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The Rogier Zanier foundation is funder of the Holy Baby Orphanages in Cambodia

The Rogier Zanier foundation is funder of the Holy Baby Orphanages in Cambodia

Publié le 30 juillet 2008 par Zench

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Groupe Zannier

According to Le Figaro (*), the first voluntary leave in August to Cambodia, for projects funded in large part by the Foundation Roger Zannier, "the first" private contributor, who has founded several orphanages in Cambodia.


(*) "L'éthique de l'adoption internationale"

La secrétaire d'Etat aux Affaires étrangères Rama Yade, aux côtés de l'acteur Gérard Depardieu, a lancé le réseau de "volontaires de l'adoption internationale", qui doivent avoir pour "moteur", l'"éthique" et pour objectifs l'"efficacité" et le "bonheur des enfants".

L'installation prochaine dans les ambassades des pays d'adoption de ces jeunes volontaires, membres de l'association française des volontaires du progrès (AFVP), "s'inscrit", a affirmé Rama Yade, "dans la réforme plus large de l'adoption internationale" pour laquelle elle partage "sans réserve" les conclusions du rapport Colombani remis à l'Elysée en mars, et qui fera l'objet le 21 août d'une communication au conseil des ministres.

Le premier volontaire partira en août au Cambodge, pour des projets financés à hauteur d'un million d'euros, a indiqué Rama Yade, "en grande partie par la Fondation Roger Zannier", premier "contributeur privé", qui a fondé plusieurs orphelinats au Cambodge.


Holy Baby Orphanage


The first private contributor to the French Adoption Army, the Rogier Zanier foundation, is funder of the Holy Baby Orphanages in Cambodia. LICADHO, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, wrote the following report about a case related to the orphanage in Takhmau:

In November 2001, a married couple in Phnom Penh, P & C, requested LICADHO’s assistance to recover their one-month-old baby. P & C were poor itinerants without permanent jobs or home in Phnom Penh. The mother, P, stated that on November 13, 2001 she took her baby boy to a medical clinic in Takhmau, Kandal province. P was taken there by another woman, who had told her that she would receive money if she agreed to give up her baby there. The clinic staff took the baby boy (after giving him a blood test to check that he was not HIV-positive) and gave P $85 in return, according to P’s testimony. P was asked to sign a document at the clinic stating that she gave up her baby voluntarily (the document did not refer to adoption of the child). She signed this document without the knowledge of her husband, C, who did not give his consent. A few days later, C, who had been out of town looking for work, returned home and learned of his wife’s actions. After discussion, P & C decided they wanted their baby back and approached LICADHO for help.

 

LICADHO investigators established that the medical clinic is owned by Dr Keo San, a former Cambodian senator who is also director of the organization which runs Holy Baby orphanage in Takhmau. LICADHO investigators, attempting to establish whether P & C’s baby was there, visited the orphanage but were not allowed to see the young babies there.

 

On November 21, 2001, LICADHO contacted the Ministry of Interior’s police anti-trafficking unit, requesting an investigation and return of the baby to his parents. Subsequently, the police informed LICADHO that Dr Keo San and staff of the orphanage refused to return the baby, because P had signed a document giving up the baby. Holy Baby staff also informed the police that the baby would be adopted to a foreign country.

 

Six months later, the baby had still not been returned. The police investigation continued, supposedly, but without any result. In June 2002, LICADHO became aware that Holy Baby was supported by the Zannier Holy Baby Foundation in France and wrote to its director, Dr Pascal Hourtoulle, about this case. For the next four months, despite an exchange of letters between LICADHO and Dr Hourtoulle, the latter provided no information about the origins and whereabouts of the child.

 

Meanwhile, in July 2002, LICADHO became aware that the Cambodian government had approved the child for adoption to France in February 2002. Inquiries with the French Embassy confirmed that the child had been adopted to France in February.

 

The official adoption dossier included a document, signed by Dr Keo San and by Holy Baby center director Vong Lay Huort, which falsely stated that the child was “abandoned” and his parents are unknown.

In late July, the Ministry of Interior anti-trafficking unit – following a request by the French Embassy for information on its investigation into this case – requested a meeting with P & C at the ministry. LICADHO staff were refused permission to witness the meeting. According to P & C, senior ministry officials informed them at the meeting that their son was in France and would have a good life there. At the request of the police, P & C signed a document withdrawing their complaint against Holy Baby orphanage and their request for the return of their child.

 

LICADHO has concerns about the manner in which P & C were asked to withdraw their complaint. However, in subsequent discussions with LICADHO, P & C repeated that they do not seek the return of their child from France now that he is already there. P & C, who are extremely poor, feel that their son will have a better life in France. LICADHO respects their wishes.

 

Nevertheless, LICADHO remains concerned about alleged improprieties committed by Holy Baby personnel, including:

 

- Alleged payment made to P in return for handing over the child at Keo San’s medical clinic;
- Apparent use of the private medical clinic to receive children who are then sent to Holy Baby orphanage;
- Lack of prior consent given by P and by C to the adoption of their son abroad;
- Adoption of the child abroad after P & C had filed a complaint requesting the return of their child;
- False adoption paperwork prepared by Holy Baby staff stating that the child was “abandoned”, parents unknown.

 

In October 2002, Pascal Hourtoulle, on a visit to Cambodia, agreed to meet with LICADHO. During the meeting, he acknowledged that the child obtained from P was the same child who had been adopted to France. However, he did not accept that Holy Baby had acted improperly in any way. In a February 2003 meeting with LICADHO, French businessman Roger Zannier – the funder of the Zannier Holy Baby Foundation – also indicated that he saw no wrongdoing by the orphanage.

 

Mission de l’Adoption Internationale (MAI), the French government agency responsible for international adoptions, issued a statement in October 2002 urging prospective adoptive parents seeking children from Holy Baby to obtain specific information about the circumstances in which the children entered the orphanage.

 

Holy Baby has no information about the identity of the birth parents of three-quarters of the children at the orphanage, Pascal Hourtoulle told LICADHO in October 2002.

 

 

This is the type of environment France is going to send it's young and unexperienced volunteers to, backed by the money of a French industrial who sees no wrong doing in fraud and child-trafficking.

 

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->  9-17 décembre 2006. Mission au Cambodge.

Dans la perspective d’une réouverture des adoptions au Cambodge pour les ressortissants français après une fermeture de trois années, voulue par la France, Enfance et Familles d’Adoption a estimé opportun d’effectuer une mission dans le pays pour évaluer combien d’enfants pourraient être en attente de famille et dans quelles les conditions les procédures pourraient se dérouler.
Marie-Claude Arnauld & Sophie Le Callennec pour EFA.


->  Adoption internationale. Les limites du désir d’enfant. 
 
Le film de Bertrand Tavernier, “Holy Lola”, a mis en lumière les pratiques parfois douteuses de l’adoption internationale. Au Cambodge se croisent la demande désespérée de familles en quête d’enfants et la voracité illimitée d’intermédiaires malhonnêtes. A Phnom Penh, nous avons rencontré familles, intermédiaires et ONG.
Réforme n°3107 du 2004-12-16.

 

A plan to facilitate adoptions in France

Based on the Colombani report, the Secretaries of State for the Family, Nadine Morano, and for Foreign Affairs, Rama Yade have set up a plan to facilitate adoptions in France and abroad.

The government is finalizing a plan to facilitate adoptions in France, where too few children are adoptable, and abroad, where procedures will be reviewed to give French couples more chances, in the face of "competition from countries like Italy.

Based on the Colombani report submitted to the Elysée Palace in March, the proposals of the Secretaries of State for the Family, Nadine Morano, and for Foreign Affairs, Rama Yade, will be presented to the Council of Ministers on August 21, but the Ministers in unveiled the essentials to the press on Monday.

Reformed in 2005, the French adoption system is not working well, according to the former boss of Le Monde, Jean-Marie Colombani, whose proposals should be widely followed by the government, in particular the creation of a real Central Authority responsible for alleviating the current lack of coordination.

In the immediate future, an Interministerial Adoption Committee has been created, led by Nadine Morano, she specified. An ambassador for international adoption, Jean-Paul Moncheau, was also appointed in June.

Gérard Depardieu au service de l'adoption

Gérard Depardieu au service de l'adoption
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LIBERATION.FR : lundi 28 juillet 2008

Rama Yade et Gérard Depardieu... la rencontre !

PHOTOS : Rama Yade et Gérard Depardieu... la rencontre !

Comme nous vous l'annoncions hier, le comédien français Gérard Depardieu a décidé de s'investir dans les problèmes relatifs à l'adoption en France, et notamment concernant les couples qui souhaitent adopter à l'international.Hier, avec entre autres Rama Yade (notre très belle secrétaire d'Etat aux Droits de l'Homme) et Jean-Marie Colombani, la star de cinéma a débattu avec les politiques afin de trouver des solutions rapides et efficaces.
Pour mémoire, Gérard Depardieu a trois enfants (Guillaume, Julie et Roxane), et n'a pas de projet personnel d'adoption, mais lors du tournage de Michou d'Auber, dans lequel il interprétait un homme ne pouvant adopter un orphelin, le comédien a été très sensibilisé aux problèmes concernant l'adoption.De plus, l'inégalité quant à ce problème a beaucoup touché le comédien, qui remarque qu'en France, si l'on ne fait pas partie du show-business et que l'on ne posséde pas un réseau adéquat, il est très difficile d'adopter un enfant.Ainsi, pour faciliter cette noble cause à tout un chacun, l'acteur s'est engagé à soutenir vivement le plan de relance pour l'adoption internationale.

Déclaration de Mme Rama Yade

Déclaration de Mme Rama Yade, secrétaire d'Etat aux affaires étrangères et aux droits de l'homme, sur la réforme de l'adoption, notamment la création d'un réseau des volontaires de l'adoption internationale, à Paris le 28 juillet 2008.

YADE Rama.
FRANCE. Secrétaire d'Etat aux affaires étrangères et aux droits de l'Homme
Conférence de presse conjointe avec MM. Jean-Marie Colombani et Gerard Depardieu lors du lancement du réseau des volontaires de l'adoption internationale, à Paris le 28 juillet 2008

Mesdames et Messieurs,
Cher Jean-Marie Colombani,
Cher Gérard Depardieu,
Cher Monsieur Zannier,
Chers tous,


"Nous devons imaginer les initiatives ...".

C'est un appel à l'action et par ces mots que le président de la République a voulu, ainsi que le Premier ministre dans la lettre de mission qu'ils vous ont adressée, cher Jean-Marie Colombani en octobre dernier, impulser la réforme de l'adoption en France.

Il y avait bien urgence en effet: alors qu'elle représente 80 % des adoptions en France, l'adoption internationale régresse depuis 2005.

La stagnation des adoptions nationales aggrave la détresse et la frustration de nos compatriotes qui veulent adopter, c'est bien évident. Le Président l'a compris tout de suite : nous ne pouvions pas rester inertes. L'échec, en politique, c'est toujours le manque d'imagination.

Je voudrais donc aujourd'hui vous annoncer le lancement de l'initiative de "réseau des volontaires de l'adoption internationale".

C'est une initiative de terrain parce que c'est bien aussi sur le terrain, dans ces pays, que nous sommes défaillants.

Ces volontaires seront une sorte de "peace corps" où des jeunes que nous allons former vont mettre leur générosité et leur talent au service d'une belle cause : les enfants privés de famille, abandonnés ou orphelins.

C'est aussi une initiative partagée, et c'est à vous cher Gérard Depardieu que nous devons d'avoir réussi à associer d'emblée des partenaires autour de ce projet. Vous savez combien je suis heureuse de votre engagement au service de tous ces enfants, de toutes les familles. Vous êtes un bel exemple de générosité et de solidarité. Vous y avez mis tout votre coeur et toute votre humanité, et pour cela je vous remercie.

Dans ce projet, l'Etat effectivement ne pouvait pas agir seul. Dans le monde d'aujourd'hui, on doit pouvoir agir en partenariat avec les associations et les entreprises. Et en se fixant le plus haut niveau d'exigence éthique. Je tiens à saluer et à remercier ceux qui ont accepté de s'engager à nos côtés. Ils sont présents parmi nous pour éventuellement répondre à vos questions.

Je pense tout d'abord à M. Jacques Godfrain, président de l'Association française des Volontaires du Progrès sans la compétence et l'expertise de laquelle le projet n'aurait pas pu voir le jour.

M. Roger Zannier, qui est là aussi, président d'honneur de la Fondation Zannier-Holybaby, qui a accepté de cofinancer le premier programme que nous allons ouvrir dès le mois prochain, au Cambodge.

Mmes Janice Peyré et Hélène Mahéo, respectivement présidentes de la Fédération Enfance et Familles d'Adoption et du Mouvement pour l'Adoption Sans Frontières, qui ont accepté d'associer leurs mouvements au comité d'experts du réseau pour assurer la formation des volontaires et exercer auprès d'eux un tutorat permanent tout au long de leurs missions, garantissant ainsi le respect de l'éthique qui s'impose surtout lorsqu'on agit auprès des enfants.

Les parlementaires aussi, qui sont souvent sollicités par les familles, qui ont bien voulu contribuer à notre réflexion en travaillant avec nous, avec coeur et avec conviction également et en particulier Mme Michèle Tabarot, députée des Alpes-Maritimes, présidente du Conseil supérieur de l'Adoption et coprésidente du Groupe d'Etudes à l'Assemblée nationale sur la famille et l'adoption. Elle a eu la gentillesse de nous rejoindre également aujourd'hui. Je pense aussi à Mme Patricia Adam, députée du Finistère, également co-présidente du Groupe d'Etudes.

Et vous bien sûr, cher Jean-Marie Colombani, qui avez spontanément proposé de présider la conférence des contributeurs que nous réunirons pour compléter les financements de l'Etat par les financements des collectivités territoriales, si elles le souhaitent, et des entreprises qui accepteront de nous rejoindre dans cette belle aventure.

La mission de ces volontaires, c'est quoi ? Elle est claire : il faut aider à sortir les enfants des institutions avec le partenariat des Etats d'origine bien évidemment. Car le secours et l'appui d'une institution, aussi parfaite soit-elle, ne vaut jamais l'affection d'une famille. C'est l'enfant, la famille, que je veux placer au coeur de ce projet. Avec l'éthique pour moteur, c'est important.

L'efficacité comme mode d'action. Le bonheur des enfants et des familles pour objectif.

Il faut donc viser deux choses : accélérer la sortie des enfants de ces institutions, pour en accueillir d'autres, abandonnés ou orphelins ; et les aider à construire un projet de vie familiale le plus viable et le plus rapidement possible.

Les volontaires devront en priorité chercher toutes les possibilités existantes dans le pays de mission.

Lorsque celles-ci sont insuffisantes, et nous savons que ce sera encore souvent le cas, ils devront soutenir des projets d'adoption internationale.

Les besoins sont immenses. Je crois qu'il faut arrêter de dire que le nombre d'enfants sans famille baisse. C'est faux. Nous devons accroître nos efforts pour trouver des solutions concrètes, adoption locale et internationale sont complémentaires. Ce qui compte partout et tout le temps, c'est l'intérêt de l'enfant. Voilà le message que je veux porter auprès des pays où nous agissons, en concertation avec Nadine Morano qui fait un travail sur le sujet de l'adoption également remarquable, voilà le message que devront concrétiser les volontaires sur le terrain et c'est une belle ambition.

Ce réseau, nous allons réfléchir avec Bernard Kouchner, mon ministre de tutelle, à le rapprocher du réseau des attachés humanitaires en ambassades. De vraies synergies de terrain peuvent se construire.

C'est une idée à laquelle tient beaucoup Bernard Kouchner, et que je veillerai à respecter.

Je vous annonce le lancement du premier programme de ce réseau, au Cambodge dès le mois prochain.

Il y a une grande tradition de solidarité avec les enfants entre la France et le Cambodge. Je l'ai constatée avec Michèle Tabarot lorsque nous nous sommes rendues au Cambodge. Je crois aussi que Gérard Depardieu y a également été.

Mais ce pays, le Cambodge, a souffert des dérives de quelques-uns engagés souvent par désespoir dans des démarches irrégulières d'adoption. Bien qu'il s'agisse de comportements très isolés et minoritaires, où la détresse a sa part, tout le monde en paye le prix : les enfants, les familles, tous ceux qui travaillent avec coeur et générosité en faveur de l'enfance sur place.

Alors il faut être intraitable avec les dérives. On ne joue pas avec les enfants. Il y a de grandes conventions internationales, notamment celle de La Haye et il faut les respecter. Les textes ne valent que lorsqu'ils sont appliqués. Le temps est venu de montrer aux cambodgiens que les familles de France ne viennent pas au marché à enfants chez eux mais bien au contraire, travaillent avec eux pour le bien des enfants. C'est ce message et ce comportement exemplaire qu'au nom du gouvernement et en concertation avec Nadine Morano, je souhaite porter, et que je porterai chaque fois que je visiterai le pays avec lequel la France a, ou entame des discussions sur les pratiques d'adoption à l'international.

C'est pourquoi aussi, aux côtés de l'envoi d'un premier volontaire au Cambodge dès le mois prochain, j'ai également décidé d'engager 400 000 euros pour soutenir financièrement l'action de l'UNICEF au Cambodge. L'UNICEF au Cambodge pilote la mise en place des procédures de La Haye auprès du gouvernement cambodgien.

En 2008 encore nous lancerons quatre autres programmes qui seront par la suite élargis à 20 pays en 2009.

Ce réseau qui sera expérimental sera un outil supplémentaire au service de la stratégie pour l'adoption internationale recommandée par le rapport de Jean-Marie Colombani.

Cher Jean-Marie, vous avez effectivement accompli un travail remarquable, qui maintenant nous en donne beaucoup ! Et c'est tant mieux ! Car comme vous le savez le ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes partage sans réserve vos conclusions sur l'adoption internationale et s'applique à les construire depuis la remise de votre rapport en mars dernier.

Je serais heureuse également de vous présenter l'ambassadeur Jean-Paul Monchau, qui a été nommé le 25 juin dernier en Conseil des ministres "ambassadeur pour l'adoption internationale" avec pour mission, comme vous l'avez proposé, Monsieur Colombani, d'élaborer une stratégie concertée pour l'adoption internationale en 2009.

A la rentrée prochaine, le 21 août, il est prévu qu'il y ait une communication commune avec Nadine Morano. Nous présenterons cette communication ensemble au Conseil des ministres et cela fera le point sur les conclusions du rapport Colombani.

Je vous confirme également que ce ministère va se réformer dans le sens que vous avez proposé pour assumer pleinement sa responsabilité de pilote de l'action de la France en matière d'adoption internationale.

Nous essaierons de nous en donner les moyens, en particulier avec Alain Joyandet, nous avons décidé de faire de la protection de l'enfance délaissée un axe important de notre politique de coopération internationale et d'aide au développement. J'ai demandé à l'ambassadeur Monchau de réfléchir à la formation à l'adoption internationale de nos agents à l'étranger. Des propositions seront faites pour améliorer le fonctionnement et les capacités de nos opérateurs, qu'il s'agisse de l'Agence française de l'Adoption ou des OAA, c'est-à-dire les organismes privés qui s'occupent de l'adoption.

Enfin, comme l'a annoncé ma collègue de la Famille, ces actions s'inscriront bien dans une réforme plus large de l'adoption dans ses deux composantes, nationale comme internationale, pilotée par un Comité interministériel de l'Adoption décidé par le président de la République et présidé par le Premier ministre.

Mesdames et Messieurs, j'ai beaucoup parlé mais il y avait tant à dire ! J'ai pris le problème de l'adoption internationale à bras le corps dès mon arrivée en essayant de comprendre pourquoi c'était un chemin de croix que d'adopter en France. On a débloqué beaucoup de dossiers individuels avec la collaboration des services du Quai d'Orsay qui se sont révélés exceptionnels dans ce travail de défrichage et de découverte de nouvelles solutions. Vous êtes plus d'un ici à nous avoir aidé à trouver des solutions.

Alors aujourd'hui, nous allons donner à ce ministère les moyens d'une grande politique de l'adoption qui concilie à la fois générosité, efficacité, lucidité et éthique et qui place l'enfant au coeur de nos préoccupations et qui ne berce pas d'illusions les familles. C'est une diplomatie d'action, au service des gens, confrontée au réel.


Je vous remercie.


Source http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr, le 31 juillet 2008

Lancement du réseau des volontaires de l’adoption internationale

Launch of Network of voluntaries for international adoption
Joint press conference by Secretary of State for foreign affairs and human rights, Ms. Rama Yade, Mr. Jean-Marie Colombani and Mr. Gérard Depardieu


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Introductory Mrs Yade

(Paris, 28 July 2008)

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Dear Jean-Marie Colombani,

Dear Gérard Depardieu,

Dear Mr. Zannier,

Dear all,

"We have to imagine initiatives ...".

It is a call to action and by these words that the president wanted, as well as Prime Minister in the engagement letter addressed to you, dear Jean-Marie Colombani last October, stimulating reform of the adoption in France.

There was urgency in effect while it represents 80% of adoptions in France international adoptions decline since 2005.

The stagnation of national adoptions aggravates the hardship and frustration of our compatriots who want to adopt, it is obvious. The President has understood immediately that we could not remain inert. The failure in politics is still a lack of imagination.

I would therefore like to announce today the launch of "voluntary network of international adoption."

This is an initiative of the ground, because it is also on the in these countries, we are failing.

These volunteers will be a sort of "peace corps" where we train will young people to use their generosity and talent to a beautiful cause: children without families, abandoned or orphaned.

It is also a shared initiative, and it's up to you dear Gérard Depardieu that we must be able to immediately associate partners in this project. You know how happy I am for your commitment to serve all these children, all families. You are a fine example of generosity and solidarity. You have put your heart and your humanity, and for that I thank you.

In this project, the state actually could not act alone. In today's world, we must be able to act in partnership with associations and companies. And by setting the highest standards of ethical requirement. I wish to commend and thank those who have agreed to commit to our side. They are with us to possibly answer your questions.

I think first of all to Mr. Jacques Godfrain, president of the French Association of Volunteers of Progress without the competence and expertise which the project could not see the day.

Roger Zannier, who is also honorary president of the Foundation Zannier-Holybaby, which agreed to finance the first program we will open next month in Cambodia.

Mrs Janice Peyré  and Helena Mahéo respectively presidents of the Federation of Children and Families Adoption and the Movement for Adoption Without Borders, who have agreed to combine their movements to the Committee of Experts on the network to train volunteers and carry with them ongoing mentoring throughout their missions, thus ensuring ethical thing especially when acts with children.

The parliamentarians, who are often asked by families who were willing to contribute to our thinking in working with us, with heart and also with conviction and in particular Ms. Michèle Tabarot, member of the Alpes-Maritimes, president of the Higher Council of 'Adoption and co-chair of the Group of Studies at the National Assembly on the family and adoption. She was kind enough to join us today. I also think Mrs Patricia Adam, member of Finistère, also co-chair of the Task Force.

And of course you, dear Jean-Marie Colombani, who have spontaneously offered to chair the conference of contributors that we meet to complement the financing of state funding of local authorities, if they wish, and companies that agree to join us in this great adventure.

The mission of these volunteers, what is it? It is clear: we must help children out of institutions with the partnership of countries of origin of course. For help and support of an institution, as perfect as it is, does not give the affection of a family. It is the child, family, I want to put at the heart of this project. With ethics-driven, it is important.

The effectiveness as a mode of action. Happiness for children and families is the goal.

We must therefore focus on two things: speed up the release of children in these institutions in order to accommodate others, abandoned or orphaned, and help them build a family life the most viable and as soon as possible.

The volunteers will primarily seek all opportunities existing in the country of mission.

When these are insufficient, and we know that this is still often the case, they will support projects of international adoption.

The needs are immense. I think we should stop saying that the number of children without families falling. Wrong. We must increase our efforts to find concrete solutions, local and international adoption are complementary. What counts anywhere and any time is the interest of the child. That is the message I want to bring the countries where we operate, together with Nadine Morano who is also working remarkably on the topic of adoption, ithat s the message that will have the volunteers on the ground and it is a great ambition.

This network, we will explore with Bernard Kouchner, my minister, to bring this network close to the committed humanitarian embassies. Real synergies can be built.

It is an idea on which Bernard Kouchner is keen, and I will make sure to respect that.

I announce the launch of the first program of this network, in Cambodia next month.

There is a great tradition of solidarity with children between France and Cambodia. I've found with Michèle Tabarot when we visited Cambodia. I also believe that Gérard Depardieu was there also this summer.

But this country, Cambodia has suffered from the excesses of some often committed out of desperation in processes irregular adoption. Although these are very isolated behavior and a minority, where distress has its share, everyone pays the price: children, families, all those who work with heart and generosity for children on place.

So we must be uncompromising with the abuses. You do not play with children. There are major international conventions, including that of The Hague and they must be respected. The texts are valid only when applied. It is time to show that Cambodian families in France do not market children at home but on the contrary, working with them for the benefit of children. This message and the exemplary behavior in the name of the Government and in consultation with Nadine Morano, I would like, and I share whenever I visit a country with which France practices, or enters into discussions on , foreign adoption.

That is also why, along with sending a first volunteer in Cambodia next month, I also decided to reserve 400 000 euros to support financially the work of UNICEF in Cambodia. UNICEF Cambodia pilots the establishment of procedures for the Hague with the Cambodian government.

In 2008 again we will launch four other programs which will subsequently be expanded to 20 countries in 2009.

This experimental network will be an additional tool to serve the strategy for international adoption recommended by the report of Jean-Marie Colombani.

Dear Jean-Marie, you've actually done a remarkable job, which now gives us a lot! And so much the better! Because as you know the Ministry of Foreign Affairs agrees with your conclusions on international adoption and applies to its building since the submission of your report in March.

I am also pleased to present Ambassador Jean-Paul Monchau, who was appointed last June 25 in the Council of Ministers' ambassador for international adoption "with the mission, as you proposed, Mr Colombani, to develop a concerted strategy for international adoption in 2009.

At the beginning of next August 21, it is anticipated that there will be a joint submission with Nadine Morano. We will present all this communication to the Cabinet and it will review the findings of the report Colombani.

I can confirm that this ministry will reform in the sense that you proposed to fully assume its responsibility to pilot France's action in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.

We try to give us the means, especially with Alain Joyandet, we decided to make the protection of children neglected an important focus of our policy of international cooperation and development assistance. I asked the ambassador Monchau to consider training for international adoption of our agents abroad. Proposals will be made to improve the functioning and capabilities of our operators, whether the French Agency for Adoption or OAA, ie private organizations dealing with the Adoption.

Finally, as announced by my colleague from the family, these actions will well in a wider reform of the adoption in its two components, national and international, driven by an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Adoption decided by the President of the Republic and chaired by the Prime Minister.

Ladies and gentlemen, I talked a lot but there was so much to say! I took the problem of international adoption to grips since my arrival in trying to understand why it was a road of the cross to adopt in France. We deblocked a lot of individual files with the collaboration of the Quai d'Orsay which proved exceptional in that groundwork and finding new solutions. You are more than one by helping us to find solutions.

So today let's give this ministry the means for a great policy that balances the adoption of both generosity, efficiency, clarity and ethics and that puts the child at the heart of our concerns and that does not rock illusions of families. This is a diplomacy of action in the service of people, confronted with reality.

Thank you. /.

 

Lancement du réseau des volontaires de l’adoption internationale

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Lancement du réseau des volontaires de l’adoption internationale

Conférence de presse conjointe du Secrétaire d’état chargé d’affaires étrangères et des droits de l’homme, Mme Rama Yade, de M. Jean-Marie Colombani et de M. Gérard Dépardieu


Propos introductifs de Mme Yade

(Paris, 28 juillet 2008)

Mesdames et Messieurs,

Cher Jean-Marie Colombani,

Cher Gérard Depardieu,

Cher Monsieur Zannier,

Chers tous,

"Nous devons imaginer les initiatives …".

C’est un appel à l’action et par ces mots que le président de la République a voulu, ainsi que le Premier ministre dans la lettre de mission qu’ils vous ont adressée, cher Jean-Marie Colombani en octobre dernier, impulser la réforme de l’adoption en France.

Il y avait bien urgence en effet : alors qu’elle représente 80 % des adoptions en France, l’adoption internationale régresse depuis 2005.

La stagnation des adoptions nationales aggrave la détresse et la frustration de nos compatriotes qui veulent adopter, c’est bien évident. Le Président l’a compris tout de suite : nous ne pouvions pas rester inertes. L’échec, en politique, c’est toujours le manque d’imagination.

Je voudrais donc aujourd’hui vous annoncer le lancement de l’initiative de "réseau des volontaires de l’adoption internationale".

C’est une initiative de terrain parce que c’est bien aussi sur le terrain, dans ces pays, que nous sommes défaillants.

Ces volontaires seront une sorte de "peace corps" où des jeunes que nous allons former vont mettre leur générosité et leur talent au service d’une belle cause : les enfants privés de famille, abandonnés ou orphelins.

C’est aussi une initiative partagée, et c’est à vous cher Gérard Depardieu que nous devons d’avoir réussi à associer d’emblée des partenaires autour de ce projet. Vous savez combien je suis heureuse de votre engagement au service de tous ces enfants, de toutes les familles. Vous êtes un bel exemple de générosité et de solidarité. Vous y avez mis tout votre cœur et toute votre humanité, et pour cela je vous remercie.

Dans ce projet, l’Etat effectivement ne pouvait pas agir seul. Dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, on doit pouvoir agir en partenariat avec les associations et les entreprises. Et en se fixant le plus haut niveau d’exigence éthique. Je tiens à saluer et à remercier ceux qui ont accepté de s’engager à nos côtés. Ils sont présents parmi nous pour éventuellement répondre à vos questions.

Je pense tout d’abord à M. Jacques Godfrain, président de l’Association française des Volontaires du Progrès sans la compétence et l’expertise de laquelle le projet n’aurait pas pu voir le jour.

M. Roger Zannier, qui est là aussi, président d’honneur de la Fondation Zannier-Holybaby, qui a accepté de cofinancer le premier programme que nous allons ouvrir dès le mois prochain, au Cambodge.

Mmes Janice Peyré et Hélène Mahéo, respectivement présidentes de la Fédération Enfance et Familles d’Adoption et du Mouvement pour l’Adoption Sans Frontières, qui ont accepté d’associer leurs mouvements au comité d’experts du réseau pour assurer la formation des volontaires et exercer auprès d’eux un tutorat permanent tout au long de leurs missions, garantissant ainsi le respect de l’éthique qui s’impose surtout lorsqu’on agit auprès des enfants.

Les parlementaires aussi, qui sont souvent sollicités par les familles, qui ont bien voulu contribuer à notre réflexion en travaillant avec nous, avec cœur et avec conviction également et en particulier Mme Michèle Tabarot, députée des Alpes-Maritimes, présidente du Conseil supérieur de l’Adoption et coprésidente du Groupe d’Etudes à l’Assemblée nationale sur la famille et l’adoption. Elle a eu la gentillesse de nous rejoindre également aujourd’hui. Je pense aussi à Mme Patricia Adam, députée du Finistère, également co-présidente du Groupe d’Etudes.

Et vous bien sûr, cher Jean-Marie Colombani, qui avez spontanément proposé de présider la conférence des contributeurs que nous réunirons pour compléter les financements de l’Etat par les financements des collectivités territoriales, si elles le souhaitent, et des entreprises qui accepteront de nous rejoindre dans cette belle aventure.

La mission de ces volontaires, c’est quoi ? Elle est claire : il faut aider à sortir les enfants des institutions avec le partenariat des Etats d’origine bien évidemment. Car le secours et l’appui d’une institution, aussi parfaite soit-elle, ne vaut jamais l’affection d’une famille. C’est l’enfant, la famille, que je veux placer au cœur de ce projet. Avec l’éthique pour moteur, c’est important.

L’efficacité comme mode d’action. Le bonheur des enfants et des familles pour objectif.

Il faut donc viser deux choses : accélérer la sortie des enfants de ces institutions, pour en accueillir d’autres, abandonnés ou orphelins ; et les aider à construire un projet de vie familiale le plus viable et le plus rapidement possible.

Les volontaires devront en priorité chercher toutes les possibilités existantes dans le pays de mission.

Lorsque celles-ci sont insuffisantes, et nous savons que ce sera encore souvent le cas, ils devront soutenir des projets d’adoption internationale.

Les besoins sont immenses. Je crois qu’il faut arrêter de dire que le nombre d’enfants sans famille baisse. C’est faux. Nous devons accroître nos efforts pour trouver des solutions concrètes, adoption locale et internationale sont complémentaires. Ce qui compte partout et tout le temps, c’est l’intérêt de l’enfant. Voilà le message que je veux porter auprès des pays où nous agissons, en concertation avec Nadine Morano qui fait un travail sur le sujet de l’adoption également remarquable, voilà le message que devront concrétiser les volontaires sur le terrain et c’est une belle ambition.

Ce réseau, nous allons réfléchir avec Bernard Kouchner, mon ministre de tutelle, à le rapprocher du réseau des attachés humanitaires en ambassades. De vraies synergies de terrain peuvent se construire.

C’est une idée à laquelle tient beaucoup Bernard Kouchner, et que je veillerai à respecter.

Je vous annonce le lancement du premier programme de ce réseau, au Cambodge dès le mois prochain.

Il y a une grande tradition de solidarité avec les enfants entre la France et le Cambodge. Je l’ai constatée avec Michèle Tabarot lorsque nous nous sommes rendues au Cambodge. Je crois aussi que Gérard Depardieu y a également été.

Mais ce pays, le Cambodge, a souffert des dérives de quelques-uns engagés souvent par désespoir dans des démarches irrégulières d’adoption. Bien qu’il s’agisse de comportements très isolés et minoritaires, où la détresse a sa part, tout le monde en paye le prix : les enfants, les familles, tous ceux qui travaillent avec cœur et générosité en faveur de l’enfance sur place.

Alors il faut être intraitable avec les dérives. On ne joue pas avec les enfants. Il y a de grandes conventions internationales, notamment celle de La Haye et il faut les respecter. Les textes ne valent que lorsqu’ils sont appliqués. Le temps est venu de montrer aux cambodgiens que les familles de France ne viennent pas au marché à enfants chez eux mais bien au contraire, travaillent avec eux pour le bien des enfants. C’est ce message et ce comportement exemplaire qu’au nom du gouvernement et en concertation avec Nadine Morano, je souhaite porter, et que je porterai chaque fois que je visiterai le pays avec lequel la France a, ou entame des discussions sur les pratiques d’adoption à l’international.

C’est pourquoi aussi, aux côtés de l’envoi d’un premier volontaire au Cambodge dès le mois prochain, j’ai également décidé d’engager 400 000 euros pour soutenir financièrement l’action de l’UNICEF au Cambodge. L’UNICEF au Cambodge pilote la mise en place des procédures de La Haye auprès du gouvernement cambodgien.

En 2008 encore nous lancerons quatre autres programmes qui seront par la suite élargis à 20 pays en 2009.

Ce réseau qui sera expérimental sera un outil supplémentaire au service de la stratégie pour l’adoption internationale recommandée par le rapport de Jean-Marie Colombani.

Cher Jean-Marie, vous avez effectivement accompli un travail remarquable, qui maintenant nous en donne beaucoup ! Et c’est tant mieux ! Car comme vous le savez le ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes partage sans réserve vos conclusions sur l’adoption internationale et s’applique à les construire depuis la remise de votre rapport en mars dernier.

Je serais heureuse également de vous présenter l’ambassadeur Jean-Paul Monchau, qui a été nommé le 25 juin dernier en Conseil des ministres "ambassadeur pour l’adoption internationale" avec pour mission, comme vous l’avez proposé, Monsieur Colombani, d’élaborer une stratégie concertée pour l’adoption internationale en 2009.

A la rentrée prochaine, le 21 août, il est prévu qu’il y ait une communication commune avec Nadine Morano. Nous présenterons cette communication ensemble au Conseil des ministres et cela fera le point sur les conclusions du rapport Colombani.

Je vous confirme également que ce ministère va se réformer dans le sens que vous avez proposé pour assumer pleinement sa responsabilité de pilote de l’action de la France en matière d’adoption internationale.

Nous essaierons de nous en donner les moyens, en particulier avec Alain Joyandet, nous avons décidé de faire de la protection de l’enfance délaissée un axe important de notre politique de coopération internationale et d’aide au développement. J’ai demandé à l’ambassadeur Monchau de réfléchir à la formation à l’adoption internationale de nos agents à l’étranger. Des propositions seront faites pour améliorer le fonctionnement et les capacités de nos opérateurs, qu’il s’agisse de l’Agence française de l’Adoption ou des OAA, c’est-à-dire les organismes privés qui s’occupent de l’adoption.

Enfin, comme l’a annoncé ma collègue de la Famille, ces actions s’inscriront bien dans une réforme plus large de l’adoption dans ses deux composantes, nationale comme internationale, pilotée par un Comité interministériel de l’Adoption décidé par le président de la République et présidé par le Premier ministre.

Mesdames et Messieurs, j’ai beaucoup parlé mais il y avait tant à dire ! J’ai pris le problème de l’adoption internationale à bras le corps dès mon arrivée en essayant de comprendre pourquoi c’était un chemin de croix que d’adopter en France. On a débloqué beaucoup de dossiers individuels avec la collaboration des services du Quai d’Orsay qui se sont révélés exceptionnels dans ce travail de défrichage et de découverte de nouvelles solutions. Vous êtes plus d’un ici à nous avoir aidé à trouver des solutions.

Alors aujourd’hui, nous allons donner à ce ministère les moyens d’une grande politique de l’adoption qui concilie à la fois générosité, efficacité, lucidité et éthique et qui place l’enfant au cœur de nos préoccupations et qui ne berce pas d’illusions les familles. C’est une diplomatie d’action, au service des gens, confrontée au réel.

Je vous remercie./.

Daniel Case: EAC did adoption for someone high up in Ohio AG's Office

Daniel Case on July 27, 2008 at 2:20 pm said:

Chase and Logan are just the tip of the iceberg. The amount of adoptive parents who have been hurt or ripped off by this agency over the years is astounding … as is the lack of sanctions they’ve faced from the same Ohio regulatory agency that has been willing to discipline other agencies for far less. Supposedly, in the early days, Margaret did an adoption for someone high up in the Ohio AG’s office at the time, a client she’d gotten through her husband’s family’s political connections (she works hard to hide the fact that she’s the daughter-in-law of the late Cuyahoga County GOP boss Robert Hughes, whose death in the early 1990s was ruled a suicide but remains highly suspicious). In gratitude, this guy made sure that any complaints about EAC got circular-filed (Even a few years ago, when we called ODJFS pretending to be a family with a complaint, we were referred to the Better Business Bureau (and we all know how much “good” they can do).

We get more emails from people telling us how EAC screwed them than any other agency. You name it, they’ve done it … lied about the fate of kids in more than one foreign country, refused to return money, returned dossiers stamped all over “invalid” so as not to be reusable, threatened complaining PAPs on the Internet with the cessation of their adoptions, required people to bribe the Russians.

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Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic

Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic
by Thierry Meyssan*

One should judge Nicolas Sarkozy according to his actions, and not according to his personality. Yet when his doings surprise even his own constituents, it is legitimate to take a detailed look at his biography and question the bonds that brought him to power. Thierry Meyssan has decided to write the truth about the French Republic’s president background. All the information included in this article is provable, except for two assertions signalled by the author who alone takes full responsibility.



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Tired of the overextended presidencies of François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, the French elected Nicolas Sarkozy counting on his energy to revitalize their country. They were hoping for a break with years of no-change and ideologies of the past. What they got instead was a break with the very principles which founded the French nation, and have been shocked by this “hyper-president”, seizing every day a new dossier, attracting towards him the right and the left wing, and tearing apart all points of reference to the point of creating a total confusion.

Like children who have just made a boo-boo, the French are too busy trying to find excuses for themselves to admit the magnitude of the damages and of their naiveté, and they refuse all the more to see who Nicolas Sarkozy really is, that they realize they should have known since a long time who he was.

One must say the man has talents. Like a magician he tricked them. By offering them the spectacle of his private life and posing in People’s magazines, he got them to forget his political history.

The aim of this article must be clearly understood. It is not to reproach to M. Sarkozy his family, his friends or his professional ties, but the fact of having hidden those ties from the French who believed, wrongly, they were electing a free man.

To understand how a man whom all agree today to view as an agent of the United States and of Israel was able to become the head of the Gaullist party and the president of the French Republic, we must go back in time, very very far back. We must make a long digression in the course of which we will present the protagonists who are today taking their revenge.

The family secrets

At the end of Second World War, the United States secret services relied on Italo-US godfather, Lucky Luciano, to control the security of American ports and prepare their disembarking in Sicily. The main contacts of Luciano — held at that time at a New York luxury prison — to the US intelligence services went notably through Frank Wisner, Sr. Later, when the “godfather” was liberated and chose to exile in Italy, they operated through his Corsican “Ambassador”, Étienne Léandri.

In 1958, worried about a possible victory of the FLN in Algeria which could open the way to Soviet influence in Northern Africa, the United States decided to provoke a military coup d’Etat in France. The operation was jointly organized by the Cia’s Direction of Planning – theoretically lead by Frank Wisner, Sr. – and by NATO. But Wisner had already become senile by that time and it was his successor, Allan Dulles, who supervised the coup. Out of Algeria, French generals organized a Public Salvation Committee which pressured the Parisian civilian authorities to vote full powers to General de Gaulle without having had to use force.

Yet, Charles de Gaulle was not the pawn the Anglo-Saxons had believed they could manipulate. In a first phase, he attempted to deal with the colonial contradiction by granting to the overseas territories a large autonomy within the French Union. But it was already too late to save the French empire; the colonized people didn’t believe any longer in the promises of the Metropolitan France and demanded their independence. After victorious but fierce repression against those fighting for independence, de Gaulle decided to face reality, and in a rare show of political wisdom, he granted independence to each colony.

This turn about was perceived by most of those who brought him to power as a betrayal. The CIA and NATO supported then all kinds of plots to eliminate him, among which a missed coup and some 40 attempts to murder him. However, certain of his followers approved of his political evolution. Around Charles Pasqua, they created the SAC (Civic action services), a militia to protect him.

Pasqua was both a Corsican bandit and a former resistant. He married the daughter of a Canadian bootlegger who made fortune during the prohibition and he directed the Ricard company who, after commercialising absinthe, a forbidden alcohol, won respectability by converting to the sales of another alcohol based on liquorice (anisette). The company continued however to serve as a cover for all sorts of traffics connected to the New York Italian American family of the Genovese (and) that of Lucky Luciano. It is therefore not surprising that Pasqua called on Étienne Léandri (Ambassador of Luciano) to recruit the hands that constituted the Gaullist militia. A third man played an important role in the formation of the SAC, the former body guard of de Gaulle, Achille Peretti, also a Corsican.

Thus protected, de Gaulle designs an audacious national independence policy. Even though asserting his belonging to the Atlantic camp, he questions the Anglo-Saxon leadership. He opposes the entry of the United Kingdom into the European common market (1961 and 1967); refuses the deployment of UN helmets into Congo (1961); encourages the Latin American states to become free of US imperialism (speech of Mexico, 1964); kicks NATO out France and withdraws from the Atlantic Alliance’s integrated command (1966); he condemns Israeli expansionism during the Six Day war (1967); supports independence of Quebec (Speech of Montreal 1967), etc.

Simultaneously, de Gaulle consolidated the power of France by endowing it with a military industrial-complex including a nuclear deterrent and guarantying its energy provisions. He conveniently distanced the encumbering Corsicans of his entourage by entrusting them with foreign missions. Thus, Étienne Léandri became a leader of the ELF group (today Total), while Charles Pasqua the trusted man of the Francophone heads of State in Africa.

Conscious that he could not defy the Anglo-Saxons on all fronts at the same time, De Gaulle allied himself to the Rothschild family, choosing as Prime Minister, Georges Pompidou, who was the fondé de pouvoir of the bank. The two men constituted an efficient tandem, the political audacity of the first never losing sight of the economic realism of the second.

When De Gaulle resigned in 1969, Georges Pompidou succeeded him briefly at the Presidency before being taken out by a cancer. The historical Gaullists did not admit his leadership, however, and worried about his anglophile proclivities. They howled treason when Pompidou, supported by the General Secretary of the Élysée, Edouard Balladur, had “perfidious Albion” join the European Common Market.

The making of Nicolas Sarkozy

That decorum having been put into place, we can now return to our main character, Nicolas Sarkozy. Born in 1955 he is son to a Hungarian catholic nobleman, Pal Sarkösy of Nagy-Bosca, who sought refuge in France after fleeing the Red Army, and to Andree Mallah, a Jewish commoner from Thessalonica. After having three children (Guillaume, Nicolas and François), the couple divorced. Pal Sarkösy of Nagy-Bocsa remarried with an aristocrat, Christine de Ganay, with whom he had two children (Pierre Olivier and Caroline). Nicolas will not be raised by his own parents alone, but will go back and forth within this recomposed family.

His mother became the secretary of De Gaulle’s bodyguard, Achille Peretti. The latter, after founding the SAC, pursued a brilliant political career. He was elected Deputy and Mayor of Neuilly sur Seine, the richest residential suburb of the capital, and later President of the National Assembly.?
Unfortunately, in 1972, Achille Peretti comes under grave accusations. In the United States, Time Magazine reveals the existence of a secret criminal organization « the Corsican Union » which controls a large part of the drug trade between Europe and America, the famous « French connection » which Hollywood popularized on the large screen. Based on parliamentary auditions and on his own investigations, Time names the name of a mafia boss, Jean Venturi, arrested a few years earlier in Canada, who is none other than Charles Pasqua’s commercial delegate at the liquor society Ricard. The names of several families headed by the “Corsican Union” are cited, among which that of the Peretti. Achille denies, but is forced to renounce to the presidency of the National Assembly, and barely escapes a “suicide”…

In 1977, Pal Sarkösy of Nagy-Bocsa separates from his second wife, Christine de Ganay, who then gets together with the N°2 of the US State Department central administration. She marries him and settles in America with him. The world being very small, as everyone knows, her husband is none other than Frank Wisner, Jr, son of the previous. Junior’s responsibilities at the CIA are unknown, but it is clear that he plays an important role. Nicolas, who remains close to his mother in law, his half brother and his half sister, begins to turn towards the United States where he “benefits” from training programs of the State Department.

During that same period, Nicolas Sarkozy adheres to the Gaullist party coming into frequent contact with Charles Pasqua, who was not only a national leader then, but also the head of the party’s Haut de Seine department section.

Having finished Law School in 1982 and joined the Barr association, Nicolas Sarkozy married the niece of Achille Peretti. His best man was Charles Pasqua. As a lawyer, Sarkozy defended the interests of his mentors Corsican friends. He bought a property on the Island of Beauty, in Vico, and went as far as envisaging to make his name more “Corsican” by replacing the “y” by an “i”: Sarkozi.

The next year, he was elected Mayor of Neuilly sur Seine in replacement of his uncle in law, Achille Peretti, thundered by a heart attack. However, it was not long before Nicolas Sarkozy betrayed his wife, and since 1984, he had a secret liaison with Cecilia, the wife of the most famous entertainer of French television at that time, Jacques Martin, whom he had met while celebrating their marriage, a function he exerted being mayor of Neuilly. That double life lasted five years, before the lovers decided to quit their respective couples in order to build a new home.

In 1992, Nicolas was best man in the marriage of Jacques Chirac’s daughter, Claude, with an editorialist of Le Figaro. He couldn’t refrain himself from seducing Claude and having a short liaison with her, while officially living with Cecilia. The cuckold husband committed suicide by absorbing drugs. The break was brutal and without pardon between the Chirac’s and Nicolas Sarkozy.

In 1993, the left lost the legislative elections. President François Mitterrand refused to resign and entered into cohabitation with a right wing Prime Minister. Jacques Chirac who ambitioned the presidency, and was thinking at that point of constituting, with Edouard Balladur, a couple comparable to that of De Gaulle and Pompidou, refused to be Prime minister and left his post to his “30 year long friend”, Edouard Balladur. In spite of his sulphurous past, Charles Pasqua became Interior Minister. While keeping high hand over Moroccan marijuana trade, he took advantage of his situation to legalize his other activities taking control of casinos, gambling and horse races in francophone Africa. He wove ties with Saudi Arabia and Israel and became an officer of honour to the Mossad. Nicolas Sarkozy on his part, became minister of Budget and spokesman for the government.

In Washington, Frank Wisner, Jr. became the successor of Paul Wolfowitz as head of the Political Planning department of the Department of Defense. Nobody noticed at that time the ties to the spokesman of the French government.

It is then that tensions similar to those which rocked the Gaullist party 30 years earlier, broke out between the historical Gaullists and the financial right wing, incarnated by Balladur. The new element was that Charles Pasqua and along with him, the young Nicolas Sarkozy, betray Jacques Chirac in order to join the Rothschild current. Mayhem breaks out. The conflict will reach a climax in 1995 when Edouard Balladur ran for president, against his former friend, Jacques Chirac, and was beaten. Foremost, following instructions from London and Washington, the Balladur government opened negotiations for membership status to the European Union and NATO to States of Central and Eastern Europe who had freed from Soviet control.

Havoc reigns then in the Gaullist party where the friends of yesterday are ready to kill themselves today. To be able to finance his electoral campaign, Edouard Balladur attempts to grab the secret slush fund of the Gaullist party, hidden in the double deckered accounting of the books of the oil group ELF.

The ride through the desert

Through out his first mandate, Jacques Chirac keeps Nicolas Sarkozy at arms distance. The man was discrete during his ride through the desert. Discretely, however, he continued to weave ties to the financial circles.

In 1996, finally succeeding to bring to conclusion an endless divorce procedure, Nicolas Sarkozy marries Cecilia. Two billionaires were their best men, Martin Bouygues and Bernard Arnaud (the richest man of the country).

The final act

Way before the Iraqi crisis, Frank Wisner Jr. and his colleagues at the CIA plan the destruction of the Gaullist current and the coming to power of Nicolas Sarkozy. They move in three phases: first, the elimination of the leadership of the Gaullist party and the take over of the party apparatus, then the elimination of his main right wing rival and the securing the nomination to the presidential election for the Gaullist party; finally, the elimination of any serious challenger on the left to make sure that Nicolas would win the presidential election.

During years, posthumous revelations by a real estate dealer kept the media on their toes. Before dying from a terminal disease, for reasons which remain unknown, he decided to video tape his confessions and for reasons which are even more obscure, the “cassette” landed in the hands of a Socialist party leader, Dominique Strauss Kahn, who addressed it indirectly to the media.

While the confessions of the real estate dealer did not lead to any juridical sanctions, they opened up the Pandora’s Box. The main victim of the series of scandals was Prime Minister Alain Juppé. To protect Chirac, he assumed alone all the penal sanctions. The removal of Juppé from the front lodges opened the way for the take by Sarkozy of the leadership of the Gaullist party.

Sarkozy exploited then his position to force Jacques Chirac to take him into the government once again, in spite of their reciprocal hatred. In the end, he became Interior Minister. Mistake ! This post gave him control over the prefects and the internal intelligence apparatus which he used to gain positions of power over the large administrations.

He dealt also with Corsican affairs. Prefect Claude Érignac was murdered. Even though nobody claimed it, the murder was immediately interpreted as a challenge by the independentists to the Republic. Following a long hunt, the police managed to arrest a fleeing suspect, Yvan Colonna, son of a Socialist deputy. Caring little about the presumption of innocence, Nicolas Sarkozy announced the arrest, accusing the suspect of being the assassin. The news is too important, a mere two days away from the referendum the minister has organized in Corsica to modify the status of the island. Be as it may, the electors reject the Sarkozy project, who, according to some, favoured mafia interests. While Yvan Colonna was ultimately declared guilty, he always claimed his innocence and no material proof was ever found against him. Strangely, the man preferred to remain totally silent rather than reveal what he actually knew. We reveal here that prefect Érignac was not directly killed by the nationalists, but by a paid killer, immediately exfiltrated towards Angola where he was hired to the security of the Elf group. The mobile of the crime was precisely connected to the previous functions of Érignac, responsible for the African networks at Pasqua’s cooperation ministry. As for Yvan Colonna, he is a personal friend of Nicolas Sarkozy since decades and their children have entertained social relations.

A new scandal broke out then: phoney computer listings were circulating falsely accusing several personalities of hiding bank accounts in Luxembourg, at Clearstream. Among the defamed personalities: Nicolas Sarkozy, who filed a suit insinuating that he suspected his right wing rival to the presidency, Dominique de Villepin, to have organized this machination. Sarkozy didn’t hide his intention either to throw him in jail. In reality, the false listings were put in circulation by members of the French American Foundation, of which John Negroponte was the president and Frank Wisner Jr, the administrator. What the judges ignored and which we reveal here is that the listings were fabricated in London by a common office of the CIA and of MI6, Hakluyt and co, of which Frank Wisner is also an administrator.

Villepin denied the accusations, but was indicted, assigned to residence and, de facto, eliminated from political life temporarily. The road is thus free on the right wing for Nicolas Sarkozy. It remained for the opposition candidacies to be neutralized. The membership fees to the Socialist party were reduced to a symbolic level in order to attract new activists. Suddenly, thousands of youth take membership cards. Among them, there were at least 10 000 new members who are in reality militants from the “Lambertist” Trotskyite party, (named after its founder Pierre Lambert). This small extreme left group historically served the CIA against the Stalinist communists during the cold war (it is the equivalent of the Social democrats/USA of Max Schatchman, who trained the US neo-conservatives). It is not the first time the “Lambertists” infiltrate the Socialist party. They introduced there two notorious CIA agents : Lionel Jospin (who became Prime minister) and Jean Christophe Cambadelis, the main advisor to Dominique Strauss Kahn.

Primaries were organized inside the Socialist party to designate its candidate to the presidential election. Two personalities were competing: Laurent Fabius and Ségolène Royal. Only the first was a danger for Sarkozy. Dominique Strauss Kahn came into the race with the mission to eliminate Fabius at the last moment. Something he did with the help of the votes of the infiltrated “lambertists”, who voted not for him but for Royal.

The operation is possible because Strauss Kahn is since long on the pay roll of the United States. Frenchmen ignore that he teaches at Stanford, where he was hired by the prévot Dean of the University, Condoleeza Rice. From the beginning of his term, Nicolas Sarkozy and Condoleeza Rice will thank Strauss Kahn by having him elected to the leadership of the International Monetary fund.

First days at the Élysée

The evening of the second round of the presidential election, when polling agencies announced his probable victory, Nicolas Sarkozy gave a short speech to the nation from his general campaign quarters. Then, contrary to all custom, he didn’t celebrate with the militants of his party, but went to the Fouquet’s. The famous brasserie at the Champs-Élysées, formerly the place of rendez-vous of the “Corsican union” is today the property of Casino magnate, Dominique Desseigne. It was lent to the elected president to receive his friends and main campaign donors. Some hundred guests crowded there, the richest men of France hobnobbing with the casino bosses.

The elected president then offered himself some days of well merited rest. Transported to Malta by a private Falcon 900, he relaxed on the Paloma, a 65 m yacht of his friend Vincent Bollore, a billionaire trained at the Rothschild bank.?
Finally, Nicolas Sarkozy was inaugurated president of the French Republic. The first decree he signed was not to enact an amnesty, but to authorize the casinos of his friends Desseigne and Partouche to multiply the money machines.

He composed his working team and his government. Without surprise, one finds there an ominous casino owner (the minister of Youth and Sports) and the lobbyist of the casinos of his friend Desseigne (who became a spokesman of the “Gaullist party”.)

Nicolas Sarkozy relies above all on 4 men :

- Claude Guéant, secretary general of the Elysée Palace, the former right hand of Charles Pasqua.
- François Pérol, under-secretary general of the Elysée, an associate manager of the Rothschild bank.
- Jean-David Lévitte, diplomatic advisor. Son of the former director of the Jewish Agency. French ambassador to the UN, he was removed by Chirac who judged him too close to George Bush.
- Alain Bauer, the man of the shadows. His name does not appear in the directories. He is in charge of the secret services. Former Grand Master of the French Great Orient (the most important Masonic organization in France) and former N°2 of the United States National Security Agency in Europe.

Frank Wisner Jr. who in the meantime was named “special envoy” to President Bush for the independence of Kosovo, insisted that Bernard Kouchner be named minister of Foreign affairs with a double mission priority: the independence of Kosovo and the elimination of France’s Arab policy.

Kouchner started his career by participating in the creation of a humanitarian NGO. Thanks to financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy, he took part in operations of Zbigniew Brzezinski in Afghanistan against the soviets, along sides with Oussama Ben Laden and the Karzai brothers. One finds him again in the 90’s working with Alija Izetbegovic in Bosnia Herzegovina. From 1999 to 2001 he was high representatives of the UN to Kosovo.

Under the rule of the youngest brother of president Hamid Karzaï, Afghanistan became the first world producer of opium poppies transformed in heroin locally and transported by the US Air force to Camp Bondsteed (Kosovo). There, the men of Hacim Thaci take charge of the drug and distribute it mainly in Europe and accessorily in the United States. The benefits are used to finance the illegal operations of the CIA. Karzai and Thaci are longstanding personal friends of Bernard Kouchner who undoubtedly ignores their criminal activities in spite of all the international reports which have been dedicated to them.

To complete his government, Nicolas Sarkozy named Christine Lagarde, minister of the Economy and Finances. All her career was made in the United States where she directed the prestigious law firm Baker and McKenzie. At the Center for international and strategic studies of Dick Cheney, she copresided with Zbigniew Brzezinski a working group which supervised the privatisations in Poland. She organized also an intense lobbying effort for Lockheed Martin against French airplane producer Dassault.

New escapade during the summer. Nicolas, Cecilia, their common mistress and their children went on holidays to the United States at Wolfeboro, not far from the property of President Bush. The bill was paid this time by Robert F. Agostinelli, an Italian-New Yorker investment banker, Zionist and a pure brand of neo-conservative who writes in Commentary, the magazine of the American Jewish Committee.

The success of Nicolas had impact on his half brother, Pierre Olivier. Under the American name of Oliver, he was named by Frank Carlucci (formerly N°2 of the CIA after having been recruited by Frank Wisner, Sr.) Director of the new investment fund of the Carlyle Group (the common investment firm of the Bush family and Ben Laden). Having become the 5th largest business dealer in the world, he handles the main assets of the sovereign funds of Kuwait and Singapore.

The popularity of the President is in a free fall in the polls. One of his communications advisors, Jacques Seguela (also consultant for political communication at the NED where he is in charge of diverse CIA operations in Western Europe and Latin America), proposes to detract the public’s attention with new “people stories”. The announcement of the divorce with Cecilia was publicised by Libération, the paper of his friend Edouard de Rothschild, to cover up the slogans of demonstrators in a day of general strike. Stronger even, the communications agent organized a meeting between the president and the former top model, Carla Bruni. Some days later, her liaison with the president became official and the media hammering covered up once again political criticism. Some weeks later, the third marriage of Nicolas occurred. This time, he chose as best men Mathilde Agostinelle (the wife of Robert) and Nicolas Bazire, a former cabinet director of Edouard Balladur who became assistant manager at the Rothschilds.

When will the French use their eyes to see what they have to do ?

Daily Bastardette: EUROPEAN ADOPTION CONSULTANTS: LIVING LARGE OFF THE MISERY OF OTHERS (+ comments)

EUROPEAN ADOPTION CONSULTANTS: LIVING LARGE OFF THE MISERY OF OTHERS

Posted on July 26, 2008 by dailybastardette@gmail.com — 34 Comments ?

Curious minds wonder. Just how much does European Adoption Consultants, the placing agency of two Russian children who ended up dead at the hands of their Forever Families,* rake in each year? Since I’m not an accountant, I’m not going to pretend to interpret their IRS 990s, available on Guidestar (free registration required). There’s a lot more than these figures: salaries, expenses, inventory. Perhaps somebody else can elaborate. In the meantime, here’s a sample:

GROSS

2004: $7,568,621

Inasmuch Romania is now Jubilee

Saturday, July 05, 2008

Inasmuch Romania is now Jubilee

I received an interesting email from Inasmuch yesterday. It was a new newsletter announcing that they were now Jubilee Ministries Association. Apparently, they are making progress as they work through the legal mess in Romania. Inasmuch must be "liquidated" and it is hoped that the property can be transferred to this new organization- Jubilee. This will ensure that the girls home will remain open and the girls taken care of.

Inasmuch was a ministry started by Ron and Sue Bates to minister to needy children and families in Romania. Since the passing of Ron and Sue last year, their children have been working to continue the ministry. Jubilee (as it is now known) has appointed a new administrator. Pray that the ministry will be able to finalize the legal hassles and move forward.

Concern International is their ministry partner in the United States. Donations can be sent to