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California Governor Gavin Newsom (then Lieutenant Governor) riding in the Golden State Warriors Parade in Oakland, CA, Jun. 12, 2018. (Photo: Amir Aziz/Shutterstock)
Gov. Newsom Making Illegal Climate Change Compact With China
Another deal with China following Illegal Chinese COVID Lab discovery in Reedley
By Katy Grimes, August 11, 2023 2:55 am
Following the discovery of the Illegal Chinese COVID Lab discovery in Reedley, which possibly could be CCP Biowarfare Lab, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced he was partnering with a province in China to fight climate change.
“Not a joke” as President Joe Biden would say.
Why China?
Gov. Newsom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) August 3rd which “outlines five areas of cooperation between California and Hainan: cutting air pollution, developing and implementing climate adaptation and carbon neutrality plans, advancing clean energy, accelerating zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and driving nature-based solutions.”
There is one big problem – well actually several big problems:
- The United States Constitution says, “No state shall enter into any treaty.” It’s pretty clear that Gov. Newsom does not have the legal authority to enter into any compact with any foreign nation or province.
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China emissions exceed all developed nations combined. So any agreement with China to “cut air pollution” is ludicrous.
“Working together with global partners like the province of Hainan, we stand a chance to address the existential crisis of climate change by cutting pollution and transitioning to clean energy,” Gov. Newsom said.
Newsom has done this before, as did his predecessor. And notably, these agreements with foreign governments rarely produce anything useful other than travel opportunities for politicians… and regulations on taxpayers.
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In May 2022 Gov. Gavin Newsom and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (Ardern has since resigned) signed a “pledge” agreeing to help fight climate change together by working to put millions more electric vehicles on the road. I’m guessing if we call it a “pledge,” it doesn’t count as a treaty, compact or MOU?
As the Globe asked at the time, “Why? New Zealand is over 6,700 miles from California and continents away. What is the relevance?”
“Later is too late to address climate change, and California is taking aggressive steps to bolster the clean economy while reducing pollution in our communities – but we can’t do it alone,” Gov. Newsom said.
In October 2022, Gov. Newsom, Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Washington Governor Jay Inslee, and British Columbia Premier John Horgan “doubled down” on Thursday and signed a new Statement of Cooperation, another climate agreement – the Pacific Coast Collaborative – “recommitting” the Western region “to climate action.”
“In California, we punch above our weight when it comes to climate action – but our actions can only do so much without the rest of the world at our side,” Gov. Newsom said. Newsom called what is taking place, “the Great Awakening,” noting that “something is happening… the extreme heat, extreme drought, the extreme weather… we have all experiences this whipsaw back and forth.”
Back in June 2008, the leaders of Alaska, British Columbia, California, Oregon, and Washington signed the Pacific Coast Collaborative Agreement, amounting to a “compact,” which is prohibited between states without Congressional approval.
But that has never deterred California’s governors. And Gov. Newsom’s administration just changed the name of the deal from “compact” to “pledge,” to “Memorandum of Cooperation” to “Memorandum of Understanding.”
In October 2013, California Gov. Jerry Brown, together with the Governors of Oregon and Washington and the British Columbia Premier, signed the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, “to align climate change policies and promote clean energy.”
Gov. Brown’s Pacific Coast Collaborative linked with the West Coast Infrastructure Exchange (WCX), a compact between California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, formed in 2013 to promote “the type of new thinking necessary to solve the West Coast’s infrastructure crisis,” according to Brown. And the WCX was linked at the time to the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Global Initiative.
“California isn’t waiting for the rest of the world before it takes action on climate change,” said Gov. Brown. “Today, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia are all joining together to reduce greenhouse gases.”
This sounds eerily familiar to Gov. Newsom’s “Later is too late to address climate change.”
Newsom’s latest Climate change announcement featured California’s 2022 “enacted aggressive climate measures with a sweeping package of legislation backed by a multi-billion-dollar record investment,” The California Climate Commitment which “cuts pollution, protects Californians from big polluters, accelerates the state’s transition to clean energy, and expands economic opportunities for all Californians.”
The California Climate Commitment involves:
Forging an oil-free future and accelerating the transition away from big polluters, Governor Newsom is committing to the most robust, comprehensive climate action in history – the California Climate Commitment invests $54 billion to fight climate change and enacts new world-leading measures that’ll cut pollution, deploy clean energy and new technologies, and protect Californians from harmful oil drilling.
Be wary of fighting climate change by “enacting new world-leading measures.”
What these agreements, compacts and Memorandum of Understandings really do is allow unelected agency directors and boards to make law without the Legislature under the thin guise of oppressive and business-killing regulations – more electric vehicles, more public transportation, “walking, biking and adaptation projects,” offshore wind projects, affordable housing development near transit – you get it.
How will this be accomplished?
The MOU specifically identifies, “The joint office of the California-China Climate Institute at the University of California, Berkeley and the China Center for Energy and Transportation at the University of California, Davis.”
“The Participants, by common agreement, may seek the collaboration of third parties, including universities, businesses, and other public and private academic institutions whose activities may contribute to achieving the goals of this Memorandum of Understanding.”
When will the rest of the California media put pressure on Gov. Newsom and grill him on his ties to China?
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Thank you Katy Grimes, one of the few real journalists.
It’s true. Always grateful to Katy Grimes.
An oil free future. The writing is on the wall for Newsom. No Joke.
And a few months from now, no one will remember anything about this. None of it will be accomplished, other than political grandstanding.
Not true!!!
Governor Hairgel Hitler has taken economic action in conjunction with these whatever he wants to call them to circumvent the US Constitution.
These actions, like Biden’s war on traditional fuel sources, have contributed (or lead in Biden’s case) to real inflationary pressures and economic harm to us!!!
It’s plain as day, if one is paying attention, that Newsom is executing the bidding of the globalist World Economic Forum, along with his fellow “Young Global Leader” Ardern, although she folded under the pressure.
We The People of California need to wake the hell up and take action to push back HARD on everything that the “leader of the nation-state of California” is promoting AND instituting via the amorphous cover of the “existential threat of climate change”.
Just like the boogeyman of “Covid-19” psy-op that scared millions of people into taking EUA injections that have killed or maimed millions of people, these fascist technocrat globalist Communists are trt8ng to scare people into accepting all types of centrally-controlled life changes, to combat a natural phenomenon that we actually have little to no control over.
And even if we did, Newsom’s partner in crime on so many of his shady deals, China, is a much more active polluter than Western nations, and stand to benefit from our unilateral acceptance of the harmful economic policies being implemented by our megalomaniac Governor.
Excellent view spot on. Gavin is a psychopath. He was wrong on COVID and many were killed Or worse. Pushing on children is pure evil. Gavin is a narcissistic out of control psychopath. In bed with china exposed on bio hazard giving the China over 300,000.00 tax credit. The list is long murderous trail of billions of dollars going to China. Gavin is destroying California. He needs to be arrested and charged with crimes against humanity.
Did Newsome have any kind of comment on the lab found in Reedley California? I so, what was his response to this hidden lab’s danger. I have not heard or seen any statement from him. He Newsome is doing more and more as he please. He has no problem in breaking constitutional laws.
CCP Biolab found in Cal and no real press? Wow! Have to ask yourself why?
Another obviously bad Newsom story ..just how long can they keep their hidden agenda hidden? The cat is half way out of the bag!
All that hair gel & teeth whitener has definitely affected his judgment. I’m still waiting for that 30billion he sent to China for masks that never arrived. He ignores homelessness, crime, murder, Chinese labs in Fresno that can kill us, parents who actually WANT to raise their OWN children, basic decency, basic understanding of community that he is SUPPOSED to serve., common sense climate rules (waiting for all of the above) but he just hopes we won’t notice as he preens himself behind the curtains to become president (God Help us)
How about encouraging a conservative public interest group to file suit to invalidate these agreements, which are really treaties contrary to the constitution?