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TVA and Biden Committed Crimes Against Humanity in Appalachia

• Lidia LoPinto

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What if the Tennessee Valley Authority's green energy pivot is causing more harm than good? Join me, Lydia, as I navigate the thorny legal and ethical landscape surrounding TVA's controversial investment decisions. With funds reportedly diverted from essential dam maintenance to Chinese solar panels and windmills, local communities and environmental groups are up in arms. Amidst the Biden administration's push for renewable energy, these choices have sparked a flurry of lawsuits, questioning TVA's commitment to energy reliability and flood protection. We'll unpack the complex implications of these decisions, shedding light on the potential neglect of hydroelectric infrastructure and the broader environmental and safety concerns they raise.

Silence can be telling, as we unravel the media's muted response to TVA's role in a recent flood disaster exacerbated by Storm Helene. Through the power of AI, we'll expose systemic failures and media biases that shield TVA's accountability, revealing a pattern of corporate lobbying and misallocated taxpayer dollars. Finally, we'll shift our focus to the environmental cost of strip mining across regions like Peru, Russia, and Appalachia, where economic growth seems to overshadow the need for transparency and community compensation. Explore with me the tangled web of corporate influence, governmental pressure, and the urgent call for accountability that demands our attention.

Speaker 1:

Hello everybody, and this is Lydia, and today's post is a reading from the book that I have been announcing to you, and I'm also announcing it on TikTok, and this book was written by me based on a lot of research. You'll notice, too, that a few of the TikTok posts are mentioning this. Finally, people are just so outraged, and today's post will discuss the legal actions that are already happening, and they have been happening because they've been neglecting these dams for a long time. One of the ladies I just posted her video is outraged and saying they actually had 20 years to fix these dams. So we've covered already the fact that the Biden administration basically misappropriated the money that was meant to be fixing the dams, because by law, they're supposed to reinvest in the dams, and they actually went with the lobbyists who, I'm sure, incentivized them to do this, and they spent money on green initiatives such as windmills from China and also solar panels from China, which you know what that means.

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I'm not even sure these windmills and other things are even around. I didn't see them in the wreckage of what happened. I don't know where they are and where they put them okay. Of what happened, I don't know where they are and where they put them. Okay, I have a feeling that somehow the money got rerouted to some other project. But you know how they they play around with our tax money and this money is earned by the tba, by the hydroelectric power that they make. So that is extra money. But because Kamala and Biden were in charge of this money, because they basically run the TVA. Tva is run by a panel of nine Biden-appointed people and in fact they did the appointing back in May and not only did all the other people left, they were not renewed, but they actually left two out of nine vacancies and I can't find who they nominated for those. But the people they did put in these were people that were basically Green Energy, al Gore, green New Deal type.

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People who are interested in windmills, they're interested in solar panels from China, they're interested in lithium for batteries. That's what their emphasis is. When they say green energy, they don't mean the hydroelectric power that is US owned and part of our infrastructure and completely free to us. No, they want to buy this green energy from China, you know, and it's much more expensive per kilowatt hour than hydroelectric Definitely twice as more expensive as building a fossil fuel plant, and we'll talk about all that you know, and in other words, it's inflated. There's no reason these things need to be so expensive.

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But that's another book. Okay, so let's start by reading this book, but that's another book. Okay, so let's start by reading this book. And what you're looking here is the version on the flipbook. And this flipbook it's pretty nice. It has like a chat here, an AI chat, and I do have the link on my page, lydia Lopinto, and also on my Investigative Voices page. You will see a link to the flipbook, which is completely free, and also to the Amazon, which is probably easier to download the Amazon. I just prefer to read it from here. So let's start reading.

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As the Tennessee Valley Authority continues to face scrutiny for its shift toward renewable energy projects, a new wave of legal actions is emerging. These lawsuits are driven by both environmental groups and local communities, all of whom are questioning TVA's priorities and raising concerns about the agency's failure to meet its obligations. In particular, the legal actions highlight TVA's neglect of the hydroelectric infrastructure in favor of politically motivated investments in solar and wind energy machines, many of which are sourced from the foreign manufacturers in China. As these issues come to the forefront, it becomes clear that the consequences of the TVA's decisions may extend far beyond the energy debate, into legal battles that could reshape the agency's future. The Rise of legal challenges.

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In recent years, tba has found itself at the center of multiple lawsuits filed by local governments, environmental groups and even former employees that TVA has neglected its fundamental duty to provide reliable and affordable energy while maintaining the infrastructure it was originally tasked with overseeing. By prioritizing investments in renewable energy technologies, tva has left its hydroelectric systems vulnerable to decay, putting entire communities at risk. One of the most prominent lawsuits involves a group of residents from Kentucky and Tennessee who have been directly impacted by flooding related to TVA's failure to properly maintain its dams. The plaintiffs argue that the TVA has shifted its focus towards renewable energy at the expense of its hydroelectric systems, which have long served as a source of both energy and flood protection. This failure to act has resulted in property damage, economic losses, in some cases, displacement of entire communities. In response, dba has downplayed its role in the flooding, pointing to climate patterns as climate change. They have the nerve to mention climate change when the storm had nothing to do with the water. The water did not cause the flooding. Those dams were already flooded for a long time Neglecting the hydroelectric infrastructure.

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The legal challenges against TBA underscore one crucial point the agency has shifted its resource away from the upkeep of its dams. Despite these hydroelectric plans and let's go to the next page being a key of the region's green energy solution, tva has allowed them to deteriorate rather than investing in their modernization and maintenance. The agency has funneled billions into solar and wind projects, many of which involve foreign manufactured equipment. Critics argue that this neglect has led to several dangerous situations where dam failures and malfunctions are becoming more frequent. And just to let you know, this is not the first flood they've had. In one town they had to evacuate people because they were in danger. Environmental groups have also joined the fray to evacuate people because they were in danger. Environmental groups have also joined the phrase suing TBA for what they claim is the agency's blatant disregard for their environmental responsibilities. By ignoring the needs of its hydroelectric systems, ta has failed to provide sufficient flood control, leading to erosion, habitat destruction and increased risk of environmental disasters. These groups are pushing for TVA to refocus its efforts on repairing and upgrading the hydroelectric plants which are capable of producing reliable and sustainable energy without the pitfalls associated with solar and electric power.

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Okay, so that's just a piece of that. I think I'll move on to the next chapter here, chapter four. There's much more to that chapter, including. You can see there are lots of references, so you could always go back. And again, this book is free, so I don't know why I'm plugging it. You should find it and download it because it's free. So again, I have the version for the flip HTML, which downloads onto your phone, and then I have the version that goes on the candle, which is also pretty neat and has all these pictures and everything.

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And you could also buy a printed copy, because I printed it in very large print. It's size 14. So if you buy a printed copy for $ seven dollars, you could share it amongst all your friends who don't have wi-fi. And, uh, if you send me an email, okay, uh, and or send me a message from and you're a victim and you don't have wi-fi and you don't have a way to download this book and somebody tells you about it, I will send you a few copies to your community, because I get a big discount from Amazon. I can buy them for a lot less. I will send it to you with my compliments. So let me know if you want these books, this book to help you understand and put everything together, all of the brief references and all the information. Okay, it's nice to have it in one place, all the information, because this is coming from so many sources.

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Okay, so this one talks about and so in recent years, the TVA has faced mounting criticism for allowing political and corporate influences to shape its energy strategy, while TVA was initially established to provide affordable, reliable power and manage the region's water sources the political shift toward renewable energy. So we're talking about corporate lobbying and renewable energy, and this section talks about in detail, about the corporate lobbying what's been happening. Needless to say, you know what happens when corporate lobbyists convince you to spend taxpayer money on themselves. There's always some sort of what they call kickbacks, or they could be a commission based. I don't know and this kind of reiterates the same thing, but with a different focus that the reason they invested this money, and there may be more people involved in kamala and biden, but this is a federal system, tba is a federal system, so I'm pretty sure that all of this had to do with the board of directors taking money for this shift, and I'm not talking this board of directors. It could have been private prior boards of directors. Only a couple of them were put in by Trump and the rest were always Democrat. And this one talks about misallocation of funds and outsourcing our green energy to more costly foreign alternatives.

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Okay, I'm not going to read all of this. This is pretty detailed. Now this, uh, I will read because, um, a lot of people on TikTok say the same thing that they don't let them publish the truth, that they're obscuring the truth. And here is the proof Okay, in this chapter I discuss why that the TBI is taking the groups are taking the TBA to court, but these cases I had to do deep research to find them that is, that the media, including the actual search engines, actual search engines which are complicit with the media, have actually obscured these lawsuits and everything that happened before this terrible tragedy, which points to the fact that the terrible tragedy was inevitable, it was going to happen, it was just waiting.

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But I could tell you that by the time the big storm Helene hit okay, it wasn't Helene that caused the problem those dams were already full and there was lots and lots of complaints about it they didn't drain them, they didn't fix them, they didn't do anything. And so when Helene hit with 30 inches of rain, you have the equivalent of 30 feet of rain water on the homes, and it wasn't Helene that pushed the water around like it would be. When, when you get the kind of flood, you get by the ocean, where the water gets pushed in the ocean, it forms a big wave, a surge in it floods. No, this has nothing to do with it. In the media saying this is beyond irresponsible and they're just liars. Okay, this is not the case. These people were not warned. That was going to be a breach of the dams. They there. There was no warning. It came and you can see the videos. There's no rain and yet you see the water coming down. They had to because they failed. They failed because it was just too much water coming in and they couldn't do anything but open them up.

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But this was going on from before and the media silence is there and what I did in this article or this chapter. I talked about it, but there's an appendix in which I talk about the media silence and I give you all of the articles and I had basically an AI tool of research to go through all of the articles that appeared about the flood after it happened. So it went through. I don't know hundreds of these articles and I asked this AI tool to analyze each and every one of these articles, which that's why you need AI. This is an enormous amount of work, so it sped up this process, although it still took a long time, and then I asked it to find any mentions of the TVA in those articles. So we're talking about 100 articles that appeared in the media. We took them and we divided them into mainstream media and local media.

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So the AI found that the mainstream media articles were biased because they did not even mention the words TVA, tennessee Valley Authority. They didn't mention the fact that the federal government was responsible for maintaining the dams. It didn't even mention the word dams. They just said that the storm caused the flood, which is completely wrong. It's completely a lie. Okay, they actually lied in these articles to save their Democratic candidate, because she would be directly responsible for appointing this board of directors. That failed the people of the Tennessee Valley or Appalachia by not doing what they were supposed to do. Okay, so you can always track it right back to Kamala. I think when she appointed the board of directors this year in May Biden was not around. He was sick, so she must have been responsible for appointing these people, but it doesn't matter who did it, because they all follow Biden's green energy policies. And that's what I found, and so I asked this AI tool of research take a look at all these articles and show me which ones are biased. And the ones that were biased were the mainstream media. Some of the local channels did report the truth, but nobody cares, nobody looks at that.

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The mainstream media, which is the megaphone of the government's propaganda to try to obscure information. They're the disinformation, because now the people that were actually reporting on the truth of what was happening, they labeled them disinformation by actually being completely well, by corrupt. That's the word I'm looking for. I was afraid to say corrupt, but yes, for the corruption, not only now that people are crying out about the corruption and the misappropriation of funds for the TVA. Now they're calling and complaining about FEMA as well, which is another subject. I'm not even going to cover that right now. Now, of course, what they say is that this is disinformation. So anything that tries to expose the truth about what really happened and I have look at all these documents that I have, legal documents. They're disinformation. I'm sure they'll take this book and say it was disinformation, even though I have all these recipes, because they don't care. They have no scruples, you know. So they're calling everybody the victims liars. They're calling the victims of the tragedy that they have caused liars, liars. Okay, so we're talking about in this. I also covered the sabotage during recovery efforts that happened.

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There were a lot of people that there was a fight with the lithium mining. The people there didn't want the lithium mines and the lithium mining company wanted to put in a plant. I'm not going to comment about my own personal views on the lithium mine. Personally, I think they need the jobs, but not at the expense of polluting everything, and I think, as a chemical engineer, which is my original masters that I have there are ways to stop pollution. But they need to show us how they're going to stop it.

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An open strip mine it's very, very difficult to capture the water runoff of when rain comes in and stop it from going into the river. It's practically impossible because the cost would be astronomical for this. So strip mines are usually done in areas that are so isolated and not with a lot of water around. So they do it In Peru, they do it In Russia, they do it. They do it in a lot of places, but these places are so isolated that this pollution doesn't really affect the people. But when you have such a mine right where people are, where people are fishing and where the water is being retained because of flood control, those toxic chemicals will accumulate in the environment and start killing fish and start killing people. So they have a point.

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And apparently a lot of people say they did this on purpose to get the right for the mines. Well, looking at what happened and how idiotic they were in not maintaining this and not realizing that, if they continued with this terrible maintenance of the dams and running the dams full like they were, if they didn't realize that this tragedy was waiting to happen, then they're complete idiots. But of course, people have a right to suspect that this was done on purpose and people who are desperate like the ones in Appalachia right now are going to suspect this and are going to accuse them of us. They can scream disinformation all they want, call them liars, but that's not going to work. These people have nothing to lose anymore. Okay, this is not good. So I think they should come clean and apologize and try to give these people money compensation. You know they were local farmers.

Speaker 1:

I'm talking about economic growth versus environmental preservation, so I have the growing divide, corporate lobbying, and again, this is all taken from information I gathered online from different articles. There's a lot of information online, it's just that you don't find it on page one of Google, no matter how many keywords you put in. What you have to do with the tool that I have is you have to go page by page by page all the way to page 25, because you don't know what keywords you're going to use. And then you find some articles, and that's why I used an automatic AI tool, because manually I could never do this. This is just so much work. Okay, so this appendix will show you the online resources. Look, look how many we have here, and there's more. I just didn't print them all.

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This is the local reporting of the floods and some of the articles there which did a fairly good job. These are articles that I wrote okay, that you can cut and paste and put them in your blog if you want. Towns and Dams Affected okay. And supporting articles okay. Again, these are articles that I have posted in different social media, which may talk about all this. So, going back to the book again, you can ask it questions, okay, and let me move this around, okay.

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So just to let you know, here's the this cover I made. This boot represents the government and the fact that it's run by China and Ukraine and everybody else, because whoever is paying, these people is running, and this is the boots crushing the people in Appalachia, okay, and here's some windmills, here's a little broken bridge and somebody with a flag. So I did this with AI and I did quite a few of them, and I like this one. I really think it kind of gives you the idea of what's going on. So this is my Investigated Voices report. This is just one of the reports that I'm going to be covering. Today I published another report, again, a deep analysis with AI, looking for articles. Let me show you the other one that I did. Let me switch, let's see. All right, let me just okay, okay.