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Partial transcripts of Hillary Clinton's Wall Street speeches have been released by WikiLeaks along with other emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta. Bernie Sanders had called on Clinton to release transcripts of the speeches, for which she is estimated to have earned around $26 million, during the Democratic primary:
Transcripts of private speeches by US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have been released by the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks. In one of the extracts, Mrs Clinton told bankers that they were best-placed to help reform the US financial sector. [...] The excerpts include comments made at an event sponsored by Goldman Sachs in October 2013 in which Mrs Clinton spoke of the need to consult Wall Street over financial reform. "The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry," Mrs Clinton said. At another speech presented to a Brazilian bank in 2013, she spoke of her "dream" for a common trade market. "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere," Mrs Clinton said.
John Podesta blames the Russians. The emails were posted a few days after the 10th anniversary of WikiLeaks.
Here is "The Podesta Emails; Part One" press release at WikiLeaks, which emphasizes Clinton involvement with the sale of Uranium One to Russian interests:
As Russian interests gradually took control of Uranium One millions of dollars were donated to the Clinton Foundation between 2009 and 2013 from individuals directly connected to the deal including the Chairman of Uranium One, Ian Telfer. Although Mrs Clinton had an agreement with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors to the Clinton Foundation, the contributions from the Chairman of Uranium One were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons. When the New York Times article was published the Clinton campaign spokesman, Brian Fallon, strongly rejected the possibility that then-Secretary Clinton exerted any influence in the US goverment's review of the sale of Uranium One, describing this possibility as "baseless".
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The leaked emails have further angered former/current Sanders supporters, although that might not matter by Election Day:
Supporters of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday expressed anger and vindication over leaked comments made by Hillary Clinton to banks and big business that appeared to confirm their fears about her support for global trade and tendency to cozy up to Wall Street. [...] "This is a very clear illustration of why there is a fundamental lack of trust from progressives for Hillary Clinton," said Tobita Chow, chair of the People's Lobby in Chicago, which endorsed Sanders in the primary election. "The progressive movement needs to make a call to Secretary Clinton to clarify where she stands really on these issues and that's got to involve very clear renunciations of the positions that are revealed in these transcripts," Chow said. The revelations were quickly overshadowed by the release of an 11-year-old recording of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, making lewd comments about women.
Bonus: John Podesta has been an outspoken supporter of the "Disclosure" movement, which seeks to reveal government knowledge of the existence of extraterrestrial life. Here are two emails sent by Edgar D. Mitchell, one of the Apollo 14 astronauts, to John Podesta. Mitchell branded himself as a "Zero Point Energy Consultant" before his death. Unfortunately for Earthlings, extraterrestrials "will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space" (good luck with that).
UPDATE: 10 Oct: 14:56 UTC
Another 2086 emails have just been released by Wikileaks: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/breaking-wikileaks-dumps-another-2086-podesta-emails/.
As the article points out:
This ought to make Hillary Clinton's already bad day – even worse.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 10 2016, @12:16PM
If they're that afraid of Trump, they should have answered Stein when polled instead of Clinton. Stein isn't really worth a shit IMO but at least she's not a corrupt bag of dicks.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @08:44PM
Yeah. That whole **Let's create a whole bunch of American jobs** thing is really the pits. /sarc
Jill Stein on Jobs [ontheissues.org]
That whole **Let's rebuild USA's dilapidated infrastructure** thing is so off-the-mark. /sarc
Jill Stein on Principles & Values [1][2] [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [ontheissues.org]
...and, BTW, the sorry state of USA's cybersecurity would indicate there are plenty of opportunities in her proposed Green New Deal for unemployed|underemployed people with experience in bit-twiddling.
[1] Hey! They fixed their broken page and I can now index the page down to the good stuff!
[2] URL slightly altered by me because of the continued brokenness of the S/N comment engine WRT stuff like %2B and %22 in hyperlinks.
Dr. Stein has a lifetime of experience as a family physician and has the kind of empathy required to do that effectively i.e., she doesn't just "feel your pain", she understand your problems and knows what need to be done to solve them.
She also has 2 successful adult sons and is still married to her first and only husband.
She has also been arrested multiple times while peacefully protesting things she thinks are just plain wrong.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 11 2016, @01:37AM
You're never gonna win me over telling me she's a fan of the New Deal. That alone would keep me from ever voting for her.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @06:52AM
The only way a country has ever gotten out of a depression and back to a normal economy in under a decade is building/rebuilding infrastructure.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:53AM
[Citation Needed]
That aside, unlike you I'm unwilling to take out a mortgage on the next generation's solvency to prop up my own now. Which is exactly what you're talking about doing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @07:32PM
[Citation Needed]
It's so sad that you slept through History class.
Without direct gov't intervention, The Long Depression lasted 23 years. [1] [archive.li]
[1] It would be a good idea to fix the brokenness of the S/N comments engine so that things like %22 in hyperlinks don't get monkeyed with.
N.B. Additionally, starting in 1929, with Republican Herbert Hoover sitting on his thumb, for 4 years USA went deeper and deeper into depression; FDR's direct intervention, starting in 1933, had USA hitting full stride by 1937.
...and, had FDR ignored the Wall Street idiots and -not- dialed back on The New Deal for a short spell in 1937, there wouldn't have been "The Roosevelt Recession" of 1937.
This stuff was also figured out by Hitler's guy who directed money to autobahns, etc. [google.com]
If we're going to stick with a Capitalist system, it's important to recognize that, under that boom-and-bust paradigm, Keynesianism works the best. [wikipedia.org]
(The gov't becomes The Employer of Last Resort when the Capitalists have completely fucked up everything and are firing USAians instead of hiring them.)
a mortgage on the next generation's solvency
While I'm generally opposed to municipal|state bond measures (a tax increase PLUS INTEREST), that's effectively what this is: AN INVESTMENT WHICH PAYS DIVIDENDS.
People with gov't paychecks spend that into the economy, the Capitalists start to produce again and hire again to meet the increased demand, and pretty soon the gov't workers can find better-paying jobs in the private sector and their old gov't positions can even be eliminated.
See "Keynesianism", above.
In the process, we get improved roads, bridges, public buildings with integrated 21st-Century solar power generation and 21st-Century insulation, parks, water systems, sewer systems, electricity grids, more secure internet, yada, yada, yada.
...and, for well over a decade, the engineers' guild has given USA's infrastructure a D+.
With proper public investment, bridges stop falling into rivers.
...and, if we were to fix our crappy century-plus-old water delivery systems, we could halve our consumption by reducing leakage.
(With weather patterns changing for the worse, that seems incredibly smart.)
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 11 2016, @08:22PM
Keynesian policies do nothing except move the burden of paying your way in life to your children. We would have recovered just fine without the New Deal and we would not now have soul-crushing piles of debt.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.