Reminder: Conservative

artappraiser — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 22:26:51 +0000

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Reminder: Conservative estimates suggest about 10% of the entire GDP of the world is now hidden in offshore tax havens. That’s at least $8.7 trillion, or 8.7 Apples.
— Oli Franklin-Wallis (@olifranklin) August 3, 2018

It's money alright. Money

NCD — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 23:41:37 +0000

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It's money alright. Money buys power, politicians and governments. Our GOP Supreme Court says money is speech, and Republicans are making it more and more opaque as to where or who political money comes from.

Jean le Carre, former British espionage, novelist warned how international oligarchs are working to protect that money and the influence it buys, from Fresh Air, September, 2017:

LE CARRE: Let's look, first of all, at the operation influence, if you like, and how that's exerted, what we suspect the Russians are doing, not only in the United States, but they did in Britain for the referendum, maybe in Britain for the election. They certainly interfered in Macron's election in France......So who are these forces?.... Profoundly disturbing is they come from the West as well as the East - that there are oligarchs in the West who are so far to the right that they make a kind of natural cause with those on the other side of the world. Both of them have in common a great contempt for the ordinary conduct of democracy....They want to diminish it. They see it as their enemy. They see - they've made a dirty word of liberalism - one of the most inviting words in politics. So they're closing in on the same target from different points of view. They're undermining the decent processes of democracy.....

Well said. Thank you.

moat — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:58:02 +0000

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Well said.
Thank you.

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It's money alright. Money

Well said. Thank you.