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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday walked back a planned vote to subpoena two megadonors connected to Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The reason? Republicans threw a fit.
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee finally took the first step last week to address the high court’s ethics crisis and announced they would seek to subpoena Republican billionaire megadonor Harlan Crow and ultraconservative activist Leonard Leo. Both men feature prominently in the ethics scandal for their relationships with Thomas and Alito. The committee said it would also seek to subpoena wealthy GOP donor Robin Arkley II.
But Chair Dick Durbin appeared to put that all on hold on Thursday, when he abruptly ended a committee meeting after outraged Republicans threatened to retaliate if Crow and Leo were subpoenaed.
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Executives at big real estate companies profiting off and even driving up high real estate prices across Canada are listed as donors to the federal Conservative Party, Elections Canada records show.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has been railing against high real estate prices and presenting himself as the solution to Canada’s housing affordability crisis, yet Poilievre’s party also appears to have received financial support from top executives at some of Canada’s biggest real estate investment trusts.
Housing experts and advocacy groups have blamed real estate investment trusts, or REITs, for the financialization of housing and skyrocketing rents across Canada. Property wealth is a massive source of inequality in BC and across the country.
The name of Richard Abboud, the CEO of an REIT called Forum Asset Management is listed as donating $7,875 to the federal Conservative party since 2017, according to Elections Canada records.
A Forum Asset Management property was recently criticized for a Vancouver viral video that showed a housing unit in a former single room occupancy hotel in the Downtown Eastside – that historically housed people at around shelter rates – was now a “micro suite” available for $2,000 a month. [...]
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Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: and how is this not considered lobbying? Because they're not elected? Because it's not the legislative branch of government? The law is a joke.
Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid
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At the present time,I long only to sleep peacefully.I am sick of humanity.
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Neoliberalism is killing the planet and destroying the working class. It's time people understand what it is, so we can name it and fight it.
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christianity listed as number one even befire judaism lol
#varg vikernes#thulean perspective#anti intellectualism#christianity#khmer rouge#islam#judaism#sjw#crony capitalism#quora#found#he hates christianity so much lol
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Imagine being dumb enough to blame the government for shrinkflation/inflation/other problems caused by shareholder greed.
#capitalism#crony capitalism#economic zionism#let's see how many libertarians whine#shrinkflation#enshittification
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Jordan Peterson Interviews Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy | EP 341
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Vivek Ramaswamy discuss ESG investing, the culture wars, the upcoming US presidential election, and Vivek’s recently announced candidacy.
Vivek is an American business leader and New York Times bestselling author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam,” along with his second book, “Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.”
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, he often recounts the sage advice from his father: “If you’re going to stand out, then you might as well be outstanding.” This set the course for his life: a nationally ranked tennis player, and the valedictorian of his high school, St. Xavier. He went on to graduate summa cum laude in Biology from Harvard and received his J.D. from Yale Law School while working at a hedge fund, then started a biotech company, Roivant Sciences, where he oversaw the development of five drugs that went on to become FDA-approved.
In 2022, he founded Strive, an Ohio-based asset management firm that directly competes with asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, and others, who use the money of everyday citizens to advance environmental and social agendas that many citizens and capital owners disagree with.
#jordan peterson#vivek ramaswamy#discussion#conversation#interview#esg#environmental social governance#culture#culture wars#corporations#wall street#crony capitalism#presidential election#2024#social justice#scam#strive#blackrock#state street#vanguard#must watch
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Bobby Hill may have been misquoted here but I'd like to believe he truly said this...
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Clarence Thomas secretly accepted luxury trips from a major GOP donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.
IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on a superyacht staffed by a coterie of attendants and a private chef.
If Thomas had chartered the plane and the 162-foot yacht himself, the total cost of the trip could have exceeded $500,000. Fortunately for him, that wasn’t necessary: He was on vacation with real estate magnate and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, who owned the jet — and the yacht, too.
Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, front left, with Harlan Crow, back right, and others in Flores, Indonesia, in July 2019. Credit: via Instagram
For more than two decades, Thomas has accepted luxury trips virtually every year from the Dallas businessman without disclosing them, documents and interviews show. A public servant who has a salary of $285,000, he has vacationed on Crow’s superyacht around the globe. He flies on Crow’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet. He has gone with Crow to the Bohemian Grove, the exclusive California all-male retreat, and to Crow’s sprawling ranch in East Texas. And Thomas typically spends about a week every summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks.
The extent and frequency of Crow’s apparent gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
These trips appeared nowhere on Thomas’ financial disclosures. His failure to report the flights appears to violate a law passed after Watergate that requires justices, judges, members of Congress and federal officials to disclose most gifts, two ethics law experts said. He also should have disclosed his trips on the yacht, these experts said.
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#politics#republicans#scotus#clarence thomas#harlan crow#crony capitalism#bribery#quid pro quo#legal#ginni thomas
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Politicians hug cows in public with pride, why can’t we do the same?
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It’s time for the Democratic Party’s geriatric leaders to relinquish power | The Hill
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Democrazy: The Farcical Circus
Step right up, folks, and bear witness to the grandest farce ever staged – the gala event of the century – the farcical circus of Democrazy! Gather here now to witness the grotesque contortions of what was once heralded as the great democratic experiment – where democratic principles are juggled into unrecognizable shapes to serve the whims of a single ringmaster – the autocratic leader.
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The truth about Obamacare
It’s been over a decade since the Affordable Care Act was passed. You probably know it as “Obamacare”, if you even know what it is anymore.
I remember back in the day when people got excited because they thought the government really cared about the American people. However the more I learn about how insurance works, the more I realize how we the people just got played by those who supposedly…
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Report: Sunak to Appoint Rupert Murdoch as New BBC Chair
UK Prime Minister Rishi "Rish!" Sunak is thought to be considering the appointment of the Fox chairman as BBC chair following the resignation of Richard Sharp.
This comes following the revelation that Sharp was given the BBC job after providing undeclared financial support to Boris Johnson while prime minister. The government has denied that appointments to run the state broadcasting corporation are politically motivated.
Australian-born Murdoch has a decades-long track record of running successful media franchises, despite questions over his business practices and promoting populist ideologies.
#rupert murdoch#rishi sunak#richard sharp#bbc#cronyism#crony capitalism#boris johnson#propaganda#attempt at humor#humour#tories out#tories suck#satire#parody#political satire#political humor#joke
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