Thread: Bill Clinton goes to Kazakhstan

If you were expecting a Borat joke, you guessed wrong.

Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.

Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.

Upon landing on the first stop of a three-country philanthropic tour, the two men were whisked off to share a sumptuous midnight banquet with Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, whose 19-year stranglehold on the country has all but quashed political dissent.

Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy.

Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.

Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.

And if Hillary gets asked about this in the debate tonight, I'll be really fucking surprised.

The Clintons are evil. Hillary will be ready alright, ready to fleece the country just like the Bush's before her, on day 1.

An ex-president, a mining deal, a big donor - The New York Times - MSNBC.com

The Clintons are evil. Hillary will be ready alright, ready to fleece the country just like the Bush's before her

God, I swear, that bitch makes me cringe. I can't watch or listen to her or monkey boy for longer than 5 seconds without wanting to puke. If she gets elected I'm moving to Kazakhstan and become a street begger....enough is enough already.

Originally Posted by blunt

God, I swear, that bitch makes me cringe. I can't watch or listen to her or monkey boy for longer than 5 seconds without wanting to puke. If she gets elected I'm moving to Kazakhstan and become a street begger....enough is enough already.

Welcome to PH, sweetie! Are you a Democrat?

Originally Posted by blunt

God, I swear, that bitch makes me cringe. I can't watch or listen to her or monkey boy for longer than 5 seconds without wanting to puke. If she gets elected I'm moving to Kazakhstan and become a street begger....enough is enough already.

Who is monkey boy?

Originally Posted by gpsweetness

Who is monkey boy?

You know the horny little monkey thats been beating his... um...
chest lately.

gpsweetness

Who is monkey boy?

You know..our hero-the president of the entire planet!!!! BUSHY

Blueneck

Are you a Democrat?

I was, but lately I don't know what I am..I guess I'm an independent..I can't stand any of em.