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Democracy Now! reports via AlterNet
Ken Salazar is a former U.S. Senator from Colorado who now works at WilmerHale, one of the most influential lobbying firms in Washington. Some groups have criticized Salazar's selection due to his vocal support of fracking, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the Keystone XL pipeline.
In addition to Ken Salazar, other leaders of the transition team include former Obama National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Center for American Progress head Neera Tanden, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and Maggie Williams, the director of Harvard's Institute of Politics.
[...] WilmerHale [represents] corporate clients across the board--Cigna, for instance. Cigna is a healthcare giant that is fighting for a merger with Anthem. WilmerHale represents them, Delta Airlines, Verizon, investment firms, a mining company. So, WilmerHale is a major law and lobbying firm.
Ken Salazar is not a registered lobbyist at WilmerHale; he is a partner there. Interestingly enough, Hillary Clinton had published a year ago an op-ed deriding the revolving door where lawmakers leave office and become lobbyists or help special interests. And she had specifically said that she was concerned about lawmakers who go into that line of work, public policy work, for corporate clients, but do not register as a lobbyist, which seems to fit the description of Ken Salazar.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 19 2016, @04:01AM
I believe the year 2000 or there about was when Trump mysteriously went from D team to independent to R team where he submarined until championing the birthers. We also know he desperately wants to be part of the lizard people's human skin wearing inner circle, the Red Dresses, or at least that's the Narrative in the media. For all we know, he was initiated as an honorary Red Dress some point in the early naughts.
(Warning: David Icke's illustration of the Red Dresses cannot be unseen for anybody who wants to duckduck that.)
I realize I'm going to have to buy a large collection of hats, as my username would imply I should already own, and eat them all if Trump does get elected and doesn't immediately do something to get himself impeached (and convicted, leaving us with President Pence). I'm thinking it's far more likely he'll take up a cozy media role blaming HRC for the inevitable stock market crash that will happen between February to April next year. The stock market will do just fine through January as long as HRC is polling well and gets elected.
But I dunno. I said in another comment that Thuban's sun (Alpha Draconis, Thuban being likely the name of their planet, not the star as Wikipedia presents it) is dying (it's no longer fusing hydrogen iirc) so the lizard people have been stepping things up and inevitably getting sloppy.
Wolfram Alpha tells me that Thuban is 308 light years from here. According to astrometics [wolframalpha.com], an Intrepid class such as the Voyager would take just under 26 days [wolframalpha.com] to make the journey at maximum warp (well, probably more since even an Intrepid class can't go hammer down for more than 2–3 days, but definitely less than a year). I'd thought that the cessation of hydrogen fusion still meant that a star had a few million good years left, but I guess the lizard people are being proactive or something catastrophic is on the verge of happening with Alpha Draconis. Anybody have number on Goa'uld Ha'tak ships or the O'Neill (two ls) just to cover all bases?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @02:34PM
We need a -0 WTF moderation option.