The recent push to get Condoleezza Rice in as Romney’s vice president was well planned. More important, it’s a signal that the liberal cronies who get rich off of government contracts and sneaky addendums to legislation are well entrenched and have no intention of giving up power to constitutionalists, and tea party types. They clearly intend to staff Romney’s cabinet and staff with liberals. They will also block access to the president so that conservatives can’t get close enough to have their voices heard. That’s how we got a closet liberal as chief justice on the Supreme Court. He appeared to be the best choice because he was able to hide his need for social approval of the chattering class, while posing as a conservative justice. At the same time constitutional lawyers were blocked access to important Senators and the president. To counter this we will have to keep up pressure on Congress and the hoped for future president.

Keep blogging, keep commenting, reach out to voters who are misinformed about the situation and persevere.

http://www.examiner.com/article/soros-plot-to-stack-states-courts-with-leftist-judges-exposed?CID=examiner_alerts_article

George Soros is still at it, financing his way to world power.  Let us not forget he put up five million dollars to finance a Super Pac that intends to dig up dirt on Allen West.

Obama’s Historic Presidency

http://noisyroom.net/blog/2012/06/14/obamas-historic-presidency/

By: AJ
Hat Tip: MJ

“Historic” may be an understatement when describing Barack Obama’s Presidency.  When we consider what Obama has done in his first term, it is easy to see that he has excelled in many areas that prior President’s have never thought to tread.  As we explore some of Obama’s historic achievements, his definition of “change” becomes clearer.

Unemployed College Graduates: For the first time in US history, there are more jobless people who attended college than those who didn’t; a historic Obama achievement.

Poverty: The US now has the highest poverty rate – ever!  All prior Presidents failed to plunge more families into poverty than Obama.  Imagine how many more families can slide into poverty if Obama gets a second term.  He’ll be able to beat his own historic record.

Food Stamps: Obama has broken all records when it comes to doling out food stamps.  Before Obama’s Presidency, $39 billion from taxpayers was spent for food stamp recipients.  In 2012, $81 billion is now spent on food stamps thanks to Obama’s historic increase in less than 4 years in office.  He’s done an outstanding job of implementing the Cloward & Piven strategy.

Unemployment Rate: If the labor force was the same size now as when Obama took office, unemployment is at 11%.  The historic decline of the US labor force during Obama’s Presidency has put us back to what it was in 1981.  If we include people who are underemployed in today’s labor force, the unemployment rate is actually 14%.  Even if we consider the BLS unemployment rate, which was 7.3% when Obama took office, we know he promised it wouldn’t hit 8%.  Well, it has remained above 8% throughout his Presidency and has remained high for the longest time-period in recorded history.  Obama has decreased private sector jobs and increased government jobs.  Since there are 7.7 million less working people since Obama took office, his current claim that he created over 4 million jobs is nothing short of a historic lie.

Economic Recovery: In 2008 under President Bush, TARP was a massive, and arguably deceptive spending bill designed to avert a professed financial collapse when the Carter-Clinton-Cuomo “Community Reinvestment Act” chickens finally came home to roost. Just months later when Obama took office in 2009, he doubled-down with his Omnibus bill (filled with 9000 earmarks, which he signed behind closed doors), the largest Stimulus spending bill in US history, plus other 2009 spending bills passed by the Democrat-controlled House and Senate totaling $4+ trillion.  Despite the most massive government spending in one year by any President – ever – Obama has managed to ensure the worst economic recovery – in history!  But wait… Obama’s historic achievement gets better… since the Harry Reid-controlled Senate has refused to pass a budget each year since Obama’s 2009 $4+ trillion spending bills, continuing resolutions have refunded all of those bills.  That’s right – all of Obama’s 2009 spending bills, including the failed 2009 Stimulus bill, get refunded each and every year (so we’ve had 4 Obama Stimulus’ since he took office).  Truly historic, isn’t it?

Household Net Worth: “The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just three years, from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010. That puts Americans roughly on par with where they were in 1992.”  Obama’s historic achievement sealed the deal on setting American families back 20 years.  Just imagine how much farther back we’ll be if Obama is re-elected.

Gas Prices: The nationwide average was $1.84 per gallon of regular gas when Obama took office and it’s never looked back.  Obama said that under his plan, energy prices would necessarily skyrocket.  Obama is the first US President to fulfill such a promise with deliberate intent to cause significant, daily financial impact to all Americans.

Food Prices: Compare your family’s food expense to what you were paying less than 4 years ago and you’ll see the steep rise in food prices… not to mention the shrinking package sizes.  Obama has seized on the rising food prices by inspiring large cities throughout the nation to ban Americans from feeding the hungry and donating to food banks.  No President in the history of our nation has ever taken such a historic step.

Home Ownership: Obama’s historic success reversed 46 years of progress made by American families when home ownership hit its lowest level since 1965 on his watch and despite all his mortgage bailout gimmicks, slush funds and massive bailouts for government-owned-and-operated Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Corporate Tax Rate: Thanks to Obama, the US enjoys the highest jobs-killing corporate income tax rate in the industrialized world! Businesses are handing over more of their hard-earned dollars to Obama than in any other industrialized country on the planet.  This is a historic achievement which enables businesses to feed Obama’s government leviathan rather than spend that money on salaries and benefits for new employees.

National Debt: Obama has spent more of our money than any head-of-state in the history of the world.  In less than 4 years, Obama succeeded in over-spending by over $5 trillion, causing our national debt to rise beyond our entire yearly US GDP. In other words, he spent all of the $2 to $3 trillion per year that taxpayers gave him, plus an additional $1.3 trillion each year, which caused an accumulated debt in excess of $5 trillion in less than 4 years.  [Note: National Debt was $10.6 trillion when Obama took office; it’s now nearly $16 trillion].  In addition, the amount of US Debt held by the Federal Reserve (a private banking cartel) increased by a historic 452% under Obama and now sits at $1.688 Trillion.

US Credit Rating: For the first time in the history of our nation, we lost our AAA credit rating.  No other US President has ever achieved this.  Obama’s accomplishment in this area is absolutely historic.

Industry Takeovers: Food, healthcare, banks, student loans, energy, land, homes, farms, cars, water, the internet, the media… and the list goes on.  Obama has taken over more private sector industries than any other President in history.  In addition to nationalizing numerous industries to put an end to our pesky free market system that’s made America the most generous, advanced and prosperous nation the world has ever known, Obama’s masterful assault extends to controlling what we, as individuals, must do and cannot do with regard to our own bodies, our faith, our families and all other aspects of our lives.  Obama’s historic achievement in this arena is unprecedented.

Small Businesses: Remember when Bush opened the door for Obama to take over the auto industry and dealerships were forced to close?  Obama hand-picked and dictated the closure of dealerships owned by people who leaned ‘right’ politically.  Also, from the start of his Presidency, to the outrageous assault against Gibson Guitars, to all the people Obama put out of business (fishermen, farmers, workers in the oil, coal and natural gas industry, retailers, restaurants, etc.), to the burdensome regulations from Cass Sunstein that prevent people from even starting a business, Obama has waged a historic war against small businesses and has done a spectacular job of de-industrializing America.  If re-elected, we won’t need to worry that our children can no longer put up a lemonade stand or have a bake sale; we’ll be worried about feeding our children.  Obama’s mission of transforming America into a third world country will be complete – something no US President in the history of our nation has ever even attempted.

Religion: Obama is carrying out the most intense and vicious attack against religion, in violation of the first amendment, than any President in the history of our nation.  As David Barton said, “The hostility of President Obama toward Biblical faith and values is without equal from any previous American president.”

United Nations: Obama is the first US President ever to preside over the United Nations.  Our Constitution forbids it, but Obama wouldn’t be historic if he followed the laws of our land.

Russia: “Believing himself off the record, President Obama, then in Russia, leaned over to outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, and said in reference to prospective negotiations on reduction of American missile defenses: “This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.” In response, Medvedev replied in English, “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladmir,” meaning to incoming President (and de facto Russian dictator) Vladmir Putin.”

National Security Leaks: Obama’s White House is responsible for the most dangerous and numerous national security leaks of our time.  Costing Navy Seals and Special Ops Forces their lives, Obama released the identities of those who took out Osama Bin Laden.  Also, from the Stuxnet cyber warfare against Iran – to Obama’s kill list- to the 2009 release of CIA memos – to divulging Britain’s defense secrets to Russia – to revealing Israel’s defense secrets to Iran – to drone strikes – to releasing details about the newest underwear bomb device, Obama’s White House has been on a treasonous rampage by publicizing information that threatens national security and puts American lives and U.S. interests at risk.  What adds to the historic nature of these crimes is Congress’ inability to appoint a Special Council to investigate.  Obama has decided to have his Department of Injustice (Eric Holder) appoint special prosecutors to investigate the executive branch AND the legislature.  Really?  Unbelievable, isn’t it?  Perhaps Eric Holder will want Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to be the first legislator investigated since she publicly stated, “I’ve been on the Intelligence Committee for 11 years and I have never seen it worse, I can tell you that” regarding the Obama White House leaks.

Black Panthers: Obama’s injustice department dropped the charges against Defendants in the worst case of voter intimidation in our lifetime.  Obama’s historic mandate, carried out by Eric Holder ensures that the pursuit of justice is based solely on skin color.  Violating our anti-discrimination laws – in other words, letting criminals get away with their crimes based solely on the color of their skin – is truly historic and reverses everything we accomplished regarding Civil Rights that ensure all men are treated equally regardless of the color of their skin.

Fast and Furious: In 2009, Obama’s DOJ rolled out their new “Fast and Furious” gun program (after Obama and Hilary Clinton falsely claimed that 90% of the foreign guns found in Mexico come from the US).  Obama’s new program sent thousands of US guns to Mexican drug cartels, gangs and murderers who used them to kill Mexicans and Americans.  There are many historic aspects to what Obama did, not the least of which is that he and Eric Holder have yet to be held accountable for their crimes.  If you think Watergate was bad, it’s nothing compared to this.  The mainstream media silence is deafening – and also historic.

Beheading’s in America: Obama’s open-border policy is a historic success and the beheading’s that have been happening in Mexico are now occurring here on American soil.

Suing States: For the first time in history, this President is not only suing states that are trying to protect Americans from foreign enemies who cross our borders (i.e. states are trying to enforce the laws of our land that Obama refuses to enforce), but Obama has taken it to an unimaginable level.  He teamed up with dictators from other countries to jointly fight against US states that are trying to protect the American people.

Voting: Obama’s historic fight against states that are doing what they’ve always done in cleaning up their voter rolls before an election is unprecedented.  Removing dead people, felons and illegal’s from voter rolls will not be tolerated by Obama.  He’s also fighting states who want voters to show their ID… you know… like showing your ID to his TSA, FBI or at any of his government buildings if you want to enter; showing your ID in stores if you want to buy alcohol, write a check or use a credit card; showing your ID at public schools when you want to buy lunch, at universities or to police when they ask to see it.  Obama’s assault on states trying to ensure free and fair elections is an assault on all of us and marks another historic Obama achievement.

Golf Games: “President Obama is nearing his 100th round of golf — a significant milestone indeed. How many people outside of Florida’s retirement communities have time to play 100 rounds of golf?”

Fundraising: “All told, he has now attended 163 re-election fundraisers for his campaign and the Democratic Party – almost double the number George W. Bush attended in his entire first term (86) and more than any other president in history.”

Lavish Vacations: “The past few years have been a time for sacrifice for many, but not apparently for the Obama’s.”

President’s Work Schedule: Obama’s late-to-rise and partial work days are unprecedented.

There are other areas such as NASA, the NDAA, the war in Libya, the Muslim Brotherhood in our White House, Obama’s role in the Arab Spring, etc. which we’ll explore another time.  For now, when we consider just the items delineated in this article, there is no denying that Obama’s Presidency is historic and the impact he has had on our country is undeniable.

Although his campaign slogan is “Forward,” it is clear he is taking us backward.  Jobs, economic stability, national security, etc… he has taken us backward by decades, as reflected in home ownership at its lowest since 1965, the labor force at its lowest since 1981, poverty, food stamps and debt at their highest level in history…

If this is the kind of change you are happy with, don’t forget to vote for Obama in November… or don’t vote at all because that will help him win too.  But if this is not the kind of change you want, make sure you are registered, get to the polls on voting day and help us make sure that Obama does not get a “historic” second term.

Kissing Obamacare Goodbye

http://noisyroom.net/blog/2012/07/11/kissing-obamacare-goodbye/

By: AJ
Hat Tip: MJ

We are going to end Obamacare at the state level by using the KISS principle – Keep It Simple, Stupid, so let’s get it started!

Using simplicity and common sense, we Americans can take this into our own hands and do what we need to do to prove that Obamacare is irrelevant and unnecessary at the state level.  All we need is a simple solution, which this article provides, and one state that will pursue this by doing a little homework.

Let me start by telling you what this is NOT… this solution is not reliant on the politicians who foisted this upon us or the spineless politicians doing nothing to end it.  It is not dependent upon repeal, courts, nullification, state-wide voting, Constitutional amendments, petitions or polls.

Now let me tell you what this is… it is about picking one or more states that will do some simple homework to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Obamacare law is not applicable in their state.  If we do this, we can proactively take control of the narrative to announce that Obamacare is irrelevant because the state is already compliant.

BACKGROUND:

First, Obama and his comrades established that the fundamental basis of Obamacare is to ensure that everyone has healthcare.  They claimed that 12 to 30 million people are going without healthcare and these people have a right to it.  Has anyone challenged this with actual data that shows who these people really are?  Read on and you will find out.

Second, Obama and his comrades claim that the 12 to 30 million phantom people are our poor and disadvantaged.  This enables a powerful narrative that the media and left-wing talking heads can push onto the uninformed and ignorant 26% who support Obamacare.  Is anyone challenging this narrative with actual truth?  Not yet.  That’s why, when we convey facts and even show sections of the actual legislation to uninformed people, their bottom line response is, “Well I think everyone should have healthcare.”  Again, the false narrative wins the day, the uninformed remain ignorant and they actually believe that these phantom people who want healthcare cannot get it.

Third, the Obama narrative has now advanced to “States need to expand the Medicaid rolls” and some GOP Governors are flatly saying “No.”  What these Governors fail to see is where this narrative is going.  Medicaid is for the poor and disabled, so the spin masters are setting the stage for their next assertion; “Republicans won’t expand the Medicaid rolls because they want poor and disabled people to die.”  When are these GOP Governors going to flatly say that the poor and disabled are ALREADY covered by Medicaid?  And tell the truth that expanding the Medicaid rolls is a false narrative.

GOP Governors are playing checkers while Obama and his comrades are playing chess and are a few moves away from checkmate.  Instead of responding to Obama’s narrative and falling into his trap, do some homework and speak boldly to create a completely different narrative.  In other words, expose the truth.

SIMPLE SOLUTION:

States can take control of the narrative by defining a clear, true and concise narrative that lets people know that, from our poor to our elderly and everyone in between, all who want healthcare can already get it without Obamacare.

Can a state prove this?  Yes.  I contend that all a state needs to do is gather totals… the total number of people served by each of the categories delineated below.  Every provider, insurer and program know how many people they serve in a given state.

Get the totals, add them up and then compare that number with the total population of the state to see how many people are not receiving healthcare from any of these categories.  The number will either be zero or a very small percentage of the state population.  Then, just a little more homework will reveal that the vast majority of this small segment of the state’s population is actually young, healthy people who choose not to spend their money on it because they don’t need it, they don’t use it and they don’t want it.

Take a very close look at all these programs and healthcare-delivery vehicles (below) that have been in place without Obamacare and before Obama took the Presidency.  Look at all the people covered in these categories.  A majority of working Americans who already have healthcare plans actually have no idea that all these programs exist and, unfortunately, Obama’s lies sound believable to them when no one counters him with the truth.

• Medicare: for everyone aged 65 and older.
• Medicaid and/or SCHIP (e.g. CA has MediCal and Healthy Families): for everyone who is poor and disabled.
• TRICARE: for service members, retirees and their families.
• Veterans Administration: for Veterans.
• Employer-based: for individuals and families covered through their employer.
• University-based: for University/College attendees (e.g. CA has a mandatory fee that all students must pay which provides healthcare coverage whether they want it or not).
• COBRA: for individuals and families who are in-between jobs/left their job for whatever reason.  If they are unable to find new employment and their income remains low (e.g. unemployment), they become eligible for Medicaid, Hospital/Doctor Financial Waivers, and they can go to clinics or even private providers.  One size doesn’t fit all and these people have choices.
• Tribes: for individuals and families who are members of an Indian Tribe.
• Clinics: for individuals and families who receive healthcare from community-based/free clinics.
• Private Provider: for individuals and families who choose to pay for their own healthcare through private providers.
• Religious Exemption: for individuals and families who choose to be exempt for religious reasons, which includes people such as the Amish, Muslims, Mennonites and Hutterites (because purchasing insurance violates their religious beliefs).
• Hospital/Doctor Financial Waiver: for individuals who receive free healthcare directly from doctors/hospitals because they submitted a ‘financial hardship’ form.

Don’t forget that Obama and his comrades gave the states another category:

• Obama/HHS Waiver: for millions of Obama’s lobbyists/special-interest friends/campaign contributors who received an Obamacare waiver directly from Obama’s HHS secretary.

After a state gathers the grand total of all the above categories and subtracts it from the state population, the state can create their own waiver in order to protect young peoples’ right to choose and once they are in this new category, everyone is accounted for in terms of healthcare and Obamacare is proven irrelevant and unnecessary because the state is already compliant.  Everyone who wants healthcare already has it.

• *Freedom-of-Choice Waiver: this is a new category (if needed) for the majority of young people who seek to exercise their unalienable Right, as granted by our Declaration and Constitution, to choose not to spend their hard-earned money on healthcare because they do not use, want or need it while they’re young and healthy.  The Freedom-of-Choice Waiver accomplishes the exact same thing as the waiver granted at the Federal level by Obama – it exempts people who want exemption; therefore, it is completely consistent with Federal precedence.

Take control of the narrative Governors!  Do your homework!  Don’t fall into the latest trap.  Expanding Medicaid rolls is a false flag.  Our poor and disabled are already on Medicaid and, in fact, many who are not poor and can afford healthcare are on the Medicaid rolls already.  We don’t have $100 million a year in Medicaid fraud, waste and abuse by accident.  So don’t take the bait!  Medicaid rolls don’t need expanding because our poor and disabled already have Medicaid.  So get out there and spread the truth!

While we’re on the subject of going on offense and getting the truth out there, notice that Obama’s campaign rhetoric includes sound-bites that give the false impression that Obamacare will give people whatever healthcare they want – for free – and up to now, his lies remain unchallenged.

Know this… Obamacare does not address the quantity or quality of healthcare; it merely asserts that once the federal government controls our healthcare, a 15-member panel and about 159 new government agencies will decide the quantity, quality and location of treatment IF they allow you to have it.

Who is challenging Obama about the federally controlled Medicare program that, by far, denies more claims for the people it serves than any other form of healthcare coverage?  Quantity or quality is not even part of the debate when talking about Obamacare because Medicare already shows us what happens when the federal government controls healthcare.  Get out there and spread the truth about this!

Make no mistake, Obamacare does not make healthcare a “right,” it takes away our right to choose and it forces our young people to pay into a monstrous system that destroys the best healthcare system in the world, transforms citizens into serfs, creates another massive redistributive system that seizes the fruits of our labor and gives the federal government control of our finances and our lives.  As Mark Levin says, it forever changes the relationship between government and citizen.

So… which states will remain on defense and constrain their public responses to the false narratives and clichés thrown at them by Obama and his comrades?

And… which states will do their homework, gather the totals and create the media firestorm that will stop Obamacare dead in its tracks?

Which state will be the first to prove that Obamacare is irrelevant in their state because they are already compliant and everyone who wants healthcare already has it?

Which state is ready to go on offense and protect individuals and businesses in their state from Obamacare? 

Let’s get it started!  If states do their homework, take control of the narrative and spread the truth, we’ll be kissing Obamacare goodbye in short order.

References:

• Killing Obamacare Before It Kills Us – Part 1: The Political Battlefield
• Obamacare Now Estimated to Cost $2.6 Trillion in First Decade
• Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare
• A State Revolt Against ObamaCare Emerges
• Ohio takes tough health law stance
• Gov. Scott: Florida will not implement insurance exchanges or expand Medicare
• Rick Perry joins Republican governors who won’t implement Obamacare
• List of 27 States Suing Over Obamacare
• Obamacare Bill 4872

(L-R) President and CEO of the Center for American Progress John Podesta, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu

So far our chronicle of the green-energy crony-corruption story, has focused primarily on the connections the players have to President Obama. This chapter stars Senator Harry Reid. When looking at the whole story, it’s important to note that Senator Reid “led passage of the $814 billion stimulus bill and worked to include the loan guarantee program to help finance clean-energy projects”—projects to which, as we will show, he is connected.

In a DOE press release, Reid actually bragged about how he included the green loan guarantee in the stimulus bill: “As I led passage of the stimulus bill, I worked to include the loan guarantee program to help finance clean energy projects” that will “bring us closer to energy independence.”

We’ve already unveiled two of these expensive and politically explosive projects through our Special Seven series––those that received the touted loans as a part of the stimulus bill (even though they were rated as “non-investment” grade) and grants, as well as “special” Department of Interior treatment. As the “Special Seven” moniker indicates, there are more companies and/or projects to reveal.

Before we start on the new information, here’s a highlight of the previous players’ specific connections to Senator Harry Reid—the focus of this chapter.

Last week, we exposed BrightSource Energy that received a $1.6 billion DOE loan. BrightSource’s executives donated almost $4000 to Reid’s 2010 campaign, including $2400 from the CEO John Woolard, who in September 2010, along with Peter Darbee, then Chairman of PG & E, hosted a fundraiser for the majority leader in his corporate offices.

The week before, we uncovered the fact that a couple of SolarReserve (with its $737 million loan) board members are big Democrat donors, including contributions to Obama’s 2008 campaign as well as Senator Reid. The Washington Free Beacon divulged, “…Nevada Geothermal, Ormat Nevada, and SolarReserve—are located in Reid’s home state. Executives from all three companies have donated to Reid and his fellow Democrats, contributing more than $58,000 since 2008.”

However, what you are about discover is that the two projects we’ll profile in this chapter have similar direct ties, some sly connections to the Senator, and some stinky consequences.

Nevada Geothermal Power 

First we’ll look into Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) as recent news exposes that its power is dimming. NGP may be the next green-energy bankruptcy.

Here’s the NGP thumbnail presented in the introduction to the green-energy crony-corruption story:

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 2010. Executives from NGP contributed in 2008 to Harry Reid’s campaign. 

Additionally, since 2009, NGP was the recipient of more than $69 million in federal grants, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

The New York Times reports: “Reid was instrumental in securing that financing for Nevada Geothermal.” The NYT noted: “Mr. Reid has taken the nascent geothermal industry under his wing, pressuring the Department of Interior to move more quickly on applications to build clean energy projects on federally owned land and urging other members of Congress to expand federal tax incentives to help build geothermal plants, benefits that Nevada Geothermal has taken advantage of.” You might think Reid has altruistic motives, such as creating jobs for his state, however, as the NYT points out: “Mr. Reid has received some support from the industry, in the form of at least $43,000 worth of campaign contributions from the geothermal industry since 2009, according to an analysis of federal campaign finance records.” The “campaign contributions” could be why, in a 2010 press release, he declared “Northern Nevada is the Saudi Arabia of geothermal energy.” 

Despite the flowery rhetoric, at the time the DOE approved the conditional loan guarantee in September 2010, they were well aware of NGP’s “well-documented” financial difficulties. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (HOGRC) called the loan a “bailout”—which “violated the spirit and, quite possibly, the letter of the law” and provided “an opportunity for private industry to exit an investment, deleverage and transfer the extraordinarily high default risk to taxpayers.”

Less than a year after the loan was issued, leading accounting firm Deloitte & Touche did an audit of NGP and concluded: “significant doubt” about Nevada Geothermal Power’s “ability to continue as a going concern.” The company’s vital signs are not looking good: it “has incurred net losses over the past several years, has an accumulated deficit of $44.0 million and an anticipated inability to retire its long-term liabilities.”

The project continued to have “operational and financial problems.” In the October 2011 NYT article, it states: “Executives expressed confidence that they can recover” and that “the government investment is not at risk.” As CEO Brian D. Fairbank stated: “We’re doing OK.”

During Fairbank’s “Green Energy Gamble” May 16, 2012 testimony before the HOGRC, he spoke “about the many good things occurring at Blue Mountain” and stated that they “remained bullish on the future of geothermal resource potential” at Blue Mountain. However, the future of Nevada Geothermal is looking dim, it still faces financial problems, and the company’s internal auditors have questioned whether it can stay in business.

The audit report states: “NGP has incurred $98 million in net losses over the past several years, has substantial debts and does not generate enough cash from its current operations after debt-service costs.”

With the audit completed in March 2012, one as to wonder how much did Fairbanks actually know about the status of NGP during that May 16 testimony when he claimed he “remained bullish?”

Another angle, in that DOE press release, both Secretary Chu and Senator Reid praised the potential job creation of the NGP project. Chu said: “Our support for the Blue Mountain project is part of the Administration’s commitment to reducing carbon emissions while creating clean energy jobs,” and Reid: “clean energy projects like Blue Mountain geothermal that will put Nevadans back to work...” In conflict with these claims, the HOGRC report states: “It was known to him [Secretary Chu] at that time [of the press conference], however, that the loan would not create a single job, but instead would simply refinance an existing loan, despite DOE’s claim that it would create over 200 jobs”

Instead of using the loan as Title XVI, Section 1602 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, requires: “Recipients shall use grant funds in a manner that maximizes job creation and economic benefit,” the loan was used to pay off a creditor. According to the Washington Times report, “At the time the Energy Department announced its conditional approval of the guarantee, Mr. Issa said NGP would have defaulted on a loan from TCW Asset Management Co., then its primary lender, ‘had DOE not swooped in to save the failing company with taxpayer money.’ A committee report said the loan did not finance any new construction and ‘did not help to create a single job.’”

So, Senator Reid received money from the geothermal industry, he, apparently, then pressured the DOE to fund projects in Nevada based on the false promise of job creation—which he knew was not accurate at the time. Instead of creating jobs, Reid’s advocacy actually “bailed out” his cronies—that is really corrupt.

Ormat Nevada 

But the story continues. As we reported in the introduction, Kai Anderson, a lobbyist for NGP’s partner corporation, Ormat Technologies, Inc., is a former Senate aide to Harry Reid. Ormat’s CEO Paul Thomsen is another former Reid aide. Additionally, according to the Washington Times, “Mr. Fairbank denied knowing or lobbying Mr. Reid, but the House Oversight Committee said Ormat Inc., which was paid $80 million to build NGP’s Blue Mountain plant, has ‘strong ties’ to the senator.”

The thumbnail of Ormat in the introduction reads as follows:

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.

The May 2012 HOGRC report expands the connections: “During Senator Reid’s 2010 reelection campaign, Thomsen starred in a campaign ad for Senator Reid to advertise the benefits of Ormat’s loan guarantee for Nevada. In addition to Anderson and Thomsen, Ormat’s President, Yoram Bronicki, gave thousands in political contributions to Senator Reid. The strong ties between the company and the Senate Majority leader raise questions about whether the DOE acted in the best interests of the American people when it approved the loan guarantee.”

Yoram Bronicki is the son of Ms. Yehudit Bronicki (also known as Dita). She is CEO and Director of Ormat Technologies. In addition to the $350 million loan guaranteed by the DOE with John Hancock in aggregate principal amount, Ormat Technologies’ projects received more than $200 million in various DOE grants.




The 2010 campaign ad, starring former Reid staffer Thomsen, heralded “Geothermal means 16,000 Nevada jobs… Harry Reid saw the potential before just about anybody else.” With projects like NGP, it seems those jobs have never materialized and the reason Harry Reid was such a soothsayer is the same reason a fortune teller tells you what you want to hear: you are holding the money. With the geothermal industry “contributing more than $58,000 since 2008” and, in just these two stories, receiving $700 million in loans and grants, they’ve gotten an amazing return on their investment. In the bad economy, the best way to grow your money just may be to invest in green energy—just make sure you have friends in high places.

All this, and it does nothing to “bring us closer to energy independence.” Geothermal—and wind and solar—power generates electricity. America is already electricity independent. We have enough coal, natural gas, and uranium to power us for centuries! We even export coal, we have so much.

So why are we killing good-paying jobs in the coal industry, preventing thousands of union jobs the Keystone pipeline would create, and potentially putting thousands out of work with a pending ban on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas extraction, for the supposed jobs in green energy—when we are already electricity independent? These green-energy projects can only raise the cost of electricity and waste public money, while the energy sources the administration’s efforts are killing or blocking can actually reduce costs—without taxpayer investment.

The green-energy crony-corruption story is explains it all.

Author’s note: Thanks to Christine Lakatos, the Green Corruption blogger for research assistance.

The author of Energy Freedom, Marita Noon serves as the executive director for Energy Makes America Great Inc. and much more...

This is Part Three of Obama's Green-Energy, Crony Corruption and The Special Seven, a collaboration between Christine and Marita and exposed first at Townhall.com. In case you missed any of the explosive parts.
Part Two: More Obama Green Energy Corruption covers BrightSource Energy ($1.6 billion DOE loan)
Part One: Obama’s Green-Energy, Crony-Corruption covers SolarReserve ($737 million DOE loan)
The INTRODUCTION gives an overview of the Special Seven: Eco Scare Scams Raise Obama Campaign Cash

Also, on the Green Corruption Blog, exposing this entire scandal.

Having traveled the world a bit and met many people from different cultures, I now think we are looking in the wrong places to fine enemies of freedom.

I believe that the biggest threat to freedom comes from within the United States and it some times gets draped in the Stars and Stripes and plays John Philip Sousa music! 

Today we have 12 Air Craft Carrier Battle groups sailing the seven seas in search of an enemy and a mission.

We have troops garrisoned in bases in over 100 foreign nations , and we spend 5X as much the next highest nations does on their armed forces.

We have combat forces in Afghanistan engaged in a shooting war, For what reason are we there?

IF YOU COME INTO MY HOUSE AND KICK MY DOG AND DEMAND I CHANGE MY CULTURE , GUESS WHAT MY REACTION IS GOING TO BE.

THAT IS CORRECT 

I WILL FIND A WAY TO KILL YOU IF I CAN 

WHEN WE GO INTO A MUSLIM NATION AND TELL THEM TO SEND THEIR GIRLS TO SCHOOL WHEN IT IS AGAINST THEIR CULTURE AND DISRESPECT MANY OTHER CULTURAL ISSUES WHAT CAN WE EXPECT?

WASHINGTON THAN ACTS SURPRISED WHEN OUR MARINES ARE KILLED WITH IED'S OR SNIPER ATTACKS

I SUPPORT AND LOVE OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN OUT ARMED FORCES AND THEREFORE I WOULD STOP THIS STUPIDITY NOW

ISRAEL IS 1005 CAPABLE OF DEFENDING HER SELF AND OUR PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST JUST INFLAMES THE SITUATION

FURTHERMORE IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO HAVE TROOPS ON FOREIGN SOIL

I received an email this morning—“Tea Party to Inlink” (me). “A Nobody commented on Pal Z/s blog post….” Under that email was a message from “Lignet” telling me that Iran’s nuclear threat can erupt any time, bringing to this nobody’s mind the computer.

Computers came about by knowing from the microcosmic how the macrocosmic works. What we see on a computer screen is electrons forming a picture. The computer code is made from ones and zeros.  Numbers tell science about the aspects or our reality. Astrologers and numerologists use the magic of numbers to tell us of our characteristics and events.

This comes to mind from a History Channel presentation on dinosaurs I viewed last night.  The big feed on the small. Dinosaurs grew in size to a hundred tons and then were wiped out, it is theorized, by a rock from the heavens.

Life had existed on planet Earth a billion years when humans appeared, the Bible says in our Creator’s image. The Bible says, “And God said, let us make man in our image.” We can suppose that God was speaking to “our image” before man appeared on earth.  What else?

Science now admits that before there can be any “thing” dimensional there must first be universal consciousness. Logically, from nothing you get nothing.  We can assume, therefore, that we arrived by means of universal consciousness, and from elsewhere. Astrologists and numerologists say we have an archetype. The Bible indicates that we did not originate on planet Earth.

The Bible says man is from dust to dust but comes with a soul, that part of us that is immaterial, not part of the space-time consortium.  Our souls are in a state, without boundary, and subject only to nature’s law and nature’s God. But the Bible says man was given dominion over all life on the planet. Man is the maker and keeper of the planet’s law, but keep in mind that when life becomes too big, too powerful, nature obliterates.

President Obama sees the United States as too big, too powerful. This nobody sees Obama as a dinosaur. One of us is right; one of us is wrong.

Reason and logic are individual attributes that date back to humanity’s archetype. Personal wills of the powerful distort the teaching of the prophets—lead us down false trails. The cutting edge of science, in agreement with the ancients, tells us that no matter how small the excitation, from subatomic particles all the way up to humans, the highest in conscious awareness that we know anything about, next to the whole, universal consciousness—the only objective reality, everything less is subjective and struggling for what?

If you want to be somebody people will listen to, it is written in the stars. Tell the world the love Jesus taught will reign supreme in our future, and as I have, you, too, will move forward in peace; the world will move with you.

       ITS  OUR   NATION  NOT  OBAMAS  THAT  HE CAN TOSS  ASIDE.   WE   LOVE OUR  COUNTRY,  ITS   OUR  COUNTRY ,  NOT OB.,S

       ITS  OUR   NATION  NOT  OBAMAS  THAT  HE CAN TOSS  ASIDE.   WE   LOVE OUR  COUNTRY,  ITS   OUR  COUNTRY ,  NOT OB.,S

This morning on all of the talking head programs you will hear "conservative" pundits remark that the president is "in over his head" or incompetent. This is not true; moreover it allows the democrats to respond that Obama is being sabotaged by the republicans. He’s not. The republicans have given him remarkable support. The truth is Obama is in perfect harmony with the corrupt and deceptive representatives in Washington. As proof look at his successes. He not only passed Obamacare but he got the Supreme Court to fiddle with the legal arguments to make it constitutional. Remarkable! To keep unemployment high, he’s announced he’s not going to enforce immigration laws; meanwhile he’s importing as many aliens as we are creating new jobs. He’s used his power to shut down coal mines and oil drills. The result is artificially high energy prices. This also damages the economy and job growth. He blocked the oil pipeline from Canada. This also keeps unemployment high and keeps oil prices high. He’s snuck new taxes into bills such as the 3.8% federal sales tax on real estate. Congress went along with this. They didn’t undermine him. The president and congress have access to the best minds available when it comes to advice on the economy or most anything else. He knows what he’s doing and is doing it intentionally. Let’s stop calling him incompetent and tell the truth. Obama and the liberal congress are getting exactly the results they want! They are wrecking the economy and the country.

07/15/12

Howdy all!  Well, Saturday here in SE Washington State was certainly weird.  Thunderstorms, sun, storm, sun, sunny!  Clouds, muggy, bright, clouds, sundown.  Muggy, bit of a breeze then a beautiful sky full of stars!  And I slept through most of it!  Ah, gotta love Saturdays!

Any hoo,..

And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. ~ Philippians 1:6

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection. ~ Benjamin Rush, letter to Price, 1786

See!  It has been said since, well at least since 1786!  The war for independence was over, but the American Revolution was not.  It is yet to end.  It will only end for two reasons; we lose to socialism, or we rejoice in His return.  Just like in Toby Keith’s song ‘Made in America’, we are all like the wife.  She’s that wife who decorates on the 4^th of July but says, “Every day is Independence day!”  The founders spoke of principles and values.  We speak of principles and values.  We must ALWAYS speak of principles and values.  They are what make us American.  No other place on earth, at no time in existence has there been such a nation.  The people rule by the laws of the land.  They select representatives to speak for them, but make no mistake – THE PEOPLE RULE THIS NATION.  Says so in the Declaration of Independence.  Says so in the Constitution.   Says so in my heart.  And I bet it says so in yours.  Share you principles and values with others.  Don’t demand that every accept them.  Just share them.  Let the people accept as they choose.  That is also very American.  Do the good work this country deserves and desperately needs.  We must continue until He returns.  That is our burden.  That is our responsibility; our duty.  That is our honor.  That is our gift. 

Take care, God bless,

AND STAND WITH ISRAEL!!!

Tom Kiley

News that the Department of Health and Human Services was promulgating a rule that would destroy about 35% of the Health Savings Account market comes as no surprise to Tea Party activists who warned everyone who would listen that ObamaCare would kill the private insurance market.

The rule known as the "Medical Loss Ratio" rule would deny private and small business issued policies from being sold on the ObamaCare health care exchanges.  There are currently five million people who have small business and individual issued policies. Those policies will be ripped from their hands should the rule go into effect.

HHS does not seem to care that the rule will be directly violate President Obama's promise that "[I]f you like your health plan, you'll keep your health plan."   They also don't seem to care that their edict will decimate the Health Savings Account market.

Since their creation in 2003, HSAs have become the fastest growing health care product in history.  14 million Americans enjoy their benefits.  They are, in fact, the real alternative to government-run health care.  They are a market-based product that encourages people to save money by shopping for health care services.  No wonder they are the first victims of ObamaCare.  

SCOTUS Chief Justice Humpty Dumpty Roberts

A Republic, if you can keep it!

APOLOGY

Most of them in office now should be replaced and especially the ones that , by their votes, think that the constitution is not worth the effort should be sent back to private lives. Boehner is representative of the lot. If they cannot or wont live by the oath of office which they took,,,,,then we need to elect someone who keep the promise....they work for us! and the oath of office is what they promised...

If they';ve been in office for more than two terms, they need to leave!

Sincerely,

Harland M

I guess the Clintons like getting kicked. Will some body Please ask Bill Clinton, how does it fell to get kicked twice. Seems Obummer has kicked him twice. The Marriage Act and now Welfare Reform!!!
He’s got nerve enough to go and campaign for this guy. He needs to go up to him and JAP slap him.
Obummer ignores the Constitution of the United States of America and the laws of this land. The dumb ones that voted for this guy did not not vote for a KING or DICTATOR.
I’ve e-mailed our Senators, of course the way they have doing their job lately it might not do any good!!!!!!!!!!!
How about the people of this country just ignore Federal, State, and local laws, How much Jail time would we get?
Who the Felon now Obummer?

http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2012/07/continued-failure-of-social-engineering.html

1. The “Lazy Man” complex. Now as a man myself who takes issue with those who engage in male-gendercide, I wish not to align myself with those who engage in purposeful male bashing but do wish to be honest in my writing and as well as in identifying those who add to and or enable those who partake in the evil and that of social engineering. So here, I wish to briefly go on to share in identifying those men who willingly turn over their God given responsibilities and duty to love, protect and honor their families and in ignoring setting a Biblical example in all things. These men are those who willingly turn over those Godly rights and responsibilities that belong to him and him alone in turning over Godly matters to others, including to governments, his wife, children, others and so on, become a shameful thing to him before God and other men. Men are to set an example and take on their responsibilities and no person nor government has a right to take away those responsibilities from him. Those who engage in such of taking a man's rightful position in society and or family life are only workers of iniquity and that of the devil himself and must be removed and that man's responsibilities and rights restored.http://blackroberegimentpastor.blogspot.com/2011/04/where-have- all-godly-men-gone.html

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gao-concerned-about-legality-obama-s-senior-swindle_648435.html

Media misses immigration angle in jobs analysis

By Jeremy Beck, Friday, July 13, 2012, 9:18 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA

Over the past three months, the economy has created an average of 75,000 new jobs and the federal government has created an average of 75,000 new permanent U.S. job seekers via immigration. The mainstream media does not report the latter statistic. For years, NumbersUSA has talked about the 75,000 permanent work permits the federal government grants (on average) to immigrant workers every month. For the last three months, job creation has barely kept pace with the number of green cards issued - a fact that eluded the press and, therefore, much of the citizenry.

Reporters do a slightly better job in acknowledging population growth's connection to the employment situation. Unemployment numbers are effected not just by new jobs created but by new workers seeking those jobs:

• "We added 80,000 jobs in June. That’s not enough to keep up with population growth." (The June jobs report in one word: ‘unchanged’ Washington Post)
• "The economy added only 80,000 jobs in June—much less than what is needed to keep up with natural population growth." (Jobs growth painfully slow; unemployed to remain too high for years The Statesman Journal)

But what the Stateman Journal explicitly states, and the Washington Post implies (that U.S. population growth is a completely natural phenomenon), is not true. In fact, U.S. population growth is primarily engineered by Congress via immigration policy. Seventy-five percent of U.S. population growth between 2000 and 2010 was due to 13.1 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) and 8.2 million births to immigrant mothers in that decade and the Census Bureau projects "86 percent of the population growth during the year 2050 may be due to the effects of post-1992 net immigration." The mainstream media hasn't made the connection and has never questioned the government's forced-growth policies during high unemployment.

By ignoring immigration's role in expanding the labor force, journalists give President Obama, presumptive GOP nominee Romney, and Congress a free pass on their role (potential role, in Romeny's case) in importing workers. The coverage of the June jobs report focused on job creation while ignoring worker importation:

• "Each month that the economy produces fewer jobs than are needed just to keep pace with population growth adds to the burden the president faces as the clock ticks toward November." (For Obama, a jobs report that keeps stinging Washington Post);
• "To simply drop the unemployment rate below 8 percent before election day, the economy will need to add 219,000 jobs in each of the four jobs reports between now and then — a prospect that, given the last three months, seems very unlikely." (President Obama’s troubling trend line on jobs Washington Post).

The Washington Post speculated that the "downbeat report is likely to put pressure on the Federal Reserve, Congress and the White House to do more to stimulate economic growth and new jobs," but wrote nothing about putting pressure on Congress and the White House to slow the increase in foreign job seekers.

MSNBC found no news-worthy connection between the President's amnesty and the unemployment situation. "Despite things appearing to break the president’s way in the past couple of weeks – from immigration to health care, we’re reminded this morning what this election is all about – the economy, with yet another mediocre-to-bad jobs report."

The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that Obama's policy could grant up to 1.4 million workers under 30 years old permission to compete with America's unemployed youth. But ABC didn't see any reason to raise the issue in its story, "People Under 30 ‘Desperate’ For Full-Time Jobs." The desperate Americans in ABC's story are among the most vulnerable to foreign worker competition. Reporters will get another crack at telling their story next month.

JEREMY BECK is the Director of the Media Standards Program for NumbersUSA

I post on this web sight and seldom ever get a comment

Does anyone but me read other folks posts ?

Is the no comment agreement or something else

Are you all in a trance?