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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

What You Are Is As Important As What You Do

What You Are Is As Important As What You Do
  by: Patricia Fripp, A Cup of Chicken Soup for the Soul


It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in Oklahoma City. My friend and proud father Bobby Lewis was taking his two little boys to play miniature golf. He walked up to the fellow at the ticket counter and said, "How much is it to get in?"

The young man replied, "$3.00 for you and $3.00 for any kid who is older than six. We let them in free if they are six or younger. How old are they?"

Bobby replied, "The lawyer's three and the doctor is seven, so I guess I owe you $6.00."

The man at the ticket counter said, "Hey, Mister, did you just win the lottery or something? You could have saved yourself three bucks. You could have told me that the older one was six; I wouldn't have known the difference." Bobby replied, "Yes, that may be true, but the kids would have known the difference."

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." In challenging times when ethics are more important than ever before, make sure you set a good example for everyone you work and live with.

Thursday, August 18, 2016

The Corruption and Pay to Play of The Clintons

The recent release of additional private emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email servers based at her New York home provide a clearer picture of the “pay-to-play” connections between Clinton’s State Department, her and her husband’s and daughter’s Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative, and the private investment consulting and investment firm of Teneo Holdings, Inc. in Manhattan.
DonorAmount given to Clinton Foundation/Global Initiative (CGI)
Received in return
Prince of Abu Dhabi and Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahayan and the Al Nahayan family of Abu Dhabi

 

<$5,000,000Access to HRC at State Dept. and a $500,000 environmental speech by Bill Clinton given at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi while HRC was meeting in Washington with Shaikh Abdullah.
Algeria

 

$500,000State clearance for U.S. arms sales to Algeria. Deal included biological and chemical agents.
Australia, Commonwealth of

 

$75,000,000Strong State Dept. for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which stands to be a boon for Australian multinational firms.
Bahrain, Kingdom of

 

$250,000Muted criticism by State of Bahrain’s abysmal human rights practices.
Boeing Corp.

 

$900,000State Dept. clearance for $29 billion arms U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia, including Boeing’s F-15 fighter.
Brunei Darussalam, Sultanate of

 

$5,000,000State Dept. clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Brunei.
Cameroon, Republic of

 

<$100,000Influence buying by the Cameroon government with the Clinton State Department.
Canada

 

$500,000State Dept. support for Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline, eventually vetoed by Barack Obama.
Chagoury Group<$5,000,000 in cash and a $1,000,000,000 pledgeHRC delayed designating Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization because of Chagoury Group’s investments and operations in Nigeria. Chagoury Group received the “Sustainable Development Award” from the CGI. Chagooury helped the family of Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha hide his wealth stolen from Nigeria’s oil revenues.
Confederation of Indian Industry

 

<$1,000,000Access for Indian businesses to U.S. government officials.
Corning, Inc.

 

$150,000Clinton arranged for international access for the New York-based firm.
Dahdaleh, Victor

 

<$5,000,000Lobbyist for Bahrain state-owned aluminum company who sought a contract between the Bahraini firm and the U.S.-owned Alcoa World Alumina.
Dominican Republic

 

<$25,000,000Clinton Foundation board member Rolando Gonzalez’s company InterEnergy received contracts from Dominican government for wind energy projects. The firm received Domican President’s Gold Citizen Award in 2010.
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)

 

<$100,000State pressure on Justice Dept. to curtail criminal investigation of FIFA.
Fernwood Foundation (Canadian foundation run by Canadian uranium mining mogul Ian Telfer

 

$2,600,000Telfer’s UrAsia and Uranium One Corporations, co-owned with Canadian mining magnate and “Friend of Bill” Frank Giustra receved favorable uranium mining deals with Kazakhstan and Russia’s ROSATOM and Kazakhstan’s KAZATOMPROM.
Flanders, Government of

 

€780,000 ($872,000)High-level access to U.S. government officials by Flemish government officials and businesses.
GEMS Education, Dubai

 

$5,600,000Bill Clinton made “honorary chairman” of the Dubai company.
Germany, Federal Republic of

 

$250,000High-level access to U.S. government officials by German officials and businessmen.
Giustra, Frank (Canadian mining magnate) (Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership/Radcliffe Foundation)

 

$31,300,000State soft-peddled threat of the Islamic State because Lafarge had negotiated with the terrorists to maintain its operations in ISIL-controlled territory in Syria. arranged favorable deals with Kazakhstan and its president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
Hindustan Construction Corp. (India)

 

<$500,000Access for corporate officials to U.S. government officials.
Ireland, Republic of

 

<$158,300,000Influence-buying by Irish government with the Clintons.
Italy, Republic of

 

$100,000Influence buying by the Italian government with the Clinton State Department.
Jamaica$100,000Digicel Group, owned by Irish billionaire and Friend of Bill, Denis O’Brien, received USAID grant for a telecommunications project in Jamaica. Digicel (Jamaica) paid Bill Clinton $225,000 for a speech in Kingston. That was in addition to the $100,000 kicked in by Jamaica to the Clinton Foundation.
Kuwait, Emirate of

 

$10,000,000State Dept. clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Kuwait.
Lafarge Group<$100,000State soft-peddled threat of Islamic State (ISIL) in Syria because Lafarge had an agreement with ISIL not to interfere in Lafarge activities in ISIL-controlled territory in Syria. HRC was a director of Lafarge between 1990 and 1992, at a time when the firm was selling strategic military materials to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Lesotho, Kingdom of

 

<$100,000Kickback from $11.2 million Irish grant to Clinton Foundation for HIV/AIDS abatement in Lesotho.
Mittal, Lakshmi, owner of ArcelorMittal, a major steel company, and board member of Goldman Sachs

 

<$5,000,000Favorable opportunities in Kazakhstan, where Mittal is a member of the Foreign Investment Council of Kazakhstan. Dovetails with Bill Clinton’s uranium deals with Giustra and Nazarbayev.
Sheikh Mohammed H. Al Amoudi (Ethiopian-Saudi billionaire)1

 

<$10,000,000Influence-buying within the Clinton State Dept.
Monsanto

 

<$5,000,000State advocated for Monsanto “Frankenfood” and “Frankenseeds” worldwide.
Netherlands, Kingdom of the (Netherlands National Lottery)

 

$10,000,000State helped open up investment opportunities for Dutch firms in Africa.
New Zealand, Government of

 

$1,200,000Influence-buying within the Clinton State Dept.
Norway, Kingdom of

 

$89,600,000Norwegian government split up donations to make them look smaller than they actually were. Norwegian firms received investment opportunities in the developing world, courtesy of the U.S. Millennium Goals Corporation.
Oman, Sultanate of

 

<$5,000,000State clearance for U.S. weapons sales to Oman.
Papua New Guinea, Government of

 

<$100,000Influence-buying within the Clinton State Dept.
Qatar, Emirate of

 

<$5,000,000State Dept. approval for U.S. arms sales to Qatar. State pressure on Justice Dept. to curtail investigation of bribery payments regarding FIFA and 2022 World Cup host, Qatar.
Ras al Khaimah, Emirate of

 

$50,000Influence-buying within the Clinton State Dept.
Rwanda, Republic of

 

$200,000Influence-buying with HRC’s State Department.
Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of

 

$25,000,000State Dept. approval for U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Suzlon Energy, Ltd. (Amsterdam)

 

<$5,000,000State and CGI promoted wind turbine solutions in developing countries. Suzlon, owned by an Indian national, is a leading supplier of wind turbines.
Swaziland, Kingdom of

 

<$100,000Access to U.S. government officials for Swazi government/private business leaders.
Sweden, Kingdom of

 

$7,200,000Access to U.S. government officials for Swedish government/private business leaders.
Switzerland, Confederation of

 

$325,000Access to U.S. government officials for Swiss government/private business leaders.
Tenerife Island, Government of

 

$50,000High-level access to U.S. government officials by Flemish government officials and businesses.
Taiwan

 

$10,000,000State Dept. approval for U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan.
United Arab Emirates

 

<$5,000,000State Dept. approval for U.S. weapons sales to the UAE.
United Kingdom

 

£50,000,000 ($78,000,000)Access for key UK officials and UK businesses to key U.S.government policymakers.
Victor Pinchuk Foundation (Ukraine)

 

$8,600,000Buy influence with Clinton at State to pressure Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to free jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Walmart, Inc.

 

<$5,000,000HRC pressured Indian government to open up India to Walmart, an action opposed by India’s small retailers.

In addition to these entities, there are separate Clinton family foundations that maintain their own revenue streams: the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton (BHCC) Foundation, the Clinton Foundation Hong Kong, William J. Clinton Foundation Charitable Trust (Kenya), William J. Clinton Foundation Charitable Trust (UK), and the Clinton Foundation Insalingsstiftelse (Sweden). All these entities maintain separate operations for the Clintons’ pay-to-play global racketeering operations.

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The Clinton operations are massive in relation to the reported lobbying dealings that Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, maintained with the former Yanukovych government of Ukraine. The sudden appearance of “secret ledgers” containing Manafort’s name and alleged cash payments to him by the puppet Ukrainian government of George Soros bear all the signs of another Soros/Cass Sunstein disinformation operation.

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