Reuters reports:
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October 16, 2012. Tags: Bicycles, Cardboard bicycle, Environmentalism, Green energy, Inventions, Izhar Gafni, Science, Technology, Transportation. Science, Technology. .
In 2009 the Obama administration gave $535 million to Solyndra, claiming that it would create 4,000 new jobs. However, instead of creating those 4,000 new jobs, the company went bankrupt. It was later revealed that the company’s shareholders and executives had made substantial donations to Obama’s campaign, that the company had spent a large sum of money on lobbying, and that Solyndra executives had had many meetings with White House officials.
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September 8, 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, corporate welfare, Cronyism, Environmentalism, Government waste, Green energy, Obama, Politics, Solyndra. Barack Obama, Environmentalism, Government waste, Politics. .
Note: An updated version of this list be be found at Here are 163 examples of Barack Obama’s lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, government waste, and other misdeeds
In the 2008 United States election, I wrote in Ron Paul for President. In the 2012 election, I will be voting for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson. Those who are of a more leftist persuasion than myself might want to consider voting for Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

Here are 93 things that Barack Obama has done, that should cause his supporters to switch to Gary Johnson or Jill Stein:
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August 9, 2012. Tags: 2012 election, Barack Obama, BarackObama, corporate welfare, Democratic Underground, Gary Johnson, Green energy, Jill Stein, Medical marijuana, Obama, Occupy Wall St., Politics, Progressive politics, Progressivism, Ron Paul. Politics. .
According to the laws of physics, the total quantity of mass and energy is fixed. Therefore, we cannot “create” new mass or energy, and we cannot “use up” the mass and energy that we already have.
But there is something else that we can do – we can invent, build, and use technology to increase our standard of living. For example, petroleum was worthless until someone with a brain invented a way to use it, at which point the petroleum became a valuable resource. Likewise, today we take rocks that used to be worthless, and turn them into computer chips that are worth trillions of dollars.
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July 5, 2012. Tags: Clean water, Desalination, Environmentalism, Famine, Global warming, Green energy, Nuclear power, Overfishing, Overlogging, Overpopulation, Peak oil, Politics, Science, Technology, Water crisis. Environmentalism, Overpopulation, Politics, Science, Technology. .
In recent years, the environmental movement in Germany has persuaded the country to shut down one third if its nuclear power generating capacity.
Of that shut down nuclear capacity, more than 80% of it has been replaced with fossil fuels.
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July 5, 2012. Tags: Anti-nuclear movement, Clean air, Coal, Environmentalism, Germany, Green energy, Nuclear power, Politics, Science, Technology. Environmentalism, Politics, Science, Technology. .