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Hacker Guccifer 2.0 Exposes Democrats’ Pay-to-Play Scheme “Ambassadorships for sale”

September 14, 2016 By administrator

pay-playAfter revealing that the Democratic National Committee actively conspired against presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, the hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 has now exposed the organization’s corrupt method of appointing vital US government positions.

On Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) released a statement, bracing for new revelations by — who else?— the Russians. “The DNC is the victim of a crime – an illegal cyber attack by Russian state-sponsored agents who seek to harm the Democratic Party and progressive groups in an effort to influence the presidential election,” the statement reads. “We would urge anyone attempting to access these documents to proceed with extreme caution given the potential malware risks.”

The DNC is bracing itself for the release of more documents pic.twitter.com/y1uVz8jUW9

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) September 13, 2016

Now that the documents have been released, the attempt to blame the “Russian boogeyman” for the hack has been revealed as a clear attempt to create a distraction from the damning information contained within the leaked documents.

According to the documents, top donors to the DNC have received various government positions. Most are ambassadorships, but several are departmental appointments.

Matthew Berzun, who reportedly raised $1,907,100 for the DNC, as well as $1,174,430 for President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action (OFA), was appointed as Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Kirk Wagar appears to have raised $825,000 for the DNC and $1,300,000 for the OFA before being appointed Ambassador to Singapore. The documents show that Julius Genachowski raised $792,650 for the DNC and $2,628,169 for the OFA. Genachowski served as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair between 2009 and 2013. Frank Sanchez raised $3,415,000 for the DNC, OFA, and the Combined Federal Campaign and served as the US Under Secretary of Commerce.

“We have a political system which, unfortunately, encourages pay to play, and people who give big donations are often rewarded with positions in the government,” former Congressman Dennis Kucinich told Radio Sputnik’s By Any Means Necessary. “It really illustrates the defects in our system, where money trumps everything and everything’s for sale.”

“And don’t think for a moment that all of these corporate interests that are honeycombed now into positions in the government aren’t delivering to the corporate interests, from where they came, some form of benefit, in terms of reshaping government policy,” he adds.

As long as we have the kind of campaign finance system we have, the system is going to be vulnerable to pay to play, and that’s what we’re seeing right now, and it happens in both political parties, so it’s a rotten system.” Kucinich pointed out that the problem isn’t limited to the Democratic Party. “Both political parties are in trouble. There is an emerging force in America that doesn’t rely on political parties for legitimacy, and the political parties — both Democrat and Republican — have become totally self-serving, captives of corporate interest, and unable to be able to address the practical aspirations of the American people for healthcare, for education, for jobs, for a clean environment, for protecting the globe, for peace,” he said. “And so we, today, learn a little bit more about the Democratic Party being for sale. Well, that’s nothing new, nor is it new that the same goes for the Republican Party.”

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/politics/20160914/1045313905/guccifer-dnc-pay-to-play.html

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: dns, Election, Pay, play, to, US

Istanbul Municipality to pay for confiscation of Armenian cemetery

October 5, 2015 By administrator

198407Istanbul Municipality will pay 111,850,000 Turkish liras (over $37 million) to Surp Agop Armenian Hospital’s foundation for the 4,474 square meters of land belonging to Istanbul’s Armenian cemetery, Ermenihaber.am reports.

Surp Agop Hospital’s foundation applied to the Turkish court 2 years ago.

According to Turkish cadastral registers, some 41,430 square meters of land served as the Armenian cemetery in Istanbul since 1936. The land was confiscated by the Turkish state in 1971, with the 4,474 square meters of land, belonging to the Armenian cemetery, used for construction of roads, underground passages and sidewalks.

The land was later returned to Surp Agop Hospital’s foundation under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision without those 4,474 square meters of land, already used for road construction.

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Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armenian, cemetry, confiscation, İstanbul, Municipality, Pay

Court Orders Turkey to Pay Cyprus Over Invasion

May 12, 2014 By administrator

ISTANBUL May 12, 2014 (AP)
By DESMOND BUTLER Associated Press

AP_logo_update_20130709 Europe’s top human rights court in its largest ever judgment ordered Turkey on Monday to pay 90 million euros ($123 million) to Cyprus for its 1974 invasion and the island’s subsequent division.

The decision from the European Court of Human Rights said the passage of time did not erase Turkey’s responsibility in the case, ruling that Turkey must pay 30 million euros in damages to relatives of those missing in the operations and 60 million euros for “the enclaved Greek-Cypriot residents of the Karpas peninsula.”

Hundreds of Greek Cypriots still live in the Karpas peninsula in the northernmost tip of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot part of the island.

Cyprus has been divided since Turkey invaded in 1974 after a coup by supporters of union with Greece. Only Turkey recognizes the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state that was proclaimed in the north of the island.

The judgment comes as the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities are making a new effort to reunite the island.

Speaking ahead of the ruling on Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned that a judgment against Turkey would come at a delicate time and said that he viewed it as “neither binding nor of any value.”

“Not only is it legally problematic, its timing is wrong,” Davutoglu said.

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the decision would not detract from Turkey’s “determination” to reach a settlement.

Cyprus’ government spokesman Nikos Christodoulides hailed the court’s decision and called on Turkey to comply immediately.

“Despite the fact that the persecution and hardship that they have endured cannot be measured in money, the Cyprus government welcomes the fact that the court again condemns in this way Turkey’s policy of violating the human rights of the enclaved,” he said.

The court said it would be up to the government of Cyprus to determine how to award the damages. Turkey has not always complied with the court’s rulings.

In a 1998 ruling, the Strasbourg court ordered Turkey to pay Titina Loizidou compensation for depriving her of property in the seaside city of Kyrenia. It was the first case in which a Greek Cypriot successfully sued Turkey over the invasion and earned the right to compensation.

Turkey paid the money in 2003, but has yet to comply with an earlier European Court decision ordering Ankara to allow Loizidou to reclaim her property.

Analysts noted that the current case was notable not only because of its size, but also because it took Turkey to task for the invasion and awarded the money to Cyprus on behalf of individuals, a sensitive point that could affect current reunification talks.

“The big question is how the decision will affect the negotiations that are the most promising ever,” said Cengiz Aktar, an analyst on Turkey-EU affairs at the Istanbul Policy Center. “It could put the talks into difficulty.”

Achilleas Demetriades, a prominent human rights lawyer in Cyprus, who has won several cases in the European Court involving Turkey, said that the judgment also pertains to Turkey’s failure to carry out an effective investigation of the whereabouts of Greek Cypriots who disappeared during and after the invasion of the island, and to provide that information to relatives of the missing.

Nicos Sergides, president of the Greek Cypriot organization of relatives of missing persons, said the ruling could offer fresh hope for relatives to find out what happened to their loved ones.

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Angela Charlton and Lori Hinnant in Paris, Suzan Fraser in Ankara and Menelaos Hadjicostis in Nicosia contributed to this report.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Court Orders, Cyprus, Invasion, Pay, Turkey

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