Clinton took warning labels off of sweetners
EXCERPT:
In 2000, saccharin was delisted from a national report on carcinogens, and then-president Bill Clinton signed legislation to remove the warning label from saccharin-containing products.
Sweet and Low and the Mob
EXCERPT:
D'Amato Received Illegal Contributions from Mob Associate/Sweet 'N Low Lobbyist.
Al D'Amato received $58,000 in illegal contribution from reputed mob associate and chief lobbyist for Sweet 'N Low producer Cumberland Packing Corp., Joseph Asaro. In April 1995, Asaro pleaded guilty to 3 federal felony counts for making a total of $200,000 in illegal contributions and tampering with witnesses.
D'Amato has called Asaro "a friend", "mentor", and "benefactor." Asaro illegally reimbursed friends' contributions with fraudulent invoices by Cumberland. D'Amato was a key supporter of legislation which would prevent a ban on the carcinogenic saccharin (Sweet 'N Low's main ingredient). D'Amato sponsored legislation in 1987 proposing a 5-year moratorium, which in 1991 was extended through 1997.
Source: Newsday, 4/13/95; NY Daily News, 4/13/95; NY Times, 4/13/95; AP 4/13/95; ABC's "World News Tonight", 4/12/95
Al D'Amato wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Controversies
D'Amato is also known for his public controversies and brash style. After a series of investigations in 1991, the Senate Ethics Committee reprimanded D'Amato for allowing his brother Armand, a lobbyist, to use office stationery to help solicit million-dollar Navy contracts for Unisys. Armand D'Amato was convicted on 7 of the 24 counts of mail fraud in May 1993. A federal appeals court reversed Armand D'Amato's mail fraud conviction, finding insufficient evidence against him. Al D'Amato blames William Weld, at the time a federal prosecutor, for an overzealous prosecution against Armand.
The senator's brother was also partners with Lucchese crime family captain Paul Vario and mob associate Phillip Basile. When Basile was arrested for getting mob associate Henry Hill a no-show job at one of his discos, Senator D'Amato testified on Basile's behalf.[3]
Sweet and Low and the Bonanno Family
EXCERPT:
Marvin, among other things that caused a scandal, put a criminal on the payroll, a reputed associate of the Bonanno crime family. That criminal made illegal campaign contributions to Senator Alfonse D’Amato, who sponsored legislation that kept saccharin on the market. Saccharin, a key ingredient of Sweet’N Low, had been found to cause cancer. In the end, Marvin cut a deal with prosecutors, testifying for the government and keeping himself out of prison.
Sweet & Low scandal
EXCERPT:
Guilty Plea On Donations To Politicans
By DENNIS HEVESI
Published: April 13, 1995
A former executive of the company that makes Sweet 'n Low pleaded guilty in Federal court in Brooklyn yesterday to operating a complicated scheme to make illegal contributions to some of the nation's most prominent politicians, including Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato and Senator Bob Dole.
At least some of the money, prosecutors say, was intended to influence Congress as it considered whether to ban the use of saccharin, a key ingredient in Sweet 'n Low. But there is no evidence that any of the politicians knew the money was tainted, the prosecutors said.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
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Penn, Shoen and Berland Associates violates Venezuelan Law
EXCERPT:
Thus, the gringo-British polling firm played fast and loose with the facts, and the law, in ways that it would never have been able to get away with in the United States on an election day. Justice demands that it not get away with this unethical behavior in Latin America either. To wit: If the pollsters and Penn, Schoen & Berland knew that polling hours had already been extended when they released their poll, then the pollsters clearly intended to deceive. But if the pollsters did not know what had already been announced in the news media in Venezuela, that would indicate a level of reckless disregard for the truth and incompetence as pollsters, as well as laziness at the hour the pollsters were supposedly tracking the vote, that will seriously stain the firm’s ability to meddle credibly in Latin American elections – or any elections anywhere – ever again.
Kind reader, it gets even worse: Penn, Schoen & Berland’s “exit poll” now turns out to have been wrong… not just a little bit wrong… but a lot wrong. And beyond being very, very, inaccurate, the firm deceived the public in how it represented this sloppily conducted survey that ignored the basic methodology that all serious pollsters undertake: the “exit poll” resulted to be inaccurate by a total of 36 percentage points! Penn, Schoen & Berland got the “Yes” vote – the anti-Chavez vote – wrong by 18 percentage points, and the pro-Chavez “No” vote wrong by another 18 percentage points… and the firm must now be forced to face the music of its own deception: “a 36-point margin of error” simply does not credibly exist in the field of professional polling.
Now it comes out that the poll, according to Associated Press, was not conducted by the firm’s own employees, as falsely stated by the firm’s press release, but, rather, by a partisan, U.S.-government funded, anti-Chávez, activist group, Súmate, which paid the firm of Penn, Schoen, and Berland, apparently, for no more than the lease to misuse Penn, Schoen & Berland’s names to give credibility to incompetent and/or dishonest results. The early release of these false results was obviously intended to discredit the real results and cast a shadow on the final tally of the most fair, clean, and participated democratic referendum in Latin American history.
I wonder if Nat Rothschilds cozying up to Moammar Gaddafy's son has anything to do with Hugo Chavez visiting Libya? hmmmmmmmmm
Hugo Chavez coup
EXCERPTs:
1) Visiting Sadaam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gaddafy in Libya.
2) Right. They won't support a coup. So what happens when a coup occurs which they want to support? Simple. They don't call it a coup. They call it a "change of government" and say that Chavez was ousted "as a result of the message of the Venezuelan people." Veritable grass-roots democracy it was.
Washington Post against Hugo Chavez or is it JUST Jackson Diehl against Chavez
EXCERPT:
Challenging Chavez's grip on Venezuela
By Jackson Diehl
Monday, July 12, 2010
During one of his interminable appearances on national television, Hugo Chávez demanded to know last month why Guillermo Zuloaga, the majority owner of Venezuela's last opposition television station, was not in jail. "How is it possible that he can accuse me of such things and walk free?" the strongman demanded.
The answer is fairly simple: Zuloaga's statements about Chávez were hardly criminal, and years of government investigations had turned up nothing else prosecutors could plausibly use against him. But that, of course, was not the response of Chavez's henchmen. Within days of the broadcast, an investigation against the businessman that had been abandoned was reopened; charges were filed. On June 11, a judge ordered Zuloaga arrested and confined to one of the country's high-security prisons.
US funds Sumate(anti Hugo Chavez)
EXCERPT:
One organization, Sumate, which received a $53,400 grant in September, is organizing the recall referendum against Chávez, Golinger said. The head of another group, Leonardo Carvajal of the Asociación Civil Asamblea de Educación, was named education minister by “dictator for a day” Pedro Carmona, a leading businessman who briefly took over Venezuela during an April 2002 coup against Chávez, she said. A leader of a third group assisted by the National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiary organizations, Leopoldo Martínez of the right-wing Primero Justicia party, was named finance minister by Carmona, she said.
The Washington Post vs Venezuela
EXCERPTs:
1) Over the years, progressive Venezuela watchers have come to regard Jackson Diehl Op-Eds as a sounding board for the urban legends and gossip promoted by Venezuela’s well-connected opposition leaders--sort of a Page Six for anti-Chavez innuendo. His columns have given mainstream credence to the ideas that the democratically elected president is actually a dictator
2) The same is true for this item:
Now, with a vote on his tenure coming up, the president's prosecutors are back. First up in court was the election-monitoring group Sumate, which has meticulously documented Chavez's manipulation of the electoral system.
Bolivians reject free market
EXCERPT:
Early returns indicated an 80 percent majority in favor of repealing the existing hydrocarbons law pushed in the 1990s by the hated Sánchez de Lozada (or "Goni"), whose political consultants were the star liberal Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg and former presidential campaign manager James Carville. The Washington-based Greenberg firm represents British Petroleum, one of the multinationals with billions invested in Bolivia. BP supported the referendum, along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, as did US Embassy officials, because the possible alternative--an Indian-led revolution--was even worse.
Hillary campaign busted Colombia NAFTA scandal brewing
EXCERPT:
I can't remember a presidential campaign in my lifetime in which the top strategist moonlighted for corporate accounts during the heat of the primaries. The conflict of interest is staggering. Add to that press reports about how former campaign manager Patty Solis Doyle went to Senator Clinton and begged her to fire Penn, but it was Solis Doyle, not the man in charge, that was cut loose as scapegoat for the campaign's ailments.
Somewhere in Pennsylvania there is a factory that employs Americans at union wages. Somewhere in North Carolina and Indiana, too... The "free trade" agreement that Penn was paid $300,000 to shepherd to passage would open the door for the company that owns the factory to move it to a country where if a worker tries to start a union, chances are he or she will be assassinated. The company will be able to get the same work done, in that case, for slave wages, and without any of those pesky environmental, safety and health regulations that protect the worker in Pennsylvania.
The Clintons and Their Sordid Colombia Advocacy
EXCERPT:
How Obama Could Seize Pennsylvania
The Clintons and Their Sordid Colombia Advocacy
By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF
With the Pennsylvania primary fast approaching on April 22, Barack Obama will have the opportunity to end the race for the Democratic nomination once and for all. If he wins by only a slim margin in the state, the "punditocracy" will declare him the presumptive choice of the party and the pressure will build on Hillary Clinton to withdraw. Obama should do well in Philadelphia amongst black voters and will probably pick up a decent percentage of the white affluent vote in the city's suburbs.
In order to clinch the victory, however, Obama will have to make inroads amongst blue collar workers in the more industrial, western section of the state. In Ohio, Obama lost that constituency to Clinton and he's desperate to cut into her lead amongst this critical voting bloc. But with less than two weeks to go, how can he turn things around?
In one word: Colombia.
The Scandal Breaks
Recently, Clinton handed Obama a golden opportunity to sew up the nomination when her chief strategist, Mark Penn, was caught up in a scandal involving the pending free trade deal with Colombia. Bush has been pushing hard for the agreement, which would allow for duty free commerce with the United States. Many Democrats and most unions oppose the initiative because of Colombia's appalling labor record.
Penn's ties to Team Clinton go back some time: the PR man was originally admitted to Bill's circle by consultant Dick Morris in an effort to shore up the 1996 presidential campaign. Penn headed up a global public relations firm called Burson-Marsteller; the company has offered public relations help to such unsavory entities as Blackwater, the security contractor accused of killing Iraqi civilians, and Countrywide, a major lender of risky subprime mortgages.
Penn was employed by the Colombian government to help win passage of the trade agreement in Congress. Penn's ties to the Colombian government were revealed when the Wall Street Journal reported that the PR man held a private meeting with the Colombian ambassador.
Penn, Shoen and Berland Associates violates Venezuelan Law
EXCERPT:
Thus, the gringo-British polling firm played fast and loose with the facts, and the law, in ways that it would never have been able to get away with in the United States on an election day. Justice demands that it not get away with this unethical behavior in Latin America either. To wit: If the pollsters and Penn, Schoen & Berland knew that polling hours had already been extended when they released their poll, then the pollsters clearly intended to deceive. But if the pollsters did not know what had already been announced in the news media in Venezuela, that would indicate a level of reckless disregard for the truth and incompetence as pollsters, as well as laziness at the hour the pollsters were supposedly tracking the vote, that will seriously stain the firm’s ability to meddle credibly in Latin American elections – or any elections anywhere – ever again.
Kind reader, it gets even worse: Penn, Schoen & Berland’s “exit poll” now turns out to have been wrong… not just a little bit wrong… but a lot wrong. And beyond being very, very, inaccurate, the firm deceived the public in how it represented this sloppily conducted survey that ignored the basic methodology that all serious pollsters undertake: the “exit poll” resulted to be inaccurate by a total of 36 percentage points! Penn, Schoen & Berland got the “Yes” vote – the anti-Chavez vote – wrong by 18 percentage points, and the pro-Chavez “No” vote wrong by another 18 percentage points… and the firm must now be forced to face the music of its own deception: “a 36-point margin of error” simply does not credibly exist in the field of professional polling.
Now it comes out that the poll, according to Associated Press, was not conducted by the firm’s own employees, as falsely stated by the firm’s press release, but, rather, by a partisan, U.S.-government funded, anti-Chávez, activist group, Súmate, which paid the firm of Penn, Schoen, and Berland, apparently, for no more than the lease to misuse Penn, Schoen & Berland’s names to give credibility to incompetent and/or dishonest results. The early release of these false results was obviously intended to discredit the real results and cast a shadow on the final tally of the most fair, clean, and participated democratic referendum in Latin American history.
I wonder if Nat Rothschilds cozying up to Moammar Gaddafy's son has anything to do with Hugo Chavez visiting Libya? hmmmmmmmmm
Hugo Chavez coup
EXCERPTs:
1) Visiting Sadaam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gaddafy in Libya.
2) Right. They won't support a coup. So what happens when a coup occurs which they want to support? Simple. They don't call it a coup. They call it a "change of government" and say that Chavez was ousted "as a result of the message of the Venezuelan people." Veritable grass-roots democracy it was.
Washington Post against Hugo Chavez or is it JUST Jackson Diehl against Chavez
EXCERPT:
Challenging Chavez's grip on Venezuela
By Jackson Diehl
Monday, July 12, 2010
During one of his interminable appearances on national television, Hugo Chávez demanded to know last month why Guillermo Zuloaga, the majority owner of Venezuela's last opposition television station, was not in jail. "How is it possible that he can accuse me of such things and walk free?" the strongman demanded.
The answer is fairly simple: Zuloaga's statements about Chávez were hardly criminal, and years of government investigations had turned up nothing else prosecutors could plausibly use against him. But that, of course, was not the response of Chavez's henchmen. Within days of the broadcast, an investigation against the businessman that had been abandoned was reopened; charges were filed. On June 11, a judge ordered Zuloaga arrested and confined to one of the country's high-security prisons.
US funds Sumate(anti Hugo Chavez)
EXCERPT:
One organization, Sumate, which received a $53,400 grant in September, is organizing the recall referendum against Chávez, Golinger said. The head of another group, Leonardo Carvajal of the Asociación Civil Asamblea de Educación, was named education minister by “dictator for a day” Pedro Carmona, a leading businessman who briefly took over Venezuela during an April 2002 coup against Chávez, she said. A leader of a third group assisted by the National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiary organizations, Leopoldo Martínez of the right-wing Primero Justicia party, was named finance minister by Carmona, she said.
The Washington Post vs Venezuela
EXCERPTs:
1) Over the years, progressive Venezuela watchers have come to regard Jackson Diehl Op-Eds as a sounding board for the urban legends and gossip promoted by Venezuela’s well-connected opposition leaders--sort of a Page Six for anti-Chavez innuendo. His columns have given mainstream credence to the ideas that the democratically elected president is actually a dictator
2) The same is true for this item:
Now, with a vote on his tenure coming up, the president's prosecutors are back. First up in court was the election-monitoring group Sumate, which has meticulously documented Chavez's manipulation of the electoral system.
Bolivians reject free market
EXCERPT:
Early returns indicated an 80 percent majority in favor of repealing the existing hydrocarbons law pushed in the 1990s by the hated Sánchez de Lozada (or "Goni"), whose political consultants were the star liberal Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg and former presidential campaign manager James Carville. The Washington-based Greenberg firm represents British Petroleum, one of the multinationals with billions invested in Bolivia. BP supported the referendum, along with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, as did US Embassy officials, because the possible alternative--an Indian-led revolution--was even worse.
Hillary campaign busted Colombia NAFTA scandal brewing
EXCERPT:
I can't remember a presidential campaign in my lifetime in which the top strategist moonlighted for corporate accounts during the heat of the primaries. The conflict of interest is staggering. Add to that press reports about how former campaign manager Patty Solis Doyle went to Senator Clinton and begged her to fire Penn, but it was Solis Doyle, not the man in charge, that was cut loose as scapegoat for the campaign's ailments.
Somewhere in Pennsylvania there is a factory that employs Americans at union wages. Somewhere in North Carolina and Indiana, too... The "free trade" agreement that Penn was paid $300,000 to shepherd to passage would open the door for the company that owns the factory to move it to a country where if a worker tries to start a union, chances are he or she will be assassinated. The company will be able to get the same work done, in that case, for slave wages, and without any of those pesky environmental, safety and health regulations that protect the worker in Pennsylvania.
The Clintons and Their Sordid Colombia Advocacy
EXCERPT:
How Obama Could Seize Pennsylvania
The Clintons and Their Sordid Colombia Advocacy
By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF
With the Pennsylvania primary fast approaching on April 22, Barack Obama will have the opportunity to end the race for the Democratic nomination once and for all. If he wins by only a slim margin in the state, the "punditocracy" will declare him the presumptive choice of the party and the pressure will build on Hillary Clinton to withdraw. Obama should do well in Philadelphia amongst black voters and will probably pick up a decent percentage of the white affluent vote in the city's suburbs.
In order to clinch the victory, however, Obama will have to make inroads amongst blue collar workers in the more industrial, western section of the state. In Ohio, Obama lost that constituency to Clinton and he's desperate to cut into her lead amongst this critical voting bloc. But with less than two weeks to go, how can he turn things around?
In one word: Colombia.
The Scandal Breaks
Recently, Clinton handed Obama a golden opportunity to sew up the nomination when her chief strategist, Mark Penn, was caught up in a scandal involving the pending free trade deal with Colombia. Bush has been pushing hard for the agreement, which would allow for duty free commerce with the United States. Many Democrats and most unions oppose the initiative because of Colombia's appalling labor record.
Penn's ties to Team Clinton go back some time: the PR man was originally admitted to Bill's circle by consultant Dick Morris in an effort to shore up the 1996 presidential campaign. Penn headed up a global public relations firm called Burson-Marsteller; the company has offered public relations help to such unsavory entities as Blackwater, the security contractor accused of killing Iraqi civilians, and Countrywide, a major lender of risky subprime mortgages.
Penn was employed by the Colombian government to help win passage of the trade agreement in Congress. Penn's ties to the Colombian government were revealed when the Wall Street Journal reported that the PR man held a private meeting with the Colombian ambassador.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Rahm Emanuel BP Gulf Oil Spill
EXCERPTs:
1) The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser
June 7, 2010 | 3:34 pm
2) Greenberg's consulting firm was a prime architect of BP's recent rebranding drive as a green petroleum company, down to green signs and the slogan "Beyond Petroleum."
Greenberg's company is also closely tied to a sister Democratic outfit -- GCS, named for the last initials of Greenberg, James Carville, another Clinton advisor, and Bob Shrum, John Kerry's 2004 campaign manager.
Greenberg, Carville and Shrum
EXCERPT:
Greenberg Carville Shrum is a U.S. political consultancy and strategy company.
Greenberg Carville Shrum worked for Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who won Bolivia's 2002 presidential election. However, he was forced to resign in 2003.
Principals
James Carville
Stanley Greenberg
Bob Shrum
Rahm Emanuel's butt is fried or is it fired....... isn't that an anagram?
EXCERPT:
Top Democratic Party consultants connected to the Obama White House have profited from advising politicians in South America who have long-term economic ties to British Petroleum.
Perhaps the best-known instance was in Bolivia, where the consulting group GCS worked to re-elect as president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, popularly known as "Goni."
GCS is an acronym formed from the last names of the principals – pollster and Democratic Party political consultant Stanley Greenberg; James Carville, a long-time political consultant to former President Bill Clinton; and Bob Shrum, manager of Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
Do you know what makes your gas price go up? Get "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil"
CGS is a sister corporation of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, the Washington-based consulting firm WND reported managed a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign rebranding BP as a more environmentally friendly corporation, while current White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel lived rent-free in the Washington-area home of Greenberg and his wife, Rep. Rosa De Lauro, D-Conn.
James Carville’s hypocrisy on BP and dubious ties to Antanas Mockus’ establishment opponent in Colombia
EXCERPT:
May 31st, 2010 · 15 Comments
On Counterpunch, author Nikolas Kozloff examines American political strategist James Carville’s numerous forays into South American politics, including ties to BP and the establishment opponent of Colombian Green presidential candidate Antanas Mockus, who came in second with a bit over 20 percent of the vote yesterday. Carville has recently been on American network news blasting BP for their oilspill near his native Louisiana, yet Kozloff talks about what Carville has done to prop up BP in South America (and they are now considering offshore drilling in Colombia, just to add to the hypocrisy). Read the full article here.
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
EXCERPT:
BRIEFING | THE AMERICAS; Bolivia: Ex-Leader Sought In '03 Crackdown
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bolivian officials ask United States to extradite former Pres Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who ordered military crackdown in 2003 in which at least 60 people died
November 12, 2008
MORE ON GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA AND: EXTRADITION, UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS, BOLIVIA Bolivia's Leader Says He Plans to Offer His Resignation Monday
President Carlos Mesa said Sunday that he was resigning as new protests spread and threatened the important oil and gas sector.
March 7, 2005
MORE ON GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA AND: GAS (FUEL), SUSPENSIONS, DISMISSALS AND RESIGNATIONS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND WORLD MARKET, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, DEMONSTRATIONS AND RIOTS, CHILE, BOLIVIA, MESA, CARLOS World Briefing | Americas: Bolivia: Ex-President Charged With Genocide
Bolivian prosecutors charge former Pres Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who is currently living in United States, and his cabinet with genocide for deaths of more than 60 antigovernment protesters in 2003
James Carville's shameful hypocrisy oil spill and his ties to South America
EXCERPT:
A political guru, frequent CNN pundit and a personality who was featured in the well known documentary The War Room, Carville moves in powerful circles in the U.S. What’s less commonly known, however, is that Carville is also a virtual kingmaker in Latin America --- indeed, his professional contacts have ranged from Mexico’s Ernesto Zedillo to Brazil’s Fernando Enrique Cardoso to many others.
EXCERPTs:
1) The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser
June 7, 2010 | 3:34 pm
2) Greenberg's consulting firm was a prime architect of BP's recent rebranding drive as a green petroleum company, down to green signs and the slogan "Beyond Petroleum."
Greenberg's company is also closely tied to a sister Democratic outfit -- GCS, named for the last initials of Greenberg, James Carville, another Clinton advisor, and Bob Shrum, John Kerry's 2004 campaign manager.
Greenberg, Carville and Shrum
EXCERPT:
Greenberg Carville Shrum is a U.S. political consultancy and strategy company.
Greenberg Carville Shrum worked for Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who won Bolivia's 2002 presidential election. However, he was forced to resign in 2003.
Principals
James Carville
Stanley Greenberg
Bob Shrum
Rahm Emanuel's butt is fried or is it fired....... isn't that an anagram?
EXCERPT:
Top Democratic Party consultants connected to the Obama White House have profited from advising politicians in South America who have long-term economic ties to British Petroleum.
Perhaps the best-known instance was in Bolivia, where the consulting group GCS worked to re-elect as president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, popularly known as "Goni."
GCS is an acronym formed from the last names of the principals – pollster and Democratic Party political consultant Stanley Greenberg; James Carville, a long-time political consultant to former President Bill Clinton; and Bob Shrum, manager of Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
Do you know what makes your gas price go up? Get "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil"
CGS is a sister corporation of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, the Washington-based consulting firm WND reported managed a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign rebranding BP as a more environmentally friendly corporation, while current White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel lived rent-free in the Washington-area home of Greenberg and his wife, Rep. Rosa De Lauro, D-Conn.
James Carville’s hypocrisy on BP and dubious ties to Antanas Mockus’ establishment opponent in Colombia
EXCERPT:
May 31st, 2010 · 15 Comments
On Counterpunch, author Nikolas Kozloff examines American political strategist James Carville’s numerous forays into South American politics, including ties to BP and the establishment opponent of Colombian Green presidential candidate Antanas Mockus, who came in second with a bit over 20 percent of the vote yesterday. Carville has recently been on American network news blasting BP for their oilspill near his native Louisiana, yet Kozloff talks about what Carville has done to prop up BP in South America (and they are now considering offshore drilling in Colombia, just to add to the hypocrisy). Read the full article here.
Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
EXCERPT:
BRIEFING | THE AMERICAS; Bolivia: Ex-Leader Sought In '03 Crackdown
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bolivian officials ask United States to extradite former Pres Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who ordered military crackdown in 2003 in which at least 60 people died
November 12, 2008
MORE ON GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA AND: EXTRADITION, UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS, BOLIVIA Bolivia's Leader Says He Plans to Offer His Resignation Monday
President Carlos Mesa said Sunday that he was resigning as new protests spread and threatened the important oil and gas sector.
March 7, 2005
MORE ON GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA AND: GAS (FUEL), SUSPENSIONS, DISMISSALS AND RESIGNATIONS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND WORLD MARKET, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, DEMONSTRATIONS AND RIOTS, CHILE, BOLIVIA, MESA, CARLOS World Briefing | Americas: Bolivia: Ex-President Charged With Genocide
Bolivian prosecutors charge former Pres Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who is currently living in United States, and his cabinet with genocide for deaths of more than 60 antigovernment protesters in 2003
James Carville's shameful hypocrisy oil spill and his ties to South America
EXCERPT:
A political guru, frequent CNN pundit and a personality who was featured in the well known documentary The War Room, Carville moves in powerful circles in the U.S. What’s less commonly known, however, is that Carville is also a virtual kingmaker in Latin America --- indeed, his professional contacts have ranged from Mexico’s Ernesto Zedillo to Brazil’s Fernando Enrique Cardoso to many others.
Could all of this be the reason China is going over to the gold standard?
McChrystal-MacArthur deja vu all over again (timing is everything, eh?)
EXCERPT:
McChrystal / MacArthur: Deja vu all over again? Stokes Young says: Six months after their 1950 meeting on Wake Island, Truman fired MacArthur. Now, eight months after their meeting on Air Force One, McChrystal is being summoned to Washington, his professional fate unclear. In this video from MSNBC TV's The Daily Rundown, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell says:
"I think it crosses the line of insubordination and it crosses the line of the Military Code of Justice. He has challenged the Commander-in-Chief and legally, morally, ethically, professionally, he ought to be canned. Now the question is whether practically you can fire the top commander at a time when the war is [...] in a very bad stage." -Watch
WHY why why
EXCERPT:
Another expert, Ryu Seok-jin, professor of political science at Sogang University, said that Pyongyang may have carried out the attack as part of efforts to tie down China to its side.
“If the Cheonan was sunk under the orders of Kim Jong-il, it may have involved more of a strategic intention rather than a military one, and it is likely to be a message to Beijing,” Ryu said at a local conference on inter-Korean relations on Tuesday (May 25).
General Intelligence Bureau
EXCERPT:Cabinet General Intelligence Bureau
The majority of the North Korean intelligence agencies are within the Cabinet General Intelligence Bureau of the Korean Worker's Party Central Committee.
The Liaison Department is responsible for conducting intelligence operations in South Korea and Japan. Its agents are used to undermine the South Korean government by supporting internal subversion and to gather information on U.S. forces in Korea.
The Research Department for External Intelligence (RDEI) is the primary agency responsible for foreign intelligence collection. The RDEI is composed of four geographic subsections, one of which is North America.
Sources and Resources
What does it mean
EXCERPT:
[Note: So enraged was MacArthur against President Truman that rumors swirled that the World War II hero general was going to disobey his President’s orders and nuke Chinese forces anyway, and which when heard by Truman caused him to fire one of the arguably most famous generals in the history of the United States.]
42 page PDF of Cheonan sinking
Battle of Daecheong wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Aftermath
After the battle, the South Korea patrol boat had suffered only superficial damage (reportedly 15 bullet marks on the ship's side) with no casualties, while the North Korea patrol boat was left partially destroyed. Though there was no official announcement from North Korea, a news agency in South Korea reported a rumor that North Korea suffered four casualties (1 KIA / 3 WIA).[6] On the other hand, a defector said about 10 North Korean sailors were killed in action.[7] The Korean Central News Agency (North Korea) pressed South Korea to apologize for the violation.[5]
McChrystal-MacArthur deja vu all over again (timing is everything, eh?)
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McChrystal / MacArthur: Deja vu all over again? Stokes Young says: Six months after their 1950 meeting on Wake Island, Truman fired MacArthur. Now, eight months after their meeting on Air Force One, McChrystal is being summoned to Washington, his professional fate unclear. In this video from MSNBC TV's The Daily Rundown, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell says:
"I think it crosses the line of insubordination and it crosses the line of the Military Code of Justice. He has challenged the Commander-in-Chief and legally, morally, ethically, professionally, he ought to be canned. Now the question is whether practically you can fire the top commander at a time when the war is [...] in a very bad stage." -Watch
WHY why why
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Another expert, Ryu Seok-jin, professor of political science at Sogang University, said that Pyongyang may have carried out the attack as part of efforts to tie down China to its side.
“If the Cheonan was sunk under the orders of Kim Jong-il, it may have involved more of a strategic intention rather than a military one, and it is likely to be a message to Beijing,” Ryu said at a local conference on inter-Korean relations on Tuesday (May 25).
General Intelligence Bureau
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The majority of the North Korean intelligence agencies are within the Cabinet General Intelligence Bureau of the Korean Worker's Party Central Committee.
The Liaison Department is responsible for conducting intelligence operations in South Korea and Japan. Its agents are used to undermine the South Korean government by supporting internal subversion and to gather information on U.S. forces in Korea.
The Research Department for External Intelligence (RDEI) is the primary agency responsible for foreign intelligence collection. The RDEI is composed of four geographic subsections, one of which is North America.
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What does it mean
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[Note: So enraged was MacArthur against President Truman that rumors swirled that the World War II hero general was going to disobey his President’s orders and nuke Chinese forces anyway, and which when heard by Truman caused him to fire one of the arguably most famous generals in the history of the United States.]
42 page PDF of Cheonan sinking
Battle of Daecheong wikipedia
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Aftermath
After the battle, the South Korea patrol boat had suffered only superficial damage (reportedly 15 bullet marks on the ship's side) with no casualties, while the North Korea patrol boat was left partially destroyed. Though there was no official announcement from North Korea, a news agency in South Korea reported a rumor that North Korea suffered four casualties (1 KIA / 3 WIA).[6] On the other hand, a defector said about 10 North Korean sailors were killed in action.[7] The Korean Central News Agency (North Korea) pressed South Korea to apologize for the violation.[5]
N. Korea an enemy made in the USA videos
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Lew Rockwell hit the nail square on the head. “In the most recent Korean incident, did the North’s navy sink a ship of the South’s navy? Only one thing is for sure: it is none of the US’s business, which should immediately end its long occupation of the South,” he writes. “But since the empire seeks to rule the world and beyond, everything is its business, and it looks as if the chickenhawk Obama may be about to launch a second Korean war.”
N. Korean beer summit w/Willy Boy Clinton
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Asked about the upcoming Beer Summit, Bill Clinton stated, "I want to make it clear: we don't deal with tyrants and terrorists; we have dinner and a movie. Maybe a glass or two of Thunderbird. Go halfsies on a hooker. And, of course, a beer. But no deals whatsoever."
Clinton cited logistical difficulties, explaining that "Due to the lack of cell phone reception in North Korea, we weren't able to actually talk to (Kim Jong-Il), so we're just going over to surprise him. Does anyone here know if he likes Coors or Bud?"
The beer finally chosen was Lucky Lager. "There was a sale at Circle K," said Clinton. "Always trying to save the American taxpayers some money, that's me."
After former president Clinton returned home with the two American prisoners, President Obama praised the success of his foreign policy as he read the following message from his new teleprompter: "There's just no telling just how far we can take this. We can achieve peace in the Middle East. Imagine, if you will, Muslim and Jew, with beer in hand. And me in the middle, topping off the mugs."
Chung Mong-Hun wikipedia
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Scandal and suicide
Chung was indicted in June 2003 for his role in the Cash-for-summit scandal on charges of doctoring company books to hide the secret money transfers of hundreds of millions of dollars by the Kim Dae Jung administration to North Korea to set up the historic North-South presidential summit in 2000. Facing up to three years in prison and apparently shamed after he was forced to testify in court about the secret money transfer days earlier, he committed suicide on August 4, 2003 by leaping from his 12th floor office.[1] Police claimed he left several suicide notes. He was reported to have apologized for his suicide, and claimed "everything is my fault". He had been accused of secretly transferring millions of dollars to the North Korean government. Buddhist monks presided over the last rites conducted during his funeral.[2][3][4]
Suicide in the Koreas
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. Korea: Hyundai Asan Chairman Commits Suicide (update)
Chosun Ilbo (NKchosun.com) ^ | Aug.4,2003 | Youm Kang-su, Chae Sung-jin
Posted on Monday, August 04, 2003 4:48:30 AM by TigerLikesRooster
Hyundai Asan Chairman Commits Suicide
by Youm Kang-su (ksyoum@chosun.com) and by Chae Sung-jin (dudmie@chosun.com)
Chung Mong-hun, the Hyundai Asan chairman who was implicated in the secret transfer of money to North Korean before the June 2000 inter-Korean summit, killed himself early Monday morning by jumping out of his company office on the 12th floor of Hyundai group's head office building in Gye-dong, downtown Seoul, police and company officials said. Mong-hun had been under investigation over the "cash-for-summit" scandal and an allegation that he raised a W15 billion political slush fund.
The sinking of the Cheonan in March 2010 by N. Korea
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On Friday, the U.N. Security Council adopted a presidential statement that implied Pyongyang's responsibility for the sinking but fell short of directly laying blame. It also called for the resumption of diplomatic efforts to resolve outstanding issues on the peninsula.
North Korea on Saturday called the statement "devoid of any proper judgment and conclusion," but said it will "make consistent efforts for the conclusion of a peace treaty and denuclearization" through six-party negotiations on the country's nuclear programs.
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Lew Rockwell hit the nail square on the head. “In the most recent Korean incident, did the North’s navy sink a ship of the South’s navy? Only one thing is for sure: it is none of the US’s business, which should immediately end its long occupation of the South,” he writes. “But since the empire seeks to rule the world and beyond, everything is its business, and it looks as if the chickenhawk Obama may be about to launch a second Korean war.”
N. Korean beer summit w/Willy Boy Clinton
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Asked about the upcoming Beer Summit, Bill Clinton stated, "I want to make it clear: we don't deal with tyrants and terrorists; we have dinner and a movie. Maybe a glass or two of Thunderbird. Go halfsies on a hooker. And, of course, a beer. But no deals whatsoever."
Clinton cited logistical difficulties, explaining that "Due to the lack of cell phone reception in North Korea, we weren't able to actually talk to (Kim Jong-Il), so we're just going over to surprise him. Does anyone here know if he likes Coors or Bud?"
The beer finally chosen was Lucky Lager. "There was a sale at Circle K," said Clinton. "Always trying to save the American taxpayers some money, that's me."
After former president Clinton returned home with the two American prisoners, President Obama praised the success of his foreign policy as he read the following message from his new teleprompter: "There's just no telling just how far we can take this. We can achieve peace in the Middle East. Imagine, if you will, Muslim and Jew, with beer in hand. And me in the middle, topping off the mugs."
Chung Mong-Hun wikipedia
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Scandal and suicide
Chung was indicted in June 2003 for his role in the Cash-for-summit scandal on charges of doctoring company books to hide the secret money transfers of hundreds of millions of dollars by the Kim Dae Jung administration to North Korea to set up the historic North-South presidential summit in 2000. Facing up to three years in prison and apparently shamed after he was forced to testify in court about the secret money transfer days earlier, he committed suicide on August 4, 2003 by leaping from his 12th floor office.[1] Police claimed he left several suicide notes. He was reported to have apologized for his suicide, and claimed "everything is my fault". He had been accused of secretly transferring millions of dollars to the North Korean government. Buddhist monks presided over the last rites conducted during his funeral.[2][3][4]
Suicide in the Koreas
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. Korea: Hyundai Asan Chairman Commits Suicide (update)
Chosun Ilbo (NKchosun.com) ^ | Aug.4,2003 | Youm Kang-su, Chae Sung-jin
Posted on Monday, August 04, 2003 4:48:30 AM by TigerLikesRooster
Hyundai Asan Chairman Commits Suicide
by Youm Kang-su (ksyoum@chosun.com) and by Chae Sung-jin (dudmie@chosun.com)
Chung Mong-hun, the Hyundai Asan chairman who was implicated in the secret transfer of money to North Korean before the June 2000 inter-Korean summit, killed himself early Monday morning by jumping out of his company office on the 12th floor of Hyundai group's head office building in Gye-dong, downtown Seoul, police and company officials said. Mong-hun had been under investigation over the "cash-for-summit" scandal and an allegation that he raised a W15 billion political slush fund.
The sinking of the Cheonan in March 2010 by N. Korea
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On Friday, the U.N. Security Council adopted a presidential statement that implied Pyongyang's responsibility for the sinking but fell short of directly laying blame. It also called for the resumption of diplomatic efforts to resolve outstanding issues on the peninsula.
North Korea on Saturday called the statement "devoid of any proper judgment and conclusion," but said it will "make consistent efforts for the conclusion of a peace treaty and denuclearization" through six-party negotiations on the country's nuclear programs.
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