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Midweek rains bring second crest on southern Minn. rivers
Associated Press and MPR News Staff
Across Minnesota
Water flows across State Highway 93 south of Henderson, Minn., on March 20. With the second rise of the Minnesota River predicted this weekend, officials anticipate the road will remain closed.
Pat Christman | Mankato Free Press
Minnesota River:More roads to close with river's second crest
| Red River:Semi stuck in floodwaters, driver cited
| Great Lakes:With ice thawed, data buoys return
| Technology:Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods
The days are longer and the forecast is sunny, but the uncertainty of flooding season continues across southern Minnesota.
The effects of the midweek rains are coming to fruition, as the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers are projected to hit their second flooding-season crests over the weekend.
Visible satellite imagery today shows the Red River flooding north of Grand Forks really well. #ndwx #mnwx pic.twitter.com/HEjB83yb8n
— NWS Grand Forks (@NWSGrandForks) April 18, 2019
Meanwhile, in northwestern Minnesota, the town of Oslo has become an island, thanks to floodwaters that keep it cut off from the surrounding area for sometimes weeks at a time. And the Red River continues its slow northern crawl as it crests toward Pembina, N.D., and onward to Winnipeg.
Rising waters:Check your river
The latest:Flooding and weather updates
Full coverage:Spring flooding
Minnesota River: Roads open after mudslide; more to close thanks to floods
Henderson firefighters put the finishing touches on the city's flood wall across Highway 19 March 20. As the Minnesota River began its second rise this week, city officials said they planned to re-install the floodwall.
The overlap this year of the rainy season and the flooding season has caused several logistical headaches for drivers in south-central Minnesota.
The southbound lanes of U.S. Highway 169 between St. Peter and Mankato were closed this week after mudslides triggered by heavy rains Wednesday made the road impassable. But after crews cleared the mud, trees and other debris from the roadway, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced Thursday evening that the lanes had reopened.
Driving in North Dakota?Check your route
Heading out in Minnesota?Check your route
The four-lane highway runs along a steep bluff in the area, making it vulnerable to runoff along the west side of the road.
And now after the rains come the rising waters of the already swollen Minnesota River.
MnDOT warned that a second wave of flooding along the river may force another closure of Highway 93 at Le Sueur and Highway 99 east of St. Peter in the coming days. Both roads were closed when the river rose for the first time this spring just after the winter snowmelt.
Here we go again... the Rush River is now overtopping Hwy 93 S of Henderson. Minnesota River is rising and beginning to encroach at Bucks Lake and near Henderson. Henderson will be reinstalling their flood wall this evening. pic.twitter.com/93nyNKi3p9
— MnDOT District 7 (@mndotscentral) April 18, 2019
Meanwhile, two roads outside Henderson — Highway 19 to the east and Highway 93 to the south — have been closed for about a month, and will remain closed as the Minnesota River heads toward its second springtime crest this weekend.
By Thursday night, KEYC-TV reported, the city had already begun the work of reinstalling the floodgates it had cleared after the last crest.
Earlier:Closed off by flooding, Henderson copes by throwing a party
KEYC-TV:Henderson residents fed up with highway closures
Mankato Free Press:NWS increases crest predictions
Red River flooding: Semi stuck in floodwaters; driver cited
The driver of a semi has been cited after he ended up stuck in floodwaters in Richland County in North Dakota, just northwest of Wahpeton, N.D.
Sheriff Larry Leshovsky says the driver went around a barricade along Highway 8 near Galchutt, N.D. The sheriff says the level of the Wild Rice River will have to drop before the semi and trailer can be towed. The semi driver and a passenger were rescued by boat.
KFGO Radio says the North Dakota State Patrol is handling the investigation.
— The Associated Press | Galchutt, N.D.
Great Lakes: Thawing ice allows re-deploying of data buoys
As ice thaws around the Great Lakes, technicians are preparing to re-deploy buoys that gather a wealth of information for use in research, water safety efforts and recreation.
About a dozen research institutions operate buoys in the lakes. Many of them provide data to the nonprofit Great Lakes Observing System, which makes it available online.
Winthrop bouy deployed @ejtheuerkauf @JayILINseagrant @RealGLOS pic.twitter.com/nIXR25VKmJ
— Eddie Great Lakes-Verhamme (@EddieGreatLakes) April 18, 2019
Its website offers real-time data from the buoys, which are returned to the water as soon as harbors and boat launches are ice-free.
Real-time data:Great Lakes buoys portal
It can help boaters and anglers avoid potentially dangerous conditions, while scientists get material that feeds computer models predicting weather and other lake characteristics.
Ed Verhamme of the Ann Arbor-based engineering firm LimnoTech says spring can be a particularly hazardous season, as conditions are often rough and change quickly.
— The Associated Press | Ann Arbor, Mich.
Flooding technology: Drones, supercomputers and sonar deployed against floods
An arsenal of new technology is being put to the test fighting floods this year as rivers inundate towns and farm fields across the central United States. Drones, supercomputers and sonar that scans deep under water are helping to maintain flood control projects and predict just where rivers will roar out of their banks.
Whitney Flynn, a physical scientist at the National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., works on computer screens showing flood predictions and other information in March.
Jay Reeves | Associated Press
Together, these tools are putting detailed information to use in real time, enabling emergency managers and people at risk to make decisions that can save lives and property, said Kristie Franz, associate professor of geological and atmospheric sciences at Iowa State University.
The cost of this technology is coming down even as disaster recovery becomes more expensive, so "anything we can do to reduce the costs of these floods and natural hazards is worth it," she said. "Of course, loss of life, which you can't put a dollar amount on, is certainly worth that as well."
U.S. scientists said in their spring weather outlook that 13 million people are at risk of major inundation, with more than 200 river gauges this week showing some level of flooding in the Mississippi River basin, which drains the vast middle of the United States. Major flooding continues in places from the Red River in North Dakota to near the mouth of the Mississippi in Louisiana, a map from the National Weather Service shows.
"There are over 200 million people that are under some elevated threat risk," said Ed Clark, director of the National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., a flood forecasting hub.
Much of the technology, such as the National Water Model, didn't exist until recently. Fueled by supercomputers in Virginia and Florida, it came online about three years ago and expanded streamflow data by 700-fold, assembling data from 5 million river miles of rivers and streams nationwide, including many smaller ones in remote areas.
"Our models simulate exactly what happens when the rain falls on the Earth and whether it runs off or infiltrates," Clark said. "And so the current conditions, whether that be snow pack or the soil moisture in the snow pack, well that's something we can measure and monitor and know."
Emergency managers and dam safety officials can see simulations of the consequences of flood waters washing away a levee or crashing through a dam using technology developed at the University of Mississippi — a web-based system known as DSS-WISE. The software went online in 2017 and quickly provided simulations that informed the response to heavy rains that damaged spillways at the nation's tallest dam in northern California. The program also helped forecast the flooding after Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana that year.
Engineers monitoring levees along the Mississippi River have been collecting and checking data using a geographic information system produced by Esri, said Nick Bidlack, levee safety program manager for the Memphis district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The company produces mapping tools such as an interactive site showing the nation's largest rivers and their average monthly flow.
On the Mississippi River, flood inspectors use smartphones or tablets in the field to input data into map-driven forms for water levels and the locations of inoperable flood gates, seepages, sand boils or levee slides, which are cracks or ditches in the slopes of an earthen levee. Photos, videos and other data are sent to an emergency flood operation center in real time, allowing Corps officials to visualize any problems and their exact location, instantly informing the response, Bidlack said.
"If people in the field have concerns about something, they can let us know to go out there and look at it," Bidlack said. "There's a picture associated with it, a description of it, and it helps us take care of it."
Corps engineers are increasingly flying drones to get their own aerial photography and video of flooded areas they can't otherwise get to because of high water or rough terrain, said Edward Dean, a Corps engineer.
"We can reach areas that are unreachable," Dean said.
The Corps also now uses high-definition sonar in its daily operations to survey the riverbed, pinpointing where maintenance work needs to be done, said Corps engineer Andy Simmerman.
The Memphis district uses a 26-foot survey boat called the Tiger Shark, with a sonar head that looks like an old-fashioned vacuum cleaner and collects millions of points per square inch of data, Simmerman said.
The technology has helped them find cars and trucks that have been dumped into the river, along with weak spots in the levees.
"These areas are 20 to 80 feet underwater, we'd never get to see them without sonar," Simmerman said. "The water never gets low enough for us to see a lot of these failures."
During recent flooding near Cairo, Ill., a culvert that should have been closed was sending water onto the dry side of a levee. The sonar pointed engineers to the precise location of a log that was stuck 20 feet deep in murky water, keeping the culvert open. Plastic sheathing and sandbags were brought in to stop the flow and save the land below.
"The sonar definitely made a difference," said Simmerman. "A big success."
— Adrian Sainz and Jeff Martin, The Associated Press | Memphis, Tenn.
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Leader-ful Resistance:
The Predicament of the Right Today
The concept of "leaderless resistance" was popularized on the Right through the writings of Klansman Louis Beam in the 1980s and 1990s, after having allegedly been invented by American intelligence officers in the 1960s as a possible strategy for resisting a theoretical Communist takeover of the United States.
It is really just an adaptation of the cell structure, in which an insurgent group divides itself into units of no more than a few members each, with the cells being completely unaware of the others, and with only one individual in each cell who has contact with a higher authority, who in turn transmits instructions from the central leadership. In this way, even if individual cells or even the central leadership of the group are captured and interrogated, the organization itself can survive since there is no one who actually knows everyone else involved.
Many groups have used this technique, successfully or unsuccessfully, over the last century, including the IRA, the French Resistance, the Algerian FLN (as depicted in the classic film The Battle of Algiers ), the Viet Cong, the Weather Underground, and Al Qaeda being just a few prominent examples.
Leaderless resistance takes this a step further and dispenses with the concept of an organization altogether, instead advocating that small groups or individuals should, on their own initiative and utilizing nothing but whatever resources they can muster on their own, carry out attacks on the enemy. Since nothing would unite these individuals or groups apart from a common ideology, there is no way for the enemy's security forces to track them or anticipate their moves. Eventually, once the number and intensity of attacks becomes high enough, and the sympathies of the masses are swayed, a mass movement will somehow emerge and take the struggle to the next level.
On paper, it sounds brilliant, but in practice it is always a dismal failure. Those on the Right who have carried out "lone wolf" attacks, such as Timothy McVeigh (if he can really be classified as a Rightist, which is debatable), David Copeland, Benjamin Smith, Buford Furrow, James von Brunn, and Anders Breivik all carried out acts of violence which they viewed as the starting point of a struggle that would be continued by others who would pick up their banners.
Their actions are all characterized by an equal mix of the grotesque and the pathetic, as well as a complete failure to introduce any lasting change into society apart from a sense of revulsion. The fact is that, even if such an end were desirable, the majority of people in any society are abhorred by random violence, and it is only because the worldviews of these would-be guerrillas were so distorted that they believed they were acting on behalf of a larger struggle.
Similarly, as is evinced in the writings of its strategists, it is clear that Al Qaeda was hoping that 9/11 would be the spark that would set off acts of leaderless resistance throughout the United States, Europe and the Muslim world. They had marginally greater success than did their Right-wing counterparts, at least in terms of body count, although they also failed to realize any of their goals or to establish a trend that large numbers of people would emulate. Many of their attacks only succeeded in killing the attackers themselves.
Essentially, leaderless resistance is an act of desperation which a powerless group adopts in the face of an enemy that seems invincible. Leaderless resistance only appears to be a good option when no unified or trustworthy leadership exists, and when the surrounding culture is completely hostile. That is the situation the Right has been in, in the United States and to a lesser degree in Europe, for decades.
The fact is, even in the unlikely event of so many people carrying out independent attacks that they could turn the United States into Iraq circa 2006, causing large numbers of Americans to become sympathetic and in turn overthrew the government, who would assume the mantle of leadership? There is certainly no group on the true Right in the U.S. today that is anywhere near to approaching the level of sophistication needed to take power over the entire nation – or even part of it, for that matter. Nor is there any group whom everyone would agree to follow.
Such a strategy also adds to the perception of our weakness, as Alex Kurtagic cogently explained in his essential "Masters of the Universe" address at NPI last month, as opposed to projecting an image of power. Only the weak resort to strategies of desperation.
Unfortunately, however, in spite of its repeatedly demonstrated pointlessness, many on the Right still advocate this approach. It can only be a waste of time and resources, not to mention suicidal. Not that Rightists shouldn't have at least basic knowledge about firearms, martial arts, strategy, self-defense techniques and such, but those are inherently useful skills at any time or place, and should not become something that is emphasized to the exclusion of everything else as if it were a solution to all problems.
I would argue, however, that the primary problem with the Right today isn't the romance of leaderless resistance, but the much more concrete reality of a leader-ful resistance.
The correct solution, especially in a democracy where such things are well within our reach, is to organize, and this requires leaders. Unfortunately, people on the Right are all too eager to become leaders. Hardly a week goes by that I don't receive an invitation on Facebook or by e-mail to join some new Rightist organization which claims to offer the solutions to the ills of Western civilization. Many of these groups have some interesting ideas, and I believe that most of them are sincere. But typically their achievements don't go beyond Facebook and/or a blog or website of some kind. Perhaps they manage to turn out a few issues of some sort of newsletter or journal, most of which are dedicated to attacking other groups.
You can tell from the scope of the discussions, however, that the membership of most of them doesn't go beyond the "leader" and the few of his friends whom he persuaded to sign up. And typically, 90% of these groups vanish within a few weeks or months for one reason or another (usually either laziness or internal squabbles), littering the Internet with their dormant textual remains. "And another one bites the dust" plays in my head whenever I come across such sites.
Although the Internet itself is still relatively new, the phenomenon that is now occurring in cyberspace is just the latest manifestation of an old problem: the Right is its own worst enemy. Our movement is riven with enormous egos and obsessional people. So many among our ranks are convinced that only they hold the correct solution, and are so much in love with their own ideas that they will not tolerate even a slight disagreement over matters of philosophy or policy. I'm not a psychologist and will not attempt to speculate on why the Right is so prone to this phenomenon, although it seems endemic to all social movements, even if the Right in recent decades clearly suffers from a particularly acute case of it.
This problem isn't restricted to those who start organizations, either. Whenever someone starts something that enjoys even a little bit of success, the jangling chorus of detractors and conspiracy theorists begins to make itself heard, eager to rip it apart. A common way to do this is to attack the characters of the people behind it, often, but not always, based upon information from dubious sources. In this way, we do our enemies' work for them. It's no wonder that few intelligent or talented people can stomach being involved with the Right for very long before they go away in frustration.
The fact is that, unless we want to remain eternal hobbyists on the margins of society as we are now, we are eventually going to have to agree to put aside our differences and unite behind specific causes, leaders and organizations, and get to work in the real world. Having dozens of tiny groups advocating different messages and techniques, and spending much of their energy trying to win over the same, tiny number of people who are already in our "scene" by defaming all the other groups, has accomplished nothing. If we are serious about playing a significant role of any kind in the future life of our civilization, we need to identify those points which are the most fundamental and figure out how to actualize them. A concern for the future of the European/White identity is clearly one of them. The need for some sort of restoration and resacralization of our culture along traditional lines is another.
I am not saying that we should squelch dissent or discussion. Such is crucial to the healthy life of any movement, and as circumstances change, the goals and strategies may need to be adjusted as well, and this can only occur if diverse viewpoints are allowed to be fostered. But ultimately, we need to figure out exactly what our "political minimum" is in terms of a platform, something which will appeal to a broad base of sympathizers. Once that is done, the next task is to figure out how to realize it.
At the same time, I do not believe the time is yet ripe to establish a political party whose intention it is to enter the American political mainstream and fight in elections. The cultural foundations are simply not there yet. As the European New Rightists correctly observed, the cultural groundwork and the accompanying changes it will inculcate must be accomplished among our people before there can be any thought of a political struggle. I believe that Counter-Currents is setting a good precedent for this, as are a handful of others, by presenting a wide range of possibilities which can be pruned and developed until we arrive at something like a coherent ideology.
This is also what my own organization, Arktos, is attempting to achieve by offering intellectual and cultural resources to stimulate the type of new thinking, new myths and new symbols that will need to be embraced if a successful movement dedicated to our principles, and which is capable of motivating a large number of people, is ever to be born.
This doesn't mean that only intellectual or cultural work is desirable, or that other types of activism aren't possible here and now. As I mentioned in my earlier essay on Islamism, successful revolutionary social movements start at the grassroots level by doing things like providing basic services such as food, education and housing. If we can find the funds to do this, it would be an excellent way to start building something on the local level which could later grow into something of nationwide significance, as well as generate a lot of good will among people who might not presently regard themselves as our allies.
I admit that what I am asking for is quite ambitious. There are occasions when I wonder if the hour might already be too late to get such a project underway. If there was one thing I would want readers to take away from this essay, however, it is this: don't start a new group. Don't write yet another manifesto. Don't waste your time attacking somebody else's group. Rather, do something constructive. Create something that embodies what you stand for, or else get to work supporting an effort by someone else that's already underway. And we all must recognize that, sooner or later, it will be our task to submit to someone else's authority and follow orders. Not unthinkingly or without judgment, of course, but with humility. No movement can thrive consisting entirely of leaders. What we need most are people who can be good followers.
Published: October 27, 2011 | This entry was posted in North American New Right and tagged Arktos Media, articles, John Morgan, Louis Beam, North American New Right, originals, political organizing, terrorism, white nationalism. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
White Republican
Posted November 13, 2011 at 3:29 am | Permalink
The following excerpt from Lenin's What is to be Done? is relevant to our situation:
"The fact is that society produces very many persons fit for 'the cause,' but we are unable to make use of them all. The critical, transitional state of our movement in this respect may be formulated as follows: There are no people — yet there is a mass of people. There is a mass of people, because the working class and increasingly varied social strata, year after year, produce from their ranks an increasing number of discontented people who desire to protest, who are ready to render all the assistance they can in the struggle against absolutism, the intolerableness of which, though not yet recognised by all, is more and more acutely sensed by increasing masses of the people. At the same time, we have no people, because we have no leaders, no political leaders, no talented organisers capable of arranging extensive and at the same time uniform and harmonious work that would employ all forces, even the most inconsiderable."
I similarly think that although there is no shortage of work to be done and although there are many people who are fit for our cause, there are very few people who are working for our cause. It is as if there is no shortage of work and no shortage of workers, but businesses are short of workers and workers are unemployed. There is little connection between the former and the latter.
How can we solve this problem? I think we need to put more thought and effort into putting work within the view and the reach of people. Most people are followers rather than leaders. They need to see others do work in which they can participate or which they can emulate. People need to be able to combine their efforts with those of others if they are to work confidently, continuously, and effectively, and they need work which is appropriate to their interests, capacities, and conditions. In these matters, most people don't know where to start and don't know where they might fit in.
We need to engage in the kind of organizational and activist work indicated in the excerpt above. Such work is usually small-scale, but this should not mean that it is petty or inconsequential, only that it is small relative to the size of the movement and its historical tasks. We need more leadership at the level of cadres. (Incidentally, the word "cadre" means "framework.")
Fourmyle of Ceres
Posted November 13, 2011 at 4:43 pm | Permalink
THEIR GOAL IS GENOCIDE. OURS. WHAT'S YOURS?
White Republican:
A message from a Mr. Harold Covington might be helpful. Again, the importance of local development, local support, local development, starting tonight, starting where you are, can not be overemphasized. Acting, no matter how small the act may seem, beats listening.
Harold Covington in blockquote:
Racial Comrades:
I have just received my first case lot of the new, properly printed paperback edition of the Fourth Edition Northwest Migration Manual, also known as the White Book. These may now be purchased for $10.00 plus shipping and handling from:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-white-book/18621364
This is a far better price than those hand-bound, photocopied copies we've been sending out.
The new White Book is designed to be a stand-alone introduction to the Northwest Front and the entire Northwest Imperative. It will replace the large and expensive-to-mail intro packs we now send out to inquirers. You guys need to stock up on copies of this book for distribution to interested Whites. (They will make great Christmas stocking stuffers.)
-HAC
After all, where will the "Leaders" come from, if we don't work to develop and nurture them, starting with our selves, if only as examples?
As always, remember: all we wish to accomplish – ALL – can and MUST be done in an "apple pie, strictly legal, sort of way." (HT: Jim Giles)
What's In YOUR Future? Focus Northwest!
Posted November 7, 2011 at 8:00 pm | Permalink
Alexander, thank you for posting these two very interesting responses to what I wrote. I was quite intrigued that Mr. Beam himself responded. Although I didn't write that each cell in a leaderless resistance movement has contact with a higher authority – that was when I was describing the more traditional, pyramidal insurgency structure, not leaderless resistance, by way of explaining the differences. I'm not sure I agree with him about leaders, however, simply because I'm not aware of any leaders who have arisen in the past half-century who were really capable and only stopped by external forces. I also am more skeptical about the prospects of Occupy Wall Street than he is, but we'll see. If the movement manages to keep going and enter the political conversation in the same way that the Tea Party has, then I'll change my mind about it. Although I think its lack of specific goals will be a big hindrance in trying to move it forward.
I agree with much of what Mr. Campbell wrote, however. Guillaume Faye and Michael O'Meara, in "Why We Fight," also advocates for using the term "the resistance" to loosely refer to the European/White movement.
Alexander Mezentsev
Another review is from JB Campbell:
"Good, hard-hitting piece (http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/10/leader-ful-resistance-the-predicament-of-the-right-today/) . Louis Beam is a close friend of mine. When I was starting the militia movement in '89 he made contact and eventually told me about his advocacy of LR some years earlier. I encouraged him to put it out again in combination with what I was doing, which he did. I made sure that the militia movement had a leaderless structure, and for those six years, there was no one man who could speak for the movement, which was really just a militant, anti-government state of mind. But it was a big one and getting bigger.
There are naturally going to be leaders, secret ones, but the idea is to keep their identities from the feds as long as possible. Leaders are always wanted by the feds since they have traditionally been bought off or blackmailed or killed, leaving the followers in bad shape. A leader with baggage, such as Louis' Klan past, taints the movement. OKC was an act of federal desperation to discredit and destroy the militia movement, which it did do overnight. William Colby had just written that the militia movement had to be dealt with, justly or otherwise, because it was made up of average, successful citizens and because there were so many of them. The fact that it was based on guns was an added worry.
I think the new movement should just be referred to as the resistance. I only called it the militia due to the very bad wording of the Second Amendment, which had been used by judges to send men to prison for possessing guns the judges said had no connection to "a well-regulated militia." I just jammed "the militia" up the government's ass. There was never such a thing as a well-regulate militia, which was inserted by Federalist types to control us. No one was ever authorized to regulate the militia, so the wording was deliberate nonsense. But the militia itself has baggage and the movement must be more generalized to include the Occupiers and anyone who is interested in revolution, left, right or whatever. It can't be controlled but it can be guided somewhat.
http://www.jbcampbellextremismonline.com"
I have great interest towards LEADERLESS RESISTANCE both in theory and practice, being Louis Beam` friend and his corresponding essay` main translator into Russian – coining the Russian term БЕСКОМАНДНОЕ СОПРОТИВЛЕНИЕ. Louis has sent me this letter recently after your article` reading, and I decided to share:
"Interesting read. The guy writes very well. He does however, miss the point: there is no higher leader that "each cell which has contact with a higher authority." That is not my work or concept. Leaderless Resistance is a child of necessity not choice would be my answer to his theme. Fifty years of leaders has led us to defeat. I would love, if it were possible, to have a leader. But they are destroyed as they emerge by the system. Thus in the end we must still resist by any tool available. LR is such a tool nothing more. Also, the ineffectual acts he lists as examples were all counter productive and perhaps government ran operations. So it would be a misstatement to characterize them as acts of LR. My guess is that there are many thousands of small acts carried out yearly by common people that we never here about because they were not counter productive. While the first act of resistance by an individual may be small, I believe they will lead each person to consider and perhaps carry out bigger acts of resistance. There is nothing like success to encourage one to further acts of resistance.
The "occupy wall street" movement is successful in so far as they continue to refuse leaders. Once they accept a leader they will be destroyed. They must also not let the enemy define their friends and enemies for them. That attempt is being made by the establishment media now. Attempts are made here to define them as "kids" or left-wing socialists." They are that but much more. They are also right-wingers, conservatives, and a general cross section of the nation as a whole. They must make ever effort to stick with broad terms such as the "99" percent slogan and remain nonexclusive.
The protestors are on the street instead of in front of the television. That is the first step, and a big one at that for many of them. The first step to resistance is to decide to resist. No mater how ineffective you may be at the start. You learn as you go. They will learn what works and what does not. At least they are no longer passively watching life go by them. Think how hard it would be to get your neighbors to go downtown with you and camp out for a week to protest the banks. Impossible you say. No, you just have to decide to resist at some point. They are at that point. I will delve into this topic later as I have time".
phil white
Posted October 31, 2011 at 6:37 am | Permalink
Cultural Leaderless resistance is what we are applying at whiterabbitradio.net.
It is called "Practical Politics". It's about talking to neighbors and posting on the internet the basic line that white's are being systematically eleminated by mass immigration and socially coerced integration/assimilation.
Here is a good presentation of the subject of the on going white genocide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfB_F936bU8
Our first educational conference was held in East Tenn last month.
We are also being trained to constantly use "anti-white" in any discussion of government and NGO policies destructive to whites and our culture.
Posted October 30, 2011 at 8:13 pm | Permalink
This idea that European man is inherently individualistic is a half-truth. Our people as a whole got that way only after the secular humanist philosophies of the Renaissance poisoned our thinking, but before that,we had caste-based societies. See Greece, Rome, Ancient Persia, Ancient India, and yes, Medieval Europe for very clear examples.
Izakk
It's not even a Chinese concept exclusively — we knew it during the medieval period. Just look at the order of the estates and note how closely it resembles the caste systems of the ancient Hindus.
There are many things in this article on which I could comment. Right now, I want to introduce the concept of "infrapolitics," of which James C. Scott writes in Domination and the Arts of Resistance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), pp. 183, 184:
"In a social science already rife — some might say crawling — with neologisms, one hesitates to contribute another. The term infrapolitics, however, seems an appropriate shorthand to convey the idea that we are dealing with an unobtrusive realm of political struggle. For a social science attuned to the relatively open politics of liberal democracies and to loud, headline-grabbing protests, demonstrations, and rebellions, the circumspect struggle waged daily by subordinate groups is, like infrared rays, beyond the visible end of the spectrum."
"The term infrapolitics is . . . appropriate in still another way. When we speak of the infrastructure for commerce we have in mind the facilities that make such commerce possible: for example, transport, banking, currency, property and contract law. In the same fashion, I mean to suggest that the infrapolitics we have examined provides much of the cultural and structural underpinning of the more visible political action on which our attention has generally been focused."
We need to engage in the small-scale activism without which large-scale activism is impossible. Without small-scale activism, we will have no social base to mobilize, no social cohesion to bind us together, and no fund of practical skill and experience to apply to our work. Exactly what small-scale activism should involve is something I intend to examine in detail leter, with reference to authors such as François Duprat, Jean Ousset, Roger Mucchielli, James C. Scott, and Everett M. Rogers. I intend to pay particular attention to the relationship between metapolitics and infrapolitics.
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How's this for a joke told to me by a Jewish psychologist.
"How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a light bulb?"
" None; "That's alright children, don't worry abut me. I can take care of myself. I'll just sit here, all alone, in the dark." "
For you who don't understand this joke, it's about how Jewish mothers in particualr, and Jews in general to a lesser extent control by guilt.
Ever hear of White Guilt?
Yes, exactly. I agree with this article. There are too many people who believe that they're willing to pay the debts that one must pay to be a great leader (easier said than done), and most of them lack the skills necessary anyhow.
To use a pop culture analogue: people need to recognize that the great model for decent people of the 21st century isn't Batman or the Joker — the real man to emulate is Alfred, because he does something that no one nowadays is willing to do. Alfred recognizes his own physical and intellectual inferiority to Batman and looks up to him, because he realizes that Batman looks up to a higher principle than himself.
People won't do this because the so-called alternative right and its vast, vast amount of resources on the internet allow people to live in their own self-created virtual world where the slightest difference seems far greater than it is. I've said this elsewhere (on the article by "eugenicist" on alternativeright.com for one example) and I'll say it again: for the more angry, hateful, curmudgeonly, and sabotage-prone or conspiracy-theory-prone people on the so-called alternative right, the decision to ABSTAIN from politics for a while will prove more politically effective in the long run. Let these angry folks work full-time jobs with regular, normal full-time friends and speak daily with their families, and then once they've fully immersed themselves into an actual real-world community of some kind, ask them if the tiniest difference on an economic policy is really all that damned relevant. The answer will most likely be: no, because they have enough self-assuredness and internal clarity to not feel the need to start squaking at everyone in grandiloquent and cryptic attempts at inward self-persuasion.
the more angry, hateful, curmudgeonly, and sabotage-prone or conspiracy-theory-prone people on the so-called alternative right
I've heard this joke from you before, and it wasn't funny the first time. (Pop-culture reference right back at you.)
This is the same drum that Kurtagic beats, and it's always wrong. Alex Kurtagic is right about a great deal, but anytime he, or you, or anyone starts badmouthing the people on the right because of a dislike of their personality or style, this, I find, is where the most futile schisms of all exist.
At least policy differences are about something, trivial though they sometimes may be. But to be against someone for being "curmudgeonly" is triviality taken to a whole new level.
I think the "angry, hateful" curmudgeons, misogynists, and whatever other dour personalities du jour are being shown the door from an already tiny movement are often giving it its most vigorous energy. And frankly, their critiques are usually on a sound basis.
I'd rather have more so-called "angry, hateful, curmudgeonly" types in the movement. The Left certainly doesn't expunge the angry and the hateful, and these personalities give the Left a great deal of its energy and strength, and pull the rest of the Left inexorably toward them.
One of Nietzsche's truest formulations: "I love the great despisers, because they are the great reverers, and arrows of longing for the other shore."
I agree with this. The "first, let's have a purge" plan strikes me as futile and self-defeating. However, I ran John's article because on balance it is constructive. My reply to the "first, let's have a purge" crowd is: "First, build something better." John makes that point very well.
But still, there is Hunter Wallace.
Why is advocacy of purges often idle, self-defeating, and suspicious? There are several answers:
1. Those advocating purges usually have little or no power to conduct purges. Expelling someone from a groupuscle or banning them from posting on an internet forum is hardly a purge.
2. When purges are conducted, they are sometimes both unnecessary and destructive. John Tyndall observed that troublemakers have sometimes labored to create schisms between "hardliners" and "moderates" when the divisions between these groups were artificial or reconcilable, it was imperative for them to work together, and it was ruinous for them to oppose each another. The schisms and purges that took place in the National Front in the 1980s — in which a certain Welshman played a prominent role — appear to have been of this nature.
3. Those advocating purges sometimes seem to view them as a cure-all, as a quick-fix, as the order of the day. They sometimes seem to think that they can reach their destination much more quickly simply by throwing people under the bus. Although it can be difficult to throw people under the bus — such people are often so rude and inconsiderate as to resist — it can also become habitual. It seems that those who cannot build often denounce those around them as wreckers. It gives them something to do. It's much easier to vilify competitors than to attack real enemies.
It is not enough to expel, shun, or marginalize grossly dysfunctional elements from our movement. These elements are intrinsically weak and are not really holding us back. Using them to rationalize failure and to excuse doing nothing is absurd and shameful.
I think the failure to use available people and resources effectively is a much greater problem than the presence among us of elements that should be expelled, shunned, or marginalized.
Jaego Scorzne
And look at the more practical organizations like the BNP or the National Front. In the end they begin to conform to that which they're supposed to be against. During the last election, the National Front featured an ad of a Black Girl, thumb down and underwear out saying "This country stinks". Of course it does – she's there. If it gets to the point where you need to pander to minorities to win, isn't it really too late for the Democratic Process? Brevik thought so. I think he is right.
Carl, I agree with you, but at the same time there is always a temptation to get lost in the abstract realms of art, culture and scholasticism. That's the fate that befell GRECE in France: they have been developing an elegant philosophy for almost half a century through a loose confederation of writers and artists, but its impact on French society has been close to zero. Naturally I am not opposed to the cultural project, since that is where both Counter-Currents and Arktos are focused, but at the same time, if we're really serious about these ideas, ultimately it's not enough on its own.
rrObserver
This concept can be effectively used as well as intellectual movement – as army of jewish publishers, journalists, academics and film producers has proven by subverting hostile western societies…
The history of Resistance Records is instructive.
The Jews have particular advantages of extreme verbal intelligence, extreme social aggressiveness, and unparalleled hyper-ethnocentricity. Because they have these special advantages, their pens are even mightier than one might expect.
Currently the ease with which content can be copyright-infringed makes media companies a tricky proposition. If one sells an mp3 to a True Believer, that True Believer might post it on a torrent site just to spread the word.
Churches have their own problems.
The medium of cynical humor deserves special attention. Whites who are pushed to the limits of their endurance will want to make bitter jokes. Perhaps a few racially aware white comedians could do wonders.
Your remark about cynical humor reminds me of a question I've had in mind for a long time: why is there such a dearth of jokes about the Jews? I haven't heard any original and genuinely funny jokes about the Jews for a long time. I find this very strange, for the Jews are a remarkably ugly, grotesque, and absurd people, and they provide many targets for mockery, satire, and irony. Consider their physiognomy and appearance. Consider their crooked noses. Consider their penchant for male genital mutilation (some Romans called them "penis-pruners"). Consider their conceited belief that they are "God's Chosen People" and "a light unto the nations." Consider the bizarre beliefs and customs of orthodox Jews (incidentally, it should be emphasized that orthodox Judaism is orthodox Judaism and not fringe Judaism). Consider their avarice and materialism. Consider their vulgarity and ostentation. Consider their dishonesty and their hypocrisy. Consider their delusions of grandeur and persecution. Consider their tall tales about the "Holocaust." Consider their pretensions to be a uniquely creative people . . . One recalls Voltaire's remark: "I never made but one prayer, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
We are in the theater of the absurd, in which we take seriously what we should mock, and mock what we should take seriously. If we had our wits about us, we would laugh at the Jews, then run them out of our countries. But as Léon Daudet wrote: "When farcical idols and obscene and tottering fetishes are raised on every hand, it is natural that laughter be banished from the temple."
I greatly appreciate the wit that, like an axe wielded by an executioner, combines levity with gravity.
why is there such a dearth of jokes about the Jews?
Because the Jews make a habit of curtailing the freedom of Gentile speech, of course.
However, the Internet has allowed a certain degree of proliferation. Unfortunately, there is no good incubator for creative humor. For a while I had hoped that 4chan might serve that end, but Jewish moderators shut down counter-Jewish speech.
However, before 4chan became a judeolatrous zone, it linked to images such as the following:
http://img.moonbuggy.org/gief-moniez-plox/
I think that censorship is only a partial explanation for this dearth of jokes. The censorship that marginalizes such humor by driving it from the "public transcript" into the "hidden transcript" can also increase its potency. Ridicule of the authorities is an important element of counter-hegemonic discourse and the "hidden transcript" of subordinate groups — as Roger Mucchielli and James C. Scott respectively show in La subversion and Domination and the Arts of Resistance — and it can flourish despite repression.
One might consider the scurrilous literature churned out by the literary underworld of France during the ancien régime. Robert Darnton has contended that such literature was more influential in undermining respect for the ancien régime than the philosophical tracts written by the philosophes. This was probably true at the popular level: it is not surprising that half-seditious, half-pornographic libelles about the doings of the rich and powerful had a much larger audience than recondite treatises on politics or religion. The former and the latter were in fact sold by underground book dealers under the rubric of "philosophical works."
One might also consider the jokes that were told about communism in eastern Europe under communism. The leaders, institutions, principles, slogans, and workings of the system were the subject of jokes that showed that people clearly recognized the perversity of these things.
Some people might think that humor is frivolous and that we should be more serious. I would reply to them that (1) humor can be fundamentally serious; (2) ridicule is, as previously noted, an important element of counter-hegemonic discourse; (3) we live in an age in which, as Juvenal remarked, it is impossible not to write satire; and (4) humor is an irrepressible part of our character and we should make the most of it, exercising it in proportion rather than trying to suppress it. We should exercise esprit in every sense of this French word: spirit, mind, and wit.
MrMaelstrom
There are models to address one of the points you make – everyone wanting to start their own little group – in Catholicism and even in pop culture fantasy worlds. Our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse – hyper-individualism. Therefore our people need avenues for tighter self-definition within the greater framework of an organization with a recognized authority.
In Catholicism (I'm not Catholic so forgive me if I'm getting this wrong) there are numerous "orders" for Catholics of various flavors, i.e. Benedictines, Franciscans, Opus Dei. All of these Orders however, are obedient to the pope whatever their minor differences.
As a younger nerd I dabbled in table top games such as Warhammer 40,000. Perhaps hundreds of Orders existed within the world of the Space Marines and the Imperial Army. Why? The makers of this game could have easily forced the players to play with pieces that were identical but they knew these gamers, who also happened to be modelers, wanted an avenue to express their own individuality.
Even the Harry Potter series revolves around a campus for wizards with four different houses; each house with its own personality. Ah well, it sounds simple on paper anyway. Always the hard way with this bunch. Aren't we due for another AmRen conference soon in which all the details of the meeting are posted for our enemies to capitalize on?
What's stopping Amren from hiring security? Well dressed men (no shaved heads!) forming a wall to ward off liberal fags. Photographs of the protesters show nothing but a pack of weak, mewling creatures.
That wouldn't help. If it were only protests they'd be fine. It's the bomb threats, cancelling of venues, being made fodder for local news outlets, etc., that is the problem. All of this is unnecessary . . . the hard way, if you will.
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It's always been a chore trying to get hold of episodes of their old show over in the UK though. 'Awesome Show, Great Job' is only available on fairly pricey box sets and I only ended up seeing a handful of series when TCM randomly started showing it late at night last year for a bit. So, God only knows when (or if) Bedtime Stories will see the light of day over here in Blighty.
The pair are currently promoting the show Stateside with a 25 date live tour (they're playing Royal Oak in Michigan tonight). Here's hoping they do a tour over here at some point.


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This workshop series is an exploration of the form and movement of the body as our true nature within yoga poses and practices.
A little while ago, we wrote to you about how we believe yoga should be a pain free experience. I remember once in class I said that, and someone said "Well how do you know if you are in pain?" We all had a bit of a laugh, but i can be true. In yoga we are taught to challenge ourselves and our perceptions. So we don't always know when we are in pain, or how to distinguish pain from challenge and intensity. Or we have excepted a certain painful state as normal.
One of the first times I worked with Kimba she asked this question (this is an exercise from the Franklin method): "On a scale of 1 to 10, (1 being like root canal surgery and 10 being the most ecstatic, pleasurable experience you have ever had0, how would you rate your experience in a movement. Most of us, unfortunately rated our movements and poses about a 3, 4 or 5.
Should our yoga practice really be so … mediocre or even painful? And more importantly what can we do to change that?
Kimba teaches "Anatomy" on our Teacher Training, and we decided to open out her work to the larger community. She will be doing 5 workshops at Sadhaka in the coming months, which we hope will help you learn more about your body and how it moves, as well as help you get more enjoyment from your practice.
It is not about anatomy as such. It is about understanding your nature, and how the ancient yogis understood our nature, and moving and working in alignment with that nature.
Working with Kimba has been a profound gift for me in my teaching practice, my yoga practice and my life. Because what Kimba is doing is trying to discover the similarity between what the ancient yogis were describing in their practices and our physical form.
A kundalini teacher herself, as well as long term body worker and lover of movement, Kimba's work will help you understand and connect to yoga's bigger deeper spiritual themes through your physical body. Kimba's work is influenced by Erik Franklin and Judith Aston, and her own profound and intuitive connection to the physical body. There are so many wow moments, discoveries and insights that arise from this work. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Life is breathing us…setting us in motion. How close can we get to the subtle movements of breath? And how does awareness of the motions of the breath transform our consciousness?
In this workshop we will explore the anatomy of breathing- the interrelationships of the diaphragm, ribs, lungs, spine, abdomen, pelvis and pelvic floor.
Discover what alignment patterns and postures allow the freedom of breath to flow and then rest in the rhythm of life's gentle rocking.
We will play with and experience these discoveries in pranayama and meditations, and consider changing breath patterns in various yoga postures.
Our body and the Earth's body are one. Our movement and our form is shaped and created in relationship to the gravitational forces.
How may we harmonize with Mother Earth's powers?
In this workshop we will embody the anatomy of our pelvis, hip joints, legs and feet. This opens up our root channels to receive the mother of all form, the Earth….moving with earth gives all of life its grace, strength and ease. As we find our physical alignment, we will experience what it feels like to walk and move easily and freely on the Earth.
We will explore the often ignored reality of our physical asymmetries and how these allow us a fullness of possibilities in our movements.
And we will apply this awareness to standing yoga postures and sequences that flow with breath.
How does our heart reach upwards to the heavens? Through the channels of our our shoulders, neck and head which rest upon it.
In this workshop we will embody the anatomy and movements of the shoulders, clavicles and scapulae and touch upon movements through the neck and head.
Freedom in these movements allows a resting onto the ribcage and chest. This release and surrender creates a 'lift' and a lightness and fullness in the heart centre.
Spinal anatomy and movement is beautiful! Imagine the graceful coordination of a dolphin, whale or cobra. The human form has potential for equally exquisite movement.
This workshop is an exploration of our spinal anatomy and the freedoms that arise when we honour our form.
Spinal mobility and flexibility is all about self compassion…its going into the depth and core of you.
We will apply our awareness to yoga postures that include rotations, extensions, and forward and side-bending.


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Where to Find Birds in Pagosa Springs
A beginner's guide to bird watching in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
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Common Merganser
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In our corner of southwest Colorado, we love our resident birds; the jays, woodpeckers, nuthatches, juncos and even the crows and magpies who stick around in winter. But once the snow in town has melted, ice has left the lakes, and trees start leafing out, we await the arrival of the migratory birds who stay a few days or spend the summer. Some have traveled far, with miles yet to go to reach their breeding territories in northern regions, and we marvel at their journeys. Grab your binoculars and head on out to see what you may find at one of these local hotspots ideal for those new to the joys of birding.
San Juan Riverwalk
One of Pagosa's best birding spots is located right in the center of town. The San Juan Riverwalk is a paved handicap accessible trail that follows the San Juan River and provides access to riverine, riparian, marsh, and shallow pond habitat. From Town Park to the Community Center is an easy ¾ mile walk.
Geothermal water flowing into the river and wetlands keeps this stretch ice-free and a haven for birds year-round. Colorful Mallards and Common Mergansers make their homes on the river and trail lines of young later in summer. Osprey and Bald Eagles regularly compete with fishermen for trout.
Shallow warm-water ponds in the conservation wetlands are places to find Blue-winged Teal in spring and fall. These ducks spend time here during both legs of their migration between breeding and wintering grounds. Various sandpipers, Wilson's Snipe, and Killdeer forage along the shoreline.
With the patience of a Great Blue Heron, scan the edges of the dense wetland vegetation bordering the ponds. You may be rewarded with the appearance of a small Sora or Virginia Rail, both of which arrive in spring and stay into late autumn. Red-winged Blackbirds and Song Sparrows sing from the top of cattails.
To appreciate the magic of these wetland and riverside areas, take a tour with the trained naturalists of Pagosa Wetland Partners, affiliated with Weminuche Audubon Society. Information and tour schedules can be found at the Terry Hershey Memorial Garden, planted and maintained by the local Weminuche Audubon Society members and located near the geothermal domes on the Riverwalk.
Song Sparrows often sing from the cattails along the San Juan Riverwarlk. Photo: Michele Black/Great Backyard Bird Count
Echo Canyon Reservoir
Four miles south of town is Echo Canyon Reservoir, a small state wildlife area managed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. A fishing or hunting license or a state wildlife area pass is required for everyone older than 16-years-old to visit. These can be purchased here.
A mile-long gravel road with pullouts circles the lake to the dam at the western end. Calls of male Red-winged and Yellow-headed blackbirds, who compete for territories and nest sites with displays and chasing, greet you from the cattail marsh at the beginning of the road. Dabbling waterfowl species, including colorful teal and mallards, forage in the shallow water. A watchful eye may catch the elusive Sora and Virginia Rail ducking in and out of the dense wetland vegetation.
A narrow spit that extends into the lake midway provides a place in spring for migratory shorebirds to rest and forage along the shoreline. Species that stop by to probe in the mud include Long-billed Dowitcher, American Avocet, White-faced Ibis, and Willet.
The deep-water areas of the lake support a wide array of waterfowl species. Those that commonly breed and raise young here include Ruddy Ducks, American Coots, and Pied-billed Grebes. As early as the end of May, grebe chicks are catching a ride across the water on their mothers' backs.
This year an Osprey pair has taken up residence on the nest platform at the eastern end of the lake. Echo Lake is a popular spot for recreational fishing and both Bald Eagles and Osprey hunt here as well. To protect birds from becoming entangled, Weminuche Audubon Society installed and empties containers designed to collect used fishing line for recycling.
American Coots breed at Echo Canyon Reservoir. Photo: Peter Brannon/Audubon Photography Awards
Lake Capote Recreation Area
Lake Capote Recreation Area, a 15-minute drive from the west side of Pagosa Springs, is owned by the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and managed by friendly staff who love birders. The area is currently open Thursday through Sunday. A $5/vehicle entrance fee is charged. With more than 125 species reported on eBird, you never know what you might spot here.
The best way to enjoy the birds on Lake Capote is to park your vehicle and walk the gravel road around the mile-long lake perimeter. Watch for shorebirds like the Snowy Egret and Spotted Sandpiper wading along the edges and at the shallow northern end, and view a variety of waterfowl on the lake. Catch the small male Ruddy Duck with his stiff tail pointed skyward, attracting the attention of a mate with rapid head-bouncing that slaps his bright blue bill against his chest.
A stream flowing along the eastern side provides habitat for sparrows and warblers in the willows. Cattails are nesting sites for Red-winged and Yellow-headed blackbirds and hiding spots for House Wrens and Yellow-breasted Chats, who will tease you with their calls.
Osprey regularly nest on the platform built for them and a webcam allows you to watch the nest online. This year a pair of Bald Eagles have taken over a heron nest in a tree right off the road.
After returning to your vehicle, a drive into the campground with clean restrooms takes you into ponderosa pine, oak, and shrub habitat. Take a picnic and enjoy the day.
Osprey regularly nest on the platform at Lake Capote. Photo: Ly Dang/Audubon Photography Awards
Chimney Rock National Monument
Birding at Chimney Rock National Monument will start out in dry sagebrush habitat and take you into a forest of ponderosa pine, juniper, and oak brush. While walking the gravel road from the entrance gate, watch for birds that feed on the ground or in low shrubs. Several sparrow species, including the colorful Green-tailed Towhee, scratch the ground for seeds or perch in the open, singing to attract a mate. Both Western and Mountain bluebirds favor this open space.
You can explore this habitat further by driving beyond the new visitor center to the small cabin on the left side of the road. Dirt trails behind lead into the juniper and oak stands favored by the tiny, active Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Townsend's Solitaire and the ever-entertaining Northern Mockingbird.
Circling back to the road will take you through stands of ponderosa pine and have you craning your neck to spot the colorful warblers and tiny Plumbeous Vireos who sing from the high branches. Nuthatches and woodpeckers are year-round residents here.
By 1975, when the use of DDT had caused alarming declines in Peregrine Falcon populations, one of only seven wild nesting pairs in all of Wyoming, Montana and Colorado was found nesting on the high spires of Chimney Rock. They continue to migrate from winter coastal regions to raise young on the rock ledges here today.
Take the time to tour the ruins built by Ancestral Puebloans who lived at Chimney Rock more than 1000 years ago. Check the national monument's calendar for special events, including guided birding tours led by volunteers of Weminuche Audubon Society. Chimney Rock is managed by the United States Forest Service and is open during the day seasonally from mid-May through September.
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays live in the juniper and oak stands behind the Chimney Rock National Monument visitor center. Photo: Corey Raffel/Audubon Photography Awards
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How To Decorate Your Home On A Budget And Really Love It!
You have to like the way it looks, and this means the decoration and design of your home!
I have spent years living in different homes and not knowing how to decorate my home to make me feel happy!
I have felt trapped by beige colours and uninspired, not knowing how or what to do when it comes to decoration.
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What comes across is the feeling of complete love for her home and she isn't afraid of colours or patterns, both things that terrify me!
What also inspired me was she wasn't put off by doing things herself! I get scared that something will go wrong if I attempt things myself!
I've been following her for about 3 years and every time she has a new tip I'm there watching and taking it in!
I think my key message here is to be brave and really go for something that you will love!
The items that you have in your home must reflect you.
You have to love the things in your home, the design and the colour and it has to make you feel good!
If you don't like something you won't want to clean it and keep it looking nice, it will become one of those chores that you hate!
You have to learn what you love and what you hate!
Always think and plan your purchases for your home and take into account your budget!
Discuss your ideas with a friend or partner to ensure that what you are thinking is you!
I have a house painted in different tones of brown, with brown/beige carpets because I didn't know how to choose a colour in my home!
Now I'm learning and loving the advice that I'm learning and my house is coming together into a home that I love!
I heard this the other day, I think it was something Tasha said in one of her video's, you have to love your home, it must be the place that you want to be!
I think this is so true, it doesn't matter if you intend to stay in your home forever or if you are intending to move in a year or two, your home must reflect you and it must make you happy when you walk in the door!
There are many rooms in my home that need some TLC, well all of them I think!
Not only is the issue time, but money plays a big factor in this! You have to afford to do the decorating or organizing project!
Never put these on credit!
So, while there is a lot to do, I know that I am creating a system that will allow me to make the right decorating and design choices for my home!
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She teaches you how to design a room, what you need to do first and how to ensure that you will love the end result!
It might sound daft, but I feel that I now know how to ensure when I'm tackling a decorating/design project around my home I can make the right choices.
I can plan what I want to do, one room at a time and know that this time around I will actually love the end results!
You have to take your time when it comes to decorating, you can't just grab a tin of paint and start painting. Not only are you potentially risking wasting your time if you hate the colour but money too!
Yes, you can call the professionals in, but if you know what you want and like before you start it makes it easier and you are not being persuaded to choose a colour you aren't completely happy with!
Even if you are planning to move in a few years you shouldn't put off creating a home that you love!
Not only will it make the time you spend in your home great, it will also reflect when you come to sell!
A home with no character and no love will shine through when it comes to selling, it could put off your potential buyers!
Loving your home is about caring what it looks like, not feeling embarrassed when people come to visit!
It doesn't have to be cute unless that's your style but it does have to make you feel good about your home!
If you are scared to show your style, you won't feel the love for the home!
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You might need to learn how to put patterns and colours together, so they complement the room in a style that you like!
But it will be worth it! You want to love your home!
A home that is loved, will show how much care and attention you pay it.
Quickly, it will become your happy place and that is the most important aspect of any home!