We are hearing that Senate-House appropriators are near agreement on a loan guarantee package that looks like this:

$25 billion for nukes
$10 billion for renewables
$10 billion for coal to liquids
$2 billion for uranium enrichment
$2 billion for coal to gas

While the $10 billion for renewables might be welcome, the package as a whole reflects misplaced priorities and a lost opportunity to address the climate crisis. Indeed, such an energy policy would make things far worse and make it much harder to reduce carbon emissions.

Throwing taxpayer money at wealthy utilities is not the way toward a sane, sustainable energy future.

*Please call your Senators and Representative today! No loan guarantees for nuclear power (nor coal!)! Tell them to reject the entire omnibus appropriations bill if it includes such loan guarantees.

Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121

Bob Koehler is an award-winning, syndicated columnist and editor for Tribune Media Services. He is also a rarity – a member of the mainstream media who has paid attention to the issue of election fraud.  He wrote "The Silent Scream of Numbers- The 2004 election was stolen – will someone please tell the media?" after he attended the National Election Reform Conference in Nashville in April, 2005.  The article generated a huge response from his readers. We became better acquainted when we drove together to another conference – We Count 2006 in Cleveland – the following year. We spent sixteen hours in the car together without resorting to any of the books on tape that I had taken out from the library before the trip, 'just in case.' A few months ago, we shared the podium for a program on activism, the press, and election integrity. I'm delighted that he agreed to be interviewed for OpEdNews. 

Remarks, December 7, San Francisco State University

It’s been an odd week. For me, a particularly odd week. But that’s another story. So, wait a minute. Iran DOESN’T have nuclear weapon capability??? So, who are we gonna bomb? I want to bomb somebody! Didn’t Senator Clinton just vote in essence to give President Bush the power to bomb Iran? If he had done it last week, would that have made her right? I mean, if she knew then what she knows now? Or am I getting that backward? Golly, I’m confused. And what about President Bush? This week, Vladimir Putin, the man Mr. Bush said he “Looked into the eyes of and found to be very straightforward and trustworthy.” So much so, he was “able to get a sense of his soul.” Well that soulful fella has just successfully coalesced the most dangerous power base in Russia since the Cold War amid rumors that include allegations he ordered the assassinations of journalists and imprisonment of noted proponents of freedom (Oops).