02-21-2020, 05:55 PM
Abramovich-steel, Barrack, Broidy, Hudson
On 24 January 2017, one of President Donald Trump’s first actions in office was to sign an executive order to approve the Keystone XL (owned by TransCanada).
40 percent of the steel for the Keystone XL pipeline, by 2015 550 miles of steel pipe was manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz; for 31% owned by Russian Lubavitcher Roman Abramovich, who’s close to both Putin and Trump.
Evraz owns 3 steel mills in the US, but the pipes for Keystone XL project were produced in its Regina mill in Saskatchewan, Canada: https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/13/ab...e-xl-steel
Roman Abramovich’s Evraz Group SA also produces 75% of the pipes for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada. Most of it is also produced in Evraz’s Regina mill.
Abramovich once gave a $25-million yacht to his long-time ally Vladimir Putin: https://theenergymix.com/2018/05/18/excl...line-deal/
It remains difficult to figure out what’s going on behind the scenes with all of these contradictory stories.
After the start of the blockade against Qatar, Tom Barrack contacted then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, to help contain the “fallout”.
From November 2017 to January 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) detained Saudi Prince Al-Waleed, Barrack’s former business partner, in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton. 9/11, Alwaleed gave $10 million to New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (who returned his check?!?).
Multibillionaire Alwaleed bought Trump’s yacht (who in turn had bought it from arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi) when Donald had cash flow problems in the late 1980s.
The UAE bought a $70 million stake in a Los Angeles office tower partly owned by Barrack’s Colony Capital.
Colony sold a stake in France’s Accor SA to a Saudi wealth fund.
In April 2018, Barrack helped arrange a meeting between Trump and Qatar’s new emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who had bought the Paris Saint-Germain soccer club from Barrack in 2012.
In May 2018, Barrack flew to Doha to meet Emir Tamim.
Barrack once suggested to an investor to donate to the Rebuilding America Now super PAC, headed by Paul Manafort’s family friend, Laurance Gay, who hired Manafort deputy Rick Gates.
Rebuilding America Now got some controversial publicity for continuing to pay $35,000 monthly long after the election: http://archive.is/aZBFS
Thomas Barrack was also a business partner of Ghislaine Maxwell’s close associate Richard Branson when they bought the British cinema interests of MGM in 1995, creating Virgin Cinemas.
In 1998, Barrack with Blackstone bought London’s Savoy Hotel.
In February 2019, Barrack made a controversial statement for which he later apologised, when he praised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and said “The atrocities in America are equal or worse to the atrocities in Saudi Arabia”: http://archive.is/M2Dhu
Beny Steinmetz’s business partner Elliott Broidy (Steve Mnuchin’s friend) also sat on the board of the influential Republican Jewish Coalition, a group funded by Trump’s largest donor Sheldon Adelson that is close to Benjamin Netanyahu. Broidy had to step down from both this board and as deputy finance chair at the Republican National Committee after he claimed that he’d gotten Playboy bunny Shera Bechard pregnant, and had Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen pay her $1.6 million to keep quiet.
The United Arab Emirates paid Broidy $2.5 million to lobby for the Qatar blockade through a Canadian company.
Broidy approached the Adelson funded think tank Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to host the conference on Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, paid for by Broidy. Broidy also financed a second similar conference in October 2017 by another think tank, the Hudson Institute. Hudson once launched Nina Rosenwald’s Gatestone Institute: https://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/republica...n-emerges/
(http://web.archive.org/web/2019040320141...n-emerges/)
Since 2005, Kenneth R. Weinstein is Hudson’s president. He has previously worked at the Heritage Foundation, the New Citizenship Project, the Israel-based Shalem Center (home to the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies), Claremont McKenna College, and Georgetown University.
In July 2013, President Obama nominated Kenneth R. Weinstein for the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
In September 2018, he was appointed to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations by President Trump.
In December 2019, it was reported that President Donald selected Weinstein as US Ambassador to Japan: http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/obama-nomin...governors/
On 24 January 2017, one of President Donald Trump’s first actions in office was to sign an executive order to approve the Keystone XL (owned by TransCanada).
40 percent of the steel for the Keystone XL pipeline, by 2015 550 miles of steel pipe was manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz; for 31% owned by Russian Lubavitcher Roman Abramovich, who’s close to both Putin and Trump.
Evraz owns 3 steel mills in the US, but the pipes for Keystone XL project were produced in its Regina mill in Saskatchewan, Canada: https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/13/ab...e-xl-steel
Roman Abramovich’s Evraz Group SA also produces 75% of the pipes for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada. Most of it is also produced in Evraz’s Regina mill.
Abramovich once gave a $25-million yacht to his long-time ally Vladimir Putin: https://theenergymix.com/2018/05/18/excl...line-deal/
It remains difficult to figure out what’s going on behind the scenes with all of these contradictory stories.
After the start of the blockade against Qatar, Tom Barrack contacted then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, to help contain the “fallout”.
From November 2017 to January 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) detained Saudi Prince Al-Waleed, Barrack’s former business partner, in the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton. 9/11, Alwaleed gave $10 million to New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (who returned his check?!?).
Multibillionaire Alwaleed bought Trump’s yacht (who in turn had bought it from arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi) when Donald had cash flow problems in the late 1980s.
The UAE bought a $70 million stake in a Los Angeles office tower partly owned by Barrack’s Colony Capital.
Colony sold a stake in France’s Accor SA to a Saudi wealth fund.
In April 2018, Barrack helped arrange a meeting between Trump and Qatar’s new emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who had bought the Paris Saint-Germain soccer club from Barrack in 2012.
In May 2018, Barrack flew to Doha to meet Emir Tamim.
Barrack once suggested to an investor to donate to the Rebuilding America Now super PAC, headed by Paul Manafort’s family friend, Laurance Gay, who hired Manafort deputy Rick Gates.
Rebuilding America Now got some controversial publicity for continuing to pay $35,000 monthly long after the election: http://archive.is/aZBFS
Thomas Barrack was also a business partner of Ghislaine Maxwell’s close associate Richard Branson when they bought the British cinema interests of MGM in 1995, creating Virgin Cinemas.
In 1998, Barrack with Blackstone bought London’s Savoy Hotel.
In February 2019, Barrack made a controversial statement for which he later apologised, when he praised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and said “The atrocities in America are equal or worse to the atrocities in Saudi Arabia”: http://archive.is/M2Dhu
Beny Steinmetz’s business partner Elliott Broidy (Steve Mnuchin’s friend) also sat on the board of the influential Republican Jewish Coalition, a group funded by Trump’s largest donor Sheldon Adelson that is close to Benjamin Netanyahu. Broidy had to step down from both this board and as deputy finance chair at the Republican National Committee after he claimed that he’d gotten Playboy bunny Shera Bechard pregnant, and had Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen pay her $1.6 million to keep quiet.
The United Arab Emirates paid Broidy $2.5 million to lobby for the Qatar blockade through a Canadian company.
Broidy approached the Adelson funded think tank Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to host the conference on Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, paid for by Broidy. Broidy also financed a second similar conference in October 2017 by another think tank, the Hudson Institute. Hudson once launched Nina Rosenwald’s Gatestone Institute: https://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/republica...n-emerges/
(http://web.archive.org/web/2019040320141...n-emerges/)
Since 2005, Kenneth R. Weinstein is Hudson’s president. He has previously worked at the Heritage Foundation, the New Citizenship Project, the Israel-based Shalem Center (home to the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies), Claremont McKenna College, and Georgetown University.
In July 2013, President Obama nominated Kenneth R. Weinstein for the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
In September 2018, he was appointed to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations by President Trump.
In December 2019, it was reported that President Donald selected Weinstein as US Ambassador to Japan: http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/obama-nomin...governors/
The Order of the Garter rules the world: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5549#p5549