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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (65074)8/8/2010 11:10:06 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217649
 
"With increased production, the world has become hooked on Black Sea origin wheat which is less dependable than that grown in more stable climates such as Canada or the United States. We have been telling governments to put in place measures to mitigate the impact of events like droughts or heavy rains.''

Global wheat crisis recalls Moscow's 'great grain robbery'

British shoppers are set to feel hefty rises in the cost of bread as the price of wheat soars

guardian.co.uk



To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (65074)8/11/2010 12:46:46 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217649
 
haim, you will like appended here under, just in in-tray

player tj: recommendation:

(i) getgold, stay pure, away from paper, for extraction must invariably be cap & traded, and otherwise made more dear or outlawed all together, better to maintain the status of sorry quo of central banking - and under the green banner, friendly to global-cool or ally of global-warm, whichever works best in whatever legal jurisdication in alignment with localized weather patterns

(ii) pileplatinum, remain solid, for it is a tiny and squeezable market, and definitely sports a green image, to do with lucre.

just in-tray

THE NEW Billionaire's CLUB

Read and decide for yourself...

So . . . You think you know quite a bit about Obama and his band of thieves. Read on and see just how little you know. All of this comes together in the last part... a must read.

This is an interesting story put together from various articles and TV shows by the British Times paper. It shows what Obama and his friends are really all about. It's not hope and change, it is money.

I warn you, the first part is a little boring, but stick with it. The second part connects all the dots for you (it will open your eyes). The end explains how Obama and all his cronies will end up as multi-billionaires. (It's definitely worth the read. You will not be disappointed).

A small bank in Chicago called SHOREBANK almost went bankrupt during the recession. The bank made a profit on its foreign micro-loans (see below) but had lost money in sub-prime mortgages in the US. It was facing likely closure by federal regulators. However, because the bank's executives were well connected with members of the Obama Administration, a private rescue bailout was arranged. The bank's employees had donated money to Obama's Senate campaign. In other words, ShoreBank was too politically connected to be allowed to go under.

ShoreBank survived and invested in many "green" businesses such as solar panel manufacturing. In fact, the bank was mentioned in one of Obama's speeches during his election campaign because it subjected new business borrowers to Eco-litmus tests.

Prior to becoming President, Obama sat on the board of the JOYCE FOUNDATION, a liberal charity. This foundation was originally established by Joyce Kean's family which had accumulated millions of dollars in the lumber industry. It mostly gave funds to hospitals but after her death in 1972, the foundation was taken over by radical environmentalists and social justice extremists.

This JOYCE FOUNDATION, which is rumored to have assets of 8 billion dollars, has now set up and funded, with a few partners, something called the CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE, known as CXX. It will be the exchange (like the Chicago Grain Futures Market for agriculture) where Environmental Carbon Credits are traded.

Under Obama's new bill, businesses in the future will be assessed a tax on how much CO2 they produce (their Carbon Footprint) or in other words how much they add to global warming. If a company produces less CO2 than their allotted measured limit, they earn a Carbon Credit. This Carbon Credit can be traded on the CXX exchange. Another company, which has gone over their CO2 limit, can buy the Credit and "reduce" their footprint and tax liability. It will be like trading shares on Wall Street.

Well, it was the same JOYCE FOUNDATION, along with some other private partners and Wall Street firms that funded the bailout of ShoreBank. The foundation is now one of the major shareholders. The bank has now been designated to be the "banking arm" of the CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE (CXX). In addition, Goldman Sachs has been contracted to run the investment trading floor of the exchange.

So far so good; now the INTERESTING parts.

One ShoreBank co-founder, named Jan Piercy, was a Wellesley College roommate of Hillary Clinton. Hillary and Bill Clinton have long supported the bank and are small investors.

Another co-founder of Shorebank, named Mary Houghton, was a friend of Obama's late mother. Obama's mother worked on foreign MICRO-LOANS for the Ford Foundation. She worked for the foundation with a guy called Geithner. Yes, you guessed it. This man was the father of Tim Geithner, our present Treasury Secretary, who failed to pay all his taxes for two years.

Another founder of ShoreBank was Ronald Grzywinski, a cohort and close friend of Jimmy Carter.

The former ShoreBank Vice Chairman was a man called Bob Nash. He was the deputy campaign manager of Hillary Clinton's presidential bid. He also sat on the board of the Chicago Law School with Obama and Bill Ayers, the former terrorist. Nash was also a member of Obama's White House transition team.

(To jog your memories, Bill Ayers is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He founded the Weather Underground, a radical revolutionary group that bombed buildings in the 60s and 70s. He had no remorse for those who were killed, escaped jail on a technicality, and is still an admitted Marxist).

When Obama sat on the board of the JOYCE FOUNDATION, he "funneled" thousands of charity dollars to a guy named John Ayers, who runs a dubious education fund. Yes, you guessed it. The brother of Bill Ayers, the terrorist.

Howard Stanback is a board member of Shorebank. He is a former board chairman of the Woods Foundation. Obama and Bill Ayers, the terrorist, also sat on the board of the Woods Foundation. Stanback was formerly employed by New Kenwood Inc., a real estate development company co-owned by Tony Rezko.

(You will remember that Tony Rezko was the guy who gave Obama an amazing sweet deal on his new house. Years prior to this, the law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland had represented Rezko's company and helped him get more than 43 million dollars in government funding. Guess who worked as a lawyer at the firm at the time. Yes, Barack Obama).

Adele Simmons, the Director of ShoreBank, is a close friend of Valerie Jarrett, a White House senior advisor to Obama. Simmons and Jarrett also sit on the board of a dubious Chicago Civic Organization.

Van Jones sits on the board of ShoreBank and is one the marketing directors for "green" projects. He also holds a senior advisor position for black studies at Princeton University. You will remember that Mr. Van Jones was appointed by Obama in 2009 to be a Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House. He was forced to resign over past political activities, including the fact that he is a Marxist.

Al Gore was one of the smaller partners to originally help fund the CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE. He also founded a company called Generation Investment Management (GIM) and registered it in London, England. GIM has close links to the UK-based Climate Exchange PLC, a holding company listed on the London Stock Exchange. This company trades Carbon Credits in Europe (just like CXX will do here) and its floor is run by Goldman Sachs. Along with Gore, the other co-founder of GIM is Hank Paulson, the former US Treasury Secretary and former CEO of Goldman Sachs. His wife, Wendy, graduated from and is presently a Trustee of Wellesley College. Yes, the same college that Hillary Clinton and Jan Piercy, a co-founder of Shorebank attended. (They are all friends).

Interesting? And now the closing...

Because many studies have been exposed as scientific nonsense, people are slowly realizing that man-made global warming is nothing more than a money-generating hoax. As a result, Obama is working feverishly to win the race. He aims to push a Cap-and-Trade Carbon Tax Bill through Congress and into law.

Obama knows he must get this passed before he loses his majority in Congress in the November elections. Apart from Climate Change he will "sell" this bill to the public as generating tax revenue to reduce our debt. But, it will also make it impossible for US companies to compete in world markets and drastically increase unemployment. In addition, energy prices (home utility rates) will sky rocket.

But, here's the KICKER (THE MONEY TRAIL).

If the bill passes, it is estimated that over 10 TRILLION dollars each year will be traded on the CXX exchange. At a commission rate of only 4 percent, the exchange would earn close to 400 billion dollars to split between its owners, all Obama cronies. At a 2 percent rate, Goldman Sachs would also rake in 200 billion dollars each year.

But don't forget SHOREBANK. With 10 trillion dollars flowing though its accounts, the bank will earn close to 40 billion dollars in interest each year for its owners (more Obama cronies), without even breaking a sweat.

It is estimated Al Gore alone will probably rake in 15 billion dollars just in the first year. Of course, Obama's "commissions" will be held in trust for him at the Joyce Foundation. They are estimated to be over 8 billion dollars by the time he leaves office in 2013, if the bill passes this year. Of course, these commissions will continue to be paid for the rest of his life.

Some financial experts think this will be the largest "scam" or "legal heist" in world history. Obama's cronies make the Mafia look like rank amateurs. They will make Bernie Madoff's fraud look like penny ante stuff.


player 2: The story isn't very accurate if they start with this premise:

"This JOYCE FOUNDATION, which is rumored to have assets of 8 billion dollars"

All you have to do is go to their website and see that their assets are less than 10% of the alleged amount.
They have $728 million in assets as of the end of 2009:

joycefdn.org

player tj: if favored by god's work gs and leveraged 10:1 at favored risk / reward and underwritten by the treasury and so by the fed, 8 billion sounds conservative

player 2: Who were/are bankers on "the right" ...more evenly split but also includes gs?

player tj: get in tune with the script, for there are no bankers on the "right" or "left".

there are only bankers on the money.

they are an equal opportunity lot, offering to buy anyone who can rule by writing laws.



To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (65074)8/11/2010 8:35:20 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 217649
 
Zapatero considers easing austerity

By Victor Mallet in Madrid

Published: August 10 2010 18:53 | Last updated: August 10 2010 18:53

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish prime minister, on Tuesday raised the possibility of reversing some of the harsh spending cuts that were announced in May and helped to restore international confidence in the country’s economy.

In a cautious announcement apparently aimed at testing the mood of financial markets, Mr Zapatero said the government expected to restore some suspended infrastructure investments if – as the government anticipated – renewed financial stability left room for manoeuvre in the 2011 budget.

ELMAT: Three weeks ago the PM as asking: Endure cuts for sake of Spain, urges Zapatero - Jul-14

“In 10 to 15 days we will be able to give some positive news in relation to restoring investment activity in infrastructure, which will affect most regions and would provide relief, an important boost, to construction companies,” he told a news conference in Mallorca after meeting King Juan Carlos at the monarch’s summer residence.
A €6bn cut in public sector investment was among the biggest austerity measures announced by Mr Zapatero in May after the European Union and the International Monetary Fund had unveiled a €750bn rescue package for the eurozone. Spain was the presumed target following an earlier bail-out of Greece.
Mr Zapatero, reluctantly curbing some of the spending programmes adopted by his Socialist administration, also cut civil service pay by 5 per cent, froze most pensions and abolished a €2,500 childbirth allowance. The aim is to cut the budget deficit from 11.2 per cent of gross domestic product in 2009 to 3 per cent by 2013.
Pressure on Spain has eased since then. The spread – or additional interest margin paid – by Spain to issue sovereign debt compared with the benchmark German rate has narrowed, and investors were generally relieved by the lack of surprises in the published results of “stress tests” on European banks.
Mr Zapatero, who is anxious to reduce the unemployment rate from the current level of 20 per cent of the workforce, said cuts in infrastructure spending, especially on roads, had been “very severe”.
In common with other developed economies, Spain is struggling to balance the need for fiscal austerity with the desire to deploy enough government money to prevent a return to economic recession.
The Bank of Spain said last week that the country’s GDP had probably grown 0.2 per cent in the second quarter compared with the previous three months, underlining the economy’s weakness compared with the entire eurozone, which is predicted to grow 0.6 per cent. Mr Zapatero acknowledged on Tuesday that Spanish growth in the current third quarter could be even weaker than in the second.
Economists expect that in 2010 as a whole the Spanish economy will shrink before staging a weak recovery the following year.
In a research paper published this week, BBVA, the Spanish bank, predicted that GDP would contract 0.6 per cent this year. It nevertheless urged the central and regional governments to maintain the commitment to austerity.