“As far as GE goes think Cap and Trade AND GE Windmills. Get the picture?” ~ US Navy Vet
As far as GE goes, GE is merely the new Enron. bttt
GE CEO Confronted at Shareholder Meeting in Orlando!
VIDEO: http://www.thefoxnation.com/politics/2009/04/23/fox-nation-exclusive-ge-ceo-confronted-shareholder-meeting
My posts in 2008:
GE is Algores new Enron.
A couple of weeks ago I heard Bill OReilly say that in spite of Americas policy, GE was still doing business with Iran. He said he was going to keep hammering them until they cease and desist. He read letters on the air from people who wrote in to say that they were selling their GE stock and boycotting GE products.
16 posted on Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:04:55 AM by Matchett-PI
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General Electric and Al Gore Scheme to Undermine Domestic Oil Drilling
Townhall.com ^ | July 26, 2008 | Tom Borelli
http://townhall.com/columnists/TomBorelli/2008/07/26/general_electric_and_al_gore_scheme_to_undermine_domestic_oil_drilling
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Enron chairman Kenneth Lay met with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in the Oval Office in 1997, prior to the Kyoto energy conference, according to the Washington Times of Jan. 16. The apparent purpose was for Clinton and Gore to get an agreement from Enron that it would support the draconian regulations and higher costs on the industry that would emerge from the conference, in exchange for government guarantees and taxpayer subsidies. This would expand the governments power within the industry and guarantee handsome political contributions for the Democrats.
Enron would not disappoint. It became the poster corporation for the junk science of global warming, and supported the industry-killing Kyoto Protocol. Enron probably believed that promised taxpayer payouts would make up for its losses in support of unproductive, but politically correct, energy initiatives. The U.S. Senate, however, recognizing Kyotos negative impact on the economy at large, foiled Clinton-Gore plans by voting 95-0 to trash the unfair and inequitable Protocol. The Senate action wouldnt stop Enron, however, from attempting to become the corporation of choice for the Clinton-Gore globalization agenda. [.....................] More at link here:
12 posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:40:47 AM by Matchett-PI (Enron Gave Big Bucks to Democrats, Backed ‘Global Warming’ Scam)
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Madoff the Crook donated stolen money to Democrats the willing
The Collins Report ^ | December 18th, 2008 | Kevin Coach Collins
http://www.collinsreport.net/
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05/08/2008
“Cap and Trade” - an Enron Brainchild
http://www.investigatemagazine.com/a...ate_oct_5.html
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Amidst the talk about the benefits that Kyoto Protocol is supposed to promote, it is perhaps forgotten especially amongst the greenies how Kyoto was born in the corridors of very big business. The name Enron has all but faded from our news pages since the company went down in flames in 2001 amidst charges of fraud, bribery, price fixing and graft.
But without Enron there would have been no Kyoto Protocol.
About 20 years ago Enron was owner and operator of an interstate network of natural gas pipelines, and had transformed itself into a billion-dollar-a-day commodity trader, buying and selling contracts and their derivatives to deliver natural gas, electricity, internet bandwidth, whatever. The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to put a cap on how much pollutant the operator of a fossil-fueled plant was allowed to emit. In the early 1990s Enron had helped establish the market for, and became the major trader in, EPAs $20 billion-per-year sulphur dioxide cap-and-trade program, the forerunner of todays proposed carbon credit trade. This commodity exchange of emission allowances caused Enrons stock to rapidly rise.
Then came the inevitable question, what next? How about a carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program? The problem was that CO2 is not a pollutant, and therefore the EPA had no authority to cap its emission. Al Gore took office in 1993 and almost immediately became infatuated with the idea of an international environmental regulatory regime. He led a U.S. initiative to review new projects around the world and issue credits of so many tons of annual CO2 emission reduction. Under law a tradeable system was required, which was exactly what Enron also wanted because they were already trading pollutant credits.
Thence Enron vigorously lobbied Clinton and Congress, seeking EPA regulatory authority over CO2. From 1994 to 1996, the Enron Foundation contributed nearly $1 million dollars - $990,000 - to the Nature Conservancy, whose Climate Change Project promotes global warming theories. Enron philanthropists lavished almost $1.5 million on environmental groups that support international energy controls to reduce global warming. Executives at Enron worked closely with the Clinton administration to help create a scaremongering climate science environment because the company believed the treaty could provide it with a monstrous financial windfall. The plan was that once the problem was in place the solution would be trotted out.
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Obamas ‘Cap and Trade’ Plan Imposes Huge Tax
by Christopher C. Horner
03/02/2009
In his February 24 speech, President Obama asked Congress to send him
legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America. But by market-based cap he means that the government would mandate carbon dioxide emission permits which are essentially permits to use energy that companies would then be able to sell among themselves.
His budget assumes a staggering $650 billion in revenue from this scheme. But who picks up the tab? Who ultimately pays the cost of buying these slices of global warming baloney, and why would industry support such a scheme?
The answer is that you and I do, as does everyone who buys anything requiring energy, just like we pay the cost of all the other taxes paid by manufacturers. Its a tax, folks. Plain and simple, Obamas market-based cap plan is a tax on American business.
Industry is actually behind this massive tax, having sold their support so that the tax is not merely passed through to consumers, but it allows companies to skim the scheme for a profit, again at your expense.
This tax, however, is nearly twice the size of the failed BTU tax which Al Gore still attributes the Democrats loss of Congress the next year.
The BTU tax was offered in the name of deficit reduction. Obamas global warming tax is expressly to pay for new middle-class welfare entitlements, even though it takes away from the beneficiaries about the same amount they will fork out in increased energy costs (if not the entire inflationary impact). The important point for his movement, however, is that more money is run through the state, creating dependency.
With BTU, the then-new rock star Democratic president Clinton was rebuffed by a Democratic Congress once the public fought back. This was only after the House had passed the tax by one vote cast by Rep. Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky (D-PA), who tearfully marched down to change her vote after being singled out for flipping by the White House. As she shuffled back up the aisle, a prescient Republican caucus loudly waived bye, Margie! knowing the gift she had given them. She was among many BTU-tax supporters later driven from office.
Then business successfully Swiss-cheesed the tax proposal by lobbying and achieving so many carve-outs that the tax simply collapsed. With an insufficient business constituency, Democratic Sens. Bennett Johnston, John Breaux and David Boren could not justify so angering the public and instructed the new president how the world would work.
There are two lessons here.
First, as Al Gore confessed to the Financial Times, going through the front door of a direct energy tax is too risky. Hence the cap-and-trade rationing scheme; its a tax but a non-transparent one, also making it vastly less efficient (more expensive) according to economists at, for example, the Congressional Budget Office. The message to lawmakers is to worry about one job: yours. Hide the tax. The part about also doubling the tax seems to be all Obamas idea.
Second, cap-and-trade shows that business has also learned how to sell its support in return for additional schemes to further pick your pocket, siphoning of some of the cost to themselves. Cap-and-trade provides them billions of your dollars in return for playing along.
Its still so ugly that some senators are exploring ways to actually ram through the scheme itself and not just the assumptions of revenue from it on the filibuster-proof budget process. This means they need just 50 votes plus Veep Joe Biden, not 60. It also means there would be no public development, meaning exposure, of the scheme.
So there remains a chance that the administration and industry have managed to lock this deal down without the taxpayer represented in the room.
If business is going to pass on the tax to consumers as they always have to do are businesses supporting this plan to curry favor with Obama? Of course they are. But who are they?
Top Companies Behind Obamas Global Warming Tax
General Electric the folks who brought you the expensive energy-saving light-bulbs by government mandate also bought Enrons windmill business, that being the company which originally hatched this scheme. Beyond windmills GE has redesigned its business lines to capitalize on the energy-scarcity agenda, with little luck to date but counting on a lobbying budget bigger than big oil, combined.
And, just by the way, theyre the owners of NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and one of the few American companies that still trades with our most dangerous enemy, Iran.
Utilities Cap-and-trade creates what is essentially a carbon cartel, restricting the supply and raising the price of fossil energy and thereby creating windfalls for the lucky holders of emission credits. It is surely a coincidence that companies caught engaging in illegal market manipulation — Enron, and electric utilities American Electric Power, Cinergy, Entergy, and Calpine — have been among the most aggressive lobbyists for the Kyoto Protocol or kindred emission trading schemes.
Cinergys CEO James Rogers is a Ken Lay protégé who, after merging with and taking the reins of Duke Energy, has added even more muscle to the global warming lobby.
Wall Street — Among the most influential lobbyists for Kyoto-style policy are Wall Street firms planning to make commissions on the purchase and sale of carbon credits. Again surely a coincidence, the players most heavily invested in profiting from a cap-and-trade scheme were among those mostly heavily implicated in last years collapse (e.g., Lehman Bros., JP Morgan Chase). The crumbling Bank of America, naturally, is also a leading cheerleader of the scheme.
These firms are the first cohort of what we will continue to identify for you as the companies lobbying for Congress to stick you with a global warming tax.
You are now faced with the question of whether to allow your elected representatives to approve one of the largest tax increases in history, raising $650 billion over eight years from mandating then selling cap-n-trade carbon dioxide ration coupons.
Under the Obama scheme, billions of dollars of those rationing coupons will be given away to companies supporting the scheme, and their cost nonetheless priced into your energy costs. This is precisely how it has worked in Europe, at great economic cost.
Yet all businesses are on the hook for their sheepishness in the face of this long-running, cynical ploy by businesses underwriting the campaign of environmentalist hysteria proclaiming the end of the earth. Some, like NEC Electronics America, have just announced with a sigh that, with California having just adopted a version of this scheme, it appears that their operations there will be pulled back to Japan.
Theres not enough room on that island nation to ship all of our jobs, though China, India, Mexico, South Korea and others have made clear they are waiting to accommodate the rest.
The one thing we do know is that if this doesnt prove politically to be BTU redux for the Democrats, theres no room for manufacturing here.
Mr. Horner is author of “Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed.”
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Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist
The Guardian ^ | June 23, 2007 | Ed Pilkington
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/23/fossilfuels.climatechange
Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 3:24:05 AM by spandau-guard
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James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
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37 posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 8:01:00 AM by Matchett-PI
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Why Enron Wants Global Warming
by Patrick J. Michaels
Patrick J. Michaels is senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute and author of The Satanic Gases.
This article appeared on cato.org on February 6, 2002.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3388
How Enron hyped global warming for profit
The Kyoto Conspiracy (Gore, Enron, Carbon Trading, Global Warming)
Investigate Magazine ^ | March 2006
http://www.investigatemagazine.com/archives/2006/03/investigate_oct_5.html
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Enron Gave Big Bucks to Democrats, Backed Global Warming Scam
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/1/16/135018.shtml
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
Thursday, Jan. 17, 2002
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70 posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 12:35:59 AM by Matchett-PI
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Mr. Hansen should be put on trial for slander, willful defamation, and attempts to incite public hysteria. ~ rabscuttle385 #65
Mr. Hansen isnt the only one to deliberately incite public hysteria. Another one of Algores science advisors was also a Reverend:
The Reverend Sir John Houghton, former head of the UK Meteorological Office, Publisher of Al Gores book on GW and Former Co-Chair of the IPCC, said this:
Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen ...
[Interjection: Couldnt that legitimately be called, lying for Jesus?]
.. human induced global warming is a weapon of mass destruction at least as dangerous as chemical, nuclear or biological weapons that kills more people than terrorism.
While no one can ascribe a single weather event to climate change with any degree of certainty...the parallels between global climate change and global terrorism are becoming increasingly obvious. ~ Reverend John Houghton
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,93466,00.html
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We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. ~ Stephen Schneider (leading advocate of the global warming theory) (in interview for Discover magazine, Oct 1989)
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Isnt the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isnt it our responsibility to bring that about? ~ Maurice Strong - Secretary General of the Rio Summit in June of 1992
75 posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 1:01:04 AM by Matchett-PI (Driving a Phase Two Operation Chaos Hybrid that burns both gas AND rubber.)
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