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On Foreign Donations in US Election System – A Foreign Country RULING America? from https://ideafart.com
Will A Foreign Country Rule America? It Is Possible… Current rulings lifting limits on corporate campaign finance open up the real possibility of foreign influence. Recently Jesse Ventura was a guest on Piers Morgan Tonight – and while I don’t agree with that loon 99% of the time.
Also, a related entry on foreign influence from the non-profit news Spectator:
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors’ “toxic assets” was the only alternative to the U.S. economy’s “systemic collapse.” In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets’ nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
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