specifically):

“It’s as Bad as We Thought”: CCP Money Flowed to Biden Family According Bank Records, Documents Obtained by House GOP

When your leadership (it’s not just Biden *cough McConnell cough*) is wholly-owned by a foreign power…

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The Age of American Naval Dominance Is Over – The Atlantic

Those who control the seas control, well, everything.  (And, by extension, air & space.)  Partial, requires sign in.

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Biden Administration Allowing Iran’s Mullahs to Join the “Nuclear Club” :: Gatestone Institute

Iran’s Regime Days Away from Nuclear Weapons :: Gatestone Institute

Whether one is positively inclined towards Iran’s close enemy, the “Little Satan” of Israel, or not – this is not good news.  On that:

Israel Could Strike Iran In Months Unless U.S. Steps In, Former Israeli General Says | The Daily Wire

 

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On The Jab (and Covid)

Lawsuit Alleges Gardasil Caused POTS, Chronic Fatigue and Other Symptoms After HPV Vaccine + More • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)

ALL HPV infections can be stopped by… drum roll please… abstinence before marriage (entirely), and fidelity during marriage.  But that’s BOOOOOOORING.  That’s “old fashioned”.

 

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Inflation:

 

 

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Inflation in Poland Reaches Record High of 18% in February

‘State Of Shock’: As Canada Ramps Up Immigration, Unsuspecting Newcomers Are Running Into Inflation Shock From Soaring Prices

Global.

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Obama Economist Sounds Alarm On Persistent Inflation: “No Sign Of Falling”….

If anything it will accelerate.

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Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.

— Robert A. Heinlein

 

I remember, growing up, being bullied in the eighth grade.  Went on for months.  Verbal and even physical abuse.  My parents, libs both, were “Violence never solves anything” and “Be the better man, stay above it” and “Just ignore him, it’ll stop”… well, they were wrong.  It escalated and escalated.  What ended it?  When I beat the snot out of the little sh*t.

 

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Enemedia:

 

Lying Liars

 

 

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Media Uninterested in CCP $$$ the Biden Family Received (independentsentinel.com)

Of course.  Now, if this were Trump…

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Liberal columnist melts down over Trump’s ‘real resonance’ with Americans (wnd.com)

Their focus, not our focus.

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Most underreported story: Evidence of the Biden family’s $ millions from China now documented with bank records – American Thinker

The dog that doesn’t bark.  Control the information flow, control what people believe.

 

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Pro-life:

 

 

Just How Far Will They Go? (jewishprolifefoundation.org)

 

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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly Calls for Censorship of Social Media Companies to Prevent Bank Run: Report

In the words of FrontPageMag’s founder, David Horowitz:

“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out”

More:

Washington State Bill Would Destroy Free Speech and Criminalize Opposing the Left | Frontpage Mag

Related to free speech and the Left:

Student Activists Target Stanford Law School Dean in Revolt Over Her Apology (freebeacon.com)

Note how they invert free speech to mean that they get to shout down – as “free speech” – any speech they don’t like?  Bill Whittle comments:

 

AMERICAN FASCISTS

 

 

Here’s another one:

Sam Harris: Conservatives “Should Not Have Opinions” On Ukraine, Vaccines, Climate Change – Summit News

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Explaining the Link Between Liberalism and Mental Illness – PJ Media

Lots of info out there on this.

 

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Immigration / Migration:

Mediterranean Migrant Crossing More Than Double in the First Two Months of 2023

The Four S Solution needed:

Sink the ships

Strafe the survivors

Shut up

Sharks have to eat too

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Report: Red Cross Provides Illegals With Maps and Tips About How to Cross Border Into U.S.

Don’t just not give to the Red Cross – tell them why.

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Bayou Renaissance Man: “The Southern Border Is a Hybrid War Zone”

We’re sowing the wind with our neglect of border security.  We’re already reaping the whirlwind with the impact of the fentanyl crisis – and that’s just the beginning.  The worst is yet to come, and we’re letting that worst in day by day.

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Convert, Marry Me, or Die by Acid: Christian Women in Muslim Pakistan :: Gatestone Institute

Such a charming culture.  Let’s admit them to Europe and America by the metric f*ckton.

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Economy at large:

 

Economist warns the US economy will be hit by a ‘perfect storm’ this year

 

 

Related:

 

BANKING SYSTEM CRASHING!!!

 

 

More:

OK, it’s official – panic stations!

IT’S REAL BAD – Western Country Central Banks Over the Weekend Organize to Provide Daily Liquidity of Dollars In the Event of a WORLD-WIDE BANK COLLAPSE | The Gateway Pundit

And IMHO it’s going to be worse than 2008.

The Vigilant Fox on Twitter: “Stephanie Pomboy: “We Are on the Brink of a 2008-Style Financial Crisis — And I’m Not Trying to Be Hyperbolic” “We’ve got some major consequences coming at us, and I think it’s going to devolve very rapidly because of all the leverage that’s been built up here.” https://t.co/M1bIHg0P5Z” / Twitter

Not Much Time Left… | Capitalist Eric (wordpress.com)

“We Are Headed For Another Train Wreck”: Bill Ackman Blames Janet Yellen For Restarting The Bank Run | ZeroHedge

BIDEN ECONOMY: Ed Dowd Issues Dire Warning, “We’re at the End and It’s Imploding on Itself” (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

Understand, I don’t want this to be so.  But… citing Patrick Henry:

“It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.”

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Is the current banking crisis the tip of the iceberg?

Short answer?  Yes.  More:

Economic Study: 186 US Banks Are in Trouble and at Risk of Insolvency – May Collapse Like Silicon Valley Bank | The Gateway Pundit

Very broadly, the entire system depends on trust in the system.  We’re seeing – systematically – a collapse in that trust.

 

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Political War

Trump Is Rattled | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

For the record: I have stated recently that Trump might well be the best GOP candidate in 2024. I have doubts he can win a general election, but I do not dismiss his many virtues.

Let me be clear: If, after the fusterclark that is The Potato, and assuming a fair election, a Trump vs. anybody didn’t result in a Trumpslide… but then, given the demographic shifts being engineered on our southern border, I wouldn’t be surprised.

 

 

Even now, I see polls that:

* One in six Democrats say they wouldn’t have voted for the Potato had they known about the laptop… which means 5 in 6 think it’s not a deal-breaker.

* 1/3 of people don’t think the country’s heading in the wrong direction.  You mean, after all that’s happened in two years and you’re still OK with it?

Related:

This Time, It’s the Ideology Stupid – American Thinker

Excellent insight into the RINO mentality, and why the Left continues to advance.  And, why “our side” hates Trump almost as much as the Left does.  Hence:

That Will Not Shock the World – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)

Meanwhile, remember the hush money Clinton paid Paula Jones?  More:

“The Police State Is Here” – Dan Bongino Rips the Upcoming Trump Arrest (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit

Soros DA Alvin Bragg Wants President Trump Handcuffed and Perp Walked – Geller Report

I say this over and over with no joy: the US I knew, or at least the one I thought I knew, is completely dead.  And concluding (links in the original):

When you strike at the king, you must kill him – Flopping Aces

[T]he statute of limitations in New York for a misdemeanor is two years. For a felony it is five years. The events described above occurred seven years ago.

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Hating back | The Zelman Partisans

About Israel specifically, but… generalizing, it’s OK to hate those who hate you.  “Turning the other cheek” shouldn’t be a suicide pact.

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The Right Doesn’t Have to Agree on Everything—Only on Fighting the Left › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

A house divided against itself cannot stand.  What the Left is banking on.

 

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US Stability (broad catch-all):

White Man Down | Frontpage Mag

Is it really surprising that some whites, like Adams, are now saying, “Check, please!”? He just said it out loud. Frustration is not racism.

Related:

Notice a pattern?

The victim is a 12 year old white girl. pic.twitter.com/3zpIn18Jis

— Jeff Younger (@JeffYoungerTX) March 22, 2023

 

Video is hard to watch.  As was pointed out here:

This is pre-Rwanda-genocide level racial hatred, like in Rwanda, stoked by the MSM 24/7.

And it’s happening with all systems running: water, power, EBT, ATMs, full supermarkets, etc.

Imagine our cities when they are starving in the dark with no running water.

It will be cannibalism in two weeks, max.

GET AWAY FROM BLUE HIVES NOW.

Related:

Teen Brawls Break Out Inside San Francisco Mall – One Incident Shows Youths Jumping on a Man and then Slamming Him to the Ground (VIDEOS) | The Gateway Pundit

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Former Wisconsin Sheriff Says Biggest Threat to Police is Mass Exodus of Officers

In general I have enormous sympathy – still – for the Thin Blue Line, and I fully understand.  I see another reason for this, IMHO: consciences kicking in as they realize what they did in the service of Covidianism.

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1 in 5 Americans support national divorce or secession: Poll – TheBlaze

I’d have to move.  I’d hate to move.  But as seen on the pages of the Grok, New Hampshire is now – pretty much definitively – a Blue state in all but name.  And even if not, it’s surrounded.  The bigger issue is harder: even if, somehow, a split could be arranged, the Left would look across that divide and see territory needing to be conquered converted… just as Islam looks across borders to non-Muslim countries and sees the same thing.

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Kent Police sign lists rape, domestic abuse, as ‘non-emergency’ crime – Blazing Cat Fur

Happening in the US too.  A society cannot exist like this.

 

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World Stability (broad catch-all):

China’s War Warnings :: Gatestone Institute

Russia Backs Chinese Reunification – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)

Dangerous times.  China is weak, they know it… and often times a weak enemy will strike first.  Related:

What Happens If China Becomes The Ruling Economic Power Of The World – Ask a Prepper

The problem is that, demographically – like the US too – China has a demographic falloff coming.  And that’s without the Jab’s impact.  Related to China:

More than 40 Chinese vessels reported around Philippine-claimed island | American Military News

Doesn’t America have a defense treaty there?  Certainly it does here:

Chinese ships, including one armed with a machine gun, repeatedly enter Japanese waters | Stars and Stripes

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So, what happens when the first NATO-donated plane downs a Russian plane?

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France: Expect Riots: Macron Govt Uses Constitutional Loophole to Avoid Vote and Pass Retirement Age Rise

Expect more riots, and in more places, as the Globalists use such tactics more often.  Sooner or later, around the world, people will understand that TINVOWOOT.  And then they’ll ban protesting altogether:

French pension reform: Police prohibit protests opposite Assemblée Nationale in Paris (lemonde.fr)

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Is The West Breaking Its Jet Taboo On Ukraine?

First Poland, now Slovakia.  Ukraine’s getting jets.  This is not a case of hand weapons, or even a shoulder mounted missile or two.  This is serious.

I observed to a friend… the west is poke-poke-poke-poke-poking Russia.

Russia Considers the Use of Depleted Uranium Shells as Dirty Bombs | NC Renegades

Clearly they want to start something.  The question is WHY, and I suspect there are multiple answers.

 

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Banking Crime Scene – The market is telling us something very bad is coming

 

 

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Specific to energy:

Australia’s Cost of Living Nightmare is About to Get Even Worse: Shocking Map Shows How Your Power Bill Will Soar This Winter

Global.

 

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“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”

 

– Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919

 

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Big Tech in general:

Google sounds alarm on Samsung modem bugs in Android devices • The Register

More and more it feels to me like the tech companies just slam stuff out without regard to security at all.

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Catch-all miscellaneous:

None this time.

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

I wrote, in Converging Downturns, about how so many things seem to be coming to a head more-or-less at once.  I’m seeing even more things now.  The banking crisis, Ukraine-Russia, China-Taiwan-and-others, Iran about to have nuclear capability, demographic & fertility crashes, mass migration, the predicted die-off from the Jab, and so many more things.

Now understand, I don’t want things to end.  But I fear the domino effect – when one truly “goes” they all will.

 

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CAUTION!! More Bank Failures To Come Yet… (IT’S NOT OVER!)

 

 

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Palate cleansers:

 

Good Commie.

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Please check out my MEME collection.  Here’s the last one.

 

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Bill Maher pulls no punches when it comes to wokesters and their equivalent ideas to the new Communist Man – that they can remake Man in their own image.

This is why they always fail – biology is immutable (it just is, we can only learn more about it), and human nature took thousands of years to develop, and they think they can do that “remake” on us in just a few?

NSFW – some language, so use headphones if in mixed company.

 

 

I caught another of his “Wokeness Uncovered” (my title, not his) here on another “essense” of Wokeism: the elimination of history via “Presentism,” the philosophy that only what is in the now counts. In reading Orwell’s “1984,” where that practice was a constant, the Wokerati have taken it as a how-to book for erasing and replacing our history instead of the warning it was meant to be.

“He who controls the past controls the present; he who controls the present controls the future.

(H/T: The Blaze)

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“Rates of suicide are as high as 40% in transgender youth,” Dr. Simrun Bal of Dartmouth Health testified at the New Hampshire State House. “Imagine that if there are 100 people in this room, 40 of us would have attempted suicide.”

Related:Dartmouth Child Transing Physician Astonishingly Ignorant

Perhaps because of Bal’s credentials – she represented the New Hampshire Medical Society and the NH chapter of the American College of Physicians –  no one on the NH House Health Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee questioned that statistic or asked why she was conflating suicide rates with attempted suicides.

The public testimony against HB 619, which would ban the medical transition of minors, continued along this vein though the March 7 hearing, with the suicide threat repeated at least every five minutes.

Just as therapists ask, “Do you want a transgender kid or a dead kid?,” activists claim that these laws deny children lifesaving care, a claim they support with astronomical suicide figures. A compelling story, but is it true?

In fact, suicide rates among trans-identifying youth are extremely rare. A review of data from the UK’s largest gender clinic, Tavistock, indicated a suicide rate of 0.03%.  Four of the 15,032 patients committed suicide, two who were waiting for treatment and two were were receiving treatment.

Although this is higher than the average youth suicide rate, it’s similar to the suicide rates for those with other mental health conditions, which most trans-identifying youth also have, and lower than the rates for autism and anorexia.

Another study of almost 2,800 children concluded that suicidality among trans-identifying youth is only somewhat higher than for those being treated for other mental health issues.

In an interview just last month, Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, Finland’s leading pediatric gender medicine expert, said:

It is not justified to tell the parents of young people experiencing transgenderism that the young person is at risk of suicide without corrective treatment and that the danger can be countered with gender reassignment treatment. It is purposeful disinformation that is irresponsible to spread.

Kaltiala attributed suicidal thought in trans-identifying youth to concurrent psychiatric disorders. She also cited 12 studies that demonstrate that if we allow children to go through natural puberty, 4 of 5  will outgrow their dysphoria. The most recent and largest such study showed that gender dysphoria resolved in  87.8% of the subjects by the time they reached adulthood.

Why the differences between the claims and recommendations of US activists and the health policies of  Norway, Sweden, England, and Finland, countries which have dropped the gender affirmation model as dangerous and ineffective, and Italy and France, which have raised serious concerns about the dangers of puberty blockers and hormones?

Dr. Bal’s suicide statistics come from from the Trevor Project’s surveys, which are self-reports from youth “recruited via targeted ads on social media,” not from a randomized study or an objective review of the actual suicide rates.

Self-reports are notoriously inaccurate. For example, according to the Center for Disease Control’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 22% of all high school students seriously considered attempting suicide, twice as many males as females. But the actual youth suicide rate was 0.014%, according to the CDC, and males had a suicide rate four times higher than females.

And if suicide rates are so high for trans-identifying youth who don’t received gender affirming care, why didn’t we see much higher suicide rates before it was widely available? Leor Sapir, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, calculated that given the Trevor Project’s 41% suicide attempt rate, the total youth suicide rate 10 years ago should have been seven times higher.

Why do activists repeat these colossal suicide numbers? It works. The suicide threat is gender activists’ most effective weapon, and they train children to wield it.

At a February rally at Milford High School to protest a proposed policy to keep boys out of girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, activists asked children to raise their hand if they’d ever been suicidal, and again to show if they’d been helped through gender-affirming medical treatment. 

The threat of imminent suicide is the only thing that can justify New Hampshire’s policies of maiming and sterilizing children. But as other countries recognize the dangers of this model and as the medical scandals like those at Tavistock and Washington University Transgender Center in St. Louis continue to mount, will our legislators continue to be coerced by this myth?

As detransitioner Chloe Cole said:

I hear emotional blackmail at these hearings constantly, ‘their blood will be on your hands.’ Gender dysphoric kids are listening. Shoving the idea that it’s trans or suicide will harm the youth. Children are not martyrs for your political ideology.

 

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Tulsi Gabbard ran for President as a Democrat. She single-handedly ended Kamal’s run at the Oval Office, salvaged by whoever decided Biden should pick her for VP. Gabbard has since left the Dems, and she’s back to hold their feet to the fire.

I like this clip a lot because I’ve been saying for years that Democrats hate women – long before the transgender cultural leap of mythological fancy that only cements this truth.

And Gabbard just framed it about as well as anyone could.

 

There is no greater expression of hatred and hostility towards women than to try to erase our existence as a category of people and to minimize us to being a construction of anyone’s imagination.

The bit about objective truth is also spot on.

 

 

HT | Liberty One News

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How authoritarian and totalitarian are our Government institutions becoming? Very, I’m sad to report. We have school boards under the rubric that “we MUST support marginalized groups (generally LGB and T)!”

By having porno books in public school libraries? Seriously, without them, gender dysphoria-afflicted kids would “erase” themselves from learning anything?  Oh, and co-opting Normal peoples’ speech with “you WILL use THEIR ‘preferred pronouns!” even as I can scarcely remember the names of my kids (Tommy, no Steve, erg!  Randy!!!!!).

And now US Senate Chuck Schumer, because of his occupying the second highest perch in American politics, believes he has the Power to tell the media what to say and do (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

We’ve seen that Democrats don’t seem to understand some of the basic principles of the Constitution. Or perhaps, more accurately, don’t seem to care about complying with it…We saw another serious Constitutional problem again–with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, as he spoke to CNN and MSNBC over the last day. Listen as Schumer tells CNN’s John Berman that he thinks they have a “right” to tell Fox News what to do.

Or, lovely network you have there; shame if anything happened to it:

“This is telling them, showing them they have hurt our democracy*,” Schumer said, “in a way that no other actor other than Donald Trump has done.”

“When it’s that vital, I think we not only have a right to tell Rupert Murdoch and Fox what to do, but an obligation,” Schumer declared. Schumer then encouraged people to harass Fox and “tell them to do what Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer ask.” Schumer then went on MSNBC and said that the reason he was spitting in the face of the Constitution was that our “democracy was at greater risk than it’s ever been,” that Fox must admit they told “lies” or he will take other “steps.”

Continuing the broadside attack against his own oath of office, @SenSchumer took to MSNBC last night & told a receptive @chrislhayes that FNC hosts @IngrahamAngle & @TuckerCarlson must "admit" they told "lies" about the 2020 election. Otherwise, he warns, he'll consider new steps pic.twitter.com/sCfkfTGP22

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 3, 2023

*=democracy is always being hurt when Democrats don’t hold all the Power.

The problem is that he does believe he has that Power – or, at the least, that he wants the MSNBC audience to believe he does.  Maybe 80-20%?

Look, you and I can tell anyone anything, but that’s telling as we can’t demand.  When I read this article, I immediately, due to his past behaviors, believed he meant it. Certainly, with the bolded above, he’s threatening a company that doesn’t toe his line.  This article came out on March 3 so I can say that of the time of this writing, no “steps” have been taken thus far.

But this should concern us all – a man with such Power as he does believe he can do this without fear of retribution is, in itself, a worse “threat to our democracy” than what Fox is doing what he claims. Fox (or the other progressive networks) can say what they want. We can either listen, not listen, turn the channel, or turn the TV or go to another website.  WE make the choice.

But if Schumer, or others like them (I’m thinking NH’s Jeanne Shaheen) speak, they CAN affect the rest of and we are subject to their legislation – there is no opt out for us.  And trust me on this – the Slippery Slope Syndrome exists and is in play. Democrats love to do incrementalism and if they can include intimidation, so much slippery it gets.

(H/T: RedState)

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We learned that in 7 ½ hours House was able to get through 53 bills, but only by tabling 30 of them. Yes, it was a Table extravaganza! In fact, when Rep. Matt Simon (R- Littleton) motioned to Table HB507 (the occupational and professional licensing bill) he did so by saying. “The Table is rapidly expanding, but we can fit one more bill on it.” Many good Republican bills went to the Table, which was a better option than outright Inexpedient To Legislate (ITL)… but to be fair, many bad Democrat bills went there as well. That’s what happens when you do not have the votes needed to get the work done. Elections do indeed have consequences, and our Republican House majority is just too razor-thin.

We learned that HB10, the Parental Bill of Rights bill also ended up on the Table. This bill affirmed the rights of parents and would have made certain that parents are kept informed about what is going on with their child in school: no secrets. Recent polling by the University of New Hampshire showed that Granite Staters overwhelmingly support a parents right to know what their children are doing in school by 58% to 22%. That includes what clubs they belong to or if they are using a different name in school or identifying by a gender different from their biological one. Unfortunately, the voting went this way: an amendment to the bill failed 190-194 and then the Ought to Pass (OTP) of the original underlying bill failed 195-189 (roll called). So as not to kill it completely with an ITL, the bill was Tabled 193-192. So despite what parents want in NH, the House Democrats ignored them. The only bright spot of this whole mess was having Rep. Sanborn (R-Bedford) assume the Speaker’s role since both the House Speaker and Deputy Speaker spoke on this bill. Rep. Sanborn broke the tie vote on the tabling motion.

We learned that one thing the House completely agreed on was HB189. We had an unanimous Ought To Pass (OTP) vote of 377-0 (roll called) to name a portion of Route 140 in Gilmanton in honor of Private First Class Nicholas Cournoyer. PFC Cournoyer died in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom on May 18, 2006 at the age of 25, when an IED detonated near his Humvee. This act honors this young mans sacrifice and adds to the many military honors his name already holds.

We learned that HB135, prohibiting no-knock warrants, passed the House with an almost unanimous OTP/A vote of 374-9 (roll called). This bill will now knock on the Senate’s door.

We learned that HB351, which would have dictated to every gun owner how to store their firearms, was indefinitely postponed with a vote of 202-183. This means that this bill, or any version of the idea of this bill cannot come back this year or next year. This bill, and its idea, was made inaccessible, just like the House Democrats wanted to make your guns.

We learned that CACR7 was a bill that sought to change the NH Constitution. The bill would have changed language to say that money raised by taxation could be applied to religious educational institutions, thereby erasing the anti-Catholic/anti-immigrant Blaine amendment (Part 2 Article 83). House Democrats did not want to remove religious bigotry in the NH Constitution, despite their constant rantings about equity and equality. Go figure. The vote of OTP on this bill was 192 Yes to 191 No – but we needed 3/5 of those voting to pass it, so it failed.

We learned that of the 19 education bills, 16 were tabled, 1 bill (CACR7) failed and 2 were passed. HB275, was a tuition bill allowing parents to pay for the difference between what a local school pays in a tuition contract (usually a capped amount in tuition option communities) with another school and the actual price of tuition to that other school. That bill and its amendment passed 201-181. HB572 which expanded the eligibility for free school lunch passed 233-143.  Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch?

We learned that of 7 election law bills, 6 were tabled and one (HB209) was ITL’d on a voice vote. HB209 simplified the absentee ballot request form.

We learned that HB56, relative to changes to landfill siting, was passed 224-155. This bill will make it more difficult to site landfills in NH by using hydrogeologic groundwater seepage velocity sampling – requiring a 5 year travel time. The problem is that if you take 20 samples of a site and 1 fails the test then the entire site is eliminated as a candidate for a landfill. This bill will now be trucked over to the Senate where they will continue talking trash.

We learned that the committee majority recommendation of ITL for HB96 was overturned to OTP on a voice vote after the ITL failed 198-181. This bill seeks to make May 3rd, Old Man in the Mountain Day. Rep. Tim Cahill (R-Rockingham) claimed, “The Old Man falling was akin to the Twin Towers for many of the Granite State and around the world.” Well, perhaps this was true for him, but based on the groans heard through the House chamber, it would seem the claim was a bit dramatic. Many lives were lost on 9-11, but no one was hurt when the rocks fell down in Franconia Notch.

We learned that HB50 had an amendment that would take $50 million and pay down the pension retirement system unfunded liability. That amendment passed 276-99. The bill was passed on a voice vote and then Tabled with a vote of 206-170 (yes, you can do that before the third reading). Why did they do that??? So that they can put the bill language into the budget bill.

We learned that HB384 passed on a voice vote. That will spend $25 million on a new parking garage for the legislature. An expensive space on the monopoly board, but it really is needed.

We learned that HB506 was ITL’d 300-72. The House didn’t like spending over $100 million for a rail trail box tunnel for exit 4-A in Derry.

We learned that Fish and Game’s only bill from the House, HB442, passed 276-100. The “Lobster bill” prevents state resources from being used to enforce lobstering regulations in federal waters and establishes a means for scuba divers to clean up and retrieve old “ghost” lobster traps laying around in our waters. Rep. Terry Roy (R-Deerfield) spoke in support of the bill and quipped, “I don’t normally care about lobster unless they’re with drawn butter”.

We learned that House Republicans snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. They passed HB69 with an OTP vote of 190-189 and then Rep. Hoell (R-Dunbarton) turned around to motion reconsideration that passed 194-185. After that, the bill was tabled with a vote of 192-187. This bill would have exempted facilities operating with membership based or direct payment business models from special health care licensing requirements. With the 190-189 OTP (roll call) vote, we should have well enough alone.

Finally, we learned that we did not have the votes to stop HB114. That bill allows minor kids age 16 and older to receive mental health treatment without parental consent. The bill passed 191-186. Hopefully, the folks on “the other side of the wall” (the Senate) will give that bill the shock therapy it deserves.

Tomorrow is another day.

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You could tell that platforms like Facebook and Twitter were grist for the government disinformation mill. Flagged, tagged, or canceled, the gig was fixed. The Twitter Files have revealed just how bad things were. But alternatives like Gab, Telegram, Signal, and Getter were not immune.

I’m not saying they censored content on those platforms because I never saw any of that, but they were milked. The censorship machine had its surveillance fingers in every pie, which it then used to define disinformation narratives spread not just on the larger controlled platforms but echoed in the media.

The trending topics or conversations on sites like Gab, Gettr, and Telegram were used to feed progressive propaganda mills.

A few pull quotes from a piece at The Federalist on Matt Taibbi’s latest Twitter Files.

 

These outside partnerships played an aggressive role in pushing Twitter censorship. Taibbi calls this group the “Censorship-Industrial Complex.” A 2020 internal email from Nick Pickles, then public policy director at Twitter, set up a working group with nine disinformation non-governmental organizations (NGOs): First Draft, Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), International Republican Institute (IRI), Atlantic Council/DFRLab, Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), Brookings, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

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To add another layer to this sordid story, the glue that binds this fusion of government, NGOs, and the media together are the billionaire investors funding the NGOs. Chief among these is [Craig]Newmark (founder and CEO of Craigslist0. His fingerprints, and financial backing, are all over the Censorship-Industrial Complex.

This matters because,

[Craig] Newmark’s largest individual donation to any of the NGOs in the Censorship-Industrial Complex went to the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO). He donated $5 million dollars to fund the department in 2019. Newmark put his money behind one of the most controversial figures in online disinformation studies — Renée DiResta.

Newmarket was a prominent funder of the surveillance machine that fed the narrative mill, which massaged all the messaging by defining the message and deciding what was misinformation or disinformation. Twitter and others then used these tools.

Note: If you use Craig’s list for anything, you should stop. You are laundering money into the “Censorship-Industrial Complex.”

Twitter Files

You can cruise this entire Twitter File here, but I’ve grabbed more than a few items of interest.

 

1.TWITTER FILES #19 The Great Covid-19 Lie Machine Stanford, the Virality Project, and the Censorship of “True Stories”

2. “The release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Spring 2020 emails… has been used to exacerbate distrust in Dr. Fauci.” “Increased distrust in Fauci’s expert guidance.”

3.“Reports of vaccinated individuals contracting Covid-19 anyway”; “natural immunity”; suggesting Covid-19 “leaked from a lab”; even “worrisome jokes”:

4.All were characterized as “potential violations” or disinformation “events” by the Virality Project, a sweeping, cross-platform effort to monitor billons of social media posts by Stanford University, federal agencies, and a slew of (often state-funded) NGOs.

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7. Though the Virality Project reviewed content on a mass scale for Twitter, Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, Medium, TikTok, and Pinterest, it knowingly targeted true material and legitimate political opinion while often being factually wrong itself.

8.This story is important for two reasons. One, as Orwellian proof-of-concept, the Virality Project was a smash success. Government, academia, and an oligopoly of would-be corporate competitors organized quickly behind a secret, unified effort to control political messaging.

9.Two, it accelerated the evolution of digital censorship, moving it from judging truth/untruth to a new, scarier model, openly focused on political narrative at the expense of fact.

10.THE BEGINNING: On February 5, 2021, just after Joe Biden took office, Stanford wrote to Twitter to discuss the Virality Project. By the 17th, Twitter agreed to join and got its first weekly report on “anti-vax disinformation,” which contained numerous true stories.

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12. March 2, 2021: “We are beginning to ramp up our notification process to platforms.” In addition to the top-7 platforms, VP soon gained “visibility” to “alternative platforms such as Gab, Parler, Telegram, and Gettr” – near-total surveillance of the social media landscape.

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14.VP told Twitter that “true stories that could fuel hesitancy,” including things like “celebrity deaths after vaccine” or the closure of a central NY school due to reports of post-vaccine illness, should be considered “Standard Vaccine Misinformation on Your Platform.”

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16.VP routinely framed real testimonials about side effects as misinformation, from “true stories” of blood clots from AstraZeneca vaccines to a New York Times story about vaccine recipients who contracted the blood disorder thrombocytopenia.

20.The Virality Project helped pioneer the gauging of “disinformation” by audience response. If the post-vaccine death of a black woman named Drene Keyes in Virginia went unnoticed inspired mostly “anti-vaccine” comments on local media, it became a “disinformation” event.

21.VP warned against people “just asking questions,” implying it was a tactic “commonly used by spreaders of misinformation.” It also described a “Worldwide Rally for Freedom planned over Telegram” as a disinformation event.

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24.The VP in April 2021 mistakenly described “breakthrough” infections as “extremely rare events” that should not be inferred to mean “vaccines are ineffective.”

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27.In a chilling irony, the VP ran searches for the term “surveillance state.” As an unaccountable state-partnered bureaucracy secretly searched it out, the idea that “vaccines are part of a surveillance state” won its own thoughtcrime bucket: “conspiracy.”

28.After about a year, on April 26, 2022, the VP issued a report calling for a “rumor-control mechanism to address nationally trending narratives,” and a “Misinformation and Disinformation Center of Excellence” to be housed within CISA, at the Department of Homeland Security.

29. The next day, April 27, 2022, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced in a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing that a “Disinformation Governance Board” had been created, to be headed by the singing censor, Nina Jankowitz.

And we know how well that went over…

38. In the last #TwitterFiles thread, we posted a video of EIP Director Alex Stamos describing that project as Stanford trying to “fill the gap of things the government couldn’t do” legally. (h/t Foundation for Freedom Online).

 

Had enough because there’s more, all summed up nicely by Dr. Meryl Nass:

 

I hope my readers grasp the enormity of the censorship. They don’t need arcane forms of mind control when the censors can infiltrate every single thing you experience online. They remove the facts they don’t like and up-code the narratives they do like. Simple. Effective. Real value for money.

 

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The Chinese, like the countries in the Middle East, are very patient. Unlike America, China plays the long game, and its goal is a New World Order and sole domination. This is not a new target. You can see the steps China has taken over the last few decades.

Though their economy is not considered solid, China has invested heavily to bolster and leverage the economy of other countries, including the United States. China owns nearly 12% of our National Debt. They have enticed American manufacturers to relocate to China by offering meager employee wages and a favorable tax system. These two elements give the Chinese leverage with the threat of calling in their loans, and the control over our supply chain of essential goods like computer chips and pharmaceuticals is an immensely powerful position for an adversary.

We saw during COVID what the Chinese could do to our manufacturing markets if they slow or stop the distribution of chips. They nearly stopped all automobile and appliance production by not shipping key electrical chips. With over 6.8 Million people dead as a result of Covid, we know the impact China can have on the world by releasing deadly viruses they are creating in their labs. We do not know how they spread the virus, but we can confirm the origin of the COVID-19 epidemic was China.

Twenty years ago, the axis of evil was in the Middle East. It was centralized, but as we saw on 911, its reach was global. The new axis is more international. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are at the epicenter of our threats at home, in the air, and at sea. China and Russia are already nuclear powers, and Iran and North Korea are close. This coalition makes the region from the Middle East to the Pacific extremely volatile, but the entire free world is within missile range for one or all four of these aggressive rogue actors. We went through this scenario years ago with the Soviet Union and Cuba, but we had stronger leaders and a feared military that quelled the threat. Today, we have neither. So, should we be concerned? Absolutely. And it is quite possible, even probable, that President Joe Biden is compromised with Russia and China. He shows no signs of urgency to deal with any of these countries. This apathy should not only concern us but also scare us.

Biden has had opportunities to call out China for its role in spreading the COVID-19 virus and killing over six million worldwide. He has not condemned the human rights violations against the Uighurs. The President allowed a Chinese spy balloon to traverse the Continental United States, gathering information and photographs of our most sensitive military installations before finally shooting it down the Atlantic. He has said nothing about the land bought by China around our military bases, nor is he actively working on getting American companies and manufacturing out of China. We continue to rely on China for electronic chips and many pharmaceuticals, essential to a growing and healthy country. We are at their mercy for uninterrupted supply. And we have seen no effort by Biden to get Russia to the table to negotiate and end the Ukraine conflict. Biden seems satisfied with funneling endless Billions of U.S. tax dollars to Kiiv. Every one of these non-actions fuels the belief that China and Russia control our President.

Chinese balloons and Russia shooting down a $34 Million drone in the Black Sea do not disturb our President. Today, it was reported that Russia intercepted two of our jets over the Black Sea. This aggressive act has to get a stern statement from Biden. We will probably get a quick reference from Karine instead.

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