Among the speakers at the 2010 State of Green Business Forum to be held on Feb. 4, 2010, is Van Jones, the former "green jobs" czar of the Obama administration. The forum is sponsored by the environmental website Green Biz.
It seems that although Jones resigned in September 2009, after it was reported that he had founded a communist revolutionary organization and at one time had called for "resistance" against the U.S. government, apparently he has retained his influence on Obama. Now Jones serves on an advisory board of an independent environmental organization that works closely with the White House.
Among the other speakers at the "State of Green Business 2010 Forum" will be:
Rob Bernard, chief environmental strategist for Microsoft
Rich Lechner, vice president of energy and environment for IBM
Christina Page, director of climate and energy strategy for Yahoo
Rick Rommel, senior vice president of emerging business for Best Buy Co.
Lorie Wigle, general manager of the eco-tecnology program for Intel Corporation,
Speakers from the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Jones is one of 20 advisors to the University of Colorado-based Presidential Climate Action Project (PCAP), which draws up climate policy recommendations for the White House and continues to work with the Obama administration.
As quoted in WorldNetDaily, William S. Becker, executive director of PCAP, the group is
"about to propose a new and assertive strategy for President Obama to raise the bar on the U.S. climate goal, with or without Congress. We continue to work with some colleagues inside the Obama administration as well as continuing to push for action from the outside....the White House adopted quite a few of our recommendations or variations of them."
Meanwhile, Jones has not hidden that
He was a founder of the communist group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). Its manifesto, Reclaiming Revolution and this seems acceptable to Obama.
One day after 9/11, he led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims "U.S. imperialism" around the world.
Just before the White House Czar appointment, he used a forum at a major youth convention to push for a radical agenda that included spreading the wealth and changing the "whole system."
It is curious that the Obama administration has no problem in connecting Jones to the White House in spite of his radical past. Or because of it?
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Comments
This should be a national security issue.
Who is looking out for american's interests right now in DC?? Doesnt appear to be anyone at all,..from either party.
This is fear mongering disguised as news. It should be OK for someone to hold a contrarian view if it doesn’t affect the job they are performing for this government. If he had the job of influencing financial policy I might have issue. He appears to be qualified to be part of a 20 person panel that suggests direction on the environment so what's the problem?The former administration was happy to employ people like former FEMA head Mike Brown with little or no relevant experience. Obama gets a bum rap for hiring qualified people. Just because Obama kept a Bush appointee Ben Bernanke on as Fed Chair doesn’t mean he believes in everything Ben or the Bush administration stand for. Why is Obama therefore radical because he appointed someone who’s true claim to fame is wanting to insulate houses.
And what's wrong with expressing solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans? You got fear mongering and racism all over this piece.
The man wants to give everyone a caulk gun and put up solar panels, not overthrow the government. Since when does the Examiner use Glenn Beck for it's fact checking. Shame.
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