The tip of a very big iceberg

Steve House writes,

Over the coming days I will be providing some suggested talking points on why Donald Trump is the right choice for president. In the mean time I have been reading Clinton Cash and I went to Dinesh D'Souza's movie, Hillary's America, with Donna last night and wanted to share one story that all American's deserve an answer on.

Here is a very summarized high level view of what is known:
Bill Clinton worked with his friend Frank Giustra, a wealthy Canadian businessman, to secure a Uranium mining deal in Kazakhstan worth hundreds of millions of dollars that Giustra had failed to do on his own. Giustra's company was called UrAsia and according to industry experts had no business getting any of the business in Kazakhstan because they were barely a player in the Uranium industry. Kazakhstan has trillions of dollars of resources under ground including a large amount of uranium.

The deal required sign off from the government of Kazakhstan which was run by a long standing dictator named Nazarbayev who was worth billions himself and had a terrible human rights record.
Bill was dealing with Kazakhstan on an AIDS mission through the Clinton foundation even though the AIDS problem in Kazakhstan was estimated to be only .1-.3%. As a reference there were countries in Africa at 24% that could have used a lot more help.

Giustra gets the deal done but a couple of strange things happen in 2009 just prior to it(Hillary transitioned from US Senator to Secretary of State during 2009 so she was never off US Government payroll). The first is that Hillary Clinton pressured government officials from Kazakhstan to complete the Uranium deal with Giustra and his investors and shortly there after she said that she will no longer meet with them until the Kazakh officials approved the deal with Frank Giustra.

There was at least an implied threat to withhold Aid from Kazakhstan, a number in the tens of millions and even as high as $100 million previously if this deal wasn't completed.

Bill Clinton then goes to Kazakhstan and publicly supports the dictator including the idea that K-Stan would be the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. This guy was a well known human rights disaster and dictator yet the former president legitimized him right before they approve a deal with Giustra and his investors that was ultimately worth more than $300M.

So what happened? Giustra donates $31.3M to the Clinton foundation within a few weeks after the deal. He then commits to $100M over a period of time after merging his Uranium company with Uranium One. A total of $145M was donated to the Clinton foundation directly associated with this deal.

Uranium One grows dramatically by 2010 and then is later acquired by the Russians. Many more investors associated with the deal were involved in donating to the Clinton Foundation who also had to later amend its' tax returns for not reporting donations coming from Canadian investors.

How could anyone think this was proper or think that we should allow Hillary to be president. For money she sold out our security involving Uranium to the Russians. Yes Uranium is used for nuclear reactors and to make nuclear weapons. How much of our Uranium here in Colorado will end up in Iran's nuclear plans via this deal?
Global corruption and this is the tip of a very big iceberg.

Unexpected

Reuters reports that

Iran has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine, the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation said on Saturday.

The comments cast doubt on previous assessments from some Western analysts who said the country had a low supply and would sooner or later would need to import uranium, the raw material needed for its nuclear program.

Any indication Iran could become more self-sufficient will be closely watched by world powers, which reached a landmark deal with Tehran in July over its program. They had feared the nuclear activities were aimed at acquiring the capability to produce atomic weapons - something denied by Tehran.

"I cannot announce (the level of) Iran's uranium mine reserves. The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves," Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.

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This week's biggest Clinton scandal so far

It's almost enough to persuade a person to have some faith in the New York Times. Two Times writers, Jo Becker and Mike McIntire, have exposed the Clintons for their corrupt dealings with some Canadians and Russians. Uranium investors gave millions to the Clinton Foundation while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's office was involved in approving a Russian bid for mining assets in Kazakhstan and the United States.

The headline in the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.

At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company’s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show.

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