Al Capone couldn’t even dream of a racket this big. The new Chicago “syndicate” , Barack Obama, Al Gore, Richard Sandor and Hank Paulson, orchestrated the greatest racket of all time.
This new syndicate, the Greenhouse Gas Syndicate, have engaged in fraud, extortion, bribery and Acts affecting a personal financial interest, four of the violations included in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Only two of these violations, committed in a ten year period, are required to prove a RICO offense.
A fraud is an intentional deception perpetrated for profit or personal gain. An example of this would be the claim that “man-made” carbon emissions are the leading cause of the greenhouse effect, when in actuality the most abundant “greenhouse gas” (ghg) is water vapor, representing up to 95% of ghg. The carbon emissions fraud is perpetrated in order to sell carbon offsets or credits.
Extortion is the crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one’s office or authority (coercion). A current president, a former vice-president and several prominant businessmen, through trickery and political pressure are forcing businesses, and the public as a whole, to act involuntarily through laws and regulations governing carbon-emissions as related to global warming.
Bribery is the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions of an official or other person in discharge of a public or legal duty. (Black’s Law Dictionary) and an Act affecting a personal financial interest is a government official making decisions, policies, etc. which will benefit himself, family member, etc. A former vice president, working with the president, enacting legislation and policies which would benefit corporations and groups of which he is a representative. A presidential candidate promises to enact stricter ghg regulations. The benefitting companies then contribute generously to presidential campaign.
Starting with former Vice-President Al Gore, who was part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which earned him half of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, had a hand in the creation of the Kyoto Protocol, which mandates that nations reduce or offset carbon emissions. A main activity of the IPCC is publishing special reports on topics relevant to the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
With Gore being instrumental in the passage of the protocol, and through his work with IPCC, profits are guaranteed to the Greenhouse Gas syndicate. With each new regulation and every new restriction, the Gore-Sandor Empire grows.
In May 2005, Gore attended the Investor Network on Climate Risks (INCR) Summit at the UN at which time acting in his official capacity as Chairman of Generation Investment Management (GIM), which was founded with former Goldman Sachs chief David Blood. During this summit, Gore called for following the model of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EUETS). The EUETS trades carbon credits using Sandor’s European Climate Exchange.
Gore has worked tirelessly to promote legislation and mandates which, when enforced, creates obscene profits for the private entities which he is involved with. GIM is part owner of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the European Climate Exchange (ECX), both of which are “cap and trade” carbon and other greenhouse gas offset providers.
The CCX was founded by former Chicago Board of Trade (CBT) chief economist Richard Sandor, and former Goldman Sachs & Co. CEO Hank Paulson. The CCX received start-up funding from the Joyce Foundation in 2000 and 2001, during which time Senator Barack Obama sat on the board of directors. The funds were funneled through the Kellogg Graduate School of Management where Sandor is listed as a Research Professor.
The president of the Joyce Foundation, Paula DiPerna, left the foundation in 2001 to become the executive vice-president of CCX, which then received a substantially larger grant from the foundation that same year.
Sandor and former CBT directors (which lists CCX), Les Rosenthal and Michael Walsh went on to found Climate Exchange, PLC, which would become the parent company of CCX as well as The Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE), Montreal Climate Exchange (MCeX) in Canada, Tianjin Climate Exchange (TCX) in China, Envex OTC in Australia, European Climate Exchange (ECX), Insurance Futures Exchange (IFEX).
Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), whose subsidiary International Petroleum Exchange is widely accepted as the cause of the dramatic rise in oil prices, is also intertwined with Climate Exchange. ICE also engaged in a bidding war for the purchase of the Chicago Board of Trade, which ultimately they lost.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, GIM, CCX, Goldman Sachs, and the Joyce Foundation “employees” were all contributors to the Obama campaign. In return, Obama is pushing cap and trade which will make these people rich.
Senate bill 5735, the cap and trade bill, specifically mentions CCX as did Obama in his April 2006 speech Energy Independence and the Safety of Our Planet. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, of which Michelle Obama is a board member, sponsored an event featuring the CCX in April 2009.
All of this began with Al Gore, who ignited a global conspiracy which would fill the pockets of himself and his cohorts.
Not included in this report are the connections to General Electric, Richard Trumka and others. This will come in future reports.
Original article published November 23, 2009, Trumbull County Conservative Examiner.