White House Continues Lawless Conduct Stalling Prosecution of Criminal Abuses

[From article]
Another attempt by the Obama administration to run out the clock on a scandal.
For more than three years, the Treasury Department has been looking into fraud committed by solar companies who received taxpayer loans from the Obama administration. But they have yet to release their findings, and Congress wants to know what the hell is going on.
Daily Caller:
Republicans senators sent a letter Monday to Treasury Inspectors General Eric Thorson and J. Russell George, asking the officials for updates regarding the agency’s investigation into solar companies that inflated the market value of their products to get more taxpayer cash.
“As you are aware, the Department recently indicated that applicants included ineligible costs or otherwise overstated the value of their solar energy investments by claiming approximately $1.3 billion in unwarranted cash grants,” Republican senators, led by Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, wrote in a letter to Treasury officials obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Treasury Department said it would publish its findings by June 2015, but that never happened. Republicans are once again hammering the agency for not releasing the results of a probe into whether taxpayers were fleeced for billions of dollars.
Republicans noted the amount of potential solar energy fraud was “more than two-and-a-half times the amount of the Solyndra default.”
Republicans wrote to the department in November asking for the status of their investigation into solar companies, and lawmakers are again asking for Treasury officials to handover the “final results of your investigations.”
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The Obama administration has handed out $25 billion in grants made by the Treasury to solar companies since 2009 as part of the president’s effort to grow green energy markets and fight global warming.
These grants, called Section 1603 grants, were created as part of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package and paid for 30 percent of solar energy investments. The program expired in 2011 — the same year Solyndra declared bankruptcy after getting $535 million from taxpayers.
In November, Republicans specifically called out SolarCity, a company chaired by billionaire Elon Musk, for being investigated by Treasury and Justice Department officials over allegedly abusing solar subsidies. SolarCity is being investigated for “possible misrepresentations concerned the fair market value of the solar energy systems,” according to an October Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
That solar program appears to be little better than a slush fund for Democratic Party contributors. When there's $25 billion in basically free money floating around, the charlatans and crooks will have a field day. That appears to be what transpired here.
It's no mystery why Treasury is dragging its heel on the investigation. Solar power is part of the president's ever burgeoning "legacy," and to have a multi-billion-dollar scandal taint it just won't do. When government picks winners and losers, you will inevitably see those who have figured out how to game the system to cheat taxpayers while lining their pockets illegally.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/treasury_dept_sitting_on_solar_scandal_far_worse_than_solyndra.html

April 13, 2016
Treasury Dept. sitting on solar scandal far worse than Solyndra
By Rick Moran

Einstein's Discoveries Still Improving Modern Life 100 Years Later

[From article]
“Only now, a century later, are we gathering apples from the tree he planted: black holes that tear stars apart … ; cosmic gravitational lenses that distort images of faraway galaxies, as if seen through a funhouse mirror. And perhaps the biggest wonder of all: a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the evolution of the universe. Amazingly, in just 100 years, humankind has uncovered 13.8 billion years of cosmic history.
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“All known forms of matter and energy—that is, all the particles and radiation that make up us, the Earth, the sun, all planets, stars and intergalactic clouds—comprise just 4% of the grand total. The remaining 96% is made of unknown forms of “dark matter” and an even more mysterious “dark energy,” which permeates all of space and drives the universe to expand faster and faster. These days there is a lot of talk about the 1% of society, but from a cosmic point of view, we are all part of just 4% of the Cosmos.”
[. . .]
Soon after the Nazis seized power in 1933, they banned the teaching of Einstein’s work within the Reich. Einstein settled in Princeton for the last 22 years of his life; the German relativity community was decimated.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/einstein_your_gps_and_me.html

November 27, 2015
Einstein, Your GPS (and Me)
By S. Fred Singer

Electronic Medical Records Make Health Care Worse, Waste Scarce Funds

This brief essay does not mention the serious threat of theft of these electronic files. Knowing the health history of a target, makes him vulnerable to health and wealth attacks. It is shameful that the computer industry easily persuaded clueless medical professionals that this is a beneficial use of funds for medical care. For those who believe that technology will solve all human problems, here is more evidence that technology creates problems, and makes health care worse. It is another example of what may be considered academic wishful thinking, and little to no real world experience.

[From article]
America’s first Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, first arrived at the emergency room of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on September 25 but was sent home by doctors. Three days later he was admitted to the hospital, where he subsequently died. The hospital claimed (and later retracted) that he was sent home because information about his travel history was not readily available in his electronic medical record (EMR). This is silly. There is no excuse for an ER physician’s failure to ask an African man with a fever and abdominal pain about his travel history when news stories about Ebola have been broadcast nightly for weeks. But the fact that the hospital thought to offer this explanation confirms what every American physician knows: hospitals and physicians are being required to buy EMRs that are expensive and difficult to use, and that often interfere with quality care rather than enhance it.
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The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus bill set aside $19.2 billion to promote information-technology use. The majority of this funding goes to raising reimbursement rates for Medicare and Medicaid services delivered with “meaningful EMR use.”
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Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on poorly designed, time-consuming systems. Physicians and nurses struggle to use them and are actually seeing fewer patients. Patients complain that physicians are so busy entering data onto computers that they barely look up. Nurses spend hours entering information rather than verbally communicating important information to physicians and other nurses.
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A recent survey of more than 1,000 internists providing ambulatory care by the American College of Physicians found a statistically significant average loss of 48 minutes per clinic day (the equivalent of 4 hours per five-day week) due to EMRs.
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Deficiencies in Texas Health Presbyterian’s EMR system were not the primary culprit behind the errant discharge of Thomas Duncan. But it’s possible, too, that the nurse would have had time to alert the physician that Duncan had just returned from Africa if she were not so preoccupied with entering data in the EMR. And it’s possible that the physician would have found this information if the chart wasn’t jammed with unnecessary notes. Finally, it’s possible that the physician might have obtained a more thorough patient history if he or she had spent more time with Duncan and less time with the EMR.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1016jz.html

Joel Zinberg
Ebola and Electronic Medical Records
EMRs are costly, difficult to use, and time-consuming, taking precious time away from doctors and patients.
16 October 2014

Proposal To Eliminate the Week

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/05/abolish_the_week_the_case_against_dividing_time_into_seven_day_periods.html

Abolish the Week!
It’s unnatural. It’s unnecessary. Why the seven-day week has got to go.
By Ben Schreckinger

Germans Elected Hitler

In the 1928 elections, less than 3% of Germans voted for the Nazi
party. In 1938, Hitler was Time magazine's man of the year. - Provided
by RandomHistory.com

Next Cover of TIME Magazine

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"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.  If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.  If you want happiness for a month, get married.  If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.  If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone out."

Time Out of Work Cause of Harm

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"According to The Wall Street Journal, nearly a third of the unemployed -- 4 million people -- have been out of work for more than a year. Almost half of the unemployed have been out of a job for more than six months, a figure higher than during the Great Depression.
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A Rutgers University study of the unemployed a few years ago found, unsurprisingly, "that they experienced anxiety, helplessness, depression, stress and sleeping problems after losing their jobs."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_the_jobs_crisis_scars_generation_Ia9VDxPhXzl74uMv1Fn4jM

How the jobs crisis scars a generation
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:50 AM, June 11, 2011
Posted: 11:34 PM, June 10, 2011

Time Magazine Caught Printing Lies About Palin

Link embedded to another story with more examples. But both omit the widely believed joke by SNL comedienne Tina Fey, that Palin said she can see Russia from "my house." It was Fey not Plain who said that. Palin said and it is true that you can see Russia from Alaska.

http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2011/02/15/palin-gives-time-a-few-minutes-of-her-time-about-its-false-reporting/

Palin Gives ‘Time’ A Few Minutes of Her Time About Its False ‘Reporting’
Posted by Warner Todd Huston
BigJournalism.com
Feb 15th 2011 at 1:00 pm

Time Magazine Bashes Israel

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/times_running_out_for_time.html

January 14, 2011
Time's Running Out for TIME
By Mark Cantora
American Thinker

Time Erred in Its Man of the year


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/move_over_ben_meet_real_man_of_the_QBj9yeUK79gruQmwPdVWTK

Move over, Ben, meet a real Man of the Year
John Crudele
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:18 AM, December 24, 2009
Posted: 1:33 AM, December 24, 2009