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Corporate Media Silent As Wikileaks Ties Hillary To Funder Of ISIS

Receiving contribution from, serving as a director and doing legal work for Lafarge can all be found on the résumé of Hillary Clinton.

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Corporate Media Silent As Wikileaks Ties Hillary To Funder Of ISIS

Amidst the aftermath of stating, "We have more material related to the Hillary Clinton campaig,n" during last week's Democratic National Convention, Wikileaks delivered just as their founder, Julian Assange, had said they would. And continuing to function as an arm for the political machine, more efficiently now than ever, the American corporate media did what it does best -- remained utterly silent while distracting the American people with stories intended to derail their thought process to the point that they virtually produce a zero percent chance of resulting in critical thinking or recognition of corruption.

On Monday, Wikileaks tweeted a link to documents exposing Hillary Clinton's ties to a company that has funded and worked with the internationally notorious terrorist group, ISIS. The trail of corruptive revelation begins with the French industrial company, Lafarge. Recent journalistic investigations have exposed the world's leading corporation of construction materials for previously funding ISIS. The reports have left them under fire for paying taxes to ISIS middlemen as well as armed groups in Syria in 2013 and 2014 in order to protect business operations there. According to internal documents and emails of Lafarge reported by an independently run news outlet of the Syrian opposition, Zaman al-Wasl, along with indirectly paying taxes to ISIS, Lafarge also regularly purchased oil from ISIS and supplied them with cement to sell. In fact, the documents and emails reveal that Frederic Jolibois, the former CEO of Lafarge Syria, had personally instructed the firm to make payments to the Islamic terror group. According to more documents, first obtained by Zaman al-Wasl but later reported by the French daily, Le Monde, the Lafarge headquarters in Paris was well aware of the business interactions between the plant in Syria and ISIS; they sent a representative from the company into ISIS territory to receive permission that would allow employees to get past checkpoints in Jalabiya where the plant was located. Although production came to a halt and the Lafarge Syrian firm was taken over by ISIS, who was eventually driven out of the region by Kurdish forces in February of 2015, the lucrative intent of Lafarge absolutely trumped their moral standards in regards to business partners.

So where does Hillary Clinton come into play? Compared to the City of Paris, who recently formed a corporate partnership with Lafarge, despite being well aware of their ISIS ties and having just been the target of a brutal ISIS attack last November, the presidential hopeful has much lengthier ties to the company. Receiving contribution from, serving as a director and doing legal work for Lafarge can all be found on the résumé of Hillary Clinton.

The ties date back to the 1980s, during which she was reportedly connected to legal work regarding Lafarge's enabling of CIA support for Saddam Hussein's secret weapons program. Then from 1990 to 1992 she served on their Board of Directors. To add fuel to her corruptive fire, during her two-year reign, Lafarge's Ohio subsidiary was fined $1.8 million by the EPA after being caught burning hazardous waste to fuel cement plants. She left the board that spring and a year later, thanks to her husband's administration, Lafarge's fine from the EPA was reduced by $1.2 million. But perhaps the deadliest revelation of them all would be that Lafarge is a regular donor to the Clinton foundation. Listed in the annual donor list is their $100,000 donation from 2015 as well as their donations during the first quarter of 2016.

Despite the plethora of information that has surfaced and tightly tied a potential commander in chief of the United States to a corporation that has sponsored and carried out many business interactions with a group that is widely considered, not only a threat to international security but humanity itself, the corporate media has remained silent. Their headlines and narratives continue to revolve around Donald Trump and the Khan family. They continue to amplify soundbites of his comments from a recent interview in the most controversial volume possible while working to cover the tracks of his political opponent. They continue to act as an absolute shield for their fellow establishment member in order to protect her from anything that could threaten her image, including a corruptive, dangerous relationship with the French, profit-driven, well-acquainted-with-ISIS, donor-of-the-Clinton-Foundation, industrial giant, Lafarge. When will we realize that our news papers, our websites, our magazines, our radio, our television, our media, our education and our general flow of information have been seized and are being controlled by those who seek to do two things: withhold information that could result in a wave change of thought and protect those who are critical pawns in the game of special interests? In today's American society, self education and research has never seemed so dead; revival is an obligation.

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