Monday • December 23 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.LII
Manchester, N.H.
This speaks for itself. The Biden-regime and its allies and supporters get comic relief from Americans dying of fentanyl … and I’m sure the reason why is that they believe most of the deaths are working-class white voters.
Those of you who continue to believe that it’s possible to share a country with these people are such fools.
President Joe Biden reacted to a mother who spoke out about her two sons being killed by fentanyl poisoning by saying that happened "during the last administration" — with a chuckle. pic.twitter.com/Zqfs7RxJ63
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) March 2, 2023
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Older people need to make sure they have all the resources they need to stay happy and healthy well into their 70s, 80s, and beyond. Depending on their health, seniors may find it difficult to live solo.
Sometimes a helping hand is necessary for very elderly people to get food, take walks, and go to doctor’s appointments.
If a senior has a disease like Alzheimer’s or dementia, living in an assisted living facility might be the best course of action. On the other hand, some seniors are happy and healthy and still capable of taking care of themselves. People like this might need to know how to move into a new home in their golden years, or they can choose to live in the same home.
Finding strategies for saving money is helpful. Senior discounts for homeowners insurance are available depending on the type of house that is bought. What can adult children do to aid their senior parents during this time of possible upheaval? What can seniors do to help themselves during home shopping?
Keep the Home SimpleGetting older can make getting around the house more of a chore. Modern technology advancements have made the future of home appliances complex and difficult for older people to use if they are inexperienced with such items.
Perhaps look into buying a one-story home if climbing stairs is becoming more of a struggle due to physical limitations. Don’t buy a home with a large property in need of maintenance, as this adds to your inconvenience.
Mowing the lawn, clipping trees, and watering the plants can be healthy activities for retired people who are in good health, but some people are not capable of doing these things in their 70s and 80s. Buying a large property is going to require some sort of guarantee from loved ones that they will help take care of all the chores that go into living in a big house.
Don’t install fancy new appliances you can’t understand. Moving into an older home with familiar items inside is a good way for seniors to feel comfortable with their living space.
Move to a Retirement CitySome retired people may want to move somewhere sunny and upbeat. Living in the rain of Seattle is not for everyone. The shiny brightness of San Diego might be better suited for those who get seasonal depression during gloomy seasons.
It’s important for these people to think about how to move into one of these bright cities to combat these blues and whether they have the money to afford the cost of living. Seniors who have a large savings may have the money to pay for luxurious homes they didn’t have when they were younger.
The real estate market reacts by pricing the homes higher if they are in an area of affluence. Homeowners’ insurance may also be higher on homes in an area attracting a lot of retirees. The more expensive the house, the higher the insurance is priced for it. Luckily, many seniors can get great discounts just for being over 55 years old.
Get Senior Insurance DiscountsCompanies like Allstate and AARP’s Hartford products are priced specifically for seniors. Allstate has the aforementioned 55 and older discount of over 10%. AARP has always been intended to help seniors manage their money and credit.
The discounts bring the price of insurance down immediately upon purchase due to the intended customers being senior citizens. Safety is the utmost concern for older people and their loved ones. Children sometimes worry their parents and grandparents are going to be in danger of being victimized by home break-ins and other crimes in lower-income areas.
Seniors could move to an expensive area, but the price of housing makes it more difficult to pay for daily expenses. This creates a tough situation. Cheap homes are more likely to be in areas with higher crime rates. It could mean the final decision may just be to move senior-aged loved ones in with children or grandchildren.
Think About Live-In Caregiving SituationsIf a senior is in poor health, it could be better for a caregiver to be living with them at all times. Running a house by themselves can lead to complications and consequences. What if they fall and have nobody to help them recover from the fall?
How about Alzheimer’s causing memory loss? Seniors with mental health diseases may leave their homes and not return. This calls for younger people to move their parents or older loved ones in with them so they can keep an eye on them. This also saves both parties a tremendous amount of money.
A senior’s older house can be sold, and no money has to be put into buying another home. Younger homeowners may even be able to get a tax write-off from their older parents if they are living with them by claiming them as a dependent. This gives money back to adult children to alleviate any expenses incurred because of a live-in caregiving situation.
Moving Into Assisted Living FacilitiesIf a senior’s health problems are too much for an adult child, then moving them into a nursing facility or senior living home may be the best option for their safety. Professional nurses and caregivers are able to assist elderly patients. It should be made clear these situations can get very expensive, though.
Living in a nursing home can be very stressful for seniors if friends or family don’t visit them frequently. Seniors and their relatives should keep in touch often to avoid homesickness.
All in all, seniors may just want to live in the home they raised their family in if at all possible. If they do choose to live in this situation, they can still get discounts on homeowners insurance by switching policies. Seniors can also be happy knowing they may have paid their home off in full and can enjoy financial freedom in their familiar place of dwelling.
Shawn Laib writes and researches for the insurance comparison site, ExpertInsuranceReviews.com. He wants to help seniors understand the choices that can make retirement living more pleasurable.
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It’s National “If Pets Had Thumbs Day.” I know. What the … It’s also ‘World Wildlife Day’ and ‘Canadian Bacon Day,’ eh? Do you like Irish Whisky? Today is International Irish Whiskey Day and the first day of The Iditarod.
You could grab some whisky and bacon and pets with thumbs (if they have them), Cold Cuts, thank Moms in Georgia, caregivers, and celebrate The National Anthem. March 3rd is their day too.
It is also the birthday of the US Navy Reserves.
On this day in 1857, the Second Opium War Began. Thirty years later, in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf, Helen Keller. Mahatma Gandhi began a fast in Mumbai (Bombay, 1939) to protest against autocratic rule in India. And Los Angeles police officers were recorded (1991) beating motorist Rodney King which later led to riots when the police officers were acquitted.
The Morning MailAnd don’t you know it!
CULTURE
AROUND THE WORLD
MISC
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Newly elected Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) may be both dead and alive, according to various pundits, nurses, seers, and medical men. As a fellow who enjoys physics, this reminds me of one of the greatest thought experiments of all time – the tale of Schrödinger’s cat.
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Nitro the cat is placed in a steel cat box along with a Geiger counter, a vial of poison that becomes an easy-to-breathe aerosol if its container is shattered, a ball-peen hammer, and a radioactive substance. When the radioactive substance finally decides to decay, the Geiger counter detects it and triggers the hammer to fall, smashing the vial and releasing the poison, which subsequently kills Nitro the cat. Radioactive decay is a random process, and there is no way to predict when it will happen. Physicists say the atom exists in a state known as a superposition—both decayed and not decayed at the same time, as does Nitro and perhaps once mighty Mr. Fetterman.
Until the box is opened, an observer doesn’t know whether the cat is alive or dead—because the cat’s fate is intrinsically tied to whether or not the atom has decayed and the cat would, as Schrödinger put it, be “living and dead … in equal parts.”
In other words, unless that box is opened, the cat’s state is completely unknown, and therefore, the cat is considered to be both alive and dead at the same time until it is observed by someone outside the enclosed system.
“If you put Nitro in the box, and if there’s no way of saying what the cat is doing, you have to treat it as if it’s doing all of the possible things—being living and dead—at the same time,” explains Eric Martell, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Millikin University. “If you try to make predictions and you assume you know the status of the cat, you’re [probably] going to be wrong. If, on the other hand, you assume it’s in a combination of all of the possible states that it can be, you’ll be correct.”
Upon looking at the cat, an observer would immediately know if the cat was alive or dead, and the “superposition” of the cat—the idea that it was in both states—would collapse into either the knowledge that “the cat is alive” or “the cat is dead,” but never both.
So, physics brings us to the man who crushed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican, for Pennsylvania’s open and proud US senator’s seat.
It has been suggested of late, on a growing number of news blogs far outside of the perpetual prevaricators posing on the mainstream press, that Senator John Fetterman, following two strokes, the latter being pretty serious, punctuated by that sad bit of his starring in the old “Lost at Sea” vaudeville show when he was sworn in with the terminally jocose Vice President Harris in attendance, is both alive and dead. In this state of superposition, it won’t matter about his voting. No, the Democrats have relied for years, in tight races all across our land, on those inviolate absentee ballots culled from the faithful Democrat dead who come to life for every election and then scurry back beneath the sod before dawn, and the votes are counted.
The Democrat stool, it has often been pointed out, is supported by three sturdy legs: one for the voting dead where the dead vote Democrat in over 85% of the cases examined, another for the ever more mollycoddled criminal class with tips of the hat to lily-livered DA’s who ran on Georgi Soros’ dime and were elected before being recalled, with the last leg representing that latest tranche of the three million illegal aliens who have caused such a ruckus for Governor Abbot (R-TX) and Mayor Adams (D-NYC) because Joe Biden has waived them home with the same storied success of a Yankees third base coach or the landing signal officer on a US aircraft carrier.
There is that famous meme featuring a Democrat filling out absentee ballots using names on tombstones in an ancient cemetery.
Despite the orders from numerous judges across America to rid the voting lists of the voting dead, they slither back onto these same lists and keep on voting as Democrats in the best Stephen King tradition. Sometimes a Republican corpse is hijacked by the Democrat side of a family and their post-mortem votes will appear in the latest voters’ rolls.
So, John Fetterman, if he’s lying in a coma being kept alive by machines, or if he’s playing liar’s poker with the nurses in intensive care, will cast his ballots Chuck Schumer’s way every time, alive or dead. And if Fetterman can remain both alive and dead through August 18th, then a special election for the Senate seat won’t be required to fill his then vacated seat and instead it would come time to let Governor Shapiro, who did away with required college degrees for 92% of the fabled Commonwealth’s positions and is said to have as many questionable miniatures on his kitchen shelf as Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), to appoint his replacement from Harrisburg’s array of highly educated and qualified hacks now that neither college or common sense is required in Ben Franklin’s and William Penn’s once dignified state.
Oh, yes, what about Nitro the cat? If you look closely at the photo you’ll note that Nitro’s sporting a George HW Bush button on his collar. Did that tough little cat, the closest I ever came to Schrödinger outside of physics classes in college, vote?
Having scanned the voting roll at my polling place near my last Massachusetts home in Brighton, when I voted for that female communist instead of Thomas “Tip” O’Neill shortly before moving to our less onerously taxed and far better-led Granite State, I found no cats or dogs registered. But I always wondered just how many loyal Democrats dead voted for the “Tipster” in that moment of his greatest need?
As for the dearly departed Nitro, it would break my heart if he was now voting Democrat.
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Swedish Climate Muppet Greta Thunberg is making news in Norway, where she and some activist muppet buddies blocked access to the Ministry of Energy to protest a proposed wind farm project. The reasoning: “indigenous peoples who live in the area.”
“We cannot use the so-called climate change as a cover for colonialism,” said Thunberg, according to TV2, outside the ministry’s doors. “A climate transition that violates human rights is not a climate transition worthy of the name.”
With those two sentences, Greta opened a Climate-sh!t-sandwich shop, but is she prepared to serve them to everyone who needs to take a bite? The Net-Zero, electrification, solar, wind, and EV energy transition is built on human rights violations of indigenous populations.
China, a long-time human rights violator before this windfall came their way, is the world leader in both mining rare earth metals and manufacturing components, parts, and equipment for this farce. Nearly everything “green” has CCP fingerprints on it. China owns many of the mines in Africa and South East Asia, where local low-wage or slave-level laborers work in criminally unhealthy conditions with massive environmentally damaging footprints. Not the fake damage used to sell the agenda but real, generational harm with long-term impacts on human health, land, water, and wildlife.
Can we expect Thunberg to visit the Congo, Indonesia, or the Mother Ship in China? What about CCP climate ‘colonialism’ and human rights violations? Will Greta stand before the UN and say, “How Dare You” support an energy transition under these circumstances?
And what about the rest of it? I mean, all of it. Are all the groups milking the colonialism schtick going to shoot their narrative or climate cash cows because the NWO energy transition depends on climate change colonialism and the harmful offshoring of emissions to third-world nations for the benefit of wealthy globalists?
Not a chance. It’s full Green-catastrophe ahead! So, Greta might want to hire some security. If she keeps this up, Thunberg may find herself having committed “suicide” from a wind turbine in the Swedish backwoods with a story that changes as quickly as Paul Pelosi’s home invasion hammer assault.
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The self-proclaimed elites have, over the last couple of decades, been proving they are not all that elite: “There is a perception that the multiple ladders of success which have existed in American society are increasingly being collapsed into a single ladder, with access tightly controlled via educational credentials.
“There is a perception that the multiple ladders of success which have existed in American society are increasingly being collapsed into a single ladder, with access tightly controlled via educational credentials. It is increasingly observed that these credentials actually have fairly low predictive power concerning an individual’s actual ability to perform important tasks and make wise judgments about institutional or national issues. The assumption that school-based knowledge generally trumps practical experience seems increasingly questionable as the sphere of activity for which this assertion is made has expanded, and is indeed increasingly viewed with suspicion or with outright disdain.”
-David Foster (“What, Precisely, is the Issue with “Elites”?“
In short, a Neo-Aristocracy that is both self-selected, self-appointed, and based on which Ivy League school issued their diplomas, believe they have the self-given knowledge and power to boss the rest of us around. And like the Middle Ages” royal Aristocracy, their view of everyone else is little better than serfs. Thus, they don’t care about how they affect OUR lives. “YOU DON’T NEED THAT!” is their mantra: you don’t need a gas car, you don’t need to have steak for dinner, you don’t need to fly in a plane, you don’t need lots of new clothes every year, you don’t need to live outside a “walkable city”, and you certainly don’t need always-on electricity any time you want.
But you shall know them by their actions – as THEY will have apportioned to themselves everything they would deny you.
Including Freedom.
(HT: Instapundit)
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NOAA Predicted a Mild/Drier Winter as Record Snowfall Closes Yosemite Natl. Park For Foreseeable Future
Grant-hungry Climate Cultists can code computer models that auger global conditions years or decades from now, but they can’t predict this. Yosemite got so much snow this winter they closed the park on Feb 25th and for the foreseeable future.
The historic snowfall in the Sierra Nevada from back-to-back winter storms has closed the world-famous park indefinitely while rangers and park staffers work to respond to the epic snowpack.
“In all of my years here, this is the most snow that I’ve ever seen at one time,” said Scott Gediman, a spokesperson for Yosemite and ranger for 27 years. “This is the most any of us have ever seen.”
Snowfall records have been bTheythe Pacific Coast all season (better them than us), but why didn’t they see this coming?
They did see something, but they were wrong. NOAA, so-called scientific experts on such things, made these now-laughable 2022-2023 winter predictions for California, which includes Yosemite. Normal to above average temperatures and normal to below normal precipitation.
California got the opposite in spades: record precipitation and cold weather, including plowable snow (but with no plows) down to Southern California.
If it makes NOAA feel better, The Farmer’s Almanac missed it too. They predicted drier weather with mild temperatures.
Here’s some local news on the closing of Yosemite National Park.
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So I put up this facetious post pointing out the hypocrisy of the self-proclaimed “fiscal conservatives” in the NHGOP who are railing (pun intended) about commuter rail to Boston … while ignoring all the waste, fraud and corruption in funding public education and the blank check to the Ukraine … Damn Right We Should Build A Choo Choo To Beantown. The commentators, however, missed the point and let me know yet again that if we don’t stop Putin now the Russian Navy will be shelling Hampton Beach by June and that it’s just not free market to subsidize commuter rail (but apparently it is free market to subsidize “workforce housing”) … YAWN. Nevertheless, I intend to follow up on that post by taking the proverbial “deeper dive” into education funding to underscore the hypocrisy of the NHGOP’s faux fiscal conservatives.
Remember Chucky Morse’s failed U.S. Senate campaign … more specifically the slogan … “603-way not DC-way”? Well … when it comes to funding public education, there really is no difference between the “603-way” and how DC funds the war in Ukraine. We have virtually no idea how the money is being spent.
Let me say that a different way … all that we really know about public education spending in New Hampshire is that we don’t know. Apparently, average per pupil spending is $19,400.00. And the average classroom size is seventeen. So that’s nearly $330,000 per classroom.
So let’s assume the total compensation the teacher of that classroom receives is $100,000, which I am certain is on the high side. That leaves $230,000 per classroom unaccounted for. WHERE THE HELL IS ALL THAT MONEY GOING?
Where is the pie chart on the Department of Education website showing me a meaningful breakdown of spending on public education? I couldn’t find it. CALLING MR. EDELBLUT … CALLING MR. EDELBLUT.
Can any of our “fiscally conservative” NHGOP State Reps and State Senators give me that breakdown? I doubt it. They are far too busy cutting business taxes and subsidizing workforce housing … which clearly is far more important to them than knowing how much of every education dollar is spent on Diversity-Inclusion-Equity.
I am sure that these “fiscal conservatives” would tell me that I can do a Right-to-Know if I want to know. NO … NO … NO … oversight and stewardship of how taxes are spent is YOUR JOB … DO YOUR DAMN JOBS.
All that we can say is that we really have no idea how approximately two-thirds of every dollar spent on public education is actually spent.
I know … I know … I know … what I really should be worried about is that Russian fleet steaming full speed toward Hampton Beach.
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Much has been written recently about the nearly 850% increase in illegal border crossing apprehensions along the New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire border with Canada (Maine, too, I expect). Not so much about who.
Nearly two-thirds of the 1,513 apprehensions since October of 2022 are Mexican. Does that seem odd? The US has a border with Mexico. It is long, porous, and far from Canada or the American North East. It is also not nearly as unpleasant this time of year as its longer Canadian counterpart.
January in Nogales (Mexico or Arizona) is 65F during the day and 39F degrees at night (average). I expect any deserts you cross along the way are worse, and we know many folks never make it that far but it’s temperate in Nogales. In Laredo, the temps run 65F /45F, and again, depending on the method of entry, you might not make the walk or die in the back of a truck trailer, but you’re Mexican and in Mexico.
In contrast, on the northern border, Swanton, Vermont doesn’t get much warmer than 25F on average when the sun is up and hovers near zero at night (without windchill). A trek through Canada to the US border is chilly, especially if you are not used to the cold. It is also nowhere near Mexico.
The Burlington Free Press recently published a piece with some weather cautions and comments from Border Patrol about illegals choosing this path. A number, as noted above, that has risen 850% during the Biden tenure. They’ve even got this awesome graph showing us where the illegals come from based on their self-declared nationality.
Sixty-two percent are Mexicans. We’ve also got Haitians, Guatemalans, Venezuelans, Columbians, Ecuadoans, Cubans, Peruvians, and Brazilians (the people, not the wax job). There are plenty of off-continent nationalities and even a handful of Canadians, all of whom might consider illegal entry along the northeastern US border a sensible entry point for lawbreakers.
Anyone south of Mexico might do better on a boat ride to Canada, to which you might add stops in Cuba or Haiti. But just Mexicans? Crossing in Canada? Who is moving them up the coastline and down the St. Lawrence Seaway before they hop on land and make a cold-snowy break for America?
My awesome drawing of likely ways for Mexicans to get to the Swanton Sector.Cartels? Who else can afford it with the southern border saturated with invaders, which includes a few asylees, a lot of opportunists, and an army of gangs with drugs? Maybe VT, NY, and NH look like more accessible points of entry. Instead of moving drugs up to Lawrence, MA, and then into New Hampshire, they can move them down and in from Canada. And why not if they don’t get caught in Canada?
Vermont is a Sanctuary state. Burlington has effectively legalized human trafficking (you cannot prosecute prostitution there). Its door is already open, except for the Border Patrol, working at skeleton crew levels. And they’ve caught 1,513.
The rest are here among us.
But it’s not couch cushion money to take a boat from the Gulf up the coast and then down toward Montreal. Is someone paying that freight, or is there another explanation for why Mexicans are marched at great risk to their lives across the wintery Canadian border into the US?
The racist, sexist, bigoted, xenophobic, colonialist, white supremacist United States, or so I’ve heard). A place colder than the water in January.
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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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Climate Science: What Does it Say? | Dr. Richard Lindzen | EP 320
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Top of the fold:
WEF wants to be able to remote-turn-off your appliances. Hence one of the drives to have wi-fi in everything. It’s not enough for them to send broadcasts; heck, if I got such a broadcast I’d look to try and turn stuff off as I could. But this is a step further: master control:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/wef-wants-to-control-your-appliances.mp4
Again, OOH I understand the finite nature of the grid and the need to ask people to shed loading. But OTOH the idea of taking over and just doing it heedless of what’s going on? Consider the example of people baking a turkey for Thanksgiving and having their connected ovens switch off for an hour. And IMHO related:
The World Economic Forum’s ‘AI Enslavement’ Is Coming For You! | ZeroHedge
It seems as if not a generation goes by when some megalomaniac does not rise to proclaim, “If only the world does exactly as I demand, I will deliver you paradise here on Earth.” Usually, these same narcissists go down in history remembered as either vainglorious buffoons or bloodthirsty tyrants — often both.
Remember: they TRULY BELIEVE themselves to be superior beings. They TRULY BELIEVE themselves entitled to rule. And they have only the best of intentions.
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U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is “almost certainly” making them sick – CBS News
What’s in your food? Don’t just check for insect powder.
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
If things get “spicy” and you have to be out driving, be aware of these bad guy techniques. Ditto for if you’re beside a road. Even more than normal, heads on a swivel.
WATCH: Hamas video details how to carry out drive-by shooting attacks | World Israel News
Be situationally aware:
How to Develop Situational Awareness | The Art of Manliness
Speaking of being alert:
Bayou Renaissance Man: “Our society has devolved. Get a gun. Train hard. Shoot first.”
And this poor woman:
Alligator kills Florida woman walking her dog… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
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System Failure: What’s Coming & Actions You Can Take
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
It’s true – the climate fanatics are coming for your car – spiked (spiked-online.com)
I agree, but it IS the handiwork of the WEF. Those “enlightened suuuuupergeniuses”. Related:
Minnesota Democrats propose ban on gas-powered lawnmowers, chainsaws, and Zambonis | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com
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Ambitious 170-km-long Saudi skyscraper city gets construction go ahead (newatlas.com)
That LINE city is getting started.
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Losing our future by destroying our past (wnd.com)
(Link to AZQUOTES per their policy)
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Physical driving licence could become ‘history’ as EU proposes digital option (msn.com)
Some US states are working on this too. And of course… “option” becomes “mandate” pretty quickly.
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Protecting Children:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/school-notice-for-overnight-stays.mp4
Now, why would they need this?
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Jen Martinez: I Joined Gays Against Groomers Because I Don’t Recognize My Community Anymore
Good for her, good for them. I wonder if there’s JEWS AGAINST JEWICIDAL YIDIOTS.
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Mississippi Becomes Seventh State To Outlaw Sex Change Surgeries for Minors (freebeacon.com)
Good!
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National Security (specifically):
China Far Outpacing US in Warship Production, Navy Secretary Warns – Geller Report
Disaster. While our military goes woke under the Biden Administration, China is building a Navy that is superior to ours. If America loses it’s Naval dominance to China than it’s a different world. Does the Biden Administration even have a strategy to compete with China? Dangerous times.
Related to production:
One Year in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the Big Pixels (substack.com)
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90 Miles From Tyranny : Biden Pentagon Orders Military Chaplains To Bless Putting Male Soldiers In Female Showers And Bedrooms (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
Driving away our soldiers.
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The Folly of Ukraine – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)
IMHO he’s not wrong. We’re definitely late-stage.
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On The Jab (and Covid)
More vaccines -> higher infant mortality (substack.com)
Not just the Covid Jab, but all vaccines. As to releasing the data, all the data? If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth. Related:
Why is everyone so afraid to talk about the elephant in the room? (substack.com)
Letter To A Mainstream Straddler: Live Not By Half-Lies | ZeroHedge
The unJabbed are not dying. Related:
Pfizer’s fraudulent COVID mRNA technology gene injection that FDA approved with EUA: 20 deaths in vaccine trial arm versus 14 in placebo trial arm; yet FDA approved the vaccine with EUA! Did you know? (substack.com)
So 42% more deaths in the vaccine arm than in control arm. Did you know that? They reported 95% relative risk reduction but did you know there were 42% more deaths in the vaccine arm?
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The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. We should be concerned. Very concerned. (substack.com)
Getting scared about getting on a plane. Meanwhile the uber-rich want unJabbed pilots. Doesn’t that tell you everything?
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Dr. James Thorpe shocking data on the devastation of the mRNA technology gene injection on the pregnant woman & developing child; I have said before, proper legal trials & if shown they caused deaths, (substack.com)
Pfizer Confirms It Ended COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Trial Early | ZeroHedge
EXCLUSIVE: Whatever happened to Pfizer’s covid vaccine trial in pregnant women? (substack.com)
Gallows.
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Inflation:
U.S. Credit Card Debt Soars in Era of Disastrous Bidenflation – The Lid (lidblog.com)
“A lot of people may not have enough income coming in to support day-to-day expenses, so it lands on the credit card. That becomes a very persistent cycle of debt, unfortunately,” said Ted Rossman, a senior analyst at Bankrate.com.
And then bankruptcies start.
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Here’s How Much the Price of Food Has REALLY Gone Up (theorganicprepper.com)
It’s not going away any time soon, that’s for sure. More:
Key gauge watched by Federal Reserve shows January inflation surged (wnd.com)
Inflation Isn’t Going Away… | ZeroHedge
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Coles, Woolworths, Aldi: Higher supermarket prices after Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics collapse | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
UK Food Inflation Hits Record High of 17.1%
International.
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Project O’Keefe
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Enemedia:
WHAT A SHAME: NPR Laying Off 10 Percent of Workforce Citing Drop in Ad Revenue | The Gateway Pundit
HA HA HA HA HA HA! Related:
Chris Hedges: Russiagate Spells Journalism’s Death | ZeroHedge
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https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/128/448/587/playable/c5c91a92c3e3251f.mp4
It’s not just that the census did this. It’s the absolute silence about it.
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Pfizer’s unpunished confession – American Thinker
All those years, I wondered why Pharma spent so richly on advertising.
It’s because I had the target wrong. The money wasn’t meant for prescriptions.
It was for media influence. And it worked.
Yes. Yes, it did. What’s that saw? He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Media orgs demand ALL the J6 footage they didn’t care about until Tucker Carlson got access – twitchy.com
They’re not curious. They’re now furiously doing research to head off the bad news that’s inevitably coming. Related:
90 Miles From Tyranny : Media Demands Darkness, Not Sunlight, on January 6 Tapes (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/lara-logan-question-everything-on-ukraine.mp4
THIS… is what a journalist should be.
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Pro-life:
Leading Physician Confirms Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During Abortions – LifeNews.com
OMG.
People wouldn’t sentence a puppy to this fate. Yet they cheer this for a baby.
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Democrats Will Keep Chairman Who Said Disabled Babies Should be Aborted to Cut School Costs – LifeNews.com
A local Massachusetts Democratic committee voted not to remove its chairman, Michael Hugo, after he suggested unborn babies with disabilities should be aborted because they are a drain on public school funding.
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Instead, the committee told the newspaper that its members approved a statement “repudiating” the chairman’s “recent harmful comments.” The committee did not say if Hugo will face any consequences, according to the report.
Perhaps he should just call them “life unworthy of life” and be done with it. Or Untermensch. And he was not removed? Just “reprimanded”. I wonder what would have happened if he’d said blacks, not disabled people.
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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:
To her I state without apology: When an Islamic migrant group gang-rapes you… you got what you voted for.
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SURPRISE! It turns out they really ARE coming for your gas stove – twitchy.com
Of course. Can’t have you have a stove that’s connected to your propane tank, and not the grid they control. Or worse – and reference the WEF section above – a connected stove they can just remotely disable.
Speaking of, we just finished remodeling our kitchen. Finding ANY appliances that weren’t wifi enabled was difficult.
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Immigration / Migration:
Overwhelming number of UK residents agree that immigration numbers are TOO DAMN HIGH! (barenakedislam.com)
Too high everywhere.
These Numbers Are Incredible
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Teachers told my 15-year-old daughter to cover her ANKLES because they were sexually attractive | Daily Mail Online
No. You move to another country, you assimilate to that country. It is not up to that country to assimilate to you.
Short story: I make a “spirited attempt” to keep kosher. Now, that’s difficult enough living where I live, especially with a non-Jewish wife. But I try. For example, if I’m at a restaurant I’ll order things in such a way to try to not have pork, or will only order free-swimming fish (e.g., has fins and scales), not knowingly mix milk and meat, etc. (I miss bacon cheeseburgers!) But it’s a tip of the hat because, technically, the kitchen is not kosher. But I have neither pull or arrogance to make the kitchen clean itself just for my sake.
So when I was in Louisiana on a business trip some years ago, I had to specifically order “No shrimp” which, down there, get put on everything. My request was tantamount to heresy. But I’m not asking the kitchen to scrub down or inconvenience others, just to not add something to my particular order… and when I explained it was a religious restriction, and keep in mind I do wear a kippa, nobody blinked. In fact, it did start a few interesting conversations.
The above is something else entirely.
And where are the feminists, who used to say that how someone dressed was not a reason to harass them?? Related:
Austria: Syrian father threatened to kill and rape 14-year-old daughter because he suspected she had a boyfriend – Allah’s Willing Executioners (medforth.biz)
Charming culture. Let’s import them by the metric f*ckton.
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Economy at large:
What happens to a consumer-driven economy when consumers are tapped out?
A healthy economy ultimately depends on having discretionary income. Which is being squeezed out of existence for an increasing number of people. Or when the central banks are:
End of Bank of England £800bn bond buying is a headache for Treasury (cityam.com)
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EU’s largest economy shrinks — RT Business News
The German economy shrank by 0.4% quarter-on-quarter in the final three months of 2022, the country’s Federal Statistical Office reported on Friday. The contraction came in larger than the previously estimated 0.2% GDP drop.
Analysts attribute the worse than expected reading to persistently high inflation and lingering concerns over energy supplies, which are weighing heavily on household consumption and capital investment. Data showed that German household spending was down 1.0% in the fourth quarter, while investment in construction was down 2.9% and in machinery and equipment down 3.6%.
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The Real Roots of the Financial Crisis (substack.com)
Not just a foreseeable crash. A foreseen crash. And there are signs now:
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign…
There are shortages, delays and difficulties all over the place in business and commerce, and they’re getting worse, not better. How are you finding it, dear readers? Please let us know in Comments, so we can get a better feel for whether this is a general problem, and if so, how widespread it’s become.
Analysts Warn That Stocks Are In ‘Death Zone’ And Ready For A Collapse – The Lid (lidblog.com)
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Political War
Media Says Americans Should Just Skip Meals To Cut High Grocery Bills – Geller Report
First against the wall when the main shooting stops.
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Government Targets Conservatives: The Matt Gaetz Witch Hunt – Intellectual Takeout
Another case study in this ongoing harassment of conservatives involves Congressman Matt Gaetz, who has been under an extended investigation. Lawyers for Matt Gaetz recently revealed that the Department of Justice has concluded its investigation into the congressman and will not be charging him with a crime.
It’s not that. It’s that now the enemedia can refer to him as the “formerly investigated for sex trafficking” Congressman.
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90 Miles From Tyranny : Biden Judicial Nom Argued for Outlawing Offensive Speech, Suggested ‘Microaggressions’ Can ‘Kill You’ Meet Maria Araujo Kahn, Biden’s nominee for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com)
They want you silenced.
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America Cannot Survive If Its Citizens Lack Pride – American Thinker
No nation can survive a loss of confidence in itself and its past.
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
TIA: This Is Africa? No, This Is America – American Thinker
I remember being in Russia, meeting my now-wife. For two days the apartment I’d rented had no hot water. “This is Russia” she said with a resigned shrug.
We take so much of our functioning society utterly for granted.
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Twitter Admits That It Received “Legal Demands” from the US Government to Censor Covid Information – Cafe Hayek
And thus, nobody with three brain cells capable of firing at once trusts the government any more. See my commentary at the last PREP edition post.
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“The Future of American Policing”
Deliberately degrading the effectiveness of, and trust in, the police. Speaking of police:
Nike Begs Portland Mayor for Police Protection to Reopen Shuttered Community Store Plagued With Retail Theft
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The National Divorce has begun – Don Surber (substack.com)
Whether by official policy or not, people are moving.
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
“Xi Jinping and Putin Know, There Are No Consequences Under the Joe Biden Presidency” – Kash Patel on Why the Word “Nuclear” Is Now in the Mainstream | The Gateway Pundit
Yesterday Kash Patel was on the War Room and Bannon noted that you never heard Reagan or Trump talk about using nuclear warheads as tactical weapons yet here we are under Biden discussing the possibility of a nuclear war.
Edging closer and closer.
Report: US Sending Hundreds of Troops to Taiwan as China Threatens Invasion (freebeacon.com)
Beijing To Fast-Track Taiwan ‘Reunification’ Plans After “Extraordinary” Year Of Tensions | ZeroHedge
About another potential flash point:
Is An Attack on Iran Imminent? Rogue Nation is Close to Uranium Enrichment Level Required for Nuclear Weapon – The Jewish Voice
While Joe Biden dillydallies around Iran’s advancing nuclear enrichment program, Benjamin Netanyahu prepares for military strike (barenakedislam.com)
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Here’s How Fast Things Have Changed in Brazil Since the Election (theorganicprepper.com)
Things can shift. And fast.
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WWIII Watch: Zelensky Now Playing Games With Moldova – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)
Oy. And more:
U.S. Army, NATO. A huge number of M1A2 Abrams tanks arrived in Eastern Europe.
Comments are that looks like a whole battalion. On tanks:
Scrounging For Tanks For Ukraine, Europe’s Armies Come Up Short
Related:
19th Ward Chicago: Is the Ukraine war just a BS job?
So Ukraine is losing on the battlefield and the U.S.-led sanctions regime against Russia has failed. The only U.S. response is to escalate the conflict.
But RTWT. And a little more:
NATO Yields to Ukraine: Promises Membership ‘In the Long Term’
Basically translated: Russia, everything you were afraid of vis a vis Ukraine, we’re doing. This is NOT how you calm things down.
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Color Revolution? US Funneling Millions Into Hungary’s Left-Wing Opposition Media
Orban is for Hungary First. Thus, he needs to be gone.
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Specific to energy:
Grids Can’t Handle All the Solar and Wind Dems Want to Hook Up | Frontpage Mag
Grid Capacity Issues Threaten Net Zero | Watts Up With That?
The fact that it can’t work doesn’t deter them. Related:
America’s Largest Power Grid Faces Worsening Reliability Risks | ZeroHedge
A significant problem with the ‘green transition’ is adding renewable power, such as solar and wind, are unreliable forms of power generation. Combining this with rapidly retiring fossil fuel power generation units will reduce generating capacity by about 21% through 2030. The report pointed out that the current pace of adding new power generation wouldn’t compensate for the retirement of coal- and natural gas-fired generation amid soaring demand.
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Power grid attacks up 71% and Biden acolytes tell us it’s all those white supremacists – American Thinker
Our grid is staggeringly vulnerable. Not that I’m planning anything, but routinely I go by transformer substations with a chain link fence as its sole security feature. Miles and miles of high-voltage transmission lines, side by side, with the ability to walk right up to the bases of the towers.
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Why South Africa’s Collapse Finally Came Down to Eskom – The American Conservative
A herald of America’s future?
Lights Out! The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down | Bill Whittle
Related:
WSJ CONFIRMS OUR WARNING: The power grid infrastructure is being deliberately dismantled to collapse America
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Dark money group pushing gas stove crackdown has significant financial stake in green energy | Fox News
Surprise surprise. I remember when the incandescent bulb was pushed out – by corporate lobbying for increased efficiency standards.
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Puffin Publishing Tried To Burn Classic Children’s Books
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Big Tech in general:
How Deepfake Videos Are Used to Spread Disinformation – The New York Times (archive.is)
Detectable, for now. Give it a few years, and unless you’re in the same room you won’t be able to tell if it’s a person or a deep-fake AI. And that’s a problem, especially for news sources. What happens when, in real time, such technology can put out a statement by a publicly-known figure?
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British journalist shows how the CIA played a ‘direct’ role in the creation of Google – Blazing Cat Fur
Not really a surprise. Now… take a look at Amazon’s rise to success. Could it have been a plan to get you to buy your stuff online and then track it?
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Not just ivermectin: New FDA authority to ban off-label uses alarms doctors | Just The News
This is huge. If the FDA blocks off-label use, especially if it’s done selectively and people know it, that undermines – even further – any trust in the medical establishment. “OK, doctor, you can prescribe X for an off label use but you can’t prescribe Y for a different off label use”?
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
The Population Crash › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
Contrary to Paul Ehrlich’s predictions, the late 21st century will bring with it unavoidable turmoil as nation after nation confronts not too many people, but instead, an aged dependent population dying en masse, with almost no youth left to replace them.
The demographic Titanic is going to hit the iceberg. We may be thankful that some people on the ship are building lifeboats while there is still time.
Longish. Read anyway. Never mind the Jab specifically – in general entire countries will collapse and vanish. Entire cultures will vanish.
On a personal note – a couple of them.
First, I wish I could have more kids, but I’m definitely getting up there… and certainly not with my Jabbed wife. In my case, if something happened to her – Hashem forbid – I’d likely be looking for a Jewish woman, ideally Orthodox. Pureblood. Going to be a pretty short list on that, I think.
Second, I wish I’d started a lot earlier. I remember a classmate from the snobby private high school I attended who left after her first year. She came to the graduation ceremony… married and very pregnant. Considering she was very Catholic, her kids now doubtless have kids… while I’m still on just my kids who are nowhere near breeding age.
As Mark Steyn said, the future belongs to those who reproduce to be there. Or something close to that.
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Don’t forget: prep prep prep! But not just buying canned food, etc. Learn for the long haul. Just in case.
Salting, Curing and Smoking your own meat
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Palate cleansers:
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Please check out my MEME collection. Here’s the last one.
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The Supreme Court will decide on the Constitutionality of the Joe Biden Student Loan Payout. This should be another defeat for the Biden Team, but they got the mileage they needed from the proposal.
After all, the carrot that Biden hung in front of everyone with an outstanding Student Loan balance was done to secure votes in 2020. Biden was willing to spend upwards of $1 Trillion in taxpayer dollars to buy enough votes to secure his election over Donald Trump. If the loans are not forgiven now, Biden can point to the Trump Court for blame and still take credit for the effort. Biden knew all along that this payout would not fly. Even Nancy Pelosi went on the record to say that the President had no Constitutional right to forgive these loans. Joe can tell you that he knew that too.
But he also knows the value of the empty promise he made to millions of students and their parents. He pushed the button, made the promise, cashed in on the votes, and knew it would never come to fruition. Even the failure is working out for him. He can now stand before the American people, claim what he did for them, and blame the evil Republicans, and Trump’s Supreme Court for saying no. He will be loved for the effort, and the blowback on the Right will be lasting. The protests outside the Court today were loud and emotional.
Elizabeth Warren, Pressley, Tliab, Pressley, and Omar played for the crowd. They all claimed the President is within his rights to cancel student loan debt. Unfortunately for them, Nancy Pelosi explained last fall that the suspension of debt is available to the Executive Branch, but forgiveness is not. The one person who came unhinged and delivered the most passionate speech was Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT, the largest teachers union.
Weingarten was out of control, jumping and yelling and, unfortunately, lying. She ranted that the President was within his rights to forgive the outstanding student debt. Nobody addressed the two most important questions like the others who spoke out of hand. If the debt is forgiven, who pays the balance. The other question is, what happens with students coming into the cycle and starting to accumulate loans?
This forgiveness looks to be a four to five-year process and the beginning of free college in America. The entire process of student loan payout, or forgiveness, is a disguised wealth redistribution scam. We have about 13-15% of the population getting a $20,000 gift from the other 85% of Americans. If the package comes in as planned at $500 Billion, the debt to each paying American is $2,500. Most economists predict the cost to be closer to $1 Trillion, raising the debt to about $6,500 per American. That is just for this round. If this is repeated every 4-6 years, the tab per taxpayer will be out of control.
Fortunately, I think even some of the more progressive Justices will not want to give this President and future Executives to follow, the power to spend a trillion dollars with the stroke of a pen.
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A few days ago, Auntie Vaquser remarked on the “suicide” death of former Clinton Crime Family Associate Mark Middleton. A day or so later, the County Sheriff issued updated details, including a claim that a gun was located at the scene where none was previously found.
Related: Modern American Oligarchs Should Heed the Message in Clinton’ Advisor’ “Mark Middleton’s “Suicide”
Middleton allegedly moved a bench under a branch, tied his electrical cord noose, put it around his neck, pointed the shotgun at his chest, and pulled the trigger. The noose was back-up to make sure he died. Another rouge satellite, once in the Clinton orbit that, needed to be dead-dead. But this is odd. According to the Sheriff, the shotgun was found 30 feet away, propelled there from the resulting recoil.
Thirty feet is quite the distance. I am not convinced it could travel that far under the best conditions if it fired itself -with no obstructions (picture a smooth, greased downward slope) after freeing itself from whichever digit “Mark” used to pull the trigger. Any entanglement would make ten feet a stretch unless his killer dropped it there.
No ballistics, and if only common sense can refute the notion, this will be the story people are expected to tell their children one day.
Remember that fellah who worked for Governor – sorry – President Clinton. He knew all about Jeffrey Epstein and the White House visits, some of those Lolita express flights to pedophile-fantasy-island (de plane! de plane!), and probably a lot of other Clintonian business—that guy. Well, right after we got word that the flight logs were going public, he shot himself off a park bench with a shotgun with an extension core noose wrapped around his neck. And wouldn’t you know, that firearm flew thirty feet away into some ground cover and hid so good the police couldn’t find it until someone told them they’d better?
Swear to god!
Maybe Mark died of COVID. Having failed to get his bivalent booster, the trauma of putting “the community” at risk drove him to commit self-inflicted shotgun strangulation.
Whoever does the autopsy should be able to see that from thirty feet away.
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The NeverTrump-faux-Republicans’ mantra … CANDIDATE QUALITY, CANDIDATE QUALITY, CANDIDATE QUALITY. Really? Fetterman is a quality candidate? Katie “Cartel” Hobbs? Their “candidate quality” mantra is LAUGHABLE. It exposes their hubris … we, NOT THE VOTERS in GOP primaries, know who has and who does not have candidate quality; so vote how we tell you.
Trump lost in 2020 because the election was RIGGED. Legacy-media and Big-Tech censorship, Zuckerbucks and ballot-harvesting. That’s unarguable … so the question raised by the tweet below is: IS LARRY HOGAN AN IDIOT OR A LIAR?
Unless the Republicans can match the Democrats’ ballot-harvesting in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, NO Republican has a shot at beating Biden, or whomever runs for POTUS as a Democrat, in 2024.
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How about a national Egg McMuffin Day? Yup, that’s today. It’s also Banana Cream Pie Day, Rescue a Cat day, and American Citizenship Day, which sounds xenophobic to Lefties. So sorry. There was no trigger warning.
It’s also Walter Day, Old Stuff Day, and National Read Across America Day.
On this day in 1791, the semaphore machine was unveiled in Paris. Napoléon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy in 1796. And in 1807, the US Congress banned the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808.
In 1962 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points, the most ever by an NBA player in a single game.
And one of the most popular musical films of all time premiered on this day in 1965; “The Sound of Music,” starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
The Morning Mail
COVIDIA
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What are the watchwords of Progressive / Democrats / other assorted Leftists? In their own Wokeness, they are all about “tolerance,” “inclusive | inclusiveness,” “affirmation,” and “community.” They bandy them about as if they believed them as the highest attributes in the world. If only they acted and spoke in concert with them.
Unfortunately, like many Democrats (especially those that have power over others), we have a shining example of yet another to whom the notion of “graceful” is an unknown quantity. May I present to you one NH Democrat Party Communications Dude, Colin Booth. He makes it clear that the above virtue set is only a collection of words to be used to further a political agenda when an opportunity presents itself. Otherwise, they just get in the way:
This was his level of “communications skills” in responding to the NHJ piece about Melissa Litchfield, Tim Baxter, and Karoline Leavitt running to be the Chair (and RNC Committee folks) for the NH Young Republicans (link below). I just reviewed Booth’s Tweets, and I’m not surprised it was deleted.
Sidenote: All three should be voted in – I’ve known Melissa for years now and spent a lot of time talking with Baxter and Leavitt.
Now, there are always key phrases that Democrats will apply to anyone, not them. Reaching back into history, everyone that had an R after their name was a TEA Partier (what, Jeb Bradley was one? Hahahahahaha. Chuck Morse? Ditto). Now the epithets of choice” are Christo-facist (even if someone is Jewish), a KKK member (even if Black), xenophobic (even if a LEGAL immigrant).
And now, Tim Baxter is anti-LGBT. Funny, he willingly went through our two-hour GrokGauntlet to vet his run for Congress this last cycle (although we did finally endorse Leavitt), but it was a very close call as all of us thought well of Tim. I’ll be honest – at no time did his sexuality come up. He was just another politician running for a higher office. He knows where I (and GraniteGrok) stand on lots of issues. And we put him through the wringer.
But hey, Collin Booth works for Ray Buckley, who doesn’t have a nice word for anyone who either isn’t a Democrat or someone who can’t (or won’t) help in, in some fashion, or crosses him in any small way. The little acorn didn’t fall far from the root.
What Booth put out on full display is who the Democrats really are – nasty and brutish. For all their calls for civility (that really was a “thing” a few years ago), they accuse everyone “not them” of being uncivil when their own words belied what they were preaching.
It is ALWAYS the politics of personal destruction with them – and Tim Baxter was the brunt of it this time. I’ve been there, others have been as well. Simply because we aren’t them or share their worldview and are seen to be impediments to either their keeping ahold of power and stopping them from gaining it (or more of it).
It is ALWAYS, and fundamentally about Power.
And Tim Baxter is seen, from that point of view, as a large threat indeed.
Doesn’t he look rather condescending at everyone?
(H/T: NH Journal)
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SB256 will award more money ($1 MILLION) dollars, to continue the national Multi Tiered System of Support Behavior (MTSS-B) in our local schools. But how is this money, spent on the students’ mental health, working?
At a recent hearing before the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, a few lobbyists agreed that they needed to continue the MTSS-B program because they were able to reach children who needed it. Children are in crisis and their mental health needs are greater than ever before. That may be true, but how a school district responds maybe backfiring.
Not all bad behavior stems from a mental health problem. What about all of those kids who are pushing boundaries? As parents we all know that from time to time, kids are going to push to see what they can get away with.
Several years ago, New Hampshire was awarded grant money from the federal government to institute solutions to this mental health crisis among our youth. Some of this may have been helpful, but much of it seems like it’s not working.
A few years ago teachers from Nashua spoke before the board of education about the escalating behavior problems. In Keene parents have been invited to special meetings to discuss the escalating behavior problems in the school. One of the Keen student’s, posts their videos on YouTube showing all of the fights that are occurring in the restrooms. I have written extensively about the teachers leaving the profession based on these problems.
At the public hearing on SB265, no one mentioned any of this but me. One former teacher did offer testimony opposing SB265 based her personal reasons. So why continue to spend more money on this program?
Plymouth State, Antioch and now Keene State, have all been tasked with developing a report on how well MTSS-B is working in our public schools. I flipped through this report from Keene State BHII, but it looked more like a marketing report for a product they want to sell. This wasn’t an in-depth peer reviewed and independent study.
Where are these stories that have been reported in Manchester Union Leader? The UL reported that Winnisquam planned a vacation week training amidst behavior problems.
TILTON — The Winnisquam Regional School District will offer a two-day training workshop during vacation week to help address disruptive student behavior.
Superintendent Shannon Bartlett said grant money will allow the district to bring in representatives from Connecting Our Resources Educationally, or CORE, Methods and William J. White Educational and Behavioral Consulting Services, Inc. to work with parents, teachers, special educators and administrators across the district. Bartlett plans to offer a similar professional training workshop during April vacation.
“We have [special trainers] embedded in our schools throughout the week, but we really just feel like the more training we can get for our staff, the better,” she told the Winnisquam Regional School Board.
During the public comment period on Feb. 20, Bette Hammond placed blame for the disciplinary problems on the school board.
“To me, the school board is the foundation of our school district,” Hammond said, “and right now, it’s crumbling. You’ve hired behavioral specialists to help with students that are struggling, and it doesn’t seem to be working at this point. … I see classrooms being evacuated, profanity, staff being punched, kicked, things being thrown.
“What concerns me with all of this interruption,” she continued, “is that test scores are down. Are you going to blame the teachers? And how do you think it affects the staff, as well as the students?”
How is MTSS-B working so well when we know there have been serious incidents in our local schools? What is going on?
Bravo to the parent willing to speak the truth to the school board. If they don’t want to deal with these problems, they shouldn’t run for these positions. They need to start asking questions of the administration. The Superintendents are failing, and you are the ones who hire them. Parents are going to hold you accountable until you decide to hold your school administrators accountable.
This parent explained exactly what is going on in the classroom…it’s a CHAOTIC MESS.
What will it take to realize that a disciplined environment, where children are safe and can learn, should be the goal. Expecting schools to become mental health centers will cause even more problems. Will it take a teacher who is brutally assaulted to wake everyone up? Look at the violence this teacher had to endure at the hands of a violent student:
This district was implementing the PBIS system of positive behavior support. How did that work for the teacher who took his Nintendo switch away from the student? PBIS is part of the Multi-Tiered System of Support.
Remember when disruptive children were removed from class, and sent to the Principal’s office? They faced consequences~ No wonder behavior problems are escalating. When classrooms become a group therapy session for children, it doesn’t work well for those involved.
In an article from the Fordham Institute, they point out the problems with turning circle time into group therapy.
Restorative circles are unethical and have no place in schools
In the past decade, the role of the teacher in schools has slowly shifted from pedagogue to therapist. Perhaps the most glaring example of this shift is the practice called “circle conversations.” These circles are cousins of the non-punitive approach to discipline called restorative justice, and are intended to be community-building prophylactics.
We should all want mental health care and structured, emotional support for students who need it. But deputizing teachers into a role far beyond their expertise runs into several problems that violate the American Psychological Association’s “Code of Ethics.” And it could lead to disastrous outcomes.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, psychologists must acquire “informed consent” from any patient before administering services. Be it medicine or therapy, a patient must understand what services they are to receive and to what end. Yet the guidance from San Francisco encourages teachers to allow students “little or no passing” in response to prompts. In other words, participation is mandatory.
Much of these practices amount to psychological dabbling, to which neither parents nor students consent.
From the poor pedagogy fads that have teachers working as facilitators instead of instructors, to the complete breakdown in disciplinary practices–your children will suffer. This is what happens when you turn a school district into a mental health facility run by people who are not educated or trained in this specialized field. Even when all of this is administered by school counselors, we know ethical codes on informed consent by parents are not followed.
Schools are there to educate children in academics. That means you remove the disruption from the classroom and/or school when necessary. You stop placing this burden on teachers, and let them teach.
There are children who are struggling with mental health issues that may need additional attention. But you cannot expect a teacher to manage a classroom when their expertise is in teaching math, not in administering mental health services.
As we continue to flush money down the toilet, fooling ourselves that the schools can assess and treat a child’s mental health, remember that this contributes to the low proficiency rates. You cannot administer mental health services to the children, and expect that the school will be focused on elevating a child’s academic performance.
If you are tired of another social experiment in our public schools, then cut the funding. There are children throughout New Hampshire who need mental health assistance right now. This is not the job or the duty of the local public school. The Governor and our legislators need to prioritize spending. Find out where this money is most needed and redirect funding so that it can have a real impact on children who need it.
Contact the State Senate Committee and tell them NO on SB265 Tell them that this experiment (MTSS-B) is not working in our schools.
Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us, Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us, Jeb.Bradley@leg.state.nh.us, Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us, Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us, cameron.lapine@leg.state.nh.us
Read more here.
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I cannot say I am surprised in the least. The biggest difference between the Democrats (the Communists) and the Republicans is that the Democrats USE power.
Check out the twitter thread below (you must click on it).
The House-GOP are simply treading water. Contrast that to what the Democrats did during the first two years of the Biden regime. This is why their side is winning, and our side is losing. This is why the focus should be on laying the groundwork for a peaceful national divorce.
Oh, I can hear the response from the bitter-clingers … NO, NO, NO, I AM NOT GIVING UP AN INCH OF MY COUNTRY. You poor, poor clingers … you have already lost vast swaths of your country … California, New York, New England, etc. … and you will never get it back. Focus on saving what’s left.
House Republicans have been in power for nearly 2 months.
They’ve known they won power nearly 4 months ago.
Where the hell are the subpoenas and oversight hearings on the politicization and weaponization of the Biden Justice Department and intel community?
COVID scam?
China?
— Mike Davis (@mrddmia) February 28, 2023
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As promised in the last Monday Memes, I have an overflow. My meme cup runneth over. Almost certain about a Friday Overflow-Overflow.
Also, for those prepper-minded, my last two Survival Sundays:
Survival Sunday – Sunday PREP Edition – Granite Grok
Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
Now, let the mayhem, mockery, and ridicule resume:
*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***
A hat trick of past essays:
An Open Letter to Neil Oliver and Glenn Beck – Granite Grok
If anyone has an “in” with either of them I’d greatly appreciate your sending this to them.
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Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok
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The Next Pandemic – Granite Grok
And a follow-up:
Citing a Yiddish Proverb – Granite Grok
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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA
If things get “spicy” and you have to be out driving, be aware of these bad guy techniques. Ditto for if you’re beside a road. Even more than normal, heads on a swivel.
WATCH: Hamas video details how to carry out drive-by shooting attacks | World Israel News
Be situationally aware:
How to Develop Situational Awareness | The Art of Manliness
I will repeat this in the next PREP Edition post as well under SPICY TIME.
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Not sure how this might work if you’re in another state. I suspect you could enter but the transfer – for more $$ – would have to go through an FFL. But I’m not sure.
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Bill Whittle’s Hot Mic | Fake Feminist March – 7/17/17
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I’m seeing this speculation in a number of places. To wit, that the Kung Flu was not, in fact, developed in Wuhan, but in a Ukraine-based biolab, and released near Wuhan for “plausible deniability”. Certainly the timing of it was spot-on perfect to have an entire year to build up fear porn and – with the nightly death count with “from” Covid being hyped in every newscast, Trump was a goner. Remember, it’s not what’s true, it’s what you can get people to believe… and when you own the information flow lock-stock-and-barrel, you control what most people believe.
Don’t forget Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats encouraging people to go out and mingle, let alone the death toll from the nursing homes. Do you think that Socialists, who have murdered over 100 million civilians in various attempts to create Socialistopia, wouldn’t do the same to Americans to get rid of their impediment Trump?
I’m not alone in speculating about where it was developed.
I am not sure I believe it being developed in Ukraine, but it does fit much of the data – some speculative, i.e., the biolabs and what was going on there – that’s available. Certainly I would not put ANYTHING out of bounds for the Globalists to do. And I am 100% sure it was released intentionally. Again, the timing was too precise in terms of the electoral cycle. Also notice how eagerly the enemedia jumped on it, though that didn’t necessarily need to be by command from a central agency.
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Another recipe from My Tree in Israel. Again, not cheap, but simply the best olive oil. Period. I’m always sad when I finish my last bottle and have to wait months for more. Note that while I’m friends with one of the founders – so, full disclosure – I receive no compensation for promoting them.
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IMHO, pay per view – I’d pay to watch that, with the proceeds going to those harmed. And in the case of those at the top, like Fausti… have an internet raffle where people could administer the doses after buying a chance to press the button.
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“It is natural to 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 syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”
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Pick of the post:
Pretty much sums up my attitude at this point.
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The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz
Good books by a great man. And not just the Black Book series, but lots of other good ones too. His book Radical Son details his migration from “Red Diaper Baby” to being a conservative, and while I was not that far Left as he was, his journey and mine have many similar elements.
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Palate cleansers:
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I love my kids with all my heart. But I think that I, and they, could benefit from a life less… complex. No, not less demanding, but definitely simpler.
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Vermont’s policy of allowing boys to compete as girls in school sports just notched another victory in defeat. A Christian School’s basketball team forfeited a game at the state championships over concerns for player safety and fairness.
Parody: Randolph Girls Volleyball Team Stripped
“We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players. Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general,” a senior administrator at MVCS told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Last October, our own Ann Marie Banfield reported on the situation in Randolph, Vermont, where “a courageous girl revealed that she and her teammates have been banned from the girl’s locker room for feeling uncomfortable changing with a biological boy who identifies as a girl.” The coach was also suspended for misgendering a trans student.
At least 18 states have some prohibition or ban preventing biological males from competing as girls or women in school athletics. #woke Democrat Vermont is among them, nor ever shall it be, so the Christain School – worthy of attending state championships – can’t expect that problem to go away.
It’s sad. They are accomplished enough to get to States and conscientious enough to know that the girls matter more.
Athletics has many benefits for young girls and women, but not just young women. Older “women,” too. A Canadian man who “transitioned’ in 2017 has “won four different female running competitions” in the last year.
50-year-old Canadian Tiffany Newell ‘transitioned’ into a woman in 2017 and began competing in women’s sport in 2020 after claiming to have met World Athletics guidelines on testosterone levels.
Newell scooped first place at the 3000 meter for women aged 45-49 event at the Winter Mini Meet on January 8 and then also ranked first in the women’s 5000 meter for women aged 45-49 event just days later.
On February 5, Newell repeated the achievement by winning the the 1500 meter for women aged 45-49 competition.
After he turned 50, the athlete then won first place at the 1500 meter for women aged 50-54 competition held from February 23 to February 26 in Toronto.
BREAKING
New World #1 in women’s 50-54 age 1500m is a male athlete.Qs to @WorldAthletics & @WMA_Social :
WHY are you not protecting the integrity of the female category?
WHY do you insist on showing such blatant sex-discrimination?#SaveWomensSports #WorldAthletics pic.twitter.com/T5zLl6Sdiv— International Consortium on Female Sport (ICFS) (@ICFSport) February 27, 2023
Newell says ‘she’ is uncomfortable running against men. Hmmm. Is that because you lose? Or is it because you win when you run as a woman, and who exactly wins? Not women.
“Despite protests from trans activists, studies have consistently affirmed that trans-identified male athletes retain a significant edge over their female counterparts, even after starting hormone therapy,” reports Reduxx.
And if the guy who’s a girl with that advantage gives your team a winning edge, why should you complain? As for those who do, maybe you should be robbing a few biological girls of a spot on the team. And if Title IX is a paper tiger, steal all the girls of spots on all the teams. Replace them with boys who say they are girls. You’ll win everything, all the time.
A school sports transgender arms race that ends with transgirls sports and no biological girls sports.
Or would that take all the fun out of it?
It would for biological girls, sorry – has.
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Former Clamshell Alliance Seabrook Nuclear Station Protester (and now the Federal Government Overlord for NH) Jeanne Shaheen is trying desperately trying to conjure up a caldron of spells to reverse this Japan/EU NukeExpansion project.
I blame her for personally seeing to it that Seabrook was years over schedule, way over budget, and that (especially now in our time of expensive electricity!) Seabrook II (the second reactor) was never built.
Yet, she’s the one all over the environment? IMAGINE how much less fossil fuel we would be using today if she had kept her yap shut and did the “follow the Science” two-step back then?
From Hot Air: (emphasis mine, reformatted):
13 EU countries join nuke energy pact and Japan says it’s glow time
What a day in the news for nuclear power. I’m pretty sure it won’t be getting the red-headed-step-child treatment for much longer. France is leading the charge on this one and, ho boy. Hard core Green heads have to be ‘sploding.
Eleven EU member states vowed on Tuesday to “strengthen cooperation” on nuclear energy, which they said would help Europe move away from carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia agreed “to support new projects” alongside existing nuclear plants, according to a statement released during a meeting of EU energy ministers in Stockholm.
“Nuclear energy is one of many tools for achieving our climate targets”, to produce electricity to meet consumer demand and “for security of supply”, they said.
Translation – their citizens have made it clear that they WILL NOT go back to the Stone Age for their and their kids and their grandkids lifestyles. As much as most of the EU has been doddering towards a state of being-monarchies-without-Royalty, they realize that their serfs citizens still have votes. They understand that while nuclear energy must be handled carefully, the technology and procedures are well known. France, to remind you, gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear.
Sure, Russia had its Chornobyl, but that wasn’t a “root cause” nuclear failure – it was a poor Governmental design, poor Governmental procedures, and bad oversight by poor Governmental workers (starting to get my drift here?). Japan’s Fukushima was a result of poor siting and BAD luck for both earthquake-prone areas (which they had successfully planned well for THAT) and a HUMONGOUS tsunami that couldn’t be planned for. Three Mile Island here in the US hurt or hurt NO ONE. And that’s it. The US Navy has operated dozens of nuke-powered ships (mostly aircraft carriers and subs) without serious accidents (again, Russia, not so much).
And Japan, even with their knee-jerk shutting down their nukes, has realized that renewables are pie-in-the-sky for a few more decades and have been quietly restarting their nukes as well. I believe that Germany is trying to restart at least two of theirs, but there is much consternation about it.
Ministers from the 11 countries also considered the opportunities for further scientific cooperation on nuclear energy and to share best practices to address safety issues.
If you look at the list of countries, though, it’s not a surprise at all – who are they? For the most part, they are smaller, less economically powerful EU states who have taken it in the chops thanks to the fanatic adherence to renewables of major players like Germany.
fuel and electricity from closer Russian or Ukrainian sources prior to the conflict. No doubt they do not want to continue in such positions of vulnerability any longer. As far as those big Brussels players go, they’re sniffing in disdain at the pretensions of the small bloc. Completely ignoring the fact that their own energy resources
And have American “leaders” on the Left learned from Germany’s skyrocketing electrical costs BEFORE Putin invaded Ukraine? So far, no. They are trying to kill off all fossil fuels but not paying attention to how vulnerable our electric grid already is. And renewables won’t be able to pick up the loads from shutting down normal plants. Heck, even Gov. Newsom of CA realized that they couldn’t shut down Diablo Canyon when previous law had set a shutdown date.
Often, too, many of them were importers of both are a shambles, it sounds like they’ll take comfort in their black-out prone, renewable superiority…Austria, Germany and Luxembourg reaffirmed their opposition in Stockholm to the development of nuclear energy in Europe.
And get the guy letting the cat out of the bag:
“If we want to win the race against climate change, we need to be fast,” Luxembourg Energy Minister Claude Turmes said on Monday, adding that new nuclear stations would take 15 years to build. “It’s much more about ideology than being practical,” he added.
And the writer adds that Italy has now joined that group.
Oh boy, I think that the game has just been changed! So what will the US / Biden do now – having been left out in the cold? Especially as there is a decades-long R&D effort to create “modular” reactor designs, and a couple of them have been approved (it took longer than needed because GOVERNMENT regulators aren’t agile and adept at adopting updated views as these can safely power towns and small cities rather than the giga-sized plants that Shaheen was against. Their designs are such that they’ll dump down and shut down in ways in that there can’t be a meltdown making them FAR safer than, well, a train carrying a bunch of hazardous material cars blowing up in a small town.
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