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A 'Lost Decade': Haiti Still Struggles To Recover 10 Years After Massive Earthquake
npr ^ | 01/12/2020 | Carrie Kahn

Posted on 01/12/2020 6:34:32 PM PST by BenLurkin

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https://nypost.com/2016/11/06/chelsea-clinton-used-foundation-to-help-pay-for-wedding-emails/

1 posted on 01/12/2020 6:34:32 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

NPR talks about all the money collected although NPR says it was spent And yet does not mention corruption or the Clintons


2 posted on 01/12/2020 6:36:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: a fool in paradise
NPR doesn't have reporters per se. Just glorified bloggers who have no interest in investigating anything which would reflect poorly on its heros.
3 posted on 01/12/2020 6:40:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: a fool in paradise

12 Jan: Page Six: Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra providing luxe hideout for Prince Harry, Meghan Markle
By Emily Smith and Oli Coleman
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been hiding out at the home of Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra, whose close ties to the Clintons have created international controversy, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Harry and Meghan refused to reveal the owner of the multi-million dollar waterfront mansion near Victoria, British Columbia — the place where they plotted their shock exit from the royal family...

In 2005, he and President Bill Clinton traveled together to Kazakhstan to meet with the former Soviet republic’s authoritarian leader. Days later, Giustra acquired shares in three of the country’s state-run uranium mines — a venture valued at more than $3 billion. Months after the Kazakh pact, Giustra reportedly gave a $31.3 million donation to the Clinton Foundation and has since publicly pledged he’ll donate another $100 million.
Both Giustra and Clinton have denied the former US president helped him cement the Kazakh deal, and Giustra later divested himself of the assets.

Then in 2016, as Hillary Clinton was running for president, the leaked e-mails of her campaign chairman, John Podesta, revealed that Giustra and Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim gave an endowment of $20 million in 2010 to the Clinton Foundation to set up the for-profit Haiti Development Fund, intended to give seed money to Haitian entrepreneurs after the devastating earthquake. Yet there is “almost nothing in the public record” showing what happened to the millions of dollars, according to reports at the time...

Meghan and Harry’s publicist, Sara Latham, is a former Hillary Clinton aide.
But sources told Page Six that the royal couple’s access to the mansion was set up through famed music producer David Foster, not Latham...
On Thursday, Meghan flew back to the waterfront bolt-hole to join baby Archie, who was under the care of a nanny, following a trip to London earlier in the week...
https://pagesix.com/2020/01/12/canadian-billionaire-frank-giustra-providing-luxe-hideout-for-prince-harry-meghan-markle/?_ga=2.238038528.1080799160.1578882712-4717958.1529453319


4 posted on 01/12/2020 6:41:42 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: BenLurkin

Haiti has been lost since 1804.


5 posted on 01/12/2020 6:42:51 PM PST by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: BenLurkin

Haitians just can’t cut a break.. I’m thinking they should lose Voodoo as the national religion. Kniw what I mean.. Just saying.


6 posted on 01/12/2020 6:48:09 PM PST by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: BenLurkin

Haiti has been struggling to recover since the founding of Haiti in 1804!


7 posted on 01/12/2020 6:48:44 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: BenLurkin

Haiti seems incapable of getting leaders who can take and keep it out of extreme poverty. Haiti has at least One Ton of gold in it’s earth, along with other precious metals.

Such a country is just the sort to get the attention of the Chinese. Due to their proximity to the USA, one may expect America to develop that area, but the amount of chronic infighting and crooked politicians on this island makes this place a poor investment at least thus far.


8 posted on 01/12/2020 6:50:28 PM PST by lee martell
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That seems sadly true. At a certain point you need to stand up & rebuild your own country. You aren’t children. It takes sweat & hard work. Where is that?


9 posted on 01/12/2020 6:53:06 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: MAGAthon

DM says they can’t confirm Giustra is the owner. best to read for why there is secrecy & confusion:

13 Jan: Daily Mail: Canadian billionaire ‘who lent Harry and Meghan $14m holiday mansion’: Frank Giustra who co-founded top Hollywood movie studio Lionsgate and has controversial ties to Clintons is named as owner of lavish retreat
By Lauren Fruen and Josh Boswell
Ownership by Giustra would be at odds with what DailyMail.com was told by a realtor involved in the 2014 sale of the home. That person, who had to sign a non disclosure agreement, said it was bought by a billionaire who is neither Canadian nor or American for $18 million CAD - $14 million...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7879153/Mystery-billionaire-let-Harry-Meghan-stay-mansion-Canada-named-Clinton-donor.html


10 posted on 01/12/2020 6:53:25 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: BenLurkin; a fool in paradise
IIRC (and please correct me if I'm wrong):

Most of the aid was taken by aid agencies, then by the Haitian government.
The food aid contracts went to the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton Foundation got the rights to the gold mining in Haiti.
Haitians living in Florida campaigned for Trump because of this.

The Clinton Foundation effectively owns much of Haiti.

The MSM will not have their investigative journalists look into this.

11 posted on 01/12/2020 6:53:50 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: lee martell
but the amount of chronic infighting and crooked politicians on this island makes this place a poor investment at least thus far.

It's only been 200 years. How do you know things won't suddenly turn around?

12 posted on 01/12/2020 6:53:59 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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She would have looked better with a garbage bag over her head to hide her face.


13 posted on 01/12/2020 6:54:50 PM PST by EinNYC
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the same island.

Do not hear any wailing from the DR.

14 posted on 01/12/2020 6:58:36 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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And yet on the same island is the Dominican Republic which has “economic growth....7 percent in 2018, fueled by robust domestic demand. It was the fastest-growing LAC economy over that five-year period.”

I read they had a strong border presence to keep Haitians out.


15 posted on 01/12/2020 7:02:39 PM PST by Varda
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To: Jim Noble

Yes, Haiti is the poster child for 4th world ****holes.


16 posted on 01/12/2020 7:09:28 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Jim Noble

You could dump the entire GDP of Canada for an entire DECADE into Haiti, and it would just swirl down the toilet, never to be seen again, and ordinary folks in Haiti would still eat, sleep and s**t in the street. Certain countries are classed as “economic basket cases” for a reason.

You can’t have recovery in a nation that was essentially stillborn.


17 posted on 01/12/2020 7:14:01 PM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: 17th Miss Regt

You just never know;
Haiti could turn into the Las Vegas of the Caribbean.
You’ll have a ball!
Just bring your own water, food, gas, electrical generators, matches, umbrellas Oh, and medications too!


18 posted on 01/12/2020 7:15:54 PM PST by lee martell
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1) Move all the people to the Congo. French speakers. 2) Give the whole island to the Dominican Republic. Repopulate Haiti with all the Puerto Ricans at Rikers Island.


19 posted on 01/12/2020 7:22:03 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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What are the Puerto Ricans going to do for women?
The Haitians may not want somebody moving in on “their territory!”//


20 posted on 01/12/2020 7:26:38 PM PST by lee martell
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