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How the Clintons talked people into giving them over $3 billion in their quest for power

Matea Gold, Tom Hamburger & Anu Narayanswamy
Washington Post
Thu, 19 Nov 2015 20:55 UTC
Clintons donations
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Comment: This is a Washington Post "exposé" on the Clinton bribes donor network. It was published last year, so before the leaks revealed countless other major bribers donors such as Middle Eastern governments. This is a story of how the Clintons almost single-handedly corrupted US politics...


Over four decades of public life, Bill and Hillary Clinton have built an unrivaled global network of donors while pioneering fundraising techniques that have transformed modern politics and paved the way for them to potentially become the first husband and wife to win the White House.

The grand total raised for all of their political campaigns and their family's charitable foundation reaches at least $3 billion, according to a Washington Post investigation.

Their fundraising haul, which began with $178,000 that Bill Clinton raised for his long-shot 1974 congressional bid, is on track to expand substantially with Hillary Clinton's 2016 White House run, which has already drawn $110 million in support.

The Post identified donations from roughly 336,000 individuals, corporations, unions and foreign governments in support of their political or philanthropic endeavors — a list that includes top patrons such as Steven Spielberg and George Soros, as well as lesser-known backers who have given smaller amounts dozens of times. Not included in the count are an untold number of small donors whose names are not identified in campaign finance reports but together have given millions to the Clintons over the years.
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USA

Get real: 'We're an indispensable nation with a lot to be proud of', says Obama


RT
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 12:15 UTC
Obama Bill Maher interview
© Real Time with Bill Maher / YouTube U.S. President Barack Obama
Humility in foreign policy "is useful trait," outgoing President Barack Obama said, adding that America is "an indispensable nation" that has "a lot to be proud of" in the world - thanks to having the most powerful military force.


Comment: America's indispensable and exceptional legacy under Obomber:

The assertion came during Obama's sit in with HBO's Real Time show host Bill Maher on Friday. The interview was focused on the president's political legacy and domestic problems, but the commander-in-chief also shared his thoughts on why the US needs a military that costs over $600 billions a year, according to Maher's count.

"The US having the most powerful military on Earth... helps up check the impulses of some other bad folks," Obama said, giving North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his country's nuclear weapons program as an example.


Comment: More like check the impulses of any leader thinking about doing anything good for their country and their people. Case in point: The truth about Gaddafi's Libya, NATO's bombing, and the Benghazi 'consulate' attack


The Pentagon stages annual military exercises with its ally, South Korea, to prepare for a possible conflict with North Korea. South Korea is the world's tenth biggest defense spender, investing about $34 billion in its military annually, compared to North Korea's estimated $10 billion. Pyongyang insists it needs nuclear weapons to deter possible military aggression from the US.
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Piggy Bank

The Clinton Foundation's $20 million off-the-books Haiti Development Fund

Isabel Vincent
New York Post
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 20:37 UTC
Bill Clinton Frank Giustra
© Getty ImagesBill Clinton seen with philanthropist Frank Giustra in Haiti.
The inner workings of a mysterious off-the-books arm of the Clinton Foundation were partially revealed in the hacked emails of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

The little-known Haiti Development Fund, an LLC incorporated in Delaware in August 2010, was created by the Clinton Foundation with an initial endowment of $20 million from shady Canadian mining mogul Frank Giustra and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

The Fund was supposed to supply desperately needed seed money to Haitian entrepreneurs after an earthquake devastated the country in January 2010.

But The Post found only one project that it funded with a fraction of the start-up cash.

Since the Fund is incorporated as a private entity and not a non-profit, it is not subject to the same disclosure rules as a public charity.

And the Clinton Foundation never disclosed the Fund as a "related entity" on its tax filings as required by IRS rules. It was only after the Clinton Foundation, under mounting scrutiny and media pressure, "voluntarily" decided to refile five years' worth of tax returns in 2015 that the Fund appears on the forms.
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Yoda

Assad: Syrian conflict is 'between Cold War & WWIII' with no proposals for a political solution


RT
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 20:23 UTC
Bashar al-Assad
© SANA / Reuters Syria's President Bashar al-Assad
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told the Sunday Times that the Syrian conflict can be described as something "between the Cold War and Third World War," adding that Syria is struggling and has little international support.

"We call it a world war, but it's a world war against Syria, tens of countries against us, sending those terrorists money and logistics, whereas our army is only Syrian, so we struggled," he said in the interview released on Sunday.

Assad also noted that he sees no solution in sight, because the other side has powerful allies, and they are interfering in the situation in Syria.

"If you ask me what the topics would be for a political solution, I don't know," he said. "No one has proposed anything."
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Flashlight

Flashback Hillary Clinton, a dead White House lawyer, and shredding documents at Arkansas' biggest law firm

Stephen Engelberg
New York Times
Fri, 04 Mar 1994 19:58 UTC
Hillary Clinton in 1992
© Scott A. Miller/ZUMA Press/NewscomHillary Clinton in 1992
An employee of the Rose Law Firm here has told a Federal grand jury that in late January he was ordered to destroy a box of documents from the files of Vincent W. Foster Jr., the White House lawyer whose suicide is under investigation by an independent counsel.

People familiar with the testimony of the employee, an in-house courier, said he had told the grand jury that he and a colleague had used a shredder in the firm's basement to destroy the papers. He testified that he had done so at the request of a clerk in the firm.

The firm's former partners include Hillary Rodham Clinton; Webster L. Hubbell, the Associate Attorney General; William H. Kennedy 3d, an associate White House counsel, and Mr. Foster, the deputy White House counsel who committed suicide in July. All left the firm to go to Washington last year.

The courier, a college student who is among several assigned to run messages and errands, told the grand jury on Feb. 16 that he did not know precisely what he had shredded but that he was certain the papers had come from Mr. Foster's files, those familiar with the account said. He testified that he had looked inside the box and saw that the papers were separated by binders marked with the initials "VWF," the firm's typical abbreviation for Mr. Foster. The box itself also bore Mr. Foster's initials, which no other employee at the Rose firm had.
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Jet3

US dropped one bomb every eight minutes during first three days of Mosul offensive


Sputnik
Sun, 06 Nov 2016 19:08 UTC
Kurdish Peshmerga near Mosul
© AFP 2016/Safin HamedIraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand in the area near the town of Bashiqa, some 25 kilometers north east of Mosul.
During the first three days of the ongoing military operation to win the Iraqi city of Mosul back from Daesh control, the coalition carried out airstrikes at a rate of one bomb every eight minutes.

Iraqi security forces, assisted by the US-led coalition, the People's Mobilization Forces (PMF) and Kurdish fighters are currently focused on liberating Mosul, the second largest city in the country and the last bastion of Daesh militants there.

Colonel Daniel Manning, deputy director of the Combined Air Operations Center, on Friday told Military.com in a telephone conversation that the intense bombing is what makes this anti-Daesh operation stand out, especially if you take into account that each of these bombs are precision-guided weapons.

"It's a really high rate to be concentrated over one city over a prolonged period of time," he said, adding that the intensity and efficacy of airstrikes depends on many things, such as weather — storms slow down the offensive even though there are sensors helping to look through them — and determination of partner forces.

"You tend to employ more weapons when the weather is better, and when your partner forces are on the move because when they're on the move, they're finding the enemy, forcing the enemy to reveal themselves, and we're there to strike them," Manning explained.

Comment: "Precision-guided" doesn't mean civilian-casualty-free, Colonel.

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Dollars

Meet the million dollar donors bankrolling Killary

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 17:12 UTC
A few days ago the Wall Street Journal published a very powerful piece titled, The Million-Dollar Donors. What you'll see should sufficiently dash any and all fantasies that Hillary Clinton is for the average person.

Here are a few of the graphics:
HRC Donors
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Network

US hackers to retaliate if Russia tries to disrupt election

Ken Dilanian, William M. Arkin, Cyntha McFadden
NBC News
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 07:15 UTC
Russians Hacked
© NBC News
U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia's electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin's command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents reviewed by NBC News.


Comment: If they are 'top secret documents,' why does NBC get to look at them? We can guess this one. Cyber saber rattling by Obama administration with NBC as its pawn.


American officials have long said publicly that Russia, China and other nations have probed and left hidden malware on parts of U.S critical infrastructure, "preparing the battlefield," in military parlance, for cyber attacks that could turn out the lights or turn off the internet across major cities.

It's been widely assumed that the U.S. has done the same thing to its adversaries. The documents reviewed by NBC News — along with remarks by a senior U.S. intelligence official — confirm that, in the case of Russia.

U.S. officials continue to express concern that Russia will use its cyber capabilities to try to disrupt next week's presidential election. U.S. intelligence officials do not expect Russia to attack critical infrastructure — which many believe would be an act of war — but they do anticipate so-called cyber mischief, including the possible release of fake documents and the proliferation of bogus social media accounts designed to spread misinformation.


Comment: Really? Russia has time for this nonsense?



Comment: US government resources would be better spent investigating the Clinton apparatus in falsifying the election results...closer to home, far more accessible, an economical and savvy expend of time and resources with a much bigger return on investment.

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Flashlight

Clinton Foundation: Admits hiding Qatar's $1M 'donation'; Killary at the 'center of the wheel'


RT
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 14:42 UTC
Clinton center cog
© Zazzle
On the heels of damning WikiLeaks revelations, the Clinton Foundation has confirmed allegations that it received a $1 million 'gift' from Qatar without telling the State Department, breaking a signed agreement requiring it to reveal all foreign donations.

The payment, which was first revealed in an email exchange with Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta a month ago, has just been officially confirmed by the Foundation. The check was reportedly a gift to former President Bill Clinton in 2011 for his 65h birthday. A meeting was to take place between him and Qatari officials at some point, according to an email published last month. It is not clear if this ever took place, however.

Earlier in 2009, when Clinton became Secretary of State, she had to sign an agreement to prevent any conflicts of interest which stipulated that her influential global foundation could not receive any support from foreign sources without her notifying the State Department, according to Reuters. This was intended to ensure transparency and combat public perception that US foreign policy could be dictated by foreign money. The agreement was also designed to give the State Department time to examine donations and raise any concerns in cases when a foreign entity wanted to "increase materially" the funding for any of the Foundation's programs.

However, Clinton kept the $1 million check from Qatar a secret. While Foundation officials declined to confirm its existence last month, with just days to go before the election, the daily WikiLeaks revelations, and the FBI's relaunched investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server gaining momentum, its spokesman, Brian Cookstra, finally admitted to receiving the money, though he insisted that the sum did not qualify as a "material increase" in Qatari support of the foundation. When Cookstra was asked by Reuters what the Foundation considered an increase in funding, he refused to specify, only saying that the Qatar donations were intended for "overall humanitarian work." For additional comments, Reuters tried to contact the Qatari embassy, the Clinton presidential campaign and Bill Clinton personally, but received no response from any.

Although Cookstra said the sum did not constitute an increase in funding, there is evidence of at least eight other countries besides Qatar whose donations can clearly be construed as an 'increase in funding.' This includes the UK, which tripled the sum slated for the Foundation's health project to $11.2 million in the years 2009-2012.

Comment: Killary, "the centralizer"...the center of attention, the center of corruption, the center of elitism at the expense of the American people and their future, the center of psychopathic human destruction at home and abroad for personal prestige and money. However, there is one thing wrong with being the center of the network when the tide turns...the payback's 'a bitch.'

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Sheeple

Russia slams Dublin's anti-Russian embassy protest


RT
Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:49 UTC
Dublin protest
© Leonie O' Dowd / Facebook
Russia's ambassador to Ireland has criticized an "unauthorized" Syria protest outside its Dublin mission by anti-Assad activists, the latest in a string of demonstrations and counter-demonstrations outside diplomatic missions across Europe this week.

A group of around two dozen people gathered outside the gated compound on Orwell Road in the Irish capital on Saturday afternoon, holding placards that read, "Stop your barbarism in Aleppo, Putin" and "Putin Stop Bombs on Babies." Children blocked the entrance to the building by holding a string of soft toys across the gates. To symbolize the "slaughter" in what was once Syria's biggest city, where a battle between government forces and militants has been ongoing for months, the protesters smeared baby dolls and soft toys in red paint, and dropped them outside the entrance in the climactic part of the demonstration.

The display was organized by the Irish Syria Solidarity Movement (ISSM) which "recognizes the legitimacy of the popular Syrian uprising that began in March 2011" and "deplores the brutal and savage repression of the uprising by the Assad family oligarchy," according to its mission statement.

Russia's ambassador to Ireland, Nikolay Ivanov, bemoaned that the embassy was not informed in advance about the "illegal" picket, and said that staff called the police. But the diplomat also questioned the substance of the demonstration, the latest in a series organized by ISSM. "Unfortunately most people taking part in this demonstration are unaware about the real situation in Syria, because the main slogan of this demonstration was about the Russians' participation in the events in Syria in general, and in Aleppo in particular," he told RT by phone. Ivanov also reminded the activists that Russia, which has a military contingent in Syria following an appeal from President Bashar Assad last year, has not flown its planes over Aleppo for 19 days.

Comment: Uninformed and angry people stoop to the lowest common denominator, prodded on by propaganda aimed to trigger specific political and social response.

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