IF YOU WORK FOR A LIVING: Zionist Billionaire Lobbyists Are Targeting You
If you think the Zionist funders who have bought our government are just going after Palestinians, wake up. You're also on their hit list.
Think The Democrats Could Not Betray You More? Think Again, They Are Allied Against Workers Across The Nation
By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy.ink (5/12/24)
Just when you thought the Zionist billionaires who have purchased our government could get more vile, despicable and treasonous, we now learn they are targeting American workers for destruction.
Every single Democrat receiving a penny from any of the treasonous Zionist groups that have bought off both parties, like AIPAC or JStreet (including my senator, Sen. Tammy Baldwin D-WI), needs to be seen for the enemy they are of all working people and unions.
Bad as it is, not only do these gelatinous Democrats fall obediently in line to vote for bombs and bullets for Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, they and their Republican allies are allied with and loyal to forces out to destroy the American labor movement and workers rights.
Some Of AIPAC’s Biggest Donors Are Also Financing Attacks Against American Labor Rights
“I get up every morning and I try to figure out how to screw with the labor unions.”
By Derek Seidman
Truthout (5/5/24)
In response to Israel’s genocidal siege of Gaza, a new progressive effort, the “Reject AIPAC” coalition, is calling on federal candidates to refuse endorsements and contributions from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), whose vast political operation has spent millions trying to crush left-leaning Democrats who criticize Israel. At the same time, the labor movement, including a burgeoning network of over 200 unions and worker organizations, has raised calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
These two blocs — progressives pushing back against AIPAC’s political influence, and the labor movement — have common opponents: Some of the biggest donors to the pro-Israel electoral machine are also financing the national union-busting infrastructure that has, for decades, waged a frontal assault on U.S. workers.
The movements for labor and Palestinian rights have common cause against the billionaires who aim to destroy them both.
A Truthout investigation reveals that a handful of billionaire donors who have given huge sums to AIPAC’s political efforts have also spent millions funding key groups aiming to demolish the labor movement. Some of these anti-labor groups include the Job Creators Network, the Center for Union Facts, the Koch-backed State Policy Network, the Manhattan Institute, and the Liberty Justice Center, a central group behind the 2018 Janus v. AFSCME decision. Moreover, major anti-labor AIPAC donors from Wall Street are among the key backers of Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx, who is leading the McCarthyist congressional hearings against critics of Israel on campuses and in unions.
The dual aims of some of AIPAC’s top donors — bolstering unquestioned support for Israel and crushing the labor movement — are increasingly merging. Labor historian Jeff Schuhrke has argued that anti-union forces are now deploying accusations of antisemitism to attack labor unions, and he believes that unions must fight back against the weaponization of antisemitism against the Palestinian solidarity and labor movements.
“It’s not just about standing in solidarity with Palestine for its own sake, which is vital and important,” Schuhrke told Truthout, “but also to try to stop this … repressive environment that’s gunning for the labor movement itself.”
War Against Labor Unions & Palestinian Rights
Bernie Marcus is the co-founder and former CEO of Home Depot. He is worth nearly $10 billion. For decades, he’s used his vast wealth to fund a host of conservative organizations and far right politicians, as well as a range of ultra-Zionist groups.
Marcus is no ordinary donor to AIPAC. In the current election cycle, Marcus has given $2 million to the United Democracy Project (UDP), an AIPAC super PAC that has spent millions against progressive candidates. This makes Marcus the fourth top donor to AIPAC-tied electoral groups, according to the investigative news outlet Sludge. In the 2022 cycle, Marcus also donated $1 million to UDP.
Marcus has been a longtime enemy of the labor movement, funding numerous organizations that are waging war against labor unions and workers’ rights.
One of Marcus’s pet projects is the Job Creators Network (JCN), a billionaire-backed public relations and lobbying operation that attacks the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), pushes right-to-work laws and opposes the PRO Act as “radical labor legislation.” Marcus founded the JCN in 2010, then called the Job Creators Alliance. Since then, he has given the JCN at least $6.9 million.
The JCN has spent nearly $1.4 million on lobbying the federal government since 2016. Its recent lobbying efforts have focused on measures like overturning the NLRB’s joint employer rule, which expanded rights for workers with multiple employers, and pushing the National Labor Relations Board Reform Act, which would weaken the NLRB for workers by preventing a Democratic majority.
The JCN has received millions from anti-union industry groups like the Retail Industry Leaders Association and the National Restaurant Association, and JCN “partners” include FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), all key hubs of the Koch dark money empire that has been a driving force behind state-level attacks on labor unions and workers’ rights.
Anti-Union Attacks
Marcus’s huge donations to the JCN help fund one the most notorious union-busters alive: Rick Berman, the consultant behind the Center for Unions Facts and a vast web of other corporate-backed nonprofits and astroturf efforts.
Over the past decade, the JCN has paid $6.5 million to Berman’s firm, presumably to oversee its campaigns.
One of Berman’s core missions is to destroy the labor movement. “I get up every morning and I try to figure out how to screw with the labor unions,” he told a group of oil executives in 2014. Berman’s anti-labor front groups, backed by millions in corporate cash, are key weapons that business power employs in war against labor unions.
Berman oversees a dizzying array of nonprofits and front groups aimed at attacking unions and other progressive causes…
Jon Stewart Gives A Brilliant Masterclass In How Day-To-Day Congressional Corruption Works
“This is corruption in plain sight.”
The Daily Show (5/13/24)
Jon Stewart digs into the trial of comically corrupt Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and in a new segment called "How Dumb Is You?" asks the senator how he got caught engaging in such obvious illegal corruption, while government officials like Nancy Pelosi, Richard Burr, and Roy Blunt have been getting away with legal corruption for years.
“Robert Menendez’s gold bars in exchange for favorable legislation is cartoonishly corrupt. But for anyone out there who thinks the status quo of government and patronage and influence is of an entirely different species than Mendendez, ‘How Dumb Is You?’”
17-minute video
"A handful of billionaire donors who have given huge sums to AIPAC’s political efforts have also spent millions funding key groups aiming to demolish the labor movement. "
This means only one thing: We must outlaw ALL billionaires in the US. Billionaires are the cause of all our woes. They are funding politicians that are funding the genocide in Gaza. They are funding politicians who want to demolish labor unions. It makes sense to strike the root of the problem, and that root is the billionaires and their funding of evil people and organizations.
I'm sorry I can't watch Jon Stewart anymore since he gave out those awards to Azov Battalion Nazis at Disneyworld last year. I find him morally bankrupt.
Sinister aholes!