(New Zealand has questions about the Clinton Foundation,too )
It has been revealed that millions of New Zealand taxpayer dollars have been donated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) to Hillary Clinton’s charity, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a non-profit organization created from the Clinton Foundation with the stated goal to reduce HIV/AIDs in Africa.
An MFAT spokesman confirmed to the NBR that between January 2010 and June 2016, $7.7 million of taxpayer funds had already been donated and another $6 million was to follow, keeping to a pledge to donate $13.7 million made by the government organization in 2013.
ACT party member David Seymour commented
“In a world where New Zealanders can crowdsource to buy a beach, it’s
not clear what role there is for the government to collect taxes and
contribute it to a global charity which is more than capable of reaching
out and raising its own money.”
To fully
understand how Clinton charities operate and decide whether a single
taxpayer dollar should have been donated, we first need to look at some
of the controversies.
Over the past 15 years, the Washington Post can reveal the charities have raised over $2 billion dollars,
mainly from big corporates, foreign governments and political donors.
Many have called the contributions ‘pay for play’, where powerful donors
exchange funds for future political favours. Speeches make up a large
part of the revenue stream, with the Clintons earning hundreds of
thousands per speech from the likes of big Wall Street banks including
Goldman Sachs as revealed by WikiLeaks.
Clinton’s charity has confirmed
that in 2012, Qatar donated US $1 million to the Clinton Foundation
raising a question of ethics after Hillary promised that while she was
serving as secretary of the state donations from foreign governments
would no longer be accepted due to the potential influence on foreign
policy.
It was also been revealed the Clinton charities utilized the devastating Haiti earthquake
to implement disaster capitalism, funneling funds into Haiti under the
pretense of aid but only for the funds to flow away from the Haitians
desperately in need and instead to companies who had made previously large donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Then there is the $145 million ‘pay for play’ contributions
made to the Clinton Foundation by shareholders of Canadian company
Uranium One, a mining company with concessions in Kazakhstan and the US.
Uranium One sought to sell these concessions to the Russians, but the
deal had to be approved by a government committee due to the
implications to national security.
In return for the contributions and the
extra $500,000 Bill Clinton received in speaking fees from a Russian
investment bank, the 20% purchase of US uranium assets by the Russians
was approved, knowing this purchase would mean the production of more
nuclear weapons against America’s own interests.The Clinton Health Access Initiative has also had its share of controversy.
US Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn recently released a 71 page report which slammed CHAI’s “self-serving” philanthropy in Africa, after the charity was found distributing watered down HIV/AIDS medications to sick Africans.
According to the report, these cheaper drugs which were provided by Ranbaxy Laboratories “subjected patients to increased risks of morbidity and mortality”. Ranbaxy later was found guilty of selling badly made generic drugs and fined a record US$500 million.
If Hillary is elected president, she has committed to changing how the Clinton Foundation operates. Bill Clinton has said “The
Foundation will accept contributions only from U.S. citizens, permanent
residents, and U.S.-based independent foundations, whose names we will
continue to make public on a quarterly basis. And we will change the
official name from the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation to
the Clinton Foundation. While I will continue to support the work of
the Foundation, I will step down from the Board and will no longer raise
funds for it.”
However, CHAI, which receives around 60% of the funds from
the Clinton Foundation, has yet to decide whether it will also refuse
foreign government donations if she was to win, and when asked for
comment on CHAI the Clinton campaign spokesman declined.
There’s no
doubt the Clinton charities have done some incredible work overseas
through CHAI, but the manner in which these charities are utilised as
vehicles for personal benefit can not be ignored. With strong financial
ties to Wall Street, big pharmaceuticals and other large corporate
sponsors, it’s clear the charities are being used as avenues to channel
funds under the guise of philanthropy.
John Key and the National Party clearly have no issue using millions of taxpayer funds as bribes, revealed by the corrupt Saudi sheep deal, so it should be of no surprise to see the government fund a shady charity found to be acting only for ‘self serving’ interests.
We need to
hold our government accountable for where taxpayer funds are being
applied, especially when gifted to charities operated by corrupt
American political figureheads.
Our
country currently can not afford to be sending millions of dollars
overseas. Instead of donating the remaining $6 million pledged to CHAI,
we demand that MFAT reallocate the funds within New Zealand to help
assist those struggling under our poverty and homelessness crisis.
For an excellent review of the Clinton Foundation, please have a read through the Washington Post’s feature ‘Inside the Clinton Donor Network’.
We also
highly recommend watching the in-depth documentary ‘Clinton Cash’, which
discusses the ‘pay for play’ model and resulting corruption which can
be viewed here.
http://www.news.com.au/world/pacific/new-zealand-prime-ministers-wife-bronagh-asked-john-key-to-resign-after-eight-years-in-office/news-story/8989633fa03e481526e1fb02234a7b69
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Something is very freaky about this guys family shown at the link. Not your typical prime minister kids.
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