Tagged: greed

“As untold millions of dollars pour into the shadowy campaign troughs of the presidential candidates, voters need to be reminded of the rosy assumptions of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that legitimized the new spending frenzy. In allowing unlimited spending on candidates by corporations and unions, the court’s decision, in 2010, blithely pronounced, ‘A campaign finance system that pairs corporate independent expenditures with effective disclosure has not existed before today.’ Effective disclosure exists? The court majority in the 5-4 decision should have been watching this month when the Republican-controlled Congress, which has firmly bottled up all campaign disclosure legislation, voted to further cripple disclosure at two of its most vital points. In the new budget bill, Republicans inserted a provision blocking the [IRS] from creating rules to curb the growing abuse of the tax law by thinly veiled political machines posing as ‘social welfare’ organizations. These groups are financed by rich special-interest donors who do not have to reveal their identities under the tax law. So much for effective disclosures at the I.R.S.”

Source: The Editorial Board. “Political Dark Money Just Got Darker.” New York Times. December 25, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/opinion/political-dark-money-just-got-darker.html.

“Pope Francis, who is visiting South America, says Christians are victims of genocide as he also begs forgiveness for crimes committed by Catholic church during colonial conquests. LPope Francis on Thursday launched a blistering attack on the “new colonialism” of austerity, describing unfettered capitalism as ‘the dung of the devil’ and apologising for the Catholic church’s role in the conquest of indigenous populations in the Americas.”

Source: “Pope Calls Unfettered Capitalism ‘The Dung Of The Devil.'” The Telegraph. July 10, 2015. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/11730371/Pope-calls-for-an-end-to-the-murders-of-Christians-in-the-Middle-East-and-beyond.html.

“For the life of me, I will never understand how a family like the Koch brothers, worth $85 billion, apparently think that’s not enough money.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders

Source: ” Bernie Sanders Takes Aim At ‘Greedy’ Koch Brothers.” AP. August 23, 2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-koch-brothers_55d9ca6ee4b0a40aa3ab3642?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013§ion=politics.

Leonard Rowe prepares to take legal action against former attorney Willie Gary, also known as “The Client Killer,” and the Gary Law Firm!!!

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In preparation for their lawsuit against Willie Gary and the Gary Law Firm, Leonard Rowe and his new legal team have created a website detailing Gary and his firm’s extensive history of legal malpractice and defrauding their clients, particularly in employment discrimination and civil rights related cases. Smdh. Also named in the suit is Bill Campbell — the former MAYOR OF ATLANTA and attorney who submitted “Exhibit 31” in the Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Summary Judgment!!! Go to http://www.theclientkiller.org to check out the site and learn more about why Rowe is now going after Willie Gary. Things about to get very interesting…

“I’ve often said that people of European descent leave off a phrase, a prepositional phrase: ‘for Europe.’ Christopher Columbus discovered America ‘for Europe.’ [Sigmund] Freud discovered psychology ‘for Europe.’ You can go through every subject and I’m a curriculum writer and a consultant to many boards of ed, so I’ve seen many books in science, psychology, chemistry, physics. Johannes Kepler, born in Stuttgart, Germany, given credit for creating, inventing the planetary laws of motion, yet he himself admits in his writing he studied the Kemetic golden law of planetary motion. [Nicolaus] Copernicus admits that he studied Kemetic astronomy. In fact, anybody that knows anything in that time of history studied Egypt. Even Hitler was a student of Egypt. Napoleon was a student of Egypt. This is not what I say — this is what they said…[W]hen our young people get this information, people in the Western world will be left behind by quantum leap because they will not have the intelligence to test our children because they won’t even understand what our children are talking about. By a quantum leap.” — Booker T. Coleman, Jr.

read VANITY FAIR’s article “The Inside Story of Ari Emanuel’s Big, Risky WME-IMG Merger”

This is going to be a pretty good read, although I notice that the article makes no mention of the two multi-million dollar racial discrimination lawsuits against WME and the considerable amount of money they are paying to have their law firm, Loeb & Loeb LLP and its attorney Michael P. Zweig, as well as others, engage in fraud so that William Morris can obtain favorable verdicts and avoid jury trials. Based on all the facts and circumstances, it is clear that Leonard Rowe was defrauded by his own attorneys (and their co-conspirators) and had the law been upheld by federal judge Robert P. Patterson in Rowe’s case after he filed his March 2012 Fed. R. Civ. P. 60 Fraud Upon the Court Motion, William Morris, more likely than not, would have not have been able to afford the $2.4 billion needed to acquire IMG in December of 2013 [or they would have needed to borrow more money from SilverLake]…Since they appear to be having financial problems, maybe we need a percentage of the company as well?

Source: William D. Cohan. “The Inside Story of Ari Emanuel’s Big, Risky WME-IMG Merger.” Vanity Fair. February 11, 2015. http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/02/wme-img-merger-ari-emanuel.

“The national liberation movements, almost all battling Western colonizers, leaned more toward socialism then capitalism.”

Source: Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor. Einstein On Race and Racism. pg. 104. 2005.

“The statements in the leaked emails by Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal to producer Scott Rudin are offensive, insulting and should be denounced in the harshest terms. What is most troubling about these statements is that they reflect a continued lack of diversity in positions of power in major Hollywood studios. The statements clearly show how comfortable major studio powers are with racial language and marginalization. Her apology is not enough there must be moves by her studio and others to respect the African American community and reflect that respect in their hiring and business practices.” — Rev. Al Sharpton

Interesting that Al has now decided to speak about racism in Hollywood and calling for these companies that have been maintaining discriminatory and anticompetitive business practices for decades to change their ways. Didn’t the NAACP do the same thing in the 1960s? This is all funny to me because I know that some people in Al’s circle have known about my case since at least 2012, but he has said nothing. Oh, I forgot, I was told that Al would ONLY speak out against William Morris and Hollywood’s discriminatory and anticompetitive business practices, if the “reverend” and “civil rights activist” was getting $$$ for it and it didn’t create conflict of interest for him since he is on television and has his own radio show….

Source: Al’s Facebook page.

Lauryn Hill — “BLACK RAGE” (sketch)

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Lauryn released a more sped up version of “Black Rage” around the time she went on the road with Nas in the fall of 2012, but late Wednesday night, she released a more stripped down “sketch” of the song, in response to the social unrest that’s occurring in Missouri (and throughout the world). I love this version so much more!!