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Showing Original Post only (View all)Will Pitt gets mentioned in article co-authored by Bill Moyers!! [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/hillary-clintons-wall-str_1_b_7622148.htmlYet, you could also wonder if they had been unaware of another possible reading of the metaphor presented by the sight of Roosevelt Island against the skyline of Wall Street -- something her handlers didn't intend: A mockery of the words she was speaking at that very minute.
She is, after all, a favorite of the giant banks, the CEOs and hedge funds she now was castigating. Between 2009 and 2014, Clinton's list of top twenty donors starts out with Citigroup and includes JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, whose chief Lloyd Blankfein has invested in Clinton's son-in-law's boutique hedge fund. These donors are, as the website Truthout's William Rivers Pitt notes, "The ones who gamed the system by buying politicians like her and then proceeded to burn the economy down to dust and ash while making a financial killing in the process."
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The coming election in 2016 looks like it could be life or death for American
rhett o rick
Jun 2015
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"The ones who gamed the system by buying politicians like her and then proceeded to burn the
rhett o rick
Jun 2015
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