Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/17/2010 7:51:51 AM PDT by jazminerose
Obama’s efforts to deflect criticism onto BP will be blunted when the public figures out that BP and Obama are singing from the same hymnal on energy policy. Three oil companies are on board for cap and tax, among them is BP.
The president would have you believe that the cause of the oil calamity is the free market. BP, according to Obama, is a wild eyed, anti-government free marketeer. Quite the contrary:
"BP was a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobby dedicated to passing a cap-and-trade bill. As the nation’s largest producer of natural gas, BP saw many ways to profit from climate legislation, notably by persuading Congress to provide subsidies to coal-fired power plants that switched to gas.
In February, BP quit USCAP without giving much of a reason beyond saying the company could lobby more effectively on its own than in a coalition that is increasingly dominated by power companies. They made out particularly well in the House’s climate bill, while natural gas producers suffered.
But two months later, BP signed off on Kerry’s Senate climate bill, which was hardly a capitalist concoction. One provision BP explicitly backed, according to Congressional Quarterly and other media reports: a higher gas tax. The money would be earmarked for building more highways, thus inducing more driving and more gasoline consumption."
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
ping
Note the Soros connection via Podesta & CAP:
“BP also employs lobbying firm, the Podesta Group. That would be the same John Podesta who runs the Center for American Progress—a George Soros funded left wing think tank.”
Sick.
Use all the RAT/RINO dirt/corruption/lies/votes against the American people’s wishes. They are the enemies of freedom. Use everything against them as campaign material for the November 2nd election.
GOP leadership/RNC better find their spine and guts, like yesterday, to take the lead in exposing the corruption that is this Congress and their handlers. Expose, expose, expose and then highlight and expose their voter fraud that was rampant in 2008.
You bet they are.
I'm pissed !!
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.
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“Just three weeks after filing for a patent for his carbon trade system, Bartels was killed during the attacks of 9/11.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046736/posts
“Guess who’s been involved intimately with Fannie Mae? Does the name Jamie Gorelick ring a bell?
This woman is everywhere, and
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Jamie Gorelick got a 26 million payout when she left the place.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2053986/posts
Jamie Gorelick’s Cloudy Memory (mega clintonista wall gag alert)
American Thinker ^ | 7-29-08 | Ed Lasky
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1460263/posts
Fitting the Pieces Together—Able Danger, Jamie Gorelick & 9/11
The Strata-Sphere ^ | August 9, 2005 | Bronc1
HT: taildragger
More on Mrs. Gorelick....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2526486/posts?page=45#45
Her law firm buddy, his job, and her being on the board with a firm working on Carbon Sequestering is such a co-wink-a-dink..
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HT: Diogenesis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1119404/posts
Jamie Gorelick Authored Conflict of Interest Booklet
Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2004
In 1989, Jamie Gorelick authored a 21 page booklet for The American Bar Association titled: “Conflicts of Interest in a Changing Legal Environment : Traps for the Unwary.”
Also in 1989, she co-authored “Destruction of Evidence” with Stephen Marzen and Lawrence Solum. Published in New York: Wiley Law Publications, Description: xxvii, 516 p. ; 27 cm. Series: Trial practice library.
And again in 1989, she authored a 26 pages booklet for The American Bar Association titled: “Structuring the Internal Investigation When a Corporation is Faced With Parallel Civil, Criminal and Administrative Proceedings.”
In 1988, for The American Bar Association, she authored a 41 page booklet: “Effective Representation of the Corporation, Its Directors, Officers, and Employees in Grand Jury and Agency Investigations.
In 1987, she co-authored a two volume book with Roger C Spaeder & Cono R Namorato: “Federal Enforcement 1987 : Representing Corporations, Their Officers, Directors and Employees, April 2-3, 1987, Loew’s L’Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.: program materials. Published by The Center, Washington, D.C.
Then, in 2001, the Department of Justice published a volume of her addresses as Assistant Attorney General.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2536222/posts
BP was founder of Cap & Trade Lobby and is linked to John Podesta, The Apollo alliance and Obama
Washington Examiner ^ | June 15, 2010 | Tim Carney
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2536351/posts
(Jamie) Gorelick’s new challenge: Backing BP
Politico ^ | June 17, 2010 | Abby Phillip
Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2010
You are either a Patriot or a slave. Time to choose is NOW.
I told you so... BP signed on to the Kyoto treaty, way back in the nineties. BP opposed drilling in the ANWR. BP sees handicapping the US economy as a plus.
CONOCO and Shell signed on to this new cap and trade as well. George Soros and Warren Buffet are heavily invested in CONOCO and seem to be influencing the operations. There have been many changes, much of which don’t seem to be good.
Basically, it’s fascism. The oil companies agree to the draconian government regulations and taxes, which are passed on to the consumers in exchange for favorable government contracts and being allowed to continue operating. BP was the first and were the lead company in every area where they operated. The government regulators mostly looked the other way, except when the unions complained.
My guess is that BP is getting something out of all this money $27billion fund, just like Goldman Sachs got control of the Chicago carbon exchange. Remember the ties that bind???
BP sabotaged it's own well ....
I don’t believe that BP sabotaged it’s own well. It was negligence, not intentional, negligence inspired by BP’s less than sincere concern for the US environment.
Soros is also heavily invested, really heavily, in Petrobras. He’ll make a lot of money when the rigs Obama ordered idled move on off to Brazil:
http://joytiz.com/2010/obamas-boss-sees-silver-lining-in-bp-spill/
Yes, I know about Soros and Petrobas, but both he and Buffet increased their holdings in Conoco this past year, as well. I believe that we have seen Soros’ influence on the running of CONOCO in the past several years.
From the beginning, Soros and friends are the puppeteers of Obama. Dance, Obaba, dance.
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