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As Jeb Bush Pounces On The Hillary Email Scandal, The Real Winner Is... Goldman Sachs
While the Clintons have had their share of funding snafus in recent history exposing the former "not truly well off" first lady as not only a puppet of not only Wall Street but also America's mega corporations, Hillary Clinton's use of personal email accounts as America's former top diplomat is a far more serious issue as it touches directly on accountability, and rational decision-making while in a top position of government power. To say that it impairs her image as a presidential candidate who puts the country ahead of her own interests, would be an understatement.
However, depending on just how aggressive the US DOJ is, it may have criminal implications as well: according to the Weekly Standard, citing CNN conversations with "experts", Hillary Clinton broke the law by using her personal email account to conduct official State Department business while she was secretary of state.
"This is a very big deal," Brianna Keilar said to host Chris Cuomo. "And you said she may have broken laws or rules here, Chris, well a lot of experts say that she did by using only a personal account while she was secretary of state. This is a huge development, especially as Hillary Clinton is just perhaps weeks from declaring her candidacy for president." Keilar went on to suggest other Democrats might be tempted to run for president after this latest revelation.
One person who was obviously delighted by the latest development was Clinton's main Republican competitors, Jeb Bush, whose camp on Monday was quick to pounce on the email scandal, while also invoking the farcical IRS Lois Lerner "excuse" that emails were lost due to failed hard drives. To wit from Politico:
"A potential rival of Clinton in the presidential campaign, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.), called on the former secretary of state to make the collection of emails public. “Hillary Clinton should release her emails. Hopefully she hasn’t already destroyed them,” Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said. “Governor Bush believes transparency is a critical part of public service and of governing.”
As Bloomberg adds, "The revelation is an opportunity for Bush, a likely Republican presidential candidate, to contrast himself with Clinton, the presumed Democratic frontrunner, on the issue of transparency. Bush, a famously active e-mailer as governor of Florida, in December said he intended to release about 250,000 messages from his time as governor, to accompany an e-book"
Overnight, Bush added on Twitter:
Transparency matters. Unclassified @HillaryClinton emails should be released. You can see mine, here. http://t.co/wZbtwd8O2j
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) March 3, 2015
But while one could ascribe victory to the Florida republican in this latest scrimish, the real victor of this spat between the so-called "left" and "right" is the firm that stand to benefit no matter who wins: Goldman Sachs.
Why? Because both Bush and Clinton are desperate to be courted by the bank that made bloodsucking molluscs infamous, and to have the opportunity to return the favor in spades once either of the two moves to occupy the oval office.
As Politico reports in the "Goldman Sachs Primary", one can "forget the Democratic and Republican primaries: The two biggest names in the 2016 presidential race are competing directly against each other in an elite forum, the halls of Goldman Sachs."
Which means that the FDIC-backed hedge fund which understands hedging better than anyone, is about to insure that whoever wins the now largely irrelevant presidential election in a world in which central banks call all the shots, Goldman will remain in control.
Enter Bush, who this week will enjoy not one but two Goldman-organized fundraisers:
Jeb Bush will be back in New York raising money next week with his sights set on Goldman, the wealthiest and most successful bank in Wall Street history. He has a pair of events scheduled for next Wednesday with current and former Goldman executives, sources familiar with Bush’s plans said.
Bush’s first Goldman event next Wednesday will take place at the Ritz Carlton and is being organized by Dina Powell, who heads the Goldman Sachs Foundation and served in the White House under George W. Bush. Other organizers include John Waldron, co-head of investment banking, Alison Mass, a senior investment banker, and Faryar Shirzad, a Goldman executive in Washington who also served in the George W. Bush administration. The $5,000 per head event is expected to include younger Goldman executives.
The events signal that Bush hopes to go head to head for Goldman money and support with Hillary Clinton, who also has strong ties to the bank and is expected to raise large sums from its executives to help fund her likely presidential campaign. And it means the nation’s richest investment bank is increasingly putting its money on the two best-known candidates, both of whom are viewed across Wall Street as centrists who could cool some of the scorching anti-banker rhetoric and policies emanating from the Elizabeth Warren wing on the left and the tea party movement on the right.
The former Florida governor will rake in much larger checks of $50,000 per head later in the evening at a more exclusive affair organized by Jim Donovan, a senior Goldman executive who was a key fundraiser and adviser for Mitt Romney and is now playing the same role for Bush. It will also feature John Thain, a former Goldman president who went on to serve as CEO of the New York Stock Exchange and now heads middle-market lender CIT. Other organizers include Scott Kapnick, a former co-head of investment banking at Goldman who is now chief executive of Highbridge Capital along with Ed Forst, a former co-head of Goldman’s investment management division. Muneer Satter, a former Goldman executive who was a co-chair of Romney’s finance committee in 2012, is another organizer.
In addition to at least achieving parity with Clinton in the Wall Street money race, Bush is looking to muscle out other GOP candidates for financial services industry cash, especially New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. So far, Bush has succeeded in this effort on his way to what supporters hope will be a war chest as large as $100 million by the end of the first quarter for Bush’s Right to Rise political action committees. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker draws significant interest from Wall Street. But the other potential GOP candidates including Senators Rand Paul, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, whose wife works at Goldman, have drawn much less support.
But the fight to dislodge Clinton as Goldman's favorite future president will be an uphill one:
The battle for the hearts and wallets of Goldman Sachs titans goes right to the top. Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein is close to Clinton and has held fundraisers for her. The former first lady, New York senator and secretary of state gave a well-paid speech to Goldman executives in 2013.
She and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have both raised huge sums from Goldman and all across Wall Street for their campaigns and charitable foundation. But Blankfein has also made warm comments about some in the Republican field including Bush. Blankfein has indicated he would be fine with either a Bush or Clinton presidency.
Of course he would: it's called "hedging" after all.
Then again, perhaps Goldman's televised infatuation with leaning left has ended: 'Goldman, along with the rest of Wall Street, steered much of its cash to then-Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential cycle, helping him raise $16 million. But they abandoned Obama for favorite son Mitt Romney in 2012. Clinton is expected to draw Wall Street cash back to the Democratic Party in 2016. And Bush is moving early to make sure the former first lady does not establish any kind of dominance in the financial sector."
One thing is clear: both candidates are desperate to get access to Goldman's check book: "Executives at Goldman and other Wall Street banks are even more vital in 2016 because they can write giant checks to so-called super PACs backing individual candidates. And as long as Bush is not an announced candidate he can personally attend super PAC events like the one hosted by Kapnick. Once Bush is officially in the race, he will no longer be able to coordinate with his super PAC."
So what is the Goldman strategy here? All too simple: shower both candidates with money (money which was recently printed by the same Fed, whose all important New York branch is controlled by a former Goldmanite), and in return expect protection from the very top to assure nothing can ever touch the vampire squid.
“Goldman likes to play both sides of the fence and that’s especially true of a race like this where either of these two candidates — Bush and Clinton — could ultimately be helpful to them,” said Charles Geisst, a Wall Street historian at Manhattan College.
Campaign finance experts say Goldman is hoping another President Bush or President Clinton would both push for Wall Street-friendly policies and draw on Goldman’s executive ranks for expertise, a practice that has fallen out of favor in the years following the financial crisis.
“Goldman is a behemoth that invests in everything and advises every industry and what it wants is literally everything,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics. “It’s concerned about tax reform, Dodd-Frank implementation, energy and nuclear power and everything else. It will be interesting to see who wins this Goldman Sachs sweepstakes because it is such an influential player.
It will be, and in the meantime, Goldman will make sure it is providing enough funding to both candidates just so when the time comes to callin a favor or two, either Hillary or Jeb pick up the phone.
In the meantime, the perfectly naive US public continues to believe in such quaint, long refuted, ideas as "democracy", "representation" and "left vs right", all of which have long since been LBOed (at record low rates) by Wall Street's FDIC-backed hedge fund, pardon, banking titans.
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Jeb is wrong on the issues, starting with ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
We need to cut government in half in the first round, of a thirty round fight.
Yep. Let's start with eliminating the funding of free Viagra for middle-aged Republicans who are too fat and can no longer get it up.
They can't get it up with women. Little boys is another story.
Of course there could be the issue of the sub-conscious haunting them? Nah! Doubt that!
Goldman would be fine with either Bush or Clinton because they control both parties via their bankster buddies.
No Shit...this is akin to asking a Galapagos Tortoise if he prefers a head of lettuce or a carrot...
"No transparency for Clinton's Bush."
Whatever happened to that most awesomely named blog, "Fuck LLoyd Blankfein"?
<-- Hilary Biliary is the only politician doing this
<-- Yeah right.
Lewis Black - selection of the next POTUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuD1zKtyHak
The republicans are of course too rich to get the free Viagra subsidies though.
Best definition of a Republican: "Someone who can't enjoy dinner unless they know someone else is going hungry".
Would this then be true: Democrat : "Someone who can't enjoy dinner unless they know everyone is equally hungry".
A lobbyist once told me that the difference between a Republican and a Democrat was that once you buy a Republican he stays bought.!
I agree then lets cut EBT to 0.
Hilary Clinton shows she's beyond incompentent to lead. Her emails must have been shared by every one of our enemies. Unbelievable.
'Our enemies'.....like Al CIAda and CIASIS?
The people who hate us for our freedom?
Could you possibly be any more naive? Her only enemies are "we the people."
Government doesn't lead. It follows. And it follows to destruction.
That Blond Skag didn't do her job as a wife, why would we think that she'd do her job as President? (...she couldn't keep her husband in her bed...)
GWB is a borderline retard.
Does anyone remember "That's my Bush" on the comedy channel prior to his re invention as a superhero after the PNAC New Pearl Harbor?
His brother Jeb however is not borderline. He is a full on retard with Sheldon Adelson's steeley dan stuck in his rear.
Perfect political candidate for Zio Bolshevik Amerika.
They are progressives aka communists in hiding
This is truly brilliant. Nice work.
Amazing. [7]
I'm offended.
Jeb: no way
Hillary: NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!
rand paul: maybe
Fool Us once,… Shame on you.
Fool Us twice . . . .
and you can do it a third time, and fourth time, and fifth time . . . etc, etc.
Yeah, the dumbazzes can't wait till 2016. They actually think this is a representative democracy instead of a fascist cleptocracy.
The sheeple on reddit are such gems "Putin determined to start WW3?" "He seems to have the "If Russia is going down you're all going down with me" mentality." lulz
wrong thread.
reddit is a psyop cia controlled (conde nast) media outlet.
also most of the posts there are by paid cpororate or government paid commenters.
it's a cesspool of manpiulation.
I really can't wait for this soap opera/mindless entertainment to end..
This shit never does end.
It does end. Unfortunately it ends with the death of millions of serfs like us. That is the great reset that some on here wish for.
On the other hand, I know a reset will happen. I just wish to find alternatives to stop repeating this cycle so future generations may have a better chance.
find the architect...
The snake / builder people have wisdom. They lack love. They lust to be lordlings, and they will not win in the end, probably destroying themselves along with much of humanity. There is a solution, unfortunately they rejected the chief cornerstone. They nailed Him to a tree, if we are to believe the story, choosing instead a world of murder, theft and deceit (to create their utopia without such things). Blinded by the light. Now they must murder billions?
The architects aren't important.
(They are greedy, fat little old men pervs and paid bespeckled geeks.)
The propagandists, order following trigger pullers and nuke button pushers have the ultimate say.
Want to find the latter ? Look in the mirror, folks. This goes on because we allow it, participate in it, and can't Imagine that it would be otherwise. And also, because we can't stand to think/say "I was fooled. I was wrong."
Yeah, keep looking for the next 'leader', the next Daddy or Mommy to make it all better.
Maybe she's not infallible? Did the CNN talking head just say that? Does anyone else see this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I'm just puzzled as to why there is not a 150 foot white marble statue of Hitlery in D.C. yet.
I was thinking that 10,000 marbles on the Inauguration Day parade would be a fine substitute.
It would seem that the oligarchs have a candidate in mind other than Billary. Stay tuned...........with vomit bags handy.
Just getting all the bad shit out of the way as early as possible.
True, Romney was betting on short memory span of sheeple.
Funny that no one she emailed at the time seemed to noticed the oddity. The "story" "broke" years later.
They should have picked it up from her email address: Hillary@kakistocracy.com
BigBooty666@hotmail.com
This election race is a farce. Oligarchs own both candidates, the racetrack, all the stewards, jockies, the toteboard, the betting machines and the tickets.
We're just left with the steaming horse shit.
I'm betting this is just a red herring setup. Everyone will bluster about this for a good while, then Hitlery will come out looking perfectly clean and 'the victim' that we'll all have to feel sorry for now. It's all just a game 100%
The NSA should release her emails
That would be a Hard Choice.
Fuck that smelly cunt clinton with a telephone pole . Ghadafi her
Who benefits from this? Fauxchahontos.
For the people by the people. Thank God CORPORATIONS are people in the USofA, and thank you Lloyd, for doing Gods work for him.
Hillary's snuke exploded in her snizz. Now Jeb's got a chubby that only GS can fluff for the big time.
Eat a bag of dicks Jeb.
"At this point Senator, what difference does it make!?" - Screech Owl
All the more reason to present him neither...
What's with the stubble, Lloyd, afraid to let a razor get too close to your neck?
I must be a really big dummy. Why any human would monitor politics at the federal level and vote in these garbage, bullshit sideshows without first seeing the abolishment of the Federal Reserve and enactment of term limits is beyond my level of comprehension apparently.
hear here
I am so sick of these retards they offer up to us for the official selection. It would be nice if Americans just once said no to either of the two official choices. Alas I know it's a pipe dream. We are a country of retards ruled over by oligarch selected retards.
Idiocracy developing faster than we thought?
Presidency or Coronation?
Neither. A titular head of state who will follow Goldman Sucks' CEO's orders, right down the line.
This Scum Fuck would be happy with Stalin, Mao or Pot if they were alive. Only reason I didnt through Hitler in the mix is he'd at least would of thrown his Zionist ass in the Gas chamber.
"I Would Be Fine With Either A Bush Or Clinton Presidency"
Because it's the SAME FUCKING THING.
The secular Jews are now in firm control of the government particklerly the most strategic part of it: Where all the fucking money is, and will be, and who gets it.
How this came to pass will have to wait for Hitler like demogogue that will manage to get the information out, and even then is likely to be suppressed.
And as hrc says, her grandfather is jewish. Or someone.
Does not matter who is POTUS, which is now relegated to a cameo of how diversified the american cuntry is.
the next PUPPET will be worse than the current PUPPET
Doesn't matter. In the end another Zionist Oligarch will be "Selected."
I wouldn't consider Obama a Zionist. So how would you explain his "selection'?
As long as you blame others, then you will always have an excuse to be held down and thus will be your life.
Brianna Kellar, a bubble head media bleach blond declares 'WOW! I declare this to be a 'big deal!' Bitch probably can't change a light bulb...she's reading the script handed to her while listening thru ear piece how to reply to any questions.
My guess? Hillary is being damaged because everyone knows there's not a damn bit of difference between her and Jeb. However, just like the 2014 midterms, the illusion of power changing hands (from a D to an R at 1600) is part of the oligarchy's plan to keep just enough of the sheeple from taking to the streets - or noticing the men behind the curtain.
Let's face it: Bill is enough baggage, by himself, to ruin her chances in the general. But Dubya is enough baggage to ruin Jeb's chances, also. And if we go from Obama to Hillary in 2016, there's a chance that the percentage of awakened Americans might get large enough to make life difficult for Goldman Sachs and the House of Rothschild whose (One) ring they kiss. Better to let folks see the deck chairs on the Titanic get rearranged. "Look - democracy in action! Now go back to sleep in front of the TV, America. Survivor is on!"
Rand Paul, while by no means perfect, is the only one who isn't wholly owned and operated by the nationless oligarchy. Anyone who truly wants to see a chance of disrupting the Pharisees and their parasitic plans for the world needs to get off their duff and go vote IN THE PRIMARY for Rand. Again, this isn't about perfection. This is about understanding just how little chance we have left of escaping the NWO.
For all we know, he could be the tool of "Austerity in the USA."
And/Or the ultimate sacrificial lamb when all of the supports are removed.
Regardless, there's no escape from the NWO, as it's based purely on destroying our way of life, leaving us with no alternatives.
In other words, TINA rules.
For all we know, he could be the tool of "Austerity in the USA."
I concede that you could be correct. However, I really don't think so.
Regardless, there's no escape from the NWO, as it's based purely on destroying our way of life, leaving us with no alternatives.
Audit the Fed, shut that f^&*er down, cancel ALL debt owed to private banking families, and carry on. The Pharisees only want us to believe there is no escape from their clutches. It's not actually true. Their only power is illusion: the illusion of wealth (fiat), the illusion of power (politicians bought off with fiat), the illusion of control (stranglehold on mass media outlets). They are merely illusionists, not actual sorcerers. Sure, their hired goons can kill individuals, but they have no real power over humanity as a whole - except that which humanity voluntarily gives them.
Stop giving them that power. THAT is how we escape them. And they know this, which is why President Zero is pulling out all the stops to collapse America.
Which is EXACTLY why we shouldn't be fine with either.
Not the emails on the hard drives line again, they are stored on a server.
Actual president, a bankster, says he's fine with either bought and paid for political toady....how everyone can't see thru this absolute farce is amazing to me.
Put any sinner at the front of the parade...
But the Saints will still march on.
That's just the way it is.
its pretty comical and quaint, to still talk about elections... really? wtf?
NSA owns everything, eveyone. period. what art of thatwent over your head?
TIA means TOTAL CONTROL.
P < P + I
"I would be fine with any of the Rothschilds puppet-mastering The President."
Oh my god.
We've been infested with Media Matters trolls.
Most everyone here knows that there is no difference between repukes and demonrats. I would suggest your time would be better spent elsewhere.
Oh, and FOAD.
Note - those comments (Viagra/little boys) disapeared. No offense to anyone else.
Of course they're fine with either candidate; they've owned them for years. Probably their whole lives. Sins of the fathers. It's sad, because there are thousands of better men and women capable of representing the 99%. But those good people simply will not sell their souls to any political machine financed by the banksters.
Matters not, the Talmuds have the Goy dancing to their tune like they always do. Something tells me however, that even that dance is getting long-in-the-tooth. One might have thought the Madoff scandal would have woken at least a few of the over-entertained and distracted Goy. Not so. Diversions, obfuscations and Supreme cleverness in finance have proven all too effective. Then again, real hardship has yet to befall in America so we shall see in good time how this dynamic shakes out.
Hillary: "We came. We saw, He died" along with his nation
Jeb: Terri Schiavo starved to death.
God I'm glad I gave up voting for these monsters.
Keep using Government resources. Report what you believe to be suspicious people sneaking round late at night, for example. It costs money to send a patrol car.
"Hopefully she hasn’t already destroyed them,”
We should be able to trust her. After all, she is a Clinton.
Even 100 billion wouldn't sway the informed voter but for the low info voters the constant drum beat of Hillary commercial followed by Bush commercial will suggest only two choices and with the complicy of the media it's nearly an impossible task to get anyone decent.
This 'issue' is a non issue distraction .. those two clowns .. are being groomed to win .. one or the ohter pretty much the same outcome.. howeer the kicker may be ... they will rule a kingdome of scorpions and snakes... as the US empire moves into its final days. Hillary or Jeb work for the same people... the media will select the cndidate .. a lot of ininformer primary voters will come out and vote tupid .. we will be left with choosing which wing of the vulture makes us happy .. in the end .. Diebold for the win.
Hillary to American People: Don't worry, I know better than you.
Liberal Elites to US People: Don't worry, we know better than you.
Save the world. Arrest Lloyd Blankfein.
Humans are so finished. The vast majority of people utterly accept the choice of the "final two" based upon mainstream media propaganda guarantees. Which proves how insane they are.
D - Obama
R - Bush
D - Clinton
R - Bush
R - Reagan
D - Carter
R - Nixon/Ford
D - Kennedy/Johnson
R - Eisenhower
D - Truman
See the pattern? Except for Reagan to Bush, the elected alternate. What isn't obvious from the above is that any president, R or D, tends to keep the office for as many terms as law permits. Which is why Nixon and Ford only count as one president, since Ford became president when Nixon had to resign, and Johnson became president after he and the federal reserve had Kennedy killed.
Which means, barring something strange, the next republican candidate will be president.
The reason for the above two phenomenon should be obvious. By the time a president has shafted the people for 4~8 years, they have a bad taste in their mouth for that party. Hence the other party wins. On the other hand, being president comes with enormous power, funding, unlimited free media exposure, and much of the federal government ready to illegally aid your campaign for another 4 years.
And so, Hillary has an uphill road, even though nominally speaking "it is her turn" in the conversion of the USSA to a sick mutation of being run like a "kingdom" (based on family) plus "celebrity" (which started with Reagan, I suppose).
Of course, the predators-that-be behind the front humans don't really care, as long as they retain total control (even as they allow minor soap opera circuses to play out to keep the sheep distracted).
On the other hand, handing the presidency to the THIRD Bush out of FIVE presidents is seriously, seriously, seriously sick, and quite obviously so. Literally nobody on planet earth can possibly believe these Bush frauds are qualified for anything beyond landscaping gigs, if that.
Also on the other hand, the predators-that-be got a HUGE benefit from Obama being a minority ("everyone who objects to anything from Obama is automatically labeled a racist" has been enormously effective protection and made the extreme degree of atrocities by Obama possible). This scam worked so well, one has to believe the predators-that-be would love to take advantage of that fraudulent scam yet again by electing the first female president.
I mean seriously! What human being doesn't find the following completely insane?
Bush, HW
Clinton, Bill
Bush, GW
Obama, B
Bush, JW
... if not ...
Bush, HW
Clinton, B
Bush, GW
Obama, B
Bush, JW
Clinton, H
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The USSA is a freaking living soap opera. Completely insane.
NOT a banana republic? Welcome to the oligarchy/plutocracy!
Yes, it is a sad joke on Americans.
Let me add to the numbers.
- yep, the Party doesn't matter, it is all rigged.
$T Debt Added
J. Carter, ,$0.37 T (4 yrs)
R. Reagan, $1.69 T
G. H Bush, $1.4 T (4 yrs)
W. Clinton, $1.627 T
G. W. Bush, $4.357 T
B. Obama, $6.365 T (4 yrs)
B. Obama, $8 T (6 yrs est.)
You should Note: in Obama's first years that he lost Tax Revenue. I should show this data somehow next time.
30 September 2014, Final Monthly Treasury Statement, Outlays and Revenues, Table 5.
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2014 = $3.5 Trillion (B. Obama)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2002 = $3.54 Trillion (B. Obama)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2010 = $3.45 Trillion (B. Obama)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2008 = $2.98 Trillion (G.W. Bush)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2006 = $2.65 Trillion (G.W. Bush)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2004 = $2.29 Trillion (G.W. Bush)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2002 = $2.01 Trillion (B. Clinton)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 2000 = $1.79 Trillion (B. Clinton)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 1998 = $1.65 Trillion (B. Clinton)
Total-Federal Government Actual Budget 1997 = $1.6 Trillion (B. Clinton)
- Spending by H.W. Bush is outrageous
- And you can see how G.W. Bush Spending was Contrived to move budget spending up $1 Trillion Dollars
- If you look at B. Clinton, it appears that he is raising Military Spending in the later 4 years of Presidency and actually moving up to $2 Trillion Dollar Budget as a Strategy for the Bankers or Puppet Masters who are planning the huge Fiscal Spending Programs for subsequent Presidencies
1994 - NAFTA, Deregulation of Trade, 3 Nations (W. Clinton)
1995 - Community Reinvestment Act, the Clinton Admin urged flexibility,
1995 - HUD advocated greater involvement of state and local organizations
1996 - Energy (W. Clinton, followed by ENRON Scandal)
1996 - Telecommunications Act (W. Clinton, cross ownership)
1996 - Start of a Period of Accounting Fraud in USA which continues today
1997 - M2 Money Velocity Top
1998 - Clinton's Kosovo War (over 60 Days)
1998 - Brooksly Born Rejected on her concerns on OTC Derivatives
1998 - Derivatives expanded and were not regulated
1998 - Citicorp & Travelers Insurance Merger
1999 - Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (Phil Gramm, W. Clinton, followed by 2008 Financial Crisis)
1999 - bombing campaign in Kosovo (W. Clinton, over 60 days)
2000 - Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (P. Gramm, W. Clinton, derivatives)
Personally I don't see a sudden collapse really. Sure maybe the currency will collapse 30% or something. But Empires die over a century or so. True, Technology and information speeds are greater influences... so I don't know.
Still I consider gaining skills and looking a foreign locations for new bases.
Without a doubt the predators-that-be are now very good at kicking the can down the road further than nominally rational people imagine.
So I don't know how long they can keep up the scam. The Weimar hyperinflation took several years to play out, for example.
Nonetheless, the usual pattern is, some event eventually occurs that spooks enough people that it starts a self-reinforcing panic. So once the dam breaks, the collapse is likely to happen very fast. Not necessarily the hyperinflation part, but the loss of confidence and change in behavior parts.
That was the e-mail for her Alt' anyway: Osama bin Laden.
Personally, I think it would be kind of cool to be president during world war three.
I think Bill Clinton let this one out of the bag.
What does Jeb mean when he says "You can see mine here"?
This article is more evidence that there is almost nothing but organized crime surrounded by controlled opposition. Since that has been so socially successful, for so long, there is no practical way to change it, since there is no publicly significant opposition that is not controlled, and hard to imagine how there possibly could be. Hence, we are stuck in the rut of rushing towards final failure from too much success at controlling the government through the application of the methods of organized crime. Society as a whole becomes more psychotic the more that systems of organized crime and controlled opposition work.
My assessment is that society is terminally sick and insane, while the article above merely added more confirmation to that view. It gets harder and harder to hold on to even irrational hopes for the future ... There is nothing left than a sort of transcendental hope for something to survive through the eventual psychotic breakdowns of the established systems of organized crime, surrounded by controlled opposition, after their own runaway madness destroys themselves ???
The Real Owners of this Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dY4WlxO6i0
That Blond Skag didn't do her job as a wife, why would we think that she'd do it as president? (...she couldn't keep Billy happy in the sack, so he diddled Monica...)