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Vol.XVIII • No.XX

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Don’t Saudi Arabia The Gulf of Maine! [Update – Meetings, Press Conference in Response]

Fri, 2024-05-17 15:30 +0000

The NH commission on offshore wind meeting, before the federal BOEM takes over our Gulf of Maine, was inexplicably canceled when its chair, Sen. Watters, got wind, pun intended, that fishermen and concerned citizens would show up to voice their concerns.

As the troops rallied to go to the meeting, the NH government, by way of Sen. David Watters, cut bait and ran!  When asked why, he stated “thousands of NH residents want(ing) green energy supercedes a “few fishermen.”

Except offshore wind is far from green!? He went on, “Just go to the federal meeting on the 29th!” but the federal BOEM meeting does not allow the public to speak for five minutes. It is only a question-and-answer session. Watters must have shellfish allergies to shun a whole group of fishermen and our coast, or he just doesn’t like opposition.

The NH state website for Watters Commission does not mention any meetings “to be announced. ”

All minutes say “pending” or a current list of stakeholders. This has been going on since 2020!

But they are claiming they advertised their public meetings! It may as well have been advertised to the fish, for the only fisherman who knew and attended was Erik Anderson, president of the defunct NHCFA, and he didn’t tell anyone either.

Calling all the committee reps finally revealed the (now canceled) meeting on May 20th, which was the only meeting the public actually knew about by word of mouth and would have had a chance to voice their mind.

If I’m not mistaken, our government has to allow proper notice and for the public to speak, no matter how uncomfortable Watters feels.

This clandestine NH state commission has been operating for four years in a vacuum. The only “study* done was a report that does not include any data about pollution, harmful Bisphenol going into the ocean poisoning us by way of fish, or any tangible data to show it is “safe” at all!

Watters does not care or he would make it right.

Instead, he doubled down and insulated the very people he represents. He refuses to listen and states, “We cannot control what the BOEM does in federal waters.” I believe Watters needs a refresher course in the US Constitution. Last I checked, the US government is “the people,” just not fishermen and those who want to save our Gulf of Maine and whales.

 

[Update] There will be “meetings” and conversations with or without members of the committee.

Monday, May 20
3:00, Meet at roundabout Diner and Lounge, Portsmouth NH traffic circle. Information on offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine.
4:00, Meet at 222 International Dr. Pease, Press conference with Chuck Morse, fishermen, and environmentalists.
4:30, State Commission on offshore wind. If (still) canceled, we will continue the press conference.

May BOEM federal dates: https://www.boem.gov/newsroom/notes-stakeholders/reminder-public-meetings-gulf-maine-proposed-sale-notice

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Hillary Speaks the Truth?

Fri, 2024-05-17 14:00 +0000

Believe it or not, readers, Hillary’s mouth has actually spoken the truth to us, the American people (I bet that has a bitter taste for her?). According to Hillary pro Palestinian protestors here on American collage campuses and streets are ignorant of the history between Israel and Islam.

She recites one example from when her husband, Bill Clinton, tried to bring the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel together in an agreed settlement. The offer to Yasser Arafat (leader of the PLO) was for Muslims to have 96% of the Palestinian territory (a darn good deal, IMO), but Arafat refused. It was speculated at the time he feared being assassinated like Anwar Sadat (President of Egypt some years before) had been for making a deal with Jews in Egypt.

Likely, he would have as his power thereafter eroded rather quickly because the radical fundamentalists in Islam will accept nothing less than the death of all Jews and not just those in Israel – all Jews everywhere. The Quran tells the faithful that the whole world must become Muslim before peace can come, and there are very many faithful to ensure that peace will not come before that.

Readers, please understand this hate war against Jews has been going on for more than a thousand years. It started in 726 AD when Muhammad claimed he was visited by the Angle Gabriel with orders from God to kill all the Jews. This was long before the Crusades or the Muslim empire, but it has been ongoing off and on all this time, and we are in a hot period right now – and it is not only Israel in the cross hairs; America is the “Great Satan.” Coddling terrorists of any kind just emboldens them and Islam is not only emboldened but motivated. The more restraint we use the greater the danger.

Look at some real hard facts: Sense 9-11, there have been 45,255 Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide. In 2002, 3,152 people were killed and 6,059 were injured, and since then, the numbers and efficiency have grown exponentially.

In 2019, 10,525 were killed, and 10,725 were injured.
In 2020, 10,251 were killed, and 7,749 were injured.
In 2021, 11,830 were killed and 9,595 were injured.
In 2022, 9,025 were killed and 6,815 were injured. (An off year)
In 2023, 11, 424 were killed and 12,999 were injured.
2024 is pending, but starting out with a real bang.

Let us not forget this is just one phase of the Islamic “religion of Peace.” Honor killings are still very much in vogue if a wife or daughter is seen to impede the family honor as judged by the husband or patriarch. Selling an adolescent daughter as young as nine years old to be the wife of some older man is nothing unusual. The always popular kidnapping of young women for the sex slave market is a profit-generating powerhouse. God forbid a gay man or lesbian falls into the grasp of some Muslims. Inevitable death sentence is always that result , usually in some gruesome fashion.

This brings me to the current Hamas-Israel war, and I must ask myself and my readers just what good would a “cease fire” be worth if we knew it would just be used by Hamas to reload before attacking again. Can we possibly be so stupid as to believe anything lasting could possibly come of it? No, no way, Israel should eradicate every terrorist in Gaza and go after those who sneak away too. This war is effecting much of the world and we are no different. Muslim students agitate lies, misinform, and, as Hillary noted, many believe these lies. Lazy or stupid students using threats or violence should be expelled, and Muslim student activists should be deported.

 

Editor: Ths post was originally published under the wrong byline. This has been corrected.

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