I have never been impressed by the messenger and always inspect the message, which I now understand is not the norm. People prefer to filter out discordant information. As such, I am frequently confronted with, "Where did you hear that...." Well, here you go.
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Barack Hussein Obama has made an executive order to take control of the rural land. While we get distracted by politics and economics, Obama continues on his central control of our lives.
Billionaire George Soros gave advice and direction on how President Obama should allocate so-called “stimulus” money in a series of regular private meetings and consultations with White House senior advisers even as Soros was making investments in areas affected by the stimulus program.
It’s just one more revelation featured in the blockbuster new book that continues to rock Washington,Throw Them All Out, authored by Breitbart News editor Peter Schweizer.
Mr. Soros met with Mr. Obama’s top economist on February 25, 2009 and twice more with senior officials in the Old Executive Office Building on March 24th and 25th as the stimulus plan was being crafted. Later, Mr. Soros also participated in discussions on financial reform.
Then, in the first quarter of 2009, Mr. Soros went on a stock buying spree in companies that ultimately benefited from the federal stimulus.
Soros doubled his holdings in medical manufacturer Hologic, a company that benefited from stimulus spending on medical systems
Soros tripled his holdings in fiber channel and software maker Emulus, a company that wound up scoring a large amount of federal funds going to infrastructure spending
Soros bought 210,000 shares in Cisco Systems, which came up big in the stimulus lottery
Soros also bought Extreme Networks, which, months later, said it was expanding broadband to rural America “as part of President Obama’s broadband strategy”
Soros bought 1.5 million shares in American Electric Power, a company Mr. Obama gave $1 billion to in June 2009
Soros bought shares in utility company Ameren, which bagged a $540 million Department of Energy loan
Soros bought 250,000 shares of Public Service Enterprise Group, 500,000 shares of NRG Energy, and almost a million shares of Entergy—all companies that came up winners in the Department of Energy taxpayer giveaway that produced the Solyndra debacle
Soros bought into BioFuel Energy, a company that benefitted when the EPA announced a regulation on ethanol
Soros bought Powerspan in April 2009. Just weeks later, the clean-energy company landed $100 million from the Department of Energy
In the second quarter of 2009, Soros bought education technology giant Blackboard, which became a big recipient of education stimulus money
Soros also bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe and CSX, both beneficiaries of Mr. Obama’s plans for revitalizing the railroads
Soros bought Cognizant Technology Solutions, which scored stimulus funds in education and health care technology
Soros also bought 300,000 shares of Constellation Energy Group and 4.6 million shares of Covanta, both of which landed taxpayers’ money through the stimulus, the former of which bagged $200 million
Irene recommended a extensive article about Mr. Obama's past.
I got tired reading it, so here is the link for you, from the American Thinker. Don't get me wrong, I will finish it; I am not laying off the work. This is a critical essay, one Thomas More would say needs to be digested, not tasted.
What I find interesting is when I put in the link reference, one came up with short one with a "goog" in it. Nothing to do with the link I, then, manually put in. See how we become suspicious of conspiracies.
As we all know, Mr. Obama is not a President under the natural born provision of the Constitution. This is interesting in that he has been signing bills for years. I suspect we have no Mr. Spock in our court systems and this will be overlooked. No standing, don't you know.
When you read the article, you can see how the effort to eliminate all personal data, writings, and history of out president could be accomplished. You can see how the Senate had no problems with "natural born" concerns. You can see you judges disagreed with themselves and found the public had no right to hear the truth, which will come out in time, but for now, we are under assault and have to deal with this reality.
Anyway, an interesting quote
...After the overthrow [Sukarno by the CIA], Ann ran a "micro-financing" project, financed by the Ford Foundation, in Indonesia's most vulnerable areas. Supervising the funding at Ford in the late '60s was Peter Geithner, whose son would eventually serve hers as U.S. secretary of the treasury. In addition to the Ford Foundation, the list of her employers is a directory of America's official, semi-official, and clandestine organs of influence: the United States Information Agency, the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank. While running a project for five years in Pakistan, she lived in Lahore's Hilton International. Nothing small time, never mind hippyish.
In sum, though the only evidence available is circumstantial, Barack Obama, Jr.'s mother, father, stepfather, grandmother, and grandfather seem to have been well connected, body and soul, with the U.S. government's then extensive and well-financed trans-public-private influence operations....
Curiouser and curiouser. Perhaps, we are looking for the oligarchs when we should be looking for fascists.
THE TASK
How do we take this simple information, with its ominous overtones, and get the information to the even simpler voters?
I am serious, by the way. The typical voter hears about taxing rich people or thinks about his government benefits from Obama's stash and has no clue they are on the road to serfdom. Very nice, hard working people just care about the ball game. Awakening the giant is a monumental task; perhaps one only a Glen Beck could address.
Greg's approach is to ridicule. I suppose we can adopt the techniques of the left in order to stop them, but I certainly don't like it. We certainly have easy targets.
We are faced with most of the world faced generations ago. The ruling class is using fronts who talk in terms of Marxism in order to get power from the uneducated, whose ranks they grow. (Recall a prior blog about the Grachii brothers of ancient Rome.) We should be able to see what is going on by now, while the other side is much better at propaganda with such things as NLP and the New York Times.
As to as to a simple NLP defense, we can merely send around photos like the one above, one of condescension and arrogance, not populism. No one said propaganda cannot be true. This is the Mussolini pose we all know, that of the narcissist.
Before the Obama election I wrote a blog from the premier expert on narcissim who warned us. You can go back and find it.
I can't believe I am back at looking at Hawaiian birth certificates. If you recall, I did so before the election and noted the problems that came up - and were ignored. Anyway, this entry is weird. A blog person was looking at the recently released, allegedly certified birth certificate of Mr. Obama. Mildly interesting:
There really is a problem with the "4 ," but that would only be an interesting conspiracy theory fact. The August 4 is clearly not in line with the year. Clearly, the form was reinserted to be typed is original. Anyway,
Here is the new certificate:
I took note of the various pixel anomalies found by the blog author and how hand drawn boxes are identical re pixels, the logical implication being one was cut and pasted, but I looked at the document like a normal person: The number is 61-10641 and the birthday is August 4th.
Twins were born the next day in the same place (the pixel people think those were the basis of a forgery). Here is are the forms.
You can look up the documents on your own to verify this, but the twins who were born on
APRIL 5, 1961: Certificates: 61-10637abd 61-10638
Mr. Obama:
APRIL 4, 1961: Certificate 6-10641
So, the first question a good trial lawyer would ask is:
How is it the twins were born the day after and have earlier numbers?
If this is not explained, people should go to jail.
I have been dubious of the certificate of live birth, but found it sufficient to complain that Mr. Obama was a born a British subject, but, now, I am a birther.
Please let me know what I am missing, if anything?
I kept a wonderful article, but I wonder why. Those of us who know, know. Those of us not paying attention, don't pay attention.
Most of us lead lives of quiet stupidity punctuated by judgment against that which is not part of the hum of meaningless existence. Being able to reject and mock make us feel good. After all, only gods can judge others. We need no longer read Lord of the Flies
In the slaving days, after the British made the trade illegal, the slaves were often pulled by their chains overboard by the first few who were thrown into the ocean. There was a chain reaction, literally, as the crime of trading slaves vanished with the last person to go into the water. I read one story where the British came upon an nearly empty ship with many bowls of farina on a table, still hot. Today, we have slaves who volunteer to jump and I do not want to be attached.
Below is good excerpt, I thought, that may awaken some people, but those who know, know and wonder what to do. Those who don't know, won't even read the excerpt, which, now that I think about it, requires some awareness to even understand. Anyway, most people will just skim the crazy conspiracy talk, having been trained to think that conspiracy means fiction, then check in at the concentration camp.
I usually find a funny or clever photo to capture the eye, but what's the point? Those in the know, will be amused, but don't need it. Those not in the know will add the image to cascade of meaningless data that passes by, as Vonnegut put it, their peep holes onto the world.
...Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:
"Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one. (CourtesyDiscover the Networks.org)
Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.
In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create:
By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention.
No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features:
The offensive organizes previously unorganized groups eligible for government benefits but not currently receiving all they can.
The offensive seeks to identify new beneficiaries and/or create new benefits.
The overarching aim is always to impose new stresses on target systems, with the ultimate goal of forcing their collapse.
Capitalizing on the racial unrest of the 1960s, Cloward and Piven saw the welfare system as their first target. They enlisted radical black activist George Wiley, who created the National Welfare Reform Organization (NWRO) to implement the strategy. Wiley hired militant foot soldiers to storm welfare offices around the country, violently demanding their "rights." According to a City Journal article by Sol Stern, welfare rolls increased from 4.3 million to 10.8 million by the mid-1970s as a result, and in New York City, where the strategy had been particularly successful, "one person was on the welfare rolls... for every two working in the city's private economy."...
No, you may think," this is crazy stuff. Who would be so diabolical?" You may think how good you are for being sensitive to those in need. You may vote for Clinton because she speaks for women or some other nonsense. What is this the Stockholm syndrome?
Then, you will go pay your school tax, your real estate tax, your federal income tax, your state income tax, your telephone tax, gas tax, tolls, social security premium, and read about how your electricity costs may double as that wonderful solution to no problem "cap and tax" may be enacted. At least, we can feel good about supporting all the illegal aliens who can get here. This year, Clinton lectured the Pakistani: tax everything, we do.
There is a cliff up ahead, to change metaphors. I don't think I can watch anymore. There are a few historical instances of peoples throwing themselves off a cliff to avoid defeat or slavery, or to retain honor , but I can't find an instance where they jumped off because, well, come on, what is the big deal?
It may be time to set up a monastery to keep a library of what is being destroyed by the self-absorbed. those who don't trust other people, and a medieval religion. Or perhaps, find America's progeny and help dignity reawaken there. I wonder where that might be?
I read earlier today, from a note Rod sent in, that Mr. Obama once recited the beginning of Islamic Call to Prayer in proper accent. This is the part used when one declares himself to be Muslim - forever.
No, you may claim, as he says he is a Christian and even went to a church claiming to be Christian! But don't forget, Islam condones lying on behalf of itself and that the Chicago revolutionary church reflects no Christianity that I am familiar with.
I would submit that finding what appears in front of you as not possible because it doesn't make sense only applies where your sense is the standard. In the meantime, the administration is fixing up 5,500 mosques throughout the world.
You may recall doubting my past claims of Marxism, socialism, economic collapse, and destabilization of the Constitution. I doubt you harbor any current dissension.
You may want to hold your skepticism in abeyance and think about what you see.
The New Yorker gets it.
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A photo of Judge James Burge, Ohio, while he was discussing the death penalty by injection with USA Today:
If you don't get what is going on, there are those who do and they count on you being asleep.
In his new book, Scott Rasmussen says, “The gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule over them may be as big today as the gap between the colonies and England during the 18th century.”
As to the recent jump in the "strongly approve" numbers, it may be that Mr. Obama is on vacation. It does look like a solid 26% strongly approve and considering what is happening, they will drown as the Titanic slides into the water, mostly singing the same song. Some may wonder as the cold water hits.
What is interesting is some more people seem to be strongly positive, but
From a stock pickers perspective, the approval rate is hitting resistance at 45%, but there is no uptrend. We need only wait and see what happens as the election draws near and the advertisements hit the air. I would expect the negative ions in the air will push that number down.
Mr. Obama won with some 96% of the black vote which translated into 13% of the voters. He set the Democratic record for his high of 43% of the white vote. Young white voters gave him 54% of their votes.
Obviously, Mr. Obama needs to inflame the black vote, as the novelty of a person with black DNA as a criteria to elect a leader, wears off, and somehow rekindle the white youth vote that responded to the leftist direction from the college culture, but is now out of work and listening to the real world.
I heard something once, about fooling some of the people some of the time.
In the coming election, the massive swell of black will not exist, nor that of young whites. Nonetheless, look ahead to a few months of "racism" claims everywhere and an attempt to be hip on Facebook and so on.
A final observation is that the anti-fascist vote is nearly hysterical and will turn out to vote in great numbers.
Even if there is a GOP return in November, that is not a victory for the Constitution. There are GOP hacks there that have to be culled.
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PS: as to "black" and "white"
I know I am yelling into the wind, but here is an excerpt from Biologyreference.com. There is no "race" so there can be no racism. Anyone who proclaims racism is speaking nonesense, in it original sense. If we all assume this position, there will be no "racism."
...More recently, molecular techniques have developed to examine genetic differences between individuals and populations, including karyotypes providing chromosomal number and patterns, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) hybridization,protein sequences, and nuclear andmitochondrial base sequences from ancient and modern DNA. From all this evidence, it is clear that populational, but not racial, differences do exist within the human species. Race should not be equated with ethnicity, which has a sociological meaning. Ethnicity is a self-described category that has three components—ancestry, language, and culture—that all have affinities to certain ancestral groups.... Read more: Biology of Race - Biology Encyclopedia - body, human, different, organisms, DNA, blood, used, specific, typeshttp://www.biologyreference.com/Ar-Bi/Biology-of-Race.html#ixzz0w3ZcOzm7
Inspired by Saul Alinsky, FCC 'Diversity' Chief Calls for ‘Confrontational Movement’ to Give Public Broadcasting Dominant Role in Communications
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer
you will find a break down of the Saul Alinsky method as raised by the new Obama administration as to how it can be applied to radio and TV. The government can tax and downplay our current system in favor of "public media" and eight new czars. The mind set of these statists is, finally, clear to everyone but the severely challenged, those who can't deal with facts such as time lines, you know like Governor Dean.
Statist is a very good word because the regime, though now fracturing, is made up of socialists, Marxists, "liberals" (the undefined term), oligarchs, and millions of useful idiots. Mark Levin created that term in his recent book. The collapse of the ruling clan is inevitable where power has been achieved. The main concern of normal people is that one group doesn't extinguish the others, such as the Bolsheviks. I would expect the oligarchs, the rich ruling class, will snuff out the rabble left fairly soon. Watch. They will come to our rescue.
Here is a good sample of Alinsky-think, one not especially unusual, so you get a flavor of children in power:
... Throughout history, Lloyd said, “[t]he most powerful communications tool was deliberately placed in the hands of one faction in our republic: commercial industry.” {No, I don't know of a non-commercial industry.}
“Neither Progressive era reforms nor new communications technologies have been able to correct the problems resulting from government abdication of a responsibility to advance the equal capability of citizen discourse,” Lloyd added. {What?}
“Corporate liberty has overwhelmed citizen equality,” he wrote....
Apparently, someone deliberately gave Edison the entertainment business that didn't exist before he and others invented it, and a major business to RKO before they created the radio networks. How dare these business do business. Of course, radio, movies, and TV, before they existed, should have been given to the people to run.
Also, one has to surmise, it is an abuse of liberty of the citizen where, if the citizens doesn't listen to a bad show, it folds. This is obviously undemocratic. Obviously, the government must provide funding for the citizens who are too stupid to select their own programs. This is real democracy. Enlightened censorship is democracy. Peace is War. Good is Bad.
The interesting thing to keep in mind is that the major media is already leftist, click on the title for more discussion. I don't think you can seriously listen to someone who disagrees. They are disagreeing with those they defend.
So, what we are faced with is a desire for more direct propaganda - and taxes of the commercial sector (which, surprise, means you.) We are faced with an attempt to silence any voice out of sync - hence the Internet is a target though it does not come under the FCC's enabling act. The Internet terrifies the oligarchs. They can get at Glenn Beck and Mark Levin in all manner of ways, but the Internet was established clear of the government's direct regulation. This area will require an overt fascism clear even to Silicon Valley.
Here is a parting view from Lewis:
...“It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press,” he said. “This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.”
“[T]he purpose of free speech is warped to protect global corporations and block rules that would promote democratic governance,” said Lloyd. “[T]he problem is not only the warp to our public philosophy of free speech, but that the government has abandoned its role of advancing the communications capabilities of real people.”
So, take away this: the FCC has a diversity czar dedicated to creating an Obama controlled media by declaring the current media is "commercial."
Another point to ponder is: how does this Alinksy approach to being radical (Alinksy wrote Lucifer was the first radical) work when you are actually in power? This makes no sense. Those in power need to create some other demon to attack - but they are in power. They gain power by pretending to champion the people, then when they are in power, they inflame things by attacking the people. -----
A lesson from the father of mass media control, a socialist oligarch:
The U.S. government is restricting new media's access to the Gulf oil clean up! Imagine if it did that when Katrina hit New Orleans.
CNN is stopped from filming; they are ticked: Here. Apparently, the government can treat someone taking a photo at 64 feet as a felony.
Of course, this is a move acceptable to a NAZI, the question is: why?
Is it as CNN speculates, the Obama people are attempting to hide incompetence and failure. Makes sense, could be more. And, the way this crowd works, it probably is.
Of note, I left a reply after the video and in 8 minutes it was already off page one. The vote, thusfar: 846 pro and 23 against. I will disagree with CNN - we are the enemy, here. They will figure it out, soon enough.
OK, I had the dates right for the G 20 in Toronto, just thought we were in June. It could have been the heat. I was at a track meet yesterday that was cancelled because of heat!
Below is a follow up entry on Daniel Estulin. I figure this is a good idea to add this as most people will go into their preprogrammed reaction of: another conspiracy theory. One of the major problems in our country is people are trained to obey, not think.
Anything out of the mainstream edicts elicit the "conspiracy theory" reaction. I routinely got the rolling eyes when asked about the last election and commented, quite civilly that I was not interested in a socialist government, especially one installed by stealth.
I hope it is not too late, but, at least, now people are seeing, for example, Mr. Obama is a Marxist engaged in a silent leftist drive. I know you are not rolling your eyes. Today, we will witness the take over of the banking system. Imaging if Bush tried that.
You may not think this takeover is true, after all banks are private companies. Are they? They depend upon the Fed and the federal government. They report on your activities to the government. They rely on FDIC and are forced to pay high insurance premiums to cover stupid banks in trouble. In a real economy, stupid businesses fail. This is not so when an oligarchy is saving its own. The banks will do and fund what they are told to do and fund. You are the ATM for all this.
During the "crisis" of last year, the USA Bank informed the government they did not need any TARP money - they were forced to take it. This is not American. They were threatened by the regulator, theoretically your regulator. You don't have to own the shares of a company to control it.
Fascists understand this, we poor saps think we live in a world of private business, though you spend your whole life paying taxes (which drive up all cost,) fees, attorneys, CPAs, and following a network of bizarre regulation, only to be hit with an accusation you violated a law you never heard of You manage to save money that the oligarchs steal from you through inflation (and you are not educated as to what this means). Your 401 (k) will be taken from you if the Marxists return.
Conspiracy theory?
The testimony of Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, in hearings Oct. 7 drew the most attention and criticism. Testifying for the House Committee on Education and Labor, Ghilarducci proposed that the government eliminate tax breaks for 401(k) and similar retirement accounts, such as IRAs, and confiscate workers’ retirement plan accounts and convert them to universal Guaranteed Retirement Accounts (GRAs) managed by the Social Security Administration.
This is all control, organized theft from the working drones. We are serfs exactly like the 12th Century but we don't know it. You need to decide if I am crazy. If you think I am not, you better act politically and personally.
As I have noted many times, if you gently warm a frog sitting in a pot it will stay there until it dies. On the other hand, if you drop a frog in dangerously hot water, it will leap out.
We can regain our natural consciousness by studying the origins of our country; we can return to a clear understanding of what is going on.
While it is the knee-jerk reaction that the hearings in the 1950's by the House of Representatives was the cartoon operation of one Senator, but do not forget this was a House operation, it uncovered conspiracies admitted by recent KGB retirees, and one of the key lawyers for the McCarthy hearings was Robert Kennedy. What do you know? McCarthy was a cartoon bad guy. See how we have been programmed?
Now, look at what comes out of Hollywood, to use a term for the entire film business. Look what comes out of Columbia U and Harvard, etc. The water is more than hot and we are sitting in it like morons.
Author Daniel Estulin to Shed Light on Bilderbergs with Historic Presentation at European Parliament
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
International best-selling author Daniel Estulin will make an unprecedented speech before the European Parliament on June 1st, 2010 at its headquarters in Brussels. PR Web
May 19, 2010
International best-selling author Daniel Estulin will make an unprecedented speech before the European Parliament on June 1st, 2010 at its headquarters in Brussels.
Brussels, Belgium (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 18, 2010 — International best-selling author Daniel Estulin will make an unprecedented speech before the European Parliament on June 1st, 2010 at its headquarters in Brussels.
Daniel Estulin, author of “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” and “Shadow Masters”, has been invited to speak at the European Parliament by Mario Borghezio, the most senior Member of European Parliament from Italy. The European Parliament is one of the most powerful legislatures in the world. Estulin’s talk is equivalent to addressing a joint session of Congress.
In fact, never before has Bilderberg as a subject seen the light of day in front of such a highly respectable audience – elected senators of European nations.
Estulin will be part of a presentation titled Bilderberg Group – Towards Creation of One World Company Ltd., given by the author, as well as Borghezio, Nigel Farage (Member of European Parliament for South East England) and Gerard Batten (Member of European Parliament for London). Estulin is the world’s top authority on the Bilderberg Group. Because of the worldwide appeal of the author’s book (over 3.5 million sold in nearly 50 languages), this once incredibly powerful and highly secretive organization is now a private forum of lesser stature. Who knows what the group will now transmogrify itself into?
“This is an opportunity to bring Bilderberg into the mainstream,” said Estulin. “A subject that was once considered to be in the domain of conspiracy theories is now being taken very seriously indeed.”
The Bilderberg Group is an annual, invitation-only conference with over 100 of the globe’s most influential movers and shakers, including heads of state, business tycoons and others. It is closed to the public and the press. This year the conference will be held from the 3rd to the 6th of June in Sitges, Spain.
The social security number purported to be President Obama's was searched at the Selective Service's site and returned hit on Mr. Obama, as one would expect. The only problem is, that number was issued in Connecticut to a boy in Hawaii. This is not done.
There have been people pointing this out in the past, but it has been shown to be true.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Anyway, my operating theory is the facts can only be explained thus: Mr. Obama was a natural born American and reviewing persons knew that, lest they be shot for teason, but that his parentage is not as claimed, so that was kept quiet. The various facts of his life fit this scenario down to his apparent abandonment.
Still, did he become a dual citizen who failed to renounce his Indonesian citizenship? That one looks certain.
But, we don't care, do we? Just a bunch of law stuff, that Constitution.
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On May 5, WND entered the criteria for President Obama, using his date of birth as Aug. 4, 1961, and his Social Security Number, which begins with the Connecticut-issued prefix of 042.
The Selective Service database instantly issued a "matched record" without a problem that day, indicating Obama's Selective Service Number is 61-1125539-1. It lists date of registration as Sept. 4, 1980.
This May 5, 2010, screenshot of the Selective Service System's website shows President Obama's Selective Service record was able to be searched and located using his name, date of birth and Social Security Number (the last four digits of which have been redacted by WND).
The recent circus featuring democrats yelling at Goldman Sach's officials was politcal theater. Goldman doesn't care.
Greg found a site that collected data that reflected much of the information found on the hour show of Beck, the other day and I started to poke around, as well, but I only have one life to report on who actually runs the country and for whose benefit. But first:
...The Financial Times reports that the cost of insuring Goldman's debt against default has increased by some 80% in the last two weeks. According to Markit, a 5-year credit default swap insuring $10m of Goldman debt currently costs around $162,000-a-year - more than it costs to purchase similar protection for Citi and Morgan Stanley.
• William C. Dudley, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; was a partner and managing director at Goldman
• Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; spent 18 years at Goldman
• Mark Patterson, Chief of Staff to Tim Geithner; former Goldman lobbyist
• Philip Murphy; nominated for ambassador to Germany; former Goldman executive
• Diana Farrell; Deputy Director of the National Economic Council; formerly with Goldman
• Emil Michael; White House fellow; former investment banker with Goldman
then there are other Goldman folks,
Hank Paulson, Robert Rubin (largest contributor to Obama's senatorial campaign, )Robert Altman, Gregory Craig, Thomas Donilon, William Dudley, Douglas Elmendorf, of there are about twenty more: HERE
Michelle Malkin wrote a good article called "All the President’s Goldman Men" but she only listed the usual suspects like Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, Rahm Emanuel, Gary Gensler and Mark Patterson.
So, yelling at the shifty CEO on TV who praises the need for conrol is a cruel joke. Next on the list of crimnal activity is the insertion of "cap and trade." Where do the ten trillion dollars worth of credits trade:
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)
CCX is North America’s only voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas reduction and trading system for emission sources and offset projects. The companies joining the exchange commit to reducing their aggregate emissions by 6% by 2010....
CCX is operated by the public company Climate Exchange PLC, which also owns the European Climate Exchange. (As I understand it, the PLC is also partly owned by Goldman)
CCX is 10% owned by Goldman Sachs and 10% owned by Generation Investment Management (GIM).
Al Gore and GIM – Generation Investment Management
...Al Gore is Chairman of GIM, and David Blood — previously chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management — is CEO. The pair has given the company its nickname, “Blood and Gore.”...
GIM also owns a 2.98% stake in the Climate Exchange, which in turn owns the Chicago Climate Exchange (and has a larger 10% share in that). This gives Al Gore a financial bias towards promoting global warming control through the trading of carbon credits, one of Obama’s chief agenda items.
What else?
The Joyce Foundation and President Obama
President Barrack Hussein Obama was instrumental in funding the formation of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). Before becoming a Senator, Obama was a Board Member of the Joyce Foundation, which gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange…”
Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama’s top advisors, is still on the board of directors for the Joyce Foundation.
It may be interesting to note that the Chicago Climate Exchange, in spite of its hype, is a veritable rat’s nest of cronyism. The largest shareholder in the Exchange is Goldman Sachs and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is its honorary chairman.
The Joyce Foundation also funded money for John Ayers’ Chicago School Initiatives....
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According to the Washington Examiner, Goldman Sachs in 2008 alone gave to Obama's campaign $415,595.63 inflation adjusted, which was itself almost three times as much as Bush received.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered. Imagine if Bush participate in ONE of the above frauds.
The socialist argument regarding Obama, if you need one
Bob tells me, the new target of the left, Glenn Beck recently had a powerful show concerning Mr. Obama's snarky statement that no one has any proof that he is a socialist. (This is not a denial, just spin for the sheep. Obama is a student of Clinton, obviously.)
Beck raises his hand and says he has proof.
Of course Obama is a socialist, at least, and anyone who comprehends politics and history, on all sides of all arguments, would know that. The more radical web sites mock him for not being Marxist enough. That should make you feel good.
Now that I think of it, Obama's other main logical position is: no one has gotten me to trial to make me prove I am a citizen or a natural born one. [Yet.] So, no one has any proof seems to mean the allegation is false. George Orwell would be proud.
As an aside, Obama's sister, who?, has an Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth and she was born in Indonesia. This, of course, is not in the mainstream media as it contradicts everything they tell us. Besides, anyone who would mention it is a hate mongering birther not smart enough to understand that there is no need for proof. It doesn't matter, any way.
For now, though, Obama doesn't directly admit to socialism because his staff of Marxists are tying down Gulliver and they have a hundred years of knowledge to call upon on how to enslave a nation, manipulate the dullards by bribing them. They are incredibly efficient as there is no thought or analysis wasted on governing, they are in the taking power phase. All problem are in the future and the "rich" will pay to fix them.
Later on, the argument will become "So, he is a socialist, that's not bad. You have medical care and a bicycle. Look the Yankees won." They hope that the herd will fall for the new mewing. It is a good bet many will. The ultimate test to our national tradition is before us. I fear we have too many ignorant people in the country who can vote their bellies. And, millions more are coming, if we can print Spanish ballots.
For those who are told Beck is the hateful monster leading the white-trash retirees and mah jong cells, why not watch him and try to find something remotely personal. You will find he is the essence of control and logical discourse. If he wants to stop your philosophy, is that hate mongering? If you think so, see a doctor, but not one from an Ivy League factory.
*President Obama now also President of GM & Chrysler
*President Obama seizes control of insurance giant AIG
*President Obama is leading America to single payer healthcare
*President Obama seized control of Student Loan industry in order to 'cut out middle man'
*President Obama seizes control in massive land grabs
*Repeatedly vilifies 'the rich'
*Obama believes race problems can be solved through redistribution of wealth... he said "race is still an enormous factor in our society. But economics can overcome a lot of racial division."
*Trying to regulate the Internet via FCC
*Forces mortgage co's to cover people who aren't paying mortgage (Link)
*Told Joe the plumber 'it's better when you spread things around' (Link)
Family, Friends, Advisors & Administration
*Wife Michelle Obama said “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
