BLM Seattle protestor is a republican?

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39. Here's what's insulting: Goldman Sachs helping call the TPP shots at State

Hillary sucks up to the middle class: What her TPP flip-flop is really about

The presidential hopeful is trying to distance herself from the 12-nation trade deal. She can't escape her record

DAVID SIROTA
Salon, Aug. 7, 2015

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“I did not work on TPP,” she said after a meeting with leaders of labor unions who oppose the pact. “I advocated for a multinational trade agreement that would ‘be the gold standard.’ But that was the responsibility of the United States Trade Representative.”

The trouble, of course, is that Clinton’s declaration does not square with the facts.

CNN has reported that during her tenure as U.S. secretary of state, Clinton publicly promoted the pact 45 separate times. At a congressional hearing in 2011, Clinton told lawmakers that “with respect to the TPP, although the State Department does not have the lead on this — it is the United States Trade Representative — we work closely with the USTR.” Additionally, secret State Department cables published by the website WikiLeaks show that her agency — including her top aides — were deeply involved in the diplomatic deliberations over the trade deal.

In a series of cables in late 2009 and 2010, State Department officials outlined their extensive discussions about the pact with government officials from New Zealand. At one point, State Department officials in that country requested an additional employee to specifically “allow the Economics Officer to focus on preparations for Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations.”

Similarly, a September 2009 cable detailed Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg, specifically discussing the TPP with Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister. In a November 2009 cable, the U.S. embassy in Tokyo detailed TPP discussions between Japanese government officials and Robert Hormats, a former Goldman Sachs executive who was then serving as Clinton’s undersecretary of state. In a December 2009 cable, State Department officials in Hanoi reported that the U.S. Ambassador “hosted a dinner on December 21 for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement country representatives.” The cable thanked the Clinton-run State Department for providing “regular updates” that “have been key to helping us answer the many TPP-related inquiries we receive.”

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http://www.salon.com/2015/08/07/hillary_sucks_up_to_the_middle_class_what_her_tpp_flip_flop_is_really_about_partner/

I wonder what else Goldman Sachs does, all legal-like, LanternWaste?



btw: How does that fit in with your worldview on "the irrational and undisciplined mind would jump to associate me with any of them if it better fit their biases-- though I think a list of blue links and irrelevant text would serve them even better as part of their moon-landing denial toolkit"?