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In September of 1622, a severe hurricane about thirty-five miles west of Key West, Florida, caused the sinking of the Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de Atocha (“Our Lady Of Atocha). On board, twenty-four tons of treasure, including gold, silver, copper and gems, sank to the bottom of the ocean. The loss of this ship’s cargo directly impacted Spain’s economy by forcing that country to borrow more money in order to fund its role in the Thirty Years’ War. American treasure hunter, Mel Fisher, funded by investors and others, searched for the Atocha for sixteen years and, in 1985, finally discovered the wreck along with its 450 million worth of treasure. In 2014, the Atocha was added to

the Guinness Book Of World Records as being the most valuable shipwreck to be recovered. Over 900 silver bars appeared on the Atocha’s manifest and it is unsure how many are still with collector’s. Some having been melted down and others on display at the Mel Fisher museum in Key West, Florida. “I never know what I will see come into my store on a daily basis,” said Dan Estes of Estes Collectibles and Investments in Meredith. “This piece has to be one of the most significant that I have ever had.” Estes was talking about the almost ninety-pound silver ingot from the Atocha which has been in his possession for the last couple of months. “I was 18 and just starting in the

(Top) This 89-pound silver bar is part of the over 450 million dollar find of the shipwreck Nuestra Señora de Atocha sunk in 1622 and found in 1985, the most valuable shipwreck ever recovered. This rare piece recently came into the possession of Dan Estes (below) of Estes Collectible Investments in Meredith.

Wolfeboro Friends of Music presents The Dartmouth Aires - on Saturday October 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Brewster’s Anderson Hall. For over 60 years, the Dartmouth Aires have established themselves as the pinnacle of musical excellence, high energy performance and outrageous comedy. The Aires will bring their extreme musical talent, passion, diversity and friendship to deliver a concert filled with their own arrangements of music ranging from the traditional to modern, to pop and beyond in a way that is guaranteed to delight. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at the door on the evening of the concert. Advance tickets may be purchased at Black’s Paper Store; Avery Insurance in Wolfeboro; Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith; by calling (603) 569-2151; or by visiting twfriendsofmusic.org. High school students with ID and all children accompanied by an adult will be admitted free of charge.

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October Through October Reduced Admission with Toys for Tots Donation Wright Museum of WWII, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro. From October 1st through the 31st, each person who brings a new, unwrapped toy will receive ½ price admission at the Wright Museum of WWII. Help make the holiday season special for those children who may not otherwise receive that hoped-for toy! The Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm and Sundays from Noon till 4pm. www.wrightmuseum.org or 569-1212 Thursday 26th

Family Movie Showing – Hocus Pocus Concord Public Library, 45 Green Street, Concord. 5:30pm. Movie runs 96 minutes and is rated PG. Refreshments provided! 225-8670

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Free Community Emergency Response Class – 4 Week Class Laconia Central Fire Station, Laconia. Learn to be prepared in an extended power outage, to face an emergency medical situation, how to use a fore extinguisher, safety strategies in a terror attack or disaster and more. The class will continue weekly on Thursday evenings for the following three weeks. Those interested should contact Kathleen Merriam at the Partnership for Public Health, 528-2145 or email

kmerriam@pphnh.org Trivia Night!

Hart’s Restaurant, 233 Daniel Webster Highway, Meredith. 7pm. 279-4433

Jeremy Wallace trio Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Friday 27th Salisbury Woods Haunted Barn and Trail

Salisbury Four Corners, 19 Franklin Road, Salisbury. 7pm-10pm. Come to the Salisbury Woods and get scared for a great cause! Fundraiser for MVMS and Salisbury Elementary Parent Teacher Groups. $5pp, not recommended for small children.

Beans and Greens Nighttime Corn Maze Adventures!

Bean & Green, 245 Intervale Road, Gilford. 8pm-10pm (weather permitting). Visitors will have to navigate one of state’s most difficult corn mazes in complete darkness! The corn maze will feature the added element of ghouls and specters haunting the maze as the season progresses (follow social media for updates). Tickets are by reservation only; $10pp, $8 for children 9 and under. 293-2853

The Outlaws The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551

Dueling Pianos – Gardner Berry

vs Jim Tyrrell Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. www.patrickspub.com or 293-0841

Satori Jazz Fusion Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043

Rochester Main Street Hosts Trick or Treat & Zombie Walk

Trick or Treaters (costumed children age 10 years and younger) are asked to gather at 4:15pm in the Union Street parking lot in Rochester to pick up treat bags and maps indicating participating businesses that the children will go door to door to get treats and goodies. Bags and maps will be available until 5:15pm, and the trick-or-treating continues until 6:15pm. Following the young children’s event is the popular and ghoulishly delightful Zombie Walk for teens and adults! Participants will gather in the same Union Street parking lot at 6:45pm for a 7pm police-escorted walk down Union, North Main and South Main Streets to the Commons. Following the Zombie Walk, the public is welcome to join the Zombies in the Commons to enjoy entertainment, a bonfire and refreshments. 330-3208

Chocolate Fare

Moultonborough Library, 4 Holland Street, Moultonborough. 1pm-3pm. Back by popular demand, this new tradition is in it’s third year and features tables covered with an assortment of chocolate goodies. Help yourself to cakes, cookies, candy, chocolate bars, chocolate pies and more! Admission is $5pp at the door.

Saturday 28th Salisbury Woods Haunted Barn and Trail

Zombie Fest and Monster Mash

Constitution Park, Long Sands Road, Ossipee. 1pm-6pm. Free Hayrides, Face painting, Food, Vendors, Music by DJ Shamar, costume contest with cash prize for best male and female costumes, a three tier raffle and more! Raffle tickets are on sale at the Ossipee Main Street Building, 15 Moultonville Road, Center Ossipee. Call 569-7200 or 393-4592

The Dartmouth Aires Brewster Academy’s Anderson Hall, 80 Academy Drive, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. Tickets are $20pp and can be purchased at the door or at Black’s Paper Store in Wolfeboro or Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith or by calling 569-2151. www.wfriendsofmusic.

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Advice to the Players Presents “Shakespearian Idol” The Barnstormers Theatre, 104 Main Street, Tamworth. 7pm. Be a part of the biggest fundraising event of the fall for Advice to the Players with their Elizabethan take on the wildly popular American Idol! Audience members have the chance to participate in the judging and purchase votes for their favorite act; the more enthusiasm, the better! Entrance is a $10 suggested donation. 986-7827 or Diana@

advicetotheplayers.org Oktoberfest Dinner

Gilford Community Church, Gilford. 6pm. Traditional Sauerbraten dinner with fresh apple crisp for dessert. $16pp. 986-6723

Sunday 29th Spooktacular Halloween Bash – Fundraiser

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Kimball Lake Cabins, 66 Kimball Lake Road, Hopkinton. 12pm-3pm. All proceeds benefit Kimball Lake Cabins Restorations. Tickets are $20pp, children 10 and under are $10. Tickets can be purchased online at www.HopkintonRec.com or contact Louise Carr at 746-3370

Beans and Greens Nighttime Corn Maze Adventures!

Trick or Treat on Main Street in Meredith

The Yardbirds The Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh. com or 536-2551

Vintage Mystery Lasagna Dinner

555 Main Street, Farmington. 6pm-8pm. Hosted by the Missions Committee to benefit the First Congregational Church, Farmington. Vintage costumes are encouraged. $15pp or 2ppl for $25. To reserve tickets call 755-4816

Justin Jaymes – Live Music Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 9pm. www.patrickspub.com or 293-0841

At participating businesses on Main Street in Meredith. Noon-4pm. The newly formed Meredith Merchants Group welcomes families to come in costume to trick or treat at several participating businesses on Main Street. Main Street businesses will have special sales and discounts, free fall refreshments, activities and games and lots of candy! Just look for the balloons to find the participating businesses. 279-0557

Monday 30th Training for Interested CASA Volunteers in Laconia Area Begins This training will be held in Laconia for interested volunteers in the area. This comprehensive training covers everything from how to connect with children and the important people in their lives, to resources available for the children, court procedures and how to write a court report, an overview of legal procedures and protections, resources and support available to volunteers and more. Join

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StorySlam To Benefit Red Cross Hurricane Relief “Real Stories North Of Concord” presents a “StorySlam” on Thursday, November 9th at 7:30pm at Pitman’s Freight Room in Laconia as a fundraiser for American Red Cross Hurricane Relief. Twelve storytellers will be selected at random and have up to six minutes to tell their story. The theme for this Story Slam is: “Acts Of Kindness” Tickets are $20 and all net proceeds will go to the Red Cross Seating is limited so call Pitman’s at 527-0043 for tickets. Pitman’s Freight Room is a bring your own food and drinks venue. Pitman’s is located at 94 New Salem Street in Laconia.

The Rochester Opera House presents EAGLEMANIA EAGLEMANIA comes to the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, November 18th at 8pm. The music of the Eagles appeals to a wide variety of age groups, and the combination of heartfelt ballads, rock anthems laden with guitar harmonies, and the unmistakable sound of vocal harmonies as only the Eagles can do, has propelled the band for the past 40-plus years, positioning them as one of the most successful and popular bands in music history. EagleMania performs all of the hits of the Eagles, as well as Don Henley, Glen Frey, and Joe Walsh’s solo albums. Their attention to detail and their ability to reproduce the Eagles exactly leaves their fans with an experience they do not soon forget. People often remark that if they closed their eyes they would think they were listening to the actual Eagles live in concert. The band consists of an ensemble of veteran musicians whose goal is to faithfully reproduce the Eagle’s repertoire, music they love to sing and play, always committed to giving their audience a perfect show every time they take the stage. Doors open at 7pm. Tickets start at $24. Reserve tickets online or call the box office (603) 335-1992, M/W/F from 105pm and 2-hours before the show. The Rochester Opera House is sponsored by TD Bank North, Eastern Propane, Shaheen & Gordon P.A., and Norm Vetter Foundations. This show is sponsored by Broadview Animal Hospital. The Rochester Opera House is located in City Hall, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester NH. Visit www.RochesterOperaHouse.com for more information.

Moultonborough Historical Society Veteran’s Day Program The Moultonborough Historical Society will observe Veteran’s Day with a potluck meal beginning at 6pm on Monday, November 13 at the Town Public Safety building (Fire/Police Station) on Route 25 in Moultonborough. The society will recognize Veterans during the gathering. Following the potluck meal, at approximately 6:45 PM, a program entitled “New Hampshire Regiments at the Battle of Gettysburg” will be presented by Mr. Brad Wolff. Brad is a retired Social Studies teacher, has an avid interest in the American Civil War, and is a former N.H. Department of Education Social Studies Teacher of the Year. His presentation will focus on the importance of the Gettysburg conflict on the war and the experience of the 900 New Hampshire soldiers who were present.

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We will take safe, up to date equipment, including serviceable bindings, gently worn ski boots and shaped skis, as well as outdoor clothing that has been gently used. Consigners should bring items to Kingswood High School Friday November 10th between 3 and 8:30 pm-consigners keep 75% of the sales price.

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Make A Real Difference To The Editor: Have you ever read or heard something about our government in Belknap County or in our state and said to yourself, or to others, that you have much better ideas than you have been seeing from our existing politicians? Well, now is your chance to put your thoughts into action, and get well paid for it to boot. There are now 2 vacancies in the delegation of State Representatives from Belknap County because of the untimely passing of Rep. Flanders, Laconia (District 3) and the very recent resignation of Rep. Maloney, Alton/Gilmanton (District 5). Both seats have traditionally been held by Republicans. Assuming the Governor & Council agree, the Flanders seat from District 3 in Laconia will be filled in a special election on January 9, or at a general election on February 27 if there is a primary required on Jan. 9. There is, as of now, no word yet on a special election for the Maloney seat. If you have, or can make, the time to serve as a State Representative, you will find it very rewarding personally. You will have the opportunity to have your voice heard on important issues in a more meaningful way than just griping about how bad things seem to be.

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So, if you want to try to make a real difference and are a true Republican or Libertarian, you are encouraged to run for one of these now open seats. If you decide to do so, there are many people who will help you with your campaign, starting with this writer. If you would like to discuss any aspect of these possibilities, including a step-by-step how-to-do-it guide, please feel free to contact me at 293-0565 or by email at njs@silbersnh.com. But please do not delay. Norman Silber Member of the NH House of Representatives Belknap County District 2- Gilford & Meredith

Professional Athletes To the Editor: Professional athletes could significantly help solve the problems that they complain about; unfortunately their disrespectful protests of our country are counter-productive, self-destructive, and alienate people who support and applaud constructive efforts to help America’s less fortunate. The saddest thing is that the athletes’ illconsidered protests may encourage more disobedience of and fights with police which may result in more avoidable deaths. Professional athletes are welcomed in any American community. They could educate, encourage, and perhaps lead ef-

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.

forts in poor communities to pressure politicians to change the conditions that keep people and communities poor. Professional athletes could lead the fight for school choice so every American child has the opportunity to escape from poor and/or dangerous schools. Professional athletes could fight for the jobs people need to escape poverty by leading the fight against the tax, regulatory, and bureaucratic policies, and poor policing that keep businesses, and the jobs they offer, out of communities. Professional athletes could fight for the institutions and behaviors that lead people to avoid or escape poverty, and to prosper. They could fight for marriage as relatively few two parent families live in poverty but families headed by uneducated unmarried mothers almost always live in poverty. They could talk about how doing drugs, committing crimes, and unprepared parenthood make life very difficult; yet, following a simple formula leads most people to a middle class or better life, in sequence: get an education, get a good job, and get married before having children. Professional athletes could fight for a greater police presence in high crime neighborhoods because every family deserves to live in a safe neighborhood. See mail boat on 21

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I heard a familiar song o n T V t he o the r day. I was in another room when it came on. It was a rock song that took me back to my high school days and as I started to tap my feet to the familiar tune, memories were automatically triggered. Old friends and crushes filtered in to my mind as well as bad haircuts and bell bottoms. It all brought a smile to my face, so I decided to take a walk into the living room to hear the tune a little better and to see why it was being played. Maybe it was a retrospective of that era; a look back on just how cool we were back then. My memories suddenly came to a halt when I saw that the song wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t being played to herald the years of the 1970s, but was being used as a background music in a commercial that was selling cholesterol medicine to my peers. It was disappointing, but I paid attention all the same. Gotta keep those LDL numbers in check. After all, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a kid anymore. I will turn sixty-two in another month. An age that those in their eighties and nineties will sigh a breath of jealousy at and one that those in their twenties will find incomprehensible. Sixty-two is a significant number since it brings you into the realm of be-

ing able, if you choose, to start collecting Social Security. Of course, they make it sixty-wo and a half before you can get your first check, giving you something to look forward to. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve decided that I will wait it out a few more years so I can cash in on the big payday. As I watched at the commercial and saw those around my age having the time of their lives outside because of good cholesterol numbers, I also listen to the announcer tells of the side effects which, I guess, are hindering those not able to be outside with them. I think of the side effects of aging itself and how we should be warned of those side effects before we get there. I think that as you approach the start of each new decade you should be given a brochure of what you might expect as that decade progresses. Of course, as in the commercials, there would be a disclaimer that aging will not affect everyone the same. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think there would be a brochure for your teenage years or your twenties. You probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t listen anyway, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got it all figured out. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always going to be that young. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all those other people that are going to get older. I can speak only for men. I have only seen the effects of things like menopause as a casual observer, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enough to convince me that women should have these brochures as well. (Am I allowed to say that?) For instance, it would have been helpful to have been aware that upon turning forty my hair might not make it to the end of the decade and

that if it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, it really wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be as stressful as I thought it would be when I was in my thirties. (Plus, I would have bought cheaper shampoo and conditioner over the years if I knew it was all for naught, saving a few bucks because I know well that Social Security check isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to cover much.) It also would have been nice to know that hair, when it stopped growing on my head, would need to find another outlet, like my ears and nose. At fifty, it would benefit most men to get the prostate â&#x20AC;&#x153;side effectâ&#x20AC;? brochure. It would be nice to see that stuff coming, not to mention a primer on what to expect at your first exam. Those Tales from the Dark Side really arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as bad as the reality. It also would have been helpful to have testimonials from others who are already at the tail end of their fifties explaining that the urge to go to bed at eight-thirty at night really isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t weird at all. (Still, you should at least try to make it to 9pm as a personal goal.) The list of things you werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prepared for, but do arrive on the scene in your life, does seem to get larger in each passing decade. At the same time, many of the things you thought were so important to a good life when you were younger, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem as important any longer. There is a bit of a trade off there. I must admit I enjoy watching that commercial when it comes on. When no ones home I turn it up loud and even play a little air guitar. That is, of course, only if my shoulder isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurting that day.

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Beware the Rape Allegation Bandwagon “#MeToo” is the social media meme of the moment. In a 24-hour period, the phrase was tweeted nearly a half million times by Michelle Malkin a n d p o s t e d on Facebook Syndicated Columnist 12 million times. Spearheaded by actress Alyssa Milano in the wake of Hollyweird’s Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal, women have flooded social media with their own long-buried accounts of being pestered, groped or assaulted by rapacious male predators in the workplace. Count me out. It’s one thing to break down cultural stigmas constructively, but the #MeToo movement is collectivist virtue signaling of a very perilous sort. The New York Times heralded the phenomenon with multiple articles “to show how commonplace sexual assault and harassment are.” The Washington Post credited #MeToo with making “the scale of sexual abuse go viral.” And actress Emily Ratajkowski declared at a Marie Claire magazine’s women’s conference on Monday: “The most important response to #metoo is ‘I believe you.’” No. I do not believe every woman who is now standing up to “share her story” or “tell her truth.” I owe no blind allegiance to any other woman simply because we share the same pronoun. Assertions are not truths until they are established as facts and corroborated with evidence. Timing, context, motives

and manner all matter. Because I reserve the right to vet the claims of individual sexual assault complainants instead of championing them all knee-jerk and wholesale as “victims,” I’ve been scolded as insensitive and inhumane. “TIMING DOES NOT MATTER,” a Twitter user named Meg Yarbrough fumed. “What matters is what is best for EACH INDIVIDUAL victim. You should be ashamed of yourself.” CNN anchor Jake Tapper informed me, “People coming forward should be applauded.” But applauding people for “coming forward” is not a journalistic tenet. It’s an advocacy tenet. Tapper responded that he was expressing the sentiment as a “human being not as a journalist.” Last time I checked, humans have brains. The Weinstein scandal is not an excuse to turn them off and abdicate a basic responsibility to assess the credibility of accusers. It’s an incontrovertible fact that not all accusers’ claims are equal. Some number of harrowing encounters described by Weinstein’s accusers and the #MeToo hashtag activists no doubt occurred. But experience and scientific literature show us that a significant portion of these allegations will turn out to be half-truths, exaggerations or outright fabrications. That’s not victim-blaming. It’s realitychecking. It is irresponsible for news outlets to extrapolate how “commonplace” sexual abuse is based on hashtag trends spread by celebrities, anonymous claimants and bots. The role of the press should be verification, not validation. Instead of interviewing

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Johnny Carson > Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel deserves credit for frankness, if nothing else. In a recent interview, the ABC latenight host said by Rich Lowry he doesn’t care Contributing Writer about losing Republican viewers. We’re a long way from Johnny Carson, whose “Tonight Show” was a national institution that enjoyed a broad audience -- and was conducted like one. Carson steered clear of politics and kept his views to himself because it would “hurt me as an entertainer, which is what I am.” Kimmel may be an entertainer, but has no such inhibitions. He uttered what could be the epigraph for our times, saying of viewers who strongly disagree with his political views, “I probably won’t want to have a conversation with them anyway.” From Carson to Kimmel is the

story of the fracturing of media environment that has made niche audiences the coin of the realm. Add an inflamed antiTrump resistance cheered on by the elite media, and Kimmel kissing off Republicans is probably a good career move. Stephen Colbert of CBS blazed this particular trail with increasingly over-the-top denunciations of President Donald Trump that vaulted him to the top of the latenight ratings. Jimmy Fallon, the heir to Carson’s “Tonight Show” via Jay Leno, has pointedly declined to make his show the New York Times editorial page with a few jokes attached, and has seen a ratings decline. It is important to note that these shows are competing for numbers that once would have been considered catastrophic. Carson could pull in 9 million viewers when one of his shows popped; he averaged 19 million viewers a night his final week

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Human Rights Council Election Farce UNITE D N A TIONS - Truth is

often stranger than fiction. Indeed elections for new members of the UN’s 47member Huby John J. Metzler m a n R i g h t s Syndicated Columnist C o u n c i l proved yet again that some of the least qualified and most repressive regimes would win coveted seats on the watchdog committee tasked with monitoring human rights and freedoms globally. The annual vote was held in the General Assembly to select and elect fifteen candidates from regional groups which would then serve three year stints on the Geneva-based Council starting in 2018. While the United States, Britain and South Korea serve on the Council they are vastly outnumbered by regimes the likes of China, Cuba and Venezuela. Let’s take a look at the often curious contenders and callous outcomes in which systematic rights abusers have been afforded an amazing aura of respectability. Employing a multi-disciplined methodology and analysis, the respected UN Watch, a Geneva based human rights monitoring group offered its views on the new Council members, adding that only five out of sixteen countries are

qualified. Africa; Four seats for the African continent were presented as a closed slate. In other words please pick four out of four; Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria and Senegal. Angola a southern African petrostate seems to embody all the bells and whistles of a classic kleptocracy; extreme wealth and poverty, forced labor, restrictions on media freedom, arbitrary arrest, torture and human trafficking. Angola’s long ruling leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos just stepped down after 38 years as leader of the old Marxist group the MPLA which ran the resource rich former Portuguese territory like a family business. The Democratic Republic of the Congo nearly stands in a class by itself. A regime whose pedigree is marked by brutality, gender abuse, torture and widespread disappearances, and discrimination against minorities, the DRC has long been one of Africa’s hotbeds of violence towards its own population. Louis Charbonneau of Human Rights Watch opined, “The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s election to the Human Rights Council is a slap in the face to the many victims of the Congolese government’s grave abuses.” U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley called the DRC’s selection “yet another example of

why the Human Rights Council lacks credibility and must be reformed in order to be saved. ” She added that the DRC was under investigation by the same Council to which it was elected!

The other two African states selected include Nigeria and Senegal. The Asian Group saw five countries running for four seats: Afghanistan, Malaysia,

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A CNN Smear Did you happen to catch CNN’s latest smear? Anderson Cooper’s show recently featured a “two-part exclusive” that claims Donby John Stossell ald Trump’s Syndicated Columnist EPA director had conspired with the CEO of a mining company to “withdraw environmental restrictions” so the company could dig “the largest open pit mine in the world in an extremely sensitive watershed in wild Alaska.” The report was enough to horrify any caring person. CNN showed beautiful pictures of colorful salmon swimming in Bristol Bay, and the reporter intoned dramatically, “EPA staffers were shocked to receive this email obtained exclusively by CNN which says ‘we have been directed by the administrator to withdraw restrictions’ ... (P)rotection of that pristine area was being removed.” No! A “pristine” area and gorgeous salmon were about to be obliterated by a mine! I would have believed it, except I happened to report on that mine a couple years ago. I knew that the real scandal was not EPA director Scott Pruitt’s decision to “withdraw the restrictions”; it was what President Obama’s EPA did to the company’s mining proposal in the first place. Zealots at the EPA had conspired with rich environmental activists to kill the mine before its environmental impact statement could even be submitted. This was unprecedented. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform later concluded: “EPA employees

had inappropriate contact with outside groups and failed to conduct an impartial, fact-based review.” Now, appropriately, Pruitt undid that censorship of science. But CNN, implying devious secrecy said, “according to multiple sources, he made that decision without a briefing from any of EPA’s scientists.” Shocking! But Pruitt didn’t require opinions from scientists. He didn’t approve the mine. He didn’t make a science decision. He simply followed the law and allowed a company to submit a proposal. Also, despite CNN’s repeated depictions of salmon on Bristol Bay, it turns out that the proposed mine would not even be on the Bay. It would not even be 10 miles away, or 20 miles away, or even 50 miles. The proposed mine would be about 100 miles away. Did CNN mention that? No. Never. We asked CNN why. And why not point out that the mining company is just being allowed to start the EPA’s long and arduous environmental review? They didn’t get back to us. Of course, explaining that wouldn’t fit CNN’s theme: Evil Trump appointee ravages environment. Their reporter did at least speak with the mine’s CEO, Tom Collier, who tried to explain. “It’s not a science — it’s a process decision.” But the reporter, Drew Griffin, wouldn’t budge. He called Collier “a guy who wants to mine gold in an area that many scientists believe will destroy one of the most pristine sockeye salmon sporting grounds in the whole world.” By the way, Collier isn’t an evil Republican-businessman-nature-destroyer. He’s a Democrat See stossell on 29

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gold and silver business when the Atocha was found,” said Estes. “To think, at that time, that I would ever have one of these pieces was really just a dream.” To treasure hunters, the Atocha was the stuff of legends. Beginning in the late 1500’s and extending through the mid 1700’s, a couple of fleets a year would depart from Spain in order to bring essential supplies to the colonists while bringing back as many riches from the New World as possible. The Atocha, part of a massive 28 ship convoy, was the most heavily protected ship for it carried a vast majority of the fleet’s treasures. An estimated 82 infantry men were assigned to guard this galleon that took over two months to record and load the silver, gold, jewels, and agricultural products aboard the ship. Even today, some experts claim that the stern

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(He did have a battle with the state of Florida over who claimed title to the wreck. Fisher fought this legal battle for eight years until the U.S Supreme Court eventually ruled in his favor giving him all rights to the treasure.) The buyer of the silver bar passed it down to his son who approached Estes. “The family didn’t really want to sell it at first,” said Estes. “I am honored to take this bar and to be its caretaker, even just for a short while, and to

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dividual was subject to a twenty percent Royal Tax.) Another Roman Numeral tells which number bar it is in the manifest. There is also a small “hole” in each silver bar. These were samples, otherwise known as “bites”, that were taken by the assayer to test the purity of the silver. This silver bar has been verified at 2350 carats or ninetyeight percent pure silver. “The bar comes with a letter of certification from Mel Fisher himself,” said Estes about the pa-

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traced to an unverified citation in a 1975 book by feminist author Susan Brownmiller. “This figure is not only inaccurate,” Turvey and his co-authors conclude, “but also it has no basis in reality.” Published research has documented false rape and sexual assault rates ranging from 8 percent to 41 percent. Savino notes that in his NYPD’s Manhattan Special Victim Squad, “our false report rate was in the double digits during all of my years. Sometimes, it was as high as 40 percent.” Turvey, Savino, and Mares make clear to students that based on the evidence -- as opposed to Facebook trends: “False reports happen; they are recurrent; and there are laws in place to deal with them when they do. They are, for lack of a better word, common.” They are common because people lie for all sorts of reasons -- from the need for attention to the lure of profit, out of anger or revenge, to con-

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who once ran environment policy for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. CNN never mentioned that either. Instead the reporter implied evil collusion: “This looks like the head of a gold mine went to a new administrator and got him to reverse what an entire department had worked on for years.” Here at least the report was accurate. Obama’s environmental department did try to kill that mine for years. They colluded with groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of America’s wealthiest environment groups. The NRDC is mostly made up of anti-progress lawyers who want no mines built anywhere. Don’t believe me? I asked NRDC spokesman Bob Deans: STOSSEL: There are some mines where NRDC says, great, go ahead? DEANS: It’s not up to us. STOSSEL: Are there any? DEANS: It’s not up to us to green light mines... STOSSEL: Are there any you don’t complain about? DEANS: Yeah, sure. So I asked him for some names. He and the NRDC still haven’t provided any. If these zealots and their sycophants in the media get their way, America will become a place with no mining, no pipelines, no oil drilling, no new ... anything. The acronym used to make fun of anti-development attitudes used to be NIMBY — Not In My Back Yard. Now it’s BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody. John Stossel is author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

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on air in 1992. Colbert is winning the late-night race with 3 million viewers. This means that all it takes to become a giant of late night is winning over a Rachel Maddow-like audience, exactly Colbert’s strategy. If this trend is inevitable, it’s not a good thing. It removes yet another neutral zone, free of social and political contention, from American life. It means that the quality of the comedy on these shows probably goes down (agitprop isn’t funny), while the quality of the political commentary is inevitably poor; Jimmy Kimmel’s wholly ill-informed gun monologue subtracted from the nation’s understanding of the issue, as you’d expect of a comedian who is only paying enough attention to absorb the flimsiest cliches of the gun debate. As Kimmel’s dismissive comments show, it’s a short step from believing that you don’t need the patronage of the other side to feeling contempt for it. Colbert isn’t trying to convince anyone; he’s scorning and mocking Trump for the benefit of people who already hate him. It would have been hard to believe that the old, maligned CNN debate program “Crossfire” would appear in retrospect to represent a golden age of a relative commitment to civil, informed political debate, but here we are. Johnny Carson once said: “I would love to have taken on Billy Graham. But I’m on TV five nights a week; I have nothing to gain by it and everything to lose.” Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, competing for the crown in a much diminished latenight kingdom, beg to differ, and unfortunately, they’re right. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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state’s electoral votes and become the president of the United States. In his older years Henry Blair gave an account of his congressional campaign against Col. Kent with some interesting phrases, starting with “ New Hampshire then was called the ‘Finger State’, forecasting the results of the Fall elections throughout the country. The very ablest men of both parties fought there for votes as for souls in every yearly campaign” Blair’s friend, Senator William E. Chandler, upon learning that Blair had received the nomination summoned him to meet with him at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Washington where he expressed the opinion that Blair could not win and that the effort to do so could ruin him financially and be harmful to his health. Henry had been injured during his service in the civil war and had continuing health issues, but he said of Chandler : “I told him that I must make the fight and do the best I could.” Of the contest he said, “I never made or knew another such campaign. Both sides then conscientiously used money corruptly, so intense were the hates of the war then still existing, but now all so happily merged in a new and higher patriotism. I would

not do this. But I begged and borrowed all I could and paid the absent voters their expenses, which was considered both right and lawful. I paid the expenses of about 50 voters in a single town of 2000 people and am in debt for some of it now, and have been ever since.” Blair also told how the “temperance party” of one or two thousand people usually supported the Democrats, but a group of younger ministers and their friends “rebelled” and voted for him “… without asking any pledges whatever they just trusted me man fashion- and I was elected by 162 votes.” Congressman Blair repeated that the ministers didn’t ask him for anything in return for their vote but felt “…that something done for temperance would please them best of anything, and perhaps the Almighty God also, but what to do and how to do without hurting the party was a poser…”. Blair continued, “ Finally, one day while gazing the Pemigewassett Valley to the mountains the whole thing flashed into my mind like a vision.” That led to the first proposed prohibition amendment to the U.S. Constitution being introduced in Congress and Blair’s title as the father of prohibition. After serving as a Con-

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29 gressman, Henry Blair was appointed to be a Senator from New Hampshire and was considered one of that body’s most active members. Harper’s Weekly magazine described him as one who “…introduced more bills, and…occupied with speeches, reports, and preambles more pages of official records than any other Senator.” He kept trying to have his prohibition bill become law which would have gone into effect in 1900 if he had been successful, and even wrote a book in 1888 with the title, “The Temperance Movement; The Conflict Between Man and Alcohol.” Senator Blair also promoted education and made an effort to require the federal government to provide funds for public schools. Henry’s father died when Henry was but two years old and his mother died when he was twelve, so he was reportedly raised by neighbors, working on a farm, and attending local schools. He didn’t go to college, but studied law with William Leverett of Plymouth, N.H., and eventually was accepted into the bar and became Leverett’s partner. Later in life he became a Washington lawyer.

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