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Originally posted by crimvelvet
reply to post by poet1b
A good place I would like to start is to take back our government from corporate control. This would be the first step.
AMEN, Again we are on the same page.
First we need to kick K Street to the MOON and make it illegal for corporations to interfere in the running of a country in an way shape or form!
Speaking of taking back control....
THIS is a really really interesting tidbit I came across many moons ago. (2007)
This started with Ann Veneman who was considered as a possible running mate for Obama.
Ann Veneman joined the United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service in 1986, serving as Associate Administrator until 1989. During this time she worked on the Uruguay Round talks for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
In reflecting on Veneman's record, Meatnews wrote that she "played a key role in eliminating trade barriers and expanding opportunities for American farmers through new export markets. She has worked closely with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, helping lead to the successful launch of a new round of trade negotiations for the World Trade Organization.
The IPC was created in 1987 explicitly to drive home the GATT agriculture rules of WTO at Uruguay talks. The IPC demanded removal of ‘high tariff’ barriers in developing countries, remaining silent on the massive government subsidy to agribusiness in the USA and is responsible for the new Food "Safety" Modernization Act of 2010.
The very interesting thing about this BIO of Ann V. is "the law firm and lobby group Patton, Boggs" It was the first firm to start "lobbying" politicians for a client! I can not find my not on unfortunately (from 1987)
Patton Boggs is also one of American Banker’s Top Lead Legal Advisors and the firm is one of the world’s Top Patent Firms. Patton Boggs reported nearly $41 million in lobbying revenue in 2009
They changed the wording some from when I read it three years ago but you can still read between the lines.
Patton Boggs is based in Washington DC, where the firm has been a leading member of the business and legal communities since our founding here in 1962. Long recognized as the nation’s leading public policy law firm, Patton Boggs was a pioneer in merging public policy expertise with traditional legal practice. Today, professionals in our Washington office are recognized internationally for their in-depth knowledge of how government works, their strong, bipartisan relationships with policy makers, and their skill as advocates for their clients... www.pattonboggs.com...
It is really amazing the tangles one finds when one starts pulling on a string.
“Patton Boggs began as an international law firm concentrating in global business and trade in 1962...We were among the first law firms to recognize that all three branches of government could serve as forums in which to achieve client goals, enabling us to emerge as the nation’s leading public policy law firm, and we have developed our extensive business law capabilities into the firm’s largest practice area.” www.pattonboggs.com...
Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet
George Monbiot, Tuesday May 14, 2002, The Guardian
Persuasion works best when it's invisible. The most effective marketing worms its way into our consciousness, leaving intact the perception that we have reached our opinions and made our choices independently. As old as humankind itself, over the past few years this approach has been refined, with the help of the internet, into a technique called "viral marketing". Last month, the viruses appear to have murdered their host. One of the world's foremost scientific journals was persuaded to do something it had never done before, and retract a paper it had published.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by playswithmachines
There is actually another economic effect to these kind of 'regime changes' beyond just the increased profits in oil.
The Swiss Bankers tend to do real well when it comes to picking the carcasses of these deposed dictators once their accounts are frozen. When that happens it can mean the Bankers get to just sit on that money sometimes forever.
Mubarak was rumored to have up to 50 Billion and Gadaffi is believed to have upwards of 30 Billion stashed away in Switzerland.
So the banking cartel picks up a cool 80 Billion so far.
What Iran had in International Banks that was frozen during the Islamic Revolution there, is still sitting in those banks today over 33 some odd years later.
Imagine how the Banking Cartel might make out if Saudi Arabia and the Emirates go to?
In theory the Nation/State that the money is alleged to have been embezzled from will/can eventually get it back, providing two things, they are all Jewish and die first in a Holocaust!
That's a very bad joke, but when it comes to gettting frozen assetts back, no one ever has had much luck in getting money 'lost' in Swiss Banks back, except for Israeli/Jewish Holocaust survivors.
The money Cuba had when Castro came to power, still sitting in the banks 53 years later!
What some might call a revolution others might call a 'Banking Holiday'!
Thanks for posting.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by playswithmachines
There is actually another economic effect to these kind of 'regime changes' beyond just the increased profits in oil.
The Swiss Bankers tend to do real well when it comes to picking the carcasses of these deposed dictators once their accounts are frozen. When that happens it can mean the Bankers get to just sit on that money sometimes forever.
Mubarak was rumored to have up to 50 Billion and Gadaffi is believed to have upwards of 30 Billion stashed away in Switzerland.
So the banking cartel picks up a cool 80 Billion so far.
What Iran had in International Banks that was frozen during the Islamic Revolution there, is still sitting in those banks today over 33 some odd years later.
Imagine how the Banking Cartel might make out if Saudi Arabia and the Emirates go to?
In theory the Nation/State that the money is alleged to have been embezzled from will/can eventually get it back, providing two things, they are all Jewish and die first in a Holocaust!
That's a very bad joke, but when it comes to gettting frozen assetts back, no one ever has had much luck in getting money 'lost' in Swiss Banks back, except for Israeli/Jewish Holocaust survivors.
The money Cuba had when Castro came to power, still sitting in the banks 53 years later!
What some might call a revolution others might call a 'Banking Holiday'!
Thanks for posting.