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It’s all just a coincidence that the prosecutor who tried and convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich just happens to join the law firm of Obama’s former White House counsel. It wouldn’t be a stretch to claim Team Obama offered Fitzgerald this position in order to keep Obama from testifying in the Blago fiasco. They have a long, documented history of offering job bribes to get what they want.

From Advance Indiana:

It’s business as usual in Chicago. After protecting President Barack Obama from criminal liability for hiscorrupt relationship with convicted political fixer Tony Rezko, former Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been rewarded with a partnership in the Chicago office of New York-based law firm giant Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. The firm counts among its partners, Greg Craig, Obama’s first White House Counsel, who had to help navigate Obama through Fitzgerald’s investigation of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s attempt to sell Obama’s Senate seat, from which he resigned shortly after being elected President but before he was sworn into office.

Greg Craig is one of many Obama bundlers who received plumb jobs inside Obama’s administration for raising $500,000 plus for Obama’s campaign. Fitzgerald’s boss in another Obama bundler, Attorney General Eric Holder.

Interestingly, Skadden Arps represented The Tribune Company, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune, in a transaction that took the company private in 2007. Gov. Blagojevich was caught on wire-tapped phone conversations discussing an attempt to shake down The Tribune Company’s CEO Sam Zell for campaign contributions in exchange for his help in providing public financing for Wrigley Field, to aid the company in the sale of the Chicago Cubs baseball franchise to the Ricketts family. Fitzgerald has recently come under criticism after two reporters for the Chicago Tribune, who broke the story about Fitzgerald’s office wiretapping Blagojevich’s phone conversations, revealed in a new book that Fitzgerald is the one who tipped off the Tribune’s reporters of the wiretaps before Blagojevich could complete a deal on the sale of the Senate seat. Fitzgerald’s office closely protected potentially damaging phone conversations Blagojevich had with Obama and Rahm Emanuel discussing Obama’s replacement in the Senate.

Obama was tied deeply to the Blago Senate Seat Selling scandal but bribes kept him out of trouble. It also needs to be pointed out that the audio taped conversations between Blago and Rahm Emanual mysteriously “went missing” while the trial was going on. Blagojevich’s lawyers sought to subpoena Obama and actually subpoenaed Rahm Emanual and Valerie Jarrett. Jessie Jackson Jr was also tied to the case and offered Blagojevich a bribe for the Senate seat and offered a pardon from President Obama. Blagojevich also stated that convicted felon, and Obama buddy, Tony Rezko, channeled $25,000 to Obama.

It’s the Chicago-way.

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Obama’s favorite felon got him a house and a Senate seat.

Obama seems to have a penchant association with felons. Blagojevich and Rezko are only two felons with close ties to the man from Hope and Change.

From the Chicago Tribune:

An upcoming book about Rod Blagojevich says undercover recordings caught the former governor saying he had heard that convicted influence peddler Antoin “Tony” Rezko secretly channeled $25,000 in cash to Barack Obama, but federal authorities did not deem the claim credible.

I’m sure federal authorities look really, really hard into this. Eric Holder is a trustworthy AG/Obama bundler and boot licker. Rezko is the felon who helped Obama secure a house and land deal he couldn’t afford. Of course the media doesn’t see a connection to all this.

The book, “Golden: How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself Out of the Governor’s Office and Into Prison,” suggests Blagojevich was talking about an undisclosed payment to help Obama with his 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate.

The book says that federal investigators pursued the claim but ultimately gave it little credence. “Never was Blagojevich seen as a credible threat to the incoming president,” says the book, an outside project by two Chicago Tribune reporters.

It was also convenient that some of these undercover recording disappeared during Blago’s trial.

The White House referred questions about the matter to the Obama campaign. Ben LaBolt, a campaign spokesman, said the claim “is preposterous and it is false. No such payment was ever offered or made, and there never has been any suggestion or question of it from anyone, except apparently by Rod Blagojevich.”

Maybe it was offered through one of those untraceable, pre-paid credit cards Team Obama happily accepted.

Federal authorities declined to comment to the Tribune about the investigation.

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As most know…corruption begets corruption and all of Obama’s associates are as corrupt as he is.

From IllinoisPaytoPlay:

Daniel T. Frawley, a former business partner of Antoin “Tony” Rezko, claims he gave Rezko $400,000 that Rezko gave to then U.S. Senator Barack Obama.

This claim comes through Frawley’s emails to, and conversations with, Robert “Bob” Cooley, former Chicago mob lawyer turned government informer and author of the book on Chicago corruption entitled “When Corruption Was King”.

Cooley was the star witness in a series of trials in the early 1990’s as part of an F.B.I. investigation named Operation GambatThose trials led to the convictions of over a score of Chicago crooks, including First Ward Alderman Fred Roti, a made-man; the Chief Judge of Cook County’s Chancery Court; the Assistant Majority Leader of the Illinois State Senate; and the only Federal Judge in U.S. history convicted of fixing a murder trial.

About April 2011, Frawley, along with Daniel Mahru, a former business associate of Rezko dating back to 1989, and a former business partner of current White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett, began conversations with Cooley concerning collaboration on a book about Chicago corruption.

Frawley’s claim that the money he gave Rezko went to Obama is alluded to in a December 1, 2010 deposition executed in the context of a legal malpractice complaint filed by Frawley, on July 9, 2010, against his former attorney and long-time friend, George Weaver.

Frawley alleges that Weaver was not representing his best interests when Weaver interrupted a March 2008 phone conversation, supervised by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, between Frawley and Rezko who were scheduling a face-to-face meeting.

Frawley cooperated with U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation of Rezko by wearing a wire.

On page 21 of the deposition, this exchange is recorded between Weaver’s attorney, Daniel F. Konicek, and Frawley:

Konicek: And Tony Rezko was where when you were speaking to him?

Frawley: He was on the other end of the phone. I don’t recall where he was.

Konicek: Okay. Now, that answers one part of the question is who was present when Mr. Weaver made a gesture across his neck with both hands [signaling that the conversation should cease]. But my question was a little different because your complaint specifically alleges he [Weaver] told you to withhold certain information, right.

Frawley: Yes.

Konicek: I’m assuming the information is about the payments made by Rezko to Obama, so we know we’re talking about the right conversation, right?

Franklin: (Charles Franklin, representing Frawley.) I’m not going to make any objection. I think that’s – you may make that assumption, but I think it’s unfair to make the – to have Mr. Frawley make the assumption. Also, it doesn’t go to who or where or the forum non conveniens issue.

Konicek: There’s going to be multiple conversations, I want to make sure I understand where each occurred. So you said he (Weaver) withheld information.  Am I correct it was about Obama being paid by Rezko?

The Witness: (Frawley) I’m not answering that question based upon my attorney’s instructions.

Less than two months later, on January 26, 2011, the feds charged Frawley with bank fraud, although the statute of limitations on his crime had expired. He pled guilty on February 14, 2011 and was ordered to make restitution of $4,000,000. He awaits sentencing in mid-April after four previous sentencing dates were postponed.

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Who you surround yourself with says a lot about your character…

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Obama said: “Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself…”

Let’s examine…

Tony Rezko was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for extortion and corruption.

Rod Blagojevich was just sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to sell then Senator Obama’s senate seat.

What do both of these guys have in common?

Barack Hussein Obama!

Rezko helped subsidize a home that was purchased by Obama, since both were long-time pals. Blagojevich has deep ties to Obama and his ex Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel.

It’s all just coincidental that most of those Obama surrounds himself with are corrupt Chicago goons and terrorists like Bill Ayers.

I’m sure most Americans can say that none of their associates are in jail or are radical 1960′s terrorists.

Just saying…

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The liberal media continues to hide the truth about Obama and his corrupt associates.

From Judicial Watch:

President Obama’s close friend and longtime financial supporter, Chicago businessman Antoin Rezko, has been sentenced to 10 ½ years in prison for operating a massive corruption scheme in which he extorted millions of dollars in kickbacks from investment firms seeking state business.

For years Rezko was a major donor and adviser to convicted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, but his name first surfaced on the national scene during the 2008 presidential election because then-candidate Obama had received hefty campaign contributions from him and the two were longtime pals. In fact, Rezko subsidized a $1.65 million home Obama purchased in Chicago’s South side in 2005 and he hosted a fundraiser for the then- U.S. Senator.

When the feds charged Rezko with extortion, influence peddling and conspiracy, Obama vowed to return all the tainted money—at least $200,000 by some accounts—that his buddy had given him. Rezko was also accused of obtaining a $10.5 million loan from GE Capital through fraud and swindling of group investors.

The Syrian-born businessman has been in jail since his June 2008 conviction but his sentencing was delayed because he was scheduled to testify in Blagojevich’s 2010 corruption trial and retrial this past summer. Judicial Watch covered both Chicago federal trials, which prominently mentioned Obama and his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who left the post to become the city’s mayor.

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The attempts by Democrats to censor folks who have a different opinion is becoming a noise. Just this week we have Senator Jay Rockefeller who wants the FCC to take Fox News and MSNBC off the air and Al Sharpton wants the FCC to shut down Rush Limbaugh. This is where you can see the difference between Republicans and Democrats.

Republicans love the constitution. Democrats constantly attempt to change it. Republicans will use the remote control when they don’t like what they hear. Democrats demand censorship and want people’s opinions shut down.

So much for that tolerance.

Has anyone else noticed how the left is constantly attacking our first amendment rights of free speech? Since the election of Obama, the left has constantly attacked anyone who has a different opinion than they do. Obama, and several members of his administration, have openly attacked Fox News because Fox News doesn’t carry their water.

We have all this talk about ‘net-neutrality’ and the FCC and FTC are the talkers. This is the same FTC who recently dropped its investigation of Google who admitted to stealing people’s e-mails, passwords and IP address. Since Google has deep ties with Obama, the media pretty much ignore this story. Imagine if this had been a corporation tied to Bush who admitted to invading the privacy of taxpayers.

Remember, if they control the messenger, they control the message. This has been the goal since Feb. 2009. Obama appointed czars such as Cass Sunstein and Mark Lloyd along with White House communication director, Anita Dunn, who happen to be all for government controlled media through regulations. All three are fans of socialism. Shocking, I know.

Why are these Socialist Progressive Democrats openly against free speech? It’s because they are being exposed. If you control the media, you control the message and when you control the message, you can fool a lot of weak-minded individuals. Look at what the media did to get Obama elected. Imagine if they vetted Obama in the same fashion they vetted Sarah Palin.

The media covered up all the corrupt ties Obama had to Frank Marshall Davis, Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony Rezko, Rod Blagojevich, Van Jones, SEIU, ACORN, Code Pink…so on and so forth. I don’t have enough time to list all the radical ties Obama has, but you get the point. None of this was reported until after Obama was in office.

The desire to control the media is a desire to hide the truth. This is why we continue to hear all this talk about censorship and taking away people’s free speech and restricting the freedom of the press. Radicals are scared to be exposed and the truth does this.

To all the Progressive Socialist Democrats out there: If you don’t like something you hear…change the channel. This is still a free country, despite all the radical things you idiots have done the past two years. America has rejected you and your radical president.

To end. If you don’t like what I write…don’t read my articles.

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I have written several articles about the man-made myth called global warming climate change and how if you follow the money, you will see why liberal Democrats, and the corporations that fund them, continue to push for climate change legislation such as Cap-and-Trade. It is to make themselves even richer. This article covers the scheme that involves politicians, banks and the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and it all ties this fraud together.

Read the full article and pass it along to your friends.

From ProjectWorldAwareness.com:

So . . . you think you know quite a bit about Obama and his band of thieves. You don’t know anything yet.  Read on all of this as it all comes together in the last part……..  a must read.

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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 Rezk o 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.

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They're after you. They know you are a corrupt asshole Barack. It's the Chicago-way!

Blago survived his first trial and is now out flapping his gums, taking a victory lap. In an ABC News interview, Blagojevich said the prosecutors were after “folks in higher places” speculating they were after President Obama. Obama being associated with corruption is no big secret now. If only the liberal media would have done its job, America wouldn’t be suffering under Obama’s socialist policies.

ABC News reports:

Former Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich recognizes that daunting challenges await as prosecutors prepare to mount a new effort to convict him on corruption charges, but he told ABC News Friday he sees a triumphant political comeback in his future that will be no less dramatic than the one pulled off by Winston Churchill.

…The now famous Chicago pol-turned-reality TV star —  known better as “Blago” — spent the 80-minute interview casting himself in the role of the persecuted David. Goliath, in this telling, was a team of federal prosecutors that remains hell-bent on collecting the scalp that sits under his generous mop of thick brown hair.

“This is a person determined to get his trophy,” he said of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

Blagojevich told ABC News that shortly after his 2008 arrest, investigators tried to convince him to offer damaging information on “folks in higher places” in exchange for lenience. Blagojevich said that Obama, even more than himself, had a longstanding, close association with Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the Chicago real estate developer who had become the subject of his own federal probe – one that ultimately led to Rezko’s conviction on fraud and bribery charges. The former governor said his very first meeting with Obama, then about to join the Illinois senate, came by way of Rezko’s personal introduction.

What a threesome. Barack Obama, Tony Rezko and Rod Blagojevich. All three from Chicago. All three tied deeply to the culture of Chicago politics and corruption. The media had this information but failed to investigate Obama’s ties.

In 2008, Obama said “Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.” If that is the case, Obama is one dangerous, corrupt individual.

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Only Fox News has reported about ShoreBank and it’s connections to several Democrats, in particular Barack Obama and why it received bailout money.

Obama deeply connected to ShoreBank in Chicago

ShoreBank has major connections to both the Obama’s and the Clinton’s. Some Republican politicians sent President Obama a letter, asking important questions to why ShoreBank received bailout money with the help from Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and GE Capital when it is claimed that the bank returning to profitability will be difficult.

The ShoreBank scandal sounds like what Democrat Maxine Waters is up on ethics charges for. Republicans wanted a probe of the matter but that probe was blocked by Democrats.

It seems ShoreBank is tied into the ‘green economy’ scheme being push by Obama and other Democrats who have accounts with ShoreBank. Van Jones and Rev. Jeremiah Wright are account holders at ShoreBank and there are links to Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers. You can read a slew of articles about ShoreBank and the corruption around it over at biggovernment.com or at the Central Illinois 9/12 Project.

ShoreBank is now being investigated by Inspector General, Neil Barofsky, who oversees T.A.R.P.

The Culture of Corruption that is Obama continues. How many more radicals need to be exposed before the rest of America wakes up to realize Obama is the most corrupt politicians the U.S. has ever seen?

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