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Joseph Rago, Wall Street Journal Editorial Writer, Dies at 34
WSJ ^ | 07/22/17

Posted on 07/22/2017 4:54:02 PM PDT by Enlightened1

Pulitzer Prize winner was known for his well-reported pieces and policy influence

Joseph Rago, a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal who was known for his richly reported pieces and influence on policy makers, was found dead Thursday evening at his home in Manhattan. He was 34 years old.

“It is with a heavy heart that we confirm the death of Joseph Rago, a splendid journalist and beloved friend,” Mr. Gigot said in a statement. “Joe and his family are in our thoughts and prayers, and we will be celebrating his work in Saturday’s paper.”

Mr. Rago made his biggest mark writing about health care. In 2011, he captured the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing for what the Pulitzer organization called his “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 wrote. “Not paying attention to these editorials was not an option for policymakers.”

Mr. Rago gained credibility with the policy community and with politicians because he did his homework, becoming one of the most well-sourced people around on health care, with sources throughout Washington and among academics on the left and right, Mr. Gigot said in an interview on Friday.

“Through his editorials, he had enormous impact on events in Washington,” he said.

The last editorial Mr. Rago wrote, on Wednesday, was titled “The ObamaCare Republicans,” Mr. Gigot said.

 

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassination; clintons; corruption; critic; dead; josephrago; obamacare; rago; searchworks; wsj
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1 posted on 07/22/2017 4:54:02 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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Seth Rich researcher...?


2 posted on 07/22/2017 4:56:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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how does anyone die as young as that nowadays?


3 posted on 07/22/2017 4:58:29 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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How? Like THIS maybe:

Mike Hastings, anti-Deep State journo

4 posted on 07/22/2017 5:00:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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Need to look at the leading causes of death for a 34 year old, very interesting.


5 posted on 07/22/2017 5:01:56 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: gaijin
Last thing he said to his apt. neighbor, the DAY before his death..?

"Can I borrow your volvo for a day? Someone has been messin' with my mercedes..."

Alas, she had to turn him down as her beat-up car needed repairs.

6 posted on 07/22/2017 5:10:45 PM PDT by gaijin
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Going OFF THE RADAR...? Yes, I'd say so.


7 posted on 07/22/2017 5:13:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Enlightened1

RIP.


8 posted on 07/22/2017 5:16:31 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Enlightened1

What was he currently working on?


9 posted on 07/22/2017 5:30:01 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Something on Clinton corruption.

Yes, I admit that is a HUGE constellation of questions, so how helpful is that, really...?

But yeah.


10 posted on 07/22/2017 5:35:01 PM PDT by gaijin
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Who knows?

Obviously it was foul play.


11 posted on 07/22/2017 5:36:16 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: faithhopecharity

Not naturally that’s for sure...


12 posted on 07/22/2017 5:37:01 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: gaijin

Bingo!


13 posted on 07/22/2017 5:37:18 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: MarvinStinson

He was asking questions about some Hillary business deal (pharma maybe?) recently, I believe. There’s another thread here with more Clinton-related info. And he was a critic of Obamacare.


14 posted on 07/22/2017 5:49:38 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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The mysterious death of the 34-year-old Joseph Rago follows by less than a fortnight the suiciding of another Hillary Clinton linked person named Renwick Haddow—a top former Haitian government official who ended up with a bullet in his head just a week prior to his testifying against Hillary Clinton in a Miami, Florida, courtroom.


15 posted on 07/22/2017 5:54:44 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Ron Brown would NEVER squeal..!

Then again, WHY take a chance, right..?

Sorry, Ron...!

16 posted on 07/22/2017 5:55:56 PM PDT by gaijin
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Judy Gibbs, Penthouse Playmate knocking boots with Bubba, waaaaay back.

But THEN with his career ascending like a rocket, RUMORS surface about their relationship.

Good thing for Bill her house suddenly BURNED DOWN, huh...?

Smoke inhalation.

17 posted on 07/22/2017 6:00:00 PM PDT by gaijin
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18 posted on 07/22/2017 6:05:05 PM PDT by gaijin
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Peter Smith - Haiti and the Clintons
Klaus Eberwein - Haiti and the Clintons
Monica Peterson - Haiti and the Clintons
Beranton J. Whisenant Jr. - the DNC and Debbie WS
Shawn Lucas - DNC Lawsuit Process Server
John Ashe - UN official who was going to testify about the Clintons
Seth Rich - DNC and Wikileaks LEAK
Michael Hastings
Tim Russert
Andrew Breitbart
Joseph Rago
Renwick Haddow

(this is just the ‘short’ list)


19 posted on 07/22/2017 6:13:11 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MarvinStinson; andmy_

(What was he currently working on?)

July 22, 2017

Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter Asks Russia For “Clinton Information”, 2 Days Later He’s Dead

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A shocking new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that this past Tuesday (18 July), the Consulate General’s office in New York City was contacted by Wall Street Journal reporter/editor Joseph Rago who requested a Thursday (20 July) in person interview with Federation consular officials regarding an upcoming article he was preparing on Hillary Clinton and her links to Russia—but who failed to attend the meeting he requested due to his being discovered dead in his apartment of as yet “unknown causes” just hours prior to this meeting occurring. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

According to this report, Joseph Rago was a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter whose expertise was in the health care field—and whose stated purpose for this meeting was his investigating Hillary Clinton’s links to the 2014 sale of Veropharm (one of Russia’s largest medical companies) to the American medical giant Abbott Laboratories.

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.

With Joseph Rago telling Federation consular officials that he had documents linking Hillary Clinton to both Abbott Laboratories and Kew Garden Hills, this report notes, it was supposed by them that this was the line of inquiry he was going to pursue during his requested meeting—but with him having mysteriously died, this cannot be said for a certainty.

The mysterious death of the 34-year-old Joseph Rago, this report further notes, follows by less than a fortnight the suiciding of another Hillary Clinton linked person named Renwick Haddow—a top former Haitian government official who ended up with a bullet in his head just a week prior to his testifying against Hillary Clinton in a Miami, Florida, courtroom.

This report concludes by noting that Joseph Rago was, also, one of but a few US reporters considered as honest and trustworthy, and as opposed to the Newsweek Magazine senior writer Kurt Eichenwald who wrote two of the worst “fake news” articles ever written about Trump colluding with Russia—but that were deleted this past week by Newsweek Magazine after their settling a US Federal Court lawsuit against them for telling these lies—but that barely any American media outlets will report on because they’re guilty of this type of “fake news” propaganda too.

H/T to andmy_


20 posted on 07/22/2017 6:16:32 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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