This is a good opportunity to emphasize a key point that is often missed. In the research and discussion outline yesterday, about Joe Biden’s EPA publishing new regulations for the auto industry, we dove deep into the background of what actually creates the issue. {GO DEEP}
The issue that should concern everyone is not the Joe Biden administration and their ideology around climate change, or the EPA, or even the viability of EVs themselves. The issue that should draw the biggest concern is how the regulation originates; what is the impetus; who are the beneficiaries?
The regulation itself did not originate in the EPA, nor was it created from an origination process amid climate ideologues in the administration. Everything starts with BlackRock positioning their assets. From that empirical point, all political activity then takes place, which includes the regulations to support the BlackRock objective.
A massive, multinational investment firm is in control of political outcomes in the USA. That should be the emphasis, not necessarily the regulation that flows as an outcome of that control, and certainly not the debate over whether EVs are a viable alternative to combustion engines.
BlackRock, and the control agents of finance, banking and investment, would like nothing more than to see Congress have debates about climate change, the viability of EVs as an alternative to combustion engines, the nuances of power grid generation from alternative energy sources, the scale of energy need as estimated and debated for the next two decades, etc.
All these points of debate become useful political policy issues that divide and contrast. Sure, Congress would love to hold hearings about EV viability, U.S. grid compliance, the need for subsidized charging stations, etcetera, etcetera. Because what is not discussed in this debate is where the subject matter comes from.
BlackRock positions their money to benefit from policy. BlackRock, like others, then manipulate the policymakers to support their position. We The People end up in a debate over EVs, while the BlackRock executives dance merrily into cocktail hour, discuss the latest climb in their value, and debate which politician should get a cut of the proceeds.
Nowhere in the political process on Capitol Hill does anyone ask, “How did the BlackRock investment group know to support Chinese EV plants in Mexico?”
The obvious fire of corporatism/fascism is ignored while the politicians, and us, debate the ramifications of the smoke, EVs.
Democrats would love to debate EVs and say the Republicans are planet killers. Republicans would love to debate EVs and say the Democrats are taking away your freedom.
Meanwhile, corporations are running the U.S. government…. and people are oblivious.
The elected political representatives are dancing tools, useful for the purposes of distracting the American people, and funded by the corporations who need them to continue the distractions.
In a very similar fashion to how laws are written by K-Street corporations and sold by lobbyists, so too are regulations originated by outside groups and then pushed into the administration. The politicians and/or bureaucrats in the administration then benefit financially from implementing the regulation.
The issue with Joe Biden’s EPA mandate for EV use is not an issue over which form of energy development is more useful for the passenger transportation needs of American consumers. The issue with Joe Biden’s EPA mandate is that BlackRock originated it.
Once you elevate to the level of root cause, then you start to ask, “What else is BlackRock originating?”
2022 – NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) – BlackRock Inc’s (BLK.N) chief executive, Larry Fink, said on Thursday that the Russia-Ukraine war could end up accelerating digital currencies as a tool to settle international transactions, as the conflict upends the globalization drive of the last three decades.
In a letter to the shareholders of the world’s largest asset manager, Fink said the war will push countries to reassess currency dependencies, and that BlackRock was studying digital currencies and stablecoins due to increased client interest.
“A global digital payment system, thoughtfully designed, can enhance the settlement of international transactions while reducing the risk of money laundering and corruption”, he said.
Russia enters Ukraine Feb 24, 2022. Less than 4 weeks later, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is outlining a dollar-based central bank digital trade currency.
Huh. Imagine that.
Everything else is chaff and countermeasures.
Looking at the “Wall Street Journal” this morning with an article about the US car manufacturers being GIVEN more time by our federal government for phasing out gas engines . . .
I pray that people with sense by some miracle get back in charge of manufacturing companies who will tell the federal government to go take a hike.
Only when Trump is elected, then we bust up Blackrock.
Not sure how to bust up a spider web.
Not to be a smart ass, but these people are in every single aspect of government, religion, and business.
They are not to be confused with Free Market Capitalists. But they are far more dangerous.
BR is not going anywhere unless the entire BOD is removed from power.
Edit for clarity. – I am not sure we can disentangle them from control of the largest pool of REAL money in the world.
The retirement system of the USA. We could crash the entire system with the wrong move.
Start arresting key players for sedition. It’s a political crime, so the standards are different than criminal or civil actions.
Interrogations and investigations can uncover many aspects of the conspiracy. Let it build from there.
(Arrest the lawyers, too.)
BR controls the DOJ and FBI. Ain’t happening.
Oh my! We should all quit struggling and accept our masters. Thanks for saving us time and energy EZG.
Agree its challenging, but PDJT has figured out how.
Its really not just BR, its BR/Fidelity/Vanguard, and yes while I personally advise EVERYONE to consider cashing out their IRA/401K’s, I know far too many haven’t figured out what a con it is, and won’t get out before the Great taking.
If it sounds too good to be true, it IS!
Ugggh…
I have told you all that my husband recently passed away leaving me with a mess of fiduciary responsibility, much of that has been trying to get untangled from Vanguard investments. You know what I found out, nearly every Mutual Fund, IRA, Stock fund, etc. etc.. is tangled to Vanguard. It is extraordinary frustrating…
Very sorry for your loss, TT. Can only imagine the difficulty of managing both your grief and financial matters. Prayers up for you and your family.
Thank you.
My condolences. At this time, reading your post and guessing at the extent of investments involved, I suggest doing what I did with the family trust, hiring professional help to manage the transition. It ran around 1% of assets but saved me time and frustration, primarily, not to mention the monetary part.
I’m doing the same thing right now with my own estate planning and economic warfare and have a check for five grand waiting to be picked up on its way to my lawyer. Economic warfare is legal warfare. My last lawyer saved me that retainer in spades and kept me away from the kinetic button, the value of which was priceless.
I’m just a poor guy in a modest house in the forest but my dad did crunch financial numbers for the government and I operated a business for nearly 40 years so take it FWIW. God bless and best wishes.
Thank you! I have hired the professionals and they have been wonderful. The sticker shock was quite something but certainly worth the costs.
Blessings to you!
Very sorry to hear of your loss;
similar situation over a decade ago and had to learn things I never thought possible – and found just take it one day at a time, remind yourself that ‘you’ve got this’ now and then, and if it feels like somehow you’ve taken a step backwards remind yourself that you’ve already moved three steps ahead so keep at it;
the saying “slowly at first, then all at once” can also be a positive thing when untangling knots like this.
Thank you Bessie. Finally getting on the right track and yes the slowly at first theme does work both ways, thankfully.
And then there are dingalings like me who are just arrogant or stupid enough to try and time the fall.
Find the plug. Whatever they are invested in, don’t buy, don’t use it. We win when we stop giving to them.
Donilon/Dimon are behind Disney’s road trip into trans perversion. Iger is their bestest buddy! Its all by design
And, the reason they are so into the trans perversion is because they are huge stockholders of Big Pharma.
A trans patient, especially a kid, is a patient for life.
Bust up? How about vaporize!! They’re a hornets nest and they need to be eviscerated. Turn them into what they named themselves, a lump of coal.
Novel, but what about our co-patriots pensions and retirement accounts? Move them to Vanguard, Fidelity, State Street?
Sundance has stated the EV connection was to show you an example of how Black Rock has manipulated the entire political process to benefit their financial interest from the point of getting China to fund factory construction in Mexico to Biden making mandates to force out cars that are not electric. Black rock is running the government and politicians are just letting them do it knowing that it is against their constituents interest but benefits the politicians financial funding. EV is not the point. The mechanism of manipulation by Black rock is the Point!
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I apologize for being slow, but in the example of EVs Where is black rock making the money. Is China paying money under the table to them in the financing ? Just trying to understand it all
Simply put, BlackRock is investing in EV companies. To make money, BlackRock need EV companies to succeed. To have EV companies succeed, BlackRock has manipulated the government to introduce policy in favor of EVs.
China funding EV construction in Mexico is a cost saving to BlackRock worth billions.
Adding to that, Sundance has also pointed out that corporations and their lobbyists create and write legislation. Heck, the politicians don’t have to do much of anything except attend cocktail receptions and dinner parties and accept bribes. Corporations write the legislation and Congress just approves it.
Remember when we learned the Pelosi’s had invested heavily in EVs right before it was mandated all government vehicles be EVs. The Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm held/or still holds massive amounts of stock in EVs.
Thank you ! So even if the cars don’t sell that well BlackRock hasn’t had to invest that much , and can still get good returns on their investment.
Ev’s may not sell well.
The aim seems to be to get rid of as many cars as possible and restrict air travel.
>Bill Gates has bet on Tesla not succeeding.
>’Build-to-rent’ homes and 15 minute cities are bring promoted.
>Housing ownership is being made unaffordable.
>Investment companies are buying/building public storage units. (Blackstone major shareholders are Vanguard/BlackRock). Public Storage major shareholders are Vanguard/BlackRock)
China has recently granted BlackRock access to their mainland for business.
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Blackrock is financing the building of several couple billion dollar Chinese EV plants in Mexico.
They used their purchased government to ban GOD given fuel vehicles and force Americans to buy Chinese EVs.
I suspect they sense an opportunity to profit here.
“We have enough liquid gold under our feet to power the world and pay off our National Debt.”
~ President Donald J. Trump
I will add – for 200 years.
More than long enough to build up clean fission and fusion to produce all the electricity we could ever need and which will allow us to create boutique hydrocarbon fuels straight from CO2 and water that are perfectly tailored to the intended use.
The thing I despise most about the entire climate crap besides the slavery bit is that it is an ideology founded on hopelessness and despair and hate.
Fear mongering.
It is such a large web of corruption. Their “deals” are affecting so many lives in their own country and they don’t care.
and it appears a lot of that Blackrock money comes from public pension funds (think California’s pension funds, school system and university pension funds) all going into China!
They have a contract to run Federal Employee funds also.
Build ev plants and then force the largest economy in the world to buy the crap.
BlackRock grew from a small company into the behemoth it is today mostly by buying pieces of other companies, usually when those other companies were in distress. BLK’s big growth spurt happened in the ’08 financial crisis when they gobbled up chunks of Bear Stearns, AIG and Barclays. (BLK was enabled by and given financial assistance from US Dept Treasury and the Fed in buying these “troubled assets.”)
BlackRock grew by preying on other companies who failed. They like seeing other companies fail. More failures presents them with more opportunities. This is one reason they push so hard for so many initiatives likely to disrupt (or destroy) entire industries and wipe out established companies.
It’s called corporate Fascism !
Inverse fascism.
By Black Rock and the DS. Those people were specifically placed by the government to take advantage of the government. True fascism.
suejeane,
Its not just or primarily the Feral Govt.
Multinationals do not make money the old fashioned way;
They borrow $ to make payroll, and keep rolling over the debt, in order to pump up share price artificially, over what it would be if they actually paid out their payroll.
Hence, they are ADDICTED TO DEBT, just like the Givernments, and most individuals.
Point is, its not the Federal mandates alone, Blackrock/Fidelity/Vanguard, on 3-headed monster, detirmines whether the companies can continue to borrow, or not.
Thats why Bud Light went with Mulvaney, and thats why GMC will continue to pursue EV’s.
The obvious fire of corporatism/fascism is ignored while the politicians, and us, debate the ramifications of the smoke, EVs.
Well said, Sundance. This is what modern fascism looks like. I predict that the American public, preferring individual freedom and liberty, are not going to go along with this. Then what happens?
The “vigilante” eviction in New York City and armed residents in Hartford, CT patrolling their neighborhoods is but a taste of what is yet to come. As history documents perfidy to the people results in gruesome outcomes. Biblical.
EV mandates, are about control and money, but even more important then that, the continued destruction of the United States.
You mean school house rock got it all wrong?
Dysfunction Junction got it right.
They got it right when they made it in the 70s. It’s definitely not how things work today.
Even then it was wrong.
Communism was conceived the very year of our Founding, they have been busy since, making substantial progress in the early nineteen hundreds.
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Thank you!
So when Joe was installed I said to my wife… well now we find out if it was China or the big $$ crooked corps that installed him. Now we find out the answer is “yes”.
Sundance though, seriously, this is the type of content that gets people suicided: “A massive, multinational investment firm is in control of political outcomes in the USA. ” be careful.
This story is why I no longer own vehicles made after 2010: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-ceo-of-chesapeake-energy-aubrey-mcclendon-dies-in-car-crash-a-day-after-indictment/
What technology was installed in 2010 that made previous vehicles “safe”?
Remote access to control a vehicle by outside actors.
Author, Maj-Gen (ret) Anthony Tata (and a Trump appointee), has a plot in his novel Beseiged, where autonomous cars are loaded with explosives.
The remote access to the cars includes ‘swarm mentality’ programming, where the autonomous cars are programmed to target separate sites, but can also swarm like a flock of birds to attack a site.
I’m not sure of the OP’s reasoning but two relatively new technologies can certainly be open to back door hacking and control…. the pushbutton start feature and drive by wire features.
Ever had a ‘re-learn’ on the throttle by wire system? Everything I drive still has a rod or cable from the gas pedal to the carburetor or throttle body or injection pump (I have all three in my stable)
Also, at some point newer vehicles came with cellular and satellite technology from the factory as standard equipment.
Who’s in control?
Or have a manual transmission. Taking it out of gear solves any overrevving engine…
(Plus it will never be carjacked.)
Yes, and we could discuss the extent to which manual trans have been phased out. How many younger readers have learned how to drive them or have one.
I rowed a four, five or ten speed daily for many years and still have two in my diesel trucks, both near 40 years old now.
Also, a discussion of how any modern day manual trans are connected to the engine would likely be fruitful as well. There are more methods now than a simple clutch disc with a mechanical or direct hydraulic linkage.
I have a 2020 Lincoln Nautilus. My car insurance went from $1,000 last year to $1,500 this year. I have seen mentionings of insurance companies being fed information from your car, so I was wondering if, since I am known to go a couple of miles over the speed limit occasionally, if this is the reason my insurance jumped so high. My agency got me new insurance for $1,350 but that is not much of a saving.
I saw on a John Williams podcast that yes, they are selling our data to insurance companies
If you desire to get into the granular details of what technologies are installed in your Nautilus, the Ford/Lincoln (is Mercury still around?) forums out there have the latest and best information IMO.
Here’s a sample:
https://lincolnforums.com/forums/forums/lincoln-nautilus-forum-lincoln-mkx-forum.67/
My standard response today is, if we can imagine it, the Communists have war-gamed it or actually implemented it, whether we’re aware of it or not.
Hence, my newest vehicle is a mechanical injected diesel powered truck built in the mid-80’s in Kansas City. It has a speedometer cable which can easily be pulled out of the manual trans if I wanted to. No need.
The first question to be asked is did he take the bioweapon shot. If not then maybe look at the car, but start with the shot.
Pre COVID event. Main thrust is a dude in the know on his way to testify suicides by driving a large modern SUV into a brick wall at 120+ mph… not the logical way to kill oneself as you may survive!
I’m remembering someone in California, name of Michael Hastings (??), whose car hit a tree at a high rate of speed. Conjecture was that someone else was in control of his car.
Right after Gen Stanley McCrystal cryptically threatened him for outing him on Afghanistan shenanigans.
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McChrystal is a dirty lefty globalist.
I suspect one big reason Biden’s policy decisions are so disjointed and seemingly random is that he is bouncing around trying to pay-back all the bribes from all the various criminal entities and enemy regimes. One day he does something to pay back China. The next day it’s favors for Iran. Then it’s the Teamsters. Then the SEIU. etc.
This was my main take away from the article on EV’s. Everyone is always asking who is in charge. Who is controlling our government. Well, you have your answer. Blackrock is the hydra.
And the big banks that control BlackRock.
And they have for centuries.
I was listening to a fella who died and went to hell, gruesome stuff as you would imagine (side note, different for all people and i find that very interesting, infinite ways to reside in agony.) Anyway, he said that people were falling into hell at a very fast rate. He said “we hear about how many go to heaven but it just isnt so”.
Nothing happens without Gods consent, period. God cannot control one aspect and not all if he is in control. They would bleed into each other and decisions would have to be made against one or the other.
All that to say one important thing. Go to the source and get right with God, all the rest will fall into place. We kick against the goads, the person we see in the mirrior, no other.
These cars will go nowhere without government handouts, even tesla. Wind farms, solar panels, all green energy is not real it is to bankrupt our nation and destroy our country. Of course china wants in on that.
Well, it’s both. Yes, understanding the undemocratic, fascist machinations for how corporations introduce & enact policy is crucial to stopping & fixing it. But the EPA has been slapped down before for over-stepping their authority and the topic of climate change & EV utility is a debate worth having. These EPA edicts would seem unconstitutional, plus EVs are not climate friendly nor viable large scale for several decades. I don’t have faith in the old guard GOP (GOPe) but the new blood/MAGA injection plus our leader, DJT, can amass popular support to quash the EPA mandates while increased sunlight is focused on Black Rock. So, first things first – inform & awaken the public to the EV plans & the widescale destructive impacts it will cause (& as much as possible, Black Rock’s role) so that we win elections and earned the public mandate to stop the EV madness. Then we deal with Black Rock & the rest of the global fascists.
This isn’t really about climate change or even EPA mandates.
Those are the tools they use to gain & consolidate power (& wealth). Majority of people are against these policies, even more when informed on the destructive consequences. In order to stop & declaw the corporate fascists from controlling our govt, first have to stop the EPA & EV push, which presumes electing Trump & MAGA reps. When the EVs are stopped & the China/Mexico auto plants blown up it removes a big BR tentacle (stopping massive $ flow). Peace deal for Ukraine & shutting down the planned BR/JPM reconstruction will do same. Trump needs to hire good Treasury Secretary and untangle USA from bad global (UN, NATO, WTO, WHO, IMF, etc.) policy, programs & treaties.
Gift Joe the same model EV the Turtle’s SIL Angela Chao was driving.
And load him up with ‘likker.’ She was driving very drunk.
Or so the narrative the government wrote and the media sold said….
That’s one thing the Treehouse has reinforced; my aging and sometimes waning skepticism. Thanks 🙂
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
― Benito Mussolini
“The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state ”
― Benito Mussolini
The nightmare of fascism is when the Corporation becomes the state.
Yes! And the Mexican EV factories that China is building, the crippling EPA regulations on American cars that will bring the UAW down. No one wants to buy the horrific EVs that are being made here, which will lead us to no American gas/diesel vehicles in the future. Voila! Only Chinese/Blackrock made in Mexico EVs available for those of you who have the funds every one else…. 15 minute cities for you with Blackrock owned homes and apartment complexes.
Diabolical
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It is diabolical. We all saw the thousands of EVs stranded this past winter…so much for boiling temperatures and global warming/climate change, the world is going to end.
They’ve been distorting the ICE vehicle market for a while now.
Zero destroyed gazillions of “clunkers.”
During the Plandemic every single ICE manufacturer quietly dropped their economy lines.
You cannot buy a Toyota Yaris or a Honda Fit, but they’ll have EVs soon for the plebes that would normally purchase such cars.
“A massive, multinational investment firm is in control of political outcomes in the USA.”
I did see this point in the blog posting yesterday.
My heart immediately believed that this was not the first Corporation to have successfully accomplished this act.
My heart also assumed that guarantees against tariffs might have been given by the Corporation to its Partners.
If so, then the Guarantor indicates “prophetic knowledge” concerning the Nov. 5 election results.
This last belief of my heart is more disturbing to me than the ownership of American policy and economics by the Corporation.
Can’t achieve their goals if they can’t put their minions in positions of power. The ‘fix’ was in.
The bottom line as I see it is EV’s won’t fly, because consumers don’t want them and can’t afford them…This country won’t put up with having no mode for transportation when they’ve been use to combustion engine transportation all these years…There would be such civil unrest, the like of which this country hasn’t seen since the civil war.
Really great Troll here divert attention to EV again and hint at civil unrest. The government is being run by the global corporations like Black Rock is the POINT!
Yes. There seems to be a lot of posters here diverting conversation away from the point of Sundance’s article. The headline says it all and yet, we have to wade through post after post trying to turn the conversation AWAY from the truth.
Blackrock is Fink and Fink is Blackrock.
In 1988, under the corporate umbrella of The Blackstone Group, Fink co-founded BlackRock and became its director and CEO. When BlackRock split from Blackstone in 1994, Fink retained his positions, becoming chairman in 1998, after BlackRock became independent. His other positions at the company have included chairman of the board , chairman of the executive and leadership committees, chair of corporate council, and co-chair of the global client committee.
Fink, a lifelong democrat, had business relationships with Obama’s first Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and additional members of the Obama economic recovery team.
In 2016, Fink aspired to becoming Hillary Clinton’s Treasury Secretary.
CEO Larry Fink famously “built a shadow government” of former agency officials as part of an influence initiative to become Hillary Clinton’s Treasury Secretary during her 2016 campaign; but that effort was for naught when Hillary lost.
Albeit a newbie, he is tied to 2 of the 3 members of the American, political, criminal triad of: clinton / o-bummer / w(bush).
Mendacious
Obstruculous
Obfuscation
And the COW Triad were all USIC assets.
Watch this! Blows up the climate cult.
Do you think the topic is climate change after reading Sundance’s articles of yesterday and today? SMDH!
Climate the movie(The Cold Truth)
Watch it if you dare.
Do you think the topic is climate change after reading Sundance’s articles of yesterday and today? SMDH!
Read the headline of the article if you dare. Thanks for failing to comprehend and also for trying to derail the conversation.
So one question is how many of us have investments in BR? Could BR be brought to heel if enough of the citizenry got out?
A big enough bank run will only spur them to whip their agents into action.
Hastily, on their part.
It pretty much will guarantee an economic crash. Not that can be avoided entirely as that is already baked into the cake with the house of cards that the markets have become.
Always tradeoffs in making choices. The question you have to ask yourself if it is worth certain suffering to deal with this now, or worse in the future?
Who’s talking about a bank run?
Blackrock/Fidelity/Vanguard operate pension plans, IRA’s, 401k’s and while I WISH everyone would take their $ out, and pay the one time 10% penalty, EVERYONE, and even MOST people are not, sad to say.
One can avoid the penalty if they transfer to a private IRA or Roth IRA in the individual’s total control.
Been there done that.
Have done better doing my own investing that I did when I had the 401ks, despite sacrificing company matching.
It can be done!
Yes, a run on retirement and investment assets would be a reasonable start. I did it over a few years, starting in 2012. Glad I did.
As you posit, most folks won’t suffer or bleed money to make a point or support a cause. However, I do note that plenty of ordinary folks take hard earned money and give it to politicians. 🙂
Imagine if every Trump supporter did what you suggest. I’d like to see how the PTB’s would prop up the financial industry then.
BTW, when I made my break, I made it clean. IOW, the proceeds didn’t get parked in another financial institution. I buried them, in dirt. Dirt, they’re not making any more of it 🙂
A summary: A massive, multinational investment firm is in control of political outcomes in the USA. (“Multinational” includes all western countries)
Everything starts with BlackRock positioning their assets.
Then, BlackRock begins the “Regulatory capture” phase…
BlackRock, and other outside groups, write and push regulations into 1) the Administration, or 2) the Congress.
The politicians and/or bureaucrats in the Administration or Congress are paid off to implement the regulation.
Don’t argue an ‘issue’. Argue the ‘origin’ of the ‘issue’. Congress debating ‘issues’ is a sign they are covering for BlackRock who originated the ‘issue’.
Ask, “What else is BlackRock originating?” (either themselves, or through a company they are a major shareholder of.)
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Therefore, If everything starts with positioning of Assets…
Who is buying storage companies? Who is building new storage sites? Why the sudden need to buy/build storage sites?
Who is building large ‘build-to-rent’ housing projects that include, or are near, supermarkets, restaurants and entertainment?
Who bought (at an ‘excessive price’) Ancestry family history company, which includes millions of family trees and millions of DNA samples? Who owns Find-a-Grave, a website that links families via gravesites.
Who does the Church of the Latter Day Saints – the owner of the worlds biggest family tree (“FamilySearch”)- partner with?
Why the overpriced interest of investment companies in DNA and family tree companies?
If ‘Regulatory Capture’ is the phase after ‘positioning of their assets’, what is coming next?
Ah, we have an enlightened one.
DNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Targeted.
‘They’ want everyone’s DNA.
But, who is the primary target? 👀 👀
Nice observation.
And Joe’s Corvette is battery operated, right?
Is that what you got from the headline?? Do you still think that this is about electric vehicles? Who cares if Pedo Joe has a battery powered Corvette?
Blackrock is our government. We do not have representation. We do not have a Republic.
And Joe’s Corvette is battery operated, right?
No, but Jill’s ride is.
Did Dutch step into it again? 😆
Oh, nevermind, different commenter.
“Dammit, Jim, she’s a doctor!”
Dayum
Runs on burnt classified docs.
It’s really very simple when you “follow the money”, who is the boss? Look to the WEF with Klaus Schwab the public relations face of BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Berkshire Hathaway (I added BH to cover any doubting Thomas’s, the Oracle of Omaha “Warren Buffet” is up to his nostrils in swamp ooze) …own “controlling” interest of 700 of the Fortune 1000 and I’d bet all of K-Street (K-Street is where the demons lobbyist cloister in DC aka The Swamp to disperse the payoffs ).
Invariably who is their boss?
The Western Central Banks, The Bank of International Settlements, The Bank of Rome, The City of London (The Square Mile), most know their PR firm the WEF and their perv leader Klaus Schwab. They own everything and I do mean everything, this includes you and I (your SS number is essentially your Bar Code).
Our government is a captured operation, Executive, Legislative and Judicial…state & federal.
Act accordingly. Be prepared keep God and family close, the demons will not stop, they will have to be stopped.
Ultra-MAGA!
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Great encapsulated observation!
“Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. National I must remain, and in that way I like all other Americans can render the amplest service to the world. The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come as in the years that have gone. Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”– Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., August 12, 1919
Boy, you let Joe and Hunter go to Beijing unchaperoned and be filmed naked with Chinese children, and the next thing you know, Joe is giving away the auto industry, your Trans Am has been outlawed and you’re camped out at a broken charging station in your Flintstone-model Chinese Golf Cart, trying to get enough juice to drive across the town of Bedrock.
Or is it the town of BlackRock, aka, Washington, D.C.?
No wonder they want to talk about “bloodbaths!” instead of Buicks.
Or maybe it’s all a brilliant yet bizarrely counter-intuitive ploy to win the votes of Michigan Autoworkers by sending their jobs to Matamoros. It probably sounded better in the original Mandarin.
Obviously, they are not relying on the votes of American workers, but on the votes of CheatWare Voting Machines...another exciting product Made by China!
Stealing your job, stealing your vote, stealing your country, it’s all the same to them.
It would have been cheaper–and much better for America–to simply let Joe back his Mid-Life Crisis ‘Vette up to the Treasury Building, pack it with newly-printed Biden $Billion-dollar bills, and drive off into the sundowner sunset.
Straight-up Theft is vastly preferable to Bribery and Treason, the hallmarks of this Shanty Irish Oligarchy.
Yabba-dabba-do!
“Did you hear, Fred–Trump said “bloodbath”!”
Rest in the Vine: Biden Gifts the American Auto Industry to BlackRock and His Chinese Superiors
BlackRock is a cesspool of pure evil. CEO Tom Donilon’s brother Mike Donilon is Biden’s chief legal counsel. Tom Donilon’s wife is Catherine Russell head of UNICEF and was once 2nd lady Jill Biden’s chief of staff. They all at one time were suckling the teet of Daddy Obama.
Thank you for connecting some dots for me.
https://www.unicef.org/about-unicef/executive-director
Who needs Blue Helmets all over American Streets when they can just take over your government and Corporations?
“From 2020 to 2022, Ms. Russell served under President Joe Biden as Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. She previously served from 2013 to 2017 as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State, where she integrated women’s issues across all elements of U.S. foreign policy, represented the United States in more than 45 countries, and worked in partnership with other governments, multilateral organizations, and civil society. She was the principal architect of the groundbreaking “U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls.”
Previously, Ms. Russell served as Deputy Assistant to the President in the White House administration of President Barack Obama, Senior Advisor on International Women’s Issues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice, and Staff Director of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
I see the accolades for “women’s issues and adolescent girls” and it just makes me furious because these are the same people pushing transgender men or is it women, I don’t know and don’t care but it hurts real women.
They ALL own stock in big Pharma, which is why they push the “trans” ideology.
So, Larry Fink is acting POTUS.
Glad that was straightened out.
Pres. Rat Fink
Please focus.
At this point after clearly repeating the key point is NOT the EV mandate but corporations controlling the US government…..
Any poster discussing anything else IN THIS THREAD is off topic. The implications are tremendous and broaching anything else in this thread is deeply resented by serious tree house folks.
Thank you, rant over.
Perzactly
Anal retentive rant noted, but too restrictive.
So, we have already seen the GND getting serious pushback in EU, as thats actually what the farmers are REALLY pissed about.
And, the people are resistant, cause they need to heat their homes, and so are prioritising practicality over pie in the sky GND.
So, Blackrock finances CCP built factories for EV’s in Mexico,…and sales tank because despite the mandate, most refuse to buy them.
CCP loses $5 billion, unless they convert to building ICE cars, but BR gets paid, either way.
Thing is, the whole WORLD isn’t going to mandate EV’s and an end to ICE vehicles,…Africa, Australia, Middle East, in fact many of the BRICS countries are unlikey to ever embrace EV’s,..
Just trying to see what the long term goal is,…
Destroy the West while extracting their wealth and enslaving them.
WEF is a suicide pact for the West on behalf of China.
World War Xi.
Run out of the City of London.
Meanwhile, 60,000+ Chinese, mostly military aged young men, jus5 walk across the border…and MSM of course refuses to cover it.
Yeah, our black swan event will certainly be something no one ever saw coming.
Be prepared folks!
Oh my.
Do you still miss the point?
It isn’t about Europe or Brics or EVs or global warming or the EU or Russia or Ulraine or Brexit or Dutchman…….or even really Blackrock.
For years posters have asked who is behind Clinton/Obama/Bush/the IC/Five Eyes. Sundance just outlined it and its called fascism. Corporations and Banks and the Mega rich are in control.
Did you characterize my post as anal retentive? In your words, “noted”.
Do you still wanna talk about the trains running on time or not (Mussolini) or do you want to focus on the topic?
Will housing be affordable again? Not if Wall Street has its way.
Wall Street is ‘building to rent’.
Okay, why would Garland and the DOJ go after Apple Computer with a LAWFARE ATTACK today especially when you consider how woke Apple is and how many billions of dollars Warren Buffett owns of Apple stock. Buffett owns 6% of Apple Computer!
Is this a Chicago Shakedown for bigger contributions to Biden and the DEMOCRATS or something else. Nobody really thinks Apple is a monopoly or is treating it app contributors unfairly. Can I advertise on MSNBC or Bloomberg News for free???
What’s really going on here, Sundance???
Either Apple is not 100% on board with censorship, or it is time to knock the stock down a few pegs so Pelosi and friends have a nice buying opportunity. And, Biden is miffed Apple abandoned its EV project.
AoS: Google Changes the Definition of “Bloodbath” To Further Interfere With US Elections:
“Election-Interference corporation Google changed its definition of “bloodbath” to assist the Democrat Party in making its case that of course Trump meant there would be a physical bloodbath if he’s not elected. Specifically, they changed the definition from either a physical bloodbath or a financial disaster, to only a physical bloodbath.” …….
It’s petty and juvenile Corporate Fascism, yet Orwellian in its arrogance.
Imagine how effective memory-holing rhetoric and reality will be when they have chips in every brain?
Enter Elon the Magnificent into the equation.
Elon has entered the chip.
The five largest shareholders of BlackRock
“A massive, multinational investment firm is in control of political outcomes in the USA.”
Which is complete and utter Fascism, not the kind the left screeches about, but real Fascism in The United States of America. My grandfather and grandmother, both WWII veterans, would be so disappointed and disgusted.
What would Jon Galt do?
Thomas Jeffersons observation remains accurate
33% wont lift a finger because they are content with wealth accumulated, sadly that now includes most , probably 50%.
Scotus was to review the 1970’s Chevron ruling….which basically created beuracratic rule, let congress abdicate accountability..
.. scotus must be too busy
They heard the case earlier this year; they haven’t issued their ruling yet. Might not be issued until the last few days of this year’s term as they often leave the huge decisions that make changes in how things get done until they are heading out the door for their vacations.
Reminds me of when big pharma and big medical insurance wrote Obamacare.
Let’s get the correct terminology: BVs, battery vehicles. Pass it along….
Surely, lets indeed get the terminology correct its fascism, that’s the topic, pass it along.
Regarding Texas divesting from Blackrock, this is well stated:
But Derek Kreifels, the CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation, felt differently, offering support for the termination: “Today’s bold step by Aaron Kinsey and the Permanent School Fund of Texas, in accordance with state law, is a massive blow against the scam of ESG.”
“Under Larry Fink’s leadership, BlackRock has been misusing client funds to push a political agenda for years. Nowhere was that more egregious than in Texas, where BlackRock was simultaneously trying to destroy the domestic oil and gas industry while managing funds that depended on royalties derived from that very same industry,” added Will Hild, the executive director of Consumers’ Research.
He said it was a “clear message” to “Wall Street elites that people can no longer be bullied into complying with ESG’s destructive ideology.”
You can’t do this, misuse client funds for your own benefit, which I think is Sundance’s point, it’s
Sundance’s point is that Blackrock, and by extension others like them, control the government.
They set up how the want to make money and then have the politicians enact legislation & and bureaucracies implement regulations to ensure they make money and everyone else suffers for it.
Exactly and the next question? Is exposure alone enough to stop them or are we at the point where the wolf answers, “All the better to eat you with.” ?
“The wolves are the door!”
Shepherds and sheep dogs must wake up.
Total capture
Regarding Texas divesting from Blackrock, this is well stated. ESG is a crime in the securities realm:
But Derek Kreifels, the CEO of the State Financial Officers Foundation, felt differently, offering support for the termination: “Today’s bold step by Aaron Kinsey and the Permanent School Fund of Texas, in accordance with state law, is a massive blow against the scam of ESG.”
“Under Larry Fink’s leadership, BlackRock has been misusing client funds to push a political agenda for years. Nowhere was that more egregious than in Texas, where BlackRock was simultaneously trying to destroy the domestic oil and gas industry while managing funds that depended on royalties derived from that very same industry,” added Will Hild, the executive director of Consumers’ Research.
He said it was a “clear message” to “Wall Street elites that people can no longer be bullied into complying with ESG’s destructive ideology.”
Texas is, again, showing the way through this mess – States reclaiming their rightful place in the role of government, both theirs and in their relationship to the federal govt.
We need more States, Missouri?, Louisiana?, to build the momentum to repeal the 17th Amendment and put that leg back onto the 3-legged stool (federal, state, populace) that was always the formula which is meant to hold our Republic together.
We The People need to pull the money-pot away from Congress! It is OUR money being wasted
Absolute and undebatable Fascism.
Thanking God in Heaven for you, Sundance, and for all that you do to continue bringing truth and light to everyone on this site, and praying for your safety always.
From reading this thread I am not sure if china controls black rock or if black rock controls china
Yes, China is addicted to the money that those outlets keep throwing China’s way. But with their own ulterior motive for its end use.
When reading the book ‘The Power of Gold: The History of An Obsession” by Peter L. Bernstein, one observation that stayed with me is that when it comes to gold (real money going back to its first use as a measure of value) when it enters China it never leaves, like a giant sinkhole.
So, my theory, along with an observation my late husband heard from some business people he was working with in Indonesia, they could not stress hard enough how exceedingly devious and wise the Chinese are when it comes to commerce, they play the game in the same way Russia is known as the home of chess mastery, so with these US-based firms throwing hard earned retiree monies into Chinese industry, while each day it is more apparent the bankruptcy of Chinese building industry (Evergrande something like 78 billion we know of) that nation is still acquiring as much gold bullion into their vaults as they can get their hands on.
So Blackrock et.al. using China to make money while China using that free money to play it’s long game of capture as it insinuates its way of life into all the nations of the world.
Thank you
What are some suggestions (any) on how we can impact the non-success of Blackrock ?
There are many already listed in the thread. I offered mine, at the risk of great repetition over a few years here, at the link in this thread below:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/03/21/the-biggest-issue-with-joe-bidens-ev-mandate-has-absolutely-nothing-to-do-with-evs/comment-page-1/#comment-10671043
Note it isn’t all unicorns and rainbows. Suffering is involved. Sacrifice is involved. Defeating any formidable enemy is never easy, particularly if they control or influence government assets.
Still, we’ve done it before and we can do it again. The enemy is only human. Use it.
The country is lost!
What is being over looked, is the people’s taxes being given to this scam of GREEN. The green stands for, our money going to the corporate overlords that owns the government. I would call them humane pigs but they are much lower than pigs. When the trouble starts have lot of friends.
I’ve got more than one concern with the ev mandates.
Of coarse the # 1 concern is the gaslighting lies that are being used to promote global warming,……. excuse me, I mean global cooling…………please excuse me again, I’m sorry, I meant to say climate change, as a transfer of wealth.
My second concern is, what am I supposed to do with my 1978 ford f-250 custom camper special with a naturally aspirated, (it’s a shame most young folks will have look up “naturally aspirated”) , 351 modified V-8, that I use almost everyday to haul feed, seed, firewood, gravel etc. Plus using it to haul trash and debris to local collection site, (yes I have to haul my houshold trash and debris to a collection site).
I also have a 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle, (396 v8), that my grandfather bought new in 69 and left me when he passed.
What am supposed to do when I pull up to the pump and the charger plug doesn’t fit into the gas tank hole?
Seriously folks, are my vehicles going to be outlawed or, are ptb going to ban gas and fuel, (fuel is another thing no one is talking about. All my farm equipment runs on fuel)?
If all this climate change stuff becomes law, 90% of things I use everyday will become yard ornaments.
Edited to add,
I’ve pulled the engines from the two vehicles mentioned above and, rebuilt them in my barn. I’m 56 yrs old and grew up HAVING to know how my car worked. How many youngins nowadays even know the difference between, naturally aspirated and fuel injected?
You might risk wrath discussing cars in this thread but there are financial aspects to your choices which could serve as weapons in the topical battle, primary of which is starving the enemy of resources and being self sufficient.
I remember, over 50 years ago, driving an old car around without a body on it. I ran the throttle on the front frame rail and a friend steered and shifted gears. I have pictures I took with a Kodak Instamatic from my engine position. I didn’t even have a driver’s license yet, hadn’t even taken driver training. I was already anti-government even at that age.
I haven’t changed in that regard. Nice truck you have there. Towed my race car with a ’76 F250 camper special regular cab, 390-C6. Solid. Just keep driving it. It runs. Who needs insurance and registration? Illegals don’t. Fair is fair.
Hey there Dunes2021, I may wreak the wrath of discussing cars in this thread but, ive not seen or heard anything about a grandfather claus in the discussion of ,”everyone has to drive an ev by so and so date”
Am I going to do away with vehicles that I rely on for everyday use? I cant afford a new car, let alone an ev or hybrid with a monthly pmnt of $500 or more.
Ive been right there with you brother when it comes to “run what you brung”, lol. I drove a 78 rabbit with a broken hood latch to take my driver’s license test. With the dmv tester in the car, the hood flew up and cracked the windshield. I acted like nothing happened and completed my driving test by looking through the slit between the hood and windshield. I passed the test!!! The tester from dmv said, “I dont how but, you got me back in one piece…….you passed”.
Btw, I have a “antique auto” tag on the chevelle and a “farm” tag, (tax exempt), on my ford truck. The insurance on both is $56 month.
So, to recap:
Larry Fink is a little hat wearer.
Blackrock is our shadow government.
Don’t forget our rich judeo-Xtian heritage folks!
Don’t worry. Trump will take care of this. LOL
Just like last time. 😐
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. It’s really the only way to live.
In terms of getting a unified response of the public, can or should this message be directed to the personal response center within each of our brains. In other words, find a way to present the message that it immediately triggers a defense reaction in each individual.
I know that my immediate response to the dictate was a very strong “Get the government out of our lives. Period. Nothing in the Constitution gives the federal government to the power to dictate every aspect of our lives.” That reaction becomes even more violent in understanding so clearly that the motive is simply to make BlackRock rich and that the government is BlackRock’s tool.
Could a clear presentation bring some unity of pushback to more people? Nothing else is seems to be getting a unified defense.
PDJT tied it to China’s financial takeover. Is there a danger to him or us in making it clear who is is the real beneficiary, that the attack is multi-faceted and identifying that the beneficiary is the real source of the attack?
Sundance has already been courageous enough to swim in those trecherous waters and I am thankful for the knowledge and the clarity.
Anti. Trust.
With a sledgehammer.
“Everything else is chaff and countermeasures.”
AKA “Squirrel!”s and PsyOps.
5th-Generation
Bread and CircusesWarfare …I found this Kitco interview with Lynette Zang on topic with this; she covers recent moves by Former Treas. Sec. Mnuchin, Larry Fink, slowly at first then all at once, and then also sees some sort of huge black swan event on the horizon;
where the topic of this post uses the example of electric vehicles, the guest brings up the illusion of bitcoin as a tool to get people used to the idea of digital currencies, all of these things as moves by the big club to turn everyday people into their ants living on ant farms; just over 1 hr. in length:
titled “From Debt to Hyperinflation: More Banks to Collapse as System Implodes, ‘They Need a Crisis’:
Blackrock needs to broken up.
So Sundance pointed out that the Patriot Act ushered in our surveillance state…but what ushered in corporations actually running the U.S. government?
I love discussions of history and the history of corporate America and the humans which built it would be a fascinating one. We could go back a couple centuries and start there, though the precepts could likely be traced back to at least the time of Christ.
If I had to delineate one finite thing that ushered in the era of corporations running government it would be a well worn one – money. Perhaps that sounds over-simplified but think on it. What, why, how, name it.
Humans have always been a diverse and interesting bunch. 🙂
Occupy Wall Street ushered in the true impetus for the smoke and mirrors show needed to capture the financial markets of the world in the fly trap of Digital Financial World Banking; coded, imbedded, lawless, and completely controlled by the 1%………..outwardly it looked like another social topic for discussion.
Them vs US on the surface; there is no ‘vs’ in reality. Then the ‘Show’ and the ‘Mirrors’ minus the smoke it’s just the ‘them’ club and the ‘US’ is really the smoke that is made to disappear in a puff when the usefulness is no longer needed………slight of hand has won the day.
God Help US
Every social issue, political issue, and monetary issue is no longer up for ‘debate’ it’s to provide a show to cover the slight of hand of the controllers; only when communism is achieved will you see and feel the hand’s true grip on you.
Time is of the essence to slap the hand and open eyes.
I often wonder how much Blackrock money went to the Wuhan lab!
No Blackrock money but lots of taxpayer money.
How much Blackrock money went to the creators of the scamdemic? That’s the real question.
this also means these swamp denizens can’t afford to let Trump win in November.
Nothing will be off the table. As each lawfare attempt fails, they will move to an even more egregious option until they have eliminated him.
They will try to kill him if their attempts at imprisoning and bankrupting him fail.
The Pill and taking God out of the culture
Put impulse sex in, take Christian morality out and the new God becomes greed and lust
With satan and its recruited minions (here on earth) as the rent collectors ….
Money!
Love of money.
Rockefeller, Morgan & Co. dropping big money into the 1896 election for McKinley.
Downhill from there.
1913 – income tax, fed reserve, and direct election of senators
1921 – CFR
1932 – welfare state.
Mix in the Fabians and two world wars … and here we are.
I’d take a real close look at the moment in time when Blackrock’s financial portfolio began to increase in unusual increments. Then I’d look at who was at the helm and what entities they were investing in and/or their source of funds. I would also bet that the timing coincided with Obama’s emergence and his alignment with the Donovan family. This may not explain everything but it’s damn sure a piece of the puzzle.
Correction: Donovan.
Correction: Donilon
It is far easier to buy influence than it is to create a superior product. Bribing government decision makers has a high return on investment for the military, pharmaceutical or EV industry. It is easier to legislate your competition out of business than it is to out compete them in the market. Much of the EV discussion was about how they are not viable — but that does not matter if you make competition illegal. And you can make a lot of money if you “invest” in areas where the legislation is going to push investment before the push happens.
Lobbyist compromising Congress to let them write legislation.
Government is permitted to “plant its seed” in extra-constituional “fields, levers by which it can be influenced sprout everywhere.
Q. what ushered in corporations actually running the U.S. government?
A. Bribery and blackmail got bigger.
Some simple reminders…
Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
The Firm (Blackmail scene).
Newt Gingrich, and any other AH who thought it was great for Corps to lobby, and write policy!
Money. “The love of money is root of all evil”. History is filled with data points of corporations buying influence that enables them to sell their products and services more efficiently. Consider that most/all bills are written by those benefiting from their passage, and there you are. It’s been a gradual evolution until EVERYTHING is corrupt.
I absolutely loathe Blackrock, always have, they are worse than big tobacco or pharma ever was. And they are staffing these companies with a bunch of woketurds the Ivy League schools are spitting out, think Bud Light and Disney.
Don’t forget the power of laziness. Lobbyists gave Congress critters a way to appear to be diligently writing legislation while they were actually partying and committing other unspeakable sins and most of them were were more than happy to accept this “help”.
Isn’t that called Fascism? This would explain why oil companies do nothing to attack the concept that CO2 causes global warming. It is easy to prove that it is thermodynamically impossible for increasing CO2 levels to cause more than a few tenths of a degree C increase in atmospheric temperatures. Black Rock would not let them do it.
It’s always been that way. Look at how the railroad barons operated. They were given free land to build on, with the US Cavalry acting as their private security service. It just wasn’t so blatant and in your face, because the populace wouldn’t put up with as much as the people do today.
When they bankers decided to take over the money supply and banking system they snuck away to Jeckyll Island, GA and used aliases, hiding from the public while they drafted the details of the US Federal Reserve banking system.
Today, it’s harder to hide due to the internet, but they’ve insulated themselves with unconstitutional laws that restrict individual rights. The fascism is on full display.
Post WWII, the MIC and the Eisenhower warning. Further advanced with the advent of TV and then 24 hour news cycle. Hence, the song and and dance by the pols.
SCOTUS Decision: From Wiki
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding campaign finance laws and free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The court held 5–4 that the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations, nonprofit organizations, labor unions, and other associations.
The majority held that the prohibition of all independent expenditures by corporations and unions in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act violated the First Amendment.[2]
The ruling effectively freed corporations and nonprofit organizations to spend money on electioneering communications and to directly advocate for the election or defeat of candidates.
In a dissenting opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens argued that the court’s ruling represented “a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government”.[3]
Just to add to this discussion. I think as a free citizen of the USA, I can spend my money, as much I would like for any political purpose as protected speech by the 1st amendment. In other words, limited campaign donations to $2000 per candidate is a direct violation of my 1st amendment rights. The generally, campaign finance laws were enacted to “get money out or limit corruption” in elections. Well, look around. The whole current structure laws has failed for this goal.
My thinking is something along, any natural citizen can donate as much as he likes without limitation. This eliminates various PAC’s or superPAC. Also bans corporations, associations and non-profits from campaigns. If these groups are soo concerned about policy or a candidate, they can encourage their members(who now have greatly expanded freedoms) to individually donate.
Campaigns must report who, where, when every single penny came from.
When someone, or corporation starts to advocate publicly for gov policy or candidate, they are purposefully giving up the right of to anonymity. If you do not want people to know who you are pulling for – you have the right to be quiet and cast your anonymous vote. Think of the situation in a town square, how silly it is to say “I want to speak to a crowd of people to advocate for candidate X, but do it in an anonymous way.”
Landmark Supreme Court ruling allows corporate political cashReuters
January 21, 201012:44 PM MSTUpdated 14 years ago
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Corporations can spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, a landmark decision denounced by President Barack Obama for giving special interests more power.
“The Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics,” Obama said after the 5-4 ruling that divided the nation’s high court along conservative and liberal lines.
“It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans,” Obama said.
They pretty much always have, it’s just the scale has changed. The business guy in Everytown, America bought off the Senator or Representative. In the bygone days, we used to call it graft, bribe, bagman, etc. You know ,the old Mr. Smith Goes to Washington stuff. Now we have super duper pacs, etc which are legal graft, bribes, bagman, etc.. The monolithic spying state helps to compromise politicians. In the past, there wasn’t time to gather the details that are used to “persuade” someone . The access to most of this info is now readily accessible with a few keystrokes. Voila, every payoff is counterbalanced with blackmailable info, instantly. Like Sundance has said repeatedly, there literally are trillions at stake. and the BlackRock’s, Vanguards, State Streets of the world and their beneficiaries, aren’t going to go away easily.
Maybe ask “What ushered in the Patriot Act ?” (9/11) and you’ll have your answer.