Obama’s Coup Of Total Government Control Blagojevich/Chicago Style

NOTE: The Update at the end of  this blog posted on 2-3-09 adds even MORE to this:

Administration Officials: Gregg Is Leading Candidate for Commerce Secretary

Republican Sen. Judd Gregg is the leading contender for Commerce Secretary, an Obama administration official said Saturday.

Two White House officials said Saturday that Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire is the leading candidate to become commerce secretary.

The officials — speaking on condition of anonymity — told FOX News that an announcement of Gregg’s nomination could come as soon as Monday.

Gregg’s appointment to the post could give Obama and his Democratic Party another seat in the Senate, clearing the way for them to pass legislation without fear of a Republican filibuster. It takes 60 votes to end a filibuster, a legislative tactic used to block measures from coming to a vote.

The choice also would provide the administration a strong ambassador to the business community in Gregg, who devised the $700 billion banking bailout package last year. [Stacking the deck to try to force the stimulus package]

The officials also said there was no word on who New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, would appoint to replace Gregg.

Lynch, a political moderate, could easily appoint a Republican, senior Democrats have told supporters in private conversation. They fret that the independent-minded Lynch is likely to appoint a “placeholder” senator who would not permanently seek the office in 2010.

Gregg faces a tough re-election in 2010. His state has shifted toward Democrats in recent years and his role in the banking rescue plan would complicate a re-election bid in a state that proudly rebukes government spending and has no state income taxes.

New Hampshire Democrats have taken two House seats, a Senate seat and control of the state’s Executive Council, House and Senate since 2004. Democrats slightly outnumber Republicans on voter rolls, but the vaunted independent voters — or “undeclared,” as they are known in the Granite State — lead both. Lynch won re-election last year with 70 percent of the vote.

Democrats already have eyed Gregg’s seat as vulnerable for the right candidate.
His appointment to the Cabinet could make it more difficult for the Republicans to defend.

Democrats hold a 56-41 majority in the 100-member Senate, and two independents caucus with them. The Senate seat from Minnesota remains undecided, with Sen. Norm Coleman and challenger Al Franken in a close, court-based contest.

Gregg on Friday confirmed he was under consideration as Republicans urged him to think carefully about what it would mean to the Republican Party. Gregg’s spokeswoman did not have immediate comment on Saturday.

A member of a New Hampshire political family, Gregg rose through the Senate ranks to serve as chairman of the powerful Budget Committee and the Appropriations subcommittee that funds homeland security.

Now in the minority, he is the ranking Republican member on the Budget Committee but still has large sway in the Republicans’ response to Obama’s legislative agenda.

He would be Obama’s second choice to run the Commerce Department. His first pick, New Mexico’s Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson, dropped out of consideration amid a grand jury investigation over how state contracts were issued to political donors.

Obama has spoken with his party’s leadership on Capitol Hill about the move, which aides say could be a lost opportunity if the administration allows a Republican replacement to be named.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/31/administration-official-judd-leading-candidate-commerce-secretary/

Lost opportunity? The Governor of New Hampshire is DEMOCRAT, therefore his SENATE replacement would be Democrat. This give the SENATE a fillibuster proof Powerful Bloc: In other words whatever Obama wants…..

Contact your Republican Congressional members and convince Gregg it WOULD NOT BE A SMART MOVE FOR THEIR PARTY!

STRATEGIC MANIPULATION AT ITS BEST!

UPDATE: February 3, 2009

Politico’s Ben Smith noted on Saturday:

“The White House, I’m told, is still trying to get a guarantee from Governor Lynch that he’ll replace Senator Gregg with a Democrat.”

Smith’s statement was a single sentence and no other implications have been drawn from it. But a report in The Wall Street Journal’s Political Diary today seems to confirm this claim.

Obama is misappropriating a government position, putting someone into his cabinet who he doesn’t believe is the best person for the job.

The Politico information indicates that Obama clearly does not view Senator Gregg as the best person to head the Commerce Department.

 Rather, it makes explicit that Obama was offering the Commerce job solely to buy a Senate seat for the Democrats.

Senator Gregg, though, resisted any deal that gave Democrats an immediate filibuster proof majority. As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell noted yesterday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senator Gregg promised that he would only leave the Senate if another Republican replaced him.

So what was Obama to do? He apparently compromised for the next best option. John Fund at The Wall Street Journal reports on the new deal: Gregg will be replaced by a caretaker Republican who won’t run for reelection — giving the Democrats in an “increasingly” Democratic state “a good shot at picking up the seat” in the next election.

By removing Gregg — a popular Republican incumbent who can remain in the Senate as long as he wanted — Obama is willing to buy his Senate seat for a delayed chance to create a filibuster proof Senate.

Arguably, buying this Senate seat might be even worse than doing so with a promise to help to raise campaign donations.

Obama is misappropriating a government position, putting someone into his cabinet who he doesn’t believe is the best person for the job.

With the nation in a recession, the Commerce Department position is even more important than usual.

For Obama to use it to buy a Senate seat seems particularly troubling and cynical. — A Senate seat that won’t even be relevant for the legislation that, in Obama’s view, could help with the recession.

Senator Gregg’s motivations are obviously quite different from Obama’s — after all, heading up the Commerce Department is a powerful position and he might really believe that he is a better person for the job than whomever else Obama would appoint.

 But the White House’s statement, as related by Politico, raises serious questions about whether Obama is really different from other Chicago politicians.

Ironically, not only was Blagojevich just removed from office for trying to sell a Senate seat, but the Commerce position is only open because Governor Bill Richardson was forced to withdraw his name over investigations into bribery.

John R. Lott is the author of Freedomnomics and a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland.

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/02/02/lott_gregg_obama/

Tom Daschle Friend of European Socialists and Obama’s Pick For Secretary of HHS; Yet Obama States He Is Not “Socialistic”?

Tom Daschle participating in the Party of European Socialists (PES) welcome group in 2007:

(Hint: Look At Leaflet on table next to him)

Tom Daschle Meeting with PES Delegation April 2007

So I am left to believe that Tom Daschle an ex-Senator that is supposedly knowledgeable in Health Care is willing to NOT Socialize our Healthcare in the United States? Puleeze!

Daschle’s Long March
By Philip Klein on 12.12.08 @ 6:10AM

Let’s be fair: Barack Obama and Tom Daschle will not attempt to immediately impose socialized health care on America.

Instead, they’ll just take us along the scenic route.

The important thing to keep in mind over the next several months is that for all the talk Democrats will do about choice and public-private partnerships, the ultimate goal of any Obama-Daschle proposal will be to put America on the pathway to a single-payer health care system, which is a more academic way of describing a socialized system in which government is the sole purchaser of health care.

“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health-care plan,” Obama declared in a 2003 speech to the AFL-CIO. “[W]e may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, we have to take back the House.”

When Daschle and Obama discuss public-private partnerships, the “public” part is always touted as a way to improve our system, but there’s never anything positive said about the private aspects of American health care. Instead, private industry is treated as something that has to be tolerated to make health care reform more politically feasible at the moment.

“Supporters say single-payer is brilliantly simple, ensures equity by providing all people with the same benefits, and saves billions of dollars by creating economies of scale and streamlining administration,” Daschle writes in his book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. “But a pure single-payer system is politically problematic in the United States, at least right now.”

Daschle goes on to ask, “If passage of a single-payer system isn’t realistic, what should we do?”

His answer, which is echoed by Obama, is to craft a plan that maintains the current mixed public-private structure while making it function more like a government-run system. Over time, this can seamlessly evolve into the single-payer model that both Daschle and Obama clearly prefer.

Obama’s campaign health-care plan and Daschle’s book give us a pretty good clue as to what they are likely to propose once in office. Any plan would likely require insurance companies to cover anybody who applies for insurance without taking into account pre-existing conditions, and insurers would have to charge rates that the government deemed affordable. Individuals would be given subsidies to purchase insurance in a government-run exchange, choosing either a government plan modeled after Medicare, or private plans that would have to meet certain government standards. Large employers would likely be required to either provide health insurance to their employees, or pay into a government pool to purchase coverage for the uninsured.

But Daschle’s hope is that with all the money it spends, government will be able to throw its weight around and arm-twist private industry into behaving in a way that the bureaucracy wants them to — just like in a single-payer system.

http://spectator.org/archives/2008/12/12/daschles-long-march

UPDATE 1-31-09: Report: Daschle Received $220G From Health Care Groups With Vested Interest

Tom Daschle, the former South Dakota senator picked by President Obama to reside over the nation’s healthcare system, received $220,000 in speaking fees from health care groups with an interest in the work he would do once confirmed as health chief, Politico.com reports.

Daschle, who has come under fire in recent days for his failure to pay taxes, reportedly received thousands from health care groups — such as the Health Industry Distributors Association — that stand to gain or lose depending on the outcome of Obama’s universal health care initiative.

The Health Industry Associated paid Dashle a speaking fee of $14,000 in March 2008, according to Politico.com.

The speaking fees were detailed in a financial disclosure statement released Friday after it was revealed that Daschle — Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services — failed to pay $128,203 in back taxes and $11,964 in interest.

Click here to read the full report from Politico.com.

The White House acknowledged Friday that Daschle had “some tax issues,”[Ya think? Emphasis mine]  which, the administration says, have been resolved and should not bar his confirmation as secretary.

FOX News confirmed that Daschle alerted the Senate Finance Committee, which is set to oversee his confirmation hearing, that the matter involves more than $100,000 in back taxes and interest for a car and driver that was provided to him for four years by Leo Hindery, a wealthy Democratic donor, longtime friend and business associate of Daschle.

Daschle incorrectly assumed the use of the car and driver was not subject to taxation. But the White House says he discovered the error during preparation for his confirmation and filed amended tax returns with the proper payment and interest.

The unreported income for the car service totaled more than $250,000 over three years.

Hindery founded InterMedia Partners, a private equity firm, in 1988. Daschle was paid $1 million annually for his consulting services, the Senate Finance Committee said.

Daschle also had unreported consulting income of $88,333, in 2007. He also had reductions to charitable contributions totaling about $15,000 over the three years covered, according to a Senate Finance Committee document. The document, marked “Confidential Draft,” is a committee statement concerning Daschle’s nomination.

The White House issued a statement Friday night affirming that Daschle “is the right person to lead the fight for health care reform.” [President Obama: What was your statement about lobbyists in your Administration again? Wouldn't Daschle be considered a lobbyist for Health care companies such as the one that gave him a car AND a driver?]

“Senator Daschle brought these issues to the Finance Committee’s attention when he submitted his nomination forms and we are confident the committee is going to schedule a hearing for him very soon, and he will be confirmed,” it says.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the committee’s chairman, has scheduled a closed-door meeting with committee members to discuss the matter before proceeding with Daschle’s confirmation hearing.

The news comes on the heals of an uproar over the tax troubles of another one of Obama’s Cabinet nominees. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed this week after apologizing for failing to pay $34,000 in taxes on time, an error that he said was a “careless” mistake. [Mistake?  It is just because he got caught. Emphasis mine].

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office released a statement Friday strongly backed Daschle despite the new revelations.

“Senator Daschle will be confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services,” Reid spokesman Jim Manley said. “He has a long and distinguished career and record in public service and is the best person to help reform health care in this country. Senator Reid looks forward to a swift hearing and is confident Daschle will be confirmed.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/30/white-house-daschle-tax-issues-shouldnt-bar-cabinet-confirmation/

IS OUR CONGRESS ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL OR JUST “PLAYING DUMB”???

Obama made a “joke” of John McCain calling him “Socialistic” yet our new President who had the backing and push by Howard Dean and the DNC to become our President….most are connected to the Party of European Socialists, yet he doesn’t want this “brand” on him?
Hillary Clinton wrote her thesis in college about Saul Alinsky and trained in his tactics and ideals as did President Obama.
The Congressional Progressive Cacus has connections to the Democratic Socialists of America and the International Socialist Party including Speaker Pelosi.

Howard Dean is connected to the Democratic Socialists of America. Dean himself founded Democracy for America. http://www.democracyforamerica.com/

Remember fist pounding Rep. Wexler at the DNC hearings about the Florida Votes? He is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and is buddies with the Party of European Socialists.

We know Sen. Bernie Sanders is an “open” Socialist in Congress.

President John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO is also a part of the Party of European Socialists.

New Day for U.S. Economic Policy
By Lawrence Mishel
November 5, 2008

A statement on the economic implications of Barack Obama’s historic election victory, by Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington DC think tank founded in 1986.

New Day for U.S. Economic Policy

At long last, the center of economic thinking in the United States has shifted, and we can declare with confidence and relief that the conservative era is over. It is now possible to build an economy with widely shared prosperity.

http://www.epi.org/analysis_and_opinion/entry/new_day_for_economic_policy/

As they say a picture is worth a thousand words:

Howard Dean with Party of European Socialist (PES)

http://webcast-pes.all2all.org/index.php/photos/view/397/en

Rep. Wexler Meeting with PES in his Congressional Office

http://webcast-pes.all2all.org/index.php/photos/view/378/en

Lawrence Mishel, the President of the Economic Policy Institue meeting with PES:

http://webcast-pes.all2all.org/index.php/photos/view/377/en

Is that Rahm Emanuel behind Mishel?

PES having lunch with the FES (Fredrich Ebert Foundation)

PES delegation to the US, April 2007 / Lunch with the FES (Friedrich Ebert Foundation) office in Washington DC and discussion on “The Democratic Domestic Reform Agenda Until and Beyond 2008”

http://webcast-pes.all2all.org/index.php/photos/view/388/en

President of the AFL-CIO John Sweeney with Rasmussen the President of the Party of European Socialists.

PES delegation to the US, April 2007 / Poul Rasmussen with President John J. Sweeney of the AFL-CIO's (America's Union Movement) 13 million members

http://webcast-pes.all2all.org/index.php/photos/view/376/en

Last BUT NOT LEAST:

PES at the DNC Headquarters in Washington,D.C.

Does this pingback to it isn’t WHAT you know; it is WHO you know?

The PES sent a delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Were they present at the acceptance speech too?
Were they present during the inauguration?

Where is the “Transparency” again?

Besides The Stimulus Plan for America; Add the Global Taxation by The United Nations If The Senate Passes the “UN Sea Treaty”

Sinister Secrets of the U.N. Sea Treaty
By Cliff Kincaid

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck11.05.07.html

The former editor of the New York Times editorial page says it is “crazy” to be opposed to the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty and she can’t understand why it has become a hot-button issue in the Republican presidential race. Gail Collins declared in a November 3 column in the Times that the measure simply clarifies “rules for navigation and mining in international waters” and sets up “a system for settling disputes.” Those opposed to it, she says, are spinning “conspiracy theories.” But Collins is doing the spinning.

What if there were evidence that the treaty was the product of those who believe in world government financed by global taxes?

Hold on to your seats.

The true story of how the Law of the Sea Treaty came into being is a fascinating one that I have investigated for several years. I researched the matter at the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea in New York City and at the Friends Historical Collection at Guilford College in North Carolina. The Guilford College papers demonstrate the activities that engaged Sam and Miriam Levering as they wrote and promoted this treaty.

The Leverings, husband and wife team who were Quakers and World Federalists, helped write the treaty and lobbied for it through a non-governmental organization called the Neptune Group.

You have probably never heard of them before. But the November 4 edition of the Mount Airy (North Carolina) News gives a hint of the truth. It reports that Sam Levering “played a key role in formulating” the treaty and was recognized for that role during a symposium there on October 12.

Is it possible this small-town North Carolina paper has information that Gail Collins and the Times do not?

Who is Sam Levering? And is it true that he played a key role in writing the treaty? Here lies one of the sinister secrets of the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty that the major media are either too lazy or too dishonest to report.

 It is a “secret,” of course, only in the sense that it is kept from the American people by papers like the New York Times.

The shocking truth is that the Law of the Sea Treaty, which could come up for a full Senate vote at any time, was largely written by people like Sam Levering, a World Federalist devoted to world government.

And since that is demonstrably the case, could the Law of the Sea Treaty be considered a step toward world government? Or is it too conspiratorial to even consider such a possibility?

The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Guilty

The Mount Airy News was reporting on an October 12 symposium on the treaty sponsored by a patriotic-sounding group called the “American Freedom Association.” The paper reported that, “The event featured a variety of speakers on the treaty, including Ralph Levering, whose late father Sam played a key role in formulating the measure in 1982.” The paper quoted Marie Judson, the association’s historian, as saying that “one of the reasons she supports the treaty is to help carry on the work started by Sam Levering, a strong advocate for peace, who among other issues campaigned against nuclear arms proliferation.”

The American Freedom Association was one of several groups which emerged after World War II and were devoted to the concept of “world federalism” or world government. Their reaction to the horrors of World War II caused them to embrace world government as the solution to the world’s problems. But some of the world federalist groups were accused of being infiltrated or manipulated by communists sympathetic to the Soviet Union. For that reason, one of these groups changed its name to “American Freedom Association” in the 1950s.

The group’s website admits as much.

“Many of the founding members were members of the World Federalist Society,” it says. “The chosen name reflected a strong perspective on the required conditions for American Freedom. It also reflected a need for a name that was acceptable at the height of the era of Senator Joe McCarthy.”

In other words, in order to avoid the taint of being associated with the world communist movement, the name was changed.

A similar public relations strategy was also evident in 2004 when the World Federalist Association changed its name to the more harmless sounding “Citizens for Global Solutions.” It is funded by major liberal foundations and lobbies for ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. It also joined with the Open Society Institute of George Soros to oppose John Bolton’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. They hired a crook as part of their lobbying effort.

Global Taxes

Back when it proudly called itself the World Federalist Association, the group said that one of its main priorities was to “provide the U.N. with sustained and independent sources of funding.” How did they intend to bring this about? Through the Law of the Sea Treaty.

 

The WFA book, A New World Order. Can It Bring Security to the World’s People? declared, “One of the most popular concepts identified as an independent source of revenue is the ocean and seabeds.” It noted that the treaty creates an International Seabed Authority to grant “leasing rights to private corporations,” provide “mining concessions,” and operate mining operations through something called the Enterprise. “Certain fees and sharing of technology are also involved,” it noted. Revenues accruing to the Seabed Authority “are designated for development assistance” or foreign aid.

Basic investigative reporting, which is apparently lacking at the Times and other liberal papers, also reveals that the concept of the “common heritage of mankind” was inserted into the treaty through the aforementioned efforts of Sam Levering and his wife Miriam. They were the left-wing Quakers and World Federalists who formed the “Neptune Group” to lobby for the treaty over the course of decades. They worked with Elliot Richardson, who was President Jimmy Carter’s representative to the treaty negotiations. He would later serve as national co-chairman of the pro-U.N. lobby, the U.N. Association. (The U.N. Association is funded by most of the major media groups, including the New York Times Company Foundation).

 

The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), a Quaker group, reports that, “During the 1970s, Sam and Miriam worked out of FCNL’s office as they diligently and patiently advocated to keep the oceans part of ‘the common heritage of mankind’ and negotiated with governments on the treaty’s final language.” FCNL reports that the Leverings also “entered the fray in 1970 as Congress debated the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources bill that promoted a nationalistic approach” to mining.  The Leverings were strongly opposed to that approach. Their notion of the oceans being the “common heritage of mankind” stayed in the treaty.  

The Birth of “Limited” World Government

The results were what they intended. In its 1995 study, National Taxpayers, International Organizations: Sharing the Burden of Financing the United Nations, the U.N. Association admitted that the International Seabed Authority was unique among U.N. bodies: “Only the Seabed authority created by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, which entered into force in late 1994, has authority today to directly collect international revenue to finance its activities.” Hence, global taxes were born, a major step on the road to world government. But will the U.S. Senate sign on to that scheme? That’s what the battle over the Law of the Sea Treaty is all about.

“My parents were world peace advocates,” boasted Davidson College history professor Ralph Levering. “They were deeply involved with the World Federalist Movement from the 1930s through the 1950s, advocating a federalist system binding all countries under a central world government with limited power.” There were other players involved and you can read about them in this report.

An official 1997 WFA publication declared that the final version of the Law of the Sea Treaty “marked real progress in establishing global governance by… stipulating that mining of the seabeds beyond national waters should require payment of royalties to the LOS [Law of the Sea] organization, thereby creating a funding resource that would be independent of voluntary contributions by the treaty member nations. These are t he elements of a limited world government in a very restricted field that is nevertheless significant.”

There you have it, Ms. Collins. You can call this a conspiracy theory if you want to. But it is really not. It is an open secret that our major media want desperately to conceal.

Defeating the Law of the Sea Treaty would not only stop the globalists dead in their tracks. It would let the New York Times and other media know that we have seen through their propaganda and disinformation. So we will get two victories for the price of one. Isn’t that worth the effort? America’s sovereignty is right now hanging in the balance. What will you do? What decision will you make?

GET THE CONTACT INFORMATION FOR YOUR SENATORS HERE.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Obama’s Stimulus Package with Goldman Sachs Group Connected to Dispersing Funds?

Goldman’s Back. They Never Left!

We all know that previous US Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, was tied to Goldman Sachs as its CEO.  Now this:

Goldman Sachs is making a comeback — maybe not on the stock market — but in Washington DC.

Timothy Geithner, recently confirmed by the Senate as Treasury Secretary, has reportedly tapped a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist to be his chief of staff. Mark Patterson worked as a registered lobbyist at the investment firm from 2005 to April of last year.

It’s no wonder that Geithner, who’s succeeding Henry Paulson at Treasury, would appoint a Goldman insider to serve as his right hand man. Paulson was once CEO at Goldman Sachs himself. At Treasury he was preceded in the Clinton administration by Robert Rubin, yet another Goldman CEO.

Goldman is about as connected a firm as they come. The firm paid former President Bill Clinton almost $950,000 for speeches he delivered between 2004 and 2007. The company’s Political Action Committee was the fourth largest donor to Senator Clinton’s campaign, right after Citigroup. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the Goldman PAC — to which Geithner’s purported Chief of Staff contributed – invested well over half a million in contributions to Congressional candidates in the 2008 cycle, mostly Democrats, and mostly incumbents. Goldman Sachs employees alone contributed more than $5 million. Candidate Obama received over $1,000,000 himself from Goldman in the 2007-2008 fundraising cycle.

It puts a bit of a pall on President Obama’s pledge to limit the influence of lobbyists in his administration.

Obama has said that if lobbyists work for him they won’t work on areas on which they’ve lobbied. It’s hard to imagine how that will work out for Patterson.

As ABC News notes:

“…even if he recuses himself from matters related to Goldman, there is little outside oversight. The position of chief of staff is appointed by the secretary of treasury and does not require Senate approval…” As most of the treasury staff’s business goes on behind closed doors, there will be little for outsiders to see.

What we do know is that Goldman Sachs executives had a seat at the table when the regulations on finance were loosened under Clinton and they’ve had a seat at the table since the whole bailout business began. The firm was an early and large recipient of TARP funding. Goldman received $10 billion almost immediately. It’s hard to think of a single solitary reason why anything or anyone would be likely to stop the flow.

And for continuity’s sake, the fellow selected to replace Geithner at the New York Fed, William C. Dudley, was, formerly chief economist at–hold your breath–Goldman Sachs.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/402777/goldman_s_back_they_never_left

After doing a lobbyist search for Goldman Sachs, I found this:

Information for GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. ( & ITS AFFILIATES & SUBSIDIARIES)

I suggest you take a moment and click on the link below to actually LOOK AT THE AFFILIATES and SUBSIDIARIES of Goldman SACHS:

http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?client=Goldman+Sachs+Group%2C+Inc.+%28+%26+its+affiliates+%26+subsidiaries%29

So we have Henry Paulson, the Ex-Treasury Secretary who insured Goldman Sachs was one of the first to receive Tarp funds, then Tim Geithner who is connected to the Federal Reserve, who just so happens to name Mark Patterson, an ex-lobbyist for Goldman Sachs, and finally the one replacing Tim Geithner at the FED is William Dudley, a former chief economist at GOLDMAN SACHS!

So where is the “CHANGE” again President Obama????

Obama, ACORN,The Mortgage Meltdown Following The Cloward-Piven Strategy Alinsky Style

 
Ruled By A Radical

The idea that Obama is a centrist who wishes to end the culture wars is laughable.

The White House website sets out his agenda on “civil rights,” which includes expanding federal “hate crime” legislation, ending racial profiling, repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and supporting full civil unions that give same-sex couples legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples, giving adoption rights to gay couples, and lifting the federal ban on needle exchange — a policy promoted by drug legalizers on the disingenuous grounds that this will reduce infection among drug users but which actually helps normalize drug abuse.

The Telegraph reports one of Obama’s first acts, to lift restrictions on government funding for groups providing abortion services or counseling outside the United States.

Then there’s the launch of Organizing for America, an extension of the community activism Obama encouraged, after he was elected, through a network of informal “house parties” to discuss pressing issues. Now it’s to be a formal infrastructure of activism — see here.

As pointed out here, such use of community organization also follows to the letter the template for social revolution laid down by Saul Alinsky, the Marxist ideologue and activist who set out in his book Rules for Radicals how capitalism would be overthrown by the mobilization of the masses and the whipping up of their discontent. The strategy revolved around creating apparently moderate local organizations that would be manipulated by community organizers — effectively deniable political agitators — to foment grievance and dissent. Alinsky’s thinking permeates ACORN and other community groups that in the past were associated with or funded by Obama, and which push an agenda that is as coercive and corrupt as it is seditious. America’s First Community Organizer promised ACORN during his campaign that within his first 100 days in office he would invite them in to discuss how they could help him change America.

It has started already.
 

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

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I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work. — Barack Obama, Speech to ACORN, November 2007

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For instance, how many [Americans] know that Obama, during his four-year tenure in Chicago as a community organizer, worked as a trainer for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — the infamous ACORN, whose affiliate, Project Vote, is known for voter fraud — the same ACORN from which a mighty mortgage mess has grown. Upon his return to Chicago after Harvard Law School, Obama provided legal representation for ACORN and for Tony Rezko (recently convicted of bribery and money laundering), who was Obama’s main money man during his years in the Illinois State Senate. Rezko had helped the Obamas purchase a home in Chicago’s politically correct Hyde Park. Obama sat on the boards of the philanthropic Woods Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, both of whom funneled millions of dollars to ACORN.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

Which community activist/political organization in the United States is the largest, most radical left, and most untrustworthy? The answer is ACORN, which bills itself as the nation’s largest community organization for the rights of low- and moderate-income families.

 Its hidden agenda, however, is to change the form of the U.S. government from a republic to a socialist oligarchy, using class warfare and the aid of radical liberals within the Democrat Party.

This hidden agenda explains why the liberal newsmedia go mute on Obama’s ACORN ties.

ACORN, which began in 1970 as the Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now, evolved into the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It was the brain-child of Wade Rathke, a well-to-do Williams College dropout who had worked for George A. Wiley at the National Welfare Rights Organization. Professor Wiley was a charismatic African-American PhD in chemistry at Syracuse University when he began his venture into social and political change — much like Obama. Wiley, however, came from a well-to-do family in Rhode Island.

Both Wiley and Rathke were influenced by Chicago’s radical activist Saul Alinsky and by the strategies set forth in his books, Reveille for Radicals (1964) and Rules for Radicals (1971). Disruption, intimidation, physical abuse, and ability to adapt to shifting political events are mainstays of the Alinsky rules and his end-justifies-the-means mentality. Rathke had been active in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), known for its violence, and in the domestic terrorist group, the Weathermen, which bombed government offices. William Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, Chicago friends of Obama, also were members of SDS and the Weathermen. Obama chaired the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, funded by a grant obtained by Ayers. For six years, Obama and Ayers worked closely on this liberal boondoggle meant to improve education that was terminated in 2002.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy

Columbia University sociology professors Richard A. Cloward (1926-2001) and his wife, Frances Fox Piven, also influenced ACORN leaders. In 1966, the husband-and-wife team promulgated the Cloward-Piven Strategy to change the U.S. political landscape by overloading local, state, and federal agencies with welfare applicants making impossible demands and leading to violent confrontations with authorities. Cloward and Piven held that poor people can only advance when society is afraid of them. By advocating massive, no-holds-barred voter registration campaigns, they sought a Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. that would re-distribute the nation’s wealth and lead to a totalitarian socialist state. Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly newsmedia to force a re-distribution of the nation’s wealth. It would be telling to know if Obama, during his years at Columbia, had occasion to meet Cloward and study the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

In 1967, Cloward and Piven had recruited George Wiley to lead the National Welfare Rights Organization; and Wiley hired Rathke. The NWRO confrontations, sit-ins, and boycotts were highly successful. In 1975, when New York City was forced into bankruptcy as a result of overloading the welfare rolls with massive numbers of poor people, New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani called the Cloward-Piven Strategy “an effort at economic sabotage.” Nevertheless, the strategy worked and led to ACORN’s Project Vote. The Cloward-Piven Strategy and ACORN were major factors in passage of the “Motor-Voter” Act of 1994, which opened a can of worms.

Cloward and Piven were joined over the years by nouveau billionaires led by George Soros. Through his Democracy Alliance, they funded ACORN and Soros groups such as America Votes and Center for Community Change. If this is where Obama got his change message, we have a better idea of what kind of change he has in mind.

The new millennium take on the Cloward-Piven Strategy attempts to bring about this change by using Internal Revenue Service concepts that include tax-cuts to sugarcoat concurrent increases in collateral taxes on Medicare, sales, luxury, gas, user, licensing, property, employment. On the horizon are proposed taxes led by the Obama-sponsored Global Poverty Act that would tax every U.S. man, woman, and child $2,500 for a total of $845 billion to help the United Nations eliminate global poverty. The goal remains the same, to re-distribute the wealth of the nation.

Behind Closed Doors

ACORN, as a private organization, is not required to publicize its activities, donors, expenditures, members, or myriad of front organizations. ACORN is a membership organization with an estimated 175,000 member families in the United States and up to 500,000 member families worldwide paying at least $120 per year. With a budget of $100 million or more, ACORN employs about a thousand people. Money flows in to ACORN coffers from the federal government, including the present Bush Administration, and from such foundations as Heinz, Annie E. Casey, Open Society Institute( George Soros founded this Institute), Ben and Jerry’s, as well as from the Woods Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, on whose boards Obama sat in Chicago.

Among the ACORN subsidiaries and satellites are the ACORN Institute, Project Vote, Service Employees International Union–Local 100, WalMart Alliance for Reform Now, ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC), Living Wage Resource Center, ACORN Law on the Web, KABF Radio, KRON Radio, Site Fighters, the quarterly journal Social Policy, Financial Justice Center, New York’s Working Families Party, Precinct Action League (PAL), Citizens Services Inc., Katrina Survivors Association, Citizens Counseling, Inc., and Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice. In 2008 Wade Rathke and his brother, who admitted to embezzling nearly a million dollars from ACORN, made their departure from the Association.

Obama, ACORN, and Mortgage Meltdown

In 1977 a Democrat Congress passed and President Jimmy Carter signed The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), and the ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC) was instrumental in its passage. The U.S. Congress through the CRA compelled banks and lending institutions to make loans to “communities of color” disregarding sound economic and risk guidelines. CRA encouraged the relaxing of “outdated” risk-management protocols and underwriting obligations by lending institutions. In the name of ending discrimination, no longer were “communities of color” required to provide verification of income, employment, credit history, ability to pay homeowner bills, or down payment. In response, many banks and mortgage groups bundled trillions of dollars of “subprime” loans and sold them to investors here and abroad. It is these bundled Community Reinvestment Act mortgages, doomed to fail, that are today causing financial strain in U.S. and global financial markets.

In short, a Democrat Congress and President demanded that banks change the rules of good banking and open the Pandora’s Box of mortgage defaults and foreclosures now coming to a head. This home-parity concept of the radical left was mobilized by ACORN. A creative example of the home-parity plan was the 80/20 mortgage. The buyer executed a first mortgage for 80 percent of the purchase price and simultaneously executed a second mortgage for the remaining 20 percent––resulting in a purchase of a property without any credit, income, employment, and zero down payment. Home-parity mortgages are a Cloward-Piven Strategy in action.

In October 1999, the president and chief operating officer of the quasi-governmental Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) was David Glenn, a former Clinton White House aide. Glenn declared, “We need to push into these underserved markets as much as we can.” That same year, the quasi-governmental Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) committed to opening half of its business to low- and moderate-income minority borrowers. Mortgage companies were encouraged to seek out Latinos, through Spanish-speaking loan officers. Illegal alien status constituted no impediment. Illegal aliens actually were encouraged to apply regardless of no income verification.

In September 1999, Fannie Mae had pledged to commit more than $1 billion to boost minority home ownership in Chicago by expanding a program to create more affordable housing. The commitment was enlarged to $10 billion over the next four years, and in 2003, Fannie Mae home-parity funding in Chicago reached $600 billion.

When Franklin Raines, former chair and CEO of Fannie Mae, stepped down in 2004 but managed to take with him a multimillion-dollar parachute and a monthly pension of $114, 393 for life, and should he die, for his wife’s lifetime. Until recently, Raines was an advisor to Obama, who was the Senate’s second largest recipient of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It is high time for U.S. taxpayers to demand an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the home-parity lending practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac––practices that, along with excessive compensation for “subprime” executives, triggered the present mortgage crisis.

James H. Walsh is a former federal prosecutor.

http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_voter_fraud/2008/09/22/133091.html

Obama’s Chief Foreign Policy Advisor Zbigniew Brezinzski AND Obama’s Connections To The CFR/Trilateral Commission(Soros, Brezinzski and Rockefeller). Plans For America?

First:  Watch This Video In Its Entirety. 

Then add this video about the CFR’s Control Over The Media: 

Look at the list of those (corporations and people) that belong to the CFR:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations#Members

Then TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THESE VIDEOS!

Video from Whole Truth Coalition
A two-part interview with Webster Tarpley describing the Obama phenomenon, the people behind it and their plans for the future. A must watch with brilliant historical insight and analysis. (Taped in late July 2008 )

Part One

 

Part Two:

Some have wondered HOW there could be such BIAS for Obama by the media….Now we know.

Joe Biden wanted to enter Darfur (Sudan) as soon as possible under “humanitarian aid”.  Now that Obama has been elected, WHERE is the coverage about Darfur today?  Is this the start of “The Plan” as Tarpley, the historian in the last videos speaks of?

Update: January 26, 2009

Obama on Al Arabiya

President Barack Obama presented a humble and conciliatory face of America to the Islamic world Monday in the first formal interview since he assumed office, stressing his own Muslim ties and shying away from any hint of belligerence even when asked if he could “live with” an Iranian nuclear weapon.

The interview with the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya Network was a dramatic piece of public diplomacy aimed at capitalizing on the new American president’s international popularity.

“I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries,” Obama said, according to a White House transcript. “My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.”
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Read the rest here:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0109/Obama_on_Al_Arabiya.html

 

UPDATE:  January 28, 2009

REMEMBER WHAT TARPLEY SAYS ABOUT ZIMBABWE!

Now this:

Report: Obama Launches U.S. Drive to Topple Mugabe

President seeks unprecedented U.S.-led diplomatic push to get tough new sanctions imposed against the Zimbabwe regime.

President Obama wants a fresh approach to toppling Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and is discussing with aides an unprecedented, U.S.-led diplomatic push to get tough new UN sanctions imposed against the regime, The Times of London reported Wednesday.

During talks Obama has had with his top Africa advisers in recent weeks, the central idea they focused on was taking the issue of Zimbabwe before the UN Security Council, and for the first time, combine such a move with an intense diplomatic effort to persuade Russia and China not to block the initiative.

According to a senior aide present at the discussions, the goal of taking the issue of Zimbabwe to the Security Council would be to pass a series of “strong” sanctions, including a ban on arms sales and foreign investment. They also want to expand significantly the number of ruling Zanu-PF party officials subject to sanctions.

Last July, after Mugabe was accused of rigging the elections to stay in power, China and Russia, who have significant financial interests in Zimbabwe, vetoed moves to impose UN sanctions. Obama and his aides believe that, with the growing international outcry over conditions there and the devastating loss of life from the cholera outbreak, Beijing and Moscow can now be persuaded at the very least to abstain when the issue of sanctions comes to another vote.

“It is predicated on China and Russia going along and this administration will certainly undertake a new round of constructive diplomacy with Russia and China on a whole range of options,” the aide told The Times. “It will depend on an arc of Obama diplomacy in the coming months.”

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/28/report-obama-launches-drive-topple-mugabe/

Obama’s Arne Duncan, Sec. Of Education and Renaissance 2010

Arne Duncan, from Chicago (surprise, surprise) is Obama’s pick for Secretary of Education.  Duncan’s idea was for Renaissance 2010; a new idea to change schools under the school improvement plan.

From:  http://www.newschoolschicago.org/About.html

Renaissance 2010: A Bold Vision, A Promising Reality

In June 2004, Mayor Richard M. Daley and Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan announced a bold initiative to transform Chicago’s public schools.  Renaissance 2010 will drive systematic change in the school system through greater choice and competition and provide all families with high-quality educational options.

This sounds too good to be true, right?

Investment Overview

Why is the Renaissance Schools Fund needed?

Although CPS will be responsible for basic staffing costs and for a reasonable amount of capital and operational support (supported by state and federal funds), new Renaissance 2010 schools will need substantial supplemental support during the critical “start-up” phase and initial years of operation. 

New schools require approximately one year of advance preparation.  Also, after their doors open, most schools “ramp up” slowly with fewer children in the early years and need funding to cover overhead until they reach scale.  The Renaissance Schools Fund makes resources available to these schools during a two-year ramp-up period, covering the costs associated with doing what it takes to provide a high-quality education.  After two years of operation, CPS funds should cover most of the expenses.

Although costs will vary depending on the size of the school, grades served, student demographics and the level of CPS support, it is not unreasonable to expect a new school to require at least $500,000 in start-up and transitional support over the first few years to be successful. 

Still sound okay to you? The thought of a reduction of millage for school taxes on your property sounds great, right?

So WHERE will this money come from??

From Large Corporations and “INVESTORS” that’s who!

This relates to CHICAGO schools at this moment. 

INVESTORS:

Investors of 2,000,000 and Above    **That is 2 MILLION dollars.**

Anonymous (2)<<Any guess who these 2 Investors are?
Northern Trust
The Crown Family
Rowe Family Charitable Trust
Exelon Corporation
The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation, Inc

Investors of $1,000,000 to $1,999,999

Baxter International Inc
JPMorgan Chase
The Boeing Company
McCormick Foundation
The Chicago Community Trust
McDonald’s Corp. & Ronald McDonald House Charities
Chicago High School Redesign Initiative
Polk Bros. Foundation
Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago
Pritzker Foundation
CME Trust
Rauner Family Foundation
Deloitte LLP
Sara Lee Corporation
Financial Investments Corporation
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Investors of $500,000 to $999,999

Abbott
Kenilworth Families Partnership
The Allstate Corporation
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
AT&T
Kraft Foods
Bain & Company
Madigan Family Foundation
Bank of America <<Receiving TARP funds
Mayer Brown LLP
The Canning Foundation
Motorola Foundation
Discover Financial Services
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Ernst & Young
Sears Holdings Corporation
Fortune Brands
Sidley Austin LLP<< The lawyer firm where Michelle first worked and met Barack
Grosvenor Capital Management
W.W. Grainger, Inc
Harris Bank
Winnetka Families Partnership
HSBC – North America
Woodley Road Neighbors
Illinois Tool Works Foundation

Investors of $250,000 to $499,999

Anonymous
Reyes Holdings, LLC
Best Portion Foundation
John W. Rogers, Jr
Carnegie Corporation of New York
United Airlines
Chicago Board Options Exchange
USG Corporation
Judd Enterprises, Inc
Walgreen Company
KPMG LLP 
Winston & Strawn L.L.P
Peoples Gas

Investors of $100,000 to $249,999

BP Foundation
Molex Incorporated
Frank and Vera Clark
Nuveen Investments
Corn Products International, Inc
Schwarz Paper Company
Crate and Barrel
UBS AG
Dr. Scholl Foundation
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation
The Edgewater Funds

Investors of $25,000 to $99,999

Azteca Foods, Inc
Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Citi Foundation
Reuters
Col Stanley R. McNeil Foundation
Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Foundation
Crain’s Communications
Ryerson Foundation
Downtown Partners Chicago
U.S. Bancorp Foundation
Evans Food Group Ltd

Investors of $24,999 and Below

ArcelorMittal
Leo Burnett USA, Inc
John and Kathleen Buck
Mesirow Financial
Keller Group, Inc
William Blair & Company

So now they want Corporations to INVEST in our schools to produce workers.  No you say?  Listen very carefully to Arne Duncan’s statement about “Non-certificate” teachers WITHOUT an Elementary Education Diploma that will now be allowed to TEACH our children in our schools.

Did you catch how many times Arne Duncan said the word “WORKERS”?

So the Renaissance 2010 idea that Arne Duncan is 100% behind is CORPORATE owned and the teachers teach the students how to work….

President Obama’s Stimulus Plan is supposedly to improve our educational system.  If Corporations invest in our Educational System through Renaissance 2010, where will the “stimulus” package money for Education go?  As a “Dividend” to Investors?

Hmmmm……..

Is this really what America wants for an educational system for our children?

Again….Where is the transparency you campaigned on during the general election again Mr. President?

The Big Money Behind Tim Geithner; Obama’s Pick For Secretary Of The Treasury

By Cliff Kincaid

A guy who can’t figure out his own taxes is supposed to fix the economy? This is the absurd rationale being offered by media figures such as Andrea Mitchell of NBC News for confirming Timothy Geithner as Obama’s Treasury Secretary after it was disclosed that he was a serial tax evader. He did his own taxes for a couple years and got into trouble, Mitchell chuckled. And everybody can relate to that, right? Mitchell is the one who deserves to be laughed at. This guy is supposed to be so smart we can entrust him with managing the entire U.S. economy? She must be kidding. Does she seriously expect us to believe that?

Anybody watching this bizarre spectacle unfold has to suspect there is something more to the story. Who is behind Geithner and why? And why does Obama want him? This is where the media fear to tread. As we have pointed out, major media companies such as GE (parent of NBC News) and the Washington Post Company have their own connections to Geithner through their own officials and board members. They have a conflict of interest that will never be reported by the news organizations themselves.

The real story, which can only emerge through talk radio and alternative media, is that Geithner has very powerful political and financial connections, not only to the media but the banking interests and lobbies that try to orchestrate U.S. policy behind the scenes.

The President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the Chinese-speaking Geithner is an associate of Henry Kissinger who can be counted on to convince the Chinese Communists to continue to buy the U.S. debt and finance Obama’s massive expansion of federal government power. That is why Obama and his fellow Democrats are putting so much faith in him.

As Henry Kissinger recently put it, when he was celebrating U.S.-China relations on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Obama’s mission is to usher in a “New World Order.” He forgot to mention, of course, that it is a China-dominated New World Order in which the U.S. has become a subsidiary of China Inc.

Kissinger did comment that Obama had “appointed an extraordinarily able group of people in both the international and financial fields.” He didn’t name names, but that obviously includes Geithner, who used to work for Kissinger Associates.

It also turns out that Geithner’s father, Peter F. Geithner, serves on the board with Kissinger of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. This is the group that rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, celebrating Chinese investments in the U.S. economy. In another interesting connection, it turns out that Peter F. Geithner was with the Ford Foundation and oversaw the work of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, developing what are called microfinance programs in Indonesia.

Based on what Obama has said about Geithner, and what the media have repeated ad nauseam, we are supposed to believe that he made some mistakes that were typical of an employee who had worked for an international organization, the International Monetary Fund. But this doesn’t hold up because he admits he was told by the IMF about the procedures and necessity of paying those taxes. So the failure to pay these taxes looks like a case of tax cheating. If it wasn’t cheating, then he didn’t understand the tax code or didn’t pay enough attention to get it done right. This doesn’t seem like a proper credential for the post of Treasury Secretary, with jurisdiction over the IRS.

There has to be something more to the rationale for confirming somebody this much of a conniver or this dumb to the post. What is it?

It doesn’t take much digging. For anybody in the dark about this, please consult and closely study his bio. Geithner is a wheeler-dealer for powerful special interests.

If you examine the nature of the “Group of Thirty,” an affiliation which appears at the bottom of his biography, right after his Council on Foreign Relations membership, you will quickly learn that the President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank is an associate of the governor of the Chinese central bank through this mysterious organization of bankers and other top current and former officials from various countries. You will notice that other Obama nominees and associates are members, including Paul Volcker and Lawrence Summers.

You will also learn that this organization has been funded by – surprise – some of the same financial institutions getting federal bailout money. These include American International Group, Goldman Sachs and Citi, among others. Because it has a web site and publishes an annual report, all of this seems open and above board. But the fine print reveals that some of the meetings are by “invitation only.”

The entire list of “contributors and supporters” of the “Group of Thirty” is quite impressive. You will find not only U.S. financial institutions getting bailout money, but central banks around the world and Arab financial interests. In addition, you also find private financial interests, including the hedge fund operated by billionaire and Obama contributor George Soros.

But I can find no stories in the major U.S. media critically examining the history and purpose of this organization. Could it be because selected reporters are invited to its meetings on a deep background basis? And that they develop financial sources at these meetings that they swear to protect and defend?

However, in addition to the tax evasion, there is also the matter of Geithner having some “household help” while not knowing whether they were legally in the U.S. and not bothering to check when the legal status of one of the housekeepers expired. This aspect of the problem is being largely ignored by the media, rather than just being played down, because they realize that while most people fear the tax code and understand how somebody could make a “mistake” or two, the hiring or employment of illegals is another matter.

“Group Of Thirty”:

Current Members
Click on the name for a biography.

Paul A. Volcker

Chairman of the Board of Trustees

Jacob A. Frenkel

Chairman

Geoffrey L. Bell

Executive Secretary

Montek S. Ahluwalia

Abdulatif Al-Hamad

Leszek Balcerowicz

Jaime Caruana

Domingo Cavallo

E. Gerald Corrigan

Andrew D. Crockett

Guillermo de la Dehesa Romero

Mario Draghi

Martin Feldstein

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.

Stanley Fischer

Arminio Frago Neto

Timothy F. Geithner

Gerd Häusler

Philipp Hildebrand

Mervyn King

Paul Krugman

Guillermo Ortiz Martinez

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa

Kenneth Rogoff

Tharman Shanmugaratnam

Lawrence Summers

Jean-Claude Trichet

David Walker

Zhou Xiaochuan

Yutaka Yamaguchi

Ernesto Zedillo

Senior Members

William McDonough

William R. Rhodes

Ernest Stern

Marina v N. Whitman

Contributors:

Contributors

The Board of Trustees, the Chairman and the members of the Group of Thirty are extremely grateful for the support, monetary or in kind, of the following institutions.  We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our contributors and supporters who have helped make the G30 a successful institution as we approach our thirtieth year of existence.

ABN AMRO Holding NV
American International Group: Known to Americans as AIG
Arab Bank Plc.
Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
Asociacion Española de Banca (AEB)
AXA Japan Holding Co. Ltd.
Axis Capital
Austrian National Bank
Banca d’Italia
Banco Central de Chile
Banco de Mexico
Banco de Portugal
Banco Mercantil
Banco Santander Central Hispano
Banque Centrale du Luxembourg
Bank Leumi le Israel BM
Bank of Greece
Bank of East Asia, Ltd.
Bank of New York
Bank of Nova Scotia
Barclays Bank PLC
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
BNP Paribas Bank
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Central Bank of Malta: US Congress has current treaty in works with them
The Challenger Foundation
CIB Bank Ltd
Citi
Credit Suisse
Dah Sing Financial Group
Danmarks National Bank

Debs Foundation **Connected to the Democratic Socialists of America***
Den Danske Bank A/S
Deutsche Bank AG
Deutsche Börse AG
Dubai Financial Services Authority
Euroclear
Euronext
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Geoffrey Bell and Co.
Goldman Sachs and Co.**Connected to Henry Paulson: was previous CEO*
Gulf International Bank
Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
HSBC Holdings plc
ING Group
JPMorgan Chase
Lehman Brothers
LCH Clearnet Group Limited
Merrill Lynch
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Munich Re AG
Morgan Stanley & Co., Int’l
National Bank of Hungary
NewSmith
Nordea Bank
Norges Bank
People’s Bank of China
Reserve Bank of Australia
Reserve Bank of India
Reuters Holdings Plc.
Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority
Schroders plc
Sella Holding Banca
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
Soros Fund Management
Standard & Poor’s
Sullivan and Cromwell
Sveriges Riksbank
Swedbank
Swiss National Bank
Swiss Re
UBS
UniCredito Italiano
Whitehead Foundation
Zurich Group

Events:

Group of Thirty Events

The events hosted by the Group of Thirty are invitation-only forums in which very senior members of the banking, financial and regulatory community come together to discuss issues of common concern in off-the-record settings conducive to frank exchanges of views and positions.

Plenary Meetings

The Group meets in plenary session twice a year.  For your information we have included a list of the speakers at the two recent plenary sessions.

60th Plenary Session
December 4 – December 6, 2008 << NOTE Date
Hosted by Timothy Geithner
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

59th Plenary Session
May 24 – May 26, 2008
Hosted by Stanley Fischer
Bank of Israel
Jerusalem, Israel

58th Plenary Session
November 29th – December 1st, 2007
Hosted by Timothy Geithner
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

http://www.group30.org/members.htm

Source for this blog: http://www.usasurvival.org/ck01.16.09.html

So President Obama signs an Executive Order about lobbyists working on his staff or his cabinet, but Tim Geithner is a BIG MONEY LOBBYIST, supported and has contributions to his “Group Thirty” from institutions that are connected to the TARP bailouts, but that is okay?

Tim Geithner who forgot to pay his own income taxes, uses his kids summer camp as a deduction is now going to control the US Treasury?

Where is the transparency again Mr. President?

ACORN To Get $$$ From Obama Stimulus Plan!

Friday, January 16, 2009

ACORN To Get $$$ MONEY From Obama Stimulus Plan

Remember ACORN? They were the group that President-elect Obama used to work with.  During the presidential campaign their fraudulent voter registration drives were news almost every day. ACORN was famous for registering dead people, the same people in multiple counties, and even giving Mickey Mouse the right to vote.

The Democrats are rewarding ACORN for their fine Illegal work by throwing some cash their way in the Obama stimulus plan:

Looks like the infamous ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) that was caught up in voter fraud in 2008 will be in the running to get some funding (pages 72-73 of the report.) The bill provides for $10 million for the SHOP program. The funding will provide competively awarded grants to national and regional nonprofit housing organizations to develop or rehabilitate low-income housing.

There is plenty of more funding that will no doubt find its way to ACORN coffers like the $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants or the $4.1 billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Source Swine Line

 
ACORN is working hard for their money, this “non-partisan” organization is already campaigning for the stimulus:

For three weeks now ACORN members have been aggressively pursuing a campaign to pass a bold, progressive Economic Recovery package in the new Congress. Working closely with allies like US Action, AFSCME, and the larger Americans United for Change coalition, ACORN members are taking a major role in building the coalition to pass this recovery package, and to create the context for it to be both stronger and more directly responsive to the situation facing working families across this country.

Because of reality facing America’s low- and moderate-income communities, ACORN members and their neighborhoods function as the canaries in our nation’s economic coal mine. In many cases, our members are experiencing severe economic dislocation, but, despite their personal hardship, they are organizing for a progressive response to the worsening economic situation facing the entire United States.

Back on December 18, ACORN offices around the country helped launch the new Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery Now (CJERN). These 18 late-December events were all coalition events, featuring a cross-section of speakers from the community organization, human services, environmental, labor, and elected-official sectors – we were proud, for example, to be joined by the mayors of St. Louis and Oakland on the 18th. Source: Huffington Post.

 

Isn’t it great the way the Democrats works hand in hand with ACORN an organization that is doing its best to destroy the electoral process with bogus voting? WHERE IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? Why arent they speaking out?

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/01/acorn-to-get-money-from-obama-stimulus.html

I personally advise YOU to read this file in its entirety:

http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1225222922.pdf

On this site is a picture of Obama meeting with ACORN organizers, ACORN’s “umbrella” organizations, etc.

The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost:
Obama, ACORN, and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development

By Stephanie Block

For nearly forty years, The Wanderer has followed the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s funding of radical, left-wing political organizations, many of them carrying the brand of Saul Alinsky. The Wanderer also covered the first Call to Action conference – the months of “hearings” leading up to it, its orchestrated structure and contrived demands – and our reporters commented on the Alinskyian nature of it, not merely in its tactics but in its outcomes. In hindsight, we can see that organized dissent in the Church was a product of organized parishes, filled with Alinskyian-trained laity.

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is responsible for that.

It is also responsible, in some part, for the fact that forty years later, we have a virulently pro-abortion, pro-homosexual presidential candidate whose principle political training has been in Alinskyian organizing. While he – Barak Obama – was lead organizer in Chicago for the Developing Communities Project, it received a $40,000 Catholic Campaign for Human Development grant in 1985 and a $33,000 grant in 1986.

While he was in Chicago Obama was trained by the top Alinskyian organizers. One mentor was the ex-Jesuit, Greg Galuzzo, lead organizer for Gamaliel. The Developing Communities Project operated under the Gamaliel Foundation, a network of Alinskyian organizations that receive 4-5% of all Catholic Campaign for Human Development grants each year.

The Developing Communities Project, which hired Obama as lead organizer, was an offshoot of Jerry Kellman’s Calumet Community Religious Conference. Kellman, another of Obama’s mentors, was himself trained by Alinsky. The network of community organizations Alinsky founded, the Industrial Areas Foundation, receives about 16% of all Catholic Campaign for Human Development grants annually.

After Obama went to Harvard Law School, he returned to Chicago and taught Alinskyian organizing to ACORN staff. Although ACORN has a different structure than other Alinskyian networks, its tactical philosophy and world view are formed by men who were trained by Alinsky, in a sort of diabolical apostolic succession. Obama ran ACORN’s 1992 voter-registration drive, Project Vote, and in turn received ACORN’s endorsement for Illinois senator. ACORN annually receives about 5% of Catholic Campaign for Human Development grants.

This translates into millions of dollars of Catholic money over the last four decades going into Alinskyian community organizing. Catholics generously gave their money to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection because they were told it would “help the poor.”

Relatively little from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection goes to “help the poor.” Alinskyian networks are political. They work closely with politicians – such as Obama – and other organizations that are fighting for abortion and homosexual “rights.” ACORN’s “People’s Platform” has nothing in common with Catholic social justice teaching and everything in common with socialism. Gamaliel and the Industrial Areas Foundation teach liberationism, a form of “Christianized” socialism, among their members.

This has serious ramifications for Catholics. The Alinskyian networks operate ecumenically and include numerous Catholic parishes. The Catholics involved in the extensive trainings these networks offer are not catechized in Catholic principles of social activism or political analysis but in Marxist analysis and praxis. Their worldview is marred by visions of class struggle and perpetual revolution. They are systematically trained to renounce moral truth in favor of consensus-based “values.”

Catholics trained in Alinskyian thought become confused about the comparative moral weight of the issues they encounter in the public arena. They also become confused about the legitimate authority of the Church, frequently imagining they can apply consensus-building strategies to doctrines and moral truth. They are the same Catholics who people the dissident Call to Action chapters around the country.

Ironically, they learned these confused ideas in their parishes, through Church-sponsored “educational” programs such as the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s liberationist “Poverty and Faithjustice”. Because of this confusion, Catholics, who ought to be a powerful, consistent voice for moral values in society, are fragmented and ineffective. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development bears much of the responsibility.

A few bishops understand exactly what the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is and approve what it funds. Most, however, swallow the concept of its “helping the poor” and have probed no deeper. Busy about the Lord’s work of minding their dioceses, they’ve trusted others to run the “social justice” offices.

In this sense, the nomination of Barak Obama has been a great blessing. Even the politically naïve are fascinated by the pejorative dismissal of Obama as a “community organizer” and his campaign’s rebuttal that to disrespect community organizers is to disrespect Catholic Action. Obama isn’t Catholic. Catholic thought hasn’t subtly filtered into this ecumenical movement. Amoral Alinskyian thought, on the other hand, has clearly filtered into Catholic circles – to such a degree that some people confuse one for the other.

Obama’s nomination is a window of opportunity to explain – starting with the bishops – the difference between Alinskyian principles and Catholic Action. They and other Catholics should find materials about Obama’s Alinskyian roots quite interesting. We need to be sharing those materials.

After 40 years of funding the bad guys, it’s time to stop.

http://www.catholicmediacoalition.org/chickens_come_home.htm

 

 

 

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS FINALLY WAKING UP?

Defying The American Constitution

Desecration of American Flag

US Flag Code: “The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.”

They are only following their messiah’s example.

After all, Obama’s supporters are proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President. Is Obama planning on doing a Chavez?

Oh, and Obama says we need a new Declaration of Independence too.
http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

Obama calls for ‘new Declaration of Independence’
By Michael Neibauer
Examiner Staff Writer 1/17/09

BALTIMORE — President-elect Barack Obama capped the first day of his inaugural celebration here before a crowd of about 40,000 people by calling for a “new Declaration of Independence” and a return to the idealism of 1776.

http://www.dcexaminer.com/politics/2009-01-17-Obama-calls-for-new-Declaration-of-Independence.html

 

College Records Subpoenaed

Ambassador Dr. Alan Keyes continues his legal battle to discover whether President-elect Barack Obama is eligible to serve as America’s 44th president. On January 15, 2009, lawyers for Alan Keyes subpoenaed Obama’s Occidental College records for use in the case of Keyes v. Bowen. These records could document whether he was attending as a foreign national. For a PDF download of Dr. Keyes petition, click here. For a PDF of the Occidental College subpoena, click here.

College officials confirmed they had gotten the notice, but had not decided how to respond, a decision that may be removed from their hands because of the team of high-paid lawyers Obama has engaged to prevent such inquiries into his past.

“Good cause exists for this production under Subpoena Duces Tecum, in that testimony will be elicited from the original records obtained through the witness named herein, and there is no other process available to secure said testimony.”

Meanwhile, in this new interview (video), Alan Keyes, who ran for president in 2008, questions why Barack Obama has spent upwards of $1 million to conceal the original copy of his birth certificate and explains what happens to the rule of law if and when we, as a nation, fail to uphold the Constitution.