by Robert M Traxler
China is leading in saving the earth. Well, yes, according to our former governor.
“U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm claimed Friday that Americans can “learn from what China is doing in combating climate change.”
During an interview at the annual SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, Granholm sang the praises of China for its efforts to reduce climate change, claiming the country is actually “very sensitive” about the issue, more so than the United States.
Granholm made these claims, even though China recently hit its coal production record last year. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, “55% of China’s energy” now comes from coal “compared to 11% in the U.S.”
Earth to Secretary Granholm: That may be politically correct to say, but it is just plain stupid. For some reason our current government loves the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), the answer to why is open to debate. We know the Silicon Valley corporations are getting rich producing things in China and donating a portion of the billions they make to Democrats and to environmental groups to purchase their love and silence. The dirty little truth is that the PRC has us by the reproductive organs and can inflict great pain on our nation anytime they feel like it. We are dependent on China for damned near everything; if they cut off our antibiotics, tens of thousands would die in weeks, and that is just one area of concern.
China has moved its Goal Zero date four times; so far and no one ever holds them accountable, just the opposite. They are cheered every time they announce a new date for Goal Zero, pushing the date out 3 to 10 years every time. China has 3037 coal fired power plants and brings a new one onboard every three weeks. We have 244, and Secretary Granholm is singing China’s praises, saying we should look to them for leadership? She is a smart person, she can do the math, why is she so blind to the PRC massive pollution?
The origin of Covid-19 is being covered up by our government, classifying the information so as to not blame the good socialist brothers and sisters in China. Ask why the data is classified and you are a racist, science denier.
The spy balloon sent by China is still called a weather balloon or a “suspected” spy balloon according to NPR and many in our government and in the media; common sense is not so common in the progressive movement. Our government’s “outrage” lasted all of two weeks, careful not to anger their fellow socialists in China.
And what was found in the autopsy of the “shot down ‘weather balloon”? We were promised to know the findings — do you know them? Have you read about them? Have we asked? No, to even ask is racist. Open-source reports speak only in the broadest terms with no specifics. The best information on the Chinese spy aircraft comes from foreign media. And who destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline?
The PRC has paid off colleges and universities with grants as if they even need to; the woke progressives in our higher education system are ready, willing and eager to jump in bed with the PRC to foster the greater good of national socialism. China and Russia moving from communism to a socialist model in the 1990s was a great move applauded by the progressive media.
Now we know that the Russians and Chinese have paid off Robert Hunter Biden and Uncle James, giving them millions to “consult;” do people care? Apparently not. $20 million to the Biden family laundered through the Penn Biden center is not a problem, it will not influence the President; question that one and you are a Sinophobe.
Back to Secretary Granholm’s gushing praise for China and her holding them up as an example to emulated for combating climate change. Many of the most polluted places on the planet are in China, where people are dying from respiratory diseases at a high rate, much higher than our nation, but we need to follow the Chinese socialist climate change model; really?
Normed for population, China uses more greenhouse gas producing energy than we do. China produces 2.5 times the greenhouse gases we do, but we must emulate them? China sets goals that sound great, but they never meet them, never, but who cares? Do as we say not do as we do; China’s goals are exceptional, according to our former governor, as is China. My opinion.
Mr. Traxler,
It’s a sorry state of affairs when someone like Jennifer Granholm sings the praises of China, especially in the area of coal-fired pollution. They are not the paragon of good planet stewardship they ought to be. (Nor are we.) Perhaps Aunt Jennifer has bought into the myth – which has persisted for longer than the Biden administration – that coal is clean energy. It’s filthy.
And let it also be said that the Biden administration has not had a creepy love affair between autocratic (or autocratic wannabes like Trump) leaders. We should be fair in our casting of stones. Grandpa Joe has questionable ties, but he doesn’t gush over love letters from China’s fearless leader.
The world is in a precarious place right now. It’s been in precarious places before, and we can only hope that in all things we can once again stand at the precipice and turn things around for another generation or two.
Emulating China won’t be a winning strategy. We have to go back to the strategy of American excellence – in education, in caring for the least of our population and creating a way up like we did after WWII, in fighting willful ignorance, in scientific advances, and in protecting democracy around the world.
In my opinion, under leadership of Democrats and Republicans alike, America is a nation of slackers who talk a great game but do little to accomplish what must be done.
Ms. Mandaville,
Thank you for the comment.
You stated, “Grandpa Joe has questionable ties, but he doesn’t gush over love letters from China’s fearless leader.” You are correct, however President Trump nor his extended family did not get, estimates run from 10 to 80 million, directly or under the table from China in the last 6 years.
Thanks again.
Mr. Traxler,
You indicate that neither Trump nor his extended family got any-number-of-millions of dollars from China either directly or under the table. To which I would counter, that we know of to date.
The Trump clan is a tribe of grifters who have taken advantage of the perks of nepotism during the Trump administration, thereby enriching themselves at the cost of you and me and the other taxpayers of the country.
Once again I would urge fairness when casting stones. There are precious few honest men and women in Congress, and many come to the Washington trough to feed and build their fortunes.
I don’t doubt that a Biden or two has taken advantage of political positioning any less than the Trumps. It appears to me, however, that the former president has engaged in more than suspicious behavior where ripping off the taxpayer is concerned,
Mrs Mandeville kudos to you and I’ll add this.
“Lauren “Bam Bam” Boebert announced at CPAC:
“We are going to investigate Hunter Biden because he has used his father’s positions in government for shady business dealings with Ukraine and China. We no longer need a resident in the White House. We need a president who puts America first and not his business dealings with corrupt foreign countries.”
You’d think such a statement by a Trump supporter would be met with shocked silence, but the crowd went wild with applause.
After President John F. Kennedy appointed his brother as Attorney General, Republicans freaked out and passed an anti-nepotism law against presidents hiring family members.
When Donald Trump put Jared Kushner into the White House (even after he failed a security clearance), his Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel ruled, essentially, that Trump could ignore the law.
Saudi Arabia was then run by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN), the grandson of the nation’s founder, King Abdulaziz; MBN’s father, Nayef bin Abdulaziz, had run the country before him.
Like his father and grandfather, MBN was tight with US intelligence agencies and committed to a stable long-term relationship with the United States and Europe. He also kept oil prices stable to help the United States in Europe.
Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN), then in his 60s, was arguably the most pro-US figure in Saudi leadership.
Back in the 1980s he’d studied at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, then at the FBI in Quantico, followed by participating in a 1990s “anti-terrorism” program at Scotland Yard.
After 9/11, he took on Al-Qaeda and they tried to assassinate him.
When Trump came into office in 2017, MBN’s cousin, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was merely one of many young Saudi princes (he was 32) jockeying for position and power in the kingdom (MBN was then 58).
At the time Trump appointed Kushner (then 36) in 2017, US intelligence and the State Department were concerned that if MBS were to overthrow MBN the consequences could be unpredictable for the United States.
Kushner, with his new security clearance in hand, would have had access to that information.
Things were then getting wild in the kingdom.
MBS wanted to overthrow MBN, and, according to some extraordinary reporting from Vicki Ward (who’s Substack newsletter is worth subscribing to), Jared saw an opportunity to go around US interests and help MBS overthrow and imprison his cousin so MBS could seize control of the Kingdom and its more than $700 billion in cash:
“Four well-placed sources,” she reports, “say that the primary reason Kushner has now received $2 billion is that he helped MBS depose MBN, knowing that this went directly against what U.S. intelligence wanted or thought was good for national security.”
Suddenly, the news was full of stories about members of the Saudi royal family who were being held by security forces in fancy hotels, some being tortured and a few even “vanished.”
Immediately after Kushner met in secret with Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), America’s ally and the ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef (MBN), was arrested and thrown into prison where he remains to this day.
As a result, Jared’s buddy MBS now runs the kingdom and controls its money.
David Ignatius of the Washington Post noted a few weeks after MBS began arresting his royal political foes, apparently using information from inside US intelligence agencies:
“It was probably no accident that last month, Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, made a personal visit to Riyadh. The two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. several nights, swapping stories and planning strategy.”
Did Jared sell out American interests for $2 billion? And is his father-in-law, Donald Trump, now following up on the deal with the money being laundered through the LIV golf tournaments?
— It was with MBS that President Trump negotiated a 2.2 million-barrels-a-day production cut in 2020, when the pandemic had crashed demand for oil: that cut raised the price of oil and bailed out Trump’s Texas oilman supporters.
— It was MBS who reportedly said he had Jared “in his pocket.”
— It was MBS who reportedly had Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered by an assassination squad when visiting a Saudi embassy to get a visa to marry his fiancé.
— And, the New York Times notes, it was Jared who was there for MBS when he needed a friend on the inside: “As the killing set off a firestorm around the world and American intelligence agencies concluded that it was ordered by Prince Mohammed [MBS], Mr. Kushner became the prince’s most important defender inside the White House…”
— It’s MBS who The Wall Street Journal reports is now moving his country “closer” to Russia and China to “punish” President Joe Biden for defeating Trump.
— It’s also MBS who’s given Donald Trump tens of millions — perhaps hundreds of millions — to host the LIV golf tournaments at his shabby properties (the tournament has a reported $2 billion budget).
Have we all been witnessing a young con-man and his grifter father-in-law walk away with billions after selling out the United States? With virtually no questions from the mainstream media or Congress?
The son of a professional con-artist (Charles Kushner, who was pardoned by Trump) and a minor slumlord, Jared is said to have gotten advice from a PR professional when his father went to prison. Ben Walsh noted for Huffington Post that Jared’s dad tells the story that his PR friend advised Jared:
“Step one: Buy a New York newspaper. Don’t be too particular…. Any newspaper will do. Step two: Buy a big Manhattan building. Any building will do. Step three: Marry the daughter of a rich New York family. Anyone will do.”
Jared, the story goes, then purchased the New York Observer newspaper, overpaid for the 666 Fifth Avenue office building just down the street from Trump Tower, and, now impressively credentialed as a Serious Guy, hooked up with Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka.
From there it was a straight shot to the White House and then cashing in with $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, authorized by MBS, who had to override his investment advisors to hand the cash to Jared.
Which is a crime far more massive and serious than anything Hunter Biden has ever been accused of.
Our Constitution contains two emoluments clauses, both forbidding officials from taking gifts from foreign governments. The most well-known one (in Article II) forbids presidents from taking what could be bribes; the second, from Article I of the Constitution, forbids such behavior by anybody working in the federal government without the explicit permission of Congress: “
Follow the money. Follow the money the CCP and its entities pay directly to, or route through intermediaries to our elite.
Only 2 things can be at the root of Ms. Granholm’s outlandish praise of China, complete ignorance or…
Where’s the big old “editorial” headline on this. Only a boomer would spout this much BS in an article.
Don’t ask me that question…. ask CHINA….you may get a real unusual answer.
Trump May 2020
My opinion.