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Of the 139 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 24 and opposition of 25 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 50 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 13 with 1 being of interest.

Position	Bill	Title	Committee	Day	Time	Room	State Analysis
Of Interest	HB1667	relative to establishing a department for children, youth, and families.	Children and Family Law	Tue 1/16	9:45 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill establishes the department for children, youth and families as a separate state agency responsible for the general supervision and enforcement of all programs and services for children and youths. The bill also transfers all former powers, duties and responsibilities of the department of health and human services, division for children, youth and families and the division of juvenile justice services to the newly established department.
Oppose	SB328	relative to deceptive ticket sale practices.	Commerce	Tue 1/16	9:00 AM	SH Room 100	This bill makes the resale of event tickets by a person who is not the venue or an authorized agent of the venue unlawful if it does not meet certain criteria.
Oppose	SB519	relative to evictions based on the owner’s intent to renovate the property.	Commerce	Tue 1/16	9:15 AM	SH Room 100	This bill adds evidentiary requirements to evictions based upon renovation and permits a discretionary stay of eviction for up to 6 months.
Oppose	SB518	relative to incentivizing landlords to accept housing choice vouchers.	Commerce	Tue 1/16	9:30 AM	SH Room 100	This bill establishes a landlord housing incentive program and fund. This bill makes an appropriation to implement the fund.
Oppose	SB366	relative to restricting the purchase of real property on or around military installations.	Commerce	Tue 1/16	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill prohibits the purchase of real property by the People’s Republic of China on or within 10 miles of any military installations or critical infrastructure facilities.
Oppose	SB343	relative to school based health services.	Education	Tue 1/16	9:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill allows school districts to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center for the purpose of providing services to students beyond the scope of school nursing services.
Support	SB374	relative to the licensing of part-time teachers.	Education	Tue 1/16	9:15 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill defines “part-time teacher.”
Support	HB1402	establishing a procedure for a high school proficiency exam waiver of mandatory school attendance.	Education	Tue 1/16	10:00 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill allows for a student to take and pass a high school proficiency exam so that the student shall no longer be bound by the mandatory school attendance requirements.
Oppose	HB1212	relative to eligibility for free school meals.	Education	Tue 1/16	10:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill increases the eligibility for free school meals to household incomes up to 350 percent of federal poverty guidelines, and provides funding from the education trust fund for the additional costs.
Oppose	HB1153	relative to mandatory and elective public school curricula.	Education	Tue 1/16	1:45 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill requires mandatory “anti-communist” curricula and establishes elective curricula for public schools.
Oppose	SB380	relative to moving the state primary date.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 1/16	9:15 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill moves the state primary date to June.
Oppose	SB445	establishing a voter-owned elections fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and making an appropriation to the fund.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 1/16	9:45 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill establishes a voter owned election fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund.
Support	SB446	allowing voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office.	Election Law and Municipal Affairs	Tue 1/16	10:00 AM	LOB Room 103	This bill allows voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office.
Of Interest	SB387	relative to a state parks pass pilot program for recovery centers and community health centers.	Energy and Natural Resources	Tue 1/16	9:30 AM	SH Room 103	This bill requires the establishment of a 3-year pilot program for state parks passes for recovery centers and community health centers registered with the department of health and human services.
Oppose	HB1184	relative to making an appropriation to the organic certification program.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/16	10:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets and food for the staffing and funding of the organic certification program.
Oppose	HB1618	mandating a cooperative agreement with USDA for “organic” certification.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/16	11:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill requires the commissioner to hire inspectors and enter into a USDA cooperative agreement.
Support	HB1578	relative to organic food certification and labeling.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/16	11:30 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill repeals the certification program and the organic processors-handlers certification fund.
Oppose	HB1680	relative to prohibiting the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops.	Environment and Agriculture	Tue 1/16	2:00 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill prohibits the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops except in certain cases.
Oppose	SB348	relative to emergency crop relief.	Finance	Tue 1/16	1:00 PM	SH Room 103	This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets, and food to distribute emergency relief to farmers who suffered crop damage in the unseasonable cold and floods.
Oppose	SB494	relative to establishing a farmer assistance fund.	Finance	Tue 1/16	1:10 PM	SH Room 103	This bill establishes the farmer assistance for natural disasters fund and makes an appropriation therefor.
Support	HB1127	relative to the revocation and suspension of drivers’ licenses.	Transportation	Tue 1/16	11:20 AM	LOB Room 203	This bill allows individuals with suspended licenses to mow their lawns without penalty and eliminates the requirement that drivers with suspended licenses surrender their licenses to the department of motor vehicles.
Of Interest	HB1118	relative to the issuance of drivers’ licenses for aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire.	Transportation	Tue 1/16	1:20 PM	LOB Room 203	This bill allows the director of motor vehicles to require nonresident aliens to submit various certifications for drivers license issuance.
Support	SB510	relative to sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident.	Transportation	Tue 1/16	2:15 PM	LOB Room 101	This bill eliminates the requirement that a retail motor vehicle dealer submit a form notifying the New Hampshire department of motor vehicles of a sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident.
Support	HB1422	relative to the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, communications service tax, and meals and rooms tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/16	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill reduces the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, and meals and rooms tax. It also reduces and subsequently repeals the communications services tax.
Oppose	HB1492	relative to the rate and exemptions of the interest and dividends tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/16	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill reimplements the interest and dividends tax.
Support	HB1533	relative to the safe harbor compensation amount under the business profits tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/16	11:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill increases the amount of the safe harbor provision for compensation under the business profits tax and provides for a biennial increase in future years based on the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index.
Support	HB1536	relative to increasing the amount of the expense deduction allowed against the business profits tax.	Ways and Means	Tue 1/16	12:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill increases the amount of the section 179 expense deduction permitted against the business profits tax.
Of Interest	HB1241	relative to regulation of money transmitters.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill revises the regulation and licensure of money transmitters by the banking department. This bill is a request of the banking department.
Of Interest	HB1559	repealing the chapter relative to cash dispensing machines.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/17	10:30 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill repeals RSA 399-F relative to cash dispensing machines. This is a request by the banking department.
Oppose	HB1538	relative to credit card late fees and interest.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/17	1:45 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires that the total of interest and other charges in a consumer credit transaction shall not exceed the consumer’s total original balance from the credit card sale or loan.
Support	HB1633	relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Wed 1/17	2:45 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor.
Oppose	HB1678	establishing a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program.	Education	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program.
Support	HB1634	relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program.	Education	Wed 1/17	10:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill removes the household income criteria from eligibility requirements for the education freedom account program.
Support	HB1677	relative to participation in education freedom accounts based on school or school district proficiency scores.	Education	Wed 1/17	1:00 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill extends eligibility for the education freedom account program to students who participated in the program in the preceeding year, students whose enrollment transfer requests were denied, and to students in school districts which performed at 49 percent or below in statewide assessments.
Support	HB1665	relative to student eligibility for the education freedom accounts program.	Education	Wed 1/17	2:30 PM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill changes the annual household income limit to qualify for the education freedom account program.
Oppose	HB1112	relative to establishing a continuing education requirement regarding human trafficking for individuals licensed by the office of professional licensure and certification.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/17	10:45 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill requires the office of professional licensure and certification to audit compliance by licensees of continuing education requirements and further provides that all boards regulating health professionals shall require each licensee to complete continuing education in human trafficking each renewal cycle.
Support	HB1410	relative to certain professional licenses.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/17	11:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill repeals the chapter on the board of registration of medical technicians as well as the chapter on medical imaging and radiation therapy. This bill further makes changes to the nurse practice act, including amending the licensure of licensed nursing assistants to a registration process and making changes to the board of nursing.
Oppose	HB1394	relative to licensure and regulation of music therapists and making an appropriation therefor.	Executive Departments and Administration	Wed 1/17	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the office of professional licensure and certification. This bill further establishes a new program assistant II position at the office of professional licensure and certification and makes an appropriation to the office of professional licensure and certification.
Oppose	SB352	establishing an early detection cancer screening pilot program for active and retired firefighters.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/17	9:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill establishes an early detection cancer screening pilot program in the department of safety, division of fire standards and training and emergency medical services, for retired and full-time active firefighters New Hampshire.
Oppose	SB495	relative to certification of alcohol and other drug use treatment facilities.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/17	9:15 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill provides for certification of substance use treatment programs by the department of health and human services and establishes an office of the behavioral health ombudsman in the department.
Oppose	SB500	establishing a primary care provider loan repayment program, and making an appropriation therefor.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/17	9:45 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill establishes a primary care provider loan repayment program and fund in the department of health and human services and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose.
Oppose	SB558	relative to insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption.	Health and Human Services	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 101	This bill provides insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption.
Oppose	HB1002	relative to fees for records under the right-to-know law.	Judiciary	Wed 1/17	9:00 AM	LOB Room 206-208	This bill establishes parameters for when a public body may charge a fee for records provided under RSA 91-A.
Support	HB1105	relative to application of a local tax cap.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill provides clarification that all recommended appropriations in the warrant are included when determining the estimated amount of local taxes to be raised for the fiscal year under the local tax cap.
Oppose	HB1544	relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	11:10 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill allows public property to be used to aid and shelter the homeless and indemnifies the government units in charge.
Oppose	HB1641	relating to requiring large parking lots to have a solar power canopy.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	11:50 AM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill requires that large parking facilities, whether existing or new, utilize photovoltaic solar canopies over at least 50 percent of the open asphalt surface.
Of Interest	HB1124	relative to limiting conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	1:30 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill limits conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members.
Support	HB1396	relative to prohibiting municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing.	Municipal and County Government	Wed 1/17	3:15 PM	LOB Room 301-303	This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less.
Of Interest	HB1049	relative to the prohibition on overnight mooring of houseboats.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 305	This bill repeals a general prohibition for the overnight mooring of houseboats otherwise permitted under RSA 270-A.
Oppose	HB1103	relative to revising the penalties of the shoreland protection act.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/17	1:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill revises the penalties of the shoreland protection act.
Oppose	HB1113	relative to shoreland septic systems.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/17	2:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill modifies requirements for site assessment studies of shoreland septic systems.
Support	HB1121	relative to creating certain wetlands permit exemptions after a natural disaster or flooding event.	Resources, Recreation and Development	Wed 1/17	3:00 PM	LOB Room 305	This bill exempts certain land owners from requiring wetlands permits after a natural disaster or flooding event.
Support	SB514	relative to the timber tax.	Ways and Means	Wed 1/17	9:45 AM	SH Room 100	This bill increases the amount of wood or wood chips a landowner can use for personal use or for land conservation purposes without being subject to the timber tax.
Of Interest	HB1563	relative to the education property tax and the authority of political subdivisions.	Ways and Means	Wed 1/17	10:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill replaces the statewide education property tax with a property tax contribution from political subdivisions based on the state education property tax warrant issued for the tax year beginning April 1, 2024. The bill also restores statutory authority for the determination of education grants for municipalities that tuition students to other institutions.
Of Interest	HB1551	relative to distinguishing between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating business profits taxes.	Ways and Means	Wed 1/17	12:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill directs the state to distinguish between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating the business profits tax and to exclude flow through items on the Schedule K for S corporations from corporate income for purposes of calculating the tax.
Oppose	HB1571	relative to requiring insurance coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/18	11:15 AM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill requires insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes.
Oppose	HB1094	relative to insurance coverage for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/18	1:15 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill removes the prospective repeal of a reference to treatments for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders in the requirement for insurance coverage of certain biologically-based mental illnesses.
Oppose	HB1296	relative to insurance coverage for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations.	Commerce and Consumer Affairs	Thu 1/18	1:45 PM	LOB Room 302-304	This bill provides that certain insurers that provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations shall not impose co-payments, deductibles, or other cost-sharing requirements.
Support	HB1017	relative to duties of county sheriffs and the appointment of special deputy sheriffs.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/18	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill requires county sheriff’s or deputies to have a presence at all federal law enforcement actions in the county. The bill also clarifies the appointment of special deputy sheriffs.
Support	HB1026	relative to resisting arrest.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/18	11:00 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill establishes an affirmative defense to the crime of resisting arrest that the arrest was unlawful or constitutional.
Support	HB1372	relative to prohibiting torture.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Thu 1/18	11:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill establishes a criminal prohibition against torture, which is defined as an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering upon another person within the person’s custody or control, other than the pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions. This bill is intended to supplement the federal law located at 18 U.S.C. sections 2340, 2340A, and 2340B, which apply to torture committed outside of the United States.
Oppose	HB1570	relative to administration of school building aid funds by the department of education and making an appropriation therefor.	Education	Thu 1/18	10:45 AM	LOB Room 205-207	This bill transfers moneys from the education trust fund to a new building aid fund. It also directs the department of education to contract with a vendor to conduct a facility assessment of public schools and public chartered schools.
Support	HB1546	relative to government purchasing.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/18	11:30 AM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill prohibits any state, county, or local government entity from contracting with or purchasing goods or services from companies that discriminate in hiring, promotion, or job assignment on the basis of sex, race, sexuality, national origin, ethnicity, or ideology, including but not limited to permitting diversity, equity, and inclusion statements. This bill further provides an enforcement mechanism.
Oppose	HB1486	relative to proxy carbon pricing in state procurement.	Executive Departments and Administration	Thu 1/18	2:00 PM	LOB Room 306-308	This bill requires the department of administrative services to consider proxy carbon pricing in transportation costs and building project costs.
Support	HB1278	relative to qualifying medical conditions for purposes of therapeutic cannabis.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	9:30 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill adds debilitating or terminal medical conditions to the qualifying medical conditions for therapeutic cannabis if a health care provider certifies the potential benefit to the patient. The bill also removes certain limitations on a qualifying visiting patient’s access to cannabis.
Support	HB1240	relative to eating disorders as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	10:00 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill adds eating disorders as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis.
Support	HB1349	relative to generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	10:30 AM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill adds generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis.
Support	HB1350	relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	1:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill increases qualifying patients’ limit on possession of therapeutic cannabis from 2 to 4 ounces, and increases the amount they may obtain in a 10-day period from 2 to 4 ounces.
Support	HB1231	permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.	Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs	Thu 1/18	2:00 PM	LOB Room 210-211	This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use.
Support	SB356	relative to the return of property collected in the course of a police investigation.	Judiciary	Thu 1/18	1:00 PM	SH Room 100	This bill provides for the automatic return of seized property following certain dispositions of criminal cases, subject to certain exceptions.
Oppose	HB1072	relative to prohibiting employers from using polygraph testing.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/18	10:15 AM	LOB Room 307	This bill prohibits employers from using polygraphs unless the employer is in law enforcement or meets other exceptions.
Oppose	HB1110	relative to requiring certain employers to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/18	11:00 AM	LOB Room 307	This bill requires employers with 25 or more employees to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Oppose	HB1226	relative to employment protections for freelance employees.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/18	1:30 PM	LOB Room 307	This bill provides comprehensive rights and responsibilities relative to freelance employees and hiring parties.
Support	HB1246	relative to allowing for payment of wages in gold or silver.	Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services	Thu 1/18	2:30 PM	LOB Room 307	This bill allows employers to pay the weekly or biweekly wages due to employees in gold or silver.
Oppose	HB1217	relative to an exception to allow the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/19	10:30 AM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill allows the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges.
Oppose	HB1587	relative to the installation of video surveillance equipment in special education school buses.	Criminal Justice and Public Safety	Fri 1/19	12:00 PM	LOB Room 202-204	This bill requires video surveillance equipment to be installed and operated on all vehicles provided through services related to a student’s IEP. The bill also requires school districts to develop a privacy policy for resulting recordings.

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Democrats in the Vermont House voted on Wednesday to spend $2 million to set up a pilot program establishing “safe injection sites” for addicts (H.72) – a misnomer, as it turns out as floor testimony revealed there are multiple ways users ingest their drugs at these facilities.

One lawmaker asked, “People are snorting fentanyl and smoking it, and I’m just wondering if that will be allowed at the centers, and also something like smoking methamphetamine.” The answer from lead bill sponsor Rep. Taylor Small (P-Winooski) was, “Yes! The people who would be using such facilities would be able to use pre-obtained drugs in a variety of ways.” Sounds safe, so much for protecting the workers in these places from secondhand meth and fentanyl smoke. Needless to say, these sites are controversial. But they are on the radical leftist Santa-letter wish list, so of course, Vermont needs to be the first kid on the block to have one…. Or two, as this initial case may be.

Supporters argue that giving addicts a safe place to get high under the supervision of healthcare professionals who can intervene in the event of an overdose saves lives, facilitates a path to treatment, keeps this sort of activity off the streets, and saves the public money by reducing emergency ambulance calls. In an ideal world, maybe.

Opponents’ concerns are more practical than ideological.

First of all, these sites are illegal under federal law. A small detail. While H.72 protects users and workers at these facilities from state prosecution, it doesn’t and can’t protect them from federal prosecution. Wouldn’t it make more sense to invest this $2 million, which comes from a legal settlement with five drug makers, in some other program that is not a federal crime to implement? That might even create some synergy with a federal program to get better results. Apparently not.

Moreover, the example of successful, safe sites cited by supporters are in New York City and have fully functioning ancillary support systems in place. For example, the benefit of an addict using a safe site as a springboard for getting treatment only works if treatment services outside the site are available. In Vermont, they are not. Without such support in place, these sites are little more than legally sanctioned drug dens. So, would it not make more practical sense to invest this $2 million into expanding the availability of treatment services – those with a proven track record of effectiveness — to better meet existing demand? Apparently not.

Similarly, asked about legal liabilities when addicts drive to and from these sites, potentially under the influence of something, Rep. Small stated that the overwhelming majority of addicts who use these sites live within a walkable ten-block radius of the site. That’s in New York City. Where the population density is, shall we say, a little bit more concentrated than it is anywhere in the Green Mountain State? According to Patti McCoy (R-Poultney), the 10 or 20-block area in Manhattan where these sites are contain twice the entire population of our state.

Where in Vermont are there enough addicts who would be willing to go to a safe site to get high within walking distance of their home to make such a facility cost-effective? We are talking about two locations serving 0.05 square miles within the 9916 square miles of Vermont. Even if this experiment sees some success in the pilot phase, is it possible or practical to scale the program up to equitably serve our whole population? From a funding and staffing perspective, no. So again, is the best use of this $2 million to help solve our opioid crisis? It is not.

Another significant concern is that these sites will become magnets for crime and drug dealers. The sites themselves do not provide drugs to the users. It’s BYOD! So, users will have to obtain their illegal substances before entering the site. From whom? A drug dealer nearby is probably taking advantage of the site as a marketing tool. And where will users get the money for their drugs? In many cases from theft, probably from someplace nearby. So, who wants one of these in their neighborhood? Bueller…. Bueller….

The counterargument to this concern is that police will be able to focus their attention on the areas surrounding the sites. But if they do, who’s going to go to them in the first place? It would defeat the ostensible purpose of having the things.

The Democrats and Progressives who supported this bill (not a single Republican voted for it) are going to do their best to spin opposition as some sort of callous disregard for the lives of addicts and a turning of backs on the very real opioid overdose crisis our state is facing. Our biased capitol press corps will probably do the same. This is bull. Don’t fall for it.

Those who voted no on H.72 overwhelmingly demonstrated sympathy for those suffering from addiction, their families, and our communities at large. Many shared their own experiences with family members or friends. This is, however, a question of how best to invest $2 million in settlement money in order to have the most positive impact on helping people in crisis.

As one opponent of H.72 explained, “At this time, the state of Vermont does not have an adequate substance abuse continuum of care infrastructure required to support an overdose prevention consumption site. We need to make investments in prevention, education, recovery, and treatment. These are the evidence-based, trauma-informed practices that save lives and bring our loved ones home to us safe, stable, and healthy. For this reason, I will be voting no on H.72 and urge this body to do the same.” And, I’ll add, the benefit of not being a federal crime. This is rational, common sense, investment-oriented policy making.

To paraphrase Majority Whip Mike McCarthy’s (D-St. Albans) response to this argument, “Who cares? I want an Oompa Loompa NOWWWWW!”

Unfortunately, H.72 is yet another example of how the Democrats and Progressives who control our legislature govern from a philosophical foundation of rainbows and unicorn farts and the belief that if we all just clap hard enough and truly believe (and throw enough money), Tinkerbell will come back to life — when the real solution is to pick her up and get her to a hospital as fast as possible.

Here’s a link to the roll call vote if you want to see how your Rep(s) voted.

 

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank. He is also a regular contributor to VermontGrok.

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Hello, Friends of Freedom!

Happy New Year to you all as we enter a season of unprecedented change in our great country! We have all heard the phrase, “This election of our Presidency will be the most important election of our lifetime.”

I never embraced that phrase completely, but with deep reflection on what has transpired in the last administration in this country, it is apparent that it may ring true for us and our nation’s future generations!

I want to continue my series on the Separation of Church and State, but I want to remind everyone reading this article that elections have consequences! And the consequences for our country have never been more dangerous than they are now. The rise of “wokeness” destroying our free speech rights in the name of tolerance, the open border, the imposing debt, and the involvement in corrupt regimes in other countries has us doing a balancing act that we cannot help but topple over soon unless we see real change. Not just change in an election but change in governance and laws that are destroying us now from within.

Let us pray and put legs to our prayers with action in the arena of voting and running for office. Let those who love our country serve her in public office—ok, enough said!

We left off with learning that the Founding Fathers were keenly aware of NOT creating a state-sanctioned church. However, they were not ever expecting the principles of faith not to be lived out in society and given preference for educational purposes.

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To quote George Washington in his Farewell Address, “Of all dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, the firmest props of the duties of men and citizens? The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.”

Note that in this portion of the speech he associates patriotism with the embracing of religion and morality in public life and policy. His speech also warns Americans to reject the idea that morality could be preserved apart from religious teaching. Again, he says, “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education, reason, and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” He understood that religious beliefs were the basis of morality, and that a secure and free government was hinged upon religion, he asked the question. Let it be simply asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are instruments of investigation in courts and justice? The answer to this question of course, was if public institutions were separated from religious principles, people would no longer have a secure basis for their future as laid out in the Constitution.

Another great quote by a preeminent Founding Father was by John Adams in regard to the Constitution, where he states, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Noah Webster, a great educator and orator, bears the title of “Schoolmaster to America” and was a Founding Father as well. He was the first to call for a Constitutional Convention. He states in a textbook he authored for public schools, “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” It is clear in his mind there was no need to separate religious instruction from children in public schools.

Another well-known Founding Father was Fisher Ames. He was an advocate of sound education in America’s founding. He was observing the proliferation of children’s books for the purpose of teaching moral values, character, and knowledge. He did not oppose any of them but was quoted as saying, “Why then if these books for children must be retained as they will be, should not the Bible again be the place it once held as a school book?” He was concerned for the place of faith and values to be continued in the educational process of America’s youngest citizens.

So, of course, there are many other Fathers who shared their perspectives on religious places (specifically the Bible, in the culture at large. I share this week’s article to reiterate the importance of the role of religious knowledge and education in creating the kind of country our Founding Fathers had in mind. Next week, we will actually deal head-on with the phrase Separation of church and State. I will show you its direct origin and its original intention.

Have a great week!

Until Next Time…

Allen

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I’ll leave it up to you to decide which is worse: the lie, the cover-up, or the harm to quality of life or loss of life. I’m inclined toward the latter, but we cannot escape how the former  – and its water carriers caused the latter. Without truth, inquiry, debate, and science, people were injured by what they were told would protect them from harm.

We are not revisiting the hundreds of articles or research. You’ve read them or can find them. This is about Tucker Carlson’s latest segment at TCN. Bret Weinstein, whom many of you may follow, spent an hour with Tucker, exploring facts and frauds around COVID. Again, much of it is information we know or thoughts we’ve shared, but it was how he shared it. Clear. Concise. It’s brilliant.

You should watch it or watch it again.

Why mRNA was so Bad

On the topic of the mRNA platform, he very succinctly describes the problem after acknowledging that, in theory, it was a beautiful discovery with potential. The problem is that by design, it can cause your body to attack itself. He explains how the human immune system defends the body by attacking foreign proteins everywhere they are found. The COVID injections create foreign proteins. If the mRNA gets into the circulatory system, it can land in any organ or all of them, producing proteins in cells that the body will attack.

While it is possible for the healthcare professional administering the injections to ensure the mRNA remains in the shoulder muscle as advertised millions of times, they did not. Perhaps hundreds of millions of times.

Add to this every other lie told of which they were keenly aware. It increases the chance of infection and spread, is more dangerous to children than the virus, masks would not protect you and likely increase the odds of disease, and distancing was never science (unless you mean the theoretical middle-school student variety). Natural immunity was better, and very few had anything to fear. Cheap existing treatments the experts demonized were more effective. Lockdowns did or will do more damage than perhaps even the injections. The Pfizer EUA formulation was not the same as the trial version (what of a trial there was), but it was as ineffective and dangerous.

Many at the top of the COVID tyranny food chain knew or suspected these things but shouted down and censored those who dared to air such suspicions in public. Another enormous error, as Bret Weinstein notes in this clip.

 

#Solidarity https://t.co/m5jhrvbO9q

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) January 13, 2024

 

Tyranny became a global cure for the disease of Democracy with COVID, but they screwed up. Suppressing the odd peasant doesn’t attract a lot of attention. Shutting down world-class experts created Health Care Icons for the resistance. Brilliant minds connected to each other and the public in ways that had not previously been considered. The opposition has an A game, while team globalism can’t stop the evidence of how many lies they told and how often.

 

The Death Rate Lie:

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I think the 3.4% is really a false number. Now, this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this, and it’s very mild. They will get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor. You never hear about those people.

Nobody is Safe – Pandemic of the unvaccinated.

 

 

And, Fauci vs. Fauci.

 

 

The internet they seek to control is lush with examples, but the mRNA is still out there, and Pharma is paying the same players to support disproven public health shibboleths. Their narrative proteins are looking for new human minds to infect and the means to overcome the rise of ruling-class information immunity.

Naturally, they’ve been working on the children only because we let them so, as dangerous as mRNA might be, the people behind it are the actual threat, and they have not given up, so neither can we.

 

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A New York statute targeting Chick-fil-A for its Christian faith turns American history—and Constitutional law—upside down.  The “Rest Stop Restaurant Act” seeks to compel food service providers to stay open seven days a week in publicly-owned rest areas and other facilities, or be denied contracts to provide services.

This is not merely an attack on the faith of a private business chain; it is an open war against fundamental constitutional liberties.

New York Blue Laws

Historically, American colonies widely implemented “Blue Laws” that forbade trade on the Sabbath day—Sundays.  Blue Laws compelled days of rest: New York banned Sunday sales of goods in 1656, and enacted the first official “state Sabbath law” with the “Statute for Suppressing Immorality” of 1778.  New York now seeks to compel businesses to sell goods on the Sabbath, a sort of Established Church of Mammon.

It is hard to imagine that courts will approve a government’s power to compel business opening hours any more than compel speech (or abortion).  Supreme Court precedent firmly holds the opposite: states can impose a day of tranquil rest. New York is flouting well-established law. In the 1961 seminal case of Braunfeld v. Brown, liberal Justice Earl Warren observed:

[W]e cannot find a State without power … to set one day of the week apart from the others as a day of rest, repose, recreation and tranquillity [sic] — a day when the hectic tempo of everyday existence ceases and a more pleasant atmosphere is created, a day which all members of the family and community have the opportunity to spend and enjoy together, a day on which people may visit friends and relatives who are not available during working days, a day when the weekly laborer may best regenerate himself. This is particularly true in this day and age of increasing state concern with public welfare legislation.

Compelled to Work?

In contrast, New York Democrat Assemblymember Tony Simone argued that allowing a restaurant to be closed is “just not in the public good” and that “not only does Chick-Fil-A have a long, shameful history of opposing LGBTQ rights, it simply makes no sense for them to be a provider of food services in busy travel plazas.”  This openly discriminatory statement follows a previous New York effort to prevent Chick-fil-A from opening facilities at these exact locations!  Despite attacks on the chain by leftist extremists, it remains the most popular fast-food chain in the nation, favored for its outstanding customer service.

This fast-food statute perverts Justice Warren’s concern for public welfare, advocating round-the-clock business over rest.  Instead of boycotting Chick-fil-A for its Christian views, its attackers are demanding it open its doors and earn more profits.  Chick-fil-A has observed the Sabbath since its 1946 founding so that employees can “enjoy a day of rest, be with their families and loved ones, and worship if they choose.”

This sounds much like the value upheld as a legitimate state interest by Justice Warren, who also warned of the potential for abuse:

[W]hen entering the area of religious freedom, we must be fully cognizant of the particular protection that the Constitution has accorded it. Abhorrence of religious persecution and intolerance is a basic part of our heritage.

If the purpose or effect of a law is to impede the observance of one or all religions, or is to discriminate invidiously between religions, that law is constitutionally invalid even though the burden may be characterized as being only indirect.

An Unconstitutional Effort

New York’s insulting effort to compel Sunday openings is constitutionally dead on arrival as it collides headlong into solid legal precedent.  Braunfeld and other precedents banned Jewish merchants from selling their goods on Sunday; now, New York seeks to do the exact reverse.  Justice Warren did not identify a state power to compel commerce, let alone in derogation of established religious practice.  He did, however, roundly and specifically condemn precisely the kind of overt prejudice exhibited by the New York legislators supporting this discriminatory bill.

 

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

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In 42 years of practicing law in California, I encountered firsthand what I labeled the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY. Simply put, California was ruled by a very select and distinct group of very wealthy people who ran all the companies. The faces of the ruling class had names like Willie Brown (the man behind Kamala Harris), Nancy Pelosi, and Gavin Newsom.

But the real power was in Silicon Valley ( Google, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft). Just outside of Reno, the Power Corporations located themselves in an enclave far away from the citizens and installed their control towers. There seemed to be two types: Companies owned by individuals or families and Companies owned by extremely powerful folks like BlackRock and Vanguard. State Street. However you or I viewed it, these folks were extremely powerful, extremely wealthy, and, with little effort, were able to control every aspect of their worlds, including the State and federal governments.

As a trial attorney, I got to know a great deal about this “ruling” class. The fundamental aspect of this “class” is that they believe that they are “ENTITLED” to do whatever they want to do.

ENTITLED is a word that truly should stick in your thoughts. But make sure you clearly define it and understand it as it applies to those folks. It is not what you think. You need a working knowledge of European history-especially the attitudes and beliefs of the then-ruling aristocracy, you know the kings and their “divine” rights attitude.

Here is what I believe is true after interacting with this “class” for 42 years.

Way back in the Middle Ages and continuing well into the 20th century, there grew up in countries like England, France, Italy, etc a ruling class of royalty. They amassed great wealth and power, and they developed the notion that because of their wealth and power, they were superior to the nonwealthy. This superiority was divine- God made them better than the masses, and the evidence of this was their vast wealth and fact of birth.

It is hard to convey to a modern American what this attitude looked like. Our revolutionary ancestors knew it all too well and rebelled against it in 1776. Imagine some individual who, because he was born the son of a Duke or an Earl or a Prince, could walk into your house whenever he pleased, confiscate your money, your food, and even your daughter or son, and do so with impunity because of his superior birth.

Such folks gradually died out as the Industrial Revolution created a new class of powerful and wealthy folks-the Rockefellers, the J P Morgans, and Henry Ford. They could not really claim to be superior by royal birth (in America, at least), but they could claim the same sort of superiority as the former royal figures using modern genetics theory. Charles Darwin gave them their Theory: they were superior to the rest of us because of natural selection. Nature had simply endowed them with superior genes, and because they were chosen by nature to be superior, they were not only wealthy but destined by their genetics to rule society.

Nietzsche came along and caught their fancy-he wrote extensively on the “supermen” who, because of genetic superiority, were destined to rule the world.

Karl Marx, of all people, moved the needle for them as well- people often reflect on how he promoted the thought that the oppressed workers of the world need to revolt and take over. However, he also added that there exists a super race of folks who are needed to “control” and direct the animal urges of the masses. (The head of the WEF recently said that the Chinese model is the best one for the future of mankind. When Xi Jinping came to San Francisco, many of the billionaire class showed up, gave him a standing ovation, and treated him like the “savior” they viewed him as.

In short, to understand the Billionaire class, you have to, I believe, understand that they see themselves as different…genetically superior to you. They see themselves as endowed with superior intellect, superior thoughts, superior bodies, and superior everything – to the point that they see you as being in a different genus and species.

In all of their “I’m better than you” world, there is no thought of America. No thought of the United States Constitution. No thought about Christian values respecting life and the dignity of individuals.

The life-sustaining “force” for them is that they are the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY,  and they are endowed by natural selection to rule the world.  Everyone else is lower than a snake’s belly in a wheel rut and needs to be eliminated or forced into the slave class.

I remember watching these folks take over California.

They wanted cheap labor; they wanted no unions. The “inferior” middle-class American middle class was an irritation, depriving them of their rightful ruling status. Lawyers asserting the rights of these folks were an abomination and need to be drawn and quartered ( currently, the federal government is writing into almost every new regulation coming out of the various agencies’ criminal penalties on any lawyer counseling or asserting a challenge to the regulations).

“Get rid of them! “they cried out. Replace them with people who work cheaply, do what they are told, and know zero about their rights.  So, they opened the borders and brought in peasants from the hills of Mexico. And they kept them illegal( I knew some who had come to the USA when they were five and at 65 were still illegal) so that constantly these folks were in fear if they did anything the padrone did not like, they would be deported.

And when Ceasar Chavez tried to unionize the farm workers, the billionaires freaked- a Mexican asserting human rights!

The Teamsters came in and crushed him. And then made deal after deal with the “ruling” class. (I represented some farmers in the Imperial Valley and was involved in the Chavez v Teamsters for several years). They wanted to make money off Indian gaming, so they got Arnold Schwarzenegger to agree not to tax the first 2000 slot machines in each casino. They wanted close relations with China as they wanted Chinese money to flow through their companies. And they wanted Chinese laborers to build their devices. So, they arranged for the right people to be elected and made sure those elected folks passed the legislation they needed.

Somewhere along the line, they decided that they just did not need the traditional white men and women who were not billionaires. They wanted compliant people who kept their mouths shut and did what they were told. After all, being genetically superior, they are ENTITLED’ to whatever they want.

So they came up with the “environmental movement” that imposed regulation after regulation on middle Americans and thereby made the cost of living beyond what the middle class could afford. It takes ten years to break ground on any housing based on all the regulations. They passed the “greenhouse Gas emissions laws” that literally stopped all construction of homes until a complete revamp occurred, replacing the single-family dwelling with the Chinese model of high-rise concentrated housing (ten or more 35-story condos all grouped and serviced by public transportation).

They wanted such folks with their “rights” and guns gone. A house I bought in the early 2000 for $450,000 is now $900,000. Meanwhile, the City of Santa Ana, a population bigger than any city in New Hampshire, allows migrants to live in garages so long as there is water (a hose), electricity (an extension cord), and sanitation (a bucket).

I and millions like me left.  I filed too many lawsuits in favor of the illegal immigrants, and they shut me down in the Courts and in my business(One of my best clients called me up one day and told me that the owner had instructed that I could not get any more work because I was not gay and that I had filed too many lawsuits asserting the rights of illegal immigrants.  One judge openly told me that he had to rule against me as he had received pressure from very high-up people who had targeted me for my beliefs in Constitutional rights.

These wealthy folks- the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY-were very, very successful. Go to Fresno( speaking English is likely to get you shot). Go to Stockton( run by Marxists passing out universal basic income in the heart of the California agricultural empire that feeds the world). Go to Oakland( homelessness is a growth industry).

All the white middle class is either gone, shuddered their businesses, or are living in their cars or RV’s. Meanwhile, the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY businesses thrive with their cheap labor and their total control along the Chinese business/government model.

Apple, for example, to be able to hire cheap Mexican labor, built a company town adjacent to their ” 5 billion dollar campus” to house the illegals who mow the lawn and cook the meals. Houses in the area sell for over 2 million. Rents for one bedroom are $3500. Making 15 dollars an hour or less means no roof.

To sum up,  the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY took over California, got rid of all the folks like you and me, and replaced us with a compliant slave class that greeted the Chinese premiere with open and loving arms.

Guess what? They were so successful in California that they wanted to bring what they did to California to the rest of the USA, including New Hampshire.

Joe Biden has served them well. They would love him to return.  For a few measly millions in the Biden family pockets, Biden gives them everything they want- unlimited money flow, Government contracts, and wars they can profit from; but most importantly, he gives them the status they think they deserve: Whatever they want they get. And right now, what they want is a USA where the middle class with its guns, its constitutional rights, and its American freedoms is gone. They want to replace all those middle-class Americans with cheap, compliant labor from any and all places they live in the world.

They made a good start under Obama, and when Trump got elected, they thought, “Hey, he is one of us. He is a billionaire; he has milked the system; he has hobnobbed with all the right people.”

Instead, Trump slammed the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY. He slammed their viewpoint. He championed the middle class. He brought life back to the Americans born in the USA, and he restored their rights. He denied the billionaires their special privileges.  Most alarming to them, he told them that they were no better nor worse than anybody else. Not genetically superior to anyone. He slammed their scheme to replace all of us with cheap, compliant labor, and he slammed them for sending businesses overseas.

To the BILLIONAIRES, THIS ELECTION IS CLEARLY AN EXISTENTIAL ISSUE- either they are entitled to be the superior class that runs the country, or they are not. And the “are not” scares the crap out of them( the thought that you or I might have a say in our Government scares them no end).

Take a look at the effort to stop Trump. Who is leading it? Who funds it? You cannot watch any TV station or watch any YouTube broadcasts without being bombarded with “I hate Trump” ads.  I am told that these ads have cost more than 350 million. Yet they are relentless. And ostensibly, they are by Republicans or self-described Conservatives. They have now apparently chosen Nikki Haley to be their “stop Trump” savior. She is one of them, after all: illegals are good; China is great; war is needed.  They are pouring huge amounts into her campaign. But who are they?  Her ads are being paid for by three major PACS. If you go and look at who funds those PACs, OMG-its a bunch of Billionaires- the Koch family, the head of PAYPAL, etc. Isn’t this the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY DOING ITS THING ALL OVER AGAIN? 

I left California to get away from the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY.  Stupid me-it came to New Hampshire. I have no place left to go. I will be holding a Trump sign at the four corners in Hollis. If you drive by, don’t see the word TRUMP” on my sign; see ” I don’t want the BILLIONAIRE-OCRACY  to finalize the job of destroying my Country because they think they are genetically superior to me – if you feel the same, honk twice.

God bless!

 

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NH Representatives File Bill To Stop Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and Other Forms of Weather Engineering Experiments such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) in New Hampshire’s Atmosphere.

Concord, New Hampshire – Two motivated NH House Representatives, Jason Gerhard, Merrimack – District 25, and Kelley Potenza, Strafford – District 19, have introduced “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act” NH House Bill HB 1700. The three-page bill establishes regulations to prevent the intentional release of polluting and harmful emissions into New Hampshire’s atmosphere. This bill aims to bring forward a subject many experts have warned us about for years, as well as the necessary transparency for NH citizens so we can educate and unite to stop this destructive environmental onslaught we are experiencing.

“We already have legislation passed in 2021 that should inform the public when this occurs. Unfortunately, that has never occurred in the three years since its passage. It is time to take legislative action to flat out stop this pollution,” stated Rep. Potenza. HB 1700 cites pollution released during cloud seeding or weather modification activities and associated electromagnetic radiation, all defined as pollution by scientists. “Even Verizon and AT&T define what we are referring to as pollution. To be clear, we are not worried about snow-making cannons, since we know what comes out of those, or looking to regulate domestic airplane engine emissions as some have disingenuously suggested,” Rep. Gerhard said.

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In addition to New Hampshire’s existing Weather Modification policy, the Federal Congress is partnering with foreign governments and international organizations such as the United Nations to establish a global governance framework for “mandated” experimentation of Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) and other forms of weather engineering experiments such as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) to block sunlight and assist in global cooling. You can find the alarming Congressionally Mandated Research Plan and an Initial Research Governance report at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CongressionallyMandated-Report-on-Solar-Radiation-Modification.pdf.

The types of experimental activities advanced by Washington, DC, which incorporate satellites and space, are like something out of a science fiction movie. According to the Tenth Amendment of The United States Constitution, HB 1700 would prohibit SRM, SAI, cloud seeding, weather modification, and other types of weather experimentation in New Hampshire. “The Clean Atmosphere Preservation Act” safeguards state security and sovereignty and protects the health and safety of our environment, wildlife, agriculture, etc., all while preserving our natural resources.

HB 1700 will be introduced in a House committee public hearing next Tuesday, detailed below. Please contact the committee with your testimony or register your support if you cannot attend in person: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx.

Hearing Date: January 16, 2024 Time: 1:30 PM Address: Legislative Office Building, 33 North State Street, Concord, NH 03301 Committee: Science, Technology and Energy (https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/committeedetails.aspx?id=15) Room: 302-304 Bill: HB 1700 – an act prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 12, 2023
Press Release Contact: Representative Kelley Potenza, Strafford – District 19 Email: kelley.potenza@leg.state.nh.us
New Hampshire House of Representatives The General Court of New Hampshire 107 North Main Street Concord, NH 03301

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Don Lemon announced a deal to do a program on X, as have Tulsi Gabbard and some sports guy of whom I’ve never heard, but the addition of Lemon is of most interest. The former CNN critter will provide the left with an excuse to use the platform that Leomn calls “the biggest space for free speech in the world.”

The petty tyrants obsessed with censoring ideas with which they disagree have a problem. They’ve insisted that X, in its Musk-Owned post-government-controlled censorship state, would collapse, die, become a wasteland for hate, and a place for intolerant MAGA Republicans and Nazis as if Nazis don’t have free speech rights in America.

We don’t have to like it, but they do.

These progressive exhortations (in reality) prevent them from having to address how censorious platforms like Facebook and Instagram allow child pornography, pedophile rings, and child sex trafficking but not diverse opinions on the effectiveness of masks, lockdowns, or more invasive chemical interventions.

Laptops owned by Biden’s named Hunter or unsecured servers owned by Clinton’s named Hillary. These subjects are commonly referred to as election interference. And you’d be right to insist on a double standard, two sets of rules, or a two-tiered system of injustice, which the old X (when it was known as Twitter) would have had to filter, alter, shadow-ban, or censor.

And while there might be Nazis and child traffickers on X, it now has Don Lemon, who, regardless of his success there, has opened the door to more capable progressive commentators, all of whom have the right to speak their minds. The Lemon and I won’t agree on much, nor will I find a lot of common ground among most die-hard progressives, but if they flock to X to see Lemon and whoever follows his lead, they’ll need to rethink at least two problems—their hatred for Elon Musk and their position on X and Free Speech.

If it’s anything like the mental health crisis they had with unmasked people during COVID, the online therapy services stand to rake in a fortune.

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Lost in the recent climate summit at COP28 in Dubai was the shift by environmentalists and governments toward a nuclear energy future. Calls to eliminate fossil fuels and cows predominated as usual, and John Kerry demanded that all coal-fired plants be banned. But a very substantial lane change took place as well: nuclear-powered options were granted a seat at the climate table.

Observers of climate summits may be forgiven if they’re confused over the direction the world is being led to combat the alleged climate-change Armageddon – clearly, the attendees are. Envoys to Dubai flew to the summit conspicuously in jets, dined on meat, and condemned China for its coal-fired plants while calling to manufacture more solar panels and EVs – which are heavily dependent on Chinese coal energy. In the shuffle to redistribute energy resources, it is inevitable that relatively cheap and clean nuclear power would eventually poke its head cautiously into the climate fray.

A Nuclear “Renaissance”?

Environmental purists have long scoffed at nuclear power as an ally against greenhouse gas emissions, but it appears the failure of the renewable energy pathways to deliver the promised salvation has induced the climate obsessives to reassess their Utopian objectives. In what is being diplomatically whitewashed as a nuclear “renaissance” rather than an about-face reversal, global and industry leaders are openly embracing the “nuclear option.” An international agreement signed by 22 nations while at COP28 pledged to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050. Signatories included the US, Canada, Britain, and the UAE, which touted its own massive investments in nuclear reactors at the climate summit.

This dramatic shift in official climate policy may be driven by the recognition of the frightful shortcomings of renewable energy manufacturing or numerous claims that humanity is already past the point of no return from global warming impacts. Yet a forceful reality for conference attendees – and the world – is that China and other nations are proceeding full steam ahead with nuclear capacity. Perhaps Western nations are fathoming the consequences of being left behind on energy.

China Is Ascendant

Greta Thunberg howls against fossil fuels while demanding more renewable manufacturing – dependent on fossil fuels. The one-issue obsession with carbon dioxide has clouded futurist visions to “save” the world, into what may well prove to be a sort of modern collective energy suicide. Banning oil, natural gas, and coal before the alternatives have been created and implemented is dubious policy. Yet the carbon-focus foible means toxic chemicals spewing from Chinese manufacturing plants have been ignored, as have the consequences of shutting down oil and gas production and distribution. Also overlooked are the economic impacts of reckless government spending.

The most dramatic oversight of the climate agenda, though, may be national security. China is an amused partner at the table – pledging climate policy commitments while ramping up coal-fired plants and nuclear power. China views coal as a national security resource, as it has enormous quantities of black gold. It also understands the power and profitability inherent in nuclear energy, and is currently constructing all six types of fourth-generation nuclear reactors determined by an international consortium to be safer than traditional reactors.

Nuclear Utopia?

Dreams of Utopia invariably crash down with earthly gravitation. Few but the most extremist environmental groups now insist that nuclear power is off the table, especially as new inroads into nuclear fusion are developed. Proponents of climate change action are increasingly coming to terms with the factual reality that renewable energy manufacturing cannot possibly provide the baseload of power the world requires. This leaves nuclear power as not only a viable option, but the planet’s only known hope for anthropogenic rescue from alleged human-caused global warming.

 

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

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We can only hope that the other faulty pillars of leftism collapse this year the way the Electric Vehicle market has in the past year. Dealers don’t want them Inventory is backing up, manufacturers are losing billions, and now Hertz is not only not going to buy 100,000 of them, it is dumping many of the EVs it has.

 

“The elevated costs associated with EVs persisted,” Hertz Chief Executive Officer Stephen Scherr said. “Efforts to wrestle it down proved to be more challenging.”

The company hopes that its decision to sell off 20,000+ electric vehicles better balances “supply against expected demand of EVs,” it said in a regulatory filing.

Morgan Stanley analysts said told Reuters that Hertz’s move should be a warning to the entire auto industry about the reality of the electric vehicle market, that they are not that popular and expectations for their growth need to be significantly reduced.

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

An EV is a lot like any other high-end status vehicle except that it is an expensive and impractical lifestyle accessory with a government mandate.

A pushy Biden Administration commanded automakers to include them to meet revised efficiency mandates, but consumers are losing interest in an investment of that size given the other cost and reliability concerns. Short of buying it for them, the market has plateaued, and that, too, is a concern. Woke states and municipalities have expanded their taxpayer-funded fleets with these turds, and with new models piling up, Biden could easily propose a bailout that puts taxpayers in double jeopardy. The Feds will fund incentives with your dollars to encourage cities and states to pick up the excess inventory, with taxpayers on the hook again for the higher costs of ownership that is scaring off consumers.

And if you are thinking this might be a good time to get in cheap on a used EV formerly in the possession of Hertz, rethink that. The only thing worse than the EV market is the used EV market – another reason to stay away.

 

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Whenever I see and listen to Jamie Raskin (D-DE), I feel the need to wash my hands or shower. Raskin is a prototypical slimy politician who can pontificate on any subject and never tell the truth about any of it. He rose to prominence as part of the team that schemed to impeach Donald Trump and never let the facts or truth get in the way of his version. I think Raskin believes if he talks long enough, his listeners will not even remember the question, let alone the accuracy of Raskin’s answer.

Raskin teamed up with Hunter Biden for a dog and pony show during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee. Seeing Biden and Raskin together gave me visions of Raskin holding the camera during Hunter’s famous PornHub videos. They are both such dirty human beings. Appearing with his attorney, Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden sat silently in the front row as the committee chair and vice-chair delivered opening statements to a hearing dominated by partisan bickering. Hunter was not expected at the hearing, and it was obvious that this event was coordinated between Hunter and Jamie. Both were prepared and had rehearsed their roles. Hunter’s role was to sit stone-faced and say nothing. At the given time, he, Lowell, and Kevin Morris, Hunter’s Sugar Brother, stood in unison and walked out of the proceedings to address the media.

In the meantime, Raskin was playing his part. In a long soliloquy, he told his version of how the Republicans were using Hunter Biden in a long-shot effort to get to Joe Biden. Raskin’s staff held up printed signs highlighting his speech, evidence this was a pre-planned made-for-TV event. The Representatives traded barbs and insults in an exciting session rarely seen in the Capitol. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) asked, “Who bribed Hunter Biden to be here,” criticizing the surprise appearance. “You are the epitome of white privilege. Coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here,” she said. There were calls for Biden’s immediate arrest and incarceration for defying a Congressional subpoena. When Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) spoke, the Biden trio stood and exited, resulting in a verbal beatdown of Biden by Green. Her accusation was that Biden was no match for a strong Conservative woman.

Lowell gave a prepared statement to the media, further reinforcing that this day was choreographed. Biden said little during his visit except for an exchange of words with a FOX reporter. Fox Business’ Hillary Vaughn asked Hunter why he put his father on speakerphone during his meetings. Hunter asked if she had a father and if he ever called her. Vaughn said yes, but never while she was in a business meeting. She landed the punch, and Biden was heard saying she was dangerous.

Hunter Biden is not a good person. We should not judge others, but in Hunter’s case, he has forced that judgment on us. He has not been a good father or husband. He has not been a good son in that he has spent a lifetime profiting from his father’s position and name. He has acted in a fashion to bring shame to the name but shows no remorse. He has extorted millions from foreign countries and companies and helped build a family fortune for his father that the job itself never could. He developed a way to launder millions with a bogus artist career. He has neglected to pay millions in taxes, and at the same time, his father is declaring war on Americans who have done the same. The hypocrisy is palpable. He has defied Congress and is using his father to beat the courts. Hunter Biden is not a good person. He may be winning some battles, but ultimately, he may lose the war. Even his corrupt father may not have enough strings to pull to keep the guilty verdict away from Hunter.

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City Councilor Ali Sekou is suing his City over a new development next to the Mosque he runs. I shared some thoughts on this a few days ago and wondered if the lawsuit to block new housing was about parking spaces. It’s been a few days, and I think it is about parking.

As a reminder, “the IQRA Islamic Society of Greater Concord sits on a piece of property adjacent to the First Congregational Church at 177 N. Main St, in whose lot (some) Mosque attendees are alleged to have parked.” Parking sucks on Main Street, and the Mosque is but one of its many victims, which is where our story takes a new turn (or should I say an old one).

From that Concord resident and reader:

The Concord ZBA approved the Mosque at its August 2, 2017, meeting. The Mosque project requested six zoning variances beginning June 7, 2017. The first variance request states “to permit 16 parking spaces where 251 spaces are required.”

By the time the August 2 meeting came the ZBA decided that only 47 spaces were required and the 16 onsite parking spots were good enough if they could get an easement from the First Congregational Church next door for 31 more parking spots.

The Concord Monitor reported on the August 2nd meeting, stating the next step would be to get Site Plan approval from the Planning Board.

Maybe I’m partial to promoting my guesses, but how is this not about parking?

I’m not clear on any official parking variance – maybe someone can find out if the Concord Planning Board even approached this – but when the church property was sold, that changed the game. The new property owners’ plan to build apartments was also approved with a parking variance (if I recall), so is it inappropriate for the Mosque to complain about parking or traffic or the character of the area when it – assuming my source is correct – went from needing 251 spaces to 47 spaces, 65.95% of which were not even on the Mosque’s property.

The IQRA Islamic Society of Greater Concord has sued, so a lawyer in a robe will get a shot at telling us what it all means when I think we already know. Zoning and Planning rules exist to give zoning and planning board members something to do. That something is approving development, and to hell with the parking and traffic; the Mosque is wasting its money on the lawsuit.

The City isn’t going to do anything about a parking problem the Mosque accepted on a contingency the City was never going to pursue, and even if it did, it was temporary at best. Short of the IQRA Islamic Society of Greater Concord buying that land, it was always temporary, and they didn’t buy it.

If the Mosque thinks it can win because the City owes it parking, they are going to lose.

 

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Riley Gaines, former NCAA swimmer now advocate of Save Women’s Sports Act, has been very active this week protesting and speaking at the 2024 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, to demand that the organization stop discriminating against female athletes by allowing males to compete in women’s sports.

The NCAA celebrates its decision to include transgender women in women’s sports as Progressive and the right decision for college athletics. The results and data prove otherwise and show the NCAA to be more concerned with being WOKE than right on this issue.

At the convention, swimmers Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlan, Kaylee Alons, and volleyball player Macy Petty continue to call on NCAA President Charlie Baker to meet with them to hear how allowing men in women’s sports hurt them. Baker has ignored numerous requests to meet with female athletes against whom the NCAA has discriminated. Gaines is the most visible of these female athletes. She is a 12x All-American swimmer, 5x SEC Champion, and record holder. However, she was denied the individual championship in her senior year at Kentucky when she was beaten by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who had competed at Penn for a few years as a male swimmer.

By the conclusion of Thomas’s swimming career at UPenn in 2022, her rank had moved from 65th on the men’s team to 1st on the women’s team in the 500-yard freestyle and 554th on the men’s team to fifth on the women’s team in the 200-yard freestyle. Thomas found the way to become a champion was not to train and work harder but to become a woman and compete as one. I question how she can look in the mirror or hold up her trophy and feel good about the women she cheated in her quest for fame.

34 Lia Thomas athletes compete in women’s collegiate athletics and are supported by the NCAA. They compete in swimming, basketball, soccer, gymnastics, and volleyball. Not only are women being denied championships and scholarships and having future earnings hampered, but they are also being physically hurt. 

From ABC13 News:

RALEIGH, N.C. (TND) — A high school volleyball player who suffered severe head and neck injuries resulting in long-term concussion symptoms after a girl she says is transgender spiked a ball in her face is now speaking out publicly for the first time.

“Due to the North Carolina High School Athletic Association policy allowing biological males to compete against biological females my life has forever been changed,” Payton McNabb, now a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, North Carolina, said during a Thursday committee hearing of the North Carolina state legislature.

McNabb indicated that, to this day, she is still recovering from her injuries and continues to face other health struggles as a result of what happened, such as impaired vision, partial paralysis on the right side of her body, constant headaches, anxiety, and depression. But to the NCAA, this is just the cost of being a Progressive WOKE institution.

To every level-headed, honest, free-thinker, this inclusion of trans-women is wrong. Still, the beliefs and wishes of the masses are no longer the concern of the government, schools, sports governing bodies, or Progressives in general. It will be challenging to correct these bad decisions when the adults regain control of this country. For the young women denied the fruits of their hard work, there will be no justice, and for the Payton Mcnabbs who are physically harmed, there will be no apology.

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Mitch McConnell and his faux-GOP ilk are, as I write this (1/12 10:00 AM), selling out GOP voters on illegal immigration. More specifically, Oklahoma’s faux-GOP Senator Lankford is the figurehead for a plan to essentially amnesty the millions illegals the Biden-Regime has allowed to invade through our Southern border and to legalize future illegal immigration … to the tune of 5,000 per day.

 

Here is Oklahoma Republican Senator James Lankford Deal for the Southern Border

1) Increase green cards by 50,000/year

2) Work permits for adult children of H-1B holders

3) Immediate work permits to every illegal alien released from custody

4) Taxpayer funded lawyers to… pic.twitter.com/YUI248w8cW

— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) January 12, 2024

I’ve warned many times that Americans will cease to exist as we know it once the children of this illegal alien invasion reach voting age. There will be a permanent Democrat majority. It turns out the Left is not willing to wait that long.  Illegals in Arizona can vote in the 2024 Presidential election. Faux News might as well call Arizona for Biden now.

Elon Musk Rightly Says Arizona Doesn’t Verify Federal Voter Citizenship — But The Feds Don’t Let Themhttps://t.co/nHRNkLkZDq

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) January 12, 2024

 

 

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Here I go again, snow blowing our driveway, shoveling steps, and clearing the car twice each. Two days in a row are more than enough, and now, to top of everything, I had to listen to some “Chicken Little” disaster-promoting forecaster telling me all this cold weather is because of “Arctic warming.”

This supposedly is pushing the jet stream south, carrying the Arctic cold with it. I looked it up, the N. Pole is 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Something tells me Chicken Little is trying to sell me the Brooklyn Bridge.

The funny thing is in 1895, the NY Times wrote, “Globalists think the world may be frozen again.” Glad I missed that. In 1932, Time announced, “melting polar ice to raise sea levels.” I think you’ve heard that before, right? Me too. 1958, Harpers predicted a warning of the “Coming ice age.” Warning folks, it never stops. 1975 News Week, “Mild conditions, Earth’s climate cooling down.” Welcome Al Gore, 1976, and “Global warming”, as that has been debunked, it’s become climate change (same thing rebranded) until today, too tired to get up from my recliner, Chicken Little.

I don’t think these people ever think. I’m sure they never check facts or history. If it sounds good say it, if it changes blame something else or someone else and never ever admit they were wrong.

Did you know that during the Revolutionary War, when the British occupied New City, the Hudson River was frozen so solid British soldiers could pull wheelbarrows full of wood across to heat the homes in Manhattan?

Try that today!

So look folks when you see or hear the Chicken Littles of our world telling you something do not get up from your recliner, change the channel.

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If we learned anything at all from the drama that was COVID, it is that the government does not take your natural rights, or their protection, seriously. It is not interested in any opinion that is not its own, and using force to get its way is always an option. This should scare more people than it does.

Refusing to get more boosters than there are Rocky movies is not enough. Showing your maskless face in public spaces is inadequate activism. The machine is not happy about the declining uptake of the self-admitted gene therapy failure (they are still pushing), but this will not slow their roll. Controlling your energy (Net-Zero), your commerce (CBDC), your body (Globalist health Mandates), and your mobility (EVs/15-minute cities) are but a beginning. They must control your words, speech, and thoughts. Limit what you see or do by managing what you trust.

We’ve long known about shadowbanning, demonization, suppressing reach, and Facebook jail, but the Twitter files showed us the extent to which the American government would go and how dismissive the State is to having been caught. Big tech pretended its hands were tied. The machine media, our mainstream press, are little more than partners in this war on information, and they continue to do the State’s bidding, presumably under the misguided notion that they will “be allowed to live” (physically or metaphorically) when it is time to start putting people up against the wall.

Women made that mistake and we’re watching its collapse in real time. Minorities as well, though the deception undermining their families has been underway for a while. The machine response has been to blame white people when they should be blaming Democrats regardless of race. A cabal whose true goal for the diversity movement is to silence everyone who disagrees. Gender, sex, age, race, religion. None of that is important. Ideological purity is the only yardstick that matters.

The Columbia Broadcasting System, CBS to the rest of us, is a dutiful stooge of the machine, and it understands two things well. Media it cannot control is a competition, and the government wants to control its competition.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Absolutely. And, we know in the immediate term, the Biden Administration has been concerned about what this will mean for our politics on the campaign trail. The use of deepfakes or misleading voters. What are the (social media) companies doing to prevent that?

JO-LING KENT: You know, the social media companies are telling me that they’re throwing every resource that they have to stop misinformation and disinformation. But the reality is, that this is a sprawling, endless game of whack-a-mole. That information spreads constantly online, and it is continuing to be very hard to stop especially with the arguments and protections of free speech. Now Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, says it removes manipulated media and voter interference misinformation, and the company does utilize fact-checking organizations and beyond. But the reality here is that taking down all of this bad information has always been an impossible task on platforms of that size. And of course, we cannot forget about X, formerly Twitter. Elon Musk and his team have basically allowed the return of conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, and they’ve also dramatically reduced the size of their Trust and Safety team, Margret.

If you lived through the COVID Drama and the tyranny that rose to make it such, you are familiar with what social media companies do. You can recite numerous examples of the truths it suppressed in favor of lies that interfered in elections. Science and public health debate suffered. Free Speech was not misinformation. The approved narratives of the machine and its media allies were.

It is true that there will always be wrong thinking, poor judgment, and emotional outbursts, shared as opinion, theory, or fact. But as long as there is open debate and rebuttal, the truth will eventually find the light.

We used to have this thing called the Fairness Doctrine, “a policy that required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.” Decades later, it was determined that the FCC did not need to enforce it to issue broadcast licenses, and since then, the media landscape has so changed that you’d have to try not to find an opposing opinion which is ironic. As that landscape began to spiral out of control, many on the totalitarian-leaning left, thanks to years of talkers like Rush Limbaugh, wanted the Fairness Doctrine enforced.

Talk Radio and the rise of the blogosphere leading today to podcasts are a testament to at least two things. People will disagree about almost everything, and they like to share that with the world. Human nature meets politics, and that was why most of America’s founders believed that government should be limited and local. Secure a handful of natural rights and Keep the power as close to the people as possible, lest it gets away from them, which it has.

There is no better example of how far away than this; no budding globalist despot, be they elected, appointed, or credentials as a reporter at any level of administration, will ever insist that the media be required to allow opposing opinions on its broadcasts.

I think that says a lot about where we are. The same people who once demanded the right to opposing opinion have since labeled it as misinformation at best and hate speech at worst while hoping to convince a majority that disagreeing with the government in public might be domestic terrorism or a crime against humanity just like it is in China, North Korea, and every Communist/Socialist state.

Left unchallenged, western democracies will try to achieve parity with totalitarian regimes on the matter of public speech, and the response to COVID is proof of that.

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I have been NeverNikki for some time now. Still, it is nice to have Rand Paul say that he, too, is NeverNikki. And the Senator has a far, far, far bigger bully-pulpit than I have, so hopefully, his voice will help negate the millions that Leftist billionaires are spending to create Nikki’s “surge.”

Click the tweet to read the entire thread, which lays out the unassailable case of why real Republicans should NOT be supporting Nikki.

 

I’ve been watching the GOP Primary closely for a while now, and I like various aspects of several candidates – Republicans like President @realDonaldTrump, Governor @RonDeSantis, and @VivekGRamaswamy.

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 12, 2024

 

 

As I look over the field, I don’t think I yet have a first choice, but I do know one thing: count me in as #NeverNikki! pic.twitter.com/0RjbBhnwdc

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 12, 2024

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Since 2005, I have been involved in studying mind control. One of my books on that subject is entitled: “Deliverance: Pizzagate and a Royal Commission Reveal Society’s Hidden Rulers.” (That was a royal commission that I attended in Australia in 2015-2017.)

On Rumble, you can find a 2021 interview of Maria Farmer by Whitney Webb — author of a tightly packed book about organized crime in America, One Nation Under Blackmail. I was surprised by many of Ms. Farmer’s statements and will now recount them.

Biography of Maria Farmer

Here are some biographical points Ms. Farmer made. I won’t bring in any other things I know about her, which are not much anyway. I won’t identify each of these as being “allegations” — they are all allegations, although Maria did mention having signed an affidavit. Note: Nothing she said conflicts with other information in my “filing cabinet.”

Maria has brain cancer, and her doctor told her that it must have started 20 years ago. She feels sure it was based on an incident to be described below. Maria lived for several years, as a sort of Gal Friday to Ghislaine Maxwell, in three of Jeffrey Epstein’s properties: 66 St, New York, 71st St, New York, and the ranch in Arizona.

She did not mention Epstein Island and has not filed any lawsuit (that I know of). She says she was the first person to have reported Epstein to the authorities in 1996. Note: he was first arrested in 2008, which may have come about because of Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit. Maria tried to help Virginia get taken seriously — which has now come to pass, for sure.

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Maria started her complaint at the NY Police Dept but was told to take it to the FBI.

She did so and asked for Witness Protection but was refused. A high-up FBI lady (first name Nesbitt, last name Critchendale?) sincerely promised to help Maria. However, she has disappeared.

Maria thinks it may be her complaint to the FBI that started some trouble for Nesbitt. At one point, on the phone, Nesbitt cried because she was unable to help Ms. Farmer. Gosh, I’d like to have an FBI officer cry on the phone with me over his inability to deal with the Marathon bombing.

Maria considers her real profession to be that of an artist. She graduated from the New York Academy of Art and was in the care of Eileen Guggenheim, whom she dislikes. That art group also spent some time in France. Note: Whitney Webb, in this phone interview, permitted Maria to “jump all over the place.” It was almost a stream-of-consciousness talk.

Now for the brain cancer episode. Maria says she was very seriously threatened by a guy who may have planned to kill her, apparently on behalf of the Powers That Be, if she looked like becoming a whistleblower. He said he was “special forces,” but she did not take that to mean army. She recalls that the anger in his eyes looked so frightening to her that this is when something in her brain responded in what she later says became cancer.

Three Biggies

I interrupt to describe three things from the Webb/Farmer interview that were a surprise to me. Maria had long since said that Jeffrey needed a constant supply of “nubiles,” perhaps for his three massages a day. And that Ghislaine Maxwell, around 4 pm, would get into a tizz, trying to make sure enough girls were found. Maria says the typical age of the nubile is 12 to 14 years old.

The surprise is that Maria says she would drive around with Ghislaine during the search and that Ivana Trump was always in the car. (Not Ivanka, but Ivana, who was married to Donald from 1977 to 1990.) Allegedly, Ivana would get out of the car and speak to Hispanic girls and ask them to come to 66 Street the next day about becoming models for Victoria’s Secret lingerie. (I may be mixing 66 St with 71 St; one of those is the Victoria’s Secret place.)

According to Wikipedia, in July 2022, Mrs. Trump was found on the inside stairs of her Upper East Side building, having died of blunt injuries. The NY Medical Officer says it was not a suspicious death. (Does “blunt injuries” sound suspicious to you?) She was the Mom of Eric and Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka.

A second surprise, which really threw me, is that Maria says Jeffrey said to her, about Lesley Wexner, “He adores me. He would do anything for me.” She believes he meant it was romantic and perhaps not mutual. Of course, I do not know (nor do I know if that was really Ivana in the car), but if true, it shakes up the whole scene about Wexner passing all sorts of property into Epstein’s hands. By the way, Maria never, in all those years, met Wexner!

A third surprise, an expression only of opinion by Ms. Farmer, is that “these satanic people don’t age well.” The buzz has been that Satan worshippers have cornered the market on anti-aging techniques. She says, “No, they look decrepit.” Oh, and this is interesting: she offered her opinion that Jeffrey “would never in a thousand years have killed himself.”

Back to the Tidbits

Here are some remarks verbatim — or as verbatim as my less-than-excellent stenography will permit. I will quote them in order, so if you want to check it out, just start at the beginning of the Rumble tape:
1. Clare Hazel married into the Guinness family. She procured girls from England. “If you are successful in America, there is a reason.”
2. Ghislaine called Clare all the time to give her orders. They watched me on video all the time.
3. The big house (in Arizona?) has a sauna in the basement, and under that is a tunnel to the main house. I often saw Mrs. Wexner (Abigail) riding horses.
4. Ghislaine knew Andrew from the 1980s and knew Fergie before that. (We are now about 30 minutes into the tape.)
5. Ghislaine sold her townhouse to settle (the lawsuit) with Virginia (Giuffre). Ghislaine didn’t have friends.
6. A journalist named Vickie (possibly of Vanity Fair) promised to protect my info but then did not — even small alternative presses do this to me.
7. The set-up involved girls from the Philippines and Thailand. Dave Shafer was nice to me, but he did the 2008 financial crisis with Alan Greenspan. David Boyce testified to Congress (We are now at 56 minutes on the tape).
8. Berman at Southern District of New York is ominous. Why did he have Jeffrey re-arrested? [MM — My guess: so they could kill him.] Deutsche Bank kept Jeffrey’s account open till two weeks before the arrest (before?)
9. Luckily, the statutes changed. [I think she means the statute of limitations was extended to help people who were assaulted when they were young.]
10. I was told that my sister Annie was going to bear Jeffrey’s children. She was 16. And that “she would be lucky to have a Jewish child.”
11. The FBI is the worst enemy. (1 hour 13 minutes into the tape). Jim Hill of Paducah, KY, has helped me. I am able to read redacted messages if I once saw them, as I have a photographic memory. [Perhaps from MK-Ultra training.]
12. Bill Clinton came to the house three times while president; on those occasions, all people left except Chef Andy.
13. Courtney is going to make it go to the Supreme Court. (Interruption by Whitney Webb: “Supreme Court judges are compromised.”) [So what’s new?]
14. I told every news network that Ghislaine said only Jews matter; they said we can’t report that. Katie Ford’s mother was Brunel.
15. Every time I went into Jeffrey’s office, Morgan Fairchild was sitting behind him.
16. Anthony Mason of CBS has been good to me—a real honest reporter.
17. How many kids have died? Only 30 have come forward, but over the years, I saw thousands. [That’s a lot — were they killed?]
18. Pedos run the world economy. David Icke has helped me with that.
19. Ghislaine got Eileen a job as Prince Charles’ press secretary in the US. (1 hour, 27 min; not sure if she means Guggenheim.) [Quelle interesting remark]
20. In 1991, at my art school in France, a German student told me that the NY Academy of Art was the location of a pedophile ring. It goes on in the Catholic Church, too.

Comment

I [MM] am on a mission to work out why our modern thinking is poor quality. We use myths, and we ignore reality. Also, I am particularly worried about our immediate future. After all, we have Bill Gates saying there is a great new pandemic coming, and Yuval Harari is promoting transhumanism.

I like to look wider than Maria Farmer looks. Yet her insights are based on close-up impressions, and you can’t beat that. It’s good that Whitney Webb had the guts to interview her. That was in 2021, and after a year, she got Maria’s permission to publicize it. I have made crude scribbles, so if you want to use any point, you must revisit the Rumble tape.

Here is the bit that got me and which I consider very good news. Maria says she diagnoses Jeffrey as mentally ill. Wow. That gives an altogether different perspective on things.

I now venture that they are all mentally ill. We ought to stop thinking of their behavior as if it were just a personality variation or as if greed alone is the engine.

My guess is that both Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were subjected to full-on torture as children under a ‘government’ program such as MK-Ultra. I’m sure both of our Bush presidents were, too. It is not to be ruled out that their sex addiction was “given” to them.

I genuinely feel sorry for the whole lot of them.

Note: Disquis has deleted me, so I can’t reply to comments. But I can be reached at my campaign website, www.ConstitutionAndTruth.com, which has a page for free download of my book Deliverance.

The aforementioned interview of Farmer by Webb is here:

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Did you know it is illegal in New Hampshire for a minor to get a tattoo and is considered child abuse? Minor children can mutilate themselves at the recommendation of so-called medical professionals but not get a tattoo.

TITLE LXII CRIMINAL CODE CHAPTER 639 OFFENSES AGAINST THE FAMILY Section 639:3 639:3 Endangering Welfare of Child or Incompetent. – I. A person is guilty of endangering the welfare of a child or incompetent if he knowingly endangers the welfare of a child under 18 years of age or of an incompetent person by purposely violating a duty of care, protection or support he owes to such child or incompetent, or by inducing such child or incompetent to engage in conduct that endangers his health or safety. II. In the prosecution of any person under this section, the tattooing or branding by any person of a child under the age of 18 constitutes endangering the welfare of such child.

Why couldn’t this be used to stop gender mutilation?

There is a new bill of which I am waiting to hear answers to some questions before sending testimony to the Committee on Health and Family Services. It is HB1012, “exempting from criminal penalty certain parenting decisions intended to encourage a child’s independence and freedom.”

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Won’t this allow the mutilation of children under the guise of mental care? It happened in NH when a 17-year-old received gender reassignment surgery. Luckily, this person seems to be doing OK, but some suffer serious mental side effects of regret after the mutilation.

I believe the terminology needs to be reworded to specifically define “duty of care” and “Protection.”

How can this law already have a section making it illegal for minors to get a tattoo, but they are allowed to be mutilated by the medical industry?

Please do not tell me this is “Medical Care” because the Oath states “Do No Harm,” and if the psychologists and psychiatrists cannot get a person to be happy with their own body, this is a failure of the medical industry.

Here is the text of the new wording in HB1012.

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The Democrats have created for themselves a problem. The titular head of their party, Joe Biden – tit-head for short – left the door open, and that is beginning to get a cold reception from even the most die-hard rank-and-file lefties. It is one thing to pretend to be for sanctuary, another to have to be one.

Massachusetts, one of the original blue states, dropped its liberty drawers years ago, always safe in the knowledge that few, if any, would look up its skirt to see what was there. Nothing. Not really. We got plenty of posturing and posing. Judge Shelly Joseph let a criminal illegal alien escape through her chambers while ICE waited outside her courtroom doors to take him into custody. A few years later, she escaped any accountability as well. Massachusetts has a right-to-shelter law, that doesn’t apply to homeless vets. One big dog and pony show until Joe Biden OPENED THE BORDER!

Massachusetts declared a State of Emergency last summer, joining a host of progressive virtue-signallers up to their eyeballs in those seeking sanctuary. Baye State Chief Exec Maura Healy is begging legal residents to house illegals.

Governor Healey says close to 5,600 families are currently housed in the state’s emergency shelter system. That number is 80% higher than one year ago. Massachusetts is the only state in the country with a right-to-shelter law that guarantees homeless families access to emergency shelters. She says Massachusetts has been spending around $45 million a month to help assist these families. The situation is so bad, the Healey administration is now asking people to open their homes and businesses to help people in need.

“Most importantly, if you have an extra room or suite in your home, please consider hosting a family. Housing and shelter is our most pressing need and become a sponsor family,” said Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll.

Ironic, isn’t it? Planes and boats filled with third-worlders are landing in Central America. They then work their way to the US border on buses with well-stocked way stations, all funded by progressive billionaires and our government. The invaders are displacing Americans, and now Democrats like Healy are asking Americans to house the illegals.

Why can’t some of the billionaires and millionaires who fund Democrat campaigns and non-profits pay to put them back on boats and planes and take them someplace else? The goal is to overwhelm the system. Every system. To break America.

Healy is asking today, but not long from now, her state will be demanding and then forcing illegals into homes because while all the Dems have to do is close the door, they won’t or can’t. The tide will not ebb until your home, town, state, and nation are overwhelmed.

It’s not just housing. How do we feed this many people? What happens to access to services, health care, and everything? Who pays for any or all of that? We’re 34 trillion in debt; there is no money. Nothing can withstand that pressure, and that is the point.

This will be difficult for the virtue-signalling dems and the rank and file who thought their party was truly compassionate, but these are your choices. Have non-English speaking third-world illegal housed in your homes as the country collapses in on the wight of that, or… vote Republican up and down the ticket in every election, local, state, and federal, for at least the next 12 years.

You might not be able to get an abortion after six months, but that’s already the case in Massachusetts and most of the world. In exchange, you get to keep your house, eat, and live; the tide of illegals stops, and many of them will be sent back home—their home. And that is not an unkindness. They will suffer with you if the invasion is not halted.

And – after Republicans sweep into power – as things calm down – if you still want to share your home with a “migrant family,’ you can always do that. But it will be your choice, not an act of force by a police state that created the problem.

 

 

 

HT | Gateway Pundit

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