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Racial Politics Thicker Than Justice

By Star Parker              7/2/2012

When the House voted last Thursday to find Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress, members of the Congressional Black Caucus walked out.

Why is the Black Caucus trying to make this about race?

It’s about Holder’s refusal to turn over Justice Department documents requested by the House Oversight and Government Committee in its investigation of the “Fast and Furious” operation.

“Fast and Furious” was a “gun-walking” operation conducted by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). ATF would allow known smugglers to purchase arms from dealers in Arizona with the idea that they would trace them to their destination to operatives in drug cartels in Mexico.

Before the vote, Black Caucus chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) appeared on CNN calling the House contempt vote “....silly and detrimental to one human being.” On MSNBC he told Al Sharpton, “This is partisanship at its most base level.”

Sure, it’s an election year. And if you had to stretch to appreciate the complaint against Holder being made by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif), chairman of the House committee doing the investigation, you might buy Cleaver’s claim that this is just Republican political grandstanding.

But you don’t have to stretch to appreciate the case against Holder.

It seems pretty clear that “Fast and Furious” was a botched operation. The ATF lost track of some two thousand weapons that disappeared into the hands of criminals in Mexico. In December 2010, weapons traced to this operation were found on smugglers who murdered U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry. Others were tied to the murder of at least 200 Mexican citizens.

The investigation into these ATF activities began with inquiries by ranking Senate Judiciary Committee member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) after Agent Terry’s murder.

The Justice Department, in a letter to Senator Grassley, initially denied the existence of gun-walking operations. But this picture changed when ATF whistleblowers brought facts to the contrary to light. Subsequently, Justice withdrew its letter, saying its denial of the existence of these operations was mistaken.

Inconsistencies in Holder’s testimony before the House committee produced further reasons for suspicion. And then Holder’s stonewalling for months, refusing to produce the documentation that the House committee requested.

Whether there is a fire here remains to be seen. But there is plenty of smoke.

Yet Cleaver calls the House vote holding Holder in contempt “silly?” The chairman of the Black Caucus should have the opposite reaction if only for concern for his own community. Illegal drugs smuggled into the US from Mexico cause havoc among black youth. According to the Center for American Progress, there have been more than 25.4 million drug convictions in the US since 1980, and one third of them were black.

To grasp what’s really motivating Cleaver, I apply what I call the “A Time to Kill” test.

In the 1996 film “A Time to Kill”, a black man in a town in Mississippi hires a white lawyer to defend him after he kills two white racists who raped and mutilated his daughter. When the lawyer makes his closing argument to the jury, he asks them to close their eyes. He describes the atrocities that were done to the girl and concludes by saying “now imagine she’s white.” His black defendant is acquitted.

So close your eyes. Consider the details about “Fast and Furious” and then picture that the Attorney General is not Eric Holder but John Ashcroft (first Attorney General of President G.W. Bush) and that the murdered border agent, Brian Terry, is black.

Would Emanuel Cleaver now call this contempt vote “silly?” Would the Black Caucus have walked out?

For the Black Caucus this is about racial politics.

Fortunately for us, for Darrell Issa (who happens to represent my home district in California) this is about shedding light on what might be broken in ATF operations.

THIS IS WHAT THE GOVT THINKS Of US, THIS IS A SHORT READ AND I BELIEVE WE ALL NEED TO READ THIS

Where are Jim, Tim, and Franklin now? 

Just in case you might have wondered how their ineptitude affected their 

lives after they ruined so many dreams and lives. Where are Jim, Tim and Franklin now? 

Here's a quick look into the three former Fannie Mae executives who 

brought down Wall Street. 

Franklin Raines - was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie 

Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when 

auditing discovered severe irregularities in Fannie Mae's accounting 

activities. Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million 

in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth 

of the accounting scandal became clear. 

Tim Howard - was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was 

a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would 

ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. Investigations by federal 

regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that 

management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and 

Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004. Howard's Golden Parachute 

was estimated at $20 Million! 

Jim Johnson - A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later 

forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. Investigators found that 

Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 

compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million 

and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under 

investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as 

CEO of Fannie Mae. Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at 

$28 Million. 

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? 

FRANKLIN RAINES? 

Raines works for the Obama Campaign as his Chief Economic Advisor. 

TIM HOWARD? 

Howard is a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama under Franklin Raines. 

JIM JOHNSON? 

Johnson was hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to 

run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee. 

Kinda makes you sick to your stomach. 

Our government is rotten to the core ! 

Are we stupid or what? Vote in 2012..it is the most important election 

of our lives...


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Why has no one in the TeaParty Command center jumped on Pelosi's remakes that "it's just Washington Talk"? Are we to believe that the Washington elite speak a different form of the English language that the rest of the Nation? Where is the outrage for being called ignorant of the word Tax instead of fine. The lack of respect shown in this Obomination Care is absolutely outrages and the TeaParty should be leading a front on the fact that the Democratic Congress believes " we the people " means nothing to them.

   SOCIALISTS  DO   NOT  CELEBRATE   JULY  4  TH AND   OUR   FREEDOM.   TAKEN  AWAY  BY   OBAMA.   TURN   THE   LIGHTS   OUT.

                                                  Shrines of Molech                                  02 Jul 2012

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Dr Ley

One of the things brought to our attention in the Old Testament is the worship of idols and false gods.  Most call this type of activity as paganism.  It is this “religion” that permeated the known and unknown world of both the Old and New Testament. It is most significant that in the books of Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Kings, Chronicles, Jeremiah, and even Psalms that the worship, by the Ammonites and others including Judah, of Molech/Baal is given us as a prime example of the horrors and depravity of pagan (Godless) worship. Paganism being the practices of those who do not know, believe, or follow God especially nations and peoples of the Old Testament record.  Here are a few *citations from those scriptures:

2 Kings 16:2. Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.

2 Kings 16:3    But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

Lev 20:2    Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

Deut 18:10   There shall not be found among you any one [that] maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

2Kgs 16:3    But he [Ahaz]walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

2Kgs 17:17   And [Israel]they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2Kgs 23:10   And he[Hezekiah] defiled Topheth[1], which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech[2].

2Chr 33:6   And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Ps 106:37    Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

Jer 7:31    And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

Jer 19:4    Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Jer 19:5   They have built also the high places of Baal[3], to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

Jer 19:6   Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

To the pagan worshipper the life of their own children was considered no more valuable than that of animals which they sacrificed to their god. Human life was cheap and meaningless. You have to ask how those parents could destroy their posterity, their generations to come, and their namesakes.  This was so repugnant to God that the point was made many times ad was explicit in all terms, conditions, and standpoints.  It was (and still is) an “abomination” and an act of such depravity that it is recognized as true acts of “barbarism and cruel waste of precious lives”.  That’s the whole idea, the whole point of the scripture narrative.  Human life is sacred and precious – especially children. But to those pagans their own personal lusts and desires came first. They only cared about appeasing a god so they could continue in greater and greater visions of humanistic reverence for pleasure ad wickedness. The life of God’s crowing creation is indeed precious and valued above all things carnal or humanistic.  God called the place where children were burned to a pagan god “the valley of slaughter”.  Indeed it was genocide or patricide, a practice that still exists today. 

There are many accounts of mass exterminations or murder of men, women, and children.  In the twentieth century alone we had numerous examples, i.e. the Holocaust, Jonestown[4], Iraq[5], Me Li[6], Wounded Knee[7], the Kurds[8], and many other instances that were well publicized and condemned by the world courts.  Indeed those responsible for these mass murders were hunted, in many cases, and brought to “justice” for their “crimes”.  National leaders proclaimed their disdain and condemnation of the perpetrators of these horrific events and it was presumed that the world population, as a whole, shared these sentiments.  But does it?

In the New Testament we are given an example of a terrible atrocity.  This specifically was the order to kill all children 2 years of age and younger[9].  And the motive?  A Humanistic[10] desire to keep power and personal wants satisfied even unchallenged.  It was the same kind of heartless and inhuman acts carried out by kings and rulers.  These depraved people killed their parents, siblings, and children!  It happened many times. It happened in Israel. It happened in Rome. It is still happening today in the United States, Britain, and Australia – nations believed to possess high moral standards, respect for the sanctity of life and human liberties.

There are shrines to the gods of Baal, Molech, and other gods of humanistic worship practices.  These shrines are the reflection of a people that value the pleasures of society such as adultery and fornication, of wealth and power, of personal achievement and status, above standards of moral conduct; or standards supposedly commonly agreed upon and accepted by civilized cultures and nations.  Indeed, to kill is considered morally wrong or just wrong in general.  There are very few exceptions to this axiom of society and civilized behavior.  This is the concept that runs through the heart of this writing, that killing is wrong, illegal, and punished under societal justice systems based on mutually accepted standards or laws. Killing, in all its forms and guises whether genocide or an individual instance is illegal, wrong, and punishable – right?  Not in every case. I don’t mean people who escape punishment by treachery.  I speak of instances excepted by societal justice systems regarding the taking of human life.[11]  However, there is one glaring exception to this “killing is wrong” axiom of society. 

In 1973 a landmark case known as Roe vs. Wade opened the door for a special kind of sanctioned murder known as abortion.  As a society we permit, authorize, and condone or at the very least turn a blind eye to the murder of children.  More children have been sacrificed at the altar of the abortion clinic than died in WWII…It has become a crime of passion and convenience, and has developed as a set decayed social mores that underlie a new foundation of  societal norm fraught with contempt for Christianity, God, and the true sanctity of life.[12]  If “children are our future”, then what are we saying about that future by sacrificing children on the altars of the abortion clinics?

*Note: All scripture references are from the King James Version (1762 edition) of the Holy Bible

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The recent walkout of several democrat representatives when it came time to vote on the  A G's contempt of congress issue was depriving their constiuncies of the representation they were sworn to provide.  Their constituancy expected them to vote no on the vote, therefore their voice was not heard or recoded in the congressional record.  This seems to be a tactic of the democrats, if theY can't win , they pick up and go home, they don't realize that their constitutents protest has not been recorded.  They puled the same B S in Wisconsin. It is immaterial whether I would agree or not with my representsatives vote becaue if I disagree with the vote, I can always file a protest with the congressional office in my district.  Without a recorded vote, I am then denied of my right to protest.  I feel that this is an act pof malfeasment and should be rounds for impeachment or recall.  HOW ELSE CN MY VOICE BE HEARD?????

After readng and listening to so many opinions from pundits and elf appointed constitutional scholars, I have come to the conclusion that SCOTUS did not uphold Obomacare. When taken in a simplified context, SCOTUS stated that the only way the law could be implemented was to tax those who refused to obtain health insurance and the act could not be implemented as written, in other words a less than specific decision to throw it out, a typical politicspeak or legalspeak take your choice.  A very confusing issue for the courts to interpret when they get bogged down in legal language.  I believe that Justice Roberts should come forward and clarify this decision, in  the meantime I will stick to my interpertation in that it is now up to congress to legalize the taxation issue or reuse to implement it.

One of the first environmental scams the Congressional quislings ran on the American public was the toilet legislation. In the sixties and seventies we could still buy 3.5 gallon flush toilets. Some lobbyists came up with the scheme to convince the public that we were wasting water and destroying the environment by using so much water. Congress decided that we should only use 1.6 gallon flush toilets and passed a law making 3.5 gallon flush toilets illegal. Toilet manufacturers that did not have high profit margins and could not afford to retool had to shut down. Americans felt good about saving the environment and applauded the legislation. But it was a scam. It’s real purpose was to destroy competition and impose regulations on the public. IT DOES NOT SAVE WATER OR THE ENVIRONMENT. Consider-if I borrow 3.5 gallons of water from the Potomac River, send it through my toilet and back into the Potomac River, the river flow is the same. I did not take water from the Potomac and throw it away. Now if I only borrow 1.6 gallons of water to flush my toilet the result is still the same. I do not create more water in the Potomac by using less. I may clog my sewer line that way, but I don’t create water. THE RIVER FLOW IIS NOT CHANGED. THE WATER IS NOT SAVED AND HELD BY THE RIVER- it flows into the Chesapeake Bay. The principle is the same anywhere in the country.

The conversion to digital television signals was another scam designed to make special interests rich. The forty dollar government rebate for those junk boxes was part of the scam. The real story was the millions forced from the public for digital antennae and new televisions needed to replace the now obsolete equipment.

Curly que light bulbs are another environmental scam. They are supposed to be needed due to an energy shortage. In fact they were used to shut down American lightbulb manufacturers. Obama also used this scam to enrich his friends at Philips electric. He gave them a grant of a million dollars for developing a long life lightbulb that costs $40.00 each. What’s worse is that curly que bulbs are a fire hazard if plugged into a circuit with a dimmer switch. There is no energy shortage.

High energy prices were contrived by the actions of the past several administrations. They’ve stopped the building of refineries, stopped drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, stopped the Canadian pipeline, shut down coal mines etc. They raised prices to enrich their friends; we have plenty of energy. But what they did is even more evil. They’ve forced us to put alcohol in the gasoline we use. This is hard on engines and cuts milage by 15% or more while raising the price of gas. The important part of the legislation was to enrich farmers who grow corm, and their lobbyist friends. It does not save any energy to convert corn to alcohol and add it to gasoline. This has also raised food prices. It’s legislation for the fun of imposing their will on us and making us poorer while enriching themselves and friends. The quislings demand campaign contributions from lobbyists to buy their votes. Incidentally, Congressional quislings don’t write legislation; it’s written by K St. law firms, in other words lobbyists and special interests. (The quislings convert campaign contributions into their own private use when they retire.).

You can find proof of the deceptive scheme In the Washington suburbs. Traffic signals are synchronized to jam traffic up by stopping you at every traffic light. When a University of Maryland professor went to a meeting of the three transportation departments (Maryland, D.C., and Virginia) to explain a computer program that would allow traffic to flow without the tie ups, the bureaucrats told him they have the lights synchronized exactly the way we want them. In other words they are trying to force people to use the inconvenient and expensive public transportation; the elites want us to give up our cars and our freedom. They don’t care about the energy they waste or the pollution created while we sit in traffic at stop lights; they use the lies about energy shortages to manipulate the voters.

You will not find a single piece of environmental legislation passed by these quislings that was not designed to increase government power over us or make some special interest wealthier at the public expense.

HERE MITTT  GOES  AND  THATS FINE.   WHAT  A  BAD EXAMPLE  OB  IS.  OR   MABY  HE   THINKS   THAT HE   IS GOD,   CAN   THAT  BE  IT????BAD  BAD EXAMPLE.

We just returned back home to Florida from my wife Mary's family reunion in Maryland. Mary and I are an interracial couple. Before consenting to attend, I asked my wife of 35 years, “Will there be anyone there who is going to give me a hard time?” Mary replied, “No, they're all dead.”

The reunion was wonderful, over one hundred in attendance. When God said be fruitful and multiply, Mary's family took God seriously. Kids were all over the place swimming, using the water slide, enjoying the feast of food and deserts and having a ball.

Cousin Jimmy started cooking the hog, head and all, on the grill at 3am. The pork was cooked to perfection. Add a little of his favorite barbecue sauce and you are in heaven. I do regret allowing Jimmy to talk me into tasting the hog's snout. For the sake of my stomach, I must change the subject.

Aunt Carol is the family historian. She and her sister, Mary's mom, Eleanor traced their family tree back to 1625. Aunt Carol's brief report was fascinating.

Mary's sister Donna was reelected president of their family reunion. Donna announced big plans to have next year's 50^th reunion catered at a resort. Everyone was excited.

Mary and I received the award for traveling the most distance.

The reunion included an auction. Melanie, Mary's sister was extremely entertaining playing auctioneer. Billy out-bid everyone to win a beautiful hand-carved bird for his mom, my Mary.

Everyone was warm and friendly. Mary's mom and dad were genuinely glad to see me. The younger family members were not taken back by me, a black member of the family. They simply did not care about my race.

While I was the only black at the reunion, I heard I am no longer the only black in the family.

It was a great day and I ate too much.

While in Maryland, I visited my family. My brother David has coached well-integrated youth football teams for many years. He has noticed that kids think very little about race. David said when we were kids there was black music and white music. Today, black and white kids basically listen to the same music.

A friend who works in shopping malls has witnessed an abundance of multiracial families. It appears Dr Martin Luther King's dream has come true. Blacks and whites are walking together in brotherhood.

So, who keeps stirring the waves of discontent, making “race” a big deal? Answer, the mainstream media, politicians seeking to exploit race to get-their-way and those seeking to get-paid. Disgusting!

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

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Everyone who pays any attention to the news knows the name Solyndra. It has become synonymous with the overall failed green energy program administered by the Obama team. Politicos know there are many other companies that have received loan guarantees for various green energy projects that have since become a source of ridicule for the White House. Some might even be able to name a few. There is the now-bankrupt company that made batteries for electric cars: Ener1. The plug-in electric sports car company, Fisker, that made its cars in Finland and has troubles too numerous to cite. And, of course, we know about the Chevy Volt—that our taxpayer dollars bailed out only to have demand so low that Chevrolet had to pull the plug on the production line and lay off workers for five weeks earlier this year. But few know the full story.

Connecting the dots will make your head hurt. There are various programs and special tax breaks and different kinds of companies that received green energy loans: solar, wind, and geothermal; and car companies, battery manufacturers, and biofuel producers. While the projects differ, they have several startling similarities. The vast majority of the green energy loan guarantees were given to companies that could not obtain enough financial backing from private investors. Their “junk” or “speculative” grade kept people from putting their own money into them —yet your money and mine was given to them, and we had no say in the matter. Of the 27 loans issued through the 1705 Loan Guarantee Program to 21 firms, virtually all of them have “connections” to either President Obama or other high-ranking Democrats—or both! The loans were made to fill a market created not by free-market demand, but by government mandates. And, all of the “special seven” got fast-tracked approvals through the Department of Interior with little scrutiny over environmental damages that would have taken any other energy company months, if not years, to get, and EPA regulations were applied selectively.

Many of the companies that received the funds had involvement with large donors and/or bundlers for the Obama campaign, and there is an amazing revolving door through which the players pass many times. They worked, for example, for Senator Harry Reid. Then they are on the staff of an investment firm that invested in one, or more, of the companies. Next you find he or she is on some White House commission—or worse, became part of the Obama Department of Energy team. Some 460 companies applied for DOE loans, but only 27 projects, 21 companies, got the funds. And 85% of these have been found to have “connections.” The remaining 15% may well have connections too, albeit more guarded or hidden.

These are not wild assertions. I have the data to back them up.

Following the publication of my column a couple of weeks ago on crony capitalism, I was connected with Christine Lakatos. She’s a private citizen and a single mom with a nose for research. Beginning in 2009, she was hired to work on investigative projects, following the green energy money. But when those projects were completed, she didn’t stop digging. She kept finding more and more. With no outlet for her work, she started a blog where she “brain dumps” her findings—which for a total unknown has received an impressive number of readers. For anyone but the most stalwart, her Green Corruption Blog is like getting a drink of water from a fire hydrant.

On Sunday, some of Lakatos’ research was presented in my weekly column. The response prompted us to begin a collaboration.

For each of the next 17 weeks, we will expose one green-energy, crony-corruption story after another (though my travel schedule may require me to skip a week here and there). It will be a “book” released chapter-by-chapter. If you like what you find, we hope you’ll let us know and come back the following week for the next installment.

Some single stories of what we’ll expose are “out there”—though surely not covered by the mainstream media and not all in one place or all connected as we’re doing.  If you made a study of the green-energy, crony-corruption story your passion, you likely found out a lot of what we’ll share. If you read the report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (HOGRC) on the Obama Administration’s green energy gamble word-for-word, or watched the incriminating hearings, you’ll already know some of what we’ll present. Or, if you’ve read the chapter in Peter Schweizer’s book Throw Them All Out that addresses alternative energy and “how the game of funneling taxpayer money to friends has exploded to astonishing levels in recent years,” you have a good idea of the big picture. If you have made this your passion, have studied the report, and have coordinated with Schweizer, as Lakatos has, you are encouraged to help make these reports as complete as possible. Together, we’ll connect the dots and present it here in bite-sized pieces.

Each of the energy projects we will profile in the “special seven” section were recipients of billions of taxpayer dollars through the 1705 Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) and many will be receiving millions more through the 1603 Grant Program. The 1705 LGP is an expansion of the 1703 program that was approved in 2005 under President Bush—increasing the expenditures from $17.9 billion in 2007 to $37.2 billion in 2010. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act significantly expanded the DOE’s authority, under Energy Secretary Steven Chu, through the newly created 1705 LGP. (Under the Recovery Act, $86 billion—approximately 10% of the stimulus package—was earmarked for green energy projects.) The LGP means that companies get risk-free money. If the company succeeds, the low-interest loan gets paid back. If they fail—as many have—we, the taxpayers, lose. In contrast, the 1603 Grant Program—implemented as part the Obama stimulus––is administered by the Treasury Department, with the goal of reimbursing eligible applicants for a portion of the costs of installing specified energy property used in a trade or business or for the production of income. Basically 1603 gives billions in favored businesses tax-free cash gifts that do not have to be paid back.

While we can prove that cronyism has run amok within the majority of 1705 LGP, we'll stay focused on the Special Seven. Here, in Part 1, we present a complete overview of the connecting dots on one project: SolarReserve, LLC. With this introduction made, we’ll likely address several companies, with a common denominator, in subsequent releases.

In Sunday’s column, the following thumbnail was presented: “SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes project is a solar thermal power tower plant utilizing the advanced molten salt power tower technology with integrated storage located in Tonopah, NV. The company's Fitch rating is BB, yet in September 2011, it was the recipient of $737 million in DOE loan guarantees. Obama’s law school buddy and 2008 Obama campaign bundler, Michael Froman, was managing director of alternative investments at Citigroup—which became a major investor in SolarReserve. Froman currently serves on the White House staff. Additionally, other high profile Democrats are involved with SolarReserve.”

But there is more.

More about Michael Froman. Peter Schweizer reports that “When Obama ran for president, Froman helped raise large sums of money on Wall Street” for the 2008 campaign. The HOGRC report (page 47) confirms Peter’s findings and adds that Froman was a $200,000 bundler: “Michael Froman currently serves as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs. He was a friend of President Obama’s from law school, and supported his political career by bundling over $200,000 for his 2008 presidential candidacy. Prior to his arrival at the White House, Froman was the Managing Director of Alternative Investments at Citigroup, where he managed infrastructure and sustainable development investments. Citigroup became a major investor in SolarReserve, which ultimately received a $737 million loan guarantee in September 2011.”

The Citigroup connection is tighter. Richard Parsons was Chairman for Citigroup from 2009 until he announced stepping down in March 2012. Citigroup was a top Obama donor in 2008. Parsons served on the Obama Transition Team and on the Economic Advisory Board. In 2011, Parsons was appointed to the President’s Council on Jobs and Competiveness.

Next, David Sandalow—who is currently “the Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs at DOE, where he acts as Secretary’s Chu’s principal adviser on energy policy, as well as coordinating DOE’s foreign policy involvement.” (HOGRC report page 49) “Sandalow’s ties to the White House date back to the Clinton Administration, during which he worked with President Clinton on environmental issues. After having gained this experience, Sandalow became the influential Chair of the Energy & Climate Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative. He went on to advise President Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Sandalow was a senior advisor to Good Energies, Inc., an energy-focused venture capital firm. Good Energies is an investor in SolarReserve.”

Other SolarReserve connections to the Democratic Party include:

Ronald Pelosi—Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law, Ronald Pelosi, holds a leadership position with Pacific Corporate Group Asset Management—which is an investor in SolarReserve. Additionally, his colleague, Jasandra Nyker, has served as a member of SolarReserve’s board of directors.

George Kaiser—Argonaut Private Equity is an investor in SolarReserve. Argonaut Private Equity is owned by major Democratic fundraiser and a 2008 Top Obama bundler George Kaiser, who also invested in Solyndra. Kaiser made multiple visits to the White House in the months before the company was granted a $535 million loan from the government. The Managing Director for Argonaut Private Equity, Steve Mitchell, serves on SolarReserve's Board of Directors.

Tony Podesta—OpenSecrets.org shows that SolarReserve paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees to the Podesta Group. Tony Podesta is the principal at the Podesta Group—which he started with his brother John. John Podesta ran Barack Obama’s presidential transition team and is the Director of the Center for American Progress—which is “reportedly highly influential in helping to craft White House Policy.” Both Tony Podesta and his wife Heather (a Washington power couple) are frequent White House visitors that share high ranks in "lobbying power," and Democrat bundling as well.

Lee Bailey—SolarReserve’s Chairman of the Board is Lee Bailey, a Managing Director with U.S. Renewables Group, who holds a significant financial stake in SolarReserve. Bailey has donated $21,850 since 2008 to Democratic candidates, including President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, California Sen. Barbara Boxer and then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

James McDermott—SolarReserve board member James McDermott is also a Managing Director with U.S. Renewables Group. He contributed $61,500 to various Democratic campaigns since 2008, including $30,800 to Obama’s presidential election campaign. U.S Renewable Energy Group has ties with Senator Harry Reid.

If there were only one connect-the-dots story, it would be easy to dismiss it as coincidence. But here, with just one company, you can see the dots connect, and connect, and connect. As you will continue to see, they keep on connecting. In this case, connect-the-dots is no innocent childhood game. It is a high-stakes gamble and only those with connections get to play. Obama and his Democratic friends are the winners. We, the taxpayers, the losers. We lose the financial investment of our tax dollars and our electricity rates go up—all to support the discredited ruse of man-made climate change.

First published at Townhall.com: Obama’s Green-Energy, Crony-Corruption

By Marita Noon (Jun 29, 2012) –– also pick up by: 

• George Jarkesy Radio Show
• Conservative Action Alerts
• The Strident Conservative
• EPA Abuse 
• OurMoney.net

Marita Noon, executive director of Energy Makes America Great Inc., is a voice for energy focusing on the intersection of energy, news, politics and environmentalism. Follow Marita at @energyrabbit

Christine Lakatos is a mother of two terrific daughters, an ACE Certified Fitness Trainer, author, and more –– turned ferocious Green Corruption researcher and blogger. Follow Christine at @calfit32

Our first stop will be "The Special7" that snagged billions in DOE loans that were "junk" rated, millions in tax-free energy grants as well as fast-tracked DOI public land approval with little scrutiny over environmental damage. And....you guessed it....ALL have "meaningful" connections (bundlers, donors, supporters) to President Obama, Senator Harry Ried, and other high-profile Democrats. Some even gained White House staff and DOE Advisor positions. 

While this column uncovered #1) SolarReserve, Marita reported on the entire list of seven in her  "Eco Scare Scams Raise Obama Campaign Cash" Townhall.com piece last Sunday, June 24, 2012.

Here are a summary of the others, but we will expand on each in the following weeks.

Three more Harry Reid ties:

#2) Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) holds leasehold interests in six geothermal projects located in the Western United States. They hold a BB+ rating and received a $78.8 million loan, guaranteed by the DOE, in September of 2011. Executives from NGP contributed heavily in 2008 to Harry Reid’s campaign. 

#3) Ormat Nevada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ormat Technologies Inc., whose website touts “green energy you can rely on.” They have an S&P rating of BB and received $350 million in partial loan guarantees. Ormat’s lobbyist Kai Anderson and Director of Policy and Business Development Paul Thomsen were both former senate aides to Harry Reid and donors to his campaign.

#4)  BrightSource Energy has a three-unit power system project known as “Ivanpah,” located near the California/Nevada border, south of Las Vegas, that uses a proprietary power-tower solar thermal system. Ivanpah I and III have a BB+ rating while Ivanpah II is BB. On April 11, 2011, the DOE announced the finalization of $1.6 billion in loan guarantees for BrightSource’s Ivanpah project. The apparent “payoffs” to Democrats are myriad—having donated at least $21,600 to Democrats since 2008 (and zero dollars to Republicans). According to a Washington Free Beacon report, Senator Harry “Reid received almost $4,000 from Brightsource executives in the 2010 cycle, including $2,400 from CEO John Woolard, who hosted a fundraiser for the majority leader. Woolard is also a Barack Obama donor and has visited the White House 10 times since Obama took office.” Additionally, Sanjay Wagle (a significant 2008 Obama campaign supporter and contributor), a principal at Vantage Point Partners (the major stakeholder in BrightSource) was an advisor at the DOE at the time the loan was approved. And, John Bryson, BrightSource CEO, became Obama’s Secretary of Commerce (although he resigned his post late Wednesday) and has ties to an organization that helped craft the stimulus package. 

And more...

#5) Abengoa has two solar projects: Solana and Mojave Solar. Solana’s Fitch rating is BB+. Just before Christmas, 2010, the company received $1.45 billion from the DOE for a solar thermal plant, to use parabolic trough technology, in Gila Bend, AZ. Mojave Solar’s rating was BB. Yet the company received $1.2 billion in September 2011 for its solar assembly collection project in San Bernardino County, CA. Abengoa has connections to California’s Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.

• "The Special7"
• Department of Energy "Junk Loans" and Cronyism List
• While Peter Schweizer's book divulged that ten members Obama's 2008 Finance Committee­, and revealed at least twenty-five 2008 Obama bundlers, large donors, and supporters that were "privy" to large amounts of green loans, grants, and special tax breaks, I found more...
• The RAT in the Stimulus and the “Green Stimulus Authors” that Have Benefited Greatly
• Obama's Green Team, DOE Officials, and DOE Advisors –– Stacked with Left-Wing Radicals, Al Gore Acolytes, and Silicon Valley Liaisons –– are Heavily Implicated in this “Green-Energy Scheme," and many have raked in big "green bucks." Also, a few White House staff that have ties to government green-energy money. 
• At Least Five Members of Obama's Job Council Got DOE Cash –– A Council that is  Stacked With Democratic Donors, many of which came from President Obama's appointed 2009 Economic Advisory Board. 
• Obama-Connected Cleantech (VC) Portfolios that Snagged Billions of Government Funds for Multiple Green Companies and Green Projects 
• Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Energy, and Big Venture Capitalists are Players Cashing in on "Green" Too 
• Failed Obama-backed Green Energy Companies –– the bankrupt and troubled "green projects and companies" list, of which I have tracked close to thirty (and more on the State level), yet it continues to grow weekly.

I know that other disgraces have plagued the Obama administration and taken center stage lately like Fast & Furious, ObamaCare, White House National Security Leaks, and more, however, with only 17 weeks until the 2012 elections, we will attempt to expose President Obama's "clean-energy dirt"  –– Green-Energy, Crony-Corruption Story –– of which I personally believe is one of the biggest scandals (and most expensive) of the Obama presidency!

Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian politician who tried to get elected promoting national socialism. The Norwegians rejected him and national socialism. So Quisling wormed his way into the bureaucracy to learn the inner workings of government and form alliances with other idiots in the government. He then made a secret deal with Hitler to take over Norway and force national socialism on the Norwegian people. Since then Quisling has been used to describe politicians and traitors who have a secret agenda which they hide from the public they are trying to fool and manipulate.

History is repeating itself in the USA now. People are beginning to realize that we’ve been intentionally lied to by our elected representatives for years. They’ve promoted "environmental legislation" that they pretended was for clean air and water. It’s real purpose was to gain regulatory power the public never intended the government to have. Social legislation was promoted which did not benefit anyone in society except the lawyers. It made them rich by allowing them to cram our courts with useless litigation. One of the secrets about environmental legislation was that it gave legal standing to any group of idiots who wanted to obstruct progress and impose their malice on people who were trying to develop wasted property or rehabilitate existing property. That’s why there are no "shovel ready jobs". And Obama and the rest of the horde know it; they’ve effectively cut off any movement to progress and turned us into a third world country. Obama smiles because it amuses him to see how effective their legislation has been. Much anti-business anti-consumer legislation had the hidden purpose of shutting down businesses and driving others overseas.

There is proof of this intentional deception. Congress has not passed a budget for three years, (even though they’ve increased spending to an unbelievable level), in order to hide what they are doing with the money. Billions have been frittered away on "green" businesses which the public does not want and never asked for. It’s a way to make friends and lobbyists rich at the expense of working Americans. Many of the businesses funded by the president and Congress have already gone bankrupt leaving us the bill while the business owners got rich and the politicians got huge donations. (Politicians convert their unused campaign funds into retirement money when they leave or are thrown out of office.

We need to spread the word so that Americans who only get their information from the duplicitous mainstream media will understand what has been going on. Ane we meed to elect politicians who will REVERSE the bad legislation that has been adding up for forty years. Only the Tea Party will do it.

Most people do not understand how our Budget process works or how our nation passes a bill.  There are three sets of hands on the purse strings of our nation.  When a party controls ANY TWO of these strings, they are in control.  These strings are in the hands of the President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.

I am not an economist.  I am not a highly educated man.  So, I try to take the complicated and make it less complicated so that I can understand it more effectively.  So...I have gone back in time, since 1981, and performed a simple analysis of who holds the purse strings of our nation and what there "deficit rate" is comparatively.  The results are staggering and eye-opening.  You are welcome to check my math.

Democrats OUT-DEFICIT Republicans by $4.23 to $1.00 (in terms of deficit spending) and that is a FACT.  Anyone can pull the figures and do the math themselves.  It does not matter which party is in the White House - it matters which party has majority control.  In the period in question, Democrats had control for 15 years and Republicans had control for 18 years.  During the 15 years that Democrats had control, they added $8.014 TRILLION to the national deficit.  During the 18 years that Republicans had control, they added $2.280 TRILLION to the deficit.  The yearly rate is $534 BILLION to $127 BILLION. 

Republicans are also better at reducing the previous years deficit.  They reduce the deficit 60 percent of the time as compared to 40 percent of the time for Democrats.  Now let me ask you this question.  Would you want a parachute that opens 40 percent of the time that only reduces your fall rate to 500 inches per second or a parachute that opens 60 percent of the time that reduces your fall rate to 100 inches per second?

Folks, we have a real clear choice this November.  We can argue about policy until we are blue in the face.  We can fight over the Obamacare Tax until the cows come home.  But we need to reduce this to something VERY simple and easy to understand.  Democrats will put this nation deeper into debt than Republicans.  Full STOP! 

The graphic to back my claim is included.  I intend to continue my education efforts on this matter until I can no longer draw breath.  I am interested in ONLY the facts.  Here they are!

"We The People's" authority to amend the Constitution of the United States is derived from

Article V of the Constitution

The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a “two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, or  by a “constitutional convention” called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures and since the President does not have a constitutional role in the amendment process, the joint resolution does not go to the White House for signature or approval.

A proposed amendment becomes part of the Constitution as soon as it is ratified by three-fourths of the States (38 of 50 States).  The process is called “Constitutional Convention”.

Constitutional Convention has only been used once in the entire history of this country.  I was astonished that it wasn’t congress that got the credit for ending “prohibition” but rather it was because of the united efforts of “We The People” through our collective state legislatures resulting in a forced joint resolution through the people’s right of Constitutional Convention.

What the Constitutional Convention does  is, if the President of the United States refuses to faithfully uphold his oath of office, just as President Obama did when he refused to enforce the“Defense of Marriage Act”(DOMA), and a U.S. Congress Committee fails to put forth an amendment in the  form of a joint resolution, just as the House Judiciary Committee has and is still doing to prevent a vote to amend the United States Constitution defining marriage to be the union between one man and one woman, the citizens of the United States can have their state legislatures  demand and force the U.S. Congress to do so through “Constitutional Convention” and bring forth a joint resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution and the United States President is powerless to do anything about it.

It means “We The People”, through “Constitutional Convention” could hold the U.S. Senate accountable to pass a budget by amending the U.S. Constitution preventing any further spending until it is done.

It means “We The People” through “Constitutional Convention” could establish the law of the land that no tax could be levied against the people without the ratification of (38 of 50) states of the union.

It means the people have a course of action to define and limit the scope of authority of any appointed or elected official.  The Supreme Court’s authority can be limited to the interpretation to the U.S. Constitution and any law or executive order would require the ratification of (38 of 50) states.

It means “We The People” could amend the Constitution to enhance the checks and balances of government  to allow the majority vote of either the House or Senate be sufficient cause for dismissal of any elected official or appointed official, including the Supreme Court Justices.

The Tea Party is in an excellent position to collaborate the state cooperation needed to make this course of action a reality for the American People.   

Will you help spear head the practice of "Constitutional convention" on behalf of “We The People”?  If the Tea Party of Each State were to coordinate efforts and topics of "Constitutional Convention" to each state legislature, "We The People" would not only have a greater voice but also would begin having a greater impact in Washington instead of just every four years or time of re-election

Please coordinate with your Tea Party commander and state representatives about“

your Constitutional Convention”  right, and process,  thank you.

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