Posted on 12/14/2013 7:32:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".......“Podesta has no financial interest in the Keystone XL decision,” says Credo Action. Is that truly the case? I am not saying that John Podesta is directly invested in companies that will profit if Keystone is defeated. What I am saying is that the connections between VIPs and think-tank donors and corporate boards and lobbying clients are hard to disentangle. It is so easy for a reporter to lose the thread, especially when that reporter is already inclined to think that the motives of his subject are pure. Podesta’s fame and power have certainly helped line the pockets of his brother, for example. The Washington Times reports that the Podesta Group’s income grew from $10 million in 2007 to as much as $30 million in 2010, with 2013 revenue “estimated to be around $20 million.”
John’s compensation is a trickier matter. His business relationships are not as formalized or as regulated as his sibling’s. His various postings and seats and memberships and appointments are hard to pin down. An article in Friday’s New York Times cites a Podesta aide “working with him on the disclosure report he is preparing.” That report soon will be the hottest read in Washington. Podesta’s not a monk. In addition to his role advising Steyer, and the $200,000 he receives in compensation from CAP, he sits on the board of Portland-based Equilibrium Capital — in which he also had “a small ownership stake” — advises government contractor Gryphon Technologies for $100,000 a year, and was paid $90,000 this year consulting for the HJW Foundation, which also gives money to CAP. And he is a member of the board of directors of Joule, a Massachusetts-based energy company that is “developing a revolutionary platform for renewable fuel and chemical production that is expected to eclipse the scalability, productivities, and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today.” John Kerry appears in a photo on the “about us” section of the company’s website. Joule knows who powers its batteries.
Podesta has revolutionized the influence game by giving it the patina of intellectual respectability. Traditional lobbying has become blasé; it’s much better, much nobler, to enlist corporate “partnerships” in the progressive cause. As first reported by The Nation, the Center for American Progress has a number of corporate sponsors that pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to join its “Business Alliance.” In return for payment these corporations gain access to the center’s scholars, its leadership, and its events with major Democratic officials. On Friday CAP released a list of its 2013 “corporate supporters,” including multinationals such as Citigroup and Coca-Cola and Daimler and Samsung; firms such as Albright Stonebridge and McLarty Associates and the Livingston Group that represent foreign interests; and affiliates of foreign governments such as the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative in the United States and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation."........ More
They’re all crony corporatists. Criminals on both sides of the aisle.
It’s amazing how many ways the government has come up with to steal other people’s money. Communism/Socialism can be expensive.
Also, optimum time for a distraction to lure 20 something voters back after screwing them over with health insurance costs.
...and liberals have the gall to call others greedy.
“WASHINGTON — In a late Friday afternoon news dump, The Center for American Progress published a list of their 2013 corporate donors, who each contributed $10,000 or more to CAP’s $42 million budget.
Chicago native and founder John D. Podesta — former President Bill Clinton’s final chief of staff — will join the Obama administration early next year as a special senior advisor, prompting calls for CAP to release the full list of its corporate donors.
CAP was quick to play down the donors’ influence on research projects.”...................................
You mean that the environmental movement is filled with left-wing crooks who are making millions guzzling at the government money trough, and extorting millions more from the productive part of society?
I am so shocked. How do I break the news to grandma who sent $10 because she saw a photo of a sad looking polar bear?
(I don’t really need the tag, do I?)
VAN JONES SHOCK ADMISSION [in his own words]: "Goal is Complete Revolution"
“Right after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat if the civil rights leaders had jumped out and said OK now we want reparations for Slavery, we want redistribution of all the wealth, and we want to legalize mixed marriages. If we’d come out with a maximum program the very next day, they’d been laughed at. Instead they came out with a very minimum. “We just want to integrate these busses…”
But, inside that minimum demand was a very radical kernel that eventually meant that from 1964 to 1968 complete revolution was on the table for this country.
And, I think that this green movement has to pursue those same steps and stages.
Right now we say we want to move from suicidal gray capitalism to something eco-capitalism where at least we’re not fast-tracking the destruction of the whole planet. Will that be enough? No, it won’t be enough. We want to go beyond the systems of exploitation and oppression all together. But, that’s a process and I think that’s what’s great about the movement that is beginning to emerge is that the CRISIS is so severe in terms of joblessness, violence and now ecological threats that people are willing to be both pragmatic and visionary.
So the green economy will start off as a small subset and we are going to push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society.
There’s this big bright blinking neon sign over Obama’s desk that says “PIVOT! PIVOT!”
Yes. Incumbency. Corruption.
Green is the new Red.
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The collapse of world communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall during the 1980s added to the trend toward extremism. The Cold War was over and the peace movement was largely disbanded. The peace movement had been mainly Western-based and anti-American in its leanings. Many of its members moved into the environmental movement, bringing with them their neo-Marxist, far-left agendas. To a considerable extent the environmental movement was hijacked by political and social activists who learned to use green language to cloak agendas that had more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than with science or ecology. I remember visiting our [Greenpeace] Toronto office in 1985 and being surprised at how many of the new recruits were sporting army fatigues and red berets in support of the Sandinistas.
Everything DC does is based upon generating revenue for lobbyist. Nothing else matters. Truth. Science. Religion. Morals. Laws. All meaningless.
The emperor needs his image remade so he’s bringing in a high line political whore to do it.
This will be amazing to watch especially with a compliant media.
bkmk
Sounds like Podesta is more like 0bama’s “Thief of Staff”.
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