an e-mail from bright source energy's subcontractor, bechtel systems and infrastructure, dated december 2, 2009, said that biden met weekly with energy secretary steven chu to discuss the energy department loan guarantees. bernard tune who was biden's chief of staff when he was a senator in the senate was a principal vice president and manager for bechtel. in an e-mail to bright source ceo john woolard dated december 3, 2009, tune wrote, quote: calls are in to biden's staff, and i will be approaching the political affairs office at the white house tomorrow as well. as this prompt could benefit -- project could benefit two democratic senators who are in cycle and whose races already tough next year, barbara boxer of california and majority leader senator reid from nevada. both won re-election in 2010. over a year later, in march 2011, bright source still had no loan. ceo woolard sent an e-mail to jonathan silva who was energy director of the energy department's loan guarantee program. he was responsible for making sure that these loans went through. woolard wanted silva to draft, to revi

furthermore we just heard about the charter school and want a music room bechtel and the program are involve in san francisco as are other privatization companis who want to privatize the schools and drive the schools towards core standards. i would argue that is for the destruction of education. it's not the advance of students of san francisco and the students of this country. core standards are being used not to provide more teaching, more education, but to drive more testing and to drive really the students out and further privatization of the school. another issue was a video done of this incident at the school. there was a video done of the physical abuse of the student at the school and apparently amos brown was able to see that video. who allowed him to see that video, since he is not a parent of the student? is this allowed? other people have asked to see the have and not been provided that opportunity. there are serious and systematic problems going on and it has to be addressed. if this is slander, it's absolutely untrue and i think the superintendent should apologize to t

furthermore we just heard about the charter school and want a music room bechtel and the program are involve in san francisco as are other privatization companis who want to privatize the schools and drive the schools towards core standards. i would argue that is for the destruction of education. it's not the advance of students of san francisco and the students of this country. core standards are being used not to provide more teaching, more education, but to drive

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two thirds of his budget comes from just two billionaire backed nonprofits that's folks like steve bechtel steve schwarzman paul singer and these are billionaires who would not like to pay a penny more in taxes than they already enjoy a surprisingly low rates they don't even pay payroll taxes first while the wealthy investors so it's no surprise that norquist is serving their interests yeah no surprise at all leaf on thanks so much for the great work you do only and thanks for being with us and thank you tom thanks for covering this for money in our elections as one of the biggest threats to our democracy you could join the movement to overturn citizens united and yet corporate and foreign money out of our elections by going to move to amend dot org. it's the good the bad of the very very exit you asli oddly the good father jonathan morris how do you know when it's the holiday season where so-called news starts. it's investigative reporting on the so-called war on christmas in america it's twenty five days of fox news uncovering outrageous and justices like people calling christmas trees h

. >> steve schwartzman steve bechtel.se are guys worth billions that don't want to pay a penny more in taxes and they have the money to help retaliate against republicans who break the pledge. historically, they have funded primary challenges, ads to push the republicans to the far right on this issue. >> jennifer: okay so americans for tax reform has a pac and that's what they give to. those two billionaires. >> trade association technically but it operates as a pac because they buy ads and do a lot of the electioneering stuff that a pac would do. >> jennifer: while he's raising money from his allies, from these two donors and others, i'm sure. 66% tells you. he's also essentially lobbying for tax breaks for entities like general electric. >> that's right. you know, everyone talks about the first part of the norquist pledge, not to raise the tax rates but the second half of it is basically a promise not to cut tax credits which as you know, many of them amount to nothing more than corporate subsidies so g.e. pays norquis

. >> smith: turf vendors are large firms, like general dynamics or bechtel, that at&t relies on to manage work on thousands of tower sites across the country. the turf vendors in turn subcontract to companies like phoenix. and in 2008, phoenix also sent much of its work to a smaller affiliate, a company called all around towers. >> i would make the phone calls, open the door. once i got them in, they pretty much took it from there. >> and then all around towers hired their own crew members, their own people. it didn't matter if they had experience or not. >> smith: like jay guilford. he kicked around between part-time jobs. he was a mover, he delivered pizzas. but after his second child was born, he needed something better. all around towers was offering a full-time job at $10 an hour. >> that's when he filled out the application, came back out, said he had a job and they gave him a $600 check and had a plane ticket for him to leave, like, the next day. >> smith: guilford, with no prior experience, was suddenly thrown into one of the biggest building projects the tower industry had ever s

for the bechtel with a little bit of spice mix then, according to its marketing director.se perfume started as a joke on the piece of facebook page but evolved into the real thing after enough people sign up as fans on the side. for the first 100 and into direct message pizza hut canada of facebook at a ball of a limited edition said. those bottles went out this week so they arrive in time for christmas. it is possible the perfume could appear in stores and future. because pizza hut got more than a thousand messages from fans wanting their perfume which includes top notes for see baked ham impasto. >> one comment of facebook says you too can smell like you work at pizza hut. you might not have any luck with the leas bugboy have animals will love you. >> 80 jan says this is gross. over heard at club/barb/bus i wanna get with the guy/girl cause they smell like frisky baby is a bellwether best bargain plan. >> another comment was i love the smell of fresh pizza on a woman to each of home. >> what you wear it to entice a man. i didn't measure they deliver. (laughter) always th

the cut with the attraction of the rockefeller center christmas tree and its radio center christmas bechtel rounding out the top three is on the beach in australia where is summer tech's off on december 1st for all the servers and sunbathers out there. >> kenyan college surfingand a s not looking good. the league is cancel of games through december 30th at the made two more weeks of the season. so far more than 507 canceled including the new year's winter day when served classic an all-star weekend. nhl commissioner gary bettman says the league will not play a season with less than 48 games per team. a deal with the players association needs to be reached within the next few weeks to save the season. there are no talks scheduled between the two sides as of now. the lockout is now on its 87th day. san of a football coach mike mcintyre is leading the spartans to take over at at colorado in coach and a pact well. mcintyre transformed a once welty money took over three years ago into a 10 game winner and a top 25 ranking this year. many felt cal would go after mcintyre but they went with sonny

manufactures the heat exchangers, you have all the engineering and construction firms like kbr, or bechtelunately is private, they're going to be the ones who will gain the infrastructure spending benefit from all this. and i think royal dutch shell would be another one to take a look at because they actually have contracts to take lng exports from a facility called freeport which i think may be the next one that is actually approved by the u.s. government. >> yeah, because that -- that's some multiyear play, i would think. and i mean, i figure we could power the grid with natural gas, and then run so many things off the grid. i just -- it's very exciting. it seems like it's a game changer for the u.s. economy. if we don't mess it up. >> yeah, the shell revolution is a game danger, again, if we don't mess it up. it is already making a difference and one other side benefit is that our carbon emissions are back down to roughly 1992 levels because of the replacement of coal with natural gas. >> what about solar, wind, all the alternative stuff? it gets harder and harder to see that being real