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New York Law School Prof. Tai.Heng.Cheng defends anti American arms dealers
Four Singaporeans are accused of shipping—from Singapore to Iran (destination Iraq to kill Americans) – 6,000 radio frequency modules they had bought from an American company, Digi International.
They are being defended by former Singapore Police Officer, Tai-Heng Cheng.
Cheng got his law degree at the National University of Singapore, had is the author of an anti-American publication, Shaping an Obama Doctrine of Preemptive Force.
More incredibly, he is Professor of Law at New York Law School, where he has been since 2006.
The three men and a woman, all Singaporeans, are accused by the American government of conspiring to evade a US trade embargo against Iran.
The United States has requested their extradition.
New York Law School Professor, Cheng Tai Heng, is an expert witness for the defense.
He testified that the charge of conspiracy to defraud the US is not an extraditable offense under a treaty between the two countries.
This would mean that Singapore Reform Party Secretary General, Kenneth Jeyaretnam’s associate, Baldev Naidu, should not have been extradited from Singapore to the U.S., and should not be sitting in a federal prison, today—for his illegal exports of U.S. arms.
The Singaporeans are accused of shipping—from Singapore to Iran (destination Iraq)—6,000 IED radio frequency modules they had bought from an American company, Digi International.
In statements read by their lawyers, they said they had believed that it was an ordinary business transaction.
The four, held under the Extradition Act, are Lim Yong Nam, 37, Lim Kow Seng, 42, Benson Hia Soo Gan, 44, and Wong Yuh Lan, 39.
They are believed to have tricked Digi into selling them the modules through a network of companies.
The modules left the US in five shipments from June 2007.
In May 2008, some were discovered in unexploded roadside bombs in Iraq. The shipments by these Singaporeans were destined to kill American soldiers in Iraq. Who knows how many of these IED devices were exploded killing Americans in Iraq?
Between them, the four could face 11 counts in the US – including conspiracy to defraud the US by dishonest means and illegal export of defense articles—if they are extradited to the U.S.
The four were all in the electronics parts distribution business when they were arrested on U.S. request in October.
All are believed to have been involved in the purchase and shipping of the modules.
They are alleged to have told Digi and the US government that the modules were to be used for a telecommunications project in Singapore.
In their statements, the four rejected the US charges.
Hia said he did not know the radio parts required an export license. And how did Singapore allow the IED equipment to be exported without a license.
Wong said she was unaware that American goods were not allowed into Iran.
Lim Kow Seng said it ‘would not make commercial sense’ for him to risk breaking the law.
Hia told reporters after the hearing as police officers handcuffed him and shackled his feet: “We’re innocent.”
A pre-trial conference will be held next Monday with Professor Tai-Heng Cheng fighting for the defendants.
Update: Feb 24, 2012
The Singapore High Court has revoked the bail granted to Lim Yong Nam, 37, one of four Singaporeans accused of sending United States-made weapons parts to Iran.
Lim, Wong Yuh Lan, 39, Lim Kow Seng, 42, and Benson Hia Soo Gan, 44 are facing extradition to the US, which accuses them of plotting to break its trade embargo on Iran.
A magistrate ordered their extradition two weeks ago. The four are challenging this decision.
Lim was originally released on bail of $100,000, on the grounds that he was suffering from depression. The other three were detained pending their extradition.
Last week, the prosecution applied to the High Court to revoke Lim’s bail, arguing that the magistrate had no power to grant it under the Extradition Act.
Yesterday, Justice Choo Han Teck agreed with the prosecution.
He said that under the Act, there was no basis for granting bail pending any challenge to the magistrate’s order for extradition.
Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement
The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.), have handled shipments of millions of dollars in illegal cash across borders, those officials said, to identify how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are.
To us, this reasoning makes no sense, and is only to cover the real purpose of D.E.A. money laundering which is for U.S. officials to profit from the “war on drugs.”
They said agents had deposited the drug proceeds in accounts designated by traffickers, or in shell accounts set up by agents. And who is to prove this is not for the benefits of the agents, or of their higher ups.
Who is to say that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and even Obama are not sharing in these “profits.”
Can this be the explanation for Fast and Furious where Holder has been sending thousands of guns to the Mexican cartels? Big money can corrupt big people. We all know that Washington is corrupt– but just how corrupt may be a big surprise to the American people.
Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations. But Michael S. Vigil, a former senior agency official who is currently working for a private contracting company called Mission Essential Personnel, said, “We tried to make sure there was always close supervision of these operations so that we were accomplishing our objectives, and agents weren’t laundering money for the sake of laundering money.” Yeah, sure!
Another former agency official, who asked not to be identified speaking publicly about delicate operations, said, “My rule was that if we are going to launder money, we better show results. Otherwise, the D.E.A. could wind up being the largest money launderer in the business, and that money results in violence and deaths.” Which is exactly what is happening.
Those are precisely the kinds of concerns members of Congress have raised about a gun-smuggling operation known as Fast and Furious, in which agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed smugglers to buy and transport guns across the border in the hope that they would lead to higher-level operatives working for Mexican cartels.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is involved in the money laundering.
After the agency lost track of hundreds of weapons, some later turned up in Mexico; two were found on the United States side of the border where an American Border Patrol agent had been shot to death by one of Holder’s weapons.
Former counternarcotics officials, who also would speak only on the condition of anonymity about clandestine operations, offered a clearer glimpse of their scale and how they worked. In some cases, the officials said, Mexican agents, posing as smugglers and accompanied by American authorities, pick up traffickers’ cash in Mexico. American agents transport the cash on government flights to the United States, where it is deposited into traffickers’ accounts, and then wired to companies that provide goods and services to the cartel.
In other cases, D.E.A. agents, posing as launderers, pick up drug proceeds in the United States, deposit them in banks in this country and then wire them to the traffickers in Mexico.
Since all amounts in excess of $10,000 that are sent out of the U.S. must be declared means that the U.S. Treasury Department and Tim Geithner are a part of this illegal operation.
And the former officials said that federal law enforcement agencies had to seek Justice Department approval direct from Eric Holder to launder amounts greater than $10 million in any single operation.
“Mexico still thinks the best way to seize dirty money is to arrest a trafficker, then turn him upside down to see how much change falls out of his pockets,” said Sergio Ferragut, a professor at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico and the author of a book on money laundering, which he said was “still a sensitive subject for Mexican authorities.”
How corrupt can Washington get?
December 8, 2011 update
Attorney General Eric Holder admitted that weapons lost during the course of the failed “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation will continue to show up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico “for years to come.”
In spite of all the evidence to the contrary, Holder denied department leaders played any role in the crafting of “Fast and Furious.”
Holder made the questionable excuse, “It is my understanding that department leaders were not informed about the inappropriate tactics employed in this operation until those tactics were made public.”
“This project was failed and flawed from the beginning,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., questioning why Holder has not terminated the “many people involved” with the program.
“Mr. Attorney General, the blame must go to your desk,” Issa said.
Despite the controversy over the inaccurate February letter from Justice, Holder shot back, “Nobody in the Justice Department has lied!”
With another bail out using the taxpayers’ money, the world’s major central banks have launched a joint action to provide cheap, emergency U.S. dollar loans to banks in Europe and elsewhere.
The U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and other central banks took this coordinated too-big-to-fail action to support the global financial system as Europe’s rolling debt crisis continues to trouble markets.
This bail out doesn’t directly address Europe’s debt and woes. Instead, it is aimed at alleviating the impact of those troubles big investors on global markets.
Under the program, the U.S. Federal Reserve makes dollars available to other central banks, which in turn make the dollars available to banks under their jurisdiction.
Global central banks have given taxpayers’ money before. In March, they intervened jointly in currency markets to tamp down the rise in the yen following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. In October 2008, leading central banks cut interest rates simultaneously to alleviate the shock to the financial system after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Over three years of crisis fighting, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the world’s other leading central bankers have developed much closer ties.
Several U.S. Federal Reserve officials have made clear they are open to launching a new round of bond buying, known as quantitative easing, to bring down long-term U.S. interest rates. But they have reservations as the program has consistently failed.
Under the program, the U.S. Federal Reserve makes dollars available to the European Central Bank, which in turn lends the money to European banks (which then lend to wealthy investors and businesses).
The U.S. Federal Reserve faces a risk of political blowback at home for the move. Republicans in particular have attacked the U.S. Federal Reserve for making dollars available to foreign banks. Fed officials say they don’t face much risk with this facility because the dollars are going to other central banks, and not directly to European banks. But isn’t that were our dollars wind up.
Obama’s man, Ben Bernanke, and the U.S. Federal Reserve continue to drive the United States, and its taxpayers, deeper into debt.
Amid death threats, Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio is scratching his head over the major media’s virtual silence about his decision to investigate Barack Obama’s eligibility to run for re-election.
“Getting death threats is nothing new for me,” said Arpaio, referring to his national reputation as a tough enforcer of immigration laws. “But why has the media has decided to black out all news of our Obama investigation? That’s what I don’t understand.
“I’m a controversial guy and usually the media is all over me,” he continued, “but when I decided to investigate Obama, the media has suddenly gone missing in action.”
Arpaio said that if the media’s strategy is to minimize the impact of his investigation by ignoring it, it is not likely to work.
“If the mainstream media thinks our investigation will go away if it remains unreported, they’re wrong. The investigation is proceeding, and I fully anticipate we will publish a report early next year.”
Arpaio said his law enforcement investigation is being professionally conducted and is wide-ranging in scope. It includes an investigation into whether or not Barack Obama is using a fraudulent Social Security number, as well as whether the birth certificate issued by the White House on April 27 is a forgery.
Arpaio said he was also surprised by how vile the threats he has gotten from Obama supporters turn out to be.
“I’ve got the drug cartels from Mexico sending me death threats,” he said, “and now I have the Obama supporters sending me death threats. I’m not sure which are worse.”
Apparently, the drug cartels want to keep Obama in office thanks to the thousands of guns that Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently sent them by means of Border Patrol operation “Fast and Furious.”
Arpaio has demanded to see the original microfilm records of Obama’s birth certificate held in the vault of the Hawaii Department of Health.
Arpaio has also suggested the White House should authorize the Hawaii Department of Health to release for independent court-authorized forensic examination any 1961 paper-and-ink original Obama birth records the department has on file.
The Maricopa County Cold Case Posse assigned by Arpaio to investigate Obama’s eligibility has now assembled some 2,000 pages of evidence in the case and is preparing to conduct interviews.
The posse is also currently in the process of briefing various Arizona state officials about the progress of the investigation to date.
It is so very simple: The Euro-crisis is a result of Germany’s second invasion of continental Europe. (The first invasion took place in WWII.)
The Euro favors the Germans as it makes their goods less expensive for other European countries. The countries of Southern Europe, particularly Greece find their products and services, including tourism, to be more expensive—thanks to the Euro.
The only thing that can save Greece is to drop the Euro and return to their own currency—which will be valued lower than the Euro, and bring business back to Greece. The same goes for Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
Of course, Germany doesn’t want this as German goods and services will be more highly priced, being in Euros and Germany’s exports will drop.
Below, is a spreadsheet showing the spread of European Euro debt. In it we see a veritable shell game. The Euro-zone countries are begging, borrowing and lending from each other—robbing from Peter to pay Paul. Or more accurately, robbing from the taxpayers to bribe the voters and grease (no pun intended) the banks.
Will the likes of Italy and Greece liberate themselves (once again) from the clutches of Germany?
Stay tuned…
Country
Govt dept in billions of Euros
Debt as % of GDP
The National Debt Shell Game
The solution to it all
Greece
€ 329
165.6%
Greece is heavily indebted to all Eurozone countries. It owes nearly $74 billion to Germany and France.
Greece is too expensive because of the value of the Euro. The country needs to have its own currnecy to compete.
Italy
€ 1,842
121.1%
Italy owes over $350 billion to French banks. Any problem in Italy is also France’s problem.
Italy, is in much the same situation as Greece. Bring back the Lira!
Portugal
€ 161
106.0%
Portugal is highly indebted to Spain, and its banks are owed over $10 billion by Greece.
Nothing can (ever?) be done for Portugal. A basket case.
Belgium
€ 341
94.6%
France is Belgium’s largest European creditor.
Belgium is not big enough to matter.
France
€ 1,591
86.8%
France is highly exposed to Italian debt, to the tune of $365 billion, and is owed large amounts from many other Eurozone countries.
France is subject to the spreading contagion from the south.
Germany
€ 2,061
82.6%
Germany is highly exposed to Spanish debt. 321billion
Germany wants for Greece and the others to keep the Euro. This way, Germany can sell to countries like Greece – whose goods are too expensive to sell to Germany. A winning game a losing game for Greece.
United Kingdom
€ 1,349
80.8%
Britain has liabilities of nearly $20 billion in Portugal but owes hundreds of billions to banks in Germany and Spain.
Cleverly, England stayed out of the Euro and kept the Pound.
Austria
€ 206
72.3%
Austria owes $86 billion to Italy, by far its largest creditor in the Eurozone.
Austria is not big enough to matter.
Spain
€ 642
67.4%
Spain owes $235 billion to France and Germany. The United Kingdom owes Spain over $325 billion.
Like Greece, Spain’s only hope is to have its own currency.
Netherlands
€ 370
65.5%
The Netherlands is exposed to Greek and Italian debt.
How many Bernie Madoff’s are there still at large?
How many leaders of investment firms are nothing more than gamblers?
Jon Corzine bet $6 billion on Europe, while Greece is double-crossing the Eurozone’s bailout plan. Brilliant!
Corzine’s firm, appropriately named MF Global, was worth only a fraction of Corzine’s $6 billion gamble and made the “investment” with borrowed (other people’s money).
In addition, regulators said Corzine failed to protect his customers’ money by illegally mingling it with his MF Global’s money. $700 million worth of Corzine’s customers’ money is apparently gone!
The company’s main exchange regulator, CME, said Tuesday “CME has determined MF Global is not in compliance with Commodity Futures Trading Commission and CME customer segregation requirements,” CME Group Inc Chief Executive Craig Donohue said. Futures brokers must keep customer accounts separate from each other and from the firm’s own money.
Now, MF Global has filed for bankruptcy.
Corzine, 64, who once ran Goldman Sachs before becoming a U.S. senator and then governor of New Jersey, had been trying to turn the more than 200-year-old MF Global into a mini Goldman by taking on more risky trades.
However, once regulators forced it to fully disclose the bets on debt issued by countries including Italy, Portugal and Spain, it rapidly unraveled with no buyers willing to step in.
This has affected the U.S. stock market, which is plunging, along with a lot of Main Street 401Ks and retirement funds.
Is Corzine, like so many others, too big to prosecute?
The United States charged four Singaporeans and one Iranian on October 25th with illegally exporting 6,000 US-made IED modules from Digi International in the U.S. to Iran via Singapore. These IED modules wound up killing American military personnel in Iraq.
According to the indictment, the defendants profited considerably from their illegal trade, making tens of thousands of dollars for arranging these illegal exports.
The indictment accuses Iranian national Hossein Larijani, 47, of masterminding the operation through his Singapore company, Opto Electronics Pte, Ltd. Larijani is still at large.
Also charged are four Singapore citizens. Ms. Wong Yuh Lan, 39
The reportedly beautiful Ms. Wong Yuh Lan, an agent of Opto Electronics, was allegedly supervised by Larijani from Iran.
Wong’s husband apparently approved of his wife’s activities stating, “She is just an ordinary person, selling ordinary things: if you are a knife seller, but another person uses your knives to kill someone, who is at fault?”
Opto Electronics official address was traced in Singapore to a rented condominium unit in Melville Park at Simei.
One of the tenants there said he knew nothing of the landlord, except that he was a man.
He had been told to take all letters addressed to Opto Electronics to his office in Genting Lane. A woman by the name of Chris would then collect the letters from him.
When contacted, Chris claimed that she is a property agent who helped to rent out the unit, adding that she had never met its owner.
Lim Yong Nam, 37
The U.S. indictment also charges NEL Electronics Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company, along with NEL’s owner and director, Singapore citizen Lim Yong Nam.
The address for NEL Electronics, where Lim Yong Nam worked, led to an office unit in an industrial area at Kallang Way. The name on the door, however, read “Fe-De Electronics.”
Lim Yong Nam’s wife would only say that they had engaged a lawyer. They have a young daughter.
Lim Kow Seng, 42 & Hia Soo Gan Benson, 44
The indictment also charges Corezing International Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company that maintained offices in China, as well as Singapore citizen Lim Kow Seng, an agent of Corezing, and Singapore citizen Hia Soo Gan Benson, a manager, director and agent of Corezing.
Lim Kow Seng’s wife said she did not “know the full story” of what could have transpired. The couple has two daughters.
U.S. prosecutors say at least 16 of the modules turned up in unexploded improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Who knows how many of the modules killed Americans in IEDs that exploded?
The indictment charges that the defendants allegedly told Digi International that Singapore was the final destination of the goods.
“In reality, each of the five shipments was routed from Singapore to Iran via air cargo. The alleged recipient of all 6,000 modules in Iran was Larijani, who had directed Wong, his employee in Singapore, to order them.”
How Singapore arms traffickers operate
Normally, shipments of U.S. arms via Singapore to Iran are illegal. The arms trade passing through Singapore is made possible by bribing Singapore officials for the issuance of false Singapore End-User Certificates.
The parties in an honest arms deal will file an End-User Certificate, noting what is being sold, who is selling it and to whom it is being sold. There is an understanding that the receiving party does not intend to transfer the weapons to a third country. For arms you need a valid End-User Certificate to obtain an export license from the U. S.
The arms traffickers had to have the cooperation of the Singapore officials to issue a false End-User Certificate to re-export the IED devices to Iran.
In Singapore an End-User Certificate is issued by the Trade Control Branch under the Director-General of Singapore Customs. Mr Fong Yong Kian.
Apparently, Singapore is very active in the illegal arms trade. First Balldev Naidu, and now this.
According to Kathi Austin, Director of the Arms and Conflict Program in San Francisco, “Singapore imports a lot of weapons … But what do they want with all those weapons? They are a conduit for third-country transfers, which are illicit because basically a country should carry an End-User Certificate and most often that is violated. The weapons are not going to Singapore; they are going to Indonesia, Malaysia and lots of parts of Africa.”
And let’s include to Iran and Iraq.
November 15, 2011 Update
The four Singaporeans accused of sending weapons parts to Iran will appear at a committal hearing on Dec 9 and 12 to determine whether they should be extradited to the United States to face charges.
The US Department of Justice served extradition papers on them last month.
The four, held under the Extradition Act, are Lim Yong Nam, 37, Lim Kow Seng, 42, Benson Hia, 44, and Wong Yuh Lan, 39.
District Judge Toh Yung Cheong yesterday allowed Lim Yong Nam to be offered bail of $100,000.
His lawyer, Mr Hamidul Haq, told the court that a psychiatric examination revealed that his client was suffering from depression.
State Counsel Mark Jayaratnam objected to bail being offered, saying Lim Yong Nam could be a flight risk.
But Mr Haq argued that his client’s family was here, and there was little likelihood of him running away.
He could be released on bail today, as family members were busy trying to raise the bail money yesterday evening.
The other three were ordered to remain in custody.
The four have been accused of shipping from Singapore to Iran 6,000 radio frequency modules they had bought from an American company, Digi International.
They are believed to have tricked the firm into selling them the modules through a network of companies.
The modules left the US in five shipments from June 2007. In May 2008, some were discovered in unexploded roadside bombs in Iraq.
Obviously, any of the devices that were involved in roadside explosions, killing American and other personnel, would not have been found as they would have been destroyed by the explosion.
Today, Singapore Reform Party Secretary-General Kenneth Jeyaretnam attacked us by email.
Here is his email and our answer.
Kenneth Jeyaretnam's email dated Oct. 2, 2011:
Hi John,
I don't really get your personal beef with me. I am aware you and your wife feel that you suffered a miscarriage of justice and that Helen Yeo and Partners (as it was then) was responsible. However I have nothing to do with my brother's firm which has in any case merged with Rodyk since then. Neither does my brother have anything to do with the Reform Party.
Therefore your antagonism towards me and publication of grossly libellous statements about me is puzzling, to say the least, particularly as I am standing up for democracy and freedom of expression and against all the things you hate about Singapore.
I would be happy to meet you either in London or when I am in the US to discuss any issues you have.
Regards,
Kenneth
My answer to Kenneth Jeyaretnam:
Naidu's partner, Singaporean terrorist Haniffa bin Osman, now in a U.S. prison.
Kenneth:
I am in receipt of your email to me of Oct. 2, 2011, copied below.
Your statement, that I have made "grossly libelous statements," with no further specification on your part, is libelous and defamatory in my regard.
You state further, "I am standing up for democracy and freedom of expression and against all the things you hate about Singapore."
Here you defame me again.
Let me clarify—I do not hate Singapore. I have no problem with Singapore. My problem is only with a few people, who happen to be Singaporeans, because they are engaged in illegal and terrorist activities.
I had sued Helen Yeo for her personal banning of our book in the U.S. District Court.
There were two hearings at which Helen Yeo never appeared, either in person, or through counsel.
Balraj (aka Baldev) Naidu
The fact that Helen Yeo and Partners merged with Rodyk & Davidson does not change in any way the fact that she has allegedly committed illegal acts in Singapore, which damaged us financially through her unofficial banning of Escape from Paradise.
We have received confirmation from Singapore's Media Development Authority that Escape from Paradise has never been banned in Singapore.
Only after Helen Yeo had taken steps against us, did we investigate her and discover her allegedly illegal acts related to a sale of 69 Holland Road in Singapore.
On information and belief, your brother, Philip Jeyaretnam, Helen Yeo's partner, allegedly played a part in Helen Yeo's activities against our book.
Being an American, I am doing my patriotic duty in speaking out about the your close relationship with convicted terrorist Balraj (aka Baldev) Naidu.
Naidu, your partner and co-founder of Singapore's Reform Party, of which you are Secretary-General, is currently serving a prison sentence in the United States for his terrorist activities.
I believe that you should not be allowed to enter the United States due to your terrorist connections.
Solyndra's Brian Harrison and W. G. Stover take the fifth and refuse to talk
Billionaire oilman, George B. Kaiser’s foundation had the biggest stake in failed solar- panel maker Solyndra LLC.
Connect that dot with the fact that Kaiser, an Obama contributor, has visited the White House 16 times since 2009—and this is according to official visitor logs.
Kaiser’s company, Solyndra got $535 million from Obama—funds which have disappeared.
Now, Obama, has given a $737 million Green Jobs Loan to Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law, Ronald Pelosi.
Yes, Ronald Pelosi is the brother of the mafia-like mystery millionaire, Paul Pelosi, Nancy’s husband.
We don’t know yet what Ronald Pelosi is going to do with all the money, but he may follow in the profitable footsteps of Solyndra.
The glass-and-metal building that Solyndra LLC began erecting in Fremont, California, in September 2009 was something the Silicon Valley area hadn’t seen in years.
It wasn’t just any factory. When it was completed at an estimated cost of $733 million, including proceeds from a $535 million U.S. loan guarantee, it the equivalent of five football fields. There, robots that whistled Disney tunes. There were spa-like showers with liquid-crystal displays of the water temperature—super luxury!
Contrast the U.S. foolishness and corruption with the solar energy project taking place right across the border in Mexicali, Mexico.
In Mexicali, they are building a facility to manufacture solar cells and generate power for both sides of the California-Mexico border.
And no, the developers were not backed by Obama like his fellow crooks at Solyndra. The Mexicali $500 million project is backed by Taiwan—private business in Taiwan—not by the U.S. taxpayers.
The Taiwan project is located west of Mexicali in a high-tech industrial park known as Silicon Border CleanTECH Park.
The project will be the first in Mexico to integrate manufacturing of solar cells with energy production, said David Tenney, chief financial officer for Silicon Border.
“The financial crisis really put a stop on a great percentage of renewable energy investments,” Tenney said. “We’re feeling like we’re in a great position,” he said, with good strategic location, labor rates comparable to coastal China’s, and a skilled labor pool in Baja California.
At full capacity, the facility will create 4,240 jobs in Baja California.
The project is a great boost for Silicon Border, a project developed by two entrepreneurs from Rancho Santa Fe with the vision of attracting technology companies from Asia to Mexico.
But, back to Solyndra.
Obama prancing around at Solyndra
Even “squeaky-clean” Condoleezza Rice got in on the Solyndra action, Her consulting firm, the Rice Hadley Group, worked as recently as last spring for Solyndra. Condoleezza partnered on this gig with former National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley and Ms. Anja Manuel, a special assistant to Ms. Rice during the Bush administration. And you thought Condi was just a university professor?
The Rice Hadley Group is among the creditors in Solyndra’s bankruptcy filing and expects to get a bundle of the American taxpayers’ money for whatever it was they did for Solyndra.
The Obama gravy train continues on with its high-level passengers, including the Pelosi Mafia, Condoleezza Rice, the crooks at Solyndra, and billionaire oilman, Kaiser.
How long is America, with its unemployed and uninsured, going to let Obama get away with the theft of the taxpayer’s money?
Meanwhile, in Mexicali, honesty is trumping Obama’s crooked crowd.—
Thanks to Obama, there will be more jobs for Mexico, with less jobs, and money, for the American people.
November 10, 2011 update
Newly obtained emails released by House investigators suggest that George Kaiser, a billionaire Obama donor and chief investor in bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, discussed the company with White House officials, directly contradicting earlier accounts.
In a letter to the White House, House Energy and Commerce committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich, and oversight panel chair Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., disclosed the emails including one from March 5, 2010 between Kaiser and Steve Mitchell, Kaiser’s venture capital firm Argonaut.
“BTW, a couple of weeks ago, when Ken and I were visiting with a group of Administration folks in DC who are in charge of the stimulus process (White House, not DOE) and Solyndra came up, every one of them responded simultaneously about their thorough knowledge of the Solyndra story, suggesting it was one of their prime poster children.”
Yet both Kaiser and the White House previously denied Solyndra was ever discussed in any of his 17 visits to the White House.
November 16, 2011 update
The Solyndra investigation has churned up questions about Obama’s strategy of doling out taxpayer money.
The rolls of green energy subsidies show that beyond a few headline-grabbing cases, several well-connected Democrats obtained taxpayer assistance for environmentally friendly projects.
Among the recipients are:
– Solyndra, which received $535 million in loan guarantees and whose chief investor was Obama campaign bundler, George Kaiser;
– Brightsource Energy, which received $1.6 billion and whose senior adviser is Robert Kennedy, Jr., an early Obama backer;
– Solar Reserve, which got a $737 million loan, and whose major investor, Michael Froman, was a deputy assistant to the president. Froman bundled up to $500,000 for the president’s 2008 campaign—this is the company of Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law, Ronald Pelosi;
– Granite Reliable Wind Generation, which received a $168.9 million loan. The company’s majority owner is Nancy Ann DeParle, a White House deputy chief of staff and former head of the president’s health care communications team during the reform debate; and
– Abound Solar, which received $400 million in grants. A key investor is billionaire heiress Pat Stryker, who gave $87,000 to Obama’s inauguration committee, and hundreds of thousands more to Democratic causes.
Peter Schweizer, author of the book, “Throw Them All Out,” wrote that at least 10 members of Obama’s finance committee and more than a dozen of his campaign bundlers took money from administration loan programs.
Schweizer believes that many of those who were chosen to receive loan guarantees, were picked almost solely for their success in raising money for the Obama campaign.
A Singapore lawyer, Mr. M. Ravi, is challenging a law which criminalizes gay sex between men, arguing that Section 377A violates the constitutional rights of homosexual men.
Women? Strangely, in Singapore, sex acts between lesbians is legal.
This is Mr. Ravi's third attempt after similar appeals failed earlier this year.
He is pegging his bid to a case he handled - that of a Mr. Tan, 48, who was initially charged under 377A with performing fellatio on another man in a public toilet at CityLink Mall in March of last year.
When Mr Ravi filed a constitutional challenge then, Attorney-General's Chambers cleverly replaced the charge with the lesser one of committing an obscene act in public.
Tan was convicted under that law and fined $3,000, as was his partner, a Mr. Chin, 41. Tan was then unemployed, and Chin, an operations clerk. Apparently since Chin was on the receiving end, so to speak, he committed no crime.
Yesterday, Mr Ravi asked the Court of Appeal to overturn Justice Lai's decision and allow the constitutional challenge to be heard.
He said that although Parliament has said gay men will not be prosecuted for sexual acts in private, the very existence of the law means they face the possible threat of prosecution.
He added that it is discriminatory that gay sex in public places can bring a jail term of up to two years, while sex between a man and a woman in public can result in only a three-month jail term at most—a mere slap on the but.
Lesbians can run wild and do whatever they want, making Singapore a Lesbian Heaven.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Aedit Abdullah, arguing that there was no basis for the constitutional challenge, as Tan had already pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of committing an obscene act in a public place.
Since Tan was not prosecuted under 377A, Mr Ravi had no standing to argue that his client's constitutional rights were being violated by that particular law, the prosecutor said.
The prosecutor told Appeal Judges Andrew Phang, V. K. Rajah, and embarrassed red-faced Justice Judith Prakash, however, that there could be no "binding promise" that gay men would not be prosecuted under 377A.
The public gallery was packed with people, well-wishers, gays, lesbians, and a slew of lawyers.
Naturally, for legal decorum, the males in the public gallery were kept in check by the heroic efforts of a squad of court bailiffs.
There was no report of lesbian activity in the public gallery, nor could there have been—the law does not apply to women.
"Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses."
U.S. college debt, nearly $1 trillion, is larger than housing or credit card debt.
US healthcare worst, and most expensive.
Infections kill 100,000 patients in hospitals and other clinics in the U.S. every year.
Japan’s health-insurance system covers everybody, including illegal aliens. It pays for physical, mental, dental, and long-term care.
Japanese are the world’s most prodigious consumers of medical care; they see the doctor about 15 times per year, three times the U.S. norm. They get twice as many prescriptions per capita and three times as many MRI scans. The average hospital stay is 20 nights—four times the U.S. average.
Cost: And yet Japan produces all that high-quality care at bargain-basement prices. The aging nation spends about $3,500 per person on health care each year; America burns through $7,400 per person and still leaves millions without coverage.
Canadians live three years longer and are healthier than Americans, and the lack of universal health care in the United States may be a factor, researchers say.
After the Singapore Temasek debacle, Goodyear's "being considered as the next head of British Petroleum" didn't materialize. Goodyear sightings are becoming like Elvis sightings.
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