Let's get right to it. Have Bill and Loretta answer questions about their meeting under "oath" and let's see if Bill makes the same mistake as he did with the Monica L scandal.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
ANGRY MALE SANDERS DELEGATE ATTACKS FEMALE HILLARY SUPPORTER
Now that I have your attention;
A female at-large Bernie Sanders delegate meeting was assaulted by a male Hillary Clinton supporter at a heated party meeting in New York on Tuesday, wear the Vermont senator’s supporters were once again treated as unwelcome pests.
During the meeting, Sanders supporters were silenced once again as they were denied being heard on selection of the state chairman for the Democratic National Convention. Party leaders chose to make Governor Andrew Cuomo the party’s convention chair, and refused to allow Sanders delegates to submit other candidates or arguments.
Outraged, Sanders delegates began to protest and boo the decision.
“We are not recognizing Andrew Cuomo as the chair,” Kate Brezler, a Sanders delegate from White Plainssaid. “We wanted to have a democratic vote.”
Moumita Ahmed, an organizer with the People for Bernie Sanders, and co-founder of Millennials for Bernie Sanders, went up to the mic with another delegate, political commentator Nomiki Konst, to voice their dissent on behalf of Sanders delegates. Their microphone was then shut off.
“That was when I proceeded down the aisle to rally the Bernie delegates to decide on next steps, and while on my way an older, male Clinton delegate slapped me with the back of his hand from behind and told me to sit down. So I ran back and got my friend Kat Brezler, who was live streaming, to go and get Eddie Kay to come up and speak to Basil Smikle about the whole incident. On our way back, I confronted the man who assaulted me and told him ‘don’t you dare touch me ever again,’ and at that point he beat me with his cane. It was all caught on camera,” Ahmed wrote of the incident.
A female at-large Bernie Sanders delegate meeting was assaulted by a male Hillary Clinton supporter at a heated party meeting in New York on Tuesday, wear the Vermont senator’s supporters were once again treated as unwelcome pests.
During the meeting, Sanders supporters were silenced once again as they were denied being heard on selection of the state chairman for the Democratic National Convention. Party leaders chose to make Governor Andrew Cuomo the party’s convention chair, and refused to allow Sanders delegates to submit other candidates or arguments.
Outraged, Sanders delegates began to protest and boo the decision.
“We are not recognizing Andrew Cuomo as the chair,” Kate Brezler, a Sanders delegate from White Plainssaid. “We wanted to have a democratic vote.”
Moumita Ahmed, an organizer with the People for Bernie Sanders, and co-founder of Millennials for Bernie Sanders, went up to the mic with another delegate, political commentator Nomiki Konst, to voice their dissent on behalf of Sanders delegates. Their microphone was then shut off.
“That was when I proceeded down the aisle to rally the Bernie delegates to decide on next steps, and while on my way an older, male Clinton delegate slapped me with the back of his hand from behind and told me to sit down. So I ran back and got my friend Kat Brezler, who was live streaming, to go and get Eddie Kay to come up and speak to Basil Smikle about the whole incident. On our way back, I confronted the man who assaulted me and told him ‘don’t you dare touch me ever again,’ and at that point he beat me with his cane. It was all caught on camera,” Ahmed wrote of the incident.
HILLARY PLAYS HIDE AND SEEK WITH THE PUBLIC; AGAIN!
Bossie told TheDCNF that “the conflicts of interest that were made possible by the activities of Hillary Clinton’s State Department in tandem with the Clinton Foundation are of significant importance to the public and the law enforcement community.”
In addition to the Clinton Foundation, Citizens United requested communications between the four aides and Teneo Holdings, the firm created by Doug Band, Bill Clinton’s personal aide in the White House and thereafter as a former chief executive. The former President was a paid consultant to Teneo until 2012.
Huma Abedin simultaneously served as an employee for both Teneo and as deputy chief of staff to Clinton at the State Department in 2012, an issue which Congress has raised as a key conflict of interest.
Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff also worked at the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative while she served at the State Department.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/30/exclusive-state-department-wont-release-clinton-foundation-emails-for-27-months/#ixzz4D6WOEjc5
IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD TIMING IS
I think the word is "arrogant" not foolish. The Clinton's have been getting away with so much these days that thumbing their nose at their opponents is too much to resist.
Given the pickle that Hillary is in; bogged down in multiple investigations and what not, it's understandable that Bill would be touching bases with people in the inner circle just in case the sh*t was getting ready to hit the fan.
One way to clear the air about these behind the scenes chats with the AG is to ask her about them "under oath." Time for another hearing folks.
Given the pickle that Hillary is in; bogged down in multiple investigations and what not, it's understandable that Bill would be touching bases with people in the inner circle just in case the sh*t was getting ready to hit the fan.
One way to clear the air about these behind the scenes chats with the AG is to ask her about them "under oath." Time for another hearing folks.
IF NOT HILLARY THEN WHO'S IN CHARGE OF US EMBASSIES?
Excuse me but the last time I checked the SOS (Hillary) is the person in charge of US embassies and, subsequently what happens there on their watch.
One of Hillary's weaknesses is that she goes out of her way to avoid taking responsibility (a lousy character trait for a Commander and Chief.)
Bottom line, there were deaths in Benghazi as a result of poor security and lousy communication on Hillary's watch. The buck stops there.
One of Hillary's weaknesses is that she goes out of her way to avoid taking responsibility (a lousy character trait for a Commander and Chief.)
Bottom line, there were deaths in Benghazi as a result of poor security and lousy communication on Hillary's watch. The buck stops there.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
BENGHAZI; NOT SO FAST HILLARY
Hillary was not exonerated but the blame for incompetent handling of the Benghazi debacle was spread around so that she wouldn't look as bad.
Hillary says, It was all their fault, so let's put it behind us,
A section of the report obtained by POLITICO says the so-called Accountability Review Board did not act independently, as it was supposed to do, and was consistently influenced by Mills. Mills, the report says, helped select members of the panel, gave at least one other State Department official permission to talk to the reviewers, oversaw the production of some documents reviewed by the board and helped edit the final report.
“The decisions to deviate from longstanding processes raise questions about the board’s independence, thoroughness and therefore the fullness of their findings of accountability,” the report reads.
Report: Mills’ influence tainted review board - POLITICO
Hillary says, It was all their fault, so let's put it behind us,
A section of the report obtained by POLITICO says the so-called Accountability Review Board did not act independently, as it was supposed to do, and was consistently influenced by Mills. Mills, the report says, helped select members of the panel, gave at least one other State Department official permission to talk to the reviewers, oversaw the production of some documents reviewed by the board and helped edit the final report.
“The decisions to deviate from longstanding processes raise questions about the board’s independence, thoroughness and therefore the fullness of their findings of accountability,” the report reads.
Report: Mills’ influence tainted review board - POLITICO
WOULD THE AG ANSWER THIS QUESTION UNDER OATH?
Looks like the AG can't stop bumping into the Clintons.
When asked what her and Bill talked about Lynch stated this little fireside chat was all about grand kids and golf; no Benghazi or email servers.
Of course not. (ya! right!)
Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton meet in Phoenix - YouTube
When asked what her and Bill talked about Lynch stated this little fireside chat was all about grand kids and golf; no Benghazi or email servers.
Of course not. (ya! right!)
Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton meet in Phoenix - YouTube
MAJORITY OF AMERICANS STILL USE THE "G" WORD
Appears that "pot heads" like Bill Maher are still in that tiny minority who like to think they are the center of the Universe. That's what pot does to you.
As for the rest, they still are hanging on to the idea that there must be something (or someone) out there bigger and wiser than we are.
Given the state of the world today let's hope they're right.
Most Americans Still Believe in God
As for the rest, they still are hanging on to the idea that there must be something (or someone) out there bigger and wiser than we are.
Given the state of the world today let's hope they're right.
Most Americans Still Believe in God
WARREN AND CLINTON? VINEGAR AND OIL
It makes one cringe seeing Hillary on stage with Warren knowing that their philosophy and sense of morals are complete opposites when it comes to politics.
It's painfully obvious that Warren is paying her dues to the Establishment by making these appearences with Hillary who desperately needs to ride on Warren's coat tails if she hopes to get the Bernie folks to sign on.
But then, there's always the possibility that Hillary will step down at the Convention and hand the baton to Warren?
Warren Campaigns With Clinton In Cincinnati -- But It's Likely Not A Signal She's Joining The Ticket | Politicker
It's painfully obvious that Warren is paying her dues to the Establishment by making these appearences with Hillary who desperately needs to ride on Warren's coat tails if she hopes to get the Bernie folks to sign on.
But then, there's always the possibility that Hillary will step down at the Convention and hand the baton to Warren?
Warren Campaigns With Clinton In Cincinnati -- But It's Likely Not A Signal She's Joining The Ticket | Politicker
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
HERE SHE GOES AGAIN! PANDERING TO ------
A select group rather than the whole group.
It's not just "entrepreneurs" that need a break on student loan debt.
College; 21st century equivalent to 20th century High School should be free to all Americans.
It's not just "entrepreneurs" that need a break on student loan debt.
College; 21st century equivalent to 20th century High School should be free to all Americans.
Monday, June 27, 2016
HILLARY PLAYING "CATCH ME IF YOU CAN" FOR YEARS
MORE CLINTON EMAILS RELEASED, INCLUDING SOME SHE DELETED
As part of the probe, Clinton turned over the hard drive from her email server to the FBI. It had been wiped clean, and Clinton has said she did not keep copies of the emails she choose to withhold.
In a report released Monday by Democrats on the House select panel probing the 2012 attacks on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, Republican congressional investigators asked questions about Clinton's use of the private email server in interviews with her close aides.
Abedin told interviewers that she was aware of Clinton's heavy use of private emails from the start and that Clinton continued a practice that she had developed as a U.S. senator for New York and as a 2008 presidential candidate. "It was a natural progression from what she was doing previously, and she continued to do so."
Asked repeatedly who serviced Clinton's private server in the basement of her New York home, Abedin identified Justin Cooper, a technology staffer at that time for former President Bill Clinton, and Bryan Pagliano, a State Department technology official who is cooperating with an FBI investigation of Clinton's private server under an immunity deal with prosecutors. Abedin was hazy about Pagliano's role at the agency and his private work overseeing Clinton's server in New York.
Pagliano, who previously worked for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination and declined to answer the committee's questions. In a sworn deposition last week, Pagliano also refused to answer questions posed by lawyers from Judicial Watch, including who paid for the system and who else at the State Department used email accounts on it. Pagliano also would not answer whether he discussed setting up a home server with Clinton prior to her tenure as secretary of state, according to a transcript.
Other State Department officials told congressional investigators that Clinton never responded to internal offers to set her up with an official State account and an agency computer. Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Clinton did "not know how to use a computer to do email. So it was never set up."
News from The Associated Press
As part of the probe, Clinton turned over the hard drive from her email server to the FBI. It had been wiped clean, and Clinton has said she did not keep copies of the emails she choose to withhold.
In a report released Monday by Democrats on the House select panel probing the 2012 attacks on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, Republican congressional investigators asked questions about Clinton's use of the private email server in interviews with her close aides.
Abedin told interviewers that she was aware of Clinton's heavy use of private emails from the start and that Clinton continued a practice that she had developed as a U.S. senator for New York and as a 2008 presidential candidate. "It was a natural progression from what she was doing previously, and she continued to do so."
Asked repeatedly who serviced Clinton's private server in the basement of her New York home, Abedin identified Justin Cooper, a technology staffer at that time for former President Bill Clinton, and Bryan Pagliano, a State Department technology official who is cooperating with an FBI investigation of Clinton's private server under an immunity deal with prosecutors. Abedin was hazy about Pagliano's role at the agency and his private work overseeing Clinton's server in New York.
Pagliano, who previously worked for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination and declined to answer the committee's questions. In a sworn deposition last week, Pagliano also refused to answer questions posed by lawyers from Judicial Watch, including who paid for the system and who else at the State Department used email accounts on it. Pagliano also would not answer whether he discussed setting up a home server with Clinton prior to her tenure as secretary of state, according to a transcript.
Other State Department officials told congressional investigators that Clinton never responded to internal offers to set her up with an official State account and an agency computer. Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Clinton did "not know how to use a computer to do email. So it was never set up."
News from The Associated Press
GUNS AND FAMILIES DON'T MIX WELL
A Texas mother fatally shot her two daughters at their Katy home before she was shot dead by a responding police officer, authorities say.
Christy Sheats, 42, killed Taylor Sheats, 22, and Madison Sheats, 17, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office says.
She was shot once by a Fulshear Police officer after she refused to drop her gun, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said. The responding officer saw her shoot one of her daughters in the street, the sheriff’s office said in a press release.
Jason Sheats, the girls’ father and Christy Sheats’ husband, was at the home at the time of the shooting, but was not injured. Police said he was hospitalized because of his emotional state after the incident.
Katy is located near Houston. The shooting happened about 5 p.m. Friday in the 6000 block of Remson Hollow. Sheats and her daughters were identified by police on Saturday.
Here’s what you need to know:
Christy Sheats: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
Christy Sheats, 42, killed Taylor Sheats, 22, and Madison Sheats, 17, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office says.
She was shot once by a Fulshear Police officer after she refused to drop her gun, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said. The responding officer saw her shoot one of her daughters in the street, the sheriff’s office said in a press release.
Jason Sheats, the girls’ father and Christy Sheats’ husband, was at the home at the time of the shooting, but was not injured. Police said he was hospitalized because of his emotional state after the incident.
Katy is located near Houston. The shooting happened about 5 p.m. Friday in the 6000 block of Remson Hollow. Sheats and her daughters were identified by police on Saturday.
Here’s what you need to know:
Christy Sheats: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com
HILLARY'S OBSCENE $100,000.00 PLAY-FOR-PAY HAMILTON TICKETS
$100,000.00 Hamilton tickets? Obscene!
Hillary once again sends the message that she is not a candidate of the "people" but rather of people that represent 1% of the population who can afford to spend what an average American family would take 5 to 10 years to earn on one ticket to a Broadway play. (The Average American Household’s Income).
Here's an idea! Why doesn't Hillary buy Hamilton tickets for the "people" that can't afford them? The people who's votes she will need to win this election.
The Hillary Clinton campaign has partnered with the hit Broadway musical for a matinee performance — Hamilton: An American Musical with special guest Hillary Rodham Clinton
General seats start at $2,700, and go as high as $100,000 — a special package that includes two premium seats, a party with Clinton and guests after the show, and an invitation to the Democratic National Convention.
Other tickets run $5,000, $10,000, and $33,400 for the July 12 performance at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-clinton-campaign-hamilton-224804#ixzz4Cp8tRGdy
Hillary once again sends the message that she is not a candidate of the "people" but rather of people that represent 1% of the population who can afford to spend what an average American family would take 5 to 10 years to earn on one ticket to a Broadway play. (The Average American Household’s Income).
Here's an idea! Why doesn't Hillary buy Hamilton tickets for the "people" that can't afford them? The people who's votes she will need to win this election.
The Hillary Clinton campaign has partnered with the hit Broadway musical for a matinee performance — Hamilton: An American Musical with special guest Hillary Rodham Clinton
General seats start at $2,700, and go as high as $100,000 — a special package that includes two premium seats, a party with Clinton and guests after the show, and an invitation to the Democratic National Convention.
Other tickets run $5,000, $10,000, and $33,400 for the July 12 performance at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-clinton-campaign-hamilton-224804#ixzz4Cp8tRGdy
Sunday, June 26, 2016
BERNIE WILL VOTE FOR HILLARY BUT NOT ENDORSE HER
People have been making a lot of hay about Bernie saying he would vote for Hillary in order to defeat Trump.
What Bernie did not say is that he would "endorse" Hillary.
Many Bernie supporters will not vote for Hillary and some are frankly undecided about Trump.
Putting aside all the bluster he projects, Trump is still an “outsider” and, as Bernie, anti-Establishment.
Hillary is a sold, bought and paid for Establishment candidate which in my book is much more dangerous than Trump.
What many people tend to lose sight of is that the office of POTUS is not all that powerful of a position given the state of the nation and all the elbow grease Obama put into the job.
In case no one noticed; the banks that destroyed us in 2008 went scott free under Obama.
Healthcare is still being orchestrated by the Insurance Industry and all Obama was actually able to influence was the number of people included in a system that is still profit driven.
The wars have not ended under Obama and, in fact, the US is involved in as many, if not more than when Obama took office.
Under Obama, privatization of the prison system has exploded. Private armies of ”military contractors” continue to proliferate.
The defense budget is as big as ever and the infrastructure and social programs remain anemic.
Worse still is that Obama has fallen into the spider web of the rich and wealthy and, in order to survive and protect what legacy he can muster, he is pandering like the best of them by giving his blessing to Hillary and pulling the strings to ensure that she doesn’t drown in the mountain of corruption she is dragging around.
Trump donning the POTUS crown might actually be a plus because it would force the Establishment to do something other than protect the status quo.
What Bernie did not say is that he would "endorse" Hillary.
Many Bernie supporters will not vote for Hillary and some are frankly undecided about Trump.
Putting aside all the bluster he projects, Trump is still an “outsider” and, as Bernie, anti-Establishment.
Hillary is a sold, bought and paid for Establishment candidate which in my book is much more dangerous than Trump.
What many people tend to lose sight of is that the office of POTUS is not all that powerful of a position given the state of the nation and all the elbow grease Obama put into the job.
In case no one noticed; the banks that destroyed us in 2008 went scott free under Obama.
Healthcare is still being orchestrated by the Insurance Industry and all Obama was actually able to influence was the number of people included in a system that is still profit driven.
The wars have not ended under Obama and, in fact, the US is involved in as many, if not more than when Obama took office.
Under Obama, privatization of the prison system has exploded. Private armies of ”military contractors” continue to proliferate.
The defense budget is as big as ever and the infrastructure and social programs remain anemic.
Worse still is that Obama has fallen into the spider web of the rich and wealthy and, in order to survive and protect what legacy he can muster, he is pandering like the best of them by giving his blessing to Hillary and pulling the strings to ensure that she doesn’t drown in the mountain of corruption she is dragging around.
Trump donning the POTUS crown might actually be a plus because it would force the Establishment to do something other than protect the status quo.
A NOT SO DEMOCRATIC PARTY; BUT A SHADOWY PLUTOCRACY
The rhetoric remains the same but what happens on stage vs what's going on behind the scenes is entirely different from the narrative.
Bernie Sanders called it and paid the price.
The book is about how the Democratic Party turned its back on working people and now pursues policies that actually increase inequality. What are the policies or ideological commitments in the Democratic Party that make you think this?
The first piece of evidence is what’s happened since the financial crisis. This is the great story of our time. Inequality has actually gotten worse since then, which is a remarkable thing. This is under a Democratic president who we were assured (or warned) was the most liberal or radical president we would ever see. Yet inequality has gotten worse, and the gains since the financial crisis, since the recovery began, have gone entirely to the top 10 percent of the income distribution.'>>>
Bernie Sanders called it and paid the price.
Democrats have gone from the party of the New Deal to a party that is defending mass inequality.
'THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAS ONCE THE PARTY OF THE NEW DEAL and the ally of organized labor. But by the time of Bill Clinton's presidency, it had become the enemy of New Deal programs like welfare and Social Security and the champion of free trade deals. What explains this apparent reversal? Thomas Frank—best known for his analysis of the Republican Party base in What's the Matter with Kansas?—attempts to answer this question in his latest book, Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
According to Frank, popular explanations which blame corporate lobby groups and the growing power of money in politics are insufficient. Frank instead points to a decision by Democratic Party elites in the 1970s to marginalize labor unions and transform from the party of the working class to the party of the professional class. In so doing, the Democratic Party radically changed the way it understood social problems and how to solve them, trading in the principle of solidarity for the principle of competitive individualism and meritocracy. The end result is that the party which created the New Deal and helped create the middle class has now become “the party of mass inequality.” In These Times spoke with Frank recently about the book via telephone. The book is about how the Democratic Party turned its back on working people and now pursues policies that actually increase inequality. What are the policies or ideological commitments in the Democratic Party that make you think this?
The first piece of evidence is what’s happened since the financial crisis. This is the great story of our time. Inequality has actually gotten worse since then, which is a remarkable thing. This is under a Democratic president who we were assured (or warned) was the most liberal or radical president we would ever see. Yet inequality has gotten worse, and the gains since the financial crisis, since the recovery began, have gone entirely to the top 10 percent of the income distribution.'>>>
CLINTON'S STATE DEPT. CALENDAR MISSING SCORES OF ENTRIES
Secret Speeches, Private email servers, and now a meeting calendar with more holes (deleted entries) than swiss cheese.
What is Hillary hiding. Why is she determined to withhold information about her activities from the public?
It's no wonder conspiracy theorists have a field day with this lady.
What should be of greater concern to those who support Hillary is that they are supporting someone who is obviously not comfortable with being transparent and there's probably a lot about Hillary that is unknown.
Can Hillary be trusted with the keys to the White House?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Associated Press review of the official calendar Hillary Clinton kept as secretary of state identified at least 75 meetings with longtime political donors, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests that were not recorded or omitted the names of those she met.
The fuller details of those meetings were included in files the State Department turned over to the AP after it sued the government in federal court.
The missing entries raise new questions about how Clinton and her inner circle handled government records documenting her State Department tenure - in this case, why the official chronology of her four-year term does not closely mirror the other, more detailed records of her daily meetings.
At a time when Clinton's private email system is under scrutiny by an FBI criminal investigation, the calendar omissions reinforce concerns that she sought to eliminate the "risk of the personal being accessible" - as she wrote in an email exchange that she failed to turn over to the government but was subsequently uncovered in a top aide's inbox.
The AP found the omissions by comparing the 1,500-page calendar with separate planning schedules supplied to Clinton by aides in advance of each day's events. The names of at least 114 outsiders who met with Clinton were missing from her calendar, the records show.
No known federal laws were violated and some omissions could be blamed on Clinton's highly fluid schedule, which sometimes forced late cancellations. But only seven meetings in Clinton's planning schedules were replaced by substitute events on her official calendar. More than 60 other events listed in Clinton's planners were omitted entirely in her calendar, tersely noted or described only as "private meetings" - all without naming those who met with her.
READ MORE; News from The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Associated Press review of the official calendar Hillary Clinton kept as secretary of state identified at least 75 meetings with longtime political donors, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests that were not recorded or omitted the names of those she met.
The fuller details of those meetings were included in files the State Department turned over to the AP after it sued the government in federal court.
The missing entries raise new questions about how Clinton and her inner circle handled government records documenting her State Department tenure - in this case, why the official chronology of her four-year term does not closely mirror the other, more detailed records of her daily meetings.
At a time when Clinton's private email system is under scrutiny by an FBI criminal investigation, the calendar omissions reinforce concerns that she sought to eliminate the "risk of the personal being accessible" - as she wrote in an email exchange that she failed to turn over to the government but was subsequently uncovered in a top aide's inbox.
The AP found the omissions by comparing the 1,500-page calendar with separate planning schedules supplied to Clinton by aides in advance of each day's events. The names of at least 114 outsiders who met with Clinton were missing from her calendar, the records show.
No known federal laws were violated and some omissions could be blamed on Clinton's highly fluid schedule, which sometimes forced late cancellations. But only seven meetings in Clinton's planning schedules were replaced by substitute events on her official calendar. More than 60 other events listed in Clinton's planners were omitted entirely in her calendar, tersely noted or described only as "private meetings" - all without naming those who met with her.
READ MORE; News from The Associated Press
SHOULD NRA SPONSOR PARENTING CLASSES?
Police say a Houston-area woman fatally shot her two daughters before officers shot and killed her.
The incident happened about 5 p.m. Friday in front of a home just outside the Houston suburb of Fulshear. The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office identified the mother as 42-year-old Christy Sheats and her daughters as 22-year-old Taylor Sheats and 17-year-old Madison Sheats.
Sheriff Troy Nehls says the shooting apparently climaxed a family argument, but the reason for the argument remains unclear.
Nehls says the two younger women had already been shot when a Fulshear police officer arrived and saw the mother with a gun in her hand, apparently preparing to shoot one of her daughters again. The officer shot and killed the woman.
Texas mom killed by police after shooting dead her two daughters
The incident happened about 5 p.m. Friday in front of a home just outside the Houston suburb of Fulshear. The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office identified the mother as 42-year-old Christy Sheats and her daughters as 22-year-old Taylor Sheats and 17-year-old Madison Sheats.
Sheriff Troy Nehls says the shooting apparently climaxed a family argument, but the reason for the argument remains unclear.
Nehls says the two younger women had already been shot when a Fulshear police officer arrived and saw the mother with a gun in her hand, apparently preparing to shoot one of her daughters again. The officer shot and killed the woman.
Texas mom killed by police after shooting dead her two daughters
Saturday, June 25, 2016
WHO NOT TO VOTE FOR; FOLLOW THE MONEY
One way of knowing who the person you are voting for is representing you is to look at who they are getting money from.
Bernie Sanders, for example was getting almost all of his campaign money from the people that were voting for him; in his case it was actually the "people" with the average contribution being around $27.00
One look at Hillary's campaign coffers tell another story.
Hillary is not shy about taking cash from big money donors and has no problem playing the "pay for play" game the wealthy power brokers get richer playing.
Then, there's Trump; a self proclaimed billionaire who has the political Establishment's panties in a twist because he has been able to literally destroy a carload of clowns that were backed by millions of dollars from the people they whored themselves out to.
Surprisingly Trump has been able to survive this far without near as much cash as Hillary which the main stream media is playing up as a "bad" rather than "good" thing.
It's amazing that both the media and political Establishment are still so tone deaf that they haven't figured out that voters don't look positively at candidates with bags of cash from rich donors in their coffers.
Many voters are awake and realize that candidates who take money from big money donors pander to them in return and it's necessarily not in the voters best interest.
The 2008 Wall Street meltdown is a prime example of what happens when politicians are beholden to big money donors.
Given Trump’s less-than-stellar performance as a fundraiser so far, might he think about taking public funding for the general election portion of the campaign? It’s an odd prospect, given Trump’s oft-touted wealth — even if he’s not quite as rich as he claims to be.
But there is a $96.1 million grant waiting for him should he say the word.
“People shortchange that program,” said campaign finance attorney Trevor Potter, who was the lawyer for McCain’s campaign in 2008; McCain was the last general election candidate to accept public funds.
Bernie Sanders, for example was getting almost all of his campaign money from the people that were voting for him; in his case it was actually the "people" with the average contribution being around $27.00
One look at Hillary's campaign coffers tell another story.
Hillary is not shy about taking cash from big money donors and has no problem playing the "pay for play" game the wealthy power brokers get richer playing.
Then, there's Trump; a self proclaimed billionaire who has the political Establishment's panties in a twist because he has been able to literally destroy a carload of clowns that were backed by millions of dollars from the people they whored themselves out to.
Surprisingly Trump has been able to survive this far without near as much cash as Hillary which the main stream media is playing up as a "bad" rather than "good" thing.
It's amazing that both the media and political Establishment are still so tone deaf that they haven't figured out that voters don't look positively at candidates with bags of cash from rich donors in their coffers.
Many voters are awake and realize that candidates who take money from big money donors pander to them in return and it's necessarily not in the voters best interest.
The 2008 Wall Street meltdown is a prime example of what happens when politicians are beholden to big money donors.
Given Trump’s less-than-stellar performance as a fundraiser so far, might he think about taking public funding for the general election portion of the campaign? It’s an odd prospect, given Trump’s oft-touted wealth — even if he’s not quite as rich as he claims to be.
But there is a $96.1 million grant waiting for him should he say the word.
“People shortchange that program,” said campaign finance attorney Trevor Potter, who was the lawyer for McCain’s campaign in 2008; McCain was the last general election candidate to accept public funds.
HILLARY'S BAGGAGE CHECK LIST
The list continues to grow and there's much that needs to still be unpacked but here is a partial list of what is still being uncovered as the slow and cumbersome process continues;
The Clinton Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last month, the New York Post reports. Charity Navigator, which rates nonprofits, refused to rate the Clinton Foundation because its “atypical business model . . . doesn’t meet our criteria.” Instead, it placed the Foundation on its “watch list,” which warns potential donors about investing in problematic charities.
Before there was George, there was Sid. George Stephanopoulos is, of course, the ABC news anchor whose $75,000 in donations to the Clinton foundation have reminded the world of his longtime ties to Bill Clinton, for whom he worked from 1991 to 1997.
Newly released State Department emails show a major Clinton Foundation donor landed on a government intelligence advisory board despite the fact that he had no experience in the field. After years of litigation, ABC News was finally able to obtain documents through the Freedom of Information Act that show Clinton’s aides allegedly tried to “protect the name” of the individual when ABC News inquired about his identity. Other emails indicate that they tried to “stall” the reporter and then accept the board member’s resignation days later. The donor, Rajiv K. Fernando, a Chicago financial-securities trader, sat with former Cabinet secretaries, members of Congress, and nuclear scientists who were all advising the now-Democratic presidential nominee on the use of weapons. The decision to place him in the position reportedly confused the department’s staff. A board member told the news site: “We had no idea who he was.”
Since her use of a private email server was made public last year, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has insisted she turned over all work-related emails to the State Department to be released to the public. But after 14 months of public scrutiny and the release of tens of thousands of emails, an agency watchdog’s discovery of at least three previously undisclosed emails has renewed concerns that Clinton was not completely forthcoming when she turned over a trove of 55,000 pages of emails. And the revelation has spawned fresh criticism from presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.The three messages include Clinton’s own explanation of why she wanted her emails kept private: In a November 2010 email, Clinton worried that her personal messages could become accessible to outsiders. The messages appear to have been found among electronic files of four former top Clinton State Department aides.
As Clinton tries to talk tough about how she will stand up to America's biggest banks, her Democratic rivals are likely to remind voters just how cozy she's been with Wall Street. Clinton made $3.15 million in 2013 alone from speaking to firms like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and UBS, according to the list her campaign released of her speaking fees. "Her closeness with big banks on Wall Street is sincere, it's heart-felt, long-established and well known," former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has said on the campaign trail. While Clinton has given paid speeches to many groups, Wall Street banks and investment houses made up a third of her speech income.She even made more money speaking to UBS and Goldman Sachs than her husband Bill did. Goldman Sachs in New York paid Bill $200,000 for a speech in June 2013 and Hillary $225,000 for a speech in October of that year.
Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined to earn more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until Hillary Clinton launched her presidential campaign last spring, a CNN analysis shows.In total, the two gave 729 speeches from February 2001 until May, receiving an average payday of $210,795 for each address. The two also reported at least $7.7 million for at least 39 speeches to big banks, including Goldman Sachs and UBS, with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic 2016 front-runner, collecting at least $1.8 million for at least eight speeches to big banks.
The analysis was made at a time when Hillary Clinton has been under scrutiny for her ties to Wall Street, which has been a major focus of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail.
"What being part of the establishment is, is in the last quarter, having a super PAC that raised $15 million from Wall Street, that throughout one's life raised a whole lot of money from the drug companies and other special interests," Sanders said at Thursday's Democratic debate hosted by MSNBC.
In case you missed it over the weekend, Hillary Clinton gave a speech attacking hedge fund managers. "While many of you are working multiple jobs to make ends meet, you see the top 25 hedge fund managers making more than all of America’s kindergarten teachers combined. And, often paying a lower tax rate," she said during the official launch of her 2016 presidential campaign. There's just one problem. Chelsea Clinton, Hillary Clinton's daughter, is married to Marc Mezvinsky. Mezvinsky is not just a hedge fund manager, but a co-founder of a hedge fund. And how did he get a number of his big money investors? Through his ties to the Clintons. From the New York Times:
The Clinton Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last month, the New York Post reports. Charity Navigator, which rates nonprofits, refused to rate the Clinton Foundation because its “atypical business model . . . doesn’t meet our criteria.” Instead, it placed the Foundation on its “watch list,” which warns potential donors about investing in problematic charities.
A private email server used by Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state has been the focus of a half-dozen inquiries and legal proceedings, including a report released Wednesday by the State Department’s inspector general and a continuing F.B.I. investigation into whether she or others mishandled classified information.
The analysis was made at a time when Hillary Clinton has been under scrutiny for her ties to Wall Street, which has been a major focus of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail.
"What being part of the establishment is, is in the last quarter, having a super PAC that raised $15 million from Wall Street, that throughout one's life raised a whole lot of money from the drug companies and other special interests," Sanders said at Thursday's Democratic debate hosted by MSNBC.
Committee documents leaked by a hacker Tuesday reveal that Hillary Clinton’s requirements to give a speech included a private flight and a luxurious presidential hotel suite. One of the documents leaked is a form filled out by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation for the Harry Walker Agency. The Harry Walker Agency is a speaker’s bureau, which represented Hillary Clinton. On top of the $225,000 fee for her 20 minute speech, the agency gave the UNLV Foundation “standard travel expenses” for Clinton.
In a new book, a former Secret Service uniformed officer accuses Bill and Hillary Clinton of acting as if they had a “magic royal pot” of taxpayer money at their disposal while living in the White House.That’s according to an excerpt obtained by The Daily Caller of Gary Byrne’s soon-to-be released “Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate.”“The Clintons believed that a magic royal pot of money somehow existed for their every whim,” Byrne writes, claiming he overheard shouted conversations about the costs of official events while stationed at the White House.“Party rental companies refused future events until they were paid,” Byrne writes. “The discussions were plain embarrassing, but when I heard them I wasn’t eavesdropping. They were shouted in the hallway.”
REMINDER; NEW YORK —Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton has joined Avenue Capital Group, a $12 billion hedge fund manager whose founder has contributed to many Democratic Party campaigns, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. Clinton, 26, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has taken a post at the New York-based fund manager in an undisclosed capacity, the source said.Clinton, who graduated from Stanford University in 2001 and studied philosophy at Oxford University, most recently worked at consultants McKinsey & Co. from 2003.Avenue which focuses on distressed securities investing was co-founded by Marc Lasry. Morgan Stanley this week bought a minority stake in Avenue.Well-known in hedge fund circles, Lasry has contributed to political campaigns for Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Bill Bradley, John Kerry and other Democrats in recent years, federal election records show. However, Lasry has also contributed lesser amounts to campaigns for President Bush, the records show.Chelsea Clinton couldn’t be reached for comment. A spokeswoman for Avenue said the company “does not comment on issues of company personnel.”
OOOPS! HILLARY WRONG ON BREXIT!
Looks like both Obama and Clinton (the Establishment) are on the wrong side of history in backing the Brexit-Stay movement.
It's no surprise that they would be backing the "money" but it should not surprise anyone that the voters have a very different view of the world.
2016 is not the year politicians should be protecting the 1% because there are a large number of angry 99% percenters who are no longer willing to roll over as they did in 2008 by going along with Obama's "too big to fail" tax payer bailout of the banks.
The Brexit win was a win for the people just as backing an "outsider" for president will ultimately win out over maintaining the status quo (the rich get richer while the middle class gets poorer).
The Democrats had the opportunity to redeem themselves with Bernie Sanders and they blew it and will now suffer the consequences.
It's no surprise that they would be backing the "money" but it should not surprise anyone that the voters have a very different view of the world.
2016 is not the year politicians should be protecting the 1% because there are a large number of angry 99% percenters who are no longer willing to roll over as they did in 2008 by going along with Obama's "too big to fail" tax payer bailout of the banks.
The Brexit win was a win for the people just as backing an "outsider" for president will ultimately win out over maintaining the status quo (the rich get richer while the middle class gets poorer).
The Democrats had the opportunity to redeem themselves with Bernie Sanders and they blew it and will now suffer the consequences.
Friday, June 24, 2016
BERNIE DOES NOT ENDORSE HILLARY
MEH-NDORSEMENT: BERNIE SANDERS says he will vote for HILLARY CLINTON in November.
That's the furthest he's gone so far and the clearest sign yet that he will back the Democratic ticket in November. But: Is that an endorsement? Er, not quite, Sanders said.
In an interview with MSNBC Sanders answered "yes," when asked if he would vote for Clinton. But in other interviews, Sanders made clear he wasn't endorsing her because, as he told CBS,"I haven't heard her say the things I think need to be said." Sanders also said he will continue to campaign until the Democratic convention.
And so it goes. http://goo.gl/bwZMHl
HILLARY'S EMAILS; WHERE THERE'S SMOKE THERE'S FIRE
Comparing Clinton’s official calendar with separate planning schedules given to Clinton by her aides each day, the AP found that at least 114 “outsiders” met with Clinton but were not documented on her calendar. They also identified “at least 75 meetings with longtime political donors and loyalists, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests” missing from her calendar, as well as the names of and meetings with “influential Wall Street and business leaders.”
The AP has been seeking Clinton’s calendar and schedules from the State Department since August 2013. In March 2015, after “nearly two years of delay,” the AP sued the agency in order to obtain the records. The outlet reported that it is continuing to press for “all of Clinton’s planning material” and that the government has released “about one-third of those planners” so far.
The discrepancies between Clinton’s schedules come as the former secretary of state faces scrutiny for her use of a private email server to conduct official business during her time at the State Department.
Nick Merrill, spokesman for the Clinton campaign, told the AP that the discrepancies “simply reflect a more detailed version in one version as compared to another, all maintained by her staff.”
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rang the New York Stock opening bell Sept. 21, 2009, just minutes after she attended a private breakfast with influential Wall Street and business leaders.
But the identities of her breakfast guests would be left off of her official State Department calendar, omissions that are among scores of names and events missing from Clinton’s historical record of her daily activities as secretary of state, an Associated Press review found.
READ MORE; News from The Associated Press
The AP has been seeking Clinton’s calendar and schedules from the State Department since August 2013. In March 2015, after “nearly two years of delay,” the AP sued the agency in order to obtain the records. The outlet reported that it is continuing to press for “all of Clinton’s planning material” and that the government has released “about one-third of those planners” so far.
The discrepancies between Clinton’s schedules come as the former secretary of state faces scrutiny for her use of a private email server to conduct official business during her time at the State Department.
Nick Merrill, spokesman for the Clinton campaign, told the AP that the discrepancies “simply reflect a more detailed version in one version as compared to another, all maintained by her staff.”
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rang the New York Stock opening bell Sept. 21, 2009, just minutes after she attended a private breakfast with influential Wall Street and business leaders.
But the identities of her breakfast guests would be left off of her official State Department calendar, omissions that are among scores of names and events missing from Clinton’s historical record of her daily activities as secretary of state, an Associated Press review found.
READ MORE; News from The Associated Press
BREXIT HITS THE 1% WHERE IT HURTS; THE WALLET
As expected, the Establishment on both sides of the Pond is crying the blues about how this is bad for the "economy" blah, blah, blah.
But, what economy are they talking about? Is it the economy in which 1% of the population is hoarding around 49% of the collective wealth?
It can't be about the other 99% of the population because, for them, the economy has already been wrecked and there's very little left to hit them with.
Sen. Bernie Sanders was on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and said he saw it as an indication of income inequality. “What I think this vote is about is an indication that the global economy is not working for everybody,” he said. “You know, it’s not working in the United States for everybody, and it’s not working in the U.K. for everybody.”Consumer debt is at an all time high Consumer Debt Hits Record High — and That’s a Good Thing?
Balance Due: Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic
U.S. credit-card balances are on track to hit $1 trillion this year, as banks aggressively push their plastic and consumers grow more comfortable carrying debt.
That sum would come close to the all-time peak of $1.02 trillion set in July 2008, just before the financial crisis intensified, and could signal an easing of frugal habits ingrained by the recession.
The boom has been driven by steady economic conditions and an improving job market that have made creditworthy consumers less reluctant to take on debt. In addition, lenders have signed up millions of subprime consumers who previously weren’t able to get credit.
Consumers are taking on other forms of debt, too. Auto-loan balances surpassed $1 trillion in the first quarter, a record for the industry, according to a report Thursday from credit bureau Experian.
Obama, Hillary, Ryan react to United Kingdom’s stunning exit from the EU - Salon.com
The United Kingdom’s “Brexit” vote may cause short-term economic pain and present long-term geopolitical risks, but it is a splash of ice water in the face of the West’s Establishment, which has grown more and more insular, elitist and unaccountable over recent decades.
The West’s powers-that-be, in both the United States and the European Union, too often display contempt for real democracy, maintaining only the façade of respecting the popular will, manipulating voters at election time with red-meat politics and empty promises – before getting back to the business of comforting the comfortable and letting the comfortable afflict the afflicted.
That has been the grim and tiresome reality with America’s two parties and with the E.U.’s bureaucrats. The average American and the average European have every reason to see themselves as a lesser concern to the politicians and the pundits than the special interests which pay the money and call the tune.
In the stunning “Brexit” vote – with 52 percent wanting to abandon the 28-nation European Union – U.K. voters rejected the West’s politics-as-usual despite dire warnings about the downsides of leaving. They voted, in effect, to assert their own nationalistic needs and aspirations over a commitment to continental unity and its more universal goals.
But, in the vote, there was also a recognition that the West’s Establishment has grown corrupt and arrogant, routinely imposing on the people “experts” who claim to be neutral technocrats or objective scholars but whose pockets are lined with fat pay checks from “prestigious” think tanks funded by the Military-Industrial Complex or by lucrative revolving-door trips to investment banks on Wall Street or The City.
Despite the Establishment’s self-image as a “meritocracy,” its corrupted experts and haughty bureaucrats don’t even demonstrate basic competence anymore. They have led Europe and the United States into catastrophe after catastrophe, both economically and geopolitically. And, there is another troubling feature of this Establishment: its lack of accountability.
In the United States, the rewards and punishments have been turned upside-down, with the benighted politicians and pundits who pushed for the Iraq War in 2003 still dominating the government and the media, from Hillary Clinton’s impending Democratic presidential nomination to the editorial pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post.
It can't be about the other 99% of the population because, for them, the economy has already been wrecked and there's very little left to hit them with.
Sen. Bernie Sanders was on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and said he saw it as an indication of income inequality. “What I think this vote is about is an indication that the global economy is not working for everybody,” he said. “You know, it’s not working in the United States for everybody, and it’s not working in the U.K. for everybody.”Consumer debt is at an all time high Consumer Debt Hits Record High — and That’s a Good Thing?
Balance Due: Credit-Card Debt Nears $1 Trillion as Banks Push Plastic
U.S. credit-card balances are on track to hit $1 trillion this year, as banks aggressively push their plastic and consumers grow more comfortable carrying debt.
That sum would come close to the all-time peak of $1.02 trillion set in July 2008, just before the financial crisis intensified, and could signal an easing of frugal habits ingrained by the recession.
The boom has been driven by steady economic conditions and an improving job market that have made creditworthy consumers less reluctant to take on debt. In addition, lenders have signed up millions of subprime consumers who previously weren’t able to get credit.
Consumers are taking on other forms of debt, too. Auto-loan balances surpassed $1 trillion in the first quarter, a record for the industry, according to a report Thursday from credit bureau Experian.
Obama, Hillary, Ryan react to United Kingdom’s stunning exit from the EU - Salon.com
The United Kingdom’s “Brexit” vote may cause short-term economic pain and present long-term geopolitical risks, but it is a splash of ice water in the face of the West’s Establishment, which has grown more and more insular, elitist and unaccountable over recent decades.
The West’s powers-that-be, in both the United States and the European Union, too often display contempt for real democracy, maintaining only the façade of respecting the popular will, manipulating voters at election time with red-meat politics and empty promises – before getting back to the business of comforting the comfortable and letting the comfortable afflict the afflicted.
That has been the grim and tiresome reality with America’s two parties and with the E.U.’s bureaucrats. The average American and the average European have every reason to see themselves as a lesser concern to the politicians and the pundits than the special interests which pay the money and call the tune.
In the stunning “Brexit” vote – with 52 percent wanting to abandon the 28-nation European Union – U.K. voters rejected the West’s politics-as-usual despite dire warnings about the downsides of leaving. They voted, in effect, to assert their own nationalistic needs and aspirations over a commitment to continental unity and its more universal goals.
But, in the vote, there was also a recognition that the West’s Establishment has grown corrupt and arrogant, routinely imposing on the people “experts” who claim to be neutral technocrats or objective scholars but whose pockets are lined with fat pay checks from “prestigious” think tanks funded by the Military-Industrial Complex or by lucrative revolving-door trips to investment banks on Wall Street or The City.
Despite the Establishment’s self-image as a “meritocracy,” its corrupted experts and haughty bureaucrats don’t even demonstrate basic competence anymore. They have led Europe and the United States into catastrophe after catastrophe, both economically and geopolitically. And, there is another troubling feature of this Establishment: its lack of accountability.
In the United States, the rewards and punishments have been turned upside-down, with the benighted politicians and pundits who pushed for the Iraq War in 2003 still dominating the government and the media, from Hillary Clinton’s impending Democratic presidential nomination to the editorial pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post.
MAIN STREAM MEDIA; HILLARY'S PROPAGANDA MACHINE
When Bernie talks about a "rigged" system it includes the main stream media, most of which is owned by the Billionaires and Millionaires Bernie also refers to.
Bernie was the first target and now it's Trump; all to ensure that whoever get's into the Oval Office will not disrupt the status quo and allow the wealthy few to continue ruling the working class.
The Hillary Clinton campaign rolled out a list of high-profile business endorsements on Thursday, including about a dozen big names in media.
Among them:
Barry Diller, Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC (owner of sites such as The Daily Beast)
Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television
Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television
David Karp, Founder and CEO of Tumblr
Monica Lozano, Former Chairman and CEO, U.S. Hispanic Media (parent company of newspapers such as El Diario and La Opinión)
Candy Ergen, Co-founder of the DISH Network
Rob Marcus, Former Chairman and CEO Time Warner Cable
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet (parent company of Google)
Walter Ulloa, Chairman and CEO of Entravision Communications Corporation (which owns around 100 television and radio stations)
Read the full list of endorsements here.
Bernie was the first target and now it's Trump; all to ensure that whoever get's into the Oval Office will not disrupt the status quo and allow the wealthy few to continue ruling the working class.
The Hillary Clinton campaign rolled out a list of high-profile business endorsements on Thursday, including about a dozen big names in media.
Among them:
Barry Diller, Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC (owner of sites such as The Daily Beast)
Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television
Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO of Black Entertainment Television
David Karp, Founder and CEO of Tumblr
Monica Lozano, Former Chairman and CEO, U.S. Hispanic Media (parent company of newspapers such as El Diario and La Opinión)
Candy Ergen, Co-founder of the DISH Network
Rob Marcus, Former Chairman and CEO Time Warner Cable
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet (parent company of Google)
Walter Ulloa, Chairman and CEO of Entravision Communications Corporation (which owns around 100 television and radio stations)
Read the full list of endorsements here.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
BRITS GIVE WALL STREET THE BOOT
Looks like the Brits love of country outweighs love of money.
BBC Projects United Kingdom Votes To Leave The European Union : The Two-Way : NPR
BBC Projects United Kingdom Votes To Leave The European Union : The Two-Way : NPR
IS MAIN STREAM MEDIA AS CORRUPT AS POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT?
Stephanopoulus made a comment that day that he perhaps wishes he could take back. He said the reason donors give money to the foundation is they hope that it’s going to lead to something.
Before ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton political hack, was outed for his $75,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation, he appeared on Comedy Central’sThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Before ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, a former Clinton political hack, was outed for his $75,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation, he appeared on Comedy Central’sThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
During the interview, he discussed the scandals that were already beginning to swirl around the foundation and its apparent pay to play history, as detailed by Peter Schweizer’s new book “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.”
Stephanopoulus made a comment that day that he perhaps wishes he could take back. He said the reason donors give money to the foundation is they hope that it’s going to lead to something. Exactly. Pay to play.
Past Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump made the news this past week after it was discovered that, despite attacking the Clintons for the shenanigans going on at their foundation, he himself has donated at least $100,000 to it.
Now, thanks to Politico, a new list has emerged which points out dozens of others in the media who have also donated to the Clinton Foundation. While names like Google, Twitter, and NBC may not surprise most, given their penchant for siding with progressives, a few companies on that list will come as a shock to many.
The conservative news site Newsmax has donated between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000 to the Clinton’s pay to play Foundation. Fox News’ parent company, News Corporation Foundation, is also on the list with a donation ranging from $500,000 to $1,000,000.
While some may cite philanthropic efforts by the Clinton Foundation, Schweizer makes the case that the foundation is a slush fund for the Clintons and Stephanopoulus inadvertently admitted the pay to play nature of donations.
[/vc_column_text][banner300 banner=”553157113d3ff”][vc_column_text]Here is the list, ordered by contribution level, courtesy of Politico.
Past Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump made the news this past week after it was discovered that, despite attacking the Clintons for the shenanigans going on at their foundation, he himself has donated at least $100,000 to it.
Now, thanks to Politico, a new list has emerged which points out dozens of others in the media who have also donated to the Clinton Foundation. While names like Google, Twitter, and NBC may not surprise most, given their penchant for siding with progressives, a few companies on that list will come as a shock to many.
The conservative news site Newsmax has donated between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000 to the Clinton’s pay to play Foundation. Fox News’ parent company, News Corporation Foundation, is also on the list with a donation ranging from $500,000 to $1,000,000.
While some may cite philanthropic efforts by the Clinton Foundation, Schweizer makes the case that the foundation is a slush fund for the Clintons and Stephanopoulus inadvertently admitted the pay to play nature of donations.
[/vc_column_text][banner300 banner=”553157113d3ff”][vc_column_text]Here is the list, ordered by contribution level, courtesy of Politico.
$1,000,000-$5,000,000
Carlos Slim
Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder
James Murdoch
Chief Operating Officer of 21st Century Fox
Newsmax Media
Florida-based conservative media network
Thomson Reuters
Owner of the Reuters news service
$500,00-$1,000,000
Google
News Corporation Foundation
Philanthropic arm of former Fox News parent company
$250,000-$500,000
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher
Richard Mellon Scaife
Owner of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
$100,000-$250,000
Abigail Disney
Documentary filmmaker
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Howard Stringer
Former CBS, CBS News and Sony executive
Intermountain West Communications Company
Local television affiliate owner (formerly Sunbelt Communications)
$50,000-$100,000
Bloomberg L.P.
Discovery Communications Inc.
George Stephanopoulos
ABC News chief anchor and chief political correspondent
Mort Zuckerman
Owner of New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report
Time Warner Inc.
Owner of CNN parent company Turner Broadcasting
$25,000-$50,000
AOL
HBO
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Presenters of the Golden Globe Awards
Viacom
$10,000-$25,000
Knight Foundation
Non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting journalism
Public Radio International
Turner Broadcasting
Parent company of CNN
Twitter
$5,000-$10,000
Comcast
Parent copmany of NBCUniversal
NBC Universal
Parent company of NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC
Public Broadcasting Service
$1,000-$5,000
Robert Allbritton
Owner of POLITICO parent company Capitol News Group
$250-$1,000
AOL Huffington Post Media Group
Hearst Corporation
Judy Woodruff
PBS Newshour co-anchor and managing editor
The Washington Post Company
Carlos Slim
Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder
James Murdoch
Chief Operating Officer of 21st Century Fox
Newsmax Media
Florida-based conservative media network
Thomson Reuters
Owner of the Reuters news service
$500,00-$1,000,000
News Corporation Foundation
Philanthropic arm of former Fox News parent company
$250,000-$500,000
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher
Richard Mellon Scaife
Owner of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
$100,000-$250,000
Abigail Disney
Documentary filmmaker
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Howard Stringer
Former CBS, CBS News and Sony executive
Intermountain West Communications Company
Local television affiliate owner (formerly Sunbelt Communications)
$50,000-$100,000
Bloomberg L.P.
Discovery Communications Inc.
George Stephanopoulos
ABC News chief anchor and chief political correspondent
Mort Zuckerman
Owner of New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report
Time Warner Inc.
Owner of CNN parent company Turner Broadcasting
$25,000-$50,000
AOL
HBO
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Presenters of the Golden Globe Awards
Viacom
$10,000-$25,000
Knight Foundation
Non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting journalism
Public Radio International
Turner Broadcasting
Parent company of CNN
$5,000-$10,000
Comcast
Parent copmany of NBCUniversal
NBC Universal
Parent company of NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC
Public Broadcasting Service
$1,000-$5,000
Robert Allbritton
Owner of POLITICO parent company Capitol News Group
$250-$1,000
AOL Huffington Post Media Group
Hearst Corporation
Judy Woodruff
PBS Newshour co-anchor and managing editor
The Washington Post Company
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
HILLARY AND DNC HACKED BY THE BOOGEYMAN!
The latest tactic Hillary and the DNC are using to discount corruption in their ranks is to claim it's all disinformation from bad guys; interestingly the Russians.
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was among the organizations breached by suspected Russian hackers in a dragnet of the U.S. political apparatus ahead of the November election, according to three people familiar with the matter…Clinton Foundation officials said the organization hadn’t been notified of the breach and declined to comment further. The compromise of the foundation’s computers was first identified by government investigators as recently as last week, the people familiar with the matter said.
The recent spate of hacking is said to involve as many as 4,000 individuals and entities connected to the election. Bloomberg reports that the FBI and the NSA are now involved in identifying the scope of the attack and trying to identify who is responsible. The Russian government has denied any responsiblitly.
Hackers released some information taken from the Democratic National Committee last week, specifically an oppo-research book on Donald Trump. This week the hacker (or collective) known as Guccifer 2.0 released another set of documents from the DNC hack. It seems the Democratic Party is somewhat nervous that there is much more, and worse, yet to come. FromBloomberg:
If the Democrats can show the hidden hand of Russian intelligence agencies, they believe that voter outrage will probably outweigh any embarrassing revelations, a person familiar with the party’s thinking said.So far the released documents have revealed little that is new or explosive, but that could change. Guccifer 2.0 has threatened to eventually release thousands of internal memos and other documents.
Guccifer is the handle of a hacker who was recently extradited to the United States where he made a plea deal, signaling possible cooperation with the FBI in an ongoing investigation. That hasn’t been confirmed but, given that Guccifer claims to have hacked Clinton’s private server, the most obvious possibility is that he is cooperating with the FBI in the ongoing Clinton email investigation.
As for the DNC data, most of Tuesday's 'Guccifer 2.0' document dump was a garden-variety mixture of the kinds of materials seasoned election operatives would expect to find on a political party's network.
Included are copies of Bill and Hillary Clinton's tax returns and Federal Election Commission financial disclosures, speaking engagement contracts for the former secretary of state, travel records and inventories of speeches.
Most of the files consist of endless summaries of news articles, categorized for easy access during a rapid-response fight.
But in one such collection, Democrats went out of their way to vet Clinton, compiling a worst-case-scenario collection of the 'vulnerabilities' posed by the controversial Clinton Foundation.
'The Wall Street Journal tied foreign government donors to the Clinton Foundation's endowment fundraising under Secretary Clinton,' one section is headed.
Another trumpeted: 'Reports that State Department lawyers did not exhaustively vet Bill Clinton's paid speeches during Secretary Clinton's tenure raised questions about the role Clinton Foundation donations may have played in organizing those speeches.'
A third read: 'The Clinton Foundation has accepted donations from individuals, some of whom had ties to foreign governments, during her tenure as secretary of state.'
That, along with a similar warning that the Clinton Foundation 'received donations from individuals tied to Saudi Arabia while Clinton served as secretary of state,' pointed to Wall Street Journal reporting that reportedly raised eyebrows inside the FBI.
Federal investigators are probing for evidence of criminality related to Clinton's own private email server arrangement, along with allegations that she sold access to the secretary of state's office in exchange for Clinton Foundation donations and speaking fees for Bill Clinton.
The former president collected $105.8 million for giving 544 speeches between the end of his White House terms and the beginning of 2012, according to the Democratic Party's accounting, also leaked Tuesday by the hacker. That averages nearly $195,000 per appearance.
The DNC religiously tracked news stories covering apparent conflicts of interest in Clinton's diplomatic office, including foundation donations coming from governments and moneyed interests in Germany, Bahrain, Venezuela and Canada.
The party was also aware, according to its dossier, that the Clinton Health Access Initiative, a project of the foundation, 'did not disclose donors or submit foreign donations for State Department review' during Clinton's time in office.
The project, the DNC noted, was 'bound by a disclosure agreement with the Obama administration' at the time.
The leaks set the stage for what could be a political repeat of the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack of November 2014, when the dirty laundry of major studio executives and Hollywood stars was aired out in the public domain.
HILLARY; THE DNC"S ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
The Democratic National Committee was so worried about the damage Hillary Clinton's family foundation could cause to her presidential ambitions that its researchers compiled their own collection of 'vulnerabilities' that party officials would need to address.
A 42-page collection of problematic news stories, neatly categorized by crisis, is among the 261 documents released Tuesday by the hacker who claims to have broken into the DNC's computer network.
The file, as it existed on the DNC's server, is helpfully named 'Clinton Foundation Vulnerabilities Master Doc FINAL.'
The DNC was not commenting on the authenticity of the document drop, though a senior DNC official told Dailymail.com that 'Russian government hackers' were to blame.
A 42-page collection of problematic news stories, neatly categorized by crisis, is among the 261 documents released Tuesday by the hacker who claims to have broken into the DNC's computer network.
The file, as it existed on the DNC's server, is helpfully named 'Clinton Foundation Vulnerabilities Master Doc FINAL.'
The DNC was not commenting on the authenticity of the document drop, though a senior DNC official told Dailymail.com that 'Russian government hackers' were to blame.
Hillary document reveals Democratic Party researched Clinton Foundation's 'vulnerabilities' | Daily Mail Online
Monday, June 20, 2016
AMERICA'S WELFARE QUEENS; THE RICH
Somewhere along the line something went wrong and the rich folks lost sight of the fact that the reason they got to where they are is because they live in a country that provides them with resources and opportunities to achieve and accumulate wealth.
More important they ignored the reality that wealth came at a price and magically convinced themselves that they were "entitled" to hold on to every last nickle and give nothing back in return for what was provided them by the millions of Americans who work and contribute to the country.
Their wealth brought out the worse in many of them and they opted to hide, dodge and avoid rather than share and give.
In essence they argued that getting something for nothing; much like what they accuse the poor of, was the way to go.
Taxes? That's for the working class to worry about. Not them.
Supporting the country that made them wealthy? In your dreams.
In fact many of them opted to spend untold amounts of money hiring armies of "tax experts" to ensure that the country that gave them so much would never get a single cent back.
While candidates bicker and Congress stagnates and the rest of us dwell on the latest shooting tragedy, the super-rich enjoy the absence of attention paid to one of our nation’s most destructive issues.
The richest Americans are takers of social benefits. Yet they complain about paying 12% to20% in taxes, even as respected researchers estimate an optimal revenue-producing rate of80% to 90%, and even with the near-certainty that higher marginal tax rates will have no adverse effects on GDP growth.
The super-rich pay little in taxes because, as Senator Lindsey Graham said, “It’s really American to avoid paying taxes, legally…It’s a game we play…I see nothing wrong with playing the game because we set it up to be a game.” In reality, it’s a game of theft from the essential needs of education, infrastructure, and jobs.
That’s about $3,000 per U.S. household in annual lost revenue. Yet even though the IRSretrieves well over $100 for every dollar in salaries paid to their agents, the agency has been rapidly losing staff, making the tax avoidance game a lot easier for the biggest cheaters.
More important they ignored the reality that wealth came at a price and magically convinced themselves that they were "entitled" to hold on to every last nickle and give nothing back in return for what was provided them by the millions of Americans who work and contribute to the country.
Their wealth brought out the worse in many of them and they opted to hide, dodge and avoid rather than share and give.
In essence they argued that getting something for nothing; much like what they accuse the poor of, was the way to go.
Taxes? That's for the working class to worry about. Not them.
Supporting the country that made them wealthy? In your dreams.
In fact many of them opted to spend untold amounts of money hiring armies of "tax experts" to ensure that the country that gave them so much would never get a single cent back.
While candidates bicker and Congress stagnates and the rest of us dwell on the latest shooting tragedy, the super-rich enjoy the absence of attention paid to one of our nation’s most destructive issues.
The richest Americans are takers of social benefits. Yet they complain about paying 12% to20% in taxes, even as respected researchers estimate an optimal revenue-producing rate of80% to 90%, and even with the near-certainty that higher marginal tax rates will have no adverse effects on GDP growth.
The super-rich pay little in taxes because, as Senator Lindsey Graham said, “It’s really American to avoid paying taxes, legally…It’s a game we play…I see nothing wrong with playing the game because we set it up to be a game.” In reality, it’s a game of theft from the essential needs of education, infrastructure, and jobs.
The Richest Individuals Cheat the Most
According to a recent IRS report, an incredible $406 billion annual gap exists between owed and paid taxes, with individuals accounting for over three-quarters of the total, and with the most egregious misreporting coming from the highest income-takers.That’s about $3,000 per U.S. household in annual lost revenue. Yet even though the IRSretrieves well over $100 for every dollar in salaries paid to their agents, the agency has been rapidly losing staff, making the tax avoidance game a lot easier for the biggest cheaters.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
IS SHE WILLING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION UNDER OATH?
You would have to be close to brain dead to believe that the AG has "never" discussed the HRC email investigation with POTUS.
This is America folks! Politics is a game played with rules that allow (and sometimes even reward) for corruption and deception.
Even if there is the remote possibility that Obama didn't have a sit down with Lynch he did send her a loud and clear message to stand down when he endorsed Hillary and showered her with so many accolades you would think he was in love with her.
There's no denying that most Americans run on about 4 of 8 cylinders and are not the brightest bulbs on a tree, but for anyone other than a true Hillarite to buy this line of BS is nothing more than dog being wagged by their tail.
One way to nail it down is to compel the AG to answer these questions under oath; let's say at the behest of a Congressional committee.
An investigation by the Office of the Inspector General found that then-Sec. of State Clinton acted negligently in operating a private email server. (RELATED: State Dept. Admits That Hillary Clinton Failed To Turn Over Secretive Email)
Wallace then pressed again: “So does this create a conflict of interest for you?”
“No, this is not a conflict for me or for the department or for anyone,” Lynch responded. “We will continue to do all of our work in the same way in which we always have with the interest of the American people, first and foremost.”
WATCH:Wallace then pointed out that the same day Obama endorsed Clinton, Lynch met with Obama at the White House.
“Did you in any way, shape, or form discuss the Clinton case with the President?” Wallace asked.
Lynch claimed she has never talked with the President or anyone in the White House about the investigation.
“We’ve never discussed the Clinton case,” she said. “I’ve never spoken about it with the President or really with anyone at the White House. That’s not the kind of relationship that I have with people there and it would be inappropriate to do so.”
Lynch Claims She Never Spoke To Obama About Hillary's Emails | The Daily Caller
This is America folks! Politics is a game played with rules that allow (and sometimes even reward) for corruption and deception.
Even if there is the remote possibility that Obama didn't have a sit down with Lynch he did send her a loud and clear message to stand down when he endorsed Hillary and showered her with so many accolades you would think he was in love with her.
There's no denying that most Americans run on about 4 of 8 cylinders and are not the brightest bulbs on a tree, but for anyone other than a true Hillarite to buy this line of BS is nothing more than dog being wagged by their tail.
One way to nail it down is to compel the AG to answer these questions under oath; let's say at the behest of a Congressional committee.
An investigation by the Office of the Inspector General found that then-Sec. of State Clinton acted negligently in operating a private email server. (RELATED: State Dept. Admits That Hillary Clinton Failed To Turn Over Secretive Email)
Wallace then pressed again: “So does this create a conflict of interest for you?”
“No, this is not a conflict for me or for the department or for anyone,” Lynch responded. “We will continue to do all of our work in the same way in which we always have with the interest of the American people, first and foremost.”
WATCH:
“Did you in any way, shape, or form discuss the Clinton case with the President?” Wallace asked.
Lynch claimed she has never talked with the President or anyone in the White House about the investigation.
“We’ve never discussed the Clinton case,” she said. “I’ve never spoken about it with the President or really with anyone at the White House. That’s not the kind of relationship that I have with people there and it would be inappropriate to do so.”
Lynch Claims She Never Spoke To Obama About Hillary's Emails | The Daily Caller
Saturday, June 18, 2016
KILLING THE MESSENGER
Here's another example of corruption at it's best.
The whistle blower who outed the crooks is arrested for exposing crime and corruption. Go figure?
Accused of leaking 11.5 million documents referred to as the Panama Papers, an IT employee from Mossack Fonseca was recently arrested in Switzerland. Although the Panamanian law firm alleges that his computer was used in the theft, German investigative reporters who received the documents from the whistleblower assert the Swiss police have not actually arrested their source.
In a statement published last month, the Panama Papers whistleblower known as “John Doe” cited income inequality as a prominent motivation for revealing the hundreds of thousands of secret off-shore tax havens used by Mossack Fonseca clients, including celebrities, world leaders, and large corporations. Despite the fact that these offshore companies are legal to operate, John Doe accused the clients of committing tax evasion crimes while alleging that his employer and coworkers have repeatedly broken the law.
“But we must not lose sight of another important fact: the law firm, its founders, and employees actually did knowingly violate myriad laws worldwide, repeatedly,” John Doe wrote. “Publicly they plead ignorance, but the documents show detailed knowledge and deliberate wrongdoing. At the very least we already know that (Jürgen) Mossack personally perjured himself before a federal court in Nevada, and we also know that his information technology staff attempted to cover up the underlying lies. They should all be prosecuted accordingly with no special treatment.”
Although John Doe publicly accused IT employees at Mossack Fonseca of crimes including obstruction of justice, an unidentified IT worker at the firm’s Geneva branch was arrested this week in suspicion of leaking the Panama Papers. Accused of information theft and breach of trust, the arrested IT employee remains in the custody of Swiss police.
The whistle blower who outed the crooks is arrested for exposing crime and corruption. Go figure?
Accused of leaking 11.5 million documents referred to as the Panama Papers, an IT employee from Mossack Fonseca was recently arrested in Switzerland. Although the Panamanian law firm alleges that his computer was used in the theft, German investigative reporters who received the documents from the whistleblower assert the Swiss police have not actually arrested their source.
In a statement published last month, the Panama Papers whistleblower known as “John Doe” cited income inequality as a prominent motivation for revealing the hundreds of thousands of secret off-shore tax havens used by Mossack Fonseca clients, including celebrities, world leaders, and large corporations. Despite the fact that these offshore companies are legal to operate, John Doe accused the clients of committing tax evasion crimes while alleging that his employer and coworkers have repeatedly broken the law.
“But we must not lose sight of another important fact: the law firm, its founders, and employees actually did knowingly violate myriad laws worldwide, repeatedly,” John Doe wrote. “Publicly they plead ignorance, but the documents show detailed knowledge and deliberate wrongdoing. At the very least we already know that (Jürgen) Mossack personally perjured himself before a federal court in Nevada, and we also know that his information technology staff attempted to cover up the underlying lies. They should all be prosecuted accordingly with no special treatment.”
Although John Doe publicly accused IT employees at Mossack Fonseca of crimes including obstruction of justice, an unidentified IT worker at the firm’s Geneva branch was arrested this week in suspicion of leaking the Panama Papers. Accused of information theft and breach of trust, the arrested IT employee remains in the custody of Swiss police.
VOA VIOLATES ITS CHARTER AND ATTACKS DEMOCRACY
Here's what the Charter says;
“VOA will present the policies of the United States clearly and effectively, and will also present responsible discussion and opinion on these policies.”
Now, here's the piece that clearly violates those tenets the Voice of America touts
In his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Vermont Democrat is more than 3 million votes behind his challenger, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But to listen to Sanders and his supporters tell it, he is being deprived of victory in a “rigged” system.
When they were winning primaries earlier this year, the Sanders campaign focused on the supposed unfairness of “super-delegates,” the elected party officials and big wigs who, by virtue of their position, get to vote at the Democratic convention this summer. The vast majority of these individuals long ago committed to Clinton. Now that Clinton has clinched the nomination – via her amassing both pledged and super delegates – the Sanders campaign is trying to convert the latter, effectively arguing that he should win the nomination even though he is far behind in the popular vote count.
The super delegates, however, have always been a distraction. For it’s not Sanders’ lack of elite Democratic support that stands in the way of his achieving the nomination; it’s the millions of more people who voted for Hillary Clinton.
The piece should be titled; "Does the Democratic Political Establishment believe in Democracy?"
In his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Vermont Democrat is more than 3 million votes behind his challenger, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But to listen to Sanders and his supporters tell it, he is being deprived of victory in a “rigged” system.
When they were winning primaries earlier this year, the Sanders campaign focused on the supposed unfairness of “super-delegates,” the elected party officials and big wigs who, by virtue of their position, get to vote at the Democratic convention this summer. The vast majority of these individuals long ago committed to Clinton. Now that Clinton has clinched the nomination – via her amassing both pledged and super delegates – the Sanders campaign is trying to convert the latter, effectively arguing that he should win the nomination even though he is far behind in the popular vote count.
The super delegates, however, have always been a distraction. For it’s not Sanders’ lack of elite Democratic support that stands in the way of his achieving the nomination; it’s the millions of more people who voted for Hillary Clinton.
The clown that wrote this piece is clearly biased and dishonest in the way he describes the democratic process.
First he claims that Hillary got the most votes but he fails to mention how many voters were blocked from voting because of the obstacles the Democratic Party Establishment used to suppress the vote.
He also miserably fails to address the completely un-democratic use of an "elite" handpicked group os Super Delegates that the DNC readily admits is used to prevent anyone from the "outside" disrupting their agenda in selecting their (not the people's) candidate.
MOZILO GETS A PASS FROM OBAMA'S DOJ
Looks like president Obama isn't much different that other Establishment politicians. This latest decision to let Wall Street bankers escape justice demonstrates just how entrenched big money is in American politics.
So, let's talk sleazy Democratic Party-backed banks, shall we?
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Forget Switzerland. The mother and father of all financial industry outrages are rooted in Washington, D.C. And Obama Democrats are among the biggest winners of lavish, out-of-control compensation packages from fraud-plagued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama confidante James Johnson raked in $21 million. Former Obama chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel "earned" at least $320,000 for a brief 14-month gig at Freddie Mac. And Clinton Fannie Mae head and Obama economic confidante Franklin Raines bagged some $90 million in pay and stock options earned during the government-sponsored institution's Enron-style accounting scandal on the public dime.
Self-appointed banking policewoman and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has, uncharacteristically, kept her mouth shut about these wealthy barons.
Superior Bank. One of the Obamas' oldest Chicago friends and wealthiest billionaire bundlers, former Obama national finance chairwoman Penny Pritzker, headed up this subprime lender. Even after it went under in 2001 and left 1,400 customers destitute, Pritzker was pushing to expand its toxic subprime loan business. Pritzker and her family escaped accountability by forking over $460 million over 15 years. Obama happily accepted the nearly $800 million in campaign and inaugural funding Pritzker drummed up for him. To protect her family's multibillion dollar fortune, Pritzker's enterprises park their money in the very same kind of offshore trusts her candidate is attacking Romney over.
Broadway Bank. In 2010, President and Mrs. Obama personally raised money for their Chicago friend and fundraiser Alexi Giannoulias. As I reported then, Giannoulias' Greek immigrant family founded Chicago-based Broadway Bank, a now-defunct financial institution that loaned tens of millions of dollars to convicted mafia felons and faced bankruptcy after decades of engaging in risky, high-flying behavior. It's the place where Obama parked his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign funds. And it's the same place where a mutual friend of Obama and Giannoulias -- convicted Obama fundraiser and slumlord Tony Rezko -- used to bounce nearly $500,000 in bad checks written to Las Vegas casinos.
Chicago's former inspector general blasted Giannoulias and his family for tapping $70 million worth of dividends in 2007 and 2008 as the real estate crash loomed. Broadway Bank was sitting on an estimated $250 million in bad loans. The cost to taxpayers after the bank was shut down two years ago: an estimated $390 million.
ShoreBank. The "progressive" Chicago-based community development bank, a "green" financial institution whose mission was to "create economic equity and a healthy environment," folded in August 2010. Obama personally had endorsed the politically connected bank and appeared in a video promoting its Kenyan microlending project. But it was a doomed social justice experiment. After regulators shut it down, Obama crony companies including Bank of American and Goldman Sachs took over the mess courtesy of taxpayer subsidies.
Countrywide/Bank of America. Earlier this month, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report on corruption-plagued Countrywide Financial Corp., which was bailed out by taxpayer-bailed-out Bank of America. The House investigation confirmed the notorious favor-trading scheme, which involved sweetheart home loan deals for members of Congress and their staff, top government officials and executives of doomed mortgage giant Fannie Mae.
"These relationships helped (Countrywide CEO and Democratic subprime loan king Angelo) Mozilo increase his own company's profits while dumping the risk of bad loans on taxpayers," according to the new report. Mozilo copped a $67.5 million plea to avert a high-stakes public trial in the heat of the 2010 midterm election season. Since then, Obama's Justice Department has taken no action to prosecute Countrywide officials on federal bribery charges.
So, let's talk sleazy Democratic Party-backed banks, shall we?
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Forget Switzerland. The mother and father of all financial industry outrages are rooted in Washington, D.C. And Obama Democrats are among the biggest winners of lavish, out-of-control compensation packages from fraud-plagued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama confidante James Johnson raked in $21 million. Former Obama chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel "earned" at least $320,000 for a brief 14-month gig at Freddie Mac. And Clinton Fannie Mae head and Obama economic confidante Franklin Raines bagged some $90 million in pay and stock options earned during the government-sponsored institution's Enron-style accounting scandal on the public dime.
Self-appointed banking policewoman and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has, uncharacteristically, kept her mouth shut about these wealthy barons.
Superior Bank. One of the Obamas' oldest Chicago friends and wealthiest billionaire bundlers, former Obama national finance chairwoman Penny Pritzker, headed up this subprime lender. Even after it went under in 2001 and left 1,400 customers destitute, Pritzker was pushing to expand its toxic subprime loan business. Pritzker and her family escaped accountability by forking over $460 million over 15 years. Obama happily accepted the nearly $800 million in campaign and inaugural funding Pritzker drummed up for him. To protect her family's multibillion dollar fortune, Pritzker's enterprises park their money in the very same kind of offshore trusts her candidate is attacking Romney over.
Broadway Bank. In 2010, President and Mrs. Obama personally raised money for their Chicago friend and fundraiser Alexi Giannoulias. As I reported then, Giannoulias' Greek immigrant family founded Chicago-based Broadway Bank, a now-defunct financial institution that loaned tens of millions of dollars to convicted mafia felons and faced bankruptcy after decades of engaging in risky, high-flying behavior. It's the place where Obama parked his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign funds. And it's the same place where a mutual friend of Obama and Giannoulias -- convicted Obama fundraiser and slumlord Tony Rezko -- used to bounce nearly $500,000 in bad checks written to Las Vegas casinos.
Chicago's former inspector general blasted Giannoulias and his family for tapping $70 million worth of dividends in 2007 and 2008 as the real estate crash loomed. Broadway Bank was sitting on an estimated $250 million in bad loans. The cost to taxpayers after the bank was shut down two years ago: an estimated $390 million.
ShoreBank. The "progressive" Chicago-based community development bank, a "green" financial institution whose mission was to "create economic equity and a healthy environment," folded in August 2010. Obama personally had endorsed the politically connected bank and appeared in a video promoting its Kenyan microlending project. But it was a doomed social justice experiment. After regulators shut it down, Obama crony companies including Bank of American and Goldman Sachs took over the mess courtesy of taxpayer subsidies.
Countrywide/Bank of America. Earlier this month, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report on corruption-plagued Countrywide Financial Corp., which was bailed out by taxpayer-bailed-out Bank of America. The House investigation confirmed the notorious favor-trading scheme, which involved sweetheart home loan deals for members of Congress and their staff, top government officials and executives of doomed mortgage giant Fannie Mae.
"These relationships helped (Countrywide CEO and Democratic subprime loan king Angelo) Mozilo increase his own company's profits while dumping the risk of bad loans on taxpayers," according to the new report. Mozilo copped a $67.5 million plea to avert a high-stakes public trial in the heat of the 2010 midterm election season. Since then, Obama's Justice Department has taken no action to prosecute Countrywide officials on federal bribery charges.
Feds won't file fraud suit against Countrywide's Mozilo - Washington Times
Among the influence-peddling operation's most prominent beneficiaries: the aforementioned Obama top adviser Jim Johnson, who accepted more than $7 million in below-market-rate Countrywide loans, and former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, whose ill-fated 2010 re-election bid was personally endorsed by Obama. Obama stood by Dodd even as sordid details of his two discounted Countrywide loans and record Countrywide PAC donations mounted.
Bank of America, which raked in $45 billion in Obama-supported TARP bailout funds and billions more in secret emergency federal loans, footed the $50 million restitution payment bill for Mozilo and another Countrywide official. In 2008, BofA's political action committee gave its biggest contributions to Obama, totaling $421,000. And as I noted in January, Bank of America supplied the Democrats with a $15 million revolving line of credit, along with an additional $17 million loan during the 2010 midterms.
Among the influence-peddling operation's most prominent beneficiaries: the aforementioned Obama top adviser Jim Johnson, who accepted more than $7 million in below-market-rate Countrywide loans, and former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, whose ill-fated 2010 re-election bid was personally endorsed by Obama. Obama stood by Dodd even as sordid details of his two discounted Countrywide loans and record Countrywide PAC donations mounted.
Bank of America, which raked in $45 billion in Obama-supported TARP bailout funds and billions more in secret emergency federal loans, footed the $50 million restitution payment bill for Mozilo and another Countrywide official. In 2008, BofA's political action committee gave its biggest contributions to Obama, totaling $421,000. And as I noted in January, Bank of America supplied the Democrats with a $15 million revolving line of credit, along with an additional $17 million loan during the 2010 midterms.
MOZILO GETS A PASS FROM OBAMA'S DOJ
Looks like president Obama isn't much different that other Establishment politicians. This latest decision to let Wall Street bankers escape justice demonstrates just how entrenched big money is in American politics.
So, let's talk sleazy Democratic Party-backed banks, shall we?
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac. Forget Switzerland. The mother and father of all financial industry outrages are rooted in Washington, D.C. And Obama Democrats are among the biggest winners of lavish, out-of-control compensation packages from fraud-plagued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Obama confidante James Johnson raked in $21 million. Former Obama chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel "earned" at least $320,000 for a brief 14-month gig at Freddie Mac. And Clinton Fannie Mae head and Obama economic confidante Franklin Raines bagged some $90 million in pay and stock options earned during the government-sponsored institution's Enron-style accounting scandal on the public dime.
Self-appointed banking policewoman and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has, uncharacteristically, kept her mouth shut about these wealthy barons.
Superior Bank. One of the Obamas' oldest Chicago friends and wealthiest billionaire bundlers, former Obama national finance chairwoman Penny Pritzker, headed up this subprime lender. Even after it went under in 2001 and left 1,400 customers destitute, Pritzker was pushing to expand its toxic subprime loan business. Pritzker and her family escaped accountability by forking over $460 million over 15 years. Obama happily accepted the nearly $800 million in campaign and inaugural funding Pritzker drummed up for him. To protect her family's multibillion dollar fortune, Pritzker's enterprises park their money in the very same kind of offshore trusts her candidate is attacking Romney over.
Broadway Bank. In 2010, President and Mrs. Obama personally raised money for their Chicago friend and fundraiser Alexi Giannoulias. As I reported then, Giannoulias' Greek immigrant family founded Chicago-based Broadway Bank, a now-defunct financial institution that loaned tens of millions of dollars to convicted mafia felons and faced bankruptcy after decades of engaging in risky, high-flying behavior. It's the place where Obama parked his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign funds. And it's the same place where a mutual friend of Obama and Giannoulias -- convicted Obama fundraiser and slumlord Tony Rezko -- used to bounce nearly $500,000 in bad checks written to Las Vegas casinos.
Chicago's former inspector general blasted Giannoulias and his family for tapping $70 million worth of dividends in 2007 and 2008 as the real estate crash loomed. Broadway Bank was sitting on an estimated $250 million in bad loans. The cost to taxpayers after the bank was shut down two years ago: an estimated $390 million.
ShoreBank. The "progressive" Chicago-based community development bank, a "green" financial institution whose mission was to "create economic equity and a healthy environment," folded in August 2010. Obama personally had endorsed the politically connected bank and appeared in a video promoting its Kenyan microlending project. But it was a doomed social justice experiment. After regulators shut it down, Obama crony companies including Bank of American and Goldman Sachs took over the mess courtesy of taxpayer subsidies.
Countrywide/Bank of America. Earlier this month, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report on corruption-plagued Countrywide Financial Corp., which was bailed out by taxpayer-bailed-out Bank of America. The House investigation confirmed the notorious favor-trading scheme, which involved sweetheart home loan deals for members of Congress and their staff, top government officials and executives of doomed mortgage giant Fannie Mae.
"These relationships helped (Countrywide CEO and Democratic subprime loan king Angelo) Mozilo increase his own company's profits while dumping the risk of bad loans on taxpayers," according to the new report. Mozilo copped a $67.5 million plea to avert a high-stakes public trial in the heat of the 2010 midterm election season. Since then, Obama's Justice Department has taken no action to prosecute Countrywide officials on federal bribery charges.
Feds won't file fraud suit against Countrywide's Mozilo - Washington Times
Among the influence-peddling operation's most prominent beneficiaries: the aforementioned Obama top adviser Jim Johnson, who accepted more than $7 million in below-market-rate Countrywide loans, and former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, whose ill-fated 2010 re-election bid was personally endorsed by Obama. Obama stood by Dodd even as sordid details of his two discounted Countrywide loans and record Countrywide PAC donations mounted.
Bank of America, which raked in $45 billion in Obama-supported TARP bailout funds and billions more in secret emergency federal loans, footed the $50 million restitution payment bill for Mozilo and another Countrywide official. In 2008, BofA's political action committee gave its biggest contributions to Obama, totaling $421,000. And as I noted in January, Bank of America supplied the Democrats with a $15 million revolving line of credit, along with an additional $17 million loan during the 2010 midterms.
Among the influence-peddling operation's most prominent beneficiaries: the aforementioned Obama top adviser Jim Johnson, who accepted more than $7 million in below-market-rate Countrywide loans, and former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, whose ill-fated 2010 re-election bid was personally endorsed by Obama. Obama stood by Dodd even as sordid details of his two discounted Countrywide loans and record Countrywide PAC donations mounted.
Bank of America, which raked in $45 billion in Obama-supported TARP bailout funds and billions more in secret emergency federal loans, footed the $50 million restitution payment bill for Mozilo and another Countrywide official. In 2008, BofA's political action committee gave its biggest contributions to Obama, totaling $421,000. And as I noted in January, Bank of America supplied the Democrats with a $15 million revolving line of credit, along with an additional $17 million loan during the 2010 midterms.
Friday, June 17, 2016
WAR MONGERING DIPLOMATS
Not sure who originally hired these "career" diplomats but I have a pretty good idea. Must be the same bunch that were around for Iraq, Afghanistan, and part of the Hillary cabal that she led the "regime change" campaign against Libya.
Somebody should check their stock portfolios and see how much is invested in defense.
Over the past several decades, the U.S. State Department has deteriorated from a reasonably professional home for diplomacy and realism into a den of armchair warriors possessed of imperial delusions, a dangerous phenomenon underscored by the recent mass“dissent” in favor of blowing up more people in Syria.
Some 51 State Department “diplomats” signed a memo distributed through the official “dissent channel,” seeking military strikes against the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad whose forces have been leading the pushback against Islamist extremists who are seeking control of this important Mideast nation.
The fact that such a large contingent of State Department officials would openly advocate for an expanded aggressive war in line with the neoconservative agenda, which put Syria on a hit list some two decades ago, reveals how crazy the State Department has become.
The State Department now seems to be a combination of true-believing neocons along with their liberal-interventionist followers and some careerists who realize that the smart play is to behave toward the world as global proconsuls dictating solutions or seeking “regime change” rather than as diplomats engaging foreigners respectfully and seeking genuine compromise.
Even some State Department officials, whom I personally know and who are not neocons/liberal-hawks per se, act as if they have fully swallowed the Kool-Aid. They talk tough and behave arrogantly toward inhabitants of countries under their supervision. Foreigners are treated as mindless objects to be coerced or bribed.
So, it’s not entirely surprising that several dozen U.S. “diplomats” would attack President Barack Obama’s more temperate position on Syria while positioning themselves favorably in anticipation of a Hillary Clinton administration, which is expected to authorize an illegal invasion of Syria — under the guise of establishing “no-fly zones” and “safe zones” — which will mean the slaughter of young Syrian soldiers. The “diplomats” urge the use of “stand-off and air weapons.”
These hawks are so eager for more war that they don’t mind risking a direct conflict with Russia, breezily dismissing the possibility of a clash with the nuclear power by saying they are not “advocating for a slippery slope that ends in a military confrontation with Russia.” That’s reassuring to hear.
Somebody should check their stock portfolios and see how much is invested in defense.
Over the past several decades, the U.S. State Department has deteriorated from a reasonably professional home for diplomacy and realism into a den of armchair warriors possessed of imperial delusions, a dangerous phenomenon underscored by the recent mass“dissent” in favor of blowing up more people in Syria.
Some 51 State Department “diplomats” signed a memo distributed through the official “dissent channel,” seeking military strikes against the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad whose forces have been leading the pushback against Islamist extremists who are seeking control of this important Mideast nation.
The fact that such a large contingent of State Department officials would openly advocate for an expanded aggressive war in line with the neoconservative agenda, which put Syria on a hit list some two decades ago, reveals how crazy the State Department has become.
The State Department now seems to be a combination of true-believing neocons along with their liberal-interventionist followers and some careerists who realize that the smart play is to behave toward the world as global proconsuls dictating solutions or seeking “regime change” rather than as diplomats engaging foreigners respectfully and seeking genuine compromise.
Even some State Department officials, whom I personally know and who are not neocons/liberal-hawks per se, act as if they have fully swallowed the Kool-Aid. They talk tough and behave arrogantly toward inhabitants of countries under their supervision. Foreigners are treated as mindless objects to be coerced or bribed.
So, it’s not entirely surprising that several dozen U.S. “diplomats” would attack President Barack Obama’s more temperate position on Syria while positioning themselves favorably in anticipation of a Hillary Clinton administration, which is expected to authorize an illegal invasion of Syria — under the guise of establishing “no-fly zones” and “safe zones” — which will mean the slaughter of young Syrian soldiers. The “diplomats” urge the use of “stand-off and air weapons.”
These hawks are so eager for more war that they don’t mind risking a direct conflict with Russia, breezily dismissing the possibility of a clash with the nuclear power by saying they are not “advocating for a slippery slope that ends in a military confrontation with Russia.” That’s reassuring to hear.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
MAINSTREAM MEDIA CENSURES BERNIE
With all the primaries over and Hillary Clinton having wrapped up the Democratic nomination, Sen Bernie Sanders is still not going quietly into the political night.
However, once it became clear The Vermont Senator wasn’t going to concede to Clinton, MSNBC and other cable news networks cut away from Sander’s speech, which started at 5:30 PM Pacific, after about 15 minutes, though the Senator continued to speak online.
Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Drop Out Of Presidential Race, But News Nets Drop Speech Mid-Way Through | Deadline
Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Drop Out Of Presidential Race, But News Nets Drop Speech Mid-Way Through | Deadline
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