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As the U.S. presidential race began roaring to life in 2016,
authorities in the former Soviet republic of Latvia flagged a series of “
suspicious” financial transactions to Hunter Biden and other colleagues at a
Ukrainian natural gas company and sought Kiev’s help investigating, according
to documents and interviews.
The Feb. 18, 2016 alert to Ukraine came from the Latvian prosecutorial
agency responsible for investigating money laundering, and it specifically
questioned whether Vice President Joe Biden’s younger son and three other
officials at Burisma Holdings were the potential beneficiaries of suspect
funds.
“The Office for Prevention of Laundering of Proceeds Derived
from Criminal Activity … is currently investigating suspicious activity of
Burisma Holdings Limited,” the Latvian agency also known as the FIU wrote
Ukraine’s financial authorities.
The memo was released to me by the Ukrainian General
Prosecutor’s Office and confirmed by the Latvian embassy to the United States.
Latvian authorities said they did not get any incriminating
information back from Ukraine to warrant further investigation and did not take
additional action in 2016. But the memo adds to the mounting evidence that
there was ongoing investigative activity surrounding Burisma Holdings and
Hunter Biden’s compensation as a board member in the weeks just before Joe
Biden forced the firing of the Ukraine prosecutor overseeing the Burisma
investigation in spring 2016.
The Latvian law enforcement memo identified a series of loan
payments totaling about $16.6 million that were routed from companies in Beliz
and the United Kingdom to Burisma through Ukraine’s PrivatBank between 2012 and
2015.
The flagged funds were “partially transferred” to Hunter
Biden, a board member at Burisma since May 2014, and three other officials
working for the Ukrainian natural gas company, the Latvian memo said. More here from Solomon.
***
But hold on as the media knew much of this as did so many
members of Congress and quite frankly our intelligence agencies including the
U.S. Department of State.
Politico reported just recently that the Bidens took over
Paradigm Global Advisors. In the late summer of 2006 Joe Biden’s son Hunter and
Joe’s younger brother, James, purchased the firm. On their first day on the
job, they showed up with Joe’s other son, Beau, and two large men and ordered
the hedge fund’s chief of compliance to fire its president, according to a
Paradigm executive who was present. At the time, the senator was just months
away from both assuming the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and launching his second presidential bid.
According to the executive, James Biden made it clear he
viewed the fund as a way to take money from rich foreigners who could not
legally give money to his older brother or his campaign account. “We’ve got
investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this
company,” the executive remembers James Biden saying.
The Biden family has consistently mixed business and
politics over nearly half a century, moving from one business to the next as
Joe’s stature in Washington grew. None of the ventures appear to have been
runaway successes, and Biden’s relatives have not been accused of criminal
wrongdoing in their dealings. But over the years, several of their partners and
associates have ended up indicted or convicted. The dealings have brought Joe
unwelcome scrutiny and threaten to distract from his presidential bid. Read the long and full story here.
But hold on, there is still more beyond Burisma and China.
That is we need to go back even further.
A son of Democratic vice
presidential candidate Joe Biden was paid an undisclosed amount of money as a
consultant by MBNA, the largest employer in Delaware, during the years the
senator supported legislation that was promoted by the credit card industry and
opposed by consumer groups.
Barack Obama’s presidential
campaign said Biden helped forge a bipartisan compromise on the measure, which
is now law and makes it harder for consumers to obtain bankruptcy protection in
the courts.
MBNA’s consulting payments to
Hunter Biden, first reported by The New York Times, followed his departure in
2001 from the company, where he had been an executive.
At the time Hunter Biden was
receiving consulting payments from MBNA, he also was a Washington lobbyist at a
firm he had co-founded.
“He was not a lobbyist for MBNA,
and his work had absolutely nothing to do with the bankruptcy bill. Zero.
Nothing,” said Wade.
Resurrecting Biden’s role in the
bankruptcy legislation could undercut one of the Obama campaign’s lines of
attack: That his Republican opponent, John McCain, is insensitive to the
financial woes of middle-class Americans.
Consumer and civil rights groups
and unions, as well as Democratic opponents, had argued that the bankruptcy
legislation was unfair to low-income working people, single mothers, minorities
and the elderly, and would remove a safety net for those who have lost their
jobs or face mounting medical bills. More here.
But are there other politicians we need to look at? Yes.
Robert Powell, the husband of
Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian
oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky. Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary
Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against
President Donald Trump for his alleged abuse of power with regards to Ukraine.
In 2018, the Daily Beast reported that a
number of businesses linked to Kolomoisky hired Powell as an attorney. One of
those firms paid Powell at least $700,000 over two years, according to public
records.
The Miami Herald reported Powell
was working for companies tied to Kolomoisky for 10 years. Powell made most of
his money in the two years leading up to his wife’s election in 2018.
Kolomoisky has been accused of
contract killings and embezzlement in the past. Yet, in 2018 when
Mucarsel-Powell was running for her seat, she did not see her husband’s work as
relevant to her campaign. More here.
As President Trump works diligently to be the law and order
president, it is no wonder AG Barr, John Dunham, Rudy Giuliani and so many
others including conservative media are doing the real investigative work…
draining the swamp.
So, while we have elections around the corner, we have much
more to learn and consider at the ballot box. Could it be that the Democrats
led by Speaker Pelosi are scrambling to cover up some other nasty events we are
slowly learning about?
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Kevin Shipp is a former CIA Officer. Why should you care? I
found an interview in which Shipp is confidant an indictment is in the works
that implicates Crooked Hillary and others.
As a Conservative who believes the Clintons have escaped
justice for decades, this welcome news. As a person that observed all elitist
Dems skate away from even the most obvious crimes, I’ll believe it when I see
it.
And yet Shipp’s credentials lend some hope he is correct:
Kevin Shipp is a
retired CIAspook and whistleblower.
He has exposed the US deep
stateand charged the CIAwith
systematically use of unconstitutional and illegal measures to terrorise
employees to prevent them from becoming whistleblowers. He has also charged
that "Hillary Clinton was running and is
running a global financial criminal syndicate. She was using these secret
servers to conduct Clinton financial money
laundering business."[1]
Background
Shipp was born in Laramie, Wyoming,
but his family moved to Falls Church, Virginia, where he has spent most of his
subsequent life. He studied at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, where
studied biology. Later he also obtained a master's degree in forensic psycho
physiology at the Department of Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment.[citation needed]
Career
"Kevin Shipp, former CIA
Officer and Anti Terrorism expert,
held several high level positions in the CIA. He was assigned as a protective
agent for the Director of Central Intelligence, a counterintelligence
investigator, team leader protecting sensitive CIA assets from assassination,
manager of high risk Counter Terrorism Center protective operations, lead
instructor for members of allied governments, internal staff security
investigator and a polygraph examiner tasked with protecting the CIA from
foreign agent penetration. He is the recipient of two CIA Meritorious Unit
Citations, three Exceptional Performance Awards and a Medallion for overseas
covert operations. Shipp also supervised the Department of State Anti Terrorism
Assistance program and managed the protective detail assigned to the president
of Afghanistan following the US invasion."[2][3]
Shipp says that what Hillary Clinton did with her
charity and Uranium One while she was Secretary of State was a crime
for the history books. Shipp explains, “Hillary Clinton used this to
launder money in foreign banks so it wasn’t subject to U.S. laws, congressional
subpoenas, or FOIA demands for the evidence. This was done to
launder this money globally into the Clinton Foundation so the U.S. government
could not examine it at all.”
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Whistleblower and former CIA officer Kevin Shipp stated
clearly that indictments are coming for Hillary Clinton and the deep state
because Donald Trump cannot be bribed. In an interview with USA Watchdog‘s Greg Hunter, Shipp says
this deep state espionage will eventually be exposed to the public.
During his discussion with Hunter, Shipp says that whatHillary
Clinton did with her charity and Uranium One while she was
Secretary of State was a crime for the history books. Shipp
explains, “Hillary Clinton used this to launder money in foreign banks so it
wasn’t subject to U.S. laws, congressional subpoenas, or FOIA demands for the
evidence. This was done to launder this money globally into the
Clinton Foundation so the U.S. government could not examine it at all.”
How did Hillary Clinton get away
with obvious crime with her unprotected server and the shady Uranium One deal? Shipp
says, “The most bizarre thing is the people who protected her from clear
felonious activity and violations of the Espionage Act. James Clapper, Director
of National Intelligence, was protecting her and leaking things to the media
and lying. You had John Brennan, Director of the CIA, protecting her by
starting a false investigation (on Trump) and stirring things up with this
(false/unverified) dossier. You had James Comey, Director of the FBI,
protecting her. . . . Then, you’ve got Peter Strzok protecting her, and now it
appears the United Kingdom GCHQ was using NSA information to target Donald
Trump and protect Hillary Clinton. You have to ask yourself … READ THE REST]
“Obviously [Hillary’s] not stupid, she is diabolical,”
says Shipp of Hillary Clinton’s decision to have an unsecured server as
Secretary of State. “She knew darn well what she was doing…the Clinton
Foundation is a global crime syndicate.”
Shipp continued saying, “we just found out
recently that…at least 30,000 of her emails went to a foreign entity that was
not on any of the distribution lists…they’re trying to figure out who that is
now…this reeks of espionage to me.”
“The most bizarre thing is the
people who protected her from clear felonious activity and violations of the
Espionage Act. James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, was
protecting her and leaking things to the media and lying. You had John
Brennan, Director of the CIA, protecting her by starting a false investigation
(on Trump) and stirring things up with this (false/unverified) dossier.
You had James Comey, Director of the FBI, protecting her. . . . Then, you’ve
got Peter Strzok protecting her, and now it appears the United Kingdom GCHQ was
using NSA information to target Donald Trump and protect Hillary
Clinton. You have to ask yourself what kind of power or connections
does this woman have to get all of these members of the Deep State, Shadow
Government to risk their own criminal penalties to protect her and try to get
her elected? That is the Shadow Government. That is the Deep
State. That is what is so chilling about this whole thing. . . . This is
deep. This is dark. This is as dark as it gets, and this is the
biggest espionage case involving government officials in the history of this
country.” -Kevin Shipp
Hunter then brings up the concerns most Americans have: no
one will go to jail because the government will never implicate themselves. In
response, Shipp points out that, this time, it will not be business as usual
for the “Deep State and Shadow Government.” It is
possible that the people involved in this massive espionage case will charges.
They are going to be brought to justice because Shipp says, “indictments are
coming because of Donald Trump coming into the White House from the
outside. Trump cannot be bribed.”
Bravera Holdings was founded
by Gary DeMar and Brandon Vallorani in 2011 for the purpose
of disseminating political news via a network of websites.
Tim Brown is the current
editor-in-chief of FreedomOutpost.com.
FreedomOutpost was started in
2012 and has reached millions of people with political news and commentary, as
well as other news from both the US and around the world.
Tony Newbill highlights Eco-Marxism as part of the Agenda 21 paradigm. He proceeds
to the subject of Fake News as in it’s been occurring for decades. Newbill
found a Rappoport article talking of the government/media coverup of Chem-WMD
sent from the U.S. to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the consequences of that move
later. Newbill wonders about the Obama/Dem/Clinton outrage over Russian actions
in hacking when prior there appeared complete cooperation with Russian money
laundering (and I might add Crooked Hillary giving nuclear armed Russia
access to a huge percentage of American uranium). Newbill points to Obama
money laundering illegalities with Iran to get hostages freed yet lying (as
was and is typical) it was a part of the Iran Nuke deal. Crooked Hillary’s
part in fixing IRS criminal against international banks HSBC and USB. Then
Newbill culminates with the medical deaths imposed on the public by dangerous
GMOs and needless deaths in U.S. hospitals.
The UN-ECO Marxists .... Give us the POWER to subvert your
life into oblivion .... and the international jet set of Climate Change
Globalist savants will have the earth all to ourselves!!!!! Like Marxism,
sustainability prefers revolution to reform, but is willing to take half-steps.
Like Marxism, sustainability seeks to re-architect human nature, finding human
beings as they are unworthy of the kingdom it will build. Like Marxism, sustainability is a vision of
history in which a decisive inflection point lies just ahead of us, and we the
living have the opportunity to get on “the right side of history” if we are
smart enough to listen the movement’s prophets. Like Marxism, sustainability
pictures itself a global movement, transcending the boundaries -- and the laws
-- of nations.
Listen to the Video
starting at 1:39 you will HEAR THE KEY WORD for THEIR PLAN at 1:50:
The 193-Member United Nations
General Assembly formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goals,
which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed as a universal, integrated and
transformative vision for a better world.
"The new agenda is a promise
by leaders to all people everywhere. It is an agenda for people, to end poverty
in all its forms - an agenda for the planet, our common home," declared
Mr. Ban as he opened the UN Sustainable Development Summit.
The UN chief's address came ahead
of the Assembly's formal adoption of the new framework, Transforming Our World:
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is composed of 17 goals and 169 targets to
wipe out …READ
THE REST (Agenda 2030: A Vision of a Better Future; UN Montenegro)
All TRUMP and PENCE need to do to get reelected is Abstain
from this CREATURE and REBUILD our Industrial Base for self-reliance away from
these Dependencies on Foreign Resources that can be used as Leverage against
the U.S. People being folded into this Globalist Cabal of servitude!!!!!!
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We Only Know What We are Told
12/27/2016 12:09 PM
We only know what we are
told .... fake or otherwise!!!!!
Here I want to comment on one of
the most devious forms of MSM fake news: the limited hangout.
When necessary, news outlets will
do a PARTIAL EXPOSURE of a hidden crime. The assumption is, once the story is
published and broadcast, everyone will shake their heads and say, “That’s
terrible,” and move on. The whole thing will be forgotten in a matter of days,
as if the whole truth has been revealed. Limited hangout.
From media’s point of view, a
limited hangout means: “We won’t do any further digging. We’ll shut down
further investigation.” Vital questions won’t be asked:
…
The mainstream press could set
their hounds loose and build a story into a huge wave. Over time, they could bring
hidden players out into the open and expose them and wring confessions out of
them. They could get some of these players to roll over and
point to higher-level criminals. The story could achieve
tsunami status, at which point the government would have to make
arrests and lay on trials in open courtrooms.
But that doesn’t happen. Limited
hangout rules the day.
I’m going to present a story about
a crime now. It’s big. Very big. It was covered, to a degree, by the mainstream
press. The coverage seemed to be significant. But it was a limited hangout.
As you read on, imagine what might
have happened if the press had decided to go in with guns blazing and investigate
all the way, over a period of months, releasing new revelations as they
discovered them. …
In 1975, the US signed on to an
international treaty banning the production, use, and stockpiling of biological
weapons. Ditto for chemical weapons, in 1993. Another treaty.
Here’s a quote from the Washington
Post (9/4/13, “When the US looked the
other way on chemical weapons”): “…The
administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to
Iraq of numerous items…including
poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic
plague…”
Between 1985 and 1989, a US 501C3
firm, American Type Culture
Collection, sent Iraq up to 70 shipments of various biowar agents,
including 21 strains of anthrax.
Between 1984 and 1989, the CDC (Centers
for Disease Control!) sent Iraq at least 80 different biowar agents, including
botulinum toxoid, dengue virus, and West Nile antigen and antibody.
Then we have a comprehensive
article by William Blum (one of the good investigators in this whole story) in
the April 1998 Progressive called “Anthrax for Export.” Blum
cites a 1994 Senate report confirming that, …
…
This 1994 Senate report also
indicates that the US exported to Iraq the precursors for chemwar agents,
actual plans for chemical and biowar production facilities, and
chemical-warhead filling equipment. The exports continued until at least
November 28, 1989.
Blum lists a few other biowar
agents the US shipped to Iraq. Histoplasma Capsulatum, Brucella Melitensis,
Clostridium Perfringens, Clostridium tetani—as well as E. coli, various genetic
materials, human and bacterial DNA.
Blum also points out that a 1994
Pentagon report dismissed any connection between all these biowar agents and
Gulf War Illness. But the researcher who headed up that study, Joshua
Lederberg, was actually a director of the US firm that had provided the most
biowar material to Iraq in the 1980s: the American Type Culture Collection.
Newsday revealed that the CEO of
the American Type Culture Collection was a member of the US Dept. of Commerce’s
Technical Advisory Committee. See, the Dept. of Commerce had to license and
approve all those exports of biowar agents carried out by the American Type
Culture Collection. Get the picture?
…
Hewlett Packard said that the
recipient of its shipments, Saad 16, was some sort of school in Iraq. But in
1990, the Wall St. Journal stated that Saad 16 was a “heavily fortified,
state-of-the-art [Iraqi] complex for aircraft construction, missile design,
and, almost certainly, nuclear-weapons research.”
If you review and think about all
these WMD shipments from the US to Iraq, you understand there were many US
officials and corporate employees who knew about them. Knew about them then, in
the 1980s, and knew about them later, during 2 US wars in Iraq, when American
soldiers were sent to Iraq, and could have been exposed to the bio/chem
weapons.
And these officials and employees
said nothing.
Officials at the CDC and the Dept.
of Commerce said nothing. People at the American Type Culture Collection said
nothing. People at the Pentagon and the CIA and the NSA said nothing.
Presidents said nothing. Employees of the corporations who supplied germs and
chemicals said nothing.
US Defence Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld helped Saddam Hussein build up his arsenal of deadly chemical and
biological weapons, it was revealed last night.
As an envoy from President Reagan
19 years ago, he had a secret meeting with the Iraqi dictator and arranged
enormous military assistance for his war with Iran.
The CIA had already warned that
Iraq was using chemical weapons almost daily. But Mr. Rumsfeld, at the time a
successful executive in the pharmaceutical industry, still made it possible for
Saddam to buy supplies from American firms. [Blog Editor: Emphasis Tony
Newbill]
They included viruses such as
anthrax and bubonic plague, according to the Washington Post.
The extraordinary details have come
to light because thousands of State Department documents dealing with the 1980-88
Iran-Iraq war have just been declassified and released under the Freedom of
Information Act.
At the very least, it is highly
embarrassing for 70-year-old Mr Rumsfeld, who is …READ THE REST(Rumsfeld
'helped Iraq get chemical weapons'; By WILLIAM LOWTHER; Daily Mail; 12/31/02
7:36:39 am)
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Dems & Obama are Russian Friends
12/30/2016 2:20 PM
I don't understand why the Democrats and Obama are making
such a Big deal out of their Friends the Russians. First, we have Bill dressed
up as a Russian:
Bill and Hillary Clinton's
charitable foundation reportedly received as much as $81million from clients
with accounts with at HSBC's Swiss bank in Geneva.
The contributions - including
$1million in exchange for Bill attending a lavish fancy-dress party in Russia -
come from wealthy clients who are protected by Switzerland's robust banking
secrecy laws.
Details of 30,000 accounts have
come to light after an enormous banking leak - which brought with it the names
of seven donors to the charitable Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
According to the Guardian, chief among the
donors was Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra, who reportedly handed over
$50million to the presidential organisation.
Michael Schumacher, the racing
driver seriously injured in a 2013 skiing accident, was listed as another
donor, as was billionaire Eli Broad and French financier Arpad Busson.
Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex
offender who flew President Clinton round in his private jet, also gave tens of
thousands of dollars, according to …READ THE REST (Clinton
foundation 'received $81million in donations from controversial HSBC Swiss bank
- including $1million to dress up as a Russian soldier for lavish fundraiser';
By KIERAN CORCORAN; Daily Mail;
2/10/15 00:13 EST – UPDATED 2/10/15 09:05 EST)
Then there is this little Money Laundering scheme:
The investigation into HSBC
currency trader Mark Johnson and associate Stuart Scott for their alleged role
in a “conspiracy to rig currency benchmarks” by front-running customer orders
has escalated to the point where the Department of Justice is threatening to tear up a 2012 agreement to
fine HSBC a historic $1.9 billion for money-laundering violations in lieu of
criminal prosecutions.
At issue is whether or not HSBC has
honored the 2012 deferred-prosecution agreement in which the bank agreed to
establish internal review procedures to catch and punish potentially criminal
activities by employees.
WND broke open the HSBC money-laundering
case with a series of articles beginning in February 2012.
More than 1,000 pages of customer records and secret audio recordings brought
to WND by whistleblower John Cruz, a former HSBC employee, showed HSBC
employees in Long Island were stealing the Social Security numbers of former
bank depositors to create bogus “pass-through” accounts used to launder
hundreds of millions of dollars for criminal enterprises such as Mexican drug
cartels and Islamic terrorists.
WND reported in February 2015 Cruz
told Senate Judiciary Committee staff preparing for the Loretta Lynch
confirmation hearings that he considered the $1.9 billion fine DOJ imposed on
HSBC in 2012 in lieu of criminal prosecution “a joke.” Cruz argued that a $1.9
billion fine of an international bank the size of HSBC amounted to …READ ENTIRETY(HSBC
CASE BLOWS LID OFF CLINTONS' OFFSHORE EMPIRE: By JEROME
R. CORSI; WND; 9/14/16 8:50 PM)
Oh My then Hillary gets Obama to not Look at some of the UBS
accounts, LOL wonder who they might be???!!!!
Donations to the Clinton Foundation
by Swiss bank UBS increased tenfold after Hillary Clinton intervened to settle
a dispute with the IRS early in her tenure as secretary of state, according to
a published report.
According to the Wall Street Journal,
total donations by UBS to the foundation grew from less than $60,000 at the end
of 2008 to approximately $600,000 by the end of 2014. The Journal reports that
the bank also lent $32 million through entrepreneurship and inner-city loan
programs it launched in association with the foundation, while paying former
President Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of corporate
question-and-answer sessions with UBS Chief Executive Bob McCann.
Though there is no evidence of
wrongdoing, ties between the Clinton Foundation, major corporations and foreign
governments have come under increasing scrutiny as Hillary Clinton begins her
presidential campaign. The UBS case is unusual in that it shows a top U.S.
diplomat intervening on behalf of a major overseas bank in a situation where
federal prosecutors and the Justice Department had been the lead entity.
Clinton, speaking to reporters
on …READ THE REST (Swiss
bank's donations to Clinton Foundation increased after Hillary intervention in
IRS dispute; Ed Henry contributed to this report; Fox News; 6/30/15)
The Wall Street Journal’s
eyebrow-raising story of how the presidential candidate and her husband
accepted cash from UBS without any regard for the appearance of impropriety
that it created.
The Swiss bank UBS is one of the
biggest, most powerful financial institutions in the world. As secretary of
state, Hillary Clinton intervened to help it out with the IRS. And after that,
the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. TheWall
Street Journal reported all that and more Thursday in an article that
highlights huge conflicts of interest that the Clintons have created in the
recent past.
The piece begins by detailing how
Clinton helped the global bank.
“A few weeks after Hillary Clinton
was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by
her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service
was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts,” the
newspaper reports. “If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would
face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the
names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court. Within
months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual
intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information
on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS.”
Then reporters James V.
Grimaldi and Rebecca Ballhaus lay out how UBS helped the Clintons.
“Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000
through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014,
according to the foundation and the bank,” they report. “The bank also joined
the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs,
through which it lent $32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton
$1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with
UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann, making UBS his biggest single
corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House.”
…READ THE REST (Hillary
Helps a Bank—and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons; By CONOR
FRIEDERSDORF; The Atlantic; 7/31/15)
And I guess Money Laundering is part of US Foreign Policy????
A member of the House Intelligence
Committee is accusing the Obama administration of laundering some $1.7 billion
in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Iran through a complicated network that included
the New York Federal Reserve and several European banks, according to
conversations with sources and new information obtained by the lawmaker and
viewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
New disclosures made by the
Treasury Department to Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), a House Intelligence
Committee member, show that an initial $400 million cash payment to Iran was
wired to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) and then converted from
U.S. dollars into Swiss francs and moved to an account at the Swiss National
Bank, according to a copy of communication obtained
exclusively by the Free Beacon.
Once the money was transferred to
the Swiss Bank, the “FRBNY withdrew the funds from its account as Swiss franc
banknotes and the U.S. Government physically transported them to Geneva” before
personally overseeing the handover to an agent of Iran’s central bank,
according to the documents.
These disclosures shine new light
on how the Obama administration moved millions of dollars from U.S. accounts to
European banks in order to facilitate three separate cash payments to Iran
totaling $1.7 billion.
The latest information is adding
fuel to accusations the Obama administration arranged the payment in this
fashion to skirt U.S. sanctions laws and give Iran the money for the release of
U.S. hostages, in what many have called a ransom.
Congress has been investigating the
circumstances surrounding the payment for months and said the administration is
blocking certain requests for more detailed information about the cash
transaction with Iran.
“By withholding critical details
and stonewalling congressional inquiries, President Obama seems to be hiding
whether or not he and others broke U.S. law by sending $1.7 billion in cash to
Iran,” Pompeo told the Free Beacon. “But Americans can plainly
see that the Obama administration laundered this money in order to circumvent
U.S. law and appease the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
As new details emerge,
congressional critics such as Pompeo and Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) are
beginning to suspect the U.S. government laundered the money in order to
provide Tehran with immediate access.
“Think about this …READ THE REST (Obama
Admin ‘Laundered’ U.S. Cash to Iran Via N.Y. Fed, Euro Banks; By Adam
Kredo; Washington Free Beacon; 9/19/16 5:00 am)
A court in Madrid has launched an
investigation into the amnesty deal offered to the hundreds of Spaniards whose
names appeared in the HSBC files, in which suspected
tax evaders were quietly offered the chance to pay back taxes and avoid prison
sentences of up to six years as well as millions of euros in fines.
The Socialists, who were in power
at the time, shied away from the established norm of launching inquiries into
the suspected tax fraud. Instead, those named on the list were sent a letter,
informing them that their Swiss bank accounts had been discovered and inviting
them to pay the taxes they owed voluntarily. They were given 10 days to respond
before an inspection – which could have led to criminal prosecution – would be
initiated.
…
More than 300 Spaniards took
advantage of the offer, handing over €260m
(£192m) to Spain’s tax agency. Much of that
came from Spain’s BotÃn family, whose members head
Santander bank; they paid €200m
(£150m) in back taxes
to the Spanish government.
Complaining that the deal was a
thinly veiled attempt to “offer impunity” to suspected tax evaders, the union
representing tax workers, Gestha, filed a legal complaint in a Madrid court
shortly after the amnesty deal was announced, accusing the tax agency’s top
brass of a breach of public duty.
The case was initially dismissed by
the court, but now has been reopened after a higher court sided with Gestha’s
appeal against the decision. Specifically, the court will examine the response
of two former senior tax officials to the names on the leaked list. –READ ENTIRETY (HSBC
Files: amnesty deal for Swiss bank’s Spanish clients investigated; By Ashifa Kassam; the
guardian; 2/13/15 11.04 EST)
DRUM ROLL please …
Oh and LOOK, the DOJ makes it OK to be a Money Launderer. LOL!!!!!
The Justice Department has reached
final agreements with Swiss banks in deals that will help the financial institutions
avoid potential criminal liabilities over U.S. tax crimes, the department
announced Thursday.
The Swiss Bank Program, announced
in 2013, allowed banks who believed they had committed tax crimes to be
eligible for non-prosecution agreements if they met certain requirements, such
as paying penalties and providing detailed information about accounts
associated with U.S. taxpayers. It also allowed Swiss banks that could
establish that they hadn't committed tax or monetary-transaction related crimes
to receive non-target letters from DOJ.
“The completion of the resolutions
with the banks that participated in the Swiss Bank Program is a landmark
achievement in the department’s ongoing efforts to combat offshore tax
evasion,” said Caroline Ciraolo, principal deputy assistant attorney
general, in a news release. “We are now in the legacy phase of the program, in
which the participating banks are cooperating, and will continue to cooperate,
in all related civil and criminal proceedings and investigations."
Between March 2015 and January
2016, DOJ executed non-prosecution agreements with 80 Swiss banks that told the
department that they had reason to believe that they had committed tax-related
offenses. The banks paid a total of more than $1.3 billion in penalties, DOJ
said.
Between July and December of 2016,
four Swiss banks and one cooperative that had not engaged in wrongdoing became
eligible for non-target letters from DOJ.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said
that the Swiss Bank Program “has uncovered those who help facilitate evasion
schemes and those who hide funds in secret offshore accounts; improved our
ability to return tax dollars to the United States; and allowed us to pursue
investigations into banks and individuals." (DOJ announces deal with Swiss banks on
anti-tax evasion program; BY NAOMI JAGODA; The Hill;
12/29/16 01:50 PM EST)
[Blog Editor: Well that Hill article is a display swamp
infested corruption in Washington DC, the Dems and sadly the Department of
Justice!!!]
+++
GMO, pesticide, FDA horror show
12/31/2016 10:33 AM
Warning to Trump:
don’t approve GMO, pesticide, FDA horror show
In a previous article on
Donald Trump, I wrote: “I think Trump favors jobs, all jobs, and
will go to extremes to create them…He’ll find ways to allow the
FDA to license new drugs more quickly, thus maiming and killing more Americans.
He’ll cast a blind eye
toward big corporate toxic GMOs/pesticides.”
I want to strengthen that warning.
First of all, the FDA isn’t being
too careful in their drug approval process, as Trump team members suggest. It’s
the opposite. The FDA is in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies. The
president-elect should take notice of the famous July 26, 2000, review in
the Journal of the American Medical Association, by Dr. Barbara Starfield, a
revered public-health expert at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Starfield concluded that
FDA-approved medical drugs kill 106,000 Americans a year. That would be 1.06
MILLION deaths per decade. Speeding up their drug-approval work now, the FDA
would add many MORE dead Americans to their “credit.”
On the issue of GMO/pesticide
safety, I could cite many references which eradicate the official claim that
these substances are safe. But let’s look at the primary facts surrounding the
original approval of GMO crops (and their attendant pesticides) in the US.
When you cut through the verbiage,
you arrive at two key statements. One from Monsanto and one from the FDA, the
agency responsible for overseeing, licensing, and certifying new food varieties
as safe.
…
This buck-passing, the direct and
irreconcilable clash of these two statements, is no accident. It’s not a sign of
incompetence or sloppy work or a mistake or a miscommunication. It’s a clear
signal the fix was in.
There was no science to back up the
claim that GMOs were safe.
My belief, at the moment, is that
Trump will screw all this up completely. His focus on jobs and the economy will
lead him into doing grave damage—just as Obama has,
just as Hillary Clinton would have.
The corporate media, their
corporate experts and allies, and their government friends have low-keyed the
whole GMO-pesticide-FDA horror show for a long time.
We need a president who will go
against the tide.
On these issues, Mr. Trump, through
ignorance, inattention, unconcern, whatever, is on the verge of becoming a Big
Pharma Big Biotech shill. –READ ENTIRETY (Warning
to Trump: don’t approve GMO, pesticide, FDA horror show; By Jon
Rappoport; Jon
Rappoport's Blog; 12/31/16)
How do we know if GMO food is NOT causing the Immune System
to become WEAK and LESS resistant to Disease instead of disease more resistant
to antibiotics, because every Living Creature is EATING GMO FOODS??????
In the link to Jon Rappoport article there is information in
there that shows the FDA has approved drugs that KILL 106,000 a year since 2000
for 10 years which does not take into consideration what has been approved on
top of that since then to now .... Then
there is this: Now comes a study in the current issue of the Journal of Patient
Safety that says the numbers may be much higher — between 210,000 and 440,000
patients each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of
preventable harm that contributes to their death.
It seems that every time
researchers estimate how often a medical mistake contributes to a hospital
patient's death, the numbers come out worse.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine
published the famous "To Err Is Human" report, which dropped a
bombshell on the medical community by reporting that up to 98,000 people a year
die because of mistakes in hospitals. The number was initially disputed, but is
now widely accepted by doctors and hospital officials — and quoted ubiquitously
in the media.
In 2010, the Office of Inspector
General for the Department of Health and Human Services said that bad hospital
care contributed to the deaths of 180,000 patients in Medicare alone in a given
year.
Now comes a study in the current issue of
the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be
much higher — between 210,000 and 440,000 patients each
year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that
contributes to their death.
The new estimates were …READ THE REST (How
Many Die From Medical Mistakes In U.S. Hospitals? By MARSHALL ALLEN; NPR;
9/20/13 4:52 PM ET)
And Drum Roll please for the grand finale of how our
Federally Approved Medicare system is handling the Organized Genocide of the
citizenry. Study Shows Hospital-Acquired Infections Kill 3 Times as Many
Americans as HIV:
Study Shows Hospital-Acquired
Infections Kill 3 Times as Many Americans as HIV
Every year, 48,000 Americans die of
infections they caught while in the hospital -- and that's a conservative
estimate, a new study finds.
These aren't infections people
would have caught anyway. They are mistakes that cost lives, says study
researcher Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, MPH, a senior fellow at the Washington,
D.C. think tank Resources for the Future.
…
Hospital acquired infections
actually kill three times more Americans than HIV does. Yet we're only
beginning to get a handle on the size of the problem. …
Laxminarayan and colleagues
analyzed administrative data from a huge national database of information on
hospital records for 69 million U.S. residents in 40 statesbetween 1998
and 2006. They focused only on infections acquired in the hospital, and not on
infections picked up in the community.
Most of the infections come from
using catheters and ventilators. Some of the germs causing the infections have
been around for years; others are scary new bugs such as the MRSAstaph "superbug."
Johns Hopkins researcher Peter J.
Pronovost, MD, PhD, is a world expert on hospital-acquired infections. He tells
WebMD that the Laxminarayan study finally gives hard numbers to a problem that
has vexed hospitals for decades.
"These deaths are invisible. The
public doesn't know. They are happening one at a time, silently, and patients
think they are inevitable," Pronovost tells …READ ENTIRETY (Hospital
Infections Kill 48,000 Each Year; By Daniel J. DeNoon - Reviewed by Louise
Chang, MD; WebMD; 2/22/10)
Bill Gates warns
world "vulnerable" to deadly epidemic in next decade
LONDON,
Dec 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates
warned on Friday that the world was vulnerable to a deadly epidemic of an
illness like flu, with the recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks underlining weaknesses
in global efforts to tackle health crises swiftly.
Gates,
whose foundation invests in improving healthcare in developing countries, said
the global emergency response system was not strong enough and the ability to
create new drugs and vaccines quickly was lacking.
He
added that there needed to be more focus on developing treatments for likely
epidemics.
"I
cross my fingers all the time that some epidemic like a big flu doesn't come
along in the next 10 years," Microsoft Corp founder Gates told Britain's
BBC radio.
"I
do think we will have much better medical tools, much better response, but we
are a bit vulnerable right now if something spread very quickly, like a flu,
that was quite fatal."
But
Gates defended the World Health Organization (WHO) over widespread criticism of
…READ THE REST (Bill Gates warns world "vulnerable" to
deadly epidemic in next decade; By Emma Batha; Reuters; 12/30/16 9:35am EST)
