Thursday, September 1, 2011

Koch

http://exiledonline.com/the-koch-brothers-dark-lords-of-derivatives/
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http://www.dailypaul.com/144633/sarah-palins-top-advisor-outed-as-pnac-new-pearl-harbor-director
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cargill
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Political contributions

Warren R. Staley, Chairman of Cargill, is a Bush Ranger having raised at least $200,000 for Bush in the 2004 presidential election. [15]
Cargill gave $161,252 to federal candidates in the 2008 election through its political action committee, 33% to Democrats, 67% to Republicans. [16]

Public relations & lobbying

Cargill spent $240,000 in the first part of 2004 to lobby on issues such as the Clean Air Act, the energy bill and corporate tax modifications." [17]
The Cargill parent company and its subsidiries; Mosaic Company, Cargill Safelane and Cargill Salt, spent a total of $1,318,066 on lobbying for 2010. Firms used were Cornerstone Government Affairs, Russell & Barron, Charles V. Cunningham, Federal Advocates, Judith Lemons, Alcalde & Fay, Blank Rome LLP, Dawson & Associates and SC Partners. [18]

Center for Consumer Freedom

Cargill uses deep pockets to finance front groups like the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), while staying out of the lime light and protecting their corporate image. CCF runs attack campaigns against health, food safety, animal rights and animal welfare advocates. [19]
Cargill, Pilgrim's Pride, Tyson Foods and two other "fresh meat" companies with major Arkansas operations donate at least $100,000 a year to CCF, according to documents obtained by PR Watch in 2003. Cargill officials confirmed donations up to $100,000. See also CCF selected campaigns.
Cargill is also member of the American Meat Institute and the Meat Promotion Coalition.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blank_Rome_LLP
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Headlines

  • "David F. Girard-diCarlo, chairman of Blank Rome LLP, today announced the formation of Blank Rome Government Relations LLC, a Washington-based government relations firm that will provide clients with advocacy and extensive experience in local, state and federal government. Girard-diCarlo will serve as chairman and CEO of the new firm, with Carl M. Buchholz, T. Michael Dyer, David F. A. Norcross and Duncan C. Smith serving on the board of directors."
  • "Additionally, Mark A. Holman, former deputy assistant to the President for homeland security, along with fellow homeland security official Carl Buchholz, rejoined Blank Rome after a yearlong hiatus working with Secretary Ridge to develop the national strategy for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Ashley Davis, a third veteran of Ridge's homeland security team, joined Blank Rome from the White House as well. All three are members of Blank Rome Government Relations LLC."
  • "Members of Blank Rome Government Relations LLC include David Girard-diCarlo, J. Caleb Boggs III, Carl Buchholz, Ashley Davis, James Drewry, T. Michael Dyer, Mark Holman, David Norcross, Topper Ray, Duncan Smith, Jennifer Southwick and C.J. Zane."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ashley_Davis
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Ashley Davis, currently a member of the newly created Blank Rome Government Relations LLC, joined Blank Rome LLP after serving with Director Tom Ridge the Office of Homeland Security at the White House.

External links

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=J._Caleb_Boggs_III
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Mr. Boggs served as Delaware Chairman, Lawyers for Bush-Cheney '04 and was a Republican observer in the 2000 Presidential Election in West Palm Beach, Florida. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) and is Vice President for Washington Operations. Mr. Boggs is also a Life Member of the National Republican Club of Capitol Hill.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lawyers_for_Bush-Cheney
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Lawyers for Bush-Cheney

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"With the Democrats threatening to file lawsuits in anticipation of post-presidential election fallout, Republicans are amassing their own team of legal eagles, headed in Florida" by Hayden R. Dempsey, Governor Jeb Bush's former deputy general counsel, FlaPolitics Blogspot reported August 10, 2004. Dempsey, who left Governor Bush's office in 2003 to join the "prominent" Greenberg Traurig, confirmed he had been "tapped as the statewide chairman" of Bush-Cheney '04 Inc.'s legal defense team, Lawyers for Bush-Cheney '04 Inc..
In Fall 2004, writing for the Equal Justice Society, Lee Cokorinos reported that the "Bush campaign has lawyers in every state, covering 30,000 precincts."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hayden_R._Dempsey
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Hayden R. Dempsey is an attorney and shareholder in the statewide law firm of Greenberg Traurig, practicing in the Tallahassee, Florida, office. Dempsey joined GT in December 2003. [1]
"Prior to joining GT, Hayden served as Director for Legislative Affairs for Governor Jeb Bush where he gained an in-depth knowledge of the Legislature and state government." [2]

Affiliations

  • Statewide Chair, Lawyers for Bush-Cheney '04
  • Florida-Lead counsel for Bush-Cheney '04 and Republican Party of Florida for 2004 election
  • Director of Legislative Affairs for the State of Florida, Governor Jeb Bush
  • Deputy General Counsel for the State of Florida, Governor Jeb Bush
  • Legal Counsel for Legislative Affairs for the State of Florida, Governor Jeb Bush
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Greenberg_Traurig
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1) Bush-Greenberg Traurig Connections

The following enumerations were published in September 2004 by, among others, the Portland Indymedia. Some sources have been provided in support.
1. "Represented President George W. Bush in the Bush-Gore 2000 Florida election vote recount."
2)  11. Greenberg Traurig represented Diebold Election Systems, Inc.:
  • According to Common Cause, Greenberg Traurig earned $275,000, from 2002-to-date:
  • "Diebold Election Systems, owned by Diebold Incorporated, is one of the leading voting machine vendors across the country. The company has been the focus of a national debate about the role partisan politics should play in the voting machine selection process. Walden O'Dell, Chairman, President and CEO of Diebold Inc., is a Pioneer for President Bush’s reelection campaign, and has hosted a fundraiser with Vice President Cheney that netted $500,000. (Atlanta Journal Constitution 12/6/03) Diebold Inc. and Mr. O’Dell gave $100,965 in soft money to the Republican Party during the 2002 election cycle on the national level. Diebold Inc.’s executives and employees have given $63,290 in campaign contributions at the federal level since 1999, all but $4,775 was donated to Republican candidates and committees. (Center for Responsive Politics) Chairman and CEO of Diebold Inc., Walden O’Dell, rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on August 27, 2003. O’Dell also stated he is committed to 'helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year.' (N.Y. Times 12/2/03)."
  • On behalf of Diebold, in 2004 alone, Greenberg Traurig lobbied: "A8833B, S6207, A9731, Budget Issues, Voting/Ballot Regulations, A9725, A9433 Electronic Voting Machines, Voting Regulations, HAVA Funding, Full Face Ballot."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2153139
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1990s – Republicans and investment equity start several computerized voting machine companies, using proprietary software to hide the source code that actually does the counting. Diebold is centered in Ohio in Bob Ney’s district, providing many jobs.

2000 – Katherine Harris and the GOP take the close election in Florida and force through Bush’s stolen even though later tabulations show Gore won if all the votes had been counted. Paper ballots are discredited by the famous hanging chads, setting up the push for computer voting.

2001 – Ney’s Chief of Staff David Distafano turns lobbyist for Diebold and at least one other voting machine company. One of DiStefano's crows about his having "an insider's edge to hard-to-reach political officials."

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology
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HAVA Heart

Under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), NIST has "a key role in helping to realize nationwide improvements in voting systems by January 2006." NIST's Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) is coordinating the agency's HAVA efforts through its expertise in areas such as computer security and usability. NIST supports the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) as chair of the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC). The TGDC makes recommendations to the EAC on voluntary standards and guidelines related to voting machines."[7] Note that the standards developed by federal institutions for electronic voting machines will be voluntary.
NIST's "key role" in implementing HAVA has not been reflected in the funding provided this aspect of the agency's work. Congress provided NIST with $500,000 for its voting program in fiscal year 2003. But "NIST funds appropriated for help America Vote (HAVA) activities ran out at the end of December 2003," it reported in a March 2004 press release. After scrambling for funds, NIST dedicated $375,000 of the agency's "base funding" for "limited" HAVA work for fiscal year 2004, including "outreach to the election community, deliver[y of] the final Human Factors Report to Congress and [the] start a new voting standards accreditation program."[8] That report, titled "Usability and Accessibility of Voting Systems and Products," was submitted by the EAC to Congress on April 30, 2004.[9]

http://www.hermes-press.com/criminal_vote.htm
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The HAVA Shell Game
     In 2000, the Department of Defense spent $6.2 million on a small Internet voting experiment for a few members of the military. On June 2, 2003, the DoD announced that the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, or SERVE, would allow military personnel and Americans overseas to cast their votes over the Internet during the 2004 election.
     The Federal Voting Assistance Program, under the umbrella of the DoD, paid Bermuda-based Accenture $22 million to conduct its Internet voting project. Strange to say, Accenture had recently acquired election.com from Osan Ltd., a Saudi investment group that owned 51% of the company.
     In February 2004, two weeks after a panel of scientists determined that the Accenture system was extremely vulnerable to tampering and lacked any way for voters to verify that their ballots were cast or counted, the DoD canceled the program. Accenture, surprised by the announcement, first denied that the program had been canceled, but later backed down. Spokeswoman Meg T. McLaughlin said the decision to continue testing SERVE would allow Accenture to study Internet voting further.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
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   Bermuda headquarters
In October 2002, the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) identified Accenture as one of four publicly-traded federal contractors that were incorporated in a tax haven country.[9] The other three, unlike Accenture, were incorporated in the United States before they re-incorporated in a tax haven country, thereby lowering their U.S. taxes. Critics, most notably former CNN journalist Lou Dobbs,[10] have panned Accenture's incorporation in Bermuda because they viewed Accenture as having been a U.S.-based company trying to avoid U.S. taxes.[11] The GAO itself did not characterize Accenture as having been a U.S.-based company; it stated that "prior to incorporating in Bermuda, Accenture was operating as a series of related partnerships and corporations under the control of its partners through the mechanism of contracts with a Swiss coordinating entity."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/040614/14dobbs.htm
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Dereliction of duty

By Lou Dobbs
Posted 6/6/04
The federal government last week awarded the multibillion-dollar U.S. Visit border security contract to Accenture LLP. The contract is to monitor visitors who enter the United States by air, sea, or land and could be worth as much as $10 billion over 10 years.
The award is especially surprising because the federal government passed over two American bidders, Lockheed Martin Corp. and Computer Sciences Corp., to give the contract to Accenture LLP, whose parent company, Accenture Ltd., is headquartered in Bermuda. The deal raises questions as to whether government contracts, especially security contracts, should be awarded to non-U.S. companies and, more broadly, whether the United States is doing enough to discourage companies from expatriating and incorporating overseas.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-11-10/entertainment/27080873_1_lou-dobbs-tonight-fbn-fox-business-network
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BY RICHARD HUFF
DAILY NEWS TV WRITER
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Lou Dobbs is headed back to TV full time.
The outspoken former CNN legend has reached a multi-year deal to host a daily program for the Fox Business Network that will go live in the first quarter of 2011.
He'll also appear on variety of the business news network's other programs.
"I'm excited and feel privileged to join the great team that Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes and Neil Cavuto have created and I can't wait to make whatever contribution I can to Fox Business," Dobbs said in a statement.
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