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Whole Of Government

Under the Biden administration, a “whole of government“ approach was taken to run the government in several areas such as climate change, energy, environment, and many others. A major focus was the U.S. Global Health Security Strategy (GHSS) with an emphasis on preventing and responding to infectious disease. Federal agencies collectively perceived themselves serving as […]

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Road Surveillance

Surveillance on Americans continues to grow with expanding technologies doing the work. Without consent, information on individuals is collected and shared. Cases of privacy violations are ongoing and there is one technology that needs to be stopped. Founded in 2017, Flock Safety created technology that describes itself as assisting in crime prevention. The technology includes AI-powered surveillance systems […]

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Fusion Center Surveillance

It would be interesting to determine just how many Americans are familiar with fusion centers. Created following the 9/11 attacks and as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the intent was to improve “collaboration“ between the federal government with State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) law enforcement. More nauseating is that these fusion centers […]

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The Agentic State

What the heck is the Agentic State? According to this “vision paper“, created by the Tallinn Digital Summit 2025, “agentic AI will transform government and defines the contours of the Agentic State.” According to IBM, Agentic AI “consists of AI agents—machine learning models that mimic human decision-making to solve problems in real time. In a […]

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Last Vestiges of America

Baby boomer is the assigned label given to those who were born post WWII, from around 1946 to 1964. Basically, it is the generation born to the greatest generation, those born between 1900 and through the 1920’s, a generation that held strong during a great depression and a world war. Most boomers are now in […]

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The True Dangers Of Cell Phones – Biological Fusion

Yeah, yeah, those conspiracy theorists, who have nothing better to do than drum up accusations towards those who are creating technologies that will do nothing more than bring great benefit to mankind, need to get a life. Twisting what is good into something evil is just downright improper. When former World Economic Forum (WEF) president […]

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In Case This Was Missed

Here We Go Again was a lengthy article about the Convention of States (COS). By the time the reader came to the end of it, there might have been some information exhaustion to really check out some of the links. However, the most important information was in The Plot Thickens section. Contained in that section […]

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Here We Go Again

In 2024, the Convention of States (COS) was actively urging Idaho to pass resolutions advancing its agenda to call for a Constitutional Convention for amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Rep. Tanner, and others, supported a resolution for term limits, Sen. Ricks and Vander Woude supported a balanced budget resolution, while Sen. Lakey, and others, supported […]

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Reviewing HB 517

HB 517 was introduced to the legislature by Rep. Scott on January 22, 2026. The purpose of this legislation is to remove Idaho from the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER). PNWER, “a nonpartisan public-private partnership” and non-profit organization, was established by IC Title 67 Chapter 78 in 1991, based on the idea that there was an emerging […]

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The Grocery Tax Debate

Stand Up For Idaho is a non-profit organization that holds weekly town hall meetings to inform and educate the public. It also has both a YouTube and Rumble site where video recorded meetings can be viewed. At a recent town hall meeting, hosted by Jolyn Thomas from KID Newsradio, a discussion was held on the […]

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Continuity Of Government

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes…”. “But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to […]

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NGOs Are Still Active

Environmental non-governmental organizations (NGO) might have been slapped in the face with the election of President Trump who has been dismantling agendas so dear to their cause, and cutting money spigots off, but it has prompted an old strategy for saving the planet. Rather than messing with the bloated federal government, target local governments. The Center […]

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