From the archives: Jimmy Carter installs solar panels on White House roof

[OKIsItJustMe]

[mjvpi]

1. President Carter walked the talk. I came of political age under him.

He taught me to spot the spiritual underneath all that religion. I cannot help but wonder how much different the climate crisis would had Carter beaten Reagan.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. One of Reagan-Bush's 1st acts upon winning the Presidency -

(1) Remove the solar panels from the WH and
(2) Boot the Dept of Energy position out of the Cabinet

Gee, I wonder who pushed for these 2 actions to happen?

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Like Gold

How a Deep State Plot Sank Jimmy Carter

PETER DALE SCOTT
WhoWhatWhy.Org, 11/02/14

The Safari Club was an alliance between national intelligence agencies that wished to compensate for the CIA’s retrenchment in the wake of President Carter’s election and Senator Church’s post-Watergate reforms. As former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal once told Georgetown University alumni,

In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies, it could not write reports, and it could not pay money. In order to compensate for that, a group of countries got together in the hope of fighting Communism and established what was called the Safari Club. The Safari Club included France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran. (1)

After Carter was elected, the Safari Club allied itself with Richard Helms and Theodore Shackley against the more restrained intelligence policies of Jimmy Carter, according to Joseph Trento. In Trento’s account, the dismissal by William Colby in 1974 of CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton,

combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to start working with [former DCI Richard] Helms [then U.S. Ambassador to Iran] and his most trusted operatives outside of Congressional and even Agency purview. James Angleton said before his death that “Shackley and Helms … began working with outsiders like Adham and Saudi Arabia. The traditional CIA answering to the president was an empty vessel having little more than technical capability.”(2)

Trento adds that “The Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations. With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed . . . the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a worldwide money-laundering machine.”(3) Trento claims also that the Safari Club then was able to work with some of the controversial CIA operators who had been forced out of the CIA by Turner, and that this was coordinated by Theodore Shackley:

Shackley, who still had ambitions to become DCI, believed that without his many sources and operatives like [Edwin] Wilson, the Safari Club—operating with [former DCI Richard] Helms in charge in Tehran—would be ineffective. . . . Unless Shackley took direct action to complete the privatization of intelligence operations soon, the Safari Club would not have a conduit to [CIA] resources. The solution: create a totally private intelligence network using CIA assets until President Carter could be replaced. (4)

Continues…

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/the-deep-state-plots-the-1980-defeat-of-jimmy-carter/

Big Oil, the Saudi Roils and global Petroligarchs HATE democracy. They want to get every last penny this extracted mineral can yield, even if in the process it kills us all.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. Thanks for posting. I always wonder, how well did the Bush family do, $-wise, after GW Bush became President?

How many lives did we expend in 2 Bush ME wars to end up with what, exactly?

A great law for future Presidential aspirants - you need 100% financial transparencies. No more Bushes and no more Trumps.

[OKIsItJustMe]

5. NREL: Laboratory History

https://www.nrel.gov/about/history.html

…

1974
In October, President Gerald Ford establishes the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and signs the Solar Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act, which creates the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI).

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1977
In February, President Jimmy Carter tells the nation how critical SERI's work will be to his administration's goals: "We will emphasize research on solar energy and other renewable energy sources."

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1980
SERI's budget increases from $90 million to $130 million—estimated to be more than all other nations' combined spend on renewable research. The staff grows to nearly 1,000.

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1981
President Ronald Reagan slashes the SERI budget to less than $30 million and reduces its staff to 450 people; Director Denis Hayes resigns.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

10. We had a unique opportunity under Jimmy. I guy that understood energy at a deeper level than 99% of the people.

We chose oil and 20th century Republican foreign policy. Reverbs today, just like their pro-RW support in Central and South America. Why refugees? Look at 50 years of Republican using these countries as a laboratory to test their anti-democratic ideas.

[Bristlecone]

3. So ahead of his time and on point.

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. A man with a vision

❝In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.❞

[joanbarnes]

7. Fuck Reagan!

[OKIsItJustMe]

8. A former co-worker would add...

… “with a great big stick."

[Woodwizard]

9. Carter had vision

From those days to the present I have been interested in renewable energy.

Put 13 kw of solar on my shop that also supplies the house.

The south wall of my shop has a 20'x8' home made hot water panel that heats the shop floor.

Installed mini split heat pumps for the house.

We would be so much further ahead if the country stayed on Carter's path.