February 9th 2021

In 2008 a $77 billion high speed rail link was earmarked to cut through protected forest in California. It was a controversial project, mainly because of it’s planned destruction of protected land but also the spiralling costs. Despite this, Jerry Brown, California’s Democratic governor was determined to push this project through.

The People

The contract for the high speed rail link involved Richard Blum, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), California High Speed Rail Authority (HRSA) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). HSRA required electrification through approximately 345 miles of Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) service territory within the Silicon Valley to Central Valley line.

Richard C. Blum won the contract for the high speed rail link. Richard Blum is the husband of controversial Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein. Blum, an American Investor, won the $77 BILLION construction contract for California’s high-speed rail project. This is not the first time Blum has won a contract amidst controversy. In 2011, the CB Richard Ellis Group, the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm of which Blum was the Chairman, was awarded an exclusive contract to market USPS facilities which provides CBRE with a commission of 2 to 6 percent on the sale of those properties. According to Snopes, there was no evidence to support the claim that Richard Blum's company obtained the contract due to his wife's influence. However, Feinstein and Blum have a long history with communist China and it’s funding. In the ensuing decades, Feinstein helped dramatically increase commercial ties with China, allowing her husband, investor Richard Blum, to substantially grow his China-related investment profits. In the 1980s, Feinstein and Zemin, the future CCP general secretary and president, worked together to establish corporate partnerships for the express purpose of investing in China.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company are the largest, most powerful energy provider in California. On the Pacific Gas and Electricity (PG&E)  board of directors is a man called Roger Kimmel. Kimmel also happens to be Vice President of Rothcschilds Inc. PG&E have made huge contributions to Jerry Brown, California’s Democratic governor. Another PG&E director is Michael Peevey. Peevey is the former President of CPUC, California’s most powerful energy regulatory agency.

In order to build the link forest had to be cleared, land had to be purchased. However, the land purchased by the rail authority has sometimes come at a premium. For example according to Los Angeles Times, September 16th 2019, the authority bought a parking lot in 2016 in a dilapidated area of downtown, about 600 feet away from its future tracks. The lot was owned by the Fresno Redevelopment Authority, which put it up for sale in 2016 as part of a state program to liquidate redevelopment agencies. An auction started at $1.8 million with only two bidders: local developer Terance Frazier and HRSA. Frazier said he wanted to build a 10-story condominium with ground-level retail, “the kind of housing development that high-speed rail is supposed to attract”. Frazier, along with investors that included former major league pitcher and Fresno native Matt Garza, submitted the winning bid of $2.4 million. But within a few days, the city invoked its power to take the property back and then shortly sold it to the rail authority for $1,000 over Frazier’s bid. “It was shady,” Frazier said. “It was not the right thing to do.” Frazier said the rail authority could have purchased the lot at the $1.8-million opening bid. “The city made out like a bandit,” he said. “They got another $600,000 out of it.”

In July 2018 Gov. Jerry Brown released a proposal to reduce PG&E’s legal responsibility for wildfire damages after months of intense lobbying at the California Capitol. The bill passed which meant any financial burden from which applies to fires sparked after Jan. 1, 2018 were not automatically PG&E’s responsibility. It would allow judges to determine “whether the utility acted reasonably” in awarding damages in cases in which electrical equipment is a “substantial cause of the fire.” An award of damages “shall reflect the utility’s proportionate fault” and whether it complied with safety regulations, Brown’s proposal said.

The change shifted the financial burden for blazes from PG&E onto insurance companies which lead to higher coverage premiums for homeowners.

“Now more than ever, Californians depend on reliable electrical power to heat and cool homes, run hospitals and fire stations and so much more,” Brown wrote in a letter to the Legislature. “Yet, the increasingly destructive and costly wildfires and natural disasters have the potential to undermine the system, leaving our energy sector in a state of weakness at a time when it should be making even greater investments in safety.”

California Fires 2018

The 2018 wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season in California history. It was also the largest on record at the time, now second to the 2020 California wildfire season.In 2018, there were a total of 103 confirmed fatalities, 24,226 structures damaged or destroyed, and 8,527 fires burning 1,975,086 acres (799,289 ha), about 2% of the state's 100 million acres of land. Through the end of August 2018, Cal Fire alone spent $432 million on operations. The catastrophic Camp Fire alone accounted for at least 85 lives, 18,804 razed buildings, and $16.5 billion in property damage, while overall, the fires amounted to at least $26.347 billion (2018 USD) in property damage and firefighting costs, including $25.4 billion in property damage and $947 million in fire suppression costs.

In mid-July to August 2018, a series of large wildfires erupted across California, mostly in the northern part of the state, including the destructive Carr Fire and the Mendocino Complex Fire. On August 4, 2018, a national disaster was declared in Northern California, due to the extensive wildfires burning there. The Carr Fire in July and August 2018 caused more than $1.5 billion (2018 USD) in property damage. The Mendocino Complex Fire burned more than 459,000 acres (186,000 ha), becoming the largest complex fire in the state's history at the time, with the complex's Ranch Fire surpassing the Thomas Fire and the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 to become California's single-largest recorded wildfire. In September 2020, the August Complex surpassed the Mendocino Complex to become California's single-largest recorded wildfire.

In November 2018, strong winds aggravated conditions in another round of large, destructive fires that occurred across the state. This new batch of wildfires included the Woolsey Fire and the Camp Fire. The Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise and killed at least 85 people, with 1 still unaccounted for as of August 2, 2019. The Camp Fire destroyed more than 18,000 structures, becoming both California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record. AccuWeather estimated the total economic cost of the 2018 wildfires at $400 billion (2018 USD), which includes property damage, firefighting costs, direct and indirect economic losses, as well as recovery expenditures.

An investigation showed that the California wildfires of 2018 were ignited by PG&E power lines, and then spread with the help of warm temperatures, dry vegetation, and strong winds. Pacific Gas and Electric Company ultimately were found liable for the fires, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and were forced to file for bankruptcy.

Conspiracy Theories

As fast as conspiracy theories emerged so did the saturation of media fact checkers, eager to disprove and ridicule the reports. A conspiracy theory involving lasers, the government, and California wildfires began circulating on social media this week in the wake of the catastrophic Camp Fire in California. User submitted photos on Facebook of the California fires show weird beams of light emitting from the sky causing fires, destruction & property damage. “These look like lasers, or high frequency direct energy weapons.”

One YouTuber suggested that the fires were started by a "Directed Energy Weapon” (e.g. a laser) in order to distract us from the mass killing in Las Vegas last year “The government is starting these fires,” one Facebook user said. “Marinate on this ...”

The Washington Examiner said: “This last photo, tweeted out from the Forest Service of Klamath National Forest, is of a California fire. But the fire burned this May and is not a part of the “Camp Fire.” The strange line on the photo seems to be nothing more than some sort of streak on the camera lens, as this video explains. (But this is unclear and the Forest Service did not care to explain what the line was. They did however note that the fire was “ contained and 100% mopped up” on the same day it started.)

Snopes rated this headline confusingly as a ‘mixture’ (see below). It stated that Greene did not refer to ‘Jewish Space Laser’ therefore the headline was ‘false’. Work that one out.

‘Conspiracy theorists’ saw ‘laser and energy beams’ coming from the sky. Some witness reports state buildings were cut in half by fires, with one half remaining untouched. Cars were cut in half or blown onto their roofs. Obvious fantasy.

Solaren

Solaren is a high tech green energy company based in California. It’s website looks like something you would buy ‘off the shelf’ a decade ago. For a high tech company it looks anything but. Solaren, Inc. was created to use solar energy for terrestrial electricity usage.In 2009, the company had a contract under negotiation with Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California to deliver 200 megawatts of power for at least 15 years, starting in 2016. The cost of the contracted activities has been reported as "slightly more" than California's projected energy cost in 2016 of 12.9 cents per kilowatt hour. In 2014, the planned delivery date had been moved back to the end of 2020.

Solaren plans to provide this electrical power to PG&E's customers from solar panels mounted on satellites placed in Earth's orbit. The satellite would convert this energy into radio waves and send it to a receiving station in Fresno County, California. The plan is to provide 200 megawatts of continuous power, estimated as the average usage of 150,000 homes.

Whilst sounding like something out of science fiction, the technology is real and currently being utilised by China. China has ambitious plans to construct a series of space-based solar farms, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported, citing China’s Science & Technology Daily newspaper. “The solar farms, being launched ‘officially’ between 2021 and 2025 (with larger, 1MW-size stations planned for 2030+) will be able to supply energy back to Earth at six times the intensity of terrestrial solar farms” reports Pang Zhihao, a researcher at the China Academy of Space Technology.

PG&E are partners to Solaren, Michael Peevey sits on Solaren’s Board of Directors. Rothschild Inc funds Solaren via Roger Kimmel.

Weaponizing Commercial Space-Based Solar Power Satellites

Solaren Corp. holds two patents for transmitting microwave directed energy from space to pinpoint locations on earth:

1 – Under patent US7612284B2 , a solar-powered satellite will generate a powerful microwave radio frequency beam focused on an array of collector antennas where it will be transformed to electrical power supplied to PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric)

2- Under patent US20110204159A1, a solar-powered satellite will generate a powerful microwave radio frequency beam to control the weather by heating deployments of aluminum oxide or other conductive particulates, sprayed from aircraft. The patent describes methods of steering and changing the intensity of a hurricane.

Solaren’s specific plans (Patent US7612284B2) were to put an array of solar panels around 22,000 miles above the earth’s equator using existing rocket technology and then convert the power generated into microwave radio-frequency transmissions. Mirrors would focus sunlight on solar cells, generating electrical power. The electricity would be converted into microwaves suitable for transmitting through Earth’s atmosphere at frequencies of 2.45 or 5.8 GHz. For comparison, 2.45 GHz is the same frequency as your kitchen microwave. The microwaves would be beamed back down to antennae in Fresno, California and then converted into electricity and fed into the PG&E power grid. Without the Fresno part they sound like Directed Energy Weapons Systems.

A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy, including laser, microwaves, and particle beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. The first usage of directed-energy weapons in a combat was claimed to have occurred in Libya in August 2019 by Turkey which claimed to use the ALKA Directed-energy weapon. Most superpowers have DEWs. According the the Daily Mail, in November 2020 China used DEWs “to cook Indian soldiers alive' and force them into retreat in Himalayan border battle” without violating a ban on ‘gun fire’.

“The microwave weapons heat water molecules in the same way as the kitchen appliance, targeting water under the skin and causing increasing amounts of pain to the target from ranges of up to 0.6 miles away.” The Mail goes on to report that this was the first publicised use of microwave weapons on the battlefield.

Conclusion

Laser beams (microwaves) from space (orbiting satellites) purposely deployed to destroy obstructions for financial gain by California Gov. Jerry Brown, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Rothschild Inc is certainly plausible given that no part of the process is science fiction. The satellite technology currently exists. The weaponisation of high frequency microwaves currently exists. It is not a huge leap to suggest that maybe in the wrong hands this technology could be utilised for nefarious purposes. Afterall complex financial structures that hide political funding, backhanders and insider trading at cost to the average person is common place in the 21st Century.