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FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
WHAT BILL CLINTON REALLY PAID TO STAY IN POWER
By: Barbara Stanley
The Chinese Communists Government, which encompasses the military, has been giving money to the Clintons ever since Mochtar and James Riady, Chinese nationals (communist elites who relocated in Indonesia as the LIPPO Group) set up the Worthen bank in Arkansas, over 20 years ago, when they were out shopping for an American politician to use. As Admiral Moorer warned recently, the Chinese Communists have been working towards global dominance for over forty years. And Bill and Hillary were choice plums, to be funneled money, nurtured and picked when ripe. The Chinese Communists would create a company, removed from the mainland China, then use that company to build telecommunications, construction of strategically located ports-for transfer of both people (spies
as 'students') and material, to come to the US to learn all they could about our high tech developments. Until Bill Clinton came to power, the Chinese Communists military was still in the stone age as a war machine. But all that has changed. While we all fret about the intrusive census 2000, while we all talk about political campaigns, while we all wait for the latest investigation to "get to the bottom of it" (whatever the 'it' of the moment is), the Chinese Communists have been spreading, proliferating like a virus, all over the globe. In the 70's, President Carter made an agreement with the Panamanian government, the Carter-Trujillo Agreement (*), which effectively gave a chance for the US to turn over the Panama Canal to the highest bidder. In this agreement were built in safeties that allowed the US to still manage this incredibly strategic site. Admiral Moorer recently wrote about the importance of the Canal to United States, and the non-communist, free world, security: "Control of the Canal will give China the ability to block vital food and oil shipments to the U.S....prevent deployment of our navy in times of national emergency...and create an enemy beachhead within striking distance of our cities. Red Chinese J-11 attack jets - each of which can drop 13,000 pounds of bombs - launched from Panama can strike our cities. The notion that a U.S. president and Congress could allow this Canal - built and defended by the U.S. at an incredible cost in treasure and blood - to fall under the control of our avowed enemies, the Red Chinese - without a shot being fired - is incredible. Yet we are just days away from that nightmare becoming reality. Of greatest concern is the growing Chinese presence and domination of Panama and the Canal. Panama has signed a 50-year lease for two ports at each end of the Canal with a company called "Hutchison Whampoa" run by one Li Ka-Shing. Ka-Shing is a member of China's ruling power elite and Hutchison Whampoa is connected to China's ruling council. Let us not forget, Hutchison Whampoa is the company who wants to supply you with two tickets to paradise via their partnership with Priceline dot commie. In addition, this company has cleverly infiltrated themselves into the heart of American business. From retail and manufacturing, to telecommunications and media. Even our real estate is at risk with venture capital being to fed to build such things as new shopping centers and office complexes. While the horror story of the Panama Canal unfolds, (Pearl Harbor South) Hutchison Whampoa already has a foot hold on U.S. soil. They are partners with the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) which now has a long term lease on the Long Beach California Naval base. Beijing's insatiable desire to control the Panama Canal was second only to the successful acquisition of this Naval facility. The Long Beach base serves as an intelligence gathering operation for the PLA. Hiding under a corporate disguise, their base of operations is located near the Sea Launch project. Sea Launch will use the Long Beach base to launch dozens of satellites into space from equatorial ocean locations. RSC-Energia is a partner of Sea Launch along with Boeing. RSC-Energia is a disguised Corporation setup for Russian intelligence, just like COSCO is merely a front for Chinese intelligence. COSCO ships have served as carriers for massive smuggling operations around the world - including the United States -- of weapons, drugs and illegal aliens. In addition, COSCO has been used by the Chinese government to ship missiles - and components of weapons of mass destruction to rogue nations such as Pakistan and Iran. Now, Panama's lease with Hutchison Whampoa, provides China's Communist Party with de facto control over the most strategic waterway in the West. Under Panama's agreement, Hutchison Whampoa will control port facilities at both ends of the Canal...they'll control who is allowed to pilot ships through the canal and can assign their own pilots...and they'll also be able to refuse access to the Canal by any ship for "business reasons." I earlier referred to the Chinese Communist's spreading like a virus, and to illustrate how they are using the company Hutchison Whampoa, Ltd, and other companies to back up my claim I have found, through research on Hutchison Whampoa that: Worldwide, China appears to be progressively positioning itself commercially and militarily along the key naval choke points between the Indian Ocean [its bases in Burma]; the South China Sea [Hong Kong]; the Straits of Malacca [the Spratley Islands and a growing role in Cambodia]; the central Pacific [a major land satellite tracking station on Tarawa]; the coast of Hawaii [a major ocean mining tract]; the Caribbean [Cuba and the Bahamas]; and now the Panama Canal. Wherever in the Pacific the U.S. withdraws or is negligent militarily, politically or economically, the Chinese communists move in. In addition to a growing commercial prowess in Caribbean ports such as the Bahamas, China recently completed military/intelligence agreements with Cuba to build communications intelligence facilities adjacent to Russia's massive technical spy center at Lourdes, Cuba. The Lourdes facility monitors the U-S- Atlantic fleet and elements of U.S. Pacific fleet operations, as well as domestic commercial and military communications throughout the Americas. The growing anti-U.S./NATO "strategic partnership" of China and Russia poses an increasing threat. There is a well-documented history of both Russian and Chinese organized crime organizations working as tools of their governments. In Panama, where government corruption is rampant, there is a dangerous convergence of well-financed Chinese and Russian mobs with Cuban government operatives and Latin American drug lords, leftists and narco-terrorist militants. This dark partnership is a threat to democracy in Panama and in neighboring countries, and is a direct long-term threat to Mexico and the United States. Admiral Moorer is not only right, but one of the few voices crying in the wilderness, warning America to wake up before it is too late, for we are quickly running out of time. For all that campaign cash from the Chinese Communists, which insured his re-election after the GOP won Congress in '94, Bill Clinton sold out America's place in the new millennium as the sole superpower, the only beacon in the world, for democracy and a representative republic. The world followed America's lead, especially in the 1980's, when, contrary to what the liberal media pundits will say, the world grew because we grew. During this period, those who had the least in democratic societies, grew the most. But now, with the Chinese Communists rising to power, how long do you think it will be before those unused military bases in the United States are turned in slave-labor camps? How many human rights and freedoms do you think the Chinese Communists will let us enjoy? Does anyone actually believe the US Constitution will be in effect? If you think you are unhappy with government intrusiveness into your life, just wait until the Communists, finally, win this war.
Hutchison Whampoa's war chest is estimated to have swelled to almost HK$130 billion after Wednesday's sale of shares in Vodafone AirTouch, leaving the company in a strong position to expand further in telecommunications and ports, according to chairman Li Ka-shing. "We are looking for worldwide expansion. Our core business, which has already gone overseas, needs money to expand," Mr Li said after unveiling a full-year attributable profit - a record for Hong Kong - of HK$117.34 billion.
Barbara Stanley is a staff writer and forum moderator for Ether Zone. Barbara can be reached at base@warwick.net <mailto:base@warwick.net> Published in the March 25, 2000 issue of Ether Zone. Copyright ¸ 2000 Ether Zone (<http://etherzone.com>). Reposting permitted with this message intact.
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The firm's net profit is almost double the US$7.78 billion (HK$60.2 billion) made last year by Microsoft, the world's biggest company by market capitalization. It also dwarfs the earnings of many of the Fortune 500, the list of America's biggest companies by revenue. Hutchison parent and fellow Li group flagship Cheung Kong (Holdings) also reported record profits of $59.37 billion yesterday, due almost entirely to its share of the Orange sale proceeds. Cheung Kong owns 49.9 per cent of Hutchison. Mr Li, who chairs both companies, hit back again yesterday at critics who claim his group dominates the market, saying: "This talk of dominance is only a tool used by competitors and a small band of politicians with ulterior motives." At Wednesday's closing prices, the combined market capitalization of the group's four listed companies (the other two are Cheung Kong Infrastructure and Hongkong Electric) represented only some 17.125 per cent of the Hong Kong stock market, Mr Li said. He said profit derived from Hong Kong accounted for only three per cent of Hutchison's overall profits. "I have stated this fact before on another occasion, but there were still unfair criticisms. "There must have been some misrepresentation on this issue - or perhaps such critics have their own agenda." Hutchison - a global conglomerate with interests in ports, telecoms, property, retailing, infrastructure, energy and finance - will book another huge windfall profit of $50 billion this year following last month's takeover of Mannesmann by Vodafone AirTouch. The company exchanged its 10.2 per cent Mannesmann stake for five per cent of Vodafone. It sold a third of its Vodafone stake on Wednesday for about $39.27 billion. Mr Li said 1999 was a year of solid growth for all of the core businesses of the Hutchison Whampoa Group, particularly those overseas. However, he said he would not allow the overseas operations of the group to be spun off on overseas stock markets as this would cause Hong Kong's market capitalization to drop dramatically. "Hong Kong will remain our base and our preferred place of investment so long as there are suitable opportunities, notwithstanding that the return rate may not be as high as elsewhere."
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