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Rudy Giuliani & His Sidekick Bernie Kerik: Two NYC Giuliani & Kerick: 2 NEW YORK CITY ‘SKEETERS’ 2002 Free counters provided by Honesty.com. In announcing their deal, GlobeSecNine and Bear Stearns Merchant Banking drew attention to another partnership the latter had formed for investing in the defense sector. In July 2003, Bear Stearns Merchant Banking teamed up with Giuliani Partners LLC, a consulting firm founded by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, along with his ex-police, fire and emergency management commissioners [i.e. Bernard Kerick et al]. Growth industry -- The FEMA-Homeland Security industry is currently the fastest growing sector of the U.S. economy, predicted to grow from a $500 billion industry in 2005 to $1300 billion in 2010, according to the Homeland Security Research Corporation, a private California think tank. *********************** Vol. 10, 2002 The Adrian Report --- BERNARD KERICK NEVER FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL AND GOT HIS EQUIVALENCY CERTIFICATE IN MIDDLE AGE -- HE WAS ALMOST THE CZAR OF HOMELAND SECURITY-- AN HONOR HANDED OVER TO A SUSPECTED ISRAELI MOSSAD AGENT--MICHAEL CHERTOFF Rudy GUZZLES down Pharmaceutical billions PHARMA PHARMA PHARMA PHARMA CLICK HERE!! Publisher's Note: Former NY Mayor Giuliani is following the path of others who have served the large pharmaceutical manufacturers--the road to easy riches, large fees and lackey for the drug companies. In so doing, he joins former Congressman Tauzin (see our story on how the former Representative stood ready to gain a $2 million dollar salary from the Pharmaceutical industry as a reward for his work on the flawed Medicare Prescription Drug Card, but then backed down in the face of public pressure. Perhaps the Mayor, who made his reputation for leadership in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 tragedy in New York will also be a consultant for his new business associates in helping them clean their own house--read about the pharma law suits and more than $19 billion in fines and settlements --or-- perhaps he will talk to respected seniors' leaders such as Gary Passmore of the California Congress of Seniors who called Canadian pharmacies safer than those in the US. But, we doubt it. It seems that there was another victim of the 9-11 attacks--the opportunity for leadership with integrity that the former Mayor has squandered. http://todaysseniorsnetwork.com/guiliani_sells_out.htm THE CLOWN'S GALLERY OF GW BUSH Photo: After killing hundreds, almost thousands of innocent Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, in their land grab, illegal ultra orthodox and Hassidic settlers on Palestinian homeland soil, grieve dramatically over the injury of one of their extremists. from the Financial Times of London July 11, 2003 by Jimmy Burns in London [excerpted] US Warned Over Bernard Kerick's Heavy-Handed "Kicking Ass" Mentality in Policing Baghdad and Iraq The law enforcement operation in Iraq could disintegrate unless US forces stop "kicking ass" and take a more conciliatory attitude towards civilians, senior UK police advisers have told their government. Some UK officials have been appalled by the language and tactics used by the U.S. security supremo, bed-wetter and high school dropout, Bernard Kerick, the former undereducated and overweaned NYC police commisioner dubbed the "Baghdad Terminator" because of his uncompromising and programmed style. Senior UK officers with experience in Northern Ireland have expressed concern that tough tactics are fueling militancy among Iraqis who are not necessarily pro-Saddam. from today's Jordan Times and Al-Jazeera BAGHDAD (AFP) — The US-led coalition in Iraq announced Tuesday it was recalling staff from the interior ministry to get security and services up and running, but former intelligence officers were not invited to return. “All Iraqis who worked for the ministry of the interior should report back to work by July 22,” senior adviser to the interim interior ministry and former New York police commissioner, Bernard Kerick, told journalists in Baghdad. “If you do not return to work by July 22, your employment will be terminated,” he added. Kerick said that under Saddam Hussein's regime, propped up by a labyrinthine state security apparatus, the ministry included six separate offices that covered internal investigations, security and intelligence. “These were used for investigating, intimidating and attacking members of government and Iraqis for political purposes. “Those offices are all being eliminated and will no longer exist,” he said, urging other former workers to return to work as soon as possible, “to bring the ministry back to full force.” He said he was not aware how many people previously worked for the ministry, explaining that much of the data on those involved in the intelligence departments had either been destroyed or lost. Departments that the ministry is anxious to restore are those covering police, customs, border control, immigration, civil defence and the fire department, Kerick said. The official also confirmed that Iraqis providing information leading to the arrest of those behind a spate of attacks on US troops and local police would be eligible for a minimum reward of $2,500. The coalition's Arabic-language Al Sabah newspaper earlier invited members of the public to call a US-based cell phone or a satellite number, with coalition forces promising to treat all information in confidence. The announcement said people could also directly approach any Iraqi police officer or coalition soldier with information. Kerick also said the coalition was banning vehicles with tinted windows, with effect from July 20. He said that several assaults on coalition forces and Iraqi police had been carried out by attackers in vehicles with tinted windows. With fragile security ranking as one of the top concerns for Iraqis, Kerick said Baghdad now had 34 active police stations, a figure he hoped would eventually rise to around 60, without specifying a timeframe. At least 29 US soldiers have been killed in hostile incidents since the United States declared major combat over on May 1, while seven Iraqi policemen were killed in a bomb attack at the weekend in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. The United States has put up separate rewards of $25 million for information leading to the capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and $15 million for each of his sons, Uday and Qusay. from THE QUEENS TRIBUNE September 8th, 2000 Cops And College Lots of people inside and outside of the NYPD are wondering how Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s choice of Bernard Kerick will affect police recruitment requirements. Police applicants are currently required to have 60 college credits to be considered for admission to the Police Academy. Those applicants who pass the written NYPD test, but who do not have the 60 credits, are placed on a waiting list for up to three years to give them time to "complete their education," sources said. Kerick, an eight-year NYPD veteran, was appointed in 1986 without the benefit of a college degree. Kerick, a high school dropout, holds a GED (equivalency diploma). When questioned about Kerick’s lack of formal education, Rudy said it "wasn’t necessary" and that the former NYC Corrections commissioner would "do just fine without it." That statement has prompted would-be cops and NYPD insiders to wonder if the same logic would be now applied to those seeking jobs as police officers. QConfidential spoke to two 27-year-old Queens men who passed the NYPD test but were put on the waiting list until they gather the required credits. "It’s a double standard," they said. "We have to wait to work on the street while the commissioner sits in his office with less education than we have now," one of the men said. Cop out? Noose tightening around lil' Rudy! Jill Nelson, USA Today, is a New York writer and editor. The Saga of Rudy and Dubya Imagine a place where millions of people are jobless, many of them laid off in the past 24 months. Homelessness is steadily increasing, millions of children go to bed hungry. Then imagine, as John Lennon would, that this country's king decides to deny government workers scheduled raises and new government workers civil service protection, but confers upon the appointed members of his court bonuses of up to $25,000. This is the America we all live in. The Bush administration has quietly started awarding bonuses to political appointees, a practice abandoned during the Clinton administration -- back when the economy was booming, the budget had a surplus and terrorist attacks on American soil were unimaginable. This is just the latest act of greed and insensitivity from an administration whose very legitimacy, lest we forget the 2000 election, is suspect. Add it to the growing list of outrages: undermined civil and constitutional rights, government surveillance, secret detentions without charges, fouling of the environment. That doesn't even touch on a post-9/11 foreign policy that, according to a huge survey released this week by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, is rapidly making the United States one of the least favorite nations of much of the world. Yet Americans, terrified of terrorists, seem unwilling to rein in a president who has little or no respect for the law of the land, the dream of democracy, or, as far as I can tell, the American people. As so many of us struggle to make ends meet, afraid that it may be our job eliminated in the next round of layoffs, Bush is using our tax dollars to award his political appointees, many of whom already make more than $100,000 a year. Exactly what have they done so well? Couldn't be the economy, justice system, environment, equal protection. The administration says many of those rewarded are involved in counter-terrorism activities.
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