Posted on 05/05/2010 9:05:22 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 05/05/2010 9:09:47 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they’ve taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.
Of course, Soros made his money the old-fashioned way: using letters of credit from shadowy billionaires with untraceable assets to borrow money from international banks to purchase heavily-leveraged options against target currencies in order to move the market and cash in on the ensuing panic. Isn’t that how all honest people make a living?
The horrific stench coming from the Whitehouse is so bad that the flies and maggots have left for better conditions.
http://blog.kievukraine.info/2005/08/obama-part-of-group-locked-up-at.html
Obama part of group locked up at Russian airport // U.S. delegation stripped of passports as guards demand to inspect plane
Chicago Sun-Times (IL) - Monday, August 29, 2005
Author: Lynn Sweet, Sun-Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) were not allowed to leave a Russian airport Sunday and were locked in a room briefly.
The incident prevented their departure for about three hours, but Obama told the Sun-Times “it ended up not being a very big deal.”
The senators had their passports seized by local officials at an airport in Perm. Obama said the officials demanded, unsuccessfully, to inspect the DC-9 military aircraft being used by the congressional delegation for the trip.
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Although he was on a first-time diplomatic mission, Obama has traveled extensively, spending part of his youth in Indonesia and visiting Kenya, where his father was born. He noted that as a back- packing college student he had “a lot less leverage than this time.”
Obama , a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Lugar, its chairman, left Wednesday for a trip to inspect sites where nuclear and biological weapons are slated to be destroyed in Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. On Sunday, the U.S. group was scheduled to fly from Perm to Kiev, Ukraine. But border guards wanted proof that the group’s aircraft — which Obama said looked like a “mini-Air Force One” — was really an official U.S. government plane, which would be exempt from an inspection.
Robert Gibbs, Obama ‘s spokesman traveling with him, said in an e-mail that “the border guards took our passports and demanded to inspect our aircraft, which we refused. We were moved to a room to wait.”
“At one point they were demanding to inspect virtually everything, including the gifts their representatives at the missile facility had given us.” The border guard said “they were acting on the authority of the FSB,” the Russian intelligence agency.
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A foreign classroom for junior senator - Barack Obama tours the former Soviet Union, monitors the destruction of Cold War munitions—and takes notes from a senior statesman
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Friday, September 23, 2005
Author: Jeff Zeleny, Tribune correspondent
EXCERPT
Obama does not pretend to be an expert. Often aides hand him scraps of paper with additional facts, just in case the senator needs more details. It does, however, create the occasional moment of awkwardness.
At a news conference in Moscow, Andrey Lebedev, a correspondent for the Russian newspaper Izvestia, asked Obama : “Some months ago, you stated that some Russian nuclear facilities are poorly guarded with doors ajar, sentries walking around with no ammunition. Where did you take that information from? It has been consistently denied by Russian military.”
The senator paused for a few moments, before saying: “I have to confess I don't know the quote you're referring to. I'd have to actually see it. I don't recall that particular statement.”
In fact, the quote was repeated nearly word for word from a speech Obama had delivered May 25 on the Senate floor to highlight his interest in nuclear proliferation. After the news conference, the senator's director of foreign policy, Mark Lippert, quickly approached the reporter and explained that the information was taken from a report in the National Journal and had not been refuted.
As Obama neared the end of the trip, he seemed to grow bolder in his questioning. The delegation had reached Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic on the Caspian Sea, where the discovery of oil has injected a new stream of wealth into the country. (Not for everyone, Obama learned the night before at dinner, considering doctors here average only about $700 a year.)
For about 90 minutes one morning, Lugar, Obama and a dozen aides listened to a presentation by executives from BP, the international oil giant. In the middle of the discussion, after they showed a slide of oil prices and consumption, Obama raised his hand and interrupted.
“You need to do a little update,” he said, pointing to their chart that showed prices for a barrel of oil long before they skyrocketed. “Somebody is getting rich. I don't want anyone to think you were going to lose your shirt.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1910887/posts
The Money and Connections Behind Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade
Human Events ^ | 10/03/2007 | Deborah Corey Barnes
EXCERPT
GIM’s “founding partners” are studded with officials from Goldman Sachs. They include David Blood, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM); Mark Ferguson, former co-head of GSAM pan-European research; and Peter Harris, who headed GSAM international operations. Another founding partner is Peter Knight, who is the designated president of GIM. He was Sen. Al Gore’s chief of staff from 1977-1989 and the campaign manager of the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign.
Like CCX, the ECX has about 80 member companies, including Barclays, BP, Calyon, Endesa, Fortis, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Shell, and ECX has contracted with the European Union to further develop a futures market in carbon trading. What’s in it for the companies? They will benefit either by investing in carbon credits or by receiving subsidies for doing so.
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http://lugar.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=255829
Lugar Farm is first in Indiana to provide carbon sequestration offsets on the Chicago Climate Exchange
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http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2010/02/16/1
1. LOBBYING: Conoco, BP, Caterpillar leave climate coalition (Greenwire, 02/16/2010)
Michael Burnham, E&E senior reporter
ConocoPhillips, Caterpillar Inc. and BP America have left the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a coalition of more than two-dozen companies and environmental groups lobbying Congress to pass greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade legislation.
BP America, a unit of London-based BP PLC, notified fellow U.S. CAP members of its decision by letter today. Houston-based ConocoPhillips broke the news in a press release.
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USCAP Members Include:
* AES
* Alcoa
* Alstom
* Boston Scientific Corporation
* Chrysler
* Deere & Company
* The Dow Chemical Company
* Duke Energy
* DuPont
* Environmental Defense Fund
* Exelon Corporation
* Ford Motor Company
* FPL Group
* General Electric
* General Motors Corporation
* Honeywell
* Johnson & Johnson
* Natural Resources Defense Council
* The Nature Conservancy
* NRG Energy
* PepsiCo
* Pew Center on Global Climate Change
* PG&E Corporation
* PNM Resources
* Rio Tinto
* Shell
* Siemens Corporation
* Weyerhaeuser
* World Resources Institute
I could tell you what I wished for Mr. Soros, but I’d be banned. Suffice it to say that I prefer to aim for a high caliber of discussion.
You will never, ever hear any Republican or Republican organization mention this.
My turn to "maybe" alert you: U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
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The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.
The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions -- show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf.
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OOOOOPS
I remember well during the presidential primary the radio spots. King Hussein stated:”I don’t take money from oil companies!”Just another apple picking Demorat.
Great graphic!
Money Pit: Freddie Mac Seeks $10.6 Billion More From Treasury
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2507476/posts
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Former Barney Frank staffer now top Goldman Sachs lobbyist
By: Timothy P. Carney
Examiner Columnist
04/28/09 6:30 PM EDT
Goldman Sachs’ new top lobbyist was recently the top staffer to Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., on the House Financial Services Committee chaired by Frank.
Michael Paese, a registered lobbyist for the Securities Industries and Financial Markets Association since he left Frank’s committee in September, will join Goldman as director of government affairs, a role held last year by former Tom Daschle intimate, Mark Patterson, now the chief of staff at the Treasury Department.
This is not Paese’s first swing through the Wall Street-Congress revolving door: he previously worked at JP Morgan and Mercantile Bankshares, and in between served as senior minority counsel at the Financial Services Committee.
It’s one cozy government criminal enterprise. They flit from agency to agency and nobody gets indicted. Instead they just get rich. ON OUR DIME. At our expense and it never ends.
Lol, makes me think of that MASSIVE neck piece the Saudi’s gave him.
BP = Barak Petroleum?
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