[Carbon Credits Kill, Destroy] More than 20,000 people were expelled from their homes. By Josh Kron According to the company’s proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a “peaceful” and “voluntary” manner.People here remember it quite differently. “I heard people being beaten, so I ran outside,” […]
Archive | September, 2011
Obama's Heroes on Solyndra
When it comes to the Solyndra scandal, the president’s closest confidants seem to know nothing about it.
Solyndra: 'I'll Take the Fifth'
By Marlo Lewis At today’s House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing, “From DOE Loan Guarantee to FBI Raid: What Solyndra’s Executives Knew,” the witnesses, Solyndra President and CEO Brian Harrison and Solyndra VP and CFO W.G. Stover, invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to every question asked by Committee members. Harrison and […]
Obama Fundraising with Missouri Stimulus Beneficiary
By Alexander Burns President Barack Obama will raise money in early October with a Missouri businessman whose company benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state. Tom Carnahan, a scion of Missouri’s most prominent Democratic political family, is listed on Obama’s campaign website as a host […]
Obama's Solyndra scandal reeks of the Chicago Way
Obama’s Gangsta Government Those of us from Chicago know exactly what the Solyndra scandal smells like. And It doesn’t smell fresh and green. By John Kass The Solyndra scandal cost at least a half-billion public dollars. It is plaguing President Barack Obama. And it’s being billed as a Washington story. But back in Obama’s political […]
Solyndra Executives to Invoke Fifth Amendment Rights
By Matthew L Wald The top two executives of a solar-energy company that filed for bankruptcy after getting $528 million in loan guarantees from the Obama administration said Tuesday that they will invoke their constitutional rights against compelled self-incrimination when they appear at a Congressional hearing. The chief executive of Solyndra, Brian Harrison, and Bill […]
Another Obama green company favorite under investigation… in China.
By Erin Houst As if the Solyndra and LightSquared controversies were not enough, another one of President Obama’s favorite companies pushing the green agenda is being investigated, this time in China. Johnson Controls Inc., which is headquartered in Wisconsin and operates a battery manufacturing facility in Shanghai, has recently come under scrutiny by locals for […]
Bill Clinton Scorches GOP Field on Climate Change
By MJ Lee Bill Clinton turned up the heat on the leading Republican presidential contenders Tuesday, saying their opposition to acknowledging climate change makes the country “look like a joke.†“If you’re an American, the best thing you can do is to make it politically unacceptable for people to engage in denial†about climate change, […]
Obama's GREENgate
GREENgate is the developing story that suggests that the Obama administration’s “green jobs” program is more about delivering the “green” to major donors than creating sustainable “new economy” jobs. First a couple of clips from Fox News revealing some of the details coming to light in the Solyndra scandal. Next a clip from Jon Stewart’s […]
GREEN CRIME: Obama Spent Nearly $17.2 Billion to Create Only 3,545 Green Jobs… Or a Staggering $4.8 Million Per Job
President Obama on Green Jobs at 2011 State of the Union Address Obama Regime Steals Billions from Taxpayers – Blows it on Failed Green Projects By Jim Hoft The Obama Administration spent nearly half of the $38.6 billion ($17.2 billion) set aside for his green energy programs and was only able to create 3,545 permanent […]
Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming
From Fox News The global warming theory left him out in the cold. Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated policy that “global warming […]
Mann Acts
Dr. Michael Mann seeks the help of other Climategate players to prevent access to his University of Virginia emails. By Paul Chesser Dr. Michael Mann, who under a lesser title at University of Virginia created the famed “hockey stick” chart of 20th-century temperature escalations while leveling the Medieval Warm Period, has enlisted a Climategate Cavalcade […]
Play Methane Madness: Put a Cork in Gore's Climate Day
CFACT’s new game trains online players to help “Pal Gore” control the climate by corking cows and watching them float away, only to realize neither humans nor cows are threatening the planet and Al Gore is the one full of hot air! From CFACT “Put a cork in it, Al!” That’s the message students are […]
Al Gore in 24-hour broadcast to convert climate skeptics
Former Vice President Al Gore will renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of the link between climate change and extreme weather events this week in a 24-hour global multi-media event. From Reuters “24 Hours of Reality” will broadcast a presentation by Al Gore every hour for 24 hours across 24 different time zones from […]
Promises of green jobs withering on vine
Subsidies fail to help sector take root By Ben Wolfgang The green-jobs revolution may be going up in smoke.Despite billions of dollars in federal investment and cheerleading from President Obama, even the most ardent supporters of a transformed, job-generating energy sector based largely on wind, solar and other renewable sources acknowledge that their dreams have […]