DNC Payola's Implications on Our Financial Freedom

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Obama and the DNC sold government positions off to the highest bidder while Hillary sat as Secretary of State

Context:This is About your Trust in: Government, The Press, and Financial Markets.

If you think Government manipulation of appointees is a symptom of people who will do anything to remain in power, including ruining its people financially then please keep reading. If you think this has nothing to do with your personal wealth preservation then please stop reading. For the rest, this is about abuse of power at every level. And it is not just the DNC.

The Press as Enabler

Donald Trump says the Fed is influenced by the Government- He is crazy
Well known Hedge Fund manager: The Fed is politically hog tied on rate increases- Genius, stop the presses

We are looking at the destruction of trust in all institutions now. Government, the Press, and the financial markets. While our markets are being ruined by academics with no real experience, our government officials have adopted the "Soft Dollar" business model that they did away with in Finance. Only it is not a Soft Dollar set up. and the press has been co-opted to manufacture consent.

So while this is not directly about financial markets, it is the extension of what is going on in them.

Do you not think Government has done these same things in Fed appointees?
Do you think that CPI is down when home ownership is dropping and higher rents are not included in inflation numbers?
Your TiPs portfolio will protect you in the event inflation kicks in?
That things will be worse under a Trump Presidency? (Mr. Gartman)
Do you think you will be allowed to take delivery of your ETF Gold?
That you will even be allowed to keep the wealth that paper Gold creates?
Do you think JPM is manipulating Silver lower because they are bearish?

Then you are naive. This is about your freedom. And a large part of that freedom is tied to your financial independence. And that independence is being undermined by appointees who have paid for the privilege of being a pawn of those who hired them. The Fed is largely a bunch of career academics hired by career Pols steeped in the ways of keeping their jobs. The Fed is manipulated by the Pols. The Pols are manipulated by the Corps. Got it?

Cynical Banker Friend

There is no logic to our markets as a function of the mentality of those ruining them. Anyone who can count to ten knows higher US rates equals recession and sovereign insolvency. Raise rates and you'll need to do QE simultaneously ie BOJ, ECB buys UST's along with their own bonds?
The market logic is insane. But its all about stability. Marc Faber : The State will own all assets. It will monetize EVERYTHING. He is right
Nobody alive has ever navigated waters like these... when Paul Singer and Ray Dalio say they're scared they aren't kidding.

And when you can see the extent to which government officials will go to remain in power, you must understand that the markets and the books are cooked in every way. Lacking a press that honors its journalistic roots, we need a reset button.

What follows is just a different application of what has hobbled our financial markets from clearing themselves out. Manipulation for personal power-VBL

Summary

In a clear Pay-for-Play situation, the Obama administration actually listed the donors to the DNC and Obama's nonprofit "Organization for Action"
In the 3 cases we pulled below, each had a CV that made them qualified on paper to get the job. Yet they had to pay for it.
Ambassadorships and other important positions were granted to donors as listed on the spread sheet itself
The DNC attempted yesterday to redirect the topic from the email content to the evil "Russian agents" and Donald Trump
We believe the pay-for-play was advertised by the government to people looking for positions
- in some instances a candidate wanted a position, and was told a donation would put them over the top of other candidates. How else to explain the fit of FCC Chair Julius Genachowski?
- The donation was likely based on a negotiation involving how much they could give as part of the calculus.- how badly they want the job, how much they can pay, how good a fit it looks on paper

Donor Name Donation Reward

Matthew Barzun$3,503,000Ambassador Sweden/ UKJulius Genachowski$3,494,919Chairman FCCTony West$1,058,970Dep. Attorney General

But for some reason, CNN reported that “There appear to be no damaging emails in this batch.”

Source Document

Matt, Julius, and Tony in red

A Word About Obama's Sponsors

Matthew Barzun Bio
1. Ambassador Barzun was among the first to join Barack Obama's National Finance Committee before the President's election in 2008. In that capacity, he produced the first $25 per-person fundraiser and helped teach Obama University for campaign volunteers.
2. After leaving CNET in 2004, Ambassador Barzun has advised and invested in start-up internet companies, including MedTrackAlert, which delivered consumers information about their prescription medications (it was sold to HealthCentral in June 2008)
Julius Genachowski Bio
1. from 1994 until 1997, he served as Chief Counsel to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt,
2. Special Counsel to then-FCC General Counsel
3. Special Advisor at General Atlantic etc etc

Impressive CV. So why did Julius have to pay for the position? Maybe he just wasn't any good? Who did not get the job that was interviewed? Were they not qualified or just light in the wallet?

Tony West Bio
1. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division
2. Mr. West first served in the Department of Justice a year after graduating from law school

Another Impressive bureaucratic CV. Why would he have to pay for the job that he looked to be qualified for on paper? Well at least he got a discount based possibly on affirmative action or more likely his net worth calculus.

The DNC Tries to Redirect the Public

Apparently, the shocking news is that Russia has hackers. It is not that the DNC is stupid enough to leave such a paper trail of its Pay-for-Play scam on the public trust. We bet the RNC is not so obvious when it gets hacked

In fact the DNC actually mass emailed its new password to users after a hack.

Direct Quote

From: Palermo, Rachel
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 2:07 PM
To: Regional Press Subject: Factivists was hacked. Here is our new password
Importance: High
We have been compromised! But it's all ok.
Here is our new password: HHQTevgHQ@z&8b6
It will now change every few weeks so prevent future issues.. So as it is re-set, I will forward it along.
-- [DNC]<http://www.democrats.org/>
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org<mailto:PalermoR@dnc.org>

202-863-8041

Full details of the situation HERE

Finally

Within the power matrix, the person or group of persons who determines financial policies exerts moreinfluence on the centre of (political) power than any other. And, as Mayer Amschel Rothschild , founder of the House of Rothschild puts it:Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.If anyone still needs proof of this political reality, we need only to examine the actions of the global centralbankers post the 2007/2008 global financial tsunami led by Bernanke of the US Federal Reserve.
From Matthias Chang