AP Report Exposes Clinton Foundation Corruption

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Aug 242016
 

AP Report Exposes Clinton Foundation Corruption
This is HUGE!

A bombshell report exposes Hillary Clinton’s corrupt pay-to-play State Department / Clinton Foundation.

More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It’s an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.

At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.

Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton’s help with a visa problem; and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm’s corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.

Some of Clinton’s most influential visitors donated millions to the Clinton Foundation and to her and her husband’s political coffers. They are among scores of Clinton visitors and phone contacts in her official calendar turned over by the State Department to AP last year and in more-detailed planning schedules that so far have covered about half her four-year tenure. The AP sought Clinton’s calendar and schedules three years ago, but delays led the AP to sue the State Department last year in federal court for those materials and other records.

The 154 did not include U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives. Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity, but they were not included in AP’s calculations because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties.

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How To Of The Day: How To Make A Sundial

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Aug 242016
 

How to make a DIY sundial from start to finish. Learn how to set up the proper angles for the hour lines on the dial plate and how to set the gnomon angle as well as how to position the sundial for accuracy.

Enjoy!

Making a sundial is something we’ve wanted to do for a long time. As with any project we do, we wanted to make it a bit different. Rather than making it with a standard round dial plate we went with a leaf for the plate. We learned a lot along the way and we were pretty happy with the end result.

What you’ll need

  • Wood (scrap wood works for all of this, we used a small piece of cherry for the gnomon though)
  • Dowel (if making a pedestal)
  • Dremel or other rotary tool and craving bits
  • Propane torch
  • Resin (we use Famowood Glaze Coat)
  • Stain and Finish
  • Screws & Glue

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