Thanks to the Supreme Council Court, meet your new Corporate Masters!
Say hello to Saudi Arabia!
Saudi Arabia has already signaled that the progressive effort to build a clean energy American economy is its "biggest threat":
Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil exports so stands to be one of the biggest losers in any pact that curbs oil demand by penalizing carbon emissions. "It’s one of the biggest threats that we are facing," said Muhammed al-Sabban, head of the Saudi delegation to U.N. talks on climate change and a senior economic adviser to the Saudi oil ministry. <...> Climate talks posed a bigger threat, Sabban said, and subsidies for the development of renewable energy were distorting market economics in the sector, he said.
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It's good to be the King of Saudi Arabia!
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MinistryOfTruth's diary :: :: Got that? All of the green jobs, manufacturing jobs and infrastructure building that America is depending on to resurrect our fallen economy is not in Saudi Arabia's interest. In fact, it is their "greatest threat". Good thing their American subsidiaries have the full right to free speech and unlimited money to buy it with, cause if not, that just wouldn't be freedom like our founding fathers envisioned, right Chief Justice Roberts?
Right?
WRONG!
(T)he National Journal reported today that corporate lobbyists representing foreign corporations are already organizing to defeat such a proposal (offered by Alan Grayson, Chris Van Hollen and Chuck Schumer ). The Organization for International Investment, a trade group representing foreign banks, oil companies, and other foreign corporations operating in the United States, "lashed out" at Van Hollen’s proposals. "The concern over foreign influence in our political system is a red herring," said Nancy McLernon, the head of OFII.
McLernon — who previously worked for Citizens for a Sound Economy, a stealth "grassroots" corporate lobbying group now known as Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks — is wrong to assert that the danger of foreign lobbying is simply a distraction.
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Of course McLernon is wrong to call this a distraction. McLernon makes his living by selling out Americans so that multi-national corporations can have their will even when it is not in America's interests.
I call that treason, but Neo-Cons call it freedom. The better to eat you with.
And of course, teabagger sponsors at FreedomWorks are just salivating over those BIG teeth that little red American voter riding hood just happened to notice.
Rob Jordan, vice president for federal and state campaigns at the conservative FreedomWorks, said his Washington-based group could reap particular benefits from a portion of the ruling that threw out restrictions on running political ads in the weeks leading up to an election.
"We expect to have upside potential in the multimillions, and we expect to be major players," Jordan said of his group's plans for the midterms. "This will probably put ads on our radar screen more than they would have been."
WashingtonPost.com
Astroturfing I can handle. It sucks, but it is part of the game. A fool and his money will soon be parted, they say. I guess the same is true of a fool and his vote.
But when it comes to allowing foreign corporations and foreign special interests the right to subvert our American Democratic process there is only one word I can find to express my thoughts. That word is TREASON.
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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/28/823709/-Saudi-Arabia-to-use-Citizens-United-to-interfere-in-US-politics-thanks-to-NeoCon-SCOTUS-treason
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