Wednesday • April 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVII
Manchester, N.H.
By its own admission, Nellie Mae’s mission is to turn students into Community organizers. So, its goal isn’t academic excellence but turning students into political mules.
Take a look at Manchester’s Equity Plan, which was funded by Nellie Mae.
ScreenshotIs it any wonder families are fleeing Manchester Public Schools in search of a school that is focused on reading, writing and arithmetic?
You can find more info on this here:
Radical Community Organizers are Guiding Some Schools in NHSeveral years ago, the Annenberg Foundation launched an effort to improve education in the Chicago public schools. It was called the “Chicago Annenberg Challenge” (CAC). The CAC pumped $100 MILLION into the Chicago public schools, but when it was over, the results were dismal.
When the focus on education becomes more about changing values, attitudes and beliefs in children vs. focusing on literacy and academic excellence, should we be surprised it ended in failure?
According to the Wall Street Journal article “Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism on Schools,” Annenberg poured $100 million into the hands of radical education activists and community organizers from 1995 to 1999 as a way of improving Chicago’s public schools. The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon.
The article goes on to explain, “The CAC’s agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers’s educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism.”
There is a powerful influence in reforming public education that does not include a focus on helping kids to become literate and productive citizens. Instead, the focus of education is to transform your children into radical political activists with values and beliefs that may very well be in conflict with what you want for your children.
The CAC tied schools to working with outside radical community organizations like ACORN. Some may remember that ACORN captured national attention when it was revealed that they were involved in voter fraud.
There are good people who want to see public education improve in this country. Those people have a clear focus on “making kids smarter”. With a quality education, the sky’s the limit. When public education is focused on everything but literacy, students are often times left with two options: seek outside help from tutoring centers or fall through the cracks.
This is why it’s so shocking that schools in New Hampshire are aligning with Annenberg again. After a track record of failure and radical reforms that do not elevate the quality of education in public schools, one has to wonder why some schools like Pittsfield and Manchester would seek their assistance.
Community Organizers come to schools with money in hand in the form of Grants. Those Grants come from the Nellie Mae Foundation. Nellie Mae has made their focus on community organizing, too. As you can see from their brochure, there is a focus on “Community Organizing.” Nellie Mae even references one of the most radical political organizers, Saul Alinsky, in their report. (page 1)
Granite State Organizing Project is now working with Annenberg and attempting to influence public schools in New Hampshire. However it’s important to note that what is sometimes pushed through these organizations, does nothing to improve the quality of education in the public schools.
In fact, some of what they push has actually been shown to LOWER academic achievement among students. That’s why it’s critical that School Board Members ask the tough questions like, where is the INDEPENDENT data that shows your reform efforts will lead to academic improvement in the district?
One of these organizations’ big pushes is on “student-centered learning.” While this may sound like a good idea, one should look past the slogans and ask for additional information, such as what” student-centered learning” means and how it improves academic achievement among students.
For instance, “Student-Centered Learning” is grounded in Constructivist learning theories. This means that knowledge is “constructed” from the experiences of the student. There is a fundamental shift from the teacher instructing their students to the teacher becoming a “facilitator” of learning. This approach to learning has been around a while, so we can look back to see how this pedagogy has failed when forced on teachers in core subjects like mathematics.
The “math wars” have been raging for years over this approach to teaching mathematics.
Traditionalists will argue that when teaching math, students need to be instructed by a highly qualified teacher. When the teacher knows their subject and can explain the math concepts, students will better understand math.
Constructivists will argue that it’s best for children to discover math or inquire their way through the problems. This is done with the teacher “facilitating” in the learning process.
This has set up a situation that has led to years of public debate on how best to teach math to children.
As one who has tutored students in mathematics, I fall on the side of the traditionalist. I have seen the damage inflicted on students when they are left to discover mathematics with little instruction. Even among traditionalists, there is support for teachers to use the best approach as they see fit.
This leads me back to Annenberg, Nellie Mae, and The Granite State Organizers. Instead of allowing teachers to use the methods they feel are best for their students, they want to push a teaching method that we know can negatively impact a student’s ability to learn math. A school will have to agree to use this teaching method in order to qualify for the grant money.
Their track record of improving the quality of education does not exist, and their methods of using grant money to push reforms that do not improve the quality of education should concern everyone.
These Community Organizers have been around for decades. With no real track record for improving public education and their focus grounded in radical political activism, everyone needs to be asking more questions and demanding more answers from administrators who accept their grant money and implement their reforms within the school district.
Money has been thrown at public schools for years, and taxpayers are becoming more frustrated by the lack of results. They want to guide public education in their own communities and not have community organizers or unelected bureaucrats have the kind of influence that fails their children.
Additional sources on the failures of Constructivism when used in Mathematics:
http://www.cogtech.usc.edu/publications/kirschner_Sweller_Clark.pdf
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326114415.htm
Eighth-Grade Students Learn More Through Direct Instruction
http://www.jefflindsay.com/EducData.shtml
Harvard Study Shows that Lecture-Style Presentations Lead to Higher Student Achievement
Ann Marie Banfield is an Education Researcher who has been volunteering for Cornerstone Action in New Hampshire. She advocates for excellence in public education and parental rights.
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Many imbalances or inequities in our culture result from the same problem. The failure of “the state” to put academic rigor ahead of politics. And who runs “the state”? Bureaucrats, financed by the DC uniparty, which is run by Democrats.
The uniparty agenda is the Democrat party agenda. Regardless of any other affectation (party registration or lack of it), those who claim allegiance to its goals are advancing progressive policy. So, when I say “The Democrats,” I mean those in and out of that political closet—a bulwark that objects to even allowing alternatives to its preferred solutions. A political establishment that has taken America’s major cities and converted them from beacons of productivity and opportunity into hi-rise homeless camps littered with poop, dirty needles, underperforming schools, poverty, and crime.
It is not racism to point out, as Heather MacDonald did in a recent issue of Imprimis, that,
In the post-George Floyd era, black juveniles are shot at 100 times the rate of white juveniles. Blacks between the ages of ten and 24 are killed in drive by shootings at nearly 25 times the rate of whites in that same age cohort. Dozens of blacks are murdered every day, more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are just 13 percent of the population. The country turns its eyes away. Who is killing these black victims? Not the police, not whites, but other blacks.
As for interracial violence, blacks are a greater threat to whites than whites are to blacks. Blacks commit 85 percent of all non-lethal interracial violence between blacks and whites. A black person is 35 times more likely to commit an act of non-lethal violence against a white person than vice versa. Yet the national narrative insists on the opposite idea—and too many dutifully play along.
This situation results from deliberate choices by policymakers running the cities where these disparities are an everyday fact of life. Before the George-Floyd Era, Democrats ran those police departments for decades before deciding it was to their advantage to label them as racist. Democrats set standards and curriculum for city schools (also) for decades. Democrats also established and funded bottomless bureaucracies to protect political power and coddled Unions that kept them in office at the expense of children and families (primarily minorities in their cities) and still do.
In 2019, 66 percent of all black 12th graders did not possess even partial mastery of basic 12th grade math skills, defined as being able to do arithmetic and to read a graph. Only seven percent of black 12th graders were proficient in 12th grade math, defined as being able to calculate using ratios. The number of black 12th graders who were advanced in math was too small to show up statistically in a national sample. The picture was not much better in reading. Fifty percent of black 12th graders did not possess even partial mastery of basic reading, and only four percent were advanced.
It is not just black kids (or any minority in a public school system) that suffer similar outcomes. The proficiency numbers in primarily white New Hampshire are not nearly as tragic but are in decline, and the expense-to-results ratios in education are similar. You spend more and get a worse outcome and you’d be right to suspect that this is the equity they are looking for – make ’em all too dumb to resist.
And it is not just a problem in America. Theodore Dalrymple wrote of a similar cascade of failure in England many years ago. The government-run progressive culture, in the furtherance of goals you are welcome to guess at yourself, results in a rising number of single-parent “homes.” Generation after generation of fatherless kids lived on government subsidies from cradle to grave, unable to escape or improve their lives because of unsupervised upbringing and a public education that left them with declining options to better their situation. A few escape, but crime is easy (especially in disarmed England), so it fills the gap at the expense of the culture and its victims. At the same time, drugs help whoever chooses them to escape the misery of having a failed, disinterested institution as a daddy that will happily lock them up (and feed and house them) if they get caught doing anything too inappropriate to ignore.
For many, prison will be an improvement. Put that on your campaign bumper sticker.
In America, the ‘Democrats’ have decided to stop arresting their “urban offspring,” perhaps out of guilt at what they’ve done but more likely because the chaos that follows is just another thing they can blame on someone else. An angle they can work to accumulate power.
And note that it is not racist when this happens in poor white communities (in and around Applaicha, for example), but both are a byproduct of progressive priorities on both sides of The Pond. To hide these failures, the Left has erected entire systems from DEI to CRT, which erase any pretext that education is about anything other than preparing future generations for a two-class system in which those truly responsible never pay a political price because they have adequately convinced you that what they did in the past and to your future is someone else’s fault.
The problem is the Democrat agenda and those who aid and abet it, but much like the swamp in DC, you can’t replace one or two moving parts for a term or two and expect a different result. You need to flush the system and then support the replacements. And it doesn’t have to be violent, but you can’t help but think they hope it is.
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We’ve completed another week, and it is time to choose another Comment of the Week. I’ve selected one comment from each of the past seven days (Mon-Sun) and included them below for you to review before you vote.
The winner, as selected by the Grokosphere, will have the option of contacting me (steve@granitegrok.com) to provide an address to which I will ship a ‘Grok goody. We will announce the winner on Wednesday.
I have provided a link to the post where you can find the comment and one to the commenter’s Disqus profile. Feel free to click and review for context if you feel it necessary.
And wow, great conversations everywhere, but especially on Pedophiles and Psychos Employed at U.S. Youth Detention Centers, and this Evidence Suggests That Children Who Get No Vaccines … Have Better Health Outcomes.
Thanks to everyone who reads and comments. There were a large number of excellent remarks and exchanges.
When voting, you will select the Disqus Handle of the commenter you’d like to win this week in the poll below. The poll closes Tuesday at 8 pm.
Comments are as originally submitted.
Ian Underwood
Rights, or Permissions?
How about consent — which essentially reduces to the Golden Rule — as a shared value upon which to base both society and government? According to the Declaration of Independence, that’s the ideal upon which the need to form a new country is based.
Here are the things I don’t want anyone else to be able to do to me. Therefore, I agree to be punished if I get caught trying to do them to anyone else.‘
That captures all of the things that should be crimes (like murder, assault, and theft), without including the things that shouldn’t be (like smoking pot or paying for sex or gambling). And it eliminates using government as a tool for redistributing wealth.
Or how about Bastiat’s description of government as ‘nothing more than organized self-defense’?
These are the opposite of chaos.
What we have nowis chaos — a situation where 51% of the voters can force their preferences on the other 49% at the point of a gun; where 51% of the voters can treat the other 49% as ATMs, and so on; where every election feels like it could spell the end of the world as we know it, because a handful of voters in the middle could turn everything upside-down overnight.
TheOrneryNurse
Obesity: Eating Less is Out – Drugs and Surgery Are In
Watch this. #NoAmnesty
Jack
Maine Follows Vermont Down Another Disarmament Rabbit Hole
I believe the only reason our current regime and all it’s tools don’t want us to form militias is because they want to disarm us even though Article 1 titled: The Militia.. Clauses 15 and 16 give the federal govt. the power to call up and use state militias. Against us if Congress deems fit. And if they succeed they definitely would use militias against us.
Besides, if they eliminate our power to form them they will be able to form their own. Like the “Collectivos” in Maduro’s Venezuela.
Tombstone Gabby New ‘Green’ Building Code to Dominate Housing ConstructionFirst time I’ve heard that expression, had to look it up. Hadn’t heard that he was pushing “15 Minute Cities”.
As for “15 Minute Cities”, each “City” is supposed to provide/have available every service that a resident might want? Have you had a hip replacement lately? How far did you have to travel? Just the thought of training enough doctors to staff local clinics – not going to happen.
Returning to the European feudal village way of life, with a Lord of the Manor and his serfs. Just don’t get caught poaching the King’s deer in the King’s Forest – you will be transported to a north American colony.
(The last ‘official’ group of English convicts was landed in north America in April of 1776, 28 of them.)
NHnative
Vermont Tax Revolt Continues …
The fall of Vermont has been hard to watch because I love that state.
The older I get, the more I love the physical beauty of the state and the old fashioned quiet life that one can live in Vermont.
It’s devastating that the state seems to be on a suicide mission though..
They could use more people like us that desire to live simply in small towns without a lot of people around. BUT then they’ve made it impossible for us to move there..
To move there is to agree to be owned by the psychopaths in control, robbed by the government and driven downward- and a victim of crime in many areas!
So that ain’t gonna work!
Collcat
Pedophiles and Psychos Employed at U.S. Youth Detention Centers
Not challenging you and respect your opinion but analysts think roughly 25,000 victims have come forward across the country just between 2019-2024. Given the fact that most victims don’t come forward till 51, this number is likely going to grow into the hundreds of thousands.
States certainly are in the wrong but I agree with author and Senator Jon Ossoff, the Federal Government holds the largest liability in all of this. They listened to Quack Drs for decades and used these centers to test pseudoscience on kids. Pseudoscience attracts those who abuse children always has.
Victims should certainly file lawsuits against the state, but in NH the state is corrupt so what good is that? This won’t stop without the federal government taking accountability. Follow the money to find those who are to blame. The grants all came from the federal government.
LauraCondon
Evidence Suggests That Children Who Get No Vaccines … Have Better Health Outcomes
I’ve been at this subject for so many years that I have to remind myself that it was a journey for me and is likely a journey for most people. My journey started as a special ed teacher in the Autistic Unit at Spaulding Youth Center in Northfield decades ago when parents told me, “My child was fine, my child was perfect, my child was normal. Then they got the MMR shot and totally regressed, never spoke again, lost developmental skills, developed food allergies and seizures.” Media used to report on vaccine failure and harm back then with Phil Donahue talking about the DPT shot and 60 Minutes reporting on the Swine Flu shot causing paralysis. Then in 1986 when the industry got the federal government to pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that shielded vaccine makers from all harm from vaccines, the floodgates of vaccine development opened up and the aggressive vaccine mandates on children were militantly enforced.
But yes, like you I too once believed that some vaccines surely were good…I mean the smallpox one was good, right? But there were just too many, too soon, too close together. Best to pick and choose and space them out. But I kept reading and investigating as more vaccines were brought to market (meningococcal, and Hep B, and chickenpox and HPV, etc.) and even more “boosters” were added for vaccines that were now failing (polio is now 3 doses, measles is now 2 doses, even chicken pox is now 2 doses, mumps is 2 doses with call for a 3rd dose of this failed shot). I saw the harm. I saw the failure. And I met healthy, thriving children and adults who never had any vaccines. Over a period of years I realized I was wrong about the too many, too soon, and too close together. I learned that none of them were necessary and the vast majority are very dangerous. And smallpox and polio??? Those were the last ones I let go of. Lots of reading got to the truth.
So welcome to this journey. I hope that you will continue to keep an open inquisitive mind and that maybe you too will find that what you once thought was true is not actually the case. And good health to you!
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Donald Trump has to name a Vice Presidential running mate today. This decision is imperative for many reasons, and I am unsure why he is procrastinating. I realize Trump likes to be the only person on the stage, but the 2024 election is like no other before.
He has to realize this and the importance of a strong person to join him on the ticket to save this country from a Biden/Harris journey to extinction. Let me outline my reasons for calling for Trump’s decision, and then you can decide if my reasoning is valid.
Unprecedented election in modern times: It has been nearly 70 years since we had the same two candidates run in consecutive elections. Sixty-eight years ago. After Eisenhower beat Stevenson in 1952 and won all but nine states, the incumbent president faced Stevenson again four years later and secured an even larger landslide. Whoever wins this election will only have four more years. Many say a vote for Biden is a vote for Kamala Harris. The same is true for Trump. He has to generate some excitement for his running mate now.
Trump is the first president ever to be charged with a crime: Trump is tied up in a New York courtroom by DA Alvin Bragg and will be for up to six weeks. Biden is out on the campaign trail, and Trump is threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. He needs a VP candidate who can hit the trail, get the Republican vision to the voters, and hit hard on Harris.
First of many trials: Trump faces 91 indictments, and Biden’s INJustice Department is going to tie Trump up in courtrooms as long as possible. These are not legitimate trials but a mechanism to impact a Presidential Election. This farce has to be reported and repeated often.
Phenomenal group of potential VPs: The Dems are handicapped with Kamala Harris, who has a lower approval rating than Biden. Trump has a plethora of possible candidates who could give Biden a run for his money. Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Elise Stefanik, and Tulsi Gabbard are just a few. The fact there are so many good options may explain why Trump is having a tough time narrowing the list to one.
Campaign Funds: Elections should not be a fundraising contest, but that is the reality. Trump beat Hillary with far less money, but that will not happen twice. The choice of VP could be a massive influx of cash to the ticket. Money to fund a ground game will be crucial.
There has to be a VP Debate: Trump may never get Biden on a debate stage, but Tump’s VP candidate can get Kamala Harris into a debate. Any of Trump’s options will clean Harris’ clock. It has to happen. Biden is weak today, and Harris must be exposed as a weakness for the future.
The trial in New York City is backfiring on the Democrats. With every ruling by the Judge, the foundation is laid for the appeal should Trump be found guilty by the “Jury of his peers.” The Democrats are involuntarily boosting Trump’s numbers, and RFK Jr is now on the ballot in the toss-up state of Michigan. Losing Michigan alone could cost Biden the election. The mainstream media is salivating at the thought of Trump being found guilty and jailed. The picture of Trump behind bars might be history’s most potent campaign shot. If Trump makes an excellent strategic choice for VP, it may be all he needs to tip the scales in his direction beyond the possible Democrat manipulation of the election. So let’s get it done, Mr. Trump. Make your pick, and let’s rally around your choice.
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So a couple of days ago I got trapped in front of a television and had to endure the supposedly local “news” on WMUR. There was a relatively long segment on ARIZONA … more specifically, a court decision in Arizona that restored an old law that bans most abortions and the Arizona legislature addressing that decision. What does this have to do with New Hampshire? If you answered ABSOLUTELY NOTHING … that’s a bingo, and you are absolutely correct.
Later the ABC “nightly news” or whatever they call that 30-minute pro-Biden/anti-Trump propaganda-dump came on … and virtually the identical segment on ARIZONA. Do you see what is going on bitter-clingers? ABORTION is one of the DemocratsCommunists’ major themes for the 2024 election and their propagandists are out there pushing the issue. But just keep pretending that Adam Sexton and the rest of the grifters at WMUR are “journalists” … that they are informing and not manipulating the electorate, that somehow an Arizona law that has absolutely NO applicability or relevance to New Hampshire is more newsworthy in New Hampshire than, for example, the anti-white racism being taught in public schools under the pretext of making public schools more “diverse, equitable and inclusive.”
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Our world demands a radical shift in approach in the face of an unprecedented global challenge. We no longer have any choice. The threats looming over humanity are no longer confined to local issues, rendering traditional practices inadequate. Now, more than ever, we must unite and leverage our collective resources to combat the complex and debilitating challenges that cast a shadow over our planet.
Our problems are not mere parochial concerns; outdated thinking won’t cut it. In this era of interconnectedness, every ounce of our energy must be directed towards solutions rather than wasted in petty disputes and personal conflicts.
But are we truly ready to acknowledge the urgency of this global call to action? Can we set aside our differences for the greater good?
The magnitude of today’s challenges is unlike anything we’ve encountered recently. Conventional solutions falter in the face of the formidably complex and unique situation that defines our world. To confront these challenges, civil disobedience alone is as futile as fighting off a pack of hungry wolves armed only with toothpicks.
We must keep asking ourselves – what innovative strategies can we employ to tackle challenges that defy conventional solutions? How can we foster a collective mindset that transcends outdated approaches?
The threat posed by the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and his cronies cannot be underestimated. Their lack of interest in negotiation and compromise is evident as they barrel forward in their quest for nuclear weaponry, aiming to wield power and intimidate not just the region but the entire world.
Mullahs are ruling Iran with rock-solid resolve to carry out their “divine plan” of imposing their brand of Islam on the world with the help of the Bomb is a terrifying thought.
So, how can we effectively address regimes that seem impervious to diplomatic efforts? Is there room for negotiation, or is a more robust approach necessary?
The first step in addressing these issues is to acknowledge the reality of the situation. Iran’s regime has made significant advances in its nuclear program, which is a cause for concern for the international community. The country has been able to reverse engineer and further develop purchased technological advances, and its knowledge is irreversible. This means that any attempt to stop Iran’s regime from developing nuclear weapons could be futile.
The religious fanatics steering the Islamic Republic have a track record marked by deception, dissimulation, betrayal, and violence. These Quran-trained agents of a wrathful Allah can never be trusted. Centuries of perfecting the art of deception, double talk, double-dealing, and deceit have made them master schemers.
Civilized people cherish and celebrate life. The Islamists relish death, as stated in their ideology, and practice daily. Recall what Hassan Nasrullah, the leader of Lebanon Hizbollah, had to say about why his people would prevail in the war with Israel. He said, “Israelis love life. We Muslims love death.” These fanatics firmly believe in an incomparably magnificent pleasure-filled next world that awaits the faithful Muslim. This world is nothing but a heap of dust to them, while the next is a paradise of eternal lust.
What strategies can we deploy to outdo their deception and ensure our collective safety in the face of such cunning adversaries?
The West must dispel the illusion of “happy talk” and recognize the true nature of these cunning players. The dismissive notion that they pose no global destructive capacity must be cast aside. While they may currently be arming factions and sowing chaos in specific regions, the potential for global havoc cannot be underestimated.
Therefore, how can we shift public perception to acknowledge the gravity of the situation? What steps can we take to counter the dangerous underestimation of the threat these cunning adversaries pose?
I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I have a starting point. We must understand that we’re dealing with different social factors or individuals than we were three decades ago. Concerted efforts are needed.
The United States finds its best ally in the region in supporting a free Iran. This support is not an act of altruism but a prudent measure of enlightened self-interest. Helping Iranians dislodge the oppressive regime is a strategic move that benefits the U.S. and the global community, in particular, Israel.
How can the international community, led by the United States, contribute strategically to the cause of a Free Iran? In what ways does Iran’s liberation align with the enlightened self-interest of nations globally?
The suicide bombing that maims and kills dozens is often dismissed as an act of aberration by an individual deceived by ruthless, conniving handlers. But, no one would ever contemplate using the nuclear bomb when it entails the certainty of his destruction as well as his country; so goes the deterrence logic.
Logic, what logic? Fanaticism generated by belief defies logic at every bend. The zealot, end-of-the-worlder Shi’a militia has already climbed to a position of great power. The call to action is clear. The time for complacency and wishful thinking has passed. It’s time to unite, strategize, and act decisively in the pursuit of a Free Iran – a beacon of hope in a world threatened by the shadows of tyranny.
A quote from the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Republic, should suffice since his words are still considered authoritative in Iran: “We do not worship Iran; we worship Allah. Patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.”
What words do you still believe in: acquiesce, capitulate, surrender, or give up?
I keep pleading that we should immediately help the Iranian democratic opposition and send the death-bearer Mullahs back to their mosques. It is the world’s best and most urgent action.
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We welcome another program to our “podcast” lineup. Manch Talk with Tammy Simmons and Caral Gericke.”Will NH Senators Defend the Guard or Cave to The Military Industrial Complex?”
“Tammy is back after a vacation in FL. Carla gets to tell her about the NHGOP Annual Meeting, where several Republicans had their cars keyed by The Unhinged. We discuss the silly and sublime proposals and resolutions and why geoengineering is now, at least symbolically, banned in the Free State.
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Biden’s EPA has announced new rules for Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), more commonly known as forever chemicals since they do not break down in the environment and build up in human bodies.
The EPA is implementing drinking water regulations that track only six PFAS, but new industry regulations will require comprehensive reporting by companies that generate or import these forever chemicals. Given that the EPA currently lists 12,034 PFAS, this nearly-impossible compliance will cost billions – and it won’t actually stop a single particle from contaminating the ecosystem.
A Brief History of Forever ChemicalsHumans create thousands of unnatural chemicals annually, but it can take a century to figure out if they are harmful. PFAS have been in widespread use since the 1940s and may linger in the ecosystem for … well, forever. A lot of public money is invested to develop new chemicals and technologies; almost none goes to researching their impact on human and animal health – let alone when combined in a toxic interactive soup of hundreds of thousands of untested compounds in the soil, air, water, and food supplies.
Americans may recall the “amazing” advent of Teflon frying pans, accompanied by scoffers who dismissed any concern that the black peelings consumed with scrambled eggs were of any health concern. As it turns out, the PFAS in Teflon are particularly damaging to young children (like lead paint chips), and ingesting them out of the frying pan and into the fire of a child’s belly was not well-advised. Techno-ignorance is not bliss.
Unfortunately, invisible forever chemicals are far more ubiquitous than frying pans. They’re found in drinking water supplies, food products and food packaging, household products, upholstery, clothing, paints, shampoo, dental floss, cosmetics, fertilizers, lubricants, pizza boxes, carpets, microwave popcorn bags, plastic water bottles, candy wrappers … and the list goes on almost as long as the chemicals themselves. These pollutants are just one category of toxins that are far more harmful to human health than carbon dioxide or other so-called “greenhouse gases,” yet Biden’s campaign to manufacture heat pumps, solar panels, and EVs on the taxpayer tab ensures that the forever chemical spigot will not only remain open for business but will, in fact, spew more environmental carcinogens and endocrine disrupters than have ever been generated before. It is far easier to generate them than to reclaim them from the bodies of trout, cows, or infants: For ending forever chemicals, the Biden plan appears to be never.
The lengthy menu of products and industries contaminated by forever chemicals is paralleled by a frightening list of still-to-be-discovered human health risks, which, according to the EPA, include (thus far): damage to the reproductive system including decreased fertility and high blood pressure in pregnant women; developmental effects in children including low birthweight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, and behavioral changes; elevated risks of certain cancers, including prostate, kidney, and testicular; compromised immune systems, including reduced vaccine response; increased cholesterol levels and obesity; interference with the body’s natural hormones (which could cause “gender fluidity,” but it is politically verboten to consider that as real science). No, this is not an upcoming John Carpenter horror flick – it’s the world we live in, and the air, food, and water Americans consume every day.
Biden’s Bureaucratic BoondogglesThe EPA rules will impose daunting compliance costs on corporations (passed on to consumers) without demanding any pause in the ongoing generation of forever chemicals, let alone in the environmentally apocalyptic but immensely profitable “renewables” manufacturing industry. This is the “complexification” pattern of the bureaucracy-feeding Biden-Harris administration. EPA tailpipe emission standards comprise 1,184 pages; new SEC environmental reporting rules total 886 pages.
The merely 43 pages of PFAS rules will likely impose even more costly compliance costs: The EPA requires “any person that manufactures … PFAS or PFAS-containing articles in any year since January 1, 2011, to electronically report information regarding PFAS uses, production volumes, disposal, exposures, and hazards” within 18-24 months. After the EPA collates the data a few years from now, it will “study” it:
EPA’s researchers and partners across the country are working hard to answer critical questions about PFAS:
- How to better and more efficiently detect and measure PFAS in our air, water, soil, and fish and wildlife
- How much people are exposed to PFAS
- How harmful PFAS are to people and the environment
- How to remove PFAS from drinking water
- How to manage and dispose of PFAS
The EPA is still studying how to remove forever chemicals from drinking water, yet has issued rules requiring public water companies to reduce levels below four parts per trillion with paltry public funding, is issuing no comprehensive “cease and desist” orders against industry culprits, and is investing hundreds of billions of borrowed taxpayer dollars in “public-private partnerships” to turbo-charge the manufacturing and installation of “renewable” energy gizmos that will renew their discharge of forever chemicals (and many other toxic pollutants) at disposal and when replacements are procured in the future.
These PFAS regulations are thus a costly dilly-dallying delay focused on remediation and disposal (someday), not reduced generation of known toxins now. What then of phthalates, BPA, atrazine and other herbicides, neonicotinoids and other (bee-killing) pesticides, microplastics, and glyphosate? The EPA claims it is “protecting people from toxic chemicals” but more resembles a team of Keystone Cops with a firehouse watching Rome burn while all its citizens sleep. This administration has pulled out all stops (often unconstitutionally) to conquer greenhouse gases, halt oil and gas pipelines and drilling, and unscientifically malign cows, but it does nothing about cell phones, flat screen TVs, lawnmowers, downhill skiing, or other recreational pollution. Ditto for PFAS: It is merely “identifying” them – like police listing known pedophiles then letting them roam free.
Human Toxins Versus Carbon DioxideIn contrast, consider the focus of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. running mate Nicole Shanahan, who seeks to prioritize cleaning up chemicals other than harmless watch-the-birdie carbon dioxide:
“We will find the answers to our most pressing health concerns within weeks, not decades if we have access to their databases. It is time to move out of the dark ages of medicine, we can solve the mysteries guarded by corporate influence. We can move from band aid solutions and we can end this chronic disease epidemic once and for all,” she said. “We can figure out what is making us sick, we just have to ask the right questions and apply the right tools. We have to rid science of the corporate bias that contaminates it today.”
This sounds more responsive than Biden’s Kamala-like regulatory word salad, always accompanied by economy-crippling regulations, subsidies for corporations that manufacture “renewables” that spew massive plumes of chemicals (including PFAS) into the environment in the name of saving it, and band aid “studies” that do absolutely less-than-zero to reduce chemical exposures of children, let alone end chronic disease. The federal government under Joe Biden has become too technocratic to accomplish much of anything, let alone retrieve toxins from the ecosystem.
Why isn’t Joe Biden championing net-zero PFAS?
John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.
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This week you will have four opportunities to help pass bills to protect New Hampshire women and children from the serious abuses of the trans cult.
Related: NH Trans Rights Activists are Desperately Fighting to Stop the Tidal Wave of Bills to Protect Women and Children
On Monday, April 22 there will be hearings in the NH House Education Committee for Parental Rights Bill SB341, also known as the Honesty and Transparency in Education Act, at 10 am followed by Save Women’s Sports Bill SB375 at 10:45 am, both in the Legislative Office Building. The committee is scheduled to vote on these bills immediately after the hearings.
Take action TODAY on parental rights and to protect women’s sports.
On Thursday, April 25 there will be hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee for HB396 at 9 am, to allow the state to segregate by biological sex in prisons, sports, and places of intimate privacy, and HB619 at 9:15 am, to ban genital gender reassignment surgery for kids. Both hearings will be held in Room 100 of the New Hampshire State House.
Take action on women’s rights and to protect children from irreversible genital surgery.
You know how awful it has been for women and children under the tyranny of the trans cult. This is your chance to do something about it!
This Milford mom has had it with transgender supremacy & her story is one of many like it. To protect girls’ safety & innocence, NH institutions must be able to differentiate individuals by biological sex. #HB396 clarifies this right. Show your support: https://t.co/VWcVMNKyJc… pic.twitter.com/q34aymicVP
— Cornerstone Action (@nhcornerstone) April 19, 2024
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Most of us have at least a rudimentary familiarity with yoga, either as a practitioner or someone who knows one. You can confirm that lots of poses are named after animals. To all Granite State yogis and yoginis, I present the “Hilliard Position.” Stay with me here.
In the recent Ortolano vs. City of Nashua et al. RTK case, Attorney Hilliard was the legal big gun hired by Attorney Bolton at nearly $1/2M to do his own job. Hilliard played “first chair,” and the “Hilliard Position” does indeed involve a chair, but specifically a wooden armchair. It is the posture that I observed him engaging in for cumulatively countless hours and minutes, laying in wait to say “objection” as many times per minute as a football ref blows the whistle. He could now probably benefit from an appointment with Tom Lanzara’s father or one of his siblings in their family of Chiropractors, but just humor me with the picture in your mind. Hilliard has both hands grasping the front ends of the armrests with his elbows pointing at the ceiling and his tush behind a few inches off the seat, and his spine at about a 45-degree angle from the floor.
With that image in mind, I can picture Attorney Lehmann already doing it now because of what I did and the first of two action items I am proposing. Again, stay with me on this. The Senate Judiciary Committee essentially “gave the Live Free or Die state the finger” in giving the RTK tax (HB 1002) their unanimous OTP blessing. Shame on them! My disappointment in Senators Gannon and Abbas and Committee Chair Carson is heartbreaking. Because of what Attorney Lehmann said on 3/13/24, 91A only applies to government bodies and quorums of them, I emailed him with a new RTK request. It’s for emails to the Senate Judiciary (and quorums of it) and the whole Senate (and quorums of it) from the following list of senders:
NH Municipal Association, including anyone doing its bidding
City of Nashua, including all current and former staff*
Lobbyists and lobbying groups working for the City of Nashua
Nashua’s 27 state reps plus Rosenwald
All House Judiciary members
Karen Karwocki and Jennifer Foor, both House Judiciary staffers
All sponsors of HB 1002
Governor Sununu and his staff*
AG Formella and his staff*
*Staff includes all elected, appointed and hired positions.
If you, the reader, live in a community “in RTK distress,” please model your own email to Attorney Lehmann after mine, but customized appropriately. RTK distress would include communities that have reps that voted the wrong way on HB 1002, such as Windham and Rochester. Yeah, Senator Gray and Regina need to hear from YOU!
While Gannon, Abbas, and “Commander Sharon” need to be shamed and primaried, a separate discussion is in order, but let’s move on to the other action item, which is an all-hands-on-deck one.
It’s to email YOUR senator and get people you know outside of the Grok Faithful to email theirs, no matter who it is. If it’s one of the Naughty Three mentioned here or Tim Lang (a supporter of this awful bill), politely ask them to change their minds. If it’s one of the ten members of the enemy camp, remind them that they work for you, especially if it’s Attorney Twitley, who’s now seeking higher office (still wanting to WORK FOR YOU). That leaves ten other Rs out of the 24. Be polite and use one or more of the many talking points on why HB 1002 is a bad bill. Refer to personal experience, if applicable. If you need help with that, it’s available in the form of many resources, including, but not limited to, older articles, testimonies in committee hearings on January 17 (House Judiciary) and April 9 (Senate Judiciary), or RTK guru Laurie Ortolano’s page.
Laurie was a recent guest on Lumberjack Logic and Speaking with the Senator.
And yes, Kevin is one of the ten other Rs that I referenced, and I’m aware that he is listed as a cosponsor, which he addresses in his show with Laurie. While I don’t agree with his philosophy on cosponsorship, it is what it is and I’ll leave it at that.
I will finish by providing some more tools for encouraging people outside the echo chamber to use them. The word “spoonfeeding” has a derogatory sound to it, so let’s call it a “job aid” at NH dot gov. If people in your sphere of influence don’t know who their senator is, they are to go to NH dot gov and hover over the word GOVERNMENT and click on “who is my legislator?” A map of NH will appear, and they can follow the directions. If you know where they live, just bookmark this link from the Senate homepage.
A drop-down menu with every town and city will appear, and you can look it up yourself, tell them who it is, and provide their email addresses. If you’re using a phone, you can figure out how to do it that way. I give your intelligence the benefit of the doubt. You are, after all, still reading this.
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On April 17, I testified to the NH Senate HHS Committee in favor of Rep. Jim Kofalt’s bill HB1660 which would ban using Medicaid to pay for gender reassignment surgery for kids. Rep. Kofalt and I were the only two to testify in favor of the bill. Not forcing taxpayers to fund irreversible surgeries for gender-confused kids is the least the NH legislature can do to protect children.
Related: NH Trans Rights Activists are Desperately Fighting to Stop the Tidal Wave of Bills to Protect Women and Children
Here is my testimony.
I am a grandmother from Nashua and I am testifying in support of HB1660 to help protect gender-confused teens from irreversible gender reassignment surgery.
I support this bill because as it says in HB619, “Adolescent genital gender reassignment surgery generally lacks both adequate information for informed consent and involves a high risk of coercion for parental consent when parents believe that they are faced with a choice between their child committing suicide or consenting to their child’s genital gender reassignment surgeries.”
It’s natural for teenagers to want to individuate and make a new path separate from their families and they want to stand out from their peers. Those of us who are neurodiverse have a much tougher time. We have trouble fitting in. We are painfully aware that we aren’t living up to our potential. We are bullied and we are excluded from so much. The LGBTQ groups invite neurodiverse kids in and love-bomb them and make them feel special. Identifying as transgender helps them explain why they are struggling.
Before their parents realize what is happening, their child is asking for medical transition and threatening to commit suicide if the parents don’t allow it. Parents feel backed into a corner. They don’t want to lose their child so under great duress they may agree to hormones and surgery.
We know so many parents and kids that have gone through this and in hindsight they realize it was the wrong decision. New Hampshire taxpayers should not be paying for these irreversible procedures. We should be doing everything we can to prevent it and help gender-confused kids and teens get the care they need for their mental health without medical transition.
Please vote OTP on HB1660 to protect gender-confused kids.
After I testified, Sen. Kevin Avard asked about the bullying I had received from the Trans Rights Activists in the NH State House. Sen. Becky Whitley asked what I thought of reports that bills like this are correlated with increased hate crimes in other states.
Watch my testimony and my exchange with Senators Avard and Whitley.
“Parents feel backed into a corner. They don’t want to lose their child, so under great duress they agree to hormones and surgery.” @BethRS62 testifies for SB1660, which would ban using Medicaid for pediatric sex trait modification surgery. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/W94tQbEKuV
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 17, 2024
Linds Jakow of 603 Equality, who identifies as “non-binary,” testified that she was glad she had her breasts amputated in her 20s.
“As a young teen, I watched these mini-documentaries where trans men got top surgery, and felt extremely jealous.” Child transing lobbyist Linds Jakows testifies against HB1660, which would ban using Medicaid for gender reassignment surgeries for minors. #NHPolitics pic.twitter.com/XFV8ERf68F
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 18, 2024
Dartmouth Health had an unexpected response to the bill.
Undramatic testimony. Last year @DartmouthHealth claimed that child-transing laws would cause suicides. This year media relations head Courtney Tanner is concerned about hypospadias repair. Why tone it down? The lawsuit? The Cass Review? HB1660 would stop Medicaid from paying… pic.twitter.com/X32R3tF7Kd
— Sidewalk Steve (@Sidewalk_Steve) April 19, 2024
The Senate HHS Committee is still accepting testimony on HB1660. Email your testimony in support of the bill to 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
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First, credit where credit is due. Excellent piece in NH-NeverTrump Journal exposing how broadly and deeply the Left has implanted DEI … that lovely euphemism for anti-white racism that the NHGOP is afraid to call anti-white racism … into public education.
For example, Manchester employs a Tina Philbotte as the Manchester School District’s “Chief Equity Officer” at $120,000/year, TWICE the average salary of a teacher. And to do what? As you can see below, to indoctrinate students in Manchester public schools with anti-white racism:
Perhaps Manchester Mayor Ruais could explain to us what, for example, an “abolitionist educator” is and does? If he knows. According to Wikipedia:
And while you are at it, Mayor Ruais perhaps you could share your thoughts on “microaggressions,” or more generally on Ms. Philibotte NOT treating people as individuals, but instead categorizing them according to their skin-color:
The NH-NeverTrump Journal piece contains other examples of individuals like Tina Philibotte being paid massive salaries to indoctrinate children with CRT, DEI, BLM and whatever other wonderful euphemisms exist for anti-white racism. For example, the Oyster River School District’s analogue to Tina Philibotte:
Blansett’s “academic interests” include “challenging anti-Blackness and colonization ideology and theorizing/implementing accessible and liberatory practices.”
Rachael Blansett
And even before she came to New Hampshire, Blansett was speaking out for what she sees as racial justice. During a school board meeting in 2022, first reported by Granite Grok, it was revealed she recorded podcasts and posted comments on social media featuring messages like, “White people are not OK,” and “White people don’t wash their legs, and can’t dance.”
Why has not the NHGOP, which supposedly controls all three branches of State government, not prohibited anti-white racism … whether categorized as DEI, abolitionism, etc., … from being taught in New Hampshire’s public schools? And don’t tell me: LOCAL CONTROL. Jason Osborne and the other imposter-Republican “leaders” in the House are working feverishly to outlaw single family zoning, so they obviously do NOT really believe in local control.
And it is not just local school districts where taxpayers are being forced to subsidize “abolitionist teaching,” etc., etc., etc. … it’s UNH too:
UNH recently underwent a punishing round of layoffs and cuts to save $14 million in the budget. While the university’s art museum and journalism program, which has produced Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, were affected, there appear to be no cuts to the university’s DEI programs. UNH pays at least $1 million a year in salaries for the DEI program staffers.
Why is the NHGOP funding anti-white racism at UNH, in addition to allowing local school districts to push anti-white racism? Here is why. Its “leaders” either don’t think it is a priority issue or they are afraid to take on the diversity-is-our-strength grifters or, worse, they actually buy into the “diversity-is-our-strength” canard. One such “leader,” Big Jo(k)e Sweeney:
A parental bill-of-rights is not going to get anti-white racism out of public schools … a law prohibiting DEI directors, equity officers, etc., etc., etc. is what is needed. But, apparently, Jo(k)e Sweeney … that self-proclaimed fiscal conservative … either supports or doesn’t have the nuts to take on the exceedingly well compensated “DEI”-bureaucracy.
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If you are running for the NH House (or even just thinking about it) and you want help on everything from signs to the mechanics of campaigning in NH, fundraising, door-knocking, what to expect, issues support, and more, you need to sign up for the Free Training offered by The 603 Alliance.
It’s free. It’s one day. They feed you. You learn from people who have run campaigns for the NH House (and won). And there are three opportunities over the next few months to sign up for this immersive one-day class.
If you are a Republican who is running or thinking about running, you should take advantage of any training, but you definitely do not want to miss this one. The 603 Alliance has been training candidates for the NH House for years, many of whom get elected and a few of whom have even joined our Board.
You are not going to get a better grasp of what is needed and expected and how to win your primary (if you have one) and your election in November.
Pick one of these three dates.
Saturday, April 27th, in Manchester, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Saturday, May 18th, in Concord, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Saturday, June 22nd, in Concord, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Email the 603 Alliance and let them know which training you’d like to attend. We still have some space for the April 27th training if that works best for you.
Note: The 603 Alliance is your primary source for candidate campaign training in NH in 2024 (the NHGOP will be offering training for Poll Watchers on May 2).
But Wait—there’s More. Your path to the state house doesn’t end there. You can also attend the Issues Briefing Summit, an evening event (with food) that will help you grasp the things voters are likely to ask you when you engage them and what you’re likely to see coming up in Concord when you win.
Class candidates can also get access to campaign resources and past instruction, as well as invitations to future Zoom calls throughout the campaign season to help with questions and issues or connect you with resources.
You register for the one-day training and get access to experienced candidates and activists all the way to election day.
Email today, and you can still get into the April 27th training in Manchester. Or sign up for a later date.
We look forward to seeing you there and sworn into office for the coming legislative session.
Note: Please share this in your in-person and online local groups and local town committees
Disclosure: I am a long-time member of the board of directors of The 603 Alliance.
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Listening to the experts analyze the Israeli attack on Iran on Friday morning, you could hear one common thread, and it was not complimentary of the Biden Administration. The assessment is that Biden has no military or diplomatic acumen, which is also true for his team. Biden has America involved in two wars involving our allies.
There has been no wavering on Ukraine as Biden cannot be more supportive. He has gone back to the well many times for funding for Ukraine, and many will say with conviction that he has a vested interest in Ukraine funding as a percentage is kicked back to him and the Democrats. There is no end in sight for the Ukraine/Russia conflict, nor a quest for more funding.
Israel is a different story for Biden. He initially declared unconditional support for Netanyahu and Israel after the October 7 attack by Hamas. Still, things changed quickly as the political climate in America shifted support to Hamas and Palestine and a break in our longtime support for Israel. The protests on college campuses in support of Hamas and Palestine and against Biden’s support of Israel have forced Biden to make the political shift rather than show a spine and continue support of Israel. Biden would rather turn his back on Israel in exchange for the vote of the young protesters and their supporters.
Israel’s actions this week speak volumes about how they view Joe Biden. Biden has been calling for restraint and no retaliation by Israel against Iran, which attacked Israel last weekend. Netanyahu would make no comment saying he would yield to the American wishes. The Israel attack on Iran Friday was a message to both Iran and America. Israel will defend itself, as she should. The Israel attack was small and strategic. They sent drones into Iran’s nuclear region, telling Iran we can hit you where and when we want. Israel did not notify Biden before the attack.
Biden has announced a new round of sanctions on Iran because of their direct attack on Israel. This is not Iran’s first attack against Israel, as they have been attacking using their proxies, but this attack was the first to emanate from Iranian soil. These sanctions are insignificant and do not negate the favorable actions that Biden took on Day 1 to reverse stringent sanctions placed on Iran by Donald Trump. Trump had put a stranglehold on Iran by freezing Iranian money in American banks and preventing Iran from selling oil to Russia, China, or Iraq. These actions cut off significant sources of cash needed by Iran for its nuclear program and to support terrorism.
Biden restored all of these primarily because they were Trump’s decisions. Biden and Blinken both claim that Trump facilitated Iran’s nuclear program by voiding the Iran Nuclear Agreement. That is an outright lie. Trump shut off the funds and the agreement, which was condoning Iran achieving a nuclear warhead. Biden negated both of those. He has freed billions in a combination of relaxed sanctions and oil income from our adversaries. Biden and Blinken are playing a game of projection and gaslighting. Now, those are two games this administration is proficient.
Sanctions is a powerful but complex word. A political hack like Biden uses it to make an impact, as most people perceive sanctions to cripple a country and its economy. There are many levels of sanctions, and those used by Biden on Iran are minor and will have little impact on the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world.
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On Thursday, May 9th, the Hillsborough County DEI Committee will host a professional development workshop, “Unwrapping Implicit Bias,” featuring facilitator Allyson Ryder, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the UNH Cooperative Extension/Hillsborough County, 329 Mast Road, Goffstown, NH.
Unwrapping Implicit Bias (002) (1)
Allyson Ryder currently serves as the Executive Director for NH Civics:
At NH Civics, we envision a New Hampshire that is first in the nation in citizen preparation, and a national leader in civics education. We envision an informed, engaged, civil citizenry that participates in the democratic process, serves New Hampshire’s communities and lives up to our responsibility to vet future leaders of our nation.
A representative from NH Civics is also currently serving on a commission to develop a Civics textbook for New Hampshire Children. But what kind of expertise will they provide for students who need a quality Civics education in our public schools? Given the radicalized political position we see from NH Civics, one has to wonder.
For instance, on NH Civics website, they explain their support for anti-racism which is a different form of racism:
ScreenshotFrom Newsweek “Antiracism is Racist On Its Own Terms”
So-called “antiracism” is at the core of the Wokeism that has overtaken much of the federal government, our corporate boardrooms and our schools. Antiracists suggest that one can judge a policy as antiracist by whether such policy contributes to achieving “equity”—and a person as antiracist by whether he actively supports such policy. Get with the Woke program, in other words, or you are “Jim Eagle.” In some ways, then, antiracism might be thought of more as a tactic to bully people into submission to racialist progressivism than it is a true philosophy or worldview.
Now that NH Civics has taken this radicalized political position, they are branching out to host professional development workshops so that you can work on your implicit bias. What will this mean for NH Civics as they continue to try to influence how Civics will be taught in our public school classrooms? That’s a good question.
How will they influence the Civics textbook that is currently being developed for our public schools? That’s another good question.
SEE MORE HERE:
NH Civics Hires Diversity and Equity Community Organizer as Executive Director
NH Civics is at it Again…Now They Want to Promote Group Therapy for Children in Public Schools
NH Civics? A Front for Radical Leftism in the New Hampshire Classrooms?
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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do. My last “normal” meme post. In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.
MAY EVERYONE BE HOME SOON. CHAG PESAKH SAMEAKH!
This Passover has ‘bitter taste,’ says Los Angeles-based author, as Hamas hostage crisis continues | Fox News
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Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on. Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic hatred of Jews and why that matters to today’s events.
Also note that these posts generally do not repeat information (e.g., specific links or memes) – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts. Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you. In reverse chronological order:
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok
With some Israel-related materials here:
Meme Overflow – Granite Grok
Don’t forget my special report on the *cough cough* hardships of pre-Oct 7 “Concentration Camp Gaza”:
Pre-War “Concentration Camp” Gaza – Granite Grok
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Young girl dances on a Persian subway
First, they have all-women trains / cars? Imagine the feminist outrage if that happened in any Western country.
Second, watch the body language, smiles, even a couple of women join in subtly – and a couple do openly. These people want freedom.
Iran Cracks Down on Hijab Law; Police Filmed Attacking Women in the Street – Israel News – Haaretz.com
VIDEO: Iran Police Attacking, Arresting Women Who Resist Hijab Law (legalinsurrection.com)
And our political class lost opportunity after opportunity to help them.
“You don’t speak for us!” (barenakedislam.com)
See the concluding remarks too. And related to Iran – and critical:
Khamenei’s mythical “nuclear fatwa”, revisited ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Iran lies, all the time. And they know that the world will continue to believe the lies.
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There are some serious concerns about why there was an apparent stand-down.
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TOP OF THE FOLD
Campus Reform | As American colleges begin cracking down on anti-Semitic events, some California schools let violence go unchecked
”One group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda & misinformation [sic],” Decristo wrote on X. “they have houses w addresses, kids in school.”
”they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more ”
This will escalate. And escalate. And as they get more and more frustrated, their willingness to use violence will grow as well. More:
Campus Reform | Pro-Palestine students disrupt dinner at home of UC Berkeley law school dean: ‘This is my house!’
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Tell me, please… what nation, what people intent on “genocide” repairs a water line that goes to their supposed victims?
WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?
If Israel Remains Undeterred by American Pressure | Frontpage Mag
Israel’s National Security Matters More Than Its ‘Reputation’ (thefederalist.com)
If the foreign policy blob is allergic to anything, it’s victory; it has steadfastly refused to do what it takes to prosecute a conflict to a successful end over and over again. From Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya and Syria, these leftist elites have been unable to stomach the reputational costs of winning and have failed to achieve any sort of lasting security objective. They would rather sacrifice national interests than fail to gain the plaudits of the international community, a position that is being ostentatiously rejected by Jerusalem. Israel is fighting for its very existence as a nation. Without that basic security, what does “reputation” matter?
I think there are some enormous insights in the above attitude to be found here:
Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals “Think” | The Heritage Foundation
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No, There Are No True Moderates In The West Bank Or Gaza (thefederalist.com)
The only path forward is for Israel to dismantle the terrorist group, relentlessly pursuing the remaining Hamas terrorists — and let the critics say whatever they want.
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Is Hamas winning? | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)
The PR war, certainly. On that:
Hamas has a secret weapon no one talks about: Western stupidity | Casey Babb | The Blogs (timesofisrael.com)
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Who the Arabs cheered for in Jerusalem:
Palestinians rally in solidarity with Iran outside of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
This tells you who the Palestinian terrorists ally with.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/palestinians-cheered-iran.mp4
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F around and find out.
ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY
From here:
WATCH: A 1994 video trends on social media of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s son expressing joy over Israeli deaths and his desire to commit Jihad.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/joy-over-israeli-deaths.mp4
Another video about his father:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/three-kids-dead.mp4
I’ve posted video after video of Muslims themselves saying that they yearn for death in jihad. Remember that, for a Muslim, dying in jihad for Allah is THE HIGHEST HONOR. So these parents are happy – HAPPY! – that their kids (and at least one grandkid IIRC) were killed by the Israelis. They’re in paradise.
Understand, to your core, the mentality of the enemy. The only way to combat it is to show them that their dead will be denied paradise.
How American Soldiers Used Pig’s Blood and Corpses to Fight Muslim Terrorism | Frontpage Mag
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Robert Spencer video about “moderate Muslims”
He’s forgotten more about Islam than most ever knew. See his book:
The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS
Just one of many he’s written. All worth it.
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/history-of-palestinians.mp4
Now, all of this is absolutely true. But here’s the kicker – that identity exists now. You will not convince a single Arab to abandon an identity they’ve had inculcated into their culture for generations. I’m not trying to be a downer, but I’m trying to point out the nature of the battle we face.
ATROCITIES
New Video Shows Israeli Hostage Yarden Bibas Being Brutally Beaten by Gazan “Civilians” on October 7 (legalinsurrection.com)
More and more, reasonable people can – and I am – concluding that there are precious few actually-innocent Gazans. And more on Oct. 7 celebrations and abuse of Israelis. And more:
So-called “innocent” Palestinian civilians involved in the Hamas October 7th massacre.
The truth must be told.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/so-called-innocent-civilians.mp4
Another example of “innocent Gazans”:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Remember_when_the_Gaza_civilians_attacked_the_Jewish_hostages_being-2.mp4Never forget. Never forgive.
The October 7 Rape Denialists – The Atlantic
(Paywall)
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Glazov Gang: Missing Israeli Hostages – The True Horror of What Hamas Did (jihadwatch.org)
Video. And another video – gory, be warned. Note the guy moving, and they shoot him.
ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT
From here:
Chris Helali, International Secretary of the Party of Communists USA: After a Century Under the Banner of Lenin, I Believe that the Next Century Will Be Under the Banner of Fighting Imperialism and Supporting Palestine.
(MEMRI)
PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL
From here:
The bustling market in Rafah, Gaza, just a few hours ago.
The international media one day will have to pay the price for the mass psychosis they created around the world through the absolutely fake fatality numbers and the false impression that there is hunger in Gaza.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rafa-market.mp4
Related, from here:
The world sends hundreds of free aid trucks daily to Gaza, but Hamas hoards and sells the supplies at extreme prices.
They even throw away food while fabricating drama for sympathy. They have enough; they don’t care about the people’s suffering!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/throwing-away-food.mp4
Another related, from here:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pitas-in-northern-gaza.mp4This one bakery in northern Gaza produces about 650,000 pita breads each day. Gaza has more than 23 bakeries producing over 3 million pita breads daily.
I dunno guys. Could it be that the people who report “imminent starvation” are the same people who make up the casualty count figures?
My one question – proof this is happening now? A date stamp that I don’t see? I’m not doubting it at all, but for the skeptic and for transparency, that’s important.
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5 Media Misquotes That Tarnished Israel’s Image During the War | HonestReporting
Understand – no matter how much you hate the media, you don’t hate them enough.
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From here – about the bombing of the Iranian “embassy”:
Let’s dispense with a few lies you will likely hear in the coming days:
Lie #1: “Israel started this with its airstrike in Damascus.”
False. Iran has been maintaining a constant assault on Israel for decades via its proxies in the region – chief among them Hezbollah, which is wholly funded, armed, and controlled by the Iranian regime. That assault has only intensified since October 7. Hezbollah has fired rockets and missiles into northern Israel on a near-daily basis for more than six months, causing the depopulation of much of northern Israel. Tens of thousands of Israelis have not seen their homes in half a year due to this Iranian-directed assault; many of their homes no longer exist, having been destroyed by Hezbollah’s rockets. The Houthis, another Iranian proxy group based in Yemen, have also fired numerous missiles at southern Israel. Finally, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have been funded, armed, and trained by Iran for years and the Iranian regime views the Palestinian terror groups as part of its offensive efforts against Israel. There has not been a single day in the past six months in which Iran, via its various proxies in the region, has not attacked Israel. The airstrike in Damascus targeted individuals directly responsible for Iran’s ongoing assault on the Jewish state.
Lie #2: “The target of Israel’s airstrike in Damascus was a diplomatic facility.”
False. The notion that the target of the Damascus airstrike was a mere “Iranian consulate” is laughable. The building was a local headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian military that has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and multiple other countries. Those killed were senior figures in the IRGC, including Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the IRGC’s foreign operations unit who was responsible for liaising with Hezbollah, and his deputy, General Mohammad Hadi Hajriahim. Five other IRGC officers were killed in the airstrike, as were five Iranian-affiliated militiamen, one Hezbollah operative, one Iranian military advisor, and two apparent civilians. The airstrike was aimed at military figures in a military facility and the targets were directly involved in orchestrating attacks on Israel. The fact that the building was adjacent to the Iranian embassy does not change its military character.
Lie #3: “Israel carried out the Damascus airstrike in order to provoke a wider war.”
False. For months, Israel has limited its military response to the ongoing assault by Iranian proxy groups to tit-for-tat airstrikes and artillery fire directly targeting the sources of the attacks. The reality, however, is that large swaths of northern Israel have been uninhabitable due to the ongoing Hezbollah attacks, which are being directed by the group’s patron, Iran. The only way to force Hezbollah to stop its assault on northern Israel and restore calm is to target the Iranian military officials behind the attacks. That is what the Damascus airstrike was intended to do: to end the impunity enjoyed by Iranian military officials as they oversee ongoing attacks targeting the people of Israel.
Lie #4: “Any Israeli response will cause the situation to escalate further.”
False. The unprecedented Iranian assault on Israel, which involved hundreds of missiles and drones, was the escalation. It has been roundly condemned around the world. Israel will respond to this unparalleled act of aggression as any sovereign country would, not least in order to deter the Iranian regime from carrying out further attacks against Israeli territory and send the message that Israel will not tolerate massive attacks on its sovereign territory by a foreign state.
Lie #5: “The relatively limited damage from the Iranian attack means it’s no big deal and Israel should let it go.”
False. The Iranian assault was absolutely unprecedented in its scope and severity.
More, from here:
On April 1st, 2024, Israel targeted the building adjacent to the #Iranian Embassy in Syria, which was being used by top commanders of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a US-designated terror organization responsible for death and destruction across the Middle East and the world.
The Iranian regime misrepresented this counterterrorism event, and used it as an excuse to unleash their first direct attack towards the Jewish State and its people.
Let us be crystal clear:
Iran’s attack on Israel was NOT self-defense. It was an act of terror in which they fired over 300 rockets, ballistic missiles and drones towards the #Jewish state.
This was a declaration of war by the Iranian regime. #Israel has the right and duty to defend itself from the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism: the Iranian regime.
Douglas Murray: A holy war with Iran is looming | SpectatorTV
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From here – Pallywood babies:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pallywood-babies.mp4
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Taqqiya from Iran:
On the left: Iranian state media claiming this is footage from an Iranian missile which hit Israel.
On the right: the same footage from a fire in Chile in February.
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Take a look at the “Open Air Prison” that is Gaza (barenakedislam.com)
That’s some genocide! More on this – video at this link, showing beach events.
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Hamas conceals casualties casualties, blames Israel for failed launches – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
Remember, lying to fool the enemy is a real thing:
Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)
Flaws. Uh huh.
Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry Admits to Flaws in Casualty Data (fdd.org)
TERROR COMING HERE? TO THE WEST?
Brigitte Gabriel on what’s coming to America:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/brigitte-on-whats-coming-to-america.mp4
Reprising – you must read her book:
Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America
And also recall this about her youth and the Islamic takeover of Lebanon:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Brigitte-gabriel.mp4
And a new one – that America and the West better learn fast.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/brigitte-west-better-learn-fast.mp4
Because DEATH TO AMERICA! is here. Now:
DISGUSTING! Pro-Hamas Muslim thugs burn American flag in midtown Manhattan (barenakedislam.com)
The West must wake. If you tolerate this then your children will be next.
Again, the West is in deep, deep trouble:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/sharia-patrols-in-sweden.mp4
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Majority of young Muslims in UK want Islamic law | World Israel News
As I understand it, a lot in America do too.
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Imagine, in WWII, someone waving a Nazi flag.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hezbollah-fan-in-nyc.mp4
Or called for DEATH TO AMERICA!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pro-hamas-crowd-burns-american-flag.mp4
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hate-at-columbia.mp4
“We are Hamas” shout Jew-hating students at Columbia University (barenakedislam.com)
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/subway-chants.mp4
TREADING ON THE POLITICAL
Israel: Standing Alone Against Multifaceted Threats, Thanks to the Biden Administration :: Gatestone Institute
The Obama and Biden Administrations’ Betrayal of America’s Closest Ally in the Middle East: Israel :: Gatestone Institute
Israel Under Attack – U.S. Administration Abandoning Its Ally? :: Gatestone Institute
US “ironclad” support for Israel means “we won’t let you fight back.” ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
Under Biden Administration, Iran’s Mullahs Enjoying Green Light to Go Nuclear :: Gatestone Institute
I don’t trust his assurances America stands with Israel. And IMHO – and others too – this is why:
Joe Biden Is Now Chasing The ‘Death To America’ Voter (thefederalist.com)
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Why the left united around hatred of Israel – JNS.org
RTWT. Related:
Democrat Senator Van Hollen’s Tirade Against Israel | Frontpage Mag
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Screenshot
And The Potato’s administration gives a warm welcome to Iran’s Foreign Minister:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/kisses-for-iran-reps.mp4
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From here:
Meet America’s Senior Director of Intelligence Programs and Special Assistant to President Biden – Maher Bitar.
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bitar.mp4
What’s that expression? Birds of a feather flock together?
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Reform rabbi warns Democrats not to take Jewish vote for granted | World Israel News
Too many have TDS, but he might wake up a few.
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MISCELLANEOUS
Intercepting Iranian missiles cost Israel over a billion dollars | World Israel News
It’s an economic thing too. War is not just munitions flying. That’s one of the reasons the Arabs light forest fires in Israel. Fighting large fires is not just damaging to the land, it’s enormously expensive to fight.
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Aid Worker Security Database | Aid Worker Security Database
Being an aid worker is, IMHO, a noble thing – but it’s a dangerous thing too. Why only Israel criticized? Oh, wait… Israeli double-standard time.
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Report: Hamas May Have Baited IDF Into Striking WCK Convoy in Error (ampproject.org)
Hamas cannot win militarily. It can only win through public pressure on Israel.
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Mohamed Hadid is a refugee.
At least, per UNRWA standards. Remember, this guy is a multimillionaire. A “refugee” like his supermodel, jet-set daughters. And take a look at who else is anti-Israel:
UPS exec’s daughter, other millionaires’ kids busted in Columbia anti-Israel protest (nypost.com)
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Questions for the Most Important Pro-Israel Blogger You Likely Never Heard Of – The Jewish Link
Very good guy. Here’s his main site:
Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News
GIVING SUPPORT TO ISRAEL
You can’t go wrong with a donation here:
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And please share this post far and wide. There’s a lot of info here that many people don’t know. Post it, email it, share widely.
Also, if you’re willing:
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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST
Grave danger if Israel attacks (and apparently there was something that happened – I’m still trying to sort out what). But also grave danger if it doesn’t. Because as long as the Mullahs rule, as long as the IRGC rules, there can never be peace but only constant fear of a massive and likely nuclear attack… plus continued sponsorship of terror and proxy attacks.
I spoke with a good friend in Israel yesterday; he said that Israel is between a rock and a hard place on this. But with great danger and risk, potentially comes great rewards. From here:
A day after the Iranian attack and the streets of Iran are filled with graffiti of opponents of the regime with clear messages: “Israel, attack them!” “You will start and we will continue in the streets” and also “bomb the leader’s office”…
Both in Israel and Iran are waiting in anticipation to land a painful blow on the murderous terrorist regime in Iran!A day after the Iranian attack on Israel the streets of Iran are filled with graffiti by the civilian opponents of the regime with clear messages: “Israel, attack them!” “You will start and we will continue in the streets” and also “bomb the leader’s office”…
Both in Israel and Iran people are waiting in anticipation to land a painful blow on the murderous Islamist terrorist regime in Iran!
On that note:
‘Israel, free us from the Islamic regime’ – Iranians back the IDF | World Israel News
And from here:
AMAZING: In Paris , following an attack on Israel, Iranians alongside Israeli and Jewish women and men unite in support, chanting ‘Women-Life-Freedom’. Beautiful solidarity!
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/israelis-and-persians-in-paris.mp4
So the question is not just what damage Israel could do to Iran, how easily they could defend against any further counter, but… whether or not there is a sufficient internal force in Iran to potentially act once an Israeli attack took place. And while this is funny:
Never, ever, ever underestimate your enemy. Print this out. Email it to anyone in Israel, especially active duty soldiers and officers:
SUCCESS BREEDS CONFIDENCE
CONFIDENCE BREEDS ARROGANCE
ARROGANCE BREEDS COMPLACENCY
COMPLACENCY BREEDS DISTRACTION
AND DISTRACTION MAKES YOU VULNERABLE
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And to close on a lighter note – this is funny!
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One of the local podcasts we’re thinking of sharing is A. J. Kierstead’s The New England Take. It has decent production values and good sound and offers a lot of local and Concord-centric content, with and without guests.
I’m also looking to add LibertyBlock’s Conservatarian Exchange Podcast and Allison Dyer’s Rumble updates (elections have consequences).
If you’ve got a shareable cable access show or podcast and you’d like us to make it more readily available to this audience, let me know. Platforms other than YouTube are preferable, but that is not a deal breaker.
This is AJs most recent. Stop Masking for no reason. And yes, it is a coincidence that GraniteGrok is cited. It’s just good timing on my part, I guess.
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The names and faces may change, but the NHGOP always remains a corrupt, inept, out-of-touch political country club that does NOT represent GOP voters, AND indeed actually loathes and despises actual GOP voters. This is just the latest example.
The NHGOP gagging the Morse campaign: you will NOT talk about Ayotte supporting AMNESTY for ILLEGALS as a U.S. Senator; you will NOT talk about Ayotte voting like a mini-me Jeannie SHAHEENIE during her last year as a U.S. Senator.
The question now becomes whether Morse has an empty nut-sack or there are actually nuts in the nut-sack. The pathetic-pretentious-puppets supposedly running the NHGOP … Ager, etc., etc., etc. … have handed Morse a path to victory: RUN AS THE ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE. The question is whether the Morse campaign has the brains and the balls to go boldly down that path.
To be clear, I consider both Ayotte and Morse RINOs. This post is a middle-finger to the NHGOP Establishment, the “insiders,” the “consultants,” etc., etc., etc., who couldn’t find their way out of a box-canyon. BUT it is also sound advice to Morse. Embrace the role, Chucky my boy.
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