The Boston Globe has the letter to the editor, Hillary Clinton’s e-mail practices raise nagging security concerns.

I am a retired federal employee with 35 years’ experience. It was always impressed upon us that it was chiefly for security reasons that we were only to use our government e-mail accounts for work-related communication.

This letter is a perfect example of the danger of drawing conclusions from the similarities of two dissimilar things. The mistake is comparing the personal email of an ordinary person to that of a very wealthy former President and then drawing conclusions from that comparison. The ordinary person might have a free gmail account supplied by a giant corporation on the giant corporation’s computers. Gmail stores email that the giant corporation reads to look for clues as to what they might be able to sell you.

The Clintons’ email was set up on a private computer server in their private home while Bill Clinton was President. The home and the server is protected by a Secret Service contingent dedicated to that one task. The State Department probably has inspected and vouched for Hillary Clinton’s private system as opposed to the ordinary person’s free email which we already know is read by the supplier of the system.

This same error is made when people draw conclusions from comparing a family budget to that of the federal government which has the sole power of creating the money supply in this country. I wonder if people think about what would happen if they tried to pay their bills with money they created themselves. Might there be a difference in how to operate the two vastly different systems?

Naked Capitalism has the article Michael Hudson on the IMF’s Tender Ministrations in Ukraine and Greece.

This RT interview with Michael Hudson focuses on the appalling state of the Ukraine economy and the role of the IMF, both in its policy-violating rescue package there and on a more general basis.

The section with Hudson starts at 13:45.

Yes, I know RT is a Russian production. Skeptics are going to say, “What do your expect a Russian show to say about the Ukraine?”

The other side of that skepticism is that our lame stream media is a production of the oligarchs. What can you expect them to be hiding?

Another way to look at this is to realize that these are the true views of Michael Hudson. I have heard him express them in other venues, some of which are discussed on this blog. There aren’t any mainstream outlets in the US that will let him express these views, so where else could he possibly go to say what he thinks?

There just don’t seem to be any objective facts anymore that everyone can believe, if there ever were any.