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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With the recent court decisions, we need a bit of analysis on NH education funding and recent (and historic) NH Supreme Court decisions regarding the NH Constitution.

First, why is it said that we must fund public education in New Hampshire at the state level? The answer is that a supreme court ruling interpreted the NH Constitution Article 83, and in particular, the phrase “cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries and public schools, to encourage private and public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and natural history of the country…”

This court decision seems to have entirely ignored the word “seminaries,” as the suggestions that “cherish” implies “fund” should then equally apply to seminary as it does “public schools.” I am not aware of any publicly funded seminary. I believe this decision was likely in error – I do not see a mandate for state-level funding of education in this phrase or anywhere within the rest of the New Hampshire Constitution.

However, where I may break with some conservatives and libertarians is that I do, in fact, see the great utility and, likely, necessity of a public education being available to our youth in order to replicate and preserve our heritage and culture. I believe I keep good company with Thomas Jefferson in this regard. Though while I am quite amenable to a basic funding of public education by law, despite seeing no Constitutional mandate to the same, I believe this education must, absolutely and without deviation, follow the guidance of the New Hampshire constitution: this must be a requirement for the expenditure of public funds towards the end of education.

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Here, it is useful to examine the whole text of Article 83: “Knowledge and learning, generally diffused through a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government; and spreading the opportunities and advantages of education through the various parts of the country, being highly conducive to promote this end; it shall be the duty of the legislators and magistrates, in all future periods of this government, to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries and public schools, to encourage private and public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and natural history of the country; to countenance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and economy, honesty and punctuality, sincerity, sobriety, and all social affections, and generous sentiments, among the people: Provided, nevertheless, that no money raised by taxation shall ever be granted or applied for the use of the schools of institutions of any religious sect or denomination. Free and fair competition in the trades and industries is an inherent and essential right of the people and should be protected against all monopolies and conspiracies which tend to hinder or destroy it. The size and functions of all corporations should be so limited and regulated as to prohibit fictitious capitalization and provision should be made for the supervision and government thereof. Therefore, all just power possessed by the state is hereby granted to the general court to enact laws to prevent the operations within the state of all persons and associations, and all trusts and corporations, foreign or domestic, and the officers thereof, who endeavor to raise the price of any article of commerce or to destroy free and fair competition in the trades and industries through combination, conspiracy, monopoly, or any other unfair means; to control and regulate the acts of all such persons, associations, corporations, trusts, and officials doing business within the state; to prevent fictitious capitalization; and to authorize civil and criminal proceedings in respect to all the wrongs herein declared against.”

This article, as part of the supreme law of New Hampshire, must then guide our understanding of what it means to receive a public education, how language such as “adequate” might be defined, and the lens through which we must evaluate our current public education system.

First, to the concept of an “adequate education,” we must first acknowledge that an “adequate education” is not a dollar amount – it can only reasonably be defined as the inculcation of certain values, knowledge, and capacities as are outlined within Article 83, or elsewhere in law as to not be in contradiction to the Constitution. As a part of this definition, we must also acknowledge that not all persons are of the same abilities and that, even with a hypothetical perfectly optimized situation with unlimited funding, not all persons will achieve the same levels of competency and capacity, so any such definitions of “adequate education” must, in fact, be defined in terms of opportunity provided towards this end, with some application of an averaging in assessment to determine efficacy, and further with the understanding that neither perfect optimization nor unlimited funding are attainable, and so a “reasonableness” standard must come into this definition as well.

Now, what, then, per Article 83, is the end of public education? It is the capacity to function as a citizen in civic engagement towards maintaining a “free government,” familiarity with and capacity towards “literature and the sciences,” familiarity with and the ability to interact freely with “public and private institutions,” a general inculcation of interest and familiarity with “agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and natural history of the country…” and the indoctrination of those founding values of “principles of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity, industry and economy, honesty and punctuality, sincerity, sobriety, and all social affections, and generous sentiments…”

To summarize, the end of public education is the creation of citizens capable of the maintenance of our Constitutional Republic towards the preservation of the liberties enumerated within our Bill of Rights, a general, broad education within the sciences (and maths and logic therein implied), literature (reading and writing and the classics), and seeding within this young people the values, traditions, and culture of a traditional American ideal.

Now, let us assess whether our current formulation of public education is, per Article 83, Constitutional. A general and broad survey of New Hampshire students of public schools finds rampant innumeracy and illiteracy across the board. A sampling of curricula provisioned by various public schools demonstrates that primacy within the classroom is given to modern and divisive social theories that are wholly divergent from traditional American values. Further, students are taught a false history of America coupled with the lens of conflict theory, e.g. the oppressor-oppressed dialectic of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) which inculcates a gnostic disposition of victimhood as opposed to one of benevolence and generous sentiments. Instead of the preparation for maintenance of our Republic with thoughtful and light application of government towards the maintenance of Natural and Constitutional rights, students are taught to manipulate “our Democracy” via training towards social activism and Maoist mass lines demanding heavy-handed government coercion against the liberties of their neighbors. Further, the manner in which a monopolistic, cartel-like, and coercive regime has developed around public education, in no small part due to the influence of public-sector unions, is unconscionable.

I can see no way in which our current formulation of public education could possibly be more violative of Article 83, and, therefore, I find it to be a wholly unconstitutional system. This current system is not designed to replicate that society of the American founding but has instead been hijacked, as a virus hijacks a cell, to replicate a corrupted, corrosive, and damnable system of a Marxist bent instead.

If we are to publicly fund a system of public education, which I find reasonable and prudent, it should most certainly not be this current system as it exists. The system must be reformed, or a new one established and the old abolished. This is necessary for all of us. Our current system of public education is an existential threat to the republic, to you, and to everyone you care about.

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Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, who, at some point after I stopped paying attention, changed her name to Shuhada Sadaqat (in 2018, she converted to Islam), died in July 2023. She was 56 years old. Today, about six months later, give or take, the coroner announced her cause of death.

 

London’s Metropolitan Police had said the singer’s death was not considered suspicious after she was found unresponsive at a home in southeast London on July 26. O’Connor was 56.

The Southwark Coroner’s Court confirmed that O’Connor died of natural causes, which means circumstances when an illness or condition is not linked to external forces. It did not provide details.

 

“Circumstances when an illness or condition is not linked to external forces.” Natural causes. She was fifty-six years old. Quite the blow to life expectancy, that. Unless – he says with a glint in his eye – the COVID vaccine killed her.

Yes, she was vaccinated. Proudly. She brought her son with her, so he likely was as well.

 

The singer, who now goes by the name, Shuhada Sadaqat received her second Coid vaccination and her 17-year-old son Shane accompanied her to the appointment.

Writing on Twitter she said: “2nd Vaccine today My lovely 17 yr old son coming with me : ) Behold Nevi’im Nesta Ali Shane O’Connor #Gentleman.”

 

That was May of 2021. We can only guess if she got on the booster train (I did not look) because dying at the age of 56 from natural causes … is suspicious.

Given how the globalist industrial complex continues to ignore the actual science and facts about its response and its alleged cure, we should assume that vaccine deaths could be called natural deaths.

I’m not saying the vaccine killed her. I’ve no idea. I’m saying that they are playing fast and loose with the idea of what is natural and what an external force is, and much like the mission creep of Medically Assisted Dying, we should expect the list of things not-so-natural to transition in the interest of obfuscating future acts of democide – planned or incidental.

The cause of death may not have been reported as suspicious, but I can’t help thinking that saying it was natural makes it so.

 

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you – have gotten a lot lately!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, Monday Edition and Wednesday Edition.  Also check out my latest Israel-focused meme & commentary post if this is a subject of interest to you.

 

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

 

 

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Remember, to the Left his man is Satan incarnate.  Can you wrap your mind around someone that low that they’d do this?  Hate… raw, seething hate for Trump (and by extension his supporters).  Understand – I hated Barackus with a passion, but were I in that judges position I’d still have the human decency to permit this.  That this judge can’t permit this is a testament to the level of hate the Left has for Trump and us persons to the Right of Stalin.

 

 

 

Not just Muslims, of course.  But that ANYONE could value money more than the lives of children…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

China sowing division in its number one rival.

 

 

 

 

As I understand it many such farms – don’t know about this one specifically but I’d suspect they’re included – fully disclose the risks of, for example, raw milk.  Customers have to sign a form that says they’re aware of the risks and want the stuff anyway.  Willing seller who informs, willing buyer in the know – so it begs the question of why such farms are under such attack.

 

 

And this video (link only).

 

 

 

 

 

My understanding of this is a bear having been shot in self-defense becomes a case example of a bear having died from “climate change”.

 

 

 

They don’t want to see, because to see would acknowledge they were bamboozled, and in this specific case, admit the possibility that their “good act” was actually what harmed their child.  They’d have to acknowledge the possibility that those they trusted when those experts said Safe and effective were, at best, merely wrong – but potentially truly dishonest with them.  They’d also have to admit that the very people they looked down on as science deniers, anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists – gaining a sense of superiority from that – were, in fact, the ones who were more informed and more perceptive than their vaunted selves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re the ones paying for this.

 

 

 

 

Correct.  Psychopaths don’t reform or repent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Yes.  Got preps?  Got local friends who think the same?  And given this:

US and UK prepare to launch strikes against Houthis in Yemen | Yemen | The Guardian

You think Iran and others don’t already have sleepers here just waiting?  And all the ones flooding across the border?  Or this:

Sweden is warned to ‘brace for war’: Civil Defence minister tells citizens to ‘get moving’ and prepare for the end of 210 years of peace as country bids to join NATO in face of Russia tensions | Daily Mail Online

Putin ally warns US/NATO of another red line that, if crossed, will lead to nuclear response (substack.com)

Or The Potato discussing the possibility of NATO troops against Russians in Ukraine if Congress doesn’t keep the money spigot open?

Biden: Help Ukraine Now or Send Americans to Fight Russia With NATO Later | National News | U.S. News (usnews.com)

Or China becoming stronger-worded about Taiwan?

Sudan is a massacre site.  All around the world are hot-spots either in action or tending that way.

 

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I’ve been to Disney World once or twice – not been terribly impressed, but still.  Now, of course, its reputation is utterly gone.

And this is part of the whole debasement of our culture.  One by one our icons and statues and standards are being corrupted and ruined.

 

 

 

Imagine this was your daughter.

 

 

 

 

The whole point of these meme posts… mockery and ridicule.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And worse – they want to make you seedless.

 

 

Pretty much.

 

 

 

The Left is very good at twisting the language to their purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NO JUDGE would want to be the judge who reversed a state’s election and flipped it.  Too much pressure would come to bear on them.

 

 

 

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Most links and comments from my Jarhead friend; I added a few:

 

Green Inefficiency: Up To One Third Of Power Needed To Charge Up E-Car Battery Gets Lost! (notrickszone.com)

As every engineer worth their salt knows, when energy get transformed, there are losses.  This article states that EV’s lose 10-30% of the energy they are charged with due to battery losses, internal resistance, etc.  And this is on top of all the losses in generating and transmitting the power.  So how these are supposed to “save energy”?:

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A Culture in Collapse › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Another profound piece by Victor Davis Hanson.

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Lawmaker: FBI Had 200 Undercover Assets at US Capitol on Jan. 6 (dailysignal.com)

Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), has been investigating the January 6th, 2021 “insurrection” and has found that over 200 federal agents were in the crowd that day, undercover, dressed as Trump and/or MAGA supporters.  And that the orders to do this came from the upper levels of the FBIie.

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Hot Mic Catches Journalists Joking About Trump Assassination – Geller Report

Recently, several reporters were caught on a hot mic joking about the “JFK solution” for President Trump.  Given that all the lawsuits, slander, and other mud-slinging being done to Trump are having the opposite effect (making him more popular), I have no doubt that the Deep State is seriously considering this option.

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No, Arctic Sea Ice Isn’t Shrinking – Climate- Science.press

Data.  Actual data.  What was it Richard Feynman said?

“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is … If it doesn’t agree with experiment (i.e., the data), it’s wrong.”

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BREAKING From ATTORNEY TOM RENZ: HHS, FDA, CDC and Big Pharma Knew that COVID “Vaccines” Would Shed and Cause Cancer | Joe Hoft

They knew.  And they pushed it into peoples’ arms – children’s arms – anyway.

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Interactive ‘Smart’ Toys Can Collect Kids’ Personal Data & Location (deeprootsathome.com)

Anything “connected” has this potential.

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Would you agree to house illegal immigrants in your home? – THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL. (journal14.com)

And soon it will not be a request, but a demand.  OK, her first.

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New Ivermectin Study Demonstrates 92 Percent Reduction In COVID-19 Mortality Rate – GreatGameIndia

Concluding the links: Ivermectin works – and it worked the whole time; it could treat an active case, and it acted as a prophylactic.  Same for hydroxychloroquine.  (And zinc.)  They let people die for profit and to make Trump look bad… and to scare people into taking the Jab.

 

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You cannot save in such an environment.  You cannot build assets either.  You are totally dependent on the state.  And if this goes through and becomes permanent, they’ll set your non-expiring limit lower than your expenses, so you cannot save at all.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/people-buy-solutions.mp4

 

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And don’t forget… come back Monday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

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Maine is a vast and beautiful state. From its rocky coast to its wooded core sprinkled with lakes and ponds. From its quaint fishing ports to its mountains and ski areas. From its majestic finger region to the remote northern border. Maine is a beautiful and proud state.

The good people of Maine are hard workers who have had difficulty adjusting to the loss of a vital paper industry and an attack on the number two industry in the state, the lobster industry. Maine’s vastness, lack of infrastructure, and high tax structure do not make it attractive to new industries. Outside of the cities of Portland and Augusta, the level of unemployment and poverty is far above average and stifles the quest for the American Dream for far too many Mainers. The Liberal leadership of the Maine Government does not have an urgency to address the plight of these disenfranchised Mainers. Still, it seems to be overly concerned with Abortion Rights, Mandates for conversion to electric vehicles, the growing marijuana industry, protecting the Chinese Cartel, and the suppression of voter rights by omitting the Former President from the 2024 ballot. We love Maine, and my partner and I call it our second home, but it is regrettable watching the destruction of Maine.

Maine also has a history as a magnate for groups of immigrants who have come to America from far reaches of the globe. The Catholic Church, which is one of the most prominent NGOs used by the federal government to distribute immigrants, targeted the Lewiston area as a new home for people who escaped Somalia decades ago when that country was at civil war. That influx of immigrants changed the demographics of Lewiston forever, and most agree the quality of life did not improve from that scenario. The school system, housing, and social benefit programs have been taxed since. The story is repeating itself. As Maine, like all of America, is working to recover from the Pandemic, it is now the destination of thousands of illegal immigrants who have crossed our Southern Border. These people come from over 150 countries, have no sponsors in Maine, have introduced many languages to the state, and are creating a housing dilemma. Hotels and civic auditoriums are used for emergency shelters but are inadequate for long-term use. So towns are getting creative to meet the need.

The town of Brunswick unveiled a new solution yesterday that is a slap on the face for Mainers trying to make ends meet, especially in this era of high inflation. Chloe Teboe, the Newscenter Maine Weekend Host, reported that 60 units of affordable housing had been completed on the property of the former Naval Air Station in Brunswick. These units will be used to transition immigrants from shelters as they integrate into Maine society. Rent will be paid for these units by the Maine Housing Authority for up to two years, but there are provisions for an extension if needed. The plan is for these units to be rented by these immigrants in the future.

As of 2023, there were over 4,200 homeless people in Maine, and nearly seven percent of Portland’s students are homeless. Nearly one third of Portland’s students do not speak English, but illegal immigrants are now getting free housing on Mainer’s dime. It makes you question who will drive the next nail into Maine’s coffin.

 

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If You’ve not heard of NewsGuard, Lee Fang, writing at RealClear Wire – which (thank you!) shares its content with independent media like the ‘Grok, had some less than flattering observations about the service.

Instead of merely suggesting rebuttals to untrustworthy information, as many other existing anti-misinformation groups provide, NewsGuard has built a business model out of broad labels that classify entire news sites as safe or untrustworthy, using an individual grading system producing what it calls “nutrition labels.” The ratings – which appear next to a website’s name on the Microsoft Edge browser and other systems that deploy the plug-in – use a scale of zero to 100 based on what NewsGuard calls “nine apolitical criteria,” including “gathers and presents information responsibly” (worth 18 points), “avoids deceptive headlines” (10 points), and “does not repeatedly publish false or egregiously misleading content” (22 points), etc.

Critics note that such ratings are entirely subjective – the New York Times, for example, which repeatedly carried false and partisan information from anonymous sources during the Russiagate hoax, gets a 100% rating.

Read the whole piece for more detail, then feel free to guess what they are about, but yesterday, they were about reaching out to me. (Dun, DUN, DUUUNNNNNNNNN!)

Mr. McDonald,

My name is John Gregory, health editor at NewsGuard. We publish written reviews of news and information websites’ credibility and transparency and seek on-the-record comments from the sites that we rate out of fairness and for the benefit of readers.
In rating GraniteGrok.com, I had questions about specific claims made in articles on the site, including claims about the 2020 elections, Nikki Haley’s presidential eligibility, COVID vaccines, Jan. 6, and Sept. 11, as well as questions about the site’s approach to correcting errors, labeling of advertising, and the use of pseudonyms by some of the site’s writers.

Would you be available for a phone interview to answer our questions? If you prefer, I can also send my questions via email. Thank you for your time.

Best regards, John Gregory
john.gregory@newsguardtech.com
Office: ‪(312) 489-8676
More about NewsGuard criteria here.

I wasn’t interested in spending time on the phone with another organ of the censorship state who had no intention of treating what we do in any fair or unbiased light, but I did make time to write a quick reply.

 

Mr. Gregory, thanks for reaching out, but a phone call won’t be necessary. I believe I can clarify all of this in a quick email.

We are a political opinion site focused on limited government and maximized individual liberty. The writers are all citizens and volunteers. They offer their thoughts freely and for free. We do not tell them what to think, write, or say. This means our contributors – including those who cannot use their names for fear of retribution – have a right to get things wrong.

We provide a minimum of editing and formatting but little else than the platform itself and encourage the community of authors, commenters, lurkers, the odd troll, and even would-be fact-checkers to challenge everything if they can – in comments, written rebuttals, and opposing op-eds for publication.

We welcome civil, open debate, edit or delete inappropriate “adult language,” and ban anyone who infers direct physical threat or harm to any individual or group.

Our goal has always been to encourage free speech in all its messy and glorious wonder from anyone and everyone and – per our FAQ – hold no one else responsible for other people’s words.

I’m sure that’s not precisely something NewsGuard’s rating system will chew easily, but we appreciate the outreach and look forward to writing about whatever comes of it.

I’m sure we’re not their cup of tea and, as such, will be branded as untrustworthy or rated poorly, but that’s who we are and what we are about. We accept opinion pieces, share our thoughts about other people’s thoughts, and expect the audience to weigh in whichever way their wind blows. The sum is impossible to calculate unless you accept that the comments are as much part of the experience as the piece itself.

A work in progress started by whatever the author wrote.

If that labels us as anything but a defender of free speech, we’ll be happy to promote whatever rating we get like we did when the SPLC labeled us as anti-government—an absurd notion, given that we’ve always got some number of contributors and commenters … who are in the damn government.

I’ll keep you posted, or better yet, you keep me posted. This is, after all, a team effort, and we wouldn’t want to do it without you.

 

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I have been involved with Right-to-Know litigation in the City of Nashua for four years now, and the experiences have left me with a story to tell. How does a citizen bring an RTK case to court? Realistically, you have to represent yourself and file pro se.

My first attorney-represented case was filed in February 2020. I won half of this case in 2022, but it remains under appeal before the Supreme Court. After the staggering costs of the first case, I began challenging the City as a pro se litigant.

All my work has been done through the Southern New Hampshire District Superior Court under two Judges. My experiences have been shaped by those who came before me and those who travelled through the Court system with their information requests during my time of records sought.

These cases are extraordinarily expensive to bring into Court; The process feeds money to the Attorneys and leaves the requester with all the risk and little reward. We should all be grateful for those who have challenged the system and failed.

I am aware of five Right-to-Know cases from Nashua, Milford, and Conway that have come before the Nashua Court since 2017. Judges look at these cases as burdensome and uninteresting. Understandably, criminal matters take priority. But given our political climate and the public’s general distrust of government, knowing what our government is up to has never been more important.

[1] The first Right-to-Know case I became aware of was Granite Green v City of Nashua. The City painted the Plaintiff as requesting hundreds of pages of records and wasting City time (the same tactic used by the City for my cases); the Judge agreed with the City and ruled against the Plaintiff, issuing an admonishment stating that he had a good mind to force the Plaintiffs to pay the legal bills of the City. I think the Judge got that wrong, and the manipulators of the records for RTK requests were and remain the City of Nashua attorneys.

The case cost hundreds of thousands to take into court. In 2021, these Plaintiffs reached out to me, recognizing that I had the same Judge, and warned me of the Judge’s intolerance for these cases and bias towards the City. I have come to know these folks as honorable Martyrs and Heroes whose loss helped pave the way for my victories.

[2] In Court, my 2020 Assessing records case was off to a rough start. For 15 months, I lost almost every motion. My Attorney and I were both frustrated because these were assessing records that were being requested, initially to understand our unfair property assessment. How could so much of this assessing information not be public? (I won my abatement through the State Appeals process.)

At that time, I was $100,000 into the case, and my Attorney, providing sound advice, recommended I quit. “The Judge doesn’t like you or your case.” I decided that, given information from the Granite Green folks, I was going to bring myself before the Judge as a pro se citizen and let him meet me. I knew I could speak to my case with passion, and I am a reasonable, logical, and credible woman. It worked.

Thankfully, the Judge became more interested and receptive, taking notes and asking questions. I started to win cases and claims. All in, it cost about $225,000 to bring the assessing Right-to-Know Petition through Superior Court. Contrary to the NH Bar Association creed, where “Civility and self-discipline prevent lawsuits from turning into combat and keep organized society from falling apart,” City Corporation Counsel turned my first RTK case into a war. It has continued through all cases.

[3] While my case was slugging through the system, another Nashua senior citizen brought a case before the same Judge. The simple, well-written request for emails was rejected by the city as overly broad and unreasonably described – a game the City was playing heavily to deny records to virtually all Nashua citizen requests. The Judge listened attentively and this hero lady won in the lower court and won the Supreme Court appeal for attorney’s fees. All in all, her case cost about $30K.

[4] In 2022, a Milford Plaintiff, a smart and strong witness, brought numerous challenges to the Court regarding non-public meetings, minutes, and Warrant Articles. The Judge, called from retirement, appeared to take no notes and several times requested, the Plaintiff’s attorney move it along. Four months later, the final ruling was issued, and the Plaintiff lost all claims. The case cost upwards of six figures. This is another Hero Challenger.

All in all, these four represented cases cost the Plaintiffs over $600,000. I won 5 out of 9 claims, and the Nashua Senior won her claim. All other challenges were lost. To do these challenges as a citizen, you have to file pro se and it is a difficult and unwelcoming process. The Judicial/legal system has an opportunity to create better pathways and work more productively with those seeking records. Why don’t they do this?

To those who paved the way, thank you. You are my Heroes.

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A clip from last night’s (1/6) CNN “debate” … Nikki (not her real name) Haley mouthing the Left’s/NeverTrump’s BIG LIE about the 2020 election. No, Miss Nikki. Biden didn’t win as the term is commonly understood; he cheated.

The Left and that includes NeverTrumpers like Chris Sun-King Sununu, RIGGED the election … the nationwide BLM/Antifa violence that included an actual attempt to take over the White House; the numerous false stories designed to damage Trump and help Biden planted by the Deep State (Russian bounties, Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation, etc.); censorship by Big Tech (Hunter laptop); and mail-in voting and other changes, many illegal or instituted illegally, to voting laws, instituted to supposedly protect us from COVID, that allowed cheating.

There should be no debate about the 2020 election being rigged. The Left, after Biden “won” the election (in the same way that the Soviet Union “won” the men’s basketball gold medal in 1972), actually bragged about rigging it:

“well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”

Yet here is Miss Nikki sounding just like a vessel for the “well-funded cabal of powerful people”:

Haley: That election, Trump lost it. Biden won that election. I think what happened on January 6th was a terrible day and I think President Trump will have to answer for it pic.twitter.com/ucu5E7ycpX

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 11, 2024

The differences between a Haley Presidency and the present Biden regime on the big issues, the issues that matter, would be largely cosmetic. Haley would talk tough on the border but would NOT secure it. Haley would continue to fund her donor’s favorite pastime, the War in Ukraine. And Haley’s China policy would be much closer to Biden’s than Trump’s because her big donors make big money off of China.

 

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A lot of parents who educate their own children at their own expense (i.e., without the aid of Education Freedom Accounts) are upset about HB1610, which — as it’s currently written — would require their kids to take the same state assessments as kids in public schools.

Although it allows parents of public school children to exempt their children from the assessments, it does not — as currently written — provide for similar exemptions for home-educated students.

That is, on its face, the bill appears to be a blatant attempt to subject home-educated students to the kind of micro- and mismanagement that prompted their parents to keep them out of schools in the first place.

This interpretation can’t be dismissed out of hand.  I have personally witnessed supporters of public schools (who are not, it is always important to keep in mind, supporters of student academic achievement) formulating plans to collect copies of the birth certificates of all the children born in New Hampshire in order to keep tabs on all the children who aren’t ‘in the system.’

But I think a simpler interpretation is that the authors of the bill (like Hope Damon) are themselves products of the public schools that they are trying to prop up and, therefore, haven’t learned to write clear declarative sentences that require things like commas, subordinate clauses, and agreement among parallel structures.

For example, the title of the bill clearly states that it is about Education Freedom Accounts.  So, the simplest way to clear up any misunderstanding would be to replace the phrase ‘Home educated students’ with the more appropriate phrase ‘Home educated students who are participating in Education Freedom Accounts’.

Similarly, the bill should refer not to private schools but to students in private schools who are using EFAs to attend.  Otherwise, simply allowing any student with an EFA into a private school would require all students at the school to participate in the assessments.

The underlying principle seems straightforward:  If you’re taking money from taxpayers, they have an interest in seeing that they’re getting something for their money.  We might call this the If We Pay, We Get a Say principle.

So if you’re participating in the EFA program, the people whose money you’re spending would like to know that it’s not being wasted.  And they shouldn’t just have to take your word for it.

Conversely, if you’re not participating in the EFA program, well — they don’t pay, so they have no say.

Having said that, if the purpose of the bill is to implement some other principles — for example, the ‘principle’ that we have to ‘keep a closer eye on home-educated students’ — then it is incumbent on the sponsors of the bill to articulate those clearly and completely in a preamble.  Otherwise, the bill is a ‘solution’ to a ‘problem’ that hasn’t even been identified yet.

All of this suggests that the whole statute ought just to say something like:

Any student whose education is being funded by taxes must take the statewide assessments under penalty of losing access to that funding. 

Note that phrasing everything in terms of districts and schools and ‘learning environments’ ensures the creation of loopholes and other unintended consequences.

Note also that phrasing the statute so that it directly implements the Pay/Say principle would say to parents of public school students:  If you don’t want your kids to take the assessments, that’s fine, but they can’t keep attending tax-funded schools for free, so you’ll have to make other arrangements (like paying tuition) for them.

So that’s what the statute should say.  But let’s suppose that it passes as written.  How bad would that be for home-educated students?

First, like many RSAs, especially those dealing with education, the bill specifies no penalty for non-compliance.  If you’re accepting EFA money, the state might be able to cut you off, but it doesn’t appear that there is any punishment for other home educators who simply ignore the statute.

(In fact, the current statute says that ‘A school district shall not penalize any exempted student nor shall the department of education or the state board of education penalize any school district for a lower participation rate.’  So universal participation is clearly not anticipated or even intended.)

Second, the term ‘learning environment’ is so vague as to be meaningless.  If I use EFA funds for jiu-jitsu classes or piano lessons, that clearly takes place in a ‘learning environment.’  If I use EFA funds to buy a computer so my kid can use Kahn Academy, that’s clearly a ‘learning environment.’  Does this mean that the gym, the piano teacher, the Kahn Academy, and even the manufacturer of the computer would be required to administer the statewide assessments? It’s ludicrous on its face.

Third, the requirements are expressed in terms of ‘grades’ and not ages.  If your kid just stays in ‘first grade’ forever — maybe because he has special needs, maybe because you think grades (which are essentially pedagogical implementations of astrological principles) are meaningless — then he never has to take the assessments.

So there’s bad news and good news.  The bad news is that there are a lot of legislators who are so scared that home-educated students might escape their propaganda mills that they are willing to write bills like this.

But the good news is that those legislators are often some pretty dim bulbs, whose inability to accurately translate their desires into prose renders their bills toothless.

Anyway, the best thing to do with this bill would be to just kill it, on the grounds that it creates new problems without solving any old ones.

Okay, that would be second best.  The actual best thing to do would be to amend it so that it replaces the existing statute with one that directly implements the Pay/Say principle and focuses on students rather than on districts, schools, and other ‘learning environments’.

But your last resort, as a home educator, is to simply ignore the bill even if it is enacted as written, and make sure your kid never gets beyond ‘first grade’, even if he’s reading War and Peace in the original Russian.

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I just read Rep. Mike Moffett’s (R) recent Op-Ed in the New Hampshire Journal regarding New Hampshire’s First in the Nation primary (FITN). I found his article a little disingenuous.

He argued that if the voters made certain choices (Trump), it would disqualify us from being a discerning population, and hence, we would not merit being FITN any longer.

He has already concluded that if Donald Trump wins NH (and he will), our state loses all credibility because we have picked an “unworthy” candidate. He questions Trump’s eligibility based on his age, he unfairly compares him to Joe Biden in terms of mental capacity, and he accuses him of unfounded and untried crimes. Whatever happened to due process?

There is an argument to be made that NH will be reinforcing its long tradition of picking the ultimate winners for their party and that among all of the candidates, Donald J. Trump is the most eligible and most qualified to be President, considering that he held the job for four years previously.

The good representative has been blinded by the slime of a “Swamp” he has chosen to enter. He admits that he has endorsed Nikki Haley and was the first NH representative to do so (I believe the only one at last check). That is fine. She is a good and worthy candidate. So, campaign for her on her own merits. Why tear down the other candidates (Trump) and do the dirty work for the other political party? This will only hurt our party come general election time.

I am frankly tired of these establishment Republicans talking out of both sides of their mouths. On the one hand, they call for party unity and beg us all to refrain from attacking fellow Republicans. Then they turn around and attack the candidate they will be crawling back to on January 24. The denialism that I am witnessing in my party is astonishing. Numbers do not lie unless they come from wishful thinking “Anybody but Trump” factions. The supposed Haley surge in NH is just poll percentages being exchanged between non-Trump candidates; anyone can see that. Trump has a solid 45% republican base in NH and is guaranteed to get that percentage of the vote, if not more.

I do not doubt that Nikki Haley will probably be the number two vote-getter in the NH primary. She will be the only contender to stay in the race for the long run. But, in the end, her only path to being the Republican nominee will be for her to pull a “Ted Cruz.” She will have to argue at the Republican convention that Donald Trump is “unworthy” to be the nominee despite him having won the primary in every state that allowed him on the ballot.

So do not worry, Rep. Moffett. NH FITN’s reputation will not be tainted but solidified as we continue to pick winners and help lesser-known, lesser-qualified candidates make a name for themselves across our Nation.

 

Jose’ Eduardo Cambrils
NH State Representative
Merrimack County – District 4
Canterbury / Loudon
Finance Committee
NH Commission to Study Offshore Wind and Port Development

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