http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/23/fdas-distorted-priorities-are-lethal/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Steyer
Thomas Fahr Steyer (born June 27, 1957) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, environmentalist, progressive activist, and fundraiser.[2]
Steyer is the founder and former co-senior managing partner of Farallon Capital and the co-founder of OneCalifornia Bank, which became (through merger) Beneficial State Bank, an Oakland-based community development bank.[2] Farallon Capital manages $20 billion in capital for institutions and high-net-worth individuals. The firm's institutional investors include college endowments and foundations.[2] Since 1986, Steyer has been a partner and member of the Executive Committee at Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco-based $8 billion private equity firm. In 2010, Steyer and his wife signed The Giving Pledge to donate half of their fortune to charity during their lifetime. In 2012, he sold his stake in and retired from Farallon Capital. Switching his focus to politics and the environment, he launched NextGen America, a non-profit organization that supports progressive positions on climate change, immigration, health care, and education.[3][4]
Steyer served on the Board of Trustees at Stanford University[5] from 2012 to 2017.
History
Businessman Tom Steyer founded NextGen America (originally called NextGen Climate) in 2013, and serves as president. A former hedge-fund manager, Steyer pledged to donate the majority of his wealth to charitable causes in 2010. [3] He also became involved in the issue of climate change.[4] Later, Steyer made the decision to pull his money from environmentally unsound investments and focus on pushing climate change issues and policies. [2]
2014 election cycle
NextGen America’s political arm, super PAC NextGen Climate Action Committee, began lending support to candidates in 2013. They backed Democrat Edward Markey in the special election to fill Secretary John Kerry’s senate seat, [5] [6] as well as Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia race for governor against Republican Ken Cuccinelli. [2] The super PAC was a contributor in the 2014 midterm elections, targeting demographics believed to be most likely to vote based on environmental concerns. U.S. senate races in Michigan, Iowa, New Hampshire and Colorado were targeted in an effort to help Democrats maintain their majority in the U.S. Senate. It also supported gubernatorial candidates in Maine, Florida and Pennsylvania. [5] During the 2014 election cycle, five of the nine democratic candidates won their elections. [7] As of 2014, NextGen claimed to have opened 40 offices and made contact with over 1.5 million voters.[8]
2016 election cycle
In 2015, NextGen America stated that it planned to “punish” Republican presidential candidates for climate change skepticism. [9] It also said that candidates would have to pledge to enact an energy policy that would lead to a shift in 50% renewable energy use in the U.S. by 2030, and 100% by 2050, in order to receive its support.[10] In April 2016, it launched a campaign to register voters on college campuses in seven political battleground states. [11]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2014/11/03/billionaire-tom-steyer-on-money-in-politics-spending-74-m-on-the-election/#28a603f1d2d0
Billionaire Tom Steyer On Money In Politics, Spending $74 M On The Election
Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer has poured nearly $74 million into tomorrow's midterm elections, more than any other donor who disclosed contributions. The former hedge fund manager from San Francisco pumped the vast majority of those funds — nearly $67 million — into his super PAC, NextGen Climate Action.
Steyer launched the group last year to back politicians who promise to tackle climate change. He's supplied more than 80% of the super PAC 's funding, adding another $16 million to its coffers just three weeks before the election. NextGen Climate Action has spent $57 million to date, with the biggest sums going to oppose Senate bids of Republicans in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and New Hampshire.
Another $1.8 million of Steyer's donations went to CE Action Committee, a second super PAC he founded, which helped elect Democrat Ed Markey of Massachusetts to the Senate in a special election last year. Steyer also gave $5 million to the Democratic Senate Majority PAC.
Steyer made his fortune running Farallon Capital Management, a hedge fund firm he founded in 1986. He was also a managing director at private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. He retired in 2012 at age 55. FORBES estimates that his net worth is $1.6 billion.
Steyer has been involved in politics for many years. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2004 and 2008 and a major fundraiser for President Obama. In 2010, he worked with former Secretary of State George Shultz to defeat California's Proposition 23, which tried to suspend the state's watershed climate change law. In 2012, he co-chaired a committee backing a successful California ballot measure to create clean energy jobs. Last year, in addition to backing Markey, he supported the successful bid of Terry McAuliffe to become governor of Virginia.
Less than two days before the election, FORBES asked Steyer about his donations, money in politics and what's in store for him after Nov. 4:
You’ve given more than any other donor this election. Why invest that money in electoral politics rather than advocacy or philanthropy?
Climate change impacts us all, and we must each make personal decisions about how we live, spend and work to preserve our planet. But beyond these private decisions, one thing has become abundantly clear: the time to act politically to avert climate disaster has arrived. As a nation, we must chart a different course, one that preserves our prosperity and empowers American businesses to create jobs while building the clean energy future our kids deserve.
In addition to founding NextGen Climate, my wife [Kat Taylor] and I took the Giving Pledge in 2010 and have decided to give away the bulk of our financial blessings to philanthropy and public interest causes, such as One Pacific Coast Bank, the community development bank that makes capital accessible to historically underserved communities to promote economic development.
What first sparked your concern with climate change, and why have you chosen to focus on that issue?
As I learned more and more about climate change and the science became clear, I came to believe that climate change is the defining issue of our generation. We must act now if we truly want to prevent climate disaster and preserve American prosperity, because when it comes to climate change, the price of inaction is too high, and Americans across the country are already paying the cost.
At the end of 2012, I stepped down from my business to dedicate myself full-time to combating the very real impacts of climate change. That’s why I founded NextGen Climate—to take on the issue of global climate change by directly challenging those who deny basic science or put their own financial interests ahead of what is best for our kids.
You originally hoped to raise $100 million, half from other donors. Others ended up donating less than $4 million. Why has it been difficult to get others on board?
We have consistently said that we will spend what it takes to make an impact in our targeted states. Our goal has been to have strong allies including people who come in through us, and we have found that there are a lot of people who are coming with us.
What is the biggest lesson you’ve learned as you’ve turned your attention from the private sector to politics?
Politics can be competitive sometimes, but at its center it’s about telling a story. It’s about taking an issue like climate change and making it a hyperlocal issue. You have to be able to connect with the voters and lay out, in very specific terms, how it’s impacting their community and their families.
We are taking a very analytical approach to our campaigns — relying on very specific data. But if you can’t connect with voters and show them why climate change is impacting their community, it’s difficult to motivate them and get them to the polls on Election Day
New York Magazine recently said PACs like yours are becoming their own political parties. Many groups — the Mayday PAC, for one — are decrying the harmful influence of money in politics. What's your view on this, given how much you've contributed to the election?
We oppose Citizens United [the Supreme Court's 2010 decision allowing unlimited corporate donations to super PACs]. But at the same time, the political time frame for repairing the Supreme Court’s decision and the timeline we have to take on the urgent issue of climate change means that we have to accept the post-Citizens United world as it is, and until a different and more effective system is adopted, we will work within it.
We believe the system for major social change in the United States of America is electoral politics and the democratic process: that’s what we support, and that’s what we will use.
Rather than complain about money in politics and do nothing — particularly on issues as critical as climate change, we will take action and work within the system that we’ve got until we can change it.
What do you plan to do after the election?
We are less than a week from Election Day, and are laser-focused on winning the elections in our states where climate is going to play a major role on Election Day. But make no mistake—the issues that we’re talking about are not going away. We are working to make sure we are relevant in 2014 and beyond, and, of course, climate change denial should be a quality that functionally disqualifies a candidate from being president.
https://www.intellihub.com/mmr-measles-vaccine-clinical-trial-results-faked-big-pharma-shocking-u-s-court-documents-reveal/
By Mike Adams | Natural News
While the vaccine industry is exploiting the Disneyland measles outbreak to call for widespread MMR vaccination, nobody in the mainstream media is telling you how the MMR vaccine clinical trial results were faked by Big Pharma in yet another example of runaway scientific fraud by the vaccine industry.
According to two Merck scientists who filed a False Claims Act complaint in 2010 — a complaint which was unsealed three years ago — vaccine manufacturer Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test data, spiked blood samples with animal antibodies, sold a vaccine that actually promoted mumps and measles outbreaks, and ripped off governments and consumers who bought the vaccine thinking it was “95% effective.”
Natural News acquired that document years ago and maintains one of the very few copies in existence, as all “official” sources have tried to remove this document from human memory and bury the case.
Click here to read the full document now. (PDF)
Knowing falsified mumps vaccine tests to fabricate a 95% efficacy rate
According to Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski, both former Merck virologists, the Merck company engaged in all the following behavior:
• Merck knowingly falsified its mumps vaccine test results to fabricate a “95% efficacy rate.”
• In order to do this, Merck spiked the blood test with animal antibodies to artificially inflate the appearance of immune system antibodies. As reported in CourthouseNews.com:
Merck also added animal antibodies to blood samples to achieve more favorable test results, though it knew that the human immune system would never produce such antibodies, and that the antibodies created a laboratory testing scenario that “did not in any way correspond to, correlate with, or represent real life … virus neutralization in vaccinated people,” according to the complaint. (http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/27/478…)
• Merck then used the falsified trial results to swindle the U.S. government out of “hundreds of millions of dollars for a vaccine that does not provide adequate immunization.”
• Merck’s vaccine fraud has actually contributed to the continuation of mumps across America, causing more children to become infected with mumps. Yes, the vaccine spreads disease, they say.
• Merck used its false claims of “95 percent effectiveness” to monopolize the vaccine market and eliminate possible competitors.
• The Merck vaccine fraud has been going on since the late 1990’s, say the Merck virologists.
• Testing of Merck’s vaccine was never done against “real-world” mumps viruses in the wild. Instead, test results were simply falsified to achieve the desired outcome.
• This entire fraud took place “with the knowledge, authority and approval of Merck’s senior management.”
• Merck scientists “witnessed firsthand the improper testing and data falsification in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the vaccine’s efficacy findings,” according to court documents (see below).
US government chose to ignore the 2010 False Claims Act!
Rather than taking action on this false claims act, the U.S. government simply ignored it, thereby protecting Merck’s market monopoly instead of properly serving justice. This demonstrates the conspiracy of fraud between the U.S. government, FDA regulators and the vaccine industry.
Chatom Primary Care sues Merck for Sherman Act monopolization, breach of warranty, violation of consumer protection laws
Following the unsealing of this 2010 False Claims Act, Chatom Primary Care, based in Alabama, smelled something rotten. In 2012, Chatom filed a lawsuit against Merck. That lawsuit record is also available on Natural News, where real medical history is archived in the public interest.
Click here to read the Chatom lawsuit document.
It alleges, among other shocking things:
[Merck engaged in] …a decade-long scheme to falsify and misrepresent the true efficacy of its vaccine.
Merck fraudulently represented and continues to falsely represent in its labeling and elsewhere that its Mumps Vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95 percent of higher.
In reality, Merck knows and has taken affirmative steps to conceal — by using improper testing techniques and falsifying test data — that its Mumps Vaccine is, and has been since at least 1999, far less than 95 percent effective.
Merck designed a testing methodology that evaluated its vaccine against a less virulent strain of the mumps virus. After the results failed to yield Merck’s desired efficacy, Merck abandoned the methodology and concealed the study’s findings.
…incorporating the use of animal antibodies to artificially inflate the results…
…destroying evidence of the falsified data and then lying to an FDA investigator…
…threatened a virologist in Merck’s vaccine division with jail if he reported the fraud to the FDA…
…the ultimate victims here are the millions of children who every year are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection. And while this is a disease that, according to the Centers for Disease Control (‘CDC’), was supposed to be eradicated by now, the failure in Merck’s vaccine has allowed this disease to linger, with significant outbreaks continuing to occur.
Chatom Primary Care also alleges that the fraudulent Merck vaccine contributed to the 2006 mumps outbreak in the Midwest, and a 2009 outbreak elsewhere. It says, “there has remained a significant risk of a resurgence of mumps outbreaks…”
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NaturalNews wishes to thank CourthouseNews.com for its coverage of this story. Original article at: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/06/27/478…
Chatom Lawsuit against Merck
www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Chatom…
2010 False Claims Act against Merck, by two Merck virologists
www.naturalnews.com/gallery/documents/Merck-…
Announcement of the lawsuit in the media:
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/lawsuit-claims…
This article originally appeared on Natural News.
