Posted on 04/30/2010 9:10:14 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
Glenn Beck vs. Joel Rogers, King of the Progressives
If Fox News commentator, Glenn Beck is right, Joel Rogers may be the man behind Obama and the entire Progressive Movement. Not a far stretch as Progressives got their start in Wisconsin, where Joel teaches law, political science and sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Thursday morning, Joel was a featured speaker at an Earth Day conference in Chicago on public transportation. Needless to say, he’s all for it!
But Beck has connected the dots on his magic blackboards (He needs about three or four now, at least!) as he ties Joel Rogers as the man behind most of the Progressive movement’s organizations. The focus of today’s program was the pending Cap and Trade bill, now in the Senate. Back in the early 1990s, Obama and his close friend and adviser, Valerie Jarrett, arranged for funding Chicago’s Climate Credit Exchange from the Joyce Foundation. The exchange is already trading carbon credits, the core to Cap & Trade. Such an exchange is a must have to institute the program.
Next, Beck relates how Franklin Raines, one of Obama’s principal fund raisers in 2008, had purchased the technology for managing Cap & Trade while the head of Fannie Mae. Why would Fannie Mae, a mortgage lending entity, invest in such software? As a Government Secured Enterprise, it gives Uncle Sugar a piece of a potential $10 TRILLION dollar prize.
Everybody is in on this caper. Beck uses the film “Oceans Eleven” (the crappy remake) as an analogy, but I think “Kelly’s Heroes” may be more to the point. Even the band and grave diggers are in on this scheme. The Apollo Alliance, ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, Goldman Sachs, Al Gore, Vance Jones, Bill Ayers, and a partridge in a pear tree. At the center of them all, keeping everybody in synch, is Joel Rogers. He has his own group, COWS, which focuses on spreading the Progressive message in Wisconsin, Emerald Cities, which is into urban planning for the New World Order, and the Brookings Institute, to keep the egg-heads in line.
Joel Rogers belongs to just about all of them, or has ties through other cross-over groups like The New Party and Change to Win, where Andy Stern is now hanging out in since leaving SEIU. Another key player is Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, who’s name pops up a lot, too. She’s CEO of Green for All, was a bigwig in the AFL-CIO, and works with a host of groups like Working Partnerships, USA, National Alliance for Fair Employment Partnership for Working Families and Emerald Cities. When you check out these groups, you will see people serving on several of them. It’s all one big happy Progressive family. Naturally, all are in favor of Cap and Trade. Is Beck hitting pay-dirt finally? Is Cap & Trade the next step towards a totalitarian state?
That did not seem a troll-like post. He was stating some plausible concerns. Also he has been around FR a heck of a lot longer than you.
Seems to me disagreement is tolerated on FR. Albeit there is a certain level of rudeness that is not. And being a conservative site, I have noticed that being rude in favor of conservatism is far more tolerated than the other way around (photo shopped images making fun of liberals are tolerated but not of making fun of conservatives). However other than a bit of double standard on the prankster side, for serious debate all views seem to be tolerated.
Perhaps the participants need to be bloodied a bit...
Non-sequiter, since true progressives do not believe in God.
USAF70,
Sorry for the delayed reply...
You are welcome to use it.
Hopefully they will listen.
Your friend in liberty,
Painesright
You are welcome for the post (copy paste and share all you want) and you are 100% correct in your assessment of why it was so important for Obama to be the frontman on the inside in order for them to be able to pull this off.
Very Well Said! Deserves repeating:
“The differences between conservatives hanging out together and progressives hanging out together is that conservatives do not plot to control every aspect of individual liberty under the auspices of big government.
On the other hand, the progressive, left wingers are always involved in enterprises that seek to manipulate people to do their bidding. . . .”
And for their benefit, I must add.
IOW, they are seeking to enslave us!
Dick, That is simply a GREAT POST!
It deserves its own thread!
(In my best Elvis voice...)
Thank you — thank you very much!
Y por mi amigos, muchas gracias.
Thanks for the plug!!
You are most welcome.
Actually, he's starting to learn a lot more then you think.
I remember when and how I first became involved in the "Patriot movement"
I met a man named John M and he was telling about driver's licenses. I told him he was full of sh*t. He challenged me to prove him wrong.
Needless to say I dug into it like a madman on a quest and what I found out shocked the hell out of me.
What Glenn is finding out, is the old saying, "truth is stranger then fiction" really is true.
Granted there is a lot of falsehoods, disinformation, outright lies, etc out there. That's why it takes a lot of deep research to find the truth.
Like it said on a TV program I really enjoyed but, is no longer on the tube, "the truth is out there"
Shal ' aam
AAPiY
Mikey
Even bill clinton is not that hard up.
I don’t know about that, after all he did marry Hitlery didn’t he?
Second only to the IRS and the Federal Reserve (which isn't Federal nor has any reserves)
Yeah, but that was only to get himself connected to the Chicago Crime Syndicate...same reason bobama married mobama.
Chicago gets you all the crime you need...but the wimmin are futt bugly.
So true, Mikey! It never ceases to amaze me how few people actually know or understand anything about the Fed.
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