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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 09:35 PM Apr 2016

Hillary Made Huge & Unprecedented Arms Sales to Regimes w/ Human Rts Violations, After Donations

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Hillary Clinton’s State Department increased approvals of such deals to Clinton Foundation donors that her own agency was sharply criticizing for systematic human rights abuses.

As just one of many examples, in its 2011 Human Rights Report, Clinton’s State Department slammed Algeria’s government for imposing “restrictions on freedom of assembly and association,” tolerating “arbitrary killing,” “widespread corruption” and a “lack of judicial independence.”

That year, the Algerian government donated $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation and the next year Clinton’s State Department approved a one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the country.

The jump included authorizations for almost 50,000 items classified as “toxicological agents, including chemical agents, biological agents and associated equipment.”

The State Department had not authorized the export of any of such items to Algeria the year before......

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hillary_clintons_state_department_approved_165_billion_in_arms_sales_to_fou

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Hillary Made Huge & Unprecedented Arms Sales to Regimes w/ Human Rts Violations, After Donations (Original Post) amborin Apr 2016 OP
Pay to play. Yuugal Apr 2016 #1
the evidence is just overwhelming. grasswire Apr 2016 #2
It's SO easy - donate big money to CLinton, get cool arms! jmg257 Apr 2016 #3
K&R for needed exposure (even if this should be common knowkledge by now, it appears not) /nt Dragonfli Apr 2016 #4
You mean to tell me? HassleCat Apr 2016 #5
This is something a Republican would do SHRED Apr 2016 #6
Is she trying to make Kissinger look good? nt JEB Apr 2016 #7
Why won't Bernie talk about this? JudyM Apr 2016 #8
Good question JudyM. I asked this question to my Bernie peeps at local meet up 2banon Apr 2016 #9
 

Yuugal

(2,281 posts)
1. Pay to play.
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 09:39 PM
Apr 2016

Anyone who thinks the tens of millions the Clinton's have generated from the rich doesn't buy favors is in need of a bridge I'm selling in Brooklyn.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
2. the evidence is just overwhelming.
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 09:44 PM
Apr 2016

and sickening.

A giant squid sucking the life out of the American people.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
3. It's SO easy - donate big money to CLinton, get cool arms!
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 09:48 PM
Apr 2016

Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, nearly double the value of American arms sales during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.

Yeah - but nothing at ALL corrupt about this, maybe she brought Algeria to heel???
That year, the Algerian government donated $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation and the next year Clinton’s State Department approved a one-year 70 percent increase in military export authorizations to the country.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
5. You mean to tell me?
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 09:51 PM
Apr 2016

She talked from both sides of her mouth? I am so shocked! She must be some kind of politician or something.

 

2banon

(7,321 posts)
9. Good question JudyM. I asked this question to my Bernie peeps at local meet up
Mon Apr 18, 2016, 10:23 PM
Apr 2016

the other day following the debate.

The only criticism I have of Bernie is that he won't go there in these debates, and he should IMO.

Apparently, this is a question that keeps being asked, and the response is that he's making every effort to run a positive campaign. That he doesn't want to go there, just wants to debate policy issues generally speaking.

Me, I disagree with that approach. I think that's what Kerry did with Bush in 2004, and though I largely blame that loss to election engineering fraud, I think if he only verbally smacked him hard right from the git, he would have generated more enthusiasm which might have translated to a larger voter turnout, which could have changed the outcome of that election even in light of engineering fraud. Obama won only because of overwhelming turn out, I'm certain of it. If Hillary gets the nom, Dems lose because of the lack of enthusiasm due to all sorts of underlying causes, not the least as regards Bernie supporters who will not vote for her, ever.


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