Man Clinton pardoned investigated in sweetheart oil deals

NY POST - Billionaire Marc Rich has emerged as a central figure in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal and is under investigation for brokering deals in which scores of international politicians and businessmen cashed in on sweetheart oil deals with Saddam Hussein, The Post has learned. Rich, the fugitive Swiss-based commodities trader who received a controversial pardon from President Bill Clinton in January 2001, is a primary target of criminal probes under way in the U.S. attorney’s office in New York and by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, sources said. “We think he was a major player in this — a central figure,” a senior law-enforcement official told The Post.

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Cuba’s biotech program is a big-stakes gamble by the Castro regime on developing-world-appropriate pharmaceuticals. They’re using sales of generic versions of patented drugs to fund research into Cuban drugs, which they’re patenting and selling to America. Wow.

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Activists from multiple Democratic and Green Party groups gathered on the steps of the Capitol Sunday to demand a ballot recount in Ohio.

Bill Kelsey said, “The purpose of our demonstration is to support the efforts in Ohio, to get the Ohio vote recounted. We feel that there’s gross fraud in this election, and we need to get a true counting of what happened out there.

Congressional hearings on Ohio vote

Startling new revelations about Ohio’s presidential vote have been uncovered as Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee join Rev. Jesse Jackson in Columbus, the state capital, on Monday, Dec. 13, to hold a rare field hearing into election malfeasance and manipulation in the 2004 vote.  The Congressional delegation will include Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, and others.

While there’s certainly mucho fishy business in the Ohio vote counts and elsewhere,  too many activists believe establishment Democrats will support them if they can demonstrate vote fraud. Ain’t gonna happen. As with Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004 who conceded quickly and did not contest the elections, that’s what will happen here too. The Democratic establishment is part of the problem and will not seriously question the system - something which would imperil their position in it. And provable voter fraud would shake the system mightily.

So, don’t expect anything from them. Unless of course, the streets become filled with protestors. Then they will listen, and act.

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Do we truly believe that ALL red-state residents are ignorant racist fascist knuckle-dragging NASCAR-obsessed cousin-marrying roadkill-eating tobacco-juice-dribbling gun-fondling religious fanatic rednecks; or that ALL blue-state residents are godless unpatriotic pierced-nose Volvo-driving France-loving left-wing communist latte-sucking tofu-chomping holistic-wacko neurotic vegan weenie perverts?

Yes. This is called “diversity,” and it is why we are such a great nation — a nation that has given the world both nuclear weapons AND SpongeBob Squarepants.

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Unocal blinks

Unocal Corp. said Monday that it would settle landmark human rights lawsuits brought by 15 villagers from Myanmar who claimed it was responsible for forced labor, rapes and a murder allegedly committed by soldiers along the route of a natural gas pipeline in the Southeast Asian nation.

Why, you ask, do the Bushies practically never speak about the grotesque human rights abuses in Myanmar? Could it be because US oil companies are happily doing business there?

The fix is in

Global Crossing Ltd. founder Gary Winnick will be absolved by federal regulators for his role at the company that made him one of the richest men in Los Angeles — and one of the most vilified executives in corporate America.

SEC Chairman William H. Donaldson joined two fellow commissioners in overruling the agency’s staff and deciding not to charge Winnick.

Winnick chose the Sergeant Schultz defense, “I know nothing.” Better to appear ignorant than culpable, eh, as this reduces the possibility of lawsuits. Winnick walks away with hundreds of millions while the former employees had their pensions and retirements destroyed. This is justice?

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