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GOVERNMENT FUNDED CORRUPTION — The Apollo Alliance & Jeff Jones

We do not know what influence the Apollo Alliance, and the chairman Jeff Jones, has had over the president, but we do know that they played a major role in writing the pork filled stimulus bill. The proof comes from the mouth of no other than Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader. Reid said, "This legislation is the first step in building a clean energy economy that creates jobs...The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them." (Translation: Congress does not even write the bills that they do not read before passage. The contract it out to special interest groups.)

Is Congress and the President aware that Jeff Jones, along with William Ayers, were the founders of the Weather Underground that bombed police stations, the pentagon, and wishes they could have done more to overthrow the government? The Weather Underground is a domestic terrorist group that emerged from the communist revolutionary group, the Students for Democratic Society during the 1960s. The aim of SDS was to foment a revolution to overthrow capitalism and the American republic. They were split into two factions when they could not agree on how to accomplish this overthrow. The more violent faction became the Weather Underground, led by Jones and Ayers, and the other faction led by Wade Rathke became ACORN, which chose a more peaceful means of achieving the same goal.

"Since mid-summer, Glenn Beck, a commentator for FOX News, and others have waged a smear campaign against the Apollo Alliance and Van Jones, who resigned his White House post as a special adviser to the President on green jobs and clean energy. Because of my work with the New York State Apollo Alliance and my history of political activism, starting with the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and my opposition to segregation and racism, I have also been attacked," Jeff Jones has written on his blog. He conveniently left out his involvement with the Weather Underground.

Jones further states," I grew up in a Quaker, pacifist family. I was opposed to war, and registered with my draft board as a conscientious objector. But the promise of America for me was marred by segregation, and by a criminal war waged by my government against the people of Vietnam. So, as a teenager and young adult, I dedicated myself to supporting civil rights and opposing racism, and to ending the illegal and genocidal Vietnam War. I was personally enriched by participating in those movements and by the people I met, worked with, and loved in those years. This is what I mean when I say that I do not regret my militant opposition to racism and the Vietnam War. That said, like most people my age, I made my share of mistakes."

Was he enriched by his work in the Weather Underground? Was blowing up the Pentagon a mistake?

"Today, I am using the organizational skills and insights I learned from those movements in my work as a consultant for environmental and labor groups. One is the New York State Apollo Alliance, an affiliate of National Apollo. Apollo is working toward a goal that is simple and straight-forward: create good jobs for working people in the new clean-energy economy. That is a goal I support, and work I continue to do."

Jones is using the same contacts and organizing skills he learned from Saul Alinski, author of "Rules for Radicals," and from his involvement with the Weather Underground, and has never disavowed his use of violence.

The Apollo Alliance is a progressive, George Soros-funded, extreme left-wing organization.

Cass Sunstein, Radical Regulatory czar

Sunstein has echoed the sentiments of disgraced past green jobs czar Van Jones in the he sees "environmental justice" as a method to redistribute wealth. He argued that it is desirable to spread America's wealth to poorer nations and that climate change is mainly the fault of U.S. behavior concerning the environment. It can therefore be used as a mechanism to redistribute the country's wealth.

In a 2007 University of Chicago Law School paper, he opined that America should pay compensation to the rest of the world for our environmental actions as a form of "justice". He strongly promotes a worldwide carbon tax that would heavily penalize the U.S. In a paper written with fellow attorney Eric A. Posner titled "Climate Change Justice," he uses the term "distributive justice" often and proposes that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy rather than direct foreign aid.

Sunstein also drew up a "First Amendment New Deal", a new "Fairness Doctrine," to include the establishment of a panel of "experts" to ensure "diversity of view" on the airwaves. In his 1993 book, "The Partial Constitution," he compared the need for the government to regulate broadcasting to the moral obligation to outlaw segregation. He proposes compulsory public affairs programming, the right to reply, and content review by "non-partisan experts" to achieve diversity.

"The idea that government should be neutral among all forms of speech seems right in the abstract, but as frequently applied it is no more plausible than the idea that it should be neutral between the associational interests of blacks and those whites under conditions of segregation," he writes. He contends the landmark case that brought about the fairness doctrine, Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission, "stresses not the autonomy of broadcasters, but instead the need to promote democratic self-government by ensuring that people are presented with a broad range of views about public issues." He derides the U.S. courts' unwillingness to "require something like a Fairness Doctrine" as "the judiciary's lack of domestic pedigree, lack of fact-finding powers and limited remedial authority."

Sunstein also believes that interpretation of federal law should be made by the president and those around him, rather than the judiciary, in direct conflict with the Constitution. "There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and predispositions of federal judges. The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him." This statement was the central focus of a 2006 Yale Law School paper, "Beyond Marbury: The Executive's Power to Say What the Law is," written by Sunstein. The 1803 case, Marbury v. Madison, determined it is "emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."

As reported by WorldNet Daily, in April of 2005 "Sunstein opened up a conference at Yale Law School entitled 'The Constitution in 2020,' which sought to change the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by that year. In his book, he proposed what he wants to become the new bill of rights he calls the Second Bill of Rights:

Among his proposal are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.

Sunstein has also argued that there should be a ban on hunting and eating meat and proposed that animals should have a right to an attorney in order to defend themselves from humans.

This man is possibly the most powerful and dangerous of all the czars for he can preside over a radical agenda through regulation that has no chance of passage in Congress. He was confirmed by the Senate on a party line vote by the left-leaning Democrats.

Pentagon Confirms Major Adjustments to European Missile Shield

Jan Fischer, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, one of two countries where the system was to be built, told reporters that the United States is shelving the missile defense plan.

The Pentagon confirmed Thursday that it has made a "major adjustment" to plans for a missile defense system in eastern Europe, after a U.S. ally said the Obama administration is shelving the system altogether.

The proposed system was pitched as a way to fend off potential attacks from Iran but it became a major irritant in relations with Russia. President Obama faced the dilemma of either setting back the gradual progress toward repairing relations with Russia or disappointing two key NATO allies, the Czech Republic and Poland, that agreed to host components of the planned system.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell declined to give specifics about the new changes, but said: "This improvement to the system has nothing to do with Russia and everything to do with Iran."

He said the "adjustment" was made because the "latest intelligence" shows Iran is more "fixated" on short- and medium-range missiles - the prior plans were developed with long-range, intercontinental ballistic missiles in mind.

"While the Iranian threat has developed, so too has our technology," Morrell said. Details were expected to be announced later Thursday.

Jan Fischer, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, one of two countries where the system was to be built, told reporters that the United States was basically dropping the plan. He said that President Obama phoned him overnight to say "his government is pulling out of plans to build a missile defense radar on Czech territory."

Jiri Pere, a long-time aide to former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, told FOX News that Havel and other Czech politicians are "let down" by the apparent decision to scrap the shield program. The general public may be less disappointed, as polls show as much as 80 percent of the Czech population opposes a U.S. shield system in their country.

Pere said that while the stated objective of the shield was to protect the West from the Iranian threat, the "unspoken message" was to fend off Russian aggression.

U.S. Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl released a statement Thursday morning accusing the administration of caving to Russia.

"The decision announced today by the administration is dangerous and short-sighted," the Arizona Republican said. "Not only does this decision leave America vulnerable to the growing Iranian long-range missile threat, it also turns back the clock to the days of the Cold War, when Eastern Europe was considered the domain of Russia. This will be a bitter disappointment, indeed, even a warning to the people of Eastern Europe."

Obama's top military adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the administration was "very close" to the end of a seven-month review of a missile defense shield proposal, an idea that was promoted by the George W. Bush administration. Mullen would not divulge its results.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the U.S. decision "a positive step."

And Konstantin Kosachev, head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of the Russian parliament, said, "It reflects understanding that any security measure can't be built entirely on the basis of one nation."

Czech government spokesman Roman Prorok said Ellen Tauscher, a U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, was briefing Czech officials in Prague and Polish officials in Warsaw on Thursday about Obama's decision.

"This would confirm that Central Europe is not in the center of the Obama administration's interest," said Jaroslaw Gowin, lawmaker for Poland's ruling Civic Platform party. "But maybe the U.S. will offer us an alternative."

Piotr Paszkowski, spokesman for Poland's Foreign Ministry, told The Associated Press he would wait for the U.S. announcement before commenting.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates scheduled a news conference Thursday morning with a top military leader, Marine Gen. James Cartwright, who has been a point man on the technical challenge of arraying missiles and interceptors to defend against long-range missiles that an aggressor such as Iran might lob at the U.S. or its allies.

Obama took office undecided about whether to continue to press for the European system and said he would study it. His administration never sounded enthusiastic about the plan, and European allies have been preparing for an announcement that the White House would not complete the shield as designed.

The decision comes as the Obama administration has been seeking closer ties with Moscow and as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is preparing to visit the United States next week for the U.N. General Assembly and the Group of 20 nations economic summit.

The plan for a European shield was a darling of the Bush administration, which reached deals to install 10 interceptors in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic -- eastern European nations at Russia's doorstep and once under Soviet sway.

Moscow has argued that the system would undermine the nuclear deterrent of its vast arsenal.

FOX News' Jennifer Griffin and Greg Palkot and The Associated Press contributed to this report.