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How many more blind eyes can the press (or "we, the people") turn?

Source: Townhall.com

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As Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger explains...

A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts.

 

If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court.

 

Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS, an outcome that drew criticism from some lawmakers who wanted a more extensive crackdown.

 

From that point on, UBS’s engagement with the Clinton family’s charitable organization increased. Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according the foundation and the bank.

 

The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann, making UBS his biggest single corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House.

 

– From today’s Wall Street Journal article: UBS Deal Shows Clinton’s Complicated Ties

The best part about Hillary Clinton’s run for the Presidency, is the endless series of scandals and shadiness that inevitably comes along with being part of an entrenched status quo family that prioritizes the accumulation of wealth and power above all else. The reason Barack Obama was able to generate so much genuine “hope” prior to his election is 2008, is because he was a complete unknown. He could say all the right things, and it was easy for people to believe the hype.

The exact oppositie is true of Hillary. No one believes anything that comes out of her mouth. Everyone knows she is dishonest, shady, and as Camille Paglia perfectly summarized in her Salon article today:

Hillary has accomplished nothing substantial in her life. She’s been pushed along, coasting on her husband’s coattails, and every job she’s been given fizzled out into time-serving or overt disaster.  Hillary constantly strikes attitudes and claims she’s “passionate” about this or that, but there’s never any sustained follow-through.  She’s just a classic, corporate exec or bureaucrat type who would prefer to be at her desk behind closed doors, imposing her power schemes on the proletariat.  She has no discernible political skills of any kind, which is why she needs a big, shifting army of consultants, advisors, and toadies to whisper in her ear and write her policy statements.  There’s this ridiculous new theme in the media about people needing to learn who the “real” Hillary Clinton is.  What? Everything they’re saying about what a wonderful person Hillary is in private tells us that she’s not competent or credible as a public figure! A politician, particularly a president, must have a distinct skill or expertise in communicating with the masses.  It’s the absolutely basic requirement for any career in politics.

Now, let’s take a look at the pantsuit revolutionary’s latest scandal, outlined in today’s Wall Street Journal:

A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts.

 

If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court.

 

Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS, an outcome that drew criticism from some lawmakers who wanted a more extensive crackdown.

 

From that point on, UBS’s engagement with the Clinton family’s charitable organization increased. Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according the foundation and the bank.

 

The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann, making UBS his biggest single corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House.

 

The UBS matter involved her helping solve a problem for a foreign bank—not a popular constituency among Democrats—and stepping into an area where government prosecutors had been taking the lead.

Banks are not a “popular constituent among Democrats.” What planet are you living on?

UBS officials deny any connection between the legal case and the foundation donations. “Any insinuation that any of our philanthropic or business initiatives stems from support received from any current or former government official is ludicrous and without merit,” a bank spokeswoman said. UBS said the speeches by Mr. Clinton and the donations were part of a program to respond to the 2008 economic downturn.

 

UBS’s troubles began in 2007 when an American banker working in Switzerland told the U.S. Justice Department that UBS had recruited thousands of U.S. customers seeking to avoid U.S. taxes. The disclosure led UBS to enter into a deferred-prosecution agreement with the Justice Department in 2009. The bank admitted to helping set up sham companies, creating phony paperwork and deceiving customs officials. It paid a $780 million fine and turned over the names of 250 account holders.

If you or I were caught doing 0.5% of what UBS did we would be thrown in the gulag for life.

On July 31, Ms. Calmy-Rey appeared with Mrs. Clinton at the State Department to announce a deal in principle. The Justice Department and IRS agreed to dismiss the lawsuit and settle the disagreement under a U.S.-Swiss tax treaty, as Ms. Calmy-Rey had sought. UBS would turn over information on about 4,450 accounts, not 52,000.

 

“Our governments have worked very hard to reach this point,” Mrs. Clinton said.

 

Ms. Calmy-Rey called the agreement a “Peace Treaty” and UBS praised it.

 

Mr. DiCicco, the senior Justice Department tax lawyer on the case who has since retired, said the State Department didn’t get involved in details of the settlement, but did warn about the ramifications of taking a tough line.

 

“There is a risk that if a large bank is indicted it would lose its ability to do business in the U.S.,” he said. “That was a consideration.” He said there was no “pressure” from the State Department on that issue.

Now you see what happens when banks become too big and too powerful to be indicted: Oligarchy. Rampant elite criminality. Unimaginable corruption.

Mr. Clinton earned $1.5 million for 11 appearances in New York, Dallas, Miami, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Nashville and other cities. Mr. McCann, the UBS Wealth Management executive, conducted the panel discussions with Messrs. Clinton and Bush. Spokesmen for Mr. Bush and UBS declined to comment on how much Mr. Bush was paid.

But hey,

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Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:39 | 6372256 venturen
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How else do you think Clinton became the 10th richest ex-president....and miraculously without ever working at a company or inventing anything. 

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:44 | 6372272 knukles
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Chicken feet futures trading in abstentia?
Why, dontcha know money growns right on them thar trees down the holler round holler, y'all.  City folk just don' geddit.
Yeee hah!  Y'all gonna have a real good time at them thar fun camps.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 17:07 | 6372693 PrayingMantis
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... "The best part about Hillary Clinton’s run for the Presidency, is the endless series of scandals and shadiness ..." ...

     ... if the pantsuit sorcerer pisses you off, piss her back ... simply remind her of one of William's little miss dirty-knees ... however, there's no guarantee she'll be offended, but heck, what difference does it make ... tell her anyway ... ;)

 

   ... Moanica Lewinsky goes to the dry cleaner and tells the owner, "I've got another dress for you to clean."

       Slightly hard of hearing, the guy replies, "Come again?"

       "No," she says. "Mustard."

 

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 18:47 | 6373088 insanelysane
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The thing I love about the Hillary scandals are the circular arguments the defenders try to use.  Of course the sheeple are too stupid to have 2 thoughts.

Statement 1:  State Department states that none of the emails Hillary sent during her time at the State contained classified material.

Statement 2:  State Department states that it can't release all of the emails quickly because they all must be checked and have the classified material redacted.

 

Statement 1:  While working at the State Department Hillary needed a private email server because it was easier to handle work and personal business emails.

Statement 2:  Just before kicking off her personal campaign for president, Hillary got rid of the private email server because she didn't need it.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 19:33 | 6373219 macholatte
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There is only one thing the Clintons deserve.... a fair trial.

 

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:47 | 6372284 38BWD22
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Unfortunately, any scandals, however numerous or serious, do not matter.  I do not remember where I read this item, but the piece said that 47% of the electorate would vote for Hillary no matter what she does, no matter what scandals erupt.  

I regret that I do not have the link, nor am I able to offer a solid opinion on that, but it rings true.

 

EDIT: Hi knukles!  All is well for me, I hope the same for you, an anniversary is coming...   :)

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:48 | 6372303 CheapBastard
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True, they kept electing Mrion Barry also. It's a wacky nation but as long as the FSA keeps getting FS, they'll keep voting for these FS people.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:49 | 6372309 dontgoforit
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That would be the 47% Romney talked about?  Surely some of that same 47% anyway.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:01 | 6372368 madcows
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I think it's actually on 16%, but they vote 3 times each.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 17:07 | 6372672 giovanni_f
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As I said repeatedly: The Ukraine is the blueprint for the US. An entirely law-less, oligarchs-ruled, fascist corporatocracy with a decimated middle-class and a dumbed-down mob-majority which in turn enjoys full freedom to follow its most despicable instincts and desires either as low-ranked government thugs or, e.g., animal-porn performers.

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 04:21 | 6374477 PlayMoney
Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:40 | 6372259 madcows
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She's dirty, filthy.  And not in a good way.  She'll spend eternity in Dante's new 8th level of Hell.  Cankles up, on fire, being leg-humped by Chris Matthew's.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:50 | 6372314 pndr4495
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It would be justice if the Clintons were sued civilly and criminally at the same time for the quid pro quo shenanigans we read about constantly. Maybe the lawyers could bankrupt them again. This country is in serious trouble as G. Edward Griffin has pointed out many times.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:40 | 6372260 thunderchief
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If she wins,  I think  every American will vomit a little bit in their throat,  every day for the next eight years.

The difference is Democrats will do it with a smile on their face.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:53 | 6372326 Skateboarder
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Freedom vomit!

(now new and improved w/ Democracy taste)

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:40 | 6372262 Four chan
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this cunt can grift all she wants but she will never have her precious.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:41 | 6372268 The_Prisoner
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Don't worry. Michael Bay is making a movie about Benghazi, so you know the truth will be out. /sarc

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:53 | 6372327 replaceme
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I saw the trailer for that today, actually looks good - how accurate it will be is another thing. Regardless, Hillary will not like seeing Benghazi on TV and the big screen, so that makes me happy.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:43 | 6372275 Burticus
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"Act surprised" that Hitlery Rotten is, well, rotten.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:34 | 6372289 gregga777
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Hillary is the nastiest diseased whore in the world.

Alright, I apologize for the insult to honest "working" women everywhere by calling Hillary a whore.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:47 | 6372294 corporatewhore
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and that is why she'll win

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:48 | 6372297 Bill of Rights
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Lets get our facts strait UBS sent shit to the Clintons, the TAX payers sent it!...When they meet their maker someday we can only hope he tears their souls to shreds...

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:48 | 6372302 Chuck Knoblauch
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UBS is the banker for ISIS.

I'm not surprised Hildabeast has a slush fund too.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:52 | 6372313 Chupacabra-322
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"what difference, at this point, does it make."
Criminal Psychopath / Sociopath / War Criminal / Treasonist Hillary Clinton.

Difference is, now you & your Pschopathic Criminal Vermin, Scum Fuck cohorts Crimes are now out in the open for all the World to see. What used to be "hidden in plain sight" is no longer "hidden knowledge."

Lucerferian Scum Fucks can no longer operate in the dark.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:51 | 6372317 gregga777
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The horizontal arrowhead on its 2016 campaign trash is symbolic of both Hillary's serpent's tongue and her Devil's tail.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:51 | 6372319 Johnny Caine
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You have to admire the testicular fortitude on this Bitch.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:54 | 6372330 gregga777
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Like Hell! I thoroughly and vehemently loathe the Oligarchy's Whore!

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:56 | 6372340 gregga777
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Please, tell me that you were being sarcastic!

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 21:36 | 6373642 Burticus
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NO intestical fortitude, just cuntnections.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:52 | 6372324 gregga777
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Hillary the Oligarchy's Whore is symbolic of the illegitimacy of the entire institutional structure of the United States of America.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:53 | 6372328 The Delicate Genius
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Have any of you tried reasoning with female friends/gfs who came out pro-Hillary early on? Anyone have any luck.

I know a couple - smart as hell - who simply repeat and repeat "it's time for a woman".... which **seems** fucking retarded, but then I'm just a straight white male so my understanding is I'm not entitled to have an opinion.

Hillary Keeps Lying
Why does Hillary lie? Because she thinks she can get away with it. Will American voters let her?

http://reason.com/archives/2015/07/30/hillary-lies-again

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:57 | 6372347 gregga777
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Since all American elections are rigged it doesn't matter what choice the voters make.

Fri, 07/31/2015 - 01:50 | 6374289 StychoKiller
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As far as I know, Carly Fiorina is also a Utero-American running for the Whitehouse...

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:56 | 6372342 Atomizer
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Big gapping hole for a UBS audit distributing funds to Clinton Foundation. 

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 15:57 | 6372344 Magooo
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Who gives a fuck.

 

And why the fuck does anyone bother to vote? 

 

"I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ... The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply."  Nathan Rothschild

 

 “Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nation’s laws. … Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.” — Mackenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister 1935-1948.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:07 | 6372395 gregga777
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America's elections are all rigged anyway. Why bother?

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:01 | 6372369 thunderchief
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She will never ever get layed again, unless it's with machinery or four legged animals.

Her sex is power, and this is why everyone should turn their backs on this American stain. .

The Clintons. .. 

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:01 | 6372372 Anunnaki
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Pay for play! Just like Corzine Obama will want to give her a free Pass. Iranian-Negro Valerie Jarrett is our best hope for seeing Hillary in chains. She hates Hillary

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 18:51 | 6373100 bjfish
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Yea, right.  Pres. Jarrett is the only woman more despicable than Shillery.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 19:29 | 6373207 Bazza McKenzie
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She only gets a free pass if she stands down so the Obama crime machine can put their man Joe up.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:03 | 6372381 Atomizer
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To the assclown liberals. Hillarys IP address is logged, no matter what device she was using to access her private Clinton Foundation email account. The emails were not deleted. Everything is available. 

 

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:11 | 6372414 38BWD22
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I hope you are right!  I also hope that the proper authorities work up some fortitude of their own and do a proper investigation.

Like they would were it you or me involved.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:04 | 6372383 gregga777
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Does anyone really believe that Jeb or Hillary would even rate a mention if America had free and fair elections?

I have far more faith in the American People to believe that the current diseased pus bags, like Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, et. al., would be anywhere else but jail if America had free and fair elections.

Hell, to the consternation of the anti-Semitic crowd, Israeli elections are a shining light unto the world in comparison with America's rigged elections!

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:05 | 6372388 CHC
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TRUMP 2016!  Let's do this Don - let's whip the snot out of that lil piglet.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 17:16 | 6372728 EscondidoSurfer
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You do know that Hildabeast has been supported by Trump.  He is likely studying her approach to politics as a way to enrich himself should he by some means gain her power.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 19:27 | 6373200 Bazza McKenzie
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So he has lodged electoral papers showing he is worth $10B or so and you think he is eyeing the Presidency as a way to get rich.

And so far as having "supported" the Hildabeast, he, like every other business person in Democrat controlled cities, has paid the extortion to the Dems and their leaders necessary in order to operate in those locations.  That is not an indication of faith in what she stands for or her methods.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 19:31 | 6373213 Unknown Rider
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Interesting. The two primary maxims of politics seem to not apply to the Don: First you get elected, then you get rich (he's there already), and a poor politician is a poor politician (he's certainly not poor). He might just do something good.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:06 | 6372391 Joebloinvestor
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The Clintons are the personification of evil.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:06 | 6372394 Lumberjack
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“You Can Legally Bribe a Government Official” 

 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/you-can-legally-bribe-a-government-official/5465490 

 

Janine Jackson interviewed investigative reporter Lee Fang about Washington’s revolving door for the July 24 CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.

Janine Jackson: When Eric Holder first joined law firm Covington & Burling in 2001, he was coming from a stint as deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton. So it’s no wonder that when Holder went to the Obama administration as attorney general, the folks at Covington kept his seat warm.

...JJ: Well, when you talk about Eric Holder going from Covington & Burling to the White House back to Covington & Burling back to the White House back to Covington & Burling, the response from many could be summed up, I think, as “duh.” I mean, some of us don’t forget 1992 Hillary Clinton saying, “For goodness sakes, you can’t be a lawyer if you don’t represent banks.”…

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:16 | 6372433 Anunnaki
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Is that the proverbial dung heap Hillary is squatting on?

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:33 | 6372491 wmbz
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The Hilabeast could go for a swim off the coast of Brazil and come out smelling like a rose!

She is one EVIL bitch!

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:47 | 6372576 Max Cynical
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And how much more was deposited into Hillary & Bill's numbered swiss bank account to get this deal done?

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 16:59 | 6372641 Atomizer
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DOJ is still fucking around to look important. Hiding money.

Swiss Bank Reaches Resolution under Justice

 

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 17:14 | 6372720 Hubbs
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Wow!  52,000-4,450 = 47,550 people in Swiss Accounts must have connections with Hillybitch.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 17:31 | 6372742 NuYawkFrankie
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OK - Hillary might've danced the shake-down shuffle with UBS...

but at $600-a-pop for a bull-dyke buzz-cut (don't let the campaign-wig fool ya) what's a po'girl to do?

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 17:22 | 6372756 quasi_verbatim
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Hillary's got the Diebolds, the Kochs have got her back and ZHedgers are only 0.000005% anyway, so what difference does it make?

If to her share some female errors fall,

Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.

 

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 18:03 | 6372934 SSRI Junkie
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I'm still waiting for Shrillary to promise "My administration will be the most transparent administration in history".

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 18:05 | 6372939 petaloka
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CUNT.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 19:38 | 6373231 Hey Assholes
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Ah yes, the acronym CUNT == Can't Understand Normal Thinking.

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 18:22 | 6373009 jcdenton
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I just do wonder if Townhall folk know about Scott Bennett, and that John Boner has an account at UBS ..

http://armypsyop.wix.com/scottbennett

Thu, 07/30/2015 - 19:28 | 6373205 Omega_Man
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When is this bitch gonna be arrested?

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