While two of New Hampshire’s utilities are about to double the cost of electricity, Australia, a leader in blind devotion to the lies of green energy, saw their rates triple. According to one expert, “Australians haven’t seen a fraction of what’s coming.”

This comes on the heels of an announcement last month that the Australian government will have to pay fossil fuel operators to scale up and burn if they want to “keep the lights on” as electricity prices continue to spiral upward and out of control.

Australia stopped building nuclear, decommissioned coal plants, and banned fracking (sound familiar).

 

“The impacts in local fuel markets of extremely high international prices for traded gas and thermal coal.

“Reduced availability of coal-fired generation, due to scheduled maintenance as well as long- and short duration forced outages, driving high levels of gas-fired generation, which both raised electricity prices and put pressure on local gas markets.

“Physical fuel supply and hydrological constraints at a number of thermal and hydro generators, which further limited their operational flexibility.”

 

Blah, blah, blah, we effed-it-up but don’t dare take credit because they’ve got no backup plan. And you can’t blame Putin. Joe Biden and his Green agenda are most likely at fault.

America went from a net exporter of cheap energy to, almost overnight, a chronic dependent of expensive fuel.

OPEC, strapped for wealth while Trump was building American energy dominance, has no interest in increased production and, in some cases, insists it’s not even possible.

China is opening dirty coal plants as fast as it can (to fuel manufacturing and a growing war machine). In the US, Democrats demand paper straws and whine about lawnmower exhaust.

And Down Under, they are on the precipice of something worse than another tripling of electricity costs that will suck their economy into a storm drain and drown it.

And as a nation, as inundated by the effects of Chinese influence as any, they have to seriously consider what’s left for national defense if everything is leveraged toward living like (at least) a second-world nation.

The continent has massive mineral resources, including loads of uranium. If China decides it wants any or all of that, their influence has put Australia on the path of least resistance, especially if America’s Military is sidelined over the increasingly vexing problem of proper pronoun usage.

Meanwhile, here in New Hampshire (and New England), our rates are about to double, so we are on a slightly slower train to the same destination. And instead of finding increased natural gas capacity from domestic suppliers, we are spending millions to plan a commuter rail line. Why? So the cartels run by illegals in Lawrence can more readily get Chinese Fentanyl trafficked across our open southern border up to Manchester and Concord?

What will that train run on, by the way – asking for a friend?

 

 

HT | WUWT

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Presented without fanfare.  Please do look back, if you haven’t already, at the most recent Monday Memes and Meme Overflow.  And share this – for in ridicule and mockery lies the weaking of the Left.

Note that Survival Sunday will be delayed; an abbreviated one posted Monday or Tuesday.  Even yours truly needs a break once in a while.

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As always, many good ones.  But… here.  The Left CHEERS for mass shootings because they’re the pretext to pass more gun control.

 

 

And this is the very quintessential meme – funny, but wrapped around truth to make it more palatable:

 

 

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The epic hypocrisy of the Public Health Industrial Complex and its response to The Pandemic could, and we hope, will fill volumes. The mistakes or deliberate acts of these “experts” cost millions their lifestyles and countless lives.

I say countless because they won’t count them. That includes miscounts, misdiagnosis (for cash), suicides, overdose deaths, and loss of life resulting from delayed treatment or preempted surveillance visits. Then add the vaccine harms and murders, and the numbers are staggering.

In America, those numbers result from an organized operation implemented by machine politicians to discredit a known “cure.” We’ve covered this ground, but we can’t let it go.

In 2005 Anthony Fauci’s NIH published a peer-reviewed report titled, “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.”

Related: We Know Why The Public Health Industrial Complex Had to Discredit Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin

 

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is caused by a newly discovered coronavirus (SARS-CoV). No effective prophylactic or post-exposure therapy is currently available.

Results: We report, however, that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage. In addition to the well-known functions of chloroquine such as elevations of endosomal pH, the drug appears to interfere with terminal glycosylation of the cellular receptor, angiotensinconverting enzyme 2. This may negatively influence the virus receptor binding and abrogate the infection, with further ramifications by the elevation of vesicular pH, resulting in the inhibition of infection and spread of SARS CoV at clinically admissible concentrations.

Conclusion: Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection. In addition, the indirect immunofluorescence assay described herein represents a simple and rapid method for screening SARS-CoV antiviral compounds.

 

And to ensure you grasp the scope of what this means, none of this pandemic crap needed to happen. Hydroxychloroquine administered with zinc and azithromycin would have flattened the curve and kept it flat. Fauci knew it. The US public health establishment knew or had access to the research. State and local public health infrastructure counseling politicians knew or had access to it.

Related: American Journal Of Medicine Admits Trump Was Right About Hydroxychloroquine

With rare exceptions, they all ignored that and instead demonized chloroquines. No one contradicted the media’s fear campaign. Those that dared were pilloried, lost their jobs, and to this day struggle for credibility when they were the only credible experts.

In exchange for their devotion to “the Family,” the feds laundered trillions of dollars to drug companies, state and local health agencies, and hospitals, many of whom mandated an unnecessary experimental cure that is worse for many than the actual “disease.”

The story of COVID is not the virus. It is the response, the politics, and the blood money. Democide.

And while there are plenty of places to point fingers, the 2005 report from NIH is the smoking gun, and we cannot stop letting people know how they were lied to and at what cost.

Related: Company That Launched (Retracted) Hit Piece on Hydroxychloroquine Vanishes

The ‘experts’ ignored their science, lied to the public, the media, and those crafting health policy, and even broke the law. Probably as an excuse to find a path away from a second Trump term. He was a threat to their cabal, and to quote Nancy Pelosi, “if there is collateral damage to Americans who don’t share our views, so be it.”

She’s not the only machine politician who believes that, and this is not the limit of where they’d go to ensure “their views” win the day and every day after.

 

 

 

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Ken interviews NH State Representative Barbara Comtois, member of the audit committee for Gunstock and clerk of the Belknap County Delegation and John Plumer, also a member of the audit committee and candidate running for NH State Senate in District 2.



WKXL – NH Talk Radio · Cail & Company LIVE with Barbara Comtois & John Plumer

 

 

 

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The science on the need to jab kids with emergency-use-authorized COVID pharmaceutical products was evident early and often. New Hampshire’s data (your state, too) proved that the need was zero. None. They didn’t need it.

Very few Granite Staters under 20 were hospitalized with COVID or tested positive after admission. And no deaths were attributed to COVID until after vaccines were introduced (and to date, we do not know if that one “death” was a vaccinated child (age 0 – 9), but it seems likely).

 

NH State Data as of 8/2/2022

 

The introduction of “vaccines” made no demonstrable improvement in COVID cases or hospitalizations of children, but they did introduce new problems that could have been avoided.

The CDC has admitted to a link between the COVID vaccines and heart inflammation. They insist that they didn’t know about it until late in 2021, but the VAERS data (a system the government set up for reporting vaccine harms so they could be investigated in the name of public health and safety) says otherwise.

So does internal communications within CDC. And we’ve seen the documents that Pfizer and the FDA wanted hidden, and heart inflammation was known before the EUA was issued. They also knew that The Jab was not very effective.

Related: Pfizer Docs Show They Knew Their Experimental COVID19 “Vaccine” was Neither Safe Nor Effective

But in May of 2021, after accumulating a ton of data that said kids were neither at risk nor a vector, the FDA said, jab ’em. By June of  2021, it was kids under five years of age, and now we’re stabbing this crap into infants as old as six months.

They are being jabbed for no good reason and plenty of bad ones, especially heart inflammation, which, if you forgot, was a big concern among the Lefty-experts who aped a passing concern by Herr Fauci about kids, COVID, and Kawasaki’s Disease. That was a smoke screen. The inflammation issues came from the “cure.”

A cure that, despite internal knowledge of the risk, has done more damage to kids in the Granite State than COVID.

 

 

We have eighty-seven total reported deaths (all ages) in the state attributed to the vaccine, two under the age of 18. There are seven reported cases of vaccine-related myocarditis in the up-to-18 age group – of which some may be long-lasting or permanent. We even have a NH congressman’s nephew who just dropped dead and was vaccinated. He’s not included in these numbers.

And, yes, these numbers are undercounted, but isn’t this “enough?”

Even with incomplete numbers, these COVID vaccines are a much bigger threat to children’s health than COVID, and the official data proves that.

Don’t jab your kids; stop jabbing them, and if they’ve been jabbed, do not boost them.

 

Update: For those interested in post-vaccine recovery protocols, FLCCC has resources here.

 

 

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The "Cognitive Infiltration" discussion begins after the 2:04:00 mark. WATCH: I had the honour of appearing with US news talk show host @delbigtree today on his show @HighWireTalk from time stamp 1h 47m of this video, till the end (I’ve... Tom Bowler

An observation that holds true:

Remember Glenn—today’s liberal I’m-a-victim world means men are women, women are men, race is a social construct, mRNA injections are vaccines, riots are insurrections if you’re white but protests if you’re black, recessions are not two consecutive quarters with negative GDP, and returning state rights to the people is a conservative takeover of the Supreme Court.

The left got rid of God, got rid of the nuclear family, trivialized the role of fathers while lauding the “bravery” of single mothers who can’t raise their kids on their own, insisted we put our faith in multiculturalism and grossly fallible mankind, and what did we get in return? Complete social rot and dysfunction.

But trust them to know what the weather will be like in 100 years, because science!

-Vindaloo Bugaboo (comment at “40% of US Voters Think Climate Change Is ‘Very Important'” Treehugger)

The Left wants to always implement their ideology into Law.  That’s fine – that’s what the US is about.  What IS wrong is they never want to be confronted by the results on the ground from policies. They either ignore it, deflect, or call you a hater if you trying to ask them why they won’t fix the defects in their bills. An example with Welfare is that many Fathers/men were told that their children/wife would not receive aid because of the regulations – no layabouts allowed.  The Law of Unintended Consequences is that marriage, Life’s greatest idea in how to raise children, got ruined by this one Left’s idea.  Others follow.

They ignore what’s evident NOW and they want us to allow them to ruin our lives NOW because of their almost-religious-belief that 3-degree rise in temperature will kill us all?

Just one more twig to throw on their Bonfire of Civilization.

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There are two opportunities to take control of the election process. One is to participate in the Resolve Initiative, which is taking a non-traditional approach to voting for candidates for NH’s top 30 elected offices (Governor, Executive Council, Senate, etc.).

The other (if you don’t want to participate in the Resolve Initiative) is to force every one of your votes to be hand-counted – thereby bypassing the voting machines that many have an issue with.

The Resolve Initiative
This initiative is a clever idea, and I’ve been told that it has gained much traction. You can read and watch about it here.

The goal is to bypass the establishment political parties and form a coalition around 30 truly worthy candidates who are running for the state’s top 30 positions who will put America First.

There will be Meet and Greets and a series of debates at one location this Friday, August 5, 2022 with candidates that are seeking your vote. Those Meet and Greets and debates will help define who is deserving of the Resolve Initiative’s support.

Some of the candidates running for the 30 top positions may not even be on the ballot in the Republican or Democrat columns – but that does not matter. The Resolve Initiative seeks to produce a coordinated, statewide write-in effort for all 30 of the top positions in the state. If you are even remotely interested, consider attending the Resolve Initiative Meet and Greets and Debates this Friday.

You can sign up on Event Brite here.

Force Your Votes to be Hand-Counted
Many people I have spoken with over the past year are not confident about the accuracy of voting machines – and therefore, they would like for all votes to be hand-counted.

But hand-counting does not have the support of those who currently write NH laws… so the towns that currently use voting machines to count votes, will continue to do so. But… that does not mean you have to accept YOUR votes being counted by those machines.

For EVERY CANDIDATE in EVERY RACE that you cast a vote for, simply fill in the “write-in” oval in the “Write-In” column (the right most column on the ballot) and then write-in the name of the candidate next to that oval that you want to be elected. If your candidate’s name appears on the ballot in one of the other columns – make sure to leave that oval blank – and use the Write-In column for casting every vote. The machines will be forced to push the ballot into the “hand-count” bin in the machine, and all races with “write-in” votes must then be hand-counted at the end of the evening.

You Have More Control Than You Know!
If you are unhappy with the election process and/or machines being used to count the votes, then consider these alternatives above and get engaged!

 

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In April, the Biden Administration amended the federal regulations for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to reverse certain changes made by the Trump Administration.

The first set of amendments took effect on May 20, 2022. This act by Biden was a direct shot at the fossil fuel industry but also put restrictions on infrastructure projects in the works and on the planning board. I am confused. I thought Biden was for infrastructure, but that is more talk than action.

One of the reasons that Sen Joe Manchin (D-WV) has flip-flopped and is now in favor of the $8 billion Inflation Reduction Act was because of certain reversals by Biden of some of the energy programs he has killed since taking office. Manchin is being duped. The concessions are not part of the bill. He is being given a “promise” by Chuck Schumer that the Senate will vote on the concessions in September. There is no guarantee his vote will bring about these changes.

Enter Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AL). According to Sullivan’s website:

U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has introduced S.J. Res. 55, a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act(CRA), with all 49 of his Senate Republican colleagues to nullify the Biden administration’s new regulation, “National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Regulations Revisions,” that will further bog down the already-onerous federal permitting process and add further delay to building vital infrastructure projects and putting hard-working Americans back to work. The recently enacted Biden administration NEPA rules, authored by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), undermine important provisions in the infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act intended to streamline key elements of our broken federal permitting process, which Senator Sullivan played a leading role in writing. Additionally, the Biden administration’s NEPA rules are a substantial roll-back of the Trump administration’s 2020 NEPA regulations, which were the first major modernization of federal environmental reviews since 1978. Senator Sullivan was a leading advocate for the 2020 NEPA revisions, having previously introduced legislation—the Rebuild America Now Act—that mirrored the Trump-era reforms.

This act would take the handcuffs off all energy and infrastructure projects and do it now, not in September as Manchin’s resolution would do. Manchin’s resolution would only apply to twenty-five specific projects.

Sullivan’s CRA would not require approval by Schumer to get to the floor for a vote and only needs 51 votes to pass. All fifty Republican Senators have co-signed the CRA, so only one Democrat vote is needed to send the Act to the House. Manchin should sign on quickly for this CRA does all Manchin’s resolution would do and more. The CRA to overturn NEPA is a bill that has to scare the hell out of the Dems. A vote against is a vote against American workers, the people that build things and make this country and economy move. It is a vote for the Coastal Economic Elites. A vote against would harm anyone on the ballot in November.

If the CRA gets to the House and Biden’s desk, they will be under the same microscope. Are you for the people or the elites? The House cannot have a NO vote hitting them in the midterms. As for Biden, who knows. He has done nothing in eighteen months for the American worker. This would be a good place to start.

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The term “groomer” has thrust itself into the national dialogue since about the middle of 2020 when elementary school educators began outing themselves on social media. It seems the seared conscience of the groomer has been glossed over with a sense of mission and heroism. The people who offer digital monologues filled with triumphal soliloquies about how they are indoctrinating young children of other parents, either don’t believe or don’t understand their role in the sexualized grooming of America’s youth.

The halls of human trafficking have been echoing for years with the cries to anyone who would listen that grooming is not just a seedy back alley practice among drug dens and the occasional white-collar predator. Those in rescue operations had been hearing first-hand accounts of elite predators from all sectors of society, most notably politics. However the Roman Catholic Church, perhaps due to its standing as a holy body, received the loudest criticism despite sharing the child abuse throne with the power elite. A deeper look into the reasons the church was targeted as public enemy #1 for grooming reveals their role most likely was a setup for a larger plot to destroy it from within, which I’ll get into later in the series.

I may be one of the few experts on grooming in the state of Vermont who is not involved in law enforcement. After I left college in 1996 I worked as a Program Specialist at a group home for highly functioning developmentally disabled pedophiles. After a photojournalistic expose ran in the Oregonian newspaper detailing the horrific mistreatment of patients at the sanitarium in Salem, Oregon, the public outcry forced it to close. Patients were grouped into homes based on their needs, and the home where I worked housed five pedophiles ranging in ages from the late twenties to mid-sixties, all of them moderately to severely mentally and behaviorally impaired as a result of having been sexually abused as children. My role was essentially as a high-rent chaperone who administered meds, helped with cooking, monitored their television time to avoid watching children, as well as took them out in public to shop or have activities while also protecting them and the children from them.

Add to that I was groomed and molested as a kid on more than one occasion and I have a pretty solid understanding of both sides of the situation. Much of my adult life has had me keeping my thumb on the pulse of the local, national and international grooming and trafficking that goes on, especially after my son was born. Despite my knowledge of the scope and size of the problem, it has stunned me how quickly it’s become not just pervasive, but moving toward normalization both in the United States and here in the Vermont side of the Upper Valley.

Grooming is a fairly unsophisticated process once you understand the essentials. Groomers, nearly all of whom are adult age, though teenagers can groom younger children, are first looking for people who are vulnerable. Victims more often than not have a similar lack of getting their needs met at home, so groomers spend their time looking for these types of people. Groomers look for external clues that will open the door to internal probing, which begins the process. Potential victims typically draw the attention of groomers with body language that says they are insecure, unhappy and clothing that communicates either poverty or a similar lack of care, however, this is not always the case. Some victims lack either characteristic and will be found where groomers shop, eat or hang out such as online, at clubs, fitness centers, schools, or workplaces. Groomers are pathological, so they are virtually always on the prowl and in the process in one way or another. It keeps them engaged and when they are engaged they are getting stimulation similar to a drug addict getting their high. With grooming the chase is as rewarding as the capture.

Grooming doesn’t just target children. Adults can groom other adults, which is in part the reason the human trafficking trade has grown to now outpace illegal arms trafficking and illegal drug trafficking revenues combined. Vermont’s congress recently overturned illegal prostitution in Burlington, thus opening the door to this type of grooming, however, grooming has been happening as long as people have been in Vermont and would continue even if laws opposed it. The appeal is not merely money, but power and control.

Another type of adult grooming can be found in cults. As with all types of grooming the goal is to deceive the target into entrusting themselves to the groomer(s) until they are trapped and feel either obligated to stay in the unsafe relationship or afraid to leave for fear of negative repercussions. The Branch Davidians, Satanists, offshoots of Christianity and Islam, secret societies like Freemasonry, and even entire countries like North Korea all use the same tactics to attract and capture victims. The grooming stages are:

• Identifying type (age, sex, height, etc.)
• Data collection (personalizing)
• Identifying vulnerabilities
• Desensitizing/love bombing
• Initiate abuse/intimidation
• Devaluing / enslavement

A typical storyline would have the groomer identifying the person based on their appearance or perhaps just the general fishing groomers do when interacting with others. Once they have a potential victim they ask lots of questions and appear to be wonderful listeners. The more they get the person to talk the more they hone in on vulnerabilities. It’s important they are able to spend time with the person through regular contact, whether in person, online, or over the phone. As they build trust they begin to desensitize the person through learning and ultimately exploiting their vulnerabilities. For example, a child predator would often spot careless parents while acting familial with the child, or a trafficker would be the shoulder to cry on for the neglected teen.

The powerful process of love bombing is what entrances the victim to drop healthy boundaries and give themselves over to the groomer’s schemes. This involves gift giving, quality time, affirming words, generous acts of service, and often physical touching. As the relationship intensifies the groomer looks to get the individual alone, then continues to love the bomb until they see the opportunity to initiate the abuse. This stuns the victim who has been so overcome with love and trust that they are put into a state of psychological shock which the predator will exploit by returning to the love bombing stage only less so and with strings attached. Children who have been abused will be threatened with the shame of exposure or vague threats of hurting their loved ones. Teens will be strong-armed into prostitution often with the use of drugs to keep them numb to their plight. Religious cults, secret societies, and nation-states will use the fall from grace, threats of shunning, and even death as intimidation and control tactics.

Over time the groomers become the masters as they control the mind games intended to confuse, bewilder, intimidate and enslave their victims.

The next article will identify the new world of grooming being foisted onto Americans through social media, schools, and government.

Here are a few accompanying articles and videos that go more in-depth.

7 Must Know Signs of Grooming by a Sexual Predator

The 5 stages of online grooming – radicalizing children

Stages of Grooming (by the Child Advocacy Center in Alberta Canada)

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Warning Danger! Honorable State Legislators, beware! Don’t let the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) influence the way you represent “we the people” so much that they make a “smart Alec” out of you.

In these times of oppressive, unconstitutional federal power overreach, we need your office to stand against all of their usurpations of power not granted to them by the U.S. Constitution. I was reminded of the ALEC move to recruit conservative liberty-minded Republicans away from constitutional limits when I received a Facebook email from a friend with a picture of a number of New Hampshire state legislators being wined and dined by the ALEC.

When I first contemplated the negative impact of this move that helps reduce and weaken advocates of limited constitutional government benefiting leftist causes, my first perception of this picture was that these public servants seem to be busting with pride about their association with ALEC. Applying Will Roger’s witty comment to this association with ALEC by public servants: “What these elected officials think they know about ALEC ain’t so.”

State Representative Robert Theberge sure learned this lesson the hard way by being a member of ALEC. Based on experience, his observation was,

“ It is true that I was a member of ALEC several years ago. My intention was to bring forth a different perspective on issues. However, I quickly learned that the voice of what I believed to be reason, did not prevail. I was also concerned about the make-up of the members, where businesses and corporations had a direct voice and vote on national issues. In particular, pressure was placed on members to put forth legislation and provided with boiler plates for legislation to that end. In conclusion, I am no longer a member of ALEC, nor do I support their views. . .”

It is encouraging that a Democrat is concerned about the danger of pressure from corporative influence over model “boilerplate” legislation.

Lew Rockwell, President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, adds to the concern over the deception of their stated purpose: “ALEC talks a good game of “free markets” while actually promoting corporate subsidies and economic Fascism…” Check out an in-depth article from The New American of May 5th ,2014, called The Not-so-smart ALEC

It is easy to see why ALEC’s philosophy and its goals appeal to legitimate constitutionalists who oppose the oppressive hand of Big Government. However, just like a small amount of cyanide in a glass of water will kill the one who is thirsty, there are many signs that the goal of ALEC is just the opposite of its stated purpose of “Free Markets Limited government and individual liberty.”

Members of ALEC cite how Liberal establishment media and leftist activism beat up on ALEC for its conservatism. But this doesn’t prove their conservative free market image is genuine.

How can 800 to 1,000 model bills per year heavily influenced by corporate and business giants from “who is who” of Fortune 500 companies truly represent the will of the people of NH if corporate members and state legislators all have equal votes? Googling these corporate giants is a vivid exposure of how much power, wealth, and influence they have in the promotion of legislation that benefits their interest and promotes the opposite of their stated purpose.

But It isn’t surprising that mostly liberty-minded conservative state legislators are attracted to ALEC. Unfortunately, those who join as members add undeserved conservative credibility to ALEC and thereby create a divisive problem for“we the people” that promote individual liberty maximized by constitutional government. But it is surprising that too many good legislators who normally promote “individual liberty” do not look below the surface for the following red flags that promote the destruction of our Constitution through Article V Conventions and the Marxist “Free Trade scam.”

First, it seems almost unlimited budgets have promoted Article V Conventions (ConCon) funded by the likes of George Soros (among other power elite) through the Open Society Foundation, which promote amending the Constitution with “amendments” or even replacing our present Constitution that just needs to be obeyed not fixed or replaced. Just think, if Soros gets his way with the Constitution 2020 movement that he is bankrolling, that is a powerful blueprint for implementing Marxist tyranny.

ConCon’s are a danger to our Constitutional Republic because the amendments proposed initiate a mandate for the federal Congress to call a ConCon after 2/3 of the states call for a Convention on a specific issue. After the ConCon is called, it represents the “sovereign will of the people” superior to both the federal and state legislatures.

Article V is silent about delegates, who will be chosen, how, and by what method. Madison, Hamilton, and Washington will not be around to protect our liberty as in 1787. Imagine the unlimited Nanny state advocates of today turned loose with a hatchet to chop up the Constitution. It would be like turning a “fox loose in the chicken coop.” Get the rest of that story here.

The second “red flag” is a major move toward international socialism and the destruction of national sovereignty.

It was initiated in the 1990s when Newt Gingrich, Republican Speaker of the House, joined forces with President Clinton to pass NAFTA (now superseded by a more dangerous agreement), the (USMCA), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

For decades Congress has been inundated with so-called free trade legislation promoted by ALEC that continues to surrender its control over trade along with the presidents to the WTO’s unelected international bureaucrats. Why does ALEC promote agreements such as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), ” entangling the U.S with all the nations of the EU,” and the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) that, “thank God!” have so far not passed? Free trade is not free. It is an essential strategy for the progression of international socialism envisioned by Karl Marx to be promoted by non-communist hands.

Both state legislators and freedom-loving citizens should be concerned about ALEC policies. For the concept of government in America’s birthing documents in the Declaration of Independence that is secured by the Constitution is called Americanism. It mandates the eternal biblical wisdom that, “We are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the purpose of government is to secure these rights.”

This biblical wisdom of our Founders was poured into a Godly mold that has created more liberty for us than any people who have walked the earth. It is precious for it maximizes freedom by limiting government to its primary and proper purpose to “protect the life and property of its citizens.” We of our time must “pay the price of eternal vigilance to preserve it.”

We need our state officeholders to represent “we the people” more than ever in these chaotic times. Remind them that ALEC does not vote at the polls.

Why shouldn’t citizens question the reasoning of their State Representatives and Senators who promote the philosophy of government advocated by ALEC?

For in their promotion of the dangerous ConCon movement that blames the Constitution “for not being obeyed” by those who are sworn to it, they endanger our liberty. For their promotion of the solutions of “amendments that will be just more laws that will not be obeyed.” Or replacing the whole Constitution, endangering the most powerful human document in all history that is designed to limit government, thereby maximizing liberty.

This is a path that freedom-loving Americans do not want to take. ALEC’s stated purpose is good. Its track record is a danger to our Constitutional Republic.

 

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The first unsurprising outcome of primary night is that most of Donald Trump's endorsed candidates won their races on Tuesday. Monica Showalter, American Thinker: Trump's endorsements triumph in last night's primaries For President Trump, this morning's got to be sweet.... Tom Bowler

Yep, that’s him that I “boxed” in the slightly edited registered Democrat voter Denise Conroy’s social media image.  And you voted for her, amirite, because of her “lack of baggage”?  Like I said, a complete lack of doing your homework, Gregg Hough, in picking this “temporary Commissioner” (after all, that WAS the agenda item).

Tell me, Gregg, as with redistricting Laconia Ward 2 was melded with Gilford, as my NH House Representative, do you know what a Dillon’s Rule State MEANS?  It’s obvious that you don’t or you wouldn’t have acted the way you did.

Apart from that, you and I had a discussion about you taking part in what was an illegal Delegation meeting – and you told me that you weren’t going to do so – our text conversation:

Me: Just tried to call you, mix full

Me: Mbx full

Me: Now that I am your constituent, I can now yell at you loudly. Now, this meeting tonite

Me: It was called for under 91A.[Right to Know Law] You are governed by RSA 24:9-D [regulations for Conventions] for the calling of meetings which requires 7 day notice.  RSA 399 [authorizing language for Gunstock] doesn’t allow for a [GAC] temp commissioner, go read my post of this morning.

Me: My ire has nothing to do with Gunstock but that my rep is willing to not follow the Law!

That got his attention and he called me and we discussed thing. At that time he told me that he would not participate/show up and say that he wouldn’t take part and then leave.

And now we all know that he did go, did participate and did so as a “pro-temp Vice Chair” (just like Harry Bean did as  pro-temp Chair) and voted to oust Dr. Strang “for cause”.  While this post is about Gregg Hough, this question can be for both – where in the Law does is say that a meeting can illegally be called (either less than 7 day or by a State Rep that is not the Delegation Chair)?

And add – where in Law (RSA 24) does it say that in the absence of the Chair/Vice-Chair that the rest can simply decide to make up new positions and go with them? I’ll wait but I’m not going to hold my breath as I know better.  Why don’t YOU know the answer, Gregg? Why did you go along with this?

Voters are entitled to trust their Representatives. I didn’t vote for him simply because the vote was taken “pre-redistricting” back in 2020.  Now, I’m stuck with him until either the Primary or the General Election.

The long and short of it, like Frank Guinta of now long ago (yeah, I don’t forget someone after they’ve lied to me), you lied to me. Did you not think I was going to find out?  And did you REALLY think I’d say nothing.

I don’t like people that first tell me one thing and then when I’m out of sight, do the exact opposite.  Am I as a voter supposed to just “take it in the shorts” that my Rep IS going to lie to me with impunity? This is about your integrity – and you flunked that completely.

So I ask – WHY did you lie to me by telling me one thing but doing another?  Why couldn’t you be straight with me – we could have disagreed over the phone, perhaps vehemently, but at least I would have to say you were honest about it.

Now, all I can concluded is that “honesty” is not a word or virtue I can apply to you going forward.

Now, for those that only care that Gunstock is opening up but don’t care about the Law and Government following the correct processes/procedures, you’re probably looking upon him with favor.  But ask yourself, what if it was something else that was important to you and he (or any OTHER elected official)

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The hypothesis of man-made climate change is bad science, if not outright fraud. However, let’s forget that for a moment and focus on the proposed solution: The Green New Deal.

Simply, the green new deal is the “all-natural,” “raw,” “organic,” “locally sourced” variant of centralized planning.

It has other euphemistic epithets like “Energy Independence.”

A helpful indicator of where it is all going is to look at how we are getting there…total destruction of our economy, and starvation.

One problem of centralized planning is that it is akin to you attempting to control all of your autonomic and cellular functions with your conscious mind. How long will you live if you need to consciously direct your digestion?

We want to thank Tejasinha Sivalingam for this Op-Ed. Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.

Another problem with centralized planning is, it does not allow for the natural redundancy and resilience that arises from decentralized planning. This makes the system prone to failure upon interference.

Lastly, it is anything but sustainable; Joseph Stalin proved this pretty well with his 5-year plans. The administrators at the top never really understand the conditions on the ground, and so they make unrealistic projections and demands.

Here is the solution: We don’t focus on “energy independence” per se but rather on “independence in energy.” We give it to the States and have them draft their own energy plans. This will create State competition, diversify our energy portfolio, and make us more adaptive and resilient.

Some States will run towards wind and solar, others might move more towards hydrogen or Medium energy Plasma Reactors, others still will stick with proven coal and natural gas, etc. This will allow States to try on their new pair of energy jackboots without kicking us!

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Back in May, I called BS on a ‘mental seed’ planted in the fertile minds of gullible readers by so-called “experts” on tick populations. By seed, I mean make a statement of opinion, surround it with the potential for facts, and let people believe it’s true.

Ticks, like COVID, can be manipulated to mean whatever the loudest voices claim – especially when they can shout down all contrary opinions. But sometimes subtle is more effective.

 

There are many factors that have made it difficult for experts to make predictions about the severity of tick season, Casey said. One factor making tick season especially unpredictable is climate change.

 

Our takeaway is that Climate “change” may not one of the factors but coupled with the headline “Officials say tick season is now all year,” I bet at least a few people have repeated the notion as fact in casual conversation.

It’s hot, Darrell, and they say we’ll see more ticks when it’s hot, so there must be more ticks. Did you see any, Darrell? No, Darrell, I did not, but they say they’re there, so they must be, right?

Right?

June was unseasonably cold, but we did have a warm July, and you can see and feel that, even though Climate-wise, Vermont is not getting hotter. But if there are more ticks out there (black-legged, Dog, or Lone star), that means more end up on us and our animals. Otherwise, who cares?

As previously reported, we have a Yellow Lab, light with white fur, a few acres, and when ticks are most active (spring and fall), I can pull 2-4 of those blood-sucking parasites off the white dog every time we go outside. Sometimes more. A dozen or more in a given day would not be uncommon. I’d call that a decent baseline for “tick season” in my yard.

Any increase in the numbers in the summer months might justify some consideration of the theory, but we just went through what the same scaremongers may decide is the hottest July on record. It is not, but since they’ll insist and climate changes and messes things up (mostly cult narratives) if tick season is all year, we should be able to see that.

July is over, and I have a report from the White Dog Research Arm of GraniteGrok.com. We didn’t see any ticks on the dog in July. Not even one. None on him, none on me, and none on my beautiful research “assistant,” who spends a lot of time with our “lead researcher” in the yard when school is out of session.

She didn’t see any either.

Zero ticks!

We did see plenty of deer in June and July. More than is typical but not nearly as many turkeys and fewer poults (probably because of climate change – wink-wink).

So, what does that tell us?

Local predators are eating more poults and ticks are not “now all year.” Unlike Democrats, these parasites are like most every other year. Heavy in spring absent in summer. So, if someone brings it up, you have some details with which to contradict. And don’t be a jerk, just use statements of fact and ask questions. Did you see more ticks? I didn’t.

Do you have a baseline for comparison like I do or did you rely on journalists and their reporting?

I have years of hands-on “research,” and so far, tick season 2022 is not all year around here (yet), but we will be conducting extensive testing in August and every month after that.

I’ll bring you updates as they become available.

 

 

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While a judge was not found/available/willing to issue a Temporary Restraint Order that a gentleman by the name of Stephen Peterson put in on August 1st, a Summons has been issued in the case. Who knows what it will force given it isn’t until September 8th. The only fact that is apparent is that a judge has deemed that the actions of the Belknap Delegation were sufficiently egregious as to warrant it being heard.

Here is the entire document:

Stephen Peterson Summons with Hearing Notice 211-2022-CV-144

Let’s see what comes of this.

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I’ve known that the existence of this newly discovered $1,000 check had been rumored for a while but I was asked to remain silent.  However,  loyal reader (and relatively new – THANKS for reading GraniteGrok!) Commenter Manny brought this up last night on my post (“Gunstock – Somebody Gave NH State Rep Harry Bean Really Bad Advice about a Delegation Emergency Meeting“).  And Manny has a GREAT finishing line at the bottom – Hahahahahahha!

Manny: And now this:

Exclusive. The plot thickens. Remember last week's furor over $500 from Gunstock Area Commission to Gov. Chris Sununu's 2020 campaign? Most recent report confirms GAC gave gov's 2022 campaign $1,000. Sununu says all legal and Gunstock past mgt. insist it wasn't taxpayer money.

— Kevin Landrigan (@KlandriganUL) August 1, 2022

Doug ought to go over and start reading the replies.  Kinda ruins his Narrative about Tom Day and his own actions.

Well, Doug Lambert is now on a Morality pickle, isn’t he?  He was the one doing all of the public agitation to bring Tom Day (the resigned General Manager of Gunstock Mountain Resort) back to Doug’s Sacred Mountain, and the above appears.  So what will Doug Lambert, of the Gunstock Area Commission and DGFIndustrial, what will you do?  Stay “loyal” to your new buddy, Tom Day, or do the right thing and let him go for writing another Gunstock check to a political campaign?  Is that the Proper Role of Government agencies to support the sitting Governor?

Where does your Morality now lie?

What would you be doing, Doug, if the sitting Governor was a Flaming Democrat Progressive that you hated?  Would you do something or just sit on your hands and do nothing because TOM DAY?

 

Emphasis mine now:

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So Doug, as now being the Overwatch guy on the GAC, what are you going to do about Day’s using GAC money to give a political donation to Sununu?

I’ll take a flyer on this – a payment in advance for flying coverage for the crapshow that Day, Kiediasch, Doug Lambert, Jade Wood (NH GOP Area 5 Vice-Chair), and Brian Beihl have concocted and are now executing almost flawlessly?

And here’s the operative question that puts Doug Lambert on a REAL moral dilemma – will he do the RIGHT thing or will he do the political expedient action?  The old Doug (the RIGHT thing) or the new one?

Are you going to find and tell us all at the next GAC meeting what the vote was to authorize it?

After all, at the next meeting, it’s fairly certain that you’ll be the Chair. So what will it be Doug – openness and transparency or going into the Dark Corner of Government that both of used to bring Big Flashlights?

Do I need to submit another RSA 91A demand, or are you going to quash that as well? What a change if you choose the latter given that Lambert-Tardiff RTK NH Supreme Court win over the Delegation hiding their vote for a new Sheriff.

Which Doug will appear?

How much of those years of contemplation about the wrong you said you did actually mean anything?  Only Doug can answer these questions – but Manny has already figured it out!

Manny: Doug’s not going to do anything. Wouldn’t want to jeopardize his skiing this winter by upsetting Tom Day.

Cure: eyeroll from Doug. And his own answer on what is important to him:

This is so important in multiple ways – it defines him now. And I don’t have to postulate, ruminate, or cogitate; it’s his own words.

Well, except for how it ended: “Well, your end justifies your means”.

 

 

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A series of sensational stories have splashed across the “front pages” in recent weeks about shark citings in and around the waters of New England. Is it Climate Change, or have they come looking for that hypocrite, John Kerry?

The private-jet-setting yacht owning Klimate Tsar is the epitome of the Hypocrat class. Limousine liberal. The guy who, no matter what, will never be too hot or too cold or lacking for transportation, vacation opportunities, or the comforts of the modern western lifestyle against which he rails.

He’s Marie Antoinette before she lost her head. Let them eat heat!

And these folks will say or do anything to justify the trillions they’ve wasted on so-called alternatives, by which they mean alternative laundromats for turning your taxes into their campaign and “think tank” dollars.

The latest cult rumor to hit the “shrinking beaches” is that shark attacks (or incidents of visible shark presence) are on the rise because of your devotion to a fraction of the comfort enjoyed by people like John Kerry.

 

In a July 2022 episode of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Kerry Sanders reported on “the concern” that “climate change means warmer waters, which brings sharks closer to shore.”

 

Sharks are the new COVID. Use fear to create a reception, then tie it to a preferred policy goal.

It works, but most of the lies that prop up the global warming narrative are not just wrong they are invisible to the average human eye. You don’t see glaciers, sea ice, or polar bears (all doing fine, by the way), so they can lie about it, but so what? THey are not swirling in the waters off the coast like sharks.

And heat waves are natural, but we experience them differently in the modern era, and most of the discomfort is a result of the massive expansion (mostly) Democrat-run urban heat islands and their impact on accurate temperature readings.

Footage and fearmongering about sharks trolling beaches is unusual, unexpected, and terrifying for most. It creates a visceral rise in tension. But there’s no evidence that the weather has anything to do with sharks being near the shore or people getting attacked by them unless you mean more people swimming in the water to attract them.

So what’s the deal?

First, there is zero connection between CO2 and temperature or anything else, including shark attacks. Human activity in the water is the most likely connection. As cities grow in size and populations swell, there are more people in the water doing more things (more often).

The eastern US seaboard population has swelled for decades.

In Australia,

 

The way people use the ocean has changed over time. The rise in Australian shark attacks, from an average of 6.5 incidents per year in 1990–2000, to 15 incidents per year over the past decade, coincides with an increasing human population, more people visiting beaches, a rise in the popularity of water-based fitness and recreational activities and people accessing previously isolated coastal areas.

 

More people increase both the likelihood of sitings and the likelihood of attacks. And it makes perfect sense. If you reduced the volume or quantity of opportunities for interaction, any accounting of attacks would demonstrably decrease, and the Left should be able to see that, or maybe they already have.

Their entire Climate fantasy is based on you doing with less, so they can have more. So, maybe they are not so much trying to convince you that easy western living is making sharks angry enough to eat a few more of you (which they’d not mind one bit)? Perhaps they are hoping you’ll abandon the “disappearing” beaches so there will be more ocean front on which they can erect massive carbon-intensive estates.

 

 

HT | WUWT

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So, WHO called the Delegation meeting yesterday?  Was it legally done?  Nope. And IMHO, County Attorney Andrew Livernois gave cover in a rambling Letter as so many had contacted him to see if the Delegation was operating legally. I have an email thread with him that I will be posting later. Hint: On quoting RSA 91:A as being permissible, he deliberately left out THE key line

NH Constitution:

[Art.] 84. [Oath of Civil Officers.] Any person chosen governor, councilor, senator, or representative, military or civil officer, (town officers excepted) accepting the trust, shall, before he proceeds to execute the duties of his office, make and subscribe the following declaration, viz.

I, A.B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear faith and true allegiance to the United States of America and the state of New Hampshire, and will support the constitution thereof. So help me God.

I, A.B. do solemnly and sincerely swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all duties incumbent on me as …………………………………………., according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this constitution and laws of the state of New Hampshire. So help me God.

One would expect that our Lawmakers that we send to Concord to either the NH House of Representatives or the NH State Senate would actually be faithful to that oath.  After all, if they expect us to follow the laws that THEY make, shouldn’t we also reciprocate in demanding they follow the laws that regulate the processes they are supposed to follow? Sadly, that doesn’t happen all the time and the activities of the Belknap County Delegation proved that when whipped into a frenzy by others into believing that an “emergency” existed, they acted illegally.

And once again, I am compelled to talk about people that should have known better but the “DO SOMETHING” overrode their common sense.

And broke the Law intentionally IF you look at the plain black and white words of the Law.  Either RSA 91:A (which allows for only a 24 hour notice) or RSA 24:9-d (mandates a 7 day notice) could have been used to call the meeting but note the conditions:

91-A:2 II: An emergency shall mean a situation where immediate undelayed action is deemed to be imperative by the chairman or presiding officer of the public body,

RSA 24:9-d: The clerk of the convention, or his or her designee, shall mail to each member of the convention a notice stating the time, place and purpose of further meetings at least 7 days before the day of the meeting and shall cause to be published a like notice at least 7 days before the day of the meeting in a newspaper of general circulation in the county

I hold that the latter, as I said before, is the superior RSA when it comes to Delegation/Convention.

So, Harry Bean, in the case of the former, are you the Chair of the Delegation?  No – you violated your oath of office in breaking the RSA 91:A Law. You took it upon yourself for no good legal purpose to trash the Law – I thought you to be far better than that; very disappointed in my State Rep that I have always trusted to Follow The Law.

And, Harry Bean, in the case of the latter, are you the Clerk of the Convention that has the Power to send out that 7 day notice? No you didn’t  violated your oath of office in breaking RSA 24:9-d technically – you didn’t use it but you should have.

You talk about “THE MOUNTAIN HAS TO OPEN” wasn’t an emergency – it was a politically charged and mobbed up rush to push political agendas.  There was a push, push, push to create an overriding urgency to DO SOMETHING by those that have further political agendas.

And you couldn’t see it. You know, when we met on the Gilford Budget Committee, you kept telling me that you were only a hillbilly.  That was always nonsense and I told you that many times. Perhaps this time, I should believe it.

The worst thing, after you had told me on many of occasions, that you valued my opinion as I had never lied to you. You told me that I always did my homework but it wasn’t that you didn’t listen, you didn’t WANT to listen.

So what should be done with a legislator that knew he COULDN’T do something – but did it anyways?  What can be done besides the Primary and General Election?  What might the legal avenues taken by a constituent when their elected Representative breaks the Law?

And as to the Loyalty bit in the post title.  Loyalty, in all its manifest forms, used to be a high virtue within society.  We derided former NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn for never showing any loyalty except to herself (and the guy dragging the dollar bill on a string in front of her. OK, not the guy, just the dollar bill.  How else explain her position with the Anti-Republican Lincoln Project (when it got any buzz at all)).

Harry just ensured that Dr. Dave Strang was ejected from the Gunstock Area Commission by calling that meeting – he was neither the Chair nor the Clerk.  He did something he shouldn’t have done. Loyalty?

• When Harry came down with COVID, Dr. Strang rendered assistance  (multiple times from what I was told) along with his recent cancer scare.
• When GAC Commissioner Jade was enraged that the Gilford School Board wouldn’t let her girls attend school without masks, I’m told, Dr. Strang wrote a medical note support her.

Loyalty?  Gratitude?  Loyalty is to be earned, to be sure. But it is a Virtue that demands that you don’t just throw someone into the trash for a political agenda.  I spent years defending Doug Lambert on calling NH Democrat Party Chair Ray Buckley a really bad word (go ahead, ask him about it and see how quickly he’ll deflect from it).  I didn’t just talk about it, I demonstrated Loyalty.  What did I get for it?

This:

Certainly, my decade and a half made no difference to him at all.  What I was to him in this video was both an irritant for pointing out his character failure and being an impediment to a political goal.  I’m used to him using Volume 3-8. But in this meeting, he went to 13. What was most scary to me was the vehemence, the ANGER, and the Evilness that were in his eyes – at that moment, it seemed, that I was worse than either Dave Strang or Peter Ness.  The difference is that he was slitting political throats – politically, there is nothing he can do to me and I BET that was, in part, fueling his rage.

And no, the “apology” he offered wasn’t – he only realized how out of control he had become in a split instant.  So no, not accepted – and no, I have withdrawn all loyalty I once had. At the height of his rage, I was no longer a person but a THING.  In the eyes of this “High Priest of The Mountain”, I had committed heresy by saying I didn’t care if Gunstock opened up or not. I still don’t care but I do care that it was done by Following the Law.  In his early days, when he and I used to go after the “good ole’ boys” in Gilford for the dark corners and bring bad things to light, he often mentioned the money they kept spending was akin to “every dollar was sacred”. Now, he’s become just like them except “their dollar” has morphed into his “Sacred Mountain”.

Don’t think I’ll be getting any Christmas cards going forward. C’est La.

Yes, Loyalty is in extremely short supply within politics – even when the human friendship would say otherwise. Gratitude, as well. While Jade has been the most shrill about “picking her target, freezing it, and then personalizing it” (along with Lambert), one would have thought that her position of being an NH GOP Area Vice-Chair would have made her less apt to attack and agitate (like Obama the Alinsky Organizer)  against two decent Republicans simply because of political differences of how to handle situations at Gunstock.  Nope – they brought the battleship big guns to bear. No, they both used  the Left’s tactics of the politics of personal destruction. And if anyone wants to complain that I am, well, as I’ve been saying for a while that if the Left wants to set the New Rules, I’m happy to use their rules.

And they did it with glee (well, Jade seemed to). Just like Doug V1.o used to do, I’m flashing a light.

 

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