From Government Accountability & Oversight
With Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filing the “climate” lawsuit that campaign supporter Michigan LCV had lobbied her to file against energy companies, and the UM law school faculty putting the shoulder to the wheel as well, GAO recalls the recently unearthed record of just how occupied Michigan’s government is with donor-financed “climate staff”.
First, recall Nessel’s embrace of taking in an activist lawyer provided by Michael Bloomberg to file this suit, just as Bloomberg-provided lawyers have filed numerous others for AGs from New York to Oregon:
And Michigan’s Public Service Commission asking for Bloomberg-provided “staff”, brokered by a renewable energy trade association “founded and funded” by Tom Steyer to push his agenda:
A Whitmer administration official hinted that Bloomberg’s group maybe might sprinkle a few more elsewhere:
To join the rest throughout the Whitmer administration, provided by “US Climate Alliance” (Hewlett Foundation, United Nations Foundation)(including the PSC Chair’s spouse):
It gets confusing which donor groups are to underwrite what state climate activism:
Asking them for three more each from USCA and the Rockefeller joint “Invest in Our Future”:
And, to top it off (so far as the public so far knows), telling Energy Foundation, come “invest in Michigan” government, with more bespoke climate “staff”:
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It sounds depressingly like the British Civil Service. It is jam packed with a variety of activists interested in anything from the climate to gender to equality, diversity and doubleplus goodthink.
“John Glen, the Cabinet Office minister, has ordered a review of Whitehall diversity networks and a “refresh” of civil service impartiality guidance to stop officials “using their jobs as a vehicle for political activism”.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/20/crackdown-on-activists-in-the-civil-service/
But ours are a very lazy, pampered bunch who got more than used to Amazon deliveries etc….
“The latest Civil Service office occupancy data shows around 40% of all public sector staff across Whitehall are still working from home – nearly two years after Covid restrictions legally ended. This is despite clear data showing remote workers are significantly less productive. “
https://order-order.com/2023/07/07/40-of-civil-servants-still-working-from-home-significantly-less-productive/
“Civil servants refuse to be ‘forced back’ into office two days a week
ONS employees will not comply with demand claiming mandated office-based attendance removes the ‘flexibility and trust promised to staff’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/04/26/office-national-statistics-staff-refuse-civil-servants/
I once described the woke mind virus as a cancer. It certainly has all the hallmarks….
You can take the communist out of the office but you can’t take the communism out of the activist.
LOL . . . good one. Will go over well with my Texas buddies 😉
So much for democracy, the ordinary person on the street has no say in this and laws are being implemented by wealthy pressure groups by using law fare . Soon or later the public must come to realise this and it should be stopped , it’s an abuse of the system. There may also be fraud implications if people are using their positions of trust to implicate policies by the back door which benefit wealthy green groups
Fascism has such a negative connotation.
What we’re seeing broadly now is the blatant bureaucratic evidence that government at all levels is controlled by special interests. For me, the Pentagon Papers were the first real evidence of this. I was 18 at the time and, now, these villains don’t even attempt to hide it.
Why? Because there is no accountability. No one pays for their crimes. Fauci, Mann and their ilk are getting rewarded for their efforts when they should be prosecuted.
I read California gun sales are way up.
Hmmm….
Off topic- but I just noticed this.
Yikes! I wonder how many idiots worry about doing updates at times to lower carbon emissions?
Updates are a proverbial pain, especially when they have to be patched up
re: “STarting with Windows 11 …”
Still running Win XP here. Making this post using it and the Mypal68 browser.
How do you protect against malware? What modern antivirus runs under XP?
Years ago I had a stand-alone XP desktop running a spectrophotometer. It got infected instantly, when I plugged in the internet cable to transfer data to my office machine.
Some do- but I don’t recall which. The AV software shouldn’t care how old the OS so they usually support any OS long after MS. I had to dump 3 XP systems, all working fine because of daily fear mongering from MS.
re: “How do you protect against malware?”
Where do you find this ‘malware’? From what I have seen from computers at work, it (malware) comes from ppl surfing pr0n websites. I don’t surf pr0n websites. And I sit behind a good firewall on the Verizon wireless network, so … a good firewall in front of ANY computer connected to the internet is a requirement. This has been so since the dial-up days and Win98SE when one could see outside port scanners probing incoming ports back then, and I ran a good firewall on the PC (since the dial-up modem was IN the PC) and it reported that activity. A few times, I pinged the IP address of the ‘scanner’ and got different results, as the prober figured out the hunted just became the hunter.
PS I do infrequent scans using Malwarebytes now, on account of not having found anything of significance for ages.
My XP PC thinks it is an ATM due to an MS patch for all those older ATM’s out there. Runs fine depending on what you want to use it for.
Like withdrawing cash…
“New and Improved” should come with a warning. When something relieves you of the need to even think about doing the “right” thing, it usually means someone else will decide what’s right for you.
I set the power plan to High Performance…
I schedule update installations for the time when I need to add fuel to my wood stove. When the fire is doing well, the update is over, and I can get back to work. 🙂
And as part of this package deal they add more and more background applications that keep the processor running even with the laptop is idle. Way to green it up!
O/T
Australia’s richest woman has demanded that a gallery remove a portrait that depicts her with a large double chin…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/15/australia-richest-gina-rinehart-portrait-removed-aboriginal/
This is another segment of “The Streisand effect”.
I good photo of the 20-year-old Gina would be of interest.
Is this an exhibition of finger paintings by 8-year-olds !
I’m surprised it is only the double chin aspect she is concerned about?
Nothing in this portrait is flattering or noteworthy, certainly not worth hanging in a gallery for public
ridiculecontemplationYou realize, Michigan is a place to escape from; from the climate (rust belt), the people, the attitudes …
Escape from Dearborn
Has a ring to it
Born there and done that, but realize all of the positives associated with the human sprit can be found there also, and it is possible to enjoy it’s natural resources and beauty, especially if the time is right.
Aside from spending time with family and friends, fond memories include swimming, fishing, canoeing, sledding, skiing and of course picking and eating morel mushrooms.
It’s sad really what has become of politics there.
Used to be on the (Michigan) license plates: the “Winter Water Wonderland”. Great place to grow up as a kid and experience all four seasons, actual white beach sand at the lakes, ice fishing in the winter, snowmobiling along power line ROWs (right of ways) and cross country (snow) skiing …I have never seen clearer water than in some of the inland lakes, too. Truly an outdoors wonderland …
On a positive note, Billy Strings is from Michigan 🙂
I’m more of a Motor City Madman fan.
… and the biting horse flies, the mosquitoes (in my first post I forgot about those lovelies) …
OMG, they are awful, but fireflies are nice and kind of magical in a rainbow way.
I have fireflies down here, they seem to like my native cane/wide-leaf bamboo I have in the back yard …each evening for the past week I’ve noted a fair amount of FF activity.
I miss them. They are one of life’s free but fleeting pleasures. I hope one day to experience them again but without mosquitoes.
Lilacs are blooming now in Colorado, a sight and fragrance delight.
I remember when I was a catching fireflies. We’d put them in jar for awhile then release them.
But one time I caught one that bit me!
Later I found out that there is one type that will mimic the flashes of other types (The different types of fireflies use the flashes to attract mates.) then catch and eat them.
I must have caught one of them.
All of the counties outside of the Ann Arbor, Wayne Co., and Detroit conflagration, those counties are good normal people.
Or at least they were when I was at E.Lansing in the 70s.
Reading these emails, the word “coven” comes to mind. I believe a coven of ideologues has been discovered . . . .
If they are on staff they are govt officials and paying them to do stuff you want is bribery.
It is said Those whom the gods would destroy they first drive insane. Michigan has volunteered to be a test case …
Source: https://www.enotes.com/topics/sententiae/quotes/whom-gods-would-destroy-they-first-make-mad
Thanks Jim that was very informative. I appreciate your effort.
I hate to say it but much of what is happening can be laid at the feet of spineless republicans. After Granholm started the RES requirements there were years of republican control and they did nothing to stop it.
I would blame the arrogant leach types that live in the south side of the State. The ones that didn’t care, or even facilitated, this change in Michigan because they weren’t given the respect they thought they deserved (because they thought they are smarter than everyone else) from the true conservatives.
I would blame that certain lazy group than points at everyone else and calls them nutters.
Add the word politicians, please.
I thought that was clear by mentioning Granholm and republicans in control.
Federal, state & local governments are saturated with leftist acitivists.
Here in Oregon it is an indisputable quiet tyranny and a festering sore of disfunction.
Effectively, it’s become gangrene governance that can not do anyting but worsen everything.
Too incompetent, too slow, too expensive, and too deceitful to face any consequences.
If they (State government) work really really hard, they will be able to facilitate some sort of a budget item increase/transfer that will allow the governors’ doughnut of a wife to pretend that she (the doughnut) is more than just wad of loose fitting clothes.
One of the reasons I left Michigan in 1980!
Keep turning over these rocks. It’s fun to watch the vermin scatter in the light of day.
this is my home state and i am not leaving. i am fighting these ass clowns the best i can. this state is where i grew up. i have fished many lakes and rivers. sat in the woods of the upper peninsula hunting. snowmobiled many years. camped and showed friends and family the beauty of this state. its my home every bit as much as the dwelling i am sitting in at this moment.
the us127 corridor in mid state is polluted with wind turbines and solar panels for miles. all for nothing but greed and control. the state government is corrupt top to bottom.
A shame. I drove 127 many times and I remember lots of beautiful country. A shame.
Hurrah for Governor Whitmer and the State of Michigan! Next step for Gretchen = US VEEP.
Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.
Good and hard, at that.
Fake GAO.
As a resident of Michigan, this doesn’t surprise me at all. The main thing I have noted about Dana Nessel since she became AG is that she goes after things nobody really cares about (e.g., barber shops open during lockdowns) and ignores things that people would like to see addressed (e.g., election fraud). She’s worse than useless.