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inaug --> doj suit dropped? contractor 50x

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been receiving criticism over his newly revealed reality television show, a road trip series that was filmed over the course of seven months when he was also presumably overseeing the entire U.S. transportation system. Critics have accused him not only of shirking his responsibilities while on the taxpayers’ dime, but of conflicts of interest with the corporations he’s supposed to be regulating. On Monday, his wife had an explosive response to one critic in particular: the husband of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

“Stand down, Chas,” Duffy’s wife Rachel Campos Duffy, who also happens to be a co-host of Fox & Friends, posted over a retweet of criticism from Chasten Buttigieg. “You and I both know that my husband has done more in one year to transform the [Department of Transportation] and [Air Traffic Control] than your husband did in over 4 years on the job.”

In the same post, she also claimed that the show —The Great American Road Trip —was funded by a non-profit organization, even though, according to the Daily Beast, “the show’s sponsors, including Boeing, Shell, Toyota and United Airlines, are all companies whose business Duffy regulates as transport secretary.” This has ethics experts sounding the alarm.

For his part, Chasten Buttigieg has a personal element to his criticism of the Duffys, posting, “The same Duffys who threw endless fits on national television when Pete was working from our son's ICU bedside are now bragging about their multi-month, taxpayer-funded family road trip while gas and grocery prices soar for American families because of Trump's war of choice. How much more unfocused, unserious, and out of touch can you be?”

The Duffys are a longtime TV couple. Sean Duffy came into the public eye in 1997 during the show The Real World: Boston, then met his wife on Road Rules: All Stars. He’s been filming his new series, he says, between “moments where I might be able to do some work” as a member of Trump’s Cabinet.

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It seems like the kind of thing that there might a trial over.

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But in May, the Department of Justice made a deal

8:39

with Boeing to not prosecute them for crimes over the 737 crashes,

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as long as Boeing paid about $1.1 billion in fines.

8:47

Sounds like a lot of money until you learn that Boeing had just won a contract

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for $50 billion with the Department of Defense

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to build new F-47 fighter jets.

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Looks a lot like a preferential slap on the wrist to me.

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If you hate the current state of air travel, then you'll be interested

9:02

to hear that Delta and United both made major donations.

9:06

Then the Trump administration turned around and killed new rules

9:09

that would force airlines to compensate passengers for excessive delays.

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In response to this move, and the rollback of other rules

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about hidden fees and flight cancellations, the airline said,

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“We look forward to working with the Department of Transportation on

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implementing President Trump's deregulatory agenda.”

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Yeah, I bet they do.

9:28

The crypto industry also came in with some of the biggest donations for President Trump.

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Crypto companies and schemes rocketed to the center of the Trump world

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at the start of this year when Trump passed the Genius Act, the first major piece of legislation

9:40

that brings cryptocurrencies into the formal economy,

9:42

started dropping major investigations into crypto

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companies, created a strategic cryptocurrency reserve for the government,

9:49

and launched his own meme coin on the Solana blockchain,

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another major donor.

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Which is a long-winded sentence

9:57

that I can't believe I just had to say.

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And maybe the worst part of all of these donors

10:01

are the ones that we don't know anything about:

10:04

the shell companies, political action committees,

10:06

and the fake non-profits that were made to hide who the real donors are.

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Americans for Pharma Reform, Election Freedom, Inc.,

10:14

Axe Capital, all untraceable dark money.

10:18

We'll probably never know who they were or what influence they bought.

10:22

So, yes, technically, no one has broken the law here,

10:25

but shouldn't we care when massive corporations buy influence at the cost of the public?

10:30

$1 million to spare?

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You can have dinner with the president, and he might even listen to your concerns.

10:35

$5 million to spare?

10:37

You can probably buy a whole policy.

10:39

To me, this looks a lot like a system of patronage–

10:42

a government that operates on fealty, bribes, personal favors, and insider access.

10:47

It's not just the inauguration and all this money.

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It's how the Trump administration has attacked big law firms to get them to offer free work.

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It's how they sued media companies to get them to take people off

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the air that don't give Trump favorable coverage.

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It's how they force private companies to bend the knee to comply with Trump's preferences.

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It's how they threaten to withhold funding from states with governors

11:10

that Trump doesn't like.

11:11

The inaugural fund was just one move

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in the playbook, a move that re-centers corporate power at your expense.

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The Trump administration on Friday faced swift backlash to the U.S. Department of Justice's deal to end a felony case against Boeing that stemmed from a pair of 737 MAX passenger jet crashes that collectively killed 346 people in Ethiopia and Indonesia.

Responses on social media included: "No accountability, no safety, just corruption." "Really gotta feel for the families here. Just awful." "Just utterly appalling that Boeing escape[s] real criminal penalties here. People should have gone to jail." "They don't want to set the precedent that powerful people should have to answer to the public for f------ up."

Some critics also pointed to U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial luxury Boeing plane from the Qatari government, asking: "Is Trump getting another free plane? Is that the deal?"

During the Biden administration, Boeing had agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge and pay a fine of up to $487.2 million over the 2018 and 2019 crashes—a deal that was also criticized by some victims' relatives who wanted a trial. However, at a meeting last Friday, federal prosecutors told families the company's posture changed after a judge rejected the plea agreement in December.

That's according toReuters, which cited unnamed sources. The news agency also shared remarks from families' attorneys:

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Paul Cassell, a lawyer for the families, said in a statement the government was intent on dropping the prosecution, saying "they conveyed their preconceived idea that Boeing should be allowed to escape any real consequences for its deadly lies." Another lawyer representing family members who attended the meeting, Erin Applebaum, said the DOJ's "scripted presentation made it clear that the outcome has already been decided."

Despite Cassell's conclusion, the lawyer wrote to the DOJ on Thursday to argue against the agreement. He wrote that "in this case any further concessions to Boeing would be utterly inappropriate. This case is the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history, as found by" Judge Reed O'Connor in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, who rejected the previous plea deal.

Also on Thursday, U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) urged Attorney General Pam Bondi not to sign an agreement that "would amount to a slap on the wrist, requiring Boeing to pay an additional fine and compensation to the victims' families, and hire an independent compliance consultant, in exchange for dismissal of the criminal fraud charge."

"DOJ must not sign a nonprosecution agreement with Boeing that would allow the company to weasel its way out of accountability for its failed corporate culture, and for any illegal behavior that has resulted in deadly consequences," argued Warren and Blumenthal, respectively the ranking members of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in their letter to Bondi.

"Instead, DOJ should ensure that both the company and the executives that ran it are held accountable for any wrongdoing by thoroughly investigating the potential culpability of Boeing executives and holding criminally accountable any individuals that contributed to or allowed the pursuit of profits over people in violation of federal laws or regulations," they added.

Ignoring those urgings, the DOJ on Friday announced an "agreement in principle" that—if it receives final approval—will cost Boeing more than $1.1 billion, including an additional $445 million for families of those killed on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610. In exchange, the department would dismiss the fraud charge, and the company would not be subject to oversight by an independent monitor.

"Ultimately, in applying the facts, the law, and department policy, we are confident that this resolution is the most just outcome with practical benefits," a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement. "Nothing will diminish the victims' losses, but this resolution holds Boeing financially accountable, provides finality and compensation for the families, and makes an impact for the safety of future air travelers."

While Boeing hasn't commented, Cassell told Reuters that "this kind of nonprosecution deal is unprecedented and obviously wrong for the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history. My families will object and hope to convince the court to reject it."

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Neutron Jack’s fallout and the disaster at Boeing

As Boeing CEO David Calhoun resigns following the 737 Max debacle, can we just stop thinking about CEOs as heroes?

THE INK

Today, Boeing CEO David Calhoun finally announced his resignation. The series of disastrous 737 Max crashes and malfunctions (which began in 2018) has underscored for the public the myriad ways in which corporate cost-cutting poses a very direct threat to human life. As you wait for his exit (he’s sticking around until the end of 2024) it’s a good time to reflect on the fact that Calhoun is one of the leading disciples of Jack Welch, the longtime General Electric chief who defined the greed-is-good philosophy of the 1980s and paved the way for the current crop of American business leaders with his relentless — and sadly trendsetting — turn to financialization and downsizing. So we look back to our conversation with journalist David Gelles, in which he digs deeply into Welch’s legacy and the brokenness of the business media that cast Welch and his heirs as heroes rather than villains.

Like capitalism itself, business journalism is broken. Can it be fixed?

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MAY 31, 2022

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Welchism is the ideology that encompasses all of Jack Welch’s skewed priorities. I identify several tactics he used to propagate this, like downsizing, deal-making, and financialization. But Welchism is the full-throated belief in shareholder primacy, mixed with an aggressive, materialistic, and domineering style of management that sidelines opinions that run counter to that ideology and thrives on self-promotion and the celebration of the CEO as a national hero.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/boeing/

dereg

GMU LEC boatloads of pharma cash b/c

Founded in 2012, the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) is a catalyst for research on a “property rights” approach to intellectual property through a national network of scholars and the hosting of numerous programs and conferences. CPIP’s Executive Director is Professor Sean O’Connor who recently joined Scalia Law from the University of Washington School of Law where he was the Boeing International Professor of Law. Professor O'Connor comes to Scalia Law with a strong background in tech transfer and the business community.

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GE’s CEO Larry Culp is also a member of the Business Roundtable. Two months after he made the commitment to all his stakeholders, General Electric froze the pensions of 20,000 workers in order to cut costs. So much for investing in employees.

Dennis Muilenburg, the former CEO of Boeing, also committed to the phony Business Roundtable pledge. Shortly after making the commitment to “deliver value to customers,” Muilenburg was fired for failing to act to address the safety problems that caused the 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people.  After the crashes, he didn’t issue a meaningful apology or even express remorse to the victims’ families and downplayed the severity of the fallout to investors, regulators, airlines, and the public. He was rewarded with a $62 million farewell gift from Boeing on his way out.

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ralph says: stock buyback is a way to inflate stock price which leads to ceo bonus for performance,so they claim the earned the bonus [b/c they created value? created greater prosperity in the world, which is not affected materially, in fact there's an opportunity cost b/c that money is going to be hoarded/quaranteined in an off-shore tax shelter, not put back into production of stuff]?

walmart big on buybacks

in 2nd 1/2, links to boeing max fail  7b$ to do cleanseet redesign b/c of new tech and materials

https://kpfa.org/episode/the-ralph-nader-radio-hour-june-24-2019/

sec defense cleared?

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Boeing Might Represent the Greatest Indictment of 21st-Century CapitalismMarshall Auerback / Independent Media Institut

https://www.alternet.org/2018/12/meet-the-defense-contractor-trump-picked-to-take-over-the-pentagon/

Patrick Shanahan, the man who will become acting Secretary of Defense on Jan. 1, is best known in Washington circles for the decades he spent employed with one of America’s most powerful defense contractors — Boeing.

Shanahan began working for Boeing in 1986 and continued to be employed with them for more than three decades prior to his tenure at the Department of Defense. His most recent position there was as Boeing’s senior vice president of supply chain and operations, and he had also served on previous occasions as vice president and general manager of two of the company’s defense divisions, Boeing Missile Defense Systems and Rotorcraft Systems. During his time at Boeing, Shanahan earned the nickname “Mr. Fix-It” due to his history of turning around faltering programs like the 787 Dreamliner.

When Shanahan was being confirmed for his current position as Deputy Secretary of Defense, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., expressed concern about Shanahan’s background.

“I have to have confidence that the fox is not going to be put back into the henhouse,” McCain told Shanahan.

In response to this and other criticisms, Shanahan recused himself from all issues involving Boeing and signed an ethics agreement saying he would divest himself from all financial interests related to Boeing.

One edge that Shanahan will bring to his job, at least in terms of possibly getting it permanently, is that he has been supportive of Trump’s proposed Space Force, according to The New York Times. The newspaper went into detail about how Shanahan wound up supporting a policy that many critics ridiculed as patently ridiculous.

When it was first announced last spring,President Trump’s proposal for a new Space Force was resisted by the Pentagon and ridiculed by late-night comics who envisioned Luke Skywalker in the military. But it found a champion in Patrick M. Shanahan, the deputy secretary of defense who will soon become the Pentagon’s acting chief.

“We are not the Department of No,” Mr. Shanahan told Pentagon officials after Space Force was announced, arguing that it was a presidential priority and could help develop new military capabilities more quickly. “There is a vision, and it makes sense.”

The departure of Secretary of Defense James Mattis has raised questions about whether there will be anyone to rein in Trump’s worst instincts. Last year, when speaking to Salon about concerns that the president’s erratic nature could cause global conflict, former presidential adviser David Gergen — who worked for Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton — illustrated Mattis’ value through a story about Nixon’s presidency during the nadir of Watergate.

“Nixon was the commander in chief, and [former Secretary of Defense Jim] Schlesinger in effect was saying, ‘We’re going to override the commander in chief if in fact we think it’s coming from some sort of aggressive personality or he’s just pissed off. Whatever it may be,'” Gergen told Salon. “And I’ve asked people in the Defense Department, ‘Do you think there’s a similar arrangement today between [Secretary of Defense Jim] Mattis and the four-star generals?’ And the answer they’ve given me back — I don’t think there’s any reason to believe he’s giving such an order … [is] that if they’re given an order that they think comes from an erratic personality, they will double-check it with the secretary before they carry it out.”

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RAGA ballotpedia bs

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 RAGA BS union:

Arizona won a successful challenge against the National Labor Relations Board which challenged the state’s constitutional amendment guaranteeing workers’ rights to vote by secret ballot on whether to join a union. This case set valuable precedent which will allow these issues to be resolved at the state, and not federal, level.

Attorney General Alan Wilson (SC), with the help of other state Republican AGs, played a pivotal role in defeating theNLRB’s politically-motivated attempt to disallow Boeing’s business expansion in South Carolina. ?

John M. Shalikashvili was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 27 June 1936, the "grandson of a tsarist general and the son of a Polish army officer. Shalikashvili and his mother fled Poland in 1944 and settled in Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1952, when he was 16, and settled in Elmwood, IL."[1]

Shalikashvili is a member of the Board of United Defense Industries.[2] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[[3]](http://www.namebase.org/main2/John_M_-28gen-29_Shalikashvili.html) In May 2000, he was elected to the Board of Directors (term expires 2003) at :{Boeing:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}: and selected to serve on the Audit and Finance Committee. He also serves on the boards of Frank Russell Trust Company, L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.[4], and Plug Power Inc..[5].

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Boeing

The Boeing Corporation is best known to the general public for its line of civilian aircraft, the most famous being the Boeing 747. Weapons sales of $27bn comprise more than half of company revenue, making Boeing the second largest defence manufacturer in the world [1]. Military products include the C-17 Globemaster Transport, F-15 Fighter, AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter, MH-47 Chinook Helicopter and the Hellfire Missile. The company is the main contractor for the Star Wars missile system.

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Company description

"The Boeing Company operates in four principal segments: Commercial Airplanes, Military Aircraft and Missile Systems, Space and Communications and Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC). Commercial Airplanes operations principally involve development, production and marketing of commercial jet aircraft and providing related support services. Military Aircraft and Missile Systems operations principally involve research, development, production, modification and support of military aircraft, both land-based and aircraft-carrier-based, as well as helicopters and missiles. Space and Communications operations principally involve research, development, production, modification and support of space systems, missile defense systems, satellites and satellite launching vehicles, rocket engines and information and battle management systems. BCC is primarily engaged in the financing of commercial and private aircraft and commercial equipment[2]".

Board of Directors

As of December 2007:[3]

Former Board of Directors

Political contributions

The Boeingpolitical action committee (PAC) gave $895,750 to federal candidates in the 05/06 election cycle - 37% to Democrats, 62% to Republicans. ^[3]^

Lobbying

The company spent $9,120,000 forlobbying in 2006. Of this total, $2,722,000 was to outside lobbying firms. Boeing has in-house lobbyists also. ^[4]^

Industrial relations

On 14 April 2008 Boeing (Australia) won the right to compensation for losses caused by over 700 strikers in a stop work action - alleged by Boeing to cost them $1,000,000 per day. That court decision included: a compulsory period of non-organising and disallowing any further work ban actions (unless allowed by Boeing) or face jail. The dispute started on April 7 when Boeing sacked a worker and suspended another without going through the agreed dispute settlement procedure. Workers believed that another 8 workers face a similar fate. Efforts to the resolve the dispute failed on April 9 workers walked off the job. Boeing then started legal proceedings against the workers.

Boeing have a record of disagreements with their workforce and are almost always involved in minor disputes. In 1989 US Boeing machinists went on strike over a lack of pay rises for six years. "The workers - many of whom welcomed the strike as a respite from exhausting amounts of mandatory overtime - stayed out for 48 days" (CorpWatch).

just won legal victory regarding moving a plant to the south?

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/09/news/la-pn-nlrb-boeing-20111209

  Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year.

BW bk:  Boeing tankers: hastert, rove, card; perle supported in wsj, tho had invested 20M$ in perle's fund 317 year before; deal approved by pete aldridge jr, fmr mcD-D, bot by boeng, contract cancelled; joe scrubbed report (to protect WH?) 318 joe claimed could not contact aldridge even tho had subpena and his bro was A's lawyer at lockheed (3 gutys got 445K 02-05)

  1. Jim McNerney: Middle Class Manslaughter

The U.S. manufacturing giant Boeing, analyst Harold Meyerson observed [39] last week, has only one global rival in the large-scale passenger-plane market, the European conglomerate Airbus.

Workers at these two aerospace giants turn out to make about the same compensation. But executives at Boeing make more.

Question: Given these realities, what should Boeing do to compete more effectively? The answer from Boeing CEO Jim McNerney: Cut Boeing worker wages, benefits, and pensions!

Earlier this fall, McNerney gave his Seattle area workers an ultimatum: Either accept a contract “extension [40]” that would leave them paying more for health care and getting less in retirement — and force new hires to work 10 extra years at substandard wages — or Boeing would go elsewhere to manufacture its new 777x passenger jetliner.

Boeing gave Washington State’s political leaders a similar ultimatum [40]: Either fork over new subsidies and tax breaks or see your state lose jobs by the thousands. Washington lawmakers caved almost instantly. They voted Boeing the largest subsidy deal in U.S. history, over half a billion annually for the next 16 years, over double [41] the state’s annual funding for the University of Washington.

Boeing’s workers didn’t cave. They rejected the Boeing ultimatum, and McNerney, who pulled in [42]$27.5 million in take-home last year after $23 million the year before,is now parsing subsidy offers from half a dozen other states.

How does this story end? Maybe with the “Walmartization of aerospace [43].”

“This,” as Seattle author Timothy Egan puts it [44], “is how the middle class dies.” alternet

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Boeing

Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation founded in 1916. According to its website, Boeing is "the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined."[3] Boeing also "designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems."[3] Boeing is "a major service provider to NASA" and "the prime contractor for the International Space Station" as well.[3]

The Boeing Company is best known to the general public for its line of civilian aircraft, the most famous being the Boeing 747. Military sales of $27bn comprise more than half of company revenue, making Boeing the second largest defense manufacturer in the world ^[4]. Military products include the C-17 Globemaster Transport, F-15 Fighter, AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter, MH-47 Chinook Helicopter and the Hellfire Missile. The company is the main contractor for the Star Wars missile system[citation ^needed].

In 2011, Boeing reported total revenues of $68,735,000,000.[5]

Ties to Pete Peterson's "Fix the Debt"

The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem." Boeing is part of the Campaign to Fix the Debt as of February 2013.

This article is part of the Center for Media and Democracy's investigation of Pete Peterson's Campaign to "Fix the Debt." Please visit our main SourceWatch page on Fix the Debt.

About Fix the Debt
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem." Through a special report and new interactive wiki resource, the Center for Media and Democracy -- in partnership with the Nation magazine -- exposes the funding, the leaders, the partner groups, and the phony state "chapters" of this astroturf supergroup. Learn more at PetersonPyramid.org and in the *Nation*magazine.

Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council

Boeing has been a corporate funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)[6][7]. See ALEC Corporations for more.

About ALEC
ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's ALECexposed.org, and check out breaking news on our PRWatch.org site.

Company description

"The Boeing Company operates in four principal segments: Commercial Airplanes, Military Aircraft and Missile Systems, Space and Communications and Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC). Commercial Airplanes operations principally involve development, production and marketing of commercial jet aircraft and providing related support services. Military Aircraft and Missile Systems operations principally involve research, development, production, modification and support of military aircraft, both land-based and aircraft-carrier-based, as well as helicopters and missiles. Space and Communications operations principally involve research, development, production, modification and support of space systems, missile defense systems, satellites and satellite launching vehicles, rocket engines and information and battle management systems. BCC is primarily engaged in the financing of commercial and private aircraft and commercial equipment [1]".

Personnel

Executives

Executive Council

As of January 2013[8]

Former executives include

Board of Directors

As of January 2013[9]

Former board members include[10]

Lobbying

The company spent $9,120,000 for lobbying in 2006. Of this total, $2,722,000 was to outside lobbying firms. Boeing has in-house lobbyists also. ^[11]^

Contact details

100 North Riverside

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Phone: (312) 544-2000

Web: http://www.boeing.com/

Resources and articles

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External links

References

  1. ↑ ^1.0^ ^1.1^ Financial Statements and Supplemental Data, Form 10-K, The Boeing Company (accessed June 10, 2007).
  2. ↑ BA Ownership, MSN Money (accessed May 25, 2008).
  3. ↑ ^3.0^ ^3.1^ ^3.2^ "About Us", organizational website, accessed January 2013
  4. ↑ *DefenseNews*
  5. ↑ Boeing, "2011 Annual Report", organizational document, page 30.
  6. ↑ Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research, project of the Environmental Working Group, Information on American Legislative Exchange Council, archived organizational profile, archived by Wayback Machine December 2, 2000, accessed August 19, 2011
  7. ↑ Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, "Corporations and Trades Associations that Fund ALEC," Corporate America's Trojan Horse in the States: The Untold Story Behind the American Legislative Exchange Council, online report, 2003
  8. ↑ Boeing, Executive Biographies, organizational website, accessed January 2013
  9. ↑ Boeing, Board of Directors, organizational website, accessed January 2013
  10. ↑ Boeing, Board of Directors, accessed December 2007
  11. ↑ Boeing lobbying expenses, Open Secrets.

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BW bk:  Boeing tankers: hastert, rove, card; perle supported in wsj, tho had invested 20M$ in perle's fund 317 year before; deal approved by pete aldridge jr, fmr mcD-D, bot by boeng, contract cancelled; joe scrubbed report (to protect WH?) 318 joe claimed could not contact aldridge even tho had subpena and his bro was A's lawyer at lockheed (3 gutys got 445K 02-05)

  1. Jim McNerney: Middle Class Manslaughter

The U.S. manufacturing giant Boeing, analyst Harold Meyerson observed [39] last week, has only one global rival in the large-scale passenger-plane market, the European conglomerate Airbus.

Workers at these two aerospace giants turn out to make about the same compensation. But executives at Boeing make more.

Question: Given these realities, what should Boeing do to compete more effectively? The answer from Boeing CEO Jim McNerney: Cut Boeing worker wages, benefits, and pensions!

Earlier this fall, McNerney gave his Seattle area workers an ultimatum: Either accept a contract “extension [40]” that would leave them paying more for health care and getting less in retirement — and force new hires to work 10 extra years at substandard wages — or Boeing would go elsewhere to manufacture its new 777x passenger jetliner.

Boeing gave Washington State’s political leaders a similar ultimatum [40]: Either fork over new subsidies and tax breaks or see your state lose jobs by the thousands. Washington lawmakers caved almost instantly. They voted Boeing the largest subsidy deal in U.S. history, over half a billion annually for the next 16 years, over double [41] the state’s annual funding for the University of Washington.

Boeing’s workers didn’t cave. They rejected the Boeing ultimatum, and McNerney, who pulled in [42]$27.5 million in take-home last year after $23 million the year before,is now parsing subsidy offers from half a dozen other states.

How does this story end? Maybe with the “Walmartization of aerospace [43].”

“This,” as Seattle author Timothy Egan puts it [44], “is how the middle class dies.” alternet

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Boeing

Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation founded in 1916. According to its website, Boeing is "the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined."[3] Boeing also "designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems."[3] Boeing is "a major service provider to NASA" and "the prime contractor for the International Space Station" as well.[3]

The Boeing Company is best known to the general public for its line of civilian aircraft, the most famous being the Boeing 747. Military sales of $27bn comprise more than half of company revenue, making Boeing the second largest defense manufacturer in the world ^[4]. Military products include the C-17 Globemaster Transport, F-15 Fighter, AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter, MH-47 Chinook Helicopter and the Hellfire Missile. The company is the main contractor for the Star Wars missile system[citation ^needed].

In 2011, Boeing reported total revenues of $68,735,000,000.[5]

Ties to Pete Peterson's "Fix the Debt"

The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem." Boeing is part of the Campaign to Fix the Debt as of February 2013.

This article is part of the Center for Media and Democracy's investigation of Pete Peterson's Campaign to "Fix the Debt." Please visit our main SourceWatch page on Fix the Debt.

About Fix the Debt
The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem." Through a special report and new interactive wiki resource, the Center for Media and Democracy -- in partnership with the Nation magazine -- exposes the funding, the leaders, the partner groups, and the phony state "chapters" of this astroturf supergroup. Learn more at PetersonPyramid.org and in the *Nation*magazine.

Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council

Boeing has been a corporate funder of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)[6][7]. See ALEC Corporations for more.

About ALEC
ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's ALECexposed.org, and check out breaking news on our PRWatch.org site.

Company description

"The Boeing Company operates in four principal segments: Commercial Airplanes, Military Aircraft and Missile Systems, Space and Communications and Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC). Commercial Airplanes operations principally involve development, production and marketing of commercial jet aircraft and providing related support services. Military Aircraft and Missile Systems operations principally involve research, development, production, modification and support of military aircraft, both land-based and aircraft-carrier-based, as well as helicopters and missiles. Space and Communications operations principally involve research, development, production, modification and support of space systems, missile defense systems, satellites and satellite launching vehicles, rocket engines and information and battle management systems. BCC is primarily engaged in the financing of commercial and private aircraft and commercial equipment [1]".

Personnel

Executives

Executive Council

As of January 2013[8]

Former executives include

Board of Directors

As of January 2013[9]

Former board members include[10]

Lobbying

The company spent $9,120,000 for lobbying in 2006. Of this total, $2,722,000 was to outside lobbying firms. Boeing has in-house lobbyists also. ^[11]^

Contact details

100 North Riverside

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Phone: (312) 544-2000

Web: http://www.boeing.com/

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External links

References

  1. ↑ ^1.0^ ^1.1^ Financial Statements and Supplemental Data, Form 10-K, The Boeing Company (accessed June 10, 2007).
  2. ↑ BA Ownership, MSN Money (accessed May 25, 2008).
  3. ↑ ^3.0^ ^3.1^ ^3.2^ "About Us", organizational website, accessed January 2013
  4. ↑ *DefenseNews*
  5. ↑ Boeing, "2011 Annual Report", organizational document, page 30.
  6. ↑ Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research, project of the Environmental Working Group, Information on American Legislative Exchange Council, archived organizational profile, archived by Wayback Machine December 2, 2000, accessed August 19, 2011
  7. ↑ Defenders of Wildlife, Natural Resources Defense Council, "Corporations and Trades Associations that Fund ALEC," Corporate America's Trojan Horse in the States: The Untold Story Behind the American Legislative Exchange Council, online report, 2003
  8. ↑ Boeing, Executive Biographies, organizational website, accessed January 2013
  9. ↑ Boeing, Board of Directors, organizational website, accessed January 2013
  10. ↑ Boeing, Board of Directors, accessed December 2007
  11. ↑ Boeing lobbying expenses, Open Secrets.

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