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Well. It looks like I, like Joe Biden before me, have a penchant for plagiarism. In fact, though, the purpose of this blog is not to showcase my (nonexistent) brilliant writing, but to convey information of broad concern to a readership concerned with maintaining the founding principles of this nation intact, which touches upon a great many subjects.
One of those is the Global Environmental Scam, and this article – written by a competent professional at Investors Business Daily, as opposed to a blogger wanna-be – exposes the continuing cover-up by this administration and its beneficiaries/allies/co-conspirators of any information that does not conform to their pre-existing agenda. In this case, reports out of both Spain and Denmark on the economic failure of their own wind power programs. I’ll find and reprint these reports in later Posts.
Meanwhile, courtesy of IBD, and in accordance with their copywrite policies, I am reprinting their entire editorial on this matter and showing it here for 30 days only. (I tried using their code and advertising, but it wouldn’t work on my site.) I’ve linked to the article, above, so that it can be accessed long after the full article on this site has been removed. Enjoy.
IBD EDITORIAL – REMOVED ON SCHEDULE (Thanks to Investors Business Daily for the loan of their editorial: click on the link two paragraphs up to view the article on their own site).
What this shows is a shameless politicization of what should be a professional bureaucracy. Instead of staying objective, they sought to scupper facts for ideologically motivated junk science. It also shows how influential radical activists and trade lobbyists are in the Obama administration, something the president had promised to hose out during his presidential campaign.
Among the outsiders at Energy’s “in” crowd was the Center for American Progress, a think tank partly funded by billionaire investor George Soros and led by John Podesta, a man who visitor logs show was at the White House 31 times over two months in the fall of 2009, the only period from which records are available. Two of his visits were with officials prominent on green issues.
Whatever that means, it amounts to an authentic scandal in the league of Climate-gate, where leaked e-mails exposed the fraud of global warming data at the University of East Anglia and the effort of academics to cover it up.
“The least revelatory aspect of this was the hollowness of the Obama administration’s claims to having driven lobbyists from the executive branch. Providing an inside role for politically favored industries in developing official administration statements falls even further from the rhetoric,” said CEI’s Horner, in an e-mail to IBD.
“Worse, with direct communications with ideological activists like CAP and UCS undoubtedly the anticipated and regular subject of FOIA requests, we also see how the Obama administration employed an industry lobby to channel the influence of such groups into the administration’s inner workings to circumvent the expected pathway for scrutiny,” said Horner, who also noted that Energy officials have since misled Congress.
With that the modus operandi of Energy now, questions are raised as to how objective any of its reports are. Can we trust what it says? Or shall the department be written off as out-of-touch politicians are?
