The Truth About Lobbying

We talk about, specifically, IPAC or APAC, however you're supposed to say that, IPAC, as a as a lobby. But where most of the money goes is to supporting candidates. Lobbying is different from campaign contributions. The campaign contributions is what I was talking about sort of in that video where I was saying, this is a campaign industrial complex where they're just, funneling money into these various nonproductive, industries like media, advertising, analytics, polling, what what have you. And, you know, in America, you have in any given, like, five year period, you're gonna have at least one presidential election, at least two congressional elections, potentially a senatorial election, and then any number of local, you know, state, municipal, whatever, election, city elections, and so on.

There's always an election somewhere that needs, or that can provide a vehicle for funneling money into those sectors, into those industries. The people's, you know, individuals, political donations because they're mobilized and they're motivated by some cause, by some political cause, some social cause, some ideological cause, and the politician knows to manipulate that cause or say that they are supportive of this cause or against this cause, that then that will motivate people to give them campaign donations. And then those campaign donations are just funneled through the candidate into those different sectors. So that's that's one aspect of it, and that's what IPAC does mostly. When when we see those numbers of what they spend, most of that has to do with them using political candidates to funnel money into those industries.

But when you're talking about lobbying, they don't actually spend that much money on lobbying. And in fact, the the amount of money they spend on lobbying absolutely pales in comparison to other lobbies that that where that's their primary that's primarily what they spend their money on lobbying as opposed to campaign contributions. For example, a lot of people don't aren't aware of this. Saudi Arabia, the government of Saudi Arabia spent $100,000,000 in lobbying as opposed to a million and a half by IPAC. Saudi Arabia spent a 100,000,000.

That's not even including Qatar or or or UAE or what have you. IPAC isn't even in the top 20 lobbies in Washington. I think it's somewhere around 206 or something in terms of what they spend in lobbying. Boeing is in the top 10, you know. Lockheed Martin is in the top 10.

I think Amazon is in the top 10. In fact, the the biggest lobby in Washington, the the biggest in terms of spending, the biggest lobby in Washington is the US Chamber of Commerce. The top 10 lobbies that spend the most money on lobbying, they're all business related. It's all business. Big pharma, you know, Pfizer is there, insurance, medical insurance, life insurance, and so on.

Real estate sector is there, tech sector is there, like Alphabet, you know, Google, Comcast, AT and T, you know, the the telecoms. Those are the those are the actually the actual biggest lobbyists in Washington, and and no one talks about that. Whenever they point you in a direction, it's because they're trying to point you away from something. It's never because they wanna draw your attention to what a real the real issue is or what the real problem is. It's always to divert your attention.

If they ever point something out I mean, many times have you heard people talk about what Google spends, what Alphabet spends in lobbying, or what AT and T or Pfizer, what they spend in lobbying. How often is that discussed? But you wanna pretend that IPAC has all of this control. In fact, the the the only I I think the only what you could call ideological lobby that's in the top 20 of the highest spending lobbies in Washington is the Open Society Foundation of George Soros, which is not a Zionist organization. It funds pro Palestinian NGOs.

It it it supports NGOs like Beth Salem and and others in Israel that are critical of the Israeli government and and advocate for human rights for Palestinians. So as I said, you just have to bear in mind that whenever they they highlight something, whenever they put a spotlight on something, it's because they wanna keep everything else in the dark. They wanna they wanna cover up everything else. That's the only the only time they'll ever shine a light on something is when they want to divert your attention from what's really going on in the shadows. As I said, the the largest actual political lobby in The United States is the US Chamber of Commerce.

So obviously, all they do and the the the huge amount of money that they spend is specifically and exclusively for the purpose of serving the interest of business and increasing the rights of business and decreasing the rights of workers, decreasing the rights of consumers, decreasing the rights of what would what would in their own corporate propaganda be called stakeholders, meaning the communities in which they operate in the country. It's given them increasing power and over the over the past well, basically, my throughout my lifetime, but especially over the last thirty years or so, especially with the Citizens United legislation. They gave corporations the rights of actual citizens, of individual citizens. You've seen the rise of corporate power. You've seen the untethering of corporate power from national interests.

So now corporations and the owners and controllers of global financialized capital are not nationalistic anymore. They don't have nationalistic interests. If you are someone's enemy, then the best thing, the best strategy is to tell them who their enemy is. And it's not you. It's always gonna be somebody else.

If you can always have the people fighting each other over this that and the other thing, especially if it's ideological or emotional, then they're not gonna fight you. So you you get them out of your hair. They're not gonna be a problem for you. As you see, who who talks about what we're talking about now with regards to, for example, who who actually even knew that the US chamber of commerce is actually the largest lobbyist in Washington. As I said, they put a spotlight on on one particular group or one particular issue, so that you won't see any everything else that's not in the spotlight.

It's it's just a it's just a deflection. It's just a way of diverting your attention from what's actually happening and who's actually in charge and who's actually running things. It's it's absolutely in their interest to divert your attention. The OC GFC is absolutely in their interest to divert people's attention and get them busy and think that that, every battle between, this, sort of sectarian, group and that sectarian group is a zero sum existential, conflict that they must win. Otherwise, it's the end of the world.

That that just keeps you completely neutralized. That that's in my opinion, that's the point of of all of these divisions. It's it's to keep you neutralized and diverted so that you won't ever actually pay attention to what's actually happening. Because in fact, most people have, common interests regardless of what their their little, personal, sort of niche interest might be. Their their real interests are common interests for most people in America.

Most people in America are struggling financially. Most people in America are in debt. Most people in America are being chased by debt collectors like the like like bloodhounds. It's it's a it's a very difficult situation for most people. People can't afford health care.

They can't afford to they have to decide whether they're gonna buy groceries or go to the doctor. On and on and on. I mean, the the actual common interest of people far more than the interest or the issues that divide them. And it takes a great deal of propaganda. It takes a great deal of indoctrination.

It takes a great deal of media campaigns and spin to divert you from the very obvious fact that you're all in a common struggle against really common foe, a common oppressor whether you're white, black, brown, what have you. Financially, people in The United States across all sectors are struggling in one way or another, and they don't want you to pay attention to that fact. And they don't want you to know, for example, that the biggest lobbyist actually is the US Chamber of Commerce, meaning conglomeration of business. Like I said, every in the top 20 lobbyists, they're all industrial sectors that actually have the most influence in in lobbying for legislation in congress. It it has nothing to do with even something like LGBT or feminism or any of these other things.

You and and that that lets you know that then you have to look at whatever these ideological issues are that people get motivated about or they get mobilized about. Then you have to ask, well, why is that? Why is that issue being highlighted? I mean, for example, with the whole LGBT agenda is being driven by big pharma. I've been saying that for years.

And big pharma has far more influence over over congress and over legislation than anything else, than any than any so called, civil liberties or, LGBT agenda, group or lobby or what what have you. So you have to look at at the the the ones who actually have influence, over the congress, over legislation. And then you can surmise, you can deduce from that which ideological agendas serve their interests, and then you'll know what's really behind those ideological agendas being pushed. You were talking about policies that benefit interest business interest. I mean, the most obvious one is is the the America's position and policy towards Israel.

That's the most obvious one because you see you see the the tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of billions over the years, going to Israel, and that's the way it's reported. But that money is not going to Israel. At least 70 to 80% of that money is going directly to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and so on. That's just that's just literally funneling public money into the private sector. It's literally just funneling money into the into the weapon sector.

That that's I mean, that's the most obvious example. It's it's absolutely blatant. That's that's all that is. Israel is just a it serves the function of providing a justification for putting all of this huge amount of money into a sector that is producing disposable materials. So, I mean, this is this is the most obvious issue.

And this is why the the the obsession with IPEC is so misleading because you you never talk about Boeing or Raytheon or or Lockheed. And they they're in the top 10, most powerful and and highest spending lobbies, in Washington. But no one talks about them. No one talks about the fact that this whole policy is for their interests. They're they're being funded based on the, the policy towards Israel.

These these companies, are staying afloat. They wouldn't even be able to stay afloat otherwise. You know? So so this is the the most obvious example. And then you talked about COVID for for for instance.

Pfizer is also one of the top 10 lobbyists. Well, the top 10 most influential lobbyists and and highest spending lobbyists in Washington, Pfizer. And then the the entire big pharma sector with health insurance and so on. So I mean, it's transparent. Rather than looking for which policy is in the interest of business, you can just look at any policy and then figure out how it's being it serves business interests.

That's the way that you should do it. Not say, well, what's an example of a policy? You can't find a policy that isn't in the interest of business. You can't find one. The the the laws are literally being written by corporate lawyers, and I and I'm not that's not hyperbole.

They're literally being written by corporate lawyers. Sometimes it passes into the congressional record, even with the syntax mistakes and the typing errors, from from the corporate lawyer's office. They they literally don't even edit it. They just copy and paste and and put it down and put it into law. And it was congressman had nothing to do with it.

It's not a thing where let me see if I can identify any policy that is in the service of business. They're all in the service of business. You just have to look at the policy and identify why. And then look at if you if you have the time and the and and go to the trouble, to do the research. Look at the lobbies that were actually involved in that.

Look at that. Look at the look at the the lobbies that were involved in lobbying that congressional committee, for example. Look at the members of that committee. The congressional members of that this or that committee, and then look who their funders were. And then deduce from that how this policy or that policy is in the interest of the people who bought those politicians.