SES reaches 351 million homes worldwide

The number of video households served by SES has continued to increase, reaching 351 million TV homes in 2017 according to SES's annual market research, Satellite Monitor. This substantial technical reach compared with 325 million households in 2016 means that SES is now delivering video content to more than 1 billion global viewers.

..The Satellite Monitor shows that Europe continues to be a strong and resilient market where satellite broadcasting is a highly attractive platform for reliable and cost-effective video delivery to large audiences. SES now reaches 167 million TV homes in Europe, up from 156 million in 2016. This growth is mainly driven by the addition of Turkey and the additional reach of Yahlive in the Maghreb countries, which together represent an increase of 10 million TV homes. Technical reach across the core markets in Europe was stable.

In Africa, SES now reaches 30 million homes. In West Africa, SES has seen a strong growth with an increase from 3 million homes to 11 million in Nigeria, and from 2 million to 4 million in Ghana. Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania - which are being included in the Satellite Monitor for the first year - account for 7 million homes.

Through Yahlive, a joint venture between SES and Yahsat, SES serves 13 million homes in the Middle East and South West Asia, up from 11 million TV homes in 2016. For the rest of the world, SES reaches 32 million homes in Asia-Pacific, 75 million homes in North America, and 33 million in Latin America.

KKR, Pay to Play, Black Weapons, Petraeus, Blood Diamonds, Clinton Global Initiative, and the Green, Green Hills of Africa

Turning Hot Air into Cash https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2947693/Turning-hot-air-into-hard-cash.html

Climate Change Capital (CCC's) fund is valued at £455m and is expected to top £536m ($1bn). Among its heavyweight investors are two Dutch pension funds and the energy giant Centrica. Its rise, and that of the other carbon funds, shows that some very big players think Kyoto will be effectual - and will make a greenhouseful of money.

James Cameron, the founder of the CCC, believes that Kyoto will do more than that. The 44-year-old, an international lawyer at both the Rio and Kyoto treaty talks before he switched to investment banking, believes that tackling climate change is a necessity and that Kyoto provides a workable framework for doing so. But what has made big investors listen is that he thinks Kyoto, and the green economy it introduced, means opportunity..

CCC has on its advisory board Lord Oxburgh, a former chairman of Shell, who knows about fossil fuels and the alternatives to them. And its chairman is Otto Van der Wyck, the founder of BC Partners, who knows about private equity investment. CCC's latest carbon fund is 10 times larger than the one it launched last year – and a large fund by private equity standards. As Mr Cameron, its vice-chairman, says: "Anyone who understands business growth will be interested in that."

Exposing the well funded & manufactured campaign of blame on the 'Exxon knew climate change would be dangerous' fiasco

New Disclosures Help Pull Back Curtain on Who’s Funding Manufactured Climate Investigation..

“The program is supported by the Energy Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Family Fund, Lorana Sullivan Foundation and the Tellus Mater Foundation.”

..One of the board members at InsideClimate News, Michael Northrup, directs the Sustainable Development grantmaking program at RBF. According to InsideClimate News’ website, Northrup “provided the seed grant that got InsideClimate News started in 2007.”

In comments:

ECIU’s Advisory Board includes: Sir Crispin Tickell, BBC’s Robin Lustig , ***Lord Oxburgh, Rear Admiral Neil Morisetti (former UK climate envoy), etc. ***Lord Oxburgh: April 2010: WUWT: Global warming: The Oxburgh Inquiry was an offer he couldn’t refuse. Guest post by Thomas Fuller, San Francisco Environmental Examiner

1. East Anglia University commissioned an investigation into the practices of its research unit and asked Lord Oxburgh to chair the panel.

2. Lord Oxburgh is chairman of Falck Renewables, a manufacturer of windfarms and the UK subsidiary of The Falck Group, a Milan-based manufacturer.

3. A sister company of Oxburgh’s Falck Renewables, Actelios, is publicly traded and had suffered serious falls in its stock price during the period of Climategate, etc.

4. Lord Oxburgh’s company, its parent and more than one of its sister companies have had organised crime activities surrounding their acquisition of property and installation of green energy systems.

5. The green energy industry, organised crime investors, Falck Renewables and its parent and sister companies stood to benefit from an investigation the results of which did not overturn the science findings of CRU… http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/04/25/global-warming-the-oxburgh-inquiry-was-an-offer-he-couldnt-refuse/

So to highlight connections between Intelsat, SES and Yahlive :

Mother claims her 8 year old child is being sex trafficked by NXIVM to the elite. The kidnapper works with high clearance in the government and is able to alter medical records.

OMG. At last... maniacal laughter from me... finally, I've found another piece of a puzzle I've been looking for years...

Further to my previous comment on the brother Bob working with GlobalFoundries : The Emirate of Abu Dhabi is the owner of the company through its subsidiary Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC).

Abu Dhabi's Mubadala says no plans to sell Globalfoundries, Yahsat https://www.arabianbusiness.com/abu-dhabi-s-mubadala-says-no-plans-sell-globalfoundries-yahsat-623960.html

Abu Dhabi's state-owned fund Mubadala has no plans to sell contract chipmaker Globalfoundries or United Arab Emirates satellite operator Yahsat, its chief executive Khaldoon Khalifa al-Mubarak said on Monday. Bloomberg had reported last month, citing unnamed sources, that the fund was considering the sale of Yahsat and had held early talks with potential buyers for Globalfoundries as the emirate of Abu Dhabi reviewed state assets in an environment of low oil prices.

Yahsat ?? Yahsat, you say??? There's a link with the HAMPSTEAD case !!!

First, a little about Yahsat : Al Yah Satellite Communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Yah_Satellite_Communications

Al Yah Satellite Communications, AlYahsat is a satellite communications company wholly owned subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, the Abu Dhabi Government's strategic investment company. The company offers voice, data, video and internet services for broadcast, Internet and VSAT users for both private and government organisations.

In August 2009 Yahsat entered into a partnership with European satellite operator SES to create a new company operating under the brand name YahLive offering Direct-to-Home (DTH) television capacity and services to more than two dozen countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South West Asian region

My voat posts re Yahlive:

comment on The Hampstead whistleblowers children case exposé by @YingYangMom

I just found a very odd piece of information on Ella's first husband Will Draper. ...he was at one point also a director of a smaller outfit called : 47 HOLLYCROFT AVENUE MANAGEMENT LTD Address: KATZ & CO, 135 NOTTING HILL GATE, LONDON, W11 3LB... Currently, there are three directors: Vincent Sagua, who is British and currently living in the United Arab Emirates, working for a satellite broadcast company https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/mQwzInCYylop_PYfkiOe_sej0fY/appointments, http://yahlive.com/key-executives (Chief financial officer), http://yahlive.com/content/overview

Sidenote: I subsequently realized that 47 HOLLYCROFT AVENUE MANAGEMENT LTD is the management company for the address in Hampstead where Ricky Dearman lived with Ella and the children. The directors of the company are people who own/live at the apartments at 47 Hollycroft Avenue in Hampstead so the names change as people move in and out. Looking at the historical records of the various owners of the apartments in the building I found there are many links with the Tavistock Clinic.

Remember that UAE embassy mansion fire ? A look at UAE influence in Washington, broadcasting systems and their connection to the world of child abuse. I need some tech savvy eyes.

Recently, through my own investigations of the Hampstead case, I was alerted to a United Arab Emirates satellite broadcasting company Yahlive . The Hampstead angle is another chapter of this book, so I won’t go into that here. Yahlive is a very important broadcasting company for the Arab world. Saudi TV channels use this company exclusively.

One of their shareholders is SES SES works with the Clinton Global Initiative https://www.ses.com/press-release/ses-joins-clinton-global-initiative-cgi .

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has a very strong influence in Washington. This article lays out how much they spend on lobbying https://www.propublica.org/article/adding-it-up-the-top-players-in-foreign-agent-lobbying-718

The UAE ambassador to Washington is Yousef Al Otaiba. The following lengthy Huffington Post article contains much background information on him and describes his great influence in DC. As a philanthropist he is highly involved with children’s charities too. I highly recommend taking the time to read it.

Will Draper is a telecommunications expert! This just blows my mind.......

The United Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_Group

United Group is an alternative telecom provider in the Balkan countries that operates in two main business segments: telecommunication platforms and media (content and advertising).

United Group began in 2000 as a small cable company and expanded over the years through the acquisition and the formation of a number of assets, such as SBB, Telemach Slovenia and Telemach Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] All companies formed together in 2012 to officially become United Group. Telemach Montenegro became a part of United Group as well in 2014. Telemach acquired Tušmobil on 1 April 2015.[2] This being a cable acquisition of mobile network makes it a unique case in the region, and the first step of United Group into providing all telecommunication services (fixed, mobile, television, and internet) in one household.

Dragan Šolak (Chairman of the Advisory Board); Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Owner: BC Partners

BC Partners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Partners

BC Partners is a private equity firm specialising in buyouts and acquisitions financing in Europe and the United States. The firm invests across all industries. BC Partners was founded in 1986 and is based in London with additional offices in New York City; Paris; Milan and Hamburg.

As one of the largest European private equity firms, BC Partners competes for buyouts and investment opportunities with other large cap private equity firms including Blackstone Group, KKR, CVC Capital Partners, Advent International and The Carlyle Group.

The firm, founded in 1986 as Baring Capital Investors Ltd. by Otto van der Wyck, who was also a co-founder of CVC Capital Partners. Originally, BC was formed by Barings to advise funds providing development capital, in particular for management buyouts. The principals of Baring Capital Investors completed a spinout of what would become BC Partners following the collapse of Barings in 1995.[8] Van der Wyck left the firm in 2001 and has held senior roles with firms including Coller Capital, Climate Change Capital and AlpInvest Partners. BC is currently investing from its 10th private equity fund.

BC Partners was until recently majority shareholder of Intelsat, the global satellite services provider valued at $16.6 billion USD in its leveraged buyout in 2007—one of the largest private equity buyouts of all time led by a consortium of investors including BC Partners and Silver Lake Partners. In 2008, BC Partners replaced Intelsat's chairman with Raymond Svider, BC's New York-based co-chairman.[7] Sometime between 2008 and 2018 BC capital Partners sold all of Intelsat to the company.

Intelsat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat

Intelsat Corporation—formerly INTEL-SAT, INTELSAT, Intelsat—is a communications satellite services provider. Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO, or INTELSAT), it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services.

John F. Kennedy instigated the creation of INTELSAT with his speech to the United Nations on the 25th of September 1961.[5] Less than a year later, John F. Kennedy signed the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. INTELSAT was originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) and operated from 1964 to 2001 as an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services. In 2001, the international satellite market was fully commercialized, and the US predominant role in INTELSAT was fully privatized after 2001 as Intelsat was formed up as a private Luxembourg corporation.

Intelsat was sold for U.S. $3.1bn in January 2005 to four private equity firms: Madison Dearborn Partners, Apax Partners, Permira and Apollo Global Management. The company acquired PanAmSat on 3 July 2006, and is now the world's largest provider of fixed satellite services, operating a fleet of 52 satellites in prime orbital locations.

Links with SES SA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_S.A.

Petraeus would recover. Six months after the scandal, he would be recruited by the venture capital fund Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. L. P. (KKR) to run its newly founded Global Institute.

Voat posts re Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. L. P. (KKR) :

Another name from Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book with connections to BlackRock and the Clinton Foundation

Murray Bernard Koffler, OC OOnt (January 22, 1924 – November 5, 2017) was a Canadian pharmacist, businessman, and philanthropist. He was best known for creating the Canadian pharmacy retailer Shoppers Drug Mart, establishing the Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, and an initial investor in the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

In 2000, after Imasco Limited had been taken over by BAT Industries (formerly British American Tobacco), Shoppers was sold to a consortium of institutional investors including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Bain Capital, Inc., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, CIBC Capital Partners, and Shoppers Drug Mart's senior management and pharmacist/owners.

Revisit: International Center for Missing & Exploited Children

MIKE DENOMA

Wikileaks email re Cameron Munter: https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/20976

1. Where is cameron munter and can he be in wash for

2. Can we get kara released from wherever she is now to start w/ haiti now that she is back?

That's kara Dukakis of Too Small to Fail

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/media-center/news

Voat posts re Too Small to Fail here

Cameron Munter is the CEO and President of East West Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EastWest_Institute

Is there a NXIVM connection? See: Digging deeper into Keith Raniere's "Global Technologies Inc" reveals truly global links and maybe, government agencies connections. This needs more eyes...

The role of American ambassadors

The investigation of Delo attempting to untangle the tentacles of the United Group's ownership structure made one thing clear: the owners were hiding behind a series of veils. What was less clear was whether Solak was one of the owners or one of the veils.

Solak did not operate alone. His overseas financiers, including KKR, were majority partners in all of his operations. They were the ones who allowed him to retain his position at the head of the United Group and who were keeping a watchful eye over his spectacular rise from the very beginnings, according to a diplomatic cable of the US Embassy in Belgrade revealed by WikiLeaks. It is unfortunate that this source, although readily available on the internet, has not been considered so far.

The cable, from 2007, was focused specifically on SBB, which is clearly evident right from its title “Serbia Broadband operating in hostile environment.” Solak appears as the main interlocutor of the Embassy, to such an extent that one might wonder about the nature of his relationship with American diplomacy. The signatory, Ambassador Michael Polt, transmits Solak's concerns to Washington and adds his own report on the joint efforts of US diplomats and investors to address them. Their pretext: to combat the market domination of the public operator Telekom, which “continues to use aggressive tactics and political influence” to ensure its monopolistic position. Today we understand that the ambassador was doing exactly what he accused Telekom of, just in SBB’s favor. The telegram is dated June 1, 2007, and on June 27, Mid Europa Partners announced the historic conclusion of the first LBO in Serbia: its acquisition of SBB.

Polt's successor, Cameron Munter, continued his post-diplomatic career at Mid Europa as an advisor to SBB / Telemach during negotiations with Petraeus in 2013. Polt's predecessor, the famous William Montgomery, the first ambassador to be sworn in after the NATO intervention in 1999 and the Color Revolution of October 5, 2000, and influential in the manner of an imperial proconsul, was a business partner of Brent Sadler. The latter, a CNN correspondent in Belgrade at the time of the bombings, is now President of N1 TV, the flagship channel of United Group, an exclusive affiliate of CNN in Eastern Europe.

When enemies become companions

The consulting firm Montgomery Sadler Matić & associates (MSM) gathered an unlikely trio: the former US ambassador and the former reporter became collaborators with Goran Matic, the Yugoslav Federal Minister of Information in 1998 and 1999. His Serbian counterpart in the same period was the current President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic.

Just before the bombings of 1999, Matic criticized the media that had been serving foreign masters: “the situation is very clear - the owner pays, the owner requests the dissemination of certain information.” When NATO attacked, it was he who declared on CNN: “We are ready to fight against the aggressors.” When missiles razed Radio-Television of Serbia on April 23, 1999, killing 16 people, the BBC relayed his following statement; that this act was “a monstrous crime without precedent in history.” In the less verbose report of his future companion Sadler on CNN, the quote would be reduced to two words: “criminal act.” Tony Blair would retort that the bombing of the television station was “fully justified.” On the third of May that same year, World Press Freedom Day, NATO would raze to the ground another media outlet, Radio Television Novi Sad.

Since then, both former ministers of information have made a U-turn regarding their former enemies, Vucic’s being particularly spectacular. His political party went so far as to hire Montgomery as an advisor and, once in power, his party-led government did the same with Tony Blair, whom these very same people regarded as a bete noire in 1999. As late as 2005, Vucic wrote a favorable review of a monograph elegantly entitled “British Faggot Fart Tony Blair” (sic). The ex-nationalist also currently cultivates a warm friendship with other protagonists of aggression against his country, Gerhard Schroeder and Bill Clinton.

Generals-investors

As for Petraeus, he sports a NATO medal for former Yugoslavia. In 1999, he assisted in the planning and coordination of the bombings of Serbia as aide-de-camp to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Hugh Shelton. Before returning as an investor, Petraeus had already been present in the region in 2001-2002, serving as Assistant Chief of Staff of the NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and as a Deputy Commander of a clandestine counter-terrorist unit charged with capturing Serbs wanted by the Hague, until September 11 redefined his priorities by turning jihadist allies into supreme enemies. “That was where his future course was charted” says Fred Kaplan in his biography “The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War” (2013, 65).

His four-star colleague, Wesley Clark, NATO commander-in-chief during the bombing of Yugoslavia, also moved into big business (just like Odierno, McChrystal, and Mullen - remember that as early as 1961, Eisenhower had warned against the military-industrial complex). Wesley Clark chairs the Canadian group Envidity Energy Inc., which is negotiating, in the midst of controversies, the exploration of very significant coal deposits of Kosovo “liberated” by his troops. Although on the sly, Petraeus was KKR’s main negotiator in United Group's takeover in 2013. He met with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic several times, both publicly and in private.....