2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAs Hillary Clinton bolstered Boeing, company returned the favor
As a senator and later secretary of state, Hillary Clinton closely followed the bidding for the U.S. Air Forces massive $35?billion tanker-refueling contract a contentious process that pitted Boeing against Airbus, as well as the state of Washington against Alabama.
In February 2011, a staffer at the State Department emailed Secretary Clintons private address with unexpected good news: Boeing won the contract.
Im pleased, she replied.
Among recent secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton was perhaps the most aggressive booster for big American companies overseas, particularly for Boeing, Washingtons largest private employer.
So appreciative of her sales efforts, Boeings then-president and CEO Jim McNerney once turned to her on stage at a government-business conference and lauded her department for advocating like no other in the past two decades: Its like back to the late 80s and early 90s all over again.
And then we have this.
"During the periods when Secretary Clinton was pushing governments to sign deals with Boeing, the aerospace company provided financial support to help her achieve a major foreign-policy goal. Boeing also donated more than $1 million to the Clinton familys global foundation set up by her husband, former President Clinton, and sponsored speeches that paid him six-figure sums."
It's always the foundation.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/as-hillary-clinton-bolstered-boeing-company-returned-the-favor/
DanTex
(20,709 posts)companies will go bankrupt!
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)But that's ok
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Those evil corporations, I tell you. Bern them all!
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)DanTex
(20,709 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)And stop while while you are only a little bit behind.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)I don't even have to read through the mad ravings of furious Hillary bashers, I already know it's something EVIL!
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Africa is a bit away from there.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Where did that money go? None of these articles seem to adress that issue.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)To the foundation
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)If this a quid pro quo thing... How did they get the money?
RandySF
(57,661 posts)Believe it or not most people appreciate that kind of help.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)I know this story very well.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)getting 9 billion in tax breaks from Washington, Not everyone here is happy with Boeing.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Wikileaks vs. the Empire: the Revolutionary Act of Telling the Truth
by JOHN PILGER
CounterPunch, Oct. 2, 2015
EXCERPT...
These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatised and illusion legitimised. The information age is a media age. We have politics by media; censorship by media; war by media; retribution by media; diversion by media a surreal assembly line of clichés and false assumptions.
SNIP...
Edward Bernays, who invented the term, public relations as a euphemism for propaganda, predicted this more than 80 years ago. He called it, the invisible government.
He wrote, Those who manipulate this unseen element of (modern democracy) constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of
The aim of this invisible government is the conquest of us: of our political consciousness, our sense of the world, our ability to think independently, to separate truth from lies.
This is a form of fascism, a word we are rightly cautious about using, preferring to leave it in the flickering past. But an insidious modern fascism is now an accelerating danger. As in the 1930s, big lies are delivered with the regularity of a metronome. Muslims are bad. Saudi bigots are good. ISIS bigots are bad. Russia is always bad. China is getting wikileaksfilesbad. Bombing Syria is good. Corrupt banks are good. Corrupt debt is good. Poverty is good. War is normal.
CONTINUED...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/wikileaks-vs-the-empire-the-revolutionary-act-of-telling-the-truth/