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What is the Cloward-Piven Strategy?
Hie “Cloward-Piven Strategy” is
a plan developed in 1966 for caus
ing the fall of capitalism by “planned
crises.” Proposed by Columbia Uni
versity political activists Richard
Cloward and his wife Frances Piven,
the strategy has been used successful
ly in America for years by overload
ing the government
bureaucracy with a
flood of impossible
demands. Fear, vio
lence and economic
collapse accompany
such a breakdown
— providing perfect
conditions for a leader
to force radical social
and economic change
in the country.
One example is the destruc
tion of the American voting system,
caused in 1993 when Cloward and
Piven urged President Bill Clinton
to sign the Motor-Voter Law, using a
“flood-the-rolls” strategy and elimi
nating controls on voter fraud. For
instance, names on any federal roll —
welfare, food stamp, unemployment
compensation, licensed drivers, con
victed felons, property owners, etc.
— were automatically registered to
vote. Voter rolls were swamped with
millions of new voters who were ac
tually deceased, ineligible, nonexis
tent or duplicates. Examiners were
under orders not to ask anyone for
identification or proof
of citizenship. Mailed
voter registrations and
ballots allowed anyone
to register and vote
without any personal
contact with election
officials. Invalid voters
could not be removed
from the official rolls.
Cloward, Piven, and
their disciples had in
troduced a level of fraud to U.S. elec
tions previously encountered mainly
in Third World countries.
Overloading systems and causing
chaos with open borders, flooding
voter rolls, and constantly chang
ing virus mandates are considered
Cloward-Piven Strategies to force
radical social change in the country.
Georgia Power set to test
battery storage technology
for producing electricity
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
Georgia Power is get
ting closer to launching its
first foray into a revolution
ary new source of energy
generation.
The state Public Ser
vice Commission (PSC)
next week will consider a
proposed demonstration
project to evaluate the
technical and economic
feasibility of generating
power through battery
storage.
Georgia Power plans
to build a battery storage
system near an existing
substation in west-central
Georgia’s Talbot Coun
ty that will generate 65
megawatts of electricity.
One megawatt produces
enough energy to power
650 average homes.
The Mossy Branch
Battery Facility is the larg
est of three battery storage
projects the Atlanta-based
utility is planning with 80
megawatts of power the
PSC authorized two years
ago. Battery storage is the
most forward-looking
component of the latest
20-year energy production
plan Georgia Power filed
with the commission in
2019.
“We believe the Mossy
Branch proj ect will provide
a significant opportunity to
evaluate in real-time in a re
al-world environment the
commercial and operation
al performance of a stand
alone grid-charging storage
asset,” Brandon Marzo, a
lawyer representing Geor
gia Power, told the com
mission’s Energy Commit
tee Thursday. “That really
is the benefit of doing this
project.”
Battery storage is the
latest in an otherwise fa
miliar array of sources
Georgia Power uses to
generate energy. The tech
nology promises to play
a role in helping the util
ity reduce its reliance on
coal as it increases its use
of natural gas, nuclear and
renewable power.
Georgia Power has
not revealed how much
the demonstration project
will cost. That information
was redacted from a filing
the utility submitted to the
PSC in July.
CLUES ACROSS
1. Leg shank
5. A way to recognize
11. “VeggieTales” character
12. Getting out of by cunning
16. Mythological mountain
17. Atomic #18
18. Viscous liquid
19. 2010 Denzel film
24. 12th star in a constellation
25. Made better
26. Pouches
27. Nervous twitch
28. This (Spanish)
29. Tennis legend Bjorn
30. Hand (Spanish)
31. Afrikaans
33. Int’l interpreters
organization (abbr.)
34. Treated with kid gloves
CLUES DOWN
1. A way to fit out
2. Football carries
3. Force out
4. Maintaining equilibrium
5. Sealed with a kiss
6. Type of container
7. Hollywood
8. Wc
9. Small freshwater ducks
10. Norse personification of
old age
13. Says who you are
14. Candidate
15. Sugar found in honey
and sweet fruits
20. Defunct language (abbr.)
21. Take too much
22. Iranian province
23. Records electric currents
27. and feathers
29. Beloved Mr. T character
30. More (Spanish)
31. Beverage
If the commission
signs off on the project
next week, the battery stor
age facility is expected to
go into commercial opera
tion in two years.
38. Leaseholder
39. Frogs, toads, tree toads
40. Popular dance
43. Sailing maneuver: tack & _
44. Indicates speed of rotation (abbr.)
45. Mark
49. Health insurance
50. Custom clothing brand
51. One who makes suits
53. Execute or perform
54. Degree of pleasantness
when tasting
56. Equal to roughly 5.6 bushels
58. Blood group
59. Imaginary line
60. Hopeless
63. Darken
64. Spoke
65. Work units
32. Promotional material
33. Green vegetable
34. National capital
35. To any further extent
36. Swollen, inflamed lymph node
37. Anger
38. Pound
40. Popular Yugo
41. Salt of acetic acid
42. Millihenry
44. Israeli city Aviv
45. Make wider
46. Drink containing medicine
47. Acknowledging
48. Private, romantic rendezvous
50. Calvary sword
51. Disease of the lungs
52. 2001 Spielberg film
54. Fleshy, watery fruit
55. In one’s chambers
57. Set of information (abbr.)
61. Dorm employee
62. Indicates position
Crossword Puzzle
Solution, page I8A
UGA Institute Aids
Vidalia Rebranding
By Makaylee Randolph
Staff Writer
mrandolphadvance@gmail.com
Vidalia will soon have
a new brand.
“As a City, we have
never really created a brand
that has been used consis
tently across all depart
ments and was reflected
across all signage and
marketing materials,” said
Vidalia Convention & Visi
tors Bureau Executive Di
rector Alexa Britton.
She is coordinating a
rebranding project for the
city that recently focused
on city leaders. As part of
Vidalia’s rebranding proj
ect the City Council was
interviewed by represen
tatives from the Univer
sity of Georgia Carl Vinson
Institute of Government
(CVI). The Institute is as
sisting the City of Vidalia
in the project.
The rebranding effort
has three phases: the sur
vey of the city and commu
nity, the development of
design, and the Implemen
tation phase.
Currently, the City of
Vidalia is in the first stage of
rebranding, which includes
a community survey, meet
ing with the local steering
committee, meeting with
multiple focus groups, and
participating in a commu
nity immersion tour. The
steering committee will
also work to develop the
brand position, general
brand messaging, tagline
and brand direction.
The CVI met with
the Steering Committee -
composed of Mayor Doug
Roper, three City ofVidalia
employees, and members
of the local community
from small businesses, the
faith community, industry,
education, and tourism
- to explain the steps of
the branding process and
to identify goals in the re
branding. The CVI Team
presented the Steering
Committee with examples
of possible signage and lo
gos for various City depart
ments to illustrate the pos
sibilities of this change.
Britton pointed out
the need for a consistent
brand for the City ofVida
lia by sharing a quote from
Andrew Beattie: “A brand
is the collective impact or
lasting impression from all
that is seen, heard, or expe
rienced by customers who
come into contact with a
company and its products
and services.”
The CVI Team also
met with focus groups on
September 21-23. Each of
these focus groups were
comprised of 10 people
from the following areas of
interest: the arts communi
ty, the Vidalia Convention
& Visitor’s Bureau Board
and tourism partners, the
Mayor and City Council,
church leaders, a Vida
lia High School student
group, industry representa
tives, experienced leaders,
the Downtown Vidalia As
sociation board and small
business owners, City em
ployees, and parents with
children in a local home
group.
Mayor Roper com
mented on the process,
“We are looking forward
to the next phase and hear
ing the feedback collected
through the focus groups
and survey,” he said. “The
goal is to launch the new
brand at the 2022 Vidalia
Onion Festival.”
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