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All the Money in the World: From the Stashed Millions in Indian Country Non-Profits to the Spin of Social Media
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 29, 2024
Navajo President Buu Nygren announced solar energy for Navajo homes today -- but doesn't point out the price. It's a lot of money for Dine' elderly, starting at $80 a month. For families of four, the solar energy cost is $240 a month.
Navajo Power Home is a for-profit business that the Navajo president is promoting today at a session with U.S. heads in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Meanwhile, there are millions of dollars in grants for solar being given to non-profits for homes on the Navajo Nation and across Indian country -- where is the free solar?
The solar business being promoted, Navajo Power Home, is partnered with Qcells.
Who is the owner of Qcells?
Qcells was purchased out of bankruptcy by the Hanwha Group in 2012, a South Korean business conglomerate. Qcells now operates as a subsidiary of Hanwha Solutions, the group's energy and petrochemical company.
During today's session, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a $5 million grant to the business that the Navajo President is promoting, Navajo Power Home.
Censored News Censored by Facebook
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg now admits that he caved in to Biden and censored Facebook content.
All of our accounts -- for Brenda Norrell, publisher, and Censored News -- at Facebook and Twitter were recently shut down. It was the second time at Facebook.
Zuckerberg only admits to Congress that two subjects were censored.
Here's what we posted on Facebook before being shut down:
Spy balloons over South Dakota; Interior Sec. Deb Haaland and Biden's push for lithium mining in Native Ceremonial Places; uranium mining in the Havasupai homeland of the Grand Canyon; and the Biden administration teaming up with Rio Tinto in federal court, to attack Apache Stronghold for a copper mine at Oak Flat.
We also posted about the federal court case in California seeking to charge Biden and his appointees with genocide in Palestine.
And we posted articles about the Raytheon Dine' Facility on the Navajo Nation, the Raytheon building on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson and the missile maker's partnership with the university.
We shared our articles on Lakota youths support for Palestine and the United Nations support for clemency for Leonard Peltier.
We wrote about Haaland's announcement in Farmington, N.M., that the atomic bomb industry, Los Alamos Labs, would lead the so-called "green energy transition" in the Four Corners region.
We also wrote about the CEO of the Navajo Transitional Energy Company, a tribal enterprise based in Farmington, N.M., agreeing to lead the drilling operation for lithium into Hualapai's Sacred Ceremonial Place, at their Sacred Spring in Arizona, and the fact that the CEO joined the board of the Australian company that will profit -- Hawkstone Energy aka Arizona Lithium.
As for Twitter, we could post, but our links for Censored News had been blocked since 2016 when we identified those responsible for the attack with dogs at Standing Rock, including the off-duty police, private security and an undercover operative in the camps.
During that time, we shared articles on how Obama refused to stop the militarized law enforcement's brutal attacks on Standing Rock water protectors with rubber bullets, batons and other weapons, and how Obama misled water protectors to believe he would stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
All the Money in the World: Dirty Oil and Dark Non-Profits
As an update on our series about non-profits in Indian country stashing away millions, instead of distributing it, there is a point made in the film, "All the Money in the World."
The film is about the kidnapping of the grandson of the richest man in the world, who made his fortune from Saudi oil. But to keep from paying taxes, he put the money in a charitable trust. This meant he could invest it -- but not spend it. J Paul Getty invested in million dollar paintings.
Which brings us back to the millions stashed away in Indian country non-profits.
Why would anyone have $10 million, or a $100 million, in a cash bank account?
Why do non-profits in Indian country have $44 million or more "invested" instead of distributing it to those in need?
In most cases, the money was donated for Native Americans in need, those living on the land, and those on the frontline of struggle.
Until now, it's been the best kept secret in Indian country.
The non-Indian daughters of the sculptor of Crazy Horse Memorial received a combined salary of a half million dollars a year as co-CEOs.
Censored News three part series shows a quarter billion dollars stashed away in Indian country non-profits, in bank accounts, real estate, and investments.
The non-profit tax returns are at ProPublica Explorer. Some are flagged by ProPublica due to the fact that execs and board members are giving big money to their children, including $20,000 grants. Others are paying huge salaries to family members. At one non-profit, the CEO's grants to his non-Indian father totaled one-half million dollars.
Some are operated by frauds.
Censored News series on non-profits in Indian country:
Hoodwinked by a Fistful of Dollars: The Runaway Train of Non-Profits in Indian Country
Millions Sinking into the Rabbit Hole of Non-Profits
The Money Pump: Non-Profits in Indian Country: Fraud, Secrecy and Deception
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