Dear Corporate Media: You suck and I hate you. Look, I did your job for you . . . .
In an article at rawstory I found this eye opener . . .
This news is following the ThinkProgress reports on Citizens United fueled Chamber of Commerce anti-Dem ad contributors . . .
Among the companies listed by ThinkProgress are a number of high-profile multinationals, including Paris-based insurer AXA, the Swiss bank Credit Suisse, London-based bank HSBC, and pharmaceutical firms Novartis (Switzerland) and Sanofi-Aventis (France).
The list also includes nine companies located in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Bahrain, including Gulf Petrochemical Industries, which is owned partly by the Bahrain, Saudi and Kuwaiti governments. Another contributor is Gulf Air, which is the national air carrier of Bahrain and is owned by the government of Bahrain.
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So which Republican candidate is being supported by Saudi Government paid attack ads against Democrats?
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Crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com
Back in January of this year I wrote about how Saudi Arabia will use Citizens United to interfere in US politics thanks to NeoCon SCOTUS treason. In that article I reported, via ThinkProgress, that . . . .
Saudi Arabia has already signaled that the progressive effort to build a clean energy American economy is its "biggest threat":
Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil exports so stands to be one of the biggest losers in any pact that curbs oil demand by penalizing carbon emissions. "It’s one of the biggest threats that we are facing," according to Muhammed al-Sabban, head of the Saudi delegation to U.N. talks on climate change and a senior economic adviser to the Saudi oil ministry. [...] Climate talks posed a bigger threat, Sabban said, and subsidies for the development of renewable energy were distorting market economics in the sector, he said.
ThinkProgress.org
It's good to be the King of Saudi Arabia!
So the Saudi Government is attacking Democrats on behalf of Climate change denying, drill baby drill Republicans because they think a sustainable green jobs based American economy is "one of the biggest threats that (Saudi Arabia is) facing," says Muhammed al-Sabban, who is head of the Saudi delegation to U.N. talks on climate change and a senior economic adviser to the Saudi oil ministry. What is in the American public's interest is NOT in the Saudi Royal families interest, so Saudi royal family owned oil interests are secretly attacking Democrats who are running for office that will not do their bidding via the Chamber of Commerce.
To all the members of our "fair and balanced" pundit class, here is your proof. And you still SUCK.
The Chamber of Commerce uses Saudi Royal family oil money to influence American elections and attack Democrats. WHAT THE FUCK?????
Yesterday WH Press Secretary took to the airwaves to decry the Chamber of Commerce's foreign funded attack ads against Democrats. He was confronted by our idiot press who pooh poohed his concerns by saying "it isn't that much compared to the total amount being spent on election ads" (to which I say, isn't more than $1 too much foreign influence in our elections?), and "where is the proof?" (to which I say, the Chamber of Commerce HAS the proof, and they are keeping it a secret, you idiot! That is the whole problem!). Once again, predictably, our Corporate paid pundit class had totally FAILED America. After the same Corporate paid pundit class helped sell the lie that we needed to go to war in Iraq (a Saudi Oil competitor) after 9/11, I shouldn't be that surprised about it, should I?
I don't use words like treason or traitor lightly, but this, my fellow Americans, is treason. Allowing foreign governments to screw with America's democracy is treason. Helping outsource American jobs, as the Chamber of Commerce does, is traitorous behavior. Our founding fathers, whom Supreme Court Justices on the right and Glenn Beck (employed by a Saudi Prince and an Australian billionaire) so love to praise and consider, would NOT be happy with foreign governments interfering in American elections. They would call it treason, and they would call the perpetrators of such acts traitors. This is not a case of me projecting my thoughts onto the founding fathers, as is Glenn Beck and Antonin Scalia's wont. This is me using the definition of the words treason and traitor correctly.
Betraying America so you can help multinational corporations make a bigger profit by outsourcing jobs and fighting against a sustainable, green energy economy that is NOT dependent on Saudi royal family owned oil is treasonous. Country first, huh? Too bad that country is NOT America.
It is bad enough that multi-national corporations with ZERO allegiance to America like BP, AIG and others can influence America's democratic process by making bribes campaign donations to political candidates, but when foreign governments who may be potential enemies of the USA start getting into the act every American should be outraged.
Imagine if the King of England tried bribing influencing the congressional elections of 1780? What the fuck?
Sothe Chamber of Commerce embraces outsourcing American jobs, then funds Conservative candidates who will help them outsource American jobs. It is bribery. It is an act of harming American interests in favor of foreign interests. It is treason. It is traitorous.
Awesome. Thanks a ton Chief Justice Roberts and the rest of the RATS who voted in favor of Citizens United v FEC, you bunch of bought off corporatist crooks.
And to the corporate paid American pundit class, You suck and I hate you. You can thank me for doing your fucking job for you by sucking less and doing your job as an objective journalist who researches the facts more, but I doubt that will happen. The old Upton Sinclair quote remains true, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
I'd say it is more than difficult. It is damn near impossible. And our misinformed, foreign influenced American public is about to be robbed by people who have ZERO interest in what is best for the American people.
Just like the founding fathers wanted, eh?
This is idioteque
Note: This Everlasting tyranny has been paid for by the Saudi Royal family, with help by the US Chamber of Commerce
How do you say "What the Fuck?" in Arabic?
UPDATE: Veterans Group Files FEC Complaint Against The Chamber: Foreign Funds Pose 'Clear And Present Danger' To U.S. Democracy
On Monday, the Veterans' Alliance for Security and Democracy (VetPAC) filed an FEC complaint against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the FEC, alleging that the organization's potential use of foreign funds for political purposes represents a "clear and present danger to our democracy." From the letter to the FEC, obtained by The Huffington Post:
We understand that organizations may have "a reasonable accounting method" to separate funds into their general operations budget. However, the prohibition on foreign nationals indirectly contributing to U.S. elections should require additional scrutiny in the case of organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where even segregated funds within their general operating budget could be said to indirectly finance their campaign work, given the volume of such activity as a percentage of their overall expenditures. [...]
Given the unseemly amounts of funds being poured into campaigns, we ask that you move expeditiously to require full disclosure of the funding sources of the U.S. Chamer of Commerce. Their actions present a clear and present danger to our democracy by shielding the electorate from the identities of foreign influences that are lurking behind the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's massive campaign spending.
HuffingtonPost.com
Glad to see our US veterans are fighting back. Wish I could say the same about corrupt conservatives and their bought and paid for candidates.
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