[Duran] The Iran-Contra scandal almost brought down Reagan’s second term. Essentially Oliver North and other senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo.
The Reagan administration officials hoped to secure the release of several U.S. hostages, and then take proceeds from the arms sales to Iran, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
Sounds familiar?
In Obama's second term, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton authorized the shipment of American-made arms to Qatar, a country beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood, and friendly to the Libyan rebels, in an effort to topple the Libyan/Gaddafi government, and then ship those arms to Syria in order to fund Al Qaeda, and topple Assad in Syria.
Clinton took the lead role in organizing the so-called "Friends of Syria" (aka Al Qaeda/ISIS) to back the CIA-led insurgency for regime change in Syria.
Under oath Hillary Clinton denied she knew about the weapons shipments during public testimony in early 2013 after the Benghazi terrorist attack.
In an interview with Democracy Now, Wikileaks; Julian Assange is now stating that 1,700 emails contained in the Clinton cache directly connect Hillary to Libya to Syria, and directly to Al Qaeda and ISIS.
Here is the transcript and the revelation by Assange...
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So the source on this story is duran.com. Who are they? People won't hear it until it's on ABCCBSNBCCNN and they'll never hear it there and that's why Clinton is up in the polls.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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What happened to all the emails about the Clinton Foundation and proof of links to her decisions at state and paid speeches for Bill and donations.
If the DNC leaks were a Russian display of their intercept holdings to convince Hilda of their ruthlessness and total collection of her emails, perhaps they made their point and she has signaled compliance. If we never see them, doesn't that seem every bit as troubling as if we do?
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None of this matters at all. The FIX is in.
The slow-moving trainwreck that is Trump is only guaranteeing her ascension to the highest office in the land. The Dems and HC&Co. must have been laughing the entire time Trump was securing his nomination. It's only made the media's job-- making sure she gets elected-- that much easier.
Unless Trump course corrects and fast, the election is over. Get ready for at least 4 years of the most corrupt politician to ever occupy the White House.
May God have mercy on our poor and miserable souls.
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Doom and gloom. Poor poor pitiful me. Lose the lousy media. Massive support for Trump is alive and well. The media is losing money big time. Let them drown in their own sewage.
[PJ] If you believe the State Department that the four hundred million dollars in cash paid to the Iranian mullahs on the very day Iran released our servicemen was not a ransom, that we "never pay ransoms," well, I still have that bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan to sell you I've been trying to get rid of for sixty years.
(Unfortunately, if you believe anything from our State Department these days, I might have to offer you that same bridge.)
For those who live in the real world, however, the interesting question is not whether the four hundred mill was a ransom -- that couldn't be more obvious since the mullahs had Obama, yet again, over a barrel. What could be worse for him and his party in an election year than another Iranian hostage crisis? Everyone knows what happened after the last one. Goodbye, Democrat Carter. Hello, Republican Reagan.
Beyond that, it would raise the issue of Obama's absurd semi-existent Iran deal again. People might notice the Iranians never even signed it. How would that look for a second term president desperately worried about his legacy?
White House: Cash Airlift Wasn't Ransom for Hostages, Negotiators Just 'Succeeded'
So, as we say in Hollywood, "Pasadena!" On to the next. The interesting question isn't what but why? Why did the Iranians demand their payment in cold hard cash (evidently tendered in euros and Swiss francs, not dollars)?
Don't the Iranians trust us? After all, they know we're good for it, even if we have a national debt of 19 trillion. Of course, we do have a history of withholding payments from Iran, not that they don't deserve it. Or maybe they just wanted to stick it to Obama-Kerry at the last moment, show who's boss.
Well, they did that, but I suspect there is another reason - the great flexibility and usefulness of cash, something that can be distributed hand-to-hand without having to go through the banks and their nosey wire-transfer tracking. Like the Mafia, the mullahs are not keen on transparency. They like to keep to themselves how they use their money.
But as a public service, I offer a possible template for their use of Obama's (and U.S. taxpayers') $400 million. Revise as you wish:
$40 million off the top - Ayatollah Khamenei (Godfather always gets his cut)
$30 million - other mullahs as per rank
$85 million - Revolutionary Guard to be distributed to officials and used for "projects" across globe
$5 million - Basij, to keep the peasants happy and the city folks scared
$75 million - Hezbollah -- to be directed by the Revolutionary Guard and only for use against Israel, Kurds and whatever are left of U.S. Syrian allies
$5 million - personal to Hassan Nasrallah -- the Hezbollah leader has been having a tough time of late, got to keep him in line
$25 million - Hamas, to keep them in line, also finance tunnels and rockets into Israel
$15 million - al Qaeda... shush, you're not supposed to think they aid al Qaeda because they're Sunni but they do
$10 million - Boko Haram (Hillary's favorites), Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, plus miscellaneous terror groups you haven't even heard of.
$10 million - ISIS... how is it possible some of it will not end up in their hands despite the Sunni-Shiite rift?
Okay, by my count, that makes $300 million. $100 million left.... What to do? What to do?.... Oh, yes, that fella in Pakistan -- the one with the nuclear material. That's what we need, some of that, under the table. A down payment as well on some new technology from Germany or Sweden. Some of their companies must be willing to cooperate despite the sanctions no one believes in anyway -- especially for cash. That would eat the 100 quickly.
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They forgot to include the donations to the Clinton foundation and Obama's cut.
Chickenfeed for a couple of two-bit whores.
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Ransom is always paid in cash. But don't forget, Hillary and Obama will get their cut as well. Hillary through her foundation and I'm not sure where Obama is sending all his bribe money.
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I'm sure Obama is just chomping at the bit to establish his foundation too... Maybe Michelle or one of the kids have something going... hidden from view.
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