Stephen Colbert testifies in character to congressional sub-committee video
Nugan
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Francis John Nugan was born in Sydney, Australia, on 29th January, 1943. His parents were German who had emigrated to Australia. By 1950 Alfred Nugan was running one of the largest fruit and vegetable operations in the area. One of the Nugan Group's major customers was the United States Navy base at Subic Bay in the Philippines.
Frank Nugan obtained a law degree from Sydney University in 1963. He then moved to the United States where he studied for his masters at the University of California. By 1965 he was studying at York University in Canada.
It is believed that Nugan returned to Australia in 1967. This was the year that Michael Hand and Bernie Houghton also arrived in Sydney. Houghton established the Bourbon and Beefsteak Bar and Restaurant in Sydney. Houghton claimed that he met Hand in the autumn of 1967. However, in one interview he admitted he had been told about Hand in 1964: "I had heard of Mike Hand's great combat exploits and courage, which was well-known in Vietnam."
Frank Nugan joined his brother Ken Nugan, to run the family company, the Nugan Company. Whereas Michael Hand began selling development lots along the Australian coast. The company, Ocean Shores Development, was run by lawyer Fred Miller, a senior executive for the shipping empire owned by Sir Peter Abeles, the longtime business partner, Rupert Murdoch. One of the largest investors in this scheme was the singer Pat Boone. The registered directors included Boone of Beverly Hills, California and Patricia Swan of Sydney, Australia. Swan was Frank Nugan's secretary.
Rupert Murdoch and Ansett Airlines
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On Feb. 19, 1980, Mr. Murdoch visited Washington, D.C., to meet with the chairman of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that loans money to finance foreign purchases of American products. (That was well before the Australian-born press lord sought U.S. citizenship so that he could legally buy up American broadcasting properties.) After pleading his case for corporate welfare, he went to the White House for lunch with Mr. Carter.
Three days later, on Feb. 22, the Post endorsed the Democratic President on the front page (a decision abruptly rescinded in the fall when the paper rudely dumped Mr. Carter and backed Ronald Reagan.) And six days after that endorsement appeared, the Ex-Im Bank approved a $290 million loan to Ansett Airlines on easy terms.
Austrailia's connections to Arizona
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Twenty percent of the stock of America West was owned by Ansett Airlines of Australia and 55% of Ansett was held by Sir Peter Ables and Rupert Murdock. We know from Jonathan Kwitny 's book, the Crimes of Patriots, that Burny Houghton, perhaps the key figure in the founding of the CIA drug money laundering bank Nugan-Hand in Australia, had coffee with Sir Peter Ables the night of his first day in Australia.
Peter Abeles wikipedia
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Abeles was born in Vienna, in Austria, but grew up in Budapest. When Germany invaded Hungary in 1944, Abeles, who was Jewish, was sent to a Nazi work camp. In 1949 he fled the devastation left by World War II, and moved to Australia. After doing small business by selling books and clothing,[1] he quickly befriended George Rockey, a fellow Hungarian immigrant. The pair bought two trucks, which they named "Samson" and "Delilah", and set up a transport company, "Alltrans". In 1967, Alltrans merged with Thomas Nationwide Transport, and the combined companies became TNT Ltd.. Under Abeles' guidance as managing director, TNT quickly expanded, and by the 1980s had established a presence in 180 countries and was termed "the second biggest transport empire in the world, operating by road, rail, sea and air".[1][2]
In 1979 Abeles entered into an agreement with media mogul Rupert Murdoch to take over Ansett Transport Industries. He served as chief executive and joint managing director from 1982 until 1992. In September 1992 he left TNT to concentrate his efforts on the ailing Ansett, but just two months later he stepped down from the airline as well.
Sir Peter occasionally cut a controversial figure with his unscrupulous business tactics, and was seen as unsympathetic towards minority shareholders. He was also caught up in the allegations of corruption directed at, then, Premier, Sir Robert Askin, with journalist David Hickie accusing him of buying his 1972 knighthood[3] from Askin, and giving Askin a seat at the board of TNT, plus 110,000 shares.[4] He has been accused of being an associate of crime boss Abe Saffron and of being involved in drug trafficking with the Nugan Hand Bank.[5] When alive, Abeles admitted to having common business interests with US West Coast Mafia boss Jimmy Fratianno, but that he did not know that Fratianno was Mafia connected.[6]
As well being knighted, Abeles was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1991[7], and was named "Australian of the Year" by The Australian in 1987. In addition to his work for TNT and Ansett, Abeles served on the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and was chairman of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation.
Abeles died in Sydney at the age of 75, the victim of cancer. He was survived by his second wife, Kitty, two daughters and a stepdaughter. (He was divorced from his first wife Claire Dan).
Monday, September 27, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
BP, Apache Corp and Mariner youtube
Who's the company behind today's Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion
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During the last week of August, production from the Mariner rig that exploded today averaged about 9.2 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and 1,400 barrels of oil and condensate. Mariner's entire deepwater portfolio includes nearly 100 blocks, seven discoveries in development and more than 50 prospects.
Mariner's chairman and CEO Scott D. Josey earned a total of $2,090,000 in compensation last year. He previously served as vice president and co-manager of Enron Energy Capital Resources from 2000 to 2002.
Mariner is a former subsidiary of the Enron Corp. When Enron imploded in scandal back in 2001, so did Mariner's reputation, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. While the subsidiary had an on-the-books value of $367.4 million at the time of Enron's collapse, a post-bankruptcy review found that Mariner warranted a $257 million write-down -- a difficult time for Josey:
Surviving Enron and thriving
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Sept. 10, 2007
In the fall of 2001, as Enron hurtled into bankruptcy and disgrace, Josey recalls staring out his office window and seeing vultures circling ominously. He knew that there was a buzzard roost on a nearby roof, but with Mariner's own fate uncertain, "you couldn't help but attach some significance to that," Josey says. An Enron veteran, he was named chairman of Mariner just days after Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey K. Skilling's abrupt departure set the scandal in motion. His mandate, says Josey, was to offset the company's risky strategy of deep-water drilling with safer inland projects.
Apache Corp and BP
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Apache completes acquisition of BP's remaining GOM Shelf assetsHome/Explore!/Browse Archives/Apache completes acquisition of BP's remaining GOM Shelf assets
July 2006
Apache announced June 21 that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of BP’s remaining producing properties on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico for approximately $845 million, with an effective date of April 1.
The properties – 13 fields, nine of them operated – have net proved reserves of approximately 19.5 million barrels of liquid hydrocarbons and 148 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas. Apache has identified 50 drilling locations on the properties and another 4 million barrels of liquids and 26 Bcf of natural gas in probable and possible reserves. Average 2006 net production of the properties is estimated at approximately 3,650 barrels of liquids and 85 million cubic feet (MMcf) of gas per day; approximately 97 percent of the production will be operated by Apache.
The company has hedged essentially all of the production volumes through 2008 at prices that protect its acquisition economics, while preserving upside potential from higher prices.
Apache financed the purchase with commercial paper; with the acquisition, the company’s debt-to-capitalization ratio remains below 23 percent.
Mariner Energy and the Carlyle Group
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March 04, 2004
#2004-12
Mariner Energy Completes Merger
Houston, TX -- Mariner Energy, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company, today announced the completion of the merger of its parent, Mariner Energy LLC, with an affiliate of the private equity funds Acon Investments LLC and Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund II, bringing an end to the company's ownership by Joint Energy Development Investments Limited Partnership, an affiliate of Enron Corp. The transaction was valued at $271.1 million and provided for the repayment of Mariner's existing debt. Carlyle/Riverstone affiliates own 67.0% of the equity interests of Mariner's parent, and Acon affiliates own the remaining 33.0%. Debt financing for the transaction was provided by a group of banks led by The Union Bank of California and BNP Paribas. The transaction was approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court.
Jim Webb owned stocks
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Furthermore, 18 members of Congress reported financial interests in Apache during 2008, the most recent year for which data are available and processed by the Center.
Sen. James Webb (D-Va.), the only member of Congress who reported holding Mariner stock in 2008, reported selling it off in June 2009 at a value of between $1,000 and $15,000, according to a Center review of his 2009 personal financial report filed last month. Hours after the explosion, stock prices for both companies fell.
Mariner has also had ties to big political players in the past.
The company was previously owned by an affiliate of Enron -- the corporate giant that imploded several years ago after a massive accounting fraud. While a subsidiary of Enron, Mariner spent $120,000 on federal lobbying in 2001 and $40,000 on lobbying in 2002.
Apache Corporation wikipedia
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2010 Apache commenced production from Van Gogh development offshore Western Australia.
2010 Federal judge upholds Apache's decision to exclude from its annual meeting ballot a corporate governance proposal from a person who had not proven on a timely basis that he actually was one of the company's shareholders. [5]
2010 Apache announces planned merger with Mariner Energy for $2.7 billion.[6]
2010 Apache announces that it was purchasing major assets from BP in Texas, southeast New Mexico, western Canada, and Egypt for a total sum of $7 billion, to pay for BP's response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.[7]
Mariner Energy is owned by the Texas Pacific Group Carlyle fascist fronts that are more concerned with profits than environmental laws or worker safety
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3rd September 2010
By Alex Constantine
Yesterday morning, a gas rig operated in shallow water on the Continental Shelf by Mariner Energy exploded, sending 13 workers into the drink. The company is part-owned by the Texas Pacific Group. Carlyle/Riverstone also owns a piece of Mariner. (Riverstone is a private equity firm that operates primarily in joint venture with Carlyle. Wikipedia: “Riverstone was founded by Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr. and David M. Leuschen, who had been instrumental in the formation of the Goldman Sachs Global Energy & Power Group in the mid 1980s.”) Former Enron execs haunt the boardroom.
Worker abuses abound in oil cleanup scandal
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This kind of negligence is staggering — especially since the lives of so many workers are at stake. But it's beginning to seem like worker endangerment is the rule, not the exception when it comes to oil companies and the contractors they hire to clean up their colossal messes.
For example, there was a shocking investigation this week by the Michigan Messenger into oil spill cleanup efforts at Battle Creek —a spill that dumped 800,000 gallons of oil into a waterway in Michigan in July.
Mariner Energy wikipedia
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Mariner Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ME) is an oil and gas exploration company based in One Briar Lake Plaza in Westchase, Houston, Texas.[1][2]
In 2009 Mariner Energy bought the assets of Edge Petroleum Corp. in a bankruptcy auction.[3] In 2010 Apache Corp. said that it would buy Mariner Energy for $2.7 billion.[4]
[edit] Vermilion 380 platform explosion
A company-owned production platform, situated in Vermilion Block 380 in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles (130 km) south of Vermilion Bay, exploded and caught on fire on Thursday, September 2, 2010.[5][6] According to the United States Coast Guard, the explosion was witnessed and reported by persons in a commercially-operated helicopter flying near the site at about 09:00 CDT.[7] Thirteen workers were occupying the platform at the time of the explosion. All of the workers were rescued from the ocean, with one person sustaining injuries.[8][9][10] Mariner indicated that during the last week of August, 2010, the platform had been producing approximately 9.2 million cubic feet of natural gas and 1,400 barrels (58,800 gallons) of oil per day,[11] but was off-line for maintenance at the time the incident occurred. Though initially Mariner Energy had reported a mile long oil sheen, subsequent Coast Guard fly-overs found no remaining evidence of a spill.[12] The state run investigation will be headed by the newly created Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement[13] and the NTSB will probably also be involved in the enquiry along the way.
mariner-energy.com
Enron
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Pulp and paper
Garden State Paper Company Inc. (New Jersey, USA)—paperboard and newsprint recycling mill
Papiers Stadacona Ltee. (Quebec, Canada)—wood pulp & paper mill
St. Aurelie Timberlands Company Ltd. (Quebec, and New Brunswick, Canada & Maine, USA)—timber company
[edit] Other
Mariner Energy Inc. (Houston, Texas, USA)—oil & gas exploration, development, and production with operations in the Gulf of Mexico
Interruptores Especializados Lara (Venezuela)—manufacturer of valves, thermostats, and electrical breakers for appliances
Enron Wind (formerly Zond) — manufacturer of wind power
Tony Blair cancels London Book signing protesters
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Tony Blair was accused of 'running scared' last night after he scrapped a book signing event in London tomorrow because of threatened protests.
The former Prime Minister abandoned the planned session after eggs and shoes were thrown at him during a similar event to promote his autobiography, A Journey, in Dublin at the weekend.
Enron acquires Zond a major wind power company
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Published: January 7, 1997
The Enron Corporation said yesterday that it had acquired the Zond Corporation, one of the largest developers of wind-powered electricity generation, and formed a business unit to focus on developing renewable energy projects. Terms were not disclosed. Zond, which is based in Tehachapi, Calif., will become a subsidiary of the Enron Renewable Energy Corporation, which was formed to develop projects for Enron, which is based in Houston. Zond is expected to break ground this year on the largest single wind-power project to date, to supply power to the Northern States Power Company.
After GE purchased this company THEN WHAT?
Enron Wind wikipedia
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Enron Wind Systems, part of the Enron group, were manufacturers of wind turbines. The group was formed after the acquisition[1] in January 1997 of Zond Corporation of California, the largest US developer of wind-powered electricity at the time.
On May 10, 2002, following the Enron scandal, General Electric acquired the assets of Enron Wind Systems[2], after which it ceased to exist.
www.enron.com
GE and wind turbine
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GE to Supply 207 Wind Turbines for MidAmerican Energy Company's Wind Generation Project
310.5-MW Wind Project Will Be One of World's Largest
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (November 30, 2004) — GE Energy has been selected as the wind turbine supplier for MidAmerican Energy Company's 310.5-megawatt project in Iowa that, when completed in 2005, will be among the world's largest wind generation facilities.
Owned by MidAmerican Energy Company of Des Moines, Iowa, the project is being developed by enXco, Inc. and Clipper Windpower. The project is located at two sites in north central and northwest Iowa. The sites will utilize 100 and 107 of GE's 1.5-megawatt wind turbines, respectively.
The MidAmerican project is among the $1.3 billion in U.S. wind project orders and commitments for 2004-2005 recently announced by GE Energy. The project will supply enough wind power to meet the annual electricity needs of approximately 85,000 homes.
Who's the company behind today's Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion
EXCERPT:
During the last week of August, production from the Mariner rig that exploded today averaged about 9.2 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and 1,400 barrels of oil and condensate. Mariner's entire deepwater portfolio includes nearly 100 blocks, seven discoveries in development and more than 50 prospects.
Mariner's chairman and CEO Scott D. Josey earned a total of $2,090,000 in compensation last year. He previously served as vice president and co-manager of Enron Energy Capital Resources from 2000 to 2002.
Mariner is a former subsidiary of the Enron Corp. When Enron imploded in scandal back in 2001, so did Mariner's reputation, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. While the subsidiary had an on-the-books value of $367.4 million at the time of Enron's collapse, a post-bankruptcy review found that Mariner warranted a $257 million write-down -- a difficult time for Josey:
Surviving Enron and thriving
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Sept. 10, 2007
In the fall of 2001, as Enron hurtled into bankruptcy and disgrace, Josey recalls staring out his office window and seeing vultures circling ominously. He knew that there was a buzzard roost on a nearby roof, but with Mariner's own fate uncertain, "you couldn't help but attach some significance to that," Josey says. An Enron veteran, he was named chairman of Mariner just days after Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey K. Skilling's abrupt departure set the scandal in motion. His mandate, says Josey, was to offset the company's risky strategy of deep-water drilling with safer inland projects.
Apache Corp and BP
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Apache completes acquisition of BP's remaining GOM Shelf assetsHome/Explore!/Browse Archives/Apache completes acquisition of BP's remaining GOM Shelf assets
July 2006
Apache announced June 21 that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of BP’s remaining producing properties on the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico for approximately $845 million, with an effective date of April 1.
The properties – 13 fields, nine of them operated – have net proved reserves of approximately 19.5 million barrels of liquid hydrocarbons and 148 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas. Apache has identified 50 drilling locations on the properties and another 4 million barrels of liquids and 26 Bcf of natural gas in probable and possible reserves. Average 2006 net production of the properties is estimated at approximately 3,650 barrels of liquids and 85 million cubic feet (MMcf) of gas per day; approximately 97 percent of the production will be operated by Apache.
The company has hedged essentially all of the production volumes through 2008 at prices that protect its acquisition economics, while preserving upside potential from higher prices.
Apache financed the purchase with commercial paper; with the acquisition, the company’s debt-to-capitalization ratio remains below 23 percent.
Mariner Energy and the Carlyle Group
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March 04, 2004
#2004-12
Mariner Energy Completes Merger
Houston, TX -- Mariner Energy, Inc., an oil and gas exploration and production company, today announced the completion of the merger of its parent, Mariner Energy LLC, with an affiliate of the private equity funds Acon Investments LLC and Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy and Power Fund II, bringing an end to the company's ownership by Joint Energy Development Investments Limited Partnership, an affiliate of Enron Corp. The transaction was valued at $271.1 million and provided for the repayment of Mariner's existing debt. Carlyle/Riverstone affiliates own 67.0% of the equity interests of Mariner's parent, and Acon affiliates own the remaining 33.0%. Debt financing for the transaction was provided by a group of banks led by The Union Bank of California and BNP Paribas. The transaction was approved by the United States Bankruptcy Court.
Jim Webb owned stocks
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Furthermore, 18 members of Congress reported financial interests in Apache during 2008, the most recent year for which data are available and processed by the Center.
Sen. James Webb (D-Va.), the only member of Congress who reported holding Mariner stock in 2008, reported selling it off in June 2009 at a value of between $1,000 and $15,000, according to a Center review of his 2009 personal financial report filed last month. Hours after the explosion, stock prices for both companies fell.
Mariner has also had ties to big political players in the past.
The company was previously owned by an affiliate of Enron -- the corporate giant that imploded several years ago after a massive accounting fraud. While a subsidiary of Enron, Mariner spent $120,000 on federal lobbying in 2001 and $40,000 on lobbying in 2002.
Apache Corporation wikipedia
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2010 Apache commenced production from Van Gogh development offshore Western Australia.
2010 Federal judge upholds Apache's decision to exclude from its annual meeting ballot a corporate governance proposal from a person who had not proven on a timely basis that he actually was one of the company's shareholders. [5]
2010 Apache announces planned merger with Mariner Energy for $2.7 billion.[6]
2010 Apache announces that it was purchasing major assets from BP in Texas, southeast New Mexico, western Canada, and Egypt for a total sum of $7 billion, to pay for BP's response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.[7]
Mariner Energy is owned by the Texas Pacific Group Carlyle fascist fronts that are more concerned with profits than environmental laws or worker safety
EXCERPT:
3rd September 2010
By Alex Constantine
Yesterday morning, a gas rig operated in shallow water on the Continental Shelf by Mariner Energy exploded, sending 13 workers into the drink. The company is part-owned by the Texas Pacific Group. Carlyle/Riverstone also owns a piece of Mariner. (Riverstone is a private equity firm that operates primarily in joint venture with Carlyle. Wikipedia: “Riverstone was founded by Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr. and David M. Leuschen, who had been instrumental in the formation of the Goldman Sachs Global Energy & Power Group in the mid 1980s.”) Former Enron execs haunt the boardroom.
Worker abuses abound in oil cleanup scandal
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This kind of negligence is staggering — especially since the lives of so many workers are at stake. But it's beginning to seem like worker endangerment is the rule, not the exception when it comes to oil companies and the contractors they hire to clean up their colossal messes.
For example, there was a shocking investigation this week by the Michigan Messenger into oil spill cleanup efforts at Battle Creek —a spill that dumped 800,000 gallons of oil into a waterway in Michigan in July.
Mariner Energy wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Mariner Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ME) is an oil and gas exploration company based in One Briar Lake Plaza in Westchase, Houston, Texas.[1][2]
In 2009 Mariner Energy bought the assets of Edge Petroleum Corp. in a bankruptcy auction.[3] In 2010 Apache Corp. said that it would buy Mariner Energy for $2.7 billion.[4]
[edit] Vermilion 380 platform explosion
A company-owned production platform, situated in Vermilion Block 380 in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles (130 km) south of Vermilion Bay, exploded and caught on fire on Thursday, September 2, 2010.[5][6] According to the United States Coast Guard, the explosion was witnessed and reported by persons in a commercially-operated helicopter flying near the site at about 09:00 CDT.[7] Thirteen workers were occupying the platform at the time of the explosion. All of the workers were rescued from the ocean, with one person sustaining injuries.[8][9][10] Mariner indicated that during the last week of August, 2010, the platform had been producing approximately 9.2 million cubic feet of natural gas and 1,400 barrels (58,800 gallons) of oil per day,[11] but was off-line for maintenance at the time the incident occurred. Though initially Mariner Energy had reported a mile long oil sheen, subsequent Coast Guard fly-overs found no remaining evidence of a spill.[12] The state run investigation will be headed by the newly created Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement[13] and the NTSB will probably also be involved in the enquiry along the way.
mariner-energy.com
Enron
EXCERPT:
Pulp and paper
Garden State Paper Company Inc. (New Jersey, USA)—paperboard and newsprint recycling mill
Papiers Stadacona Ltee. (Quebec, Canada)—wood pulp & paper mill
St. Aurelie Timberlands Company Ltd. (Quebec, and New Brunswick, Canada & Maine, USA)—timber company
[edit] Other
Mariner Energy Inc. (Houston, Texas, USA)—oil & gas exploration, development, and production with operations in the Gulf of Mexico
Interruptores Especializados Lara (Venezuela)—manufacturer of valves, thermostats, and electrical breakers for appliances
Enron Wind (formerly Zond) — manufacturer of wind power
Tony Blair cancels London Book signing protesters
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Tony Blair was accused of 'running scared' last night after he scrapped a book signing event in London tomorrow because of threatened protests.
The former Prime Minister abandoned the planned session after eggs and shoes were thrown at him during a similar event to promote his autobiography, A Journey, in Dublin at the weekend.
Enron acquires Zond a major wind power company
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Published: January 7, 1997
The Enron Corporation said yesterday that it had acquired the Zond Corporation, one of the largest developers of wind-powered electricity generation, and formed a business unit to focus on developing renewable energy projects. Terms were not disclosed. Zond, which is based in Tehachapi, Calif., will become a subsidiary of the Enron Renewable Energy Corporation, which was formed to develop projects for Enron, which is based in Houston. Zond is expected to break ground this year on the largest single wind-power project to date, to supply power to the Northern States Power Company.
After GE purchased this company THEN WHAT?
Enron Wind wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Enron Wind Systems, part of the Enron group, were manufacturers of wind turbines. The group was formed after the acquisition[1] in January 1997 of Zond Corporation of California, the largest US developer of wind-powered electricity at the time.
On May 10, 2002, following the Enron scandal, General Electric acquired the assets of Enron Wind Systems[2], after which it ceased to exist.
www.enron.com
GE and wind turbine
EXCERPT:
GE to Supply 207 Wind Turbines for MidAmerican Energy Company's Wind Generation Project
310.5-MW Wind Project Will Be One of World's Largest
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (November 30, 2004) — GE Energy has been selected as the wind turbine supplier for MidAmerican Energy Company's 310.5-megawatt project in Iowa that, when completed in 2005, will be among the world's largest wind generation facilities.
Owned by MidAmerican Energy Company of Des Moines, Iowa, the project is being developed by enXco, Inc. and Clipper Windpower. The project is located at two sites in north central and northwest Iowa. The sites will utilize 100 and 107 of GE's 1.5-megawatt wind turbines, respectively.
The MidAmerican project is among the $1.3 billion in U.S. wind project orders and commitments for 2004-2005 recently announced by GE Energy. The project will supply enough wind power to meet the annual electricity needs of approximately 85,000 homes.
You wouldn't read about it
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In the fictional account, Michael Macasero is a Filipino-American attracted to Hong Kong to manage a hedge fund. The novel excerpt opens with Macasero's body found in Hong Kong's red light district, murdered in his mid 30s.
In real life, Matthew Nguyen Littauer was a Vietnamese American who was working to establish Trio Capital and appeared on the board of its Australian owner in 2003. He was stabbed to death in the Tokyo red light district of Roppongi, aged 34.
Murder intrigue and missing millions
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In 2004, Wright Global also had as a director a Vietnamese-American, Matthew Nguyen Littauer. A 1998 Securities and Exchange Commission document shows Littauer was president of PCS.
In December 2004, Littauer, 34, was stabbed to death in the Tokyo red-light district of Roppongi. Police were reported to have been unable to solve the case.
Dark privatised social security story
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My involvement was detailed today in the Sydney Morning Herald (see stories here, here and here, with the first story on the front page below the fold). There was no genius in my letter – everything could be found (fairly easily) on the internet – and the original tip-off came from a reader of my blog – who noticed links with a story I wrote up in March 2009.
Blogger who blew the whistle on hedge fund
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WHEN John Hempton started a blog as he recovered from pneumonia, he did not expect to send shockwaves through the finance industry.
But that is exactly what the 42-year-old fund manager did through his Bronte Capital blog. His exposé of an unrelated US hedge fund would eventually lead to $426 million in investments being frozen and authorities seizing control of the Albury fund manager Trio Capital shortly before Christmas.
Investigators are focused on the fate of $118 million in Trio's Astarra Strategic Fund, which is supposed to be invested in international hedge funds through a British Virgin Islands company.
Trio from the boiler room into the fire
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Pacific Continental Securities has been associated with ''boiler room'' or pressure tactics since the late 1990s, as it sold microcap companies to investors.
It has been mentioned in academic papers examining the sale of practically worthless US companies to offshore investors. Its British arm, established in 2001, collapsed in June 2007, and last year its chief executive was banned and fined £80,000
Leighton Holdings wikipedia
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Leighton Holdings (ASX: LEI) is Australia's largest project development and contracting group.[1] It is active in the telecommunications, engineering and infrastructure, building and property, mining and resources, and environmental services industries. It has operations in Australia, South East Asia, New Zealand, Vietnam, China and the Middle East.
Leighton wins A$800 mln Gorgon LNG contract
SYDNEY, Sept 23 | Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:24pm IST
(Reuters) - Australia's biggest building contractor, Leighton Holdings Ltd (LEI.AX), has won a contract worth more than A$800 million ($766 million) to carry out works on Chevron Corp's (CVX.N) massive Gorgon gas-export project. The Gorgon liquefied natural gas project in west Australia is worth a total of around A$43 billion and backed by Chevron and its partners ExxonMobil (XOM.N) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L).
Leighton said on Thursday the new contract was in addition to an earlier Gorgon contract it had secured to build a jetty. ($1=1.045 Australian Dollar) (Reporting by Mark Bendeich; Editing by Balazs Koranyi)
Hochtief
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The façade of the greater temple at Abu Simbel, moved to escape the rising Nile. The cliff behind the temple is artificial, and was created to allow the temple to be moved to a higher location.Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft (officially typeset HOCHTIEF) is Germany's largest construction company.[2] It is based in Essen but operates globally, ranking as the top general builder in the United States through its Turner Corporation subsidiary, and in Australia through the Leighton Group.[3] In 2006 it employed more than 46,000 employees across five corporate divisions. One of these, Hochtief AirPort, is a major airport operator. The others are involved with construction project planning, finance, construction and operation.[2] Work done in 2006 was €16,72 billion, with more than 80% coming from operations outside Germany.[4]
The following article may be in either this blog or one done yesterday but I thought it relevant to repost as it shows Biden's connection. ...cal
Astarra shares Hong Kong link to broking
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blew the whistle on concerns related to Astarra Strategic, said he first looked at Astarra because of its purported links to a US hedge fund, Paradigm Global.
Paradigm Global, an investor in funds of hedge funds, is owned by Hunter Biden, the son of the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, and James Biden, the Vice-President's brother.
Trio problems are a failure on the part of its gatekeepers
Trio capital intrigue stranger than fiction
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Stuart Washington
April 8, 2010
BILLED as a ''crime fiction novel set against the background of Australia's trillion-dollar superannuation industry'', self-published author David Morisset sets up a racy story.
This super thriller has lost the plot
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The literary and investment communities are mourning the loss of some passages of David Morisset's cracking yarn Lockhart Road from his blog.
Lockhart Road is a ''crime fiction novel set against the background of Australia's trillion-dollar superannuation industry'' that centres on a fictional firm in Hong Kong called Triadica Securities.
Alerts overseas
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Unauthorised overseas firms operating in the UK
The template below can be used by listed firms in shareholder mailings.
Template [PDF]
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) sets out one of the FSA’s regulatory objectives as protecting consumers.
This warning list includes unauthorised overseas firms that the FSA has received complaints about in respect of their activities and/or the FSA has reason to believe they are involved, or have been involved in, activities that contravene section 19 and/or 21 of FSMA.
FAQ known boiler room activities August 2005
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Boiler Rooms Active In The UK
Advantage IEC: www.advantageiec.com (Switzerland?)
Contact details advertised in May 2005: Tel: 0870 712 0555, Address: Rue du Rhone 14 Geneva 1204 Switzerland.
Known to be targeting UK individuals and trying to sell shares of New Millenium Medical, see: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9330031
Also pushing Remmington Ventures, see: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9355945
The FSA have warned about Advantage IEC here: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Doing/Regulated/Law/pdf/advantage_19april05.pdf
Anderson Fitzpatrick www.andersonfitzpatrick.ch (Switzerland) - see Langley Advisory Services
Arthur Forbes: www.arthurforbes.com (Belgium?)
Contact details advertised in April 2005: Tel: 0870 881 0830, Fax: 0870 881 0831, Address: Bastion Tower, Level 20 & 21, 5 Place du Champ de mars, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Pushing "In Time Group" shares in April 2005, see: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9247098
Note that Arthur Forbes is believed to be a new name for Kensington Price Consulting (www.kensingtonpriceconsulting.com) as the Arthur Forbes website contains references to this boiler room.
Argus International
Pushing shares in Echo Resources, see: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9374464
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Lawsystem Co. UK
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The emblem of Zetland Financial Group, a British Virgin Islands company, is now being used by Zetland Fiduciary Group, a company registered in Belize, Central America, in June 2008.
The website of Zetland Fiduciary Group describes it as ”working with a select group of individuals and corporations to achieve their objectives in a cost-effective, private and conservative manner”.
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In the fictional account, Michael Macasero is a Filipino-American attracted to Hong Kong to manage a hedge fund. The novel excerpt opens with Macasero's body found in Hong Kong's red light district, murdered in his mid 30s.
In real life, Matthew Nguyen Littauer was a Vietnamese American who was working to establish Trio Capital and appeared on the board of its Australian owner in 2003. He was stabbed to death in the Tokyo red light district of Roppongi, aged 34.
Murder intrigue and missing millions
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In 2004, Wright Global also had as a director a Vietnamese-American, Matthew Nguyen Littauer. A 1998 Securities and Exchange Commission document shows Littauer was president of PCS.
In December 2004, Littauer, 34, was stabbed to death in the Tokyo red-light district of Roppongi. Police were reported to have been unable to solve the case.
Dark privatised social security story
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My involvement was detailed today in the Sydney Morning Herald (see stories here, here and here, with the first story on the front page below the fold). There was no genius in my letter – everything could be found (fairly easily) on the internet – and the original tip-off came from a reader of my blog – who noticed links with a story I wrote up in March 2009.
Blogger who blew the whistle on hedge fund
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WHEN John Hempton started a blog as he recovered from pneumonia, he did not expect to send shockwaves through the finance industry.
But that is exactly what the 42-year-old fund manager did through his Bronte Capital blog. His exposé of an unrelated US hedge fund would eventually lead to $426 million in investments being frozen and authorities seizing control of the Albury fund manager Trio Capital shortly before Christmas.
Investigators are focused on the fate of $118 million in Trio's Astarra Strategic Fund, which is supposed to be invested in international hedge funds through a British Virgin Islands company.
Trio from the boiler room into the fire
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Pacific Continental Securities has been associated with ''boiler room'' or pressure tactics since the late 1990s, as it sold microcap companies to investors.
It has been mentioned in academic papers examining the sale of practically worthless US companies to offshore investors. Its British arm, established in 2001, collapsed in June 2007, and last year its chief executive was banned and fined £80,000
Leighton Holdings wikipedia
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Leighton Holdings (ASX: LEI) is Australia's largest project development and contracting group.[1] It is active in the telecommunications, engineering and infrastructure, building and property, mining and resources, and environmental services industries. It has operations in Australia, South East Asia, New Zealand, Vietnam, China and the Middle East.
Leighton wins A$800 mln Gorgon LNG contract
SYDNEY, Sept 23 | Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:24pm IST
(Reuters) - Australia's biggest building contractor, Leighton Holdings Ltd (LEI.AX), has won a contract worth more than A$800 million ($766 million) to carry out works on Chevron Corp's (CVX.N) massive Gorgon gas-export project. The Gorgon liquefied natural gas project in west Australia is worth a total of around A$43 billion and backed by Chevron and its partners ExxonMobil (XOM.N) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L).
Leighton said on Thursday the new contract was in addition to an earlier Gorgon contract it had secured to build a jetty. ($1=1.045 Australian Dollar) (Reporting by Mark Bendeich; Editing by Balazs Koranyi)
Hochtief
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The façade of the greater temple at Abu Simbel, moved to escape the rising Nile. The cliff behind the temple is artificial, and was created to allow the temple to be moved to a higher location.Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft (officially typeset HOCHTIEF) is Germany's largest construction company.[2] It is based in Essen but operates globally, ranking as the top general builder in the United States through its Turner Corporation subsidiary, and in Australia through the Leighton Group.[3] In 2006 it employed more than 46,000 employees across five corporate divisions. One of these, Hochtief AirPort, is a major airport operator. The others are involved with construction project planning, finance, construction and operation.[2] Work done in 2006 was €16,72 billion, with more than 80% coming from operations outside Germany.[4]
The following article may be in either this blog or one done yesterday but I thought it relevant to repost as it shows Biden's connection. ...cal
Astarra shares Hong Kong link to broking
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blew the whistle on concerns related to Astarra Strategic, said he first looked at Astarra because of its purported links to a US hedge fund, Paradigm Global.
Paradigm Global, an investor in funds of hedge funds, is owned by Hunter Biden, the son of the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, and James Biden, the Vice-President's brother.
Trio problems are a failure on the part of its gatekeepers
Trio capital intrigue stranger than fiction
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Stuart Washington
April 8, 2010
BILLED as a ''crime fiction novel set against the background of Australia's trillion-dollar superannuation industry'', self-published author David Morisset sets up a racy story.
This super thriller has lost the plot
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The literary and investment communities are mourning the loss of some passages of David Morisset's cracking yarn Lockhart Road from his blog.
Lockhart Road is a ''crime fiction novel set against the background of Australia's trillion-dollar superannuation industry'' that centres on a fictional firm in Hong Kong called Triadica Securities.
Alerts overseas
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Unauthorised overseas firms operating in the UK
The template below can be used by listed firms in shareholder mailings.
Template [PDF]
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) sets out one of the FSA’s regulatory objectives as protecting consumers.
This warning list includes unauthorised overseas firms that the FSA has received complaints about in respect of their activities and/or the FSA has reason to believe they are involved, or have been involved in, activities that contravene section 19 and/or 21 of FSMA.
FAQ known boiler room activities August 2005
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Boiler Rooms Active In The UK
Advantage IEC: www.advantageiec.com (Switzerland?)
Contact details advertised in May 2005: Tel: 0870 712 0555, Address: Rue du Rhone 14 Geneva 1204 Switzerland.
Known to be targeting UK individuals and trying to sell shares of New Millenium Medical, see: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9330031
Also pushing Remmington Ventures, see: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9355945
The FSA have warned about Advantage IEC here: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Doing/Regulated/Law/pdf/advantage_19april05.pdf
Anderson Fitzpatrick www.andersonfitzpatrick.ch (Switzerland) - see Langley Advisory Services
Arthur Forbes: www.arthurforbes.com (Belgium?)
Contact details advertised in April 2005: Tel: 0870 881 0830, Fax: 0870 881 0831, Address: Bastion Tower, Level 20 & 21, 5 Place du Champ de mars, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Pushing "In Time Group" shares in April 2005, see: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9247098
Note that Arthur Forbes is believed to be a new name for Kensington Price Consulting (www.kensingtonpriceconsulting.com) as the Arthur Forbes website contains references to this boiler room.
Argus International
Pushing shares in Echo Resources, see: http://boards.fool.co.uk/Message.asp?mid=9374464
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Lawsystem Co. UK
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The emblem of Zetland Financial Group, a British Virgin Islands company, is now being used by Zetland Fiduciary Group, a company registered in Belize, Central America, in June 2008.
The website of Zetland Fiduciary Group describes it as ”working with a select group of individuals and corporations to achieve their objectives in a cost-effective, private and conservative manner”.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Frank Giustra private jet Bill Clinton and Chelsea's wedding
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Our guess though? It's investor Frank Giustra, who has faced some controversy for his connection to the Clinton Global Initiative, and whether that connection helped him land a uranium deal in Kazakhstan. AND we know that Clinton has flown on his jet.
Plus, a tipster with some knowledge of private air travel believes that Giustra's jet is one of the former President's premier modes of transportation.
And they sent us pictures of the inside of the 1990 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD-87.
We're not 100% sure, obviously, but it's a fun game. Presumably, the guest list will leak soon, and then we'll know whether Giustra or Burkle made the cut.
Frank Giustra wikipedia
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Giustra took a securities course and began his career in the investment industry in 1978 with Merrill Lynch as an assistant trader and then a stockbroker. In the early 1980s, Giustra left Merrill Lynch to create a resources-financing group in Europe for the new firm Yorkton Securities. He is said to have "transformed Yorkton into a major force in the world of international mining finance." [2] In 1990, he became President of the company and, in 1995, was appointed Chairman and CEO.[3].
Giustra finger in every pot
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In Canada, which supplies about 10 per cent of the world's copper, the long-term effect of the collapsing prices was still uncertain. Bruce Reid, an analyst with Yorkton Securities Inc., notes that a number of new copper mines around the world were scheduled to open over the next two years, and the increased production would have forced copper prices down even without the Hamanaka affair. Most Canadian companies had already built those declining prices into their budgets and profit forecasts; some New York City commodities analysts encouraged clients to sell any shares they have in copper-producing companies well before the Japanese scandal. Share prices of two of Canada's leading nickel producers, Rio Algom Ltd. and Falconbridge Ltd., both of Toronto, have been dropping since reaching their 1996 highs in late May, although prices last week in both firms remained steady.
International scandal
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Canadian testifies about Australian pension scandal
July 16, 2010 | 16:44
A Canadian man is at the centre of a $123-million pension-fund scandal in Australia.
Shawn Richard, 35, served as the director of Astarra Strategic investment fund, which has come under scrutiny after more than $123 million Aus. ($113 million Cdn) went missing after being sent to an overseas hedge fund.
Shenzhen Minsk World
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March 02, 2005
Minsk World, a popular Shenzhen theme park built around a decommissioned Soviet-era aircraft carrier, has been ordered into bankruptcy, but staff at the park said Tuesday it was business as usual despite the court order.
The park ran into trouble last year after the financial shipwreck of its parent company, D’Long International Strategic Investment, which since August has been under the trusteeship of China Huarong Asset Management.
Minsk World had guaranteed 476.9 million yuan (HK$449.6 million) of loans to its parent, mostly from China Construction Bank, Shenzhen Development Bank and Citic Industrial Bank, according to Xinhua.
Shenzhen municipal intermediate court Monday set up a liquidation group to take over the theme park established by D’Long International Strategic Investment in December 1998.
The investment arm of D’Long Group owned 89.9 percent of Minsk World after injecting 249.2 million yuan into the park.
Since it opened in September 2000, the park has attracted more than five million visitors and generated 450 million yuan in revenue. It was said to be profitable.
D’Long Group, once one of the mainland’s largest private companies, is controlled by brothers Tang Wanli and Tang Wanxin, whose fortune was estimated in 2003 by China Money magazine at US$250 million (HK$1.95 billion).
Another brother, Tang Wanping, owned 10.1 percent of Minsk World. Based in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, D’Long had assets in financial services and tourism, among other things.
Tang Wanxin
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D'Long boss on trial in biggest finance case
By Jiao Xiaoyang and Wang Zhuoqiong (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-01-20 06:14
Tang Wanxin, head of the notorious and now bankrupt D'Long Group, went on trial yesterday for illegally accepting deposits, manipulating stock prices and embezzlement.
Tang Wanxin
The case is the largest-ever financial crime in China, with judicial investigation showing that billions of yuan, more than 2,500 institutions and 32,000 people in about 20 provinces involved.
Six of Tang's executives also went on trial in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province.
According to the prosecutors, from 2001 to 2004, D'Long Group and its subsidiaries collected more than 45 billion yuan (US$5.6 billion) in deposits from the public, promising high returns.
Rahim Jaffer scandal background scrib
Jaffers Wright tech allegations
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The waste management firm at the centre of allegations against Rahim Jaffer says it never hired the former Conservative MP to lobby the federal government for access to a green infrastructure fund.
Jaffer has been accused of using his ties with former government colleagues in an attempt to gain access to the green fund for alternative energy projects pitched by his firm, Green Power Generation Corp., without registering as a lobbyist.
Senior conservative to be probed over Rahim Jaffer links
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Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis speaks in the House of Commons June 8, 2010. The federal ethics commissioner is investigating former Tory MP Rahim Jaffer's contact with Paradis when the latter was minister of Public Works, according to a letter made public Tuesday.
Chelsea wedding snub riles mystery mogul (the daily beast)
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Let the speculation begin! Some are guessing it’s business mogul Ron Burkle, who’s been known to loan the former president his plane on several occasions. Others think it might be investor Frank Giustra, who has ties to the Clinton Global Initiative, but who’s taken flak for possibly abusing the connection to nab a uranium deal in Kazakhstan. Whoever it was, our bet is he's not getting an invite to the next Clinton function either.
Clinton's shady uranium deal
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After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton Charity
January 31, 2008
After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton Charity
By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
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.
Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. 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. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
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.
The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.
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…
The two men were introduced in June 2005 at a fund-raiser for tsunami victims at Mr. Giustra’s Vancouver home and hit it off right away…
Info USA scandal
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Infogroup's founder, Vinod Gupta, lost his chairman and chief executive jobs in 2008 after a shareholder lawsuit raised questions about his use of company money to support a lavish lifestyle. He had held those posts from 1992 through August 2008.
The lawsuit alleged Infogroup misspent millions of dollars, some of it on domestic and international air travel for former President Bill Clinton and his wife, then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Gupta pledged to reimburse Infogroup $9 million over five years as part of the settlement announced in August 2008, but he remained on the company's board and received $10 million in severance.
He resigned from the board in March — right after voting for the CCMP deal — agreed then to pay more than $7.3 million to settle an SEC investigation into his use of Infogroup's money.
Stephens Inc. analyst Carter Malloy said Infogroup appears to be in a good position now that the sale and the spending investigations are complete.
Info USA wikipedia
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InfoGROUP was founded in 1972 by Vinod Gupta. The headquarters is located in Omaha, NE, USA. The company employs over 5,000 people in 88 offices worldwide. The company was acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors in July 2010, which took the company private. Clare Hart is the current CEO. [1]
InfoGROUP has 12 databases that have contact and credit information covering approximately 15 million businesses in the United States and Canada. The company licenses its data to third parties such as Yahoo!, AOL, Google, MSN, Ask, and Citysearch.
InfoGROUP’s Papillion, Nebraska, facility employs over 600 people who compile and update their consumer and business database. The Consumer database is updated from sources that include yellow pages, white pages, newspapers, incorporation records, real estate deed transfers and various other public sources. The business database is updated by, 24 million phone calls made every year to verify the name of the owner or key executive, their address, number of employees, fax numbers, e-mail addresses and other information
Clinton donor list
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December 18, 2008.Clinton Foundation Donors
.Former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation disclosed the names of 205,000 donors on a Web site Thursday, ending a decade of resistance to identifying the sources of its money. Below, see the list of people and institutons who donated at least $100,000, sort by name or amount. To search by surname, hit control-F. (See related article.)
Donor Donated at least... But not more than...
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation $25,000,000 N/A
UNITAID $25,000,000 N/A
AUSAID $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Stephen L. Bing $10,000,001 $25,000,000
COPRESIDA-Secretariado Tecnico $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Fred Eychaner $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Frank Giustra, Chief Executive Officer, The Radcliffe Foundation $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Tom Golisano $10,000,001 $25,000,000
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Clinton crime family
Feds snare lawyers in Cali Cartel
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Feds snare lawyers in Cali Cartel net; the defense bar sees, in raids, taps and novel theories, an unprecedented attack
Federal prosecutors on June 5, 1995, indicted six attorneys in Miami on charges involving their work aiding and advising leaders of the Cali cocaine cartel. Defense lawyers in the community expressed outrage, saying government methods of investigation were questionable and that the government was trying to blame the lawyers for their clients' actions. They also noted that successful legal work for drug kingpins would inevitably aid the latter in their actions. One of the lawyers, Michael Abbell, is a former top Justice Department official.
Michael Abbell
Mr. Abbell was the first Director, Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice. In that capacity, he negotiated, and supervised the negotiation and implementation of, numerous United States treaties on extradition, mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, and international prisoner transfer.
He has written extensively on transnational criminal law subjects including three treatises published by Martinius Nijhoff/Brill:
•Extradition To and From the United States
•Obtaining Evidence Abroad in Criminal Cases
•International Prisoner Transfer
He has been widely consulted by United States and foreign criminal defense lawyers because of his extensive experience and expertise in the above areas of transnational criminal law, including the successful defenses of extradition requests of alleged fugitives made to and by the United States.
He is a graduate of Harvard University, 1961 and Harvard Law School, 1964.
Moffitt served as counsel for Michael Abbell
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In a recent high-profile case, Moffitt served as counsel for Michael Abbell, a former high-ranking Justice Department official accused of engaging in a major drug-trafficking conspiracy with the Cali drug cartel. Previously, Moffitt represented William Aramony, former head of the United Way who was indicted for embezzlement and represented the colorful extremist Lyndon LaRouche. He was also involved in the defense of alleged Libyan terrorists.
Aramony
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Prosecutor: United Way Chief Looted His Charity
March 24, 1995
William Aramony systematically looted the United Way of America, treating the charity he headed for 22 years as an open checkbook, a prosecutor said Thursday in closing arguments. Aramony, 67, used intimidation and cunning to enrich himself and his friends, including two former top associates on trial with him on charges of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering, Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Bellows said. Aramony's lawyer, William B. Moffitt Jr., called his client ''a fall guy'' for sloppy oversight by United Way's board of directors and bumbling by Aramony's staff.
David E. Bonior
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David Edward Bonior (born June 6, 1945) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time Democrats were in both the majority (1991-1995) and minority (1995-2002), making Bonior the third and second highest-ranking Democrat in the House, respectively. During his tenure in office, Bonior was the public face of Democratic opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),[1] and was known for his tenacity in opposing Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, against whom Bonior filed more than seventy-five ethics charges.[2]
William Moffitt and Libyan terrorists pdf
William B. Moffitt
Direct Phone 202-912-4800
Direct fax 202-912-4830
Cozen O'Connor
Sami Al-Arian
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He is married to Nahla Al-Arian, and they have five children.[20] His son Abdullah Al-Arian was an intern for U.S. Representative David E. Bonior in 2001.[21] Al-Arian's eldest daughter, Laila Al-Arian, is a producer for Al Jazeera English in Washington, DC, and a freelance journalist and contributor to the Huffington Post[22] and The Nation.[23]
Al-Arian came to the U.S. in August 1975, on an Egyptian passport and a student visa, to attend Southern Illinois University.[1][17][24] He became a permanent resident alien of the U.S. on March 27, 1989.[1][17] On December 30, 1993, he allegedly filed a false application with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to become a U.S. citizen.[1][17] He was denied U.S. citizenship in 1996.[25]
Laila Alarian my father 911 scapegoat
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My father, a Palestinian professor named Sami Al-Arian, was arrested over four years ago on trumped up terrorism charges and submitted to a prosecution over the course of six months that bordered on the farcical. Though he was ultimately acquitted by a jury of the most serious charges against him, the Bush administration has prolonged his imprisonment indefinitely. My father now languishes in a Virginia jail, another victim of the demagogic politics of the so-called war on terror.
Many have wondered why my father would be targeted so vigorously, especially after the government lost a case that cost $50 million. But as with its firing of the eight federal prosecutors who "chafed" against its radical agenda, the administration of President George W. Bush has injected its politics into the system, prolonging my father's imprisonment to punish him for the humiliation his acquittal caused them.
Last week I saw Clinton
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Moffitt's argument is specious (the government has made plenty of mistakes regarding Islamists) but it does reiterate the need for special caution in the White House when it comes to Muslim leaders.
Other high-ranking political figures Al-Arian indicates in the letter that he had contact with include Republicans Spencer Abraham, Bob Barr, Tom Campbell, Tom Davis, Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, Asa Hutchinson, Henry Hyde, Trent Lott, Grover Norquist, and Karl Rove; and Democrats David Bonior, Barney Frank, Cynthia McKinney, James Moran, and Nick Rahall. All of them should have red faces; and all of them should learn an important lesson from this fiasco about not consorting with Islamists.
Cozen O'Connor and Carl Greene
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Greene, though still employed, fired a pre-emptive strike against the board Tuesday with his late-night lawsuit. The suit warns the board, which meets Thursday, that Greene can only be fired from his $300,000-a-year job under strict conditions.
The sexual harassment claims — settled confidentially, and presumably without admissions of wrongdoing — do not constitute the kind of criminal misconduct for which he can be fired, Haines argues
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Our guess though? It's investor Frank Giustra, who has faced some controversy for his connection to the Clinton Global Initiative, and whether that connection helped him land a uranium deal in Kazakhstan. AND we know that Clinton has flown on his jet.
Plus, a tipster with some knowledge of private air travel believes that Giustra's jet is one of the former President's premier modes of transportation.
And they sent us pictures of the inside of the 1990 MCDONNELL DOUGLAS MD-87.
We're not 100% sure, obviously, but it's a fun game. Presumably, the guest list will leak soon, and then we'll know whether Giustra or Burkle made the cut.
Frank Giustra wikipedia
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Giustra took a securities course and began his career in the investment industry in 1978 with Merrill Lynch as an assistant trader and then a stockbroker. In the early 1980s, Giustra left Merrill Lynch to create a resources-financing group in Europe for the new firm Yorkton Securities. He is said to have "transformed Yorkton into a major force in the world of international mining finance." [2] In 1990, he became President of the company and, in 1995, was appointed Chairman and CEO.[3].
Giustra finger in every pot
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In Canada, which supplies about 10 per cent of the world's copper, the long-term effect of the collapsing prices was still uncertain. Bruce Reid, an analyst with Yorkton Securities Inc., notes that a number of new copper mines around the world were scheduled to open over the next two years, and the increased production would have forced copper prices down even without the Hamanaka affair. Most Canadian companies had already built those declining prices into their budgets and profit forecasts; some New York City commodities analysts encouraged clients to sell any shares they have in copper-producing companies well before the Japanese scandal. Share prices of two of Canada's leading nickel producers, Rio Algom Ltd. and Falconbridge Ltd., both of Toronto, have been dropping since reaching their 1996 highs in late May, although prices last week in both firms remained steady.
International scandal
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Canadian testifies about Australian pension scandal
July 16, 2010 | 16:44
A Canadian man is at the centre of a $123-million pension-fund scandal in Australia.
Shawn Richard, 35, served as the director of Astarra Strategic investment fund, which has come under scrutiny after more than $123 million Aus. ($113 million Cdn) went missing after being sent to an overseas hedge fund.
Shenzhen Minsk World
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March 02, 2005
Minsk World, a popular Shenzhen theme park built around a decommissioned Soviet-era aircraft carrier, has been ordered into bankruptcy, but staff at the park said Tuesday it was business as usual despite the court order.
The park ran into trouble last year after the financial shipwreck of its parent company, D’Long International Strategic Investment, which since August has been under the trusteeship of China Huarong Asset Management.
Minsk World had guaranteed 476.9 million yuan (HK$449.6 million) of loans to its parent, mostly from China Construction Bank, Shenzhen Development Bank and Citic Industrial Bank, according to Xinhua.
Shenzhen municipal intermediate court Monday set up a liquidation group to take over the theme park established by D’Long International Strategic Investment in December 1998.
The investment arm of D’Long Group owned 89.9 percent of Minsk World after injecting 249.2 million yuan into the park.
Since it opened in September 2000, the park has attracted more than five million visitors and generated 450 million yuan in revenue. It was said to be profitable.
D’Long Group, once one of the mainland’s largest private companies, is controlled by brothers Tang Wanli and Tang Wanxin, whose fortune was estimated in 2003 by China Money magazine at US$250 million (HK$1.95 billion).
Another brother, Tang Wanping, owned 10.1 percent of Minsk World. Based in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, D’Long had assets in financial services and tourism, among other things.
Tang Wanxin
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D'Long boss on trial in biggest finance case
By Jiao Xiaoyang and Wang Zhuoqiong (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-01-20 06:14
Tang Wanxin, head of the notorious and now bankrupt D'Long Group, went on trial yesterday for illegally accepting deposits, manipulating stock prices and embezzlement.
Tang Wanxin
The case is the largest-ever financial crime in China, with judicial investigation showing that billions of yuan, more than 2,500 institutions and 32,000 people in about 20 provinces involved.
Six of Tang's executives also went on trial in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province.
According to the prosecutors, from 2001 to 2004, D'Long Group and its subsidiaries collected more than 45 billion yuan (US$5.6 billion) in deposits from the public, promising high returns.
Rahim Jaffer scandal background scrib
Jaffers Wright tech allegations
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The waste management firm at the centre of allegations against Rahim Jaffer says it never hired the former Conservative MP to lobby the federal government for access to a green infrastructure fund.
Jaffer has been accused of using his ties with former government colleagues in an attempt to gain access to the green fund for alternative energy projects pitched by his firm, Green Power Generation Corp., without registering as a lobbyist.
Senior conservative to be probed over Rahim Jaffer links
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Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis speaks in the House of Commons June 8, 2010. The federal ethics commissioner is investigating former Tory MP Rahim Jaffer's contact with Paradis when the latter was minister of Public Works, according to a letter made public Tuesday.
Chelsea wedding snub riles mystery mogul (the daily beast)
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Let the speculation begin! Some are guessing it’s business mogul Ron Burkle, who’s been known to loan the former president his plane on several occasions. Others think it might be investor Frank Giustra, who has ties to the Clinton Global Initiative, but who’s taken flak for possibly abusing the connection to nab a uranium deal in Kazakhstan. Whoever it was, our bet is he's not getting an invite to the next Clinton function either.
Clinton's shady uranium deal
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After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton Charity
January 31, 2008
After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton Charity
By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
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.
Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. 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. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
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.
The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction ultimately worth tens of millions of dollars to Mr. Giustra, analysts said.
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…
The two men were introduced in June 2005 at a fund-raiser for tsunami victims at Mr. Giustra’s Vancouver home and hit it off right away…
Info USA scandal
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Infogroup's founder, Vinod Gupta, lost his chairman and chief executive jobs in 2008 after a shareholder lawsuit raised questions about his use of company money to support a lavish lifestyle. He had held those posts from 1992 through August 2008.
The lawsuit alleged Infogroup misspent millions of dollars, some of it on domestic and international air travel for former President Bill Clinton and his wife, then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Gupta pledged to reimburse Infogroup $9 million over five years as part of the settlement announced in August 2008, but he remained on the company's board and received $10 million in severance.
He resigned from the board in March — right after voting for the CCMP deal — agreed then to pay more than $7.3 million to settle an SEC investigation into his use of Infogroup's money.
Stephens Inc. analyst Carter Malloy said Infogroup appears to be in a good position now that the sale and the spending investigations are complete.
Info USA wikipedia
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InfoGROUP was founded in 1972 by Vinod Gupta. The headquarters is located in Omaha, NE, USA. The company employs over 5,000 people in 88 offices worldwide. The company was acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors in July 2010, which took the company private. Clare Hart is the current CEO. [1]
InfoGROUP has 12 databases that have contact and credit information covering approximately 15 million businesses in the United States and Canada. The company licenses its data to third parties such as Yahoo!, AOL, Google, MSN, Ask, and Citysearch.
InfoGROUP’s Papillion, Nebraska, facility employs over 600 people who compile and update their consumer and business database. The Consumer database is updated from sources that include yellow pages, white pages, newspapers, incorporation records, real estate deed transfers and various other public sources. The business database is updated by, 24 million phone calls made every year to verify the name of the owner or key executive, their address, number of employees, fax numbers, e-mail addresses and other information
Clinton donor list
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December 18, 2008.Clinton Foundation Donors
.Former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation disclosed the names of 205,000 donors on a Web site Thursday, ending a decade of resistance to identifying the sources of its money. Below, see the list of people and institutons who donated at least $100,000, sort by name or amount. To search by surname, hit control-F. (See related article.)
Donor Donated at least... But not more than...
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation $25,000,000 N/A
UNITAID $25,000,000 N/A
AUSAID $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Stephen L. Bing $10,000,001 $25,000,000
COPRESIDA-Secretariado Tecnico $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Fred Eychaner $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Frank Giustra, Chief Executive Officer, The Radcliffe Foundation $10,000,001 $25,000,000
Tom Golisano $10,000,001 $25,000,000
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Clinton crime family
Feds snare lawyers in Cali Cartel
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Feds snare lawyers in Cali Cartel net; the defense bar sees, in raids, taps and novel theories, an unprecedented attack
Federal prosecutors on June 5, 1995, indicted six attorneys in Miami on charges involving their work aiding and advising leaders of the Cali cocaine cartel. Defense lawyers in the community expressed outrage, saying government methods of investigation were questionable and that the government was trying to blame the lawyers for their clients' actions. They also noted that successful legal work for drug kingpins would inevitably aid the latter in their actions. One of the lawyers, Michael Abbell, is a former top Justice Department official.
Michael Abbell
Mr. Abbell was the first Director, Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice. In that capacity, he negotiated, and supervised the negotiation and implementation of, numerous United States treaties on extradition, mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, and international prisoner transfer.
He has written extensively on transnational criminal law subjects including three treatises published by Martinius Nijhoff/Brill:
•Extradition To and From the United States
•Obtaining Evidence Abroad in Criminal Cases
•International Prisoner Transfer
He has been widely consulted by United States and foreign criminal defense lawyers because of his extensive experience and expertise in the above areas of transnational criminal law, including the successful defenses of extradition requests of alleged fugitives made to and by the United States.
He is a graduate of Harvard University, 1961 and Harvard Law School, 1964.
Moffitt served as counsel for Michael Abbell
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In a recent high-profile case, Moffitt served as counsel for Michael Abbell, a former high-ranking Justice Department official accused of engaging in a major drug-trafficking conspiracy with the Cali drug cartel. Previously, Moffitt represented William Aramony, former head of the United Way who was indicted for embezzlement and represented the colorful extremist Lyndon LaRouche. He was also involved in the defense of alleged Libyan terrorists.
Aramony
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Prosecutor: United Way Chief Looted His Charity
March 24, 1995
William Aramony systematically looted the United Way of America, treating the charity he headed for 22 years as an open checkbook, a prosecutor said Thursday in closing arguments. Aramony, 67, used intimidation and cunning to enrich himself and his friends, including two former top associates on trial with him on charges of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering, Assistant U.S. Attorney Randy Bellows said. Aramony's lawyer, William B. Moffitt Jr., called his client ''a fall guy'' for sloppy oversight by United Way's board of directors and bumbling by Aramony's staff.
David E. Bonior
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David Edward Bonior (born June 6, 1945) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time Democrats were in both the majority (1991-1995) and minority (1995-2002), making Bonior the third and second highest-ranking Democrat in the House, respectively. During his tenure in office, Bonior was the public face of Democratic opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),[1] and was known for his tenacity in opposing Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, against whom Bonior filed more than seventy-five ethics charges.[2]
William Moffitt and Libyan terrorists pdf
William B. Moffitt
Direct Phone 202-912-4800
Direct fax 202-912-4830
Cozen O'Connor
Sami Al-Arian
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He is married to Nahla Al-Arian, and they have five children.[20] His son Abdullah Al-Arian was an intern for U.S. Representative David E. Bonior in 2001.[21] Al-Arian's eldest daughter, Laila Al-Arian, is a producer for Al Jazeera English in Washington, DC, and a freelance journalist and contributor to the Huffington Post[22] and The Nation.[23]
Al-Arian came to the U.S. in August 1975, on an Egyptian passport and a student visa, to attend Southern Illinois University.[1][17][24] He became a permanent resident alien of the U.S. on March 27, 1989.[1][17] On December 30, 1993, he allegedly filed a false application with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to become a U.S. citizen.[1][17] He was denied U.S. citizenship in 1996.[25]
Laila Alarian my father 911 scapegoat
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My father, a Palestinian professor named Sami Al-Arian, was arrested over four years ago on trumped up terrorism charges and submitted to a prosecution over the course of six months that bordered on the farcical. Though he was ultimately acquitted by a jury of the most serious charges against him, the Bush administration has prolonged his imprisonment indefinitely. My father now languishes in a Virginia jail, another victim of the demagogic politics of the so-called war on terror.
Many have wondered why my father would be targeted so vigorously, especially after the government lost a case that cost $50 million. But as with its firing of the eight federal prosecutors who "chafed" against its radical agenda, the administration of President George W. Bush has injected its politics into the system, prolonging my father's imprisonment to punish him for the humiliation his acquittal caused them.
Last week I saw Clinton
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Moffitt's argument is specious (the government has made plenty of mistakes regarding Islamists) but it does reiterate the need for special caution in the White House when it comes to Muslim leaders.
Other high-ranking political figures Al-Arian indicates in the letter that he had contact with include Republicans Spencer Abraham, Bob Barr, Tom Campbell, Tom Davis, Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, Asa Hutchinson, Henry Hyde, Trent Lott, Grover Norquist, and Karl Rove; and Democrats David Bonior, Barney Frank, Cynthia McKinney, James Moran, and Nick Rahall. All of them should have red faces; and all of them should learn an important lesson from this fiasco about not consorting with Islamists.
Cozen O'Connor and Carl Greene
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Greene, though still employed, fired a pre-emptive strike against the board Tuesday with his late-night lawsuit. The suit warns the board, which meets Thursday, that Greene can only be fired from his $300,000-a-year job under strict conditions.
The sexual harassment claims — settled confidentially, and presumably without admissions of wrongdoing — do not constitute the kind of criminal misconduct for which he can be fired, Haines argues
I don't know if you guys remember but about a month or so ago I mentioned that when I worked as a contractor at IBM I was responsible for making name cards for a conference we were having. When late comers arrived I would run to the printer and make up their cards........
EXCEPTION: two women came in in the midst of the late comers and one was black and one was hispanic and my manager walked up to these two ladies and handed them blank cards and suggested they write their names. Another thing I remember was that there were 3 misspellings of names and I was asked to redo the cards and the three were all white male men. hmmmmmm
I realize that this whole thing started out as the 'Clinton Initiative' but when I saw last night the 'Clinton-Obama' Initiative I thought to myself that it should be......... 'Obama-Clinton' Initiative and when I saw the misspelling of Obama's name it all blew up in my mind and I guess the reason is that OBAMA is our president and even tho ol Billy boy is trying to bring him onboard, he still wants top billing even though he is NO LONGER PRESIDENT............ Who the hell does Bill Clinton think he is......... GOD!!! .......my2cents
Who is 'Barak' Obama and What is he doing at the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting
Former President Bill Clinton hit the talk show circuit on Sunday, defending President Barack Obama’s economic policies, but somewhere between "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation," someone on Clinton's staff must have forgotten how to spell the current Commander-in-Chief's name.
On the Clinton Global Initiative website a "News Highlight" on the homepage announces taht President Barak Obama will be appearing at the annual meeting for Clinton's foundation, which brings non-profit and private sector money to global problems. The summit kicks of Tuesday.
Other attendees at the Manhattan-based meetings include Mr. Obama's wife, Michelle, Paul Farmer and Eric Schmidt. All fared better, with no misspellings in their names.
While we can safely assume this typo was just a simple mistake -- first noticed early Monday morning -- it was yet to be fixed by around 11:30 a.m. The two presidents have gotten along well since rumors of a rift following the aftermath of the 2008 Democratic primary, meeting for lunch and other meetings in New York City and elsewhere.
Other featured speakers include Former Secretary of State Madeline Albrecht, NBC News special correspondent Tim Brokaw, and Microsoft Founder Bill Gatts.
I watched the first minute of this and could not bring myself to watch the rest...... Personally I think the Billarys are murderers and should be held accountable for WACO and Ruby Ridge. (Lots more too) How can 'WE' ever trust these people knowing what they've done to America's citizens? ......cal
Bill Clinton Clinton Global Initiative -President Obama -Sarah Palin video
Clinton Obama Initiative
Video Transcript:
BOB SCHIEFFER: But first, the former President Bill Clinton. Mister President, thank you for coming. Welcome to the broadcast. This week, you are bringing together business leaders, world leaders, thinkers from ninety countries. I think the last I heard forty sitting presidents and prime ministers from around the world. All getting together to talk about with your Clinton Global Initiative, the most serious problems facing the world and how we can take action against them. You've had some remarkable successes with this over the years. But, let me just ask you first, what do you think you'll be concentrating on this year?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, this year we'll be focusing a lot on the economic challenges facing people all around the world, including in the United States, and what if anything, the private people who come here and the non-governmental groups can do. And I think you'll see some interesting commitments coming out that affect America--how to create jobs from clean energy in the United States, without any kind of particular involvement from the government, how to train more people to take jobs more quickly. You know the last Economic Report; unemployment rate showed that posted job openings are going up twice as fast as job hires in America. That's not happened coming out of a recession in my lifetime. So we're going to respond to problems in America. And then we're going to look at that around the world to see what we can do and especially what we can do to help girls and women participate in the revival of the economies of their own countries and get a fair share of the education. We-- as always, we'll have a lot of emphasis on education and on bringing the benefits of technology to people who don't have them. So-- and-- and I think, you know there will be a lot of interesting side effects. Terry McAuliffe, a man you know, is bringing two electric cars to the Clinton Global Initiative, because he went to China and bought two electric car companies and is moving them to America to manufacture cars, a thousand of which he's already sold in Denmark. And it makes the point that we can bring manufacturing back to America and put people to work doing that too.
BOB SCHIEFFER: You talk about concentrating on some of the problems in this country. I think a-- a report that really gave a lot of people pause this week when it came out that one American in seven, now lives in poverty. That's more than ten percent of our population. How do we do something about that, Mister President? How did we get to that point?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, first of all, if you go all the way back to the early seventies, when we began to globalize the financial system without globalizing the economy, without any global economic and social supports--inequality has been increasing as finance gets more and more-- any country's economy and basic business and manufacturing gets less, it concentrates well at the top. That's been happening for forty years. In my second term is the only four-year period in that time where the bottom twenty percent of working people's incomes in percentage terms actually went up slightly more than the top twenty percent. But even then the top one percent did the best. And the middle class has been squeezed. In this-- the last eight years before President Obama took office, before the financial meltdown, forty-three percent of the benefits of the decade went to ten percent of the people. I mean ninety percent benefit went to ten percent, forty-three percent to the top one percent. So the middle class has been squeezed. And then we had this total collapse and people had their credit cards maxed out. They didn't have any savings. Any they could easily fall into poverty. Now the American peoples are trying to save more. They're trying to get back together. But when we come out of this, we have got to have a strategy for building a middle-class economy, which includes creating more jobs and you have to know where are they? They're in small business, manufacturing, and clean energy. Getting financing, where is the money? The banks have enough money to make-- well, they have 1.8 trillion dollars in cash reserves, so they can make in theory eighteen trillion dollars in loans. Corporations have 1.6 trillion dollars in their treasury. And then we've got to train people to do the jobs. There are just too many jobs where the skills mismatch is there. Then is second thing we have to do is to figure out how to deal with these crises that are killing the middle class. You've more than ten percent of the American people living in houses that are worth less than their mortgages, and lots of other problems. It's-- it-s-- we need a whole strategy to revive the middle class. And I-- I worry that we're living in a climate where there's a lot of name calling, a lot of labeling, a lot of, you know, bad mouth the government or bad mouth big business but people don't talk about what are we going to do to turn this around? We've got to get out of the immediate crisis we're in that started in 2008, and then we have to realize there is a long-term trend here that can only be overcome through education and the creation of more jobs and a-- and a more balanced economy in America.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right. I want to-- I'm going to ask you a little bit more about that in a minute. But I-- I do want to talk about some of the-- the politics of the moment right now. And this is this whole Tea Party thing that's going on. It-- it's sort of the right end of what you have talked about kind of this general frustration and anxiety out there in the country. But what do you make of it? Some Democrats say it's a civil war going on in the Republican Party. Some Democrats think it's a good thing for Democrats. What's your take on it?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: I'm not sure it's going to be a good thing for Democrats yet. We don't know. I-- I think that-- first of all, the Tea Party insurrection, if you will, that you see in these Republican primaries reflects the feeling of a lot of Americans that they're getting the shaft. That the people who-- who caused these problems--first of all, the-- the banks that were responsible for financial meltdown, they've gotten well again. And, everybody's got money again who's in that business, but ordinary people don't. Then they think the government that didn't exercise appropriate oversight. Everybody, they've still got a job and health insurance and can make a home mortgage payment and can send their kids to college and they can't. So there is a general revolt against bigness, which in the case of the Republicans is always directed more against the government than the private sector. It's totally understandable. The thing that bothers me about the Tea Party movement is two things. Number one, according to the profiles and the studies that have been done, it's being bank rolled by people who want to weaken the government, so that there will be even more account-- unaccounted for private concentration of power. And that's what got it us in the mess we're in the first place. And the second thing that bothers me is that it's hard to know where they stand on these specific issues. Do they want to repeal the Financial Oversight Bill? Do they want to repeal rather than reform the health care thing? Do they really want to repeal the student loan reform bill at a time when we've fallen from first to twelfth, in the world, in the percentage of our people with college degrees and it's really important to the economy? And this student loan reform for the first time allows everyone to pay their loans back as a percentage of their income. We need-- I don't know where they stand, but I get why they're popular.
BOB SCHIEFFER: I-- I would also bring up that it's not just in the Republican Party that there is some dissatisfaction.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: No.
BOB SCHIEFFER: There is dissatisfaction within your party, the Democratic Party. I want to ask you, what do you think is happened to President Obama? He comes in to office, there are very high expectations. He has the big support among independents, a lot of Republicans I think also voted for him. And yet, now we see his approval rating is less than fifty percent. We see that there are all these things going on around with him. Eighteen percent of the people think he's a Muslim. A-- a large percentage of people think he wasn't even born in this country. I guess what I'm asking you is how does he get his groove back, because he seems to me to have lost it.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, I think, first of all, we have to give our friends in the Republican Party their fair share of credit. I think when President Obama was in the Senate bef-- for a while before he started running for president. He built some friends among the Republicans. They did some things together. When he got elected the first thing he said was, "I don't want any investigations into the Bush years. I want to go right ahead. We want to get this country moving again." And he kept thinking that he would find some partners in the Republican Party. And he didn't. And it was clear that Mister Boehner and Senator McConnell and-- they weren't going to vote for any meaningful health care bill. They weren't going to support any student loan reform that the banks didn't like. They were going to oppose the Financial Oversight Bill. We got a couple of Republicans for that. And I think he was shocked at the intensity of the Republican opposition. But they learned from my first two years that if you just say no, even though people hate it, you get rewarded for it, because it discourages the Democrats and it inflames your base. So they're doing just what they did in '93 and '94. And, so far, it appears that they're being rewarded for it. And I think that it-- it-- it disoriented him for a while. He just kept trying and kept trying. I also think he believed that if he accomplished a lot on the legislative front that would be reflected in a better political climate. But the problem is there's a huge lag time once you get in a deep economic hole between digging out of it and having people feel it. And so, I think, you know, look, Bob, if the unemployment rate were five percent, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I don't think. They'd still be the--
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Well, let me just--
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: There would be the conservative critique that he was for too much government but we'd be in better shape. So I think he is getting his groove back now. He's still fighting for specific things on small business and manufacturing and all the stimulus money that hadn't been spent--clean energy stuff. And he's out there combating the opposition now. Maybe that'll make a difference. I think it will make some difference. And I think we'll do better. But the Democrats should focus on-- people only hire us when things are messed up. They'd much rather hear the Republican rhetoric than ours. We only get hired when the country is in a mess.
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Let me-- let--
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: So the Democrats should focus on what we're going to do.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right. Let me just ask you, because you mentioned 1994. That is, of course, when the Republicans took the House and Newt Gingrich came to power in the House. A lot of people said that that's also when your administration finally began to focus and get some things done. You were having your problems going into that election. You lost a bunch of seats in the House. But after that, you did things like welfare and NAFTA. You got some tax cuts in. You balanced the budget. Would it be good for him in-- in a way if he-- if he lost the House and the Republicans came to power and had to share some of the responsibility here?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, I think it would increase his chances of being re-elected. Whether it would be good for the country or not, I don't know. But see-- you just said that's part of the-- the narrative. But, yeah, we passed a Balanced Budget Bill. But it was easy to pass the Balanced Budget Bill, because ninety percent of the deficit was reduced by the budget that only Democrats voted for in 1993, that the Republicans beat them for.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Or--
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Because the-- because that's what reversed trickledown economics. That's what put the country on a whole new course. It was that budget and the people who got beat were the people who voted for it. I'm worried that we're going to beat lot of people now who voted for a lot of the policies that will bring this country into the 21st Century. And then we'll have a Congress that won't support building a green economy anymore.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: I mean-- I-- that-- that's the thing that really bothers me. I think that, yeah, we got a lot done. And I like working with Newt Gingrich. And I could deal with all the shenanigans they pull, but I-- but I hate to see the people who are more likely to generate manufacturing and small business opportunities and more likely to train the American people to do the jobs that are open and more likely to deal with the remainder of the mortgage crisis thrown out of office.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: And I don't know how it'll play out. BOB SCHIEFFER: All right. Mister President, I'm sorry we have to leave it there. But we do. The clock ran out. We'll be back in one minute. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Thank you.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6881862n#ixzz10As18JPw
EXCEPTION: two women came in in the midst of the late comers and one was black and one was hispanic and my manager walked up to these two ladies and handed them blank cards and suggested they write their names. Another thing I remember was that there were 3 misspellings of names and I was asked to redo the cards and the three were all white male men. hmmmmmm
I realize that this whole thing started out as the 'Clinton Initiative' but when I saw last night the 'Clinton-Obama' Initiative I thought to myself that it should be......... 'Obama-Clinton' Initiative and when I saw the misspelling of Obama's name it all blew up in my mind and I guess the reason is that OBAMA is our president and even tho ol Billy boy is trying to bring him onboard, he still wants top billing even though he is NO LONGER PRESIDENT............ Who the hell does Bill Clinton think he is......... GOD!!! .......my2cents
Who is 'Barak' Obama and What is he doing at the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting
Former President Bill Clinton hit the talk show circuit on Sunday, defending President Barack Obama’s economic policies, but somewhere between "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation," someone on Clinton's staff must have forgotten how to spell the current Commander-in-Chief's name.
On the Clinton Global Initiative website a "News Highlight" on the homepage announces taht President Barak Obama will be appearing at the annual meeting for Clinton's foundation, which brings non-profit and private sector money to global problems. The summit kicks of Tuesday.
Other attendees at the Manhattan-based meetings include Mr. Obama's wife, Michelle, Paul Farmer and Eric Schmidt. All fared better, with no misspellings in their names.
While we can safely assume this typo was just a simple mistake -- first noticed early Monday morning -- it was yet to be fixed by around 11:30 a.m. The two presidents have gotten along well since rumors of a rift following the aftermath of the 2008 Democratic primary, meeting for lunch and other meetings in New York City and elsewhere.
Other featured speakers include Former Secretary of State Madeline Albrecht, NBC News special correspondent Tim Brokaw, and Microsoft Founder Bill Gatts.
I watched the first minute of this and could not bring myself to watch the rest...... Personally I think the Billarys are murderers and should be held accountable for WACO and Ruby Ridge. (Lots more too) How can 'WE' ever trust these people knowing what they've done to America's citizens? ......cal
Bill Clinton Clinton Global Initiative -President Obama -Sarah Palin video
Clinton Obama Initiative
Video Transcript:
BOB SCHIEFFER: But first, the former President Bill Clinton. Mister President, thank you for coming. Welcome to the broadcast. This week, you are bringing together business leaders, world leaders, thinkers from ninety countries. I think the last I heard forty sitting presidents and prime ministers from around the world. All getting together to talk about with your Clinton Global Initiative, the most serious problems facing the world and how we can take action against them. You've had some remarkable successes with this over the years. But, let me just ask you first, what do you think you'll be concentrating on this year?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, this year we'll be focusing a lot on the economic challenges facing people all around the world, including in the United States, and what if anything, the private people who come here and the non-governmental groups can do. And I think you'll see some interesting commitments coming out that affect America--how to create jobs from clean energy in the United States, without any kind of particular involvement from the government, how to train more people to take jobs more quickly. You know the last Economic Report; unemployment rate showed that posted job openings are going up twice as fast as job hires in America. That's not happened coming out of a recession in my lifetime. So we're going to respond to problems in America. And then we're going to look at that around the world to see what we can do and especially what we can do to help girls and women participate in the revival of the economies of their own countries and get a fair share of the education. We-- as always, we'll have a lot of emphasis on education and on bringing the benefits of technology to people who don't have them. So-- and-- and I think, you know there will be a lot of interesting side effects. Terry McAuliffe, a man you know, is bringing two electric cars to the Clinton Global Initiative, because he went to China and bought two electric car companies and is moving them to America to manufacture cars, a thousand of which he's already sold in Denmark. And it makes the point that we can bring manufacturing back to America and put people to work doing that too.
BOB SCHIEFFER: You talk about concentrating on some of the problems in this country. I think a-- a report that really gave a lot of people pause this week when it came out that one American in seven, now lives in poverty. That's more than ten percent of our population. How do we do something about that, Mister President? How did we get to that point?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, first of all, if you go all the way back to the early seventies, when we began to globalize the financial system without globalizing the economy, without any global economic and social supports--inequality has been increasing as finance gets more and more-- any country's economy and basic business and manufacturing gets less, it concentrates well at the top. That's been happening for forty years. In my second term is the only four-year period in that time where the bottom twenty percent of working people's incomes in percentage terms actually went up slightly more than the top twenty percent. But even then the top one percent did the best. And the middle class has been squeezed. In this-- the last eight years before President Obama took office, before the financial meltdown, forty-three percent of the benefits of the decade went to ten percent of the people. I mean ninety percent benefit went to ten percent, forty-three percent to the top one percent. So the middle class has been squeezed. And then we had this total collapse and people had their credit cards maxed out. They didn't have any savings. Any they could easily fall into poverty. Now the American peoples are trying to save more. They're trying to get back together. But when we come out of this, we have got to have a strategy for building a middle-class economy, which includes creating more jobs and you have to know where are they? They're in small business, manufacturing, and clean energy. Getting financing, where is the money? The banks have enough money to make-- well, they have 1.8 trillion dollars in cash reserves, so they can make in theory eighteen trillion dollars in loans. Corporations have 1.6 trillion dollars in their treasury. And then we've got to train people to do the jobs. There are just too many jobs where the skills mismatch is there. Then is second thing we have to do is to figure out how to deal with these crises that are killing the middle class. You've more than ten percent of the American people living in houses that are worth less than their mortgages, and lots of other problems. It's-- it-s-- we need a whole strategy to revive the middle class. And I-- I worry that we're living in a climate where there's a lot of name calling, a lot of labeling, a lot of, you know, bad mouth the government or bad mouth big business but people don't talk about what are we going to do to turn this around? We've got to get out of the immediate crisis we're in that started in 2008, and then we have to realize there is a long-term trend here that can only be overcome through education and the creation of more jobs and a-- and a more balanced economy in America.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right. I want to-- I'm going to ask you a little bit more about that in a minute. But I-- I do want to talk about some of the-- the politics of the moment right now. And this is this whole Tea Party thing that's going on. It-- it's sort of the right end of what you have talked about kind of this general frustration and anxiety out there in the country. But what do you make of it? Some Democrats say it's a civil war going on in the Republican Party. Some Democrats think it's a good thing for Democrats. What's your take on it?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: I'm not sure it's going to be a good thing for Democrats yet. We don't know. I-- I think that-- first of all, the Tea Party insurrection, if you will, that you see in these Republican primaries reflects the feeling of a lot of Americans that they're getting the shaft. That the people who-- who caused these problems--first of all, the-- the banks that were responsible for financial meltdown, they've gotten well again. And, everybody's got money again who's in that business, but ordinary people don't. Then they think the government that didn't exercise appropriate oversight. Everybody, they've still got a job and health insurance and can make a home mortgage payment and can send their kids to college and they can't. So there is a general revolt against bigness, which in the case of the Republicans is always directed more against the government than the private sector. It's totally understandable. The thing that bothers me about the Tea Party movement is two things. Number one, according to the profiles and the studies that have been done, it's being bank rolled by people who want to weaken the government, so that there will be even more account-- unaccounted for private concentration of power. And that's what got it us in the mess we're in the first place. And the second thing that bothers me is that it's hard to know where they stand on these specific issues. Do they want to repeal the Financial Oversight Bill? Do they want to repeal rather than reform the health care thing? Do they really want to repeal the student loan reform bill at a time when we've fallen from first to twelfth, in the world, in the percentage of our people with college degrees and it's really important to the economy? And this student loan reform for the first time allows everyone to pay their loans back as a percentage of their income. We need-- I don't know where they stand, but I get why they're popular.
BOB SCHIEFFER: I-- I would also bring up that it's not just in the Republican Party that there is some dissatisfaction.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: No.
BOB SCHIEFFER: There is dissatisfaction within your party, the Democratic Party. I want to ask you, what do you think is happened to President Obama? He comes in to office, there are very high expectations. He has the big support among independents, a lot of Republicans I think also voted for him. And yet, now we see his approval rating is less than fifty percent. We see that there are all these things going on around with him. Eighteen percent of the people think he's a Muslim. A-- a large percentage of people think he wasn't even born in this country. I guess what I'm asking you is how does he get his groove back, because he seems to me to have lost it.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, I think, first of all, we have to give our friends in the Republican Party their fair share of credit. I think when President Obama was in the Senate bef-- for a while before he started running for president. He built some friends among the Republicans. They did some things together. When he got elected the first thing he said was, "I don't want any investigations into the Bush years. I want to go right ahead. We want to get this country moving again." And he kept thinking that he would find some partners in the Republican Party. And he didn't. And it was clear that Mister Boehner and Senator McConnell and-- they weren't going to vote for any meaningful health care bill. They weren't going to support any student loan reform that the banks didn't like. They were going to oppose the Financial Oversight Bill. We got a couple of Republicans for that. And I think he was shocked at the intensity of the Republican opposition. But they learned from my first two years that if you just say no, even though people hate it, you get rewarded for it, because it discourages the Democrats and it inflames your base. So they're doing just what they did in '93 and '94. And, so far, it appears that they're being rewarded for it. And I think that it-- it-- it disoriented him for a while. He just kept trying and kept trying. I also think he believed that if he accomplished a lot on the legislative front that would be reflected in a better political climate. But the problem is there's a huge lag time once you get in a deep economic hole between digging out of it and having people feel it. And so, I think, you know, look, Bob, if the unemployment rate were five percent, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I don't think. They'd still be the--
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Well, let me just--
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: There would be the conservative critique that he was for too much government but we'd be in better shape. So I think he is getting his groove back now. He's still fighting for specific things on small business and manufacturing and all the stimulus money that hadn't been spent--clean energy stuff. And he's out there combating the opposition now. Maybe that'll make a difference. I think it will make some difference. And I think we'll do better. But the Democrats should focus on-- people only hire us when things are messed up. They'd much rather hear the Republican rhetoric than ours. We only get hired when the country is in a mess.
BOB SCHIEFFER (overlapping): Let me-- let--
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: So the Democrats should focus on what we're going to do.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right. Let me just ask you, because you mentioned 1994. That is, of course, when the Republicans took the House and Newt Gingrich came to power in the House. A lot of people said that that's also when your administration finally began to focus and get some things done. You were having your problems going into that election. You lost a bunch of seats in the House. But after that, you did things like welfare and NAFTA. You got some tax cuts in. You balanced the budget. Would it be good for him in-- in a way if he-- if he lost the House and the Republicans came to power and had to share some of the responsibility here?
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Well, I think it would increase his chances of being re-elected. Whether it would be good for the country or not, I don't know. But see-- you just said that's part of the-- the narrative. But, yeah, we passed a Balanced Budget Bill. But it was easy to pass the Balanced Budget Bill, because ninety percent of the deficit was reduced by the budget that only Democrats voted for in 1993, that the Republicans beat them for.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Or--
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Because the-- because that's what reversed trickledown economics. That's what put the country on a whole new course. It was that budget and the people who got beat were the people who voted for it. I'm worried that we're going to beat lot of people now who voted for a lot of the policies that will bring this country into the 21st Century. And then we'll have a Congress that won't support building a green economy anymore.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: I mean-- I-- that-- that's the thing that really bothers me. I think that, yeah, we got a lot done. And I like working with Newt Gingrich. And I could deal with all the shenanigans they pull, but I-- but I hate to see the people who are more likely to generate manufacturing and small business opportunities and more likely to train the American people to do the jobs that are open and more likely to deal with the remainder of the mortgage crisis thrown out of office.
BOB SCHIEFFER: All right.
PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: And I don't know how it'll play out. BOB SCHIEFFER: All right. Mister President, I'm sorry we have to leave it there. But we do. The clock ran out. We'll be back in one minute. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: Thank you.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6881862n#ixzz10As18JPw
Monday, September 20, 2010
Jimmy Carter was on 'The View' (http://theview.abc.go.com/)this morning and that got me started. He said that Ted Kennedy was the reason Health care didn't go thru back in the day. (That's ok with me as I know the Kennedy men weren't perfect)
........... anyways, was Billy Carter's business deal with Libya the reason Jimmy didn't get re-elected?
Today's 'The View' wasn't posted yet so I just put up the website in case you guys wanna check back later.
Senators call for probe to see if BP will pay spill costs in blood money
EXCERPT:
Democratic lawmakers want to know if BP is paying off Louisiana shrimpers with "blood money" flowing from a dirty deal to free the Lockerbie bomber in exchange for Libyan oil.
BP will begin drilling in Libyan waters this month, thanks to a $900 million deal approved in 2007, right after the convicted Libyan terrorist was added to a dubious prisoner-transfer agreement with the U.K.
BP stands to make billions in Libya's Gulf of Sidra, analysts say.
Beyond Petroleum ditching BP's early promise of sustainable energy
EXCERPT:
BP’s latest plans in the Gulf of Sidra, just off the Libyan coast, are a case in point. The company has invested more in the development of this one site than in any other project to date, and the drilling wells will be even deeper than those in the Gulf of Mexico, at about 5,700 feet below the ocean's surface. There are increasing political risks as well. The Italian government, backed by the EU Commission and other powerful EU member states, may yet succeed in derailing or at least delaying the project. Images of the oil spill are not the only thing that will be playing on their minds: rumours persist that BP was involved in the release of former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi from a Scottish jail earlier this year, allegedly as part of the Gulf of Sidra exploration deal.
Libya, BP, Blair
EXCERPT:
16 Aug 2009
That Blair's visit coincided with BP signing a £450 million oil contract with Libya fuelled suspicions that Megrahi was part of diplomatic horse-trading between London and Tripoli. Westminster would later tell Edinburgh apologetically that, actually, Lockerbie was covered by the deal, much to Salmond's fury.
Banking and Finance and Russia's insurance company 'Ingosstrakh'
EXCERPT:
The takeover offer is part of efforts to end a long-running courtroom battle between the two sides over control of Ingosstrakh, Russia’s second-largest insurance group, estimated to be worth £1 billion.
The dispute is the latest row between western business and Russian billionaires over control of companies in the former Soviet Union. The oil giant BP is at present locked in a bitter dispute over TNK-BP, its Russian joint venture.
Oleg Deripaska's Games plan for Rusal
Oligarchs to settle $4bn battle in High Court
Italian politicians have been lobbying Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, on Generali’s behalf, asking him to intervene in the dispute. A recent Russian court ruling on Ingosstrakh prevented the Generali / Kellner consortium from using its 38% stake to vote at Ingosstrakh
Oleg Deripaska plots a racing revolution
EXCERPT:
"Deripaska has taken on James Wigan as his first move," I was told at the launch of this year's Derby Festival, at the Gaucho Piccadilly restaurant in London. "The pair met through Nat Rothschild, who has a close business relationship with Deripaska."
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Peter Mandelson and Nat Rothschilds long lasting friendship
EXCERPT:
Rather than the eclectic group of rich at play, the Shadow Chancellor was unwittingly made privy to a closely guarded relationship between Mandelson and the Rothschild family that spanned nearly two decades. During this time, their business and personal lives had become entwined many times including, on this occasion, with their mutual friend the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, and had forged a far stronger bond than Osborne could claim with his university chum and host, Nathaniel Rothschild.
Chaos, Mandelson and Rothschild
The team is headed by Hannah Rothschild, who just happens to be the sister of multi-millionaire banker Nat Rothschild. It was Nat Rothschild who holidayed with Mandelson in Corfu and who invited him and Colonel Gaddafi's son for a shooting weekend at his family's French-style chateau in Buckinghamshire last autumn.
Libyaonline.com
EXCERPT:
Libya’s economy is heavily reliant on oil exports.
Libya relies on oil and natural gas to satisfy energy consumption demand. Economic growth in Libya is dependent on the hydrocarbon industry. According to the World Bank, the country’s hydrocarbon exports account for over 95 percent of total merchandize exports and revenues from the oil and natural gas sectors amount to over half of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Since the United Nations and the United States lifted sanctions over Libya in 2003 and 2004, respectively, oil majors have stepped up exploration efforts for oil and natural gas in the country. Likewise, companies have tried using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques to increase production at maturing fields. Over the next six years, Libya would like to see oil production capacity increase by 40 percent from 1.8 million barrels per day (bbl/d) to 3 million bbl/d by 2013.
Gaddafi/Rothschild and Mandelson
EXCERPT:
On 16 August 2009, The Sunday Herald (Lockerbie: after the conspiricies ... the cover up?), reminds us that in June 2007, Tony Blair did a "deal in the desert" with Gaddafi on judicial co-operation between the UK and Libya. This deal covered "prisoner transfer".
Blair's visit coincided with BP signing a £450 million oil contract with Libya.
On 11 August 2009, an anonymous email was sent to an Member of the Scottish Parliament. (the cover up?)
When you take morality out of politics
EXCERPT:
Saturday, 5 June 2010
When you take morality out of politics you get Mandelson
I almost missed Max Hastings' piece for the Mail yesterday in which he excoriates the memory of one Peter Mandelson. When you take all morality out of politics, when your greed and hunger for power alone overcome every moral scruple, you get Mandelson.
Qaddafi/Billy Carter
EXCERPT:
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Qaddafi, Billy Carter, Healy (1979)
Workers Vanguard No. 231 (11 May 1979)
Qaddafi, Billy Carter, Healy, Idi Amin
Who’s Behind WL Provocations Against Spartacist?
“Q: What Do Idi Amin, Billy Carter and Gerry Healy have in Common?
“A: The Qaddafi Connection!”
Down With Executive Offices of the Capitalist State!
EXCERPT:
Marxist Principles and Electoral Tactics
The Fifth Conference of the International Communist League in 2007 adopted the position of opposition to Marxists running for executive office in the capitalist state—e.g., president, mayor, provincial or state governor—as a matter of principle. This position flows from our understanding that the capitalist state is the executive committee of the ruling class. At its core this state consists of bodies of armed men—the military, police, courts and prisons—which function to protect the class rule of the bourgeoisie and its system of production.
Communist deputies can, as oppositionists, serve in the U.S. Congress, parliaments
Billy Carters wild ride from Billy beer to Libyan oil cartels
EXCERPT:
A reporter asked Billy why he was involved with the Libyans and got more than he expected in return and possibly also a non-answer to his question. Billy sounded off: “The only thing I can say is there is a hell of a lot more Arabians than there is Jews,” adding that the “Jewish media [tore] up the Arab countries full-time.”
Carter on Ted Kennedy
EXCERPT:
Carter Blames Ted Kennedy For Delay In Passing Health Bill
Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance
Article Date: 20 Sep 2010
A decades old grudge between former president Jimmy Carter and the late senator Edward Kennedy was renewed again Thursday when Carter criticized Kennedy's stand on the former president's health care proposal. CBS "60 Minutes" quotes Carter as saying "that Kennedy delayed comprehensive coverage for Americans for decades. ... It was Kennedy's actions to kill Carter's own health care bill that made Americans wait more than 30 years for meaningful coverage, says Carter in an interview with '60 Minutes' correspondent Lesley Stahl. ... In a diary he kept during his presidency, Carter vents about Kennedy's attacks and criticizes Kennedy's own health care bill" (9/16).
CNN: "'The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,' Carter told CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl. 'It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill.' Carter proposed health care reform in the late 1970s but was unable to sign any legislation. He said Kennedy blocked the bill in Congress out of spite in advance of the Massachusetts senator's unusual, and ultimately unsuccessful 1980 bid to unseat him. 'He did not want to see me have a major success in that realm of life,' Carter said" (Simon, 9/16).
Time magazine Billy Carter is not a buffoon
Nation: Billy Carter Is Not a Buffoon
Monday, Sep. 01, 1980
"I am just an ordinary citizen from a small Southern community," said the nervous, chain-smoking witness before a Senate subcommittee last week. But little was ordinary about the fact that Billy Carter had come to the ornate Senate Caucus Room, the famed site of the Teapot Dome, McCarthy and Watergate hearings. He was there to testify under oath about his controversial relations with the government of Libya. Soft-spoken and attired in a three-piece suit, he was no longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said, "I hope this testimony will show in common-sense fashion that Billy Carter is not a 'buffoon,' a 'boob' or a 'wacko,' as some public figures have described him."
In this, Billy appears to have succeeded. And although his judgment in choosing friends and business associates may remain open to question, he performed rather well in responding to the Senate panel's two main lines of questioning: 1) Had he used his position as the President's brother to influence U.S. policy toward Libya, a radical country with which Washington maintains subzero relations? 2) What were the details involving the $220,000 that he had received from a Libyan bank? In nine hours of testimony over two days, the Senators learned little that was new about either matter. Billy confirmed that he had visited Libya in 1978 and again the following year; he had played host, in turn, to a Libyan delegation to Georgia in January 1979; he had tried to arrange, without success, for the Charter Crude Oil Co. of Jacksonville to obtain Libyan crude oil; and he had received one check from the Libyans for $20,000 in December 1979 and another for $200,000 the following April 1.
Throughout the testimony, Billy insisted that there was nothing wrong with these transactions. He conceded that he probably "had been invited [to Libya] because I was the brother of the President," but he maintained that he made it very clear to his hosts that he "had absolutely no influence" on U.S. policies. To show how pointless any such effort would have been, Billy told the Senators that "when Jimmy was Governor of Georgia," the state "repaved the streets of Plains with one exception — the small portion of street in front of my house."
As for the $220,000 from Libya, Billy insisted that it was simply an advance on a $500,000 loan. Senators greeted this claim with understandable skepticism, especially since no loan papers were signed and there was no documentary evidence of collateral.
When Senators demanded proof that the money was indeed just a loan, Billy said that there was "just my word."
The one surprise at the hearings was the disclosure that two of Billy's acquaintances, Farmer George Belluomini and Financial Consultant Ronald Sprague, both of Bakersfield, Calif, are being investigated by the Treasury Department for possibly having laundered funds connected with a drug smuggling operation. Subcommittee Special Counsel Philip Tone, however, made it clear that "the Government has no information that Mr. [Billy] Carter was in any way involved."
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Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Billy's testimony was the extent to which he betrayed his deep sense of having suffered because his brother is in the White House. Because his brother's controlling interest in the Carter peanut warehouse was placed in a blind trust controlled by Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Billy quit the business. Billy complained that Kirbo "made decisions I was unaware of and questioned every decision I made." And because Plains attracted hordes of tourists, including those who walked into his house without knocking, Billy decided to move 20 miles away to a new, $300,000 house in Buena Vista, Ga. Testified Billy: "I considered myself to be a private individual who had not been elected to public office and resented the attention of different Government agencies that I began to hear from almost as soon as Jimmy was sworn in." He has endured, he said, ten separate investigations, including several by the IRS, that have made public "most of my private and commercial business, and my private life." (The IRS apparently had some reason for its persistence; Billy has been found $130,000 in arrears on his taxes.)
Billy is also resentful of the negative publicity about his ties with Libya. He said that this made it impossible for him to continue the kind of public appearances that paid him as much as $500,000 a year in gross earnings. He told the Senators: "I was angry and bitter. My means of livelihood had vanished." As a result, he explained, "by the middle of February 1979, I began each day with four ounces of vodka. In January and February, I retained no food for 53 days."
Desperate for money, he turned to his new Libyan friends who, he said, "felt personally responsible" for his having lost his main source of income and wanted "to help me get back on my financial feet." The result was the oil negotiations on behalf of Charter. This could have involved up to 100,000 bbl. a day, for which Billy and his associates could have received as much as 55¢ per bbl. in commissions. To tide himself over until he would start receiving those fat fees, Billy asked Libya for a $500,000 loan.
Subcommittee Chairman Birch Bayh, the Indiana Democrat, inquired whether Billy had any qualms about associating with a regime that backs terrorists and is virulently anti-American. Asked the Senator: "Did you give any thought to what your presence would do in Libya, to how it would be used?" Billy made no apologies. But he did admit to having some second thoughts. Said he: "If I knew then what would happen, I'd never have made the trip [to Libya]. But hindsight ain't worth a damn."
THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
Introduction
1.1. The Astor Bloodline
2.2. The Bundy Bloodline
3.3. The Collins Bloodline
4.4. The DuPont Bloodline
5.5. The Freeman Bloodline
6.6. The Kennedy Bloodline
7.7. The Li Bloodline
8.8. The Onassis Bloodline
9.9. The Reynolds bloodline
110. The Rockefeller Bloodline
11. The Rothschild Bloodline
12. The Russell Bloodline
13. The Van Duyn Bloodline
[Merovingian] (European Royal Families)
........... anyways, was Billy Carter's business deal with Libya the reason Jimmy didn't get re-elected?
Today's 'The View' wasn't posted yet so I just put up the website in case you guys wanna check back later.
Senators call for probe to see if BP will pay spill costs in blood money
EXCERPT:
Democratic lawmakers want to know if BP is paying off Louisiana shrimpers with "blood money" flowing from a dirty deal to free the Lockerbie bomber in exchange for Libyan oil.
BP will begin drilling in Libyan waters this month, thanks to a $900 million deal approved in 2007, right after the convicted Libyan terrorist was added to a dubious prisoner-transfer agreement with the U.K.
BP stands to make billions in Libya's Gulf of Sidra, analysts say.
Beyond Petroleum ditching BP's early promise of sustainable energy
EXCERPT:
BP’s latest plans in the Gulf of Sidra, just off the Libyan coast, are a case in point. The company has invested more in the development of this one site than in any other project to date, and the drilling wells will be even deeper than those in the Gulf of Mexico, at about 5,700 feet below the ocean's surface. There are increasing political risks as well. The Italian government, backed by the EU Commission and other powerful EU member states, may yet succeed in derailing or at least delaying the project. Images of the oil spill are not the only thing that will be playing on their minds: rumours persist that BP was involved in the release of former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset al-Megrahi from a Scottish jail earlier this year, allegedly as part of the Gulf of Sidra exploration deal.
Libya, BP, Blair
EXCERPT:
16 Aug 2009
That Blair's visit coincided with BP signing a £450 million oil contract with Libya fuelled suspicions that Megrahi was part of diplomatic horse-trading between London and Tripoli. Westminster would later tell Edinburgh apologetically that, actually, Lockerbie was covered by the deal, much to Salmond's fury.
Banking and Finance and Russia's insurance company 'Ingosstrakh'
EXCERPT:
The takeover offer is part of efforts to end a long-running courtroom battle between the two sides over control of Ingosstrakh, Russia’s second-largest insurance group, estimated to be worth £1 billion.
The dispute is the latest row between western business and Russian billionaires over control of companies in the former Soviet Union. The oil giant BP is at present locked in a bitter dispute over TNK-BP, its Russian joint venture.
Oleg Deripaska's Games plan for Rusal
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Oleg Deripaska plots a racing revolution
EXCERPT:
"Deripaska has taken on James Wigan as his first move," I was told at the launch of this year's Derby Festival, at the Gaucho Piccadilly restaurant in London. "The pair met through Nat Rothschild, who has a close business relationship with Deripaska."
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Peter Mandelson and Nat Rothschilds long lasting friendship
EXCERPT:
Rather than the eclectic group of rich at play, the Shadow Chancellor was unwittingly made privy to a closely guarded relationship between Mandelson and the Rothschild family that spanned nearly two decades. During this time, their business and personal lives had become entwined many times including, on this occasion, with their mutual friend the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, and had forged a far stronger bond than Osborne could claim with his university chum and host, Nathaniel Rothschild.
Chaos, Mandelson and Rothschild
The team is headed by Hannah Rothschild, who just happens to be the sister of multi-millionaire banker Nat Rothschild. It was Nat Rothschild who holidayed with Mandelson in Corfu and who invited him and Colonel Gaddafi's son for a shooting weekend at his family's French-style chateau in Buckinghamshire last autumn.
Libyaonline.com
EXCERPT:
Libya’s economy is heavily reliant on oil exports.
Libya relies on oil and natural gas to satisfy energy consumption demand. Economic growth in Libya is dependent on the hydrocarbon industry. According to the World Bank, the country’s hydrocarbon exports account for over 95 percent of total merchandize exports and revenues from the oil and natural gas sectors amount to over half of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Since the United Nations and the United States lifted sanctions over Libya in 2003 and 2004, respectively, oil majors have stepped up exploration efforts for oil and natural gas in the country. Likewise, companies have tried using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques to increase production at maturing fields. Over the next six years, Libya would like to see oil production capacity increase by 40 percent from 1.8 million barrels per day (bbl/d) to 3 million bbl/d by 2013.
Gaddafi/Rothschild and Mandelson
EXCERPT:
On 16 August 2009, The Sunday Herald (Lockerbie: after the conspiricies ... the cover up?), reminds us that in June 2007, Tony Blair did a "deal in the desert" with Gaddafi on judicial co-operation between the UK and Libya. This deal covered "prisoner transfer".
Blair's visit coincided with BP signing a £450 million oil contract with Libya.
On 11 August 2009, an anonymous email was sent to an Member of the Scottish Parliament. (the cover up?)
When you take morality out of politics
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Saturday, 5 June 2010
When you take morality out of politics you get Mandelson
I almost missed Max Hastings' piece for the Mail yesterday in which he excoriates the memory of one Peter Mandelson. When you take all morality out of politics, when your greed and hunger for power alone overcome every moral scruple, you get Mandelson.
Qaddafi/Billy Carter
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Qaddafi, Billy Carter, Healy (1979)
Workers Vanguard No. 231 (11 May 1979)
Qaddafi, Billy Carter, Healy, Idi Amin
Who’s Behind WL Provocations Against Spartacist?
“Q: What Do Idi Amin, Billy Carter and Gerry Healy have in Common?
“A: The Qaddafi Connection!”
Down With Executive Offices of the Capitalist State!
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Marxist Principles and Electoral Tactics
The Fifth Conference of the International Communist League in 2007 adopted the position of opposition to Marxists running for executive office in the capitalist state—e.g., president, mayor, provincial or state governor—as a matter of principle. This position flows from our understanding that the capitalist state is the executive committee of the ruling class. At its core this state consists of bodies of armed men—the military, police, courts and prisons—which function to protect the class rule of the bourgeoisie and its system of production.
Communist deputies can, as oppositionists, serve in the U.S. Congress, parliaments
Billy Carters wild ride from Billy beer to Libyan oil cartels
EXCERPT:
A reporter asked Billy why he was involved with the Libyans and got more than he expected in return and possibly also a non-answer to his question. Billy sounded off: “The only thing I can say is there is a hell of a lot more Arabians than there is Jews,” adding that the “Jewish media [tore] up the Arab countries full-time.”
Carter on Ted Kennedy
EXCERPT:
Carter Blames Ted Kennedy For Delay In Passing Health Bill
Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance
Article Date: 20 Sep 2010
A decades old grudge between former president Jimmy Carter and the late senator Edward Kennedy was renewed again Thursday when Carter criticized Kennedy's stand on the former president's health care proposal. CBS "60 Minutes" quotes Carter as saying "that Kennedy delayed comprehensive coverage for Americans for decades. ... It was Kennedy's actions to kill Carter's own health care bill that made Americans wait more than 30 years for meaningful coverage, says Carter in an interview with '60 Minutes' correspondent Lesley Stahl. ... In a diary he kept during his presidency, Carter vents about Kennedy's attacks and criticizes Kennedy's own health care bill" (9/16).
CNN: "'The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,' Carter told CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl. 'It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill.' Carter proposed health care reform in the late 1970s but was unable to sign any legislation. He said Kennedy blocked the bill in Congress out of spite in advance of the Massachusetts senator's unusual, and ultimately unsuccessful 1980 bid to unseat him. 'He did not want to see me have a major success in that realm of life,' Carter said" (Simon, 9/16).
Time magazine Billy Carter is not a buffoon
Nation: Billy Carter Is Not a Buffoon
Monday, Sep. 01, 1980
"I am just an ordinary citizen from a small Southern community," said the nervous, chain-smoking witness before a Senate subcommittee last week. But little was ordinary about the fact that Billy Carter had come to the ornate Senate Caucus Room, the famed site of the Teapot Dome, McCarthy and Watergate hearings. He was there to testify under oath about his controversial relations with the government of Libya. Soft-spoken and attired in a three-piece suit, he was no longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said, "I hope this testimony will show in common-sense fashion that Billy Carter is not a 'buffoon,' a 'boob' or a 'wacko,' as some public figures have described him."
In this, Billy appears to have succeeded. And although his judgment in choosing friends and business associates may remain open to question, he performed rather well in responding to the Senate panel's two main lines of questioning: 1) Had he used his position as the President's brother to influence U.S. policy toward Libya, a radical country with which Washington maintains subzero relations? 2) What were the details involving the $220,000 that he had received from a Libyan bank? In nine hours of testimony over two days, the Senators learned little that was new about either matter. Billy confirmed that he had visited Libya in 1978 and again the following year; he had played host, in turn, to a Libyan delegation to Georgia in January 1979; he had tried to arrange, without success, for the Charter Crude Oil Co. of Jacksonville to obtain Libyan crude oil; and he had received one check from the Libyans for $20,000 in December 1979 and another for $200,000 the following April 1.
Throughout the testimony, Billy insisted that there was nothing wrong with these transactions. He conceded that he probably "had been invited [to Libya] because I was the brother of the President," but he maintained that he made it very clear to his hosts that he "had absolutely no influence" on U.S. policies. To show how pointless any such effort would have been, Billy told the Senators that "when Jimmy was Governor of Georgia," the state "repaved the streets of Plains with one exception — the small portion of street in front of my house."
As for the $220,000 from Libya, Billy insisted that it was simply an advance on a $500,000 loan. Senators greeted this claim with understandable skepticism, especially since no loan papers were signed and there was no documentary evidence of collateral.
When Senators demanded proof that the money was indeed just a loan, Billy said that there was "just my word."
The one surprise at the hearings was the disclosure that two of Billy's acquaintances, Farmer George Belluomini and Financial Consultant Ronald Sprague, both of Bakersfield, Calif, are being investigated by the Treasury Department for possibly having laundered funds connected with a drug smuggling operation. Subcommittee Special Counsel Philip Tone, however, made it clear that "the Government has no information that Mr. [Billy] Carter was in any way involved."
(2 of 2)
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Billy's testimony was the extent to which he betrayed his deep sense of having suffered because his brother is in the White House. Because his brother's controlling interest in the Carter peanut warehouse was placed in a blind trust controlled by Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Billy quit the business. Billy complained that Kirbo "made decisions I was unaware of and questioned every decision I made." And because Plains attracted hordes of tourists, including those who walked into his house without knocking, Billy decided to move 20 miles away to a new, $300,000 house in Buena Vista, Ga. Testified Billy: "I considered myself to be a private individual who had not been elected to public office and resented the attention of different Government agencies that I began to hear from almost as soon as Jimmy was sworn in." He has endured, he said, ten separate investigations, including several by the IRS, that have made public "most of my private and commercial business, and my private life." (The IRS apparently had some reason for its persistence; Billy has been found $130,000 in arrears on his taxes.)
Billy is also resentful of the negative publicity about his ties with Libya. He said that this made it impossible for him to continue the kind of public appearances that paid him as much as $500,000 a year in gross earnings. He told the Senators: "I was angry and bitter. My means of livelihood had vanished." As a result, he explained, "by the middle of February 1979, I began each day with four ounces of vodka. In January and February, I retained no food for 53 days."
Desperate for money, he turned to his new Libyan friends who, he said, "felt personally responsible" for his having lost his main source of income and wanted "to help me get back on my financial feet." The result was the oil negotiations on behalf of Charter. This could have involved up to 100,000 bbl. a day, for which Billy and his associates could have received as much as 55¢ per bbl. in commissions. To tide himself over until he would start receiving those fat fees, Billy asked Libya for a $500,000 loan.
Subcommittee Chairman Birch Bayh, the Indiana Democrat, inquired whether Billy had any qualms about associating with a regime that backs terrorists and is virulently anti-American. Asked the Senator: "Did you give any thought to what your presence would do in Libya, to how it would be used?" Billy made no apologies. But he did admit to having some second thoughts. Said he: "If I knew then what would happen, I'd never have made the trip [to Libya]. But hindsight ain't worth a damn."
THE SATANIC BLOODLINES
Introduction
1.1. The Astor Bloodline
2.2. The Bundy Bloodline
3.3. The Collins Bloodline
4.4. The DuPont Bloodline
5.5. The Freeman Bloodline
6.6. The Kennedy Bloodline
7.7. The Li Bloodline
8.8. The Onassis Bloodline
9.9. The Reynolds bloodline
110. The Rockefeller Bloodline
11. The Rothschild Bloodline
12. The Russell Bloodline
13. The Van Duyn Bloodline
[Merovingian] (European Royal Families)
Billy Carters wild ride from Billy beer to Libyan oil cartels
EXCERPT:
A reporter asked Billy why he was involved with the Libyans and got more than he expected in return and possibly also a non-answer to his question. Billy sounded off: “The only thing I can say is there is a hell of a lot more Arabians than there is Jews,” adding that the “Jewish media [tore] up the Arab countries full-time.”
Carter on Ted Kennedy
EXCERPT:
Carter Blames Ted Kennedy For Delay In Passing Health Bill
Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance
Article Date: 20 Sep 2010
A decades old grudge between former president Jimmy Carter and the late senator Edward Kennedy was renewed again Thursday when Carter criticized Kennedy's stand on the former president's health care proposal. CBS "60 Minutes" quotes Carter as saying "that Kennedy delayed comprehensive coverage for Americans for decades. ... It was Kennedy's actions to kill Carter's own health care bill that made Americans wait more than 30 years for meaningful coverage, says Carter in an interview with '60 Minutes' correspondent Lesley Stahl. ... In a diary he kept during his presidency, Carter vents about Kennedy's attacks and criticizes Kennedy's own health care bill" (9/16).
CNN: "'The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,' Carter told CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl. 'It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill.' Carter proposed health care reform in the late 1970s but was unable to sign any legislation. He said Kennedy blocked the bill in Congress out of spite in advance of the Massachusetts senator's unusual, and ultimately unsuccessful 1980 bid to unseat him. 'He did not want to see me have a major success in that realm of life,' Carter said" (Simon, 9/16).
Time magazine Billy Carter is not a buffoon
Nation: Billy Carter Is Not a Buffoon
Monday, Sep. 01, 1980
"I am just an ordinary citizen from a small Southern community," said the nervous, chain-smoking witness before a Senate subcommittee last week. But little was ordinary about the fact that Billy Carter had come to the ornate Senate Caucus Room, the famed site of the Teapot Dome, McCarthy and Watergate hearings. He was there to testify under oath about his controversial relations with the government of Libya. Soft-spoken and attired in a three-piece suit, he was no longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said, "I hope this testimony will show in common-sense fashion that Billy Carter is not a 'buffoon,' a 'boob' or a 'wacko,' as some public figures have described him."
In this, Billy appears to have succeeded. And although his judgment in choosing friends and business associates may remain open to question, he performed rather well in responding to the Senate panel's two main lines of questioning: 1) Had he used his position as the President's brother to influence U.S. policy toward Libya, a radical country with which Washington maintains subzero relations? 2) What were the details involving the $220,000 that he had received from a Libyan bank? In nine hours of testimony over two days, the Senators learned little that was new about either matter. Billy confirmed that he had visited Libya in 1978 and again the following year; he had played host, in turn, to a Libyan delegation to Georgia in January 1979; he had tried to arrange, without success, for the Charter Crude Oil Co. of Jacksonville to obtain Libyan crude oil; and he had received one check from the Libyans for $20,000 in December 1979 and another for $200,000 the following April 1.
Throughout the testimony, Billy insisted that there was nothing wrong with these transactions. He conceded that he probably "had been invited [to Libya] because I was the brother of the President," but he maintained that he made it very clear to his hosts that he "had absolutely no influence" on U.S. policies. To show how pointless any such effort would have been, Billy told the Senators that "when Jimmy was Governor of Georgia," the state "repaved the streets of Plains with one exception — the small portion of street in front of my house."
As for the $220,000 from Libya, Billy insisted that it was simply an advance on a $500,000 loan. Senators greeted this claim with understandable skepticism, especially since no loan papers were signed and there was no documentary evidence of collateral.
When Senators demanded proof that the money was indeed just a loan, Billy said that there was "just my word."
The one surprise at the hearings was the disclosure that two of Billy's acquaintances, Farmer George Belluomini and Financial Consultant Ronald Sprague, both of Bakersfield, Calif, are being investigated by the Treasury Department for possibly having laundered funds connected with a drug smuggling operation. Subcommittee Special Counsel Philip Tone, however, made it clear that "the Government has no information that Mr. [Billy] Carter was in any way involved."
(2 of 2)
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Billy's testimony was the extent to which he betrayed his deep sense of having suffered because his brother is in the White House. Because his brother's controlling interest in the Carter peanut warehouse was placed in a blind trust controlled by Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Billy quit the business. Billy complained that Kirbo "made decisions I was unaware of and questioned every decision I made." And because Plains attracted hordes of tourists, including those who walked into his house without knocking, Billy decided to move 20 miles away to a new, $300,000 house in Buena Vista, Ga. Testified Billy: "I considered myself to be a private individual who had not been elected to public office and resented the attention of different Government agencies that I began to hear from almost as soon as Jimmy was sworn in." He has endured, he said, ten separate investigations, including several by the IRS, that have made public "most of my private and commercial business, and my private life." (The IRS apparently had some reason for its persistence; Billy has been found $130,000 in arrears on his taxes.)
Billy is also resentful of the negative publicity about his ties with Libya. He said that this made it impossible for him to continue the kind of public appearances that paid him as much as $500,000 a year in gross earnings. He told the Senators: "I was angry and bitter. My means of livelihood had vanished." As a result, he explained, "by the middle of February 1979, I began each day with four ounces of vodka. In January and February, I retained no food for 53 days."
Desperate for money, he turned to his new Libyan friends who, he said, "felt personally responsible" for his having lost his main source of income and wanted "to help me get back on my financial feet." The result was the oil negotiations on behalf of Charter. This could have involved up to 100,000 bbl. a day, for which Billy and his associates could have received as much as 55¢ per bbl. in commissions. To tide himself over until he would start receiving those fat fees, Billy asked Libya for a $500,000 loan.
Subcommittee Chairman Birch Bayh, the Indiana Democrat, inquired whether Billy had any qualms about associating with a regime that backs terrorists and is virulently anti-American. Asked the Senator: "Did you give any thought to what your presence would do in Libya, to how it would be used?" Billy made no apologies. But he did admit to having some second thoughts. Said he: "If I knew then what would happen, I'd never have made the trip [to Libya]. But hindsight ain't worth a damn."
EXCERPT:
A reporter asked Billy why he was involved with the Libyans and got more than he expected in return and possibly also a non-answer to his question. Billy sounded off: “The only thing I can say is there is a hell of a lot more Arabians than there is Jews,” adding that the “Jewish media [tore] up the Arab countries full-time.”
Carter on Ted Kennedy
EXCERPT:
Carter Blames Ted Kennedy For Delay In Passing Health Bill
Main Category: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance
Article Date: 20 Sep 2010
A decades old grudge between former president Jimmy Carter and the late senator Edward Kennedy was renewed again Thursday when Carter criticized Kennedy's stand on the former president's health care proposal. CBS "60 Minutes" quotes Carter as saying "that Kennedy delayed comprehensive coverage for Americans for decades. ... It was Kennedy's actions to kill Carter's own health care bill that made Americans wait more than 30 years for meaningful coverage, says Carter in an interview with '60 Minutes' correspondent Lesley Stahl. ... In a diary he kept during his presidency, Carter vents about Kennedy's attacks and criticizes Kennedy's own health care bill" (9/16).
CNN: "'The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed,' Carter told CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl. 'It was his fault. Ted Kennedy killed the bill.' Carter proposed health care reform in the late 1970s but was unable to sign any legislation. He said Kennedy blocked the bill in Congress out of spite in advance of the Massachusetts senator's unusual, and ultimately unsuccessful 1980 bid to unseat him. 'He did not want to see me have a major success in that realm of life,' Carter said" (Simon, 9/16).
Time magazine Billy Carter is not a buffoon
Nation: Billy Carter Is Not a Buffoon
Monday, Sep. 01, 1980
"I am just an ordinary citizen from a small Southern community," said the nervous, chain-smoking witness before a Senate subcommittee last week. But little was ordinary about the fact that Billy Carter had come to the ornate Senate Caucus Room, the famed site of the Teapot Dome, McCarthy and Watergate hearings. He was there to testify under oath about his controversial relations with the government of Libya. Soft-spoken and attired in a three-piece suit, he was no longer playing his old role as the Carter family clown. Indeed, in concluding a carefully crafted 27-page opening statement, he said, "I hope this testimony will show in common-sense fashion that Billy Carter is not a 'buffoon,' a 'boob' or a 'wacko,' as some public figures have described him."
In this, Billy appears to have succeeded. And although his judgment in choosing friends and business associates may remain open to question, he performed rather well in responding to the Senate panel's two main lines of questioning: 1) Had he used his position as the President's brother to influence U.S. policy toward Libya, a radical country with which Washington maintains subzero relations? 2) What were the details involving the $220,000 that he had received from a Libyan bank? In nine hours of testimony over two days, the Senators learned little that was new about either matter. Billy confirmed that he had visited Libya in 1978 and again the following year; he had played host, in turn, to a Libyan delegation to Georgia in January 1979; he had tried to arrange, without success, for the Charter Crude Oil Co. of Jacksonville to obtain Libyan crude oil; and he had received one check from the Libyans for $20,000 in December 1979 and another for $200,000 the following April 1.
Throughout the testimony, Billy insisted that there was nothing wrong with these transactions. He conceded that he probably "had been invited [to Libya] because I was the brother of the President," but he maintained that he made it very clear to his hosts that he "had absolutely no influence" on U.S. policies. To show how pointless any such effort would have been, Billy told the Senators that "when Jimmy was Governor of Georgia," the state "repaved the streets of Plains with one exception — the small portion of street in front of my house."
As for the $220,000 from Libya, Billy insisted that it was simply an advance on a $500,000 loan. Senators greeted this claim with understandable skepticism, especially since no loan papers were signed and there was no documentary evidence of collateral.
When Senators demanded proof that the money was indeed just a loan, Billy said that there was "just my word."
The one surprise at the hearings was the disclosure that two of Billy's acquaintances, Farmer George Belluomini and Financial Consultant Ronald Sprague, both of Bakersfield, Calif, are being investigated by the Treasury Department for possibly having laundered funds connected with a drug smuggling operation. Subcommittee Special Counsel Philip Tone, however, made it clear that "the Government has no information that Mr. [Billy] Carter was in any way involved."
(2 of 2)
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Billy's testimony was the extent to which he betrayed his deep sense of having suffered because his brother is in the White House. Because his brother's controlling interest in the Carter peanut warehouse was placed in a blind trust controlled by Atlanta Lawyer Charles Kirbo, Billy quit the business. Billy complained that Kirbo "made decisions I was unaware of and questioned every decision I made." And because Plains attracted hordes of tourists, including those who walked into his house without knocking, Billy decided to move 20 miles away to a new, $300,000 house in Buena Vista, Ga. Testified Billy: "I considered myself to be a private individual who had not been elected to public office and resented the attention of different Government agencies that I began to hear from almost as soon as Jimmy was sworn in." He has endured, he said, ten separate investigations, including several by the IRS, that have made public "most of my private and commercial business, and my private life." (The IRS apparently had some reason for its persistence; Billy has been found $130,000 in arrears on his taxes.)
Billy is also resentful of the negative publicity about his ties with Libya. He said that this made it impossible for him to continue the kind of public appearances that paid him as much as $500,000 a year in gross earnings. He told the Senators: "I was angry and bitter. My means of livelihood had vanished." As a result, he explained, "by the middle of February 1979, I began each day with four ounces of vodka. In January and February, I retained no food for 53 days."
Desperate for money, he turned to his new Libyan friends who, he said, "felt personally responsible" for his having lost his main source of income and wanted "to help me get back on my financial feet." The result was the oil negotiations on behalf of Charter. This could have involved up to 100,000 bbl. a day, for which Billy and his associates could have received as much as 55¢ per bbl. in commissions. To tide himself over until he would start receiving those fat fees, Billy asked Libya for a $500,000 loan.
Subcommittee Chairman Birch Bayh, the Indiana Democrat, inquired whether Billy had any qualms about associating with a regime that backs terrorists and is virulently anti-American. Asked the Senator: "Did you give any thought to what your presence would do in Libya, to how it would be used?" Billy made no apologies. But he did admit to having some second thoughts. Said he: "If I knew then what would happen, I'd never have made the trip [to Libya]. But hindsight ain't worth a damn."
Sunday, September 19, 2010
I'm wondering now if Don Imus was somehow set up to say what he said to get him off the air??? hmmmmmmm, and the reason I'm saying that is it seems Joe Scarborough took over his place??? hmmmmmm, and Mika whaterface is the daughter of what his face and he's a well known intelligent crook in the highest places in the land. Simply consider it, eh?
American politics
EXCERPT:
Recently Don Imus slagged Scarborough with a question from left field: "You said you had sex with that intern and then you had to kill her."
Scarborough, laughing, replied, "Yeah, well what are you gonna do?"
On Imus, of course, it's difficult to tell the humor from the rest of the nastiness
Joe Scarborough slams misinformation spread Chris Matthews show video inside
EXCERPT:
Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on Thursday attacked misinformation spread by a guest during a segment on the previous day's "Hardball." Ex-CIA agent Bob Baer appeared on Chris Matthews' program on Wednesday to claim that no information was gained from waterboarding and that using the practice on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed left the terrorist "almost brain dead." Scarborough derided this kind of comment as "vomit[ing] out bad information" and later apologized if people were confused by Baer. [Audio available here]
Scarborough is a liar
EXCERPT:
MSNBC's Scarborough falsely claimed news outlets proved Dean wrong on Abramoff and Democrats
January 12, 2006 1:28 pm ET
SUMMARY: MSNBC's Joe Scarborough characterized a factually accurate statement by Howard Dean -- that no congressional Democrats had received campaign contributions from lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- as a "snow job," and falsely claimed that The Washington Post and "other news outlets" had proven Dean's statement wrong. In fact, Dean's statement in an appearance on CNN was entirely accurate, and neither CNN nor the Post has challenged or refuted it.
Markos Moulitsas banned
EXCERPT:
Writing on his blog, Moulitsas said that he felt Scarborough was inflating a non-story. So he shot back on his own Twitter feed, writing, "Like story of a certain dead intern," a reference to the death of Scarborough's staffer, Lori Klausutis, in 2001, when Scarborough was still in Congress.
Joe Scarborough wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Resignation and controversy
Scarborough announced his intent to resign to spend more time with his children five months into his fourth term in Congress. "The realization has come home to me that they're at a critical stage of their lives and I would rather be judged at the end of my life as a father than as a congressman," Scarborough said.[19] A special election was held to replace him.
On July 20, 2001, Scarborough's constituent services coordinator, Lori Klausutis, age 28, died after hitting her head on a desk when she fainted while apparently alone in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office.[20] According to Scarborough, soon after her death, allegations "spread all over the Internet" that he had been involved,[20][21] although there was no evidence of foul play. In 2003, he joked about the incident with Don Imus on Imus' radio program[22]. In 2004, it was the subject of a public spat between Scarborough and filmmaker Michael Moore.[23] and in 2010, mentioning the incident in his Twitter feed saw Markos Moulitsas banned from MSNBC.[24]
Morning Joe guy
EXCERPT:
Who Is MSNBC Anchor Joe Scarborough?
While the media was obsessed with Chandra Levy, another congressional staffer was found dead in then-representative and current MSNBC talk-show host Joe Scarborough's office. Unlike Gary Condit, Scarborough got a free ride from the press.
Report by Denis Wright
In the morning of July 20, 2001, the body of Lori Klausutis, who had worked as an aide to Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough for approximately two years, was found in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office. There were no witnesses to Klausutis's death. According to Anna Dobbins, a producer at WEAR-TV, Joe was on the phone with the local ABC affiliate in Pensacola within three hours of the discovery of the body, and before the family was notified, to say that "a young woman had died in his office and that she had a complicated medical history, specifically surrounding 'stroke and epilepsy.'" The congressman and his advisor, Mick Serrano, made similar calls to two other local media outlets within hours of the body's discovery. According to Dobbins and others, about a week later, after the Klausutis family wrote an excoriating letter to a local paper, Serrano called back to ask that they stop reporting the "complicated health history." Joe, they were now correctly told, had spoken in error. Klausutis-a marathon runner, 28 years old and happily married-had been in great shape. Her "complicated health" began only on the night that she died, and its "history" surfaced primarily because of Joe's misinformation.
Joe Scarborough on Colbert video doesn't work (Huffington Post)
EXCERPT:
Joe Scarborough On Colbert: "I Actually Got A Thousand Dollar Check" From Abramoff...
American politics
EXCERPT:
Recently Don Imus slagged Scarborough with a question from left field: "You said you had sex with that intern and then you had to kill her."
Scarborough, laughing, replied, "Yeah, well what are you gonna do?"
On Imus, of course, it's difficult to tell the humor from the rest of the nastiness
Joe Scarborough slams misinformation spread Chris Matthews show video inside
EXCERPT:
Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on Thursday attacked misinformation spread by a guest during a segment on the previous day's "Hardball." Ex-CIA agent Bob Baer appeared on Chris Matthews' program on Wednesday to claim that no information was gained from waterboarding and that using the practice on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed left the terrorist "almost brain dead." Scarborough derided this kind of comment as "vomit[ing] out bad information" and later apologized if people were confused by Baer. [Audio available here]
Scarborough is a liar
EXCERPT:
MSNBC's Scarborough falsely claimed news outlets proved Dean wrong on Abramoff and Democrats
January 12, 2006 1:28 pm ET
SUMMARY: MSNBC's Joe Scarborough characterized a factually accurate statement by Howard Dean -- that no congressional Democrats had received campaign contributions from lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- as a "snow job," and falsely claimed that The Washington Post and "other news outlets" had proven Dean's statement wrong. In fact, Dean's statement in an appearance on CNN was entirely accurate, and neither CNN nor the Post has challenged or refuted it.
Markos Moulitsas banned
EXCERPT:
Writing on his blog, Moulitsas said that he felt Scarborough was inflating a non-story. So he shot back on his own Twitter feed, writing, "Like story of a certain dead intern," a reference to the death of Scarborough's staffer, Lori Klausutis, in 2001, when Scarborough was still in Congress.
Joe Scarborough wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Resignation and controversy
Scarborough announced his intent to resign to spend more time with his children five months into his fourth term in Congress. "The realization has come home to me that they're at a critical stage of their lives and I would rather be judged at the end of my life as a father than as a congressman," Scarborough said.[19] A special election was held to replace him.
On July 20, 2001, Scarborough's constituent services coordinator, Lori Klausutis, age 28, died after hitting her head on a desk when she fainted while apparently alone in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office.[20] According to Scarborough, soon after her death, allegations "spread all over the Internet" that he had been involved,[20][21] although there was no evidence of foul play. In 2003, he joked about the incident with Don Imus on Imus' radio program[22]. In 2004, it was the subject of a public spat between Scarborough and filmmaker Michael Moore.[23] and in 2010, mentioning the incident in his Twitter feed saw Markos Moulitsas banned from MSNBC.[24]
Morning Joe guy
EXCERPT:
Who Is MSNBC Anchor Joe Scarborough?
While the media was obsessed with Chandra Levy, another congressional staffer was found dead in then-representative and current MSNBC talk-show host Joe Scarborough's office. Unlike Gary Condit, Scarborough got a free ride from the press.
Report by Denis Wright
In the morning of July 20, 2001, the body of Lori Klausutis, who had worked as an aide to Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough for approximately two years, was found in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach, Florida, office. There were no witnesses to Klausutis's death. According to Anna Dobbins, a producer at WEAR-TV, Joe was on the phone with the local ABC affiliate in Pensacola within three hours of the discovery of the body, and before the family was notified, to say that "a young woman had died in his office and that she had a complicated medical history, specifically surrounding 'stroke and epilepsy.'" The congressman and his advisor, Mick Serrano, made similar calls to two other local media outlets within hours of the body's discovery. According to Dobbins and others, about a week later, after the Klausutis family wrote an excoriating letter to a local paper, Serrano called back to ask that they stop reporting the "complicated health history." Joe, they were now correctly told, had spoken in error. Klausutis-a marathon runner, 28 years old and happily married-had been in great shape. Her "complicated health" began only on the night that she died, and its "history" surfaced primarily because of Joe's misinformation.
Joe Scarborough on Colbert video doesn't work (Huffington Post)
EXCERPT:
Joe Scarborough On Colbert: "I Actually Got A Thousand Dollar Check" From Abramoff...
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