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Clinton Cash Stops: Australian Donations To Clinton Foundation Over
Au approached the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for comment about how much was donated and why the Clinton Foundation was chosen as a recipient.

Norway, one of the Clinton Foundation’s most prolific donors, is reducing its contribution from $20 million annually to almost a quarter of that, Observer reported.

More than $165 billion worth of arms sales were approved by the State Department to 20 nations whose governments gave money to the Clinton Foundation, data shows.

What does Australia gain from topping up the Clinton coffers? The Australian reported in February that Australia was “The single biggest foreign government source of funds for the Clinton Foundation” but questions remain unanswered about the agreement between the two parties.

In a press release dated September 22, 2014, Ms Bishop committed to five years of support for the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the sister organisation of the Clinton Foundation.

“Since 2006, Australia has contributed $88 million to CHAI,” the statement read.The Clinton Foundation has been linked to a number of scandals.

In a statement, spokesman Brian Fallon said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as Secretary of State to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.

JOHNNY CHUNG:"Ka-ching......gotta put money in to get Clintons to do something."

REFERENCE---A 1998 Senate Government Affairs Committee report on the scandal found “strong circumstantial evidence” that a great deal of foreign money had illegally entered the country in an attempt to influence the 1996 election. The DNC was forced to give back more than $2.8 million in illegal or improper donations from foreign nationals.

The most suspect funds were brought in by Johnny Chung, a bagman for the Asian billionaire Riady family. Chung confessed that at least $35,000 of his donations to the Clinton campaign and the DNC had come from a Chinese aerospace executive — a lieutenant colonel in the Chinese military. Chung said the executive had helped him meet three times with General Ji Shengde, the head of Chinese military intelligence. According to Chung’s testimony, General Shengde had told him: “We really like your president. We hope he will be reelected. I will give you $300,000 U.S. dollars. You can give it to . . . your president and the

Democratic party.” The sprawling fundraising scandal ultimately led to 22 guilty pleas on various violations of election laws.

The sprawling fundraising scandal ultimately led to 22 guilty pleas on various violations of election laws. Among the Clinton fundraisers and friends who pleaded guilty were John Huang, Charlie Trie, James Riady, and Michael Brown, son of the late Clinton Commerce secretary Ron Brown. But many questions went unanswered, even after the revelations that Clinton had personally authorized offering donors Oval Office meetings and use of the Lincoln bedroom. A total of 120 participants in the fundraising scandal either fled the country, asserted their Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, or otherwise avoided questioning. The stonewalling worked — and probably encouraged Hillary Clinton in her own cover-up of her private e-mail server and her ties with the Clinton Foundation.

Indeed, much of the media basically gave the Clintons a pass on evidence that special-interest donors to the Clinton Foundation frequently managed to score favors from the State Department. Journalist Peter Schweitzer revealed in his book Clinton Cash that State had helped move along an infamous deal that granted the Russians control of more than 20 percent of the uranium production here in the United States. The company involved in acquiring the American uranium was a very large donor to — you guessed it — the Clinton Foundation.

None of this history should dissuade the media from questioning the White House’s often shifting and blatantly inaccurate accounts of what happened and who was involved and when. Either the president’s team is infected with a self-destructive gene or they really do have something to hide.

But a little humility and honesty on the part of the media would be appropriate. Much of the breathless and constant coverage of the Russia scandal is motivated by the media’s hatred of Donald Trump, which is of course reciprocated.

When it came to the Clintons, the media tended to downplay or even trivialize many of their scandals. But, to be fair, a little bit of self-awareness is beginning to show up in the Russia coverage.

Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC noted that when it came to “opening the door” to lowering the standards of conduct by a modern president, Bill Clinton led the way with his lying and scandalous behavior. She was referring, of course, to the Lewinsky scandal, but her comments are equally appropriate to the many other Clinton scandals that didn’t receive wall-to-wall coverage.

As Minister of Health in Ethiopia 2005-202, WHO’s current head, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was able to form a close relationship with prominent figures including ex-American president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Global Health Foundation.

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Press Release: Clinton Foundation and Ethiopia Sign Agreement to Expand HIV/AIDS Partnership
PRESS RELEASE-—Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Collaboration Will Strengthen and Improve National Care and Treatment for HIV/AIDS.

The Clinton Foundation today signed an agreement with the government of Ethiopia to partner in scaling up Ethiopia’s national plan to combat HIV/AIDS. The Clinton Foundation will provide technical expertise and programmatic assistance to support the expansion of the national care and treatment program, particularly for children and people in rural areas living with HIV/AIDS.

As part of the Pediatric Initiative, launched in spring of 2005, the Clinton Foundation will accelerate care and treatment for Ethiopian children living with HIV/AIDS, providing a donation of pediatric antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) for over 1000 children for one year and directly providing programmatic support to pediatric programs. The Foundation will also support programs in rural areas of Ethiopia, where so many are HIV+, but few have access to treatment.

“I’m extremely pleased that my Foundation has expanded its partnership with the government of Ethiopia,” said President Clinton about the agreement. “Ethiopia has made tremendous strides to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and working together we can ensure that the benefits of low-cost antiretroviral medicines reach even more of the people who desperately need them.”

“The support from Clinton Foundation is coming at a time when we are scaling up our fight against HIV/AIDS very aggressively in all three fronts: prevention, treatment and care and support,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom, the Minister of Health of Ethiopia. “The agreement with the Clinton Foundation is also unique in that it includes capacity building of the health system which is very crucial in sustaining the fight as indicated in our strategic plan. I would like to use this opportunity to thank President Clinton for his commitment to fight HIV/AIDS.”

Ethiopia has been a member of the Clinton Foundation procurement consortium since August 2004. The procurement consortium comprises over 50 countries in the developing world with access to the Clinton Foundation’s reduced prices for anti-retroviral drugs and diagnostic testing supplies. Ethiopia is the sixth African country in which the Clinton Foundation will have a permanent team.

In addition to helping scale up pediatric AIDS treatment and rural programs, the Foundation has agreed to assist the government in four other areas: a hospital management initiative, support to strengthen health care management at all levels of government, laboratory planning and expansion of lab services, and supply chain logistics.

Approximately 1.5 million Ethiopians, or 4.4 percent of the total population, are living with HIV/AIDS. An estimated 95,000 are children. The Ethiopian government has responded strongly to the national AIDS crisis, declaring HIV a national emergency in 2001. Since then, the government has introduced a reduced-cost ARV program and expanded their treatment plan with an initiative to provide ARVs to all infected Ethiopians.

More than 22,000 patients are currently accessing essential antiretroviral drugs free of charge, with a national target of 100,000 patients on treatment by the end of 2006.
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