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August 15, 2016
From: The Federation of Connecticut Taxpayer
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TRUMP AND CLINTON
EACH ON THEIR
OWN ROCKY ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE
BREAKING: New York Times Reports
Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trumps
Campaign Chief
By ANDREW E.
KRAMER, MIKE McINTIRE and BARRY MEIER
AUG. 14, 2016
Handwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash
payments designated for Mr. Manafort from Mr. Yanukovychs
pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraines
newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators assert that the
disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients
also included election officials. Read More
More news for Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald
Trumps Campaign Chief
As Reuters reports
Trump should change tack or drop out: Wall Street Journal
On Aug 13, 2016 CTMirror.org reported
Despite sweltering heat, Trump draws thousands, blasts Malloy
And The Fiscal Times Offers
Another Perspective on Trump
Bashing Trump Is Easy. Seeing His
Foreign Policy Is Smart Takes Guts
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Secret emails reveal how Hillarys closest aide Huma
was ordered by Clinton Foundation to open State Department doors to donors
AUGUST 09, 2016 | SOURCE: DAILY MAIL |
From Daily Mail: A Clinton Foundation official pressed
Hillary Clintons top aide Huma Abedin
to give special State Department access to a major donor who was accused of
laundering money from Nigeria, according to emails released on Tuesday. View
Article at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3732075/Secret-emails-reveal-Hillary-s-closest-aide-took-orders-Clinton-Foundation-open-State-Department-doors-one-biggest-donors.html
BREAKING: Bloomberg
Huma Abedins
Overlapping Jobs Renew Focus on Clinton Conflicts
Ben Brody Nick Wadhams August 15,
2016
Top aide
worked for State Department, foundation at same time
New
e-mails spur questions about the foundation post-election
BLOOMBERG WRITES: The Clinton
Foundation for Hillary Clinton is kind of a walking conflict-of-interest
problem, Meredith McGehee, policy director for the
nonpartisan Campaign
Legal Center,
said in an interview. Clearly this notion that it could continue to operate
while she was secretary of state-it was a built-in problem. If you are really
looking at what should happen if she is elected, neither her husband nor her
daughter, certainly no relative, should have any connection with the
foundation. Read More
Daily Caller: 96
Percent Of Hillarys Charitable Donations In 2015 Went
To Clinton Foundation
Clinton Foundation Archives - Judicial Watch
On Aug 12, 2016 CNN reported
Poll: Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump in critical
battlegrounds
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Eric Pianin of
The Fiscal
Times Reports
The Pentagons Costly One-Stop-Shopping
Approach to Waging War
The U.S.
military is massive. Despite recent cuts, it includes some 1.3 million
active-duty personnel and another 800,000 reservists across the Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marines and Coast Guard. The Defense Department also has a massive real
estate portfolio that includes more than 562,000 buildings and structures on 523
bases, posts and centers. The Pentagon in April estimated that by 2019 nearly a
third of all Army and Air Force infrastructure will be unnecessary surplus,
according to Reuters. And some policy experts and analysts
insist the government could likely save an additional $2 billion a year or more
by pruning the Pentagons far-flung real estate holdings. Continue reading at
https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/08/11/Pentagon-s-Costly-One-Stop-Shopping-Approach-Waging-War
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Zerohedge reports
Violent Protesters Riot, Burn Cars, Loot Buildings In
Milwaukee After Police Kill Armed Suspect
Following an unstable, several week calm between police and
US inner city minorities, violence and riots returned to the US when protesters
fired gunshots, hurled bricks and set a gas station on fire on Milwaukees north side on Saturday night, hours after a
patrol officer shot and killed an armed suspect who took flight after a traffic
stop. The 23-year-old suspect, who had a lengthy
arrest record, was carrying a stolen handgun loaded with 23 rounds of
ammunition when police pulled over the vehicle for unspecified "suspicious
activity," authorities said cited by Reuters.
A second suspect who fled from the vehicle was quickly taken into custody. Continued
at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-14/violent-protesters-riot-burn-cars-loot-buildings-milwaukee-after-police-kill-armed-s
and
Check out the video
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A Surprise Shill for Big Pharma? | Alternet
Patients
groups are the focus of a new report that asks questions about ties to
corporate pharmaceutical companies.
By Sarah
Lazare AlterNet August 9,
2016
Patients groups have credibility and influence precisely
because they ostensibly represent the ordinary people whose fate is in the
hands of the health care system, from brain injury survivors to people living
with cancer to individuals facing mental health problems.
Now a troubling new report from
the corporate watchdog group Public Citizen reveals that some patients groups
are accepting donations from the pharmaceutical industry and then siding with
it in backing policies that may contribute to higher drug costs for the very
patients whose interests they claim to represent. Continue reading at
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/surprise-shill-big-pharma
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Connecticut state budget and finances - Ballotpedia
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Thousands of Pages of Confidential Think Tank Documents
Detail Corporate Ties, New York Times Reports
www.desmogblog.com Sharon
Kelly August 9, 2016
Thousands of pages of confidential internal think tank
emails and documents published by the New
York Times yesterday shine a revealing spotlight on how some of the nations
most prominent think tanks are used by corporate donors to promote specific
policies while concealing the financial interests involved.
http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/08/09/thousands-pages-confidential-think-tank-documents-detail-corporate-ties-new-york-times-reports
Check out Sharon
Kellys blog
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On June 8, 2015, the Hartford Courant reported
Report: UConn President Salary
Above National Median
University of Connecticut President Susan Herbsts $575,000 pay in
2014 was well above the median for public university presidents
In June, 2016 CTMirror.org reported the
following
A few top UConn officials get pay
increases despite tough times
Heres a list of the
increases for this fiscal year.
UConn trustees' chair rejects call to rescind pay increases
This month it is being reported
The wages of US workers have barely budged in recent years,
but salaries for university presidents are skyrocketing. Why?
Richard Vedder August
11, 2016
A friend of mine, a former president of one of the nations
leading universities, the University
of Michigan, told me that
he made $196,000 in his last year as president, 1995-96. Seven years later,
Mary Sue Coleman became Michigans
president at a salary of $450,000 a year; in her last year there, 2013-14, she
made, with various supplements on top of a $600,000 base pay, nearly $1
million. Continue reading at http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/salaries-college-presidents-are-swelling
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Liberals rally to sink Obama trade deal
The Hill - Aug 14, 2016
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