NATO’s 75th Anniversary on April 4, 2024, is a golden opportunity to discuss its tragic peace-making failure and why it should have been closed down thirty years ago when its raison d’etre—the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact—fell apart.

Its out-of-area operations – beginning with the bombings in Yugoslavia 25 years ago – is one long, painful violation of its own Treaty from 1949. That treaty is clearly defensive, a copy of the UN Charter with Article 5 for mutual defence among its members added.

Any organisation that consistently does the opposite of its own statutes should be investigated.

NATO’s de facto rhetoric, psychopolitical projections, concepts, threat inventions and doctrine – including nuclear first-use, deterrence, forward defence, etc. – as well as its reckless expansion in violation of all Western promises given to Russia’s Gorbachev about not expanding “one inch” – make it indisputably offensive, provocative, and war risk-increasing. Militaristic. Anti-peace.

In today’s anti-intellectual foreign and security policy world, liking and adhering to NATO is a matter of emotionalism, populism, and pure faith. NATO is a church-like institution run by religious phrases and mantras. It has nothing to do with rational analysis of pros and cons. Whatever NATO has done and does, it is for ‘stability, security and peace’ but, as everybody knows, Europe is now closer to major war than at any point since 1945.

Trillions upon trillions of dollars of taxpayers’ money have been wasted on NATO’s Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex, MIMAC, which is making every citizen in its member states less and less secure.

For years, NATO has developed into a militarist emperor, and somebody has to say: But – look – he wears no clothes!

TFF is competent and happy to do so – and will continue to do so. Why? Because it is one of Western civilisation’s biggest and most well-documented lies that NATO is the road to peace and that peace could not be created by means of completely different thinking and policies at a much lower price. We just have to begin to think – and think differently.

Since TFF is completely independent of state and corporate funding and relies only on citizens’ donations we continue to speak truth to power as we have since 1986.

Here is what we could have done thirty years ago: “Leaving the Cold War Behind. How the West Can Create Cooperation and Build Peace With the Soviets” written in 1989.

Here is why Russia as a huge threat to NATO is humbug. Here is a unique analysis with 30 arguments for closing down the peace-eroding, offensive, warmongering NATO. And here is a concrete future vision of how to make global peace and common security.

And here are the other 600+ TFF articles that critically contrast—with concepts, facts, and alternative thinking—the undignified propaganda mainstream research, politics, and the media use to make you believe in militarism, fake threat analyses, and our own infallibility and innocence.

Use this until NATO is abolished #NOTONATO.

https://thetransnational.substack.com/p/tff-pressinfo-738-nato-at-75-abolish

Dr Eddy Betterman

The Volunteer State just passed new legislation to reclassify so-called “vaccine lettuce,” along with all other vaccine-containing foods, as “drugs.”

According to reports, the Tennessee Senate passed the legislation, and it now awaits the signature of Gov. Bill Lee, who has never vetoed any bill that has landed on his desk.

After being passed by the Tennessee House in a 73-22 vote in early March, House Bill 1894 passed the Tennessee Senate in a 23-6 vote, responding to concerns about the pharmaceutical industry embedding “immunity boosters,” to quote the left-wing media, into synthetic lettuce.

Any food that “contains a vaccine or vaccine material” will be classified as a “drug” in the state of Tennessee. The legislation defines “vaccine material” as any substance intended to “stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against disease.”

Vaccine-containing foods will not, it is important to note, be banned in Tennessee. They can still be sold there, but they will have to carry the same medical labeling as any other vaccine or medication, meaning vaccine-containing lettuce is unlikely to hit grocery store shelves or be served at restaurants in Tennessee.

(Related: Did you know that the Tennessee Senate just passed a symbolic bill banning geoengineering and chemtrails within the state?)

Vaccine “foods” threaten U.S. food supply

In a debate on the bill that was held before the vote, State Sen. Heidi Campbell, a Democrat, asked for evidence of “any instances of there being food offered in the state of Tennessee that contains vaccines,” her implication being that the bill is unnecessary.

“The idea that this would somehow correlate to some kind of a retail offering of vegetables, especially when that vegetable would cost many thousands of dollars, just seems to me [to be] messy to be passing legislation for that reason,” Campbell said.

Nobody in the chamber was able to provide an example for Campbell, but they did emphasize that the bill’s intent is to get ahead of potential future retail offerings of vaccine-containing foods, which now threaten to contaminate the entire U.S. food supply.

State Rep. Scott Cepicky, a Republican who originally sponsored the bill, said that lettuces containing vaccines will require a prescription “to make sure that we know how much of the lettuce you have to eat based off of your body type so we don’t under-vaccinate you – which leads to the possibility of the efficacy of the drug being compromised – or we overdose you based off how much lettuce is [eaten].”

All of this stems from research taking place at the University of California into targeted mRNA (modRNA) technology being implemented into food. Edible vaccine plants are part of a $500,000 U.S. taxpayer-funded grant the UC system received for such purposes.

“We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their own gardens,” commented Juan Pablo Giraldo, an associate professor at UC’s Department of Botany and Plant Sciences.

“Farmers could also eventually grow entire fields of it.”

It must be stressed that none of this would be possible were it not for U.S. taxpayers, who continue to pay for such abominations via their “voluntary” tax contributions to the federal government.

“This bill in Tennessee is a good thing that will give people the ability to tell the difference between drugged foods and un-drugged foods,” one commenter wrote about Tennessee’s efforts to legislate this reclassification of vaccinated “food.”

“Why should pharma be allowed an end run around informed consent by poisoning our food supply with drugs we don’t want?” wrote another.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2024/04/05/tennessee-vaccine-lettuce-legislation-food-vaccines-drugs/

By Alexa Lardieri U.S. Deputy Health Editor Dailymail.Com

• 11 percent of adolescents reported being unhappy with their gender 
• 19 percent who reported unhappiness as kids no longer expressed it as adults

But by age 25, just one-in-25 (4 percent) said they ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ were discontent with their gender.

The researchers concluded: ‘The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one’s identity and one’s gender identity during this age period and that this is also relatively common.’

Patrick Brown, a fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center who was not involved in the research, told DailyMail.com: ‘This study provides even more reason to be skeptical towards aggressive steps to facilitate gender transition in childhood and adolescence.

‘The fact that rates of satisfaction are lower even just a few years later suggests that for the vast majority of people, prudence and caution, rather than a rush towards permanent surgeries or hormone therapies, will be the best approach for teenagers struggling to make sense of the world and their place in it.

‘As such, policies that prohibit gender transition for minors make a great deal of sense.’

The study is one of the longest into the issue of gender in children – but the researchers point out it has some limitations.

For one, it looked at a mixture of children from the general population and kids who were receiving mental health care – though not specifically for anything related to their gender.

Therefore it does not necessarily reflect the attitudes of children clinically diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

The researchers, from the University of Groningen, analyzed the data of 2,770 people who were part of the Tracking Adolescent’s Individual Lives Survey.

Participants were asked to respond to the statement ‘I wish to be of the opposite sex’ at six different points over 15 years.

They were given a multiple choice: 0-Not True, 1-Somewhat or Sometimes True, and 2-Very True or Often True.

The same prompt was given every two or three years from the start of the study in March 2001 until the end.

Researchers looked for those expressing ‘gender non-contentedness,’ or unhappiness with being the gender aligned with their biological sex.

The study, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, found that overall 78 percent of people had the same feelings about their gender over the 15 years.

Around 19 percent became more content with their gender and just about 2 percent became less comfortable.

Participants were also asked to evaluate their self-worth by rating how they felt about their physical appearance and self esteem.

According to the findings, females were more likely to report being unhappy with their gender and both increasing and decreasing ‘non-contentedness’ were associated with lower self-reported self worth, more behavioral problems and an increase in emotional struggles.

The authors said: ‘Gender non-contentedness, while being relatively common during early adolescence, in general decreases with age and appears to be associated with a poorer self-concept and mental health throughout development.’

Brown told DailyMail.com: ‘As anyone who has ever been a teenager knows, puberty and its aftereffects can be a confusing time of hormonal surges, physical changes, and social insecurity.

‘It isn’t surprising that the highest rates of being dissatisfied in one’s body would peak during this time.’

Rates of gender dysphoria, a clinical diagnosis by a healthcare professional that differs from gender non contentedness, have soared in every US state except one since 2018 – with the average age of diagnosis trending younger.

An analysis of insurance claims conducted by Komodo Health Inc found between 2017 and 2021, approximately 121,880 children aged six to 17 years old were diagnosed with the condition.

In 2021, 42,000 were given the diagnosis, a 70 percent increase from 2020.

And children under 18 years old now make up one-fifth of new diagnoses each year.

In the United States, 1.6million people ages 13 and older identify as transgender.

A report by the health data analytics firm Definitive Healthcare shows the rate of gender dysphoria increased in every state except South Dakota from 2018 to 2022 across all ages.

The sharpest rises over those five years were seen in three Republican-led states: Virginia (274 percent) Indiana (247 percent) and Utah (193 percent).

South Dakota saw a decline of 23 percent between 2018 and 2022.

Meanwhile, the report also found the number of sex change surgeries being carried out each year is rising rapidly – climbing by up to 40 percent in some years.

Greater social acceptance and increased awareness about the condition on the part of doctors can partly explain the increase in cases.

Unlike other countries, such as the UK, there is no federal lower age limit for when children can get ‘top’ or ‘bottom’ operations in the US, which leaves it up to the states.

In The Netherlands, debate over the issue has ramped up as more Dutch experts have voiced their concerns over the potential adverse effects of puberty blockers and hormonal therapies for minors who wish to transition.

And in the US most recently, trans rights were thrust into the spotlight after critics slammed President Joe Biden for declaring Easter ‘Trans Visibility Day.’

However, the president said he did not make this declaration, but that the awareness day is celebrated every year on March 31 and only coincided with Easter this year by chance.

Dr Jay Richards, director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, told DailyMail.com: ‘We’ve known for over a decade that most kids who experience distress with their sexed bodies resolve those feelings after they pass through natural puberty.

‘Indeed, we can infer from the DSM 5 [2013] and other sources that as many as 88 percent of gender-dysphoric girls and as many as 98 percent of gender-dysphoric boys in previous generations desisted if allowed to go through natural puberty.

‘These two facts make it clear why “gender-affirming care” on minors is such an outrage. It leads, in the end, to sterilization and in many cases to a complete loss of natural sexual function.

‘There is no good evidence that this helps minors long term. Moreover, it medicalizes what could very well be temporary psychological symptoms.

‘History will judge this medicalized “gender-affirming care” on minors as we now judge eugenics and lobotomies.’

The research was published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.

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Via https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13263725/trans-kids-change-sex-adults-study.html

By Brownstone Institute

In 1845, Congress established Election Day as the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. The Act sought “to establish a uniform time” for Americans to cast their ballots for president. Historically, voters needed to provide a valid reason – such as illness or military service – to qualify for absentee ballots.

But Covid served as a pretext to overturn that tradition. Just 25% of votes in 2020 occurred at the polls on Election Day. Mail-in voting more than doubled. Key swing states eliminated the need to provide a valid reason to cast absentee ballots. The virus and racial justice became justifications to disregard verification methods like signature requirements.

Rejection rates for absentee ballots plummeted by more than 80% in some states as the Covid regime welcomed an unprecedented increase in mail-in voting. Politicians and media outlets ignored rampant voter fraud in the months leading up to the election. They treated concerns surrounding absentee voting as obscure conspiracy theories despite a bipartisan commission describing it as “the largest source of potential voter fraud” just a decade earlier.

It is now clear that the overhaul of our election system was a deliberate initiative from the outset of the pandemic response. In March 2020, when the Government’s official policy was still “two weeks to flatten the curve,” the administrative state began instituting the infrastructure to hijack the November presidential election, more than 30 weeks beyond when the Covid response was supposed to end.

March 2020: The CDC and the CARES Act Meddle in the Election

On March 12, 2020, the CDC issued a recommendation for states and localities to “encourage voters to use voting methods that minimize direct contact with other people,” including “mail-in methods of voting.”

Two weeks later, President Trump signed the $2 trillion CARES Act, which offered states $400 million to re-engineer their election processes for that November.

At the time, proponents of the CARES Act argued it was necessary to reopen the country. For example, the New York Times argued it was “critical to fund and implement the safety measures necessary to let Americans get back to work, school and play without a recurrence of the virus.”

But political actors immediately plotted ways to use the funds to entrench their power long past the proposed two-week lockdowns. Nearly every swing state announced plans to promote mail-in voting and reduce electoral safeguards in a Congressional report.

[…]

When Trump signed the CARES Act, just 0.05% of Michigan residents had tested positive for Covid. The state’s political leaders later boasted that their agenda had not been focused on public health. “Even when there’s not a pandemic, once people begin using the absentee ballot process, they’re much more likely to continue to do so in the future,” said Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson after Election Day.

Pennsylvania received $14.2 million from the CARES Act to address its election process. At the time, the infection rate in the Keystone State was 1 in 6,000 (0.017%). Democratic Governor Tom Wolf’s administration told the federal government it would use its plans to increase absentee voting. In November, 2.5 million Pennsylvanians voted by mail. President Biden won 75% of those votes – a difference of 1.4 million. President Trump lost the state by under 100,000 votes.

The CARES Act provided Wisconsin with over $7 million for election matters. Democratic Governor Tom Evers said the state would use funds to provide “absentee ballot envelopes,” to develop “the statewide voter registration system and online absentee ballot request portal,” and “to account for additional costs” related to mail-in voting.

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Democratic activists were unsatisfied with the $400 million added to the national debt to reshape the elections. Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation offered an additional $300 million. In Time, Molly Ball celebrated the “shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.” She quoted Amber McReynolds, the president of “nonpartisan National Vote at Home Institute,” who called the government’s reluctance to provide additional funding “a failure at the federal level.” Despite her professed “non-partisanship,” President Biden rewarded her service by appointing her to the Board of the US Postal Service.

In Time, Ball hailed the mail-in activists’ efforts, which included targeting “Black voters” who may have otherwise “preferred to exercise their franchise in person.” They focused on social media outreach to try to convince people that a “prolonged [vote] count wasn’t a sign of problems.” Their informational warfare may have changed Americans’ perception on mail-in voting, but it could not eradicate the predictable controversies that it created.

April and May 2020: Voter Fraud Skyrockets

In May 2020, New Jersey held municipal elections and required all voting take place via mail. The State’s third largest city, Paterson, held its election for city council. The results should have been a national scandal that ended the push for mail-in voting.

Shortly after the election, the Postal Service discovered “hundreds of mail-in ballots” in one town mailbox. A Snapchat video showed a man named Abu Razyen illegally handling a stack of ballots he said was for candidate Shanin Khalique. Khalique initially defeated his opponent by just eight votes. A recount found their vote was tied.

Paterson resident Ramona Javier never received her mail-in ballot for the election. Neither did eight of her family members and neighbors, yet they were all listed as having voted. “We did not receive vote-by-mail ballots and thus we did not vote,” she told the press. “This is corruption. This is fraud.”

Election officials rejected 19% of the ballots from Paterson, a city with over 150,000 residents. While Paterson’s election was particularly troublesome, mail-in ballots were problematic across the state. Thirty other New Jersey municipalities held vote-by-mail elections that day, and the average disqualification rate was 9.6%.

New Jersey brought voting fraud charges against City Councilman Michael Jackson, Councilman-Elect Alex Mendez, and two other men for their “criminal conduct involving mail-in ballots during the election.” All four were charged with illegally collecting, procuring, and submitting mail-in ballots.

A state judge later ordered a new vote, finding that the May election “was not the fair, free and full expression of the intent of the voters. It was rife with mail in vote procedural violations constituting nonfeasance and malfeasance.”

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In Wisconsin, the April 2020 primary election offered further evidence of the challenges and corruption surrounding mail-in voting. Following the primary, a postal center outside Milwaukee discovered three tubs of absentee ballots that never reached their intended recipients. Fox Point, a village outside Milwaukee, has a population of under 7,000 people.

Beginning in March, Fox Point received between 20 and 50 undelivered absentee ballots per day. In the weeks leading up to the election, the village manager said that increased to between 100 and 150 ballots per day. On election day, the town received a plastic mail bin with 175 unmailed ballots. “We’re not sure why this happened,” said the village manager. “Nobody seems to be able to tell me why.”

Democrats admitted the system threatened election integrity. “This has all the makings of a Florida 2000 if we have a close race,” said Gordon Hintz, the Democratic minority leader in the Wisconsin State Assembly. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo went further. “It’s a harder system to administer, and obviously it’s a harder system to police writ large,” he said. Cuomo continued, “People showing up, people actually showing ID, is still the easiest system to assure total integrity.”

The Wisconsin primary also featured special elections for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. A liberal judge upset the incumbent conservative justice, and partisans embraced their overhaul of the electoral system. The New York Times reported: “Wisconsin Democrats are working to export their template for success – intense digital outreach and a well-coordinated vote-by-mail operation – to other states in the hope that it will improve the party’s chances in local and statewide elections and in the quest to unseat President Trump in November.”

Despite the corruption, the lost ballots, and the admissions of threats to electoral integrity, the process had been a success in political terms; their candidate had won. The ends had justified the means. Citizens lost faith in their election process, and political leaders readily admitted that their concerns were justified; but the professional politicos and their mouthpiece, the New York Times, characterized the disaster as a “template for success.”

Controversies continued to emerge surrounding mail-in ballots.

In September 2020, a government contractor threw Trump mail-in ballots in the trash in Pennsylvania. ABC News reported that “ballots had been found in a dumpster next to the elections building.” A week later, three trays of mail with absentee ballots were found in a ditch in Wisconsin.

In Nevada, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony offered gifts, including gift cards, jewelry, and clothing to Native Americans who showed up to vote. Activist Bethany Sam organized the event, where she donned a Biden-Harris mask and stood in front of the Biden-Harris campaign bus.

Voters in California received ballots with no place to vote for president, over 20% of ballots mailed to voters in Teaneck, New Jersey, had the wrong Congressional districts listed, and Franklin County, Ohio reported sending over 100,000 absentee ballots to the wrong address due to an “envelope stuffing error.”

In October, Texas police arrested Carrollton Mayoral Candidate Zul Mirza Mohamed on 109 counts of fraud for forging mail-in ballots. Authorities discovered fraudulent ballots at Mohamed’s residence with fictitious licenses. That same month, a Pennsylvania district attorney charged Lehigh County Elections Judge Everett “Erika” Bickford with “prying into ballots” and altering the entries from a local election that June. That election was decided by just 55 votes.

Reports continued to emerge after the election. The New York Post uncovered election records that showed dead people had cast absentee ballots that November.

California law enforcement arrested two men with a 41-count criminal complaint for allegedly submitting over 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications on behalf of homeless people. Their goal was to get Carlos Montenegro, one of the defendants, elected Mayor of Hawthorne, a city in Los Angeles County. The state also alleged that Montenegro committed perjury by falsifying names and signatures in his paperwork for his mayoral campaign.

In 2022, a Georgia investigation found more than 1,000 absentee ballots that never left the Cobb County government facility. Two months earlier, mail-in ballots from the 2020 election were discovered in a Baltimore USPS facility. In 2023, Michigan police found hundreds of mail-in ballots from the 2020 election in a township clerk’s storage unit.

All of this was entirely predictable, but perhaps that was the point. From the outset, the Covid regime sought to abolish the safeguards of our election system despite well-known concerns regarding election integrity.

[…]

The Covid regime’s messaging was clear: only conspiratorial lunatics would question the integrity of an election system that more than doubles its mail-in voting. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified, “We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it’s by mail or otherwise.”

But this wasn’t true. It contradicted long-standing conclusions regarding electoral integrity. Just as the public health apparatus abandoned thousands of years of epidemiological practice to implement lockdowns, the media and elected officials abandoned principles that until that moment had been common sense.

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Via https://brownstone.org/articles/two-weeks-to-flatten-became-eight-months-to-change-the-election/

Episode 1 Introduction

The History of Ancient Egypt

Professor Robert Brier

Film Review

According to Brier, Egypt was the most advanced civilization in the ancient world. He credits its success as a civilization to the rich topsoil produced by the Nile overflowing year after year. Their phenomenal agricultural productivity enabled them to produce sufficient food to support a standing army and longstanding internal and external security.

In addition to building massive pyramids and temples, the Egyptians also discovered medical science, monotheism and mummification two thousands years before any other civilization. Egyptian civilization lasted so long that they also produced the world’s first archeologists to help document their early history. Fortunately the dry desert air was very important in preserving colorful Egyptian artifacts.

The ancient Greeks traced their cultural lineage to the Egyptians and learned both philosophy and stone building from them.

There are three approaches to studying Egyptology: Philology (the study of the Egyptian language), the study of Egyptian art and the writings of the world’s first historian the Greek Heredotus. Herodotus visited Egypt in 450 BC

Egyptian art changed very little over ancient its two thousand year history. Creativity and innovation were discouraged because because the main purpose of Egyptian art was to decorate the pharaoh’ tombs, which were intended to last an eternity. The pharaoh’ tombs incorporated not only art but all the furniture, cosmetics, games and jewelry they would need for the afterlife.

The Egyptians were the first to use a grid method in drawing to achieve accurate mathematical proportions.

They left lots of written records, and much of their art and writings concerned warfare. The Egyptians ruled the entire known world, required them to engage in more or less continual warfare. Another use for written language was to cover tombs and coffins with magic spells their occupants could recite to return power to their legs and breath to their lungs.

Film can be viewed free on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/1492791/1492793

Dr Eddy Betterman

While solar panels on residential rooftops and businesses are popular all over California, helping to reduce energy costs for people who have them, the fact remains that everyone else is subsidizing these solar panels out of their own pockets.

Electricity prices in California are steadily increasing as the Golden State converts its grid into a “green” energy production system.

Last year, residential electricity prices in California rose by 3 cents per kilowatt-hour, representing an increase of 11.9 percent. The average homeowner in California resultingly pays 28.9 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity, making California the third-most expensive state for electricity in the United States behind Connecticut and Hawaii.

While a 3 cent per kilowatt-hour increase may not sound like much to some, it is only the beginning of California’s energy woes. Because the California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved a new green energy scheme scheduled for full implementation in 2032, the clock is ticking for a transition that one media outlet says means California energy rates “are headed for the exosphere.”

“The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved a scheme that aims to add more than 25 gigawatts of renewables and 15 gigawatts of batteries to the state’s electric grid by 2032 at an estimated cost of $49.3 billion,” reports Watts Up With That.

“In addition, the California Independent System Operator released a draft plan to upgrade the state’s transmission grid at a cost of some $30.5 billion. The combined cost of those two schemes is about $80 billion.”

Recognizing that inflation, particularly in utilities, continues to climb, the $80 billion estimate is likely far too low. By the time those latter years getting closer to 2032 arrive, assuming current economic conditions continue or worsen, the true price tag could balloon to a figure much, much higher than what state officials are anticipating.

“Whatever the ultimate price tag, the state’s aggressive alt-energy plans will inflict more economic pain on the low-income residents of a state with the dubious distinction of having the highest poverty rate in the United States.”

(Related: California landfills are piling up with green energy waste, which is highly toxic and environmentally destructive.)

California’s green energy producing more carbon than pre-renewables

California has been on the green energy path for many decades, but things really got going in 2008 when then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an executive order calling on state utilities to derive one-third of their power from so-called renewable sources by the year 2020.

At the time, Schwarzenegger called the plan “the most aggressive target in the nation,” but what he did not clearly iterate is the fact that this massive conversion would come with a seriously high price tag, especially for the state’s poor and ever-dwindling middle class.

In order to convert that much energy production to renewables, California utilities had to make some major upgrades and transitions. In 2008, just 3.1 percent of California’s energy production came from wind and solar. Today, that figure has increased to 25.7 percent, which is pretty close to Schwarzenegger’s energy targets.

Despite all these changes, though, California’s electric generation still produces the same amount of carbon, which climate lunatics everywhere are convinced is destroying the planet. Furthermore, California’s total electricity use continues to fall, meaning all that new renewable energy is doing absolutely nothing to reduce carbon.

Put differently, California’s increasingly green energy grid is producing the same or more carbon output than its pre-renewables grid, and this at the same time that electricity usage rates are falling.

“All-sector electricity use in the state fell 11.2% between 2008 and 2023,” Watts Up With That explains. “That reduction in power use has likely helped reduce the state’s overall CO2 emissions, which … have declined since 2008.”

“But California is nowhere near net zero, and the carbon intensity of electricity production hasn’t budged in more than a decade.”

In other words, overall carbon dioxide emissions in California are falling somewhat due to varying factors, one of them not being its increasingly renewables-based energy grid.

While solar panels on residential rooftops and businesses are popular all over California, helping to reduce energy costs for people who have them, the fact remains that everyone else is subsidizing these solar panels out of their own pockets.

The Public Advocates Office released a report back on February 8 revealing that solar incentives in California will cost “customers without solar an estimated $6.5 billion in 2024.”

If you live in California, it makes sense to take advantage of these subsidies if you do not already have solar. And if your rooflines point in the best directions, you can take advantage of the lucrative energy buyback programs that The Public Advocates Office admits work in the favor of homeowners.

All in all, these types of climate programs are great for people with means, but not so great for the state’s poor who do not have solar panels and basically pay for them through increasingly higher electricity prices.

“The average customer without rooftop solar pays 10 percent to 20 percent on their electricity bills to subsidize rooftop solar on the homes of others,” reads a letter sent from the Legislative Analyst’s Office to Sen. Maria Elena Durazo (D-L.A.) back in January.

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Via https://dreddymd.com/2024/04/03/california-energy-prices-soaring-green-disaster/