K12 Education- Learn How Lobbyists
Buy Politicians

Stephanie Herman and the Venn Diagrams of influence

 

K STREET downturn in reportable lobbying revenues was offset by regulatory work as the action moved to the agencies.
Patton Boggs maintained its position as the top-grossing lobbying firm, bringing in $48.4 million in lobbying revenue in 2011. That was up from $45.2 million in 2010. The uptick stems more from the firm’s June merger with Breaux Lott Leadership Group than from overall business growth. Several lobbyists pointed to last week’s massive online mobilization that tanked two fast-moving anti-online piracy bills as the perfect example of how the influence game is changing. While clients are still willing to pay for access lobbying, there is more of a focus on nonreportable strategy through social media and other grass-roots initiatives.

Reuters reports that the tech industry has outspent the entertainment industries. Silicon Valley blindsides Hollywood on piracy : The technology industry has ramped up its political activities dramatically in recent years, and in fact, has spent more than the entertainment industry -- $1.2 billion between 1998 and 2011, compared with $906.4 million spent by entertainment companies. The entertainment industries, however, seem better at knowing where to buy friends. Through the end of September, Hollywood had outspent the tech industry 2-to-1 in donations to key supporters of measures it was backing. More than $950,000 from the TV, music and movie industries has gone to original sponsors of the House and Senate bills in the 2012 election cycle, compared with about $400,000 from computer and Internet companies, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Spending money is not enough, you have to cultivate your friends. You'd think that the tech industry would understand that it's not the number of friends that counts, but the number of friends that can be counted upon. 2012

Transparency

 

 

Billionaire Koch brothers takeover of America's democracy.

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Koch brothers plan to spend 80 Million in 2012 election.

Koch is Lord of the Derivitives - The over-the-counter derivatives market has escaped the commission's reach since the first interest rate swap was traded in 1981. The transactions fell outside a law requiring that all futures be traded on regulated exchanges. What has not been reported is that a big part of Koch Industries' expansion over the past few decades has occurred in the dark realms of unregulated derivative trading. The Kochs weren't just playing the market for themselves, but provided financial and risk management services to other companies. Now their clients include airlines, utilities, oil companies, pension funds, hedge funds and endowments. But Koch Industries is not just a regular financial/risk management services provider. Because the company is a major producer and/or distributor of many of the commodities that it bets on, it not only has insider knowledge but physical control of market conditions. That gives it a whole lot of power to game and manipulate markets from both the speculative and physical ends—something that even the most powerful investment houses can't do on their own. Best part is: only insiders know how much or how little manipulation exists because the derivatives are exempted from regulation.

Bringing Jobs Back To America

U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms OUTRAGEOUS!
SUBSIDIZING JOBS IN CHINA! Cities hire Chinese instead of American workers for building projects. US law can't protect a billion dollars from going to China! California Officials say they can't find American Welders States go around "Buy American" laws.

 

INSIDER TRADING

 

Congress: Trading stock on inside information? What do you mean honest graft? Congressman get a pass on insider trading? cbs There is an Indiana University Law professor who claims that (contrary to popular belief and 60 Minutes) members of Congress are not exempt from insider trading laws.

Financial Documents Suggest GOP Rep. Bachus Profited from 'Insider Trading' on TARP Bailout by Wynton Hall
U.S. Representative Spencer Bachus (R-AL) had access to highly sensitive financial information during the 2008 bailout debates that may have helped him earn tens of thousands of dollars by trading stock options, even as most Americans' portfolios took a beating.
On Sunday, Rep. Bachus's trading behavior came under fire in a 60 Minutes report based on Throw Them All Out, the book by investigative journalist and Breitbart editor that has triggered a political earthquake in Washington. Schweizer, who is also a Breitbart editor, devotes a significant portion of the book to exposing possible congressional insider trading.

Sen. Feinstein Loaded up on Biotech Stock Just Before Company Received $24 Million Gov't Grant

Capitol Cronyism: Obama-Backer Warren Buffett Helped Shape Bailout Rules, Then Made Massive Profits from Them
In the wake of the $700 billion TARP bailout, Warren Buffett apparently shaped a plan to clean up toxic assets that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner later adopted--resulting in massive profits for Buffett. That's the latest bombshell revelation from investigative journalist and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer's sensational new...

HOW TO PROSECUTE AND CONVICT LAW BREAKERS? Whether strain reflects lack of funds for enforcement or career incentives facing prosecutors, system capacity theory suggests how increasing prosecutorial capacity and resources can increase the number of prosecutions and convictions.

• Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B
• The Fed Must Reveal Which Big Banks Took Emergency Loans From The Discount Window businessinsider.com
  
• Fed Must Release Bank Loan Data as High Court Rejects Appeal bloomberg

 

DEFINITION OF"POLITICKCY"

 

 

 

The Blood Sucking Oligarchy who are politicians practice "POLITICKCY".

Not just Wall Street but Koch brothers continue to trade Derivatives that brought this country down.

@TWEETCONGRESS:
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Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz talks about growing inequality: 1% Americans take in 1/4 of the nation's income.

 

The Sunlight Foundation uses cutting-edge technology and ideas to make government transparent and accountable

The Day in Transparency 4/6/2011
Koch Industries, America's second-largest private corporation, spends millions on lobbying in Washington, often to advocate against government regulation. The money Koch Industries has spent on lobbying has increased from $857,000 in 2004 to $20 million in 2008. (Center for Public Integrity)

 

THE SECRETS OF HOW LOBBYIESTS BUY POLITICIANS.

YOU CAN FIND THE MONEY

YOU CAN LEARN THEIR TECHNIQUES

Let's play Hide and Seek

The Loophole:
Push the money through a Foundation or Trust.

How they buy their Politicians, or become the Politicians.
Johnson, Phelps, Dodge, Coors, Folsom, Chase, Koch, Cleveland, Robinson, Kip, Kinney, Whitney, Vanderbilt, Forbes, Gate, Buffet and Bloomberg, Bush, Keswick, Bronfman, Soong, Jardine Matheson, and on and on.
Jardine, Matheson & Co. was founded in Canton on 1 July 1832 The Keswick family have had practically continuous and direct association with the Far East and conglomerate Jardine Matheson and are still on the stock exchange.
"The opium wars, opium legalization and opium consumption in China," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 15(12), pages 911-913.
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11355

America's Secret Establishment: The Secret Parts of Fortune: Skull and Bones
Grandfather Prescott Bush, George Bush Senior, George Bush Junior, John Kerry -presidents, cabinet officers, spies, Supreme Court justices, captains of industry, and often their sons and lately their daughters, a social and political network like no other.

OperationLeakS Anonymous http://uleak.it/ is a Url Shortening Service. By #Anonymous IP's are never recorded Leak your image and it's free to use.

Honest services fraud - Lobbying alone was a $2.6 billion industry in 2010, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. All that spending just sucks the oxygen out of the room for people trying to do true entrepreneurship.

START WITH THE K STREET INJECTION

PUT THE NEEDLE DIRECTLY INTO THE VAIN

COUNCIL ON FOUNDATION

THE ORGINAL PIPELINE TO WRITING THE LAW THE WAY YOU WANT IT

SPLIT UP INTO THE FOLLOWING DEPARTMENTS

• Family Foundations,
• Community Foundations
• Corporate Grant Makers,
• Independent Foundations,
• Global Philanthropy
• WHO IS CONNECTED ON THE OFFICIAL BOARD?

DON'T FORGET THIS OTHER AVENUE FOR LOBBIESTS

REGIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF GRANT MAKERS

CUSTOM DESIGNED SECRETS
GUARANTEED TO HELP PUSH YOUR THINK TANK "POLITICKCY"
BLOOD SUCKING LAWS DEFEATED OR
WRITTEN THE WAY YOU WANT THEM TO.

Hollywood Total Corrupt Chief Lobbyiest Loophole: if you merely "speak to policy," you're in good shape. Leahy also dismissed any concerns that the Senate's "revolving door" rules, which prevent recently retired senators from directly lobbying their former colleagues for two years, would hobble Dodd in his role.

Executive order applies to FCC commissioners:

Clerk of the House of Representatives lobbying

• Regional Capital Campaign Reports
  Find regional snapshots of capital and endowment fundraising across the United States.
• Regional Economic Outlook Reports
  View reports that assess the outlook for grant making and discuss factors that affect the direction of giving growth in a particular region.
• Regional Giving Studies
  Regional giving studies are a necessary tool used to identify patterns of organized giving in a community or region.

TEA PARTY PAC MONEY
SPENT BY NAME
Tea Party Activists Press Forward Despite Meager Finances
TEA PARTY VICTORY PAC

Conservatives On Wisconsin Supreme Court Let Corporate Lobbyists Write Judicial Ethics Rules
Wisconsin elects its Supreme Court justices, but the court's four conservative justices –including Gov. Scott Walker's embattled ally Justice David Prosser — all voted to reject an ethics rule that would have prevented them from hearing cases involving their major campaign donors. Instead, the conservative justices enacted a rule written by powerful corporate lobbyists.

Using the Internet to research charities

Guidestar allows you to search for charities recognized by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

 

eral Electric is its ability to lobby for, win and take advantage of tax breaks.

 

A review of company filings and Congressional records shows that G.E. has spent tens of millions of dollars to push for changes in tax law.

The most lucrative of these measures allows G.E. to operate a vast leasing and lending business abroad with profits that face little foreign taxes and no American taxes as long as the money remains overseas.
Martin A. Sullivan, a tax economist for the trade publication Tax Analysts, said that booking such a large percentage of its profits in low-tax countries has “allowed G.E. to bring its U.S. effective tax rate to rock-bottom levels.” “Cracking down on offshore profit-shifting by financial companies like G.E. was one of the important achievements of President Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act,” said Robert S. McIntyre, director of the liberal group Citizens for Tax Justice, who played a key role in those changes. “The fact that Congress was snookered into undermining that reform at the behest of companies like G.E. is an insult not just to Reagan, but to all the ordinary American taxpayers who have to foot the bill for G.E.'s rampant tax sheltering.” Transforming the most creative strategies of the tax team into law is another extensive operation. G.E. spends heavily on lobbying: more than $200 million over the last decade, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Records filed with election officials show a significant portion of that money was devoted to tax legislation. G.E. has even turned setbacks into successes with Congressional help. One provision allowed companies to defer taxes on overseas profits from leasing planes to airlines. It was so generous — and so tailored to G.E. and a handful of other companies — that staff members on the House Ways and Means Committee publicly complained that G.E. would reap “an overwhelming percentage” of the estimated $100 million in annual tax savings. According to its 2007 regulatory filing, the company saved more than $1 billion in American taxes because of that law in the three years after it was enacted. While G.E.'s declining tax rates have bolstered profits and helped the company continue paying dividends to shareholders during the economic downturn, some tax experts question what taxpayers are getting in return. Since 2002, the company has eliminated a fifth of its work force in the United States while increasing overseas employment. In that time, G.E.'s accumulated offshore profits have risen to $92 billion from $15 billion. The company spent $4.1 million on outside lobbyists last year, including four boutique firms that specialize in tax policy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&hp

Incorporate in Delaware: The filing fees are low: it costs $50 to file ($175 for bigger companies), and $250 to re-up annually. But that's only incidental. The big advantage to incorporating in Delaware is the protection. If you sue a corporation you have to do it in the state where it's incorporated, and Delaware courts have a long and consistent history of judicial rulings that protect shareholder assets from creditors.