Denver Airport Conspiracy documentary Part 1 youtube
Denver Airport Conspiracy documentary Part 2 youtube
Denver Airport
EXCERPT:
The New World Denver Airport
Can you please give us answers to these questions?
(1) Why the picture of a military man killing a white dove?
(2) Why the freemason symbol and the "New World" on the capstone?
(3) What are the translations of the writings on the floors of DIA?
(4) Are there any underground facilities at or around DIA?
Invasion of Iraq
EXCERPT:
The invasion was preceded by an air strike on the Iraqi Presidential Palace on March 19, 2003. The following day coalition forces launched an incursion into Basra Province from their massing point near the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border.
Blackwater's youngest victim youtube
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
BPs 10 biggest shareholders
EXCERPT:
The UK insurer and asset manager owns 4pc of the shares.
Barclays Global Investors:
The asset manager, which is owned by BlackRock, owns 3.8pc of the shares.
Norges Bank Investment Management:
The asset manager manages the money generated from Norway's oil revenues and owns 1.8pc of the shares.
Kuwait Investment Authority:
The body manages the funds for Kuwait government. It owns 1.75pc of the shares.
M&G Investment Management:
The UK asset manager, owned by the Prudential, owns 1.67pc of the shares.
Standard Life:
The Scottish insurance company owns 1.5pc of the shares.
Capital Research & Management Co:
The Los Angeles-based fund owns 1.3pc of the shares.
Insight Investment Management:
The fund manager owned by Lloyds Banking Group owns 1.13pc of the shares.
China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange:
The body that manages China's $2.4 trillion of foreign-exchange reserves owns 1.1pc.
Data from Bloomberg as of June 3.
BP owns 51%
EXCERPT:
Posted by Daniela Perdomo at 5:29 pm
May 25, 201010 COMMENTS UPDATED: New Oil Spill in Alaska, Pipeline is 51% Owned by BP
Another day, another oil spill. And before you ask: Yes, BP is involved.
BP had biggest piece of the pie
EXCERPT:
BP owned a controlling interest in the Alaska oil industry consortium that was required to write a cleanup plan and respond to the spill two decades ago. It also supplied the top executive of the consortium, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Lawsuits and investigations that followed the Valdez disaster blamed both Exxon and Alyeska for a response that was bungled on many levels.
People who had a front row seat to the Alaska spill tell The Associated Press that BP’s actions in the Gulf suggest it hasn’t changed much at all.
The Gulf leak has grown to at least 6 million gallons since an oil rig exploded April 20, killing 11, and is almost certain to overtake Valdez as the nation’s worst oil spill.
The companies responsible, Exxon, BP, Arco, Mobil and others owning Alyeska
EXCERPT:
The companies responsible, Exxon, BP, Arco, Mobil and others owning Alyeska, had assured Alaskans it would never happen. But in 1990 the state Oil Spill Commission concluded that they and the government had been complacent.
BP had a central role in the Exxon Valdez disaster
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BP had central role in the Exxon Valdez disaster
May 25, 2010
The AP drops this bombshell today about the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster:
… the leader of botched containment efforts in the critical hours after the tanker ran aground wasn’t Exxon Mobil Corp. It was BP PLC, the same firm now fighting to plug the Gulf leak.
BP and the Exxon Valdz Scandal
EXCERPT:
Yet the leader of botched containment efforts in the critical hours after the tanker ran aground wasn't Exxon Mobil Corp. It was BP PLC, the same firm now fighting to plug the Gulf leak.
BP owned a controlling interest in the Alaska oil industry consortium that was required to write a cleanup plan and respond to the spill two decades ago. It also supplied the top executive of the consortium, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Lawsuits and investigations that followed the Valdez disaster blamed both Exxon and Alyeska for a response that was bungled on many levels.
JP Morgan invented credit default swaps to give Exxon credit for Valdez liability
EXCERPT:
JP Morgan invented credit-default swaps to give Exxon credit line for Valdez liability
May 26, 2010
Credit-default swaps are widely seen as a major contributor to the recent financial meltdown. But the origin of CDS’s with the Exxon Valdez oil disaster isn’t as widely known.
The New Yorker has a long review of a couple of financial books, including Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. It details the history of the CDS, an idea that came out of a June 1994 JP Morgan off-site in Boca Raton (where “binge drinking occurred” and “a senior colleague’s nose was broken”):
Mutual Fund Scandal
EXCERPT:
Daily Record, The (Baltimore), Sep 26, 2003 by Kathleen Johnston Jarboe
123Next ..As an investigation into unfair and illegal mutual fund practices widens, New York's attorney general and the Securities and Exchange Commission have put Maryland companies as well as many others under the microscope.
EXCERPT:
The UK insurer and asset manager owns 4pc of the shares.
Barclays Global Investors:
The asset manager, which is owned by BlackRock, owns 3.8pc of the shares.
Norges Bank Investment Management:
The asset manager manages the money generated from Norway's oil revenues and owns 1.8pc of the shares.
Kuwait Investment Authority:
The body manages the funds for Kuwait government. It owns 1.75pc of the shares.
M&G Investment Management:
The UK asset manager, owned by the Prudential, owns 1.67pc of the shares.
Standard Life:
The Scottish insurance company owns 1.5pc of the shares.
Capital Research & Management Co:
The Los Angeles-based fund owns 1.3pc of the shares.
Insight Investment Management:
The fund manager owned by Lloyds Banking Group owns 1.13pc of the shares.
China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange:
The body that manages China's $2.4 trillion of foreign-exchange reserves owns 1.1pc.
Data from Bloomberg as of June 3.
BP owns 51%
EXCERPT:
Posted by Daniela Perdomo at 5:29 pm
May 25, 201010 COMMENTS UPDATED: New Oil Spill in Alaska, Pipeline is 51% Owned by BP
Another day, another oil spill. And before you ask: Yes, BP is involved.
BP had biggest piece of the pie
EXCERPT:
BP owned a controlling interest in the Alaska oil industry consortium that was required to write a cleanup plan and respond to the spill two decades ago. It also supplied the top executive of the consortium, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Lawsuits and investigations that followed the Valdez disaster blamed both Exxon and Alyeska for a response that was bungled on many levels.
People who had a front row seat to the Alaska spill tell The Associated Press that BP’s actions in the Gulf suggest it hasn’t changed much at all.
The Gulf leak has grown to at least 6 million gallons since an oil rig exploded April 20, killing 11, and is almost certain to overtake Valdez as the nation’s worst oil spill.
The companies responsible, Exxon, BP, Arco, Mobil and others owning Alyeska
EXCERPT:
The companies responsible, Exxon, BP, Arco, Mobil and others owning Alyeska, had assured Alaskans it would never happen. But in 1990 the state Oil Spill Commission concluded that they and the government had been complacent.
BP had a central role in the Exxon Valdez disaster
EXCERPT:
BP had central role in the Exxon Valdez disaster
May 25, 2010
The AP drops this bombshell today about the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster:
… the leader of botched containment efforts in the critical hours after the tanker ran aground wasn’t Exxon Mobil Corp. It was BP PLC, the same firm now fighting to plug the Gulf leak.
BP and the Exxon Valdz Scandal
EXCERPT:
Yet the leader of botched containment efforts in the critical hours after the tanker ran aground wasn't Exxon Mobil Corp. It was BP PLC, the same firm now fighting to plug the Gulf leak.
BP owned a controlling interest in the Alaska oil industry consortium that was required to write a cleanup plan and respond to the spill two decades ago. It also supplied the top executive of the consortium, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Lawsuits and investigations that followed the Valdez disaster blamed both Exxon and Alyeska for a response that was bungled on many levels.
JP Morgan invented credit default swaps to give Exxon credit for Valdez liability
EXCERPT:
JP Morgan invented credit-default swaps to give Exxon credit line for Valdez liability
May 26, 2010
Credit-default swaps are widely seen as a major contributor to the recent financial meltdown. But the origin of CDS’s with the Exxon Valdez oil disaster isn’t as widely known.
The New Yorker has a long review of a couple of financial books, including Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe. It details the history of the CDS, an idea that came out of a June 1994 JP Morgan off-site in Boca Raton (where “binge drinking occurred” and “a senior colleague’s nose was broken”):
Mutual Fund Scandal
EXCERPT:
Daily Record, The (Baltimore), Sep 26, 2003 by Kathleen Johnston Jarboe
123Next ..As an investigation into unfair and illegal mutual fund practices widens, New York's attorney general and the Securities and Exchange Commission have put Maryland companies as well as many others under the microscope.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Where's RICO (TRUTHOUT)
EXCERPT:
One week before the SEC action against GS, the Pro Publica web site published a story about virtually the same kind of mischief being run out of the Chicago-based hedge fund Magnetar led by a clever young fellow named Alec Litowitz. Like GS, Magnetar deliberately constructed investments (bundles of bundled mortgage-backed securities called collateralized debt obligations or CDOs) that were certain to fail, so that Magnetar could collect on credit default swaps that amounted to a bet against products they themselves had participated in creating. There was no question that Litowitz and his employees did this absolutely on purpose. Nor is there any question that they aggressively sold positions in these CDOs to credulous investors like Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and others.
Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital the definition of comprimised
EXCERPT:
But the sponsors of this toxic trade did bother to make sure they had a powerful friend. The head of the firm in question gave substantial amounts of money by political contribution standards to Rahm Emanuel’s PACs, and only his PACs, over the period when these transactions were in play.
The moving force behind a brilliant and devastating subprime short strategy was a heretofore unknown Chicago hedge fund, Magnetar, headed by Alec Litowitz, formerly of the hedge fund behemoth Citadel. Our studies indicate that Magnetar alone accounted for between 35% and 60% of demand for subprime mortgages in the year 2006.
Magnetar and Goldman defend their CDO bets
EXCERPT:
By Michael Corkery
CDOs everywhere are under attack.
This week the CDO spotlight is shining on Goldman Sachs Group over the brokering and marketing of the 2007 Abacus transaction that is the subject of the SEC’s civil suit against the investment bank. But a few weeks ago, it was hedge fund Magnetar Capital that was under the microscope of ProPublica, an online news site that chronicled how the secretive hedge fund firm reaped a fortune from trades associated with CDOs that failed soon after Magnetar helped create them.
Book on Marc Rich Details His Iran Oil Deals
EXCERPT:
Book on Marc Rich Details His Iran Oil Deals
Published: October 15, 2009
Marc Rich, the former fugitive oil trader long criticized for his business ties to nations like Iran, South Africa and Cuba, has acknowledged in a new book that his dealings with those nations were more extensive than previously disclosed.
Marc Rich and Rahm Emanuel
EXCERPT:
Some of the supposedly "segregated accounts" have been unlawfully commingled with clandestine funds of the Russian mafiya with the connivance of Marc Rich and his mob; and interwoven with the funds of the Red Chinese Secret Police, with the reported complicity of not only Marc Rich but his accomplice, Rahm Emanuel, former Clinton White House Senior Advisor, and more currently, Managing Director of Wasserstein Perella & Co., reputed Asian money laundry front. Rahm is the reputed Deputy Chief of Israeli Intelligence, The Mossad, for North America.
Marc Rich and Rahm Emanuel mentioned together again
EXCERPT:
Questions, of which in our various website series we have made partial answers
Q- How many foreign and domestic political assassinations has Marc Rich reportedly arranged and financed, disguised as metals and grain deals? See some of the details previously posted about Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the Chicago Board of Trade dirty business. Are these events occurring through the aid of Rahm Emanuel, managing director of Wasserstein Perella & Co.? We think so. And Rahm is reportedly linked to Marc Rich and the Red Chinese Secret Police operating IN THE UNITED STATES.
"Pro Publica's New investigative report Release on Hedge Fund Magnetar and how they GAMED the SYSTEM as HEDGE FUND involved in the Meltdown
Yves (from Website "Naked Capitalism") has a whole chapter on Magnetar in her terrific book, ECONned. Here's what Magnetar was all about, via Pro Publica:
In late 2005, the booming U.S. housing market seemed to be slowing. The Federal Reserve had begun raising interest rates. Subprime mortgage company shares were falling. Investors began to balk at buying complex mortgage securities. The housing bubble, which had propelled a historic growth in home prices, seemed poised to deflate. And if it had, the great financial crisis of 2008, which produced the Great Recession of 2008-09, might have come sooner and been less severe.
At just that moment, a few savvy financial engineers at a suburban Chicago hedge fund <1> <1> helped revive the Wall Street money machine, spawning billions of dollars of securities ultimately backed by home mortgages.
When the crash came, nearly all of these securities became worthless, a loss of an estimated $40 billion paid by investors, the investment banks who helped bring them into the world, and, eventually, American taxpayers.
Yet the hedge fund, named Magnetar for the super-magnetic field created by the last moments of a dying star, earned outsized returns in the year the financial crisis began.
How Magnetar pulled this off is one of the untold stories of the meltdown. Only a small group of Wall Street insiders was privy to what became known as the Magnetar Trade. Nearly all of those approached by ProPublica declined to talk on the record, fearing their careers would be hurt if they spoke publicly. But interviews with participants, e-mails, thousands of pages of documents and details about the securities that until now have not been publicly disclosed shed light on an arcane, secretive corner of Wall Street.
According to bankers and others involved, the Magnetar Trade worked this way: The hedge fund bought the riskiest portion of a kind of securities known as collateralized debt obligations -- CDOs. If housing prices kept rising, this would provide a solid return for many years. But that's not what hedge funds are after. They want outsized gains, the sooner the better, and Magnetar set itself up for a huge win: It placed bets that portions of its own deals would fail.
So make a horse-racing analogy: Magnetar formed a syndicate, and got a ton of suckers to bet on a horse they were backing. Then, in secret, they bet against the horse. Bad enough. But it gets worse: They crippled their own horse, to make sure the suckers lost and they won! (And then it gets worse: We taxpayers covered the bets for the suckers...)
Along the way, it did something to enhance the chances of that happening, according to several people with direct knowledge of the deals. They say Magnetar pressed to include riskier assets in their CDOs that would make the investments more vulnerable to failure. ... An independent analysis <9> <9> commissioned by ProPublica shows that these deals defaulted faster and at a higher rate compared to other similar CDOs. According to the analysis, 96 percent of the Magnetar deals were in default by the end of 2008, compared with 68 percent for comparable CDOs.
Yay! Well, who owns Magnetar? A hedgie from Chicago named Alec Litowitz. And which party does our Alec contribute to? You'll never guess:
The Democrats, including Rahm Emmanuel.
Oddly, or not, a story from Daily Finance by Moe Tkacik that covers this story -- Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital: A Love Story -- isn't available any more, not even in Google's cache. Traces of it do, however, still exist at Hedgehogs, Yahoo, and Bing. Tkacik is for real (see, e.g., Felix Salmon) so what happened to her story?
Magnetar CEO Alec Litowitz: Proud Democrat
Sun, 04/11/2010 - 1:05pm —
EXCERPT:
One week before the SEC action against GS, the Pro Publica web site published a story about virtually the same kind of mischief being run out of the Chicago-based hedge fund Magnetar led by a clever young fellow named Alec Litowitz. Like GS, Magnetar deliberately constructed investments (bundles of bundled mortgage-backed securities called collateralized debt obligations or CDOs) that were certain to fail, so that Magnetar could collect on credit default swaps that amounted to a bet against products they themselves had participated in creating. There was no question that Litowitz and his employees did this absolutely on purpose. Nor is there any question that they aggressively sold positions in these CDOs to credulous investors like Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and others.
Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital the definition of comprimised
EXCERPT:
But the sponsors of this toxic trade did bother to make sure they had a powerful friend. The head of the firm in question gave substantial amounts of money by political contribution standards to Rahm Emanuel’s PACs, and only his PACs, over the period when these transactions were in play.
The moving force behind a brilliant and devastating subprime short strategy was a heretofore unknown Chicago hedge fund, Magnetar, headed by Alec Litowitz, formerly of the hedge fund behemoth Citadel. Our studies indicate that Magnetar alone accounted for between 35% and 60% of demand for subprime mortgages in the year 2006.
Magnetar and Goldman defend their CDO bets
EXCERPT:
By Michael Corkery
CDOs everywhere are under attack.
This week the CDO spotlight is shining on Goldman Sachs Group over the brokering and marketing of the 2007 Abacus transaction that is the subject of the SEC’s civil suit against the investment bank. But a few weeks ago, it was hedge fund Magnetar Capital that was under the microscope of ProPublica, an online news site that chronicled how the secretive hedge fund firm reaped a fortune from trades associated with CDOs that failed soon after Magnetar helped create them.
Book on Marc Rich Details His Iran Oil Deals
EXCERPT:
Book on Marc Rich Details His Iran Oil Deals
Published: October 15, 2009
Marc Rich, the former fugitive oil trader long criticized for his business ties to nations like Iran, South Africa and Cuba, has acknowledged in a new book that his dealings with those nations were more extensive than previously disclosed.
Marc Rich and Rahm Emanuel
EXCERPT:
Some of the supposedly "segregated accounts" have been unlawfully commingled with clandestine funds of the Russian mafiya with the connivance of Marc Rich and his mob; and interwoven with the funds of the Red Chinese Secret Police, with the reported complicity of not only Marc Rich but his accomplice, Rahm Emanuel, former Clinton White House Senior Advisor, and more currently, Managing Director of Wasserstein Perella & Co., reputed Asian money laundry front. Rahm is the reputed Deputy Chief of Israeli Intelligence, The Mossad, for North America.
Marc Rich and Rahm Emanuel mentioned together again
EXCERPT:
Questions, of which in our various website series we have made partial answers
Q- How many foreign and domestic political assassinations has Marc Rich reportedly arranged and financed, disguised as metals and grain deals? See some of the details previously posted about Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and the Chicago Board of Trade dirty business. Are these events occurring through the aid of Rahm Emanuel, managing director of Wasserstein Perella & Co.? We think so. And Rahm is reportedly linked to Marc Rich and the Red Chinese Secret Police operating IN THE UNITED STATES.
"Pro Publica's New investigative report Release on Hedge Fund Magnetar and how they GAMED the SYSTEM as HEDGE FUND involved in the Meltdown
Yves (from Website "Naked Capitalism") has a whole chapter on Magnetar in her terrific book, ECONned. Here's what Magnetar was all about, via Pro Publica:
In late 2005, the booming U.S. housing market seemed to be slowing. The Federal Reserve had begun raising interest rates. Subprime mortgage company shares were falling. Investors began to balk at buying complex mortgage securities. The housing bubble, which had propelled a historic growth in home prices, seemed poised to deflate. And if it had, the great financial crisis of 2008, which produced the Great Recession of 2008-09, might have come sooner and been less severe.
At just that moment, a few savvy financial engineers at a suburban Chicago hedge fund <1> <1> helped revive the Wall Street money machine, spawning billions of dollars of securities ultimately backed by home mortgages.
When the crash came, nearly all of these securities became worthless, a loss of an estimated $40 billion paid by investors, the investment banks who helped bring them into the world, and, eventually, American taxpayers.
Yet the hedge fund, named Magnetar for the super-magnetic field created by the last moments of a dying star, earned outsized returns in the year the financial crisis began.
How Magnetar pulled this off is one of the untold stories of the meltdown. Only a small group of Wall Street insiders was privy to what became known as the Magnetar Trade. Nearly all of those approached by ProPublica declined to talk on the record, fearing their careers would be hurt if they spoke publicly. But interviews with participants, e-mails, thousands of pages of documents and details about the securities that until now have not been publicly disclosed shed light on an arcane, secretive corner of Wall Street.
According to bankers and others involved, the Magnetar Trade worked this way: The hedge fund bought the riskiest portion of a kind of securities known as collateralized debt obligations -- CDOs. If housing prices kept rising, this would provide a solid return for many years. But that's not what hedge funds are after. They want outsized gains, the sooner the better, and Magnetar set itself up for a huge win: It placed bets that portions of its own deals would fail.
So make a horse-racing analogy: Magnetar formed a syndicate, and got a ton of suckers to bet on a horse they were backing. Then, in secret, they bet against the horse. Bad enough. But it gets worse: They crippled their own horse, to make sure the suckers lost and they won! (And then it gets worse: We taxpayers covered the bets for the suckers...)
Along the way, it did something to enhance the chances of that happening, according to several people with direct knowledge of the deals. They say Magnetar pressed to include riskier assets in their CDOs that would make the investments more vulnerable to failure. ... An independent analysis <9> <9> commissioned by ProPublica shows that these deals defaulted faster and at a higher rate compared to other similar CDOs. According to the analysis, 96 percent of the Magnetar deals were in default by the end of 2008, compared with 68 percent for comparable CDOs.
Yay! Well, who owns Magnetar? A hedgie from Chicago named Alec Litowitz. And which party does our Alec contribute to? You'll never guess:
The Democrats, including Rahm Emmanuel.
Oddly, or not, a story from Daily Finance by Moe Tkacik that covers this story -- Rahm Emanuel and Magnetar Capital: A Love Story -- isn't available any more, not even in Google's cache. Traces of it do, however, still exist at Hedgehogs, Yahoo, and Bing. Tkacik is for real (see, e.g., Felix Salmon) so what happened to her story?
Magnetar CEO Alec Litowitz: Proud Democrat
Sun, 04/11/2010 - 1:05pm —
Friday, June 4, 2010
Bill Clinton lobbies in Peru
EXCERPT:
Bill and Frank in Peru
Of late Bill Clinton visited Peru, together with Giustra, flying there with Giustra’s luxurious MD 87 plane.
One of Endeavour’s clients operating in Peru is the mining company IMA. So Peru was a suitable target for CGSGI.
Giustra and Clinton donated 10 Million US Dollars for eye operations (cataract).
A long article in the British TIMES recognized the good work and brought it to the attention of a broader audience.
Not mentioned, however, was “Operation Milagro”, eye-operations carried out in Latin America by Cuban doctors with no mining rights involved.
EXCERPT:
Bill and Frank in Peru
Of late Bill Clinton visited Peru, together with Giustra, flying there with Giustra’s luxurious MD 87 plane.
One of Endeavour’s clients operating in Peru is the mining company IMA. So Peru was a suitable target for CGSGI.
Giustra and Clinton donated 10 Million US Dollars for eye operations (cataract).
A long article in the British TIMES recognized the good work and brought it to the attention of a broader audience.
Not mentioned, however, was “Operation Milagro”, eye-operations carried out in Latin America by Cuban doctors with no mining rights involved.
Frank Giustra
EXCERPT:
Vancouver Mining Company CEO Linked to Thai Bank Collapse
By David Baines,
The Vancouver Sun
March 14, 2009
The chief executive officer of a Vancouver-based junior mining company that is closely associated with Vancouver mining magnate Frank Giustra has been accused by the Thai government of plundering millions of dollars from the now-defunct Bangkok Bank of Commerce, according to documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
Andre Agapov, a Russian national who is now living in London, is CEO and a director of Rusoro Mining Ltd., which is based in Vancouver and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange.
In a request for assistance issued to the U.S. government in March 2002, Thai authorities named Agapov as a co-conspirator along with Krekkiat Jalichan, the bank's former managing director, and Jalichan's former adviser, Rakesh Saxena, as well as numerous others, in a scheme to defraud the Bangkok Bank of Commerce of hundreds of millions of dollars in the mid-1990s.
Giustra, who has become fabulously wealthy promoting mining deals throughout the world, and his right-hand man, Gordon Keep, have had a close business and financial relationship with Rusoro, initially through their publicly traded merchant-banking firm, Endeavour Financial Corp., and more recently through their private financial advisory firm, Fiore Capital Corp. In an interview this week, Keep said he became aware of the allegations against Agapov in a report done by a private investigation firm at the request of a U.S. investment banking company about three years ago. He said the report addressed the allegations, but because it is confidential, he declined to provide details. He said he also made other inquires, but once again declined to provide details. "The net result is that I felt comfortable dealing with Andre," he said, adding that, as far as he can determine, Agapov has acted appropriately as a senior officer and director of Rusoro.
Thai Bank Collapse financial markets get investigated by the SEC
EXCERPT:
Get investigated by the SEC
then sue them, best strategy?
By Jon Fernquest
Can government regulators really do their job if they face the risk of getting sued by powerful rich people who don't want to be investigated?
Today's Bangkok Post business section looks at how Thailand's Securities Exchange Commission gets sued and how this affects the job that they do on behalf of the public.
After mining deal Frank Giustra gave to Bill Clinton's Foundation
EXCERPT:
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.
A web of politics, billion-dollar businesses and former President Bill Clinton.
EXCERPT:
An Interview With Sergei Kurzin
Dmitry Sidorov, 04.20.09, 12:01 AM EDT
A web of politics, billion-dollar businesses and former President Bill Clinton.
"I don't remember exactly how many times I met President Clinton," Kurzin told me as we sat in the London Mayfair offices of his mining companies, Orsus Metal and Oriel Resources. The 47-year-old mini oligarch, who made a fortune in the mining business, blames age for the occasional memory lapses. "I am getting old," he said. After a short pause accompanied by a wrinkled forehead and furrowed eyebrows, Kurzin fondly recalled three encounters with Clinton.
As I found out 40 minutes later, two meetings took place in Canada, and one occurred in London. Another one Kurzin may have forgotten could have taken place in Kazakhstan in early September 2005, when Kurzin's partner, Canadian mining mogul Frank Giustra, and Bill Clinton flew out to meet with the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbaev.
With a doctorate in nuclear physics, Kurzin is hardly a household name in the U.K., where he has lived for almost 20 years, or in Kazakhstan or Russia, where he conducts business, or in the U.S. and Canada, where some of his friends and partners reside. His name means almost nothing to a mining industry outsider, except for the fact that he was a partner of Frank Giustra in a successful and lucrative deal to purchase uranium mines in Kazakhstan in 2005.
I became interested in Kurzin after a friend pointed out some Russian names on the Clinton Foundation donors list. (first article continues...)
Sergey Kurzin
Part 2 of the interview:
An Interview With Sergei Kurzin
Now back to the uranium deal in Kazakhstan and Giustra, Clinton, Kurzin and Dattels. This time Steve Dattels, Kurzin's partner in the Oriel and Everfor deals, would be cut out. "It wasn't only my decision but Giustra's as well, I told him," Kurzin responded to my question about Dattels' exclusion from the deal. "What, am I married to him? He had other partners as well," Kurzin added. According to him, any dispute with Dattels was taken care of. "We settled the score," Kurzin insisted without explaining how.
It was 2005, and the uranium deal was moving along. On Sept. 6, Giustra and Clinton traveled to Kazakhstan on a millionaire's private jet to meet with the president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbaev.... (article continued at link)
Bill Clinton ally & donor in Kazakhstan uranium scandal 2009
EXCERPT:
But if the deal was illegal -- not just based on Clinton's connections, but on actually breaking the laws of Kazakhstan -- then it's another story for both Clinton and Mr. Giustra (and now, by extension, publicly traded Uranium One). Especially if the guy who sold the mines did so because he was hoping to get some political favors in return.
Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative
The Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative is an innovative partnership between the William J. Clinton Foundation, the private sector, governments, local communities, and other NGOs to increase the scope, scale, impact, and sustainability of economic and social development efforts in areas where poverty is widespread. Established in June 2007 by President Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra, CGSGI focuses on alleviating poverty in the developing world through market-driven development that creates jobs and increases incomes, and by strengthening factors that enable economic growth such as health and education. CGSGI is an effort to transform the way businesses do business in the developing world, by creating opportunities and models for all industries seeking to work responsibly in those regions.
The Clinton Foundation serves as the implementing partner for CGSGI, and has begun work in Colombia and Peru to strengthen child nutrition, expand access to health care in remote areas, and support entrepreneurship.
EXCERPT:
Vancouver Mining Company CEO Linked to Thai Bank Collapse
By David Baines,
The Vancouver Sun
March 14, 2009
The chief executive officer of a Vancouver-based junior mining company that is closely associated with Vancouver mining magnate Frank Giustra has been accused by the Thai government of plundering millions of dollars from the now-defunct Bangkok Bank of Commerce, according to documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
Andre Agapov, a Russian national who is now living in London, is CEO and a director of Rusoro Mining Ltd., which is based in Vancouver and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange.
In a request for assistance issued to the U.S. government in March 2002, Thai authorities named Agapov as a co-conspirator along with Krekkiat Jalichan, the bank's former managing director, and Jalichan's former adviser, Rakesh Saxena, as well as numerous others, in a scheme to defraud the Bangkok Bank of Commerce of hundreds of millions of dollars in the mid-1990s.
Giustra, who has become fabulously wealthy promoting mining deals throughout the world, and his right-hand man, Gordon Keep, have had a close business and financial relationship with Rusoro, initially through their publicly traded merchant-banking firm, Endeavour Financial Corp., and more recently through their private financial advisory firm, Fiore Capital Corp. In an interview this week, Keep said he became aware of the allegations against Agapov in a report done by a private investigation firm at the request of a U.S. investment banking company about three years ago. He said the report addressed the allegations, but because it is confidential, he declined to provide details. He said he also made other inquires, but once again declined to provide details. "The net result is that I felt comfortable dealing with Andre," he said, adding that, as far as he can determine, Agapov has acted appropriately as a senior officer and director of Rusoro.
Thai Bank Collapse financial markets get investigated by the SEC
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Get investigated by the SEC
then sue them, best strategy?
By Jon Fernquest
Can government regulators really do their job if they face the risk of getting sued by powerful rich people who don't want to be investigated?
Today's Bangkok Post business section looks at how Thailand's Securities Exchange Commission gets sued and how this affects the job that they do on behalf of the public.
After mining deal Frank Giustra gave to Bill Clinton's Foundation
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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.
A web of politics, billion-dollar businesses and former President Bill Clinton.
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An Interview With Sergei Kurzin
Dmitry Sidorov, 04.20.09, 12:01 AM EDT
A web of politics, billion-dollar businesses and former President Bill Clinton.
"I don't remember exactly how many times I met President Clinton," Kurzin told me as we sat in the London Mayfair offices of his mining companies, Orsus Metal and Oriel Resources. The 47-year-old mini oligarch, who made a fortune in the mining business, blames age for the occasional memory lapses. "I am getting old," he said. After a short pause accompanied by a wrinkled forehead and furrowed eyebrows, Kurzin fondly recalled three encounters with Clinton.
As I found out 40 minutes later, two meetings took place in Canada, and one occurred in London. Another one Kurzin may have forgotten could have taken place in Kazakhstan in early September 2005, when Kurzin's partner, Canadian mining mogul Frank Giustra, and Bill Clinton flew out to meet with the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbaev.
With a doctorate in nuclear physics, Kurzin is hardly a household name in the U.K., where he has lived for almost 20 years, or in Kazakhstan or Russia, where he conducts business, or in the U.S. and Canada, where some of his friends and partners reside. His name means almost nothing to a mining industry outsider, except for the fact that he was a partner of Frank Giustra in a successful and lucrative deal to purchase uranium mines in Kazakhstan in 2005.
I became interested in Kurzin after a friend pointed out some Russian names on the Clinton Foundation donors list. (first article continues...)
Sergey Kurzin
Part 2 of the interview:
An Interview With Sergei Kurzin
Now back to the uranium deal in Kazakhstan and Giustra, Clinton, Kurzin and Dattels. This time Steve Dattels, Kurzin's partner in the Oriel and Everfor deals, would be cut out. "It wasn't only my decision but Giustra's as well, I told him," Kurzin responded to my question about Dattels' exclusion from the deal. "What, am I married to him? He had other partners as well," Kurzin added. According to him, any dispute with Dattels was taken care of. "We settled the score," Kurzin insisted without explaining how.
It was 2005, and the uranium deal was moving along. On Sept. 6, Giustra and Clinton traveled to Kazakhstan on a millionaire's private jet to meet with the president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbaev.... (article continued at link)
Bill Clinton ally & donor in Kazakhstan uranium scandal 2009
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But if the deal was illegal -- not just based on Clinton's connections, but on actually breaking the laws of Kazakhstan -- then it's another story for both Clinton and Mr. Giustra (and now, by extension, publicly traded Uranium One). Especially if the guy who sold the mines did so because he was hoping to get some political favors in return.
Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative
The Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative is an innovative partnership between the William J. Clinton Foundation, the private sector, governments, local communities, and other NGOs to increase the scope, scale, impact, and sustainability of economic and social development efforts in areas where poverty is widespread. Established in June 2007 by President Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra, CGSGI focuses on alleviating poverty in the developing world through market-driven development that creates jobs and increases incomes, and by strengthening factors that enable economic growth such as health and education. CGSGI is an effort to transform the way businesses do business in the developing world, by creating opportunities and models for all industries seeking to work responsibly in those regions.
The Clinton Foundation serves as the implementing partner for CGSGI, and has begun work in Colombia and Peru to strengthen child nutrition, expand access to health care in remote areas, and support entrepreneurship.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
George Soros Shadow Paty and Hillary/George Soros and GW Bush Harkens/ACORN cult and Working Family Party
ACORN History
EXCERPT:
In the 2004 election cycle, ACORN and its sister group Project Vote ran a nationwide voter mobilization drive for George Soros' Shadow Party. The drive was marred by numerous allegations of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams.
ACORN and Working Family Party
EXCERPT:
From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: WORKING FAMILIES PARTY
* Front group for ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
* Functions as a political party in New York State and Connecticut, running or cross-endorsing candidates for local, state, and federal office
An outgrowth of the socialist New Party, [Working Families Party] WFP was created in 1998. According to a 2000 article by the Associated Press, its objective was (and still is) to "help push the Democratic Party toward the left." In pursuit of this goal, WFP runs radical candidates in state and local elections. Generally, WFP candidates conceal their extremism beneath a veneer of populist rhetoric, promoting bread-and-butter issues designed to appeal to union workers and other blue-collar voters, Republican and Democrat alike.
Bush and Soros connection Rumormills
EXCERPT:
This alchemy remakes W. as a “success,” and paves the way for him to become governor of Texas and then president. Evidence suggests that W. benefited from insider information when he sold his Harken stock, but an SEC inquiry while his father was president went nowhere.
Behind Harken is a fascinating story. Among the investors are the billionaire George Soros, assorted Saudis, figures tied to the Shah of Iran, the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the South African apartheid regime, a Swiss bank, a Little Rock-based investment house with intelligence ties, and the endowment of Harvard University. In fact, Harvard’s endowment fund risked tens of millions of dollars on this strange company; and this story leads to the secret life of one of its most powerful alumni, and to a large-scale gold-smuggling operation begun during the Pacific Campaign in World War II—apparently designed to fund unauthorized US covert operations worldwide.
Hillary and George Soros
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Hillary Clinton, George Soros, ACORN Tied to Working Families Party Targeting AIG Workers at Home
Friday, March 20, 2009 | Kristinn
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 12:23:20 PM by kristinn
The Working Families Party that is organizing a bus tour protest this Saturday at the homes of AIG employees has deep ties to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, billionaire leftist financier George Soros and the radical group ACORN.
A 2005 article by Richard Poe published at Discover the Networks details the connections:
The Working Families Party (WFP) is a front group for the radical cult ACORN. It functions as a political party in New York State and Connecticut, promoting ACORN-friendly candidates. Unlike conventional political parties, WFP charges its members dues – about $60 per year – a policy characteristic of ACORN and its affiliates.
According to the party’s Web site, WFP is a coalition founded by ACORN, the Communications Workers of America, and the United Automobile Workers. However, ACORN clearly dominates the coalition. New York ACORN leader Steven Kest was the moving force in forming the party. WFP headquarters is located at the same address as ACORN’s national office, at 88 Third Avenue in Brooklyn.
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The Working Families Party benefits from a quirk of New York State election law, which allows parties to “cross-endorse” candidates of other parties. Thus when Hillary Clinton ran for the Senate in 2000, she ran both on the Democratic Party ticket and on the Working Families Party ticket. Of the 3.4 million popular votes Hillary received from New Yorkers, the Working Families Party delivered 103,000.
Spectrum 7 and George Soros
EXCERPT:
Spectrum 7 was an oil company started by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds.
In 1984, Spectrum 7 merged with George W. Bush's Arbusto Energy. After the merger, Bush became the Chairman and CEO of Spectrum 7.
In 1986, after reporting a net loss of $1.5 million the previous year, Spectrum 7 was purchased by Harken Oil and Gas for $2.2 million[citation needed], at the time one-third owned[citation needed] by noted investor George Soros.
Years later Soros, who then, as now, was one of the world's most
George Soros and the alchemy
EXCERPT:
Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.
When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an "economic war criminal" who "sucks the blood from the people." Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a "third way" toward economic stability.
Harken Energy
Harken Energy Scandal
In 1990, the US energy company Harken Energy entered into a business partnership with Harvard University which ultimately became the vehicle by which Harken Energy could transfer $20 million in debt to Harvard. Though made public, investors did not directly equate the transferred debt as a decrease in equity, allowing the share value of Harken stock to rise, and senior Harken managers liquidated their shares. See market liquidity.
It is seemingly identical to the modus operandi of most recent US Corporate accounting scandals, though a Bush spokesperson denied any connection to Enron's practices, citing that Harken did not conceal its partnership with Harvard.
George W. Bush formerly held several top positions at Harken Energy, primarily as Chairman and CEO. This company was owned by Khalid bin Mahfouz Khalid bin Mahfouz ( Arabic: ) is a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman who is suspected of having links to terrorism. Many of the details of his life are controversial and disputed by various parties. Mahfouz himself says that he detests terrorism, and has. At the time of the scandal, Bush was a consultant to Harken Energy. George SorosGeorge Soros (born August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-born American businessman. He is famous as a currency speculator and a philanthropist. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also director of the Cou was a major investor in Harken when it bought Bush's ailing oil venture, Spectrum 7Spectrum 7 was an oil company owned and run by George W. Bush, that in 1986 was saved by his now rival George Soros..
EXCERPT:
In the 2004 election cycle, ACORN and its sister group Project Vote ran a nationwide voter mobilization drive for George Soros' Shadow Party. The drive was marred by numerous allegations of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams.
ACORN and Working Family Party
EXCERPT:
From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: WORKING FAMILIES PARTY
* Front group for ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
* Functions as a political party in New York State and Connecticut, running or cross-endorsing candidates for local, state, and federal office
An outgrowth of the socialist New Party, [Working Families Party] WFP was created in 1998. According to a 2000 article by the Associated Press, its objective was (and still is) to "help push the Democratic Party toward the left." In pursuit of this goal, WFP runs radical candidates in state and local elections. Generally, WFP candidates conceal their extremism beneath a veneer of populist rhetoric, promoting bread-and-butter issues designed to appeal to union workers and other blue-collar voters, Republican and Democrat alike.
Bush and Soros connection Rumormills
EXCERPT:
This alchemy remakes W. as a “success,” and paves the way for him to become governor of Texas and then president. Evidence suggests that W. benefited from insider information when he sold his Harken stock, but an SEC inquiry while his father was president went nowhere.
Behind Harken is a fascinating story. Among the investors are the billionaire George Soros, assorted Saudis, figures tied to the Shah of Iran, the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the South African apartheid regime, a Swiss bank, a Little Rock-based investment house with intelligence ties, and the endowment of Harvard University. In fact, Harvard’s endowment fund risked tens of millions of dollars on this strange company; and this story leads to the secret life of one of its most powerful alumni, and to a large-scale gold-smuggling operation begun during the Pacific Campaign in World War II—apparently designed to fund unauthorized US covert operations worldwide.
Hillary and George Soros
EXCERPT:
Hillary Clinton, George Soros, ACORN Tied to Working Families Party Targeting AIG Workers at Home
Friday, March 20, 2009 | Kristinn
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 12:23:20 PM by kristinn
The Working Families Party that is organizing a bus tour protest this Saturday at the homes of AIG employees has deep ties to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, billionaire leftist financier George Soros and the radical group ACORN.
A 2005 article by Richard Poe published at Discover the Networks details the connections:
The Working Families Party (WFP) is a front group for the radical cult ACORN. It functions as a political party in New York State and Connecticut, promoting ACORN-friendly candidates. Unlike conventional political parties, WFP charges its members dues – about $60 per year – a policy characteristic of ACORN and its affiliates.
According to the party’s Web site, WFP is a coalition founded by ACORN, the Communications Workers of America, and the United Automobile Workers. However, ACORN clearly dominates the coalition. New York ACORN leader Steven Kest was the moving force in forming the party. WFP headquarters is located at the same address as ACORN’s national office, at 88 Third Avenue in Brooklyn.
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The Working Families Party benefits from a quirk of New York State election law, which allows parties to “cross-endorse” candidates of other parties. Thus when Hillary Clinton ran for the Senate in 2000, she ran both on the Democratic Party ticket and on the Working Families Party ticket. Of the 3.4 million popular votes Hillary received from New Yorkers, the Working Families Party delivered 103,000.
Spectrum 7 and George Soros
EXCERPT:
Spectrum 7 was an oil company started by William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds.
In 1984, Spectrum 7 merged with George W. Bush's Arbusto Energy. After the merger, Bush became the Chairman and CEO of Spectrum 7.
In 1986, after reporting a net loss of $1.5 million the previous year, Spectrum 7 was purchased by Harken Oil and Gas for $2.2 million[citation needed], at the time one-third owned[citation needed] by noted investor George Soros.
Years later Soros, who then, as now, was one of the world's most
George Soros and the alchemy
EXCERPT:
Soros made his first billion in 1992 by shorting the British pound with leveraged billions in financial bets, and became known as the man who broke the Bank of England. He broke it on the backs of hard-working British citizens who immediately saw their homes severely devalued and their life savings cut drastically in comparative worth almost overnight.
When the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 threatened to spread globally, George Soros was right in the thick of it. Soros was accused by the Malaysian Prime Minister of causing the collapse with his monetary machinations, and he was branded in Thailand as an "economic war criminal" who "sucks the blood from the people." Right in the middle of this crisis, Soros dashed off his book, The Crisis of Global Capitalism, which demanded a "third way" toward economic stability.
Harken Energy
Harken Energy Scandal
In 1990, the US energy company Harken Energy entered into a business partnership with Harvard University which ultimately became the vehicle by which Harken Energy could transfer $20 million in debt to Harvard. Though made public, investors did not directly equate the transferred debt as a decrease in equity, allowing the share value of Harken stock to rise, and senior Harken managers liquidated their shares. See market liquidity.
It is seemingly identical to the modus operandi of most recent US Corporate accounting scandals, though a Bush spokesperson denied any connection to Enron's practices, citing that Harken did not conceal its partnership with Harvard.
George W. Bush formerly held several top positions at Harken Energy, primarily as Chairman and CEO. This company was owned by Khalid bin Mahfouz Khalid bin Mahfouz ( Arabic: ) is a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman who is suspected of having links to terrorism. Many of the details of his life are controversial and disputed by various parties. Mahfouz himself says that he detests terrorism, and has. At the time of the scandal, Bush was a consultant to Harken Energy. George SorosGeorge Soros (born August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-born American businessman. He is famous as a currency speculator and a philanthropist. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also director of the Cou was a major investor in Harken when it bought Bush's ailing oil venture, Spectrum 7Spectrum 7 was an oil company owned and run by George W. Bush, that in 1986 was saved by his now rival George Soros..
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