Saturday, October 15, 2011

Will Romney hire Obama’s climate-change guru Holdren? « Hot Air

"Holden" here is Holdren, who co-chaired the NCEP in 2005.  This is the same John Holdren who wrote in favor of coercive government population-control policies in the 1970s, and who in 2007 suggested government-imposed redistribution as a cure for American exceptionalism.  The other adviser mentioned in this paragraph comes from a group which has among its top five donors in 2009 a familiar name — the George Kaiser Foundation.  Kaiser, one will recall, is a big Obama bundler — and the main investor in an outfit called Solyndra.

If we're looking for an alternative to the current administration's partnerships with people like Holdren and Kaiser, shouldn't we find a nominee that didn't partner with either on energy policy?

6 comments:

papertiger said...

what has happened since signing these regulations into law? According to the EIA, whose latest data is for 2009, Massachusetts’ electrical production dropped 18% in four years, from over 46 billion megawatt hours to 38 billion. International imports, however, went from 697 million megawatt hours in 2006 to 4.177 billion megawatt hours two years later, and to almost 5 billion megawatt hours in 2009, more than twice the amount imported in any of the previous twenty years. -

A couple years back on a whim I started investigating the financial side of Seed Media Group LLC, which publishes Seed, a science magazine in print and online. The company also bankrolls Scienceblogs (Deltoid, PZ Myers, ect), online community, and various ventures, such as museum exhibits, conferences, and international licensing services.

In turn I found that Seed is financially managed by Innovium Media which is traded under the symbol IN on the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX - V") and IH7 on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange ("FWB").

Here's a short stock ticker on Innovium.
http://www.hotstockmarket.com/t/86207/in-v-innovium-media

It's a good presentation of the stock's performance over the long haul as well as in the short term.

Generally flat to non existent trading activity verging on insolvency, punctuated at intervals by infusions of cash from various "bigs" just in the nick to keep the doors open.
Some of the bigs are named.
MSNBC, GE, NatGeo, some are unnamed.

Betcha those un named sugar daddies are Canadian energy exporters servicing post Romney Massachusetts.

papertiger said...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DIGITAL MEDIA AND SCIENCEBLOGS.COM FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

WASHINGTON / NEW YORK (Dec. 3, 2009)--National Geographic Digital Media (NGDM) and ScienceBlogs.com today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership spanning technology, advertising, business and content development.

Through this partnership, Nationalgeographic.com and ScienceBlogs.com will create and exchange content through connected social media features, as well as work together to create new multimedia programming for both sites. ScienceBlogs.com will feature content from...

Press release.

papertiger said...

10.01: SEED MEDIA GROUP AND GE LAUNCH DATA VISUALIZATION PLATFORM VISUALIZING.ORG
Seed Media Group and GE today launched Visualizing.org at the Cooper Hewitt Why Design Now? Conference in New York. Visualizing is a community of creative people working to make sense of complex issues with data and design, and it’s a shared space and free resource to help...

08.23: UN GLOBAL PULSE, UNDP, AND NBC NEWS ARE NEWEST VISUALIZING.ORG PARTNERS
NEW YORK (August 23)—Visualizing.org is pleased to welcome UN Global Pulse, UNDP, and NBC News Education Nation as the site’s newest partners. To learn more about Visualizing.org’s Academic, Knowledge, and Media Partners, please visit: http://www.visualizing.org/partners

GE
Knowledge Partner

Description
The extraordinary amount of information society now generates is difficult to quantify, but by some estimates, we now create more data each year than was produced in the entirety of prior human history. GE is using data visualization to simplify and better understand the complex issues that are shaping our world today. We created Visualizing.org with Seed Media Group in order to help make data visualization more accessible to the general public, to promote information literacy through the creation, sharing, and discussion of data visualizations, and...
http://www.visualizing.org/partners/general-electric

papertiger said...
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papertiger said...

Attention Business Editors

Innovium invests US$0.8 million in Seed Media Group

Symbol - IN (TSX - VE)

TORONTO, May 2 /CNW/ - Innovium Capital Corp. reports that it has made an
US$800,000 investment in the Seed Media Group, LLC, a company based in New
York City, for 19.8% of the Series A preferred shares. US$500,000 was paid at
the time of closing and the remaining US$300,000 will be paid within 30 days
of closing.

Press release.


Went from zero money with stocks tanking, to half a million in the blink of an eye.

Happened many times.
Google search "Innovium Media gets $500,000"
1830 results.

papertiger said...

Are we absolutely certain about the origin of Romney's field leading $14.9 mil campaign war chest?

It's always characterized as coming from establishment GOP/status quo insiders.

Alternate theory - maybe Romney's campaign loot is funded in a system similar to the funding for Scienceblogs and the other global warming promoter weblogs, through a shell corp created to confound the origin's true author.