Vermont Public is playing with words again. A recent piece titled, “Vermont farmers say they need more gov’t help as climate change causes more extreme weather,” almost sounds like Vermont Farmers are saying they need help because of climate change.

After taking one for the team and reading the article, what they meant was that Vermont Public thinks climate change is causing extreme weather. The farmers need help because of that weather, but they only quote one farmer in this story who has anything to say about decarbonization, climate, and farming.

The words “Farmer says …” don’t have the same something-something as “Farmers” (plural). But then, neither does the opinion of a farmer who thinks CO2 is anything but airborne fertilizer that strengthens plants against extreme anything. CO2 is a farmer’s friend whether their farm has plants, animals that eat plants, or both.

The weather has always been a problem for farming long before anyone figured out you could use it (the weather) to scare people into giving up farms (comfort, prosperity, affordable energy, and free markets). Put another way, any farmer concerned with decarbonization should be raising crickets and grubs, which also eat things like plants and fruit.

 

[Norah] Lake produces vegetables and a variety of fruit. She lost about 90% of her apples and all her plums. But she hopes her pledge to reduce 90% of her farm’s carbon emissions by 2028 will inspire other farmers to do the same.

Sweetland has solar power on their roofs, is in the process of transitioning all their equipment to electric and is switching to using biofuel. Lake said events like the freeze remind her why she made the pledge.

 

Lake is living in a fantasy world where her commitment to the precepts of the Climate Cult has successfully offshored emissions up to the point where her green equipment reaches the end of life (sooner than later), or she has an EV vehicle fire that takes out a barn and everything in it. I’m not hoping for that. It’s none of my business if the Lakes spend their money on things they think matter, but that’s not how this works. Solar and EVs are propped up with tax money, manufacturing incentives, tax breaks, and other subsidies to make them almost affordable.

China has a monopoly on solar cells made with dirty coal. EV batteries are impossible to craft without metals open-pit mined by low-wage or slave labor in third-world countries. They are not just offshoring massive amounts of carbon emissions. They enable human rights violations and systemic ecological contamination with other people’s money.

You haven’t decarbonized a damn thing, and if CO2 is the problem, you say, you’re –virtue signaling is making matters worse.

And one more point. If you take money from the state or the Feds and don’t do what they say forever after, guess what other illusion comes tumbling down? The one where you think you still own that farm or control what happens on it.

 

 

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“Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason… I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.”—Justice Antonin Scalia dissenting in Maryland v. King

Be warned: the DNA detectives are on the prowl.

Whatever skeletons may be lurking on your family tree or in your closet, whatever crimes you may have committed, whatever associations you may have with those on the government’s most wanted lists: the police state is determined to ferret them out.

In an age of overcriminalization, round-the-clock surveillance, and a police state eager to flex its muscles in a show of power, we are all guilty of some transgression or other.

No longer can we consider ourselves innocent until proven guilty.

Now we are all suspects in a DNA lineup waiting to be matched up with a crime.

Suspect State, meet the Genetic Panopticon.

DNA technology in the hands of government officials will complete our transition to a Surveillance State in which prison walls are disguised within the seemingly benevolent trappings of technological and scientific progress, national security and the need to guard against terrorists, pandemics, civil unrest, etc.

By accessing your DNA, the government will soon know everything else about you that they don’t already know: your family chart, your ancestry, what you look like, your health history, your inclination to follow orders or chart your own course, etc.

It’s getting harder to hide, even if you think you’ve got nothing to hide.

Armed with unprecedented access to DNA databases amassed by the FBI and ancestry website, as well as hospital newborn screening programs, police are using forensic genealogy, which allows police to match up an unknown suspect’s crime scene DNA with that of any family members in a genealogy database, to solve cold cases that have remained unsolved for decades.

As reported by The Intercept, forensic genetic genealogists are “combing through the genetic information of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in search of a perpetrator.”

By submitting your DNA to a genealogical database such as Ancestry and 23andMe, you’re giving the police access to the genetic makeup, relationships and health profiles of every relative—past, present and future—in your family, whether or not you or they ever agreed to be part of such a database.

Indeed, relying on a loophole in a commercial database called GEDmatch, genetic genealogists are able to sidestep privacy rules that allow people to opt out of sharing their genetic information with police. The end result? Police are now able to identify and target those very individuals who explicitly asked to keep their DNA results private.

In this way, merely choosing to exercise your right to privacy makes you a suspect and puts you in the police state’s crosshairs.

It no longer even matters if you’re among the tens of millions of people who have added their DNA to ancestry databases. As Brian Resnick reports, public DNA databases have grown so massive that they can be used to find you even if you’ve never shared your own DNA.

That simple transaction—a spit sample or a cheek swab in exchange for getting to learn everything about one’s ancestral makeup, where one came from, and who is part of one’s extended family—is the price of entry into the Suspect State for all of us.

After all, a DNA print reveals everything about “who we are, where we come from, and who we will be.” It can also be used to predict the physical appearance of potential suspects.

It’s what police like to refer to a “modern fingerprint.”

Whereas fingerprint technology created a watershed moment for police in their ability to “crack” a case, DNA technology is now being hailed by law enforcement agencies as the magic bullet in crime solving, especially when it helps them crack cold cases of serial murders and rapists.

After all, who wouldn’t want to get psychopaths and serial rapists off the streets and safely behind bars, right?

At least, that’s the argument being used by law enforcement to support their unrestricted access to these genealogy databases, and they’ve got the success stories to prove it.

For instance, a 68-year-old Pennsylvania man was arrested and charged with the brutal rape and murder of a young woman almost 50 years earlier. Relying on genealogical research suggesting that the killer had ancestors who hailed from a small town in Italy, investigators narrowed their findings down to one man whose DNA, obtained from a discarded coffee cup, matched the killer’s.

In another cold case investigation, a 76-year-old man was arrested for two decades-old murders after his DNA was collected from a breathalyzer during an unrelated traffic stop.

Yet it’s not just psychopaths and serial rapists who are getting caught up in the investigative dragnet. In the police state’s pursuit of criminals, anyone who comes up as a possible DNA match—including distant family members—suddenly becomes part of a circle of suspects that must be tracked, investigated, and ruled out.

In this way, “guilt by association” has taken on new connotations in a technological age in which one is just a DNA sample away from being considered a person of interest in a police investigation. As Jessica Cussins warns in Psychology Today, “The fundamental fight—that data from potentially innocent people should not be used to connect them to unrelated crimes—has been lost.”

Until recently, the government was required to at least observe some basic restrictions on when, where and how it could access someone’s DNA. That was turned on its head by various U.S. Supreme Court rulings that heralded the loss of privacy on a cellular level.

For instance, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Maryland v. King that taking DNA samples from a suspect doesn’t violate the Fourth Amendment. The Court’s subsequent decision to let stand the Maryland Court of Appeals’ ruling in Raynor v. Maryland, which essentially determined that individuals do not have a right to privacy when it comes to their DNA, made Americans even more vulnerable to the government accessing, analyzing and storing their DNA without their knowledge or permission.

It’s all been downhill since then.

Indeed, the government has been relentless in its efforts to get hold of our DNA, either through mandatory programs carried out in connection with law enforcement and corporate America, by warrantlessly accessing our familial DNA shared with genealogical services such as Ancestry and 23andMe, or through the collection of our “shed” or “touch” DNA.

Get ready, folks, because the government has embarked on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database.

This has been helped along by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law), the courts (which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget).

For example, Rapid DNA machines—portable, about the size of a desktop printer, highly unregulated, far from fool-proof, and so fast that they can produce DNA profiles in less than two hours—allow police to go on fishing expeditions for any hint of possible misconduct using DNA samples.

Journalist Heather Murphy explains: “As police agencies build out their local DNA databases, they are collecting DNA not only from people who have been charged with major crimes but also, increasingly, from people who are merely deemed suspicious, permanently linking their genetic identities to criminal databases.”

All 50 states now maintain their own DNA government databases, although the protocols for collection differ from state to state. Increasingly, many of the data from local databanks are being uploaded to CODIS, the FBI’s massive DNA database, which has become a de facto way to identify and track the American people from birth to death.

Even hospitals have gotten in on the game by taking and storing newborn babies’ DNA, often without their parents’ knowledge or consent. It’s part of the government’s mandatory genetic screening of newborns. In many states, the DNA is stored indefinitely. There’s already a move underway to carry out whole genome sequencing on newborns, ostensibly to help diagnose rare diseases earlier and improve health later in life, which constitutes an ethical minefield all by itself.

What this means for those being born today is inclusion in a government database that contains intimate information about who they are, their ancestry, and what awaits them in the future, including their inclinations to be followers, leaders or troublemakers.

For example, police in New Jersey accessed the DNA from a nine-year-old blood sample of a newborn baby in order to identify the child’s father as a suspect in a decades-old sexual assault.

The ramifications of this kind of DNA profiling are far-reaching.

At a minimum, these DNA databases do away with any semblance of privacy or anonymity.

These genetic databases and genomic technology also make us that much more vulnerable to creeps and cyberstalkers, genetic profiling, and those who would weaponize the technology against us.

Unfortunately, the debate over genetic privacy—and when one’s DNA becomes a public commodity outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on warrantless searches and seizures—continues to lag far behind the government and Corporate America’s encroachments on our rights.

Moreover, while much of the public debate, legislative efforts and legal challenges in recent years have focused on the protocols surrounding when police can legally collect a suspect’s DNA (with or without a search warrant and whether upon arrest or conviction), the question of how to handle “shed” or “touch” DNA has largely slipped through without much debate or opposition.

As scientist Leslie A. Pray notes:

We all shed DNA, leaving traces of our identity practically everywhere we go… In fact, the garbage you leave for curbside pickup is a potential gold mine of this sort of material. All of this shed or so-called abandoned DNA is free for the taking by local police investigators hoping to crack unsolvable cases… shed DNA is also free for inclusion in a secret universal DNA databank.

What this means is that if you have the misfortune to leave your DNA traces anywhere a crime has been committed, you’ve already got a file somewhere in some state or federal database—albeit it may be a file without a name.

As the dissenting opinion to the Maryland Court of Appeals’ shed DNA ruling in Raynor rightly warned, “A person can no longer vote, participate in a jury, or obtain a driver’s license, without opening up his genetic material for state collection and codification.”

It’s just a matter of time before government agents will know everywhere we’ve been and how long we were at each place by following our shed DNA. After all, scientists can already track salmon across hundreds of square miles of streams and rivers using DNA.

Today, helped along by robotics and automation, DNA processing, analysis and reporting takes far less time and can bring forth all manner of information, right down to a person’s eye color and relatives. Incredibly, one company specializes in creating “mug shots” for police based on DNA samples from unknown “suspects” which are then compared to individuals with similar genetic profiles.

Of course, none of these technologies are infallible.

DNA evidence can be wrong, either through human error, tampering, or even outright fabrication, and it happens more often than we are told.

What this amounts to is a scenario in which we have little to no defense against charges of wrongdoing, especially when “convicted” by technology, and even less protection against the government sweeping up our DNA in much the same way it sweeps up our phone calls, emails and text messages.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s only a matter of time before the police state’s pursuit of criminals from the past expands into genetic profiling and a preemptive hunt for criminals of the future.

 

 

John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute

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Vermont is a wink and a nod away from erecting statues of Lenin and Trotsky next to the Marx Museum of Modern Democrat Socialism. It’s just down and to the Left on Engles Ave. The place is loony with leftism. So this report about energy burden is a real hoot.

And I’m not saying that the researchers aren’t concerned about the problem, just that you could have saved a lot of time and digital trees if they just stated the obvious. What energy burden there is, and it’s increase – and it has increased – is entirely the fault of government meddling. Everything else is mental masturbation.

Democrats have admitted, more than once, that their policies aim to make energy cost more (increasing energy burden), and it is one of the few promises they’ve kept. Driving up energy costs adds inflationary pressure, increasing the cost of everything. This leads to a decline in weekly discretionary and primary income, what you take home, and what is left after paying for energy. Many other issues fuel these fires, but all of them are a product of meddling by busybody progressives and their army of swampy deep-state regulators.

There is a lot of chin-stroking and naval gazing, but the problem of energy burden is easily solved. Get the government out of these marketplaces. The free market can and will repair the damage in due time. But Dems must meddle, and energy, like health care (or health insurance if you think the two are not one politically), are Secular Holy Grails of social engineering, and the Left will not sit on its crooked little hands and let that work itself out.

And the Energy Burden report allows them to grow the government and appear to do something to fix a problem they created.

 

Total energy spending is the sum of annual costs for three categories: Electricity, Thermal, and Transportation. Energy burden is defined as annual energy spending expressed as a percentage of household income.

 

They go into town-by-town details, probably to make a social justice case for economic inequality whose solution is socialized energy, ignoring the highly regulated markets and meddling, which is the old cause and not a new solution.

Look at the changes in energy costs under Biden (which were at record lows under Trump).

 

 

Average expenditures are up from 19-29%. Electricity costs are up 29+%, Thermal is up 19%, and transportation (motor fuels) are up 22%. All of that is policy-driven. It’s deliberate. But the purpose of this data is not to suggest the government needs to get out of the way. In its conclusion, these “researchers” ask,

 

How might we help alleviate energy burden for Vermont’s most vulnerable residents? There are a range of programs from utilities and state agencies that lower the upfront cost of technologies with the potential to reduce energy burden, from cold climate heat pumps, to weatherization, to electric vehicles. Vermont’s EEUs lead and partner on a number of these programs and have historically maintained minimum spending requirements for programs that serve income-eligible residents as their primary approach to addressing energy burden.

 

More meddling. Programs that require the state to reduce incomes to fund those programs that only make the burden of living in Vermont more expensive.

If you’d like to do something meaningful, how about a Democrat governance burden report? Before election day would be nice.

 

HT | WCAX

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Congress’ top priority this fall will be passing legislation funding the government and avoiding a “shutdown.” As of this writing, it appears unlikely that the Republican-controlled House will be able to make a deal with President Biden and the Senate Democrats on a long-term spending bill. Instead, they will likely pass a short-term funding bill to give themselves more time to reach agreement on a longer-term bill.

Any bipartisan agreement is unlikely to reduce government spending or begin to pay down, or stop the growth of, the over $32 trillion national debt, which the Congressional Budget Office projects will grow by at least $115 trillion over the next thirty years. Instead, Congress and the administration will continue to pretend they are addressing the spending problem by “reducing in the projected rate of spending growth,” and other gimmicks.

The sad fact is both parties, along with a majority of the American people, are addicted to welfare-warfare spending. What little resistance there is to big government within the Republican party is likely to be further weakened by the rise of a new form of “conservatism” that advocates the use of government power—including deficit spending and increasing the federal debt — to advance conservative political and social goals.

The failure to take seriously the threat to the American economy caused by reckless federal spending is illustrated by the reactions to the credit rating agency Fitch’s downgrade of the US government’s credit rating. Instead of treating it as a wake-up call, government officials like current Treasury Secretary (and former Federal Reserve Chair) Janet Yellen dismissed the downgrade as “arbitrary and based on outdated data.”

One reason Yellen and others may be so blasé about the federal debt is that they believe the Federal Reserve will bail the government out by holding interest rate low enough to keep the federal government’s interest payments to manageable levels This is why, even though the Fed has been raising interest rates, the rates remain well below what they would likely be in a free market. However, the Fed knows it cannot go back to keeping rates at or below zero without causing price inflation.

Therefore the Fed will likely continue to raise rates for the next several months. The Fed will likely pause its rate increase next year in the hope of boosting economic activity to help President Biden’s reelection campaign. Former President Trump gave Powell an additional incentive to keep rates low next year by promising not to re-appoint him if he returns to the oval office.

Despite the Fed’s repeated interest rate increases, Americans are paying an average of $709 more per month for basic living expenses than they were two years ago. This is why credit card debt is over one trillion dollars. Adding more in private and public debt will increase pressure on the Fed to “do the impossible” – keep interest rates relatively low without creating price inflation. Eventually, the Fed-created debt-based economy will collapse as the dollar loses its reserve currency status. This will increase political divisions and may even lead to political violence.

Those of us who know the truth must make preparations to ensure the safety of ourselves and our loved ones and do all we can to spread the ideas of liberty. Creating a critical mass of people to reject the false promises of the welfare-warfare state is the only way to regain liberty without first suffering political and economic upheaval.

 

Ron Paul | Ron Paul Institute

Copyright © 2023 by RonPaul Institute. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit and a live link are given.

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  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 Memes and Meme Overflow.

 

*** Warning, definitely a couple of off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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The Rancid Mindset of the Left

 

 

Also recommended – an early essay of mine:

The Right Way: The Leftist Sense of Self (obamasez.blogspot.com)

And this book:

The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

For a less deep but IMHO far easier / less dry read see this book:

Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild

And I just shake my head at this video, below.  There’s an internet thing, Poe’s Law, which reads (links removed):

Poe’s law is an adage of internet culture saying that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

So I want – SO want – to think this is satire.  And yet, my teacher wife told me that there was a discussion at school about students who “identify” as cats and who want litterboxes.  Plural.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/mom-wwants-to-take-kid-to-vet.mp4

 

In. Seine.  More:

 

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/146/152/323/playable/f7f6743c02380f23.mp4

 

They go batsh*t crazy hostile because you’re contradicting their faith.  You’re not a skeptic… you’re a heretic.

 

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Bringing up this one from the past:

 

 

I don’t fear death per se.

 

 

 

When the race of the murder victim and murderer are both known, blacks are murdered by other blacks in America 90% or so.  Clean up your own mess before you start in on “wypopo”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

Don’t they also need your zip code and/or address?  Still, disturbed at the possibility.  Don’t forget that an “enterprising” criminal can set up a chip scanner and ping your card as they’re handing it back to you with your order.  I always pay cash at such places.  Just like, after my card got skimmed several years ago in a gas pump, I always pay cash at the gas station.

Then again, I try to make sure I pay for things with cash, period.

 

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“I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”

– Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU

Know your enemy.

 

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The Coming Global Tyranny (broad):

Canada’s first 5G smart city project launched in Kelowna – Cities Today (cities-today.com)

The Global Uprising Against CBDCs Has Begun! (substack.com)

Do not comply, that’s the main thing.  Just understand – any retreat they do is tactical only.

These 14 US Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat By 2030 (thefederalist.com)

 

 

Note the amount.  3000 Euros.  I cannot imagine that, even without this, few transactions that large take place.  But that’s the point.  They’ll start out with something that affects very few people.  And then squeeeeze that amount down.

 

 

This description below almost matches my vacation.  If I worked from home and didn’t need to really “venture out” – pretty much everything was within a 15-20 minute walk.  The first floors of virtually every building were all food markets, meat and bread and veggie stores, optical stores, pharmacies, furniture… exercise clubs, restaurants, even a doctor’s clinic was only about ten minutes away by foot.  You name it.  The megamall was, perhaps a good 45 minutes by foot, but still walkable.  And there were busses and taxis (Uber-like) aplenty.

If I lived there and chose a “small” life, a 15-minute city life, no problem.  It was 95% of the way there.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/chris-sky-on-toronto.mp4

 

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This was in Montenegro.  She knocked the perp out – so was fined.  This second-guessing of a person in the thick of things reminds me of a quote from SCOTUS Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes:

“Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

From Brown v. United States (1921) – Wikipedia

Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335 (1921), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that if a person is attacked, and that person reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily injury, he has no duty to retreat and may stand his ground and, if he kills his attacker, he has not exceeded the bounds of lawful self-defense.

More to the point… in many countries that don’t permit firearms carrying or even ownership, self-defense by almost any means is becoming ever-more restricted.

RE guns, here’s a good MA case for people with LTCs in NH to watch:

A Massachusetts judge set precedent for 50 state CCW reciprocity – Gun Free Zone

And a gun / RKBA meme:

 

 

On self-defense:

Old News: When they tell you to move somewhere… – Gun Free Zone

Don’t get moved to the murder scene.  I’ve already told my kids that if someone tries to drag them into a car, etc., they’re most likely being dragged to the scene of their murder.  Fight like your life depends on it, because it very likely does.

 

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What’s that expression?  Never give power to the person who lusts after it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Covid and Medicine Related:

 

How Doctors Create Customers – Vox Popoli (voxday.net)

Now isn’t this an interesting piece of history.

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Dr. McCullough Meets Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche on The Highwire (substack.com)

Fascinating.

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Hilary Got Wasted

 

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

They’re interrelated.  The first two touch on a “preprogramming” to get us away from the idea of the rule of The People.

 

 

 

And this last, to the idea that – even more than they’re already doing – criminalizing dissent.

 

 

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Miscellaneous links:

 

Migration / White Genocide

 

 

A nation, indeed a civilization, unwilling to defend itself or its people.  Consider this melee in Milan, Italy:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/milano-melee.mp4

 

Reprising my three-part series on civilizational collapse:

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 1) – Urban Scoop

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 2) – Urban Scoop

Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 3) – Urban Scoop

 

 

 

 

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CBDCs / Economy

‘Just Say No!’ To Economic Slavery | ZeroHedge

Brace Yourselves, Because What The Elites Have Planned Is Going To Absolutely Devastate The US Economy ⋆ Conservative Firing Line

The Rulers Are Pushing For CBDC, Will We Push Back Hard Enough To Stop It? | SHTF Plan

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To Younger People in [Market-Ticker]

“It’s the economy, stupid”.

 

 

 

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Culture Wars

Support for Black Lives Matter repeats a lethal error of history | MelaniePhillips.com

Pitting one against another.

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And this is just vile.  This is straight out of Huxley’s Brave New World.  CONTENT ALERT!

 

 

 

 

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“Children should have sex partners” – The UN agenda to normalize pedophilia (stopworldcontrol.com)

This evidence report reveals how the World Health Organization and United Nations are sexualizing little children in primary education worldwide, for the purpose of normalizing pedophilia. This report consists of nothing but solid evidence, with many official documents, videos, books, archives, etc. All PDF documents may be downloaded from the references section at the end of this report.

Between this, and 1984, and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, these were written as warnings – and being used as manuals.  Also this:

 

 

If Hashem doesn’t start raining fire and brimstone on us soon, He owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

 

 

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World Stability

Niger’s neighbors set ‘D-Day’ for intervention — RT Africa

Can’t have them uppity Nigerians deciding what to do with their own country.  Europe and America need those resources.

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Wagner Decries ‘Murder’ Of Prigozhin Amid Reports Anti-Air Missile Struck Plane | ZeroHedge

This would be a catastrophic mistake if it was deliberate by the Russians.  And who benefits?  While I appreciate the revenge motive if the Wagner coup was real, this would be a dreadful miscalculation if Putin was behind it IMHO.

 

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UK Population Collapse “Good for the Planet,” WEF Adviser Prof. Sarah Harper Explains (vigilantnews.com)

Still think that the whole depopulation agenda is just made up?

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/club-of-rome-bearded-guy.mp4

 

Don’t forget my four essays on depopulation:

The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)

Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok

Dark Thoughts in the Small Hours – Granite Grok

Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop

 

 

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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The Democrats want 1,000,000 EV charging stations to combat climate change? That is extreme; that is too much; 500,00 tops! That is what passes for “conservatism” among the donor-class-GOP, the Establishment-GOP, the whatever-you-want-to-call-them-GOP. And that is how LOSING is done. Take a few minutes to watch Jesse’s rant:

“But Jesse, young people are so scared about climate change!” pic.twitter.com/skyfBduIuI

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) August 24, 2023

 

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Following the recent flooding throughout Vermont this summer, the state very proudly touted a response program that offers victims who lost or suffered damage to their cars the opportunity to replace them with an electric vehicle. Not an internal combustion engine vehicle, just an electric vehicle.

Another example of why more people are dying of climate change policy than climate change.

If you want the $11,000 in incentive subsidies, you will get the car the government wants you to have, not the one you necessarily want or need.

But there’s a problem with this policy beyond the overreach of A) taxing Peter and forcing him to pay for Paul’s car and B) putting a government thumb on what should be free-market decisions. Electric vehicle batteries, when submerged in water, create a highly dangerous fire hazard. (See: Electric Vehicles Spontaneously Combust In Florida After Hurricane Ian.)

Encouraging/enabling people who park their cars in places with a demonstrably higher-than-average potential for flooding to switch to vehicles that can explode and burn for days when exposed to flood conditions seems, well, kinda stupid.

With the examples of flooding in California and the Northeast and fires in Hawaii and elsewhere, we are increasingly hearing the refrain that more people are dying of climate change policies than climate change, with good reason. The repeated decisions by federal, state, and local governments to prioritize CO2 reduction over adaptation and emergency preparedness are making bad situations worse than catastrophic.

Hawaii presents the most horrific example. Hawaiian law states, “Pursuant to Hawai’i Revised Statutes §225P-5, Hawai’i has a target ‘to sequester more atmospheric carbon and greenhouse gases than emitted within the State as quickly as practicable, but no later than 2045’, effectively establishing a net-negative emissions target.” So, bowing to that pressure, the electric companies put their resources into carbon reduction and neglected grid resilience and fire safety.

According to a lawsuit filed on behalf of victims of the Maui fires, as reported by NBC, “Unfortunately, for the residents of Lahaina, these proposed grid hardening expenditures were deferred,…. The suit states the company hadn’t spent any funding on power pole upgrades or wildfire prevention in 2021, 2022, or 2023, nor had spent anything on hazard tree removals in 2021 or 2022.” But, hey, Hawaiians can take comfort in that they are “lead[ing] by example in adapting to the impacts and mitigating the extent of climate change.” At least the ones who are still alive.

Hopefully, the lessons of 2023 will convince lawmakers to change gears and start prioritizing practical, beneficial policies focused on infrastructure and public safety over CO2 reduction efforts that are high-cost virtue signaling for zero benefit. The questions lawmakers need to start asking are what technologies and policies are the best equipped and most cost-effective to help us deal with – and minimize damage from — the next fire, flood, heatwave, deep freeze, etc. Not what has the lowest carbon footprint? And if they don’t, it’s up to voters to replace them with lawmakers who will as soon as possible.

 

 

Watch Vermont policymakers advocate for encouraging development in floodplains over public safety concerns as part of our Climate Action Plan. Geniuses at work!

 

However, comments by Vermont Transportation Secretary Joe Flynn regarding the post-flood EV program don’t fill me with confidence that lessons have been learned. “We hope these incentive changes will make a difference in curbing the worst effects of climate change,” said Flynn.

If Flynn really has ANY hope that this program will make ANY difference in curbing ANY effects of climate change, let alone “the worst effects,” he is completely and utterly delusional. And if his intent is to perpetuate the fraud that Vermont’s CO2 reduction policies can or will have such impacts, that’s just plain dishonest. Maybe he’d like to share some statistics comparing the roles that internal combustion engine vehicles played in rescue operations and clean-up vs. electric vehicles—looking forward to that press conference.

Vermont politicians are banking on the massive adoption of electric vehicles by Vermonters over the next few years in order to meet the greenhouse gas emission reduction goals in the Global Warming Solutions Act (very similar to those from Hawaii noted above). According to the Climate Council, Vermonters need to put 126,000 EVs on our roads by 2030. As of this July, there were 5,260 registered.

This number comes as overall demand for EVs nationally is softening, so it’s pretty clear meeting this target isn’t happening – by a very long shot. People just don’t want these cars (at least not to that level of demand), and taking advantage of flood victims to make that pathetic number look slightly less pathetic seems awfully cynical.

Helping people who have lost a vehicle because of flooding get back on the road is a noble goal, and I’m sure can be a real difference-maker for someone trying to get their lives back on track. However, the policy should be to help the most people in the most cost-effective and practical way. I seriously doubt that limiting assistance to those who want, have access to the charging infrastructure, and can afford the unsubsidized portion of the cost of an electric vehicle is the best or most compassionate way to do this.

 

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

 

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WASHINGTON / August 23, 2023 – Courtney Conover of Pennsylvania made a series of false accusations against Dr. James Amor and another person, claiming they had mishandled the complaints of victims of rape and sexual assault.

Using her blog and social media account, Conover accused them of being “the devil,” a “human monster,” had been “aiding and abetting a pedophile for two decades,” and other outlandish claims.

The jury was so disturbed by the accusations that it found in favor of Dr. Amor and awarded $1.4 million in damages. This past Friday, U.S. District Court Judge John Gallagher upheld the jury finding, although he did reduce the damages (1).

False allegations represent a growing threat across the country. A 2020 YouGov survey found that 8% of Americans had been falsely accused of sexual assault, domestic violence, or child abuse (2). Three years later, that number had increased to 10% (3).

Unfortunately, feminist groups are working to give a free pass to false accusers, focusing on both the civil and criminal settings:

Civil: Feminists are seeking to confer absolute legal immunity on women who make accusations that are knowingly false. The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that lawsuits for damages from defamatory claims reflect “our basic concept of the essential dignity and worth of every human being.” (4)

But that didn’t stop Legal Momentum (formerly, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund) from filing an amicus brief in Khan v. Yale University seeking absolute immunity for the false accuser (5). In June, the Connecticut Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Khan, rejecting the Legal Momentum arguments (6).

Criminal: Feminist organizations are pressuring prosecutors to not file criminal charges against false accusers, even though every state has laws that ban persons from making false reports. Last week a group known as End Violence Against Women International (EVAWI) released an email message titled, “Is Prosecution for False Reporting Ever Appropriate?”

The message links to a longer document with the provocative title, “Raped, Then Jailed: The Risks of Prosecution for Falsely Reporting Sexual Assault” (7). The report fails to clarify the key distinction between an allegation that is “unfounded” — not meeting the legal standard of proof — versus “false,” that is, made in bad faith.

The crux of the EVAWI argument is that prosecuting an accuser is contrary to the “public interest.” Predictably, the feminist organization’s concept of “public interest” excludes any consideration of the effects of a bogus accusation on the falsely accused, including its devastating effects on the person’s reputation, mental and physical health, social standing, and career opportunities.

Worse, EVAWI never mentions the fact that false allegations and perjury are now the number one cause of wrongful convictions, according to the National Registry of Exonerations (8).

September 9 is International Falsely Accused Day (9). The global event is intended to raise awareness of how easy it is to fall victim to a false accusation, to point out how the presumption of innocence has been eroded, and how the law continues to be upended in the name of “social justice.”

Citations:

1. https://reason.com/volokh/2023/08/22/court-reduces-1-4m-verdict-to-71-5k-in-theylied-renaissance-faire-libel-case/#more-8246241
2. http://www.prosecutorintegrity.org/pr/survey-over-20-million-have-been-falsely-accused-of-abuse/
3. https://endtodv.org/survey-false-allegations-of-abuse-are-a-global-problem-women-most-often-the-accusers/
4. Gertz v. Robert Welch, 418 U.S. 323, 341 (1974).
5. https://www.legalmomentum.org/amicus-briefs/khan-v-yale-univ-et-al 
6. https://www.thefire.org/news/connecticut-supreme-court-issues-blistering-critique-yales-unfair-title-ix-proceedings
7. https://evawintl.org/wp-content/uploads/2019-5_TB_Raped-Then-Jailed-1.pdf 
8. https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/ExonerationsContribFactorsByCrime.aspx
9. https://falselyaccusedday.org/#:~:text=Falsely%20Accused%20Day%20is%20intended,in%20the%20name%20of%20justice.&text=Falsely%20Accused%20Day%20will%20take%20place%20on%20the%209th%20September%20every%20year.

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A White Tower stooge has published an article in the New York Times suggesting that America might be better off if it bailed on the popular vote. Given the recent trajectory, who could blame anyone for thinking that?

 

On the eve of the first debate of the 2024 presidential race, trust in government is rivaling historic lows. Officials have been working hard to safeguard elections and assure citizens of their integrity. But if we want public office to have integrity, we might be better off eliminating elections altogether.

Officials? Integrity? I think you misspelled “officials have been working to undermine the safeguarding of elections.” It’s okay. If the elections are rigged, and we can’t unrig them, perhaps there is a better way.

The premise for change is sensible. The worst sort of people are drawn to politics. They are more often persuasive, manipulative, and likely to lie. The very nature of the occupation attracts characters who will power. All true. To escape this, Dr. Adam Grant, a contributing opinion writer who is an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, suggests a lottery.

Random schmoes are picked from a “hat” and appointed to the duty for some number of years until “someone” randomly picks new ones.

 

When you know you’re picked at random, you don’t experience enough power to be corrupted by it. Instead, you feel a heightened sense of responsibility: I did nothing to earn this, so I need to make sure I represent the group well. And in one of the Haslam experiments, when a leader was picked at random, members were more likely to stand by the group’s decisions.

 

He points to Ancient Athens, where,

 

“…people had a choice about whether to participate in the lottery. They also had to pass an examination of their capacity to exercise public rights and duties. In America, imagine that anyone who wants to enter the pool has to pass a civics test — the same standard as immigrants applying for citizenship. We might wind up with leaders who understand the Constitution.”

 

It sounds appealing, yes? We’d save gazillions of dollars on primaries and elections and that pesky federalism—no more Super PACS or election Dark Money. The current system has been corrupted, and there are few constraints on the abuse by its manipulators. A problem some suggest could be resolved with an Article V convention, but why would anyone ignoring the current piece of paper suddenly take notice of it if you changed or added a few words?

Is a lottery the answer?

I think Dr. Grant was picked to float a trial balloon at the Paper of Record to open the door for ending elections, nothing more, nothing less, because it is easier and less messy than replacing the electorate. Convince them that their participation damages [insert thing here] and make excuses for why anything else is better.

No one says that, but he does point out how much money and bother would be averted, and the siren call is alluring (for some, I’m sure). No more campaign calls or mailboxes filled with glossy campaign literature. But the Swamp would run everything since a genuine and honest lottery would produce winners who wouldn’t know how anything works or be in office long enough to learn. In other words, ending the corruption and malfeasance only works if you first dismantle the administrative state by subjecting their jobs to a lottery—at least the top tiers of the folks running those agencies. Kick them out and take their names out of the hat.

We wouldn’t want lottery-elected leaders appointing those people, would we? Assuming the lottery isn’t fixed, why would we think anything less?

Not that this is what they are after, quite the opposite. They want figureheads managed by pencil pushers who are nearly all progressive stooges themselves.

Will my social credit score exclude me?

There are many questions, but Dr. Grant seems determined to convince us this would be better, and he points to Canada and the Netherlands as examples.

 

Other countries have begun to see the promise of sortition. Two decades ago, Canadian provinces and the Dutch government started using sortition to create citizens’ assemblies that generated ideas for improving democracy. In the past few years, the French, British and German governments have run lotteries to select citizens to work on climate change policies. Ireland tried a hybrid model, gathering 33 politicians and 66 randomly chosen citizens for its 2012 constitutional convention. In Bolivia, the nonprofit Democracy in Practice works with schools to replace student council elections with lotteries. Instead of elevating the usual suspects, it welcomes a wider range of students to lead and solve real problems in their schools and their communities.

 

None of these places is better or better off than America. Most of them are worse, and a few are tipping toward totalitarianism. This suggests that the oft-quoted maxim about political systems is still valid. The American Republic is the worst system in the world except for all the others – and a lottery is not the answer. Or is it?

Perhaps we need a lottery of regular folks to work for four-year stretches as managing editors, producers, or directors for news, media, and big tech companies. Or, better yet, a lottery for the positions of those who run and control state and local elections. Moderators, poll workers.

I bet that would shake things up a bit. It might even “fix” the Democracy.

 

 

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The Constitution “is not a suicide pact,” said Justice Arthur Goldberg in the court’s opinion in the 1963 Supreme Court case of Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez. His statement highlights a fundamental truth: in times of crisis, governments often feel compelled to take extraordinary measures to protect their citizens and maintain order.

However, this desire to act swiftly and decisively can lead down a perilous path where the expansion of government power becomes a seemingly irreversible process. Welcome to the world of the ratchet effect.

What Is the Ratchet Effect?

This phenomenon gets its name from the mechanical device called a ratchet, which allows motion in one direction only. Just as a ratchet prevents backward movement, the ratchet effect ensures that government power advances inexorably, never retreating to previous levels.

The ratchet effect theory, as popularized by Robert Higgs in his book Crisis and Leviathan, refers to the tendency of governments to respond to crises by implementing new policies, regulations, and laws that significantly enhance their powers. These measures are typically presented as temporary solutions to address specific problems. However, in history, these measures often outlast their intended purpose and become a permanent part of the legal landscape.

The Ratchet Effect in Action

The USA PATRIOT Act, enacted in response to the 9/11 attacks, exemplifies this trend. Intended to enhance national security, it granted sweeping new powers to intelligence agencies, including authorizing “sneak and peek” searches under Section 213. These types of searches allowed delayed notification of search warrants, permitting law enforcement to secretly enter private premises without immediately informing the owner, raising Fourth Amendment concerns.

The act also greatly expanded the definition of “domestic terrorism” to include activities that seem intended to influence government policy through intimidation or coercion, without requiring evidence of actual violence. This broadened definition gave law enforcement enhanced leeway to investigate activist groups engaged in nonviolent advocacy and protest activities.

Yet, despite the lapse of two decades since 9/11, these provisions persist, normalizing extraordinary intrusions into privacy. This illustrates how emergency measures can become entrenched through the ratchet effect, as the ongoing fear of terrorism fossilizes exceptions to civil liberties into standard practice long after the initial crisis has passed.

Similarly, the 2008 global financial crisis prompted governments worldwide to impose rigorous regulatory frameworks on financial institutions. Although conceived as stopgap measures, these restrictions have proven remarkably durable, constraining economic growth and innovation. The specter of another devastating crash continues to justify the existence of these restrictions, disregarding the adverse effects on entrepreneurship and personal autonomy.

More recently, the covid-19 pandemic has brought the ratchet effect back into sharp focus. Governments have instituted a range of controls to contain the virus, from lockdowns and travel restrictions to mask mandates and vaccination requirements. While some of these measures—it could be argued—may have been appropriate in the short term, their prolonged implementation raises concerns about creeping authoritarianism. As fear and uncertainty persist, there is a growing risk that these temporary measures will become permanent features of our lives, further diminishing individual liberties.

It is essential to recognize the subtle yet pernicious nature of the ratchet effect. Each successive crisis creates opportunities for governments to consolidate their powers, often under the guise of protecting its citizens. However, this accretion of authority comes at a profound cost: the gradual relinquishment of fundamental rights and freedoms.

Looming Potential Crises: AI and Climate Change

As we reflect on the historical progression of government power during times of crisis, we must also turn our attention to the potential threats on the horizon that could further amplify state control. Two pressing concerns that warrant careful consideration are the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the intensifying calls for action against climate change.

Advancements in AI technology present both extraordinary possibilities and daunting challenges. As AI integrates deeper into various sectors of society, governments might feel pressured to exercise greater authority to ensure public safety, data privacy, and economic stability. Fears surrounding job displacement and unpredictable moral predicaments could serve as justification for heightened supervision. Nonetheless, such interventions risk reinforcing the ratchet effect, culminating in an accumulation of AI-centric regulations that stagnate innovation and hamper economic progress.

The unfolding climate change crisis continues to dominate headlines, with mounting pressure on world leaders to take drastic measures to curtail emissions and transition toward renewable energy sources. Already, governments are responding to this crisis with sweeping policies aimed at mitigating the perceived threat. Yet, there exists a danger that emergency-driven actions will metamorphose into permanent features of the regulatory terrain. Opportunistic special interest groups may capitalize on the situation to promote their agendas, contributing to an enlargement of government influence that transcends the initial response to environmental imperatives.

The Quest for Liberty and Economic Implications

When crises strike, the instinctive reach for government intervention may provide fleeting comfort, but it often ignores the long-term consequences of empowering the state at the expense of personal autonomy. As the heavy hand of regulation descends, it smothers the entrepreneurial spirit, strangles innovation, and saps the vitality of once-thriving markets. The result? A sluggish economy, suffocating under the weight of bureaucratic red tape, and a citizenry increasingly beholden to an all-powerful government.

By embracing market-driven solutions, we can tap into the limitless potential of human ingenuity by creating new opportunities, products, and services that drive growth and improve lives. From cutting-edge technologies to innovative business models, the free market has always been the engine of progress, lifting billions out of poverty and connecting people across the globe.

Moreover, the pursuit of individual liberty and property rights is not only a moral imperative, it’s also a key driver of economic success. When individuals are free to pursue their passions and ideas without undue interference, they create value that benefits everyone. Conversely, when governments overstep their bounds, they stifle innovation, suppress entrepreneurship, and ultimately impoverish society.

Therefore, let us remain steadfast in our commitment to the principles of classical liberalism, rejecting the false promises of collectivist ideologies and embracing the spontaneous order of the free market. By trusting in the invisible hand, we can build a brighter future where freedom, innovation, and prosperity flourish.

Conclusion

The ratchet effect’s inexorable advance poses a constant threat to individual liberty and economic prosperity. History teaches us that emergency measures, however well-intentioned, tend to metastasize into permanent restrictions on our freedom. As we weather the tempests of crises, we must remain vigilant in defense of our fundamental rights and the engines of economic growth.

To succeed in this endeavor, we must cultivate a deep understanding of the ratchet effect and its insidious workings. We must recognize how seemingly innocuous measures, passed in the heat of the moment, can gradually accumulate and harden into oppressive systems. We must also appreciate the roles that individual initiative and entrepreneurial spirit play in fostering resilience and prosperity.

With this knowledge, we can chart a course that preserves the delicate balance between public safety and personal autonomy. We can design crisis responses that are surgical in their precision, minimizing the impact on our liberties while maximizing their effectiveness in addressing the challenge at hand. We can create regulatory frameworks that enable innovation to flourish rather than suffocating it beneath a blanket of bureaucratic red tape.

Ultimately, our success will depend on our ability to stay true to our core values of protecting property rights and preserving individual and economic freedoms. By remaining vigilant and committed to these principles, we can build societies that are both resilient in the face of crisis and prosperous in the long term. The ratchet effect may continue to exert its influence, but we can ensure that its grip remains loose and that our spirits remain unbroken.

 

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OUR GOVERNOR has officially signed HB 611 to create a commission to study state-controlled sales of drugs. Marijuana and THC products, to be exact.

To quote Governor Chris Sununu, ”New Hampshire has an opportunity to safely regulate the sale of marijuana with a model few others can provide.” Does he realize that once he legalizes weed in New Hampshire, that is it; there is no going back?

As we know, policies change. Even if he gets a “model policy,” when he leaves office in December of 2024, the bill can be changed, and safeguards as written may be lost. Then, our new governor will have to deal with, and hopefully agree with, the policy as it is written. We will also have a new legislative body of representatives and senators who may be motivated to introduce new legislation with fewer restrictions.

States throughout the country that have legalized weed are a mess for countless reasons, and we certainly don’t want that in New Hampshire. So, compared to that, a state-run marijuana industry may sound like a great idea, but let’s be clear: once the genie is out of the bottle, there will be more marijuana on our roads, and child endangerment will increase, as will addiction.

Just because it sounds like a good idea doesn’t mean it is. New Hampshire, like several other states, continues to stop legalization from coming into our state because we have people who care. People have spoken up because they have witnessed the damage of this drug to children, families, loved ones, economies, cultures, and community safety.

The simple fact is that there is no safe way to increase access to a drug. When you increase access, you increase use. New Hampshire is already one of the highest-ranking states in the country for substance misuse. Do we want the distinction of being number one?

The New Hampshire prevention community provided hours of testimony from people who have seen and lived with the collateral damage of increased access to this harmful substance. Unfortunately, Gov. Sununu was not there to listen. If he heard the doctors, law enforcement professionals, parents, youth, substance misuse counselors, and countless others who took the time to speak about why this is such a bad idea, maybe he would have accepted the results of HB 639. Maybe he would have respected that New Hampshire does not want this in our state and communities.

What is even more difficult to wrap my mind around is that the very people whose job it is to prevent this from happening, substance misuse prevention professionals, are being told by the governor to make it happen. Their task is to come up with a model policy that has all of the safeguards in it. But the simple fact is that there is no perfect policy or safeguards when you are increasing access to a harmful, addictive drug.

How many times have we heard Governor Sununu say that now is not the time to legalize when people are dying and overdosing on drugs? Countless times. It was a very responsible position. What happened? AMR medics report historical overdose numbers in our two key cities, Manchester and Nashua. The highest since August of 2018. So, as citizens of New Hampshire, are we to believe that if we have a state-run model for marijuana outlets, these numbers will go down?

Can the governor tell us how a state-run model that sells marijuana and edibles will limit access? The whole idea of selling a product is profit, and this will most definitely increase access.

At a hearing this past spring in Concord, discussing HB 639, the New Hampshire Liquor commissioner gave testimony that he has conducted studies of what is being sold in our neighboring states, how much it is being sold for, and his plan for how the Granite State will undercut their prices and sell in much higher quantities. Does this sound like limiting access? Does this sound like we would be protecting children and families?

New Hampshire is known for its liquor sales and its significant profits. Do we really want to be known for being the marijuana market leader as well? Do we want to be a tourist destination for those looking to purchase weed and its many THC products? Do we want the people consuming these products driving on our roads? Will this action increase business development opportunities? Is this the New Hampshire we envision for our children and future generations?

There are so many questions, but the big one is this. Is this the legacy our Gov. Sununu wants to leave behind after eight successful years in the corner office?

Please reach out to the Governor or Senator Jeb Bradley with your thoughts on the state being in the business of selling marijuana.

Celeste Clark is the executive director of the Raymond Coalition for Youth.

 

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First of all, the clear winner of the debate … DONALD TRUMP. As of 10:00 AM on August 24, his sit-down with Tucker Carlson has 185 million views:

The biggest LOSER of the debate was the voter who expected a serious debate. Instead, it was essentially a time-warp as Faux News tried to turn the clock back to pre-2016 GOP. Pathetic:

This is embarrassing and utterly detached from reality. Fake climate change and UFOs are the “issues that matter?” Not Biden corruption? Not DOJ murdering the rule of law? Not Biden’s Katrina in Maui? Mmmk. pic.twitter.com/noimRyzN9p

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 24, 2023

But if we have to name a candidate who came across as a loser, it’s got to be DeSantis. NOT strong, not decisive, not a leader … scripted and weak:

Well he got his forever moment

Just not the one he was hoping for pic.twitter.com/1tKNqfCoYS

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) August 24, 2023

So … based on this “debate,” who should Trump choose as Veep? If the choice is confined to the debate stage, then Vivek. He was the only one who didn’t pander on “climate change” and didn’t cheerlead Blackrock’s war in Ukraine:

Vivek called climate change a hoax AND was the only person to not want to continue to fund Ukraine.

He wins.

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 24, 2023

But this election should NOT be about Republican versus Democrat because it is NOT. It’s about the elites in both parties versus the rest of us. The Faux Debate offered NOTHING to working men and women. NOTHING. What Trump should do is ask Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be his running mate:

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The problem of horse flatulence is not often discussed, yet there are important lessons to be learned from equine methane gas (via flatulence or burp), particularly to demonstrate the fraudulent claims leveled against cows as major polluters.

Horses and cows impact the ecosystem differently, but the lies of climate alarmists about livestock remain the same.

 

Sequestering carbon while creating food with solar power: Jersey cows in Williamstown, Vermont

 

Because they only have one stomach and digest feed differently from cows, horses generally produce less methane gas per animal than cows. There are also far more cows than horses—some 94.5 million bovines, versus about 7.25 million equines. However, the methane produced by cows yields food: horses are a leisure interest. It is intriguing that climate alarmists would target food-producing greenhouse gas emissions as a priority over non-food-producing sources such as golf courses, downhill skiing, jet travel…. or dressage riding.

But even for cows, there are complex differences in methane production depending on feed: grain-fed versus grass-fed cows impact the ecosystem differently. Many who tout industrial agriculture as humanity-saving slander grass-fed cows as destructive, but the opposite is the case.

Grass-fed cows grow more slowly (naturally) than grain-fed cows, so they take about 6 months longer to reach finished weight for slaughter. Critics claim this longer life increases methane, and that grain-fed cows produce less methane than grass-fed. Both claims are true, but employed to obscure the greenhouse gas and pollution emissions emitted by the production of grains. Most grains fed to cows are GMO monocultures (soy and corn), in turn dependent on fossil fuels, glyphosate and other chemical adjuncts, pesticides, herbicides, and bee-killing neonicotinoids. The tractors used to grow grains compact the soil, increasing erosion, water run-off, and loss of minerals. The chemical applications destroy vital microbes, and tilling releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in massive quantities. Suppose these additional measurements were included to determine the total environmental impact of grain-fed animals. In that case, the folly of the industrial claims that bigger is better, and that unnatural grain feeding is less destructive to the environment than grass-fed, become glaringly apparent.

The same is true of solar panels and EVs. By excluding the externalized chemical and other pollution created by manufacturing solar panels (mostly with coal, in Chinese factories) and EVs (consider the lithium mines alone!), climate alarmists push technologies that do the opposite of what is claimed. Even if solar panels are net-zero for greenhouse gasses (a highly dubious assertion), they are not net-zero for carcinogens, or a myriad of toxic heavy metals, untested chemicals, and energy inputs spewed like an enormous plume of filth from those faraway factories. Climate alarmists display images of forests burned in the Amazon to grow crops, but poo-poo pictures of lithium mines, with lakes of toxic tailings leaking across third-world landscapes.

 

The author’s lambs feeding the soil and clearing weeds in Brookfield, Vermont

 

A critical thinker might also query how much concern humanity should hold for dogs and cats, which pass gas freely and now consume some 25% of all U.S. meat production (increasingly, of finer cuts for the gourmet market). Maligning millions of adored pets might be a problematic political pill to peddle, so the hapless, harmless cows—who have fed and clothed humans for tens of thousands of years—become the scapegoats. Pet rocks should be a Greta Thunberg favorite, yet no peep is uttered against canine/feline greenhouse gas pollution.

The attacks on cows are revealed as scandalously false when further comparisons are made. Consider the environmental impact of cow manure versus cow burps; and then the contrasts between that natural fertilizer and the synthetic industrial fertilizers that presumably will be applied to crops in lieu.

Gas v. Solid; Burps Versus Cowpies

When Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) created a stir by flapping her flatulent lips against cow gasses, the ignorance displayed was profound. For one thing, most bovine emissions (about 95%) are burped up: fermentation occurs in the rumen. For another, AOC falsely labeled a gas as a pollutant, ignoring the solid waste that is (100%) emitted from the cow’s derriere. That manure is what humanity has used for eons to improve soil fertility and crop yields, and prevent desertification. (Indeed, human excrement has a long tradition of agricultural reincarnation.)

Manure v. Synthetic Urea; Tracing Methane

Cows on pasture distribute their manure, fertilizing the land sans tractors or chemical factories. As cows have been consolidated into CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations) their manure has been collected in lagoons, where it is then mechanically spread using fossil fuels and industrial equipment, inflicting yet more soil compaction and chemical pollution. Natural, soil-building manures have been largely displaced by synthetic fertilizers, of which urea is key.

Industrial urea is produced using natural gas, aka methane. AOC and the other cow-clueless leaders on environmental policy are advocating to eliminate cows because they emit methane gas, and then replace their manure with industrial applications that destroy soil life and pollute waterways, that are manufactured from methane gas, and distributed using fossil fuels instead of solar-powered (i.e., on grass) cows.

How are the cows proposed to be replaced, in the name of providing an environmental offset against humans who pollute with fireworks, lawnmowers, and jet travel (or horse-riding) without procuring an iota of food? Their milk is to be replaced with soy, almond, cashew, or oat milk, which absorb massive and unsustainable amounts of water: most are “farmed” using chemical applications and fossil fuels. Cows’ meat is to be replaced with synthetic (primarily soy) artificial Frankensteinian concoctions, all dependent once again on industrial chemicals, fossil fuels, and sparkling new high-tech factories protected by regulations and patent ownership, and funded by profit-hungry hedge funds. What could possibly be awry?

 

A cluster of Angus cows maintains this fabulous view in Chelsea, Vermont, little black specks near the top center of the hillside.

 

Grass-fed agricultural practices are healthier for farm animals, allowing them to roam rather than be locked in a concrete jungle. They are also much healthier for the humans who eat them, and the environment. Cows are our climate allies, not adversaries, yet cow attacks continue, employing lies that favor industrial, chemical-dependent monocultures and increasing dependency on patented, processed foodstuffs.

Whether it is cow plops or horse dung, manure is an asset for the land that far exceeds any putative harm attributed to methane from gaseous emissions from either end of that innocent cow. Cow critics might see this, if they briefly dismounted from their high horses.

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer.

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Governor Chris Sununu is criticizing President Trump for not showing up at the first Republican Primary Debate last night. That’s a strange thing to say, considering he has refused Republican primary debates in his last two gubernatorial elections.

I can’t recall any debates with Sununu, in fact, since he got elected to the post. You’d think he would remember that but No Show Sununu felt good about saying this on national television.

 

“I honestly think he’s gonna regret it, I really do. You can’t say I’m going to lead the free world and not be willing to get up and talk to those who are going to challenge you and want the job. You can’t really do that. It’s not fair to the system. It’s not doing respect to the voters and your base,” Sununu said.

 

I guess the same concepts don’t apply to the Granite State, where you can say you’re going to lead and not be willing to get up and talk to those who are going to challenge you for the job.

Did I get that right?

Trump (naturally) had some thoughts for His Excellency, but sadly, they did not include Sununu’s absence from debates in successive governor’s races.

 

 

 

 

And for the record, Sununu knows exactly why he didn’t debate, and it’s the same reason Trump skipped it. There is no political advantage to it. You’re way ahead in the polls, and not being there is less of a risk to the campaign.

And as it turns out, the RINO patrol took most of their vehemence out on Vivek Ramaswamy, whom I read returned every volley. Will the first post-debate polls show his rise thanks to all the attention he got?

They may, but the better question is this. Does Trump gain or lose some advantage among Republican primary voters as a result?

 

HT | Washington Examiner

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Most Democrats, except for the Radical Squad members, have worked very hard to distance themselves from the Defund the Police movement that started back in 2017. In those early days, it was fashionable to call for not only defunding the Police but dismantling the Police forces in America.

According to the brilliant minds of Sandy Cortez, Tlaib, and Omar, our Police forces were racist, and their very existence prevented justice. Police forces were evil, targeted anyone of color, and only protected the white elite. They needed to be dismantled along with cash bail and indictments. With the help of large sums of cash from George Soros and now his son, any District Attorney who believed in the rule of law and incarceration was targeted to be replaced by Liberal thinking DAs who did not believe in indictments, incarceration, recidivism, or accountability in any form. The Democrat efforts have taken hold in many Blue cities like New York, Baltimore, Chicago, and Los Angeles, resulting in the demise of big cities in America. People and businesses are leaving these iconic cities in droves, and the city budgets will not replace the tax dollars heading out of town.

Austin, Texas, is not a big city on par with Los Angeles or Detroit, but they are feeling the effects of the Defund movement, and they are feeling the pain. Austin is a Liberal city in a still Red state. The town government got caught up in the Progressive vortex in 2017 and pulled the plug on the Police budget. Beginning in 2018, Austin has lost more officers through retirement or cutbacks than recruited, resulting in 800 fewer officers today than in 2017.

Obviously, this shortage of Police in the city has resulted in tremendous gains in crime and a drop in service levels. It is not uncommon for a one-hour wait for a response to a 911 call, and that is if the call is even answered. A shortage of 911 call operators also leaves many businesses and people in Austin feeling vulnerable. As has happened in the bigger cities throughout the country, more traffic is leaving Austin before entering the city.

One of the hidden problems with these Police forces going through restructuring is the loss of experienced officers. A retiring officer has far more knowledge and experience on the job than a recruit. This drop in the quality of the Police force only exacerbates the decline in numbers.

Add this shortage of Police to the bad decisions of city management, and you have a perfect storm for an increase in crime and violence. Chicago has negotiated a program with the gangs in the city to call for a moratorium on gang activity from 9 AM-9 PM daily. I cannot believe I typed that sentence, but it is true. Mayor Brandon Johnson is bargaining with gangs to give the people of Chicago a twelve-hour break from violence and killing daily. And we thought Lori Lightfoot was a whack-job. The people of Chicago have gotten what they deserve by going as far Left with their vote as possible.

Like 2024 is critical for the future of America with our choice of President, these major cities better get their act together, or anarchy will be the rule of law going forward. These big cities were once our prized jewels. Those jewels have been replaced with compost piles, and you can point to your favorite Progressive if you need to pin the blame.

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For the last 29 years, Father Gordon MacRae has been denied justice, relegated to Concord men’s prison in New Hampshire. Despite an ex-FBI agent’s 3-year investigation, a Pulitzer prize-winning Wall Street Journalist’s expose, and even a current investigation into the police officer who framed him, nothing has moved the needle.

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Finally, in 2023 the pieces of the puzzle have come together to explain why this might be: The New Hampshire Department for Children, Youth & Families (DCYF), New Hampshire Police, local attorneys, the “compliance officer” in the Diocese of Manchester and the Attorney General’s office have been involved in a racket. For Father Gordon MacRae to get justice, they would all risk being exposed in an organized crime to frame him in order to extort the insurance for the Diocese and trigger an expansion of business that spreads to the Catholic Medical Center, schools, nursing homes, daycare centers, clinics, addiction recovery centers, banks, insurance companies, and media.

An enterprise that is worth billions and stretches far beyond the borders of New Hampshire across the US and internationally.

While Father Gordon MacRae has been incarcerated, New Hampshire has covered up horrific child sex abuse by its very own employees at the State’s Youth Detention Center.

The NH DCYF has failed multiple audits by the US Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (DHHS OIG).

It has downplayed Medicaid fraud. Opioids and fentanyl overdoses have skyrocketed.

Children have died, children have disappeared, drugs have been trafficked, arms have been trafficked, money has been laundered, billions have been made, and a monopoly without accountability has blossomed. That monopoly is tied to the interests of the US Government and its three letter agencies.

Framing Father Gordon MacRae to get inside the Diocese of Manchester looks like it was a strategic plan that has had catastrophic consequences not just for MacRae but for anyone who has become a tool for, or victim of, the Government infiltration of Catholic organizations.

1994, the year that Father Gordon MacRae was prosecuted and convicted, is the year that the Clinton Crime Bill (authored by Joe Biden) was enacted. It is also the year that the Violence Against Women Act was passed, enabling $9 billion in grants from the Department of Justice to police, prosecutors, and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs). Creating crimes that didn’t exist (while hiding those of state employees or friends of law enforcement and the courts) in order to access the grants has undermined the integrity of the state’s justice system.

“Justice for the Victim” has been a rallying cry in New Hampshire which has deliberately and consistently failed to ascertain the validity of claims of domestic & sexual assault, pre-determined who the victims and predators are without doing anything that could remotely be called due process.

Lots of people are denied justice each year, and decades later, a few of them go free after prosecutorial, police misconduct, or other flaws in the original investigations and trial are revealed.

Some years ago in Pennsylvania, a “Kids for Cash” scheme was unraveled. It involved police, prosecutors, judges, and private attorneys.

In California, a local journalist came across a series of gatherings in which judges, prosecutors, private attorneys, and the media conspired to rig cases in civil, family, and criminal courts.

What has transpired in New Hampshire bears all the same markings as these. A few breadcrumbs here and there have provided clues to an epic scandal that has been carefully hidden from the public for decades – in large part due to a small “club” who are vested in the profits from it. That club comprises law enforcement, non-profits, local councils, DAs, elected representatives, justices, other members of the NH Bar, and certain media outlets. They figured out that by controlling the news, they could control the narrative. And by controlling the narrative they could leverage the outcomes of criminal trials and civil suits.

Father Gordon MacRae is a victim of this corruption which even includes local “investigative” reporters who have no critical thinking skills but are determined to reinforce the court corruption in their coverage – presumably due to the sponsorship of their outlets.

In 1995, a prosecutor in New Hampshire failed to let the defense know that a police officer who arrested the man on trial for murder had a dishonest track record. The state dropped the case. The defendant’s name was “Laurie.”

The 1963 US Supreme Court case Brady v Maryland requires the prosecution to provide any and all exculpatory evidence to the defense in a timely manner before trial. Somehow New Hampshire ignored the rule, and for decades judges and prosecutors have been ok with that. Most likely because there isn’t really a division between police, prosecutors, judges, and media in New Hampshire. So a lie that works for one finds its way up the ladder to work for all.

Elected DAs who have challenged the ethics of this have been voted out from office (Robin Davis, DA of Merrimack County) or have been undermined by the AG taking over prosecutions (Michael Conley, DA of Hillsborough County). It is easier in New Hampshire to promulgate a lie than it is to defend the truth because there’s a waterfall of money to be made in the lie – federal grants, civil settlements, contracts, promotions, and rewards.

In June 2018, the police detective who investigated Father Gordon MacRae in the late 1980s had his name added to the list of corrupt police officers – the “Laurie” list – also known as the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule. James F McLaughlin, New Hampshire’s top child sex crimes detective, was brought out of retirement in 2017 to work on a Grand Jury Criminal Investigation into St Paul’s School following the framing of scholarship student Owen Labrie by Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin. Attorney General Gordon MacDonald brought him onto the investigation to supervise Detective Julie Curtin and Lieutenant Sean Ford.

The report into the school and alleged cover-ups of sex abuse from 2009 to 2017 was completed in August 2018, and a settlement agreement was reached with the school in September 2018 requiring a “compliance officer” and a contract with victims advocacy organization the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (NHCADSV).

The agreement mirrored one that had been entered into in 2002 after James F McLaughlin’s investigation into Father Gordon MacRae triggered the circumstances for a Grand Jury criminal investigation, a “compliance officer,” and settlement with the Diocese of Manchester.

The NHCADSV had brought on board Brian Harlow of SNAP in 2012. He had been one of the original “victims” to come forward for the Diocese of Manchester investigation in 2002. NHCADSV wanted him to help them expand their business, and they had a contract with the Department of Defense as well as with the University of New Hampshire which had a strategic agreement with the White House 2014 “Not Alone” task force to combat sexual assault on campuses. The Chair of the University System in New Hampshire is Alex Walker. He just so happens to be the CEO of the Catholic Medical Center and the Diocese of Manchester as well.

Alex has been actively involved in the community for many years. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the University System of New Hampshire and on the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts. In 2019 and 2020, he co-chaired the Bishop’s Charitable Assistance Fund with his wife, Lisa. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Palace Theatre and past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Granite United Way. He has also served on the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Board of Governors, the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission, the Board of Directors of City Year—New Hampshire, the Board of Directors for the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire, and Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors where he served as Chairman of the Board in 2011.

Alex Walker provided counsel to the Diocese alongside Nixon Peabody, which was formed in 1999 in Boston and Manchester. Gordon MacDonald, an attorney at Nixon Peabody, became Attorney General and is the current New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice. Before he took office as AG, he successfully managed to block an audit of his client Purdue Pharma.

New Hampshire’s opioid crisis has been one of the worst in the country. Catholic Medical Center was fined $3.8 million recently for a kickback scheme. The Boston Globe has exposed cover-ups of medical malpractice by CMC’s administrators, headed by Alex Walker. Curiously however, the Boston Globe Spotlight team, which covered the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal, is only interested in exposing a portion of the story that benefits ambulance-chasing civil attorneys and is guilty of removing comments under articles that smack of the newspaper’s own compromised position, preventing its journalists from seeking the real truth as opposed to the monied subjective “his/her/their truth.”

With the addition of James F McLaughlin to the Laurie list, AG Gordon MacDonald was suddenly compromised. He’d hired James F McLaughlin because of his history with the Diocese, and now he had to hide the fact that he knew he was dishonest in the middle of the investigation into St Paul’s School, which he had ordered. Instead of coming clean, Gordon MacDonald kept McLaughlin’s dishonesty secret because he was part of the club that had profiteered from James F McLaughlin’s misconduct. His success as an attorney is deeply tied to his representation of the Diocese of Manchester.

The “compliance officer” in the Diocese was Father Edward Arsenault, who became a Monsignor before being defrocked by the Pope after he pled guilty to defrauding the diocese, a dead priest’s estate, and the Catholic Medical Center in 2014. Among the expenses Edward Arsenault had clocked up using church funds were the purchase of cell phones, computer equipment, trips to Boston, meals out, and work with journalists as well as travel expenditures on his teenage lover.

Recent articles in the last few weeks have revealed that the FBI had planned to infiltrate and undermine the Catholic Church. Christopher Wray, head of the FBI, has tried to toss this off. But the case of Father Gordon MacRae and those of the police officer, James F McLaughlin, and Monsignor Edward Arsenault should force a wider inquiry into the Government’s involvement in Catholic Institutions going back to the 1980s when Sylvia Gale made up the rumor about MacRae and shared it with McLaughlin.

I have long suspected that Edward Arsenault was never really a priest but actually an FBI operative who got inside the Diocese of Manchester to increase the business of Catholic Risk Management and Catholic Charities in such a way that they would become intertwined with Maximus Inc – a for-profit enterprise acting on behalf of the Government for the People. His background is in accounting, and he also seems to be heavily involved in big pharma-adjacent enterprises: health/mental health non-profits.

Around the same time (1975) that the Senate “Church Committee” Inquiry revealed the CIA’s work with 186 educational institutions and non-profits for MK Ultra experiments, Maximus Inc was founded by a Vietnam vet involved with DARPA: David Mastran. Since then, Maximus has grown to become an enormous outsourcing company for the Governments of the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. Its tentacles have reached into pretty much any Government program you can think of, from the IRS to Medicaid, from Student loans & to Title IV funds, from Department of Defense contracts to Covid vaccination tracking. To all intents and purposes, Maximus has taken over where the CIA and FBI left off when their clandestine and abhorrent human experiments got exposed by the Church Committee. It would be hard to imagine that the CIA just stopped its experiments in its tracks with so many organizations involved.

In the 1980s in Keene, New Hampshire, Sylvia Gale, an employee with Catholic Children’s Services & DCYF, created a rumor about Father Gordon MacRae. She told Keene Police Detective James F McLaughlin that Macrae had been involved in a crime involving sex abuse and murder in Florida. Sylvia Gale cited that the source of the fake Florida murder molestation that became McLaughlin’s “probable cause” was Msgr. John Quinn who was at the time Director of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Manchester.

The crime didn’t exist, and Father Gordon MacRae had not been in Florida. James F McLaughlin was known in 1985 for dishonesty, but for some reason, it took until June 2018 for his name to appear on a State list kept by the AG and until December 2021 for his name to appear publicly on the “Laurie List” for a few hours before it was removed. Whether Sylvia Gale knew of McLaughlin’s dishonesty when she spread this rumor will forever be an unanswered question, but since there were rewards being bandied about by McLaughlin, I believe she probably did know, and that money was involved as a reward to her as a “witness” for creating the rumor.

In the time frame from 1985 -2018, James F McLaughlin rose to be New Hampshire’s most revered child & internet sex crimes investigator who instructed others in his tactics which included making false statements, procuring and coercion of “victims,” deleting exculpatory evidence, working with media to shape the message, federal entrapment (sending unsolicited images of minors), working with civil attorneys and non-profits/victims rights advocates in kick-back schemes. He was given a lifetime achievement award in 2016. At the same ceremony, Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin was given an award for her work in investigating St. Paul’s school, singling out and framing Owen Labrie, and working with domestic and international agencies to censor social media for the “victim” who had been recruited in June 2014 for the latest sick experiment. She was carrying the McLaughlin torch forward while he was supposed to retire.

James F McLaughlin’s crooked enterprise yielded millions in grants, increases in police budgets, non-profit budgets, and grants for the DCYF, UNH, and other affiliated agencies. What did it matter if a few people had to be framed when so much money could be extorted, and former federal prosecutors working at Nixon Peabody are on the side? The law firm’s business grew, turning it into a giant in representation for the healthcare industry. Particularly that tied to Catholic healthcare institutions and the opioid industry. Nixon Peabody represented Purdue Pharma when it was sued by New Hampshire. Creating sex offenders, extorting Catholic establishments, creating drug addicts, and claiming Medicaid for medical treatments and facilities has been a sustainable business in New Hampshire for over two decades.

James F McLaughlin’s enterprise is reminiscent of that of Tom Coleman, aka “T.J. Dawson,” the Police Officer in Tulia, Arizona, who built a business, with accolades along the way, framing members of the black community for drug offenses they didn’t commit. Drugs would be planted on unsuspecting targets. Instead of drugs, for James F McLaughlin, it was sex crimes. He would fabricate whatever story he could pull off to get plea deals and convictions. In New Hampshire, it was easy because the statutes for sex crimes require no corroborating witnesses or evidence. Add qualified immunity for police officers to that and sovereign immunity for prosecutors, judges, and non-profits tied to the courts such as CASA, NHCADSV, or agencies such as DCYF, and they had the perfect racket: collect the federal grants; fabricate the crimes; hide the exculpatory evidence; train the witnesses; use media to garner public outrage to leverage civil settlements with attorneys at the ready to profiteer and non-profits to train victims & write impact statements. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Gordon MacDonald, now New Hampshire’s Supreme Court Chief Justice, has a lot to thank James McLaughlin for. He joined Nixon Peabody to represent the Diocese of Manchester in the early 2000s. Together with his partner David Vicinanzo (a former federal prosecutor for Massachusetts who’d spent time working in the NH AGs office), they settled dozens, if not hundreds, of claims against the Diocese of Manchester. Monsignor Edward Arsenault was the appointed compliance officer – nominally. Actually, he was in charge of the financial affairs of the Diocese and increasing its reach. He had a business to run, a business to grow.

Meanwhile, James F McLaughlin’s father had been a member of the City of Concord Council for 25 years. The Council approves the budget for police investigations, including the payments of witnesses for Grand Juries. Although Concord only has 43,000 residents, it is the capital of New Hampshire and is home to the 2nd largest Statehouse in the US after DC and the 4th largest in the world. There are 400 elected representatives. It’s an important first stop for any presidential candidate, making it a magnate for dark money and a perfect place for three-letter agencies involved in clandestine operations to experiment.

Concord Police are not accredited. The current police chief, Bradley Osgood, stated that his department didn’t have the time or the resources to get accredited. The cost is under $20,000. Bradley Osgood was trained in Virginia by the FBI. His predecessor, Timothy O’Malley, left the job to join Vanguard Securities in the fraud department. Dartmouth College and other institutions have accounts with Vanguard Securities. These institutions also have accounts tied to the “Pandora Papers,” as does Maximus.

In 1996 Maximus went public. It was the same year that Father Gordon MacRae was denied his appeals. Bill Clinton was in office. He and Hillary were friends with Jeanne & Bill Shaheen. AG Phil McLaughlin, who ordered the investigation into the Diocese in 2002, had been appointed by Governor Jeanne Shaheen, who achieved her position with the help of the Clintons.

John Sununu, the father of current Governor Chris Sununu, was close to George Bush senior and worked in his administration. The State opened a “Youth Development Center” named after him. Youths in the detention center were subjected to sexual, physical, and mental abuse. The state has hidden millions of documents pertaining to this abuse. Maximus and DCYF are front and center of this, but local news organizations have not scrutinized this relationship or that of Catholic charities and New Hampshire’s police department.

In 1999, Nixon Peabody formed in Boston and Manchester, New Hampshire, bringing together a law firm comprising 450 attorneys across New England. The Diocese was their client, and Maximus was a generous donor to Catholic Charities and started to get contracts with Catholic institutions. But Maximus was a for-profit wing of the federal government that was now weedling its way into the vast array of businesses that fall under Catholic charities.

Edward Arsenault headed up the Catholic insurance wing for these: Catholic Risk Retention Management. David Vicinanzo had been a federal prosecutor who joined Nixon Peabody. Vicinanzo & Nixon Peabody were thus connected to the FBI, and so, by association at least, was Edward Arsenault and the Diocese of Manchester, Catholic charities & their insurance.

The Diocese refers children to the Children’s Trust Fund nowadays for claims of child sex abuse by priests. Children’s Trust Fund shares the same address as Maximus and Virtus LLC, founded in 1999 by Edward Arsenault. Virtus is owned by Catholic Risk Retention Management Group. Also located at 10 Ferry Street is Policy Studies Inc, which Kathleen Kerr (on the board of Maximus) joined after she received a letter from US DHHS regarding the failures of NH DCYF in 1999. She was legal counsel for DCYF and was there for 12 years before she segued into Policy Studies Inc and Maximus, which bought it after it was taken over by Veritas. She would have been working with DCYF when the MacRae case took place involving members of the DCYF and their families.

Coincidentally, Sylvia Gale, who created the rumor about Father Gordon MacRae back in the 1980s, successfully appealed a complaint against her for conflicts of interests that arose between her work for the Nashua DCYF and other non-profits. Sylvia Gale died in 2020 and left behind a legacy for her work in children’s advocacy, judging by the reports on New Hampshire’s Youth Detention Center, Foster Care System, failures of the DCYF, and drugging of children in care. I’m not sure that’s a legacy to be proud of. It was her colleague Patrica Grover (who’d adopted eight children) whose son Thomas Grover became a drug addict before he was convinced by James F McLaughlin that he could make some money if he agreed to be a witness/victim of Father Gordon MacRae. The Diocese coughed up $200,000. Years later, he admitted he was bribed.

A therapist sat at the back of the courtroom, motioning for him to cry during his testimony against the priest.

The Catholic links of Maximus go all the way to the Vatican. Edward Arsenault appears to be the conduit between the Diocese, the FBI, and the Vatican.

When he went to jail in 2014, Assistant Attorney General Jane Young shook his hand. She even allowed him to continue consulting from behind bars. He was sentenced to prison, but he never made it there because he was released on home confinement. Ultimately he had the remainder of his sentence vacated, and his restitution paid off in full. And he appeared with a new name: Edward Bolognini. This time, he claimed he was married – to Francesco Bolognini-Arsenault. They own a Sicilian ceramics import shop together, a luxury condo, and he works for ReServe non-profit, which received a $10 million contract from New York during the pandemic. His current boss doesn’t seem remotely bothered that he had defrauded another non-profit before joining ReServe. Is he just the FBI infiltrating/controlling another business related to the Government? Does his sales pitch include promises to increase profits and provide access to Catholic charity databases in return for immunity for his own crimes?

In September 2018, Laura L Dunn, an advisor to the White House “Not Alone” task force, which was partnered with the University of New Hampshire and the NHCADSV, tweeted congratulations on the settlement agreement reached by AG Gordon MacDonald (David Vicinanzo’s ex-partner from Nixon Peabody) with St Paul’s School following the grand jury criminal investigation. She’d actually been introduced to the trial of NH v Owen Labrie by James F McLaughlin’s protegé, Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin, sometime between June 2014 and March 2015, five months before the high-profile high school sexual assault trial. Laura Dunn had lied about her own case on NHPR in 2010, but the White House, Vice President Joe Biden, the DoJ, and DoE didn’t mind. She was a useful tool. She helped plant the Rolling Stone UVA “A Rape on Campus” fake story by Sabrina Erdeley, who’d previously written a story about a Catholic priest’s sex abuse – which also turned out to be untrue.

The settlement agreement was identical to the one arranged for the Diocese of Manchester in 2002. David Vicinanzo commended the Judge on keeping it private. His client, the NHCADSV, got a contract out of it, and the AG got to install a “compliance” officer (ex-police officer) at the school’s expense. News surrounding this arrangement was lauded by the NHCADSV and others. Allowing the Government to get inside a private Episcopal School was praiseworthy and novel. It would set an example for other private schools around the nation.

The compliance officer implemented a behavior reporting software called maxient.com which has been criticized by many as being something the Stasi would have approved of. AG Gordon MacDonald knew that James F McLaughlin was on the dishonest police officer list when he was carrying out the grand jury criminal investigation into the school, but he never revealed that knowledge to the public. Instead, he released the settlement agreement just hours after Owen Labrie’s first supreme court appeal was argued and later denied. In September 2019 – the same month Judge Richard McNamara ruled that St Paul’s report should remain private, the NHCADSV published a report which asserted that Gordon MacDonald wanted to increase the number of prosecutions for sexual assault.

Gordon MacDonald also knew about a thriving false accusations industry for lawyers in New Hampshire because, according to Father Gordon MacRae, he’d asked the priest to confess to the sexual assault of males he’d never heard of nor met just so Nixon Peabody could reach a quick settlement.

In November 2019, I ran into S. Daniel Carter, who had been a partner with Laura L Dunn in her non-profit SurvJustice tied to the White House “Not Alone” task force. He admitted to me that the real interest in NH v Owen Labrie was in St Paul’s School as opposed to the framed scholarship student himself. The real interest was in the Diocese of Manchester, not Father Gordon MacRae. Both cases were about power, money, control, and politics.

On reflection, with the news regarding the FBI’s memo about its plans within the Catholic Church, I believe the real goal behind NH v Gordon MacRae and NH v Owen Labrie was a Government goal to get inside the Catholic and Episcopal Institutions. To undermine their religious principles and force them to be subjected to corrupt and greedy Government operatives hiding behind NGOs or Maximus for-profit enterprises. The police didn’t bother going after the State employees at the Youth Detention Center. They didn’t bother going after sex abusers in local public schools. There was no money in those, and they were already under Government control, whereas the private institutions weren’t. But Government-tied extortionists wanted a piece of those pies.

The FBI in Bedford, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts, seem none too bothered by the extortion rackets of these institutions. Why would they be? Their members might even be complicit in them. Robert Mueller was head of the FBI in 2014 when St Paul’s School was targeted, and Owen Labrie framed. He’d expanded the definition of rape in 2011. He also happened to be an alum of St Paul’s School in the same class as Senator John Kerry.

Neither the Diocese of Manchester nor St Paul’s School seem to have benefitted from the fake “independent” compliance officers who are actually spies. Donald Sullivan, the current compliance officer at St Paul’s School, wrote in a recent report that the information from maxient.com on student conduct is now entering the ‘analysis phase.” The information is shared with RAINN, which has a contract with the Department of Defense, as does the NHCADSV. It is also shared with the AG’s office. Data on kids in a private religious school. Not exactly what anybody might be interested in except the FBI, the DoD, and the DOJ?

Virtus LLC, started by Edward Arsenault, is used in every Catholic institution for “Protecting God’s Children,” and yet priests undergoing the training program are instructed not to report the use of pornography by other priests. Are the Government’s MK Ultra programs still alive and thriving behind Maximus, Virtus, maxient.com, and “compliance” officer police state spies?

Thomas Grover was offered financial rewards to accuse Father Gordon MacRae. He was a drug addict, and he was the son of a DCYF employee.

Chessy Prout was offered financial rewards to accuse Owen Labrie. She’d taken “health” leave for downing nail polish remover in an attempt to self-harm.

Like Thomas Grover, she was coached in the courtroom. Useful and malleable tools to frame disposable assets to get at the money and control of Catholic & Episcopal institutions.

 

DCYF: https://www.dhhs.nh.gov/division-children-youth-and-families

Joe Biden & the Crime Bill: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration

Violence Against Women Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act

VAWA $9 billion in grants: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-strike-bipartisan-deal-domestic-violence-bill-rcna15681#:~:text=The%20original%20bill%20created%20the%20Office%20on%20Violence,and%20legal%20assistance%20to%20victims%2C%20among%20other%20programs.

Kids For Cash Scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

California Bench, Bar, Media Scandal: https://www.davisvanguard.org/2023/01/tainted-trials-tarnished-headlines-and-stolen-justice/

Article mentioning the “club” in New Hampshire’s Bar/judiciary from 1999: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/03/15/a-splitting-headache/671f88ec-cce0-4ed0-b622-653d34ef9eeb/

Controlling the Narrative: “Pretrial Publicity Friend or Foe: Advice from the Experts Amanda Grady Sexton (NHCADSV, City of Concord Council member) & Steve Kelly Esq – lead attorney in multiple Does v St. Paul’s School suits & Rappuano & Does v Dartmouth which yielded $14 million of which the NHCADSV was a financial beneficiary to the tune of $2.865 million)
https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/25195-ncvli-newsletter—pretrial-publicityfriend-and

Laurie List – https://indepthnh.org/category/dishonest-police/

Brady v Maryland/Brady Rule: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/brady_rule

Robin Davis: https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/hostile-work-lawsuit-against-former-county-attorney-settled

Michael Conley: https://indepthnh.org/2020/06/08/ag-ends-supervision-of-hillsborough-county-attorneys-prosecutions/

James McLaughlin caught in lies

Records Show Keene Police’s Famed Ex-Detective Caught in Lies

Diocese of Manchester & St Paul’s School Agreement mirror each other:
https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/blog/gordon-macrae/grand-jury-st-pauls-school-the-diocese-of-manchester#:~:text=Judge%20McNamara%20explained%20that%20he%20is%20blocking%20publication,%E2%80%9Call%20sorts%20of%20false%2C%20damaging%20and%20one-sided%20information.%E2%80%9D

White House strategic partnership with UNH for “Not Alone” task force
https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2014/05/unh-tapped-help-white-house-task-force-end-campus-sexual-assault

Alex Walker tapped as Chair of New Hampshire University System

Alex Walker tapped as University System of NH board chair, new trustees named

Gordon MacDonald defended Purdue Pharma
https://www.concordmonitor.com/sununu-attorney-general-pick-represented-purdue-pharma-in-opioids-case-8844904

$3.8 million CMC Kick-back scheme fine
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/doj-announces-38-million-settlement-to-resolve-allegations-false-claims-act-and-anti

Boston Globe exposes CMC cover ups for medical malpractice
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/22/metro/nh-licensing-agency-launches-investigation-into-former-administrators-catholic-medical-center/

FBI targeted Catholic Church & Christopher Wray lied about it
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2023/08/14/fbi_targeted_catholics_-_and_wray_lied_about_it_605309.html

Maximus Inc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximus_Inc.

Edward Arsenault – defrocked former priest
https://nypost.com/2023/03/11/defrocked-ex-con-priest-who-stole-300k-heads-nyc-nonprofits-with-city-contracts/

Senate Church Committee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee

MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra

James F McLaughlin

POLICE MISCONDUCT IS WRONG WHEN THE VICTIM IS WHITE BUT IT IS IGNORED WHEN THE VICTIM IS A CATHOLIC PRIEST

Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin receives award
https://www.facebook.com/nhpfef/posts/1751985978364921:0

Tulia Drug Bust Revisited

The Tulia Drug Bust revisited

https://www.myplainview.com/news/article/5-million-settlement-reached-in-Tulia-lawsuit-8757623.php

Diocese of Manchester pays for dozens of claims
https://beyondthesestonewalls.com/blog/gordon-macrae/in-the-diocese-of-manchester-transparency-and-a-hit-list

Dark Money in NH Politics
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/09/dems-in-new-hampshire-supported-by-the-secret-money-they-rail-against-nationally/

AG Phil McLaughlin, mentor to Jeanne Shaheen
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2017/07_08/2015_04_28_Sun_PHIL_MCLAUGHLIN.htm

YDC Abuse Lawsuits survive State’s attempt to dismiss
https://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/local-news/2023/08/17/ydc-abuse-lawsuits-survive-states-attempt-to-dismiss/

Attorney who represented church abuse victims (Chuck Douglas) defends State’s YDC settlement plan

Attorney who represented church abuse victims defends state’s YDC settlement plan

10 Ferry Street

More Information for you on Child Trafficking In New Hampshire

1999 US DHHS OIG complaint sent to Kathleen Kerr at NH DCYF
https://www.oig.hhs.gov/oas/reports/region1/19802503.pdf

Maximus links to the Catholic Church
https://emmakatherine.substack.com/p/s2e39-jack-pendergrass-maximus-incs-070#details

Laura L Dunn

Laura Dunn Is an Evil Liar

NH v Owen Labrie
https://empowerinnocent.wixsite.com/website/post/the-scandal-of-owen-labrie-and-the-metoo-movement

maxient.com Stasi like
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/feb/20/as-colleges-become-more-stasi-like-students-live-i/

Virtus LLC

UPDATE: VIRTUS® same-sex porn encouragement? That would be right.

David Vicinanzo: WASHINGTON (June 5) — Attorney General Janet Reno announced Friday career federal prosecutor David Vicinanzo of New Hampshire will head the Justice Department’s campaign finance task force.
https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/06/05/finance.taskforce/
https://www.nixonpeabody.com/people/vicinanzo-david-a

 

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Oliver Anthoy’s online viral success must be driving the progressive elites out of their collective mind. Some hick ginger singing about rich men and sh!t wages and how the system doesn’t give a damn about what it’s doing to regular folks. They thought that was their message.

But the last decade, give or take, has seen a paradigm shift. Republicans once thought to be the party of the rich (and still are if you ask your average woke white privileged, latte-drinking, Ivy League liberal), have become the working-class party. It’s awkward, like puberty, but Donald Trump set a flag in the ground when he took trade by the throat and shook it until he’d managed better deals with a few of our “partners.” Made some recalcitrant allies pay their fair share. He kept us out of any new wars the working-class folks pay for with more than just their hard-earned dollars and brokered peace deals instead.

The result was a surge in optimism, jobs, and rising wages across the board. Kids, minorities, women, and even the evil white guys caught a break.

The Democrats dismantled that with their all-in support for COVID fearmongering because politics and power are more important than people, and Donald Trump threatened their machinations. The fallout of Biden’s ascension and the renewed top-down meddling continues to rob everyday Americans of their quality of life, and Oliver Anthony seems to have tapped the vein. Rich Men North of Richmond rocked the internet and the music world (it’s closing in on 40 million views), but Anthony continues to cling to his simple life, at least for now. And maybe that’s for the best. He appears poised to be the voice of a generation, and his most recent release, Brink of War, won’t hurt that ascension one bit.

 

Well, if it won’t for my old dogs and the good Lord
They’d have me strung up in the psych ward
‘Cause every day livin’ in this new world
Is one too many days to meSon, we’re on the brink of the next world war
And I don’t think nobody’s prayin’ no more
And I ain’t sayin I know it for sure
I’m just down on my kneesBeggin’, Lord, take me home
I wanna go home
I don’t know which road to go
It’s been so long
I just know I didn’t used to wake up feelin’ this way
Cussin’ myself every damn day
There’s always some kind of bill to pay
People just doin’ what the rich men say
I wanna go home

Now four generations farmin’ the ground
Grandson sells it to a man out of town
And two weeks later the trees go down
Only got concrete growin’ around

And I wanna go home
I wanna go home
I don’t know which road to go
It’s been so long
I just know I didn’t used to wake up feelin’ this way
Cussin’ myself every damn day
People have really gone and lost their way
They all just do what the TV say
I wanna go home

If it won’t for my old dogs and the good Lord
They’d have me strung up in the psych ward

 

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The President and Dr. Jill interrupted their second vacation this month to travel to Maui to witness the devastation caused by the wildfires two weeks ago. Since the fires, Biden has drawn much criticism for his lack of compassion and interest when asked for comments on the loss of life.

His response of “No Comment” when boarding Marine One on his way to vacation in Delaware drew the ire of many. When he arrived in Maui yesterday, he was met by many lining the streets with “No Comment” signs to echo his words. The residents of Maui were also upset it took two weeks for the President to visit and the lack of Federal response and aid. Biden and his FEMA Secretary claimed every asset available was sent to Maui, but this was rebuked by officials and residents on the island.

Joe made some comments to the media and residents, and this is when he may have gone off script and got himself in trouble with the victims. These people have lost everything, their city reduced to ruins, over 100 confirmed dead, and still hundreds are missing, so the last thing they needed to hear was one of Joe’s fictional stories of personal woe. But that is what he gave them.

Nearly twenty years ago, Biden’s home in Delaware was struck by lightning. A small fire ignited in the kitchen area. Firefighters responded, and the fire was extinguished in twenty minutes with no individuals ever in harm’s way. There have been many Biden iterations of this story over the years, but none come close to the real story.

He attempted to identify with the Maui victims by telling his tragic tale. In his version, the house was nearly burned to the ground, he almost lost his wife to the flames, his cat was nearly killed, and the clincher, his ’67 Corvette, was practically destroyed. But apparently, Joe keeps his beloved Vette in the kitchen along with boxes of Confidential documents!

Even this exaggerated version does not equate to the losses incurred by the residents of Lahaina. Many of these people still await word on missing loved ones, and hearing Joe’s cat was in danger was not comforting. Nor were the comments that he wished he had worn boots as the heat from the charred turf was burning through his shoes.

Joe and Jill are now back at Lake Tahoe to resume their vacation. Many in Maui wish the President had given them the same treatment he gave to East Palestine or our Southern Border and stayed away. Their fear is this was a photo-op for the President and not a serious mission to see the damage and commit federal aid to get these people’s lives back in order. They cannot replace the lost property and are still wondering about the extent of lost lives, but they know the $700 per household promised by the President better not be his best effort at aid. That is not aid but an insult.

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As you ponder why they expect you to get “vaccines” for fast-mutating COVID variants that will make them as equally ineffective as previous “strains” of vaccine, Karen Covidiot is also raising the specter of mandatory back-to-school masking.

Rutgers has a mask and vax mandate for the fall, and others are certain to follow. They can’t help themselves.

Mask-mandate fever has also struck Hollywood, which has no writers, so I guess they need to pretend at something, and it is a progressive  “virus” that will spread.

 

Lionsgate is requiring employees who physically work at its headquarters in Santa Monica to wear masks at all times when in the building, effective immediately, except when alone in an enclosed office or large open workspace. In addition, employees are required to submit to daily COVID testing and to report the results to the company, according to an internal memo obtained by Deadline.

 

Before we get too far down the rabbit hole, is this a good time to ask Governor Sununu to take a break from trying to narrow the Republican field for President to draft a few Emergency orders? He was fast and loose with the things when they took rights away; this might be a good chance to repair some of that damage. Leave office looking like a Republican instead of some left-wing fear-mongering stooge.

Prohibit mandatory masking statewide.

Sadly, that won’t happen. His Excellency will lean on his very selective local control narrative to avoid controversy, and since you can’t get the AG or a judge in this state to put your constitutional rights above the collective power of COVID mob rule, places like Hanover (Dartmouth), Durham (UNH), Plymouth (Univerity of) and Keene (State College) will line up to follow Rutgers.

A mind of your own is, after all, a terrible thing.

I’m sure there is a plethora of hand-wringing and chin-stroking underway as the fall semester looms. How many masks should they wear?

Hospitals, which control nearly every corner of Health Care in the Granite State, and possibly your state too, will embrace the fear and mandates (if they ever gave them up). Casual office visits from primary care to specialty and even dentistry will require your embrace of pandemic virtue signaling. No mask, no service.

Biden Inc. is printing another billion or two to pay for “free vaccines” that the Public Health Industrial Complex has had to admit are not effective (like masks aren’t either), but money doesn’t launder itself.

On a brighter note, booster uptake had declined precipitously, and if you’ve been out and about, the number of masked outlaws decreased to perhaps less than one percent. You still see the odd elder or dopey young person wearing them in the summer heat, no less, but they are few and far between. The side-effects of policy are still, if not fresh, lingering as less than happy memories. It won’t be as easy as the first time, but admissions by experts of policy and prescriptive failures will be quickly swept under the nearest rug when the time comes.

And you won’t get much help from the machine media. They’ve got very little in the way of actual truth in their archives or an inclination to share it. Most of them were too busy cashing ad checks to do any real reporting, but you’ve got options. We’re still here, and “old Satan Claus, Jimmy, he’s out there.” And he’s just getting stronger. Be prepared.

Election integrity is the thing they want to mask, and they mean to do it.

 

 

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After a lengthy and thorough investigation of the mysterious bag of cocaine found at the White House the Department of Justice has fallen under scrutiny for their lack of success in finding either DNA or fingerprints on the contraband.

The “dime bag” of narcotic substance was found in a “non-working” area of the White House that has been under construction for some time.  After discovering it during a routine sweep of the area the Secret Service immediately inspected the bag for identifying markers.  Initial lab reports came back positive for cocaine hydrochloride, however the plastic bag it was contained in yielded neither finger prints nor any traces of DNA.

“It must have fallen out of the sky” asserted long-time Secret Serviceman Stevie Wondersaloud.  After several hours of investigating the theory it was concluded the roof of the White House as well as the first, second, and third floors along with the basement ceiling in the room where it was found make it physically impossible.

Another of the agents suggested an examination of that day’s five hundred visitors to see if any were named Tony Montana, Michael Irvin or known Pixie’s.  After their new $4.5 billion A.I. robot ran through the illegal database developed by the National Security Agency for spying on Americans yielded no results the world’s finest and most well-funded investigative apparatus was dumbfounded.

A member of the press suggested the cocaine perhaps belonged to one of the residents, son of the current President and long-time cocaine user, Hunter Biden who was living there at the time.

When asked “Has anyone thought maybe Hunter might have left it there?” White House press talker-person Karine Jean-Pierre answered ironically “That is an irresponsible question that I won’t dignify by answering”.  She then defended the first family by pointing out they were away the day it was found and remained on vacation the three days thereafter in order to pad Joe Biden’s lead for most vacation time taken by a sitting president.

Thinking outside of the box of normal ethical practices has become a calling card of the current DOJ, which is why they decided to ask Hunter Biden directly if in fact it was his cocaine.  After snorting some of the sample offered to him by the agents he assured it absolutely was not his cocaine as it was clearly cut with baking soda, not the pure Colombian Bam-Bam he buys, and they should “go see Shady Pete on 17th and Commerce street who is known for pulling that crap.”

Incredulity from the press, politicians and the public mounted as they pointed out the intelligence communities ability to find Osama Bin Laden in the nether regions of Pakistan, can contact trace a virus in a third grader on their way to piano lessons, and use camera footage to find every suspected insurrectionist at the January 6th stolen-election party.  One person who pointed out there are security cameras in every room in the White House was told they were the same ones used by the Manhattan prison where Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself.

In an effort to redouble the department’s investigative efforts the DOJ has announced they will be requiring all personnel to commit to weekly training videos featuring “Where’s Waldo” “Dora the Explorer” and old episodes of “The Pink Panther”.

 

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