“Adnan Khashoggi has ties to Auchi who was the $$ man for Rezko. What if this is damage control for a potential guilty plea by Blago who knows all the players in Chicago corruption. He would know this Khashoggi is one of the money men as well as how ohbummer is connected.
If he was involved in the meltdown it could get very interesting.
For one to go here and one to be in Chicago points to the trial where everyone is involved. Where is Valerie Jerrett and Axel at?
Pray for America”
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Adnan Khashoggi was scheduled to be at the big gala that Michellemabelle ditched out on:
“One name on the guest list that could raise a few eyebrows among US diplomatic circles is Adnan Khashoggi.
The Saudi Arabian businessman, 75, who made his name as an arms dealer in the 1980s, was linked to the Iran-Contra scandal in which the Reagan administration allegedly sanctioned the sale of weapons to Iran in breach of an international arms embargo.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/7931922/Michelle-Obama-visits-Ronda.html
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Mr. Khashhoggi (pronounced Cash-hog-ee?) was also the one that “allegedly” assisted Imelda Marcos hide her “allegedly” stolen Philippine Treasury booty during her further fall into wickedness and depravity. And here he is, vacationing at the exact same time that Michellemabelle happens to be in Marbella. He appears to be a very ‘handy’ guy.
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KHASHOGGI TO TEAM UP WITH MARC RICH?
By MARK M. COLODNY
August 13, 1990
(FORTUNE Magazine) – Fresh from being found not guilty of helping Imelda Marcos hide some of the $200 million she was accused — and acquitted — of stealing from the Philippine treasury, Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, 55, is back in business. He plans to get into Moscow retailing by taking over an empty government industrial building and stocking it with imported Western goods like home furnishings and consumer electronics. Can Soviets afford such luxuries? ‘’Russians line up to buy Big Macs,’’ he says confidently. He projects $50 million in sales a year. Getting any profits out is another matter, since they’ll be in rubles. Khashoggi’s solution: A hookup with U.S. tax fugitive Marc Rich, 56. Since 1983 Rich has been a resident of Zug, Switzerland — where the Justice Department can’t grab him — operating as an international commodities trader. Khashoggi says Rich can help him repatriate profits by swapping them for the Soviet petrochemicals and other products that Rich handles, and which can be exported. Says Khashoggi of the Rich connection: ‘’He’s operating legally in Switzerland. No problem.’’ Problem? Rich’s Swiss lawyer says no such deals have been discussed. But he adds, ‘’Who can preclude anything in the future?’’
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/08/13/73891/index.htm
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P.S.
Here’s a quick refresher on the Marcos/Khashoggi trial:
“Marcos trial more sobering than sensational”
“...U.S. attorneys say the combined testimony of dozens of witnesses like Villaluz will unravel the labyrinthine channels through which Ferdinand Marcos and his wife allegedly transferred hundreds of millions of dollars for their personal use.
So far, those witnesses have identified thousands of pages of letters, stock certificates and canceled checks that investigators say will prove that the former first family siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from the Philippines and hid it in a “spider’s web” of offshore banks, Swiss accounts and Manhattan real estate.
By all accounts, the prosecution is still in the early stages of presenting its case against Marcos and Khashoggi.
Marcos is charged with fraud and racketeering. Khashoggi, a Saudi financier, is charged with helping to conceal the Marcoses’ ownership of four Manhattan buildings....”
http://www.maykuth.com/Archives/marcos90.htm
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Mr. Khashhoggi sounds like a guy to play hide the loot with.
Adnan Khashoggi has ties to Auchi who was the $$ man for Rezko.
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“One name on the guest list that could raise a few eyebrows among US diplomatic circles is Adnan Khashoggi.
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Mr. Khashhoggi (pronounced Cash-hog-ee?) was also the one that “allegedly” assisted Imelda Marcos hide her “allegedly” stolen Philippine Treasury booty during her further fall into wickedness and depravity. And here he is, vacationing at the exact same time that Michellemabelle happens to be in Marbella. He appears to be a very ‘handy’ guy.
Wow 444, what a post! You did REALLY good.
Everyone is entitled to do whatever they want with their time, but a little back ground on Spain. Spain is nite-owl country, the place where people never seem to sleep. Think vacationing in New York City and going to bed at 10:00 PM. It can happen, but I find it a bit odd. Possibly the daughter, but Mom? But, according to the MSM, she was tucked in bed at 10 PM. I don’t buy it, not one bit.
http://209.157.64.200/focus/news/2512355/posts?page=120#120
(Maurice Strong) headed both Petro Canada and Hydro Canada, and made a few deals on the side as well, one of which was the acquisition in 1978 of the Colorado Land & Cattle Company which owned 200,000 acres of San Luis Valley in Colorado — from Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.[3]
The ranch, called Baca, sat on the continent’s largest fresh water aquifer. Strong intended to pipe the water to the desert southwest, but environmental organizations protested and the plan was abandoned. Strong ended up with a $1.2 million settlement from the water company, an annual grant of $100,000 from Laurance Rockefeller, and still retained the rights to the water.
Saudi Financier Khashoggi Settles SEC’s GenesisIntermedia Case
April 01, 2010, 12:16 AM EDT
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Of note: Deepak Chopra, Juan Carlos I – King of Spain, Dona Sophia – Queen of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – current Prime Minister of Spain
http://recyclewashington.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/unraveling-the-club-of-rome-part-1/
Some current members of the Club of Rome or its two siblings:
Al Gore – former VP of the USA, leading climate change campaigner, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, Emmy winner. Gore lead the US delegations to the Rio Earth Summit and Kyoto Climate Change conference. He chaired a meeting of the full Club of Rome held in Washington DC in 1997.
Javier Solana – Secretary General of the Council of the European Union, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy.
Maurice Strong – former Head of the UN Environment Programme, Chief Policy Advisor to Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the Rio Earth Summit, co-author (with Gorbachev) of the Earth Charter, co-author of the Kyoto Protocol, founder of the Earth Council, devout Baha’i.
Mikhail Gorbachev – CoR executive member, former President of the Soviet Union, founder of Green Cross International and the Gorbachev Foundation, Nobel Peace Prize winner, co-founder (with Hidalgo) of the Club of Madrid, co-author (with Strong) of the Earth Charter.
Diego Hidalgo – CoR executive member, co-founder (with Gorbachev) of the Club of Madrid, founder and President of the European Council on Foreign Relations in association with George Soros.
Ervin Laszlo – founding member of the CoR, founder and President of the Club of Budapest, founder and Chairman of the World Wisdom Council.
Anne Ehrlich – Population Biologist. Married to Paul Ehrlich with whom she has authored many books on human overpopulation. Also aformer director of Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, and a member of the UN’s Global Roll of Honor.
Hassan bin Talal – President of the CoR, President of the Arab Thought Forum, founder of the World Future Council, recently named as the United Nations ‘Champion of the Earth‘.
Sir Crispin Tickell – former British Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Permanent Representative on the Security Council, Chairman of the ‘Gaia Society’, Chairman of the Board of the Climate Institute, leading British climate change campaigner.
Kofi Annan – former Secretary General of the United Nations. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Javier Perez de Cuellar – former Secretary General of the United Nations.
Gro Harlem Bruntland – United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change, former President of Norway
Robert Muller – former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, founder and Chancellor of the UN University of Peace.
The Dalai Lama – The ‘Spiritual Leader’ of Tibet. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Father Berry Thomas – Catholic Priest who is one of the leading proponents of deep ecology, ecospirituality and global consciousness.
David Rockefeller – CoR executive member, former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, founder of the Trilateral Commission, executive member of the World Economic Forum, donated land on which the United Nations stands.
Stephen Schneider – Stanford Professor of Biology and Global Change. Professor Schneider was among the earliest and most vocal proponents of man-made global warming and a lead author of many IPCC reports.
Bill Clinton – former President of the United States, founder of the Clinton Global Iniative.
Jimmy Carter – former President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Bill Gates – founder of Microsoft, philanthropist
Garret Hardin – Professor of Human Ecology. Originator of the ‘Global Commons‘ concept. Has authored many controversial papers on human overpopulation and eugenics.
Other current influential members:
(these can be found on the membership lists of the COR (here, here, and here), Club of Budapest, Club of Madrid and/or CoR National Association membership pages)
Ted Turner – media mogul, philanthropist, founder of CNN
George Soros – multibillionare, major donor to the UN
Tony Blair – former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Deepak Chopra – New Age Guru
Desmond Tutu – South African Bishop and activist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Timothy Wirth – President of the United Nations Foundation
Henry Kissinger – former US Secretary of State
George Matthews – Chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation
Harlan Cleveland – former Assistant US Secretary of State and NATO Ambassador
Barbara Marx Hubbard – President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Betty Williams – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Marianne Williamson – New Age ‘Spiritual Activist’
Robert Thurman – assistant to the Dalai Lama
Jane Goodall – Primatologist and Evolutionary Biologist
Juan Carlos I – King of Spain
Prince Philippe of Belgium
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Dona Sophia – Queen of Spain
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero – current Prime Minister of Spain
Karan Singh – Former Cabinet Member of India, Chairman of the Temple of Understanding, Ambassador to U.S.
Daisaku Ikeda – founder of the Soka Gakkai cult
Martin Lees – CoR Secretary General, Rector of the UN University of Peace
Ernesto Zedillo – Director of The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Frithjof Finkbeiner – Coordinator of the Global Marshall Plan
Franz Josef Radermacher – Founder of the Global Marshall Plan
Eduard Shevardnadze – former Soviet foreign minister and President of Georgia
Richard von Weizsacker – former President of Germany
Carl Bildt – former President of Sweden
Kim Campbell – former Prime Minister of Canada and Senior Fellow of the Gorbachev Foundation
Vincente Fox – former President of Mexico
Helmut Kohl – former Chancellor of Germany
Romano Prodi – former Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European Commission
Vaclav Havel – former President of the Czech Republic
Hans Kung – Founder of the Global Ethic Foundation
Ruud Lubbers – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Mary Robinson – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Jerome Binde – Director of Foresight, UNESCO
Koïchiro Matsuura – Current Director General of UNESCO
Federico Mayor – Former Director General of UNESCO
Tapio Kanninen – Director of Policy and Planning, United Nations
Konrad Osterwalder – Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Peter Johnston – Director General of European Commission
Jacques Delors – Former President of the European Commission
Domingo Jimenez-Beltran – Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
Thomas Homer-Dixon – Director of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto
Hazel Henderson – Futurist and ‘evoluntionary economist’
Emeka Anyaoku – former Commonwealth Secretary General, current President of the World Wildlife Fund
Wangari Maathai – Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, founder of the Green Belt Movement
and many more….
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costa del sol
Mayor of Marbella rings Closing Bell in New York
On Wednesday the Mayor of Marbella, Ángeles Muñoz, joined the list of people to have had the honour of ringing the Closing Bell at the NASDAQ Stock Exchange Headquarters in New York. The brief ceremony was part of a trip organised to promote Marbella as a tourist destination. The Mayor met with potential investors, the media and representatives of the tourism sector to try to encourage foreign investment, ...
Marc Rich:
We all knew Marc Rich had some very useful friends. We didn’t know they included royalty. But it seems the king of Spain joined Israel’s Ehud Barak and the Mossad in urging Bill Clinton to pardon the fugitive billionaire. This could add spice when King Juan Carlos makes his official visit to Washington next month.
Rich, who had owned a villa in the Spanish resort of Marbella for more than a decade, was financial adviser to Petru Roman, who was until last month the foreign minister of Romania.
Roman, who is Jewish, had a Spanish mother who arranged for Rich to obtain a Spanish …
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-4587572.html