A Hero's Journey

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Net Zero: The Eco-Suicidal Luxury Values-based Economy Killing Green Energy Con Continues in Maryland

Google AI on the Green Energy Lobby's RIDICULOUSLY COSTLY Legislative Goals:

Maryland's legislative goals, primarily driven by the Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, mandate a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2006 levels by 2031 and net-zero emissions by 2045. Key energy targets include 50% renewable energy by 2030, 8,500 megawatts of offshore wind by 2031, and 3,000 megawatts of energy storage by 2033.

Key Legislative Goals and Targets

• Emission Reductions: Reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 60% (from 2006 levels) by 2031 and achieve net-zero economy-wide emissions by 2045.
• Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS): Requires 50% of electricity consumed in Maryland to be generated from renewable sources by 2030.
• Offshore Wind: The POWER Act sets a goal of 8,500 megawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2031.
• Energy Storage: The Energy Storage Act aims for 3,000 megawatts of energy storage capacity by 2033.
• Clean Energy Transition: The state is moving toward 100% clean electricity by 2040, incorporating advancements in technology.
• Transportation and Buildings: Implementation of Advanced Clean Cars II (100% EV sales by 2035) and electrification of buildings, including high-efficiency heat pumps.

Usage Examples and Legislative Implementation 

• Climate Pollution Reduction Plan: A roadmap published in 2023 to achieve the 2031 goals.
• Community Solar: A pilot program for community-based solar projects was made permanent to increase access to renewable energy.
• Tree Planting: A mandate to plant and maintain five million trees by 2031, focusing on urban and underserved communities.
• Grid Modernization: The 2024 Energy Storage Program supports integrating these technologies into the electric grid.

Synonyms and Related Policy Terms

• Climate Solutions Now Act (CSNA): The landmark 2022 legislation setting the 60% reduction goal.
• Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS): The policy requiring utility companies to purchase renewable energy.
• Net-Zero Plan: Often used to describe the 2045 climate goal.
• Clean Energy Jobs Act/POWER Act: Policies accelerating wind and solar deployment.
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets: The overarching phrase for Maryland's climate strategy.

Recent reports indicate that as of early 2026, Maryland is projected to achieve a 42% reduction by 2031, falling short of the 60% goal and highlighting the need for accelerated action.

Google AI on Actual Costs above the allocated $1 billion per year:

Maryland's Climate Pollution Reduction Plan estimates that achieving an equitable transition to a clean energy future requires roughly $1 billion in annual public sector investment. However, projections indicate that the total economic cost to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045—including private investments in buildings, vehicles, and the energy grid—will likely exceed this figure significantly. 

Building Decarbonization Cost: A 2023 memo estimated the total cost to decarbonize Maryland buildings at $15.3 billion. Another estimate suggests high-electrification scenarios for buildings could cost $7.7 billion to $14 billion annually. 

Total Economic Impact (2025–2034): Some analyses estimate that the required energy transition, including building performance standards and electric vehicle adoption, could increase energy bills for Maryland households by roughly $810 million in 2030, rising to over $1.5 billion in higher energy costs by 2035. 

Revenue Generation: To meet the estimated costs, proposed climate legislation is designed to raise roughly $1.25 billion per year through new funding sources. 

Alternative Estimates: Some estimates indicate that the total cost for building decarbonization could reach $15.2 billion total from 2025–2040, which would equate to roughly $1 billion per year, but these figures often represent just a portion of the total economy-wide investment.

The State's Low-Ball Estimate of $1 billion a year  for Net Zero in 2045 (a total of $20b) is RIDICULOUS.  The AI's keep fixating on this number:  

Google AI:

Based on 2026 industry estimates, the cost to build 32 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale solar capacity in Maryland would likely range between $25.6 billion and $48 billion, based on an estimated installation cost of $0.80M to $1.50M per megawatt (MW)(Wind Capacity would Cost MUCH MORE x3)

However, this figure represents only construction costs and does not include the significant additional investments required for transmission upgrades, grid interconnection, or land acquisition, which are often underestimated and can substantially increase total project cost

Capacity vs. Energy: The 32 GW figure likely refers to nameplate capacity rather than sustained output, as solar and wind have lower capacity factors (15-30%) (So multiply this number x3-6)

Note: The 32-gigawatt figure is consistent with the massive new data center-led demand described in 2025/2026 PJM capacity discussions, which is pushing up local energy costs.

 ...and none of the above cost estimates include land acquisition or infrastructure improvements (ie energy storage/ batteries) that would double the installation costs (for a 4 hour capacity, at a minimum)  PS - Nights last more than 4 hours (solar problem).

How the SPLC Ends Up Financing NAZI's and Racists...

Sundance, "It's Time for a National Conversation About the CIA"

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one government agency that remains largely hidden from the American public. It operates with a secret federal budget and appears to run independent activities, even having the means to generate its own revenue.

By now most people who follow politics understand how the CIA and State Department operate collaboratively in most foreign endeavors. Many CIA operatives have State Department covers. The CIA also works jointly with the State Dept on influence operations through USAID, which makes some recent events a little uncomfortable.

Against revelations about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) funding violent domestic extremist groups, consider this graphic:

It is hard to argue against the possibility that behind some of the domestic violent extremists (what the FBI calls DVEs) is a network of finance that traces back to the CIA. It is a fact that USAID is -in part- a CIA influence operation. If the SPLC is funded by USAID, then who was ultimately funding the SPLC influence operations? It is an uncomfortable question.

As we researched several serious issues in the past two decades one thing always surfaces, the intelligence community is often at the heart of the matter. As a historic example, during research into the Benghazi, Libya chaos that ultimately led to the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens it became almost impossible to distinguish the CIA operatives from the State Dept objective.

In fact, we said the same thing about the CIA and the Qatar officials who were part of that background Libya story. It was almost impossible to tell a difference between the CIA operatives and the Qatari facilitators. The money was fungible and the Libya operation was an enmeshed network of mutually aligned government interests.

When President Obama signed the finding memos for covert Libya and Syria operations, it is more than likely the last direct engagement on the matter as everything from that moment then sank below the surface into some system of CIA operations (Panetta) that was no longer controlled by the White House.

The boondoggled Libya mess known as “Operation Zero Footprint” burst back through the surface like a fast-breeching Trident submarine when the al-Qaeda attack against the Benghazi “consulate” took place.

Political chaos erupted on the surface and the only thing the White House could do was try to ignore the chaos until the water calmed again. As the fires raged at the CIA annex in Benghazi, Obama literally went to Las Vegas for a fundraising event. The quick removal of the current CIA Director (Petraeus) and a compliant media helped his team manage the issue.

More recently we would not know of a CIA operation in Mexico if it were not for a car crash that killed two covert CIA operatives. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she knew nothing about the operation, I don’t think she was lying. “A statement from Mexico’s Ministry of Security said one U.S. agent entered Mexico as a visitor while the other entered with a diplomatic passport.” {source} If their car didn’t “drive off a ravine and explode” we would never even know about it.

As many people now understand, intercepting drugs, picking the winning and losing drug cartels and receiving money from the mechanics of illegal drug and human trafficking are part of how the CIA self-finances beyond their dark budget.

When we watch the Pentagon blowing up drug boats coming from Columbia and Venezuela, many people wonder if those were just the arrogant idiots who forgot to pay a CIA transit fee.

It is doubtful that CIA Director John Ratcliffe, or any modern CIA Director since George H.W. Bush ((’76/’77), has specific working knowledge of every operation the CIA is actually carrying out. That Occam’s Razor acceptance frames the doorway between Chuck Schumer’s “six ways from Sunday” mindset and the group of mutually assured recipients of envelopes at George H.W. Bush’s funeral.

We start to exit the discussion through the same door we entered. If the SPLC is funded by USAID, then who was ultimately funding the SPLC influence operations, or, wait for it, the ongoing operations to resist and remove President Donald Trump.

Yes, it remains a serious of very uncomfortable questions. However, ultimately at the end of the SPLC goal was the removal of President Trump, no?

FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who originated the Crossfire Hurricane operation then set up the parameters for the targeting effort itself, received a coin of recognition and appreciation from what agency? The CIA.

The Trump-Russia collusion narrative was fabricated by Eric Ciaramella and Julia Gurganus inside the National Intelligence Council and Directorate of Analysis, at the behest of CIA Director John Brennan.

The same operatives from within the same agency then organized an anonymous whistleblower complaint in an effort to trigger an impeachment investigation and subsequent trial. All of it was fraudulently created, fabricated, spun to give the illusion of something that did not exist, and all of it came from where? The CIA.

Additionally, every time you find yourself confused or perplexed by events and outcomes that seemingly contradict themselves and create chaos and confusion, it is a best practice to pause and remind yourself what it feels like to be reviewing an intelligence operation.

The hallmark patterns of chaos and confusion run consistent when reviewing every intelligence operation, and that includes the inability of anyone to explain just how algorithmically controlled narratives seem to find mysterious support.

Yes folks, it’s time for a national conversation about the Central Intelligence Agency.

The CIA/ USAID - NGO Entryism 'R Us!

The Uni-Party/ Blob's USIC Minions Need Leverage to Keep Their Woke Capacity Building Levers in Political Play

The CosPlay Left: 3 Strikes and You're OUT!

Soros Realism Isn't Working in Maintaining Woke Ideology... We Must Return to Imposing Socialist Realism!

from Google AI:

Socialist Realism was the officially sanctioned artistic doctrine in the Soviet Union (1932–mid-1980s) and other communist nations, requiring art to be realistic in form and socialist in content. It served as propaganda to promote party ideology, idealizing labor, revolutionary progress, and Soviet leaders while depicting a, "true, historically concrete representation of reality in its revolutionary development".

Key Principles and Characteristics

• Ideological Content: Art had to serve the proletariat, align with Communist Party goals, and promote socialism.
• Proletarian Accessibility: Imagery was realistic, clear, and easy for the working masses to understand.
• The Positive Hero: Characters were often idealized, heroic figures who overcame obstacles to build a better socialist future.
• Idealized Reality: Instead of showing real, often grim Soviet life, it presented a "favorable" future reality to instill hope and dedication.
• Subjects: Common themes included labor (workers, factories),, "collective farming," the military, and portraits of leaders like Stalin.

Role in the Soviet Union

• State Control: It was used as a tool of the totalitarian state to regulate cultural expression and suppress avant-garde or abstract art.
• Propaganda: It fostered a cult of personality around leaders and mobilized workers to meet economic goals.
• "Engineers of the Soul": Stalin considered artists "engineers of the soul," tasked with shaping citizens' minds,.

Notable Artists and Writers

• Painters: Alexander Gerasimov, Isaak Brodsky, Aleksandr Deyneka, and Yuri Pimenov.
• Writers: Maxim Gorky (whose work Mother influenced the style), Nikolai Ostrovsky, and Fyodor Gladkov.
• Other Media: Film director Sergei Eisenstein and sculptor Vera Mukhina.

This movement insisted on "partiinost" (party-mindedness), ensuring all cultural output was aligned with the state.

Immanentize the Eschaton!

American Progress is FOREVER Progressive!

Iran: The Center Ring in Today's Kayfabe Politainment Circus

PT Barnum Quotes:

• "Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung".
• "The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it".
• "Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!" 
• "The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama...

The De-Evolutionary History of the Motto of the United States of America:

1782: E Pluribus Unum

1956 - In God We Trust

2022* - I Support the Current Thing (Official Adoption pending)

from Google AI:

The United States adopted "In God We Trust" as its official motto in 1956 (replacing the de facto E Pluribus Unum) primarily to differentiate itself from the atheist Soviet Union during the Cold War. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill, seeking to solidify the U.S. as a nation rooted in religious faith, a move fueled by anti-communist sentiment.

• Cold War Ideology: The 1950s saw a rise in religiosity as a direct counter-response to Soviet Communism, which promoted state atheism.
• Legislative Action: Congress officially adopted the phrase to emphasize a "spiritual atmosphere" and reliance on a higher power, reinforcing America's religious heritage.
• Expansion of Religion in Public Life: The change was part of a broader effort, following the 1954 addition of "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Currency Mandate: The 1956 law officially mandated the phrase appear on all U.S. paper currency.

Before this change, E Pluribus Unum ("Out of many, one") had served as the nation's unofficial motto since the American Revolution.

Was this a 1st Amendment Violation?  You be the Judge.

Democrats Desperate to Keep Race a Political Issue - SPLC as Costumer for Racist/ Anti-Racist Cosplayers

Their whole Identity of Anti-Racism REQUIRES Racists,

REAL or INVENTED.

*Coming Soon to an SPLC Sponsored Protest Near You...

...the QAnon Shaiman!

...IN the General Lee!

*from the SPLC and  Panem et Circenses Productions