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Not content with the controlled demolition of our own natural resources, the U.S. government and Western oligarchs are seeking to keep Africa in the dark and are using climate imperialism to do so. After Africa largely rejected the mRNA vaccination agenda the past two years, the Biden administration is trying to impose the next “emergency” fiat on African countries by preventing them from developing their lands and using their energy resources to power their people. Thankfully, one African government sees the farce for what it is, and it appears that others will follow suit.
In July, the Democratic Republic of Congo put 30 blocks of oil and gas lands up for auction to potentially be used for drilling and other development. Earlier this month, U.S. “climate envoy” John Kerry implored Congo’s prime minister to back down on the auction of some of those lands for fear that Africa would actually get out of the dark and enjoy the lifestyle we experienced in the West until fairly recently. Last week, Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba flatly declined the request. "Nobody can put pressure on us ... no convention in the world, not even the Paris Agreement, forbids a country from emitting CO2 for development reasons," she said in an interview with Reuters.
Commenting on the U.S.-Congo working group on protection of Congolese forests, Bazaiba chided the Western penchant for meddling. “This is not a working group in which a colonialist controls a colony,” she said. In other words, the Congo is not putting up with a new era of colonialism – except this time, rather than the West exploiting Africa for its gain, the West is seeking to force Africa to join it in committing civilizational suicide. Too bad American governors can’t say this to the Biden administration as the government seeks to federalize and lock up the lands in their respective states.
Ironically, the West is devolving into an uncharted post-development nation status and is regressing with acts of self-immolation by destroying its energy resources. Africa understands the power of industrialization — what African countries were lacking for a century — and wants to have what we all enjoyed until our governments were seized by energy masochists.
The Congo land-use rift occurred as Jeff Bezos' environmental fund, Bezos Earth Fund, is seeking to “conserve” 100 million hectares of land in Africa by the magical year of 2030 under the so-called AFR100 initiative. Bezos’ chief executive, Andrew Steer, had the nerve to frame this plan as the rich helping the poor rather than what it really is – the rich who can afford a greater degree of self-immolation exploiting the poor by locking up their resources in favor of useless wind and solar technology. "Rich countries are going to have to play a bigger role on creating resilience on helping poor countries and poor citizens to adapt,” said Steer at a recent Reuters conference.
But as credulous as the Western parasites think the Africans are, they are not stupid. They have not bought into the "climate emergency" narrative, don't believe the policies will affect the weather, and understand that their alternatives to oil, gas, and coal, which are natural energy produced by God on this earth, don’t work and will perpetuate and exacerbate poverty in Africa. They are watching the rationing of gas in France and the coming heating crisis in all of Europe, built on a self-imposed destruction of Western energy resources.
Incongruously, as Germany and France wallow in their misery, they are offering $600 million to South Africa to push the same climate idiocy that caused this crisis. Africans have no plan to walk down the same path to geo-political masochism, especially as South Africa is beating inflation with its own coal-producing prowess.
At the upcoming climate conference (“COP27”) in Sharm El-Sheikh, African countries plan to push an energy development agenda that directly contradicts the Western countries. "Africa has woken up and we are going to exploit our natural resources," said Uganda Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa Ssentamu, according to Reuters. "There is no way you can develop any economy, any society without energy," said Omar Farouk Ibrahim, secretary general of the African Petroleum Producers' Organization.
The Africans understand that there is no way to give power to 600 million sub-Saharan citizens without electricity and to almost 1 billion without access to clean energy for cooking by relying on wind farms and solar panels, which are very expensive and require so much infrastructure, ironically powered by traditional fuel sources, to operate.
In the ultimate display of irony, some of the same German leaders sponsoring green energy boondoggles and trying to rope Africa into their inane climate projects are now counting on Africa’s vast natural gas reserves to cushion the blow of their energy crisis. So why are they trying to sabotage the hand that might feed them? Old colonialist hubris?
Meanwhile, as the Biden administration implores Africa not to develop its oil and gas resources, it is begging the Saudis not to cut oil production until after the election. African leaders are starting to see through the politics of Western meddling. They don’t like the meddling, and they don’t like the example Westerners have set in their own countries. For once, Africa might be more enlightened than the West.Catholic Church Leaders Are Prioritizing Environmentalism Over Unborn Lives
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If Democrats are akin to voracious wolves seeking to turn the American sheep into a carcass, the Republicans are the vultures seeking to cash in by feasting on that carcass rather than calling in the lions to battle the wolves and protect the American sheep. Nowhere is this more evident than with Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signing on to the green energy “Agenda 2030” plan to replace cars with electric vehicles in supposedly conservative Oklahoma. Except, unlike most other Republicans, he should get points for honesty, providing us with a full understanding of why Republicans will never fight for us on an issue that matters. The reason? The money and “investments” are always on the side of tyranny.
It should now be abundantly obvious to any thinking person that the weather tyranny and green energy agenda aren’t just cute or even annoying; they will quite literally kill millions of people with starvation and lack of access to vital goods and services. They are coming for our food and fuel the same way they came for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic. Thus, any promotion of green energy, with its officious regime of government mandates and subsidies, will necessarily ease the death of energy that actually works. So we are all on the same page as conservatives that green energy must be shunned, right?
Wrong! When Jennifer Granholm, Biden’s energy secretary, said recently that “California is in the lead” on energy and “can show the rest of the nation how it is done,” she could have said the same thing about Oklahoma. During a confab of the Western Governors Association in Oklahoma City, Governor Stitt bragged about installing carbon-neutral green energy into the Oklahoma electricity grid and how “the number of charging stations spread out along highways can serve thousands of electric vehicles and a plan to create a new hydrogen energy hub will help the nation move away from fossil fuels,” according to the Oklahoman.
In an interview with the prominent local paper after the event, Stitt let the cat out of the bag as to why he is all in on green energy, revealing the likely culprit for why Republicans betray us on almost every other important issue. “Most Republican governors would not tackle that, but as a business person ... you're looking at where the investments are heading," said Stitt.
Points for honesty! And Stitt is not wrong. All the money is indeed with the bad guys. The money is with the Great Reset, open borders, pro-criminal policies, corporate welfare, biomedical tyranny, and green energy. Thus, if you ever wondered why Republicans refuse to hold Democrats accountable – even when their policies are so destructive and unpopular – follow the money. Or as Stitt would say, the “investments.”
At a time when we are confronted with an intractable fight for our way of life and need an opposing party to break the paradigm of the federal government working with the ESG “sustainable growth” and “Agenda 2030,” governors like Stitt believe in the old adage “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” Yet the only reason we can’t beat them is because Stitt and other GOP governors have already decided to join the bad guys.
The Oklahoman explains Stitt’s feelings based on their interview as follows:
For Stitt, the growing electric car market is one he wants Oklahoma to tap into.
“The investments are heading to electric vehicle manufacturing, battery manufacturing technology, alternative (energies),” Stitt said.
Stitt has pushed for the state to spend billions of dollars in tax incentives for the electric vehicle industry, including nearly $700 million the governor got lawmakers to approve this year in hopes that Pansonic would bring an electric vehicle battery plant.
In other words, the very corporate welfare that has allowed government to artificially promote expensive and ineffective energy policies that now leave us with a crisis of our way of life is fully embraced in Oklahoma, just like in California.
Stitt will defend himself by saying that unlike in California, he still supports oil and gas alongside fake energy. But the problem with this “all of the above approach” is that given that Democrats are artificially imposing blocks on oil and gas and spurs on electric cars, wind power, and solar power, any tendentious treatment of green energy by Stitt will only help grease the skids of the “Net Zero” carbon agenda.
Perhaps if Stitt were in charge of the world, the green energy subsidies wouldn’t be as much of a threat to energy that actually works. But given that he is enabling an illusory replacement of fossil fuels, it will allow the globalists to more easily destroy the fossil fuel industry altogether, while making us reliant on wind and solar, which aren’t reliable, and electric cars, which are not only more expensive, but dependent on so many natural resources that have become scarce and expensive as a result of the Great Reset. The shortage of lithium, cobalt, and magnesium will make electric vehicles impractical, and the relative scarcity of copper and aluminum needed for the wind turbines will also make wind an expensive boondoggle for the little energy it produces. Oh, and let’s not forgot all the oil and gas needed to produce the supply chain of most of these “alternative” energy products.
Stitt brags about Oklahoma getting 35% of its electricity from wind, but the free market did not drive that outcome and never would have. Transitioning to green energy will further ease the left’s plan to destroy fossil fuels and leave us with unreliable energy. Would he celebrate a grid built upon 100% wind power? What will that look like when the air is calm, the sun goes down, but the illusion of the transition allowed the left to wipe fossil fuels off the map?
While Stitt brags about wind energy, he refuses to learn the lesson from south of his border when Texas’ grid failed thanks to that transition to “new technology,” as Stitt fondly refers to solar and wind. Rather than spending the money on energy that actually works, “red” Texas invested $66 billion in solar and wind to each compensate for each other’s failures (solar during dead wind and wind during the night). Texas became the leader of green energy long before California. Yet that did nothing for Texans during the Great Texas Blackout of February 2021, which cost billions of dollars and nearly 200 lives. This past summer, according to Bloomberg, the Texas grid had to operate “at a historic pace, often forcing them to put off maintenance to keep cranking out electricity.” Imagine if a fraction of the $66 billion had been invested in energy that actually energizes the world rather than in sources than need help from other energy to produce a fraction of the output at a higher cost.
Thus, boasting about shifting reliance from fossil fuels or nuclear energy to green energy is akin to making someone more reliant on a bike than a car for transportation. Which is exactly what they want to do. The more they use a carrot-and-stick approach to prop up fake energy, the more they box out real energy in a circuitous cycle of failure, dependency, higher prices, and scarcity of product, which feeds on itself in perpetuity.
To add insult to injury, Stitt wants to follow the California example of weakening the grid with ineffective energy sources and then further straining it buy promoting electric vehicles, which drive up the demand for electricity, thereby ensuring that the only cars on the road in his dystopian vision won’t be able to reliably run, even after paying a fortune for the purchase.
There’s a broader lesson not just in the fact that a prominent Republican governor has embraced the green energy Agenda 2030 but in the reason why he has embraced it. Stitt believes that we must “invest” in the strong players on the block. Well, the strong players on the block are not the forces of freedom that respect life, liberty, property, and the continuity of the human species in the way we understand it. The strong players are those who want us without cars, without detached homes, without abundant food and medicine, and completely reliant upon government for basic needs while eating bugs, groveling for rationed food, energy, and medicine, and having our bodies, minds, and souls constantly surveilled, if not downright controlled. This is where the money is. This is the “wave of the future.”
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