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Those dropping out are a mix of Republican and “Democrats” – we put them in quotations because our guess is they’re more of a “Blue Dog” type of Democrat, but nevertheless, this is a major development against ALEC from just one state.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=35890Those dropping out are a mix of Republican and “Democrats” – we put... more
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This is what Stew readers came up when asked for one word to describe the Koch Brothers...
(click on the link to participate in our next "Stew Word Storm" on gay marriage)
http://veracitystew.com/?p=35634This is what Stew readers came up when asked for one word to describe the Koch... more
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Confidential memo seen by Guardian calls for climate change sceptics to turn American public against solar and wind power
A network of ultra-conservative groups is ramping up an offensive on multiple fronts to turn the American public against wind farms and Barack Obama's energy agenda.
A number of rightwing organisations, including Americans for Prosperity, which is funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, are attacking Obama for his support for solar and wind power. The American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), which also has financial links to the Kochs, has drafted bills to overturn state laws promoting wind energy.
Now a confidential strategy memo seen by the Guardian advises using "subversion" to build a national movement of wind farm protesters.
http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/environment/2012/may/08/conservative-thinktanks-obama-energy-plans?post_gdp=trueTuesday 8 May 2012-
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Campaign Manager Ms. Cutter says to "share" this so I am - hope you enjoy and it helps when you see inaccuracies on Facebook, etc.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101725784
"I agree with Stephanie Cutter and think we all need to share this information, so I Hope you folks will do just that!!!" =)Campaign Manager Ms. Cutter says to "share" this so I am - hope you enjoy... more
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In the fall of 1773 - a group of revolutionaries dressed up like Indians - boarded a ship belonging to the East India Tea Company - and dumped over a million dollars worth of tea over the rail and into Boston Harbor. It was later called the Boston Tea Party - the first act in a drama that eventually led to the Revolutionary War - and the birth of the United States of America. What most people don't know about the Boston Tea Party is why exactly it happened - what the colonists were actually protesting against. It wasn't just against the King, or taxation without representation, or a fight for freedom. It was a protest against corporate control over the North American economy. It came after the British Parliament - who were mostly shareholders in the British East India Company - gave the largest corporate tax break in the history of the world to the world's then-largest corporation, the East India Company - so it could pull a Wal-Mart and put out of business all the local tea sellers up and down the east coast of the colonies. Enraged by that blatant example of crony capitalism - the Tea Act of 1773 - the colonists put feathers on their heads and dumped the tea overboard - and the rest is history. Our nation has a history of - and in fact was founded on - rebelling against corporate monopolies and rage about corporations getting huge tax breaks from Parliament.
Which brings us to today - when tens of thousands of Americans across the nation have taken to the streets to once again protest against too much corporate power and corporate corruption of our government. They're protesting against massive tax breaks for job outsourcers, tax subsidies for insanely profitable oil corporations, and bailouts for Wall Street banksters. And in the irony of all ironies - it just so happens that the most corrupt of our politicians today - the most in-the-bag for the big corporations - are calling themselves Tea Partiers. A lot of the discontent of today was sewn three years ago. Wall Street got bailed out - and the rest of us were stuck with the worst recession since the Great Depression while banksters were cutting fat bonus checks to each other. Americans knew they got screwed. And the banksters, CEOs, and corporate politicians knew that Americans knew they got screwed. So they tapped into that anger to defend themselves.In the fall of 1773 - a group of revolutionaries dressed up like Indians - boarded a... more
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WOW - Watch how easily Walker and Christie spew their Koch-fueled crap and completely flip the conversation...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=34829WOW - Watch how easily Walker and Christie spew their Koch-fueled crap and completely... more
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The reach of ALEC: They’re not just behind “stand your ground” laws, but every area of law known to man. Don't believe us? Check this out...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=34605The reach of ALEC: They’re not just behind “stand your ground” laws,... more
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After seeing 'Koch Brothers: Exposed,' I look at all the warnings on Social Security and Medicare with relative disdain. There is indeed a conspiracy afoot, and it’s a vast right-wing conspiracy to eliminate both programs. And the Koch Brothers are leading the charge...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=34599After seeing 'Koch Brothers: Exposed,' I look at all the warnings on Social... more
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ALEC enjoys Tax-Exempt Charitable Status? -- To term ALEC as a “non-profit organization” or a charitable organization, is idiocy in the extreme. They are funded by the biggest corporations spanning the planet, first and foremost the Koch Brothers, and the profit they rake in is then turned to lobby state legislatures across the country to pass corporate-friendly laws that dehumanize the greater population for the benefit of greater corporate profit.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=34327ALEC enjoys Tax-Exempt Charitable Status? -- To term ALEC as a “non-profit... more
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An Update on ALEC from Stew Blogger Beth:
The Koch Brothers front group, Americans for Prosperity, along with their Tea Party drones, are trying to counter the rising backlash against the billionaire's efforts to hijack our Democracy. They're holding training sessions for Right-wing bloggers on how to lie to the public.
Imagine that...the Koch Brothers are using their other front groups to defend/spin another of their front groups...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=34192An Update on ALEC from Stew Blogger Beth:
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Hatch’s failure to secure 60% of the convention ballots is largely due to attacks from the Koch brother front group, FreedomWorks, which has targeted Hatch for not being a ‘true’ conservative.
It’s another example of GOP political cannibalism. It’s not enough that the Republican party has destroyed itself with one power grab after another since the 2010 midterm elections, but now they are devouring members of their own party in an attempt by the extremist factions on the Right to do the bidding of their corporate masters.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=34163Hatch’s failure to secure 60% of the convention ballots is largely due to... more
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By Kenneth Quinnell
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) released ads against his top two Democratic rivals in his recall election, blaming them for job losses that are much more likely the fault of his own policies and the national policies of his party before Barack Obama came to office. During his tenure, Wisconsin has the worst record of job creation of any state, yet Walker is blaming Tom Barrett and Kathleen Falk for their records in Milwaukee and Dane County, respectively. It's difficult to see how those local governments would've been able to create jobs in the wake of Walker's terrible policies on the job front, but that's the approach the governor has taken.
"For Scott Walker to attack anyone on jobs loss is not just shamelessly hypocritical, it's comically absurd," Barrett's communications director, Phil Walzak, responded in a statement. "Under Walker's failed leadership, Wisconsin lost more jobs last year than any other state in the nation."
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Falk's communications director, Scot Ross, called the ad "desperate," saying in a statement, "Under Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin lost more jobs than any state in the nation last year. In contrast, Kathleen Falk balanced 14 straight budgets with a self-imposed landmark spending cap and during her tenure, her county grew nearly 30,000 jobs -- the most in the state. Kathleen’s unmatched record of bringing people together, finding solutions and getting the job done is why Scott Walker has resorted to attacking and distorting her record."
Read More: http://crooksandliars.com/kenneth-quinnell/scott-walker-releases-ads-blaming
"This whole Bait and Switch from the GOP is beyond Obvious, in fact it's Sickening!!!" =(By Kenneth Quinnell
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Armed with 61 Senate cosponsors—yes, enough to beat a filibuster with a vote to spare—the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is set to be considered as early as this week, for a vote next week.
Will Boehner let House vote on the Violence Against Women Act? ONLY if ALEC lets him! 112th works for ALEC .... See List of ALEC Politicians here: http://tinyurl.com/6fxx73a
http://tinyurl.com/7eowygsArmed with 61 Senate cosponsors—yes, enough to beat a filibuster with a vote to... more
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Charles and David Koch are each worth about $25bn, which makes them the fourth richest Americans. When you combine their fortunes, they are the third wealthiest people in the world. Radical libertarians who use their money to oppose government and virtually all regulation as interference with the free market, the Kochs are in a class of their own as players on the American political stage. Their web of influence in the US stretches from state capitals to the halls of congress in Washington DC.
The Koch brothers fueled the conservative Tea Party movement that vigorously opposes Barack Obama, the US president. They fund efforts to derail action on global warming, and support politicians who object to raising taxes on corporations or the wealthy to help fix America’s fiscal problems. According to New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, who wrote a groundbreaking exposé of the Kochs in 2010, they have built a top to bottom operation to shape public policy that has been "incredibly effective. They are so rich that their pockets are almost bottomless, and they can keep pouring money into this whole process".
Follow the link for more.http://aje.me/HQg5RU
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Look at what the billionaire bullies are doing now...
The Koch Brothers are doing their best to discredit the film and Greenwald. They’ve even set up a website with their version of ‘the facts.’ I find it amusing that the billionaire boys refer to Greenwald as fringe. Fringe is Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, or Sean Hannity. You know, the people who are truly factually and intellectually challenged.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=33550Look at what the billionaire bullies are doing now...
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Or maybe you will...
Found on BraveNewFoundation’s YouTube channel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101721385
"Wow, can you imagine being so Rich and not having to pay taxes will allow you to do with your money???" Outrageous!!! =(Or maybe you will...
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In the wake of the Trayvon Martin murder, the Koch Brothers sought to distance themselves from the ensuing controversy by releasing a statement saying that they had nothing to do with it. This is an utter lie. Michael Morgan of Koch Industries has sat on ALEC’s Private Enterprise Board for 10 years, is the Kansas State Corporate Co-Chair, and was the ‘Vice Chairman’ level sponsor of the 2011 ALEC Annual Conference.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=33313In the wake of the Trayvon Martin murder, the Koch Brothers sought to distance... more
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By Kenneth Quinnell
In advance of his upcoming recall election and possible legal trouble, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has become even more extreme, ramping up the rhetoric and taking actions that are troubling, to say the least. Most importantly, he signed a repeal of the state's Equal Pay Enforcement Act:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is facing a recall election, quietly repealed a state law making it easier for pay discrimination victims to seek justice. Amanda Terkel reports in The Huffington Post that Walker signed into law a bill passed in party-line votes by Republicans in the state legislature that rolls back the 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act. The act had allowed workers to challenge pay discrimination in state rather than just federal courts.
The act was only one part of Walker's assault on women:
Among them were four highly controversial measures focused on women's health care and sexual education:
A repeal of the state's Equal Pay law, which allowed victim's of wage discrimination to collect damages of between $50,000 and $300,000, and a repeal of the Healthy Youth Act, which had provided requirements to schools that comprehensive and scientifically accurate information about everything from abstinence to contraception be taught at an age-appropriate level.
Walker also signed into law a ban on abortion coverage through policies as part of a health insurance exchange to be created under the federal health care reform law starting in 2014 (the only exceptions would be in cases of rape, incest or medical necessity); and a bill requiring women seeking abortions to undergo a physical exam and consult with a doctor alone, away from her friends and family, in order to make sure she isn't "being pressured into the decision." Doctors who break the law could be charged with a felony.
As usual, working families were a target for Walker as well:
I know that collective bargaining is not a right; it's an expensive entitlement. It's about time somebody stood up for the hardworking taxpayers of our state.
The problem is, of course, that collective bargaining is a right.
Walker has also been railing about how state workers can't be the "haves" while everyone else is a "have not." The state worker he used in an ad to that effect, it turns out is actually one of the have-nots, making only $25,227 a year, certainly not a massive salary by any standards.
In an interview with CBN, Walker made a series of more and more strange claims:
"Any human being, if we're honest about it, you don't want to be hated by anybody, you want everybody to love you," he said. "But I was asked last December, somebody asked me, a supporter, asked me a very interesting question at dinner. He said, 'Did you ever stop and think that maybe if you hadn't gone so far, that you wouldn't be facing a recall?' I said, 'Yeah, sure, but if I hadn't taken the steps I took, we wouldn't have fixed things.' And I said, 'For my kids and their generation I don't want them to inherit a Wisconsin that is not at least as great if not greater than the one I inherited. And you don't get that by not fixing things.' "
"And, to me, that's one of our problems. You can't be afraid to lose," Walker said. "You shouldn't plan on it, but you should make decisions that are ultimately about what's right and what's just and what's best - not just for yourself but for the next wave of young people who are going to inherit our states and our country and not be afraid to lose along the way."
"Why?" he asked. "Because their guys are back to work, they're working again. Unlike my predecessor, who made it very difficult for people building infrastructure, building roads and bridges and rail and things of that nature, we put money back in that had been raided there."
Walker told Brody that he had heard his opponents would spend $70 million to $80 million in the recall race.
Probably most frightening was a final quote:
"We realize that all this is just a temporary thing and God's got a plan for us that, who knows where it might be, beyond just serving as governor of this state, but if we stay true to that, there's always comfort," he said. "And God's grace is always abundant no matter what you do."
Walker for president in 2016?
http://crooksandliars.com/kenneth-quinnell/scott-walker-ramps-extremism
"Knowing that we have had a POTUS who was convicted of DUI and Cocaine abuse, I guess anything is Possible!!!" =(By Kenneth Quinnell
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