RWC Unfilteered 12-19-11
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- More Obame Corruption
- Obama officials look other way as occupiers trash park that was refurbished with stimulus funds
- Israel Announced Deep Strike Command
- China Economic Spasm: Conerning
- Florida To Decide Republican Nominee
- Four High School Students Were Suspended for Praying.
- Mystery K-Mart Santas Real Life Christmas Story
- Hoax Leads To Unpopularity of Dollar Coins
- Iran Rethinks Persian Gulf Strategy
- NPO Glass Half Full or Half Empty
- Iran Has Buried Its Nuke Program
- Assad and Cronies Plundering Syria’s Treasury
The founder of an energy company that benefited from deals involving hundreds of millions in “stimulus” money made the maximum donation allowable to President Obama’s inauguration.
Peter L. Corsell, founder of GridPoint Inc., contributed $50,000 to the inauguration.
Corsell served as GridPoint’s chief executive officer from the company’s inception until transitioning to the position of non-executive chairman in October 2010.
Yesterday, WND broke the story that an Obama adviser who played a key role in developing the energy provisions of the so-called stimulus bill serves on the boards of GridPoint as well as several other companies that recently received government funds, including stimulus money.
TJ Glauthier served on Obama’s 2008 White House Transition Team. He is widely credited with helping to craft the energy provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the “stimulus.”
In addition to serving on the boards of major energy companies, Glauthier previously held two presidential appointments during the Clinton administration.
He was the Energy Department’s deputy secretary and chief operating officer, the second-highest ranking official.
Earlier, he served in the White House for five years as the associate director for natural resources, energy and science in the Office of Management and Budget.
Glauthier is tied to several energy companies that benefited from the stimulus bill he helped to craft.
One such company investigated by WND is GridPoint Inc., where he was appointed to the board in March 2008. GridPoint provides utilities with software solutions for electrical grid management and electric power demand and supply balancing.
The stimulus provides $4.5 billion for so-called smart grid projects. GridPoint has benefited from scores of smart grid deals funded by the stimulus bill.
The company partnered with the Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), Nissan, the Idaho National Laboratory and others in a project to deploy electric vehicles (EVs) and their charging infrastructure in five states. The Energy Department had awarded eTec almost $100 million in stimulus funds to support the project.
GridPoint’s role in the eTec project was to supply smart charging and data logging capability to utilities located in strategic markets of eTec’s program in Arizona, California, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington.
GridPoint also benefited from stimulus funds when it recently provided home energy management, load management and electric vehicle management software solutions for a KCP&L’s Green Impact Zone SmartGrid Demonstration in Kansas City, Mo. The project was the recipient of stimulus funding.
Additionally, GridPoint helped the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, or SMUD, manage power from its customers’ rooftop solar panels.
The Arlington, Va.-based company had landed a contract to help the Sacramento, Calif.-based municipal utility manage renewable power integration, energy storage and home energy management systems. SMUD had won $127.5 million in stimulus funds from the Department of Energy to carry out the project, which also includes deploying 600,000 smart meters in its service territory.
Also, in early 2009, the Energy Department awarded Argonne National Laboratory nearly $2.7 million in stimulus funding for three solar-energy related research projects. In addition, Argonne reportedly shared another $5 million in stimulus funding for projects with GridPoint and other companies and the University of Illinois Sustainable Technology Center.
Besides benefiting from stimulus grants, GridPoint last year won a $28 million contract with the United States Postal Service to install energy management systems in selected post office locations across the U.S.
Glauthier, meanwhile, also had come under fire after Fox News reported the U.S. Navy has purchased 450,000 gallons of biofuel for about $16 a gallon, or about four times the price of its standard marine fuel, JP-5, which has been going for under $4 a gallon.
And HotAir.com reported last week that Glauthier is a “strategic adviser” to Solazyme, the California company that is selling a portion of the biofuel to the Navy.
HotAir noted Solazyme received a $21.8 million grant from the 2009 stimulus package.
Also, writing at BigGovernment.com two weeks ago, Whitney Pitcher found that prior to serving as adviser to Solazyme and after his time as part of Obama’s transition team, Glauthier served on the advisory board of SunRun, a solar financing company.
In October of 2010, just a few short months after Glauthier joined SunRun’s advisory board, SunRun secured a $6.73 million grant from a Treasury Department stimulus program. The company was the ninth largest recipient of such programs through December 2010.
THE TALLEST president was Lincoln at 6′4″; at 5′4″, Madison was the shortest.
Collusion between Obama’s Department of the Interior appointees and the Occupy Wall Street movement has caught the attention of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R) Ca, complains.
This, in turn, has led to some coverage by the media of the illegal takeover of public parks in Washington, D.C., and the damage that has been allowed to occur by top Obama officials.
Issa noted damage to the area known as McPherson Square, where tents have been erected and protesters have been loitering on a constant basis, saying, “As part of the stimulus, the Department of Interior awarded more than $400,000 to…rehabilitate McPherson Square in Northwest Washington…that included new grass, concrete curbs, refurbished benches, new light poles, water fountains, new paint, new chain fencing, 12 new trash cans and new light meters. While the merits of this stimulus funding are debatable, we can all agree that once the federal government invested the funds, no government agency should have allowed it to be damaged or destroyed when it legally could have been prevented.”
The Soros backed OWS plays into Obama’s reelection strategy to pit voters against businesses as part of his strategy of vilifying the “rich.”
Obama looked like a naïve weakling boob this past week groveling before Iran and begging them to pretty please give back the top secret stealth drone it mysteriously hi-jacked. Such weakness and inability to act invites even greater trespass against U. S. Interest. Why the drone wasn’t immediately ordered destroyed is inexplicable. Most believe Russian and Chinese engineers are already on site stealing U. S. secret technology.
Israel’s military has announced its plans to form a long-range strike command.
The military said the new unit would be commanded by a major general and help direct operations far from Israel’s borders.
The commander was identified as Shai Avital, who headed the Army’s elite General
Reconnaissance Unit and returned to the military after an absence of nine years. Avital has been regarded as close to Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
”The primary task of the corps will be to extend joint Israel Defense Forces operations into the strategic depth,” the military said.
On Dec. 15, the military announced the unit, meant to combine naval, air and ground assets for long-range missions. Officials said the unit, meant to resemble the U.S. Special Operation Command, would help plan and coordinate interservice operations meant to counter Iran, Hizbullah, weapons smuggling to Lebanon as well as the Gaza Strip.
The announcement was the latest in an Israeli effort to project deterrence toward Iran and Syria. So far, most of the efforts by Israel’s military to prepare for an attack on Iran were limited to the Air Force, with a fleet of long-range F-15 and F-16I fighter-jets.
Officials said the new unit, called Deep Corps, has been the subject of discussion for months. They said Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz approved a study that envisioned the merger of special forces capabilities - but not personnel - into one unit.
The corps was meant to contain no more than 100 members and would be responsible for operations more than 100 kilometers from Israel. The military already has a unit that specializes in long-range ground operations commanded by Brig. Gen. Gil Tamir. But the unit, established in the 1980s, has been rarely used in recent years.
”This [new unit] would be small and focus mostly on coordinating the various elite units,” an official said.
The announcement puts on notice enemies like Iran who recently bragged about burying its nuclear sites making them invulnerable to air attacks. Some say it was this unit or another that blew up and facility near Teheran two weeks ago.
Inexplicably Obama has ordered 400,000 gallons of biofuel to be bought for the US Navy
for an astonishing $15 a gallon from his political crony’s company while the Navy has
670 million gallons of fuel in strategic reserve — does not need or want it.
Things are not looking favorable for the world’s second-largest economy as the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) leadership takes steps to ensure enough economic growth in 2012
to head off massive social unrest.The Central Economic Work Meeting (CEWM), which
concluded in Beijing on Dec. 14, confirmed earlier speculation that the leadership was
reversing the tight-money policy of the past two years in the interest of “guaranteeing steady
growth.”
A severe-looking President Hu Jintao announced at the meeting that his administration anticipated “an extremely grim and complicated” global economic situation, which could deal a big blow to Chinese exports.
Since the global financial crisis erupted in late 2008, Beijing has mainly relied on government injections into infrastructure projects - and a highly inflationary real-estate market - to maintain a 9 percent growth rate.
The ChiComs fear rioting and social unrest if its economy faulters.
”As you well know, Mr. President, railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed
of 15 miles per hour. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at
such breakneck speed. ‘
then governor and future president Martin Van Buren, 1829
Florida is likely to be “the big kahuna” of the Republican primary season, with the winner in the Sunshine State probably going on to take the nomination, leading pollster John Zogby says.
It’s huge,” Zogby said of the first winner-take-all primary to take place in the 2012 primary season. “You could very well have the scenario of different winners in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, none of which, according to the rules, are winner-takes-all.
“Florida is then the big kahuna, it’s a big state, there’s a lot of delegates that will be at stake,” added Zogby, chairman and chief insights officer of IBOPE Zogby.
”You know nothing for sure…except the fact that you know nothing for sure.”
-President John Kennedy
Four New York state high school boys were suspended because they lead fellow ssudents in prayer. Worse other students followed them upsetting school officials who called their prayers upsetting and disruptive. The students prayed in a hallway between classes.The boys admit it was more a prank than prayer in honor of Bronco Quaterback Tebow.
The boys were each suspended from school for a day by the Riverview school authorities to the dismay of other students, parents, townspeople and Americans nationwide.
The boys took their cue from Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow who has the temerity to pray after each touchtown he scores to the dislike of humanist and atheist that he dare to show his faith in Christ and be thankful for the guiding hand he so fervently believs in.
When I played high school football the entire team and coaches knelt on the sidelines before the whole stadium crowd al of whom stood and bowed their headsin prayer not asking for victory but a safe contest. There was even a team Chaplain.
An AP poll finds 59% of independents now disapprove of the job Obama is doing - a new low. The young and even blacks are leaving Obama in droves. Mitt Romney now leads Obama in head-to-head national polling.
The American people may not be aware of is that the government, under existing forfeiture laws, is already blocking access to domestic websites in the name of protecting copyright. And in some cases they are being seized prior to any trial or even a hearing taking place.
That’s what happened to www.dajaz1.com, a popular music blog that was seized by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency for over a year, only to be returned just this month without any criminal charges being filed. ICE had to admit there was never any probable cause for the seizure in the first place.
And despite turning off the website for over a year, www.dajaz1.com has not received any compensation as a result, even though the Fifth Amendment provides for such payment.
The allegation apparently originated from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) itself, even though it turned out in the end that the allegedly infringing material had, the website says, been pre-released by music artists and record labels themselves.
Now, Congress wants to take this show on the road, and force search engines, social networks, file-sharing sites, and other Internet service providers to block access to sites overseas that it says would otherwise qualify for seizure under existing domestic forfeiture laws. Again, without any trial, a hearing, or even any notice.
The fear, and it is not just paranoia. Is that websites and information seen as unfavorable by politicians will be shutdown with recourse for political pusposs. That could include limiting access to international news outlets and may be viewed as unfavorable.
China has just slapped a 22% import tax on certain American made vehicles. The U. S. sits impotently on the sidelines.
It seems to have started at a K-Mart in Michigan and spread across the country. Anonymous donors are paying off layaway accounts - many for childrens toys so that parents can take them home for Christmas. It doesn’t seem to be organized nor promoted but is entirely spontaneous.
The secret Santa campaign comes as a census bureau report was released showing half of all Americans are poor living at subsistence levels beloe and poverty line. The K-Mart layaway donors are portraying a real life Christmas story.
Hitachi ATM machines in Japan dispense bills after they are pressed between heated rollers that kill most bacteria.
There is a popular hoax that the national motto “In God We Trust” was intentionally omitted from the new one dollar coin minted since 2007, Actually it is inscribed on each coin’s edge. The hoax is in part responnsible for the unpopularity ot the coins a billion of which are piling up in bank vaults. About 50,000 were accidentally minted without the motto and now are numismatic curiosities.
The motto was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956. It has appeared on U.S. coins since 1864 and on paper currency since 1957. Secularist and athiest have periodically challenged it..
In 2006, on the 50th anniversary of its adoption, the Senate reaffirmed “In God We Trust” as the official national motto of the United States of America.] In 2011 the House of Representatives passed an additional resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the official motto of the United States, in a 396-9 vote. A 2003 joint poll by USA Today, CNN, and Gallup, 90% of Americans support the inscription “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins
The cooper in a penny coin has recently been worth as much as three cents.
War tensions around Syria rose alarmingly Thursday night, Dec. 15, when Turkey’s top military council convened “to review the armed forces’ preparedness for war” in response to the deployment of 21 Syrian missiles, five of them Scud D with chemical warheads, on their border, Syrian armored units were rushed to the Turkish frontier and also to the Jordanian border opposite the US special operations units moved in from Iraq. The IDF has reconstituted its special command for operations behind enemy lines.
The Assad government also rushed armored units in two directions - to the Turkish frontier and also to the Jordanian border opposite the US special operations units from Iraq newly deployed to defend Jordan against a Syrian attack, asreported on Dec. 13
Sources report that 21 Syrian missile launchers, five of them Scud D with chemical warheads, are deployed in northern Syria opposite the Turkish Hatai (Alexandretta) district. They were moved up in broad daylight to make sure Western spy satellites and Turkish intelligence surveillance saw them. More are on the way.
In Israel, the IDF announced it was reconstituting the special command for operations behind enemy lines under the command of Brig. Gen. Shay Avital.
Before the military council convened in Ankara, Turkey placed its border contingents, air force and navy on war preparedness.
The official statement said the high military council had “assessed Turkish army needs and necessary steps to address these requirements…”
The Turkish press repeated a statement by Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in an interview two weeks ago that Turkey does not want to consider a military option for intervention in neighboring Syria as Damascus cracks down on popular protest, but it is ready for any scenario.
The Turkish army has prepared operational plans for seizing parts of northern Syria.
WalMart is selling Obama Christmas Tree (rather holiday) ornaments: so I guess its OK to hang a black man from a tree.
Although an upcoming Iranian naval exercise underscores the threat Iran poses to the vital Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s immediate maritime strategy is actually more nuanced and intended to deter a US attack on its nuclear program by enhancing its ability to wage an asymmetric “guerrilla” campaign against US maritime interests in the Gulf.
In the event of a conflict with the United States, Iran would most likely seek to control the sea lines of communication in the Gulf, rather than shut them off completely. However, this naval exercise demonstrates the growing strength of the Iranian navy and how Iran’s decade-long strategy of maritime “self-sufficiency” is finally beginning to pay dividends.
Iran dare not take the US Navy on head-to-head or its entire Navy would be destroyed in less than a week and its air forces erased from the sky.
The War on Christmas controversy has reached Pitman, New Jersey, where atheists are railing against a Knights of Columbus banner that is hanging over the main street as it has for over 60 years in the middle of the town. The message, which reads, “Keep Christ in Christmas,” has non-believers claiming that its presence may be a Constitutional violation and offends them.
Athiest say they want their own sign saying “religion if a myth like heaven, hel, angels and God.”Part of the issue is it hangs from public l;ight post and was strung by the local fire department using taxpayer paid for equipment.
A nationwide survey of 875 non profit organization’s charitable giving for 2011 found that as of last Fall 59% of organizations report giving has been either down or stable in 2011 meaning 4 of ten have had an increase. Two thirds of organizations report demand for services have increased. Smaller organizations have been hardest hit including: faith based alternatives to public schools; goy’s and girl’s clubs; scout councils, and animal rescue and adoption services are among the hardest hit. 49% report projectinmg bigged budgets in 2012.
Some 100,000 Vietnam veterans have suicided more than the total of all U. S. combat deaths there and since including the 58,000 killed in Vietnam.
Iran says all its nuclear facilities, including uranium enrichment centrifuges, are now underground and safe from US and Israeli attack. Israeli Defense Minister Barak has warned that once underground, Iran’s nuclear infrastructure could no longer be attacked and no one would know when a start was made on a nuclear weapon. Iran has obtained from North Korea the special metals for advanced uranium enrichment up to weapons grade - contrary to Western claims that their short supply had stalled enrichment.
This is exactly the eventuality that Islrael has repeatedly warned about as essentially assuring nuclear armed radicals Islamicists. No one doubted this would happen the only question was when. The question is why Obama dithered and delayed so long as to make this come to pass unless he has adopted Congressman Ron Pauls’ (R) Texas view that nuclear armed islamicist radicals is of no consequence. Now the open question no longer is if but when and then when will Iran arm terrorist and what will they destroy first?
This is the single most asinine foreign policy blunder since the Neville Chamberlin attempted appeasement of Adolph Hitler that lead to tens of Millions of deaths. Absurdly Iran has claimed its nuclear program is entirey peaceful.
Nuclear energy accounts for 77% of France’s electricity, 52% of Sweden’s, and 22% of the United States. Radiation from nuclear plants has not caused a single known death worldwide, except at the Chernobyl plant in the Ukraine. The known death toll from the Chernobyl accident is less than 50. That type reactor is too unsafe to be built in the US and most other countries.
Syria’s Assad and his cronies have been systematically plundering its treasury and stashing fortunes abroad to prepare for a hasty exile, an opposition group says..
The Reform Party in Syria reported that at least 100 of Syria’s financial elite have been moving their assets abroad to prepare for the collapse of the regime of President Bashar Assad. RPS, based in Washington and regarded as having access to intelligence in Syria, said leading members of the regime were opening foreign bank accounts, including in Venezuela, through false names aided by its Communist Dictator Hugh Chaves.
In some instances Venezuelan fake passports were used provided by Chavez in return for major kickbacks,” RPS said on Nov. 28. Tens of billions are believed to have been pilfered from the impoversished Syrian people.
Russia has shipped cruise missiles to Syria it says to defend its fleet now permanently based there.
Ohio University, my alma mater, won its first bowl game Saturday beating Utah State 24-23 in a last second heart stopper. I attended its unsuccessful bid in the Tangerine Bowl many, many years ago