Hillary and Morocco — what the $12 million paid for
With a scandal like this, it normally helps to track Liz.
GW’s administration had sent $697.5 million to Morroco to help the poor. But as I understand it most of the money had not been spent yet. Obama wanted his finger in the pie. And so did the Clintons. But also ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3482804/posts?page=46#46
ABC News reported in may 6, 2015 that ex-president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation’s Global Initiative were being hosted at a five-star luxury hotel in Morocco by one of the world’s most controversial mining companies, criticized for “serious human rights violations” by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3482771/posts?page=4#4
In 2008, the US State Dept’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) commenced a five-year, $697.5 million compact with the Kingdom of Morocco to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth.
The MCC compact invests in expansion of fruit tree agriculture (including olives, nuts, and dates), support for small-scale fisheries and fish-markets, enhancement of the artisanal sector in the city of Fes, and training for small-scale businesses across all these sectors,
.........with an emphasis on training for women and youth including literacy training.
UPDATE In 2016 Mr O gave Mrs O $100 million tax dollars fromthe Millennium Challenge Corporation on her visit to Morocco for “teaching Muslim girls”...... to be administered by the post-presidency tax-exempt Obama Foundation.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3482771/posts?page=3#3
Former US president Bill Clinton, who is on a private visit to Morocco, was received on Sunday in the Rabat royal palace by HM King Mohammed VI.
ABC News reported in may 6, 2015 that ex-president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation’s Global Initiative were being hosted at a five-star luxury hotel in Morocco by one of the world’s most controversial mining companies, criticized for “serious human rights violations” by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice.
The Moroccan government-owned mining company OCP operates in disputed international territory in a remote part of the Saharan Desert and the firm has been criticized for removing the resources without adequately compensating the impoverished people who live there.“
Any time the human rights of a population are systematically suppressed in this type of way it’s a serious concern, and I think it’s worthy of attention,” said David McKean, who has studied the issue for the RFK center.
OCP mining paid $1 million to help host the event and throw a private cocktail reception, to the dismay of human rights activists.
source http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clinton-foundation-taking-accused-rights-violator/story?id=30840212
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[research by liz]
I tracked your posting some this morning and cobbled some of your Morocco research up in post 16.
He and Hillary have some emails in the pile together concerning mining, etc.
CorpsAfrica sounds to me [and I reserve the right to be wrong] like an Alinsky-style community organizing effort designed to gather the poor onto the plantation so that their global 'betters' can use them like the DNC uses the BLM movement to pursue their own development agendas, power, etc..
http://www.corpsafrica.org/the-model.html The CorpsAfrica Model
CorpsAfrica is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2011 by a former Peace Corps Volunteer seeking to recognize and build on Peace Corps's enormous success by offering the same transformative experience to emerging leaders in Africa - giving them the chance to be a part of the solution for their own countries. CorpsAfrica applies some of the best approaches to international development, including empowering local communities, promoting collaboration among NGOs and our development partners, monitoring and impact evaluation.
CorpsAfrica recruits men and women to move to high-poverty communities within their own countries for a year, after successfully completing four weeks of training built around experiential learning to empower and equip Volunteers with the skills and mindsets they will need to be successful at their sites. Volunteers gain the community’s trust and understanding by engaging people in conversations and facilitating community meetings to identify and address changing and complex local needs in education, health, small business development, urban planning and infrastructure, agriculture, the environment, and more. They then initiate and facilitate projects that fulfill these key needs in their communities and whose impact and success can be carefully measured and monitored.
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Are there any references to CorpsAfrica in wiki?