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发帖数: 19713 | 1 As an out U.S. Olympic soccer player, Megan Rapinoe's got balls.
Photography by Mike McGregor
Megan Rapinoe is learning to be comfortable in the spotlight. She’s got to
be; it’s enthusiasts who keep soccer alive.
“We need fans; we need people to watch our games,” she says. “I don’t
think it happens like it does in male sports, just because we’re playing.
We do a good job of opening up and having our fans know us. But there’s a
line we don’t cross, because then they will dive in.”
Some fans alrea... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3096 | 2 Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
By Greg Smith
March 14, 2012 "New York Times" -- Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs.
After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at
Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I
have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture,
its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now
is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
To put the problem in the simplest ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 4 Barbara Demick, A family in China made babies their business; The lucrative
trade in newborns was fueled by an adoption frenzy that saw government-run
orphanages paying for children who they then made available to Westerners.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-china-adopt24-2010jan24,0,5783351.story
My comment: Chinese do not treasure girls (and women). Girls are aborted,
killed upon birth or abandoned. What is galling, to me anyway, is Chinese
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发帖数: 3150 | 5 BAGHDAD — Since the American-led invasion of 2003, Iraq has become one of
the world’s top oil producers, and China is now its biggest customer.
China already buys nearly half the oil that Iraq produces, nearly 1.5
million barrels a day, and is angling for an even bigger share, bidding for
a stake now owned by Exxon Mobil in one of Iraq’s largest oil fields.
“The Chinese are the biggest beneficiary of this post-Saddam oil boom in
Iraq,” said Denise Natali, a Middle East expert at the National Def... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7469 | 6 板上好像是有几个住新州的吧，比如说那个姓L的大水车，你拿到平均了吗？
Christie Killing Tunnel Erases Wages, Risks Montclair (Update1)
2010-11-03 17:03:49.454 GMT
(Adds Christie spokesman’s comments beginning in 11th paragraph)
By Dunstan McNichol and Terrence Dopp
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Governor Chris Christie cut New Jersey off from $
5 billion in New York-based salaries and diminished its future role in the
world’s second-largest regional economy when he stopped construction of a
Hudson River rail tunnel he said taxpayers c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 Robert Weissberg炮轰文凭大跃进：传授知识是可取的，但乱发文凭是害人的骗局；奥
巴马说到2020
年要多提供5百万大学毕业生
The College Diploma Fraud
By Robert Weissberg
For more than a half-century, government has tried to close racial gaps in
educational attainment. Sad to say, those gaps have proven intractable.
Nevertheless, the impulse remains as heartfelt as ever (perhaps due to its
financially lucrative character), but the emphasis is now shifting from
actual learning to equality of graduation rates. President Obama has spoken
of adding 5... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 But your 'leccy bill will keep going up to buy more of it
By Lewis Page
Posted in Environment, 7th April 2011 09:36 GMT
A new analysis of wind energy supplied to the UK National Grid in recent
years has shown that wind farms produce significantly less electricity than
had been thought, and that they cause more problems for the Grid than had
been believed.
The report (28-page PDF/944 KB) was commissioned by conservation charity the
John Muir Trust and carried out by consulting engineer Stuart You... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 280 | 9 [This is an interesting and informative news article. You can easily find
that most arguments remain true if you change India in the article to China.
]
By NIDA NAJAR, New York Times, October 13 2011
NEW DELHI — Moulshri Mohan was an excellent student at one of the top
private high schools in New Delhi. When she applied to colleges, she
received scholarship offers of $20,000 from Dartmouth and $15,000 from Smith
. Her pile of acceptance letters would have made any ambitious teenager
smile: Corn... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 691 | 10 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/12/MNP
Washington --
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is the subject of a report on the stock
investments of members of Congress that is to air Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes
."
The San Francisco Democrat and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, were
questioned separately at their weekly news conferences Nov. 3 by reporter
Steve Kroft. Neither had granted Kroft's previous requests for interviews.
Kroft asked both leaders about stock transacti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Dr. Hanson：欧盟最后一刻的决定背后，是清清楚楚的德国的新欧洲秩序：如果你想过
德国人那样的生活，那就必须象德国人一样工作和节省。或者接受，或者离开
Germany’s dominance was won by national character, not arms or handouts.
The rise of a German Europe began in 1914, failed twice, and has now ended
in the victory of German power almost a century later. The Europe that
Kaiser Wilhelm lost in 1918, and that Adolf Hitler destroyed in 1945, has at
last been won by Chancellor Angela Merkel without firing a shot.
Or so it seems from European newspapers, which now refer bit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 12 Almost 13 years ago, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital, the successful private
equity firm he had helped start, and moved to Utah to rescue the Salt Lake
City Olympic Games and begin a second career in public life.
Yet when it came to his considerable personal wealth, Mr. Romney never
really left Bain.
In what would be the final deal of his private equity career, he negotiated
a retirement agreement with his former partners that has paid him a share of
Bain’s profits ever since, bringing the Romney ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Wednesday, 11 Jan 2012 11:09 AM
Organized crime has tightened its grip on the Italian economy during the
economic crisis, making the Mafia the country's biggest "bank" and squeezing
the life out of thousands of small firms, according to a report.
Extortionate lending by criminal groups had become a "national emergency,"
said the report by anti-crime group SOS Impresa.
Organized crime now generated annual turnover of about 140 billion euros ($
178.89 billion) and profits of more than 100 billion ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 By LORETTA CHAO
Google Inc. has begun warning users in China of certain search words that
may trigger the country's Internet censors, in its boldest challenge in two
years to Beijing's efforts to restrict online content.
Google has begun notifying users in China when they use search terms that
can trigger China's Internet blocks, in its boldest challenge in two years
to Beijing's efforts to restrict online content, Scott Austin reports on
digits. Photo: Google.
The Internet company unveiled on... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 15 世界女首富道出了成功的真谛，一帮无耻懒人不懂得感激或是反思，反而恶言相向。眼
前的美国又何尝不是如此？哎，文明的堕落。。。
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World's richest woman says those who are jealous of her wealth should 'stop
drinking, stop smoking and work harder'
By Frank Thorne
PUBLISHED:08:40 EST, 30 August 2012| UPDATED: 17:50 EST, 30 August 2012
The richest woman in Australia has caused a storm by calling her struggling
fellow countrymen 'whingers' and telling them to get out of the pub and work
hard... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9007 | 16 Since you are demanding the absolute numbers, here you are (from STL FeD):
http://research.stlouisfed.org/conferences/gse/Van_Order.pdf
From 2000 to 2007 (table 1), the total subprime market volume is $1.69
trillion, while GSE(F&F)'s share is $595 billion, a meager 35% market share.
From chart 2, you can also see the trend that private sector gradually
outrun the GSE. Is there anybody forcing them to take up the loans? Not a
bit, subprime mortgage was one of the most lucrative deals during that ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9007 | 17 Are you out of your mind?
Subprime mortgages were the most lucrative deals on Wall Street. Bear Sterns
, Lehman Brothers, or ML, MS, or even GS are all over them. GSE or
government did not force them to take on the deals. Get schooled first, then
post something pertinent.
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发帖数: 937 | 18 相比2009年，美国制造业就业增加了152%， 比2005增加了38%
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/10/smallbusiness/manufacturing-job
Manufacturing jobs boom is for real
By Parija Kavilanz@CNNMoneySeptember 10, 2012: 5:56 AM ET
Ohio, Michigan, Texas and California are among the states with greatest
demand for skilled factory workers. Click map for all states.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama last week promised a boom in
manufacturing and 1 million new jobs if he is reelected.
But is the boom for real? For high-paying, skil... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17722 | 19 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: MB80528 (肥猫(Contrarian)[食MM而肥]), 信区: Military
标 题: Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Sep 17 16:23:48 2012, 美东)
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
By Greg Smith
March 14, 2012 "New York Times" -- Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs.
After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at
Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I
have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture,
its p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 Top U.S. Firms Are Cash-Rich Abroad, Cash-Poor at Home .
By KATE LINEBAUGH
Emerson Electric Co. EMR +0.34% has $2 billion of cash in the bank. But this
year it had to borrow money in the U.S. to help buy back shares, distribute
dividends and even pay its taxes.
That's because "substantially all" of Emerson's cash is in Europe and Asia,
according to the company's filings with securities regulators. The maker of
power-plant and data-center equipment could always bring that cash back home
, but it ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 December 6, 2012 Posted by Lady Liberty
For months we’ve heard nothing but lies about lies from this administration
since four Americans were murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya. One of
the big questions that has plagued those following the story is why this
administration chose to lie for weeks on end about the cause of the attack
being an obscure YouTube video. We might finally be seeing a reason for that
lie. From the NY Times, committing a random act of journalism:
WASHINGTON — Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell Into Jihadis’ Hands
By JAMES RISEN, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms
shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials
later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the
weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and
foreign diplomats.
No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during
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发帖数: 54598 | 23 主要由在美国没有犯罪记录的墨西哥女人购买
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-23-gun-smugg
Gun traffickers recruiting women as buyers
Updated 8/23/2009 11:28 PM | Comment | Recommend E-mail | Print |
Enlarge By Thomas B. Shea for USA TODAY
Special Agent J. Dewey Webb, in charge of the Houston ATF office, displays a
gun seized by agents. He says gun traffickers are using a more diverse
group of buyers to meet a growing demand in Mexico.
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Ron Johnson is out at J.C. Penney Co. JCP +2.72%
Penney's board met Monday and agreed to replace the former Apple Inc. AAPL +
0.71% executive after his plan for revamping the chain's 1,100 department
stores produced a disastrous drop in sales.
Myron Ullman, whom Mr. Johnson succeeded as CEO, will retake the top job and
also has joined the board.
Directors had been showing increasing concern about Mr. Johnson, who rolled
out an ambitious plan to reinvent Penney's stores a year ago but didn't
foll... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 Last Updated: 12:42 AM, July 23, 2013
Posted: July 23, 2013
Might be just a coincidence. But we notice Detroit’s filing for bankruptcy
comes at more or less the same moment filmmaker Michael Moore has filed for
divorce.
We get the differences between the two cases. Detroit is an anti-capitalist
Michigan city. It is going Chapter 9 because it followed policies that
largely reflect Moore’s economic preferences: an animosity toward business,
a faith in high taxes and a belief in government ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 July 23, 2013 by Shawn Mallow
I had the unfortunate opportunity to watch resident CNN dufus Fareed Zakaira
on Sunday.
His guest? One Malcolm Gladwell, a writer for The New Yorker.
His topic: Comparing playing football to engaging in dog fighting, and that
college football should be eliminated due to the possibility of injury,
specifically neurological disorders.
Zakaira: You compare football to dog fighting. Why?
Gladwell: Yes, I did a piece for The New Yorker a couple of years ago... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 by Jammie
When one scam becomes an endless series of scams. This may seem nutty, but
this stuff could have been avoided if people actually read the bill.
Confusion over the October launch of a major part of ObamaCare is
turning the health care overhaul into a feeding frenzy for scammers scheming
for ways to swindle unsuspecting Americans.
Consumer watchdog and advocacy groups like Fraud.org, the Federal Trade
Commission’s division of marketing practices and the AARP are just the
latest t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 28 布什总统没有出现在这十大之列。
USAtoday：
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/02/16/richest
This is 24/7 Wall St.'s list of the richest U.S. presidents:
1. George Washington, first president from 1789 to 1797
-- Net worth: $525 million In office
2. Thomas Jefferson, third president from 1801 to 1809
-- Net worth: $212 million
3. James Madison, fourth president from 1809 to 1817
-- Net worth: $101 million
4. Andrew Jackson, seventh president from 1829 to 1837
-- Net worth: $119 million
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发帖数: 21396 | 29 嗯，这些选民连续傻逼了太多年了：
Bush's Record of Shame
George W. Bush's past is, to say the very least, shady. He stands as the
only American president with a criminal record. As the new hero of the party
that, prior to his election, touted "character" as the ultimate defining
characteristic of any American president, this Republican icon's past
demonstrates a man who is chronically definitively bereft of character, to
say the least.
This record chornicles Bush's less-than-reputable past up to the year 2001,
i... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 30 Granny Clinton’s “Special University Rate” for Incoherent Speeches a Mere
$300,000
Posted by Jammie on Nov 27, 2014 at 10:49 am
Hillary Clinton
Is there any limit to this woman’s greed?
When officials at the University of California at Los Angeles began
negotiating a $300,000 speech appearance by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the
school had one request: Could we get a reduced rate for public universities?
The answer from Clinton’s representatives: $300,000 is the “special
university rate.”
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发帖数: 279 | 31 SAIS scholar of Cuban foreign policy offers perspective on historic shift in
U.S.-Cuba relations
http://hub.jhu.edu/2014/12/18/us-cuba-foreign-relations
Piero Gleijeses, professor of American foreign policy, is only foreigner to
conduct research in closed Cuban archives
December 18
Posted in Voices+Opinion, Politics+Society
Tagged foreign policy, cuba
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced a historic shift in U.S.
relations with Cuba, a move to normalize diplomatic relations bet... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Top New York Democrat Sheldon Silver to be Arrested on Federal Corruption
Charges
by Jammie via Jammie Wearing Fools
It couldn’t happen to a more loathsome scumbag.
Federal authorities are expected to arrest Sheldon Silver, the powerful
speaker of the New York State Assembly, on corruption charges on Thursday,
people with knowledge of the matter said. The case is likely to throw Albany
into disarray at the beginning of a new session.
The investigation that led to the expected charges aga... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 February 1, 2015 - 12:06 PM
By JAKE COYLE, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — "American Sniper" has shot down another box-office record:
Its $31.9 million is the biggest Super Bowl weekend gross ever.
According to studio estimates Sunday, the Clint Eastwood film narrowly
surpassed the previous top Super Bowl weekend draw. The concert film "Hanna
Montana/Miley Cyrus: The Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour" earned $31.1
million earned in 2008.
Hollywood often avoids competing with the Super Bowl, but ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 http://freebeacon.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-th
Everything You Need To Know About The Latest Clinton Foundation Scandals,
Explained
BY: Andrew Stiles
April 23, 2015 2:50 pm
A lot of new information has come to light since our last explanatory report
on scandals surrounding the Clinton Foundation. It’s time for an update.
Here’s everything you need to know about the latest Clinton Foundation
scandals, but were too afraid to ask.
Hey, what’s up?
Quite a bit, actually.
What did I mi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 Clinton's student debt reforms help families, cost taxpayers
By JOSH BOAK | August 11, 2015 | 5:55 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan to make college more
affordable and ease the burden of student debt could easily end up costing
more than her proposed $350 billion.
Clinton's plan essentially shifts more of the financial burden of college
from students and their families to taxpayers. Much of the $350 billion she
wants to spend over 10 years would help provide debt-free tuiti... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 36 Big money has been buying American politicians for decades, and in the
process ensuring that our government acts in the interests of the wealthy
and well connected who fund their campaigns. We see the results in an
economy increasingly skewed to benefit the one percent, a trend that has
continued even under a two-term Democratic President whose central campaign
theme was addressing this hope-crushing disparity.
While Obama the candidate pledged to get tough on Wall Street, President
Obama has pr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 How Chicago "Works": Tax and Graft; Who Benefits?
On October 28, the Chicago City Council passed the largest property-tax hike
in modern city history by a vote of 36-14, approving Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s
2016 budget proposal.
Taxpayers will have to fork over another $588 million property-tax hike to
be phased in over the next four years.
Some businesses and taxpayers will simply flee, joining what now is best
viewed as the "Great Illinois Exodus".
Taxpayers Lose, Who Wins?
Someone always benefits f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 38 the knowledge we have may not be true tomorrow.
secretary of education is an executive positive, doesn't need noble
lucrative to hold.
Who
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发帖数: 2239 | 39 Obama took his swipe at Trump as expected, but he also took a swipe at
Hillary; “You’ve got to admit it though, Hillary trying to appeal to young
voters is a little bit like your relative who just signed up for Facebook.
‘Dear America, did you get my poke? Is it appearing on your wall? I’m not
sure I’m using this right. Love, Aunt Hillary.’ It’s not entirely
persuasive.”
Obama went on: “Here we are, my eighth and final appearance at this unique
event and I am excited. If this material works well... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 42 太好了。川普U引出洗啦啦U。
没白干
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发帖数: 6571 | 43 If Black Lives Matter, then why have entrenched members of the Congressional
Black Caucus spent more time enriching themselves than taking care of their
neglected constituents?
Too many social justice protesters are busy throwing shade, rocks, bottles,
concrete blocks and vicious death threats at police officers of all colors
trying to keep the peace.
Instead of moaning about "#WhitePrivilege," I invite radical racial identity
warriors to join me in taking on the black political elites selling o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 44 The Dream Of Muslim Outreach Has Become A Nightmare
When President Obama entered office, he dreamed that his hope-and-change
messaging and his references to his familial Islamic roots would win over
the Muslim world. The soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize laureate would make the U
.S. liked in the Middle East. Then, terrorism would decrease.
But, as with his approach to racial relations, Obama's remedies proved worse
than the original illness.
Obama gave his first presidential interview to Al Arabiya,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2253 | 45 Originally Posted By: JEFF GARRISON................................. BILL
CLINTON'S LOVING WIFE --- by DICK MORRIS
If you happen to see the Bill Clinton five minute TV ad for Hillary in which
he introduces the commercial by saying he wants to share some things we may
not know about Hillary's background, beware as I was there for most of
their presidency and know them better than just about anyone. I offer a few
corrections:
Bill says: "In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the poor.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 178 | 46 以下转自Breitbart News：
White racism, not a June 2 videotaped rape by refugees from strife-torn
tribal cultures, is causing the growing civic protest in Twin Falls, Idaho,
according to KMVT, the main local TV station.
The pitch was delivered with the help of Nancy Taylor, who is a local
advocate for greater immigration.
I believe that there is a very small group in Twin Falls, very small and
vocal, who, for lack of a better word, are racist … A little girl was
assaulted, and just because people of c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6659 | 47 redit to:: DICK MORRIS, FORMER POLITICAL ADVISER TO PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON.
==================================================
If you happen to see the Bill Clinton five-minute TV ad for Hillary in which
he introduces the commercial by saying he wants to share some things we may
not know about Hillary's background, beware as I was there for most of
their presidency and know them better than just about anyone. I offer a few
corrections:
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Bill says: "In law school Hillary worked on legal serv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 49 The Weiner-Abedin-Clinton Triangle
Ed Klein
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Posted: Aug 31, 2016 12:01 AM
When news broke that Anthony Weiner was at it again—sexting a sordid photo
of himself to an unidentified woman while he was babysitting his 5-year-old
son—and that his wife, Huma Abedin, Hillary’s closest aide, had finally
had enough, something rang a bell.
I recalled that two years ago, in a book that I wrote titled Blood Feud, I
wrestled with the strange Weiner-Abedin-Clinton triangle.
At the time, Weiner was out of a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2406 | 50 His father lend him $1 million capital. He started in Manhattan with it an
turned it into the current shape and form of Trump real estate conglomerate.
When his father passed away, the estate was split between his brother and
sister. At that time he was already a household name nationally and a very
successful businessman in Manhattan.
In business world, you have tangible assets and intangible assets.
regardless of how much his tangibles is worth (will be hard to estimate
because of the natu... 阅读全帖 |
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