So, what happens if the Trump verdict in New York is overturned or if the fine is reduced to a more reasonable value? (Which — given that normal procedures were followed, and no one was harmed — would be around $10 at most.)

Is Letitia James going to use the power of the state to reverse the sales of all those buildings and business holdings that she seized or forced him to sell to pay his bond? Or can she just get away with saying, ‘Oops, my bad‘?

This is what it looks like for the process to become the punishment in itself:  The government, with virtually unlimited resources, can make bankruptcy the cost of defending yourself against charges that don’t have to have any basis in fact or law.

The point of an appeals process is that judges often don’t get it right. Decisions are overturned on appeal all the time. But more tellingly, we see split decisions, where a panel of judges looks at the same facts and law and comes to opposite conclusions.

This happens in about 2/3 of SCOTUS rulings. So right now, the odds are 2-1 that at least some Supreme Court justices would regard half a billion dollars as an ‘excessive fine’ for a conviction where there was no actual crime.  There’s a better-than-even chance that a majority would agree.

But even if Trump wins, he still loses if he has to liquidate a business empire to post a bond against a fine that should never have been handed down as the result of a conviction that should never have happened, which is itself the result of charges that should never have been filed.

The only winners are the ones who understand that these kinds of games are won simply by prolonging them.  They are wars of attrition.

And it’s not just individuals that can be punished.  It’s entire countries.

Isn’t this what’s going on at the border?  It may be years before the courts get around to declaring that states can enforce their own borders with foreign countries if the federal government declines to do that.  Will the federal politicians and bureaucrats who have allowed millions of people to cross the border in the meantime be able to get away with just saying, ‘Oops, our bad’?

Isn’t this what happens in asset forfeiture cases? Isn’t this what happens when the government decides to ‘search’ an innocent person’s car by tearing it apart because he’s got the wrong sticker on the bumper or seize all the records and electronic devices from a journalist who has been publishing the wrong kinds of things? Isn’t this what happens when a candidate is removed from a ballot because of an allegation for which he’s never been formally charged, let alone convicted?

This has become so common that it’s got a name:  lawfare.  It’s using the legal process itself as a form of punishment.

‘Sentence first–verdict afterwards!’ said the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.  As they’ve been saying lately about George Orwell’s 1984, it was supposed to be fiction, not an instruction manual.

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The latest outrage from the CDC is a redacted 148-page report on myocarditis. There’s nothing there. Every page is blank. The research is nothing but textless pages. They don’t even show the word myocarditis. There’s nothing to see here; move along, please.

No, I don’t think that’s going to fly.

There’s obviously something very damning that they’re trying to hide. Dr. @P_McCulloughMD says we’re witnessing an “active cover-up” of a “colossal consumer product safety debacle.” “Pfizer recorded 1223 deaths with their product within 90 days of release. People were calling Pfizer in desperation, watching their family members die after taking the vaccine.” 

I had some thoughts about what might, in fact, be there were the pages not redacted, the research not censored.

Hodor.  Hodor Hodor. Hodor Hodor Hodor Hodor. Hodor. Hodor, Hodor – Hodor – Hodor Hodor.

And so on for 148 pages.

I know, there’s no reason to redact that, but you get the point. They could have replied with 148 pages of Hodor to the same effect.

Can we quote you?

Hodor.

Thank you.

There is (of course) a deep and significant meaning behind Hodor’s impairment, and if you do not know the story, I won’t ruin it for you. The CDC, however, is unlikely to have any honorable moments to define why it released a report with nothing in it. What it does demonstrate is a new level of arrogance. Maybe not that new.

 

CDC Releases Paper on Myocarditis After COVID Vaccination, and EVERY WORD Is Redacted

“148 pages. The entire thing is redacted. What good does a study do if there’s nothing there?”

There’s obviously something very damning that they’re trying to hide.

Dr. @P_McCulloughMD says… pic.twitter.com/1GjI5IKKgB

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) March 18, 2024

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It was another week of wins and losses at the NH State House, and Transparency lost big time. You can get more details on that here if the urge strikes, for or purpose is different. We bring you news of Republicans who missed Roll Call votes and how many.

Reporting on attendance can sometimes rub people the wrong way, so last week, our data guy provided more context. We are providing two bits of information. Who missed roll call votes this week (at yesterday’s 3/21/24 session), and how many Roll Call votes they’ve missed all year?

Missing votes or having to be absent for a day is part of life, and constituents shouldn’t get too wound up about it. After all, if it’s that important, you should run and then get there for every vote. Missing a lot of votes is a … systemic problem.

Voting the wrong way on key votes is also a problem but that is not the purpose of this update. We’re looking for serial offenders and there are a handful.

Roll Called votes missed yesterday are on the left. Total Roll Called votes missed all year, on the right. The list is sorted by missed votes this week (on the left) so, for example, Travis O’Hara only missed ten roll call votes this week but has missed over 100 this year. He’s a bit further down the list as is Tony Piemonte (only missed 7 yesterday but 84 YTD).

3/21		YTD
28	Sanborn, Laurie (R, Bedford)	167
28	Coulon, Matthew (R, Pike)	56
28	Pitre, Joseph (R, Farmington)	49
28	Panek, Sandra (R, Pelham)	41
28	Proulx, Mark (R, Manchester)	35
28	Andrus, Louise (R, Salisbury)	28
28	Mooney, Maureen (R, Merrimack)	28
28	Murphy, Michael (R, Gorham)	28
28	Prout, Andrew (R, Hudson)	28
19	Durkin, Sean (R, Northumberland)	20
12	Fedolfi, Jim (R, Hillsborough)	18
11	Guthrie, Joseph (R, Hampstead)	36
10	O’Hara, Travis (R, Belmont)	108
10	Trottier, Douglas (R, Belmont)	80
10	Varney, Peter (R, Alton)	54
10	Beaudoin, Richard (R, Gilford)	30
10	Wolf, Dan (R, Newbury)	29
10	Harley, Tina (R, Seabrook)	17
10	McCarter, Nikki (R, Belmont)	11
10	Brouillard, Jacob (R, Nottingham)	10
10	Cambrils, Jose (R, Loudon)	10
10	Cushman, Leah (R, Weare)	10
10	Gerhard, Jason (R, Northfield)	10
10	McMahon, Charles (R, Windham)	10
9	Lundgren, David (R, Londonderry)	38
9	Thackston, Dick (R, Troy)	31
9	Brown, Carroll (R, Bristol)	15
9	Hunt, John (R, Rindge)	12
9	Bernardy, JD (R, South Hampton)	9
7	Piemonte, Tony (R, Sandown)	84
5	Infantine, William (R, Manchester)	25
2	Crawford, Karel (R, Moultonborough)	43
2	Bordes, Mike (R, Laconia)	26
2	Berry, Ross (R, Manchester)	8
2	Terry, Paul (R, Alton)	7
2	Comtois, Barbara (R, Center Barnstead)	2
2	Potucek, John (R, Derry)	2
1	Bickford, David (R, New Durham)	12
1	Smith, Steven (R, Charlestown)	5
1	Layon, Erica (R, Derry)	3
1	Ammon, Keith (R, New Boston)	2
1	Connor, James (R, Rochester)	2
1	Aylward, Deborah (R, Danbury)	1
1	Turcotte, Len (R, Barrington)	1

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We learned that it took from 10 am until 8 pm, with an hour break for lunch, to get through 44 bills, their amendments, and all the various motions. It was a very long day, but we got some good work accomplished. I won’t go through everything, but let’s review some highlights.

We learned that HB1528 passed on a voice vote. This amended bill will ensure adequate reporting and police protocols are in place so that the governor and the legislature will receive the information they will need to properly fund the new Northern Border Program.

We also learned that a bill that would have added transparency to Gunstock operations was Indefinitely Postponed 230-143. HB1414 died after a tabling motion failed 45-329. I don’t understand why a forensic audit would be considered a bad thing. Would sunshine melt the snow?

We learned that women’s sports in NH had a win today! HB1205, the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act”, passed 189-182 on a roll call vote. This bill as amended applies to school grades 5-12 and prohibits biological males from participating on biological female sports teams. New Hampshire schools would need to classify their sports teams as either female, male, or coed. The bill also provides for a cause of action if a student is deprived of athletic opportunities, is subjected to retaliation, or suffers any direct or indirect harm. The bill seeks to protect biological female athletes from physical harm as a result of competing with biological males who are physically taller, stronger, and heavier than biological females. Science has proven that there are physical advantages that biological males have over biological females. This bill protects women’s sports and truly levels the playing field.

We learned that HB1654, another attack on the successful Education Freedom Accounts, was Indefinitely Postponed with a roll called vote of 191-183. We also killed HR30 with the same tally of 191-183. That bill would have made a resolution to urge a robust climate education in schools including current environmental and economic information. How about we concentrate on teaching kids to read and write and do proper math instead of propagating “Climate Change Anxiety” and foisting upon them the notion that we have a “disastrous anthropomorphic climate emergency” while teaching them to hate business and industry?

We learned that we dealt with a number of election law bills. HB1098 passed 192-175 which allows town election officials to deliver and assist with the distribution and processing of absentee ballots to residents of eldercare facilities. We also passed HB1119, with a vote of 282-92, which consolidates the reasons a voter may request an absentee ballot on the Monday before an election that may be impacted by an impending severe weather concern (ex: snowstorm). We killed HB1149 with an Indefinite Postponement vote of 190-184. That bill would have brought us back to the “honor system” days when you didn’t need an ID to vote and we took people at their “pinky swear” word that they lived in the district, and voter fraud was as easy as can be. We tabled a bill, HB1099, with a vote of 188-186, which would have enabled specification of party affiliation in school district elections. Rep. Robert Wherry (R-Hudson) channeled Lesley Gore this week with his entertaining rendition of “It’s my party and I’ll vote how I want to, I’ll vote how I want to…”

We learned that the annual Democrat attack on Columbus Day failed yet again. HB1135 was the 7th time that the attempt to remove or rename Columbus Day has come to us. This bill died 331-42 on a roll called vote. It would be nice if they didn’t waste our time with this nonsense.

We learned that HB1683, relative to coverage of circumcision under the state Medicaid plan, was tabled 188-187. There were concerns regarding Jewish ritual circumcision being denied, but the reality is that that is done on the 8th day, at home, with a privately hired mohel (rabbi). No Medicaid money is paid for that. Circumcisions done in the hospital are elective surgeries that really do not need to be paid by Medicaid. In any case, Rep. Paige Beauchemin (D-Nashua), who laid out all of her important nursing credentials, seemed to have talked forever, and we wish that had been cut off instead. That being said, Rep Emily Phillips (R-Fremont) reminded us that “foreskin is not a birth defect and no one wants less penis.” I’ll just leave that there.

We learned that the ghost of HB1002 (the fees placed on the Right To Know Law) paid the House a visit again, coming back from the Judiciary Committee after the House sent it back to them on 2/8/24 with a recommit motion. Today, the Interim Study motion on this bill failed (105 Yes-266 No), and then an amendment was offered. Members of the Judiciary Committee worked hard to craft an amendment (2024-1173h) that would only charge for electronic communications (emails, texts), and only after the first 250 of those, plus the time it takes to redact them. There are exemptions to the fees if you’re poor or information disclosure is in the public interest – although media requestors are not exempt. The amended bill ultimately passed with a roll called vote of 268-106. Now, it will be taken up in the Senate.

We learned that HB1115, relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term, passed 194-180 on a division vote. This bill adds the expiration of the term, of the lease or tenancy if over six months, as grounds for eviction. A contract should be as the contract states. As the law stands now a landlord can’t evict someone at the end of their lease because of a bad ruling in 2005 by the NH Supreme Court. They decided that the end of a lease does not constitute “good cause” for evicting a tenant. What part of “end of lease” did they not understand?

We also learned that last week, HB1336 was tabled by a voice vote. Today it was removed from the table with a vote of 189-183. An amendment was offered (2024-1271h) which changed the bill to make it allowable for an employee to keep a loaded firearm in his personal locked vehicle while at work at a publicly funded business. The premise being that a publicly funded business would have to support Constitutional rights. The bill would also still remove any civil liability on the part of the employer should there be an illegal use of that firearm by a third party – as in if the car or firearm was stolen from the parking lot. Of course, our “firearm worry wort” colleague Rep. David Meuse (D-Portsmouth) had great concerns that a child would escape from a daycare center and somehow get into a locked car in the parking lot and get a hold of a firearm and “something bad would happen”. One has to wonder where he dreams up these scenarios. But he also invoked the Constitutional rights of the business owner. Rep. Terry Roy (R-Deerfield) commended Rep. Meuse on his newfound love of the Constitution, and Rep. Jennifer Rhodes (R-Winchester) said, “A child in daycare has more chance of being harmed by an elected official” (a reference to past Democrat Rep. Laughton and Tyngsborough daycare in June 2023). Nuff said.

Additionally, we learned that HB1283 – the assisted suicide bill – ultimately, after many motions and an hour and a half of floor speeches, passed OTP/A 179-176. I think they were trying to talk us to death. It is interesting that the breakdown of the votes was that the 179 Yes were comprised of 36 Republicans and 143 Democrats, and the No votes were comprised of 142 Republicans and 34 Democrats. Prior to the OTP/A vote we tried to Table the bill – that failed 155-217. We tried to Indefinite Postpone the bill – that failed 150-212. All votes were roll called so you can check it out. This bill will now go off to the Senate. Perhaps they can assist in the bill’s suicide there.

We also learned that the bill that would give the Commissioner of the Dept. of Education subpoena power, HB1353, was Tabled 293-58 after the amendment died 169-178. Seeing as we didn’t have the votes to pass it, it was decided tabling would be better for now.

We further learned that HB1664, relative to legal remedies for individuals who receive medical detransitioning, was Indefinitely Postponed 181-164 (181=R:8 D:173). This was a tough one to lose as the day wore on, and Republican numbers began to dwindle. This would have established standards for a cause of action to recover damages for injury caused by gender transition surgery, the administration of puberty-blocking drugs, and/or the administration of cross-sex hormones. A 3-year time limit of action would be established, and informed consent is a concern. This bill was important because many who have transitioned are now regretting it, especially as health problems emerge, and they are now seeking detransitioning services. Permanent injury is a real thing.

We also learned that HB1479 was ultimately Indefinitely Postponed 211-129. This was the bill that would have prohibited the use of federal, state, and local funds to pay for lobbying activities. Organizations that offer lobbying services would have to separate the lobbying activity and fund it differently than with public money. Rep. Gregory Hill (R-Northfield) offered an amendment (2024-0982h) which he deemed, “If you like your lobbyist, you can keep your lobbyist”. Among other things, it allowed for town officials to choose services that organizations may provide, including lobbying activities. That amendment failed 135-207. Then Rep. Josh Yokela (R-Fremont) offered another amendment (2024-1160h), which allowed towns to vote via warrant article for whether they want to use tax money to pay for lobbying activities or not. That amendment failed 117-224. A Table motion also failed 135-205. There are other issues with this bill, as well as current law and how it is or is not being adhered to. At the end of the day, we did not have the votes to keep tax money from being used to pay lobbyists. By the way, we also saw firsthand how lobbyists lobbied our constituents to ask us to vote against the bill, and the misinformation that was spread about the bill was pretty incredible.

We learned that as the hour began to get late, around 6 pm, our House Speaker’s office brought us all snacks to enjoy in the back anteroom: fruit, cookies, granola bars, and there was coffee too. Soon after that, NH Democrat Party Chair Ray Buckley sent his Democrat House caucus many boxes of pizzas for them to enjoy in their ante room, and we heard that it came with instructions not to share with Republicans. Just so you know.

We learned that when speeches are done and voting is ready to begin you cannot enter the House Chambers…Even if you are Speaker of the House. Yes, while Deputy Speaker Steven Smith was presiding, our House Speaker Sherm Packard was locked out of House Chambers. I guess he’ll have to make it back in quicker time next time.

We further learned that HB1584 passed on a voice vote after an ITL motion failed 159-167. This bill would alleviate the daycare crunch by allowing unlicensed daycare operators to care for four kids versus 3. Of course, Rep. David Paige (D-Conway) painted this grim picture of some rural, unlicensed, unqualified, ill-equipped daycare provider living in a firetrap and unable to evacuate four kids from a fire in her home. He must get worry wort training from Rep. Meuse (see above). The Democrats just spend their days thinking up worst-case scenarios for every bill that tries to do good and solve problems, especially if that bill was not written by them. Republicans, on the other hand, understand unmet needs and balance access and affordability while maintaining quality and safety in this day care issue. We understand truly what is good “for the children”.

We learned that Democrats want to solve the childcare crisis by throwing money at it. HB 1611 died 163-162 along complete party lines (163 R’s 162 D’s). They wanted to set up a childcare workforce fund – non-lapsing and continually funded. This would be overseen by the Dept. of Health and Human Services and money would be distributed as “grants” to employers and given to eligible child care providers. Wait… I thought Democrats were vehemently opposed to public money going to pay for private services (like EFA’s)… I am so confused.

Finally, we learned that Rep. Joe Sweeney (R-Salem) has a new name: Rep. Indefinite Postpone, since he’s always up to making that motion. Good one, thanks to Deputy Speaker Steven Smith!

There’s more to come next week, so stay tuned! There will be two new Democrats seated in the House as a result of special elections, so that means there will be a slimmer majority of House Republicans, and Ray Buckley has two more mouths to feed.

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Every spring, no matter how soon or how late it arrives, we have frogs and the things frogs eat. We have the things that eat frogs and that eat them, and so on—the circle of life. Everything eats something else.

Every year, no matter the winter, the weather, or the ranting of greedy politicians, climate cultists, or their media allies, it all just keeps happening. And that will continue, warm or cold, wet or dry, even if Joe Biden manages to start World War III. Some years after a long planetary sigh, with or without us, the things we see now, this year, and every year will happen again or things very similar to them. We can’t wreck the world. We can only wreck our world.

The Earth is a greater god than even you. It will recover. We may not. And perhaps that is what you mean, but if it is, why then do you do so much to make the world so miserable a place?

Are you compelled to be the gods you denied exist? To fill the hole created by your secular humanism. Some fill it with sports teams, hobbies, exercise, book clubs, being an insufferable busybody, short-term relationships, drugs, alcohol, gambling, or causes. Gangs, violence, or politics (apologies if I’m being redundant).

The problem with secular humanists playing god is that they don’t imagine they need to beg for forgiveness from anyone or anything while life seems certain. Their pleasure comes from pretending they are doing good, no matter how much harm it causes, regardless of how wrong their prophesies are or how corrupt or demented their leadership.

I can assure you that you are not saving the planet, but you are ruining life on it for the people who are here now for reasons that mean nothing to the Earth in the grand scope but everything to the partisans, politicians, and despots raping it and us today.

 

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We need someone to step up in New York City to end this childish play for attention by corrupt, power-hungry State Attorney General Letitia James and the cartoon figure Judge Arthur Engoron. This mockery of justice has gone on too long and is now a threat to future businesses operating in New York or even this country. Who would want to invest their good money in a cesspool, lawless New York City? Certainly, nobody who sees options elsewhere, like Tennessee, Texas, or Florida.

James made no secret of the fact she was hellbent on destroying Donald Trump, his family, and his business empire. She openly campaigned and promised New Yorkers that if elected, she would spend every waking minute finding a crime that she could charge and prosecute Donald Trump. James had no evidence of a crime, which didn’t stop this deranged individual. If she could not discover an actual crime, she would fabricate one, and that is precisely what she did with this fraud case.

James filed the charges, then found herself a made-for-TV Judge in Engoran, who was as driven as James to make history by charging Trump for a crime without a victim and then handing down the largest judgment against an individual in the State and Nation’s history. Trump is on the clock to raise $454 Million just to be able to file an appeal against this absurd judgment. The evil Letitia James is salivating, hoping Trump cannot raise the funds so she can start seizing Trump’s property, beginning with the Trump Towers. James thinks it is funny when she says she looks at the building on 5th Avenue and anticipates putting the padlock on the front door.

Letitia James is an evil, ugly person. Not ugly physically, although she is that, too, but hideous in that she is motivated by the destruction of a family that has been an icon of New York City. However, Trump is guilty of one thing: his politics is adverse to AG Letitia James’s.

At this point, James and Engoran have nothing to lose. They are in for a penny, in for a pound. They have already exposed themselves as Democrat hacks who conspired to use the law to violate an individual’s Constitutional rights. They have violated the Eighth Amendment, which was written to protect someone from excessive penalties. The Constitution does not get in the way of people like James and Engoran, even though both took an oath to uphold the most extraordinary document ever written.

If the Appellate Court will not step forward in New York because they are as political and corrupt as the State Courts, then Trump has to get a Federal Judge to put a stay on this foolishness. Foolishness is a kind word for this fiasco. James will not stop. She is drunk on power. You could see that in her eyes every day as she sat in the courtroom, ecstatic to see her plan come to fruition. She will not entertain any request to delay the judgment or reduce the exorbitant penalty. She is going to sleep every night with visions of a homeless Donald Trump, but the final joke may be on her when Trump’s next address is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Since this President is intent upon re-election, his choice of politics over country for his State of the Union speech was a no-brainer given the opportunity of a rare national audience. However insulting this was to House members, it’s merely one Biden incident.

That which follows is more incriminating and thus should justify the public’s condemnation.

Two needless American tragedies, one after Biden’s election but prior to his inauguration while the other just recently, have sadly but appropriately framed his dreadful time in office. While separate and unrelated, most disgraceful has been both Biden’s insulting insults and indifference to each victim!

If only due to the elapsed time, Ashli Babbitt’s murder has become well known to many, but can you believe, still not all? As a January 6th unarmed protestor, this American veteran and successful business owner was shot by Michael Bryd, a Capital Police officer who owned a spotty police record. In fact a record which includes his police authority being revoked on more than one occasion, including one violation for unjustified use of force.

As stated, Babbitt didn’t present a threat and was unarmed, yet Officer Bryd shot and killed her. To this day, our Justice Department has yet to file charges, and also to this day, Biden has yet to officially recognize her killing or even to confer with her family. At the very least, Biden’s conduct shows a lack of common decency!

More recently, Laken Riley, a nursing student out for a morning run, was mugged and murdered in the most gruesome manner by an illegal alien who was arrested. This occurred during the week prior to Biden’s political speech to Congress and the nation; the one in which he also chastised Supreme Court members.

Finally and after being prodded by a Congressional attendee, Biden finally uttered her name, “Lincoln” Riley incorrectly. The next day, Biden’s shame reached new heights when he was criticized for identifying Lincoln’s alleged murderer as an “illegal alien.” He apologized for the use of the term “illegal alien” on live TV!

America has a problem, and it’s homegrown. In essence, our people’s sagging ethics and morality have enabled our political machines at local levels to have an easier task of picking the next pliable candidate to elevate to the state or Federal levels. As the public succumbs to this anti-American depravity, few candidates of worth become available or even are willing to serve.

Presently, we as a people are witnessing the horror and general disbelief of a society that has come to prefer the easy and uninhibited rather than the normal exertion of effort for supporting an orderly and moral community. Such is the case when two young flowers of American womanhood are lost without a public outcry, much less without any official criminal charge!

From all the nightly political pundits and endless blather over incidentals, only one network devoted ample time and appropriate regard to both ladies. Directly on the heels of Ms. Babbitt’s murder, this empty-suited President failed as a Commander to give appropriate recognition to the military sacrifice, which was directly attributable to Biden’s defeatist orders. As the flag-draped coffins were carried from the plane, Biden had the audacity to check his wristwatch with a show of impatience!

As much as Biden is a disgrace, he reflects a society in which too many are following in his footsteps! Our entire system has slowly but consistently been inverted to the point that now seven and eight-year-olds are questioned about their birth genders! This example of societal decay and inversion includes school officials intent on replacing parents and family as today’s generation’s caretakers! Say what? Further incriminating is that all this is taking place within a Christian-based nation!

In recent times, we have all heard that each election is the most important. However, given the above cited events and non-actions, 2024 is not just an important date, it just might be our last election! Today, it’s past debating whether the communists have infiltrated. It began long before any of us were born. However, this is our time, our calling, as was another time roughly 250 years ago. Our Founders reacted and sacrificed for a belief, whereas our calling is for survival. When comparing the difference of actions taken then and being required now, ours is doable, expected as citizens and devoid of that previous sacrifice. All that’s needed today is to vote for the preservation of freedom and for the protection of the country we love!

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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.

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: 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

And here are four pictures from pre-Oct 7.  Wow, that’s some concentration camp:

 

 

 

 

 

‘Death to Jews’ Is Still Super-Popular With Gazans Getting Their Butts Kicked by Jews – PJ Media

Israel, it turned out, was far too lenient in its treatment of Gaza since abandoning the strip almost 20 years ago. Allowing aid to pour in, cities to be built, making medical care and jobs available in Israel for those who wanted them… all that kindness brought was an even greater determination among the people of Gaza to murder more Jews.

They asked for a pounding on Oct 7. They ask for it still.

Give the people what they want, good and hard.

 

 

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I would SO laugh if these “useful idiots” got shredded by a nail bomb planted by a Muslim.

 

 

 

 

 

The problem is this: BY DESIGN these people now have their identity.  OK, it’s a fabricated identity, but it now exists nonetheless.  Scolding them that their world view is based on a total fabrication will NOT win them over.  Myth has tremendous power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TOP OF THE FOLD

Biden’s ‘Trojan Pier’ for Gaza – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org

The Biden administration is creating a gateway to Gaza that Israel isn’t supposed to control.

The Trojan pier is not only about bypassing Israel, but also Egypt. The administration’s vision is that the new arrangement will allow it to directly move materials into Gaza without having to get permission from either Israel or Egypt. And that’s a major victory for the terrorists.

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Thanks, But No Thanks: Israel Replacing US Assault Rifles with Locally Made Arms | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | 26 Adar I 5784 – Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | JewishPress.com

Good.

American money – and aid – comes with too many strings attached.  Whether Israel or any other country, they really need to examine their priorities and work to wean themselves of American largess… which is fickle at best and subject to the vicissitudes of politics.

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Have Gazans Learned Nothing? – PJ Media

No.

Now, I want to post two multi-part essays from my old blog about this.  The first two, specifically, address Israel and the Arabs.

 

E Israel and the Palestinians Hard info and a harder question 1

 

E Israel and the Palestinians Hard info and a harder question 2

 

The second describes, among other topics, the power of political myth – including the “unique” identity of the Palis.  Yes, I know that only in the 1960’s did the idea of “Palestinians” as a specific entity come about.

 

 

The issue is, it’s been 60 years since then.  Multiple generations have grown up with this belief, taught it from the day of their birth.  We will make no progress if we just scoff and say that they never existed.  Denying and mocking a central part of a person’s identity is not a worthwhile exercise.

Note, these next three essays encompass much more than the Israel situation but delve into other things – hopefully enlightening, but understand they’re broad essays, not focused solely on the situation vis a vis Israel.

 

E The Power of Political Myth 1

 

E The Power of Political Myth 2

 

E The Power of Political Myth 3

 

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Israel’s hasbara problem: Where is the messaging falling short? ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

I keep saying: Israel needs to release that full 47 minute tape.

 

 

WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

A woman who grew up as the Palis took over her country tells Israel to finish the job:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/brigitte-gabriel-finish-the-job.mp4

 

You need to read her book BECAUSE THEY HATE.  One of the things that I did not know, per her book, is that they will find a gay Arab and threaten to expose him unless he becomes a suicide bomber.  Same with women who, again per her, they will rape – and then threaten exposure of her with the related shame to her family… unless she do the same.  Related, understand that shame-based culture:

Dr. Sanity: SHAME, THE ARAB PSYCHE, AND ISLAM (drsanity.blogspot.com)

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Bleeding-heart American Jews like the one discussed here are not helping:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/kapo-woman-discussed.mp4

 

Pleasing your enemies, even taking their side, does not turn them into friends:

 

 

More:

SO NOT A SURPRISE! Jewish Senator Chuck Schumer’s ‘rabbi’ is a far-left, anti-Israel activist who protested against the war on Hamas (barenakedislam.com)

About that:

The west’s abandonment of the Jews – Melanie Phillips (substack.com)

Far worse, though, was Glazer’s abuse of Judaism and the Holocaust to claim that Israel had hijacked both. He implied that Israelis were like Nazis and that their behaviour went against Jewish principles.

This to describe a war caused by the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust and Israel’s attempt to ensure that a second Holocaust does not happen again.

The obscenity of Glazer’s comments can scarcely be exaggerated. The belief that demonising Israeli Jews somehow represents Jewish values is, however, a pathology that has twisted the minds of many liberal American Jews. It is being fed by a venomously distorted presentation of Israelis as child-killers in Gaza that’s being ruthlessly pumped out by western media.

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In Shift, Israel Engaging Palestinian Authority on Governing Post-War Gaza | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Baruch Yedid / TPS | 4 Adar II 5784 – Wednesday, March 13, 2024 | JewishPress.com

So, the very people who ally with Hamas, you’re going to talk with and “engage” with?

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While the far-left, Hamas-sympathizing governments of the West turn on Israel… (barenakedislam.com)

When someone says they want you dead, believe them.  From one of their own:

Prager U Video: Arab Palestinian Warns the World about Hamas | Frontpage Mag

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Suicide by Irresponsibly-Imposed Two-State Delusion | Frontpage Mag

 

 

(HT this post at Elder of Ziyon)

Rewarding terror.

The Civilizational Masochism of the West | Frontpage Mag

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

Khaybar is a key event in Islam’s conquest, first of Arabia.  Understand what it means to them:

Genocidal ‘Khaybar’ Chant Sounds Again in London | Frontpage Mag

Search at Jihad Watch:

Search Results for “khaybar” (jihadwatch.org)

And a video at my channel:

Understand what the cry KHAYBAR means to a Muslim (rumble.com)

And here’s a WOMAN Egyptian lawyer, in 2008:

Egyptian Lawyer Nagla Al-Imam Suggests Arab Men Should Sexually Harass Israeli Women and Declares: Leave the Land So We Won’t Rape You | MEMRI

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A Muslim speaks on history:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/arab-muslim-corrects-mia-khalifa.mp4

 

And I do find something deeply ironic in a (former) porn star supporting Gaza, when that profession would have earned her a rather painful execution in the place for which she advocates.

 

 

ATROCITIES

Imagine the anguish of that dad on that phone call:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/imagine-that-dads-anguish.mp4

 

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23 weeks ago terrorists brought RPGs into sleepy Israeli towns and fired on (rumble.com)

Isn’t deliberately targeting civilians a war crime?

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No one denies Hamas was hiding in Shifa Hospital. And no one is condemning that violation of international law. ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

So Hamas is free to commit war crimes and war crimes.  Israel sneezes and the world looks at it and screams.  Israel double-standard time.

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

Bravo to this Mizrahi Jew at Columbia University calling out the university and students:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/iranian-jewish-student-at-columbia-1.mp4

 

Also in New York:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cooper-union-testimony.mp4

 

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Berkeley Is a Safe Space for Hate – Tablet Magazine

Not just Berkeley.  Pretty much all college campuses at this point.  And the danger and calls for murdering Jews are getting more pointed:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/on-signs-saying-clean-the-world-of-jews.mp4

 

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How does any feminist support Hamas?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/womens-rights-in-gaza.mp4

 

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While the far-left, Hamas-sympathizing governments of the West turn on Israel… (barenakedislam.com)

Video.  There is NO moral equivalence.  None.

 

 

PALLYWOOD & MEDIA DISTORTIONS/LIES IN GENERAL

Israel Implemented More Measures to Prevent Civilian Casualties Than Any Other Nation in History | Opinion (newsweek.com)

In fact, as someone who has served two tours in Iraq and studied urban warfare for over a decade, Israel has taken precautionary measures even the United States did not do during its recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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We keep hearing about famine and such in Gaza.  Based on the pictures below, from here, I do not think that means what they think it means.  Fruits & veggies, pastries, canned / carton goods.  Perhaps not haute cuisine, but at the same time – NOT starvation.

Market today in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
There is no hunger in the Gaza Strip!

 

 

 

 

And from the same channel – lights, camera, editing… propaganda:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/lights-camera-makeup-pallywood.mp4

 

Back to conditions on the ground:

This is the Rafah market in the Gaza Strip last week.  Doesn’t look like “genocide” or “occupation” to me.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/rafa-market-3-24.mp4

 

Well, unless it’s Hamas shooting at the people they’re supposed to be protecting:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/hamas-terrorist-shooting-in-gazan-crowd.mp4

 

And from here:

FOOD IN GAZA: FACTS

1⃣ 80% more food trucks are now entering Gaza compared with before Hamas declared war. Before 10/7, UN figures show only 70 food trucks entered Gaza every day. Since March 1, it’s a daily average of 126.

2⃣ Over 9,500 trucks with 200,000+ tons of food have entered Gaza since 10/7.

3⃣ Israel places zero restrictions on the amount of food entering Gaza and in fact encourages donor states to send as much as they want. It remains committed to ensuring as much aid as is needed enters Gaza.

4⃣ Hamas is hijacking and hoarding aid, while UN agencies turn a blind eye and on some occasions actively cover up its large-scale theft of aid.

5⃣ The United Nations has confirmed a “significant scale-up in humanitarian efforts… facilitated by the Israeli authorities across Gaza”, involving WFP trucks and Israeli cooperation with the Gazan private sector.

6⃣ Israel is facilitating aid deliveries into Gaza by air, land, and sea, with the creation of a new maritime corridor, airdrops to hard-to-reach areas, and the opening of a new gate in the security fence.

7⃣ Israel has expanded the Jordanian route, adding capacity at the Allenby Crossing for the inspection of humanitarian aid trucks to go straight to Kerem Shalom.

8⃣ The UN is failing to distribute aid at the pace Israel is facilitating its entry, with trucks piling up on the Gazan side of the crossing. The UN attributes this to a “breakdown of law and order”, i.e. disappearance of the “protection” of Hamas gunmen who escorted the convoys.

9⃣ Israel’s assessment is there is a stable food supply in the southern Gaza Strip, where markets are evidently bustling and stocks are piling up in aid agencies’ warehouses. It is taking proactive measures to expand delivery efforts in the north, where only 10-15% of the Gazan population remains despite evacuation orders.

The IPC report, which quotes Hamas figures uncritically, claims to be a projection but admits that it “does not take into account the latest developments on the ground”, including major humanitarian initiatives in the last week. As such, it’s a bad assessment, based on an out-of-date picture that cannot provide a meaningful projection of future trends

And from here:

Israel facilitates the entry of humanitarian aid via land, air and sea in accordance with international law. We have placed no limit on the amount of food that can enter the Gaza Strip.

Watch the full statement by COGAT’s spokesperson for international media, Shimon Freedman.

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/shimon-freedman-on-aid.mp4

 

Hillel Fuld post on LinkedIn – with pictures

Yes, thieves in Gaza are stealing food at gunpoint ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

It’s a win win for Hamas.  They intimidate and even starve their captive population, make money off of selling the aid that was donated, and the enemedia runs with everything as a misdeed by Israel:

Hamas battle strategy (rumble.com)

Israel’s strategic game of survival – Flopping Aces

“Their only goal is to survive. … It’s all about time. They want to survive Israel’s attack against them, which gives them immense political power. If they survive in any way, they have strategically won the war,” said Spencer.

Hamas didn’t invent this strategy. This has been the Palestinians’ strategy for defeating Israel since at least the 1982 war in Lebanon. In that war, the PLO relied on the United States to force Israel to permit the PLO to survive to fight another day, by evacuating to Tunisia.

The Palestinians clearly identified Israel’s greatest strategic vulnerabilities and built their strategy around them. Its first vulnerability is its Jewishness. Israel is the Jew of the international community. As such, it is continuously scapegoated, just as Jews have been scapegoated throughout history. The United States is the only powerful nation that has ever been willing to stand up to international bigotry against the Jewish state. So the only thing needed to collapse Israel’s international position is for America to turn against Israel.

This goes double for military capabilities. Since 1973, Israel’s ability to maintain its war effort militarily has dependent on the U.S. resupply of arms during the course of war. By the Palestinians’ line of reasoning, if their many friends could convince Washington not to supply Israel with weapons in wartime, then they will survive.

Since all the Palestinians need to do to win is survive, their strategic aces in the hole are antisemitism and time.

Related:

The Strategy of Atrocity in the Gaza War :: Gatestone Institute

More than half, and maybe as many as 75%, of Gaza deaths are Hamas terrorists. Here’s why. ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

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Israeli military tells Gazans to evacuate Al-Shifa hospital – Insider Paper

Why would a military bent on “genocide” tell people to leave a potential combat zone?

 

 

 

That’s a nice looking suit for an oppressed and downtrodden people.

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BBC Journalists ‘Like’ Videos Celebrating Hamas Terror Attacks – The Daily Sceptic

I wonder what would happen to a journalist that liked a KKK or related video.

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More Pallywood:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/son-of-hamas-leader-reacts-to-starving-kid-images.mp4

 

From here:

A Gazan woman is complaining about the situation in Gaza; you know the usual BS, “Everything is ruined, no food.” pay attention to her makeup, manicured eyebrows, and her neat apartment. But “Gaza is starving,” they tell us. The lies never end.

(Abu Ali)

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/made-up-woman-complains.mp4

 

And from here an exposure of how Hamas is an expert at Pallywood:

Hamas spins agitprop to appeal to western sensibilities (rumble.com)

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Another video on the Apartheid charge – and a real case of it:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lebanese-apartheid.mp4

 

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I thought this was interesting.  Truth, from a child…

It warms the heart seeing Al-Jazeera blunder on live television. A reporter describes the difficult situation in northern Gaza, particularly the meager rations available during Ramadan. A child photobombs the broadcast and says they are all liars.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/boy-shouts-at-reporter.mp4

 

 

TERROR COMING HERE?  TO THE WEST?

Not sure where this Imam is, but… understand their mentality re non-Muslim women:

If you want to understand why it’s not Hindus, Sikhs, jews, kidnapping and torturing children across our country.

Rotherham, Oldham, Telford….

Just listen to this and understand why, their sickening mentality.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/if-a-muslim-captures-a-kaffir-woman.mp4

 

They’ve already been at it all over Europe, and now too many want to bring them to the US.  And those in the US preach this:

Sermons By California Imams In Support Of October 7th Attack | MEMRI

WATCH: Michigan Imam Calls for Slaughter of Jews | United with Israel

From here:

This is happening in Canada.

Radical Islamist Imam’s hate speech targets Zionist Jews, compares them to apes and pigs. Pure antisemitism.

We cannot allow this blind hate. Jews must be safe wherever they are. #StopHateSpeech

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/canadian-imam-compares-jews-to-pigs.mp4

 

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Illegal alien from Lebanon caught at Southern border admitted he’s a Hezbollah-trained terrorist hoping ‘to set off a bomb” in New York City (barenakedislam.com)

And who is coming in?  Who is already here?  Open borders have consequences, and we won’t like them one bit.  More:

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: October 7, 2023 massacre by Hamas could be a prelude to what could happen in the rest of the world

First Saturday, then Sunday.

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The Islamist Transformation of Ohio in One Video | Frontpage Mag

Demographic transformation.  And conquest by migration is a real doctrine in Islam.  If you watch this video, and don’t have a shiver run up your spine, IMHO you’ve lost your survival instinct.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Muslim-Demographics_360p.mp4

 

 

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

US will only support ‘small-scale’ Rafah op – Report | World Israel News

Biden Admin Turns Up Pressure On Israel Not To Capture Hamas Rafah Stronghold, Arms Supplies Reportedly At Risk (legalinsurrection.com)

Biden Offers Israel a ‘Deal’ That Sounds Like a Threat – Commentary Magazine

The US is, apparently, bound and determined to not let Israel win.  Why?

Biden is throwing Israel under the bus to appease genocidal antisemitic voters – American Thinker

From here:

Nasrallah marks the key to the influence on Israel: continued pressure on the US

Nasrallah, in his speech this evening on the occasion of the month of Ramadan, emphasizes: Biden can stop the aggression in Gaza and Lebanon with the wave of a pen.

Here is the translation of the attached distilled minute from Nasrallah’s speech this evening:

“We must thank the many who are protesting today in the US and congratulate them whether they are Arabs or Muslims or non-Muslims, Christians and others in the Democratic Party who wrote to Biden – we are not obligated to vote for you (Nasrallah means the “white ballots” in the Michigan primaries ) – they influence Very much at this point. This is the most important pressure point on the Biden administration.

Biden is not afraid of the world, nor of the international community, nor of Allah, nor of the history books, nor of anything.

Biden is now afraid of only one thing: that his policies and conduct in Gaza will lead to his loss in the presidential elections, and therefore he is debating… and resisting… and playing… if this pressure and this opposition in the US continue – then this gives an opening for hope (that the war will stop – AA) ”

(Abu Ali)

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Blinken: Israel’s ‘job No. 1’ is protecting, aiding Gazans – JNS.org

Israel’s job is protecting Israelis.

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Will the Biden Regime order a military attack on Israel next? (barenakedislam.com)

Wouldn’t surprise me.

I don’t recall which military branch / unit has the motto “No better friend, no worse enemy”.  Increasingly, as we’ve seen over the last decades, the US can be described as “No worse friend, no better enemy”.

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Rabbi Pesach Wolicki: Chuck Schumer Is A “Court Jew” Pushing Progressive Ideals – “What He Did with Israel is a Disgrace” (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Yes, Schumer is a “court Jew”.

Schumer Warns Israel to Spare Hamas or Face Sanctions (jihadwatch.org)

SELF-HATING, ISLAMIC TERRORIST PANDERING JEW, NY Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, threatens Israel with crippling economic sanctions if they don’t stop the war against Hamas (barenakedislam.com)

Schumer’s Shame | Frontpage Mag

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

A Gaza children’s book that glorifies a murderer for killing a Jew ~ Elder Of Ziyon – Israel News

What a wonderful children’s book.  Not.

 

 

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

MUST-SEE VIDEO: Netanyahu concisely describes Israel’s accomplishments, goals, and commitment – American Thinker

This is an existential war.  Not only for Israel, but for Western Civilization.  Islam has always said First Saturday, then Sunday.  First the Jews, then the Christians.  Support for Israel doesn’t just come from my Jewish heart, but my love of America and Western Civilization.

If Israel falls, if the West feeds Israel to Islam in appeasement, it will only steel the resolve of Islam to continue its advances.

This is the danger we face.  The line must be drawn.  Here.  Now.  Or this will turn into Shiite Islam’s wet dream – a global conflagration that precedes – in their view – the coming of their version of the Messiah.  Hence, to the Iranians at the back of all this, WWIII is not a bug but a feature.

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The candidates will make promises until they are blue in the face. This election cycle will be different than any of our lifetimes. You have to go back to 1956 when President Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson in a rare rematch of the 1952 election. This was the last of six such rematches in history and the last until 2024. It will be the first time since Grover Cleveland that a former President ran for a second term.

Biden and Trump will have much to say as we progress towards November, but they will have to run on and be judged for their record as President. On the surface, in a battle of records, I would think President Trump would have the upper hand, but as the Republican, he has to battle Biden, the legacy media, and the swamp that is Washington, D.C. That levels the battlefield for Biden.

The orchestrated effort by the legacy media to blow the comments of Donald Trump about the auto industry entirely out of context is evidence of their collaboration with Biden. They took a snippet of Trump’s comments where he was talking about the “bloodbath” that EVs are causing in the auto industry and gaslighted America to think Trump was calling for violence. It did not matter who you listened to or which network. Every talking head appeared to be reading from the same notes.

There is no consensus or popular candidate in this race. Throw Robert Kennedy Jr or Jill Stein into the conversation, and the race gets even more divisive. This election will be about issues, and each side has the same topics on the board, but for far different reasons. Each voter must reconcile these hot-button issues and which impacts them or their family the most. The next step is to match your views with a candidate, and hope they are solid in their principles and will not flip-flop after Election Day. Nobody will give you good odds on part two working for you.

Every key issue we face has polar opposite views, and none show any signs of compromise bringing them towards the middle.

Economy: The Democrats have two data points to measure the economy. One is how high they can raise taxes before the revolution begins. The other is regulation. Biden continues to claim he is building the strongest economy in history from the middle. Unfortunately, Biden’s policies to date have all but eliminated the middle class.

Though the Democrats will not admit it, Trump showed us a better way, and by dropping tax rates and eliminating unnecessary regulations, he grew the economy, dropped unemployment numbers, and raised the average American’s salary.

The Border: This one is straightforward. Biden and the Democrats want no border and a never-ending flow of immigrants. The Republicans want a secure border, letting in only those who have proven they qualify for asylum.

Abortion: It is a shame this issue determines a Presidential choice for some. There is so much misinformation about the Supreme Court striking down Roe V. Wade. They returned the abortion to the States. Some states have adopted the most progressive abortion laws imaginable, while others have outlawed abortion completely. This is the beauty of the Republic. You have the liberty to live in whichever state matches your political views. The problem over the last fifty years, is people migrating to another state want to change the new state to conform with them. Assimilation is a foreign concept with too many people.

There are other issues, such as LGBTQ rights, immigration, crime, foreign policy, and education, but the three I highlighted are the top 3, in varying order, on virtually every voter’s list. Take a break from the candidate rhetoric, do some self-analysis of where you stand, and then see which former President deserves a second term.

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Holy shit… Rep Byron Donalds outlines the money trail from CCP-controlled entity that eventually found its way to Joe Biden himself. Money went from CCP, to Hunter Biden bank account, to James Biden bank account, eventually withdrawn by Sara Biden,... Tom Bowler

The Congressional TikTok Ban is a bad idea, and Republicans promoting and advancing it make it worse. We can wonder why they are helping Biden’s agenda but a greater issue is wanting any president to have the ability to censor any social media platforms at an executive whim.

I mentioned it here, but several readers suggested that it deserves more focus.

BREAKING: New TikTok ban bill HR7521 gives the Executive Branch of government the power to define any platform/website as “foreign owned” even if domestic, giving them the ability to control/censor the content being published by the company. pic.twitter.com/asgStv4zXx

— Patrick Webb (@RealPatrickWebb) March 13, 2024

To be fair, there is some debate about definitions in the bill that are purposefully vague, which, to my mind, is rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. There should be no bill and no definitions, certainly not vague ones. That wiggle room means the ability to act first and answer questions later in court. A backdoor enforcement mechanism to shut down large platforms – maybe near an election, for example – because those in power decided they presented some sort of threat.

How long before that applies to any website of any size if this passes?

Not Your Job

Funny thing about free speech. That’s the point. Open, unencumbered debate is meant to threaten the status quo—directed at officers, politicians, and institutions to ensure they do not become too comfortable. There are no circumstances under which the US Government should ban, censor, silence, mute, manage, or manipulate public debate—ever. The public has first dibs on that through more speech and debate.

We also have rules for incitement that are purposefully tricky. Legal measures are in place to police legitimate threats, which, by the way, do not include violating every other form of speech in which that person(s) might engage.

The TikTok ban is a bad idea, not just because, as written, it might empower Executive Office abuses but also because it seeks to silence a platform that ironically is doing more to protect the First Amendment (at least in America) than the government trying to suppress it. A government that spies on its citizens and scrapes their data for nefarious purposes—and we’re not talking about China.

This is America trying to be more like the thing they claim to oppose, crafting laws in an attempt to make it legal.

 

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I previously posted about State Rep Damond Ford (Communist – Manchester) Comm-washing the history of slavery in order to indoctrinate schoolchildren: State Rep Damond Ford Doesn’t Know Much About History. But there is more.

Damond Ford also has a problem with Israel. Indeed, he has declared that you cannot be a “progressive” (the American Communists preferred term for Communist) and be pro-Israel:

Given that this is what Damond Ford posts on his social media, just imagine what he says in private. Perhaps … “from the river to the sea?”

As I said in my prior post about Damond Ford, The only thing that really distinguishes Damond Ford and his ilk from Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, etc., is that the latter obtained sufficient power to destroy the lives of hundreds of millions. Pray that Ford and his ilk never obtain such power.

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Hertz Rental Cars jumped the shark on EVs, going all in on fleet expansion, complete with ads featuring Tom Brady to promote the product. Not long after, Hertz discovered – you’d think they’d have done due diligence in advance – that EVs cost more, more to maintain, and are … unreliable. We knew this.

They could have asked, or they could have read a few articles on the subject from troubled businesses and nation-states around the world.

They cost more to buy, a lot more to insure, are expensive to repair, and, in many cases, are a total loss from what might otherwise be a minor accident. You can’t trust them indoors (or shouldn’t due to lithium battery fire risk). Their advertised range rarely meets expectations. Most EVs will never run on non-fossil fuel electricity, and their manufacture and disposal are less than green.

In the end, reliability and cost were their undoing. Hertz announced it would not buy another 100,000 and instead settled on a massive EV fleet reduction – followed just two months later by parting ways with its soon-to-be-former CEO.

Stephen Scherr will step down as Hertz Global Holdings Inc.’s chief executive officer and member of the company’s Board of Directors effective March 31, the company announced Friday. Scherr led Hertz for just over two years after spending nearly three decades at Goldman Sachs.

Scherr’s resignation comes as the car rental company struggles with the higher repair costs and low demand for EV rentals.

Scherr’s departure also follows the company’s biggest reported loss since 2020. We know why they lost money in 2020—someone unplugged the world and wouldn’t plug it back in. This time, the damage is self-inflicted. It is a rental cart before the horse situation or, if you prefer, a massive virtue signal gone sideways. Look at us. We are embracing the transportation future without any support infrastructure.

Let’s Go!

No one wanted to, even after Tom Terrific said he liked to do that (it was just a commercial). And I’m not sure if Mr. Brady even owns one of those EV lawn ornaments—he might. It makes you wonder if, back in the day, soon-to-be former CEO Scherr was in the Boy Scouts and fell victim to the snipe-hunting gag. And not just him, but the whole board, because this EV disaster didn’t happen without their buy-in.

Brady cashed the check and walked away. Hertz will be paying for this mistake for a while.

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Let me start with a routine disclaimer that criticism of Kelly Ayotte is NOT an endorsement of Chuck Morse.  Never forget what he did on 11/19/21. With that said, I have a few observations about Kelly that I’d like to share, and I’ll get to Jan in a moment.

Based on looking at Kelly’s and Chuck’s Facebook pages, which either or both of them might or might not let a staffer manage, it appears that Chuck has been busy on the campaign trail, making multiple stops daily and proudly accounting for his activities and time spent. I am using the words “accounting for” rather loosely because we all know that there are many other things more significant to watch than social media alone. Consider it just a raw, unscientific observation of one microcosm.  The links provided are open to the public, so Facebook haters like me can “take a peek” without membership.

Anyone can go back in time further, but I find the past few days interesting.  Kelly was not at Saturday’s gun rally, but Chuck was.  I know what people are thinking.  Didn’t she vote for some red-flag bills in Washington?  That’s what I’ve heard, though I haven’t looked into it and have no reason to doubt it.  If true, I can see why she wouldn’t care to attend; a possible explanation rather than an excuse, but let’s move on.

I know it’s common for high-profile candidates to want to keep their social media active with daily entries.  I also know that being busy is often not as important as looking busy.  I won’t bore you with a detailed review of all of the recent entries of both because you can take a look for yourself.  Just take note that Kelly sure does post a lot of family memories, endorsements, opinions on current events, and pictures that might or might not be current.  I see nothing wrong with sprinkling a few of those things into one’s feed, but the dearth of current activity is on full display.  I also often see retooled posts, meaning a “double dipping,” if you will, of a campaign stop entry from days earlier.

As annoying as NH Journal is, I regularly check out what it says and happened to fall behind a few days.  The St P’s Day breakfast is a well-known Nashua event, and the Damn Emperor served as “Deputy Blarney Master.”

He even called attention to Kelly’s absence from the podium. We all know how much that narcissist loves attention, but we also know that Kelly Ayotte is his pick, and she’s also the only Nashua candidate running for governor.  The other three well-known household names were present despite being out-of-towners, and 2 of them were from the enemy camp!  Chuck was even photographed with the enemy camp’s unsightly Bette Lasky!

You can see that on his Facebook page, but if that causes eye damage, do NOT call her husband.  He’s an optometrist who steals political signs.  In fact, if Dr. Lasky was in attendance, Chuck and his staff ought to inventory his signs and report any missing ones, but back to Kelly.

So my question to all of NH, particularly the locals, is, “Where’s Kelly Ayotte, and is she ok?” Can someone account for her recent whereabouts and say under oath (to Leah Cushman or anyone else) how she’s doing?

The answer to the namesake question in the title, “What do Jan Schmidt and Kelly Ayotte have in common?” is that they’re both Ward 1 locals and public figures who are well-known to the rest of the city.  Remember when then-Alderman Jan parked in the handicapped parking behind city hall without properly displaying the required credentials?

A Grokster sounded the alarm, and a cyber-welfare check ensued.  Jan was kind enough to show her gratitude for such concern by filing a bill during LSR time (November 2019) titled something like “relative to stalking elected officials.”  Fortunately, it died either in the House or earlier in the process, but that wasn’t the end.  She tried to get the Grok kicked off their server but without success.

If Kelly, being the lawyer that she is, supports free speech as much as Professor Alan Dershowitz does, I expect her to respect MY 1A rights better than Jan has of everyone she disagrees with.

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Once again, we’re approaching the filing period for candidates to many elected offices, including State Representative. If you have ever considered running, we urge you to learn more and consider throwing your hat in the ring.

Our upcoming webinar is aimed at helping first-time candidates understand what’s involved in running for office and serving as a State Rep. What makes a good candidate?  How much effort is required to run?  What’s the time commitment if you win?  What should you be doing today to prepare, even if you’re just thinking about running?

You’ll also learn about resources that can help you run a successful campaign, including FREE training from the 603 Alliance. (SAVE THE DATES for our 1-day campaign training on April 27th, May 18th, or June 22nd.  Stay tuned for more info.)

WHEN: Mar 27, 2024, 7 PM to 8 PM
WHERE:  Online, but advanced registration is REQUIRED

We hope you’ll join the 603 Alliance team for this 1-hour informational session.  Advance registration is required.  Click here to register.  You will receive a PERSONALIZED link after your registration has been approved.  We ask that all participants use their real name and contact information when registering.

If the link above does not work, copy and paste the following URL into your web browser:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Questions?  Contact us at info@603alliance.org.

 

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I have followed various mailings, messages, and InDepthNH.org news articles regarding the NH Exculpatory Evidence Schedule (EES) (aka the “Laurie List”). Because I am a New Hampshire prisoner with no online access, I have been unable to respond to this matter, but I do so now with the help of an outside advocate.

From a contact at ACLU-NH, I became aware in late 2021 that former Keene, NH Detective James F. McLaughlin was briefly named on the public EES for a founded 1985 complaint of “Falsification of Records.” This was by no means the only EES misconduct by Mr. McLaughlin, but the public has been constrained from commenting by the years in which the existence of this list was kept secret and by the anonymity and judicial secrecy afforded to officers seeking removal from the list.

In a recent article by Damien Fisher at InDepthNH.org, “Judge Considers Releasing YDC Abuse Affidavit AG Wants Sealed,” I read a hopeful quote by Judge William Delker: “We don’t litigate in secret in this State.” With all due respect to Judge Delker, that is likely true in his Court but not entirely true throughout New Hampshire Courts.

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I am in my 30th year of incarceration, a result of what is commonly called a “trial penalty.” Pre-trial in 1994, I was three times offered in writing, a “plea deal” to plead guilty to charges orchestrated and investigated solely by Detective McLaughlin. The proffered deal was that I would serve a term of one to three years in prison if I would plead guilty. When I declined the deal, the offer was reduced during trial to one to two years. I declined again and was subsequently sentenced by Judge Arthur Brennan to a term of 33 to 67 years. Because the minimum term requires an admission of guilt, I am sentenced to 67 years.

It was a violation of Brady v Maryland that neither I nor my trial counsel were informed pre-trial that nine years earlier, in 1985, Detective James McLaughlin was cited for misconduct, “Falsification of Records.” This was by no means his only violation, as detailed below, but legal and judicial secrecy afforded to officers seeking removal from the Laurie List has effectively silenced most public input.

Various articles published at InDepthNH.org as a result of Freedom of Information Act requests cite instances of altered, erased, and missing evidentiary tape recording allegedly altered by Detective McLaughlin, as well as a number of other incidents of misconduct and challenged credibility. His handling of tape-recorded evidence and his proffered bribes to potential accusers have been primary concerns in his investigation of the case against me.

The following four links detail the misconduct leading up to my 1994 trial. They include documented allegations of falsification of records and evidence, witness tampering, attempted bribery, the subornation of perjury, and the use of police power to threaten a key witness into altering her testimony.

Most of these incidents and the signed statements of witnesses are cited in three of these links and were obtained by a former decorated FBI Special Agent who spent three years investigating this case. No New Hampshire judge would thus far allow this new evidence or testimony to come before any Court.

• Gordon J. MacRae v James F. McLaughlin et al, USDC-NM 1504
• Detective James McLaughlin and the Police Misconduct List
• In New Hampshire Courts Police Misconduct is Judged in Secret
• The Wall Street Journal on the Case of Gordon J. MacRae

My sincere thanks for your attention to this matter.

Sent on behalf of:
Gordon J. MacRae #67546
NH State Prison

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Now that I have your attention, you will soon know why I put those two topics in the same sentence, but you will have to keep reading.

First, I will start with an old memory from around 2000.

While working in the Cablevision call center, I learned of Braintree Electric Light Department(BELD), another competitor for the cable TV market, but just in Braintree.  It was the same situation as with RCN; it was one of several towns where the caller ID said “competitive area” to alert the CSR that specially scripted talking points were to be used, when applicable.

Here it is, nearly a quarter of a century later, and Eversource has competition, but it’s sneaky!  More on that in a moment.  Last year was an election year in Nashua, and our mayor had nine ward “town halls” earlier in the year.  One of his David Letterman-style opening monologue talking points in his tooting-his-own-horn agenda was community power coming to Nashua.  There was a small handful of communities participating, and I didn’t pay close attention to who they were, but I thought they were cities because this kind of pilot project tends to be in customer-dense places in the infrastructure.

I had no idea that community power (or programs with similar names) was coming soon to smaller towns elsewhere until I watched a video by Nurse Terese, a Loudon resident, on recent town elections, warrant articles, and related matters. When she mentioned community power, it sent my mind back to last year, Punxsutawney Phil-style!

In Nashua, community power was such that one had to opt out, which I did the day I received the (probably mandatory) notice of its debut. I’ll let the accountants talk numbers, but my reason for doing so was that it was an election year, and I hate the mayor and will be darned if I do anything just because he wants me to. I would have to follow up with Terese to confirm, but I think she said Loudon has the same situation with them.

Why not make it opt-in?  You already know the answer as do all opposition members to bills on vax registry matters.  It’s the battle for customers/voters/consumers or whatever you care to name the population that’s asleep at the wheel.  THEY are the commodity both sides are fighting for.  It’s also eerily similar to some HR and benefits things during open enrollment time: passive vs. active enrollment. Too many people are too lazy to spoon-feed themselves, but the time is now for those to recognize the deadly sin of laziness when it comes to passive enrollment because it’s all by design.

A good bill idea might be to make community power programs (or whatever they’re locally named) opt-in.  My senator is the Energy chair and Terese’s is the vice chair.  The four of us should have a talk about this.

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The Bidenitas are working diligently to hide their border malfeasance. Hard work the media is happy to help shoulder. But with a little bit of research and some time, it has proven (dare I say child’s play) to expose the deliberateness of their indifference, especially regarding “migrant” children.

Allison Dyer took to  Rumble to show us, in just a few minutes, referencing a handful of key players, how the Biden administration is responsible. They allowed child trafficking, knew it was happening, and did nothing to prevent it. Children are little more than an abused side-effect of a policy choice.

Someone should call Child and Family Services and tie these bastards up in family court.

Check this out.

 

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This follows up on my Adam Sexton Thinks Speech Codes Are “Interesting,” which involved a Democrat Communist State Senator’s demand that GOP State Senators not refer to illegal aliens as illegal aliens. The Communist State Senator later took to X to Comm-splain that referring to illegals as illegals is “dehumanizing”:

 

What an opportunity for the GOP State Senators, which, of course, they missed and squandered. Comrade Whitley and her ilk are all about “dehumanizing” the roughly half of America that won’t goose-step to their hard-Left agenda. Has Comrade Whitley ever “fought” against her side’s “dehumanizing language”? Of course not. She’s a Communist. She does NOT have to play by the same set of rules that she demands her opponents (she would see them as enemies) play by.

For example, if you mention any of the obvious ways the 2020 election was rigged … you are an election denier. If you question any of the climate-“science”, you are an election-denier. If you question the efficacy and safety of the COVID “vaccines,” you are a vaccine-denier. The point of this language is to make you the equivalent of a Holocaust denier. You are a NAZI if you don’t march in goose-step behind Whitley and her ilk.

If you don’t believe in abortion-on-demand through nine months -if you support even the most minimal restrictions -that makes you anti-choice. This from the people who wanted you to have NO choice about shooting up with an experimental drug (the COVID-“vaccine”) by having that be a condition of your employment. See how this works yet? Support a ban on abortions after six months and you are anti-choice. Support the de facto forced injection of an experimental drug and you are not anti-choice … you are a “public health expert.” One set of rules for them. Another set for us.

I could go on and on and on. As I wrote in the initial post: Disagreeing with Whitley and her ilk is discrimination, extremism, hate, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera … and makes you a racist, an election-denier, a climate-denier, a white-supremacist, anti-choice, a fascist, an insurrectionist, a transphobe, a homophobe, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. It is not “dehumanizing” when Comrade Whitley and her ilk use this language. But it is “dehumanizing” to refer to illegals as illegals.

One set of rules for them. Another set of rules for us. It’s classic Communism. And our wonderful GOP State senators need to see it for what it is and grow the testicular fortitude to call it what it is.

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Stay Safe by Michael Lacoy is set in the make-believe town of Beauville, New Hampshire, and features characters who fit into any number of pandemic archetypes. You’ll recognize them and associate them with people and behaviors experienced after the world was turned upside down in the spring of 2020.

The story begins with Cole Perrot, wearing a Pq32 respirator face mask and N16z face shield, as he drives his reluctant young daughter (also masked and shielded) to the clinic to get ‘vaccinated’ against the SPAARZ virus. The ‘vaccine” has been approved for the 12-year-old, and Cole can’t wait, even if Rosa isn’t so sure.

Only his son has refused, pushing back against his father’s (and much of the world’s) easy embrace of government mandates and media narratives and the Karen-like behavior that came with it.

Cole Perrot—a frustrated college administrator who spends most of his time on social media—ferociously loathes his next-door neighbor, Tyce Creamer, an internet celebrity and the very embodiment of “toxic masculinity.” Unfortunately for Cole, his wife Oona feels differently about Tyce, as do Cole’s teenage son and young daughter. Sensing a threat to his progressive values, not to mention his hold over his family, Cole secretly declares war on his “redneck” neighbor. What follows is a series of events that are by turns shocking, hilarious, absurd, and perfectly of our present moment.

Set amid a global flu pandemic, the novel chronicles the unraveling of both a man and a country in a time of heightened fear and deep social division. Mixing comedy, tragedy, and blistering satire, Stay Safe amuses and terrifies in equal measure.

It’s all in there, along with a cast of what I can only call Pandemic Era Archetypes.

Stay Safe offers a light-hearted opportunity to revisit the madness as an observer of players whose lives are forever impacted by the decisions they make during this unusual time in New Hampshire and the world.

And at 275 pages, it was a breeze to get through.

Check it out.

 

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