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Owlet

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Mon Mar 12, 2012, 05:29 PM Mar 2012

Attack of the Billionaires


By Jim Hightower

"It was a total lockdown. As jet after jet swept in surreptitiously with top brass and political decision-makers on board, every entrance to the site of the super-secret Coachella Valley planning summit was secured and patrolled by armed guards and helicopters.

This wasn't a clandestine gathering of America's allies in Afghanistan, but a pow-wow of some 300 über-rich corporate plutocrats and their political hirelings — all intent on obliterating President Barack Obama's re-election bid with an unprecedented deluge of viciously negative attack ads.

Hosted by the billionaire Koch brothers at the posh Renaissance Esmeralda golf resort in California's Palm Springs desert in early February, the confabulees were mobilizing and monetizing what Charles Koch called the "mother of all wars." That would be their self-proclaimed war to enthrone their ilk over workers, consumers, the environment, and democracy itself."

http://www.nationofchange.org/attack-billionaires-1331569452

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