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November 18, 2014
Ready for Hillary PAC: A plutocratic swindle to buy the 2016 presidential election
By Danny Weil
The 'Ready for Hillary PAC' was founded in 2013. The super-PAC said in a statement in July of this year that it received money from 90,000 supporters after holding more than 500 fundraisers nationwide. Supporters? Mmmm, remember Obama's campaign? Sounds familiar doesn't it? These 'supporters' are bundled donations by plutocrats.
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As I wrote for OpEdNews, Hillary Clinton is tied to both criminal Wall Street and the terrorist US military industrial-drug complex in colossal and spectacular ways, particularly in the name of Beacon Global Strategies (http://www.opednews.com/articles/Beacon-Global-Strategies--by-Danny-Weil-Consultants_Democratic_Democrats_Elections-141105-37.html).
Clinton's longtime spokesman Philippe Reines and one-time national security adviser turned Assistant Secretary of State, Andrew Shapiro, teamed up with Jeremy Bash and Michael Allen to launch Beacon Global Strategies.
Bash spent years as chief of staff at both the CIA and Pentagon for former Defense Secretary and Clinton advisor, Leon Panetta. Allen, the lone Republican at Beacon, has a longstanding relationship with Bash proving again that there is no difference between Republicans or corporate Democrats when it comes to corruption and protection of the ruling elite. Allen and Bash operated together in a variety of roles while Allen was a White House staffer for President George W. Bush and as staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130903/DEFREG02/309030006).
But the faux consultant group is also joined by smarmy and unabashed courtesans for power, like freebooter, James Carville and well-connected Democratic operatives, Stan Greenberg and Bob Shrum all who labor endlessly for Hillary Clinton to become president in 2016. They seek influence and cachet, invites to exclusive mansions and well-heeled social functions.
Those who strive for a progressive agenda or expect a change to the squalid traditions of Washington need to wake up and become refugees from slumber, and quickly. They won't find advancement in a Hillary Clinton administration. Hillary Clinton is a plutocrat, supported by plutocrats and members of the savage military industrial-drug complex.
Fooled by Obama the thought of a Hilary Clinton presidency is terrifying and profane. What people will find when they research just who supports a Hillary Clinton presidency is a group of squalid hucksters, well-fed and slothful plutocrats and political insiders, spiraling through the revolving doors of government, the military and Wall St., thus perpetuating the cycle of corruption that pervades Washington and that is endemic in America.
But just how many of you have heard of the 'Ready for Hillary PAC"?
Sure, there has been some coverage by the corporate sock puppet press about Hillary's new 'Super-Pac', but generally the doyens for power have been quiet about the political action committee. They know who butters their bread.
The 'Ready for Hillary PAC' was founded in 2013. The super-PAC said in a statement in July of this year that it received money from 90,000 supporters after holding more than 500 fundraisers nationwide (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/ready-for-hillary-raises-2-5-million-over-three-months.html).
Supporters? Mmmm, remember Obama's campaign? Sounds familiar doesn't it?
Obama's 'bundlers' included names familiar from the Clinton years, including former White House Chief of Staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty; Lisa Caputo, a former White House aide to Hillary Clinton; Jamie Rubin, former State Department adviser to Madeleine Albright and husband of journalist Christiane Amanpour; and former Treasury Deputy Secretary Roger Altman, founder and chairman of Evercore Partners.
But there are hundreds more. Obama was not elected by $20 donations as the press would like you to believe ((http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/04/21/corzine_amid_scandal_is_among_obamas_top_bundlers.html).
Now the 'Ready for Hillary PAC' reported it has raised $1.7 million in the first quarter of this year alone. Although the group has a self-imposed donation cap of $25,000, the scam all laze in the money-bundling (by plutocrats) as well as in the sale of the PAC's list with names of eager supporters, most who are clueless that their names and efforts have been commodified and sold. But so are elections in the US, so it is not ironic, but to be expected.
To raise the billions that are needed for Hillary to run for president in 2016, her super-Pac lists are being traded, sold or rented to different groups. Not to mention that lists are worth big money when they are bought by third-party companies that house all the statistical information on the lists for sale.
Ironically (since Hillary supposedly worked on the Watergate scandal), list development and swapping practices by candidates seeking to buy their way into political life actually dates all the way back to the Watergate era. It's an old hustler's swindle and Hillary certainly is the Queen of hucksterism when it comes to her desire for national attention, acceptance and power.
Not only this, but the Ready for Hilary list was being used in the 2014 political elections in a clear attempt to build goodwill and to win over state parties ahead of a possible Clinton presidential run in 2016 (http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/10/politics/clinton-email-swaps-2016/). The PAC started to grease the path for corporate Democrats running for state politics in 2014 while attempting to garnish favor with local Democrats through supplying important data about the group's supporters to Senate and House campaigns ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.
Of course we know now that this all failed.
Never mind that, the Ready for Hillary PAC backing Clinton for U.S. president in 2016 collected $2.5 million since July 2014 alone -- 47 percent more than it raised in the first quarter of the year. And the group is just getting started.
To date, the PAC has exchanged records with campaigns in 14 different states: Six U.S. Senate campaigns, four House races, four gubernatorial campaigns and three Democratic committees and organizations (ibid).
Ready for Hillary partners with financial gang-bangers, plutocrats and proponents of Big Pharma to buy the American Presidential Election
On August 22, 2014, former rapacious, New Jersey Governor and Senator, Jon Corzine, the man who was at the epicenter of the $1.6 billion MF Global collapse, was the co-host of a Ready for Hillary fundraiser in the Wainscott, New York.
The looting of MF Global by Corzine meant that at least 38,000 farmers, ranchers, commercial hedgers, retirees, traders, and hedge funds were mugged, and 2,800 MF Global employees lost their jobs so an incredibly insecure multi-,multi-millionaire megalomaniac, who will never see the inside of a for-profit prison, could gamble depositor funds.
Corzine is still appraised to be worth several hundred million dollars, despite presiding over the looting of the largest non-bank commodity broker in US history, where $1.6 billion in customer money was stolen. He now faces a civil suit by the Commodities Trade Commission but after literally years of investigation, any criminal probe has been dropped.
Corzine was the former head of Goldman Sachs and was among 127 individuals (christened "volunteer fundraisers" by Obama's Chicago campaign) credited with single handedly raising more than $500,000 for Obama's first presidential bid through the first quarter of 2012.
At the Ready for Hillary Fundraiser in August, Corzine was joined by real estate investor and corporate kingpin Dan Neidich and his wife, along with Whitney Museum chairwoman Brooke Neidich. The group hosted an 'A-list dinner' party to raise money for a Hillary Clinton presidential bid.
Corzine co-sponsored the event along with special guests David Brock, the head of Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton messaging and rapid response group; actress Ashley Judd and Craig Smith, a longtime Clinton friend and Ready for Hillary senior adviser (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/07/embattled-jon-corzine-to-host-ready-for-hillary-hamptons-fundraiser/) ((http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/dinner-party-fundraising-potential-hillary-clinton-presidential-run-coming-hamptons-blog-entry-1.1894594#XYqhm9bfuTtgCq5S.97). All delusional sycophants and obsequious Medieval court jesters for the ruling elite.
David Brock, one might remember, was a journalist during the 1990's who started right-wing 'Media Matters'. He wrote the book The Real Anita Hill and the Troopergate story, which led to Paula Jones filing a lawsuit against Bill Clinton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock).
But that's not all: The gathering was co-hosted by not just Jon Corzine and his megalomaniac cronies, but by Corzine's wife, Sharon, and Claude Wasserstein, the former wife of the late billionaire Bruce Wasserstein, among other luminaries. Bruce Wasserstein was an investment-banking mogul and the head of Lazard, pegged as the world's leading independent financial advisory and asset management firm; a man who mysteriously died at age 61 (http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/05/wasserstein-201005). His wife, Claude, is an ex--CBS news producer. You can see a slide show of Claude's multi-millionaire dollar 'playhouse' at Vogue magazine on-line (http://www.vogue.com/865412/claude-wassersteins-rooftop-playhouse/).
It is important to note that Corzine and Neidich have a long and clannish relationship; they worked together to defraud the public while at Goldman Sachs (http://www.kycbs.net/CV05-00030-Witness-Corzine-Jon.htm).
Hustlers for Big Pharma and the drugging of children
But Corzine's and Neidich's corruption, psychopathy and cronyism goes as far back as at least 2008, when as New Jersey's Governor, 'friends' of Jon Corzine were awarded what Corzine called a $2 million dollar "crime prevention contract".
Then, the NJ Children and Families Department signed a deal with the New York University's Child Study Center, ostensibly to develop strategies to keep children from committing crimes in Essex County, New Jersey. However, The Center was connected to Big Pharma and was a front for pushing more psychotropic drugs on American children.
At the time of the 'crime prevention deal', Harold Koplewicz, the author of the superficial bestseller, It's Nobody's Fault, was the head of the NYU's Child Study Center.
Many regard the NYU Child Study Center, which Koplewicz founded and led before leaving in 2009 to start his own facility, as helping to usher in the Brave New World of pediatric medicine in which children, toddlers and infants, once expected to surpass their problems as they grew older, are now diagnosed with lifelong psychiatric problems that require life-long, prescription drugs.
Koplewicz is perhaps best known for his public advocacy of increased usage of psychotropic medications for children diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Responding to concerns about over-medication and the commercialization of psychotropic medicines, Koplewicz has argued that no studies have examined the effect of long-term use of ADHD meds even though have been in use for 70 years. He states that there is no evidence that suggests any adverse effects.
Vera Sharav, with The Alliance for Human Research Protection, stated in 2012 that The Child Study Center was "a threat to the health and welfare of children," and its doctors are "hustlers working to increase their 'client' population and their commercial value to psychotropic drug manufacturers" (http://www.socialistviewpoint.org/novdec_12/novdec_12_03.html) (http://www.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/387/).
Corzine was a founding board member of the 'Center' and even donated $2 million dollars of his, or perhaps stolen investor's money, to endow a fellowship for the Center. And guess who was on the board of the New York University's Child Study Center? Dan Neidich. Neidich's wife was the Chairwoman at the time.
For his work to subsidize the drugging of children, on December 10, 2010 The Child Mind Institute (CMI, www.childmind.org), another front for big Pharma and dope dealer to children, raised $5.1 million at its Inaugural Child Advocacy Award Dinner at the luxurious restaurant in NY, Cipriani, 42nd Street. The dinner honored then Governor, Jon Corzine with the 2010 Child Advocacy Award. President Bill Clinton was on hand to congratulate the Governor on receiving the award.
It is more than ironic and even sardonic that corporate Wall Street criminals say they seek to 'prevent crime' while they go on a financial wilding.
Alas, there is blowback from the psychotic and sociopathic behavior of the plutocratic class. In March of this year, 2014, Jon Corzine's son killed himself in a Mexico City hotel (http://nypost.com/2014/03/13/jeffrey-corzine-former-nj-govs-son-dead-at-31/). The poor young man apparently suffered from depression. Where were Harold Koplewicz and his pallet of drugs, the young man's father and his hundreds of millions?
The progression of plutocracy, violence and corruption in America
Counterfeit and dangerous consulting ensembles like Beacon Global Strategies, home of the corporate neo-cons, and deep pocket, ersatz Wall St. Super-Pacs run by and for plutocrats are now all hospices for the sociopathic corporate Democrats, as they seek even more unlimited supremacy. They are saddled-up and mobbed-up for the lynching of the American working class, and for many, the corporate Democratic Party is their party of 'choice'. They are circling their wagons around their power and wealth as the pale faces did two centuries ago in the Calvary when they went on a rampage, exploiting, dominating and enslaving Native Americans.
If you expect Hillary Clinton and her merry band of militarized super-rich to fight for a decent government, well paid jobs, an end to inequality, the rights of unions and working people, combatting climate change, advocating for disarmament, working to end world hunger and war, or campaigning for criminal justice reform, you are regrettably mistaken.
Hillary and her corporate and military patrons are working night and day to safeguard their own self- interests and line their own pockets by representing Wall Street, student loan hustlers, for-profit colleges, for-profit prisons, gangster tycoons, Agribusiness (read Monsanto), Big Oil, Big Pharma, uranium polluters, vulture capitalists, weapons manufacturers and the full spectrum dominance of the world.
These are the sociopaths, psychopaths and miscreants that run America; we are their butlers, their valets, their servants and their slaves. They are a malignant growth on the body politic of America that like a cancer, feeds on disorder and pestilence.
Only their downfall can be our windfall.
If America is to survive as a country and its people freed from the larceny and violence of a virulent ruling class then we, as people, must become refugees from slumber and rise up; for as the great emancipator, Harriet Tubman so sagaciously declared many, many years ago:
"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves" (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/harriettub388682.html#yG34WiL31Lj40sry.99).
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