(OH NOOOOOOO!): Bill Clinton unveils projects to aid Puerto Rico, Caribbean in wake of deadly hurricanes

Oh here we farking go again. I was just thinking though, didn’t the 2 female Clinton grifters PROMISE to help the people in Flint? You see how that went.

Bill Clinton unveils projects to aid Puerto Rico, Caribbean in wake of deadly hurricanes

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced dozens of projects Tuesday aimed at helping Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands recover from a deadly 2017 hurricane season as part of a two-day conference in the U.S. territory organized by his foundation.

Those at the conference included nonprofits that pledged to help provide clean water in the event of another disaster, build a hurricane resistant, solar-powered library and launch an in-home therapy pilot program, among other projects.

Many in the private sector promised to deliver several solar projects, including one that would make the Puerto del Rey marina in the island's northeast completely solar powered and another that would provide solar panels and a battery bank to the emergency management office in the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, which is still running on generators more than a year after Maria.

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Clinton arrived in Puerto Rico on Sunday along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, the foundation's vice president. On Monday, the Clintons met with Gov. Ricardo Rossello and toured parts of the island still struggling in the hurricane's aftermath. They also met with farmers, fishermen and small business owners in the southeastern part of the island, which is struggling to emerge from a 12-yearlong recession as its government tries to restructure a portion of its more than $70 billion public debt load.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/bill-clinton-unveils-projects-to-aid-pu...

Damn.

Okay, why haven’t these grifters been helping before now? I think because 1) they want to rehab their collective reputation; 2) the Clinton Creature isn’t going to go away and she wants to stay ‘involved’; and, 3) their lifestyle don’t come cheap. The only thing they have to sell is themselves. Grifters gotta grift.

7 Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, Millions Still Need Aid

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5875108de4b02b5f858b3f9c

Hillary Clinton pledges to stand with Flint through water crisis

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi4hOzp0JbgAhWl...

Haiti: Where is the Money?

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Where did the money go?

It turns out that almost none of the money that the general public believed was going to Haiti actually went directly to the country. Only one percent of the money went to the Haitian government. Likewise extremely little went to Haitian companies or Haitian non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Haitians, by and large, were not even consulted about the relief efforts. Most of the money that was spent went to outside governments, international aid agencies, and big, well-connected non-governmental organizations. Some went to for-profit companies whose business is disasters. A lot of the pledged money has never been actually put up. And a lot of the money that was put up has not yet been spent.

Haitians, whether through their Haitian government, Haitian NGOs, or Haitian companies, have had no control over how the money in Haiti has been spent. Despite a near total lack of control, it is likely that the failures in Haiti will be blamed on the Haitians themselves in the typical “blame the victim” fashion. Haiti will be blamed by the international community despite poor planning, poor execution, and the siphoning of funds by international NGOs and private companies.

https://ualr.edu/socialchange/2012/02/26/haiti-where-is-the-money/

US election 2016: What really happened with the Clintons in Haiti?

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Mrs Clinton was Secretary of State and Mr Clinton was UN Special Envoy to Haiti when the January 2010 earthquake struck, killing an estimated 220,000 people.

Some $13.3bn (£10.9bn) was pledged by international donors for Haiti's recovery.

Mr Clinton was appointed co-chairman of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), along with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.

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A US Government Accountability Office report discovered no hint of wrongdoing, but concluded the IHRC's decisions were "not necessarily aligned with Haitian priorities".

Mr Clinton's own office at the UN found 9% of the foreign aid cash went to the Haitian government and 0.6% to local organisations.

The bulk of it went to UN agencies, international aid groups, private contractors and donor countries' own civilian and military agencies.

For example, the Pentagon billed the State Department hundreds of millions of dollars for sending US troops to hand out bottled water and keep order on the streets of Haiti's ravaged capital, Port-au-Prince.

Friends of Bill'

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After the earthquake, disaster capitalists flocked to the nation of 10 million people, which is about the size of the US state of Massachusetts.

Private contractors were eager to sell services, in what one US envoy described in a Wikileaks-disclosed diplomatic cable as a "gold rush".

In email exchanges with top Clinton Foundation officials, a senior aide to Mrs Clinton, who was then-secretary of state, kept an eye out for those identified by the abbreviations "FOB" (friends of Bill Clinton) or "WJC VIPs" (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs).

"Need you to flag when people are friends of WJC," wrote Caitlin Klevorick, a senior State department official who was vetting incoming offers of assistance coming through the Clinton Foundation.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwij0s-61pbgAhUI...

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detroitmechworks's picture

Means that you are doing Russia's work. They have every interest in smearing both Presidents (Because it IS HER turn) and ensuring that the American people fall for the lies and slander of Bernie Sanders, who of course was a Russian agent since his Honeymoon in Moscow.

/TOP

Aaaaand now that that's out of the way.
I just want the Clinton's to go away. They have more than enough. Stay quiet, shut up, and stop making things worse, Kay?

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

WaterLily's picture

Actually, I do, but they shouldn't be used in polite company.

Why can't these sociopaths be stopped?!!

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Bollox Ref's picture

HRC has to be shown doing something for the plebs before 2016 redux?

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

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companies, friends and family members got to repair Haiti. Her brother got to be in charge of the gold mine and keep most of the profits while Haiti got about 10% if that much.

Great job posting the many articles on how the Clintons robbed the Haiti recovery funds.

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@snoopydawg
at the expense of the most defenseless and desperate.

I guess I can understand some people still liking him after he sleazed out of office, although I didn’t. But how anyone can stomach these NOW is beyond my comprehension.

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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa

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@Amanda Matthews

I don't think people realized how much damage they both did to the country during their presidencies. The deregulation that Bill signed didn't come due until years later and during the Bush administration. Just what things are going to happen in a few more years after Obama slithered out of the WH? $16 trillion was transferred to banks and others during his tenure creating the worst wealth inequality that is bigger than during the Great Depression. Best president since FDR my ass.

That he didn't address climate change more seriously for 8 years and now that Trump is doing all he can to make it worse might have signed the death certificate for us. But then the democrats aren't going to do much about it either. Gawd. I love incrementalism. It's 125 degrees warmer at Antarctica right now and one of the biggest glaciers has been hollowed out and has added two feet to the seas. If it suddenly collapses it's going to be a game over for many places around the globe.

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are orgasmic about the economic opportunities about to be unleashed.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

I wouldn't give either of the Clintons my pocket change.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

@dkmich piss on them if they were on fire. Precious bodily fluids and all that, carry on.

1/2 snark/ up to you which 1/2.

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"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."

if anyone in Puerto Rico might be brave enough to arrest those two clowns?

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Mary Bennett