-Caveat Lector- From: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith/20000920_xcsof_red_money_.shtml Red money inside American politics � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com There is one golden rule to politics: the one who has the gold makes the rules. And China seems to be a major source of cash for the life-blood of modern politics in America. The Chinese money flow continues today. For example, Bernard Schwartz, CEO of Loral Space & Communications Ltd., gave $12,500 in 1991-1992 to Democrats. In 1993-1994 he gave $112,500 to Democrats just three months after being included in an August 1994 China trade trip. In August 1994 Bernard Schwartz accompanied Ron Brown on the Presidential Business Development Mission trade trip to China. At the behest of Bill Clinton, Schwartz met with officials of the Chinese defense industry including Chinese army Lt. Gen. Shen Rong-Jun, and Liu Ji-Yuan the minister of China Aerospace Corp. China Aerospace manufactures all Chinese army ballistic missiles and space rockets. After contributing, Schwartz received huge China satellite contracts at a time when his company was not doing well. In this election cycle Schwartz has donated over $600,000 directly to the Democrats or directly to Democrat candidates including Hillary Clinton and Sen. Ted Kennedy. Schwartz denies buying access. Another company that denies it has insider access at the highest level is the trading firm Goldman Sachs. Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin worked at Goldman Sachs before coming to the Clinton administration to run money policy. Documents obtained using the Freedom of Information Act show that Gore campaign chairman Commerce Secretary William Daley met in October 1997 with Goldman Sachs and the leader of an Asian firm reported to be "an intelligence-collection front for China." The documents show that then Commerce Secretary Daley met with Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing during a closed luncheon sponsored by the powerful investment firm Goldman Sachs. Daley currently operates and controls Al Gore's campaign. Li Ka-Shing's company, Hutchison Whampoa, currently operates and controls the two ports on the Panama Canal, the Pacific port of Balboa and the Atlantic port of Cristobal. The meeting was held onboard the Goldman Sachs' boat "Monkey's Uncle" as part of an informal "talk" between Secretary Daley, Li and several "influential business people." The documents show that Daley's meeting onboard the "Monkey's Uncle" included a Mr. Duo from China Resources, a firm reported by Senator Fred Thompson, R. Tenn., to be "an agent of espionage -- economic, military, and political -- for China." After the Daley meeting, Goldman Sachs was given the exclusive and very lucrative stock offering for Petrochina, an oil company wholly owned by the Chinese government. One other major stockholder in Petrochina is, of course, Chinese tycoon Li Ka-Shing. In the 2000 campaign, the Goldman Sachs Political Action Committee alone has donated over $200,000 split evenly between Republican and Democrat candidates. Still, China is not alone when it comes to corruption politics. The newly found capitalists in Beijing do have some strange bedfellows. For example, the U.S. energy industry is not lacking for attention from inside the Clinton/Gore fundraising machine. Federal Election Commission records show that Mission Energy CEO John Bryson donated money to the Clinton/Gore campaign and contributed money to Clinton's legal defense fund. Mission Energy is also a partner of Indonesia's Lippo group, a consortium part-owned by Indonesian billionaire Moctar Riady and the Chinese army-owned finance company CITIC. Moctar Riady is also accused of illegally donating money to the Clinton-Gore political campaigns. In 1994, Edison Mission Energy landed a trade trip with Ron Brown to Indonesia. As a result of that trip, Mission Energy ended up with a contract to build the Paiton I Indonesian coal fired power plant. Previously released documents from the U.S. Commerce Department clearly show that the Paiton I project was actually filled with known corruption from President Suharto's administration. Paiton I was billed as the first "private" electric plant in Indonesia. However, private ownership in Indonesia equated into owned and operated by the Suharto "First Family." The partners in the Paiton I consortium included Edison Mission Energy, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. of Japan, General Electric Capital Corporation, and P.T. Batu Hitam Perkasa. Just by co-incidence, of course, P.T. Batu was owned by Indonesian dictator Suharto's youngest daughter, Titek Prabowo, and her brother-in-law, Hashim Djojohadikusumo. Prawabo's brother-in-law, Hashim, also received an exclusive, no bid, no-cut contract to supply coal for the power plant. Hashim's financial backer in his coal mining business is Moctar Riady and the Lippo Group. The U.S. State Department characterized the over-priced coal contract with Hashim as "the Achilles Heel" of Paiton Swasta I. Nor did Edison Mission Energy miss any opportunity to use its inside influence using former members of the Clinton-Gore administration. One Commerce document noted that "Warren Christopher is on Edison Mission's board of directors." According to Commerce, ".75%" of the Paiton project was reserved for Suharto's daughter Prabowo. Prabowo's cut amounted to an instant $15 million in cash. Her kickback, along with a cut for "brother-in-law" Hashim and various other Suharto relatives, was provided up front, in cash, in the form of a $50 million loan. The $50 million loan was to be paid back by the profits (dividends) returned from the $2.6 billion Paiton project. Today, the Paiton I power contract is invalid. The Indonesian courts ruled, based on the documented evidence presented here, that the multibillion dollar electric deal with Edison Mission Energy was corrupt from the beginning. The power plant is shut down and silent. The price of corruption was the fact that no one could afford to pay for the power from Paiton I. Clinton-Gore officials were keenly aware of the Indonesian dictator and his greedy relatives. An October 1998 State Department cable from U.S. Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy shows that Clinton administration officials met with Indonesian Director General of Electricity Endro Utomo Notodisoerjo. Endro, according to the cable, was more than honest about the Indonesian president. 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