President Joe Biden advertised himself as a uniter of Americans but instead seems to have embarked on a crusade to unite government with industry. His disregard for the rule of law parallels an equally dangerous abandonment of fundamental free market principles via government fiat. The latest example is displayed in the administration’s emissions mandates for EV cars and trucks.

EV Fiasco

Biden’s newly proposed EV regulations are just one more straw on the camel’s back of economic reality. Electric vehicles resemble the Biden administration more and more: They do not deliver as advertised, cannot compete without being propped up, take money from the poor to give to the rich, divide the nation, and are used to sabotage the economy. If this sounds extreme, please read on.

The EPA’s long-awaited tailpipe emissions standards are a bureaucrat’s dream and a nightmare for taxpayers and car manufacturers. The 1,184-page rule does not mandate the manufacture of EV cars and trucks; it merely makes compliance with its strictures impossible without doing so.

Like Captain Ahab, Biden doesn’t care if every sailor (or auto worker) is forced to jump ship in his pursuit of the Great White Climate Utopia. Auto emission laws have historically set targets for individual vehicles, leaving manufacturers free to allocate resources to produce models desired by free consumers. The new EPA rules instead set limits on manufacturers’ total fleet emissions, essentially commanding Ford and Chevrolet to produce vehicles that meet stringent diktats, regardless of consumer demand, corporate profitability, or union job security.

Ford Motor Company has cut back plans to ramp up EV production after losing an estimated $64,731 per vehicle in 2023, despite massive state and federal subsidies. Losses would be far greater if not for profitable gas-powered vehicle sales. It seems taxpayers are not being price-gouged by corporations so much as by a government enacting state control of entire industries by regulatory fiat. Dictating what car dealers may offer as inventory may not jibe with consumer desires, and there is no indemnification clause by the EPA to purchase unsold goods.

EV trucks are a particularly bad sell for consumers concerned about range anxiety, failure to function in cold weather, lack of adequate charging stations, and staggering repair bills. Commercial buyers are uninterested in fleets of EV trucks that necessitate work crews taking multiple trips to transport a load that a single gas-powered pickup could handle. Ford is reportedly already cutting back its workforce in Dearborn, MI, due to declining sales of its Lightning EV, powered by dual “in-board” electric motors.

Unconstitutional Overreach

State-owned and state-run entities have a bad track record. The latest EV rules are just one more layer of regulatory “taking” of profits (and restrictions on capital allocation) implemented using dubious if not blatantly unconstitutional Biden edicts.

Biden used the Centers for Disease Control to impose a national moratorium on the eviction of renters, though he later recognized that any new order to extend it would be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court struck down his effort to mandate vaccines and testing for employees of large businesses. A federal district judge found that Biden’s race-based policies through the Minority Business Development Agency “flagrantly violated” the Equal Protection Clause. His student loan “forgiveness plan” was held to have abridged Congress’ legislative authority and was “an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power and must be vacated.”

A US District Judge ruled that the $1.7 million Inflation Reduction Act was unconstitutionally enacted without the required congressional quorum; another ruled that Biden’s use of the Federal Highway Administration to set climate targets for vehicles “lacked a statutory basis and was invalid.” EPA rules impacting farmers, SEC rules burdening businesses with environmental reporting, and the allegedly illegal cancellation of Alaskan oil leases have all attracted similar criticisms. So much for supporting the rule of law.

Economics Matter

Times have changed under Biden. Social justice “theories” have eclipsed business management with fantasy policies of “universal equity” that threaten universal downfall. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez burdened that once-prosperous nation with massive social spending “to finance educational, health, food, and housing programs,” which, along with economic mismanagement and corruption, sparked hyperinflation. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe crippled a well-diversified economy with galloping inflation and bankruptcy through mismanaged state-owned enterprises and debt incurred for education and social services.

The president’s recent EPA rules for tailpipe emissions constitute yet more “preferential access to public procurement and government guidance of investment” through regulatory overreach. Dreams are nice, but somebody has to pay the bills. Rights are dandy, but someone has to take responsibility. The Biden administration chisels away at constitutional safeguards like Woody Woodpecker, imposing impossible dreams on businesses and taxpayers, leaving an economic, environmental, and constitutional disaster zone that America’s grandchildren will be repairing long after Biden has left office.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

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Monkey Pox is back in the news, just in time for the parade of international Pride Festivals that helped spread it to over 100 countries in 2022. It is also not just Monkey Pox (And yes, we should be surprised they even called it that). It is a mutant strain with pandemic potential.

As if previous strains were not?

The virus is a descendent of the deadlier clade 1 mpox strain, but has evolved to become even more infectious and better at evading tests than its predecessor. The concerning discovery was made in Kamituga – a poor, densely populated gold mining town that is feared to be ripe for an explosive outbreak.

Researchers who detailed the virus in a pre-print have called for ‘urgent measures’ to contain the virus and avoid a global outbreak.

‘Without intervention, this localised Kamituga outbreak harbors the potential to spread nationally and internationally,’ the authors wrote.

Part of the problem then was that health authorities and their media marketing teams were reluctant to identify the super spreaders: nearly every case (except for those few popping up in children) was a gay man (you do the math). The 2022 epidemic was traced to massive weeklong Pride festivals around Africa and Europe whose participants carried it to over 100 countries.

They didn’t want to say it too loudly, but the nexus was those massive international Pride gatherings, and it is difficult in that culture to be proud, celebrate, and celibate. The CDC tried to help, sort of, when it said your safest sex partner is… Yourself.

We noted (before public health officials, go figure) that gay men would probably need to add abstinence to their party vocabulary to flatten the curve. It’s a sort of LGBTQ Pride Lent. Forgive me, for I must abstain.

The WHO eventually came around to the idea of telling gay men to take a break from each other in 2022 (until this, too, had passed), so I find the timing of this announcement and this hedging … amusing.

Mpox caused an international epidemic in 2022 when it spread to more than 100 countries and killed hundreds of people – including 58 Americans. That outbreak was caused by the more mild clade 2 strain, which is rarely fatal.

The outbreak that worried health officials then was primarily concentrated within the gay and bisexual male community.  It is not yet clear whether the genesis of the outbreak in the DRC was driven by sexual contact.

It’s not clear. Pishaw! Your report states, “The researchers are concerned that the ‘highly mobile’ population of Kamituga could be the perfect breeding ground for the new virus. Miners and sex workers frequently travel to and from the town for work from neighboring countries like Rwanda and Burundi.”

Sexual transmission continues to be the catalyst for pandemic success, but there’s another that hasn’t come up, and I’m not even sure if we’ve mentioned it. Neither MPOX nor sex-fueled Pride festivals were new in 2022, yet there’d been no heavily reported “outbreaks” of Monkey Pox in any community, let alone that of gay men. What changed? At least two things.

1. COVID elevated the profit and control potential of pandemic awareness and treatment (another vaxx).
2. COVID vaxx spike proteins had become the jihadi recruitment nexus for the domestic terror war on individual immune systems.

Booster uptake has declined precipitously, so I’d be surprised if the Pharma stormtroopers aren’t pouring Mpox marketing dollars into LGBT spaces pushing those Jabs in preparation for Party Season, but that doesn’t help children in the Congo who get if from more common forms of close contact and are more likely to die from the disease.

The latest outbreak centers around a gold mine and the local community. You’d think Pfizer et al. would be all over that.

 

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Psychologist Helmet Kentler gained the support of the German government to place unaccompanied minors with known pedophiles; the experiment, for obvious reasons, failed.

The experiment began in the 1960s and reached its peak during the 1970s. The German government trusted psychologist Kentler. Germany has apologized, sort of.

The United States will eventually apologize for an experiment that has attracted Pedophiles and Psychos to work at U.S. Youth Detention Centers. It began in the 1950s, peaked in the 1970s, and has never stopped.

With thousands of Youth Detention Center victims coming forward, I revisited a theory I had in 1999 that led me to write an article. Dan Quayle read my article prompting him to invite me to a dinner he hosted. The invite was revoked when he realized I was only 17 years old. My theory then and now is that U.S. children are used in experiments.

I am a product of child abuse by my family and nonfamily; they are my abusers. I survived because I watched everyone and everything around me. I stuck to facts because abusers avoided facts. My abusers tried to control my reality.

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 replaced The Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968. However, with the Act of 1974- mandatory state participation and $350million in Federal Funding. Landmark legislation, or so they thought. This was the first federally supported “comprehensive” approach designed to develop a system for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention. The “expertise” of American psychiatrists and psychologists began to appear around the United States.

The National Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals was formed by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) in the spring of 1975. Governor Brendan T. Byrne of New Jersey was appointed Chairman of the Committee. This makes the current scandal in New Jersey Youth Detention Centers shameful.

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In 1975, the Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency in New Hampshire approved funding to the New Hampshire Youth Development Center for its first Community Residential Center, the Friendship House Project. The grant award was $69,952 in Federal Funds and $7,772 in Crime Commission funds. Total $77,724. This number increased in the years to follow. New Hampshire called this division of YDC, cottage, project, house, 6-II-E-1264 FOI, 76-II-A-1264 F02. Whatever you wish to call it, It was an experiment. The current scandal unfolding with New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Centers is not shocking.

Entering uncharted waters by the force of the federal government, New Hampshire, with many other states, began to implement treatment programs for juvenile delinquents.

In 1976, John R. Clark, the former Evaluation Specialist for the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency, stated that before boys were accepted into Friendship House in 1975, they were put through “a battery of tests and psychological interviews.”

Other records mention “dead days” at Friendship House.

For a boy to be eligible for admission into the Friendship House they had to be between twelve and seventeen, the boys had to meet all four of these criteria.

1. A feeling of uneasiness, unhappiness, or discontent with himself or his life, and some concern about doing something to change it;

2. A recognition and acceptance that one does or can control what happens to him;

3. A willingness to examine things about himself with others;

4. A belief that he, other residents, and the program itself will benefit from his participation.

Friendship House in New Hampshire implemented a “treatment program” including,

Guided Group Interaction, Reality Therapy, and Positive Peer Pressure.

These three treatment programs were in their infancy stages of being used on children. The experiment was on New Hampshire’s most vulnerable population, unaccompanied minors, in this particular experiment, boys. I assure you, unlike the belief the boys were taught, these boys did not have control over what was about to happen.

Friendship House Treatment Program,
Experiment 1 Guided Group Interaction –

Group Therapy began with Doctor Joseph M Pratt, a pioneer in physiology, well before it was introduced at Friendship House. Pratt was a Harvard Medical School alumni who disagreed with the theories of Freud. What Pratt first designed as Group Therapy for medically sick patients was morphed by the U.S. military at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during the 1940s. The current scandal unfolding in Kentucky Youth Detention Centers looks suspicious.

Guided Group Therapy becomes Guided Group Interactions at Fort Knox. The exact year the military first used the therapy is unclear. If you look at the core ideas of Guided Group Interaction, the concept closely resembles Fort Knox’s, Universal Military Training Experimental Unit. America’s first attempt at Universal Military Training.

Guided Group Interaction is widely documented as being used on detained and confined soldiers at Fort Knox by the Fifth Service Command Rehabilitation Center, aka disciplinary barracks. This is where delinquent soldiers were sent, detained, and analyzed. One of the first times the term Guided Group Interactions appeared outside the U.S. military was when it was introduced at the New Jersey Department of Corrections. One of the first times Guided Group Interactions was implemented on juvenile delinquents was at Friendship House in New Hampshire in 1975.

In 1972, The National Council on Crime and Delinquency in New Jersey, whose mission was to protect children from abuse, published a report, Guided Group Interactions Used with Juvenile Offenders. A summary of the report states,

“THIS METHOD WAS FOUND TO BE NO MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN OTHER CONVENTIONAL METHODS OF DEALING WITH INSTITUTIONALIZED YOUTHS. YOUTHS WHO HAVE PSYCHIATRIC HISTORIES OR WHO APPEAR DEPRESSED OR OVERLY ANXIOUS SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO GUIDED GROUP INTERACTION.”

New Hampshire ignored the 1972 report from The National Council on Crime and Delinquency. New Hampshire did the exact opposite. Criteria number one for admission into New Hampshire’s Friendship House was,

1.)A feeling of uneasiness, unhappiness, or discontent with himself or his life, …

New Hampshire sought out the exact population of boys that the National Council on Crime and Delinquency said should NOT be exposed to Guided Group Interactions.

The boys at YDC Friendship House were being subject to a controversial military therapy.

Again, The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, replaced The Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968. The federal government dropped the word control and replaced it with Justice. Marketing matters when a new product is coming, the federal government wants no association with the Control Theory, which is about to take over the United States.

Friendship House Treatment Program,
Experiment 2 Reality Therapy-

Note: Details and Timelines via the facts and dates around Reality Therapy are murky at best. By design is my conclusion. Terms around Reality Therapy change so much that your head will spin. By design is my conclusion.

The Reality Therapy Institute was established in 1967 by California psychiatrist William Glasser. 1967–1968 The Governor of California Ronald Reagan tackles California’s mental health.

Before the Institute, William Glasser had been fired from a VA Hospital in California. Rewind even further and William Glasser was experimenting with chemicals, working at Dugway Proving Ground, and depending on who you speak with was a scientist with direct or indirect links to MKultra. However, he does in fact, become the staff psychiatrist for juvenile delinquent girls at the Ventura School for Girls, a reform school in Ventura linked to the California Youth Authority. Some sources say this is where William Glasser began to develop Reality Therapy.

The history of Ventura Girls School looks more like a torture chamber than a school. During its early years pre-Glasser, an investigation was launched. Witnesses described a building known as the “no privilege cottage” where the “water cure” was used. The method consisted of a fire hose aimed at semi-unclothed girls while immersing them in an iced bath. A school nurse testified that girls were given apomorphine shots as a measure of discipline to induce vomiting.

Glasser has self-proclaimed that he turned the girls’ school around. I question his success given that post-Glasser the California State Inspector General issued a report describing the California Youth Authority as a,

“system in chaos that provided ineffective services in a poorly managed and highly punitive prison-like environment.” (What a treat.)

In 1973 Behavior the Control of Perception was published by William Powers. Powers developed Perceptual Control Theory and was a medical physicist. He studied experimental and theoretical psychology and attended Northwestern University. He also is linked to UFO research.

In 1974 William Glasser sold millions of books worldwide on Reality Therapy, based on his theories and data gathered while working with juvenile delinquent girls.

I will remind you again, in 1974 The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act replaced the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control Act of 1968. The Federal Government dropped the word control and replaced it with justice. Mind control is now the official subject of William Glasser.

In 1975–1978 William Glasser wrote and produced the play Beehive. Have you seen Three’s Company which aired in 1977? Looks a lot like the play. Oddly, in 1973, the film Spirit of the Beehive, was released. The film is a deep look into a child’s mind and the role that fantasy and reality play in a child’s mind… William Glasser meets with William Powers. William Glasser begins to write and develop Control Theory.

In 1981–1986 The William Glasser Institute began publishing The International Journal of Reality Therapy sponsored in part by Northeastern University. The publication shares data collected from the experiments at Youth Detention Centers. “Friendship” and “Community” are widely used in all Glasser publications, journals, and teachings. The International Journal of Reality Therapy had revenue via memberships, advertising, and sponsorship. During all this President Ronald Reagan published The Nation at Risk-The Imperative For Educational Reform. Fear is born.

1986- William Glasser closes his private practice office in California. Reality Therapy has collected enough data and has been tuned for mass consumption. William Glasser publishes Control Theory in the Classroom. A Reality Therapy Certification for instructors and teachers is/or has been developed, but murky facts on this. Glasser begins touring the United States.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan had a plethora of California psychologists and psychiatrists in their circle.

Friendship House Treatment Program,
Experiment 3 Positive Peer Pressure –

The furloughs and release process for the boys at Friendship House sounds archaic at best. When a boy personally feels he is ready to leave or perhaps begs to leave, he first needs the approval of his counselor. If he was given approval he moved onto the gauntlet. To get out the boy was,

“required to confront the entire house with his request. At least 75% must vote in favor of the request before it will be considered any further.”

Allow me to remind you that Friendship House had residents as young as twelve. YDC was letting children decide the fate of children via its third and final method of “treatment” Positive Peer Pressure. This is insane. Sounds like a cult for kids.

My Reality?- What attracted pedophiles and psychos to work at U.S. Youth Detention Centers?

A culture created by the U.S. Military, Federal Government, Ronald Reagan, and William Glasser via experiments such as New Hampshire’s YDC project Friendship House.

Group treatment sessions at Friendship House were unscheduled. A New Hampshire report states,

“frequently circumstances mandate several sessions daily. The sessions are not limited to any particular length of time. Residents are encouraged to call a session when necessary and continue it until the problems have been resolved.” Sounds exhausting for a 12-year-old boy. Controlling would be an understatement.

John R. Clark, Evaluation Specialist at New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency, signs off his report on Friendship House by stating in 1976,

“This writer did encounter some difficulty in collecting resident data about this program. There is no system currently utilized to reflect the flow of residents within the program and other pertinent data. It is therefore strongly recommended that the attached form be maintained daily by project staff and retained at the Friendship House facility.”

If you read my first Medium post entitled “Stop. We have to go off of tape. The New Hampshire lawyer no priest shall name…” you may find it ironic that In 1976, John R. Clark, Evaluation Specialist at New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency, STRONGLY SUGGESTED that records should be kept on children. In 1984, New Hampshire courts had no problem that records were not being kept when a prominent lawyer was accused of abusing a boy at an orphanage. The New Hampshire court case of State v. Boire in 1984 directly contradicts the 1976 report issued by John R. Clark, Evaluation Specialist at New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency, who STRONGLY SUGGESTED records should be kept.

The State of New Hampshire via YDC in 1975 was not tracking data on who the boys were at Friendship House because who they were did NOT matter. They were documenting the data from the experiments to show success and to prepare New Hampshire for mass consumption of the ideology of William Glasser. The expert was needed for the dip into Federal Funds. Seeing as brownies were laced with laxatives at Friendship House, I suspect New Hampshire knew the experiments were failing decades ago.

My data, aka my theory.

The United States passed the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 and states implemented William Glasser’s theories into Youth Detention Centers around the United States. In 2024, The U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee Chairman Jon Ossoff launched an inquiry with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) into alleged abuse of youth in juvenile detention facilities in Georgia and nationwide. He has requested the GAO review the state of federal oversight. It has taken 50 years for the experiment’s failure to be questioned at the federal level, but has it stopped?

The experiments were certainly tweaked, but in 1989, William Glasser began working with Apollo High School, an alternative school in Simi Valley, California. Brad Greene, Apollo High School Principal, became one of Glasser Institute’s first educators.

Glasser’s theories are now implemented in hundreds of schools worldwide. Ireland has recently launched Glasser Quality Schools via its Catholic Schools. Might be a good fit given the history of the Catholic Church.

If my data is correct, my theory is that a U.S. senator will request a federal investigation into the abuse in U.S. schools nationwide in 2039. Glasser’s theories seem to fail at the 50-year mark.

The culture adults create for children, attracts the adults that will surround the children.

In 1989, Apollo High School Principal and Glasser Institute Instructor, Brad Greene was accused of sexual harassment. A lawsuit was settled. Brad Greene later resigned.

Glasser died with millions. Glasser Institutes are worldwide, but the corp filings for Glasser hit a little tax issue in recent years. Not my story to tell…

What I will tell you is Glasser and his theories are considered a smashing success and they have infiltrated Schools worldwide. The victims from the U.S. Youth Detention Centers, where Glasser and states first tested Glasser’s theories, are coming forward by the thousands. Victims are saying they were raped and tortured. Is this considered success?

We all might want to hit pause or eject on Glasser’s theories in our current schools. Experts can be wrong, yes, even psychologists and psychiatrists make mistakes.

No matter what my abusers said, my world or state of things as they actually existed always opposed what they wanted me to believe. Therefore I survived.

Part I

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The Climate Cult echo chamber is full voice after the BBC published a misleading bit of global terrorism this week titled “Coral bleaching: Fourth global mass stress episode underway – US scientists.”

Coral around the world is turning white and even dying as recent record ocean heat takes a devastating toll. It has triggered the fourth global mass coral bleaching event, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Bleaching happens when coral gets stressed and turns white because the water it lives in is too hot. …

Scientists in the US, Australia, Kenya and Brazil told BBC News about feeling dismay and even anger as they watched the coral they love threatened or killed by warm oceans.

The timing couldn’t be better. NOAA has been pimping its warm Atlantic beware of this year’s hurricane season narrative for weeks. Can you imagine if there was a series of stories linking catastrophic events (real or imagined) to warming oceans? Think of all the money you could launder into the pockets of researchers who wash, rinse, and repeat in that allegedly over warm water.

And the control! Think about how it can sway underinformed peasants to let their governments manage their lives. Someone somewhere is having a climate narrative orgasm.

 

Forget that NOAA is hardly an unbiased source, but would you be willing to bet on them if a renowned expert on Coral dared to contradict their hyperbolic claims? You would with other people’s money, and they will, but for those interested in another view, Dr. Peter Ridd says there’s nothing to see here. That “bleaching” is merely part of a natural process, when coral expels algae in order to switch to a different type which is more suitable adapted to new conditions.”

According to Ridd, coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef last year reached record levels, despite four supposedly catastrophic bleaching events in the six years prior to 2022. Neither has there been any significant change in corals worldwide.

So what. Who the heck is this Ridd person, anyway?

Peter Ridd is a physicist. He has researched the Great Barrier Reef since 1984, and has published over 100 scientific publications. A former head of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, he was fired in 2018 for pointing out quality assurance deficiencies in reef-science institutions. He presently works, without payment, on science quality assurance issues. He is an adjunct fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs and a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

So, a nobody, except that he did write the 2023 analysis of global coral for The Global Warming Policy Foundation, in which we find this (reformatted, footnotes removed, see original).

For example, the discovery that the GBR had the highest coral cover on record in 2022 was immediately downplayed by reef science and management institutions, and the media too. It was claimed that only the fast-growing corals53 had recovered. However, since these were also the corals most susceptible to bleaching (and also to hurricanes and crown-of-thorns starfish), it was also claimed that this left the reef more vulnerable. However, since these corals were also the most susceptible to bleaching, hurricanes, and crown-of-thorns starfish, they were also the most threatened.

The argument is unsustainable, however, because these fast-growing (and vulnerable) corals were the ones that were alleged to have been killed by the four bleaching events in the last six years. While they can indeed regrow extremely rapidly (within a year) from a small section that is left alive (the so-called ‘phoenix effect’), if they are killed, recruitment of larvae and regrowth takes 5–10 years.56 They cannot regenerate within a few months.

The rapid recovery of the reef cover therefore shows that they were bleached, but not killed. In other words, the past few years’ data has proven that very little coral was killed by the bleaching events – even the fast- growing coral that is most susceptible. Coral reefs can double or even quadruple their coral in a decade. The loss of a few percent from bleaching is a minor disturbance. When the reef cover crashes, it is almost always the fast-growing coral that declines, so it is hardly surprising, and certainly not concerning, when the fast-growing coral comes back.

Read the report (pages 17 – 24) for more embarrassing realities you won’t find from the BBC or anyone who echos its climate alarmism. Trigger warning: Science! Like this,

The records show that there were 26 records of coral bleaching events in the world before 1982; bleaching was observed on the first scientific expedition to the GBR, from England, in 1929. Possibly the earliest representation of bleaching is a remarkable lithograph (Figure 15) by von Ransonnet, published in 1862. There can be no doubt that bleaching is not a ‘novel’ phenomenon.

There is also the matter of eyeballs. Prior to 1990, there were very few scientists regularly observing reefs with any consistency, if at all. “If a major bleaching event had occurred in, say, 1925, who would have noticed?

And finally, at lest for this post, bleaching happens when the zooxanthellae, with whom coral have a symbiotic relationship, are ejected “as a survival strategy.
Corals bleach because the zooxanthellae within them have become ‘poisonous’, or at least disadvantageous, to the polyp and must be expelled.”

There are a lot of reasons for this from too warm or too cool water, sunlight, fresh water dilution of seawater, and so on. All of this occurred long before someone discovered the potential for attention, wealth, and power to those who embrace scientism to advance political policy that has nothing to do with protecting the planet or those on it.

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It’s been said “if you’re not in a cult by now you’re crazy”.  The chances are you’re already in one and don’t even know it, which is the sign of a well-run cult, so congratulations. Most people wouldn’t stick around in a cult if in fact they knew they had been hoodwinked into involuntary membership.

However, the loneliness and insecurity of not being in a cult when nearly everyone else in the known world has taken the plunge can leave you feeling like an outsider.  Luckily, Bananas Research Inc. has done the heavy lifting to help you find the right cult for you!

Any cult worth its kool-aid will have one or more of the following key features:

• Sex – lots of sex with lots of people, usually with the charismatic leader
• Money – lots of money flowing through the cult, usually to the charismatic leader
• Death – lots of death or focus on climactic death, usually with the charismatic leader
• Drugs – lots of drugs for making money and having sex, usually with the charismatic leader
• Secrets – lots of them, typically yours being kept by the charismatic leader
• Science – we all know you need to follow the science, especially the kind taught by a charismatic leader
• Aliens – because aliens can make up for a leader lacking in charisma

Joining a cult that doesn’t feature heavily in one or all of these is like going to public school for a well-rounded education – a complete waste of your time.

History tells us cults emerged out of man’s need for purpose, belonging, and power (and sex).  The earliest known cult was discovered in the area known as Meso-California, where ancient hieroglyphs indicate a multi-level marketing scheme was hatched by a very charismatic man named Jeh-Bull-She’e’ter who convinced the locals he was an alien-god and would reveal the secrets of the universe for the low-low price of six sheep, a tusk and their virgin daughters.  Archaeologists have confirmed his followers all agreed to commit mass suicide by jumping off a high cliff, believing they would be teleported into the waiting mother ship if they were holding hands.  The lone survivor was a guy named Derek, who failed to make the leap after seeing his sandal needed tying, only to watch his fellow cult members plunge to their demise.  Way to go, Derek. Jeh-Bull-She’e’ter, however, would buy his silence with select members of his new harem, mostly sheep, and the fast-moving world of cults was born.

Today there are more cults than there are people not in one.  Choosing a cult can be very difficult because cults work better when they choose you.  So if you are a hapless loner in search of meaning and a group of people ready to love-bomb you until you’re ready to give them your life and life savings, don’t mess it up by asking, “Are you a cult?”  Not only will this preclude you from membership, but it will deeply offend the members and likely get you blacklisted from ever being invited to their pagan festivals.  Play it cool.

The secret to getting into a top-level cult is to make yourself appear lost and vulnerable.  It also helps to be young and naïve, so child-like that you may in fact be a child.  Start early, or as the Shwim-Shwarma says, “the early bird gets the magic worm of destiny”.  Cults do their best work on the young and dumb, which brings us back to public schools.  Public, and even many private schools, are a virtual hotbed of cult recruitment locales.  Already graduated?  Fear not lone stranger!  You can still gain entry into many reputable cults by virtue of having your child grandfather you in by simply enrolling them into the neighborhood indoctrination center.  Willingness to sacrifice one or all of your children will show the cult you are the kind of deeply committed dummy who is in it for the long haul.

Day one in the cult will be exhilarating at first but quite tiring by the end.  This is necessary to draw down your defenses creating the requisite fatigue in order to give your brain a good washing.  Though you may be dying for food or sleep, it’s important to know those are for losers who don’t understand the true meaning of life is a super-spiritual denial of necessities so you can support the needs of the charismatic leader who is your direct connection to god. If your charismatic leader doesn’t have god on speed dial like a true BFF, it’s time to switch cults and fast.

I regress.

Back to brainwashing.  Why have your brain washed, you ask?  Have you seen your brain?  You know it’s filthy, we all know its filthy, just like everyone else’s, which is why it needs washed. If this is your first time in a cult, you have only ever experienced the same mass programming as the rest of the world, so you’ll need a serious scrubbing to wipe the slate clean.   This gets it ready for your new cult masters to create the proper bond that will keep you devoted to the cult mission.  This is very important!  If you think you’re joining a cult and they don’t have the decency to wash your brain get out!  You’re about to sell Amway or supplements and those won’t get you to the penthouse at the top of New Heaven.  (Not to worry, no one will actually touch your brain, but it will be wiped clean of all undesirables.)

Big words bother you?  Of course, they do you tool of the enemy you!  In order to understand your role in the cult, you’ll need to misunderstand your role in society.  Big, confusing words will help you help yourself away from the mal-initiated proletarian masses. You can’t join the cult without first unjoining yourself from the problem, which is the false system you’re being rescued from.  Which false system, you ask?  They’re all false!  Don’t you get it?  You’ve been born into the wrong body and/or wrong family and/or wrong country and/or wrong religion and/or the wrong side of history.  All roads lead to hell, except for the one built by the super-geniuses running your new cult, of course.  Family, liberal democracies, capitalism, whiteness, racists, gender assignments, fake religion, true religion, and all those other people with God-given rights and freedoms are all trying to keep you back from ascending to the true utopianization of conscience you were made for.  Duh!  Learn the lingo, fam.  If you don’t find yourself repeating the same thought-terminating clichés the rest of the members do, you will find yourself back in the godless society that had you trapped in the first place.  You want to be included, don’t you?  Inclusion is everything to a well-oiled and highly performing cult where the diversity of members creates equity for all.  Repeat after me – diversity, inclusion, and equity make you free.  DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND EQUITY MAKE YOU FREE! Again! Again! One more time!  I can’t HEAR you!

There, there now.  Don’t you feel better?  We do.

Now it is important to note the continuum of cult hierarchy so that you don’t bite off more than you can chew.  We suggest you start small with a quasi-cult before going on to the big time.  Here are a few entry-level cults to get your un-baptized feet wet:

·                     Sour dough club	·                     Cross-fit
·                     Quilting club	·                     Essential oils
·                     Vegetarianism (the portal to Veganism)	·                     The Church of the Sub-Genius

Once you’ve gained the insights on how cults function you can move up to the show and join:

·                     The Family International	·                     LGBTQ-anon
·                     Happy Science	·                     The Illuminati
·                     Superior Universal Alignment	·                     Raeliens
·                     Order of the Solar Temple	·                     Jehovah’s Witnesses
·                     Church of Scientology	·                     The Nation of Islam
·                     Kabbalah	·                     MAGA
·                     Mega-church (any)	·                     Political party (any)

 

So there it is!  The Bananas Guide to Joining A Cult will have you swallowed up by an amorphous mass of bot-people in no-time.  Now go to it!

(We would be happy to tell you that you have what it takes, but you don’t.  That’s why you need to join a cult silly!)

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The Democrats must have an oversized amount of whatever passes for faith in their ability to “win” in November because their open-door illegal alien invasion policy is so well past pissing off their own base that Trump winning Massachusetts has to be a consideration.

Nationwide “immigration,” the polite media word (like migrant) for the Biden administration’s third-world invasion policy (them invading us), is becoming THE biggest issue for Democrats. Democrat states chocked full of Democrat voters are saying it is more important than climate change or grooming, which has to come as a shock to the party leadership.

Complaints by mayors of Democrat toilets doing business as cities have tricked down to the peasants who are increasingly put out by wave after wave of unvetted, non-English-speaking invaders, many of whom are allegedly being flown in directly and ferried to shelters, community centers, hotels, and motels, where they are collecting in every crevice like sand during a dessert storm. But it might be worse than that (if you can imagine such a thing. Voters in Massachusetts, one of the bluest states on the electoral map, were recently polled, and none of their top concerns are issues Democrats typically give a damn about.

A plurality of Massachusetts residents, 21%, said that immigration and migrants are the biggest issues facing the Bay State, with housing coming in second at 15%. Taxes, government spending, and welfare came in as the third biggest issue facing the state at 12%. Inflation and the cost of living, meanwhile, tied government spending in third place at 12%.

What happened to promoting abortion (dba: women’s health care), grooming (Public Education), and Marxism (climate justice, social justice, blah blah blah)? Were those not even options? They were, sort of, but in the bluest of blue-blood locales, Climate and ‘Social Issues” as pressing concerns came in dead last.

 

That might explain why the Bidenistas are so keen on a regional Middle Eastern Conflict, but I’m not sure that’ll be the distraction they’re looking for. China, which backs Russia over Ukraine. Russia is an ally of Iran. Iran (and its proxies), along with China, have been using Biden’s invasion of America to move operatives into the domestic US. And you can argue that this is unverified, but if you were them looking at us, would you sit on your hands or use it to your strategic advantage?

Trust me; there are trained interlopers all across the increasingly fruitless plain waiting to impose as much inconvenience and harm as they can manage and we’re backing their geographic enemies on both conflicts.

Vegas odds, given that Biden and the Democrats have done almost everything they projected on Trump, that they will also try to prevent the election or its results? The odds are getting better every day if the Blue States start to become less-than-reliable electoral gimmes as we creep closer to November.

 

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Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  And Saturday will be the Israel post, if that interests you.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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Will that be in the language you “voluntarily” sign to get your CBDC card – which will be offered as your only choice as they remove cash from the economy?  Doubtless.

 

 

 

Now, imagine the police doing the same for any other religion.

 

 

 

Don’t buy Canadian.

 

 

Square this circle.  Please.

 

 

Some kind of -ist, or -phobe…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m seeing Persian voice after Persian voice, whether inside Iran or out, supporting Israel and wanting freedom from the Mullahs.  How can we help them?

I remember Iran, albeit being “knee high to a grasshopper” at the time.  Warm and wonderful people that we met.

 

 

 

On pretty much anything the Left proposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OK, so who?  If he’s predicting the end of humanity’s domination, who replaces humanity?  Inquiring minds want to know.

 

 

 

Remember my two essays “It was the best of times, it was the end of times”…

 

E It was the best of times, it was the end of times 1

 

E It was the best of times, it was the end of times 2

 

 

 

My older kid will, soon, be entering the workforce.  And will soon be seeing, with their own eyes, the effects of TAXATION IS THEFT.

 

 

It’s painful to me in particular: so many Jews who, among all peoples, should distrust government – so mindlessly servile to “If the government / news say it, it must be true”.

 

 

My brain hurts thinking someone actually believes this!

 

 

 

Interesting metric.

 

 

Celebrating the murder of your child.  A pity they didn’t tie her tubes while they were in there.  How far we’ve fallen – gone back to the old times!

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

Dr. McCullough is the most published cardiologist IN HISTORY.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mccollough-on-oncogenesis.mp4

 

The Jabbed, especially those who have had it multiple times, are in great danger.  Also see links section, below, for other info on this.

 

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Presented to show the Mobius-strip mentality of the Left.

 

 

 

One of the single greatest crimes of 20th century Democrats was the destruction of the black family.  Or any family that was pushed onto the “Great Society” and its welfare requirements.

 

 

 

 

Echoing 2020.  And I fear the results will echo it too.

 

 

 

Can we spell C O N F L I C T  O F  I N T E R E S T boys and girls?

 

 

 

Marry that up with the info apparently being distributed in the pre-border staging areas telling people to vote for Biden… and how to do it.

 

 

That’s the thing.  That department DID NOT EXIST until Carter, and the American education system was the envy of the world.  See this Bill Whittle video:

THE STRUGGLE FOR STUPIDITY (youtube.com)

And note the paragraph that sixth grade students were reading and analyzing, which is the centerpiece of Bill’s discussion.

 

 

 

You have to wonder when so many people make the same gesture.  Is it just “Hey, me too!” or is there something more?  Up until a few years ago I’d have said “Just me too” but now…

 

 

Chops to Kirstie.

 

 

 

Words mean things.  That’s why the Left spends so much time working to corrupt the language.

 

 

We care about borders, national and cultural security, and the safety and security of our children too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s a real shirt!

 

 

See prior comment about Conflict of Interest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve seen quite a number of articles and videos that don’t convince me to repeal the 19th instanter… but do convince me that a case can be made for it.

 

 

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Link Section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

No Oaths of Office in the Federal Government (madmaxworld.tv)

When I worked for the US Army as a civilian (intern!), I still had to take an oath.  I can’t fathom how – not one, but many – of these people are functioning at the highest level without an oath.  Speaking of oaths and impeachment:

On The Mayorkas Impeachment in [Market-Ticker] (formatting removed):

The impeachment of Mayorkas has nothing to do with “policy disagreements”; it is first, last and only about a Cabinet official’s deliberate refusal to enforce laws as written, including 8 USC §1324.

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A Millennial Conflict – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

An ageless conflict, actually.

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Camera Catches Biden’s Cheat Sheet for Meeting with Iraq PM, Shows Embarrassing Directions to Guide Him | The Gateway Pundit | by Jack Davis, The Western Journal

National embarrassment.  At least, to anyone with three brain cells that work with each other.

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Borepatch: How do you find “Global Warming” when there’s no actual warming?

The upward warming trend from 1970 to the present day is not due to the data as read, but rather to the (made up) adjustments to the data.

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Bayou Renaissance Man: Put not your trust in bureaucracies – Second Amendment edition

 

 

Related:

Defense against robots – Gun Free Zone

I agree.  More on guns:

Unlicensed Dealers Account for fewer than 1 of 10,000 Firearms Sold in USA (jpfo.org)

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Closed-Loop Fission Energy? in [Market-Ticker]

Interesting about nuclear energy.  A civilization like ours needs reliable and consistent energy.

Biden WH Weighs Invoking Climate Emergency To Hamper Oil Production, Garner Youth Votes – Climate Change Dispatch

War on Oil: Biden Has Taken More than 200 Actions Against U.S. Oil Industry – The Lid (lidblog.com)

And broadly on climate:

Net Zero? Oops, Never Mind | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)

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Bill Gates Patent Gives Him ‘Exclusive Rights’ to ‘Computerize’ Humans – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

More and more, I view this as a not-merely-theoretical threat.  Kind of related, at least to me:

‘Terrifying’: FISA Bill Set to Include ‘Vast’ New Surveillance Powers Forcing Businesses to ‘Become NSA Spies’ (infowars.com)

Technology is, increasingly, changing from a tool of liberation and information to a tool of oppression.  And related to technology:

Video: Boston Dynamics unveils stronger, more capable electric Atlas robot (newatlas.com)

AI-powered robots can now autonomously repair other bots (newatlas.com)

Why do the above NOT give me warm fuzzy feelings?  Or this:

AI Is Now Dogfighting With Fighter Pilots In The Air | The War Zone (twz.com)

From a purely military standpoint, this makes sense.  The downside potential for this, however, is enormous.

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7 of 12 Trump Jurors Have Been Picked. Here’s What We Know About Them… (thenationalpulse.com)

Can we spell FIX?

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This Is What Your Neighbor Might Already Know About You – Ask a Prepper

Never Throw These Away! – Ask a Prepper

Prep.  Prep.  Prep.  Lather, rinse, repeat.  No, you can’t be 100 sure or completely prepared for any possibility, but even something is better than nothing.  Related to spicy time:

Video: Robert Spencer on How the Left Is Trying to Foment a Civil War (jihadwatch.org)

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Researchers Warn of Mutant Monkeypox Strain with ‘Pandemic Potential’, Discovered in Congo Village (legalinsurrection.com)

Spread by sexual contact.  And you know they want pedo too:

New York Democrats Want Law to Allow Little Kids to undergo Sex Change without Parental Consent – The Lid (lidblog.com)

Just what kind of monster would, possibly, permit this.  Or this:

California Democrats Oppose Bill Making Child Prostitution a Felony – The Lid (lidblog.com)

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German Peasants Warned They Could Be Restricted From Driving On The Weekends To Meet Net Zero – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

Consequences of Green policies.  Benefits unknown.

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Oriane Filhol (left-wing politician who campaigned for the rights of migrants) and Pippa Bacca (hitchhiker in Turkey who tried to promote world peace), both attacked & killed by islamic 6th century (substack.com)

I want-want-want to feel sorry for them; I’m sure their friends and family are grieving.  I can’t scrape up a shred, sorry.

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South American ‘Burglary tourists’ strike again: Now foreign armed gangs are targeting wealthy San Diego neighborhoods after flying in to America on Visa Waiver Program | Daily Mail Online

Videos: Migrants Complain That New Yorkers Don’t Learn African Languages – modernity

Wait, wait, wait… you come to a new country and then demand that people in the new country learn YOUR language?

At another point in the hearing migrants began complaining about the free food and housing they have been provided, saying it isn’t good enough.

And you come here, getting free room and board, often clothes, medical care, etc., also free – and you’re complaining still?

Student suspended for using term ‘illegal alien’ in English class (carolinajournal.com)

Before my wife got her US citizenship, she was a RESIDENT ALIEN.  Someone here illegally is an ILLEGAL ALIEN.

Period.

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We’re All Paying A Deadly Price For Obama’s Foreign Policy (thefederalist.com)

Go past the Israel focus of the article.  Barackus’ influence has been calamitous generally.  And he’s still got his hand in the mix.

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Confirmed: Researchers Reveal COVID mRNA Vaccines Contain Component that Suppresses Immune Response and Stimulates Cancer Growth | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

See video in PSA above.  Scary stuff.  More:

BREAKING–New Manuscript Concludes 100% Pseudouridinated mRNA is Potentially Cancer-Promoting (substack.com)

From the same site:

Why is Academic Medicine Stonewalling on the COVID-19 Vaccine Debacle? (substack.com)

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Two from Surak – always insightful:

STATIN DRUGS laid the groundwork for COVID (substack.com)

Who takes statins?  Primarily older people.  Whose health care is more expensive.  See the “Pick of the Post”…

Changing the Constitution to save America (substack.com)

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Congressional Spending Goes Full Weimar – American Thinker

Death spiral approaching!

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Mainstream Media Issues Joint Statement to Pressure Biden – Morning Report News

As I understand, Trump has publicly said YES, repeatly.  It’s The Potato (or more precisely, his shepherds) that refuse.  Speaking of the enemedia:

Let’s Play ‘Spot the Missing Word’ : The Other McCain

Control the information flow, control what people believe.  There’s a reason that word is missing.  For example, when you search for DEMOCRAT and CORRUPTION in a search, nothing comes up.  Generally:

Democrats Continue To Look For Ways To Regulate Free Speech – Pirate’s Cove » Pirate’s Cove (thepiratescove.us)

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Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event (newatlas.com)

I just think this is cool!

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Democrats One Step Closer to Mob Rule: Maine Joins Blue States To Abolishing Electoral College – Geller Report

Maine circling the drain.  IMHO, NH will not be more than 10 years in doing the same.

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A fairly long video (almost 50 minutes) from October 2022 that lays out a fairly strong case for the Vatican being one of the powers behind “The Great Culling”, and how they are pulling a lot of financial strings to hasten the End Times.  The presenter says some pretty outlandish stuff, but he also has some good backup.  Definitely food for thought:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/7eRf1t5gs6Gy/

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More on “The Great Taking”.  Strongly suggest getting any cash you have OUT of the banks.  The FDIC insurance isn’t going to matter for squat if the government declares a “bank holiday” and locks everyone out of their accounts.  Start NOW, as amounts larger than $5000 or so will cause much push back (I know from personal experience):

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/04/07/whats-so-great-about-the-great-reset-great-taking-great-replacement-great-deflation-and-next-great-depression/

Also, understand that if you draw money routinely, sooner or later you will be accused of “structuring” – drawing money out in smaller amounts that is designed to evade that limit.

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A government commissioned report  has been released that shows causality (i.e. a direct link) between the mRNA “vaccines” and myocarditis.  Given this report, they can no longer claim ignorance of the damage caused by the “Jabs”, and they need to stop pushing the “vaccines” immediately (or at least put a HUGE warning on them).  Let the court battles begin:

Biden Admin-commissioned report concludes Pfizer & Moderna mRNA shots cause myocarditis (dossier.today)

Don’t forget this video – they knew, and knew in 2021:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/naomi-wolf-they-knew.mp4

 

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The government is running experiments to create clouds and block the sun, all to combat “global warming”. They just had their first major experiment, but did not tell anyone until AFTER it was conducted, as they were concerned about public backlash.  You think?:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/secretive-experiment-shoots-aerosols-into-sky-to-increase-cloud-cover-facts-matter-5624329

If they goof and put too much in, there goes photosynthesis.  And all life on earth.

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Now that the R’s are getting into mail-in voting & ballot harvesting (where ever it’s legal), the D’s are getting concerned about how it may affect the election:

Democrats, Media Starting to Admit Some Mail-In Voting Problems Ahead of 2024 Presidential Election – Tennessee Star

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Flyers found in Mexico, at a processing station for illegals are openly telling the “newcomers” to vote for Biden.  First:  These are NOT citizens of the USA, so they should not be allowed to vote at ALL!   2nd, this is out-and-out election interference, trying to dilute the vote of We The People:

GOP Slams ‘Vote Biden’ Flyers at Migrant Center (dailysignal.com)

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Even the left is getting tired of the pro-Hamas protesters:

Whoa: Google Fires 28 Employees After Pro-Hamas Sit-In – HotAir

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For anyone who owns a gun & wants to sell it someday, the ATF just dropped a new “rule” (466 pages worth), making it a crime to sell your gun at a profit unless you have an FFL:

The Feral Irishman: Bee Aye Tea Eff: Making It Up As We Go Along

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This article has a strong argument that we are already a police state, but the police just haven’t gotten around to you yet.  To paraphase a friend “Every day the coils of the deep state snake squeeze a little harder”:

DAVID KRAYDEN: America is already a police state; it just hasn’t captured you yet | Human Events | humanevents.com

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Saw this recently, and thought it was spot on:

“The most oppressed people in America are the law-abiding individuals.”  

— sloanmagnum5009

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Concluding:

Paris 2024 Games flame lit in ancient Olympia – Insider Paper

Notice what’s not there?

“Diversity”.

And related to Greece:

Must be “The Climate Change”: Greece’s Population Plummets as Sudden Deaths Soar (substack.com)

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

 

Remember these words:

Remember, in socialist societies, an individual’s worth is measured, not by being a unique person made in the image of God, but by that person’s utility to the state. If you’re no longer useful and, worse, if are an economic drain on society, you’ve got to go.

Cases Of Medical Murder Explode In America (allnewspipeline.com) (bolding added):

Taking a longer view, Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the country’s most influential bioethicists and a prime architect of Obamacare, wrote as far back as 1996 that health care “services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.”

What did the first excerpt say?  If you’re not productive / participating, you’re on the chopping block.

In a possible “predictive programming” moment, there was a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode centering around a planetary civilization that had The Resolution where it was your social duty to commit suicide before you became a burden.  Given the enormous push for euthanasia around the world – at least in western societies – that seems prophetic.

And then, of course, there’s Logan’s Run.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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I’ll show myself out.  TGIF!

 

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Iran’s attack on Israel; the Trump trial in NYC; should he have not bothered to show up to the trial at all to show his disdain? Would Biden pull Trump’s secret service to send him to prison? Should SCOTUS take so long to make decisions? Do oral arguments change minds? Speaker Johnson changing his mind on section 702; Senate refused to hold trial on Mayorkas impeachment.

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After writing and publishing nine books about liberty, Alu has taken on some unique ventures related to writing. He has helped three other libertarians self-publish their own books, he’s translated his books into Spanish, and there are numerous other projects in the works. One of these projects simply involved compiling some of the best quotes about liberty, peace, and prosperity from the dawn of recorded time until 2024. 

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What is the alt-right? Trump judge refusing to acquiesce to the appeals court re: the bond he has to put up in order to appeal or did Letitia James say the insurance company that issued the bond is not qualified to do such business in NY. Abortion as national issue vs states right; what is Trump standing for in this election cycle? How much else could Trump be doing to spread a winning message and strengthen other GOP candidates?

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In January 2024, there was a meeting of the New Hampshire House State-Federal Relations and Veteran Affairs committee. The committee heard two separate bills on secession.

The first one, CACR 20, would be a constitutional amendment that would see the people of NH vote to amend the constitution to say that if the federal government’s national debt reaches $40 trillion, New Hampshire shall peacefully secede from the union.
The second one, HB1130 would form a commission to study everything we would need to know about secession, such as economic impact.

This is video of the full public hearing for both bills and the people’s testimonies.

On Wednesday morning, NHexit.US announced that local liberty activists in New Hampshire have hired a chartered airplane pilot to fly a pro-independence banner over the three largest cities in the state. Over the past few years, the calls for serious discussions on peaceful separation of New Hampshire from DC and the union have grown dramatically. New Hampshire is already home to the most influential liberty movement in the world.

Notable events since 2021 include:

• legislation to place an independence referendum on the ballot which was sponsored by nine lawmakers in the New Hampshire House
• a poll by SurveyUSA finding that almost 100% of NH residents strongly resent the federal government and 29% are ready to secede immediately
• increasing demands by lawmakers and the centrist governor telling the DC tyrants to back off 
• An abundance of pro-independence sentiment, including flags for the Granite Republic, hats, T-shirts, books, articles, and podcasts, and even a national anthem

This Saturday, an airplane banner could be added to that list. The tentative plan is for the banner to fly over Nashua, Manchester, and Concord. If you look up while in one of these cities, you just might be able to snap a photo or record a video of the banner. We encourage our readers to post their photos to social media with the tags #NHexit, #secession, and #NHpolitics. 

Additionally, the question of secession will be asked by another highly reputable pollster. The University of New Hampshire is currently conducting a political survey that includes multiple questions related to New Hampshire independence. The results could be published within days or a few weeks. 

 

 

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A recent poll conducted by SurveyUSA on behalf of the Foundation for New Hampshire Independence (FNHI) shows that while the peaceful separation of New Hampshire from the federal government has low support among politicians, it has significant support among registered voters.

According to an overwhelming number of respondents, the people of the United States are getting more and more divided over important issues like LGBT rights, guns, abortion, election integrity, race relations, involvement in foreign wars, climate change, immigration, and so on (91%).  Nearly as many fear that if this trend continues, it will lead to increases in political violence (89%).

Large majorities of respondents agreed that the federal government doesn’t have their best interests in mind (67%); that it violates their rights more than it protects those rights (65%); that it produces laws, regulations, and court rulings that are incompatible with New Hampshire’s culture of freedom (63%); and that its financial decisions and economic regulations hurt our livelihoods, and could lead to inflation and bankruptcy (77%).

In short, 63% of respondents feel that their state can be trusted more than the federal government.

One possible way forward would be for New Hampshire to begin ignoring federal laws and regulations regarding matters reserved to the States by the 10th Amendment. Fewer than half of respondents believe that the federal government should be able to force New Hampshire to follow federal mandates and laws regarding cannabis (27%), medicine (37%), public health (42%), education (41%), welfare (42%, firearms (42%), businesses (38%), and abortion (33%).

This approach, also referred to as ‘nullification’ is common, currently being utilized by dozens of states, and is consistent with the recent enactment of New Hampshire HB 1178, ‘prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms’. 

However, a more comprehensive way forward would be for New Hampshire to reclaim its sovereignty, peacefully separating from the federal government to govern itself as an independent country, an idea that was supported by 29% of respondents and 52% of Republicans. Only 58% of respondents do not support immediate and full secession from the federal government today. More than 2/5 of respondents agreed that the state should be able to do this without securing permission from the federal government (43%). And only 3% of respondents would support the use of military force by the federal government to interfere with such a separation.

Again, while politicians declined to put the question to the people, more than 2/5 of respondents support the idea of placing independence on the ballot (42%) while only 47% currently oppose it.

History is filled with proposals that seemed at first to be politically impossible, but after serious discussion and evolving circumstances, proved to be politically inevitable. To take just one example, shall-issue laws for concealed carry licenses, once viewed as extreme, are now the law in nearly every state. As the results of this poll show, peaceful separation already has more support now than shall-issue laws had in 1990. Today, not only is shall-issue the norm, but 25 states allow their residents to carry concealed guns without even requiring a permit. If New Hampshire independence follows a similar path, it may only be a few short years away from broad adoption. 

The survey also found strong support for independence and extreme discontent with DC politicians among all 8 states polled. In Texas, 90% of Republicans recently endorsed putting secession on the ballot, officially placing the position in their platform. California progressives have a strong independence movement of their own, and surveys show that around half of Californians support or are open to independence from the union. Progressives in Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington also support independence. States like South Carolina, Florida, and many other states have new independence movements that are rapidly growing, as well. 

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Over the past few weeks, a group of pro-freedom activists in New Hampshire has been holding informal meetings to brainstorm how to best promote independence in the next legislative session. Predictably, progressive authoritarians have already begun to attack the concepts of independence and liberty. A few conservatives cling to hope that they can fix DC and all 50 states, convince all Democrats to embrace conservative liberty values, and ‘save America’. 

 

I have written dozens of articles, published three books, and produced hundreds of videos making the case for a national divorce from the authoritarians. Here are just 100 reasons why every New Hampshire citizen who supports freedom should support a bill and a ballot referendum on independence from DC. 

 

1. Without the federal income tax, we’d each save around $25,000/year right off the bat.
2. The IRS is corrupt, tyrannical, and about to grow by 80,000 employees and billions of dollars. Years ago, they were caught targeting conservatives. Now, they are surely much more polarized and hateful against us. I could live without them.
3. The ATF is extremely anti-gun. They have been one of the biggest reasons that federal gun control laws have grown increasingly strict. The ATF passes laws and bypasses Congress. Once the murderous criminal, Dave Chipman is confirmed as the new ATF director, things will get much worse. I could live without the ATF. Once we divorce DC by declaring independence from the union, the ATF will no longer have jurisdiction over us. 
4. The CDC is out of control, and the agency will only ever grow more tyrannical. This was before corona-fascism made the CDC into the most harmful agency to liberty of all 400 illegal executive agencies. By the way, did you know that the CDC took legal ownership over every rental property in the united states?
5. I don’t trust Joe Biden to run my life or to do anything that could impact me. I have around 28 trillion reasons for distrusting that corrupt, evil, demented sociopath. 
6. I don’t trust Congress to run my life. They have proven time and again that they support authoritarian socialism. Even with majorities in the House and the Senate and even with Trump in the White House, Congress did nearly nothing to expand liberty. But they did pass many laws that violated my natural rights. 
7. The federal government benefits from terribly untrustworthy elections, such as the one in 2020. Once HR1 passes into law, all elections in the united states will be required to abide by the same insane rules that caused us all to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
8. Once HR51 passes into law, DC will be a state, complete with two more hardcore socialist Senators. The Democrats will control the Senate forever.
9. If you aren’t a big fan of sobriety checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
10. If you aren’t a big fan of immigration checkpoints, you’ll be happy to learn that they are federally funded and/or conducted. Once we divorce the feds, it’s unlikely that any local police dept. will spend the money on the checkpoints. 
11.  Local cops only use tanks, drones, BEARcats, and other aggressive military gear against us because the feds give them those toys. Once we cut ties with DC, our local cops will return to their proper role as peace officers instead of acting as soldiers against us.
12. One of the reasons that Dictator Sununu locked us down and derailed our economy involved pressure and money from DC encouraging him to do so. 
13. If you don’t like being forced to pay for the DC politicians to wage futile endless wars in dozens of countries all over the world while veterans, women, and babies in our own communities starve on the streets, it means you want to separate from DC. 
14. If you are ready to give up on the war on drugs and stop sending cops to homes to punish people for consuming a plant, separating from DC is the first step you must take. DC politicians STILL consider cannabis a schedule one top-tier dangerous substance that is 100% illegal to possess. 
15. Do you love it when cops steal your property (car, house, money, guns, etc.) without convicting you of a crime? Well, federal law allows law enforcement to seize any property that could be involved in a past, present, or even future crime. And the feds have ‘extended’ that authority to state and local cops. Once we sever ties with DC, cops in NH lose the power of civil asset forfeiture.
16. If you ever wondered why bad cops almost never receive any punishment, you should know that ‘qualified immunity’ is a federal doctrine. Without DC, local cops become much more accountable to their neighbors.
17. The millions of federal regulations cost businesses over 2 trillion dollars each year in lost productivity. Once we divorce DC, our businesses will truly be able to unleash their creativity, making New Hampshire more prosperous than we could ever imagine.
18. Who should decide whether NH accepts illegal aliens or Afghan refugees? Biden and Pelosi or our governor and legislature?
19. Are you tired of being ruled by nine lawyers in long black robes who live in DC and have the power of Gods? If five out of the nine rule a certain way, that becomes the law for all 330,000,000 people in the united states.  
20. The federal reserve and DC politicians have overseen a decline in 99% of the US dollar’s purchasing power over the past century.
21. DC politicians have run up a debt of 28 trillion dollars and counting. And they claim that you and I are responsible for it. 
22. Nearly every politician has ambitions and eventually wishes to be sent to DC. This affects nearly every decision they make. Once DC is no longer in their minds, they will focus on what is most important: you.
23. Federal law enforcement (including the FBI) have shown themselves to be thoroughly corrupt. Even conservative commentators like Dan Bongino have called for their abolition. A few months ago, the FBI and other federal cops came to New Hampshire and violently kidnapped six of my friends. They are charging them with crimes that could result in them spending the remainder of their lives in federal prison. Their excuse? That my friends committed some victimless crimes by using and selling cryptocurrency. Once we leave DC, that will never happen again. 
24. Want a suppressor so that you can save your hearing? They are only illegal because the feds prohibit them. Without the feds, NH would be totally free, and you could put a suppressor on your SBR without any worries. 
25. Are you worried about increasingly strict EPA restrictions on vehicles, houses, and everything else? Once we divorce DC, they will have no jurisdiction over us.
26. Are you sick of random federal judges issuing injunctions that overrule actual laws passed by Congress or state legislatures? An independent NH would not have to worry one bit about federal judges.
27. The DC politicians are destroying the once-mighty American military. Their current secretary of defense and commander-in-chief continually insist that the #1 priority for their military is pleasing LGBT individuals. An independent New Hampshire could have a military with a top priority of defending us against hostile militaries. As it should be.
28. Have you accumulated a respectable net worth? Soon, the federal government will tax your net worth each year in addition to all of the other taxes. 
29. The US Congress literally does not represent you or me.
30. The federal government hates you. Especially if you are white. 
31. Multiple federal court rulings have declared that the first amendment does not protect any speech that is insulting, especially towards a government agent. 
32. Right now, even policies that you think are set by state lawmakers are really controlled by the feds via extortion. 
33. If the thought of Pelosi’s Capitol Police Force growing worries you …. You might support NH independence from DC. 
34. If you would rather have your highway taxes spent on highways … You might be a NHexiter.
35. Do you think that Facebook and Twitter are too powerful and too damaging to liberty? Federal law grants them effective immunity from lawsuits while also granting them the power to manipulate content. They get to act as both a publisher and a platform, whichever suits them at the moment. 
36. If you support sound, free-market money like gold and silver (and crypto) ….You already support NHexit. It’s only a matter of time before the feds ban them.
37. If you are afraid that Donald Trump might become President again …. You just might be a NHexiter.
38. If you are afraid that Kamala Harris might become President…. You just might be a NHexiter.
39. If you think that Title IX is a major reason that free speech and due process in colleges were destroyed, you support NHexit.
40. If you believe that boys should not have a free pass to the girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, you support NH independence. 
41. If you can’t count the billions of federal laws….you might support independence.
42. The FDA hurts and kills patients by stifling innovation and preventing people from using medications until the FDA spends decades of time and billions of dollars approving them.
43. Cutting ties with DC would immediately and drastically cut prices and improve the availability of drugs like epinephrine, insulin, loperamide, and many others. 
44. DC politicians use the federal department of education to brainwash your children to hate freedom. Once we are independent, that goes away.
45. The federal government believes that showing online ads to specific cohorts is a crime.
46. If you are not comfortable with the REAL ID becoming a dystopian federal identification card, you might be an NHexit supporter.  
47. Support in Congress for a magazine ban is getting very close to a majority. In a few years, your magazines will be federally illegal. 
48. Once HR127 passes Congress, every firearm will be effectively illegal. Hope you’re ready to turn in your guns to the feds! You are a patriot and not a criminal, so you’d never violate federal law, right? 
49. It is very likely that Congress (or federal regulators) ban armor plates for all civilians very soon. Hope you’re ready to turn in your plates!
50. Even the best ‘conservatives’ in DC are working with Bloomberg to take away your guns.
51. Technically speaking…the federal government should not exist anymore. 
52. Federal judges have ruled that police have no legal obligation to protect you. 
53. The federal government thinks it can take your property by force, as long as it plans to use the property for anything that could benefit the government, including giving your property to companies like Pfizer. Without DC, states and localities have no power of eminent domain (AKA theft of property).
54. Federal politicians from Biden to McConnell and everyone in between consistently sell us out to oligarchs like Putin and Xi to enrich themselves. 
55. We can’t take power back from Congress, even with a Convention of States.
56. The DC politicians incentivize single motherhood and discourage employment. 
57. If you don’t believe that global warming is the biggest threat to our lives, you should not be in the same union as DC, the federal government, and the other states. 
58. If you don’t appreciate being spied on by the NSA and other creepy DC agents and politicians, you should consider divorcing them. 
59. If you don’t want to support the Taliban by providing them with money and military weapons and helicopters, you should leave the union and stop paying federal taxes. 
60. The federal government considers people guilty until proven innocent – the opposite of how it was supposed to be. Peaceful protesters have been receiving punishments in prison for months despite never being convicted. If you support due process, you support NHexit.
61. The federal TSA regularly violates our natural rights, despite literally missing 95% of actual threats. 
62. DC politicians maintain a horrifically managed ‘no-fly list’, which mistakenly puts many people (including babies) onto the list, preventing them from flying. It’s also nearly impossible to get off of the list. 
63. Conservatives from Candace Owens to Matt Walsh have spoken in support of state independence from DC. 
64. Federal government leaders believe that if you don’t wear all the masks they recommend and if you don’t get all of the vaccines they recommend, you are just like the Taliban suicide bombers. 
65. DC politicians prohibit beneficial pipelines that would have been amazing for our national security and economy while simultaneously supporting pipelines for nations that are hostile to us. 
66. Who is arming the violent Mexican drug cartels? Federal agents from DC!
67. The federal government has kidnapped innocent Japanese people and put them in concentration camps. New Hampshire has never done that. And they couldn’t ever do that. Because we all have lots of guns. 
68. The US government banned firearms and ammunition from Russia. New Hampshire would never do that.
69. The US government puts many kids in cages at the border. New Hampshire would handle immigration in a much more sensible and humane way. 
70. Things will literally never change for the better. Even with Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling Congress and the SCOTUS, freedom only diminished and tyranny continued to grow.
71. New Hampshire citizens are the hardest workers and earn the most money, which is demonstrated by our continent-leading median household income. We don’t need DC politicians to be wealthy.
72. New Hampshire is the freest state. Nearly all of our issues are caused by federal laws. Once we are independent, we will be almost 100% free to live as we please!
73. New Hampshire is the safest state. We don’t need DC or other states bringing violence to our peaceful paradise. 
74. Half of the people in the united states believe that Biden was legitimately elected and that Republicans are all traitors, while the other half believes that Biden lost the election and progressives are traitors. How could one country be united if its people hate each other so much? 
75. The DC politicians now feel so entitled to infinite power that they essentially ban medications that could help treat COVID, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. 
76. DC politicians are so arrogant that they no longer feel the need to pass legislation in Congress; they now use executive orders to pass new laws, including the most recent one forcing all private companies in the united states with over 100 employees to vaccinate their employees or test them for COVID weekly. This will affect 80 million employees. If you don’t want DC sociopaths coming between you and your employer (or you and your doctor), you support independence. 
77. When conservative states began having success treating COVID with monoclonal antibodies Biden and DC politicians began to BLOCK the life-saving treatments from getting to pro-freedom anti-Biden states like Alabama and Florida, potentially causing people to die.
78. DC politicians have made it clear that they will continue to prioritize foreign nationals and illegal immigrants over American citizens like you and me.
79. On the other hand, DC politicians have made it very clear that Cuban immigrants are not welcome here (because they tend to vote for freedom and against communism). 
80. The Biden IRS is now going to monitor every bank account with over $600 in it so that they can tax all people who make any money in any way. Those who receive more than $600 in PayPal transactions in a year will also be subject to taxation, according to experts. Peaceful separation solves this IRS issue because the IRS would no longer have any jurisdiction over us. 
81. When NH adopted federal food laws, it made selling mushrooms illegal, among many other prohibitions. Now, the only way to make it legal for anyone in NH to sell mushrooms is to create more regulation requiring ‘licenses’, which is somewhat counterproductive. The only other way to make mushrooms legal in NH would be to sever ties with DC. 
82. Dictator Biden nominated an actual Soviet communist to be the comptroller of the currency. If you don’t want your country’s financial system to be run by an avowed communist, you support separation from DC.  
83. On 10/8/21, the preliminary deal on a GLOBAL tax on businesses was officially agreed to. A total of 136 countries have signed onto the measure, guaranteeing that they will work together to stomp out businesses seeking to evade taxes by implementing at least a 15% tax on them, no matter where they come from. Once New Hampshire becomes a self-governing state, its low (or absent) tax on business could attract so much business to the state that it could cause the biggest economic boom in world history. 
84. Dictator Biden’s OSHA implemented a vaccine mandate for nearly every worker in the united states. It is extremely unlikely that an individual could beat this in federal courts or via federal legislation. Separating from the union is actually the more practical way to nullify this mandate. 
85. A federal law to require all new cars to have passive drunk-driving monitoring technology is about to go into effect, making all cars in the united states more expensive and much more intrusive. The law does not specify, but the new technology may be tantamount to perpetual breathalyzers and/or eye monitoring in every car. 
86. The medical system and all medical institutions in the united states are becoming increasingly racist towards whites, and it all starts with DC politicians. 
87. The Supreme Court is composed of 9 judges. The SCOTUS is perhaps the most powerful entity in the united states now. These nine judges are either evil or mentally retarded. They certainly do not believe in freedom. Is that who you want to be ruled by?
88. The US House of Representatives passed legislation that would take over control of elections, taking the power that always resided with the states and granting it to DC politicians. Among the many measures in the legislative package was a law that prohibited any election in the united states from requiring ID in order to vote. New Hampshire citizens who would like to retain their voter ID law must either support secession or give up voter ID forever once this federal law passes. 
89. DC politicians just passed a law mandating that all vehicles made after 2026 be equipped with perpetual monitoring systems to detect ‘impaired driving’. The vehicles must also have ‘kill switches’ that allow cops to turn them off at any moment. If you don’t like this policy, secession is the only solution. 
90. In the summer of 2022, federal government will begin to require facial recognition/uploading pictures of your face in order to access tax/ documents on the IRS website.
91. The President announced that the next US Supreme Court Judge he nominates will be a black woman. Upon joining the court, she will likely hear a massively important case involving ‘affirmative action’.
92. DC politicians are literally stealing our organs. In 2021, a policy change at UNOS essentially caused nearly all organs from donors in New Hampshire to be sent to NYC, CT, and MA, harming New Hampshire’s patients who desperately need organs to live. DC is viciously fighting NH legislation that would allow Granite Staters to state their preference that their neighbors be granted priority over foreigners if they pass away with viable organs. 
93. The brilliant experts in DC are using $30,000,000 in taxpayer funds to give out drug paraphernalia, including crack pipes, to drug users. The statement from the DC politicians specifically mentioned that they are being distributed primarily to minorities and that they are to be used for illegal drugs. 
94. Our Lords in DC believe that they must force New Hampshire to build more housing projects so that our state could look more like the Bronx.  
95. Our brilliant Lords in DC are destroying our savings and devaluing our salaries by printing so much money that annual inflation is now at a frightening 9.1% annual rate.
96. DC politicians have been forcing you and me to pay for dangerous bioweapons labs in Ukraine for years. 
97. Your federal tax dollars are being used to pay Tik Tok influencers to create and promote propaganda approved by Dictator Biden. If you don’t want to be forced to fund such endeavors, you may want to consider secession. 
98. If you don’t enjoy paying $6 billion for the annual NIAID budget doled out by Anthony Fauci to fund foreign bioweapons labs and development and approval of ludicrously expensive patented pharmaceuticals and suppress use of cheap off-patent drug, you should consider supporting a vote of NH residents to leave the union.
99. The federal government violates free speech in numerous ways. Leaving their jurisdiction solves these issues and restores freedom of speech, expression, press, association, and worship. 
100. The federal government is increasingly racist. Most recently, Dictator Biden nominated a black woman to be a judge on the highest court because of her gender and skin color. Ironically, she will likely soon be ruling on an affirmative action case. 

 

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