Jane Mayer interviews Billionaires who use their money to finance politics

Jane Mayer interviews Billionaires who use their money to finance politics

Jane Mayer writes for the New Yorker. She’s written two articles about Billionaires from different sides of the political fence who use their money to advance the political views.

George Soros

Koch Brothers

The Koch Brothers is the more interesting one to me, as it explains how they’ve used their money to covertly fund the Tea Party and co-opt it’s politics for their own. It also talks about how David Koch has cancer, yet his company continuously battles to keep formaldehyde unregulated even though it’s one the most common cancer causing agents in use today.

MarkeeDragon.com Down

MarkeeDragon.com Down

In a surprise move today, Markee Dragon himself, Marcus Eikenberry announced that they are removing all content that violates the game companies Terms of Service from the MarkeeDragon.com website. All the trading, buying, selling forums are being moved over to mmobay.com completely.

Interestingly, Marcus talks about how this is an attempt to legitimize MarkeeDragon.com in the eyes of the game companies and push them towards supporting in game RMT services much more then they do now.

The full announcement can be found on the Markee Dragon YouTube site or on the front page of MarkeeDragon.com.