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The City of Paris has struck a corporate partnership with French industrial giant, Lafarge, recently accused of secretly sponsoring the Islamic State (Isis or Daesh) for profit.
Documents obtained by several journalistic investigations reveal that Lafarge has paid taxes to the terror group to operate its cement plant in Syria, and even bought Isis oil for years.
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Lafarge also has close ties to Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Apart from being a regular donor to the Clinton Foundation, Clinton herself was a director of Lafarge in the early 1990s, and did legal work for the firm in the 1980s. During her connection to Lafarge, the firm was implicated in facilitating a CIA-backed covert arms export network to Saddam Hussein.
But Lafarge leads quite a charmed existence.
Among its earliest benefactors was former First Lady and current presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton.
From 1990 to 1992, Clinton served on Lafarge’s Board of Directors. Under her tenure, Lafarge’s Ohio subsidiary was caught burning hazardous waste to fuel cement plants. Clinton defended the decision at the time.
Then just before her husband, Bill Clinton, was elected president in 1992, Lafarge was fined $1.8 million by the Environmental Protection Agency for these pollution violations. Hillary Clinton had left the board of Lafarge in spring, just after her husband won the Democrat nomination. A year later, under Bill’s presidency, the Clinton administration reduced Lafarge’s EPA fine to less than $600,000.
In the late 1980s, according to an archived investigative report in the American Spectator, Hillary Clinton was connected to Lafarge when the firm was involved in facilitating CIA support for Saddam Hussein’s secret weapons programme.
The American Spectator report from November 1996 cited sources confirming that Hillary Clinton did legal work for Lafarge in the late 1980s before she became a director.
Lafarge remains close to the Clintons to this day.
In 2013, Lafarge’s Executive Vice President for Operations, Eric Olson, was a ‘featured attendee’ at the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual meeting.
The company is a regular donor to the Clinton Foundation – the firm’s up to $100,000 donation was listed in its annual donor list for 2015. Lafarge is also listed again as a donor to the Clinton Foundation for the first quarter of 2016.
Lafarge is a major beneficiary of disaster capitalism in Iraq, dominating a market where Iraq’s infrastructure remains in dire need of hundreds of billions of dollars in investment. The company describes itself as “one of the largest non-oil investors in Iraq.”
The firm is not just an economic juggernaut. Its murky history of intelligence ties, and significant political clout in France and the US – the countries leading the airstrikes against Isis in Syria – raise the question of whether Lafarge believes it can profit from terror without accountability.
originally posted by: bknapple32
Its amazing how no reputable outlet has picked this up as fact.
originally posted by: bknapple32
Its amazing how no reputable outlet has picked this up as fact.
originally posted by: bknapple32
Its amazing how no reputable outlet has picked this up as fact.
The firm is not just an economic juggernaut. Its murky history of intelligence ties, and significant political clout in France and the US – the countries leading the airstrikes against Isis in Syria – raise the question of whether Lafarge believes it can profit from terror without accountability.
originally posted by: thesungod
So it appears they were running guns out of Benghazi...
The plot thickens.
Eric Olsen
Group Executive Vice President Operations
Lafarge
Clinton Global Initiative (CGI): our commitment for 10,000 microfinance projects by the end of 2015
On the 23rd of September Eric Olsen, Executive Vice-President Operations, represented our Group at the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, which Lafarge recently joined. On this occasion, Eric Olsen announced a strong commitment: by the end of 2015, we aim to reach a run rate of 10,000 microfinance housing projects per year, positively affecting the lives of 80,000 people.
Over the past two years, we have developed a unique portfolio of affordable housing solutions in different regions of the world, including microfinance for affordable housing, slum renovation, earth-cement solutions and social housing. Through this commitment as a member of the CGI, we are significantly scaling up our efforts and taking a first step towards achieving our Sustainability Ambition 2020 to enable 2 million people to have access to affordable, sustainable housing.
To react to our commitment and follow our progress towards achieving this, check out our Group Twitter account @LafargeGroup (New window), with the special hashtag #Lafarge10khomes.
Read more: www.lafarge.com...
Follow us: @lafargegroup on Twitter | Lafarge on Facebook
Hillary Clinton was on the board of directors of LaFarge cement when they shifted from burning natural gas to burning toxic wastes to heat their cement kilns. Toxic waste incineration synthesizes thousands of new chemicals that do not occur in nature. Many of them, especially those based on chlorine, are bio accumulators and disruptive to mammalian life forms. Burning hazardous wastes with petrochemicals and chlorine create new "products of incomplete combustion" that are among the most toxic substances invented during the 20th century, including dioxins and furans, which are carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic.
Hillary was also involved in legal work for the notorious WTI (Waste Technologies Industries) toxic waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio, located next to an elementary school and financed by Arkansas based banker Jackson Stephens. Perhaps the Clintons could recommend that the citizens of that sad town should not inhale.
Hillary Clinton is a former member of Lafarge's board of directors --- a work-free job for which she received about $31,000 a year
Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd., which was founded in 1983, paid The Podesta Group $390,000 starting last year to lobby the Senate and House on “international banking issues,” according to disclosure forms filed with the Senate.
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Islami Bank Bangladesh (IBB) decision to hire the Podesta Group was part of a ramped up effort to limit reputational and financial damage it sustained after the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations published a report in July 2012 tying the group to Islamist terrorist groups.
The subcommittee found that IBB “provided an account to a Bangladeshi accused of involvement with a terrorist bombing, and had been fined three times…in connection with providing bank services to ‘militants.'”
Several of the bank’s top officials are members of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic fundamentalist group that fought against Bengali independence in 1971. One of the bank’s directors is Mir Quasem Ali. He was sentenced to death in Bangladesh in 2014 after being convicted on war crimes charges for his role in the 1971 independence fight.
How cement manufacturer Lafarge worked with the Islamic state in Syria
The French group Lafarge cement plant in Jalabiya, in northern Syria , paid taxes to the organization Islamic state between 2013 and 2014, to continue to operate during the war. This is demonstrated by a survey published by Le Monde, Tuesday, June 21 Inaugurated in 2010, the cement Jalabiya, in the northeast of Syria, was the flagship of the French cement producer in the Middle East . But the following year, civil war broke out. The factory management has sought to do work as long as possible in an environment dangerous and unstable.
A From 2013, the presence of the organization Islamic State (EI) in the region has forced the cement to negotiate rights of passage at checkpoints manned by the jihadists for its trucks. It was also necessary to provide to the traders oil , whose fields were required by the EI. For a little over a year, Lafarge has indirectly funded jihadist organization. Until the EI seizes site September 19, 2014 Lafarge and cease its activities.