MALCOLM TURNBULL has taken a large campaign donation from an American billionaire closely linked to the predatory lending practices that triggered the subprime lending crisis in the United States and global recession.The Age / SMH
An investigation by The Sun-Herald revealed that Peter Briger, chairman and director of controversial "vulture company" Fortress Investment Group, contributed $US50,000 ($76,000) to the Liberal campaign fund for the Opposition Leader's Sydney seat of Wentworth last year.
Seeing as how Malcolm already got his stimulus package, maybe he could let us get ours too. And I'm sure Mr Briger, an American, was expecting NOTHING in return for his donation.
Also, is anyone else enjoying Malcolm's wedging? I know I am. It's very cathartic seeing mass public rage directed at the Liberal party, even if it is motivated by greed, 18 months too late and directed at the wrong person. There's just such a frisson of vigilante justice about it that makes one want to burn someone in effigy.
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I've enjoyed it muchly.
In the states Fox news has hired half the Republican front runners as 'opionists' - even given them their own show (Huckabee) in some cases.
Mitt Romney, who looks like he was recently re-animated, is now the go to man to slag off the stimulus efforts by the Obama administration. Why? Because Romney was a businessman.
He was a hedge fund manager. You know the sort of slime that didn't have the regulatory framework that normal banks had and driven by short term profits didn't give a shit about the long term damage they did to the fiscal environment.
It's enough to make your head bleed.
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