Storm clouds gather as people ask themselves openly whether whoever won the White House truly won. In 2016 Democrats blamed “Russia collusion” and asserted that Trump was never legitimate while in 2020 the Republicans returned the favor blaming a “rigged” vote-counting conspiracy theory. But the problem may not be “legal”, as in a crime or fraud, it may be something perfectly legal but absolutely unethical.
By Bill Collier, Publisher- Legally gamed elections are the result of dirty pool, merely legerdemain and blatant and dishonest media collusion with their favored Party, the Democrats in most cases, the Republicans in fewer cases. This turns our much vaunted “democracy” into a sham because no true “informed consent” is possible under these shady circumstances.
The 2020 election wasn’t stolen by fraud, it was unethically hijacked through media manipulation and extra-legal legerdemain, e.g. unelected bureaucrats enacting policies that ran afoul of state law and ignored the legislatures. We realize some feel strongly that real fraud occured, and if or when we see extraordinary proof to back these extraordinary claims, we will change our tune.
That being said, the 2020 election, and MANY OTHERS, some favoring Republicans, were not truly fair and free of dirty tricks which, while “legal”, are certainly not ethical. Gamesmanship as opposed to honestly conveying your true intentions, philosophy, and character colors our elections and makes a mockery of any concept that winners of our elections truly have a mandate earned through informed consent.
This does not mean Biden didn’t legally win, it means, in part, he had “legally rigged” the process to give him an unfair advantage by the way the rules were changed and by the corruption of a “free press” that is merely a lapdog to the Democratic Party. It’s not fraud but it is dirty pool. It is perfectly legal to game the system and play dirty pool and to not ever really and honestly earn the informed consent of voters who basically have no idea what you true intentions, philosophy, and character are!
Dirty pool is integrated fully into our politics and while both Democrats and Republicans play dirty pool habitually, Democrats are just better at it right now, although not always and in many ways 2020 was a bad year for them. Currently, the Democrats, despite all the dirty tricks and legerdemain they could muster, only have a slim majority in the House and a tie in the Senate broken by the Vice President’s tie-breaking vote.
Elections as we see them all over the world are not capable of being a free and fair competition in which informed electors choose candidates based on an accurate knowledge of their true intentions, philosophy, and character. This is true in Israel, Germany, Russia, and the good old US of A, but, obviously, even more true in Russia, for example.
Is it possible to have free and fair elections where true informed consent based on honestly knowing the intentions, philosophy, and character of candidates can be obtained? We have strong doubts and the trend away from this possibility just isn’t getting any better, nor do we foresee any changes.
Alternative models cannot be created at scale in our present sociocultural and political structures because they are stratified and stagnant. Trying to change things like the behavior of unethical “reporters” who literally lie and misrepresent things for purely partisan purposes, robbing people of their right to informed consent, is beyond this civilization’s capacity. Moreover, how would you “regulate” the press to make them behave without destroying the very concept of a free press?
The “solution”, unfortunately, if you want to stop bad actors like the miscreants who populate both Parties from getting into office, is to understand and master election gamesmanship and legerdemain and to find new ways to reach voters and get through the media propaganda assault on their very psyche. Even if your intentions, philosophy, and character are truly good, so that truly informed people would choose you if they knew the truth, the path to victory isn’t to simply hope your “truth” will speak for itself.
The “truth” is not enough under the current electoral system, which is geared toward rewarding legerdemain, media corruption, and dirty tricks more than a straightforward and accurate comparison of the intentions, philosophy, and character of the candidates. You can be labeled horrendous things even if this isn’t who you are or you can be labeled awesome things even if you are far from awesome.
While fighting the electoral battle, using all the means to hand, should never be off the table, building freedom must depend on strategies that go beyond this reliance on election outcomes. If you are frustrated at election outcomes, the answer is both to get better at playing the actual electoral game but, even moreso, building relationships, associations, and structures that unilaterally liberate as much of your economic and physical life from the control of politics as possible.
Considering the course set by the Democrats, it is clear that reason has failed. The Democratic Party has hearkened to the darkest voices of intolerance and bigotry against anyone and anything that isn’t woke enough for their rather outlandish and bizarre tastes.
We must remember that our Union of sovereign and free people in their sovereign and free states and counties has many mechanisms with which to prevent too much power from concentrating into too few hands. We also as individuals and as free associations have many ways to take back our agency from corporations owned by people whose first and only loyalty it seems is to the Democratic Party.
Reason has failed but the answer is not physical violence. This isn’t necessary and all the outlandish rhetoric of the left which seems to reveal a heart seduced by the siren call to a one-party rule is more an issue of their character than a true threat to our country.
It is definitely unforgivable rhetoric when you lie and demonize your opponents while proposing ever-increasing authoritarian responses to your phantom right-wing conspiracy to overthrow the government. But the power to actually fulfill this rhetoric lies beyond their reach, especially if we the People, the remnant who still remain loyal to the Union as an empire of freedom, use the means we have at hand to block the authoritarian agenda.
On one hand the Democrats are sounding like crazed Soviets and performing “show trials” in which all of their opponents are in trial for treason against the state. On the other hand, the emperor has no clothes. When push comes to shove the American people and all their local and state governments won’t tolerate this garbage. So it’s a lot of noise and chest-beating headed into some fanstistical nightmare, pure bliss evidently for the lunatic fringe who control the Democrats. But it’s not substantive and it’s not going to succeed.
One wonders if Nancy Pelosi is actually that delusional in her dotage or she is just playing theater to appease her base while doing nothing of substance they desire. Either way she is a crumb for even entertaining these cretins, and cretins they all are because their hearts beat hatred daily against freedom and against the Union.
This cold civil war, which is not going to become hot because the rebels on the left are pusillanimous, once against pits slavers again the free. Once again Democrats evince a design of slavery, albeit more disguised as global cronyist feudalism that touts socialist rhetoric, and this time the aim is for everyone of every color to work the plantation.
Old habits die hard and the Democrats have never, not since 1860, warmed up to the notion of America as a Union of sovereign and free people in sovereign and free counties and states where power flows from the bottom to the top, wherein the top is subordinated to the bottom, not the other way around.
Democrats have gone past reason and common sense. They are now trapped by their own vile rhetoric into a cycle of continuous denouncements and accusations while disguising and covering up their own outlandish conduct.
The best response is to reinvigorate the institutions designed to prevent our Union from being taken over from within by quislings who despise our freedom. First is our own self-reliance, building mutual self-reliance at the local level and using new web tools to connect and collaborate on a nationwide scale. Second is reinvigorating our local, county, and state governments to openly defend the Bill of Rights and refuse to countenance breaches thereof, including taking legal measures or simply not doing business with companies that coordinate to effectively limit the freedom of Americans.
The entire and untapped power of our Union is able to prevent these loony words from becoming anything more than the swan song for a party that has lost touch with reason and reality.
By Bill Collier- Own your own narrative, don’t give it to others. People will misread you, ascribe wrong motives to you, misunderstand you, misrepresent you, and judge you falsely. They will create a narrative about you and even try to make you agree with their narrative about who and what you are, what you did or didn’t do, why you did or didn’t do it, and what that says about your character or intentions. They have no such right and you owe them nothing.
A strong desire to experience affection and acceptance is common to most people and this often causes us to be very concerned about how others feel toward us or what they think about us. So we find ourselves as focused on the appearances of what we do as on what we do, which begins to consume more energy than the things we are doing.
Although I often say “relationships are the brass ring of life”, the weakness of this idea comes when our desire for those relationships clouds our thinking to such a degree that we are trying to ensure not only that our actions make these people happy but that they also appear in the best light. This is high energy focus directed at the wrong things and it is a fool’s errand.
When you feel uneasy or stressed it is usually for fear of some kind of unpleasantness, which could be a loss or hazard or just something that doesn’t feel good to us. If in our minds we get a “high” from people liking us and thinking well of us, then we will experience unpleasantness when we feel rejected or neglected.
My life has become a pressure cooler experience for lots of reasons, and I am sure many of you have the same thing happen at times. But one good part of these pressure cooker experiences is that they bring a certain clarity as to who and what should be paid attention to, or how much energy should be used.
That friend who is so easily offended or needs constant attention or reassuring and who essentially threatens your relationship over small to medium “infractions” becomes unessential. In your pressure cooker experience, their expectations, even if reasonable but beyond your present emotional or time constraints, are just not worth adhering to. So, sadly, they may threaten to or actually move on and whereas you may have once had the energy to assuage them, now you just let them go.
All this tends toward a more inner focus, hopefully toward Christ within us, but definitely away from the voices and demands of others. When we don’t have the psychic, emotional, or physical energy to give yourself to meeting other’s expectations and when they therefore cast judgements upon us, we find it easier to move on and ignore them. It’s not that this makes us happy to do, it doesn’t, but in comparison to whatever has you in a pressure cooker experience, it’s just not nearly as important as it once was.
Sitting around playing scenarios in your head about why someone misjudged you or, worse, and this is our focus here, doubting your own narrative about yourself is a “crazy making” exercise. In a pressure cooker experience if you want to get through it daily, you begin to either lose the energy to do this or, if you persist in this, you begin to lose functionality in life in general.
Your narrative about yourself should come from your relationship with Jesus Christ and your best understanding of God’s Word and the leading of the Holy Spirit. If you understand who you are, what you are, and why you are in God’s mind, then you begin to craft your own narrative, a story of adventure and overcoming, that describes your past, defines your present, and guides your future.
You will make mistakes and sometimes your motivation may be suspect. You don’t want to become so full of yourself that you don’t welcome criticism or evaluate yourself on the basis of a truth standard. But these things don’t define or change your narrative about yourself and your story about who and what you are.
Getting to a place where you genuinely care about other people but you don’t obsess or put too much energy into what they think or feel about you, or how they want to define you, is a process of controlling your own focus. Thoughts of what others think or feel about you can come unbidden, it’s just natural. But what we give ourselves to focus on is mostly up to us.
One technique I have used is to interrogate those feelings to see if in this opinion others express about me there isn’t some truth. Some of my harshest critics and haters, who meant me no good will at all, have offered me a chance to see a hint of truth in their over-the-top accusations which I have leveraged to make improvements.
I have at times experienced being “misjudged” and sidelined in what I saw as an underhanded way because I was unable to make certain truthful things about myself visible in a convincing way. I was misread and probably misrepresented in my capabilities and resources, perhaps even my intentions, by people who should have known better.
Each time my focus returned to the core truth behind the broader lies. The core truth may have been that I was not very good at presenting myself or something about me or I wasn’t digiligent enough to avoid a minor mistake that my opponents used to justify tearing me down and rejecting me. Often our harshest critics and haters have actually siezed on something of substance and we should be thankful for the opportunity to see this and deal with it.
This is different from someone trying to define a narrative about you that isn’t what you believe about yourself. It is true that only God truly knows your heart, but this doesn’t mean anyone other than you is better at knowing your heart, nor that they speak for God.
I have lived a life more in public that most people and my actions and words have been seen my hundreds of thousands of people at different times. My life has been an open book and people have sometimes used this to paint and untrue and malicious narrative about my life. Every word or deed I have ever done in public, and most have been in public, becomes a potential for an opponent to misrepresent and twist around in the worse possible light.
The fact I have always believed in trying over and over until you succeed has even led to me being accused of either being a failure or being a schemer. The internet is littered with the debris of countless efforts to actualize the inner push of my life and I bear absolutely zero shame about it! The fact it has seemed to come together of late, over the past few years, may make some think I got lucky, but essentially my strategy was to keep trying and surviving until the dice rolled my way.
Regardless of what the future brings, whether more success or failures and setbacks, the narrative of my life belongs to God who has given it to me. If you think my narrative is a bunch of hooey, that’s all fine, I cannot give myself over to feeling any concern about that.
My own history is largely ruled by my own predilection toward being concerned with what people think and feel about me. I want warm and loving affection and unconditional acceptance of my personage probably more than most people, though I may be wrong about that. For this reason, the many times others have totally changed my narrative into a hideous caricature of weirdness, bad intentions, or whatever based on lies or misreading things, or taking things too far and inflating them out of proportion, have been painful.
Again, because I often do things on a larger scale seen by more people, I have had what I think is a high dosage of this sort of narrative hijacking that can totally invalidate a person even in their own eyes.
Why do I like military things, is it because I am a warmonger? Why am I so ultra-conservative in my life, is it because I am intolerant of others? Why do I strongly prefer being self-employed, is it because I have a problem with authority? Why do I say I have a grand purpose connected to historical processes, is it because I am full of myself?
On one hand, I truly desire and actually do live my life openly and publicly with a lot of transparency but on the other hand I have struggled with what others think and feel about me and I have been devastated when they said things about me that were not a reflection of my narrative about myself.
What has begun to happen, and what I am sharing for your edification, is that I realize I cannot necessarily change what I feel or desire so much as I can choose what I focus my energy and time on. It still stings when someone tries to hijack my narrative and defines me in a way that isn’t fair or truthful, but what I choose to do, after I have already interrogated that feeling to find any grain of useful criticism, is to focus on other things.
I find that the longer I put my focus elsewhere, the less a situation upsets me and if this happens quickly I realize how unimportant that situation is in relation to my own journey.
What is your narrative, how do you define yourself and your ambitions, and how do you define your journey and destination? I would counsel you to go to the well of God’s presence, to search the Scriptures, and to seek the leading of the Holy Spirit until you feel you have a solid understanding of these things. Find how God in His mind defines you and consciously seek to align your behavior, words, and choices with that person. Vocalize who you are in such terms.
The other thing I do is simply choose to connect mostly with people who, while they may critique me, I feel and know are essentially on my side. They are people who are “for” me, they are people who believe my narrative is substantially true even when I do not perfectly follow it. My inner circle don’t expect perfection from me, but neither do they accept when I go against my own narrative or drop the ball. I don’t have to worry about how they feel about me and when they do critique me, I can trust they are coming from a good place.
At times I am forced, by necessity, especially in business, to deal with people who frankly aren’t the kind of people I would place in my inner circle. But my goal is always to get closer and closer to a place where all my relationships and associations are with the kind of people who could become inner circle people in my life.
I have either turned down or let go of major “opportunities” when the people I would need to be connected to aren’t fair or decent toward me for whatever reason, even if my own mistakes contributed to the situation. In other words, I can refuse to blame people for misunderstanding me or thinking the worst of me while also choosing to limit my connections to people who wouldn’t ever do that to anyone else.
So in my focus, when people not liking me or believing false things about my narrative begins to bother me I try to focus on other things, even if it’s s funny video. I also try to spend my time and energy with people who will both critique me and nurture my own narrative about myself.
The people in my inner circle aren’t easily offended, don’t threaten the relationship for anything but a very serious breech (and very few things qualify as such), don’t cosign my nonsense, tend to interpret my actions in a most charitable way, give me the benefit of the doubt, challenge me to get better, but also nurture and celebrate my narrative about myself. The reverse is also true.
I don’t have time for non-essentials and, right now, under the current pressure cooker experience I am going through, I barely have time or energy for anything beyond very basic survival and taking care of essential business. My life doesn’t give me the luxury of being terribly reliable for anything that isn’t truly mission critical, which includes both my mission and that of those who are in my inner circle.
The control of your narrative belongs to God and then you, in that order, and anyone outside of you and God has no right to think that they know you better than God knows you and you know you. Avoid such people of you can, ignore their judgements by focusing on other things if you must deal with them. But you own your narrative, God and you, nobody else!
The Ute Tribe, in the press release below, slams a woke leftist writer for daring to speak “outrage” in the Tribe’s name over the fact the University of Utah sports teams are called “The Running Utes.”
Virtue signaling that disrespects the tribe and could do real economic harm has no place in decent society where human dignity is mutually honored by all. But the wokatariate aren’t interested in justice, they are more about making themselves look good and enjoying the perverse power of canceling others and imposing their own unopopular anr dangerous ideas.
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Luke Duncan chairman of the Ute Indian Tribe Business Committee, the governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe, has issued a press release scolding a woke activist and University of Utah emoloyee who “demands” the school stop using the Ute name.
The Ute tribe is made up of three bands: the Uintah, the Whiteriver and the Uncompahgre; two representatives from each band are elected to serve four-year terms on the Business Committee.
The tribe’s Uintah and Ouray Reservation is located in northeastern Utah, approximately 150 miles east of Salt Lake City. It’s the second-largest Indian reservation in the United States, covering more than 4.5 million acres.
Last month, The Salt Lake Tribune ran a commentary titled, “Time for the U. to Give up its Native American Nickname.” The author, a University of Utah employee named Christopher Mead, argued that the University of Utah needs to stop using the name “Running Utes.”
Our business committee, the elected governing body of the Ute Indian Tribe, was incensed and deeply troubled when we read the piece. Mead’s approach in raising this issue on behalf of our tribe, and the implicit attitude of saving the Ute people from themselves, lacks common sense. It undermines tribal rights, it causes conflict between native and non-native communities, and it negates our ability as a sovereign nation to make appropriate decisions for our people.
The Ute Indian Tribe is a major economic engine in northeastern Utah. We work closely with the state, local governments, and major institutions to address long-standing issues that range from preservation of cultural and environment resources to responsible energy development. These relationships are valuable to us, and an op-ed like Mead’s has a devastating impact on them, and on the trust we have built over many years.
Let us be clear. Only the Ute Indian Tribe can speak for itself. And regarding the matter at hand, the Ute Indian Tribe encourages the University of Utah to use our name for its sports programs.
Our tribe drafted the Athletics Naming Agreement, and the university has used the Ute name with our full support since 1972. In fact, we just renewed our memorandum of understanding in December for another five years, and we retain trademark rights to the Ute Proud name and imagery.
The relationship between the Ute Indian Tribe and the University of Utah is a long and valued one, and it’s a source of pride to our tribal members. Not only does it reflect our shared commitment to building genuine respect for and understanding of our tribe’s history, it also has significant educational benefits for our youth.
In a key part of the agreement, the university provides a Ute Proud education campaign (http://uteproud.utah.edu/) during the football, basketball, and gymnastics seasons. This campaign explains Ute Indian history and the Ute Indian Tribe’s cultural and economic contributions to the state.
The campaign also provides a code of conduct that educates sports fans about inappropriate behaviors that dishonor the Ute and other Native American populations. The Ute Indian Tribe assigns a tribal representative to work with the university to develop and approve all campaign elements.
Our tribe is well aware that this association with the University of Utah‚ the flagship institution of higher learning in our state — raises tribal visibility and community awareness. Once a year, the university’s halftime show incorporates a traditional powwow with appropriate and approved cultural tie-ins, providing a valuable opportunity to educate and promote understanding.
In addition, the university supports campus events to raise awareness of American Indian cultures, from the annual campus powwow to Native American Month. It has added educational materials about the Ute Indian Tribe to first-year student orientation, and it’s making those materials available through its American Indian Resource Center as well.
This is important to us, after enduring the devastating termination and assimilation policies of the last century. We will not be invisible, or erased.
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe wins Energy grant for solar project in Utah What’s more, the University of Utah actively supports Ute Indian students and other federally recognized American Indian students who are attending the university, and it provides annual financial support to the Ute Indian Tribe to enhance K-12 education on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.
The University of Utah recognizes that the Ute name is at the core of our tribe’s cultural identity and that of our members, and it constitutes an inseparable element of our rich cultural traditions. The university also has consistently expressed its honor in being allowed to use the Ute name with due respect and integrity.
We are a sovereign nation with an absolute right to self-determination. The Athletics Naming Agreement was ours to make, and it’s grounded in mutual respect. We will not accept efforts of non-natives, who do not know the history or understand the work we have done, calling for its demise.
By Bill Collier- We don’t trust any major “platform” or even any US or international institution, to tell the truth, to play fair, or to look out for the good of the people and we have very good reasons to exercise a healthy and robust level of skepticism.
The fact people trust our national and international establishment and its ruling class and that they are outraged others are skeptical is amazing! The “disinformation” and other labels designed to force-feed parroted lines and cancel the skeptical should be all the proof you need not to trust any of these people or institutions.
Misinformation is the new rallying cry for modern authoritarians, especially the monopolistic platform owners, who want to silence and disappear all dissent from the Democratic Party line. Those who doubt and dissent from the preachments of the intelligence community, the science community, health care institutions, the press, the platforms, academia, and the entertainment industry as well as near-monopoly corporations are accused of “misinformation” and “canceled.”
Put another way, the owners of the major platforms and the press are almost entirely partisan Democrats for whom the advancement of the Democratic Party is their greatest goal.
Honestly, WHY should you trust a government or any leading national or international institution after the last few decades of gross, dangerous, and outlandish lies going back to “weapons of mass destruction” and the so-called “Russia collusion” scandal? Why trust that anything these institutions say is reliable or even aboveboard?
The corruption of these institutions, whereby holders of power abuse their position and cover up their failures, is all-too well known. We cannot reasonably trust anything these institutions and their ruling class say or do as anything that is truly meant to enrich themselves and not the country or its people.
The truth is, the platforms especially, and all major institutions controlled by the Democratic Party, want to desperately avoid accountability and allow a group of less than 20 major power brokers determine who can speak and what they can say. In such an environment, when all the DNC-controlled institutions parrot the same lines, the thoughtful person has strong reasons to view such preachments with extreme caution. Quite simply, we know they lie, we know they suppress dissent, and we know they have demonstrated criminal incompetence that has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Those who parrot all the typical lines coming from America’s neocommunist wokatariate, the wokecomms, and their Party, the Democratic Party, often pretend they are thinking for themselves and are somehow on the “cutting edge” or even “on the right side of history.” Everything from the alt gender rainbow intolerance for traditional views on marriage and family to the mass inoculations of the entire population over the pandemic, is colored by the desire of the ruling class to gain monopoly power once and for all.
It is not “radical” to say “I may not agree with what you say, but I’ll fight to the death form your ability to say it.” Now the Democratic Party and the institutions it controls, such as the US Capital Police and the CDC, want to tell us what kind of speech is permissible. They use hobgoblins and imaginary threats like white supremacy, hate speech, and misinformation but the only Party benefited by these arbitrary claims which they cannot support with logic or evidence are the billionaire owners of the Democratic Party.
If you consider yourself woke and then consider that all your major ideas and the things that animate you are quite literally being force-fed to the population while everyone who disagrees faces being canceled, don’t imagine you are on any cutting edge or that you are on the right side of history.
The ideas you parrot and think are so edgy are ideas that demand and require authoritarian measures to enforce them. For any decent, thinking person, this is itself proof that those ideas, including the whole alt gendered rainbow panapoly of identities and enforced compliance, and all the other mantras of the establishment, are garbage.
Skepticism about the preachments of the leading national and international institutions is reasonable and could be life-saving.
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province is leaking higher levels of radiation than are normally allowed according to recent reports. Problems were reported by the plant’s co-owner, Electrictie de France (EDF). EDF owns 30% of the plant.
Meanwhile, as the French company Framatone, which EDF has a 75% stake in, reaches out to the US for help they issued a statement that they are “supporting resolution of a performance issue with the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong Province, China. According to the data available, the plant is operating within the safety parameters. Our team is working with relevant experts to assess the situation and propose solutions to address any potential issue.”
But while the Biden administration is touting Chinese statements that “all is well”, Framatone has requested a special waiver allowing it to use American technology to help resolve the evolving “non-crisis”, a transfer of technology that would only be granted if there were an imminent crisis. The request and actions of the company versus the public statements of the company and the Chinese and American governments clearly don’t align with each other and this has people concerned.
The plant in located near Hong Kong and Shenzen on the Chinese coastline. A major radiological leak, evidently caused by a problem with a control rod, would impact over 100 million people and could possibly be a hazard well beyond China. Unit 2, which is the unit impacted, went offline this year for a refurbishment and was put back in operation on June 20, 2021. There is not explanation on what caused the refurbishment or if it was potentially the root of the problem.
The first unit, Taishan 1, entered commercial service in December 2018. The second unit, Taishan 2, entered commercial service in September 2019. The plant is the first in the world to use the new Evolutionary Power Reactor.
The EPR is a third generation pressurised water reactor design. It has been designed and developed mainly by Framatome (part of Areva between 2001 and 2017) and Électricité de France (EDF) in France, and Siemens in Germany. In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but it is now simply named EPR.
EDF has acknowledged severe difficulties in building the EPR design. In September 2015, EDF stated that the design of a “New Model” EPR was being worked on, which will be easier and cheaper to build.
There is no word on whether the new design is a critical element here, but the fact the plant has only been operating for around 3 years and has had difficulties in a new reactor that is only two years old and has had a recent refurbishment has led to speculation.
The plant itself claimed, “Since it was put into commercial operation, the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant has strictly controlled the operation of the units in accordance with operating license documents and technical procedures. All operating indicators of the two units have met the requirements of nuclear safety regulations and power plant technical specifications.”
The Chinese government is widely known for suppressing negative news and shifting any blame. As a totalitarian regime which relies on force and fear more than voluntary loyalty and consent of the governed, the Chinese regime cannot afford PR nightmares.
This crisis is not close to the Chernobyl incident, but it is being watched by many as it is feared the present American administration is too unwilling to confront China, despite its rhetoric, on such sensitive issues. This lack of external pressure and willingness to demand answers may in fact lead to face-saving efforts by the Chinese which get in the way of safety measures that might resolve the situation.
Bill Collier- American history is a story of uneven and unequal advancements toward a totally free, prosperous, and pluralistic society of equals, but advancements often far ahead of any contemporary country, even to this day. America’s racial history is governed by two factions, those we may call egalitarian republicans or pluralists and those who we may broadly call racialists who basically believe race defines most or all of who you ever can be and that, at best, races are separate but, at worse, inequal. Racialist versus pluralist worldviews have largely governed America’s mixed history on race.
The present “crisis” over race has the racialists masquerading as egalitarians and attacking anyone, whether racialists or pluralists, of the original sin of those who were racists and whose skin happened to be white. The attempt to impugn and shame every white person with the sins of other white people, or by accusing them of the injustice of white privilege, is itself a racialist sentiment that undermines and directly attacks pluralism.
The irony here is that the racialists who make “whiteness” their new “original sin” are using an extra-Biblical but “traditional” doctrine created by white people to essentially guilt themselves as born sinners because of Adam. The idea of collective guilt in relation to original sin has been challenged and overthrown in many Christian circles.
The concept that prevails today is that we inherit a corrupted nature, but not any guilt, from Adam. Whereas in the past the possibility of being redeemed from your collective guilt was deemed slim and uncertain, today we understand that through Christ we can both find forgiveness from our actual individual sin, which is the only sin we bear, and transfiguration of our inner man to heal us of our sin nature.
But this idea of collective guilt is an essentially European invention now being perpetrated and applied by people whose own racist ideology is aimed at demonizing people of European ancestry. The only way to even hope for any grace is to behave in a way that shows your shame for your collective guilt and that acknowledges your inherent and unredeemable racism which can only be held at bay through total loyalty to the Democratic Party.
This is classic medieval Catholicism: all people are born sinners, they remain so, and only through absolute obedience to the Church hierarchy and its ordained secular institutions, including king or emperor, can your sinful nature be suppressed in the hopes that, maybe, you will eventually gain enough grace to make it to purgatory or even heaven itself.
For the wokatariate, white people are all born racists who bear the collective guilt of their race which, according to the narrative, are the worse oppressors, colonizers, imperialists, slavers, and racists in human history. Indeed, without the white race and its ideas, the world would probably be a veritable paradise run as a socialist global collective.
Never mind that the true target of this propaganda is the worldview we consider essential to the Western Tradition or America’s heritage of ever-increasing freedom for more and more people in more and more areas of their lives. The heart of this war which SEEMS to be a racist war against white people is a war on the arc of America’s history toward more freedom for every single human being without exception.
Like the priests, prelates, nobles, and kings and emperors of the medieval period, today’s ruling class are of the same group who are being guilted and shamed. The wokatariate are in fact mostly manned by white people and almost exclusively funded by very rich white people. This looks essentially like an almost all-white genocidal conspiracy against….white people!
But the truth is that the wokatariate, the people running and benefiting from this racialist woke assault on freedom, know that their guilting and shaming is all based on bad doctrines and bad intentions. To be clear, white genocide isn’t a serious aim of anyone in power and to believe that is to fall for the distraction.
The wokatariate are not “ironically” absolving themselves of the “original sin of inherited white supremacy.” They are “proving” their commitment to suppressing their latent racism through pushing through a neocommunist agenda, by force if need be because, after all, all the people who oppose this are either un-reconstructed white supremacists or their “captive” minority collaborators.
Again, as with the ruling class who used original sin to keep the population down, today’s erstwhile ruling class want to use the original sin of racism to suppress 70% of the population who are white and to buy off and capture the “victims” whose only hope for liberation is through the necommunism of the wokatariate.
It may be lost on some that the wokatariate isn’t organically representative of any person of color or those communities. A movement among black Americans to rectify their past grievances and claim equal standing within the America population as equals in every way has not taken root. Efforts to hijack issues and grievances by the left or to essentially dismiss those grievances and simply be the only alternative to the left by the right do not constitute an organic African-American Freedom Movement.
In the heyday of the Roman Catholic hierarchy’s monopoly over Western Christian culture and religion, only Saints were deemed to be above the original sin, fully redeemed from its influence. But the added twist of our era is twofold: some groups of people are deemed innocent of this guilt because they or their ancestors were oppressed by “white males”, and others, the wokatariate ruling class, are deemed living saints who are above reproach by virtue of their, well, virtue signaling!
Woke racialism is a vehicle to power, none of its claims or ideas are significant beyond guilting people or making them feel like helpless victims. Few among the wokatariate BELEIVE their own claims.
The choice of attacking whiteness is based on two key factors: the freedom-building ideas which are essential to America’s overall arc of history were mostly produced by white men and, to a lesser degree white women, and the simple expediant fact white males at this time tend to strongly opposed authoritarianism and tyranny. If “whiteness” is now sin itself than clearly all white ideas, including the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, are all “polluted” by their “whiteness.”
Cue the social justice totalitarianism and cancel culture to silence any conversation that challenges these notions of comand and control economics that benefits only the few.
This isn’t to say white people, or white males, are more disposed toward freedom-building ideas than others are. It is simply, and accidentally, the current reality. For instance, this idea of being “allies” of “people of color” ends when the “people of color” happen to be Cubans who are even more predisposed toward freedom-building ideas than white males or Haitians who are more predisposed toward capitalism and freedom.
Democrats have made it clear, freedom seeking people from Haiti and Cuba, who tend more toward opposing the anti-freedom ideas of the wokatariate, need not apply. But people from other countries who both embrace socialism and are coming with expectations of aid, are welcome.
The slavers who polluted America’s history believed all Africans were incapable of being fully human and civilized. The very Party, the Democratic Party, that once championed this even worse version of original sin, which made Africans especially and irredeemably execrable, is still clinging to the same ideas.
The change is in who is the target, but the goal of absolute monopoly power remains the same. One may find the whole history of the Democratic Party is one of using some version of racialism and original sin to create victims and sinners whose only hope, but no guarantee, of redemption is absolute obedience to the ruling class.
But the ideas that systemic racism remains affixed to at least some of our structures and laws or that vast portions of our population may harber inherited ideas and prejudices that hinder our advancement toward a free and pluralistic society of equals cannot be dismissed. We being classical “republicans” and pluralists, we cannot whitewash the inherited corruption which comes because very strong groups harboring racialist ideas created laws and fostered prejudices that are not entirely rooted out of our society.
Many racists ideas permeate the way Democrats run inner cities, using welfare to disrupt black families, gun control to keep them all disarmed and pliant, softness on gangs to keep them in crises, socialism to keep them in a state of dependency, abortion to control their population, and a host of petty and contractory laws and codes to make it easy to jail them and use them as slave labor.
Yes, black people tend to vote for Democrats. It is a sick humor of history that a Party which has institutionally never disavowed its inherent racialist nature and that continues to use the false doctrine of collective guilt for original sin has captured the very people its ideas once literally enslaved. The black community is being sold the heady elixir of victimhood and entitlement to reparations and the easy excuse of racism as the only reason for any of their failures or problems. This elixir is a poison, the white rulers of the wokatariate are quite content to see the ghettos remain poor, unsafe, and left behind in perpetuity.
As an important aside, we must state that the grievances of the black community in relation to their own country are legion and deserve to be genuinely addressed. The truth is that Democratic Party handouts, even though they come with poison pills aimed at the black family, are a far cry from the “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps there is no racism holding you back” narrative of the right.
The perverted evolution of the original sin doctrine, of racialism, and slaving of the many to serve the few, have emerged as woke communism, perpetuated by a close collaboration between Democratic loyalists in the corporate world, in academia, in the press and entertainment industry, and in government. Their neocommmunism combines woke original sin with a corporate-political power alliance controlled by a party that is itself controlled by a small body of the wokatariate ruling class, almost ALL filthy rich white males!
But the vital issue here remains that there are in fact ideas, laws, and structures that are based in historic racism. It also remains that certain assumptions and prejudices, while not proving racism or any collective guilt, are the seed-kernels of racialist sentiment. Many Americans of every so-called race have been inculcated with racialist and intolerant prejudices, from black people thinking all white people are morally inferior, to white people habitually seeing black people as an “other”, for no reason but their race.
It is true the white prejudice tends to impact black people far more negatively than the anti-white prejudices being imparted into the black community by the wokatariate. But morally, the sentiment that people ought to be judged based on assummed inferior inherent traits, whether they include racism or backwardness, is the same. Whether a black person or white person or any group of people assumes the characterological inferiority of others, the sentiment is best described as prejudice and intolerance.
But, as a point of fact, the victim privilege or racism of the black man is of far less a threat than white prejudice against blacks and is nothing compared to the wokatariate’s new take on original sin. Indeed, the myth of so-called white supremacy or even the very real legacy of bias among a plurality to majority of white people isn’t anything like the threat to the whole country posed by the wokatariate.
But if America’s history on race is uneven but advancing freedom for more and more people at greater levels, and if we rightfully desire to rectify wrongs and finish the work until no American is left behind, the wokatariate want to reverse the arc of our history and bend it back toward original sin, shaming and guilting, and thereby authoritarianism.
We stand at a threshold of a future dominated by the Party that is the very inheritor of the old Democratic Party’s institutional bent toward authoritarianism versus something else. This “something else” isn’t the GOP, whose modern form of denying race as an issue betrays their abolitionist roots, and whose ability to stand against the Democrats is pathetic.
The “something else” needs to be a freedom-building movement of the People that brings all people of all “races” together, addresses the historical and present-day grievances and problems of every community, and does so on the solid and unalterable foundation of the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights!
If the US Capital Police were honest, they would admit that they are a secret police force who serve only the Democratic Party. All the exaggeration of what happened on January 6th and its use as justification for authoritarianism is inexcusable and anti-American.
The US Capital Police, using the pretext of the January 6th riot at the Capitol, are claiming to be pivoting to become an “intelligence based protection agency”, that, on its surface, is literally a Stasi like agency wedded to the Democratic Party. Basically, the Capital Police have become a partisan, illegitimate secret police force aimed at tearing out the heart of American liberty.
America’s Stasi are setting up shop all over the country, establishing offices and listening posts, to conduct mass surveillance of Americans who do not conform to the Democratic Party line. This is truly reprehensible and is a clear violation of the Bill of Rights and our entire republican form of government. Everyone who works for this agency is really no different than the East Germans who served the Stasi itself.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently approved a Capitol Police request for eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground – Medium (PSSG-M) units. These systems are systems of war designed to fight “the war on terror” and the American Stasi are using them against innocent Americans.
The Department of Defense, whose leaders are also all now mostly partisan Democrats who hate Republicans, announced:
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin today approved a request from the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) for the Department of Defense (DoD) to loan surveillance systems to allow the USCP to improve U.S. Capitol security.
Under this arrangement, the DoD will provide eight Persistent Surveillance Systems Ground – Medium (PSSG-M) units, on a reimbursable basis, for a period of one year. The Army will install the units and will train USCP personnel or authorized contractors to operate the systems. Except for required maintenance of the systems, no DoD personnel will operate the PSSG-M units.
The PSSG-M provides high-definition surveillance video, including night vision. This technology will be integrated with existing USCP camera infrastructure, providing greater high definition surveillance capacity to meet steady-state mission requirements and help identify emerging threats. The PSSG-M system does not include facial recognition.
Not only are the American Stasi doing this, they appear to be quite proud of it and are bragging about how they are working “at breakneck speed.” This is a national police force loyal only to Democrats and designed to suppress the opposition, including through illegal surveillance and the use of force.
The American Stasi announced:
Since that day (January 6, 2021, their “reichstag fire” event) our team has been working with federal law enforcement agents to track down the suspects and bring them to justice. So far more than 500 defendants face charges.
Throughout the last six months, the United States Capitol Police has been working around the clock with our Congressional stakeholders to support our officers, enhance security around the Capitol Complex, and pivot towards an intelligence-based protective agency.
This is pure propaganda, bogeyman fear-mongering that points guns at innocent people whose only crime is not being a loyal Democrat. This is the Democratic Party taking over law enforcement, as they have the press, academia, the boardroom, and the so-called “intelligence community.”
January 6th 2021 is the Democratic Party’s “reichstag fire event.” The fire was real, the perp was a Dutch communist who was let in by the German police, who added flammable materials to accelerate the perp’s weak effort, but then it became a whole official conspiracy theory about a pending uprising.
This is how Democrats are doing what they are doing: a bunch of actual perps egged-on by infiltrators and let in by the police became a casus belli for Democrats to wage war on American freedom. The perps are bad, but the garbage about some white supremacist or right wing uprising or coup are total lies and amount to crimes against humanity by the Democrats.
The American Stasi are setting up shop in Florida and California and are determined to grow these offices to the whole country. Their brief, allegedly, is to “protect members of Congress from threats”, which, in light of the heated rhetoric of Democrats, who control this agency because its leaders are partisan hacks, basically means anyone who opposes Democrats.
We need to call this agency out and defund it. We don’t need an American Stasi.
The methods of 1776 don’t apply today in our response to modern, and globalist, authoritarianism, but the spirit of unilateral resistance and refusal to be cowed or owned must be reinvigorated among the populace!
In America, both the Democrats and the Republicans seem infected with different strains of the same disease: globalist authoritarianism.
For today’s Democrats, and by this we mean shot-callers not rank file registered Democrats, authoritarianism is sexy and the Bill of Rights or even the idea of America as a Union of sovereign and free Commonwealths, a Republic of Republics, is execrable. They don’t hate America, but they love monopoly power and they do hate anyone who won’t bow before their alt-gendered rainbow gods of wanton depravity and collectivist regimentation.
The bogeymen of the establishment left include racists, “phobes”, clinate change skeptics, cisgendered Christian white males especially, “insurrectionist” white supremacists and anyone on the “right” who isn’t down with the Democrats.
On the other hand, Republicans, again the shot-callers not rank and file registered Republicans, don’t hate justice and equality but they do love the blue-blooded Chamber of Commerce “cronyism over people” riches. They seem to evince a design of corporate monpolozation of the economy and worker exploitation to fatten the few at our expense. They may seem less authoritarian now, being out of power, but they are in fact just as likely to seek a world without competitors.
The bogeymen of the establishment right include “illegal aliens”, “Islamic terrorism”, “communists” who aren’t communists, and anything that hurts corporate profits and the stock market.
On one hand we have woke communism and on the other cronyist monopolism, two sects of the same “religion”, that of globalist authoritarianism, two factions of a ruling class whose aims against the interest, rights, persons, and property of the People are becoming more blatant and unchecked. Where human rights, human dignity, and human flourishing are concerned, the establishment, in both major factions, has nothing to offer but bogeyman fears and fake utopian promises and unworkable schemes.
While there are major surface differences here, the heart is the same. But there is another real difference of substance: today’s Democratic Party has evidently purged all non-authoritarians from leadership while the Republicans still face internal opposition at the leadership level to this spirit of authoritarianism. Basically, the Democratic shot-callers are almost 100% authoritarians while the Republican shot-callers are divided between the ruling class and outsiders who reject the siren call to monopoly power.
While we assess the woke communists as the main and strongest threat by far, we remain skeptical of the Republicans and vigilent against their authoritarian establishment, led by the likes of Mitt Romney and company. The fact most Republican leaders, office holders, and candidates refuse to even name “woke communism” and the authoritarianism that permeates the Democratic Party establishment is seen by many as proof the GOP has settled into a role a controlled opposition for theater only.
Authoritarianism is a growing threat to everything from supply chains and freedom of movement and commerce to individual rights and the good of the people. Policies aimed ultimately at restructuring society in every aspect to be easily managed by the few and for the few at our expense will not produce the monopoly power desired but can cause harm to the innocent caught up by their machinations.
The pushback will likely include political and civic action, but at the deeper level it must involve unilateral freedom-building actions by individuals and groups of people by freewill participation. It is proposed that freedom builders seek individual to local food, energy, health care, education, housing, and true press independency and the transformation of locales into freedom havens through official support of the Bill of Rights. These may be the most important foundational actions needed to begin to turn the tide and transfer power from the center and top to individuals, families, and various types of freewill participatory associations and communities.
In our natural sin state, humans will tend toward corruption and moral depravity against the laws of nature and nature’s God. In our natural redeemed state, when we actively seek God’s standards of righteousness and justice, humans tend toward a family-centered, as in a mother and father with their biological or adopted children, state of individual liberty within a free and pluralistic society of equals.
The one path leads to violence, poverty and ruin as the price for enriching the few and giving them absolute monopoly control over civilization itself. The other path leads to freedom with liberty and justice for all along with a high quality of life and universal opulence.
We don’t see the authoritarians winning, but we do see dark times and crises for those who righteously oppose this authoritarianism and its vehicles of power, including the alt gendered rainbow totalitarianism over culture, the wanton assault on marriage and family according to thousands of years of Judeo-Christian orthodoxy, and the monopoly corporations owning most vital aspects of our economic structure.
Even after the woke communists are vanquished, and unless they are we face a stunning collapse of the quality of life for all save the very few, the work of remaining vigilent against other hazards to our interests, rights, dignity, flourishing, persons, and property as free and spiritually sovereign human beings will remain a necessity.
Two suspects, seen from a video released by police, showed up in an older model black sedan and, at 8:20 p.m., opened fire in the area of 14th and Riggs in Washington DC, hitting two men and letting loose 20 shots before fleeing the scene. The location is within a mile of the White House and the blatant nature of the shooting, as well as the fact no arrests have been made, highlights dysfunctional priorities by local authorities.
Nobody died in the shooting, video of the reaction having been posted on Twitter.
While one man was a target and the other a bystander, neither received life-threatening injuries. Basically, the attackers, likely a members of a gang, cannot shoot straight. Criminals and gangs are being given more latitude because of the dysfunctional priorities of the Mayor and the President, whose focus is on fake threats from a bogeyman all aimed at moving the country toward a one-party police-state, albeit with very little real danger this design will ever succeed.
In June of last year, Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered the extremely partisan phrase “Black Lives Matter” painted on 16th street near the White House, in an effort to discredit then President Trump and while demanding he remove federal troops from the capital in response to Democratic Party operators launching violent riots in the city to further undermine the President. The sedituous acts by Democratic operators have devolved now into a wave of violence which, while not as bad as the 90s, still represents a spike from 2019.
Today the city partially resembles a dystopian totalitarian capital with barbed wire and troops welcomed by the mayor in response to alleged an “threat” to “overthrow the government” from “white supremacists” or “the right” whose actual number in the United States and level of threat pales compared to the violent seditious acts by radical Democrats. The January 6th riot/storming of the Capitol, while reprehensible, has become the “proof” for a conspiracy theory perpetuated by the government itself that is on par with the now infamous false claims that the Spanish sunk the Maine, which led to the Spanish-American War.
The present Speaker of the House, one Nancy Pelosi, is convening a kangaroo-court like “investigation” into the January 6th events clearly aimed at criminalizing opponents of her Party’s authoritarian aims. Through exaggeration and lies, the goal is to turn all Republicans into pariahs and pave the way to one-party rule, transforming America into an alt-gendered, rainbow dystopia ruled from DC, on behalf of billionaire lordlings, by the few at the expense of the many. But while these aims are fantastical and will never succeed, the damage these dysfunctional and anti-American aims can cause may be considerable.
This “white supremacy” or “right wing” bogeyman has been used to justify attempts to silence critics of an authoritarian American administration and to justify the militarization of the capital. But while the President and the Mayor, both authoritarian Democrats, enjoy the robust show of force against phantom threats, the real threats of crimianls and gangs, sadly involving plenty of “black on black” killings, remains an afterthought of little concern to this pair.
A young girl of only 6 years was killed in another recent shooting which has also not resulted in any arrests.
Bowser and Biden continue to bang war drums and bandy about claims of insurrection against anyone who isn’t subordinated to the authoritarian Democratic Party, but they both remain unconcerned about the killings and terror stalking the nation’s capital from a real threat.
It would appear that for Democrats, protecting people from actual threats is a far lower priority than demonizing, delegitimizing, and even outlawing their opponent on spurious grounds and through stoking wild, exaggerated, bogeyman fears of fake insurrections and coups.
Never before, even as real criminals and gangs increasingly control the streets of our nation’s capital, has this country been closer to an actual form of extreme authoritarian dictat from one overwrought and extreme Party as it is now under a totalitarian leaning administration. While the likelihood Democrats will actually create the dictatorship or junta they seem to crave, the fact their priorities are so focused on phantoms and their fears directed toward delegitimizing their innocent opponents is enough to indict the entire Party as an anti-American cabal.
Regardless, the dysfunctional priorities of the Mayor and her friend and authoritarian ally in the White House are causing the needless loss of life and property among the residents of the city.
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