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Start-up Capital for For-Profit Social Entrepreneurs - Where the heck is it? Part 1.
Commented Dec 15, 2009 at 15:29:52 in Impact
“Our funding sources are service contracts with public and private sector and the influence from this small business is being seen across major corporations.
http://peo
We've been doing what Bill Gates is describing for the past decade.”
http://peo
We've been doing what Bill Gates is describing for the past decade.”
Start-up Capital for For-Profit Social Entrepreneurs - Where the heck is it? Part 1.
Commented Dec 15, 2009 at 15:23:40 in Impact
“Ah, now that's easy because we started by doing that to the US President in 1996.
http://www
Social wasn't a good word to use at the time. After that, the nonprofit world seems to have adopted the expression social enterprise as a rebranding, whereas we've always seen social enterprise as essentially a profit for purpose endeavour.
In more recent times we've seen CiCs in the UK, B Corps and L3Cs in the US.
These are new forms of enterprise which is social in purpose.
The funding method is outlined in the founding paper synopsis above.”
http://www
Social wasn't a good word to use at the time. After that, the nonprofit world seems to have adopted the expression social enterprise as a rebranding, whereas we've always seen social enterprise as essentially a profit for purpose endeavour.
In more recent times we've seen CiCs in the UK, B Corps and L3Cs in the US.
These are new forms of enterprise which is social in purpose.
The funding method is outlined in the founding paper synopsis above.”
Start-up Capital for For-Profit Social Entrepreneurs - Where the heck is it? Part 1.
Commented Oct 31, 2009 at 05:38:35 in Impact
“Same here in the UK, regrettably. Our social enterprise investment fund (SEIF) for healthcare turns out to be limited to nonprofit orgs.
Now let me show you the call for a social enterprise investment fund that was channelled to US gov in October 2006. It's the product of an American author and his UK registered "for profit" social enterprise. It starts by defining the broadest known spectrum of social enterprise to be included and goes on to identify clear social objectives with the proposal that it should be done "under oversight of an independent board of directors, particularly including representatives from grassroots level Ukraine citizens action groups, networks, and human rights leaders."
http://en.
This is what they got instead, a new foundation. Americans should perhaps be asking why.
http://www
The model we apply as a business investing surplus, financial and intellectual capital, in social objectives derives from a white paper delivered to the steering committee to re-elect the President in 1996, offering an alternate economic paradigm to co-exist with orthodox capitalism.
We generate our core funding by supplying UK government and corporations which has allowed us to leverage some of these social outcomes. For example in advocacy for reforms in childcare and adoption.
http://peo
Now let me show you the call for a social enterprise investment fund that was channelled to US gov in October 2006. It's the product of an American author and his UK registered "for profit" social enterprise. It starts by defining the broadest known spectrum of social enterprise to be included and goes on to identify clear social objectives with the proposal that it should be done "under oversight of an independent board of directors, particularly including representatives from grassroots level Ukraine citizens action groups, networks, and human rights leaders."
http://en.
This is what they got instead, a new foundation. Americans should perhaps be asking why.
http://www
The model we apply as a business investing surplus, financial and intellectual capital, in social objectives derives from a white paper delivered to the steering committee to re-elect the President in 1996, offering an alternate economic paradigm to co-exist with orthodox capitalism.
We generate our core funding by supplying UK government and corporations which has allowed us to leverage some of these social outcomes. For example in advocacy for reforms in childcare and adoption.
http://peo
Arianna Discusses Her Book "Pigs At The Trough" On "The View"
Commented Sep 30, 2009 at 08:42:37 in Media
“Yes, we can batter the bad boys, but they soon get replaced by others.
First call for values based capitalism, that I'm aware of came 13 years ago this month and the progress since seeding that Idea is something I've been blogging about.
http://www
First call for values based capitalism, that I'm aware of came 13 years ago this month and the progress since seeding that Idea is something I've been blogging about.
http://www
Arianna Discusses Her Book "Pigs At The Trough" On "The View"
Commented Sep 29, 2009 at 03:30:34 in Media
“Agree Steve, that we need to change the values.
One of the downsides of the sudden clamour for changing capitalism is that progress already being made is being overpainted. The web has a history, however.
Last night I was blogging on the GIIN and the concept of a social impact bond as described in The Economist and how the concepts described in the article had been seeded in the Clinton camp 13 years ago with a paper on social capitalism.
Based on a fundamental predicate that people are not disposable, as a people-centered model of economics it was then almost heresy.
http://www
Jeff Mowatt .”
One of the downsides of the sudden clamour for changing capitalism is that progress already being made is being overpainted. The web has a history, however.
Last night I was blogging on the GIIN and the concept of a social impact bond as described in The Economist and how the concepts described in the article had been seeded in the Clinton camp 13 years ago with a paper on social capitalism.
Based on a fundamental predicate that people are not disposable, as a people-centered model of economics it was then almost heresy.
http://www
Jeff Mowatt .”
Microfinance as a Solution: Beggars, Thieves, AIDS and Prostitution
Commented Jun 18, 2009 at 11:55:03 in World
“Vivian, I'm one of those who see microcredit as an important tool but perhaps not a panacea in it's own right.
For example, in the strategy paper described as a microeconomic 'Marshall Plan' which was delivered to US and Ukraine government 3 years ago we described the vicious cycle of poverty. We describe how children are institutionalised out of poverty to be exploited and neglected, are turned out to a life on the streets, where the majority find themselves involved in prostitution, street crime and drug abuse. They help fuel an HIV epidemic and provide the raw materials for the trafficking industry.
The solution proposed included microcredit, social enterprise, investment in childcare reform and broadband deployment driven by a social investment fund such that together, in Yunus terms the more than full cost recovery components offset the less than full cost recovery ones, to yield nil overall cost and with corporate investment enhancing government funding by means of investment in the social fund.
Though microcredit has yet to be deployed, we know that so far this has leveraged influence and action as I describe on our website in the business model with a social ROI.
http://peo
For example, in the strategy paper described as a microeconomic 'Marshall Plan' which was delivered to US and Ukraine government 3 years ago we described the vicious cycle of poverty. We describe how children are institutionalised out of poverty to be exploited and neglected, are turned out to a life on the streets, where the majority find themselves involved in prostitution, street crime and drug abuse. They help fuel an HIV epidemic and provide the raw materials for the trafficking industry.
The solution proposed included microcredit, social enterprise, investment in childcare reform and broadband deployment driven by a social investment fund such that together, in Yunus terms the more than full cost recovery components offset the less than full cost recovery ones, to yield nil overall cost and with corporate investment enhancing government funding by means of investment in the social fund.
Though microcredit has yet to be deployed, we know that so far this has leveraged influence and action as I describe on our website in the business model with a social ROI.
http://peo
Conscious Business: Like Water To A Fish ...
Commented Jun 05, 2009 at 15:07:33 in Business
“To illustrated how this addresses economic, ecological and spiritual needs , Ramla Akhtar in Pakistan has independently created a detailed map of how a people-centered business relates to us and the community we share.
http://nex
http://nex
Conscious Business: Like Water To A Fish ...
Commented Jun 05, 2009 at 14:37:28 in Business
“Hi Brian, I don't know where to start here so perhaps it should be at the begiining when the man who is now a colleague and a founder of our business pitched such an idea for a more inclusive economic paradigm at the US President for his re-election committee.
http://www
Skipping forward to after it had been deployed as a proof of concept project in Russia, and we've set up in London he gives an interview to a diaspora leader describing how the model could be applied to help the repatriated Tatars of Crimea.
http://www
Moving forward, his microeconomic 'Marshall Plan' hit intended targets and started to create influence in October 2006.
http://www
Jeff”
http://www
Skipping forward to after it had been deployed as a proof of concept project in Russia, and we've set up in London he gives an interview to a diaspora leader describing how the model could be applied to help the repatriated Tatars of Crimea.
http://www
Moving forward, his microeconomic 'Marshall Plan' hit intended targets and started to create influence in October 2006.
http://www
Jeff”
jeff.mowatt replied on Jun 05, 2009 at 15:07:33
“To illustrated how this addresses economic, ecological and spiritual needs , Ramla Akhtar in Pakistan has independently created a detailed map of how a people-centered business relates to us and the community we share.
http://nex
http://nex
An Expat's Week in America: Health Care, Yunus, Grameen and Broadway
Commented Apr 22, 2009 at 14:29:50 in Living
“In December 2003 my (now) colleague Terry was fasting in a tent in Chapel Hill North Carolina while using the library to blog for economic rights. We'd talked in the past about his work in Russia sourcing a microfinance bank in Tomsk and the paper he'd delivered to Clinton's re-election committee describing a more inclusive form of capitalism.
http://www
I tried to help. Recalling the theme of a Capra movie 'Meet John Doe' where a reporter played by Barbara Stanwyck who in an effort to save her job, invents a 'John Doe' who protest against an injust political and social system and threatens to jump off city hall.
I pitched a pastiche at an ABC News reporter, inverting the roles, but she dropped me like a hot brick when I described what it was about.
]"Nice try" wrote Terry, "But the powerful sponsors of ABC won't want to hear any critiscism of capitalism, she'd probably lose her job".
It's the point at which I decide to enter the world of social business, launching P-CED as a UK based social enterprise and in an interview with a diaspora leader, he describes the aims of our work
The following year, Senator John Edwards, who like John Doe had been making a call for social justice in his One America campaign opened the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity in that same North Carolina town where Grameen Bank now aims to open up for microcredit”
http://www
I tried to help. Recalling the theme of a Capra movie 'Meet John Doe' where a reporter played by Barbara Stanwyck who in an effort to save her job, invents a 'John Doe' who protest against an injust political and social system and threatens to jump off city hall.
I pitched a pastiche at an ABC News reporter, inverting the roles, but she dropped me like a hot brick when I described what it was about.
]"Nice try" wrote Terry, "But the powerful sponsors of ABC won't want to hear any critiscism of capitalism, she'd probably lose her job".
It's the point at which I decide to enter the world of social business, launching P-CED as a UK based social enterprise and in an interview with a diaspora leader, he describes the aims of our work
The following year, Senator John Edwards, who like John Doe had been making a call for social justice in his One America campaign opened the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity in that same North Carolina town where Grameen Bank now aims to open up for microcredit”
Inclusive Capitalism Not Economic Colonialism: the G20 and the Future
Commented Mar 31, 2009 at 02:15:03 in Business
“Here's a manifesto for more inclusive capitalism.
http://www
And this may also be interesting. It comes from a speech 52 years ago recorded by the BBC of the founder of one of the UKs most successful retail organisation describing his concerns about capitalism:
"The present state of affairs is really a perversion of the proper working of capitalism. It is all wrong to have millionaires before you have ceased to have slums. Capitalism has done enormous good and suits human nature far too well to be given up as long as human nature remains the same. But the perversion has given us too unstable a society. Differences of reward must be large enough to induce people to do their best but the present differences are far too great."
"The dividends of some shareholders exceed their own highest hopes, hopes that may have been much too greedy, and the incomes of the more fortunate of the captains of industry are many times as great as would have caused the same persons to work just as hard and for just as many years if, instead of going into business, they had happened to become, say, lawyers or doctors. This is quite wrong."
http://www
http://www
And this may also be interesting. It comes from a speech 52 years ago recorded by the BBC of the founder of one of the UKs most successful retail organisation describing his concerns about capitalism:
"The present state of affairs is really a perversion of the proper working of capitalism. It is all wrong to have millionaires before you have ceased to have slums. Capitalism has done enormous good and suits human nature far too well to be given up as long as human nature remains the same. But the perversion has given us too unstable a society. Differences of reward must be large enough to induce people to do their best but the present differences are far too great."
"The dividends of some shareholders exceed their own highest hopes, hopes that may have been much too greedy, and the incomes of the more fortunate of the captains of industry are many times as great as would have caused the same persons to work just as hard and for just as many years if, instead of going into business, they had happened to become, say, lawyers or doctors. This is quite wrong."
http://www
Anybody Know What 'Smart Power' Means?
Commented Jan 23, 2009 at 14:21:28 in World
“The concept of economic "smart bombs" was used in one of our strategy papers represent the choice between delivering a microfinance project to a community on the brink of conflict or using Tomahawk cruise missiles to quell conflict in retrospect.
In 2007, the CSIS think tank introduced a Smart Power Commission based on similar ideas.
http://www
http://www
In 2007, the CSIS think tank introduced a Smart Power Commission based on similar ideas.
http://www
http://www
Toasting a Very Optimistic 2009!
Commented Dec 28, 2008 at 15:37:19 in Business
“Hi mebble,
As Vivian hasn't responded to past comments on this subject, may I introduce you to the concept of a business leveraging development funding to be used as investment capital. Proposed as a model in 1996 to source the Tomsk initiative in Russia in 1999 which ran from 2000-2004 and applying the Grameen loan circle principle to create 10,000 small enterprises with repayment > 97% and 95% survival of more than 1 year.
Applying the same concept, now from the UK it offers the microeconomic 'Marshall Plan' strategy which was delivered to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Oct 2006. This strategy designed for nil overall cost scales up from Tomsk to a nation and proposes a mix of microfinance, broadband infrastructure investment and social enterprise. we suspect that the US might now find it useful too.
http://www
We determined in 2004 that it would be viable to foster democracy and eliminate poverty for one country at the cost of what was being spent in Iraq over a week. This is explained in the paper's summary.
The entire effort is the work of a man I found homeless in Chapel Hill NC in 2003 who remains invisible. At the time I tried a 'Meet John Doe' pastiche on ABC News, but the journalist didn't imitate art.
So please, if you get through to Vivian, let her know that readers are trying to respond.
Regards,
Jeff”
As Vivian hasn't responded to past comments on this subject, may I introduce you to the concept of a business leveraging development funding to be used as investment capital. Proposed as a model in 1996 to source the Tomsk initiative in Russia in 1999 which ran from 2000-2004 and applying the Grameen loan circle principle to create 10,000 small enterprises with repayment > 97% and 95% survival of more than 1 year.
Applying the same concept, now from the UK it offers the microeconomic 'Marshall Plan' strategy which was delivered to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Oct 2006. This strategy designed for nil overall cost scales up from Tomsk to a nation and proposes a mix of microfinance, broadband infrastructure investment and social enterprise. we suspect that the US might now find it useful too.
http://www
We determined in 2004 that it would be viable to foster democracy and eliminate poverty for one country at the cost of what was being spent in Iraq over a week. This is explained in the paper's summary.
The entire effort is the work of a man I found homeless in Chapel Hill NC in 2003 who remains invisible. At the time I tried a 'Meet John Doe' pastiche on ABC News, but the journalist didn't imitate art.
So please, if you get through to Vivian, let her know that readers are trying to respond.
Regards,
Jeff”
Toasting a Very Optimistic 2009!
Commented Dec 28, 2008 at 02:25:56 in Business
“Peace is our business. That's what I woke up thinking this morning and this article seems very apt as the first thing I've read.
There's an article I hope others will read. It's an interview with the leader of an Islamic disapora in which the founder of a business about peace describes his 'swords to plougshares' efforts in Eastern Europe of the last decade, by sourcing and advocating for microeconomic development in contrast to funding weapons.
http://www
It began in Chapel Hill North Carolina, moving to England in 2004 with a clear objective, to demonstrate that for the cost of a week spent in Iraq, democracy could be fostered, with poverty and it's vicious cycle of despair eliminated.
As with an historical act of peacemaking which preceded it, it was delivered as a 'Marshall Plan' two years ago to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”
There's an article I hope others will read. It's an interview with the leader of an Islamic disapora in which the founder of a business about peace describes his 'swords to plougshares' efforts in Eastern Europe of the last decade, by sourcing and advocating for microeconomic development in contrast to funding weapons.
http://www
It began in Chapel Hill North Carolina, moving to England in 2004 with a clear objective, to demonstrate that for the cost of a week spent in Iraq, democracy could be fostered, with poverty and it's vicious cycle of despair eliminated.
As with an historical act of peacemaking which preceded it, it was delivered as a 'Marshall Plan' two years ago to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”
Meaningful Capitalism: Change We Can Believe In
Commented Dec 19, 2008 at 06:16:27 in Living
“Alex, First let me congratulate you for being the first journalist to engage with his commentators. That lot at the Guardian will be envious.
When the people-centered model was first proposed, it was seeded as an idea virus first on campus at Chapel Hill and then on the web. The objective being to create an "idea virus" of how business could be modified for better social outcomes. At the time Bill Gates had been know to utter that "poor people don't need computers".
That position has changed radically, as we know and resemblance between creative capitalism and the 12 year old virus isn't surprising.
I tried to join in with the discussion on the Creative Capitalism blog, which launched the book and may yet be the screenplay. Economic experts around the world simply didn't want to know about success, in Russia.
We began the final paper, the 'Marshall Plan' strategy with a clear object in mind, to demonstrate that for the investment of what was being spent in a week on Iraq, it would be possible to foster democracy in another country at nil overall cost.
At Davos this year, the one US response so far in the launch of the East Europe Foundation, came as the result of this earlier invocation of "creative capitalism"
Jeff”
When the people-centered model was first proposed, it was seeded as an idea virus first on campus at Chapel Hill and then on the web. The objective being to create an "idea virus" of how business could be modified for better social outcomes. At the time Bill Gates had been know to utter that "poor people don't need computers".
That position has changed radically, as we know and resemblance between creative capitalism and the 12 year old virus isn't surprising.
I tried to join in with the discussion on the Creative Capitalism blog, which launched the book and may yet be the screenplay. Economic experts around the world simply didn't want to know about success, in Russia.
We began the final paper, the 'Marshall Plan' strategy with a clear object in mind, to demonstrate that for the investment of what was being spent in a week on Iraq, it would be possible to foster democracy in another country at nil overall cost.
At Davos this year, the one US response so far in the launch of the East Europe Foundation, came as the result of this earlier invocation of "creative capitalism"
Jeff”
PCEDReview replied on Dec 26, 2008 at 16:41:01
“Due Diligence Warning. Claims of non existent success and a company illegally operating in Ukraine.
http://p-c
http://p-c
hp blogger Alex Pattakos replied on Dec 19, 2008 at 11:04:50
“Thanks, Jeff, for your very kind words and your insights on this important subject. Besides hoping that my posts will create interest among readers, who aren't inclined to comment, I also want to encourage readers to engage in conversation--with me and with each other. In this way, my articles, ideally-speaking, will become much more interesting and "meaningful" to the HuffPost community. Together, moreover, we can create an on-line "Agora" or open place of assembly like in ancient Greece where divergent points of view may be shared! As I point out in my book, Prisoners of Our Thoughts, "difference is the beginning of synergy!" Thanks again.”
Meaningful Capitalism: Change We Can Believe In
Commented Dec 17, 2008 at 14:39:41 in Living
“Like this?
"Economics, and indeed human civilization, can only be measured and calibrated in terms of human beings. Everything in economics has to be adjusted for people, first, and abandoning the illusory numerical analyses that inevitably put numbers ahead of people, capitalism ahead of democracy, and degradation ahead of compassion
See below, or above maybe....
Jeff”
"Economics, and indeed human civilization, can only be measured and calibrated in terms of human beings. Everything in economics has to be adjusted for people, first, and abandoning the illusory numerical analyses that inevitably put numbers ahead of people, capitalism ahead of democracy, and degradation ahead of compassion
See below, or above maybe....
Jeff”
Meaningful Capitalism: Change We Can Believe In
Commented Dec 17, 2008 at 12:19:25 in Living
“I hope this may be of interest and perhaps the "meaningful" form of capitalism you seek. We call it people-centered economic development and it makes the fundamental point that business is about people above abstract numbers.
http://www
http://www
12 years ago, it put down much the same case as creative capitalism. Using web technology, microeconomic development and microfinance tools to leverage investment for swords to ploughshares actions engaging business, government and NGOs
It was used to source a development initiative and microfinance bank in Russia followin their 1998 economic collapse and is the model on which the only fully described 'Marshall Plan' visible on the web is based.
http://www
http://www
http://www
12 years ago, it put down much the same case as creative capitalism. Using web technology, microeconomic development and microfinance tools to leverage investment for swords to ploughshares actions engaging business, government and NGOs
It was used to source a development initiative and microfinance bank in Russia followin their 1998 economic collapse and is the model on which the only fully described 'Marshall Plan' visible on the web is based.
http://www
hp blogger Alex Pattakos replied on Dec 18, 2008 at 19:58:56
“Right on! (O.K., I'm dating myself!). We definitely need more "people-centered economic development. Thanks for joining me in my "imaginative bubble!" (see comment below).”
President-Elect Obama's First Big Mistake
Commented Nov 14, 2008 at 13:40:58 in Business
“"Not a single entrepreneur"
Well that's not true. I know for example that the author of the strategy paper below not only has these credentials but has leveraged many new small businesses with his work. I know the document was sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, making it visible to Obama and Biden and I know that one of the responses so far has been the creation of the East Europe Foundation at Davos this year. I can't see that having been done without approval.
Sure he's not getting a salary but he is creating influence having created enterprise in Russia after Harvard failed. So here's an illustration of enlightened self-interest in foreign policy and the application of microeconomics:
http://www
Well that's not true. I know for example that the author of the strategy paper below not only has these credentials but has leveraged many new small businesses with his work. I know the document was sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, making it visible to Obama and Biden and I know that one of the responses so far has been the creation of the East Europe Foundation at Davos this year. I can't see that having been done without approval.
Sure he's not getting a salary but he is creating influence having created enterprise in Russia after Harvard failed. So here's an illustration of enlightened self-interest in foreign policy and the application of microeconomics:
http://www
President-Elect Obama: A Lesson from Your Mother-Put Women in Charge of the Economy!
Commented Nov 14, 2008 at 00:57:46 in Style
“While it's generally the case that microcredit has been most successful when made available to women, the case for making it available to women exclusively isn't so strong. For example in pioneering work in Russia, though women outnumbered men by a factor of 4:1, the repayment and business survival rate was still 99%
http://en.
It's important the re-emphasise the role of trust in this type of banking. Not all described as microcredit is of the moral collateral form developed by Grameen.
Believe it or not, there are actually men in this world who re-invest profit back into communities and families.”
http://en.
It's important the re-emphasise the role of trust in this type of banking. Not all described as microcredit is of the moral collateral form developed by Grameen.
Believe it or not, there are actually men in this world who re-invest profit back into communities and families.”
How To Make Yourself Happier During the Economic Crisis
Commented Oct 20, 2008 at 16:40:48 in Living
“5 years ago, about this time of year a blogger got my attention. He was living in a tent blogging from his local library in Chapel Hill NC about poverty, his and everyone elses. He was fasting for the US to sign up to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Right
I got in touch with ABC news and an interested reporter, piching a 'Meet John Doe' pastiche but unfortunately life failed to imitate art. ABC had wealthy sponsors who didn't like America being talked down and John Doe was left to jump.
Two things happened after that. I offered him an exit, to work with me here in England, his senator John Edwards founded the Center for Poverty Work and Opportunity.
We set our sights on Estern Europe and a 'Marshall Plan' against poverty.
http://www
I got in touch with ABC news and an interested reporter, piching a 'Meet John Doe' pastiche but unfortunately life failed to imitate art. ABC had wealthy sponsors who didn't like America being talked down and John Doe was left to jump.
Two things happened after that. I offered him an exit, to work with me here in England, his senator John Edwards founded the Center for Poverty Work and Opportunity.
We set our sights on Estern Europe and a 'Marshall Plan' against poverty.
http://www
McCain Volunteers Taught to Accuse Obama of Terrorism
Commented Oct 13, 2008 at 14:58:34 in Politics
“Very good idea. It happened already in Ukraine where the obscenely weathy collaborate to maximise the extraction of weath, and some starve as a consequence of corruption and neglect.
http://www
http://www
http://www
http://www
Barack Obama's Innovative War On Poverty
Commented Oct 13, 2008 at 14:49:27 in Politics
“I believe there were earlier influences, from back in 1996 and ironically the work of a homeless American's advocacy for social enterprise development.
http://www
http://www
McCain Volunteers Taught to Accuse Obama of Terrorism
Commented Oct 13, 2008 at 14:01:54 in Politics
“Links with Terrorism?
On this subject there's plenty to be said about the relationship between McCain and Davis-Manafort and the interests they promote which conflict with US foreign policy.
http://www
On this subject there's plenty to be said about the relationship between McCain and Davis-Manafort and the interests they promote which conflict with US foreign policy.
http://www
Maerzie replied on Oct 13, 2008 at 15:47:09
“My God!! The PALINS have the FRESHEST and most REAL ties to a terrorist group in the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), and nobody even seems to CARE, even though "innocent-looking" Todd is in the background of EVERY single thing Sarah does, and is no doubt one of the "Programmable Cutesie's" major programmers!! This secessionist group was STARTED by a very RADICAL terrorist! Todd "HELPS" her with her Governorship!(even though I thought HE was the one who was SUPPOSED TO BE HOME "MOTHERING" the children, who seem to be nobody's priority unless there's a good photo-opto sling trig over Sarah's arm like a dishrag! Why hasn't a COMPLETE investigation been done on these sinister two?? Of course, now the Republican Party has gotten the AIP to say that Sarh just isn't or hasn't been involved in their mission. I suppose if they can't accomplish seceding Alaska from the United States, the other option wold be to annex the rest of the United States to Alaska, and then we could ALL live in Alaska!!”
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Already Here!
Commented Aug 27, 2008 at 02:41:37 in Business
“How odd to read this now. Years after BP were called upon to explain their position with the Kremlin. When as part of TNK-BP they helped create a fuel crisis in Ukraine in line with Kremlin dictates. Then they had no answer.
Now that CEO Robert Dudley has been ejected by Russian oligarchs, he calls on UK courts to sequestrate property of their London based billionaires. That, presumably includes the retreat of Moscow's mayor and his wife's recent purchase, a 90 room mansion in Highgate.
Are we being called on to storm the Winter Palace, again?
Lets remember that we were perfectly willing to dance when there seemed to be opportunity, Haliburton trying to step in to fund after TNK had tried to eject BP earlier in 1999. Even now, we have Vanco Energy trying to pull something off with Ukraine. A strange arrangement where the Rothschilds as financial backers somehow get replaced by Russian oligarchs with bearer shares and a company registered in the British Virgin Islands tax haven.
Get the picture? Our greed motivated capitalists are setting up deals with theirs and all of us working folks get the pain. For our Londoners it's polonium poisoning, you Americans have what the article above describes and worst off of all are the people of these former soviet countries. Ukraine for instance where the gulf between rich and poor is so great that they started handing out bread cards this month. lest people drop dead on the streets.”
Now that CEO Robert Dudley has been ejected by Russian oligarchs, he calls on UK courts to sequestrate property of their London based billionaires. That, presumably includes the retreat of Moscow's mayor and his wife's recent purchase, a 90 room mansion in Highgate.
Are we being called on to storm the Winter Palace, again?
Lets remember that we were perfectly willing to dance when there seemed to be opportunity, Haliburton trying to step in to fund after TNK had tried to eject BP earlier in 1999. Even now, we have Vanco Energy trying to pull something off with Ukraine. A strange arrangement where the Rothschilds as financial backers somehow get replaced by Russian oligarchs with bearer shares and a company registered in the British Virgin Islands tax haven.
Get the picture? Our greed motivated capitalists are setting up deals with theirs and all of us working folks get the pain. For our Londoners it's polonium poisoning, you Americans have what the article above describes and worst off of all are the people of these former soviet countries. Ukraine for instance where the gulf between rich and poor is so great that they started handing out bread cards this month. lest people drop dead on the streets.”
The Kos And The System: "Blogfather" Markos Moulitsas On Digital-Era Activism And His New Book
Commented Aug 20, 2008 at 15:08:10 in Home
“Very much a part of the vehicle for our activism to launch social enterprise in Eastern Europe put the soft power concept onto the map, through the dairy of US Expat Ukraine.”
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