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February 1, 2016
Rubio's Billionaire VulturePaul Singer, the GOP's Baddie Sugar Daddie
The untold story of the sources of the loot controlled by Paul "The Vulture" Singer and why he needs to buy the White House
by Greg Palast
Greg Palast has been investigating Singer and other finance vultures for BBC Television's Newsnight.
It's out of the closet –– or, more accurately, out of the coven. The list of the billionaires who have given at least $2.5 million to Conservative Solutions, the pro-Rubio Super PAC, is headed by Paul Singer. Singer and his hedge fund crew at Elliott Associates, with their donations to the Republican National Committee and other "independent" groups like "Solutions", makes it likely that Singer is now the top funder for the GOP.
For BBC-TV, I've been tracking Singer for nine years. And this is the key fact you need to know about the man whose cash would pick our President: Paul Singer likes to breakfast on decayed carcasses.
The carrion king is known as Singer The Vulture. I didn't give him the moniker. The name Vulture was tagged on him and his speculator colleagues by the Prime Minister of Britain and the World Bank. Recently, former Deputy Secretary-General of the UN Winston Tubman suggested I ask Singer or his business associates, "Do you know you're causing babies to die?"
What does this guy do—put poison in kiddies' milk? Worse: he takes away the milk.
Before I get to the story of his attack on African kids, let me tell you how Singer made his first billion, his first killing (and I don't mean that metaphorically): via an attack on victims of asbestos poisoning.
Background: The executives of a few asbestos companies, WR Grace, USG and Owens-Corning, knew that their asbestos factories were killing their workers. When caught and sued, the companies filed for bankruptcy, agreeing to pay almost all their earnings to those dying and injured by their asbestos.
But Singer had a better idea. These companies, as you can imagine, were worth next to nothing; and Singer bought Owens-Corning for a song.
If he could cut the amount paid to the victims, Singer could boost Corning's value big time. So, a PR campaign was begun attacking the dying workers, saying they were all faking it.
One attacker was a guy named George W. Bush.
In January 2005, President Dubya held a televised meeting to promote an "expert" who pronounced that over half a million workers suing Singer's industry were liars. If workers couldn't breathe, he said to the grinning President, it wasn't the fault of asbestos.
The "expert" was not a doctor, but notably, his "research" was partly funded by ...Paul Singer. And so was Bush. Since the death of Enron's Ken Lay, Singer and his vulture flock at Elliott International had become the top contributors to the Republican National Committee. It's hard to measure his largesse exactly because some of that help comes in through the side door. For example, Singer put money behind the "Swift Boat" smear on Bush's opponent, John Kerry.
The legal, political and PR attacks on the dying workers chiseled away the compensation expected to be paid by the asbestos companies, boosting their net worth. Singer then flipped Corning, selling it for a neat billion-dollar profit.
It's legal, it's brilliant, it's sick, it's Singer.
Asbestos workers have lawyers and the law, weak as it may be, so Singer only made a billion. Singer hit on a way of squeezing billions from those even more vulnerable.
Singer's new modus operandi is to find some forgotten tiny debt owed by a very poor nation (Peru and Congo were on his menu). He waits for the US and European taxpayers to forgive the poor nations' debts; then waits at bit longer for offers of food aid, medicine and investment loans. Then Singer pounces: legally grabbing at every resource and all the money going to the desperate country. Trade stops, funds freeze and an entire economy is effectively held hostage.
Singer then demands aid-giving nations pay monstrous ransoms to let trade resume. At BBC TV's Newsnight, we learned that Singer demanded $400 million dollars from the Congo for a debt he picked up for less than $10 million. If he doesn't get his 4,000% profit, he can effectively starve the nation. I don't mean that figuratively—I mean starve as in no food. In Congo-Brazzaville last year, one-fourth of all deaths of children under five were caused by malnutrition.
For BBC, I tried to ask Vulture Singer the diplomat's question about the baby killing, but I couldn't get past George Gershwin. (In the New York office tower housing the billionaires' roost, a George Gershwin look-alike in top hat and tails plays show tunes on a grand piano for Singer's grand entrance.)
One of my favorite Singer scores was his successful scheme to legally loot the Treasury of Peru. The nation's US lawyer told me, aghast, how Singer let Peru's rogue President, Alberto Fujimori, flee his nation to avoid murder charges. Singer had seized Fujimori's get-away plane. The Vulture named his price: One of Fujimori's last acts as president before he fled was to order his dirt-poor nation to pay Singer $58 million.
Why the Billionaires Need to Buy the White House
Paul Singer had placed a big bet on the asbestos industry; then, set out to fix the casino, helping install Bush in the White House. That is, he had a President willing to beat up on asbestos workers and push for so-called "tort reform" that undermined these victims' claims. What the victims lost, Singer gained.
But there's trouble on the horizon for Singer. In 2007, Britain outlawed Singer and all other Vulture speculators in Third World debt from collecting their pound of flesh in the United Kingdom. Other European nations are following suit.
Several US Congressmen are pushing a UK-style prohibition on Singer's activities. (Even Chevron Corporation is complaining about the Vulture attacks. When Chevron calls bankers unscrupulous, they've got to be really unscrupulous.) Without a veto pen over Congress, Singer stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
Singer plays defense, but is best at offense: To collect on some of his claims against Argentina, his lobbyists have pushed a bill in Congress to put an economic choke-hold on trade with the South American nation. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blocked this crazy attack on our ally. As a result, Singer is not a happy gaucho. There will be blood. Obama will have to pay.
What every billionaire wants
There's one thing that every billionaire wants: another billion. And that's threatened by Obama's plan to tax the "carried interest" tax deferment.
Guys like Singer don't pay taxes like you and I do. While we pay taxes on income, the profits from vulture speculation and arbitrage are often recorded as "carried interest," effectively not taxed for years, then when collected, only at a low rate. It's a billion-dollar benefit for the billionaires, and every Republican candidate has sworn to keep this loophole open and make sure you and I pay Singers' taxes for him.
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January 19, 2016
Palast on Abby Martin's 'The Empire Files: The Tyranny of Big Oil'
Abby Martin has taken her groundbreaking work to TelesurEnglish, now called The Empire Files. In this episode titled 'The Tyrany of Big Oil,' Abby talks with Greg Palast and Antonia Juhasz. Greg and Antonia delve into Big Oil's grip on Washington DC and how far they will go to make a buck - leaving a wrath of destruction as they do.
Palast begins about 17 minutes into this episode discussing the story behind his investigation into why New Orleans drowned. To see more on this story, watch his film Big Easy to Big Empty and of course read Vultures' Picnic.
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January 18, 2016
Remembering MLK Jr. with Steady Loving Confrontation
Meet Lynda Blackmon Lowery.
Late last year we talked with Mrs. Lowery for our new film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy about her first time meeting Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and what his words meant to her.
Her mother died when she was only 7 years old, from that point forward she became committed to making sure that not another child would lose her mother because the color of her skin. So when she heard Dr. King speak the words of "Steady loving confrontation" she became committed to the Civil Rights movement. At 14 years old she marched with King across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in 1965.
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January 17, 2016
Get the Bernie bio today — not because...
…not because you’re for or against Bernie Sanders the candidate, but because you are against the trivial idiocy of boob-tube media that won’t give you real information about the candidates who would rule our nation.
As a journalist, I don’t support candidates — but I do support the journalism of Ted Rall, a fellow of the Palast Investigative Fund, whose reports in graphic form are entertaining antidotes to news as chit-chat.
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Today’s New York Times’ story on Sanders? A profile of the staffer who plays pretend-Hillary in preparing Sen. Sanders for the debates. How cute. How trivial. And that’s the ‘Paper of Record,’ Lord help us.
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This is no joke. I have just returned from deep investigation of some of the cruelest, most racist—but horribly effective—means of purging voters of color from the voter rolls in the two key swing states, Ohio and North Carolina.
With the Supreme Court’s gunning down the Voting Rights Act, right-wing Secretaries of States are hunting down minority voters.
Jim Crow has returned. But instead of white sheets, he’s using spreadsheets.
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January 12, 2016
Bernie – The new Comic Book Bio It can cure Stupid
A personal note from Greg Palast
Love Bernie. Hate Bernie. Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. I’m violently non-partisan by profession and nature. But, I demand you read Ted Rall’s comic book biography of Bernie Sanders.
It’s not some propaganda crap-ola to promote Sanders’ Presidential campaign. You don’t get a lot of stuff that makes you feel warm and fuzzy about the candidate. Rather, what you get is, “The Making of a Guy Pissed-off with the Way the System is Stacked Against the Average Joe.”
Rall’s Sanders was not the intellectual child of Karl Marx. Rather, he was the child of Eli Sanders, a low-ticket salesman whose commissions barely covered the rent on a one-bedroom flat in Brooklyn – except when they didn’t cover it and Sanders’ parents would fight.
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Bernie is also a quick primer on “Pot-hole Socialism." For example, as Mayor of Burlington, Sanders brought a minor league ball team to town, built affordable housing, balanced the budget and took care of business. Bernie was a government executive even Paul Ryan could love (if Ryan weren’t a sick, duplicitous shill for billionaires.)
Ted Rall is an ornery cuss, so he has lots of gripes about some of Sen. Sanders’ votes and views – and the book is the better for it.
The book’s opening is a particularly enjoyable I-didn’t-know-that history of the Democratic Party’s "moonwalk," sliding right while pretending to defend progressive views. It’s the betrayal that created Bernie’s movement, not just his political moment.
With Bernie, Rall does the job that used to belong to news reporters – illuminate the soul of a candidate. And, most importantly, he puts Progressivism back into the story of American history.
Given that our media covers little more than pollster yammering and Trump’s hairdo versus Hillary’s, Rall’s book comes as a welcome cure for stupid.
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In 2016 Greg Palast will be releasing his new feature film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy—A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, which includes his award-winning investigation Jim Crow Returns.
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January 6, 2016
Behind North Korea's Nukes: GW Bush's "Khan Job"
How did North Korea get The Bomb in the first place? As I disclosed on BBC Television Newsnight, the ugly answer is that George W. Bush turned a blind eye to Pakistan's secret sale of the technology to the North Korean regime.
Read the original story from The Best Democracy Money Can Buy:
On November 7, 2001, BBC Television's Newsnight reported that the Bush administration thwarted investigations of Dr. A.Q. Khan, known as the "father" of Pakistan's atomic bomb. This week, Khan confessed to selling atomic secrets to Libya, North Korea, and Iran.
The Bush Administration has expressed shock at disclosures that Pakistan, our ally in the war on terror, has been running a nuclear secrets bazaar. In fact, according to the British news teams' sources within US intelligence agencies, shortly after President Bush's inauguration, his National Security Agency (NSA) effectively stymied the probe of Khan Research Laboratories, the Pakistani agency in charge of the bomb project. CIA and other agents told BBC they could not investigate the spread of 'Islamic Bombs' through Pakistan because funding appeared to originate in Saudi Arabia.
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Greg Palast in San Diego January 10 & 11, 2016
Greg Palast will be speaking at 2 events in San Diego on January 10th & 11th.
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Fundraiser for KNSJ Community Radio San Diego
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Greg Palast discusses Clean Elections
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6pm - 10pm
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In 2016 Greg Palast will be releasing his new feature film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy—A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, which includes his award-winning investigation Jim Crow Returns.
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December 29, 2015
Alabama Gov. Fixing Mansion with BP Fund Money
The Governor of Alabama has decided that instead of using BP's cleanup money for restoring the lives of those affected by one of the worst man-made disasters in history, he's using it to rebuild a mansion.
Owned by the State of Alabama the million dollar beach residence of the Governor has been closed for 18 years since Hurricane Danny damaged it. The fix-up is "estimated at $1.5 million to $1.8 million" and will be done by May according to the Associated Press.
A million and a half bucks could pay for a lot of beach cleanup, something that's still needed in the Gulf. But as with everything associated with this deal the money goes to the top - and then trickles down to the bottom. Just like the oil in the Gulf.
The BP settlement has been a disaster since the beginning, as I reported back in 2012:
The lawyers for 120,000 victims of the Deepwater Horizon blow-out cut a deal with oil company BP PLC which will save the oil giant billions of dollars. It will also save the company the threat of a trial that could expose the true and very ugly story of the Gulf of Mexico oil platform blow-out.
I have been to the Gulf and seen the damage — and the oil that BP says is gone. Miles of it. As an economist who calculated damages for plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case, I can tell you right now that there is no way, no how, that the $7.8 billion BP says it will spend on this settlement will cover that damage, the lost incomes, homes, businesses and boats, let alone the lost lives — from cancers, fetal deformities, miscarriages, and lung and skin diseases.
In 2010, President Barack Obama forced BP to set aside at least $20 billion for the oil spill's victims. This week's settlement will add exactly ZERO to that fund. Indeed, BP is crowing that, adding in the sums already paid out, the company will still have spent less than the amount committed to the Obama fund.
There's so much corrosion, mendacity and evil covered up by this settlement deal that I hardly know where to begin.
Read the rest: BP Settlement Sells Out Victims - Deal buries evidence of oil company willful negligence
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December 20, 2015
Watch these 2 Minutes...
A personal note from Greg Palast
I am asking you… watch these 2 minutes from the film that can stop the billionaires from burgling the 2016 election.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy—A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits (out in 2016) is my biggest and most important full feature investigative film yet.
"An American hero." - Martin Luther King III
We need funds to finish this film. Join me with a tax-deductible donation and earn an on-screen credit.
Read my report from Selma, Alabama, "Will you walk with me?" to learn more about the film.
With your invaluable help we can stop the billionaire bandits from stealing 2016.
On behaIf of the the entire Palast investigative team I want to thank you all for your support this year.
We wish you a very happy Holiday Season and a great New Year!
Greg Palast, Reporting
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December 15, 2015
Will you walk with me?
A personal note from Greg Palast
We’re close, so very close to finishing our new movie The Best Democracy Money Can Buy—A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits (out in 2016) but I urgently need your help to get us over the finish line.
You can truly make a difference by making a tax-deductible contribution to The Palast Investigative Fund and lend your vitally needed support for any amount, large or small.
You can also donate to get a Screen Credit as a Producer ($1,000), Co-Producer ($500) or Supporter ($100), or how about getting the name of one of your loved ones up on the screen as a Christmas Gift?
Can you help me make this film an event, a cause, and weapon for the new civil rights movement?
So what’s the story causing me to beg you to come to our aid?
Before filming in Selma, I was in Ohio. You know well, that that’s where the Presidency will be decided. Our investigative team has uncovered the biggest, most secretive — and unbelievably sophisticated—vote suppression trickery since Jim Crow.
Our preliminary digging and film has distributors and networks salivating for our movie. So we have to get the rough cut into their hands for release and broadcast in time to prevent one more about-to-be-bent election.
On top of the vote scamming, we’ve also gone undercover to get the story on the billionaires behind the vote heist. Twenty years ago, I made the first documentary ever on the Kochs—a warning too long ignored. In this film, I’m on the trail of a billionaire even more influential, and even more damaging and greed-poisoned, than the Kochs.
The film you are supporting will anchor an entire educational campaign by our Foundation: our hard-core research will go to several voting rights groups who plan to use our findings in a renewed national vote-protection campaign.
We have a multi-platform plan to grab the public’s attention and get folks moving into action. From the movie we will be generating a series of sure-to-go-viral videos, web and print news reports and even a comic book.
While The Best Democracy Money Can Buy movie will have heavyweight, real, no-BS investigative reporting, it will present the eye-popping truth in an eye-popping manner, with all the humor and heart you expect from a Palast film. We even have some surprise Cameos that will make this film an event.
I can’t thank you enough for your support over these years—not just financial, but your vote of confidence in me and my team’s work. It’s what keeps us going in our darkest hours.
The stakes couldn’t be higher.
51 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. led a march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, the state capital. I have just returned from Selma where I met with some of the original Foot Soldiers. One, Lynda Blackmon Lowery was just a child of 14 then. She was beaten unconscious by state troopers and Klansmen.
Two weeks ago, Lynda crossed the bridge again, not to commemorate the victories of the past, but on a mission to restore the voting rights lost these past two years since the overturning of the core of the Voting Rights Act.
Hank Sanders, who marched into Montgomery with Dr. King, walked over the bridge with me. He is Senator Sanders now—a symbol of the advance of civil rights. But he’s also a victim of the New Klux Klan: the Senator’s name was wiped from the voter rolls by state officials who’ve traded their white sheets for spread sheets.
In investigating the attack on Sanders' right to vote we discovered why just over one million Black names—and Asian, Hispanic and Jewish names – are disappearing from voter rolls. It is our obligation, our commitment, to expose this new lynching by laptop.
So, once again, we have to walk over that Bridge – in Selma, Alabama; in Tallahassee, Florida; in Phoenix, Arizona; in Dayton, Ohio.
Will you walk with me?
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In 2016 Greg Palast will be releasing his new feature film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy—A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, which includes his award-winning investigation Jim Crow Returns.
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