Reading mainstream media headlines and watching cable news is really bad for your bottom line because those stories are for the most part based on content churned out by the huge public relations machines funded by Peterson and Blankfein's Goldman Sachs.
He has written large cheques for the Carnegie Institute of Science, the Smithsonian, 350.org, WWF, Greenpeace and, keen to counter what he calls the "misinformation machine", funds environmental journalism at National Public Radio, the Center for Investigative Journalism, grist.org, Media Matters and the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media.
He may have been kicking himself after last night, but the Tory party is a formidable machine, well funded, with important media allies and ruthless.
And while both point out various "problems"—the massive deficit, how the political machine is funded, too many wars, taxes that are too high, etc.—neither side offers constructive solutions because the complexity of these issues cannot be distilled in a fucking nursery rhyme or acronym dads say to feel smart.
It is only the Koch/Wall Street money and the finely-tuned message machine it funds that allows Republicans to win the elections that they do.
They are the power behind the Wahhabist ideology machine who fund radical mosques all over the world, spreading their hatred of us shared by all of the Islamic terrorist groups.
Hardware magician Bunnie Huang's Novena laptop, a completely open-source computing machine, is fully funded and will ship in January.
Development of the machine is being funded by NASA, so you could soon be seeing the HyperBike on an alien planet near you.
Sizeable investments have also been won by others such as Directi and Minds and Machines to fund their applications.
The U.S. Justice Department report examining conditions surrounding the August police shooting of teenager Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson found some municipalities in the county used police and local courts as cash machines to fund city government.
