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Comment by Jim Wiegand on January 14, 2016 at 7:12pm

Think like a mountain said..................."The wind industry is necessarily one of the most corrupt enterprises on earth because it depends for its entire existence on government favors, backhanders, dishonest environmental impact assessments and on regulators turning a blind eye to the known health problems caused by wind turbine noise. Without crony capitalism, the wind industry simply would not exist."   This statement is 100 percent true.                                                                                                     

But wind energy is just one of many corporate scams.

 

One of the major reasons for political unrest in the 1960's was due to the many fortunes made off the Vietnam War. Many felt this corruption kept the war going several extra years. I will remind readers this fraternity of terrible people and their connections did not go away.  

 

In my lifetime  loans were once simple interest and home loans were assumable. These days are gone and now the equity of Americans is being stolen legally with compound interest loans. As a result the principle barely goes down for the first 7 years and you have really paid about 90% interest. Then if you refinance the robbery starts all over again. This all began in the 1960-1970's when our leaders began dissolving the Usury laws that had been in place for hundreds of years. This masterpiece of corruption was finished off in the early 1980's and it is the reason these scumbags are allowed to charge Credit card interest rates as high as 79%.   

Wind energy is just one of many corporate scams being run on taxpayers with help from Washington. These twisted politicians even know the people are getting screwed and they use this knowledge to garner votes on various issues. But as the smart one know, they do virtually nothing once elected. If for some reason they do end up making changes as with the PTC and wind energy regulations, it benefits their silent corporate bosses.

You will never fix these people with ethics training, counseling, special laws or anything else. You can only hope to jail them, label them, and keep track of them like sex offenders. 

 

Comment by Jim Wiegand on January 14, 2016 at 5:47pm

Anytime you read about ethics legislation or ethics counseling somebody is really getting screwed. We already have plenty of laws dealing with fraud and silent fraud. The problem is a total lack of accountability.  Our law enforcement (corporate soldiers) are not investigating.  

 

 

Pretty much after 25 years of age, if you have questionable character or ethics these flaws generally get worse over time. This statement about character also applies to every one of our sociopathic career politicians and corrupt judges. Speaking of our fine judges, I will remind everyone that most judges were once "successful lawyers" and we all know what scum of the earth this class represents.

Comment by Bob Stone on January 14, 2016 at 5:22pm

I'd be careful of Roger Katz.

Comment by Beth O'Connor on February 23, 2015 at 9:36am

The more I read about this the more disgusted I am. I sat at a meeting with a woman last year where she praised "our investments" in wind and the possibilities ... we were meeting with Senator Kings aid. I looked right at her and said "have you checked out the rest of the world, they are backing out of wind hand over fists it is one of the most costly energy sources ... this is nothing but a huge government boondoggle where people like Angus get rich on the backs of the ratepayers"  As you can imagine it went over like a lead balloon! I look forward to the investigation on all of these shenanigans. The thing I know is that my electric bill is higher than an elephants fanny and I am quite sure it should not be that high.

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 22, 2015 at 12:08am

Cash for Coverage?

Bribery of Journalists Around the World
Journalism professor Dean Kruckeberg, whose 2003 research report was the pioneering document on cash for news coverage, sees the explosive changes in information delivery as a significant new threat. “The role of journalism is becoming increasingly deprofessionalized, and this has impact on the ethics of journalism,” said Kruckeberg. “If you want to hold up the United States as a standard, you could say that rather than others becoming better, we should talk about how we are getting worse” as the media landscape changes. He believes this puts a new and challenging burden on the news consumer to determine the credibility and value of the information, compared to the days when you could just trust your local paper.

Tsetsura breaks down the ways money can change hands into three categories: ● Interpersonal: The cash is handed directly to the journalist by a news source. ● Intraorganizational: An editor tells the journalist what to write or not write, due to some sort of internal pressure, such as from advertising. ● Interorganizational: Especially in countries such as China, Ukraine, or Russia, she said, there can be fairly formal arrangements. There may even be a legal contract under which a company pays a news organization a monthly amount in exchange for having a certain number of articles published about that company.

http://cima.ned.org/sites/default/files/CIMA-Bribery_of_Journalists...

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 21, 2015 at 11:25pm

The wind industry is necessarily one of the most corrupt enterprises on earth because it depends for its entire existence on government favors, backhanders, dishonest environmental impact assessments and on regulators turning a blind eye to the known health problems caused by wind turbine noise. Without crony capitalism, the wind industry simply would not exist.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/20/environmental-researcher...