#govt new scheme

[luv-again]

trying to make this section of shadow 05 coherent is doing my head in ygs </3

[sharemarketinsider]

New Rules for GPF and Pension Payment: Ensuring Timely Payments for Retiring Government Employees

[morningmantra]

Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana : Complete details about the Scheme

The Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) scheme is a special savings scheme run by the government for girl children. It was launched by the Government of India as part of the 'Beti Bachao Beti Padao' program in 2015 exclusively for girls.

This scheme provides financial security for the future of the girl child, providing support during higher education and marriage. The Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana (SSY) scheme is a special savings scheme run by the government for girl children. It was launched by the Government of India as part of the ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padao’ program in 2015 exclusively for girls. It is a long term savings scheme.…

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छत्तीसगढ़ छात्रवृत्ति योजना #ChhttisgarhNews #yojna

  सरकार द्वारा समय समय पर गरीब परिवार के छात्रों के लिए कहीं स्कालरशिप योजनाएं लाती है।   वितरित करवाती है। गरीब परिवार के होनहार छात्रों के लिए ये छात्रवृतियां काफी मददगार साबित होती है। छत्तीसगढ़ सरकार द्वारा भी कुछ इसी तरह की छात्रवृत्ति योजना शुरू की गयी है। छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य के समाज कल्याण विभाग द्वारा प्रदान की जाने वाली सीजी स्कॉलरशिप 2022 SC/ST/OBC/अल्पसंख्यक वर्ग के छात्रों को सहायता और…

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Agniveer Salary | Army Salary | Navy Salary | Air force Salary | Agnipath scheme | Agniveer | Govt Jobs

Agniveer Salary: How much does one get after becoming Agniveer? Know what will be the facilities on selection Agniveer Salary: On being selected for the posts of Agniveer in the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, many allowances and facilities are available along with a good salary. If you also want to do Agniveer’s job (Sarkari Naukri), then you should know about the benefits and facilities…

[metamatar]

watched a really good documentary a few years back about how the most effective public health intervention for tb treatments was govt. healthcare workers going door to door to give treatments to patients free of cost, except the current govt. refuses to negotiate with asha workers, surveills and refuses to investigate abuses against them and champions a brand new private health insurance scheme.

[angryschnauzer]

January 11th 2024

Yeah its been a while since i updated. I haven't had the energy to if i'm honest, but here we go.

Hubby had his brain surgery end of November '23. The tumour they took out was a nasty one, somewhere between the size of a golf ball and a kiwi fruit. The wound has healed well with little to no side affects apart from some double vision, but he was checked out for that and it is a common after affect of brain trauma and was remedied with an eyepatch for a few weeks.

We met with the Neuro Oncology team at Royal Marsden Hospital in London. They are one of the best (if not the best) cancer treatment centres in the whole country, and we worked through a treatment plan.

Just before Christmas hubby was also cleared to have shoulder reconstructive surgery (he broke his shoulder bone in the original seizures back at the end of October '23). There was a really small window of time between it being enough time after the brain surgery that he could go back under general anaesthetic, but also enough time to mostly heal before he started Radiotherapy and Chemo, so just 5 days before Christmas hubby was in and out of our local hospital in a single day to have that surgery.

Christmas was a quiet and subdued affair. I also herniated a disk in my back the day Hubby had surgery (i was clearing the deep freeze out ready for grocery delivery), so it meant both he and I were dosed up to our eyeballs on strong painkillers for most of the holiday, and Little Dude spent the majority of the break either playing video games or building his new lego sets.

Two days before Christmas i also had to have emergency dental work (i had been grinding my teeth and had previously cracked a tooth) and whilst i was in the dentists office some utter idiot crashed into my car. That was the last thing i needed but i simply handed it all over to my insurance company (who are aware of my husbands situation) and they arranged a hire vehicle and sorted repairs.

Onto the start of 2024. This is the first week of Radiotherapy and Chemo for Hubby. He is getting very tired and fatigued already from the Radiotherapy, but thankfully no nausea from the chemo as yet, but that could change over time. He is scheduled for a full schedule of 6 weeks of this dual treatment, where we are having to visit Royal Marsden every day Mon - Fri for the six weeks, and then he also takes the chemo 7 days a week for the six weeks.

He'll then have 4 to 6 weeks 'off' treatment for his body to relax and recuperate, but will have scans and MRI's during that time to gauge what further treatment will be, but its likely to be just chemo but a stronger dose, but no radiotherapy. The chemo is to be 3 weeks off one week on, so a 4 weekly cycle.

The one thing we have discovered isn't done is prognosis's. When we first got to Royal Marsden we were shocked as they started talking about years, and explained that although it was a really nasty tumour, it was found very early and whilst it was still relatively small for its kind. They've discussed things like 'this years treatment plan then we'll look at next years', and also for a while Hubby was being considered for a clinical trial which candidates who have prognosis's of 12 months+ are only considered for. In the end he didn't meet the criteria (his cholesterol was too high). The Macmillian Nurses also have been talking to us about Mobility Car assistance schemes where you can get govt assistance financially and get an adapted vehicle on a 2 year rolling lease. All these timings are reassuring in one way, but worrying in another - we have no idea what the future holds and it really does cement in stone that our time is limited and could end any moment, and makes it very difficult to make any long term plans. You don't realise how much of your life is preplanned until you end up in this situation and aren't sure if you can book your kid onto the school residential trip in 5 months time.

Should anyone want the mundane daily day-to-day life updates you can follow me on my personal instagram @simone_with_an_e its generally a load of utter boring bollocks, but i try to keep it updated daily with updates when i can as its a lot easier to do 1 short paragraph than a big update.

For me my mental health is a little better now that i've had time to process Hubby's diagnosis and that he is getting treatment. There are still days or hours when i fall apart, and it could be something as simple as listening to a song on the radio as i drive back from dropping Little Dude at school and i realise the song would be lovely at his funeral. I end up having to pull over and have a cry whilst switching the radio off. I'm loosing weight and aging quickly, my hair is turning grey from stress and i realised i've aged about 15 years in the last 3 from stress. My appetite comes and goes, and things like red meat now turn my stomach and i can't digest it. But i also haven't drunk alcohol since the day before Hubby had his seizure back in October. I feel like i need to stay 'alert' in case i need to rush him to the hospital for something. I don't miss it as such, but I miss the ability to fully relax. Its hard to describe but i feel like at the moment i've lost myself and am just functioning to care for those around me, going through the motions as such.

Anyway, this has been a long update. I do still lurk here, you may see me pop up in notifications liking something, but at the moment i don't feel its right to start putting fandom stuff back on here yet. I do hope to get back to writing at some point. I miss it and the unfinished stories plague my mind as i have such lovely plans for story arc's and really want to finish them.

Take care all,

Schnauz

xxx

[tare-anime]

Hi, your posts about Spy X Family are real good. I see chapter 105 as improvement of Franky's role and character. Wheather he'll get lucky - or not - on the Finding a Girlfriend case is a hot one. I wonder,when will Anya she's fed up with Damian's disdaineful,toxic world? I posted my thorough stydy upon this case. I've ceased to believe for a friendship(or romance between them). Unpopular truth:All these (old and new) cruel and awfull insults of Damian to Anya, in the end reflect and represent his Papa(: So in my opinion she and Papa "Twilight" will get the documents of Donovan's scheme by an other source.By the way, if government officials and the SSS are not his lackey's ,associates for his scheme then who they might be? And when WISE uncovers it what will be their actions against him and his network? Are we ready to see how Sylvia has killed people,real villains say Ostanians similar the assassins yor has killed? See you :)

Oh wow, thank you so much. I'm glad you find my rambles to be enjoyable 🥰🥰

As for chp 105, yes it's one of my favorite kind of "side character building up" type of chapter. And this time, we got to see Franky's character building. For me, Franky is such an amazing character that know how to enjoy his life. He has his princips and stays true to that, and didn't stop being kind, while at the same time he has a very smart view of the world and very logic in thinking process. I do hope he will find a woman who will appreciate him as who he is. But first, he has to decide when he want to settle down before doing it.

As for Damian. Yes, unfortunately if I have to be honest, I don't like Damian very much if he is showing his tsundere side and keep pointing and hurting Anya. But, he is still a boy, who tried too much. I hope he will one day learn to accept that there's nothing wrong by enjoying the process of growing up, and not too focused on the goal. And the fact that his Dad IS NOT someone he has to look up to. I believe Damian has good heart though, as we already seen in so many occasions. And just like every kid, in the growing process, the influences from other people particularly their peers are huge. And I hope Anya (with her own problems and difficulties) alongside with Ewen and Emile and Becky, can help Damian grows into a fine man. This is why, my fave chapter of Damian will always be where he can act like a boy of his age.

And I do agree. I do hope Twilight will find some other way to approach Donovan. And not pushing it through Anya and Damian friendship. Let these kids be friend without ulterior motives other than being friends.

The mystery of Donovan ascossiates are still there. This man has so much power, and yet, we know he is not with the incumbent of Ostanian govt. He is not directly leads the SSS, though without a doubt there will be fractions of SSS who is loyal to him up until current timeline. So where did his power came from? This remains a mystery until Endo decides to move forward with the plot, I guess 🤭

Tbh, I don't think WISE is 100% good either. It is possible that Op Strix be WISE's own plot to overturn Donovan because this man dares to oppose WISE. Anything is possible in politics after all 🤣 so how will WISE reacts when they finally got the information on Donovan? That will also depends on further information given to us by Endo himself.

Come on Endo!!! Give us more plot development 😫😫

Regarding Sylvia, Oh yes, through her speech during Inu-san crisis arc, we know that Sylvia has killed people during her life. This has eating her soul, but she has to carry on with her life. The same goes to Yor. Yor must know that not all of her clients are guilty per se, but she has to numb her soul because that's how she carry on with her life.

Thank you so much for the asks. I hope I manage to give satisfying answers 🥰🥰🥰

Good day to you too!

[brf-rumortrackinganon]

Re: the Sussexes wanting to be elected president of the Commonwealth.

I'm reading the canon's assertion at face value without knowing whether Lady C provided information about this role and thus showing the Sussex delusions.

FYI, 2 things.

President of the CW is the Head of CW, currently held by KC3. It's a position voted in by the heads of state of member states. The Queen was voted in sequentially for reasons, but she had to lobby hard to get promise that KC3 would be CW's Head for the first term after her death. It's not a hereditary position.

President / Head of the CW is always a Head of state. The suggestion that The Queen would or could  appoint Harold ( or Meghan) in this position was always ridiculous and delusional. She created the QCW trust and handed it to them, but it is a charity created by her will and it stands or fails on it's own merits especially after her death not because the CW wants to continue supporting it for sentimental reasons when it's replicating many of it's own programmes. It's one of her schemes to give Harold (and Markle) something to do. And in the brief time that they were involved with it, failed to turn it into something substantial that could be tied to them. 

The next substantial role in the CW is it's chairperson. This role is also held by a head of state from the country that hosts the CW heads of state general meeting. Position is held for 2 years. Currently held by Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda.

Below this role is the CW secretary-General, currently held by Baroness Scotland. Another position that requires vote by the heads of state of member countries. All the holders of this position are verifiably highly credentialled with decades of real jobs, real social development experience, which the Sussexes do not have. This job is as close to being UN secretary - General as you can get. 

Finally, there are no celebrity CW ambassadors in the same way that UN has celebrity ambassadors. All the CW ambassadors are serious govt diplomats on a par with regular ambassadors sent to Embassies and consulates around the world. CW ambassadors Make up the board of Governors. 

The CW hasn't been captured like the UN such that they've created these celebrity ambassadorships and Vanity awards for inexplicable reasons. Seriously, why does the UN, a political body, need celebrity ambassadors? They bring nothing to the table beyond papstrolls. They have never affected any UN work and most of member states don't care about celebrity outreach or celebrities in general. 

I think the Sussexes didn't pay attention (NO!) to The Queen having to lobby to keep KC3 as Head of state for the first term if not longer. And because they were handed QCW trust, they didn't understand it's context within the organisation and also just think all these important positions are Vanity ones. 

And I can't emphasise enough how much the CW doesn't do celebrity ambassadors or celebrity in general. 

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Again, just because CW hasn’t done celebrity ambassadors in the last under the leadership of the ultimate ambassador (Her Majesty The Queen), doesn’t mean they won’t do it in the future. They never needed a celebrity ambassador when they had The Queen. They might need it under King Charles.

Do I think they’ll go the way of a celebrity ambassador? No. They just have to hang on long enough till the Waleses kids are grown and have become the new superstars. We’re right on the cusp of that happening.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Hey Raven!! I wanted to ask what your thoughts are about something. So a lot of fans have been talking about the new setting and how they want to coexist with nature. It looks like a lot of people don’t like that idea and they agree more with Leona who wants to make more developments. Some of the takes are very extreme and people just insult Falena and the govt’s way of doing things and say they should listen to Leona but they don’t because he isn’t respected. Do you have thoughts on this?

Mmm… Personally, I think it’s sort of short-sighted to automatically assume that Leona’s way is “better” and that people are ignorant for not listening to him. I’m not saying the Sunset Savanna’s current way of doing things is “better” or that Leona's ideas are silly/shouldn't be listened to either; the issue of development versus nature conservation is a very real and complicated issue which is being oversimplified 💦 

Firstly, I don't think it's right to insult Farena/Falena or the current Sunset Savanna government's decisions. Criticism is fine, but the insults are unwarranted (criticism is not the same as insults). Sure, we may not agree with the decisions, but some of the arguments being presented as to why they're in the "wrong" can be disrespectful to their culture and beliefs. The easiest analogy I can give is like... say you're a patient (ie the people of the country), and you go to the doctor's office. The doctor (Leona) recommends a treatment (improved infrastructure and technological advancements) that would improve your health (quality of living), but that treatment goes against a religious or personal belief you hold (balance with nature). How would you feel if someone else implied you were being unreasonable or "backwards" for refusing the treatment? You wouldn’t appreciate others judging you for your decision or for imposing their “better” worldview on you. That's how the people of the Sunset Savanna most likely feel in regards to being told to make drastic changes to their way of life. This is their culture and has been for several generations; they want to live in harmony with nature so as to respect their animal ancestors and their history. It's not on other people to judge their wishes or tell them it’s wrong to base their beliefs on those wishes.

At the same time, I can understand Leona's perspective. He cares about his country and its success, as is evident in some of his voice lines where he references ways the Sunset Savanna could be strengthened (for example, in his Birthday Boy interview, he says his older brother should be gifting an expensive rug to a neighboring country instead of him to get in their good graces, then expresses worry for their country’s future). I'd also imagine that his life experiences (such as seeing the extreme poverty in which Ruggie lives) may have influenced Leona's desire to improve his home. It makes sense that he would agree with operations such as large-scale mining, which would no doubt be a great boon to his people. However, it is plans such as these which would pose harm to the environment that his people want to cherish and respect. That's not to say that Leona is in favor of outright destroying the environment, he is NOT totally like Scar (who ravaged the Pridelands by throwing the Circle of Life out of balance). Leona just prioritizes making progress and helping his people over what he has to do and take along the way to get there. It's not out of line with his usual line of thinking, how he schemes and manipulates others to get what he wants in the main story. The end result is more important to him than the means to which he arrives that that result.

As the second prince, Leona does have his country's best interests at heart, but his beliefs don't always align with that of others. He of course wants to see his country and its people prosper, but his ideas may not be the most well-received. I don't believe this is necessarily because of his status as second-born (from his episode 2 flashback, Farena, the current head of state in place of their ill father, seems very encouraging and willing to hear his ideas out), but rather because his own priorities clash with those of his people. Let's think back to the doctor's office analogy. Say that the doctor (Leona) decides to administer the treatment (improved infrastructure and technological advancements) to you (people of the Sunset Savanna) anyway against your wishes. Not only does this violate healthcare ethics (as you need the patient's consent in order to treat them; ie Leona would be seen as a "bad person" for forcing his ideals), but it is likely that the patient (the people) would be distressed about the situation as a result of it. They'd see it as Leona spitting on their culture.

Even if Leona's proposals were to be put into practice (ie Farena listens to him or if Leona were actually firstborn), I'd imagine they would be unpopular and may stir up social unrest. People are naturally averse to change; they will not be accepting of something just because they are told it is “for their own good”. If something will inconvenience their daily lives, there will be some kind of pushback. You cannot just force them to accept urbanization. This is part of what makes real life development very difficult; we live in a time where we are very conscientious of our impact on the environment, because whenever development occurs, it impacts multiple other sectors and can result in social backlash. We must also consider that no matter how fast change starts to be implemented, it may take years before any significant beneficial results are observed from that reform. People are generally more concerned with the short term rather than the long term, so if they don't see automatic results, then this lack of “instant gratification” could definitely fuel resistance and a push to return to the "old ways". For this reason, reform usually has to be implemented very slowly and gradually or first experimented on in a small area or test group, not all at once or even on a large scale right away. You can't expect to enact a new policy or new plans and expect everyone to go along with it or for those ideas to be executed immediately. Reform takes far more planning, time, and social awareness than many people realize it does, so it's NOT a simple matter of "whos' right and who's wrong here". There are clear benefits to making technological advancements and improving on infrastructure, but these benefits say nothing about how the public will receive them.

Interestingly, the Sunset Savanna has undergone some degree of urbanization. Lilia mentions that the skyscrapers of Dawn/Sunrise City weren't here the last time he visited, and yet Leona remarks that the city "looks the same" to him. This implies that the buildings used to look quite different in Lilia's time, but have since evolved into what Leona is so used to in the modern era. From this, we can deduce that the Sunset Savanna is NOT 100% opposed to change. In fact, it sounds to me like they are making advancements, but just quite slowly and with respect to nature rather than speedrunning it. For example, when Lilia remarks that development is easy to do if you spend a lot of money on it. However, to develop while preserving the surrounding nature is a much more challenging task. There is a way to make advancements while still being respectful of nature and protecting it, but it just takes considerably more time, energy, money, and planning than if you just went ahead without a care in the world for nature. The former appears to be the goal of the Sunset Savanna (as Leona's response to Lilia seems to imply that Farena/Falena wholeheartedly agrees with the stance of developing while still paying mind to their surroundings), which has, in turn, greatly inhibited the progress they are able to make. Again, this is a sentiment that is also echoed in the fact that Dawn/Sunrise City now has skyscrapers; Leona's father was still healthy in those days and allowed for these buildings to go up. This implies that the Sunset Savanna's governing family IS okay with implementing change, but not at an accelerated rate. So... it's not so much a question of "is Leona right, or is the Sunset Savannna right?" but rather "should we advance as fast as we can to help ourselves, or should we take the steady road so as to be mindful of our surroundings?"

I actually think that Leona's up for changing his ways, or at least seeing or supporting his brother and father's perspective. In episode 6 when discussing internship plans for his fourth year, Leona reveals that he has applied for an energy and mining research facility in his home country. Presumably, this will be a place where Leona can not only learn about ways to harvest natural resources and how those can be used to help the Sunset Savanna, but he can also learn about ways to do so while minimizing damage to nature. A lot of fans initially complained about this decision, saying that Leona should go into politics instead, but I find this choice very fitting for him, especially with what we know now about him. Leona has never liked stuffy matters or having to put on airs with people, and his wanting to be "king" comes from a desire for respect and acknowledgement more than a genuine desire to govern. I think him going into the area of study energy/geology is Leona seeking ways to aid in the Sunset Savanna's development while also being cognizant of how that growth can impact the environment from which they can draw a lot of wealth and resources from. This is now Leona's way of contributing to his country without technically ruling it; he's trying to find ways to meet that middle ground and compromise between the culture of his people and a wish to better his country through making advancements.

[morningmantra]

TS News: Free travel for women in RTC buses.. Great joy

Women are thanking the Congress government for providing them free travel in RTC buses. CM Revanth Reddy along with the ministers and officials started the program to increase the Arogyashri limit along with the Mahalakshmi scheme in the assembly premises

Women are thanking the Congress government for providing them free travel in RTC buses. CM Revanth Reddy along with the ministers and officials started the program to increase the Arogyashri limit along with the Mahalakshmi scheme in the assembly premises.

[ghostlymentalitykitty]

As a Kenyan, watching the corruption of what I once saw as a glorious nation is heartbreaking. Rampant kidnappings and killings by the govt, the LITERAL selling of my country's wealth and resources to corrupt conglomerates at the cost of the common mwananchi ( that's Swahili, means citizen in English) and the looting of taxes by the political class in Kenya is so frustrating and painful. The new medical insurance scheme doesn't work and so many people have died due to lack of funding for their medical bills... We need a change, this can't go on.

Anyway, Kenya ni home.

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मुख्यमंत्री आदिवासी परब सम्मान निधि योजना

मुख्यमंत्री आदिवासी परब सम्मान निधि योजना #ChhttisgarhNews #yojana #bhupeshbaghel

मुख्यमंत्री आदिवासी परब सम्मान निधि योजना के माध्यम से राज्य के सभी गांव गांव में आदिवासी पर्व एवं त्यौहारों के आयोजन के लिए ग्राम पंचायतों को अनुदान दिया जाएगा। भरोसे का सम्मेलन में विशिष्ट अतिथि श्रीमती प्रियंका गांधी की उपस्थिति में इस योजना के कार्यान्वयन के लिए बस्तर संभाग के 1840 ग्राम पंचायतों को 5-5 हजार रुपए की अनुदान राशि जारी की गई है। जिसका उपयोग कर आदिवासी त्यौहारों को मनाने में किया…

[46ten]

Hogeland's "The Hamilton Scheme," new book for May 2024

[Here's a search for all my posts with Hogeland in them.]

Ohh, The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding is finally coming out at the end of this month (May 2024) - I've been following Hogeland discussing it for several years!

Hogeland is not at all interested in Alexander Hamilton as a persona (most AmRev and early American historians aren't), but as a policy maker and creator of the federal govt and financial system. And he's sharply critical.

Hogeland and Robert Sullivan (author of the 2016 Harper's magazine cover article "The Hamilton Cult: Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the main himself?", which also quotes Hogeland, will be discussing the book at the National Archives on May 16th, 1-2 pm EDT.

I think this quote from Hogeland in the above linked article is key to his approach:

" 'But it’s just the icing on the cake of this industry that’s existed for decades now, trying to promote Hamilton as something other than what he actually was.” The duel with Burr, his relationship with his wife and his mistress — these are rich material for a narrative biography, Hogeland concedes, but in terms of Hamilton’s impact on the formation and the very nature of the United States, they are little more than footnotes. “Accidents,” he calls them. They lead us to overlook what Hamilton thought was his own purpose in life. "

Blurb: "William Hogeland is the best guide I have found to understanding how we today are, for good and evil, children of Alexander.” ―J. Bradford DeLong, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kirkus review:

A lively if overlong history of the origins of federal power.

A reader of a QAnon-ish bent might come away from this book convinced that Alexander Hamilton founded the so-called deep state. That person would have a point. As Revolutionary War–era historian Hogeland writes, Hamilton was committed to founding a strong, even imperial national government; to achieve it, he crafted instruments of a national economy. One of them was public debt, the “driving wheel” for a great nation. Without debt, the fledgling nation could not have funded any number of endeavors, not least the first foreign war against the pirates of the Barbary Coast. Much as Thomas Jefferson disliked the specter of a federal power stronger than that of the states, without that debt, the Louisiana Purchase could never have been completed. As Hogeland shows, the struggle between Hamilton and his states’ rights–minded opponents was an existential one “over the fundamental meaning of American government,” and in many respects, it continues today. Hamilton had a talent for making enemies, though friends such as Declaration of Independence signer Robert Morris, wealthy and powerful, helped him survive politically. Morris’ great lesson was one of “commercial domination,” to which Hamilton aspired more as a national than a personal accomplishment. Hogeland’s story is lengthy and circumstantial, but marked by plenty of drama: Hamilton’s stepping out from under George Washington’s shadow to become the foremost “Continentalist” politician of his day; his pitched battles with Albert Gallatin, “treasury secretary to two presidents,” over the structure of the national economy; and Thomas Jefferson’s eventual dismantling of “the Hamilton scheme” and subsequent returns to it until the hybrid called “Jeffersonian ends by Hamiltonian means” took root. A well-wrought tale of how the American empire came to be born on the balance sheet as much as by the gun.

[faorism]

the walk in the woods job out here doing the mostest with their translation of the bohemian grove (a real, very evil boys club of the worlds most powerful men that does in fact feature weird rituals and pissing everywhere). by moving it from california to ambiguous south near new orleans, it makes explicit some of the underlying tomfuckery of the grove by making possible the fictional counterpart's being hosted on a plantation.

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as gestured to in the episode, the grove began 130 years ago by ~men of industry~ (ill get back to this). the bohemian grove specifically was founded in 1878. places its founding within reconstruction, an era post the us civil war's end in 1865. the war had created fundamental changes to the american landscape, from the emancipation of enslaved Black people to a nationwide trauma due to mass death. reconstruction is often described as a period of reconciliation between the northern states and the south, to draw together the nation's people, rebuild its infrastructure, and reestablish the union.

thing is, there was a reconciliation. but ultimately, it was to bridge together the power and resources of whites by way of the continued disfrancisement of Black people. it was a time of both reckoning and potential, given the shock attempted succession had on the political landscape but more impkrtantly given what the nation looks like post-slavery as long as you are not incarcerated. Black people held a fuck ton of govt seats at first, there was Black industry, there was Black migration, but also simultaneously wildly exploitative sharecropping schemes that were not slavery but also yeah kinda were and a ton of other genocidal shit. the forty acres and a mule promise never came through. Black folk were freed, but they were not equal and there would be no support to undo hundreds of years of violence, human trafficking, and genocide, nor would there be enough protections in place to secure Black prosperity for the future. it is absolutely no surprise that the first iteration of the KKK ran from 1868 to the early 1870s: their intention was to reestablish white supremacy through violence, voter suppression, and terrorism. while they were squashed as a formal organization, they signaled antiblack attitudes held by many white people for years to come.

as you might see in the Reconstruction wiki page (under the timing section), some place the end of Reconstruction to align with some govt seat change schenanigans called the compromise of 1977. there's a lot of nitpicky shit about it, but what i care about is that federal troops were withdrawn out of the south. i dont like this time point because i dont feel like it tells the full story. it leans onto the reconciliation between whites, because the withdrawl can be described as Back To Normal Operations! in terms of state control. but as the compromise wiki describes, Black politicians were upset about this because they felt the federal troops were protecting Black progress and safety. and they were right! vote suppression and intimidation went rampant, and the slow churn toward the establishment of Jim Crow Laws would be allowed to sneak in.

by extending the frame of Reconstruction to, as the wiki again suggests, something like 1890s when antiblack voter suppression was passed. a longer era focuses not on reconciliation on a top-down (read: white) level, but instead highlights the rise and eventual destruction of Black rights and capital. centering that as the true legacy of Reconstruction is vital to avoid white supremacist historicizing that distracts from the true concerted efforts to disenfranchise Black folk.

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anyway what does this have to do with leverage and the grove, you might be asking.

as said, the irl grove was founded 1878, a year after the compromise act but firmly within the arc of a long Reconstruction era.

this is where the "men of industry" line said (i believe) in general frick's speech comes in, and how the move to a plantation heightens the optics in a hugely significant way.

bruh, they are a group of powerful men in white robes meeting on a plantation in the south. they allowed in some Black men now (diversity win! your cabal is now racially mixed!), but you know that when this shit started up, it was white dudes on white dudes on white dudes. the actual bohemian grove has rituals involving red robes, but the shock and discomfort of the fictional version was intentional, i feel, in order to associate it with the KKK. this to me is confirmed when frick said his family owned that plantation for generations. that, like all other sites that abducted and tortured enslaved people, was a concentration camp. the men of industry frick is talking about are at least partly human traffickers (aka, "slaveowners"). the leverage grove is one that is intricately tied to a moment of transition, Black dispossession, and violence. white men pissing every which way getting drunk on the lands that held hundreds of years of trauma.

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it's important for me to say that around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were a fuckton of social clubs and lodges opening up across the country, including some hosted by people of color. maybe the irl grove did not have the same overtly racial tensions feeding into it as when placed in the heart of Reconstruction (even though, please please understand that it's not just a south thing; it was a white folk thing, regardless of political affiliation or location).

but! the legacy of bohemian grove? yeah, this is a fucking club that has had an impact. there was a meeting of the manhattan project at one of the grove meetings that led to the development of the atomic bomb. if all that ever came out from the grove was that, then that alone would be enough to make the whole shit rotten. but given the power behind the men of the grove (listed here), any reestablishment of a boys club (literal or figurative) is a backdoor dealings system to withhold influence, opportunities, and privilege from marginalized people by managing access to cultural capital and social resources.

it's what was done in Reconstruction, and its done through these secret (or "secret") society rituals, and it's done again and again and again, but those dealings are ones us normies will ever get a chance to see.

i just wish there was a leverage team for us irl ready to fuck shit up and defend some wildlife. (the irl bohemian grove protesters wete trying to protect redwood trees, owls, and some other bird instead of a frog, but still.)

but yeah. fuck fricks dudes and fuck the irl grove and i hope your ugly ass owl statue topples over one day during one of your cringe plays and yall all die drowning in your own piss!

[i might come back to this, clean it up, and throw it onto ao3 as a meta post because i do feel this is important for people to know and i legit spent two and a quarter hours on this.... anyway, i will link it here in this postscript should i do that. also i am not a historian so i absolutely got some shit wrong but whatever. dont cite me in a paper, basically]

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We’ve been trying to get onto a local housing scheme the govt has here where you basically get to rent a new build flat a bit cheaper than market cost. It’s supposed to be intended to help more people en route to buying a property (you can eventually get a 25% mortgage on it, which we have no interest in, it’s a scam but we could save a decent amount with this rent level). Originally we applied in June last year for a Q3 release thinking if all went well we could be in for Xmas, and they had us on a ‘potentially eligible’ list for months, then emailed in January asking us to prepare really in-depth documentation, bank statements, credit reports, etc. It said they’d likely be moving people in June, subject to construction completion and viewing availability. That timeline would be serendipitous as our landlord is sure to issue another eviction notice asap, and that can take a couple months.

Well last Thursday they emailed again asking for it, giving 2 days’ notice; we had to get all new documentation because it’s been so long, but we submitted it in time. They emailed today with a ‘quick update’ saying the development will be completing in OCTOBER. That’s a year later than advertised. So months of prep and trying not to get carried away about something that would give us genuine stability for the next chapter of our lives - wasted. And I hate that I feel stupid for thinking it could work out, because it NEVER fucking does. The whole time we’ve lived here we’ve been on tenterhooks waiting for an eviction notice, and everything we’ve tried to find stable housing has not worked out. I’m used to this shit and on some level I figure I just must not deserve anything good. But she does.

I’m fucking raging at how they can do this to people but I also feel as if I’ve swallowed liquid concrete. I feel so fucking sick.