Oct 25, 2016

#Podesta conspiracy 2.0: Ex-Swedish PM & Soros ally Bildt makes false RT-WikiLeaks claims (Blogger: Carl Bildt - U.S. Embassy informant in 1973. Former Swedish PM. Board of directors of Legg Mason. Nominated by George Soros as Senior EU mediator in Albania. Ex. Foreign Minister. Active in the Lundin parent company Lundin Petroleum. Co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Diplomat. Senior Policy Advisor at Covington etc. - a cabal member of evil henchmen?? RT: "...Bildt is a controversial figure having sat on the board of Lundin Oil – an organization which was investigated for alleged human rights abuses in Sudan in the late ’90s and early 2000s. Two Swedish investigative journalists were imprisoned for terrorist-related offenses while looking into Lundin’s business dealings in Ethiopia in December 2011. He was also a major supporter of the Maidan movement which eventually toppled the democratically-elected government of President Viktor Yanukovich in Ukraine and has caused continued unrest in the east of the country...Having worked as an EU High Representative for Bosnia in the ’90s, Bildt was one of three people nominated by controversial tycoon George Soros, in an email to Clinton, to be a senior EU mediator in Albania during a period of civil unrest in 2011..." Blogger: Acc. to The Rolling Stone Interview with Assange: ".. The conventional wisdom – both in Sweden and the U.S. – is that you won't be extradited. Why are you convinced you will? Extradition is a political matter. The extradition treaties – those from the U.K. to the U.S. and from Sweden to the U.S. – are both very dangerous for me. Every day that I remain in England, it is dangerous, and if I am in Sweden, it will be at least as dangerous as it is here, and very probably more so. The Swedish foreign minister responsible for extradition, Carl Bildt, became a U.S. Embassy informant in 1973 when he was 24 years old. He shipped his personal effects to Washington, to lead a conservative leadership program, where he met Karl Rove. They became old friends and would go to conferences together and so on..".".. Lundin Oil and the Saudi weapons factory. But two of the scandals Carl Bildt's been involved in over the years. Carl Bildt's ability to survive can be partly explained by his staying a step ahead of the journalists.."."..Bildt's repeatedly denied talking with representatives of the US about Julian Assange. Bildt's been described in the US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks as 'a medium size dog who believes he's a big dog'..".".. 2006, Carl Bildt privately owned shares in the company Vostok Nafta, which in turn owns shares in the Russian gas giant Gazprom and have made millions on the deal..")


Postscript: The Best of Bildt

1984
When the Swedish parliament voted for sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa, Carl Bildt introduced a motion against them, with the motivation that it wasn't tenable 'to claim that one particular form of oppression in one particular country was particularly distasteful'.

1992
When the serial killer 'Laser Man' was still on the loose, prime minister Carl Bildt traveled to the immigrant neighbourhood Rinkeby to try to calm people down, but he had the opposite effect, and his response to their hostility was to tell them to calm down. Bildt's blunder was overshadowed by Birgit Friggebo who tried to get the angry crowd to sing along to 'We Shall Overcome'.

2003
Carl Bildt became a multimillionaire off the US invasion of Iraq, thanks to his seat on the board of directors of Legg Mason who had huge investments in Lockheed Martin, who won contracts for billions on the war. Carl Bildt also worked for the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq where he lobbied for the invasion.

2011
WikiLeaks revealed that Carl Bildt and migration minister (and fellow 'Moderate') Tobias Billström had stressed the importance that former Iraqi informers be kept in Iraq (where their lives were in danger) and this because their situation would supposedly become 'untenable' in Sweden. Bildt and Billström said that many Iraqis who come to Sweden are poor, lack education, and have difficulty assimilating into Swedish society.

2011
Sweden held the chair in the Artic Council, Carl Bildt held the gavel, and he gave his friends at Lundin, through the subsidiary Lundin Norway A/S, the green light to drill for oil in the polar cap. At least until 2006 Carl Bildt was active in the Lundin parent company Lundin Petroleum, accused of genocide and overexploitation in Africa.

2012
Carl Bildt decided to visit Sarajevo for the 20 year anniversary of the siege, something that caused a strong reaction with the locals who'd declared him persona non grata. For not everyone was impressed with his skills as a peacemaker. Bildt was accused of being too compliant and slow to deal with Milošević.

2012
A social democrat government signed an agreement to build a weapons factory in Saudi Arabia. The agreement was carried out by Bildt's new government. Minister for defence Sten Tolgfors was forced to resign, but Carl Bildt somehow again survived.

Carl Bildt is thought to be the puppet master at the Swedish end responsible for the diplomatic standoff with Sweden, Assange, and Ecuador.

Brains'll only get you so far and luck always runs out.
 - Hal Slocumb
 
See Also
Rixstep Special Report: Our Man Bildt
Rixstep Special Report: The Bildt Files
Industry Watch: Carl Bildt Runs Own Race

Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview

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Published time: 25 Oct, 2016 13:18 - rt.com

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt has become the latest high profile figure to accuse RT of conspiring with WikiLeaks in the hacking and release of the #Podesta emails.
Monday saw the whistleblowing website leak its 17th batch of messages from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta and, not for the first time over the last fortnight, RT broke the story prior to WikiLeaks tweeting the announcement.
Bildt’s tweet claiming RT reported on the WikiLeaks releases “before they are released” drew some exasperated responses from Twitter users who pointed out the clear inaccuracy of his statement.


The former prime minister’s tweet prompted clarification from WikiLeaks itself.

 
Bildt is a controversial figure having sat on the board of Lundin Oil – an organization which was investigated for alleged human rights abuses in Sudan in the late ’90s and early 2000s. Two Swedish investigative journalists were imprisoned for terrorist-related offenses while looking into Lundin’s business dealings in Ethiopia in December 2011.
He was also a major supporter of the Maidan movement which eventually toppled the democratically-elected government of President Viktor Yanukovich in Ukraine and has caused continued unrest in the east of the country.

Having worked as an EU High Representative for Bosnia in the ’90s, Bildt was one of three people nominated by controversial tycoon George Soros, in an email to Clinton, to be a senior EU mediator in Albania during a period of civil unrest in 2011.

He is far from the first high profile political figure to suggest RT was in some way involved in the Podesta hack.

In early October Christopher Miller, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and a freelance writer inaccurately claimed RT had published a story about the email drop before WikiLeaks had posted the documents on its website.

Clinton’s press secretary Brian Fallon made similar claims on Twitter while the campaign’s director of communications, Jennifer Palmieri, accused RT of collusion during a TV interview.
The reality was simply that RT journalists were monitoring the WikiLeaks website and reacted quickest to break the story when the emails were uploaded.