The simplest explanation for all the interlocking relationships and the one I accept is that “birds of a feather flock together”. Many of these people formed relationships in their Ivy League years based on a common ideology and hitched their wagons to the rising stars among them.
There’s no doubt their ideology and ultimate goal entails central government control over all wealth and property. The pesky U.S. Constitution just keeps slowing them down and once in a while, like in 2010, the electorate wakes up enough to see what’s going on and pushes back hard. But then the electorate often tunes out and they are able to take baby steps toward their goal.
They don’t hide what they want or what they are. They just couch it in terms that sound mainstream. “Fair share”, “Living wage”, “For the children”, “Shared sacrifice”, “Human rights”, and so on.
What they can’t manage to take outright, they regulate to death and destroy.
Besides people’s homes and land, another huge repository of wealth in this nation are people’s retirement savings. Every once in a while, a progressive will go on record as saying the government needs to have control over those retirement savings. They’ll propose some kind of “sweetheart” deal like you turn over your retirement savings to the federal government in exchange for a guaranteed return on investment. Of course initially, this will be a voluntary arrangement, but the Pandora’s box will have been opened. The end goal is of course, to make it mandatory.
I’m not into conspiracy theories, but the grand plans of the progressives cannot proceed without lots and lots of money. Either they tax or they confiscate. There’s no other options I can think of that fits their agenda.
So the simple common denominator in all these people is that they desire that the central government (with them as rulers) hold and control all wealth, both personal and corporate. And the end justifies the means.
Something on George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF), the name sounds caring but...
Kaiser, G.T. Byrum, and LaFortune (Byrum’s grandfather):
“On the House lobby disclosure search form, selecting Lobbyist Name as search field and Bynum as criteria will bring up G. T. Bynum’s current lobbying work (under the registrant names Capitol Ventures Government Relations LLC, Capitol Ventures Government Relations LLC(AKA GT Bynum Cons), and G.T. Bynum Consulting, LLC) and his WIFE Susan Bynum’s past work for Capitol Hill Consulting Group, headed by former Oklahoma Democrat Congressman Bill Brewster.”
“One allegation involves a promissory note for $7,825,000.00 from the City to the GKFF relating to the OSU Medical Center (formerly Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital and Tulsa Regional Medical Center). The vote occurred on December 3, 2009, about 43 days before Bynum registered as a federal lobbyist for GKFF on January 12, 2010. “Expanded access to and improved health care in Oklahoma through the Oklahoma State University Medical Center” is listed as a lobbying issue in each of the four quarterly reports Bynum filed regarding his work for GKFF. (2010 Q1, 2010 Q2, 2010 Q3, 2010 Q4.”
“The Bynum/GKFF lobbying relationship was terminated on December 1, 2010, according to Bynum’s 2010 Q4 filing.”
“Giving the city’s bond business to the same bank without competition is a disservice to the taxpayer, but it does improve the bank’s bottom line to the financial benefit of shareholders like G. T. Bynum’s grandpa.”
“The City of Tulsa ethics ordinance defines any relative within two degrees of consanguinity or affinity as immediate family for the purposes of determining a conflict of interest. This includes grandparents, parents, siblings, children, and grandchildren of oneself or one’s spouse.”
“The relationship between Bynum and LaFortune is well-known (Kaiser stores millions in the bank). The relationship between LaFortune and BOK (Bank of Ok) Financial is documented in SEC filings. LaFortune is a director of the corporation and a member of the Board of Directors’ Credit Committee, and he owns stock in BOKF worth between $2 million and $3 million.”
“G. T. Bynum should have known to recuse himself on these votes; grandfather falls within the ethics ordinance’s definition of immediate family. More than that, someone with Bynum’s degree of financial savvy should have proposed an ordinance requiring competitive bidding for bond issues over a certain amount. There are plenty of firms in and around Tulsa and Oklahoma capable of handling the work.”
http://www.batesline.com/archives/2011/09/tulsa-district-9-g-t-bynums-conf.html
GT Bynum Consulting
CLIENT: George Kaiser Family Foundation
Registered 01-12-2010
http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/pdfform.aspx?id=300230694
Bill Brewster Capital Hill Consulting Group...
http://www.caphillgrp.com/html/brewster.html
Bynum was a lobbyist from 01-12-2010 - 12-01-2010. One wonders it he lobbied Solyndra for Kaiser. Did Brewster? Don’t have time to look them up as I spent too much time at this terrific site:
http://www.batesline.com/archives/2011/09/tulsa-district-9-g-t-bynums-conf.html
They change names and sites like the weather. Smoke and Mirrors. I can see why Dubka set-up a school for these Aides, there’s money to be made, and there’s a pattern. The whole set-up is an incestuous monopoly and needs a disinfecting.
“So the simple common denominator in all these people is that they desire that the central government (with them as rulers) hold and control all wealth, both personal and corporate. And the end justifies the means.”
YES!
Abound Solar: Gov. guaranteed loan approved December 2010 for $400 million – 1200 jobs projected (they didn’t say where):
https://lpo.energy.gov/?page_id=45
ABOUND SOLAR: A Colorado-based solar panel manufacturer for which the NEPHEW of U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski, D-11, Nanticoke, is vice president of marketing has received a $400 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy. (This is Kanjorski’ second grant – watch the video below.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2779466/posts
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/solar-panel-producer-tied-to-kanjorski-receives-400m-federal-loan-1.885355#axzz1YkvFN1Tv
Congressman Kanjorski Scandal – a MUST watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zYUEHIHIo
Comment from a freeper:
“Abound is probably the next Solyndra. They’re up the street from me and the last thing I heard, they were trying to talk the city council of their home town, Fort Collins, into buying and installing a whole bunch of their uneconomical panels and then UPPING THE ELECTRICITY RATES for all Fort Collins utility users by 1% to pay for this boondoggle.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2779466/posts
Barack Obama: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” (January 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
Obama Keeps a Promise! Electricity Rates “Necessarily Skyrocketing”
by Tammy on June 14, 2011
Consumers’ electric bills likely to spike as coal plants close
“So if somebody wants to BUILD A COAL-POWERED PLANT, they can; it’s just that IT WILL BANKRUPT THEM because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
http://tammybruce.com/2011/06/obama-keeps-a-promise-electricity-rates-necessarily-skyrocketing.html
Abound Solar was derived from a University of Colorado experiment and they work closely together. No surprise that they and other Universities are in the greenie pocket. They all get a slice of the pie. The “third way” Big Business plus Big Government can charge us what they want, and the government will control who gets it, and how much, obey us or else! Let’s pray the rest of them belly-up. These bogus solar and windmill stuff aka socialist ventures, as we all know, is a total con-game played by big governments/big business’ globally. It’s been played for years in Europe, made them broke, their beautiful country-side littered with grotesque, useless windmills whose only usefulness belongs to the owner of the land, and the rich resources these windmills are protecting. How many people had to leave their homes for these monstrosities one might wonder - never mind the illness’ to those who live closeby nor the birds they kill. The priority is greed and power.
There’s likely some cronyism with the Real Estate Tycoons (probably fund-raiser friends) but don’t have time to investigate:
Tipton facility to be the largest thin-film manufacturing plant in U.S.
http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/abound-opens-new-facility-121610/
Abound Solar facility sells to W.W. Reynolds for $10M
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/real_deals/2010/01/abound_solar_facility_sells_to_ww_reynolds_for_10m.html