They say elections
have consequences, well American made sham elections have deadly consequences for
the world. November 4th was
the first election to take place since the confluence of horrific Supreme Court
decisions against individual voting rights.
The Vultures are picking
America’s carcass clean and right behind the Monsanto Vultures are the Koch
Brothers Vultures and they have come home to roost. These aren’t your run of the mill vultures
that feast off deceased carcasses, but a Monsanto-type, genetically modified hybrid
vulture that devours live beings.
From Live Science:
Excerpt:
A flock of vultures devoured the body of a
woman just minutes after she fell to her death while hiking in the Pyrenees Mountains
in France….
Vultures are known to
be able to sniff out the gaseous chemicals
emanating from a dead body more
than a mile away.
When
we first went out in the helicopter looking for the body, we saw numerous
vultures, without realizing what they were doing," said Maj. Didier
Pericou, of the local police, as quoted in the Daily Mail.
Numerous vultures,
just like American made sham election vultures feeding off the emaciated
carcass of America.
But by the time the police reached the body,
there was little left to recover.
"There
were only bones, clothes and shoes left on the ground," Pericou said.
"They took 40 to 50 minutes to eat the body."
Monsanto and the Koch
Brothers would never have left bones, clothes or shoes behind and since the
November 4th election they are devouring America in record time.
The
Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus)
that consumed the body have been under considerable stress, as their primary
source of food — the carcasses of cattle or other livestock — are no longer
available throughout much of Europe.
Due
to concerns about the spread of "mad cow disease" (bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, or BSE), animals carcasses are now burned per European Union
regulations.
As
a result, the scavengers are reportedly becoming increasingly aggressive, and
some farmers claim vultures are now attacking live animals.
You know what that reminds
me of? You know, the part about the
vultures attacking live animals because their primary food source has dried
up. That reminds me of the Koch Brothers vultures and Wisconsin is the live animal the vultures are devouring. From the Bellingham Herald:
Excerpt:
MADISON,
WIS. — Wisconsin would join five other states that impose special fees on owners of electric vehicles, in an attempt
to help make up for revenue drivers of those fuel-efficient cars aren't paying
in gas taxes, under a road-funding proposal put forward by Gov. Scott
Walker's administration.
The
$50 annual charge, which would raise about $4 million a year, is part of $751
million in new taxes and fees proposed Friday by Walker's Department of
Transportation to pay for road projects. Walker hasn't commented specifically
on the proposal, which he can alter before releasing his state budget early
next year. The budget then goes to the Legislature for consideration.
Republican
legislative leaders have said little about the transportation budget request,
which would keep the $75 registration
fee in place for owners of traditional gas-fueled vehicles. But
environmental groups were sounding an alarm Monday about the new electric and
hybrid vehicle fee.
Yep, I wonder who
the winner here is, it certainly isn’t the people of Wisconsin.
The
budget request has drawn praise from the Transportation Investment Coalition,
which includes road builders, labor unions, local units of government, chambers
of commerce and others that support spending more on transportation.
The road building lobby is
one of the most powerful in the Legislature.
Yes Wisconsin,
you’re getting a bipartisan screwing. And it doesn’t stop there, Wisconsin Public
Service is raising fees to make up for lost Koch Brothers revenue due to lower
usage through conservation.
WPS Rate Hikes (From Post Crescent)
Regulators
approve $9 electric rate hike for WPS
MADISON
– Hundreds of thousands of electric
customers' bills will increase by $9 a month, as state regulators on Thursday
sided with utilities that say they need low-use customers to pay their fair
share of maintaining infrastructure.
Wisconsin
Public Service Corp., which serves about 443,700 customers in northeastern and
north-central Wisconsin, had asked regulators for permission to raise its monthly fixed rate from $10.44 to
$25 and reduce variable usage fees by a couple cents per kilowatt hour.
Whoa, bend over
Wisconsin, this is gonna hurt, and it’s extra for lubricant.
The utility said the increase
was needed to ensure consumers who use less energy pay their fair share for
maintaining infrastructure, such as transmission poles and power plants.
Consumer advocates have countered the increase is designed to recoup revenue
lost through conservation and punish low-usage customers.
The
state Public Service Commission voted 2-1 to approve the request but limited the monthly increase to $9
rather than the $15 jump the utility wanted. Commission chairman Phil
Montgomery and Commissioner Ellen Nowak voted to approve the package.
Commissioner Eric Callisto voted against it, PSC spokesman Nathan Conrad said.
Together,
the fixed rate increase and the hourly usage fee dip will translate to roughly
a 3 percent increase in the average
residential consumer's annual electric bill, Conrad said.
Well, there goes
that 1.5% increase in your Social Security Benefits. Move over WPS, Madison G&E and WE want to
get their snouts in the trough.
Madison
Gas & Electric and We Energies also have asked the PSC to let them dramatically
increase their monthly rates as well, saying they, too, need to make sure customers pay their share for maintaining
infrastructure. The commission is expected to make a decision on those
requests later this month.
The Koch Brothers
own the Wisconsin legislature, they birthed the Wisconsin legislature. Oh, by the way America, meet Wisconsin’s new
Congressional Representative, Glenn Grothman, crazier than a shithouse rat but
not as cuddly.
From Mother Jones:
Excerpt:
This Republican Who Wants to End the Weekend Is Probably Headed to
Congress
Wisconsin State Sen.
Glenn Grothman thinks days off are "goofy," says Sex Ed could make
kids gay, and claims money is "more important for men."
Yep, crazier than a shithouse rat, old Glenn is the
Koch Brothers/ALEC bill mill bagman.
Here is a roundup of
what might be called his greatest hits. Read them and remember that Grothman is
likely headed to Congress.
Days off from work are "a little ridiculous":
In January, Grothman proposed rolling
back a Wisconsin law requiring employers to give workers at least one day of
rest per week….
"Right now in
Wisconsin, you're not supposed to work seven days in a row, which is a little
ridiculous because all sorts of people want to work seven days a week," he said.
Sex Ed could turn kids gay:
In 2010, Grothman, who believes that homosexuality is a choice, proposed banning Wisconsin public school
teachers from mentioning homosexuality in sex education classes because
some teachers had an "agenda" to turn kids gay.
Planned Parenthood is racist:
In January 2013, Grothman appeared on Voice of Christian Youth America, an
evangelical talk show, and he called Planned Parenthood "the most overtly
racist organization."
"Money is more important for men":
After voting in 2011 to repeal Wisconsin's equal-pay protection law, Grothman
argued that the male-female pay gap wasn't about discrimination in the
workplace.
People on food stamps don't act poor enough:
In a 2004 op-ed calling for new restrictions on the federal food stamps
program, Grothman outlined the extensive research that informed his position.
"I've interviewed over a dozen people who check out people who pay with
food stamps," he wrote, "and all felt people on food stamps ate
better—or at least more costly—than they did
Affirmative action is "offensive":
Following the US Supreme Court's 2014 ruling in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend
Affirmative Action, which upheld a ban on racial preferences in college
admissions, Grothman said he would re-up a previous bill outlawing all race-
and gender-based affirmative action programs in Wisconsin."
Glenn Grothman is truly the face of the Republican
Party of Wisconsin. If you want to see
what Wisconsin is going to look like by the end of Scott Walker’s second term,
look to the Koch Brothers’ crown jewel, Detroit. From Think Progress:
Excerpt:
After Sparking Outrage In
Detroit, Koch Brothers’ Tar Sands Waste Now Piling Up In Chicago
Petroleum
coke, a byproduct of tar sands refining, is building up along Chicago’s Calumet
River and alarming residents, reported Midwest Energy News.
Petroleum coke is a
high-carbon, high-sulfur byproduct of Canadian tar sands that are shipped from Alberta to the U.S.
to be refined and is rapidly becoming a cause for concern in Chicago. “It’s growing by leaps and bounds,”
Southeast Environmental Task Force member Tom Shepherd, told Midwest Energy
News. “It’s coming at a breathtaking rate.”
Yes, gives new
meaning to “breathtaking”.
The
pet coke is owned by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch whose
operations drew similar outrage from residents and elected officials in Detroit
earlier this year. In July, a large black cloud of pet coke dust was spotted
over the Detroit River and caught on camera by residents across the border in
Windsor.
Members of the communities in
close proximity to the piles were complaining of respiratory problems as the thick,
black dust was blowing off the piles and into their apartments.
Koch Brothers own
the government in Detroit. What happens
when a public utility such as water is privatized for profit? From The Root:
Excerpt:
In Detroit: No Money, No
Water
Detroit’s
water utility supplied 20 percent less water in 2009 than it did in 2003. The
obvious reasons why are a steep decline in Industrial activity and population.
Michigan’s largest city–home to 820,000 residents, 1 million less than in
1950–is losing 10,000 residents annually.
But a third important source
of the department’s diminishing market is that many poor residents simply can’t
afford the basic service. Thousands of Detroit residents have had their water
connections cut by the city, forcing people to adopt informal methods to gain
access to drinking water.
What country are
we living in? A major U.S. city has
water cut off to its citizens, what are they supposed to do get water from the
river? Oh wait, the water has been
poisoned by Koch Brother’s tar sands slush from Alberta Canada, never mind.
“I’ve
been to some neighborhoods where they run a hose through the window from their
neighbor’s house,” said Maureen Taylor, chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights
Organization (MWRO), which educates low-income workers and welfare recipients
on social services rights.
More
than 42,000 residences in 2005 lost their connection to the city’s water
system, according to figures provided by the Detroit Water and Sewerage
Department, Taylor said. The number of homes without access has decreased since
then but, according to Taylor, the exact figure remains unknown because DWSD is reluctant to provide data
about the shut offs.
You betch yer ass,
DWSD is reluctant to provide the data. This
is the government that was endowed upon us by the Supreme Court decision
December 12. 2000. God will anyone help
Detroit? According to an article by Diana Ozemebhoya dated Oct. 22 2014:
Excerpt:
United Nations: Detroit Water
Shutoffs Violate Human Rights
After completing a
fact-finding trip, the U.N. found that the city’s poorest residents are most
affected by their lack of access to running water.
There’s
a new player in Detroit who wants to bring attention to how the city has shut
off the running water in thousands of homes because residents have been unable
to pay their water bill. The water shutoff caused an outcry earlier this year
from folks who believe the city’s response was severe and inhumane. Now the UNITED NATIONS has joined
that chorus and stated that the water shutoffs violate human rights, Al-Jazeera
is reporting.
“Disconnection
of water services because of failure to pay due to lack of means constitutes a
violation of the human right to water and other international human rights,”
U.N. officials Catarina de Albuquerque and Leilani Farha wrote to Detroit
officials in June.
Hey, Leilani don't
waste your breath talking to Detroit “officials”, you need to talk to the Koch
Brothers, I heard on Rush Limbaugh that they’re some real philanthropists
On
Monday the U.N. followed up that email with a press conference in Detroit,
after having completed a fact-finding tour of the city. Officials wanted to see
how several residents were coping without running water.
“We were shocked, impressed
by the proportions of the disconnections and by the way that it is affecting
the weakest, the poorest and the most vulnerable,” said de Albuquerque.
Wow, I’m surprised
the people of Detroit aren’t picketing in front of the homes of the politicians
who shut their water off. But wait,
what’s this? From TruthDig:
Excerpt:
In
late October, a few days after local news cameras swarmed Detroit’s courthouse
to hear closing arguments in the city’s historic bankruptcy trial, “Commander”
Dale Brown cruised through the stately Detroit neighborhood of Palmer Woods in
a Hummer emblazoned with the silver, interlocking-crescent-moon logo of his
private security company.
Brown
rolled down the window to ask a middle-aged woman walking her dog whether
everything was okay (it was), and whether she had seen anything out of the
ordinary (she hadn’t). Satisfied, he continued on, guided by a futuristic
tablet map of the neighborhood’s languid streets.
These
had become even more impenetrable last year when the bankrupt city paid for and
constructed a series of traffic barriers on the community’s edges. On his
right, he pointed out, was the Bishop’s
Residence, a 30-room Tudor Revival castle originally commissioned by a family
of fabulously wealthy automobile pioneers who later sold their company to
General Motors.
“This
is the part of Detroit that most people are not aware of,” Brown told filmmaker
Messiah Rhodes and me. And indeed, the turreted neighborhood did look far more
like something you would find in Detroit’s mostly white suburbs than deep
inside the city itself.
Brown
is the founder of Threat Management, a private security company hired by the Palmer Woods’ neighborhood association to provide
24-hour protection to this elite enclave. He knows the two sides of Detroit
more intimately than just about any of its residents. After a stint as an Army
paratrooper, he moved to the city’s East Side in the mid-1990s and into a
neighborhood dubbed “crack alley……”
Two
decades later, Brown’s officers, with
their distinctly paramilitary aesthetic, are among the most recognizable of a
burgeoning number of private security personnel and surveillance systems
scattered across neighborhoods in the former Motor City that people with money
have decided are worth protecting.
All the RAND
Corporation military equipment will come in handy with their privatized,
militarized police.
But the future of the rest of
the sprawling city—once the symbol of American industrialization and
working-class power—remains at best insecure, physically and financially.
In
the 1940s, President Franklin Roosevelt declared Detroit, then the nation’s fourth largest city, the “great arsenal of
democracy” for churning out bombers for the Allied powers, as in peacetime
it rolled out cars for the consumer economy. Then the auto giants began closing
their urban factories and reopening their plants in white suburbs. In the same
era, the industry, national unions, and the FBI all cracked down on the labor
organizations founded by radical black workers.
Yes, that’s what
happened to Detroit when the Koch Brothers Vultures came home to roost. But there’s another chit the Koch Brothers
have to cash in and it's big and it’s costly. The Koch Brothers want their ecological
nightmare, Keystone XL Pipeline.
The Louisiana Senate seat in America’s Parthenon is currently occupied by Mary Landrieu’s ample ass. There’s no whore like an old whore and poor old Mary has a lot of miles on her. But a funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. Senator Mary Landrieu faces a runoff having failed to garner 50% plus one to retain her highly lucrative Senate seat. From National Journal:
Excerpt:
With an Eye on Louisiana,
Senate and House Race for Keystone Votes Mary Landrieu, who is in a tough
runoff, wants a vote on the pipeline by the end of this week.
November
12, 2014 Within minutes of the start of the lame-duck session Wednesday,
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu took to the Senate floor to push her colleagues
on a vote to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, as she faces a difficult
reelection battle—the last of 2014—in energy-rich Louisiana.
Yes, Mary will
royally screw the American people and then the Koch’s will toss her aside for a
younger fresher face, like Glenn Grothman.
"I
want to come to the floor to ask Senator Cornyn from Texas, particularly, and
Senator McConnell and Senator Reid and others if they would join me in moving
forward on the Keystone XL pipeline," Landrieu said, as Cornyn left the
floor. "This has been a project that has lingered far too long. It is
clearly supported by sixty or more members of this body.… And I believe with a push, a significant push in the next few hours,
that we could actually get the votes we need to pass the Keystone
pipeline."
So why, as Mary Landrieu
says, has the Koch Brother’s Keystone XL Pipeline lingered for so long? Maybe the answer lies in some of these
articles from Tar Sands Solutions:
Excerpt:
Tar Sands oil spills
The
unsavory impacts of the tar sands are not limited to northern Alberta. Rapid
tar sands expansion is creating a growing network of pipelines and oil tankers
that make rivers, coastlines and communities all over North America vulnerable
to the devastating impacts of tar sands oil leaks and spills.
The most recent spills in
Marshall, Michigan and Mayflower, Arkansas show tar sands pipelines leak a kind
of oil that is much more toxic and difficult to clean up than conventional
crude, and a massive spill from an oil tanker loaded with tar sands crude would
devastate fisheries, communities and economies along the Pacific, Atlantic and
Gulf coasts.
Yes, Mary Landrieu
needs 60 votes in the Senate to pass the Keystone XL Pipeline to transverse
across America to deliver the Koch Brothers tar sands to American refineries for
shipment to China. From Tar SandsSolutions:
Excerpt:
Groups ask why no charges
have been laid a year after Alberta coal mine spill
Conservation
groups want to know why no federal or provincial charges have been laid over a
massive spill from a coal tailings pond in west-central Alberta.
An
estimated 670 million litres of waste water spilled into tributaries that feed
into the Athabasca River after an earth berm broke at the Obed Mountain mine on
Oct. 31, 2013.
The
mine was owned at the time by Sherritt International, which has since sold it
to Westmoreland Coal Company.
Groups
including the Alberta Wilderness Association say Sherritt should be charged
under the federal Fisheries Act.
They
also say they want both governments to make public what was in the tailings,
how the spill has affected the rivers and how it may affect the health of
people who live downstream.
Federal
officials and staff at the Alberta Energy Regulator were not immediately
available for comment.
Fat chance that
either the government of Canada or America are going piss off the Koch
Brothers.
Excerpt:
Within
the next few weeks the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), an
environmental review body established under NAFTA, will decide whether to
investigate the Canadian government’s continuing failure to regulate its tar
sands industry. In 2010, the CEC received a petition from NRDC, Environmental
Defense Canada, and three Canadian citizens asking the CEC to address water
contamination from tar sands waste, known as tailings….
Tar
sands extraction, an industrial behemoth in Canada, is among the most
ecologically destructive energy sources in the world. It carries a heavy
environmental impact that includes habitat destruction, substantial greenhouse
gas emissions, and vast water consumption. One of the most devastating impacts
comes not from the extraction itself but from the disposal of toxic liquid
byproducts known as tailings. For every barrel of usable bitumen extracted,
approximately 1.5 barrels of tailings are produced.
The Keystone XL
Pipeline crosses America’s most sensitive aquifers that supply fresh water
throughout America.
 |
| Toxic and Tax Exempt |
So how’s old Mary
doing in smashing through the Koch Brothers’ Keystone Pipeline? According to 5 News Online:
Louisiana’s Landrieu Says She
Has 60 Votes To Advance Keystone Pipeline
WASHINGTON
(CNN) - Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu says she has the 60 votes she
needs for the Senate to advance a measure Tuesday that would authorize
construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Landrieu
has been scrambling to attract at least 15 Democrats to join 45 Republicans to
reach the critical 60-vote procedural threshold. She told reporters at the Capitol
on Monday night that she’d reached that mark.
 |
| I don't feel so comfortable |
“I
feel very comfortable,” Landrieu said….
If she can shepherd the
legislation through the Senate, it would allow Landrieu to demonstrate her
influence one last time ahead of a Dec. 6 run-off election in Louisiana, where she faces Republican Rep. Bill
Cassidy, who sponsored the bill authorizing the pipeline when the House
approved it on Friday.
Yes, there’s no
whore like an old whore and Mary knows all the tricks. I wonder what she’s hiding that she’s so
frightened of losing her seat. If she’s
hiding cash, just stick it in your freezer that seems to be an old Louisiana
trick.
In this article
from Rolling Stone you can see the Koch Brothers Vultures have invested well.
Excerpt:
Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire
Koch is also long on the richest – but also the dirtiest and most carbon-polluting – oil deposits in North America: the tar sands of Alberta. The company's Pine Bend refinery, near St. Paul, Minnesota, processes nearly a quarter of the Canadian bitumen exported to the United States – which, in turn, has created for Koch Industries a lucrative sideline in petcoke exports.
Denser, dirtier and cheaper than coal, petcoke is the dregs of tar-sands refining. U.S. coal plants are largely forbidden from burning petcoke, but it can be profitably shipped to countries with lax pollution laws like Mexico and China….
Over the past dozen years, the company has quietly acquired leases for 1.1 million acres of Alberta oil fields, an area larger than Rhode Island. By some estimates, Koch's direct holdings nearly double ExxonMobil's and nearly triple Shell's. In May, Koch Oil Sands Operating LLC of Calgary, Alberta, sought permits to embark on a multi-billion dollar tar-sands-extraction operation. This one site is projected to produce 22 million barrels a year – more than a full day's supply of U.S. oil….
Coming to aquifers near you, thanks Mary Landrieu.
In fact, it appears the very essence of the Koch business model is to exploit breakdowns in the free market. Koch has profited precisely by dumping billions of pounds of pollutants into our waters and skies – essentially for free. It racks up enormous profits from speculative trades lacking economic value that drive up costs for consumers and create risks for our economy.
I wouldn’t say they pollute for free, but buying politicians is relatively cheap.
The Koch brothers get richer as the costs of what Koch destroys are foisted on the rest of us – in the form of ill health, foul water and a climate crisis that threatens life as we know it on this planet.
So on November 4th we had yet another American made sham election
and this time the Koch Brothers Vultures have come home to roost.
By
Patricia Baeten
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