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2017-07-24 -Land of the Free

Joseph Rago, Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter, found dead in Manhattan home at 34

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 More than a little controversy concerning this fellow's passing.

Interesting story on Rago from the WSJ.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-24 00:30|| 2017-07-24 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Rago won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for a series of editorials about the Affordable Care Act, which were praised as being “well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.”

“No matter where you fall in the debate of health care reform, the arguments advanced by Joseph Rago in his series of editorials in The Wall Street Journal were impossible to ignore,” the judges noted. “Not paying attention to these editorials was not an option for policymakers.”

Rago’s last editorial, a criticism of Republicans’ failure to repeal ‘Obamacare’ and replace it with a better plan, ran Wednesday.
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-24 01:05|| 2017-07-24 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 'Bait and Sketch' at YouTube.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-07-24 01:38|| 2017-07-24 01:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Vanity Posted on 7/22/2017, 9:54:47 PM by TigerClaws

Wall Street Journal writer Joseph Rago found dead in his apartment .

He was reportedly investigating Hillary’s involvement in the purchase of Russian drug company Veropharm by Abbot Labs at a time in 2014 when sanctions against Russia would have prevented the sale. The purchase was accomplished by a US shell company named Kew Garden Hills, LLC (registered in Delaware –and- Hillary Clinton’s home State of New York) acquiring approximately 98% of Veropharm shares—and then their being bought by Abbott Laboratories. Hillary has ties to both Abbot Labs and Kew Garden Hills LLC.

Critical to note about Abbott Laboratories acquiring Veropharm, this report explains, is that it was accomplished on 12 December 2014—which was 9 months from the March 2014 Obama regimes sanctions against Russia prohibiting such company takeovers—and that only someone with Hillary Clinton’s power and lust for money could make happen.

To how this takeover was completed in order to evade the Obama regime sanctions against Russia, this report details, was accomplished by a US shell company named Kew Garden Hills, LLC (registered in Delaware –and- Hillary Clinton’s home State of New York) acquiring approximately 98% of Veropharm shares—and then their being bought by Abbott Laboratories.

Handling this takeover transaction, this report continues, was the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital—who are most to be noted for their having paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech he gave before their top executives in Moscow.

Posted by Tarzan Glaith9189 2017-07-24 04:37|| 2017-07-24 04:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Um, durgs?

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-07-24 07:14|| 2017-07-24 07:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes! I guessed some of you may join some dots when I posted the link up.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-07-24 07:19|| 2017-07-24 07:19|| Front Page Top

#7 No, it was the Clinton Flu.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-07-24 07:20|| 2017-07-24 07:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Strange, I couldn't find Rago on the Clinton or Obama Death Pool.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-07-24 08:15|| 2017-07-24 08:15|| Front Page Top

#9 At this point, what with all the democrat related deaths, I'm wondering if this might be the work of a or several deranged serial killer(s)?

Once is suspicious, twice is not a coincidence, three or more is a conspiracy!

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-07-24 10:46|| 2017-07-24 10:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes! I guessed some of you may join some dots when I posted the link up

I did wonder, Bright Pebbles. But I rely on Rantburgers to explain the many things I don't know enough about..

Posted by trailing wife 2017-07-24 11:34|| 2017-07-24 11:34|| Front Page Top

#11 My first thought was "Arkancide?"

Posted by Barbara 2017-07-24 13:06|| 2017-07-24 13:06|| Front Page Top

#12 TW, Abbot Labs now owns the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in Russia, so they can effectively outsource their domestic manufacturing for less expense and import foreign generics without FDA inspection or import tariffs. The 'all cash' transaction probably paid Bill's speaking fee.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-24 13:44|| 2017-07-24 13:44|| Front Page Top

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