Declan Ganley's Rivada Pacific contracts from US Defence Dept and Homeland Security

Libertas's early days were funded by Rivada Networks who employed key staff to work on setting up the Libertas brand . Ganley later denied this but he was contradicted by Naosie Nunn founder of Libertas. see
Libertas Limited from way back machine
Rivada networks key personel

Libertas executive director is Rivada employee

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The faux party of transparency, Libertas's leader's contracts from George W Bush and the US military war machine since 2004 should be known to all the people who think Declan Ganley loves Democracy and not warmongering.

See over 40 US DEFENCE DEPT. CONTRACTS THAT DECLAN'S GANLEY COMPANY RIVADA PACIFIC HAVE RECEIVED SINCE 2004.

Fed Contracts awarded without competition to DECLAN GANLEY's RIVADA PACIFIC

Links Nana Pacific Ganley's Partner firm
Rivada Networks the warmonger Declan Ganley's flagship a Ganley International company.

See also Ganley in Iraq

Nana Pacific US Defence contract trends

Note that the Obama government does not favour Ganley's allies. There is in fact an anti Obama smear which is being perpetuated by people supporting Ganley's Iraq pal Jack Shaw. Indeed Shaw appeared on ABC prior to the election to smear Obama

Trend

2000	$0
2001	$0
2002	$0
2003	$0
2004	$343,000
2005	$10,010,979
2006	$16,199,933
2007	$8,722,759
2008 1Q *	$1,964,127

Is the reason ganley is trying to move into Europe the fact that the US are not so hot on his cosy relationship with republican war mongers who tried to stop Barack Obama from being elected?

The above from Libertas the Pan European Political party Blog http://libertaseu.blogspot.com/

The below is about later convicted of corruption Alaskan Sen.Ted Steven's and Ganley's later partners Nana Pacific using the Iraq War to gain financially. Jack Shaw later connected Declan ganley with Nana when he failed to get in on the war action with a mobile phone bid that has been the subject of much copntroversy,

Contracts Take Alaska to Iraq

By T. Christian Miller
March 07, 2004

LA Times

Snow-covered Alaska is a long way from the deserts of Iraq, but that doesn't worry Janet Reiser, the president of an Anchorage-based company planning to help rebuild the war-torn country.

Because of the efforts of Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska Native-owned businesses like Reiser's are allowed to receive government contracts of unlimited size without going through the normal bidding process. Pentagon officials are turning to them to speed up the rebuilding of Iraq.

"If you exchange snow for sand, work in Iraq is similar to the work we've done in Alaska," said Reiser, whose Nana Pacific engineering company is in the final stages of negotiating a multimillion-dollar contract that will be awarded without competitive bidding. "We know how to do logistics in remote areas."

Over the years, Stevens, the Alaska Republican who is the powerful chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has made sure that Nana Pacific and other small businesses owned by Alaska Native corporations and Native Americans enjoy special benefits in government contracting.

Their unique ability to land government contracts of any size, free of the bidding process -- which no other minority- or women-owned small businesses enjoy -- was a largely unknown part of contracting law until last fall, when Congress passed an $18.6-billion aid package earmarked for Iraqi reconstruction that contained restrictions calling for full and open competition.

Stevens, however, made sure the final bill contained language to protect Alaska Native corporations' ability to win no-bid contracts under federal law, according to Republican and Democratic budget analysts familiar with the process.

At the same time, Alaska Native officials and their lobbyists frequented industry conferences, the Defense Department and Capitol Hill in an effort to drum up Iraq business.

Some Pentagon officials responded by pushing the Alaska Native corporations as a way to quickly get work accomplished without going through the bidding process, which can take months.

Although only a handful of Alaskan and small tribal businesses have sought contracts to date, Pentagon officials said they hoped the number would increase.

Ganley's US military connections could "save " Ireland: Irish Times humour

In light of the recent comments by politicians as diverse as Ireland's Fine Geal MEP Jim Higgins and Jean Marie Le Pen of France's Front Nationale The Irish Times takes a humorous look at the possible advantages of Declan Ganley's US military connections might be to Ireland and if he "commanded" Europe.
The idea that Ireland could become the "Moyther of all Green Zones" with haliburtan and Rivada providing all that enters might well appeal to Ganley. His speciality is capitalism in disaster zones. His attacks on democracy are a deliberate effort to create the illusion that Ganley actually wants democracy. His far right partners across Europe included until recently mebers more comfortable at Polich Youth meeting shouting "Seil Heil" as was recently reported in the Polish media.

Ireland could advance with the help of the US military

NEWTON EMERSON

NEWTON'S OPTIC: FINE GAEL MEP Jim Higgins has accused Libertas founder Declan Ganley, his challenger in June’s European election, of being “a puppet of the US military”. He says that as if it’s a bad thing.

What’s wrong with supporting a puppet of the US military?

It is hardly as if the current political class comes with no strings attached. How often have paramilitary puppets run for office in Ireland, moved by hidden hands both foreign and domestic? How many representatives humoured at least two armies here for years? Is Leinster House not the original home of “Don’t ask, don’t tell?” Was any rendition ever more extraordinary than the Taoiseach’s back-of-a-tractor Sinatra singalong?

The US military has a recession-proof annual budget of $700 billion and 1.4 million active personnel. Only 225,000 are officers, making it 600 per cent more efficient than the Irish public sector. It is customer-focused, target-driven and export-orientated. Clearly, this is exactly the sort of organisation to sort out all of Ireland’s problems.

Union unrest? Call in a surgical strike. Banking crisis? It’s just collateral damage. Public versus private sector? Leave it to the “civilian contractors”. Poverty among the unemployed? Let them eat Mash.

Every tired old dispute in Ireland could do with a little US military shock and awe. Social partnership talks have their uses but when push comes to surge nothing quite beats a laser-guided bomb dropped directly down Liberty Hall’s lift shaft.

The US military traces its origins back to the American Continental Army, set up in 1773 to drive out the British. This could finally explain why Libertas and Sinn Féin appear to be on the same side.

The US military is widely associated with pork-barrel spending, commercial favouritism and invoicing the taxpayer $5,000 for a toilet seat, so it could presumably work with Fianna Fáil as well.

The US military has recently made great progress with pilotless drones so it could even work with Enda Kenny.

All these factors would make the US military an excellent partner in a government of national unity should the present regime ever need to be changed.

From its command headquarters in Dáil Éireann (DAILCOM), this Libertas-led coalition of the willing could transform Ireland into the mother of all green zones.

It is true that some people might have to be put in an orange jumpsuit. However, it is important to remember that there is no danger from water-boarding as long as you don’t use the tap water in Galway.

But it is in the European theatre that June’s electoral battle will take place, and that is where US military backing should prove most useful. Once before the US military fought in Europe only to have to come back and fight pretty much the same war all over again. This is obviously pertinent experience for a second Lisbon Treaty referendum. From its mobile Western front command headquarters in Strasbourg and Brussels (STRASBRUSWESCOM), a Libertas-led alliance for democracy could drive the axis of weasel back over the Rhine.

Of course, the US military is not invulnerable. But Ireland is not Vietnam, no matter how much the North occasionally resembles it. The only real weakness the US military has ever shown is failing to work out an exit strategy. Could we send them Bertie Ahern as a military advisor?

Jim Higgins comments on Declan Ganley and the US military are backed by Fine Gael party

The full text of Jim Higgins speech is on the Fine Gael website. Given that ganley tried to sue Higgins only a few months ago over the same claims regarding Ganley's unsavory motives this implies that the whole party have disregarded Ganley's legal threats.
It will be interesting to see if new legal threats are issued by Ganley or will he accept that the truth should be in the public domain.
The below is the portion of the speech dealing with Declan Ganley and his secretive Libertas party.

The decision by the Irish people to reject the Lisbon Treaty is nothing short of a catastrophe. We have pushed ourselves from the heart of Europe to the fringe of Europe. We have jeopardised the possibility of further, but much-needed funding for infrastructure and agriculture. We have damaged our international reputation and prospects of jobs from direct foreign investment, not to speak of retaining the vital important US jobs which up to now have been a key component in our economy.

I cannot emphasise strongly enough how crucially important it is that whenever Lisbon is put to the people again, we do everything possible to ensure that the electorate turn away from the lunatic fringe which mounted a deliberately misleading and spurious campaign. The Lisbon Treaty protected every vital Irish interest - our attractive corporation tax, our neutrality, our stance on defence and last, but by no means least, our total revulsion and rejection of abortion. To manage to get the people of Ireland to buy into an alliance of Sinn Féin and Libertas speaks volumes in terms of the ability of the two ends of the spectrum to find common cause, all designed to sabotage our vital national interest.

I welcome Mr Declan Ganley's decision to contest this election. At long last we might be in a position to find out exactly what Mr Ganley's agenda is.

He will have to tell the people why ten months after the Lisbon vote he has constantly refused to tell the Standards in Public Office Commission the nature and conditions of his personal loan to the Libertas Lisbon campaign and the involvement of his Rivada Networks staff. This is the Lord of the Manor who lectures from on high in relation to transparency. It begs the question, what is Mr Ganley hiding?

He will have to explain why two of the Eastern European politicians who signed his ratification for recognition as a political party have now withdrawn their signatures.

He will have to come clean about the one million Swedish Krona offered to the Swedish Euro sceptic political party Junilistan to add the name of Libertas to its title, only to be told by its leader "I was insulted. It would be extremely unethical for our party to be funded by a millionaire from another country."

People would like to know why, after courting and supporting the ultra right wing Catholic LPR party in Poland, Mr Ganley has suddenly bolted in the opposite direction this week.

Mr Ganley likes to parade himself as a loyal Irish man. Why then has he described himself in the past as British? Why has he appointed on to his board four-star US generals, a former British SAS general and high-ranking former defence staff?

The truth is that Mr Ganley is a puppet of the US military. The truth is that the United States military are frightened stiff of a united and stronger European Union through the Lisbon Treaty. The truth is that Mr Ganley does not want a united Europe. Anything that would get in the way of his multi-million dollar contracts with the US military must be opposed. Hence his opposition to Lisbon. Hence his reason to contest these elections.

It was once famously said that the first casualty of war is the truth. At his campaign launch last week, Mr Ganley accused me of voting for a €9.2 million swimming pool and sauna for the European Parliament. I never voted for such a project, and neither did any of my colleagues. Declan, if you continue with such malicious claims I will be seeing you in another forum and it won't be the European Parliament. You pretend to be pro-Europe. The reality is that you are anti-Europe.

Declan Ganley's US military contracts are the reason for his opposition to Lisbon Treaty - MEP

Jim Higgins has branded Declan Ganley a puppet of the US military. He goes further to say that Ganley's opposition to the Lisbon Treaty was informed solely by his close ties and business contracts with his American military paymasters.

Higgins who Ganley targeted recently, firstly by trying to scare him into silence Ganley threatened to sue the MEP. While Higgins failed to be impressed by Ganley's threats, Ganley , as usual, failed to proceed with his legal action. Ganley is becoming notorious for his threats to sue that are not backed up by legal actions. This has correctly been viewed by may in Ireland as intimidation tactics, as Ganley attempts to use his alledged wealth and therefore his ability to fund legal actions to silence critics.

Higgins in whose constituency Ganley is contesting the European elections in June has been a particular target of Ganley mistruths.


Higgins also asks why Ganley is courting far right politicians in Europe. The Irish Independent has further quotes to the ones used in the Irish Times. See Also

Ganley is branded a 'puppet of US military'

FINE Gael MEP Jim Higgins yesterday launched a furious attack on Libertas leader Declan Ganley -- branding him a "puppet of the US military".

Just one week after Mr Ganley launched his campaign to contest the European elections in the North-West constituency with a verbal attack on Mr Higgins, the veteran politician hit back.

Speaking at the party's selection convention in Sligo yesterday, he welcomed Mr Ganley's decision to enter the race but said he would have to reveal his true agenda.

"The truth is that the United States military are frightened stiff of a united and stronger European Union through the Lisbon Treaty.

"The truth is that Mr Ganley does not want a united Europe. Anything that would get in the way of his multi-million dollar contracts with the US military must be opposed. Hence his opposition to Lisbon. Hence his reason to contest these elections," he said.

He called on the Libertas founder to reveal why he has constantly refused to tell the Standards in Public Office Commission the nature and conditions of his personal loan to the Libertas Lisbon campaign and the involvement of his Rivada Networks staff. Last night Mr Ganley's spokesman John McGuirk hit back saying: "Mr Higgins' comments are not just lies, they are embarrassing lies from an MEP who has for four years done absolutely nothing to justify the salary paid to him by taxpayers.

"Jim can snipe at Declan's record in business, but only one candidate has a record of actually creating any jobs, and that's Declan Ganley."

Explain

Earlier, Mr Higgins added Mr Ganley would also have to explain why "two of the Eastern European politicians who signed his ratification for recognition as a political party have now withdrawn their signatures" and to come clean about the one million Swedish Krona (Correction: It was 10 mil SEK =1 mil euro Libertas Nein Danke) allegedly offered to the euro-sceptical political party Junilistan to add the name of Libertas to its title.

Mr Higgins claimed that its leader had responded by saying that it would be "extremely unethical" for the Swedish party to be funded by a millionaire from another country.

He said the public would also like to know why, after courting and supporting the ultra right wing Catholic LPR party in Poland, Mr Ganley has "suddenly bolted in the opposite direction" this week.

- Anita Guidera

Austrian court gets it wrong in Ganley judgement

Not weapons? Ganley's Rivada Pacific mobile communications equipment allows
troops to deploy in areas and quickly set up communications device that help in the
targeting of people, buildings and the guidance of missles and airstrikes.

Libertas are claiming that an Austrian court has ordered Format magazine to print a retraction of what Libertas call lies. It appears that Format said that Ganley was an arms dealer. Now this blogger is not sure about Ganley selling actual guns but of course that is possible. He claimed in 1995 to own the Kipelovo secret airbase in Russia which according to Ganley had 40 Tupelov Bear F long range anti naval recon planes on the runway. Arms was a big business among nasant oligarchs. The Austrian court obviously has a distorted view of what an arms dealer is in these modern times..

Ganley and his company Rivada Networks do supply the US military with communications equipment which is essential for the operation and deployment of many weapons systems. Communication being such an important part of modern warfare it is impossible to not include communications equipment in the weapons category.

No missiles, no air-stikes, no renditions or torture of prisoners happens without the use by troops of communications devices.

It may have been a technical point but Rivada and Ganley are in the weapons industry, they just happen to supply the communication platforms for troops to use in battle. If you are wondering if communications paltforms are integrated into killing machines just look at "drones" that both spy, communicate and can fire missles. Drones are usless without communications systems.

Here is what Libertas had to say.

Austrian magazine Format prints retraction after publishing lies about Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley

Austrian weekly magazine Format has printed the following retraction:

"Mr Declan J. Ganley doesn’t deal in weapons. He is a businessman, whose company supplies entities such as police, fire, medical, and disaster response personnel with interoperable communications equipment and services. American companies are his clients too."

Libertas is always happy to clarify any inaccurate reporting about its members, and will continue to have lies published about it or its members publicly retracted.

Well I don't think you will be getting any retractions from this bloggger. Ganley is a war monger and a war profiteer. Rivada provide the military with essential equipment which is part of weapons systems and therefore must be categorised as weapons.