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Obama’s involvement in Chicago Climate Exchange
—the rest of the story

By Judi McLeod  Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Good news to know that the truth will always come out—even when you’re Barack Obama.

“Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress” is a FOXNews story by Ed Barnes.  In short, “While on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through Congress as president.”

The charity was the Joyce Foundation on whose board of directors Obama served and which gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.”

And that’s only the beginning of this tawdry tale,  Mr. Barnes.

The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong.

For years now Strong and Gore have been cashing in on that lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming.

Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as “the world’s first and North America’s only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil.”

Gore, self-proclaimed Patron Saint of the Environment,  buys his carbon off-sets from himself—the Generation Investment Management LLP, “an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C., of which he is both chairman and founding partner. The Generation Investment Management business has considerable influence over the major carbon credit trading firms that currently exist, including the Chicago Climate Exchange.

Strong, the silent partner, is a man whose name often draws a blank on the Washington cocktail circuit.  Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of an Oil-for-Food beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States.  That’s because he spends most of his time in China where he he has been working to make the communist country the world’s next superpower.  The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is the big cheese in the underworld of climate change and is one of the main architects of the failing Kyoto Protocol.

Full credit for the expose on the business partnership of Strong and Gore in the cap-and-trade reduction scheme should go to the investigative acumen of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR).

The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of “An Inconvenient Truth” travelled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI).  MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste.  Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time.

“Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day,” wrote EIR.  “First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm’s registered lobbyist, and Gore’s former top Senate aide.”

(Fast-forward to the present day and ask yourself why it is that every time someone picks up another Senate rock,  another serpent comes slithering out).

“Second, the company had received more than $25 million in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research and development grants, but had failed to prove that the technology worked on a commercial scale.  The company would go on to receive another $8 million in federal taxpayers’ cash, at that point, its only source of revenue.

“With Al Gore’s Earth Day as a Wall Street calling card, Molten Metal’s stock value soared to $35 a share, a range it maintained through October 1996.  But along the way, DOE scientists had balked at further funding.  When in March 1996, corporate officers concluded that the federal cash cow was about to run dry, they took action: Between that date and October 1996, seven corporate officers—including Maurice strong—sold off $15.3 million in personal shares in the company, at top market value.  On Oct. 20, 1996—a Sunday—the company issued a press release, announcing for the first time, that DOE funding would be vastly scaled back, and reported the bad news on a conference call with stockbrokers.

“On Monday, the stock plunged by 49%, soon landing at $5 a share.  By early 1997, furious stockholders had filed a class action suit against the company and its directors.  Ironically, one of the class action lawyers had tangled with Maurice strong in another insider trading case, involving a Swiss company called AZL Resources, chaired by Strong, who was also a lead shareholder.  The AZL case closely mirrored Molten Metal, and in the end, Strong and the other AZL partners agreed to pay $5 million to dodge a jury verdict, when eyewitness evidence surfaced of Strong’s role in scamming the value of the company stock up into the stratosphere, before selling it off.

In 1997,  Strong went on to accept from Tongsun Park, who was found guilty of illegally acting as an Iraqi agent, $1 million from Saddam Hussein, which was invested in Cordex Petroleum Inc., a company he owned with his son, Fred.

These are the leaders in the Man-made Global Warming Movement, who three years later were to be funded by the man who was to become President of the United States of America.

If we follow the time line on where Obama was during the funding of the Chicago Climate Exchange, he was still a professor at the University of Chicago Law School teaching constitutional law, with his law license becoming inactive a year later in 2002.

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.  Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is its honorary chairman,  The Joyce Foundation,  which funded the Exchange also funded money for John Ayers’ Chicago School Initiatives.  John is the brother of William Ayers.

What a flap when it was discovered that the senator from Chicago had nursed on Saul Alinsky’s milk,  had his political career launched at a coffee party held by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and sat for 20 years, uncomplaining in front of the “God-dam-America pulpit of resentment-challenged Jeremiah Wright.

Folk were naturally outraged that the empty suit who would go on to become TOTUS was spawned from such anti-American activism.

But the media should have been hollering, “Stop Thief!” instead.

The same Chicago Climate Exchange promoting public rip-off was funded by Obama before he was POTUS.

Even as man-made global warming is being exposed as a money-generating hoax, Obama is working feverishly to push the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme through Congress.

Obama was never the character he created for himself in the fairy-tale version in “Dreams of My Father”.  He’s the agent of Change and Hope for cohorts making money down at the Chicago Climate Exchange.

The Barbarians are pushing at the gate of the Global Warming fraud, and to borrow a line from children playing Hide and Seek, Here they come, ready or not!

Judi McLeod  Bio

Judi McLeod Most recent columns Copyright © Canada Free Press Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and Glenn Beck. Judi can be emailed at: judi@canadafreepress.com   Did you ever hear of the carbon trading exchange? It's a new one on me. I emailed Judi and asked if I could post this here and she replied with two words, "Of course". I want to thank Judi for letting me post this on my blog and I really appreciate our neighbors to the North and their views on our country. THANK YOU Judi! Bob Pearcy *******************************************************

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Reading the Idaho Press-Tribune today, Eric Muhr in For the Record, reports that – Of the world’s 17 leading nations, the United States tops the list for having the largest percentage of it’s population living in poverty.

I wonder if we don’t have our wants and appetites set too high in this country. I have been in the third world as I am sure many of you have. I never went as a tourist and always have stayed or lived with or among the natives. Out where they have none of the things we think we can’t live without, they have never had and never will. Do they miss them? No. Even many homeless people here live better than the general population in some places.

The first time I spent time in several nations of Asia I came home and looked at how we live, how spoiled we are, the waste, and I got mad. We don’t even appreciate the freedoms we have enjoyed in this great Republic we have and all we do is want, we become slaves of our wants. I think there is something in the Ten Commandments and other places in the Word of God about that but our government is telling us we can’t have them anymore. I bet you have a Bible laying around somewhere though if you look hard enough, if you don’t you can go to E-Sword and download an excellent program with lots of bibles and resources for free.

I hope this raise’s a few hackles, look around, read about the founding of this nation. A good book to start is “The Light and the Glory” by Peter Marshall and David Manuel.

Who’s going to pay for the health care?

You can see this in it’s original form at http://www.cdfe.org/center-projects/washington/stop-sherman

What are we going to do? How long can this go on? Why are we letting it happen?

Senate Hides Obama Anti-Free Enterprise Czar Vote!

Harris Sherman an extreme environmentalist CZAR nominated by Obama was confirmed in a quick vote by the Senate and is being hidden from Americans. Sherman is to be Obama’s Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment.

A CDFE investigation revealed that the Senate public Congressional Record is hiding the vote. For some reason the vote is not being made public and is being hidden even from or by the Associated Press. How many Senators do not even know the vote happened?

Americans had no opportunity to examine the background of Sherman before or after his confirmation hearing. There are reasonable questions and issues that are being ignored as this new CZAR is pushed through the Senate. Obama and the Senate must reconsider the confirmation and STOP Sherman.

Sherman would have total control over 190 million acres of America – the size of Texas – as boss of the National Forests.

The Problem: National Forests aren’t Parks, they’re productive lands for energy from oil and natural gas, electricity from coal, strategic metals for our military and the machines that do our work, lumber and paper, farming and ranching, road-building material, hunting and fishing and much more.

FAX Obama And All 100 Senators – Tell Them to STOP Sherman!

https://secure.conservativedonations.com/cdfe_sherman/?a=3088

Sherman is a known enemy of what these federal lands are meant to supply:

National Forests Provide The Raw Materials That Keep Us Alive.

Obama’s choice would make him the Czar of Economic Shutdown!

Harris Sherman gave confirmation testimony before the Senate Agriculture Committee on September 30, 2009.

NOW Confirmed He Is Being Hidden By The Senate.

He is currently the director of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources. He’s powerful. Producers fear him. Why? He’s been accused of “using his position to extort or shake down money from oil and gas firms to fund his wildlife studies in return for his office not opposing their permits. In effect, he set up a ‘pay to play’ approval process for oil and gas permits under the Colorado Department of Wildlife.” Sherman’s office is simply for sale in Colorado if you have the money.

Sherman will be Obama’s Rent-A-Czar for our National Forests.

Senator Saxby Chambliss (Georgia) Ranking Republican Member, Senate Agriculture Committee, warned: “Mr. Sherman, I’ve received letters and emails from Georgians about your appointment, and they raise concerns about your approach to managing federal, state and private lands.”

Some of those emails accused Harris Sherman of giving anti-development environmental groups open-door “Greens Only” access to Sherman’s office, an access not available to the general public or economic producers.

Is Sherman to be Obama’s “Behind the Green Door” Czar for our National Forests?

Some of those emails accused Sherman of falsification of public comment documents with the help of green groups to stop economic projects by making it look like the public objected to economic development when the majority actually approved.

Is Sherman to be Obama’s “We Lie and Cheat for the Greens” Czar for our National Forests?

Some of those emails accused Harris Sherman of working to tear out roads in government lands to eliminate all economic development and visitor use, as recommended in the “Clinton-Babbitt Roadless Rule” written by environmental groups in the 1990s.

Is Sherman to be Obama’s “Lock ‘Em Out and Shut ‘Em Down” Czar for our National Forests?

Together, those emails accused Harris Sherman of being a multi-pronged threat:

* Obama’s Czar for “No more American oil” Unless you pay to play.
* Obama’s Czar for “No more American natural gas” Unless you pay to play.
* Obama’s Czar for “No more American coal” Unless you pay to play.
* Obama’s Czar for “No more American mining” Unless you pay to play.
* Obama’s Czar for “No more American paper” Unless you pay to play.
* Obama’s Czar for “No more American lumber” Unless you pay to play.
* Obama’s Czar for “No more American ranching” Unless you pay to play.

Obama’s choice would make Sherman Czar of Economic Shutdown in our National Forests causing shortages of oil, natural gas, electricity from coal, strategic metals for our military, lumber, paper, farming ranching, road-building material, hunting, fishing and increasing the cost of living in America.

Our United States Senators know about these allegations of scandal and are doing nothing.

* No vetting.
* No investigation.
* No questioning – beyond Senator Chambliss’ polite warning.
* No Public notice and a Hidden Senate Vote.
* NOTHING!

We need a storm of faxes to get Obama and the Senate’s attention and stop this nomination!

FAX Obama And All 100 Senators – Tell Them to STOP Sherman!
https://secure.conservativedonations.com/cdfe_sherman/?a=3088

It’s time for some brave Senators to call for reconsideration of the confirmation of Harris Sherman to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment.

It’s time for bi-partisan action to reject this nominee!

Thank you for considering this message.

Ron Arnold
Executive Vice-President
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
www.cdfe.org

Paid for by Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise 501(c)3 non-profit
organization. Contributions are tax deducible.

AARP seems to have some hidden agenda’s, we thought they were in business for the bennifit of seniors. It seems that may not be so. World Net Daily in their news article “Seniors divorce AARP” gives us a good look at this organization that we thought was “for us”.

Then someone sent a letter from Ginny Brown-Waite, Congress woman from Florida. Seems she also is questioning the motives of this group. Click here for a copy of that letter. I would encourage you to save the pdf and email to your friends or put it in your blog if you have one.

It seems that everything is going to heck all at once but many have known for a long time that AARP was a political machine. I guess you could say the same about our country and we have sat by and watched it happen. Now we are in a world of hurt and the only hope I can see right now is to get rid of obama. Click here for an article from the United States Justice Foundation about the law suit against obama. I find it hard to believe how far we can stray from the Constitution For The United States of America. You will see in this letter that we throught the United States Department of Justice are also paying for his defense. There is some hope in this though since if it happens then all these laws he has made will be null and void as I understand it.
Bob

I had to post this, don’t know who wrote it but he/she is very intuitive.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the differences explained any better….

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, then no one should have one.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat. If a liberal is, he wants to ban all meat products for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly enjoys his life. If a liberal is homosexual, he loudly demands legislated respect.

If black or Hispanic men are conservative, they see himselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. A non-believing liberal wants all churches to be silenced.

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or he may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that his neighbors pay for his health care.

Does obama lie? Read about his dealings with Acorn on World Net Daily and let me add if you don’t read World Net Daily you should. It is about the only dependable source for the “real story”.

Click here for the story.
 

No explanation needed.

A Hint