Follow-up: Health Care thread-- "WHO OWNS WHO"

Here's the rest of my research from GOOGLE UK:

TOP US, SAUDI ARABIAN (Aramco) OIL PRODUCERS:


ANADARKO chairman James T. Hackett TOTAL ASSETS: $22 billion (2005)

ARAMCO (now Saudi Arabian government, once owned by CASOC{California Arabian Standard Oil Company) exec, Frank Jungers still Chairman today. ARAMCO (american services) Mazen I. Snobar, Aramco (Saudi) Abdallah S. Jum'ah

ARCO (Atlantic Richfield) chairman Robert O. Anderson

BP AMOCO Chairman Peter Sutherland, BP British Petroleum Lord John Browne

CHEVRON Corp. Chairman David J. O'Reilly (Texaco, Chevron, Unocal (Union Oil Company of California), OXY-Marathon now same company as of 2005)

CONOCOPhillips Petroleum Chairman Jim Mulva

DEVRON (60% gas, 40% oil) Chairman J. Larry Nichols

EXXONMobil Chairman Rex W. Tillerson

ENRON Oil & Gas (EOG) chairman Forrest Hoglund

TOTAL/FinaElf chairmen= Theirry Desmarest, Horst Schroter(germany)

SHELL Jeroen van der Veer

CEO of The Carlyle Group (Bush family monetary group) is now Franklin Carlucci (former CIA operative and roomate of Rumsfield at Yale)

Ten wealthiest people in the world: (http://www.weeklyholiday.net/220302/busi.html) (this has changed since my research)

1. Bill Gates (Microsoft)
2. Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway (GEICO) (insurance, investments)
3. Paul Allen (Microsoft)
4-8. Walton family: Jim, John, Alice, Robson, Helen (Wal-mart)
9. Larry Ellison (ORACLE operating systems)
10. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal

FROM: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_bin_Sultan):

Bandar resigns his ambassadorship, Sec.of State Colin Powell resigns...
Bandar is said to have met with US officials in 2006 AFTER leaving ambassadorship-- ( a secret, illegal meeting under US Constitution rules concerning "meetings with foreign entities other than official diplomats).

Bob Woodward (ABC journalist nearly killed in Iraq, writes book "Plan of Attack", alleging Pres. Bush informed Crown Prince Bandar the plan to invade iraq BEFORE letting Sec. of State Powell know of the plans. see also: "State of Denial", All the President's Men", The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court".

FROM: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_bin_Sultan)

FROM: (http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2004/03/12/unger_2/index.html?pn=2)

Condoleezza Rice served on the board of directors of Chevron from 1991 to 2001.

The Carlyle Group: ASSETS: $1,268,600,000 millions (1.268 trillion dollars)

Saudi Investors in Carlyle: $80 million

Former president George H.W. Bush, James Baker, and former prime minister John Major of Great Britain all visited Saudi Arabia on behalf of Carlyle, and according to founding partner David Rubenstein, the Saudis invested at least $80 million in the Carlyle Group. With the exception of the bin Laden family, who extricated themselves from Carlyle not long after 9/11, Carlyle declined to disclose who the investors were. But other sources say that Prince Bandar, several other Saudi royals, and Abdulrahman and Sultan bin Mahfouz were prominent investors and that it was an explicit policy of the House of Saud to encourage Saudi investment in Carlyle.

Contracts between Carlyle-owned corporations Carlyle and Saudi Arabia -- BDM (including its subsidiary Vinnell): $1,188,600,000

The Carlyle Group owned defense contractor BDM from September 1990 until early 1998. One BDM subsidiary, Vinnell, has trained the Saudi National Guard since 1975, thanks to a controversial contract that allowed it to be the first U.S. private firm to train foreign forces. While under Carlyle ownership, BDM's and Vinnell's contracts with Saudi Arabia included the following:


In 1994, BDM received a $46 million contract to "provide technical assistance and logistical support to the Royal Saudi Air Force."

Between 1994 and 1998, Vinnell serviced an $819 million contract to provide training and support for the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG).

In 1995, Vinnell signed a $163 million contract to modernize SANG.

In 1995, BDM signed a $32.5 million contract to "augment Royal Saudi Air Force staff in developing, implementing, and maintaining logistics and engineering plans and programs."

In 1996, BDM got a $44.4 million contract from the Saudis to build housing at Khamis Mshayt military base.

In 1997, BDM received $18.7 million to support the Royal Saudi Air Force.

In 1997, just before BDM was sold to defense giant TRW, the company signed a $65 million contract to "provide for CY 1998 Direct Manning Personnel in support of maintenance of the F-15 aircraft."

Halliburton: $180 million

Vice President Dick Cheney served as CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000. At press time, he continued to hold 433,333 shares of Halliburton in a charitable trust. Among Halliburton's dealings with the Saudis, those whose details have been made public include:

In November 2000, Halliburton received $140 million to develop Saudi oil fields with Saudi Aramco.

In 2000, Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown, and Root was hired, along with two Japanese firms, to build a $40 million ethylene plant.

Harken Energy: $25 million

After George W. Bush became a director of Harken Energy, several entities and individuals connected to BCCI, the scandal-ridden bank in which Khalid bin Mahfouz was the largest stockholder, suddenly came to Harken's rescue. Among them, the Union Bank of Switzerland agreed to put up $25 million. When that financing fell through, Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, who was also close to bin Mahfouz, stepped in to help.

FROM: (http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2004/03/12/unger_2/index.html?pn=2)

TYPING IN THE KEYWORD PHRASE : carlyle group owns you get over 1,000 entries CHECK IT OUT, You'll be amazed:
(http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22carlyle+group+owns%22&hl=en&start=10&sa=N)

Typing in HCR + long-term care medical (LTCM) + long-term capital management (LTCM) you get nothing. Type in farse + LTCM + HCR you get:


FROM The Times: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/united_states/article1289726.ece


Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, one of the world’s biggest private equity firms, forked out $837.5 million (£430 million) in advisory fees to investment banks last year, data released yesterday shows.

The New York firm easily beat rivals in the US, where it paid out $569 million worth of fees on such deals as the $33 billion buyout of Tennessee-based hospital chain HCA, the second biggest buyout ever. (HOW IS IT WE NEVER HEARD OF A LONG_TERM CARE MANAGEMENT HOSPITAL CHAIN FROM TENNESSEE BECOME THE BIGGEST BUYOUT EVER???????)

In Europe, KKR spent $216.7 million and was the only US firm to appear alongside British buyout houses in the top five fee-payers in the region. Permira led the way in Europe, forking out $305.1 million, followed by Cinven, which paid $248.8 million and Apax Partners, with a $241.9 million bill. KKR ranked fourth.

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ADDED Wed. 5:33, because the links I listed are "suddenly silent--can't get to them....this one you can:

By Michael McCord
mmccord@seacoastonline.com


PORTSMOUTH -- "Frankly, Portsmouth Regional Hospital is not for sale."

The statement from Hospital Corp. of America Inc. spokesman Jeff Prescott was the national hospital chain's reaction to legal action initiated Monday by the Foundation for Seacoast Health to stop the sale of the local hospital as part of HCA's larger $33 billion sale to a private equity group.

"We don't believe the Foundation for Seacoast Health has a right of first refusal," Prescott said Tuesday in a phone conversation from HCA headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. "We have worked with them over the past few weeks and disagree with their assertions."

The foundation filed a preliminary injunction request in Rockingham County Superior Court Monday to have the court affirm a 1983 agreement between the foundation and HCA.

The foundation asserts that the 1983 agreement grants it a broad right of first refusal option to re-purchase the hospital and its assets if HCA should be sold or acquired through a merger.

In July, Tennessee-based HCA, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the country, accepted a bid of $33 billion -- which encompassed $21.3 billion in cash plus debt assumption of about $11.7 billion -- from a private equity consortium called Hercules Holdings II LLC.

This is a consortium of investment heavyweights that includes Bain Capital; Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.; Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, a unit of investment bank Merrill Lynch; and HCA founder Thomas F. Frist Jr. If approved, it would be the largest leveraged buyout in American history.

HCA, which had a reported $25 billion in revenue in 2005 and owns more than 170 hospitals, plans to ratify the sale at a shareholders meeting on Nov. 16.

In recent years, investment banks have been tripping over themselves to obtain lucrative advisory mandates from private equity clients, not just for the advisory fees but also for the potentially much more lucrative business of providing finance for the deal. Banks also get involved in follow-on business, such as share issues and bond sales.

Cumulatively, the top ten private equity firms in the US and Europe paid out a colossal $5.2 billion in fees in 2005, according to data from Thomson Financial. That compares with $3.25 billion in 2005 as the volume of buyouts surged to record levels on the back of buoyant equity markets and a glut of cheap debt.

Ned Lamont, heir to the J.P. Morgan fortune, provides a case in point. He beat Joe Lieberman in Connecticut’s Democratic Senate primary by attacking his ...
www.plp.org/cd06/cd1004.html.

JP Morgan Chase is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $1.4 trillion .. chairman (ceo)

Jeffrey Immelt, is chairman of General Electric Co.

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Corporate Ties

Many members of the Bush administration have been directly employed in the oil industry, including Bush, Vice President Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, Chief of Staff Andrew Card, and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans. Many wealthy Saudi oil men, including the Bin Laden family have contributed to Bush family ventures. In fact, 6 out of the 10 lifetime contributors to George W.’s war “have come from the oil business or have ties to it” (Salon.com 11/19/01). Also, several members within our government are deeply involved in war profiteering which is well-kept from the public eye.

Andrew Card is a formner chief lobbyist to General Motors (Goodman). Condoleeza Rice had been on Chevron’s Board of Directors since 1991, and even had a Chevron oil tanker named after her. And Commerce Secretary Donald Evans served as the CEO of Tom Brown Inc. Tom Brown Ink is a natural gas company with fields in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming. Evans was CEO for nearly a decade(Cave).

Andreas Zumach, a Geneva-based UN correspondent, obtained portions of Iraq’s 12,000-page report to the United Nations detailing its weapons programs. The U.S. redacted the report because if it got to the public, it would expose corporate complicity in arming Iraq, which in turn might dampen global enthusiasm for the war. The portions of the report censored by the U.S. identified at least twenty-four U.S. corporations including Bechtel (conventional), DuPont (nuclear), Eastman Kodak (rocket), Hewlett-Packard (nuclear, rocket, conventional), Honeywell (rocket, conventional), International Computer Systems (nuclear, rocket, conventional), Rockwell (Conventional), Sperry Corp. (rocket, conventional), Tektonix (rocket, nuclear), and Unisys (nuclear, conventional) that helped Iraq build its pre-Gulf weapons programs and rockets. When U.S. Security Council members received their copies of the UN report, it had shrunk from 12,000 pages to 3,500 pages excluding 8,500 pages of information embarassing to the Bush administration and U.S. companines. European papers, the British, the Scandanavian, the French, the Italian, Japanese and Brazilian media were all reporting on Andreas Zumach’s investigative report but American media outlets were silent (Goodman).

In May of 2003, President Bush signed an executive order that provides oil industry companies unprecedented immunity against contractual disputes or lawsuits resulting from discrimination, labor law abuses, environmental disasters and human rights violations. Concerning this executive order, Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project said, “In terms of legal liablility, the executive order cancels the concept of corporate accountability and abandons the rule of law. It is a blank check for corporate anarchy, potentially robbing Iraqis of both their rights and their resources” (Goodman 68).

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)’s total contract value in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2002 and 2003 was $38 million. The vice president for SAIC until 2002, David Kay, was hired by the CIA in 2003 to search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Admiral Bobby Inman, SAIC board member from 1982 to 2003, is a former director of the CIA and former director of the National Security Agency. SAIC vice president for strategic assessment and development until 2003, Christopher “Ryan” Henry left to become deputy undersecretary of defense for policy. Retired U.S. Army General W.A. Downing, also SAIC board member, was a lobbyist for the CIA-backed Iraqi National Congress and a board member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, along with Bechtel director and former Secretary of State George Shultz. Also, between October 2001 and July 2002, Downing was deputy assistant director for international counterterrorism initiatives on the National Security Council. William Owens serves on Bush’s Defense Policy Board and is also former SAIC president (Goodman).

Fluor Corporation’s campaign contributions from 1990 to 2002 were $36 million, the majority of which was to the Republican Party. Their total contract value in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003 was $500 million. The Fluor Corporation stock had a fifty percent increase from pre-Iraq invasion to post-Iraq invasion. Philip J. Carroll Jr., former chairman of Fluor Corporation is overseeing the restructuring of Iraq’s oil industry. Admiral Bobby Inman is a Fluor board member, former deputy director of the CIA and on the boards of SAIC and the oil company Temple-Inland. Kenneth Oscar, Fluor’s vice president of strategy and government services was also acting assistant secretary of the Army (Goodman).

DynCorp with 75% of $1.2 million campaign contributions went to the Republican Party between 1999 and 2002. DynCorp’s contract value in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2002 and 2003 was $50.1 million with a 60% stock increase after the invasion of Iraq. Van Honeycutt, president/CEO of Computer Sciences Corporationof which DynCorp is a subsidiary, is chair of President Bush’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee under the Department of Homeland Security. Ronald L. Dick, DynCorps director of information assuarance stategic initiatives, was director of the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center. Hayward D. Fisk, DynCorp’s vice president, general counsel, and secretary, has served on advisory councils to the Federal Communications Commission (Goodman).

Vinnell Corporation made $8.5 million in campaign contributions, mostly to the Republican Party between 1990 to 2002. Vinnell’s total contract value in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003 was $48 million. Vic Fazio, a former Democratic congressman is on Northrop Grumman’s board, a subsidiary of Vinnell. Also a Northrop Grumman board member is Philip A. Odeen who worked on the National Security Council and Defense Science Board. William Studeman, vice president at Northrop Grumman, was the deputy director of the CIA from 1992 to 1995 and is a Bush campaign contributor (Goodman).

Between 1990 and 2002, Bechtel Group made $3.3 million in campaign contributions, again the majority of contributions going to the Republican Party. The total Bechtel contract value in Iraq and Afghanistan for 2002-2003 was $1 billion and their currnet stock value is privately held. Reagan-Bush Secretary of State George Shultz was a former Bechtel president and is a current board member. Reagan-Bush Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was a former Bechtel general counsel. Reagan-Bush Deputy Secretary of Energy W. Kenneth Davis was Bechtel’s vice president. Retired General Jack Sheehan of the U.S. Marine Core joined Bechtel in 1998 as senior vice president and he also serves on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board. Andrew Natsios, George W. Bush’s USAID administrator overseeing bids for postwar contracts, was formerly the secretary for administration in Massachusetts overseeing the Boston-area Big Dig tunnel construction project, for which Bechtel was the primary contractor (Goodman). The list goes on and on . . .

Halliburton

In 2003, it is revealed that Cheney is still being paid up to $1 million a year in “deferred payments” from Haliburton, the oil company he headed (Guardian, 4/12/2003). However, Cheney stated in that same year, “I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven’t had now for over three years” (Goodman). That was obviously a blatant lie. Cheney has $400,000 in stock options in Halliburton and is paid roughly $165,000 a year in compensation (Goodman). Halliburton is one of the world’s largest defense contractors and oil services (Goodman). According to The Guardian, the Defense department awarded the contract to the Halliburton subsidiary, Kellog, Brown & Root (KBR), “to control oil fires if Saddam Hussein sets the well heads alight.”

KBR has already benefitted considerably from the “war on terror”. So far, it has been awarded contracts worth nearly $33 million to build the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for al-Qaida suspects.

While CHeney led Halliburton, the increase in government contracts was 91% (Goodman 69). In the five years Mr. Cheney was CEO, Haliburton nearly doubled the amount of business it did with the government to $2.3 billion. The company also more than doubled its political contributions to $1.2 million, overwhelmingly, to Republican candidates. When asked whether the payments to Mr. Cheney represented a conflict of interest, Halliburton’s spokeswoman, Wendy Hall, said: “We have been working as a government contractor since the 1940s. Since this time, KBR has become the premier provider of logistics and support services to all branches of the military” (terrortimeline.org).

From mid-2002 until mid-2003, while the stock market sank, Halliburton’s stock rose by 50%. The war on terror quickly made Halliburton the single largest government contractor in Iraq. In March of 2003, Halliburton was awarded a no-bid contract of value up to $7 billion to put out fires at Iraqi oil wells. It is estimated that the $ 4 billion monthly cost of the Iraq occupation is going to private contractors (Goodman).

AND FINALLY: Why hasn't a single intelligent commentator, interviewer, journalist asked the simple question who would you surround yourself with? Who would be your advisors/cabinet secretaries, under-secretaries and deputy assistants. If whoever becomes president is unwilling to answer those two questions, you can be sure it will be the same ol washington: incestual bedfellowing as one can easily see from the two previous posts (all public info-respected info from England media souces, not ours!!! (except Business Times- long-term health care buyout).