Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Trinidad Voting Precinct Closed? Who says!

Trinidad Voting Precinct Closed?

Who says!



Super Tuesday 2024

We were shocked to find no voting in town, not at the school, nor at Town Hall.

Worse, not even a public notice placed outside our city office or at the school. The City Manager had nothing to offer, but our Deputy Clerk made a sign for residents showing up after us. 


We’ve been voting here in town for decades. It’s one of our greatest Rights as residents and citizens — “the single most important event we hold in a democracy…” [1] CA,SOS



Voting in person and serving as poll workers in Trinidad has been a unifying experience for our community

For every Election, checking in, marking our ballots in public, and having them count is the minimum We, the People, should accept. #DemandBetterGetBetter


We should not just “mail it in” or drop it in a box to hopefully be verified, counted, and included some several weeks after an Election. And why is this ok now? Is it really because of some politically propagandized seasonal flu 4 years ago, CovID-19? We all know how misled, how scared, and how wrong many of us got that insane event. [2] CDC/CDPH/Graphics


Who decided we now have to drive to some McKinleyville “Voting Center”? Did the Council discuss, pass a Resolution or even weigh in on this mandate? Why not at least inform all of our residents of this change? It’s outrageous to only include some blurb on a mail-in ballot — not everyone gets these. Everyone deserves to know where to cast their ballot or obtain one in person.


Of course Tyler and I sorted out the County website and found where to vote for President Trump, but that’s not the point. Not everyone can disrupt their day for an hour, sort through webpages, and drive miles away to go vote, nor should they have to. 


We can and should do better.

Let’s get back to Election Day voting, one day, in person, paper ballots, no machines. I’d prefer requiring voter citizen ID and a way to audit/check my ballot image online after elections, too. #NeverForget2020 


So, “How do you knock out decades old

election corruption?” [3] Shasta

Take a look at what our own County neighbor, Shasta, has done — CouncilGuyMike blog post: 

http://www.councilguymike.us/2023/08/elections-shasta-dumps-dominion.html?m=1




Notes and References

1.  California Secretary of State, 2024

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/poll-worker-information


Promote Democracy: Serve as a Poll Worker 

Before each statewide election, thousands of Californians sign up to help put on the single most important event we hold in a democracy. County elections officials depend on reliable, dedicated teams of poll workers to make every Election Day run smoothly.


High School Poll Workers

California Elections Code section 12302 allows eligible high school students to serve as poll workers on Election Day. Student poll workers learn firsthand how elections are run, and provide much needed support at polling place locations. They end their day with a better understanding of the importance of voting and the vital role poll workers play in making our elections run smoothly.


2.  CDC/CDPH Graphics & Memes













3.  Shasta: 

http://www.councilguymike.us/2023/08/elections-shasta-dumps-dominion.html?m=1


Elections: Shasta Dumps Dominion

How do you knock out decades old

election corruption? 

With Common Sense, Shasta Showing California How It’s Done!

#ShastaCalifornia #GuardTheVote #NeverForget2020 #DemandBetterGetBetter 


“After gaining national attention for dumping Dominion Voting Systems and becoming the largest entity in the United States to resort to hand-counting ballots, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors…”




Monday, February 19, 2024

2Grooms?!

2Grooms?!

BadlandsMedia.tv stream clip: DEFECTED Rumble Rant. @BurningBright and @justHuman reacting to our wedding here in Humboldt next week.

😂😂


https://rumble.com/v4edsyu-2grooms.html





Defected Ep. 59 @3:08:00

https://rumble.com/v4e58b0-defected-ep.-59-900-pm-et-.html


Sundays @ 9p ET - Burning Bright and Just Human take a Macro view of current events through the prism of Narrative Warfare, Game Theory and Fifth- Generation Strategy to help viewers escape [their] system of control and learn to program their own minds.




Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Tying the cost of power to people’s income is Communistic!

No! Paying the same amount per kilowatt hour is morally right and fair. Tying the cost of power to people’s income is Communistic! 

California wants to tie bills to income.
That plan is making enemies
Story by Ari Plachta, 
The Sacramento Bee  •  16h

“Utilities, energy research groups and the Public Advocates Office argue that the current system unfairly burdens low-income Californians because they pay the same amount per kilowatt hour as the state’s wealthiest residents to access electricity, a basic need.”


Irwin said in an interview. “As opposed to arguing about how we rearrange this to make it fair, we need to look at the bigger picture and drive down costs for everybody.”


see: CA State law, AB 205,


SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is already home to some of the highest energy costs in the country, and those prices are only expected to rise as the state powers more of its economy with clean electricity.


Now a state plan to lower electricity rates and relieve the burden on low-income households, in particular, is sparking conflict among lawmakers, utilities and clean energy advocates.


At the core of the tension is whether the state’s three major investor-owned utilities should begin charging customers a predetermined amount for the delivery of power roughly based on household income, while lowering prices for actual energy use.

Supporters say this ‘fixed charge’ would shift more of the growing costs to power California on higher-income households. It will also keep overall rates down, they argue, to help encourage the adoption of electric vehicles and home appliances.


Opponents say the charge would punish those who have invested money in making their homes more energy efficient by installing rooftop solar. They also have privacy concerns related to providing income data to utilities.


California Assemblymembers Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, and Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, introduced a bill last month that would grind the state’s process on this plan to a halt, arguing that the legislature should pursue other options.


Irwin noted that something as straightforward as encouraging electric vehicle charging at off-peak hours can dramatically reduce the need for expensive grid upgrades that utility regulators say are needed.


“We’re shifting around the chairs on the Titanic,” Irwin said in an interview. “As opposed to arguing about how we rearrange this to make it fair, we need to look at the bigger picture and drive down costs for everybody.”



High and rising costs

California’s electricity rates are 25% higher than the national average, and nearly one in four customers of the state’s largest utilities are behind on their bills.


Utilities and their regulators, meanwhile, say the cost of providing power will only rise as California responds to climate change. Those costs, they argue, include defending the power grid against extreme weather and expanding it to provide enough power for millions of Californians to power vehicles and cool buildings.


Some California public utilities, including the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, already add fixed monthly chargers to customers’ bills to help pay for grid maintenance. But Pacific Gas & Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric, and Southern California Edison rely almost entirely on revenue from energy use.


Utilities, energy research groups and the Public Advocates Office argue that the current system unfairly burdens low-income Californians because they pay the same amount per kilowatt hour as the state’s wealthiest residents to access electricity, a basic need.


It was this argument that led to a state law, AB 205, that ordered the Public Utilities Commission to study an income-based fixed charge at the three big utilities. It was slipped into a larger package at the very end of that year’s legislative session, frustrating lawmakers.


Now the CPUC is weighing two main fixed charge proposals. The plan from the state’s three big utilities includes the highest charges and is drawing the most controversy. Another led by the commissions consumer advocate arm submitted a more moderate plan.


Under the utilities’ joint proposal, income-based fixed charges for households earning $28,000-$69,000 would be $20 to $34 per month. Those earning $69,000-$180,000 would pay $51 to $73 per month, and those earning more than $180,000 would pay $85 to $128.


Under the Public Advocates Office proposal, ratepayers eligible for existing low-income programs who amount to roughly 30% of all customers would be charged only $7 a month and everyone else would see a $29 fixed charge.


Both proposals would lower the per-kilowatt-hour charges that customers pay to counterbalance the increase in fixed charges, structuring them in a way to allow lower-income customers to save money.


The fixed charge at SMUD, for comparison, is $24.15. Its overall bills are on average more than 54% lower than those of neighboring PG&E.


To fix charges or not

Irwin’s new bill, AB 1999, would overturn the 2022 law and prevent utilities from adding a fixed charge of no greater than $10 a month on customers’ bills to pay for the rising costs of grid maintenance regardless of household income.


The lawmaker, who heard from constituents who were concerned with privacy, said she was frustrated by the hurried way the policy became a state mandate.


“This was a huge policy shift. It affects almost every IOU rate payer and I think it should have had a much more robust discussion in the legislature,” she said, pointing to complications and potential legal issues with providing utilities income data on customers.


Yet Merrian Borgeson, California director of climate and energy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, noted that this policy option has been years in the making.

She said the PUC process has included multiple rounds of detailed public comments and the income-based piece was divided into two phases in order to tread carefully on privacy issues.

“This is a conversation that has been going on at the PUC, in the legislature and lots of other forums,” Borgeson said. “Ultimately this is one of the fastest and most direct ways we can address those equity and rate questions.”


Matt Baker, director of the utility commission’s Public Advocates Office, stressed the difference between the plan proposed by his office and that of the utilities. He said the latter is geared toward electrifying more quickly.

“Everybody is reacting to the utilities proposal, which I think would cause rate shock,” Baker said. “Our proposal tries to minimize the winners and losers.”


But environmental justice advocates aligned with the solar industry say they’re gearing up for a fight against any fixed charge, the same way they fought against California’s decision to slash benefits for rooftop solar last year.


“Anything that amounts to a bill increase is a burden on our communities,” said Esperanza Vielma, executive director of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water. “At the end of the day who is this helping? The IOUs.”

The newly introduced bill, AB 1999, is not yet scheduled for a committee hearing. The energy commission is expected to weigh in on the various fixed charge proposals by July.

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February 13th ©2024 The Sacramento Bee. Visit at sacbee.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.




Monday, August 7, 2023

Public Comment Appeals For City Council Aug Meeting

CITY OF TRINIDAD 
ATTENTION: Clerk 
CC: Manager, Council 
August 1, 2023

REGARDING: CITY OF TRINIDAD APPEALS
August 2023, City Of Trinidad Council Meeting, Public Comment Period

Please include, and post in the public comments section on our new website.

Mike Morgan
Former City Councilman 
Intended Candidate, November 5, 2024


City Appeals Processes 

If we can, shouldn’t we do better?

There should be a section dedicated to appeals on our website. At each stage of governance, residents have an absolute right to due process, including the right to fair and impartial appeals. Morals and values matter, most. Right versus wrong, good versus bad, all logic should proceed from morality. Aggrieved persons should have easy access to publicly stated procedures, forms and requirements. Every decision from Planning through City Resolutions and Ordinances should include clear, concise information on the appeals process.


Political Transparency & Accountability

I’ll first mention that I intend to run for City Council in next year’s election. Why mention this now? The two expiring councilmember terms are currently occupied by corrupt and ethically challenged individuals who sued me and my business, and I may end up running against them.

How does this relate to City Appeals? Had a forthright, easily accessible and legally required appeals process been in place, there likely would have been no unprecedented lawsuits with their abusive waste of time, tax payer money and goodwill. The corrupt City Manager and City Lawyer, both whom I’m shocked are still employed and retained by this new City Council, would have not blown up our annual legal budget over $100,000, after years at $5,000. Also likely with a better appeals process —including more timely and complete notifications and less plotting behind closed door sessions— our lodging businesses would not have been as hurt by 6 months of income lost from two egregiously deficient City Short Term Rental, STR Moratorium closures.


Planning Appeal - Council Appeal

My prompting issue concerns appealing City Planning decisions to the City Council. This seems relatively straightforward, so why do I now expand my request to include our City Council appeals process? Quite simply, concurrently addressing both processes would preempt another fiasco. The City already spent unprecedented time and money with its lawfare against me. In addition to 6 months of lost income from STR taxes, it also risked losses from counter lawsuits related to its poorly written and misused 2020 STR Moratorium Urgency Zoning Ordinance. I’ll provide accompanying information and documentation relating to my negative experiences at our next meeting. That “taste” will show the crazy amount of time we all wasted fighting City mistakes and corruption.

Lawfare and adversarial City actions should and can be easily avoided. A clear set of appeal procedures and requirements and up front notifications are required. Emotionally driven City actions are inevitable and will inevitably create problems. A better appeals process will preempt some of these problems.


We can, and should, do better.

There should be a section dedicated to all City Of Trinidad Appeals on our website.




Saturday, August 5, 2023

Elections: Shasta Dumps Dominion

Elections: Shasta Dumps Dominion

How do you knock out decades old
election corruption?

With Common Sense, Shasta Showing California How It’s Done!

#ShastaCalifornia #GuardTheVote #NeverForget2020 #DemandBetterGetBetter 

“After gaining national attention for dumping Dominion Voting Systems and becoming the largest entity in the United States to resort to hand-counting ballots, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday waded into another issue roiling right-wing America...” — LA Times Story Jul 25, 2023


Excerpts from LA Times Story Mar 1 2023


“...California county dumps Dominion voting machines”

Supervisor Kevin Crye... also announced at Tuesday’s board meeting that he had been in touch with MyPillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell... about supporting a pilot voting system in the rural Northern California county.

In an interview Wednesday from an airplane on descent into Washington, D.C., Lindell said he was “pretty proud” of Shasta. “Every county should do that,” he said. “I think that’s great that they’re leading the way in California.”


Election Summit, Mike Lindell: On August 16th and 17th I am hosting an event to unveil this plan to the nation, and you will be able to view this for free via livestream. This is broadcasting in 80 languages so everyone can hear and understand the message. Some of the key speakers are myself, Kari Lake, General Flynn, Rudi Guliani, and others. Additionally, representatives from all 50 states will be there to update you on the status of elections in each state. You will come away from this event with renewed hope, and the calls to action you will need to help secure our election platforms. https://lindellevent.com/

Shasta Board Chairman Patrick Jones: “There is a great sense they would like to return to something simpler and safer, and more secure from outside hacking,”...

Supervisor Mary Rickert, one of two board members who voted to keep Dominion, ... “You don’t understand, our government is being overthrown,”...


Q 1803 Aug 2 2018

How do you safeguard the integrity of our elections...
...
Why are D’s opposed to cleaning up voter rolls?
Why are D’s opposed to imposing VOTER ID LAWS to further safeguard our elections? Why oppose basic ‘common sense’ methods that are currently deployed WW?

Logical thinking. Corruption.
...
Q

https://qposts.online/?q=1803&s=postnum

“You don’t understand, our government is being overthrown,..”

Doesn’t Q post 1803 seem more logical than Supervisor Mary Rickert hysterically saying “...our government is being overthrown,” simply by returning to pre-machine, hand counted paper ballots used for decades?

Dumping the machines is reportedly 10X less costly than using them.

Texas has stipulated additional requirements, which the Dominion machines are unable to satisfy, such as that each ballot has a unique number so it can be traced.

Not all states put these unique numbers on ballots, such as California...

Trump: The machines were "turned down by Texas and many others because they were not good or secure."

Verdict: It's true that Texas did not provide certification for the machines.

US election 2020: Is Trump right about Dominion machines? Nov 17 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54959962


Today, we begin a new chapter investigating the continuing saga of 2020 Election fraud allegations.

“I AM NOW GOING TO WASHINGTON, D.C., TO BE ARRESTED FOR HAVING CHALLENGED A CORRUPT, RIGGED, & STOLEN ELECTION. IT IS A GREAT HONOR, BECAUSE I AM BEING ARRESTED FOR YOU. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” @realDonaldTrump

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110826519469646840

 

DOJ Indictment Of Trump Is A Declaration Of War Against American Voters

The idea that our Justice Department can indict someone, especially the sitting president’s main political rival, over speech that’s protected by the First Amendment is simply insane. It puts us firmly into banana republic territory, where tinpot dictators jail their political opponents ahead of election day to ensure their “reelection.”

Simply put, this indictment is nothing more than a declaration of war against American voters and their constitutional right to free speech. As Jonathan Turley noted on Twitter, “If you take a red pen to all of the material presumptively protected by the First Amendment, you can reduce much of the indictment to haiku.”

Federalist Story Aug 2 2023

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Shasta supervisors declare county a 2nd Amendment fortress in war on guns

Shasta Showing California How It’s Done! #ShastaCalifornia #2A #GuardTheVote


Shasta supervisors declare county a 2nd Amendment fortress in ‘war on guns’

After gaining national attention for dumping Dominion Voting Systems and becoming the largest entity in the United States to resort to hand-counting ballots, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday waded into another issue roiling right-wing America: an unwavering defense of gun rights.


By a 4-0 vote, the board approved a resolution declaring that the county would “use all lawful means at its disposal to support and defend the Second Amendment.”


https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-25/shasta-county-supervisors-declare-2nd-amendment-fortress-war-on-guns



I love my county! 😁🔥🔥🔥🎯 

https://truthsocial.com/@AxiomReport/110787650919500577


Sunday, June 25, 2023

The moment of truth by Martin Geddes

The moment of truth

The cost of keeping the lie alive eventually becomes too high and it collapses




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MARTIN GEDDES

JUN 24, 2023


How the world really is…


The moment of truth is as much about who we each are as vulnerable individuals, as it is about the wider and wicked world.


Sometimes that truth is ugly. But it is the truth. And its time has come.


https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/the-moment-of-truth



This is and will be a most helpful share for waking wonders worldwide. It’s now my go to #1 share for those first people who’ll be asking me Questions. #WWG1WGA #THEGREATAWAKENING #SAVETHECHILDREN 

 


Excerpts From Burning Bright’s Substack:



A hope named Q. 


The Great Awakening is a framed narrative.

We knew the end of the story from the outset, even if challenges of faith and seven years of psychological warfare by a deeply-entrenched, increasingly desperate satanic cabal has put that framing into question for each of us at times.


After all, while many of us stumbled upon those prescient, fateful questions by mistake—or were guided by unseen hands—the choice to follow them to their logical, paradigm-shattering endpoints was entirely each and all of ours.


We in this community don’t exist to spread the truth. Not any longer. That part of the tale is done, and the enemy has picked up the baton from us in their seething, spitting desperation. They will germinate the seeds of awakening we planted some time ago with their immolative attempts to obscure them, and we will be here to be the frame and support upon which those fresh green chutes and curling, fragile, eager creepers of curiosity climb, and whose buds and blossoms will begin to move through the colors of awakening each of us went through in a different time, and through harder earth. 


https://burningbright.substack.com/p/dark-to-light




See also: Chris Paul’s Be Reasonable Substack 

Why we have to stop clinging to ill-formed beliefs • Pursue perspective, not answers 

Chris Paul, July 27, 2023 

The Endgame 072723 - The Cat Goes Baaa




Part One: Those Wacky Anons

Society's most dangerous bogeyman may have returned on Truth Social. Why isn't the media warning us?

Chis Paul, April 3, 2022


History will remember Anons as among the best and brightest America has to offer… 

History will remember the people who tried to learn from Anons and from the Q community as open-minded citizens who cared about their families, friends, and neighbors enough to help preserve our great country.


We used to understand what it meant when a group of people had their rights and dignity stripped from them.


Part One: Those Wacky Anons