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Around the same time I was climbing Mount Rainier, Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee announced that he had agreed to withdraw his land use provision from the Senate’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” Lee’s provision would have allowed the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands, including Mount Rainier National Park, to developers such as Larry Fink’s BlackRock. In objecting to Lee’s proposed provision, Montana Republican Senator Ryan Zinke stated: “I always have considered myself kind of a Teddy Roosevelt Republican. And this is my San Juan Hill. And I’m glad to charge up the hill to protect public land.”
Between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt signed legislation establishing five national parks. In 1906, he signed the Antiquities Act, which enabled Roosevelt and later presidents to designate “historic landmarks, historic or prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest” as national monuments. Roosevelt’s predecessor, William McKinley, signed legislation in 1899, which created Mount Rainier National Park. In 1901, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt was hiking up the 5,344-foot Mount Marcy, New York’s tallest peak, when a mountain guide caught up to him and delivered the message that President McKinley, who had been shot, was going to die. Roosevelt was sworn in later that day.
Mount Rainier is a 14,410-foot peak that has the largest system of glaciers in the United States, outside of Alaska. While Mount Rainier is only the fifth tallest peak in the lower-48, no other American peak outside of Alaska has the same combination of high elevation, topographic prominence, and heavily crevassed glaciation. Unlike all the other mountains in the lower-48, Mount Rainier, even by its easiest route, requires ascending at least 9,000 vertical feet (much of it over crevasses), which is equivalent to climbing from the Western Cwm to the summit of Mount Everest.
I would be embellishing if I said that I thought deeply or specifically about the Big Beautiful Bill while I ascended the Disappointment Cleaver Route, crossed the Crater Rim, and then stood atop the Columbia Crest, the true summit. I did, however, think briefly and nebulously about the impact of grotesque cosmopolitans and transnational corporations grabbing part of our national heritage while telling us that they are “helping to eliminate the housing crisis”, a crisis that was actually set in motion, in part, by weaponized immigration policies and Clinton-era and Bush-era HUD policies pressuring banks to issue more mortgages to minority groups.
Ultimately, the Big Beautiful Bill passed the House and Senate and President Trump signed it. Among other things, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as it is now called, will increase the number of permitted leases for onshore and offshore drilling, including in the Alaskan wilderness. The Act requires the U.S. Forest Service to annually sell at least 250 million board feet greater than the timber sold in the previous fiscal year through 2034 on forest reserves created from the public domain. The Act also ends tax credits for electric vehicles and rescinds funds designated for national parks and for national park employees. Trump announced after he signed the bill, however, that this national park funding shortfall would be mitigated by an Executive Order which instructs the Interior Secretary to “develop a strategy” to increase entrance fees and recreation pass fees for non-U.S. residents at “any national park that currently charges for entry.”
Reducing the cost of oil, disincentivizing electric vehicles (which are presently a net negative for the environment because of the need for lithium mining), and returning to “energy independence” are all generally good things. I suspect, however, that when many MAGA voters think about energy independence and “drill baby drill,” they are not solely thinking about immunity from OPEC manipulations, but they are also thinking about disentanglement from Middle Eastern interventions and affairs. Given the circumstances under which America just participated in the so-called “12-Day War” on behalf of Israel, it is hard to envision more drilling at home leading inevitably to less conflict abroad. Additionally, even with a reduction in the cost of crude, Americans will nevertheless continue contending with onerous gasoline taxes imposed at the state level. By way of example, Washington, where Rainier is located, imposes a 55.4 cents per gallon tax.
The Marxist-Christian writer Paul Kingsnorth astutely noted that the left’s version of environmentalism is really nothing more than questionable green technology, ethical shopping, and sustainability. Not only do these three pillars of leftist environmentalism make the environment worse, but they feminize people within the movement. Instead of low-impact and high-risk outdoor adventure, the environmental movement begins to look a lot like pot-bellied men dropping store bought goods into re-usable cloth bags and then driving in their bumper-stickered EVs to homes that lack gas stoves.
1960s-era Sierra Club president David Brower proposed minimalism, adventure, keeping wild places wild, and re-wilding. Before he was ousted and denounced, he also wrote about the link between third-world immigration and environmental degradation. Indeed, we hear about and see “oceans of plastic” and “plastic islands,” but it is a little reported fact that three-quarters of that plastic comes from India, Brazil, Indonesia, and the Philippines. And we’ve all seen horrific images of de-tusked elephants lying on the ground in some sunbaked, Sub-Saharan landscape. Bringing in hordes of foreigners from countries that have no concern for nature (or “shit-hole countries,” as President Trump previously called them) contributes to environmental degradation. To that end, we can, of course, celebrate the One Big Beautiful Bill Act appropriating over $29 billion to expanding ICE activities, including hiring new agents and upgrading detention facilities.
Men in the modern West live in a world designed for maximum comfort and safety. Comfort and safety will, in most cases, dull our senses and weaken us physically and mentally. Getting out into wild places does not merely present an opportunity to passively appreciate or commune with nature. Doing so allows us to distance ourselves from comfort culture. It allows us to challenge ourselves.
Resisting efforts to despoil public lands shouldn’t really be framed as “environmentalism” insofar as that term is now broadly associated with green technology, ethical shopping, and sustainability. Rather, it should be framed as responsibly preserving God-given spaces that allow us to get away from, as Henry Miller called it, “the air-conditioned nightmare,” and to strive toward a better and more virtuous version of ourselves.
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One of the great weaknesses of the Right/Left paradigm is that it allows the jews to play ‘the Right’ off against ‘the Left’ while always moving things closer and closer to jewish supremacist rule.
The approach here is a good example why White Nationalist politics should have nothing to do with ‘right wing’ politics or culture.
Why should Whites Nationalists care if ‘environmentalism’ is coded ‘left’ in some people’s eyes? What exactly is wrong with ‘green technology, ethical shopping, and sustainability’ or reusable shopping bags?
What I don’t need or want is an ecological politics that thinks that dragging in monotheism is the solution to the ‘left’ having squatted on valuable moral real estate (‘the land’).
Mixing politics and the supernatural inevitably stupefies the former and sullies the reputation of the latter. And it’s not even productive.
Whites live on the land. Without rich, living soil and clean water, Whites just get sick.
As for selling public lands, that’s always been a complete boondoggle. The people who think ‘private interests’ are intrinsically less tyrannical or wasteful than ‘public management’ have never worked in an actual business.
Blackrock is the jewish version of a fleet of nuclear bombers. It’s a instrument of warfare on White nations.
Many hear WN & think “nationalist”/”nation” must = GOP, when in fact, we need borders & an immigration moratorium for a sustainable nation, and both GOP & Dems, as well as every American union, is pro cheap foreign labor. I’m for White identity politics. And I totally agree with you that delving into the supernatural when tackling earthly issues has never simplified anything.
For the longest time, I was using an older hybrid car. The battery can be charged via the sun, or I can use gas if I’m driving far. Having the ability to use the battery, & not buy gasoline, simply allows me more self-sufficiency.
One negative wildlife effect due to gobs of foreigners in Southern California is that rare colorful reptiles are becoming extinct due to the polluted rivers in densely packed ‘migrant’ areas. I read an article about it by a lover of rare snakes, who shared pics of colorfully-patterned snakes that will soon be gone from existence forever. (I’m not so crazy about live serpents, but their colors & patterns were certainly dazzling.) He admitted he’d rather see brown human invaders die off than beautiful colorful California reptiles.
Neither Right nor Left, for us, Wimpy, but racist!
Hamburger Today: July 16, 2025 One of the great weaknesses of the Right/Left paradigm is that it allows the jews to play ‘the Right’ off against ‘the Left’ while always moving things closer and closer to jewish supremacist rule…
Blackrock is the jewish version of a fleet of nuclear bombers. It’s a instrument of warfare on White nations.
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See “The Black Heart of BlackRock.” at nationalvanguard.org.
Just one year after their founding, in 1989, BlackRock’s assets under management (AUM) were valued at $2.7 billion. Amazing how quickly these young Jewish entrepreneurs succeed! … In 1999, their AUM was an astonishing $165 billion, after just eleven years in business. Today they hold an almost inconceivable $10 trillion portfolio… Blackrock manages ten trillion, and the Gross Domestic Product of the United States in 2022 was just $25 trillion…
BlackRock is just the largest of many such hedge funds operating in the United States. Add in all the other Jewish-run hedge funds, and what percentage of the US economy is being “managed” by Jews? It’s got to be a lot more than half.
(See Andrew Hamilton’s piece from ten years ago “The Hedge Fund Billionaires” at nationalvanguard.org)
FORBES MAGAZINE recently ranked the richest hedge fund managers in the United States by estimated net worth. The latter figure represents the estimated personal wealth of the managers, not the assets of the hedge funds they oversee.
Twenty-four of the 32 names on the list (75%) are Jewish. Of the 10 wealthiest, 8 (80%) are Jewish. (ILLUSTRATION: George Soros, left, and James Simons)
And they’re heavily in bed with the Federal Reserve, too. In 2020, Blackrock was chosen by the Fed to manage all its purchases of private corporate bonds, thereby closely interlocking the firm with the official Jewish ruling class of the United States (the Fed, whose stock is exclusively owned by largely-Jewish private banks, ultimately controls all money-creation in the US), in that way diverting a huge revenue stream from the ever-helpless and ever-clueless White taxpayers into BlackRock’s coffers.
BlackRock has also been dubbed the world’s biggest “shadow bank.” A shadow bank, as I discussed earlier on this program, “is a legally-questionable firm which performs many of the same functions as a bank but, due to Talmudically debatable legal loopholes, operates outside of normal banking regulations.” Shades of Sam Bankman-Fried — except many, many thousands of times larger, and many, many thousands of times more closely linked to the banking system and the regime in Washington (which is in effect just another asset of said system) — and thus far more likely to get away with all its far larger crimes and scams than was upstart Jew Bankman-Fried. (See: “Sam Bankman-Fiend” at nationalvanguard.org)
Sam Bankman-Fried is accused of stealing $10 billion from customers of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX. This is according to federal prosecutors in the heavily-Jewish Southern District of New York. The charges against Bankman-Fried include wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit campaign finance violations. Now $10 billion is a lot of money. It’s possible that no other individual fraudster has stolen as much in all of human history. But it’s actually an extremely unrealistic, lowball figure, showing us how this slimy con man is going to be given every possible break they can give him…
Speaking of Sam Bankman-Fried, who pretended he held bitcoin purchased by his customers, but who really had stolen it for his own private profit and to shore up his fantastically unstable scams and frauds, BlackRock has now applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), headed by another Jew, Gary Gensler, for permission to issue a supposedly bitcoin-backed ETF (exchange-traded fund), which if approved might help BlackRock to create “paper bitcoin” and fraudulently manipulate the price of that pristine and scarce asset, just like other financial vultures have manipulated the precious metals market by creating “paper gold” and “paper silver” that is traded on the big New York and other stock exchanges, some say now far in excess of the actual stock of those metals that actually exists in the real world. That’s the kind of thing the Jews like to do….
And this doesn’t get into BlackRock’s massive real estate holdings and investments in other large corporations.
We know what it takes to make environmentalists decide that infinity immigration of littering, environmentally hostile brown people would be good for the environment. Pay them, and they’ll never mention the White genocide-causing levels of influx again.
Environmentalism as it actually exists is a scam.
Environmentalism in White states that were not under antiwhite pressure might be real, because White people really are inclined to care for the environment and take it seriously, but we don’t have whitopias and so we can’t have genuine environmentalism.
The Siera Club was paid off by some leftist billionaire to stop publicizing the fact that illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexican border has a negative impact on the environment. As bad as pollution and litter gets, he reasoned that bringing in hordes of illegals was more important and didn’t want any negative PR brought to this.
Well put! I grew up in Seattle and majored in environmental studies. At UW I slowly realized that “environmentalism” meant virtue signaling based on the products one purchases, such as Seventh Generation soap because the label has some green color on it, and that radical lifestyle changes were not in the cards. I had tried to live in a yurt in a backyard and their zoning laws do not allow for this, but Bill Gates can keep all his lights on and that’s fine. If this is what environmentalism has come to, I thought, nothing important will be saved.
I’m a confirmed, certified, card-carrying tree hugger, and it makes me sick that Blackrock will be able to slurp up all this pristine land.
My Dad is a retired Aerospace and Nuclear engineer who is about as GOP as you can get without fully transcending Paleo (Kosher) Conservatism, but even he just cannot understand the attitude of burning more fossil fuels, especially Coal.
At my niece’s school in Northern Virginia, somebody at the nurse’s station broke an old mercury thermometer and they shut down and evacuated the entire building. My Dad laughed because Libtards are so innumerate that they did not realise how much mercury the coal plant across the street was putting up the smokestacks daily, and also radioactivity in the coal ash. I don’t recall if there were already scrubbers installed there but I believe so.
Anyway, when he was semi-retired, he consulted for a bunch of wind turbine projects in Idaho. And I helped him put in his ranch house, which has been off the commercial electrical grid with Solar or Wind since 1984. It’s a bit too much upkeep for him now at his age since everything from those days was literally home made. It was like a challenging Amateur Radio project. They even had high-speed Internet.
Anyway, electric cars don’t make a lot of sense unless we modernize the power grid and put in a bunch more big nuclear plants connected to each other and their loads.
Getting the power from where you can generate it cheaply (like a dam) to where you can actually use it is an age-old engineering problem. Hoover Dam practically made Las Vegas with neon and air conditioning, but Los Angeles is not so far away either for high-voltage Alternating Current powerlines in the 1930s.
(Until recently, high-voltage Direct Current was not feasible. HVAC has some transmission limitations due to standing-wave impedance factors at great distances that HVDC does not have. But until recent times, generating the necessary hundreds of kilo-voltages was only practical with Alternating Current and industrial transformers.)
Libtards running their Teslas on Rockefeller Coal really makes no sense unless you are from high-smog locations like L.A. or Phoenix or Las Vegas (prior to Covid when the smog cleared away for a bit) that might include some longer commutes on relatively good freeways or thoroughfares.
I think part of the reason that Musk is on the outs with Trump right now is because virtue-signalling Libtards quit buying Teslas to now emote against Trump, and thus Tesla stock tanked.
It hasn’t even been a year since Matthew Livelsberger, for example, rented a Tesla Cybertruck in the People’s Republic of Colorado and drove to Las Vegas to blow it up at the Trump tower there.
I don’t think it makes sense to subsidize EVs right now, but I would support hybrid vehicles, as they are engineered for ultra-efficiency and basically the only downside is the higher capital cost.
I am in favor of getting rid of Coal in toto. The government should do whatever is necessary to retrain the hill people impacted by this switch in energy production. Oxycontin is not a viable retirement plan.
Petroleum will take a little longer to phase out in the United States because it is so energy dense; plus it is a good cash crop for an oil-exporting nation like the USA.
And instead of wasting natural gas at the well head because the Injuns don’t like pipelines, if we were using compressed-natural-gas (CNG) for hybrids and semi-tractor diesel trucks, that would go a long way towards cleaning up the air.
Photovoltaics might make sense on rooftops in the Southwest, but Michigan, not so much.
Wind Turbines are just not viable either unless you site them properly. And the problem is that in the Midwest and the windy steppes of Idaho or Wyoming where the damnable wind actually blows, the demand for power is not so great there.
So you need to modernize the power grid for High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) long-range transmission. Then you can send the power to the coasts where the energy is in demand for homes and industry, to power desalination plants, and for the hydrogen-generating plants for the emerging Fuel Cell technologies.
Hydrogen fuel-cells convert hydrogen and oxygen into water at the exhaust pipe and generate electrical power. Fuel Cells have been used since the Apollo space program in the 1960s, but have just been too costly for cars. And where do you get the hydrogen fuel for them in the first place?
Eventually with an improved power grid and a big nuclear base-load, you could go completely Carbon Free and start boot-strapping a real “hydrogen economy” that would eventually replace fossil fuels worldwide.
No offense to Seattle hipsters (as long as they are White) but they come to Phoenix all the time pontificating about air conditioning and water usage.
Well, as far as water-usage goes, Arizona has always used most of its water for agriculture. This remains true today, and we have become far more efficient with it since I was a kid.
I started school in Las Vegas in 1966 because Dad worked crunching numbers for the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, and we either made do without AC or just had a swamp cooler. An evaporative ”swamp cooler” works fine until the late-Summer monsoons roll in and raise the humidity (if not necessarily the average rainfall). The reality is that in the USA anything West of the 100th Meridian is arid if not desert by most standards. That does not mean that (White) Pioneers did not settle the land and live here.
In Phoenix, the locals (which included the “snow birds” prior to Covid) are out on the shaded sidewalk cafes when it is 115 degrees (that is about 46 degrees for you Celsius folks). The hipsters on the other hand that are unlucky enough to have business conferences in town are not wanting to leave their hotels at this time ─ with the air conditioning humming away from the power generated by the nearby Palos Verde nuclear plant.
The Palos Verde nuclear plant is the last nuclear reactor powerplant commissioned in the United States (ca. 1986) and it was also designed to go easy on water.
Despite no new nuclear reactors going on-line since the 1980s, the USA currently gets about 19 percent of its electricity via nuclear. Why this is not 80 percent already, with the rest Renewables is most unfortunate indeed.
My Dad worked on the IFBR (Integral Fast Breeder Reactor) which was successfully demonstrated in 1986, and passed a passive shutdown safety test that was unfortunately competing with media attention from the Chernobyl disaster.
Then Dad went to work on the redesign of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters after the Challenger explosion.
However, just before the completed IFBR or IFR project could go on-line, the Leftist mulattos in the Clinton Administration cancelled it.
“No nukes is good nukes,” I guess.
Well, now these Leftist Swine are lecturing us daily about Climate Change. Per the corporate news media, every storm is now caused by Trump or by the Science Deniers in the GOP somehow ─ and the Democrats offer nothing but hemp grocery sacks and recycled aluminum cans.
Not that the folks at C-C need it, if anyone has read this far, but I would love to lecture more on the technical virtues of breeder reactors which actually burn nuclear waste that is today just stored on site at the nuclear plants themselves in safety casks. And you could be cheaply generating hydrogen for fuel-cell vehicles with off-peak nuclear power that is normally wasted in the cooling tower.
One reason that nuclear reactor power has been economically sketchy for some is because only 0.7 percent (0.007) of natural Uranium is fissile U-235. The rest is the U-238 isotope, which is normally not fissile except with fast neutrons or by “breeding” it into Plutonium.
So this leaves a lot of unburned nuclear and chemical waste to be stored somewhere. Also, “Homer Simpsons” like Karen Silkwood should not be handling Plutonium. I used to be an IBEW Union Shop Steward myself (although unlike Silkwood in the (((Nora Ephron))) novel and 1983 movie, I never had a Lesbian roommate who looked like Cher).
Anyway, because of the Silkwood scandal at Kerr-McGee, since the Carter Administration, only the U.S. Navy is authorized to chemically process Plutonium, which is unfortunate.
Nuclear fuel processing technologies have been improved greatly since the 1970s and are used in France today, whereas the Germans are still using King Coal and import natural gas from Russia thanks to Kameradin Merkel. Europeans can thank the French for the massive reduction of acid rain in the Alps today.
Julian Asange’s activist mother was butthurt because NASA used Plutonium to power its deep space probes where the sunshine is too weak for photovoltaics, but even (((Carl Sagan))) called out that kind of Ludditism.
Not many in the 1970s would have guessed that deep space probes built and launched at that time would still be functioning in 2025.
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I read your entire comment, and found it quite interesting – Halfway through I was thinking “This should be expanded into an essay on energy policy.” A future Whitopia will be needing energy after all.
I’m game for it, but I am wondering what the most interesting parts would be ─ or what would be the most informative from a White Nationalist or adjacent perspective.
The Left has always had a visceral hatred for nuclear energy because it can be used to make bombs, just as chemical energy can do so ─ as the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel would attest.
It does not matter to Leftists ─ all full of Sciencey slogans ─ that nuclear power has a safety record that beats nearly anything else, including Solar and Wind. And hordes of people are daily dying from air pollution worldwide. Nobody even notices.
Disasters like Three Mile Island (mainly a public relations disaster) and Chernobyl loom large, but with a lot of associated misinformation.
The body count from Chernobyl ranges from a few dozen firefighters to hundreds of thousands if you believe the anti-nuclear groups. Since Cherobyl was almost forty years ago, and the Soviet information blackout is a distant memory, there is a lot of real data to refute the sky is falling anti-nuke numbers.
My Dad, being a reliability engineer, worked directly on the TMI problem ─ and if the plant operators had simply walked away, the reactor would have shut down on its own and nothng bad would have happened. As it was one reactor core melted down and was destroyed, but the public was never at any significant risk ─ inspite of a nuclear meltdown thriller that had just come out starring “Hanoi” Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon.
The TMI reactor operators simply misinterpreted some instrumentation because some basic human engineering principles were not followed in the design, so when temperatures started to spike due to a stuck (shut) coolant valve, the operators shut down the coolant althogether because they thought they must have had a major coolant leak.
But the instruments were not really showing that the valve was open, just that the command had been given to open the valve. The valve was actually stuck closed. This would be like hitting the button to open your garage door and not checking to see that it really opened before you drove through the door. This is a classic schoolboy error in instrumentation.
Making reactors safer was a major fixation of the Department of Energy for many years, and I think the work paid off but has largely been shelved by the people who pontificate now about greenhouse gases and carbon footprints.
At Chernobyl, the Soviets did not bother with reactor containment structures in the design of their facilities, which is a cardinal sin. No commercial nuclear reactor in the United States has ever not had a containment dome, and they are tested nowadays to resist an airliner collision ─ unlike the 1970s reactors at Fukushima that were hit by an earthquake and a tsunami, melting down cores from a power failure, and killing one worker from actual radioactivity.
The second cardinal error with Soviet reactors was that they had their Plutonium weapons production and their commercial power generation in the same process, so you could not shut down one production system for maintenance and do upgrades without affecting the other.
The reactors themselves were not old but the old-fashioned graphite cores at Chernobyl were being run excessively dirty with rich transuranic compounds ─ unlike any American nuclear reactor built for commercial power.
In the end, I think it figures greatly what kind of a State constitutes the ethnostate.
New Zealand, for example, was once driving Mr. Bean cars that were powered by compressed-natural-gas (CNG) which is mostly methane. Now the global market for petroleum has improved and nobody talks about “peak oil” any longer. Gasoline and Diesel fuel can be made relatively cheaply synthetically from methane today.
The tree-huggers (no offense to Beau) in California have long itched for the shutdown of the nuclear power plant at San Onofre. This costs them 2.2 Gigawatts of power that is no longer generated, and they have made up only 1.8 GW from replacement with new natural gas plants. The San Onofre nuclear powerplant can be seen on the coast driving on I-5 and the safety concerns have been overplayed in my opinion.
More than 4,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel will still have to be stored at the San Onofre site, however, because the Democrats under the Obama Administration killed funding for the long-term storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada ─ and because the IFR project was killed by the Clintonistas in 1994, which could have simply burned transuranic waste as fuel. The San Onofre nuclear plant at one time employed over two-thousand people.
There is lots of hand-wringing from the usual suspects over nuclear cleanup costs, but not many Climate Cassandras are very serious about building modern reactors to deal with CO2.
A modern sodium reactor is being commissioned near Kemmerer, Wyoming. Bill Gates is heavily involved, and I am not entirely sure what to make of this, but it should go on-line in a few years.
However, there are dozens of deaths reported annually from the nearby Jim Bridger powerplant (Coal/Gas) in Wyoming, plus 57 heart attacks and 720 asthma attacks. That is just the impact from one plant, irrespective of CO2. It beggars the imagination why we have not replaced fossil fuels for our electrical production needs already.
What questions do White Nationalists, or those adjacent to us, have on this matter that I could probably address?
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I – for once – would very much like to read a comprehensive strategy for how the US – or a White successor state – would become energy independent.
In the Whitopian ethnostate, you are Secretary of Energy. If you have children and they have the same kind of deep tech knowledge that you and dad have then all the better.
Great article! I take it that Rabbi Trump is yet again taking care of his fellow tribesmen! 🙃
Mike Lee, the GOP Senator from Utah, is not a Tribesman, however.
In 2010, Mike Lee primaried my sister’s father-in-law (who was on the Senate Banking Committee and had voted for George W. Bush’s bankster bailout ─ and was himself the son of a former Utah Senator).
Sen. Lee is the son of the jurist and academic Rex E. Lee, once the Dean of the J. Reuben Clark school of law at BYU.
J. Reuben Clark was in later life a high official in the LDS Church who had been a diplomat and a State Department jurist in the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations, who was an Isolationist during WWII and who was opposed to immigration in general and especially immigration by converso Jews fleeing Europe. Clark staunchly opposed inter-racial marriage.
Clark wrote the Clark Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine which argued against the (Theodore) “Roosevelt Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine being based on the actual Monroe Doctrine.
Although this was a bit of a family feud, I support that Sen. Bennett got primaried for voting for the bankster bailout. The bailout certainly did not preempt the Great Recession.
Anyway, in Sen. Mike Lee’s defense here about Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Western states in general are not too keen towards the Federal government locking up their land resources ─ and a plurality (if not a majority) of the land in these states is already owned by the Federal government. “Ecotopians” from Seattle and Portland never get this.
FEDERAL OWNERSHIP of LAND in WESTERN STATES
80+% NEVADA (highest)
64% UTAH (2nd highest)
62% IDAHO
61% ALASKA
53% OREGON
48% WYOMING
45% CALIFORNIA
39% ARIZONA
36% COLORADO
32% NEW MEXICO
29% MONTANA
28% WASHINGTON
Even the “Big Sky” country of Montana is 29 percent owned by the Feds. One sees a lot of private farm land out there. (I don’t know how much of it is corporate-owned, however.)
Curiously, there are no national parks in Idaho. I am not sure what to make of that factoid, exactly.
But no doubt due to the massive influx of refugees from the People’s Republic of California, the political climate of Idaho is changing ─ and not necessarily for the better. They are getting soft on the Death Penalty, for example. And I am not sure exactly what to make of all these trends either.
I am not opposed to some things held in the public domain and for the public interest. If it were up to me, the energy grid would have been nationalized a long time ago.
I wrote a schoolboy letter to President Ford in 1975 asking him to make it a national priority to achieve energy independence by 1976, the nation’s Bicentennial. I got a form letter thanking me for my suggestion, but otherwise I never heard back.
Basically, a major difference between advanced countries and their counterparts is a lot of ENERGY and how they use it.
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One easy fix to much of the plastic pollution would be a return to glass containers. This would also help minimize all the minute plastic particles that are plaguing our bodies resulting in lower sperm counts and probably many forms of cancer. Nobody ever thinks about all the pollution that comes from the never ending stream of cargo ships traversing our oceans either, dumping their waste as they go because the Chinese, Indian and other scum would rather dump their ship’s sewage and other waste in the ocean for free than pay for it’s proper disposal at port. This is just another aspect of why we need to return to manufacturing our own goods. How insanely suicidal it is for us to rely on China and Mexico for products that we used to easily manufacture here.
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