Diversity is a Strength: Potomac Sewage Spill

As you probably already know, about 243.5 million gallons of raw sewage have poured into the Potomac since a January 19 sewer line rupture, according to DC Water, the utility in charge of the line. 

    I know others are pointing out DC Water's commitment to diversity, equity and "inclusion" but I thought I would throw this in from DC Water's website, bragging: "At DC Water, we just don’t 'do' diversity. Our mission is to reflect diversity and inclusion in all aspects of our how the Authority conducts its business." And a couple articles about how committed DC Water was to DEI:

• "DC Water’s CEO Oversaw $520 Million In DEI Contracts — And The Biggest Sewage Spill In US History"--Daily Caller. DC Water CEO David Gadis came to DC Water after serving "as executive vice president of Veolia North America and CEO of Veolia Water Indianapolis — the utility’s first black CEO and the first black executive to lead a major Indianapolis utility, according to his bio." And what did he do there? Apparently oversaw the coverup of high lead levels in the water for Flint, Michigan, according to the article. 
• "Watch: DC Water Manager Admitted Deciding Agency Had Too Many Whites - DEI Fixed That But Also Covered DC in 240 Million Gallons of Raw Sewage"--Western Journal.  Gadis is now blaming the spill on aging infrastructure, but back in 2022--four years after he was put in charge of the utility--his primary concern was that there were not enough POC and women in management positions, a situation he was working to change. 

Vehicular and Gun Attack on White Family--The Rest of the Story

Perusing Western Rifle Shooter's Association this morning, I came across a citation to a post from Tactical Hermit about an incident in Michigan where a black man had run down a family with his car and then shot and killed a three year old. The Tactical Hermit described the incident as "unreported" and that seems to be largely true. We know if the races had been reversed, every major media outlet would have been screaming to high heaven about it and armies of talking heads would have been discussing "systemic racism" and the like. But coverage seems to be limited to local reporting or relegated to the figurative back pages of national outlets if reported at all.

    CBS News - Detroit reported yesterday:

    A 21-year-old Delta Township, Michigan, man is accused of killing a child and injuring three adults after he hit a family with his vehicle who was out for a walk and then fired a weapon, authorities said.   

    On Tuesday, Alexander Lamar Banks Jr. was charged with homicide, four counts of felony firearm, three counts of assault with intent to murder, carrying a weapon with unlawful intent and possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle. 

    Eaton County deputies say that a family was out for a walk around 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 13 near Green Meadows and Farmstead Lane in Delta Township when a vehicle struck the family. The driver then got out of his vehicle and fired numerous shots toward them, according to authorities. A bystander who tried to help was also attacked and seriously injured, deputies said. 

    A suspect was located by deputies and taken into custody with the help of the Michigan State Police. 

    A 3-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene, deputies said. 

    A 72-year-old woman was taken to an area hospital, where she was listed in critical condition, authorities said. A 37-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman were also hospitalized.    

No description of the offender or motive. WILX-10 News has more details in its article, also from yesterday, entitled: "Delta Twp. shooting suspect told police he attacked family because he received threats online, court records say." Don't let the headline mislead you--Banks did not receive any threats from his victims. Instead, he supposedly received anonymous instructions that he had to kill someone to save his family; he is, consequently, undergoing a competency evaluation. The article also has more information about the attack:

    Police have reviewed doorbell footage from a neighbor’s home that shows Banks in a gray sedan intentionally driving into the family before getting out with a 12-gauge shotgun and opening fire, according to the probable cause affidavit.

    The document says Banks was seen running from the car and taking the shotgun out of a backpack. He then returned to the backpack and reloaded the gun and began firing again.

    He also began punching the girl’s parents and grabbed the mother by her hair “and began pulling it as if he was trying to break her neck,” according to the affidavit.

    Banks then allegedly hit the 72-year-old woman with a shotgun, according to the documents. A sheriff’s deputy found a 12-gauge shotgun in the front yard and multiple spent shotgun shells were found at the scene.

[snip]

    The affidavit says Banks admitted to police that he tried to intentionally hit the family. He told investigators that he had been receiving threats online telling him “he had to kill someone to save his family,” the affidavit says.

    He told police he filled a backpack with shotgun shells the day before the attack and took the shotgun from his father’s room and hid it in the garage. Then on Friday, he “took the backpack and shotgun and left the house in his father’s car,” the affidavit says.

    “He drove around the block in his neighborhood a couple times and saw a family walking down the street. Banks Jr. advised that he crashed into the family, intentionally trying to strike the male,” the document reads. “Banks Jr. advised that he got out of the vehicle, grabbed the shotgun, and began shooting at the family he just crashed into. He then began beating a male with the shotgun and then an older female who came running towards him. Banks Jr. said he dropped the shotgun and fled on foot.” 

E-Book: LDS Preparedness Manual

Prepping involves a lot of self-education on a wide variety of topics. The prepper often needs to be a true Renaissance Man or Woman. I have books on specific topics, but it also helps to have books that collect together a multitude of prepping topics to show how things fit together or remind you of items that you may have overlooked or not thought about.  

    One of these "generalist" prepping books is the the LDS Preparedness Manual (PDF) (Version 8.0 - 2012). I've linked to this book before, but to an earlier version. This 2012 edition is the latest version. It is also available through Amazon or from the publisher if you would prefer a bound version. Of you can print the PDF and put it in a 3-ring binder for easy reference.  

    I would note that although this volume indicates is the second volume ("Handbook 2") of a set: the first volume was intended for leaders of a church ward or stake (similar to a parish and diocese, respectively) whereas the second volume--the one linked to above--is for individuals and families. However, comparing the table of contents between the two, it appears that Handbook 1 and Handbook 2 cover many of the same topics.

    And speaking of topics, the Handbook 2 covers various topics:

• Why prepare?
• Mental and spiritual preparedness.
• Food storage--what to store and how to cook it (this is by far the bulk of the book)
• 72-Hour Kits and Bug-Out Kits
• Evacuation
• Communication
• Financial topics
• Storing medicines and what medicines to store.
• Defense.
• Heating, cooking and lighting.
• Clothing.
• Emergency shelter.
• Sanitation.
• Testing your preparations.
• Special considerations for babies and children.
• Articles and preparations for pandemics.
• Prepare for terrorist/nuclear attacks.
• Miscellaneous articles on various topics.  

At 500 pages, it is able to cover a lot of topics fairly well, and some topics to a great depth. For instance, the food storage section runs from page 44 to page 157 by itself. The article on "A High-Mobility 72 Hour Kit" is one of the best and most detailed explanations of what to pack and why for bugging out and organizing it in a easy way by layers: (1) your clothes and what to carry on your person; (2) a sling bag and its contents; (3) a small backpack (something the size of an assault pack) and what to carry in it; (4) individual weapons and tools; and (5) tools for your vehicle. And there is a detailed checklist of items to take for bugging out as well as things to do before you bug out. For staying at home, there is a detailed list of items to have on hand for everything from clothing to communications, important documents to entertainment and educational supplies, medicines, kitchen supplies, and more. 

    In such an expansive volume, there are a few sections that are a bit weak. Being a gun-guy and interested in self-defense, I tend to check out the articles or chapters pertaining to such topics. In this case I felt the two articles on defense and defensive firearms were underwhelming. The article on "Defense" was obviously written by someone that either (a) didn't know much about the topic or (b) didn't believe it appropriate to share useful information to the general public. The article on selecting preparedness firearms was better, but reminded me of Tappan's book on survival guns by recommending too many firearms for too many individual tasks. 

    The intended audience are member of the LDS Church and consequently there are references to scripture and teachings of past Church authorities. But the vast majority of the book is going to be useful to anyone interested in prepping. Certainly, it appears to be a valuable resource for anyone getting into prepping and has a lot of articles and checklists that would be useful to the experienced prepper. 

Fulfillment of the Georgia Guidestones?

From Mr. Nobody on X: In a short clip of an interview with Bill Gates where he had been discussing advances in AI. The interviewer asks: "Will we still need humans?" Answer: "Not for most things. We'll decide." 

White Papers Policy Insitute: Harvard Discriminating Against White Americans

From White Papers Policy Institute on X: 

    Harvard was so upset when told they couldn't racially discriminate they decided to be (more) vindictive and racially discriminate ONLY against White Americans. 

    They dropped admissions of Whites by 16%.

    Their own data shows in a merit system Whites would be 50% of the freshmen.

The reason this is important is that Harvard and a handful of other schools are the primary gateway to the top jobs in government, industry, law and finance. For instance, Alissa Heinerscheid, the idiot that decided to destroy Bud Light's brand by being "more inclusive", didn't get hired because of she was good at her job (obviously) but because she had graduated from the right schools, including Harvard. So if you manipulate who gets admitted to schools like Harvard, you are manipulating who gets to become the future leaders of the country. Harvard is working to ensure that white Americans are excluded from the future leadership of this country. 

Wilder: Memes and More Memes

 John Wilder has some memes he would like to share. Here is a taste:

 

New Zealand Trained Its Military To Take Out Christians

From Kurt Mahlburg on X: 

    The New Zealand Defence Force spent 2025 training soldiers to take out a fictional Christian terrorist group — on a map of their own country.

    None of NZ's 23 listed terrorist orgs are Christian.

    They say no offence was intended.    

The Centrist has more details: 

    Training materials circulating online indicate that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) recently conducted a training exercise using a fictional internal security scenario set in a fictional country referred to as “DRM,” which closely resembles New Zealand’s South Island. 

    According to the documents discussed by women’s and girls’ rights advocate Penny Marie, the exercise was conducted at Burnham Military Camp and was in use within the past several weeks. 

    The material appears to form part of standard military planning training, including operational orders at company and platoon level.

    The scenario describes political instability following a referendum and constitutional change, including secession, the formation of an interim government, and subsequent civil unrest involving multiple armed factions.

    One of the armed groups described in the fictional scenario is called the Visayan People’s Front (VPF). Penny Marie states that the documents characterise the VPF as having emerged from Christian communities opposing Islamisation within the fictional state. 

    Within the scenario, the group is described as seeking the creation of a separate Christian state, being hostile toward a Muslim immigrant community, engaging in activities such as protests, intimidation, weapons smuggling, and attacks on security forces, and attempting to influence indigenous populations within the scenario. 

 The exercise also includes Islamic extremist groups, but the issue is "[p]ublicly available information shows that New Zealand currently lists 23 designated terrorist entities, none of which are Christian organisations," so why did they make the Christians the bad guys?

Obama Walks Backs Comments On Aliens

Just The News relates that "Former President Barack Obama said Monday that recent comments he made appearing to confirm the existence of aliens were made 'in the spirit of the speed round.'"

"Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there's life out there. But the distances between solar systems are so great that the chances we've been visited by aliens is low, and I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us," he said, according to the BBC. "Really!" 

Earlier he had bluntly and clearly said that they were real and now he says he saw no evidence they had contacted us. Not a complete denial. 

Secret Combinations Everywhere

    Adam Smith famously observed: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” But the same can be said of any group of people desiring power or money. 

    The Fandom Pulse recently published a piece entitled "RUMOR: D&D 6th Edition Reboot Incoming As Hasbro Scrambles To Save Dying Franchise" by Jon Del Arroz. I had watched his YouTube video on this article, but he either did not mention this or I missed it, but Vox Day pointed out this bit (bold added):

    RPG Pundit’s assessment of Wizards’ current design team was devastating: “You’ve got like they just hired another chick. Gez, I wish I remembered to have checked her name before starting this video. This woman, who is basically connected to young adult science fiction stuff, like basically the entire industry of publishing has been taken over by feminist women, millennial women who worked on young adult novels.”

    He described how this takeover occurred: “They took over the mainstream publishing and then, in turn, went on to only put their people everywhere, right? And now it’s being expanded to other areas. That’s what’s basically happened with fifth edition is that it became it it was taken over by YA publishing people right that were that are that are the same you know the the feminist intersectional trans bloggers right and uh vegans and all that they’re they’re a cabal they’re a sect and now they’ve expanded into here right and those people know nothing about anything right and they ruin everything they touch.”

In their minds, they are not ruining anything, but shifting it to its true purpose which is the corruption of the youth or worse .....

    We have seen it so many other organizations that it would be impossible to list the examples. Vox Day uses the general term "convergence" to describe how cabals get a foot in the door in an organization, and then assist others like them to be hired and help each other to be promoted (while conversely preventing others outside their group from being hired or promoted) with the ultimate goal being to alter the mission of the organization to advance the goals of the cabal. 

    We see these secret networks spring into action to support BLM riots or disrupt ICE enforcement.  

    We have seen these in churches. The "Lavender Mafia" in the Catholic Church, for instance, was the name given to the cabal of homosexual priests in the Catholic Church to recruit, advance, and protect their own members. 

    The fight over the Epstein documents is actually one over revealing secret cabals and networks of individuals that apparently assisted one another in various ways and bound together by grotesque practices or rites, possibly the modern day descendants of Frankism (see also here and here). 

    Our country is in serious moral peril and it is because of these hidden networks and conspiracies. 

Immense Reservoir Of Hydrogen In Earth's Core

 From Science News: "Earth’s core may hide dozens of oceans of hydrogen." The article begins:

    The oceans are the largest entity on Earth’s surface. All that blue, however, may be dwarfed by an immense reservoir of hydrogen concealed in the planet’s heart. Experiments indicate that enough hydrogen to form dozens of oceans of water may have been entombed in Earth’s core during its formation, researchers report February 10 in Nature Communications. Those chthonic reserves may influence processes on the planet’s surface.  

    Hydrogen does not exist as liquid water in the core, but it becomes water as it escapes upward into the mantle and reacts with oxygen, says geodynamicist Motohiko Murakami of ETH Zurich. “Oxygen is one of the most abundant mineral elements in the mantle.”