Here is another great thread on the issue:
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=197011.120Five days after the Minot Mystery another mystery took place-- Aviation adventurer Steve Fossett went missing in Nevada.
BUSINESS CONNECTIONS OF STEVE FOSSETT:
Lakota Trading: Fossett formed Lakota Trading Inc. in 1980, the largest "market maker" firm in the country that matches buyers and sellers of options on the floor
Marathon Securities Ltd: one of Fossett’s companies. When Barrick Gold offered to buy all the shares of Sutton Ltd., (gold and silver wholesale jewelers), Marathon Securities was the dealer for the transactions..
The chairman of Barrick Gold is Peter Munk; Geroge H W Bush is on the board. Barrick Gold funded Al Gore’s speaking tour of Latin American. Gore has the exact same financial and political backers as Barrick Gold. These include the Bush family and major figures in the global Anglo-Dutch financial oligarchy and raw materials cartels.
George H.W. Bush sits on Barrick's International Advisory Board, along with former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Barrick Chairman Peter Munk, a protégé of the British royal family, is a member of the environmentalist millionaires' grouping known as the "1001 Club," along with genocidalist Maurice Strong.
BARRICK GOLD was implementing a project to mine gold, copper and silver from 2 glaciers in Chile. This would destroy the glaciers – project (pascua lama) planned by a multi-national corporation, one of the members is Bush Sr.
Companies developing the project: Company Minera Nevada S.A. in Chile, and Barrick Exploraciones Argentina S.A. and Exploraciones Mineras Argentinas S.A., in Argentin
Toronto-based Barrick Gold was in the forefront of an "economic invasion" of the minerals-rich nation of Zaire. In 1996, (A handful of groupings has posted exposés published by EIR in the late 1990s on Barrick's role in African genocide, and its links to the covert intelligence apparatus run by former President George H.W. Bush)
A meeting was held in Lubumbashi in May 1997 to “parcel out” the riches.
. The participants:
* Bunting Warburg/Toronto, a dpt.of the Swiss Bankverein-Warburg;
* Goldman Sachs/Wall-Street-Investmenthouse;
* London's Hedge Fund Value Investing Partners;
* SA dpt. of German Morgan Grenfell;
* C.M. Oliver/Vancouver;
* Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce-Wood Gundy (CBIC);
* Marathon Securities;
* British Investors Yorkton Securities;
* Nile International/North-Carolina;
* British Breco International;
* London's National Securities;
* Northern Mining/Ontario.
The individuals behind Barrick Gold are so well-connected they are worth noting in detail:
Brian Mulroney: Corporate Director and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold and is an honorary trustee of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.
Peter Munk: Founder, Director; member of the International Advisory Board; and former Chief Executive Officer of Barrick Gold and the Trizec Corporation. Mr. Munk is a close friend of infamous Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khoshoggi, who was involved in financing and setting up arms deals to Iran during the Iran-Contra scandal.29 Mr. Khoshoggi helped Mr. Munk launch Barrick Gold in 1983, but later sold his shares to Mr. Munk just before details of his involvement in Iran-Contra broke in 1985.
Paul G. Desmarais Senior: Member of the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold and Chase Manhattan Bank N.A. He is a former member of the Trilateral Commission; Mr. Desmarais is a personal friend of the Bush family (Former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush is the former Chairman of Barrick Gold’s International Advisory Board [1995-1999] and was a personal golfing partner of President Mobutu31)
Gustavos Cisneros: Board Member and International Advisory Board Member of Barrick Gold. Mr Cisneros is a founding (and current) member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Director of the International Advisory Committee of Chase Manhattan Bank. In addition, he is a Trustee of Rockefeller University in New York ..., the Advisory Committee for the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and the Rockefeller University Fund.
Donald Carty: A Corporate Director of Barrick Gold, Dell, Sears, and Roebuck. He is also the Chairman of Virgin America, Porter Airlines, and is the former Chief Executive Officer of American Airlines.
Marshall Cohen: former Canadian Deputy Minister of several areas including Finance, Industry, Trade & Commerce, Energy, and Mines & Resources. He is a Corporate Director of Barrick Gold, and a former member of the Executive Committee of The British-North American Committee and The Trilateral Commission.
John Crow: Corporate Director of Barrick Gold, one-time head of the North American Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF
Brian Mulroney: Corporate Director and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold and most notably, the former Prime Minister of Canada (1984-1993). He is an honorary trustee of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Senior Partner in the Ogilvy Renault law firm.
Peter Munk: Founder, Director; member of the International Advisory Board; and former Chief Executive Officer of Barrick Gold and the Trizec Corporation. He is a member of the World Gold Council and the 1001 Club. Mr. Munk is a close friend of infamous Saudi Arabian arms dealer Adnan Khoshoggi, who was involved in financing and setting up arms deals to Iran during the Iran-Contra scandal.29 Mr. Khoshoggi helped Mr. Munk launch Barrick Gold in 1983, but later sold his shares to Mr. Munk just before details of his involvement in Iran-Contra broke in 1985.
William Cohen: Member of Barrick Gold and Intel Corporation’s International Advisory Boards, Mr. Cohen is also CNN’s World Affairs Contributor. He was the U.S. Secretary of Defense (1997-2001). He served on the Iran-Contra investigative committee in 1987. He served on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations (1989-1997) on its Middle East Study Group
Paul G. Desmarais Senior: Member of the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold and Chase Manhattan Bank N.A. He is a former member of the Trilateral Commission; Mr. Desmarais is a personal friend of the Bush family (Former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush is the former Chairman of Barrick Gold’s International Advisory Board [1995-1999]).
Vernon Jordan Junior: He was Chairman of Bill Clinton’s presidential transition team and one of his top political advisors as well.
he is a member of the Bilderberger Group, the Iraq Study Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission. He is also a member of the International Advisory Boards of Barrick Gold.
Nathaniel Rothschild: International Advisory Board member of Barrick Gold. He is also a director of The Rothschild Foundation.
Andrew Young: Member of the International Advisory Board of Barrick Gold, affiliate of the Council of Foreign Relations. He is currently a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, the Council of Foreign Relations, and is an active Freemason.
FORMER DIRECTORS:
George H. W. Bush
Howard Baker Junior - Ronald Regan’s Chief of Staff in 1987-1988.
Edward Ney: He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, and George H. W. Bush’s Ambassador to Canada (1989-1992); a reward for running Bush’s presidential ad campaign in 1988.
http://terminusreality.com/index.php?topic=9429.15 The link no longer works...I posted this four years ago on another forum:
http://www.tprconline.com/index.php?topic=27621.50