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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...