And, yes, I DO take it personally

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Glenn doesn't think the story of this scandal should die

and neither do i...

as an intended victim of a vicious and illegal smear campaign (other intended victims include think progress and brad friedman), greenwald's considered opinion of just how vulnerable people are who speak out against our super-rich elites and their government puppets has - unfortunately - been thoroughly validated... he's concerned that, as happens all too often where the rich and powerful are concerned, this too will be swept under the rug... while my blog is certainly among the very least of the resources that can help keep it visible, i am willing to do what i can...

if you haven't been keeping up on the smear campaigns directed at wikileaks supporters, you can catch up at the following links...

from glenn in ascending chronological order...

The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters

New information emerges on anti-WikiLeaks plot

More facts emerge about the leaked smear campaigns

marcy - emptywheel - wheeler, again in ascending chronological order...

Security Firms Pitching Bank of America on WikiLeaks Response Proposed Targeting Glenn Greenwald

The Disinformation Campaign Bank of America Considered

Hacked Documents Show Chamber Engaged HBGary to Spy on Unions

From the ChamberPot: A Carefully Worded Nondenial Denial

Palantir Tries to Preserve Their Government Contracts

HBGary Fees: “Dam It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta”

From the ChamberPot: Number Two

The HBGary Scandal: Using Counterterrorism Tactics on Citizen Activism

and here's brad's rundown...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Thugs Used 'Terror Tools' for Disinfo Scheme Targeting Me, My Family, Other Progressive U.S. Citizens, Groups
And why they are likely to get away with it...

let's keep this visible... it embodies all the ugliness we knew was out there and simply should NOT be allowed to fade away...

Labels: Bank of America, Berico, Brad Friedman, disinformation, Glenn Greenwald, HBGary, Hunton and Williams, Marcy Wheeler, Palantir, smears, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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Our wonderful constitutional democracy in action

is this a great country or what...?

Top Companies Aid Chamber of Commerce in Policy Fights

Prudential Financial sent in a $2 million donation last year as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce launched a national advertising campaign to weaken the historic rewrite of the nation’s financial regulations.

Dow Chemical delivered $1.7 million to the chamber last year as the group took a leading role in aggressively fighting proposed new rules that would impose tighter security requirements on chemical facilities.

And Goldman Sachs, Chevron Texaco, and Aegon, a multinational insurance company based in the Netherlands, donated more than $8 million in recent years to a chamber foundation that has helped wage a national campaign to limit the ability of trial lawyers to sue businesses.

These large donations — none of which were publicly disclosed by the chamber, a tax-exempt group which keeps its donors secret — offer a glimpse of the chamber’s money-raising efforts, which it has ramped up recently in an orchestrated campaign to become one of the most well-financed critics of the Obama administration and an influential player in this fall’s Congressional elections.

what the flying fuck has happened to my country...? oh, wait... it happened YEARS ago and i'm just waking up... sorry...

Labels: campaign fund-raising, corporate military industrial government complex, corporatocarcy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce