Oil exec gets prison in UN oil-for-food scheme

[Abbey Yoyo]

From the blog critics website:

One concern among Republicans is that this period is being called the "the golden era of profitability" as corporate profits are higher than at any time since the 1960s. At the same time, the increased worker productivity means wages and salaries make up the smallest percentage of the gross domestic product since the government began collecting these records in 1947.

And as wage deflation is made more intense by reduced employee benefits, Republicans are worried about a backlash ...

[Abbey Yoyo]

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/kfiles...

[Liberalism]

Matthew Arnold wrote:

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Arbusto Oil made no fortune, just empty holes in the ground.

Read "Dossier: The Secret Life of Armand Hammer" - the man behind Occidental Petroleum. You will find a communist agent who knew - and served - every Soviet leader from Lenin to Gorbachev.

You will find a leftist more opportunistic than any - maybe all - the left rants about these days. He makes this guy look like a saint.

Hammer also opened the door for the creation of OPEC and the problems we have had ever since.

[Abbey Yoyo]

From the Am. Progress site:

The Bush Administration touts a decrease in the overall unemployment rate as proof the economy is healthy. But the major reason for the decrease is that thousands of the jobless have simply stopped looking for work because the economy is so bleak. But just as troubling is the downward pressure on wages for those who are working. And the data shows that the Administration's tax cuts for the wealthy have done little to deal with this very serious problem.

WAGE INEQUALITY ON THE RISE: "New data from the Labor Department show that after adjustment for inflation, salaries of the country's lowest-paid workers - those who fall just inside the bottom 10% of the pay range - fell 3% last year, from 2002. Meanwhile, the salaries of the highest paid workers - those who are just inside the top 10%- were unchanged. The divergence appeared to grow in the fourth quarter as higher-paid workers gained ground and lower-paid workers slipped further. The numbers continue a movement to greater wage inequality that began around the time President Bush succeeded President Clinton." [Wall Street Journal, 1/23/04]

[Anndee]

Ridge wrote:

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First it is Occidental Petroleum and second he is not even close to a majority shareholder. Approx. 680,000 dollars in stock in 1992 and apparently less now but i can't find a current number.
Occidental is a multi Billion Dollar Oil Giant and the Gore Trusts holdings in it are tiny as a percentage of its' value.

A rose spelled any other way still smells so sweet!
Gore is still a hypocrite fraud.
How could he preach the salvation of global warming and then take one cent from the devil?

[Liberalism]

marcuss wrote:

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RON paul HE WOULD WORK OuT IN A MCCAIN PRESIDENCY.
make him a part of the solution. i belive he has american interests as a first issue. he would make a good asset to mccains time in office.

Ron Paul would never take a vice presidency to McCain. That would be like water & oil.

Paul is anti-NWO, McCain is the chosen one of the pro-NWO Republican - and Democrat - establishment.

[Broke farmer]

Anndee wrote:

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Gore is still a hypocrite fraud.
How could he preach the salvation of global warming and then take one cent from the devil?

The same reason OPEC has stocks in Alt energy. STOCKHOLDERS HAVE SIGNIFICANT CONTROL OVER THE OUTCOME.

[Liberalism]

Abbey Yoyo wrote:

The real story:
http://www.kyklosproductions.com/articles/wag...

Everyone has an agenda. Know your sources:
http://www.kyklosproductions.com/aboutauth.ht...

"Jack Rasmus is currently chair of the San Francisco Bay Area's National Writers Union local chapter 3, UAW 1981, AFL-CIO. Jack has worked many years both as a union organizer, business agent, local president, and labor educator...Jack worked for the United Steelworkers, Service Employees, Hotel & Restaurant Workers and Communications Workers unions. For several years he served as a local vice-president and president with the CWA responsible for collective bargaining, arbitrations, and strike coordination and served as a delegate to national conventions and several labor councils. Jack also taught and was a director of labor studies programs in several community colleges in California."

He also wrote 3 articles for the radical left's "Z Magazine"
http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Dec2006/rasmus1206.h...

Now, whatever you want to believe is your choice, but remember: It was the radical left's Marxism that is the loudest advocate of International Socialism - AKA The New World Order.

...and ALWAYS know your source and what THEIR agenda is.

[Neko]

When is the USA Military going to do their duty and remove the Domestic enemies from the Whitehouse?

Soldiers....get to work!

[moe]

Gregory Scott wrote:

Two years, What is wrong with our justice system, Americans paying to much money for fuel and this guy wants to make millions off everyone else.
But we Americans will only know what the federal government wants us to know. I bet there is alot more of this fuel scamming going on than we will ever find out about.

you're right

[RayOne]

Neko wrote:

When is the USA Military going to do their duty and remove the Domestic enemies from the Whitehouse?
Soldiers....get to work!

The WhiteHouse & Congress !
The problem is that it will be impossible to deport them all, they would just go into hiding. Besides, they have paid off all of the best lobbyists.

[Richard]

I love it when people type in caps - I listen a lot more when they do that.

[Wake up foolz]

JOEL wrote:

Bush haters do not need facts. Their hatred is all they need. The fact the the UN was corrupted by Saddam's money means absolutely nothing to them.

I'm not a Bush hater I hate all crooked politicians Dem. or Rep. they all need "strung and hung",nowadays they need waterboarding for the truth. The truth shall set them free!
I'm just one little measley taxpayer who hates to give my hard earned money to corporate thieves and backstabbing politicians who LIE thru their f)(keen teeth!

[Rita]

Why don't you wake up in Keyesport, IL.
Sounds like your for it. The guy deserves what ever he gets plus some. Two years isn't long enough. You obviously are a "Bush Lover" They'll all crooks anyway, no matter how you look at it.

[the inappropriate guy]

It was only a matter of time before the media turned this into an anti-conservative issue.
The media totally refused to cover this scandal because this scandal supported the idea of going into Iraq. It's one thing for businessmen to engage in wrongdoing on this matter, but it's a whole new level of corruption when Chiraq and other french and russian POLITICIANS are involved. These corrupt politicians were intentionally weaking the sanctions. Not covered very well by the NY Times.

[Gregory Scott]

I herd we went to Iraq because of where China wanted more fuel oil and since we are in dept to china we had no choice but to protect the oil in the middle east.
And our Gov/Higer ups keep spending, sending money ect.. to Africa while our own people and country is falling to pieces around us, Amazing how President Bush didnt know that price of a gallon of gas, and most likely doesnt know what is going on financally with America either, they both go hand in hand.
I dont think we are going to have to be concerned about our Children taking up the dept of the USA. because when this country falls major Depression, the dept that is owed the way I see it will be taken up with dept collectors like the UN, China, our Federal Land will be theres, that is what they have used for collarerall, Our land, National Parks, National Forests, and we didnt even get to vote on it, think of our Gov. useing collaterall that wasnt theres, I bet you one thing if everyone of our Fed. Gov. officals would of had to put up there house and money for collaterall the dept wouldnt be in the trillions and would of been paid back in days...
Amazing how the Gov. got so out of hand because none of them has to be held accountable for what they do, we wouldnt be seeing 250,000.00 spent to reintroduce one Mexican Gray Wolf, and the money that was lost from industries like copper smelters shut down from the clean air act. would still be going. In south america the copper smelters are still going, I guess the clean air in the USA stays in the USA, lol none of the air from south america blows to the USA or our universe. These organizations have shut down america, slowly but surely, Now its to late all the manufactures moved to 3rd world countries like we are going to be one day soon.
Depression.. No stockmarket,no banks, no Government, No Money because the dollar wont buy nothing, our money will have lost all its value, everyone will have to pack guns to protect what food they do have.
Think of people in the big citys what and how can they live off the land like people did back in 1929 Depression, that generation of people would work for food,pan gold ect.. to survive.
What will you do ?

[Gregory Scott]

OUR FED. GOV. ONLY TELLS THE NEWS MEDIA WHAT THEY WANT US AMERICANS TO KNOW.
NONE OF THEM WILL STAND UP AND TAKE THE BLAME FOR OUR FAILING COUNTRY.

[Steve S]

Duh wrote:

Hey, you ignorant Bush-bashers. Did you read the article?
Do you understand the OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM scandal was/is about the UNITED NATIONS, IRAQ and OIL COMPANIES mostly in the U.S., RUSSIA, AND FRANCE? It is NOT ABOUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
Iraq, the United Nations, and oil companies in the U.S., Russia, and France were profiting from oil trade kickbacks. That's a good reason why the U.N., Russia, and France did all they could to keep the U.S. from overthrowing Saddam.
By going into Iraq and overthrowing Saddam, President Bush and the U.S. government were putting an end to OIL-FOR-FOOD and the illegal lucrative kickbacks mostly for the U.N., Russia, and France. The U.S. wanted to end it.
Do you even know what OIL-FOR-FOOD was?
Do you have a clue about anything?

Good post and true. Thank you

[Wake up foolz]

Rita wrote:

Why don't you wake up in Keyesport, IL.
Sounds like your for it. The guy deserves what ever he gets plus some. Two years isn't long enough. You obviously are a "Bush Lover" They'll all crooks anyway, no matter how you look at it.

Rita,I cannot stand the man personally I think he needs to be strung up by his balls and jumper cables hooked to him. Use your imagination on the rest. I was only giving the Bush Lover's the benefit of the doubt. So Wake up you fool!

[watchingall]

Steve S wrote:

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Good post and true. Thank you

I think it is widely forgotten that the oil for food scandal was occuring at a time when Sadam was bribing just about everyone at the UN. He was certain that he could keep the US from invading, get the sanctions lifted, and restart his expansion programs. The oil for food "scandal" was only a small part of this and it included a great many individuals who were willing to take a kick back to help enrich a dictator. Mostly what this scandal shows is that no good deed goes unpunished. In our attempt to help the people of Iraq we enabled another revenue stream for the corupt.