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Holier-than-YOU Jill Stein claims disdain for corporations but invests in big carbon, banks & pharm
Say One Thing, Do Another
Jill Stein’s Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another
The holier-than-thou Green Party candidate rails against big carbon, big banks, big pharma—while she holds substantial investments in them.
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Stein, a Harvard-educated physician, has run for office seven times, including two unsuccessful races for Massachusetts Governor and a run for the White House in 2012. In the 2012 presidential race, Stein received 469,501 votes.
She has made purity a central pillar of her presidential candidacy, and she has held that the Green Party reigns above all others with respect to moral and ethical supremacy. In an interview with CNN last April, she said, “I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1 percent, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants and war profiteers.”
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Defense contractors/drones. Stein has made her opposition to the use of drones by the United States military a key message in her campaign. She said, “Increased use of drone warfare under Obama is killing many innocent civilians, over 90 percent of deaths were unintended targets in Afghanistan,” and she has referred to the drone program as a “fabulous recruitment tool for terrorists.”
Yet she has between $50,001-$100,000 invested in a fund that has the Raytheon Corporation as its fourth largest holding, a $38 million investment. Raytheon, which is the fourth largest defense contractor in the world and derives 90 percent of its revenue from military contracts, manufactures drone systems, which Stein has committed to ending, and significant missile systems.
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Big Pharma. Stein has been a stalwart opponent of what she sees as the corrupt influence of the pharmaceutical industry. She posted a tweet that said: “I believe that healthcare should serve people not the interests of pharmaceutical and insurance companies, unlike the DNC or Hillary.”
In one of the handful of direct stock investments Stein holds, she listed between $50,001 and $100,000 in the pharmaceutical giant Merck, which paid a record fine for over-billing Medicaid. She has also invested $1,130,010 to $2,400,000 in funds that maintain significant stakes in Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson and Johnson, and Allergan.
Jill Stein’s Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another
The holier-than-thou Green Party candidate rails against big carbon, big banks, big pharma—while she holds substantial investments in them.
<snip>
Stein, a Harvard-educated physician, has run for office seven times, including two unsuccessful races for Massachusetts Governor and a run for the White House in 2012. In the 2012 presidential race, Stein received 469,501 votes.
She has made purity a central pillar of her presidential candidacy, and she has held that the Green Party reigns above all others with respect to moral and ethical supremacy. In an interview with CNN last April, she said, “I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1 percent, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants and war profiteers.”
<snip>
Defense contractors/drones. Stein has made her opposition to the use of drones by the United States military a key message in her campaign. She said, “Increased use of drone warfare under Obama is killing many innocent civilians, over 90 percent of deaths were unintended targets in Afghanistan,” and she has referred to the drone program as a “fabulous recruitment tool for terrorists.”
Yet she has between $50,001-$100,000 invested in a fund that has the Raytheon Corporation as its fourth largest holding, a $38 million investment. Raytheon, which is the fourth largest defense contractor in the world and derives 90 percent of its revenue from military contracts, manufactures drone systems, which Stein has committed to ending, and significant missile systems.
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Big Pharma. Stein has been a stalwart opponent of what she sees as the corrupt influence of the pharmaceutical industry. She posted a tweet that said: “I believe that healthcare should serve people not the interests of pharmaceutical and insurance companies, unlike the DNC or Hillary.”
In one of the handful of direct stock investments Stein holds, she listed between $50,001 and $100,000 in the pharmaceutical giant Merck, which paid a record fine for over-billing Medicaid. She has also invested $1,130,010 to $2,400,000 in funds that maintain significant stakes in Pfizer, Novartis, Johnson and Johnson, and Allergan.
Other investments listed in the article include $1.2 to $2.65 million in big banks, $995,011 to $2.2 million in fossil fuels and $500,004 to $1,100,000 in big tobacco.
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Thank you for this, Maru!
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