U.S. Army@USArmy
It's game time!
Who better to get you hyped for today's #ArmyNavyGame than
@3rdSFGroup!
Time to get loud!
#GOARMYBEATNAVY!
9:03 AM · Dec 11, 2021·Sprinklr
https://twitter.com/USArmy/status/1469669103560445954?s=20
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BOOM!
Are you ready for some @WestPoint_USMA Football?!?!
The Soldiers of @101stAASLTDIV are! #GoArmyBeatNavy
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9:03 AM · Dec 10, 2021·Sprinklr
https://twitter.com/alanagoodman/status/1469373263591653377?s=20
=Biden Megadonor Scores $500 Million Federal Loan for Solar Company
Alana Goodman
A solar energy company owned by a Biden megadonor received a $500 million government loan to build a manufacturing facility in India, the Biden administration announced this week, raising questions about whether the company's political clout played any role in the financing decision.
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation granted the loan to First Solar, which is owned by billionaire Walmart heir Lukas Walton, to build a solar module plant in India. Walton contributed over $300,000 to President Joe Biden's campaign last year, and over $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee, according to campaign finance records.
The loan to First Solar is the "largest single debt financing transaction" issued by the DFC, the agency announced this week. The DFC said the investment in the India project will "promote DFC's commitment to diversifying supply chains," following demands from lawmakers that the agency avoid funding any solar projects connected to forced labor in China.
Ethics watchdogs said the loan raises questions about whether First Solar's political connections played a role in the DFC's decision. The federal financing agency, which was formerly known as the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, has faced criticism in the past for funding projects linked to political donors. The loan also comes nine years after the Obama administration came under fire for approving $3 billion in loan guarantees to the same company—funding that Republican lawmakers alleged the company wasn't qualified to receive.
"The United States International Development Finance Corporation, formerly known as OPIC, has a history of deals gone bad when mixing taxpayer dollars with politically connected entities like First Solar," said Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center. "This agency has a history of favoring entities backed by huge political contributors, like First Solar, by giving them less scrutiny while prioritizing politically connected projects above entities and individuals who are not politically active."
A DFC spokesperson, asking to speak on background, said the deal was carefully assessed and unrelated to politics but declined to say if the White House had any input in the decision.
"This deal is a milestone in the U.S. effort to drive alternative supply chains that do not utilize forced labor, and absolutely nothing to do with politics," the spokesperson told the Washington Free Beacon. "DFC-supported projects undergo a rigorous due diligence process and are assessed based on their creditworthiness, development outcomes, and foreign policy impact. The agency is governed by a public-private board of directors with bipartisan membership."
In 2010, OPIC expedited a $10 million loan to a Hillary Clinton donor while Clinton was serving as secretary of state. The donor was supposed to use the loan to fund a Haiti housing relief project, but instead pocketed the money. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the scam.
First Solar came under scrutiny in 2012, when the GOP-led House Oversight Committee investigated a series of Department of Energy loans issued to solar companies by the Obama administration. The investigation was prompted by a scandal involving another politically connected solar energy company, Solyndra, which had declared bankruptcy and defaulted on a $500 million federal loan.
A House investigation turned up internal DOE emails that indicated First Solar's technology was not considered "innovative" by the loan program's technical director, which was a requirement for receiving the financing.
"The information currently accessible to the public raises the question of whether these companies received approval to use federal lands and taxpayer monies based not on the best value for the American people but the political clout of the recipients," then-senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said at the time.
Although First Solar's chairman testified to Congress that the company was "financially strong," the business was forced to furlough half of its employees at its solar plant near Los Angeles weeks later.
Last year, First Solar paid $350 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit brought by two United Kingdom pension funds, which claimed the company inflated its stock price and misled investors about its finances.
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-megadonor-scores-500-million-federal-loan-for-solar-company/
Wow one day apart
All i hear from lefty family, how Trump donors got Covid loans, id show them this but it wont matter. They have no idea of the graft and money laundering that comes along with these favors. “But, but its green energy-it will save us all”
Yes I should have said 3 years, but approximately tweet posted one hour earlier than Q
Another scam, cant wait until there us no US corporation to take our tax money for laundering WW. The Republic will rise soon!
Jason Foster@JsnFostr
Present tense, carefully worded non sequitiurs generally don’t inspire confidence.Will she be recused from any related matter in the future or not?
Jason Foster@JsnFostr
This should be easy. If she has recused, just say so. But
@TheJusticeDept and @WhiteHouse avoid the question. Why?
https://twitter.com/JsnFostr/status/1469383267749142538?s=20
Chuck Ross
@ChuckRossDC
DOJ says she is not involved in the Durham matter, but@ChuckGrassley
and Empower Oversight founder
@JsnFostr say a formal recusal is needed to ensure public confidence in the investigation.
1:50 PM · Dec 10, 2021·Twitter Web
@ChuckRossDC
Jake Sullivan's wife, an adviser to AG Merrick Garland, is facing growing calls to recuse herself from any involvement in the Durham probe.
Durham's report, which Garland will oversee, could prove embarrassing for Sullivan.
1:50 PM · Dec 10, 2021·Twitter Web
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1469379060879040516?s=20
This is way the medical and Pharma industry had to get rid if Trump, he write an EO that was to take effect shortly after Jan. 20, 2021 (I think) for all in the medical & hospitals to disclose the actual cost for patients to negotiate their balance bills. They fought it until the end
Trump signs order that aims to reveal real health care costs
Jun 24, 2019 / 10:30 AM EDT
US & World
by: RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press
Posted: / Updated: Jun 25, 2019
Alex Azar
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that calls for upfront disclosure by hospitals of actual prices for common tests and procedures to help keep costs down .
The idea is to give patients practical information that they can use to save money. For example, if a hospital charges your insurer $3,500 for a type of echocardiogram and the same test costs $550 in a doctor’s office, you might go for the lower-price procedure to save on copays.
But insurers said the idea could backfire, prompting hospitals that now give deeper discounts to try to raise their own negotiated prices to match what high earners are getting. Hospitals were skeptical of the move.
Trump’s order also requires that patients be told ahead of time what their out-of-pocket costs like deductibles and copays will be for many procedures.
Little will change right away. The executive order calls for a rule-making process by federal agencies, which typically takes months or even years. The details of what information will have to be disclosed and how it will be made available to patients must be worked out as part of writing the regulations. That will involve a complex give-and-take with hospitals, insurers and others affected.
Consumers will have to wait to see whether the results live up to the administration’s promises.
“For too long it’s been virtually impossible for Americans to know the real price and quality of health care services and the services they receive,” Trump said at the White House. “As a result, patients face significant obstacles shopping for the best care at the best price, driving up health care costs for everyone.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters earlier that the order “will put patients in control by increasing choice and competition.”
Lack of information on health care prices is a widespread problem . It’s confusing for patients, and experts say it’s also one of the major factors that push up U.S. costs. The same test or procedure, in the same city, can cost widely different amounts depending on who is performing it and who is paying the bill. Hospital list prices, which are available, don’t reflect what they are paid by insurers and government programs.
The health insurance industry said disclosing negotiated prices will only encourage hospitals that are now providing deeper discounts to try to raise their rates to match the top-tier facilities. “Publicly disclosing competitively negotiated proprietary rates will reduce competition and push prices higher — not lower — for consumers, patients, and taxpayers,” Matt Eyles, head of the industry group America’s Health Insurance Plans, said in a statement.
The Federation of American Hospitals, representing for-profit facilities, warned that if the Trump administration regulations take the “wrong course,” they may “undercut the way insurers pay for hospital services, resulting in higher spending.”
While the prices Medicare pays are publicly available, private insurers’ negotiated rates generally are not. Industry officials say such contractual information is tantamount to trade secrets and should remain private.
Azar pushed back against that argument, saying insurers do ultimately disclose their payment rates when they send individual patients an “explanation of benefits.” That’s the technical term for the form that patients get after they’ve had a procedure or seen the doctor.
“Every time any one of us goes to a doctor or a hospital, within a couple of weeks in our mailbox arrives an explanation of benefits. (It) contains the list price … the negotiated rate … and what your out-of-pocket is,” Azar said. “This is not some great state secret out there.”
Patients should have that information ahead of time to help them make decisions, he added.
Trump’s executive order also calls for:
—expanded uses for health savings accounts, a tax-advantaged way to pay health care bills that has long been favored by Republicans. Coupled with a lower-premium, high-deductible insurance plan, the accounts can be used to pay out-of-pocket costs for routine medical exams and procedures
https://www.wowktv.com/news/u-s-world/trump-order-seeks-disclosure-of-hospital-prices/
Same concept
Not so Anon, tornado season twice in the south:
What to Know about Tornado Season in the South
Everyone knows about Tornado Alley, but have you ever heard of Dixie Alley?
But while storms do rage over the plains, tornadoes are just as much a way of life in the Deep South, or Dixie Alley, as meteorologists have named the region. Dixie Alley stretches across the eastern edges of Texas and Arkansas through Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, and includes some parts of South Carolina, North Carolina, Missouri, and Kentucky.
Birmingham-based meteorologist James Spann has seen his fair share of tornadoes in his time with local station ABC 33/40, and has a couple of things he wants anyone living in Dixie Alley to know.
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Dixie Alley technically has two tornado season.
For anyone wondering when tornado season is in the Deep South, there's actually two separate sets of tornado season months to worry about, and they're a little different from the Tornado Alley season. "You've got your spring season, which spans the traditional spring months, March, April, and May," Spann says."Then you have your fall season, which falls in November and December. So there's really two seasons in the Deep South."
Most Southerners are familiar with the spring season, but it can be easy to be caught off-guard by a Christmastime twister, Spann says. In Tornado Alley, it's usually too cold in the fall and winter to produce a tornado, but in the South, the lower latitude is more conducive to the low pressure systems that spawn the storms.
Though most typical tornado activity falls within one of those two seasons, tornadoes can touch down any time of year.
https://www.southernliving.com/travel/when-is-tornado-season
He just hasn’t had his trial yet?man i hope its coming
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1469674738201026573?s=20
Why does AMTRAK get $66 Billionfriends with Joe money laundering
https://twitter.com/RpwWilliams/status/1469360898204585988?s=20
The game, project MSM lies for years, when debunked dont mention it because most people watch MSM. Same thing over and over
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1469364728686329859?s=20
I know, solindra number 2
>>15176547. If schitt was tried I’d listen yo every last minute if it, even if it took two weeks
Kek
https://twitter.com/ChristianWalk1r/status/1469385803142893569?s=20
What is this about
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1469464265241202689?s=20
Tough guy that Comey
https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1469305621098815497?s=20
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1469051180642885635?s=20