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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Clinton doubles down on disputed claim FBI found her email remarks 'truthful'



Hillary Clinton has doubled down on her assertion that the FBI declared her public remarks on her email scandal “consistent and truthful,” despite independent fact-checkers concluding otherwise.

“And as the FBI said, everything that I’ve said publicly has been consistent and truthful with what I’ve told [the FBI],” Clinton said Wednesday in an interview with Brandon Rittiman of KUSA News.

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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler swiftly chided the Democratic presidential candidate for repeating the "roundly debunked" claim. 

Clinton first cited the FBI in her defense last Sunday when “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace noted Director James Comey had contradicted her claim she never sent classified material from her home server.

“That's not what I heard Director Comey say … Director Comey said that my answers were truthful and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails,” she said. 

Several fact-checkers, however, called her out on that claim. 

The Washington Post's Kessler awarded her “four Pinnochios,” and noted, “Comey has repeatedly not taken a stand on her public statements.”

PolitiFact gave her a “Pants on Fire” rating for a lack of truthfulness and FactCheck.org declared her claims “false.”

Comey did tell Congress: “We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI.” But he did not say the same about her public statements. 

During testimony before a House committee, Comey said it was “not true” that nothing Clinton sent or received was marked classified. To the contrary, he said, “there was classified material emailed. 







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Friday, August 5, 2016

The blood of dead cops leads right back to... The Daily Mail





I would like you to read the headline below regarding this... "soon to be Neurosurgeon".




Chicago officials release bodycam footage of cops handcuffing unarmed teen and 'leaving him to die' after shooting him in the back - but crucial footage from cop who killed him is suspiciously missing 
WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE 
  • Paul O'Neal, 18, was unarmed when police shot him in the back in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood July 28
  • Shocking video of the shooting was released for the first time Friday 
  • Footage shows police handcuffing O'Neal after the shooting
  • He was then 'left for dead', with no officers rendering aid
  • Crucial footage of the actual moment O'Neal was shot was not released
  • Officials said the body camera that captured it was not recording 
  • Three officers involved in the shooting have been stripped of their powers 
  • Cook County Medical Examiner's Office ruled O'Neal's death a homicide 
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 Now watch the video here and tell me you came to the same conclusion they did.



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Freed American Hostage: We Waited All Night at the Airport



Who are you going to believe...
Smooth talking Barry giving the press a wink and a nod? Or a pastor dying to get out of Iran with absolutely no reason to lie? 


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We saw what's possible alright!


The press conference was a joke. He deliberately gave long hot air answers to questions so he wouldn't have to take too many which is his style. Like Clinton, when you know you're lying you don't want to do press conferences. The WH has said repeatedly they already told us about the $400 million (ransom) to Iran. 



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You lying bastard!


Show me the video of Barry, or anyone else in this administration, making any reference whatsoever of $400 million in Euros, Swiss francs, and other currencies packed onto wooden pallets flying to Iran in the dead of night on an unmarked cargo plane! These fucking reporters are nothing but lap dogs. I’m surprised one of them didn’t ask what he had for lunch.


And one more thing. 
Saeed Abedini had been held by the Iranians since July 2012 and released on January 16, 2016. So after over 4 years in captivity, he just happened to be released right after the plane arrived with the dough? What a fucking coincidence!


If The Wall Street Journal didn't break the story we would not have heard a damn word about it. 
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Pastor Saeed Abedini, one of four American hostages released from Iran on Tuesday, joined the FOX Business Network’s Trish Regan to describe the night he was set free.

“First of all, I’m so thankful for my freedom,” he said. “There is nothing like a life of being free.”

Abedini said he and the others waited a full night in the airport. According to police, they were waiting for another plane to arrive.

(With the ransom money)

“They told us ‘you’re going to be there for 20 minutes, but it took like hours and hours,’” Abedini said. “We slept at the airport.”

Abedini said the plane and pilot were there, and everyone was ready to go, but they didn’t leave until 10 a.m. the next day. They eventually flew to the U.S. in the plane that had been sitting at the airport overnight.

When asked whether he believes the U.S. paid the Iranian government a ransom for his release, Abedini said he has his suspicions, but “they didn’t’ talk about money.”

“We call them terrorists and I don’t believe they are going to use this money for building orphanages, which I was arrested for, but I prefer that the politicians answer this question.”

Abedini said he is more concerned about worsening human rights conditions in Iran.

“I’m very grateful about my release and freedom, but there are some people still left behind and Christians who are still in prison,” he said. “Two days ago some of my friends… have been executed because of their faith. Every Wednesday they execute 100 people.”







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Thursday, August 4, 2016

Who would have thought Trump may loose because of poverty?




Battle of the Billionaires: Clinton’s uber-rich backers pour money into Trump fight



At left, Warren Buffett with Hillary Clinton; at right, George Soros (AP/Reuters)



Donald Trump has his billions, but Hillary Clinton has her billionaires.

As the candidates formally enter the general election season after their conventions, the former secretary of state’s wealthiest backers are pouring money into political groups opposing Trump. Within the past year, according to a review by FoxNews.com, a total of 24 billionaires have donated more than $42.5 million to two Clinton campaign arms and three allied super PACs.

All this is in preparation for a blitz of advertising and other efforts to defeat Trump over the next three months – as some big-money Republicans stay on the sidelines.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, for instance, is joining industrial power-brokers Charles and David Koch in refusing to back fellow Republican billionaire Trump. While the Koch brothers plan to stay out of the presidential race, Whitman is going one further by stating she will endorse and help fund Clinton. 

Whitman will be in some influential company. Her most famous Clinton donor colleagues include movie producers Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg, financiers Warren Buffett and George Soros, and Walmart heiress Alice Walton.

The billionaire donations were given to Clinton campaign funds Hillary for America and Hillary Victory Fund; and the pro-Clinton PACs American Bridge 21st Century, Priorities USA Action 2016 and Correct the Record.
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The largest donor was Soros with $9 million, according to 2015 and 2016 Federal Election Commission records. This was followed up by mathematician and hedge fund manager James Simons at $7 million and Haim and Cheryl Saban, with $3.5 million each. Haim Saban owns the Spanish television network Univision.

Most of the money is donated to PACs because candidate campaigns are only allowed to accept $2,700 per donor. Clinton’s overall campaign total is $374.5 million and Trump’s is $98.7 million through July 21, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Clinton campaign – which only recently put away a primary challenge from Bernie Sanders, who boasted of his small-dollar donations – stresses that the bulk of the nominee’s support is grass-roots.

"More than 900,000 people contributed to Hillary Clinton's campaign in July and the average donation is just $44,” Clinton spokesman Josh Schwerin said. “That grass-roots support is the true power behind this campaign as Hillary lays out her plans to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top.”

But the high-dollar backing from some of the wealthiest Americans contrasts with some of the themes at last week’s Philadelphia convention. Clinton, who called in her convention address to get “money out of politics,” repeatedly has said her presidency would work for lower- and middle-class Americans while taxing the wealthiest, like Wall Street executives.

“I believe American corporations that have gotten so much from our country should be just as patriotic in return. Many of them are. But too many aren't,” Clinton said during her nomination acceptance speech. “It's wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. And I believe Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again.”

The super PACs, though, are a valued resource to push Clinton along in her quest to be the first female president.

American Bridge 21st Century was founded in 2010 to provide opposition research to the Democratic Party by following key Republicans and videotaping everything they say. The material is used to blanket airwaves and the Internet with their foibles. Its site is mostly dedicated to the presidential race.

Priorities USA Action 2016 was founded a year later with the purpose of raising funds from wealthy donors. Its website states “We’re all in for Hillary Clinton.” Correct the Record’s mission is to “defend Hillary Clinton against baseless attacks.”

Despite the looming ad onslaught, Trump’s campaign is voicing confidence about its financial position, after announcing an $80 million July fundraising haul for the campaign and the GOP. The haul marks a big fundraising surge, and comes close to the combined $90 million raked in by Clinton and the Democrats last month. 

"The campaign is in good shape. We are organized. We are moving forward," campaign chairman Paul Manafort told Fox News' "Happening Now" on Wednesday. 

While Trump also is willing to keep spending from his own fortune to pad the account if necessary, Clinton enjoys a deep bench with deep pockets.

The other billionaires who donated to her cause are: heir to the Hyatt Hotel chain J.B. Pritzker and his wife Mary; Slim-Fast founder Daniel Abraham; film executive Thomas Tull; entrepreneur Marc Benioff; Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg; Jon and Pat Stryker, heirs to a self-named family medical device company; scientist David E. Shaw; philanthropist Barbara Lee; financiers John Doerr, Bernard Schwartz, Roger Altman, Henry Laufer and Herb Sandler; and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Oprah Winfrey stated on television that she endorses Clinton, but she doesn’t have any donations listed on the FEC website.

But one high-profile backer has decided to fund his own anti-Trump endeavors.

Billionaire Tom Steyer spent $1.9 million through his environmental action organization NextGen to produce a television commercial titled “The Wall,” which ran in California during the Republican convention. In the commercial, Steyer and a group of young people stand in front of a montage of Trump clips where the candidate discusses building a wall at the border. “That’s not America,” Steyer states as the group says in chorus, “Vote!”

Earlier this year, Steyer told reporters he would spend $25 million in an effort to turn out youth voters. He historically has used the nonprofit NextGen as a political platform for Democratic candidates.








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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Another one of those coincidences...




US delivered $400m in CASH stashed inside wooden pallets to Iran on same day as American hostages were freed but the Obama administration DENIES it paid a ransom



WOW... Barry sure drives a hard bargain! 
Only in the mind of this warped waste of skin could a plan of this magnanimous derangement be conceived. This administration's negotiating skills has no equal! We lifted the sanctions. We gave them 400 million (so far). And we allow them to inspect themselves regarding their nuclear facilities. What's next? Give them ObamaCare?

Makes me wonder about the 5 for 1 swap. How much money did he slip them under the table?

Obama's legacy in one photo.


Barry's using your tax dollars to finance Iran's nuclear program just like Bill Clinton did with North Korea.



Bill Clinton's VS Barack Obama's Nuclear Agreement Speech Similarities Warns US of  The Future

(Please watch to the end)


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It was bullshit then just like it is now.


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The US secretly flew $400 million stashed inside wooden pallets out to Iran as four Americans were released from Tehran - but the Obama administration insists it was not a ransom payment.

The pallets, which were stuffed with euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currencies, arrived in Tehran on January 17. That same day, four US citizens were released in exchange for seven Iranians held in the United States.

Officials denied any link between the payment and the prisoner exchange, saying the deal was part of a $1.7 billion settlement to resolve a failed 1979 arms deal, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Bur critics claim that the clandestine multi-million dollar payment was part of the hostage negotiations.

They also point to the fact that President Barack Obama failed to make any mention of the $400 million when he announced the prisoner exchange. 



Critics have accused the Obama administration of paying a $1.7 billion 'ransom' for the hostages (President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden speaking last year about the Iran nuclear deal)



'With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,' President Barack Obama said on January 17.

Iranians had demanded the return of the $400 million which was paid to the Pentagon by Iran, shortly before the fall of Iran's last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to purchase US fighter jets. 

Officials admit that Iranian negotiators had demanded cash over the exchange to show they had won something from the US in negotiations.

But they insist that negotiations on the prisoner exchange, and the failed arms deal settlement were completely separate.

'As we've made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim…were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home,' State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

US officials admit they realized the United States was going to lose its case over the arms deal in The Hague, where Iran was seeking more than $10 billion compensation.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas, accused the Obama administration of paying a $1.7 billion 'ransom' for the hostages.

They have also expressed concerns the money could be used to fund terrorist groups such as Lebanese militia Hezbollah or it could be funding Assad's regime in Syria. 

Local press reports also quoted Iranian defense officials describing the money as a ransom payment. 

The Obama administration has refused to say how the $1.7 billion was paid.

But officials say the $400 million was paid in foreign currency, because transactions with Iran in US dollars is illegal in the United States.

It was such a large amount of cash that the US was forced to transfer the money into the central banks of the Switzerland and the Netherlands. 

Once the dollars were converted to foreign currency, it was stacked in the wooden pallets and sent off to Iran.

The cargo plane carrying the money arrived in Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on January 17 - the same day the American detainees were released.

Negotiations for their release began back in 2014 with Switzerland’s foreign minister hosting the discussions at the InterContinental Hotel, Geneva, on behalf of the US which has not had diplomatic interests in Iran since closing its Tehran embassy following the 1979 hostage crisis.



US Secretary of State John Kerry, hailed the new deal with Iran which successfully resolved a decades-old failed arms deal, is pictured talking with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif


Talks began picking up pace in July 2015 when Iran agreed to restrain its nuclear program in exchange for the international sanctions against it being lifted.

US and European officials told the Wall Street Journal the negotiations began by focusing on a straight forward prisoner swap but grew to envelop compensation for the failed arms deal.

Eventually, Obama agreed to pay the $400 million and the four Americans were released from a Tehran prison last January. 








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