Friday • April 19 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XVI
Manchester, N.H.
Nikki Haley has been as on the rise as a candidate can be in this primary cycle, gaining ground on Ron DeSantis and making big media buys with all the swampy Neo-Con money she’s been getting. And good for her. That’s all part of the process. But it may have all been in vain. She just ended any hope she had of winning the nomination.
Emphasis, mine.
“When I get into office, the first thing we have to do, social media companies have to show America their algorithms, let us see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing,” Haley added. “The second thing, every person on social media should be verified by their name. First of all, that’s a national security threat. When you do that, people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the Russian bots the Iranian bots and the Chinese bots, and then you’re going to get some civility when people know their name is next to what they say.”
So, no! And I am a big fan of standing behind what you write and say, but anonymity is essential to the right to Free Speech. In its absence, there is no path for insiders and whistleblowers to reveal unpleasant truths, greed, corruption, malice, fraud, and even tyranny. Pseudonyms protect speakers and sources, neither of which should be unmasked by authors, editors, social media companies, bureaucrats, politicians, or presidential candidates promising to scratch a totalitarian itch.
We also live in an age where daring to disagree may subject you to more than despotic retribution from the state. We can now add doxxing and mob justice to the mix, where hordes of strangers plague your existence and drive you underground for daring to think outside some tiny ideological box.
Having the guts to privately express an unpopular opinion – heck, just being brave enough to explore a conversation about one – can cost you your job, career, and even your family. It is a culture that breeds silence in the face of oppression.
I get what Nikki Haley thinks she is doing, but what she has done is killed her presidential aspirations.
Support for this is a death knell or should be, for anyone running for Republican anything.
A spokesperson for the DeSantis campaign has stated unequivocally that this would be unconstitutional (obviously).
NEW: Nikki Haley asserts that allowing people to post on social media anonymously is a “national security threat”. She promises that as president, she will force “every person on social media” to be “verified by their name.”
I am no lawyer but isn’t this blatantly… pic.twitter.com/MD7CcBZL5r
— Christina Pushaw (@ChristinaPushaw) November 14, 2023
Vivek has also come out quickly to denounce it.
.@NikkiHaley is *openly* pushing for the government to use private tech companies to censor speech. This is a flagrant violation of the Constitution and straight out of the Democrats’ playbook. Any politician who thinks it’s OK for the government to use the private sector as its… pic.twitter.com/Cb1847r6CA
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 14, 2023
Haley has been pushing to get Gov. Chris Sununu’s endorsement, but I don’t think even he can ignore this gaffe. As for her other supporters in New Hampshire and elsewhere, she has put them in a very awkward spot. There is no way to comport Republican principles with this demand. They are incompatible.
So, yeah, I think Nikki is done, and her supporters need to back off before she takes them with her.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced surveillance efforts on Americans. She, through the New York State government, claims a need to target and root out hate speech on social media to create a safer and more just New York State.
So much for defunding “the police.”
Kathy Hochul announced that New York is “collecting data” from “surveillance efforts” on social media
Hochul says the social media analysis unit will contact people who commit “hate speech”
This is to “ensure safety” Even though they got rid of Guiliani’s Stop and Frisk which… pic.twitter.com/QjlPiXfRpz
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) November 13, 2023
Her spending initiative includes heightened surveillance of New York’s citizens with an emphasis on proactive contact with individuals expressing hate speech online. But if you are being proactive against hate speech, aren’t you anticipating it, prevent it?
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Some assert this next step raises questions about freedom of speech and privacy.
Why is it appropriate for state governments to be very focused on the data they’re collecting from surveillance efforts? Why do they need warrantless surveillance? What business is it of the state to be monitoring, let alone censoring free speech on social media platforms? How is that productive use of tax money? Do you think New York is alone in such efforts?
Where is hate speech defined? Who among us wants the State government to use police power to counter some perceived negativity? Who among us thinks speech police are appropriate? Incitement to violence is a different thing. It has been defined legally and adjudicated.
There is no right to feel safe. With the government not securing our borders, sanctuary jurisdictions, most especially, to whine about not feeling safe is beyond the pale. New York does not want you to be safe, but it says it wants to defend you from not feeling safe. It is hypocrisy beyond ignorance.
Communist regimes like New York regularly employ extensive surveillance systems. There was the Stasi in East Germany, the KGB in the Soviet Union, and Mao’s People’s Army in North Korea, Iran, and Cambodia. These are or were states with widespread networks of informants and advanced surveillance techniques.
They are regimes that are about repression, power, and control. They routinely monitor virtually every aspect of daily life… just like New York’s state government now, it seems. It is a feature of the Democrat Party, not an option. You will submit. You will comply. You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
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Disney’s Marvel Studios has released another awful piece of garbage thinly disguised as female empowerment, and you’d be right to wonder if they are losing money on purpose. Or, is their goal to destroy the Marvel Movie franchise?
I doubt it, but they are afflicted with the social justice disease and big bags of money, and they don’t know anyone who disagrees with them or dares to. The offspring of that sort of arrangement is twaddle that reminds me of something I heard the other day about Joe Biden. There is allegedly a T-shirt out there that says, “I could sh!t a better president.” And while that sounds ‘offal,’ and I’m sure you could, while you are at it, can you move your bowels to produce a better Marvel Universe movie because Disney could use one of those. The early buzz – if you can call it that – it that its latest creation, The Marvels, is … bad.
The reason for failure seems obvious — Disney has done everything it can to gut the MCU over the last couple of years and create what online critics call an M-She-U, replacing beloved characters like Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor with female and minority knockoffs which don’t inspire the audience to come out and see the movies.
Couple the diversity castings with writers and directors who don’t seem to understand the superhero genre, and it spells disaster. Disney’s seen a string of failures since critics panned the first Captain Marvel movie. At that point, Marvel’s brand from Avengers: Endgame was strong enough that the film was lifted to more than $1 billion gross anyway, but those days are long behind as moviegoers don’t trust Disney Marvel to produce anything entertaining.
The projected 50-60 million dollar opening weekend came and went with only 27.5 million in the kitty. Disney spent ten times that much on production with very little hope now of recovering it, given the slow start, and they only have themselves to blame. Or do they? Some have decided that this lame opening weekend is the fault of men.
It’s really interesting to me that it’s all men who very are actively hating on The Marvels.
The movie isn’t perfect (read my review for my thoughts) but it doesn’t deserve the hate many (men) are giving it. pic.twitter.com/DrRkJWeFVn
— Tessa Smith – Mama’s Geeky (@MamasGeeky) November 8, 2023
Of course, because even men who are not fans of Marvel or superhero stories hate seeing attractive, fit women leaping about in skin-tight costumes on a giant screen. Especially the comic-book fan-boy types. That’s got to be why because those are precisely the sort of people who would come out to see a movie like this.
So. it is their fault. It’s an equity problem. People need to be forced – especially men – to pay inflated prices to watch poorly thought-out garbage because if they don’t, it will be their fault it failed. Disney is not obligated to produce anything valuable, and you should reward that. Did I get that messaging correctly? Should we blame colonialism, genderism (I’m not even sure what that is, and neither is it), and one or more types of privilege?
Hey, we made a movie with a woman of color in it, and that intolerable Brie Larson. Watch it, or you are a racist skeeving man-spreading bastard. And I don’t care if her first name is spelled the same as the pale, slightly grayish-looking cheese. Her real name is Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers, if you must know. And have you considered replacing her with that prancing doofus who wrecked Bud Light? We could marvel at how much better it was with Brie. That has to be worth something.
By the way, I just read that the next Captain America movie screened so badly that it has been pushed out two years for rewrites and reshoots.
Disney Magic appears to have taken on a whole new meaning part of which – and I have to ask – has to include telling what it is exactly that you mean by “men”?
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Democrats claim election fraud is a myth. But videos don’t lie. Roll the tapes:
On Nov. 1, Connecticut Judge William Clark overturned the results of the Bridgeport mayoral primary, calling video evidence of potential fraud “shocking.” Wanda Geter-Pataky, the vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, appears to have been caught on video stuffing handfuls of ballots into a drop box outside City Hall.
On Oct. 25, in Paterson, New Jersey, the sitting president of the City Council, Alex Mendez, was charged with personally collecting large numbers of mail-in ballots in his district, destroying ballots that did not favor him, and replacing them with ballots that falsely chose him. New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew Platkin states that Mendez “personally observed from his wife’s vehicle as a large, heavy bag, completely filled with ballots, was emptied into the Haledon postal box prior to the election.” (RELATED: BETSY MCCAUGHEY: They’re Not Coming After Trump. They’re Coming After You)
On Nov. 2, in Springfield, Massachusetts, mayoral candidate Justin Hurst was nailed by city election officials for allegedly buying votes during early voting. Videotape shows individuals being dropped off in black Suburbans and Expeditions and entering City Hall to vote. When they exited, a man “takes out what appears to be a large bundle of cash” and peels off a bill for each individual, according to an affidavit by election commissioner Gladys Oyola-Lopez.
In one week, election fraudsters were busted in three major Northeastern cities.
Leftist organizations such as the Brennan Center for Justice and the League of Women Voters claim voter fraud is a “phantom” and “extremely rare.” Don’t buy it. The evidence is all around us.
Cheating is a cakewalk because of accommodations pushed by Democrats, including universal mail-in voting and unmanned drop boxes.
Now is the time to scrutinize the 2023 races and plug the obvious gaps. Cheating should not determine the outcome of the highly consequential 2024 national election.
In Bridgeport’s 2023 mayoral primary, Democratic candidate John Gomes was ahead until he got crushed late in the process when absentee votes favoring incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim were counted.
One Bridgeport pol described the use of absentee ballots there as “an art form.” That “art form” may partially explain how Ganim, who was Bridgeport’s mayor from 1991 to 2003 — before serving seven years in federal prison for racketeering, extortion, filing false tax returns, and other crimes — was able to stage a comeback upon his release from prison and win election in 2015 and 2019. (RELATED: CHAD ENNIS: Mail Ballot Security Is Under Assault)
In Connecticut, Democrats are singing one song: Fraud is “unique to Bridgeport” and isn’t a problem elsewhere. Wrong.
Last year, John Mallozzi, then chairman of the Democratic Party in Stamford, was convicted of forgery and making false statements related to absentee ballots. His ruse was uncovered when a voter named on a fraudulent absentee ballot actually showed up at the polls.
Connecticut Republican legislators are pushing to improve voting security. Rep. Doug Dubitsky, a Republican, says, “this exact same thing could be happening in every single municipality in this state.” But Democrats, who control both houses of the state legislature and all statewide offices, refuse to tighten voting procedures.
That’s not hard to explain. In statewide races, including for governor or president, Republicans historically have been ahead until the absentee ballots in the Democrat-controlled cities in Connecticut are tallied.
Across the nation, Republicans are pressing state legislatures to eliminate drop boxes and bar third parties from collecting huge numbers of completed ballots — a practice called “harvesting.” Republicans also want to use software to match the signature on the mail-in ballot to the signature on the voter registration form.
Democrats almost universally oppose these safeguards, calling them “voter suppression.” “Cheating suppression” is more like it.
Perceptions of unfairness are corrosive. At a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing in June, polls were cited showing 37% of Democratic-leaning voters and 71% of Republican-leaning voters doubt the honesty of elections.
Most European countries require voters to show up in person unless they are out of the country or disabled. These countries tried mail-in voting and eliminated it in the face of widespread fraud.
Americans need to get smart. Convenience shouldn’t take priority over security. Before you board a plane, you have to wait in line while your carry-ons are inspected. It’s inconvenient but worth it.
The same is true for voting. When you turn on the TV on election night to watch the returns, you want to know the results are honest, whether your candidate wins or not.
America has one year to get the job done.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
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Faced with growing American frustration over more than $100 billion spent on a failed proxy war in Ukraine, President Biden’s handlers have hit on a gimmick to convince us that this foreign aid is actually an investment in our own economy!
In his recent television address, Biden explained that as we transfer more weapons to Ukraine, we will then build new weapons at home to replace them. That, explained Biden, means more American jobs and a stronger American economy.
So, “Project Ukraine” is not really about foreign welfare but rather domestic corporate welfare for the military-industrial complex. Should that make us feel any better?
There is no denying that this nearly two-year Ukraine/Russia war has been a boon for the US weapons industry. Profits at the military-industrial complex are back to record highs after a brief slump during the Covid scare. And the money that goes to the weapons manufacturers also saturates Washington, DC: a little of it goes to the think tanks promoting war, another little bit goes to the political campaigns of candidates who promote war, and so on.
As Connor O’Keeffe reminds us in a recent article at the Mises Institute, the arguments that more war spending is good for the economy ignore the “broken window fallacy” as first explained by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his essay, “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen.” In the tale, a shopkeeper has a window broken and must pay to have it replaced. The locals view the mishap favorably, as they see the $50 for a new window to be a benefit to the glazier, which he will then spend, thus improving the economy as a whole. What is not seen, however, is what the shopkeeper might have done with that same $50 had he not been forced to replace a broken window. Perhaps he would have invested it in a way that created far more wealth and more jobs.
Unfortunately, Biden is not alone in coming up with new gimmicks to enable Washington to operate in a “business as usual” manner.
New House Speaker Mike Johnson has also been busy trying to convince us that sending money overseas is actually good for our own economy. Over the weekend, he appeared on Fox News to tell us that sending another $14 billion to the wealthy nation of Israel is Republicans “trying to be good stewards of the taxpayer’s resources.” How is that? Well, he came up with the gimmick that they would cut $14 billion from the IRS and send it to Israel.
Said Johnson, “Instead of printing new dollars or borrowing it from another nation to send over to fulfill our obligations and help our ally, we want to pay for it. What a concept! We are trying to change how Washington works.”
See the trick here? They are not “paying for it” by sending the money overseas, and they are not “changing how Washington works” by doing the exact same thing they always do: stealing from the poor at home to send to the rich in foreign countries.
Instead of trying to trick Americans into thinking that foreign aid and corporate welfare are good for our economy, why not just stop breaking all of our windows? Just end all foreign aid and corporate welfare!
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Vote Republican! Vote Republican! Vote Republican! Yeah, right. I previously posted about how enough DC Republicans joined with the Democrats to reward that domestic terror institution called the FBI with a new $300 million headquarters.
The latest (11/14 – 10 AM) … DC-Republicans help the Democrats prevent the impeachment of Mayorkas. But just keep pretending that open borders are a D vs. R issue.
THREAD:
Here are the EIGHT REPUBLICANS who voted against Biden’s impeachment, as well as the ELEVEN REPUBLICANS who couldn’t bother to vote.
You will be surprised at some of these names.
But it is very important you identify them and challenge them about putting their stamp… pic.twitter.com/W9nZqB2zEY
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) November 14, 2023
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Kudos to Governor Ron and the DeSantis campaign for pushing back on the Ronna National Committee (RNC). The Party tried to prevent presidential candidates from participating in an upcoming round table event in Iowa. The Party said it was a debate, and if they attended, they could be excluded from their debates.
Care of RedState.
“It has come to the attention of the RNC Counsel’s Office that several Republican presidential candidates have been invited to participate in an open-press event in Iowa in November at which they would ‘gather around the table to have a moderated, friendly, and open discussion about the issues.’ In other words, a debate,” the RNC counsel’s office said in a letter obtained by CNN.
“Accordingly, please be advised that any Republican presidential candidate who participates in this or other similar events will be deemed to have violated this pledge and will be disqualified from taking part in any future RNC-sanctioned presidential primary debates,” the office said.
DeSantis said, isn’t that cute, but I’m going.
.@RonDeSantis tells @wrmcduff he will attend the Family Leader Thanksgiving Forum in Iowa despite RNC warnings:
“I think it’s an important part of this process. It’s been a part of this process for a long time. There’s no way that should cause the RNC to penalize any candidate.” pic.twitter.com/kzwSbh2Fd6
— Kit Maher (@KitMaherCNN) November 11, 2023
That doesn’t leave the RNC with a lot of wiggle room. Their debates are already losing their audience. VermontGrok’s Rob Roper dropped a piece yesterday suggesting that folks like DeSantis and Haley might be better off if they stopped participating in those. Trump has fared well by refusing to add his ring to that circus. So, it has to be on people’s minds.
What exactly are these Republican Debates doing for me polling-wise?
Not a lot. I haven’t seen anyone move much after these debates except perhaps Vivek, but each debate brings a new version of him, so voters may not know which Ramaswamy they’ll be getting.
And the RNC hasn’t exactly gone out of its way to consistently ensure they have moderators that Republican voters might trust – especially primary voters, who are more tuned in than most of the electorate.
Good on DeSantis for standing up and saying this isn’t a debate and getting the RNC to back down. Now he needs to do something about his Nikki Haley problem, or he’ll be the defacto third-place candidate.
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As New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs) gain popularity, confusion about how the money is spent continues to cloud public discussion.
Contrary to some of the rhetoric used to describe the program, EFA funds are not exclusively reserved for covering tuition costs at private schools. A breakdown of authorized EFA spending in the last fiscal year shows that less than two-thirds of the money was spent on nonpublic school tuition, and some even went to pay for courses at district public schools.
From September 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023, the Children’s Scholarship Fund New Hampshire, the state-approved administrator of the EFA program, authorized upwards of $10 million in spending submitted for approval by parents.
About 63% of those funds (nearly $6.6 million) covered tuition and fees at nonpublic schools. Of the 116 private schools that received EFA funds, 63 (or 54%) could be classified as “religious” schools—schools with a religious component to their operations or curriculum. The other 53 (or 46%) included secular nonpublic schools as well as alternative education providers and unconventional models, such as learning pods, microschools, homeschool co-ops, etc.
If tuition and fees at private schools accounted for only 63% of EFA spending in the last fiscal year, then where did the other 37% go?
Parents are allowed to spend EFA money on authorized educational uses, such as textbooks, instructional materials, tutoring, and some limited infrastructure such as computers and Internet services.
In the last fiscal year, parents spent 17% of EFA funds on textbooks, supplies, and other instructional materials, 8.4% on tuition and fees for summer education and specialized education programs, 5.2% on computer hardware, Internet connectivity, and other technological services, 2.6% on tutoring services, and 1.3% on tuition and fees for private/nonpublic online learning programs.
Parents spread the remaining 2.5% among educational services and therapies, educational software, fees for standardized assessments and other exams, school uniforms, tuition and fees at career and technical schools, tuition and fees at institutions of higher education, and individual classes, curricular activities, and programs at district public and charter schools.
In fact, New Hampshire families directed $27,328.88 to 12 district public schools to help pay for individual courses and programs offered at those schools to supplement their children’s education.
Tuition at nonpublic schools certainly accounts for a sizable portion of EFA funding, but focusing solely on tuition at these schools misses the broad variety of choices parents are making.
Whether it’s paying for a tutoring service like Mathnasium of Nashua, music therapy services at Manchester Community Music School, tuition at Saplings, A Forest & Nature Preschool, LLC, textbooks and supplies at Amazon and Staples, a class at Souhegan High School, or AP tests through the College Board, the EFA program opens up a host of educational options for families.
It also misses the important point that some families are choosing to purchase services from district public schools.
The portion of EFA spending at district public schools is small right now for two likely reasons: (1) Families using the program now are primarily seeking alternatives to the public school system, and (2) district public schools aren’t accustomed to marketing themselves to parents and providing a-la-carte services (in other words, competing for those dollars).
As EFAs grow, district public schools will need to adapt by offering services that attract parents who’ve been empowered to decide where to spend their state adequate education grants. When they do, their share of EFA spending will rise.
The competitive forces created by a growing EFA program can be expected to produce a net benefit for all students, those who use EFAs and those who don’t. Dozens of studies have already shown that the introduction of school choice programs produces positive results for students who remain in traditional public schools. There’s no reason to expect different results in New Hampshire.
According to the Department of Education, 4,211 New Hampshire students are currently participating in the state’s largest school choice program this academic year. That’s a 39% increase (1,186 students) from last year’s starting enrollment, and a 158% increase (2,576 students) from the EFA program’s first year in 2021.
As EFA enrollment grows, its competitive forces will strengthen, leading to further adjustments among all educational providers in the state and a larger variety of opportunities for New Hampshire students.
Mitchell Scacchi | JBartlett
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It would be an understatement to say that Greta Thunberg is a child of the Left. She was a darling, marketed alongside the climate lie to advance the redistribution of Western Wealth and the goals of global economic socialism.
Thunberg exploded in the progressive consciousness after a climate dog and pony show at the UN. Statues and murals followed. She was Time Magazine’s Marxist Person of the Year. It is all part of a crafted image repackaged to inspire young people to embrace the unscientific cult of Climate Change and the goal of destroying free markets and capitalism.
And you are what they feed you. Muppet Greta has grown up on a diet of political progressivism augmented by the hyperbolic popularity of a Left-Wing media darling. But she grew up. Not nearly as “cute” as she was (not that she ever was), the media lost some interest, but Thunberg still craved the glow. And not content to just be wrong about the Climate, Thunberg has expanded her ignorance.
She, who would protest to defend the rights of indigenous peoples, has decided that thousands of years of history in the area that is now Israel means that those who attack it have more rights than the Jews whose ancestors lived there.
Thunberg has chosen to be pro-Palestine (a label created when some white Europeans did something), siding with the pro-terrorism faction in the name of climate colonialism, justice, and diversity (Yadda Yadda). In defense of a religious “culture” and the violent ideology it spawns that is relatively new to the area but that has deliberately killed or run off Christians and Jews from every other corner of the Middle East but Israel.
As noted above, I suspect that after years of partisan fandom, she’s just itching to see her name in the press (though, more likely, she is just an idiot).
Greta Thunberg gets interrupted at a climate rally after she turns it into an anti-Israel rant. pic.twitter.com/lFBIhvck1E
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) November 12, 2023
Not everyone is excited about how she chooses to branch out, but they may want to get used to it. If being an anti-semite proves to attract more glowing lights and microphones, she’ll be transitioning to full-time Jew-hater faster than the ‘consensus’ changes its mind to ensure the “science” still aligns with their politics.
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After it decided to dump Fukushima wastewater into the ocean, several of Japan’s most prominent “customers” have banned seafood purchases from the country. Seeing an opportunity to help, the US government has offered to purchase tons of the stuff to feed its military.
Who knows what radioactive fish might do to our fighting force? Turn them into Aquaman? This is, of course, parody. The US Government isn’t trying to create super-soldiers. Their current mission appears to be a defense force made up of Corporal Max Klinger; only they are not dressing up as women to get out of the service. Under the Biden Administration, doing so is a fast track to promotion. Their motto might be strength through weakness, but you’d have to be strong for that to work. With fewer young men and women singing up, even staying only army strong becomes increasingly unlikely.
As for the fish, I can’t say one way or the other if they’d be radioactive or if that would have any detrimental effect on the US military. Still, China, South Korea, and Russia refuse to purchase the stuff, so America is coming to the rescue.
In an interview, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said the U.S. Armed Forces is ready to sign a long-term contract with Japanese seafood suppliers to help address the fallout from the restrictions and total bans made against Japanese seafood exports.
Emanuel added that seafood such as Japanese fish, scallops and other products will be served on U.S. Navy ships and stocked in commissaries and mess halls at 17 American military bases in the region.
However, Emanuel acknowledged that feeding Japanese seafood to U.S. soldiers is not enough to offset the economic downturn coming for the Japanese seafood industry, especially due to the loss of the massive Chinese market. But the move should be enough to make a statement about Beijing’s “economic coercion.”
China and Russia, I could understand. Weakening a US ally economically makes sense, but South Korea? Perhaps they are genuinely concerned.
And look at Rham Emannuel, not letting a crisis go to waste. What a guy. And who knew he was the US Ambassador to Japan? I had no clue.
As for the fish, they come from all around the Archipelago, not just near Fukushima. And anyone who knows anything about toxicity (if it even matters) knows that the dose makes the poison, and even if there are legitimate concerns near the decommissioned reactor (and I have no clue if there are), that doesn’t implicate all the fish in the ocean.
Obviously.
China and South Korea didn’t stop fishing. But feel free to boycott if it makes you feel better. As for our service members, I hear food on the ship is typically pretty bad already. Potentially radioactive fish might be a step up. Just don’t try to be Aquaman. Before the woke invasion of the industry, he was one of the least popular DC heroes. Now there is a pile of them, and Marvel has also done its best to ruin their Universe.
It’s almost as if the Comics is another institution the Left has set out to destroy. Leaving room for what? More Japanese Anime’.
HT | Natural News
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation, by its own admission, neglected at least one critical investigation into horrific child sexual exploitation while diverting agency resources toward investigating those thought to be involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol.
An example of the FBI misdirecting its resources is the disturbing case of an Alaska man, Brogan T. Welsh, who allegedly distributed child pornography and expressed disgusting fantasies online about anally raping male children.
The FBI had Welsh in its sights and was set to bring charges against him. Even one week before Jan. 6, 2021, the man they believe is Welsh was trying to get a sex date with a prepubescent boy online.
But the FBI dropped the case on Jan. 6, 2021, according to the FBI’s Statement of Facts to the court. It had more important things to investigate – Trump supporters.
How many other cases of equal or greater severity have been dropped by the FBI in favor of targeting politically active Americans?
The alarming nearly three-year delay in arresting Welsh raises concerns about the FBI’s priorities and whether it is really dedicated to protecting vulnerable children from heinous sexual predators.
Welsh was finally indicted in late October in the District of Columbia on charges of distributing child pornography. Other charges may be developed as his activities are uncovered.
The arrest itself occurred a few days later in Anchorage. From the time the FBI dropped the case in 2021 until just two weeks ago, Welsh likely continued to be part of online exploitation of children. (RELATED: SUZANNE DOWNING: Generation Blubber — Good Times Forge Weak Men)
This isn’t just a kinky proclivity of a hyper-sexualized adult man. Before his case was forgotten about by the FBI, Welsh had contacted someone on a kiddie-porn internet platform. He apparently believed the man to be the father of a minor child, and Welsh expressed a desire to travel to the District of Columbia to sexually abuse the purported child. The description of what he wanted to do to the child is graphic.
That man turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. The evidence against Welsh was substantial, including IP addresses, online identities, explicit images, and videos depicting the sexual abuse of prepubescent boys. In text messages, Welsh was recorded telling the FBI undercover officer how much he wanted to rape the man’s son. It is unimaginable that such a case would be put on hold. But it was.
After the FBI lost interest in Welsh on Jan. 6, 2021, it wasn’t until August 2023 that the FBI stumbled upon Welsh’s file, and it only did so because it was investigating another unrelated case.
This disturbing incident highlights a concerning pattern of the FBI diverting resources away from vital cases to pursue politically motivated agendas.
In the months following Jan. 6, 2021, innocent Alaskans, including Paul and Marilyn Hueper of Homer, were targeted by the FBI. Agents came bursting through the front door of the couple’s home on April 28, 2021, saying they were searching for then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop. Investigators left with a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution that the agency took into evidence, thinking it added credence to their case, but the laptop was nowhere to be found in Alaska because this turned out to be a case of badly mistaken identity.
Anchorage activist Jay McDonald was also subjected to a harassing interrogation from the FBI because the agency had opened up a tip line, and a political operative from the Democratic side submitted McDonald’s name as someone who was at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The records show, however, that McDonald was in Alaska that day. It was a case of political warfare, and the FBI was a useful pawn, while McDonald rightfully feared for his family’s safety.
These instances of mistaken identity and political harassment demonstrate how valuable FBI resources were misallocated while perverts ran wild.
During Welsh’s ultimate arrest, the FBI said it found incriminating evidence in his Anchorage room, “Including sex toys that are very small in size and apparently consistent with the body size of an approximately 10-year-old boy, including a silicon ring, apparently of the type commonly referred to as a ‘cock ring;’ a bag of ‘sensory finger rings’ which are apparently devices for manual sexual stimulation; a very small dildo consistent in size with anal penetration; and the following clothing consistent with a 10-year-old boy and too small for an adult person of WELSH’s size: two pairs of underwear; and one pajama bottom.” (RELATED: SUZANNE DOWNING: Bezos Saw The Graffiti On The Wall In Seattle, And He’s Heading For A Better Tax Climate)
The investigation revealed that a 10-year-old boy was, in fact, residing at the residence with Welsh.
“On January 6, 2021, FBI, Washington Field Office, this investigation was halted due to events that occurred at the United States Capitol Building that day,” the Statement of Facts said.
How long might this case have been ignored if it had not stumbled on it again?
This is a job for Chairman James Comer of the Congressional Oversight and Accountability Committee, who should review the Statement of Facts of this case and subpoena the FBI Director Christopher Wray and his subordinates to answer the question: How many other Brogan Welshes are still out there committing crimes, while the FBI conducts manhunts relating to Jan. 6?
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Bari Weiss, already an outstanding writer, was brought into the New York Times as an opinion editor to add a patina of intellectual diversity to the Old Gray Lady. The Times wasn’t having it. Her “co-workers” treated her as you’d expect, which meant being a gay woman did not protect her from their abuse.
My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews again.” Several colleagues perceived to be friendly with me were badgered by coworkers. My work and my character are openly demeaned on company-wide Slack channels where masthead editors regularly weigh in. There, some coworkers insist I need to be rooted out if this company is to be a truly “inclusive” one, while others post ax emojis next to my name. Still other New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.
Weiss resigned in style and has since been something of a darling to the center-right.
Weiss was given an opportunity to speak at The Federalist Societies Barbra K. Olson Memorial Lecture. She took the opportunity to talk about the warning signs and the decline of Civilization. And it’s good stuff. I’ve shared a few excerpts. A video of the entire speech is available below. (Related: Open Letter on the Cancel Culture: 150 Ruling Class Elites Worry The Monster They Created Will Eat Them.)
From the transcript.
When antisemitism moves from the shameful fringe into the public square, it is not about Jews. It is never about Jews. It is about everyone else. It is about the surrounding society or the culture or the country. It is an early warning system—a sign that the society itself is breaking down. That it is dying.
It is a symptom of a much deeper crisis—one that explains how, in the span of a little over 20 years since Sept 11, educated people now respond to an act of savagery not with a defense of civilization but with a defense of barbarism.
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For Jews, there are obvious and glaring dangers in a worldview that measures fairness by equality of outcome rather than opportunity. If underrepresentation is the inevitable outcome of systemic bias, then overrepresentation—and Jews are 2 percent of the American population—suggests not talent or hard work, but unearned privilege. This conspiratorial conclusion is not that far removed from the hateful portrait of a small group of Jews divvying up the ill-gotten spoils of an exploited world.
But it is not only Jews who suffer from the suggestion that merit and excellence are dirty words. It is every single one of us. It is strivers of every race, ethnicity, and class. That is why Asian American success, for example, is suspicious. The percentages are off. The scores are too high. The starting point, as poor immigrants, is too low. From whom did you steal all that success?
It’s not all bad news. After evaluating the symptoms and the disease, Weiss offers some good news.
New York coffee shop owner Aaron Dahan had all of his baristas quit when he placed an Israeli flag in the window and began fundraising for Magen David Adom—the Israeli Red Cross.
But his café didn’t close—quite the opposite. Suppliers sent him free shipments of beans and cups. Community members picked up shifts for free. There were lines around the block to buy a cup of coffee. The cafe made $25,000 in a single day.
Just this week, American cowboys from the Great Plains and the Rockies traveled to Israel to tend to the fields and animals of Israeli farmers who were killed in the past month. This is the opposite of the cheap solidarity of standing with Hamas that we see across our campuses and city centers. This is the essence of the West—of the idea that free societies must stand together.
And she’s got suggestions for how we come back.
Here is the full speech
HT | The Free Press
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The trucking industry has been a barometer of U.S. economic health for a long time, and. trucking is in trouble. In August, Yellow Freight filed for Chapter 11. The company shed 30,000 mostly blue-collar jobs, and now the digital freight broker Convoy is ceasing operations.
Convoy has halted shipments, causing unease among stakeholders, and this digital freight network’s unexpected cancellation of loads is stoking fears despite no bankruptcy filing… yet.
Convoy was valued at $3.8 billion last year. Its backers included but were not limited to Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. The company had even been exploring ownership options with the assistance of Goldman Sachs. That future is uncertain, and economic analysts are starting to raise concerns about the broader implications of these industry shutdowns for the economy.
The consequences of these developments are not limited to the companies themselves. Trucking slows down when there is less to haul. Government-fueled consumer spending during the pandemic led to an unsustainable boom in the trucking sector. Companies expanded fleets to meet short-term demand.
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Today, consumer spending is slowing. Trucking has excess capacity that is driving down freight rates. Today, they are about 20% lower than they were last year, while fuel costs, taxes, regulation, interest expense, and labor costs have gone up. Truckers now competing for fewer loads which drives down rates and earnings, reducing the profitability of trucking operations.
Recent government data indicates a 0.4% surge in consumer spending. But economists are skeptical. They observe more households are relying on credit or dwindling savings to maintain consumer spending. The trend is not sustainable.
Substantial goods like appliances are seeing declining sales, which corroborates the reduced freight activity and woes in trucking always reflect broader supply chain challenges. The downturn will affect road, air, and rail freight industries. The trucking industry provides valuable insights into where the economy is going and mirrors the consumer mindset. If things are going well, consumers are confident, and spending rises. If consumers lack confidence, they become cautious, and we see the economy contracting.
Today, we see the warning signs. Trucking is in a recession, an early indicator of a larger economic shift.
Some economists dismiss these concerns. They cite noise in the system as evidence of upticks in consumer spending. But don’t be fooled; we should learn from the lessons of the past. The trucking industry’s health is an indicator of our nation’s economic well-being.
Currently, caution is on the wind.
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There comes a point where the powers that be in New Hampshire & Massachusetts can no longer hide — that moment is now. The law firms between the two states are intimately tied.
“NH Courts are going to hold listening sessions to understand the public’s experiences of justice.” — is this a parody? The NH Courts have heard decades of complaints from the public, attorneys, and others explaining over and over the issues of court corruption, self-dealing, denial of justice, cover-ups of police corruption, and child and sex abuse. But now they want to hear it again.
Which part do they not understand? Perhaps lining the courts with mirrored walls might make prick their conscience.
In Boston, a prostitution ring has been busted. The clientele includes lawyers, doctors, professors, and politicians. The AG’s office in New Hampshire is a revolving door with the top law firms in Manchester, NH (1 hour from Boston) and Concord, NH, 1 hour 15 from Boston. These law firms are extraordinarily wealthy. How did they become so rich? From profiteering off the public, from figuring out how to game the system in a club that was known about at least as far back as 1999 (the year Nixon Peabody was founded in Boston and Manchester, NH) when the “clubby atmosphere” was mentioned in the Washington Post article “Douglas & Douglas: A Splitting Headache.”
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That article mentioned that Chuck Douglas (once NH’s Supreme Court Chief Justice) was allegedly found to be having an adulterous affair in his law office with a receptionist who was also a client. He is now the Chair of the Judicial Selection Committee. The article also mentioned that he had a timeshare in Aruba, which was later discovered to be the hotbed of the Paradise Papers (which preceded the Panama Papers and the Pandora Papers).
One look at the top law firms in New Hampshire & Boston, and you will find that they are tied to dozens of shell companies, real estate, non-profits, and lobbyists. Look at their profiles, and you find an overabundance of defense for white-collar crimes & sex crimes for one small state of 1.3 million people.
US Attorney Scott Murray, who had been DA for Merrimack County, floundered when journalists asked him about why the Bedford police were not involved in the fentanyl bust there.
Senator and former AG Kelly Ayotte’s aide David Whiby was caught in a prostitution ring. Kelly Ayotte claimed to know nothing.
Nixon Peabody, one of the largest New England Law Firms, has been in at least two Ponzi schemes.
People claimed to know nothing about Ghislaine Maxwell’s business in New Hampshire or her house “Tucked Away.” I find that impossible to believe given that the registrar of deeds recorded the purchase and the registrar of deeds is an elected position and is housed next to the Sheriff of Merrimack County, whose son continued working for Concord Police after he’d been reported for domestic violence to DCYF. Former AG Gordon MacDonald didn’t believe the previous Sheriff of Merrimack County should be put on the list of corrupt police officers even though he’d been arrested and found guilty in a DWI offense. The Sheriff kept his job for some time after. The Governor, not the AG, asked him to step down.
Ghilsiaine Maxwell’s house was one of the most expensive properties recorded that week and was a cash buy and it didn’t raise eyebrows?
Shaheen & Gordon represented Ghislaine Maxwell when she was arrested. She and Jeffrey Epstein also had a fake non-profit called “TerraMar” whose board also included a New Hampshire local from Portsmouth. How convenient: Portsmouth is a port harbor, Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband was an ex-Boston coastguard with a shipping container tracking company called “Cargo Metric,” and Senator John Kerry was one of his besties…he even wrote the introduction to one of Scott Borgerson’s books. Coincidentally, Ghislaine Maxwell had a company called Granite Reality, which was registered to 2 1/2 Beacon Street in Concord (where Boston Private Bank tied to the Silicon Valley Bank/FTX scandal was also based). Glenn Perlow of NH Trusts (formerly Jordan Park) has a company in Maryland galled Red Granite Reality. What are the odds? Do you think for one moment that Glenn Perlow didn’t know about Ghislaine Maxwell? He came out of the Banking Commission, the AG’s office, and McLane Middleton, which got several millions in PPP loans, which Senator Jeanne Shaheen lobbied for. Her husband’s law firm, Shaheen & Gordon, got several millions, too. Of course.
When you control the media, you control the narrative, and when the judiciary works hand in glove with police, education administrators, non-profits, and the media, you have a closed circuit. These law firms have figured out exactly how to control the media. They sponsor it.
When the Pandora Papers news came out, McLane Middleton sponsored the program. Just like Sam Bankman-Fried sponsored Propublica, Vox, and Semafor. McLane Middleton had advertised their services for creating secret trusts — the trusts picked up in the Pandora Papers that New Hampshire powers that be don’t want the public to pay attention to.
Children disappear, children get raped, children get killed, adults get killed, and the State of New Hampshire pretends to investigate, but it doesn’t. It does enough to cover up a complete lack of professionalism that stems from top to bottom of the State’s courts and agencies.
Monopoly without accountability equals corruption. What do corrupt players do with their money? They hide it. They hide it in non-profits, in shell companies, in offshore accounts in the Bahamas, Aruba, Cyprus, the Virgin Islands, and elsewhere. They spend their guilty money on prostitutes, drugs, gambling, and fast cars. They sit on boards of non-profits, they go to dinners, and they congratulate each other with awards for their services. A large part of it is a show.
If you really want to know what the New Hampshire judiciary, Governor, and victims’ rights non-profit NHCADSV think about prostitutes, sex, drugs, drug trafficking, and domestic violence, the answer lies in their support of Marsy’s Law.
AG Gordon MacDonald endorsed it. Governor Chris Sununu was adamant that it should be pushed through. Chuck Douglas, the Chair of the New Hampshire Judicial Selection Committee, was paid $17,000 to be legal counsel for Marsy’s Law. Amanda Grady Sexton of the NHCADSV was paid $48,000 to be Executive Director for it, while colleagues of hers at the NHCADSV and on the City of Concord Council, including Mayor Jim Bouley, were also paid for it. She felt perfectly comfortable with Henry T Nicholas III, who was funding it, and apparently, so did everyone else who took the money and didn’t bother or didn’t want to look at who was behind it.
Who is Henry T Nicholas III? He was arrested in 2018 and took an Alford Plea for drug trafficking in Las Vegas, where his girlfriend, Ashley Fargo (Wells Fargo) had to be revived after overdosing on some of the drugs he’d flown in on his jet. He was sued by one of his exes in 2016 for battery and other abuse. He kept an underground lair for his prostitutes and drugs, which he hid from his wife and children, and he was involved in Broadcom securities fraud (2007/8). He was featured in Vanity Fair in 2007, complete with a photograph of the tunnels under his house.
He was featured in another article with Jeffrey Epstein called “Billionaires in the Bedroom.”
Yet despite all of this, the AG, the Governor, the Chair of the City of Concord Public Safety Committee, and the Director of Public Affairs for the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence were only too happy to take his money and support his fake “victims rights” law.
What they were actually only too willing to do was to accept bribes from a sex-obsessed drug trafficking securities fraudster who flew local District Attorneys on his plane to Las Vegas.
The people who endorsed Marsy’s Law in New Hampshire and who took money from Henry T Nicholas III are hardly different than those at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, the CIA, FBI, the Clintons, Trump, Lyn Forester de Rothschild, the Governor of the Virgin Islands and his wife Cecile De Jong who were all too happy to do business with Jeffrey Epstein even though they all knew (because it was pretty public) that he was a serious pedophile. He, too, gave to all sorts of non-profits and educational institutions, including MIT and Harvard, both in Cambridge, where the prostitution ring was just busted and which involved professors.
Do not believe for one minute that the New Hampshire powers that be in the judiciary, law firms, non-profits, or public office have the interests of children or families in mind. They have proven several times over (FRM Ponzi Scheme, Diocese of Manchester, YDC sex abuse cover-ups, Catholic Medical Center scandals, St. Paul’s School settlement, Dartmouth settlement, Exeter settlement…) that they are driven by money and corruption hiding behind do-good PR banners and non-profits. However, they can get federal grants to the State to carry on while protecting an extremely incestuous and nepotistic club. What was the need for AG Gordon MacDonald to argue that the list of police officers on the Laurie list should be kept private? If ever there was a sign that the courts themselves had something to hide, his statement was the indicator.
Social Justice starts with the truth, not with the crooked games that have been going on for too many decades in New England. You cannot fix immoral conduct with federal grants.
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Regardless of your feelings about pageants, parading beautiful women in front of audiences has continued to be a successful business enterprise. I don’t watch them, but somebody does. In 2022, the Miss Universe platform was worth at least 20 million.
That’s what Thai-based JKN Global Group paid for it but a year later, JKN has filed for bankruptcy protection to, as Newsbusters reports, solve a liquidity problem.
In response to the the recent news, JKN Global Group has recently announced its strategic corporate financial management plan to cope with the current financial situation. We are confident that the new plan will support all of the company’s business operations, including Miss Universe. We confirm that Miss Universe 2023 will be held in El Salvador on 18 November 2023, where a top notch experience provided to our fans will remain our top priorities. We reaffirm that the legacy of Miss Universe will be carried on by JKN Global Group as envisioned from the beginning.
As envisioned from the beginning? JKN put a transgender activist in charge of the Pageant, which has at least two transwomen competing. Are they a shoo-in for the top five if their talent is peeing standing up? And I didn’t realize there was a shortage of beautiful pageant-worthy women in places like the Netherlands and Portugal, both of whom woke up one day and decided a guy in a dress was the finest example of womanhood in their countries. Talk about a slap in the face. Thanks for competing, but this dude is a better woman than all of you…women. And they all have to act like they are happy about it and happy for the guy who deprived them of whatever it is you get when you win one of these things.
Speaking of which, back in 2018, Miss Universe had its first transgender contest. They didn’t win to a dearth of outrage, but there was plenty over Miss Universe Zimbabwe’s melanin deficiency. Another search of these pages turned up a local story about a young man who won the Miss Derry Competition.
I’m no expert, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but #woke knows no master. Choosing some chunky dude over a manifold of pretty young ladies (it is a beauty contest) is an unsustainable trend; just ask JKN. If they can’t resolve their liquidity problem, they’ll have to sell off assets. We can only hope that whoever buys the Miss Universe brand – assuming someone thinks it can be rehabilitated – returns the seventy-plus-year tradition to its first sixty-plus years before it got woke and went broke.
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Human beings need the proteins in meat, but the Climate Cult, hand-in-hand with the animal rights loons, has been pushing an anti-meat crusade for years. From fake meat to lab-grown meat – both worse for the environment, to this new idea they’ve stumbled upon.
If we put our lies on glossy stickers and require stores to adhere them to packages of meat, people will eat less of it.
[R]esearchers took a group of 1,000 meat-eating adults and split them into four groups. Depending on what group a participant was in, they were shown photos of hot meals assigned climate, health, or pandemic warning labels or no warning label at all.
“All the labels deterred meat consumption, with 7-10 percent of the participants choosing a non-meat meal.” However, when participants were asked how anxiety-inducing and believable they found each of the labels, they reported the climate change warning as the most credible.
This prompted the scientists to advocate for government-mandated climate change warning labels on meat.
I’ve had similar aspirations with regard to the general government.
Recent data suggests that following the American federal government’s health guidance can harm your health. Alcohol consumption skyrocketed under the yoke of otherwise ineffective COVID mandates, as did drug addiction and overdose, domestic abuse, and unassisted suicide.
All preventable if we had only reduced our consumption of Government mandates. And that’s without getting into the pharmaceutical cures, suppression of safe treatments, the death by hospital protocol, and lives lost to peaceful progressive protests.
The Federal government’s ever-expanding footprint represents a considerable percentage of emissions. Cutting it in half – assuming you believe in climate voodoo – would result in significantly fewer emissions. If we onshore those duties back to the states where they belong, locals can better manage them, eliminating duplication or ending offices or programs that fail to protect the interests of citizens in the respective states. (Related: Data From 175 Countries Says, Eat Meat, Live Longer!)
You could do a lot more for the environment and human dignity, prosperity, and liberty – in a much shorter time by reducing the size of the general government, and you wouldn’t be polluting the planet with all that extra label-making.
What we need is stickers on ballots, legislation, and other measures meant to expand the size or scope of government interference in our lives. Something like Warning: Voting for any of the following will have long-term detrimental impacts on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Feel free to come up with your own. There’s probably no wrong “answer.”
HT | The Federalist
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I’ve been writing FreeKeene.com founder Ian Freeman back and forth at the Merrimack County Spiritual Retreat for the last few weeks. I recently sent him a letter with pictures of the Fraternal Order of Police logo and a picture of Lucifer’s circle. I pointed out to Ian that they are so similar one cannot help but wonder if the state is itself satanic.
The FOP is definitely masonic… and the masons themselves cannot deny they have a rank called “The Knight of the Brazen Serpent.” Sounds satanic to me.
Here is Ian’s letter back to me. He gave me permission to transcribe it for you all to read.
Dear Brad,
Creepy, FOP logo with the all-seeing-eye on it and a possibly Masonic handshake. Whether it’s satanic at the top or all-the-way down the organization, I presume we’ll never know, but we can judge by their actions that the state is certainly un-godly.
I just finished reading “The God of War” by Reverend J.J. Taylor from 1920. It was sent to me by Sheriff David Hathaway and it’s excellent. As a Christian yourself, I’d say it’s a must-read. Written in the aftermath of WWI, it’s a scathing excoriation of the vast hypocrisy of purported “Christians” turning against Jesus’ teachings of peace and instead supporting war. It’s a quick read at 150 pages, and absolutely demolishes the warmongering “Christians.”
But back to the original topic of the state as a satanic organization, if we’re talking about Satan as Lucifer the light-bringer and advocate for humanity, then no, the state is not satanic, as the state is anti-humanity and against light as it oppresses, cages, and destroys human life. It claims to favor educating, but only really to indoctrinate and control, not illuminate.
However, I suspect you are referring to the more typical view of Satan as the embodiment of all things evil, a trickster, enslaver of souls. In which case, yes the state is absolutely Satanic. It is nothing more than an evil religion created to trick people into violence, theft, and eternal conflict on Earth, while pretending to do the opposite.
Of course “it” is just people, suffering under a mutual delusion that they are a part of something greater than the sum of it’s parts.
Or maybe they really are, the literal arms, legs, and heads of pure evil. They surely believe they are doing good things, though. Doubtful that very many of them think they are evil or Satanic. They truly believe that peace can be accomplished through war, that taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society, and other contradictory statisms.
“The State People” – probably a more accurate way of speaking of them rather than “the state,” which seems it grants them the acknowledgement of their supreme being. Anyway, The State People wisely mix their statism with appeals and references to God:
- “In God We Trust” on currency
- Prayers to open congressional/city council sessions
- Politicians claiming religious beliefs
- Chaplains in the miltary
- Churches adopting state icons like the US Flag alongside their own
It’s no wonder Christians engage in icon-worship without even questioning. The flag, the government, and God are the trinity in their minds. They cheer on war, mass incarceration, and fear of foreigners without an inkling of a clue that they are violating the ten commandments and aren’t even trying to follow Jesus’ example.
If you haven’t sent Ian a letter yet… why not? I’m sure he’d love to hear from you!
Reach him at :
Ian Freeman
314 Daniel Webster Highway
Boscawen, NH
03303
Or feel free to e-mail me your letter to him. I’ll print it and throw a stamp on it for you.
Maine is like the quiet kid that nobody notices. He sits alone, has no friends, doesn’t excel at anything, and flies under the radar until he does something horrific, and everyone is shocked. How could this monster have been among us, and nobody took notice? Well, that is now what we are saying about Maine.
In full disclosure, we live in New Hampshire, but my girlfriend was born in Maine, and we have a cabin on a beautiful pond in Central Maine. We know Maine, and we love Maine, but do we really know Maine? Maybe not the “new” Maine. Older was undoubtedly better.
This story is tantamount to peeling an onion. Each layer brings a tear to your eyes. It first started for me a few years ago when retail marijuana sales were legalized, and pot shops were the new building boom in the Pine Tree state. Maine is more than 95% woodlands, but you drive Maine roads and will be hard-pressed to travel a mile without seeing an Adult Smoke Shop. Maine is transitioning from the Pine Tree to the Cannabis Plant State. It is too soon to measure, but I will guarantee that pot sales will not lead to better test scores, better-driving stats, stronger family units, or a lower unemployment rate. Marijuana is now Maine’s number three tax-generating industry, behind lumber and lobsters. With Washington doing all it can to kill the lobster industry, pot will move into the number two slot soon.
Last summer, Augusta, Maine, was the epicenter of the battle over Abortion Rights. On the table was the most progressive Abortion Bill in the country that would abolish any time restraints on a woman choosing to end her pregnancy. Polls showed over 80% of Mainers against the bill, but Governor Mills and Planned Parenthood, along with nearly $1 Million, pushed the public wishes aside, and the bill became law. Maine has been Blue for some time but is still primarily morally conservative, except for the big cities. Big cities are where the power is, and power and money got this bill to the Governor’s desk, where she joyfully signed the death warrant for future Maine preborn.
Last month, we witnessed a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. The closest thing to a mass shooting in Maine had always been the opening day of hunting season. The innocence of Maine was destroyed by a mentally challenged man who woke up one day and decided to kill humans. Reality dawned on rural Maine that sad day.
And finally, we now know that Chinese nationals are growing marijuana in hundreds of cannabis farms throughout Maine. This weed is not your run-of-the-mill pot from the 60s and 70s, but a genetically super-charged marijuana that is grown to destroy the minds of pot smokers in Maine and fill Chinese pockets with American cash. It is not enough that China and Mexico are formulating Fentanyl to kill over 100,000 Americans yearly. Now, they are using Maine farmland to harvest a new poison to kill Mainers and Americans.
It is not good leadership that is bringing you a new, more mature Maine. It is blind ambition, greed, and ignorance all wrapped up in Democrat clothing that is transforming Maine from the beautiful and serene vacationland we all drove to in our effort to escape reality to a harsher Maine that resembles any big city in America. Where do we now go to escape Maine?
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Gov. Sununu is still milking the endorsement schtick, appearing behind another microphone to talk about himself and the value of his pick for the Republican presidential nominee.
Sununu said that he will likely be making his endorsement after Thanksgiving and that he will be choosing from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
“Right now those three candidates, I think for most folks in the Republican Party, have proved themselves to be the top choices” in addition to former President Donald Trump, Sununu said. He praised the debate performances of the three candidates while calling pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy’s performance “a bit embarrassing” and said Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) “wasn’t incredibly inspiring.”
I’m not sure why he’d keep Christie on the list unless it were to keep himself invited to events and the chance to get more microphones in front of his face. Christie is polling fourth or worse no matter who you believe – assuming we can trust any of the polls – with Ramaswamy and even Pence (who dropped out) doing better.
What does it mean when you can’t poll better than a guy who isn’t running? Not much to Chris Sununu. Maybe he likes the former NJ governor because he has Chris in his name…twice? (Related: Republican Presidential Primary Candidates Think Sununu’s Endorsement Will be a Game Changer?)
It’s anyone’s guess, but Tim Scott dropped out last night.
I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they’re telling me, ‘not now, Tim.’ I don’t think they’re saying, Trey, ‘no.’ But I do think they’re saying ‘not now.’ And so I’m gonna respect the voters, and I’m gonna hold on and keep working really hard and look forward to another opportunity.
That might help Chris Sununu’s dream, which he went on the Clinton News Network to share with their paltry audience.
“When people realize that other folks can make a move here, he is going to be smoked out and have to engage folks on a debate stage and watch what he says.”
NH @GovChrisSununu says sooner or later, Trump “is going to have to start engaging” with 2024 rivals: pic.twitter.com/xdHkqafcsT
— CNN This Morning (@CNNThisMorning) November 10, 2023
Remember, it’s always more interesting when the primary race is tighter. Just look at DeSantis and Haley. They are both beginning to pick up some of the pieces left behind by Pence, but neither is consistently within 40 points of former President Trump. Scott just left a few points on the table, but I don’t see it helping Christie.
In other words, I don’t think Chris is endorsing Chis-Chris. It makes no sense.
And while New Hampshire may not always choose the winner in the General, it has a solid reputation for clearing out chaff. Candidates who do poorly tend to walk away after failing badly in the Granite State, leaving primary voters in successive states the opportunity to pick someone else.
One more point. Sununu’s past endorsements haven’t exactly been good for Republican candidates. He might be doing someone else a favor by not picking them—a non-endorsement endorsement. That’s what Vivek Ramaswamy thinks as well.
MERRIMACK, N.H. — Vivek Ramaswamy called New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu the “face of the establishment” and told reporters an endorsement from him would be the “kiss of death to whichever candidate gets it, and so I will be dodging that.”
It’s a counterintuitive strategy from Ramaswamy about a popular governor who has appeared alongside many different presidential hopefuls at their events over the course of the 2024 primary. But Sununu did criticize Ramaswamy’s aggressive debate performance last week, saying it showed he “doesn’t have the temperament” to be president.
You know nothing, NBC. It’s not counterintuitive at all. Not that Vivek is even on the shortlist. Whatever your concerns, he is not RINO enough for Sununu. There’s no DC insider connection. Sununu will leverage his announcement to benefit the Sununus. That could be as simple as connections or just opportunity. Suppose Haley happens to be surging into a strong second. In that case, he’ll pick her because it’ll make it look like his endorsement meant something to someone other than Chris Sununu, his homers, the inside-the-beltway politicos, and the media crowd.
It’s about picking the right candidate, not the winning one. As I’ve said before, if he “wanted to make a difference,” he’d endorse Trump, which would probably kill Trump’s polling and give the other candidates a shot. But it might also besmirch Sununu’s reputation with certain elites, even if it worked – taking one for the team – something he’d never risk. Not that Daddy Sununu would let him.
HT | Daily Wire
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Yesterday’s election results: Mike P reported from NJ, where the GOP made no inroads and probably lost a few seats in the legislature; several parental rights candidates lost in elections for the Board of Education where Mike lives; Ed P reported from Virginia where republicans will not control the house of delegates (and they appoint supreme court judges in that house).
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