Maggie's Farm

What is amusing about Obama/Rezko/Auchi is that the 'once removed' from the supporters of tyrants, terrorists and the mafia (both old Italian and new Red) is just the latest in a series of 'once removed' associations of Mr. Auchi with high level politicians in: UK, France, Syria, US, Italy, and Canada.

That is the sort of analysis that no longer makes it sweetness and light trying to point out the corruption of merely small time Chi-town pols but gets into the old 'international influence peddling' business at the scale of tens of billions of dollars. Looking at that (http://ajacksonian.blog spot.com/2008/03/connecting-some-dots-between-candidates.html) and then seeing the finger-pointing brings up the lack of finger-pointing at many, many, many more individuals. Including other Presidential candidates from both parties.

Looking at the ties between corrupt banks, offshore financial institutions lacking accountability, terrorism, organized crime, and politics leads one into all sorts of nasty side-alleys that those doing partisan reporting and analysis just will not go into over the long haul.

Looking deeper at those ties sees individuals who have gotten control of such things as the central asian ex-Soviet Republics oil and natural gas concerns and are using them to go after Iran... not for the benefit of the west, but due to the fact that the Red Mafia in control of those ex-Soviet supplies have entry into the Iranian market, have scoped it out, and realize they can run the place better than the current regime.... at least where oil and gas is concerned.

Shift to the other side of the planet and we can remain witness to the Bank of New York scandal that is so complex, so deep, and has so many 'cut outs' on deals (both mere paper and fraudulent banking of the electronic sort) that the best investigators on this sort of thing still, to this day, have not leveraged charges beyond more than a couple of local operators in the US and UK. This for a banking fraud system that came to span from China to San Francisco going west... that set of associated systems dwarfs: BNL, BCCI and, really, any other single banking fraud in the modern world and parts of it, especially the Russian and off-shore parts set up as 'tax havens' and having little to no accountability, not only continue on to this day but have supports in the tax code and banking system.... mostly put in by a 'bipartisan' Congressional outlook.

If you attack one candidate on this and decry 'corruption' then, please, do the same for the rest and be fair about it. There is more than enough to go around, and each have their associations and problems in this area. Only the 'fringe' candidates appear to have had little to do with this, but then they weren't backed by monied interests, now, were they?

And if you really like to ask questions, then one can ask what the ties are between ex. Gov. Spitzer and Nadhmi Auchi, along with why Mr. Spitzer did not seek to prosecute BNP-Paribas in a timely way. That leads to the Putnam funds in the US and their sudden decline with bits being picked up by the Desmarais family in Canada, also backers of Mr. Auchi. That little problem happened within the 5 years or so, fully under the watch of this President. Looking at that, however, goes beyond Oil For Food and into the penetration of corrupt banking into the US.

Can't have that, now, can we?