Over at the Stump, Noam is floored by the $32 million that Barack Obama raised in the month of January. Puh-lease. Bill Clinton can raise that much over the course of one dinner.
--Christopher Orr
Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008 3:24 PM with 9 comment(s)
You mean "Borat-Gate"?
It's kinda perfect those two numbers are so close, isn't it?
VACentrist, you know a photoshop of Bill in a neon green mankini would go a long way to popularizing your gate of choice.
This is HUGE. Uranium. Kazakhstan kleptocrats. Dubai.
Connect the dots, folks, and then try to tell me that Bill's newfound pals do not pose a security threat:
1) Marc Rich is a convicted felon notorious for using his metals and energy trading firm to do business with rogue states. Bill pardons Marc Rich in exchange for cash via Denise Rich.
2) Tony Giusta, a smalltime metals trader, seeks to get his fingers on uranium from Kazakhstan, one of the most corrupt countries on the planet, in which all resource-based business activity leads back to the president and his family. Accompanying Giustra to Kazakhstan, Bill helps Giusta sign a sweetheart deal in record time, leapfrogging established, global players.
3) Bill lobbies on behalf of Dubai, which per western intelligence agencies is the favored crossroads for Russian mafiya figures trading seeking to trade contraband or launder illicit funds siphoned out of the former Soviet Union. Dubai was also a central transit point for AQ Khan's global nuclear technology trading network.
Key paragraphs from the Times piece:
In September 2006, Mr. Giustra co-produced a gala 60th birthday for Mr. Clinton that featured stars like Jon Bon Jovi and raised about $21 million for the Clinton Foundation. In February 2007, a company called Uranium One agreed to pay $3.1 billion to acquire UrAsia. Mr. Giustra, a director and major shareholder in UrAsia, would be paid $7.05 per share for a company that just two years earlier was trading at 10 cents per share.
That same month, Mr. Dzhakishev, the Kazatomprom chief, said he traveled to Chappaqua, N.Y., to meet with Mr. Clinton at his home. Mr. Dzhakishev said Mr. Giustra arranged the three-hour meeting. Mr. Dzhakishev said he wanted to discuss Kazakhstan’s intention — not publicly known at the time — to buy a 10 percent stake in Westinghouse, a United States supplier of nuclear technology.
Nearly a year earlier, *** Mr. Clinton had advised Dubai *** on how to handle the political furor after one of that nation’s companies attempted to take over several American ports. Mrs. Clinton was among those on Capitol Hill who raised the national security concerns that helped kill the deal.
Mr. Dzhakishev said he was worried the proposed Westinghouse investment could face similar objections. Mr. Clinton told him that he would not lobby for him, but Mr. Dzhakishev came away pleased by the chance to promote his nation’s proposal to a former president.
Mr. Clinton “said this was very important for America,” said Mr. Dzhakishev, who added that Mr. Giustra was present at Mr. Clinton’s home.
*** Both Mr. Clinton and Mr. Giustra at first denied that any such meeting occurred ***. Mr. Giustra also denied ever arranging for Kazakh officials to meet with Mr. Clinton. Wednesday, after The Times told them that others said a meeting, in Mr. Clinton’s home, had in fact taken place, both men acknowledged it.
"Obama's one-month tally is the most ever reported for January of a presidential election year, Federal Election Commission reports show...Plouffe...
Hey Tep, oh yeah, well Rezco owned 150% of Obamas house and used it to process cocaine that was laced with the body parts of the residents of Rezco's slums, and umm... Rezco owned ... um... gave 1 billion to Obama. Why doesn't anyone talk about that?
They don't talk about that because Obama was too busy helping Rezco traffic child slave laborers through shell companies while selling nuclear secrets to Iran. Look for it on the Drudge Report soon.
Also, I believe there were satanic sacrifices involved.