{"id":75839,"date":"2017-06-20T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75839"},"modified":"2017-06-20T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T22:12:12","slug":"the-john-mccain-institute-funded-by-george-soros-and-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=75839","title":{"rendered":"The [John] McCain Institute funded by George Soros and Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Alex Christoforou<\/em><\/h4>\n

John McCain\u2019s connection to George Soros revealed.<\/h3>\n

Neocon Arizona Republican Senator John McCain may have his own little Clinton Foundation pay-to-play scheme operating in the halls of the US Senate.<\/h4>\n

The Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0investigative group has learned that\u00a0in 2012 McCain turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the McCain Institute for International Leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The McCain Institute for International Leadership\u2019s mission is to serve as a \u201clegacy\u201d for John McCain and \u201cis dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom\u201d, <\/em>but many readers certainly are well aware that human rights and dignity are the furthest things from the neocon warmonger\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

The institute is a tax-exempt non-profit foundation and has assets valued at $8.1 million, associated with Arizona State University.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg reported<\/a>\u00a0in 2016 on a $1 million Saudi Arabian donation to the institute. The McCain Institute to date has refused to publicly explain the Saudi Arabian million dollar contribution.<\/p>\n

The McCain Institute\u2019s donor list gets even more nefarious with more digging, as revealed by\u00a0The Daily Caller<\/a>, linking McCain to regime change globalists like George Soros\u2026<\/p>\n

Critics worry that the institute\u2019s donors and McCain\u2019s personal leadership in the organization\u2019s exclusive \u201cSedona Forum\u201d bear an uncanny resemblance to the glitzy Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) that annually co-mingled special interests and powerful political players in alleged pay-to-play schemes.<\/p>\n

The institute has accepted contributions of as much as $100,000 from billionaire liberal activist-funder George Soros and from Teneo,<\/strong> a for-profit company co-founded by Doug Band, former President Bill Clinton\u2019s \u201cbag man.\u201d Teneo has long helped enrich Clinton through lucrative speaking and business deals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The McCain-Soros friendship runs deep, and may help to explain why Republican neocon McCain appears to always be politically aligned with globalist neo-liberal Soros (think Ukraine, Syria and Russian sanctions)\u2026<\/p>\n

McCain and Soros reportedly became friends after the senator was exposed as a member of the \u201cKeating Five\u201d during the savings and loan (S&L) industry scandal during former President George H.W. Bush\u2019s administration. As the S&L bank chairman, Charles Keating paid $1.3 million to bribe five members of Congress to interfere with government regulators on behalf of the savings bank.<\/p>\n

The experience so scarred McCain that he became a vigorous advocate of campaign finance reform and in the process reportedly became friends with Soros.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Daily Caller reports<\/a>\u00a0that in addition to donations made by Saudi dictators and George Soros (the man widely held to be the architect behind the 2014 neo-nazi coup in Ukraine), McCain has accepted large amounts from various groups working to shape US foreign policy.<\/p>\n

In addition, the institute has taken at least $100,000 from a Moroccan state-run company tied<\/strong>to repeated charges of worker abuse and exploitation. The McCain group has also accepted at least $100,000 from the Pivotal Foundation,<\/strong> which was\u00a0created by Francis Najafi who owns the Pivotal Group, a private equity and real estate firm.<\/p>\n

The Pivotal Foundation has in the last three years given $205,000 to the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), which has been a vocal advocate for the Iranian nuclear deal the Obama administration negotiated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very real conflict of interest,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist at Public Citizen, told TheDCNF. \u201cThis is the similar type of pattern we received with the Clinton Foundation in which foreign governments and foreign interests were throwing a lot of money in the hopes of trying to buy influence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Lawrence Noble, general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, told the DCNF that accepting contributions in the name of a sitting senator like McCain raises troubling issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of the ethics of it, it does raise a broad question of people trying to get good will with the elected official,\u201d<\/em> he said. \u201cFrom a personal standpoint, I\u2019d rather not see these entities exist.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John McCain recently stated that he had\u00a0no involvement with the institute, saying \u201cI\u2019m proud that the institute is named after me, but I have nothing to do with it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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