European's ENRON

posted by ewing2001 on Monday December 22, @01:39PM

How to Say "Enron" in Italian

Deutsche Welle -22.12.2003

Casting new doubt on European corporate governance, leading Italian food group Parmalat announced last week the firm had a €4-billion discrepancy in its books. The accounting scandal is already being compared to Enron.

Parmalat, one of the world’s biggest dairy companies and a key part of corporate Italy, shocked the country on Friday by admitting €3.95 billion ($4.89 billion) supposedly held by its Bonlat financing unit in the Cayman Islands did not exist.

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Carlyle Counselor Baker to press East Asia on Iraq

posted by ewing2001 on Monday December 22, @01:32PM

Baker to press East Asia on Iraq

CNN -Tuesday, December 23, 2003

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Presidential envoy James A. Baker will try to persuade Japan, South Korea and China to help reduce Iraq's crushing debt during visits later this month, the White House has announced.

Baker will meet with leaders in Tokyo and Seoul, South Korea, on December 29, and Beijing a day later, the White House said Monday.

The former U.S. secretary of state has already visited Paris, Rome, Berlin, London and Moscow.

Iraq owes about $40 billion, including interest, to members of the Paris Club, an umbrella organization of creditor nations that conducts debt negotiations.

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U.S. Electricity for Iraq

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday October 05, @07:58AM

4 U.S. Companies Will Try to Restore Electricity in Iraq

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Richard Perle among this year's Bilderberg Conference Members

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday May 18, @06:09PM

http://www.bilderberg.org/2003.htm

Bilderberg Conferences- exclusive report from Watchgroup Bilderberg.org

Bilderberg security - trianon pk hotel
VERSAILLES, 10:00, Sat 17May03, Tony Gosling:

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Sofia and King Juan-Carlos of Spain, Paavo Lipponen (former Prime Minister of Finland), Henry Kissinger, Kenneth Clarke and Richard Perle have all been positively identified among the guests arriving at Versailles' Trianon Park hotel for this years exclusive and secret Bilderberg meeting. Bilderberg is made up of central bankers, press barons, government ministers, prime ministers and royalty, the most powerful people in the western world, and always takes place close to the G8 meeting one or two weeks before it.

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