Sunday, August 28, 2011

Bronfman and Brascan

http://www.4-traders.com/PGE-13946/news/PGE-PG-E-Corporation-Names-Anthony-F-Earley-Jr-as-Chairman-Chief-Executive-Officer-and-President-13747899/
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08/09/2011 | 07:12 am

PGE : PG&E Corporation Names Anthony F.Earley, Jr., as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President

(SAN FRANCISCO) – PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG) today announced that Anthony F. Earley, Jr., 62, will become the company's new Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President. Earley's appointment – the first in PG&E's history to come from outside the organization – puts the company under the leadership of one of the nation's most experienced energy executives.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=DTE_Energy
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Compensation
In May 2007, Forbes listed DTE Energy CEO Anthony F. Earley Jr. as receiving $4.84 million in total
compensation for the latest fiscal year, with a four-year total compensation of $18.31 million. He ranked 19th on the list of CEOs in the Utilities industry, and 290th among all CEOs in the United States.[2]

http://investor.itc-holdings.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=170654

Feds Push Change to Boost Industry Competition



Detroit, MI, February 21, 2003 - Federal regulators Thursday approved DTE Energy's plans to sell its electricity transmission subsidiary to two companies for $610 million in cash.
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The company and its two New York-based buyers -- private investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and private asset manager Trimaran Capital Partners LLC -- expect to close the transmission deal before the end of this quarter. They announced the sale in December.
After the ownership of the power transmission network is transferred, an independent electric transmission system -- the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator -- will distribute power to Detroit Edison customers. Kohlberg and Trimaran have agreed to cap transmission rates for Detroit Edison customers through 2005. After that, the federal government will set the rates.
Michigan consumers will be among the first in the country to be served by an independent operator. DTE Energy's largest competitor in the state -- Dearborn-based CMS Energy Corp. -- sold its transmission system in May to a division of General Electric Co. for $290 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimaran_Capital_Partners
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Trimaran Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity firm formerly affiliated with CIBC World Markets. Trimaran is headquartered in New York City and founded by former investment bankers from Drexel Burnham Lambert. Trimaran’s predecessors were early investors in telecom and Internet businesses, most notably backing Global Crossing in 1997. Trimaran also led the first leveraged buyout of an integrated electric utility.

CIBC World Markets
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CIBC World Markets is the investment banking subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The firm operates as an investment bank both in the domestic and international equity and debt capital markets. The bank provides a variety of financial services including credit and capital market products, mergers and acquisitions, merchant banking and other investment banking advisory services.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartland_Molson
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 The team was sold in 1972 to Edward and Peter Bronfman. Senator Hartland Molson name was engraved on the Stanley Cup 6 times 1958-59-60-65-66-68. In 1973, he was inducted into the builders category of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

http://archives.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/clips/13540/
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Molson buys Montreal Canadiens

Broadcast Date: Aug. 4, 1978
Call them the Molson Canadiens. The storied Montreal hockey team has new owners – again – when Peter and Edward Bronfman sell the Canadiens to Molson breweries for $20 million. After seven profitable years, the Bronfmans said they had done all they could for the team. Molson wasn't the only beer company chasing the team, the CBC reports. The deal comes just two days after the public learned that the Canadiens had also been talking to rival brewers Labatt.

http://www.primetimecrime.com/Articles/RobertRead/Sidewinder%20page%201.htm
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By using these alliances, the Chinese government is trying to gain influence on Canadian politics by maximizing their presence over some of the country's economic levers. To that end, they proceed initially to buy and/or legally set up a company in Canada that, once under their control, buys other companies and so on. An effective domino effect ensues that acts like a well-spun web or network at strategic points. It is estimated that over 200 Canadian companies have passed into Chinese influence or ownership since the early 1980s through the triads, tycoons or China national companies. These businesses are found in various sectors of the economy, ranging from multinationals to banking, high technology and real estate (CITIC, Norinco, Husky Oil, Grand Adex Properties Inc, Merrill Lynch, Gordon Capital, Inc, Tai Foong International, CIBC, Ramada Hotels, China Vision and Semi-Tech Corporation, etc.). The triads' companies are also used to pursue their criminal activities, such as money-laundering and heroin trafficking, as well as assistance to the ChIS.  (S) 
     Being Canadian these businesses are also eligible to receive government subsidies for research or classified contracts from Federal Departments.

COMPANY NEWS; BRONFMANS IN BID FOR OLYMPIA'S UNITED STATES HOLDINGS

Published: July 26, 1995








































A group led by the Bronfman family of Toronto offered $125 million in cash yesterday as part of a $340 million bid to control Olympia & York's real estate holdings in the United States. The bid would exchange cash, loans and other interests for at least 51 percent of a new company that would control some of New York's most prestigious properties. The group includes Carena Developments Ltd., the Bronfmans' business vehicle; the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and Dragon Holdings Ltd., which is run by Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong billionaire. Olympia & York, the United States arm of Olympia & York Developments Ltd. of Toronto, is restructuring $5 billion of debt it owes on office complexes like the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan. Its buildings have already attracted the interest of Jerry Speyer and Leon Black, among others.

http://www.answers.com/topic/brookfield-properties-corporation-usa
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Donat served as the president of Canadian Arena Company until 1955 and president of the Canadiens until 1957. He died in 1963. In 1957 the Canadian Arena Company was acquired by Hartland Molson, owner of Molson Breweries of Canada Ltd. The company's primary business remained the management of the Canadiens and the Forum, which underwent a major renovation in 1968. Because of changes in Canada's tax laws, the Molson family decided to sell the Canadian Arena Company in 1971 to Placements Rondelle Ltée, owned by brothers Peter and Edward Bronfman.

Acquisition of Trizec: 1976
What became Brookfield Properties began to take shape with the 1976 acquisition of a 52 percent controlling interest in Toronto developer Trizec by the Carena Properties subsidiary. Two years later its parent company changed its name to Carena-Bancorp Holdings Inc., which was then shortened to Carena Bancorp Inc. in 1985 and became Carena Developments Limited in 1989. By acquiring Trizec, one of Canada's largest public real estate companies, Carena launched a decade of aggressive growth in real estate.

Carena took a major step in 1989 when it acquired one-third of Olympia & York Developments Ltd., which had built the World Financial Center in New York City adjacent to the World Trade Center, but was unable to cope with the collapse of the office market. Because of the Bronfmans' financial backing, Carena was able to take advantage of the recession in the early 1990s that ruined many developers. The family's Branscan Corp. bought back shares, acquiring a 95 percent stake to essentially take the company private.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Financial_Center
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The World Financial Center is a complex of buildings across West Street from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan in New York City, overlooking the Hudson River. This complex is home to offices of companies including Merrill Lynch, Nomura Group, the Wall Street Journal and American Express, as well as Dow Jones among others. The entire complex is owned by Brookfield Properties, except for the space occupied by American Express (which American Express owns). The complex also serves as the corporate headquarters for Brookfield Properties, which has its headquarters in Tower Three.
Designed by César Pelli, with Adamson Associates, the complex was built by Olympia and York between 1985 and 1988 on landfill used to build Battery Park City. The fill material came from dirt excavated during the building of the World Trade Center, as well as garbage, dirt and debris.
Portions of the complex, especially the Winter Garden, were severely damaged in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, but have since been reopened after significant repairs.
The complex has its own zip code, 10281.

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Brascan-Corporation-Company-History.html
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A Change in the Wind: 2000-04
As the new century began EdperBrascan took a new name, Brascan Corporation, but its future was uncertain. Conglomerates were on their way to extinction and investors were cheering on their demise. "In general, the market does not like the idea of conglomerates. It consistently values them at a substantial discount to asset values, a penalty imposed because of the extra corporate layer between the investor and operating companies," explained Dan Westell in Canadian Business. The massive companies countered by maintaining that their complexity gave them the advantage during tough times.
The planned breakup of Canadian Pacific Ltd. drove up Brascan's share price in 2001, as investors anticipated split-offs by three remaining Canadian conglomerates. Internal moves, including improvements in operations and capital investments and continued simplification of the corporate structure, were expected to fare well with investors even if no restructuring was in the immediate future. In addition, a New York Stock Exchange listing beginning in late 2000 brought the company to the attention of American investors.
Bruce Flatt, president and CEO of Brookfield Properties Corp., took over the post of president and CEO of Brascan Corporation in 2002, succeeding Jack Cockwell, who had tapped him as his successor. Flatt's operating results at Brookfield led him to his advancement to the head of Brascan. But it was his performance post-9/11 that solidified the choice of the young man.
When the World Trade Center fell, the nearby Brookfield properties became the subject of speculation as to their safety, driving down share price. Flatt went to New York to check out the property and brought in materials from its forest product concern to help board up blown-out windows in theirs and other buildings near ground zero.

http://www.brookfieldpower.com/content/2006/brascan_power_changes_name_to_brookfield_power_cor-768.html
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For more information please contact:
Brookfield Power
Shelley Moorhead
Director, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
Tel: (819) 561-8072
Email: shelley.moorhead@brookfieldpower.com

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/national-hydropower-association/news/article/2011/04/nha-recognizes-seven-industry-achievements-for-outstanding-accomplishment
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NHA Recognizes Seven Industry Achievements for Outstanding Accomplishment

April 5, 2011
Record number of applications for 2011 award cycle


Washington, DC (April 5, 2011) The National Hydropower Association today honored the exceptional programs and practices of seven hydropower organizations through its annual Outstanding Stewards of America's Waters (OSAW) Awards. The winners -- Ameren Missouri, Grant County Public Utility District, Brookfield Renewable Power, Turlock Irrigation District, Portland General Electric Company, Puget Sound Energy, and South Carolina Gas & Electric Company, -- have established significant, innovative projects that serve as models for the hydro industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookfield_Renewable_Power
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Brookfield Renewable Power Inc.
Brookfield Renewable Power Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management and holds a 50.01% share in Brookfield Renewable Power Fund. It is the subsidiary in which Brookfield Asset Management holds all of its renewable energy assets, whereas the Fund's scope is limited to the 1,652MW of generation capacity located in Ontario, Québec, British Columbia, and New England.[6]

http://www.cbr.ca/CompanyListing.aspx?PageNumber=0&CompanyID=3506
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Brookfield Asset Management Inc.    
Formerly known as Brascan Corporation, and prior to that, EdperBrascan Corporation
Nature of Business: Holding and management of assets globally. Through a 51.4% interest in Brookfield Properties Corporation owns and operates major office properties in North America. Also owns office properties in Australia and Europe, and retail properties in Brazil, and engages in real estate development and construction activities. Owns hydroelectric power generation facilities in Canada and the United States. Through private funds owns timberlands in western Canada, the Pacific Northwest, and Brazil. Owns power transmission systems in Chile and Brazil. Undertakes restructuring, real estate financing and bridge lending activities covering property, power and infrastructure. Manages fixed income and equity security portfolios on an advisory basis for individual and institutional investors.

http://www.c2cjournal.ca/blog-articles/view/canadian-engagement-in-latin-america-can-counter-chavez-mischief#
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Notwithstanding Canada’s historical involvement in the region, Latin Americans generally view Canada with curiosity. Brazil and Canada have a long history, somewhat marred by recent trade disputes. Brascan Ltd., the storied Canadian corporation, started as the Brazilian Traction Light & Power Company and pioneered the provision of electricity, gas, and tramway services in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in the early 1900s.

http://www.endgame.org/dtc/b.html
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BRASCADE RESOURCES see Brascan


BRASCAN4800 Commerce Court West, Toronto Ontario Canada M5L 1B7
telephone 416 363 9491
Like Edper, Brascan is a holding company controlled by the Bronfman family of Montreal. Noranda is part of Brascan; so is Brascade Resources. See also Bronfman entry.
Involved in mining in Brazil; with British Petroleum, it owns some 200 separate companies with thousands of mining claims. A cassiterite mine in Jamari National Forest, Rondonia, Brazil, was sold to Rio Tinto Zinc (The Ecologist 19(6):219-224 (1989) and the London Sunday Times, Apr. and July 19, 1989).


BRASOIL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Manmade_River
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History

False-color image of the Grand Omar Mukhtar reservoir project. Water (dark blue) residing in reservoirs appears twice in this image, in the upper right and at the bottom. Vegetation appears red, cityscape structures such as pavement and buildings appear in gray, bare ground appears tan or beige.
In 1953, efforts to find oil in southern Libya led to the discovery of large quantities of fresh water underground. The Great Man-made River Project (GMRP) was conceived in the late 1960s and work on the project began in 1984. The project's construction was divided into five phases. The first phase required 85 million m³ of excavation and was inaugurated on August 28, 1991. The second phase (dubbed First water to Tripoli) was inaugurated on September 1, 1996.
The project is owned by the Great Man-Made River Project Authority and funded by the Gaddafi government. Brown & Root and Price Brothers were responsible for the original design, and the primary contractor for the first phases was Dong Ah Consortium (a South Korean construction company) and present main contractor is Al Nahr Company Ltd. This company was registered in England and Wales as a foreign company FC017848 until July 31, 2003.
The imported goods from several worldwide countries (such as Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, etc.) destined to the construction of the GMR arrived by sea via the entry port of Marsa al-Brega (Gulf of Sirte).
The total cost of the project is projected at more than US$25 billion. Libya claims to have completed the work to date without the financial support of major countries or loans from world banks. Since 1990 UNESCO has provided training to engineers and technicians involved with the project.
The fossil aquifer from which this water is being supplied is the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System. It accumulated during the last ice age and is not currently being replenished. If 2007 rates of retrieval are not increased, the water could last a thousand years.[4][5]
A large, recently-settled lawsuit between the Libyan government and Brasoil, a subsidiary of the Brazilian national oil company, arose from the project. Brasoil was contracted to drill many of the wells in the early stages of the project.


http://www.lunagold.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=148802
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From 1983 to 1989, Jim served as the London based consulting engineer for BP Minerals International and was recognized as the driving force in changing operational practices at Cesbra's recently sold tin operations in Rondonia, Brazil -- Cesbra is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brascan Brazil, Luna's partner on the Piaba Project
see Petrobras

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/reststory/bronfmanscrime.html
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While it is well-known McCain's father-in-law is owner of the biggest Anheuser-Busch beer distributor in Arizona—one of the largest beer distributors in the nation—the media has had nothing to say about the origins of the Hensley fortune that financed McCain's rise to power.
The Hensley fortune, in fact, is a regional offshoot of the big time bootlegging and rackets empire of the Bronfman dynasty of Canada, founded by Sam Bronfman, an early partner of Meyer Lansky, longtime "chairman of the board" of the international crime syndicate. (The Bronfmans cover all bases. Sam's son, Edgar, today—at least publicly—supports George W. Bush.)
McCain's father-in-law got his start as a top henchman of one Kemper Marley who, for some forty years until his death in 1990 at age 84, was the undisputed behind-the-scenes political boss of Arizona. But Marley was much more: he was also the protege of Lansky's longtime lieutenant, Phoenix gambler Gus Greenbaum.
In 1941 Greenbaum had set up the Transamerica Publishing

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/mccain_s_mob_connections_146.html
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The Post also added, almost discretely, that Mrs. McCain’s wealth “may” exceed $100 million (although most sources estimate it is worth $200 million or more) and—for the record—that “she was the apple of her father’s eye.”

The Post did not mention that Mrs. McCain’s father was a highly-placed fixture in the Arizona branch of the national organized crime syndicate: He was the chief henchman of the late Kemper Marley, Arizona point man for infamous mob chief Meyer Lansky and his powerful partners-in-crime, the super-rich Bronfman family of Montreal.

In that capacity—for 40 years until his death in 1990—Marley was undisputed political boss of Arizona, acting as the behind-the-scenes power over both the Republican and Democratic parties.

As such, his wealth and connections played the primary role in advancing John McCain’s political career from the start.

Although some Democrats have muttered that Mrs. McCain’s business interests could impact on her husband’s decision-making as president, none has dared cross the line and make reference to the fact this vast wealth was spawned by what others have indelicately (although quite correctly) called “the Jewish Mafia.”

http://www.conspirazzi.com/?p=1409
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M.I.A. Illuminati Bronfman

Female rapper MIA has given birth to boyfriend Benjamin Bronfman’s son. The Warner Music Group chairman and CEO is Edgar Bronfman, Jr. The Bronfmans are a prominent Illuminati family. Here is an article that tells their story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(artist)
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M.I.A. grew up in the Phipps Bridge Estate in the Mitcham district of South London,[12] where she learned to speak English.[5] She attended Ricards Lodge High School in Wimbledon and graduated with a degree in fine art, film and video from London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.[13] Initially her application to the school was rejected, but she was eventually let in, being told that she "had chutzpah."[14] For two years, M.I.A. lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where she met her fiance, Benjamin Zachary Bronfman (aka Benjamin Brewer), an environmentalist, founder of Green Owl, musician and scion of the Bronfman dynasty.[15][16] M.I.A. currently lives in Brentwood, Los Angeles in the U.S. She gave birth to her son Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman in February 2009.[17][18]

M.I.A. PAPER PLANES official video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-eEjy4g

The Exit Plays "Let's Go To Haiti" At The Trash Bar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTZd2ixANU&feature=related

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exit
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The Exit is a New York City-based band indie/punk/reggae group, formed in 2000. The band's music blends '80s dub and reggae with '90s punk and indie rock. The band's members include Ben Brewer on lead guitar and vocals, and Gunnar Olsen on drums. Jeff DaRosa was formerly the band's lead vocals and bass player.

 

Ben Brewer, a.k.a. Benjamin Bronfman, grandson of billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr., met Olsen in high school. The two have played in several bands together. One of these bands turned into an early incarnation of The Exit. In 2000 Brewer met Jeff DaRosa while attending Emerson College in Boston. DaRosa grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts and was the bassist of the local punk band The Vigilantes. Brewer convinced DaRosa to join the group, and they started practicing in basements around Boston. The band made a demo tape which made its way into the hands of Daniel Rey known for his work with The Ramones. Rey produces the band's first record, New Beat, which came out on Some Records, a label started by Walter Schreifels.

http://www.who2.com/ask/mia.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12254030
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Ex-Vivendi bosses convicted in French court

Edgar Bronfman Jr Bronfman received a suspended sentence and a fine
A French court has fined the chairman and chief executive of Warner Music Group, Edgar Bronfman Jr, 5m euros ($6.7m; £4.2m).
The fine relates to insider trading when he was a leading executive at Vivendi. He had denied wrongdoing.
He was given a 15-month suspended sentence as well as the fine.

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