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Local government officials, including Jefferson County West Virginia County Commission Chair Steve Stolipher, have conflicts of interest regarding the promotion of Solar Farms. These conflicts of interest are harmful to local citizens.
More broadly, self enrichment by government officials is a serious problem.
Transparency must be demanded, and government officials must realize that they are the servants of their constituents.
What is the solution to a world where wars are killing our children? Why should we continue to sacrifice our children’s lives when there is a solution at hand?
Are we willing to listen to and work toward the solution?
God’s Ideal Family is the Model for World Peace
This Independent Voice column appeared in the Spirit Of Jefferson on September 20, 2023
The Blake Solar Project, adjacent to St. James the Greater Catholic Church and the new Kings Crossing sub- division, is under construction. This 516-acre project fundamentally changes the rural, pastoral atmosphere of the area. Solar farms are an industrial use of property and should be required to be located in areas zoned for either light or heavy industry, such as the Bardane industrial park area. Just because someone owns a property does not mean that they can use it for an industrial type of use.
Another major concern is the environmental impact of solar farms. Formerly fertile farmland is stripped bare to install solar panels. Without proper ground cover, runoff becomes a major concern, with sedimentation of the nearby Shenandoah River, for example, becoming a possibility.
In Louisa County, Virginia, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has fined provider Dominion Power $50,700 for erosion and runoff problems on an 1,100-acre project. In central and southwest Virginia, Energix was fined $97,651 for various violations including erosion problems.
According to Roanoke.com, “At the Appomattox facility, inspectors found that ‘many areas around the site, particularly under the solar arrays, were denuded and stabilization had not been applied,’ the consent order states. Run- off had created gullies and maintenance was needed on silt fences, check dams and other erosion control devices at the Leatherwood operation in Henry County, which in 2021 became Appalachian Power’s first utility-scale solar farm.”
In Essex County, Virginia, a consent order for $9,100 in fines was proposed for the 200-acre Coronal Power solar facility, which also experienced severe erosion and runoff problems.
Also consider that it is cloudy, on average, about 55 percent of the time here in the Eastern Panhandle. Solar panels produce only about 10 percent to 30 percent of their full capacity on cloudy days. This makes West Virginia a questionable location for utility-scale solar projects. For example, in Nevada, there are, on average, 73 per- cent more sunny days than in West Virginia.
Then there is the issue of disposing of the solar panels when their lifecycle ends in 25 to 35 years. The panels may contain arsenic, cadmium, lead and selenium that should not be disposed of at local dumps.
In an Op-Ed in the Aug. 9 issue of The Spirit of Jefferson, Richard Zigler, one of the property owners of the proposed Wild Hill Solar Project argues that, “Commercial solar facilities are passive in their effects on the communities in which they are installed.” Ziegler also claims that “environmental issues are not an issue.” Based on the above observations, this statement is flat out false.
Another factor is that food production is an important necessity for the continuation of society. Eliminating more and more productive farmland or forest land is a bad policy for long-term sustenance of society. Although some farmland will be developed into subdivisions, it is on nowhere near the scale of the proposed or already under construction solar farms.
According to Rexa Kameli and Sun Shen of the Virginia Coastal Policy Center at the College of William & Mary Law School, authors of the report “Developing Solar Energy in Rural Virginia: An Analysis of Legal, Environ- mental and Policy Issues” (2022),
“To avoid disturbing prime forested and agricultural lands, solar developers and localities should consider siting new solar projects on degraded lands or ‘brownfields,’ such as former industrial sites, landfills or mined areas, provided appropriate environmental controls are in place to mitigate adverse effects. Additionally, distributed solar is another option that could be explored more in Virginia to ease the pressure to develop large solar facilities in rural communities.”
The Jefferson County Commission should work to stop the construction of the proposed solar projects that have not yet begun construction, as well as any future utility-scale solar projects that are not located in industrially zoned areas. We should learn from the costly mistakes of other rural counties.
In May of 2021, the White House learned of the deaths and injuries caused by the COVID shots. Instead of informing the public and stopping the shots, they created slides and materials explaining how to respond and cover up the facts.
Joe Biden and all of the staff involved, which includes the heads of top agencies, must resign, and also face criminal prosecution.
#Bidenmustresign
#COVIDjabs
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The two prophets in Revelation 11:9 were down and out for 3 1/2 “days” (years). Yet, all those who had been partying were terrified when the two prophets resurrected.
This is happening right now. Find out who the two prophets are, and what to expect to happen now.
This Independent Voice column appeared in the Spirit of Jefferson on August 16, 2023. On August 14, a fourth indictment, similar to the third one, was unsealed in Fulton County, GA.
The three indictments of former President Donald Trump represent a new tide of tyranny. If not stopped, this type of tyranny threatens to destroy our nation.
We see a lawless campaign to stop President Trump from running again using any and all methods. Virtually everything about this campaign against Trump is exactly the opposite of what reality actually is.
First, we have the so-called January 6, 2021 “riot” at the United States Capitol. In reality, this was a set up from the beginning. The FBI still will not answer questions about the federal agents who were in the crowd and what they were doing. Why were protesters let into the Capitol building? Why do those on the left and the right, like Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell have such a vendetta against the protestors? The guilty verdict was in before the protestors even arrived at the Capitol.
The third indictment alleges that Trump interfered in the counting of votes on January 6th, 2021, thereby defrauding the rightful choice of the American people. The indictment says that he was told that the election results were legitimate. Somehow, questioning the election results, which is protected by the First Amendment has become a crime, according to this indictment. No court of law or investigation has ever determined the veracity of the 2020 Presidential election. Yet those accusing Trump are the ones who bent election rules, processed hundreds of thousands of supposedly legit mail in ballots in Pennsylvania with no observers allowed, and stuffed drop boxes with thousands of questionable harvested ballots and have failed to investigate or even acknowledge many other instances of election fraud.
These same Trump antagonists say that if Trump is elected he will never relinquish power, when it is they themselves that have used subversion to gain and keep power.
They accused President Trump of interfering in Ukraine for asking for an investigation into Hunter Biden’s dealings at Burisma, and tried to impeach him over that phone call. But in reality President Biden is actually on video bragging about how he got the Ukrainians to stop investigating corruption that we now know was tied directly to his son Hunter. And more and more evidence directly points to President Biden as being compromised by these tens of millions of dollars in payments to his family, and very likely, himself. So, again, we see the strategy of accusing President Trump of the very crimes that the accusers are committing themselves.
This is a dangerous path, indeed. We have a sitting President directly trying to persecute and prosecute, jail and prevent from running his direct opponent. It matters not whether your support President Trump or not. Anyone can be targeted by the Justice Department and be accused of crimes. Whether you are proven guilty or not, it could well ruin your life.
Let’s also look also at the first two indictments of Trump. The first one, based on the raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, claims he mishandled classified documents. In fact, presidents can de-classify documents, and disputes over presidential documents have frequently occurred, including right now with President Biden. It is not hard to see that this is an effort to intimidate and persecute President Trump.
The second indictment by Prosecutor Alan Bragg in New York has to do with fees paid to different people or companies to not publish negative information, including fees paid to Stormy Daniels. This fee was later repaid, and not saying what the repayment was for is considered a misdemeanor altering of business records. However Bragg has elevated this to a felony without saying what the underlying felony charge is. This seems patently unfair, and a “gothcha” scheme, to boot. It is ironic since President Biden and his family have received tens of millions of dollars and Biden has even bragged about his influence in stopping a corruption investigation in Ukraine.
Jack Smith, the prosecutor in two of the three Trump cases, previously prosecuted and gained a bribery conviction of the former governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnel. The Supreme Court overturned that conviction in an 8-0 decision. That says a lot about the integrity of Jack Smith’s operation.
Another sinister motive of bringing dubious charges in the January 6th case would be to attempt to have Trump be ineligible to run for office by applying the “insurrection” clause from section 3 of the 14th amendment, which was actually applied to a delegate in Oklahoma to remove him from office. Again, this is the greatest irony. Why didn’t Congress, on January 6, 2021 move to investigate the many credible reports of election fraud? Seeing things from this viewpoint, it is the members of Congress who did not vote to investigate credible allegations of election fraud who committed an insurrection, just the opposite of what Jack Smith is trying to put forward with this dubious case.
Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said “It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its chief political rivals. We need to know what Biden told Garland & what Garland told Jack Smith. We should know whose invisible hand is guiding these indictments”
We all should be alarmed at the brazen political persecution and attempted prosecution of President Trump. Those who think that the ends justifies the means would be well advised to look at the legacy of Communism, which claims that dialectical conflict will lead to a future peaceful utopia. Over 100,000,000 have been murdered under Communism and the promised utopia has never arrived.
President Biden should resign immediately over his corruption and the weaponization of law enforcement and the Justice Department against political opponents.
by Celia Farber
Book Review by Richard Urban
Serious Adverse Events is a collection of essays written by investigative journalist Celia Farber about the events and pharmaceutical interventions surrounding the disease AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Originally published in 2006, it is now republished in 2023.
I recommend that everyone read this book. Here are a few reasons why.
Did you know that there is no scientific consensus that AIDS is caused by a virus called HIV? Rather, that notion is a construct of Robert Gallo. Subsequent to his (questionable) announcement, the National Institutes of Health, then headed by Anthony Fauci, and the entire medical, AIDS activists and Big Pharma conglomerate ran with, and continue to run with that narrative. This, of course, is self-serving, as all these groups receive hundreds of millions in funding from the unholy alliance of the federal government and Big Pharma.
The first major AIDS drug treatment, AZT, was approved based on flawed studies. There was no control group and records were falsified. Later AIDS drugs, like nevirapine were also approved after corrupted studies, or even just one corrupted study, sometimes in a matter of weeks. One toxic drug was compared to another toxic drug, as seems to have become the standard for the “clinical trials” of drug companies.
Indigent children in the foster care system were abused as guinea pigs for Big Pharma. Some were forced to take the drugs by inserting tubes in their stomachs, and when a number of them died, they were disposed of (“buried”) in a mass grave. This happened in the New York City foster care system.
PCR tests, made familiar by COVID testing, are also used to test for HIV viral loads. But if you have to use the most powerful amplification process to supposedly find a disease, does it really exist, especially when many people who supposedly have HIV don’t have any symptoms? The ELISA and Western Blot tests test for HIV antibodies. Yet about 33 % to 50% of those who test positive don’t have any HIV in their blood.
One of the most preposterous claims is that the reason that double blind, placebo controlled studies can’t be done is because it would be unethical not to give the “life-saving” drugs to people. This is exactly the opposite of the truth. Because the drugs are so toxic and dangerous, if a proper study with a placebo group is done, there is no way the drug will ever be approved. Or so we thought, until COVID miRNA shots were approved after placebo trials, through data manipulation. Which brings up another point. How can Big Pharma companies be in charge of testing their own products? And how can the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) receive significant funding from Big Pharma and still be non-biased?
What about AIDS in Africa? It certainly does not look like AIDS in western countries, where the main cohort of those infected is sexually active homosexual men who sometimes have had as many as 3000 sexual partners. In fact, most of what is called AIDS in African countries has the same symptoms that are caused by extreme poverty and malnutrition.
Yet, in Africa and elsewhere, toxic drugs like AZT are recommended to prevent mother to child transmission of AIDS. This disproportionately affects poor women However, when treated with vitamin A, pregnant women have similar results in preventing transmission as the supposed effects of giving highly toxic drugs like AZT
As you can see, this book has taken on new relevance in light of the manipulation of COVID 19 to accomplish a similar unholy alliance between Big Pharma and government, which is continuing to this day.
Buy a copy and read it. Then take action to inform others.
Father Bayo Adrien talks about US, Universal Siblings and Universal Solutions. We have to take ownership of the problems and the solutions. Abstinence-centered educaiton is needed not just in the schools but in the pulpits.
Louisiana, Arkansas, Virginia, Utah and Montana have all passed laws requiring pornography sites to verify the age of users. We need that too, here in West Virginia.
Pornography has negative effects on those addicted, affecting their future marriages and relationships with real women. It also creates a culture of sexual objectification of women, and promotes “rape culture”.
See this article in Politico.
Jefferson County Commissioner Jennifer Krouse speaks on stopping the sexualization of children in Jefferson County Public Schools and Providing a Positive Alternative at the Strengthening Families and Communities Forum on July 22nd, 2023.