(Mark Levin discuta articolul din Politico chiar in momentul asta.)

Ipocrizia asa-zis “anti-capitalistilor”, a reprezentantilor celor “oprimati” de banci, de marele capital, de corporatii, etc., e halucinanta. Astia se dovedesc profitorii principali ai celor care manipuleaza piata financiara.
Marele finante si corporatii au invatat un lucru fundamental, pe care mostenitorii comunismului din Europa de Est l-au ghicit imediat, instinctiv:
In zilele noastre, cei care au in mina troaca publica (adica statul/guvernele locale care percep taxe) au cea mai buna/sigura sursa de imbogatire personala, protejati de legile pe care le fac sau le influenteaza ei insisi in cercul vicios al cumpararii alegerilor prin contributii de la cei care asteapta servicii in schimb: contracte de milioane de la buget.

Am incercat sa inteleg ce ai vrut sa zici prin “adaug ceva la postarea nr.4 din Politico”. Presupun ca te-ai referit la comentariul tau nr. 4, nu la altceva. Oricum ar fi, datele din Politico sunt naucitoare.

W.H. team discloses TARP firm ties
By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 4/3/09 10:49 PM EDT

Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, pulled in more than $2.7 million in speaking fees paid by firms at the heart of the financial crisis, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America Corp. and the now-defunct Lehman Brothers.

He pulled in another $5.2 million last year from D.E. Shaw, a hedge fund for which he served as managing director from October 2006 until joining the administration.

Thomas E. Donilon, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, was paid $3.9 million last year by the power law firm O’Melveny & Myers to represent clients, including two firms that received federal bailout funds: Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. He also disclosed that he’s a member of the Trilateral Commission and sits on the steering committee of the supersecret Bilderberg group. Both groups are favorite targets of conspiracy theorists.

And White House Counsel Greg Craig last year earned $1.7 million in private practice representing an exiled Bolivian president, a Panamanian lawmaker wanted by the U.S. government for allegedly murdering a U.S. soldier and a tech billionaire accused of securities fraud and various sensational drug and sex crimes.

Those are among the associations detailed in personal financial disclosure statements released Friday night by the White House. The income reported on the forms mostly covers 2008 and in some cases the beginning of 2009.

Presidential appointees are required to disclose information about their income, assets and investments, and those of their spouses and dependent children, within 60 days of starting work. And the disclosure forms filed by many appointees to top agency jobs have been available for public inspection for some time, thanks to the federal Freedom of Information Act.

But the White House is largely exempt from the act, and Obama press aides dragged their feet on reporters’ requests for the disclosure documents filed by officials in the Executive Office of the President.

Craig disclosed that his work for Williams & Connelly included representing Pedro Miguel Gonzalez Pinzon, a Panamanian lawmaker who allegedly murdered a U.S. soldier in 1992, as well as Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, a former Bolivian president who has lived in exile since 2003, when clashes between protesters and the Bolivian military killed an estimated 70 people and wounded hundreds more.

During the presidential campaign, Craig, then serving as a senior foreign policy adviser to Obama, drew flak for representing Sanchez de Lozada.

Craig also listed among his clients Henry Nicholas, founder of microchip maker Broadcom, who is facing securities fraud charges in an alleged stock option backdating plot. In June, the government unsealed an indictment also detailing a raft of drug and prostitution charges, which Craig called “a kitchen-sink attack on Dr. Nicholas.”

Valerie Jarrett, a senior Obama aide, reported $852,000 in salary and deferred compensation from Habitat Executive Services, a Chicago real estate development and management firm, plus nearly $350,000 in director’s fees from groups including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and USG Corp.

She also indicated that she served as vice-chairwoman of the committee seeking to lure the 2016 Olympics to Chicago, which paid a public relations firm owned by Obama political guru David Axelrod and to which White House social director Desiree Rogers, another member of the Obama’s inner circle, donated more than $100,000.

Other forms showed that White House ethics lawyer Norm Eisen earned $1.3 million from the firm in which he was a partner, Zuckerman Spaeder, and press secretary Robert Gibbs earned $156,000 from Obama’s presidential campaign and also owns a pair of rental properties in Alexandria, Va., worth as much as $1 million.

oi fi asa cum zici. nu neg ca am devenit profund sceptica in privinta tuturor celor care aspira la puterea politica, indiferent de mesaj, iar cei cu putere financiara sunt acolitii lor.

P.S.
Hannan a spus citeva adevaruri pe care politicienii britanici si media occidentala le evitau.
In rest, sunt suspicioasa. Tipul poseda oratoria unui demagog, de la intonatie la metaforele supralicitate la gesturi si la clara satisfactia de sine.

Un nou idol in formare?

Au fost deja replici de la stinga:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/poli.....an-youtube

http://timesonline.typepad.com.....ingly.html

Blogul lui Oliver Kamm te conecteaza la articolul lui Michael White, pe care-l citeaza aprobator.

Kamm “is a leader writer at The Times. He joined in 2008, having been an investment banker and co-founder of a hedge fund.”
Kamm e o mare dezamagire pentru mine. Tipul mi se parea un ginditor independent si interesant de citit chiar cind a aparat interventia Rusiei in Georgia. Eseurile sale despre islamism si libertatea de expresie de pe vremea cind isi avea blogul personal sunt memorabile.
De cind s-a instalat la Times, ca “lead writer’, isi arata coltii stingisti, iliberali, si mi-e clar de ce: baronii speculatiilor financiare (investitii, hedge funds) nu mai sunt capitalistii clasici din manuale, conservatori/republicani. Tipii sunt, de regula, servitori fideli ai Puterii statale socialiste, la care contribuie miliarde pentru avantaje fiscale sub masca “pietei libere”.
Hedge funds si piata derivativelor sunt, in mare parte si direct stimulate de politica statala a “improprietaririi nevoiasilor/minoritatilor”, responsabile pentru dezastrul de pe piata imobiliara, care a atras criza globala.
Majoritatea investitorilor in “hedge funds” au programe politice stingiste, ca salvarea economiilor si tarilor din lumea a treia, etc., in timp ce urmaresc profitul maxim pentru investitori. Managerii si amploaiatii acestor fonduri speculative sunt printre cei mai mari donatori ai Democratilor:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....refer=home

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Deci se cere inregistrarea – date personale, email etc.

Pe http://www.religionnewsblog.com am primit un mesaj ca videoul a fost retras datorita “violarii termenilor de folosire”! In ce sens nu se specifica…