It couldn’t get any better than this: No, not JUST what Biden said, and not the totally dead-panned delivery either.

Republicans laugh hysterically when Biden says “we’re gonna need oil for at least another decade!” pic.twitter.com/KSXctTDyti

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 8, 2023

So here he’s been genuflecting to the Green New Deal crowd  (“KEEP IT IN THE GROUND!  Electrify everything!”) for these last two years. And campaigned on killing off the oil companies. What, some semblance of his cognitive abilities just decided to land in between his ears again?

I’ll tell you, I can’t remember the Republicans, sans ANY Democrat, laughing as hard as they did after the delivery of that line (“we going to need oil for at least another decade..and beyond that…production…”).  Talk about self-imposed mockery that just can’t be walked back.

Funny, but not the BEST part.  What was that? Watching Kamala’s face trying as hard as anyone can to keep from bursting out loud.

After some of the Kamala-isms and malapropism of her own that we’ve listened to the last two years (and just shook our heads at), it was wonderful.  You aren’t allowed to laugh at this heresy against the Enviro-authoritarian theology (they have no sense of humor – just revenge). You certainly better not laugh at your boss lest you lose your political future…

…even as it is very unlikely she doesn’t realizes that it’s already gone.  But her frozen face (ok, a bit of twitching at the corners of her mouth and some chin quivering) will live forever.

More Biden follies at the link.

(H/T: Powerline)

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We are well on our way into the New Year, and we’ve got things that need upgrading. Our search feature is lousy, and we’ve got some site redesign and upkeep issues to address, so we’re running a fundraiser to help offset some of these costs.

The goal is to raise as close to $5,000.00 dollars as possible most of which will be directed toward web design labor hours. If you are willing and able to assist us in reaching this goal, there are a few ways you can contribute.

You can go to our Donate Page and click the Donate Graphic. This allows you to use a credit card to make a one-time donation or to sign up for a monthly donation or subscription.

If you hate PayPal’s guts or just feel more comfortable sending a check, you can email us at editor@GraniteGrok.com, and we will let you know where to send that.

Another way you can help us raise money is by sharing links to our articles on other forums, websites, and with search aggregators. We have a content-sharing deal with Whatfinger.com, but pages like Liberty Daily, and others, allow you to submit links you think might interest them.

Any site that gets more traffic than ours that shares our links (backlinks) improves our page and domain authority, and that helps us attract more sponsored content and puts a few more coins in the ad revenue jar every month.

You can also advertise directly on GraniteGrok with a banner or sidebar ad promoting your business, activity, or event. Please email Steve@GraniteGrok.com with ad inquiries. [Please check out our ad partners from time to time.]

Finally, and this is the most important part, thank you for showing up, reading, commenting, and sharing. We truly appreciate that you choose to spend some of your valuable time here, and we’re hoping to improve the experience part of which includes completing that mysterious and fantastical App we’ve been promising, which will not have the pop-up or edge ads that cluster the mobile experience.

I want that option available as soon as we’re able, but things keep getting in our way  (like those mobile ads), but we’ll get there. We are also looking at an ad-free VIP option that will cost a bit of scratch to build but would be available to all of our monthly subscribers.

We just need the time and the money, so here we are, trying to raise some to get us closer to these goals.

Thanks again for your time, attention, and support.

 

 

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I was honored to attend a presentation and Q&A with Vivek Ramaswamy at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire on Wednesday evening. Vivek may be the son of immigrants, but he is as Red, White, and Blue as any American could be.

It was one of the most dynamic and inspirational ninety minutes I have ever experienced in the political arena. The night’s topic was what we need to do to battle WOKE, Inc, and I guarantee everyone in that hall left motivated to take action.

To battle WOKE, we need to identify the source, and you can point to our number one adversary to answer that question. China is our number one existential threat, and eradicating that threat must be on the mind of every American. Existential is such an overused term, but in the case of the Chinese, it may not be a strong enough descriptive. The Chinese government has infiltrated every aspect of our lives. From the phone at our ears to the shoes on our feet, the Chinese control us from head to toe.

The battle to eliminate the Chinese-sponsored WOKE philosophy will be a painful initiative. We rely on China for virtually everything from pharmaceuticals to computer chips used in every piece of technical equipment we touch daily. We rely on the CCP to finance our debt, and much of our processed food travels through Chinese plants. We allowed American companies to move their facilities to China to take advantage of what amounts to slave wages. America stopped manufacturing goods and became enamored with the “Made in China” label. They have stolen our intellectual property and defense technology to build a formidable military force they are threatening to use against us in two years.

We have built China into a superpower and need to cut the cord. One of the thoughts Vivek brought to us was the need for a second Declaration of Independence. The first was to separate us from an oppressive King who taxed us but refused representation. We now need to separate from an oppressive China dominating our lives with goods and ideas while invading our thoughts with TikTok and violating our sovereignty with spy airships.

Just as the Patriots banded together to defeat a superior British army and win independence for the colonies, we need to unify to stop the take-over of America by a Chinese government hellbent on world dominance. This situation we find ourselves in has morphed under both Democrat and Republican Administrations. There is plenty of blame to go around. The focus now has to be on reversing our ills and reclaiming America.

What we need to do in our lives is educate and speak our minds. We cannot rely on the government to educate us, as evidenced by our failing department of education. We must learn and have the power to make the changes necessary to divorce ourselves from China. We also must shed our fear to speak our minds and share our opinions. Voicing my opinion is what I have done for the last two years. In over 750 published articles, I have taken off the mask and written from my heart and soul. This process has cost me dearly with damaged or broken relationships, but I refuse to compromise my convictions. We will win this battle, but not if we continue to widen the divide between us. In 2024, we need to choose leaders who believe in the American experiment, not the WOKE movement.

I have been a fan of Vivek Ramaswamy for some time and always felt I learned something each time I saw him on FOX. Last night, he elevated himself to a hero in my eyes, giving us a blueprint to bring America back to greatness. Vivek is a young man to listen to; he walks the walk and shares his thoughts with anyone who listens.

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It’s Friday and what better way to start your weekend eve than to smile? And while I am not sharing a stand-up comic, you might find it just as funny as Rep Nancy Mace asks former Twitter Lawyer Vijaya Gadde some questions about medical expertise and censorship.

A few three minutes to give you some small sliver of hope that this will all lead to something useful or – at the very least – a smile.

 



 

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I’ll go find his tweets but now that the DNC has made their final ruling, Ray Buckley will forever be known as the Chair that lost the First In the Nation Primary for NH Democrats.  Go Ray!

And his immutable characteristics didn’t help at all – with the Democrats idiotic obsession that someone is no better than their skin color, this guy’s gay identity couldn’t hack the heavy lift over color of pallor. And the entire Democrat Federal coven (two Senators, two Representatives), having seen the writing on the wall that said “Strong Horse?  Nay (smirk), just a little pony now”), have only given him the support that could be kindly called “limp”.



 Have I piled on enough yet? Spotlighted his culpability yet? No one else is blaming him – especially himself and for the policies / philosophies of the Democrat Party that led to this.

I am not privy to the internal politics of the NH Democrat Party but from the outside, it really seems like he’s almost past desperate and dispirited and reaching depressed.  Or dejected at his fate. No amount of pontificating that “we will always be the First In The Nation” rings hollow if everyone at the DNC is shrugging their shoulders with the thought “yeah, without delegates and 100 pound hammers over any candidate’s head in disobeying us”, Buckley only has a self-serving “We’ll always be First!” echoing the White Mountain range – no one in DC can hear it…

…or cares.

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Since 2013, out-of-state lobbyists on both sides of the political spectrum have spent much time and money attempting to get New Hampshire to pass resolutions applying for an Article V Convention.  Thankfully, they have been unsuccessful.  However, they are back with two resolutions, HCR 1 and HCR 4.

Related: GrokTALK! – Hal Shurtleff on Opposing the Constitutional Convention

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What is an Article V Convention?

Article V of the US Constitution lists the two ways to amend the Constitution. The first way is where  2/3rds of the  U.S. House and Senate pass proposed amendments, and then these proposed amendments go to the states for ratification, where 3/4ths  of the states must ratify them by state legislators or by state ratifying conventions.  Congress decides which mode of ratification to use. The other way, which we have wisely never used, is where 2/3rds of the states apply for a national convention for the purpose of “proposing amendments,” delegates to the convention propose amendments, and then these proposed amendments will go to the states for ratification.

   Here are a few reasons against an Article V Convention:

1, There are currently no rules or laws guiding an Article V Convention. There have been some “wayward delegate” bills introduced in some states, but they are unenforceable and unconstitutional.  It is the job of Congress, under the “necessary and proper” clause of the U.S. Constitution, to make laws guiding a convention.  Over the years, numerous bills to govern an Article V Convention have been proposed by Congress but never passed.

2, We have no idea who the delegates will be. Will the majority be made up of conservative constitutionalists who love the U.S. Constitution or “progressives” who tend to hate the U.S. Constitution and see it as an anachronistic racist relic? Will delegates include members of Congress who Article V supporters rightfully see as part of the problem?

3, We have no idea how delegates will be chosen. Will they be elected by the people, appointed by state legislatures, or by governors?  If they are to be elected, will out-of-state money be used to influence the outcome?  Will we have to suffer another season of mind-numbing attack ads?

4, A convention cannot be limited to a single issue or topic. State legislators have no Constitutional power to limit a convention.

5, Will the votes of the delegates be one state, one vote as Article V supporters content, or will it be based on electoral votes?  I do not know, and neither do supporters of an Article V Convention.  If votes are based on electoral votes, New Hampshire will have four votes, California 55, and New York 29.

6, Bad amendments can not only pass a convention but can be ratified by 3/4th of the states.  The 16th Amendment gave us an income tax, and the 17th Amendment, which radically changed the state-federal balance of power, was passed by the 3/4ths of the states. Mike Farris of Convention of States, who recently testified before a New Hampshire committee, is calling for structural change of the Constitution, including a 50-member Supreme Court-something he failed to tell committee members.  Professor Larry Lessig, a colleague of Convention of States founder Mark Meckler,  called for a rewrite of the U.S. Constitution.  I actually videotaped an interview with him and Wolf PAC founder Cenk Uygur where he hoped for a “runaway convention.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJWeLab8Ao

7. All of the proposed balanced budget amendments, promoted by “conservative” supporters of an Article V Convention,  have two escape clauses: war and a national emergency.   This will incentivize permanent national emergencies and make them constitutional.

8,  A term limits amendment proposed by “conservative” Article V supporters may “get the bums out” after 12 years but will also limit good members of Congress.  It will also give us a permanent “lame duck” Congress.

Article V Convention supporters incorrectly content that the Founders gave us the convention method to rein in an abusive federal government.  The Founders gave us the convention method if Congress was unwilling to correct defects in the Constitution.  Our problem is not a defective U.S. Constitution but defective elected officials and voters many of whom support an abusive federal government.

Without realizing it, Mark Meckler, founder of the Convention of States, made an excellent argument against an Article V. In a statement made to an entity called Living Room Conversations,  https://livingroomconversations.org/about-us/team/ where he is listed, along with Van Jones, as a “champion,” he said:  “I have come to realize that the largest divide in this country is not between the citizens of one party or another but between the citizens and the Ruling Elite in Washington, D.C and the state capitols.”

Mark Meckler with Joanne Blades of Living Room Living Conversations and the Soros-funded MoveOn.org

In my opinion, he is playing into the hands of the elites he claims to be against.

Readers who would like more information on the subject are welcome to contact me at campconstitution1@gmail.com

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Sun-King Sununu’s unofficial publicist … NH-NeverTrump Journal’s Mikey Graham … is “reporting” on Sun-King’s new 501(c)(4) … “Live Free or Die”. Yes, you read that right … one of America’s worst COVID-tyrants has named his grifting-organization, “Live Free or Die.”

Grifting-organization? Yes, grifting-orgaization … here is how it works: if you or I want to travel to, let’s say, South Carolina, we have to pay for it with our own money. Sun-King, in contrast, has it paid for by his “Live Free or Die” grift … uh, I mean 501(c)(4).

In other words, Sun-King … who like Hunter Biden has never had a real job, but rather has made his money by cashing in on his last name and familial connections … gets to use his pretend Presidential-candidacy to travel around the country free of charge.

It takes a lot of chutzpah to call yourself a  “principled free market conservative” at the very time you are doing an end-around the free-market, but that’s our Hunter … I mean Sun-King:

 

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Last night, GraniteGrok was invited to #5 in the Beyond The Soundbite Lecture Series (sponsored by the NH Leadership PAC and RNC Chairman Chris Ager).  I was happy to see fellow Groksters Rick Olsen, Beth and Steven Scaer, Don Ewing along with Ray Cardello (and meeting him in person for the first time after writing for the ‘Grok for some time now!).

The speaker of the night was Vivek Ramaswamy – a first generation American, son of legal immigrants from India. A serial entrepreneur, he was the CEO of a large biotech company and is now the head of Strive, a financial services company he founded a year ago. Add to that, his book named “Woke, Inc” that blows the whistle on “Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam”.

Sidenote: for full disclosure, I had the chance to chat with Vivek for a few minutes before the event started. He offered, and I accepted, a signed copy of his book.  I haven’t begun to read it YET but will be putting up some quotes later on.

So here are Parts 1A and 1B along with an introductory video for Vikram supplied by his staff member Tricia.

Part 1A – newly elected NH GOP Chair Chris Ager calls the event to order, the Pledge of Allegiance:

 

And then introduces a “video introduction” to the speaker – Vikram Ramaswamy:

And the rest: Part 1B (jump to 5:40 to skip the segments shared above)



Subsequent Parts will be available soon along with the Q&A session.

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Does anyone who still has a grasp on their mind still reads the Laconia Daily Sun? Well, mostly I just read the Letters to the Editor. Yea I know, everyone’s entitled to an opinion but as the saying goes, “not to their own facts”. What has been burning my biscuits lately is that the so called Editors of that paper insist on printing the cartoons of Mr. Mike Luckovich. Pure lies and trash from beginning to end. The Sun was forced to stop printing his stuff a couple years ago after a particularly egregious cartoon but apparently after the heat went down they decided to renew printing him. I’ve commented to them a couple of times to no avail. I’d stop altogether if I though it would do one wit of good but it wouldn’t.

It seems that theEditors there are fully Woke, Leftist and have no shame at printing any provable trash by Luckovich or any other Leftist.

I’m short of any ideas how to effect or counter this trash. Anyone out there have a plan?

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The Climate Cult won’t like this news much. NOAA recently updated its Tide Gauge data. What post-ice age rise in sea level there is, continues at a mere few millimeters per year. There is no evidence of the tipping point acceleration nonsense peddled by the Planeteers.

Related: Reminder: The Weather Was Worse When We Had Less Atmospheric CO2 …

The fifty-year trend shows a rise of 2.04 (Fort Point, NH) or 2.07 (Seavey Island, NH) millimeters per year through 2022. A statistical nothingburger measured against the Climate Cult’s apocalyptic rhetoric.

 

Fort Point NH

 

 

 

Seavey Island

 

 

But something is alarming. When we isolate the last ten to twelve years of NOAA data, we get what looks like flat or declining sea level trends for the NH coastline.

 

 

 

 

Climate Rent-Seekers will be as quick to dismiss this pause as they are to ignore the latest decade-long temperature pause. They must, their way of life depends on government grants, and it’s not like they can ask Russia to invade them. But this is real, and it is a problem.

The rhetoric has again failed to live up to the facts. I’ve written hundreds of articles over fifteen years that include cultist prognostications that are not aging well.

Here are a few examples with a more local flavor.

 

• • Remember: The Experts Predicted Hampton Beach Would Be Gone by 2020.
  • More NH Seacoast Sea Level Scaremongering from the Union of Concerned Scientists
  • Sen. David ‘Rising’ Watters – Plans Bill to Salvage Seacoast From Poseidon’s Rage
  • Artist Fakes Historical Markers In Durham, NH, to Perpetuate Climate Fraud<
  • The Climate Cult’s Cape Cod Conundrum

 

And it is a global problem.

 

The data and projected trends for these ten well-documented coastal cities point to three conclusions:

1. 1. There has been no dramatic sea level rise in the past century, and projections show no dramatic rise is likely to occur in the coming century.
   2. There is no evidence to indicate the rate of sea level rise or fall in any of the areas of this study will be substantially different than has been the case over the past many decades.
   3. There is no correlation between CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere and sea level rise. The steady but modest rise in sea level predated coal power plants and SUVs, and has continued at its same pace even as atmospheric CO2 concentrations rose from 280 parts per million to 420 parts per million today .[9]

 

Woodshole near the Massachusetts cape has looked flat for the past five to seven years, while Boston has been flat for over a decade. That’s not just not accelerating; it’s not rising, so their lie will need to transition, but it won’t be so easy. Unlike the temperature pauses or more snow, each of which they have declared as proof of their unassailable hypothesis, rising seas need to rise.

The Left-wing activists at the Union of Concerned Scientists warned us in 2018 about what was needed to put a dent in the problem of rising seas.

 

The list of what would need to be done by 2020 — a little over two years from now — includes: Boosting renewable energy’s share to 30%. Pushing electric cars to 15% of new car sales, up from less than 1% today. Doubling mass transit use. Cutting air travel CO2 emissions by 20%. And coming up with $1 trillion for “climate action.”

 

It’s 2023, and we’ve done none of that. We’re not even close, while New Hampshire’s coastline has seen not an acceleration in rise but a decline bordering on sea level recession. CO2 and spending on things that are not green and don’t help are the only things on the rise.

It’s all a scam.

 

 

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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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Top of the fold:

Biden Admin Using Anti-Terrorism Tech to Target Americans Who Question Vaccines, Election Results

They view anyone who questions as the enemy.  Plan accordingly.

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How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline (substack.com)

Hersch is no slouch.  He’d better watch his back after this.

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Dr. Pete Chambers – 5th Gen Warfare, Intel of 3-6 Month Attack Incoming, How to Prepare (rumble.com)

About an hour.  Full disclosure, I have not watched all.  But I don’t doubt that something’s coming.  Don’t forget Bill Gates-of-Hell’s smirk at the prospect of another pandemic:

 

Bill & Melinda Gates Giggle & Smirk Over 2nd Wave of Pandemic

 

 

Who the hell has that expression thinking about The Next Pandemic?

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Climate Cult Scientists Want To Create A Cloud Of Moon Dust Around The Earth

These people are mad.  And they’ll kill not just all humans, but jeopardize all life on earth.

 

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Israel national Anthem hatikva התקווה on the bagpipes

 

 

On a lark I searched for someone playing Israel’s anthem on bagpipes.  I didn’t think I’d really find even one… but I found two instances:

 

 

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

The Great Food Reset: ‘Lab-grown meat’ harvested in ‘massive steel vats’ edges closer to fed approval & U.S. dinner plates – As EU approves human consumption of worms & crickets | Watts Up With That?

APPROVED TWO INSECTS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION – POWDERED HOUSE CRICKETS (rumble.com)

Even as Beyond Meat sales slack:

Beyond Meat Q3 sales fall short as US demand drops – Chicago Tribune

People don’t want this sh*t.  More on making bugs cool.

 

Green Diet In The Netherlands

 

 

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The WEF Wants To Hack Your Brain | ZeroHedge

How soon after implanted chips will mandatory brain-monitoring headgear become required?

Having the privacy of your own thoughts is one of the foundational elements of liberty.

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I Want to Stop CBDCs – What Can I Do? – coreysdigs.com

Hopefully these work.  Remember, though:

 

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/how-they-will-take-your-property.mp4

 

You can’t live in it.  You can’t rent it.  You can’t farm it.  In other words, there is no way for you to derive income or benefit from it.  The bank is knocking on the door.  And then they come to offer to buy it from you before the tax man comes to just take it.

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Climate Aristocrat Bill Gates Invokes the Special Person Defence for Private Jet Use | Watts Up With That?

They really do think themselves on a higher plane than the masses.

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Amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations: An Annotated Guide ⋆ Brownstone Institute

The amendments to the IHR are intended to fundamentally change the relationship between individuals, their country’s governments, and the WHO. They place the WHO as having rights overriding that of individuals, erasing the basic principles developed after World War Two regarding human rights and the sovereignty of States. In doing so, they signal a return to a colonialist and feudalist approach fundamentally different to that to which people in relatively democratic countries have become accustomed. The lack of major pushback by politicians and the lack of concern in the media and consequent ignorance of the general public is therefore both strange and alarming.

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Protecting Children:

If, after this, you’re not boycotting everything Disney, you’re part of the problem

Politics is downstream from culture.  Breitbart was completely right.

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Watch: Woke Teacher Forces Students to Pledge Allegiance to the Pride Flag

Sick.  Sick sick sick.

 

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National Security (specifically):

Chinese Intelligence Operating In The Real Estate Industry Purchasing Properties Close To USA Military Installations – Geller Report

We are – and IMHO have always been – incredibly naïve when we’re not in a hot war.

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Balloon With 3 Hypersonic Missiles Tested By China In 2018 | ZeroHedge

Lookie-here.  And now the precedent for their balloon overflight is set.  They can now fly another balloon to the center of the US, drop a bunch of EMP missiles that fly to cover the US, and we’re done almost before we know it, let alone before we can react.  More:

China is Preparing to Win a Nuclear War Against America | Frontpage Mag

On EMP:

 

EMP: A Terrorist’s Dream

 

 

MHO is the above video is the more likely scenario.  Don’t forget that Iran’s military has specifically written about using EMP, and practiced launching missiles from ships in the Caspian:

U.S. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike on U.S. | Newsmax.com

Another troubling group of tests involved Shahab-3 launches where the Iranians “detonated the warhead near apogee, not over the target area where the thing would eventually land, but at altitude,” Graham said. “Why would they do that?”

Graham chairs the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack, a blue-ribbon panel established by Congress in 2001.

The commission examined the Iranian tests “and without too much effort connected the dots,” even though the U.S. intelligence community previously had failed to do so, Graham said.

“The only plausible explanation we can find is that the Iranians are figuring out how to launch a missile from a ship and get it up to altitude and then detonate it,” he said. “And that’s exactly what you would do if you had a nuclear weapon on a Scud or a Shahab-3 or other missile, and you wanted to explode it over the United States.”

The EMP Death Ray | Frontpage Mag

The Electromagnetic Threat – by Jamie Glazov | Frontpage Mag

Iran’s Other Threat to Civilization :: Gatestone Institute

Time to Strike Iran’s Nuclear Sites? – American Thinker

Yes.  Remember, in Shia Islam, their version of the messiah cannot come until there is a world war.  To them, global thermonuclear war is not a bug – it’s a feature.  Related to Iran:

Lula’s Brazil to Welcome First-of-Its-Kind Iran Navy Flotilla in Latin America (breitbart.com)

Circling back to China… at least China wants to survive intact.

 

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On The Jab (and Covid)

Chicken Egg Yolk Antibodies (IgYs) block the binding of multiple SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants to human ACE2

I like eggs!  A lot of people are wondering if the attacks on egg facilities, and bird flu “outbreaks” requiring massive culls, are cued by the news of the above.

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The CDC grossly exaggerated the evidence for mask mandates (nypost.com)

And people bought it hook, line, and sinker.  I still see people with masks… toddlers too.

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Fauci Paper Suggests Feds Knew COVID Vaccines Were Doomed From the Start: ‘Decidedly Suboptimal’

Elsevier’s medical journal Cell Host and Microbe published a “perspective” led by Fauci’s office last month that shows NIAID had good reason to believe COVID vaccines would fail even before they were authorized, based on research spanning Fauci’s 38-year tenure leading NIAID.

They knew.  They knew from before they were authorized.

 

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Inflation:

Nothing that grabbed me this week.

 

 

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‘We cannot be told what to do by Government’ Neil Oliver on the state of Britain’s democracy

 

 

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Enemedia:

Media manipulation before your eyes – HotAir

It’s manipulation all the way down.  Related to manipulation:

Objectivity Is Dead, and the Leftist Media Killed It – American Thinker

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Media lied! John Kirby admits the U.S. Military never detected Chinese spy balloons during Trump presidency (pacificpundit.com)

They lie.  Openly.  Provably.  Which is one reason they hate the internet and want it censored – to go back to the “good old days” when they controlled the information flow completely.  Another example of:

Biden’s Economy Lost 2.5 Million Jobs in January, Despite Media Claims of 517,000 ‘Gain’

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Mike McGinn: It’s Time for a Balanced Budget | The Patriot Post

What can’t go on forever, won’t.  Which is the plan, of course… the Cloward-Piven plan.

 

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Pro-life:

Research Confirms 95.7% of Abortions are Killing Babies as Birth Control, Just .3% for Rape – LifeNews.com

And while, OOH, I can see the argument – for rape specifically – that forcing a woman to carry to term the child of a rapist, OTOH, abortion is the death penalty for someone who literally did not exist at the time the actual crime happened.

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Maculate Conception

It occurred to me that our rulers in the New World Order may well devise a program to pith convicted female criminals and use them as surrogates.

A woman who is convicted of a serious thought crime and/or political dissent could be sentenced to become a “servant of the State”, with authorization being given to sever the higher brain functions of prisoners who are particularly unruly and recalcitrant, maintaining them in special facilities on life support for as long as they remain biologically useful. This would assure a steady supply of surrogates for oligarch women who don’t like the idea of a nasty figure-damaging pregnancy. It could be touted as a “humane” punishment, because the prisoner wouldn’t actually “die” and would remain societally useful, and the requisite surgery would be painless.

The truly frightening thing is that I can easily see this being rationalized by a Globalist entity that views people as their playthings.  Remember, to a committed Socialist, individuals only exist to serve The State.

 

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Know your Leftist / Globalist & Islamic enemy:

Democrats livid as Ilhan Omar is ousted from the House Foreign Affairs Committee – American Thinker

Who the Left protects.

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Traitorous Swine – by T.L. Davis (substack.com)

The globalists don’t have an army, a government or a landmass to call their own, they want to abscond with the things we have built and use them against us. When Americans get serious about their freedom (they haven’t yet) they will take care of that. They will stand up and say: “I will not limit my driving; I will not eat crickets; I will not buy an electric car; I will not buy any car the government can control; I will not take the vaxx; I will not take my children to their school; I will not accept a CBDC as payment for my labor; I will not give them any means of controlling me, because I am an individual and I am an American.”

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Breaking: Airbnb Bans Lauren Southern’s Parents for the Crime of Being ‘Closely Associated’ With Her

Account has been restored after massive outrage.  Still, the message is sent.  It’s not “bad enough” to have thoughtcrime; if you’re related to someone who commits thoughtcrime, you too can be targeted.  Or friends with them, soon… also, connected with them on social media, or through examination of emails.  Or… or… or.

 

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Immigration / Migration:

“Unaccompanied Child” Allowed in by Biden Strangled American Girl | Frontpage Mag

All you liberal “welcome the stranger” Jews… this is on your hands (in part):

An Open Letter to Pro-Migration / SJW Jews – Urban Scoop

About Jews specifically.  Europe is on a path to be Jew-free because of Muslim migration… talk about cutting your own throat.  Related:

Sliding Toward the Abyss in Scandinavia | Frontpage Mag

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Germany: Train and Station Knife Attacks More Than Doubled in 2022 – Blazing Cat Fur

Feeling enriched yet?  More:

Poll shows majority of Germans want less migrants as country struggles to accommodate millions of newcomers (rmx.news)

Belgium: Filthy Migrant Squat is Producing Diseases Not Seen in Europe for Years

 

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Economy at large:

Death Of The Dollar – Ask a Prepper

By my calculations, this crisis will reach its climax in late 2023, and if we are not on the winning side by then, America will simply stop being a world superpower.

Inflation will turn to hyperinflation and very soon years’ worth of savings will barely cover your next few meals and bills. “Too big to fail” companies and banks will go bankrupt, with millions of “secure jobs” vanishing overnight.

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Welcome To The Death Spiral | ZeroHedge

Gonna be a long, long fall to a very hard, low bottom IMHO.

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Biden’s Economics Advisor: Job Creation Is “Not The Standard For How We Measure Jobs Created” | Weasel Zippers

I have no words…

 

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Political War

 

BEST SPEECH OF 2012! (BILL WHITTLE)

 

 

Bill Whittle’s lead-in comments on Romney have not aged well, but he’s spot on in terms of how our side SHOULD speak.  Note his prediction in 2012 about the next President.

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Dying to Escape Socialism | Frontpage Mag

Exactly.

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Videos: Former Twitter Execs Squirm As They’re Told They Could Be Arrested For Election Interference – Summit News

Squirm, yes.  But MHO is – alas – that these people will actually pay a price at, oh, half past never.  Related:

 

‘Who The Hell Do You Think You Are!’: Boebert Explodes At Ex-Twitter Exec For Shadow-Banning Her

 

 

What’s she drink?  Send a case to the GOP HQ.  Dittp:

 

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/126/946/002/playable/dc28d045be26e004.mp4

 

And more:

GOP Rep SLAMS Twitter Censor Boss for Censoring Harvard & Stanford Doctors Who Didn’t Support the COVID Vaccine [VIDEO] (100percentfedup.com)

Mace jumped back in to point out the absurdity of Twitter’s censorship choices. She said, “You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world, and you silenced those voices.”

Addressing Gadde again, Mace presented a Tweet from someone with 18K followers that was a chart from the CDC website but was still labeled as ‘misleading’ by Twitter.

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Clapping For What? Democrats Show Off Their Trained Seal Act – PJ Media

The Democrats all leaping to their feet and cheering when few, if any, of them knew exactly what Old Joe had said was symbolic of the entire state of their party today. They’re unthinking authoritarians, intolerant of the slightest dissent and fanatical in their conformism. Just like the Stalinists. Just like the Maoists. Just like all totalitarian societies. Is there not a single Democrat in the House or the Senate who will dare to stand up to their naked emperor? Apparently not.

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US Stability (broad catch-all):

The Man Who Founded “Overstock.com” Says It’s “Mathematically Impossible” That Hobbs Won Arizona (waynedupree.com)

Now, let me assume that his analysis is open-source, i.e., the source data AND analytical methods are available for others to examine and check.  Remember, in my book, having data and methods available for others to check is a critical checkmark in my decisions to believe.

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The disappearing law-enforcement presence in San Francisco – HotAir

Before The People can govern themselves, individual people must govern themselves.  The fact that they don’t unless there’s threat of punishment means society is ending.

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Hunter Biden: More Depraved Than You Knew | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

Hunter had one thing, and one thing only, to sell: influence with Joe. And “the Big Guy” obviously not just knew about Hunter’s hoovering up illicit cash, he profited from it. Which was, I take it, the whole point.

The Potato is owned, and blackmailed, by more than we can possibly imagine.

 

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World Stability (broad catch-all):

OH SH*T, HERE WE GO

Overnight night the head of NATO said that that Russia is mobilizing an additional 200,000 troops readying a massive offensive. Poland is ready to send F-16 jets to Ukraine in coordination with NATO. And Ukraine’s head of intelligence says Crimea will be retaken by Ukraine. Colonel Douglas MacGregor joins Clayton Morris to talk about the latest developments.

Indeed.  More:

UN Chief Fears World Headed for ‘Wider War’ Over Ukraine-Russia

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned nations Monday that he fears the likelihood of further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict means the world is heading towards a “wider war.”

 

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Fearing people is a dangerous trap, but trusting the LORD means safety.

— Proverbs 29:25 NLT

And very much related:

If something doesn’t work out for you, don’t worry, rely on G-d. Even in case of failure due to your mistake, rely on Him, believe that everything is for the best, stay calm.

At the sight of how you trust Him, He will surely correct the matter.

365 reflections of the Rebbe

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Specific to energy:

Nothing found this week.

 

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The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson | EP 325

 

 

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Big Tech in general:

Facebook and Instagram Threaten To Permanently Ban Project Veritas (resistthemainstream.com)

Controlling the information flow.  Speaking of PV:

James O’Keefe Might Be Forced Out as PV Chairman – Updated (independentsentinel.com)

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There Is Far More Going On Behind The Scenes Than Most People Can Imagine – The Lid (lidblog.com)

The world that we live in today is a world that has been designed for us by our leaders.

They give us enough entertainment to pacify us, and most of us believe them when they tell us everything is okay.

But there is unparalleled wickedness behind the scenes, and it is getting worse with each passing year.

 

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Catch-all miscellaneous:

Nate Jackson: What Lies to Watch for During Biden’s SOTU | The Patriot Post

Good tips, whether to look for during, or in the aftermath.  And apparently – after – it was so full of lies it staggers.

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AI-aided alien search detects 8 “very suspicious” radio signals (newatlas.com)

Kewl!

 

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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:

Denialism is seeping into legislation and undermining public health | The Hill

Notice the sheer, dripping condescension in this piece towards anyone not buying The Narrative.  Whether Covidianism, Climate Change, or anything… the sneering arrogance is clear.

This is one of the things that is actually their weakness.  They don’t – they cannot – see the opposition brewing.  And it will take them by surprise.

 

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Shadow Banning

 

 

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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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Finland is a very progressive country. So much so that the government has advanced a rule allowing you to change your legal gender every year.

 

The new law will enable individuals in Finland who are 18 or older to legally change their gender once per year via self-declaration, without the need for a psychological assessment or prior medical interventions. 

Previously, people who wished to change their legal gender were required to undergo medical procedures and prove that they are sterile to legally “transition” into a different gender. The sterilization requirement of the existing law was intended to keep people who suffer from gender dysphoria from having children. 

 

I can see why they’d want to drop the sterilization/surgery requirement. Very Progressive Democrat Party, social engineering. Something you’d have heard in the parlors frequented by the political left in the early twentieth century (practiced with enthusiasm by Lefties for much longer). But it does prove you are serious and want to demonstrate your commitment to transition. The adult (male, for example) gets their junk chopped off first. I’m not sure – at that point – whether a male or a female medical expert would be appropriate to examine you to sign off. You can’t just show up with it in a jar of fluid; it might not be yours.

But the practice would make gender-bending to access women in private or vulnerable areas less appealing. So, Finland’s not doing that anymore. They’ve gone to gender as fashion, but is that a good idea? Does it make any sense? I get that the popular narrative demands we allow people the right to modify their map dot on the mythical gender spectrum rainbow (at will), so Finland’s plan isn’t radical in comparison, but is what is gained better or worse for the stability of an individual or a culture?

 

The continued push for transgender ideology by left-wing governments comes despite the evidence of the devastating physical and psychological harm that so-called “gender-affirming care” causes. Many European medical officials have repeatedly warned about the negative health consequences of transgender surgeries and drugs, especially for children. 

“The movement to promote ‘gender-affirming care’ is profoundly dangerous and driven by ideology rather than evidence,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, MD, chairman of the U.S. medical advocacy group “Do No Harm.”

 

Gender drugs can be lethal, and gender ideology comes with increased suicidal ideation. But gender transition surgery is a cash cow for hospitals, as is any surgery, elective or otherwise. A tack that runs contrary to everything the left has pushed about the community cost of care for the two decades. So they are hypocrites and liars, which is not a surprise. But as we’ve long argued, if you are an adult, and it’s your thing, and you pay for it, I know I could care less. Elective surgery means you chose it.

If you are an adult convincing a child, I think you are a monster. This sort of treatment, from drugs to surgery, might be a death sentence to those upon whom it is practiced.

I also disagree that, “[b]y passing this act, Finland has taken a major step towards proteLet’s trans people’s rights and improving their lives and right to self-determination.” That’s Amnesty International Finland LGBTI rights advisor Matti Pihlajamaa.

Let’s see where that leads us.

Recognizing that you might be a boy or a girl (man or woman) trapped in the wrong body, while rare, is at least feasible though suspect. You’ve got sex parts you can use on either sex to achieve pleasure, assuming consent as long as we’re talking about adults. Why all the extra bullsh!t?

You are advocating that being a boy or girl or something in between is likely to change at random, which means that individuals, through self-determination and gender transition surgery, could trap themselves in the wrong body, and that’s okay.

Why not just live with the body in which they were born? Is that what Finland is after? So, the rest of it is just a fashion statement. This year’s collection is … whatever. And maybe that sounds okay, but what about the other laws these so-called progressives promote – in some cases, demand? Randos are legally obligated to know how to address the spinning wheel of gender ideology, or they might be guilty of discrimination or a hate crime.

You can’t dovetail speech code enforcement based on the fake idea of hate crime alongside gender lotto. The result is chaos. Or is that the goal?

 

 

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On Wednesday, the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee held hearings on all gun control bills that are in the committee. This made it easier for people to get it all over with in one day! You can read more about the bills on a previous blog here.

It was a marathon day. The hearings started promptly at 9:00 AM and the last gun control bill finished around 4:30. I hadn’t been to a hearing in person since before COVID shut them down, so it was interesting to see the people who showed up.

It was almost like a soap opera that you haven’t seen in years (NO, I don’t watch them), it was many of the same cast of characters on both sides of the issue with some new additions and changes here and there, but you could pick right back up where you left off last time you watched.

The hearings were held in Representatives Hall because they expected a crowd too large for the regular committee rooms and while it was appropriate, there weren’t as many people there as in the past. There were, as usual, more people there who were against the bills than were for the bills. And, as usual, the majority of people pushing gun control bills were being paid to actually be there and fight against our rights.

Chair of the committee Terry Roy did an excellent job of running the hearings as did Vice Chair Jennifer Rhodes. Clerk Alissandra Murray also did an excellent job. Also have to give kudos to the Committee Assistant Karen Karwocki (who is always fabulous) and Researcher Bradley Greenland.

Reps Jennifer Rhodes and Terry Roy

Honorable Representatives John Burt (who spent many years on this very committee), and Dr. Joe Hannon were both there all day testifying against all of the gun control bills.

The Honorable John Burt. The Honorable Dr. Joe Hannon

The amazing Representative Jeanine Notter was also there to testify as well as a new representative, Tom Mannion from Pelham (he was on fire throughout the hearings).

Rep Jeanine Notter Rep Tom Mannion

Next Level gun shop of Salem was represented and gave a lot of excellent testimony as an actual FFL dealer (something gun controllers seem to know nothing about… you know… actually purchasing a firearm or the laws around said purchase).

Brian Barry from Next Level Firearms

A fabulous new addition to the 2nd Amendment side was Joanna Brown (I may be subjective because she’s a member of the Women’s Defense League, but she knocked her testimony out of the park).

The amazing Joanna Brown

And then there were the usual suspects on the gun control side – Zandra Rice-Hawkins (an original member of the Nanny State Project funded by America-hater George Soros). Hawkins spewed the same debunked statistics as she always does but really didn’t testify on many bills:

Zandra Rice-Hawkins pushing gun control

Representative David Misogyneuse pushed a couple of gun control bills that will, of course, only make Granite Staters less safe. He looks more like a drug-addicted version of Lurch each year than what you would expect of a rep. Representative Amy Bradley (one of Bloomberg’s first handmaids in NH) was pushing Bloomberg’s Red Flag bill and as expected, completely lied about the bill throughout her testimony:

Rep David Misogyneuse Rep Amy Bradley

Of course, Bloomberg’s other handmaids were there in their cheap Chinese t-shirts doing the bidding of their Patriarch:

Bloomberg Handmaid pushing his gun control

All in all, it was a good day for liberty. When the majority shows up in support against gun control or to testify against these bills, it makes a difference. It doesn’t matter that these bills will most likely all be shot down (pun intended). It doesn’t matter that the gun control side is mostly made up of paid performers. What matters is that Granite Staters who want to protect their fundamental human right to self defense show up (and that includes emailing the committee and sending testimony to the committee on line).

All of the gun control bills at the hearings were written by out-of-state gun control organizations that reside in states FAR less safe than New Hampshire. Most seek to solve problems that simply don’t exist here. ALL of them seek to harm law-abiding citizens. NONE of the gun control bills heard will do anything to stop criminals. In fact, ALL of the bills heard will enable criminals while making Granite Staters less safe.

 

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Bad News for COVID Cultists week continues, and it’s another doozy. One of the movement’s high priests has released a paper that admits that COVID vaccines, like all flu Vaccines, aren’t likely to do much because they are systemic, not mucosal.

 

SARS-CoV-2 is among viruses that “replicate in the human respiratory mucosa without infecting systemically,” along with influenza A, RSV and common colds, and “have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines.”

The paper is especially hard on flu vaccines, which have a “decidedly suboptimal” track record and the best of which “would be inadequate for licensure for most other vaccine-preventable diseases,” they wrote. COVID vaccines are developing the same “deficiencies” as variants evolve around them.

“It is increasingly accepted that route of vaccine administration (e.g., intramuscular, intranasal, conjunctival, or aerosol routes) is a key determinant of mucosal respiratory response,” the authors wrote. “In general, and when feasible, mucosal immunization seems the optimal approach for respiratory viruses.”

 

This melds nicely with our report two weeks ago about Bill Gates. He announced that the mRNA platform vaccines don’t block infection. Is anyone else sensing a disturbance in the force? The timing can’t be a mistake. It’s probably a snowball. They pushed off the top of The Hill, and it’s picking up speed and mass as it goes. Gates, Fauci, so who is next? What if the end game?

We know they love the mRNA platform, so should we expect an inhaled version of this thing in the coming months or years? Will it start like this?

 

Bill Gates recently got “the band” back together to play that “what if” a global pandemic board game he fancies. The last one was Event 201, and we all know how that turned out. This time the “virus” has a “higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affecting children and young people.”

 

It will start in Brazil, according to the war game. And what do you mean by a higher fatality rate? Once we filter for BS and lousy policy, COIVD’s fatality rate was not exceptional. As for the practiced response, COVID policy and treatment increased the fatality rate, which suggests your war gaming is a lot like “book club” (an empty excuse to meet and drink wine) or the plan was to use policy to end lives.

We can suggest that the subsequent must-have “treatment” may not be a jab. Mucosal treatment is generally regarded as a superior path for preventing flu, as far as I can tell, and everyone, including Fauci, has known that for a long time. Tony just waited until he was not officially a fed to add his name to “research,” which says as much.

 

 

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Anyone who tuned in to Tuesday evening expecting to see the annual State of the Union address was terribly disappointed. What they saw was the first campaign speech Of the 2024 Presidential race.

The President’s reelection campaign should receive an invoice for a one-hour primetime slot on every network. With a litany of lies that came so fast and furiously that the NY Post stopped counting. The 2023 SOTU was a 4 Pinnochio event. Unfortunately, most Americans believe the President and do not have the patience for rebuttal or fact-checking. Tuesday night was a disservice to all Americans on both sides of the aisle. We expect better from our Commander in Chief, but not the current occupant of the White House.

Joe Biden used the term “Finish the Job” on 12 separate occasions and made it obvious that phrase would be the bumper sticker moniker for Biden’s reelection. With over 60% polled saying we are heading in the wrong direction, “Finish the Job” should be exchanged with a letter of resignation. How can this Administration look at the poll numbers, single out any parameter, and say hop on and help me finish the job?

The night turned awkward with the entrance of Jill Biden into the gallery, and she kissed the First Gentleman on the lips. The wife of the President joining lips with the husband of the Vice President could not be in the worst taste while thirty to forty million Americans are watching. It is disheartening and proves my earlier statement on the public’s expectation of the facts that the overnight numbers show 72% have a favorable view of the President’s address. This was the same time that fact-checkers struggled to keep up with Joe. The Washington Post, a self-proclaimed Left-leaning newspaper, awarded the President Four Pinnochios for the speech.

The issues he failed to touch on were more important than what the President said or misrepresented. He continues not to criticize China and its human rights violations, the origin of the COVID vaccine, the primary manufacturer of Fentanyl, the invasion of Americans’ privacy with TikTok, and now the violation of our sovereignty with a surveillance balloon. He failed to thank our troops, the brave men and women who keep us safe around the globe. He did not admit the crisis at our Southern, and now our Nothern, Border where over five million illegals, and at least one hundred on the terrorist watchlist, entered our country. He didn’t mention the failure of our education system, where test scores have hit a thirty-year low. He failed to mention the pain at the checkout for Americans watching their grocery and energy bills skyrocket. He skipped the fact the many Americans still cannot find infant formula or antibiotics. But he continued to gaslight Americans telling us how great we have it, we just don’t recognize the truth. He didn’t dare touch the investigations into his son, Hunter Biden, and the money laundering scheme of the Biden Cartel.

Joe Biden does want to finish the job. He wants six more years to fatten the Biden fortunes with dirty money. It is a shame that his family does not step in and protect him from the rigors of a Presidential run. It is obvious that he is not mentally prepared for the job, but since he skipped his annual physical, we now have to wonder about his physical abilities.

As Conservatives, we have to finish our job and increase our majority in the House, regain the majority in the Senate, and replace Joe Biden in the White House with a Republican leader that can get this country on track.

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I was looking through our archives for mentions of the Frankfurt School, and Antonio Gramsci for my “Disney’s REALLY gone Woke” post, and this popped up from 2016.  While not directly in line, it does approach in a similar fashion because it REQUIRES Government to carry out the action.

“Free Stuff” means slavery for someone else

I’ll just say it loud: some people just don’t deserve free stuff.

…Free stuff given out by politicians is a seriously bad idea – no skin  in the game oft means “of no real value” to a lot of people; it engenders an entitlement mentality on behalf of the “recipient” which, in turns, engenders an envy for even more “free”..  After a bunch of decades on this mud ball, I am convinced that TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is real and anyone trying sell the idea that something, in this case college, can be free has an agenda that won’t be pleasant for someone else (and generally people like me that work hard for the money we earn).

But this is where we stand after the Frankfurt School and Gramsci’s philosophy has burnt our original meritocracy of individualism and personal freedom to being crispy critters; both of the Socialists running for Prez believe they have the right and claim to my stuff to simply give to someone else.

There is another name for this (and yes, I will go there): Slavery.  It is one thing to fund a limited government but now, with decades of incrementalism by the Left, there is no such thing as limited government at either the State or Federal levels. Day by day, by Democrat and Republican, those Elites keep believing and acting on the idea that ONLY Government can do the good works they parrot.  They have no trust in we individuals – only forced collectivism / communitarianism.  When you work hard for something only to see it taken from you on the false premise of “equality”, you are seeing that their definition of equality really isn’t – it is “anti-freedom”.  Anti-Freedom – a perfect description of Progressives in either Party.

As Erik Erikson has coined: “You will be made to care”; which translates to “No Freedom to say no”.  So they will take your stuff…

And if I was writing the above today, I would have used the Left’s word “equity” and contrasted it with “equality.” To the former, it is simply just another euphemism, a more gentle way of saying, “everyone IS going to be the same and have the same stuff.” We will, as a matter of process, make you less better than you can be to make others be better because they can’t (or won’t) do for themselves.

(H/T: GraniteGrok)

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Many readers of Granite Grok agree with me, a 54-year member of The John Birch Society, and lots of you will not. But, no matter what your opinion is concerning those who advocate fixing all the federal government’s usurpation of power, you need to hear the “rest of the story.”

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About how dangerous Article V Constitutional Conventions are. So, you are all cordially invited to join our Zoom event (See attachment below) this coming Sunday featuring Dave Giordano’s presentation, “ Why the Con-Con must be stopped.” This is not simply a Democratic or Republican concern. Preserving liberty is our priority.

I ask you a serious question. What is more important than football on Super Bowl Sunday? Protecting the Constitution of the United States from this year’s advocates who propose in HCR 1, again as a strategy to solve the Federal Government’s overreach of power with amendments. Football is a game played by rules. Politicians often do not for where are the referees. And too many will do anything to win. The Constitution does not need to be fixed. It just needs to be obeyed. And that involves every citizen and officeholder.

This nefarious attack has been going on for decades to completely change our Constitution, growing yearly around the country into an epidemic of political power and wealth. “Politics as usual” vs the integrity of the John Birch Society’s basic premise, “Education is our total product and truth is our only weapon.” I urge you to visit with us on Zoom and determine for yourselves which side is playing by the rules. Patrick Henry gives us good advice: “Let us not rest our liberties on the assumption that our leaders will be virtuous.”

Article V Convention 2-12-23 John Birch Society New England (1)

 

Zoom Instructions to attend.

 

 

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The Frankfurt School and Antonio Gramsci are still relatively unknown by the vast majority of Americans yet they are the ones that are the answer to “How did we get here?” (and here, too; additional stuff here, here, here, here, and here).

Then this lecture I gave back in 2013 to the Merrimack Republicans – Part 4 here and that links to Parts 1-3)- here is a a snippet from it:

Why should you?

And for the record,  to those that say we should only be engrossed is fiscal issues and leave the social issues alone:  so why should we cede the social issues to the Progressives?  Look at our budgets –  they are sky high and the reasons are not for the limited functions that government was to carry out but to service the social issues that the Progressives have successfully moved from the Civil Society realm that the Framers envisioned being the strength of America into the Government realm – and moving our participation from the voluntary and local to the coerced and faceless.

Back to the Culture War (the Frankfurt School and Gramsci) – we are now subjected to the 1619 Project (the US is founded on Slavery) and Black Lives Matter (ditto) and Wokeness supplies even more of a push in using Culture War in re-establishing the Marxist economic class warfare tactic but now over skin tones and re-writing history.  And now that faux history is being taught to our children, not just in our captured school systems (that are the nexus point of the Left’s Culture War). After all, “we have your children” from the last century still holds true, and just like Germany in the 20s and 30s that embraced it, we see our Culture being used for the same thing.

When I used to think of Disney, I used to think of the Magic Castle ablaze with fireworks with Tinkerbell and Micky and Minni.  Now, this is what we get from Disney. YES!  LISTEN TO IT ALL, and if you are a red-blooded American Patriot who learned our real history, FORCE yourself to listen to it until the end:

Imagine paying money to Disney to teach your kids to hate themselves and hate their country pic.twitter.com/cZBBCwVd7l

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) February 5, 2023

Is this, Mom and Dad, what you want your children to learn?  To sing themselves?  To believe it forever?  That “Lincoln Didn’t Free The Slaves“???  From Legal Insurrection:

Nate Hochman writes at National Review:

Disney+ to America’s Children: Lincoln Didn’t Free the Slaves

“Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” a recent Disney+ reboot of the original “Proud Family” children’s cartoon (2001–05), was always going to be a social-justice routine. The franchise’s addition of new characters such as “Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins, a 14-year-old activist who isn’t afraid to use her voice for good” (per Seventeen) and singer-activist Lizzo — playing, for some reason, herself — had all the trappings of the ongoing effort to politicize even the most innocuous and innocent cultural products. As the Disney Channels Worldwide president said during an interview in early 2020, the company wanted the reboot to renew the original show’s “brilliant social commentary on our life and times,” delivered “under the guise of a family comedy.” Parents may be surprised to hear that “family comedy” needs to be a “guise” for anything at all, but such is the state of American culture.

In plain language – a ruse.  Keep the Parents happy that their kids are watching “the Disney of old” as Disney serves up the “Woke and Critical Race Theory of NOW.” These Woke Missionaries at Disney DEPEND on your Parents being asleep at the gateway door that gives them access to your children’s core.

More from the Daily Wire:

In the cartoon, that last line was punctuated by four black students glaring while the only white student on the stage with them held a sign that read “still has not atoned for.”

This mirrors what is going on in a lot of schools – that due solely to the color of your skin, you are an Oppressor of us, the Oppressed. And to be sure, that “still has not atoned for” is a psychological debating trap in which there can NEVER be any atonement. It’s all about instituting guilt in our children.

We have experienced, for years, that no amount of groveling and apologizing can NEVER be atonement enough. Look at San Francisco – they wanted to pay around $250K to individual blacks in reparations. Now, that “atonement” has been reset, by activists, to be $5 million apiece – with other benefits forever.

“Slaves built this country,” they shouted again, claiming, “We made your families rich,” as they listed plantation owners, northern bankers, New England ship-owners, the Founding Fathers, and current senators among those who had profited on the backs of slaves.

The cartoon even included the debunked “Hands up, don’t shoot” claim that originated after the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

And all that 1619 dreck has been debunked repeatedly, yet, like any Fundamentalist religious sect, facts don’t matter.  It’s all about the Guilt.

Are you going to let them do this to your children?

 

 

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A group of House Republicans is supporting legislation that would replace federal income, payroll, estate, and gift taxes with a 30 percent national sales tax. The bill also eliminates the Internal Revenue Service, giving states the responsibility to collect the sales tax and send the revenue to DC.

This deputizing of states to act as federal tax collectors violates the principles of federalism, especially since the plan forces states that have chosen not to make their residents pay sales taxes create a mechanism for collecting sales tax.

A 30 percent sales tax on all goods with no exceptions and no deductions will increase taxes imposed on millions of Americans. The sales tax legislation provides a way Americans can receive a monthly “prebate” payment to help offset the cost of the sales tax. Still, many taxpayers would be paying more under the new national sales tax system.

If the sales tax becomes law, Congress may never have to increase the rate above 30 percent. This is because it can rely on the Federal Reserve to increase the sales taxes via inflation. Consequently, this inflation tax will increase the pain inflicted by the sales tax on the American people.

The imposition of a national sales tax will lead to a flourishing black market for many goods. This will cause the government to increase surveillance of our purchases. It could also lead to government bureaucrats keeping lists of our purchases. This information could be abused by government officials to embarrass and punish political enemies. The surveillance could track whether an individual is complying with government dietary recommendations or is consuming “extremist” content. The need to ensure compliance with the tax laws may also be used to justify replacing cash with government issued and managed digital currency.

The proposed national sales tax rate is set at a high level because the bill’s sponsors did not want to reduce the federal government’s revenue. A big problem with tax reform occurs when it fails to include reductions in federal spending.

Unfortunately, even some libertarians get sucked into the DC game of ignoring the need to tie tax reform to reducing government spending. Instead, they focus on making the tax code more efficient. Even worse is if they make the supply-side argument that certain taxes should be cut to increase government revenue. Libertarians should view increasing government revenue as an unfortunate consequence of otherwise sound tax policy. They should advocate for tax cuts that are far beyond the point where tax cuts increase government revenue.

Some people support sales taxes because sales taxes discourage consumption and encourage savings and investment. While savings and investment are crucial to a free market, government policies should, to the greatest extent possible, be neutral between savings and consumption. Policies favoring savings distort the market just as do policies that encourage consumption.

Supporters of the free market who pursue various tax reform schemes without also working to cut spending are putting the cart before the horse. The American people will not be free from tax tyranny until government is returned to its constitutional limitations. This will not occur until enough people reject the welfare-warfare state and embrace the moral, as well as the practical, case for peace and liberty.

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James Tour “is an American chemist and nanotechnologist. He is a Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science, and Nanoengineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas.” He also makes an excellent case for how rare “life” is!

It’s controversial because Tour also believes in intelligent design, so take that with you as you watch what follows.

And while we are surrounded by life, it is abundant; Tour challenges the effort to duplicate the idea that all of this just happened at random in some goo because it seems so incredibly unlikely.

He makes a good case. So much so that I did something I rarely do. I sat through an entire hour of something to which I had to pay at least moderate attention. That’s uncommon – and should be noted if you like to send me stuff “to watch.” If it’s more than ten or twelve minutes – except in rare instances – I won’t, sorry. My days are full, and time is a rare commodity – though not as rare, I’d gather, as life forming at random (or even in a controlled clean room lab with pure chemicals in the hands of brilliant scientists, which still hasn’t happened).

It’s a fun video to watch. James Tour is very animated.

Anyway, as I said, I found this fascinating, and no hurt feelings if you look at it and go, nope. But Tour lays out the chemistry of life in a way that makes its existence at random a complete mystery.

I’ve also included links to a criticism of this presentation (blog page here) and his response (here -pdf). I have skimmed both, and there is a lot of chemistry that you’ll need a chemist to verify (that’s not me). I will note that the linked criticism calls James Tour’s lies” as Trumpian, which I tried to ignore in measuring the value of the critique.

Here’s the presentation (2019 -Per-COVID). Ignore the German subtitles unless you speak German, I suppose.

 

 

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