It is a well-known and easily demonstrable fact that the members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not read, evaluate or debate any of the particulars of the Legislation they vote on. They cannot read or debate the issues because the Bills approach 2000 pages each. And there are sixty to one hundred new bills for them to vote on every day they are in session.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot called attention to this insanity with a diplomatic observation that "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy was the one specific reason that the people in America suffered".
Mr. Perot then suggested that the best and perhaps only way to make government officials accountable was to include the citizens in the decision-making process - every hour, every day.
He went on to note that this can easily be done with computers and called the proposed mechanism
THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
With this computer program every interested citizen can indicate whether or not they agree or disagree with every line item of every law, policy and program on the books or that was being advanced. It can be used at every level of government and in every jurisdiction.
To prevent chaos the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available. He referred to it as the Fourth Branch of government; The Citizens Branch / The Electronic Townhall.
If the government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people then what better way is there to perfect every section of the various laws and policies that do effect each and every one of us every single day?
It would not be difficult to expect at least 500 thousand qualified citizens, per congressional district, to read four pages of law or proposed law and get their Ratify or Annual input every day the congress is in session. The results could be aggregated, made known and we would all be better off.
The program would even allow a citizen to go back and change their vote as they matured. And when a super majority is reached the law/proposed law is either ratified or annulled by immediate recognition of the enforcement mechanisms.
With tens of millions of laws and tens of thousands of taxes there is plenty of work to be done.
According to Mr. Perot, this, the harnessed experience and the combined intelligence of hundreds of thousands or even millions of citizens focused like a laser light on the real issues, will, as surely as night follows the day, perfect every law in our country and eventually it will right every wrong.
Mr. Perot publicly announced his intention to give the fourth branch of government to the people in America if he was elected President.
But this attempt to empower our humanity was so far removed from the business-as-usual-two-party-system that the talking heads and trolls yelled out that Mr. Perot was trying to destroy our Constitution, our government and our way of life.
The ELECTONIC TOWNHALL was denounced as unworkable.
How would the poor participate?
How would fraud be prevented?
What about those who do not know how to use a computer?
In a final act of desperation, the control freaks claimed that letting the average citizen to pass judgment on the individual pieces of public law would lead to chaos and pandemonium.
But we all know the truth: only the concerned will bother to participate.
The media was so intensely negative towards the ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL that Mr. Perot was forced to stop talking about it, but he never withdrew it from his platform.
It’s now been thirty-two years since the proposal.
No other person of national reputation or significant influence has picked up the idea. BUT the big two political parties regularly stage "townhall meetings" where they talk of "reform" and "returning power to the people" and try to link themselves to the empowering part of the idea without adding to its manifestation.
And still we suffer in the hopeless loop of: "candidates with a sense of morality and respect for the Constitution who understand true brotherhood, justice and democracy and who will do the right thing for us each and every time, trust me".
While we cannot make light of sincere individuals who get into public office, we must acknowledge the fact that regardless of who has been elected to public office the problems in our government get more complicated and our people continue to suffer.
Could we possibly admit that our national situation, now being made global, is far too complicated for the President and the 535 elected members of the legislature to manage in our best interests?
You, the person reading this know some of the things we need.
Your friends, our fellow countrymen have their solutions too.
The only way to organize the workable ideas is to create a device that will enable all of us to simultaneously contribute our best thinking and most benevolent experience towards solving our most complicated problems.
That device is THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL and the place to begin is with our existing laws.
The deep state would never allow this as they would be voted out. The only reason they allow voting at all is because the elections can be stolen via various means. The public at large would never vote for endless wars, covert regime change and 100s of military bases worldwide. So the CIA manipulates the media to get the public to support the wars and anything that the deep state needs to stay in power. Praying that the new administration will start to dismantle this deeply entrenched system.
Don't bite me but the government is not of the people, by the people, or for the people, it is actually of, by and for...men. It was all done by men. Even the piddling little bit of position they gave to women, doesn't come close to representing the ratio of women to men in the population. Is there anything in the Constitution about child care? The Constitution and all the other documents society goes by, never mention a word of catering to women, except when it comes to deciding what we can do with our bodies. The idea that adults rule other adults is preposterous. We are all peers, we are not children any more - only children need "governing".
There is a simpler and more streamlined way to determine consensus. Forget about ALL politics. Well not everyone has to but I'd say there has to be somewhere in this world where we don't do it the way they threaten us to do it. Up their's and let's figure out ways that we can do without them entirely. At least those who choose to. And those who choose to go by the law and politics and the rest of the circus show, then the rules and laws apply to them, but not to those who choose otherwise.
Politicians put the mandates in. They also stop healing modalities from getting to the public. They shut down doctors who are successful at treating serious disease. But you want them to continue to dictate what we must take into our bodies? (Or anything else for that matter?) Yes ignore government and look for other ways of dealing with the impediments they impose on us, such as seeing if people in your company refuse to take the jabs (after all they did not sign up for it) and work with peers, not look upstream to the rulers themselves. Unless of course, you like being ruled, which I know a lot of people do. There is always a solution but if the same patterns are used, then it's going to be almost impossible to get out of this maelstrom.
Proposal for Constitutional Amendment to Accommodate at Least 50 Thousand Citizen Representatives per Congressional District Who Will Actually Read the Existing and Proposed Laws for the Purpose of Ratification or Annulment of Each and Every Line of Law and the Accompanying Enabling Legislation for the Purpose of Perfecting The Law for and in Behalf of The Citizens of the Country.
PREAMBLE
TODAY It is a well-known and easily demonstrable fact that the members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not read, evaluate or debate any of the particulars of the Legislation they vote on.
They cannot read or debate the issues because NINETEEN THOUSAND new bills are introduced at a rate of fifty five per day and each Bill approaches 2000 pages of content.
The US Congress and the State Legislatures actually vote sixty to one hundred times per day every day they are in session.
Since no one can evaluate ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND pages of Law Speak per day, the elected representative is forced to vote “as per the suggestion of staff”
Our Constitutions call for ‘representative government of the people, by the people and for the people’. They do not call for ‘government by staff recommendation’.
THEREFORE
It is time to use the available technology of computers and artificial intelligence (AI) for the inclusion of at least FIFTY THOUSAND interested, responsible and qualified Citizens, herein referred to as AMPLIFIED VOTERS (AV) to give The People and all of Humanity the opportunity to solve their Governmental problems.
By creating a device that will enable all of us to simultaneously contribute our best thinking and most benevolent experience towards solving our most complicated problems.
What are the qualifications of the AMPLIFIED CITIZEN REPRESENTATIVES?
# 1. Who gets to participate as in the Ratify or Annul voting ?
a. citizens only - Yes No
b. natural born citizens only - Yes No
c. natural born citizens with four natural born grandparents - Yes No
d. naturalized citizens (legal immigrants) - Yes No
e. legal immigrants not yet naturalized - Yes No
f. anyone with a drivers license – Yes - No
# 2. Ages of Amplified Voter
g. minimum18 years
h. minimum 21 years
i. minimum 25 years
j. minimum 30 years
k. minimum 33 years
l. minimum 35 years
# 3. Sex of Amplified Voter
a. Male – Yes - No
b. Female – Yes - No
# 4. Competence of Amplified Voter
c. property owners net value over $50,000 - Yes - No
d. property owners net value over $250,000 - Yes - No
e. tax exempt persons – Yes - No
f. those receiving welfare / food stamps – Yes - No
g. those with unpaid child support obligations - Yes - No
h. those receiving WIC – Yes - No
i. those receiving Section 8 – Yes - No
j. those working for government bureaucracies – Yes - No
k. those that will pay a $5000 poll tax - Yes - No
l. those that have paid a minimum of $5000 per year of tax for their combined jurisdictions in excess of any received via SS, Medicare, Medicaid, ATFWDC - Yes - No
# 5. Genetic presence of Amplified Voter
a. Male without children – Yes - No
b. Male with children – Yes - No
c. Male with children plural vote – Yes - No
d. Female without children – Yes - No
e. Female with children – Yes - No
f. Female with children plural vote – Yes - No
g. Only married males with children, never divorced can vote. – Yes - No
These people are a corporate structure, top down feudalism, and they charge a huge amount$$$$$ to BUY a small hempcrete building on their "rules first community".
Agreed. Lots of embodied energy in cement. Hard to justify when adobe mud from the building site works just as well when finished with a lime plaster. If hemp isn't availble, local straw combined with mud to make cob has been working really well for the past few thosuand years in England. That's how I made my house here in AZ.
As the fires in LA make clear, it's important to avoid using metal in the home.
I believe they chose Hempcrete because of the dampness of Tennessee. They have to be concerned about resale value. Living here in Oregon, I have seen that many of the cob structures built in the city have not fared well unless they are covered with a wide roof overhang.
Thats not what I thought you were talking about. What I was referring to is mixng mud with hemp fibers on the building site and putting that mix dirctly into the wall. It cuts out the pricey middle man and his energy intensive manufacturing process.
Cob, adobe, rammed earth, puddled adobe - none of them have framing. They can all be made with the ultimate local building material, earth from the building site. Vaulted and domed roofs can be made of the same material.
I live in a cob house I built many years ago.
See my series of 5 posts on natural building beginning on December 22, 2023 through January 27, 2024.
Depends on the size of the house, the complexity of the house and the materials used. Over the past 35 years I've been involved in the construction of about 25 rammed earth and adobe homes, several straw bale homes, one quincha building and my own cob home. Cost per sq ft was all over the map. The cob house I live in cost me about $16 per sq ft. to build, not counting anything for my labor.
A manufactured home has a tremendous amount of embodied energy which will take a lifetime to recoup. Over the long run a manufactured home will cost more due to maintence and energy. And it will have to be replaced much sooner. As the fires in Ca show, its also a prime target for DEW's.
Hempcrete is a nickname, it should not be incorporating cement. It's hydraulic lime. I love seeing all of these johnny-come-lately hempcreters. Everyone says community, but I've yet to see true community. It's usually a hierarchy. Solutarian, eh?
James, I don't punish anyone for being 'late' to the game. I consider them finally joining our team. As a person who has been striving towards a better community for 25 years now, I don't dismiss people who have come our way. Critique? Give constructive criticism? Yes. But I don't beat up people up who are striving to better the world.
I always say to people regarding my work: if you don't like what I do, I truly recommend you go do it as you see fit. I don't say this as an insult, but as a genuine suggestion. The more of us working to improve the world, the better.
I love the ideas of Imani and River especially their promotion of hemp. The village sounds wonderful. I'd like to say though that they shouldn't use ANY government service. Say they don't want to be part of the sewer. Do everything using "humanmanure". Bury the dead and the leftovers of meat into the ground. Humanmanure is said to be very vital. Collect your own water. Don't use hospitals, etc. So that would mean setting up people within and around, that can take up these positions, also firemen and peace officers. Only the people living in and around the village should be involved, but of course everything would have to be agreed upon. I think that if we don't change the very fundamentals of our thinking, that being off grid or anything else, will be useless. The entire game - of "owning" land, paying taxes, etc is just a game and you can say no to it. Reject government services and stop paying taxes. Instead just pay the government when their services are needed.
I'm crazy about hemp, how about making a hemp currency? And growing hemp and maybe even putting up a hemp processing plant. That's how you could earn truckloads of money.
What about the political system in the village? What does it use for decision making? There is a system that is the utmost "democratic", a selfocracy you might say. It is similar to Sociocracy but is much simpler. As information spreads quicker nowadays, we need systems that are dynamic and can keep up. We can't wait five years for justice anymore. Or even one year. It would be great for your village to be a prototype.
Denise, I believe, ultimately, this is what they are striving towards. But sometimes our humanness gets in the way, as it's sometimes really difficult and complicated to go "completely off-grid," particularly if it starts out on essentially a volunteer level.
I've always said that the only reason I was able to cross Alaska in the dead of winter was because I did it alone: No human interference in the pursuit of my dream.
The Amish are one group who might know how to use the misc older tools at the old Geo Washington homestead.
Reintte you might appreciate there are areas outside of CA that allows for building without all the CA insanity. I know someone in a rural midwest area who bought an Amish “shed” (barn) kit and four men built it in four days, NO PERMITS. Hired a drywall company and cement company to pour the floors. The owners of the new “shed” did their own electric, plumbing, cabinets and misc. IN ONE MONTH they had a completed “shed” that is a large garage in one half and a large guess and entertainment house in the second half.
Heard you mention that and smiled big knowing CA insanity. I was in an eastern Kansas small town doing geneology research in the county courthouse. I asked for permit records from pre-1930, I was laughed at. I mentioned some of CA permit stuff and even a permit to paint a home a different color. On a couple more return searches that trip the gal got such a kick out of CA insanity when she saw me she would tell people about CA insanity. Now in AZ about 50% or less of CA insanity. And cheaper.
Hempcrete is a nickname, it should not be incorporating cement. It's hydraulic lime. I love seeing all of these johnny-come-lately hempcreters. Everyone says community but I've yet to see true community. Solutarian, eh?
It is a well-known and easily demonstrable fact that the members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not read, evaluate or debate any of the particulars of the Legislation they vote on. They cannot read or debate the issues because the Bills approach 2000 pages each. And there are sixty to one hundred new bills for them to vote on every day they are in session.
During the 1992 Presidential campaign, Ross Perot called attention to this insanity with a diplomatic observation that "a general lack of accountability among elected officials and those in the bureaucracy was the one specific reason that the people in America suffered".
Mr. Perot then suggested that the best and perhaps only way to make government officials accountable was to include the citizens in the decision-making process - every hour, every day.
He went on to note that this can easily be done with computers and called the proposed mechanism
THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL.
With this computer program every interested citizen can indicate whether or not they agree or disagree with every line item of every law, policy and program on the books or that was being advanced. It can be used at every level of government and in every jurisdiction.
To prevent chaos the basic law, our Constitution and Bill of Rights would be exempt from review.
Mr. Perot speculated that the Founding Fathers would probably have done the same had the technology been available. He referred to it as the Fourth Branch of government; The Citizens Branch / The Electronic Townhall.
If the government is truly of the people, by the people and for the people then what better way is there to perfect every section of the various laws and policies that do effect each and every one of us every single day?
It would not be difficult to expect at least 500 thousand qualified citizens, per congressional district, to read four pages of law or proposed law and get their Ratify or Annual input every day the congress is in session. The results could be aggregated, made known and we would all be better off.
The program would even allow a citizen to go back and change their vote as they matured. And when a super majority is reached the law/proposed law is either ratified or annulled by immediate recognition of the enforcement mechanisms.
With tens of millions of laws and tens of thousands of taxes there is plenty of work to be done.
According to Mr. Perot, this, the harnessed experience and the combined intelligence of hundreds of thousands or even millions of citizens focused like a laser light on the real issues, will, as surely as night follows the day, perfect every law in our country and eventually it will right every wrong.
Mr. Perot publicly announced his intention to give the fourth branch of government to the people in America if he was elected President.
But this attempt to empower our humanity was so far removed from the business-as-usual-two-party-system that the talking heads and trolls yelled out that Mr. Perot was trying to destroy our Constitution, our government and our way of life.
The ELECTONIC TOWNHALL was denounced as unworkable.
How would the poor participate?
How would fraud be prevented?
What about those who do not know how to use a computer?
In a final act of desperation, the control freaks claimed that letting the average citizen to pass judgment on the individual pieces of public law would lead to chaos and pandemonium.
But we all know the truth: only the concerned will bother to participate.
The media was so intensely negative towards the ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL that Mr. Perot was forced to stop talking about it, but he never withdrew it from his platform.
It’s now been thirty-two years since the proposal.
No other person of national reputation or significant influence has picked up the idea. BUT the big two political parties regularly stage "townhall meetings" where they talk of "reform" and "returning power to the people" and try to link themselves to the empowering part of the idea without adding to its manifestation.
And still we suffer in the hopeless loop of: "candidates with a sense of morality and respect for the Constitution who understand true brotherhood, justice and democracy and who will do the right thing for us each and every time, trust me".
While we cannot make light of sincere individuals who get into public office, we must acknowledge the fact that regardless of who has been elected to public office the problems in our government get more complicated and our people continue to suffer.
Could we possibly admit that our national situation, now being made global, is far too complicated for the President and the 535 elected members of the legislature to manage in our best interests?
You, the person reading this know some of the things we need.
Your friends, our fellow countrymen have their solutions too.
The only way to organize the workable ideas is to create a device that will enable all of us to simultaneously contribute our best thinking and most benevolent experience towards solving our most complicated problems.
That device is THE ELECTRONIC TOWNHALL and the place to begin is with our existing laws.
Brilliant idea! As long as the digital Downhill can't get hacked! But I LIKE it!
The deep state would never allow this as they would be voted out. The only reason they allow voting at all is because the elections can be stolen via various means. The public at large would never vote for endless wars, covert regime change and 100s of military bases worldwide. So the CIA manipulates the media to get the public to support the wars and anything that the deep state needs to stay in power. Praying that the new administration will start to dismantle this deeply entrenched system.
Don't bite me but the government is not of the people, by the people, or for the people, it is actually of, by and for...men. It was all done by men. Even the piddling little bit of position they gave to women, doesn't come close to representing the ratio of women to men in the population. Is there anything in the Constitution about child care? The Constitution and all the other documents society goes by, never mention a word of catering to women, except when it comes to deciding what we can do with our bodies. The idea that adults rule other adults is preposterous. We are all peers, we are not children any more - only children need "governing".
There is a simpler and more streamlined way to determine consensus. Forget about ALL politics. Well not everyone has to but I'd say there has to be somewhere in this world where we don't do it the way they threaten us to do it. Up their's and let's figure out ways that we can do without them entirely. At least those who choose to. And those who choose to go by the law and politics and the rest of the circus show, then the rules and laws apply to them, but not to those who choose otherwise.
Well said, Denise!
Thanks Reinette.
So your suggestion is to forget politics and do nothing except ignore the forced injections?
Politicians put the mandates in. They also stop healing modalities from getting to the public. They shut down doctors who are successful at treating serious disease. But you want them to continue to dictate what we must take into our bodies? (Or anything else for that matter?) Yes ignore government and look for other ways of dealing with the impediments they impose on us, such as seeing if people in your company refuse to take the jabs (after all they did not sign up for it) and work with peers, not look upstream to the rulers themselves. Unless of course, you like being ruled, which I know a lot of people do. There is always a solution but if the same patterns are used, then it's going to be almost impossible to get out of this maelstrom.
Thank you for clarifying this important point.
Best regards.
Thank you.
Proposal for Constitutional Amendment to Accommodate at Least 50 Thousand Citizen Representatives per Congressional District Who Will Actually Read the Existing and Proposed Laws for the Purpose of Ratification or Annulment of Each and Every Line of Law and the Accompanying Enabling Legislation for the Purpose of Perfecting The Law for and in Behalf of The Citizens of the Country.
PREAMBLE
TODAY It is a well-known and easily demonstrable fact that the members of the US Congress and the State Legislatures do not read, evaluate or debate any of the particulars of the Legislation they vote on.
They cannot read or debate the issues because NINETEEN THOUSAND new bills are introduced at a rate of fifty five per day and each Bill approaches 2000 pages of content.
The US Congress and the State Legislatures actually vote sixty to one hundred times per day every day they are in session.
Since no one can evaluate ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND pages of Law Speak per day, the elected representative is forced to vote “as per the suggestion of staff”
Our Constitutions call for ‘representative government of the people, by the people and for the people’. They do not call for ‘government by staff recommendation’.
THEREFORE
It is time to use the available technology of computers and artificial intelligence (AI) for the inclusion of at least FIFTY THOUSAND interested, responsible and qualified Citizens, herein referred to as AMPLIFIED VOTERS (AV) to give The People and all of Humanity the opportunity to solve their Governmental problems.
By creating a device that will enable all of us to simultaneously contribute our best thinking and most benevolent experience towards solving our most complicated problems.
What are the qualifications of the AMPLIFIED CITIZEN REPRESENTATIVES?
# 1. Who gets to participate as in the Ratify or Annul voting ?
a. citizens only - Yes No
b. natural born citizens only - Yes No
c. natural born citizens with four natural born grandparents - Yes No
d. naturalized citizens (legal immigrants) - Yes No
e. legal immigrants not yet naturalized - Yes No
f. anyone with a drivers license – Yes - No
# 2. Ages of Amplified Voter
g. minimum18 years
h. minimum 21 years
i. minimum 25 years
j. minimum 30 years
k. minimum 33 years
l. minimum 35 years
# 3. Sex of Amplified Voter
a. Male – Yes - No
b. Female – Yes - No
# 4. Competence of Amplified Voter
c. property owners net value over $50,000 - Yes - No
d. property owners net value over $250,000 - Yes - No
e. tax exempt persons – Yes - No
f. those receiving welfare / food stamps – Yes - No
g. those with unpaid child support obligations - Yes - No
h. those receiving WIC – Yes - No
i. those receiving Section 8 – Yes - No
j. those working for government bureaucracies – Yes - No
k. those that will pay a $5000 poll tax - Yes - No
l. those that have paid a minimum of $5000 per year of tax for their combined jurisdictions in excess of any received via SS, Medicare, Medicaid, ATFWDC - Yes - No
# 5. Genetic presence of Amplified Voter
a. Male without children – Yes - No
b. Male with children – Yes - No
c. Male with children plural vote – Yes - No
d. Female without children – Yes - No
e. Female with children – Yes - No
f. Female with children plural vote – Yes - No
g. Only married males with children, never divorced can vote. – Yes - No
These people are a corporate structure, top down feudalism, and they charge a huge amount$$$$$ to BUY a small hempcrete building on their "rules first community".
Imani is the queen, always remember!!
Thanks for your opinion. No matter your thoughts on this issue, this serves as a model!
Actually, hemp adobe is a more interesting building material.
Agreed. Lots of embodied energy in cement. Hard to justify when adobe mud from the building site works just as well when finished with a lime plaster. If hemp isn't availble, local straw combined with mud to make cob has been working really well for the past few thosuand years in England. That's how I made my house here in AZ.
As the fires in LA make clear, it's important to avoid using metal in the home.
Hempcrete is also fireproof. People need to start growing it and we build a sort of niche industry around it. And we can build an economy around it.
Hemp adobe and cob are also fireproof. Cement has alot of embodied energy and is not a local resource for most people. Go natural and local!
Totally agree!
I believe they chose Hempcrete because of the dampness of Tennessee. They have to be concerned about resale value. Living here in Oregon, I have seen that many of the cob structures built in the city have not fared well unless they are covered with a wide roof overhang.
A good hat makes for a good house.
Cob was invented in England (a wet place) many (thousands?) of years ago.
Riiiight? Especially these days with all these outrageous fires!
Does the process you used for your house reduce exterior heat or cold?
https://youtu.be/5XIXtZk_FA8?si=AyMvb1yKCS-_OTn9
Thats not what I thought you were talking about. What I was referring to is mixng mud with hemp fibers on the building site and putting that mix dirctly into the wall. It cuts out the pricey middle man and his energy intensive manufacturing process.
It cuts out some of the middle man... one still needs framing and everything else that comes with building.
Cob, adobe, rammed earth, puddled adobe - none of them have framing. They can all be made with the ultimate local building material, earth from the building site. Vaulted and domed roofs can be made of the same material.
I live in a cob house I built many years ago.
See my series of 5 posts on natural building beginning on December 22, 2023 through January 27, 2024.
Are you saying that on site construction is cheaper than manufactured homes?
Nationwide, the cost of a manufactured home is $55 per square foot versus $114 per square foot for a stick-built home.
Depends on the size of the house, the complexity of the house and the materials used. Over the past 35 years I've been involved in the construction of about 25 rammed earth and adobe homes, several straw bale homes, one quincha building and my own cob home. Cost per sq ft was all over the map. The cob house I live in cost me about $16 per sq ft. to build, not counting anything for my labor.
A manufactured home has a tremendous amount of embodied energy which will take a lifetime to recoup. Over the long run a manufactured home will cost more due to maintence and energy. And it will have to be replaced much sooner. As the fires in Ca show, its also a prime target for DEW's.
https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/a-forensics-examination-of-video
Thank you will watch this tonight.
Natural earthen homes function as thermal flywheels. These are ancient natural building systems. More here - https://romanshapoval.substack.com/cp/152024618
I've slept in on for a week. It was glorious. I'm madly in love with hemp. It really could dissolve all our problems.
Go off grid asap.....back to what it means to being human.....if anyone really knows?
THEE question IS.......
Are their buildings DEW-proof??
'THEY' can aim their DEW, and that Village will be GONE! (and anyone IN those buildings......just like MAUI!).
How many more examples of DEW-ed neighborhoods do we need to see, before we start to DEW-proof our homes/buildings??
HOUSES GONE but TREES STILL STANDING?! Interview with Forensic Arborist Robert Brame
https://peggyhall.substack.com/p/houses-gone-but-trees-still-standing?publication_id=1094625&post_id=154962497&isFreemail=true&r=19j00e&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Here is how to build DEW proof homes (from August 2023) -
https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/maui-and-the-truth-about-dews
..... if they don't have a smart meter on their home, Dawnie!
A DEW has nothing to do with Smart Meters.
'THEY' can go and 'take out' the Amish, with a DEW.
Hempcrete is a nickname, it should not be incorporating cement. It's hydraulic lime. I love seeing all of these johnny-come-lately hempcreters. Everyone says community, but I've yet to see true community. It's usually a hierarchy. Solutarian, eh?
James, I don't punish anyone for being 'late' to the game. I consider them finally joining our team. As a person who has been striving towards a better community for 25 years now, I don't dismiss people who have come our way. Critique? Give constructive criticism? Yes. But I don't beat up people up who are striving to better the world.
I always say to people regarding my work: if you don't like what I do, I truly recommend you go do it as you see fit. I don't say this as an insult, but as a genuine suggestion. The more of us working to improve the world, the better.
I'm curious as to what you mean, have you got a specific example?
To which point?
This was a lovely interview. You have such a diverse range of topics that you cover. Thank you!
https://open.substack.com/pub/neomicroscopy/p/2019-text-about-warning-the-mandatory?r=1yb1yj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Don't forget to plant a hemp garden
I love the ideas of Imani and River especially their promotion of hemp. The village sounds wonderful. I'd like to say though that they shouldn't use ANY government service. Say they don't want to be part of the sewer. Do everything using "humanmanure". Bury the dead and the leftovers of meat into the ground. Humanmanure is said to be very vital. Collect your own water. Don't use hospitals, etc. So that would mean setting up people within and around, that can take up these positions, also firemen and peace officers. Only the people living in and around the village should be involved, but of course everything would have to be agreed upon. I think that if we don't change the very fundamentals of our thinking, that being off grid or anything else, will be useless. The entire game - of "owning" land, paying taxes, etc is just a game and you can say no to it. Reject government services and stop paying taxes. Instead just pay the government when their services are needed.
I'm crazy about hemp, how about making a hemp currency? And growing hemp and maybe even putting up a hemp processing plant. That's how you could earn truckloads of money.
What about the political system in the village? What does it use for decision making? There is a system that is the utmost "democratic", a selfocracy you might say. It is similar to Sociocracy but is much simpler. As information spreads quicker nowadays, we need systems that are dynamic and can keep up. We can't wait five years for justice anymore. Or even one year. It would be great for your village to be a prototype.
Denise, I believe, ultimately, this is what they are striving towards. But sometimes our humanness gets in the way, as it's sometimes really difficult and complicated to go "completely off-grid," particularly if it starts out on essentially a volunteer level.
I've always said that the only reason I was able to cross Alaska in the dead of winter was because I did it alone: No human interference in the pursuit of my dream.
The Amish are one group who might know how to use the misc older tools at the old Geo Washington homestead.
Reintte you might appreciate there are areas outside of CA that allows for building without all the CA insanity. I know someone in a rural midwest area who bought an Amish “shed” (barn) kit and four men built it in four days, NO PERMITS. Hired a drywall company and cement company to pour the floors. The owners of the new “shed” did their own electric, plumbing, cabinets and misc. IN ONE MONTH they had a completed “shed” that is a large garage in one half and a large guess and entertainment house in the second half.
Bassehound, it's the same way in Alaska. You want to make your house out of twigs? Fine. You're the one who has to life in it!
Heard you mention that and smiled big knowing CA insanity. I was in an eastern Kansas small town doing geneology research in the county courthouse. I asked for permit records from pre-1930, I was laughed at. I mentioned some of CA permit stuff and even a permit to paint a home a different color. On a couple more return searches that trip the gal got such a kick out of CA insanity when she saw me she would tell people about CA insanity. Now in AZ about 50% or less of CA insanity. And cheaper.
Hempcrete is a nickname, it should not be incorporating cement. It's hydraulic lime. I love seeing all of these johnny-come-lately hempcreters. Everyone says community but I've yet to see true community. Solutarian, eh?
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