Former President Bill Clinton accepted more than $2.5 million in speaking fees from 13 major corporations and trade associations that lobbied the U.S. State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, an International Business Times investigation has found. The fees were paid directly to the former president, and not directed to his philanthropic foundation.

Many of the companies that paid Bill Clinton for these speeches -- a roster of global giants that includes Microsoft, Oracle and Dell -- engaged him within the same three-month period in which they were also lobbying the State Department in pursuit of their policy aims, federal disclosure documents show. Several companies received millions of dollars in State Department contracts while Hillary Clinton led the institution.

The disclosure that President Clinton received personal payments for speeches from the same corporate interests that were actively seeking to secure favorable policies from a federal department overseen by his wife underscores the vexing issue now confronting her presidential aspirations: The Clinton family is at the center of public suspicions over the extent of insider dealing in Washington, emblematic of concerns that corporate interests are able to influence government action by creatively funneling money to people in power.

“The dynamic is insidious and endemic to this system,” said Meredith McGhee, policy director of the Campaign Legal Center, a campaign finance watchdog group in Washington. "The fact is that the wealthiest .01 percent on the outside of government believes -- fervently -- that by paying speaking fees, or making campaign contributions, that it can gain access and influence."

Rules Do Not Apply

Federal ethics rules aim to discourage officials and their spouses from accepting gifts from interests “seeking official action” from a government agency. But the rules do not apply to speaking fees, said Craig Holman an advocate for tightened ethics structures at Public Citizen, a watchdog group in Washington.

The rules at issue “wouldn’t have any regulations that would make this illegal, unless of course there were a quid pro quo, and that would be a violation of the bribery laws,” Holman told IBTimes. “There isn’t an ethics rule that prohibits someone like Bill Clinton from charging exorbitant speaking fees and collecting those speaking fees from businesses that have interests before the administration.”

But regardless of the rules, he added, the dynamic through which President Clinton has been able to profit from the same companies eager to gain the ear of his wife’s department “poses a very troubling conflict-of-interest situation that is going to continue to dog Hillary over the course of the campaign."


http://www.ibtimes.com/firms-paid-bill-clinton-millions-they-lobbied-hillary-clinton-1899107

Heh. I think you're suggesting I'm a sneaky, lying Jew. So sneaky and lying that I claim not to be a Jew in order to Jew you into not doubting my defense of Jews. That's some pretty deep Jew-hatred there. Do you imagine me doing all this while stroking the Jew gold around my neck? And then do you imagine that's not the real Jew gold, but the fake Jew gold I use to Jew non-Jews?

It's not just that the USA is a police state.... It's actually the licenced casino's ganging up against the unlicensed casino's.

I would also be frustrated, if I had to pay millions in licensing fee's and the competition comes in and pays NO fees, and still operate.

My conspiracy theory : His operation was tipped off, by his competition.

He should have learned something from the "Seals With Clubs" bust and he did not... He just moved his operation to a NEW domain. {  SwCPoker.eu } and this pizzed them off.

Move to one of the islands next time, like the others did... and exclude US players, to be safe. 

A man was arrested for refusing to give his phone’s passcode to border agents

http://uk.businessinsider.com/alain-philippon-arrested-for-refusing-to-give-phone-passcode-to-cbsa-agents-2015-3?r=US


in that case, do it right.

Well, no Jew-hatred indicated there!


You're the one buying into lies about the Jews. Lies about Jews have often infected the weak-minded. Just consider seeking some help for your problem.


It's not only Jews who hate Nazis.

I recently used bitlaundry.com to tumble almost 6 BTC, however the laundry is still pending and my wallet is yet to receive the funds. Its been almost 20 hours and after sending a support email with no reply, I'm beginning to realise that I have been completely had.
Is there anyone with any advice as to what I can do, any help would be greatly appreciated at this point, thanks

I think another thing people overlook is how absurd it is for escrows to leave positive trust to those who use their services. Completing a deal through escrow requires 0 trust at all, yet you have users like this who now have fairly high trust ratings just from using the same default trusted escrow multiple times. It is much easier to buy default trust through escrow than through lending, the second party in the trade can just be your alt account and all it costs you is the escrow fee, which is barely anything.

I don't see why someone shouldn't leave feedback for loans that they complete. If someone borrows 0.01 BTC and pays back 0.015 BTC, make sure you leave that in your feedback. If someone has proven themselves trustworthy with 0.01 BTC, that doesn't mean they are trustworthy with any larger sums.

500 positive feedback from the most trusted members of the forum for 0.01 BTC each, doesn't make that person trustworthy with 5 BTC, maybe with 0.05.

This is the kind of trust that needs to go away. Blindly trusting someone because they're in the default list.

I sold coins on 8 ball pool game about one year and sold for many people on other forums. But i posted new in this forum.

A Jewish group using the same sort of propaganda and rhetoric to villainize and dehumanize Muslims as the Nazis used to villainize and dehumanize Jews?
Seems like the American "Freedom" Defense Initiative learned the wrong message from the Holocaust.