From The American Spectator
By Matthew Vadum on 9.1.09 @ 6:07AM
From inside the Obama White House, green jobs czar Van Jones has been orchestrating a campaign to greenwash the meaning of 9/11 using federal resources and a political front group he founded, new research suggests.
It is unclear if this is illegal but at a minimum it raises questions about ethics, self-dealing, and the proper use of U.S. government resources.
The group, called Green for All, was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in California on Dec. 11, 2007 by Jones. Green for All is one of two groups involved in a campaign called Green the Block. Green the Block was created "to educate and mobilize communities of color to ensure a voice and stake in the clean-energy economy," according to its website. Jones was also on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a hard-left environmentalist group that is now running large chunks of the Obama administration. The group has acknowledged that it dictated parts of the February stimulus bill to Congress.
In an apparent conflict of interest, Jones, a self-described "communist," presided over the White House endorsement of Green the Block in an online video conference on Aug. 4. Jones touted Green the Block's first major initiative which involved participating in the National Day of Service scheduled for this Sept. 11. He described the day as a great opportunity "for people to connect, to find other people in your peer group who are also passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America." [CLICK HERE TO READ ENTIRE COLUMN]
This one, from WorldNetDaily, goes back to April 2009. Don't you think you should ask why you haven't heard about this until now? What else is being kept from us?
White House appoints 'radical communist' who sees environment as racial issue
Posted: April 12, 2009 ~ 7:26 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – The man appointed as a special environmental adviser to the White House recently was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader.
Van Jones, president and founder of Green For All, a nonprofit organization that advocates for building a so-called inclusive green economy, has been tapped to serve as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to the White House blog, Jones' duties will include helping to craft job-generating climate policy and ensuring equal opportunity in the administration's energy proposals.
Jones, formerly a self-described "rowdy black nationalist," boasted in a 2005 interview that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class "justice."
"I'll work with anybody, I'll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward," he told the left-leaning East Bay Express in a 2005 interview. "I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends." [READ FULL STORY]
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