Posted on 03/22/2006 2:15:36 PM PST by rface
Now that the Dubai Ports deal is apparently down the drain because of irate protests from the public and Congress, the United Arab Emirates company is taking a new tack.
The San Francisco Examiner recently carried a column by P.J. Corkery that told how the UAE ,through its government-controlled Dubai Investment Group, is trying to buy the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain after failing to acquire the Albertsons grocery chain.
Corkery outlined who is the front man in this deal, and who is doing the lobbying and buying for Dubai. This is what he wrote: The Yank partner of the Dubai Investment Group is quite a well-known name. He is a big-time Democratic contributor and grocery store magnate, Ron Burkle of Beverly Hills. Burkles bidding entity is called the Yucaipa Cos.
Yucaipas chief marketing guy is Bill Clinton. Burkle pays Clinton $10 million a year for his serviceswhich are mainly to drum up money in Dubai. Bill flies to Dubai so often on Burkles 757 that he calls it Air Ron. Clinton, of course, has lately been defending the Dubai Ports deal, while his wife opposes it. Oh, and also on the Yucaipa Cos board is the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Burkles Democratic connections run deep, Corkery said, and include doing business with CALPERS, thats the huge California public employees pension fund. He also has ties to: former Vice President Al Gore and his new media network; California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides; and the notorious political figure and former mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, now a host on the Air America Radio network, who once worked for Burkle.
Most are not surprised all the corruption in national politics is not just on the Republican side. Many decry the one big club, sometimes known as the corporate world or the one big New World Order house. Check any major present or former politicians Wall Street connections, and check the boards of directors of major corporations. The facts are there.
I am an American FIRSTER, but my favorite newspaper is owned by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church.
The Saudis own a bit of everything.
If the President were awake, the Justice Department would be investigating.
All these names sure keep to be popping up lately
Oh please.
I just hate the way Fox caved in and stopped using the word muslim during the french 'youth riots'.
[snip]
Saudi Prince Calls Murdoch And Changes Fox News
During last months street riots in France, Fox News ran a banner during a news segment, reading: Muslim riots. Billionaire Saudi Prince al-Walid bin Talal, who owns 5.5% of Fox News, was unhappy with the tagline:
I picked up the phone and called Murdoch
(and told him) these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty. Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots.
Also here too in the WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031300321.html
Is everything Bush's fault?
Do they have to investigate only when he's awake? So, it's Bush's fault?
It's my favorite newspaper too. In fact, I subscribe to the weekly national editon of that paper. It's more informative than TIME or Newsweek, and less aggrevating.
That should be posted to #23 not me.
Is everything Bush's fault?
Of course not! If it is good, then, . . . well, . . . then it is just ignored. So I guess everything bad really IS Bush's fault! < /sarcasm>
Yeah, I noticed that after I posted. It's been corrected. :)
I know "we" are watching Burkle. Let's hope his name continues to pop up. People need to learn about him.
A junior-Soros, but dangerous as well.
Yucaipas chief marketing guy is Bill Clinton. Burkle pays Clinton $10 million a year for his serviceswhich are mainly to drum up money in Dubai. Bill flies to Dubai so often on Burkles 757 that he calls it Air Ron. Clinton, of course, has lately been defending the Dubai Ports deal, while his wife opposes it. Oh, and also on the Yucaipa Cos board is the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Isn't it interesting that we almost never hear about these kinds of relationships and connections on the Dem side of the aisle via Mikey Moore and his ilk or the lamestream media? Instead all we hear is "Bush/Carlyle Group!" "Cheney/Halliburton!" "Bush/Prince Bandar!"
Shouldn't the unbiased, impartial, truth-seeking (ha) LSM be letting the American public know about all of it? I know, dumb question.
Actually Clintoon is Burkle's bag man. One can only imagine the money Clintoon carries back and forth in Air Ron 1.
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