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To: RetiredNow who wrote (121240)	8/5/2016 4:19:44 PM
From: Alex MG	1 Recommendation Recommended By bruiser98 Respond to of 218652

LMAO, you are such a gullible rube... you get your news and "facts" from the Donald? LMFAO AP FACT CHECK: Trump off Base on Clinton and Iran Payment abcnews.go.com Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says his Democratic opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was responsible for negotiations that led to a $400 million U.S. payment to Iran. Reacting to a Wall Street Journal story published Wednesday that described the delivery of the cash to Tehran in January, Trump accused Clinton on Twitter of having opened talks to give Iran the money. Trump expanded on his remarks later, saying the money was a ransom payment for four Americans detained in Iran, that Iran released a video of the cash being unloaded from a plane in Tehran and that Iran only released a group of U.S. sailors it had captured in the Persian Gulf because it was about to be paid. These claims range from the incorrect to the unsupported. TRUMP, in a tweet on Wednesday: "Our incompetent Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was the one who started talks to give 400 million dollars, in cash, to Iran. Scandal!" THE FACTS: Trump is wrong about Clinton's involvement. The $400 million payment — plus $1.3 billion in interest to be paid later — is a separate issue from the Iran nuclear deal that Clinton initiated. The process that resulted in the payout started decades before she became secretary of state. In the late 1970s the Iranian government, under the U.S.-backed shah, paid the United States $400 million for military equipment. The equipment was never delivered because in 1979, his government was overthrown, revolutionaries took American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran were severed. In 1981, the United States and Iran agreed to set up a commission at The Hague that would rule on claims by each country for property and assets held by the other. Iran's claim for return of the equipment payment was among many that had been tied up in litigation before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, and interest the U.S. owed for holding the money for so long was growing. Litigation over these claims has continued intermittently for 35 years, with some being settled and others going to the tribunal for judgment. All private U.S. claims before the tribunal have been resolved, with Iran paying more than $2.5 billion to American people and businesses. Some claims remain unresolved.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (121240)	8/5/2016 4:23:06 PM
From: Alex MG	Respond to of 218652

by the way... there is no video, as your boy Trump claimed... jesus frikin christ, try to fact check stuff before you post

To: RetiredNow who wrote (121240)	8/5/2016 4:28:16 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218652

Career intelligence official Mike Morell said Friday in a New York Times op-ed that he is endorsing Clinton because she is 'highly qualified' and Trump is not. Morell also details how Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and their relationship presents a danger to American national security. Morell warned in the op-ed that Putin, an ex-spy who has been accused of killing and jailing journalists and political opponents, is manipulating Trump. 'In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.'

To: RetiredNow who wrote (121240)	8/5/2016 4:31:02 PM
From: Alex MG	1 Recommendation Recommended By Elroy Jetson Respond to of 218652

oops, your hero the Donald actually had to admit he lied... but his lies work on stupid people who don't have the capacity or are just too lazy to fact check... or just repeat anything Trump and the right wing circus says because it justifies their lack of morals and hatred of "others" Trump: OK, I Didn't See Video of Iran Money Plane Walks back claim he saw 'military tape' of 'money pouring off a plane' By Jenn Gidman, Newser Staff Posted Aug 5, 2016 10:17 AM CDT newser.com (NEWSER) – As the White House continued to deflect accusations from conservatives that a $400 million payment to Iran was ransom for four American detainees released earlier this year, Donald Trump twice this week claimed he had seen video of a "top secret" transaction in which the huge supposed payout was unloaded from a US airplane in Iran, per the Washington Post. At a rally Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Fla., Trump claimed the "military tape" purportedly showing "money pouring off a plane" had been released by Iran to "embarrass" the US. He again voiced the claim about the video during a Thursday rally in Portland, Maine, adding that Iran hoped to personally embarrass an "incompetent" President Obama with the video, the Los Angeles Times and CNN report. His remarks caused a temporary hubbub, as some speculated that perhaps he had seen a classified video during security briefings afforded to presidential nominees. But what Trump had actually seen soon came to light: "b-roll footage," his spokeswoman emailed the Post, that had been playing behind news reports. It showed not a money swap but an AP clip of three US prisoners released by Iran and arriving in Geneva on Jan. 17. That led Trump to point out his own error on Twitter on Friday morning (though CNN notes he did so "without actually saying he was wrong"): "The plane I saw on television was the hostage plane in Geneva, Switzerland, not the plane carrying $400 million in cash going to Iran!" he tweeted.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (121240)	8/16/2016 7:17:45 PM
From: John Vosilla	Respond to of 218652

45th Anniversary: The Day Nixon Killed Keynes' Phony Gold Standard My generation says: "Each of us can remember where he was when he heard about Kennedy's assassination. I can remember where I was when I heard about Nixon's killing of the phony gold standard that John Maynard Keynes and the Soviet spy Harry Dexter White designed in 1944. It was a Sunday afternoon: August 15, 1971. I was preparing to leave Riverside, California to move to Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, to get my first full-time job. I would soon be a senior staff member of the Foundation for Economic Education. I would never again attend a graduate seminar. Free at last! Free at last! The phone rang. My friend Bob Warford told me the news. Nixon had just announced that the U.S. Treasury would no longer sell gold to central banks at $35 an ounce or any price. He had floated the dollar: no more fixed exchange rates. It was the end of the Bretton Woods agreement. He had also declared full-scale price and wage controls. He had done this without consulting with Congress. Here are the first two paragraphs. They are the words of a desperate man who refused to face reality on two fronts: foreign policy and monetary policy. I have addressed the Nation a number of times over the past 2 years on the problems of ending a war. Because of the progress we have made toward achieving that goal, this Sunday evening is an appropriate time for us to turn our attention to the challenges of peace.America today has the best opportunity in this century to achieve two of its greatest ideals: to bring about a full generation of peace, and to create a new prosperity without war. The Vietnam war did not end in his term of office. It ended in defeat in 1975. This nation is still at war in Afghanistan. It is the forever war -- the war on terrorism. The controls were supposed to last 90 days. They lasted until April 1974. Real wages began to stagnate in 1973. garynorth.com