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keycocker
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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The oligarchs like the Kochs want socialism?
Never heard that before, Steve.
An essential part of that is redistributing the wealth. L
Are you sure that is their agenda? |
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real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 14891 Location: on earth
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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stevenbard wrote: |
Jeff Imelt was Obama's top economic advisor at one point. GE owns Obama. GE will go along with any ideology, and today's ideology is Obama's. Buffet, Gates, Immelt, Richard Rich, are all in Obama's pocket or vise verse. Just yesterday Obama was at a $35,000 per plate dinner with Mr. Rich. (a billionaire, and that really is his name)
It is hilarious that the left here listen to Obama's populist outcry, yet ignore how much big money sits in his lap. You see, they would be all too happy with a socialist nation. The oligarchs would be unfettered by supply and demand under this system. We are dangerously close to unrest because of the unequal distribution of wealth in this nation. My opinion and most conservatives is big government is the culprit. The left believes big business is the culprit. |
Let me clue you in to a little issue, democrats have no problem with working with republicans. Look at the cabinet positions dems have put republicans into. Believe it or not there are some sharp republicans out there but they are not the partisan rabid ones.
so when right wingers say he did not reach across the isles that too is a bold face lie........ More so than any president in the history of the USA.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/feb/10/barack-obama/Three-Republicans-Cabinet-Most/
Three Cabinet appointees from opposing party is unmatched
http://www.republicansforobama.org/firstterm
Quote: | President Obama’s cabinet has included both Republicans and conservatives, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Army Secretary John McHugh, and Jon Huntsman, the former Governor of Utah, who was chosen to be the U.S.’s Ambassador to China. |
_________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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MalibuGuru
Joined: 11 Nov 1993 Posts: 9300
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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keycocker wrote: | The oligarchs like the Kochs want socialism?
Never heard that before, Steve.
An essential part of that is redistributing the wealth. L
Are you sure that is their agenda? |
I didn't mention the Koch's. They may receive some protections from the WH, but not like the big Obama donors. Not every industrialist is an oligarch. |
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real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 14891 Location: on earth
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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:03 am Post subject: |
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stevenbard wrote: | keycocker wrote: | The oligarchs like the Kochs want socialism?
Never heard that before, Steve.
An essential part of that is redistributing the wealth. L
Are you sure that is their agenda? |
I didn't mention the Koch's. They may receive some protections from the WH, but not like the big Obama donors. Not every industrialist is an oligarch. |
BTW at every branch of the government the dems have tried to limit the contributions by the rich. But the right wing at every branch of government argues to allow it. Again it was a 5 to 4 decision the right wing fanatic supreme idiots that said companies and people can spend unlimited amounts in elections.
The same with the right wing briefs all supported that too. NONE of the liberal supreme court justices voted for the right to buy elections by the oligarks. NOT one.
and again all the laws that are passed for it are all right wingers voting for them.
so do not give me well you guys, us dems have 1/10 of the rich too so we are equal. there is an obvious reason right wingers do not want limits. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. They do it as they said because the right wing has 10 times more. again this does not even count the oil or chemical commercials that do not say a candidate. They just say we make jobs by polluting you water so we are the good guys. Those commercials do not make you switch from shell gas to chevron. They are political and are not even counted in the spending and they are the largest ad buys in the world. _________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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keycocker
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, I am not up on a solid list of oligarths, just the couple most famous ones.
If the Kochs are not oligarchs, then someone will have to explain that word to me.
I thought they define oligarchy. It is often mentioned in the media.
I have never heard it mentioned until now that oligarchs are socialists. |
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real-human
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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where is the (so called liberal media) right wing owned demanding this paper editor be fired? that the reporter be fired. and so on...
a crowning jewel, i think even the right wingers will understand how this is a glaring example of right wing media ownership and control. again no different than how dictators stay in power controlling the media. this is right wing journalism and contol of it to th max.
the person whos report they were writing about basically completely contradicts what these propaganda machines put out saying basically he opposite of the truth.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/23/1338661/-The-Official-Michael-Brown-Autopsy-Report-Doesn-t-Say-What-the-St-Louis-Post-Dispatch-Says-It-Does?detail=email#
The Official Michael Brown Autopsy Report Doesn't Say What the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Says It Does
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Yesterday as our little group was preparing to stand in solidarity with Ferguson for the national October 22 Day Against Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation, the media was buzzing about the story headlined above. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch article about the controversial leaked autopsy report quotes California forensics expert Dr. Judy Melinek extensively, but it turns out that she didn't say what the story says she did. If you think the official autopsy report exonerates Darren Wilson, blame it on a couple of reporters who blithely misquoted a forensics expert to -- apparently -- support the headline they wanted to write. .
For the TL;DR crowd, here's a synopsis of the problems with the article written by Christine Byers and Blythe Bernhard for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
The Post-Dispatch says that the autopsy report supports Wilson's version of events. In fact, it supports the earlier eyewitness testimony at least as much as it does Wilson's.
The Post-Dispatch (and later, the Washington Post, which essentially reported on the the St. Louis reporting) claims that a forensic expert said the autopsy shows that Michael Brown was "going for his (Wilson's) gun." Except that's not what the expert said - at least not in anything she provided on the record. She told Lawrence O'Donnell that it was just as likely that Brown was trying to defend himself from being shot.
The Post-Dispatch quotes the expert saying that Michael Brown's was not in surrender posture when he was shot. She actually wrote that she can't say with reasonable certainty that his hands were up when he was shot in the right forearm.
The article claims the expert said the autopsy didn't support witnesses who said Michael Brown was shot while running away or with his hands up. She apparently said nothing of the sort.
The expert quoted has since told Lawrence O'Donnell that she was only asked if the autopsy report was consistent with Darren Wilson's version of events. She was not asked if it fit other scenarios, though there are eyewitness accounts that differ from Wilson's account.
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article has much more......... _________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17748 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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So let's look at who the oligarch's are that are the largest groups that contribute to SUPER PAC's. Source is opensecrets.org
1 ActBlue $121,185,007
2 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $64,403,215
3 National Assn of Realtors $61,429,521
4 National Education Assn $59,925,783
5 AT&T Inc $58,928,166 41%
6 Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers $47,787,464
7 Goldman Sachs $47,062,035
8 American Assn for Justice $44,709,540
9 Carpenters & Joiners Union $43,671,423
10 United Auto Workers $42,686,875
11 Laborers Union $40,140,389
12 Service Employees International Union $40,114,628
13 American Federation of Teachers $37,680,395 91% 0%
14 Communications Workers of America $37,333,779
15 Teamsters Union $35,893,117
16 AFL-CIO $35,781,196
17 United Food & Commercial Workers Union $35,593,971
18 United Parcel Service $33,818,562
19 Citigroup Inc $33,714,682
20 JPMorgan Chase & Co $33,258,194
21 National Auto Dealers Assn $33,138,860
22 American Bankers Assn $33,090,521
23 EMILY's List $32,687,361
24 Machinists & Aerospace Workers Union $32,613,197
25 Newsweb Corp $32,249,871
26 Blue Cross/Blue Shield $31,345,911
27 American Medical Assn $31,3
29 National Beer Wholesalers Assn $30,848,960
30 General Electric $29,849,705
31 Lockheed Martin $28,881,260
32 National Assn of Home Builders $28,846,878
33 Bank of America $28,531,927
34 Verizon Communications $27,392,403
35 National Assn of Letter Carriers $27,170,345
36 Morgan Stanley $27,130,084
37 Plumbers & Pipefitters Union $26,809,680
38 Deloitte LLP $26,498,863
39 Credit Union National Assn $25,604,205
40 Ernst & Young $24,953,294
41 Operating Engineers Union $24,558,314
42 International Assn of Fire Fighters $24,133,570
43 American Hospital Assn $24,106,366
44 Time Warner $23,743,220
45 PricewaterhouseCoopers $23,671,611
46 Sheet Metal Workers Union $23,504,328
47 American Dental Assn $22,957,078
48 Comcast Corp $22,902,327
49 Boeing Co $22,847,692
50 UBS AG $22,422,520
The individuals, who I think define oligarchy, can be found here: https://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/topindivs.php?cycle=2012
At the top of the list is Sheldon Adelson, with over $93 million in contributions, all to Republicans. Nobody else is close. If you think he is complying with the laws regulating his casinos, including those overseas, give a shout out. |
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real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 14891 Location: on earth
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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mac wrote: | So let's look at who the oligarch's are that are the largest groups that contribute to SUPER PAC's. Source is opensecrets.org
1 ActBlue $121,185,007
2 American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $64,403,215
3 National Assn of Realtors $61,429,521
4 National Education Assn $59,925,783
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al Workers Union $23,504,328
47 American Dental Assn $22,957,078
48 Comcast Corp $22,902,327
49 Boeing Co $22,847,692
50 UBS AG $22,422,520
The individuals, who I think define oligarchy, can be found here: https://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/topindivs.php?cycle=2012
At the top of the list is Sheldon Adelson, with over $93 million in contributions, all to Republicans. Nobody else is close. If you think he is complying with the laws regulating his casinos, including those overseas, give a shout out. |
mac your list is very deceiving. and does not even come lose to showing the real picture. IT does not include a penny of 501c3 (xyz whatevers) money that is estimated at nearly double all the ones you listed. they do not have to be disclosed... that is the real big oligarch money. also it does not include the chevron commercials about how they ar responsible and provide jobs for so and sos grandmother, i am dr cancer and I am going to save the world those are not considered political that put that money spent to shame also. _________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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mac
Joined: 07 Mar 1999 Posts: 17748 Location: Berkeley, California
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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BD--I welcome a posting of the actual fab 100--the richest of the rich that account for most of the Super PAC money. That's what I have been poking around trying to find. But the Republicans have repeatedly blocked all efforts to reveal what financial interests are behind campaigns. |
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real-human
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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mac wrote: | BD--I welcome a posting of the actual fab 100--the richest of the rich that account for most of the Super PAC money. That's what I have been poking around trying to find. But the Republicans have repeatedly blocked all efforts to reveal what financial interests are behind campaigns. | did you ask those richest of the USA with a please ?
how about that recent snafu by one of those organizations that allowed a group to see the names of a few... _________________ when good people stay silent the right wing are the only ones heard. |
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