Riley Waggman The world’s benevolent captains of industry gathered in the Swiss Alps last week to discuss tax-extraction schemes and other sustainable ways to make life intolerable. This Tony Blair guy is a real jerk. https://t.co/KReb8KJhOi — Edward Slavsquat (@RileyWaggaman) January 19, 2023 All the famous space lizards were in attendance, except for the Russian …
The US is the oligarch of the world. We know it, and statistics show it. Of countries with the highest military spending in 2022, the US spends more than the next nine countries combined (chart should say “9” instead of “10” countries). Even worse, US military spending is $2,219 per person, more than twelve times […]
Matthew Ehret In case you were beginning to feel like your world was becoming a cliché dystopian movie script, don’t feel bad. It appears that at least some of the villains agree with you. Not happy with unsatisfying stories, scripts and narratives that shape our disorganized zeitgeist, Klaus Schwab and other creepy dungeon masters trying …
The world’s 10 richest billionaires have collectively seen their wealth increase by $540bn over this period. In September 2020, Jeff Bezos could have paid all 876,000 Amazon employees a $105,000 bonus and still be as wealthy as he was before COVID.
Yesterday, in his often excoriating music business newsletter, Bob Lefsetz set his sites on... oligarchs in politics. "You’ve got to be rich," he wrote. "And it always comes down to who you know." That could've easily been the opening lines about a music business post.
Over the weekend, Bernie was in Nevada, where a new poll shows him leading in this next-up caucus state (next Saturday). He's not just leading; he's surging while his closest competitor, Status Quo Joe, is collapsing and has all but abandoned Nevada for South Carolina.
Yesterday, I purposely left a major-- maybe the major-- Bloomberg drawback out of the early morning post on Bloomberg's drawbacks. That's because it deserves a post of its own.
This could be labelled Part II of a post that began yesterday morning. The word "oligarch" comes from the Greek "rule by the few." The accepted definition today is "a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence." Michael Bloomberg's photo could easily be next to the definition in any American dictionary.
Koch Industries and the Subversive Legacy of America’s Most Powerful Private Empire
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Oleg Deripaska…the Russian oligarch that Robert Mueller has been chasing after for a decade.
In 2009, according to John Solomon of The Hill, when now special counsel investigator Robert Mueller ran the FBI, he asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to bankroll an FBI-supervised operation to rescue retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, who is a captive of Iran for ten years now.
In 2017 Robert Mueller “connected” Deripaska to Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
