Cheryl Seal
URL: The Roots of the Bush-Cheney's Oil Government
Wed Sep 25 16:06:53 2002
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The Model for Bush Globalization
The Roots of the Bush-Cheney's Oil Government

Nightmare in Indonesia: The Roots of the Bush-Cheney's Oil Government
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/bush-cheney.htm

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FROM WACO, TEXAS, THE POWERS THAT BE!

According to The New York Times, former UT System Regents Chairman
Bernard Rapoport hired Webster Hubbell for a joint venture with the
Riady family in Indonesia during the brief time before Hubbell's federal
imprisonment. This shocker should end naive beliefs that the cozy and
profitable relationships between the individuals who ran this system and
Indonesian interests was above-board.

Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr is investigating these and other
enormous payments, totaling $400,000, to determine if they were
"hush money" related in any way to Hubbell's decision to not
cooperate with federal investigators. Appearances of impropriety
include frequent visits to Hubbell in prison by the Clintons'
close personal friends, to remind him the Clintons still "cared."

The Lippo Group, an Indonesian conglomerate run by the Riadys,
helped introduce since-disgraced fund-raiser John Huang to the
Clinton administration, which later endorsed Rapoport's $2 billion
Chinese real-estate project. Rapoport's public service to
Texas served his private interests well. Clinton has claimed
ignorance of these "indefensible" payments from his good friends
and his best friend.

We can no longer deny the coinciding of Rapoport's sudden
interest in hiring Hubbell as his lawyer, and the large consulting
compensation paid to UT System Chancellor William Cunningham by
Jim Bob Moffett and Freeport-McMoRan -- a large and
controversial corporate presence in Indonesia.

We now expect the Justice Department's investigation to shift south,
to the Democratic Leadership Council. This group was co-founded by
Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana, who helped Moffett intimidate our
faculty last year. This cozy relationship suggests our system
administration lacks integrity.

This sad possibility is supported by other events. Last year, we lost
a "whistle-blower" lawsuit in which a plaintiff alleged the University
deliberately undercollected royalties from oil and gas producers
with ties to administrators.

Now there are allegations of administrators being forced to
contribute to the DNC.

Students, faculty and staff are completely unaware of the alleged sleazy
machinations. Perhaps our traditional reliance on the Democratic Party's
support of higher education has left us vulnerable to its recent
indiscretions.

Perhaps UT President Robert Berdahl had some of these consideration in
mind when he accepted the chancellorship at Cal-Berkeley. Berdahl is a
man of principle, he may have felt totally out of place within the
highest levels of the UT System.
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