While its conclusions won't surprise Grist readers, this unusually savvy new intelligence forecast reported in today's Post ought to serve as a wake-up call for the largely clueless "Establishment":
An intelligence forecast being prepared for the next president on future global risks envisions a steady decline in U.S. dominance in the coming decades, as the world is reshaped by globalization, battered by climate change, and destabilized by regional upheavals over shortages of food, water and energy.
The report, previewed in a speech by Thomas Fingar, the U.S. intelligence community's top analyst, also concludes that the one key area of continued U.S. superiority -- military power -- will "be the least significant" asset in the increasingly competitive world of the future, because "nobody is going to attack us with massive conventional force."
Duh. And yet the federal government spends more than $500 billion a year on military security, and maybe 1 percent of that on climate or energy security. Fingar is a remarkably broad thinking guy, which may well be why he is our top intelligence analyst. He has the kind of reality-based alarmism that inevitably comes from the genuine understanding of the facts of global warming:
The predicted shift toward a less U.S.-centric world will come at a time when the planet is facing a growing environmental crisis, caused largely by climate change, Fingar said. By 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa.
For poorer countries, climate change "could be the straw that breaks the camel's back," Fingar said, while the United States will face "Dust Bowl" conditions in the parched Southwest.
(Glad to see somebody serious understands what is coming.)
He said U.S. intelligence agencies accepted the consensual scientific view of global warming, including the conclusion that it is too late to avert significant disruption over the next two decades. The conclusions are in line with an intelligence assessment produced this summer that characterized global warming as a serious security threat for the coming decades.
Floods and droughts will trigger mass migrations and political upheaval in many parts of the developing world.
In short, the time to act is yesterday. Facing catastrophes of Biblical scale, I make only a small apology to Omar Khayam:
The Moving Fingar writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
And as long as Fingar has put us in the apocalyptic mood, let's go back to the source, the Book of Daniel, the ancient -- and yet all too modern -- story of an empire brought down by its own myopic profligacy, a story that also gave us the all too appropriate phrase, "The Handwriting on the Wall":
1 Belshaz'zar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
2 ¶ Belshaz'zar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnez'zar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, might drink therein.
3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his princes, his wives and his concubines, drank in them.
4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
5 ¶ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
6 Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chalde'ans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
8 Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof ...
The Queen knew that Daniel was just the guy to interpret this. He was, you might say, the top intelligence analyst of his time. So Daniel came and pointed out that the King had turned away from God and "hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know." Then Daniel turned to the words of the moving finger and famously explained:
25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHAR'SIN.
26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Of course, in our case, the handwriting on the wall comes not from a moving finger, but from the painful reality of scientific understanding and observation as transcribed and interpreted by our top scientists and the likes of the very moving Mr. Fingar.
Humanity is being weighed in the balances. Let's all hope we are not found wanting.
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Paleocon Posted 4:26 pm
12 Sep 2008
By 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa.
For poorer countries, climate change "could be the straw that breaks the camel's back," Fingar said, while the United States will face "Dust Bowl" conditions in the parched Southwest.
So will you STFU when this proves to be incorrect in 2025? Or will you simply pretend that it was never said, like you pretend the dire predictions of the past were never made?
"...a 90 percent chance that the US has contributed .2 degrees F of temperature increase in the last 50 years..." The IPCC Consensus in perspective
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Russ Posted 5:11 pm
12 Sep 2008
Humanity is being weighed in the balances. Let's all hope we are not found wanting.
Peak Oil, climate change, habitat and biodiversity destruction,the exponential debt and suburbanization pyramid schemes, globalization and the trade deficit, the new geopolitical Great Game, and along with these new thunderheads, all the age-old ideological strife....yes, it may be the time for an "apocalyptic mood"....
Isaiah 34:
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
35:
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
40:
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Ezekiel 34
1: And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it.
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
36:
1: Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Joel 3:
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompence me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
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Pangolin Posted 8:54 pm
12 Sep 2008
We've literally shattered our forests, poisoned our wells and salted the fields. We've blanketed our children in corruption and at least one of the leadership factions seems to have a bit of a problem acknowledging reality.
So other than declining, oil, gas, coal, water, grain and metals resources we're stupid to boot. If we weren't Sara Palin wouldn't even be on the radar as a possible US president. She's a dummy which means that we, collectively, are just about as stupid.
I keep pushing for solutions in the hope that somebody with some actual cash or power will pay attention. It's a thin thread.
Put the Carbon Back
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Wolverine Posted 6:39 am
13 Sep 2008
But beware: merely deposing one evil ruler does not guarantee that the next one will not be worse. China in some ways and India in all ways are worse than even the U.S. in their environmental policies or, more accurately, their lack of them. And Russia has been very environmentally destructive in many ways, though they've kept their population from exploding and preserved Siberia until the fall of the Soviet Union when the crapitalists took over. So the issue is what will replace the U.S.
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ids Posted 8:55 am
13 Sep 2008
military power -- will "be the least significant" asset in the increasingly competitive world of the future, because "nobody is going to attack us with massive conventional force."
Gristwash reminds me of Palin who doesn't know the Bush Doctrine, whose candidate for Pres advocates more Pentagon spending & considers, for instance, Venezuela an enemy. No real difference.
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Pangolin Posted 3:58 pm
13 Sep 2008
They insist that we total this car before we start building the train set that will get us around in the future. Stalin had less control over what his people thought than the corporatists do today in the US.
Put the Carbon Back
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truthurts Posted 10:48 pm
13 Sep 2008
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Bob Wallace Posted 2:19 am
14 Sep 2008
He had around 500,000 new donors in the month.
This is not a corporate funded campaign, but an individual voter funded campaign. If Obama is elected President he will be beholding to his donors who will not be big corporations.
Want your elected officials to represent your wishes?
Support them.
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ids Posted 5:00 am
14 Sep 2008
He may be a proponent of "new politics," but Barack Obama's presidential campaign runs on the same old fuel as that of any other candidate: big donations. Mr. Obama has lots of $50 and $100 givers in his hometown and elsewhere, with many enticed to contribute via the Internet.
But Chicagoans also have been particularly active in snagging the bigger bucks, with about 100 top local fundraisers, or "bundlers," collectively pulling in donations in the neighborhood of $10 million to get the senator to the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Though not all of that was raised locally, his Chicago bundlers undoubtedly account for a big chunk of the nearly $16.9 million he pulled out of Illinois overall.
And those figures are just as of June 30, with the fall campaign -- and lots more bundling -- yet to come.
The list includes a broad swath of the city's upper crust, with particular representation from the black business community and the venture-capital, hedge-fund and investment industries, which face higher taxes and tighter regulation under some proposals pending in Congress.
OBAMA'S CHICAGO BUNDLERS
More than $500,000 bundled
James and Paula Crown president, Henry Crown; principal, Henry Crown John Rogers CEO, Ariel Investments
$200,000 to $500,000
Neil Bluhm principal, Walton Street Capital Frank Clark president, Commonwealth Edison Les Coney executive vice-president, Mesirow Financial Holdings Katherine Gehl chairman, Gehl Foods, former Chicago chief technology adviser Bruce and Vicki Heyman managing director, Goldman Sachs; homemaker Steven Koch vice-chairman, Credit Suisse John Levi attorney, Sidley Austin Chuck Lewis owner, Coach House Capital Steve McKeever founder, Hidden Beach Recordings Tim and Alicia Mullen investor, ex-partner, Goldman Sachs; consultant Penny Pritzker chairman, Classic Residence by Hyatt, national finance chairman, Obama for President Jim Reynolds Jr. chairman and CEO, Loop Capital Markets Bob Rivkin and Cindy Moelis vice-president, Aon; homemaker Andrew Schapiro attorney, Mayer Brown Lou Susman vice-chairman, Citigroup Global Markets, former national finance chairman, Kerry for President Grace Tsao-Wu owner, Tabla Tua, family owns Freedman Seating James Tyree chairman and CEO, Mesirow Financial Holdings Ann Wedner homemaker, fundraiser
$100,000 to $200,000
Peter Bynoe attorney, Loop Capital Markets, former executive director, Illinois Sports Facilities Authority F. K. Day president, SRAM Rick Fizdale and Suzanne Faber retired Leo Burnett executive; spouse Alexi Giannoulias Illinois treasurer Paul and De Gray director, Richard Gray Gallery; homemaker Joseph Gutman Grosvenor Capital Management Mellody Hobson president, Ariel Investments Dan Hynes Illinois comptroller Valerie Jarrett president and CEO, Habitat Brad Lippetz principal, Brad Lippetz Real Estate Group Susan Pisor fundraiser Jonathan Pizer owner and general manager, Central Merchandising Robert Roche president, Oaklawn Marketing Desiree Rogers president, social networking, Allstate Financial Lee Rosenberg founder and president, Rosenberg Capital, board member of American Israel Public Affairs Committee Bettylu Saltzman philanthropist and Democratic activist Alan Solow attorney, Goldberg Kohn Judy Wise educator Sheldon Zenner attorney, Katten Muchin Rosenman
$50,000 to $100,000
Wendy Abrams philanthropist Michael Alter president, Alter Group Sheldon Baskin real estate investor, Metroplex Michael Bauer state lobbyist and gay activist Jatinder Bedi editor, Indian Reporter Les Bond president, Columbia Capital Marty Castro attorney, vice-president of external affairs, Aetna Robert Clifford personal injury attorney Tom Cole attorney, Sidley Austin Kevin Conway attorney, Conway & Conway Mark Cozzi president, Lincoln Park Capital Greg Dingens senior business manager, Phoenix Realty & Investment Justin Douglas Stanley Energy/Douglas Ventures Mark Erwin trader, Chicago Futures Group Mickey and Judy Gaynor retired attorney; homemaker Tom Gearen attorney Howard Gottlieb investor, Glen Eagle Partners Kenneth Griffin president and CEO, Citadel Investment Group Brandy Isaac fundraiser and project manager, First United Methodist Church David Jacobson attorney, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal Patricia Jones Blessman psychologist Marilyn Katz principal, MK Communications Alan King attorney, Drinker Biddle Jack Levin attorney, Kirkland & Ellis Larry Levy restaurateur, founder of Levy Organization Lewis Manilow investor Judd Miner attorney, Miner Barnhill & Galland, Obama's former employer Marty Nesbitt chairman and CEO, Parking Spot Quintin Primo president, Capri Capital Partners Sunil Puri developer and CEO, First Rockford Group Michael Sachs chairman, Grosvenor Capital Management John Schmidt attorney, Mayer Brown, former associate U.S. attorney general Tariq Siddiqui real estate developer Balvinder Singh owner, A-One Carpets Amy Singh attorney Leo Smith investor and partner, Neo Phonetics David Solow attorney, Neal Gerber & Eisenberg Robert Weissbourd real estate developer and principal, RW Ventures Harvey Wineberg accountant Matt Yale director of public affairs, Ariel Investments
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=30705
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Wolverine Posted 6:50 am
15 Sep 2008
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