[Free Beacon] A federal agency rushed to approve funding for a Clinton donor's sham Haiti recovery project that ended up defrauding the U.S. government out of millions, according to court transcripts and internal government documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Miami businessman Claudio Osorio, who is currently serving 12 years in federal prison on fraud charges, leveraged his relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton to help his company InnoVida obtain a $10 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for a Haiti housing project in 2010. Birds of a feather.
OPIC is an independent government agency that submits its annual budget requests through the State Department and works closely with the agency.
Bill Clinton helped arrange for a high-powered Florida law firm to represent Osorio during loan negotiations with OPIC, according to court testimony. An internal OPIC memo said Hillary Clinton was prepared to marshal State Department resources to assist with the donor's project.
InnoVida was supposed to use the funding to build houses in Haiti after the earthquake, but it defaulted on the loan and the homes were never built. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
Milton Friedman, the Nobel Laureate, wrote to Congress in 1996, “I cannot see any redeeming aspect in the existence of OPIC. … It is special interest legislation of the worst kind, legislation that makes the problem it is intended to deal with worse rather than better. … OPIC has no business existing.”
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Very little of the money slated for earthquake rebuilding in Haiti ever was used for this purpose. And here I was thinking the charity money never got past the politicians in Haiti. It never got past the grifter politicians in the U.S.A. Sean Penn and Danny Glover were pushing this cause but then again Sean Penn was also offering himself up as a human shield in Iraq too--naivety personified.
Shady ballot brokers are "doping the vote" in the Rio Grande Valley, an election-watch group says. Now the FBI is on the case.
"(The politiqueras) took voters to their weed man after voting," Logan Churchwell, a front man for True the Vote, told Watchdog.org.
Trafficking in petty cash and dime bags, politiqueras round up voters for South Texas candidates, nearly all Democrats. The pay-for-ballot activity has resulted in 11 federal indictments so far.
Republicans are turning up the heat on state Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa, a Brownsville resident and longtime political kingmaker in the Rio Grande Valley.
"He needs to come clean with the people of Texas (about whether he) personally participated in the corrupt practice of using politiqueras to commit voter fraud," said state GOP Chairman Tom Mechler.
[UFP] From the beginning it's clear that the tone and the mood of the White House occupier in his response to the Charleston Church and Chattanooga shootings are drastically different. The location and posture, from a stern speech with Joe Biden in attendance behind a podium for the black church to a casual, cross-legged and detached sit down to discuss the murdered military members.
In the Chattanooga shooting, Obama says his main message is to deliver the deepest sympathies of the American people. He calls it a "heartbreaking circumstance for these individuals who have served our country with such great valor." In Charleston Obama was much more animated, describing himself as personally angry.
Obama says of Chattanooga, "We don't know yet, all the details. We know that what appears to be a lone gunman carried out these attacks, we've identified a name." He doesn't want to say the name, because it's an Islamic one, so the perpetrator will remain anonymous for the time being, at least as far as the White House is concerned. Black lives matter, military ones, not so much.
A hate crime investigation was immediately opened in the Charleston shooting, none in the Islamic attack on American Marines. Obama recognizes "a dark part of our history" in the church shootings but not the dark threat of present days from Islamic terrorists. We're all waiting to see if this will once again be labeled workplace violence in order to provide protective cover for those who "pervert" his favored religion.
In the Charleston attack he noted the threat that is posed by "hatred across races and faiths" but that only applies to white attackers and black victims. Islamists are shielded and America's military is despised by the White House occupant. It's a comparison of apples and oranges.
Obama says he doesn't need "to be constrained about the emotions that tragedies like this raise" in the Charleston incident, which contrasts significantly with his reserved demeanor in discussing Chattanooga.
What is clear is that an attack on defenseless black Democrats is important and in this case at least it was personal for the White House occupier. America's Marines were disarmed and defenseless as well, but they don't march in lock step with his destruction of our country. They are the enemy and Obama was not successful in disguising his lack of concern or apathy over their deaths. His words sounded insincere because they were insincere.
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Those who pretend they can divine what's in the hearts and minds of others are often considered fools. The authors' conclusion that Preident Obama views American servicemen the "enemy" confirms it.
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"Our People™" doesn't include America's military
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Impeach the Bastard, so much or "His Legacy".
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Obama has chosen not to be President for all of the U.S.A. such as Reagan did and other presidents. Instead, he is the POTUS of only certain groups. He has chosen to be the "Great Divider."
His love of wrestling evolved into a love of competitive mixed martial arts — a sport his father did not view as appropriate for a Muslim. “Youssuf is a pretty strict, straight-line Muslim guy,” Mr. Jones said.
A video uploaded in July 2009 to GoFightLive, a YouTube account that collects video of mixed martial arts fights, showed Mr. Abdulazeez in camouflage shorts, participating in a cage fight with a man identified as Timmy Hall. Mr. Abdulazeez dominated the fight, pinning his opponent to the mat early and pummeling him.
Chet Blalock, former owner of a mixed martial arts gym in Chattanooga where Mr. Abdulazeez trained, said Mr. Abdulazeez, would allow himself to be choked while fighting until he lost consciousness. Several times, he recalled, the young man would be out cold, revive himself, then take a brief breather before continuing to train.
“It’s a bit on the extreme side, even for mixed martial arts,” Mr. Blalock said. He now thinks that Mr. Abdulazeez may have been testing his threshold for pain.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Free Beacon] A federal agency rushed to approve funding for a Clinton donor's sham Haiti recovery project that ended up defrauding the U.S. government out of millions, according to court transcripts and internal government documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Shady ballot brokers are "doping the vote" in the Rio Grande Valley, an election-watch group says. Now the FBI is on the case.
