Brazilians move against corruption

[karlos]

Now Brazil wants BORIS BEREZOVSKY tried as well
After Britain refused to extradite Mr Boris Berezovsy the fugitive living in London and the number one suspect in the poisoning murder of Alezander Litvinenko.
Now Brazil has asked for him to be extradited to Brazil to stand trial for money landering. Now that his protector Tony Blair has exited the stage can Britain justify protecting this criminal any longer?
As all of you know for quite some time i have been alerting all of you to the facts about Boris Berezovsky now it looks like the shi t is about to hit the fan for him.
I expect that he will leave Britain and move to Israel and claim asylum there as several other Russian criminals have done. The noose is starting to tighten.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4bb4fa10-3172-11dc-891f-0000779fd2ac.html
A Brazilian court has requested the arrest and extradition of Boris Berezovsky, the Russian billionaire exiled in the UK, along with two British citizens involved in football management in Brazil.

Mr Berezovsky, with Kia Joorabchian and Nojan Bedroud, and five Brazilian citizens, is charged with formation of a criminal organisation and money laundering in connection with payments of $32.5m (€23.5m, £16m) made to Corinthians football club of São Paulo since it entered a management deal with MSI in November 2004.


A Brazilian court document says telephone conversations recorded over 18 months show that “MSI belongs and has always belonged to the accused, Boris Berezovsky”. It sets out the evidence gathered by prosecutors upon which the decision to issue the warrants was made.

The documents quote from a transcript in which an unidentified man tells one of the accused Brazilians that his associates intend to buy four more football teams in Brazil “to launder money”.

Mr Berezovsky has denied any business connection with Mr Joorabchian or with MSI. Mr Berezovsky said he believed the Brazilian case was an extension of a politicised campaign by the Kremlin against him.

Mr Joorabchian denied wrongdoing, saying the investigation was provoked by a group of individuals in Brazil wanting to gain control of Corinthians.

A separate trial of Mr Berezovsky was launched in Moscow this week on embezzlement charges – in his absence, and with a court-appointed defence lawyer acting on his behalf after the tycoon ordered his own lawyers not to take part.

Mr Joorabchian is embroiled in a row between Manchester United and the Premier League, England’s top-tier championship, over the registration of Argentine footballer Carlos Tevez, who played for Corinthians.

Mr Joorabchian owns the economic rights to Tevez, whose transfer to West Ham United last August was found by the league to have breached rules about the registration of players.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3369419

A preliminary hearing was held Thursday in the trial in absentia of Kremlin foe Boris Berezovsky on charges that he embezzled millions of dollars from Aeroflot.

[outsider]

Without going into all the available info (I just don't have the time), I'm sure Berezovsky is a criminal, but to suggest he's the number-one suspect in poisoning of Litvinenko seems ludicrous. The nuclear material used was highly rare, expensive, and like the US anthrax, only had one or very few possible sources (to whit, Russian nuclear establishments in the case of Litvinenko). It would appear apparent that L's major enemy would be Putin, who he had fingered in his book for Russian 'False Flag' Moscow bombings.

[karlos]

[outsider]

[karlos]

[karlos]

Britain and Russia are squaring up for a major diplomatic stand-off amid intense speculation that Britain will expel Russian diplomats from London for the first time in more than a decade,

David Miliband, son of champagne socialist Adolf Miliband who famously avoided paying inheritence tax by 'giving' his million pound plus house to the UK foreign secretary and his brother Ed who is also a cabinet minister, is preparing to outline the action to be taken in a statement to parliament this afternoon.

It is a further indictment of the depths the UK has sunk where our rulers go to the nth degree to protect a wanted criminal from extradition

Berezovsky has gone into business with Neil Bush, the younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush. Berezovsky has become an investor in Bush's Ignite! Learning, an educational software corporation. Berezovsky also has a private box at the Emirates stadium where he has entertained Bush junior.
Never heard of Bush junior?
In the late 1980s, Neil Bush made big news for his controversial role as a director of Silverado Savings and Loan, which collapsed and cost US taxpayers roughly $1 billion. (Federal regulators accused Bush of various conflicts of interests, but he was never charged. A civil suit against Bush was later settled for $26.5 million.)

Bush in 1999 founded Ignite! Software -- a company that creates interactive educational software programs. Whatever the merits of the company it has a series of international investors in a small Texas-based start-up. One investor is Winston Wong, a second-generation Taiwanese semiconductor tycoon who recently founded Shanghai Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation with the son of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Last December Neil Bush visited Beijing to share dinner with Jiang Zemin and meet with political heavyweights like Wu Jichuan, China's minister of the information industry. According to the New York Times, Neil Bush negotiated with the education minister of the United Arab Emirates to introduce Ignite's software to the emirate's schools. Hamza El Khouli, an associate of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and chairman of First Arabian Development and Investment Company, not only invested with Ignite, he also hosted Neil Bush on the Red Sea last March.

And then there is Berezovsky. So you see why Miliband is trying so hard to prevent his extradition.

Berezovsky started in business in 1989 under perestroika by buying and reselling automobiles from state manufacturer AutoVAZ. Officially, Berezovsky was called upon as an expert in development of optimized system of management of the enterprise. In 1992, a new middleman company, "LogoVAZ", was created with Berezovsky as its president. LogoVAZ became an exclusive consignment dealer of AutoVAZ, enabling a scheme (named "ReExport") in which cars were sold abroad and then bought back for sale on the internal market. Frequently cars also were not exported at all - all operations on export and import remained only on paper. Each car going through this scheme brought dealers an income of up to USD 1,500.

In May 1994 Berezovsky set up a company Automobile All-Russia alliance "АVVА" , however, the enterprise turned out to be merely a financial pyramid scheme. Shares of a nonexistent factory which had never been constructed were sold. And investors were ripped off. The total proceeds from this fraud were over $50 million for Boris.

Then Berezovsky is accused of embezzling over 214 million rubles ($8.3 million) of AEROFLOT's funds and laundering over 16 million rubles ($620,000). The charges envision a prison term of up to 10 years. In the late 1990s, the tycoon was charged with setting up two front companies in Switzerland to divert millions of dollars from the carrier. The Aeroflot case was suspended after he fled to the United Kingdom and was granted political asylum here in 2001.

Also there is LogoVaz he began his business career in 1989. LogoVAZ was the country’s first capitalist car dealership. By 1994 he had developed that into a media, banking, and oil empire. At it's heart LogoVaz exported cars and then bought them back for a higher price. The profits went into a swiss company account and basically it was a simple fraud. The average mark up was $1500 per car. Coincidentally it was a similar fraud to Octav Botnar the Dan Dan the Datsun Man who pocketed over £100 million before legging it to Switzerland.

A 1996 Forbes magazine article alleged that Berezovsky used organized crime to build his business empire. Forbes also linked Berezovsky to the notorious murder of Vladislav Listiev, a popular TV personality.

And the Gordon Brown led Labour government is bending over backwards to back this man.

[outsider]

[karlos]

polonium can be bought from http://www.ornl.gov/

polonium is used to eliminate static electricity in machinery that is caused by processes such as the rolling of paper, wire or sheet metal. Polonium is also used in brushes for removing dust from photographic films.

Are you honestly telling me a billionaire cannot acquire it?
It has been quoted in the press that the amount used cost only $60

False flags in Russia?
Surely you are talking about Yeltsin not Putin, putin has restored law and order to russia and is clamping down on crime. During Yeltsin's time it was a free for all.

So even though you agree that boris stole money from alot of average Russians you do not want him to stand trial in Russia. He is shaping government policy watch todays news. He is buying influence. Surely you cannot be happy with this fugitive clicking his fingers and your government jumping to his tune?

So Brazil wants Boris extradited to stand trial and Russia too.
Victims of his frauds want their money back.
Yet Miliband is backing the wrong horse.

[outsider]

[karlos]

[PaulStott]

On Berezovsky, the key text is "Godfather of the Kremlin" by the late Paul Klebnikov.

This presents some pretty detailed evidence of his criminality (although that is hardly unique amongst Russian oligarchs) but more seriously his long term working relationships with Chechen warlords, or as most people would call them, terrorists.

Curiously David Blunkett not only allowed Berezovsky to settle here, but granted him British citizenship.

The saintly Mr Livenenko was actually living in a home in London bought for him by his employer, Berezovsky, although the media have done little sustained investigation into the nature of his work in London. Attempting to re-ignite the Cold War fits more closely to government objectives, so that is the route the media takes.

[karlos]

New charges levied against Berezovsky on todays news.
The net is beginning to close further.
Wonder how Miliband will attempt to smokescreen proceedings this time.

[DaniYah]

Even if Boris Berezovsky did carry out the actual act, where would he get the Polonium from?
Has there been any scientific discussion about the potential of Polonium? Being that it is the most radioactive element known to man, this must be investigated.

Polonium extreme radioactivity is due to the fact that it is a very energetic element. Has anyone heard of a Polonium- powered nuclear energy plant?
If not, why isn't there?

[karlos]

It is a substance that was at one stage openly available for sale from laboratory suppliers
The Italian guy that came over and met Litvinenko in the sushi bar was probably the hired hitman
dont forget he claimed that the reason he did NOT eat while at the restaurant was because he had already eaten by visiting Pizza Hut before going to the sushi bar.
Now who would go and eat BEFORE going out for a meal?
And which Italian would be seen dead eating at pizza hut?

[blackcat]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/0,,2208672,00.html

[karlos]

Good news.
Shows those peak oil spammers that 96% of the planet still hasnt been surveyed for fossil fuels.

[The Watcher]

[James C]

I'm so glad you can pat yourself on the backs about this news. Phew, you can now return to naively thinking it's all the fault of the NWO can't you? Strange how one minute the oil companies are all thieving, swindling liars in collusion with the PTB but soon as one company announces a new find which sends its own share price up then that's OK and we can trust them to be telling the truth!

Firstly, let me tell you that this find at 8bn barrels represents just over a quarter of annual global consumption which is about 30bn. But yes it is an enormous find and will add to global reserves. The problem is, and people love to ignore this very simple fact, peak oil is not about reserves, it is about output. This new oil field will probably only start pumping oil in 5 years or so which is about industry standard time for any any new find. At best it might pump out a few million barrels/day (but it won't do that for a few years after it starts pumping), but when compared with the losses of a few million barrels per day in older fields elsewhere in the world then it probably won't help. So nobody in peak oil land is saying we will never find any more oil which would be stupid since we'll go on finding oil for decades and decades to come. The issue is how much of that oil is useful to us now at a time when demand is growing at 2% annually and yet output is dropping at 2% in the same time period. So this field really won't prevent the peak from happening between now and when Tupi finally starts pumping it's oil in a few years time but it will help to lengthen the period at which we remain at peak.

As for abiotic oil theory, well it could be true but the evidence is very poor to prove it is so. But even if true, one has to wonder why the oil companies (including those in Brazil) keep drilling so many holes all over the world. Why didn't they just stay at the very first wells and why have so many fields been abandoned if the oil is just oozing permanently out of the ground? But like I said, it's not about reserves, it's about output and if output cannot meet demand then the price will rise. Very simple really but it would appear that many people cannot understand this.

By the way, oil wasn't made from dinosaurs and it's not only the West which believes oil to be a fossil fuel. You may care to read this article about abiotic oil theory. Also, nearly all the land on the earth has now been explored for oil; only parts of Africa remain unexplored. So the oil companies are now turning to deep water sites and the ice caps which is causing arguments amongst nations expecially Canada and Russia. New oil fields will be found in these locations - thousands of them including some real monsters. But of course none of this extreme oil hunting would be necessary if abiotic oil were fulfilling its duty, would it The Watcher?

[acrobat74]

[James C]

[wepmob2000]

Personally I'm baffled as to how anyone can believe Peak Oil is not a reality, and baffled as to what they believe the PTB can hope to achieve by making it up........?

As James rightly pointed out, a discovery of new oil reserves does not automatically equate to an increased supply, it has to be economically viable to extract that oil. If, using current technology, it would require 3 gallons of oil to extract 2 gallons from some of these remote reserves, where is the sense in that? If they discovered a trillion barrels of oil under the surface of Mars, would that still constitute a usable reserve?

Can any non-Peak Oilers provide any convincing arguments as to.....

-Why the Middle East has grown hugely in strategic importance since the 1960's? In WWII the North African campaign was regarded as a sideshow, now the Middle East is the centre of U.S priorities.

-Following on from this, why did the USA, UK, etc, react so emphatically following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then maintain operations against Iraq to this day? Why not react in a similar fashion, say, to the Chinese invasion of Tibet?

-Why the concern about Iran gaining a nuclear capability, when Pakistan, a much more volatile Islamic country, has them?

-Why is US oil production a mere fraction of what it was in the 1970's? And North Sea oil production?

-Why do oil companies spend millions on exploration if their known reserves have not / will not peak?

-Why doesn't an enterprising oil company announce it is in fact extracting abiotic oil - a never ending resource? Any company announcing this would see its market value reach stratospheric levels. What would you do as CEO of an oil company extracting abiotic oil?

-Why does the US government spend billions propping up Israel, supporting Saudi Arabia, and fighting wars that are suspiciously near oil sources? Why does the US government court such unpopularity by doing so? Why doesn't the USA pursue its more traditional isolationism, safe in the knowledge it doesn't need to safeguard its oversaeas sources of oil?

-Why isn't peak oil pushed 'in your face' like the 'War on Terror' and 'Global Warming'?

[Disco_Destroyer]

Yes? No? which is it? Who the f*** cares thats get on with the revolution

[James C]

[TmcMistress]

[chek]

There are an awful lot of people who take comfort in believing the world's problems are solely management related, and that with fairer/different/more equitable approaches everything would be just dandy.

While such approaches may - as Ghandi said - solve many problems, unfortunately as in the case of oil, it won't solve them all.

Concern over energy supply is only one part of that.
How many of us know that before Henry Ford came on the scene, that light grade gasoline was a waste by-product expensive to store and dispose of with no conceivable use? The internal combustion engine turned a leadweight burden into gold for the petroleum companies.

The harder part of peak oil will be substituting alternative sources for the entire chemical industry it supports. That is, the source of many of our manufacturing materials and also the food we, the 6 billion - not the land intensive, organic produce of the few - can afford to eat.

Substitution can be done as Germany tried on a small scale during the last Euro war, but as soon as conditions normalised they dropped their ersatz program asap due to the huge comparitive expense.

Never before has a sea-change in human consciousness been so urgently required, but that alone might not be enough.
Maybe we need a Manhattan-type Project for survival to redirect the military-industrial complex from their usual perceptions of easy short-term solutions.

[blackcat]

[xmasdale]

[chek]

[blackcat]

Any existing land used for forestry to make wood pulp could be used for hemp growing and would free up three quarters of the same land for other hemp based products, as hemp yields four times what is harvested from a similar acreage of timber for wood pulp. Added to that, hemp will grow in poor soils unsuitable for most crops and adds nutrition to the soil when doing so. It is not grown solely because powerful industries have had it banned on the most spurious grounds.

[chek]