The "cartoon" above looks like Russian propaganda to me.
A well respected news lead on Fox goes to the facts about the Uranium One story and debunks it. The result is criticism? How can reporting the truth be "rewarded" with criticism? Do Fox News supporters, subscribers WANT LIES? Let's be truthful on both sides! Lets stop being so stupid and so TRIBAL!
"Fox News’s Shepard Smith debunks his network’s favorite Hillary Clinton ‘scandal,’ infuriates viewers"
By Fred Barbash By Fred Barbash Morning Mix November 15, 2017
"Various fact-checkers, including The Washington Post’s, have already dismantled the underpinnings of these accusations. No one expected a similar debunking from Fox."
More.
"He [Shepard Smith] then played a video of Trump’s version of the “scandal” in which he claimed:
[Trump talking in video] Hillary Clinton’s State Department approved the transfer of 20 percent of America’s uranium holdings to Russia. Well, nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Smith called the statement “inaccurate in a number of ways,” noting that “the Clinton State Department had no power to veto or approve that transaction.” Rather, it must be approved by an interagency committee of the government consisting of nine department heads, including the secretary of state."
More.
"Smith has deviated from the Fox and Trump line before, to the point that his Fox colleague Sean Hannity [Hannity is a Trump lover, but NOT a lover of TRUTH, FACTS, or REALITY] accused him of being “anti-Trump.”"
Fox News has it wrong, twisting the truth to find a Russia link to Hillary Clinton. Hillary may have abused her power and position in a lot of ways, but absolutely was not responsible for the Uranium One deal. The State Department, Hillary, had one vote for a deal President Obama was going to sign despite the votes. Hillary's vote was one (1) 16 votes!
Hillary Clinton did not approve the Uranium One deal alone, she joined 15 other voters to approve the deal. So Fox shows themselves as stupid, and disingenuous at best, or liars in the worst case, to say Hillary approved the deal. It is ironic how Fox undermines their credibility by twisting facts and/or outright lying.
"The Alternative 'Russia Scandal'"
Greg Myre November 6, 201710:44 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/06/561587174/the-alternative-russia-scandal
Part of the facts to show the misleading nature of Fox reporting on this issue.
"Claim: Uranium One controls 20 percent of the U.S. uranium supply.
At the time of the 2010 sale, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimated that Uranium One held the rights to about 20 percent of U.S. uranium in the ground. But this figure is misleading.
The Washington Post reports that it is also outdated. It was based on uranium production capacity in 2010, which has since greatly expanded. Uranium One's share of mining rights is now far less than 20 percent of the U.S. total.
What is more, the U.S. is a tiny player in the world uranium market. The U.S. produced 1,126 tons of uranium last year out of global production of more than 62,000 tons, according to the World Nuclear Association. So U.S. production is less than 2 percent of the global total."
Add this point to show Fox is twisting hard to convolute the Uranium One truth:
"Claim: U.S. national security has been put at risk.
Neither the U.S. nor Russia needs highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. The countries have more than 4,000 deployed or stockpiled weapons each, far more than the rest of the world combined. Both still have leftover stockpiles of highly enriched uranium that date to the Cold War."
OK, here is one more example of Fox News twisting facts to invent a "Russia Connection" for Hillary.
"Claim: The Clinton Foundation received $145 million in pledges and donations in exchange for the State Department's support of the Russian deal.
Author Peter Schweizer, who worked with Steve Bannon at Breitbart News [Huge generator of fake news and lies; a White Nationalist and "birther."], first made this claim in a 2015 book called Clinton Cash.
The New York Times said it used Schweizer's work to conduct its own investigation.
PolitiFact also looked into the matter and questioned the $145 million figure, noting that most of the donations and pledges came from Canadian businessman Frank Giustra, a friend of Bill Clinton. They were together in Kazakhstan in 2005, on a trip during which Giustra signed a major mining deal with that country, the Times reported.
Two years later, in 2007, Giustra merged his mining company with Uranium One and then sold his shares the same year. This was three years before the Russians bought the company, so it's not clear how Giustra would have benefited from the 2010 deal."
If some people give us THESE two choices, one to say it is fake, or one to say it is a Russian lie, I can go with that. But the two choices in this picture are just dumb!
The Uranium One story is an "empty barrel," as Retired General, now former soldier and active ugly lying, hypocritical politician John Kelly would say.
Hillary did NOT send 20% of American uranium to Russia. Read the facts Tribal people, IF YOU CARE TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
Example of divisive, false TRIBAL bull shit thinking, or, actually, LACK of thinking:
"Hillary Clinton Gave 20 Percent of United States' Uranium to Russia in Exchange for Clinton Foundation Donations?"
Allegations of a "quid pro quo" deal giving Russia ownership of one-fifth of U.S. uranium deposits in exchange for $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation are unsubstantiated.
https://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/
"In the months leading up to the 2016 United States presidential election, stories abounded about the relationships between the Clinton Foundation and various foreign entities.
May 2015 saw the publication of a book called Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, an exposé of alleged Clinton Foundation corruption written by Peter Schweizer, a former Hoover Institution fellow and editor-at-large at the right-wing media company Breitbart.
A chapter in the book suggests that the Clinton family and Russia each may have benefited from a “pay-for-play” scheme while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, involving the transfer of U.S. uranium reserves to the new Russian owners of an international mining operation in exchange for $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.
The mining company, Uranium One, was originally based in South Africa, but merged in 2007 with Canada-based UrAsia Energy. Shareholders there retained a controlling interest until 2010, when Russia’s nuclear agency, Rosatom, completed purchase of a 51% stake. Hillary Clinton played a part in the transaction insofar as it involved the transfer of ownership of a material deemed important to national security — uranium, amounting to one-fifth of U.S. reserves (a fraction re-estimated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at closer to one-tenth of the United States’ uranium production capacity in 2017) — thus requiring the approval of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), on which the U.S. Secretary of State sits."
DO YOU WANT THE TRUTH OR PREFER YOUR TRIBAL BELIEFS?
Uranium One is a Canadian Company that Russia purchased.
"The Facts on Uranium One"
By Eugene Kiely Posted on October 26, 2017 | Updated on November 1, 2017
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/facts-uranium-one/
"The Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States
The Committee on Foreign Investments has nine members, including the secretaries of the treasury, state, defense, homeland security, commerce and energy; the attorney general; and representatives from two White House offices (the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy).
The committee can’t actually stop a sale from going through — it can only approve a sale. The president is the only one who can stop a sale, . . . "
More.
"Clinton’s role in the Uranium One sale, and the link to the Clinton Foundation, first became an issue in 2015, . . . But there is no evidence that the donations or the speaking fee had any influence on the approvals granted by the NRC or the Committee on Foreign Investments."
"This arcane bit of campaign trivia resurfaced in the news after The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, reported that a Russian spy sought to gain access to Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state."
"Lydia Guryev, who used the name “Cynthia Murphy” while living in the United States, pleaded guilty to espionage charges in July 2010 and was forced to leave the U.S. Her guilty plea came after the Rosatom-Uranium One merger was announced and before the Committee on Foreign Investments approved it. But there was nothing about the merger in the federal criminal complaint or the press release announcing her guilty plea.
The criminal complaint said that Guryev had been working as a spy in the United States since the 1990s and took orders from the foreign intelligence organ of the Russian Federation in Moscow."
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It may be that individuals and companies sought to curry favor with Hillary Clinton and even influence her department’s decision on the Uranium One sale. But, as we’ve written before, there is no evidence that donations to the Clinton Foundation from people with ties to Uranium One or Bill Clinton’s speaking fee influenced Hillary Clinton’s official actions. That’s still the case. We will update this article with any major developments.
Update, Nov. 1: This story has been updated to say that NRC now estimates that Uranium One’s mining operations account for about 10 percent of in-situ recovery production capacity in the U.S. That’s half of what it was in 2010, because more in-situ recovery mining operators have been licensed since 2010.
We also added that Uranium One is responsible for no more than 5.9 percent of domestic production, according to a September 2017 report by the U.S. International Trade Commission."
Blather and Tribalism at it's best.
Tweety again exposes his incredible stupidity saying Hillary should be investigated for her contacts with Russia before, during, and after the 2016 Presidential campaign. So what does that say about HIS contacts with Russia before, during, and after the 2016 Presidential campaign?
Tweety thinks Americans are as dumb as a rock! Tweety thinks Americans will believe ANYTHING he says, AMYTHING!
"The Clinton-Uranium “Scandal” Is Right-Wing Nonsense. Here’s Everything You Need to Know."
Lock her up. Dan FriedmanOct. 31, 2017 1:53 PM
"At issue is the 2010 sale of a Canadian company called Uranium One, which had extensive holdings in the United States, to a Russian entity. The deal allowed a subsidiary of Russia’s government-owned Rosatom to gain control of 20 percent of US uranium—which is used for nuclear energy facilities, not nuclear weapons. Criticism of this transaction is not new, and it isn’t accurate, either. The high-volume complaints from the right have been repeatedly picked apart by fact checkers.
Still, the issue has been thrust onto the political-media landscape by conservatives and Republicans looking to distract from the Trump-Russia scandal."
