Posted on 09/03/2009 5:22:30 PM PDT by vadum
Nope, they did everything in their power to keep a lid on this. They are currently attempting to scrub the internet clean of his other czars. The only problem for them is that too many of us know how to save internet files so when the next one comes up they will also have to explain the conspiracy of that as well.
We need to do a Patton on them and follow Patton’s successor on this ideological war in that of Glenn Beck. He is the only one exposing these people but thankfully, the rest of Fox is coming along a week or better later.
If so this will only make the White House even more determined to destroy Beck and others like him.
I wonder how much they pay the folks who are constanty updating the Czars (and Glenn’s) Wikepedia pages?
Lets get it going. We are clearing the decks hre in Florida. Lets eBay Meg off to the liberals.
First we have Marco Rubio going after party elitist Charlie Crist and just recently in a state senate race the local conservative Dan Quiggle is going after party elitist John Thrasher in a special election to replace the deceased Jim King.
Quiggle does have a lead right now in the polls and an article placing this race in the national spotlight could be an indicator that We The People are starting to take our party back from the elites.
Beck is the only one with cajones.. he stuck his neck way out there and now the rest of the bandwagon is jumping on the Van Jones train and acting like they have been on it all along.
I second your post. Can you imagine the kind of numbers Beck would get at 8pm, primetime? The numbers are great now and he is on during the work hours (pacific time) and traffic hour (eastern time). God bless Glenn Beck, may He keep him and his family safe. Heaven knows we need him. I think O’Reilly should turn over the motto “Cause were looking out for you” to Glenn since he is truly looking out for us.
Public schools?
This will be interesting...I guess Rahm decided he had to officially go..
The job wasn’t even a real job. He couldn’t even define what he was suppose to do..probably social justice reparations disguised as Green Jobs.
Now what about that money in the Stimulus Bill given to something associated with him. Can’t remember the details about that.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/10/27-9
Published on Monday, October 27, 2008 by The San Francisco Chronicle
Activist (Van Jones) says Green Needs To Touch Blue Collar
by Kelly Zito
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Here is an excerpt of an interview with The Chronicle:
Q: In your book ... you make the argument that the two most important problems facing the U.S. are radical social inequality and rampant environmental destruction. Can you explain why in your view the solution to this is a caulk gun?
A: We do have these two big problems. But really we have one solution - a green economy ... that really honors the earth but is strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty through creating what we call green collar jobs. It’s not just the Ph.D.s but the Ph. Dos ... getting people skilled up so they know how to make solar panels and wind turbines. You’re giving people not just a paycheck but a purpose.
Q: You also call out the idea of the eco-elite and the concern over eco-apartheid.
A: If the green economy just winds up being this niche economy, where people can afford to pay a green premium for that extra environmental oomph on their products, it’s going to be too small to actually do very much. And 80 percent of the people who are left out wind up undoing the environmental good of that 20 percent. The next stage in green economics is to figure out how we make the green economy not just a place for affluent people but a place for ordinary people to earn money and for low income people to save money.
Q: In the book, you go into the idea of environmental racism - or what you call “throwaway” communities.
A: There’s this environmental justice movement that talks not just about our sister and brother species but our sisters and brothers who are disproportionately targeted by toxic waste in places like Bayview-Hunters Point, places like Richmond, where the big refinery is. There’s a lot of asthma, a lot of cancer clusters, a lot of negative health impacts. ... It’s low income people, people of color. Now we’re saying we want equal protection from the worst pollution, but we also want ... equal opportunity, equal access to the best (of the green economy).
Q: Given the divided nature of the political landscape, how could a new president or new Congress make the kind of sweeping changes you talk about?
A: I do feel there are some dangers right now because people are just confused. You look at ads on television and you can’t tell whether it’s the Sierra Club or Chevron. Now, the next step is to clarify. When we say a green job, do we want a job at a nuclear power plant where you come out glowing green? Or are we talking about real renewable solutions like solar, wind, geothermal, water conservation? My hope is that there will be a governing majority ... that is bipartisan, built around a new center of gravity that says, we want the U.S. to be the world leader, but not in war and pollution and incarceration rates.
Q: You mention specific solutions discussed by both Sens. Obama and Clinton during the primary race, particularly removing tax breaks for oil companies?
A: Fundamentally we have to stop paying polluters and making the polluters pay. Right now we subsidize pollution. We give a lot of money to big oil, big coal, folks who are adding to the problems of global warming. At the same time it’s free to dump carbon into the air, by the ton... But it’s going cost the whole the planet. That’s called a market failure. We want the polluters to pay because if you put a price on carbon, you send a market signal that the carbon age is over, the oil and coal age is over. It’s now the solar age. We cannot drill and burn our way out of our energy problems. We can invent and invest our way out.
Q: With the economy in such terrible shape right now, how can green be a priority?
A: We just found $700 billion to bail out the bankers. Nobody said that was too expensive. We have the biggest, strongest economy in history of the world. Even on the way down we’re bigger than anybody else. It’s not question of money, it’s a question of priorities. We have a Saudi Arabia of wind in the Plains states, a Saudi Arabia of solar in the Sun Belt. If you build a clean energy grid ... now your energy costs have plunged near zero. ... The U.S. economy will be stronger in ways we can’t even imagine.
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TREATMENT OF EVACUEES SPURS ACTION - AN OAKLAND MAN USES THE INTERNET TO GALVANIZE THOSE WHO BELIEVE RACE AND CLASS FACTORED INTO THE RESPONSE
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) - Saturday, September 24, 2005
Author: NATHANIEL HOFFMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
OAKLAND — As Van Jones watched thousands of black New Orleans residents stranded by Hurricane Katrina and the delayed federal rescue, a cold political calculus went through his head.
President Bush is not concerned about a political backlash from black America because his advisers know blacks are not as organized as they were a generation ago, reasoned the experienced community organizer.
“He probably knows that we don’t have the capacity to do anything,” Jones said. “Faced with the biggest racial catastrophe of my entire life, I was helpless.”
So Jones, an activist, entrepreneur and founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, teamed up with James Rucker, grassroots mobilization director for MoveOn.org, to harness the power of the Web for political organizing.
They call it ColorOfChange.org.
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Conference discussion turns to city — Human rights crusader says bringing private jail to Memphis would create a ‘new Jim Crow’
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - Monday, January 15, 2007
Author: Trevor Aaronson aaronson@commercialappeal.com
Van Jones came home angry.
A native of Jackson, Tenn., and founder of the California-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Jones closed the National Conference for Media Reform Sunday with a charged speech that censured mass media, the Bush administration, and a proposal to build a private prison in Memphis.
“The future of this city is hanging in the balance,” Jones told an audience of more than 1,000 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center.
“There are forces at work - the same forces that Dr. (Martin Luther) King stood against in this very city - who want to make Memphis the home to the biggest private, for-profit prison in the world.”
Although the proposal has been rejected by Sheriff Mark Luttrell, Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America in November proposed a privately run jail to alleviate crowding at 201 Poplar.
Jones, whose organization promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration, called the jail “a huge slave ship on dry land” that would “create a new Jim Crow.”
“You don’t have to call somebody the N-word if you can call him a felon,” he said.
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Bye Bye Meg. That’s all I need to know about your sorry butt.
Meg Whitman ruined Ebay..she has no business getting involved in Politics. I hope that clip bites her sorry butt.
Did not the idiots who voted for him think he would not put these whack left wingnuts in important positions?
Yet if you do a search at CNN and MSNBC, you get nada, zip, zero on Jones!
Van Jones called Republicans a**holes
Van Jones portrays President Bush as a "crackhead"
Van Jones speaks his (Marxist) mind at Berkeley
Let's spread this far and wide over Labor Day weekend to make Jones' position untenable next week.
Remind them that this is a WHITE HOUSE SENIOR OFFICIAL who directly oversees $3.6 billion in stimulus funds, and would oversee another $56 billion if Cap and Trade became law.
Remember back last fall when we tried to warn people that this very thing was going to occur with an 0bama win? Remember how McCain told a big group at one of his campaign rallies when some expressed concern, "No, you have nothing to worry about, 0bama is a good guy" ?? Remember how they claimed we were all hyperbolic, exaggerating, had nothing to base our reactions on??
The only reason Ayres didn't get a presidential appointment is that he was discovered/uncovered before Election Day. It's not coincidence that his partner in the Weather Underground, Jeff Jones, did get a presidential appointment.
If it weren't such a serious situation, I'd be blasting a giant, "We told you so" all over some of these sites.
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