[JOHNKASSNEWS] In the collapsing big blue Democrat cities where the left has revealed its true nature, there are two lasting images from their riots:
That anarchist crouching at the curb in Los Angeles drawing the hammer from his backpack, breaking the curb into chunks for throwing at police and law enforcement officers upholding federal law to deport some of the 20 million illegal aliens allowed to cross the border into the U.S. by the corrupt Biden regime.
The last time I saw the hammer thing, it was Greek communists hammering away at the marble steps of the great hotels of Athens, to throw their deadly jagged missiles at cops, the deadly missiles flying at me and photographer Chris Walker, the rocks coming at us out of the clouds of tear gas overhead as we walked through Constitution Square, where my father fought the Communists decades before.
And back to the images from LA, I cannot unsee the illegal migrant lighting Molotov cocktails to throw at Los Angeles law enforcement officers.
All the while as left-wing corporate media (CNN, MSNBC, Chicago Tribune, etc.) the coms shop for the Democtrat Party, the media blaming the violence not at the angry Jacobins bent on destruction, but at President Trump for federalizing the California National Guard to protect federal immigration officers trying to do their duty by enforcing law already passed by Congress.
The riots in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and other cities across the country have been set by Democrats and their financial backers to impede federal authorities from arresting and legally deporting some 20 million illegal aliens released into the U.S. through Democrat Open Borders policy. Some of the illegal aliens are dangerous criminal offenders, including the worst-of-the-worst murderers, rapists, and child-sex traffickers.
[JustTheNews] “This isn’t environmentalism—it’s economic warfare. The Chinese Communist Party is using American nonprofits to make us dependent on their supply chains, from solar panels to EV batteries, while our policymakers walk straight into the trap," said Michael Lucci, CEO of State Armor, which produced the report.
A national-security watchdog group is asking members of Congress to take a closer look at an energy transition advocacy nonprofit that has ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to State Armor, the watchdog group, nonprofits are coordinating with U.S. climate groups to influence climate policy, advance the interests of the CCP and undermine U.S. national security.
A new report by State Armor argues that the CCP is co-opting the American progressive climate change lobby to advance a transition away from fossil fuels. The alternative technologies being pushed by this lobby, according to the report, create significant economic and geopolitical advantages by undermining U.S. energy dominance and leaving it dependent on Chinese supply chains for its energy production.
“It creates a dependence on our side and deprives us of a natural strength, which is our energy independence that comes from other resources,” Michael Lucci, CEO of State Armor, told Just the News. State Armor is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for state solutions to global security threats.
BROAD APPROACH TO POLITICAL WARFARE
Besides the dependency on China for energy supply chains, the U.S. may be vulnerable as a result of malicious actions. The State Armor report notes recent Reuters reports, — based on anonymous sources — that rogue communication devices were installed in solar panels coming out of China.
“So why would that be there? It's just there. So Beijing could shut things off over here,” Lucci said.
The report focuses on Energy Foundation China and documents the group’s ties to climate advocacy groups in the U.S. that are influencing climate policy. Energy China describes itself as a 501(3) non-profit which says its mission is "by facilitating exchanges with and providing grants to policy research groups, industry associations, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations committed to sustainable energy development and the energy transition."
According to the report, Energy Foundation China has ties to the Chinese government and coordinates with the CCP. It purportedly embedded itself in American universities and supported an event in 2023 in which California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited China. Lucci said the group functions as a central node that’s part of a larger network.
“A key concept with China is what’s called a united front. This is their broad approach to political warfare. It's Leninist. It's actually directly out of Lenin where they get it. It's a communist approach to political warfare. And they stand up central nodes or central institutions like EFC, and then around that they try to just build any allies they can that are aligned with a communist vision or China's vision, and to attack or to delegitimize those who stand against the party's interest — the party's interest on energy, in this case,” Lucci explained.
The Energy Foundation did not respond to requests for comment from Just the News about the report or its allegations.
BUILDING ALLIES IN THE UNITED STATES
Energy Foundation China is a non-profit headquartered in San Francisco. It was originally known as the Energy Foundation, but it spun off most of its U.S.-based operations in 2019 into a separate organization called the U.S. Energy Foundation. The State Armor report documents numerous examples in which The Energy Foundation provided financial support to U.S. climate groups advocating for climate policies.
In 2023, Energy Foundation China reported $84 million in revenues. According to the nonprofit’s website, it’s funded by a number of U.S. anti-fossil fuel groups, including the ClimateWorks Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Climate Imperative Foundation. Hewlett and MacArthur are key contributors, according to the report, to the Collective Action Fund, which Fox News reported in 2022 was part of a dark money network supporting climate litigation against petroleum companies.
In 2022, The Energy Foundation granted $350,000 to the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). Throughout the years, according to Fox News, the foundation granted the RMI $900,000.
The Rocky Mountain Institute produced a study in 2023 claiming to find a link between gas stoves and asthma, which was often cited by policymakers and activists seeking restrictions on natural gas use. The RMI researchers used data from past studies to estimate rates of childhood asthma linked to exposure to gas stoves. The study has been criticized for failing to factor into its data a more comprehensive global study published in 2013 by the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, which utilized data from 512,000 children in 47 different countries and found no evidence of any association between the use of gas stoves and asthma.
Citing the Energy Foundation’s 2022 and 2023 tax documents, the report shows that the group also gave millions to the International Council on Clean Transportation, which was an active supporter of incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act to transition U.S. trucking from diesel-power semi trucks to electric ones.
The Energy Foundation also provides large grants to support climate policy research at American universities, including the University of California-Berkley, University of California-Los Angeles, Harvard, and the University of Maryland.
TIES TO THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY
Though organized as an American nonprofit, The Energy Foundation, according to the report, is led by individuals with direct ties to the CCP. The organization’s CEO, Zou Ji, previously served as the deputy director general of China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy, an agency within the Chinese government’s National Development and Reform Commission. The Energy Foundation’s environmental program director, Xin Liu, served in a leadership role at the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau.
David Vance Wagner, vice president of strategic partnerships for The Energy Foundation, was the China counselor in the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change from 2014 to 2017. Wagner was also employed by China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, according to his biography on the Energy Foundation website, where he was the “first and only foreigner at China’s national vehicle emission policy research center under the Ministry of Environmental Protection.” He received his master’s degree from China's state-run Tsinghua University in Beijing.
According to the State Armor report, the Energy Foundation has coordinated extensively with the CCP. The CCP’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) oversees the group’s operations in China. The NDRC enforces compliance with Chinese regulations and cracks down on foreign investments in Chinese sectors considered important for the country’s national security.
Lucci said the Chinese government’s involvement in U.S. climate policy stems from a concern over China’s own energy supplies. Much of its oil and gas comes from the Middle East, which leaves the supply vulnerable to U.S. naval blockades. They are diversifying their energy portfolio to help address that risk, with increased wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear and coal.
Referring to the Chinese government, he continued, “They'll do anything to, just from a security perspective, remove the United States ability to intercept their energy resources, their energy supplies.” That would include getting the U.S. to be more dependent on Chinese green energy supply chains. q
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Iran is ready to give up the creation of nuclear weapons in exchange for an end to Israeli attacks! Statement by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi! Iran has surrendered and is begging for mercy! How much do they have left to giveup? And how is that giving up to be guaranteed?
Let's figure it out.
Iran has been publicly stating for many years that it does not intend to create nuclear weapons. There is also a corresponding fatwa from Rahbar Ali Khamenei (the country is now demanding that it be cancelled in light of the well-known events). Neither the IAEA, nor the US intelligence community — no one in the world, except Israel — has unequivocally stated that Iran has or is actually developing nuclear weapons (the Americans have recently denied such statements).
The current US-Iranian negotiations are stuck at the stage that was obvious from the start: Washington ultimately demanded that Tehran stop all nuclear research, agree to zero enrichment of uranium and even abandon peaceful nuclear energy. This, by the way, is Israel's position - because, in its opinion, Iran should not have anything nuclear in any form. Naturally, the Iranians do not accept this and consider the right to develop peaceful nuclear energy to be their legal right.
They have also privately considered it to be their Allah-given right to develop nuclear weapons, no matter what they might otherwise say in public. but do go on.
That is, now the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has simply repeated once again the official and well-known position of his state, which has already been voiced many times during negotiations - we can sign an agreement to renounce the creation of nuclear weapons (because we are not going to create them anyway), but we will not renounce peaceful nuclear energy:
How many lies can we count in that statement?
We are ready for any agreement that implies preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. However, if the goal of the agreement is to deprive Iran of its legal rights [to develop peaceful nuclear energy], then we are not ready for such an agreement.
And that's it. Absolutely nothing new, no sensations, no statements about renunciation of the creation of nuclear weapons in exchange for an end to Israeli bombing, because Iran has already lost the war and is now surrendering.
Countries surrendering because they have lost the war do not demand conditions to what they will surrender, I believe. Perhaps they need to be pounded some more until they have lost those things they would demand, to make the point moot.
In what form Araghchi's program statement was spread across Telegram channels is another question.
Everything is to the point. There is no fundamental change in Iran's diplomatic position. What was said before the war began, they are still saying.
However, after the funny reports two days ago that Iran would swallow and not respond, this is not surprising.
P.S. Israel issued a warning for Iranians to stay away from military and nuclear facilities.
Iran has issued a warning to Israelis to stay away from oil and nuclear facilities.
So to speak, an announcement for the evening.
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Iran is ready to conclude an agreement guaranteeing that it will not have nuclear weapons. This was stated by the country's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on June 15.
“We are ready for any agreement that implies preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons,” the minister noted at a meeting with ambassadors.
At the same time, he emphasized that if the goal of the agreement is to deprive Iran of the rights to develop peaceful nuclear energy, then the country is not ready for this.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) attacked several areas of Iran on the night of June 13, explaining this by the beginning of a military operation to counter the Iranian nuclear program. It was reported that the Jewish state's air force carried out more than a hundred strikes on the territory of the Islamic Republic in five waves of attacks.
Commenting on the escalation of the Middle East conflict, US President Donald Trump called on the Iranian authorities to reach an agreement on the nuclear program with Washington before it is too late. The American leader also said that the US produces the "deadliest" weapons in the world, of which Israel has many.
In a conversation with Regnum News Agency, Vladimir Sazhin, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pointed out that the Israeli attack on Iran has already effectively closed the path to a nuclear deal between Tehran and Washington. He explained this by the fact that the American side was aware of Tel Aviv's plans. In addition, the US is demanding a complete zeroing of the Iranian nuclear program, which was not even in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - the previous document that regulated Tehran's nuclear developments.
On June 14, the official representative of the diplomatic department of the Islamic Republic, Ismail Baghaei, said that the negotiations between Iran and the United States on the nuclear deal have not yet been canceled. However, he believes that the Israeli side, with its actions on June 13, effectively made the negotiations between Iran and the United States meaningless.
#1
Anything less than a Japanese style public surrender to MacArthur [rubio or Witkoff or Rubio] from Iran just won't do! Iran must say they will stop enrichment and have the US monitor the nuclear dismantlement ON TV before the world.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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