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To: RDTF

I pinged Doug, maybe he can make some sense out of all this or connect the dots.


27 posted on 01/30/2008 7:37:36 PM PST by mware (Americans in arm chairs doing the work of the media.)
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To: mware

from the Wiki link:

Giustra and is now chair of Endeavour Financial, a merchant banking firm which finances mining companies.

He became close with former US President Bill Clinton during fundraising efforts for tsunami relief in 2004. Giustra is a member of the board of trustees of the Clinton Foundation. Guistra provided his corporate jet for Clinton’s fundraising campaign in Africa. The two play the card game Oh Hell during flights.

Vancouver Magazine ranked Giustra as number 43 in its Power 50 list of the most powerful people in Vancouver.[4]

In May 2007 Giustra was one of four chairs of the 2006 Global Leadership Awards dinner in New York where Clinton was honoured along with out-going UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

In June 2007, Giustra joined with Clinton to launch the Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative to address global poverty. Giustra committed $USD 100 million plus half of what he makes in the resource industry for the rest of his life. Carlos Slim Helú, the Mexican businessman and richest person in the world, made a matching contribution and Giustra is expected to enlist others in the Canadian resource industry.

Giustra cited Andrew Carnegie as an influence in his philanthropy but credited his wife, Alison Lawton, a dot-com millionaire turned human rights activist and producer of documentary films on humanitarian crises, with inspiring him about sustainable growth.[5].

Giustra is also a director of the International Crisis Group, an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to prevent and resolve deadly conflicts through high-level advocacy.


29 posted on 01/30/2008 7:41:02 PM PST by RDTF
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