By Jo Nova
If you have the feeling that our universities are working for the enemy, you might be right
China is a developing nation, too poor to cut carbon emissions themselves, but somehow they can find the money to help the richest nation in the world reduce their fossil fuel use.
The Washington Free Beacon found a climate non-profit called Energy Foundation China was run by former Chinese Communist Party officials. Tax forms show they were sending money to US universities and other left-wing groups to help them research and promote things like “a clean energy future” and “low carbon cities”. Money is ending up at places like Harvard, and UCLA, as well as nonprofits, like the International Council on Clean Transportation, and Natural Resources Defense Council.
China, it appears, is working hard to cut carbon emissions, in other people’s countries
Ex-CCP Officials Funneled Millions to US Universities, Nonprofits To Promote Green Energy, Tax Forms Show
Thomas Catenacci, Washington Free Post
“The Energy Foundation’s direct ties to the CCP are incredibly alarming, as they’ve spent millions to push for radical climate initiatives that favor China and harm American energy production,” Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director of ethics watchdog Americans for Public Trust, told the Free Beacon.
“Their dark money has been funneled to groups that want to ban gas stoves and phase out fossil fuels,” she continued. “Next year, Congress should continue their investigation to determine the extent to which China is undermining American energy dominance through this group.”
It couldn’t possibly be a cynical strategy to trick the soft, self absorbed West and gain industrial power. Noooooo…
Just ask “Who benefits?”
If the West chooses low-density, random energy in a fairy quest to get perfect weather, which nation stands to gain the most from our barking mad obsession?
As I’ve said before: the nation that is the coal furnace of the world, has gained our factories, our IP, our supply lines, and our dependence. They control the rare earths, and are the largest manufacturers of wind and solar power in the world. They are flooding the market with EVs.
They would be crazy if they didn’t support the leftist charity groups and pay off our politicians to cripple our grid.
That’s $12 million in the last five years:
The Energy Foundation has given nearly $12 million for climate initiatives in the United States since 2020, according to a Free Beacon analysis.
If only we taught our children to think for themselves so they wouldn’t fall for these ridiculous stories
“The entanglement of this foundation with former Chinese Communist Party government officials, and its active engagement of U.S. academic institutions and other NGOs, is gravely troubling when it comes to our national security, foreign policy and energy policy, and how they may be compromised or undermined,” said former United States ambassador Joseph Cella, a cofounder of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group.
“This seems to be a quasi-subnational incursion and influence operation by the CCP as they use our open system and existing tax law for leverage to gain an advantage economically, politically or in the realm of societal debates and public opinion,” he continued.
Tangled is the web: At the start this group was a US funded operation
In 1991 the Energy Foundation was started as a collaboration of Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller family, and the MacArthur Foundation, so very much a US based non-profit. In 1999, the Packard Foundation helped to set up an offspring called Energy Foundation China, with an office in Beijing. But it seems that in the years since, the Chinese subsidiary may have quietly taken control, because after the official split in 2019, it retained the original tax file identification number and the San Francisco address, and the official name “Energy Foundation” but most of the staff are Chinese and the main operations and grant making activity are done in China.
After the split the other half of the organization became the “United States Energy Foundation”, and it has revenue of about $180 million. As “pass through” organisations they can take anonymous donations and send them on to politically active groups. The lines get very blurry about who influences what…
The activist left call Trump a dictator.
Think how they will feel when they find out they are tools of an actual dictator.
Photo of President Xi from APEC 2013
Thanks to Marc Morano of Climate Depot and Willie Soon
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Milei hasn’t been listening. He’s made statement Argentina is going nuclear and aiming to attract AI industry.
Somone commented, “he has windy deserts available and he could harvest the cheapest energy available’. And just so happens they would buy the harvester from China. They have been listening.
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“If only we taught our children to think for themselves”. That is exactly what I and others are working for in NSW, by promoting philosophy in the schools. It’s time for the 4th ‘R’ to be added to the essentials of education: Reading, Riting, Rithmetic and Reasoning. Let’s face it, the first three Rs aren’t worth a lot without the fourth R to bind them (a la Lord of the Rings).
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So, not unlike when the Russians were backing greenies in the UK to stop or ban fracking. You would have to wonder about Just Stop Oil as well, likely they have some anonymous Chineses donors.
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I wonder just how deep the CCP tentacles, are into our whole media system. I’ve long thought the whole 2016 Russia, Russia, Russia, thing was a distraction, from the CCP and the otherside.
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It’s precisely the same technique drug runners use to entice and sustain drug users. Get them hooked and supply the drug of choice at an escalating rate. Currently Fentanyl, originating in China, is flooding markets world wide just as they have done with solar panels etc. We have been totally subjugated by the Chinese system.
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Xi ‘Art Of War / Ming’ save face while getting gweilo big-nose off their face en masse.
Apart from ‘legal’ pharma-suit-to-kill drug pushers, meth is the biggie among certain tribes here, with almost daily occurrences of fatal shootings or stabbings or hit-and-runs and even infanticide when ‘domestic violence’ gets out-of-hand. Sick.
Somehow James Cook & Queen Victoria are responsible for all of this. Thank goodness my partying daze* are well behind me – wouldn’t trust anyfink (as Jacinda would say, and she nose a thing or two) these days. Then again, lest we forget: The Opium Wars, all three of them… tallyho ol’ chap!
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Long suspected now a smoking gun
Trump will have a field day
Will the rest of the west wake up
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Amazing that these vile communist dictators always work the same way around the world and with the help of thousands of useful idiots from the West.
Let’s hope that Trump can make a big difference and if he makes other Western leaders wake up to the CC BS and the corruption of using more toxic W & S energy he will have done us all a great service and save us TRILLIONS of wasted $.
Never forget thast oln ly baseload energy gives us real security.
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Capitalism delenda est!
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Just one more reason why I avoid Chinese made products wherever possible. It will never be 0%, but that is the ideal. They are easy to avoid but you have to actually look at the label.
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Look closely at the funding of all green-leaning organisations and politicians. You will probably find a well, or not so well disguised footprint of the CCP
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If we include the entire world co2 emissions trend compared to China the USA, EU 27, Canada, Australia etc we can see how early the steep co2 emissions trend for the world started.
Of course many other developing countries are involved to produce such an early and abrupt trend for world co2 emissions.
Obviously the global trend will continue for decades into the future, while the stupid OECD countries try to survive using the toxic, unreliable W & S disasters and batteries. Just ask BO Bowen.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=CHN~AUS~OWID_WRL~USA~OWID_EU27~CAN
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All hail green energy!
UK consumers have paid £1 billion this year to turn off wind farms and start-up gas plants
The UK is on track to waste a record amount of wind power in 2024. The grid can’t cope with the increase in the number of wind farms and blustery weather and so wind farms are being paid to turn off.
“So far this year, the UK has spent more than £1 billion ($1.3 billion) ($2.6B AUD) in ‘congestion costs’ to turn off plants that can’t deliver electricity because of grid constraints, and switch on others,” Bloomberg reports. A cost that is ultimately borne by consumers.
https://expose-news.com/2024/12/06/uk-consumers-have-paid-1-billion/
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They already know, and it’s what they want. That’s the scary part. It’s been too long since the population has experienced real fear. Sigh. Humans.
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If when I was in business I could have handicapped competitors so easily I would have, shareholders Return On Funds Invested is the objective.
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06:43 PM ET 02/10/2015
Economic Systems: The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
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The woke stupid world and one of the highlights in Australia being the Federal and State governments permitting the flattening of hilltops, carving out access roads and transmission feeder lines to main grid destroying forests and native animal habitats but no Green Teal Labor objections.
And environmental groups continuing to spend money on television and other forms of advertising begging for donations to save wildlife, notably Koala.
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