The Clintons and the Rape of Haiti are written up rather well by Karen Harradine, a Jew. Her three part article came to us by courtesy of The Conservative Woman, a worthy outfit.
How did the Clintons defraud Haiti, a poor country? The basic technique is Pay To Play. Somebody wants that multimegabuck contract. Donations to the right politicians help big time. But the serious Bribes go through cut outs e.g. the #Clinton Foundation.
So when a country suffers from a disaster the help comes, often from other governments; billions in Haiti's case. So that's where the money came from. More importantly is where it goes to.
Recall that Bill Clinton was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas's answer to Sodom & Gomorrah. It never got better. Hillary Clinton came out Chicago, the home town of Al Capone, THE famous criminal gang leader. They have the #Clinton Foundation (CF), a non-profit outfit, which has made them seriously rich. It is all about Bribery, about Pay To Play. Of course it is done via cut outs by people eager to help victims in Haiti. Billions have been sent; millions have arrived. Some very shoddy reconstruction work was done. That is when anything was done at all.
Interestingly, it turns out that this is not new news. The Daily Mail wrote about goings on in 2012. See the #Charity Industry Stole Billions In Haiti - A Postscript.
BTW We know that Gates is rich and getting richer. Well, he was until the divorce came along. You just have to believe that little Melinda understood the fellow. Why is Bill taking an interest in Africa? Is it for their benefit or his?
The Clintons And The Rape Of Haiti Part 1
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WHEN Bill and Hillary Clinton left the White House in 2001 they were $16million in debt. Bill attributed most of this to lawyers’ fees accumulated during his impeachment after his predatory sexual advances towards Monica Lewinsky. [ This is why they stole the furniture from the White House - Editor ]By 2016, 15 years later, the Clintons were worth a joint $240million. Today, they are worth $200million. Even with paid speeches, consultations and book deals, they look to be wealthier than they should be.
In 2001, a year after their friend Bill Gates set up his ‘charitable’ foundation, the Clintons created the Clinton Foundation (CF). Over the past two decades the couple have touted their foundation as an altruistic saviour of the developing world. A deeper analysis of CF belies this claim. Like many politicians who boast about their contributions and commitments to foreign aid, the Clintons have used it to shore up their woke credentials. But much foreign aid is given solely to enrich and empower the donors while very little reaches those who need it the most. What sets the Clintons and their foundation apart from most developmental and foreign aid agencies is the prominent role they have played in hurting those they have boasted the most about ‘helping’.
The Clintons and the CF have a symbiotic relationship. In 2018, after Hillary’s failed run for US president, the CF’s 2016 revenue of $62.9million dropped to $30.7million, partly because of the foundation’s restricted fundraising efforts as Clinton pursued her presidential bid.
In the same year, it operated at a loss, with paid speeches accounting for only $369,899 of income while it spent $47.5million on employees, advertising and promotions, with very little given away. But it recovered quickly. The CF’s 2019 on-line financials show a very healthy increase in retained earnings, receiving $65million in contributions and grants that year. It spent only $45million of that money, mainly on operating expenses, increasing its assets to $312million. Despite the CF promoting itself as a charitable endeavour, this budget report suggests otherwise. It spends little on small aid projects while shoring up its finances. Some may argue that this is fiscally responsible, yet it raises questions about where this money comes from, and how it is spent. The obscurity of the CF’s financial records led to a Justice Department investigation, as I will explain in Part Three.
The CF has raised $2billion since it was established, proudly proclaiming that the bulk of this has been sent to help Haitians. In fact, Haiti has been most notable recipient of the CF’s attention; this impoverished country has long been Clintons’ pet project, benefiting all except the Haitians. Despite the millions the CF purports to channel into Haiti, the poverty rate keeps growing.
The country shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. There are stark differences between the neighbours. The latter recorded a GDP per head of nearly $7,400 in 2020 and until lockdowns were imposed it was one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
By contrast, Haiti is one of the poorest economies in the world. In 2020, Haiti had a GDP per head of $1,150, and rated 170 out of 189 on the human development index. Almost two-thirds of the population exist on a few US dollars a day. Haiti’s current poverty rate is 60 per cent, an increase of 1.5 per cent since 2012. After the Haitian government implemented punitive lockdowns, food insecurity rose from 700,000 to 1.6million people out of a population of just over 11.5million. This means well over 10 per cent do not have enough to eat. Only a quarter of Haitians have basic sanitation facilities.
What accounts for the glaring discrepancy between the two countries? Much is geographical, with a rainy climate favouring the Dominican Republic. Haiti is frequently beset by earthquakes and hurricanes, and is semi-arid, making crop cultivation difficult. The country suffers from deforestation too.
Long before the Clintons exploited Haiti, its French colonists made the Haitians pay $21billion for their independence. An indebted, impoverished country is easy pickings for those looking to get rich on the back of foreign aid. The Dominican Republic may well have been blessed with not being the recipients of the Clintons’ beneficence.
Between 1990 and 2005, various US presidents, including Clinton, earmarked $1.4billion for Haitian aid. In 1994, the Clinton administration sanctioned the invasion of US troops into Haiti. Called ‘#Operation Uphold Democracy’, the former President heralded it as saving Haiti from a military coup, and re-installed the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. An American soldier was killed during the operation.
Clinton’s promise of US support to Aristide was on condition that he signed an agreement with the IMF and World Bank, forcing the country to open up its markets to foreign trade. This agreement, together with the development loans, was catastrophic for Haiti, indebting the country further. Clinton’s food aid programme helped impoverish Haitian farmers even more by subsidising rice crops in the US. Shipping these crops to Haiti undercut Haitian farmers who had no choice but to leave their dying farms and find badly paid factory work.
Haiti was left unable to feed its citizens. The country was then forced to import its food and become even more dependent on foreign aid.
The IMF and World Bank act less as charities or investment vehicles than as colonial powers, dictating policy to countries caught in their debt traps. Despite what Clinton said at the time, this was less about saving democracy than ensuring that Haiti became a cash cow for the US, and later on, for the CF too. In Parts Two and Three I will explain how this happened.
The only Haitians to benefit from the US invasion were the elite, a group of six families, who consolidated their power base and influence over the government. The social reforms promised by Aristide never materialised.
In 2008, the US government sent $145 million for food aid and hurricane relief to Haiti and other Caribbean countries. Haiti received another $287million in 2009. These figures now seem diminutive in comparison to the billions in foreign aid slated for Haiti after the country was devastated by an earthquake in 2010. Little was known globally about the CF until the Clintons took full advantage of the tragedy to raise the profile, and profits, of their foundation.
The Clintons and the Rape of Haiti – Part 2
This is the second of a three-part series. You can read Part 1, published yesterday, here.IN 1994, the Clinton administration sent to troops to invade Haiti. A former Haitian Senate President, Bernard Sansaricq, claimed that he asked Bill Clinton not to invade. He said that a week later, the American embassy, via an anonymous messenger, told him that he would become the richest man in Haitian if he ‘sided’ with Bill. He declined and another week later, Clinton revoked his US visa.
Sansaricq has also accused the Clinton Foundation (CF) of withholding billions of dollars earmarked for Haiti after an earthquake devastated the country in 2010. Given the opaqueness of the CF’s financial accounts, it’s difficult to determine whether Sanscaricq is being truthful. But what is evident is that despite the billions of dollars supposedly donated to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake, the Haitians did not receive the help they needed.
The earthquakes killed a quarter of a million people and left 1.5million destitute. At that time, Hillary Clinton was still US Secretary of State. Under her remit, Bill immediately established the #Haiti Reconstruction Fund and was appointed co-president of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission. He was also named the UN’s special envoy to Haiti.
Every stage of Haiti’s reconstruction after the earthquake was overseen by a Clinton, including the distribution of $4.4billion which Congress designated for the country. Together, the CF and the Clinton administration promised $10billion worth of international aid to Haiti. Private contractors rushed to Haiti to suck up most of this money, using their connections with the Clintons to establish their credentials.
From 2010 to 2012, just $36.2million of the $10billion went to Haitian organisations. That’s 0.6 per cent. Non-Haitian organisations such as UN agencies, international aid groups, private contractors, and civil and military agencies of donor countries collectively received $5.4billion. No wonder the Haitian government claimed it only received two per cent of the financial support promised by the Clintons. The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission also proved to be dominated by foreign donors and Clinton cronies, with the Haitians on the committee serving only as their puppets.
As the money rolled in, the Clintons indulged in ‘pay-to-play’, handing out favours to their family, friends and associates. Bill’s Reconstruction Fund contracted Clayton Homes, a company owned by Berkshire Hathaway, to build temporary housing. Berkshire Hathaway is owned by billionaire Warren Buffett, a major donor to the CF. The contract bypassed the UN’s regular bidding channels. Substandard trailers were built on the cheap, and most were uninhabitable. Unsurprisingly, Haitians have repeatedly complained that money raised in their name has been given to friends of the Clintons such as Buffett.
The Clintons managed to get $10million in federal loans paid to InnoVida, a firm run by another CF donor, Claudio Osorio, with a board made up of Clinton associates. This loan was also approved without going through the regular channels. InnoVida eventually defaulted and never constructed any houses in Haiti. USAid, a governmental aid agency similar to the now disbanded UK Department for International Development, granted a debris removal contract to a former Hillary campaign donor. Although the CF claims to have built schools in Haiti, little evidence exists of these schools.
Keeping it close to home, Hillary’s brother Tony Rodham was granted a rare gold mining permit by the Haitian government in 2012, the first in over 50 years. It was given at cost price too, with half the standard rate being paid. Rodham, a failed businessman, also served as co-chairman of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, despite having no expertise in foreign aid and development. Utilising his tenure on the Commission and funding from the CF, he sought a multi-million-dollar deal to rebuild homes destroyed in the earthquake. Rodham eventually claimed that someone had ‘donated’ 10,000 acres of land to him, and that he had pressured Bill to cut through bureaucracy to obtain funding for him. The houses were never built.
Even Middle Eastern countries got in on the game. The Qataris earmarked $20million for developed in Haiti to assist with reconstruction; in return they asked the CF to open up ‘investment priorities’.
In 2011, the Irish cell phone company Digicel received millions from USAid. Digicel used the money to distribute free phones to Haitians, who were then charged for using the firm’s cell phone service. The deal was brokered by one of Hillary’s aides, Cheryl Mills. Digicel is owned by yet another CF donor, Denis O’Brien, who gave the CF up to $5million in 2010-2011. By 2012, Digicel owned three-quarters of the cell phone market in Haiti.
USAid effectively diverted aid money meant for food to Digicel. After O’Brien arranged for Bill to be paid $600,000 for a speaking tour in Ireland, the CF ‘facilitated introductions’ for Digicel to build a luxury Marriott hotel in the Haiti capital Port-Au-Prince. This project was financed by the US government with $45million. After the project began, Digicel gave the CF between $10million and $25million.
There is something unedifying in wealthy business owners and NGOs jetting into Haiti to enrich themselves, staying at a luxury hotel while Haitians live in shanties and starve on the streets. The CF claims that it gave $30million for Haitian relief projects, yet those who needed the most are still homeless.
Only a few dozen locals are employed at the Marriott, contradicting the Clintons’ boastful claims that the hotel would be very beneficial to Haitians.
A poverty-stricken country like Haiti has no need for a luxury hotel which offers no benefits. It’s yet another example of aid money supposingly [ sic ] earmarked for food, homes and medical supplies for Haiti being diverted to friends of the Clintons.
Five years after the earthquake, more than 85,000 Haitians were still homeless despite the $13.34billion annelled [ sic - allocated? ] to the country in the name of foreign aid. By 2016, only 1,500 homes had been reconstructed, with many needing to be rebuilt because of shoddy workmanship. Around 200,000 people now live in slums where there is no sanitation, running water or electricity.
The Haitian elite speak well of the Clintons; the impoverished masses are furious at them. Despite the CF promising to reconstruct Haiti after the earthquake, famine, illness, unemployment, homelessness and poverty continues to ravage the country. It’s suspicious that the Clintons have never pointed this out. Where did all that money go?
The Clintons and the Rape of Haiti – Part 3
THE devastation of Haiti at the hands of Bill and Hillary Clinton is symbolised by the Clinton Foundation’s (CF) signature project, the Caracol Industrial Park. In 2012, after the Haitian elite persuaded Bill to invest in Nord-Est (the smallest of Haiti’s departments), the CF brokered a deal between the US and the Haitian government to build a factory there. Caracol was built with $400million of global aid money, and touted as the saviour of the region.Several hundred farmers were evicted from their lands to make room for the CF’s new venture; little was said about their subsequent impoverishment and homelessness. Caracol destroyed their livelihoods but it certainly enriched the CF. The Inter-American Development Bank paid out $256.8million in grants for construction at the site. The Bank also gave between $1million and $5million to the CF. A South Korean garment company, Sae-A, became the anchor tenant of Caracol. In that same year, Sae-A gave the CF $50,000 to $100,000, and its owner invested in a start-up firm run by Cheryl Mills, the person who organised the deal between Digicel and USAid which I wrote about yesterday.
Given that Sae-A benefits from low tax, duty free, and a huge pool of cheap labour desperate for work in Nord-Est, it’s unsurprising that the company was eager to give what was effectively bribe money to the CF. Taking advantage of special US tax breaks, Walmart and Gap bought textiles made by the Sae-A factory in Caracol. Walmart has given between $1million and $5million to the CF; Gap has given between $100,000 and $250,000.
The Clintons promised that Caracol would yield 65,000 jobs but, by 2017, only 13,000 Haitians were employed there, and under terrible conditions.
During the last year of Hillary’s role as US Secretary of State, USAid redirected $72million designated for a new port in Haiti and paid for the expansion of an old port in Cap-Haïtien. Curiously, two years previously the State Department had declared the site unviable for expansion due to its lack of land. But this didn’t stop USAid sending millions of dollars to Haiti. Like the homes built with CF money, the port was poorly constructed, and the project was abandoned in 2018. The only achievement resulting from this multi-million-dollar investment is two electricity poles, which raises the question as to where the rest of the money went.
Nine years after the Haitian earthquake, the $2.3billion earmarked for Haiti by USAid was spent on US companies, and less than 3 per cent went to Haitians. USAid hasn’t yet given a clear account on how the bulk of this money was spent.
Despite its cuddly image as a big-hearted philanthropist, the CF is in the business of making money. In 2013, a subsidiary of the CF, #Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), committed $500million to projects in Haiti. But its objectives focus on promoting the work of CGI members rather than the Haitians themselves.
Between 2009 and 2013, CGI operated as a separate organisation yet the CF included its finances in their annual reports.
One of CGI’s projects in Haiti promises $2million for business loans and consultations. West Elm is another CGI project, mainly set in Haiti, aiming to help artisans using handcraft techniques. The CF claims it has invested $55million in financing local artisans via this project, and states that it is committed to working with artisans in other developing countries. These are the only two projects listed under the CGI Haitian objectives. The total cost of these projects is $60million.
Where has the other $433million gone? The obscure CF on-line financial reports don’t offer any answers. These are mainly puff pieces, giving only legally required information but lacking details in exactly how the money is spent.
The CF is also guilty of violating an ethics agreement that Hillary signed with Barack Obama in 2008, in which she promised not take any further donations from foreign governments. But between 2010 and 2013, the CF accepted $20million from foreign governments.
In 2010, China launched a cyber-attack against the US, yet the CF looked the other way and took $200,000 from the Chinese Communist Party. Two years later, Qatar, a country which supports Isis and where Hamas has its headquarters, gave the CF $1million. In 2014, shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, it gave the CF $145million. That same year, Bill gave a speech to a Russian bank linked to the KGB (now known as the FSB) earning $500,000. None of these countries are known for their altruism.
In 2015, prior to Hillary’s failed presidential run, the CF amended six years of tax returns, concentrating on its reporting of donations from foreign governments and other ‘errors’.
These discrepancies and anomalies haven’t gone unnoticed. The Republican National Committee has long suspected that the Clintons were running a ‘pay-to-play’ operation. In 2018, the US Justice Department started an inquiry to determine whether the CF was guilty of this, and other illegal doings. It focused its investigation on whether any CF donors received special favours from Hillary while she was Secretary of State. https://dailycaller.com/2016/10/15/hillarys-emails-allowed-clinton-foundation-donors-to-get-favors-on-a-global-scale-video/ But the investigation fell silent when the Justice Department instead directed their resources to the Donald Trump Russian collusion conspiracy theory. The CF investigation was dropped in 2020.
Haitians accuse the Clintons and the CF of helping global investors far more than poverty-stricken Haitians. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37826098 They are not wrong. Hardly any evidence exists in Haiti to account for the claims that billions of dollars were spent in the country during the Clintons’ reign there. The amount of money which the Clintons claim they have given to Haiti simply doesn’t match the outcome. Haiti is still one of the poorest, and most corrupt, countries in the world.
The CF spends very little on helping those in need. As far back as 2004 Bill Clinton was already parroting the WEF mantra of ‘build back better’. The Clintons’ abuse of Haiti as their personal fiefdom perfectly illustrates how this agenda serves only the elite and not the struggling masses. Money is spent either on employing their chums like Huma Abedin or shoring up their assets.
Despite positioning themselves as the saviours as Haiti, they are strangely quiet about the latest earthquake in August 2021. They have already moved on to their next money-making scheme, proudly proclaiming that the CF helps in the ‘fight’ against Covid-19 and climate change.
Clinton Foundation ex Wiki
The Clinton Foundation (founded in 1997 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation,[7] and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation)[8] is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code. It was established by former president of the United States Bill Clinton with the stated mission to "strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence."[9] Its offices are located in New York City and Little Rock, Arkansas.Through 2016, the foundation had raised an estimated $2 billion from U.S. corporations, foreign governments and corporations, political donors, and various other groups and individuals.[10] The acceptance of funds from wealthy donors has been a source of controversy.[10][11] The foundation "has won accolades from philanthropy experts and has drawn bipartisan support".[10] Charitable grants are not a major focus of the Clinton Foundation, which instead uses most of its money to carry out its own humanitarian programs.[12]
This foundation is a public organization to which anyone may donate and is distinct from the Clinton Family Foundation, a private organization for personal Clinton family philanthropy.[13][14]
According to the Clinton Foundation's website, neither Bill Clinton nor his daughter, Chelsea Clinton (both are members of the governing board), draws any salary or receives any income from the foundation. When Hillary Clinton was a board member, she reportedly also received no income from the foundation.[15]
Beginning in 2015, the foundation was accused of wrongdoing, including a bribery and pay-to-play scheme, but multiple investigations through 2019 found no evidence of malfeasance. The New York Times reported in September 2020 that a federal prosecutor appointed by attorney general Bill Barr to investigate the origins of the 2016 FBI Crossfire Hurricane investigation had also sought documents and interviews regarding how the FBI handled an investigation into the Clinton Foundation.[16]
Haiti Reconstruction Fund ex Wiki
The Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF) is a partnership between the international community and the Government of Haiti to help finance post-earthquake reconstruction. The HRF mobilizes, coordinates and allocates contributions from bilateral and other donors to finance high-priority projects, programs and budget support. Proponents partner with the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the United Nations (UN) or the World Bank (WB) to ensure that international standards for quality, good governance and financial management are met. All proposals for HRF financing must be endorsed by the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) as consistent with the Action Plan for the Recovery and Development of Haiti.[1[1]Donors
The initial donors to the HRF are Brazil, Norway, Australia, Colombia, and Estonia. The list of donor countries and the value of their contributions are expected to increase based on pledges made in international conferences held in Santo Domingo, New York City and Punta Cana. Resources are pooled, and are used for budget support and/or investments aligned with the Action Plan. All donors sign the same Administrative Agreement and no earmarking is allowed.[2]
Clinton Global Initiative
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The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global and emerging leaders to create and implement solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. CGI works with partners to drive action through its unique model. Rather than directly implementing projects, CGI facilitates action by helping members connect, collaborate, and develop Commitments to Action — new, specific, and measurable plans that address global challenges.Turning ideas into action™
Since it was first launched by President Clinton in 2005, members of the CGI community have made nearly 4,000 Commitments to Action that have made a positive difference in the lives of 435 million people in 180 countries worldwide.
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It sounds good but recall Matthew 7:20. He said Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
You can contact Bill & Hill's henchmen at:-
Clinton Foundation
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Clinton Presidential Center
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501-374-4242The Clinton Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with offices in New York, Little Rock, and East Africa
Pay To Play or go to Pay To Play ex Wiki
In the finance industry, the term pay-to-play describes the practice of giving gifts to political figures [ e.g. Bill Clinton via his foundation ] in the hopes of receiving investment business in return.In the U.S., after discovering that this practice was not uncommon and was undermining the integrity of the financial markets, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) severely regulated and limited the interactions and gifts-giving practices between the investment industry personnel and politicians and candidates. This can be seen most notably in Rule 206(4)-5 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and Rules G-37 and G-38 of the MSRB Rule Book.[3]
Pay-to-play occurs when investment firms or their employees make campaign contributions to politicians or candidates for office in the hope of receiving business from the municipalities that those political figures represent. It usually applies to investment banking firms that hope to receive municipal securities underwriting business in return or to investment management firms that hope to be selected for the management of government funds such as state pension funds.
An example of this form of corruption or bribery is the 2009 probe by then New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo into private equity funds payments to placement agents with political connections to obtain business with the New York State Common Retirement System.[4][5]
Operation Uphold Democracy ex Wiki
Operation Uphold Democracy was a military intervention designed to remove the military regime installed by the 1991 Haitian coup d'état that overthrew the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The operation was effectively authorized by 31 July 1994 United Nations Security Council Resolution 940.History
The operation began with the alert of United States and its allies for a forced entry into the island nation of Haiti. U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force elements staged to Puerto Rico and southern Florida to prepare to support the airborne invasion, spearheaded by elements of the Joint Special Operations Command[1][ specify] (HQ, 75th Ranger Regiment), followed by 3rd Special Forces Group, the U.S. Army 7th Transportation Group (Army watercraft and terminal elements) and the 10th Mountain Division. Some of these elements were staged out of Hunter Army Airfield and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. The 1st Brigade of the 10th Mountain Division deployed to Haiti aboard USS America and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.[2][3] The operation was directed by Lieutenant General Hugh Shelton, Joint Task Force 120 (JTF-120), provided by Commander, Carrier Group Two.[4]