California: Thousands of Joshua trees are being shredded onsite to make room for solar panels

California: Thousands of Joshua trees are being shredded onsite to make room for solar panels

Rhoda Wilson

The natural world is being destroyed to cater for “green” energy.  Nothing demonstrates the stunning hypocrisy of “green” energy ideology more than destroying trees and replacing them with environmentally destructive not-so-greensolar panels to mitigate climate change. Yet this is what is happening in California.

More than 3,500 majestic Joshua trees in California’s Mojave Desert are being shredded onsite to make way for thousands of solar panels.

Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) are not actually trees, but rather a type of succulent that stores water in its trunk and leaves.  They are native to the arid Southwestern United States, specifically in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. They are an important food source for many animals, including birds, insects and mammals.

The plants are slow-growing, adding only 2 to 3 inches each year, but because of this, they live for a long time. One Joshua tree in California is thought to be over 1,000 years old. A more common lifespan is about 150 years.

The sprawling solar project will produce intermittent energy on 2,300 acres of land near the small towns of Boron and Desert Lake. It is not clear whether any of the electricity produced at the solar site will serve some nearby communities. But the project’s developer, California-based Avantus, says contracts have been signed to deliver some of the power to Silicon Valley Clean Energy and Central Coast Community Energy, both are non-profits that provide green energy to homes in more affluent coastal communities, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Even though many of the trees are estimated to be between 100 and 200 years old, government approval of the solar project in 2021 pre-dated a state decision to protect the Joshua tree under the California Endangered Species Act and last year’s enactment by the legislature of the Joshua Tree Conservation Act, which bans unpermitted killing of the trees. As a result, the targeted trees are defenceless.

Now that the fate of the Joshua trees has been sealed, the developer is at pains to justify the Aratina Solar Project by citing its role in combatting manmade climate change.

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EXPOSED: HOW CLIMATE RACKETEERS AIM TO FORCE US INTO SMART GULAGS

EXPOSED: HOW CLIMATE RACKETEERS AIM TO FORCE US INTO SMART GULAGS

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Smart cities, 15-minute cities, and predictions of moving rural citizens to cities have been in the works for at least 30 years. China was ahead of the curve by moving 300 million farmers to cities, stripping them of their land, their generational profession, and their dignity. ⁃ TN Editor

Shocking evidence is emerging from Australia and New Zealand of how the climate scam is being used to impose a techno-totalitarian smart-city future.

The criminocratic global imperialists often use their Commonwealth colonies to try out the most insidious escalations of their tyranny – think of Canada, New Zealand and Australia during Covid.

We can therefore assume that this is going to be the blueprint for the roll-out of their Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda across the world.

The sinister scheme in question, called “Managed Retreat”, has been exposed by independent researcher Kate Mason on her excellent Substack blog aimed at “deconstructing 4IR narratives”.

The idea is that exaggerated “modelling” of the imagined effects of “climate change” is being used to define certain areas as unsuitable for human settlement.

Working hand in hand with the state is the insurance industry – long a central part of the corrupt criminocratic empire – which deems homes in these areas to be “uninsurable”.

Banks are also playing their part (of course!) saying they are unwilling to provide mortgages for these “uninsurable” properties.

In her latest article, Kate refers to a TV report about Kensington Banks, near Melbourne city centre, which has been newly declared a flood zone.

She writes: “Property prices are expected to plummet by 20 percent. I think that’s rather conservative – who is going to buy in a flood zone? Unless it’s a developer who will raze it all to the ground and build a Smart Resilient complex”.

Meanwhile, in New Zealand, residents are up in arms about attempts to impose “retreat” from coastal areas under the pretext of a predicted rise in sea levels.

As this media report shows, they are not buying the scaremongering climate propaganda.

As for the agenda behind all this, Kate writes:

Finding the information on climate change modelling and insurance has joined the dots for me regarding the enormous amount of pack and stack housing developments going ahead in Australia.

They’re going to need to put us all somewhere when our houses are uninsurable and we have to sell them for a pittance.

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Russia: Ukraine and "outside foreigners," are supplying chemical and radioactive weapons capable of making a dirty nuclear bomb that will be used for a false flag operation

REPORT: Russia drops major accusations, says Ukraine and "outside foreigners," are supplying chemical and radioactive weapons capable of making a dirty nuclear bomb that will be used for a false flag operation

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Germany: Violent Antifa Street Militia Try to Shut Down AfD Convention, 28 Police Officers Injured, One Critically

Germany: Violent Antifa Street Militia Try to Shut Down AfD Convention, 28 Police Officers Injured, One Critically

Richard Abelson

Thousands of violent far-left “Anti” Fascists stormed the streets of the western German city of Essen this weekend, trying to “shut down” the party convention of the AfD (Alternative for Germany). Politicians and delegates were attacked and hunted throughout the city, many had to be escorted by riot police to the Grugahalle center. One officer is in critical condition after being kicked in the head while on the ground.

A far-left alliance of (often government-funded) NGOs organized the riots in Essen under the motto “Widersetzen” (Resist), led by the “Anti” Fascist League VVN-BdA. Organizers claimed 50.000 rioters attacked 600 AfD delegates.

The current German interior minister Nancy Faeser is an “Anti” Fascist League supporter who has written for their magazine “antifa” (The Gateway Pundit reported). Chancellor Olaf Scholz was a far-left activist as a student in the 1980s, who frequently visited East Germany and met with the Communist party leadership.

AfD vice-chair and Bundestga member Beatrix von Storch, who has written for The Gateway Pundit, was attacked by a threatening mob of street hooligans on arrival at the train station in Essen and had to be brought to safety by dozens of riot police.

Police then escorted von Storch to the convention center.

Police escorting another delegate to the hall were attacked by about 200 violent “Anti” Fascists. One officer was beaten to the ground and kicked in the head by this gentleman. The officer is in critical condition.

A group of AfD delegates had to be herded into a bakery by police and remained there for 45 minutes while the zombie mob howled at the doors outside like a scene out of “Walking Dead.” The group was eventually escorted to the convention by riot police.

Masked “Anti” Fascist militias tried to block the A52 autobahn leading to the city.

Riot police had to use pepper spray and truncheons to prevent the well-organized street guerilla from reaching the autobahn.

Videos showed the trained and uniformed “Anti” Fascists executing intricate mob tactics, which they are apparently drilled on.

Universities and clubs in Germany offer training in street combat to leftist rioters, often funded with taxpayer money.

The AfD convention was delayed by about half an hour Saturday due to the violent attacks.

On Sunday, the protests were disrupted by rain. The “Anti” Fascist crusaders do not like getting wet.

The convention re-elected Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla as leaders of the AfD.

The delegates also voted to leave the EU “Identity and Democracy” party, after being evicted from the “Identity and Democracy” group in the European Parliament by French National Rally head Marine LePen over remarks made by AfD candidate Maximilian Krah.

That step will leave the AfD largely isolated as Europe’s right-wing parties move to form a powerful EU bloc.

RIOTS Break Out in France – Antifa Is Vandalizing Stores After Massive Right-Wing Election Victory

RIOTS Break Out in France – Antifa Is Vandalizing Stores After Massive Right-Wing Election Victory

Jim Hoft

Riots broke out in France on Sunday after the right-wing won the first round of legislative elections.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, France’s globalist president Emmanuel Macron took a massive gamble earlier calling for a snap election following an enormous defeat in the EU elections earlier this month.

The right-wing populist National Rally Party (FN), led by Macron’s arch-nemesis Marine Le Pen, won the first round of France’s parliamentary elections on Sunday. Macron’s party, the Ensemble Alliance, slipped to a distant third place.

Current results show FN taking 34% of the vote, with the far-left New Popular Front (NFP) coalition five points behind at 29%. The Ensemble alliance sits at 21%.

This was a major blow to the international, globalist left.
According to Reuters.

Macron will remain president after the parliamentary election, the second round of which is on July 7. But he will have to pick a prime minister from the party or alliance with the most seats in the National Assembly, regardless of how divergent their policies are from his own.

The RN’s chances of winning power next week will depend on whether its rivals team up in the coming days to keep it from power. The RN might come first, but without an absolute majority.

The French leftists took the lost in stride. Just kidding. 

Of course the left rioted in the streets tonight in France.

Tens of thousands of left-wing rioters take to the streets of France causing chaos. Stores are being looted as activists set fire to the streets, launching fireworks, tear gas and smoke grenades after the results of the French election.