Yesterday I attended a panel presentation on Data Centers where I was the only one who knew that the Bonner Mill Site no longer has the discharge permit for the long-shuttered Stimson lumber mill because Mike Heisey gave it up years ago. Why didn’t Anne Hedges know this? Or the “Climate Smart” lady? Or Barbara, the water expert?
The panelists yesterday did appear to be somewhat informed about the topic they’ve been traveling around Montana discussing with local communities. They even had slides, like this one!
And this one!
And this one!
I’m going to make a prediction based on the observations and lived experience that informs my cynicism: when these three liberal female panelists say this is NON-PARTISAN, and go so far as to praise Rick DiSantis and Montana’s Dr. Al as anti-Data Center allies, it’s clear to me they actually DO NOT KNOW what is going on.
It’s easy to shit-talk “Tech Bros” and bash corporate greed. The audience eats it up, like they did yesterday. It’s also easy to champion your side of the political divide, which I heard endlessly last night. Saint Monica Tranel, for example, apparently spoke for the public in front of the Public Service Commission’s rubber stamp for that billion dollar energy deal, and I’m supposed to, what, be excited about that?
What’s next, expecting me to believe the Sierra Club has my interests in mind when they perform the kind of liberal virtue signaling that our local media will actually report on?
Montana utility regulators heard arguments over whether NorthWestern Energy should be allowed to merge with South Dakota-based Black Hills Electric.
The proposed deal would expand the utility across eight states. That possibility drew concern from people including Caitlin Piserchia of the Montana Sierra Club.
She said the commission should keep strong oversight of major utilities in Montana.
“We believe that Montana Public, the Montana Public Service Commission, should continue to have real power in assessing and holding Montana’s largest monopoly utilities accountable for reliable, affordable power that’s in the in the public interest of Montanans,” said Caitlin Piserchia.
The “real power” that should be getting scrutiny, but never will, is the power to control narratives. Why was I, for example, the ONLY person in a lecture hall full of smart people last night who had the answer about a discharge permit that no longer exists? I’m just an unpaid blogger with restraining orders and an active investigation into claims that I serially vandalize vehicles all over town. Pretty impressive that I still find the time to educate myself about what reality looks like outside the spaces where the smart dumb people meet to freak out.
One of the people I gave a heavy dose of reality to last night was the Climate Smart woman fresh off panhandling Missoulians for $20K during Missoula Gives.
I challenged her non-partisan platitudes with the uncomfortable reality that the class of “Tech Bros” the crowd was getting riled up about includes members of the Epstein network and their friendly bankers, like Steve Elkman and Klaus von Stutterheim.
Had she heard of old Klaus? Yep, she’s a liberal Missoula woman, so she was definitely familiar with his name and role (before he died) with Missoula Democrats, but when I suggested his proximity to the Epstein network, I saw her wheels of cognition come to screeching halt.
Just for fun I put “Sierra Club” into the Epstein DOJ search bar to see what came up and what I found was a newsletter from Greg Brown, who I believe is this guy:
Gregory Q. Brown (born 1960) is an American businessman. He has been chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions since 2008.
Brown joined Motorola in January 2003 as head of the communications, government, and industrial solutions sector. In this role, he led the acquisition of Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion. In 2007 he was promoted to chief operating officer and, in 2008, was named CEO. In 2011 he was named Chairman of the Board.
In March 2008, with the company losing money, Brown announced that Motorola would split in two. Motorola became Motorola Mobility (the cellphone side of the company), and Motorola Solutions. Brown continued to run the new Motorola Solutions, which began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011. The company’s three business areas are land-mobile-radio communications (LMR), video security and the command center.
Further down in Brown’s Wikipedia info, a discerning reader can see what “bipartisanship” really looks like:
When I perused Brown’s newsletter, this excerpt stood out to me:
If you don’t think there’s a connection between our “health care” system and data centers, you probably weren’t present and listening closely, like I was, at the first Krambu Data Center meeting in Bonner where Steve Wood speculated that potential clients of their data center could very likely be working with medical data.
Unfortunately, because of how effectively narratives can be controlled, I have my own “friends” on Facebook publicly shaming me for wrong-think on my choice to NOT jab Big Pharma products into my body and the bodies of my own children amidst the most insane global pressure campaign ever seen.
No, Kevin, next I’m going to put up a slide from another Missoula luminary who quietly sits on the Mountain Line board and pretends to not be involved in local politics anymore. Weird, then, that Jason Wiener got his own slide last night:
After bumming out Mrs. Climate Smart, I chatted with Jason. Does he read my shit, I asked him? No, he chuckled in reply. Well, I said, ___________, who you helped elect, really doesn’t like what I’ve exposed, and ____ now has ten years of protection from my words, I explained to this New Hampshire transplant who came to Missoula in 2003 to study philosophy, and who is another one of those story tellers who strategically takes the stage when the venue is right.
Jason Wiener is doing things more often than he is buying things and he is always looking for an excuse to go somewhere new. He recently returned from a walkabout and is still unpacking from that trip. He grew up in Concord, New Hampshire. He arrived in Missoula in 2003 to earn his Master’s in philosophy from the University of Montana. He’s worked at The Missoula Independent, served on the City Council and formed a computer consulting company called The Techxorcist. He’s a Ranger in Black Rock City every year at Burning Man.
Oh, look at that, another Ranger who likes to take rides to Black Rock City! Cool, man. Hopefully Jason has done his part to help save the world by carpooling with Ranger Abe.
Thanks for reading!
