Posted on 01/30/2008 8:19:48 PM PST by bd476
Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.
Upon landing on the first stop of a three-country philanthropic tour, the two men were whisked off to share a sumptuous midnight banquet with Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, whose 19-year stranglehold on the country has all but quashed political dissent.
Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy. Mr. Clinton’s public declaration undercut both American foreign policy and sharp criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
Within two days, corporate records show that Mr. Giustra also came up a winner when his company signed preliminary agreements giving it the right to buy into three uranium projects controlled by Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium agency, Kazatomprom.
The monster deal stunned the mining industry, turning an unknown shell company into one of the world’s largest uranium producers in a transaction...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
No big mystery here. The Clinton’s are socialist criminals. But Obama, he is the communist ideal... Expect more from the NY Times....
“When the nytimes turns on bill...somethings up. whatever it is their concocting must be very shady indeed.”
He probably got that money from the Bush tax cuts for the rich
/sarcasm off
perhaps words worth noting.
Race and gender, gender and race... the libs would be lost without those markers.
DFU, I say with all seriousness, over my dead body!
Who is going to stop her? The Republican minority in Congress? The Democrats? My friend, it may be over all of our dead bodies. They have already survived impeachment. If you only wound the queen, you are in deep trouble. We will be in deep trouble if she is elected.
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