Magnequench, the Clintons, and Money from China

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 11:00 PM PDT

2008/05/03 · 23:00

The involvement of the Clinton administration in the sale of defense contractor Magnequench to Chinese interests and the subsequent closure of Magnequench's manufacturing plant in Valparaiso (davidsirota) (PLS) has reached the fringes of the MSM. Hillary, of course continues to attempt to pin the fault on the Bush administration.
But the fact of the matter is that the Clintons’ financial relationship with China from the 1990’s to the present is murky at best if not down right suspicious. Were a serious investigation to come to light, I would suspect Hillary would be kept talking out of both sides of her mouth at the same time from now until the cows came home.
Here are a few of the multitude of articles a simple Google search turns up from most recent working backwards:

Two articles about unlikely donations to Hillary from poor Chinese neighborhoods in New York and San Francisco

http://www.latimes.com/...

http://online.wsj.com/...

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Monday January 17, 2005 · 6:11 PM PST

2005/01/17 · 18:11

The National Research Commission on Elections and Voting was created by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in October of 2004 allegedly as a non-partisan independent initiative intended to bring scholarly research, knowledge and perspective to bear on improving the integrity of the electoral process, regardless of the outcome of the November 2nd election. http://election04.ssrc.org/pressrelease/October2004.pdf

However in my mind while it might be bipartisan it is very unlikely that the National Research Commission on Elections and Voting is a genuinely independent research group since the SSRC itself appears to be a tool of the corporate elite as of the 16 members of the SSCR Board of Directors, I've been able to identify at least five including the Chair of the Board as being members of the Council of Foreign Relations simply from checking the SSCR's own biographies or the Board members own Curriculum Vitae.They are:

http://www.ssrc.org/inside/about/board_of_directors.page

Lisa Anderson - Chair of the Board

Barry Eichengreen

Stanley N. Katz

Orville Schell

Kathryn Sikkink

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Friday November 19, 2004 · 1:43 AM PST

2004/11/19 · 01:43

Kudos to lawnorder 's excellent diary, Keith Olbermann: It's Berkeley vs Caltech http://dailykos.com/story/2004/11/18/1859/7077

And thanks, lawnorder, for making reference to my own diatribe against the the November 11, 2004 Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) report entitled Voting Machines and the Underestimate of the Bush Vote" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/14/03617/399

There are three associations connected with the Caltech/MIT VTP that I find unsavory.

MIT political scientists Charles Stewart and Stephen Ansolabehere both received Fellowships at the rabidly right wing Hoover Institution freeper factory, funded by just about every rich wingnut foundation in existence.
Caltech political scientists Ramon Michael Alvarez and Jonathan N. Katz received John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellowships. The Olin Foundation spends millions a year to promote conservative programs in the country's most prestigious colleges.

3)David Baltimore is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

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Saturday November 13, 2004 · 9:36 PM PST

2004/11/13 · 21:36

I thought it odd that the November 11, 2004 Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) report entitled Voting Machines and the Underestimate of the Bush Vote would focus so narrowly on justifying the discrepancy between the exit polls and the actual vote without ever mentioning that the openness to fraud of the electronic vote tabulation that they delineated in the July 2001 95 page report from the Caltech/ MIT VTP. entitled Voting: What Is, What Could Be.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/pdfs/VotingMachines3.pdf
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/VTP_report_all.pdf
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