SummerSnow
SummerSnow's JournalDo you believe that Trump and Assange have a October surprise to ruin Hilary?
I find this hard to believe. He is shrinking in the polls badly.84 days to election. The kind of person he is, he wouldn't wait to expose her if there was something so scathing. Any thoughts?
How Manafort knowingly did business and accepted millions with regimes who practiced torture
THE TORTURERS' LOBBY
How Human Rights-Abusing Nations
Are Represented in Washington
By Pamela Brogan
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
1910 K Street N.W.. Suite #802
Washington D.C. 20006
(202)223-0299
"The greatest evil today is indifference. To know and not to act is a way of consenting
to these injustices. The planet has become a very small place. What happens in
other countries affects us."
Elie Wiesel
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1986
http://cloudfront-files-1.publicintegrity.org/legacy_projects/pdf_reports/THETORTURERSLOBBY.pdf
With the fall of communism and the end of the Cold War, nations such as Nicaragua, Angola and
the Eastern European countries, once caught in the struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union,
have begun the long hard march toward democracy. Indeed, the world celebrates this tide of democratic
freedom and self-determination. Yet. oppression and human rights abuses persist around the globe.
Consider Guatemala, the homeland of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, a
human rights activist who fled her country in the mid 1980s. Security forces tortured and murdered most
of her family for their efforts to gain respect for the rights of Guatemala's indigenous population. Menchu
does not know if she will return to live in Guatemala now that she has won the Nobel. She continues to
receive death threats.
In November 1989. Diana Ortiz, an American nun teaching in Guatemala, was kidnapped, taken to
a secret detention center, tortured and raped. A few months later, Michael DeVine, an American who was
an innkeeper in rural Guatemala, was abducted, tortured and executed by members of Guatemala's security
forces. The human rights situation has not substantially improved in Guatemala -- last year, hundreds of
political executions were reported.
Although the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala was recalled, and U.S. military aid and commercial
arms sales to Guatemala were suspended in December 1990, the country was given nearly $91 million in
U.S. assistance in fiscal year 1991.
To keep those dollars flowing in, and to refurbish its dismal human rights image, Guatemala spent
more than $650,000 for Washington lobbyists and public relations experts. No one in Washington received
more money from Guatemala than Patton, Boggs and Blow, the powerful firm that took in $220,000 from
Guatemala in 1991. One of its assignments: prepare a status report on the Michael DeVine murder.
On a different continent, both Kenya and Nigeria have widely criticized human rights records. Last
year, Kenya received $38 million in U.S. foreign aid, and spent over $1.4 million on Washington lobbyists
to get it. Nigeria received $8.3 million and expended in excess of $2.5 million. Whom did both countries
call upon to do their bidding before the U.S. government? The lobbying firm of Black. Manafort, Stone
and Kelly Public Affairs Co.. which received $660,000 from Kenya in 1992-1993 and $1 million from
Nigeria in 1991.
Former Reagan political operative Paul Manafort oversees foreign accounts; his partner, Charles R.
Black, was a senior political strategist in the 1992 Bush-Quayle campaign. Their firm's fees to represent
Nigeria. Kenya, the Philippines and Angola's UNITA rebel group in 1991 totaled more than $3 million.
All four receive U.S. aid and abuse human rights. A spokeswoman for Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly
told the Center that the firm does not "attempt to explain away" concerns about human rights. Instead,
she said, "we try to open a dialogue."
Other firms paid more than $1 million dollars by U.S. aid recipients identified as abusing human rights
were Sawyer Miller Group; White & Case; Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly; Edward Aycoth & Co.;
and International Advisers. Inc.
*this was a very interesting read*
Hilary is in Scranton, PA...she is giving a great speech
she's talking about the economy, jobs, ISIS, childcare, etc
I know he is having a cow now.lol
She is laying the smackdown on him again.
Ivanka Trump hanging out in Croatia with Putins girlfriend?
Ivanka Trump spends day during Croatia family vacation with rumored Putin love interest Wendi Deng MurdochIvanka Trump on Sunday took an afternoon of her family vacation in Croatia to walk through the scenic city of Dubrovnik with Wendi Deng Murdoch.
Deng, who was divorced from Rupert Murdoch in 2013 and who has been linked romantically to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in recent months, was pictured in an Instagram photo alongside the GOP nominee's daughter posted to Trump's account.
The two are rumored to be friends, but the optics of the photo could raise further questions about the relationship between Ivanka's father and Putin.
Trump has repeatedly made favorable statements about Putin, and incorrectly stated that Putin would never invade the Ukraine, even though he did just that in 2014.
Trump has also urged Russian hackers to find and leak Hillary Clinton's deleted emails and suggested the U.S. shouldn't uphold its obligations to its NATO allies — ideas which both have spooked foreign policy experts in and out of the U.S. as well as officials in several European nations.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ivanka-trump-spends-day-croatia-vacay-wendi-deng-murdoch-article-1.2751749
*One of those things that make you go hmmm?
If you missed this Steve Kornacki segment on MSNBC watch it here. It was very good.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/temperament-matters-to-voters-history-shows-742029379612Temperament matters to voters, history shows
E.J. Dionne, columnist for The Washington Post, talks with Steve Kornacki about the 1990 gubernatorial race in Massachusetts between Democrat John Silber and Republican Bill Weld and how Silber's temperament cost him the election, even in that very blue state. He compared Silber to Trump
Trump has gathered his minions to go to voting places to interefere
with people voting cause he thinks there will be cheating. Look at how he is stirring trouble...
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I went to Free Republic ...lol
Those people are crazy and desperate.Look at this....
Hillary Clinton’s Lead Shrinks to 1 Point in Latest USC Dornsife Daybreak Poll 
The Gateway Pundit ^ | Aug 12th, 2016 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 8/12/2016, 12:13:53 PM by xzins
Hillary Clinton’s lead is down to 1 point in the latest USC Dornsife- LA Times poll released on Friday.
The Hillary “bounce” from the media manufactured “unity” convention in Philadelphia has completely been erased.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3458929/posts
Hillary is ahead by only one point despite the complete support from every media outlet except for FOX Business Network and her supporters in the tech world.
usc poll
From the poll: This chart tracks our best estimate, over time, of how America plans to vote in November
The final blue and red figures on the right side of the chart represent our most recent estimates of Hillary Clinton’s vote (blue squares) and Donald Trump’s (red diamonds). These estimates represent weighted averages of all responses in the prior week. The gray band is a “95-percent confidence interval”. Figures lying outside the gray band mean that we are at least 95% confident that the candidate with the highest percentage will win the popular vote.
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