A wind energy company has pleaded guilty after killing at least 150 eagles A wind energy company was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a Tuesday court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was charged in the deaths of eagles at three of its wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/06/1091250692/esi-energy-bald-eagles Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills A wind turbine’s blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing, so at the end of their lifespan they can’t just be hauled away. First, you need to saw through the lissome fiberglass using a diamond-encrusted industrial saw to create three pieces small enough to be strapped to a tractor-trailer. The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the final resting place of 870 blades whose days making renewable energy have come to end. The severed fragments look like bleached whale bones nestled against one another. “That’s the end of it for this winter,” said waste technician Michael Bratvold, watching a bulldozer bury them forever in sand. “We’ll get the rest when the weather breaks this spring.” https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills-1.1385125 Miss Netherlands contestant makes history as first trans woman to win the pageant Rikkie Kollé became the first openly trans pageant contestant to win the title of Miss Netherlands on Saturday, and she will go on to represent her country in Miss Universe later this year. “I did it!” Kollé wrote in a joyous Instagram post after her win at the AFAS Theater in Leusden. “I made my community proud and showed it can be done,” she added in Dutch with an emoji of the light blue, light pink and white-striped trans flag. https://www.cnn.com/style/miss-netherlands-pageant-rikkie-kolle/index.html Justin Trudeau Finally Makes Public Reference To White Canadians: “Stop Being Racists” Justin Trudeau has made a move unprecedented within his reign as prime minister: he actually made public reference to white Canadians. It took just under six-years for any form of recognition of Old Stock Canadians to take place. Not once since Trudeau was elected in October, 2015 has he made an explicit reference to Anglophone Canada, or any iteration thereof. This, as opposed to tacit references toward Canadian-born citizens. Here we speak of our PM’s implied branding of white Canadians as racists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes and purveyors of genocide. Suddenly, on the turn of dime, Mr. Trudeau is asking our communities for a favour. He wants us to stop being racist. Never mind that it is this individual who is responsible for a rise in racism to levels unheard of in modern times. https://capforcanada.com/justin-trudeau-breaks-five-year-silence-on-white-canadians-stop-being-racist/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5hU5nLJEtE

Golden State tarnished: Ex-pats reveal ‘why we left California for good’ It’s official: California dreamin’ has become a nightmare. According to the California Policy Lab, which is affiliated with the University of California, the number of people leaving the state is up 12 percent since before COVID-19. In fact, there are more people heading out than coming in. Even before the pandemic, a survey from Edelman Intelligence found that more than half of residents in California said they wanted to high-tail it to another state. Among millennial residents, it was almost two-thirds. https://nypost.com/2022/01/22/former-residents-reveal-why-we-left-california-for-good/ California governor responds to recommended reparations payments for Black residents California’s governor responded Wednesday to the reparations payments for some Black state residents that were recommended by a task force looking at how to mitigate injustices and discrimination stemming from slavery. Gov. Gavin Newsom called the recommendations “a milestone in our bipartisan effort to advance justice and promote healing.” He added, “We need to wait for the Task Force to finish its work and submit its final report,” without offering any further details about whether he supports the recommendations put forth. “We are waiting for the process to be completed,” Newsom, a Democrat who is White, said in a statement. The recommendations approved Saturday outline restitution that, if approved by state lawmakers, could cost billions of dollars to address historical disparities in health care, housing and policing. “Dealing with the legacy of slavery is about much more than cash payments,” Newsom said in his statement. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/us/california-reparations-task-force-newsom-reaj/index.html California First To Cover Health Care For All Undocumented Immigrants California on Thursday became the first state to guarantee free health care for all low-income immigrants living in the country illegally, a move that will provide coverage for an additional 764,000 people at an eventual cost of about $2.7 billion a year. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $307.9 billion operating budget that pledges to make all low-income adults eligible for the state’s Medicaid program by 2024 regardless of their immigration status. It’s a long-sought victory for health care and immigration activists, who have been asking for the change for more than a decade. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-health-care-immigrants_n_62be8dcce4b0f61257250f3e California State and Local Liabilities Total $1.6 Trillion California’s total state and local government debt now stands at almost $1.6 trillion, or about half the state’s GDP. That isn’t an alarming ratio when compared to the national debt, which has now soared to 128 percent of U.S. GDP with no end in sight. But Californians carry this $1.6 trillion state and local debt ($40,000 per capita) in addition to their share of the national debt (about $90,000 per capita). https://californiapolicycenter.org/california-state-and-local-liabilities-total-1-6-trillion/ There Were NEVER Slaves In California! Claims for “Reparations” There Beyond Absurd. Above: USA today repeats fake history claim that California had a “slavery legacy”, when slavery NEVER existed there. Not when it was part of Mexico before 1846. Not when it became part of the United States. https://libertyandprosperity.com/there-were-never-slaves-in-california-claims-for-reparations-there-beyond-absurd/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTnJCh1RoH8