Chesapeake buys Your Mineral Rights. CHINA Owns Chesapeake?

They will own America without firing a shot.

How many acres of mineral rights leases did the

American government force farmers to sell

Chesapeake oil and gas?

CNOOC owns at least 33% of Chesapeake and Sinopec WANTS TO BUY MORE OF Chesapeake.

My mom’s farm has a Chesapeake pipe running under it.

She is getting a monthly check.  How can that be bad?  The Christian, my mom, is getting paid off by anti Christian Marxists.

If we did not have the 36th dumbest

populace in the world, we would be very

scared.

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6      Chesapeake:

a Chinese Owned,

b Pays Little Taxes, and is

c Second Biggest US Oil and Gas Producer,

d Should be bankrupt

1. Watching The World: China buys into Chesapeake – Oil & Gas Journal

   www.ogj.com/…/watching-the-world-china-buys-into-chesapeake.ht…

   Oct 18, 2010 – The US oil and gas industry has doubtlessly watched with interest CNOOC International Ltd.’s decision to buy a 33.3% stake in Chesapeake…

Chinese Oil Company Buys Into Chesapeake Acreage | Pipeline …

Chinese Oil Company Buys Into Chesapeake Acreage. March 2011, Vol. 238 No. 3. Chesapeake Energy Corp. has signed an agreement to sell CNOOC …

1. Oklahoma Energy News & Companies, Oil & Gas | News OK

   newsok.com/business/energy

   Oklahoma City basked in exposure, cash during Thunder’s NBA Finals run…Chesapeake Energy campus at NW 63rd and Western Wednesday April 18, 2012. …. transmission line from Oklahoma Panhandle to Tennessee Published: Sat, Jun …

2. Chinese Might Have Eye On Chesapeake! – Mineral Rights Forum

   www.mineralrightsforum.com/…/chinese-might-have-eye-on-chesape…

   1 post - 1 author - Jun 24

   6/23/2012 4:10 AM Rumors swirled Friday that Chinese oil and gas …in Oklahoma this week to perform due diligence on Chesapeake assets … The Oklahoma native brings expertise in shedding oilfields and pipelines from his days at … having run a very diversified oil and gas giant, said Jake Dollarhide at …

3. Chesapeake Energy News – Topix

   www.topix.com/com/chk

   18 minutes ago – Chesapeake building more ‘man camps’ in Bradford County … a long way to go to install all the pipelines needed to transport natural gas, oil and … to Pennsylvania to tour operations of Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy, … the Marcellus Shale, running under much of Pennsylvania and New York state, …

4. Chesapeake Energy – SourceWatch

   www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chesapeake_Energy

   by C Energy
   Chesapeake Energy is an Oklahoma-based oil and gas company. …Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. … contributions to various politicians running for office in PA state elections.

5. Chesapeake Energy Oklahoma Rig Fire-Nomac #17 Update …

   www.drillingahead.com/…/chesapeake-energy-oklahoma-rig-fire-no…

   Sweetwater in far western Oklahoma where Nomac Rig #17, shortly after spudding in, …Chesapeake owned Hodges Trucking seems to have most of the rig …

6. Chinese might have eye on Chesapeake | Tulsa World

   www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid…

   Jun 23, 2012 – Powered by the largest news staff in Northeastern Oklahoma… Rumors swirled Friday that Chinese oil and gas company Sinopec may want … The Oklahoma native brings expertise in shedding oilfields and pipelines from his days at … having run a very diversified oil and gas giant, said Jake Dollarhide at …

7. Homeland Security warns Oklahoma about pipelines – YouTube
   ► 0:49► 0:49	www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqatCI2kZz0May 10, 2012 – 49 sec – Uploaded by kocotv … miles of oil and gas pipelines run through Oklahoma which has prompted a …Chesapeake Energy?s …

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8. Chesapeake Energy – Wikimarcellus

   waytogoto.com/wiki/index.php/Chesapeake_Energy

   Its headquarters is in the near-northwest side of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. … Statoil-Hydro Oil bought about a one-third share in Chesapeake’s Marcellus … such as holding pit and gas pipelines, was in place that Chesapeake might then …. Signing bonuses for the leases had run between $750/acre to $3600/acre with …

9. Oklahoma City Worries for Its Angel, Chesapeake Energy CEO …

   online.wsj.com/…/SB1000142405270230406570457742479118890…

   May 29, 2012 – Oklahoma City leaders are fretting about potential consequences for the city … the city now that Chesapeake under Mr. McClendon has run into financial straits, …through news reports that he used his interest in company oil and gas … pay for and a $7 million tower at the finish line donated by Chesapeake.

1. Chesapeake selling off mineral rights it bought in area | Zanesville …

   www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/…/Chesapeake-selling-off-mineral-…

   Jun 6, 2012 – If you signed away your mineral rights to Chesapeake Energy and live in southeastern Ohio, chances are you could be dealing with a new …

2. Selling Mineral Rights – Chesapeake Energy

   www.askchesapeake.com/Barnett-Shale/…/selling-mineral-rights.aspx

   Find Chesapeake in your area … Q. What is the difference between leasing and selling my mineral rights? A. Leasing is a revenue-sharing arrangement in which …

3. Barnett Shale Oil and Gas Mineral Rights and Royalty Acquisitions

   www.clearforkroyalty.com/barnett_shale_sell_gas_mineral_rights_ro…

   Clear Fork Royalty buys oil and gas mineral rights and royalties in the … lease by the following oil and gas companies: Chesapeake Energy, Devon Energy, XTO …

4. KKR Teams Up With Chesapeake to Invest $250 Million – Bloomberg

   www.bloomberg.com/…/kkr-teams-up-with-chesapeake-to-i…

   by Devin Banerjee – in 228 Google+ circles – More by Devin Banerjee Mar 6, 2012 – KKR & Co. and Chesapeake Energy Corp., the second-largest U.S. … formed a $250 million partnership to buy mineral rights and royalties from …

5. Chesapeake selling off mineral rights it bought in area

   features.rr.com/article/08aCfOp8Ry4H0?q=Ohio

   Jun 6, 2012 – Chesapeake also is tendering for sale acreage in Texas as well as Wyoming and Colorado, according to Meagher’s website. As of November …

6. KKR, Chesapeake form partnership on mineral rights – Fort Worth …

   fwbusinesspress.com/Main.asp?SectionID=9&SubSectionID=34…

   Mar 7, 2012 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co L.P. (KKR) and Chesapeake Energy Corp. have formed a $250 million partnership to buy mineral rights and …

7. Selling Mineral Rights, Oil & Gas Royalties, Sell Oil & Gas Leases …

   www.uniroyalties.com/

   Mar 7, 2012 – Sell Oil & Gas Mineral Right and Royalties to UNI Royalties, Ltd. … The Cardinal Rule is, “Buy Low, Sell High”, with the oil and gas commodity …

8. Converse County, WY – Oil & Gas DIscussion – Mineral Rights Forum

   www.mineralrightsforum.com/group/converse-county-wy-oil-gas

   10 posts - 6 authors - Feb 16

   We have some mineral rights in Township 31 Range 70w. … We eventually negotiated a lease which was acceptable to Chesapeake and … Now that we have leased, I have offers from companies trying to buy our minerals.

9. …and since Chesapeake buys your mineral rights, guess who gets …

   www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=151213781620612

   Stop Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) in Carroll County Ohio wrote a note titled …and since Chesapeake buys your mineral rights, guess who gets those royalties …

1. New Asian immigrants to US now surpass Hispanics – Yahoo! News

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   Jun 19, 2012 – Skip to search. … New Asian immigrants to US now surpass Hispanics … The shift to increased Asian immigration, particularly of people from …

2. Asian immigrants to U.S. surpass Hispanics for first time | The …

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   by Dylan Stableford – in 117 Google+ circles – More by Dylan Stableford Jun 19, 2012 – Skip to search. …. Sixty-one percent of 25-to-64-year-old Asian immigrants come with at … New Asian immigrants to US now surpass Hispanics …

3. Asians eclipsing Latinos in immigration to U.S.: report – Yahoo! News

   news.yahoo.com/asians-eclipsing-latinos-immigration-u-report-0404…

   Jun 19, 2012 – Skip to search. …. Up to 11 percent of illegal immigrants in the United States are Asian while about 75 percent are Hispanic, according to the …

1. Sinopec, Cnooc Parent Rise in Oil Consultant’s Top 100 List …

   www.bloomberg.com/…/sinopec-cnooc-parent-rise-in-oil-consultant-…

   Feb 3, 2012 – U.S. Stocks Retreat as Employment Growth Trails Forecasts · U.S. Stocks …Sinopec, Cnooc Parent Rise in Oil Consultant’s Top 100 List …

2. Chinese Stocks in the U.S.: Cnooc, PetroChina, Sinopec, Suntech …

   www.bloomberg.com/…/chinese-stocks-in-the-u-s-cnooc-petrochina-…

   Oct 11, 2011 – The Bank of New York Mellon China ADR Index, which tracks American depositary receipts, was little changed at 363.05. The New York Stock …

3. China National Offshore Oil Corporation – Wikipedia, the free …

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Offshore_Oil_Corporation

   In April 2004, the Ministry of Commerce granted CNOOC-SINOPEC United … Ironically, the political backlash aroused in the United States caused the Chinese …

4. Cnooc, Sinopec Vie for Fracking Stake – WSJ.com

   online.wsj.com/…/SB1000142405297020389340457709907191362…

   Dec 16, 2011 – Cnooc and Sinopec are competing for a stake in a U.S. shale-gas services company—another step in China’s effort to tap its huge reserves of a …

5. Sinopec, Cnooc Eye BP Stake in BP-TNK JV | 4-Traders

   www.4-traders.com › Shares

   Jun 3, 2012 – China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. , or Sinopec, and Cnooc Ltd. are eyeing up BP PLC’s £14 billion half … July 2, 2012 03:10 pm US/Eastern …

6. On Point: Sinopec Joins CNOOC in Major North American …

   www.gordonenergysolutions.com/…/Sinopec-Joins-CNOOC-in-Majo…

   Jan 5, 2012 – Forward-looking, critical analysis of the upstream oil and gas industry.: Sinopec Joins CNOOC in Major North American Unconventional …

7. Sinopec: Chesapeake’s Salvation? – Forbes

   www.forbes.com/sites/…/2012/06/20/sinopec-chesapeakes-salvation/

   Jun 20, 2012 – Unlike CNOOC which bought some Chesapeake stakes, PetroChina turned down Aubrey McClendon’s recent overtures. But it’s Sinopec that …

8. SINOPEC

   english.sinopec.com/

   Copyright © SINOPEC Address: 22 Chaoyangmen North Street, Chaoyang District Beijing, China Postcode: 100728 Tel :8610 – 59960114. Technical support …

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9. Aramco, Sinopec, CNOOC seek Frac Tech stake: sources | Reuters

   www.reuters.com/article/…/us-fractech-idUSTRE7BD0VJ20111214

   Dec 14, 2011 – HONG KONG (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco, Sinopec <0386.HK> and CNOOC <0883.HK> are each in talks to buy a stake in Frac Tech …

1. Saudi Aramco, Sinopec, Cnooc Compete for 30% Stake in Frac Tech

   online.wsj.com/…/SB1000142405297020389340457709933099721…

   Dec 14, 2011 – Saudi Aramco, Sinopec and Cnooc are each in talks to buy a 30% stake … and operates pressure-pumping equipment for the U.S.oil-and-gas …

2. What To Expect From A Sinopec-Chesapeake Deal – Forbes

   www.forbes.com/…/what-to-expect-from-a-sinopec-chesapeake-deal/

   Jun 21, 2012 – Sinopec chairman got a seat on the floor at the NBA Finals. … Chairman Fu has already acquired in the U.S., both during his tenure at Sinopec as well as his days running Cnooc. Cnooc has done two JVs with Chesapeake.

1. CNOOC, Sinopec, Saudi Aramco in talks for Frac – Stock Market …

   www.theflyonthewall.com/…/CEO;…CNOOC-Sinopec…Aramco…

   theflyonthewall.com: CNOOC, Sinopec, Saudi Aramco in talks for Frac Tech stake, … in Frac Tech International, a North American oil and gas services company, …

2. Aramco, Sinopec and CNOOC seek Frac Tech stake – Oil & Gas News

   oilandgasnewsworldwide.com/pages/article.aspx?aid=32175

   Aramco, Sinopec and CNOOC seek Frac Tech stake. HONG KONG: Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and No 2 consumer China may buy into a US company that …

3. Twitter Trackbacks for Aramco, Sinopec, CNOOC seek Frac Tech …

   topsy.com/www…com/…/us-fractech-idUSTRE7BD0VJ20111214?…

   Dec 14, 2011 – HONG KONG (Reuters) – Saudi Aramco, Sinopec <0386.HK> and CNOOC <0883.HK> are each in talks to buy a stake in Frac Tech …

4. Aramco, Sinopec, CNOOC pursue Frac Tech stake-sources …

   article.wn.com/…/Aramco_Sinopec_CNOOC_pursue_Frac_Tech_…

   Dec 14, 2011 – Aramco, Sinopec, CNOOC pursue Frac Tech stake-sources … The proportion of total US natural gas production coming from shale resources …

5. CNOOC Ltd | Financial Post

   business.financialpost.com/tag/cnooc-ltd/

   Saudi Aramco, China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec) and CNOOC Ltd are each in talks to buy up to a 30% stake U.S. oil and gas services company Frac …

6. The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: December 14, 2011

   www.theoildrum.com/node/8728

   Dec 14, 2011 – Aramco, Sinopec, CNOOC pursue Frac Tech stake-sources … and CNOOC Ltd are each in talks to buy up to a 30 percent stake U.S. oil and gas …

7       Our Least Christian PresidentStephen Prothero, USA Today

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12    Another Month of Data Re-Confirms Obama’s Horrible Record on Jobs

CATO

Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell

Remember back in 2009, when President Obama and his team told us that we needed to spend $800 billion on a so-called stimulus package?

The crowd in Washington was quite confident that Keynesian spending was going to save the day, even though similar efforts had failed for Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s, for Japan in the 1990s, and for Bush in 2008.

Nonetheless, we were assured that the stimulus was needed to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.

Well, that claim has turned out to be hollow. Not that we needed additional evidence, but the new numbers from the Labor Department re-confirm that the White House prediction was wildly inaccurate. The 8.2 percent unemployment rate is 2.5 percentage points above the administration’s prediction.

Defenders of the Obama administration sometimes respond by saying that the downturn was more serious than anyone predicted. That’s a legitimate point, so I don’t put too much blame on the White House for the initial spike in joblessness.

But I do blame them for the fact that the labor market has remained weak for such a long time. The chart below, which I generated this morning using the Minneapolis Fed’s interactive website, shows employment data for all the post-World War II recessions. The current business cycle is the red line. As you can see, some recessions were deeper in the beginning and some were milder. But the one thing that is unambiguous is that we’ve never had a jobs recovery as anemic as the one we’re experiencing now.

Job creation has been extraordinarily weak. Indeed, the current 8.2 percent unemployment rate understates the bad news because it doesn’t capture all the people who have given up and dropped out of the labor force.

By the way, I don’t think the so-called stimulus is the main cause of today’s poor employment data. Rather, the vast majority of that money was simply wasted.

Today’s weak job market is affected by factors such as the threat of higher taxes in 2013 (when the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are scheduled to expire), the costly impact of Obamacare, and the harsh regulatory environment. This cartoon shows, in an amusing fashion, the effect these policies have on entrepreneurs and investors.

Postscript: Click on this link if you want to compare Obamanomics and Reaganomics. The difference is astounding.

Post-postscript: The president will probably continue to blame “headwinds” for the dismal job numbers, so this cartoon is definitely worth sharing.

Post-post-postscript: Since I’m sharing cartoons, I can’t resist recycling this classic about Keynesian stimulus.

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Filed under: Government & Politics, World Watch

U.S. diplomats have been silent on these growing alliances. However, fresh revelations about Chávez’s alliance with Iran demonstrate what he is capable of doing when he is not provoked.

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   Jun 29, 2012 – The Affordable Care Act is helping millions of Americans like you. … taken by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect the health …

8. Obama and the Environment: An Update « The Georgetown …

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   and the EPA, now under the guidance of Lisa Jackson, was well on the way to … We were sure that when the Affordable Care Act passed, the environment…

9. Health Care Ruling To Spur Challenges To EPA Air Act Penalty …

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   Jun 28, 2012 – Try our pay-per-view service, the InsideEPA.com NewsStand. … likely to drive new litigation challenging environmental programs that similarly withhold money … The other provisions of the Affordable Care Act are not affected.

Rep. McCotter resigns after ‘nightmarish’ month and a half

Jonathan Easley

07/06/12 05:34 PM ET

The Republican’s decision comes after he dedided against waging a write-in reelection campaign.…

Ohio restaurant owner dies shortly after president’s visit Alicia M. Cohn 07/06/12 03:37 PM ET Josephine “Ann” Harris, 70, died of an apparent heart attack after Obama ate at her diner on his bus tour.…

Report: Dozens pass out from heat at Obama campaign event Jonathan Easley 07/06/12 03:14 PM ET The soaring temperatures have been a strange backdrop for the president’s bus tour through swing states Ohio and Pennsylvania.…

Romney: Jobs figures are a ‘kick in the gut’ Vicki Needham 07/06/12 11:02 AM ET Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday called the latest lackluster jobs report a “kick in the gut.”… Video: Romney: Economic ‘kick in the gut has got to end’

Clinton rips Russia, China for ‘blockading’ Syrian peace plan

Julian Pecquet

07/06/12 11:00 AM ET

The secretary of State called out the nations in unusually harsh terms for vetoing U.N. resolutions critical of Syria’s president.…

Obama signs highway bill

Keith Laing - 07/06/12 06:08 PM ET

Obama touts measure as keeping construction workers employed to rebuild U.S. infrastructure.…

Obama on jobs: ‘We’ve got to grow the economy even faster’ Bernie Becker - 07/06/12 12:55 PM ET President Obama called the latest jobs numbers “a step in the right direction.”… Video: Obama: ‘We’ve got to grow the economy even faster’

Primary opponent hits Rep. Mica for attending White House signing ceremony Keith Laing - 07/06/12 04:14 PM ET Rep. Sandy Adams (R-Fla.) said the highway bill that was approved with Mica’s help was too expensive. …

Senior GOP lawmaker: Interior is stonewalling on deepwater drilling probe Ben Geman - 07/06/12 05:14 PM ET Rep. Doc Hastings says the department is stymieing an investigation by refusing to make several officials available for interviews.…

State Dept. says UN arms treaty won’t ‘handicap’ Second Amendment rights Julian Pecquet - 07/06/12 04:23 PM ET The U.S. set down a list of “redlines” as the first week of treaty negotiations came to a close.…

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McConnell ratchets up pressure on vulnerable Dems over healthcare repeal

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• Initiative would let voters overrule federal law

  Saturday, July 07, 2012 12:37:58 AM · by BigEdLB · 16 replies

  Arizona Daily Sun ^ | // | Howard Fischer

  PHOENIX — Voters could get the right to overrule federal laws and mandates under the terms of an initiative filed late Thursday. The Arizona Constitution already says the federal Constitution “is the supreme law of the land.” This measure, if approved in November, it would add language saying that federal document may not be violated by any government — including the federal government. More to the point, it would allow Arizonans “to reject any federal action that they determine violates the United States Constitution.” That could occur through a vote of the state House and Senate with consent of the…

 

• Why Obama Will ‘Own’ the Recession (FLASHBACK: Written before Inauguration 1/1/09)

  Friday, July 06, 2012 11:20:16 PM · by Brandonmark · 4 replies

  US News ^ | January 7, 2009 | James Pethokoukis

  For eight decades, Democrats have successfully blamed Republican Herbert Hoover for the decade-long Great Depression. That, even though Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal failed to restore prosperity or dramatically lower unemployment, and his tax increases in 1937 snuffed out a nascent recovery. Now today’s Obamacrats are apparently going to try and Hooverize President Bush in an effort to shield themselves from the potential political fallout of a prolonged recession. It will take years to fix the American economy, Obama says, and years of trillion-dollar budget deficits to do it. And everyday it seems that Team Obama tries to lower economic expectations,…

• CANADA WANTS U.S. VETERANS FOR PIPELINE WORK

  Friday, July 06, 2012 9:58:04 PM · by katiedidit1 · 17 replies

  VFW ^ | 7/2/2012 | anon

  “Though America’s Keystone Pipeline is delayed, the Canadians are moving forward on their side of the border and have an immediate need for tens of thousands of workers,” said Ted Daywalt, founder and CEO of VetJobs. There is an anticipated shortage of 114,000 workers in the Alberta area

• Obama administration repeats same jobs line—for the 30th month

  Friday, July 06, 2012 8:49:08 PM · by Free ThinkerNY · 15 replies

  Yahoo! News ^ | July 6, 2012 | Chris Moody

  When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the nation’s latest national employment figures Friday, the Obama administration stressed that people should not “read too much” into the data. Mitt Romney’s campaign pounced, and flagged the fact that the White House has repeated that same line nearly every month since November 2009. See below for the roundup of articles from WhiteHouse.gov that Romney’s campaign posted on its site. In many of the posts, the authors for the administration do acknowledge that they repeat themselves: June 2012: “Therefore, it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and…

CANADA WANTS U.S.VETERANS FOR PIPELINE WORK

VFW-backed VetJobs now posting thousands of new vacancies

July 02, 2012

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce that its partly owned veterans jobs board has secured an exclusive employment initiative with Alberta, Canada, that could see thousands of U.S. veterans heading north to work on their oil pipeline.

 

 

• Obama’s Dismal Jobs Number

  Friday, July 06, 2012 8:46:53 PM · by tselatysr · 1 replies

  Tea Party Tribune ^ | 2012-07-06 13:56:18 | mrcurmudgeon

  By Mr. CurmudgeonHere we are, at the midpoint of 2012, and unemployment – thanks to stimulus spending (and borrowed Chinese money) – stands at 5.6%. No, wait a minute, it’s not! That was the rosy prediction by the smartest man on the planet back in 2009 – Barack Obama.Friday’s jobs report failed to move U.S. unemployment below its three-month 8.2% level. Of course, that Department of Labor Statistics’ figure (classified U-3) does not include Americans who have run through their unemployment benefits and still cannot find work. The more accurate U-6 figure puts real U.S joblessness at 14.8%.The smartest man…

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