Take the money!!

Take the money!! -- that's the bottom line, that's always the bottom line: just take the damn money. You know it, I know it, and they know it. They're gonna' take the money, so why hesitate?

There's yet another John Podesta email out on Wikileaks that is causing a (very small) bit of a stir over at Reddit. The email talks about taking money from "persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi-political capacity" who are registered as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). (Is there anything fishy about foreign governments funding a US Presidential campaign? Of course there is, cut out the carp!)

Here are the relevant parts of the long email chain between many people on a large list of recipients.

The chain has been dragging on for awhile, and Mr. Dennis Chang is getting impatient and writes:

From: Dennis Cheng
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:13 PM
Subject: RE: Foreign registered agents
To: Marc Elias , Robby Mook
Cc: ... John Podesta

Hi all – we really need to make a final decision on this. We’re getting to the point of no return

So then Mr. Robby Mook forwards the whole long email chain to everybody, and says, blah, blah, blah... I've changed my mind:

Robby Mook wrote:
[...] So...in a complete U-turn, I'm ok just taking the money and dealing with any attacks.
Are you guys ok with that?

So then, jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com (presumably, Jennifer Palmieri, formerly WH Communications Director, , currently Hillary Clinton's communications director) just cuts through the crap:

From:jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com
To: re47@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-04-17 01:38
Subject: Re: Foreign registered agents

Take the money!!

That's where I pick up, can't we just cut through the crap?

The email chain is only making a modest stir over at Reddit because everybody already knows that it is all about the money. The Clinton camp does't care if it is foreign money, or terrorist money; they don't care if it's oil money, or gun-runner money, or from Satan himself. Take the money!!

Oh, as an aside, Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, is on their list as a registered foreign agent -- for Iraq, Azerbaijan, and Egypt. Tony Podesta is bundling up foreign money and handing it to John Podesta. Ain't that cozy.Tony PodestaJohn Podesta

So why the long email chain? Really, just cut the crap, why pretend that they are torn about accepting bribes from foreign governments to fund Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign? Yes, I am offended by taking cash bribes from Iraq and Saudi Arabia, but I've sadly accepted that corruption is the status quo. What really irks me here is that they are so damn inefficient about it, and that all these corrupt little stooges feel that they have to do this dance every-time, like they actually have human souls, or ethics, or something.

So, while Jennifer Palmieri is as creepy as any of the others, at least she wants to get this charade over, and get some work done, and just cut through the crap. Take the money!! You go Jennifer; you tell 'em.Jennifer Palmieri

And everybody already knows that the media is in the bag for Clinton, and from Politico covering their complicity with Clinton and pretending to care about the US citizens' faith in 'democracy,' to CNN saying it is illegal to posses this email I am discussing, everything I read from the corporate media is guaranteed crap.

[So what, I saw a stolen car -- so you're gonna arrest me!? You want me to buy that load of crap, CNN? EDIT: My point being, while the act of stealing the emails was probably a crime, this isn't a physical car, this is information, and I'm fairly certain that "possessing" the text of the email is not a crime. If CNN wants me to believe that, they should tell me the statute, or maybe one of those unconstitutional acts, don't just try to intimidate me and claim I must have a media priest like CNN interpret the holy emails. Hell, I'm the media, never heard of Grey Wolf Press?!]

Hey, media, you f'd up. You have zero credibility! You are in the same boat as Clinton. Everything you say is suspect, so Politico, CNN, Hillary Clinton, just because you said something means that I, John Q. Public, assume that it is a lie.

(Because I've witnessed the media, and HRC, lying so often before that it would take some serious effort to now convince me that they aren't lying. Yeah, shocking -- I assume rain is wet because it was wet yesterday and was wet last week, and will probably be wet next week too!)

Bottom line: Clinton will take anybody's money, and rain is wet.

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sojourns's picture

I love that it is captured in writing.

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

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Thanks for posting - I just bumped into this article. Glad it's written up here.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

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My trigger finger was just slower than yours... Got anywhere I can sell a partially-written essay?

I had actually seen it in Daily Caller, and as it happened this piece had only been published 20 min before I saw it...

‘Take The Money!!’: Emails Show How Clinton Campaign Manages Foreign Donations

Better luck next time, MG! Smile

(Thanks to Wikileaks, there is ample material for many more posts...)

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

It's as if Big Dan Teague from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000) is working for the Hillary campaign. He gave a very forceful advanced tutorial on how to be a Bible salesman, which came down to, "It's all about the money."

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"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

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[video:https://youtu.be/IZocpwWLsyE width:550]

(I should have used this in the diary)

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Big Al's picture

That's what this system attracts, slimy creatures who will do anything. It's not just these people, the whole system is infested with them, it's institutionalized. I know these kind of people.

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Deja's picture

Ole W was a lizard person. These are snake people.

Half snark, I guess, since W isn't really a lizard person. Wink

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I saw the video, it was on youtube. You can see his eyes switch to lizard mode at the 32 second mark or something like that. They even do it in slow motion. There's no doubt what we're dealing with.

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https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/11915

Scroll down to see the countries they are talking about.

Besides the usual suspects, one especially stands out:'

National Board for the Following Up and Recovering of the Libyan Looted and Disguised Funds of the Transitional Government of Libya, through Washington African Consulting Group, Inc (12/3/14 - Current)

Here's more on the 'Entity' :

American lobbying firm The Ben Barnes Group has been retained by a Libyan organisation to help locate assets hidden by former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The company is headed by Ben Barnes (pictured), the former Speaker of Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

According to documents recently filed under the United States’ Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Barnes will be paid $50,000 per month by Washington African Consulting Group (WACG), which is headed by Erik Iskander Goaied, Mohamed Belgasem Tag, and Douglas Keith.

The WACG in turn is assisting the National Board for the Following Up and Recovery of Libyan Looted and Disguised Funds in identifying and recovering Libyan assets in the United States and abroad.

Think the new Libyan government (whenever that happens) will ever see any of the money?

Libya’s Assets Recovery Entity, The National Board signed on August 22nd to repatriate the recovered Libyan assets, AND THEN on November 10th, The National Board allowed their US lobbyist to file a contradictory FARA document with the stated intent –to keep the assets within the US, we can conclude that The National Board, HoR, the Thinni Government and the United States Government colluded to deceive the Libyan people.

We came. We saw. We stole.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

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"We came, we saw, they died" followed by the horrendous cackle of the Grand Witch of Misery herself.

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

So, these are still 'Libyan Looted and Disguised Funds', only now by The Right (Mafia-type) People?

Damn, hope my dinner stays down, as I feel an uprising coming on...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Not Henry Kissinger's picture

But she eventually found out and wanted input.

Re: FARA

From:ha16@hillaryclinton.com
To: re47@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2015-04-23 15:46
Subject: Re: FARA

she just didnt know that we had decided to accept it
wanted to know who the individuals are and wants to weigh in

karuna sending list for meeting

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Robby Mook wrote:

> She doesn't want to?
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Huma Abedin
> wrote:
>
>> HRC read in paper that we are taking FARA money
>> We are going to discuss today in Elias meeting
>> talked to Elias
>> Flagging for you
>>
>
>

Bet she was pissed nobody cleared it with her first.

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I'm sure she would say that, but "personnel is policy."

She hires weasels because, well, because rain is wet.
I'd bet she was pleased the checks cleared. Crazy

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She just wanted to make sure they hadn't left anyone of the list.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

Bet she was pissed nobody (passed) it (to) her first.

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

Thanks for the link, although it still seems to boils down to a theory 'justifying' blind greed and psychopathy in the reality-deprived and reality-denying.

Wouldn't this also pass as another term for fascism? People existing only to serve a state existing to serve corporations? Especially with military force against people for corporate interests so prominent...

http://www.the-utopian.org/post/53360513384/the-thirteen-commandments-of...

... This is solved by increasingly erasing any distinctions among the state, society, and the market, and simultaneously insisting their political project is aimed at reformation of society by subordinating it to the market. ...

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Connecting the dots we have it in spades, with the police being used as the "brownshirts".

her heinous has always said rather as matter of factly that she will be anointed and if this election was any other election before 41 she would be either in jail or so laughed off the stage.

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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"Wow...In a country of laws she'd be locked up right now. It's becoming clearer and clearer this isn't a country of laws, it's a country of money and influence and laws"

We saw how Citibank picked Obama's cabinet including Holder as head of the DOJ who made sure that no one was prosecuted for the fraud that crashed the global economy.

Now it's no big deal that Hillary has taken money from foreign governments.
Why the hell not? She got away with it when they donated to her foundation even though she had agreed to keep it separate from her state department duties.
And Obama let her get away with it.
And of course her supporters wouldn't care about this either.
It's not just the Democratic Party that has been corrupted by the Clintons, the people who can rationalize supporting her have also been corrupted.image_214.jpeg

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

Lol, that one was OK; China actually was buying influence with the Clinton administration. That's perfectly acceptible, nothing to see there!

And making all kinds of false accusations and DoomsDay threats against Russia (with multiple other countries targeted) is OK, because any country capable of fending off the conventional US military war crimes has to be nuked if global destruction conquest for global corporate military control is to be achieved.

And who needs life on the planet or an oxygen supply? Not these 'lizard(-brained) people'! They're science/reality deniers, and corporations aren't really people or living, so Those Who Matter will be all right. At least, those all-important corporations will be. At least until their various components and 'paperwork' - much in the form of data-dots instantly vanishing with power loss - rot away in the ruins of what was once a lovely planet. But there wouldn't be any of those pesky humans or any economy left to profit from anyway, so - it was fun while life lasted and the world well lost?

Obviously, we can manage without corporations and have done so through most of our history.

Corporations can't manage without us, or have decent profits if we have no money to spend.

I can't believe that these idiots have conned so many - but blind greed and the search for excuses continues.

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es tan claro como el agua, senor.
mil gracias a usted.

"Orwell was an optimist."

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