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My dear family in Christ,
for some time now i have been sharing what i consider a simple message: Know Thy Neighbor. However, as tragedies and unspeakable events continue to unfold, I feel an even greater need than ever before to share this simple message again. I am challenged by Christ’s own words to love my neighbor as myself. How can I truly say i love my neighbors if i don’t know them? How will I stand before Christ and claim to have loved my neighbor if I truly never even speak to them, know them even the least tiny bit, or make a true effort. It has become painfully obvious that this simple message could be one of the biggest problems facing the church today. And what affects the church effects our neighbors, or communities, and ultimately our nation. I don’t wish to sound like an alarmist. Indeed, my purpose is anything but. I want to truly encourage the full body of Christ to help me in sharing this simple – but I believe – very important and timeless message of love, sharing, understanding, and (also important) the knowledge of our neighbors. When I was younger, much younger, visiting folks was the norm – even folks we never visited before. We got to know our neighbors, stayed in touch, and became neighbors in deed – not just in word. There are many excuses for not following this small and simple premise of Christ’s love, but there are no true reasons that I can think of. If you agree, please help me to spread the simple message of knowing thy neighbor – not as a cliche’, or catchy saying, but in spirit and in truth as members of the body of Christ, ministers of the gospel, and the kind of neighbor Christ envisioned.

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Are we learning or emulating?

Please take a few minutes to read and consider the following quotation.  I believe it speaks volumes and some may indeed wish to read the entire speech from which it was excerpted...

...I ought to say why I think it necessary, in these days, to go back to a discipline which we had discarded. The truth is that for the last 300 years or so we have been living upon our educational capital. The post-Renaissance world, bewildered and excited by the profusion of new "subjects" offered to it, broke away from the old discipline (which had, indeed, become sadly dull and stereotyped in its practical application) and imagined that henceforward it could, as it were, disport itself happily in its new and extended Quadrivium without passing through the Trivium. But the scholastic tradition, though broken and maimed, still lingered in the public schools and universities: Milton, however much he protested against it, was formed by it-the debate of the Fallen Angels, and the disputation of Abdiel with Satan have the tool-marks of the Schools upon them, and might, incidentally, profitably figure as a set passage for our Dialectical studies. Right down to the nineteenth century, our public affairs were mostly managed, and our books and journals were for the most part written, by people brought up in homes, and trained in places, where that tradition was still alive in the memory and almost in the blood. Just so, many people to-day who are atheist or agnostic in religion, are governed in their conduct by a code of Christian ethics which is so rooted in their unconscious assumptions that it never occurs to them to question it.

But one cannot live on capital forever. A tradition, however firmly rooted, if it is never watered, though it dies hard, yet in the end it dies. And to-day a great number-perhaps the majority-of the men and women who handle our affairs, write our books and our newspapers, carry out research, present our plays and our films, speak from our platforms and pulpits-yes, and who educate our young people, have never, even in a lingering traditional memory, undergone the scholastic discipline. Less and less do the children who come to be educated bring any of that tradition with them. We have lost the tools of learning-the axe and the wedge, the hammer and the saw, the chisel and the plane-that were so adaptable to all tasks. Instead of them, we have merely a set of complicated jigs, each of which will do but one task and no more, and in using which eye and hand receive no training, so that no man ever sees the work as a whole or "looks to the end of the work." What use is it to pile task on task and prolong the days of labour, if at the close the chief object is left unattained? It is not the fault of the teachers-they work only too hard already. The combined folly of a civilisation that has forgotten its own roots is forcing them to shore up the tottering weight of an educational structure that is built upon sand. They are doing for their pupils the work which the pupils themselves ought to do. For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”

These are the excerpted last two paragraphs from a speech published in 1948 and delivered by DOROTHY L. SAYERS

First published in 1948
The bulk of this speech appeared as an article in the
Hibbert Journal: A Quarterly Review of Religion,
Theology, and Philosophy Volume XLVI
October 1947-July 1948

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4063687338?profile=originalDear Fellow Americans,


Like you, I am saddened and angry at the evil terrorist who bombed the Boston Marathon. I am also angered by the Democrats' and their sycophant media hack's mad dash to blame Republicans.

 

 

Shamelessly, the Democrats despicably politicize any and everything.

 

Democrats have absurdly linked the Boston bombing to the Sequester.

 

 

The dirty little secret that the Democrats do not want you to know and the mainstream media will not report is that Obama slashed the budget for domestic bombing prevention by 45%.

 

 

The Left openly admits that they hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white right-wing American.

 

 

Rest assured, closed door dark room discussions are underway about how best to blame the Tea Party.

 

 

Remember, Obama's former Chief-of-Staff, Rahm Emanuel said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

 

 

Americans who oppose Obama's socialist agenda and trampling of the Constitution have been a thorn in the Democrats and mainstream media's sides for years. What better way to destroy the Tea Party than to convince low-info Americans that the Tea Party is responsible for children losing life and limbs. While this strategy may sound a bit cynical, it is reasonable to reference Democrats' past behavior and Obama's former Chief-of-Staff, Rahm Emanuel's words, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

 

 

Frustratingly, all speculation as to who is responsible for the bombing has been limited to foreign terrorists and right-wing extremists. Despite the history of domestic terrorism proving otherwise, not one time in the media coverage has it been suggested the bomber/bombers could be left-wing extremists.

 

 

But folks, having exposed the Left's desire to make the Tea Party and Republicans responsible, I wish to focus on the heroes – awesome Americans who stepped up to assist the wounded and save lives.

 

 

Mary and I have been on the road away from our home in Florida for several weeks, working to put Conservative Republican Michael Sullivan in the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry in Massachusetts. We are still in a hotel room living out of suitcases. The stories of heroism and the pain and suffering of innocent children and families have touched us deeply.

 

 

I wrote, sang and recorded a song shortly after 9/11 titled, “United We Stand”. My inspiration came from the way our nation came together, though briefly, in unity, patriotism and prayer for our country.

 

 

We want to salute the heroes who displayed remarkable bravery and compassion after the bombing. Using my song, Mary got on her computer and put this humble tribute together honoring our heroes. We pray that it blesses your heart.

 

 

Please click this link to view our tribute: United We Stand – Boston Bombing

 

 

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee
LloydMarcus.com

 

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The Aristocracy of Arrogance... Karl Rove, epitomizes the condescending attitude of the wealthy RINO class; whose entitlement mentality rivals the welfare recipients claims to have their daily bread buttered by others.
RINO's like their name sakes in the wild are on their way to becoming extinct... they defame their base, ruting and roving about; these nearsighted beast will sooner or latter run ...their course, finding no support from those they gourd and cast under the bus.
Karl Rove is the problem with the GOP not the answer.  His psudo-science of political pontification has missed the boat in the last two Presidential elections and is now going to ruin any hope for retaining the House in the 2014 election... In his effort to broaden the base and to marginalize the far right, as he labels the 'True Conservative', he will gain neither the expanded support of the independent or minority voter or the traditional GOP base.  He will run off both.
Karl has the figures... only the figures he has are skewed by a bias in the data collected.  Figures don't lie but liars figure.  So, Karl when analyzing a broad base o surveys and political research don't forget to factor in the ever polarizing machinations of a disingenuous political system... or the genuine lack of character of those constructing the polls and research.
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Leaders of TEA Party Organizations,

I have seen the different groups in the TEA Party family all working independently, or so it                         seems to me, on projects that are all very important.  I know that one of the draws of the TEA Party is independence but the time has come that all of you must unite to fight the common enemy, an out of control government.  Both political parties are unresponsive to the citizens and only getting worse.  There are good conservatives in Congress but they are being beaten down one at a time by a machine that destroys anyone who refuses to bow to the “party loyalty first” crowd and their behind-the-scenes handlers.

The Republican Party “leadership” is in league with the most radical Democrats who have ever been in power.  We are on the verge of losing our freedom because we continue to support those who have turned their backs on us time and again.  Republicans have lied to us so many times I have lost track of the number.  They have “investigated” time and gain yet have given us nothing but hand-wringing and excuses for the evil deeds of politicians of both parties.  It is time to take drastic measures.

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URGENT POLL: We Demand the Truth About Benghazi!

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Why Hasn't Speaker Boehner Issue Subpoenas on Benghazi? Even the bumbling 'Pink Panther' character Inspector Clouseau knows you can't investigate a crime - let ...alone a despicable act of terror - without issuing subpoenas and interviewing witnesses. URGENT POLL: There are as many as 30 survivors from the 9/11 Benghazi Terror Attack. These Americans are not only heroes, but witnesses to an act of terror against the United States. Obama has hidden the identities and locations of these witnesses from Congress. Should House Republicans subpoena these witnesses in defiance of the White House? Cast Your Vote & Comment By Going Here: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e79ghg9xheubscto/start
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Assault Bomb Ban - Bomb Control

Nobama must immediately pass an Assault Bomb Ban.  It is time for Bomb Control in America.  Let's get the psycho-babbling liberals and RINOs to Ban Freeways while we're at it.  But whatever we do, America CANNOT STOP MURDERING BABIES IN THE WOMB - IT'S OUR RIGHT!!!  Or maybe we should Ban Assault Abortionists - impose Abortion Control.  Let's put in a call to Connecticut...see what we do now.

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Supreme Court Impeachment

The SCOTUS has committed subversion and treason. The SCOTUS should be impeached by Congress and prosecuted. The SCOTUS is guilty of negligence in its duty to clearly and unequivocally support the Constitution and the 2nd Amendment, which guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. The crime of the SCOTUS is related to current, proposed legislation in New York that abridges that right and subverts the Constitution. The Constitution trumps state law. No law, anywhere in America, shall abridge the right of Americans to keep and bear arms. The SCOTUS does not have any authority to rewrite the Constitution or "legislate from the bench" in any way. There is no need for the SCOTUS to interpret or otherwise modify the clear English language of the Constitution. The SCOTUS is charged with reading the English language of the Constitution the exact same way the People read it. The People don't need the 2nd Amendment read to them by corrupt Justices. The People need the SCOTUS to simply apply the Constitution, as written, against the Executive and Legislative Branches. The People need the prosecution of the SCOTUS for malicious negligence, subversion and treason. The proof of criminality is the irrefutable fact that Americans can read the English language and understand that the SCOTUS has insidiously ignored and interpreted the language to suit its political ideology and bias. The complete, 200 year failure of the Judicial Branch has to be rectified before there is any Constitutional, Tea Party or conservative effect. The Executive and Legislative Branches were always expected to propose irrational and incoherent action. The Judicial Branch is there to establish a firm NO and to keep the government within the parameters of the Preamble through the execution of the Constitution. The Preamble limits the government to security, infrastructure and general welfare excluding individual welfare. The SCOTUS is there to insure that if action is not for security, infrastructure or general welfare, if it is for individual welfare, it is NOT Constitutional (in America, the government may not take money from one man to give it to another). The Judicial Branch has failed through malice.

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WOMEN ON U.S.NAVY COMBAT SHIPS

Whats on my mind? Well was just over at "FACEBOOK" for my daily dose of "aggravation" and ran across this "US NAVY"promotion...and this is what my "comment" was... You know the dumb thing about this promotion...it should not have to be. Women and men especially "young men and women" were never meant to be placed together on US NAVY warships. Long deployments extended period at sea. Majority of the crew "18-22 yrs old" you don't have to be a rocket scientist to "Know" that is not a good Idea if "maintenance of discipline", crew cohesion combat efficiency, is your goal. The military is not a good place for "social engineering" it is charged with the most important task the Constitution puts forth "The protection of the common good and defense of our nation"...everything else is secondary... let them "experiment" on the liberal college campuses with "co-ed" dorms and whatever...I just witnessed through home video my step-grandson's graduation from RTC Great Lakes...I had the experience in 1967. The training and challenge is more like a rough boy scout summer camp, or at best pre-season 2 a days for High School football. The whole challenge of the process had to be lets say "modified" to accommodate the women. My grandson said he had expected "More"....The cost of ship construction goes up because of the obvious differences between men and women's needs, special "security" details assigned aboard large ships to maintain "privacy"... ridiculous!!! Then comes the obvious problems of standing room only at "CAPTAIN'S MAST"... that's like shipboard "civil court"....but "SEXUAL HARASSMENT" RATCHETS up from the usual "misdemeanors" to "SPECIAL COURT MARTIAL AND 

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DISCHARGE"...LIFE AT SEA IS CHALLENGING ENOUGH WITHOUT THIS UNNECESSARY LIBERALLY IMPOSESED TRAVESTY. THIS IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO DISRESPECT THE TRADITION OF THE SERVICE AND IT'S MAGNIFICENT HISTORY.

                                  S E L A H

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NOTHING "GAY" ABOUT "SODOMY"

GEN 20:4 Before the guests went to bed, the men of Sodom surrounded the house. All the men of the city, both young and old, were there. 5 They called out to Lot and asked, “Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us!” The men of Sodom wanted to have sex with them.
 Lot went outside and closed the door behind him. He said to them, “Friends, I beg you, don't do such a wicked thing! Look, I have two daughters who are still virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want with them. But don't do anything to these men; they are guests in my house, and I must protect them.”
 But they said, “Get out of our way, you foreigner! Who are you to tell us what to do? Out of our way, or we will treat you worse than them.” They pushed Lot back and moved up to break down the door. 10 But the two men inside reached out, pulled Lot back into the house, and shut the door. 11 Then they struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn't find the door.
OP-ED
Rev James M Wesley Jr

The issue of our society accepting the "SODOMITE" lifestyle as a normal state of being to stand alongside the heterosexuality is not a 'SIDESHOW"...but the "MAIN-EVENT"...because it corrosive
degradation of GOD'S CREATION is both degenerative and terminal to any society that has historically taken it in. I'm a minister originally from Kansas City,Mo. in my time as outreach pastor at a large multiracial intercity church I coordinated the activities of 300+ volunteers...street ministry, prison
ministry,homeless ministry,alcohol and drug recovery,nursing home ministry, and founded the first chapter of "EXODUS INTERNATIONAL" in the state of Missouri a ministry helping those bound by this corrupt "death-style"through the power of the GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST break free....my coordinator was Brother John Kupka.

 One of my volunteers was brother Lee Orr a veteran Kansas City Kansas homicide detective who was well known for his successful investigation. He shared with me back in 1988 how when they came
upon a crime scene they could tell if it was the act of an enraged HOMOSEXUAL by how the victim was killed...the more mutilation,and abnormal violation pre-death and post mortem was a finger print that "NEVER"was wrong. These crime scenes were an example of the "DEMONIC RAGE" released by the individual. My point is in line with Ambassador Keyes warning...the unnatural desire for recognition based upon "sexual" preference boarders on the psychotic to the point it has to find a release. The inability to
"PROCREATE"..yet like all living being a drive to "Multiply" is only satisfied by "RECRUITING", PERVERTING","LYING" AND "MANIPULATING"...This "community's" success permeates every area of life from crib to grave. It is the ultimate sign of social decay in any culture...a "DEATH SENTENCE" IF NOT
CHALLENGED..... OUR NATION, OUR CULTURE, OUR PEOPLE.

S E L A H

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A jaw-dropping revelation came to light in December 2011 by the Trib Total Media, yet it was ignored by the media and even missed by those of us watching the solar world unfold. 4063686434?profile=original

China's major solar panel companies — whose low-cost products led some American factories to close, helped create the Solyndra controversy and spawned talk of a trade war — were bankrolled in the United States by the world's largest investment banks.
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, USB Investment Bank and others raised $6.5 billion for seven young Chinese solar panel makers in the mid-2000s by underwriting their securities on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, a Tribune-Review investigation has found.

 

The Trib goes on, "It's not clear how the idea of using offshore tax havens to get listed on U.S. exchanges developed. But the Trib learned through SEC reports how Chinese solar companies grabbed onto the idea." The first was Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., now the world's largest solar company. It began operating as a Chinese company in May 2002, and by 2004 reported sales of $85.3 million..."

 

However, Bloomberg News reported last week, "Suntech Power Holdings Co. (STP) [was] forced to put its Chinese solar unit into bankruptcy last month, "becoming the latest casualty of a painful slump in the global solar industry,” wrote Townhall.com. But Bloomberg noted that Suntech "began that slide into insolvency in 2009 when customers linked to the founder couldn’t pay their bills and the company booked the sales as revenue anyway, regulatory filings show."

 

What most don’t know is that Suntech is a tiny fraction of "Obamanomics Outsourced," whereas his administration is responsible for steering billions in stimulus funds (and other "green" money) to foreign companies and shipping green jobs overseas. This is clearly a broken 2008 energy campaign promise, but worse, a violation on how the 2009 trillion-dollar stimulus package was sold –– to create jobs and grow the economy here in America.

And I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade –– jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced; jobs building solar panels and wind turbines and a new electricity grid; jobs that will help us eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in ten years and help save the planet in the bargain. That's how America can lead again.

Senator Barack Obama, October 27, 2008

 

Oh NO, he didn't...

 

Last fall, Marita Noon (energy columnist at Townhall.com and my cohort in unearthing the massive amount of clean-energy dirt) and I debunked the president's 5 million energy jobs target as well as the his administration’s labor department's ludicrous claims on what constitutes a green job –– from oil lobbyists, to bus drivers, to garbage men, and so on.

 

Furthermore, if you've been following my blog (now the Green Corruption Files), you know that since 2009 I've been tracking President Obama's trillion-dollar stimulus spending spree, of which at least $90 billion was earmarked for renewable energy and energy efficiency, and doled out through various programs and agencies.

 

For a year now I've been covering the Department of Energy's (DOE) Loan Program, more specifically the stimulus-created 1705, whereas over $16 billion of taxpayer money was used to fund 26 alternative energy projects; of which 23 were junk rated –– as revealed by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in March 2012.

 

The DOE’s "junk bond" portfolio (the entire $34.4 billion loan guarantee program for that matter) is where you’ll discover that 96 percent of the firms representing these projects have meaningful ties (bundlers and donors) to President Obama and other high-ranking Democrats; or both –– with five to Senator Harry Reid alone.

 


The Mesquite Solar Project and the $337 Million DOE "Junk" Loan 

 

Over a week ago, I submitted an update, noting that we've covered all but three out of the 26 DOE "junk bond" portfolio, which included the Mesquite Solar project. What's interesting is that this was the ONLY DOE excessively risky loan that I could not locate a direct connection to the Obama White House or any "green crony."

 

But once again, we find that despite the fact that the Mesquite Solar I, LLC (Sempra Mesquite) project received a non-investment grade rating by Fitch in August 2011, our Energy Department went ahead and awarded them a $337 million loan guarantee for a solar power plant in Arizona that is scheduled to be up sometime in 2013, which projects that it would create more than 300 construction job and 7 operating jobs.

 

Hold up…

 

Let's go back to early 2010 when Suntech had been awarded a $2.1 million credit from the Energy Department’s stimulus-funded Advanced Energy Manufacturing (48C) Tax Credit, and according to the Heritage Foundation, in November 2012 Suntech shed some employees, claiming that it was the "U.S. International Trade Commission’s 35.95% tariff on Chinese solar panels was partially responsible for the 50 impending layoffs at its Arizona production facilities" –– thus Suntech ended up on my 2012 Green-Energy Failure Alert List, in the troubled category.

 

But a year before Suntech's troubles were made public (remember their slide into insolvency began in 2009), and in the midst of the September 2011 solar hoopla, Bloomberg News reported that the Mesquite project (with $337 million of taxpayer money), would be purchasing its solar panels from the China-based Suntech Power Holdings Co. Also, Sempra Energy, California’s third-largest utility (a Fortune 500 energy services holding company with 2012 revenues of approximately $10 billion), will sell electricity from the Mesquite Solar 1 plant to California’s largest utility, PG&E Corp., under a 20-year contract –– adding two more to our list of BIG ENERGY (General Electric, NextEra Energy and NRG Energy) that are making big money at the "green" Bank of Obama.

 

Pacific Gas & Electric Packed with Green Cronies and Invested Interest in $7.7 Billion of Stimulus Funds 

 

PG&E maintains a strong political presence in Washington, D.C., and is actively involved in California politics as well.  We’ve already highlighted their Democratic "cronyism footprint," of which much of it was exposed by the Washington Free Beacon last March: “Pacific Gas & Cronyism: Politically connected utility plays corporate bully, makes bank on green energy...”

 

It turns out that "former PG&E employees currently hold, or previously held, high-ranking government positions at the state and federal level, furthering the company’s influence," of which we know that Peter Darbee, then-CEO and chairman of PG&E, wasn't shy about using his leverage with President Obama on at least the $1.6 billion BrightSource Energy DOE deal.

 

The most controversial former PG&E employee to hold an influential government post is Cathy Zoi, a former energy analyst for the company, who also served as chief of staff for environmental policy under President Clinton and was CEO of Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection. Zoi was the former Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency, and oversaw the disbursement of more than $30 billion in green-energy stimulus funds in her DOE position at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) –– a post which began in April 2009, and later she briefly filled the role of Acting Undersecretary for Energy.

 

We've already labeled Zoi as one of the “DOE dirty dozen" –– those inside the Energy Department with ties to tens of billions of clean-energy stimulus funds. However, in March 2011, Zoi jumped the DOE ship to work for left-wing billionaire George Soros, Obama’s "Agent of Green," whom just last month I chronicled his dark money and how he has bankrolled Obama victories since 2004After discovering Soros' part in crafting the 2009-Recovery Act and his early 2009 series of regular private meetings and consultations with White House senior advisors, as usual, I followed the money.

 

Soros' suspicious 2009-first quarter stock-buying spree was a huge winner –– a big portion (that we know of) benefited from the federal stimulus, including twelve alternative energy and utility companies. Add in more Soros clean-energy investments, and I concluded that his "green tab" exceeds $11 BILLION of stimulus (taxpayer) money, with the entire Cathy Zoi Green Corruption story still left to tell.

 

PG&E may have gotten the "cold shoulder" on the their smart-grid grant requests, but with their high-powered connections all the way up to the president and inside the DOE, PG&E won a significant amount of stimulus money: at least seventeen transactions to date and over $55.4 million. Better yet, PG&E has an invested interest in "six solar projects that will sell power to PG&E, which have received a combined $5.5 billion in taxpayer-backed DOE loans," as exposed by the Washington Free Beacon, however, I found $7.7 billion.

 

#1. Agua Caliente Solar Power Project located in Yuma, Arizona, of which "PG&E will purchase the project’s power and deliver it to customers in California." Project by NRG Solar: $967 million loan guarantee

 

#2.  BrightSource Energy development located in Baker, CA, of which "electricity from the project will be sold under long-term power purchase agreements with Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison Company (SCE)." Project by NRG Energy, Inc. (BrightSource): $1.6 billion loan guarantee

 

#3. California Valley Solar Ranch of which the 250-megawatt is under construction in eastern San Luis Obispo County, and "is generating clean, reliable solar power for transmission over PG&E’s utility grid." Project by NRG Solar and SunPower is still involved: $1.237 billion loan guarantee

 

#4. Desert Sunlight Project located in Riverside, CA, with the PPA (purchase power agreement) listed as Southern California Edison and PG&E. This is a First Solar Project that is co-owned by NextEra Energy Resources, GE Energy Financial Services, and Sumitomo Corporation of America: partial guarantee of $1.46 billion

 

#5. Genesis Solar Energy Project located in Riverside County, CA of which "power from the project will be sold to Pacific Gas and Electric Company." Project by NextEra Energy Resources, LLC: partial guarantee of $852 million loan

 

#6. Mesquite Solar 1, LLC located in Maricopa County, AZ, of which Bloomberg News had reported at the time the DOE loan was approved, "Sempra will sell electricity from the Mesquite Solar 1 plant to California’s largest utility, PG&E Corp., under a 20- year contract." Project by Sempra Mesquite: $337 million loan guarantee

 

#7. Mojave Solar located in San Bernardino County, CA, of which at the time of the DOE loan approval (September 2011), "Abengoa signed a power-purchase agreement with PG&E to buy the energy produced by the project for a period of 25 years." Project by the Spanish firm Abengoa Solar, Inc.: $1.2 billion loan guarantee

 

Suntech, Bankrolled by Early Goldman Sachs and other Big U.S. Banks

As revealed in the beginning of this story, Goldman Sachs and other Big Banks here in the United States bankrolled Suntech, and this year in my January post on Kleiner Perkins (John Doerr and Al Gore), I highlighted some of Goldman Sachs' "green."

 

But old information came to light by the Trib Total Media, leading to more "Wall Street Solar" corruption: "Goldman Sachs (Asia) was with Suntech all along. A branch of the investment bank bought 10.8 million shares of Suntech BVI for $2.31 a share. When Suntech switched to the Cayman Islands to go public, Goldman Sachs (Asia) followed, grabbing an 8.66 percent ownership share of the solar company."

 

In 2010, along with old PDF file (April 2011) of Goldman Sachs Environmental Markets (link no longer valid), I had alerted to the fact that Goldman Sachs was cashing in on the "green" stimulus, and as my research developed, I found their DNA all over this green-energy scheme.

 

Then in 2012, I dug deeper I chronicled the Kleiner Perkins and Goldman Sachs connections as well as various renewable energy stimulus winners including, "The First Solar Three Billion Dollar Swindle," which involves three of the DOE's junk loans.

 

Besides their investment in First Solar, Goldman Sachs received two large loans from the 1705 DOE "junk bond" portfolio: Cogentrix of Alamosa, LLC for $90.6 million and U.S. Geothermal, Inc for $97 million –– the former a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.

 

While U.S. Geothermal snagged millions more in green subsidies, through the Cogentrix transaction, Goldman Sachs cashed in every step of the way –– and their "green cronies" too. This was a striking detail that I found when reviewing the June 19, 2012 House Oversight Hearing, where the CEO of Cogentrix Mr. Robert Mancini testified.

 

Even without extensive research, we find that Goldman Sachs is tied to many other clean-energy projects that received loans, grants and special tax breaks from the Obama administration, and what I've tracked so far are billions of stimulus money that go beyond the four listed above. They are also credited as the “exclusive financial adviser” for the highly publicized bankrupt Solyndra, and in 2010, handled the IPO of both Tesla Motors and Amyris. Other than Solyndra, we find more Goldman stimulus winners that have gone bust: SpectraWatt, Nordic WindPower, and now we place Suntech into the bankrupt category –– all taking millions of taxpayer money down the drain.

 

Also, with a quick glance at that PDF file, there are many more, of which you can find more details in my January post, and all but two (Cogentrix and U.S. Geothermal) that I've personally tracked are on my 2012 Green-Energy Failure Alert List.

 

But it seems, that Goldmanites are not done, and in May 2012, they announced their plan "to channel investments totaling $40 billion over the next decade into renewable energy projects, an area the investment bank called one of the biggest profit opportunities since its economists got excited about emerging markets in 2001," wrote Reuters. This mean that Goldman Sachs will be pursuing more government aid, and they have a "friend" in the White House that is willing to oblige...

 

Despite, the rhetoric and deception, President Obama has his fair share of "Wall Street Buddies," which gave him $16 million for his successful 2008 campaign and dished out more in 2012.

 

We've already established that Goldman Sachs was a top Obama donor (#2 as a matter of fact), giving more than $1 million dollars to his 2008 campaign coffers. Also, two Goldman executives sat on Obama's 2008 Finance Committee, Bruce Heyman and David Heller, while Jennifer Scully and Bruce Heyman were 2008 bundlers.

 

Even though Goldman Sachs turned "red in 2012," supporting Mitt Romney, Goldman employees participated as top donors for President Obama's re-election, and Heyman bundled for Obama again in 2012.

 

Moreover, according to Open Secrets, "47 out of 51 Goldman Sachs lobbyists in 2012 have previously held government jobs." And now find that the infiltration of Goldman Sachs and Citigroup executives inside the Obama administration is extraordinary, even shaping his economic policy, however, more amazing is their footprint inside green energy and the tens of billions of taxpayer money that followed.

 

And “the "Too-Big-to-Fail" Citigroup –– the nation's third-largest bank that snagged the largest amount of federal bailout money, was the #7 top donor to candidate Obama with a few executives lined up as campaign bundlers, and Cit's massive 'Green' Money Machine is even too big to list here, but I unleashed it this past February, which tie them to approximately $16 billion of clean-energy money paid for by the taxpayers.

 

 

Sempra: More Solar, More Taxpayer Money 

 

As mentioned, the Mesquite solar project is owned by Sempra Energy of San Diego, a Fortune 500 Company, and one the “big-three" utility companies in California, and in 2011, I had noticed Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, of which their "Energy Solutions" have projects in solar, wind and natural gas.

 

Other than the Mesquite Solar Project and its $337 million DOE loan, in December 2010, Sempra announced the completed construction on the largest photovoltaic solar power plant in the U.S. called the Copper Mountain Solar facility, located in Boulder City, Nevada, of which the usual Green Corruption culprits are involved: PG&E and First Solar.

 

Delen Goldberg of the Las Vegas Sun had this to say in April 2011, "The federal government gave Sempra Generation about $42 million in tax credits, 30 percent of the price tag for Copper Mountain," which cost $141 million –– and the stats at that time on Copper Mountain were as follows:

  • Temporary construction jobs created: 350. Not bad.
  • Nevadans employed: 262. That’s a good share.
  • Solar power coming to Nevada: 0. Zip.
  • Parts manufactured in Nevada: 0. Zilch.
  • Permanent jobs created: 5. That’s not a typo.
  • State incentives developer Sempra Generation received: $12 million. That’s not a typo, either.

About a year later (March 21, 2012 to be exact), President Obama made a special visit using Copper Mountain as "an impressive backdrop" –– now at 10 jobs –– to celebrate his green energy efforts, whereas even Reuters had to cede that "the millions of green jobs Obama promised have been slow to sprout, disappointing many who had hoped that the $90 billion earmarked for clean-energy efforts in the recession-fighting federal stimulus package would ease unemployment –– still above 8 percent in March" –– not much better now at 7.7 percent, yet as I predicted, the president is demanding new "green" spending.

 

Sempra in Cahoots with BP, another Top Obama Donor: Where We Find More "Green" Taxpayer Money 

 

Now, "formerly known as entities Sempra Generation, Sempra LNG and Sempra Pipelines & Storage have now been realigned under Sempra International." But after a few hours of digging in 2011, I found that Sempra is in cahoots with British Petroleum (BP) on a number of green ventures, more specifically, all five of their wind projects, and of course the majority are using GE wind turbines, another Big Energy White House buddy, making bank off of "green” stimulus money.

 

Like the entire Big Wind industry, BP subsidiary BP Wind Energy took advantage of the then expiring "provision that had previously been extended by President Obama’s politically unpopular 2009 stimulus" (AKA the 1603 Grant Program), reported the Los Angeles Times in early October 2011. This was for the Flat Ridge 2 Wind Farm, located in a wind-rich region near Wichita, Kansas, and is a joint venture of Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and BP Wind Energy, of which Sempra says, "The 419-megawatt (MW) project will be the largest wind farm in the state of Kansas when complete."

 

As you probably know, Congress’ January “Fiscal Cliff” bill renewed the PTC for 2013, and tweaked it so that money would be available to any project breaking ground by the end of the year. And to give you an idea on how BP will make out on the Kansas project alone, "Each of BP’s turbines will receive a 2.2 cent tax credit for every kilowatt-hour generated during the first 10 years of operation –– about $1 million per turbine –– adding up to $274 million for BP," recorded the Reactor.

 

Just last week, Big Wind got an early Christmas present: "The Internal Revenue Service adjusted the Wind Production Tax Credit for inflation — an increase that will cost taxpayers $545 million dollars, according to the Institute for Energy," reported the Daily Caller.

 

Hold up...

 

Ironically April has been a very energetic month so far, because also last week more wind blew up the airwaves. With quite the "wind portfolio" (16 wind farms across nine states), BP is abandoning wind –– a story Marita Noon covered in her Sunday column at Townhall.com.

On April 3, BP announced that it was selling its US wind assets — estimated to be worth $1.5 to 3.1 billion. The announcement stated that BP has decided sell the US wind energy business “as a part of our continuing effort to … re-position the company for sustainable growth” and that it would “unlock more value for shareholders.” 

Surprised?

 

Apparently, speculation has been surfacing that BP "is slowly losing faith in the renewable energy sector," and according to the Christian Science Monitor, "[BP] exited the wind sector in Europe, and then near the end of last year announced that it would also sell its solar business." Yet, the motivating factors behind this BP move are "part of a continuing effort to become a more focused on oil and gas, and in part, "by the company's need to sell about $38bn of assets to help finance the costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010."

 

 

Climate Change Radical,  Big Oil Investor, Obama Bundler and Billionaire Buddy, Tom Steyer


Still, BP's renewable energy ventures won plenty of green-government subsidies from the Obama administration, and they have an advocate close to the White House, "Climate  Change Radical" Tom Steyer, of which last September I took notice and wrote a blog entitled, Obama’s Green Cronies Made DNC Cameo: Beneficiaries of Billions of Taxpayer Money," highlighting Obama bundler and billionaire buddy, Tom Steyer.

 

As divulged by the Washington Free Beacon in September 2012, "Steyer is reportedly one of the backers of Greener Capital, which invests in alternative fuel companies that benefit from the anti-oil policies of the Obama administration. Steyer is also the founder and senior managing partner of Farallon Capital Management, a $20 billion hedge fund that ranks as one of the largest of its kind in the world," and they stand "to profit from government policies that increase consumption of natural gas."

 

The Beacon goes on to give more interesting tidbits about Steyer being a Goldman Sachs protégé of Robert Rubin, but what caught my attention was this: "a successful investor, Steyer knows to hedge his bets. His fund owns millions of dollars worth of shares in Big Oil companies such as BP [970,000 shares as of the end of 2013]."

 

Hold up...

 

Did I mention that Mr. Steyer retired from Farallon Capital Management at the end of 2012, and according to Forbes, "sold his stake in the hedge fund firm to his partners?" And did you know that Steyer is also anti-keystone? So much so that early this month Politico reported, "The former hedge fund trader-turned-philanthropist is bankrolling a far-flung political operation pushing environmental causes and candidates, including his pricey effort to torpedo the Keystone XL oil pipeline."

 

OK, so we have a ferocious "greenie" that invested in Big Oil, and besides BP, "among the oil and gas companies that Steyer and Farallon financed and got rich from were Energy Partners, Ltd., Link Energy LLC, Halcon Resources Corporation, Devx Energy, Inc., and a gold mining company named Global Gold Corporation," recently recorded by Darwin Bond-Graham at CounterPunch.org.

 

This reminds me of a vegan –– and activist against meat eaters –– who gains their wealth by investing in slaughterhouses. Too graphic, but definitely we see a hypocrite here, and possibly now Captain Planet meets Robin Hood.

 

Steyer's firm may only be a BP shareholder, but they have plenty of "green" that stand to benefit from Obama's radical and expensive climate change agenda, and already have. Besides Steyer's money raising efforts, he has "considerable influence in the White House," as pointed out by the Washington Post. From Steyer's wealth and political connections that have "played a critical behind-the-scenes role in helping shape the country’s national energy policy” to the fact that "he has spoken with President Obama about how to pursue climate and energy policy in a second term." Steyer was even considered as a replacement to outgoing Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

 

Mr. Steyer also has strong and expensive connections to the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), who is closely aligned with Obama and has taken over key White House positions. CAP is heavily engaged in this green-energy scheme, and they have been on my radar since 2010, which I've mentioned in several of my Green Corruption files –– most recently in my post: Left-wing Billionaire George Soros: Obama’s "Agent of Green," however, the entire CAP Green Corruption piece of this scandal has yet to be exposed.

 

In the meantime, Steyer's bundling bucks never ended, and even though Obama won a second term, this month Steyer hosted a high-dollar fundraiser for our "Campaigner in Chief," even defending the president's efforts to save our planet.

 

Moreover, despite President Obama's anti-oil and gas rhetoric, he doesn't seem to mind taking their cash. Because according to Politico in 2010, Obama was the biggest recipient of BP donations over the past twenty years.

 

Obviously, BP has invested big in clean energy, and it is not limited to their wind projects with Sempra. BP Alternative Energy has other projects and companies in their portfolio that have raked in tons of stimulus funds –– at lease six that I know of.

 

GMZ Energy that received $8 million from the DOE's Vehicle Technologies Program funded by the 2009-Stimulus, and $11 million from the DOE and DARPA. But the big catch was BrightSource Energy, of which BP is an investor, and we've shed light on BrightSources' $1.6 billion shady deal quite a few times, including my recent "George Soros post" with much more dirt to share in the near future. [#1 and 2]

 

Still, as exposed by California Watchdog in August 2010, "The federal government is giving a joint venture involving oil giant BP millions of dollars in stimulus money to build a power plant on farmland near the tiny Kern County town of Tupman."[#3]

 

BP is also "benefiting from a $308 million federal grant over several years for the cutting-edge power plant on cotton and alfalfa fields seven miles from the western edge of Bakersfield. More than half of the money, $175 million, is coming from stimulus funds. The rest is coming from another federal program." Apparently, the DOE gave this grant in 2009 to Hydrogen Energy California, a joint partnership of BP and the multinational mining firm Rio Tinto –– a project considered by the Right as a waste of taxpayer money, with mixed reviews by environmentalists. [#4]

 

The Goshen North Wind Farm is a 50:50 joint venture between BP Wind Energy and Ridgeline Energy, LLC. BP Wind Energy is operator with a site location approximately an 11,000-acre site located some 10 miles east of Idaho Falls, Idaho. It seems that this Idaho wind farm listed as Goshen Phase II LLC on March 17, 2011 snagged 78,055,029 1603 cash grant [docket #2641]. [#5]

 

BP Solar unit of BP PLC (based in London) received $11.7 million in 48C credits, despite the fact that this project is creating jobs overseas, aligning them to others greenies that are outsourcing so called green jobs –– promoting more "Obamanomics Outsourced." [#6]

 

Obamanomics Outsourcing More Green

 

Now, Sempra may have chosen Suntech, the Chinese solar producer as their contractor, and we can't directly blame the president, however, Suntech is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Obamanomics Outsourced...

 

Back in February, we said good-by to President Obama’s Jobs Council –– a panel full of "deep-pocket Democratic donors and high-profile financiers" of Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, noted ABC News in 2011. Meanwhile several were Obama campaign bundlers and it included its share of union representatives like AFL-CIO’s left-wing "elitist" Richard Trumka.

 

I’ve already unraveled the series "Spreading the Wealth to Obama's Ultra-Rich Jobs Council," exposing the five panel members that have raked in tens of billions of “green” funds (directly and indirectly), the majority coming from the 2009-Recovery Act. More insulting is the fact that this fired Jobs Council is "packed with outsourcing companies."

 

Also, as emphasized in my Big Wind Story "A Hurricane of Carnage, Cronyism and Corruption," the Energy and Commerce Committee “in-depth report on its ongoing investigation into the implementation of President Obama’s green-energy stimulus spending,” states that as of December 5, 2012, nearly $16 billion in federal funds has been awarded under the 1603 Grant Program –– which does not factor in regional or state funding –– “approximately $10.8 billion (68%) of the total amount in Section 1603 grants awarded was for wind and another $3.8 billion (24%) was for solar projects.”

 

Nevertheless, the most shocking aspect is that "despite skyrocketing debt, and the "Obama green and recovery promises," the committee found that approximately one out of every four dollars of $16 billion spent on “Section 1603” Renewable Energy Stimulus Program" went to foreign-owned entities.

Just this week we find out that despite the sequester, the DOE awarded "more than $1.2 billion in cash payments to renewable energy projects by the Department of Energy and the Treasury" –– more free money through the 1603 grant program. However, the expensive 1603 program is not the only place where we find that the Obama administration has been outsourcing clean-energy stimulus funds, energy money, and green jobs.

 

NOTE: This list is compliments of the GOP, created sometime in July 2012, and reflects duplications of the foreign entity owned wind projects that I just outlined above, however it looks like they missed British Petroleum (BP). I also took the liberty of placing the list alphabetical order, and made some additions and updates for those transactions that are familiar to my research*.

 

In keeping with my green energy topic, non-renewable energy outsourcing transactions have been deleted.

 

Hold up...

GOP, what's up with ALL THE CAPS?


China:

STIMULUS FUNDS

North Carolina-Based LED Maker Cree Inc. Received Over $39 Million Through The Stimulus And Later Opened Its First Plant In China. Over Half Of The Company's Employees Are Now Located In China And Cree's CEO Says The Company's Strategy Is "Cree Chip, China Heart."

 

LOAN GUARANTEES

Sempra Received A $337 Million Loan Guarantee For An Arizona Solar Plant. The Solar Panels Will Be Supplied By SunTech, A Chinese Solar Panel Manufacturer.

 

JOBS COUNCIL

  • General Electric Cancelled An Order From Wind Turbine Manufacturer ATI Casting In Order To Get The Parts Cheaper From China. After ATI Offered To Match The Price, GE Still Refused The Order. ATI Was Forced To Layoff 302 Workers Due To The Move.
  • General Electric Has Also Been Criticized For Using Chinese Made Wind Towers Over American Towers At The Stimulus Funded Shepherds Flat Wind Farm In Oregon.

STIMULUS FUNDS

Solar Power Industries Received A $5.4 Million Stimulus Grant Before Laying Off American Workers Based On An Increased Reliance On Imports From China.

 

STIMULUS GRANTS*

A123 Systems received $390 million, of which $249 million of it was a Recovery Act Grant, and filed for bankruptcy October 16, 2012. In January of this year, China's Wanxiang Group Corp. won U.S. government approval and acquired A123 Systems Inc. for a $256.6 million bid.

 

Smith Electric Vehicles –– another Obama touted green investment –– received $32 million in federal grants from the stimulus package. However, since 2009 they have "racked up $128 million in losses," and in February 2011, Smith Electric Vehicles announced a potential partnership (signed a letter of intent) with Wanxiang Group, one of the largest non-government owned companies in China that was on a "green USA buying spree." Then in September 2012, struggling, and "short on cash," Smith Electric scrapped its IPO to “pursue private financing opportunities.” Not sure if they are China-owned yet, but the USA is.

 

CLEAN ENERGY TAX CREDITS*

MiaSolé received two Advanced Energy Manufacturing tax credits totaling $101.8 million from the Obama Administration in January 2010, see my Summer 2010 report on Kleiner Perkins, yet it also a VantagePoint investment. In October 2012, "struggling" and "desperate" MiaSole agreed to be sold to China's Hanergy Holding Group for $30 Million, which is considered to be dirt cheap.

 

Recently, the Washington Free Beacon added more outsourcing to this story, which is coming from another taxpayer-funded program that not only hands out tons of "green loans" but also instigates more corporate welfare and crony capitalism.

 

"The U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) is financing the purchase of solar panels from a manufacturer now owned by the Chinese that had previously attracted investments from prominent Democrats..." "Ex-Im approved a loan to an Indian developer who wants to buy solar panels from MiaSolé, a California-based solar panel manufacturer. A bank spokesman said the loan amount has not been issued yet, as the financing terms are still under negotiation."

 

Denmark:

STIMULUS GRANTS*

Subsidiaries of Danish wind mill maker Vestas received $51.6 million in stimulus grants to build U.S. based factories, and they have announced plans to layoff 180 U.S. workers and possibly another 1,600 by the end of the tear. Well, it seems Vestas kept their promise, because in October 2012, "[they] cut more than 800 jobs in the United States and Canada this year and may be forced to lay off another 800 employees in North America."

 

STIMULUS GRANTS

The Windy Flats Project Began Construction Before The Stimulus Was Passed, Received A $218 Million Stimulus Grant And Used Wind Turbines Assembled By Seimans In Denmark.

 

STIMULUS FUNDS

Danish Catalyst Company, Haldor Topsoe, Received A $25 Million Stimulus Award For The Construction Of A Demonstration Scale Biorefinery.

 

Dominican Republic:

STIMULUS FUNDS

Parago Used Stimulus Funds to Hire Hundreds of Workers in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to Administer a Renewable Energy Appliance Rebate Program.

 

El Salvador:

STIMULUS FUNDS

Parago Used Stimulus Funds to Hire Hundreds of Workers in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to Administer a Renewable Energy Appliance Rebate Program.

 

Finland:

LOAN GUARANTEES*

After receiving over $500 million loan guarantee (from the ATVM program), Fisker Automotive is producing their $100K luxury electric sports car in Finland. However, Fisker, which has been having issues for a while, just this month was reported that "160 Fisker employees were let go, and 53 employees will stay on to manage further negotiations with the Department of Energy and a potential sale of assets."

 

Furthermore, according to Gigaom.com, "The news follows reports that Fisker has hired a law firm to advise it on bankruptcy options. It owes a loan repayment to the Department of Energy this month, and has been cutting costs and furloughed its employees last month. The company hasn’t made a car since the summer of 2012."

 

However, it seems that Gigaom has their GPS on Fisker, and in February 2013, they too (like many of Obama-selected green firms), were seeking Chinese assistance, "Fisker Automotive is reportedly weighing investment and acquisition offers from Chinese auto tech companies. Bloomberg reports that there’s a $350 million offer for 85 percent of the company from Chinese state-owned car maker Dongfeng Motor Corp, and Reuters reports that China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (which owns Volvo) has another offer for a majority stake with a deal between $200 million and $300 million."

 

We'll keep our eye on this one because "Congress set hearing on Fisker troubles for April 24, 2013."

 

France:

CASHING IN

French Wind Farm Developer EnXco Pulled In Over $69 Million In Cash Grants Through The Stimulus' 1603 Program.

 

LOAN GUARANTEES*

In May 2010, the DOE offered AREVA Enrichment Services, LLC a conditional commitment for a $2 billion loan guarantee to support the Eagle Rock Enrichment Facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho. This loan was part of the 1703 loan program, and while AREVA is a France-based company that offers technological solutions for nuclear power generation with worldwide presence, at least the jobs are here in the USA. We think...

Germany:

STIMULUS GRANTS

E.ON Climate & Renewables Received Over $440 Million In Stimulus Grants For Wind Farms That Began Construction Before The Stimulus Was Passed.

 

STIMULUS GRANTS

At Least 25 Wind Turbines For Stimulus Funded Projects Were Supplied By German-Based Nordex.

 

Great Britain:

STIMULUS FUNDS

$39 Million In Stimulus Funds Went To Navistar For Electric Delivery Trucks That Are Manufactured In Coventry, England.

 

STIMULUS GRANTS

British Private-Equity Firm Terra Firma Received Over $40 Million In Stimulus Funds Through An American Wind Consortium It Bought Just Days Before The Stimulus Funds Were Awarded.

 

India:

STIMULUS GRANTS

India-Based Suzlon And Its Subsidiaries Installed Over 200 Wind Turbines Under Obama's Stimulus Grant Program With Most Of The Materials Coming From Its Operations Overseas.

 

Indonesia:

STIMULUS FUNDS

The EPA Gave A $1.5 Million Grant To Indonesia To Reduce Air Pollution In Jakarta.

 

Italy:

STIMULUS FUNDS

Brevini Wind Was Given A $12.75 Million Tax Credit To Build A Facility To Manufacture Wind Turbine Gearboxes In Indiana. Over Two Years Later The Company Has Only Hired 70 Of The 450 Workers Promised And The Company Has Announced They Do Not Expect To Be Operating The Facility Until Late-2013.

 

CASHING IN

Italian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Pulled In Over $84 Million In Cash Grants Through The Stimulus' 1603 Program.

 

Japan:

STIMULUS GRANTS

Japanese-Subsidiary Eurus Energy Received $91.4 Million In Stimulus Grants For A Wind Farm Completed Before The Stimulus Was Passed And Used 180 Turbines Manufactured Overseas By Mitsubishi.

 

Luxembourg:

STIMULUS FUNDS

Luxembourg-Based ArcelorMittal's Subsidiary Received $31.5 Million In Stimulus Funds For A Waste Heat Recovery Unit.

 

Malaysia & Germany:

STIMULUS LOAN GUARANTEES*

First Solar was privy to $3 billion through the 1705 loan guarantee program for three projects, plus suspicious Export-Import bank funding. Then during the May 16, 2012 House Oversight Committee hearing, CA Representative Darrell Issa surmised that First Solar (Germany 560, Ohio 280, and Malaysia with 1680 jobs) is "not an American company." It turns out that the numbers don't lie because CEO Michael Ahearn admitted, "in sheer numbers, most of our full time [employees] are outside the US."

 

Mexico:

STIMULUS LOAN GUARANTEE*

SunPower admitted that some of the solar panels for the $1.2 billion stimulus backed California Solar Valley Ranch would be manufactured at their facility in Mexico rather than their facility in California.

 

UPDATE: Despite SunPower's well-known financial issues, and the fact that it was under a shareholder suit alleging securities fraud and misrepresentations, just days (September 2011) before the 1705 Loan Guarantee Program’s deadline, along with four other solar companies, its $1.2 billion loan guarantee from the DOE was approved.

 

SunPower never directly got the DOE cash because they sold the California Valley Solar Ranch to NRG Energy, a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 Index company, of which NRG and its subsidiaries was the recipient of most of 1705 stimulus loans ($5.2 billion of taxpayer money and counting). But SunPower is still involved in this project and stands to profit if it succeeds.

 

STIMULUS FUNDS

ABB Inc. Received Over $16 Million in Stimulus Funds to Create Green Energy Manufacturing Jobs, the Company Has Laid Off Workers in the U.S. and Transferred Work To Mexico.


Russia:

STIMULUS FUNDS

Ener1 Received Over $118 Million In Stimulus Funds To Produce Vehicle Batteries. After Going Bankrupt, It Was Acquired Outright By A Russian Investor, Sparking Security Concerns Surrounding The Company's Work for The U.S. Military.

 

South Korea:

STIMULUS FUNDS*

Two South Korean companies –– LG Chem and Dow Kokam –– were given $303 million to produce car batteries in the U.S., but then brought in foreign workers. Local unions have criticized the company for filling jobs with foreign workers. The DOE has admitted that 11 of the 18 contractors on site are Asian firms.

 

STIMULUS GRANTS

The Gulf Wind Project Received A $179 Million Stimulus Grant And Sourced The Parts From South Korea, As Well As Japan And Mexico.

 

Spain:

STIMULUS LOAN GUARANTEES*

The Spanish company Abengoa received more than $2.8 billion in loans and grants, making them the second largest recipient of the $16 billion doled out through the DOE 1705 loan guarantee program.

 

STIMULUS FUNDS

Spain-Based Iberdrola Renewables Received $1.5 Billion In Loans And Grants And Claimed It Created Over 15,000 American Jobs But The Company Only Has 850 U.S.-Based Employees

 

STIMULUS GRANTS

Madrid-Based EDP Renewables Received Over $100 Million In Grants For Their Wind Farms and Announced In September 2011 That They Were Planning To Lay Off 10% Of Their North American Workforce.

 

Switzerland:

Swiss-Based Landis+Gyr Received Over $50 Million In Stimulus Contracts For Their Smart Grid Meters. Cathy Zoi, A Former Obama Energy Department Official, Held Over $250,000 Worth Of Stock In The Company As They Profited From Her Department's Policies. Zoi Had Previously Served As An Executive Director At Landis+Gyr Before Joining The Obama Administration.

 

Thailand:

BAILOUT FUNDS

After Taking A Taxpayer-Funded Bailout, General Motors Opened A $200 Million Plant In Thailand To Supply Diesel Engines For The Chevrolet Colorado Pickup Truck.

 

Vietnam:

JOBS COUNCIL

General Electric Opened A $61 Million Factory In Hai Pong To Produce Wind Turbine Components. GE's CEO Jeffery Immelt Chairs The President's Jobs Council And The Company Has Received Over $1.2 Billion In Stimulus Funds.

 

In closing...

If we dug deeper, we'd find much more, however, I'm sure you get the point. But is this just another tally in Obama's long list of broken promises? 

It's much worse than that. Whether the Obama administration is sending green jobs to Finland, Malaysia, or Mexico and billions of our tax dollars to Spain, Britain, and even China, it's more evidence that this administration –– Congress for that matter –– doesn't give a damn about our economy. Obviously, the president's clean-energy dirt has fueled corporate welfare and crony capitalism, and the massive amount of "green outsourcing" is pure deception and an insult to American taxpayers and those of us seeking jobs.

Stay tuned for more Green Corruption Files...

Two Women –– one Citizen & one energy columnist –– join forces on our "mission" to expose one piece of the Green Corruption scandal at a time.

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“What Is Your Primary Weapon Of Choice ?”
Every American utilizes and has a primary weapon of choice whether they realize it or not. When it come to resistance of ideas or feelings of being threatened by emotional or physical harm, we all have them even if we will not readily admit it. As our nation and world around us obviously crumbles and erodes by the minute, many people are in fact getting on with their “target practice” using those “weapons” most liked. Speaking of “liked”, some folks actually enjoy using their “weapons” quite frequently and with great ease also. By now with all my descriptive words being used here, you have probably put an image in your mind of some sort of “assault weapon” or gun. I can see how easy that would be, especially after using the title of this article as I have. As we will discuss further in this article, although guns are indeed weapons, they may or may not at all be the primary weapon of choice people actually use nor be the most effective.
After many years in the past as a professional therapist, I have observed often times rather than guns, most Americans have chosen what the Bible calls other types of “carnal weapons” instead. Although guns can be a strong weapon of choice to defend one's self or “go on the attack”, probably the most used and unfortunately the most effective(because of the carnality of so many American's) is the use of “character assassination.” This is used not only by what I term as “everyday-average American's” it is as well often used by those in the media and greatly used in our judicial system also. Folks who use this weapon often blurt out any lie, outrageous claim or say the most bizarre thing so as to implant a thought in the listener or target audience. Their end goal is to gain something(usually nothing good ) through the use of an outrageous false claim. Although there is little to no truth at all in the claim being made, those who partake in character assassination hope others are carnal minded enough to at least believe part of what they say. Of course the person having the false allegations made against them often spend much time and resources defending themselves against the attack. Perhaps the best example of character assassination are attorney's in Family or Criminal Courts which know that allegations are false but blurt them out anyway. No fact or truth involved... just blurt it out anyway. Of course judges often times being attorney's themselves, allow this and enable this demonic tactic as well.
Another type of popular weapon of choice among many Americans seems to be the emotion of “anger.” The appearance or actuality of having the “angry look” keeps most folks witnessing that “angry looking” person on their toes. Let's face it, if you see someone who looks and or sounds angry, the first response for most is to totally avoid these type of folks. Being and that act of being“angry” seems to be almost en-vogue these days, have you also noticed it ? This is especially true on media outlets. “Everyone is doing it”, if you're angry you fit right in... it say's to people... “don't mess with me.” Being or acting angry all the time takes a lot of work, but often that sort of manipulation tends to be very effective. I'm so glad I'm not like that however. It's not that many of us don't have the right to be angry...especially in today's wacky world where we are often violated, but the effectiveness of being angry all the times doesn't work well after time. Often all we are left with in the end, are just a lot of miserable looking people. People tire of it after awhile.
Sarcasm is as well another weapon of choice of many American's. You know sarcasm, you have probably used it at some point in your adult life. Using sarcasm or any type of passive-aggressive behaviour(like any type of carnal weapon) may feel good for the moment, but in the end doesn't get you very far. If anything, you will probably be sure to alienate someone or even groups of people, even make an enemy of the person you are using it on. Just as “anger”, using sarcasm will wear people thin, even your so called “friends” and family will tire of it eventually. I believe we should leave sarcasm to the “comedians” on the “Comedy Channel.” Equally, we should be well aware that people will only tolerate this sort of communication for just so-long and using sarcasm as a weapon only “pisses people off” and does nothing to resolve issues, not even in getting our nation back.
If you didn't catch it in the beginning of the article, guns are a carnal weapons also. Just like “anger”, “sarcasm”, or even “character assassination.” They are effective but only up to a point. Before you go “all NRA” on me, I affirm that gun ownership and the right to use those guns is part of our unalienable rights as described in the United States Constitution. What I am however saying is, that the effectiveness of guns as a weapon are only the helpful to the degree they can be used. With the anti-weapons that many American's carry and utilize called “apathy', guns are only effective to a point. Call it “drinking the Obama kool-aid”, call it “stupidity”, call it “insane thinking” or any number of names, it all comes down to this... many American's just don't care if their Civil and Constitutional Rights are violated or not. We see it everyday in their eyes... yes, like that deer staring in to the headlights of a car about to hit it.” We all know Obama supporters are beyond reach and reason but sadly, so are many so called “Conservatives” who rely solely on political and secular reasoning alone to rescue our nation. Already, so called “Conservatives” are turning and redefining “Conservatism” to and in allowing homosexuality, Islam and “middle ground and compromise” on what the Christian Bible plainly calls “evil.” Gun Rights are on the fence and being pushed on hard by even so called “Conservatives.” Should we be concerned, and is there a “primary weapon of choice” that will not fail nor compromise with evil and push back on the “anti-weapon”, Obamaites and secular minded people? You bet there is !
The Bible declares in 2Corinthians 10: 4 that .”...the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.” I realize (before you attack me) that this Bible verse has been abused by many so called “christians”(yes small letter 'c') and pastors” in enabling them to do nothing, to take no action at all in removing evil, and in remaining fat and lazy while evil run's it's course... I am well aware...believe me. My point however of utilizing and sharing this particular Bible verse is so that everyone will “get it” that carnal weapons alone will never get our nation back. I don't care what kind of gun you own, what kind of “marksman” you are or what kind of “military training” you have had. You cannot get or win back your nation without putting Jesus Christ back in His proper place of Lord of your life and of your country first. All the efforts of putting together the world's largest “militia” will come to nothing but blood and body parts spewn everywhere unless God Himself is sought after and put at the center of our efforts. I write this with all seriousness and sincerity. I know what it is to suffer injustice from my own American and New York State Government http://www.corruptgenesee.com. Thus, even more of a reason to listen to what I am sharing with you here in this article.
Obama is “king” of the flesh(http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2013/01/obama-and-those-who-sow-to-flesh.html). He is good at bringing like minded flesh lovers to their deaths, he would love nothing more than to suck you down to hell with him. Just like Obama, there are also Jesus haters and only think of what they can “get.” Don't you be carnally minded like those who sow to the flesh. Know what primary weapon will get you the furthest and with the least in effort. Rid yourselves of attitudes, people and ways that keep your “wheels spinning in the mud.” Finally, take a full inventory of your weapons and put Jesus of the Bible at the top of your list. Take Him with you everywhere you go and use Him in “target practice” against the devil and his minions daily. All other weapons as compared to God, fail in their effectiveness against evil.
You decide how to proceed, “but for me and my household, we shall serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15
Rev. Paul P Waldmiller~Black Robe Regiment Pastor
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New BofA/Merrill Lynch Report Claims: “The World Is Developing An Inflation Problem”
* = Me.

*And, I’ll try to demonstrate how YOU, the middle class and the poor, are being taken advantage of, on purpose, by Obama, The US Treasury, The Federal Reserve and the investment banks who donated hundreds of millions to elect Obama. Their coordinated effort is brilliant and transparent if you’ll take fiv...e minutes to follow me…

*BofA Merrill Lynch economist Ethan Harris presented their economic concerns and Mathew Boesler of the Business Insider reported on the highlights…

“In the U.S., the unemployment rate has fallen as many workers ABANDON the labor market*, but it remains above almost any sensible measure of the inflation-neutral rate (NAIRU)," says Harris.

*For those of you who pointed to the drop in the unemployment rate as a logical reason to vote for Obama, THIS IS WHAT I AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN ATTEMPTING TO EXPLAIN. Just because the rate goes down, one must look into the WHY. In this case, it is NOT because people found jobs, as this report documents. They simply gave up looking, which dropped the unemployment rate.

“Rising commodity prices pushed up consumer price inflation around the world.” says Harris,

*Commodities are things like: Soybeans, Corn, Wheat, Oil, Pork Bellies, Milk, etc. Virtually everything you buy and consume from the grocery store is made up of; Corn, Soybeans and then Wheat, in that order. So, when commodities go up, along with oil, which drives gas prices, you feel it in the wallet. Investment banks, flush with cash from the Federal Reserve, are attempting to replenish their cash reserves they’ve lost due to the housing bubble they created. They can’t do this with a tax, which would cause riots. So, instead, the Fed Reserve, in coordination with the Obama Administration through the Treasury Department, give banks money, they in turn invest in commodities, which drive the prices you pay at the grocery store and gas station up, which gives the banks a return on their investment as they trade in commodities.

*Walla! A massive HIDDEN tax through Obama’s Treasury policies. THIS is what I’m trying to get people to understand. The rich are getting richer WITH OBAMA’S HELP. Had Obama allowed the big banks that donated hundreds of millions to elect him fail, the smaller more conservative banks would have picked up the pieces and made a killing. Instead, we’re witnessing the greatest robbery of wealth in the history of mankind and Obama is NOT dumb. To believe this is not orchestrated has got to be the most naïve thing you have ever believed.

“Many countries in Europe, including France as well as the periphery, need to go through an “internal devaluation” to improve their competitiveness," says Harris. "That is a polite way to say they need to cut wages and prices."

*America is NOT immune to this. I read into this that we need to allow free market forces, as difficult and at times cruel as they may be, to cleanse our system and allow for a new beginning.

*The repercussions of propping up prices by printing money and creating a false positive are what concerns me most. Even if their plan works, it is being done on the backs of you and I, the middle class and poor (By definition) and Liberlas and Democrats are the greatest fools of all as they are voting to make it happen.
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HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

Question what is the question?...Is a third party practical? Well lets
 analyse the present status quo...is the responsive to it's base? 

or is it shooting for a "wider" more "popular" acceptance? The
WORD OF GOD says "YOU JUDGE A TREE BY THE FRUIT
THAT IT BARES"...if you have a "crab apple tree" in your front
yard but prefer a say "pear tree" hanging a sign on the crab apple
tree that says "fresh pears"??? Well you get the picture. The
RINO s are not going to change, and at this point it's almost to late
anyway,but start the wheels rolling now for a well financed
"THIRD PARTY"...the fact is the liberals might as well have both
houses of congress with the RINO mindset in the other isle. We
have nothing to lose!! They don't believe this community is strong
enough without control of the MAIN STREAM MEDIA to cause them any harm. The
time for mass marches, petition drives, faxes and e-mails and phone
calls is over. Short of getting ugly that would be the last effort at
peaceful redress of the issues plaguing this country. Now for a quick
review lets do some bullets...
1. PROOF OF VOTER FRAUD COAST TO COAST...NO
SERIOUS LEGISLATIVE ACTION OR INQUIRIES.
2. OVERWHELMING PROBABLE CAUSE OF CRIMINAL
IDENTITY FRAUD. NO SERIOUS LEGISLATIVE ACTION OR
INQUIRIES.
3. ATTACK ON 2ND AMEND. RIGHTS. IN BED WITH THE
OPPOSITION. NO SERIOUS LEGISLATIVE ACTION OR
INQUIRIES.
4. ATTACK ON THE FAMILY THROUGH "GAY MARRIAGE"
ISSUE. ALLOWS EXECUTIVE ORDERS TO USURPER 
CONGRESS'S LEGISLATIVE OVERSITE UNCHALLENGED
5. THE DEVASTATING ASSAULT ON OUR MILITARY
READINESS, AND CARE OF OUR MILITARY FAMILIES 
THROUGH "PAY-CUTS"...WHILE INCREASING THE
MULTIPLE COMBAT TOURS INTO HARMS WAY,
6. BENGHAZI COVER-UP, FAST AND FURIOUS,
MILITARIZATION OF HHS
7. OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING WITH CORRESPONDING 
BACKBREAKING PERSONAL AND BUSINESS TAX
INCREASES...ACCOMPANIED BY GROWTH SMOTHERING
REGULATION ROLLING OUT OF THE EXECUTIVE AS IF
TO INTENTIONALLY DESTROY THE MIDDLE CLASS AND
THE ECONOMY.
Ok now did I miss anything? In the Bible in the Book of Daniel...the 

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night before Babylon fail...The King through a monster party at the
palace all the "Important people" were there. He ordered that
"those HOLY GOBLETS" MY GRANDFATHER TOOK FROM 

THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM BE BROUGHT UP TO THE 

FESTIVITIES...BECAUSE HE WANTED "PARTY" AND USE 

THEM AS COMMON "WINE GLASSES". ONE THING WAS 

WRONG THE CITY WAS UNDER SIEGE BY THE MEDES BUT
BEING TOTALLY "SELF CONTAINED" ALL THEY HAD TO
DO WAS CLOSE THE GATES AND MAN THE WALLS AND
STAY ALERT. PROBLEM RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A
"BEYONCE"PERFORMANCE....A HAND APPEARED OUT OF
NOWHERE AND BEGAN WRITING CRYPTIC SYMBOLS ON 

THE WALL (THAT'S SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE 

EVERYDAY)...THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD INTERPRET IT WAS

THE OLD PROPHET DANIEL...IT BASICALLY SAID
"THE JIG WAS UP! TIME TO PAY THE PIPER.ALL OF YOU
WILL BE DEAD BY SUNRISE"....THE HANDWRITING WAS ON
THE WALL THEN AND I BELIEVE IT IS ON THE WALL ON
1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. NOW. THEY JUST HAVE'NT
STOPPED PARTYING LONG ENOUGH TO READ IT.

S E L A H

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4063686191?profile=originalBrother and sister patriots, I speak to you as family because I believe if we are to effectively push back in opposition to Obama and company's all-out-assault on our freedoms, liberty and culture, we (who love America as founded) must stand together as family.


In a nut shell, Obama and Democrats/Progressives are out of control. On every issue from the environment to gun control they use the same tactic. Obama hits the airways and makes a totally mindless emotional pleas to low info voters. Arrogantly, Obama then expects to be given carte blanche to trample the Constitution at will.


Always having Obama, Democrats and progressives backs, the mainstream media faithfully provides cover for their blatant side stepping of the Constitution. The MSM brands Republicans and anyone who dares to stand up for common sense and the law as being racist, stupid and haters. It works every time. Republicans cave.


Sadly, only a few Republicans have the stones to stand up for common sense and the Constitution. Even the ever optimistic Rush Limbaugh said he is depressed over what is happening in our country.


While my hope for America is rooted in my faith and trust in God, I realize it is up to each of us to do our part. To restore our great nation, we must get rock solid conservatives in office– one candidate – one race at a time. This is why my Conservative Campaign Committee has produced TV and radio ads in support of “proven” and “tested” Conservative Michael Sullivan for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.


Sullivan's opponents in the primary, Gomez and Winslow, are prime examples of Obama/Democrat sycophant Republicans who are willing to sell their souls for a seat at the table. Electing either of them would further the decline of America as we know it.


Candidate Gabriel Gomez wrote a letter to Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick asking for a job – interim appointment as U.S. Senator. In Gomez's letter, he said he supports Obama's agenda.


Candidate Dan Winslow said, “Pro-life candidates deserve to lose”. Folks, 4000 babies a day are aborted in America. Michael Sullivan is pro-life.


Winslow routinely financially supports Democrats: $500 to Democrat Robert Travaglini's State Senate campaign – $300 to Democrats Steven Baddour and Joseph Wagner – $250 to Democrats Gerard Leone and John Rogers – $200 to Democrat Sonia Chang-Diaz – $500 to Democrat Martha Coakley.


With behavior uncharacteristic of Republicans and more in keeping with the No-Tactic-Is-Too-Low Democrat Play Book, Gomez and Winslow conjured up a weak tag-team attempt to smear Conservative Campaign Committee as a hate group. Think about that folks. CCC is committed to getting Conservatives/Republicans elected around the country. And yet, “Republicans”, Gomez and Winslow are selfishly trying to destroy us – both willing to bend the truth and undermine future conservative/Republican candidates to win at ANY cost. Character matters folks, it always does.


Patriots, we at CCC did not pull Michael Sullivan's name out of a hat. We researched the man and spoke with Massachusetts voters. Amazingly, the same words kept coming up in almost every conversation about Mike – “proven”, “tested” and “trustworthy”.


Beginning at Gillette as a stock clerk, Mike Sullivan worked his way up to U.S. Attorney prosecuting the infamous shoe-bomber.


A Massachusetts voter who has followed Mike Sullivan over the years said to me, “Mike has a way of always showing up and setting things right.”


Michael Sullivan is a great man – the kind of strong, no nonsense, character and principle driven conservative we need to send to Washington to assist in the process of restoring our nation back to the vision of our Founding Fathers.


Folks, the political tidal wave caused by replacing liberal Senator John Kerry with conservative Michael Sullivan in Massachusetts could cause a tsunami of change in the national political landscape. It will reveal to timid Republicans that a true conservative can win. Thus, this race is national!


4063686307?profile=originalPlease tune in online to http://www.ConservativeCampaign.org/ and support our campaign to fill John Kerry's vacated Senate seat with conservative Republican Michael Sullivan in the upcoming Special Election.


Tune in for this 8-hour Telethon this Sunday, April 14th from 4:00 PM - 12:00 Midnight (Eastern) - 1:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Pacific)


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Michael Sullivan for U.S. Senate Massachusetts. We like and America needs Mike!

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
Chairman, Conservative Campaign Committee
LloydMarcus.com

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