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Monday, January 15, 2018

When It Comes To The Clintons, The Media Is Deaf, Dumb And Blind

The Clintons pushed for massive waste and exploitation of Haiti – no media outrage

January 14, 2018
The Clintons pushed for massive waste and exploitation of Haiti – no media outrageImage Source: Screenshot
The Clintons were among many who condemned President Donald Trump for allegedly using an expletive to refer to Haiti, El Salvador, and various African nations. But the former first family seems to have forgotten that they are in no place to criticize.
In the wake of criticism regarding Trump’s tough language in an immigration meeting, many have begun to turn the tables on the Clintons, pointing out the role they played in Haitian relief efforts after a 2010 earthquake. Although most news outlets didn’t cover it, evidence was found years ago which demonstrates that the Clintons squandered billions of dollars in Haitian relief efforts, leaving the country worse off than it was before the earthquake. 

Problems with funding

Haiti was left in ruins after 2010’s devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and left over one million homeless. With the nation devastated, the international community came to their aid, with billions of dollars donated to the relief effort.
Much of this money was directed by Bill Clinton, who was named by the United Nations as Special Envoy to Haiti, and Hillary Clinton, who was then secretary of State and in charge of U.S. aid allocated to Haiti.
With Bill and Hillary Clinton in charge, however, it seemed that much of the funding did not seem to be making its way to the Haitian people. Government watchdog group Judicial Watch reported in July 2013:
Roughly half of the $1.14 billion that the U.S. government allocated to help Haiti recover from the 2010 earthquake [as of 2013] went to wasteful projects, with the single largest chunk—$170.3 million—going to a failed port and power plant adventure heavily promoted by Bill Clinton and the State Department under the leadership of his wife.
Additionally, according to National Review, Haitian protesters “observed that a number of companies that received contracts in Haiti happened to be entities that made large donations to the Clinton Foundation.”
In other words, the Clintons seemed to direct the relief funds to their friends, who did little to nothing to help the Haitian people.

Corruption in paradise?

Some have even accused the Clintons of using relief funds for personal commitments. Doug Band, a former top official of the Clinton Foundation, alleged that some of the relief funds given to the Foundation were used to pay for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in the summer following the earthquake.
The Clinton family has denied these allegations, instead pretending to care about Haiti on social media in light of Trump’s alleged comments.
Hillary Clinton tweeted on Friday:
Daughter Chelsea Clinton tweeted on Thursday:
 
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Even the former president got in on it:
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As much as the Clintons have condemned President Trump for his choice of language when describing countries like Haiti, which he has vehemently denied, it may be time for them to take a look in the mirror.
Their history with nations like Haiti hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows, either.
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Report: FBI knew about criminal plot before Obama admin approved nuclear deal

January 14, 2018
Report: FBI knew about criminal plot before Obama admin approved nuclear dealLima Junior / Shutterstock.com; bibiphoto / Shutterstock.com
How long has the FBI known about the shady tactics of Hillary Clinton and her cronies?
An 11-count indictment against a Maryland businessman who profited off of the Uranium One deal was unsealed by the Justice Department on Friday, but according to an October report from The Hill, the FBI and the Barack Obama administration knew of a bribery plot before it approved of the deal that provided Russia with control over a considerable portion of the United States’ uranium.

The Evidence Is Overwhelming

Before the Obama administration approved of the controversial Uranium One deal in 2010, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence of bribery, kickbacks, extortion, and money laundering by Russian nuclear officials in an effort to “grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States,” The Hill reported.
The FBI was helped by a confidential “U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” according to The Hill.
It also obtained an eyewitness account, which was corroborated by documents, showing Russian nuclear officials had sent millions of dollars to the United States. These funds were intended to benefit former-President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation while his wife, Hillary Clinton, was secretary of State.
The plan was reportedly hatched “with the consent of higher level officials” in Russia who “shared the proceeds” of the funds from the kickbacks.

Hidden From The Public

But the Department of Justice (DOJ) chose to continue investigating for four more years rather than bring charges immediately. This meant that Congress, and the American people, had no idea of Russia’s uranium ambitions in the United States.
The Obama administration, however, made two major decisions that benefited Russia’s commercial nuclear desires. The first came in October 2010, “when the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States,” approved of the sale of Uranium One, a Canadian mining company, to Russian company Rosatom, which gave Russia control of 20 percent of America’s uranium supply.
The second occurred in 2011, when the Obama administration gave permission to Rosatom’s subsidiary, Tenex, to sell commercial uranium to nuclear power plants in the United States. Prior to that decision, Tenex was limited to selling the plants “reprocessed uranium recovered from dismantled Soviet nuclear weapons under the 1990s Megatons to Megawatts peace program,” The Hill reported.
“The Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns. And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those decisions,” a source that worked on the case told The Hill.
 
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On Friday, an 11-count indictment was made against Mark Lambert, the “former co-president of a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad,” The Daily Wire reported.
Lambert was charged with “one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering,” according to a statementfrom the DOJ, all related to the Uranium One scandal.
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With news like this coming out, it looks like Hillary Clinton is going to long for the days when her biggest concern was explaining how 33,000 emails magically disappeared during an investigation.
With any luck, she’ll soon be held accountable. But since the FBI seems to be on her side, we aren’t holding our breath.
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Europe Becomes More Hostile To Jews And Israel

Israel and Jews: Facing Europe’s Challenges

By January 15, 2018

Anti-Semitic graffiti in Klaipeda, Lithuania, photo by Beny Shlevich via Wikimedia Commons

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 716, January 15, 2018
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A number of major problem issues in Western European countries and the EU face Israel and the Jews. The widespread demonization of Israel remains a critical problem. So do anti-Semitism, the continuous influx of Muslims without any selection, the major manifestation of anti-Semitism within the UK Labor Party, the growth of the extreme right and left in France, and other important issues. Establishing such an inventory may provide a useful tool for Israel and international Jewish organizations in defining their 2018 agenda.
In order to follow developments in 2018, it is helpful to establish a partial inventory of major problem issues for Israel and the Jews in Western European countries and the EU.
A central problem remains the widespread demonization of Israel. Polls in nine countries tell us that high percentages of their populations agree with statements such as, “What the state of Israel does today to the Palestinians is in principle no different from what the Nazis did to the Jews in the Third Reich” and “Israel conducts a war of extermination against the Palestinians.” Statistics show that in these countries, at least 38% of the population agree with such statements. The figure is highest in Poland, at 63%.
These “feelings” of European citizens tell us nothing about Israel and its actions. They are, however, indicative of extreme anti-Israel bias in a number of countries. Concerning Germany, seven polls exist on these attitudes taken from 2004 to 2015. The latest, from 2015, found that 41% of Germans see Israel as behaving like Nazis.
On a continent where Nazi Germany had so many collaborators in the countries it occupied, the Israeli government is fully within its rights to confront governments about its being demonized.
Anti-Semitism in several EU countries seems to be expanding. Many in the European establishment have made efforts to suppress information or avoid mentioning the important role of Muslims in aggression and hatemongering against Jews and Israel. This has delayed this major aspect of anti-Semitism from coming forcefully into the European public domain.
A variety of detailed studies show that anti-Semitism among Muslim immigrants and their descendants by far exceeds that of the original populations of European countries. All Jews killed in Western Europe this century for ideological reasons were murdered by Muslims.
A UK study published in September 2017 found that 12.6% of Muslims there have strong anti-Semitic attitudes, whereas only 3.6% of the general population hold such opinions. The same study found that 34.7% of UK Muslims have strong anti-Israel attitudes versus 9% of the general population.
Research among recent refugees from Syria and Iraq in Germany indicates far stronger anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli feelings than in the local population. The additional influx – without selection – of Muslims into Europe means importing more anti-Semites.
The EU has taken some anti-Israel measures that are anti-Semitic, according to the definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Furthermore, statements of the EU on events in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict often express anti-Israel bias. One might conclude that the weaker the EU is, the better for Israel.
The overall societal situation in Germany has greatly deteriorated over the past two years due to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s irresponsible welcome policy for refugees. In the September 2017 elections, the country’s two major parties, the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), declined to their lowest levels since 1949.
In those elections, the AfD – a right-wing anti-Islam party – became the third-largest in Germany. It has no constructive program and its leadership is increasingly moving toward the extreme right. For both Israel and Jews, there is much more to worry about in the Germany of 2018 than there was in the Germany of 2015.
There has been an explosion of anti-Semitic expression in the Labor party in the UK.  It is entirely possible that the country’s conservative government will fall in 2018 due to problems concerning the Brexit negotiations. Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, a facilitator of anti-Semitism who calls Hezbollah and Hamas his friends, may well win the next elections.
The situation for the Jews in France might be called “negatively stable.” Two candidates in the 2017 presidential election, the extreme right wing Marine Le Pen and extreme leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon, together received 40% of the vote. Both deny that France is responsible for the extreme anti-Semitic crimes perpetrated by its wartime Vichy government. This is a great step backward, as French President Emmanuel Macron and his three predecessors have all admitted this responsibility.
Extreme right wing parties have, in the new century, become more significant in a variety of European countries. Muslim terrorism has strengthened them. Those of these parties who wish to participate in government usually moderate their official positions somewhat. Such an attitude enabled the entrance of the right wing FPÖ into the Austrian government at the end of 2017.
Sweden remains a problem country for both its Jews and Israel. One of the worst anti-Semitic incidents to occur in Europe in 2017 was the bombing of a synagogue in the country’s second-largest city, Gothenburg, while a youth activity was taking place within. Other bombings have occurred in Malmö, the country’s third-largest city and widely considered the capital of European anti-Semitism. Most perpetrators are Muslims. After the Gothenburg attack, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven was forced by the circumstances to condemn anti-Semitism. He even indicated that immigrants play a role in it.
The situation in the Netherlands, as far as Israel and anti-Semitism are concerned, is usually less severe than in most of the countries mentioned. Yet in 2017, it became even clearer than in the past that the police and the judiciary are partially dysfunctional in dealing with anti-Semitic incidents.
In Switzerland, a particular problem confronts the Jewish community. The authorities have found that Jewish institutions are targets for terror, but they refuse to pay for the security of synagogues and Jewish institutions. As the authorities do supply such security for various potential non-Jewish targets, this reflects a discriminatory policy.
The above incomplete list may provide a useful tool for Israel’s authorities and international Jewish organizations in defining their 2018 agenda.
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ is a former chairman of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He specializes in Israeli–Western European relations, anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionism, and is the author of The War of a Million Cuts.
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