In regards to Hillary's public displays in health and assorted medical conditions, outwardly, I see her as a reflection of what the Unites States has become - weak, confused and unable to stand on it's own two feet? I bow my head - in shame, for our Nation has become the ridicule and laughing stock to the rest of the World.
Excesses in lifestyle and self indulgent practices, sooner or later, take their toll. What I think we're seeing, is a complete physical and mental breakdown, with age and gravity as an accelerator? All the lies and deception, deeply held inside, now manifesting on the outside? The elites may think of themselves as gods and demigods but their bodies are still subject to our physical world.
Greed has a price!
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton have paid 96 percent of their charity donations in 2015 to their own foundation, their tax records reveal.
Over 96% of Clintons' 2015 charity donations paid to their own org.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/08/14/479909/US-Hillary-Clinton-taxreturn-charity-donations-Clinton-Family-Foundation-presidential-race
The Clintons’ joint tax returns released on Saturday further showed that their annual income in 2015 dropped drastically to just over $10 million from the $28 million income they reported in 2014, attributing the cut to Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.
According to the tax records, the Clintons reported $1,042,000 in charitable donations in 2015, of which $1 million went to their own Clinton Family Foundation, a separate endeavor from the Clinton Foundation. Only 4 percent of their contributions went to other charities.
Speaking fees continued to make up nearly two-thirds of the Clintons’ annual income in 2015, but dropped to $6.7 million from almost $20 million in the previous year.
Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, released their tax returns in an effort to pressure their Republican rival, Donald Trump, into following suit though he has so far refused to do so.
The Clintons took in $3.1 million from their books, while Bill Clinton’s consulting business brought in nearly $1.7 million. Documents further reveal that the Clintons paid $3.24 million in federal income taxes in 2015, with their total federal and state tax burden amounting to 43.2 percent – down from 45.8 percent in 2014.
The presidential hopeful famously stated
in a televised interview with ABC News in 2014 that she and her husband “came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.”
The former first lady then moved to the US Senate, where she represented state of New York. In 2009, she was picked as secretary of state in the Obama administration.
Following her resignation from the State Department in February 2013, Clinton went on the speaking circuit, charging $225,000 or more per appearance. Among the hosting organizations named in the documents were the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, and the International Deli-Dairy Bakery Association, but the former top diplomat also gave three speeches to investment giant Goldman Sachs. Clinton, however, has refused to release the transcripts of her speeches.
Former US President Bill Clinton has dismissed claims that his wife Hillary Clinton threatened America’s national security with her private email server as "the biggest load of bull."
Clinton dismisses claims Hillary threatened US national security
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/08/13/479773/Hillary-Clinton-threat-US-national-security
Talking to reporters on Friday in Las Vegas, Nevada,
Clinton denounced the classification system that, he said, forced Hillary to send and receive classified information on an unsecured server while serving as secretary of state.
Multiple investigations by FBI and the US Attorney’s Office are underway involving potential corruption charges against the Clinton Foundation, according to a former senior law enforcement official.
Multiple FBI Criminal Probes of Clinton Foundation Despite Obama, DOJ Objections
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160814/1044247463/fbi-investigation-clinton-foundation-corruption.html
A set of investigations into Clinton Foundation have been initiated by a joint effort of Federal Bureau of Investigation and various US Attorneys Offices. The investigations include potential corruption charges, according to the former official who has direct knowledge of the activities.
The involvement of the US Attorney Office is a major departure from other centralized FBI investigations. Previously, FBI performed such investigations on its own.
[...] In its 15 years of operations, the Clinton Foundation, officially known as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, has collected up to $2 billion from donors, according to The Washington Post. The donors include a wide range of the world's wealthiest people: Eastern European tycoons, Arab Sheiks, African mining magnates, hedge fund billionaires and Wall Street firms.
On the flip side - you have Bernie Sanders who endorsed Clinton. Neither one has a cash-flow problem because they use a financial system - separate - from "the enforced standards" placed on the rest of us, who are not part of the elite. I'm not against wealth, in general but the off-the-books shenanigans used by the elite, to acquire wealth and protect their greedy hordes.
Weeks after endorsing Hillary Clinton's campaign for US president, former Democratic presidential primary contestant Bernie Sanders has purchased a third home on an island in Lake Champlain.
'Champlain' Socialist Bernie Sanders Buys $575k Island Summer Home
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160813/1044237918/us-clinton-sanders-real-estate.html
Bernie Sanders, the self-described "democratic socialist" who sought to rival Hillary Clinton for the US Democratic Party's nomination to run for president of the US, has purchased a four-bedroom home in North Hero, an island community in Lake Champlain. Sanders also owns a home in Burlington, Vermont and one in Washington, DC.
[...] Despite the accepted narrative of Sanders' status as 'socialist maverick', the US site Counterpunch notes that the senator supported former president Bill Clinton's war on Serbia, the 2001 Authorization Unilateral Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), as well as Obama's incursion into Libya, which has been partly blamed for the current war there and Europe's migrant crisis.
Additionally, he supports an expanded US role in the Syrian Civil War. In February 2016, Counterpunch wrote: "Even Hillary belatedly admitted that her Iraq war vote was a mistake. Bernie, however, has never apologized for his two votes endorsing the overthrow of Saddam."