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Related: David J Vitale: http://www.muckety.com/David-J-Vitale/5794.muckety "Urban Partnership Bank Chairman David Vitale on ShoreBank, Federal Aid for Banks, and Detroit’s Troubles" http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/April-2011/Urban-Partnership-Bank-Chairman-David-Vitale-on-ShoreBank-Federal-Aid-for-Banks-and-Detroits-Troubles/ UPB link: https://www.upbnk.com/faith-based Board: "Urban Partnership Bank names board" By Becky Yerak Posted Aug. 27, 2010 Urban Partnership Bank, the newly formed group that last week bought failed Chicago-based ShoreBank, has named five-people to its board of directors. It includes three former First Chicago executives who had joined ShoreBank in recent months during its last-ditch and ultimately unsuccessful effort to raise capital so state and federal regulators wouldn’t seize it. Those are David Vitale, who, as previously reported, will...

While it's true that President Obama began his political career in the living room of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, his first political sponsor and major fundraiser was Antoin "Tony" Rezko. The pair go back to the 1990s and Obama's state Senate years, but they are best known for the still-not-completely-explained 2005 real estate deal that allowed the Obamas to buy their Chicago South Side mansion, while Rezko's wife bought a narrow strip of the home's lot on the same day. At that time, Rezko was under federal investigation for influence peddling and fraud while serving...

1. Alabama is a wonderfully free "right-to-work" state, which simply means it prevents unions from extracting dues from workers who do not wish to join. 2. General Electric's CEO Jeff Immelt is the poster-boy for crony capitalism, having backed Obama's rush to socialized medicine and green energy to benefit various of its business units. 3. It turns out that GE's Aviation division is breaking ground on a new factory in Alabama. And, unlike Boeing, which tried to build a factory in a right-to-work-state, the National Labor Relations Board hasn't uttered a peep. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence. Remember...

The Occupation Cookbook The Occupation Cookbook is a “manual” that describes the organization of the student occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences that took place in the spring of 2009 and lasted for 35 days. It was written for two reasons: to record what happened, and to present the particular organization of this action in such a way that it may be of use to other activists and members of various collectives if they decide to undertake a similar action.The Cookbook is currently being translated into several languages. At the moment, all but the final few...

... What worries me more than anything else about President Obama is the fact that he has sixteen months left in which to inflict as much damage on the economy and the nation’s future as possible.I have little doubt that is his intent. ExecutiveOrder as an end-run around the illegal alien amnesty He just issued an ExecutiveOrder as an end-run around the illegal alien amnesty issue that Americans have defeated a half dozen times when Congress tried to get it passed. The new fuel economy standards his administration has announced will add an average of $11,000 to the cost of...

Drip. Drip. Drip. Whether it is Solyndra, Obamacare, or Fast and Furious, President Obama’s push for his “American Jobs Act” has been drowned out this week by the failure of his past policies. Every night it seems there is a new angle on the Energy Department’s failed loan to the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra. Not only was there a headline-grabbing hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday (at which Obama officials tried to blame Bush) , but the Treasury Department separately announced that their Inspector General (IG) would join the FBI and Energy Department IG in their...

Start rattling the chains. Start ratcheting up the hue and cry. Fire up the masses. It's long past time to force mass resignations at, and possible prosecutions of members of, the Obama Justice Department --and, more broadly, of the West Wing itself. Forgive all the links, but the scope of the corruption is so large as to defy adequate descriptions, in a single column, of each abomination. The reality is that these Obama/Holder minions at DoJ are dangerous to the very heart of constitutional, republican (small 'r') government.

AUGUST 15, 2011 Immigration Audits Drive Illegal Workers Underground BY MIRIAM JORDAN MINNEAPOLIS—In 2009, Alba and Eugenio were making almost twice the federal minimum wage, plus benefits, cleaning a skyscraper for a national janitorial company. With two toddlers, the Mexican couple enjoyed relative prosperity in a tidy one-bedroom duplex in a working-class neighborhood here. Late that year, federal agents audited employee records of ABM Industries Inc., forcing it to shed all the illegal workers on its payrolls in the Twin Cities. Among them was the couple, undocumented immigrants who had worked at ABM for more than a decade.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV Friday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama’s decision not to fully enforce the Defense of Marriage law has sparked a constitutional crisis as he has directly violated his constitutional duties by arbitrarily suspending a law. Gingrich for the first time raised the specter of Obama’s removal from office, noting that, if a “President Sarah Palin” had taken a similar action, there would have been immediate calls for her impeachment. Obama Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday that the administration will not defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act...

Pressure was mounting on Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie today amid increasing confusion over whether President Obama was born there. Abercrombie said on Tuesday that an investigation had unearthed papers proving Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961....frpa ... 'It actually exists in the archives, written down,' he said.

Charles Ortel, managing director of Newport Value Partners, tells Accuracy in Media in an exclusive interview that the Federal Reserve plan to buy $600 billion of U.S. Government securities “borders on the criminal” because the impact will be the devaluation of the dollar by 20 percent and the destruction of $10 trillion of household net worth. “Any potential benefit to GDP and incomes [from the Fed’s action] pales in comparison to the wealth loss (in real terms) and to the damage done to foreign investor confidence,” Ortel says. Ortel, who has been critical of U.S. economic and monetary policy under...

Bernadine Dohrn, wife of Bill Ayers and co-founder of the radical left group Weather Underground, reportedly spoke with NewsClick India recently about her thoughts on America and called the right “racist,“ ”armed,“ ”hostile,“ and ”unspeakable.“ The clip ends with her saying that the American government is the ”real terrorist”: Click link for video

Bilderberg. Whether you believe it’s part of a sinister conspiracy which will lead inexorably to one world government or whether you think it’s just an innocent high-level talking shop, there’s one thing that can’t be denied: it knows which way the wind is blowing. (Hat tips: Will/NoIdea/Ozboy) At its June meeting in Sitges, Spain (unreported and held in camera, as is Bilderberg’s way), some of the world’s most powerful CEOs rubbed shoulders with notable academics and leading politicians. They included: the chairman of Fiat, the Irish Attorney General Paul Gallagher, the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke,...

Big Government publicized the investigative work of Chicago’s 9-12 Project regarding Shorebank Corporation beginning in April, 2010 and again on May 20th. To further expose the corruption surrounding this bank, Glenn Beck has done further investigation and is tying the bank to radicals in government, government officials, specific groups, individuals, and major companies and banks in what he has dubbed “Crime Inc. “ Recent news organizations have reported that Shorebank needed a bailout, but they weren’t available for TARP funds because they didn’t meet the criteria. They have called on their “friends” for additional cash so they might be eligible...

Taxes: While the oil and gas companies are bearing the brunt of taxation, regulation and environmental angst, others are doing just fine, thank you. If you think cap-and-trade is dead, just follow the money. According to a recently released Center for Responsive Politics review of reports filed with the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, General Electric and its subsidiaries spent more than $9.5 million on federal lobbying from April to June — the most it's spent on lobbying since President Obama has been in office. Why? As the fight over cap-and-trade grows, so does lobbying. Since January, GE and its...

U.S. Citizens must do for ourselves, while we are being mushroom managed by the Obama administration and their accomplices in globalist mega-racketeering (Link-1 Link2). This is especially essential at the Gulf. Here are two important examples on video, of citizens at work. The first reports what may be very serious contamination of the waters, as far eastward as Florida. 6/24 video, Brietbart TV: "Surf at Pensacola Beach Bubbling like Acid" "As far as EPA, OSHA, NOAA, BP, and the 'Federal' Government... every one of them is in collaboration with each other. That comes from someone at the top of NOAA."...

With the Obama administration pushing for cap-and-trade legislation, former Clinton and Obama adviser Franklin Raines has positioned the government-sponsored mortgage giant Fannie Mae to make millions by selling carbon credits from American homes. Two patents applied for by Raines as one of several "co-inventors" – Nos. 6904336 and 7133750 – create a "method for identifying, quantifying, and aggregating reductions in residential emissions into a tradable commodity." The patents are identically titled "System and Method for Residential Emissions Trading." The idea appears to be for Fannie Mae to create "Collateralized Carbon Obligations," or CCOs, by utilizing a methodology similar to its...

by Nancy Matthis at American DaughterThe toxic chemical dispersant Corexit 9500 was pumped into the Gulf to counter the oil spill. Now it appears to have gassified, entered the atmosphere, and rained down on inland farmers, damaging crops and killing songbirds: One month ago, on May 24, The European Union Times wrote about a report prepared by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources for President Medvedev -- Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America: A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources is warning ... that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak...

Last month I went into extended detail about the story called Crime Inc. Exposed by Glenn Beck, Crime Inc. is a web of liberal and progressive organizations that leave a trail all the way to the White House and President Obama. Cap and Trade is the flag all of the players rally in Crime Inc. rally around. Mr. Beck added another twist to the story, as if it was not spooky enough already. Only now the central theme is George Soros. First let me lay out who the major players are, but please do not get lost in the details:...

I believe Obama's team is on record saying no border fence until Amnesty, so it's not beyond their boundaries to use a real human tragedy for political gain. I am also pretty sure Obama said he's been in control since "Day 1" on the oil spill. Now, the moment the "Oil Drilling Ban" is overturned a ROV knocks the cap off the oil well and "we have a full scale out of control leak again". Anybody buying it? I don't have a newsletter you can subscribe to but I am logged in ...

Oil was again gushing uncontrollably from the BP spill site on Wednesday after the company was forced to remove the containment cap when a robotic submarine hit a vent. The news came as officials also reported two deaths in the response effort. BP hoped to reinstall the cap later Wednesday after fixing the vent and checking for safety. Earlier Wednesday, BP said that Bob Dudley was appointed to head the new Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, which is in charge of cleaning up the oil spill.

Within 48 hours after President Obama issued the six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, the George Soros-backed Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, contacted a large New Orleans company, Laborde Marine, which services the deep-water drilling market. The company was seeking to lease all its vessels. “If the moratorium on deep-water drilling is not lifted, 33 semi-submersible rigs and/or drill ships affected will simply go to other countries where they will be well received, such as Brazil,” Cliffe F. Laborde and J. Peter Laborde, Jr. wrote in a June 4 letter to their Louisiana Senators. Could this be merely a happy coincidence for...

Governor Palin discussed Obama’s eight-week-long non-response to the BP oil rig disaster with Bill O’Reilly today, as she called for energy independence and government working with energy companies to verify the their statements and hold them accountable for their actions. Use Conventional and Alternative Sources, Don’t Let Industry Players Define Facts Gov. Palin said that we must drill here, simultaneously pursuing alternatives. We cannot be dependent on enemy nations who we must then supplicate to ramp up production for us. She said that we cannot let industry players define facts, which is precisely what eight weeks of bureaucratic malaise has...

Goldman... sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the first quarter of 2010:According to regulatory filings, RawStory.com has found that Goldman Sachs sold 4,680,822 shares of BP in the first quarter of 2010. Goldman's sales were the largest of any firm during that time. Goldman would have pocketed slightly more than $266 million if their holdings were sold at the average price of BP's stock during the quarter. http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/month-oil-spill-goldman-sachs-sold-250-million-bp-stock/ And the chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares:The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico...

Senator Pleaded for Bank Bailout that Cost Taxpayers NJ Sen. Robert Menendez Lobbied Treasury to Bail Out Bank That Failed During the depths of the financial crisis in 2008, a member of the Senate Banking Committee urged the Treasury Department to provide bailout money to a struggling financial firm whose eventual collapse cost taxpayers $2.3 billion, newly released records show. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., wrote to then-Treasury secretary Henry Paulson in support of CIT Group, a New Jersey-based lender to businesses such as retail stores. Menendez touted CIT's importance to New Jersey and the nation and said the firm "provided...

There is nothing that aspiring global governors love so much as recognition of their vast good intentions. Today, octogenarian citizen of the world Maurice Strong receives one of this year’s Four Freedoms Awards, established by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Roosevelt Stichting in the Netherlands......Mr. Strong has been central to reformulating socialism’s grand narrative in radical environmental terms. He was the mastermind of the seminal UN environmental conferences at Stockholm in 1972 and Rio in 1992. He is a key promoter of the subversive anti-market concepts of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. He is the godfather...

Obama’s connections to less than reputable characters and groups like Goldman Sachs, the Chicago Climate Exchange, “Fannie and Freddie,” former Chicago Governor Rod Blagojevich, Franklin Raines, Bill Ayers, Van Jones, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, etc. (the list appears infinite) have placed Americans in the unfortunate position of having to question everything that the government says and does. This epiphany has forced the Central Illinois 9/12 project to investigate the suspiciously preferable treatment Obama and his cohorts have provided to the Chicago-based, community-based investment bank, Shorebank. According to the 9/12 group, Shorebank is “focused on domestic and foreign microfinancing, is heavily engaged...

Glenn Beck TV thread May 24th 2010 Welcome to the GLENN BECK television thread...Stand. Never give up. Never give in. We are another day closer to the 2010 elections. All Beckerheads, infidels, sick twisted freaks, ilks and lurkers are welcome and are encouraged to participate in the thread.

The Greatest Scam ever known. Environmental Markets Trading Seminar So whats in the scedule for the Crime Syndicate? Well lets have a look see. A comprehensive seminar providing in-depth coverage of critical topics in environmental finance. Attendees will gain valuable insights on mandatory and voluntary carbon markets, available carbon offset standards, developments in EPA Clean Air Act SO2 & NOx compliance programs, and renewable energy market opportunities including RECs. Sessions: * U.S. Carbon Markets: CCX, RGGI, WCI * EU ETS: The ECX experience * Offsets: Prospects and pricing under KGL and beyond * EPA Clean Air Act Markets: SO2, NOx...

General Electric Co. says it has committed to pump $20 million into ShoreBank, providing the last amount of capital needed to keep the ailing South Side community development lender from failing. Discussions that went into the wee hours last night finally produced an agreement among a who’s who of Wall Street banks and a group of local lenders that will provide about $140 million of private capital to rescue ShoreBank, a person familiar with the matter said. That will enable ShoreBank to tap up to $75 million in bailout funds from the Treasury Department. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had...

Obama's mother, Stanley A. Dunham, worked for Tim Geithner's Father Peter Geithner at the Ford Foundation. Ford Foundation is partnered with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Peter F. Geithner, Treasury Secretary Geithner's father, worked for the Ford Foundation. No surprise here though, really. Obama and family are highly connected to the East Coast banking crime syndicate (Rockefellers, Soros, Ford Foundation etc.). In other words, Obama and family are highly connected to (Council on Foreign Relations) CFR banking family members, or better known as the Federal Reserve conglomerate. Snip There is also a solid link between the Islamic Banking Cooperative, Fannie...

Well of course I would write a headline like that having just spent the last three days in Chicago at the Heartland Institute’s 4th International Conference on Climate Change. This is the event the cackling, cloak-wearing, befanged AGW-denying community attends every year to glorify in their own evil. And naturally, in the wake of Climategate, a mood of uproarious triumphalism has prevailed as distinguished skeptical scientists, economists, and policymakers from around the world – Pat Michaels, Richard Lindzen, Ian Plimer, Bob Carter, Fred Singer.. you name them, they’re here – have gathered to dance on the smouldering ashes of the...

Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is seeking another $8.4 billion in federal bailout money, after the Obama administration earlier lifted a $400 billion limit on bailouts for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two mortgage giants known as the Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs). Officials say these entities were at the “core” of “what went wrong” in the financial crisis. Last week, the other GSE, Freddie Mac, asked for $10.6 billion more in bailouts. The Obama administration is certain to approve the new bailout request: “Late last year, the Obama administration pledged to cover unlimited losses through 2012 for Freddie and Fannie,” reports the...

Glenn Beck Radio show, Thursday, May 13th - transcript. "The president of the country is the wrong place to look. Barack Obama is not the guy. He's not the creator of any of this legislation. When he said "I want to see what comes out of the House" (referring to the healthcare ) just like Nancy Pelosi, 'I'm gonna see what comes out of the Center for American Progress'. They're not writing any of these bills, they're not doing any of this. Barack Obama certainly isn't... Barack Obama is the Slapchop guy. These things have been going down for years....

A value added tax, or VAT for short, is something that has been floating around Washington for some time now as a solution to help the trillion dollar deficit woes. Most Americans probably do not know what a VAT is, considering it is a fairly recent European idea, but they are probably wondering how it will personally affect them and their families. Well, you better open your eyes and smell the taxes because a VAT is coming to a store near you. Started by the French in 1954, a VAT has now been implemented throughout the European Union and many...

The Climate Bill came out today, er.. I mean cap-and-trade, er..I mean 'The American Power Act'. Tonight, Glenn exposes more of Crime, INC and shows us who and what is really behind this attempt to further transform our country and lead us down the path to global governance. This is incredible..he also uncovers stuff about Maurice Strong, the man whose idea it was for carbon credits in the first place..he's been talking about it for years. Though, I think Alex Jones did something on this before, not sure. http://www.watchglennbeck.com

Sovereignty - Three Critical Questions for Political CandidatesAll tests which the Obamunists fail -- and so do many Republicans. Please share this with leaders of the electoral action organization of your choice. In addition to asking a candidate whether he or she is pro-life, for restoring constitutional government, for cutting budgets and taxes, for protecting our borders, how he interprets the 1st and 2nd Amendments, etc., these questions must be asked our political candidates: Are you a member of any organizations supporting globalist, transnationalist, or communitarian ends, or have you received money or services from them? Do you pledge...

(To see links and sources view article on my site) Last Thursday I laid out in detail the money laundering scheme centered on Cap and Trade that Glenn Beck exposed, known as Crime Inc. (click here for a chart summary). Hopefully, you did not get lost in the intricate details and were able to see how the numerous progressive organizations were connected and even linked to the White House and President Obama. What I did not go into was why you should care. Most Americans have no idea Crime Inc. or things like it are going on. Many others probably...

Conspiracy theory:  1) a theory that explains an event as being the result of a plot by a covert group or organization; a belief that a particular unexplained event was caused by such a group. There are many conspiracy theories out there.  The Masonic Order, the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11 being an inside job are just a few.  By its definition, a conspiracy theory is an idea or belief left unexplained.  However, if it could be explained, based on hard, undeniable evidence, it would not be a conspiracy theory.  Then, it would be the truth.  That is exactly what...

Corruption: The carbon trading system being pushed here has spawned crime and fraud across the pond. Cap-and-trade is not about saving the planet. It's about money and power, and absolute power corrupting absolutely. All across Europe authorities have been conducting raids, rounding up individuals involved in a new version of Climate-gate. This time the data aren't corrupted. Europe's Emissions Trading System is. The system is so sick, it's turned out to be a scam built upon a scam. Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids by British and German authorities as part of a pan-European crackdown on carbon credit VAT...

Source note: I wanted to make sure you heard about this. I just did today. Was sent to me by my friend whom I know you know too. There was nothing in the news about this that I know of. Have some friends trying to find out the details from police reports, or whatever. This is really terrible and I pray for everyone’s safety who is bringing out the truth about Obama. Jeff Here is a snip regarding Terry’s Lakin’s lawyer’s son… BEFORE WE START: YOUNGEST SON OF LAWYER JOHN HEMENWAY, WHO BROUGHT A QUO WARRANTO ACTION AGAINST OBAMA, WAS...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 5, 2007 Emanuel Announces the Greening of the Capitol U.S. Congress to Purchase Carbon Offsets from the Chicago Climate Exchange ### WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Rahm Emanuel (IL-5) joined Dan Beard, Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, officials from the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the City of Chicago, and fellow Members of Congress to announce the purchase of carbon offsets on the Chicago Climate Exchange to help make the U.S. House of Representatives carbon neutral by the end of the 110th Congress. “Through the ‘Green the Capitol’ initiative, the House of Representatives joins...

Now we know why so many Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers and accountants did little or nothing to prevent Wall Street bankers from playing musical chairs with toxic assets, or stop Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford from stealing billions from investors. They were too busy downloading porn on their government computers. Which also explains why the SEC didn't bother to investigate serious allegations regarding the United Airlines bankruptcy and the largest corporate pension default in U.S. history. When Chicago Chief Bankruptcy Judge Eugene Wedoff declared United bankrupt in 2006, the airline was allowed to dump all its pension liabilities on...

This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," April 29, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GLENN BECK, HOST: America, this is so important. This should be on the front page of every paper, but it won't be. And when I'm done with it, you ask yourself why. And you watch — you watch — all the blogs and everything else will just make cheap shots at me. Go ahead. Go ahead. Look how fat he is, look how stupid, look at his hair, look at the blackboards. Whatever. How about we...

Glenn Beck vs. Joel Rogers, King of the Progressives If Fox News commentator, Glenn Beck is right, Joel Rogers may be the man behind Obama and the entire Progressive Movement. Not a far stretch as Progressives got their start in Wisconsin, where Joel teaches law, political science and sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Thursday morning, Joel was a featured speaker at an Earth Day conference in Chicago on public transportation. Needless to say, he’s all for it! But Beck has connected the dots on his magic blackboards (He needs about three or four now, at least!) as he ties...

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. "Time's running out (on climate change)," Gore told them. "We have to get our act together. You have a unique role in getting our act together." Gore was right that foundations will play a key role in keeping the...