"War On Immigration" Enriches Private Prisons

From HERE:

PRIVATE PRISONS TO STATES: YOU’D BETTER START THROWING MORE PEOPLE IN PRISON OR WE’LL SUE

You know our country is on the wrong track when citizens’ freedom becomes bad for business and the states are siding with businesses by locking up more citizens.

Several years ago I wrote about the plague that’s called the private prison industry. A lot has changed since then, but not for the betterment of the American people. States aren’t filling enough beds for the private prison companies, so now, taxpayers are being sued because there aren’t enough criminals.

These aren’t frivolous lawsuits, either. Several government agencies knowingly signed contracts with private prison companies that guarantee a minimum occupancy or quota. In fact, In the Public Interest has found that nearly 2/3 of the contracts have quota clauses. In California, for example, there is a guarantee of 70 percent occupancy and in Arizona, nearly 100 percent.

If crime goes down, which it has been, either the taxpayer pays after the lawsuits or police start arresting people and courts start convicting people for the most petty crimes possible. Judges will also be encouraged to hand down extra long sentences because many of the prison contracts specify a certain length of time.

There is no evidence that more incarceration has anything to do with the drop in crime. There is also no evidence that private prisons save taxpayers money. In fact, it’s far more likely that they are costing the taxpayers.

Prisoners are our forgotten citizens. In fact, it can be argued that even ex-convicts are only partial citizens; many lose their right to vote and their right to own a gun; many on parole or probation lose their 4th and even 1st amendment rights. That being said, at least prisoners in government facilities have enough food. The same can’t be said of private prisons. Many prisoners become severely underfed while in private prisons.

Private prisons also provide legalized slavery. Many military supplies are made in private prisons and the prisoners are paid pennies an hour – money that is put right back in the private prison company’s coffers when it’s spent at the prison commissary.

There’s a good reason the country has little interest in ending the war on drugs or the war on immigration. Ending those wars would put private prisons out of business.

“Violent crimes are down overall, so how does the United States keep prisons stocked instead? Amplifying the war on drugs: there are now 11 times as many people in jail for drug convictions than there were in 1980, constituting 50% of the prison population. Longer mandatory minimum sentences also keeps the inmates in longer. Most people incarcerated for drug charges are non-violent, have no prior record, and are addicts rather than major drug-traffickers.

“Nearly half of all detained immigrants are held in privately owned facilities. The fact that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has stepped up its game to detain more undocumented immigrants – about 400,000 each year – has actually increased the need for private systems as most detainees will linger in the system waiting for court dates for months if not years.”

Source: Truth-Out

There has been some backlash, but not enough. Idaho ended its ties with the largest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America. Even Texas has closed down some private prisons, as has Mississippi.

Other states, though, are getting worse. Colorado, for example, shut down five state-run prisons and sent the prisoners to private facilities. In the meantime, Colorado taxpayers are still paying for the upkeep on the state facilities.

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For Globalism To Succeed, America Must Fail. So America Must Fail.

Always remember: the globalist banksters don't want your money. They print money at will; they already have all the money anyone could ever need. What they want is power over you by your belief that your are in debt to them (you're not, because they are all only fraudulent counterfeiters anyway).

;-)

From HERE:

In order to understand what is really going on around the globe in terms of the collapsing economy, we must set aside false mainstream versions of reality. When it comes to the EU and its current fiscal turmoil, it is very important to ignore Greece entirely. That’s right; forget about all the supposed drama surrounding Greek debt obligations. Will they find a way to pay creditors? Will they default? Will they make a deal with Russia and the BRICS? Will there be last-minute concessions to save the system? It doesn’t matter. It’s all a soap opera, an elaborate Kabuki theater run by international financiers and globalists.

It’s most important to remember the fundamentals. Greece will default on its debts. Period. There is no way around it. Maybe Greece makes a deal today, maybe it makes a deal tomorrow; but eventually, the country’s ability to stretch out its resources in order to meet its exponential liabilities will end. It is inevitable, and no last-minute “deal” is going to change the math at the core of it all.

Why are so many economists so worried about a little country like Greece? It’s because of a great lie: a dishonest narrative being perpetuated by the establishment that if Greece falls, defaults or leaves the EU, that could trigger a domino effect of other nations hitting a debt wall and doing the same thing. The lie is the claim that Greece will cause a “contagion.” There is no contagion. Multiple countries within the EU developed their own debt problems in spite of Greece over the past couple of decades, not because of Greece. Each of these countries, from Italy, to Spain, to Portugal, etc. has its own sovereign debt disasters to deal with. The only reason for a so-called contagion is the fact that these countries have been forced into interdependency through the EU structure.

Never forget this: The EU is in trouble not because of Greece, but because of forced supranational interdependency. The EU by all rights should not exist, nor should any centralized supranational single currency system.

I would also point out that globalist institutions like the International Monetary Fund are highly motivated to initiate disaster in the EU, despite some people’s assumptions that the EU is some kind of representative model of globalization. It’s not. If this were the case, then the IMF would not be stiffing Greece on debt aid while continuing to help Ukraine despite Ukraine’s similar inability to pay.

Why would the globalists want a partial breakup of the EU? What would they gain from such an event? That’s easy; they gain crisis, chaos and an opportunity to present a false dialectic.

Europe is not at all representative of what globalists really want in terms of economic and political structure. It is a kind of facsimile, a half measure. When Europe hits the bottom of the financial abyss and the bewildered public begins asking what happened, the elites will be there with an immediate explanation. They will claim that it was not the EU’s interdependency that was the problem. Rather, they will assert that the EU was actually not centralized enough. They will claim that in order for a supranational economy and currency to work, we must also have supranational governance. In other words, the system failed because it needs to be stabilized by global government.

The Fabian socialists will argue that it was the barbaric and outdated institution of national sovereignty that caused the full-spectrum crisis. They will completely gloss over the negative effects of an interdependent economy and the fact that a lack of redundancy leaves cultures vulnerable and weak. We’re all one big human village after all, so we should accept the idea that we all succeed or fail together. Free markets and individual innovation apparently have nothing to do with a thriving economic structure. What we really need is a hive mind system that turns us all into easily replaceable parts in a massive rumbling lawnmower that chews up our heritage, history and principles for the sake of some arbitrary greater good. It might be hard to tell in print, but hopefully my sarcasm is coming through loud and clear.

The fall of the EU is a means to an end for globalists. There is almost no nation or institution they will not sacrifice if that sacrifice can be exploited to further their goal of total global political and economic dominance. They don’t just want a completely centralized system; they want all of us to beg them to put that system in place. They want the masses to think it was all our idea. This is the most pervasive and effective form of slavery, when the slaves are manipulated into demanding their own enslavement, when the slaves are fooled into believing their enslavement is something to be proud of — a badge of honor, if you will.

The fall of the U.S. will be no different in this regard. We do not have a supranational structure like the EU. So our narrative for collapse will be slightly different, and the engineered lesson we are meant to learn will be carefully crafted.

You see, Americans are meant to play the role of the spoiled imperialists who are finally getting what we deserve, an economic punch in our tender parts. We are the new Rome, bread and circuses and all. And when the U.S. comes crashing down like Europe, the Fabians will be there yet again to admonish the greed inherent in national sovereignty and the destructive aspirations of power that must be squelched by a more evenhanded global political system. I don’t really know how many people out there realize this, but we are meant to play the bad guys in the global theater being put on by the elites. Americans are the villains.

Our debt generation by far outmatches that of the whole of EU nations combined, a fact I outlined in “The magic of establishment economics.” But unlike Greece, the U.S. has the option to print fiat at will in order to prolong punishment for our massive debt spending. However, as we have seen with recent market reactions to the very notion of an interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, such an event will trigger extensive outflows from stock markets and herald the end of the “new normal.” Again, why would the banksters do this? Why not keep interest rates at a constant near zero? Why is the Fed ignoring the hundreds of signals showing that the U.S. is in a recession and pushing ahead with discussion of interest rate hikes?

The Fed knows that the only things propping up American markets are free money and blind faith by the public that banks and government will act to stop any pain or economic suffering, should such a potential for crisis arise. When the free money is gone and that faith disappears, then we will have an epic catastrophe on our hands. The globalists within the Fed know this, and they want this. They want the fall of America because this will make way for the rise of what they often call the “great economic reset.”

This is not about contagion. There is no such thing. It is an excuse, a scapegoat designed to distract from the real problem. This is about a concerted effort over the past several decades by internationalists to maneuver Western cultures into a position of vulnerability. When people are weak and frightened, they become malleable. Social changes you would have never thought possible today become very possible tomorrow in the midst of a crisis. I believe we are now seeing the onset of the next great crisis, and the fundamentals of economy support my view. When the entire European system hangs by the thread of Greek debt and the entire U.S. system hangs by the thread of near zero interest rates and blind market faith, something is about to shatter. There is no going back from such a condition. There is only the path forward, and the path forward is not pleasant or comfortable and cannot be ignored.

We cannot forget that crisis is in itself a distraction as well. Whatever pain we do feel tomorrow, or the next day, or the next decade, remember who it was that caused it all: the international banks and their globalist political counterparts. No matter what happens, never be willing to accept a centralized system. No matter how reasonable or rational it might sound amid the terror of fiscal uncertainty, never give the beast what it wants. Refuse to conform to the dialectic. This is the only chance we have left to get back to true prosperity. Once we cross the line into the realm of worldwide institutionalized interdependency, we will never know prosperity or freedom again.

–Brandon Smith

So, Is Al-Quaeda Now Our Friend?

Zombie Wars

A new item in the Wall Street Journal tells us that our enemy’s enemy is becoming our friend.

In the three-way war ravaging Syria, should the local al-Qaeda branch be seen as the lesser evil to be wooed rather than bombed?

This is increasingly the view of some of America’s regional allies and even some Western officials. In a war now in its fifth year, in which 230,000 people have been killed and another 7.6 million uprooted, few good options remain for how to tackle the crisis.

These are not real wars. There are no real war aims, no enemy worthy of the name, and no real victories.

Instead, they are zombie wars. They go on and on… with changing targets and shifting alliances.

Why do we never win?

Because too many people benefit from losing... The media, the military, the contractors, the politicians, the lowlife defense contractors in Northern Virginia, the grandstanders in Congress, the CIA, the NSA… all have been zombified.

Jon Basil Utley in the American Conservative:

America doesn’t “win” its wars, because winning a war is secondary to other goals in our war making. Winning or losing has little immediate consequence for the United States, because the wars we start, Wars of Choice, are not of vital national interest; losing doesn’t mean getting invaded or our cities being destroyed.

Instead, the contracts get rolled over. The promotions keep coming. The money flows. Politicians get elected. And the zombies prosper.

In some ways, these zombie wars are better than real wars. Fewer people are killed – at least fewer of our people.

But it must be hard for a real soldier to fight a zombie war and retain his self-respect. He must pass the statue of Marshal Michel Ney, hang his head, and “hold his manhood cheap.”

A Real Hero

Ney – there was a real fighting man and a real hero.

His life is almost fantastic. So many battles. So many close encounters with death. So much raw courage. So much bravado. And so little regard for his self-interest.

It was on this day 200 years ago that Ney was leading the charge in a magnificently lunatic campaign. The irresistible force of his cavalry divisions met the immovable object of the British infantry squares – bristling with rifle bayonets – in the final clash at Waterloo.

But among the hundreds of other battles and skirmishes in which Ney almost died, Napoleon’s Russia campaign stands out. Ney was one of the 300,000 soldiers who invaded Russia… and one of the 10,000 who got out alive.

Ney went all the way – to Moscow and back – fighting the enemy and the freezing cold the entire way. He got his fourth wound, in the neck, at Smolensk and then was wounded again at Leipzig.

On the retreat, Ney commanded the rear guard, as the army desperately tried to make its escape. Temperatures fell to -22°F. Food ran out. The wagons sank in the mud during the day and froze in the mud at night.

The soldiers of the Grande Armée were shot, hacked to death, starved, and frozen… battling against fierce mounted Cossacks and regular Russian troops… over thousands of miles of barren territory.

And there, always on the move, was Ney – fighting, organizing, leading, and driving his men onward… while charging the enemy to drive them back.

It was Ney who covered the retreat over the Berezina River into Poland. And it was Ney who was the last Frenchman to leave Russia.

Napoleon named him the “Prince of Moscow.”

After the Guns Went Silent…

Back at Waterloo, it was Ney who charged the British cannons and dispersed their defenders.

But Ney didn’t muster infantry or artillery support. And he failed (nobody knows why) to spike the British cannons when they were in French possession… which would have rendered them useless for the rest of the battle.

Did Ney charge too soon? Should he have coordinated better with his infantry and artillery divisions?

Was he responsible for losing the battle?

After the cannons went silent and Napoleon limped back to Paris with what was left of his army… the complaints against Ney multiplied.

And then, Bonaparte gave up. And the war was over.

The new government, once again under the Bourbons, wanted Ney’s head. He was tried for treason and found guilty.

But unlike David Petraeus, who got nothing but a slap on the wrist for betraying his nation’s secrets, Ney got the firing squad.

Ney took command, just as he had always taken command of the troops before him:

Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her... Soldiers, fire!

Regards,

Bill
Paris, France  

Hitlery Supports Islam Over Christianity

...as do most if not all leftarded criminals.

From HERE:

(I wrote and published this in The Bob Livingston Letter in September 1999 during Bill Clinton’s illegal NATO war on Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War on behalf of the Muslims. It is once again pertinent in light of Hillary Clinton’s seemingly inevitable march to the Democratic Party nomination for president and her ongoing ties to the Muslim Brotherhood through her chief of staff — both in the 2008 election, during her time at the State Department, and in the current election: Huma Abedin. Abedin is the daughter of Saleha Mahmood Abedin who, along with the wife of former Egyptian President Mahammed Morsi, ran the women’s division of the Muslim Brotherhood. It explains the deep politics behind the Clintons’ ties to the New World Order.)

The following is a revelation of the direct tie-in of the Clinton administration and the New World Order. You are not supposed to get this translation. You will not hear it aired publicly. This is a peek into Bill and Hillary’s politics. It gives understanding and background.

Julia Duin of The Washington Times reports, “Muslims say Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most sympathetic First Lady on Islamic concerns to ever grace the White House.” (July 27, 1999, A4.) HRC and daughter Chelsea graced the cover of The Muslim Magazine last spring, both wearing hijabs, the traditional head covering dress of Muslim women. The Muslim Magazine is published by the Islamic Supreme Council of America, which is in secret occultic affiliation with well-known American secret societies.

HRC has called for Palestinian statehood, winning her even more Muslim accolades. Three years ago HRC opened up the White House for Eid el Fitr celebrations, including a Muslim feast, as part of the Islamic celebration of their “holy” month of Ramadan. The Muslim Magazine exalted, “The fact that the event took place within the walls of executive power is a seal of recognition of Islam in America.” Turnip-shaped minarets adorn multi-million dollar Muslim mosques, shrines, temples and schools in the U.S. In addition to the American temples of secret societies, they are springing up like weeds in virtually every American city.

In March, Mrs. Clinton was dispatched on an official U.S. diplomatic mission to three Islamic nations. She spoke in Cairo, praising Islam as a “religion of tolerance, of cohabitation, and not one of violence and extremism. It is a religion which defends human rights and honors the human being.” Lies, of course, but never has the First Lady had such effusive praise for Christianity, the religion of the West and supposedly the religion of her own Methodist faith. HRC’s words and actions reveal her fidelity to universalism, or the worldwide religion of man, known by several names and covers.

For his part, President Clinton has issued proclamations each year during Muslim high “holy” days, celebrating this Islamic power. You will recall that I quoted him in these pages several months ago in this regard, when Muslim “holy” men from all over the U.S. were welcomed into the White House to stand by their man and defend Clintonian (im)morality during the impeachment hearings. As Chronicles magazine noted, there is no separation of mosque and state with the Clintons.

Abe Hirschfeld’s newest endeavor for mass consumption, Talk magazine, has been all the media rage for its premier edition (September 1999), an interview with HRC by Lucinda Franks, in which HRC blames child abuse for Bill’s sexual predation. Talk also reveals what it calls the “spiritual intensity” of the First Lady. The lead paragraph of the report describes HRC standing barefoot, outside a mosque in Cairo, her head covered in Muslim fashion: “Quietly declining the slippers set aside for privileged visitors, she walks barefoot into the ancient mosque like a common Egyptian woman, her face turned away from the reporters and photographers.” Such humility. Such devotion to Allah!

What gives here? Why is the “liberal” Hillary Rodham Clinton sporting such “conservative” Muslim attire, which symbolizes alleged female subjection and inferiority in Islam? Why are the Clintons so outwardly supportive of a religion that makes cultural, religious and military/terroristic war on the Christian West? And what about those Muslim terrorists? There is evidence linking U.S. intelligence agents to the Muslim bombers of the World Trade Center — in fact, as their trainers and suppliers in bomb fusing and detonation. Also, the U.S. and NATO invaded a nominally Christian, Western nation (Serbia) on behalf of Muslim interests and the Muslim Kosovars. It is the first time the Christian West has turned its back on brethren and joined with the moorish hordes invading Europe. What goes on?

The Clinton religious and political agenda revealed in Islam is merely part of a general, gradual, revelation of the secret, universal religion of the New World Order. The occultic, Gnostic, Hermetic religion of the global elite is Oriental in origin but universal in its manifestation and effects, thanks to secret orders and societies and thanks to mass exoteric programming which shields the single religion with a confusing, array of seemingly separate faiths. Not one in a million can see it; those of you who can enjoy an insight, verge on a spiritual revelation.

On one hand, HRC can appear to be “conservative” while propagating Islam, and “liberal” when promoting Jewish interests. For example, consider that HRC just received the Henrietta Szold Award from Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc. According to Shoshana Bryen of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (which nation?), “Mrs. Clinton has been exclusively in favor of more government control, larger government programs and the socialization of medicine.” Hadassah and HRC are both widely known for their vehement public protest in support of abortion — the murder of unborn children — which is surely a crime under the moral law of the true Christian religion. HRC’s and Wild Bill’s platform is, therefore, easily recognized as that of the New World Order. It is the political platform spawned from occult beliefs.

On a practical basis, HRC’s reward is 1.6 million Jewish and 800,000 Muslim votes in New York, should she run for the U.S. Senate.

Is anybody watching? She has an equal appeal to Muslims and Jews. She has learned well her husband’s political strategy of “triangulation,” which itself is an occult formula derived from occult Kabbalic alchemy and iconography (the triangle being a symbol of phallic worship and power, as well as the modern symbol of sodomite revolution). It is no coincidence that the Skull and Bones Order initiate, Texas Governor George W. Bush, has also adopted this “triangulation” strategy to gather unprecedented Establishment and popular support for his candidacy for president. Bill, Hillary and “W.” as he is fondly called by the CFR-dominated media try to be all things to all people. “Diversity” is their mantra for the masses.

Triangulation is universalism. In politics this is the art of appealing to all ethnic groups, classes and races. The idea is to get the political support of all factions as the most direct route to winning an election and political power. There is no moral commitment to anybody or any thing except to Satan who controls the world system. This is why the only certainty about politics is deception. Bill and Hillary get the highest awards for immorality by Christian standards.

The masses have been deceived about religion as much as they have about politics, and probably more. Religion underpins the actions of all men, including the “wise men” of the Gnostic, occultic New World Order.

Gnosticism is the rule of the “knowing” global elite. Secret societies in the West unite seemingly opposing religious factions by the means of universalism. Yes, sure, this fact is as unacceptable to the programmed, propagandized masses as is the fact of political control through two seemingly opposite but unified parties. Only the naïve and controlled masses accept religious and political propaganda at face value.

The file of documentation proving the anti-Christian, anti-American communism and globalism of the Clintons, going back to their school days, is thick. In what is the most under-reported story of the year, we know, too, all about the Clinton administration’s subsequent high crimes and misdemeanors against the American people and nation, including treason for Red Chinese campaign cash, according to the testimony of Johnny Chung. The fact that Americans continue to accept the Clinton crime wave, refusing to hold him and HRC to account, is reason enough why the Clintons can now reveal their religious motivations, also with impunity. By revealing who and what they are during today’s reign of multiculturalism, the Clintons can lead the way as the New World Order begins recruiting Islamicized soldiers and citizens for total war on the American Christian tradition.

Americans no longer care about their own country, which is why it is theirs no longer. America is now the nation of the universalists. America has been pluralized, diversified and Orientalized. Because no one cares and because nothing will be done, the global power has decreed that it can now be revealed to the masses that America is the nation of Islam. It is the most under-reported story of the century.

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PortsWorld II: Obama Puts Foreign MUSLIM Company In Charge of American's Main Entry Port!

From WND:

So what if Obama put a foreign muslim company in charge of America's main port of 
entry? WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Nukes from Iran? PSHAW! Racists!

LIBERAL & PROUD

Port of terror: Obama exposing U.S. to new threat?

Exclusive: Ellen Ratner examines company's 35-year contract to operate in Florida

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Ellen Ratner is the White House correspondent and bureau chief for the Talk Radio News service. She is also Washington bureau chief and political editor for Talkers Magazine. In addition, Ratner is a news analyst at the Fox News Channel.

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Those of us in the media aren’t necessarily well known for having the longest attention span. By our very nature, we may be captivated by a story one week and then suddenly find ourselves unable to recall its most basic details when a new, juicy headline comes along.

This may be how the game is played in Washington, but it’s frustrating, especially when you remember a moment of panic that everybody else seems to move on from.

In 2006, that concern was over port security and was centered on President George W. Bush approving a deal with Dubai Ports World to operate shipping operations in six major American cities.

The media and the political establishment went ballistic over the revelation. Nine years later, however, a similar announcement is being met with relative silence.

Last year, the Obama administration formally approved a 35-year contract with Gulftainer to operate out of Florida’s Port Canaveral, a location that’s alarmingly close to a U.S. Air Force base, a submarine base and NASA’s Kennedy Space center. This week, the terminal officially opened.

If you haven’t heard of Gulftainer, you’re not alone. It is a company located in the United Arab Emirates, a confederation of nations that critics have charged is the origin for much funding for terrorist groups.

Since Gulftainer is leasing the port and not purchasing the property, the company reportedly did not have to submit to a national security review.

This may be the norm for how the federal government operates, but it is troubling.

A quick Google search reveals that conservative blogs have suggested the company may have shipped weapons through its ports to terror groups in Iraq and may have help helped Iran ship weapons to Gaza.

Gulftainer has vehemently denied the allegations, but, baseless or not, the suggestions have been acknowledged by Florida Today, a media company owned by Gannet, and have prompted protests at the site of Gulftainer’s terminals.

Making the story all the more interesting is the suggestion from critics that there are lingering ties between Gulftainer’s executive brass and the Clintons and the fact that the deal was ultimately signed off on by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who served within the Clinton White House as chief of staff.

This might be a large stretch, but it is out there.

Whether or not Gulftainer is cause for alarm is beyond my judgment, but there is nevertheless a stunning level of hypocrisy in Washington, D.C., over the issue.

Neither the media nor most lawmakers have opted to discuss this openly, despite media and lawmakers leading the charge against Dubai Ports World and the Bush administration in 2006.

The vitriol surrounding the 2006 controversy was one that had major consequences for Bush. It came shortly after he both failed to receive congressional approval for both his Supreme Court nominee and Social Security reform and, in many ways, seemed to be the straw that broke the camel’s back and cemented his status at the time as a lame-duck president.

Many of the bipartisan collection of lawmakers who lead the charge on the initial Dubai deal are still politically active today, including a former New York senator who pushed for a 45-day review to look into security concerns.

That senator was Hillary Clinton, and like so many others in Washington, she seems to have forgotten something that was once a very, very big deal.

Where are they now? When are they going to speak about this, and when is the press going to report it, too?

Media wishing to interview Ellen Ratner, please contact media@wnd.com.

Boehner Works With a Group To Spend $1 Million on Disastrous Pro-TPA Ads

From HERE:

Another political organization group has come out to the public and announced a $1 million advertising campaign in favor of Trade Promotion Authority. Working alongside Speaker of the House, John Boehner, the American Action Network is spending $374,000 for national TV ads of Fox News, $250,000 on mail ads, $200,000 on digital advertising, and $75,000 on radio spots. This non-profit organization does not disclose the donor’s money which leaves everyone wondering: who exactly is behind this massive ad campaign?

By looking at other non-profit organizations, we can get a sneak peak at who is truly supporting TPA and NAFTA-style free trade agreements.  U.S. Business Coalition for TPP, Trade Benefits America Coalition, and the The Progressive Coalition for American Jobs are all organizations similar to the American Action Network that have spent time and effort pushing in favor of TPP and TPA. Members of these coalitions include Verizon Communications, Toyota, Target Corporation, General Mills, Inc., Apple Inc, and dozens of other multinational corporations.

This massive ad campaign has been strategically thought out and will be aimed in certain key districts. It is meant to drive the House GOP votes which our sources say that there simply aren’t enough “yea” votes to pass TPA.

TPA is a controversial bill that gives power to the executive branch to negotiate trade treaties. TPA limit’s Congress’ ability to better a trade deal by subjecting members of Congress to 90 days of reviewing the trade agreement, prohibiting any amendments on the implementing legislation, and giving them an up or down vote.

It was recently released that many of the “yea” votes in the Senate were bought by big money hiding behind non-profit organizations. A total of $1,148,971 dollars were given to Senators for “yea” votes.

Corporations are taking control of what policies are approved or blocked in the U.S. We cannot sit around while corporations decide what is “good” for America or not! This is suppose to be a democracy, not a plutocracy! Contact your representatives and let them know that you do not want them to vote in favor of TPA!

Corporations Bought Senate “Yay” Votes in TPA

From HERE:

Many think our government is for sale. By taking a look at the facts provided by theFederal Election Commission, it is easy to understand where they are coming from.

Looking back just a few weeks ago, the Senate voted on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the controversial bill that gives power to the executive branch to negotiate treaties. Fast Track/TPA limit’s Congress’ ability to better a trade deal by subjecting members of Congress to 90 days of reviewing the trade agreement, prohibiting any amendments on the implementing legislation, and giving them an up or down vote. The first round began early in May when TPA was blocked. Many Democrats stood together, a rare picture, and voted against TPA from even being debated. However, 48 hours later, and the TPA bill came back and passed cloture. What happened in those 48 hours that changed the minds of those opponents so easily?

Corporate members of the U.S. Business Coalition for TPP rushed to the Senate side and started handing out money left and right for “yea” votes. A total of $1,148,971 dollars were given to Senators for “yea” votes.

• 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.

However when we start seeing the numbers from each individual Senator, we find even more shocking results.

• Bennet, Murray, and Wyden – all running for re-election in 2016 – received $105,900 between the three of them.
• Senator Rob Portman of Ohio received $119,700 from 14 different corporations
• Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia received $102,500 in corporate contributions.
• Arizona senator and former presidential candidate John McCain received $51,700 in the first quarter of 2015.

Those numbers are absolutely staggering. Corporations are taking control of what policies are approved or blocked in the U.S. We cannot sit around while corporations decide what is “good” for America or not! This is a democracy, not a plutocracy! Contact your representatives and let them know that you do not want them to vote in favor of TPA!

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As for What's In It? See here:

http://unclevladdi.blogspot.ca/2015/06/more-dangerous-than-islam.html