I Like BUBBA very much!
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 ...
I wonder how much of a cut Clinton got out of the deal. Next question would be how many of these types of stories are out there?
BOOKMARK FOR LATER, TOO LATE TO READ TONIGHT.
Apparently, the agenda of the press has changed ...
Here’s what ad guy posted last week. Looks
like his sources were accurate. Go to “Numero
Uno” at the very bottom FIRST.
TO THE SOURCE, THANK YOU, AGuy!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960812/posts?page=313#313
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960533/posts?page=14#14
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960274/posts?page=703#703
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960274/posts?page=698#698
Numero Uno!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960274/posts?page=695#695
That was the payoff. I wonder what he was buying?
mark
And they endorsed her recently, didn't they?
bump for later.
Thanks.
I Like BUBBA very much!
Clinton just got about $20million from his “job” with Burkle, terminated to avoid “conflict of interest”.
You couldn’t make it up !
Yeah, if only it were that humorous.
Giustra started the new Lions Gate in 1997.
In 2004, Lionsgate came to greater prominence by picking up distribution rights to Michael Moore's polemic Fahrenheit 9/11 when Disney backed away from releasing it.
“That was the payoff. I wonder what he was buying?”
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Maybe this decade’s equivalent of the Grand Staircase Escalante and its low lignate coal deposits? See Riady.
With Bill Clinton it will always be about power, sex with money running a close third.
Good research!
Looks like a retarded Charlie Crist
Traveling with billionaire uranium miner Frank Giustra, Bill Clinton greets Nazarbayev in Almaty in September 2005. On September 25 this year, the Clinton Global Initiative began an exclusive meeting in New York with "featured attendee," Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev.
Thanks. Bill has his arm around that man.
Uranium. I wonder if George Soros was behind those blue curtains.
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