Greg Palast REVEALS the Real Reason for the Ascendancy of Marco Rubio

[kpete]

Why would the guys who bet the rent money place it all on Rubio—and what suddenly changed on October 31?

Because, despite the fact that 9 of 10 Republicans rejected him, on Halloween, Rubio won the only vote that counts: The Vulture’s.

It was page one news in the New York Times: “Paul Singer, Influential Billionaire, Throws Support to Marco Rubio for President.”

.................


Yet Singer knows you can’t put a Rubio in the Oval Office by winning the most votes. No way. Changing demographics doom almost any GOP candidacy.

The only way to take the White House is to block the vote of millions of voters of color.

And that’s why Singer has become donor Numero Uno to Karl Rove’s operation Crossroads.

I’ve been on the trail of racist vote suppression tactics since 2000 when Katherine Harris was Purge’n General. And behind so many of the moves to disenfranchise voters, all too successful, is the Rove operation.

Now I’m on the hunt again. I’m in the middle of ripping the lid off the biggest, most secretive vote suppression operation since Jim Crow was law.[/div]

WAY MORE:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/65848
http://static.politico.com/0e/c1/2dd3731c4c33b22e7980f4c14ea1/singer.pdf

[ananda]

1. Kick!

Voter suppression --- When will
people stand up against it, I
wonder???

[Depaysement]

2. Spot on

Note the new "favorable" govt in Argentina and watch it pay him back at a favorable rate.

[malaise]

3. This deserves 500 Recs

Kick

[AwakeAtLast]

24. Yes it does

Rove must have iron-clad protection.

Would be interested to know who else is supplying money.

[nxylas]

4. K&R

Please read the whole story, anyone who hasn't done so already. It's about way more than just Rubio.

[kpete]

5. MORE:

another snippet:

Here’s the story. Decades ago, Argentina’s military dictatorship issued bonds that sucked the nation dry. When democracy returned, 97% of the banks that had funded the dictatorship agreed to take a low payment for these bonds.

Then down swooped The Vulture. Singer and his partners bought up the “hold-out” 3% for $50 million – and now Singer demands that Argentina pay him $3 billion, a 6,000% return on his “investment”—or he’ll bring Argentina to its knees.

That’s why he’s called The Vulture – because Singer has used this same junk-bond ransom trick to swipe aid funds meant for cholera clinics in the Congo. (When I uncovered that scheme for BBC Television, Britain’s Parliament banned Singer’s vulture fund from British courts. His operations are outlawed throughout most of the civilized world.)

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/65848

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Voter supressiopn, and karl rove

news at 11...

(Nope, not one iota surprised)

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

7. K & R

[safeinOhio]

8. Repub. get "Right to Work" laws passed because it sounds good.

I'm calling for "Right to Vote" laws. They sound good and are good.

[Helen Borg]

9. Just hard cash? That cannot be!

[underpants]

10. Purge'n General

That really good

[colsohlibgal]

11. Election Shenanigans Of All Kinds

I know Dubya actually lost in 2000, and I am skeptical he really won in 2004 as well.

We need to get real about secure on the level voting procedures, minus voting machines. Our current system is a joke.

And that is on top of the right wanting to block anyone of color from voting.

Also, it is a shame Greg Palast is not more visible in the US.

[wildbilln864]

12. k & r & thanks! n/t

[spanone]

13. K&R...

[mountain grammy]

14. K & R

[lark]

15. Traitors!!

That's mostly what the repugs are these days, traitors to our country's ideals and it's constitution. Justice Dept. needs to get really active and throw out all these voter suppression laws, especially when the state then closes drivers' licence offices in minority and college major areas.

[SoapBox]

19. ^^^ This! ^^^

Exactly what I was thinking.

Traitors in America...Raping and Plundering the Planet.

[NBachers]

45. The Republican Party is a blatant Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization

and the law processes that were sharpened to use against drug conspirators should be used against the Republican Party.

[SheenaR]

16. I'm not going to get into it much

and open myself up to revealing sources..

But this isn't the worst scandal you are going to hear about Rubio.

Some of his enemies are sitting on something very scandalous that they could release about him. But if he plays the game right I am willing to bet it will not see the light of day.

In his party, this scandal would end his campaign.

Let's not get into it.. Let's just see how it plays out and you can say you heard it here first.

EDIT: A big part of it also is, who the hell else would they turn to next

[forest444]

20. Can't say I'm surprised. More than any of them, Narco Rubio just buries the sleazometer.

Ties to the Miami drug rackets? On the down-low?

Can't we have a hint, Sheena?

[erpowers]

28. This Might Be Some Of It

When it comes to sheer brazen corruption, chicanery and dishonesty there is one candidate who stands head and shoulders above everyone else and that is the right-wing Cuban-American and Tea Party darling Senator Marco Rubio of—naturally—the great State of Florida.

Mr. Rubio’s entire public image—the child of poor Cuban immigrants fleeing the repression of Castro’s Cuba who pulled himself up by his bootstraps and even now is a simple José Sixpack and family man—is less tethered to reality than The Wizard of Oz. For example, in his autobiography, An American Son: A Memoir, Mr. Rubio describes how he allegedly grew up poor and mowed the grass and walked dogs to make a bit of spare change. Technically this may be correct, but most poor kids don’t get paid by relatives heavily involved in narcotics trafficking and whose pets double as guard dogs for a drug cartel, as was the case with young Marco, a federal indictment shows. (See these articles for more on young Marco’s upbringing.)

snip

Here are the key details: In 2003, Mr. Rubio bought his first house (at 6247 14th Street SW in West Miami) for $175,000, putting zero money down. He put it up for sale in 2005 but had difficulty selling it because of a weak local real estate market. But gracias a Dios, Dr. Cereceda’s mama, Nora Cereceda (now deceased), bought Mr. Rubio’s house in 2007 for $380,000 cash, netting Mr. Rubio a profit of about $205,000. Que suerte!

snip

Mr. Rubio bought the house from a shell company called Sanval Boats LLC and no one knows who controlled that entity and hence who he in fact bought it from. But we do know that Mr. Rubio got very generous terms to finance the house from Miami’s U.S. Century Bank, whose CEO was a former head of the Florida Republican Party named Jim Greer, who later went to jail for money laundering.


http://observer.com/2016/01/poor-little-rich-boy/

[forest444]

32. Amazing, isn't it. Thank you, Erpowers.

Probably the tip of the iceberg - just like his mentor and frenemy, Jeb Bush, who's had so many dirty associations in the past (Miguel Recarey, Alberto Duque, the Iran-Contra milieu, etc.).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/jeb-bush-lobbied-medicare-fraud-margaret-heckler_n_1241496.html

http://tekgnosis.typepad.com/tekgnosis/2014/12/jeb-bush-was-running-a-drug-alcohol-ring-in-prep-school-at-andover-call-it-training-wheels-for-jebs-.html

Straight out of someplace like Colombia or Honduras. This is America, for God's sake.

[starroute]

23. I've seen some gay-related rumors floating around

The most detailed account I've seen came from Wayne Madsen -- but as a lot of us learned back in 2005, although Madsen is occasionally right, he's deeply wrong often enough that he can't be trusted. So I'm waiting to see if anything more solid comes out.

Here's a snarky HuffPo piece responding to the story that set off the speculations -- namely the Washington Post revelation that Rubio was arrested at the age of 18 for drinking beer in a "crime-plagued" public park after closing time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marco-rubio-once-drank-a-beer-omg_us_56a257afe4b0404eb8f155b0

And here's a reddit thread raking over the more scandalous -- and at this point factually unsupported -- allegations.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/42d1nl/marco_rubios_arrest_in_1990_was_for_having_public/

At the moment, I'm feeling torn over posting even this much. I don't want to besmirch Rubio if none of it is true. But if SheenaR is right in hinting that this is being kept quiet and used for blackmail purposes, bringing it into the light of day becomes incredibly important.

[librechik]

35. ^this^ (blush) n/t

[flamingdem]

30. Did you see these articles about Rubio? There's already a lot of dirt on him including his the drug

cartel connections of his brother in law. I bet there's worse though!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027582597

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. Kick

karl rove in the teeth.

[pandr32]

18. Sec. Clinton has already "body blocked" the attempts

...to savage Argentina. The Repubs hate her because she costs them money as she stands up to targeted victims of international looting. They do the bidding of villains like Singer.

The Republicans have become the party of the Robber Barons, and all of their candidates, like Rubio, are their little puppets. The Republican candidates are so inept and out of their league against the Dems...why is that? Well, their party only wants a President who is a figurehead...an empty head or a greedy person that does not mind selling out the country to the Robber Barons.

[Hortensis]

21. Just announced: SHELDON ADELSON'S BILLIONS

will back Rubio for president.

Other hard-right billionaires supporters of Rubio, besides Paul Singer and Sheldon Adelson, include
Norman Braman an A
merican Zionist extremist, and
Benjamin Leon, leader among hard-right Cuban-Americans intent on taking over Cuba.

All hard-right activist billionaires with very dirty records backing Rubio, whose record also does not stand scrutiny. Note that many journalists have reported the Rubio-Singer-Argentina connection and Singer's believed connection with election theft. This is real. Rec'd.

[flamingdem]

29. His newspaper endorsed Rubio last week nt

[Ferd Berfel]

22. Luv that Palast!

We need to hear more from you Greg!

[Lorien]

25. He's one of the few journalists that I entirely trust

I witnessed the theft of the 2000 election firsthand in Florida in 2000. I spoke to many journalists; even my neighbors who work for Frontline and NPR, but neither had any interest in what I had to say. Greg Palast of the BBC was the ONLY one who followed up with me and then went on to fully investigate what I had seem. Much of it ended up in his book "The best Democracy Money can Buy".

Oh, and that reporter for Frontline? He scoffed a year ago when I told him that I would be volunteering for Bernie Sanders. He said "There's no way that Sanders' campaign will ever get any traction. Not in this lifetime!" Funny how close minded the so called "liberal media" has become.

[Retrograde]

26. IMHO, it's because he seems malleable

and will do what his backers say. Now that Jeb! seems washed up, they need someone to keep their bread buttered, and it looks like Marco doesn't have an independent thought in his pretty little head - unlike Cruz.

Plus, they seem to think all Latinos vote as a bloc, from someone whose ancestors settled in New Mexico in the early 1600s to the woman from Dominica who became a citizen yesterday - they're all the same as far as the check writers can see.

[2naSalit]

27. ^^^THIS^^^

[malaise]

33. Doesn't have a thought

independent or otherwise

by the way Dominica is part of the English-speaking Caribbean (some French creole). Dominican Republic is Latin-Caribbean

[hifiguy]

38. Yep, and Cruz might decide to nuke the planet

to bring baby jeebus back. Very bad for the plutocrats.

[blm]

40. Exactly! Because he DOESN'T believe in anything earnestly except his intent to be handed the WH.

.

[Mbrow]

31. K&R

[Voice for Peace]

34. With Pres. sanders, Liz Warren close by, some new progressives

in Congress, and a can't-be-bought Cabinet & staff, here's a nice famtasy:

Criminal prosecutions for:
Torture,
Wall St. crimes,
Civil Rights & Voter Suppression Crimes

Environmental crimes,
Pharmaceutical crimes,
Law enforcement crimes
Hunan rights crimes
Drug trafficking crimes

Am I forgetting anything?
No doubt.
A vast criminal enterprise indeed.

Oh yeah
bullying and chronic lying by people in "Power"

In power, but not for looonnngggg....

[yardwork]

36. Kick

[hifiguy]

37. Palast looks under the rocks no one wants to even admit are there.

And he always finds the goods.

[olddots]

39. Rubio has that Ronny thing going on

we alll know how that worked out .

[snot]

41. Looking forward to the movie he mentions!

[starroute]

42. Is everything in Florida corrupt?

That state has a long history involving organized crime, drugs and gambling, the CIA, Cuban exiles, shady political deals, massive financial scandals, crooked real estate operations, money-laundering banks with connections to offshore tax havens ...

Have I left anything out?

This is not a slam against the ordinary residents of the state. I've had good friends who lived there at one time or another. But on the official level of business and government, it seems like a cesspool of corruption.

[avaistheone1]

44. Pretty much.

Seriously.

[NBachers]

46. And, the most stupendous Medicare frauds; the perpetrators are curiously politically connected.

I lived there for fourteen years in the '70's and '80's; I had to leave for a few years of "away" time. I've been back to visit, but I don't know if I'd ever move back to live.

[JDPriestly]

43. K&R.

[Uncle Joe]

47. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Betty Karlson]

48. That explains so much. Thanks for the link. eom