Chinagate: The Movie

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[WannabeTurk]

I have just posted a trailer to a documentary I am making about the Chinese money laundering and nuclear espionage scandals of the Clinton administration known as Chinagate.

The video, Chinagate: The Movie, is set for a summer release on the internet. I am making the film because I am determined not to let another Clinton back into the White House. We just cannot allow this to happen. Conservatives and moderates need to find a way to come together in '08. I have seen too much fighting amongst here lately and it is disconcerting.

Check out the trailer and let me know what you think of it. I would appreciate any feedback, good or bad. I apologize in advance if I posted this notice in the wrong place.

Thanks!

[Sun]

Some of us saw that, but thanks for posting it again.

We always have newbees.

[Calpernia]

In October 1990 John McCain said on the floor of the Senate: “Mr. President, I am anxious to construct a new relationship with our old adversary (Vietnam)”. He, who was in a Vietnamese prison camps for five and a half years, was pushing hard for normalized relations with Hanoi long before anyone else was.

Between when Clinton said that he would not normalize relations with Vietnam until there was a full accounting and the time he lifted the Trade Embargo only two Americans had been accounted for in Vietnam.

Lifting the embargo opened the door for the multi-billion dollar corporation, Lippo Group with American business partners, such as Stephens Investment of Little Rock, AR to conduct business in Vietnam. Mr A. Vernon Weaver, at that time the Vice-President for Operations in the Pacific Rim of Stephens Investment and a member of the Board of Visitors at the U.S. Naval Academy was instrumental in arranging an upgrade of the position of Commandant of the U.S. Naval Academy from two stars to four stars.

Former U.S. Navy officers, Senators John Kerry and John McCain supported this reorganization.

http://www.usvetdsp.com/billbell.htm

An indication of just how deep and subtle Red Chinese roots run in U.S. business and government affairs deals with McCain and Kerry. Both McCain and Kerry fought long and hard to provide the political cover Clinton needed when he made the controversial decision to normalize relations with Vietnam. McCain’s wife, Cindy, is the daughter of James Hensley, who is the second largest Anheuser-Busch distributor in the United States. McCain is an officer in Hensley & Co. and Cindy is a vice president. The McCain family owns several million dollars in Anheuser-Busch stock. As a part of an aggressive campaign to enhance its international standing in the beer market, Anheuser-Busch has had signned contracts and invested hundreds of millions building brewery operations in China and Vietnam. I can’t link any of those contracts involve Lippo. Some docs retrieved from the net revealed that Riady’s Lippo is the holder of a license for Sea World in Indonesia and that Anheuser-Busch owns all the Sea World themeparks in the United States as well as some overseas. Is there a connection between Anheuser-Busch and Lippo?

http://www.usvetdsp.com/billbell.htm

SeaWorld/Lippo Connection:

Old URL: http://www.lippo.co.id/Main.htm Internet Cache: http://web.archive.org/web/19980530014836/http://www.lippo.co.id/Main.htm

Net cache shows Lippo holds/held the license on Sea World in Indonesia.

“Today I am lifting the trade embargo against Vietnam because I am absolutely convinced it offers us the best way to resolve the fate of those who remain missing and about whom we are not sure.” Two things happened between November 1992 and February 1994 which bear on this issue. One was that Senators John Kerry and John McCain lobbied the president to drop the embargo. The second thing was that in September 1993 the head of the Lippo Group, Mochtar Riady, led a trade mission of Asian bankers on a trip to Vietnam to (in his words) “size up business opportunities there.” Lippo helps, among other things, to finance trade deals. It therefore stood to benefit enormously from expanded trade between Vietnam and the United States;

Old URL: http://www.empower.org/html/policy/misc/roadmap3.htm See Internet Cache: http://web.archive.org/web/20000816001233/http://www.empower.org/html/policy/misc/roadmap3.htm

Every time I’ve seen McCain’s name in reference to legislation, Kerry’s name pops up as well. It is like they are two peas in a pod. So I checked out Kerry to see what his connections were:

KGB-ASSOCIATED SPY PAID DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Military secrets on infrared detectors, drawings of rotors for Sikorsky attack helicopters and documents on stealth technology. Subrahmanyam M. Kota was a spy that delivered to the KGB. He sold U.S. military secrets to the former Soviet Union. Yet he paid some of the proceeds, $5250, to the Democratic Party and to Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. When he was finally brought to justice in Massachusetts, he was allowed to plea bargain his charges down to mere tax evasion on his espionage windfall.

Old URL: http://www.federal.com/jun16-97/Cash See Internet Cache: http://web.archive.org/web/19990209005109/http://www.federal.com/jun16-97/Cash

Frances Zwenig, John Kerry’s (D-MA) chief of Staff for the now defunct Senate Select Committee on POW/MIAs, was given a position at Commerce in the Vietnam Interests Section until some genius decided it may be a conflict of interest. Ms. Zwenig coached the Vietnamese on how to testify before the SSC in order to show that Hanoi was cooperating; an obstacle in the way of lifting the embargo or normalizing. . . Zwenig had headed a US based organization that lobbied American business to invest on Vietnam.

In order to follow the money trail, involves the various business and 527s of Senators:

John Forbes Kerry (D-MA)
John Sydney McCain III (R-AZ)
Jesse Helms (R-NC)
Frank Murkowski (R-AK)

This involves the political contributions and the relationships connected to the companies that made the contributions. This involves searching the 527s relationships that these guys are into. Then the links to Riady/Lippo. It gets messy on a home computer. But the involvements show in Google searches.

http://www.ojc.org/powforum/editor/lippo.htm

Kerry’s cousin, C. Stewart Forbes, is CEO of Colliers International, real estate.

In Dec. 1992, Vietnam granted Colliers a contract designating Colliers the “exclusive real estate agent representing Vietnam.” Colliers has since written contracts in Vietnam worth billions, upgrading Vietnam’s ports, railroads, highways and government buildings.

Colliers is involved with Lippo in multimillion contracts in Indonesia. Kerry, who has a blind trust run by members of his family, claims he knows nothing about his cousin’s business deals or affiliations.

http://www.ojc.org/powforum/editor/lippo2.htm

Coincidence?

[Calpernia]

Lifting the embargo opened the door for the multi-billion dollar corporation, Lippo Group with American business partners, such as Stephens Investment of Little Rock, AR to conduct business in Vietnam. Mr A. Vernon Weaver, at that time the Vice-President for Operations in the Pacific Rim of Stephens Investment and a member of the Board of Visitors at the U.S. Naval Academy was instrumental in arranging an upgrade of the position of Commandant of the U.S. Naval Academy from two stars to four stars.

October 12, 2000 Riady Invites Clinton to Lippo Board Indonesian tycoon James Riady has invited U.S. President Bill Clinton to join the board of Lippo Group when he steps down from office early next year, according to business people who have met Riady in Jakarta recently. Riady has been telling business contacts in Jakarta that he expects Clinton to accept, even though the U.S. president has been dogged by allegations that Riady funnelled illegal foreign donations to Clinton’s 1992 and 1996 election campaigns. A former Lippo Group employee reports that as far back as the mid-1990’s Riady was said to be trying to recruit Clinton to the board as soon as he left office. Jakarta police are currently helping the U.S. Justice Department in its investigation of the alleged campaign contributions.

Lippo Group

* A 12 billion dollar Indonesian financial conglomerate.(1)
* Lippo has a business partnership with China Resources Holding Company, which is owned by China’s government and staffed with Chinese military intelligence officers.(2)

James Riady

* Indonesian billionaire.(3)
* He and his family run the Lippo Group.(4)
* An acquaintance of Bill Clinton since the 1980’s.(3)
* Former permanent green card holder who worked in Arkansas.(3)

Soraya & Arief Wiriadinata

* Daughter and son-in-law of a Lippo partner.(4)
* As of 1996, Arief worked as a gardener in Virginia. (4)

John Huang

* “Long time” friend of Bill Clinton.(4)
* Former director of Lippo Group USA.(4)
* Former Commerce Department employee.(4)
* Former DNC Vice Chairman of Finance.(4)

Laws:

* 2 U.S.C. 441(e) It is against the law for foreign nationals to directly or indirectly contribute, solicit, or receive campaign contributions.(9)

* 18 U.S.C. 1956 It is against the law to solicit or receive campaign contributions that have been laundered in an effort to conceal the actual source of the money. (9)

* 18 U.S.C. 600 It is against the law for a government official to reward or provide a benefit to someone based on their political activity.(9)

* 18 U.S.C. 595 It is against the law for government employees to use their office in any way to affect federal elections.(9)

* It is legal for foreigners who are permanent residents and for individuals who work for U.S. subsidiaries of foreign corporations to donate to political campaigns, but the money must be generated inside the U.S.(3)

What They Gave:

Lippo Group

* The Lippo Group made consulting payments to Webb Hubbell totaling between $100,000 and $250,000 after Hubbell had promised to cooperate with Whitewater investigators. Hubbell did not cooperate and no recommendation for leniency was made at his sentencing. (5)

James Riady

* Riady has donated over $475,000 to the DNC, Clinton Inaugural Fund, and related Democratic candidates. An August 1992 memo to Bill Clinton says Riady “will be giving $100,000 to this event and has the potential to give much more.”(3)

* Bank statements, memos, and checks show that one of Riady’s 1992 donations was directly covered by foreign funds and the rest came from a personal bank account that appears to have received foreign money before and after donations were made.(3)

Sonaya & Arief Wiriadinata

* Illegally contributed $450,000 to the DNC.(8)

* Arief is heard on videotape (at a White House coffee) telling Bill Clinton, “James Riady sent me.”(4)

John Huang

* Has raised over $3.4 million for the DNC, approximately half of which, has been returned.(4)

* At a 1996 Los Angeles fund raiser, Bill Clinton said, “I’d like to thank my long time friend, John Huang, for being so effective. Frankly, he’s been so effective, I was amazed that you were all cheering for him tonight after he’s been around in his aggressive efforts to help our cause.”(4)

What They Got:

Lippo Group

* The Lippo Group has investments in the coal mining industry in Indonesia. The leading export of Indonesia is a new form of clean burning, low sulfur coal. This is the only type of coal that meets the U.S. Clean Air Standards Act.(6)

* The largest known deposit in the world of this coal is located in Southern Utah.(6)

* The coal in Utah was slated to be mined when Bill Clinton declared 1.7 million acres in Southern Utah as the “Grand Escalante National Momument.” This declaration made the coal mining project infeasible and locked up over a trillion dollars worth of this coal. (6)

* Bill Clinton never discussed his decision with Congress , Utah officials, or the Democratic Congressman who represented this district until the midnight before the declaration was made.(7)

* The head of the Council of Environmental Quality (Kathleen McGinty) stated in an email that the lands were “not really endangered.” The associate director (Linda Lance) stated in an email that the lands were “not threatened.”(6)

* The surrounding 29 Utah counties have filed suit to overturn Clinton’s declaration.(6)

James Riady

* James Riady was an occasional visitor to the White House and had direct access to Bill Clinton.(3)

* Clinton spokes people told reporters that visits with James Riady were “social visits.” A videotape of a July 1996 dinner for James Riady shows Bill Clinton discussing the deployment of U.S. aircraft carriers to the Taiwan Strait.(4)

John Huang

* Huang was hired at the Commerce Dept. in 1994. His supervisor (Jeff Garten) testified, “He was totally unqualified.”(1)

* When Huang left the Lippo Group for the Commerce Department, he was paid a $780,000 bonus by Lippo.(1)

* Huang received Top Secret Security Clearance before, during, and after his tenure at Commerce.(1)

* According to a memo dated January 31, 1994, the chief of security at Commerce (Paul Buskirk) granted Huang “a waiver of background investigation.”(2)

* While at the Commerce Dept. Huang received intelligence briefings from the CIA, had access to top secret reports, visited the White House at least 67 times, and met with Bill Clinton at least 15 times.(2)

* According to telephone records, Huang made at least 261 phone calls to Lippo Group offices during his tenure at Commerce.(2)

* Huang received 37 classified briefings on China and Vietnam from the CIA. According to the testimony of a CIA officer John Dickerson, Huang had access to “extremely sensitive sources.”(1)

Obstruction / Cover Up:

* In March of 1997, the House Resources Committee requested documents detailing President Clinton’s decision to designate the 1.7 million acres in southern Utah as the Grand Escalante National Monument. The White House supplied over 100 documents and withheld 27. The House Committee subpoenaed the 27 withheld documents and they were produced on October 22, 1997. (7)

* James Riady has left the country.(4)

* Sonaya & Arief Wiriadinata have left the country.(4)

* John Huang is pleading the Fifth Ammendment.(4)

* Attorney General Janet Reno (Clinton appointee) heads the Justice Department, which is responsible for investigating campaign finance violations. The head of the FBI, (Louis Freeh, Clinton appointee) and the lead investigator (Charles LaBella) have recommended the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate this matter. As of July 1998, Janet Reno refuses to appoint an independent counsel.(10)

Sources:

1) “John Huang: In His Own Words.” Fox News, October 24, 1997.
2) Judicial Watch Newsletter, 1998.
3) Associated Press. “Memo shows Riady got ride with Clinton.” Washington Times National Weekly Edition, June 15-21, 1998.
4) Editorial: “Those many former FOB’s.” Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 28-November 2, 1997.
5) Seper, Jerry. “Hubbell, wife indicted on tax evasion.” Washington Times National Weekly Edition, May 4-10, 1998.
6) The Citizens Presidential Impeachment Indictment, Citizens for Honest Government, 1998. Source cited: Washington Times
7) Larson, Ruth. “Panel gets papers on Utah land decision.” Washington Times National Weekly Edition, October 28-November 2, 1997.
8) Editorial: “Dealing with the Suharto crisis.” Washington Times National Weekly Edition, March 31- April 5, 1998.
9) Levin, Mark R. “Commentary: Want reform? Make politicians obey the law.” Washington Times National Weekly Edition, November 8-14, 1997.
10) Seper, Jerry. “Reno refuses to turn over memos to Burton committee.” Washington Times National Weekly Edition, August 10-16, 1998.

Sources:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_finance_controversy
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/huang.htm
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/riady.htm
* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/lippo.htm

[Sun]

I would like to be on Mr Apple ping list.

Thank you.

[Sun]

Thanks for all that great info.

“Every time I’ve seen McCain’s name in reference to legislation, Kerry’s name pops up as well.”

McCain is part of the Kennedy/Kerry, et al wing of the Republican Party.

[Paperdoll]

And who voted MFN for China?

[Calpernia]

Fred Thompson voted YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam and “most-favored nation” status for communist Chinese. Of course he wasn’t the only one.

Lifting the embargo opened the door for the multi-billion dollar corporation, Lippo Group with American business partners, such as Stephens Investment of Little Rock, AR to conduct business in Vietnam. The result is pretty much summarized in post 82. The rest of the thread is support and broadened material.

[Paperdoll]

>Fred Thompson voted YES on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam and “most favored nation” status for communist Chinese.<

RIGHT! And those huge corporations now benefiting by moving their manufacturing to China because of the MFN status are some of FDT’s supporters today, I have no doubt.

All true conservatives who want to restore our economic health and preserve our sovereignty will vote for Rep. Duncan Hunter. Rep. Hunter is NOT a protectionist (why has that become a dirty word these days?) but wants to renegotiate our treaty with China, which is weighted heavily to China’s advantage over us.

Rep. Hunter has said he wants to protect American jobs by bringing those jobs back to the USA. He has authored and introduced legislation to help bring that about by lowering or removing altogether tax for the manufacturers who will come back. Thus the middle class will be rescued from obscurity. Duncan Hunter does not just talk about what he will do, he does it!

So if one calls oneself a “Conservative”, one votes for the best, one votes for Duncan Hunter!

To keep him in the race, please get a loan, have a garage sale and send the proceeds to Hunter for President

Go Hunter 08
9340 Fuerte Dr. Suite 302
La Mesa, CA 91941

or go to: http://www.gohunter08.com to donate electronically.

Thank you.

[Calpernia]

BTTT!

[Mr Apple]

* James Riady has left the country.(4)

* Sonaya & Arief Wiriadinata have left the country.(4)

***
Your post #88 / Excellent!
Tis a shame many folks at fr are no longer interested in chinagate.
Chinagate IS the Achilles Heel of Hillary and the democrats.

[Mr Apple]

Thanks Sun and Calpernia/ *your post #83

[Calpernia]

Not interested? Or on damage control?

I have those thoughts sometimes as I read some of the posts and wonder who is behind the username.

[Sun]

“Tis a shame many folks at fr are no longer interested in chinagate.”

Many of us are, but sadly, too many Americans don’t take the danger seriously until it is too late.

A stitch in time, saves nine. (Corny, but true.)

[Eva]

Why was the video pulled from Yahoo?

[Eva]

Could you post this on my thread, For Hillary Clinton, there’s no such thing as dirty money?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1913952/posts

[Mr Apple]

Many of us are,

Well, I don't even know about that. I remember vividly, lurking here back in '98 and '99 and ultimately I remember seeing a full page ad placed in the Washington Times fully disclosing the Clinton's chinagate treason - which was paid for by fr members back then.
Nowadays, with the exception of Wannabe Turk, dougfromupland, Alamo-girl, ulm1, Republic, Cicero, Wolverine, Paul Ross, Rick_Michael (and a scant few others), there is not one peep about Hillary, Bill and chinagate. And considering the Hsu/Hillary connection popping up just last month, not even that brought up any past chinagate discussion here on at fr. Why, what's with this? What's going on? (I don't even see that there will be much further discussion here in this thread. Besides you and me Sun, and one or two others, this seems like a 'last of the mochicans' chinagate thread again)
(and to boot, as we all just saw, one can't even ping folks who might be interested in participating, [they might not have checked fr in a week or so, or simply might have been out of town, what's with this too?] seems like a lot of 'controlled' discussion nowadays.

[Wolverine]

[Calpernia]

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/September07/Hsu%20Complaint%20PR.pdf
MANHATTAN U.S. ATTORNEY CHARGES NORMAN HSU
WITH $60 MILLION FRAUD SCHEME

United States Attorney
Southern District of New York
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
September 20, 2007
YUSILL SCRIBNER,
REBEKAH CARMICHAEL
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
(212) 637-2600
FBI
JIM MARGOLIN, NEIL DONOVAN
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
(212) 384-2720, 2715
MANHATTAN U.S. ATTORNEY CHARGES NORMAN HSU
WITH $60 MILLION FRAUD SCHEME

Hsu Also Accused of Using Straw Donors to Make
Illegal Federal Campaign Contributions

MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (”FBI”), announced today the unsealing of federal charges against NORMAN HSU, 56, for perpetrating a massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded victims across the United States of over $60 million. HSU also was charged with violating federal campaign finance laws by making contributions to various political candidates in the names of others.

According to the Complaint unsealed earlier today in
Manhattan federal court:

At all times relevant to the charges, HSU operated and
was the Managing Director of two companies, Components Ltd. and Next Components Ltd. (the “Companies”), which purported to provide investment programs that extended short-term financing to businesses. HSU recruited victims by guaranteeing high rates of return on short-term investments.

After receiving money from investors, HSU, for a time, repaid both the victims’ interest and principal as promised.

Believing HSU to be trustworthy and the Companies to be legitimate and potentially profitable, victims often agreed to roll-over their invested funds into new investments with HSU, contribute additional, larger sums of money to the scheme, or recruit friends to invest with HSU. In reality, however, the Companies were merely vehicles for HSU’s
Ponzi scheme, in which money owed as returns to older investors was paid with money received from newer investors, and HSU never invested the money in the manner he represented to his victims.

In the end, HSU defrauded his victims out of more than $60
million.

In an effort to raise his public profile and thereby
convince more victims to invest in his fraudulent scheme, HSU pressured investors to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to various candidates for President of the United States, the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives.

HSU made victims believe that failure to make political
contributions to candidates he supported would jeopardize their investment relationship with him, and put their money at risk.

HSU also violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by
making contributions to various political campaigns in the names of others. Specifically, in 2006, HSU asked two other
individuals to make contributions, totaling more than $20,000 each, to designated federal candidates. HSU then reimbursed these two individuals for the political contributions they had made on his behalf.

During a court-authorized search of the items seized
from HSU at the time of his arrest, FBI agents recovered
extensive evidence confirming HSU’s role in the charged crimes, including, among other things:

(1) thousands of dollars in cash;

(2) checkbooks for bank accounts used to carry out the fraudulent scheme;

(3) hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of checks from
HSU’s victims;

(4) bank receipts reflecting millions of dollars
worth of financial transactions conducted by HSU;

(5) hand-written ledgers reflecting specific amounts of campaign contributions to be made by specific victims on behalf of various candidates for elected federal office;

(6) a Cartier watch and Tiffany jewelry; and

(7) receipts reflecting HSU’s travel throughout the United States via a corporate jet service. HSU is charged in the Complaint with one count each of mail fraud and wire fraud, and one count of violating the Federal Election Campaign Act. If convicted, HSU faces maximum penalties of 20 years’ imprisonment on the mail fraud charge, 20 years’ imprisonment on the wire fraud charge, and 5 years’ imprisonment on the federal campaign finance charge. HSU also faces a maximum fine of twice the gross gain or loss resulting from his financial fraud crimes, and an additional maximum fine of $250,000 on the campaign finance crime.

[Calpernia]

Check out the 1-7 criminal charges. Sounds like he was contributing to more than just Hillary. No mention of what the names were in the ledger and still no disclosure of who’s corporate jet this was.

[Wolverine]

Another reason not to elect THE CLINTONS again.

http://www.house.gov/coxreport/

http://www.house.gov/coxreport/cont/gncont.html

Cox Committee Votes Unanimous 1,100-Page Report on PRC Targeting of U.S. Military Technology

    WASHINGTON, D.C.(Wednesday, December 30, 1998)—The Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China unanimously voted to approve a five-volume, 1,100-page report on the transfer of sensitive U.S. technology to the PRC. The report goes well beyond the two cases that spurred the investigation, involving Space Systems/Loral and Hughes, and addresses PRC targeting of not only so-called "dual-use" technologies, but also sensitive military technologies.