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By: CA Gov. Jerry Brown’s War Against Reality… and the Climate | KATY GRIMES

CA Gov. Jerry Brown’s War Against Reality… and the Climate | KATY GRIMES — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:18:15 +0000

[…] “And then there’s the Brown family’s semi-secret financial ties to the military dictatorship of Indonesia, a book-length saga unto itself,” Dan Walters dropped into a column in 2010. (Not surprisingly, the 2010 story has been taken down, but this one from 1990 covers everything.) The Brown family hypocrisy has a long legacy. […]

By: Gov. Brown Appoints Radical Enviro Justice Activists to Public Utilities Commission – KATY GRIMES

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 23:54:03 +0000

[…] Rechtschaffen helped Sam Rickets, a senior aid to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, develop an agreement, originated by disgraced former Oregon Gov. Kitzhaber, to organize a campaign to promote the green agenda, beginning with the California and Washington governors’ offices, a private environmentalist law firm, and the White House. This scheme was made possible with funding from “major environmental donors,” billionaires Tom Steyer and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, according to E&E Legal attorney Chris Horner. Thanks to attorney Horner, the Kitzhaber scandal was exposed as a scheme involving multiple governors and high-level staff involved in shady green energy deals, with national entanglements. Attorney Chris Horner discovered ingrained collusion with top level staff in Gov. Brown’s office with Cliff Rechtschaffen and Brown aid Wade Crowfoot, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber’s office, and Washington State Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s office to “spread climate coordination and collaboration to a larger group of governors across the U.S.” Who is Tom Steyer? Billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer made his fortune investing in the energy sector, through his hedge fund company, the Farallon Capital Management fund, which Steyer managed until 2012. Farrallon invested in coal mines in Australia and Indonesia, as well as in tar-sands oil, which is strip mined, processed to extract the oil-rich bitumen, which is then refined into oil. It’s an interesting career change and “moral” about-face. “And then there’s the Brown family’s semi-secret financial ties to the military dictatorship of Indonesia, a book-length saga unto itself,” columnist Dan Walters slipped into a column in 2010. (Learn more about this scandal here) […]

By: Gov. Brown Appoints Radical Environmentalists to Public Utilities Commission - California Political Review

Wed, 11 Jan 2017 03:58:07 +0000

[…] Billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer made his fortune investing in the energy sector, through his hedge fund company, the Farallon Capital Management fund, which Steyer managed until 2012. Farrallon invested in coal mines in Australia and Indonesia, as well as in tar-sands oil, which is strip mined, processed to extract the oil-rich bitumen, which is then refined into oil. It’s an interesting career change and “moral” about-face. “And then there’s the Brown family’s semi-secret financial ties to the military dictatorship of Indonesia, a book-length saga unto itself,” columnist Dan Walters slipped into a column in 2010. (Learn more about this scandal here) […]

By: mark loc

mark loc — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:26:59 +0000

In reply to steve muir.

hi steve

great notes on this subject.

pls let me know if you get this. have some more info.

mark

By: steve muir

steve muir — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 02:34:17 +0000

I have so much more on this and the SB oil spill. When the oil spilled and the pumping was shut down, the back pressure blew out a six foot hole off Conception. Pumped for months until they put the wells back online. Never reported, never capped. The whole SB channel is a fracture zone full of oil. Shut down pumping and it will spill. GOO had it wrong. The best thing that could happen to Santa Barbara would be to put up more rigs and slant drill. Pump the whole channel dry. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the strata in the sea cliffs. Full of oil for millions of years. Why do you think they want to frack the Monterey shale.

By: steve muir

steve muir — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:27:58 +0000

After that I went into business for myself. Turns out that business didn’t support Jerry so he decided to cut the State Contractors Board. Fired everyone but one guy. The backlog for a Contractors license was six months the next day. Two months later it was a year and a half. Here is how it worked. You paid a “flyer”(to physically go to Sacramento) $1400 to take your application and put it “on top” of the application file. This reduced the application from a year and a half to three months. I know because I paid and it worked.

By: steve muir

steve muir — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:21:54 +0000

After that fiasco I ended up doing some work for Jane Fonda and her husband Tom Hayden. Jerry had appointed him he head of alternative energy. This consisted of a twelve inch square solar panel for his electric gate intercom. Never worked so we always had to jump the gate and pull the pin on the bar to open it. In the meantime the only thing Tom was doing was trying to screw Santa Barbara by building a illegal political facility in the guise of a auditorium “for the children” Got caught and shut down which resulted in Tom Jane and Henry Fonda making commercials about how they were being persecuted.Jerry was the original Obama with surrounding himself with kooks.

By: steve muir

steve muir — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:19:50 +0000

I was one of the “three toed frogs” that was living at Point Conception when Jerry wrote the assembly bill 1082 that made it the only site possible. This was done to ram it in under the three year deadline. The Feds had approved a site in Oxnard but it was going to take to long.When they broke ground they found a fault and the Indians went on the warpath. A armed encampment followed at Cojo(the Western Gate where souls jump off the earth) which lasted for weeks but Jerry had them removed(from private property). All was going well for Jerry and Pat until the second to last hearing(no one allowed to speak). On the way out a guy yelled “I followed the money! You have the contract to import the LNG.” This pissed Pat off so much that he punched the guy in the mouth(on camera KEYT)”I have no intrest” Jerry lied.

By: Burt Wilson

Burt Wilson — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:37:23 +0000

The news of the Brown Family Oil Business was actually released in the mid-70’s by myself and Tim Brick when we were co-coordinators of CAUSE–the Campaign Against Utility Service Exploitation. We did a news conference in the Senator Hotel with graphs and arrows pointing to the cross-references which linked the Brown Family to Suharto and Pertamina and Perta, the major holding company. The then Sacramento Union was the only paper to print our expose. Walters worked for the Union at that time.

By: Charles Pineda, Jr.

Charles Pineda, Jr. — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:10:54 +0000

Who was the California Attorney General at the time. Was he asleep? It seems that two or more persons committing a lawful act in an illegal manner meets the criterion for a charge of conspiracy.

One has to remember that the bankers who put up the 15 or 16 billion dollars for the Indonisian oil deal had the resources,politically, to hire PR firms or law firms to influence any prosecution. I’d like to know if the AG, at the time, made any notes of who contacted him regarding the deal. In my humble opinion those types of contacts or conversations are secrets and no one ever knows about them, not even the press.