Spain and Portugal achieved net zero on Monday, but not the way anyone would want to achieve net zero: By going back to the cave-people times with no electricity. . .
. . . Sure, they are looking into a cyberattack, or a terrorist act, or a rare weather event involving magnetic fields, or maybe some bad maintenance, and they should. But they have gone remarkably quiet lately, making one think of the one possibility they might want to be quiet about.
The blackout was unprecedented, and it happened just shortly after this happened:
. . . For those keeping score at home:
April 22nd: Spain brags about hitting 100% renewable power.
April 28th: Spain has the nation's largest blackout in history.
European officials are seemingly not very concerned about the possibility that the continent’s green energy agenda may leave it vulnerable to Chinese aggression in the future, according to Politico.
Trump administration officials met with a group of European officials in the U.K. earlier in April, warning the Europeans that China is taking advantage of the West’s climate policies to further its own geopolitical goals, Politico reported. Despite the Trump administration’s cautions and Europe’s recent experiences relying on malign actors for energy, European officials mostly shrugged off the warning and signaled that the continent is still intending to make its energy system go green in the long-run.
It's a multi-front global assault on American international diplomatic and economic preeminence that we have enjoyed almost uninterrupted since the end of the second world war, which has allowed America to steer the course of global events and keep the peace (more or lesss). Naturally, from Mao until now, the Chi-Coms could not abide by that.
American officials usually accuse China of trying to take over our manufacturing, but that’s old news. China took over our manufacturing long ago. And the parts it still hasn’t taken over are usually the parts that it doesn’t want or that are too uneconomical to be worth taking over.
Taking over America’s manufacturing was never China’s endgame. Taking over our economy is.Undercutting, stealing and dumping its way to manufacturing supremacy was how China got its foot in our door. Americans came to think of China as an assembly line for cheap junk, but the cheap junk built China’s production capacity. The next step was moving up to components for bigger products and then the products themselves. Once the components were being made in China, it made more sense for the companies to simplify by moving everything to China. . .
. . . China has assembled all the building blocks for taking over our economy. It has hijacked our manufacturing from the ground up. What began with 99-cent store fare now includes high-end smartphones, ebikes and laptops. Its hackers and employees from Silicon Valley to our defense industry provide pipelines of stolen techniques, trade secrets and R&D to supplement whatever we haven’t exported already to provide China with assured manufacturing supremacy. After swallowing our manufacturing, China began consuming our retail sector. Amazon cannibalized our brick and mortar retail by dumping Chinese products in America on a massive scale, but Chinese retailers cannibalized Amazon and turned it into a front for their products. China’s retailers have been figuring out how to rapidly move products into this country, how to set up warehouses and eventually how to master rapid last-mile delivery. And then Amazon will have nothing more to offer Americans than a billion-dollar woke version of Lord of the Rings.
Kind of ironic that the same Red-Green commie stooge fifth columnist idiots in our country who complain about consumerism and fossil fuels destroying the planet are the greatest mass consumers of Chinese crap as well as electric vehicles and other Green technology that relies on strip mining and leaves behind oceans of toxic waste once batteries and other components can no longer be recharched etc. To say nothing of the fact that slave and child labor in China and all over the third world are used and abused in the initial manufacture of these goods and their components. But America as founded is evil, illegitimate and white supremacist and so must be destroyed. I guess Greta Thunberg finds it more enjoyable these days goose-stepping all over the world and railing against Israel.
In any case, before long I fear we shall see who comes out on top, the Chi-Coms or Islam, the legacy of President Trump and the movement to restore America notwithstanding. Unless the world, us included, can shake off so many delusions in the next decade or so, we're in for some very interesting times indeed. And we are living through them right now!
. . . . So insidious and unrelenting has been the Leftist encroachment upon our basic civil liberties that only lately are we starting to understand that the America we thought we knew is on the verge of -- perfectly legal! -- dissolution.
. . It's guerilla lawfare at its deadliest, waged under the false flag of "restoring norms" when by norms they mean simply: their way. They're hoping for a provocation that will force Trump into a Jessep-like confrontation with the Tom Cruise character, perhaps played by Chief Justice Roberts himself, in which Trump will openly thumb his nose at the Court and its minions and thus trigger the "constitutional crisis" the Left is trying so hard to provoke.
They have, they say, a "higher loyalty"; we are nation of laws, not men. But what they really mean is that their "higher loyalty" is not to the country or the constitution but to themselves and their guild, and that the laws of this nation are to be written, litigated, and enforced not by its citizens but by lawyers. Our duty is to explain to them by any means necessary that they're wrong. And for that we'll need more than a few good men.
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