How can politicians and economic powerbrokers in the human community be empowered to muster the «political will» necessary for addressing human - driven climate change as well as for providing the substantial economic incentives and financial capital necessary to overcome this potential global threat to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth? (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Pando has exclusively confirmed that «The Pension Peril» is secretly funded by former Enron trader John Arnold, a billionaire political powerbroker who is actively trying to shape the very pension policy that the series claims to be dispassionately covering. (ditchwalk.com)
What is left now is an arms race in presidential campaign fundraising by the candidates and a new power base, the quasi-independent force of the super PACs, which have eclipsed the political parties as powerbrokers in the campaign process. (washingtonpost.com)