Anonymous ID: c9303c April 8, 2019, 6:09 a.m. No.6095330   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5331

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Race, politics and the Obamas: Valerie Jarrett’s new book traces her steps from Iran to Chicago to the White House

 

In her free moments between working with law students at the University of Chicago, serving on corporate boards and making speaking appearances, Obama family friend Valerie Jarrett interviewed her mother, daughter and other close relatives about her childhood memories and pivotal moments in her life and career.

 

It was through those conversations and reflections that Jarrett was able to focus in on what lessons from her past led her to success and happiness, she said.

 

“I was in information-gathering mode to see what stories would resonate broadly. I spent a lot of time by myself,” she said. “It would be too much to do an exhaustive history. I wanted to tell stories I thought had broader meaning and were most profound to me.”

 

More than two years after she left the White House and ended her two terms as former President Barack Obama’s senior adviser, Jarrett’s memoir, “Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward,” is due out Tuesday from Viking. Rather than a tell-all that spills salacious secrets, the book is more of a guide that Jarrett hopes will connect with a younger generation.

 

Jarrett’s book comes about four months after Michelle Obama’s highly anticipated memoir “Becoming,” for which the former first lady toured like a rock star, selling out large stadiums across the country. “Becoming” has sold more than 10 million copies and is slated to become the highest-selling memoir in recent history, publishers have said.

Anonymous ID: c9303c April 8, 2019, 6:10 a.m. No.6095331   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6095330

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Rahm 'let off steam by screaming' in the White House, and other tidbits from Valerie Jarrett's new book

 

Here are a few insights from her new book, “Finding My Voice,” out Tuesday by Viking.

 

The Robert Taylor Homes were named for Jarrett’s grandfather — and she played a role in the decision to demolish them. Jarrett is the granddaughter of Robert Rochon Taylor, the first African-American chair of the Chicago Housing Authority board. His name was given to the sprawling set of high-rise public housing complexes in Bronzeville that eventually became known for poverty and violence.

 

But years later, while working for the city, Jarrett played a role in re-imagining public housing as mixed-income communities. She was among decision-makers who agreed to demolish the Robert Taylor Homes and other public housing complexes.

 

Born in Iran, she had a British accent when she moved to Chicago as a child. Jarrett’s father was noted physician James Bowman, who was also a professor of pathology at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Her mother, Barbara Bowman, is an early childhood education expert and co-founder of the Erikson Institute, where at 90, she is still active.

Anonymous ID: c9303c April 8, 2019, 6:13 a.m. No.6095344   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Meeting the Obamas. Her time at City Hall was important for one other big reason: She met the Obamas, before they were the Obamas. Jarrett interviewed a young lawyer, Michelle Robinson, for a position with city government, but Robinson wanted Jarrett to meet her fiance, Barack Obama, before deciding if she’d leave her private-sector job. The three had dinner together, and it led to a long, tight-knit friendship that continued as Obama was elected president and brought Jarrett to the White House as his senior adviser.

 

Jarrett stayed at the White House for Obama’s entire two terms, becoming his longest-serving adviser. She maintains the same title for the Obama Foundation, which is planning the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side.

 

Rahm’s bombast. Outgoing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel worked in the Obama White House, too, and Jarrett recalls him being, well, loud.

 

“His bombastic style of leadership was intimidating to many,” Jarrett wrote. “He let off steam by screaming, which was unsettling not just for those to whom it was directed, but to anyone in earshot.”

 

Obama eventually had a talk with Emanuel about improving the work environment.

Anonymous ID: c9303c April 8, 2019, 6:31 a.m. No.6095436   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5447 >>5510

>>6095410

>>6095420

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=7704067

 

Denizbank Anonim Sirketi provides various banking products and services. It operates through three segments: Wholesale Banking, Retail Banking, and Treasury and Investment Banking. The Wholesale Banking segment offers short and long-term working capital loans, investment loans, non-cash loans, foreign exchange transactions, deposit products, and cash management services, as well as export, project, structured, and corporate finance services. The Retail Banking segment provides loan products, including consumer, mortgage, and vehicle loans; credit cards; investment products, such as mutual funds, shares, government bonds/treasury bills, and repos; time, demand, and protected deposit products; and SME and agricultural loans, as well as overdraft loan, automated bill payment, checkbook, and rental safe services. The Treasury and Investment Banking segment is involved in spot and forward TL, and foreign exchange transactions; and trading of treasury bills, bonds, and other local and international securities and derivative products. The company also provides insurance products, including fire, agriculture, accident, engineering, liability, unemployment personal accident, and life insurance plans, as well as pension plans. It primarily serves retail customers, small and medium-size enterprises, exporters, public and project finance customers, and commercial and corporate clients operating in the agriculture, energy, tourism, education, healthcare, sports, infrastructure, and maritime industries. As of December 31, 2015, Denizbank Anonim Sirketi operated through 737 branches, which included 694 in Turkey, as well as 43 overseas foreign subsidiary branch locations; and 4,756 ATMs. The company was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. Denizbank Anonim Sirketi is a subsidiary of Sberbank of Russia.

Anonymous ID: c9303c April 8, 2019, 6:34 a.m. No.6095453   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5476

>>6095447

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sberbank_of_Russia

 

After the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia in 2014, the Obama administration imposed sanctions on 12 September 2014, through the US Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) by adding Sberbank and other entities to the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN).[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] This was done in concert with 31 July 2014 addition of Sberbank to the European Union sanctions list.[29][30] Sanctions consist of access restriction to the EU and US capital markets.[31][32][33] After announcement of the sanctions, and by the end of July, Sberbank's market value had dropped the most market value among the world’s major lenders plus investors moved $22 billion from Sberbank’s market capitalization.[34] Still, during the following year Sberbank’s share price grew back 89%.[35] Sberbank together with other Russian banks filed claims with the highest EU court to lift the punitive economic measures.[36]

 

On 27 August 2014, Switzerland imposed sanctions on Sberbank and other Russian financial institutions.[37]

 

On 22 December 2015, the United States imposed additional sanctions on Sberbank and its subsidiaries.[38][39][21][22][23][27]

 

On 17 October 2016, Ukraine imposed sanctions against Sberbank Russia, Sberbank Leasing, and their payment systems Kolibri (Hummingbird), formerly Blitz (Ukrainian: «Колибри» стара назва – «Блиц»).[40][41][42]

 

On 15 March 2017, the president of Ukraine imposed sanctions on Sberbank (and other Russian state-owned banks operating in Ukraine: VTB Bank, BM Bank, Prominvestbank, and VS Bank (Ukrainian: ВіЕс Банк)) as part of its continued sanctions on Russia for its annexation of Crimea and involvement in the War in Donbass.[43][44][45]

 

2017 sale of VS Bank to Tihipko

In December 2017, due to sanctions, Sberbank sold its Ukrainian subsidiary, "VS Bank" (Ukrainian: ВіЕс Банк)[43] to Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Tihipko.

Anonymous ID: c9303c April 8, 2019, 6:37 a.m. No.6095476   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6095453

>In December 2017, due to sanctions, Sberbank sold its Ukrainian subsidiary, "VS Bank" to Ukrainian businessman Serhiy Tihipko.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Tihipko

 

He served in the Soviet Army in a tank regiment from 1982–1984.

 

"After the break up of the Soviet Union and the results of the political power struggles that followed he decided to put his political interests aside and start a business career as a manager in a private bank. This was an undeveloped industry in the early stages of the former Soviet Union and it turned out to be a shrewd move."[11] He "made swift progress and from 1991-1992 he was appointed Deputy Chairman of a small commercial bank called Dnipro Bank. From there he became Chairman of the Board of the commercial bank Pryvat until 1997, helping in taking the small regional bank to become one of the biggest private banks in Eastern Europe."[11]