Posted on 02/19/2015 6:12:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Clinton foundation is now accepting donations from foreign governments, something it stopped doing after Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009, and the practice is raising eyebrows as the former first lady ponders a White House run.
Clinton, who has yet to publicly say she will join the 2016 race for president, has watched as donations from foreign governments have poured in.
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Looks like the second is up for bid.
“What difference does it make?” HILLARY CLINTON 1/23/2013
Of course, none of these Platinum Club members (or the Clintons) would ever try to get rich by actually providing a real VALUE-PROPOSITION to those of us who actually have to do productive WORK for a living and then live off what's left after the government takes its cut.
Clinton foresees a wonderful, enlightened World Without Profits for all of us proles, who will be so much better off when our lives are run and our money is spent by our superiors at the Clinton Foundation Platinum Club.
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And for those who may have forgotten what kind of a President Bill Clinton was:
1) Clinton’s own words show his often expressed innate hostility to, and utter contempt for, the core principles of the American founding:
``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
``The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people’’ –- Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993
``We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…that we forget about reality.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A, ``NRA change: `Omnipotent to powerful’’’ by Debbie Howlett
“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly… that they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare… However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” – Bill Clinton, April 19, 1995
2) Clinton inevitably pursued his own political advantage at the expense of American interests and national security. Here is just one of many possible examples:
It is well documented that Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that In January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets. Not only did he move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese. Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.
The result, as stated eloquently by syndicated columnist Linda Bowles, was that “the Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.” Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.
3) On two occasions, Clinton used military action for the specific purpose of distracting the American public from the fallout of the Lewinsky affair:
• On August 20, three days after Clinton finally admitted publicly to the Lewinsky affair, the news media was poised to focus on that day’s grand jury testimony by Monica Lewinsky. That same morning, Clinton personally went on national television to gravely announce his bombing of a Sudanese “chemical weapons factory,” and a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. It was the first time most Americans ever heard the name of Osama bin Laden. The factory bombing in Sudan killed an innocent night watchman, but accomplished little else. It later was proven that the plant was making badly needed pharmaceuticals for people in that poverty-stricken part of the world, but no chemical weapons.
Several months later, the U.S. Center for Nonproliferation Studies, part of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, stated: "...the evidence indicates that the facility had no role whatsoever in chemical weapons development." Kroll Associates, one of the world's most reputable investigative firms, also confirmed that there was no link in any way between the plant and any terrorist organization. As for the Afghanistan bombing, it failed to do any damage at all to bin Laden or his organization. Clinton’s action was accurately characterized by George W. Bush when he said right after 9-11: "When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.
Clinton’s pointless and murderous military actions did not make Americans safer that day, although they did destroy an innocent life, and for all the good they did certainly could have been delayed in any case. But they did succeed in diverting media attention from Lewinsky’s grand jury testimony for a 24-hour news cycle, which was the main point. So I guess, they weren’t a total loss.
•On December 16, 1998, on the eve of the scheduled House vote on his impeachment, Bill Clinton launched a surprise bombing attack on Baghdad. As justification for this exploit, he cited the urgent threat that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction posed to America, and the need for immediate action. Almost immediately, the House Democrats held a caucus and emerged calling for a delay in the impeachment proceedings. House minority leader Dick Gephardt made a statement: "We obviously should pass a resolution by saying that we stand behind the troops. I would hope that we do not take up impeachment until the hostilities have completely ended."
Conveniently, a delay so near the end of the House term would have caused the vote to be taken up in the next session – when the newly elected House membership would be seated with more Democratic representation, thereby improving Clinton’s chances of dodging impeachment.
The Republicans did, in fact, agree to delay the hearings, but only for a day or two. Amazingly, Clinton ended the bombing raid after only 70 hours -- once it became clear that in spite of the brief delay, the vote would still be held in the current session.
Once the bombing stopped, Clinton touted the effectiveness and importance of the mission. As reported by ABC News : “We have inflicted significant damage on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs, on the command structures that direct and protect that capability, and on his military and security infrastructure,” he said. Defense secretary William Cohen echoed the point: “We estimate that Saddam's missile program has been set back by at least a year.”
Whether or not one buys Clinton’s assessment of that mission, it is difficult to believe that its timing was so critical that it required commencement virtually at the moment the House was scheduled to vote on the impeachment¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬. I think the most reasonable conclusion is that Clinton cynically deployed US military assets and placed military personnel in harm’s way for purely political reasons.
4) Clinton’s reckless sexual behavior was a threat to American national security:
Clinton and his supporters have been very effective in persuading large numbers of Americans that the Lewinsky scandal was “only about sex.” But I see a bigger issue here, because Clinton is on record as saying that he would have done anything to keep knowledge of the Lewinsky affair from becoming public.
To me, that statement raises a very serious question: What if, instead of sending her recorded Lewinsky conversations to Ken Starr, Linda Tripp had instead secretly offered them for sale, say, to the Chinese government? Or to the Russians? Or even to agents of Saddam?
What kind of blackmail leverage would those tapes have provided to a foreign government in dealing with America on sensitive trade, security or military issues? One of the few things Clinton ever said that I believe is that he would have done anything to keep the Lewinsky affair secret. Given his demonstrated track record of selling out American interests for personal or political gain (and there are more examples that I could have cited here), how far would he have gone in compromising America’s real interests in order to protect his own neck when threatened with blackmail?
Pretty far, I believe. Equally distressing is the prospect Clinton might, in fact, have succumbed to foreign black mail on other occasions in order to hide different sexual episodes that ultimately did not become public. There is no way to know, of course, but I prefer presidents for whom such a scenario is not a plausible possibility.
And don’t even get me started on the war crime in Kosovo.
WAR IN KOSOVO
During Bill Clinton’s 1999 NATO-led war in Kosovo – which according to some estimates cost as much as $75 billion – we bombed Belgrade for 78 days, killed almost 3,000 civilians, and shredded the civilian infrastructure (including every bridge across the Danube.)
We devastated the environment, bombed the Chinese embassy, came very close to engaging in armed combat against Russian forces, and in general, pursued a horrific and inhumane strategy to rain misery on the civilian population of Belgrade in order to pressure Milosevic into surrendering.
Why did we do all that? The US did not even have an arguable interest in the Balkans, and no one ever tried to claim that Serbia represented any kind of threat to our nation or our interests.
But for months the Clinton administration had told us that Milosevic was waging a vicious genocide against Albanian Muslims, and needed to be stopped. The New York Times called it a “humanitarian war.” In March 1999 – the same month that the bombing started – Clinton’s State Department publicly suggested that as many as 500,000 Albanian Kosovars had been murdered by Milosevic’s regime. In May of that year, as the bombing campaign was drawing to a close, Secretary of Defense William Cohen lowered that estimate 100,000.
Five years after the bombing, after all the forensic investigations had been completed, the prosecutors at Milosevic’s “War Crimes” trial in the Hague were barely been able to document a questionable figure of perhaps 5,000 “bodies and body parts.” During the war, the American people were told that Kosovo was full of mass graves filled with the bodies of murdered Albanian Muslims. But none were ever found.
BILL CLINTON ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
During the election cycle of 1992, George H.W. Bush lost his job after Bill Clinton hammered him relentlessly for having caused the “worst economy of the last 50 years.”
In fact, as CNN’s Brooke Jackson has reported: “Three days before Christmas 1992, the National Bureau of Economic Research finally issued its official proclamation that the recession had ended 21 months earlier. What became the longest boom in U.S. history actually began nearly two years before Clinton took office.” See (See http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/31/jackson.recession.primer.otsc/).
By the same token, Clinton is generally perceived as having a stellar economic record during his own presidency, in spite of the fact that the economy was already starting to decline during the last year of his term after the stock market crashed in March 2000.
According to a report by MSNBC: “The longest economic expansion in U.S. history faltered so much in the summer of 2000 that business output actually contracted for one quarter, the government said Wednesday in releasing a comprehensive revision of the gross domestic product. Based on new data, the Commerce Department said that the GDP — the country’s total output of goods and services — shrank by 0.5 percent at an annual rate in the July-September quarter of 2000.” See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3676690/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/t/gdp-figures-revised-downward/.
The big bucks are from OPEC/Middle East/Moslems. Their interests define Hillary. What’s wrong with that sheeple?
World’s most famous gypsies.
Hell didn’t Obama get a crapload of donations from foreign donors in 2008 and 2012?
Yes, but he at least had the decency to launder them through prepaid debit cards.
Exactly!
WHAT ban??? Billy-boy has been taking foreign money for DECADES!
The hell with auditing the Fed,audit the Clinton Foundation.And where is that $7B that went missing at State under Hellary?
The tax-exempt, nonprofit Clinton foundation lists Brunei along with Kuwait, Oman and Qatar (new home of the Gitmo Five) as donors that gave between $1 million and $5 million through last year.
The Clinton foundation itself confirmed the 2002 donations: "The Clinton Foundation's impact would not be possible without the generous support of our donors," the foundation's website reads. "Their contributions have made a difference in the lives of tens of millions across the world." Read more at foxnews.com ...
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W/ a straight face, Hillary recently told Greta the Gitmo Five are NOT a problem to the US. BUT...due to her "concussion" (cackle) she completely forgot to mention the Quatar donation.
Qatar has also been recently outed---as the place that is facilitating the funding of ISIS beheadings and immolations.
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30-second quiz.
q. Who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to?
a. QATAR DONOR TO CLINTON FOUNDATION/LIBRARY: The tax-exempt, nonprofit Clinton foundation lists Brunei along with Kuwait, Oman and Qatar as donors that gave the Clintons between $1 million and $5 million (to date).
The Clinton foundation itself confirmed the donations: "The Clinton Foundation's impact would not be possible without the generous support of our donors," the foundation's website reads. "Their contributions have made a difference in the lives of tens of millions across the world." Read more at foxnews.com ...
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30-second quiz.
q. Who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to?
a. w/ a straight face, Hillary recently told Greta the Gitmo Five are NOT a problem to the US. Hillary completely forgot to mention the buddy-buddy Qatar/Clinton connection.
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30-second quiz.
q. Who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to?
a. Clinton donor----Qatar----also facilitates donations to further the beheadings and immolations conducted by ISIS.
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30-second quiz.
q. Who is 2016 candidate Hillary beholden to?
a. Sharia-loving Emir of Qatar accepted the Gitmo Five terrorists relocated in the Bergdahl swap---living happily ever after in the lap of luxury.
Earlier, a NYT's expose chronicled the shady tax-exempt
"Clinton Global Initiative" foundation---one of three Clinton Foundations.
CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
go here to peruse 276 web pages of obscure programs---
all of them vehicles to raise money
all of the donors salivating for payback
w/ Hillary wielding the presidential pen.
1271 Avenue of the Americas 42nd Floor
New York, NY 10020
212-348-8882
WEB SITE http://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative
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Court documents in the Epstein underage sex investigation show that he had 21 private e-mail addresses and phone numbers listed for Clinton and his confidant, Doug Band.
Epstein kept Bill Clinton on speed dial as reports surfaced about Clinton attending sex parties at Epstein's "Orgy Island." Lawyers perusing documents stumbled upon e-mail addresses and 21 phone numbers for the fun-loving ex-president and his personal aide, Doug Band, stashed away in Jeffrey Epstein’s electronic directory, according to court documents.
QUESTION: Why does Clinton need 21 phone numbers? Does every phone number have an address and/or PO box number? L/E knows that is an indication of money-laundering and tax evasion.
CASE IN POINT One two-year federal investigation revealed an elaborate web to carry out multiple frauds. The frauds were carried out using non-existent people using fake identities, fraudulent SS nos, and phony tax ID numbers.
A sophisticated system of telephone voice-mail accounts and post office boxes were created to avoid detection. The charges involved racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud, making false statements, and bank fraud.
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FACTOID Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein flew on Epstein’s private jet in 2002 to meet with the Sultan of Brunei.....one of the richest men in the world.
Hollywood hotshots recently protested the Sultan's ownership of the posh Beverly Hills Hotel and his embrace of Sharia law. The Sultan has announced he plans to execute homosexuals.
The National Enquirer reported flight logs reveal Epstein — before he was arrested and jailed for soliciting teenage masseuses — picked up Clinton at a Japanese naval airport. Also onboard “the orgy jet” — were two alleged ‘madames’ for Epstein’s kiddie sex ring.
The mega-rich Sultan later donated between $1-5 million to the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas.
The Clinton foundations also accepted a $25,000 donation....... and Epstein wire-transferred Clinton's foundation $,3.5 MILLION from a Swiss bank account.
Even the liberal democraps admitted they’re worried about a Hillary campaign imploding over this scandal.
They might get stuck with ‘creepy uncle Joe’ as the 2016 nominee!
7 more category of donors at link [drop down lists for each donor group]
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors
The Clinton Foundation Contributors:
Donations greater than $25,000,000.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation *
Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (Canada) *
Fred Eychaner *
Frank Giustra, The Radcliffe Foundation
The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
UNITAID
* Indicates a contribution was made by this donor in 2013.
Donations of $10,000,001 to $25,000,000
Donor name
AUSAID
Stephen L. Bing
COPRESIDA
Tom Golisano *
Government of Norway
The Hunter Foundation *
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Nationale Postcode Loterij *
Cheryl and Haim Saban & The Saban Family Foundation
The ELMA Foundation
Theodore W. Waitt
* Indicates a contribution was made by this donor in 2013.
Donations of $5,000,001 to $10,000,000
S. Daniel Abraham
Sheikh Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Inc. *
Commonwealth of Australia, DIICC *
Elton John AIDS Foundation
Government of the Netherlands *
Irish Aid
John D. Mackay *
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation *
Michael Schumacher
State of Kuwait
The Coca-Cola Company
The Wasserman Foundation *
* Indicates a contribution was made by this donor in 2013.
Donations of $1,000,001. to $5,000,000
100 Women in Hedgefunds
Absolute Return for Kids (ARK)
Jay Alix
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa *
Alltel Corporation
Nasser Al-Rashid
Anheuser-Busch Foundation
Smith and Elizabeth Bagley *
Mary Bing and Doug Ellis
Richard Blum and Blum Family Foundation *
The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation
Susie Tompkins Buell Fund of the Marin Community Foundation *
The Sherwood Foundation *
Richard and Jackie Caring *
Gilbert R. Chagoury
Cisco *
Citi Foundation
Clinton Family Foundation and William J. Clinton *
Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund *
Victor P. Dahdaleh & The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Charitable Foundation
Robert Disbrow
Dubai Foundation
Duke Energy Corporation *
Entergy *
Issam M. Fares & The Wedge Foundation
Wallace W. Fowler
Friends of Saudi Arabia
Fundacion Telmex *
Mala Gaonkar Haarman
The James R. Greenbaum, Jr. Family Foundation
ICAP Services North America *
J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation *
Sanela D. Jenkins
Robert L. Johnson *
Walid Juffali
Dave Katragadda
Kessler Family Foundation
Michael and Jena King *
Lukas Lundin
MAC AIDS Fund
Lakshmi N. Mittal
James R. Murdoch
Norad (Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) *
OAS S.A. *
Denis J. O’Brien *
OCP Corporation *
Open Society Institute
PGA Tour, Inc. *
Presidential Inaugural Committee
Princess Diana Memorial Fund
Procter & Gamble *
Stewart Rahr
Paul D. Reynolds
Robertson Foundation
Salida Capital Foundation
Joachim Schoss
Bernard L. Schwartz *
Arnold H. Simon
Bren Simon *
Amar Singh
Carlos Slim Helú & Fundación Carlos Slim *
Michael Smurfit
Steven Spielberg *
State of Qatar
Sterling Stamos Capital Management, LP
The Streisand Foundation *
Suzlon Energy Ltd.
Swedish Postcode Foundation *
Swiss Reinsurance Company *
Nima Taghavi *
The Annenberg Foundation
The Boeing Company *
The ELMA Philanthropies Services (U.S.) Inc.
The Government of Brunei Darussalam
The Howard Gilman Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation *
The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust
The Sidney E. Frank Foundation
The Sultanate of Oman
The Swedish Postcode Lottery
The Walmart Foundation
The Zayed Family
Torres-Picón Foundation *
T.G. Holdings
U.S. Green Building Council *
UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Verein Aids Life
The Walton Family Foundation
Gerardo Werthein
When does the Cliton Foundation register a “foreign agent”???
No Money coming from inside the US ?
I have serious doubts Hitlery is even going to run. I think she’s hiding out doing internal polling that does not look promising. I think the Dems would like to dump her and go with Liz Warren.
Old nose candy Bill would except money form the cartels.
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