Trump, Clinton election victories in New York

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This video from the USA says about itself:

19 April 2016

Where does the progressive movement go after Bernie Sanders‘ loss in the New York Democratic primary election. Cenk Uygur, Jimmy Dore, Michael Shure and John Iadarola of The Young Turks discuss how progressives should move forward. Do you agree with TYT’s opinion? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire Donald Trump won the Democratic and Republican primaries in New York State Tuesday, cementing their positions as the frontrunners for the presidential nominations of the two big business parties: here.

This video from the USA says about itself:

Millions of New Yorkers Disenfranchised from Primaries Thanks to State’s Restrictive Voting Laws

19 April 2016

Voters head to the polls today in New York for both the Democratic and Republican primary in one of the…

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Matt Taibbi: Government secretly plans Wall Street takeover of Fannie, Freddie

This wouldn’t be a takeover – it would be more like the relinquish of custody to the indigent father.

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Rolling Stone’s Wall Street hatchet-man on the hidden truth of #FannieGate

Housingwire:

If Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi is to be believed, yes, there absolutely was a government conspiracy behind the bailout and subsequent takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

And now, the government is fighting tooth and nail to keep the evidence of that conspiracy a secret, all while plotting something far more insidious — the privatization of the government-sponsored enterprises.

Has the shock subsided?

In a long piece posted Monday, Taibbi, who’s made a career of taking on Wall Street, aims his sights on Fannie and Freddie bailout, the mountain of federal government documents pertaining to it, and efforts by the “most transparent administration in history” to keep those documents from seeing the light of day.

Some of those documents surfaced recently as part of lawsuits filed by a series of Fannie and Freddie shareholders, who 

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