He is a ghoul and Hillary is his enabler. "
And Barry thought he was a great guy as well...
More from the article:
"Yunus received the Medal of Freedom in 2009, from President Obama, for his work in aiding the 150 million poor families receive financing and business loans through his microfinance program at the bank.
“Almost every important person in Bangladesh congratulated me for receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom,” he states in the cable. “But the Prime Minister and her party said not a word about it, so you can see the depth of the problem,“ Yunus wrote in the cable to Verveer, who now is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security at Georgetown University. “I thought I should keep you briefed and let you figure out what to be done. Thanks for your help,” Yunus wrote to Verveer in 2009. Verveer could not be reached for comment."
Formerly, many microcredit programs which had been created long before banks got involved, struggled to grow because they depend on charity for capital that could be lent to the poor.
Yunus spent a great deal of time traveling around the world lobbying to change national banking laws to allow for the creation of microcredit banks.
Whether Yunus was looking at the world through the "rose colored glasses" of socialism or through Quranic prism of Sharia-compliant moneylending ( Muslims cannot lend money for interest ), what Yunus didn't seem to accept - or want to accept - is that banks are not charities. They are businesses. And the purpose of being in business is not to function as a charity. It is to make money.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-11-22/business/0611220242_1_grameen-bank-muhammad-yunus-shorebank
Chicago's ShoreBank fails, is bought by investors
South Side institution billed itself as the leading lender to low- and moderate-income urban areas
August 20, 2010|By Becky Yerak, Tribune reporter
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-08-20/business/ct-biz-0821-shorebank-20100820_1_fdic-assets-david-vitale
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Perhaps one of the reasons why Obama thought Yunus was a "great guy" was because Obama's own mother, Stanley A. Dunham Soetero, had been one of the "Western pioneers" of microcredit with Peter Geithner ( Tim Geithner's father) when both worked in Indonesia for the Ford Foundation.....at a time when charitable organizations like the Ford Foundation were still the sources of the capital that was being lent to the poor.
Timothy Geithner and his Father’s Legacy in Microcredit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-norris-de-montaigu/timothy-geithner-and-his_b_164192.html
Speaking of Verveer:
(ALEXANDRA CHALUPA’S WAR ON MANAFORT)
Both Shulyar and Chalupa said the purpose of their initial meeting [in April 2016] was to organize a June reception at the [Ukrainian] embassy to promote Ukraine [in Washington]. According to the embassy’s website, the event highlighted female Ukrainian leaders, featuring speeches by Ukrainian parliamentarian Hanna Hopko, who discussed “Ukraine’s fight against the Russian aggression in Donbas,” and longtime Hillary Clinton confidante Melanne Verveer, who worked for Clinton in the State Department and was a vocal surrogate during the presidential campaign.
Shulyar said her work with Chalupa “didn’t involve the campaign,” and she specifically stressed that “We have never worked to research and disseminate damaging information about Donald Trump and Paul Manafort.”
But Andrii Telizhenko, who worked as a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy under Shulyar, said she instructed him to help Chalupa research connections between Trump, Manafort and Russia. “Oksana said that if I had any information, or knew other people who did, then I should contact Chalupa,” recalled Telizhenko, who is now a political consultant in Kiev. “They were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa,” he said, adding “Oksana was keeping it all quiet,” but “the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa.
In fact, sources familiar with the effort say that Shulyar specifically called Telizhenko into a meeting with Chalupa to provide an update on an American media outlet’s ongoing investigation into Manafort.
Telizhenko recalled that Chalupa told him and Shulyar that, “If we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trump’s involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.”
Chalupa confirmed that, a week after Manafort’s hiring was announced, she discussed the possibility of a congressional investigation with a foreign policy legislative assistant in the office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who co-chairs the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. But, Chalupa said, “It didn’t go anywhere.”
Asked about the effort, the Kaptur legislative assistant called it a “touchy subject” in an internal email to colleagues that was accidentally forwarded to Politico.
Kaptur’s office later emailed an official statement explaining that the lawmaker is backing a bill to create an independent commission to investigate “possible outside interference in our elections.” The office added “at this time, the evidence related to this matter points to Russia, but Congresswoman Kaptur is concerned with any evidence of foreign entities interfering in our elections.”
———— Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire, www.politico.com, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446