american.swan
10-05-2011, 05:20 PM
Note: Greg Palast's book "Armed Madhouse" was the book "Don't Tase Me Bro" Florida Student had read and was holding while tased.
Über-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President
The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Ken Langone and the Kochs—and why they need to buy the White House
by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash (http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1&ID=114&NL=1&N=115&SI=66294&ENC=%212%21GS%21%3fy%216%214%21JQ%21A%2115O%21C%28 %3ca4%2b%3bb%3a%21G%2chT8%21%2fLm%21%40%21AB%21CT% 21%40%25%21%3f%210%2f%21%3e8%284%29%3a%21%3f%3d.%2 c%21%3dWV%217%2f%214T%21BO%216%3fmM%217%21%3f%3fa4 %2b9a%3b%21G*-H%3a%21%2fH5PT%211W%21%3e%5cu%5c%218%21-%5c)
Greg Palast's investigative reports are broadcast by BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book, Vultures' Picnic: a Tale of Oil, Sex, Radiation and Investigative Reporting (http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1&ID=114&NL=1&N=115&SI=66294&ENC=%212%21GS%21%3fy%216%214%21JQ%21A%211%28O%213% 21CD%21%3e1%21%3f%3a%29x%2184%27%216I%21%3eI3%21%2 fR%21%3d%218CbsY) will be released by Penguin USA on November 14.
[October 5, 2011] Paul Singer likes to breakfast on decayed carcasses. What he chews down is sickening, but just as nausea-inducing are his new table mates: Ken Langone and the Koch Brothers, Charles and David.
Singer has called together the billionaire boys club for the purpose of picking our next president for us. The old fashioned way of choosing presidents—democracy and counting ballots and all that—has never been a favorite of this pack. I can tell you that from my investigations of each of these gentlemen for The Guardian. When the Statue of Liberty has nightmares, she dreams that these guys will combine to seize America via a cash-and-carry coup d'état.
Welcome to the nightmare. Singer, Langone and the Kochs last month decided to elect Chris Christie for us. The Jersey Governor's pseudo-campaign went belly-up before it began. But that's besides the point. Now that the Supreme Court has effectively ended campaign finance limits and allowed secretive contributions through "corporations", this new combine of the ultra-wealthy should not be viewed as just a political threat to the Democrats, but a threat to democracy.
Let me give you a run-down from my sulphur-scented files on these men who would be king-makers.
BILLIONAIRE 1: Ken Langone
::READ THE REST at (http://www.gregpalast.com/uber-vultures-the-billionaires-who-would-pick-our-president/#more-4813)www.gregpalast.com (http://www.gregpalast.com):::
Über-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President
The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer, Ken Langone and the Kochs—and why they need to buy the White House
by Greg Palast for TruthOut/Buzzflash (http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1&ID=114&NL=1&N=115&SI=66294&ENC=%212%21GS%21%3fy%216%214%21JQ%21A%2115O%21C%28 %3ca4%2b%3bb%3a%21G%2chT8%21%2fLm%21%40%21AB%21CT% 21%40%25%21%3f%210%2f%21%3e8%284%29%3a%21%3f%3d.%2 c%21%3dWV%217%2f%214T%21BO%216%3fmM%217%21%3f%3fa4 %2b9a%3b%21G*-H%3a%21%2fH5PT%211W%21%3e%5cu%5c%218%21-%5c)
Greg Palast's investigative reports are broadcast by BBC Television's Newsnight. His new book, Vultures' Picnic: a Tale of Oil, Sex, Radiation and Investigative Reporting (http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1&ID=114&NL=1&N=115&SI=66294&ENC=%212%21GS%21%3fy%216%214%21JQ%21A%211%28O%213% 21CD%21%3e1%21%3f%3a%29x%2184%27%216I%21%3eI3%21%2 fR%21%3d%218CbsY) will be released by Penguin USA on November 14.
[October 5, 2011] Paul Singer likes to breakfast on decayed carcasses. What he chews down is sickening, but just as nausea-inducing are his new table mates: Ken Langone and the Koch Brothers, Charles and David.
Singer has called together the billionaire boys club for the purpose of picking our next president for us. The old fashioned way of choosing presidents—democracy and counting ballots and all that—has never been a favorite of this pack. I can tell you that from my investigations of each of these gentlemen for The Guardian. When the Statue of Liberty has nightmares, she dreams that these guys will combine to seize America via a cash-and-carry coup d'état.
Welcome to the nightmare. Singer, Langone and the Kochs last month decided to elect Chris Christie for us. The Jersey Governor's pseudo-campaign went belly-up before it began. But that's besides the point. Now that the Supreme Court has effectively ended campaign finance limits and allowed secretive contributions through "corporations", this new combine of the ultra-wealthy should not be viewed as just a political threat to the Democrats, but a threat to democracy.
Let me give you a run-down from my sulphur-scented files on these men who would be king-makers.
BILLIONAIRE 1: Ken Langone
::READ THE REST at (http://www.gregpalast.com/uber-vultures-the-billionaires-who-would-pick-our-president/#more-4813)www.gregpalast.com (http://www.gregpalast.com):::