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The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud (Cap-And-Trade and CCX)
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 04/28/2010 | IBD Editorials

Posted on 04/30/2010 8:07:12 AM PDT by pyx

Cap-And-Trade: While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House.

Lost in the recent headlines was Al Gore's appearance Monday in Denver at the annual meeting of the Council of Foundations, an association of the nation's philanthropic leaders.


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101 Steps to Better Blogging - Kim Roach

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/101-steps-to-becoming-a-better-blogger.html

Actually, its now 102 VERY EASY Steps and it could be many more ... :)

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I will be following up with very simple to use Video equipment and software to create vblogs as a Citizen Journalist.

I and hopefully others will follow this up with QUESTIONS to ask as a CITIZEN JOURNALIST.

21 posted on 04/30/2010 9:48:52 AM PDT by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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To: pyx; maggief; Diogenesis; Marine_Uncle; steelyourfaith

GREAT JOB to all


22 posted on 04/30/2010 11:42:52 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (EPA will rule your life)
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To: pyx
Glen Beck “page not found.” So, I will go and try to find it myself. This is the first I've heard of this, but it doesn't surprise me, frankly, which is sad.
23 posted on 04/30/2010 12:00:28 PM PDT by Excellence (Meet your new mother-in-law, the United States Government.)
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To: pyx
The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) advertises itself as "North America's only cap-and-trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide." Barack Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002 when the CCX startup grants were issued. As president, pushing cap-and-trade is one of his highest priorities.

Greenhouse theory is pure bunkum. The "Greenhouse Effect" defies established laws of physics.

No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)

The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory

Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics

24 posted on 04/30/2010 5:55:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (0basma's father was a British subject. He can't be a "natural-born" citizen.)
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To: BOBTHENAILER; pyx; Jim Robinson
Jim. Can it make sense for your admins to create a forum titled Climate, or Global Warming other. Where all FReepers can tune into one place where everything is stored?
The function of the forum would be primarily for a centralized place to archive much of what has been coming out over the past year or so. And a place where groups may want to form in order to give local support to their state/fed/local representatives with easy to obtain article, science papers, graphs whatever.... at their finger tips.
Thanks for the consideration if it makes sense to do so.
25 posted on 04/30/2010 6:32:20 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: Marine_Uncle

Bookmark this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globalwarming/index?tab=articles

Add “globalwarming” as a keyword on all relevant threads.


26 posted on 04/30/2010 8:09:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (JUST VOTE THEM OUT! teapartyexpress.org)
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To: Marty62; All
"EMERALD CITIES...SOUND FAMILIAR.. WIZARD OF OZ."

"AND GLENN NAMED THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN. Might surprise you."

Obama Dorothy Oz

27 posted on 05/01/2010 7:03:58 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: pyx

All this week, Glenn Beck has been is doing his best to expose what is potentially the biggest con in history.

Before I lose you, let me state why this story is so very important: It appears that there is a chance that people at the very HIGHEST levels of our government are creating something-out-of-nothing (carbon credits) and then passing a law which will force American businesses to buy $10 TRILLION dollars worth of that something-out-of-nothing and then passing billions and billions and billions of dollars along to their political pals and business cohorts... uh, can you say “corruption and graft of the highest order”?!?

For some reason, other conservative sites are being slow to pick this up (afraid?!).

Let’s do our part to help Glenn get the word out.

Email this.
Tweet this.
Post this on Facebook.

Wherever and however you can get this out, do it.

Glenn Beck The One Thing 4/29 - Crime Inc.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4172383/the-one-thing-429

Go back and watch the 4/26 show if you need more back ground.

4/26 show Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQitjq2CXS0

4/26 show Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zKCaSLISQ

In a nutshell, here is the deal:

The Chicago Climate Exchange CCX - a $10 trillion dollar carbon credit market (here’s where the creating something-out-of nothing comes in... it is literally a product created out of thin air.)

As Glenn says, they sell puffs of smoke! Enron would be proud!

Barack Obama helped to direct funds from The Joyce Foundation in order to fund the creation of the CCX. Remember, it is the CHICAGO Climate Exchange... nothing shady happening in Chicago, right?

Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s top advisor, was reportedly on the board of the CCX back in the early 2000’s.

There are many ex-Goldman Sachs executives and at least one ex-Goldman lobbyist working in the Obama administration.

A British company, Enterprise, is set to make billions off of the CCX market and is partially owned by Al Gore and Goldman Sachs among others.

Franklin Raines (the $90 Million Dollar Paycheck man of Fannie Mae accounting “irregularity” fame) bought the technology needed to run the CCX through Fannie Mae back when he was running Fannie.

Franklin Raines is/was an Obama friend and advisor (they have kind of tamped-down talk about that relationship since the whole financial meltdown thing happened).

The patent for the technology (owned by Fannie) to run the CCX was approved one day after Congress was taken over by the Democrats back in 2006.

Raines was reportedly also instrumental in starting Emerald Cities, a collaboration of radical, far left-wing groups who are planning on reaping billions of dollars in grants and other type of funding that will flow from the carbon trade credits that will be sold through the CCX.

Here is the link to Emerald Cities.

http://www.emeraldcities.org/

Look at their Board of Directors, members and staff bios in the About Us section! The “Members” tab under About Us reads like a Who’s Who of the Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Social Justice movement.

Dig down into their Goals, Policies and National Strategies pages. Count how many times they talk about redistributing wealth and income and achieving social justice!

Check out all of the ways they are planning to milk money out of this system. LOOK at the framework they have in place. They have been planning for a long, long time. This is NOT about the environment. It is about power and money, period.

“The Wizard”, as Glenn calls him, appears to be Joel Rogers. Here is Joel’s bio on the Emerald Cities webpage:

Joel Rogers
COWS, Director
Joel Rogers, a former labor organizer, is a professor of law, political science, public affairs, and sociology at the university. He is the director of COWS, MIP, and CSI, senior policy advisor to Green for All, and cofounder and first chair of the Apollo Alliance. Joel has written widely on democratic theory and contemporary politics and is a MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellow, identified by Newsweek as one of the 100 living Americans mostly likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century. John Sweeney and Andy Stern jointly said of Rogers: “nobody outside the American labor movement has shaped our present thinking as profoundly.”

Here is a youtube video of (big mouth) Van Jones bragging about Joel Roberts’ Progressive Accomplishments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84fGcs-byQ

(Highlights: Jones brags about Joel Rogers’ roll in founding the Apollo Alliance, how the Stimulus is going to put something like $80 Billion dollars in this direction, The New Party which is now The Working Families Party “is the basic framework for what JUST TOOK OVER THE WHITE HOUSE”).

Did you get that?!? The New Party, which is now The Working Families Party, just took over our White House!

http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/

Why is this so important? Well for one, it is possibly the biggest con in the history of the world. Making something-out-of-nothing and forcing people to buy $10 trillion dollars worth of it... breathtakingly brazen!

And two, Cap and Trade would cause the price of everything we buy and use to skyrocket. It would drive millions more American jobs overseas. Radical left-wing groups and politicians will reap untold political power and billions of dollars if Cap and Trade passes.

I know we are tired and overwhelmed (that is one of their main goals, to overwhelm us)... but we have to stop this.

No less than the future of our country depends on it.


28 posted on 05/01/2010 7:08:05 AM PDT by Painesright
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To: Jim Robinson

Posted 4/30/10:

(Beck) The One Thing 4/29 CRIME INC. (The $10 TRILLION Dollar Heist??)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2504098/posts


29 posted on 05/01/2010 7:12:43 AM PDT by Painesright
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To: musicman

BFLR


30 posted on 05/01/2010 7:41:48 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Excellence

If you ever need to catch up on his show (which I do ‘cause it comes on @ the worst time of day for a ‘mommy’), here’s a good link:

http://glennbeckclips.com/


31 posted on 05/01/2010 8:04:43 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: pyx

This CCX Exchange and Obama HUSSEIN being up to his freakin Eyeballs in it is an Outright Treasonous Act and Outrageous Scandal!


32 posted on 05/01/2010 8:12:53 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Painesright; RepublicanChick

Great summary. I’m going to email this to everyone I know..
This is the greatest scam and corrupt power grab in history.


33 posted on 05/01/2010 9:54:54 AM PDT by kara2008
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To: kara2008

Thank you.


34 posted on 05/01/2010 10:09:09 AM PDT by Painesright
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To: Moorka

Even Kramer (CNBC) got into it, with a long term buy on NYX, and near-, mid-term buys on CME and ICE (not necessarily in that order....memory lapse)


35 posted on 05/01/2010 10:34:21 AM PDT by CRBDeuce (here, while the internet is still free of the Fairness Doctrine)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
re: It’s starting to get through to the scribbling class...

_____

.... let's hope so.

Somehow, I seriously doubt it.

36 posted on 05/01/2010 11:58:43 AM PDT by ICAB9USA (I cut off part of my middle finger .......... it almost rendered me mute. -- Rahm Emanuel)
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To: Jim Robinson

Thanks Jim.


37 posted on 05/01/2010 4:09:18 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: pyx

It looks like this story may be getting some legs...


38 posted on 05/01/2010 4:49:24 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: All
I still am overwhelmed by the words. . Chicago Climate Exchange, Carbon trading, Carbon anything. Ayn Rand would have a fit. . .
39 posted on 05/01/2010 5:21:57 PM PDT by Art in Idaho
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To: Jim Robinson
Thanks Jim. :)

40 posted on 05/01/2010 8:51:25 PM PDT by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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