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Clinton Foundation donors include dozens of media organizations, individuals

By JOSH GERSTEIN, TARINI PARTI, HADAS GOLD and DYLAN BYERS 

5/15/15 5:44 PM EDT

NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and Thomson Reuters are among more than a dozen media organizations that have made charitable contributions to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, the foundation's records show.The donations, which range from the low-thousands to the millions, provide a picture of the media industry's ties to the Clinton Foundation at a time when one of its most notable personalities, George Stephanopoulos, is under scrutiny for his previously undisclosed $75,000 contribution.The list also includes mass media groups like Comcast, Time Warner and Viacom, as well a few notable individuals, including Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecom magnate and largest shareholder of The New York Times Company, and James Murdoch, the chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox.
Both Slim and Murdoch have given between $1 million to $5 million, respectively.Judy Woodruff, the co-anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, gave $250 to the foundation's “Clinton Haiti Relief Fund" in 2010.The following list includes news media organizations that have donated to the foundation, as well as other media networks, companies, foundations or individuals that have donated.
It is organized by the size of the contribution:

$1,000,000-$5,000,000
Carlos Slim
Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder

James Murdoch
Chief Operating Officer of 21st Century FoxNewsmax MediaFlorida-based conservative media network

Thomson Reuters
Owner of the Reuters news service

$500,00-$1,000,000

Google
News Corporation Foundation

Philanthropic arm of former Fox News parent company

$250,000-$500,000

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher

Richard Mellon Scaife
Owner of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

$100,000-$250,000

Abigail Disney
Documentary filmmaker

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Howard Stringer
Former CBS, CBS News and Sony executive

 Intermountain West Communications Company 
Local television affiliate owner (formerly Sunbelt Communications)

$50,000-$100,000

Bloomberg L.P.

Discovery Communications Inc.

George Stephanopoulos
ABC News chief anchor and chief political correspondent

Mort Zuckerman
Owner of New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report

Time Warner Inc.
Owner of CNN parent company Turner Broadcasting

$25,000-$50,000

AOL

HBO

Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Presenters of the Golden Globe Awards

Viacom

$10,000-$25,000

Knight Foundation
Non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting journalism

Public Radio International

Turner Broadcasting
Parent company of CNNTwitter

$5,000-$10,000

Comcast
Parent copmany of NBC Universal

NBC Universal
Parent company of NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC

Public Broadcasting Service

$1,000-$5,000

Robert Allbritton
Owner of POLITICO parent company Capitol News Group

$250-$1,000

AOL Huffington Post Media Group

Hearst Corporation

Judy Woodruff
PBS Newshour co-anchor and managing editor

The Washington Post Company

Controversial Clinton-Tied Moroccan Mining Firm Supported by Ex-Im Bank

BY: Lachlan Markay  
May 15, 2015 2:17 pm

A controversial state-owned Moroccan mining firm that has poured money into Hillary Clinton’s foundation has received more than $92 million in U.S. taxpayer support, public records show.The firm, OCP, has been accused of violating U.S. and international law. According to a Friday report inPolitico, it has also donated $6 million to the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.In September, the U.S. Export-Import Bank guaranteed a $92 million Citibank loan to OCP to purchase equipment from two American manufacturers.
That federal support came despite controversial practices by the state-owned company, detailed by Politico in a story on the Clinton Foundation’s OCP-sponsored event in Marrakech.
Former employees of the company decried what they described as its discriminatory and abusive practices.

"They say the company, formerly called the Office Chérifien des Phosphates, forced them to retire early and slashed their pensions, leaving them struggling to scrape by while hiring ethnic Moroccans for more senior jobs. The miners also told me how they had witnessed first-hand multiple examples of the “arbitrary and prolonged detention” and “physical and verbal abuse” that the U.S. State Department says Moroccan authorities mete out to Sahrawis advocating for independence in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
“Hillary Clinton sold her soul when they accepted that money,” declared Mohamed Lahwaimed, who gathered with the other former miners in a second floor walk-up in the Western Sahara capital of Laayoune, a modern-looking desert town with a population of 200,000 people about 500 miles southeast of Marrakech. Wearing traditional Sahrawi dara’a robes and lounging on worn pillows, they sipped green tea and spoke Arabic.
“And now we are concerned that if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency of the United States of America, she will take the side of Moroccans even more,” Lahwaimed said through an interpreter.
Added fellow former miner Lahbib Salhi, “All the tainted money that Morocco has gathered from taking away our rights has been used to bribe the Clinton Foundation and the international community.”

Revelations that OCP has donated millions to the Clinton Foundation have sparked controversy among some Republicans who claim the company may have violated U.S. law.“We are concerned that OCP may have … been complicit in violations of U.S. trade law” through phosphate extraction activities in occupied territory in the Western Sahara, wrote Reps. Joe Pitts (R., Penn.) and Chris Smith (R., N.J.) in an April letter to the foundation.They called on the foundation to “discontinue its coordination with OCP and return any accepted money from the enterprise.”
OCP’s activities in the Western Sahara have also drawn allegations of international law violations. When Politico reported Ken Vogel visited a town in the Western Sahara last week, he was tailed by Moroccan authorities.

kalm wrote:Money is speech! Why do you hate freedom?

travelinman67 wrote:

kalm wrote:Money is speech! Why do you hate freedom?

Translation: "Quit picking on my girlfriend!"

kalm wrote:Money is speech! Why do you hate freedom?

andy7171 wrote:

kalm wrote:Money is speech! Why do you hate freedom?

There it is!!

Chizzang wrote:Love her or Hate her she has mastered the game
She did not invent this - she is simply better at it than most
You won't see much of an inside political uprising against her because all of them WANT to do this
Secretly every damn one of them wants it...

What's sad is most of the politicians who master the abuse of the system like this do NOT run for president
they simply work the appointment process up and down the line of cake jobs

travelinman67 wrote:

Chizzang wrote:Love her or Hate her she has mastered the game
She did not invent this - she is simply better at it than most
You won't see much of an inside political uprising against her because all of them WANT to do this
Secretly every damn one of them wants it...

What's sad is most of the politicians who master the abuse of the system like this do NOT run for president
they simply work the appointment process up and down the line of cake jobs

"What's sad...is most...do not run for President."???????



Corruption is unforgivable. They are public SERVANTS BY CHOICE.

Like stealing candy from a baby...pure sociopathy.

I understand I have become your troll talisman, Hippie, but please don't shit all over reason and logic to defend amorality.

That's Kalm's job.

Chizzang wrote:

travelinman67 wrote:
"What's sad...is most...do not run for President."???????



Corruption is unforgivable. They are public SERVANTS BY CHOICE.

Like stealing candy from a baby...pure sociopathy.

I understand I have become your troll talisman, Hippie, but please don't shit all over reason and logic to defend amorality.

That's Kalm's job.

The process of running for President exposes the politician to extra public scrutiny
Most of them are smart enough (Example: Cheney) to just lay low and run the appointment circuit
If these master political system abusers ran - they'd get exposed more frequently

Hillary will find herself wishing she laid low

Hillary Clinton personally took money from companies that sought to influence her

by Jonathan Allen 
May 16, 2015, 10:20 a.m. ET 

 Almost a decade ago, as Hillary Clinton ran for re-election to the Senate on her way to seeking the presidency for the first time, the New York Times reported on her unusually close relationship with Corning, Inc., an upstate glass titan. Clinton advanced the company's interests, racking up a big assist by getting China to ease a trade barrier. And the firm's mostly Republican executives opened up their wallets for her campaign.
During Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State, Corning lobbied the department on a variety of trade issues, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The company has donated between $100,000 and $250,000 to her family's foundation. And, last July, when it was clear that Clinton would again seek the presidency in 2016, Corning coughed up a $225,500 honorarium for Clinton to speak.
In the laundry-whirl of stories about Clinton buck-raking, it might be easy for that last part to get lost in the wash. But it's the part that matters most. The $225,500 speaking fee didn't go to help disease-stricken kids in an impoverished village on some long-forgotten patch of the planet. Nor did it go to a campaign account. It went to Hillary Clinton. Personally.

....

travelinman67 wrote:

Chizzang wrote:Love her or Hate her she has mastered the game
She did not invent this - she is simply better at it than most
You won't see much of an inside political uprising against her because all of them WANT to do this
Secretly every damn one of them wants it...

What's sad is most of the politicians who master the abuse of the system like this do NOT run for president
they simply work the appointment process up and down the line of cake jobs

"What's sad...is most...do not run for President."???????



Corruption is unforgivable. They are public SERVANTS BY CHOICE.

Like stealing candy from a baby...pure sociopathy.

I understand I have become your troll talisman, Hippie, but please don't shit all over reason and logic to defend amorality.

That's Kalm's job.

kalm wrote:

travelinman67 wrote:
"What's sad...is most...do not run for President."???????



Corruption is unforgivable. They are public SERVANTS BY CHOICE.

Like stealing candy from a baby...pure sociopathy.

I understand I have become your troll talisman, Hippie, but please don't shit all over reason and logic to defend amorality.

That's Kalm's job.

Our system is legalized bribery. Hilary is good at it. Let me know if you need further help.

travelinman67 wrote:

kalm wrote:
Our system is legalized bribery. Hilary is good at it. Let me know if you need further help.

So, you're good with Cheney's financial ties to Haliburton?

kalm wrote:

travelinman67 wrote:
So, you're good with Cheney's financial ties to Haliburton?

What???

No.

That's part of the self fiction you've created.

Hilary is simply a cheneyesque douchebag who hasn't started an unnecessary war...yet.

Congrats on your logic!

Chizzang wrote:

kalm wrote:
What???

No.

That's part of the self fiction you've created.

Hilary is simply a cheneyesque douchebag who hasn't started an unnecessary war...yet.

Congrats on your logic!

Afghanistan Mining Rights... She's circumvented the war process
but has managed to capitalize on it
She's a War for Profit Politician no doubt about it

travelinman67 wrote:

Chizzang wrote:

Afghanistan Mining Rights... She's circumvented the war process
but has managed to capitalize on it
She's a War for Profit Politician no doubt about it

Afghanistan?

Jeezus...read or go away.

You and Kalm have become CS's Halperin and Brazille.

travelinman67 wrote:

Chizzang wrote:

Afghanistan Mining Rights... She's circumvented the war process
but has managed to capitalize on it
She's a War for Profit Politician no doubt about it

Afghanistan?

Jeezus...read or go away.

You and Kalm have become CS's Halperin and Brazille.