Posted on 01/07/2017 9:04:54 AM PST by HarleyLady27
It has been revealed that millions of New Zealand taxpayer dollars have been donated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) to Hillary Clintons charity, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a non-profit organisation created from the Clinton Foundation with the stated goal to reduce HIV/AIDs in Africa.
An MFAT spokesman confirmed to the NBR that between January 2010 and June 2016, $7.7 million of taxpayer funds had already been donated and another $6 million was to follow, keeping to a pledge to donate $13.7 million made by the government organisation in 2013.
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Not to worry.....Trump has the genius money-men to do it.
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I can see the motivation for the Clinton Foundation donation: buying access to a Hillary administration. The U.N. vote came after Trump won and after Keys resigned and stepped down, so the motivation was different. This was a conservative National Party decision, unlikely to be anti-Israel. My instinct is that there was an Obama administration monetary bribe to a New Zealand politician to get them to sponsor the resolution.
Maybe it was blackmail?
This is one of the questions I have had about the whys and whens and what for of the Clinton Foundation...they were connected to New Zealand for ‘favors’....here are some more of their ‘favors’:
EXCLUSIVE: Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million [VIDEO]
A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillarys claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.
As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is simply unprecedented, says national security analyst Patrick Poole.
These regimes are buying access. Youve got the Saudis. Youve got the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. There are massive conflicts of interest. Its beyond comprehension, Poole told TheDCNF in an interview.
Overall, the Clinton Foundation has received upwards of $85 million in donations from five Persian Gulf states and their monarchs, according to the foundations website.
Activist groups have charged the five states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) committed numerous human rights abuses.
For years, the accusations have centered on the Persian Gulf practice of importing hundreds of thousands of poor foreign laborers who work for low wages, including hundreds of thousands of female domestic workers who have no labor rights and often face exploitation and sexual abuse.
The ongoing Clinton financial relationship with despotic Persian Gulf states could hurt Hillary as a supporter of labor rights and tarnish her image as a vigorous supporter of women.
Yet as secretary of state, Clinton consciously and actively sought to legitimize the sheikdoms through many new Department of State programs.
Its unclear what kind of promises or concessions the Clintons may have given the monarchs in return for their lavish financial support over the years, but last month the candidate reversed her long-standing support for fracking.
Hillarys new position, unveiled last month at a CNN presidential debate with Democratic opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, put her in alignment with the Gulf State policy that opposes North American oil and gas fracking.
The FBI has reportedly launched a second investigation of the former secretary in addition to its probe of her private email server. This investigation is looking into political corruption and is seeking evidence where former Secretary Clinton may have offered official government favors to foundation donors.
Most troubling for Hillary, however, could be Bills personal, five-year business partnership with Dubais authoritarian ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin-Rashid al-Maktoum and his overall friendship with the rulers of the United Arab Emirates a confederation of states that includes Dubai.
When Bill personally wooed bin-Rashid to join him as a business partner through his Dubai Investment Group, the sheikh was the crown prince of Dubai.
During Bills partnership with bin-Rashid, his stature rose. He now is the undisputed ruler of Dubai and the prime minister of the UAE.
The former president and bin-Rashid did their private financial deals with a California-based private equity fund called Yucaipa Partners, which is owned by billionaire and Democratic funder Ron Burkle. The three became business partners and sought to create an offshore sovereign wealth fund for Yucaipa.
Clinton ended his partnership with the investment firm five years later, but not before pocketing at least $15 million in guaranteed payments from the company, according to his personal tax returns from 2003 to 2008. The former president allegedly received another $20 million of walking away money to leave the partnership, according to The Daily Beast.
Today, Bill is a regular visitor to Dubai. His friend bin-Rashid runs Dubai as an absolute monarchy where there are no elections. Human rights groups deplore the labor practices of both Dubai and the UAE for the exploitation of at least 250,000 foreign laborers.
The International Labor Organization (ILO), founded by Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor after World War I and now organized labors main international labor body, has continued to criticize labor conditions in the Persian Gulf states.
Its 2016 World Employment and Social Outlook report stated the governments in the Persian Gulf use forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and the worst forms of child labour
Given the heavy reliance on migrant workers, the risk of forced labour or trafficking in the Arab States cannot be ignored, the ILO concluded.
A 2014 Human Rights Watch report also focused on the 146,000 female migrant workers who work in the United Arab Emirates. The human rights group charged the women suffered abuses that amounted to forced labor and trafficking.
Migrant workers are excluded from the countrys labor laws. Domestic workers have virtually no legal safeguards governing their employment, the activist group reported.
The Clinton Foundations ties go beyond support from governments. Four billionaire Saudis, along with groups the Dubai Foundation and Friends of Saudi Arabia, contributed another $30 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the foundations website.
Bills Dubai links run deeper than just his dealings with sheikhs. Between 2011 and 2014, he received $5.6 million from the Dubai-based company GEMS Education for serving as the honorary chairman.
The American University of Dubai has a William Jefferson Clinton Scholars program and the former president has been a frequent guest of the university.
When she was secretary of state, Hillary also strengthened the Clinton-UAE relationship. The State Department approved Bills speaking engagements to the UAE, which delivered $1.1 million to him in speaking fees.
In 2005, Bill personally advised Dubai on the controversial deal where the emirate would own six U.S. ports. The deal was vigorously opposed by intelligence officials who viewed the port as vulnerable to terrorist infiltration. Facing ferocious opposition in Congress, Dubai withdrew its effort to purchase the U.S. ports.
Arab reformers have harshly criticized Clintons State Department programs designed to bolster the image of the UAE and legitimize the fortunes of many monarchies in the gulf.
The fruit of Clintons own policy basically empowered the old regimes, charges Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and co-founder of the Muslim Reform movement.
Looking back at her four years as secretary of state, Jasser told TheDCNF, I could not see anywhere where she empowered reformers. He said Bill and Hillary are part of the global establishment that seeks the status quo.
The global establishment has suffocated the peoples of these countries for generations, he told TheDCNF. And Hillary Clinton is part of the global establishment of monarchs, autocrats and dictators.
Hillary launched major initiatives that were welcomed by the UAE. In September 2012, she personally hosted at the State Department a conference attended by executives from 90 American companies, called the Global Infrastructure Conference. It was attended by eight top UAE leaders.
The former secretary also heavily promoted and spoke before a December 2012 State Department program called the Third Global Entrepreneurship Summit with Entrepreneurial Ventures of Arabia, which was held in the UAE. The Persian Gulf nation called the State Departments conference, UAEs flagship platform for innovation.
Her effort helped legitimize the UAEs poor global image. A 2015 Freedom House report flatly ranked UAE as not free. On a scale where one was best and a seven worst, Freedom House ranked the UAE a six for civil liberties, political rights and overall freedom.
During Hillarys term, the U.S. consulate in the UAE also organized with senior UAE officials a trade mission that traveled across the United States seeking U.S. investment.
In December 2011, Hillary personally led a U.S. delegation to the UAE and met bin-Rashid at his Zabeel Palace with UAE Foreign Minister and de facto leader Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Zayed family gave between $1 million to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to the foundations web site.
The Clinton Foundation seems to have tolerated extremist Islamists in their Middle East offices. An Egyptian court sentenced a former top Clinton Foundation employee, Gehed el-Haddad, to life imprisonment in April 2015 for inciting violence and supporting an Islamist protest against the military-led ousting of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
From 2007 to 2012 el-Haddad was a Cairo city director of the Clinton Foundation in Egypt and ran its in-country office as well as directed communications.
El-Haddad had a well-known reputation for promoting radical Islam. He formally joined Morsis Freedom and Justice Party in May 2011 as a senior adviser for foreign affairs, overlapping for more than a year during his tenure with the Clinton Foundation, according to his Linked-In social media page.
Clinton also could be doing the bidding for the Gulf States on domestic issues. As previously stated, she recently reversed her support for fracking and announced her opposition to it.
Hydraulic fracturing of shale has turned the United States from an importer of oil and gas to an exporter, which threatens oil producing states, but particularly oil producers such as Saudi Arabia and the gulf states.
A 2014 left-wing Mother Jones Magazine article lashed out at Clintons aggressive promotion of fracking overseas. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe, it charged.
It was particularly critical of her convening a State Department shale oil conference in August 2010 that was closed to the press. The media was barred from attending, and officials refused to reveal basic information, including which countries took part, Mother Jones reported.
In a March 6 CNN debate, however, Clinton reversed her fracking position and laid out many conditions she would impose as president on the continuation of fracking.
By the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place, she told the audience.
Richard Rahn of the Institute for Global Economic Growth said he believes Hillary changed her tune on fracking in part to appease the sheikhs in the gulf.
The Clintons always do everything in a calculated manner. Ok, I go after fracking, why not go ahead and make my environmental friends happy, but at the same time reap the benefits from foreign source income by making my Sheikhs happy, he told TheDCNF.
Dr. Steven J. Allen, vice president of the Capital Research Center, which monitors dark money flows to advocacy groups, agreed.
Why would she take a position on fracking that would alienate people in places like Pennsylvania after its not plausible that Bernie could get the nomination, Allen asked.
The oil states in the Middle East would be interested in our not attaining energy independence. So fracking would be something they would be against and would be quite happy with her reversal, he said.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asked Clinton in March if she should shut down the Clinton Foundation. Is there a case to be made, an ethical case to be made that the Clinton Foundation and the global initiative should essentially be wound down as a family foundation while you run for president, she asked the Democratic candidate. I think it is not unreasonable to suspect that people may give donations to The Clinton Foundation hoping that they will favorably influence your opinion toward them, as a presidential candidate, or eventually as president if youre elected.
Clinton sidestepped the question.
The Clinton campaign did not reply to an email request for comment from TheDCNF on its relationship with Persian Gulf leaders.
and people want to argue with me that there is such a legal status as so called “dual citizenship”...
there is NOT !!!
In Dec 1974, 30 days before I was nationalized into American citizenship, I had to renounce my ties with this same country, New Zealand...
Yes it was an ally at the time...and American and New Zealand boys were fighting together in Vietnam...my own NZ cousins were in the NZ army in Vietnam...my brother was on a NZ navy ship patrolling the China Sea...
but to become an AMERICAN citizen I could have no ties or connection or loyalty to any other country...
For 30 days I had no country until Jan 23, 1975 when I participated in the nationalization ceremony in a courthouse in Portland, Oregon and became a citizen of the greatest country in the world...I cried all that wonderful day..
There was no such thing as dual citizenship nor was the possibility even discussed...to become an American citizen I had to be free of any allegiance to any other country in the world...
so do I own this treasonous action by the leader of this country ??? No New Zealand is not my country any more and hasn’t been for over 40 years...I chose to leave..
do I feel ashamed to have been connected to this country ??? No I was merely born there ...The day I turned 21 I applied for a passport to leave...
At the age of 20, I voted in New Zealand but only that one time...The age for voting was lowered to 20 just 2 months before my 21st birthday or I would not have even done that...
I’ve said for years that New Zealand was Socialist and I didn’t miss living there...Ive visited several times but with the necessary American passport...
I’m not surprised by this revelation.... New Zealand has had a succession of weak leaders for years...
I’m only saddened for my siblings and cousins who still live there...
Good hard working people...its expensive to live there...
Especially when your high taxes are drained to feed the coffers of the likes of the Clintons..
Or maybe he already had traveled on the Lolita Express. I'm sure that there's hidden cameras on that island.
Whether it’s blackmail or something else shifty, surely it has to be personal. The U.S. is friends with New Zealand. Their government shouldn’t need to bribe or finagle for anything that’s a legitimate national interest.
EXCLUSIVE: Persian Gulf Sheikhs Gave Bill & Hillary $100 Million [VIDEO]
A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillarys claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.
As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is simply unprecedented, says national security analyst Patrick Poole. These regimes are buying access. Youve got the Saudis. Youve got the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. There are massive conflicts of interest. Its beyond comprehension, Poole told TheDCNF in an interview.
Overall, the Clinton Foundation has received upwards of $85 million in donations from five Persian Gulf states and their monarchs, according to the foundations website. Activist groups have charged the five states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) committed numerous human rights abuses.
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AND THIS---Course, this is just a wild guess on my part (smirk), but I don't think the Saudi Royals like being jerked around by a coupla hicks from Arkansas.
The Saudis put hundreds of millions into the Clintons pockets when she was Secy of State, thinking she'd be president. Must be a lot of nay-saying in the desert now that the Clintons are political dead meat.
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Turns out the Saudis helped stage Hillary's election night "victory"---giving her a huge expensive flat screen TV supposedly to air her crashing through a symbolic 500,000 dollar glass ceiling. (This from a kingdom where women are not allowed to drive).
Saudi Arabia Funded 20% Of Hillary's Presidential Campaign, Saudi Crown Prince Claims
Zerohedge ^ | Jun 14, 2016 3:57 AM | Tyler Durden / FR Posted by xzins
(NOTE: It is illegal in the United States for foreign countries to try to influence the outcome of elections by funding candidates. That appears not to have stopped the Saudis, however.)
Saudi Arabia provided with full enthusiasm 20 percent of the cost of Hillary Clintons election"......the report quoted Saudi Prince Mohammed as having said. According to the US Federal Election commission, over the past two years Clinton has raised a little more than $211.8 million. 20% of this sum is $42.4 million.
The Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday that the senior royal was due to fly to Washington where he will meet Obama admin officials to discuss US-Saudi ties.
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Links between Saudi Arabia and the Clinton family, including with Hillarys campaign, are well reported. In 2008, it was revealed that the Gulf kingdom had donated between $10m and $25m to the Clinton Foundation, a charity set up by Hillarys husband and former US President Bill Clinton.
Last year the Centre for Studies and Media Affairs at the Saudi Royal Court paid public relations firm the Podesta Group $200,000 for a month- long project to provide public relations services. The Podesta Group was founded in 1988 by brothers John and Tony Podesta. John Podesta is the chair of Hillary Clintons 2016 campaign.
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Saudi Royals greet then-Secy Hillary (she checks to make sure she's on-camera).
The pay-to-play suck-up begins.
POINTS TO PONDER Obama's cut of the Saudi monies must have been substantial. B/c Pres Obama and Secy Hillary Clinton approved a record $100 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Good post, HL. This is just the tip of the iceberg, no doubt. I pray other resignations will follow after more corruption is exposed. Lots more skeletons to unearth!
No reason to be surprised. These govts are chock-a-block with left-wing scum. They will never prosecute a fellow traveler.
What did this hack expect back from Klinton? A kickback? A retirement plan?
Oh to have been fly on the wall when Clinton was separating these gullible clowns from their money.
The promises he must have made.......
Shilly was a Senator for 8 years, not 4.
Bad investment.
5.56mm
First I’ve heard of this news. John Key was out in December.
This blog is the first source, near as I can tell, to suggest a potential scandal was the reason for the surprise resignation.
The first thing that came to my mind was the New Zealand nuclear-free zone, which happened in 1984 during the Reagan administration.
I remember when New Zealand declared their ports off-limits to all nuclear-powered ships, so the United States Naval fleet could no longer dock there. This has been an ongoing issue with New Zealand ever since.
Maybe there was some quid pro quo with New Zealand regarding China's growing dominance in the western Pacific and the United States Navy porting at New Zealand docks again?
-PJ
Between this and the infamous anti-Israel resolution sponsored by New Zealand, I'm really shocked and wondering what the hell is wrong with the "conservative" government over there. I have a friend in NZ that said their slimy UN Ambassador has some cushy farm deal paid for by Saudi money (so the Screw Israel resolution was a Quid pro quo), but that still doesn't explain Key's government funding the Hilderbeast.
Shame. I didn't think Key was as conservative as our guys, but I always figured he was on our side.
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