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When it comes to travel, Americans aren’t very worldly, a new study shows. Yanks are only half as likely as Europeans to go abroad to visit more than one country — with expense being the number one reason the U.S. is full of homebodies
originally posted by: spirit_horse
originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Alien Abduct
I hate these stupid bait threads.
Hillary is the most qualified of those who are running.
Happy?
Hahaha! Yea, she handled the ME regime change just fine there. Her paitients running the insane asylum of the ship of state while using it as a cruise ship casino to get donations to her foundation for weapons deals.
Now that's experience you shouldn't get behind!
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: onequestion
I think its not about the laws it s because there is just a hell of a lot of poor people in this country that can't afford to travel abroad
originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Alien Abduct
I hate these stupid bait threads.
Hillary is the most qualified of those who are running.
Happy?
originally posted by: Boscowashisnamo
originally posted by: spirit_horse
originally posted by: Annee
a reply to: Alien Abduct
I hate these stupid bait threads.
Hillary is the most qualified of those who are running.
Happy?
Hahaha! Yea, she handled the ME regime change just fine there. Her paitients running the insane asylum of the ship of state while using it as a cruise ship casino to get donations to her foundation for weapons deals.
Now that's experience you shouldn't get behind!
You mean the UBS deal that resulted in her foundation getting millions, and her husband getting sweet speaking engagement gigs worth--millions?
www.theatlantic.com...
www.wsj.com...
thehill.com...
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: onequestion
What do you mean?
originally posted by: Boscowashisnamo
You mean the UBS deal that resulted in her foundation getting millions, and her husband getting sweet speaking engagement gigs worth--millions?
Israeli officials were agitated, reportedly complaining to the Obama administration that this substantial enhancement to Saudi air power risked disrupting the region's fragile balance of power. The deal appeared to collide with the State Department’s documented concerns about the repressive policies of the Saudi royal family.
But now, in late 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Department was formally clearing the sale, asserting that it was in the national interest. At press conferences in Washington to announce the department’s approval, an assistant secretary of state, Andrew Shapiro, declared that the deal had been “a top priority” for Clinton personally. Shapiro, a longtime aide to Clinton since her Senate days, added that the “U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army have excellent relationships in Saudi Arabia.”
These were not the only relationships bridging leaders of the two nations. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $10 million to the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic enterprise she has overseen with her husband, former president Bill Clinton. Just two months before the deal was finalized, Boeing -- the defense contractor that manufactures one of the fighter jets the Saudis were especially keen to acquire, the F-15 -- contributed $900,000 to the Clinton Foundation, according to a company press release.
The Saudi deal was one of dozens of arms sales approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department that placed weapons in the hands of governments that had also donated money to the Clinton family philanthropic empire, an International Business Times investigation has found.
Under Clinton's leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data. That figure -- derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012) -- represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.
The Clinton-led State Department also authorized $151 billion of separate Pentagon-brokered deals for 16 of the countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation, resulting in a 143 percent increase in completed sales to those nations over the same time frame during the Bush administration. These extra sales were part of a broad increase in American military exports that accompanied Obama’s arrival in the White House. The 143 percent increase in U.S. arms sales to Clinton Foundation donors compares to an 80 percent increase in such sales to all countries over the same time period.
American defense contractors also donated to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and in some cases made personal payments to Bill Clinton for speaking engagements. Such firms and their subsidiaries were listed as contractors in $163 billion worth of Pentagon-negotiated deals that were authorized by the Clinton State Department between 2009 and 2012.
The State Department formally approved these arms sales even as many of the deals enhanced the military power of countries ruled by authoritarian regimes whose human rights abuses had been criticized by the department. Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar all donated to the Clinton Foundation and also gained State Department clearance to buy caches of American-made weapons even as the department singled them out for a range of alleged ills, from corruption to restrictions on civil liberties to violent crackdowns against political opponents.
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton also accused some of these countries of failing to marshal a serious and sustained campaign to confront terrorism. In a December 2009 State Department cable published by Wikileaks, Clinton complained of “an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority.” She declared that “Qatar's overall level of CT cooperation with the U.S. is considered the worst in the region.” She said the Kuwaiti government was “less inclined to take action against Kuwait-based financiers and facilitators plotting attacks.” She noted that “UAE-based donors have provided financial support to a variety of terrorist groups.” All of these countries donated to the Clinton Foundation and received increased weapons export authorizations from the Clinton-run State Department.
Winning Friends, Influencing Clintons
Under federal law, foreign governments seeking State Department clearance to buy American-made arms are barred from making campaign contributions -- a prohibition aimed at preventing foreign interests from using cash to influence national security policy. But nothing prevents them from contributing to a philanthropic foundation controlled by policymakers.
Just before Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, the Clinton Foundation signed an agreement generally obligating it to disclose to the State Department increases in contributions from its existing foreign government donors and any new foreign government donors. Those increases were to be reviewed by an official at the State Department and “as appropriate” the White House counsel’s office. According to available disclosures, officials at the State Department and White House raised no issues about potential conflicts related to arms sales.
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: onequestion
I think its not about the laws it s because there is just a hell of a lot of poor people in this country that can't afford to travel abroad
Right but don't you think that the disposable income isn't available for a reason?
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
Do you guys agree with my immigration assessment in the OP?
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: onequestion
What do you mean?
Seems like when the economy is down than there is clearly less travel.
Might be getting done on purpose.
originally posted by: Spider879
If you had only asked why I will be voting for Bernie...sigh! no love..