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Energy Rocks Our World

June 17, 2012 at 9:27 am

Affordable, reliable energy – a big reason most children now make it to adulthood.

Back in 1990, green activist David Suzuki had this to say about human beings:  there are too many of us; we consume too much; we pollute too much…civilization on this planet can last only another 10 years, etc.

Similarly, the head of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, declared that we can’t continue to consume our way to prosperity.  He could not be more mistaken.  

For these dark souls, humans are a plague on the planet. A pack of coyotes killing a horse – by lunging at its throat, according to a recent story in my local newspaper – is perfectly natural. But human consumption is apparently greedy and stupid.

Well on this lovely morning in June I’d like to suggest an alternative way of looking at things. A gent in the UK named Ralph Tittley has produced a fabulous one-minute video titled Work. Rest. Play. It’s an entry in a contest, the details of which are intriguing in themselves and may be seen here.

Here’s the winning video from that contest, “Energy means everything.”  Watch this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnCJgsHyI2g&feature=player_embedded

I wish every child who has, in recent years, been subjected to multiple viewings of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth had also been shown this short video. Because, for the vast majority of every 24 hours, we humans are not greedy and stupid. We are dedicated, smart, and creative. We build schools and hospitals. We write plays and music and poetry.  On the other hand, Al Gore’s movie won an Oscar and a partial Nobel Peace Prize and put millions of dollars in Al Gore’s wallet, but it does nothing whatsoever for the development of mankind or the planet.  In fact, a UK court requires that a rebuttal film be shown whenever An Inconvenient Truth is shown.  Because of the number of false and misleading claims made by Gore in his movie, the court decided the film was propaganda and false advertising.   

Humans have tried  for decades and centuries to liberate ourselves – and our children – from drudgery. That journey would not have been possible without ready access to reliable energy. It runs the factories that manufacture affordable housing, clothing, and medicine. It is essential to growing and transporting adequate amounts of food.

This world, lest we forget, is a perilous place. Click here to jump to a listing on Amazon.com for Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, which appeared in 1762. Type “die before their eighth year” into the search box, including the quotes, and you’ll be taken to a passage that reads:

“One half of the children who are born die before their eighth year…This is nature’s law; why contradict it?”

The reason this so-called natural law no longer applies is because affordable energy now rocks our world. Children born today have a better chance than ever of living a rewarding, fulfilling life – of becoming surgeons or scientists or musicians.

That is something to celebrate.

In 1798 Thomas Malthus wrote about overpopulation by humans and predicted that humans would starve and deplete the earth of resources.  Successive generations of intellectuals picked up and followed his concept to the present day.  In the 1960’s and 1970’s the book The Population Bomb updated Malthus and enlightened all the flower children, but like Malthus none of the predictions have happened.   We now have The Club of Rome, Al Gore, the entire Obama administration and 192 nations and the United Nations spending more than $100 billion just since 2008 to achieve what they claim to be sustainable development which includes for them population control, climate change, UN control of the oceans, cities and all land organized and planned by global treaties (UN Agenda 21) and more.  But Malthus and his followers have been proven wrong over and over again for centuries by human ability to innovate and optimize.

Obama’s Secretary of Department Energy Dr. Steven Chu is one of those neo-Malthusians.  A Nobel Prize winner and green energy proponent, he supports the idea that gasoline in in the U.S. should be as expensive as Europe’s.  But Europe has almost no oil and America has the world’s largest known reserves of oil and gas.  To make the neo-Malthusian predictions self-fulfilling, Chu, Obama and his administration have prohibited development of most of the energy containing lands in the U.S.  meanwhile preaching energy and climate nonsense…1984 doublespeak.

Here is a quote by a writer attempting to bring Joe six pack common sense into the issue…

“Incorporating a comprehensive energy policy is a non-partisan no-brainer which most Americans would wholeheartedly embrace, given they were allowed to embrace it — voluntarily. Instead, the administration is bent on assuming a parental role in our lives, and Dr. Chu seems to take this role quite seriously. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2009, Chu likened the American public to teenagers when he said, “The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act” and must “really understand in their core how important this issue is.”

“All this coming from the green energy zealot who gave us the Solyndra debacle. Americans are not the senseless teenagers Dr. Chu implies. We may not have as many degrees hanging on our walls, but we are steeped in common sense, and understand that raising gas prices “to the levels of Europe” is not a smart move.”  http://townhall.com/columnists/susanbrown/2012/03/05/energy_secretary_chu_should_resign/page/full/

The policies of the Obama administration, the DOE, the DOI, EPA et al are without doubt reducing the supply of energy in the U.S.  Taxes on energy and energy companies compound the problem by increasing the price to consumers.  Subsidies and regulations requiring ethanol in gasoline and use of biofuels further increase costs while reducing mileage and increasing pollution.  Obama has openly stated that his policies will cause energy prices to “skyrocket,”which also means that economic growth and productivity will crash.  That is the modeAmerica and the world is in today.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency of the Obama administration, predicts essentially flat employment out to 2035 where the forecast ended; they are being optimistic unless there is a significant regime change.

Obama is not in a political position to evolve a reversed course on energy, as he has on the deficit spending, gay marriage, indefinite detention of Americans by the military without trial, and just last week permitting 800,000 illegal alien children to obtain work visas in America.  Obama is fully committed to his environmental/energy ideology with no way to reverse course.

Government (national and supranational) and big oil collude and collaborate to reduce supply (amidst plentiful reserves) so that oil prices move ever higher.  When oil company profits are higher, governments take in more tax revenue.  Higher nominal prices are the source of political power.  More tax revenue means more money to distribute to cronies.  Obama bows to the Saudi King and George Bush kisses his ring…not because the Saudi have the most oil, but because the Saudis will push up or down supplies and prices based on political expediency.  Saudi royalty is grateful for the market share and profits they achieve because U.S. politicians keep U.S. oil and gas off the market.  If there were a free market in oil, gas and coal, prices would be much lower and supply and demand would be determined by the market.  Politics determines the energy market today.

I hope Romney is different, but so far the evidence appears otherwise.  Romney says he is ready to re-build the military to defend “American interests” in the middle east … meaning the oil supply routes and the Persian Gulf/Arabian Sea.  The U.S. federal government holds more than 90% of U.S.lands are off-limits for oil and gas development.  America does not need middle eastern oil and its OPEC cartel price/supply controls and we certainly do not need to spend money and lives defending it.  The best thing American could do for national defense and for our economy is to develop gas, oil, coal, nuclear, thermal and hydroelectric power in America.  But that would reduce the power of and political donations to American politicians and the global cabal between bankers, governments and supranational entities like the UN, and oil.

More on this subject:

https://budbromley.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/effect-of-an-energy-price-increase-on-real-economic-growth/

https://budbromley.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/208/

In just 12 months between 2007 and 2008, Washington tripled the federal deficit from $161 billion to $459 billion, and the Bush administration, Congress and the Fed all swore that this was a one time event.  They lied.  Washington tripled the deficit again to $1.4 trillion in 2009, and solemnly promised that this too was a one time event. They lied.  In 2010 the deficit was again $1.3 trillion. In 2011 the deficit was again more that $1.3 trillion and the running rate now for 2012 is $1.6 trillion.  Now the Democrats and Republicans in Washington, and president Obama and presidential candidate Romney can’t agree on a mere 8% across the board cut in federal programs that will occur automatically in January, 2013, it is already law on the books, calling it a “fiscal cliff” as if the world was coming to an end.

On September 14, Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke announced a new round of hundreds of billions of dollars more in new money printing, QE3, supposedly to help the economy grow.   This is more bank and Wall Street bailout as we have seen with the previous bailouts/stimulus.   More fiat money is not needed by the economy, but rather it is a managed real time wind down to smaller and less intrusive government, simplified regulations and less uncertainty and only then lower taxes managed in line with lower federal expenses.

The official debt of the federal government is over $16 trillion, the largest government debt in the history of civilization, but that number does not include the debt the government took over from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or the money owed to seniors for Social Security and Medicare, or the pensions owed to veterans and government employees, or another unauthorized, secret (according to GAO’s audit) $16 trillion in loans by the Federal Reserve to a laundry list of U.S. and international banks considered “too big to fail.”  Added together the debt of the U.S. federal government is over $120 trillion… ten times larger than the entire U.S. economy.  Government (federal + state + local) is growing 4 X faster than the national income, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The federal government is growing its debt at a rate of more that $1 trillion per year.  .  There have been 4 straight years of federal deficits over $1 trillion and 4 straight years when a Democrat-controlled Senate has not passed a budget… the federal government has had no budget.  Washington’s policies are failing. Americans are suffering.  Nearly 23 million are unemployed, underemployed or have stopped looking for work.  Median household income has declined by $4,300.  CNN reports that the average net worth of Americans has “plummeted nearly 40%.”  http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/11/news/economy/fed-family-net-worth/

Virtually none of those trillions of dollars has ended up in the accounts of American families, nor has it created new jobs.  But American taxpayers must pay back those trillions in principle plus interest.   Since 1993 when Bill Clinton reversed Reagan’s bill and put the Social Security/Medicare Trust Fund “on budget” in order to claim that he balanced the budget, Americans have been paying interest on their own lifetime contributions to the Social Security/Medicare Trust Fund.  The government has been using these funds and letting the taxpayer pay interest on their own money.  And, there are many more examples.

According to the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. banks held $176 trillion in derivatives at the height of the debt crisis in 2008.  Signed by Obama in July 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ203/content-detail.html) is subtitled

“An act to promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end “too big to fail”, to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes.” “The Act implements financial regulatory reform sponsored by the Democratically controlled 111th United States Congress and the Obama administration.”  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd%E2%80%93Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act

However today, U.S. banks have received multiple bailout infusions and now hold more than $231 trillion in derivatives – 40% more than at the worst point of  the 2008/2009 financial crisis when we were told that the economy could collapse.  We were told The Dodd-Frank Act would fix such problems – it’s right there in the subtitle – yet now the problem is 40% worse.  This derivatives risk alone places the U.S. in greater danger than any other country past or present.  Federal money is being gambled by banks in high risk derivatives and taxpayers are on the hook.

Once again, Thomas Sowell is on target in his article about Obama, “Socialist or Fascist?” (1)   The Obama administration is almost text book fascist, and only the exceptions are socialist.  Obama has signed 900 Executive Orders, an indication of his fascism.  If Congress and the courts don’t do what he wants, Obama just does it by Executive Order.   Fascism means that government controls corporations, but does not own them, whereas a socialist government owns corporations.   Fascist control is done with the purse strings and regulations.  In a communist government, there are no corporations and no private property; products and services are supplied by the government itself.  The fascist system gives politicians control without the nuisance of responsibility.  Examples of the socialist exceptions in the Obama administration are the government’s acquisition bailouts of GM, AIG, Fannie Mae, and some banks.  The problem for Americans is much bigger than Obama’s fascist administration.

Bottom Line:  This is not about Democrats vs Republicans, or liberals versus conservatives, or fascist versus socialists.  This is about Americans versus their government.  Our government is out of control.

“What Washington needs is adult supervision.” ~ Barack Obama, fundraising letter, Oct. 2006

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies…Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” – Sen. Obama, Congressional Record, S.2237-8, 3/16/06

This essay borrows heavily from: American Apocalypse, by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.

(1)  http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/06/12/socialist_or_fascist/page/full/

Re: http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/half-germany-was-powered-solar.html

And the U.S. is waiting for….what?  The quick answer is that solar costs too much and pollutes too much.  Be very careful what you ask for.  In any case, that treehugger headline is very deceptive.  It was a one day spike in solar output and only midday in a very good German day.

According to figures released by a German water and energy trade association, solar photovoltaic systems produced 10 percent of Germany’s total electricity consumption for the month of May. “Every single one of our [German Environmental Ministry] brochures mentions that we intend to obtain 35 percent of our electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.”

But the cost of this “success”, to taxpayers and electricity users alike, has risen to astronomical levels. “An average family will then have to pay some €50 more for electricity every year, not to mention the additional costs for the power networks.” “The German government was quick to approve a phase-out of nuclear power in the country after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Now the costs of moving toward renewable energy are just being realized, and low-income consumers are paying the price.”

“Electricity prices in Germany have risen by more than 10 percent…Approximately every tenth household currently has problems paying for rising energy costs,” says Holger Krawinkel at the Federation of German Consumer Organizations. “About 200,000 recipients of Hartz IV, Germany’s benefits program for the long-term unemployed, had their power cut off last year because of unpaid bills…” Some 56% of green-energy subsidies in Germany goes to solar even though solar plants produce only 21% of all subsidized energy. The cost to German consumers of all solar subsidy commitments already tops €100 billion.

And you thought Solyndra was expensive.

Not only is it expensive, it is also ineffective.  Fritz Vaherenholt, a founder of Germany’s environmental movement who headed the renewable energy division of the country’s second largest utility company, has recently coauthored a new book titled “The Cold Sun: Why the Climate Disaster Won’t Happen.” He charges the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with gross incompetence and dishonesty, most particularly regarding fear-mongering exaggeration of known climate influence of human CO2 emissions.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-s-nuclear-phase-out-brings-unexpected-costs-to-consumers-a-837007.html…

Furthermore…solar power as the technology exists today is now recognized to produce more real pollution and more greenhouse effect that CO2…more than 10,000 times more.

“Just as labor is an important input in the production of goods and services, so is energy. An increase in the price of energy reflects a relative shortage of energy from what previously was the case. Just as the price of labor can increase from an increase in demand or a decrease in supply, so, too, can the price of energy.  Assume that before an increase in the price of energy, the economy was set to accelerate from 3% growth to 4% growth.

Liberal/progressive dogma and main stream media all too frequently claim that an increasing gap between rich and poor is somehow unfair, or socially unjust.  This gap conflicts somehow with their “so-called liberal” notions of fairness and social justice.  I say “so-called liberal” because there is absolutely nothing liberal or progressive about enslaving people economically or otherwise to their government, yet that is precisely the result produced by people who claim the moniker of liberal and progressive today caused by the policies and candidates they support.   “Class warfare has always been a mainstay of liberal politics. Politicians frequently depict the United States as a nation starkly divided between the rich and poor.”(1)  I think you will find the work of Robert Rector et al at Heritage instructive.  A review with an open mind of demographic data and a few studies easily refutes this “so-called liberal” dogma.

In order to determine whether the overall impact of a substantial increase in the air‘s CO2 concentration on plant growth would likely be positive or negative, Lin et al. conducted a meta-analysis of pertinent data from 127 individual studies published before June 2009.

The researchers conclude, and previous meta-analyses have revealed, that warming generally increases terrestrial plant biomass, indicating enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake via plant growth and net primary productivity.  Thus, we can logically expect that (1) the ongoing rise in the air‘s CO2 content will soften its own tendency to increase global temperatures, while simultaneously (2) enhancing Earth‘s terrestrial vegetation with greater growth rates and biomass production, both in the agricultural arena and throughout the planet‘s many natural ecosystems.

March 4, 2012 at 7:29 pm

This TSA abuse is due to political correctness. The current government cannot bring itself to profile, even though profiling is clearly the best way to ID terrorists. Our society today is built on dishonesty, massive and broad on a personal level which comes from the way we have been taught in our homes since Dr. Spock and in our schools.

Moral relativity and multiculturalism result in loss of our innate/ natural ability to judge right from wrong and loss of the ability to think for ourselves. We decide based on what others might think about us, rather that what natural laws and instinct teach us to be right. Indeed, most have lost contact or never had contact with the natural laws that are the foundation of our Constitution and Republic. The achievement of our education system (technology applied to education) over the last 3 decades is broad political correctness hiding personal dishonesty throughout the population. Little Jonny gets a trophy whether he wins or loses. It’s routine to apologize when we simply speak our minds. It’s a hate crime in CA if a teacher directs a child to the sex-appropriate bathroom. Schools are required to teach behavior of 10% minorities as if they are the norm, and prevent behavior or teachings that represent the norm.

As a society, we have been expertly propagandized…indoctrinated. Mainstream media presents talking heads/”experts” who expound on two sides of issues that fit the narrative. Having seen the two sides, we decide for ourselves one of those two sides. The narrative is repeated and repeated for generations and people who object are demonized and belittled. But the real issue usually is never presented, yet media and the street are all steamed up over the red meat issue. The viewer picks one of the two sides presented and thus “believes” they have considered and decided a position on that issue, but in fact most have never thought about the issue at all, but only about the canard alternative presented, and either position fits the narrative.

Profiling would result in extremely low terrorist incidence without the loss of freedom in the general population. But, profiling would have to be expertly managed to not be abusive. Once profiling was well established, the Muslim community could begin to turn in radicals in their midst. In the current situation, fear within the Muslim community prevents them from identifying the bad actors. At the moment, the bad actors are winning…and America looks like a pushover. CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood are having meetings in the White House and have executives in Homeland Security. If you were a Muslim, would you trust the U.S. system today? I wouldn’t.

In 2009, President Obama promised with great confidence that he would reinvigorate the economy by using $90 billion in stimulus funding to create millions of good-paying renewable energy jobs.  So how are things going?  You decide.

President Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones:

“I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of… I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary…I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist.”    

(each of the following is a link to its referenced article.) 

3.1 million new green jobs???  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZY47ux60S5g

Definition of green jobs by Bureau of Labor Statistics:  http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ggqcew.pdf

Forget Bain – Obama’s public-equity record is the real scandal  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/forget-bain-obamas-public-equity-record-is-the-real-scandal/2012/05/24/gJQAXnXCnU_story.html

Governors’ Biofuels Coalition: Obama failed to deliver on his green jobs promises  http://www.governorsbiofuelscoalition.org/?p=2301

Wind industry has lost 10,000 jobs under Obama  http://nation.foxnews.com/wind-energy/2012/04/17/wind-industry-has-lost-10000-jobs-under-obama

America’s largest solar panel manufacturer lays off 2,000
http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/17/first-solar-lays-off-2000-workers/

Reuters: Obama’s green jobs program a failure http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/13/us-usa-campaign-green-idUSBRE83C08D20120413

$535 million in federal loan guarantees not enough to save SOLYNDRA, solar panel maker files for bankruptcy  http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/09/06/06greenwire-solyndra-bankruptcy-reveals-dark-clouds-in-sol-45598.html?pagewanted=all

Solyndra a full-blown green energy scandal http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/04/fisker-on-ropes-delaware-plant-absolutely-empty/1#.T9Y0N7DzgQp

FBI raids government-backed solar power company hailed by Obama http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/8/fbi-raids-solar-panel-company-hailed-by-obama/?page=all

House Energy committee faults DOE, White House for ignoring Solyndra red flags in rush to dole out stimulus money
http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/Media/file/Hearings/Oversight/091411/SolyndraStoryFinalMemo.pdf

Big-name Solyndra investors who backed Obama first in line to recoup losses http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/03/big-name-investors-to-recoup-losses-before-taxpayers-in-obamas-failed-green-tech-bet/

Politically-connected wind farm developers stand to reap huge profits from $1.6 billion federally-backed loan and $490 million federal cash grant
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/02/16/you-thought-solyndra-was-bad-theres-more-on-the-way/

Green energy cronyism: Democrat donors prosper from Obama’s aggressive renewable energy initiatives
http://freebeacon.com/pacific-gas-cronyism/

Obama DOE gave $197 million loan guarantee to shaky solar company that uses same unproven technology as bankrupt Solyndra
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/us/after-solyndra-a-2nd-solar-energy-firm-is-scrutinized.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1339438588-J1K0I7Uq6ZmvB5Onidd3eg

Obama DOD mandates Navy to purchase green energy biofuel costing 9 times more than standard JP-5 jet fuel   http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/11/navy-buys-biofuel-for-16-a-gallon/

Obama administration subsidizes low-selling Chevy Volt with $3 billion in loans, grants, rebates & tax giveaways  http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/02/16/you-thought-solyndra-was-bad-theres-more-on-the-way/2/

Taxpayers left holding bag: Nevada Geothermal set to go bust after $98.5 million federally-backed loan  http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/another-98-5-million-down-the-drain-nevada-geothermal-about-to-go-bust-after-hefty-obama-loan/

ABC News investigation: Government-backed energy firm pays six-figure bonuses to top executives shortly before going bust
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/green-firms-fed-cash-give-execs-bonuses-fail/story?id=15851653#.T9Y4N7DzgQo

Green energy scandal rocks White House: Member of Obama’s job council directs $2 billion to his own solar energy company
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/01/jobs-panel-member-whose-solar-firm-won-2b-loan-raises-conflict-interest/

Five bankrupt green energy companies had junk bond rating prior to receiving Obama DOE loan guarantees  http://junkscience.com/2012/03/02/ibd-obamas-green-energy-failures-continue-to-abound/

Politically-connected renewable energy company uses federal funds to buy solar panels … from itself   http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politicsinvesting/7056-us-pays-first-solar-to-buy-own-panels

Stimulus-backed Abound Solar company in Colorado touted by Obama in his weekly radio address lays off 70% of workforce
http://www.goobuzz.com/5485/obamas-green-energy-failures-continue-to-abound-investors-business-daily/

Obama fundraising bundler’s green energy portfolio received $600 million in federal loan guarantees  http://news.investors.com/article/601508/201202161851/obama-green-energy-scandal-grows-deeper.htm

Europe scales back green energy subsidies as rash of hi-profile collapses hit continent’s solar power industry  http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120406/european-union-EU-green-energy

Prior to bankruptcy, federally-backed Beacon Power paid three top execs who supported Obama in ‘08 more than a quarter million dollars in bonuses  http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/03/20/issa-report-uncovers-fraud-in-doe-loans/

Investor’s Business Daily: Obama’s green energy investments continue to fail http://news.investors.com/article/599948/201202021852/obama-green-energy-investments-arent-paying-off.htm

Obama administration won’t reveal how many more government-backed energy companies are on the ropes  http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/green-firms-fed-cash-give-execs-bonuses-fail/story?id=15851653

Taxpayers in Minnesota stuck paying for wind energy they can’t use or sell because of DOE energy mandates   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/minnesota-taxpayers-stuck-paying-for-wind-they-cant-use-or-sell/

Electric car maker Fisker Automotive got $529 million taxpayer assistance, is now laying off workers  http://scaredmonkeys.com/2012/02/07/obama-green-energy-failure-fisker-automotive-received-more-than-half-billion-dollars-in-federal-loans-laying-off-workers-at-their-delaware-california-plants/

USA Today: Is Electric Car Maker Fisker on ropes? Delaware plant “absolutely empty”    http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/04/fisker-on-ropes-delaware-plant-absolutely-empty/1#.T9ZERrDzgQp

Lithium-ion battery firm lands $118 million federal grant, then paid $450,000 bonus to CEO prior to declaring bankruptcy   http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/green-firms-fed-cash-give-execs-bonuses-fail/story?id=15851653#.T9ZEkLDzgQo

Solar Trust, Inc. goes insolvent within a year of getting conditional $2.1 billion federal loan guarantee   http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/solar-company-bankrupt-despite-win-win-doe-loan/459621

FLASHBACK: Obama touts Spain as shining example of green energy success [VIDEO]  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3UebL-x-sw&feature=player_embedded#!

Madrid university report: Spain lost 2.2 jobs in overall economy for every one (1) green job created    http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf

FASTFORWARD: Spain announces halts to all new green energy projects  http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/fail-obamas-favorite-green-energy-success-story-spain-halts-all-new-renewable-energy-projects-video/

Who’s at fault for U.S. green jobs failure? Obama blames Europe   http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-blames-europe-his-green-jobs-failure

Despite 3 ½ years of negligible renewable energy success, Obama doubles down on green spending   http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-doubles-down-green-energy-loans-again/326166

The problem with solar panels: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/738098

All Americans should be proud that their country had the courage to elect its first black president, but President Obama’s green energy initiative will go down as one of the most costly boondoggles in U. S. history.

Federal Judge Kathryn Forrest in NY, who was appointed by Obama, rejected this week the Obama administration’s legal motion to reverse her earlier injunction against the authority of the President to indefinitely detain Americans without trial using the U.S. military.  The authority was granted in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012, which was signed into law by Obama in December 2011.

On May 30th, Judge Forrest granted a preliminary injunction blocking the President from gaining the power to detain citizens indefinitely without charge.   Earlier in May, she held Section 1021 unconstitutional, saying it “failed to pass constitutional muster.”

All persons arrested and detained according to the provisions of NDAA 2012 section 1021, including those detained on U.S. soil, whether detained indefinitely or not, are required to be held by the United States Armed Forces.

The deviousness by the Obama Administration in NDAA runs deep: Democrat and “liberal” friends pay attention here.  According to Senator Carl Levin, (D-Michigan):

“The language which precluded the application of section 1021 [of NDAA 2012] to American Citizens was in the bill that we originally approved in the Armed Services Committee and the Administration asked us to remove the language which says that US Citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.”

Here is Levin on CSPAN YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO23HoRv6Ms

Levin’s comments are also in the Congressional Record on November 17, 2011.

Yet President Obama issued a signing statement in December, 2011 posing as the defender of citizens’ rights, claiming he had forced Congress to add language to protect “the safety, security and liberty of the American people.” Obama wrote:

“I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. My Administration will interpret section 1021 in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the Constitution, the laws of war, and all other applicable law.”

Obama says he will not use it, but why then did he ask for such authority if he did not intend to use it?  Now, this past week Obama motioned to have the injunction dismissed, and he failed.  Why would Obama fight the injunction if he did not intend to use this authority?

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-new-york-judge-has-blocked-the-indefinite-detention-provision-in-the-ndaa-2012-5

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/16/federal_court_enjoins_ndaa/singleton/

Ron Paul spoke about the nefarious NDAA in his editorial at the link below:

“Last week was discouraging and disappointing to those of us who value our Constitution. That the US government asserts the legal authority to pick up Americans within the United States and hold them indefinitely and secretly without a trial should be incredibly disturbing to all of us. Americans should check how their representative voted. Politicians should not be allowed to get away with undermining our liberties in this manner.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/3909/Ron-Paul-On-Indefinite-Detention-The-Tyranny-Continues

The American Civil Liberties Union (an organization with whom I usually disagree strongly) has stated that “While President Obama issued a signing statement saying he had ‘serious reservations’ about the provisions of NDAA 2012 which is now law of the land, the President’s statement only applies to how his administration would use the authorities granted by the NDAA.” and, despite claims to the contrary, “The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision… [without] temporal or geographic limitations, and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield.” The ACLU also maintains that “the breadth of the NDAA’s detention authority violates international law because it is not limited to people captured in the context of an actual armed conflict as required by the laws of war.”

In addition to the NDAA 2012, President Obama has through a series of Executive Orders given himself the powers to declare martial law – especially in the event of a war with Iran.  It is a sweeping power grab that should motivate every American to take action.  Some in Congress have taken notice.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/22/obamas-power-grab/

Rep. Sandy Adams of Florida stated in introducing her resolution, co-sponsored by 37 Representatives:

“President Obama issued a National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order on March 16, 2012 that raises some serious concerns in its wording and intent. The order has historically been based on the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.).  However, unlike previous presidents, President Obama’s executive order broadens the definition of ‘national defense.’ This leaves the door open for the president to give himself control over American resources during both times of peace, and national crisis. In response to the order, I have introduced a resolution to make it clear the president cannot use this as an excuse to abuse his executive power.”

Rep. Adams’ bill presently has 37 co-sponsors — but she needs many more to get the bill to the floor of the House.  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112%3AH.CON.RES.110:

We have learned from UK newspapers that there are now 63 active drone sites in 20 U.S. states.  The government was forced to disclose the drones with the Freedom of Information Act.  Do you have an unmanned surveillance drone over your neighborhood?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134376/Is-drone-neighbourhood-Rise-killer-spy-planes-exposed-FAA-forced-reveal-63-launch-sites-U-S.html

Libertarians and conservatives like Charles Krauthammer are verbally blasting the drones, even implying that Americans will shoot them down.    http://www.salon.com/2012/05/17/conservatives_turn_on_drones/singleton/

“…the high court has ruled unanimously against the government on religious liberty, criminal procedure and property rights.  When the administration can’t get even a single one of the liberal justices to agree with it in these unrelated areas of the law, that’s a sign there’s something wrong with its constitutional vision.”  

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303918204577444221444859342.html

The following link contains a somewhat exhaustive list of the Obama administration’s many legal transgressions.  These are regulations and portions of laws which are today being repeatedly blocked by independent judges.  The total number and comprehensiveness of Obama’s grab for power are shocking.  But what about 2013 if Obama is re-elected?  What would happen to us after another 4 years of Obama judicial appointments?  Who will stop them?  Hopefully some of my many lawyerly friends will comment.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/05/24/hugo-chavez-in-amerca-a-2nd-obama-term-means-no-indepdendent-judiciary/

Then there is the attempt to pass a so-called “fairness law”, i.e. affirmative action hiring and pay for women.  Even the female Democrat senators pushing this  legislation don’t have equal pay for their staff.  Here’s why this is a Prison America issue: 

 “Once government gets to dictate to employers how they should value and reward individual employees, America as we’ve know it would cease to exist,” he said. “If we ever decide that Congress or executive branch bureaucrats have the sufficient knowledge, much less the integrity, to successfully undertake such a function, we’re all doomed.”  http://freebeacon.com/equal-pay-for-play/

“Immoral beyond redemption” is an excellent dissection of the issue before America by Walter E. Williams, professor of economics at GeorgeMasonUniversity. http://www.desototimes.com/articles/2012/06/04/opinion/editorials/doc4fcd09b66c4a8109124187.txt

“The Energy Department’s inspector general has launched more than 100 criminal investigations” related to the department’s green-energy programs….Hoover Institution scholar Peter Schweizer reported in his book, “Throw Them All Out,” fully 71 percent of the Obama Energy Department’s grants and loans went to “individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party.” Collectively, these Obama cronies raised $457,834 for his campaign, and they were in turn approved for grants or loans of nearly $11.35 billion.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/forget-bain-obamas-public-equity-record-is-the-real-scandal/2012/05/24/gJQAXnXCnU_story.html

But it’s not just the Department of Energy.   U.S. Attorney General Holder and his Department of Justice are in up to their necks, and the “Fast and Furious” scandal is not the least of their problems.  Their worse problem is rarely reported, but no doubt will be investigated in a subsequent administration: DOJ has failed to prosecute obvious cases of voter intimidation by Black Panthers and SEIU in the 2008 election, cases which federal prosecuting lawyers in DOJ were prevented from prosecuting.

“RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FIND ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., ATTORNEY GENERAL, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH A SUBPOENA DULY ISSUED BY THE COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM.” (beginning pages 18 – 41)    http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Update-on-Fast-and-Furious-with-attachment-FINAL.pdf

Congressman Darell Issa chairs the House committee investigating AG Holder and the DOJ’s involvement in the “Fast and Furious” scandalous sales of arms to Mexican drug gangs.  Issa explains the case for holding AG Holder in contempt of Congress at this link below.  Recent infighting within the White House between David Axelrod and AG Holder point to higher level approval than AG Holder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KWaOR2PsHFg#at=118

In his novel 1984, George Orwell illustrated the technique of doublespeak…a deliberately ambiguous or coded form of speaking intended to have the opposite meaning, opposite to the truth or real intent.  Each administration has its spin.  Obama and his minions have their narrative, which is exposed in this 12 minute video.  “Political Correctness Exposed” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhugUzUuPkE&feature=related

Democrat Senators Reid and Schumer want to create a tax wall to keep Americans and their money inside America so they can be taxed.  This smacks of theSoviet Union’s iron curtain.  But it is even worse.   In this unconstitutional legislation you are guilty, fined and blocked from entry into America until you prove you are innocent of their created crime.  Of course it is incomprehensible and huge IRS regulations, laws and rates that are the real problems causing Americans to want to take their money and leave.   Government is erecting a regulatory wall to keep Americans inside Prison America.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/17/senators-target-facebook-co-founder-for-giving-up-citizenship/

President Obama and Democrats are pushing America into a class-based, social democracy styled after the EU and Obama’s several Executive Orders are openly intended to integrate and standardize regulations with Europe.  Once regulatory integration is complete or harmonized, the foundation is set for a global government and Prison Planet.

So, what do Europeans think about their European Union? According to former president of Germany Roman Herzog:

“EU integration …. has become not just a process of depriving Europe’s peoples of their national democracy and independence. Within each member state it represents a gradual coup by government executives against legislatures, and by politicians against the citizens who elect them.” “Now that the communist threat of the Soviet Union has moved to the scrap heaps of history, we Europeans are faced with a new threat to our Liberty. That threat is not coming from a harsh, iron fisted, totalitarian regime, but from what best can be described as ‘soft totalitarianism’, directed by legions of bureaucrats with their centre of gravity lying in Brussels.” “Most people have a fundamentally positive attitude to European integration. But at the same time, they have an ever increasing feeling that something is going wrong, that an non-transparent, complex, intricate, mammoth institution has evolved, divorced from the factual problems and national traditions, grabbing ever greater competences and areas of power; that the democratic control mechanisms are failing: in brief, that it cannot go on like this.” “By far the largest part of the current laws in Germany are agreed by the (EU) Council of Ministers and not the German parliament…Therefore the question has to be asked whether Germany can still unreservedly call itself a parliamentary democracy.”

Then there is Nigel Farage, Member of European Parliament, speaking to the European government in a blockbuster “The Games is Up.”  The leaders of the countries in Europe do not even know how the European Union leaders are chosen and in some cases have never heard of the European Union leaders.   But Obama, Democrats, RINO Republicans and even some usually conservative Republicans like Senator Trent Lott are rushing to change America into the European model and world government.

http://www.free-europe.org/english/

“…the United States may be heading toward a two-tiered, European-style economic system, where taxpayers in prudent, prosperous states are forced by Washington to subsidize the imprudent and improvident governments of neighboring states.” ~ Senator Jim DeMint

Do not disregard the warning in this blog as a conspiracy theory.  It is in fact a long running conspiracy and as illustrated in the above links it is in fact happening.   It is so big and complex in scope that it is hard to believe, that’s part of their strategy, but the implications and scope of this global agenda come right down to your neighborhood, your private property and your individual freedom.  The conspirators have been openly implementing the infrastructure very methodically for years.

Learn all you can about UN Agenda 21, The Law of the Sea Treaty, The UN Millennium Project and UN IPCC.  These documents require diligent reading between the lines to understand the doublespeak and narrative.  All of these programs are already being acted on by the U.S. government and are in different stages of completion.  The legislation providing U.S. support for the UN Millennium Project is the only piece of legislation initiated by Senator Barack Obama during his partial term in Congress.  It is  lofty and noble sounding but impractical project for a worldwide war on poverty that would transform the entire planet into a global welfare state, where an international central bank  redistributes wealth (0.7% of their GNP) from rich populations to poor ones to promote “the economic development and welfare of developing countries” and the wealthy countries subject their people to many types of monitoring by international agencies.

I have written many times about the many problems with the global warming agenda, now know as climate change.  This is a program sponsored by the UN IPCC and 190 nations.   According to the Congressional Budget Office and the Congressional Research Service, the U.S. alone has spent $68.4 billion on the climate change agenda just since 2008.  Dr. Vaclav Klaus, an economist and President of the Czech Republic leaves no question about the real agenda in his now 5 year old book Blue Planet in Green Shackles:

“Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”

If and when these several treaties are signed by a U.S. President (or given the status of international law via Executive Orders), then by law Americans will once again be subjects to be ruled over by external government agencies.  In many cases we already are.  For example, President Obama already signed an order subjecting U.S. citizens – including U.S. military and previous Presidents – for the first time to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

Here is a short article on “Five UN Treaties You Must Know About.”

http://www.conservativecut.com/blog/?p=574

As you investigate more you will realize how serious and how far this conspiracy has progressed.  And, by the way, the conspirators truly believe they are doing their best – noblesse oblige – doing their duty guided by the best and the brightest who know what is best for the rest of us.

Americans today still have an electoral means to throw off these chains.   But, as has already happened in Europe, once the treaties are signed we will no longer have the legal means to throw off the chains of PrisonAmerica.  The only option that will remain is violence and an American Spring.