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This Is How Little It Cost Goldman To Bribe America's Senators To Fast Track Obama's TPP Bill

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It took just a few days after the stunning defeat of Obama's attempt to fast-track the Trans Pacific Partnership bill in the Senate at the hands of his own Democratic party, before everything returned back to normal and the TPP fast-track was promptly passed. Why? The simple answer: money. Or rather, even more money.

Because while the actual contents of the TPP may be highly confidential, and their public dissemination may lead to prison time for the "perpetrator" of such illegal transparency, we now know just how much it cost corporations to bribe the Senate to do the bidding of the "people." In the Supreme Court sense, of course, in which corporations are "people."

According to an analysis by the Guardian, fast-tracking the TPP, meaning its passage through Congress without having its contents available for debate or amendments, was only possible after lots of corporate money exchanged hands with senators. The US Senate passed Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) – the fast-tracking bill – by a 65-33 margin on 14 May. Last Thursday, the Senate voted 62-38 to bring the debate on TPA to a close.

Those impressive majorities follow months of behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing by the world’s most well-heeled multinational corporations with just a handful of holdouts.

Using data from the Federal Election Commission, the chart below (based on data from the following spreadsheet) shows all donations that corporate members of the US Business Coalition for TPP made to US Senate campaigns between January and March 2015, when fast-tracking the TPP was being debated in the Senate.

The result: it took a paltry $1.15 million in bribes to get everyone in the Senate on the same page. And the biggest shocker: with a total of $195,550 in "donations", or more than double the second largest donor UPS, was none other than Goldman Sachs.

The summary findings:

  • Out of the total $1,148,971 given, an average of $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 “yea” votes.
  • The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.
  • The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.

The amounts given rise dramatically when looking at how much each senator running for re-election received.

Two days before the fast-track vote, Obama was a few votes shy of having the filibuster-proof majority he needed. Ron Wyden and seven other Senate Democrats announced they were on the fence on 12 May, distinguishing themselves from the Senate’s 54 Republicans and handful of Democrats as the votes to sway.

  • In just 24 hours, Wyden and five of those Democratic holdouts – Michael Bennet of Colorado, Dianne Feinstein of California, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Patty Murray of Washington, and Bill Nelson of Florida – caved and voted for fast-track.
  • Bennet, Murray, and Wyden – all running for re-election in 2016 – received $105,900 between the three of them. Bennet, who comes from the more purple state of Colorado, got $53,700 in corporate campaign donations between January and March 2015, according to Channing’s research.
  • Almost 100% of the Republicans in the US Senate voted for fast-track – the only two non-votes on TPA were a Republican from Louisiana and a Republican from Alaska.
  • Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who is the former US trade representative, has been one of the loudest proponents of the TPP. (In a comment to the Guardian Portman’s office said: “Senator Portman is not a vocal proponent of TPP - he has said it’s still being negotiated and if and when an agreement is reached he will review it carefully.”) He received $119,700 from 14 different corporations between January and March, most of which comes from donations from Goldman Sachs ($70,600), Pfizer ($15,700), and Procter & Gamble ($12,900). Portman is expected to run against former Ohio governor Ted Strickland in 2016 in one of the most politically competitive states in the country.
  • Seven Republicans who voted “yea” to fast-track and are also running for re-election next year cleaned up between January and March. Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia received $102,500 in corporate contributions. Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, best known for proposing a Monsanto-written bill in 2013 that became known as the Monsanto Protection Act, received $77,900 – $13,500 of which came from Monsanto.
  • Arizona senator and former presidential candidate John McCain received $51,700 in the first quarter of 2015. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina received $60,000 in corporate donations. Eighty-one-year-old senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who is running for his seventh Senate term, received $35,000. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, who will be running for his first full six-year term in 2016, received $67,500 from pro-TPP corporations.

“It’s a rare thing for members of Congress to go against the money these days,” said Mansur Gidfar, spokesman for the anti-corruption group Represent.Us. “They know exactly which special interests they need to keep happy if they want to fund their reelection campaigns or secure a future job as a lobbyist.

How can we expect politicians who routinely receive campaign money, lucrative job offers, and lavish gifts from special interests to make impartial decisions that directly affect those same special interests?” Gidfar said. “As long as this kind of transparently corrupt behavior remains legal, we won’t have a government that truly represents the people.”

In other news, following last week's DOJ crackdown on now openly criminal FX market manipulation and rigging by the big banks, in which precisely zero bankers have been arrested, we are happy to announce that "transparently corrupt behavior" in the Senate, and everywhere else, will remain not only legal, but very well funded.

But what is truly scariest, is just how little it costs corporations to bribe America's "elected" politicians, and make them serve the best interests of a few billionaire shareholders over the grave of what once used to be America's middle class.

 

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Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:27 | 6148211 cherry picker
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Where is the Department of Justice?

In Switzerland hosing FIFA because they didn't like their decision on who is hosting games.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:31 | 6148217 Newsboy
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More "public service" from Government Sachs.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:47 | 6148261 e_goldstein
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Doin' god's work the squiddy is.

Too bad that god is Cthulhu.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:51 | 6148266 El Oregonian
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Are those inflation adjusted bribery numbers?

Just a thought.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:26 | 6148385 balolalo
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THE BIGGER QUESTIONS ARE:

1) what behind the scenes kickbacks were offered?

2) what sinister ulterior motives are at play?

come on TYLERS, THESE GUYS PLAN AHEAD

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:41 | 6148410 boogerbently
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What's sad is, most congressmen can be "bought" for $10K or less.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:44 | 6148416 Anusocracy
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Not surprising.

They are worthless.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:48 | 6148426 Troll Magnet
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This isn't kosher...Or is it?

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:52 | 6148440 Ignatius
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Ever notice how the Blankfeins and Buffets of this world never fall out of tall buildings?

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:59 | 6148457 Oh regional Indian
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Ever notice how their planes continue to give perfect service? PERFECT. 

It's almost like if no one WANTED anyo0ne to die, no one would (of un-natural causes that is).

Also, these are not THE bribes. This is sheeple-load (to swallow).

Seriously? A paltry 2-3 mil? No way, THIS is where the Jeffery Epstiens of the world come in. This is where the Franklin scandal comes in....

Got to think bigger, different...

Bigger, different guitar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk1TSBW_368

 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 00:27 | 6148501 usednabused
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I could believe that paltry 2-3 million. After all they are  some cheap cocksuckers...

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 00:44 | 6148521 Oh regional Indian
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Oh yes they are, but the true "prices" paid for permissions to loot/destroy entire nations, INCLUDING YOUR OWN are way bigger.

This 2-3 mill is the bull-shit tip of the proverbial ice-berg is my point.

 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 03:01 | 6148674 philipat
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Perhaps the cost of buying Senators is going down commensurate with the decline in real wages for the 99%? More likely, though, it's a supply and demand economics 1.01 issue as 99% of Senators are now for sale??

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:18 | 6148789 VinceFostersGhost
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Turn that trick bitch.

 

Do you have my money or what?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:28 | 6148801 Son of Loki
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" Daddy, can I be a Senator when I grow up? "

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:42 | 6148816 VinceFostersGhost
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I will not have my daughter become a common whore.

 

So, the answer is no.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 10:30 | 6149046 Theosebes Goodfellow
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This is exactly why we will never see a FARA type act on lobbyists from Congress. These SOBs can regulate themselves, what make us believe they can regulate anything? These whores are bought-and-paid for. Woe is my nation.

Mon, 06/01/2015 - 02:43 | 6151091 Gobbler
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We have viable choices.  There's Bernie Sanders the porno king.  Rand Paul the isolationist.  And Elizabeth Warren the American Indian.  So what are you complaining about?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 09:13 | 6148910 Bangin7GramRocks
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"I'll suck your dick for that rock!"

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 15:37 | 6149767 boogerbently
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Yep,

2-3 million$$$.....how many times a day ?

Mon, 06/01/2015 - 02:57 | 6151114 Gobbler
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I have wonderful news.  There be a leprechaun up in the tree.  Peace.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 09:21 | 6148917 chunga
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ORI you're quite a musician. Give this a try, simple chords but you must bring attitude (funk) with the right hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCFhW_M6Vo

Concering TPP...this filthy whoring could be called a perverted form of collective bargaining. These big corporations seem to have formed a union agaisnt the sheep. They usually hate that.

Tell me Walmart...do you fucking assholes have an internal video about this? Before TPP is over, plebs are going to be issued a temporary federal license to possess cash.

 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 11:38 | 6149215 Oh regional Indian
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Thanks Chunga and thanks too for the link. Man in the vid is a smooth player and I saw his right hand funk.

Do you play?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 12:20 | 6149324 chunga
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Not professionally, although I have had people offer to pay me to *stop* playing. I have fun and make a lot of noise. Actually I do have a constantly evolving rendition of "Dixie" I play on a strat that I'm proud of. I'll be blasting it into a audience of cows later today.

This fairly new band  "Houndmouth" has me intrigued lately. They're playing in a few weeks not far from me, we might just go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9q7EjHxYsE

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 13:38 | 6149495 Oh regional Indian
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Haaah...nice visual and I'm sure you're being modest.

Nice sound, Houndmouth has, listening to a longer concert on YT right now.

 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 13:51 | 6149525 chunga
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I've been spamming houndmouth links for too long lol.

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

Some tunes they all change instruments...like The Band.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:54 | 6148446 junction
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It is more than just money, there are also those pedophile complaints that get buried as long as the politician toes the line.  No Congress member wants to end up like Dennis Hastert or Larry Craig.  

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:28 | 6148867 Took Red Pill
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True! Plus it's probably just the first installment of many to come.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 10:55 | 6149035 saveUSsavers
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Goldman knows where all those fucker's OFFSHORE $$$ is ! THEY SET UP THE ACCOUNTS ! The Dynesty Trust !

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 14:57 | 6149655 pauhana
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How cum no one is asking how a buggering high school wrestling coach made enough money in Congress to be able to pay $3.5M in extortion to his boy toy?  And he would have paid more if he hadn't been caught.  Deep pockets these slimy pols have.  No wonder everyone wants to be president.  Must pay even better!

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 02:26 | 6148644 Gent
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$10K and they won't even do ass-to-mouth..WTF?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 12:34 | 6149355 Icelandicsaga.....
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FROM  .. Selling out pays. If you’re a corporation or lobbyist, what’s the best way to “buy” a member of Congress? Secretly promise them a million dollars or more in pay if they come to work for you after they leave office. Once a public official makes a deal to go to work for a lobbying firm or corporation after leaving office, he or she becomes loyal to the future employer. And since those deals are done in secret, legislators are largely free to pass laws, special tax cuts, or earmarks that benefit their future employer with little or no accountability to the public. While campaign contributions and super PACS are a big problem, the every day bribery of the revolving door may be the most pernicious form of corruption today. (See our post on Monday about current members of Congress already negotiating for jobs on K Street) -   In the expose . In This Town ..

In 1974, just 3% of retiring members of Congress became lobbyists. Today, 50% of retiring Senators and 42% of retiring House members stay in DC and become lobbyists. The more than 1,500% increase goes a long way towards explaining how an entrenched, permanent political class has risen in DC. Selling out pays. If you’re a corporation or lobbyist, what’s the best way to “buy” a member of Congress? Secretly promise them a million dollars or more in pay if they come to work for you after they leave office. Once a public official makes a deal to go to work for a lobbying firm or corporation after leaving office, he or she becomes loyal to the future employer. And since those deals are done in secret, legislators are largely free to pass laws, special tax cuts, or earmarks that benefit their future employer with little or no accountability to the public. While campaign contributions and super PACS are a big problem, the every day bribery of the revolving door may be the most pernicious form of corruption today. (See our post on Monday about current members of Congress already negotiating for jobs on K Street) - See more at: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/make-it-rain-revolving-door/#sthash.B... Selling out pays. If you’re a corporation or lobbyist, what’s the best way to “buy” a member of Congress? Secretly promise them a million dollars or more in pay if they come to work for you after they leave office. Once a public official makes a deal to go to work for a lobbying firm or corporation after leaving office, he or she becomes loyal to the future employer. And since those deals are done in secret, legislators are largely free to pass laws, special tax cuts, or earmarks that benefit their future employer with little or no accountability to the public. While campaign contributions and super PACS are a big problem, the every day bribery of the revolving door may be the most pernicious form of corruption today. (See our post on Monday about current members of Congress already negotiating for jobs on K Street) - See more at: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/make-it-rain-revolving-door/#sthash.B...
Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:25 | 6148799 deimos178
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seasonally adjusted, after all, it's drinking season.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:49 | 6148265 COSMOS
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When corporations became the people, people like me and you became flies.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:39 | 6148406 jeff montanye
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As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods. They kill us for their sport. 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:30 | 6148870 DavidC
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I'm still waiting for Goldman Sachs to open my deposit account.

DavidC

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:36 | 6148229 A Dollar Short
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You mean "NO Justice!"

 

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:23 | 6148377 yogibear
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You mean "Just US", the elite.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:34 | 6148807 Handful of Dust
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Moar job creation ... in Asia.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 09:32 | 6148933 847328_3527
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Yes. "Trade deals," usually mean more jobs will be shipped overseas for cheap/slave labor as well as opening our borders even wider for more cheap labor to flood in.

 

The "Bottom Line" is what matters ... not American jobs or standard of living.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 12:19 | 6149319 messymerry
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I'm from the corporation and I'm here to help.

;-D

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 00:52 | 6148532 felipagil
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Yo, I got these cheeseburgers man....... yo, I suck yo d*** man...

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 01:50 | 6148596 stant
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If you like. Being monetized In the last 25 yrs you will love being conditized

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 04:12 | 6148706 3Wishes
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Your forgetting the Peado photos and the drug abuse.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 09:15 | 6148913 NOTW777
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theres a difference between TPP and TPA

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 13:49 | 6149519 Coletrane
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over there it's called bribery....here, we call it lobbying

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 15:19 | 6149710 doctor10
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If a bill hasn't been available to a representatives constituents for comment and feedback, their constituents have been denied representation -and hence any vote cast by their representative should be null and void.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:27 | 6148212 TeamDepends
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Boycott every fucking one of these companies.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:50 | 6148248 buzzardsluck
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You can't boycott every business in this fucking country, it's just not going to happen.  EVERYTHING of consequence is setup to fuck everyone 100% of the time.  If you doubt me, look at the conglomerates that own some of the companies.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:05 | 6148318 buzzardsluck
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HAHAHAHA BTW to these companies only 'giving' this amount of dollars.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:07 | 6148329 yellowsub
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Boycott your guv'ment.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:01 | 6148791 VinceFostersGhost
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Pretty sure those cats don't work for me.

 

Do I win something?

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:15 | 6148355 JuliaS
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The only way to stay in business in this country is to be corrupt. Either you boycott everyone who runs business, or support those who are already bankrupt.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:32 | 6148874 Took Red Pill
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Agreed. And even if you try to boycott these corporations, there are other ways you support them. How many of us have mutual funds that invest in these companies?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 04:29 | 6148714 dynomutt
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Oh, ok. Well, one can totally do that if one lives off the grid, growing one's own food with local resources.

 

Did you LOOK at that list?  Every oligopolic industry player of any consequence is in that list.  This is what happens with the coalescence of private industry into oligopoly.  Most of those companies have more annual revenue than the GDP of many COUNTRIES.  Take your complaint to the Bilderberg group, because representatives of those companies will definitely be there.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 14:09 | 6149561 El Vaquero
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Pay your property taxes pleb, or have the land that you are renting taken from you.  There is no such thing as off the grid. 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 23:07 | 6150808 Boxed Merlot
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Exactly, the "purchase price" of real estate only establishes what your perpetual rental expense starts at.  These fees are always paid in terms of "dollars" which require a continuous and permanent umbilical cord to the host.

I could be wrong, but the only way out that I’ve ever heard about is to do a William Randolph Hearst and bequeath it to the state upon your death.  San Simeon belongs to the state of CA, but he did get the caveat of having his heirs allowed to use the property for free from now on, though they have to “share” it with paying customers.  (CA, by the way, still can’t keep up with the expense of maintaining it.)

  

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:32 | 6148214 Dumgoy
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I'm just gonna vote for the other side next time, that'll fix it!

 How long before we can vote for Golden Jew-Sacks directly instead of bought-off intermediaries?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 03:34 | 6148694 WOAR
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There's an idea. Let's just write in Bernanke, and let the money fly from the bully pulpit

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:29 | 6148741 HowdyDoody
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Politicians should be required to wear the badges of their sponsors, just like Formula 1 drivers. The bigger the sponsorship, the bigger the badge.

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9239663.ece/alternates/w620...

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 14:10 | 6149565 El Vaquero
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If we did that, all of a sudden, who votes for what and who introduces what would make a lot more sense.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:34 | 6148218 NoDebt
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It's like tipping.  It's just expected.

Pete Rose has to be pissed off that he was just a bit early on the full opening of the corruption window.  If his gambling had come to light now it wouldn't even be a speed bump to him getting into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:47 | 6148260 NoPension
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Pete should have just punched his wife's lights out, and dragged her down the hall by her collar, on camera.
Then his wife would come out and say " it wasn't bad, please give him his multi million dollar job for playing a game back, please".

Yeah Pete, you scumbag.

/s

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:32 | 6148220 RaceToTheBottom
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Buying stock in Nailgun manufacturers...

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:47 | 6148750 neidermeyer
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You always want to buy the best company in a group ,, for Nail Guns that would be Paslode which is a subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works Inc. ,, ITW ... and YES it is a listed company.. http://investor.itw.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71064&p=irol-IRHome

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:50 | 6148822 Wahooo
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I never to this, but why not. Here's a cordless brad nailer that is awesome, you would not believe its power - you'll think you are using a compressor gun. Installed an entire house of trim with this baby, not one misfire.  https://www.ryobitools.com/power-tools/products/details/552

 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:10 | 6148845 Jendrzejczyk
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Nice to know thier tools are getting a bit better. There is a big difference between a tool that can do a whole house, and one that can do 3 houses a week for 5 years.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 14:15 | 6149572 El Vaquero
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Yup.  But most people only need a tool that can do an entire house.  For most people's use, an Ingersol Chan special from Horrible Freight will probably do the trick.  If you are a roofer by trade, probably not so much. 

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:34 | 6148222 DeusHedge
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the key is that they know what the interest groups want them to do, not what decisions to consider for the good of the free market.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:35 | 6148226 i_call_you_my_base
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Vote republican. Because it matters.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:15 | 6148794 VinceFostersGhost
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What's the difference between a progressive republican and a progressive democrat?

 

 

Not a damn thing.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 14:24 | 6149588 Optimusprime
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Why?  Both parties are ruled by AIPAC.

 

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:26 | 6148243 nmewn
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It will cost them much more in the House.

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Apparently (to my first three down voters) simple division of a million dollars among House members trolling Goldman Sachs pockets (they number moar in the House) and the fact there was no co-sponsor on the donkey side of the House when it was voted on in 2014 has escaped the ignorant & lazy that artist Fairey was talking about...lol.

/////

Sooo...with that being said and put to bed...shouldn't some enterprising up and coming "journalist" slash reporter "for the people" (lol) be sticking a microphone in Hillary's! face (and Jeb's!) and asking for their opinion on something no one is allowed to copy, read, consume or contemplate fully before voting on?

Just a thought ;-)

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 00:51 | 6148531 suteibu
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You would think, wouldn't you?  But such journalists do not exist in a state of relevance, aka, the mainstream media.  No one outside that realm is allowed to ask any questions. 

You'll just have to vote one of them in to find out what they think about it.  That's the way government works these days...apparently.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 02:11 | 6148629 Farqued Up
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I watched the reporters quiz Blatter and raked him really well. They have never done that to any of TPTB. This indicates to me that the FIFA deal is a charade to cover some really dastardly set of circumstances that TPTB do not want exposed. This crap media will never expose crap, which is the biggest reason so many conspiracy theories exist. Investigative reporting is dead.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:44 | 6148251 cherry picker
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It's amazing how we can't perform a cash transaction without the thief they call government making demands, yet the so called representatives of Lucifer in DC can have everything they want.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:50 | 6148259 Goldilocks
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In Living Color (1990 TV Show) - Mo' Money with Whiz and Ice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1XCf9gEu7E (3:36)

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:53 | 6148270 S Spade
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regarding the authors dislike of corporations (an entity comprised of PEOPLE), they still can't buy votes, to the extent our elections are not tainted by fraud we're still able to elect or throw out elected officials.  maybe the author is frustrated that so many ignorant people demostrate their ignorance in the voting booth.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:55 | 6148277 q99x2
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I'm from Q99X2. What planet are you from?

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:03 | 6148303 S Spade
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they wouldn't be debating the pass it before they find out what's in it (backdoor immigration) bill were it not for crooked people elected to public office...by the PEOPLE (not corporations)

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:09 | 6148337 suteibu
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Let me guess....you're an intern for one of our esteemed Senators (party matters not).  Or on the campaign staff of someone who lost.  Either way, you'll find few friends here.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 01:32 | 6148581 r00t61
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"I'll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one."

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 02:18 | 6148635 Farqued Up
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I gave you your only up vote at the moment for your realization of PEOPLE being the problem. Never forget, though that it is the corporate controlled Govt that is deliberately dumbing them down. Bread and circuses.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:54 | 6148819 MilwaukeeMark
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@S Spade ...  no offense ... you are seriously behind the learning curve with respect to the amalgamated nature of this country's corruption. I hasten to say perhaps too far behind to have any chance of catching up to the pack here. 

Not your fault, soon too, as the rest of us did, you will see how badly you have been lied to by the PTB and identify the "Rouges Gallery" with its rich (double entendre intended) cast of characters involved. Until then I suggest you read more, comment less, perhaps jumping back into our "comment pond" when you start to catch on

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 13:17 | 6149416 S Spade
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milwaukeemark, seems your faith in unlimited goverment dumbocrats and the sheeple has had a decided effect on your ability to think for yourself.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 15:41 | 6149780 MilwaukeeMark
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S spade. I'm not the one with a zillion down votes

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 14:18 | 6149574 El Vaquero
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Throw your congress critter out.  The next one will be either impotent, or just as bought off.  Any marching and burning on DC should start with K Street, not capitol hill. 

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:54 | 6148275 q99x2
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A raging call for military action.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 22:54 | 6148276 homiegot
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Our senators are easy whores.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:29 | 6148351 nmewn
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Yeah, that seventeenth amendment is workin out swell for the people ain't it?...lol.

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No appreciation for history or sarcasm, this truly has become a target rich enviroment ;-)

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:59 | 6148456 Kirk2NCC1701
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Especially those from NY, IL, FL, SC, AZ, TX, and... KYJelly-Rand_Paul.

Treasonous bass turds. 

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:00 | 6148296 Seasmoke
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Well then that proves it. God must really want the TPP.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:30 | 6148381 Jorgen
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"Well then that proves it. God must really want the TPP."

Huge multinational corporations have designed and love TPP and TTIP. According to Christianity dogma, God is kind of a 'Corporation' under the name of Trinity, so by extension s/he/it might want the TPP /s

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:00 | 6148297 Goldilocks
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In Living Color-Hollywood Homeboy Shopping Network
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4cO9GkWPTo (3:22)

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:08 | 6148319 Jorgen
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When TPP and TTIP are implemented who will be more free, the West or the Russian Federation? Just thinking loud...

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 00:07 | 6148464 Kirk2NCC1701
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Don't be a simpleton who spews or falls for Red Herring arguments.

It's ALL about Manifest Destiny 2.0 (Ziocon NWO) and ensuring the survival of the USD as the GRC.

I'm utterly amazed at how easily even ZHers fall for the Magician's Trick. 

"Zi'Borgs need to be Deep Space'd"

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 00:47 | 6148526 suteibu
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So if the Klingon were the old Soviets and the Borg were the Chinese communists and the US was the United Federation, where do we stand now?  Seems the US has taken on too many characteristics of the Borg;  "Resistance is futile.  You will be assimilated."  Or are you saying the zionists are and always have been the Borg?

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:09 | 6148338 Hubbs
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My God, we are all doomed.

 

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:12 | 6148349 phoenixdark
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Mission Accomplished.  LMAO. 

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:14 | 6148357 nmewn
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Nice job Brownie! ;-)

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:13 | 6148352 BoPeople
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Which constitutional amendment made fast-track legal?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 03:40 | 6148695 WOAR
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The one approved in a FISA court.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:25 | 6148384 NoWayJose
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And FIFA is a scandal? Bribes and those who get the bribes being re-elected.... Rampant....

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:28 | 6148391 yogibear
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The senators are just whores for people like Warren B and Lloyd B. 

With contributions they'll vote on anyhing Warren B and Lloyd B want.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:28 | 6148392 Mini-Me
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What a pathetic showing by our "representatives."  They don't even hide their contempt for us anymore.  

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:42 | 6148413 nmewn
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(Sigh)

The Senate (at the Federal level) was Constitutionally supposed to represent the individual states (Florida, California etc) interests, not the Peoples.

That way, if a "trade agreement" was not in that states interest it could be opposed by that state governments senator. A totally different concept than now.

We all get what we deserve and we deserve it good and hard, Deeemocracie!...lol.

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:43 | 6148415 holdbuysell
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The blatant bribery denotes the morals of the parties involved: zero point zero.

The fact that anyone bothers to vote in that country is laughable.

 

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:45 | 6148421 jmaloy5365
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Take up arms or take it in the ass.....

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:51 | 6148435 Laddie
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It bears repeating, ZH is the BEST website on the web, PERIOD.
This is superb and it just reminds one of how WE have lost control of our nation. Actually we had lost it long ago but nobody realized it.

We have NO SAY in what .gov is doing to us: SLOW MOTION GENOCIDE. And that may speed up once they have TOTAL control. For example the TPP and this sort of action:
Spouses of Guest Workers Now Eligible for Work Permits Under Obama Actions
May 26, 2015
An estimated 250,000 immigrants would benefit within the next two years.

In February, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director León Rodríguez announced that, come May, the Obama administration would be extending employment authorization eligibility to a category of immigrant previously ineligible to work in the U.S.–dependent spouses of H-1B immigrants.

DHS began accepting applications under the new H-4 employment rule–which was part of the executive actions on immigration President Obama put in motion on November 20–Tuesday.

As I said this is an EXCELLENT article however to say one ENJOYED it may not be the best choice of words...

The modern democracies of the West, with their philosophies of the stomach and the stock exchange, cannot inspire the people nor protect them. They despise nationhood and despise race. But without our national and racial backbones how shall we stand erect? With quicksands as our foundation how shall we build? How shall we be true to ourselves if we have no selves? Our race is what we are; it is our form. It is our fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and wives and children. They are the race. How then shall we count it of little worth? Shall we despise our own flesh and blood? Is that what modern democracy is supposed to mean? Is that what Christianity is supposed to mean?
White man, think again! by Anthony Jacob, Johannesburg 1965

Sat, 05/30/2015 - 23:58 | 6148453 Laddie
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Secret Deal Could Contain a Myriad of Gun Restrictions, Ammo Bans! 07 May 2015

Gun import bans ... Microstamping of firearms ... Ammunition bans ... The full implementation of the anti-gun UN Arms Trade Treaty ... Illegal amnesty which locks in millions of new, anti-gun voters.

This anti-gun wish list could be part of the secret trade agreement that President Obama is getting ready to spring on the Congress.

This trade pact is called “fast track,” and what it means is that Obama can write any form of gun control he chooses into a trade agreement -- import bans, amnesty, etc.

And this agreement DOESN’T need two-thirds vote in the Senate, as a treaty would. When completed, the agreement is merely subject to a majority vote in both Houses ... it can't be filibustered ... it can't be amended ... and the GOP can't refuse to consider it.
Top Secret TPP means you won’t know what’s in the bill

DICK MORRIS: Obama Sneaking in 'Unrestricted Immigration' in Trade Deal

Dick Morris said the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPA) fast track being supported by many Republicans has a provision that allows for the “free flow of workers” between countries, essentially creating a backdoor to “unrestricted immigration.”
“This is huge. I hope everybody listening takes action call your senator about it. If he is a Republican he is voting wrong. “I dont think that people understand that in this deal which is a trade agreement among Australia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, and Chile, there’s a provision for free flow of workers, just like in the European Union. What It means is unrestricted immigration. It means literally that congress would not have the authority to restrict immigration because a treaty supersedes a statute under our constitution.”

Obama’s Republican Collaborators
By Patrick J. Buchanan April 21, 2015

When we look back to NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, MFN and PNTR for China, the Korean-U.S. free trade deal, CAFTA with Central America — almost all have led to soaring trade deficits and jobs lost to the nations with whom we signed the agreements.

As for the bureaucrats and politicians who promised us big new markets for exports, rising trade surpluses, better jobs — were they simply ignorant, or were they knowingly lying to us?

No one can be that wrong for that long. The law of averages is against it.

SESSIONS: Trade deal opens immigration floodgates

'Living Agreement' can be changed after Congress approves

McConnell vows to move Obama 'fast-track' authority 'very soon'; 'I want to compliment the President'

Trump: 'A Bad, Bad Deal'

Sessions demands deal be made public

Senator Jeff Sessions Sends Letter to Obama on Trade Pact: Make ‘Living Agreement’ Provision Public before ‘Fast-Track’ Vote, May 6, 2015

The first international trade and regulatory agreement that would be expedited under “fast-track” is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. This is one of the largest international compacts in the history of the United States. Yet, this agreement will be kept a closely-guarded secret until after Congress agrees to yield its institutional powers and provide the Administration with a guaranteed “fast-track” to adoption.

The U.S. ran a record $51.4 billion trade deficit in March, the highest-level recorded in six years. This is especially concerning since assurances were made from the Administration that the recent South Korea free trade deal would “increase exports of American goods by $10 billion to $11 billion.” But, in fact, American domestic exports to Korea increased by only $0.8 billion, an increase of 1.8 percent, while imports from Korea increased $12.6 billion, an increase of 22.5 percent. Our trade deficit with Korea increased $11.8 billion between 2011 and 2014, an increase of 80.4 percent, nearly doubling in the three years since the deal was ratified.

Overall, we have already lost more than 2.1 million manufacturing jobs to the Asian Pacific region since 2001.

Former Nucor Steel Chairman Daniel DiMicco argues that we have not been engaged in free trade but in “unilateral trade disarmament and enablement of foreign mercantilism.”

Due to the enormity of what is at stake, I believe it is essential Congress have answers to the following questions before any vote is scheduled on “fast-track” authority.

1. Regarding the “Living Agreement”: There is a “living agreement” provision in TPP that allows the agreement to be changed after adoption—in effect, vesting TPP countries with a sweeping new form of global governance authority. TPP calls this new global authority the “Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission.” These measures are unprecedented. While I and other lawmakers have been able to view this provision in secret, I believe it must be made public before any vote is scheduled on TPA, due to the extraordinary implications. I call on you today to make that section of TPP public for the American people to see and review.

2. Regarding trade deficits: Will TPP increase or reduce our cumulative trade deficit with TPP countries overall, and with Japan and Vietnam specifically?

3. Regarding jobs and wages: Will TPP increase or reduce the total number of manufacturing jobs in the United States generally, and American auto-manufacturing jobs specifically, accounting for jobs lost to increased imports? Will average hourly wages for U.S. workers, including in the automobile industry, go up or down and by how much?

4. Regarding China: Can TPP member countries add new countries, including China, to the agreement without future Congressional approval?

5. Regarding foreign workers: TPA is a six-year authority. Can you state unconditionally that no agreement or executive action throughout the lifetime of TPA will alter the number, duration, availability, expiration enforcement, rules, or processing time of guest worker, business, visitor, nonimmigrant, or immigrant visas to the United States?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 00:59 | 6148544 suteibu
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Indeed, this is the largest transfer of power from the government since the Federal Reserve was created.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:38 | 6148810 Cloud9.5
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The Republic has died a long slow agonizing death.  It is time to take down the flag and turn out the lights.  Look to your selves and your families.  Circle the wagons and prepare for what is coming.  Hitler made grandiose plans about exterminating the undesirables and dividing up the world.  Little did he know that his grand schemes would result in him blowing his own brains out. At the end of the game the pawn and the king wind up in the same box.   

These masters of the universe are masters of little.  Look at what is happening to the police in Baltimore.  They are afraid to leave their station houses.  These are rough lessons in state craft but the lessons are clear.  They run nothing without our compliance.   Never disarm.  Never give up and never give in.  It is moral to disobey an immoral law.  Any law that would take away your defenses is immoral. 

 

The Republic lives in our hearts.  It is an ideal that once in a century must be reestablished.  We are in a period similar to the 1750’s and 1850’s great tidal currents are in motion.  Old political parties are breaking apart and new alliances are being born.  The civil war came about when one third of the country came to realize they had no political voice.  More than half the country has come to that realization today.  The spark will come at either another Sumter or Alamo.  My hope is that for we the people it will be the Alamo.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 14:27 | 6149595 Optimusprime
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Downvoted for your stupid remarks about Hitler.  Otherwise nice post.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 00:27 | 6148500 kchrisc
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Guillotine rides are free.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 01:05 | 6148555 farmerunder
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What I ask myself is why would they reveal this information, if they needed to bribe them, would they not just do it secretly? Not for a minute do I think congress has any say in these matters, they are just told how to vote. The reason I believe for supplying information to look as if they are corrupt (and of course they are) is to build resentment amongst the masses, it appears to me they want a revolution or a divide and conquer status quo, or maybe we are heading towards an open dictatorship?. Better minds than mine may have other options? Either way this is a construct to trap the public into a way of thinking, I smell a rat.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 01:05 | 6148557 reader2010
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It's a cheap world after all. It only takes this little to do God's work. Fucking Surreal. 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 02:29 | 6148648 DipshitMiddleCl...
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TPP means bank can engage in prop trading again

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 02:43 | 6148658 JailBanksters
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Like I always say: America is Number 1,

Number 1 in Corrupton that is.

So why aren't American's getting as Mad as 'ell, oh right the Food Stamps thing, their afraid if they complain they're going to be cut off.

 

 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 02:54 | 6148667 unirealist
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Even Ron Wyden, one of the last Senators with integrity, voted for this travesty?

 

We are so screwed.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 03:10 | 6148681 jack stephan
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1,000,000 fuck yous already..

You guys think stupid devivates money somehow makes you smarter.  Youre scared fairies, you cant hang even with 100 steroid heads.  Simple simons. 

boot stomping a human face forever my ass, go ahead  make martyrs bitch, you will have endless replacements, like some jordanians.

So fuck you in the most world encompassing check.  Scaredy cats.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWqrKQ7cAyM

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 03:18 | 6148686 Victor999
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Only one word comes to mind - Traitors.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 03:19 | 6148687 blindman
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where is googoogooogooogooogoooogoooogoooooogoooooooooooogooooogoo
gle?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 03:27 | 6148690 dogismycopilot
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One: Anyone who took this money is a traitor and should be voted out next year at the bare minimum. if you see someone from your state on this list, be sure to tell people.

Two: TPP is going to radically alter your life...in the way that radical cancer cells or radical islam does. Start talking to people about this.

Three: Alex Jones made a good observation the other day. Why the fuck won't Wikileaks release the rest of the TPP draft that they have? Send a postcard to Julian Assange and ask him to please stop being a tool and release the rest of TPP.

 

 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 03:30 | 6148691 ymom11
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Prostitution used to be a lucrative business because a woman's body was more sacred.  Now it is a sign of desperation and poverty, scantily clad women are common.  When you sell yourself, you cheapen yourself.  This is happening to the politicians.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 04:02 | 6148698 TeethVillage88s
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Could be I am seeing posts by Joseph Huber or his supporter.

Do we have to have a Central Bank? I think not.

Do we have to have TBTF Banks? I think not.

Do we have to allow Securitization of all our debt, credit, and assets increase exponentially each year for the sole profit of people that call themselves bankers, who enjoy the title only from a government charter? I think not.

MEFOBILLS Icon/Avatar posts: He seems to be a European Banker, Financier, Economist, Historian, or pundit.

His positions is similar to that of critics of Debt Money, that most US Money is created only in Debt & w/o creation of the Interest on that Debt.

Or I might be simplifying something of Sovereignmoney.eu which this European seems to be posting.

- Looks like I need to take time to read it deeper. I just never heard of Debt Money as a subset of Fiat Money. He also likes to distinguish between private bank money creation from public or central bank.

The point seems to be that we can create money without having it be debt-money. There are videos about this. And videos about Fractional Reserve Banking creating money without the interest.

Here is a recent Link http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-30/something-smells-fishy#comment-...

Modern Money and Sovereign Currency
money, banking, monetary reform, monetary theory, monetary policy, sovereign money, sovereign currency, chartalism, Chicago plan, 100%-reserve
View on www.sovereignmoney.eu

http://www.sovereignmoney.eu/modern-money-and-sovereign-currency

Joseph Huber, Martin Luther University, Germany

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gmctxz7rj9n9otq/Modern%20Money%20Theory%20and%...

Modern Money Theory (MMT) has developed since the mid-1990s. Some monetary reformers hope for support from MMT. New Currency Theory (NCT) and Modern Money Theory (MMT) indeed share a number of analytical views. It nonetheless turns out that MMT - in spite of its claim to stand for a sovereign-currency system - is closer to representing new banking doctrine rather than currency teaching.
here is an article on > Modern Money Theory and New Currency Theory. A comparative discussion, including an assessment of their relevance to monetary reform

published in the Real-World Economics Review, no.66, 13 January 2014. A first draft of the paper was presented at the American Monetary Institute's 9th Annual Monetary Reform Conference, Chicago, 19–22 September 2013.

* Money in Politics
* Gifts of all kinds going to Federal Officials except not to Employees
* Financial Conflict of Interest
* Government Capture
* Regulation Capture
* Revolving Doors to Industry
* Term Limits reduce Nepotism and Corrupt Old Boy Systems
* Money/Wealth Influence on Courts with years of money and Legal Teams
* Complexity, Black Swan, Obfuscation, Chaos Theory, proliferation of Laws/Regulations/Tax Code all to take advantage and create careers for Lawyers

US Law is well documented in its fight of Conflicts of Interests.

It is well established that Laws must be Simplified, Streamlined, and Standardized as well as propagated down to procedures & Policy as simple policy.

Who is now in control of the USA at the National Level?

Lawyers, Fake Officials, Wealthy Interests, Foundations, Think Tanks, PACs, Foreign Networks, Greedy Insiders... Why worry?

Unfortunately the BAR Association has done next to nothing to keep lawyers in check, law proliferation, degradation of civil/individual rights, IRS regulations upward of 75,000 pages, complicated language and nonstandard financial instruments... thanks guys. What a bunch a posers. The stupidity seems to spread from Wall Street & DC outward without concern from the body of Lawyers. We (collectively) are pretty sure there is little utility in keeping professional lawyers in the new USA whatever that will be.

And it is not like we don't have a history with plenty of clear, logical voices who have spoken about conflicts of interest, racketeering, anti-trust, accounting control fraud.

Our children can not see who controls the USA and burdens us with Exponential Budget Increases. Why should our kids have children and obey the old rules? We turn on the TV for news & education and only get government policy.

As we head to War in the Middle East again and perhaps China & Russian Federation... why the hell should kids respect adults. Federal Budget Numbers, Health Care Expenditures, Drug Expenditures, Housing Costs, or Education cost increases they all tell the tail of the tape. US Adults are not managing the USA. In fact it is 6 years since we have even passed a Federal Budget.

Question Authority. Patriarchy is played out. Listening to US Economists is played out since they appear to be government economists. Someone needs to explain and tell the story of how some economist actually look at the data and look for common sense. Most people don't believe in US Economists or their Schools. The reason is that Banks & Governments are the sponsors of Economists. And government spokesmen can't hide the fact by being slick.

The Federal Level of Government needs a long list of prohibitions not for Employees, but to target political appointees, congressmen and employees.

National Referendums would help national discussions, but the list is very long since Federal Government does not discuss, educate, simplify, and debate its policy or direction since 70% of it's work is considered secret.

Why the hell should we love the USA when it is all secret and when freedom of speech can get you in unlimited trouble. Presidential Debates? No way. It is like the USA has taken pages from East Germany and the Soviet Union.

America Today = You outsmart me, you take from me, you accuse me, you judge me, you sue me, you create unlimited numbers of laws, you make banking complicated, you hit me with usury fees, you cut my job, you prevent me from learning our history, you don't teach business practices or history, you don't explain our banking history or current banking system, you don't explain what is going on to prevent real, deep, technical debate nor provide forums for discussion and democratic processes...

Circuses and Butter is what we get... along with high interest rates and lessons on how wealth and retirement is not a permanent dream or idea.

Edit:
oops lost all my links from sovereignmoney.eu after copying the whole thing

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 10:09 | 6148992 techstrategy
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This is EVERYTHING.  Our "monetary" system is a Control Fraud run by a handful of families and TBTJ banks.  Privately created "money" (fractional reserve banking debt claims) from nothing.  Publicly born inflation.  It's a tax on producers and those who invest of savings.  Accumulated (compounded) and derived (other financial assets) concentrate "wealth" over time via frontrunning boom/bust cycles.  And, they choose winners and losers (one need only look at the cash from financing ponzis to see it...  AMZN has raised $8.5B in "omission offerings" --subsequently disclosing more accurate cash flow metrics in its appendix while consuming huge cash outside of financing over years.  It's caused huge duress for traditional retailers held to the usual standard, causing millions to be laid off).  It's good to be "Chosen" to create money from nothing by the Control Fraud... For everyone else, there's engineered duress.  

 

Liquidate TBTJ equity and Protection Rackets, buy gold and demand delivery.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 13:50 | 6149522 TeethVillage88s
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Thanks. I get that banks are mostly self-regulating, but didn't think much about IPO, and corporate finance. I should spend some time looking at what you are saying.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 04:12 | 6148707 DutchBoy2015
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY! "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." -- Thomas Jefferson

Read more: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED | The History The US Government HOPES You Never Learn! http://whatreallyhappened.com/#ixzz3bhZnU8PN

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:04 | 6148731 Summer in Siam
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The Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, essentially all the the dirtiest corporate schemes you can imagine rolled into one, is being pushed and pushed on lawmakers around the world.

Learn it, know it, fight it.  http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/27951.html

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:21 | 6148736 Inthemix96
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This is blatant, outright, treasonous behaviour from the criminal class, not just in your upper houses, but right here in the vipers nest of 'Honourable' child molesters in our 'Mother Of All Parliaments'.

This without doubt, rams home the un-deniable truth, that everything you ever held true was a mother fucking lie.  In your best interest they serve eh?  They dont even bother to cover up the deceptions and filth they are bathed in now, cos' they know we wont do fuck all about it, pass bills, or 'Laws' without reading the literature inside it, to find out whats in it.

Step right up and take the applause from the floors you criminal fucking fiends, you have degraded, de-famed, and fucking wrecked any semblance of decency or respect you had left you dirty fucking tosspots staining on a continuing basis the face of humanity.  TTP, TPA, TTIP, are the very essence of how low you cunts can go.

And you did it all for worthless fucking 'Script', that you continue to whore your stinking carcasses for.

I use it all the time, but you lot are the very definition of the word 'Cunts'.  To a man...

By 'Dog' himself I damn you all, dam you all to hell.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:53 | 6148826 cherry picker
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Who gives these people the right to make decisions which affect my life?

What gives these people the right to break and enter into my household and snoop into my correspondence, question my financial transactions?

This aberration they call government has to be brought down.

I nullify them by ignoring them.  I don't ask for anything that isn't mine and won't give them what is not theirs. Caesar does not mean anything to me, neither does some lying pol who people idolize as Commander in Chief, POTUS, Senator or Congressman.

If Rand Paul manages to accomplish taking down the Patriot Act, he has my respect, but I hold my respect in reserve as I have been lied to by the scum of the earth war criminals and human rights abusers for too long with their endless wars on drugs, poverty, poor brown nations and they do not cringe when napalm, cluster fuck bombs, drones and so on kill mothers and children.

It is about time this empire building cabal is brought to its knees, until then, most of the middle class sheep will be behind bars they cannot see and play the game thinking those with guns and war toys are there for their freedom and protection.

The women and children and innocent men they murdered were deserving of protection too, regardless where they live.

I want to see the Clintons', Bushs' and Obama brought to justice along with their accomplices, until then the government has no right to govern.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 05:33 | 6148743 Fred C Dobbs
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I think most in Congress especially the people in positions of power are blackmailed and not bribed.  Dennis Hastert is a proven example and his being brought down is a warning to others.  The U.S. government has been taken over and the NSA belongs to them. 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:03 | 6148834 cherry picker
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The very existence of a CIA, NSA, DEA and more is proof that the USA is out of control.

How many times does there admitted crimes go without consequence?

Ask the droner in chief what he meant by 'We tortured some folks'.  What about we imprisoned some folks?  We murdered some folks?  We humiliated some folks? We robbed a lot of folks?

They created ISIS and can't stop them as these people are not scared to die for their beliefs.

 

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 06:05 | 6148763 Kokulakai
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Easy, and cheap.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 06:47 | 6148782 negative rates
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In other news one of bidens sons used to cocaine to drill a hole to his brain and die of brain cancer, the reality of the fundementals.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:32 | 6148805 falak pema
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while the other fracks Ukraine for black rain ?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:52 | 6148803 falak pema
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What happened in the Senate can happen all over the world; as the world splits apart increasingly on ideological cum commodity capitalism lines :

http://uk.businessinsider.com/soccers-nuclear-option-could-make-the-worl...

What will the US/EU Oligarchy do in this upcoming fight for control of world sports bubble-o-nomics ?

Mr Blatter are you for US or AGAINST US ?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:41 | 6148815 overmedicatedun...
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think senators are bought for cheap? 19,000 bucks or so..LOL, NO,  it is the speaking fees and slush fund money and on and on, after stepping down, ever see a senator on the street with a sign :"will work for food"?, no me either..clinton gets up to $500,000 just to answer a phone and "consult"..there are big payoffs after if you keep your mouth shut. D hastert long out of office, (he was 3rd in line to the president for a long time as speaker, got outted as the homo sleaze bag to take heat off her heious the clinton witch)..he played along while speaker and stopped many efforts to downsize the monster in DC.

if you are not bribeable, you got no chance to get to DC real power. think of all the little tid bits they keep on file for Obuma, another butthole boy and ex (perhaps) druggie...

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 10:51 | 6149093 Slomotrainwreck
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... ummm, don't forget the back door investment tips.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 07:53 | 6148825 Arbeit_Macht_Frei
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300 patriots working independently to drive an ice pick into the base of each congressmans skull would fix this problem once and for all but no one has the stomach for this type of thing in this day and age. So we just need to suck it up and carry on.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 10:31 | 6149047 Ban KKiller
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FBI Troll Much?

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 11:58 | 6149264 Arbeit_Macht_Frei
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Your mum and dad go munting. Pussy.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:02 | 6148832 MilwaukeeMark
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Political pundents keep asking, "how are we going to pay all these debts back?"  I've always thought, "you guys don't see their long game yet, do you?"

You now know, those who are creating this mess don't intend to pay anything back, the are busy stuffing their pockets and packing their bags. They are merely keeping this ship afloat with debt and tyranny until they are all safely off this ship and securely on the next (Asian) one.  Then, we can sink for all they care.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:12 | 6148849 Bill of Rights
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Fuck all these mother fuckers, all of them.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 08:58 | 6148898 Arbeit_Macht_Frei
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You're a faggot. I'd knock you out easy.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 09:22 | 6148918 Bill of Rights
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And then I'd get up and shoot you in the face.simple action reaction ... Now fuck off homo.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 10:14 | 6149009 Arbeit_Macht_Frei
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No you wouldn't. You're another big mouth shit bag. You need to go now your mums calling you for your tea.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 11:29 | 6149195 JamaicaJim
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Takes one to know one - shit bag....didn't I tell you to fuck off?

are you stupid? wait...asked and proven

NOW FUCK OFF

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 11:52 | 6149251 Arbeit_Macht_Frei
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How proven you bell end? Lol.

Sun, 05/31/2015 - 11:35 | 6149205 Bill of Rights
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Man you talk a lot for someone who mouth is full of my nut sack.

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