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Numerous Department of the Environment Violations at Blake Solar Project Site

Stormwater runoff from the Blake Solar Project enters the Shenandoah River at the Route 115 Bridge via Evitts Run on September 24, 2023.

Multiple complaints have been filed with the West Virginia Department of the Environment, resulting in multiple inspections and the issuing of multiple notices of violations.
See the inspection reports, including pictures below.
View the complaints by selecting each file below:

https://www.visionroot.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Stormwater-Citizens-Complaint-WVR111837.pdf

https://www.visionroot.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AXExport-20240109-062143-9405-file0001.pdf

https://www.visionroot.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AXExport-20240109-062006-5710-file0001.pdf

https://www.visionroot.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AXExport-20240109-060526-5113-file0001.pdf

https://www.visionroot.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AXExport-20240109-055554-2656-file0001.pdf

Violations include, among others, no corrective action for construction areas and no provision for temporary seeding and mulching. In other words, soil will continue to run off during construction, unless this is corrected. “The majority of the sediment trapping structures on the site had been removed and converted to permanent storm water management ponds. Other trapping structures that were not converted had been removed. However, the site remained disturbed…”

Still, to this date, the violations have not been remediated to the satisfaction of the Virginia Department of the Environment. Yet, no stop work orders have been issued, and no fines have been levied. These regulations need teeth, in the form of stop work orders and hefty fines.

This project is a bellwether for what we can expect if other solar projects are built in Jefferson County. The solar text amendment needs to be repealed. It is not in accordance with our current Comprehensive Plan.

A thoughtful solar plan could allow solar development on brownfield areas, such as the county dump or the Millville quarry site, not on prime farmland. Perhaps much smaller solar projects could be built on existing substation land plots owned by power companies. But in no way is this carte blanch approach of allowing solar farms anywhere in urban zoned areas and as a permitted use anywhere else good for Jefferson County or its citizens.

It is only “good” for a few large landowners, and some real estate developers who will reap a large profit windfall, at everyone else’s’ expense.

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Open Letter to Prosecutor Matt Harvey re Jackson & Krouse

December 13, 2023

Matt Harvey
Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney
P.O. Box 729
Charles Town WV 25414

Dear Prosecutor Harvey,

This is an open letter to question and analyze why you are continuing with the petition to remove my local Commissioner, Tricia Jackson, as well as my Commissioner Jennifer Krouse.

Ostensibly, your action was to compel Jackson and Krouse to return to work.  Now that they have returned to work, why have you not dropped this petition?

Is it your job to determine who the rightfully elected representatives of Jefferson County residents are?  No, it is not.  That is the job of the voters.  I, as a voter, do not want Commissioner Jackson and Commissioner Krouse removed.  Also, you bring charges against Jackson and Krouse as if they have committed some crime, when in fact their actions were a protest against corrupt activities by a government official.  Would not the normal order of business be for a crime to have occurred, and then for a jury of peers to decide if that is indeed the case?  The Constitution provides for a clear separation of powers.  Voters should decide about matters regarding elected officials.  Yet, without any criminal activity occurring, you are seeking to remove my elected officials from office.  This is wrong.

It is also very ironic that the person who is the instigating cause for the protest action of Jackson and Krouse is actually the person who has huge conflicts of interest.  Even if they do not rise to the legal definition of a crime, which as we know, is open to interpretation, they still certainly are conflicts of interest.  These conflicts of interest affect the welfare and well-being of all citizens of Jefferson County.  Should not this be acknowledged and probed further to see if the financial interest of Stolipher in solar development is self-dealing that causes harm to the citizens of Jefferson County?

In your petition, you cover extensively how Jackson and Krouse are only thinking about their own agenda.  However, that is false.  They are thinking about the well-being of the whole county and its residents, not just a select few people.

One thing you do not mention at all in your petition, is the main reason that the entire situation came about to begin with.  That one thing is the railroading of industrial solar development in Jefferson County by Steve Stolipher and his cronies.  The main action that is behind this whole situation are Stolipher’s refusal to put discussion of the Solar Text Amendment on the County Commission Agenda.  No doubt, Stolipher, was not happy with the removal of the Solar Text Amendment by Jackson and Krouse’s votes on September 7, 2023.

One point that you should be investigated is the huge conflicts of interest that Stolipher undeniably has.  Whether some ethics committee panel decides that conflicts of interest rise to their interpretation of being legally acceptable, they are still conflicts of interest.  To give a current example, President Biden continues to say that he has no conflicts of interest regarding his decision making process.  Yet it is an incontrovertible fact that he has many conflicts of interest with regards to payments to his family from foreign entities in Ukraine, China and other locations.

Stolipher has multiple conflicts of interest regarding solar development.  First, as a real estate agent, he makes commissions off of the sale or leasing of properties.  Since solar farm leases are for up to 35 years, this will be a substantial amount.  For example, if the real estate agent negotiating the $15,600,000 35 year lease for the Wild Hill Solar project hypothetically received just a 3% commission, that would amount to $468,000.  

The current Comprehensive Plan specifies preserving the rural nature of Jefferson County, and does not support industrial scale solar farms on rural lands.  County Judge Deborah McLaughlin expressed this in striking down the April 21, 2021 Comprehensive Plan text amendment.  By lobbying during the 2022 Legislative Session for HB 4553, Stolipher is supporting state legislation that attempts to skirt local zoning regulations by allowing solar farms in any zoning district anywhere in the state as a matter of right.  This is in direct contradiction to his responsibility as a County Commissioner to represent the best interests of all of his constituents, not just a handful of large landowners and farmers. In other words, this lobbying is self-dealing.

In conclusion, I urge you to drop the petition attempting to remove County Commissioners Jackson and Krouse.  They have been looking out for the best interests of all of the citizens in Jefferson County.  If voters want to remove Jackson and Krouse they will decide that issue at the ballot box at their next reelection. 

Sincerely,

Richard Urban
Shannondale
Harpers Ferry, WV

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#143-Conflicts of Interest Corrupt Our Government

Stormwater runoff from the Blake Solar Project enters the Shenandoah River at the Route 115 Bridge via Evitts Run on September 24, 2023.

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.

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#126-Character Has Consequences and the Core of Character Is Sexual Ethics

What do Sam Brinton, Barney Frank and Audrey Hale have in common?  
They all have critical issues with sexual integrity.
Whether or not we embrace good sex, that is, sex within faithful marriage, or bad sex, that is sex outside of those boundaries, makes all the difference in the world.
Practical solution to the problem of family breakdown.

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#121 – Stop the COVID Bioweapon Shots Now!

Up to Feb 17, 2023, VAERS reports 34,478 deaths and 282,890 serious injuries requiring hospitalization from COVID shots.  At a modest 5 times underreporting rate, that is 172,390 deaths and 1,414,450 serious adverse reactions.  What!
Data released from Pfizer that Pfizer wanted to hide for 75 years shows that of the 32 pregnancies they knew the outcome of among women in the jab trials, 87.5% resulted in the death of the fetus or neonate.
Incredibly, no outcome was provided for 238 other pregnancies in the bioweapon shot trials.  Why not?  Reference here.
For children, a hospital in Canada reports a 100 times increase in myocarditis, from 2 cases per year to 27 cases in 6 weeks.  Reference here.

STOP THE BIOWEPON SHOTS NOW!

Hold those accountable, from Fauci and the developers of the bioweapon, to those that created the shots, to all those profiting from and distributing the shots.

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They are Murdering People Left and Right

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We are in an unprecedented time in the United States where established safety protocols are not being followed as the COVID 19 Vaccine has been rolled out.

At the same time, there is a massive dis-information campaign going on in the main stream media.  This is caused by the corruption of our political and regulatory system.  Billions of dollars are being made as literally tens of thousands of United States citizens are killed.  Frankly, this is murder by our own government agencies.  Those responsible must be held accountable.

Another thread is the push to make these dangerous and deadly vaccines mandatory.  Now, with FDA approval of the Pfizer biological product, the military is mandating all personnel to get the vaccine.  As well, the Federal government is mandating that all workers get vaccinated or undergo repeated testing.  New York City requires a vaccine card to dine out or go out for entertainment.

Let’s put this in perspective.  In 1969, when a swine flu vaccine caused 3 deaths, the program was shut down in nine states.  Fast forward to 2021.  13,068 deaths have been reported as of 8/26/2021.  54,142 hospitalizations have been reported.  81,850 serious adverse reactions have been reported.  The actual number of deaths is at least 45,000, as reported to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

This is insane!   How can this be?  The main stream media, which makes billions of dollars from drug advertising, is colluding in suppressing this information, as well as information about early treatments that can be used at home, including vitamins, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and Azithromycin.  See here and here for early at-home treatment information.

In an interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  Dr. Peter McCullough shared.

Robert F Kennedy, Jr.:  What about vaccine injuries and deaths?  Are you seeing any of those?

  Dr. McCullough:  The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is the only source right now.  Our US FDA and the CDC, which are the joint sponsors of the public vaccine program, which is an investigation.  You know they have no critical event committee, they have no data safety monitoring board; they have no human ethics board.  This is an abrogation of standards of safety for participants in human clinical investigations.  It is the only time that I’m aware of that we haven’t seen the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) step in on this.

We should have had a data safety monitoring board, with the size of this program, doing monthly reviews of safety and giving advice to the program on whether or not it should continue.  On whether or not there should be modifications in the program.  There was no data safety monitoring board involved.  Looking backwards, we had a mortality signal with this program at 27 million Americans vaccinated, on January 22 (2021).  The mortality was 186 patients, and that would exceed a confidence above a usual expected for the entire class of injections at 150 deaths.

So at January 22nd, if we would have had a data safety monitoring board review the data, the DSMB would have shut this down in February.  And they would have had to look at the deaths and say, ‘where are they happening?’ ‘Are they happening in COVID recovered patients who shouldn’t be receiving the vaccine?’  ‘Are they happening in the frail and elderly?’  They would have asked some questions.

And shockingly, we’re in August and our vaccine program sponsors, the FDA and the CDC have yet to have a single press briefing or a single report on comprehensive safety.  All we have is the self-queried VAERS report…..
We are at, now, 13,000 deaths that the CDC has told us has happened.  Over 200,000 emergency room visits, clinic visits.  And we have separate external analysis…,that have shown that fifty percent of these deaths occur within two days of getting the vaccine, eighty percent occur within a week.  Most are seniors in their 70’s or 80’s who die and 86 percent of the time there is no other explanation.  Someone healthy enough to walk into a vaccine center has died.

Dr McCullough estimates that in Australia, for example, 100 times more people are dying from the vaccine than from COVID.  Consider also, from the above interview, that the number of deaths so far, at 45,000 deaths is 250 times or 25,000 % greater than the normal threshold for stopping a vaccine program!  Dr McCullough adds:

On two occasions the CDC has very casually put out on their website, one in March (2021) and one in June (2021); they’ve put out a statement that the CDC doctors and FDA doctors have reviewed all the deaths, and none of them are related to the vaccine.  None, not a single one.  You know, that includes these immediate deaths that occur in the vaccine center, where the vaccine personnel are doing CPR, for instance.  They concluded, and I tell you, at that point, when that first statement came out in March, I have to tell you, for me, that was probably the turning point for me.  I was already behind on the mortality signal.  That January 22nd landmark, I missed it, clinically I just missed it.  In the middle of March, when they made that statement, I realized that something was going on.    It’s the hardest thing for Americans to swallow this, but that’s malfeasance.  That’s wrongdoing by those in position of authority.  The FDA and the CDC in no way could have reviewed 1600 deaths.  That takes forever.

Television journalist Ivory Hecker shares:

It’s also worth noting that had there been an existing, known, safe and effective treatment for COVID-19, emergency use authorization of a vaccine for the virus would be prohibited by law.  Could that have been part of the motivation for the strange censorship of certain COVID-19 treatments that we witnessed over the past year at news and social media corporations?  I’d like to know.  I’d also like to know why so few journalists seem to report on what is happening at the human level, opting instead to report what a bureaucrat tells them.  Today I send courage to corporate journalists everywhere, to ask the tough questions, seek the truth and demand that their corporate bosses publish the truth.

In light of the above knowledge, we must resist vaccine mandates with all of our being.  Do not allow your job to mandate the vaccine.  Request a religious exemption. More information is here and here.  Do not resign from your job.  Make them fire you, if it comes down to that.  You have God-given constitutional rights.  Do not cave in.  Your life may literally depend on it.

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Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Practical Vision to Save America

I was fortunate to work in a key project that Rev. Sun Myung Moon founded in 1987 to save America from its moral and spiritual and physical decline.  In his wisdom, Rev. Moon founded a business with the salvation of America at its heart.  The logo embodies the heart behind this ministry

It was originally named the Happy Mind Home Shopping Club.  However, due to complaints from the Home Shopping Network, the name was changed to the Happy Mind Shop at Home Service.

The service was launched in September, 1987 from a warehouse on V St. NE in Washington, DC.  Initially there were about 1000 non perishable products stocked that could be delivered to customers’ homes.  Later, this was expanded to a selection of about 6000 products, including perishable items.  At that time, there was only one other home delivery service in Metro Washington DC, Telegrocer (no longer in business).  As usual, Rev. Moon was way ahead of his time.

I became one of the first delivery agents for the company.  My delivery area was in the Brookland area and vicinity of Washington, DC.  The company did direct mail advertising, and I began delivering to a few customers.  My wife Stacey and I promoted the service door to door in our neighborhood, too.

According to Rev. Moon, who visited the business location on June 30 1990 (I’m not 100% sure of the year), the Happy Mind Shop at Home Service has three main purposes:

  • To facilitate the accomplishment of Home Church (more about this later).
  • To facilitate the promotion of the Washington Times Newspaper.
  • To allow those doing the business to make money.

In 1989 I moved to the Capitol Hill area of Washington DC.  Renee Corley was the Happy Mind delivery agent in that area at the time.  She had just moved out of the area, so I took over her area, which we served continuously until May, 2016.

According to Larry Moffit, at a meeting at the Washington Times building, Rev. Moon stated when asked what his most important legacy in the United States would be, he answered, “The Happy Mind Shop at Home Service”.  I think that this tells us a lot about the heart of Rev. Moon.  He was and still is a man on a mission to save all of the people in the United States, and the world.  But, practically speaking, how?  How will every home in the United States be reached?

We can understand something of Rev. Moon’s heart when we look at this excerpt from a speech given on January 8th, 1976 at Jacob House in Tarrytown, NY:

In this religion each person is so important as to correspond to thousands of members. You and all under you will collapse. Know how many people are in the church. Find out how many of the world’s population must be taken care of by each of you.  You are responsible for the eternal life of so many people.

On January 1st, 1979, Rev. Moon launched “Home Church”.  Home church is a practical ministry to serve and educate families in a 360 home area or multiple thereof, such as 720 homes, 1080 homes, or a 3.6 mile radius area.  Going back to Rev. Moon’s words above, if there are 1000 people who understand this imperative, and 327 million people and the average household size is 3.6 people, then each person would be responsible for about 91,000 homes.

In September 2004 Rev. Moon conducted his last Hoon Dok Hae before leaving America for an extended time.  The meeting was held at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.  At that time, he instructed that the section on Home Church and Tong Ban Breakthrough be read (Cheon Seong Gyeong pp. 2021 to 2078).  So these were the instruction that he left America with as he returned to Korea for an extended period.  As such, we should study and pay close attention to these words.

But how, practically, could you take care of a specific geographic area with thousands of homes.

In the Cheon Seong Gyeong on p. 2056 Rev. Moon explains

I created a company named, Happy Mind, which in Korean is Haeng bok eui
Ma-eum. It is a company I have developed and invested in continually for sev-
en years. What does this company do?  It is for the organization of the Home
Church. This organization should be connected to the tong ban breakthrough
activities and should try to win over the families. Once you win them over,
then everything will be possible. There is no better foundation that exists for
the mobilization of the masses. (213-299,1991.1.21)

Enter the Urban Grocery Delivery System.  Unfortunately, the Happy Mind Home Shopping Service closed in June, 1994.  Fortunately, Urban Grocery took the foundation started with the Happy Mind Shop at Home Service and beginning on July 5th, 1994, developed it into what is now the Urban Grocery Delivery System.

Watch this video to see why every community servant should be utilizing the Urban Grocery Delivery System: