Airline links Sen Fienstine to Cuba; has Bilderberg ties; gets gov't contract.

ASTAR Air Cargo, Inc., of Wilmington, Ohio, is being awarded one of nine multiple awards of an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, fixed-price contract with a total maximum value of $400,000,000 (base year plus three one-year options). The contract award value is $2,500.00. The contractor is to perform international express delivery of packages and letters weighing 300 lbs or less. Work will be performed internationally. The performance period is from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2011. Contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured and nine offers were received. The United States Transportation Command Directorate of Acquisition, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity (HTC711-08-D-0001).

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2007/09/dod-contracts_3599.htm
http://www.defenselink.mil/Contracts/Contract.aspx?ContractID=3599

First, I think this is a typo $2,500.00. Since when does the government do anything for $2500?

   Astar Ari Cargo, formerly DHL Airways, still flys the colors of and logo of DHL. Only the name and the management has changed. After a petition was filed by FedEx and UPS claiming that DHL Airways violated a rule stating that foreign interests could not own more then 25% of an US based airline. The was the Approximate share of Deutsch Post's interest in the company. They spun off the company to three investors in the US. Meanwhile “On 13 December 2005[1] Deutsch Post World Net announced the completion of the acquisition of Exel plc, becoming the global No. 1 in air freight, ocean freight and contract logistics. Consequently Exel's stock listing on the London Stock Exchange was canceled as of 13 December 2005. “

Klaus Zumwinkel, CEO of Deutsch Post attended the 2002 annual Bilderberg Meeting, held that year at Westfields Marriott hotel, Chantilly, Virginia, US, between 30 May 2002 and 2 June 2002.

In 2003 DHL Airways was sold.

“In July 2003, a US investment group headed by John Dasburg (now chairman, Chief Executive and President of the Airline), completed the purchase of the airline using financing provided by Boeing Capital and subsequently changed the name to ASTAR Air Cargo. As with DHL Airways, it will continue to operate primarily for DHL Worldwide Express. Most of its planes are painted in the yellow and red DHL livery. It is owned by Dasburg (37%), Blum (33%) and Michael Klein (30%).

John Dasburg former CEO of Burger King, former CFO of Marriott. Can you tell me that the CFO of Marriott might have had something to do with hosting the previous years Bilderberg convention?

Richard Blum, again guilt by association;

“Senator Dianne Feinstein's link to Cuba”
Feinstein is married to investment banker Richard C. Blum.
ASTAR Airlines was fined in 2004 for making payments to a Cuban government entity for DHL Airlines, of which Blum is s a 33% owner.
Blum was a board member during the ASTAR payment-to-Cuba time frame.
( Blum is also the head of URS Group Inc., a corporation that gets lucrative Homeland Security and Iraq contracts.)
"URS is one of the largest engineering firms worldwide and a leading U.S. federal government contractor. URS primarily focuses on providing professional and technical services in the engineering, construction services and defense markets."
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover090706.htm

The world's largest international air express network, DHL, relies on us every day.
So does the U.S. Postal Service

“DHL has a minor partnership with the USPS, which allows DHL to deliver small packages to the recipient through the USPS network. This service, called DHL@Home, saves DHL from making expensive trips to residential areas to deliver a single package.
DHL is well known for the ability to offer freight and package shipping service worldwide, to areas such as Iraq and Burma. As it is German owned, DHL is not affected by the U.S. embargoes and will ship to Cuba[1] or North Korea. [2]...””

On September 16, 2005 DHL won a High Court injunction establishing an exclusion zone around each of its 288 buildings in the UK as well as the homes of its 18,000 UK employees. The firm has been the subject of a campaign of intimidation because of their business with Huntingdon Life Sciences. The judge, Mr. Justice Bean, banned protesters from coming within 50 yards of any DHL premises or the homes of their employees as well as any organized demonstration within 100 yards unless the police had been given four hours notice. The injunction also protects anyone doing business with DHL from intimidation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHL

Michel Kline

   “Michel Kline, is CEO of Global Banking at Citigroup. In 2001, he was named Investment Banker of the Year by Investment Dealers Digest and one of Fortune magazine’s 25 Global Leaders to watch. Mr. Klein is a member of the Board of IHS Inc., General Motors Acceptance Corporation, LLC, the Chairman’s Committee and Board of the London Investment Bankers Association, The Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue, The Investment Advisory Board of the Prime Minister of Turkey, the Advisory Board for the National Football League, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center Board of Trustees. “

http://www.citigroup.com/citigroup/profiles/klein/index.htm

“Michael Klein was appointed Co-President, Corporate and Investment Banking effective February 2007, with primary responsibilities for corporate client coverage and Global Transaction Services across Citigroup. Specifically, the Investment Bank, the Global Relationship Bank and Emerging Markets Corporate Bank come under his leadership. Mr. Klein is a member of the business Heads Group, the Operating Committee and Management Committee of Citigroup and he also Co-chairs the Planning Group of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of Citigroup International PLC. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of Global Banking, a position he held since the Groups inception in February 2004 Prior to this, he was CEO of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) “

http://www.endeavor.co.za/MichaelKleinBiography/tabid/3496/Default.aspx

   So it seems to me, lets play a little Columbo here. Am I the only one that wouldn't think of the Marriott to be the sort of world class destination for the leaders of the have-to-pay world? What are the odds that one could be the CFO of a Hotel and knot know that the richest people in the world were going to be staying at one of your hotels? Wouldn't you stay off the guest list if you were listed as an employee? Hmm... Now Mr. Dasburg has already proved himself as more then some motel manager. He is also the former CEO of Burger King that brought it out of a slump, CEO of Northwest Air lines. Less than a month after the Bilderberg conference he sued Nothwest for $400k. Now it's possible that if he had a 5% share of stock in 2003 (I wonder how much stock $400k would of bought you back in 2002? I don't know but if it sold for $57 million then , that he could of worked out a deal with Zumwinkel the year before. All this money had to get handled somehow, and thats where Klein would have been called in. So now we've got a federal probe that has been avoided by selling a company to American interests within the Bilderberg group. Now what do they do, business as usual. Only one problem, all that business with Cuba that was OK, didn't slip under the radar, Blum's wife (Senator Dianne Feinstein) was linked to the communist country through him.

Then what is this in 2007 Astar is selling shares to DHL?

“DHL added another airline to its line-up this spring with the acquisition of a stake in Astar Air Cargo...The integrator had acquired a 49 percent stake in Astar in early June along with a 24.9 percent voting interest, the maximum position in US airlines allowed to non-US entities. “

http://www.cargonewsasia.com/secured/article.aspx?id=15&article=13886

to be continued I'm sure.