The Clinton Foundation: A DU Collaborative Analysis

[bobthedrummer]

Here we go people-let's begin with the Wikipedia entry.

The Clinton Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation

Now let's acknowledge the fact that several of the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign key people (for example: Dennis Cheng former Clinton Foundation chief development officer now Finance Director HRC 2016 campaign; Gary Gensler HRC 2016 Chief Financial Officer) have career paths that have had quite an impact on all of us as citizens, as clients of financial institutions, as consumers of insurance-in every sphere of life--while most of us don't even know who these people are.

With that being said I'll start this off with a couple of links focused on the "paradoxical" Gary Gensler Chief Financial Officer of the Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign.

Hillary Clinton Hiring of C.F.O. Is Called Signal to Possible Donors (Michael S, Schmidt and Amy Chozick April 2015)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/us/politics/hillary-clinton-hiring-gary-gensler-is-called-signal-to-possible-donors.html

Jon Corzine says: "I don't know where the MF Global money went"
Former MF Global boss apologizes at congressional hearing but dodges questions about what went wrong (Dominic Rushe The Guardian December 8, 2011)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/dec/08/jon-corzine-mf-global-boss-congress

The Most Disingenuous Attack on Bernie Yet (TruthOut repost of Thom Hartmann's Daily Take Team article January 20, 2016)
http://www.truthout.org/opinion/item/34497-the-most-disingenuous-attack-on-bernie-yet

You can find out who else is so heavily involved in all these interconnected, overlapping areas by consulting the link below
Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign 2016 (Ballotpedia)
http://ballotpedia.org/Hillary_Clinton_presidential_campaign,_2016

Add to this thread, don't let it die.

[NewImproved Deal]

1. The Clinton "Foundation"...

Sleaze, corruption and greed...

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[bobthedrummer]

98. Clinton Foundation Foreign Donors, etc (Phil's Stock World archive)

http://www.philstockworld.com/?s=clinton+foundation+foreign+donors

[creeksneakers2]

103. The other side

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/06/11/conservative-media-run-faulty-abc-report-allege-hillary-clinton-sold-seat-intelligence-advisory/210871

[bobthedrummer]

105. Foreign donors, a reality that may not be "covered" by your perception managers, creeksneakers2.

Two Clintons. 41 Years. $3 Billion. Inside the Clinton Donor Network (Washington Post 2015)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money

[creeksneakers2]

111. Your caption read foreign donors and your link said foreign donors

but the link led to the subject I replied to. I don't have perception managers. I wish there was more help refuting all the accusations that come up.

What is wrong with foreign donors giving to the foundation? The foundation does great things. The idea that it is corrupt is without merit and doesn't even make sense. The Clintons don't make a dime off it.

The donations to the campaigns are domestic. Obama raised about $1 billion in both of his presidential races. The Clintons have only raised that amount in total since 1974.

The need to fund raise is the reality of the American political system, like it or not. I'm glad the Clintons are good at it. We need all we can get to beat the Republicans and if rich people want to kick in I welcome that.

[imagine2015]

2. k & R

[AgerolanAmerican]

3. Wow, Gensler?

This is either completely tone deaf or she really DGAF what it looks like

[bobthedrummer]

24. A belated Welcome to DU 2016 AgerolanAmerican-my take is that it's pure arrogance cloaked by 24/7 PR

from those that "own" the captive media as well as the "national security" network of gangsters.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Two Clintons. 41 years. $3 Billion. Inside The Clinton Donor Network

"Both Clintons declined to be interviewed or comment for this article."
This November 19, 2015 Washington Post graphic rich, excellently researched post is absolutely a treasure trove for researchers like us. Dig in and post in this collaborative thread.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money

[840high]

78. Thanks

[MissDeeds]

5. K&R n/t

[bobthedrummer]

6. Here's the State Department entry on HRC's 2016 campaign Financial Director

Mr. Dennis Cheng
http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/137476.htm

One more link from me today.

The stealthy Eric Schmidt-backed startup that's working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House (Adam Pasick and Tim Fernholz October 9, 2015)
http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidtstartup-working-for-hillary-clinton-campaign

I'm with those that hope to see the results of real collaboration tomorrow by the growth of this thread. I love to learn, don't you?

[trudyco]

40. So instead of a Superpac that in theory can't coordinate with a candidates

campaign, they financed a "start-up" that has a lot of sophisticated software and the new start up company then provides services to the candidate, who pays some nominal fee? Or the candidate is a small time co-investor?

I don't quite get how this works. How can they offer complex software services without it being an in-kind contribution?

I know Clinton/Brock got around the SuperPac no-coordination-with-the-campaign rule by using the internet which isn't expressly mentioned in the law. But how is Alphabet leader getting away with handing her complex software and services which he is paying for?

Then there is the loophole of using a nonprofit to push a legislative agenda. They get people to donate to the nonprofit.

And there is the loophole of "working together" with the local DNC's at the state level so they can get the 300Kplus donations per person and then have the state give the money back to the Victory Fund.

Wow. This is mind boggling. We need campaign finance reform. I'm being profiled by candidates. No privacy.

[bobthedrummer]

122. Reading is fundamental-kick

[JesterCS]

7. Kick and recced n/t

[amborin]

8. K&R crucial to expose this corruption

[bobthedrummer]

16. Clinton Foundation rejects allegations it aided Clinton friends (Jeremy Diamond & Dan Merica friday)

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/13/politics/clinton-foundation-response-wall-street-journal-article

Such imperial heights haven't been seen since BUSH/CHENEY, have they?

[JEB]

9. K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. nt

[bobthedrummer]

60. Updated kicks too n/t

[bobthedrummer]

10. "But it is not a normal charity, in its resources or its functions."

What The Clinton Foundation Is Costing Hillary (Amy Davidson February 26, 2015)
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/what-the-clinton-foundation-is-costing-hillary

1,100 Foreign Donors To Clinton Foundation Never Disclosed & Remain Secret (April 29, 2015 repost Phil's Stock World)
http://www.philstockworld.com/2015/04/29/1100-foreign-donors-to-clinton-foundation-never-disclosed-amp-remain-secret/?gclid=CLGno5D13MwCFQ6naQodsQIEGQ

Hillary's Victories Mean Painful Legal Choices For DOJ, WH (Charles Lipson February 29, 2016)
"Clinton voters are oblivious to the dangers."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/29/hillarys_victories_mean_painful_legal_choices_for_doj_wh.html

Thanks for the k&r's-add your posts/hyperlinks to this collaborative thread.

[trudyco]

41. zerohedge says the foundation only spent 10% on charity

This has been debunked. The charity does work in-house, so it's hard to say how much went to actually helping people. Obviously there are people who worked on projects. They claim they were underpaid via glassdoor, but they were doing (to them) exciting and real work.

It's mind boggling, to me, that the Clintons would take money that was practically blood money from some donors and then used it to help others.

[2banon]

72. I didn't follow the Benghazi hearings...

Context: It was quite apparent to me that it was a GOP witch hunt displaying extreme hypocrisy. Monstrous, evil shit happens in all Wars and "interventions" of choice. But it's a policy the GOP embraced with great gusto under Bush/Cheney. The difference between a Bush/Cheney monstrous evil war and HRC monstrous evil war was obviously partisan. So I figured it ended with a "nothing burger" for that very reason.

But I didn't know this:

One major feature of FBI investigations has been completely ignored. The bureau normally interviews all the key participants, and it knows the answers before it asks the questions. That should mean closed-door sessions with Abedin, Mills, Sullivan, and, ultimately, Hillary Clinton and perhaps Bill Clinton (if the foundation’s activities are at issue). Failing to interview them would replicate the botched Benghazi investigation by Adm. Mike Mullin and Ambassador Thomas Pickering. The FBI won’t repeat that mistake or subject itself to the withering criticism.

A few days ago I read Hillary was asked by the FBI to meet with them to answer some questions they have, presumably regarding the email servers and whatever else they're investigating, but that her attorney stated she is under no obligation to meet with them to answer any questions. Whether it ends there, or will they have to serve her with a subpoena is up for speculation at this point as far as I can tell.

It is my opinion, the main reason why Ms. Clinton reneged on the California Debate with Sanders, was so she didn't have to face questions by the moderator on this matter.

The timing of the State Dept's report was damning and could have put her on the spot to lie, and thereby incriminate herself in the expected legal proceedings at some point between now and the G.E. A candidate can hardly plead the 5th during a campaign debate.

However, how will her campaign avoid these questions in future debates in the General? How those answers impact her legal proceedings on this or any other matter being investigated (still unknown to the public) is a question no one in their camp seems to have thought through at this juncture.

[Fawke Em]

11. Paul Thompson also has a Clinton Foundation Timeline.

Note: Not for the faint at heart (but Hillary supporters won't read it anyway because they can't see for all the sand in their face).

http://thompsontimeline.com/The_Clinton_Foundation_Timeline_-_Part_1

http://thompsontimeline.com/The_Clinton_Foundation_Timeline_-_Part_2

[bobthedrummer]

13. Thank you again Paul, thank you Fawke Em n/t

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, bobthedrummer.

[antigop]

14. Speaking Fees Meet Politics for Clintons

Former president spoke to groups with issues before State Department

http://www.wsj.com/articles/speaking-fees-meet-politics-for-clintons-1451504098

At Hillary Clinton’s confirmation hearing for secretary of state, she promised she would take “extraordinary steps…to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.”

Later, more than two dozen companies and groups and one foreign government paid former President Bill Clinton a total of more than $8 million to give speeches around the time they also had matters before Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

Fifteen of them also donated a total of between $5 million and $15 million to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the family’s charity, according to foundation disclosures.
...
Mr. Clinton, for example, collected $1 million for two appearances sponsored by the Abu Dhabi government that were arranged while Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state. His speeches there came during and after the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security were involved in discussions about a plan to open a U.S. facility in the Abu Dhabi airport to ease visa processing for travel to the U.S. The State Department supported the facility in the face of substantial opposition from unions, members of Congress and others.

[bobthedrummer]

15. Thanks for posting about Bill, Chelsea and Madame Secretary's imperial style antigop.

Is Hillary Clinton Above The Law? (Ray McGovern April 17, 2016)
http://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/17/is-hillary-clinton-above-the-law

[amborin]

17. a few issues:

WHEN will Hillary BE MADE to EXPLAIN these "ISSUES"?
---Hillary’s State Department approved the transfer of 20% of US uranium to the Russian government — even as her family foundation hauled in $145 million from investors in the deal, and Bill received $500,000 from a Russian-backed bank for a speech in Moscow.

---She allowed top investors in the Keystone XL pipeline to pay her husband $1.8 million to deliver 10 speeches, while an environmental impact study was rushed through her State Department and was largely supportive of the pipeline.

---Hillary had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Obama administration promising to disclose all donors, including the foreign head of the Russian government’s Uranium One, Ian Telfer, who funneled four donations totaling $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation---but these donors were never identified.

---Hillary has never explained how foreign mining magnate Stephen Dattels gave 2 million shares of stock to the Clinton Foundation, while Hillary’s State Department allowed “open pit coal mining” in Bangladesh, where Dattels’ Polo Resources had a stake.

---Hillary has not explained about how the Washington Post discovered an additional 1,100 hidden foreign Clinton Foundation donations. Since the revelation, the Foundation has only released 24 of the secret foreign donors. When will Americans see the remaining 1,076 names? .

---In 2014 and 2015, Hillary delivered eight speeches totaling $1.6 million in speaking fees paid for two of the largest banks tied to the Keystone XL pipeline.

---In addition, Bill Clinton got $1.8 million for the 10 Keystone investor-funded speeches he delivered during Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State.

---181 Clinton Foundation donors lobbied Hillary’s State Department;

---The Clinton family foundation received millions from Qatar, as well as donations from FIFA, the soccer organization now enmeshed in a bribery and corruption scandal of global proportions;

---The Clintons have a secret “pass-through” company, WJC, LLC.;

---Hillary’s State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation

[bobthedrummer]

18. How Hillary and Bill Clinton Parlayed Decades of Public Service into Vast Wealth

Politics as a very lucrative "family business" (Daniel Gross February 15, 2016 Fortune)
http://fortune.com/2016/02/15/hillary-clinton-net-worth-finances

Anyone remember Iraqgate????

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

76. Wow, such a change from when they were "dead broke"!

[bobthedrummer]

19. Clinton's Wall Street backers: We get it

Populist rhetoric, many say, is good politics-but doesn't portend an assault on the rich (Politico April 15, 2015)

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-wall-street-backers-we-get-it-117017

Some of the fabulous friends and donors of The Clinton Foundation have been mentioned elsewhere, which is where they have "moved" their own, as well as other people's, wealth.

Panama Papers: The secrets of dirty money (Suddeutsche Zeitung February 2016)

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en

[nc4bo]

20. !

[IMG][/IMG]

Bookmarking for future reference.

[bobthedrummer]

21. As always, share it with those you love n/t

[bobthedrummer]

22. Vas ist dem los, "Clinton uber alles"???

[bobthedrummer]

23. <^>

[bobthedrummer]

25. The Clinton Foundation Leadership Team-take these names and post your take on them for all of US.

Leadership Team
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/leadership-team

[SamKnause]

26. K&R

[notadmblnd]

27. Where's all the damn Hillary defenders?

This must be way over the top of their capabilities of understanding. Very important post.

I got nothing to add but this needs to stay up front and center.

Who are the low info voters M-f'ers?

[Aerows]

36. The problem isn't that they are low information voters

they have plenty of information. They just plain don't give a shit is what the problem is.

[Barack_America]

44. They rarely step into the corruption theads.

I think they know that this stuff is fairly indefensible, so they just ignore it.

[bobthedrummer]

64. They are programmed to ignore corruption and attack the messenger-that's their primary tactic, isn't

it?

[tex-wyo-dem]

101. Yep...nailed it.

Thanks for the thread, bobthedrummer!

[bobthedrummer]

120. Clinton White House passed up pardon for Chelsea's father-in-law (Josh Gerstein 2-3-16 Politico)

Ed Mezvinsky asked Bill Clinton to spare him "a long prison term" according to newly revealed records
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/clinton-bill-hillary-chelsea-mezvinsky-pardon-218632

Btw, my sincere congratulations on the birth of the Mezvinsky's son Aidnan.

[Faux pas]

28. Kickin'

[deaniac21]

29. Kick

[bobthedrummer]

48. ^

[bobthedrummer]

30. Kick n/t

[Peace Patriot]

31. I've used "octopus" to describe Clinton's vast, corrupt money network...

...but "octopus" implies that Clinton is the "head" of the beast with tentacles, and I don't think this is exactly true. It's more like Hillary herself is a series of shell companies into which the global predator elite pours their wealth opportunistically to hide their goal of controlling the U.S. government in their own interests. She herself is a cypher, an empty shell, who turns dirty money into public policy.

This may be why she is like a spinning top on public policy issues. Her positions don't depend so much on what the public wants to hear as on how much the global predator elite has funneled into the Clinton Foundation, the Hillary presidential campaign or hers and Bill's pockets, in order to purchase the public policy position they want. For instance, she dangles opposition to TPP before the public, but what she is really doing is dangling it before potential donors. She doesn't care even a little bit what the people want. She knows we have no power to hold her to it, anyway. It is a donor show.

[bobthedrummer]

49. A Danny Casolaro BFEE memorial kick Peace Patriot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Casolaro

[Peace Patriot]

74. I remember his death (murder?) but I didn't realize...

...that he called what he was investigating "the Octopus."

We need a graphic, don't we?, of an octopus with tentacles into every country and ecosystem squeezing the life out Mother Earth. Maybe interactive: You peel up a tentacle and each sucker has text and images about what is being sucked dry there, whether resources, workers or political systems.

[bananas]

100. You're exactly describing the NRO L-39 mission patch

also known as USA-247:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-247

USA-247, also known as NRO Launch 39 or NROL-39, is an American reconnaissance satellite, operated by the National Reconnaissance Office. The USA-247 launch received a relatively high level of press coverage due to the mission's choice of logo, which depicts an octopus sitting astride the globe with the motto "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach".[2] The logo was extensively criticized in light of the 2013 surveillance disclosures.[3]



<snip>

The mission's official logo was a monstrous octopus with its massive arms wrapped around the world, accompanied by the motto "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach".[2] This image was widely deemed controversial in light of the 2013 Global surveillance disclosures.

A spokesperson for the NRO explained:[8] [9][3]

"NROL-39 is represented by the octopus, a versatile, adaptable, and highly intelligent creature. Emblematically, enemies of the United States can be reached no matter where they choose to hide. 'Nothing is beyond our reach' defines this mission and the value it brings to our nation and the warfighters it supports, who serve valiantly all over the globe, protecting our nation."

After the Director of National Intelligence announced the launch on Twitter,[10] the image was criticized as "tone-deaf" to the political climate caused by the 2013 surveillance disclosures.[3]

In a segment discussing mass surveillance entitled "That Thing They Said They're Not Doing? They're Totally Doing", American satirist Jon Stewart commented on the logo:[11]

I feel like, at this point, our intelligence community is pretty much even owning the fact that they are getting nefarious.
Last week, the National Reconnaissance Office launched this spy satellite into orbit;
And the logo they chose for their spy rocket-- this is real-- a giant octopus sucking the face off North America.

<snip>

More fun mission patches at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches

[senz]

70. Excellent description of HRC, Peace Patriot.

You capture her strange unrootedness, the sense that she's deeply connected to and immersed in what you so perfectly call "the global predator elite" -- and yet, she herself is nearly invisible, a chimera, an evolving creation of the Hillary Clinton Campaign.

Deserves repeating: the global predator elite.

This is what the Clintons represent. It is most visible in the sources of the money that passes through the Clinton Foundation.

Damn good post, PP.

[Octafish]

32. Gimme Tax Shelter

How Charity Navigator puts it:

Why isn't this organization rated?

We had previously evaluated this organization, but have since determined that this charity's atypical business model can not be accurately captured in our current rating methodology. Our removal of The Clinton Foundation from our site is neither a condemnation nor an endorsement of this charity. We reserve the right to reinstate a rating for The Clinton Foundation as soon as we identify a rating methodology that appropriately captures its business model.

What does it mean that this organization isn’t rated?

It simply means that the organization doesn't meet our criteria. A lack of a rating does not indicate a positive or negative assessment by Charity Navigator.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=311580204#.V0ByAvkrK00

The result: The Middle Class is smaller than the wealthy and the poor combined these days.

[bobthedrummer]

53. It's just a shot away...kick

[bobthedrummer]

33. The Clinton Foundation has contributed several members/enlisted them into HRC's 2016 campaign

The power players behind Hillary Clinton's campaign (Katie Glueck April 2015)
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clintons-power-players-116874

Don't let this vital thread die-add to it.

[bobthedrummer]

34. ^ Who are these "people"??? n/t

[bobthedrummer]

35. Death to tyranny kick

[2cannan]

37. A Harvard MBA Guy Is Out to Bring Down the Clintons

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/05/a-harvard-mba-guy-is-out-to-bring-down-the-clintons/

snip

There’s a new Markopolos in town with that same brand of leave-no-stone-unturned tenacity and he has his sights set on the charity operations of Hillary and Bill Clinton, known as the Clinton Foundation and its myriad tentacles. Ortel’s actions come just as Hillary Clinton makes her final sprint for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States with Bill in tow as her economic czar. Like Markopolos, Charles Ortel does not mince words.

In a 9-page letter dated yesterday and posted to his blog, Ortel calls the Clintons’ charity the “largest unprosecuted charity fraud ever attempted,” adding for good measure that the Clinton Foundation is part of an “international charity fraud network whose entire cumulative scale (counting inflows and outflows) approaches and may even exceed $100 billion, measured from 1997 forward.” Ortel lists 40 potential areas of fraud or wrongdoing that he plans to expose over the coming days.

snip

In a 2013 New York Times article, “Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions,” reporters Nicholas Confessore and Amy Chozick hint that Hillary Clinton’s political operatives are occupying offices at the Clinton Foundation headquarters, writing that they “will work on organizing Mrs. Clinton’s packed schedule of paid speeches to trade groups and awards ceremonies and assist in the research and writing of Mrs. Clinton’s memoir about her time at the State Department, to be published by Simon & Schuster next summer.”

A June 2015 article in the Wall Street Journal by Kimberley Strassel stopped hinting and spelled it out boldly, calling the Clinton Foundation a “Hillary superPac that throws in the occasional good deed.” Strassel explained:

“The media’s focus is on Hillary Clinton’s time as secretary of state, and whether she took official actions to benefit her family’s global charity. But the mistake is starting from the premise that the Clinton Foundation is a ‘charity.’ What’s clear by now is that this family enterprise was set up as a global shakedown operation, designed to finance and nurture the Clintons’ continued political ambitions. It’s a Hillary super PAC that throws in the occasional good deed.”

More at the link: http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/05/a-harvard-mba-guy-is-out-to-bring-down-the-clintons/

[bobthedrummer]

38. The Clinton Foundation kept Donald Trump's massive donations-and as a former member of Local 232,

picket captain for a successful UFCW campaign (Copp's) and the son of a life long Teamster I get "concerned" when I see who these people value.

Clinton Offshore Fundraising Effort Being Co-Hosted by Walmart Lobbyist

Clinton has tried to distance herself from the company since leaving its board (Michael Arria February 9, 2016)

http://www.alternet.org/labor/clinton-offshore-fundraising-effort-being-co-hosted-walmart-lobbyist

Add to this thread.

[bobthedrummer]

39. This is now LBN-isn't it? Again! n/t

[Juicy_Bellows]

42. Gotta kick!

[felix_numinous]

43. Kick!!

I hope that Bernie Sanders and Progressives inspire honest people to do the right thing for the country..

[vintx]

45. Sickening.

I can't believe she has people actually excited for her

[trudyco]

46. So the idea is that the Clinton Foundation

does a minimal amount of good deeds. I know haitians were protesting the Clinton Foundation for taking in Billions and not spending it on Haiti. One operation they did was the South Korean clothing factory, right? Hardly a good dead though it was touted as such.
There were multiple things going on in Haiti like the OAS and IDB and Bill.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/mary-anastasia-ogrady-the-clinton-foundation-and-haiti-contracts-1425855083

and it seems like a lot of private enterprise soaked up the money, with Bill's help. One problem with using private groups to do the work previously done by the government is a lack of oversite. Note that the President of the Clinton Foundation and the previous President both have a connection with McKinsey and company:

https://www.bostonreview.net/world/jake-johnston-haiti-earthquake-aid-caracol

There was also a question about the AIDS medicines manufactured or distributed in the US and it was shut down?

The Clinton Foundation blog shows a reforestation program and data collection, unknown number of windmills, and 100,000 plus a tad solar kits for off the grid people. It really looks like minimal amount of good deeds. I know the rank and file at the Clinton Foundation were under paid according to glassdoor.

So the real spending is on political personnel who then do political work for her. Tasks that should either be paid personally or by her campaign. She also got the contributions from the joint local democratic state parties to pay for personnel who then solicited small contributions into her campaign. She also probably got the Brock Correct The Record under that, too.

[bobthedrummer]

47. I'm with those that know that as far as what's on "paper" is in the catagory of FICTION re: this.

[yolla331]

50. K & R

[TIME TO PANIC]

51. K & R!

[bobthedrummer]

52. Kick n/t

[bobthedrummer]

54. If you love the truth keep kicking and posting in this little thread over the Memorial weekend.

[cliffordu]

56. Kicketty!!

[840high]

79. .+1

[bobthedrummer]

55. <^>

[bobthedrummer]

57. The Clinton Foundation Leadership Team-who are these people networked with???

Leadership Team
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/leadership-team

[senz]

58. Another long, information-packed article on the subject --

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/30/clinton-system-donor-machine-2016-election/

[bobthedrummer]

59. Thanks, senz!

[JEB]

61. K&R&bookmark

This thread is a wealth of links and information. Thanks for all your efforts.

[bobthedrummer]

62. I am one of many that love the truth, no matter where it is found-and so many others are gone JEB,

aren't they, but their efforts and work remain for all of US, that love the truth.

[bobthedrummer]

63. Another kick for transparency and truth and your posts...

[bobthedrummer]

65. I love the truth, don't you?

[99Forever]

66. I just got out of the shower.

Now I'll need another one.

[bobthedrummer]

68. lol

[99Forever]

69. Back atcha Bob.

[840high]

80. lol

[TheFarS1de]

67. K&R

[senz]

71. K&R - Bookmarked. This thread should be kept kicked while we can.

The subject matter is important.

[bobthedrummer]

73. Yep.

[bobthedrummer]

92. bttt n/t

[bobthedrummer]

113. Yep!

[bobthedrummer]

75. Kick n/t

[Sivart]

77. If the Democratic Party doesn't care about this....

then I guess I was really wrong about the Democratic Party.

[840high]

81. +10

[bobthedrummer]

84. The NEW DEMOCRATS are the enemy of most of US, Sivart. There it is.

[CrispyQ]

82. Here's a long article that I thought was eye opening.

Nor a Lender Be
Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan

By Thomas Frank

https://harpers.org/blog/2016/02/nor-a-lender-be/

snip...

Microlending is a perfect expression of Clintonism, since it brings together wealthy financial interests with rhetoric that sounds outrageously idealistic. Microlending permits all manner of networking, posturing, and profit taking among the lenders while doing nothing to change actual power relations—the ultimate win-win.

Back in the 1990s, Bill Clinton’s administration had made microloans a proud point of emphasis in U.S. foreign policy, and Hillary has been a micro­lending enthusiast since her first days on the national stage. She promoted it as a form of female empowerment in a famous 1995 speech she made in Beijing, and she supported micro­lending efforts wherever the First Family traveled in the 1990s—there’s an exhibit on the subject at the Clinton Presidential Library that shows Hillary giving a speech in the Gaza Strip in front of a sign that reads, women’s empowerment through micro-lending. In 1997 she cochaired a global Microcredit Summit in Washington, D.C., replete with the usual Third World delegations. Hillary’s own remarks on that occasion were unremarkable, but those of the president of the Citi­corp Foundation were well worth remembering. Here is what he said to the assembled saviors of the Third World: “Everyone in this room is a banker, because everyone here is banking on self-employment to help alleviate poverty around the world.” At the closing session of the summit, bankers joined national leaders in singing “We Shall Overcome.”

In the decade that followed, the theology of microlending developed a number of doctrinal refinements. There was the idea that women were better borrowers and better entrepreneurs than men; the belief that poor people needed mentorship and “financial inclusion” in addition to loans; the suggestion that they had to be hooked up to a bank via the Internet; the discovery that it was morally okay to run microlending banks as private, profit-making enterprises—many of the arguments that I had heard at the No Ceilings conference, expressed in the unforgettable tones of international female solidarity.

These ideas made up the core of the Hillary Doctrine. Melanne Verveer, her ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, declared in 2011 that “financial inclusion is a top priority for the U.S. government” and announced her terrible chagrin that “three billion people in the world remain unbanked; the majority of them are women.” Hillary’s under­secretary for democracy and global affairs, Maria Otero, came to State from one of the biggest American micro­lending institutions, ACCION International. Now, in her official government capacity, she expressed her joy at how microfinance had evolved “from subsidized microloans to a focus on self-sufficiency, to an emphasis on savings, to a full suite of financial products delivered by commercial regulated banks”—and how all this had “affirmed the capacity of the poor to become economic actors in their own right.” Hillary herself proudly recalls in her memoirs how the State Department rebuilt Afghanistan by handing out “more than 100,000 small personal loans” to the women of that country.

~much more at link: https://harpers.org/blog/2016/02/nor-a-lender-be/

Unbanked.

[Octafish]

83. The Unbanked

Question: How can you bank if you don't have any money?

Answer: Call UBS and ask for the Wealth Management department, tell 'em, "Phil sent me."

[nolabels]

85. It can only get worse!

They need a pretty low bar to match Trump , but i am sure, somehow, it's already been there

[bobthedrummer]

86. Yep-more NEW DEMOCRAT inspired Clinton cult bullshit to bury US with CrispyQ.

I'll never buy it-you can take that to the Credit Union!

[OnyxCollie]

87. For your edification:

Perhaps the most important modern institution in the field of group power-and it contrasts dramatically with Maitland's picture of clubs, religious associations, and charities preferring the hedge of the trust and the anonymity of unincorporated status- is the "foundation" which flourishes in contemporary America.

The foundation is largely an American creation. No doubt the accumulation of vast wealth was one reason for its rise; another-at least in the days when Carnegie, Rockefeller, and others perpetuated their names through their now world famous bequests-was unquestionably a desire of wealthy and successful men to purge their consciences before God and man and to justify the acquisitive society which had enabled them to accumulate enormous riches by leaving a vast proportion of their wealth for the benefit of mankind.6 But in recent years these reasons for the earlier foundations have become less important, and the incorporated foundation or trust has become predominantly a business device, a paramount instrument in the struggle between the demands of the modern Welfare State and the wish of the individual entrepreneur to perpetuate his fortune and his name. The greatest and most influential of the foundations (Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie) are the creations of individuals or families, but the large foundations of the future will increasingly be the creations of corporations. The desires to give and to perpetuate the name of the individual or corporate donor are undoubtedly still important motivations, but the immense growth in the number and size of foundations in recent years7 suggests that business considerations play an increasing role. By either bequeathing or giving during his lifetime a proportion of his estate to a permanent institution established for officially recognized charitable purposes, the donor, usually the controller of an industrial or business empire,8 achieves a number of purposes.9 In the United States gifts to such organizations are exempt from gift taxes, and bequests to them are deductible for estate tax purposes. The organizations themselves are normally exempt from income tax, property tax, and other taxes. A charitable gift intervivos is an allowable deduction from the taxable income of the donor.10 The absence of the latter privilege in English law may be one reason why incorporated charities are not so widespread in Britain (apart, of course, from the vastly greater capital wealth of United States business). Otherwise, motivations for the establishment of charitable companies are very similar." The arithmetics of these benefits vary from year to year and are, of course, subject to legislative changes. Unless, however, there were to be a fundamental change in legislation in regard to charitable gifts,12 the advantages of transferring both capital and annual income away from the personal estate of a taxpayer in the high income brackets or away from a corporation are very considerable.13 But in the age of the managerial revolution and the Welfare State, a motive at least equal to that of providing a suitable mechanism for philanthropy and a tax free reservoir for an otherwise highly taxable income is the power which the foundation gives to the controller of a business or industry to perpetuate his control.14

Friedmann, W. G. (1957). Corporate power, government by private groups, and the law. Columbia Law Review, 57(2), 155-186.

The Clinton Foundation - About
http://www.clintonfoundation.org/main/our-work/by-initiative/clinton-foundation-in-haiti/about.html

The Clinton Foundation has been actively engaged in Haiti since 2009, focusing on economic diversification, private sector investment and job creation in order to create long-term, sustainable economic development. After the devastating earthquake in 2010, President Clinton formed the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund and raised $16.4 million from individual donors for immediate earthquake relief efforts. Since 2010, the Clinton Foundation has raised a total of $34 million for Haiti, including relief funds as well as projects focused on restoring Haiti's communities, sustainable development, education and capacity building. In 2012, the Clinton Foundation concentrated on creating sustainable economic growth in the four priority sectors of energy, tourism, agriculture, and apparel/manufacturing, working to bring new investors, develop and support local organizations and businesses, and create access to new markets. The Clinton Foundation also continued working to support government efforts to improve Haiti’s business environment and supported programs in education and capacity building.

Earthquake Relief Where Haiti Wasn’t Broken
By DEBORAH SONTAG JULY 5, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/world/americas/earthquake-relief-where-haiti-wasnt-broken.html

CARACOL, Haiti — On the first anniversary of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, in a sleepy corner of northeast Haiti far from the disaster zone, the Haitian government began the process of evicting 366 farmers from a large, fertile tract of land to clear the way for a new industrial park.

The farmers did not understand why the authorities wanted to replace productive agricultural land with factories in a rural country that had trouble feeding itself. But, promised compensation, they did not protest a strange twist of fate that left them displaced by an earthquake that had not affected them. “We watched, voiceless,” Jean-Louis Saint Thomas, an elderly farmer, said. “The government paid us to shut us up.”

In Port-au-Prince, meanwhile, with rubble still clogging the streets, former President Bill Clinton, co-chairman of Haiti’s recovery commission, had celebrated the Caracol Industrial Park as a glimmer of hope during a ceremony cementing an agreement with the anchor tenant — Sae-A Trading, a South Korean clothing manufacturer and major supplier to American retailers like Walmart and Gap Inc.

“I know a couple places in America that would commit mayhem to get 20,000 jobs today,” Mr. Clinton said, referring to the jobs that Sae-A pledged to generate over six years. In exchange, thanks to a deal that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton helped broker, Sae-A looked forward to tax exemptions, duty-free access to the United States, abundant cheap labor, factory sheds, a power plant, a new port and an expatriate residence outfitted with special kimchi refrigerators.

Washington Backed Famous Brand-Name Contractors in Fight Against Haiti’s Minimum Wage Increase
http://www.haiti-liberte.com/archives/volume4-47/Washington%20Backed%20Famous.asp

The U.S. Embassy in Haiti worked closely with factory owners contracted by Levi’s, Hanes, and Fruit of the Loom to aggressively block a paltry minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables.

The factory owners refused to pay 62 cents an hour, or $5 per eight-hour day, as a measure unanimously passed by the Haitian parliament in June 2009 would have mandated. Behind the scenes, the factory owners had the vigorous backing of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Embassy, show secret U.S. Embassy cables provided to Haïti Liberté by the transparency-advocacy group WikiLeaks.

The minimum daily wage had been 70 gourdes or $1.75 a day.

The factory owners told the Haitian parliament that they were willing to give workers a mere 9 cents an hour pay increase to 31 cents an hour – 100 gourdes daily – to make T-shirts, bras and underwear for U.S. clothing giants like Dockers and Nautica.

Report: State Department-Backed Garment Complex in Haiti Stealing Workers’ Wages
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/17/headlines#10179

A new report by the Worker Rights Consortium has found the majority of workers in Haiti’s garment industry are being denied nearly a third of the wages they are legally owed due to widespread wage theft. The new evidence builds on an earlier report that found every single one of Haiti’s export garment factories was illegally shortchanging workers. Workers in Haiti make clothes for U.S. retailers including Gap, Target, Kohl’s, Levi’s and Wal-Mart. The report highlighted abuses at the Caracol Industrial Park, a new factory complex heavily subsidized by the U.S. State Department, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Clinton Foundation and touted as a key part of Haiti’s post-earthquake recovery. The report found that, on average, workers at the complex are paid 34 percent less than the law requires. Haiti’s minimum wage for garment workers is between 60 and 90 cents an hour. More than three-quarters of workers interviewed for the report said they could not afford three meals a day.

Clintons' Pet Project for Privatized 'Aid' to Haiti Stealing Workers' Wages: Report
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/16-4

Haiti's Caracol Industrial Park—the U.S. State Department and Clinton Foundation pet project to deliver aid and reconstruction to earthquake-ravaged Haiti in the form of private investment—is systematically stealing its garment workers' wages, paying them 34 percent less than minimum wage set by federal law, a breaking report from the Worker Rights Consortium reveals.

Critics charge that poverty wages illustrate the deep flaws with corporate models of so-called aid. "The failure of the Caracol Industrial Park to comply with minimum wage laws is a stain on the U.S.'s post-earthquake investments in Haiti and calls into question the sustainability and effectiveness of relying on the garment industry to lead Haiti's reconstruction," said Jake Johnston of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in an interview with Common Dreams.

Caracol is just one of five garment factories profiled in this damning report, released publicly on Wednesday, which finds that "the majority of Haitian garment workers are being denied nearly a third of the wages they are legally due as a result of the factories’ theft of their income." This is due to systematic employer cheating on piece-work and overtime, as well as failure to pay employees for hours worked.
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Financers included the Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. State Department, and the Clinton Foundation, who invested a total of $224 million with promises to uphold high labor standards. Its anchor tenant is the Korean S&H Global factory, which sells garments to Walmart, Target, Kohl's, and Old Navy, according to the report.

Group Says Haitian Garment Workers Are Shortchanged on Pay
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/world/americas/group-says-haitian-garment-workers-are-shortchanged-on-pay.html?_r=1&

MEXICO CITY — Garment factories in Haiti, the backbone of an effort to revive the country’s earthquake-shattered economy, have seriously shortchanged workers of their wages to keep costs of their T-shirts and other export goods low, according to a report to be issued Wednesday by a labor rights group.
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The report, prepared by the Worker Rights Consortium, focused on 5 of Haiti’s 24 garment factories and found that “the majority of Haitian garment workers are being denied nearly a third of the wages they are legally due as a result of the factories’ theft of their income.”

The group said that the factories deprive workers of higher wages they are entitled to under law by setting difficult-to-meet production quotas and neglecting to pay overtime.

It said that offenders included the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, which the United States helped build and has cited as a centerpiece of reconstruction efforts, and factories that make products for prominent retailers like Gap, Target and Walmart.

The Clinton-Bush Fund has closed up shop in Haiti: Here are the fruits of neoliberal "charity"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022415607

In a country where the citizens are living in tents, the Clinton Foundation will give you a sweet deal on a home loan. (Low introductory APR, guaranteed not to skyrocket too soon!)

Tens of thousands still living in tents 5 years after Haiti earthquake
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article6005817.html

“The needs are so immense,” said Odnell David, a Haitian government housing division chief with the Unit for Housing Construction and Public Buildings. “For you to address the housing problem in Haiti, you also have to address all of the other problems in Haiti — employment, investments, education. All have to run parallel.”

Rather than build houses, David said, the government has decided it’s better to create the environment to motivate people to construct their own homes. It’s a philosophy that the government is also pushing with foreign donors, who like the government, have struggled to make good on promises to build tens of thousands of new homes to get Haitians out of the tents.

“A lot of minor interventions are still being done in Port-au-Prince, where you will see that they are still building houses to give to people,” said David, noting that while such ventures are appreciated, they would not build Haiti’s struggling economy.

“What we are saying is you need the government to invest, the people to invest and the private sector to invest to be certain you will have durable development,” he said. “If you don’t have this combination, we will always remain in the same situation.”

New Program Launched to Make Home Mortgages Available to Haitians
http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/new-program-launched-to-make-home-mortgages-available-to-haitians

MARCH 24, 2011

The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund has announced the launch of a $47 million program to make home mortgages more widely available in Haiti.

Jointly sponsored by the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Haiti Reconstruction Fund, the program will provide home mortgages and home-repair loans to low-income Haitians and small businesses affected by last year's earthquake. The Development Innovations Group will manage the program, pending approval by OPIC's board of directors in June after implementation details are finalized.

The program was approved last week by the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, a group formed in the wake of the January 2010 earthquake to review and approve projects funded by bilateral and multilateral donors, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. Funded by Haiti Reconstruction Fund ($10 million), the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund ($3 million), and OPIC ($34 million in debt funding), the program is modeled after similar efforts that have proved successful in other parts of the developing world.

"What Haiti needs today are smart investments that will create economic opportunities and lay the groundwork for long-term, sustainable growth," said Clinton Bush Haiti Fund CEO Gary Edson. "By providing funding for programs such as this, we're making it possible for ordinary Haitians to own their own home as well as their own future success and prosperity."

Bill Clinton met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to get donations for his Foundation. (Republicans will likely ignore this bit of information, since Uribe's on the News Corporation Board of Directors.)

Uribe meets with Bill Clinton
http://colombiareports.com/uribe-meets-with-ex-us-president-bill-clinton/

Bill Clinton, ex-president of the United States and husband of the current U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, met with Colombian president Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday in search of resources for the reconstruction of Haiti.

~snip~

While his wife is on a diplomatic tour of various Latin American countries, ex-president Clinton is using the opportunity to raise money for Haiti’s reconstruction following the devastating earthquake that happened there in January of this year. The money is being raised through Clinton’s own charity, the Clinton Foundation.

Clinton will also be taking a look at various projects in Colombia that the Clinton Foundation has helped fund while visiting the country.

Some background on Uribe (What a nice guy!):

Uribe was ‘the head of Colombia’s paramilitaries’: former AUC ringleader
http://colombiareports.com/head-colombias-paramilitaries-former-auc-leader-ex-president-uribe/

Former President Alvaro Uribe was the “head of Colombia’s paramilitary groups,” according to a former paramilitary commander and witness in the case against a presidential candidate loyal to the former head of state.

The accusations were made by Pablo Hernan Sierra, alias “Alberto Guerrero”, former commander of the Cacique Pipinta bloc of the paramilitary group AUC, during an interview with Venezuelan network TeleSur.

“He was our commander,” claimed Sierra. “He never fired a gun; but he led, he contributed, he was our man at the top.”

“The massacres, the disappearances, the creation of an {AUC} group: he is responsible,” said Sierra.

The ex-paramilitary is a key witness in an investigation into Uribe’s alleged ties with paramilitary groups, especially his role in the formation of an AUC bloc while governor of Antioquia department from 1995-97, and his use of the AUC to win votes in the 2002 Presidential election.

Details of testimony that involves Uribe in a massacre
http://colombiasupport.net/2008/06/details-of-testimony-that-involves-uribe-in-a-massacre/

The ex-paramilitary Francisco Enrique Villalba Hernández declared to the Colombian Attorney General’s office this past February that President Alvaro Uribe and his brother Santiago participated in planning a massacre in the north of the department of Antioquia, according to a copy of the testimony obtained by the Nuevo Herald. Part of the confession of Villalba, whose credibility Uribe attacked this week, was utilized by the Interamerican Human Rights Court (CIDH) to condemn Colombia for that massacre, which occurred in the village of El Aro in 1997, according to an extensive decision of that tribunal two years ago. Villalba did not involve the ruler or his brother in his testimony before the CIDH, but his narrative was part of the proofs that served the tribunal to conclude that in the slaughter of El Aro agents of the public security forces collaborated with groups of the United Self-defenses of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia—AUC) to murder in cold blood at least fifteen campesinos “in a defenseless position, taking their goods away from others and generating terror and displacement,” according to the 160-page decision. This same decision cites a testimony to the effect that the government of the department of Antioquia, at that time led by the currently president, refused to extend protection to the inhabitants of El Aro, when they learned that the paramilitary attack was imminent. “In the face of this situation, about two months before the occupation, the Community Action Board (Junta de Acción Comunal) asked the government for protection, which was not offered,” says the decision of the CIDH.

Until now, some of aspects of the declaration of Villalba to the Colombian prosecutors were only known in an indirect and fragmentary way which where revealed surprisingly by Uribe during a radio interview this week in order to reject what the ex-paramilitary pointed out. But the Nuevo Herald obtained a complete copy of the declearation that, in fact, contains repeated testimonies of Villalba that Uribe, when he was Governor of the department of Antioquia, hobnobbed with the highest leaders of the AUC and gave them carte blanche to carry out the massacre. “{Alvaro Uribe told us} that what had to be done, that we would do it,” declared Villalba in describing a meting in which AUC leaders, military personnel and the brothers Alvaro and Santiago Uribe. Villalba’s 19-page declaration describes, using names and details a close relationship of complicity and camaraderie between military and police authorities with the heads of the death squads.

Wiretapping scandal increasingly reveals political persecution under Uribe
http://colombiareports.co/wiretapping-scandal-increasingly-reveals-political-persecution-under-uribe/

As Colombia’s Supreme Court investigates illegal spying by the country’s former intelligence agency, an increasing amount of details are revealed about the alleged political persecution of leftist opponents of former President Alvaro Uribe.

A former director of Colombian intelligence agency DAS, Jorge Noguera, is currently on trial for various charges surrounding the wiretapping scandal that has already seen multiple convictions of Uribe’s former chief of staff and a second intelligence chief.

Colombia’s now-defunct intelligence agency, the DAS, did not report to anyone but the president and had been spying on the Supreme Court, journalists, human rights defenders and politicians in a scandal that was uncovered in 2008.

US told Uribe to clean up DAS: Wikileaks.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x48766
US told Uribe to clean up DAS: Wikileaks.
Tuesday, 22 February 2011 11:30 Hannah Aronowitz .

WikiLeaks cables reveal that the U.S. pressured the government of then-President Alvaro Uribe to clean up the scandal-hit intelligence agency DAS in 2009, El Pais reported Tuesday.

The cables show that then-U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield told then-Vice President Fransisco Santos to toughen his government's relationship with the DAS, and ordered him to carry out a "thorough, transparent and public," investigation of the secret service agency for its part in the illegal wiretapping of government critics.

Santos acknowledged the demands, and even contemplated dissolving the DAS altogether, according to a cable sent form Bogota to Washington the day after the September 15, 2009, meeting.

While the attitude of the U.S. Embassy prior to this demand seemed limited to observing, recording and reporting back to Washington on the wiretap scandal, their stance changed when it emerged that one of the illegal recordings made was of a phone call between a U.S. Embassy official and a Colombian judge.

US embassy urged Clinton to hold back on praising Uribe during 2010 visit
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141200957
Source: Colombia Reports

US embassy urged Clinton to hold back on praising Uribe during 2010 visit
Posted by Grace Brown on Sep 7, 2015

The United States’ embassy in Bogota warned former State Secretary Hillary Clinton ahead of a 2010 visit to Colombia to “avoid effusive praise for President Alvaro Uribe” because of the latter’s implication in mayor human rights abuses.

The email, dated June 3 2010 and originating from the office of Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA), was forwarded by Ambassador William Brownfield, now Assistant Secretary of State for Narcotics Affairs and Law Enforcement, and sent to Clinton’s then-chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, prior to flying to Colombia on a state visit.

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However, the email advised, this recognition should avoid “repeating the tone of Defense Secretary Gates’ April visit, in which he called Uribe a ‘great hero’ and failed even to mention any concerns.” Among those concerns were mounting accusations of mass human rights violations that happened under Uribe’s watch.

The email highlighted the possible scale of the “false positives” scandal, in which Colombia’s US-backed military murdered thousands of innocent civilians and dressed them in guerrilla clothing in order to inflate body counts and receive bonuses.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/us-embassy-urged-clinton-to-hold-back-on-praising-uribe-during-2010-visit/

This is what Hillary Clinton had to say about Uribe (hat tip to karynnj).

SECRETARY CLINTON: President Uribe, let me begin by telling you how pleased I am to be here in Colombia for the first time. You have been so gracious in entertaining my husband and my daughter in the past. And now, I finally have completed the family visits to your beautiful country.

This is a trip I have looked forward to making for quite some time, and it is a real pleasure to see how far Colombia has come and how much Colombia is contributing not only to its own people but to those who face similar struggles beyond your borders. So thank you for your hospitality, thank you for the very comprehensive discussion that we have had together today, and for the opportunity to reaffirm the friendship and strong partnership between the United States and Colombia.

In the last decade, Colombia has confronted immense challenges. And by any fair measure, Colombia has made great progress. That is thanks to the leadership of your government and to the resilience and dedication of the Colombian people. And even with continuing challenges in your own struggle, Colombia is playing a positive and increasingly important regional role, whether it be on promoting clean energy or on relief and recovery efforts in Haiti. The United States has been proud to stand with Colombia, and we will continue to stand with you in the future.

President Uribe and I discussed Colombia’s continuing efforts in the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime. And I expressed the commitment of the Obama Administration to continuing to partner with Colombia as it works to consolidate the security gains of recent years.

We also discussed Colombia’s efforts to enhance human rights, the strides made, the challenges that remain, the ongoing need for vigilance and commitment. And I also want to publicly express our admiration for President Uribe providing a remarkable example of strong democratic leadership in respecting the constitutional court’s decision regarding another term.

Colombia is such a valued partner and a leader that we look forward to expanding and deepening our partnership. Colombia has helped to lead the way as an active member of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. Just a few examples that we look to and encourage others to do so as well: developing cutting-edge mass transit systems, exploiting the potential of biofuels, becoming a leader in the use of ethanol, spearheading an initiative to help build the infrastructure for long-distance electrical transmissions from Panama, through the Andean states, to Chile.

Colombia has also worked hard to address the historic lack of opportunity for many of its people, and in doing so has provided important models for other countries in our hemisphere. Recently, the United States and Colombia concluded the first steering committee meeting for our action plan on racial and ethnic equality, which will work to improve access to education, employment, and other opportunities for Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities.

We signed a new science and technology agreement today that will facilitate the exchange of ideas and technology to help both our countries compete in the global economy. All these and many other efforts speak to the enduring bonds of friendship and the stronger partnership for the future that we have, not just between our governments but between our peoples.

Mr. President, I speak for President Obama and myself when I say that you, personally, have been an essential partner to the United States. And because of your commitment to building strong democratic institutions here in Colombia and to nurturing the bonds of friendship between our two countries, you leave a legacy of great progress that will be viewed in historic terms. I know, though, as you said yourself in your remarks here today, you realize how much more is yet to be done.

This morning, I met with the two remaining presidential candidates. This is a choice for the Colombian people to make, but I have to say that the first round of voting was a testament to the vibrancy and strength of Colombia’s democracy. And the United States will work closely and constructively with whomever the Colombian people choose in this second round.

So thank you once again, Mr. President. And you’re right; we had a wonderful dinner last night here in Bogota among friends, some Colombian, some American. And we talked about how remarkable it was that such a common event could take place. And as I drove here to the presidential palace and had the chance to look out the window at this absolutely magnificent city, my heart was filled with the hope that I know fills the hearts of so many Colombians, that what has been accomplished will only go from strength to strength. We will stand with the people of Colombia to make that so.

Thank you so much, Mr. President. (Applause.)

Alvaro Uribe is now on the Board of Directors for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

News Corp. Nominates Chao, Uribe to Board as Directors Step Down
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2012-09-04/news-corp-nominates-chao-uribe-to-board-as-directors-step-down.html

News Corp. (NWSA), the media company run by billionaire Rupert Murdoch, nominated ex-Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao as directors, bolstering the board’s government experience.

Uribe and Chao will replace Andrew Knight and John Thornton, who plan to step down as directors following the annual meeting, News Corp. said today in a statement.

The changes presage a broader shakeup in News Corp.’s organization over the next year. Murdoch announced a plan in June to break up News Corp.’s publishing and entertainment divisions into separate companies. Murdoch will remain chairman of both businesses and CEO of the entertainment division.

Chao served as labor secretary under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. After that, she became a distinguished fellow of the Heritage Foundation in Washington. The Harvard-educated Uribe was president of Colombia from 2002 to 2010 and more recently served on an advisory council for JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), News Corp. said.

And then there's HSBC Bank:

Clinton Foundation Received Up To $81m From Clients Of Controversial HSBC Bank - Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/10/hillary-clinton-foundation-donors-hsbc-swiss-bank

~snip~

The charitable foundation run by Hillary Clinton and her family has received as much as $81m from wealthy international donors who were clients of HSBC’s controversial Swiss bank. Leaked files from HSBC’s Swiss banking division reveal the identities of seven donors to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation with accounts in Geneva.

They include Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining magnate and one of the foundation’s biggest financial backers, and Richard Caring, the British retail magnate who, the bank’s internal records show, used his tax-free Geneva account to transfer $1m into the New York-based foundation.

~snip~

Caring was legitimately permitted to keep his assets offshore by a hereditary quirk of UK tax law, under which he is registered as “non-domiciled”, courtesy of his Italian-American father. The HSBC records suggest Caring’s $1m donation was paid in return for former president Bill Clinton’s attendance at a lavish costume charity ball organised by Caring in St Petersburg, Russia.

Another Clinton foundation donor who had a HSBC account in the tax haven is Jeffrey Epstein, the hedge fund manager and convicted sex offender who once flew the former president on his private jet for charity events in Africa. The identities of Clinton supporters who banked with HSBC in Geneva are contained in internal bank data leaked by a HSBC computer expert turned whistleblower, Hervé Falciani.

HSBC. How bad is it really?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026263884

The HSBC scandal continues to grow. Proof of their criminal activities grows each time you turn over another rock. How bad is HSBC?
For those who haven’t been following, the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) uncovered and reported on HSBC’s enabling of criminal behavior by arms dealers, smugglers, drug lords and the just plain cheap who don’t want to pay taxes.

HSBC, headquartered in London, when informed about the global investigation, first insisted that the ICIJ destroy its data.
It was only after the ICIJ refused and people found out what was going on that their chairman Stuart Gulliver issued the apology for HSBC’s culpability in tax avoidance.

What is HSBC hiding?
In 2006, the Swiss Branch managed tens of millions of dollars for Saudi Arabian businessmen suspected since 2001 of donating money to Muslim terrorist Osama Bin Laden,

The bank also opened accounts for a crystal meth gang in the US and a drug dealer who was sentenced to seven years in prison
HSBC was aiding clients involved in Drug and Human Trafficking, arms dealing and Arms dealing according to Tages Anzeiger.

"HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channelled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds…”

Names include Frantz Merceron, an associate of former Haitian president Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Former Egyptian trade minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid, who fled Cairo during the 2011 uprising, and people officially sanctioned by the United States Government, like Turkish businessman Selim Alguadis.

Currently, there are 10 separate investigations on 4 continents against the bank in nine countries: Asia: India, Europe: Belgium, Switzerland, France and Denmark, North and South America: Mexico, US, Argentina and Brazil (2 separate)

Asia: India. According to the Times of India, the Tax Office is expected launch criminal proceedings against the bank shortly.
The Indian Express reports that 1,195 Indian names are on the list at the tune of over $4bn. The Supreme Court has created a Special Investigative Team.

Several top businessmen on the list include Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani, Anand Chand Burman, and Shravan Gupta.
Also on the list are diamond traders, some of whom have left India and moved to other countries.
Also included are prominent politicians including former UPA minister Preneet Kaur, former Congress MP Annu Tandon and family members of former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane.
India is going to pay the whistleblower from HSBC for more information; possibly as much as 10% of whatever they collect

Europe:
France. France appears to be preparing to go to trial. But a separate investigation into HSBC's parent company is ongoing

Denmark. 300 Danes are on the list the amount $370mn in accounts. Benny Engelbrecht the Tax Minister wants to know why, with information available, did his predecessors not act.

Belgium. HSBC faces criminal charges. HSBC initially refused to cooperate until Magistrate Ine Van Wymersch, announced that the investigating judge was issuing arrest warrants for past and current directors. Then HSBC decided they would cooperate.
*** See throw 'em in jail. They roll
***The judge was not identified by name in any article I perused

North America
Mexico: The government is investigating 2,642 names linked to $2.2bn

U.S.: The Justice Department is considering criminal charges against the bank and its clients. 4,183 names 13bn+ dollars

In Brazil 11 accounts held over 110 million dollars and is tied to the state-owned Oil Company, Petrobras
The Brazilian government is also looking into 6600 other undeclared accounts with HSBC's Swiss private bank affiliated in Brazil

In Argentina, the states Tax Office wants 3bn dollars held by 4,000 people in HSBC banks linked to Argentinians and Argentine businesses returned to Argentina. This, after Argentine authorities raided HSBC offices in Buenos Aires and are preparing criminal prosecution.

As of June, 2007, except for the Vatican, there doesn’t appear to be any country without a client on the list, though 15 of the countries do not appear to have any client hiding money to avoid taxes. The list of the ‘nulls’ include Laos, Burkina Faso, Tonga, Swaziland, Trinidad, etc.

There are 23 countries with the number of derelicts in their country in the thousands (UK 8,844; US 4,183; Saudi Arabia 1,504; Lebanon 2,988, Israel 6,554, Canada 1,859, France 9,187...). Their hidings are over 139bn.

on note: Even though they had the information available, the Cameron government gave the former HSBC chair Stephen Green a Tory peerage and appointed him trade minister “several months after the government was given information from the French government in May 2010”.

sourced through:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2015/02/09/4542851_belgian-judge-threatens-hsbc-directors.html?rh=1
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/09/us-hsbc-belgium-moneylaundering-idUSKBN0LD1HO20150209
http://www.thelocal.dk/20150209/denmark-ignored-information-on-hidden-swiss-fortunes
http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-others/hsbc-sheltered-murky-cash-linked-to-dictators-arms-dealers/
http://www.thelocal.ch/20150208/hsbc-swiss-bank-helped-terrorists-and-criminals
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/22/swiss-account-secret-of-hsbc-chief-stuart-gulliver-revealed
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/18/hsbc-swiss-bank-searched-as-officials-launch-money-laundering-inquiry

[bobthedrummer]

88. There's lots more where all that came from when you love the truth, isn't there, OnyxCollie?

Two Clintons. 41 Years. $3Billion. Inside the Clinton donor network. (Washington Post 2015)
"Both Clintons declined to be interviewed or comment for this article."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money

[OnyxCollie]

90. Pretty much says, "We're fucked." Doesn't it?

Huzzah.

[senz]

89. The Foundation made DU Late Breaking News today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141484055

How Clinton Donor Got on Sensitive Intelligence Board
Source: ABC News

Newly released State Department emails help reveal how a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in the field, a decision that appeared to baffle the department’s professional staff.

The emails further reveal how, after inquiries from ABC News, the Clinton staff sought to “protect the name” of the Secretary, “stall” the ABC News reporter and ultimately accept the resignation of the donor just two days later.

<snip>

A prolific fundraiser for Democratic candidates and contributor to the Clinton Foundation, who later traveled with Bill Clinton on a trip to Africa, Rajiv K. Fernando’s only known qualification for a seat on the International Security Advisory Board (ISAB) was his technological know-how. The Chicago securities trader, who specialized in electronic investing, sat alongside an august collection of nuclear scientists, former cabinet secretaries and members of Congress to advise Hillary Clinton on the use of tactical nuclear weapons and on other crucial arms control issues.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clinton-donor-sensitive-intelligence-board/story?id=39710624

A securities trader who donated a large amount of money to the Clinton Foundation is given advisory authority on the use of nuclear weapons? Hillary Clinton doesn't take her responsibilities seriously. She doles out favors to those who give enough money.

And this is what we're asked to support for president?

[bobthedrummer]

91. Sounds like LBN in a John LeCarre novel-except it's true, just like the $27,000 a plate "fundraiser"

scheduled in Denver soon for The Clinton Foundation and HRC 2016. There were years during Clinton the 1st (whom I voted for twice) when I made less than whatever is going to be served on those plates.

[senz]

93. Just realized I should bookmark this thread on my computer

in preparation for the censorship that will start in a few days.

Patriots need to have, and share, the facts before they "disappear."

[Octafish]

94. SourceWatch: Clinton Global Initiative

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clinton_Global_Initiative

It's all above board, apart from not counting the Unknowns.

[Octafish]

95. LittleSis: Clinton Global Initiative

http://littlesis.org/lists/194-clinton-global-initiative-past-attendees/members
LittleSis reall is the cure for Big Brother, shows a really really great group of leaders and stuff.

[bobthedrummer]

96. I hope you don't mind if I crosspost this, Sir-wow, what "a really really great group"

I'm sure they don't have any problems with a $27,00.00 meal for HRC 2016-exclusive of tips.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

97. FOUR MORE DAYS

[Octafish]

107. And then the truth will disappear?

Despite all the efforts, ideas don't have a shelf-life.

[amborin]

99. kicking, and thanks again for the great work!

[creeksneakers2]

102. I don't get the link with Jon Corzine

I found that he hosted a fundraising party for her but nothing else.

Your article says Gensler signals Wall Street they are facing more stringent regulation. Is that a bad thing?

[John Poet]

104. KICK.

[Octafish]

106. Bernie Sanders brought this up a little too late in the day.

JAKE TAPPER: You have not been critical of the Clinton Foundation, but there are those who say that there’s something inherently wrong with an Americans charity, especially one with ties to a secretary of state, taking money from the Saudis and other foreign governments that don’t represent our values. Is that a fair criticism?

BERNIE SANDERS: Yes, it is. If you asked me about the Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state, and a foundation run by her husband, collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments—governments which are dictatorships. You don’t have a lot of civil liberties or democratic rights in Saudi Arabia. You don’t have a lot of respect there for divergent…for opposition points of view for gay rights, for women’s rights. Yeah, do I have a problem with that? Yeah, I do.

TAPPER: Do you think it creates an appearance of conflict of interest?

SANDERS: I do.

SOURCE: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/06/06/sanders-yeah-i-do-have-a-problem-with-the-foreign-donations-flowing-into-the-clinton-foundation-n2173978

[bobthedrummer]

108. He is an ethical person that's why-and he didn't accept any of those big bucks for his campaign.

[George Eliot]

109. Bernie would be accused of more "artful smears" so chose his talking points carefully

The Clinton Foundation is no secret and has been brought up multiple times on this site. Dark money. The left simply does not vet its candidates well. That's why we need more candidates in primaries. Thanks to Bernie for at least making this nomination process a discussion.

[bobthedrummer]

114. Welcome to DU 2016 George Eliot

The Clinton Foundation's Politico archive
http://www.politico.com/news/clinton-foundation

[bobthedrummer]

110. Make your contributions to this thread while you can n/t

[bobthedrummer]

112. Another kick, this one with a soundtrack for those that multitask, etc.

A Perfect Day Elise (P.J. Harvey)

[bobthedrummer]

115. Another call for collaboration

[bobthedrummer]

116. A public service kick...

The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins)
http://economichitman.com

[bobthedrummer]

117. ^$^$^$^

[bobthedrummer]

118. How a Clinton insider used his ties to build a consulting giant (Rachael Bade 4-13-16 Politico)

"Hillary gave a special State Department post to an ex-fundraiser-even as he was laying the groundwork for a global firm with ties to her husband called Teneo"
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/teneo-final-221807

I'm still learning about who these Clinton network "charitable" people are-wow. Maybe they'd offer to buy me a $27,000.00 plate of food at one of their events. I'd decline, of course.

Douglas J. Band (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Band

Ira Magaziner (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Magaziner

Keep this public service thread kicked.

[bobthedrummer]

119. A public service kick is not a commercial one...is it?

[panader0]

121. K and R