From the Washington Post: A charity affiliated with the Clinton Foundation failed to reveal the identities of its 1,100 donors, creating a broad exception to the foundation’s promise to disclose funding sources as part of an ethics agreement with the Obama administration. The number of undisclosed contributors to the charity, the Canada-based Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, signals a larger zone of secrecy around foundation donors than was previously known. Details of the organization’s fundraising were disclosed this week by a spokeswoman for the Canadian group’s founder, mining magnate Frank Giustra. The Canadian group has received attention in recent days as a potential avenue for anonymous Clinton Foundation donations from foreign business executives, including some who had interests before the U.S. government while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state. The partnership, named in part for Bill Clinton, sends much of its money to the New York-based Clinton Foundation. Two of the partnership’s known donors — Giustra and another mining executive, Ian Telfer — are featured in the soon-to-be-released book “Clinton Cash” for their roles in a series of deals that resulted in Russia controlling many uranium deposits around the world and in the United States. Read the rest of the
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In Photos: Four Years of Joining Forces
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Dr. Jill Biden launch the Joining Forces initiative to support and honor America’s service members and their families, in the East Room of the White House, April 12, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)
The First Lady greets audience members after a military community event at Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 13, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
The First Lady and Dr. Biden drop by Operation Shower, a celebration for pregnant women whose husbands are service members at Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 13, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
Rand Paul Addresses Jewish Leaders on US Foreign Policy in Brooklyn
Kentucky Senator and Republican presidential candidate, Rand Paul took his outreach to Jewish voters and traditional Republican voters in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday, April 27.
Welcome to the U.S.: The Prime Minister of Japan’s State Visit
Yesterday, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe arrived in Washington, D.C. for the beginning of a State Visit with President Obama. Prime Minister Abe’s visit is a tribute to the partnership between the United States and Japan that for seven decades has made enduring contributions to global peace, security, and prosperity.
Watch the arrival ceremony here:
“Across seven decades, our nations have become not just allies, but true partners and friends.”
— President Obama on relations between the U.S. and Japan
As one of the first activities of the Prime Minister’s time in America, President Obama and Prime Minister Abe traveled to the Lincoln Memorial here in Washington, D.C. to spend time together in a place of historical significance to the United States. The President and Prime Minister toured the Memorial, standing between the Gettysburg Address and Lincoln’s second inaugural address, to chat and reflect.
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan visit the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., April 27, 2015.
(Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
Accelerating Economic Mobility Through Promise Zone Partnerships
Today, in long-struggling pockets of major cities and small suburban towns cut off from regional economic engines, in the Low Country of South Carolina and on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the Administration is announcing eight new…
President Obama on Freddie Gray’s Death: “This is Not New, and We Shouldn’t Pretend that It’s New.”
Watch President Obama speak on the situation in Baltimore. http://t.co/T3t6ptxmaZ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 28, 2015
On April 12, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old native of Baltimore, was arrested by the city’s police. He died a wee…
Overstock Files Crypto Stock Exchange Prospectus with the SEC
The Salt Lake City-based online retailer Overstock is working on a revolutionary new development: a new independent stock exchange powered by Bitcoin technology. The new stock exchange could sidestep traditional stock exchanges such as NYSE and NASDAQ and issue corporate stock directly over the Internet. Overstock, one of the first and largest online retailers to accept bitcoin payments, first announced the project in October 2014. “There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain,” Overstock’s CEO Patrick Byrne told Wired. “We are writing rules for this whole new universe. “ In a recent Coin Telegraph interview, Byrne said that Overstock is building the platform that will let companies […]
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Make an Impact: Donate Bitcoin to Projects on the Ground in Nepal
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Ploshay, Connie Gallippi, Victoria van Eyk, and Sarah Martin. Last week, Nepal was hit with a magnitude 7.8 earthquake – the worst in 80 years. More than 4,000 people died, and hundreds more are without food, water or shelter. Natural disasters shake not just the core of our communities, but also the core of our humanity. Many of us feel a deep-seated need to reach out and help during major catastrophes. But it can sometimes seem overwhelming when the scale is so large, and hard to know how to make a real difference. Three leaders in the Bitcoin ecosystem – the BitGive Foundation, ChangeTip, and BitPay – have solutions to help: The BitGive Foundation […]
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Leaked Chainalysis Roadmap Angers Bitcoin Community
Chainalysis offers a service that provides financial institutions with the means to obtain regulatory compliance through real-time analysis of the blockchain. Based in Switzerland and headed by ex-Kraken COO Michael Grønager and former Mycelium engineer Jan Møller, the company provides an API for sophisticated in-depth real-time blockchain transaction analysis. Chainalysis customers – including regulatory entities, law enforcement and financial service providers – are empowered with unique insight on all transactions recorded in the Bitcoin blockchain and tools to determine the origin of the bitcoin held by any address. Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous. Every transaction and the full transaction history of any Bitcoin address are permanently recorded in the tamper-proof public blockchain and open to analysis. The illusion of anonymity […]
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