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Four hundred thousand dollars. For a former President of the United States. To give a speech. At a healthcare conference. Organized by a Wall Street firm.Why are Wall Street firms organizing m**********g healthcare conferences, one might understandably ask? And why are they hiring the man who just completed an eight-year war on progressive healthcare policy and a torrid love affair with Wall Street criminals? These are extremely reasonable questions that might be asked by anyone who is intelligent and emotionally masochistic enough to look straight at this thing, and the answer, of course, is America. That's what America is now.


Comment: The civilian body count continues to mount, with the US killing significantly more civilians than terrorists in the Middle East. Deaths in US strikes on Syria & Iraq alone have been described as the 'greatest catastrophe since WWII' - and that doesn't include the on-going carnage in Yemen, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Libya.