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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Slick Willy Collected $50K/mo. from Corzine's MF Global
Post Date: 2011-12-06 07:09:09 by Happy Quanzaa
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Claim: Clinton Collected $50K Per Month From MF GlobalFormer president's new firm Teneo Strategy was hired to boost Corzine. William J. Clinton (left) and Jon S. Corzine A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Teneo was hired by MF Global’s former CEO Jon S. Corzine to improve his image and to enhance his connections with Clinton’s political family, said the employee, who asked that his name be withheld because he feared retribution. “They were supposed to be helping Corzine ...
Sprung from prison, tort-bar king back raising money for Dems
Post Date: 2011-12-05 10:15:51 by Happy Quanzaa
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See if you can guess which member of the infamous "1 percent" is the subject of this invitation to a holiday fundraiser: "For the second year in a row, the _________ will be hosting our holiday event at the stunning cliff-side estate of ____ and _____, longtime supporters of ________ candidates and causes. Guests last year were wowed by incredible architecture, panoramic views, food and drink, and tours of the ______ art collection. We are delighted to be working with them and the _______ club again. Ticket price included hors d'oeuvres, beer and wine, and non-alcoholic beverages. Proceeds will help _____ prepare for next year's elections." Obviously, with a ...
Solargate Update: Clean energy powers a revolving door to K Street
Post Date: 2011-12-05 07:46:21 by Happy Quanzaa
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) listens to former U.S. Energy Secretary Frederico Pena speak ata campaign stop at the Albuquerque Convention Center February 1, 2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo by ChipSomodevilla/Getty Images) "Pena served on the Obama transition team while also working as a senior adviser at VestarCapital Partners, where he 'pursues investments in the field of alternative energy,' according to the firm's website," writesExaminer columnist Timothy P. Carney. Solar panels and windmills have a reputation as unreliable sources of power, but they sure make the revolving door spin. The steady parade from government to K ...
Draconian EPA Regulations To Cause Rolling Blackouts
Post Date: 2011-12-04 10:00:14 by CZ82
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Draconian EPA Regulations To Cause Rolling Blackouts Critics attacked by White House for making connection proven accurate Paul Joseph Watson The cost of complying with draconian new EPA rules on carbon emissions will force coal plants in Texas to close and increase the likelihood of rolling blackouts, as the Obama administration’s vow to “bankrupt” the coal industry takes full effect. When rolling blackouts hit Texas at the start of the year, we wrote a series of articles pointing out that President Barack Obama’s promise to “bankrupt” the coal industry, in the form of draconian EPA regulations that would cause older power plants to close, had contributed ...
Setting the Trap [The American Government Declares War on Americans]
Post Date: 2011-12-03 20:44:52 by Capitalist Eric
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Buried in the annual defense appropriations bill is a provision that would give the President the power to use the military to intern anyone – including American citizens – indefinitely, and hold them without charges or trial, anywhere in the world, including on American soil. The provision essentially repeals the longstanding Posse Comitatus Act, which prevents the military from engaging in law enforcement on US territory – the greatest fear of the Founders. Approved by a Senate subcommittee in secret hearings, the provisions open the road to a military dictatorship in this country – and for that we can thank Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, who introduced the ...
Obama Vacation Tab Mounting
Post Date: 2011-12-03 14:09:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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Just two weeks after taking part in the APEC summit in Hawaii, President Barack Obama is once again planning to take the first family to the islands for their Chrismas vacation. At a campaign event during the summit last month, the president himself said it was great to be back in his home state and that, "Michelle and the girls will be back shortly for Christmas vacation as we do every year." "We'll see if Washington gets its business done so I can get here as well. But that's always a challenge," added Obama. Those comments came prior to the congressional super committee's failure to reach agreement on more than $1 trillion in budget cuts over a 10 year ...
Solargate Update: Another Obama bundler benefits from DOE loan
Post Date: 2011-12-03 14:01:12 by Happy Quanzaa
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Abound Solar, given a $400 million Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee for a project expected to create 400 permanent jobs, receives private financial backing through an investment firm founded by a fundraising bundler for President Obama. The Sunlight Foundation notes that Bohemian Companies, which was founded by billionaire and Obama bundler Pat Stryker, participated with other companies in the "second institutional equity round of financing" in 2008 for Abound Solar, which recieved $104 million total through that round of financing. Stryker gave $50,000 to Obama's inauguration, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and raised a further $87,000 for the ...
Obama: Legalize illegals to get them ObamaCare
Post Date: 2011-12-03 13:52:08 by Happy Quanzaa
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President Obama said this week that his health care plan won’t cover illegal immigrants, but argued that’s all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage. He also staked out a position that anyone in the country legally should be covered - a major break with the 1996 welfare reform bill, which limited most federal public assistance programs only to citizens and longtime immigrants. “Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally, I also don’t simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday evening in a speech to the Congressional ...
Online soap opera cleans up with stimulus broadband cash~Nearly $1M in federal funds for ‘Diary of a Single Mom’
Post Date: 2011-12-02 19:58:45 by Happy Quanzaa
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You may not have seen the show “Diary of a Single Mom” co-starring Billy Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it. Through the federal economic stimulus program, a company owned by actor-director Robert Townsend was paid more than $230,000 to produce and direct the Web-based show, records show. Other production costs on the show paid to different vendors total more than $700,000. The money came through an award by the Department of Commerce to One Economy Corp. for more than $28 million last year to help boost broadband Internet service in underserved areas across the country. One Economy is using more than $1.5 million of that money to create programming such as ...
House Ethics Committee will continue investigation into Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Post Date: 2011-12-02 19:46:15 by Happy Quanzaa
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WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee announced Friday it will continue its investigation into allegations Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone acting on his behalf offered to raise campaign cash for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate appointment in 2008. The committee also released an initial report from the Office of Congressional Ethics that said there was “probable cause” to believe that Jackson either directed a third party or had knowledge of a third party’s effort to convince the since-convicted Blagojevich to appoint Jackson Jr. in exchange for campaign cash. The report, originally compiled in August 2009, also said there is “substantial ...
Feds raid home of Democrat D.C. Councilman Harry Thomas Jr.
Post Date: 2011-12-02 13:43:26 by Happy Quanzaa
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Feds raid home of D.C. Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. at a D.C. Council meeting atthe Wilson Building in the District on Tuesday Sept. 22,2009. Federal agents have raided the home of D.C. Councilman Harry Thomas Jr., the Ward 5 representatives under investigation for diverting money intended for youth baseball for his own personal use. Half a dozen agents were searching a sports-utility vehicle parked at the two-story, single-family home that sits on a private cul-de-sac at 2413 17th Street. FBI and IRS agents were hauling what appeared to be evidence in large trash bags. Others walked out of the home carrying manila envelopes. A law enforcement source said ...
When Governments Go Rogue [You Become a "Terrorist"]
Post Date: 2011-12-01 12:32:16 by Capitalist Eric
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There are those today who would claim that the lifeblood of a nation is dependent upon the graces of its government. That government is the focal point of cultural growth, and that we as citizens should respect it as such. I would be more inclined to agree if the public did not so easily confuse the ideals of leadership with the actions of criminals. That is to say, regardless of what we wish our government to be, bureaucracies rarely, if ever, embody the spirit of the common man (a necessity for any system that purports to defend the citizenry). Instead, bureaucracies almost inevitably deteriorate into vehicles for the perpetuation of tyranny driven by the very worst of all stewards; ...
NC Democrat Gov. Perdue's inner circle indicted
Post Date: 2011-11-30 09:30:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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3 Perdue associates indicted A Wake County grand jury today handed down indictments alleging that a top aide to Gov. Bev Perdue's 2008 campaign schemed to pay a staffer $32,000 for work that was kept off the books in violation of state election laws. The new charges, all felonies, are part of a long-running investigation into Perdue campaign activities that have focused on expenditures that would have triggered election law violations for exceeding the limit on personal donations if they had been reported. Earlier this year a retired state magistrate was charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly trying to hide an illegal campaign flight. Wake County District Attorney Colon ...
Convicted Felon & Democrat Strategist Robert Creamer Visits White House 5 Times in August-Tie to #Occupy
Post Date: 2011-11-30 09:22:48 by Happy Quanzaa
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Michelle Malkin reports today, based on the Obama administration’s latest document dump of visitor logs, that convicted fraudster and community organizer Robert Creamer has visited the White House sixty times since January 2009–five times in August 2011 alone. As first reported at Big Government, Creamer is the apparent architect of the Democrats’ political strategy for imposing Obamacare on the nation, composing a “blueprint”–that was later endorsed by high-level Obama advisers–while he was in federal prison. Creamer also claims to have been “one of the major architects of the successful 2005 campaign to defeat the Bush plan to privatize of Social ...
A Black Greedy Bitch
Post Date: 2011-11-29 18:58:41 by A K A Stone
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Former Philadelphia schools superintendent Arlene Ackerman, who was given a nearly $1-million buyout earlier this year, has applied for unemployment. School District spokesman Fernando Gallard today confirmed that Ackerman wants to collect state unemployment benefits. “The former superintendent did apply for unemployment,” Gallard told KYW Newsradio today. This comes after taxpayers funded a $905,000 buyout when she was shown the door in August (see related story). As part of her separation agreement, the School Reform Commission agreed not to contest any unemployment claims she might file. The news isn’t going over well with Michael Lodise, ...
U.S. Foreclosure Fraud in a Nutshell, How Average Joe's Home Was Stolen
Post Date: 2011-11-28 19:01:05 by Capitalist Eric
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Bill Butler writes: The untold story in the foreclosure crisis unfolding across America is that, following a foreclosure perpetrated by one of the October 2008 Bailout Banks (e.g. Bank of America, Citibank, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo) Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac suddenly appear as the record owner of Average Joe’s home. These federal government sponsored entities then go into local housing court and get a court order authorizing them to evict Joe. If Joe resists, these supposedly charitable institutions obtain a writ ordering the local sheriff to forcibly remove Joe from his home. Newt Gingrich recently admitted to accepting $1.8 million from Freddie Mac ($25,0000 to $30,000 a month during ...
Comfortably Numb
Post Date: 2011-11-28 12:54:26 by Hondo68
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Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home? Come on, now, I hear you’re feeling down. Well I can ease your pain And get you on your feet again. Relax. I need some information first. Just the basic facts Can you show me where it hurts?Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb As I observe the zombie like reactions of Americans to our catastrophic economic highway to collapse, the continued plundering and pillaging of the national treasury by criminal Wall Street bankers, non-enforcement of existing laws against those who committed the largest crime in history, and reaction to young people across the country getting beaten, bludgeoned, shot with tear ...
12 Black Democrats indicted for voter fraud
Post Date: 2011-11-23 13:20:02 by A K A Stone
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QUITMAN, GA (WALB) - 12 former Brooks County officials were indicted for voter fraud. The suspects are accused of illegally helping people vote by absentee ballot. State officials launched an investigation after an unusually high number of absentee ballots were cast in the July 2010 primary election. "As a result of their grand jury findings 12 individuals were indicted in that particular matter and we will be trying that case in a court of judicial law instead of a court of public opinion so that will be pending this next year," said District Attorney Joe Mulholland. The defendants include some workers in the voter registrar's office and some school board members. They ...
Barry Obama's convicted extortionist slumlord buddy Tony Rezko gets 10 1/2 years
Post Date: 2011-11-23 07:50:11 by Happy Quanzaa
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Top Blagojevich adviser Tony Rezko gets 10½ yearsConvicted extortionist faces sentencing, argues for time served Photos: Antoin "Tony" Rezko on trial By Annie Sweeney Tribune reporter 3:42 p.m. CST, November 22, 2011 Hailed by prosecutors as a "wake-up call," Antoin Rezko was sentenced to 10½ years in prison today for extorting millions of dollars from firms seeking state business or regulatory approval while he was a top fundraiser and adviser to then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Rezko's daughter broke down sobbing as U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve handed down the sentence, telling Rezko his "selfish and corrupt actions" had damaged the trust ...
Maryland spends $2.3m on renewable energy for $637,000 in savings
Post Date: 2011-11-22 10:10:37 by Happy Quanzaa
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Maryland spent $2.3 million last fiscal year on a renewable energy grant program that brought in only $637,000 in savings, according to a report by the Maryland Energy Administration. That means that Maryland residents recovered roughly $3 in energy savings for every $10 the state spent on the grant program, which helps homeowners pay for the purchase and installation of solar energy systems, geothermal heat pumps and small wind turbines. The state distributed the $2.3 million among 795 Maryland residents in fiscal 2011. Ongoing savings from the grants will add up to roughly $3.2 million over the course of five years, according to the state energy agency. The grant program is part of ...
Wisconsin Democrat state Sen. Lena Taylor denies voter fraud allegation
Post Date: 2011-11-22 09:51:55 by Happy Quanzaa
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Lena Taylor A conservative group is accusing state Sen. Lena C. Taylor of being “an accessory” to possible voter fraud after some 20 individuals, including a felon on work-release, voted in the April election listing as their residence a Milwaukee group home operated by Taylor’s mother on property owned by the senator. But the Milwaukee Democrat dismissed the allegations, saying her mother, Lena J. Taylor, was simply providing homeless and other individuals with a place to stay and then encouraging them to vote. Many come and go and might use the address as the closest they have to a residence. … Media Trackers, a Mequon-based nonprofit that does political research ...
Democrat Pol shook down own kin: feds~New hit vs. Seabrook revealed
Post Date: 2011-11-22 09:09:41 by Happy Quanzaa
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How’s this for family values? City Councilman Larry Seabrook shook down his own relatives for thousands of dollars after hiring them to work for non-profits he showered with taxpayer money, the feds charge. In court papers tied to the Bronx Democrat’s ongoing corruption trial, prosecutors say his mistress “is prepared to testify that she paid Seabrook cash kickbacks” that he “demanded” for getting her consulting jobs between 2002 and 2004. That testimony — coupled with evidence of more than $75,000 in unreported cash that Seabrook deposited in the bank — “clearly supports the inference that Seabrook received kickbacks from the money he steered ...
Confessions of a K Street Freeloader~better ways to sponge in DC than hanging out in McPherson Square
Post Date: 2011-11-20 12:28:41 by Happy Quanzaa
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There are better ways to sponge in D.C. than by hanging out in McPherson Square. The rest of the country may be in recession, but the lawyers and lobbyists in Washington have not been cutting back. I should know: I have been freeloading off of them. Every day in the last week, I have been treated to a breakfast, a lunch or an after-work happy hour by some group of well-heeled influence peddlers. The best part about it is that I don't have to pull any strings or gatecrash to get in. Invitations simply arrive in my email inbox, sometimes several in a day. Most are from people whom I don't even know but are nevertheless eager to make my acquaintance. What makes me so popular? ...
Is Media Matters Attacking ‘Throw Them All Out’ to Protect Soros & Other Donors Who Received Stimulus Funds?
Post Date: 2011-11-20 09:27:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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Media Matters has offered up a ridiculous post that tries to distort the fundamental facts about Barack Obama’s green energy program. I hesitated whether to even comment on it because they fail in the basic tenets of honest journalism. George Soros is a large contributor to Media Matters. In my book Throw Them All Out, I point out how Soros has received millions in taxpayer money via the green energy program. And I also devote an entire chapter to Soros’s crony capitalism as it relates to the stimulus. Does Media Matters disclose this blatant conflict of interest? Of course not. Media Matters is displaying blatant cronyism, pure and simple. Since my book Throw Them All Out is ...
Solargate Update: Chu offers no apology for fleecing taxpayers for Solyndra
Post Date: 2011-11-18 07:43:30 by Happy Quanzaa
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People can debate all day whether government should be in the business of picking winners and losers in the marketplace by selectively awarding loan guarantees. What's beyond dispute is that any official decision that results in the loss of half-a-billion tax dollars should elicit an apology from somebody in government. Just don't expect that somebody to be Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, even though he's the guy who ignored multiple warnings beforehand and approved the $535 billion federal loan guarantee to the now-bankrupt Solyndra solar panel maker. He's also the guy who approved a loan restructuring that resulted in private investors -- including one of President ...
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