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A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network
An anonymous reader writes "The California attorney general and the state's top election watchdog named the 'Koch brothers network' of donors and dark-money nonprofits as the true source of $15 million in secret donations made last year to influence two bitterly fought ballot propositions in California. State officials unmasked the Kochs' network as part of a settlement deal that ends a nearly year-long investigation into the source of the secret donations that flowed in California last fall."
Please, stop this madness, and stick to real news for nerds.
This story does not belong on this site.
How is this news for nerds?
I'm really excited about the Kock brothers activism in California. It is just free political speech. Something must be done to counter the sleazy money machine of the California public unions and the democrats.
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>socialists
Wow, it's almost as though you have absolutely no idea what that word means.
George Sorosis anyone?
Probably time to go find a new news site for technology.
"the politics are so distorted that some people assume that "liberal" means left wing. It doesn't. It means politically right in the middle."
That is the most twisted pile of crap i've heard in years.
current liberals have no clue where the middle is or even was in years past.
they live in their own little parnoid world telling each other stories about how evil anyone who isn't like them must be.
As bad as it would be if you were used to living in a nice suburb and then ended up in something kind of like Detroit, how much worse would it suck if you were born and raised in Detroit and never acquired the net worth or job skills to be able to viably move somewhere else.
A whole buch of people on Slashdot, including myself, "viably moved" between nations, while not being insanely rich in the first place. An Indian or Chinese citizen faces a far more formidable barrier than a US citizen; and still, there are many Indian and Chinese computer nerds busy at work in US companies. Even an illegal Mexican risks his life by crossing the desert. A citizen of Detroit risks nothing.
Besides, how much money does it take for a poor Detroit resident to grab a bag with spare clothes, say goodbye to his parents, and just walk away if he can't afford even an old car? Leaving Detroit is certainly valuable because he'd be better off just about anywhere else. Most importantly, he leaves his old circle of friends, and habits, and places, behind - those were not good for him, generally.
Another factor in all this, that I'm not positive the upper class really understands: If the middle class goes completely under, it takes the upper class with them, because the upper class's investment income depends ultimately on the consumer spending of everyone else.
The upper class understands this very well. However the plan is to "fundamentally change America" from a free market society, where consumer thinks for himself and votes with his money, into a socialist paradise of mandatory spending. The taxation scheme was already in place. Now Obamacare is plugged in - another piece of HUGE cost. The free market is being converted into something else - into a system where government oversees a bunch of nominally independent companies who, in fact, are all alike and operate under the same set of rules (making their products similar.) This is how the industry of USSR was set up.
Why to bother with all these transformations? Because the USA is not sustainable. The USA lost too many positions on top - of largest industry, of most qualified workforce, of best talent, of best science (that one is still fighting,) the best medicine, and many more. Super high tech areas will hold the longest, but they employ only a tiny percentage of the population. Service industry is the only avenue that is open to the rest - but it is also shrinking, given automation and under the press of reduced income (so instead of a restaurant, a jobless person eats at home.)
If there are no jobs, the mass of unemployed (for all reasons) will be growing. The new balance will be established, with a few managers, a few techies, and with a lot of foreign workforce who telecommutes from their countries. Just look at property taxes - commercial real estate is too expensive; it is certainly not competitive against Chinese facilities. If you have to have so many unemployed, you might just as well put them on a specific program that keeps them alive. Otherwise they will riot, and that wouldn't be good. The intent is to maintain this new configuration as long as possible, and print new USD at ever increasing rate. When the world drops the USD then it gets pretty bad pretty fast. But the US government is an expert in kicking the can down the road. Nobody at the helm is looking at the problem long term - everyone is only measuring political activity in terms at the office.
But you're okay with George Soros, a convicted felon donating Millions to Progressive Causes through secret organizations to hide where it is coming from?
IMHO, unless you speak to Soros and Koch in the same tone, you're nothing but a hypocrite. They are the same. But this is typical of the Progressives, they don't mind when it is THEIR guy mucking up the politics.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.