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i would like to also welcome to the shell lisa greens the executive director
of the center for media and democracy which also publishes t_r_ watchdog
oracle welcome lisa
truly sorry then
camping and hiking you now thank you so much physicist briefly tell our
listeners file from school
lynn what the center for democracy isn't just
hair other center for media and i think the
uh... publishes investigative reporting pieces
uh... primarily focus
on
uh... corporate
and in corporate disinformation campaigns themselves
we have a couple of main web sites where we published our original research um...
n_p_r_ watch dot org is one of those places
alexa exposed a leafy
if u_s_t_v_ dot org in another place for one of our major
uh... investigative project and um... court what dot org wiki uh...
if you wish to be like wikipedia but which really focuses and on
uh... corporate disinformation campaigns and leave
weekly launched uh... on four slash dot org
uma in connection
uh... with the nation magazine
uh... project um... that is about the
apto called
pick the debt
operations uh... defy tyson
campaign is being counted as their weight at home buyer
animations that problem we've just launched a major expose are showing the
extraordinary conflict of interest as
on many of the corporate lobbyists and that corporations that involvement as a
lease actually my listeners are very familiar with the six of the canteen we
have been talking about him since day one week slogans consulates jerry
medicare medicaid and
diseases that coalition members and their leader miami guinness have in
their standard t_p_ descend
i have been a regular on the focused on a regular focus of the show
but i wanna know what i didn't he
need the newest project evenly split the nation has revealed in terms of the
financial ties that bind washington
okay for
well i appreciate that very much it's it's heartening for me to know that you
all of it out here
sounding the alarm about anything quite legitimately on any alarm
about their fix for that operation
um... as and many of your listeners know there are a number of groups that have
implanted by kiki dipped into the wall street billionaire
who on managed to get him
uh...
uh... basically out of our financial risk right before the economy crashed
conveniently
seconding illegal for
seattle usa co-founder of black down and they were heavily involved i mean one of
the entities that was involved in the housing crisis
he cashed out of time in two thousand seven um... handbag you know walked away
with about two billion dollars
uh... from that operation along with
ultimate other investments
didn't tell me a lot of money economy going into the tank right before it
crashed
three before t cast doubt but now im has renewed his efforts
uh... to try to kill ppl
security this is uh... i guy who
um... in the former nixon man ki
i have plenty of things
one billion dollars
uh... basically talking about the debt in fighting groups she feels it
of this claim of this
debt crisis
and um... we could have on new material that we have
um...
uh... unveiled basically that talks about
some of these complex until we walk through uh... every a person who's m
i'll be here i think that that week we show along along with other people's
interest but some of our own
um... how many of these people are
actually lobbyist forcefully big corporations that are a negative attack
feared b_-fifty
people who
um... are not paying their fair share
or are profiting alive until a lot of people heard that risk involved he's out
former clinton
ahmed by getting someone who ran for iran profit north carolina laf
unheated that one of the jury names on this
on that
uh... bowl simpson commissioner that
simpson both commission and he didn't peddling
if a whole bunch of this information that that for a number of years
and yet he's someone too
uh... make turned forty five thousand dollars a year for couple hours
and time on working families for trent my question to your listeners entry
everyone is
are do you think that when you've peddling this
picture that operation he's looking out for your interest
or the bank's interest
over half a million dollars a year serving on the board of face book which
is another company that we recently reported medical report it
you know had a major act tax loophole that allowed them to escape
paying for financial taxes
uh... we document other people who have these
these complicated and if you mentioned
who is um...
speaks to the head of of uh...
steering committee i believe it fixes that um... who's worked with are number
of
therapy pierce an agenda item
um... the chief someone who's husband
is a managing director
of goldman sachs who loved it
militant
and this is an issue
cancellous originally met has called in fact it
one of the film to basically played both lagged the market against each other
uh... in in in in you know one of the major uh... you know major sort of this
deceptive practices in my view on that contributed to the crash of wall street
um... we've got other folks
uh... part of um...
for that that like a great week the former senator um...
on the picture that website where they promote these people as spokes people
who are the redoubled people in the room
argument that he's offered by either the goldman sachs he took
he took down three hundred thousand dollars evident by the goldman sachs is
often a support of honeywell which is when they get confirmed got four hundred
thousand dollars for a couple hours work on honeywell smiling judd gregg talk you
about the debt you hear his name is
part of town for a bipartisan commission
keeping judd gregg is is putting the interests of uh... of goldman facts and
honeywell
uh... before your interest by that he has
so we have more and more of that in all that information is available to answer
a quick website the route strike for too much
by taking that appears and care med
peterson pyramid dot org you can find out about these competent who can tell
your neighbors you can tell your local news paper your
a local editorial board or the local press when they put these guys in a
quote from chemical polls etc
judd gregg reverend allen in the benefit of you can call and say why are you
reporting how the fed to doing the bidding
uh... in their day jobs that some of the biggest
i contributed to our financial crisis uh... that that
went down in two thousand without revealing without revealing the company
uh... actually touch on something that i wanna further investigation that is the
fact that i mean what we're dealing with are these
multibillion their multinational corporate actors so what pete peterson
and that um... you know if you have all this money they it may have read the
washington game in such a way
as to on influence the politics
so it also million benefits and their pockets their bottom line
so i mean i just wonder about the in-game on pearson signed dead uh...
focused so for example you know you can bet against america i mean if you have
enough money to play the international casino
uh...
you think and you know that your wages against america with regards to
uh... is financial direction and actually win as an individual and i'm
wondering if his incessant focus on the debt eyes he actually has a financial
statements will know that in terms of driving down uh... america's um...
financial uh... financial well-being the second part of that of course is we've
always known a suspected i'm not social security their whole fixation on
entitlements being that if they can actually destabilize the system and they
can't force an argument about privatizing the system and then they'll
be there to capture those social security dollars on wall street
so i mean what do you think that in gayness
well i have to say you know we need to look at a lot of
corporate fronted operations a corporate front groups and i think that six if
that is
is going to patrick first supergroup it
and i have it
targeted by just sixteen million
uh... expanded uh... it's they they see the red-hot forty million they were
there one of several voices that basically pete peterson either funds
directly or indirectly through the for sale
innocent children to prevent another group and um... you know when you take a
look at who these guys really are
often feed from various camping trip for example a number of that
our corporations that are involved in the pic for that operation pay negative
tax-free throughout the negative tax-free
a number of them uh... are spending a hundred thousand dollars cumulatively
on lobbying
uh... to prevent
iraqi troops changing its tax code to prevent them from basically offshoring
profit accurate
paying their fair share
sharing too
uh... maintaining the american government sophie who's very deceptive
operation in which
they want a weapons program the flag a rapid flag around themselves and they
want to claim
that fair
are good corporate citizens that bear
uh... this is a bipartisan effort in fact it is a bipartisan effort
these corporate
uh... these corporate interests
but many of these companies are paying their fair share in fact they read
assistant to
uh... aid their tax avoidance
king frankie
our government
who having the money you need to function meanwhile
i think
um... so you have this issue of the
um... of
uh... offshoring profits and offshoring jobs and not
fifteen of these loophole could get some of the biggest corporations in the world
um... negative past review at work for you and me and most of your listeners
you know we take thirteen thirty five percent or more of taxes ring we don't
have a bunch of lobbyists who are lobbying for a special tax loopholes for
us
so there are signs that are so that's on the system something the financial lines
out of this nation
non-standard linkers and and and and they want to claim and they want to tell
if they're the patriots in fact
you know it's really a quite a bit of a masquerade because a lot of these
companies
i think they were if they were true patriots they'd
they wouldn't you know in my opinion
they'd be paying their fair share they wouldn't be paying negative
marinated in factories
uh... it's quite it's quite a
heard beyond that
i think we have particularly dangerous up point right now because of the
sequestration i'll fight because what you're
hearing on the news when you hear from fixes that
i think that it is unveiled their opposing sequestration
which right now the way structured i would have would be devastating but what
it does is protect
um... from the entitlement programs so-called in federal programs like
school carry which are called in thailand for the defense you paid in
click here
uh... on your paycheck every single paycheck apportion
praful security interests gordon titled thriftier feedback would you please
write which is why it's so
uh... car out this graduation correct when you hear pic
said that their knees
c_e_o_'s and some of these
former politicians
who've gone to build on the revolving door left congress and on the work for
these big lobbying firm
or passed out like griffin bold
and you know managed care you know getting
lucrative
multi a hundred thousand dollar board positions and that's what you do you
mean vases
seek refuge is that because it's not up
approach when they see the word balaji should be singing about fox news and
fair and balanced
when they think balanced what they're trying to pave
they want to limit the impact for example on
on uh... the pentagon attempt contractor who like honeywell which is part of it
for that
and they want to get their hands on your on your
book security and medicare and that's exactly right and you were having
debates around in an accident and uh... you you actually and he is sixties
issues as eloquently as you do
and that you wrote an
one of your most recent articles that um... that peter sends agenda may have
actually failed because you know the uh...
the national elections was a referendum on some of these ideas in the rejection
of a certainly
by the ideas that are represented by the republican ticket
in the last two lines of the relies on the earthly say at this point many are
wondering why peterson is not being left out of the room ending union by saying
perhaps even sit
and so my last question for you and quickly is has the room in boston do the
american people have a chance
well i think we have a chance for our voices have to be heard quite quickly
uses for that guy is um... that person bowls
uh... operation and others
their they're having meetings with members congress avenue the white house
their petaling
uh... distance of this information and people in congress and hear from you
in your for your neighbors
that you do not want them to cut social security
you don't want these
these uh... gimmick
slicing p_p_i_
which are about paying less and less missiles syria deputy older you get
at the cost of living goes i think everything killers proposal then quite
frankly full security by any actuarial measure it
uh... for the next twenty years and then their way to fix
provincial leader um... shortfall by closing off the loophole for people who
make
more than a hundred ten thousand dollars a year
right now most americans have no idea david gigantic loophole
for the people who make more than thirteen thousand don't pay any more
into obscurity tiananmen ten because most americans don't make up exam times
nights
please agree is easy to do it through the center for media and the mountains
sea solution to your own national hurricane andrew
elitist website pearson pure made up for a check it out thank you lisa
thank you so much
and you are listening to this was my racine wisconsin timesheet
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