You might want to keep this in mind if the mainstream media is kind enough to even cover the coming cap and trade legislation in Congress. Everyone should remember Obama,
who promised no tax increases, has said, "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates [and gas prices] would necessarily
skyrocket".
If you haven't been following Glenn Beck (a mistake for all Americans IMHO), especially about his latest, "Crime Inc.", you absolutely should be.
Crime Inc.: What the 'Greening of America' Really Means The following is a sloppy cut and paste to offer the gist. It should be read in full.
"The CCX: A Dream Come True?
For people like Richard Sandor and former Vice-President Al Gore the focus on 'green politics' represented the culmination of years of planning and a giant step towards a massive payday.
With a big helping hand from then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, Sandor's brainchild, The Chicago Climate Exchange, opened for business in 2003 billing itself as 'North America's only cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases...' In other words, the facilitator for a scheme not quite hatched."
"During 2000 and 2001, the Joyce Foundation, a progressive trust with assets near $1 billion, known for funding groups like Center for American Progress and Tides Foundation, provided grants to CCX totaling $1.1 million. State Senator Obama served on the foundation's board of directors during that time and was instrumental in awarding the grants."
"Bartels' death opened the door for a new partner to join CCX, easily the oddest fit of them all: Fannie Mae. In a move still unexplained, the quasi-governmental mortgage agency, led by CEO Franklin Raines, purchased the rights to the system from Bartel's widow. A patent on the invention was granted to Raines and Fannie Mae on November 7, 2006, ironically, the day after the Democrats regained control of Congress. According to Barbara Hollingsworth of the Washington Examiner, the patent covers both the 'cap' and 'trade' parts of Obama's top domestic energy initiative and gives Fannie Mae proprietary control"
[Shibboleths ahoy.] "In December 2009 The Joyce Foundation awarded Raines and Enterprise a $200,000 grant to launch Emerald Cities Collaborative. According to its website, 'The Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is a start-up, national coalition of diverse groups that includes unions, labor groups, community organizations, social justice advocates, development intermediaries, research and technical assistance providers, socially responsible businesses, and elected officials.'
Emerald Cities' goal is 'the greening of our nation's central cities and the creation of a 'new vital economic sector.'" [Wow. Unions and labor groups? Diverse indeed!]
"The 'environmental movement,' once the bastion of peace loving hippies and Earth mothers, is potentially the booming business of the 21st century. Billions of dollars currently change hands each year in the name of the environment and, by all accounts, the surface is only scratched.
To date the missing piece of the puzzle has been a government mandate, something cap-and-trade legislation will remedy. Those already in the game stand to reap a fortune on the backs of average Americans who will see their energy bills 'necessarily skyrocket,' as President Obama explained, as businesses pass along the new cost of doing what they do in a 'green America.'
It's interesting to note that without the specter of a government mandate, the Chicago Climate Exchange would hold no value. Likewise Fannie Mae's patented trading system"
Obama. The Chicago political machine. Goldman Sachs. Al Gore. SEIU. George Soros. Fannie Mae.
The greatest fraud scheme perpetrated in all of US history, if not world history. And most of the Democrat elite are willing participants. If you know a Democrat leader, be it family or friend, maybe you should ask if this seems okay. If you know a journalist, be it family or friend, ask them if they remember when they once had integrity and the desire to find a good story. This is a Pulitzer. This would make a journalist more a name than Woodward and Bernstein. Yet no one in the mainstream media will touch it because doing so would harm the global socialist agenda.