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MY CLINTON FOUNDATION STORY

We were asked to rescue a large project ‘funded’ by the clinton foundation, Microsoft, and the originators of the Greenhouse Gas movement.

This project was ostensively managed by the person at Microsoft who was responsible for their advocacy of green ideas. (a man).

This fellow used our ‘reciprocal’ relationship with Microsoft (our trust) to run up a $2M debt, by promising that he would ‘get the PO for the new funds, soon’. (Note that when you do many tens of millions of dollars with a client for decades, this is not an uncommon practice. Why? Because people cost money when they sit, cost more money to recruit again, so it’s better work on spec and help customers move paperwork thru their bureaucracies.)

Now, it turns out that the clinton foundation had promised to split the costs with Microsoft, but never actually had any of the money. We found out that they’d hoped to guilt Microsoft into ‘donating’ to the cause, or experience negative press for not doing so. (Entrapping them.) Autodesk had suggested they might contribute if the project was a success and their tech was used in it. But this was represented to all parties as money in the bank.

Now, I’m not going to get into how many high-fliers were involved in these discussions (Murdoch’s wife, various Clintonistas, people from Adobe, nearly everyone in the three central political players in the global warming movement, but you know, this wasn’t magic money. This was my money and my partner’s money we were dealing with. but everyone at the table was lying.) So I took the hard drives, backed them up, and put it all in a safe deposit box, until Microsoft legal asked us to give it to them. At which point it was dead tech. )

This is about 1% of the information I could write down but you get the general idea. This is how these people work.

And we were $2M poorer. I also spent an additional 200K+ of my own money trying to rescue it for the Global Warming people despite the fact that I actually opposed the state of the science. And I lost that because one of the people involved lied to me about his access to capital as well. What happened? Remember that November when it came out that the science was faked? That was our third month of operation on behalf of the Global Warming folks.

So my view of the clinton organization is that it’s just another bunch of hacks trading political favors. My view of global warming / climate movement is colored by my knowledge of the players. My view of corporations is that they should stay out of the freaking sentimental business anyway, and do good by making and distributing profits, while doing no harm.