Bill Clinton Foundation Tied To Firm Assisting China In Tibet Crackdown

As Chinese authorities have clamped down on unrest in Tibet and jailed dissidents in advance of the 2008 Olympics, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken a strong public stance, calling for restraint in Tibet and urging President Bush to boycott the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing.

But her recent stern comments on China's internal crackdown collide with former President Bill Clinton's fundraising relationship with a Chinese Internet company accused of collaborating with the mainland government's censorship of the Web. Last month, the firm, Alibaba Inc., carried a government-issued "most wanted" posting on its Yahoo China homepage, urging viewers to provide information on Tibetan activists suspected of stirring recent riots.

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[drzoon]

HILARY IS ON TV.... she's telling another story..... and.... i betcha is another lie.

[b2008]

PLEASE LISTEN - this is very important because we are electing a president this year.

Do we really (in our gut) want a LYING PRESIDENT? A person we cannot trust to tell us the absolute truth? A person who manipulates the truth to their advantage? A person who can't seem to get their facts straight? A person who improvises the truth? A person who influences others with lies and inuendos? A person who cries (tears, literally) for attention? A person who has a rightwing religious connection with the Republicans? A person who can become fanatical in a heartbeat? A person who changes moods with the wind? A person who ......

Please look at these attributes and ask yourself, do I want that person for president?

[oracle99]

The MSM distorts what Obama says and pays down any negatives about Hillary and McCain. Obama is not the status quo ...and they want the status quo to remain in power.

[Beachrunner]

More trouble for Hillary. What scum they are.

[MiddleRoad1]

And yet, bitter has dominated the news for days. The media must think we are really stupid

[b2008]

YEP! That's exactly what they think and until we let them know that we're NOT, they will continue to feed our fear and tell us how we should feel. We need to start emailing them, writing letters, calling or sending smoke signals -- whatever -- to let them know we are TIRED OF THEIR CRAP AND WE WANT THE TRUTH FOR A CHANGE.

[Macready]

I guess the clintons don't care where their money comes from .. .as long as they keep getting their bank account filled . . . speaks volumes about how they both would behave if -- they got back into the Wh . . .clintons continue to play both sides of the aisle . .. they have no moral integrity . . .they seem to be getting more and more like the bushies every day.

[b2008]

And don't care how they LIE about it either!

[VOTER]

"Bill Clinton Foundation Tied To Firm Assisting China In Tibet Crackdown"

Bill's unspoken concern.

"Damn. The next thing I will be hearing is Jimmy (Carville) calling me, JUDAS!"

[ntmessage]

How convenient and timely that Clinton has some indirect business dealing with whomever or what ever is the negative headline de jour. Frankly, given six degrees of separation we all do as well. Some direct factual link would be nice, meaning the so-called bad people and Clinton himself, as opposed to rumor and innuendo so far fetched, it could just as easily have been completely made up.

[b2008]

What? You want factual evidence on the Clintons? Is that what you are saying? Did you read the Bill Clinton article about his China affiliation?

[ntmessage]

Of course I did. I dont believe everything I read, but this article has little substantive proof or connection to support the implication, which in my mind means that someone is trying to make an issue without facts or detail to back it up.

Therefore, in this case there no tangible points that need to be believed anyhow since they are all subjective rhetoric here.

[StillAmused]

From the full article:

"Instead of taking his standard speaking fees, which have ranged from $100,000 to $400,000, Clinton accepted an unspecified private donation from Alibaba to his international charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation.

"The former president's charity has raised more than $500 million over the last decade and has been lauded for its roles in disaster response, AIDS prevention and Third World medical and poverty relief."

Proposed alternate headline:

HUFFINGTON POST TIED TO PORNOGRAPHY
Both Found Using Same Internet Technology

[Oldbuck]

How noble is it to sell out your own country to stroke your own ego

[StillAmused]

"Sell out your own country"?

Through "disaster response, AIDS prevention and Third World medical and poverty relief"?

... or 'cause YOU say so?

Moron.

[ntmessage]

Nice. Please do not omit one of the largest owners of Alibaba at that time. Yahoo. Let's get them as well!

[AdultFilmLegend]

China has the internet? Somebody needs to get on that!

[duze]

For the last 20 years two families have been in the White House, Bush and Clinton, yet, here we are.
Ruined economy, no socialized health reform, and ruinious war, no true educational progress, mortgage losses, jobs lost, american dollar has lost it's value around the world, no prayer in schools. large corporate bail outs, CEO ruining companies while stealing workers pensions and leaving with large bonus's, gas prices soaring, strikes, rampant crime, while government at large has lost all respect from the people. Can't blame everything on Bush. Clinton was in the White House for eight years.

[tara108]

The Clintons did indeed do a lot of harm to America...
and they are worth a lot more than their "tax returns" would ever indicate...They have Cayman Island accounts as well as Swiss bank accounts....
they made a fortune aiding and abetting the pillage of Russia ( ask Jeffrey Sachs)
and they were involved up to their ears in the CIA drug smuggling going on in Mena Askansas during their time in the Governor's office...
see:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8681225708920427234
and they had to have made some big bucks when they sold America down the river to China (just ask Ron Brown...oh wait you can't 'cause he is dead)
see: http://www.kitchensinkpolitics.com/The_Garbage_Disposal.html

sorry but it is all too true:(

it should also be noted:
After their assistance in drowning the inner cities of America with Columbian cocaine, they went on to hugely escalate the War on Drugs during their time in the White House...and they have the nerve to call themselves "friends" to the Black Community.....disgusting...immoral and unforgivable!

[ntmessage]

Get a grip. Every bad headline is somehow linked to the Clintons. Perhaps some sanity could prevail when attempting to make ridiculous connections much less direct evidence of how America was sold down the river.

[MiddleRoad1]

"Every bad headline is somehow linked to the Clintons. "
Probably because everything bad is linked to the Clintons

[Seattlelite]

The Clinton's claim Sen. Obama hasn't been vetted, well neither have they, where are those Library records Bill?

[b2008]

Vetting of the Clintons has got to be another lie. How can you vet liars? Are we to assume that their lies are true and accurate?

[Seattlelite]

This week we find Bill was paid $800K lobbing the Columbia trade deal -- rumor is this just the tip of the ice berg.. Brace your folks soon you'll see who the real elitists are.

[b2008]

Did you add in how much he receives from his CHINA business dealings? Let's see if we can get a grand total and a true CONFLICT OF INTEREST possibly going into the White House!

[globalcitizenlinda]

As long as there is power and money to be received, you can bet that the Clintons will find it and then come infront of the camera and pretend to be against the people or event that actually made their financial gain posssible

[debwarot]

Very true (but also very sad).

[friendofjimmy]

i saw bill clinton beating a tibetan
monk, while wearing a diaper made out
of the constitution!

[Barbarossa03]

I bet the Chinese are hoping for Hilary so that they can spend a night in the White House again.

[MartinEdwinAndersen]

DISPATCHES FROM THE GROUND WAR ...

CARL BERNSTEIN (OF WATERGATE FAME) WRITES OF A POTENTIAL HILLARY PRESIDENCY ...


... the demotion of Penn "- like the departure of Hillary"s acolyte Patty Solis Doyle as campaign manager "- is a confession that, for all her claims of "experience" and leadership abilities, Hillary Clinton has now presided over two disastrous national enterprises, the most important professional undertakings of her adult life, both of which she began with ample wind at her back: the healthcare reform of her husband"s presidency, and now her own campaign for the White House.

These two failures -" and the demonizing of her opponents in both instances "- may be the best indication of the kind of President she would be, especially when confronted (inevitably) by unanticipated difficulty and/or entrenched opposition to her ideas and programs.

It is exactly under such circumstances that she usually resorts to the worst excesses that mark her in full warrior-mode " and all its scorched-earth, truth-be-damned manifestations.

Bosnia, anyone?

Smearing the women involved (or even thought to be involved) sexually with her husband.

Responding to Barack Obama with the same mindset, disdain, and arsenal as she did Karl Rove and Lee Atwater, as if Obama"s politics and methodologies were as mendacious and vicious as theirs"and her own.

Tax information kept secret (in 1992 to hide her profits from trading in cattle futures; in 2008 to shield the identities of Bill"s foreign clients.) ...

[duze]

Let's not forget the Paul v. Clinton suit filed in a California Court. The FEC deemed it as "The Largest Election Fraud Case in the U.S. Get a Good Look at YouTube "The Shocking Video That Hillary Clinton Doesn't Want You To See. Parts 1 & 2. Seems to me the Clinton's continuiously have more to hide than ever. This story has been previously reported on MSNBC, FOX News and the Washington Post, yet no one wants to seem to bring it forward. Joh Arman, a constitutional Law Specialist, states that a serious crime has been committed. I personally feel that every voter should have the complete background of their perspective candidates history.

[b2008]

That case is coming up this fall. Hillary has to attend from what I read about it. Can we see our next president sitting in court trying to get out of a mess of this size?

Wake up America! The Clintons are deceiving you again!

[DAbraha]

Well, you can't have it both ways, can you? Man...it does not surprise to see Hillary and Bill paying the American people like a pendulum. When would she come out and denounce Bill? Hillary, when you marry this guy, you made a choice and bad judgment just like the vote you made to authorize the use of force in Iraq. http://youtube.com/watch?v=DkS9y5t0tR0

When I vote for a President, I have a choice and the ability to make good judgment about who will bring good things to working families.

Hillary, the only person who has the ability to deliver these things to a better America is Obama. It is time to turn the page and VOTE for Senator Obama because you don't have anything good to offer to this country. You are better making your $100 Million with your husband.

[StephenS]

In 2005, Bill Clinton spoke to a conference by Alibaba (which runs Yahoo China).

Instead of earning $100,000 or more for himself and Hillary, Bill accepted an unspecified private donation from Alibaba to the Clinton Foundation, which has spent tens of millions of dollars on disaster response, AIDS prevention and Third World medical and poverty relief.

So Bill Clinton should have known that in 2008 the government of China would force Yahoo China to carry a government-issued posting on its homepage to turn in Tibet activists? Right...

[tara108]

Clinton has a vary intimate and treasonous relationship with the Chinese to whom he sold America down the river to...Yes Virginia, Bill knew exactly who he was getting into bed with ...at least this time Hillary was in the bed too!

[ntmessage]

Please look up Treason in the dictionary.

[b2008]

Is that all that you can say about all these conflicts regarding the Clintons?

[duze]

Seems Bill continuiously accepts large amount of money rgarding exactly what Hillary supposedly campaings against. First it was Peter Paul helper her financially when she ran for Senate.
Now its Columbia and Alabama and who knows who else. Let's face it if Hillary was so against NAFTA , why would she except money into their joint account that her husband excepted on their behalf. She not only voted for NAFTA, she supports every effort to see that these practices continue. First NAFTA, Then the war, Lied about Bosnia, the young ladies medical care and then tried relentlessly to tie Obama to the reverends remarks and yet she states a person doesn't have to agree with a family members choices. Well, Miss Hillary, they do and are if their joint bank account lists an $800,000 fee from Columbia.

[Barbarossa03]

No but in 2005 he new the whole mission of this company was to monitor the internet and suppress free speech that may try to come out of China.

[StephenS]

Same was and is true for Google China. Makes you wonder if Bill decided to let Alibaba contribute to good works done by his foundation because he was uncomfortable taking their money for himself. There was a story on HuffPo a while ago about another Chinese internet-related firm where Bill refused personal payment but arranged a donation to his foundation. It was shares of stock that later got sold.