Obama to unveil broad African electrical power initiative ($7 Billion)

Yahoo News/Reuters ^ | June 30, 2013 | Mark Felsenthal

[Innovative]

Pointing to Africa's crippling lack of electrical power, President Barack Obama is due to announce on Sunday a $7 billion initiative over five years to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa.

Obama has been faulted for lacking a grand program to benefit Africa like the HIV/AIDS initiative launched by President George W. Bush or the broad reductions of trade barriers achieved by President Bill Clinton.

Despite severe U.S. budget constraints, the power initiative could provide Obama with just such a signature program.

[Innovative]

From another article:

""Power Africa will build on Africa's enormous power potential, including new discoveries of vast reserves of oil and gas, and the potential to develop clean geothermal, hydro, wind and solar energy," it said."

Obama to unveil $7 bn Africa power plan

I guess it's OK for them to use oil and gas, but not for us...

[Paladin2]

So are we going to ship coal to Africa?

[Venturer]

The CS’er is closing down our power plants and building them for Africa.

I said the other day he hadn’t written the check yet. It looks like the check writing is right around the corner.

[realcleanguy]

Meanwhile we have power outages here because the LW is closing down power plants.

[livius]

Someone else posted that Obama won’t shut down the coal industry: he’ll simply require that our coal be sold to other countries. This will keep the coal industry happy and protect some Democrat districts, while at the same time undermining the United States. What could be better?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

What severe budget constraints?

[CottShop]

Got no money for our poor, our elderly, our dissabled, our veterans, but by golly we got’s plenty of money for other nations- Will energy prices in Africa ‘necessarily skyrocket” therre too? Or did dear leader only mean that poor Americans woudl have to fsace crippling high energy prices?

[Irenic]

Isn’t that purse in the hands of our congress, not the pResident?

[Innovative]

He certainly isn’t trying to promote US interests:

“Some business leaders were disappointed that private companies did not have a more visible active role on the Africa visit.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is often along on presidential trips overseas, does not have an official business entourage on this trip despite making Africa a priority.”

In Africa, Obama plays catchup with China

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/27/v-fullstory/3474150/in-africa-obama-plays-catchup.html

[Liz]

Kenya---the land of his birth----was not on his tax-paid $100 million African itinerary?

NOT TO WORRY---THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION JUST APPROVED $50 MILLION DOLLARS IN FOREIGN AID TO KENYA.

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O'S KENYAN HALF BRO IS READY TO CASH IN---RUNS THE TAX-EXEMPT "DO-GOOD IN KENYA" OBAMA FOUNDATION. The tax- exempt “charity” named in honor of their Dad, is run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother Malik.

The tax-exempt Obama foundation, fast-tracked by Lerner for IRS tax-exempt status, is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been based.

As first reported by The Daily Caller, the foundation was speedily approved for IRS exemption by Lois Lerner, the self-same IRS senior official at the center of the targeting of conservative organizations that have waited over two years to receive tax exempt status. The IRS thoughtfully gave Obama Foundation retroactive fund-raising status.......which it stupidly never applied for.

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The tax-exempt Barack H. Obama Foundation is run by Abon’go “Roy” Malik Obama, the half-brother of Barack Obama. The foundation’s mission statement is “to provide people everywhere with resources to uplift their welfare and living standards in memory of dad---Barack H. Obama: in the region of his birth, Kenya, and beyond.” Its guiding principle is “the inherent belief that no one can truly enjoy the riches he has reaped if his neighbor suffers....."We seek to elevate the human condition so that everyone can live in dignity and truly enjoy having one another as neighbors.”

(same old, same old sap-happy do-goodniks)

Despite raising more than $250,000, the alleged charity doesn’t seem to have done much. Its website claims the organization has built a madrassa and was building an imam’s house as well as some “proposed latrines,” but there is no other evidence that the nonprofit was working to “mitigate social-shortcomings in areas of education and literacy, health and well-being, poverty, and lack of community infrastructure in such basic needs such as water, electricity, shelter and sustenance,” as the site says.

Alton Ray Baysden, a former Dept of State employee, allegedly a registered Republican, who helped start the Barack H Obama foundation, declined to comment before seeing copies of a reporter’s passport and govt ID, along with a description of the article’s “motivation” and “slant.”

Repeated reporters' phone calls went to the organization’s voicemail and were not returned.

Obama’s half-brother Malik spends most of his time in Kenya with his 12 wives.

Malik holds up photo of Obama in Muslim dress
taken on a trip to Kenya when Ohaha was about 23-24 y/o.

[TheGipperWasRight]

If this wasn’t such a disaster, it would be hilarious.

I thought oil and gas were bad climate change juju.

I like how he had to throw in the geothermal, hydro, wind, and solar. Like they’re really gonna do any of that.

If the power from “necklacing” could be harnessed, South Africa could probably generate enough electricity for the whole world.

[Jakarta ex-pat]

“Other peoples money”

[Lazamataz]

Obama to unveil broad African electrical power initiative ($7 Billion)

This bastard geniunely believes he is Emperor of the world.

[cardinal4]

100 million for his family vacation, so what’s a few BILLION more of somebody else’s money for his homeland..?

[Hardraade]

Good move. I hear many African nations have electrified chairs for homosexuals.

[ully2]

A windmill for every hut.

[Tijeras_Slim]

“Electricity plus Soviets equals Socialism.”
~Lenin

[ex-snook]

"“Other peoples money”"

Chinese money. It used to be ours before we sent the dollars there to import their goods.

[Hardraade]

And a hamster in every wheel.

[Liz]

The $100 million vacation does not include the million dollar giveaways to corrupt African dictators under the guise of "encouraging democracy" in countries w/strong-arm military dictatorships.

BUT the $7 billion tax dollars for electricity will help the genital-washing program we already funded.

WHAT'S THAT? YOU MISSED THIS? $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 went to a UCLA research team to teach African men how to wash their genitals after having sex. NIH wanted to evaluate the feasibility of a post-coital genital hygiene program.

The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The tax-paid genitalia washing was set to end in 2011.

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(Sob) Obama compassionately solved the dirty sex organ crisis.
Now he's on to Africa to finance Phase Two.

Obama is transporting to Africa thousands of taxpaid ***-washers attached to power hoses.