Thursday, August 16, 2012

List of Foreign Countries Receiving BILLIONS in Obama Stimulus Funds: Taking American Jobs – Appalling!

List of Foreign Countries Receiving BILLIONS in Obama Stimulus Funds: Taking American Jobs – Appalling!

Posted: 13 Aug 2012 02:24 PM PDT

If you are not aware that Obama's obscene $787 BILLION stimulus program now stands at $1.2 TRILLION and growing, please read that story here, but not before taking a look at the foreign companies receiving your tax money from the ever growing Obama Stimulus. Let your friends know the BILLIONS intended to stimulate the American economy, stimulated the rest of the world, and in the tsunami that resulted, thousands of Americans lost their jobs: A record of a President's stimulus failure goes round the world:

AUSTRALIA: $162,000 for Melanoma Tumor Samples to be sent to the National Cancer Institute

CHINA: Outsourced jobs to China.

● $30 MILLION to an American LED manufacturer to open plants. It did, and half of the company's employees are now located in China.

● $337 MILLION for an Arizona solar plant – the panels will be supplied by a Chinese solar panel manufacturer.

● GE cancelled a contract with an American manufacturer of parts for Wind Turbines, and then ordered from China. The company, ATI, offered to match the price from China. GE refused the order and the American company laid off 302 workers.

● GE has used Chinese-made Wind Towers over American Towers at Stimulus funded Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon.

● A solar power company received $5.4 MILLION in grant monies, then laid off America workers based on an increased reliance on imports from China.

DENMARK:

● $51.6 MILLION in Obama Stimulus Grants to build factories in the US. Layoff of 180 US workers have been announce,

● and possibly another 1,600 by the end of 2012. $218 MILLION Stimulus grant for wind turbines for the US assembled in Denmark.

● $25 MILLION for the construction of a "Demonstration Scale Biorefinery."

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Obama Stimulus funds for Renewable Energy Call Center (could have been a US project).

EL SALVADOR: Stimulus funds used to hire hundreds of workers in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic to administer Renewable Energy Appliance Rebate Program (could have been a US project).

FRANCE: Obama Stimulus funds for foreign-made Wind Turbines. $69 MILLION in cash grants

FINLAND: $100,000 to build luxury electric sports cars

GERMANY:

● $440 MILLION for Wind Farms before Stimulus was passed. Turbines for US used were manufactured in Germany.

● Another $100 MILLION to Spain in grant monies for Wind Farms. In September 2011, the company announced the would lay-off 10% of their American workforce.

GREAT BRITAIN/UK: UK:

● $39 MILLION in Obama Stimulus funds to build electric delivery trucks.

● Another British private equity firm received $40+ MILLION in Obama Stimulus Funds by buying an American company days before the Stimulus funds were designated.

INDIA: Stimulus funds for Wind Turbines manufactured in India for the US use. $69 MILLION in cash grants.

INDONESIA: $1.5 MILLION to reduce pollution in Jakarta, one of Obama's home cities

ITALY:

● Obama Stimulus funds for foreign-made Wind Turbines. Italian company, Brevini Wind was given a $12.75 MILLION Tax Credit to manufacture gearboxes in Indiana. The company promised to hire 450 Americans. So far, only 70 jobs have evolved and the facility will not be in operation until late 2013.

● Other Italian Wind Turbine manufacturers received of $84 Million in CASH GRANTS throug Obama's Stimulus

JAPAN: Before the Obama Stimulus was passed, we sent money to Japan to build a Wind Farm. $91.4 MILLION in grants – 180 Turbines manufactured in Japan by Mitsubishi.

LUXEMBOURG: $31.5 MILLION in Obama Stimulus funds for a Waste Heat Recovery Unit

MEXICO:

● Obama Stimulus funds for Mexico. Mexico's SunPower says some of the solar panels for the $1.3 BILLION stimulus-backed California Solar Valley Ranch will be manufactured in Mexico – not California.

● Another $16 MILLION to create green manufacturing jobs in Mexico, while the US company laid off workers here and sent work to Mexico.

NEW ZEALAND: Stimulus funds go to NZ contractor – work that could have been done by a US contractor. $817,000 awarded to Connexionz to install bus monitors for the city of Santa Clarita.

RUSSIA: We funded a company in Russia. It went bankrupt. Russian investors bought it. $118 MILLION from Obama's stimulus to produce vehicle batteries. The Russian investor's company may do work for the US Military!

SPAIN: Obama Stimulus funds for foreign-made Wind Turbines. $1.5 BILLION in loans and grants. The company claimed it had created over 15,000 American jobs but the company has only 850 US-based employees.

SWITZERLAND: A Swiss-based company received $50+ MILLION in Stimulus contracts for Smart Grid Meters. Cathy Zoi, a former Obama Energy Department Official held over $250,000 in stock in the company. Zoi has previously served as an Executive Director with the company before joining the Obama administration.

THAILAND: $200 BILLION for General Motors plant in Thailand – after GM took a taxpayer-funded bailout they build the Thailand lant to build diesel engines for the Chevy Colorado Pickup truck.

VIETNAM: GE builds Wind Turbine plant. GM's Jeffery Immelt chairs the President's Job Council and GM received over $1.2 BILLION in Obama Stimulus funds.

SOUTH KOREA:

● Obama Stimulus funded America jobs used to hire foreign nationals. $300 MILLION to manufacturer electric vehicle batteries after building plants in Michigan. Unions are balking and saying foreign nationals are being brought in to fill jobs for Americans.

● The Department of Energy admits that 11 of 18 contractors are Asian firms. $179 MILLION for parts from South Korea.

Linked at Grumpy Opinions who has a nice companion article – Barack Obama's Never-Ending Lies.

Graphic credit to Vicki McClure Davidson at Frugal Cafe. She has the details on the Obama Stimulus money used to relocate a Manzanita Shrub growing "wild."

Linked at BadBlue (thank you!) – the baaadddest news on the planet!

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Advances in Data Storage Have Implications for Civil Liberties

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Data Storage Could Expand Reach of Surveillance

A wave of worry about a software program called TrapWire, designed to detect terrorists casing possible targets, appears to be unjustified, as I wrote in Tuesday's Times.

Based on stolen corporate e-mails posted by WikiLeaks, some reports hugely exaggerated the program's sweep and capabilities; the New York Police Department, for instance, says that contrary to claims on the Web, it has never used TrapWire.

But the bogus flap over one particular surveillance product should not eclipse the very real issues lurking behind it. Government at every level is experimenting with sophisticated surveillance equipment whose capabilities are improving as rapidly as every other kind of electronic technology.

The Police Department itself, for example, just last week unveiled a new "domain awareness" system, developed with Microsoft, that links 3,000 cameras, 2,600 radiation detectors and dozens of license plate readers in six locations and mounted on cars. If officers spot a suspicious package in range of a video camera, for example, they will be able to quickly track who put it there. If a terrorist suspect's tag number is known, the network will scan passing cars to find it.

Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said that under its privacy policy, the department will discard images after 30 days unless the images are part of an active investigation. But certainly the technology to capture and store such data is no longer a limiting factor.

Not so long ago, even the most aggressive government surveillance had to be selective: the cost of data storage was too high and the capacity too low to keep everything.

Not anymore. John Villasenor, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied the plummeting cost of computer data storage and reached an astonishing conclusion: It will soon be technically feasible and affordable to record and store everything that can be recorded about what everyone in a country says or does.

And there is plenty of data to store. The average person today leaves an electronic trail unimaginable 20 years ago — visiting Web sites, sending e-mails and text messages, using credit cards, passing before a proliferating network of public and private video cameras and carrying a cellphone that reports a person's location every minute of the day.

Mr. Villasenor, also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, estimates that to store the audio from telephone calls made by an average person in the course of a year would require about 3.3 gigabytes and cost just 17 cents to store, a price that is expected to fall to 2 cents by 2015. Tracking a person's movements for a year, collected from their cellphone, would take so little space as to carry a trivial cost. Storing video takes far more space, but the price is dropping so steadily that storing millions of hours of material will not be a problem soon.

"It's so cheap that you can afford to throw away 99.9 percent without looking at it," says Mr. Villasenor, who explores the possibilities in a Brookings paper, "Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian Governments."

And a government sleuth would, of course, be able to efficiently find anything of interest in the data because of the parallel revolution in search technology.

It is hard to exaggerate how dramatic the change has been. In the 1960s, the National Security Agency used rail cars to store magnetic tapes containing audio recordings and other material that the agency had collected but had never managed to examine, said James Bamford, an author of three books on the agency.

In those days, the agency used the I.B.M. 350 disk storage unit, bigger than a full-size refrigerator but with a capacity of 4.4 megabytes of data. Today, some flash drives that are small enough to put on a keychain hold a terabyte of data, about 227,000 times as much.

That kind of convenience and economy is hard to resist, whether you are a parent storing photos of your children — or a government trying to keep an eye out for threats.

Re: Another Leak? Navy SEALS to Hunt Mexican Drug Cartel Kingpin Like bin Laden

Navy SEALS to Hunt Mexican Drug Cartel Kingpin Like bin
Laden
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since when is the US military responsible for mexico's drug
enforcement?

let'em fund their own war on drugs

On Aug 15, 3:07 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> **
> Scotty Starnes posted: " These leaks keep coming. From Wired.com: Mexican
> drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is arguably the world's most wanted
> criminal, supplanting Osama bin Laden after the terrorist mastermind's
> death during a Navy SEAL raid in May 2011. No" Respond to this post by
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> These leaks keep coming.
>
> From Wired.com <http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/el-chapo/>:
>
> Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is arguably the world's most
> wanted criminal, supplanting Osama bin Laden after the terrorist
> mastermind's death during a Navy SEAL raid in May 2011. Now the Pentagon
> reportedly has a plan to send the SEALs after El Chapo too. There are lots
> of reasons why the report may be off. Chief among them: The Mexicans hate
> U.S. troops on their soil even more than the Pakistanis do.
>
> According to anonymous Mexican and U.S. military sources cited by *Proceso*
> magazine <http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=316815> (translated from
> Spanish<http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2012/08/the-pentagon-mission-to-catch-e...>),
> the plan involves sending Navy SEALs by helicopter after the Sinaloa Cartel
> kingpin, who is rumored to be hiding in the mountains of the western
> Mexican states of Sinaloa and Durango. The SEALs would be divided into two
> teams — one would land and attack, and the other would stay airborne —
> assisted by three unmanned drones packing missiles.
>
> After locating El Chapo, the SEALs would "eliminate any of Chapo's security
> on the spot … as they did with the 'Bin Laden' operation," according to *
> Proceso*. If El Chapo is killed, the SEALs would take the kingpin's body
> with them. The plan is reported to have been ordered by the Pentagon and
> Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which oversees military operations in North
> America. If enacted, U.S. officials would observe from the White House and
> NORTHCOM headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. The
> plan is also reported to be U.S.-only, excluding the Mexican military.
>
> Continue reading>>> <http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/el-chapo/>
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Another Leak? Navy SEALS to Hunt Mexican Drug Cartel Kingpin Like bin Laden

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New post on Scotty Starnes's Blog

Another Leak? Navy SEALS to Hunt Mexican Drug Cartel Kingpin Like bin Laden

by Scotty Starnes

These leaks keep coming.

From Wired.com:

Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is arguably the world's most wanted criminal, supplanting Osama bin Laden after the terrorist mastermind's death during a Navy SEAL raid in May 2011. Now the Pentagon reportedly has a plan to send the SEALs after El Chapo too. There are lots of reasons why the report may be off. Chief among them: The Mexicans hate U.S. troops on their soil even more than the Pakistanis do.

According to anonymous Mexican and U.S. military sources cited by Proceso magazine (translated from Spanish), the plan involves sending Navy SEALs by helicopter after the Sinaloa Cartel kingpin, who is rumored to be hiding in the mountains of the western Mexican states of Sinaloa and Durango. The SEALs would be divided into two teams — one would land and attack, and the other would stay airborne — assisted by three unmanned drones packing missiles.

After locating El Chapo, the SEALs would "eliminate any of Chapo's security on the spot … as they did with the 'Bin Laden' operation," according to Proceso. If El Chapo is killed, the SEALs would take the kingpin's body with them. The plan is reported to have been ordered by the Pentagon and Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which oversees military operations in North America. If enacted, U.S. officials would observe from the White House and NORTHCOM headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. The plan is also reported to be U.S.-only, excluding the Mexican military.

Scotty Starnes | August 15, 2012 at 10:30 AM | Tags: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico, Navy SEALs | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-7Nw

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