Thursday, May 5, 2011

More on bin Laden

BTW, my son's best friend is on the USS Carl Vinson (we received a call today from his wife) ...cal

Bitter Sweet Dirty Laundry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnJ0xGK8dC4

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/05/china-bin-laden-burial-ship-applies-visit-hk/
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World

China: Bin Laden burial ship applies to visit HK

Published May 05, 2011
| Associated Press

HONG KONG –  The U.S. aircraft carrier that conducted Osama bin Laden's burial at sea has applied to make a port call in Hong Kong later this month, Chinese authorities said Thursday.
China's foreign ministry said the U.S. military has applied for permission for the USS Carl Vinson to stop in Hong Kong.

Clearstream video (anybody understand French?)  ...cal
http://wn.com/Clearstream

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Menatep
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Bank Menatep was a US$29 billion holding company created by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, that had indirect controlling interest in Yukos Oil Company. It was involved in the US$4.8 billion diversion of International Monetary Fund (IMF) funds.


[edit] Scandal

The bank's financial condition was seriously damaged during the 1998 financial crisis due to a requirement by the Russian Central Bank that all commercial banks keep an economically untenable proportion of their reserve requirements in Russian treasury bills known as GKO, which subsequently collapsed, causing a default which led to the crisis and Bank Menatep's bankruptcy. The Central Bank revoked Menatep's licence in May 1999. However, according to Ernest Backes, former #3 of Clearstream, a clearing-house which has been qualified as a "bank of banks", Menatep maintained an unpublished secret account at Clearstream until at least 2000. The bankruptcy was finalized by February 2001. In an unprecedented move, the core shareholders of the bank, the financial holding Group Menatep, of which Khodorkovsky was a principal, made a decision to pay their own money to all 15,000 Bank Menatep small depositors whose savings had been wiped out by the collapse. A new Bank Menatep Saint Petersburg was created from the Saint Petersburg division of Bank Menatep. It accumulated the assets but not the liabilities of the original bank. In 2004 the bank was bought by the management and renamed to Trust National Bank.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearstream
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right|thumb|Logo de Clearstream Clearstream Banking S.A. (CB) is the custody and settlement division of Deutsche Börse, based in Luxembourg.
It was created in January 2000 through the merger of Cedel International and Deutsche Börse Clearing, part of the Deutsche Börse Group, which owns the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Cedel, established in 1971, specialized in clearance and settlement. In 1996 it obtained a bank license. In July 2002 Deutsche Börse purchased the remaining 50% of Clearstream International for €1.6 billion. Deutsche Börse's strategy is to be a vertical securities silo, providing facilities for the front and back ends of securities trading. In 2008 Clearstream contributed €489 million to Deutsche Börse's total Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) of €1.5 billion. It handled 114 million transactions, and was custodian of securities worth €10.6 trillion (Deutsche Boerse Annual Report, 2008).
In Révélation$ (2001), by investigative reporter Denis Robert and ex-Clearstream banker Ernest Backes, Clearstream was accused of being an international platform for money laundering and tax evasion via an illegal system of secret accounts (the "Clearstream Affair"). Robert has been repeatedly sued by Clearstream under Luxembourg and French laws, with various verdicts.
In Spring 2004, a "Second Clearstream Affair" began, which only attracted significant attention in 2006. Peripheral to the primary Clearstream Affair, it accused several French political figures (including Nicolas Sarkozy), industrial leaders, and members of the secret services of maintaining secret accounts at Clearstream, which allegedly were used to transfer kickbacks in a France–Taiwan frigates scandal. From September 21, 2009 to October 23, 2009, Robert faced trial together with nearly 40 other defendants, including former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, retired secret service officer Philippe Rondot, former EADS manager Jean-Louis Gergorin, Imad Lahoud and Florian Bourges.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearstream_affair
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The "Clearstream affair" was a political scandal in France in the run-up to the 2007 presidential election.
The name refers to the Luxembourg bank Clearstream Banking S.A., now wholly owned by Deutsche Börse, which was alleged to have aided many prominent French politicians and companies evade taxes. It was also suggested that Clearstream might have helped French individuals and companies to launder money arising from bribes surrounding the 1991 sale of six La Fayette class frigates to the Republic of China. Clearstream vehemently denies the allegations.

http://www.economist.com/node/12725244
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France's Clearstream affair

Villepin v Sarkozy

A former rival accuses the president of interfering in the judicial process

Dec 4th 2008 | PARIS | from the print edition
POLITICAL rivalry, international arms-dealing, industrial intrigue, spookery, financial kickbacks: the Clearstream affair has all the appeal of a Hollywood blockbuster. Every twist in the four-year-old judicial drama has gripped France. One of its protagonists, Dominique de Villepin, a former prime minister, has been ordered to be tried in a criminal court. This week he accused his arch-rival, President Nicolas Sarkozy, of meddling in the judicial process.
The story began with a list, leaked to a judge in 2004, that named people said to hold secret bank accounts at the Clearstream financial clearing-house in Luxembourg. The accounts were supposedly linked to kickbacks on the sale of French frigates to Taiwan in 1991. One person named was Mr Sarkozy, then finance minister under President Jacques Chirac. (Mr de Villepin was interior minister.) But the list of names was later ruled by the judge to be a fake, and a new case was opened into “false accusations”. Mr Sarkozy became a civil plaintiff in this case

http://univercia22.blogspot.com/2008/12/clearstream-scandal-to-return-to-haunt.html
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n-French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin met with the recently-retired head of French military intelligence Philippe Rondot and EADS deputy director Jean Louis Gergorin. Gergorin told de Villepin that two names on the secret list of French politicians who had Clearstream accounts -- Paul de Nagy and Stéphane Bosca -- were pseudonyms for Sarkozy. It was believed by French intelligence that the names came from Sarkoy's father's full name, Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarkösy de Nagy-Bosca.
Clearstream reportedly represented a massive money laundering operation that financed political and other operations around the world. Banks and companies with Clearstream accounts included the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), Bank Menatep of jailed Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Banco Ambrosiano (also known as the Vatican Bank), Bahrain International Bank (with reported links to Osama Bin Laden), and The Carlyle Group.
Sarkozy was Interior and, for a short time, Finance Minister in the Union pour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy
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born Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa; 28 January 1955)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1246687/Former-PM-Dominique-Villepin-cleared-plot-smear-Nicolas-Sarkozy.html
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The Clearstream list first came to light in 2004, with Sarkozy’s Hungarian family names – ‘Nagy’ and ‘Bosca’ – appearing alongside those of other prominent politicians and businessmen.
All were allegedly accepting kickbacks from the sale of French frigates to Taiwan in 1991.
By coincidence, today’s judgement comes on Sarkozy’s 55th birthday. It is a bitter blow for the 5ft 5ins statesman whom De Villepin openly refers to as ‘The Dwarf’.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3244148.stm
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Last Updated: Monday, 1 December, 2003, 01:27 GMT
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Book delves into frigate scandal

By Hugh Schofield
In Paris
It has been one of France's biggest political and financial scandals of the last generation.
It has left a trail of eight unexplained deaths, nearly half a billion dollars in missing cash and troubling allegations of government complicity.


http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2004/05/cloak-and-dagger-thierry-imbot-rip.html
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Saturday, May 29, 2004

Cloak and Dagger: Thierry Imbot R.I.P. 

posted by Douglas @ 16:45

NP'ers, if you've been paying attention, you should all be familiar with this scandal (I've blogged about how it connects to larger global events here). But one of the innumerable scandals surrounding former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, also known as the "Prince of Intrigue," it concerns the illicit sale of 6 French frigates to Taiwan in 1991, a $3 billion sale that generated commissions at around $550 million, or almost 20%. It was known as "Operation Bravo."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bravo
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Operation Bravo was the name of a phony coup planned by Ngo Dinh Nhu, the younger brother and chief advisor of President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. Nhu was aware that there was a plot against the Ngo family, and he intended to have his loyalist forces stage a fake uprising, to induce dissidents to come into the open, before having his loyalists crush the "rebellion". He hoped that this would reaffirm his family's prestige and power. However the plan failed as Nhu was unaware that General Ton That Dinh, who was to lead the operation, was part of the conspiracy. What was intended as Operation Bravo was then incorporated into the real coup and Diem and Nhu were assassinated.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/8352,news-comment,news-politics,the-knives-are-out-for-al-maliki,2
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Nor can any silver lining be detected in the larger political military picture, in terms of erosion the Shia majority coalition, seriously reducing the power of Moqtada al-Sadr, or denting the Sunni resistance.
But on the home front, Levin, Clinton and other leading Democrats are determined not to be wrong-footed by White House attacks accusing them of stabbing America's fighting men and women in the back by questioning the surge's supposed success. Flag-wagging and drum-thumping is traditional at Veterans of Foreign Wars' conventions.
In a rhetorical counter-move, the Democrats' emphasis on the failure of Bush's man, al-Maliki, to resolve Iraq's political divisions at equal speed. Amid their rather hollow assertions of confidence in al-Maliki, Bush and the Republicans recognise that al-Maliki is expendable and can be forced out, just as his predecessor was ditched.
Here's where al-Maliki should take a look at a dark episode in Vietnam not long before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. A few weeks earlier in


Nouri al-Maliki has received the dreaded vote of confidence from George W Bush
that same month a coup, code-named Operation Bravo Two, pushed by US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and the CIA, and executed by South Vietnamese officers led swiftly to the murder of South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Diem's brother.
Just as is happening today in Iraq, the White House had concluded that their chosen man Diem had become an inconvenience to a political schedule that demanded 'progress', a feinted reduction in US troops pending the 1964 campaign year. Hence the coup and consequent demise of the bothersome Diem and his brother. Friendly witnesses claim that the Kennedys were deeply shocked at news of the murders. If so, it was akin to the shock of Henry II after the murder of Thomas Becket. The killing of Diem committed the US more deeply than ever to blood-stained years of 'nation-building' .
In the end the Americans withdrew because they were defeated militarily and politically by the Vietnamese.
Such is the history al-Maliki can meditate each day.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/local/archives/2000/08/07/46768
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Aug. 7, 2000

The murder of Yin Ching-feng: a history

By Brian Hsu  /  STAFF REPORTER
June, 1991 Taiwan takes delivery of four German-made minesweepers, purchased as "multi-purpose coastal boats" for the state-run Chinese Petroleum Corporation.
Aug, 1991 Taiwan signs Lafayette frigate deal with France.
April, 1993 The Central Trust of Taiwan signs, on behalf of the navy, a deal with an Italian company for a survey ship.
May, 1993 Navy General Headquarters' weapons procurement office is inaugurated, with Captain Yin as its chief executive. Yin was scheduled for promotion to rear admiral at the beginning of the following year.
Sept, 1933 Captain Yin visits France in connection with the Lafayette frigate deal, accompanied by procurement office colleague Captain Kuo Li-heng (郭力恆).
Nov, 1993 Letter of accusation against Yin, Kuo and many other naval officers is sent to the Presidential Office. It accuses Yin of receiving NT$5 million in bribes from an arms broker mediating the navy's purchase of a survey ship from an Italian company.
Dec 8, 1993 Yin takes action to fight the allegations. He visits, at night, three key people involved in the minesweeper, frigate and survey ship deals and secretly records conversations with them. The three are a military official and two former naval officials who became arms brokers after retirement. Yin is accompanied by Kuo on two of the visits.
Dec 9, 1993 Yin goes missing at around 8:50am after going to meet somebody for breakfast near Navy General Headquarters in Taipei's suburban Tachih district.
Dec 10, 1993 Yin's body is found off Suao (蘇澳), eastern Taiwan, by a local fisherman. Tu Cheng Chun-chu (涂鄭春菊), an agent for a German arms company providing parts for the navy's German-made minesweepers, leaves the country. It was she whom Yin had gone to meet when he went missing. Tu, an ethnic Taiwanese holding German citizenship, came to Taiwan to persuade the navy to execute the second part of the two-part contract it had signed with her company.
Dec 11, 1993 The first of two cassette tapes recording conversations between Yin and the three key arms purchasers is recovered. It is later, suspiciously, demagnetized. Navy investigators, who obtained access to the tapes before anybody else, include Rear Admiral Liu Chin-an (劉錦安), currently director of the Ministry of National Defense's Judge Advocates Bureau, Rear Admiral Li Kun-tsai (李昆材), then director of Navy General Headquarters' weapons procurement office, and several others.
Dec 15, 1993 The murder is reported by the press despite a gagging order imposed by the military.
Dec 16, 1993 Yin's colleague, Kuo, is taken into custody for suspected links to the murder.
Dec 18, 1993 An autopsy by Taiwan's top coroner, Yang Jih-sung (楊日松), finds evidence that Yin might have been murdered.
Dec 20, 1993 Andrew Wang (汪傳浦), agent of the Lafayette manufacturer, Thomson CSF, in Taiwan, flees the country. He had allegedly offered a bribe of NT$9.5 million to Kuo Li-heng.
Jan 1, 1994 Lawmaker Chu Kao-cheng (朱高正) alleges at a press conference that director of the Presidential Office's secretariat, Su Chih-chen (蘇志誠), and his younger brother Su Chih-jen (蘇志仁) are behind the murder of Yin.
Jan 21, 1994 Shan Yi-chen (單亦誠), an arms broker who had tried to mediate Taiwan's purchase of minesweepers from Germany, flees the country amid suspicions of his involvement in the Yin murder. Shan was alleged to have bribed Kuo Li-heng with NT$2.5 million in an attempt to win a contract for parts provision for the German-made mine sweepers.



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9-11 Cover Up Man Tom Kean's Saudi-Oil Connection
by Conspiracy Planet.com

Since unindicted war criminal Henry Kissinger has bowed out, former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean has been named to head the 9-11 Coverup Commission.

Not surprisingly, however, Kean's so-called "business" background has not come under any Mainstream Media Cartel scrutiny.

New York Newsday's Thomas Frank, in his December 17 article, mentioned that Kean is a director of Aramark, a food-services corporation with "business interests" in Saudi Arabia. There was no more information and no more context.

It should be noted that Kean is also a director at petroleum company Amerada Hess.

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Thomas Kean, the former Governor of New Jersey, served as Co-Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission).
A biographical note on The Century Foundation web pages describes Kean as : "former Governor of New Jersey (1982-1990), is Drew University's 10th President. In addition to his responsibilities as President, President Kean teaches a political science seminar, Governing a State, is advisor to That Medieval Thing and Alpha Phi Omega (the national service fraternity), and takes part in many campus events.

"Kean writes a regular column for the Star Ledger (for which he and co-author, former NJ Governor Brendan T. Byrne, received the Washington Monthly Journalism Award) and appears on television as a regular commentator on New Jersey Network. His first book, The Politics of Inclusion, was published in 1988.
"Because of his concern about the rising costs of higher education, Kean co-chaired The National Commission on Investment in Higher Education, which highlighted the fiscal problems this country faces in its June, 1997 report, Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in Higher Education. President William Jefferson Clinton appointed President Kean to serve both on the Advisory Board to the President's Initiative on Race and as chair of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. He is also on the board of a number of organizations including: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The World Wildlife Fund (National Council Member), United Health Care Corporation, National Center for Learning Disabilities.
"He is the former chairman of both the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation. Governor Kean received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and earned a master's in education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Director of ARAMARK Corporation, Amerada Hess Corporation, CIT Group Inc., Franklin Resources, Inc., The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Incorporated. [1]
"He also served on the National Endowment for Democracy. He is a former chair of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and on the board of many organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund." [2]
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/392190/justin-bieber-says-besieged-by-paparazzi-in-israel/
Justin Bieber in Israel.
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