Friday, October 11, 2019

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is candidate Bernie Sanders' speechwriter.


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    Bad taste: PG&E gas employees wined and dined customers at Sonoma winery just before mass power outages.
  • Sidenote: This info is available in SEC records. When media publish stories about corporate executives laying off workers, it would be good if those stories included information about how much those corporate executives have been paying themselves.
  • Halliburton paid 6 top executives $200 million in 36 months -- then the company blamed layoffs on "local market conditions." Receipts:
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    In 2025 there will only be two media jobs: aftershow producer at a website owned by one of the streaming conglomerates, and writer of billionaire-funded nonprofit longform that neutrally covers the debate between displaced coastal populations and yacht owners enjoying more space
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    Fires, explosions and toxic releases: Front Range residents fight fracking boom
  • This is wealth redistribution
     
  • We've heard forever that private corporations are the best drivers of the economy, but a corporate-run power company just paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to investors & execs - and then crippled one of the world's largest economies.
  • Same hedge fund billionaire that turned Puerto Rico's disaster into a Wall Street profit scheme:
  • September: PG&E forks over $570 million to a hedge fund billionaire October: PG&E shuts off power to Northern California
  • Notice that Colorado Republican lawmakers somehow don't mention that Halliburton is pleading poverty to justify its layoffs -- after the company paid 6 executives $200 million in 36 months
  • This is wild. You gotta watch this video of completely flailing around.
  • Colorado just passed first-in-the-nation climate legislation that lets lawmakers see if bills they are voting on would increase or decrease carbon emissions. I hope every state & fed lawmaker who sees this will pass it in their legislatures & in Congress.
  • Oh, and if that wasn't bad enough -- PG&E is about to be taken over by hedge funds, which means power for millions of people would be controlled by a handful of Wall Street vultures:
  • As PG&E shuts down power, remember that PG&E: - paid 8 execs $62 million in 36 months: - spent $18 million on lobbying since 2016: - "pumped out $4.5 billion in dividends and let the tree budget wither"
  • A review of IRS records shows that the "Coalition Against Socialized Medicine" is actually the Coalition Funded By The Pharmaceutical Lobby
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    These goons are absolutely terrified of a child and it rules
  • Here's a depressing thing: real journalists face mass layoffs, while the dudes who pushed the Iraq War and the Saddam-Osama lie snap their fingers & instantly raise $6 million for their latest right-wing propaganda venture.
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    "none of the Ivy endowments beating a 60-40 portfolio in the 2008-2018 period" Ok. So focus on index funds and you will beat Harvard big shot investors. Yes it is that simple. Oh and keep clear from private equity funds. They are not overperforming except in excel speadsheets.
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    Read Bernie's plan to stop the assault on journalism by Wall Street, billionaire businessmen, Silicon Valley, and Donald Trump.
  • Truly sad to see this news. Splinter published some of my own reporting -- and it has been one of my favorite outlets. Such a bummer that it is shutting down.
  • “PG&E pumped out $4.5 billion in dividends and let the tree budget wither"
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  • Things the media covered this month: getting a haircut & billionaire Steve Schwarzman publishing a vanity book Things the media didnt cover this month: a new IMF report warning that climate change could result in “infinite costs” & “human extinction”
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    "...the suggestion that Sanders should stand down...because of a health condition that many Americans live and work with is not only callous, but carries a bitter flavor of discrimination," writes and
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    The IMF just issued a report declaring that "the risk of catastrophic & irreversible disaster is rising, implying potentially infinite costs of unmitigated climate change, including...human extinction." As far as I can tell, no media outlet reported on it