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To: Brumar89 who wrote (919490)2/6/2016 5:03:23 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574261
 
Might be a good idea if you read some of your links........They don't give money away, they do things with it.....

Last Thursday, Mr. Clinton arrived two hours late to an exuberant welcome at a health clinic about 60 miles north of Johannesburg. Children in zebra-striped loincloths sang as Mr. Clinton and Ms. Clinton made their entrance, and the former president enthusiastically explained how his foundation had helped the South African government negotiate large reductions in the price of drugs that halt the progress of HIV. Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa’s minister of health, heaped praise on the effort. “Because of your help we are able to treat three and a half times more people than we used to,” he told the crowd.

The project is typical of the model pioneered by the Clinton Foundation, built around dozens of partnerships with private companies, governments, or other nonprofit groups. Instead of handing out grants, the foundation recruits donors and advises them on how best to deploy their money or resources, from helping Procter & Gamble donate advanced water-purification packets to developing countries to working with credit card companies to expand the volume of low-cost loans offered to poor inner city residents.

The foundation, which has 350 employees in 180 countries, remains largely powered by Mr. Clinton’s global celebrity and his ability to connect corporate executives, A-listers and government officials. On this month’s Africa trip, Mr. Clinton was accompanied by the actors Dakota Fanning and Jesse Eisenberg and the son of the New York City mayoral candidate John A. Catsimatidis, a longtime donor.

nytimes.com

Another philanthropy watchdog, CharityWatch, a project of the American Institute of Philanthropy, gave the Clinton Foundation an "A" rating.

Daniel Borochoff, president and founder of CharityWatch, told us by phone that its analysis of the finances of the Clinton Foundation and its affiliates found that about 89% of the foundation budget is spent on programming (or "charity"), higher than the 75% considered the industry standard.

By only looking at the amount the Clinton Foundation doled out in grants, Fiorina "is showing her lack of understanding of charitable organizations," Borochoff said. "She's thinking of the Clinton Foundation as a private foundation." Those kinds of foundations are typically supported by money from a few people, and the money is then distributed to various charities. The Clinton Foundation, however, is a public charity, he said. It mostly does its own charitable work. It has over 2,000 employees worldwide.

"What she's doing is looking at how many grants they write to other groups," Borochoff said. "If you are going to look at it that way, you may as well criticize every other operating charity on the planet."

In order to get a fuller picture of the Clinton Foundation's operations, he said, people need to look at the foundation's consolidated audit, which includes the financial data on separate affiliates like the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

"Otherwise," he said, "you are looking at just a piece of the pie."

Considering all of the organizations affiliated with the Clinton Foundation, he said, CharityWatch concluded about 89% of its budget is spent on programs. That's the amount it spent on charity in 2013, he said.

We looked at the consolidated financial statements (see page 4) and calculated that in 2013, 88.3% of spending was designated as going toward program services — $196.6 million out of $222.6 million in reported expenses.

We can't vouch for the effectiveness of the programming expenses listed in the report, but it is clear that the claim that the Clinton Foundation only steers 6% of its donations to charity is wrong, and amounts to a misunderstanding of how public charities work.


usatoday.com



To: Brumar89 who wrote (919490)2/7/2016 10:03:27 AM
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After Hillary became Secretary of State, Bill speeches went up to 700K per appearance—a true testament to the couple’s unison in their unremitting crusade for wealth and power. In any event, for a while there, I seriously debated whether or not to give you all the details behind the Foundation scandals, as for a moment, I thought it would be overbearing for many of you as to the scope of the material needed to be presented to make my case as thoroughly authentic as I possibly could. No sooner, though, had I made up my mind that my surmising the facts, could very well jeopardize your rationales of reaching a pragmatically accurate conclusion. As such, I opted to give you a complete and detailed account of the facts. To that end, then, and, exclusively to that end, following are some of the most incendiary schemes championed by these two frauds, given in the order of relevancy to the magnitude of the controversy, that is, as perceived by this author:

Uranium One

Haiti Controversies

United Arab Emirate Controversy

Sweden Controversy

Colombia / Uribe Controversy

Africa Controversy

The E-mail Disappearance



On New Year’s Eve, 3,000 emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server were released.

One of them confirms – an email dated April 2, 2011 to Clinton from her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal – that:

“Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver. During late March, 2011 these stocks were moved to SABHA (south west in the direction of the Libyan border with Niger and Chad); taken from the vaults of the Libyan Central Bank in Tripoli.

“This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).

“(Source Comment [This is in the original declassified email, and is not a comment added by us]: According to knowledgeable individuals this quantity of gold and silver is valued at more than $7 billion. French intelligence officers discovered this plan shortly after the current rebellion began, and this was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya. According to these individuals Sarkozy’s plans are driven by the following issues:

Summary and Conclusions

The bottom line, my fellow Americans, is that the Clinton story, some of which I have evoked here today, is just a part of a culture of corruption, dishonesty, treachery and deceit, now prevalent amongst a pervasively decadent government and its officials. And, while I understand that not everyone indulges in such venality, I also understand that for our system to work, there is no room for any of it, and those guilty of crimes such as those allegedly committed by the Clintons, should be brought to justice with the same resolve as we bring to justice all those that lack the resources, the economic and political prowess necessary to buy themselves their safe-passages within the corrupted system.

I am closing this dissertation today asking every one of you, my fellow Americans, to take a hard look at everything that is going on around you. We have choices, still, as well, as I think that the 2016 presidential elections, will make the difference as to what we want for our future and for the future of our children and their children. We can either have, ‘more-of-the-same’, by electing an alleged swindler out to self-serve her own interests, or we can have true ‘change’ in restoring the nation to its former glory; starting with the cleansing of political vultures, such as this Clinton pair, who, have no hesitation in continuing to feed on the carcass of a decaying government—all in the name of self-indulgence, albeit sheltered under auras of righteousness, such as is this Clinton Foundation.

I know for a fact that asking for justice to be brought about for these two, is an exercise in futility, at best. Within this realization, comes then, just one other wishful thought of things to come, as I plead with you that we all, as a nation, do away with the collective apathy that has brought us to where we are today; that we do away with the behavioral and fanatical disorders, which claim to make heroes and idols out of impostors and make champions of justice out of frauds, cheats and swindlers—respondent, exclusively, to charismatic veils of embroidered untruths.

My fellow Americans, whether you want to believe it or not, we have ran out of time. We are at the end of the road. We can either choose the path to damnation and destruction or we can, instead, choose the path to reclaiming the nation. It is in our hands, yours and mine, to make the choice—it’s a simple choice, unadulterated and pure, it’s as simple as one vote: yours. One vote it’s all it will take. One vote in the next presidential elections; one vote, that, might not do justice for all that Hillary Clinton, husband Bill and all other corrupt politicians have done wrong by us, but one vote, which shall assure us that this state of corruption will come to an end, once and for all - one vote in 2016 which can and will make the difference: your vote. May God bless you and may God bless America.

Bonnie and Clyde—The Clintons’ Scandals