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PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

more giveaway of billions to nearly a trillion to waste by trump Kushner. Such incompetence..

https://www.msnbc.com/ayman-peacock/watch/author-uncovers-fraud-in-trump-admin-s-covid-aid-deals-137835590001?cid=referral_taboolafeed


Author uncovers fraud in Trump admin's COVID aid deals


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ProPublica's J. David McSwane joins Ayman to discuss his new book, ‘Pandemic, Inc.’ which shows just how desperately the Trump administration had to scramble for medical supplies — and how much money they gave to opportunists looking to take advantage of the situation along the way.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2022 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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ya do these companies in this industry have the money to influence elections...

https://yubanet.com/usa/report-oil-giants-post-eye-popping-205-billion-record-profits/?fbclid=IwAR3L_Ful5qLazMHWoiVP2WmuKBAjW_uB-5_jlNls69oHkNLA5CUv6ZW1Y6k


Updated Report: Oil Giants Post Eye-Popping $237 Billion Record Profits


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March 24, 2022 at 9:33 AM WASHINGTON DC – Today, Accountable.US issued a correction noting that twenty-five top oil and gas companies saw a staggering $237 billion in record profits in 2021 and not the $205 billion the government watchdog previously reported on March 15.

“It turns out twenty-five top oil and gas companies saw an eye-popping $237 billion in record profits last year and not the $205 billion we reported early this month,” said Kyle Herrig, president of Accountable.US. “We regret the error, but more than anything we hope Big Oil regrets its decision to shower these massive earnings on their wealthy executives and shareholders rather than helping American consumers struggling to fill their gas tanks and heat their homes.”

The original $205 billion figure only included three out of the four quarters for Saudi Aramco. Their earnings report was released later than others so the new $237 billion figure reflects the total with their final quarter now included.


again with dark money we will not see where these 237 billions in last years profits go with the exponential increase for this year. As we saw one trump advisor received 1.5 billion to make sure Hillary did not win. That was pure profit for Trump ME advisor from UAE. Just one oil producing country. Hillary spent less than that to end up losing but having more votes. As we know Manafort made sure the Russians had the confidential information where to attack dems so even if dems had more votes with the rigged system russian puppet pediophile trump would win with the billions in effort Russia put in. And again we know another country just gave trump people 2.5 billion to make sure dems can not get alternative energy moving forward.

Now lets look at the non dark money which is 1/100 of just what one oil producing country gave one right winger in dark money.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-billionaires-cutting-huge-checks-for-the-2022-midterms-213356711.html

The billionaires cutting huge checks for the 2022 midterms


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The richest Americans are quickly coming off of the sidelines as the 2022 midterm elections heat up, according to newly released filings from the Federal Election Commission.

An analysis by Yahoo Finance of the data running through March 31 finds that super PACs (Political Action Committees) have received over 30 checks so far this year of at least $1 million each. And Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison each gave eight-figure donations to Republican causes.

Across the political landscape, Senate campaigns are building up their back accounts. At the same time, so-called dark money groups have added money into the system anonymously while Donald Trump has built an enormous war chest of his own. But it’s super PACs — which can receive unlimited donations — that get the eye-popping checks. Here are some of the biggest donations revealed in the latest filings.

Two Republican mega-donors: Stephen Schwarzman and Ken Griffin
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 10: CEO of the Blackstone Group Stephen Schwarzman attends the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit at Union West Events on October 10, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jim Spellman/Getty Images)
Stephen Schwarzman attends the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in 2019 in New York City. (Jim Spellman/Getty Images)
Schwarzman, the billionaire CEO of the Blackstone Group, spent $20 million in just one day.

On March 8, he split his largesse evenly between a super PAC for House Republicans linked to Rep. Kevin McCarthy and an organization for GOP Senators controlled by allies of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The McConnell-aligned group is reportedly set to use this money and other contributions to buy $141 million in TV ads this fall.

A longtime Republican donor and Trump confidante, Schwarzman is worth an estimated $34 billion and has also given hundreds of thousands of dollars to other GOP groups this election cycle.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin has also given massively this election cycle, recently telling The Wall Street Journal that he plans to spend roughly $40 million this year on elections. The hedge fund founder sent $7.5 million to the House Republican-aligned super PAC, called the Congressional Leadership Fund. He gave another $5 million toward GOP Senators through a super PAC known as the Senate Leadership Fund.

Griffin and Schwarzman also cut large checks to a super PAC associated with David McCormick. The former CEO of Bridgewater Associates is running for Senate in Pennsylvania in the most expensive race in the country. It's just one example of single candidate super PACs reshaping key races with huge sums of out-of-state money.

Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel, speaks during the Milken Institute's 22nd annual Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, speaks during the Milken Institute's conference in 2019. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
The Senate group also received $2 million from media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and $1 million each from Home Depot (HD) co-founder Ken Langone and hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer.

House Republicans were helped by $1.5 million from the investor Charles Schwab and $1.2 million from Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus among others prominent names.

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Other billionaires sent big checks, too.

Larry Ellison sent $15 million to the Opportunity Matters Fund, a super PAC associated with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). Scott’s support from Ellison, disclosed in February, has fueled speculation of a presidential bid.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - OCTOBER 22: Oracle co-founder and Chairman Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address during the Oracle OpenWorld on October 22, 2018 in San Francisco, California. The Oracle co-founder and Chairman kicked off the annual Oracle OpenWorld conference that runs through October 25th. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Oracle co-founder and Chairman Larry Ellison in 2018. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Another big Super PAC in elections this year is the Club for Growth Action, which has has received nearly $18 million this election cycle from Richard Uihlein, a great-grandson of a Schlitz beer co-founder.

Uihlein and his wife Liz have been spending money in GOP politics for years and have been called “The Most Powerful Conservative Couple You’ve Never Heard Of” by The New York Times. He has also sent over $7 million to another Republican super PAC, called Restoration PAC, in recent months.

Meanwhile, Trump’s main super PAC, "Make America Great Again, Again," has raked in millions but hasn’t reported a seven-figure individual donation so far in 2022. Trump sits atop around $110 million in cash, mostly coming from smaller donors.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wasn't he making about 50 million a year in sales. Peddling his lies.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alex-jones-infowars-files-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-lawsuits-rcna24768?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_mtp&fbclid=IwAR0-w79MtlPUoJpM5MBeSijvktCNPc8RRcHgJL4LsUokPhqnWzmoMZnq8x4


Alex Jones’ Infowars files for bankruptcy following Sandy Hook lawsuits

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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2022 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.newsweek.com/real-election-fraud-foreign-money-influencing-us-elections-through-corporations-opinion-1711783



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The Real Election Fraud Is Foreign Money Influencing U.S. Elections Through Corporations | Opinion


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In 2017, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed without evidence that between 3 million and 5 million unauthorized immigrants had voted for Hillary Clinton. Over the last month, Trump has resurrected his lie during campaign rallies for Republican primary candidates he has endorsed, whipping up fears of "open borders and horrible elections," and calling for stricter voter ID laws and proof of citizenship at the ballot box.

Trump endorsees and wannabes are amplifying this lie. J.D. Vance, the Trump-backed winner of Ohio's Republican senate primary, claimed that President Biden's immigration policy has resulted in "more Democrat voters pouring into this country."

In fact, voter fraud is exceptionally rare, and claims that widespread numbers of undocumented immigrants are voting have been repeatedly discredited.


There is a problem of foreigners influencing American elections—but it has nothing to do with immigrants or fraudulent voting. It's foreign money flowing into U.S. campaigns.

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Some of the flow is clearly illegal. Last October, Lev Parnas, a Florida businessman who helped Rudy Giuliani's effort to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine, was convicted of funneling a Russian entrepreneur's money to U.S. politicians.

But the real scandal is how much foreign money flows into U.S. elections legally.


The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission opened the gates. It allows foreigners to influence U.S. elections through their investments in politically active American corporations. The five-justice conservative majority said that when it comes to political speech, the identity of the speaker is irrelevant, and that more speech is always better.

In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens argued that the logic of the court's ruling would allow foreign spending on American elections, threatening American interests. Stevens was correct: If the identity of the speaker doesn't matter and more speech is always better, what's to stop foreign spending on U.S. elections?

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Non-Americans whose money is now finding its way into American campaigns—mostly benefiting Republican candidates—include Russian oligarchs, the Saudi royal family, European financiers, Chinese corporate conglomerates and many other people and organizations that owe their allegiance to powers other than the United States.

The growing problem centers on three realities:

First, foreign investors now own a whopping 40 percent of the shares of American corporations. That's up from just 5 percent in 1982.

Second, American corporations are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence elections, counting their separate corporate political action committees or personal donations by executives and employees. Much of this spending is through dark money channels that opened after the Citizens United decision.

Third, by law, corporate directors and managers are accountable to their shareholders, including foreign shareholders—not to America. As the then-CEO of US-based Exxon Mobil unabashedly stated, "I'm not a U.S. company and I don't make decisions based on what's good for the U.S."


The second and third points pose substantial threats to American democracy on their own. Add in the first, and you've got a sieve through which non-Americans—whose interests don't necessarily correspond to the interests of the United States—assert growing influence over American politics.

Follow the money. In recent years, Russian billionaire oligarchs have bought significant amounts of Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb. Saudi Arabia owns about 10 percent of U.S.-based Uber and has a seat on its board.



Many of America's largest corporations with substantial foreign ownership (including Comcast and Citigroup) have contributed millions of dollars to the Republican Attorney Generals Association, which in turn bankrolled the pro-Trump rally on the morning of the January 6 insurrection.

What to do about this? The Center for American Progress has a sensible proposal: it recommends that no U.S. corporation with 5 percent or more of its stock under foreign ownership or 1 percent or more controlled by a single foreign owner be allowed to spend money to sway the outcomes of U.S. elections or ballot measures.



Corporate governance experts and regulators agree that these thresholds capture the level of ownership necessary to influence corporate decision-making.

OK, but how to get this proposal enacted, when big American-based corporations with significant foreign investment have so much influence over Congress?

Democrats should make this an issue in the run-up to the 2022 midterms.


While Republicans rail against the utterly fake danger to the United States of undocumented immigrants voting in American elections, Democrats should rail against the real danger to American democracy of foreign money affecting American elections through foreign investments in American corporations.

Robert B. Reich is an American political commentator, professor and author. He served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Reich's latest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

money shift to kill the middleclass...

short term thinkers, ie right wingers...




By David Leonhardt

Good morning. We look at why economic inequality began soaring in the U.S. four decades ago.


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June 5, 2022

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If you look at historical data on the U.S. economy, you often notice that something changed in the late 1970s or early ’80s. Incomes started growing more slowly for most workers, and inequality surged.

David Gelles — a Times reporter who has been interviewing C.E.O.s for years — argues that corporate America helped cause these trends. Specifically, David points to Jack Welch, the leader of General Electric who became the model for many other executives. I spoke to David about these ideas, which are central to his new book on Welch (and to a Times story based on it).

How do you think corporate America has changed since the 1980s in ways that helped cause incomes to grow so slowly?

For decades after World War II, big American companies bent over backward to distribute their profits widely. In General Electric’s 1953 annual report, the company proudly talked about how much it was paying its workers, how its suppliers were benefiting and even how much it paid the government in taxes.

That changed with the ascendance of men like Jack Welch, who took over as chief executive of G.E. in 1981 and ran the company for the next two decades. Under Welch, G.E. unleashed a wave of mass layoffs and factory closures that other companies followed. The trend helped destabilize the American middle class. Profits began flowing not back to workers in the form of higher wages, but to big investors in the form of stock buybacks. And G.E. began doing everything it could to pay as little in taxes as possible.

You make clear that many other C.E.O.s came to see Welch as a model and emulated him. So why wasn’t there already a Jack Welch before Jack Welch, given the wealth and fame that flowed to him as a result of his tenure?

This was one of those moments when an exceptional individual at a critical moment really goes on to shape the world.

Welch was ferociously ambitious and competitive, with a ruthlessness that corporate America just hadn’t seen. In G.E., he had control of a large conglomerate with a history of setting the standards by which other companies operated. And Welch arrived at the moment that there was a reassessment of the role of business underway. The shift in thinking was captured by the economist Milton Friedman, who wrote in The Times Magazine that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.”


General Electric announced in 1998 that it was closing its plant in Fitchburg, Mass.Gail Oskin/Associated Press
Was Welch’s approach good for corporate profits and bad for workers — or ultimately bad for the company, too? You lean toward the second answer, based on G.E.’s post-Welch struggles. Some other writers point out that many companies have thrived with Welch-like strategies. I’m left wondering whether Welchism is a zero-sum gain for shareholders or bad for everyone.

Welch transformed G.E. from an industrial company with a loyal employee base into a corporation that made much of its money from its finance division and had a much more transactional relationship with its workers. That served him well during his run as C.E.O., and G.E. did become the most valuable company in the world for a time.

But in the long run, that approach doomed G.E. to failure. The company underinvested in research and development, got hooked on buying other companies to fuel its growth, and its finance division was badly exposed when the financial crisis hit. Things began to unravel almost as soon as Welch retired, and G.E. announced last year it would break itself up.

Similar stories played out at dozens of other companies where Welch disciples tried to replicate his playbook, such as Home Depot and Albertsons. So while Welchism can increase profits in the short-term, the long-term consequences are almost always disastrous for workers, investors and the company itself.

Welch was responding to real problems at G.E. and the American economy in the 1970s and early ’80s. If his cure created even bigger problems, what might be a better alternative?

An important first step is rebalancing the distribution of the wealth that our biggest companies create. For the past 40-plus years we’ve been living in this era of shareholder primacy that Friedman and Welch unleashed. Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage remained low and is still just $7.25, and the gap between worker pay and productivity kept growing wider.

There are some tentative signs of change. The labor crisis and pressure from activists has led many companies to increase pay for frontline workers. Some companies, such as PayPal, are handing out stock to everyday employees.

But it’s going to take more than a few magnanimous C.E.O.s to fix these problems. And though I know it’s risky to place our faith in the government these days, there is a role for policy here: finding ways to get companies to pay a living wage, invest in their people and stop this race to the bottom with corporate taxes.

American companies can be competitive and profitable while also taking great care of their workers. They’ve been that way before, and I believe they can be that way again.

More about David Gelles: He was born in New York and got his first full-time job in journalism working for the Financial Times, where he interviewed Bernie Madoff in prison. His book about Welch is called “The Man Who Broke Capitalism.” He recently spoke about the media’s role in celebrating Welchism.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

as noted he did later pay porn stars including Stomy daniels for 2 minutes of work also...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2bhE4En_fI


Bear Market! & Kimberly Guilfoyle Scores $60K from Two-Minute Capitol Speech | The Daily Show


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Wall Street enters a bear market, Kimberly Guilfoyle earned $60K for a two-minute speech at the Capitol on January 6th, and the U.S. faces a tampon shortage.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

trump is paying for the witness's legal bills...

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-prime/watch/cassidy-hutchinson-testimony-followed-switch-from-lawyer-being-paid-by-trump-records-143225925970?cid=eml_mra_20220701&user_email=e73377d3e40790eecbf6a99203e1476ea2a23c644c2045abd739b8f9e629a73b


Cassidy Hutchinson testimony followed switch from lawyer being paid by Trump: records


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SPECIAL REPORT: Ali Velshi shows public records that indicate Donald Trump's Save America PAC making regular payments to Elections LLC, the law firm of Stefan Passantino, who represented Cassidy Hutchinson until she changed lawyers about a month before testifying at a January 6th hearing, leading some to wonder about a possible connection between the switch and her willingness to testify.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

spot on...

https://www.rawstory.com/big-business-democrats/?rsplus

Has the big business plot to overthrow the Democrats been revealed?
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bernie-sanders-is-mad-as-hell-at-joe-manchin-s-corruption-and-he-s-not-gonna-take-it-anymore/ar-AAZFFXi?ocid=winp2sv1plus&cvid=1ce80d2761d74760a62fbba2a71a852b


Bernie Sanders Is Mad as Hell at Joe Manchin’s Corruption, And He’s Not Gonna Take It Anymore

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Sanders added, “The problem was that we continued to talk to Manchin like he was serious; he was not. This is a guy who’s a major recipient of fossil fuel money, a guy who has received campaign contributions from 25 Republican billionaires.”

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/republican-governors-gave-lucrative-no-bid-covid-19-deals-to-utah-firms-who-then-gave-1m-to-gop-campaigns/ar-AA1023h3?ocid=winp2sv1plus&cvid=5f72105d08d341de8d0613ec099689e6


Republican governors gave lucrative, no-bid COVID-19 deals to Utah firms, who then gave $1M to GOP campaigns


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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second installment of a series investigating Nomi Health and its deals with GOP governors to secure lucrative COVID-19 testing contracts. Read the first story here.

Under intense pressure to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, state leaders across the country needed solutions and quick results in early 2020 to slow the spread of the coronavirus and repair battered economies.

And long-standing connections seemed to pave the way to those goals in a handful of Republican-led states.

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Thanks, at least in part, to its ties with high-ranking Utah politicians, four companies within the tech business community in greater Salt Lake City got their first no-bid contract on March 31, 2020.

That deal was just the start. Those companies would within a year leverage their connections to sign deals that would pay them at least $219 million in five GOP-led states. Two of the companies would donate more than $1 million to Republican campaigns after getting those deals.

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