Amid the mind-rape called the COVID-vaccine rollout, a “coalition” of ‘partners’ – people on the profitable end of the COVID-19-cash money laundering list, created a website called Healthy 603 Coalition.org. Its mission was to launder approved narratives into enabling legislation.

 

The Healthy 603 Coalition is a non-partisan group of Granite State small business leaders, health care professionals, advocates and activists. All with the common goal of providing fair and accurate information to help create a healthier, safer New Hampshire.

 

I can’t speak to its success. There was so much institutional political and media support fed by the same pool of money that adding this alleged .org seems like a waste of time and resources, which it must have been. They’ve not updated it in a very long time. Their Facts vs. Myths page is…a little out of date.

 

 

This one is by far the most interesting. First, the vaccine wasn’t rushed (they had it already), but the safety and testing process barriers were. No one denies this. Operation Warp Speed was about getting a mass-produced “cure” into human arms with as little safety monitoring as possible. The complete initial list of side effects was not released to the public as part of ensuring informed consent from Myocarditis to Pericarditis and COVID-19 until long after the needle-in-every-arm folks had 50-70% compliance (and the reality could not be ignored). They still tried to ignore it while pillorying anyone who said, “But look?”

From before Day 1, this thing was unsafe and ineffective, and they knew it might not prevent infection or spread, all of which proved true. Because of these lies, the vaccinated, with their damaged or weakened immune systems, became super-spreaders.

The institutional safety monitoring apparatus ignored, hid, or buried safety signals visible to anyone who stopped listening to the propaganda and looked. And that’s just the beginning of everything wrong with this claim.

 

 

The crap in the mRNA gets into cells by design to create spike proteins that travel all over the body and into organs. Some recipients never stop making spike proteins, and there has been a rise in out-of-control cell growths nicknamed turbo cancers. Children are getting them. This appears to be a product of IgG4 antibodies whose release is exacerbated by the mRNA COVID vaccine. While you may still be able to say the mRNA isn’t rewriting DNA, it is stimulating cellular response to such a degree that healthy people, healthy kids – who were never at risk from COVID but were lined up and injected anyway – are watching their body attack itself until they die.

 

 

There is no COVID-19 vaccine per se, but as noted above (getting COVID-19 is a known side-effect of the vaccine), since admitted by national health organizations and demonstrated in peer-reviewed research, the COVID-19 vaccine makes you more susceptible to COVID-19, and the vaccinated have proven this to be true. It never prevented infection or spread; it made the potential for it worse. Actual public policy ensured that the vaccinated would get infected and spread COVID.

From a pre-vaccine launch FDA presentation, COVID-19 disease is the first Adverse Event of Special interest.

 

 

More recent research has also uncovered how mRNA,  “in addition to the toxic “spike protein,” mRNA vaccines have a weakness that introduces “read errors,” making vaccinated individuals produce nearly random proteins with unknown and unpredictable effects.”

We also have more news out of New Zealand, where thousands of public health officials were granted exemptions from the COVID Vaccie mandate, potentially because of a 2019 paper in an Oncology Journal that reported on how,

 

“…gene therapy has been caught in a vicious cycle for nearly two decades owing to immune response, insertional mutagenesis, viral tropism, off-target activity, unwanted clinical outcomes (ranging from illness to death of participants in clinical trials), and patchy regulations.”

Gene Therapy?

 

 Typically, DNA, mRNA, siRNA, miRNA, and anti-sense oligonucleotides are the genetic materials used for therapeutic delivery into a defective target cell or tissue to restore a specific gene function or turn off a gene responsible for disease or disorder development (35).

 

Perhaps it is time to take this ridiculous website down because we know that you know you cannot now tell the truth. If you saw the data or admitted you’d seen it, you would have to stop pimping these things and admit they are counterproductive, debilitating, and deadly.

Exit Question: Did your state our county have one of these, and is it still up and lying to the public?

 

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One of the ongoing tensions embedded throughout the years of efforts by mainly Western governments to subsidize their desired energy transition into existence has been the tension between these desires of the ruling class versus the demands of the global energy market.

Past efforts by governments in the West or any other part of the world to intercede in energy markets to produce desired outcomes have pretty much always resulted in epic failures and energy crises, and the prospects for this current multi-trillion-dollar charade do not appear to be shaping up any differently. (RELATED: Leaked Docs Show Arab Petrostate Wanted To Use Climate Summit To Strike Fossil Fuel Deals)

This reality set the writer of a special preview of Fortune’s CEO Weekly Europe Newsletter off on a bit of a rant this week, one that left him admittedly “wistful for the bygone era of state-owned energy companies.” The central conundrum at hand is that the biggest oil companies in Europe do not appear to be conforming their business priorities with the stated policy positions of the central planners at the European Union and of various European governments.

The stated policy positions by the EU and countries like Germany and the U.K. — and obviously preferred by Fortune’s writer — advocate that these big oil companies should be focusing their future capital investments on buying up and developing wind farms, solar arrays, building batteries and engaging in other “green” energy projects. Yet these big companies — the writer cites Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies as examples — insist upon continuing to allocate the great majority of their capital budgets to invest in the things in which oil companies tend to invest, like drilling wells, finding new reserves and transporting and refining oil and natural gas-related products.

Matter of fact, all three of those companies announced significant strategic shifts in 2023 in which they pledged to invest an even larger percentage of their capital budgets in their core oil and gas businesses for two simple reasons: 1) to meet rapidly rising global demand for oil and gas products, and 2) because those core business projects are so much more profitable than spending billions of euros on buying wind farms and solar arrays.

Go figure.

Fortune’s writer laments this disconnect between government edict and companies pursuing actual profits in this remarkable paragraph:

“This situation is problematic because the following two things cannot be true at the same time: that Europe pursues a policy of rapid decarbonization, betting that this creates prosperity for its people and that its largest companies continue investing in fossil fuels for the sake of their stakeholders.” (RELATED: STEPHEN MOORE: Climate Change Is Taking Over Common Sense)

What the writer ignores is what the central planners also studiously ignore, which is the fact that companies like Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies are not charitable organizations. They exist in the first place for one driving reason, which is to generate profits for their shareholders by producing products that are desired and needed by the public at large.

If European governments wish to convert Shell, BP, and TotalEnergies into renewable energy companies, then the task at hand for the central planners is to find a way to create a situation in which investing billions of euros in capital generates higher profits than investing the same capital in those companies’ core business enterprises.

Obviously, just enacting hundreds of billions of euros and British pounds in tax breaks and subsidies for the preferred kinds of energy projects hasn’t done the trick, has it? Nor have efforts by central planners to render the finding and producing of oil and gas and their related products increasingly difficult and costly via overbearing regulation managed to tip the scales.

The problem there is that oil companies tend to be quite nimble and adaptive by nature and always seem to find ways to continue doing their business despite the regulatory state’s best efforts. Quite inconvenient, that.

Thus, in the end, we invariably arrive at the admission by this writer that he longs for the return of state-owned energy companies. Because, surely, the central planners can do a far better job of running and managing companies and better provide the needs of billions of human beings for affordable and reliable energy than the market can provide.

This writer at Fortune was just saying the quiet part of and driving philosophy behind this energy transition out loud.

David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.

 

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In late October, to scare people right before Halloween, Pfizer issued a press release reminding recipients of its COVID-19 vaccines that there was an increased risk of heart injury after injection. No Sh!t, Really?

 

Pfizer issued a press release Friday afternoon stating definitively that mRNA covid vaccines “show increased risks” of myocarditis + pericarditis. pic.twitter.com/BQ70xDIhJ0

— Antonio Sabato Jr (@AntonioSabatoJr) October 23, 2023

 

This has, of course, been fact-checked, and guess what? The fact check insists Pfizer has warned us about the risk of heart damage since 2021. And you could say that’s accurate. Before Emergency Use Authorization, the FDA knew about the risk of injury or death, including complications from Myocarditis and Pericarditis, but they pretended the risk of death from COVID was greater. (Related: New Research Suggests Evidence of Permanent Heart Damage to Some Adolescents Who Got COVID-19 Vaxx).

Long before the Vaxx-push, we knew that was not the case. A sliver of the population was at risk of Hospitalization or death, and those under 20 had nearly zero risk of even getting the virus or spreading it. What followed was a fear campaign pushing mandates and ostracizing anyone who opted out, and we don’t need that fact-checked. We lived it.

That press release isn’t telling us anything new. It is not an admission of wrongdoing. I’d go so far as to say it isn’t a definitive admission in any new sense. They admitted the thing was crap, and it could kill you from go. There was no informed consent. If you’d known, you’d have likely said no, and you’d have certainly not jabbed your kids or disowned relatives over, or been relieved of your job. No one in their right mind, at least. The left mind is another matter.

What would be new is if COVID-19 apologists admitted that these details were hidden from the public. Admit the level of deception, from safe and effective to incomplete package inserts to health risks from COVID or the vaccine. The fraud was systemic and institutional, and millions were harmed and many killed as a result.

That would be something, but it’s not anything we should expect from anyone who received money to pander to the lies in the approved narrative. And there were a lot of them.

 

 

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Here’s what we know so far: Harvard President Claudine Gay has been accused of plagiarism by copying the work of others, inserting it into her Ph.D. thesis, and not acknowledging it.

This is called “academic fraud”.

If anyone else had done this and had been discovered, they would have had their Ph.D. revoked, and their academic record would indicate that they cheated.  If they were in a position of leadership and responsibility in a large multi-billion dollar company, they would probably be transferred somewhere out of the limelight and then quietly “let go.”

But not Ms. Gay.

I won’t speculate on why she isn’t being punished for stealing ideas at a university and calling them her own.  Nor will I speculate on why she’s being given a chance to “correct the record” and “modify” her Ph.D. accordingly (which is a tacit admission that her Ph.D. should never have been granted in the first place).

It seems like Ms. Gay is being treated with “kid gloves.”  I won’t speculate on why (he wrote, feigning naivete).

But the sad part of this episode is that it now confirms the fact that Harvard both approves and encourages falsifying academic papers.

So now, the question is: “How many other Harvard graduates received Ph. D.s for work that wasn’t their own?”

As they say, if there’s smoke, there’s fire.  Ms. Gay’s actions were the fire, and the Harvard Corporation (the BOD) decided to allow the fire to burn in an uncontrolled manner.

It may not happen now.  It may take years.  But Harvard’s action in not disciplining Ms. Gay for obvious and provable academic fraud calls into question whether a Harvard degree – at any level – is worth the paper it’s printed on.

 

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Trouble has followed Sara Catherine Jones since she married into the Biden family almost three decades ago. Not long after her 1995 wedding to Jim Biden, she took a job with one of his brother Joe’s Senate donors, who later accused her of “fraud” and “unjust enrichment,” according to court records reviewed by RealClearInvestigations.

In the years since, she and her husband have been accused of reneging on debts and failing to pay their taxes, court and property records show. Like their nephew, first son Hunter Biden, they have reportedly sold the promise of access to their powerful relative to companies, several of which have gone bankrupt, some of which are tied to foreign countries hostile to the United States.

Now, Sara Jones Biden has emerged as a key figure in the mushrooming Biden foreign influence-peddling scandal.

GOP lawmakers seek to question the 64-year-old licensed attorney as part of their investigation of President Biden for possible impeachable offenses, including bribery. They are especially interested in subpoenaed bank records that include almost a quarter million dollars in checks Sara Biden wrote to her brother-in-law Joe, conspicuously marking them as “loan repayment.” Republicans want to ask her about the origin of those loans and whether checks “were funded by Biden influence-peddling schemes with China.”

“The Committees require you to provide details of these payments and other related matters,” the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees said in a joint letter they sent to her last month demanding she make herself available for a transcribed interview. In addition, they sent a subpoena to her husband for testimony and information.

Although Hunter and Jim Biden’s questionable business dealings – and their possible blessing from the president – are drawing increasing scrutiny, Sara Biden has drawn little attention until now. But court records and other documents show she has been a central player in the Biden family business for decades. They show how her and her husband’s desire for a lifestyle they could not quite afford has repeatedly led them to form relationships with shady figures and enterprises that often ended in lawsuits and even criminal investigations.

Looming over it all is Joe Biden. Documents recently obtained by government watchdog America First Legal, under a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal that Sara and Jim’s main business, the Lion Hall Group, shows up in more than 3,735 emails generated by the former Vice President Biden’s office. The sheer volume of communications concerning his brother and sister-in-law’s business appears to contradict Biden’s repeated claims over the years that he was never involved in, or even aware of, his family’s business dealings.

A Match Made in Kentucky

Sara Biden’s links to Joe Biden date back to the early 1990s, when she landed a committee job with his close personal friend, Sen. Wendell Ford, a Kentucky Democrat.

“Sen. Ford has been an important part of our family for a long time,” Joe Biden said after Ford died in 2015. “He gave Sara Jones Biden, from Owensboro, Ky., her first job on the Hill when she graduated from Duke Law School, and that’s how she met my brother Jimmy.”

Jimmy and Sara weren’t just sweethearts; they were also business partners – with a taste for high living.

In 1997, Sara and Jim Biden formed the consulting firm Lion Hall Group with the help of Joe Biden’s old law partner, David Walsh, who acted as their registered agent, according to incorporation records they filed with the Delaware Department of State.

That same year, they bought an expensive home in the Philadelphia suburbs and struggled to make payments on the $650,000 mortgage, records show, even though a longtime Democratic fundraiser for then-Sen. Biden, Joel Boyarsky, loaned them as much as $200,000. In 1998, the IRS filed its first lien against their home to collect $145,000 in unpaid taxes.

In 2000, they borrowed $353,000 from another Biden donor – Leonard Barrack, a Philadelphia attorney who a few years earlier had agreed to hire Sara Biden at Jim’s urging for $300,000 per year, according to court and other records. Barrack would soon regret helping them out.

According to a lawsuit he filed against Sara Biden four years later, Barrack said Jim had convinced him that by hiring Sara as a partner, the Bidens would be able to attract clients to his law firm through their political connections.

“Jim Biden assured Barrack that he would be able to generate business for the Barrack Law Firm through his family name and his resemblance to his brother, United States Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware,” according to the 2004 complaint filed in Philadelphia County, Pa.

Instead, the document said, Sara Biden developed business opportunities for Lion Hall Group, where she served as president, a potential conflict of interest she allegedly never disclosed to Barrack.

The law firm, also known as Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, further alleged that she used its resources, including a travel budget, for personal benefit. The lawsuit said Sara Biden spent almost $250,000 to travel with her husband to Hawaii and Alaska and across Europe, including England, Ireland, France, and Italy. They even brought their son, Nicholas (now 26), and a nanny on some of the “lavish” trips.

“Contrary to Sara Biden’s representations, none of the foregoing trips generated any business for the Barrack Law Firm,” the suit stated. “The Bidens never intended to generate business opportunities for the Barrack Law Firm during their travels, using the trips instead for personal pleasure and to develop opportunities for Lion Hall.”

The couple also allegedly received a total of $500,000 in loans before Sara left the firm in 2003. These salary advances were never repaid, according to the legal complaint. The case, which charged Sara and Lion Hall Group with “fraud,” “unjust enrichment,” and “breach of contract,” was eventually settled. The terms are undisclosed.

Sara Biden did not respond to requests for comment. However, in a law publication profile, she asserted that she “co-founded” the Barrack law firm’s “institutional development and claims monitoring program.” Barrack apparently was unaware she was pursuing other outside interests while allegedly looting his firm.

In 2000, then-Vice President Al Gore and HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced a new $2 million partnership with NorthPoint Communications to help “bridge the digital divide” by providing broadband Internet access to more than 800 low-income urban neighborhoods.

Looking for political juice to help it win the licenses needed from the FCC for telecom development, NorthPoint invited Sara Biden to join its board, along with Hunter Biden. At the time, Hunter served as executive director of e-commerce policy at the Commerce Department, a Clinton-appointed position. It’s not known if his Aunt Sara did any lobbying for Northpoint, but Federal Election Commission records show that in 2000, she gave $1,200 to Northpoint’s PAC – People for Digital Competition.

Sara Biden does not appear in federal lobbying disclosure records as a registered lobbyist. Northpoint filed for bankruptcy in 2001.

Several years later, another Biden donor retained her and Lion Hall Group to lobby Sen. Biden and other senators for passage of a bill to help resolve tobacco-related medical claims. Although the bill, which Joe Biden supported, died in the Senate, the donor who pushed it – famous Mississippi trial attorney Dickie Scruggs – introduced Sara Biden to two associates, also Biden donors, who proposed bringing her into a potentially lucrative venture, according to legal documents.

Mississippi lawyers Steve Patterson and Timothy Balducci were looking to build a Democratic lobbying firm in Washington with global reach, and offered to make Sara a partner in the firm, which they planned to call “Patterson Balducci & Biden.” But the deal fell apart when Balducci and Patterson were indicted on federal bribery charges in an investigation that also ensnared Scruggs. After all three men went to federal prison, Biden was forced to return their donations.

Sara and her husband had more trouble with the IRS in 2013 when the agency slapped them with another lien for unpaid taxes, this one totaling $589,000. They also faced state and local tax liens, property records show.

The couple had just purchased a $2.5 million luxury vacation home in Naples, Fla., which the entire Biden clan, including Joe, used. But they racked up debt renovating the home – dubbed the “Biden Bungalow” – and went in search of more bailout money.

Owing a combined $700,000 in tax and vendor liens, they quickly found another Joe Biden supporter to rescue them. Over the next few years, millionaire car magnate and major Biden donor John Hynansky of Delaware floated Sara and Jim Biden “loans” totaling $900,000, records show.

During this same period, as then-Vice President Biden was the point person for U.S. policy in Ukraine, a federal lending agency – OPIC – authorized loans Hynansky’s company used to build a 7,300-square-foot Porsche dealership along the highway that connects downtown Kyiv to the Boryspil International Airport.

Mortgage records initially reported Jim and Sara Biden’s lender as “1018 PL, LLC,” obscuring Hynansky as the source of the loans. But the corporate entity is controlled by Hynansky, a 2018 document would later reveal.

The Bidens sold the waterfront house for a loss in 2018, and Hynansky released his lien on the property. However, Hynansky did not acknowledge full payment and satisfaction of the loans, according to the details laid out in documents recorded in Collier County, Fla.

Hynansky wasn’t their only white knight.

As the Bidens struggled to find money to pay contractors for hurricane-related repairs on their beach home and find a buyer for it, they went back to Joe’s old cronies from Mississippi. One of them, Mississippi lawyer Joey Langston, who had been sentenced to three years in federal prison for improperly trying to influence a judge, introduced them to the founder of Americore Health, who needed money to aggressively expand his chain of rural hospitals. Jim invoked his brother’s influence and said they had the political clout to drum up investment money, according to court documents and published reports. Impressed, Americore not only hired Lion Hall Group but loaned Jim and Sara Biden $650,000 for their personal use, even as the company hemorrhaged cash. The funds could have been used to help the company’s failing hospitals, which had to lay off hundreds of employees after Americore failed.

As soon as the couple received their loan payment, however, they stepped back from the venture, and the promised investments never materialized, according to a lawsuit filed against Jim Biden and Lion Hall Group by Americore’s medical partners after it went bankrupt in 2019. In a declaration, one plaintiff described Jim Biden as a con man who repeatedly made false promises “on the Biden’s [sic] family name.” According to a recent court filing, Diverse Medical Management and Azzam Medical Services, which hoped to manage Americore hospitals, claimed “Biden and his wife, Sara Biden,” made false assurances during a dinner they held at their home near Philadelphia that funding for the venture was forthcoming.

Meanwhile, Americore trustees have tried to claw back the $650,000 from the Bidens in bankruptcy court. An attorney for Jim Biden maintains that his client recently repaid Americore half the amount to settle the dispute.

After rural hospitals were forced to close their doors in Pennsylvania and other states, the FBI stepped in to investigate the Americore debacle as part of a criminal fraud investigation. While agents have questioned witnesses about Jim Biden’s role in the collapse, according to multiple reports, it’s unclear if his wife has been questioned. She did not reply to inquiries.

Around the same time the couple was raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars from the crooked hospital deal, Hunter Biden was sending hundreds of thousands more to his Uncle Jim and Aunt Sara – and impeachment investigators on the Hill hope to question Sara about the origin and flow of these funds.

Starting in the summer of 2017, Hunter began sending large wire transfers to Sara and Jim’s Lion Hall Group – some of which ended up in Joe Biden’s bank account. The source of the funds was CEFC China Energy, a Chinese conglomerate tied to Chinese military intelligence. After a year, Lion Hall had received $1.4 million from Hunter Biden.

On Aug. 14, 2017, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Hall after receiving $400,000 from a joint account he held with CEFC. On Aug. 28, 2017, Sara Biden withdrew $50,000 in cash from Lion Hall’s account. Later the same day, she deposited it into her and Jim Biden’s personal checking account, according to bank records subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee. On Sept. 3, 2017, Sara Biden wrote a check to Joe Biden for $40,000 for a “loan repayment,” exactly 10% of the $400,000 – matching a “10 held by H for the big guy” arrangement Hunter had made for Joe in the Chinese venture that was discovered in emails from his abandoned laptop.

Another personal check to Joe made out in Sara’s handwriting, this one for $200,000, was cut on March 1, 2018 – the same day Jim Biden got an equal amount from Americore. “Loan repayment” was also filled in for the memo line of the check.

If there were in fact loans between Joe Biden and his sister-in-law, the White House has not explained the reason for them or provided any details about their terms, such as the interest rates charged. A White House spokesman has only said that the release of the bank records is part of “a smear campaign against the president” by Republican investigators.

“There is nothing more to these transactions,” said Paul Fishman, a lawyer representing Jim Biden, “and there is nothing wrong with them.”

However, the wire transfers raised red flags with Hunter’s bank, Wells Fargo, which asked about their “purpose” and also questioned the recipient, the Lion Hall Group. The bank noted the owner, Sara Biden, is a “relative [and] the address appears to be a residential address,” adding, “What is the business type?”

Unsatisfied with Hunter’s explanations, the bank flagged the transactions as potential financial crimes, including money laundering, prompting the U.S. Treasury Department to issue a series of suspicious activity reports.

When her bank asked Sara Biden about the large transfers, she claimed the payments were for international consulting work (neither she nor her husband is registered with the Justice Department as foreign agents). However, she refused to provide any supporting documentation. The bank, in turn, closed the Lion Hall account, according to a 2020 Senate report.

Impeachment investigators tell RCI that they have subpoenaed related bank records from Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, and Cathay Bank, in addition to Wells Fargo.

The Senate report noted that Jim and Sara Biden also benefitted from a $100,000 line of credit a CEFC executive opened for Hunter Biden in September 2017. After credit cards were issued to Hunter, as well as his uncle and aunt, they went on “an extravagant global shopping spree.” Records show Hunter, Jim, and Sara Biden used the cards for plane tickets, hotel rooms, and electronic devices, among other things.

House impeachment investigators tell RCI that Sara Biden, who acted as an apparent financial conduit, may hold answers to whether the president also benefitted from the Chinese largesse as part of a “foreign influence-peddling scheme,” which they say could “compromise his decision-making and threaten national security.” They also seek to find out how much interaction Biden has had with her business, the Lion Hall Group, while in office.

Congressional investigators suspect that Lion Hall, which was incorporated by Joe Biden’s old law partner, was set up to act as a pass-through vehicle to launder possible bribes to Joe Biden. They point out that Biden’s Mississippi donor pal, Joey Langston, pumped almost $200,000 into Lion Hall for unspecified services while Biden was vice president. According to subpoenaed Lion Hall bank records, Langston Law Firm Consulting Inc. began wiring money to Lion Hall within weeks of Langston losing his appeal in February 2016 to have his conviction for bribing a judge thrown out. A federal judge also turned down his petition to have his criminal record cleared. Records show that between March 2016 and October 2016, Langston made four payments to Lion Hall totaling $187,000. Investigators have asked Langston to come in for questioning and explain the nature of the payments. Attempts to reach Langston for comment were unsuccessful.

 

Paul Sperry | RealClear Wire

 

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Former US Senator Kelly Ayotte left DC after one term to land on the boards of a bunch of different companies, including “BAE Systems, Caterpillar, Bloom Energy, Blackstone Group, News Corp., Boston Properties, and Blink Health, as well as the advisory boards of Microsoft, Chubb Insurance and Cirtronics.”

No one would be surprised to find people with deep pockets who happen to have an interest in or are part of the companies supporting her run for Governor of New Hampshire. Not because there is value in a small state governor. Ayotte was and continues to be groomed for much higher office, and I don’t mean the US Senate.

As a one-term US Senator, she was managed by the likes of John McCain and Lindsey Graham as a future GOPe standard bearer. With only a few years in office, her name was dropped as a potential vice president pick. When she lost her re-election by a handful of votes rather than contest it and get back into the US Senate in support of a president the Deep State GOPe didn’t like, she gracefully conceded.

Ayotte became the popular rhetorical blonde, landing on large corporate boards where she was made familiar with an even wider range of insider interests and individuals.

The thinking behind this seems evident to me.

Kelly is not running for Governor to keep New Hampshire ‘New Hampshire.’ She is running at the behest of her sponsors because a governor makes for a much more appealing VP candidate in 2028 than some one-time Senate candidate. A governor also makes for a much better Presidential candidate in 2028 or 2032 (assuming we’re still electing them by then).

Yes, there’s a story to be told about all the outside money, but it is impossible to run for higher office in a small state without it. Almost no one can run and win at any level above the NH House on local money alone. But the outside money is not the story. It is what that cash is trying to buy.

Yes, it wants to elect a governor, but not so it can influence a governor. That money wants future access to the Oval Office, and Ayotte is on somebody’s list for a future campaign as either a donor-directed VP or a candidate for President.

And yeah, the same crowd will take Nikki Haley this time around if you are curious.

That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.

 

 

Disclosure: A majority of the board of the 603 Alliance endorsed Chuck Morse for Governor of New Hampshire, and I am a voting member on that board.

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This is an attempt to “break out” memes, links, and my commentary about the situation in Israel / the Middle East so as to not overload the standard meme posts that I do.  My last “normal” meme post.  In these Israel-related posts I don’t just have memes such, but lots of informative links as well as hopefully-insightful commentary.

Note that this is not meant to be a day-by-day update about what’s going on.  Rather, to highlight uncomfortable truths about the actual nature of the conflict, deep-history background, and so on, as well as to show the at-present immutable nature of Islamic Jew hate and why that matters to today’s events.

Note that these posts do not repeat information – so there is a lot of stuff in prior posts.  Please do check them out too if this is a topic of interest to you,  In reverse chronological order:

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Still More Links, Memes, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Ongoing Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Even More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: More Memes, Links, and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

Israel: Memes and Commentary – Granite Grok

With some Israel-related materials here:

Meme Overflow – Granite Grok

 

 

 

TOP OF THE FOLD

MEQ Features Bleak Assessment of Israel’s Oct. 7 Response :: Middle East Forum (meforum.org)

While the inflamed mood in Israel immediately after Hamas’ murderous rampage appeared to indicate that the conciliatory ethos would be a thing of the past, signs of a return to business-as-usual abound, from the resumption of fuel supplies to Gaza and an increase in Israel work permits for West Bank Palestinians to a hostage deal that disrupted IDF military operations in Gaza and helped ensure the bargaining process for future releases “will continue indefinitely.” Less than two months after October 7, “talk about destroying Hamas had nearly vaporized.”

Why the reversion? Pipes suggests that the Netanyahu government’s failures made it more vulnerable to myopic pressure from the Israeli public and scolding by foreign states. Avoiding future mistakes requires that Israelis “adopt a radically different attitude toward the Palestinians … and seek Israel Victory.”

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Avi Shlaim’s Fantasy Land – Tablet Magazine

Shlaim’s idyllic vision, based on the social and economic mingling of upper crust Arabs and Jews in Baghdad during a brief period of time in the 1930s, is not a precedent or pointer to anything. My prediction? Were a one-state solution ever tried, it would collapse in anarchy and drown in rivers of blood, compared to which today’s violence is a mere trickle.

There is something of a utopian nature in us Jews.  We long for a return to Eden, having somehow forgotten that this is not possible.  Consider this idiot: Why I, as a Jewish member of MCSG, voted for resolution 13 – The Mac Weekly

 

I want you to consider how this level of delusion helps our enemies.

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WAR & WHEN WILL IT END?

 

 

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Not since the Yom Kippur war in 1973, has Israel been allowed to win a war (barenakedislam.com)

America too.  Vietnam was a watershed loss – not on the field, where we were winning, but in the minds of the people at home.  And it was a clear and bright lesson learned by all enemies.  And while the below is about America in war, it applies to Israel – and more broadly the West in general:

Afghanistan Vet: Every Enemy Knows How to Defeat the United States Now – PJ Media

In fact, we have abandoned everyone who has ever helped us in a major conflict since 1953. Since Vietnam, our adversaries have learned that all it takes to defeat the most powerful, technologically advanced military that has ever existed is to simply be patient. We think in two- to four-year election cycles, whereas our enemies think in decades to centuries. When you’re up against supersonic fighters, ten carrier strike groups, stealth bombers, and the most elite force on the planet, all you must do is wait it out. Poke and prod and kill enough Americans to keep the war on the front page of the news, and eventually, an election cycle will come up with the slogan: “Bring our boys home.”

Related to that:

This is Why America Forgot How to Win – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

In the real world, you win the war by defeating the enemy, not by winning the support of the people. Wars are not democratic elections and the battlefield isn’t a political campaign. When wars are run by politicians, the end result is a defeat that comes from never really trying.

Why don’t we win wars anymore? Listen closely to Austin, McChrystal and virtually every military head honcho in the last twenty years and the answer is obvious. We don’t set out to win wars by defeating the enemy on the battlefield, but on the battlefield of ideas. Our forces are led by a generation of politicians in uniforms who have been indoctrinated, beginning at the academy level, to think of wars as contests for the hearts and minds of enemy civilians.

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Without a military leadership that understands the purpose of war, the next time we may not lose thousands, we could lose millions. And we could lose the United States of America.

IMHO the West in general.  Echoing the above, wars are won when the enemy is crushed and sues for peace.  Or dies.  Related:

Hamas calls on UN Security Council to end Gaza’s ‘brutal’ war – Insider Paper

UN invokes ‘most powerful tool,’ Article 99 on threats to international peace, to demand Gaza ceasefire (jihadwatch.org)

The moral collapse of the West – JNS.org

How Israeli forces take big risks to avoid harming civilians (nypost.com)

Everybody Is Upset About Civilian Casualties in Gaza, but Where Do the Numbers Come From? – PJ Media

Netanyahu calls out Western leaders for pressing Israel to end Gaza war | World Israel News

Hamas and the Arabs can always count on the useful idiots in the West to take its side and force an end to the war before they lose.

The End Is Nigh: Hamas Operatives Surrendering ‘In Large Numbers’ (jihadwatch.org) (bolding added):

What will Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif do as their Gazan empire crumbles around them? I think they’ll do everything they can to escape. If they should manage to slip away to Egypt through a tunnel, the Egyptians won’t return them to Israel but will promptly imprison them as members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas is the Gazan branch of the MB). If they can’t get out of Gaza, and don’t dare try to survive in the underground tunnels that may at any minute be flooded with seawater by the IDF, they’ll meekly surrender, or try to. Let’s hope that the IDF makes an exception in this case to its usual policy of taking alive those who surrender; Sinwar and Deif deserve special treatment.

I still think these leaders deserve the Jack Pershing treatment.  Publicly.

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Iran warns of ‘explosion’ after US veto on Gaza war – Insider Paper

Not good.  And being deeply suspicious of the current administration, I would suspect that – while I support the veto – inflaming the world against Israel is an ulterior motive.  More:

Iran’s Regime Soon to Have Nuclear Bombs; Hezbollah Is Next :: Gatestone Institute

Stopping the Mullahs vs. Getting Them All Set Up :: Gatestone Institute

 

 

ISLAM: PRACTICES, HISTORY, AND MENTALITY

Why Did Hamas Attack Israel? – PJ Media

The absurd justification for Hamas’ atrocities against civilians that Hamas is fighting for land and orchards taken from them ignores the entire history of Islamic imperialism and the exterminationist approach that Muslims take toward people they define as enemies. Yes, genocide is an issue here, but it is the genocide that Hamas plans for Israelis and Jews around the world.

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‘Life under Hamas is like under ISIS,’ says Syria-born journalist deported from Gaza | The Times of Israel

This person has personal experience.  So, naturally, expect her experience to be dismissed by the SJW set.

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Why Are Islamists Claiming Non-Muslim Land? :: Gatestone Institute

Because Islam, ultimately, views the entire earth as its rightful due.  No less than every square attometer.  Especially if it was once, ever, held by Islam – as Israel was, as many lands were (italics replaced by underlining; link in the original):

Islamists believe that once a land has come under Islamic occupation and colonialism, the land conquered is forever Islamic. The Greek city of Thessaloniki, for instance, was once under Ottoman Muslim occupation. According to the official website of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, while it was under Ottoman rule (1430-1912), almost all Christian churches, parishes and monasteries were converted into mosques. Thessaloniki was liberated from the Ottoman Empire in 1912.

Islamic supremacists such as Erdogan believe that because Thessaloniki was once under the occupation of the Islamic Ottoman Empire, it is a Muslim land eternally and must be returned to its rightful owner.

More on that:

Why Are Islamists Claiming Non-Muslim Land? :: Gatestone Institute

And:

Brewing Islamic Storm: Geopolitical Fallout in India as Palestinian Conflict Sparks Alarming Rise in Calls for Ghazwa-E-Hind and Muslim Genocidal Aspirations Against Hindus (Videos) – RAIR (rairfoundation.com)

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Hamas using safe zone in Gaza to fire rockets at Israel: reports (nypost.com)

“This is further proof that Hamas exploits the IDF’s humanitarian zone for terrorist activity,” the IDF said.

The IDF published a graphic showing the locations of the rocket launches from al-Mawasi, as well as an image showing a rocket launcher.

Of course.  Hamas wants Israel to retaliate, to create more camera fodder.

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Some history of Israel regarding 1964 (rumble.com)

Rumble video on my channel.  It echoes a video of Golda Meir who was being interviewed and said “Pull back to the borders of 67 and there will be peace…  we were at the borders of 67, why was there war”?

 

 

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Israel’s Work Permits for Gaza Enabled the Hamas Attack – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles (link in original):

The Hamas invasion succeeded so well because the terrorists had an intimate knowledge of the communities they were targeting because they had worked there or had intelligence from those who had worked there. The attackers had detailed maps and building layouts. One woman whose husband and son were murdered said that the Hamas terrorists knew the names of the people, how many children they had and even which of them owned dogs.

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There’s no win-win scenario with Islamic terrorists: there is only a win-lose scenario. Anyone who thinks that they’re in a win-win scenario with those who want to kill them has already lost.

And that’s the thing about the utopian mindset of many people, including a staggering amount of Jews.  Repeating a video about the pro-peace, “Team Humanity” people who got slaughtered by the people they embraced and to whom they reached out, employed, and thought they had befriended:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Message-to-sjws.mp4

 

When someone says they want to kill you, believe them.

 

 

ATROCITIES

HAMAS savages using Israelis for target practice while the bodies pile up (barenakedislam.com)

Video.  I really want confirmation that this is Hamas using Israelis.  Note – horrific regardless, but confirmation would be good.  We cannot be so enamored with “proof” of what we want to believe that we ignore the required vetting process.

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Nazis, Muslims and the Jews (israelnationalnews.com)

Berl Katznelson, the foremost leader of Labor Zionism until his death in 1944, was a witness to Arab massacres of Jews in the 1920s and 1930s. He referred to “the Palestinian Nazis who succeeded to unite here in [Eretz] Israel the zoological antisemitism of Europe and the lust for the dagger of the Orient.” The connection between Nazis and Palestinian Arabs led the esteemed songwriter Naomi Shemer to offer a remarkable insight:

“Arabs like their murder hot, moist, and steamy, and if they will ever be free to fulfill themselves, we [Jews] will yearn for the good sterile gasses of the Germans.”

One only need look at the horrors Islam has perpetrated – not just on Jews but all its conquered peoples – to understand what will happen if Israel succumbs.  Related:

HAMAS BARBARIANS shot Israeli female soldiers in the crotch and breasts as part of ‘systemic genital mutilation’ (barenakedislam.com)

PURE EVIL: Hamas depravity that defies comprehension (barenakedislam.com)

Jew are considered “filth” to be killed:

Brigitte Gabriel – short ship on Islamic view of Jews (rumble.com)

Video at my Rumble channel.  More:

Jews are “human waste,” Europe and the US will do anything to keep them in Israel, says Palestinian political commentator

Related:

Savages – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

Civilizations have become too sophisticated and decadent to understand such concepts. When faced with barbarism, they go down a dialectic rabbit hole that explains the savages in terms of how civilized people interacted with them. Did they hurt their feelings, overthrow their governments or draw mean cartoons? Did capitalism leave them adrift in the world economy? How did we fail to integrate the newest generation of immigrants with all the welfare checks?

These sophomoric sessions are pointless. A hyena doesn’t eat your chickens because you failed to integrate it. That’s just what hyenas do. Man at the base state is a predator and savages strive to be the alpha predators. Civilizations become superior predators because they provide room for arts and sciences, because they think about something other than how they are superior to their neighbors and will prove it by killing their sons and raping their daughters.

But when civilizations spend too much time thinking, they forget that one reason they came into being was to build something better than a state of savagery. Decadent civilizations internalize all the criticism and their peoples endlessly quarrel and think that the worst possible things in the world are the ones that exist among their own people. Savages remind us otherwise.

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This is not about Hamas atrocities, but part and parcel of Islam itself:

Iranian security forces raped and sexually assaulted male and female protesters as young as 12 – with six victims subjected to gang-rape by groups of up to ten | Daily Mail Online

 

 

It’s Islam, Stupid – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

During the first siege of Vienna in 1529, when the invading Muslim horde decided that “children were cut out of their mothers’ wombs and stuck on pikes”, was that a protest against colonialism or capitalism? When a Muslim chronicle boasted that during the genocide against the Sikhs in the 18th century, “the shrieks of the women captives who were being raped, deafened the ears of the people”, was this a response to globalism or Zionism? Or was this just Islam.

Everything Hamas did during the bloody High Holy Days massacres has been done by Muslims throughout history and is still being practiced today. There is nothing new here whatsoever. Medieval barbarism never went away because Islam kept those grisly practices alive. It endures side by side with the modern world of smartphones, electric cars and AI because its worst crimes are an object of religious law and faith.

A Yazidi girl abducted by the Islamic State when she was only 12 described how the Jihadist who raped her explained to her that because she “practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it”. He “bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her. When it was over, he knelt to pray again”. The girl begged him to stop, but he “said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to Allah.”

Meanwhile, an Iranian voice supports Israel (link to video):

An Iranian woman voices support for Israel (rumble.com)

 

 

ON INTERSECTIONALITY / LEFTIST SUPPORT

SICK. Presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn Tell Congress that Calling for the Genocide of Jews Does Not Necessarily Violate their Campus Code of Conduct – Unless It Leads to Actual Genocide (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

But if you dare misgender someone… or strip Hams fighters after capture:

Dozens of Hamas Terrorists Surrender. Can You Guess Who Isn’t Happy About It? – PJ Media

I guess capturing terrorists is not a good thing for these people. Seriously, it’s amazing, after what happened on October 7, that these men would actually have the audacity to complain about how Hamas terrorists are treated — especially when the reason these men have been stripped is to protect the Israeli soldiers from hidden explosives.

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Flirtation With Evil Will Not End Well for Leftists › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

It is curious how people romanticize evil and insanity. The habit, I believe, is born in part of naiveté, or at least inexperience. The college student who prances about in a T-shirt bearing the image of Che Guevara, for example, generally has no idea of what a malignant figure Che was, how treacherous, how cruel, how murderous. He sees only a handsome “freedom fighter” swaddled in the gauze of exotic Latin flamboyance. The grubby reality escapes her entirely. Ditto with respect to Hamas.

Related:

J Street Lobbies Against Israeli War on Hamas | Frontpage Mag

The Unhinged Among Us | Frontpage Mag

For the first time in their lives, many of the ignorant protestors suddenly professed concern about refugees, colonialism, disproportionality, innocent civilians, and the rules of war.

But none could explain why the Palestinians who fled Israel in 1947-48 still self-identify as victimized “refugees” when 900,000 Jews ethnically cleansed from Middle-East Arab cities about the same time do not.

The 200,000 Greek Cypriots driven out from norther Cyprus by Turkey apparently do not warrant “refugee’’ status either.

Victor Davis Hanson is always a must-read, and very insightful.  Speaking of useful idiot support of monsters:

Jewish woman kicked out of “Caliphornia” cafe after complaining about Jew-hating graffiti in the restroom (barenakedislam.com)

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The depravity of the unholy alliance between Leftists and Islamofascists (barenakedislam.com)

Video embedded, about 10 minutes.

 

 

PALLYWOOD & MEDIA IN GENERAL

Everybody is Upset About Civilian Casualties in Gaza | Frontpage Mag

If you follow an asterisk down to the small print, you’ll see that the UN attributes its figures for Palestinian casualties in Gaza to the “Ministry of Health” and the “Government Media Office.” Which Ministry of Health? Which government? The UN doesn’t say, and its reticence on this point is likely due to the fact that the government and Health Ministry in question are those of Hamas in Gaza. The Guardian likewise attributes its figures to “the Gaza health ministry.” Yes, that’s right: the one that Hamas runs.

This would be like the New York Times during World War II reporting massive German civilian deaths in an Allied offensive and attributing its data to Josef Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry. Hamas obviously has very good reasons to inflate the number of Palestinian civilian casualties: the higher the numbers, the angrier Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and Antony Blinken get, and the closer the Biden regime moves to cutting ties with Israel and isolating the Jewish state completely.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/sometimes-civilians-get-hurt.mp4

 

Also to be found on my Rumble account:

Englishman speaking on civilian casualties (rumble.com)

Again, dead civilians make good CAMERA FODDER.

UN and Hamas: Partners in Crime :: Gatestone Institute

The propaganda campaign’s main aim – besides smearing Israel – appears to be to build overwhelming international pressure on Israel to agree to an indefinite ceasefire , which will give Hamas the needed time to regroup and replenish to continue its terrorist activities and to avoid being eliminated by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Remember, lying and deception are so entrenched in Islam they have separate terms for different means of doing so:

Taqiyya: Deception and Lying in Islam (thereligionofpeace.com)

Related is this video:

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/urban-combat-casualties.mp4

 

Same video at my Rumble channel:

Urban combat fatalities – and the reality in Israel (rumble.com)

As is this one (link only):

2024 Oscars go to… Pallywood (rumble.com)

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Somehow I do not see obesity as being consistent with “open air concentration camp”.  Also take a look here at what this journalist misses about Gaza.  Some “concentration camp” – link to video:

Gaza Journalist misses her home (rumble.com)

My great uncle, his wife, and their teenage son were murdered in Auschwitz.  Somehow I don’t think that place was like this.

I, and others, have pointed out multiple times that Gaza could be the Singapore of the eastern Mediterranean Sea.  Beautiful beaches, prime trade location, arable land…

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No, There Has Been No Sixteen-Year Israeli Siege of Gaza (jihadwatch.org)

There has been no 16-year “siege,” but only a narrowly-tailored blockade of “dual-use” materials, such as cement and steel rods, that can be used to build tunnels and bunkers. The fact that there is not enough work in Gaza is hardly Israel’s fault; it is due entirely to the corruption and mismanagement by Hamas itself, three of whose leaders (Khaled Meshaal, Mousa Abu Marzouk, Ismail Haniyeh) have stolen from the aid meant for Gaza the colossal sum of eleven billion dollars. Israel has tried to alleviate the problem by providing well-paying jobs for 20,000 Gazans — a number it was about to increase before October 7, but of course since then, no Gazan workers have been allowed into Israel, given the belief that some of those guest-workers provided intelligence to Hamas about the layout of both kibbutzim and the house shelters, and the placement of security details.Contrary to Bartov, the Israeli “siege” never included food or medicine; Israel also had been supplying Gaza, until October 7, with food, water, and 50% of its electricity. None of this is taken into account by Omer Bartov. It is entirely possible he knows none of this, but more likely, he is counting on his audience not knowing.

This quote from fiction applies to reality:

“Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.”

― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen

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Another video I uploaded with several people talking about “apartheid” in Israel.  The first woman is an Arab Muslim woman.

Arab Woman in Israel describes her experiences in “apartheid” Israel (rumble.com)

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If not for their double standards, the Western and Arabic media wouldn’t have any standards at all (barenakedislam.com)

Two videos.  More:

HAMAS THREATS: ‘Cut off heads,’ ‘Slit Throats,’ and ‘Slaughter Every Jew on the Planet,’ isn’t worthy of media coverage in America (barenakedislam.com)

 

 

TERROR COMING TO THE WEST?

UK: Two women beat a Jewish woman unconscious as passersby ignore the whole thing (jihadwatch.org)

London 2023 has become Berlin 1938. And it’s not just London.

Coming?  It’s here.  More:Man Fires Shots Outside Albany Synagogue, Screams ‘Free Palestine,’ FBI Working to Find Motive (jihadwatch.org)  University of Pennsylvania’s Jewish students taunted on campus with chants of “We are Hamas” and signs that say “Jews are Nazis” (barenakedislam.com)

 

MARYLAND Muslim teacher put on administrative leave because of of her email signature that supports the genocide of Jews (barenakedislam.com)

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Now ‘Jihadi’ Joe Biden wants to take in the 1.7 million Afghan illegal aliens that Pakistan expelled last month (barenakedislam.com)

And Palestinians.  And the already-ongoing stream.  Say, doesn’t a ban on immigrants from Muslim countries look good about now?

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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/islamic-plans-in-france.mp4

 

Another French incident:

France: Muslim Migrant Stabs Elderly Couple With Butcher’s Knife Inside Crowded Mall Food Court | Frontpage Mag

 

TREADING ON THE POLITICAL

American Jews Never Learned to Fight Leftist Jew-Hatred – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles

The actual Socialist, the actual USSR, hated Jews.  Why, then, the fascination and attraction?

The pact between Islam and the Left manifested once again in the response to the Oct 7 atrocities should be met the same way. The Left should be rejected the same way the Communists were. The ‘Communazis’ have been replaced by ‘Commuhamasniks’, but that is the only thing that has changed. American Jews must relearn how to fight this enemy.

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David Sacks Explains Why Jews Are Becoming Republicans . . . Where They Belong (rumble.com)

Video, about 3 minutes.  I suspect a longer version exists.

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Biden’s schizophrenic Middle East policy is disastrous – he vetoes anti-Israel UN resolutions, but lets Iran attack US forces 76 times without decisive military response | All Israel News

MHO?  Playing to make Jews think he’s on Israel’s side, while he’s actually not.

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

POETIC JUSTICE: Prominent law firm rescinds job offer to Muslim attorney because of her support for Hamas (barenakedislam.com)

Hey, cancel culture works both ways.

 

 

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A CONCLUDING THOUGHT FOR THIS POST

 

 

Weimar America – Victor Davis Hanson (victorhanson.com)

At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed support for Israel. Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats, the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other teachers and an eventual police arrival.

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A pro-Israeli demonstrator in Los Angeles was hit on the head and killed by a pro-Palestinian university professor.

Jewish students were trapped in a Cooper Union university library surrounded by pro-Hamas demonstrators. At MIT, Jewish students were warned to keep away from particular areas of the campus deemed dangerous for them.

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Once a society mainstreams the values of thuggish brownshirts, and ignores their “from the river to the sea” eliminationist chants and screams of “beat the f—king Jew,” then the next emboldened step is foreordained.

Familiariaze yourself with this.  Pin, in your own mind, where we are now:

 

 

I was listening to those Ivy League Presidents unable to answer a simple YES (or NO) to a question about whether calling for genocide and/or the destruction of an entire nation rises to an actionable item under their own codes.  The legalese bob-and-weave that they all did utterly disgusts me.

Universities Contextualize Calls for Genocide of Jews | Frontpage Mag

The students, of course, are no better:

Survey: Students Who Hate Israel the Most Know the Least About It | Frontpage Mag

I’ve seen students asked “Which river, which sea”? and they have no idea.  It’s the Current Thing, the trendy thing, and they have no idea what they’re supporting other than eeeeeevil colonizers being taken down.  But this is how it starts.  And we’ve seen how this ends.

Stop pretending otherwise.

Don’t let “Oh that’s just not possible” or “That can’t happen here” be what you continue to intone, mantra-like, until you get dragged from your home or worse.

Don’t be a TWENTY-NINER.

 

Nazi Book Burning

 

 

My transcription starting about 7:41, bolding added:

“…my mother who, when I asked her if we had to worry about a guy like Hitler, she said: ‘No, we are living in a Democracy, we have the protection of the police, nobody is going to hurt us’, so talk about warning signs there were plenty of them.  Did we take them serious, my family didn’t, never believed the Germans would stoop so low they would implement the threats one fanatic uttered…”. 

James Woods Advises Jews to Arm Themselves in Response to Shocking Poll – Twitchy

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Some of the current Progressive stands taken by the Left cost them dearly in the pocketbook. That financial hit is the best way to get the attention of a Liberal. Some of the results of elections at home and worldwide are evidence that voters are anxious to get the radical liberals out of office.

It shows we are heading to a more moderate, even Conservative, place in politics.

First, look at two elections where voters might want a second chance. In Chicago, the Homicide Capital of America, Lori Lightfoot was replaced with, hard to believe, a more radical leftist, Brandon Johnson. In addition to the kill rates climbing, he has made other decisions that will further add to the decline of the Windy City. Chicago had a chance and blew it. They will not next time. (Related: Signs The Pendulum Is Swinging To The Right … Part 1)

In California, Gavin Newsom survived a recall election. You cannot find one parameter that indicates positive growth for the Golden State except for the salaries of the Los Angeles Dodgers. As bad as the gem of the West Coast has become, Gavin Newsome is considered the next Democrat in line for the White House. Newsome has to be the poster child for the Peter Principal. God have mercy on us if Newsom’s next stop is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

But some recent elections have moved their countries sharply right. Europe is not known to be a bastion of Conservatism, but the conservative Popular Party won the elections in Spain. However, it fell short of its hopes of scoring a much more significant victory and forcing the removal of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Instead, the party led by candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo performed below the expectations of most campaign polls. A split ticket is a win for Conservatives.

Sweden and Norway have also seen Conservatives win in major political positions. Paraguay and Guatemala have also elected Conservative leaders. These countries have been known for their Liberal leanings for some time. That tide has changed and in a big way. We hope these hot spots become the epicenter for a Conservative wave.

The elections of 2023 showed the winning key for Liberals in our country. If any Abortion related question was on a ballot, Democrats came out in droves. Abortion is the hot-button ticket in politics, and Democrat candidates are riding the emotional power that Abortion conjures.

Sheila Jackson Lee was a force in Congress and left the House to run for Mayor of Houston. She thought the election was a slam dunk, but she was on the losing side of a landslide win by a more moderate candidate, state Sen. John Whitmire. Ms. Lee wasted no time announcing she would run to regain her seat in the House. Lee is a member of the aging Democrat party that has been in power far too long. The young Radicals are proving not to be worthy heirs, and people on both sides have tired of their hatred and disrespect for our country. The Squad may be the poster children for the Conservative rebirth. Representative Cortez was seen polishing her shaker!

 

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There is one and only one way to determine the “true cost” of an adequate education. That is to create a competitive education marketplace. Alas, that is not the approach New Hampshire has taken.

Instead, legislators have tried to set the cost by decree. Public school districts, asserting with some justification that the amount is too low, have asked courts to… set the cost by decree.

Now a court has done so, and the results are as absurd as one would expect.

On November 20th, Rockingham County Superior Court Justice David Ruoff ruled that the Legislature’s decreed amount ($4,100 per pupil; he excluded differentiated aid) was unconstitutionally low. But, he said, the plaintiff school districts’ asserted amount ($9,929) was too high. The actual minimum constitutionally permissive state per-pupil expenditure was, he figured, $7,356.01. 

Note the penny. Such precision carries the weight of both mathematical and legal certainty. 

Except, the entire number, including the penny, is merely a guess offered as a suggestion for legislators to consider because the court lacked enough information to find the true figure. So says… Justice David Ruoff.

“Although the evidence demonstrates that a base adequacy aid level of $7,356.01 would be constitutionally insufficient, the Court cannot set a higher threshold at this time,” Ruoff wrote. “Such a step is precluded by the limitations of the evidence presented at trial, as well as the involvement of certain policy considerations. The Court is confident, however, that the guidance offered here will empower the legislature to meaningfully consider and appropriately respond to the relevant issues.”

Well, glad that’s cleared up. 

How did Justice Ruoff conclude both that $7,356.01 was the minimum threshold of constitutionality and that he had too little information to make such a conclusion?

After reviewing the statutory and regulatory requirements for adequacy, and examining actual school district spending, he undertook the following policy analysis: 

He used “common sense” to guess that some district spending wasn’t essential for adequacy, lopped off an arbitrary percentage from some figures (without examining others that would be relevant, such as public charter school spending), and wound up with a back-of-the-envelope guess that can’t quite be called educated, but probably could pass as educated at a cocktail party if it didn’t talk too much. 

Justice Ruoff tasked himself with deciding three questions:

“[T]here are three inquires before the Court: (I) what are the necessary components or cost-drivers of a constitutionally adequate education, as defined by the legislature, exclusive of additional services provided to students eligible for differentiated aid?; (II) what funding is necessary for school districts to provide those components and cost- drivers?; and (III) how does that amount compare to the funding currently provided via base adequacy aid? As the third inquiry is a matter of simple mathematics, the evidence presented at trial largely focused on the first two inquiries.”

To answer these questions, Ruoff considered state requirements and district expenditures. At no point did the court consider whether there might be other, more effective, more efficient and less costly ways to satisfy the state requirements.

Damning for the decision is that the word “market” appears just nine times in the 69-page ruling. Plaintiffs use it to argue for higher teacher compensation, as competition for good teachers drives up wages, and the court uses it to argue that professional development funds are part of adequacy. 

The word is used to justify higher spending, never lower. That’s odd, given that competitive market forces have been shown to improve productivity and drive down costs in K-12 education. 

• A 2010 Harvard University Graduate School of Education study found that “competition from private schools boosts achievement and lowers costs.” According to the study, “a 10 percent increase in enrollment in private schools improves a country’s mathematics test scores on PISA by almost half a year’s worth of learning. A 10 percent increase in private school enrollment also reduces the total educational spending per student by over 5 percent of the OECD average.”
• A 2012 study of open enrollment policies in Wisconsin found that “schools respond to competitive forces by improving quality.”
• A 2003 study found that “regular public schools boosted their productivity when exposed to competition.” That productivity increase typically took the form of higher performance rather than lowered spending. Nonetheless, the study shows that schools can produce better results without higher spending when competition is introduced.
• A 2019 study of private schools participating in Wisconsin’s voucher program found that “private and independent charter schools tend to be more cost-effective than district-run public schools in the state overall and for the vast majority of individual cities.” Particularly, private schools received 27% less funding than district public schools overall but generated “2.27 more points on the Accountability Report Card for every $1,000 invested than district-run public schools, demonstrating a 36 percent cost- effectiveness advantage for private schools.”

Any examination of school spending that ignores chartered public schools and non-public schools is incomplete at best. And any that doesn’t even consider the effects that competition could have on the system is negligent. 

The understatement of the ruling came in Justice Ruoff’s caveat that he was hindered by the “limitations of the evidence presented at trial.” Those limitations, he acknowledged, prevented him from determining with certainty how much an adequate education should cost. But the limitations were greater than he realized. 

Not only did the court lack sufficient school district data to make an accurate cost determination, but it lacked equally important data on the efficiency gains created by competition. Going forward with an analysis despite such huge gaps in available data was a critical error. 

The ruling was plagued with numerous problems, the first being its roots in the wrongly decided Claremont decision. But even accepting the Claremont fallacy, the ruling was doomed by fatal methodological flaws and a devastating shortage of information. 

The information problem should have been obvious from the start. Prices are information. Prices absent competition are woefully inadequate information. Since no competitive education market exists in New Hampshire, the court is left applying legal analysis and back-of-the-envelope math to discover something that only the market can discover: the best available cost of a service. 

It’s clear that legislators set a low figure in the hope that this will press district spending downward. Districts, however, encourage local voters to approve ever higher budgets, which counters the Legislature’s intent. Districts then use those higher levels of spending to claim that the state appropriation is too low. Given these dynamics, it’s impossible to determine with any accuracy just how low district spending could go while meeting the state mandates for adequacy.

Until New Hampshire introduces some form of robust market competition, Granite Staters will never know what an adequate education really should cost. 

 

Andrew Cline | JBartlett

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Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs sent Joe Border Bender Biden a bill. She says he owes Arizona a 512 million dollar handling fee for illegal border crosser management. Those aren’t the words she used, but that’s what this is. She also wants more troops, not to stop the invasion but to manage it.

 

In a letter to President Joe Biden, Hobbs is requesting that the 243 National Guard troops already on federal orders in the Tucson Sector be redirected to helping with the Lukeville Port of Entry’s reopening.

She also said that she wants “additional National Guard members currently on federal active duty orders to be reassigned to Arizona to assist U.S. Customs and Border Protection to reopen the Lukeville Port of Entry.”

In addition, the governor included in her letter a request for the federal government to reimburse $512.5 million to the state over border security-related costs including “migrant transportation, drug interdiction, and law enforcement.”

 

Hobbs abrogated the sovereignty of her state and its people to the will of the Federal government and its open border policy but needs them to step up and help her manage their mess.

Here’s an idea. Send your own troops and block the border. Keep the illegals out. Make them stay in Mexico. Send a message that the law as written – not as reimagined by a doddering fool named Biden – will be enforced. Don’t make the trip. Don’t risk your life. Stop selling your children. We won’t let you in. We can’t. There are too many here already.

That won’t happen. Hobbs’ Arizona is a franchisee of the Progressive Cloward Piven agenda. Overwhelming the system is the goal. But if that’s the point, why ask for help preventing the system from being overwhelmed? It’s not like you need votes from actual voters to stay in office.

And what if Biden says no? What do you do then?

 

HT | Just the News

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If ever a picture is worth a thousand words, it is the painting of George Washington kneeling and praying by his white horse in the snow at Valley Forge. Because of our forefathers’ prayers and sacrifice, our families enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas by warm fires, stuffing our bellies, and watching football.

In spite of the freezing winter of 1777, the divine seeds of liberty were growing in the hearts of our troops. Even while most observers agreed with John Adams’ conclusion: “The prospect is chilling on every side; gloomy; dark, melancholy, and despairing,” Washington’s faith was the Continental Army’s most powerful weapon. Washington sought guidance to overcome previous defeats, retreats, and how his men would survive the freezing winter. Our forefathers paid the price of liberty with their lives, fortunes, and sacred honors. Let us pray to the same God who guided and answered Washington’s prayers.

Imagine the dark outlook endured by soldiers, half-naked, leaving bloody footprints in the snow of 1777. The Continental Army all but beaten after September’s retreat from New York. Suffering defeat at Brandywine: 200 troops killed, 500 wounded and 400 captured. How did the troops endure the dark gloom when Philadelphia fell to the British? They were a destitute army with soaked ammunition as their only weapon. No one today suffers the hunger our soldiers endured at Valley Forge: “One soldier’s meal on Thanksgiving Day declared by Congress was a “half a gill of rice (1/4 of a standard pint, 2 oz of rice), and a tablespoon of vinegar.”

Beaten down with defeat, the count of 4,000 soldiers was incapacitated in January and February of 1778, resulting from exposure, undernourishment, and disease. Historian George Bancroft tells us that “love of country and attachment to General Washington sustained them through these unparalleled hardships, and that without his leadership, the army would have dissolved and vanished.” Tory Quaker Issac Potts, after observing the source of Washington’s power, praying in the snow, related to his wife, “Independence will be established because God in His Providence has willed it so because Washington was the only one on earth the Lord would listen to.”

Prayers were answered that spring, cheering our soldiers as France entered the war as an ally with the promise of French money and troops. The Continental Congress acknowledged this as the hand of God, declaring a National Day of Thanksgiving on May 7th following Washington’s orders issued at Valley Forge on May 5th of 1778. He proclaimed:

“It having pleased the Almighty Ruler of the Universe propitiously to defend the cause of the United American States, and finally by raising up a powerful friend among the Princes of the earth, to establish our Liberty and Independence upon a lasting foundation; it becomes us to set apart a day for gratefully acknowledging the Divine Goodness, and celebrating the event which we owe to his benign interposition.”

Yes, the political climate of our day is gloomy as globalists move to control our lives. Read Psalms 2, where David tells us that “the Lord laughs at the Kings of the earth and the rulers who counsel together against Him.” Pray that our people once again will rise up in a thundering appeal to the same God our fathers relied on for divine protection. Who was, who is, and who will always be, “The great I Am.” Just as at Valley Forge, prayer was the Continental Army’s greatest asset. Today, it still remains our most powerful weapon.

 

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The fiasco that was the COVID response continues to find new broken ground as the truth seeps like sand between the fingers of a despotic American government.

An institution that was deliberate in its deception, forceful in its demand for compliance, and has yet to be held accountable for the damage it has done.

 

Lieutenant Ted Macie is an active-duty officer with the U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps who serves as a health administrator and medical recruiter. His wife Mara Macie is running for Congress in Florida’s Fifth District. Both have been speaking out against the Pentagon’s COVID jab mandate and its treatment of service members who objected.

In a video uploaded to social media, Lt. Macie cited a July letter from U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness Gilbert Cisneros Jr. acknowledging the authenticity of previously exposed data from the Pentagon’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), which shows that 2021 saw drastic spikes in a variety of diagnoses for serious medical issues over the previous five-year average, including hypertension (2,181%), neurological disorders (1,048%), multiple sclerosis (680%), Guillain-Barre syndrome (551%), breast cancer, (487%), female infertility (472%), pulmonary embolism (468%), migraines (452%), ovarian dysfunction (437%), testicular cancer (369%), and tachycardia (302%).

 

The military vaccine mandates have proven to be one of the most effective attacks on US Military readiness in our lifetime. A chemical injection mandated by our government, justified by a virus if paid to an engineer, is released from a lab in China.

The numbers are staggering, but on the matter of fighter pilots, those people don’t grow on trees, and replacing them doesn’t happen overnight.

If you’d like to talk about an insurrection, perhaps you start with the money and permission trail that led to the virus and then the chain of command for mandating the poisoning of our troops.

 

“There is a complete lack of trust in the military ‘leadership’ among those who were not only involuntarily separated, but also those who walked away (including just shy of retirement), those who fought from within but were flagged for promotion, those who didn’t want to take the shot but were coerced, and us family members who have been told that our community’s mental and physical health is important to that alleged leadership,” Mara Macie said on X.

“Accountability is the only answer,” she continued. “Every single voice of servicemembers who suffered because of these ILLEGAL mandates should be heard before Congress. Every single military ‘leader’ who was informed by servicemembers presenting them with the law and still did nothing should be investigated until we remove all those who put their careers above the mental and physical safety of our servicemembers and their families.”

 

Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen who cannot trust the chain of command present a huge problem for the service and the nation. And you’d be right to wonder if that were not the point. And if that is the case who decided what, and when, and what is their endgame?

And if it was just a mistake? What are those people still doing in positions of power?

 

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Most things in this world change over time. There is an ebb and flow to life, and if we do not think we are heading in the right direction, we can be comforted that the pendulum will eventually swing back. That ball has been swinging to the Left for what seems like years, and it felt like the whole world was embracing Socialism.

We who believe in history know the experiment is not working now, nor did it in the past. It would help if you looked no further than Venezuela and Cuba. A major problem we face, if we hope to change course, is an entire generation of our children have been indoctrinated to believe our country was founded and grew on the backs of Black slaves. These young people have been taught an alternate version of history that our country is evil and only a move towards the Left and a more Socialist form of government will save America. Of course, we on the Right think differently and believe in our history as documented. We recognize that we are not a perfect union, and there are sins in our past. However, we realize those sins must be evaluated and judged in the context of time, and once identified, we take the steps to correct our errors.

A vivid example of this indoctrination is the extremely high number of young people who are turning out to protest against Israel and in favor of Palestinians. They are pulling for the independence of Palestine when there is no such country. They deny the holocaust and the atrocities committed against the Israeli people on October 7. They instead look at the effort to destroy Hamas as an unprovoked attack. These people get a filtered version of history and the news that is created to support the narrative of the elites on the Left. This brainwashing has been done by a complicit group consisting of Academia, elected politicians, and the media. The education system has failed us, the politicians have filled our heads with lies, and the media is willing and able to support them. It is a dangerous cartel, but we on the Right are up for the challenge of righting the ship.

Whenever you discuss trends, there is one factor that is always aligned, and that is the money. Follow the money. In the case of rising conservatism, it is not only money spent on the cause but also money pulled back from the opposing trend line. First, there were the big-money contributors that began notifying their liberal Alma Maters the big checks would no longer be coming. That trend is continuing as donors watching the campus demonstrations calling for the genocide of Israel made some of these individuals tear up their checks. The President of U Penn could not denounce the call for genocide as hate speech when testifying in front of a House Committee. The result was her resignation, but not before $100 Million in potential donations was withdrawn.

Then, the wealthiest man in the world put up a crazy amount of cash to purchase Twitter. Elon Musk saw what bias, censorship, and misinformation were tilting the political landscape unfairly to the Left. His promise was to eliminate censorship and return Twitter, which he renamed “X,” to the Free Speech platform that it had always professed to be. Twitter, like Facebook, had become toxic. Musk stepped up to correct a part of that toxicity. Because of his efforts, X should not have a role in electing our President as it did in 2020.

Tomorrow, in the second installment of this article, I will highlight some of the Conservative candidates worldwide who are surprising the pundits and shocking their Liberal opponents. I hope you will come back and check it out.

 

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In the Not So Great White North, a 50-year-old York University professor named Nicholas Cepeda was allowed to compete in a swim meet against Tween and Teenage girls. He was also seen sharing their locker and shower room with the permission of the East Bayfield Community Centre and Barrie Trojans Swim Club.

As is often the case, one might ask why a 50-year-old man would want to be in a locker room with girls as young as thirteen. Because he’s a woman, you bigot. “Melody Wiseheart swam against girls as young as 13 during the Trojan Cup swimming competition at the East Bayfield Community Centre in Barrie, Ontario, according to a report by Rebel News.”

As alarming and disturbing as it may appear, I have a different question. Does “Melody” also believe he is a teenager?

To what purpose does an aging adult swimmer compete against pubescent girls? Might he also believe he is black, Hispanic, or Innuit? All of the above? Is there a lazy Susan of demographic characteristics from which to pick, like condiments for today’s #woke sandwich, or does he get up in the morning and take a few throws at the diversity dart board?

Teenage, and Girl. Got it!

 

This is not the first time Cepeda has competed against young girls. In October, Cepeda swam against children ages 13-14 during the Richmond Hill Aquatic Centre Fall Classic swimming competition.

Event organizers initially denied that Cepeda had participated in the event until confronted with his name on a copy of their schedule. They “eventually” relented, Menzies reported, “but they didn’t want to get into a debate about gender and age.” Representatives for governing bodies Swimming Canada and Swimming Toronto were reportedly “too busy” to answer questions about the incident. 

 

You are proud to be a partner in the rainbow pride culture, then run away (or, at least, hide) when asked about it. Not so proud, or are you looking for a way to put that back in a closet?

And I don’t care where you think you stand on the issue of the gender spectrum; how is this not creepy, and why isn’t this guy on a sexual predator watchlist?

Because he says he’s a woman, Bigot!

 

 

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CBS News recently reported that inflation under Biden has cost the average American family over $11 thousand per year. Rest assured, that figure is understated because it is based on “government data.” The tweet below links to the CBS article.

Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics. https://t.co/t79U2FLqFv

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 29, 2023

But if you really want to take a deep dive into what can only be described as the UniParty’s decades-long war on the American middle class, check out David Stockton’s The Destruction of The American Middle Class: Some highlights:

Since money-printing went into permanent high gear after the dotcom crash in 2000, the top 1% of households have gained $20 million each in inflation-adjusted net worth. Likewise, the top 0.1% or 131,000 households at the tippy top of the economic ladder have gained $88 million each in inflation-adjusted net worth. … [in contrast]  during the last 22 years the median real annual wage, as tracked by Social Security payroll tax records, has risen by only 14.5% or just $235 per annum.

[the] median annual wage for 2022 was just slightly above $40,000, and that by definition half of the nation’s 172 million workers with wage records earned less than that amount. … this figure amounts to only 65% of the Federal poverty line for a household of 4 persons ($27,750) and is barely above the $14,580 poverty level for a single person household.

Yet “traditional Republicans” … you know, the ones funded by and beholden to the donor class that have gotten richer and richer while the middle class gets poorer and poorer … continue to claim that globalization and “free trade” are good for the middle class.

 

 

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The propaganda war against conscientious objectors to the COVID-19 injections was fierce, and while most of the parroted fearmongering came from Liberals or the left, recent research identified a significant number of “Trump supporters” who blamed the unvaccinated just as they’d been told to do, by their government.

From Igor Chudov.

 

You would expect me to rant against the above-mentioned left-leaning individuals. Instead, I would like to point out that “Trump supporters” were also prone to scapegoating and hatred towards the unvaccinated, although to a lesser extent:

 

 

Here are a few more Liberal examples.

 

Consider, for instance, how in 2020, more than 30% of Americans believed that a COVID infection led to a 50% chance of hospitalization; it never did, nor was there ever evidence to suggest it might. Left-leaning individuals tended to over-estimate COVID harms to a greater degree than conservatives.”

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The results of Study 1, based on 570 American residents, revealed that people were more likely to scapegoat the unvaccinated or unvaccinated-recovered characters compared to the vaccinated characters, regardless of the characters’ risk profiles. In particular, the participants believed that unvaccinated individuals were “responsible for overwhelmed healthcare systems,” “to be blamed for the effects of hospital staff shortages,” “at fault for C19 deaths and hospitalization, and “guilty of severely jeopardizing his/her community’s public health.”

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“This last scenario focused solely on a 28-year-old healthy man who works outdoors alone and has either recovered from COVID or got vaccinated more than 6 months ago without plans for a booster. Both characters, the recovered and vaccinated, are at low risk for hospitalization and are equally capable of spreading the virus. Yet, the unvaccinated but recovered character received more blame. Moreover, individuals who identified as liberal were more likely to blame the unvaccinated compared to their conservative counterparts.”

 

The reasons for all of this are obvious. The Media, Government, and Public Health apparatus engaged in a 24/7/365 campaign to justify the extreme response and an all-out war on human liberty. It could brook no dissent. But it lied about the risk, and that was evident from the state-level data after the first few weeks of shutdowns and lockdowns.

Evidence was only useful to those inclined to cherish freedom before safety, so while a vector of Americans began to push back with questions, concerns, legitimate constitutional objections, and so on, the governments/global terror had already done its job even among ‘Trump supporters.”

People were told they’d die even though almost no one outside the groups typically affected by the flu did. When the vaccines rolled out and made matters worse, blaming people who refused them was easier than asking how positive cases, hospitalizations, and deaths might spike after the salvation of a vaccine had arrived.

The vaccine was the only new variable. How could that be? It had to be the people who hadn’t received it, and the media made that lie their institutional truth. Lies they tried to hide. Perceptions that linger still, even though there is no doubt that the COVID vaccines were never tested to prevent transmission or that they ever could. The long list of side effects, many dangerous, was not a mystery before launch; the real conspiracy was to hide that truth. And they are still trying to hide it.

The New Zeland Whistleblower data is not just damaging but devastating.

The same government that scaremongered you into getting an unsafe and ineffective pharmaceutical treatment with complex and dangerous side effects deliberately hid or refused to look for safety signals because had they found any, they would have had to pull the vaccine.

And we’re not done with revelations but this research shows how effective the psy-op was and continues to be.

 

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The memes are stacked up like cordwood. Here’s the first selection of the week…

Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition.  Last week’s Friday Edition.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

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

 

 

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When the 1965 immigration law was passed assurances were given that the demographics of America would not change.  Meanwhile, the Dems used this to import millions of new voters.  And with the advent of the vast majority of those coming in now being males of military age, how soon before they’re connected with the weaponry & ammo purchased for all those federal agencies under Barackus and set loose on the public?  Remember:

 

 

 

 

One of the minor ironies I have seen in the latest situation is the Lebanese pr0n star, Mia Khalifa, who has done FF scenes, taking the side of Hamas against Israel… when, by dint of her now former career (and I admit, good for her for quitting that industry), she’d be stoned to death under the Sharia laws Hamas et al want to impose worldwide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EU lawmaker dies of ‘heart attack’, age 70, following accusation of Von Der Leyen in corruption. – Rivasi was investigating EC head von der Leyen and Pfizer, who are preparing to extend their contract to supply the vaccine until 2026 at inflated prices with a 40% oversupply of doses. – Rivasi was preparing to give a report to the European Parliament on December 15. She wanted to announce the results of the investigation and provide copies of documents to the press. Very conveniently timed heart attack! https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel

Remember.  Money on this scale buys anything, including “convenient” deaths of “inconvenient” people.  And it’s not just money, but untold power… total tyranny, plus getting rid of the useless eaters. 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 Depopulation Speculations – Granite Grok These people are SERIOUS about this.  Meanwhile: More on that: The Ministry of Health granted vaccine exemptions to hundreds among its key staff whilst hypocritically insisting that the public be vaccinated – Daily Telegraph NZ >>>>>=====<<<<<

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I foresee a “tragic accident” in his near future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ability of people to deny evidence – a la Yuri Bezmenov – that’s right in front of them is astonishing.  Consider… I once mentioned that in a TED talk Gates talked about reducing the population with vaccines.  He said it.  The person didn’t believe me.  I said Gates smirked at the prospect of the “next pandemic” waking people up.  They didn’t believe me – so I showed them the video.

 

https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Bill-Melinda-Gates-Giggle-Smirk-Over-2nd-Wave-of-Pandemic_ZmP6_gy-MIE_360p.mp4

 

And they STILL didn’t believe that he said what he said and they both smirked.  “Oh, that’s just faked”.  Out of context too, don’t you know?

We talk about trying to wake people up.  They won’t… until it affects them personally, either directly or through a loved one.  Related is this next meme:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

This is subtle.  But once you “get it”… powerful.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Come back Wednesday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

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As Republicans search for a successful messaging strategy on abortion, one Candidate for President, Pro-Life Democrat Tarissa Bukovinac, is dropping all posturing an pretense, hoping to expose the extremism of her party on the issue.

The American left is almost singularly obsessed with aborting the unborn from conception to birth. No other nation does it. Most Western Countries prohibit them after 15-20 weeks. New Hampshire Dems called the state’s Republicans extreme for passing restrictions after 24 weeks, while many more liberal states surrounding New Hampshire have similar or more restrictive laws in place.

But Dems have had electoral success painting Republicans as out of touch on the issue when they are more in line with America and the world. But, it works at the ballot box.

We have to wonder what this will accomplish. According to a Campaign press release (below) the Bukovinac Ad is extremely graphic, airing tonight, during the Jimmy Fallon Show.

“Although this strategy has generated controversy, the Bukovinac Campaign remains steadfast in exposing the violence of abortion.”

The goal is to get the reality of abortion, especially late term abortion, in front of people who refuse to see it for what it is.

All I can say is imagine if a Republican candidate for anything did this? Would they even have the nerve to try it?

Here’s the press release.

 

Contact: Stephanie Luiz, (305) 877-0893, stephanie@terrisa2024.com

Washington, D.C. (December, 11th, 2024) — Today, the Terrisa Bukovinac for President Campaign announced it will begin airing explicit anti-abortion ads in the Boston/New Hampshire market. Bukovinac is on the ballot in New Hampshire for the Democratic Primary.

The advertisements will air during The Jimmy Fallon Show on NBC in Boston/New Hampshire and Massachusetts on December 11. The scheduled TV ad can be accessed here.

The 30-second TV ads show in gruesome detail the gut-wrenching remains of five babies killed by later abortion, featuring footage captured by Bukovinac when she recovered the remains last year outside an all term abortion business in Washington DC. This effort is part of the campaign’s strategy to engage voters on the atrocity of later abortion during the 2024 presidential election by embracing the power of visual storytelling to expose the brutality of abortion. The ad condemns the Biden administration and the Democratic party’s extreme, out-of-touch abortion platform, which stands at odds with 30% of Democrats.

Although this strategy has generated controversy, the Bukovinac Campaign remains steadfast in exposing the violence of abortion.

Bukovinac stated that her aim with this advertisement is to “disrupt the consciences of the American people, particularly leftists who are complicit in abortion by supporting pro-abortion candidates.”

Bukovinac also states: “pretending like millions of pro-life Democrats like myself don’t exist isn’t a winning strategy. The right to life must be protected at every age, everywhere, and that is why I am on the ballot as a presidential candidate—to be a voice for the innocent and oppressed and rekindle the debate inside the Democratic Party. ”

FCC regulations stipulate that news stations “have no power of censorship over the material” in campaign ads. The campaign aims to communicate the gravity and urgency of the abortion issue to American voters through impactful visuals. As the 2023 presidential race intensifies, the Bukovinac Campaign remains dedicated to educating voters about the violence associated with abortion.

Terrisa Bukovinac is a leading secular progressive pro-life activist running for President of the United States. She previously served as the President of Democrats for Life of America, and is the Founder of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU). Bukovinac’s bid for the Democratic nomination amplifies the voices of the 1 in 4 Democrats who support common sense abortion limits.—

Stephanie Luiz Campaign Manager e. Stephanie@bfp2024.com w. Terrisa 2024

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It is impossible not to have a wave of patriotism and pride take over your body as you settle in for the annual Army-Navy Game. This year, it is even more special as the Cadets and Mid-Shipmen gather in Foxboro, Massachusetts, the home of the Original Patriots and the six-time Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots.

The young men who took the field are not your typical student-athletes. These men take the field in their unique uniforms designed just for this game, but tomorrow, they will don the United States Army or Navy uniforms. These are the future leaders of the most powerful military in the world. But for sixty minutes, they will defend their end zone from the team on the other side of the line of scrimmage. Adversaries on the field, men united on a mission every other day to keep the enemy away from you and me. These men are football players, but they are also our heroes. They are indeed a unique lot.

This game is the greatest rivalry in sports. Forget the Yankees and Red Sox. This matchup eclipses the Celtics and Lakers. Move over, Bruins and Canadians. On this Saturday, it is not Tom and Peyton exchanging touchdowns. Only one game is on the schedule: Army vs Navy. The khaki vs the navy blue and the spread doesn’t matter. These men will leave everything on the Gillette Stadium Field. As the Black Knights of the Army and the Midshipmen of the Navy ran onto the field, their respective classmates roared with support. This meeting is the 124th edition of a tradition like no other. It is not only sport but Americana.

Of course, these teams are playing to win and the bragging rights for the year, but to us, they are all winners. The score is immaterial to the rest of us. Every player on that field is a winner. There will be a losing team but never a losing player. At the end of this game, hard knocks will turn to firm handshakes and friendly embraces. The next time some of these players meet, they may be on a battlefield on the other side of the world.

At a time when the country cannot be more divided comes a sporting event in which every American can find pride. The Left and Right may differ on when we should use our military might, but both sides love our men and women with the American flag on their shoulders. These men represent the best and brightest our country has to offer, and God Bless those young men and women willing to put their personal lives on hold while they serve their country. There was no outstanding offensive outburst, and it was a defensive battle, which is fitting for defending the homeland is what these young men will do. The game ended at the one-foot line with a mass of twenty-two massive athletes in a stand-off.

Army won the game, but all these men will be Brothers in Arms forever.

 

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Talking about Hillary’s illegal server was election interference. Discussing Hunter Biden’s Laptop was also election interference. Everything being done to Trump, however, is not – according to political elites, but a majority of voters disagree. Recent polling suggests they see it for what it is.

If ever there were a definition of election interference, understanding that the definition of anything is a moving target on the Left, it would be frivolous politically driven litigation during an election season.

And so it is.

 

Among all voters, 60% agreed that the unprecedented legal charges against Trump were politically driven by the Democratic Party, while 31% disagreed.

What’s surprising isn’t that majorities of Republicans (81% “agree,” 13% “disagree”) and independents (53% “agree,” 35% “disagree”) see eye-to-eye, but that a plurality of Democrats (49% “agree,” 44% “disagree”) also believe the prosecutions are politically motivated.

 

 

Even Democrat voters appear nearly in the majority on the matter, but the ominous undertones don’t stop there. 76% of Republicans and 63% of Independents polled said they would still vote for Trump (in the Primary) if he were convicted of something. The folks at AFP-HQ must be scratching their wooden heads over that one.

Did we send all those glossy mailers for naught? I think perhaps you did, but as I’ve noted in the past, you can do with your money what you like. Pick a candidate, an issue, and be whoever you are in defense of that. But I think you backed the wrong horse. Trump won in 2016 because he was an outsider—a disruptor. Eight years later, despite being President for four of them, Donald Trump is still the outside/disruptor candidate, at least in the eyes of most Republicans, and that’s whose Primary he needs to win.

And at a time when more Americans, perhaps than ever, see the political establishment as a threat to their privacy, lives, and livelihoods.

It doesn’t make AFP or anyone who claims Trump can’t win the General wrong (given the lack of attention to election integrity, what Republican can). Still, they’ve been unable to prove that to Republican primary voters, and the NH Primary is in six weeks, the Iowa Caucus is in five weeks, and the wind is blowing favorably in Trump’s direction.

 

 

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