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If Trump does not yield, Yale Professor Sonnenfeld said the business titans' actions could include corporate relocations, threats to stop donations to political action committees, and pressuring Republican legislators to keep them from redirecting Electoral College votes from Biden to Trump.

Markopolos' report indicates that GE is locked into $38-billion in future expenses that it has not disclosed, which is over 40% of the company’s market capitalization. The company says the report itself is fraud because it was designed to plunge the price of GE stock so insiders could buy cheap and sell high later.

Source : Le Figaro Vox, Jean-Charles Hourcade, 29-05-2019
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – Alors que General Electric annonçait ce 27 mai la suppression de 1000 emplois, Jean-Charles Hourcade revient sur l’affaire Alstom depuis son origine.

Press TV – May 7, 2019 Iraq’s Electricity Minister Luay al-Khateeb says his country brushed aside US demands that Baghdad stop gas and power imports from neighboring Iran. Khateeb, whose remarks were quoted by Iraqi media on Monday, did not say whether the Americans had made the demand after ending waivers for exports of crude […]

Stifling competition, secretly livestreaming and hijacking SIMs + this day in history w/the kitchen debate and our song of the day by Stickybuds on your Morning Monarchy for July 24, 2018.

FILE – In this Nov. 17, 2016 file photo, then-Indiana Sen. Dan Coats on Capitol Hill in Washington. President-elect Donald Trump is planning to appoint former Coats as Director of National Intelligence. (AP/Susan Walsh)
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll nominate former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats as national intelligence director, AP reports on Saturday.

Dusty records, news movies and comic shows + this day in history w/Black Dahlia and our song of the day by She-Devils on your Morning Monarchy for January 15, 2016.

By Ralph Nader | CounterPunch | April 17, 2015 “Tax day” comes and goes each year, but unfortunately, the systemic issues that plague American taxpayers linger on without resolution well past the mid-April deadline. The U.S. tax code has long been manipulated by corporate lobbyists and their corporate tax attorneys. (President Jimmy Carter once called […]

Please go back one post and read Part I, where we began our look at the tax extenders (i.e., corporate loopholes) bill the Senate Finance Committee is getting ready to sneak through and present as a fait acompli, an incredible transpartisan exercise in Beltway corruption.

On April 2, the Senate Finance Committee is planning to renew 55 major tax breaks worth $700 billion over 10 years, which is mostly to the benefit of the corporations like General Electic, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, which underwrite the political careers of our political elite in general and the members of the Senate Finance Committee in particular.