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Justice Department Official Awards $500,000 Grant to Golf Group

Posted by Charlie Kilo on June 10th, 2008

Give. Me. A. Break:

A senior Justice Department official says a $500,000 federal grant to the World Golf Foundation is an appropriate use of money designed to deal with juvenile crime in America.  

“We need something really attractive to engage the gangs and the street kids, golf is the hook,” said J. Robert Flores, the administrator of the Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

The Justice Department, in a decision by Flores, gave the money to the World Golf Foundation’s First Tee program, even though Justice Department staffers had rated the program 47th on a list of 104 applicants. The allegations were first reported earlier this year by the trade journal Youth Today.

“I don’t know why people insist on denigrating it, it’s a sound program,” Flores told ABC News.

Gore Has Personal Stake in Anti-Warming Campaign

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 11th, 2008

My father-in-law recently commented that he thinks five or ten years from now Congress will be holding hearings on all the money Al Gore has made pushing a phony global warming agenda. I think he’s right:

Al Gore, alarmist-in-chief of the anti-global warming campaign, stands to make money from his investments in “green” firms selling various climate change remedies.

Gore spoke in Monterey, California, at a March 1 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference, which bills itself as “an invitation-only event where the world’s leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration.” He admitted to having “a stake” in a number of green “investments” that he recommended attendees put their money into,”according to NewsBusters.

Said Gore: “There are a lot of great investments you can make. If you are investing in tar sands, or shale oil, then you have a portfolio that is crammed with sub-prime carbon assets. And it is based on an old model.

“Junkies find veins in their toes when the ones in their arms and their legs collapse. Developing tar sands and coal shale is the equivalent. Here are just a few of the investments I personally think make sense - I have a stake in these so I’ll have a disclaimer there - geo-thermal concentrating solar, advanced photovoltaics, efficiency, and conservation.”

Commented NewsBusters Noel Sheppard, “As Gore spoke these words, pictures of hybrid cars, windmills and solar panels appeared in multiple slides on the screen with company names at the bottom such as Amyris (biofuels), Altra (biofuels), Bloom Energy (solid oxide fuel cells), Mascoma (cellulosic biofuels), GreatPoint Energy (catalytic gasification), Miasole (solar cells), Ausra (utility scale solar panels), GEM (battery operated cars), Smart (electric cars), and AltaRock Energy (geothermal power).”

Sheppard noted Gore’s recommendations that people put money in companies in which he has a financial stake is like “an investment advisor or stock broker giving a seminar to prospects and clients. And, as he tours the world demanding nations stop burning fossil fuels, he will financially benefit if they follow his advice and move to technologies that he has already invested in.”

An indictment of the Sequoia voting system

Posted by patriot on March 30th, 2008

The Black Box forums highlight a report regarding the use of Sequoia voting machines in Arizona:

1) Appendix A is a scathing indictment of the security and legality of the Sequoia product line. Taking advantage of material that wasn’t available to California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s top-to-bottom review team, they’ve shown that Sequoia must now be considered the least secure and most illegal black box voting system in America - “dethroning” Diebold. Appendix A is a standalone section that can be read independently of the full report.

2) Also of national interest: this report forms a blueprint on how to do central tabulator observation missions, whether as a citizen or partisan representative. By carefully observing the hardware being used and asking pointed questions and public records digging, they’ve shown that it’s possible to pierce the veil of secrecy over election (mis?)conduct.

Findings include the outsourcing of the entire mail-in vote process including the use of a private company to print, mail out, -=receive=- and scan the ballot signatures … all by a private company outside of the scope of public records access and proper accountability.

3) For any Arizona voter, the report is a must-read to see just how badly an election can be run in the 4th largest county in America! It’s also a message of hope - they can’t get away with running a system this sloppy without getting caught.

The PDF report can be downloaded here.

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