drinkTHEkoolaid Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING IRANIAN NUKE TALKS VIDEO AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT: Watch the video disappear in a flash and thenpresto-chango!magically reappear! . So wait, Roger Goodell works in government now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 Surely no one should be surprised. The Chicago way is all they know. Soros-Backed Group Funded Obama's Media Push on Iran Nuclear Deal A left-wing foundation linked to the Obama administration gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to several left-wing groups and news outlets -- including National Public Radio -- to promote the Iran nuclear deal. The Ploughshares Fund, established in 1981, opposes America's development of a missile defense system, and has expressed sympathy with the Iranian regime. They are funded by, among others: -- Carnegie Corporation of New York -- Ford Foundation --Minneapolis Foundation -- George Soros’s Open Society Institute The Ploughshares Fund partners with a roster of well-known anti-American groups, such as: -- Code Pink -- Demos -- United for Peace &Justice -- U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation The recent New York Times profile of Obama adviser Ben Rhodes named Ploughshares Fund as a key surrogate responsible for creating the media "echo chamber" that promoted the Iranian nuclear deal and shot down fact-based criticism of it. According to Ploughshares' annual report, it gave $100,000 last year to NPR "to help it report on the pact and related issues." And since 2005, they have given the federally funded broadcaster at least $700,000. Via AP: In the New York Times Magazine article, Rhodes explained how the administration worked with nongovernmental organizations, proliferation experts and even friendly reporters to build support for the seven-nation accord that curtailed Iran's nuclear activity and softened international financial penalties on Tehran. "We created an echo chamber," said Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, adding that "outside groups like Ploughshares" helped carry out the administration's message effectively. Other media outlets have taken money from Ploughshares, including the Guardian, Salon, Huffington Post and Pro Publica. AP reports that the Ploughshares Fund also gave money to individual reporters at The Nation and Mother Jones to generate news coverage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Surely no one should be surprised. The Chicago way is all they know. Soros-Backed Group Funded Obama's Media Push on Iran Nuclear Deal Yikes. That's an awful lot of people spending an awful lot of money in hopes of finding one, tiny positive thing that may one day make it to Obama's legacy. You really have to wonder how many millionaires and billionaires have buyers' remorse with the unprecedented ineptitude that is the Obama legacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Yikes. That's an awful lot of people spending an awful lot of money in hopes of finding one, tiny positive thing that may one day make it to Obama's legacy. You really have to wonder how many millionaires and billionaires have buyers' remorse with the unprecedented ineptitude that is the Obama legacy. There were plenty of billionaire and millionaire donors who contributed to Obama hoping to get this level of ineptitude... don't overlook those folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 There were plenty of billionaire and millionaire donors who contributed to Obama hoping to get this level of ineptitude... don't overlook those folks. Judging by how much money rich people made during his administration, they were right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Judging by how much money rich people made during his administration, they were right. Of course they were. And they're going to be right again unless people start to wake up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Of course they were. And they're going to be right again unless sheeple start to wake up. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 (edited) But Obama will bring us cheap shoes! Edited May 24, 2016 by Nanker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Fixed. Not my term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 But Obama will bring us cheap shoes! Finally we are seeing the Barack Obama legacy take root: cheap kicks that are ill, bitches. The simple fact that everyone will finally be able to afford the newest Jordans should reduce by half the number of inner-city deaths that occur every year. Now that's change you can believe in!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 (edited) There were plenty of billionaire and millionaire donors who contributed to Obama hoping to get this level of ineptitude... don't overlook those folks. I don't see it as ineptitude. That implies that you know what is the best thing to do but you just aren't capable. Obama is completely misguided but capably so. He's very capable of executing bad decisions and doing so deliberately. That's what makes him so bad. He'll spend time on gender bathroom issues while country is headed for the crapper in so many big important areas. Edited May 24, 2016 by keepthefaith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 I don't see it as ineptitude. That implies that you know what is the best thing to do but you just aren't capable. Obama is completely misguided but capably so. He's very capable of executing bad decisions and doing so deliberately. That's what makes him so bad. He'll spend time on gender bathroom issues while country is headed for the crapper in so many big important areas. Six of one... It really depends on how cynically you want to look at it. 44 reversed course on nearly every major plank he ran on originally in '08 because he was bought off by the interests that really dictate US policy, either by design or default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 I am sure that it didn't have anything to do with the "money" that they received (as referenced in reply #542) Oops! NPR admits it did cancel interview with Iran-deal critic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 (edited) The Iran Deal Wasn’t About Nukes At All The Obama administration decided early on that the only way to get the United States out of the Middle East was to replace it with Russia and Iran Remember the Iran deal? Of course you do. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was one of the greatest diplomatic agreements of our time, a last-ditch effort to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb and thus avert inevitable military action by the United States and its allies. Hard negotiations provided a verifiable inspections plan that would keep Iran walking the straight and narrow for at least a decade, if not longer. The media, of course, served only as the impartial platform for analysis and debate. Anyone who doubted this narrative or raised almost any objections to the deal was just a hater, maybe even a racist with a personal grudge against Barack Obama. (Also against the deal, of course: Jews with divided loyalties.) After all, the experts—non-partisan, of course—assured us that everything was in order. This was all nonsense. What really happened was that the White House put out a set of talking points, not all of them true or accurate, to a trusted circle of journalists and advocacy groups. Those groups worked with experts in other groups, who then supported those talking points in media already friendly to the White House narrative. Asked for comment, the White House agreed with the experts it had primed, then fed more talking points back into the loop. We no longer have to speculate about this. As anyone paying attention now knows, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes—it’s so hard to type those words—couldn’t help but take a victory lap in front of The New York Times. Rhodes named names and organizations, crowing that the White House had created “an echo chamber” mainly composed of journalists who are “27 years old and…literally know nothing.” {snip} The idea that the Obama administration was ever going to go to war over the Iranian nuclear program is ridiculous, but it was a central talking point during the fight over the JCPOA. To believe Obama would have used force against Iran would have represented either incredible credulity, or revealed a conscious effort to participate in a campaign meant to create an echo chamber, in which… Oh. As if that wasn’t enough of a margin of safety, Ploughshares shot some money over to that well-known group of physicists and nuclear strategists, J Street. Of course, J Street isn’t an arms-control group. It’s a political organization, in theory dedicated to greater Israeli security but in reality a progressive advocate for any number of policies which are inimical to Israeli interests. Why was Ploughshares giving money—over a half million dollars—to a political advocacy group? Good question. J Street’s response was a vow that it took the money “to advance the nuclear agreement with Iran out of the belief that this is an important agreement which contributes mightily to Israel’s security.” The White House and its supporters were set on two goals, one of them trivial, the other terrifying. The trivial objective was to give a failed presidency at least one foreign policy legacy item. That was to be expected, since the Obama administration, in permanent campaign mode since the day the president took office, has presided over the worst American foreign policy in the modern era. The more stomach-churning objective is that the administration, as it turned out, really believed in its pledges to get America out of the Middle East, and decided early on that the only way to do this was to replace the United States in the region with a duumvirate of Russia and Iran. Here, the JCPOA was part of a huge gamble to transform the region, with nuclear weapons the secondary rather than primary issue. That’s why J Street and others were involved: they were far less concerned with notional Iranian nuclear weapons than they were with advancing President Obama’s Middle East legacy—without having to admit what it was. Many of us who opposed the Iran deal suspected this was going on, but we could only reconstruct evidence for that suspicion indirectly. (One analyst who got it right early: Mike Doran, previously of the Bush 43 National Security Countil and the Brookings Institution, and now at the Hudson Institute.) But then Rhodes shot his mouth off toThe New York Times, thus saving the rest of us any further detective work. More at the link Edited May 28, 2016 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Oh that "video glitch" B.S. that we tried to peddle to you.............yeah, we lied. State Dept. admits intentionally altering video of Iran press conference http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/state-dept.-admits-intentionally-altering-video-of-iran-press-conference/article/2592732 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 [/"investigation" concludes] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meazza Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/07/german-intel-report-charges-iran-seeking-illegal-nuke-missile-tech.html With the ink barely dry on the deal between the U.S. and Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from securing nuclear weapons, a new German intelligence document charges that Iran continues to flout the agreement. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said in its annual report that Iran has a “clandestine” effort to seek illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies “at what is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high level.” The findings by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, were issued in a 317-page report last week. German Chancellor Angela Merkel underscored the findings in a statement to parliament, saying Iran violated the United Nations Security Council’s anti-missile development regulations. I blame republicans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/07/07/german-intel-report-charges-iran-seeking-illegal-nuke-missile-tech.html I blame republicans And the NRA. Fwiw, Iran's nuclear testing and development is being done in North Korea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbillievable Posted July 9, 2016 Share Posted July 9, 2016 What we need is common sense nuclear weapons laws. Put "WMD free zone" signs around Iran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 SECRET DOCUMENT LIFTS IRAN NUKE CONSTRAINTS... CUTS TIME TEHRAN WOULD NEED TO BUILD BOMB IN HALF... FLASHBACK: How Obama Admin Lied To Sell Deal... doesn't matter if you were pro or anti treaty.......................show of hands............................who is surprised ? . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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