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letsdothis3 ago

Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big

Fifteen years ago this month, on Jan. 20, 2001, his last day in office, Bill Clinton issued a pardon for international fugitive Marc Rich. It would become perhaps the most condemned official act of Clinton’s political career. A New York Times editorial called it “a shocking abuse of presidential power.” The usually Clinton-friendly New Republic noted it “is often mentioned as Exhibit A of Clintonian sliminess.”..

Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury is well known as a close ally and business associate of Rich. The Nigerian media declared in 1999 that the “Gilbert Chagoury-Marc Rich alliance remains a formidable foe.” They sold oil on international markets together. In 2000, Chagoury was convicted in Geneva of money laundering and aiding a criminal organization in connection with the billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria during the reign of dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.

...The London-based Reuben Brothers have made a fortune thanks in part to their commodities firm Trans World Metals. According to the World Bank, they founded that firm with money from Marc Rich.

And they have confirmed that they had business dealings with Rich. The Reuben Brothers, through their own Reuben Foundation, have been enthusiastic supporters of the Clintons. They co-hosted a star-studded gala with the Clinton Foundation in London dubbed the Millennium Network. They have also directly donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.

Reuben Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Foundation

The Reuben Foundation is a private foundation established in the United Kingdom created to channel the charitable giving of the Reuben family and David and Simon Reuben. The Foundation supports a range of charitable causes, from long-term funding of projects to individual charitable donations, with a focus on the global advancement of healthcare and education. Formed in 2002 as the Reuben Brothers Foundation with an initial endowment of US$100 million, grants are made by invitation only and on the approval of the Trustees.

The Reuben Foundation is registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales and operates in the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel, the United States and Greece.

In 2012 the Reuben Foundation launched the Reuben Scholarship Programme with a multimillion-pound endowment. The programme was formed to provide financial support to bright students from disadvantaged backgrounds allowing them to benefit from the opportunity of higher education. The Reuben Scholarship Programme is in partnership with the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, UCL and Ark Schools.

The Reuben Foundation created a new Centre for Paediatric Virology at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. ..The Reuben Foundation Children's Cancer Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital opened in 2008, enabling the Hospital to become the largest centre for paediatric cancer treatment in Europe and one of the top three largest centres in the world.

The Reuben Foundation made a multimillion-pound donation towards a new cancer Imaging Centre at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea.

In March 2005 the Reuben Foundation opened a Comprehensive Breast Health Centre in the presence of the wife of the President of the State of Israel. In 2008 the Reuben Foundation opened another cancer clinic at the Linn Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, in the presence of the late Shimon Peres; the centre services all sectors of Israeli society.

The Reuben Foundation supported the Injured Jockeys Fund (IJF) by providing significant funding for Jack Berry House in North Yorkshire, the IJF's second respite and rehabilitation centre for injured jockeys, officially opened in June 2015 by Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal.

..The Reuben Foundation provided the principal funding to construct the BFI Reuben Library within BFI Southbank, the British Film Institute’s flagship venue in London. The BFI Reuben Library provides information on film, television and, increasingly, new media. Its priority is comprehensive coverage of the moving image in Britain from pre-cinema to the present, but the scope of the collection is international with material held in more than 15 languages. The BFI Reuben library was opened in its new South Bank home in September 2012 in an event attended by Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

..In November 2016 the Reuben Foundation were the Headline Sponsor of the Centrepoint at the Palace Gala, held in the presence of HRH the Duke of Cambridge at Kensington Palace. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with a safe place to stay and vital support with health and education. Debra Reuben, wife of David Reuben, is a Founder of the Centrepoint Circle Club.

The Reuben Foundation was a Gold Circle Sponsor of the 2016 Humanitarian Award Dinner, held by the Simon Wiesenthal Center at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in November 2016.

In September 2015 the Reuben Foundation were Sole Sponsors of the United Jewish Israel Appeal (UJIA) Annual Dinner, held at Grosvenor House in London, and attended by over 800 guests. The event raised money for UJIA's vital programmes and projects in the UK and Israel.

The Reuben Foundation provided a contribution towards the Imperial War Museum's major art exhibition, Truth and Memory, in order to support the Imperial War Museum's First World War Centenary art initiative. This was opened in July 2014 by HRH the Duke of Cambridge and David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the UK.

In 2012 the Clinton Foundation held its first event in London, in collaboration with The Reuben Foundation.

In 2011 the Reuben Foundation, in partnership with the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and under the strategic help of Michael Bloomberg, launched Team London, which gave voluntary sector grants and aimed to encourage volunteering in the capital. The Reuben Foundation funded a significant proportion of the total grants and within 12 months circa 19,000 volunteers from Team London had donated 250,000 hours of free time to help boost literacy, skills and green projects in the capital.[18] In 2010 the Reuben Foundation together with Virgin Unite launched 'The Haiti Project' which raised substantial funds for the hurricane relief effort following the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti.

letsdothis3 ago

In Profile : The John Adam Street Gang

First published in 2010

If you are seeking the head of the corporate empire on these Isles then look no further than Adelphi House, off the Strand in London.

..In Britain, we have witnessed the strangulation of our farming and fishing abilities in the handing of huge subsidies for farmers not to farm the land, and quotas dished out to fishermen, the knock on affect created a dependance on the supermarkets that import almost everything they sell. Through a myriad of shell companies, the beneficiaries have formed a network to hide financial theft to the offshore accounts. In this manner they have removed almost the entire wealth of this nation into the hands of the Central banking cartel, through its many corporations, which then dictate to governments through the legislation dished out through the United Nations which acts as a front, a proxy, for the old money families running the Bank for International Settlements, a private entity that will take full control of the corporate empire when they have achieved full command over nations in the activation of the emergency systems, which through the secret societies they have successfully installed.

In Britain that would be the Contingency Act and in the United States the Patriot Act. These are the corporate governance platforms they intend to control all nations, not as people but under the rules of commerce.

ARK (Absolute Return For Kids) - Military Industrial Hedge Fund front, instituting the international bankers agenda into our schools and calling it education. ARK is heavily involved in child care, Romanian orphans, connected to the program called Common Purpose and the many pseudo charitable trusts within its web This network is serious, dark and very very pushy. ARK is now operating as a United Nations front via the World Health Organisation through the; Global Health Workforce Alliance.

letsdothis3 ago

Voat posts re ARK Schools :

Tony Podesta shares board membership with ARK Schools Chairman. ARK has extensive ties with Tavistock and has been accused of kidnapping children through adoption programs

Paedophile Liberation Exchange (PIE) and those involved with Ark Academy schools, connection between ARK and the Lucifer Trust and the Huxley's

From the The Psychosynthesis Trust to Teens & Toddlers and ARK to Children our Ultimate Investment UK (COUI)

The direct connections between the US and UK pizzagates are Tony Podesta, ARK, Execution Charitable Trust and Will Draper from the Hampstead case

Execution Charitable Trust is the London based trust set up by traders at Execution Ltd. They are mentioned here in the book Binge Trading: The real inside story of cash, cocaine and corruption in the City

Execution Ltd is mentioned on pizzagate a lot too, in connection with Will Draper, who allegedly was the financier of the Hamsptead cult.

Will Draper is also a shareholder of Execution...And there are many more threads which include information on Execution Ltd's journey to Execution Noble, the Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo , and the Novo Note Group (BlackRock). Then there are the links with Cambridge Analytica, Bell Pottinger and Prince Andrew..

Prince Andrew has links to ARK too..

British charity Absolute Return for Kids, which has ties to The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, is introducing a vaccination programme to protect 750,000 African children.

Bell Pottinger has deep ties to the Madeline McCann case too..

Chairman of ARK is Arpad Busson

The annual Ark Dinner hosted by Busson sees a range of high-profile individuals attend the event to raise money for the charity. Previous years have seen the likes of Bill Clinton (2006),[18] Queen Rania of Jordan (2010)[19] and in 2011 the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took the limelight as Prince William announced a joint venture by the Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry and the Ark charity.[20]

Its activities include funding treatment for AIDS victims in Africa, taking children out of care in Bulgaria and Romania and developing educational opportunities for disadvantaged children in India.[21] It also operates eight academies, six of which are in London, through its subsidiary charity ARK Academies.

He is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation[23] and a founding member of Theodora Children's Trust,[24] a charity which brings music, magic and laughter to children in hospital through visits from performers known as "Giggle Doctors".

letsdothis3 ago

@9217 Have you come across Reuben Foundation in connection with ARK schools? See parent.

9217 ago

No I haven't, but this looks fascinating, thank you for the tag.