poor russell mokhiber, corporate crime reporter extraordinaire

[julka]

he's on CSPAN now, speaking to a room packed with.......7 or 8 people.

anybody know about him?

he has a question for Fox news:

"where are all the conservatives there, RAVING about the massive criminality of coroporations caught redhanded, pleading guilty of serious crimes."

"for every company that gets convicted of polluting the nation's waterways, there are scores that get off, or put the blame on underlings.....etc."

more and more like this

check him out

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com

Thirty-one corporate criminals gave more than $9 million to the Democratic and Republican parties during the 2002 election cycle, according to a report released today by Corporate Crime Reporter.

Corporate criminals gave $7.2 million to Republicans (77 percent) and $2.1 million to Democrats (23 percent), the report found.

wonder why you don't see him on more often.....first time for me

[julka]

1. urging CSPAN consumers to contact lawmakers

get rid of the dirty money given by conVICTED corporate felons, just for a start.


campaign for corporate reform speaker now, (citizen works) talking about the amazing corporate crime spree taking place over the last
TWO YEARS.

talking about money from Enron to reps, and how much money has given back.

from 1989-2002:

Enron gave over 600K to current members of congress, 57% to pugs.

since collapse, about 150K returned.

of 435 reps in congress about 130 pugs, 80 dems have taken money from Enron.

[julka]

2. Lord Brown of BP said last year

BP will stop using money to influence political process from now on.

BP's influence over policy will herewith be based on strength of ideas, rather than amount of money given.

Citizen Works did survey following that to find out what other CEOs will follow BPs example; one page pledge, asking if they wouldn't do it, how much did they give to politicians.

sent out five hundred pledges, got 12 responses.

Only COSTCO even bothered to fill out any info on what their corporate political gifting process (YAY! I shop there.)

several other respondents said they wouldn't participate.

only 12, remember, would even say a word in answer

[julka]

3. why didn't they respond?

she cites a letter by their umbrella lobbying group, (NABPAC?), urging them to refuse to answer the Citizen Works survey, preferring to employ as much secrecy as possible in revealing the extent of their political largesse.

cites W's hero, Teddy Roosevelt, as saying that corporations should be able to donate NO MONEY at all to politicians

http://www.citizenworks.org

[julka]

4. Robert Weissman, of Multinational Monitor

http://multinationalmonitor.org

uhoh.....ralph nader umbrella

convicted felons can't vote in many states.

corporate criminals' money is always welcome.

political elite is out of touch with public trust....both parties

OK to consort with corporate criminals......why?

[julka]

5. website lists top 100 corporate criminals

first step would be for parties to give ALL corporate criminal money to charities.

asking bill bennett, shawn hannity, other moral aribiters who hate crime to go after the corporate criminals, too.

Q: what about first amendment rights of companies?

A: who cares? pols shouldn't take money from criminals. start there, then go to the BP model.

anybody heard about BP, BTW?

[izzie]

6. This seems to be the new gilted age like 1880's

who will finally go for the clean up? Some thing comes up and people get behide him and things move.I would like to see it. Their are lot of laws on books but no one seems to care so we have greed going wild.I felt McCain could have started it but he did not seem to have the over all guts to stick with it. It is interesting that what we need is a Geo. Bush that will work the other way. This guy will do anything for money, sell him self, now we need such a person who is for the people. Maybe people need to feel more pain?

[cosmicdot]

7. getting corporate america under control

would help solve so many things

imo-it's now or never

"the" issue of the day

the Democratic Platform needs to take the stand - People vs. Corporation - so many people have been victims of corporate america in some way or another -- people CAN relate