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"It is absolutely obvious that on August 21 a wide scale provocation was staged" by the militants "to provoke foreign military intervention,"said Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin on Monday following a UN Security Council meeting, AFP reported.
Ordinarily these masters of the universe might have groaned at the idea of a politician taking the microphone...Foolish, as in you don't get paid $400,000 for saying it? Why criticize Goldman Sachs when you can get paid $400,000 for talking to them the way they like?
But Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish.
Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we're all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn't going to improve the economy - it needs to stop.
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