http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/40154/
Assembling the Team
During 2000 and 2001, the Joyce Foundation, a progressive trust with assets near $1 billion, known for funding groups like Center for American Progress and Tides Foundation, provided grants to CCX totaling $1.1 million. State Senator Obama served on the foundation’s board of directors during that time and was instrumental in awarding the grants.
Shortly after the first grant was approved, the president of The Joyce Foundation, Paula DiPerna, left to join the executive team of CCX. Other notables with familiar names soon followed.
• Former Vice-President Al Gore became part-owner of CCX when his company, Generation Investment Management, made a sizeable investment. Gore brought with him his senior partner at GIM, David Blood, former CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, along with a company chalk full of former Goldman Sachs’ executives
• Goldman Sachs itself soon joined the team buying a ten percent interest in CCX
• Maurice Strong, once linked to Tongsun Park, the central figure in the United Nation’s oil-for-food scandal in 2005 and one of the architects of the Kyoto Protocol, joined the CCX board of directors
• Carlton Bartels was one of the first, and perhaps most important, additions to the CCX roster. As CEO of a company called CO2e, Bartels developed and delivered the actual guts of the exchange — a system for facilitating and managing the actual carbon trades
Strange Bedfellows
Just three weeks after filing for a patent for his carbon trade system, Bartels was killed during the attacks of 9/11. Bartels’ death opened the door for a new partner to join CCX, easily the oddest fit of them all: Fannie Mae. In a move still unexplained, the quasi-governmental mortgage agency, led by CEO Franklin Raines, purchased the rights to the system from Bartel’s widow. A patent on the invention was granted to Raines and Fannie Mae on November 7, 2006, ironically, the day after the Democrats regained control of Congress. According to Barbara Hollingsworth of the Washington Examiner, the patent covers both the “cap” and “trade” parts of Obama’s top domestic energy initiative and gives Fannie Mae proprietary control over the automated trading system used by Sandor’s CCX.
When asked about the patent recently Fannie Mae communications director Amy Bonitatibus told the Washington Examiner, “Fannie Mae earns no money on this patent. We can’t conjecture as to the cap-and-trade legislation.” A source close to Fannie Mae, however, says a plan is in place to funnel future earnings from the patent to a non-profit housing organization called Enterprise Community Partners. Ironically, Raines, who left Fannie Mae in 2004 amidst allegations that he inflated earnings reports in order to collect higher bonuses ($52 million in bonuses over 5-years; $90 million in total compensation), serves on the board of trustees at Enterprise. In a continuation of theme, Goldman Sachs also has a representative on the board in the person of Alicia Glen.
La Cosa Nostra looks like American Idol compared to the ciminal element in the current Gangster Government we are saddled with.
Have you ever been so mad?
How convenient...I'd like to know more was he invited to visit someone in one of the buildings?
Are any of our "Big WIgs' connected to binLadin, other than his brother or perhaps through his brother. Kill 3,000 so the murder of one is not obvious....
OR....Did he just have an office there?
~~~Off normal topic: PLEASE, please, please .. pass this far and wide .. see #25 .. to the sane media, passionate patriot politicians, conservative think tanks, investigative teams, warriors for truth.... EVERYWHERE you can.
WE MUST TRY TO END THIS MADNESS!
Crime Inc.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591790,00.html
Crime Inc.: What ‘Greening of America’ Means
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/40154/
Why Does Crime Inc. Matter to You?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592263,00.html
the Baca is on top of one of the largest aquifers in the world, certainly in North America. The water rights alone are worth giant amounts.
Beginning in 1979, Hanne Marstrand Strong, wife of Maurice Strong, Chairman of AZL Resources, Inc. invited several organizations to locate in the Baca after a visit from prophet, Glen Anderson in 1978. These included the Lindisfarne Association; the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies; the Charmelite Order (Spiritual Life Institute); 200 acres to the Tibetan Monastery, a Tibetan Order of Buddhists; the Village Group (an alternative community); and Rediscovery-Four Corners (a camp for American Indians). More religious centers have been added.
http://www.bacapoa.org/Welcome-to-the-Baca-Grande-Property-Owner%27s-Association~120567~14064.htm
O M G...... will we ever dig ourselves out of this?