Posted on 11/06/2010 12:29:50 PM PDT by bronxville
George Soros, Libya, BP, Obama And Terrorist Connection To Gulf
[...] BP and its employees donate $77,051.00 to the Obama campaign, and a couple of million to Democrats.
The bomber spent about 20 years of a life sentence in a Scottish prison. After a controversial terminal prostate cancer diagnosis, he was sent back to Libya. Physicians said he had only three months to live.
That was August 20th 2009. He's still alive today.
The release of the Lockerbie bomber from prison would liberate Britain’s largest industrial company from a string of problems hampering its $900 million (£546 million) Libyan gas projects, industry sources claimed last night.
BP, the oil giant, signed a deal with Libya in 2007 to explore for gas in the west of the country and offshore. But since then it has faced a string of bureaucratic obstacles, including delays securing official permits and approvals to import equipment through Libyan customs, the sources said.
Obama didn't make much noise about Scotland releasing the bomber. He asked Libya not to have a big celebration on camera. They did it anyway.
September 2009: The State Department notified lawmakers earlier this month of its intent to disburse $2.5 million in economic aid to Libya, including $400,000 for Qaddafi’s foundations. Of the $400,000 half will go to a foundation run by the leader’s son, Saif, and the other half to one run by his daughter, Aisha.
March 2010: BP CEO Tony Hayward sold 223,288 shares of his BP stock - approximately one-third of his holding. That timely sale saved him about $619,000 when BP stock plunged after the spill. Lucky guy. Reportedly he paid off the mortgage on his "mansion."
Fast forward to the BP Gulf oil spill, April 2010.
The Post and Mail Rig-Gate - Bay of Rigs - Industry giants own the dispersants, including Al Gore, George Soros, Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffet - and is connected to the University of Chicago:
The real money is in the use of dispersements. There is a company called purchased NALCO.
NALCO is based in Chicago with subsidiaries in Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia.
NALCO is associated with the University of Chicago Argonne program. The Obamas both worked for the University of Chicago. UChicago Argonne received $164,000,000 in stimulus funds this past year and just added two new executives to its roster: one from NALCO, the other from the Department of Education.
If you dig a little deeper you will find NALCO is also associated with Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Soros, Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hathaway Berkshire.
Warren Buffet/Hathaway Berkshire increased their holding in NALCO just last November. (Timing is everything). The dispersant chemical is known as Corexit. What it does is hold the oil below the water's surface. It is supposed to break up the spill into smaller pools.
It is toxic and banned in Europe. NALCO says they are using older and newer versions of Corexit in the Gulf. (Why would you need a newer version, if the old one was fine?)
There are big money and even bigger players in this scam. While they are letting the oil blow wide open into the Gulf, the stakes and profit rise.
The stock of Corexit 9500 took an 18 percent jump after its use became public. Rodney F. Chase, former Deputy Group Chief Executive of BP is on the NALCO board of directors.
The moratorium on drilling was put in place. Our deep water rigs will move out of the Gulf. We can't stop it. We might not have the rigs back for years according to Obama's own panel of experts, who recommended we do not stop drilling.
Follow the money folks! [Maggie's Notebook]
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) "Fact sheets" page for Nalco's Corexit has pdfs available for "Dispersant Type 1," Corexit 9500 (PDF); and "Dispersant Type 2," Corexit 9527A (PDF). Tom Philpott of Grist, who found that these product numbers matched those identified unofficially by his sources, writes,
"The data sheets for both products contain this shocker: 'No toxicity studies have been conducted on this product" -- meaning testing their safety for humans and both data sheets include the warning 'human health hazards: acute.'"
(As Philpott reported, the MSDS for Corexit 9527A states
'excessive exposure may cause central nervous system effects, nausea, vomiting, anesthetic or narcotic effects,' and 'repeated or excessive exposure to butoxyethanol [an active ingredient] may cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver.'
'"Prolonged and/or repeated exposure through inhalation or extensive skin contact with EGBE [butoxyethanol] may result in damage to the blood and kidneys.'"
The solvents 2-Butoxyethanol and petroleum distillate appear "most dangerous," writes Philpott, but these chemicals continue to be saturating water and air. http://www.bluegrassbulletin.com/2010/06/domestic-military-operation-in-gulf-gassing-civilians.html
June 28, 2010 - Libya will allow BP to begin drilling in its offshore deepwater region next month, despite the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the head of Libya's National Oil Co. said Sunday....
http://www.bluegrassbulletin.com/2010/06/libya-now-going-to-let-bp-begin-drilling-deepwater.html
Documents indicate heavy use of dispersants in gulf oil spill By David A. Fahrenthold and Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 1, 2010; A01
While the BP well was still gushing, the Obama administration issued an order that limited the spreading of controversial dispersant chemicals on the Gulf of Mexico's surface. Their use, officials said, should be restricted to "rare cases."
But in reality, federal documents show, the use of dispersants wasn't rare at all.....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/31/AR2010073102381_pf.html
I wonder how the investigation is going?
srb
“The moratorium on drilling was put in place. Our deep water rigs will move out of the Gulf. We can’t stop it. We might not have the rigs back for years according to Obama’s own panel of experts, who recommended we do not stop drilling.”
While the number of rigs drilling for oil in down in the Gulf, the total number of rigs drilling for oil in the United States is up 116% over a year ago.
And now that the deep water ban has been lifted, there are more drilling projects planned for the Gulf.
Like Disney says “It’s a small world after all”..
Go re-visit the Glenn Beck “Crime Inc.” shows from ealrier this year. Soros invested heavliy into Petrobras, a Brazilian controlled oil company. Guess what, this year Obama lent Petrobras 2 billion dollars for oil exmploration off the Atlantic coast, in depths 3 times deeper than the BP well in the Gulf!!! Lend money to Soros, shut down our oil drilling in the Gulf, and Petrobras’s stock price skyrockets. Wow, what a coincidence. What a racket (Rickie Lee Jones once siad, “Easy Money”).
“A Series Of Lucky Coincidences Involving Goldman Sachs And BP plc”
Earlier, when observing the US AG disclosure of a civil and criminal investigation into BP plc, we noted in passing that BP’s former Chairman, Peter Sutherland, who left the firm is a Chairman of Goldman Sachs International.
Mr. Sutherland holds some other interesting titles, including a position on the Trilateral Commission, he was a chairman of the London School of Economics in 2008, he is a UN special representative for migration and development; he was the founding director-general of the World Trade Organisation, he had previously served as director general of GATT since July 1993 and was instrumental in concluding the Uruguay GATT Round Negotiations.
Needless to say, we focused on the Goldman relationship. When digging deeper, we uncovered some amusing correlations, most notably between the BP plc sellside ratings by Goldman BP analyst Michelle della Vigna and the Goldman Sachs Asset Management holdings of BP plc. These are summarized on the attached chart.
And in case this is not enough, another way to visualize Goldman’s rating history, together with price targets on BP is presented below, straight from GS itself:
As the first chart above demonstrates, there is an “odd” correlation between Goldman’s sellside sentiment on the stock, and the amount of stock held by Goldman’s asset management arm, especially evident in the days between December 31, 2009 and March 31, 2010, when despite a recent Buy rating attached to the firm, GSAM sold off more than 40% of its stake in the name. On December 31, Goldman held 71 million BP shares, and three months later this number went down 42.5 million.
Another oddity is that back in 2008, when GS had the stock at Neutral, GSAM doubled its stake in the firm from 28.8 million shares to 57.3 million days before Ms. della Vigna raised the stock to a Buy, albeit if only for just over a month. Oddly enough, in the half year period when Goldman was telling its clients to Sell the stock, between 3/31/2009 and 10/28/2009, GSAM holdings declined by a whopping -3.9%.
Goldman Sachs (GSAM) did not follow the recommendations of its very own analyst is not peculiar. We have long pointed out that Goldman does precisely the opposite of what it advises its “clients” to do.
What is slightly more troubling is the combination of Mr. Sutherland’s departure from BP effective January 1, the release of his fiduciary obligations to BP shareholders, the upgrade of BP by Goldman from Neutral to Buy 4 days before Sutherland’s full, and non-conflicted return to the GSI Chairmanship, and last but not least, the dumping of 28 million BP shares by GSAM in the next three months, an act which has saved the asset manager roughly GBP50 million.
We are confident that all of the above is purely coincidental.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/series-lucky-coincidences-involving-goldman-sachs-bp-plc
Peter Sutherland -
(Flashback) This week’s damning report on the 2005 explosion at BP’s Texas City oil refinery in the US cut short chief executive Lord John Browne’s career at the head of Britain’s largest company. However, BP chairman Peter Sutherland seems to have emerged entirely unscathed from the debacle.
The report on the March 2005 explosion, which killed 15 workers and injured a further 170, by former US Secretary of State James Baker didn’t pull any punches. He concluded that BP’s US refineries were an accident waiting to happen.
A few days before the report Browne announced that he would quit as BP chief executive next July, 15 months ahead of schedule.
But where was Sutherland, who has been BP chairman for the past decade, while all of this controversy was swirling around the company?
In 1991, while AIB was running a tax-evasion scam for a good proportion of its retail customers, Sutherland was involved with the departure of the bank’s internal whistleblower. (Apparently for unrelated reasons.) In addition, FitzGerald was the man who, just a few years earlier, had as Taoiseach (ie. prime minister) authorised the then-most-recent panic bailout of AIB. (See Shane Ross’ The Bankers and the linkdump.)
Sutherland was a director of Royal Bank of Scotland when it engaged in the recklessness that has cost the British taxpayer at least £45 billion (€52.55 billion) so far, and sat on the remuneration committee that lavished huge bonuses on its chief executive.
He is a big figure in Goldman Sachs, a bank which Gordon Brown accused of “moral bankruptcy” for its decision to pay out bonuses of $5.4 billion (€4.2 billion) less than two years after it had to be bailed out by the US taxpayer.
This is the same Goldman Sachs that has been accused of helping Greece to hide the reality of its public finances – a subject Sutherland did not mention when he was urging fiscal responsibility on the Greeks on Sunday.
The illusion that Sutherland wishes to maintain is that there is a “we” that includes ordinary citizens and high-flyers of global finance in a shared pain. There is no such “we”.
There is just us and them.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0511/1224270130001.html
Sutherland was a director of Royal Bank of Scotland when it engaged in the recklessness that has cost the British taxpayer at least £45 billion (€52.55 billion) so far, and sat on the remuneration committee that lavished huge bonuses on its chief executive.
He is a big figure in Goldman Sachs, a bank which Gordon Brown accused of “moral bankruptcy” for its decision to pay out bonuses of $5.4 billion (€4.2 billion) less than two years after it had to be bailed out by the US taxpayer.
This is the same Goldman Sachs that has been accused of helping Greece to hide the reality of its public finances – a subject Sutherland did not mention when he was urging fiscal responsibility on the Greeks on Sunday.
The illusion that Sutherland wishes to maintain is that there is a “we” that includes ordinary citizens and high-flyers of global finance in a shared pain. There is no such “we”.
There is just us and them.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0511/1224270130001.html
He’s on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group[citation needed], a chairman of the Trilateral Commission[1] and vice chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists, UN Industrial Development was closely allied with the State Dept., and George Soros.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Round_Table_of_Industrialists
Peter Sutherland current relationships:European Institute - director
European Institute of Public Administration - chairman
Federal Trust - president
Goldman Sachs International - chairman
Trilateral Commission - European chairman
United Nations Industrial Development Organisation - goodwill ambassador
World Economic Forum - foundation board member
World Trade Organization - founding director-general
Peter Sutherland past relationships:Allied Irish Banks - chairman
BP p.l.c. - chairman
European Commission - member
GATT - director general
Ireland - attorney general
Peter Sutherland connections, once removed:Peter Sutherland is connected to ...
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There are soooo many coincidences - time for a few investigations.
Peter Sutherland brought down the Bank of Scotland and George Soros brought down the Bank of England. They’re almost parellel in their money schemes and scams and they keep getting away with it. How many are there one might wonder...at a guess legions.
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