Hilary's Emails

[don]

Re: Taibbi: Clinton's Fake Populism Is a Hit

tip of the hat to Jesse's Cafe Americain . . .

"Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters."

Upton Sinclair, The Brass Check

What sort of people do we elect? What types of organizations are acquiring much more power, sometimes even tremendous control over healthcare, food, and the military, and with it the power of life and death?


The twenty traits assessed by the PCL-R score are:

• glib and superficial charm

• grandiose (exaggeratedly high) estimation of self

• need for constant stimulation

• pathological lying

• cunning and manipulativeness

• lack of remorse or guilt

• superficial emotional responsiveness

• callousness and lack of empathy

• parasitic lifestyle

• poor behavioral controls

• sexual promiscuity

• early behavior problems

• lack of realistic long-term goals

• impulsivity

• irresponsibility

• failure to accept responsibility for own actions

• many short-term marital relationships

• juvenile delinquency

• revocation of conditional release

• criminal versatility

Robert Hare: Psychopathy Checklist

[lektrode]

Re: Taibbi: Clinton's Fake Populism Is a Hit

tip of the hat to Jesse's Cafe Americain . . ...
Robert Hare: Psychopathy Checklist

+1

will see that and raise ya with this one:
(which SLAMS that cheerleader/pointman for the lower manhattan clusterf__k thats banking on hitlery making the cut...)

Stop The Presses: Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Slams QE


Whether it is due to pervasive groupthink, a chronic lack of vision, the perpetuation of failed ideas, or just because the alternative casts grave doubts about the value of their very existence, conventional economists and their media lackeys have almost without exception been supportive of the Fed's "recovery" efforts, be it ZIRP or QE. After all, neoclassical economics demands it, and if the Fed is wrong about its response to the second great depression, then the value of every single economist likewise goes out the window.
Still, in the relentless rising tide of ever louder voices against central planning by the world's monetary authorities, and its destructive consequences, mostly originated by people who engage in actual work as opposed to tenured academics who live in ivory towers where they conduct (failed) thought experiments,it was only a matter of time before at least one prominent economist took the other side of the argument that according to the likes of Paul Krugman has only failed (so far) because not enough of it has been tried (leave it to an economist to completely fail to anticipate the collateral collapse resulting from relentless central bank debt monetization which Zero Hedge forecast as long ago as 2012).


That time has come, and over the weekend, none other than Nobel-prize winning economist Robert Merton (of expanded Black-Scholes fame) with Arun Muralidhar as co-author, released an Op-Ed in Pensions and Investments magazine titled "Monetary policy: It's all relative", in which they slammed not only the current monetary policy response to economic ills (as observed through the prism of pension math and the adverse impact of low rates), but question if instead of leading to an improvement, QE isn't in fact making the situation even worse.


As for the immediate response to this article from the Keynesian canon, here is a preview of what to expect.



theres LOTS MORE to this one, but eye thot this particular info-graphic quite illuminating...

and then there was one of the comments:

CD yields (what the WW2 generation counted on) at near zero is an effective 90% tax on the interest income of senior citizens. But let's ignore that and SPEND!

what makes this all 'so special' ?
is that its also a 90% TAX on those of us WHO DIDNT 'spend their way to'
.... uhhhh... 'prosperity'

just ONE MORE THING we can thank hilary's pals in the beltway for

[Woodsman]

Re: Hilary's Emails

"Larry Darrell Upright, 81, passed away Monday, April 13, 2015 at CMC-NorthEast...Also, the family respectfully asks that you do not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. R.I.P. Grandaddy.

http://www.whitleysfuneralhome.com/O...?IDclient=3929"

Given the circumstances, Mr. Upright might get the opportunity to exercise the franchise posthumously this go around.

[vt]

Re: Hilary's Emails

"Election 2016 - The Choice is Clear. You have no choice."

And when was the last time we actually had a choice?

"New boss same as the old boss"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htz9CS-Zmms

[Woodsman]

Re: Hilary's Emails

And when was the last time we actually had a choice?

Choice? 1960, I believe.

There was one brief shining moment in 1972 but the right wingers in the Democratic Party at the time couldn't handle the outcome of a genuine democratic nomination process. And so they sunk their candidate and the republic with it.

Everything else since flows from those two events, I think.

[lektrode]

Re: Hilary's Emails

Choice? 1960, I believe.

There was one brief shining moment in 1972 but the right wingers in the Democratic Party at the time couldn't handle the outcome of a genuine democratic nomination process. And so they sunk their candidate and the republic with it.

Everything else since flows from those two events, I think.

altho IMHO - on a shorter timeframe anyway - methinks that everything thats occurred during the oughts + forward?
is a direct result of 'the 2nd coming of camelot'

with the current occupant apparently thinking he's the 3rd...

[shiny!]

Re: Hilary's Emails

Choice? 1960, I believe.

There was one brief shining moment in 1972 but the right wingers in the Democratic Party at the time couldn't handle the outcome of a genuine democratic nomination process. And so they sunk their candidate and the republic with it.

Everything else since flows from those two events, I think.

This sounds right to me.

[Woodsman]

Re: Hilary's Emails

altho IMHO - on a shorter timeframe anyway

It's possible only there never was a Camelot. That myth came only after Jack was in the ground and Ted White's silly book.It's all idle speculation, of course. I expect had Bobby lived McGovern would have stayed the esteemed Senator from flyover country in the second RFK administration and that crazy 1972 convention would have been something quite other that what it turned out to be. But the gun took care of that possibility.

[shiny!]

Re: Hilary's Emails

It's possible only there never was a Camelot. That myth came only after Jack was in the ground and Ted White's silly book.It's all idle speculation, of course. I expect had Bobby lived McGovern would have stayed the esteemed Senator from flyover country in the second RFK administration and that crazy 1972 convention would have been something quite other that what it turned out to be. But the gun took care of that possibility.

Not to go all conspiracy theory or second amendmenty, but the gun was merely the tool. Could've been a car "accident" or plane crash or drug OD or anything. It's the people who wielded the tool who took care of that possibility.

[shiny!]

Re: Hilary's Emails

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[lektrode]

Re: Hilary's Emails

It's possible only there never was a Camelot. That myth came only after Jack was in the ground and Ted White's silly book.It's all idle speculation, of course.....

yeah i know woody - i'll have to take your word for that - just like 'the myth of the liberal guilt trip' - however these terms did manage to make into the lexicon of the political class and are the 'stock and trade' of the chattering class - so whats yer point ?

as i recall, the term 'camelot' was thrown around quite a bit in the 90's (mostly by wildbill's admirers, IIRC)

Not to go all conspiracy theory or second amendmenty, but the gun was merely the tool. Could've been a car "accident" or plane crash or drug OD or anything. It's the people who wielded the tool who took care of that possibility.

exactly - or a nailgun even - but on this, i'll hazard a guess that its also why we 'need gun control' to the point of confiscation (mostly by the same liberals, who are DEATHLY AFRAID of em) - even tho its another myth that 90% of all gun violence is the inner city (ghetto) crowd gang-bangin each other - right woody?

[Woodsman]

Re: Hilary's Emails

...- even tho its another myth that 90% of all gun violence is the inner city (ghetto) crowd gang-bangin each other - right woody?

Beats me. The crime stats boys do good work, ask them.

All I know is back in my DC days I spent many a long lunch admiring the artifacts and such at the National Firearms Museum back when it was a small time operation in the NRA's old DC office on Rhode Island Ave. Not to get all second amendmenty on you, as Shiny says.

[vt]

Re: Hilary's Emails

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us...pany.html?_r=0

[lektrode]

'the foundation' > frontrunning the Russian U market ?

hahahahahaha.....

More Clinton Cronyism: Selling Uranium Interests To Russia While Hillary Was SecState

"As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation... Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies including the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton... And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock."

this must be why CCJ is all of a sudden... bouncing...

[lektrode]

even hudson sez so?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us...pany.html?_r=0

purrfect!

didnt note this one when i posted my prev - above - about 'the foundation' (wonder what the all natch/non-gmo/anti-nuke luddite wing will think about THAT )

heres another one from hudson that belongs over here...

and heres the best part (emphasis by yerz truly..)

Originally Posted by don channeling hudson 04/01/2015
.....The U.S. political outlook: the Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run

Karl: Changing gears, let’s speed into the current American situation with Elizabeth Warren and the Democratic ticket. I saw this week that she’s come out fighting against banks and their threat to reduce donations to the Democratic Party if she doesn’t tone things down. Did your blood boil when you read that Michael?

Michael: Not at all. The Democratic Party in America is the party of Wall Street. A Republican administration could never get away with turning over power to Wall Street, because as long as they’re in power, the Democratic opposition will block them from doing it. Although the Republican Party is almost entirely funded by lobbyists, the Democratic Party is the one that has the power to unblock the giveaways to Wall Street. Most of this was done under former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin who got rid of the Glass-Steagall Act, blocked regulation of bank derivative gambles, and

inaugurated the wave of deregulation and outright criminalization of banking.

The Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999, when the Clinton Administration also blocked regulation for bank speculation in derivatives. It took only eight years for the most criminal organisations, Citibank and Bank of America (which bought the junk mortgage writer, Countrywide Finance) to bring down the economy. The head of Citibank was Rubin, after having freed it from regulation. What the press called the Rubino Gang wrote fake mortgages – they’re called “liar’s loans” or “Alt-A,” based on false declarations of income and false property valuations (the liars were the banks and the mortgage brokers) and sold them to gullible investors like German Landesbanks that were naive enough to believe that Wall Street wouldn’t try to cheat them. The junk mortgage bubble was one of the biggest ripoffs in history.

You can read what my UMKC colleague Bill Black has written recently on Naked Capitalism and the University of Missouri Kansas City site, New Economic Perspectives on the Citibank criminogenic organisation. The Democrats under Obama have blocked any prosecution of financial criminals.Not a single bank crook has been thrown in jail after over $4 trillion had been stolen and bailed out by the Federal Reserve’s wave of Quantitative Easing. The crime wave of Wall Street and real estate in the last decade has endowed an entire ruling class for the next century in America.

They’re as criminal as the Russian kleptocrats, because they’re in total control of the government. They’ve used their power to re-define the meaning of a “free market.” To them, a free market is one completely free of government regulations to control banking, and free of any criminal prosecution, because they have their factotums in the Justice Department. The head of the Justice Department is Eric Holder, whose job is to protect Wall Street. He resigned recently in favour of a successor, Loretta Lynch, who also is a non-prosecutor of Wall Street’s.

So essentially the real estate and mortgage system in America has been criminalised in the way that Bill Black has been describing in four wonderful articles that he’s published in the last week on Naked Capitalism. Hillary is fully on board with the Rubinomics gang.

any questions ?