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The repeated, incorrect claim that Russia obtained ‘20 percent of our uranium’

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The repeated, incorrect claim that Russia obtained ‘20 percent of our uranium’

By Glenn Kessler
October 31,2017

More than a year ago, the Fact Checker labeled as false various claims that Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, had made about Hillary Clinton’s alleged role in the approval of the sale of a Canadian company, Uranium One, with mining rights in the United States to Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear energy agency. Here, we are going to take a closer look at a key claim: that the sale involved “20 percent of our uranium.” We have noted repeatedly that extracted uranium could not be exported by Russia without a license — which Rosatom does not have — but even so, this 20 percent figure is especially misleading. At the Fact Checker, we have described it a bit more precisely as “mining licenses for about 20 percent of U.S. uranium extraction capacity.” But we were out of date; it turns out “20 percent” is an especially stale number.....

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Puts to bed the manufactured misconceptions, partisan propaganda, and conspiratorial aspects of Uranium One.

This chart below shows how Uranium One’s U.S. production compares with total U.S. production, and how U.S. production compares with worldwide production, based on information from the World Nuclear Association. “Uranium production in the U.S. is so small that I would rarely, if ever, use a statistic like that. It’s meaningless,” said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. “Twenty percent of bubkes is still bubkes.”
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Rogue Valley said:
The repeated, incorrect claim that Russia obtained ‘20 percent of our uranium’



Puts to bed the manufactured misconceptions, partisan propaganda, and conspiratorial aspects of Uranium One.
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WHAAAAAATTT? Don't you know that any news that shows that Hillary's not guilty of every crime she's ever been accused of is automatically fake news? Whatever she's accused of, she's automatically guilty, no matter what? It's just like with the EIGHT federal investigations of Benghazi (most of which were led by the Hillary-must-die House GOP Benghazi committee), ALL of which found ZERO wrongdoing on her part...but if you ask any red-blooded 'Murican conservative, she's guilty, guilty, guilty!
 
Yeah, at least a year ago SNOPES had several links to more information that showed the fiasco was way overblown.

But then people just claimed the links were biased :doh

I see SNOPES post links to info that supports the right/conservative base...they link to the info, period. In this case (Hillary/uranium) Hillary's actual accountability was not ignored (it was minimal and 2nd hand and was ended when the Clintons found out)

They, like many of us, dont like to look stupid presenting false info.
 
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There's millions of Con Republicans who still believe the "Obamaphone' was a program STARTED by Obama to buy votes. That's 100% false, and has been totally debunked, but they still believe it.

There's a reason Conservative media, Con talking heads, etc. are so popular and successful. Conservatives love to be told what to believe, and love hear what they want to believe.
 
These people ignore all facts. I try to be objective but on so many issues the conservative side is for idiots. This is a Civil War against idiots. The chief idiot and moron is Donald Trump.

Idiotic ideas:

Tax cuts for the rich and corporations in an economy when they are the only ones who have benefited.
Removing the estate tax when income inequality is a growing problem
Merry Christmas nonsense
Mandatory patriotism nonsense but Confederates get statues
Tearing up the Iran deal
Hate for gays
Hate for Muslims
 
countryboy said:
Russia controls 20% of US uranium production. And has the ability to withhold it from is, as well as transport it around OUR COUNTRY. Please explain to us how that is a good thing.
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So, the Russians are going to spread the uranium around the U.S. like a dirty bomb? Is this like a Bond movie plot starring Vladamir Putin?

People looked at the deal and didn't see any security risk. Can you explain what you feel the risk is? Russia can't export the Uranium. What's the danger here?
 
SonOfDaedalus said:
These people ignore all facts. I try to be objective but on so many issues the conservative side is for idiots. This is a Civil War against idiots. The chief idiot and moron is Donald Trump.

Idiotic ideas:

Tax cuts for the rich and corporations in an economy when they are the only ones who have benefited.
Removing the estate tax when income inequality is a growing problem
Merry Christmas nonsense
Mandatory patriotism nonsense but Confederates get statues
Tearing up the Iran deal
Hate for gays
Hate for Muslims
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Now, now, let's be fair. They only hate American gays. They love gays in Iran and Afghanistan, and gays in ISSIS controlled territories.
 
The story was fully debunked, and it was hilarious:

 
Glen Contrarian said:
WHAAAAAATTT? Don't you know that any news that shows that Hillary's not guilty of every crime she's ever been accused of is automatically fake news? Whatever she's accused of, she's automatically guilty, no matter what? It's just like with the EIGHT federal investigations of Benghazi (most of which were led by the Hillary-must-die House GOP Benghazi committee), ALL of which found ZERO wrongdoing on her part...but if you ask any red-blooded 'Murican conservative, she's guilty, guilty, guilty!
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The rubes never seem bothered about ronnies 250 dead Beirut marines.
But 4 in Benghazi?
OMG
 
countryboy said:
Russia controls 20% of US uranium production. And has the ability to withhold it from is, as well as transport it around OUR COUNTRY. Please explain to us how that is a good thing.
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We haven't been saying "this is great!" We've been saying who gives a ****.

It's a small fraction of the uranium we use and we still have tight control over where it goes. You think Russian backing of the corporation magically lets them do what they want with uranium inside our borders? Nuclear material is probably the most heavily regulated and monitored stuff there is.
 
YorkshirePete said:
A hoot, think the trumpettes will watch it?
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No, they only watch FOX News. I think FOX News is the problem with this country. They refuse to do real journalism and ask real questions like you see MSNBC's Joy Reid doing.

I don't mind FOX News leaning heavily left but they should do honest reporting. Who made the decisions regarding Uranium One? Can the Russians export the unranium? What can the Russians do with the uranium? When did the Clinton supporter sell the company? I'm talking about basic journalism. Instead they perpetuate lies and refuse to challeng lies by the administration.

We used to argue about ideologies and ideas. Now we have half the country totally abandoning facts.
 
YorkshirePete said:
The rubes never seem bothered about ronnies 250 dead Beirut marines.
But 4 in Benghazi?
OMG
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I remember that! Not long before, my ship (USS Ranger) was moored next to the USS New Jersey, the battleship which had been recently reactivated. They pulled out for a three-week shakedown cruise...and returned nine months later, having had to suddenly go park themselves off Beirut to make parking-lot sized craters on demand. The morale on board was terrible by all accounts - fully half of the marriages failed in that time, mostly because almost none of the crew or families were ready for a long-term deployment.
 
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