For an idea on the "big" picture

[Hervé]

For an idea on the “big” picture…

Below are excerpts from the work of whistle blower Sue Ann Arrigo (http://pauljackson.us/sue_arrigo/).

These give the blue print for what’s happening currently to this planet on the 3D level

Here is how the implemented strategy has worked in the past:

Rothschilds/John D. Rockefeller, Sr. funded the Bolshevik Revolution

Per his writings in the Archives, John D. Rockefeller helped fund the Bolshevik Revolution to get the wealth of the Czars, the labor of the Russian people, and much the Southern Oil fields in Russia. That wealth changed its name from Czarist, to Russian Government owned. Ignore the names, what happened to it? Did the people of Russia get it? No. The Rockefeller Archives show that he built a private army in Russia, much like the Brown Shirt army later. His accountant said that for each 2 cents that he spent to build that Army he got a dollar back. That Army was not staying up late to knit socks to sell. They were beating people up and committing assassinations, massacres, and mayhem to terrorize the populace into submission. And he was bribing officials to get what he wanted. He was apparently famous for that in the US as well. See www.reformation.org/rockefeller-bribery.html (http://www.reformation.org/rockefeller-bribery.html) .

[...] the Rockefellers charged about 18% interest on the money that they loaned Lenin for the Revolution. The way that agreement was set up made all of the loot that Lenin could seize in Russia, the Rockefellers/Rothschilds.


[…]That meant that Lenin and Stalin could never get out of debt unless they could work people nearly to death to produce the goods Rockefeller/Rothschilds wanted. People thought that the ridiculous factory quotas the Russians tried to accomplish were the result of communism. That was not what I thought after reading the Archives. The Rockefellers were setting the quotas and delighting in the profits. They also delighted in giving the Russians quotas they could not meet as a way of humiliating them.

[…] I sent him [Gorbachev] copies from the Archives of documents that showed those policies had been forced upon Stalin by Rockefeller. While the people of Russia starved, Rockefeller was also insisting that Stalin sell him the grain at the price and amounts previously agreed to. But Rockefeller did not need that grain. And Rockefeller was, to a large extent, responsible for the bad policies that caused the poor crop yields and meant that selling that same amount of grain overseas ensured famine. It appeared to be a deliberate attempt, not just to get grain cheaply, but to starve people. The private journals of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. confirmed that. The Rockefeller Family seemed obsessed by the desire to kill people off, including by , and starvation. The Rockefellers have long backed population control measures fairly publicly. That was not a secret, nor their funding of ‘eugenics’ research’. See http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/omegafile29.htm (http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/omegafile29.htm) , http://www.eugenics-watch.com/eugbook/,euod_ch1.html (http://www.eugenics-watch.com/eugbook/euod_ch1.html) , http://illuminati-news.com/nazi-california.htm (http://illuminati-news.com/nazi-california.htm). But, the behind the scenes maneuvers on how they were committing those Crimes Against Humanity were secret. To them Communism was a lovely excuse to steal the wealth of the rich Russians and then kill off the poor who were not working in their factories. The factories and the oil fields had the name of the Soviet Union on them, as if they belong to the Russian Govt.. But an examination of the chain of command structure and the flow of money made it look like the Rockefellers et al were already well on their way to being Kings of the World.

Let me give you an example of that so you can understand how this system worked in practice.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., wanted to crash prices in South America of a type of goods to force his competitors into closing. If I remember correctly, the country was Argentina and the goods were stainless steel cookware--pots and pans, bowls, and cutlery. They were items peasants had to buy to live. They were also heavy and it made absolutely no sense to ship them from Russia since they were already made in adequate quantities by factories in that country. But they were not Rockefeller’s factories so a part of the markets’ share of money was not going to them. That was an anathema to John. D., Jr. He wanted to own everything and everyone, or kill them.

So, he wrote a letter to Stalin and told him how much and what kind of each item he wanted. It was a huge order, perhaps several Latin American countries worth. Rockefeller was going to dropped the prices of the goods to drive the Latin American factories out of business. Then he would buy them cheaply. Having a monopoly he would then raise the price of the goods to steal even more from the peasants. His journal shows that he intended to cause their children to starve, if at all possible. It was not an unintended consequence of his business practices. I saw instances in which he was willing to lose money to make others starve. It was really quite sad to read about the life of a man who was so desperately unhappy that this was what it took to distract him from that fact.

[...]

Stalin got the order and wrote back saying that he could not meet those deadlines in 2 months time. Rockefeller wrote back saying he had to ‘or else’.

I wanted to know what the “or else” was.

Later I came across invoices for the guards of Stalin which Rockefeller was paying. They were not just regulars, they were a special outfit chosen by Rockefeller. They were not ethnically the same as Stalin. It appeared that they had been chosen by Rockefeller to have no qualms about killing Stalin, if ordered to do so. The head of them was writing reports on Stalin’s activities to John D. more often than Stalin was writing to John D. After looking into it even further than I have said, I concluded that John D.’s threat to kill Stalin was a credible one.

Stalin was humiliated in more ways that one by trying to fill that order in time. He did not succeed, as hard and as desperately as he tried. He was a week late. Furthermore, this was during the height of the German attack on Russia, about a month before the battle of Stalingrad when the order was completed. It meant that steel and railway transport that would have gone into making of rifles did not. Russian soldiers went into the battle of Stalingrad, Stalin’s namesake, with only about 35% of them carrying a rifle! They had to rush forward into battle defenselessly or be shot in the back. Only after one of their buddies got killed could they pick up a fallen weapon to defend themselves. That caused a huge rift among them which they could not solve. It was designed to destroy their team spirit and turned them against each other.

The Battle of Stalingard was almost a defeat for the Russia people because of what John D. did. His journal showed that he intended for the battle to be a Russian defeat and allow him to spread the war all across Russia. He agonized on the pages of his journal about whether his timing was right and the order big enough. He wanted the fighting to continue all across Russia and not just lead to a Russian capitulation. He wanted to destroy all the shop keepers and small enterprises that had not yet been nationalized and brought under his control. His journal said that he cried at his loses when the Russians bravely managed to force the Germans to retreat. But he did not call them brave in his journal and I will not repeat the derogatory phrases. Skull and Bones calls people not in it Barbarians, will they help the Rockefellers plan and execute mass murders, such as at Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps. It is clear that they have some problems in their thinking.


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The revised Auschwitz Labor concept of “Work N Starve” in Guatemala and Beyond

In the 1950’s, the CIA began overthrowing democratically elected leaders, setting up dictator puppet governments, and making a ghetto of the Third World. Their methodology was the same as the Skull and Bones and the Brown Shirts; undermining of international and national laws, intimidation, blackmail, torture, sexual exploitation, propaganda, racial profiling, and unquestioning obedience to authority. They used taxpayer’s money to economically enslave the world for their own private profit. The CIA was a direct continuation of their drugs, slaves, and weapons running operations from WWII and before.

One of the first things they did in the early 1950’s was to take thousands of daughters of loyal American officers that had beaten the Nazis and enslaved them as a kind of retribution in Operation MKULTRA.

When Allan Dulles headed the CIA, he covered-up Rockefeller’s illegal business operations. He also ran black-ops and overthrew the democratically elected leader of Guatemala, Arbenz, to help Rockefeller’s United Fruit Company in which he also owned shares. President Arbenz wanted to buy United Fruit’s unused land at market value to give it to the poor so that they could grow their own food (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbenz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbenz)).
United Fruit refused to sell. Children starved to death when their parents worked for United Fruit because the wages were so low. The Rockefellers wanted depopulation. Arbenz’s policies would have allowed the peasants to get out of having to work for United Fruit. Dulles’s overthrow of Arbenz meant decades of enslaved labor and starvation of children for the Guatemalan people. It also meant decades of massacres, torture, and over 100,000 deaths by CIA trained death squads to repress those who rebelled.

Note: The historians writing about the coup had their work overseen by David Rockefeller! […]

The coup even had the same CIA villain E. Howard Hunt, who lead this CIA campaign, appointed by Vice President Nixon. He was later in the WaterGate burglary of the Democractic Convention which ended in the resignation of Nixon. E. Howard Hunt figures prominently in the book Plausible Denial: Was the CIA involved in the JFK assassination? as a suspect for the assassination. It was in their selfish interests to starve the peasants and to make them willing to work for next to nothing, as serfs dependent on them for their food. The CIA overthrew Arbenz to put their own puppet in power. That continued the severe poverty and starvation of children in Guatemala. The Guatemalan government carried out systematic massacres over decades against its indigenous peoples while the US government funded that with military aid and I know of instances in which US Generals were present at the massacres of whole villages down to every man, women, and child, in order to try to ensure a thorough job was done of it. Clearly, had that killing of the indigenous people been against what the CIA/Cabal wanted done, they would just have gone back in and changed the government again. But the Guatamalan government doing those massacres was in the CIA/Cabal’s good graces—they were doing what the Cabal wanted and the funding and military aid to do it kept flowing like a broad river towards it.

"Why should we worry about the death squads? They're bumping off the commies, our enemies. I'd give them more power. Hell, I'd give them some cartridges if I could, and everyone else would too...Why should we criticize them? The death squad - I'm for it." -- Fred Sherwood, the former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Guatemala, September 1980

[…]

“For decades, United Fruit had controlled Guatemala through pliable dictators” ...Rockefeller’s chosen PR man said, “The only way to deal with the public was to connect with their unconscious desires and fears. ...Instead of trying to reduce people’s fears of Communism, one should actually encourage and manipulate the fear. In such a way it became a weapon in the Cold War.

Larry Tye, Boston Globe Journalist stated--“What United Fruit had to do was change this from being a popularly elected government which was doing some good things for people there, into this being a threat to American democracy close to its shores ...He transformed this into the issue of a Communist threat...taking United Fruit as a commercial client out of the picture and making it look like a question of American democracy and American freedom and values being threatened.

Regarding how the Rockefeller-engineered coup in Guatamala was intended, Howard Hunt says:

“What we wanted to do was have a terror campaign...to terrify Arbenz particularly, and his troops, much as the German Stuppabombers [Stukas] terrified the population of Holland, Belgium, and Poland at the onset of WWII and just rendered everybody paralyzed.” [Reminds me of “Shock and Awe” in Iraq].

It was as if the CIA had been created at the end of WWII precisely to allow those Americans who funded/profited from Nazi violation of human rights to continue their reign of death, terror, and enslavement. President Truman later said, “Had I known the CIA would become the American Gestapo, I never would have signed it into existence!” Not only did the CIA help many Nazi war criminals escape prosecution, it continued committing war crimes unabated!

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Those at the top ordering the war crimes were desperate to keep the workers of countries from uniting to get them from stealing their labor, their resources and their lives. To do that they keep up the perception of an external threat. Those in the West were told that the Russians and the Cubans were coming and that Communism was the threat. But at the same time the Rockefellers were instructing their people inside the Russian govt. and the KGB that the Americans and the British were the threat. By playing on the fears of each side they kept the workers from uniting to form true democracies and have the right to organize for fair wages. Europe was able to largely seek a middle ground of socialism, and some measure of rights and the rule of law. That is better than failing completely prey to the Robber Barons. But much needs to be done still to prevent the corporations from destroying the environment.


While the above was happening in Russia, once the Tsar had been gotten out of the way, the same thing occurred in Germany once Bismarck was also gotten out of the way:

The Rockefeller Archives showed that Rockefeller was a major funder of the Brown Shirt and Black Shirt Armies. Per those records, the Rockefeller Family contributed about 40% of the funding of those private armies in the year of about 1929. I only looked at the data for one year because that was the only year that I found a document which gave the total costs of those private armies.

The Rockefeller Family wanted slave labor to pay dividends on his funding of those private Nazi Armies. Since they had a third of a million men in them, that was a lot of expense. They went to that expense in order to take over Germany from the Christian Democratic Movement and throw the world into war. The Rockefeller Archives showed that the Rockefeller Family engaged in Death Worship and felt that human sacrifices, including in warfare, pleased their pagan gods. They, like Skull and Bones, were dedicated to having as large a war as possible every generation. They felt that increased their power and wealth. Certainly, the Archives touted the philosophy that by destroying the middle class’s family run shops they could force them out of business. In that way they would stop being competitors and would be forced into wage slavery in Robber Baron factories for cheap wages. Indeed, the Mom and Pop stores have largely been replaced through most of the world by multinationals.

By using Hitler as a political front, the Rockefellers and other pro-fascist Robber Barons, could hide that they were the Hidden Hand behind Hitler’s Eugenics and Holocaust policies.

[…]

"The U.S. embassy in Berlin reported back to Washington that the "costly election campaigns" and " the cost of maintaining a private army of 300,000 to 400,000 men" had raised questions as to the Nazis' financial backers. The constitutional government of the German republic moved to defend national freedom by ordering the Nazi Party private armies disbanded. The U.S. embassy reported that the [Harriman-Bush] Hamburg-Amerika Line was purchasing and distributing propaganda attacks against the German government, for attempting this last-minute crackdown on Hitler's forces….

Thousands of German opponents of Hitlerism were shot or intimidated by privately armed Nazi Brown Shirts. In this connection, we note that the original `` Merchant of Death, '' Samuel Pryor, was a founding director of both [Prescott Bush's] Union Banking Corp. and [Prescott Bush's] American Ship and Commerce Corp. Since Mr. Pryor was executive committee chairman of Remington Arms and a central figure in the world's private arms traffic, his use to the Hitler project was enhanced as the Bush family's partner in Nazi Party banking and trans-Atlantic shipping.

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“On March 19, 1934, Prescott Bush handed Averell Harriman a copy of that day's New York Times. The Polish government was applying to take over Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company from'"German and American interests" because of rampant "mismanagement, excessive borrowing, fictitious bookkeeping and gambling in securities." The Polish government required the owners of the company, which accounted for over 45% of Poland's steel production, to pay at least its full share of back taxes. Bush and Harriman would eventually hire attorney John Foster Dulles to help cover up any improprieties that might arise under investigative scrutiny.

Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 ended the debate about Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation and Upper Silesian Coal and Steel Company. The Nazis knocked the Polish Government off Thyssen, Flick and Harriman's steel company and were planning to replace the paid workers....

1940s: Business As Usual

Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation was located near the Polish town of Oswiecim, one of Poland's richest mineral regions. That was where Hitler set up the Auschwitz concentration camp. When the plan to work Soviet prisoners fell through, the Nazis transferred Jews, communists, gypsies and other minority populations to the camp. The prisoners of Auschwitz who were able to work were shipped to 30 different companies. One of the companies was the vast Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation.

"Nobody's made the connection before between Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation, Auschwitz and Prescott Bush," John Loftus told Clamor.

"That was the reason why Auschwitz was built there. The coal deposits could be processed into either coal or additives for aviation gasoline."

‘Even though Thyssen and Flick's Consolidated Steel was in their possession, Hitler's invasions across Europe spooked them, bringing back memories of World War I. Thyssen and Flick sold Consolidated Steel to UBC. Under the complete control of Harriman and management of Bush, the company became Silesian American Corporation which became part of UBC and Harriman's portfolio of 15 corporations. Thyssen quickly moved to Switzerland and later France to hide from the terror about to be unleashed by the Nazi war machine he had helped build.

[…]

“Fritz Thyssen was the earliest important financial backer of Hitler. In 1923, he gave Gen. Erich Ludendorf 100,000 gold marks for the Nazis, prior to the attempted putsch by Hitler. From then through the 1930s, the bulk of the funds to build both the Nazi party, and Hitler's career, went through Thyssen.... Friedrich Flick, a direct partner of Harriman and Bush, and of Thyssen, was another contributor to the Hitler takeover. In preparation for the Nuremberg war crimes trials, the U.S. government said that Flick was "one of leading financiers and industrialists who, from 1932, contributed large sums to the Nazi Party. . . .". See Dubya's Grandpa and Great-Granddad Helped Put Adolf Hitler into power www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/2733_prescott_bush_hitler.html (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/2733_prescott_bush_hitler.html)

[…]

Hitler had been so poor before Thyssen started funding him that he had had to take out a loan to buy a used car. Thus, without financial backing he could not have risen to Chancellor.

[…]

So, extensive was the funding of Hitler by Thyssen that a poster put up in the 1930’s showed Hitler as Thyssen’s mere puppet.

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Slave labor
[…]

It made me feel sick to think about the historical connections that I knew. They were hard facts I had learned from documents inside the CIA and the Rockefeller Archives.

Allen Dulles and his brother John Dulles had been lawyers for the Schroder Bank and present in the room when Hitler in about 1932 promised German bankers that he would break the back of the German Trade Unions if they backed him financially. Destroying the Unions would allow the factories to pay the workers next to nothing. Still not content, Rockefeller made a pact with IG Farben to build the Auschwitz Labor camp and get the labor for free. Not only that but they underfed the workers and killed those that they considered or made unfit.

There is evidence that the Rockefeller-Harriman-Bush enterprise built the Auschwitz labor camp in order to have the slave labor for their factories and mines nearby;

“On June 14, 1940, nine months after the Nazi tanks rolled into Poland, the IG Farben company opened the Auschwitz factory and slave labor camp in occupied Poland, to produce artificial rubber and gasoline from coal. The Hitler government thereafter supplied IG Farben with political opponents and Jews as the slaves, who were worked to near death and then murdered. Later, Jews and others were simply mass-exterminated there.

The Auschwitz slave camp was a project of the merger and worldwide cartel agreements between IG Farben and the Rockefeller family's Standard Oil company (later called Exxon). On Oct. 12, 1939, eight months before Auschwitz opened, a Standard Oil executive wrote to its president, William S. Farish, concerning a renewal of their earlier agreements with the Nazis, and the British approval for the deal. ...

Emil Helfferich, chief executive of both Standard Oil's Germany subsidiary, and of Harriman, Bush, and Hitler's Hamburg-America lines, testified after the war that money to pay the SS guards at the Auschwitz death camp, was paid out of a Standard Oil bank account. Both Emil Helfferich and fellow Harriman-Bush shipping director Karl Lindemann were authorized to write Standard Oil checks to Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler.’ See Dubya's Grandpa and Great-Granddad Helped Put Adolf Hitler into Power Executive Intelligence Review Aug. 25, 2000 http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/2733_prescott_bush_hitler.html (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2000/2733_prescott_bush_hitler.html)

“And we know that Emil Helfferich, chairman of the Bush-Harriman company, Hamburg-Amerika, was also chairman of Standard Oil’s German subsidiaries. Emil Helfferich frequently wrote out checks to Heinrich Himmler payable on a special Standard Oil account. According to U.S. intelligence documents reviewed by author Anthony Sutton (36), Helfferich was still making these payments to the S.S. in 1944 —the same S.S. which was rounding up, enslaving, and supervising the mass murder of Russians, Jews, Gypsies, Poles, etc., at IG Farben’s death camps.” See much excellent information at www.bilderberg.org (http://www.bilderberg.org/)/ skulbone.htm

“At the height of its activity in 1944, Farben ran a slave labor plant at Auschwitz that exploited the efforts of 83,000 people.” See www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/11913/format/html/edition_id/229/displaystory.html (http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/11913/format/html/edition_id/229/displaystory.html)


Then Germany and Russia were pitted against each other…

However:

Rockefeller Factories Were Rarely Bombed in WWII

“When the American doughboys sloughed into Germany, and reached the industrial city of Frankfort, they were amazed to find intact all of the buildings and the huge plant of the German IG Farben Chemical Trust. American aviators, pinpointing their targets, had demolished every other structure in town.

What the doughboys didn't know was that the Secretary of War, one Robert P. Patterson, was a Rockefeller lawyer, appointed by President Roosevelt upon Rockefeller orders, fresh out of Dillon, Read and Company. The Dillon-Read concern not only is a Rockefeller subsidiary, but was the banking house that financed German IG Farben and attended to the financial details of forming the American "cover up" firm for the German chemical cartel.

American aviators, who gnashed their teeth at their orders to miss the biggest target in Frankfort, have never accepted the weak alibi given them from headquarters. Which was that this juicy and IMPORTANT target shoud be saved because the American Expeditionary Forces would "need an office building" when they got into Germany proper.” http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/drug_story.html (http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/drug_story.html)


Anyone still wonders how FDR came up with his speech on the “military-industrial complex?”

Or why Patton, with the prospect of the A-bomb in sight, was prevented to finish the Russian army and later eliminated?

Russia was needed for the cold war and the ever looming “Nuclear Threat” as well as the “Arms Race.”


Now, for a few of the contemporary dots:

*Austerity plans.

*Sweat shops…

*Black Water / Z and the likes.

*Un-provocative “Police gentleness” worldwide.

*Fishing and tracking of “dissenters”.

*Most of the world’s “Intelligence Agencies” interconnected under the “Omega” umbrella.

*Halliburton and the likes.

*Petro/chemo/pharmo/medico/psycho/foodo/drug industry

*Vaccines.

*Genetic engineering to temper with reproductive abilities.

*GMOs and the likes.

*Climate/weather manipulations for the destruction of lands, farmers and the engineering of famines.

*Monopolization of fresh water and aquifer resources.

*“Poisoning of the wells” with fluoride and fracking.

*Slow paralysis of industrial countries through oil and gas costs and “Carbon Taxes.”

*Constant refueling of conflicts in the Middle East.

*What’s happening with China and its Laogai camps supplying Wal-Mart, $ Stores, etc? Driving any other country out of business… like the US? Was Mao on a short leash too, like Stalin?

*The whole course spiced with floating radioactive particles and biological WMD experiments…


Meanwhile, everyone’s attention, when not entirely on one’s pocket book, is enticed to focus on the skies and all the dangers looming “out there.”



Think of it, it only took one psychopath and his family to generate the above in less than a century…

Then, the whole scheme implemented because a few bona fide psychopaths allied themselves and their goals against a planet’s population that’s not slaving (Freiheit zum Arbeit) for them.


Then there is the question of what kind of “spirit” is driving that kind of individuals? But I won’t get into that one as it doesn’t leave much paper trails behind… just ghosts.

[Carmen]

This is a meaty one. Have started it and will finish later. Thanks Amzer Zo. I was fascinated with Russian History in school and I also loved the Anastasia books that revealed old Russia, before the priesthood and the Czars! Great to see this coming out now. The pieces of the puzzle are coming together!!

[truth4me]

Pretty intense stuff...... we as people are so blind to whats really going on.

[Artemesia]

Indeed.

There is a reason the Statue of Liberty states, "give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses, yearning to be free." Uh duh, its a CONTRACT. I give you this big metal statue, give me your people as slaves. And lets not forget the state of affairs that statue was found in the film "Planet of the Apes." ALL WASHED UP ashore. Powerful statement that flic, well ahead of its time or stating the obvious right out in the open.

Funny the things people do for what amounts to little pieces of paper with numbers on them.

[Hervé]

Now that you know who is pulling the strings of the money puppets; "Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man" gives you more recent examples of how the, now, well honed strategy --opted from the Templars' successes and boosted by a certain Mayer Amschel Rothschild of Frankfurt am Main -- has been increased, spread and applied.

From John Perkins preface:



Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM, I wrote that in 1982, as the beginning of a book with the working title, Conscience of an Economic Hit Man. The book was dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been my clients, whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits — Jaime Roldos, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We, EHMs, failed to bring Roldos and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.

[...]

What finally convinced me to ignore the threats and bribes?

The short answer is that my only child, Jessica, graduated from college and went out into the world on her own. When I recently told her that I was considering publishing this book and shared my fears with her, she said, "Don't worry, dad. If they get you, I'll take over where you left off. We need to do this for the grandchildren I hope to give you someday!" That is the short answer.

[...]

Claudine pulled no punches when describing what I would be called upon to do. My job, she said, was "to encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes U.S. commercial interests. In the end, those leaders become ensnared in a web of debt that ensures their loyalty. We can draw on them whenever we desire — to satisfy our political, economic, or military needs. In turn, they bolster their political positions by bringing industrial parks, power plants, and airports to their people. The owners of U.S. engineering/construction companies become fabulously wealthy."

Today we see the results of this system run amok. Executives at our most respected companies hire people at near-slave wages to toil under inhuman conditions in Asian sweatshops. Oil companies wantonly pump toxins into rain forest rivers, consciously killing people, animals, and plants, and committing genocide among ancient cultures. The pharmaceutical industry denies lifesaving medicines to millions of HIV-infected Africans. Twelve million families in our own United States worry about their next meal. The energy industry creates an Enron. The accounting industry creates an Andersen.

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Some would blame our current problems on an organized conspiracy. I wish it were so simple. Members of a conspiracy can be rooted out and brought to justice. This system, however, is fueled by something far more dangerous than conspiracy. It is driven not by a small band of men but by a concept that has become accepted as gospel: the idea that all economic growth benefits humankind and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits. This belief also has a corollary: that those people who excel at stoking the fires of economic growth should be exalted and rewarded, while those born at the fringes are available for exploitation.

The concept is, of course, erroneous. We know that in many countries economic growth benefits only a small portion of the population and may in fact result in increasingly desperate circumstances for the majority. This effect is reinforced by the corollary belief that the captains of industry who drive this system should enjoy a special status, a belief that is the root of many of our current problems and is perhaps also the reason why conspiracy theories abound. When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator. When we equate the gluttonous consumption of the earth's resources with a status approaching sainthood, when we teach our children to emulate people who live unbalanced lives, and when we define huge sections of the population as subservient to an elite minority, we ask for trouble. And we get it.

[...]

The corporatocracy is not a conspiracy, but its members do endorse common values and goals. One of corporatocracy's most important functions is to perpetuate and continually expand and strengthen the system. The lives of those who "make it," and their accoutrements — their mansions, yachts, and private jets — are presented as models to inspire us all to consume, consume, consume. Every opportunity is taken to convince us that purchasing things is our civil duty, that pillaging the earth is good for the economy and therefore serves our higher interests. People like me are paid outrageously high salaries to do the system's bidding. If we falter, a more malicious form of hit man, the jackal, steps to the plate. And if the jackal fails, then the job falls to the military.

This book is the confession of a man who, back when I was an EHM, was part of a relatively small group. People who play similar roles are more abundant now. They have more euphemistic titles, and they walk the corridors of Monsanto, General Electric, Nike, General Motors, Wal-Mart, and nearly every other major corporation in the world. In a very real sense, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is their story as well as mine


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[Camilo]

Well, the big picture I see is a very different one, where a new civilization and a new species are emeging to allow the co-creation of Heaven on Earth, and "we are there"

Namaste

[Hervé]

Well, the big picture I see is a a very different one, where a new civilization and a new species are emeging to allow the co-creation of Heaven on Earth, and "we are there"

Namaste

I support that vision, I am, however, not too keen on having the corpocratic concept spreading further and wider.

Also from the cited preface, this portion:




It is your story too, the story of your world and mine, of the first truly global empire. History tells us that unless we modify this story, it is guaranteed to end tragically. Empires never last. Everyone of them has failed terribly. They destroy many cultures as they race toward greater domination, and then they themselves fall. No country or combination of countries can thrive in the long term by exploiting others.
This book was written so that we may take heed and remold our story. I am certain that when enough of us become aware of how we are being exploited by the economic engine that creates an insatiable appetite for the world's resources, and results in systems that foster slavery, we will no longer tolerate it. We will reassess our role in a world where a few swim in riches and the majority drown in poverty, pollution, and violence. We will commit ourselves to navigating a course toward compassion, democracy, and social justice for all.



I just don't like that misery, suffering and famine have to be the necessary companions of a civilization fall.

[Maia Gabrial]

It's strange how the Rockefellers' and Rothschilds' names ALWAYS comes up in all the despicable things going on.... How can we fight these ancient enemies?

[nomadguy]

Just imagine what else might be going on... since this might be a fairly good list of symptomatic results created by the actions of the PTB.
The sad truth in all this is that there is likely more nasty items to add to this list and because of that prospect, And all of that still does not produce their motive or driving force.
With the idea throwing some balancing factors into the ring. ~ I would like to bring up that I still think there is a positive equal to the whole thing. Even though we may not see it clearly as of yet, there is always more to the story and I anticipate the brighter side of the story that we all find our selves in as it is presenting itself to us today.

[Lord Sidious]

It is mostly correct, but not all.
For one thing, the NSDAP was not a fascist government, only Italy was.
Hitler was backed by american bankers and when he thought he had the power, he broke with them.
He truly didn't realise how powerful they were, or he was mislead as he was later on, in the war.
Auschwitz Stammlager was already there, the germans didn't build it. It was an old polish army barracks.
Monowitz may have been a nuclear facility to create a german atom bomb.
And the jews that were interned in the camps weren't put there for that reason. They were put there as enemies of the state due to jewish paramilitary groups attacking german troops in southern europe.
Much like the allies did with german, japanese and italian civilians.

[Hervé]

Dropping farther down the "Let's starve 'em all useless eaters" rabbit hole:



Before 1919 when Nesta B. Webster published her history of the French tragedy, there was nothing in English except Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution (1837). In her preface to The French Revolution: A Study in Democracy (1919) she expressed shock. "So far, in England, the truth is not known; we have not even been told what really happened.

Histories still teach that before the French Revolution the French aristocracy kept the peasantry hungry and desperate without any real hope or direction for the future. In her work, Webster explodes these notions regarding peasant misery before 1789 with the letters of Dr. Rigby who traveled through the French countryside in 1789 and who described "its extraordinary fertility" and its "state of the highest cultivation."

"The crops are beyond any conception I could have had of them ,,, tens of thousands of acres of wheat superior to any that can be produced in England..." He described the French people as happy, prosperous and contented. (pp. 4-5)

Yet in the midst of this abundance there was famine. It triggered the French Revolution just like the unrest today in the Middle East. And we are still taught that upon hearing of the starving French peasantry, Louis XVI's wife, Queen Marie Antoinette remarked,"Let them eat cake." This bogus quotation is used to color the French aristocrats as out of touch. In fact Marie Antoinette blamed England. She knew what was happening.

And Americans today like Webster, have blinders on when it came to their own government's dishonorable foreign policy. Webster refused to hold her English Government responsible notwithstanding the overwhelmingly damning evidence.

"What, then, is the explanation of the belief in English cooperation with the revolutionary movement? Of the English guineas found on the rioters? Of the Englishmen mingling in the mobs of Paris during popular agitations? Of the seditious pamphlets printed in London? Of the traffic in letters, messages, and money maintained between England and the revolutionary leaders? Many of these leaders were constantly in England both before and during the Revolution... These facts admit of no denial: to suppose, however, any complicity on the part of the English Government is illogical and absurd." pp.30-31

A Royalist historian and contemporary of the worst atrocities, Felix Louis Montjoie, copiously documented the role of French King Louis XVI's cousin, the Freemason Duc d'Orleans, who bought up large portions of the French grain in 1789. This role backfired on him as he was guillotined in Nov. 1793.

Later historians document the role of Pitt, the English Parliament and the King's Privy Counsel in hoarding French grain with the aid of the Illuminati British East India Company in warehouses on the English Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey. ("Why the French Did Not Have an American Revolution," by Pierre Beaudry, p. 5.)

[...]

In the words of John Robison in his Proofs of a Conspiracy (1797)

"The earlier revolutionary leaders were, as we have seen, the disciples of the German Illuminati, and it was they who initiated them into the art of forming political committees " to carry through the great plan of a general overturning of religion and government . . . .These committees arose from the Illuminati in Bavaria . . . and these committees produced the Jacobin Club."

"The chief lesson," Robison goes on to observe, "that the revolutionary leaders took from Germany, was the method of doing business, of managing their own correspondence, and of procuring and training pupils." pp. 190-191

The Illuminati operating in the guise of the Jacobins forced the regime change historians call the French Revolution. During the Russian Revolution they masqueraded as the Bolsheviks. Today they brag they are behind the Middle East revolutions. So maybe we should believe them.
.---
(just like the Russian Revolution of 1917 (http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-bolshevik-rev.html))


Taken from: France Didn't Have a Revolution (http://www.henrymakow.com/french_revolution_wasnt_a_revo.html)

[Omni]

One question,.... Why don't the "terrorists" ever go after the real criminals who screw them over? I'd be dangerous in third world countries.. lol

If they went after the Rockefellers etc, I'd be cheering for them. I have no compassion at all for the deaths of these criminals...

Sorry for my negative themed post this time, but this stuff pisses me off. I want justice for once.

[Hervé]

One question,.... Why don't the "terrorists" ever go after the real criminals who screw them over? I'd be dangerous in third world countries.. lol

If they went after the Rockefellers etc, I'd be cheering for them. I have no compassion at all for the deaths of these criminals...

Sorry for my negative themed post this time, but this stuff pisses me off. I want justice for once.

Because these so-called "terrorists" are on these same guys payroll. cf. Osama.

[Hervé]

Now , taking it on a different tack, here are little known prophecies written in 1935:



The Son of the Beast let the wild beasts loose. And Europe collapses like a statue of mud. The sea kills under water and the sky spits fire. And where boots and nails arrive, the sons of Israel meet torment. Sheep pens for their pains and subtle death. The headsmen know, they will lie at Nuremberg.

Always look for the headsmen, even when you think they are dead. Look for them everywhere where power uses terror. Look for them in the house of the one whose wealth came from the war. Not for revenge, but to prevent that they and their children invade the world once again by disguising the word and the chief. The Son of the Beast holds the great weapon in his heart.

Fights in the mountains, red and white, climb down the flowers. Europe, those are your best sons, who, one day will be betrayed. Because the heads they thought they fell will lead again, always the same. They will shoot down the money's puppets, not the money's bosses.

The Son of the Beast locked in the lair, holding tight to the other's wife. On his death, the mystery. But beware the one who left the lair at the end. He will take long to die and will prepare the world other scourges. He knows the true face of the Beast.

The Son of the Beast, brought forth (manufactured) in one year.

Nuremberg the injust. The killers are absent. Some of them on the judges' bench. This shadow spreads far.

The president will fall, fall his brother will. Between them the cadaver of the innocent star. There are some who know. Ask the first black widow and the man who will lead her on the island to the altar. (Jackie Kennedy became Onassis on "Scorpio island"...). Their secrets lie in weapons, in crimes. And those are the secrets of the one who wasn't at Nuremberg.

Three will shoot on the president; the third one will be among the three who will strike on the second.

Time has nurtured a troubled spirit, in the shadow of the black and red cross, unknown to everyone, daughter of the Nuremberg fugitives. She weaved crime against herself. Some give up on life for evil's love.

Israel who fights and suffers, no less than who attacks you and who doesn't know how to share your pain. You are brothers, someone prods you to fight while remaining hidden. Here the world destiny is decided. And in the palace where nations hug, the fugitive from the lair is very much alive. (Kurt Waldheim, former UN president was discovered to be a former active Nazi). From the palace, hate towards Israel. And this will be a sign of ruin.

From the South against Luther* and the heirs of Nuremberg, those who were missing, those who were sitting on the judges' seats. The one who was the slave colony of salt and copper imposes her people's will.

Only today ends Nuremberg. But beware the face which smiles and comes from the South, more south than all of them. His heart was always north, he came back to take it back with his black brothers. There is still fear, but in peace all the men from high and low Luther will look for someone. And the day a woman will pledge on the renovated bible will be day of peace.

Prophecies, Angelo Roncalli, 1935.

* America; the sons of Luther are the Americans in Roncalli's speech, from the Protestants who came to America to escape religious persecutions.

Excerpts from "Les prophéties du pape Jean XXIII," Pier Carpi, Ed "Jai Lu." Translation: bibi.

[Mike Gorman]

One question,.... Why don't the "terrorists" ever go after the real criminals who screw them over? I'd be dangerous in third world countries.. lol

If they went after the Rockefellers etc, I'd be cheering for them. I have no compassion at all for the deaths of these criminals...

Sorry for my negative themed post this time, but this stuff pisses me off. I want justice for once.
Yes indeed, this is the salient point; it seems it is not always clear "At the time" just who the real villains are, that is their great
skill, the real architects and financiers of these events are always hidden-they are the respectable pillars of society, the seemingly blameless
and enterprising people who make up 'City Hall' and the central machinations of our civilization-this is what "Political consciousness" is all about,
people will always seek a simple equation of Cause & Effect, someone to represent the travails of a time (E.G it was just Hitler that caused WWII)
the actual picture does not become clear until time and perspective are attained. This is the great problem we have, just who are the Good Guys & the Bad Guys,
it is so often not that simple.

[Moonwish]

Follow the money and you'll find the theif

[Hervé]

Follow the money and you'll find the theif

Indeed!

That's what Sue Arrigo and others mostly did and documented it with the receipts. How else could one demonstrate that the Auschwitz SS guards were on Sandard oil/Exxon direct payroll and not Hitler's?

She found out how Halliburton,etc. and the CIA were cooking their books and followed the bank accounts. When she couldn't find them in the CIA files she just asked the KGB for the info... and got them.

[Hervé]

Tesla-Maxwell-JP Morgan and the suppression of free energy.

A short background tapestry by Tom Bearden on the scheme of the “big” picture:



[...]

Tesla’s backer was J. P. Morgan, who also became involved with Edison, consolidating with an Edison company to form General Electric. Rockefeller was moving in the fuel area, such as oil.

Morgan saw that, if Tesla had his way, suddenly much of Morgan’s emerging empire would be devastated, because the fool Tesla was speaking of eliminating burning of fuel.


[...]


The followings are excerpts from Tom Bearden letters to various publications, notably the “Energy daily”:

Dear Energy Daily,

I don’t see anything of real interest in your publication; just the standard stuff. You don’t really have a single writer who understands the cause of the world energy crisis, what really caused it in 1892, and what to do about it. And you are probably not going to have such a writer.

Put it this way. We’ve had group theory in our universities since 1870. One who gets a doctorate in physics will know some group theory, whereas our electrical engineers normally will not, even with a doctorate. Ugh! So what has group theory (and lack of knowledge of it by our electrical power engineers) got to do with the world energy crisis? The answer is, “Everything!”

Maxwell’s theory is a higher group theory electrodynamics. It was never adopted in the universities, because folks at the time hated those bloody quaternions with a passion, even though Maxwell loved them. Why -- electricians would say -- the poor electricians are lucky if they have had university algebra and calculus, without such a horrendous mess as quaternions! Since there were less than three dozen “electricians” (what we would call “electrodynamicists”) in the world’s universities at the time, then that attitude and reception doomed Maxwell’s actual theory – which is some 20 quaternion and quaternion-like equations in 20 unknowns. You can do LOTS of things in Maxwell’s original theory that are absolutely impossible in the highly curtailed electrical engineering model.

Maxwell died of stomach cancer in 1879, with his theory never adopted. Immediately some scientists jumped in and tore those terrible quaternions apart – notably Heaviside (brilliant, but never even attended university; he merely bought books and learned himself), Hertz, and Gibbs.

When what is today known as “electrical engineering” was then first being painfully contrived and formed there in the 1880s etc., and was not yet even born, they took Heaviside’s highly restricted vector equations (NOT Maxwell’s quaternion theory) as the basis for the new “electrical engineering” model.

Note that, at the time, Tesla destroyed the vast DC electric power empire being promoted by Edison backed by J. P. Morgan. Backed by Westinghouse, Tesla waltzed in and installed far more practical AC generators at Niagara Falls, much cheaper than Morgan and Edison proposed for their DC generators, and the world found that AC power could be transmitted down long transmissions lines very practically. One did not have to build a huge expensive DC power plant every 10 to 20 miles! Thereafter the world flipped over and went with AC power.

So that buried Morgan’s grandiose plans for a vast DC power financial empire. An embittered Morgan vowed to utterly destroy Tesla as his mortal enemy. That he did, and he also financially destroyed Westinghouse, Tesla’s backer. At that point he had set the trap for Tesla. To complete his grandiose plans, Tesla had only J. P. Morgan available to finance him. So Tesla came with hat in hand to Morgan, and the wily Morgan forced him to sign over 51% of all his inventions, in return for financing him. And he deliberately only gave Tesla half the money required, which doomed Tesla to failure because of he simply ran out of funds. Tesla – the greatest inventor of the 18th and 19th centuries – was then reduced to living in a little hotel room essentially on charity of his friends etc.

Before the full transpiration of all that, other factors developed behind the scenes. That fool Tesla (who gave us AC power, the rotating magnetic field that makes generators possible, and also gave us radio and many other things) had discovered that the “medium itself was active” – and he was hell-bent on producing free energy systems and giving them to the world. So in Morgan’s view, Tesla had to be stopped at any cost. J. P. Morgan set up the plan that did destroy Tesla, and he directed his science advisors to also examine those newfangled Heaviside equations and see if they still contained any of those confounded “energy freely from the active medium” systems that Tesla was pursuing so vigorously and planned to freely give to the world.

Morgan’s science advisors did a simple group theoretical analysis of the Heaviside vector equations, and it showed that the Heaviside original equations still contained some of those asymmetric Maxwellian EM systems – the kind that Tesla had discovered that would accept and use excess EM energy freely taken from the active vacuum (in modern physics terms) itself.

So Morgan coldly ordered his scientists to “Fix it!”

Lorentz – a great scientist but also a sharpie noted for appropriating other people’s work and taking credit for it – was the one preparing the equations to be used as the theoretical model for the new “electrical engineering” that was to be launched in the universities slowly but uniformly. To see that Lorentz was “approachable”, the reader is referred to J. D. Jackson and L. B. Okun, "Historical roots of gauge invariance," Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 73, July 2001, p. 663-680. Okun and the great electrodynamicist Jackson discuss the roots and history of gauge invariance, verify that Ludwig Lorenz (without the “t”) first symmetrically regauged Maxwell's equations, although it has been misattributed to H. A. Lorentz (with the “t”) as being first. Lorentz simply took Lorenz’s symmetrization of the equations and used it and took credit for it. This is an excellent coverage of the history of who did what and when, and who got credit for it.

So Morgan’s science advisors got to Lorentz, and he easily “solved Morgan’s problem”. He simply regauged the original Heaviside equations to make them symmetrical (using Lorenz’s symmetrization but using the work as his own), thereby quite arbitrarily tossing out all self-powering and COP>1.0 energy-from-the-vacuum electrical systems from the modified (symmetrized) Heaviside equations. He did this little beauty in 1892; specific reference can be furnished.

[…]

Then Morgan got another shock. That fool Heaviside (who was one of the two men who first advanced the flow of energy through space -- before that time it did not appear in the notions of physics) also discovered that every generator and other EM power source already pours out from its terminals, into space surrounding and along the external conductors, a fantastically huge stream of real EM energy in peculiar form – in a curled form which (in any special relativity situation) cannot be diverged into the wires to power up the electrons. This is in addition to the feeble little Poynting component which does get diverged into the wiring and does power up the circuit.

Well, again Morgan fumed furiously. If our future young EE’s in all our universities were to be taught that every generator already pours out more than a trillion times as much EM energy flow as the mechanical energy we pay to crank into the shaft and input, then eventually one of those sharp young devils would figure out how to use some of that vast energy flow output (simply use a general relativity situation, such as the NRAM or negative resonance absorption of the medium optical physics process that outputs 18 times as much as the Poynting EM energy flow component of one’s input). And that would destroy any further need for fuel etc. except for a tiny tad just to get started. And that would have destroyed the energy barons of the early 20th century, including Morgan himself.

To see that Tesla knew exactly what he was after, we quote Tesla himself:
"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians...Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic – and this we know it is, for certain – then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." [Nikola Tesla, in a speech in New York to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1891.].

“Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels."

“We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium...” [Nikola Tesla, during an address in 1897 commemorating his installation of generators at Niagara Falls.].

"Whatever our resources of primary energy may be in the future, we must, to be rational, obtain it without consumption of any material." [Nikola Tesla, 1900].

After Tesla’s suppression, he expressed the truth about the universal electrical engineering model in these words:
"The Hertz wave theory of wireless transmission may be kept up for a while, but I do not hesitate to say that in a short time it will be recognized as one of the most remarkable and inexplicable aberrations of the scientific mind which has ever been recorded in history." [Nikola Tesla, "The True Wireless,” Electrical Experimenter, May 1919.]

[…]

So again they got to Lorentz and had him “fix” it. In 1900 he taught the professors to arbitrarily integrate the entire energy flow vector itself (containing both the Poynting diverged component and the giant curled Heaviside component) around a closed surface assumed around any volume of interest. That very neatly separates and retains the diverged Poynting component, while discarding the giant curled Heaviside component. Lorentz also taught them that this component could “have no physical significance”, which is still the view today. E.g., quoting J. D. Jackson:

"...the Poynting vector is arbitrary to the extent that the curl of any vector field can be added to it. Such an added term can, however, have no physical consequences. Hence it is customary to make the specific choice …" [J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, Second Edition, Wiley, 1975, p. 237].

[…]

This second “fix” by Lorentz then finished Morgan’s suppression of the “new electrical engineering science” so that it would not contain asymmetrical Maxwellian systems nor would it contain Heaviside’s giant curled EM energy flow component.

With these changes, Morgan (using Lorentz’s services) deliberately crippled electrical engineering and electrical power systems for more than 100 years, and guaranteed that COP>1.0 and self-powering Maxwellian systems – permitted by nature and Maxwell’s original theory – would not be built by our electrical power engineers.

[…]

And that cute little integration trick got added into EE also, so that all mention of the giant Heaviside curled energy flow component just disappeared from all textbooks, curricula, etc.

With the suppression of Tesla and the suppression of all “energy from the active spatial medium” systems from the Heaviside-Lorentz equations, Morgan’s suppression of those threats was complete.

And for more than a century, this horribly flawed mess that Morgan arranged, is still what is taught to all our electrical power engineers. The result has been a “mystique” surrounding that decrepit old model, and a vast set of lies being taught to all our EEs to thoroughly “brainwash” them.

So the real problem is the dogmatic adherence of the scientific community to a model known to contain blatant errors and falsities – and which was so crippled and mutilated specifically to prevent the kinds of systems the overunity systems inventors and researchers seek to build.

Also, the huge cartels that sprang from Morgan, Rockefeller, and others are still ongoing and active. And they have also been actively suppressing all such overunity “energy from the vacuum” systems for 100 years. If you get close to finishing such a unit and putting it into production, you can be assassinated, framed on legal charges (such as rape, etc.), or “meet with a sudden suicide” on your way to the grocery store.

And inventors are still being killed, threatened and bought off, etc. [see Wade Frazier’s thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet)]

If the sad old EE model is corrected and updated, you also get a startling new picture of disease, and a specific way of curing almost all the dread diseases. The actual method was stumbled onto by Prioré in France in the 1930s, where he cured terminal tumors and infectious diseases very successfully in lab animals (thousands of scientific experiments) and documented in the standard French medical literature. Prioré was also suppressed. While he knew HOW to make a unit to do the healing, he had no knowledge of the actual mechanism at work, and neither did anyone else.

The point is, the big Pharmaceutical cartels also are absolutely determined that the sad old electrical engineering is going to stay exactly as it is.

[…]

Best wishes,

Tom Bearden


The short of it? An entire planet enslaved into toiling for fuel... just because someone was going to loose a few $... that's how big the "scheme" is. And Tesla became JP Mrogan's "mortal ennemy"... pure psychopathy at work!

Tom' s website: http://www.cheniere.org/toc.html

[modwiz]

Thank you for this thread Amer Zo. This post goes up at a time when I am the only one viewing this thread besides 2 guests. I have now read all of the information you have presented and the enhancing posts here. I am speechless that at this time of the resources to get this information out to the amounts of eyes that need to it view to become a force to reckon with, the necessary awareness behind those eyes is still missing.

The spell is still unbroken.

[Hervé]

Thank you modwiz.

Right now it's at "1 members [sic] and 0 guests"...

As I wrote towards the end of the OP:
Meanwhile, everyone’s attention, when not entirely on one’s pocket book, is enticed to focus on the skies and all the dangers looming “out there.”

I guess intensive reading is not fashionable anymore... too confusing for easily distracted minds, perhaps?


Let's keep at it:

:frusty::moil:

[Hervé]

Tesla... attracting psychos like flies are to smelly things!

Where did Tesla's inventions ended up?

It's not a rabbit hole anymore; it's a field poke-marked by a family of moles:

The followings are excerpts from an article by Don Nicoloff published in the Idaho Observer in 2007 (http://web.mac.com/donnicoloff/directlightproductions.com/Printable_Articles/Entries/2007/4/14_Part_1__Deathbed_confessions%2C_photos_support_claims_thatGeorge_H._Scherf(f)%2C_Jr._was_the_41st _U.S._president.html):

What you are about to read is another step beyond research pioneered in the early 90s by author/historian Webster Tarpley based largely on deathbed “clues” provided by former Hitler bodyguard Otto Skorzeny and his box of photographs. Since Skorzeny’s death in 1999, the various leads he provided have been followed up and tend to support what, at first blush, would appear to be the unbelievable rantings of an embittered old man. What remains constant as we pore through publicly available official records, private correspondence, memoirs, newspaper articles, photos and other “clues” is that Bush family records (the ones that exist) are a puzzle palace of inconsistencies and curiosities. […]

By Don Nicoloff

[...]

Nikola Tesla
Despite conflicting literary and historical accounts, Nikola Tesla, a Serb, was born on July 10, 1856, in Smilja, Lika province, or what is now modern-day Croatia. Prior to World War I, Smilja was on the border of the Austro-Hungarian empire so, in effect, Tesla was a citizen of Austrian origin.

[…]

Upon completing his studies in engineering and physics at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria, Tesla attended the University at Prague. He demonstrated, early on, an innate ability to solve mechanical and scientific problems, especially in the area of electricity and its applications in power production. After working for Edison Telephone Company subsidiaries in Budapest, Paris, and other cities throughout Europe, Nikola Tesla went to America, to meet the man whose company gave him his first job, Thomas Edison.

Tesla found it difficult to work for Edison (due to Edison’s reneging on financial promises), but soon found backers to finance his research and development projects and his new inventions. Financiers, such as John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan, George Westinghouse and John Jacob Astor were among those who saw the potential in Tesla’s pioneering, entrepreneurial spirit to capitalize on his technological discoveries in electricity, wireless communications, and physics.

[…]

Previous accounts of Tesla’s association with Thomas Edison’s projects place him in the United States in the 1870s. His many technological discoveries were certain to have drawn the attention of those hungry for world domination and superiority. By and large, Tesla’s inventions and his career were excluded from our history books because his inventions and patents were stolen and then weaponized. It was never intended for us to learn about the suppression of Tesla’s advanced scientific discoveries, nor about those who profited from their theft—the orchestrators of the master plan.

Though much has been written about Tesla’s successes and failures, few have detailed the behind-the-scenes financial activities which disclose a Nazi plot to acquire his technology, while research and development costs had largely been paid (unknowingly) by U.S. taxpayers. Many of Tesla’s patents fell into Nazi hands prior to and during World Wars I and II. As a result, Tesla continuously found himself in litigation over patent rights and other issues.

Although he had succeeded in winning the majority of his patent lawsuits, his technology had been repeatedly stolen and sold to the German Nazis and other foreign governments, so he never achieved the financial success he deserved. The embezzlement of his capitalization went unchecked throughout Tesla’s career. At the time of his death (by murder, according to Skorzeny) on January 6, 1943, Tesla died virtually penniless.

Tesla’s Assistant: George H. Scherff, Sr.
Nikola Tesla’s successes in discovering new technologies did not go unnoticed by many industrial capitalists and world governments. In fact, many of his inventions were developed through secret government programs which began soon after his discoveries in alternating current (AC), electromagnetic energy, electric motors, generators, coils, radio transmission, energy-saving devices, and wireless transmission technologies. [One of those is the unfamous "Philadelphia Experiment"]


Since Tesla was often buried deep in research at remote labs, many of his financial and legal affairs were supervised by his closest associate, George H. Scherff. Scherff often advised Tesla about pending patent litigation, contracts, proposals, demonstrations, and financial affairs. As any trusty associate would, Scherff stood beside Tesla through all the ups and downs of his financial nightmares, sometimes arranging for extended credit at the Waldorf-Astoria, where Tesla often resided, or by obtaining a cash advance toward research he had been contracted to perform. Near the end of his career, Tesla was evicted from the Waldorf for an outstanding bill which exceeded $20,000 — a rather large sum for those days.


As Tesla worked on secret U.S. government projects at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Scherff communicated to Tesla the status of his business affairs. Tesla spoke of hopeful, future financial successes, though Scherff repeatedly delivered the news of dwindling funds. Tesla had begun construction of a wireless power transmission tower (“Wardenclyffe,” Shoreham, Long Island) with funds invested by J.P. Morgan. When Morgan discovered that the tower would transmit free electricity and radio waves, he cancelled the project and had the tower dismantled, then sold for scrap. Morgan was not about to allow Americans to receive free electricity, television and radio. Tesla was devastated when he received the news, but continued on with his new inventions.


Some 12 years later, on October 14, 1918, Scherff wrote to Tesla at Colorado Springs. The correspondence focused on the usual disclosure of pending legal issues and attorney matters and was sent to Tesla on Tesla Company letterhead containing the company’s headquarters address at 8 W. 40th Street, New York, NY. [10] On October 15, 1918, (the next day) Tesla responded to Scherff’s letter (it seems impossible regarding our understanding of the technology available at the time, but these are the dates attached to the correspondence).
An interesting anomaly: Tesla’s response was addressed to “George Scherff, Esq.,” Union Sulphur Co., 17 Battery Pl., New York, NY (Union Sulphur Company?). [11] This address was not the location of the Nikola Tesla Company.


The Rockefeller Connection
Records show that 17 Battery Place is the Whitehall Building and was owned by Frank Rockefeller, who, with his brothers William and John D., also owned many of the companies with offices located there. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) had its world headquarters there, as well as a variety of oil, mining, and chemical companies. [12] Though Union Sulphur Company was run by its president, Herman Frasch, a German chemist who patented extraction methods for sulphur and petroleum, Frasch also worked for John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company (in New York, New Jersey, and Cleveland, Ohio), developing similar extraction methods.


On the basis of this association, George Scherff, Sr., had connections with the Rockefeller family, though it is unclear if Tesla was at all aware of this connection.


Frank Rockefeller was also an investor of Buckeye Steel Castings in Columbus, Ohio. Buckeye manufactured automatic couplers and chassis for railroad cars owned by the Harrimans, the Rockefellers, and J.P. Morgan. Eventually, Samuel P. Bush was promoted from general manager to president of the company after producing gigantic profits.


Samuel P. Bush’s association with the Rockefellers and his subsequent position as Director of the War Industries Board afforded him the opportunity to create contracts with Remington Arms during the war, courtesy of Percy Rockefeller.


Nikola Tesla’s trusted assistant (sometimes referred to as “accountant” or “secretary”) George Scherff, Sr., worked at Union Sulphur Company. Normally, this association would not set off alarms, considering the state of Tesla’s affairs. Scherff had every right to earn a decent living in order to support his family. That was “the American Way.” But a careful examination of Union Sulphur Co. might reveal that someone was being deceived — Tesla, and Scherff was at the root of this deception.


Who was George Scherff?
Who was George Scherff? Better yet, who was George H. Scherff, Sr.? There exists no legitimate record of a George H. Scherff being born in the U.S. from the late-1800s through 1925, yet, George Scherff was Nikola Tesla’s assistant/accountant. If he was born in Germany, could his birthplace shed some light on this mystery? Probably—if they exist (it has become apparent that individuals associated with the Nazi Party commonly have all or parts of their genealogical records expunged—we will explore this further in the section of this article dealing with the “Bush” family tree).


Otto Skorzeny: S.S./ODESSA/CIA master spy and assassin
Friends and acquaintances of Nikola Tesla recall him complaining about Scherff’s son, George, Jr., always snooping around Tesla’s lab. On more than one occasion (probably during the late 1930s), Tesla caught the 14-year old Scherff looking at his notes, poring through his books, and stealing small items from his lab. Tesla gave him the nickname, “Curious George” and likened him to a “mischievous monkey.” According to Skorzeny, (Adolph Hitler’s former bodyguard) in a deathbed confession to Eric “Orion” (Eric Berman) in S. Miami, Florida, Tesla, “hated the younger Scherff.” In fact, according to Skorzeny, the “Curious George” book and movie were inspired by Tesla’s suggestion.


Curiously, the day before the national theatrical release of the Hollywood production of the Curious George feature length film, Alan Shalleck, the originator of Curious George (and the man in the Yellow hat), was found murdered under a pile of plastic garbage bags in his driveway in Florida at age 76. [13]


In short, Otto Skorzeny claimed that the true identity of George H.W. Bush was “George H. Scherff, Jr., the son of Nikola Tesla’s illegal-immigrant, German-born accountant, George H. Scherff, Sr.”


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According to Otto Skorzeny, pictured is the Scherff family and a few friends (circa 1938). Holding “Mother" Scherff’s hand at left is Martin Bormann. In front is Reinhardt Gehlen. In back is Joseph Mengele and to his right is Skorzeny as a young man. At center right (in the German navy uniform) is George H. Scherff, Jr. and his father George H. Scherff, Sr.
Bormann became Hitler’s second in command. Reinhardt Gehlen was a chief SS officer and assassin who was smuggled out of Germany under Operation Paperclip. Skorzeny was Hitler's bodyguard and SS spy/assassin who came to the U.S. after the war under Project Paperclip. Skorzeny and GHW Bush were instrumental in merging Nazi (SS) intelligence with the OSI to form the CIA with "Wild Bill" Donovan and Allen Dulles. These guys were also part of CIA mind control experiments such as MK-ULTRA. SS officer and physician Joseph Mengele, the notoriously sadistic “Angel of Death” of Auschwitz, escaped Germany to South America after the war. George H. Scherff, Jr., became the 41st President of the United States as GHW Bush and George H. Scherff, Sr., was Nicola Tesla’s “trusted assistant.”

[…]


He produced a photo of a young Skorzeny, Mengele, Bormann, and the family of George H. Scherff, Sr.. Seated in the midst of those in the photo was a young George H. Scherff, Jr., who, Skorzeny explained, was trained as a spy and sent to America to work for Adolph Hitler. “He was given false identification and adopted by Prescott Sheldon Bush as his “son,” George Herbert Walker Bush,” Skorzeny went on. “He forged a birth certificate in order to enter the military before he turned 18. He was 16 at the time.”


In the family photo, a young Scherff and Bormann both sported a German Navy uniform. Scherff later enlisted in the U.S. Navy as “George H.W. Bush.”


[…]


Berman [Eric “Orion”] recounted how Skorzeny was found “not guilty” at the Nuremburg trials, and then ushered into the CIA. “Some 50,000+ S.S. Nazi war criminals, not just rocket scientists, were brought to America after the war.”


[…]

The significance of this benign description of Tesla’s inventions and his last days has a direct relationship to the previously unknown claims of Otto Skorzeny. As Skorzeny described (to Berman) in detail his involvement with George H. W. Bush (George H. Scherff, Jr.) in organizing the CIA by absorbing Nazi S.S. agents,” he intimated that it was Reinhard Gehlen and himself who murdered Nikola Tesla on January 6, 1943 by strangulation/suffocation.

Prior to the murder, Skorzeny and Gehlen “spoke in great detail to Tesla about his most-advanced technologies and then stole the blueprints of his best, most-secret inventions.”

Were these the “two U.S. government agents” about whom Dustin Wallace wrote? The timing of George Scherff’s last visit to Nikola Tesla was suspicious, as well.

[…]

Upon the untimely death of Nikola Tesla, perhaps the world’s most renowned scientist in history, J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, received an unexpected visit from George H. Scherff, Jr. That George Scherff, Sr., Tesla’s trusted associate, chose to send his teenage son to visit the FBI’s notorious director should have raised a red flag, which it probably did among intelligence agencies. Scherff, Jr., explained to Hoover that he had worked for Tesla and was entitled to his papers and other effects. He also expressed concern that “a foreign government might also be interested in his inventions.” [16]

[…]


In 1942, less than a year prior to Tesla’s untimely death, it was already known that principals at New York’s Union Banking Corporation had been caught “Trading with the Enemy,” Nazi Germany. Among the principals was George Herbert Walker, Prescott Sheldon Bush, “son” of industrialist Samuel Prescott Bush, who was president of Buckeye Steel Castings in Columbus, Ohio and the director of the Facilities Division of the War Industries Board. The WIB gave Samuel P. Bush unprecedented ties to the Eastern elite families through its association with one of the largest weapons manufacturers, Remington Arms. Buckeye Steel Castings supplied the railroad industry, controlled by the Rockefellers, the Harrimans, and J.P. Morgan with coupling parts and chassis for their tankers and railcars.


Behind the scenes, Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman secretly influenced (or controlled) the activities of key intelligence agencies in the U.S., thus, affording the Vatican the opportunity to suppress potentially damaging information from reaching the public. Spellman and Hoover served the same “master,” though it was not the U.S. government. Upon the revelations of the New York / Nazi money laundering and war profiteering, records in the National Archives, in particular those related to Samuel P. Bush, were destroyed “in order to save space.” Most likely, those records exposed multiple, covert relationships in a conspiracy of monumental proportions.

[…]

There you have 'em like-attracts-like-psychos... driving Tesla in the ground while ushering his inventions and discoveries underground, never to see the lights of day unless applied to get rid of "'em useless eaters"...

What a world indeed!

[sygh]

Indeed.

Funny the things people do for what amounts to little pieces of paper with numbers on them.

Yes, isn't it though. Funny how we work to own land we can never own, and can't take with us too. This physical state of being is a hoot. First there are the physical needs, then there are those pesky wants. The physical vessel, and the head games that go with it.

As for the big picture, the illuminati know it's kind of like a recipe for an emotional soup, a titch of this here, a dob of that there, then simmer, and stir.

[East Sun]

Hi, Avalonians,

Amzer Zo,

Thank you for your post. I've been doing a lot of reading about the subject recently. Not about Tesla but the controllers. Their types are known members of Secret Societies around the world, Knights of this and that and all controlled by higher "psychos" who have been building their hierarchies for a loong time. Those black garbed ones who are sold to an obsession to rule the entire roost.

It seems an impossible task to ever stop them---they have infested every govt. society, corp. community in all the world so where does that leave us??? We must go on and we are growing so there's hope after all.

[Tane Mahuta]

It's strange how the Rockefellers' and Rothschilds' names ALWAYS comes up in all the despicable things going on.... How can we fight these ancient enemies?

Simple!!!!......"We Seek the Truth!!!, Know the Truth!!!....Preach the Truth!!!"

And this house of stinking cards comes tumbleling.

nuff said TT

[East Sun]

It's strange how the Rockefellers' and Rothschilds' names ALWAYS comes up in all the despicable things going on.... How can we fight these ancient enemies?

Simple!!!!......"We Seek the Truth!!!, Know the Truth!!!....Preach the Truth!!!"

And this house of stinking cards comes tumbleling.

nuff said TT

I sincerely wish that were true.

Some preachers wear black sheep's clothing.


P. S. For many hundreds of years some "elite" religious "leaders" have been supposedly preaching the Truth but doing the very things they forbid us to even think about let alone do. At the same time they got us to fight their battles for them. Battles meaning 'kill, kill, and destroy.
And they are still doing it.

All religions and all denominations were affected in very negative ways.

But their time is coming, surely and definitely... and not by violence, as we know it.

[Hervé]

There was a big gap between Rockefeller's funding of Stalin and Hitler and destabilizing Ecuador, Panama, Nicaragua, etc. as recounted by John Perkins in his "Confessions of An Economic Hitman" and that's the money-making psy-op called the "Cold War" which is now coming to light and was behind such motto as this:



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That "Cold War" vacuum and its profit making scheme:


Fidel Castro Was a CIA Agent (http://henrymakow.com/2015/05/Fidel-Castro-Worked-for-David-Rockefeller%20.html)

May 12, 2015

http://henrymakow.com/upload_images/1974_fidel_castro_ap_629.jpg

More evidence that Communism is a total sham.

Fulgencio Batista, (Cuban President from 1953-59) was the Gaddafi of his day, creating a dangerous example of economic independence from the bankers.

The "revolutionary" Fidel Castro was nothing more than a banker shill tasked with removing him and reducing Cuba to penury and servitude, no different from any other US-installed fascist dictator.


Molecule: "The full story of Castro is even worse, but eventually it will come out. I'm actually already pushing the envelope -- the point is that Castro was on "the payroll" of Citibank and the CIA from the beginning."

Makow Comment: I'm not sure what Molecule's sources are but his account seems plausible. If true, we will look at modern history in a new light. The Bay of Pigs invasion for example was meant to fail, in order to discredit JFK and make Castro look good. A real US invasion of Cuba would have been justified. Now I understand why it didn't happen.

by Molecule
(henrymakow.com)

In the 1950's, Illuminati bankers David Rockefeller and Eugene Meyer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Meyer)organized a Cuban partnership, called the Moa Bay Mining Co. (http://www.estainlesssteel.com/nickel-in-cuba.shtml)

As his appartchiks, Rockefeller hired the three stooges of the Caribbean, namely Fidel Castro, E. Howard Hunt and George H.W. Bush.

Rockefeller's Citi-Bank provided the financial support that Fidel Castro needed for his ouster of Batista, and that Rockefeller had profited immensely from Castro's fictitious "expropriation" of Moa Bay mining fields.

Castro received his training in the arts of economic terrorism and guerrilla warfare from US Army Special Forces, Col. William A. Morgan (http://www.executedtoday.com/2010/03/11/1961-william-morgan-cuba-americano/) of Ohio.

Rockefeller maintained actual physical control of all of "Castro's" oil and mining operations. Meanwhile he collected extravagant profits from endless "Pentagon bailouts" by the U.S. taxpayer.


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Castro was a Meyer-Rockefeller-Dulles lackey. With Zapata Oil as cover, he soon became Bush's favorite candyman. Castro was doubtless pre-briefed on the impending April 1961 invasion, by a clutch of clueless Miami Cubanos, who were lead straight to their slaughter in a perfect military gauntlet, a crossfire in a long and narrow bay of water at the "heel" of a unique Cuban landmass, in fact a marine swampland drenched in oil, known as the Zapata.

Air cover would have made no difference at all. The successful humiliation of JFK in the Bay of Pigs operation led straight to rumors of Castro's absolute Invincibility. Castro the Maximum was trained and armed by the Pentagon and financed by the CIA and Citibank.

The person who delivered his paychecks was a Ukrainian country girl, who lived in a small cottage in Greenwich Connecticut. As cover, she sold homemade soaps.

The CIA even put out rumors that hundreds of assassination attempts on Castro had all failed. If they were real at all, they were coordinated through Castro's business partners at Moa Bay Mining and Zapata Oil. With rumors like that, the comic-book status of Castro as "The Invincible One" was assured. The assassination of an American President soon followed.

BATISTA


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Castro replaced Gen. Fulgencio Batista,(1901-1973,) above. In Castro's propaganda, Batista was characterized as a "racially impure" Cuban nationalist. Following the collapse in the Cuban economy in the 1930's, Batista crushed Marxist agitators, and established a constitution in 1940 based on the sovereignty of the Cuban people.

Cuba's new constitution was therefore contrary to Teddy Roosevelt's intrusive Platt Amendment of 1901, which attempts to ensconce an army of Zionist know-it-alls and Marine smarty-pants in "Gitmo," with the authority "to take any action necessary to protect Wall Street-Zionist interests in the Caribbean." (See Gen. Smedley Butler.)

Batista's 1940 Constitution asserted Cuban sovereignty over national currency for circulation. Batista chartered a Cuban National Bank, and an Agricultural and Industrial Development Bank, to finance internal economic development, intending to build up a stable middle class of inventors, intellectuals and professionals.

(See 1950s CIA training manual by Special Operations Research Office, "Task Revolt" editor Norman La Charite, Case Study in Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare -- Cuba.)

Under Batista, Cuba's natural agricultural productivity and machine tool inventiveness finally had support of a local government. Had Batista's nationalist policies been applied without Marxist-Zionist banker intervention, it would have revived the Cuban economy.

But the Marxist-Zionist pirate-bankers who always work through their monopolistic control of foreign trade. Castro's endless Cuban "trade deficits" were orchestrated to prevent any emergence of internal economic sovereignty, especially for agriculture (for food and health, not sugar and money) and for development of Cuba's immense mineral wealth.

Batista also made provisions to dissolve the extreme concentration of economic power in the hands of a few Zionist-owned sugar companies -- who by use of fancy lawyers, including Fidel Castro, and by compromised judges, had accumulated ownership of 70% of Cuba's arable land, thereby unleashing unstable (i.e. "Marxist-ready") populations of wandering tenant farmers, penniless wage-workers and peasants living by subsistence.


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To prevent a Marxist-Zionist takeover of Cuba, by an internal insurgency using a "liquefied" and "Marxist-ready" population, Batista proposed educational reforms for the formation of a creative middle class, and for redistribution of the vast barren and unused lands of the "U.S.-owned" sugar plantations to Cuban family farmers.

In short, if the Batista model of Cuba were to succeed, it would have set a dangerous example for the economic potential of constitutional sovereignty, in Cuba, in the United States, and throughout the Caribbean and South and Central America. Batista's concept of Cuban national sovereignty had to be destroyed.


BANKER HITMAN?
Quoting from the above mentioned CIA training manual, by Norm La Charite, "Castro was a rebel by and in reality long before Batista's second period of power. As president of the Law School student body, he became involved in campus politics, which many times reached violent proportions at the University of Havana. He was also one of the founders of Unión Insurreccional Revolucionaria (UIR), a terroristic organization [later to emerge as model for Al Qieda], which allegedly dealt in political assassination. Castro was arrested several times in connection with murder, but was never convicted. In 1947 he took part in an abortive plot to overthrow Rafael Trujillo, then dictator of the Dominican Republic. The Cayo Confites expedition, as it is called, was stopped before it got underway.


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Many researchers propose that Castro was involved in the 1948 assassination of a popular Columbian politician, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Eli%C3%A9cer_Gait%C3%A1n)(1903 - 1948). It is widely speculated that Gaitán would likely have been elected President had he not been assassinated on April 9, 1948. Castro had attempted to recruit Gaitán earlier to his cause, but Gaitán had repeatedly declined and was assassinated because he was too politically influential and would have countered the Cold War objectives of the USSR in the Caribbean.

Gaitán was a Bogatá attorney who gained national popularity by successfully defending striking workers at the United Fruit Company. UFC was represented by Sullivan & Cromwell, a N.Y. City law firm of which John Foster Dulles was partner. (Dulles was also Sec. of State; his brother Allen was Director of the CIA; and John Moors Cabot, past president of UFC, was Asst. Sec. of State for Inter-American Affairs.) In his speeches, Gaitán distinguished between the "political country," which was controlled by an oligarchy through use of fictitious internal struggles, orchestrated between "Liberal" and "Conservative" factions, and the "national country," which responds to the real political and economic needs of a nation of people.

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First Comment by Carmindo:
Like Henry, "'m not sure what Molecule's sources are". But I´m sure communism is a very useful tool to big money and Fidel is one of those tools.

One example. Angola etc.

In 1974, the Portuguese authoritarian regime was deposed by a military coup. As a consequence, the Communist Party - infiltrated in the military - started a campaign to abandon Portugal's colonies in Africa: Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau.

With the independence, almost 1 million of white Portuguese that lived there had to abandon their houses, cars, businesses, farms, etc..

Marxist governments (MPLA in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique, PAIGC in Guinea) were imposed to the african populations, devastating their countries.

But ... surprise! The American oil interests in Cabinda (Angola) didn´t suffer at all!!

Gulf Oil Corporation (now Chevron) maintained its oil exploration in Cabinda with the Marxist government.

Try to guess who had thousand of soldiers fighting next to the communists during the ensuing angolan civil war, at the same time the marxist government protected Chevron?

Yes... Fidel Castro's Cuba!

About this, I recommend the late Prof. Antony Sutton work "THE BEST ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY (http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/best_enemy/chapter_11.htm)". I quote him: « As succinctly stated by Congressman William L. Dickinson (July 1985), "These Cuban troops are protecting American oil interests and they are preventing UNITA from overrunning the MPLA."»

So, simultaneously:

- one million of Portuguese citizens is deprived of everything by communists;
- Chevron is protected by the same communists;
- Fidel Castro's troops help the communists that help Chevron.

I can´t think about a better example to illustrate Molecule's arguments.
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CO said (May 12, 2015):

I've always been extremely sceptical of the cult of Castro as a sworn enemy of US capitalism. If he was such a bête noire, how did he survive for so long right on America's doorstep? The New World Order expended huge resources in violently removing leaders they perceived as enemies of their interests in faraway countries, e.g., Mossadegh, Saddam, Ghaddafi, the Taliban, and many many more. Yet the logistically far simpler task of removing a ramshackle Marxist regime right next door has always been beyond them? I don't think so. The 1974 World Book encyclopaedia entry for Castro portrays him as an impossibly glamorous, macho character - and the World Book was always a reliable conduit for Masonic/CIA propaganda. And if American big business hated and feared Cuban Marxism why have they, over the last 45 odd years, promoted Castro's deceased sidekick, Che Guevara, as a western pop culture icon to rival Elvis, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe? Hollywood and the MSM have always peddled the notion of Batista as the corrupt buddy of American mafioso, but neglect to mention that many more mobsters aided the Castroites - including, incidentally, Jack Ruby.
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Related- Body Guard Exposes Castro as Billionaire Drug Dealer (http://henrymakow.com/2015/05/castro-exposed-by-former-bodyguard.html)
The Longest Romance- The MSM and Fidel Castro (http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/jamie-glazov/the-longest-romance-the-mainstream-media-and-fidel-castro/)
Fidel Castro- Story of a Monster (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=912)

[amor]

The plots to use World Wars, Cold Wars, etc., were hatched in think tanks. All such places should be disbanded by law. Another "who will bell the cat" problem. Foundations, corporations, etc., should be forbidden because they give the rich and powerful more power over the individual than they should have, resulting in the corrupt, warmongering bankster dope pushing criminals we now have ruling the world.

[sigma6]

One question,.... Why don't the "terrorists" ever go after the real criminals who screw them over? I'd be dangerous in third world countries.. lol

If they went after the Rockefellers etc, I'd be cheering for them. I have no compassion at all for the deaths of these criminals...

Sorry for my negative themed post this time, but this stuff pisses me off. I want justice for once.

simple, because they wouldn't get their next paycheck...

[Ewan]

I've just been listening to Antony Sutton on The Skull and Bones, and mentioning the Hegelian Dialectic employed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XImnRAmm93Q

This interview must have been filmed about 20-25 years ago. It's time for it to be recirculated I feel.

[Hervé]

Here is the "Grand" scheme of things started by the Rockefeller/Morgan who railroaded Tesla's free energy because they couldn't put a tap on it for distribution... you know, like the "Salt Tax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_tax)" of old:

The New Global Financial Cold War (http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/19/the-new-global-financial-cold-war/)
by Michael Hudson (http://www.counterpunch.org/author/michael-hudson/) February 19, 2016


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The Guns and Butter Interview
Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not going to be part of that anymore. We’re only working for the U.S. State Department and Pentagon. If the Pentagon tells the IMF it’s okay that a country doesn’t have to pay Russia or China, then now they don’t have to pay, as far as the IMF is concerned.’ That breaks up the global order that was created after World War II. The world is being split into two halves: the U.S. dollar orbit, and countries that the U.S. cannot control and whose officials are not on the U.S. payroll, so to speak.

Dr. Michael Hudson. is a financial economist and historian. He is President of the Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. His 1972 book, Super Imperialism (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745319890/counterpunchmaga) is a critique of how the United States exploited foreign economies through the IMF and World Bank. His latest book is Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy (http://store.counterpunch.org/product/killing-the-host-digital-book/). Today we discuss his article, “The IMF Changes Its Rules to Isolate China and Russia (http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/18/the-imf-changes-its-rules-to-isolate-china-and-russia/).”

Bonnie Faulkner: Michael Hudson, welcome. It’s been far too long since we’ve last spoken.

Michael Hudson: Well, it’s good to be back. Last time we were together was in Italy.

[...]

Bonnie Faulkner: [...] Well, I’ve been reading your article, “The IMF Changes Its Rules to Isolate China and Russia.” (http://michael-hudson.com/2015/12/the-imf-changes-its-rules-to-isolate-china-and-russia/) It rings an alarming bell about the implications of rule changes at the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, which makes loans to governments. Before we discuss these IMF rule changes specifically, what precipitated these drastic policy shifts at the IMF?

Michael Hudson: There are a number of policy shifts. The first shift was that – In the past the IMF has not made loans to countries that are in default to governments. That’s because in the past, the government in question was the U.S. Government. Since World War II almost all international financial bailout or stabilization loans by the IMF and World Bank have involved the U.S. Government, in conjunction with consortia of U.S. banks.

For the first time, now that China and the BRICs are growing, countries are borrowing not only from the United States subject to U.S. lobbying forces, but can now borrow from China and other countries as well.

The United States has responded by changing the IMF rules. It said, ‘Wait a minute. It’s okay for the IMF to make loans to countries that don’t pay China and Russia or the BRICs, because we’re in a new Cold War. The IMF really is working for us.’ As long as the U.S. has veto power in the IMF, its delegate can veto any loan to a country that owes money to the United States that the United States doesn’t wish to support. But it has no objection for the IMF making loans to U.S. satellites such as Ukraine, that official debts to Russia.

Ukraine last December owed $3 billion to Russia on a loan that is coming due from the Russian state investment fund. The United States is doing everything it can to hurt Russia economically, thinking that if it hurts it enough, Russia will capitulate to the U.S. strategy. The New Cold War strategy is basically an attempt to force other countries to privatize their economies to follow neoliberal policy. The aim is to open their economies to U.S. corporations and U.S. banks.

The IMF rules change was to mobilize the IMF basically as an agent of the U.S. Defense Department, with a side office on Wall Street. All of a sudden it’s become clear that the IMF is not an international institution for global economic performance. It’s an arm of U.S. Cold War diplomacy, one that’s moving far to the right very quickly under the Obama Administration.

Bonnie Faulkner: We now have the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the SCO as an alternative military alliance to NATO and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the AIIB, which threatens to replace the IMF and World Bank. How successful do you think these new alternatives to the Western banking system will be?

Michael Hudson: The big point is that the Western banking system, the World Bank and the IMF are unsuccessful. The IMF follows a junk economics that says if you owe money to foreign bondholders or banks, you have to impose austerity on the country to pay whatever is owed. The junk economics at work claims that austerity will enable debtors to squeeze enough tax money out of their economy to pay foreign bankers and bondholders. This is the same disastrous theory that the British and the Americans and the French used in the 1920s to insist that Germany could pay any amount of reparations if it only would tax the economy enough.

This theory was shown to be false by John Maynard Keynes and also by the American, Harold Moulton, at the Brookings Institution. But the lessons of the 1920s were rejected by the IMF, because they know very well – and the staff has made it very clear – that austerity doesn’t enable a country to pay its foreign debts. Austerity makes countries less able to pay. That means they will need to borrow even more.

Then the IMF comes in with its number-two punch: The number one punch is austerity. The number two punch is to say: ‘Well, I guess our program didn’t work. What a disappointment. You now have to begin privatizing your industry and natural resources. Sell off your land.’ They tell other debtor countries essentially what they told Greece over the last year.

When the austerity plan demanded by the IMF since 2010 didn’t help Greece, they joined with the rest of the Troika (the European Central Bank and European Union) in 2015 to demand that Greece agree to sell off its islands, sell off its ports, sell its water systems, sell everything in the public domain. After that demand had been made on Greece in the summer of 2015, it was Ukraine’s turn.

The number one punch against the Ukraine by the IMF was to impose austerity on the pretense (its junk economics) that Ukraine could pay its foreign bondholders with income taxed out of its domestic economy. When this made things worse, the World Bank and USAID came in. The U.S.-appointed finance minister fingered the agricultural land, gas rights and other natural resources that Ukraine could sell off to American and European investors – but not to Russians.

The idea is that if American investors can buy the key infrastructure and commanding heights of the Ukrainian economy, it can pry Ukraine apart from Russia. Ukraine played a key role in the Russian economy. Much Russian military and space industrial output was produced in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.

So the idea was that separating Ukraine from Russia is the first step in trying to carve up Russia, and then to carve up China, breaking them into little pieces. The aim is to treat China and Russia like the Mideast, like Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria – as smash-and-grab exercises to take their natural resources and enterprises.

Bonnie Faulkner: What is the aim of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty and how is it at odds with the Asian Infrastructure Bank, the AIIB?

Michael Hudson: I could give a glib answer and say the aim is to reduce the population by 50%, to starve people, abolish pensions and spread poverty. That actually is the effect.

The cover story pretends to be about trade, but the real agenda is to force privatization and disable government regulation. This reverses what was central to the whole Progressive Era. For the last 300 years, the assumption of Europe and North America was that you were going to have a mixed economy, with governments investing in infrastructure, roads and other transportation, communications, water and sewer systems, gas and electricity. The role of government infrastructure was to provide these basic needs at minimum cost in order to promote a low-cost, competitive economy. That’s how America got rich. That’s how Germany industrialized and how the rest of Europe did. But the aim of the Trans-Pacific Partnership is to reverse and privatize public investment. Its ideology is that the economy should be owned and operated by private owners, private enterprise, whose aim is short-term profit.

There are a number of related aims: to nullify environmental protection regulations that cost money, to nullify protection of labor, and to nullify attempts to tax natural resources or economic rent. The idea is to turn roads and the transport system into toll roads, which will be owned by foreigners and run at a high charge. The Internet and the water system will be sold off and made into toll systems, to charge for their services and for other basic needs. This will impose a neo-feudal rentier economy throughout the world as the finance, industrial and real estate (FIRE) sector takes over the government sector.

I think you could say that at the broadest level, the idea is to roll back the Enlightenment and restore feudalism. That may sound like an extreme statement, but people don’t realize how radical the TPP’s investment agreements are. For instance, when Australia raised the charges on cigarettes and included health warnings on the packs, Philip Morris sued, insisting that Australia pay it what Philip Morris would have made if people would have continued to smoke and get cancer at the existing rate.

When Ecuador tried to sue oil companies for pollution, the oil companies sued, and now the country has to pay the oil company the amount of profit it would make if it continued to produce oil by polluting the land – to an infinite degree. No government anywhere in the world that signs this will be free to regulate the environment or even to enact new taxes on rent-seeking or other private enterprise.

Essentially, the new buyers of the roads the water systems, the sewer systems, can use these as rent extraction opportunities without anti-monopoly regulations. That means they can charge whatever the market will bear, and treat foreign countries sort of like New York City cable customers are treated. I live in Forest Hills in Queens. We have one supplier, Time Warner. If I want cable, I have to pay what they charge, and it has nothing to do at all with their cost of production. I have to rent their cable box, not buy one of my own.

That’s what economic rent is. It’s a revenue above the cost of production. For hundreds of years the economics of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill and Thorstein Veblen wrote about how to create an economy that would produce everything at its actual, technologically and socially necessary cost, without any free lunch, that is, without any kind of unearned income (“economic rent”).

The aim of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its European version is to promote unearned rent extraction. Rentier interests have backed a body the kind of junk economics to replace classical economics, against the Progressive Era and social democracy, to create a right-wing ideology that they call free trade. The term is Orwellian doublethink.

Bonnie Faulkner: Have these rulings by the World Trade Organization been enforced against these countries you mentioned, such as Australia?

Michael Hudson: I think Philip Morris failed, but it forced the government to spend tens of millions of dollars in legal fees. It’s almost impossible for a poor government like Ecuador or even Australia, to spend the legal fees that it costs to defend themselves against a battery of corporate lawyers. Under the TPP, the referees would be drawn from the corporate sector and its law firms.

The judgments and rules are made outside of government and outside of laws that voters enact. So corporate oligarchy replaces democracy. Decisions as to how much governments will have to pay corporations in compensatory damages are made by a small group of referees in a revolving door with the corporate sector. In effect, they will work as lobbyists for these corporations.

Bonnie Faulkner: China accelerated its creation of the alternative China International Payments System, CIPS, and its own credit card system. What is the SWIFT Interbank Clearing System, and is the new Chinese payment system a threat to it?

Michael Hudson: All banks have a clearing system when you write checks on a bank account. The SWIFT system is a huge computer software program that enables people to write checks to send money to others who use other banks.

About a year ago U.S. strategists thought about going to a new Cold War with Russia. It might quickly become military. But the U.S. saw that it could hurt the Russian economy without having to send troops in. We don’t have to invade. That’s old-style warfare. No country can invade another with troops these days. But the U.S. can hold Russia or any other economy hostage by suddenly excluding it from the SWIFT payments clearing system. Their banks, individuals and corporations can’t clear any money. So they’re paralyzed. The U.S. will have smashed their economic linkages and communications.

As soon as the Americans talked about this, China and Russia responded. They naturally don’t want a nation that says it may want to go to war with them to have such disruptive power. Obama and Hillary Clinton have already made such threats. So Russian leaders have said that they would like to be part of a global unit, but as long as the United States is running SWIFT for its own interests and is acting in a hostile way, they need to protect their own bank clearing systems.

So China took the lead in creating its own bank clearing system. People and companies and government organizations in China and the other BRICS countries won’t have to be hostage to the United States doing with a computer malware program what it did to Iranian centrifuges. Just like we blew up the Iranian centrifuges by installing a virus to speed them up. It could do that with SWIFT. Now, China and the BRICs are moving to defend themselves against this prospect.

Bonnie Faulkner: Well, now, has China’s international Payment System been implemented yet or is it still being planned?

Michael Hudson: I think they’re still in the process of developing it, because it’s hard to develop a system as complex as this. There’s an inertia for these things, making it easier to build on the existing clearing systems. It takes a lot of time to develop a replacement. The situation is like Microsoft’s Office program. That’s why Mac computers use Word and Excel. It takes billions of dollars to write a program that doesn’t have glitches in it. I think the Chinese are still trying to work out the glitches because they don’t expect overt warfare quite yet.

Bonnie Faulkner: Russian Prime Minister Putin proposed a partnership, or at least cooperation, between the West and the emerging military and economic partnerships in the East. Putin’s overture to the West seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Why do you think?

Michael Hudson: This is the same hope that has existed since the 1990s, even before Putin came into power. The idea was that Russia is willing to join NATO, seeing that atomic war between the industrial nations of the world is now out of the question.

They do face a common threat from Wahhabi Islam, funded by Saudi Arabia – Wahhabi Sharia Law terrorism. Russia is concerned about Saudi-backed terrorists on its southern front, from Georgia, Azerbaijan, all the way through central Asia. The Chinese also are concerned about Wahhabi terrorism through the Uyghurs. ISIS and Al Nusra are acting as America’s Foreign Legion. When Hillary Clinton overthrew the Libyan government, the arms and military stockpiles were turned over to ISIS. Libya’s central bank resources were robbed and also turned over to ISIS. When America marched into Iraq, it turned the Sunni army and all those billions of dollars of shrink-wrapped hundred-dollar bills over ultimately to ISIS. So although America opposes ISIS when they kill Americans, ISIS is basically America’s way of breaking up countries that may threaten not to be part of the global dollar standard.

Russia hoped that the United States would see that this is a crazy system. America, Russia and Europe can get rich in mutual trade. If Europe pursues its economic interests, it would see itself as a natural trading partner of Russia. Europeans and probably Americans could go to Russia and try to build up the economy, because it needs entrepreneurs.

But instead of pursuing a mutual prosperity sphere between Europe, Russia and the United States, the United States has pressed Europe into a dead zone of neoliberal austerity. That is shrinking Europe’s economy and carving it off from Russia. This prevents prosperity for Europe, on the ground that it would also benefit Russia or China.

The idea from the Americans’ side is to treat Russia like it treated Cuba, Iran and Libya – to isolate it, expecting Russia to knuckle under. But instead, Russia’s much bigger than Cuba or North Korea, and China is even bigger. So instead of just surrendering to the American neoliberal economic plan, they’ve decided that America has driven them together in a mutually defensive alignment. U.S. diplomacy has brought about precisely the Eurasian unity that it set out to try to prevent.

Bonnie Faulkner: Yes. I believe in your paper at one point you described some of the IMF members as wearing suicide vests to blow up that institution. I thought that was a pretty good description.

Michael Hudson: It’s indeed as if the United States walked into the IMF meeting with a suicide vest and said, ‘We want the IMF to only serve U.S. interests, not international interests.’ So that’s broken the illusion that the IMF as an honest broker to help countries stabilize.

U.S. pressure has radically changed a series of rules. One rule I mentioned above is not to lend to a country that refuses to pay another government. That wasn’t formally in the IMF Articles of Agreement. But what is in the IMF articles is that you’re not supposed to lend to a country that has no visible means of paying back the loan. That is called the “No More Argentinas” rule, passed after the IMF lent Argentina money in 2001 to pay its bondholders. Argentina had no prospect of repaying these bad loans.

The IMF broke this rule when it lent to Greece after 2010. Some of the staff left the IMF, seeing their analysis ignored. The IMF’s Board asked how it could lend this money to Greece to pay German, French and English banks and bail out bondholders without seeing how Greece could pay.

The IMF leader, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, overruled the staff and these Board members by creating a new “systemic risk” rule. This rule allowed the IMF to violate its Articles of Agreement and lend to any country if failure to repay a loan would threaten to pose a systemic risk to many countries. In practice, the IMF defined systemic risk simply to be the thought that a bondholder might lose more than $1. That might crash “confidence. So in order to save bondholders and banks from losing, the economy would be wrecked by debt deflation. By the way, just a few days ago, on January 29th the IMF reversed that rule, saying that it’s not going to use that excuse any more.

Another element of the IMF Articles of Agreement stipulates that it is not supposed to lend to a borrower at war. One obvious reason is that if a country is at war, especially a civil war that’s bombing its export sector as Ukraine is doing, how can it obtain the foreign exchange to pay its foreign debt? Most Ukrainian exports were to Russia. The attack on Donbas and Eastern Ukraine has destroyed this export industry.

The United States strong-armed the IMF to make the loan to Ukraine. Its managing director Christine Lagarde said that she hoped Ukraine wouldn’t spend the money on war. But one and a half-billion dollars were given to the kleptocrat bankers Kolomoiski, who immediately moved it offshore but used his domestic money to finance an anti-Donbas army. The very next day, President Poroshenko said that now Ukraine could afford to wage more war.

The fourth IMF rule that is broken is that it isn’t supposed to lend to a country that has little likelihood of carrying out an austerity program. This is called a conditionality. It involves over-riding democratic opposition. Ukraine is cutting back pensions and imposing austerity, so there’s little chance of the country surviving as a democracy. The United States basically has come in and acknowledged that it’s dropping the pretense of backing democracies. In the 1960 and ‘70s it backed dictatorships in Latin America, including the overthrow of Allende in Chile. And now the IMF will lend to countries at war, even when they cannot pay, as long as they do what U.S. strategists want. But it won’t get loans to pay Russian banks or BRICs banks.

Bonnie Faulkner: Now, Michael, you’ve already begun to answer this question but maybe we can get a little clarification on it. Russia’s National Wealth Fund made a loan to the Ukraine. You’ve brought this up. This Russian loan was protected by IMF lending practice, and the bonds were registered under London’s creditor oriented rules and courts. Describe how IMF and World Bank rules protected the original structure of post-World War II sovereign lending practice.

Michael Hudson: The IMF said it would not make a loan to a country that owed money or was in default of a loan to any government that did not negotiate in good faith to pay foreign governments. Ukraine owed $3 billion to Russia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund – obviously a government organization. The Russian loan was made on concessionary terms, but it also had protections. Because it was a Sovereign Wealth Fund, it protected itself by registering the loan in England. There’s been a debate in Russia over whether Ukraine can avoid repaying Russia.

Last year the U.S. Treasury had a long discussion with bank lawyers about how Ukraine might default and still be able to qualify for loans from the IMF. Well, we’ve seen the answer. The IMF rules were changed. Remember, the European Union and international banks usually will not join in a loan consortium to a country if the IMF doesn’t also join. The debtor country must be in good standing with the IMF.

But now, instead of protecting the system of loans among governments, the IMF will only protect loans to governments in the U.S. orbit, not to governments that the United States doesn’t like. In practice, that means anybody that doesn’t follow neoliberal policies.

Basically the United States sought to remove Russia’s legal ability to collect the $3 billion Ukraine owed. There was a discussion about whether Ukraine could call it an odious debt, because anything owed to Russia is deemed odious since Obama called Putin a kleptocrat and corrupt. For 50 years America has been lending to blatantly corrupt dictators in Latin America, Africa and Asia, but not them corrupt, from Pinochet down through Tony Blair. The U.S. is smashing up the framework of international law.

Ukraine knows that it will lose any legal attempt to avoid paying Russia in the British courts where the bonds are registered. That court is very creditor oriented. But at least Ukraine can tie up its ultimate settlement.

Ukraine and its U.S. backers may think that with oil now below $30 a barrel and Russia needing money, maybe they can starve Russia into submitting to the U.S. dictates. This is crazy, because Russia obviously is not going to surrender. A few days ago Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Russia is rethinking its relationship with the West. It’s obvious the United States opposes economic linkages between Germany, other European countries and Russia. So Russia is rethinking its relationship with Europe. If Europe acts like it wants to be the 51st state of America instead of pushing its own economic interests, the Russians will turn eastward toward China and toward the BRICs. Too bad! It could have been a nice mutual prosperity relationship.

Bonnie Faulkner: You’ve titled your article “The IMF Changes Its Rules to Isolate China and Russia,” because that’s what they’re doing. The purpose behind these rule changes is to isolate China and Russia. Now, China and Russia were cooperating with the IMF and the World Bank, weren’t they?

Michael Hudson: Yes they were. The main objective of U.S. strategy from the beginning was China. For three years the United States has been discussing openly how to isolate China. It doesn’t want to see a potentially independent great power. It’s okay if Chinese labor works at low wages to supply Wal-Mart with low-priced exports, but not for China to be an independent powerhouse.

China has given American investors and importers enough of a common interest to lobby to prevent the U.S. Government from intensifying its Cold War against China. But Russia doesn’t have that much leverage offering the West ways to get rich, especially since they threw Khodakovsky in jail after he tried to sell Yukos’s oil to Exxon. That would have essentially taken control of Russian oil out of the national patrimony, and probably left it with little sales and export revenue after Exxon’s accountants had done the usual creative tax strategies using flags of convenience and offshore banking centers to leave no reported taxable earnings.

China wants to make its currency part of the global currency basket of the IMF. It wants to establish the yuan on the same status as the dollar so that it can avoid having to rely on American banks for its export trade, and especially for its domestic credit creation. It wants to avoid what U.S. neoliberals did to Russia in 1992 and 1993. They convinced Russia that its central bank needed to hold U.S. dollars as backing for its domestic ruble currency. Since Russia didn’t have many U.S. dollars, the result was a drastic deflation (“shock therapy” with no therapy), which ended up de-industrializing Russia.

There was no need for Russia to borrow in a foreign currency to meet domestic expenses for its own labor and industry. The ruble was turned into a satellite currency of the dollar, and left to crash in 1997 as capital flight to sterling and dollars amounted to about $25 billion each year.

That is what China wants to avoid. They want to be free of reliance on the dollar, except for what they need to import from the United States or to defend the currency against raids. George Soros said that he expects the yuan to go down. That’s a sign to currency raiders to try to profiteer by driving the Chinese currency down. The Chinese are trying to free themselves from interconnections to the dollar orbit, except to get dollars that they need to import things from the United States – which I guess are not much, except for movies.

Bonnie Faulkner: You mentioned four of its own rules that the IMF broke in making loans to Ukraine. I’m wondering if you wouldn’t mind just very briefly stating what these four broken rules are, so that people can get their heads around why this is such a sea-change.

Michael Hudson: One rule is not to lend to a country that has no visible means of paying back the loan. That’s the “No More Argentinas” rule. It already was broken with the Greek loan, with Strauss-Kahn introduced the “systemic risk” loophole to protect banks.

The second rule is not to lend to a country that repudiates its debt to official creditors, meaning a country won’t pay what it owes to another government. That rule made the IMF an enforcer for the creditor cartel. But it is now only an enforcer on behalf of U.S.-favored creditors.

The third rule is not to lend to a country at war. Ukraine’s at war, in a civil war with the East. But Donbas is backed by Russia, so that’s OK now.

The fourth rule is not to lend to a country that is not going to impose the IMF austerity conditionalities, which make countries so poor that they end up bankrupt and have to sell off their natural resources and other assets. Ukraine’s post-coup government hardly can follow IMF conditionalities without being voted out of office, but in the meantime they can sell land and gas rights to Soros and Monsanto, so that’s OK.

These four rules are now broken. Ukraine has not yet begun to sell off its natural resources, and there’s some argument going on because the kleptocrats want to hold onto them and make the same deal that their Russian counterparts made in the early ‘90s: They’ll sell maybe 25% of their monopoly to U.S. buyers, list their companies on the U.S. or British stock exchanges, let buyers bid up prices, and then sell their 75% and take payment in London, New York or wherever. The important thing is that they will take the sales proceeds out of Ukraine, leaving the country with no money in the bank, while owing an enormous amount every year to transmit profits on agricultural land and economic rents extracted from the roads, gas and other infrastructure being sold off.

Bonnie Faulkner: You say that at issue between the East and West is a philosophy of development. How does development differ in the two systems?

Michael Hudson: The neoliberal American philosophy of development is an Orwellian term for the absence of development. It reverses development. The neoliberal plan is to create a post-industrial society. By “post-industrial” I mean a neo-rentier economy returning to feudalism. Instead of governments taking the lead and providing basic services at a low price to become a competitive economy, neoliberalized governments sell roads and energy, electricity, water and sewers to buyers that are going to charge whatever the market will bear. This is going to impoverish the country. It’s the opposite of what development economics taught through most of the 20th century.

Bonnie Faulkner: What kind of scenario have U.S. State department and Treasury officials been discussing for more than a year as a way to oppose Chinese and Russian infrastructure loans to other countries? I think you started to talk a bit about this already.

Michael Hudson: The United States did not join the AIIB, and it tried to discourage other countries from joining. There was a lot of hand wringing when England joined the AIIB and other countries tried to do it. The United States essentially is trying to create an iron curtain separating the BRICS from the U.S. dollar orbit. It’s a financial curtain – not an iron curtain, but an electronic one.

Bonnie Faulkner: Did you write in your article that the IMF would go ahead and loan to countries, and tell them that they wouldn’t have to repay their loans to China or Russia but could still borrow from the IMF?

Michael Hudson: The IMF didn’t come right out and tell countries that they don’t have to repay. The problem is, there has to be an international court. There has to be an enforcement vehicle. For instance, you have a lot of the vulture funds claiming that Argentina owes them money on its bonds, but so far they haven’t been able to collect. They were able to get Nigeria to grab one of the Argentine training boats, but because it was government property the country was directed to release it.

Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not going to be part of that anymore. We’re only working for the U.S. State Department and Pentagon. If the Pentagon tells the IMF it’s okay that a country doesn’t have to pay Russia or China, then now they don’t have to pay, as far as the IMF is concerned.’

That breaks up the global order that was created after World War II. The world is being split into two halves: the U.S. dollar orbit, and countries that the U.S. cannot control and whose officials are not on the U.S. payroll, so to speak.

Bonnie Faulkner: You describe this as a “tectonic, geopolitical shift that will be fought with all the power of an American Century inquisition.” What do you mean by inquisition?

Michael Hudson: Dirty tricks. President Obama has said that we’re not going to invade another country, because no country’s really able to mobilize enough troops without creating a domestic economic and political crisis. His alternative is targeted assassination. That’s what the United States has long done, in Chile under Nixon/Kissinger and Guatemala and Nicaragua under Reagan.

Or most simply, you bribe other governments to get them to promote people in foreign countries who work for the United States. You want to make sure, in England, for instance, that someone like Tony Blair becomes prime minister, who will do whatever he’s told by the U.S. You want to make sure that if a country tries to be independent, like Chile did, you come in and kill the president. If you have countries that want land reform, you start Operation Condor and kill 10,000 professors, land reformers and union leaders. Essentially, it’s a terrorist policy.

Finally, you use ISIS and al-Nusra as an American Foreign Legion and send them into whatever country you want to smash and grab.

Bonnie Faulkner: You write: “We have America Pentagon capitalism with financial bubbles deteriorating into a polarized rentier economy and a resurgence of old-fashioned imperialism. If and when a break comes, it will not be marginal, but a seismic geopolitical shift.” What are your thoughts on the coming breakup of the post-World War II dollarized global financial system? What will it look like?

Michael Hudson: Other countries will try to get rich in the same way that the United States tried to get rich: by promoting prosperity, a domestic market, by subsidizing research and development just like the United States has subsidized high technology. And, they will try to prevent rent seeking – to prevent special privileges, whether they’re patent privileges or ownership of cable TV systems. The aim is to prevent super-profits or economic rent – unearned income.

You want people to be able to earn in a way that reflects their actual contribution to production, and you want to uplift the status of labor. You want to educate your labor force, to make it a modern technological labor force.

All this takes government subsidy, and hence a mixed economy of public and private sectors in which governments pay for most of the infrastructure costs in order to help the private sector compete better.

So other countries may do what the United States did since its Civil War. They will be protectionist, they will try to upgrade the quality of their labor, and also will upgrade the quality of their agriculture. They will promote high-technology industry, public health care and basic needs at a low public expense. This would achieve what social democracy set out to achieve a century ago in the Progressive Era. That is the path that the United States and Europe have now rejected.

Bonnie Faulkner: In your article you wrote that the result is “to split the world into pro-U.S. economies going neoliberal, and economies maintaining public investment in infrastructure and what used to be viewed as progressive capitalism.”

Michael Hudson: I think when the Soviet Union fell apart and Russia and other countries invited in U.S. advisors, they were under the impression that these neoliberals were going to help them develop in the same way that the United States had developed and become as prosperous and productive an industrial economy as the United States.

What Russians didn’t realize was that the United States had no intention of helping them get rich the way the United States did. U.S. advisors came in to smash and grab. They de-industrialized Russia, as well as the Baltics, and pulled up the connecting links from the old Soviet Union. The effect was to turn Russia back into a raw materials supplier.

The result was not only poverty but mass emigration. Latvia, for instance, is applauded as a “Baltic miracle,” as if it is a success story. The miracle is that wages have been going down steadily for the last decade, driving 10 to 20% of the population to leave – mainly working-age population. The same thing occurred in Russia. Much of its technically trained engineers and others left for the United States and helped U.S. industrialization. Neoliberalizing Russia didn’t help it become more prosperous. But it made American investors very rich for a while.

Bonnie Faulkner: What about the post-2010 IMF loan packages to Greece? Are they an instance of the IMF breaking its rules?

Michael Hudson: That was when the debate within the IMF occurred over the “No More Argentinas” rule. The IMF wasn’t supposed to lend to a country that had no visible ability to repay. That is what my book Killing the Host (http://store.counterpunch.org/product/killing-the-host-digital-book/) is about. I have three chapters on Greece as an example of how, in the past, the IMF would only smash up Third World countries, mainly on behalf of U.S. mineral companies and other exporters. Greece was the first European country that the IMF came in explicitly to smash up in order to privatize it. I have a chapter on Latvia also, so this gets into the topic that Killing the Host is about.

Bonnie Faulkner: You write that Dominique Strauss-Kahn backed the hard-line U.S./European central bank position regarding Greece. So did Christine Lagarde in 2015, overriding staff protests.

Michael Hudson: The IMF staff had opposed lending to Greece, because it couldn’t pay. But then Strauss-Kahn met with French President Sarkozy and said that he wanted to run for the French presidency. Sarkozy told him that he couldn’t possibly be a successful politician in France if, as head of the IMF, he let Greece default on its bonds. French banks would have suffered if the IMF didn’t bail them out.

Then, President Obama went to the Group of Twenty meeting, after Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, had been on the phone with Europe, and said that if Greece didn’t pay the French and German bondholders, the American banks had made huge bets and would go under – and so would big European banks who were counterparties. So even though Strauss-Kahn knew that Greece couldn’t pay, the whole system would go down’ – meaning the American banks would lose. Obama and Geithner said that the IMF couldn’t let American gamblers lose on the bets they had made on this financial horse race. It was deemed preferable to break up Greece, even if this meant breaking up Europe. That was the tradeoff: the banks vs. the Greek economy.

That’s the enormous asymmetry of the egotistic U.S. stance. It’s naked greed. They’re willing to smash the IMF, Greece and European integration just so Goldman Sachs and the Wall Street banks that had made bets that Greece would pay wouldn’t take a loss.

That led the head of the European section of the IMF to resign. She went to Canada, I think, and the Canadians published her whistle-blowing there. It destroyed the IMF’s credibility even before the Ukrainian crisis.

Bonnie Faulkner: You’ve written that the reason for smashing Greece’s economy was to deter Podemos in Spain and similar movements in Italy and Portugal from pursuing national prosperity instead of eurozone austerity. Do you think that was an important component?

Michael Hudson: That’s certainly what the European Central Bank said was critical. They said, ‘We cannot let Syriza win,’ and the finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, said that he was told while meeting with the IMF and the Europeans that democracy doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what the people voted for. Greece was told to pay the debts that its previous corrupt governments had agreed to.

The Financial Times and almost all the international press noted that if Greece’s debt was written down to save it from being wrecked, the IMF and the rest of the EU Troika would have to write down the debts of Italy, Spain and Portugal. The whole debt collection system would go. So either the troika would save the banks or save the economy. They said, ‘Save the banks, not the economy.’

That’s also what President Obama did in the United States when he bailed out the banks in 2008. He did not write down the debts or break up the banks. That’s why Bernie Sanders is running today.

So essentially the U.S. orbit says, ‘Save the banks, not the economy.’ The problem is that the volume of interest-bearing debt grows exponentially. Any rate of interest is a doubling time. So the debt is going to grow and grow exponentially. That obliges debtor countries to impose deeper and deeper austerity. And every economy that you impose this austerity on is going to react like Russia or Latvia or Greece. There’s going to be emigration, a decline in the birth rate, a rise in the death rate and a spread of disease. There’s going to be a shrinking market as the debtor economy is torn apart.

The struggle of our time is over whether to save the banks or the economy. In the end, the banks can’t be saved because most debts are unpayable. The United States position is, in effect, ‘They may be unpayable out of current earnings and current exports, but there’s still room to pay if you sell off the public domain to the creditors.’

So what you’re having now is a vast global foreclosure process. Creditors and bondholders are, in effect, taking payment in the form of domestic roads, transport system, communications, water and sewer systems, and similar infrastructure. I call this neo-feudalism. It’s rolling back industrial capitalism. It’s rolling back the growth in markets, imposing economic shrinkage and neo-feudalism. That’s what a rentier economy is. It’s a rent extraction economy, not an economy earning profits by producing more and hiring labor to produce and expand the economy. It’s the reverse of the dynamic of industrial capitalism as everyone thought of it a century ago.

Bonnie Faulkner: Michael Hudson, thank you very much.

Michael Hudson: Well, it’s always great to be on your show and I’m glad you’re back, Bonnie.


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So, yeah... anyone [B]off their private grid is being very frowned upon... whether it be at individual, local, regional, national or global scale.

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Audio interview here: https://kpfa.org/episode/guns-and-butter-february-3-2016/

[mountain_jim]

I learned a lot from this article and posted a link to it in the Financial sub-forum.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89085-The-New-Global-Financial-Cold-War-Michael-Hudson&p=1049222&viewfull=1#post1049222

[TrumanCash]

You can listen to Michael Hudson (http://michael-hudson.com/2016/02/the-commanding-heights/)'s Guns & Butter interview here (http://michael-hudson.com/2016/02/the-commanding-heights/).

[amor]

No implementation of strategy which beats up your neighbor and sucks his substance from him can long survive. The host will die and kill the parasite.

[Atlas]

In the words of John Robison in his Proofs of a Conspiracy (1797)

"The earlier revolutionary leaders were, as we have seen, the disciples of the German Illuminati, and it was they who initiated them into the art of forming political committees " to carry through the great plan of a general overturning of religion and government . . . .These committees arose from the Illuminati in Bavaria . . . and these committees produced the Jacobin Club."

"The chief lesson," Robison goes on to observe, "that the revolutionary leaders took from Germany, was the method of doing business, of managing their own correspondence, and of procuring and training pupils." pp. 190-191

The Illuminati operating in the guise of the Jacobins forced the regime change historians call the French Revolution. During the Russian Revolution they masqueraded as the Bolsheviks. Today they brag they are behind the Middle East revolutions. So maybe we should believe them.
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(just like the Russian Revolution of 1917 (http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-bolshevik-rev.html))


Taken from: France Didn't Have a Revolution (http://www.henrymakow.com/french_revolution_wasnt_a_revo.html)
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Download PDF: http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/PROOFS_OF_A_CONSPIRACY_John_Robison.pdf
or read online: http://www.sacred-texts.com/sro/pc/index.htm

[Foxie Loxie]

Just caught the Skull & Crossbones post you put up awhile back, Ewan. Most interesting, to say the least! Thanks! :handshake:

[Hervé]

Illuminati Control More Pervasive than We Think (http://henrymakow.com/001487.html)

(How the Elite Plays God from April 2006)

By Henry Makow, Ph.D. August 26, 2016



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(Truman discovered his perception of reality had been constructed for him, and was false.)


If John Coleman is right, we can't trust anything emanating from the mass media or government.

"The moral, spiritual, racial, economic, cultural and intellectual bankruptcy we are in the midst of today is not some social phenomenon...that just happened. Rather it is the product of a carefully planned Tavistock program," Coleman writes.

Like a cat toying with a mouse, the elite teases us with glimpses of our true predicament. One such peek was the 1998 movie The Truman Show directed by Peter Weir.

Truman Burbank, played by Jim Carrey, is unaware his life is a reality TV show. Everyone, including his wife, is an actor, and everything that happens is staged. In other words, his life is a fraud.

Truman Burbank's predicament describes our own. According to John Coleman (http://www.greatdreams.com/coleman.html), the elite has been writing the script for almost hundred years at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations based in London. (Coleman's books) (http://coleman300.net/)

Coleman, now 81, a former British Intelligence officer (MI-6) , first exposed the clique that dominates the world is his classic Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300 (1992)


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As its title suggests, his latest book is a rambling cry of despair: The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America. (https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjH0rqL8N3OAhWKGR4KHWyfD-8QFggbMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pdfarchive.info%2Fpdf%2FC%2FCo%2FColeman_John_-_The_Tavistock_Institute_of_Human_Relations.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGSWYENKepjWQMfi4bv7QHQAeN2NQ&sig2=JIdWkcR5UZoUTyYkX0ztCg&bvm=bv.130731782,d.dmo) (Pdf)



The book is confirmation that a financial elite engineered every war and depression in modern history and continues to condition our beliefs and behavior.

According to Coleman, Tavistock began life before WWI to convince peace-loving populations of the need to massacre each other.

"Those fresh-faced young American boys from Arkansas and North Carolina were sent marching off to Europe believing they were "fighting for their country" never knowing that the "democracy" [Woodrow] Wilson sent them to "make the world safe for" was a Socialist-International One World Government dictatorship." (42)

Funded by the royal family, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, Tavistock pioneered the techniques of propaganda used to justify war. Outright lies about German atrocities in WWI resonate down through the decades to lies about Saddam Hussein's gassing Kurds and killing babies in Kuwait. Of course the biggest lie of al is that Muslims had anything to do with Sept. 11.

Coleman found that 94% of the key words and phases developed by Tavistock for WWII use "matched up with those used in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War." (153)

Coleman's main point is we can't trust anything the mass media or government tells us, especially not the "News." He cites Stalin's propaganda chief Willy Munzenberg:


"All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news."


Coleman says society is rotten with institutions and organizations directed by Tavistock to deceive and distort. They are called "elite" institutions because of whom they serve.

The conspiracy reaches right down to the local level. According to Coleman, Tavistock has an "invisible army" of actors found "today in the halls of justice, police, churches, school boards, sports bodies, newspapers, TV...town councils, state legislatures, and are legion in Washington. They run for every office..."

Virtually every important corporation, university, think tank or foundation is linked to Tavistock. (See Conspirators' Hierarchy pp. 221-253 for a list.) It chooses the entertainers we watch, the pundits we listen to; the politicians we elect. Every US President since Theodore Roosevelt has been under its control. They made examples of rebels like JFK and Richard Nixon.

Tavistock is behind every "spontaneous" social movement of the last century, including feminism, sexual "liberation", the peace movement, the "New Age" movement, environmentalism, homosexuality, and abortion. Lately, they are behind sex education and the transgender movement.


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"The moral, spiritual, racial, economic, cultural and intellectual bankruptcy we are in the midst of today is not some social phenomenon...that just happened. Rather it is the product of a carefully planned Tavistock program," Coleman writes.



We are constantly studied to see how we will react under stress. Orson Welles' Martian invasion in 1938 was designed to demonstrate the power of the "news" to deceive. Coleman doesn't mention it but the power blackout in the Northeast in 2003 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003)was probably another study of mass behaviour. So was New Orleans. Confident of our sedated sheep-like behaviour, Coleman says Tavistock went ahead and massacred David Koresh and his followers at Waco after lying about his activities. (240).

Tavistock follows Sun Tsu's maxim of "Kill a few; terrorize many." Coleman calls Winston Churchill's decision to bomb German civilians "a war crime." Dresden was "an outright attack on Christianity, timed to take place during Lent," he says. (188)

According to Coleman, Tavistock is waging war on the Muslim world because Islam represents an obstacle to its control. (151) He claims Russia and China still have a measure of independence.

CONCLUSIONS
We are in this jam because a small group of dynastic families have amassed unlimited wealth by usurping the government's money-creation role.

To maintain this unjust advantage, they need to create a "world government" dictatorship. As in any colonial situation, our national elites are chosen by their willingness to collaborate with the occupying power. Most people will do whatever it takes to be "successful". Many think they are free citizens creating a better world. Like the two Jewish professors who criticized the Israel Lobby recently, they discover the reality when they stray from the script.



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The public is constantly under psychological attack. Turn on the news and we see 9-11 cover-up accomplice Rudolph Giuliani shedding crocodile tears with victims' families at patsy Zacharias Moussaoui's show trial. Al-Quaeda hijacker Mohammed Atta "mistakenly keyed the air traffic control microphone instead of the cabin intercom" and is heard talking to the frightened passengers! Sure.


Meanwhile, the bird flu is coming to get us. Someone is burning black churches. Illegal aliens are flooding the country (despite the "heightened security" mandated by the "war on terror.") Jesus asked Judas to betray him. It goes on and on.

People find the Illuminati to be an abstract and elusive enemy. Look no further than your television, your iPod, your radio, movie or newspaper.

Coleman says 450 of the Fortune 500 companies get their marching orders from Tavistock. This may explain why TV commercials seem more concerned with behavior modification than with selling a product.

I saw this gem recently. A little boy besieges a little girl with gifts. Each time she rejects him. Finally she accepts a vase full of flowers but slams the door in his face. She dumps the flowers in the garbage and uses the vase to gulp McCain's Kool-Aid.

What a message to send to children! They are messing people up so we are too divided and dysfunctional to resist them.

Like Truman Burbank, more and more people are recognizing the plot. They are testing the elite's story line and finding it mendacious and perverse. They are walking off the stage to find an authentic life.

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Related
John Coleman - 21 Goals of the Illuminati (http://illuminatiwatcher.com/21-goals-of-the-illuminati-by-dr-john-coleman/)
You Tube Speech by John Coleman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqx1YgIBMw)

[KiwiElf]

Both versions of the movie Total Recall (1990 & 2012) are interesting variations of this too, particularly the more recent one - really makes you think!: :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_%282012_film%29

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[Hervé]

Some excerpts from that book, above:


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Two days after the "Martian Invasion news broadcast," an editorial in the New York Times headed "Terror by Radio" inadvertently shed light on what Tavistock had in mind for the American people in the coming war now looming closer:

"What began as entertainment might readily have ended in disaster," the editorial said. Radio officials had a responsibility and "should think twice before mingling news techniques with fiction so terrifying."

What the "Times" had inadvertently stumbled onto was the wave of the future seen through the eyes of the theoreticians at Tavistock. Henceforth, "mingling news techniques with fiction so terrifying" that it would be taken as fact, was to be standard practice for the graduates of Tavistock. All news broadcast were to be adaptations of "news and fiction" in a skillful blend so as to make the one unrecognizable from the other.

In fact, Tavistock put their newly tested theory into practice a year later when the population of cities in Europe, London, Munich, Paris and Amsterdam were smitten with war jitters even as Neville Chamberlain was successfully avoiding war, using the same techniques that were employed in the October 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio broadcasts.

[…]

Profiles on how individuals and groups reacted to international tensions were formulated on the basis of skillfully blending fact with terrifying fiction in preparation for a campaign to launch "World citizens," (of a One World Government Socialist-Communist dictatorship) that began to be employed to weaken national boundaries, language and culture and to discredit pride of nation and sovereignty of nation-states, in preparation for the coming of the Socialist New World Order—One World Government, that President Woodrow Wilson said America would make safe for "democracy."Horrendously simple... isn't it!!?

Couple that with this other part:


By the year 2000 there was hardly any aspect of life in America into which Tavistock's tentacles had not reached and that included every level of government from local to federal, industry, trade, education and the political institutions of the nation. Every mental and psychological aspect of the nation was analyzed, recorded, profiled and stored in computer memory banks.

What has come out of this is what Tavistock calls "a three-system response" and it is how population groups react to stress resulting from "contrived situations" that become crisis management exercises. What we have in the U.S. and Britain is a government, that creates a situation viewed by its citizens as a crisis, and government then manages that "crisis."

[…]

On the other hand, the American people may well be going through the one of the three phases of what Dr. Fred Emery, at one time the senior psychiatrist at Tavistock, once described as "social environmental turbulence." According to Emery: "Large populations groups manifest the following symptoms when subjected to conditions of violent social changes, stress and turbulence which can be divided into well-defined categories:

Superficiality is the condition that manifests itself when the threatened population group reacts by adopting shallow sloganeering, which they attempt to pass off as ideals." Very little "ego investment" takes place making the first phase a "maladaptive response" because, as Emery stated, "the cause of the crisis is not isolated and identified" and the crisis and tension is not abated, but continues for as long as the controller wants it to last.

The second phase of the crisis reaction (since the crisis is continuing), is "fragmentation", a condition in which panic strikes, "social cohesion" falls apart with the result that very small groups form and attempt to protect themselves from the crisis with little or no regard for the expense or cost to other fragmented, small groups. This phase Emery calls "passive maladaption," while still failing to identify the cause of the crisis.

The third phase is when the victims turn away from the source of the induced crisis and the resulting tension. They take "fantasy trips of internal migration, introspection and obsession with self." This is what Tavistock calls "disassociation and self realization." Emery goes on to
explain that "the passive maladaption responses are now coupled with "active maladaptive responses."

Emery states that over the past 50 years that experiments in applied social psychology and resultant "crisis management" have taken over all aspects of life in America and the results are stored in the computers in the major "think tanks" such as Stanford University. The scenarios are taken out, used and revised from time to time and, according to Tavistock, "the scenarios are in operation at the present time."

Translated this means that Tavistock has the majority of the American people profiled and brainwashed. If any part of the American public is ever able to identify the cause of the crises that have washed over this nation in the past seventy years, the social engineering structure built by Tavistock will come crashing down. But that has not yet happened. Tavistock continues to drown the American public in its sea of created public opinion.
[…]

During this early 1950s period, Bernays was public relations counsel to the United Fruit (United Brands) Corporation, one of the leading corporations in the communication/national security apparat (Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex") then busy with consolidating its power over U.S. policy.

Bernays conducted the propaganda campaign alleging Guatemala was falling under "Communist control" that resulted in a U.S. engineered coup in that country. In 1955 Bernays wrote a book about his experience titled "The Engineering of Consent."

The book became the virtual Tavistock blueprint followed by the U.S. Government to overthrow any country whose policies were unacceptable to the One World Government Socialist dictatorship.

[…]... corroborating Sue Arrigo's and John Perkins' data about United Fruit, Guatemala and Rockefeller and his CIA... to get rid of competition and squash the hope of the "little people."

... and we have a template description of what's happening at all scales, from the Avalon forum to the planet and, probably, the galaxy.

PS: Gives another dimension to Rahm's "not letting a good crisis go to waste"... right?

[Hervé]

More wind for Sue Arrigo's and John Coleman's sails:

Who is Obama’s boss? And why it matters. (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/who-is-obamas-boss-and-why-it-matters/)

By Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Sep6 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/who-is-obamas-boss-and-why-it-matters/) , 2016
Who is Obama’s boss? And why it matters.

Here is another question that has the same answer: who is in charge of destroying economies?

Who keeps pushing new economy-destroying trade treaties, like the upcoming TPP? Who is in the business of killing jobs and hope?

Who demands that these treaties must be ratified?

Who is breathing down Obama’s neck, as he stages a last-ditch effort to ratify the TPP and further bury US sovereignty under the weight of global corporations?

Who demands that more US jobs disappear overseas and never come back?

One group has been virtually forgotten. Its influence is enormous. It has existed since 1973.

It’s called the Trilateral Commission (TC).

Keep in mind that the original stated goal of the TC was to create “a new international economic order.”

In the run-up to his inauguration after the 2008 presidential election, Obama was tutored by the co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Four years before birthing the TC with his boss of bosses, David Rockefeller, Brzezinski wrote: “[The] nation state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force. International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation state.”

Goodbye, separate nations.

Any doubt on the question of TC goals is answered by David Rockefeller himself, the founder of the TC, in his Memoirs (2003):
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” Patrick Wood, author of Trilaterals Over Washington, points out there are only 87 members of the Trilateral Commission who live in America. Obama appointed eleven of them to posts in his administration.

For example:

Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary;
James Jones, National Security Advisor;
Paul Volker, Chairman, Economic Recovery Committee;
Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence.

Here is the payoff. The US Trade Representative (appointed by Obama in 2013), who is responsible for negotiating the TPP with 11 other nations, is Michael Froman, a former member of the Trilateral Commission. Don’t let the word “former” fool you. TC members resign when they take positions in the Executive Branch of government. And when they serve in vital positions, such as US Trade Representative, they aren’t there by accident. They’re TC operatives with a specific agenda.

I’m now going to print a stunning piece of forgotten history, a 1978 conversation between a US reporter and two members of the Trilateral Commission. (Source: Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management; ed. by Holly Sklar, 1980, South End Press, Pages 192-3).

The conversation was public knowledge at the time.

Anyone who was anyone in Washington politics, in media, in think-tanks, had access to it. Understood its meaning.

But no one shouted from the rooftops. No one used the conversation to force a scandal. No one protested loudly.

The conversation revealed that the entire basis of the US Constitution had been torpedoed, that the people who were running US national policy (which includes trade treaties) were agents of an elite shadow group. No question about it.

And yet: official silence. Media silence. The Dept. of Justice made no moves, Congress undertook no serious inquiries, and the President, Jimmy Carter, issued no statements. Carter was himself an agent of the Trilateral Commission in the White House. He had been plucked from obscurity by David Rockefeller, and through elite TC press connections, vaulted into the spotlight as a pre-eminent choice for the Presidency.

The 1978 conversation featured reporter, Jeremiah Novak, and two Trilateral Commission members, Karl Kaiser and Richard Cooper. The interview took up the issue of who exactly, during President Carter’s administration, was formulating US economic and political policy.

The careless and off-hand attitude of Trilateralists Kaiser and Cooper is astonishing. It’s as if they’re saying, “What we’re revealing is already out in the open, it’s too late to do anything about it, why are you so worked up, we’ve already won…”

NOVAK (the reporter): Is it true that a private [Trilateral committee] led by Henry Owen of the US and made up of [Trilateral] representatives of the US, UK, West Germany, Japan, France and the EEC is coordinating the economic and political policies of the Trilateral countries [which would include the US]?
COOPER: Yes, they have met three times.

NOVAK: Yet, in your recent paper you state that this committee should remain informal because to formalize ‘this function might well prove offensive to some of the Trilateral and other countries which do not take part.’ Who are you afraid of?
KAISER: Many countries in Europe would resent the dominant role that West Germany plays at these [Trilateral] meetings.
COOPER: Many people still live in a world of separate nations, and they would resent such coordination [of policy].

NOVAK: But this [Trilateral] committee is essential to your whole policy. How can you keep it a secret or fail to try to get popular support [for its decisions on how Trilateral member nations will conduct their economic and political policies]?
COOPER: Well, I guess it’s the press’ job to publicize it.

NOVAK: Yes, but why doesn’t President Carter come out with it and tell the American people that [US] economic and political power is being coordinated by a [Trilateral] committee made up of Henry Owen and six others? After all, if [US] policy is being made on a multinational level, the people should know.
COOPER: President Carter and Secretary of State Vance have constantly alluded to this in their speeches. [a lie]
KAISER: It just hasn’t become an issue.

This interview slipped under the mainstream media radar, which is to say, it was buried.

US economic and political policy run by a committee of the Trilateral Commission—the Commission had been created in 1973 by David Rockefeller and his sidekick, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

When Carter won the presidential election, his aide, Hamilton Jordan, said that if after the inauguration, Cy Vance and Brzezinski came on board as secretary of state and national security adviser, “We’ve lost. And I’ll quit.” Lost—because both men were powerful members of the Trilateral Commission and their appointment to key positions would signal a surrender of White House control to the Commission.

Vance and Brzezinski were appointed secretary of state and national security adviser, as Jordan feared. But he didn’t quit. He became Carter’s chief of staff.

Now consider the vast propaganda efforts of the past 40 years, on so many levels, to install the idea that all nations and peoples of the world are a single Collective.

From a very high level of political and economic power, this propaganda op has had the objective of grooming the population for a planet that is one coagulated mass, run and managed by one force. A central engine of that force is the Trilateral Commission.

How does a shadowy group like the TC accomplish its goal? One basic strategy is: destabilize nations; ruin their economies; ratify trade treaties that effectively send millions and millions of manufacturing jobs off to places where virtual slave labor does the work; adding insult to injury, export the cheap products of those slave-factories back to the nations who lost the jobs and undercut their domestic manufacturers, forcing them to close their doors and fire still more employees.

And then solve that economic chaos by bringing order.

What kind of order?

Eventually, one planet, with national borders erased, under one management system, with a planned global economy, “to restore stability,” “for the good of all, for lasting harmony.”

The top Trilateral players, in 2008, had their man in the White House, another formerly obscure individual like Jimmy Carter: Barack Obama. They had new trade treaties on the planning table. Obama was tasked with doing whatever was necessary to bring those treaties, like the TPP, home. To get them passed. To get them ratified. No excuses.

That’s why, over a year ago, when anti-TPP criticism and rhetoric were reaching a crescendo, when Obama was seeking Congressional fast-track authority for the treaty, he was in a sweat and a panic. He and his cabinet were on the phones night and day, scrambling and scraping for votes in Congress. This was the Big One. This was why he was the President. To make this happen.

His Trilateral bosses were watching.

These men run US policy, when and where it counts. They don’t like failure.

This is also why, after Obama was inaugurated for his first term, he shocked and astonished his own advisors, who expected him, as the first order of business, to address the unemployment issue in America. He shocked them by ignoring the number-one concern of Americans, and instead decided to opt for his disastrous national health insurance policy—Obamacare.

Obama never had any intention of trying to dig America out of the crash of 2008. That wasn’t why he was put in the Oval Office. He could, and would, pretend to bring back the economy, with fudged numbers and distorted standards. But really and truly, create good-paying jobs for many, many Americans? Not on the TC agenda. Not in the cards.

It was counter-productive to the TC plan: torpedo the economy further.

Obama is on the move. He’s traveling to far-flung places, trying to shore up global consensus on the TPP treaty. His people are working around the clock to round up the necessary votes for TPP ratification in Congress. Obama plans to sneak through the treaty during Congress’ lame-duck session after the November election, before newly elected Congressional members take office.

Pushing through Globalist trade treaties: this is why he was put in the White House.
This is his appointed task.

This is his real job.

His bosses are watching.

“I pledge allegiance to the Trilateral Commission, and to the domination for which it stands, one planet, indivisible, with tyranny and poverty and top-down order for all…”

Jon Rappoport

[Hervé]

In the beginning...

Rothschilds Murdered at least Seven US Presidents (https://www.henrymakow.com/002009.html)

(from June 16, 2008)
by Henry Makow Ph.D.March 9, 2017


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Trump should be on guard. The Rothschilds have a habit of murdering Presidents who don't follow their orders.
"The bane of our civil institutions is to be found in Masonry, already powerful and daily becoming more so. I owe to my country an exposure of its dangers." - Captain William Morgan, murdered Sept 11, 1826
A curious but very credible Internet document called "The Mardi Gras Secrets" states that Illuminati agents poisoned and killed Presidents William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). They also poisoned James Buchanan in 1857 but he survived. All three were obstructing Illuminati- House of Rothschild plans for the US Civil War (1860-1865).

The document also describes the Illuminati role in the murders of Abraham Lincoln and Senator Huey Long. We know they also killed Presidents Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy and probably Warren Harding and possibly FDR.

The Mardi Gras Secrets website was created in Dec. 2005 by Mimi L. Eustis, the daughter of Samuel Todd Churchill, a high level member of the secret New Orleans Mardi Gras Society called "The Mystick Crewe of Comus."

This Society, which reorganized the Mardi Gras festivities in 1857, was a chapter of the Skull and Bones. It began as a front for the activities of Masons Albert Pike, Judah Benjamin and John Slidell who became leaders of the Confederacy.

This information is based on Samuel Churchill's deathbed confessions, when he was dying of lung cancer. Mrs. Eustis later decided to make them public after she also contracted the terminal disease.

The Illuminati ringleader was Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), the partner of William Russell, the opium smuggler who founded the Yale Skull and Bones Society in 1832. In order to rise in this society, one had to participate in a "killing of the king" rite of passage.

According to Eustis, the Skull and Bones (or Brotherhood of Death) is "nothing more than a political assassination hit team against those United States politicians who do not fall in line with the House of Rothschild's plans for a blood elitist domination and control over the world's economy...For example Caleb Cushing was involved in the arsenic poisoning deaths of United States presidents William Henry Harrison on April 4, 1841 and Zachary Taylor on July 9, 1850. These two Presidents had opposed admitting Texas and California as slave states."

William Henry Harrison was the first President ever to die in office, serving only 31 days. According to Wikipedia he died of "pneumonia."

On July 3, 1850, Zachary Taylor threatened to hang those ``taken in rebellion against the Union.'' The next day the President fell ill, vomited blackish material, and died July 9. (Kentucky authorities recently dug up Taylor's body looking for evidence of arsenic poisoning.)

THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I paraphrase Mrs. Eustis: During the Civil War (from 1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money to finance the War . The loan shark-bankers wanted 24% to 36% interest. Instead, Lincoln got Congress to authorize the printing of 450 million dollars worth of "Greenbacks" debt and interest-free money. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private.

The House of Rothschild recognized that sovereign governments printing interest-free and debt-free paper money would break their power.

Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a member of Pike's Knights of the Golden Circle. He was in New Orleans during the winter of 1863-64 and conspired with Pike, Benjamin, Slidell and Admiral G.W. Baird to assassinate Lincoln. Baird later identified the body of Captain James William Boyd as Booth's. (Boyd was in fact a Confederate spy who resembled Booth and was used as a patsy. His body was dumped into an Arsenal Prison sinkhole used to dump dead horses.)

Eustis says her father emphasized that most Masons below the 3rd degree were good hardworking people. The Illuminati-Skull and Bones used the Masons as a disguise. Those who rose past the 33 degree level did so by participating in the "Killing of the King" ritual. The lower levels did as they were told without realizing their part in the "Killing of the King".

For assassinating Abraham Lincoln, Pike, Benjamin, Slidell and August Belmont (Rothschild's Northern agent) were made secret Kings of the Mystick Krewe of Comus. Andrew Johnson Vice -President became President and pardoned Albert Pike. Albert Pike awarded Andrew Johnson the thirty-third degree rite of passage.
" Doctors were an essential part of the Illuminati plan to kill U.S. political leaders [who] hindered the take over of the U.S. Republic by the international banking elite," Eustis writes.

" Illuminati doctors eventually did in both U.S. President William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor. They also played a death role in the shooting assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 (died April 15, 1865), James Garfield on July 2, 1881 (died September 19, 1881), and William McKinley Jr. on September 6, 1901 (died September 14, 1901)."

"Teddy Roosevelt became President after William McKinley was shot. Roosevelt received passage into the 33rd. degree and became a secret king of the Mystick Krewe of Comus. During his presidency, the Skull and Bones became firmly entrenched and controlled the U.S. Republic."
HUEY LONG
Huey Long ("Kingfish") was a populist who mounted a powerful challenge to FDR from his power base as Governor of Louisiana and later as US Senator. Unlike FDR, he was not a Mason and not a shill for the bankers. His "Share Our Wealth" program represented a genuine threat to the Illuminati.

An Illuminati member, Dr. Carl Austin Weiss shot Long Sept 8, 1935 and Dr. Arthur Vidrine ensured that Long did not recover. According to Eustis, Weiss was supposed to hit Long in the face, and Long's bodyguard Murphy Roden was supposed to shoot both Weiss and Long.This may indeed be what happened.

Roden was a "spy for J. Edgar Hoover." Roden pumped 60 bullets into Weiss' body. Dr. Weiss was told his baby would be killed if he reneged on the mission.

Both FDR and J. Edgar Hoover won their 33 degree rite of passage for their participation in this murder.
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt was made King of Comus in 1937. When J. Edgar Hoover came down to New Orleans to act out his reign as King of Comus, he was involved in a sexual revelry of homosexuality and cross-dressing with various elitist bloodline members of the Mystick Krewe of Comus."
LINDBERGH AND HARDING
"Agents of Skull and Bones with blessing and involvement of J. Edgar Hoover FBI Director and 33rd level executioner-cover up specialist for the elitist bloodline of the House of Rothschild murdered Freemason Charles Lindbergh's son. This killing of Freemason Charles Lindberg's son was to set an example that the isolationist stand was not the will of the Illuminati."
Mrs. Eustis doesn't touch upon the poisoning death of President Warren Harding (1865-1923) but this is how Wikipedia describes it:
"At the end of July, while traveling south from Alaska through British Columbia, [Harding] developed what was thought to be a severe case of food poisoning. At the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, he developed pneumonia. Harding died of either a heart attack or a stroke at 7:35 p.m. on August 2, 1923, at the age of 57. The formal announcement, printed in the New York Times of that day, stated that 'a stroke of apoplexy' was the cause of death.' He had been ill exactly one week."
For FDR, see Emanuel Josephson, "The Strange Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt." (1948)


CONCLUSION
The "Mardi Gras Secrets" suggest that, given the depth of corruption, the US political system cannot be taken seriously as a democracy. There is a pattern of Illuminati-Rothschild control throughout US history. People who deny this are living in a fantasy.

The United States was created to advance the Illuminati New World Order (https://www.henrymakow.com/the_united_states_is_a_masonic.html)based on Rothschild control of credit. American ideals were designed to dupe the masses, not to be realized.

The founders and heroes of the US were mostly Masons including Paul Revere, John Paul Jones and Benjamin Franklin. Francis Scott Key who wrote the national anthem was a Mason. John Hancock and most of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were also Masons.

More-than-half the Presidents were Masons. These include Washington, Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, TR, Taft, Harding, FDR, Truman, LBJ, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, Bush I and II, Obama and probably Trump.

Some of these really thought Masonry was about "making good men better" and had to be assassinated. Other Presidents who weren't Masons, like Eisenhower, Nixon and Carter, were still controlled by the same dark forces.

Throughout its history the United States has been in the clutches of a satanic cult empowered by the Rothschild central banking cartel. Many courageous Presidents and other politicians tried to free their countrymen and died unrecognized, their killers unpunished and triumphant.

The US is a nation decapitated, a headless giant led by demons.

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Thanks to Andrew for the tip!

Related
Vatican Role In Lincoln Assassination? (http://www.reformation.org/lincoln.html)
A survey of Masonic Influence in US History. (http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/uspresidentasmasons_1b.htm)
JFK On Secret Societies (Google video) (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3908846596928425757&q=jfk+secret+societies)

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The Illuminati ringleader was Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), the partner of William Russell, the opium smuggler who founded the Yale Skull and Bones Society in 1832. When one digs into who was William Russel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Huntington_Russell), one ends up with the story of the "British East India Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company)" and the opium trade via his cousin, Samuel Russell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_%26_Company).

[Ewan]

CONCLUSION
The "Mardi Gras Secrets" suggest that, given the depth of corruption, the US political system cannot be taken seriously as a democracy. There is a pattern of Illuminati-Rothschild control throughout US history. People who deny this are living in a fantasy.

People who deny that are probably living in ignorance (rather than denial), if there is awareness then ascribe it to cognitive dissonance.

[Hervé]

CONCLUSION
The "Mardi Gras Secrets" suggest that, given the depth of corruption, the US political system cannot be taken seriously as a democracy. There is a pattern of Illuminati-Rothschild control throughout US history. People who deny this are living in a fantasy.

People who deny that are probably living in ignorance (rather than denial), if there is awareness then ascribe it to cognitive dissonance.
If there is ignorance, then, indeed, there is nothing to deny... and the statement doesn't apply and is a strawman argument.

For those who entertain a cognitive dissonance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Festinger#When_Prophecy_Fails), then, which universe do they pretend to live in? Reality?... or a world made up of unsupported beliefs? Accordingly, the statement is accurately correct :)

[Hervé]

David Rockefeller's dark legacy in Brazil (http://www.brasilwire.com/david-rockefeller-legacy-in-brasil/)

Brasil Wire (http://www.brasilwire.com/david-rockefeller-legacy-in-brasil/)
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 20:05 UTC


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David Rockefeller


On March 20, David Rockefeller died at the age of 101. As the obituaries for one of the world's richest men gush over his philanthropy, it needs to be pointed out that he was a major player in several Latin American coups, supported extremely corrupt military dictatorships, post-dictatorship neoliberal policies that greatly exacerbated income stratification and poverty and that his dark legacy will continue to influence the region long after his death.

The Rockefellers' arrival in Brazil
The Rockefeller Foundation first arrived in Brazil during World War I and was embedded within the so-called "public health movement" amongst Brazilian elites. At that time, Brazilian eugenics was synonymous with public health and emphasized "hygienization", expressed in the maxim "to sanitize is to eugenize". With Rockefeller assistance, the creation of the Eugenic Society of São Paulo in 1918 represented the institutionalization of eugenics in Brazil. Amongst elites, eugenics was associated with evolution, progress and civilization, even treated by some as a 'new religion'. In "War against the weak (http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/)" Edwin Black explains that the purpose of the Rockefeller Foundation was to finance programs aimed at "the extermination of those considered degenerate". In Brazil this meant the poor, the ignorant, those of mixed race and African descent.

In her thesis on David's older brother Nelson Rockefeller (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-5970201300), historian Elisabeth Cobbs argues that U.S. Foreign policy in Brazil was not only realised by official relations between governments and diplomats, but also by the private sector, including philanthropic organisations. Nelson had been a regular visitor to Brazil since the 1930s, and in 1941 was named by President Roosevelt as coordinator of the Office of Interamerican Affairs (CIAA), which ran intelligence and propaganda operations against the Axis Powers in Latin America.

Following the end of the War, Nelson headed the American International Association for Economic and Social Development in Brazil of AIA. The AIA was a "Capitalist Missionary" philanthropic NGO known in Brazil for its programmes for modernisation of agriculture to North American models and standards (including the introduction of pesticides, herbicides and hybrid seeds), sanitation, and literacy. AIA would eventually birth two more agencies, IBEC (International Basic Economy Company) and the IRI Research Institute. As coordinator of the CIAA, Nelson acquired invaluable information about Latin America's untapped natural resources, especially mineral reserves, information that he would go on to use following the war. IBEC became a key component in the post-World War Two opening of the Amazon rainforest to commercial exploitation, "a process that eventually led to military dictatorships, genocide of native peoples, loss of biological diversity and unprecedented misery for the majority of Brazilians (http://www.akha.org/content/missiondocuments/wycliffecia.html)".


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President Getúlio Vargas


The Cold War increased pressures on Brazil regarding Oil exploration concessions. President Getúlio Vargas was said to have tried to address this by forming a consortium, with the participation of Standard Oil, Shell and the Brazilian State. Shell is reported to have accepted the idea, but Standard Oil and Chase Bank opposed. Standard Oil would instead coerce using threats to Brazil's Coffee exports - the Rockefeller group controlled the American Coffee Corporation, which bought most of Brazil's coffee, processed it and distributed to the United States.

In the 1950s David Rockefeller & Chase became more active in Brazil, creating Interamerican Finance & Investments, only to sell their shares in 1956 as the political climate turned against Internationalisation. In 1961 he tried to set up a Chase affiliate bank in Brazil, buying 51% of Banco Lar for $3m dollars, but Chase were discouraged due to the political instability in the country. (In 1980 he was cleared by the Central Bank to buy the remaining shares, and this entity finally became Brazil's Chase).

During this period, along with his brother Nelson, David developed a very close friendship with partner and boss of Unibanco (later merged with Itau) Walther Moreira Salles, whose family made a second fortune from the ultra-rare mineral Niobium (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-13/brazil-s-richest-family-forging-13-billion-niobium-dream). Together, the Rockefellers and Moreira Salles would purchase a massive Farm, "Bodoquena", in the state of Mato Grosso.

In the early 1960s on the instruction of President Kennedy, David Rockefeller founded the Business Group for Latin America, which was intended to help counter the spread of leftist governments in the region following the Cuban revolution. Under his leadership, it subsequently transformed into the Council of the Americas and finally AS/COA, which currently publishes Americas Quarterly, a relatively discreet but influential nucleus of anglophone "Free Trade" policy discourse on Latin America.

The Business Group for Latin America included on its board senior executives such as C. Jay Parkinson, CEO of Anaconda Copper - which had a strong presence in Chile, and Harold Geneen, head of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT), also heavily involved in the country, and Donald M. Kendall, CEO of PepsiCo. All of these firms supported the intervention of Nixon and Kissinger against elected President Salvador Allende, in 1973.

In 1970, covert CIA schemes against Allende included a $500,000 contingency plan to influence the congressional vote against his candidacy. His opponent Alessandri was to be given around half a million dollars, to be raised (https://www.tni.org/en/archives/act/4113%22%20%5Cl) by ITT and other companies within the Business Group. According to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist According to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/12/the-price-of-power/376309/), Rockefeller's Business Group for Latin America, which was transformed in 1970 into the Council of the Americas, had a close relationship with the CIA and Enno Hobbing, who had participated in the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala. Hobbing, a CIA official who had initially been assigned as liaison to the Business Group, eventually left the CIA and became the principal operations officer for the Council of the Americas.

Countless academics have written about economic sabotage, often in cooperation with US business elites such as the Rockefeller family, as a component of US-backed coups in Latin America. From the ITT orchestrated Chilean copper boycott (https://books.google.com.br/books/about/Allende_s_Chile.html?id=KXMNKAp5PWIC&redir_esc=y) of 1972 to the Reagan administration's economic destabilization of Nicaragua (https://www3.nd.edu/%7Ekellogg/publications/workingpapers/WPS/027.pdf), to US efforts to sabotage the Venezuelan economy (http://www.coha.org/the-other-explanation-for-venezuelas-economic-crisis-2/), progressive populism is to this day frequently met with US aggression, including media propaganda.

David Rockefeller and the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
Jan K. Black's "United States Penetration of Brazil (https://books.google.com.br/books?id=O2a7AAAAIAAJ)" contains numerous passages related to the activities of Rockefeller Group, the Business Group of Latin America and its precursors in the 1962 Election, the Coup of 1964 and period that followed, in connivance with local conservative elites. She documents how, at a Military conference on Latin America at West Point in the fall of 1964, David Rockefeller said that it had been decided quite early that Goulart was not acceptable to the U.S. banking community, and that he would "have to go." As in 2016, in 1964 the foreign emphasis was not on marxist ideology, but on combating economic and resource nationalism.

"The assertion of national control over basic natural resources, as well as a more general assertion of control over the productive capacity of the economy, had been seen by the Goulart government as a prerequisIte to the redistribution of income. The advocacy of economic nationalism had also been seen as one of the most promising means of mobilizing mass support for the government. U.S. businesses, with the support of the U.S. Government, had generally been able to fend off the constraints of nationalistic but weak governments. If the mobilization of the masses had not appeared to be a threat or a possibility, It seems likely that the combined pressures of the multinational corporations and those elements of the Brazilian business community whose fortunes were linked to them would have been sufficient to intimidate the Brazilian government into backing down on its nationalistic designs. But regardless of the actual potential in 1964 for the mobilization of the masses, Goulart apparently believed that it was possible: and his enemies, foreign and domestic, apparently feared that he was right."

In 1975, former CIA agent Philip Agee confirmed many of the findings and suspicions of a Brazilian congressional commission into Foreign interference in Brazil's 1962 Election. The investigation revealed that of the (CIA) Rio Station's main political-action operations, the Brazilian Institute for Democratic Action (IBAD) and a related organisation called Democratic Action (ADEP):
"...spent during the 1962 electoral campaign at least the equivalent of some 12 million dollars financing anticommunist candidates, and possibly as much as 20 million....The parliamentary investigating commission was controlled somewhat-five of its nine members were themselves recipients of IBAD and ADEP funds-but only the refusal of the First National City Bank, the Bank of Boston, and the Royal Bank of Canada to reveal the foreign source of funds deposited for IBAD and ADEP kept the lid from blowing off. Beneficiaries of IBAD were prominent among the conspirators in the coup of 1 April and some, particularly military beneficiaries, were among who gained power as a consequence of it....Robinson Rojas listed Standard Oil of New Jersey, U.S. Steel, Texas Oil, Gulf Oil, Hanna Corporation, Bethlehem Steel, General Motors, and Willys Overland among the depositors in the accounts of IBAD-ADEP-Promotion". Economist & Environmentalist Jean Marc von der Weid maintained that "more than one hundred foreign enterprises and some national ones were involved in financing the institute, and that the Rockefeller Group-IBEC was one of the major benefactors." The CIA's "point man" in the 1964 Coup was Joseph Caldwell King, also known by his CIA code name of Oliver G. Galbond. He was former vice president of Business Group member Johnson & Johnson, in charge of Brazil & Argentina, and from there he moved to his close friend Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA). After officially leaving the CIA in 1967, King became CEO of 'Amazon Natural Drug Company', a CIA front which was collecting organic material from the rainforest for Rockefeller Foundation-funded research (https://books.google.com.br/books?id=lCxnAgAAQBAJ) by US Agencies.

Brazil's hegemonic media network, Rede Globo, was actually created with the assistance and funding of Rockefeller-associated Time-Life Publishing in the United States. It became a powerful instrument of societal control during the dictatorship following its launch in 1964.

Gerard Colby & Charlotte Dennett's 'Thy will be done: The Conquest of the Amazon (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2075.Thy_Will_Be_Done)' was an investigation into the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), also known as the Wycliffe Bible Translators (http://www.morc.info/MORC_ThyWill.html) - a Rockefeller & USAID funded Evangelical organisation which had been translating the Bible into hundreds of indigenous languages in Central and South America. Wycliffe was founded by ultraconservative William Cameron Townsend who worked in tandem with Rockefeller and which the authors accuse of destroying indigenous peoples' cultural values to abet penetration by U.S. businesses, employing a "virulent brand of Christian fundamentalism that used linguistics to undermine the social cohesion of indigenous communities and accelerate their assimilation into Western culture". It sent scores of missionaries and establishing churches to counter the "threat" of Left-Wing "Liberation Theology" to United States Security, identified by older brother Nelson in his 1969 'Rockefeller Report' for President Nixon. These missionaries also acted as scouts, covertly surveying the Amazon for resources. Financial support for Evangelical faith in Brazil evidently extends to the present, with the massive and politically influential Pentecostal "Universal Church of the Kingdom of God" whose head Bishop, Edir Macedo told his followers in 2011 that the Rockefellers had been generous contributors (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/13/brazil-church-embezzling-millions-poor).

David and Nelson Rockefeller along with Zbigniew Brzezinski were also involved in the drafting of Henry Kissinger's "National Security Study Memorandum 200 (http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/Pcaab500.pdf)" in 1974, which President Ford, to whom Nelson was serving as Vice, made official United States policy. The once secret NSSM-200, which was first seen by researchers in the 1990s, is a chilling document which advocates forced population control in 13 "Less Developed Countries", one of which was Brazil, countries chosen for the strategic importance of their natural resources. The study states that "the world is increasingly dependent on mineral supplies from developing countries, and if rapid population frustrates their prospects for economic development and social progress, the resulting instability may undermine the conditions for expanded output and sustained flows of such resources."

It goes on to conclude that "Whether through government action, labor conflicts, sabotage, or civil disturbance, the smooth flow of needed materials will be jeopardized. Although population pressure is obviously not the only factor involved, these types of frustrations are much less likely under conditions of slow or zero population growth", and "Young people, who are in much higher proportions in many LDCs, are likely to be more volatile, unstable, prone to extremes, alienation and violence than an older population. These young people can more readily be persuaded to attack the legal institutions of the government or real property of the 'establishment,' 'imperialists,' multinational corporations, or other-often foreign-influences blamed for their troubles".

Such mandatory population control programmes would be implemented by Non Governmental Organisations such as the Rockefeller's own Eugenicist Population Council (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_Council). In 1968, Frederick Osborn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Osborn), the organisation's first president, said "Eugenic goals are most likely to be achieved under another name than eugenics."

The implications of the NSSM-200 document for Brazilians cannot be understated. It can be interpreted that de-facto opposition to population growth, rises to living standards & life expectancy, availability of quality public education and healthcare, and independent development in Brazil, has been effectively codified into United States foreign policy since 1975.

Post-Dictatorship
Two decades after a Military Dictatorship took power with his support, in 1987 following transition to Civilian Rule, David Rockefeller remarked (https://books.google.com.br/books?id=yZIJAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT859&lpg=PT859&dq=rockefeller+sarney&source=bl&ots=Ajtlb1J9mN&sig=FB3tF1obTgyvM16i368pw0gg8Mg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi) “In all my visits to Brazil, I have never before come across such desperate poverty”.

In June 1992 he was back in Brasilia (http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/24/business/brazil-debt-accord-near.html). “The progress is encouraging and the road is open to an accord” he said, after a 45-minute meeting with corruption-hit President Fernando Collor de Mello at the Planalto Palace in the capital. Though by this point Rockefeller was only a consultant at Chase Manhattan, he was still involved in the Council of the Americas. The New York Times wrote that Brazil was seeking to convert its world record $108bn debt into 30-year bonds that would be backed by the United States Treasury. Born into an Oligarchic family, Collor had come to power in 1989 via the first direct election since the 1964 Coup, as Rede Globo’s anointed candidate. One of his leftist rivals Leonel Brizola, had been identified as the potential target for a U.S.-supported Coup d’etat (http://www.brasilwire.com/brizola-89-the-coup-that-never-was/) should he have won. By the end of 1992, Collor, who had overseen a programme of rapid privatisation and economic liberalisation, resigned, facing imminent impeachment, with inflation standing at over 1000%. In dealing directly with Collor, Rockefeller ensured that debt-deals were set in stone before any change in Presidency.

During preparations for the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Rockefeller Foundation created LEAD (Leadership in the Environment and Development). According to their website they have since then “been recruiting talented individuals from key sectors and professions all over the world to be part of a growing network now standing at over 2400 leaders, who are committed to changing the world. […] Since 1992, more than 500 professionals have been trained in Brazil, Canada, China, Former Soviet Union, Europe, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan and South Africa.” The Brazilian branch of LEAD (ABDL) was one of the first, founded in mid-1991. Al Binger, LEAD’s international director, said with surprising frankness: “We hope that in ten years many of the fellows will be acting as ministers of environment and development, university rectors and CEOs.”. One of the Brazilian Politicians most closely associated with LEAD/ABDL would be future Presidential Candidate & environmental campaigner, Marina Silva. Silva was Catholic Liberation Theologist, and social movement leader for almost two decades, converting to Evangelical faith in the mid 1990s. Although widely hailed as an environmentalist leader in the anglophone media, her public support of “green capitalism” is not only rejected by the Brazilian environmentalist movement, it’s rejection was chosen as the theme to the Cupula dos Povos (http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/ciencia/meioambiente/2012-06-12/alternativa-a-rio+20-cupula-dos-povos-ja-aquece-os-motores.html), the international alternative forum to Rio+20, held simultaneously with it in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

“A bridge to the future”
AS/COA (Americas Society / Council of the Americas) magazine Americas Quarterly and its circle of promoted commentariat have been a major player in reshaping the master narrative of Brazil as a failing state, that Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment was legitimate, and in particular the depiction of Lava Jato judge Sergio Moro as objective “anti-corruption crusader”. There is a also a common rhetorical dismissal of U.S. interference in modern Latin America as being a relic of the cold war.

Shortly after the illegitimate impeachment of predecessor Dilma Rousseff (http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39711-what-s-happening-in-brazil-exactly-what-the-coup-leaders-said-would-happen), on September 22 2016, documented U.S. informant (http://www.coha.org/wikileaks-uncovers-interim-president-temer-as-former-u-s-informant/), new President Michel Temer (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/13/brazil-d), who was visiting the United States to meet Vice President Joe Biden and address the UN, also spoke at a specially-organised meeting at the New York headquarters of AS/COA . At the meeting for Investors, Business and Banking elites, Temer candidly revealed an “open secret” – that the true purpose of Rousseff’s removal was that she would not agree to implement a hardline Austerity & Privatisation programme (https://theintercept.com/2016/09/23/brazils-president-michel-temer-says-rousseff-was-impeached-for-refusing-his-economic-agenda/) contained within a policy document called “Bridge to the Future (http://lab.org.uk/brazil-a-bridge-for-the-future)“.

The document (http://pmdb.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/RELEASE-TEMER_A4-28.10.15-Online.pdf) was odd in that it appeared to have been translated from English, with social media users remarking on its unusual wording (http://caviaresquerda.blogspot.com.br/2016/05/programa-golpista-de-governo-de-temer.html). Economist Marcio Pochmann noted similarities between “Bridge to the Future” and the “Government Economic Action Plan” (PAEG) (http://www.vermelho.org.br/noticia/289110-2) which followed the Coup of 1964. One such similarity, he says, is the strong international influence.

“PAEG was written in English, there was great American intervention in the country, so much so that the US supported the dictatorship and even sent a ship in case of civil war. The coup of 2016 also has undeniable US interests in relation to a series of developmental moves the country had made since 2003, as it sought greater autonomy in Brazilian foreign policy. The South-South relationship and the strengthening of the BRICs (Trade Bloc formed by Brazil, Russia, India and China (http://www.bbc.com/news/33605230))is different from what the US considers to be the best for Latin America.”

Former Dictatorship-era Public Security Official (http://www.brazilgovnews.gov.br/presidency/president/biography#Public) Michel Temer was also asked by one attendee what plans he had to deal with social unrest amongst the population in response to such extreme austerity measures. This too echoes 1964, in “Who Rules the World (https://www.amazon.com/Who-Rules-World-Noam-Chomsky/dp/162779381X)“, Chomsky noted that the Kennedy administration’s policy was to transform Latin America’s Militaries into glorified police forces, designed to deal with their own populations “should they raise their heads”, not external threats.

Despite the shocking nature of Temer’s comments, they were for the most part ignored by close-knit Brazil-based corporate journalists (http://fair.org/home/as-brazils-new-ruler-admits), but to those who have been following the US-led rollback against democratically elected center-left and left leaders in Latin America, it was no coincidence that Temer admitted this at a meeting sponsored & organised by AS/COA.

AS/COA is effectively a Latin America equivalent of the Atlantic Council (http://www.rbf.org/grantees/atlantic-council-us-inc) and its slogan is “Uniting opinion leaders to exchange ideas and create solutions to the challenges of the Americas today” and its online biographies state: “Americas Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas_Society) (AS) Is the premier forum dedicated to education, debate, and dialogue in the Americas. Its mission is to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social, and economic issues confronting Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada, and to increase public awareness and appreciation of the diverse cultural heritage of the Americas and the importance of the inter-American relationship.”, “Council of the Americas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_Americas) (COA) Is the premier international business organisation whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the Western Hemisphere. The Council’s membership consists of leading international companies representing a broad spectrum of sectors, including banking and finance, consulting services, consumer products, energy and mining, manufacturing, media, technology, and transportation.”

The organisation is said to be based on the “fundamental belief that free markets and private enterprise offer the most effective means to achieve regional economic growth and prosperity.” Membership has grown to over 200 blue chip companies that represent the majority of U.S. private investment in Latin America. The Council hosts presidents, cabinet ministers, central bankers, government officials, and leading experts in economics, politics, business, and finance, which gives it unique access to information from the region. The Council of the Americas argues that “free markets and private enterprise offer the most effective means to achieve regional economic growth”. It has been a supporter of free trade agreements and has been instrumental in the conception of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)….and the yet to be implemented Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the long-held ambition of David Rockefeller himself. Meanwhile, sister organisation The Americas Society’s focus is in contrast “to increase public awareness and appreciation of the diverse cultural heritage of the Americas and the importance of the inter-American relationship”

Elite COA corporate members include (http://www.as-coa.org/content/coa-corporate-members): Bloomberg, Blackrock, Bank of America, Barings, Barrick Gold Corporation, Boeing, Bombardier, Banco Bradesco, Banco do Brasil, Banco Santander, Cisco, Citigroup, Coca Cola, ExxonMobility, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Google, Itaú Unibanco, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Lockheed Martin, McDonalds, Moody’s, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, News Corp / Fox, Pearson, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Raytheon, Shell, Television Association Of Programmers Latin America, Time Warner/Turner, Toyota, Viacom, Wal-Mart. One of the successor companies to Standard Oil, Chevron Corporation is listed as “Patron Corporate Member” of Council of the Americas, and has a strong vested interest in who governs Brazil (http://www.brasilwire.com/snowden-wikileaks-brasil/). David Rockefeller remained Honorary Secretary of COA until the day he died, while current Secretary is William R. Rhodes, formerly of Citibank/Citigroup.

Alongside other D.C. Think Tanks such as the older Brookings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution), and Rockefeller/Ford funded Council on Foreign Relations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations), AS/COA is not unusual in its stated function but is a particularly interesting case – an interface between State & Corporate power, Intelligence communities, Multinational & Latin American Banks, Washington-aligned Neoliberal Politicians, educational institutions such as FGV (http://portal.fgv.br/en), local & international NGOs (http://www.telesurtv.net/english/telesuragenda/NGOs-A-New-Face-of-Destabilization-in-Latin-America-20160605-0025.html), Authors, Journalists, and everyday English-language media from the region, such as Reuters and CNN.

David Rockefeller once said, “American capitalism has brought more benefits to more people than any other system in any part of the world at any time in history. ” He may have passed away, but his imperialist business interests and his think tank, backed by some of the World’s most nefarious corporations in terms of human and environmental rights, will no doubt continue to meddle and weaken democracy in Latin America for years to come.

[Hervé]

Here is another piece of that global "Big Picture" and a re-post from there:
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From Sue Arrigo's Case 28 DCI Robert Gates, Torture, and Ashes of Children (http://pauljackson.us/sue_arrigo/)

The GAO Has the Evidence on Who Ordered the Burning Alive of the Children
When I gave a talk at the CIA in 2004, I showed 7 documents to prove each point I made and the whole talk lasted a grueling 5 hours. More people kept showing up until it was standing room only; though perhaps some came just to see how long it would be before I was pulled off the stage into a basement torture chamber again.

For each slide I speak about, the document, photo, or evidence is sitting in the Government Accounting Office (GAO's) files since the Dept of Justice was corrupted beyond use. Since I was tortured and stripped of all of my possessions when I was outed from the CIA by Cheney in 2004, clearly I do not have any of these documents in my personal possession. But I still remember the talks I gave at the CIA and the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) in 2004, recalling parts of them here to tell you what evidence the GAO has in its possession, if Congress will but request it from them.

In the rest of this article I am going to address the question of who was responsible for MKULTRA and its related CIA programs. Who turned the children into ashes and what did they do with them? Remember that this reminiscence by recounting a slideshow details the evidence sitting at the GAO.

The Coverup of the Rockefeller Satanic Rituals
There has been a conspiracy to keep the public, and even intelligence people in the dark. On this slide you see a letter from Nelson Rockefeller thanking the owner of the New York Times for his discretion in not covering a lurid crime. Note the date which is two weeks after this Upstate New York police report was made. The victim was a young boy who was sodomized and then killed.

Here is the last notes in the police report made by the detective. He says he is making progress in the case and the evidence is strong and growing. Then the next day he writes suddenly that the case is “unfounded” and is being closed.

Here is the KGB’s report on that murder. Note that it lists the people that the Rockefeller thank you letter goes to--about 20 media owners. It also shows the earlier letter Nelson Rockefeller wrote them asking them to kill this story. All except one of them did. Here is the letter from a KBG officer to Nelson Rockefeller asking for hush money in exchange for the evidence in the KGB’s files.

Here is a copy of the financial transaction from Rockefeller’s hush money account to the KGB officer for about $86,000 in 1970’s money. What exactly was Rockefeller worried about that he paid out the money? Here is the flak-assessment of likely blowback by the CIA if the money was not paid. Note that this flak report was sent to Nelson at his Upstate New York Estate, where it was found in the Rockefeller Archives with this envelop attached to it. The date it was received is one day before the money was ordered transferred. Here is the journal entry of Nelson on that day saying, “Our side business has caused me $86,000 in extra expenses today. I have asked the DCI to tighten up our security procedures so that there is less risk of exposure. The last thing we want is the headlines “Boy’s rape and murder linked to the Rockefeller’s Estate”. Fortunately, the body was off my property by the time the car was stopped. Had I not gotten the warning of the raid on the ritual from my men inside Police enforcement, this could have been quite serious... Billions of dollars hang in the balance. I have scheduled a Policemen’s Ball here next month so as to ensure cooperation...New hidden cameras will be installed.”

Here is the KGB’s list of who was invited to the “Policeman’s Ball”. It looks like a “Who’s who” of Police, FBI and media VIPs. Here are some of the photos from that event from the Rockefeller Archive’s blackmail files on the left side of the following slides with the KGB’s photos of the same event. That gives you an idea of the accuracy of the KGB files; the KGB actually was better at taking blackmail photos. Here is the letter from that same KBG officer laying out the evidence he has. He claims that he has the evidence on all of the Rockefeller’s global sex slave trafficking. That is a little hard to believe, but he sent with the letter an organizational chart listing the addresses of the branch offices of Rockefeller’s sex slave trade by country. Here is the CIA’s own organizational chart of the sex slave trade that they are engaged in with the profits going to the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and Skull and Bones members.

If you read my Case 22C Hot Sodas Courtesy of those who Brought You Auschwitz? (http://avalonlibrary.net/Sue_Arrigo/) you will see that the Rockefellers and Bonesman Prescott Bush were major players funding Hitler, building Auschwitz, using the slave labor, and paying the SS guards.

Those families have been major players in the New World Orders plans to enslave the world using torture, mind control, and rape as their modus operandi for over a century. There were some minor discrepancies between the KGB and CIA charts on Rockefeller’s sex slave trade, but overall the charts agree. Here is the transaction from the Rockefeller’s hush money account which paid the Russian to destroy the KGB’s files. Note the sum of about $150,000.

Next is a handwritten note of the DDO shortly thereafter in which he is preparing to advise the DCI on how that particular Russian KGB officer can be assassinated. Due to a delay in the Russian banks clearing the transaction and delivering the money to the Russian in cash, the CIA accidentally killed him before he destroyed the KGB’s files on Rockefeller’s sex slave trade which are quite extensive.


The CIA’s and KGB’s Sex Slave Trade Make Profits for the Same NWO Bosses
Here is a breakdown of the recipients of the profits on the sex slave trade run by the CIA and that run by the KGB. Note that due to the Rothschilds and Rockefellers funding of the Bolshevik Revolution, that they are the major recipients of the KGB’s sex slave running operations. In fact, the Rothschilds and Rockefellers were major forces behind the scenes setting up both the KGB and OSS/CIA intelligence agencies to run their illegal drug, trafficking in humans, weapons, and war-profiteering businesses. Throughout the Cold War and before, they were giving orders to the OSS/CIA and the KBG and getting those orders followed with a high degree of reliability. Here is a late 1930’s letter from a Rockefeller to Stalin ordering him to purge KGB people and depts. which have displeased Rothschild. Here is the letter back from Stalin saying that he has done as requested. In fact, the KGB followed the Rothschild and Rockefeller orders better than US intelligence which was less efficient.

The Rothschilds and Rockefellers used MI6 and the CIA to check up on whether the KGB was doing what they wanted and vice versa. Here is a 1990’s CIA report on the KGB sex slave trade which was found in the Rockefeller Archives. Note the handwritten note in David Rockefeller’s handwriting which says that some of the profits are being diverted to people which are not part of his operations and that this problem must be eliminated.

Here is a CIA report from 2 months later in that same Rockefeller file, detailing what steps have been taken to “stem the losses”. One of the recommendations is to start a war in Chechnya to cover up the deaths in eliminating the competition to the Rockefeller and Rothschild sex slave trade. The next month the Russians launched a seminal invasion of Chechnya.

Here, also from the same Rockefeller file is a private think tank report on the effect of the Russian invasion into Chechnya in terms of whether it has succeeded in covering up the early Chechen deaths as related to “the global” sex slave trade. It concludes that it was a successful cover-up. Note at the bottom of the report David Rockefeller has written “All copies of this report are to be destroyed.” However, in Rockefeller Archive jargon that means all copies outside of the Rockefeller and Rothschild Archives.

Here is a letter from David Rockefeller to the Rothschilds saying in abbreviated form what steps he has taken to secure that the Chechens do not interfere with their profits anymore. Inserted in the letter was an accounting sheet giving the profits from the sex slaves made “from the Russians quelling the Chechen uprising”.

An ordinary person following the news has no way to know the real causes of the events they are told about. They swallow the official propaganda lies of which every side they are sitting on. That means that the war-profiteers can endlessly threaten them with external enemies and force them into wars. In those wars, the costs are borne by the taxpayers and the profits all go into the same private hands.

Here is how the profits flowed in the 1980’s Russian war in Afghanistan. Note that we are looking at the global profits from that war. Both the Russian and the US govt. forced their taxpayers to buy billions of dollars worth of armaments to use in Afghanistan without ever asking them if that was how they wanted their money spent.

Here is how the profits are flowing in the 2000’s US war in Afghanistan. There is very little difference, most of the profits are going into the pockets of the Rothschilds and their downline, like the Rockefellers, and Skull and Bones members.

Both wars started when the Afghanis attempted to shut down the Rockefellers and Rothschilds using their country to grow opium for their illegal drug trade. In May 2000, the Taliban outlawed the growing of opium poppies. The CIA verified that 95% of the poppy fields were gone, see The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade by Alfred McCoy.

The Taliban went from being supported by the US to being public enemy number 1 over that issue. One of the first things the US did when it invaded Afghanistan was to let the drug war lords out of the Taliban’s prisons and put them back in business as their downline.

Nelson Rockefeller Ordered JFK Assassinated
In this first slide in this next section, you see the first premise that we are going to prove through examining these documents---'All those not making decisions at the level of David Rockefeller, or above, in the New World Order are expendable slaves from the point of view of the elite in it.'

Here in the second slide you see a planning document in the John F. Kennedy Assassination. Note that it is a CIA document discussing how to manage the cover-up of the assassination and is dated about 5 weeks before the assassination. The signature at the bottom is John McCone's, the director of CIA that JFK appointed under pressure from Nelson Rockefeller, after firing DCI Allen Dulles for the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

This document comes from the blackmail files of the Rockefeller Achives. Nelson Rockefeller requested the cover-up White Paper from McCone and had the power to compel McCone to sign it. Clearly, it was against McCone's interests to prove he was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK.

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So... Putin... ex KGB... means that, to the Rothschilds and Rockefellers, he might KNOW a bit too much...


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Now, have another look at this OP (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?75343-Inside-911-An-aristocratic-genocidal-construction.&p=881546&viewfull=1#post881546) (<--- click)

... and see if something "clicks" about "the Devil's" sole interest for "doing it"?


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Related:


Child sex trafficking, 'epidemic' in US (https://www.sott.net/article/227757-Child-sex-trafficking-epidemic-in-US)
Social Decay: UK child sex trafficking, sex abuse, and modern slavery soars, says National Crime Agency (https://www.sott.net/article/274151-Social-Decay-UK-child-sex-trafficking-sex-abuse-and-modern-slavery-soars-says-National-Crime-Agency)
Child Protective Services children found in human trafficking sex trade (https://www.sott.net/article/293362-Child-Protective-Services-children-found-in-human-trafficking-sex-trade)
FBI: Child Sex Trafficking at Epidemic Levels (https://www.sott.net/article/228622-FBI-Child-Sex-Trafficking-at-Epidemic-Levels)
PedoGate Update: The Global Elite's Pedophile Empire is Crumbling - But Will it Ever Crash? (https://www.sott.net/article/345836-PedoGate-Update-The-Global-Elites-Pedophile-Empire-is-Crumbling-But-Will-it-Ever-Crash)
Kevin Annett: Euro Police join ITCCS take down of Satanic networks in Vatican, Monarchies, Cargill (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?12514-Canadas-Hidden-History-Kevin-Annett&p=876050&viewfull=1#post876050)

[Hervé]

Speaking of which:

Lavrov: No force on earth can compete with NATO and US’ drug trafficking business in Afghanistan (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/03/27/lavrov-no-force-on-earth-can-compete-with-nato-and-us-drug-trafficking-business-in-afghanistan/)

By Jonas E. Alexis (http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/alexis/) on March 27, 2017


“In country after country, from Mexico and Honduras to Panama and Peru, the CIA helped set up or consolidate intelligence agencies that became forces of repression, and whose intelligence connections to other countries greased the way for illicit drug shipments.” …by Jonas E. Alexis (http://www.veteranstoday.com/staff-writers/)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has done it again. He has recently grabbed the New World Order establishment by the horn and cut them to pieces with a chainsaw when he said that the establishment has done covert and illegal operations in places like Afghanistan.

Lavrov did not mince words:
“The US operation against the Taliban (http://russia-insider.com/en/lavrov-calls-out-natos-high-tolerance-drug-trafficking/ri19345) and al-Qaeda was supported by all countries. It’s another matter that after receiving the international approval, the United States and its NATO allies, which took over in Afghanistan, started acting rather inconsistently, to put it mildly.

“During their operation in Afghanistan, the terrorist threat has not been rooted out, while the drug threat has increased many times over. The drug industry prospered. There is factual evidence that some of the NATO contingents in Afghanistan turned a blind eye to the illegal drug trafficking, even if they were not directly involved in these criminal schemes.

“Afghanistan is a separate case, although the current developments there, which are a result of the NATO operation’s failure, despite the carte blanche the bloc received from the international community, can be considered an unintended cause of managed chaos. In Iraq, Syria and Libya, this chaos was created intentionally.”
Lavrov is right in line with the scholarly world.

Peter Dale Scott of the University of California writes:
“In country after country, from Mexico and Honduras to Panama and Peru, the CIA helped set up or consolidate intelligence agencies that became forces of repression, and whose intelligence connections to other countries greased the way for illicit drug shipments.”[1] (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/03/27/lavrov-no-force-on-earth-can-compete-with-nato-and-us-drug-trafficking-business-in-afghanistan/#_ftn1)
Noted historian Alfred W. McCoy of the University of Wisconsin has reported the same thing.[2] (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/03/27/lavrov-no-force-on-earth-can-compete-with-nato-and-us-drug-trafficking-business-in-afghanistan/#_ftn2) McCoy began to work on this issue while he was a Ph.D. candidate in Southeast Asian history at Yale back in 1972. He accused American officials “of condoning and even cooperating (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_W._McCoy#cite_note-Daytona_Beach_Morning_Journal.3B_June_3.2C_1972-3) with corrupt elements in Southeast Asia’s illegal drug trade out of political and military considerations.”

McCoy’s
“major charges was that South Vietnam’s President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, and Prime Minister Trần Thiện Khiêm led a narcotics ring with ties to the Corsican mafia, the Trafficante crime family in Florida, and other high level military officials in South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. Those implicated by McCoy included Laotian Generals Ouane Rattikone and Vang Pao and South Vietnamese Generals Đăng Văn Quang and Ngô Dzu.”
McCoy produced enough evidence which indicated that the CIA used “tribal mercenaries” in places like Laos in order to maintain their criminal and drug trafficking business.

In short, Lavrov was essentially deconstructing the CIA when he said that they have been spreading corruption throughout the world for decades. Whenever they take a break from spreading opium, they start perpetuating wars and creating false flags in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and now in Syria.


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The CIA is certainly not happy about what Lavrov has said. This is one reason why they hate Russia and all that it represents.


[1] (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/03/27/lavrov-no-force-on-earth-can-compete-with-nato-and-us-drug-trafficking-business-in-afghanistan/#_ftnref1) Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (Berkley: The University of California Press, 1998), vii-viii. See also American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010 and 2014); Peter Dale Scott, Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003).

[2] (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/03/27/lavrov-no-force-on-earth-can-compete-with-nato-and-us-drug-trafficking-business-in-afghanistan/#_ftnref2) Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003).

Related:
Lavrov: New World Order Domination Is at Its Twilight (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/03/28/lavrov-new-world-order-domination-is-at-its-twilight/)

[Hervé]

Yeah... the BIG, planet wide picture:

David Rockefeller's gruesome legacy (http://journal-neo.org/2017/03/26/d-rockefeller-s-gruesome-legacy/)

F. William Engdahl New Eastern Outlook (http://journal-neo.org/2017/03/26/d-rockefeller-s-gruesome-legacy/)
Sun, 26 Mar 2017 14:59 UTC


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The death of David Rockefeller, the de facto Patriarch of the American establishment, at age 101, is being greeted by establishment media with praise for his alleged philanthropy. I would like to contribute to a more honest picture of the person.

The Rockefeller American Century
In 1939, along with his four brothers - Nelson, John D. III, Laurance and Winthrop - David Rockefeller and their Rockefeller Foundation financed the top secret War & Peace Studies at the New York Council on Foreign Relations, the most influential private US foreign policy think-tank which also was controlled by the Rockefellers. A collection of American academics gathered even before outbreak of World War II to plan a postwar world empire, what Time-Life insider Henry Luce later called The American Century. They made a blueprint for taking over a global empire from the bankrupt British, but carefully decided to call it not an empire. Rather they called it "spreading democracy, freedom, the American way of free enterprise."

Their project looked at the geopolitical map of the world and planned how the USA would replace the British Empire as de facto the dominant empire. The creation of the United Nations was a key part. The Rockefeller brothers donated the land in Manhattan for the UN Headquarters (and in the process made billions in the increased prices of the adjoining real estate that they also owned). This is the Rockefeller "philanthropy" method. Every grant donated is calculated to increase family wealth and power.

After the War David Rockefeller dominated US foreign policy and the countless wars in Africa, Latin America, Asia. The Rockefeller faction created the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and NATO in order to keep a reviving Western Europe under American vassal status. How they did so I documented in detail in my book, The Gods of Money. Here I consider several examples of David Rockefeller's crimes against humanity.

Rockefeller Biology Research: 'Control the people...'
If philanthropy should be motivated by love of our fellow man, the grants of the Rockefeller Foundation are not. Take medical research. During the period until 1939 and the War, the Rockefeller Foundation financed biological research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. It was Nazi eugenics—how to breed a superior race and how to kill off or sterilize those they deemed "inferior." Rockefeller financed Nazi eugenics. Rockefeller's Standard Oil also violated US law to secretly supply the Nazi Air Force with scarce fuel during the War. After the War the Rockefeller brothers arranged for leading Nazi scientists involved in ghastly human experiments to be brought to the USA and Canada under sanitized identities to continue their eugenics research. Many worked in the CIA top secret MK-Ultra project.

In the 1950's the Rockefeller brothers founded the Population Council to advance eugenics, disguised as population research into birth control. The Rockefeller brothers were responsible in the 1970's for a US Government Top Secret project directed by Rockefeller National Security Adviser Kissinger, NSSM-200 titled, "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests." It argued high population growth in developing nations with strategic raw materials like oil or minerals were a US "national security threat" as more population demands national economic growth, using those resources internally (sic!).NSSM-200 made developing world population reduction programs a precondition of US aid. In the 1970s David Rockefeller's Rockefeller Foundation also financed together with WHO development of a special tetanus vaccine that limited population by making a woman incapable of maintaining a pregnancy, literally going after the human reproductive process itself.

The Rockefeller Foundation created the entire field of genetic manipulation through its ownership of Monsanto Corporation and financing of university biology research to create the "gene cannon" and other techniques to artificially alter gene expression of a given plant. The aim of GMO, since Rockefeller sponsored the disastrous Philippine Golden Rice project, has been to use GMO to control the human and animal food chain. Today more than 90% of all soybeans grown in USA are GMO and more than 80% of all corn and cotton. Yet it is not labelled.

'Control the oil...'
The Rockefeller fortune is based on oil around companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and others. Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller's political adviser since 1954, was involved in every major Rockefeller project. Kissinger secretly manipulated Middle East diplomacy in 1973 to trigger an Arab OPEC oil embargo.

The Oil Shock of 1973-74 was orchestrated by a secretive organization David Rockefeller created in the 1950s known as Bilderberg Group. In May 1973 David Rockefeller and the heads of the major US and UK oil majors met in Saltsjoebaden, Sweden at the annual Bilderberg Meeting to plan the oil shock. It would be blamed on "greedy Arab oil sheikhs." It saved the falling US dollar, and made Wall Street banks, including David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan, into the world's largest banks. This author has the "confidential" protocol of that meeting where the price increase strategy is described six months before the Arab-Israeli war. Please see my book, A Century of War, for documentation. In the 1970's Kissinger summed up David Rockefeller's world strategy: "If you control the oil, you control entire nations; if you control food, you control the people; if you control money, you control the entire world."

'Control the money...'
David Rockefeller was chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, the family bank. He was responsible for getting Chase Vice President, Paul Volcker, to become President Carter's Federal Reserve chairman to make the Volcker interest rate shock that again, like the oil shock, saved the falling US dollar and Wall Street bank profits, including Chase Manhattan, at the expense of the world economy.

Volcker's October 1979 interest rate 'shock therapy', backed by Rockefeller, created the 1980's "Third World Debt Crisis." Rockefeller and Wall Street used that debt crisis to force state privatizations and drastic national currency devaluations in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico. Rockefeller and friends such as George Soros then grabbed the crown jewels of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico at dirt cheap prices.

The model was much like the British banks used in the Ottoman Empire after 1881 when they de facto took control of the finances of the Sultan by controlling all tax revenues through the Ottoman Public Debt Administration (OPDA). Rockefeller interests used the 1980s debt crisis to loot much of the indebted Latin America and African countries, using the IMF as their policeman. David Rockefeller was personal friends to some of the more savage military dictators in Latin America including General Jorge Videla in Argentine or Pinochet in Chile, both of whom owed their jobs to CIA coups arranged by then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on behalf of Rockefeller family interests in Latin America.

Through organizations such as his Trilateral Commission, Rockefeller was the foremost architect of the destruction of national economies and advancing so-called Globalization, a policy that mainly benefits the largest banks of Wall Street and City of London and select global corporations—the same who are invited members of his Trilateral Commission. Rockefeller created the Trilateral Commission in 1974 and gave his close friend Zbigniew Brzezinski the job of choosing its members in North America, Japan and Europe.

If we speak of an unseen, powerful network some call the Deep State, we might say David Rockefeller saw himself as Patriarch of that Deep State. His true acts deserve to be honestly seen for what they were—misanthropic and not philanthropic.


Related:
Puppet Master: The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs3XoTc_R9o)
The Corbett Report | The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller | Mar. 28, 2017 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?96866-The-Corbett-Report-The-Unauthorized-Biography-of-David-Rockefeller---Mar.-28-2017)

[Hervé]

This article to underline that Russia is well aware of what Rockefeller's/Bushs'/Clintons'/Obama's "CIA" has been doing world wide:

Lavrov suggests NATO collusion in creating the opioid crisis (http://www.wakingtimes.com/2017/03/31/russian-foreign-minister-implies-nato-collusion-creating-opioid-crisis/)

Isaac Davis Waking Times (http://www.wakingtimes.com/2017/03/31/russian-foreign-minister-implies-nato-collusion-creating-opioid-crisis/)
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC


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As more of the blame for the world's exacerbating opiate overdose crisis is now being rightly put on the pharmaceutical industry (http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/12/19/pharma-execs-arrested-conspiracy-create-opioid-addicts-profit/), the dark side of this epidemic in the fact that the production of opium containing poppies has exploded since the military occupation of Afghanistan beginning in 2001.

According to Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov, there are signs of collusion between NATO and drug producers and traffickers working to flood the world with opium. Remarking on how the mission to rid Afghanistan of terrorists quickly became distorted after the invasion, ultimately creating a never-ending supply of drugs to the West.
"During their operation in Afghanistan, the terrorist threat has not been rooted out, while the drug threat has increased many times over. The drug industry prospered. There is factual evidence that some of the NATO contingents in Afghanistan turned a blind eye to the illegal drug trafficking, even if they were not directly involved in these criminal schemes." ~Sergey Lavrov (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq5HF13pEtE), Russian Foreign Minister So, what exactly is the evidence? In a 2014 report, the UN notes that poppy production had reached an all time global high, with shocking increases in heroin users worldwide.
"The amount of land used for cultivating opium poppies around the world is at an all-time high, says a UN report. Afghanistan is largely behind the increase, with its crop growing by 36 percent over a year, producing 80 percent of the world's opium.
A World Drug Report (http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr2014/World_Drug_Report_2014_web.pdf) released by the UN's Vienna-based Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has charted the global use of drugs. Although it says that global drug use is "stable," it notes that the cultivation of opium has grown drastically." [Source (https://www.rt.com/news/169024-un-report-afghanistan-opium/)] As noted by TDC (http://thedailycoin.org/):
"When the Untied Nations produces a report that reads like a corporate stock prospectus you know something is fishy. The UN report was very detailed about the number of new addicts, the flow of drugs out of Afghanistan and the final destination." [Source (http://thedailycoin.org/2017/03/27/lavrov-nato-enables-trafficking-drugs-from-afghanistan-video/)] In short, if a NATO country is overseeing the security and military occupation of Afghanistan, and suddenly poppy production explodes, then at the very least NATO is permissive of the cultivation and exportation of the world's deadliest and most addictive street drug.

Furthermore, as noted by Lavrov, there is a strategy of managed chaos in play at present in the Middle East and northern Africa, disrupting and ruining the lives of millions of people, for the benefit of America and those in positions to temporarily profit from unfettered access to the natural resources of targeted nations.
"The concept of managed chaos appeared long ago as a method of strengthening US influence. Its basic premise is that managed chaos projects should be launched away from the United States in regions that are crucial for global economic and financial development." ~Sergey Lavrov Lavrov's comments on the opium crisis and managed chaos are included in the following video.


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[Hervé]

Proof that "World Government" is Banker Tyranny (https://www.henrymakow.com/000426.html)

from June 9, 2009
by Henry Makow Ph.D May 15, 2017


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(Rothschild agent Col. E.N. House with puppet Woodrow Wilson)


We revisit the "Col. E.M. House Report", (1919), a chilling 10-page document which proved the League of Nations was a facade for "British" (i.e. Masonic Jewish) imperialism. "The League is in substance the Empire with America admitted on the same basis as our other colonies."

The report oozes contempt for Americans and reveals the "system of thought control" the bankers employed almost 100 years ago. These goals and methods have not changed. If ever we needed proof that democracy is a charade, this is it.


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from June 9, 2009
by Henry Makow Ph.D

In 1919, the Rothschild-dominated Bank of England planned to trick the United States into becoming a "British" colony again by joining the League of Nations. The League of the Nations, like the "British Empire", was the bankers' fiefdom, and this strategem would merely formalize a colonial status which already existed.

The bankers took over the U.S. during the Teddy Roosevelt Administration (1901-1909) when Rothschild front J.P. Morgan alone controlled 25% of American business.

The "Col. E.M. House Report", is a chilling 10-page "progress report" dated June 10, 1919 which proves the League of Nations was an aborted attempt at world government and a facade for banker tyranny. The Report reveals the reality and the tactics behind the United Nations and globalization.

House writes:
"We have wrapped this plan in the peace treaty so that the world must accept from us the League or a continuance of the war. The League is in substance the Empire with America admitted on the same basis as our other colonies."
The report oozes contempt for Americans and reveals the deceitful methods international finance employed almost 100 years ago to bring about world government. These goals and methods have not changed. If ever we needed proof of an elite conspiracy to subvert and enslave us, this is it.

PUPPET MASTER


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The author is Col. Edward Mandell House (http://houstonhistory.com/ghoustonians/history8j.htm) (1858-1938), the Rothschild agent who secretly directed U.S. affairs during the Woodrow Wilson administration. Col. House was known as Wilson's friend and "alter ego." (He had not served in the military and the term "Colonel" was merely honorary.) The report is addressed to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, whose career was made as a lawyer for the World Zionist Organization.

Rep. Jacob Thorkelson (1876-1945) introduced The House Report to Congress in Oct. 1939 and published it in the Congressional Record (Oct. 13 1939, pp.598-604). Attempts to delete it were thwarted. The complete text (http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/house.htm) is available on line.

The report details Col. House's progress in preparing "for the peaceful return of the American colonies to the dominion of the Crown."

"Crown" refers to the owners of the Bank of England. Their identities are an official secret. According to E.C. Knuth, the "international financial oligarchy uses the allegoric 'Crown' as its symbol of power and has its headquarter in the ancient city of London...the giant Bank of England, a privately owned institution... is not subject to regulation by the British parliament and is in effect a sovereign world power." (The Empire of the City, p. 59)

Col. House continues:
The "peaceful return of the American colonies" can only be brought about with "the consent of the dominant group of the controlling clans."
Col. House relates how these classes are being taught to accept "British" leadership. He details how the universities and press are staffed by "British-born" or Canadians.
"Through the Red Cross, the Scout movement, the YMCA, the church, and other humane, religious, and quasi religious organizations, we have created an atmosphere of international effort which strengthens the idea of unity of the English speaking world."

The Overseas Clubs, service clubs, and war charities "enable us to pervade all sections and classes of the country."

We "hold all American newspapers as isolated from the non-American world as if they had been in another planet instead of another hemisphere. The realization of this by the Associated Press and the other universal news gatherers, except Hearst, was most helpful in bringing only our point of view to the papers they served."
He boasts that the United States "while still maintaining an outward show of independence" is identical with other colonies in its relationship to the Crown. "Has not President Wilson cancelled the big Navy program and dutifully conceded to us the command of the seas?"

He boasts that "the Anglo American alliance" has become "the unchallenged financiers of the world."

He congratulates "our fiscal agents Messrs Pierpont Morgan & Company" for "putting this country into the war." They exert "widespread influence on newspaper policy" through advertising and lent $200,000,000 to Japan to build a fleet to compete with America (making the U.S still more dependent on England.)

Col. House boasts that the "Crown" used money lent by the U.S. government for war purposes to buy up oil fields in California, Mexico and Latin America.
"The war has made us custodians of the greater part of the world's raw materials... [We] now largely control the oil fields of the world and thereby the world's transportation and industry."
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS RUSE
The pressing issue now is to "transfer its dangerous sovereignty from this colony to the custody of the Crown. We must, in short, now bring America within the Empire."

The first step was Wilson's plan for the League of Nations "which we prepared for him."
"The plain people of this country are inveterate and incurable hero worshippers," Col. House explains. They easily can be manipulated by a man with a slogan that expresses their "undefined aspirations."

Afterwards, they will trust the sloganeer no matter what he does. Wilson has gained this trust and this accounts for "his exceptional usefulness to us."

"Any abrupt change might startle the ignorant American masses and rouse them to action against it. And us. Our best policy therefore would be to appoint President Wilson the first president of the League... he will be able to satisfy [Americans] that far from surrendering their independence to the League, they are actually extending their sovereignty by it..."
Foreshadowing The Patriot Act, Col. House says Woodrow Wilson "alone can father an anti-Bolshevik act which judicially interpreted will enable appropriate punitive measures to be applied to any American who may be unwise enough to assert that America must once again declare her independence."

Col. House goes into great detail about how Wilson must be messaged and manipulated. Many people think someone else wrote this Report but only Edward Mandell House knew Wilson this well.

For example he says Wilson "is easily slighted and remarkably vindictive." The new British ambassador should be a "Wilson worshipper" and "a gentleman-in-waiting to the President." He lists the gifts Wilson already has been given.

"OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM OF THOUGHT CONTROL" IS AT WORK
Col. House suggests staging the first session of the League of Nations in Washington.
"This will convince these simple people that they are the League and its power resides in them."
He recommends a
"series of spectacles by which the mob may be diverted from any attempt to think too much of matters beyond their province."

"While awaiting these diversions for the vulgar, we are incessantly instructing them in the wonders of the league. Its praises are thundered by our press, decreed by our college presidents, and professed by our professors. Our authors, writers and lecturers are analysing its selected virtues... we have enlisted 8000 propagandists for the League. We have organized international and national synods, committees, conferences, convocations, conventions, councils...to herald the birth of the League as the dawn of universal peace."

"Agriculturalists, bankers, brokers, accountants, chemists, and all other functional groups capable of exerting organized professional, business, financial or social pressure are meeting to endorse the League in the name of peace, progress and prosperity...Our film concerns are preparing an epoch-making picture..."

"In short, our entire system of thought control is working ceaselessly, tirelessly, ruthlessly, to ensure the adoption of the League. And it will be adopted, for business wants peace, the righteous cannot resist a covenant, and the politicians, after shadow boxing for patronage purposes, will yield valiantly lest the fate of the wanton and wilful pursue them."
CONCLUSION
Thanks to the valiant opposition of Republican Senators, the United States rejected the Peace Treaty and with it the League of Nations Nov. 19, 1919. The plot was temporarily foiled.

But the secretive bankers' covert campaign to impose world tyranny has not abated. They financed Hitler and engineered World War Two. The League of Nations was resurrected as the United Nations in 1945 and the "Cold War" initiated. Many believe we are in the early stages of "World War Three."

All segments of society continue to be propagandized with the virtues of the UN. National institutions are subverted. The press and education continue to be controlled. Politicians are figureheads.

Some of the tactics have changed. The American empire has replaced the British Empire as their instrument of world hegemony. But Americans should not think they are serving their own interests. They are building a 'new world order' and its master is "the Crown." In Col. House's words, Americans will be colonists who have to "petition at the foot of the throne."

The references to control of oilfields suggest that oil is first and foremost an instrument of world domination. The final stage of world tyranny involves gaining complete control of Middle Eastern oil. This portends an invasion of Iran.

The threat can no longer be characterized as strictly "Jewish." Through Freemasonry, the Rothschilds have received a degree of collaboration from the world's financial, cultural and political elites as to render this point moot.

Lemming-like, Western elites have embraced a death-wish for civilization.

[Dennis Leahy]

Hervé, a click on the "thanks" button is not enough. Thank you for taking the time to research and to consolidate documented evidence of who David Rockefeller (and his father) really were and what they really represented - and the legacy of death and destruction they left. Big picture indeed.

[Hervé]

Victor Rothschild was a "Soviet" Agent (https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/04/Was-Victor-Rothschild-a-Soviet-Agent.html)

By Henry Makow Ph.D. April 19, 2017
(slightly revised from July 19, 2013)


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(Victor Rothschild, 1910-1980, the famous "Fifth Man" of the Cambridge Five Spy Ring)


Reprise of key article:
Here is proof that the Rothschild-controlled central banking cartel is behind Communism and world government tyranny.


"Which is more plausible? One of the richest men in the world, Victor Rothschild espoused Communist ideals so that his own fabulous wealth and position could be taken away? Or that Communism was in fact a deception designed to take away our wealth and freedom in the name of "equality" and "brotherhood"? "In 1942, Sir Mark Oliphant, a leading British physicist was shocked when a messenger delivered a part from his new radar technology with a warning from MI-5 Security Inspector Victor Rothschild to "tighten up your security."

A few days earlier Rothschild had visited Oliphant's Birmingham University lab, quizzed him on his research, and pocketed the three-inch diameter magnetron.

But talk about chutzpah!

Baron Rothschild was himself a Soviet agent! Before returning the magnetron, he had transmitted detailed drawings to Moscow, a fact later confirmed by his KGB handlers.

Oliphant related this story in 1994 to Roland Perry, the Australian author of The Fifth Man (1994, Sedgwick and Jackson, 475 pp).

Between 1935 and 1963, the Soviet Union knew all of Britain's military and scientific secrets thanks to "The Cambridge Five" a spy ring that operated in M1-5, MI-6 and the Foreign Office. Western intelligence agencies were rendered ineffective and Allied secrets, including the design of the atomic bomb, were stolen.


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(Only a society bent of suicide would portray these dupes and traitors in a positive light.)


The traitors were Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt. But there is a natural reluctance to admit that "the Fifth Man" was Nathaniel Meyer Victor Rothschild (1910-1990), the Third Baron Rothschild, the British head of the world's richest banking dynasty , which controls the Bank of England.

In 1993, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, six retired KGB Colonels in Moscow confirmed Rothschild's identity to Roland Perry. Col. Yuri Modin, the spy ring's handler, went on the record.

Perry writes:
"According to ...Modin, Rothschild was the key to most of the Cambridge ring's penetration of British intelligence. 'He had the contacts,' Modin noted. 'He was able to introduce Burgess, Blunt and others to important figures in Intelligence such as Stewart Menzies, Dick White and Robert Vansittart in the Foreign Office...who controlled Mi-6." (p.89)
You can understand the reluctance. The Rothschilds are undoubtedly the largest shareholders in the world's central banking system. Victor Rothschild's career as Soviet agent confirms that these London-based bankers plan to translate their monopoly on credit into a monopoly on everything (https://henrymakow.com/what_is_communism.html)using government as their instrument, ultimately a "world government" dictatorship akin to Communism.

It adds credence to the claim theRothschilds were behind the Bolshevik Revolution, and used the Cold War and more recently the 9-11 hoax and bogus "War on Terror" to advance their world hegemony.

Which is more plausible? One of the richest men in the world, Victor Rothschild espoused Communist ideals so that his own fabulous wealth and position could be taken away?

Or that Communism in fact was a deception designed to take away our wealth and freedom in the name of "equality" and "brotherhood"?


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(Evil and Rich)


MAN OF ACTION
According to "The Fifth Man", Victor Rothschild had an IQ of 184. He was a gifted jazz pianist with an intuitive understanding of many scientific disciplines. He saw banking as a dreary affair and preferred the exciting example of his great grandfather Lionel Rothschild (1808-1879) who Benjamin Disraeli immortalized as "Sidonia" in the novel Coningsby (1844).
"No minister of state had such communication with secret agents and political spies as Sidonia. He held relations with all the clever outcasts of the world. The catalog of his acquaintances in the shape of Greeks, Armenians, Moors, secret Jews, Tartars, Gypsies, wandering Poles and Carbonari, would throw a curious light on those subterranean agencies of which the world in general knows so little, but which exercise so great an influence on public events. The secret history of the world was his pastime. His great pleasure was to contrast the hidden motive, with the public pretext, of transactions."
(Coningsby pp. 218-219)
Rothschild studied Zoology at Cambridge where Anthony Blunt recruited him for the KGB about 1936. (Blunt later said it was Rothschild who recruited him.) Rothschild later joined MI-5 and was in charge of counter sabotage. He instructed the military on how to recognize and defuse bombs. Rothschild was a personal friend of Winston Churchill.

Perry writes:
"The two socialized often during the war years. Rothschild used his wealth and position to invite the prime minister to private parties. His entree to the wartime leader, plus access to all the key intelligence information, every major weapons development and his command of counter-sabotage operations in Britain, made Rothschild a secretly powerful figure during the war years...The result was that Stalin knew as much as Churchill about vital information, often before the British High Command was informed." (xxviii-xxix)
Rothschild helped neutralize enemies of the Soviet Union who came to the British for support. For example, he was involved in the cover-up of the assassination of Polish war leader and British ally Wladyslaw Sikorski, whose plane was blown up in July 1944. Sikorski had become burdensome to Stalin after he discovered the KGB had massacred 16,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Woods and elsewhere in 1940.

In 1944, Blunt, Burgess and Philby all stayed with Victor at the Rothschild mansion in Paris. Rothschild was briefly in charge of Allied intelligence in Paris and interrogated many prisoners.

After the war Rothschild spent time in the US overseeing attempts to learn the atom bomb secrets. Due in part to the Cambridge Five, Perry says "the Russians knew about every major intelligence operation run against them in the years 1945 to 1963." (xxxi)

CONCLUSION
Victor Rothschild held many jobs that served to disguise his true role which I suspect was that of a member of the Illuminati Grand Council. (The Illuminati represent the highest rank of Freemasonry.) He was not a lowly agent. He probably gave orders to people like Winston Churchill, FDR and Stalin.

For example, he ensured that the USSR supported the establishment of the State of Israel.
"He knew the proper back-channels to reach decision-makers in Moscow," a KGB Colonel told Perry;

"Let us just say, he got things done. You only did that if you reached the top. He was very persuasive." (176)
T Stokes wrote: (http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0508/biggest-secret2.html)
" In the Russian Intel archives Lord and Lady Rothschild are codenamed; "David and Rosa." Rothschild and Churchill were inseparable during W.W.II. The bankers bought Churchill's services in W.W.II for a recorded £50,000 to lobby for total war with Germany, and in W.W.1 Churchill had a bank account in the name of 'Colonel Arden,' to accept these secret donations."
The fact that Rothschild was protected until his death suggests this is a ruling class conspiracy. (https://www.savethemales.ca/000447.html) According to Greg Hallett (https://www.savethemales.ca/001399.html), Anthony Blunt, a fellow spy, was an illegitimate son of George V, half-brother and look-alike to Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor. Until his exposure in 1964, Blunt was Knighted and Curator of the Queen's art collection. He received immunity from prosecution in exchange for his confession.

Many believe this conspiracy is "Jewish." Yes but "generational Satanist" would be more accurate. These Sabbatean Jews (https://www.savethemales.ca/the_satanic_cult_that_rules_th.html) intermarry with Gentiles. The current Lord Jacob Rothschild, the Fourth Baron Rothschild is Victor's son by his first wife Barbara Hutchinson, pictured above, a non-Jew who converted. In Jewish law, Jacob Rothschild is not a Jew. He married Serena Dunn (http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Rothschild_Grail.htm). By the way, Meyer Amschel, Victor's only son by his second marriage, also to a non-Jew, 'committed suicide' in 1996. (https://henrymakow.com/remembering_the_rothschild_who.html)

While Victor Rothschild pretended to "socialist ideals," this was just a ruse to entrap misguided idealists. The banker was a conscious traitor. Treason is the template for contemporary politics. The central banking cartel is erecting its "world governance" dictatorship and anyone who wants to succeed must be loyal to the sick new paradigm and a traitor to the genuine old.

While distracting us with sex and sports, our political and cultural "leaders" attack our national, religious, racial and family foundations using war, homosexuality, pornography, feminism, migration and "diversity."

Clearly, we need new leaders who will stand up to the owners of the world monetary system. The destiny of humanity is at stake.

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Meet MI6 - Mossad - CIA - KGB bosses:


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Jacob Rothschild with David Rockefeller

[sheme]

Sure this simplified historic outline of the progress of the Khazarian mob is very interesting and connected many dots for me, a concise outline of the rise and hopefully the fall of the psycopaths of the world.

https://geopolitics.co/2015/03/11/hidden-history-of-the-incredibly-evil-khazarian-mafia/

[Foxie Loxie]

Looks like the little cartoon sums it up pretty well! ;) "We are ruled by an elite group of psychopaths who own the banks that control the governments & media. They fund both sides of war for profit & they manufacture the consent of the public through the propaganda of the media."

[Hervé]

The Illuminati Nazi Empire after WW2 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/05/The%20Sabbatean-Frankist-Nazi-Empire.html)

Henry Makow, May 12, 2017


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Paul Manning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manning_%28journalist%29), a distinguished msm journalist, was persecuted for revealing in 1981 that World War Two was a charade.



With the cooperation of the Allies, Martin Bormann ensured Germany's postwar economic rebirth by transferring Nazi wealth abroad .

Both he and Hitler probably survived. (https://www.henrymakow.com/2014/03/FBI-Ignored-Hitlers-Post-War.html)

This is more evidence that, at the top, the Nazis and the Allies were controlled by the same people, the Illuminati (Sabbatean-Frankist) Jewish bankers.

The purpose of war in general is to kill the non-Masonic Jewish and goy patriots (https://henrymakow.com/2015/07/Freemasons-Slaughtered-Christians-in%20World-War-One%20.html), degrade & demoralize humanity, and consolidate debt and power in bankers' hands.

Why are people reluctant to believe humanity is in the grip of Satanists?

Modern history was and is hell-on-earth for many millions. This wasn't done by choir boys.

The Sabbatean-Frankist Nazi Empire after WW2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDLcMbZyOc) is the title of a must-see video by Dave Emory.

I found this [following] review in the comments. Dave deserves credit for single-handedly keeping this critical story alive. Naturally they want to suppress it.



The Unvarnished Truth
A review of Paul Manning's Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile" 1981 (http://spitfirelist.com/books/manning.pdf)(from Sept , 2015)

By John C. Sanders

Anticipating the defeat of the Third Reich, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann set up 750 corporations in neutral countries, primed as vehicles to receive the liquid wealth of Germany in addition to patents and other proprietary industrial information.

An organizational genius and the real power behind Hitler, Bormann, known as the "Brown Eminence", successfully fled Europe for South America and administered a "Reich in Exile" in the years following the war.

With remnants of the SS as an enforcement arm, former Gestapo chief General Heinrich Mueller as security director, the 750 corporations as a base of economic power and the willing silence and cooperation of the Western Allies, Bormann guided his organization to a position of consummate power.

One banker quoted by Manning termed the Bormann Organization, the "world's most important accumulation of money power under one control in history".

Controlling Germany's major corporations, the Federal Republic itself and much of Latin America, the Bormann Organization also maintained a formidable circle of influence in the United States.

Paul Manning has written the definitive text on the Bormann Organization. Manning worked with CBS radio during World War II in London as a member of the elite Edward R. Murrow/Walter Cronkite team and then became a speechwriter for Nelson Rockefeller.


DISCOVERY
Several decades after WWII, Manning stumbled across the U.S. military CSDIC (Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centers) interviews of members of German industrial and banking magnates in the US National Archives. Aghast at the findings, Manning set out to write a book about the secret machinations of Nazi money laundering.


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Unknown to Manning, the manuscript was a stake in the heart of former CIA director Allen Dulles (above) who represented many German interests on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1930's and 40's through his law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell with offices in New York and Berlin.



Upon the German surrender, Dulles was instrumental in quietly recruiting Hitler's chief intelligence officer General Reinhard Gehlen and many of his key operatives. They were brought to Fort Hunt, Virginia and folded into the American O.S.S. which was converted into the C.I.A. with enactment under Truman of NSC-68 in 1948. Gehlen remained covertly in full U.S. employ until returning to head the German BND in the fifties.

Concerned over public exposure of Manning's investigation, Dulles volunteered to "help" the unsuspecting Manning with his manuscript, and sent him on a carefully orchestrated wild goose chase, searching for Martin Bormann in South America. Without knowing that he had been deliberately sidetracked, Manning wrote a forward to his book personally thanking Allen Dulles for his assurance that "I was on the right track" and "should keep going." In actuality, Dulles' assistance was aimed at sending Manning and his manuscript into obscurity to avoid disclosure of the transfer and protection of Nazi money.


PUBLICATION HISTORY
Through its connections with major American corporations, the Bormann group successfully pressured publisher after publisher to decline Manning's manuscript. Of particular significance in the suppression of Manning's book was the Thyssen family.(patriarch Fritz Thyssen was Hitler's earliest and most prominent backer among German industrialists) His grandson, Count Zichy-Thyssen, who controlled Thyssen Steel from his base in Argentina, let it be known it would be very much appreciated if American publishers "stayed away" from the Manning text.

Manning finally found a home for the book at the maverick publishing house Lyle Stuart. In retaliation, the head of the publishing house had his legs broken the week the book was released and reviews of the book were blocked in major newspaper markets and mainstream publications. In 1993, after another decade of intense research, Manning's son Jerry, was senselessly and inexplicably murdered.

Based on information garnered from his contacts in the intelligence community, Manning concluded the killing was in retaliation for his continued work and intent to publish a follow-up book, "In Search of Martin Bormann". The death of his son devastated Manning and stymied completion of the 2nd book. He died shortly after in 1995.

In December 1998, California-based researcher and broadcaster Dave Emory conducted a live, on-air radio interview (https://archive.org/details/For_The_Record_125_Interview_with_Peter_Manning)... with Manning's surviving son, Peter, concerning the Bormann flight capital organization and his father's work in bringing its activities to light. Peter movingly recounted the difficulties his family experienced as a result of his father's work on the book.

In addition to surveillance and harassment, the family experienced economic and mental hardship as a result of deliberate efforts by elements hostile to its message. For obvious reasons, copies of this book were assiduously removed from market and have, for some time, been unobtainable.

This landmark work nonetheless remains the unvarnished truth regarding Germany's post-war economic rebirth and lays the groundwork for understanding its current bid for dominance in manufacturing, banking and most importantly, publishing.

"Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile" is without peer in detail, accuracy and courage in probing the most important and successfully concealed story of the twentieth century. Mandatory reading. (http://spitfirelist.com/books/manning.pdf) (Pdf)

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Related:
Nazi Germany Morphed into Federal Republic (https://www.henrymakow.com/2015/10/Nazis-Germany-Morphed%20.html)
Nazi Money Financed Germany's Rebirth (https://www.henrymakow.com/2015/09/how-germany-rose-from-nazi-ashes.html)
Jews Active in Nazi Financial Empire (https://www.henrymakow.com/2016/12/Zionists-Participate-in-Bormann-Nazi-Financial-Empire.html)
Nazi Owned Corporations Control France's Economy (https://www.henrymakow.com/2015/09/How-Germany-Rose-From-Nazi-Ashes-2.html)
Did Illuminati Jews Help Plan Holocaust? (https://henrymakow.com/002030.html)
Bormann Ran Hitler for the Illuminati (https://www.henrymakow.com/002026.html)
Proof Bormann Was illuminati Agent (https://henrymakow.com/martin_bormann_was_rothschild.html)
Hitler & Bormann Were Traitors (https://henrymakow.com/hitler_and_bormann_were_traito.html)

[Foxie Loxie]

WOW! Thanks, Herve! Right on!! :highfive:

[Hervé]

If the EU goes down, all life ceases to exist (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/if-the-eu-goes-down-all-life-ceases-to-exist/)

By Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Jul 16 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/if-the-eu-goes-down-all-life-ceases-to-exist/), 2017

I’ll get to the European Union in a minute, but first a bit of background.

System building—how do you do it? In particular, how do you build a perverse structure?

There are three sequential steps:
One: Secretly create the system.

Two: Once it’s up and running and established, act as if you’re a mere participant in the system.

Three: Claim that the system is absolutely necessary, and without it, things would collapse.
When those three steps have been accomplished, you can add other flourishes. For example, sometimes you can get away with saying the system was never created at all; it arose organically because there was a need for it. That’s a good one.

THE EU IS SUCH A SYSTEM.

The propaganda: “It wasn’t planned from the top. It came about as a response to the need for peace among nations, the need for a common market and a uniform currency, the need for an end to brutal nationalism, etc.”

Actually, the EU was created as an extension of World War 2 by other means. Hitler’s dream of a united Europe was accomplished, with a reborn Germany as the economic powerhouse. But other key players were involved: the Vatican, the City Of London, Swiss banks, etc. And after 1973, the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission. Globalists all.

The EU’s current support of the migrant flood into Europe is a case of: this is how we erase borders, destroy the traditions of separate cultures, take down separate nations once and for all, and make Europe into a single entity.

Brexit was “a disturbance in The Force,” but it is being used to advantage by the EU. In actual game theory (not the ludicrous version taught in universities), you must have threats to the system, in the wake of which the system survives. This “proves” the structure is sound and necessary, and continues to meet the needs of the people.

The EU is painted as a kind of heroic soldier who has endured many battles. This picture sells.

As time passes, expect more and more news stories featuring the propaganda theme, “The EU is on the comeback, stronger than ever.”

The truth is, the EU could vanish tomorrow, and the individual nations of Europe would find ways to connect, cooperate, and do business.

In fact, one or two adventurous countries could change the face of Europe (which tells you why the EU tries so hard to pass so many binding regulations that apply to all its members). Here is an example:

Suppose one European country decided to cancel all the odious EU regulations restricting the sale and use of nutritional supplements? Suppose the whole area of nutrition was turned over to the free choice of every citizen?

You can bet your bottom franc or pound that this nation would suddenly undergo an economic renaissance. Nutritional companies by the hundreds would set up shop. Citizens from all over Europe would move there. Jobs would multiply. In turn, this country would become a haven for all sorts of natural health practitioners and their clients.

Watching this happen, other European countries would follow suit. Suddenly, health freedom would become an economic tiger.

Big Pharma, one of the driving forces behind the EU, would be exposed as a pernicious monopoly. Never a bad thing.

Who knows how many other areas of the economy (aka free market) would suddenly reappear, free of repressive regulations?

What about GMO crops? From what I can discover, 50 GMO crops are permitted in Europe. A nation can submit a request to the EU to ban a GMO crop, and the EU makes the final decision. Suppose—if the EU vanished—one country stood up on its hind legs and declared:

“We are banning ALL GMOs. If you live here, all your food will be non-GMO. That is our commitment.”
Do you think that might result in many people moving to that country?

Do you think the mega-agri GMO corporations favor the EU? Of course they do, because they believe that, in the long run, they can exert sufficient influence to have their way—whereas on a continent of separate and autonomous nations, the risk factor would be higher.

All ruthless mega-corporations embrace the EU. That is their preferred system: predators cooperating with other predators. Eventually, you look at the EU and the worst corporations in Europe, and you can’t tell the difference. They’re blood brothers.

Breaking up and dissolving the EU would smell very much like freedom, if enough citizens could remember the scent.

The EU is betting it can sustain control; its program of opening borders and letting in what amounts to a massive crime wave will somehow be given a pass by Europe’s traditional population. The EU is betting it has reduced the people of the continent to such a degree of passivity that any insult is accepted.

“The people don’t want freedom, they want the system.”

That’s a risky gamble.

The EU is showing its teeth for all to see. It’s essentially assaulting the population and daring it to rise up in rebellion.

Which is another aspect of real game theory: launch a series of insults and challenges and tests to those under your rule and see if you can grind them down further and further.

Europe was the cradle of individual liberty. Not China, not India, not Argentina, not Japan, not Bolivia, not Egypt. Europe. That’s why the Globalist EU has Europe in its sights and wants to flatten it.

The biggest systems of control are often built after the biggest wars. Those who engineer and finance those wars, on both sides, understand this. They draw up those systems, in the ashes of the prior conflict. It was always their intention. Just as key members of the Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations were tasked with designing the Union Nations before World War 2 was finished, key Globalist players were already laying out the roadmap to the European Union at the same time.

You could say World War 2 was instigated and fought for the very purpose of bringing in these huge systems of post-war control.

War creates the perceived need for the systems.

Make no mistake about it, the ultimate plan is to erase all separate nations and turn them into distant memories.

Freedom would be the other distant memory.


Jon Rappoport

[gaiagirl]

A despot in disguise: one man’s mission to rip up democracy by George Monbiot

July 19, 2017

It’s the missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half century. To read Nancy MacLean’s new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stealth/dp/1101980966?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-ffsb-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1101980966), is to see what was previously invisible.

The history professor’s work on the subject began by accident. In 2013 she stumbled across a deserted clapboard house on the campus of George Mason University in Virginia. It was stuffed with the unsorted archives of a man who had died that year whose name is probably unfamiliar to you: James McGill Buchanan. She says the first thing she picked up was a stack of confidential letters concerning millions of dollars transferred to the university by the billionaire Charles Koch.

Her discoveries in that house of horrors reveal how Buchanan, in collaboration with business tycoons and the institutes they founded, developed a hidden programme for suppressing democracy on behalf of the very rich. The programme is now reshaping politics, and not just in the US.

Buchanan was strongly influenced by both the neoliberalism of Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and the property supremacism of John C Calhoun, who argued in the first half of the 19th century that freedom consists of the absolute right to use your property (including your slaves) however you may wish; any institution that impinges on this right is an agent of oppression, exploiting men of property on behalf of the undeserving masses.

James Buchanan brought these influences together to create what he called public choice theory. He argued that a society could not be considered free unless every citizen has the right to veto its decisions. What he meant by this was that no one should be taxed against their will. But the rich were being exploited by people who use their votes to demand money that others have earned, through involuntary taxes to support public spending and welfare. Allowing workers to form trade unions and imposing graduated income taxes were forms of “differential or discriminatory legislation” against the owners of capital.

Any clash between “freedom” (allowing the rich to do as they wish) and democracy should be resolved in favor of freedom. In his book The Limits of Liberty, he noted that “despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.” Despotism in defense of freedom.

His prescription was a “constitutional revolution”: creating irrevocable restraints to limit democratic choice. Sponsored throughout his working life by wealthy foundations, billionaires and corporations, he developed a theoretical account of what this constitutional revolution would look like, and a strategy for implementing it.

He explained how attempts to desegregate schooling in the American south could be frustrated by setting up a network of state-sponsored private schools. It was he who first proposed privatizing universities, and imposing full tuition fees on students: his original purpose was to crush student activism. He urged privatization of social security and many other functions of the state. He sought to break the links between people and government, and demolish trust in public institutions. He aimed, in short, to save capitalism from democracy.

In 1980, he was able to put the programme into action. He was invited to Chile, where he helped the Pinochet dictatorship write a new constitution, which, partly through the clever devices Buchanan proposed, has proved impossible to reverse entirely. Amid the torture and killings, he advised the government to extend programmes of privatization, austerity, monetary restraint, deregulation and the destruction of trade unions: a package that helped trigger economic collapse in 1982.

None of this troubled the Swedish Academy, which through his devotee at Stockholm University Assar Lindbeck in 1986 awarded James Buchanan the Nobel memorial prize for economics. It is one of several decisions that have turned this prize toxic.

But his power really began to be felt when Koch, currently the seventh richest man in the US, decided that Buchanan held the key to the transformation he sought. Koch saw even such ideologues as Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan as “sellouts”, as they sought to improve the efficiency of government rather than destroy it altogether. But Buchanan took it all the way.

MacLean says that Charles Koch poured millions into Buchanan’s work at George Mason University, whose law and economics departments look as much like corporate-funded think-tanks as they do academic faculties. He employed the economist to select the revolutionary “cadre” that would implement his programme (Murray Rothbard, at the Cato Institute that Koch founded, had urged the billionaire to study Lenin’s techniques and apply them to the libertarian cause). Between them, they began to develop a programme for changing the rules.

The papers Nancy MacLean discovered show that Buchanan saw stealth as crucial. He told his collaborators that “conspiratorial secrecy is at all times essential”. Instead of revealing their ultimate destination, they would proceed by incremental steps. For example, in seeking to destroy the social security system, they would claim to be saving it, arguing that it would fail without a series of radical “reforms”. (The same argument is used by those attacking the NHS). Gradually they would build a “counter-intelligentsia”, allied to a “vast network of political power” that would become the new establishment.

Through the network of think-tanks that Koch and other billionaires have sponsored, through their transformation of the Republican party, and the hundreds of millions they have poured into state congressional and judicial races, through the mass colonization of Trump’s administration by members of this network and lethally effective campaigns against everything from public health to action on climate change, it would be fair to say that Buchanan’s vision is maturing in the US.

But not just there. Reading this book felt like a demisting of the window through which I see British politics. The bonfire of regulations highlighted by the Grenfell Tower disaster, the destruction of state architecture through austerity, the budgeting rules, the dismantling of public services, tuition fees and the control of schools: all these measures follow Buchanan’s programme to the letter. I wonder how many people are aware that David Cameron’s free schools project stands in a tradition designed to hamper racial desegregation in the American south.

In one respect, Buchanan was right: there is an inherent conflict between what he called “economic freedom” and political liberty. Complete freedom for billionaires means poverty, insecurity, pollution and collapsing public services for everyone else. Because we will not vote for this, it can be delivered only through deception and authoritarian control. The choice we face is between unfettered capitalism and democracy. You cannot have both.

Buchanan’s programme is a prescription for totalitarian capitalism. And his disciples have only begun to implement it. But at least, thanks to MacLean’s discoveries, we can now apprehend the agenda. One of the first rules of politics is, know your enemy. We’re getting there.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/19/despot-disguise-democracy-james-mcgill-buchanan-totalitarian-capitalism

[Hervé]

Wake up to the Rockefeller movie of political reality (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/wake-up-to-the-rockefeller-movie-of-political-reality/)

By Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Jul 24 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/wake-up-to-the-rockefeller-movie-of-political-reality/), 2017

The key document here is the 2010 Rockefeller Foundation brainstorming exercise, “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” (https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_rockefeller10.htm).

It imagines various disasters and possible responses to them.

The report presents a friendly and concerned front, but reading between the lines, you can see Globalism at work, shoring up a new and improved international order—as if that solution is the only viable future for humanity.

Here is a choice bit of scenario-building and forecasting from the report:
“In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit…national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems—from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty—leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.”
Ah yes, the favorite phony stepchild of the Globalists: a pandemic. Forget the fact that every dire prediction of worldwide destruction from a dreaded virus, during the past 15 years, has fallen flat. SARS, Swine Flu, West Nile, Bird Flu, etc. Duds.

Here’s another preposterous Rockefeller future, from the viewpoint of 2010:
“Undeniably, the planet’s climate was becoming increasingly unstable.”

“Sea levels were rising fast, even as countries continued to build-out coastal mega-cities.”

“In 2014, the Hudson River overflowed into New York City during a storm surge, turning the World Trade Center site into a three-foot-deep lake. The image of motorboats navigating through lower Manhattan jarred the world’s most powerful nations into realizing that climate change was not just a developing-world problem.”
The last Time I looked, New York City was not underwater. Submarine taxis weren’t taking people to work.

Now read further, to get a flavor of the Rockefeller solution to the “climate disaster.” Notice that an international order, and NOT separate nations, is required:
“In such an interconnected world, where the behaviors of one country, company, or individual had potentially high-impact effects on all others, piecemeal attempts by one nation here, one small collective of environmental organizations there, would not be enough to stave off a climate disaster – or, for that matter, to effectively address a host of other planetary-scale problems.”

“But highly coordinated worldwide strategies for addressing such urgent issues just might. What was needed was systems thinking – and systems acting – on a global scale.”

“International coordination started slowly, then accelerated faster than anyone had imagined.”

“In 2015, a critical mass of middle income and developed countries with strong economic growth publicly committed to leveraging their resources against global-scale problems, beginning with climate change. Together, their governments hashed out plans for monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the short term and improving the absorptive capacity of the natural environment over the long term.”

“In 2017, an international agreement was reached on carbon sequestration (by then, most multinational corporations had a chief carbon officer) and intellectual and financial resources were pooled to build out carbon capture processes that would best support the global ecosystem. A functioning global cap and trade system was also established.”

“Worldwide, the pressure to reduce waste and increase efficiency in planet-friendly ways was enormous.”
Now here is the big one, with technocracy as the master:
“New globally coordinated systems for monitoring energy use capacity – including smart grids and bottom-up pattern recognition technologies – were rolled out. These efforts produced real results: by 2022, new projections showed a significant slowing in the rise of atmospheric carbon levels.”

“Inspired by the success of this experiment in collective global action, large-scale coordinated initiatives intensified. Centralized global oversight and governance structures sprang up, not just for energy use but also for disease and technology standards. Such systems and structures required far greater levels of transparency, which in turn required more tech-enabled data collection, processing, and feedback.”

“Enormous, benign “sousveillance” systems allowed citizens to access data – all publicly available – in real time and react. Nation-states lost some of their power and importance as global architecture strengthened and regional governance structures emerged. International oversight entities like the UN took on new levels of authority, as did regional systems like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).”
Are you following this? The monitoring of energy use, for example. This is nothing less than moment to moment tracking of energy production and consumption, planet-wide.

It’s the ultimate top-down force. What flows from this position is the ALLOCATION of energy to every nation—and, up the road, TO EVERY HUMAN.

“Mr. Jones, your energy-use card shows you’ve reached your limit for this month. Ten days left until February 1. All your energy-producing devices and assets will shut down now. Have a nice day.”

You don’t think that could ever happen? There is no way to assign energy-use limits to nations without directly impacting use by individuals.

I also hope you noticed the reference to emerging “regional governance structures.” The takeover of separate nations by the UN, the EU, and other unelected bodies.

This is the preferred and mandated Rockefeller solution.

And now a word about the hated and loved Donald Trump. Whatever you think of him, he raised the issue of Globalism, front and center. He shot down the Rockefeller TPP treaty. He didn’t sign the Paris Climate pact. He emphasized nationalism, as opposed to internationalism. He mocked climate-change “science.”

For the moment, let’s assume the very worst. Trump didn’t mean anything he said. He was a liar, is a liar, and will be a liar. He was actually put in office by the Globalists, who wanted a ludicrous enemy to play off of. He wasn’t and isn’t an enemy of Globalism. He’s a complete fraud. By relentlessly attacking Trump, the Globalists will defeat their “last opponent,” and in the next election they will sweep into power as never before, believing they can then complete their plan for worldwide domination. Let’s assume all this.

Nevertheless, millions and millions of people have become alerted to this thing called Globalism as a destructive force with a covert agenda of planetary control.

Observers can go full-bore gloom and doom, claiming it doesn’t matter. They can bitch and moan about how nothing has changed. They can confirm their own personal prophecy of failure along all fronts.

Or they can try to wake up more people to what Globalism is really all about.

All along I’ve said I’m far more interested in the people who supported Trump, for their own reasons, than I’m interested in Trump. And I’m not particularly interested in those supporters’ reasons, either—except when FREEDOM is involved.

The freedom to take destiny into their own hands.

That idea is not dead. It will never be dead.

Time is long.

THE INDIVIDUAL is at the very bottom of the Globalist plan. He is considered to be a fly in the ointment who needs to be eradicated, in favor of The Group.

He is considered to be an extinct evolutionary appendage.

That is why the Globalist superstructure must be defeated.

Psychologically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, creatively, a separate nation is better than an oligarchical global government.

An individual is better than a nation.

A free individual is better than a sleeping individual.

A self-empowered individual—free, responsible, rational, intensely creative—is possible and necessary.

This is where it all starts.

This is where it has to start.

It doesn’t start with a global glob of fantasizing utopians, who are unaware they’re acting on behalf of an Earth Empire.


Jon Rappoport

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... and it all starts with "Education":

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Venezuela regime change project unabashedly revealed (http://www.globalresearch.ca/venezuela-regime-change-project-revealed/5602599)

David William Pear Global Research (http://www.globalresearch.ca/venezuela-regime-change-project-revealed/5602599)
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:48 UTC


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© Ariana Cubillos / The Associated Press


When the U.S.A. wanted a regime change it used to be done in secret by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), especially when that country had a democratically elected government such as Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Chile (1973), Nicaragua (1980's), Haiti (2006), Honduras (2009), Ukraine (2014) and Syria, where the bloody project is still raging, the body count mounting, and millions of refuges are homeless.

In the last few decades the U.S. has grown bolder in its regime change projects. What used to be done secretly is now unabashedly done in plain sight.

The 2017 Venezuela regime change project has gone public.

Most of the U.S. public cannot see the forest for the trees of propaganda that has the public confused about what is behind the chaos in Venezuela today. Mostly what is behind it is U.S. funding millions of dollars to the political parties of the oligarchs. Without that money the opposition political parties would be more divided than they already are and weaker. The mainstream media spreads the propaganda that President Nicolas Maduro is a dictator, and that

Maduro is repressive and killing his own people of peaceful demonstrators.
the Venezuelan Supreme Court judges are his cronies and exceeded their constitutional powers.
the Constituent Referendum called by Maduro was illegal.
the elections have been a fraud.
the opposition are patriots who are demanding democracy.
Maduro has singlehandedly destroyed Venezuela's economy.
the press and television media is censored by Maduro.
the reason President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Venezuela is because it is a national security threat to the U.S.
President Trump has imposed additional sanction because he is upset about democracy, freedom and the rule of law in Venezuela.

None of the above is true.

Yet the main stream media keeps repeating it: New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/opinion/nicolas-maduro-sanctions.html), Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/as-maduro-takes-venezuela-into-uncharted-waters-the-opposition-has-few-options/2017/07/31/5b3f693c-7570-11e7-8c17-533c52b2f014_story.html?utm_term=.0e4e519a6ff5), Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/09/dictator-maduro-thousands-of-venezuelans-protest-ban-of-opposition-leader), Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/02/world-must-turn-back-venezuelas-growing-dictatorship.html), CNBC (https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/07/31/mcmaster-nicolas-maduro-is-not-just-a-bad-leader-hes-now-a-dictator.html), and CNN (http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/08/02/lead-santiago-venezuela-vote-figures-manipulated-live.cnn). Members of Congress (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN17122M) keep repeating these lies, a word I rarely use. Not since the mainstream media was a co-conspirator for the Bush-Cheney administration's illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 has the mainstream media fallen so low and been so guilty of collusion to spread false propaganda supporting illegal U.S. foreign policy aggression.

Anyone who still has illusions that the U.S. mainstream media is free and independent should be dispelled of that belief by what it is misinforming us about Venezuela today.

The co-opting of the mainstream media is not new. Here is a New York Times editorial the day after Hugo Chavez was kidnapped by a military coup government that was installed in 2002:
Uprising In Venezuela: The Government; Venezuela's Chief Forced To Resign; Civilian Installed (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/world/uprising-venezuela-government-venezuela-s-chief-forced-resign-civilian-installed.html)

By Juan Forero April 13, 2002
A transitional government headed by a leading businessman replaced President Hugo Chavez today, hours after military officers forced him to resign. It was a sudden end to the turbulent three-year reign of a mercurial strongman elected on promises to distance his country from the United States while uprooting Venezuela's old social order-

Pedro Carmona Estanga, the head of Venezuela's most important business association, was installed as interim president at a ceremony at 6 p.m. He promised that the new government would adhere to "a pluralistic vision, democratic, civil and ensuring the implementation of the law, the state of law."

Elections will be held within a year, officials said.

The Bush administration laid the blame for Mr. Chavez's overthrow firmly with the ousted leader. Officials portrayed the ouster as a victory for democracy-
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Pedro Francisco Carmona Estangaplace
© Wikimedia Commons


The next day the New York Times was forced by circumstances to reverse itself, kind of a non-retraction retraction. Notice that the "prominent businessman", Pedro Carmona Estanga is not quite so "prominent" after he "dismantled the National Assembly, fired the ministers of the Supreme Court, repealed the constitution, arrested high-level members of the Chavez government and sent others into hiding. He sounds more like the kind of right-wing fascist that the U.S. prefers to be in charge. And exactly who was it that "installed" him as the interim president, the New York Times does not say. It sure made Bush happy thought. Neither the Times nor the U.S. react the way democracy lovers would be expected to after a military coup d'état. How is that a victory for democracy?
Popular Uprising Allows Chavez to Reclaim Venezuelan Presidency (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/international/americas/popular-uprising-allows-chavez-to-reclaim-venezuelan.html)

By Ginger Thompson And Juan Forero April 14, 2002
CARACAS, Venezuela, April 14 - Two days after one huge political movement forced President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela out of power, a countervailing uprising that swept like wildfire through the slums surrounding the capital carried the populist leader back to the presidency today.

Once in power, the short-lived interim government, led by a prominent businessman, Pedro Carmona Estanga, dismantled the National Assembly, fired the ministers of the Supreme Court, arrested high-level members of the Chavez government and sent others into hiding.

The new government announced that Mr. Chavez had resigned from power. But word began to spread mostly through international television news reports that Mr. Chavez had not resigned. His followers in slums and poor towns across the country began to worry for his safety. They took to the streets to demand that Mr. Chavez be freed. And they won. [The Bush administration showed no remorse in its attempt to violently overthrow Chavez, a coup which cost the lives of dozens of people.]

The New York Times went on:
The Bush administration, which showed little regret with Mr. Chavez's apparent ouster on Friday, said it supported the O.A.S. [endorsing Chavez's return to power] resolution. But it called on Mr. Chavez to change his policies.

"I hope that Hugo Chavez takes the message that his people sent him, that his own policies are not working for the Venezuelan people, that he's dealt with them in a high-handed fashion", President Bush's national security adviser, said today on the NBC news program Meet the Press. The Bush Administration, the New York Times and the mainstream media showed no remorse or shame - the U.S. government continued to watch and undermine the Chavista movement, Venezuela's Bolivarian Socialism, in any way that it can. The U.S. continues to be involved and fund a long-term regime change project. The Empire never gives up.

The U.S. has been perfecting its regime change techniques, camouflaging them as "democracy promotion", which is funding subversion through the Agency for International Development (AID), the United States Information Service (USIS), and the Congressional funded National Endowment for Democracy (http://www.ned.org/) (NED), International Republican Institute (http://www.iri.org/) (IRI) and co-opted non-governmental organizations (NGO). Covertly the CIA and US military continue to this day to undermining democracy in Venezuela.

Regime change is being perfected by sophisticated public relations techniques using marketing strategies, constant repetition, image control, word selection, negative campaigns, mass media, false propaganda and mind shock. The public justification for ousting a democratically elected head of state, such as today's Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, is cynically said to be democracy promotion and human rights. The real U.S. foreign policy motivation is to recruit a compliant head of state; but that is not what one will hear from the mainstream media propaganda machine cabal, as the New York Times demonstrated after the U.S. backed military coup in 2002.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. has been on a mission of global hegemony, known as the Wolfowitz Doctrine (http://freedom-articles.toolsforfreedom.com/wolfowitz-doctrine-us-plan-global-supremacy/):
"To prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power".
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Brzezinski and fellow former National Security Advisers meet with President Obama in the Situation Room. September 1, 2010.
© CSIS: Center for Strategic & International Studies / FlickrPhotos


And the Grand Chessboard master Zbigniew Brzezinski:
"The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from - [anywhere in the world] - or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitrating role." The U.S. is imposing world hegemony by military might, political arm twisting and economic domination.

The military might of the U.S. is unquestionable with its trillion dollar annual budget, 1000 foreign outposts in every region of the world, interlocking military alliances such as NATO, and its apparatus of covert special para-military forces and cyber surveillance.

Economic hegemony requires controlling world organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, mega-international corporations and maintaining world financial transactions in the U.S. dollar. The raw economic power of the U.S. is regurgitated by the false theory of neoliberal economics, which has deservedly been labeled Voodoo Economics for good reasons.

Nothing and nobody takes preference ahead of U.S. military and economic world hegemony. To maintain it requires a cadre of academia, mass media, bureaucrats, politicians, and a servant class that is willing to sell their soul for prestige and remuneration. One of the most important functions of this cadre is to manufacture the consent of the majority of the population of the U.S. and its allies. The U.S. will not hesitate to kill millions of people to maintain every link in the chain of hegemony. As the Grand Chess Master Zbigniew Brzezinski himself said:
"It is now harder to control, but easier to kill, a million people." Brzezinski's words were not the idle musing of an intellectual, political scientist or philosopher. He was dead serious. The number of people who have been killed directly and indirectly for U.S. hegemony since 1991 is in the millions. Those millions could not be controlled so they were killed or they became collateral damage, for the benefit of the U.S. Empire. The number of people the U.S. has killed for the sake of democracy and human rights is zero.

The U.S. public has become controllable by a security state apparatus of spies, militarized police, incarceration on an industrial scale, rigged elections, policies to dumb down the population, keep them literally fat and lazy, constantly preoccupy them with meaningless sensationalism, create a consumer culture, entertain them with mindless saturations of sex and violence, and keep them obedient with propaganda from a network of willing corporate mass media.

Gaining the implied consent of the public for an astronomical military budget, foreign wars, military campaigns, and regime change projects has been perfected to a degree that makes George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four look like a child's primer. Despite the trillions of dollars spent on empire, the public has been convinced that the U.S. cannot afford investments in human resources such as healthcare, education, affordable housing, antipoverty programs, mass transportation and needed infrastructure maintenance and improvement.

Nor will the U.S. sit idle while another country invests in its human capital. The U.S. has been on a campaign to overthrow the government of Venezuela since the 1998 election of Hugo Chavez. Chavez broke with the neoliberal neocolonial mold of being compliant to the U.S. Among Venezuela's natural resources is the world's largest proven oil reserve. That is a resource that the U.S. wants to dominate.

Chavez committed the unforgivable crime, in the eyes of the hegemonic U.S., by rejecting neoliberal economics, using Venezuela's oil wealth for the benefit of the Venezuelan people, nationalizing the oil operations in its country, adopting a socialist economic model, entering into a friendship with Cuba, and setting an example for South America that openly defied U.S. domination. Hugo Chavez, his Bolivarian Socialism and his successor Nicolas Maduro are unacceptable to the U.S., and it has been attempting to eradicate them.

In 2002 the George W. Bush administration was caught red handed in a plot with the wealthy and upper middle class of Venezuela to overthrow Chavez in a coup d'état. Chavez was briefly kidnapped, held at a U.S. military facility, and the U.S. immediately recognized the legitimacy of the coup government.

To the U.S. surprise, and Bush's befuddlement, the people of Venezuela turned out in mass demanding Chavez's return as their democratically elected president. The coup government and the U.S. were left with no choice but to comply. But that did not stop the U.S. from continuing to demonize Chavez and attempting to overthrow his democratic socialist government.

After Chavez's death in 2013 his democratically elected Vice President Nicolas Maduro assumed the office of president, according to constitutional law. New elections were held and Maduro again was democratically elected president. The U.S. refused to recognize the legitimacy of the election and together with the wealthy upper class of Venezuela immediately cried election fraud.

The U.S. continued to villainize Maduro, labeling him a dictator and a human rights abuser. The U.S. did not letup on its regime change project. The U.S. has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called "democracy promotion" by USAID, USIS, NED, IRI, NGO's and numerous front organizations in Venezuela to overthrow Maduro and Bolivarian Socialism, either in elections, street violence or by a military coup. To the increasing frustration and anger of the U.S. they have so far failed.

We are now witnessing today a U.S. intensive phase of the regime change project in Venezuela. It is a coup in the making in plain sight. It is following the textbook example used in Ukraine, Honduras and elsewhere over the decades. The people of Venezuela like their democracy the way it is. But no one in the US would know it from the mainstream media propaganda.

President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and Congress are supporting the wealthy coup plotters in Venezuela. Many of the coup plotters are the same ones that backed the kidnapping and attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002.

The U.S. is financing the opposition, leading international diplomatic pressure against Venezuela's democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro, imposing sanctions, and encouraging the Venezuelan military to overthrow the government. The U.S. rhetoric and Fake News propaganda is full of outright lies, there is no nice way to say it. There is no polite word for lies. The regime change artists and coup plotters know exactly what the truth is. Here are just a few examples of the outrageous statements:
"As President Trump has made clear, the United States will not ignore the Maduro regime's ongoing efforts to undermine democracy, freedom, and the rule of law", said Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin (https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13264). [The truth: Venezuela is a democracy, with the best voting system in the world as certified by the Carter Foundation and the Organization of American States (OAS). Maduro is lawfully following the Constitution of Venezuela and he is not a dictator.]

Here is what CIA director Mike Pompeo had to say,
"At any time you have a country as large and with the economic capacity of a country like Venezuela, America has a deep interest in making sure that it is stable, as democratic as possible. And so, we're working hard to do that." [Truth: Venezuela is more democratic and has a better human rights record than the compliant governments of Mexico, Columbia and Brazil that are joining the U.S. in criticizing Maduro for allegedly being a dictator. Pompeo let it slip that the CIA's interests in Venezuela is its "economic capacity". He must mean oil.]

The Fake News is a co-conspirator to the U.S. regime change project. They pound away that Maduro is a "dictator", that Sunday's referendum for a Constituent Assembly (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/07/venezuela-maduro-constituent-assembly-170729172525718.html), which had one of the largest voter turnouts (https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13275) in the history of Venezuela, was fraudulent. That Maduro's security forces are the ones responsible for the deaths and violence which is untrue (http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Heres-Your-Guide-to-Understanding-Protest-Deaths-in-Venezuela-20170422-0016.html); the opposition has caused most of the deaths. The Fake News keeps repeating the numbers killed without revealing who is doing the killing, leaving it as if Maduro is largely responsible. It is another lie by omission.

Those deadly mysterious snipers, which we saw in Ukraine, have shown up again. The agent provocateurs (https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13117) have mostly killed innocent bystanders and their own opposition demonstrators, as in Ukraine. It is cold blooded murder for oil.

The U.S. is not concerned about democracy and human rights. If it were it would be waging a campaign and imposing sanctions against Saudi Arabia, which is on a head-chopping spree (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/amnesty-saudi-stop-bloody-execution-spree-170726071519013.html) since the beginning of the year. The U.S. would be concerned with the obscene number of journalists that have been murdered in Mexico (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/world/americas/veracruz-mexico-reporters-killed.html), that Honduras overthrew a democratic government (https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/15/us-role-honduras-coup-and-subsequent-violence) with a military dictatorship (and U.S. help), that Columbia has some of the most dirty politics (https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/colombia-corruption-farc-peace-deal-latin-america-news-33463/) in South America, where 60% of Columbian voters do not even turn out, that Brazil is mired in scandal and corruption (http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazilian-Presidents-Approval-Ratings-Plummet--20170624-0016.html) and a recession and that less than 5% of the population gives President Michel Temer a favorable rating.

The American people have to internalize that the U.S. does not care about democracy, human rights, justice, political prisoners, torture, journalists or millions of people killed and maimed in U.S. wars of aggression, instigation of chaos and perpetration of regime changes. Of twenty South American countries, Venezuela comes in 7th (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_American_countries_by_Human_Development_Index) in the United Nations Index of Human Development. The Fake News propaganda will not mention that fact.

In the 2012 elections of Hugo Chavez as president, the international humanitarian and election observer President Jimmy Carter certified the results and called Venezuela's voting system "the best in the world (http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/11/venezuelas-electoral-system-is-being-unfairly-maligned.html)". The opposition and the U.S., which before the elections promised to honor Carter's certification, were crying fraud no sooner than the results were announced. Only the U.S. because of its supposed exceptionalism gets to decide who wins elections, who is democratically elected president and who is a dictator.

Venezuela does not need "democracy promotion" (i.e. subversion) from USAID, USIS, NED, IRI and any of the phony NGOs. Venezuela could teach the rest of South America and the U.S. about democracy and human rights. There is only interest in Venezuela "economic capacity", as CIA director Mike Pompeo admitted, meaning mostly oil. And Venezuela has the largest oil reserves Worldwide (See graph below):


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The U.S. wants Venezuela to embrace neoliberalism so that international mega-corporations can exploit its oil, which is the largest proven reserve in the world.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of Exxon, wants to see his former employer get in on the profits, instead of profits being invested in Venezuela's people.

When is the public ever going to get it that the U.S. does not care about democracy, human rights, the deaths of innocent civilians and those widowed, orphaned and made homeless by U.S. stoked wars? They want the oil. (https://www.opednews.com/articles/Venezuela-Under-Siege-by-David-William-Pear-Anti-government_Oil_Propaganda_Sanctions-170717-822.html)

David William Pear is a progressive columnist writing on economic, political and social issues. His articles have been published by OpEdNews, The Greanville Post, The Real News Network, Truth Out, Consortium News, Russia Insider, Pravda, and many other publications.

[Hervé]

Thanks to uzn (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?99533-CIA-Whistleblower-Kevin-Shipp-Risks-All-To-Expose-The-Shadow-Government&p=1176283&viewfull=1#post1176283) for unearthing this video which picks up where Sue Arrigo left off:

New: CIA Agent Whistleblower Risks All To Expose The Shadow Government (http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/new-cia-agent-whistleblower-risks-all-to-expose-the-shadow-government/)


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Kevin Shipp was a decorated CIA officer who refused to look the other way in regard to government criminality and cover-up. At a very important public awareness event, held by GeoengineerWatch.org in Northern California, on July 28th, 2017, Mr. Shipp presented a shocking and compelling presentation on numerous, horrific and ongoing government crimes. The total persecution of anyone who dares to tell the truth about rampant government tyranny is also fully exposed. The paradigm we have all known has been built on deception and the dark agendas of the global power structure. The courage Kevin Shipp has shown by doing his best to expose government criminality and tyranny serves as a stellar example to us all.

We desperately need other individuals in government agencies and the US military to follow Kevin's lead. All of us are essential in the battle to help wake the masses to the truth so that the whistleblowers have the support they need to come forward. If we have any chance of stopping the completely out of control criminal cabal that currently runs our country and much of the world, we must all make our voices heard, we must all join the fight for the greater good.

Dane Wigington


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Towards the end of the presentation, Kevin Shipp explains why so very few whistleblowers ever come out (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?93880-Kevin-Shipp-CIA-whistleblower-on-chemtrails-vaccinations-9-11-and-the-Shadow-Government&p=1106146&viewfull=1#post1106146)... chilling!

[Ewan]

Wow, a 3 month self-imposed sabbatical and did I miss some great posts. Great work Hervé, (and other contributors). The saddening part for me is so few 'thanks' to what is surely one of the greatest wake-up threads in recent years.

[Hervé]

Even Jon Rappoport is coming around to "it":

Antony Sutton, Skull&Bones, Hitler, the Bush family (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/antony-sutton-skullbones-hitler-the-bush-family/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Aug 27 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/antony-sutton-skullbones-hitler-the-bush-family/), 2017

The prodigious author and researcher, Antony Sutton (1925-2002), wrote about hidden men behind momentous events.

I recently came across a 1999 interview with Sutton (http://www.antonysutton.com/suttoninterview.html), conducted by Kris Millegan, researcher and head of TrineDay publishers (http://www.trineday.com/).

Millegan wrote about Antony Sutton in 1999:
“Antony C. Sutton, 74, has been persecuted but never prosecuted for his research and subsequent publishing of his findings. His mainstream career was shattered by his devotion towards uncovering the truth. In 1968, his Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (https://archive.org/details/Parts13) was published by The Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Sutton showed how the Soviet state’s technological and manufacturing base, which was then engaged in supplying the North Vietnamese the armaments and supplies to kill and wound American soldiers, was built by US firms and mostly paid for by the US taxpayers. From their largest steel and iron plant, to automobile manufacturing equipment, to precision ball-bearings and computers, basically the majority of the Soviet’s large industrial enterprises had been built with the United States help or technical assistance.”

“…Then, someone sent Antony a membership list of Skull and Bones and— ‘a picture jumped out’. And what a picture! A multigenerational foreign-based secret society with fingers in all kinds of pies and roots going back to ‘Illuminati’ influences in 1830’s Germany.”
Here are excerpts from the 1999 interview:

Millegan – Can you tell the story of how you learned of Skull & Bones? And how you felt?

Sutton – I knew nothing of S&B until I received a letter in the early 80’s asking if I would like to look at a genuine membership list. For no real reason I said yes. It was agreed to send the package by Federal Express and I could keep it for 24 hours, it had to be returned to the safe. It was a “black bag” job by a family member disgusted with their activities.

For the benefit of any S&B members who may read and doubt the statement; the membership list is in two volumes, black leather bound. Living members and deceased members in separate volumes. Very handsome books.

I spent all night in Kinko’s, Santa Cruz, copied the entire volumes and returned within the 24 hour period.

I have never released any copies or identified the source. I figured each copy could be coded and enable S&B to trace the leak.

How did I feel? I felt then (as I do now} that these “prominent” men are really immature juveniles at heart. The horrible reality is that these little boys have been dominant in their influence in world affairs. No wonder we have wars and violence. Skull and Bones is the symbol of terrorist violence, pirates, the SS Deaths Head Division in WW Two, labels on poison bottles and so on.

I kept the stack of xerox sheets for quite a while before I looked at them—when I did look—a picture jumped out, THIS was a significant part of the so called establishment. No wonder the world has problems!

Millegan: – What did your study of elites, economics, secrecy and technology do for your career?

Sutton – Depends what you mean by “career”?

By conventional standards I am an abject failure. I’ve been thrown out of two major Universities (UCLA and Stanford), denied tenure at Cal State Los Angeles. Every time I write something, it appears to offend someone in the Establishment and they throw me to the wolves.

On the other hand I’ve written 26 books, published a couple of newsletters and so on…even more important I’ve never compromised on the truth. And I don’t quit.

In material terms…hopeless failure. In terms of discovery…I think I’ve been successful. Judge a man by his enemies. William Buckley called me a “jerk”. Glenn Campbell, former Director of the Hoover Institution, Stanford called me “a problem”.

Millegan – Did any of Hitler’s economic policies threaten the interests of the international bankers, and if so did that play a role in his downfall?

Sutton – Hitler’s economic policies were OK’d by the bankers right through the war…ITT, Chase, Texaco and others were operating in Nazi-held France as late as 1945. In fact Chase in Paris was trying to get [acquire] Nazi accounts as late as 1944. When we got to Germany in May 1945, I remember seeing a (bombed-out) Woolworth store in Hamburg and thinking, “What’s Woolworth doing in Nazi Germany?” While we were bombed and shelled it was “business as usual” for Big Business. Try the Alien Custodian Papers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Alien_Property_Custodian).

…Union Banking [Corporation] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Banking_Corporation) is very important. I made a documentary for Dutch National TV some years ago. It got all the way through the production process to the Dutch TV Guide…at the last minute it was pulled and another film substituted. This documentary has proof of Bush financing Hitler—documents.

Maybe my Dutch friends will still get it viewed, but the apparatus reaches into Holland.

Millegan – What is the story that was going to be told on Dutch TV? And what is the story of its censorship?

Sutton – Couple of years back, a Dutch TV production company from Amsterdam—under contract to Dutch National TV—came to US to make documentary on S&B [Skull and Bones]. They went to the Bones Temple and other places and interviewed people on East Coast. On West Coast, they interviewed myself and one other person.

I saw extracts from the original and it is a good professional job. They had documents linking Bush family and other S&B members to financing Hitler through Union Banking of New York and its Dutch correspondent bank. More than I have in [Sutton’s book] WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER (http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/).

The first version was later upgraded into a two part documentary and scheduled for showing this last March. It was pulled at last minute and has never been shown.

(This Dutch TV production is on YouTube in two parts: Part 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZdLFnp1rds) and Part 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzClzAnW9Vo))

Millegan – What do you see for the future?

Suttton – Chaos, confusion and ultimately a battle between the individual and the State.

The individual is the stronger; and will win. The state is a fiction sanctified by Hegel and his followers to CONTROL the individual.

Sooner or later people will wake up. First we have to dump the trap of right and left, this is a Hegelian trap to divide and control. The battle is not between right and left; it is between us and them…


—end of interview excerpt—


Here is a telling Antony Sutton quote from his book, The Best Enemy Money Can Buy (http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/best_enemy/) (1986):
“By using data of Russian origin it is possible to make an accurate analysis of the origins of this equipment. It was found that all the main diesel and steam-turbine propulsion systems of the ninety-six Soviet ships on the Haiphong supply run [to the North Vietnamese] that could be identified (i.e., eighty-four out of the ninety-six) originated in design or construction outside the USSR. We can conclude, therefore, that if the State and Commerce Departments, in the 1950s and 1960s, had consistently enforced the legislation passed by Congress in 1949, the Soviets would not have had the ability to supply the Vietnamese War – and 50,000 more Americans and countless Vietnamese would be alive today.”

“Who were the government officials responsible for this transfer of known military technology? The concept originally came from National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, who reportedly sold President Nixon on the idea that giving military technology to the Soviets would temper their global territorial ambitions. How Henry arrived at this gigantic non sequitur is not known. Sufficient to state that he aroused considerable concern over his motivations. Not least that Henry had been a paid family employee of the Rockefellers since 1958 and has served as International Advisory Committee Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a Rockefeller concern.”
If you think such traitorous actions could never have occurred, I point you to another researcher, Charles Higham, and his 1983 classic, [U]Trading with the Enemy (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682306.Trading_With_The_Enemy).

Higham focuses on World War 2. The men behind the curtain Higham exposed are in the same basic group that Antony Sutton exposed.

Higham, Trading with the Enemy:
“What would have happened if millions of American and British people, struggling with coupons and lines at the gas stations, had learned that in 1942 Standard Oil of New Jersey [part of the Rockefeller empire] managers shipped the enemy’s [Germany’s] fuel through neutral Switzerland and that the enemy was shipping Allied fuel? Suppose the public had discovered that the Chase Bank in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl Harbor was doing millions of dollars’ worth of business with the enemy with the full knowledge of the head office in Manhattan [the Rockefeller family among others?] Or that Ford trucks were being built for the German occupation troops in France with authorization from Dearborn, Michigan? Or that Colonel Sosthenes Behn, the head of the international American telephone conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to Madrid to Berne during the war to help improve Hitler’s communications systems and improve the robot bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT built the FockeWulfs that dropped bombs on British and American troops? Or that crucial ball bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated customers in Latin America with the collusion of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production Board in partnership with Goering’s cousin in Philadelphia when American forces were desperately short of them? Or that such arrangements were known about in Washington and either sanctioned or deliberately ignored?”
Getting the picture?

War, what is it good for? It’s good for business. It’s good for creating chaos and destruction. It’s good for launching new global organizations, in the aftermath; organizations that exert a level of control and reach that didn’t exist before. It’s good for launching organizations like the United Nations and the European Union and the World Trade Organization—dedicated to Globalism, which in turn is dedicated to planned civilization, in which the individual is demeaned and the group is All.

Freedom is demeaned, and dominance by the few over the many is hailed as peace in our time.

Jon Rappoport


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Published on Feb 22, 2011
An excellent talk by Professor Antony Sutton, who taught economics at California State University, and was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

In this talk, Prof. Sutton goes into his impeccable research on how a close-knit group of Western financiers and industrialists (centered around Morgan and Rockefeller in the US, and around Milner and the City financiers, in the UK) created and sustained Soviet Russia.

Particularly, he goes into how Wall Street/City of London financiers used their banking institutions and their industrial enterprises to help finance and sustain the Bolshevik Revolution. Build up Soviet industry during Lenin's Five-Year Plans, both through finance, technology/industrial transfers and technical assistance. Continue to build the Soviets throughout the entire Cold War, through the same kinds of deals. This included the Korea and the Vietnam eras, during which American troops were being killed by... Western-made Soviet equipment.

In his academic research, Sutton also went into how these internationalist interests also supported national-socialism, in Nazi Germany, and in general supported every brand of top-down, command-and-control, socialist type political system.

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See full article under "Show More" below the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD_cJXOjYl8

[Hervé]

More from Jon:

Forgotten history: US bankers financing US enemies—and why it is important now
(https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/forgotten-history-us-bankers-financing-us-enemies-and-why-it-is-important-now/)
by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Aug 28 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/08/28/forgotten-history-us-bankers-financing-us-enemies-and-why-it-is-important-now/), 2017

In 1971, Gary Allen published his book, None Dare Call it Conspiracy (https://www.amazon.com/None-Dare-Call-Conspiracy-Allen/dp/B001KTLVY4/). It quickly became an unofficial best seller.

Over the years, several million copies have been sold.

Allen’s thesis was stark: super-rich American capitalists were financing socialism. This bizarre paradox was resolved when socialism was properly understood—not as “power to the people”—but as elite power over the people. In other words, as a hoax.

These days, the socialist hoax is still unknown to most of the population.

Cloak a global power grab as progress for all of humanity.

Here, from chapter six of None Dare Call it Conspiracy, “The Rockefellers and the Reds,” is a devastating passage commenting on the period just after the Russian Revolution of 1917:
“The Rockefellers assigned their public relations agent, Ivy Lee, to sell the American public the idea that the Bolsheviks were merely misunderstood idealists who were actually kind benefactors of mankind.”

“Professor Antony Sutton (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/antony-sutton-skullbones-hitler-the-bush-family/) of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, notes in his highly authoritative Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (https://archive.org/details/Parts13):”


“’Quite predictably…[Ivy] Lee concludes that the communist problem is merely psychological. By this time he is talking about “Russians” (not Communists) and concludes “they are all right.” He suggests the United States should not engage in propaganda; makes a plea for peaceful coexistence; and suggests the United States would find it sound policy to recognize the USSR and advance credits [give loans].’ (Antony Sutton, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 1917-1930, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Calif., 1968, p.292)”

“After the Bolshevik Revolution, Standard [Oil] of New Jersey [Rockefeller] bought 50 per cent of the Nobel’s huge Caucasus oil fields even though the property had theoretically been nationalized [by Russia]. (O’Connor, Harvey, The Empire Of Oil, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1955, p.270.)”

“In 1927, Standard Oil of New York [Rockefeller] built a refinery in Russia, thereby helping the Bolsheviks put their economy back on its feet. Professor Sutton states: ‘This was the first United States investment in Russia since the Revolution.’ (Ibid, Vol.1, p.38)”

“Shortly thereafter Standard Oil of New York and its subsidiary, Vacuum Oil Company [Rockefeller], concluded a deal to market Soviet oil in European countries and it was reported that a loan of $75,009,000 to the Bolsheviks was arranged. (National Republic, Sept.1927.)”

“…Wherever Standard Oil would go, Chase National Bank was sure to follow. (The Rockefeller’s Chase Bank was later merged with the Warburg’s Manhattan Bank to form the present Chase Manhattan Bank.) In order to rescue the Bolsheviks, who were supposedly an archenemy, the Chase National Bank was instrumental in establishing the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1922. President of the Chamber was Reeve Schley, a vice-president of Chase National Bank. (Ibid, Vol.11, p.288) According to Professor Sutton: ‘In 1925, negotiations between Chase and [Russian] Prombank extended beyond the finance of raw materials and mapped out a complete program for financing Soviet raw material exports to the U. S. and imports of U. S. cotton and machinery.’ (Ibid, Vol.11, p.226) Sutton also reports that ‘Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust Company were leaders in the Soviet credit business.’ (Ibid, p.277)”

“The Rockefeller’s Chase National Bank also was involved in selling Bolshevik bonds in the United States in 1928. Patriotic organizations denounced the Chase as an ‘international fence.’ Chase was called ‘a disgrace to America… They will go to any lengths for a few dollars profits.’ (Ibid, Vol.11, p.291) Congressman Louis McFadden, chairman of the House Banking Committee, maintained in a speech to his fellow Congressmen:”

“’The Soviet government has been given United States Treasury funds by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks acting through the Chase Bank and the Guaranty Trust Company and other banks in New York City.”

“’Open up the books of Amtorg, the trading organization of the Soviet government in New York, and of Gostorg, the general office of the Soviet Trade Organization, and of the State Bank of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States’ Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York’. (Congressional Record, June 15, 1933.)”

“But the Rockefellers apparently were not alone in financing the Communist arm of the Insiders’ conspiracy. According to Professor Sutton ‘… there is a report in the State Department files that names Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (the long established and important financial house in New York) as the financier of the [Russians’] First Five Year Plan. See U. S. State Dept. Decimal File, 811.51/3711 and 861.50 FIVE YEAR PLAN/236.’ (Sutton, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 340n.)”

“Professor Sutton proves conclusively in his three volume history of Soviet technological development that the Soviet Union was almost literally manufactured by the U.S.A…”

“…Sutton shows that there is hardly a segment of the Soviet economy which is not a result of the transference of Western, particularly American, technology.”

“This cannot be wholly the result of accident. For fifty years the Federal Reserve-CFR-Rockefeller-lnsider crowd has advocated and carried out policies aimed at increasing the power of their satellite, the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, America spends $75 billion a year on defense to protect itself from the enemy the Insiders are building up.”
NOTE: The descendants of these bankers are now doing everything they can to build up the story that Donald Trump won the presidency by colluding with Russians. To call this an irony, in view of the above information, would be a vast understatement.

However, the motives of these men are clear: regardless of whether Trump meant to keep his promises to destroy Globalism (aka worldwide socialism), his mere mention of Globalism as the enemy, during the presidential campaign, and his declared opposition to Globalist “free trade” treaties, was sufficient to warrant an all-out attack on him (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/trump-watergate-nixon-rockefeller-the-real-lesson/).

The whole idea of nationalism as preferable to Globalism could act as a contagious germ spreading to the people of other countries—so Trump as the face and symbol of such sentiments had to be defamed and crushed.

Through various front organizations, cutouts, dupes, brainwashed useful idiots, and violent hired thugs, that operation to crush Trump is well underway.

Again—and this point must be understood—IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER TRUMP EVER MEANT TO KEEP HIS PROMISE TO BURY GLOBALISM. THE MERE MENTION OF GLOBALISM AS THE ENEMY WAS AND IS SUFFICIENT TO WARRANT UNCEASING ATTACKS AGAINST HIM.

Many, many of Trump’s supporters want to see Globalism buried.

Ultimately, they are the real target of the Globalists, who want to neutralize and disperse them and make them passive and demoralized.

Jon Rappoport

[Innocent Warrior]

First printed before the Bolshevik Revolution (1907), full PDF, scanned copy, dated 1934 - THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION

https://www.portalestoria.net/IMAGES%20313/protocols%20-%20en.pdf

Warning, not an easy read, weighs heavy on the heart.

[Bill Ryan]

In 1971, Gary Allen published his book, None Dare Call it Conspiracy (https://www.amazon.com/None-Dare-Call-Conspiracy-Allen/dp/B001KTLVY4/). It quickly became an unofficial best seller.

I was given that to read way back in 1972, by someone I met by chance when hitch-hiking in Canada. It was a thin book. It was designed to be passed from person to person, fitting easily in people's pockets.

I read it from cover to cover in one sitting, and got the entire picture. I was very fortunate (or, just maybe I scripted it! :) ) to get that full briefing so early.

[Ron Mauer Sr]

In 1971, Gary Allen published his book, None Dare Call it Conspiracy (https://www.amazon.com/None-Dare-Call-Conspiracy-Allen/dp/B001KTLVY4/). It quickly became an unofficial best seller.

I was given that to read way back in 1972, by someone I met by chance when hitch-hiking in Canada. It was a thin book. It was designed to be passed from person to person, fitting easily in people's pockets.

I read it from cover to cover in one sitting, and got the entire picture. I was very fortunate (or, just maybe I scripted it! :) ) to get that full briefing so early.

The book None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen was an early wake up call for me, circa 1995, about how pieces of the puzzle fit together. I lost the first copy but I purchased another copy because I felt it was so important.

[HaveBlue]

None Dare Call it Conspiracy is the book that sealed it for Alex, He then borrowed 50 grand from his dad, a dentist and started Infowars. He paid his dad back and his dad now works for his son in the warehouse. He stuck it out and played a 'yuge' part in Trump being elected over Hillary. Sometimes the system works. Heaven forbid that it should so they need to go after free speech now!

[uzn]

First printed before the Bolshevik Revolution (1907), full PDF, scanned copy, dated 1934 - THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION

https://www.portalestoria.net/IMAGES%20313/protocols%20-%20en.pdf

Warning, not an easy read, weighs heavy on the heart.

Consider,
Back in a time when the Tzar Family was driving around in golden charriots and the Population was starving or chewing the bark of trees, tensions grew. The powers that were needed a scapegoat to direct the peoples anger at. Piotr Rachkovskii was head of the foreign branch of the Russian secret police, the infamous Okhrana, and just had an idea. He ordered Matvei Golovinski to fabricate a document that proves that the yews are behind the suffering of the russian People. It worked for the Russians, but the documents developed a life of their own up to this day.


Famous Comicbook writer and painter Will Eisner did uncountable Comics in his lifetime. The last Comic he did was exposing the aboth Story. He finishes the Comic, next thing you know, he´s dead. The Comic was published after his death. Kind of you know like Stanley Kubrik. Finished "Eyes Wide Shut" and the next day he was dead. Well coincidences coincidences.
https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41cOVw2LMaL.jpg
The biggest Honour in the Comicbuisness is when you get the Will Eisner Award. And the forword is by no other than Umberto Eco. I read it, if you just read 1 Comic in your life, thats a good choise.
The book tells of the antisemitic conspiracy behind the falsified work Protocols of the Elders of Zion, written by the Russian-French writer Mathieu Golovinski in 1905. Eisner was inspired to write it when a few years before his death in 2005 he learned Radio Islam was broadcasting the Protocols.
The book was released by W. W. Norton in 2005 with an introduction by Umberto Eco entitled "The Power of Falsehood".

Interesting read:
http://fschuppisser.ch/storepdf/hageprot.pdf
http://fschuppisser.ch/storepdf/hageprot.pdf


The oldest version was russian:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/1905_2fnl_Velikoe_v_malom_i_antikhrist.jpg

Matvei Golovinski´s Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matvei_Golovinski

[Hervé]

Once one gets the inkling on who financed Nazism, the Bolsheviks, the brown shirts, etc; the following might start to make some sense:

Antifa flag comes directly from German Communist Party in 1932 (http://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/2017/08/16/antifa-flag-comes-directly-from-the-german-communist-party-in-1932/#sthash.AO70PlFk.yAI1w4QK.dpbs)

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Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:41 UTC

On the Left, the 1932 flag of the paramilitary wing of the Communist Party of Germany. On the Right, the 2017 flag of the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party of America.


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Everything theses Alt-Left thugs use today is exactly the same as back then. Their logo, weaponized words, double standards and lack of logic. Its all from Germany 85 years ago. They call everyone Nazis because that is who their opposition in Germany was. Antifa prefaced The National Socialist German Workers' Party and empowered them. Without Antifa's violence the Nazi party would have never won anything.

Antifaschistische Aktion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion)
The first German movement to call itself Antifaschistische Aktion was proclaimed by the German Communist Party (KPD) in their newspaper Rote Fahne in 1932 and held its first rally in Berlin on 10 July 1932, then capital of the Weimar Republic. During the early 1930s amidst rising tensions between Nazis and the communists, Berlin in particular has been the site of regular and often very violent clashes between the two groups. In May 1932, the communist paramilitary organisation Rotfrontkämpferbund had been banned and, following a skirmish between Nazi and communist members in the parliament, the Antifaschistische Aktion was founded to ensure that the communists had still a militant wing to rival the paramilitary organisations of the Nazis. After the forced dissolution in the wake of the Machtergreifung in 1933, the movement was revived during the 1980s.

One of the biggest antifascist campaigns in Germany in recent years was the, ultimately successful, effort to block the annual Nazi-rallies in the east German city of Dresden in Saxony, which had grown into "Europe's biggest gathering of Nazis".

In October 2016, the Antifa in Dresden campaigned on the occasion of the anniversary of the reunification of Germany on 3 October for "turning Unity celebrations into a disaster" ("Einheitsfeierlichkeiten zum Desaster machen"), to protest this display of new German nationalism, whilst explicitly not ruling out the use of violence.


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'Come to us' - Antifaschistische Aktion poster from 1932


The picture below is from the leftist run Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Germany). This is the description under the picture on Wikipedia:
"Karl-Liebknecht-Haus, the KPD's headquarters from 1926 to 1933. The KPD leaders were arrested by the Gestapo in this building in January 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor. The plaques on either side of the door recall the building's history. Today it is the Berlin headquarters of the Left Party."
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[Innocent Warrior]

Hi uzn, thanks for the material, I have not yet read the PDF but unless it pulls the book I posted apart and addresses the actual content of the protocols, the implications of the content and the evidence supporting their authenticity, which includes the current state of affairs, my following points will still hold.

The author of the version I posted is Victor E. Marsden, the protocols are only one chapter in one part of the book, the remaining of the book is explanatory notes (incl. supporting evidence) and a preface, and it's tight, if you haven't read this version I highly recommend it.


Consider,
Back in a time when the Tzar Family was driving around in golden charriots and the Population was starving or chewing the bark of trees, tensions grew. The powers that were needed a scapegoat to direct the peoples anger at. Piotr Rachkovskii was head of the foreign branch of the Russian secret police, the infamous Okhrana, and just had an idea. He ordered Matvei Golovinski to fabricate a document that proves that the yews are behind the suffering of the russian People. It worked for the Russians, but the documents developed a life of their own up to this day.

Well Golovinski didn't do a very good job of blaming the Jews because within the protocols themselves the speaker makes a clear distinction between the Zionist conspirators and the Jews when he mentions controlling their lesser bretheren (no way he was referring to any non Jews as their bretheren). Also, if the above quote of yours was the case then how odd that the revolution took place just before Nilus' (first publsher of the protocols) second edition could be put on the market and then Alexander Kerenski ordered all copies of Nilus' edition to be destroyed (see page 101 for more details and search Kerenski to see who he was, hence why that would be so odd in that case).


Famous Comicbook writer and painter Will Eisner did uncountable Comics in his lifetime. The last Comic he did was exposing the aboth Story. He finishes the Comic, next thing you know, he´s dead. The Comic was published after his death. Kind of you know like Stanley Kubrik. Finished "Eyes Wide Shut" and the next day he was dead. Well coincidences coincidences.

Speaking of coincidences, similarly with Marsden, he died of a sudden and mysterious illness three years before his translation and notes were published. It seems you're damned if you go against them and damned if you don't (and then knew too much), let that be a lesson to the sellouts.

So here we have two suspicious deaths but on one hand we have a highly celebrated writer and artist and on the other hand we have a demonised journalist and translator who was a victim of the revolution. Now, considering Eisner was apparently disposable, why do you think he's the one who remains prestigious? Because he's the one they want the masses to listen to.


The oldest version was russian:

From page 100 -

"In 1884 the daughter of a Russian general, Mlle Justine Glinka, was endeavouring to serve her country in Paris by obtaining political information, which she communicated to General Orgevskii in St Petesberg. For this purpose she employed a Jew, Joseph Schorst, member of the Mizraim Lodge in Paris. One day Schorst offered to obtain for her a document of great importance to Russia, on payment of 2,500 francs. This sum being received from St Petersburg was paid over and the document handed to Mlle Glinka.

She forwarded the French original, accompanied by a Russian translation, to Orgevskii, who in turn handed it to his chief, General Cherevin, for transmission to the Tsar."

Cherevin didn't hand it to the tsar but it continues to show how it ended up in Nilus' hands from there. Note that Schorst's father had been imprisoned for ten years, two years before Schorst sold her the protocols (for counterfeiting, right, like they care about that, I wonder what he really did or 'counterfeited'). Schorst fled to Egypt where he was murdered.

But above all that, in the year 2017, over a century later, I echo Henry Ford's words -

"The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time.
THEY FIT NOW.""

They fit now!

[BMJ]

An example of another transfer of technology and a very important one for Japan just before the advent of WW2. The most important fighter plane of WW2 for the Japanese was the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, which may have been a copy of the Gloster F.5/34.

Quote from wikipedia:
"The Zero resembled the 1937 British Gloster F.5/34. Performance of the Gloster F.5/34 was comparable to that of early model Zeros, with its dimensions and appearance remarkably close to the Zero.[14] Gloster had a relationship with the Japanese between the wars, with Nakajima building the carrier-based plane, the Gloster Gambet, under license."

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero

Image below of F.5/34 versus the Mitsubishi A6M Zero
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Also an interesting read here:

Gloster F. 5/34 and A6M Zero Fighter Enigma of Jiro Horigoshi and his design roots, by Jiro Anzai

Link: http://www.i-repository.net/contents/outemon/ir/301/301871208.pdf

With a graphic comparison table on page 5, and interesting points in the topic "Of The Anti-Spin Measure Taken"

[Hervé]

Killing of William Browder: Bill Browder’s Dangerous Deception – review by The Saker (http://thesaker.is/cooperative-authors-the-killing-of-william-browder-deconstructing-bill-browders-dangerous-deception-alex-krainer-with-review-by-the-saker/)


The Saker August 21, 2017 28 Comments (http://thesaker.is/cooperative-authors-the-killing-of-william-browder-deconstructing-bill-browders-dangerous-deception-alex-krainer-with-review-by-the-saker/#comments)


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The Saker:

Today I want to introduce you to a book whose importance simply cannot be overstated: The Killing of William Browder: Deconstructing Bill Browder’s Dangerous Deception (https://www.amazon.com/Killing-William-Browder-Deconstructing-Dangerous/dp/2955692328/) by Alex Krainer. I consider that book as a *must read* for any person trying to understand modern Russia and where the new Cold War with Russia came from.

Most of you must have heard of the Magnitsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act)Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act) or even maybe of William Browder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder) himself. You probably know that Browder was a British businessman who founded Hermitage Capital Management (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitage_Capital_Management) investment fund which Sergei Magnitsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky) represented as a lawyer and auditor. Finally, you must have heard that Magnitsky died (was killed) in a Russian jail while Browder was placed by the Russian government on a black list and denied entry. For the vast majority of you, that is probably as much thought as you ever gave this topic and I have to confess that this is also true for me. I never bothered really researching this issue because I knew the context so well that this, by itself, gave me a quasi-certitude that I knew what had happened. Still, when I read this book I was amazed at the fantastically detailed account Krainer provides to what is really an amazing story.

In his book Alex Krainer offers us the truth and truly shows us how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Interestingly, Krainer himself admits that he was initially rather suspicious of Putin and very sympathetic to Bill Browder. Paradoxically, it is Bill Browder’s book, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice (https://www.amazon.com/Red-Notice-Finance-Murder-Justice/dp/1476755744/), which triggered Krainer’s internal alarms and which made him dig deep into this story. I won’t give you all the details here, Kainer does it better than I ever could, and you really need to get a copy of his book. I will just say here that the book begins by a meticulous and sophisticated debunking, piece by piece, not only of all the lies contained in Browder’s book, but also of the sophisticated propaganda techniques used by Browder to demonize Putin, Russia and the Russian people. Far from being this person who “believes in Russia”, Krainer shows that Browder is a hate-filled racist bigot whose hate for everything Russian is as visceral as it is ever present.

Next, Krainer provides a most needed and extremely detailed presentation of what he calls “the missing context”, that is the vicious plundering of Russia by Russian oligarchs and Western financiers during the 1990s. As somebody who lived through these years I can attest that Krainer’s description is accurate. His only mistake is when he indicates that while the official figure of people killed in the 1993 is only 187 killed, the real figure “Unofficial figures might have been as many as ten times higher”. A well-infomed and high-place source of mine in the Russian special forces told me that the internal government estimates (no real tally was ever made, nor was it possible to make one anyway) placed the real number of people killed for the Moscow region in the course of the week following the crackdown at no less than 5’000 for the Moscow region. But other than that, Krainer is spot on.

Having provided the context, Krainer goes on to explain what Vladimir Putin did once he came to power. This section is also crucial because it shows the real causes of the hatred Browder and his likes have for Putin: the man basically made them lose their grip and Russia.

The book concludes by a warning: Browder and the cabal of Russia-hating international financiers standing behind him are planning to turn his book into a Hollywood blockbuster. To quote the book,
At this time Browder is not yet a household name among the American or European people but I suspect that this might change if his plans to turn “Red Notice” into a Hollywood film come to fruition. In an interview with “The Jewish Chronicle” Browder said that, “The most important next step in the campaign is to adapt the book into a Hollywood feature film … I have been approached by many film makers and spent part of the summer in LA meeting with screenwriters, producers and directors to figure out what the best constellation of players will be on this”.
Is it not telling that Browder himself calls this a “campaign”? It reminds me of a very similar campaign American-Jewish bankers waged against Russia just before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

At a time when Guy Mettan’s excellent book “Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to the anti-Putin Hysteria (https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Russophobia-Religious-Anti-Putin-Hysteria/dp/0997896523/)” (whose original French language version I reviewed here) has finally come out in English, it is essential to own at least one copy of Alex Krainer’s book. Krainer, who is a Croat national, has already lived through the outbreak of one war as a result of which his country has become a NATO colony. His book is a stark warning to all of us and a meticulous analysis of how the AngloZionists start wars. Get the book, read it, and then give it to your friends. This is one of the most important books to have come out in the recent years (and an excellent read too!).

The Saker

About the Author: Alex Krainer is a hedge fund manager based in Monaco. He (occasionally) writes at www.thenakedhedgie.com (http://www.thenakedhedgie.com).

Back cover of the book:
In 2015, Bill Browder published “Red Notice” – purportedly a true story about his experience in Russia between 1996 and 2005. Upon closer scrutiny however, his story doesn’t add up and demonstrably fails to stand up in a court of law. Nonetheless, on the dubious strength of that story, Browder has been able to lobby the U.S. Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act in 2012 which needlessly damaged the relations between the U.S. and Russia. Mark Twain warned us long ago about the “loud little handful,” shouting for war. Bill Browder has been one of the loudest and most effective among that loud little handful clamoring for a new Cold War with Russia. Where he failed in courts of law, his campaign of relentless demonization of Russia and of Vladimir Putin has been successful in the court of public opinion in the West. As humanity finds itself on the precipice of yet another great war, what we need are bridges of mutual understanding and constructive engagement, not demonization. This book’s modest hope is to contribute to the construction of those bridges for I believe that the people of the United States and Russia, to whom this book is dedicated, hold the keys to the future of humanity.


Praise for the book:
Author and film maker Roman Latkovic: “I am extremely impressed,… if you kept this up you’ll be the new F. William Engdahl. And more. Your background is different, you have more heart in it and you could be more powerful. Congratulations from the heart, I’m jealous of the energy you invested in this book. Absolutely monumental work.”

Andrei Nekrasov today wrote: “once again, congratulations on your extraordinary achievement. I will continue to praise you over time, because, I am certain, your book will be very influential and pivotal in the process of exposing one of the century’s biggest hoaxes. Moreover, it puts it into the essential historic and even philosophical context. And that’s how I’ve come to see the Browder phenomenon.”

[Hervé]

Douglas Valentine: The CIA and 70 years of organized crime (http://www.larsschall.com/2017/09/19/the-cia-70-years-of-organized-crime/)

Lars Schall Lars Schall (http://www.larsschall.com/2017/09/19/the-cia-70-years-of-organized-crime/)
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:01 UTC

On occasion of the CIA's 70th anniversary, Lars Schall talked with U.S. researcher Douglas Valentine about the Central Intelligence Agency. According to Valentine, the CIA is "the organized crime branch of the U.S. government", doing the dirty business for the rich and powerful.


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70 years ago, on September 18, 1947, the National Security Act created the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. Douglas, you refer to the CIA as "the organized crime branch of the U.S. government." Why so?

Everything the CIA does is illegal, which is why the government provides it with an impenetrable cloak of secrecy. While mythographers in the information industry portray America as a bastion of peace and democracy, CIA officers manage criminal organizations around the world. For example, the CIA hired one of America's premier drug trafficker in the 1950s and 1960s, Santo Trafficante, to murder Fidel Castro. In exchange, the CIA allowed Trafficante to import tons of narcotics into America. The CIA sets up proprietary arms, shipping, and banking companies to facilitate the criminal drug trafficking organizations that do its dirty work. Mafia money gets mixed up in offshore banks with CIA money, until the two are indistinguishable.

Drug trafficking is just one example.

What is most important to understand about the CIA?

Its organizational history, which, if studied closely enough, reveals how the CIA manages to maintain its secrecy. This is the essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we would be able to study and speak about the CIA. We would confront our institutionalized racism and sadism. But we can't, and so our history remains unknown, which in turn means we have no idea who we are, as individuals or as a nation. We imagine ourselves to be things we are not. Our leaders know bits and pieces of the truth, but they cease being leaders once they begin to talk about the truly evil things the CIA is doing.

A term of interest related to the CIA is "plausible deniability". Please explain.

The CIA doesn't do anything it can't deny. Tom Donohue, a retired senior CIA officer, told me about this.

Let me tell you a bit about my source. In 1984, former CIA Director William Colby agreed to help me write my book, The Phoenix Program. Colby introduced me to Donohue in 1985. Donohue had managed the CIA's "covert action" branch in Vietnam from 1964-1966, and many of the programs he developed were incorporated in Phoenix. Because Colby had vouched for me, Donohue was very forthcoming and explained a lot about how the CIA works.

Donohue was a typical first-generation CIA officer. He'd studied Comparative Religion at Columbia and understood symbolic transformation. He was a product and practitioner of Cook County politics who joined the CIA after World War Two when he perceived the Cold War as "a growth industry." He had been the CIA's station chief in the Philippines at the end of his career and, when I spoke to him, he was in business with a former Filipino Defense Minister. He was putting his contacts to good use, which is par for the course. It's how corruption works for senior bureaucrats.

Donohue said the CIA doesn't do anything unless it meets two criteria. The first criterion is "intelligence potential." The program must benefit the CIA; maybe it tells them how to overthrow a government, or how to blackmail an official, or where a report is hidden, or how to get an agent across a border. The term "intelligence potential" means it has some use for the CIA. The second criterion is that it can be denied. If they can't find a way to structure the program or operation so they can deny it, they won't do it. Plausible denial can be as simple as providing an officer or asset with military cover. Then the CIA can say, "The army did it."

Plausible denial is all about language. During Senate hearings into CIA assassination plots against Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders, the CIA's erstwhile deputy director of operations Richard Bissell defined "plausible denial" as "the use of circumlocution and euphemism in discussions where precise definitions would expose covert actions and bring them to an end."

Everything the CIA does is deniable. It's part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn't want to be held accountable for the criminal things the CIA does. The only time something the CIA does become public knowledge - other than the rare accident or whistleblower - is when Congress or the President think it's helpful for psychological warfare reasons to let the American people know the CIA is doing it. Torture is a good example. After 9/11, and up until and through the invasion of Iraq, the American people wanted revenge. They wanted to see Muslim blood flowing, so the Bush administration let it leak that they were torturing evil doers. They played it cute and called it "enhanced interrogation," but everyone understood symbolically. Circumlocution and euphemism. Plausible denial.

Do the people at the CIA know that they're part of "the organized crime branch of the U.S. government"? In the past, you've suggested related to the Phoenix program, for example: "Because the CIA compartmentalizes itself, I ended up knowing more about the program than any individual in the CIA."

Yes, they do. I talk at length about this in my book The CIA as Organized Crime. Most people have no idea what cops really do. They think cops give you a speeding ticket. They don't see the cops associating with professional criminals and making money in the process. They believe that when a guy puts on a uniform, he or she becomes virtuous. But people who go into law enforcement do so for the trill of wielding power over other people, and in this sense, they relate more to the crooks they associate with than the citizens they're supposed to protect and serve. They're looking to bully someone and they're corrupt. That's law enforcement.

The CIA is populated with the same kind of people, but without any of the constraints. The CIA officer who created the Phoenix program, Nelson Brickham, told me this about his colleagues: "I have described the intelligence service as a socially acceptable way of expressing criminal tendencies. A guy who has strong criminal tendencies but is too much of a coward to be one, would wind up in a place like the CIA if he had the education." Brickham described CIA officers as wannabe mercenaries "who found a socially acceptable way of doing these things and, I might add, getting very well paid for it."

It's well known that when the CIA selects agents or people to run militias or secret police units in foreign nations, it subjects its candidates to rigorous psychological screening. John Marks in The Search for the Manchurian Candidate told how the CIA sent its top psychologist, John Winne, to Seoul to "select the initial cadre" for the Korean CIA. "I set up an office with two translators," Winne told Marks, "and used a Korean version of the Wechsler." CIA shrinks gave the personality assessment test to two dozen military and police officers, "then wrote up a half-page report on each, listing their strengths and weaknesses. Winne wanted to know about each candidate's ability to follow orders, creativity, lack of personality disorders, motivation - why he wanted out of his current job. It was mostly for the money, especially with the civilians."

In this way, the CIA recruits secret police forces as assets in every country where it operates, including occupied Iraq and Afghanistan. In Latin America, Marks wrote, "The CIA...found the assessment process most useful for showing how to train the anti-terrorist section. According to results, these men were shown to have very dependent psychologies and needed strong direction."

That "direction" came from the CIA. Marks quoted one assessor as saying, "Anytime the Company spent money for training a foreigner, the object was that he would ultimately serve our purposes." CIA officers "were not content simply to work closely with these foreign intelligence agencies; they insisted on penetrating them, and the Personality Assessment System provided a useful aid."

What's less well known is that the CIA's executive management staff is far more concerned with selecting the right candidates to serve as CIA officers than it is about selecting agents overseas. The CIA dedicates a huge portion of its budget figuring how to select, control, and manage its own work force. It begins with instilling blind obedience. Most CIA officers consider themselves to be soldiers. The CIA is set up as a military organization with a sacred chain of command that cannot be violated. Somebody tells you what to do, and you salute and do it. Or you're out.

Other systems of control, such as "motivational indoctrination programs", make CIA officers think of themselves as special. Such systems have been perfected and put in place over the past seven decades to shape the beliefs and responses of CIA officers. In exchange for signing away their legal rights, they benefit from reward systems - most importantly, CIA officers are immune from prosecution for their crimes. They consider themselves the Protected Few and, if they wholeheartedly embrace the culture of dominance and exploitation, they can look to cushy jobs in the private sector when they retire.

The CIA's executive management staff compartments the various divisions and branches so that individual CIA officers can remain detached. Highly indoctrinated, they blindly obey on a "need to know" basis. This institutionalized system of self-imposed ignorance and self-deceit sustains, in their warped minds, the illusion of American righteousness, upon which their motivation to commit all manner of crimes in the name of national security depends. That and the fact that most are sociopaths.

It's a self-regulating system too. As FBN Agent Martin Pera explained, "If you're successful because you can lie, cheat, and steal, those things become tools you use in the bureaucracy."

Can you tell us please what's behind a term you like to use, the "Universal Brotherhood of Officers"?

The ruling class in any state views the people it rules as lesser beings to be manipulated, coerced, and exploited. The rulers institute all manner of systems - which function as protection rackets - to assure their class prerogatives. The military is the real power in any state, and the military in every state has a chain of command in which blind obedience to superiors is sacred and inviolable. Officers don't fraternize with enlisted men because they will at some point send them to their deaths. There is an officer corps in every military, as well as in every bureaucracy and every ruling class in every state, which has more in common with military officers, top bureaucrats, and rulers in other states, than it does with the expendable, exploitable riff raff in its own state.

Cops are members of the Universal Brotherhood of Officers. They exist above the law. CIA officers exist near the pinnacle of the Brotherhood. Blessed with fake identities and bodyguards, they fly around in private planes, live in villas, and kill with state-of-the-art technology. They tell army generals what to do. They direct Congressional committees. They assassinate heads of state and murder innocent children with impunity and with indifference. Everyone to them, but their bosses, is expendable.

In your opinion, it is the "National Security Establishment's deepest, darkest secret" that it is involved in the global drug trade. How did this involvement come about?

There are two facets to the CIA's management and control of international drug trafficking, on behalf of the corporate interests that rule America. It's important to note that the US government's involvement in drug trafficking began before the CIA existed, as a means of controlling states, as well as the political and social movements within them, including America. Direct involvement started in the 1920s when the US helped Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime in China support itself through the narcotics trade.

During World War II, the CIA' predecessor, the OSS, provided opium to Kachin guerrillas fighting the Japanese. The OSS and the US military also forged ties with the American criminal underworld during the Second World War, and would thereafter secretly provide protection to American drug traffickers whom it hired to do its dirty work at home and abroad.

After the Nationalists were chased out of China, the CIA established these drug traffickers in Taiwan and Burma. By the 1960's, the CIA was running the drug trade throughout Southeast Asia, and expanding its control worldwide, especially into South America, but also throughout Europe. The CIA supported its drug trafficking allies in Laos and Vietnam. Air Force General Nguyen Cao Ky, while serving in 1965 as head of South Vietnam's national security directorate, sold the CIA the right to organize private militias and build secret interrogation centers in every province, in exchange for control over a lucrative narcotic smuggling franchise. Through his strongman, General Loan, Ky and his clique financed both their political apparatus and their security forces through opium profits. All with CIA assistance.

The risk of having its ties to drug traffickers in Southeast Asia exposed, is what marks the beginning of the second facet - the CIA's infiltration and commandeering of the various government agencies involved in drug law enforcement. Senior American officials arranged for the old Bureau of Narcotics to be dissolved and recreated in 1968 within the Justice Department as the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. The CIA immediately began infiltrating the highest levels of the BNDD for the purpose of protecting its drug trafficking allies around the world, especially in Southeast Asia. The CIA's Counter-Intelligence Branch, under James Angleton, had been in liaison with these drug agencies since 1962, but in 1971 the function was passed to the CIA's operations division. In 1972, CIA officer Seymour Bolten was appointed as the CIA director's Special Assistant for the Coordination of Narcotics. Bolten became an advisor to William Colby and later DCI George H.W. Bush. By 1973, with the establishment of the DEA, the CIA was in total control of all foreign drug law enforcement operations and was able to protect traffickers in the US as well. In 1990 the CIA created its own counter-narcotics center, despite being prohibited from exercising any domestic law enforcement function.

Is the war on drugs also a war on blacks? Let me give you some framework for this question, because John Ehrlichman, a former top aide to Richard Nixon, supposedly admitted that: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." (1) And I can quote from H. R. Haldeman's diaries in this respect, of course. In the early stages of his presidency, more specifically on April 28, 1969, Nixon outlined his basic strategy to his chief of staff: "[President Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to." (2) So, is the war on drugs that started under Nixon also a war on blacks? And if so, what does this tell us about the United States?

America is a former slave state and a blatantly racist society, so yes, the war on drugs, which is managed by white supremacists, was and is directed against blacks and other despised minorities as a way of keeping them disenfranchised. The old Bureau of Narcotics was blatantly racist: not until 1968 were black FBN agents allowed to become group supervisors (Grade 13) and manage white agents.

I interviewed former FBN Agent William Davis for my book about the FBN, The Strength of the Wolf. Davis articulated the predicament of black agents. After graduating from Rutgers University in 1950, Davis, while visiting New York City, heard singer Kate Smith praising FBN Agent Bill Jackson on a radio show. "She described him as a black lawyer who was doing a fine job as a federal narcotic agent," Davis recalled, "and that was my inspiration. I applied to the Narcotics Bureau and was hired right away, but I soon found out there was an unwritten rule that Black agents could not hold positions of respect: they could not become group leaders, or manage or give direction to whites. The few black agents we had at any one time," he said bitterly, "maybe eight in the whole country, had indignities heaped upon us."

Davis told how Wade McCree, while working as an FBN agent in the 1930s, created a patent medicine. But McCree made the mistake of writing to Eleanor Roosevelt to complain that prosecutors in the South were calling black agents "n*ggers." As a result, the FBN's legal staff charge McCree with using FBN facilities to create his patent medicine. McCree was fired with the intended ripple effect: his dismissal sent a clear message that complaints from black agents would not be tolerated.

In an interview for The Strength of the Wolf, Clarence Giarusso, a veteran New Orleans narcotic agent and its chief of police in the 1970s, explained to me the racial situation from local law enforcement's perspective. "We made cases in Black neighborhoods because it was easy," he said. "We didn't need a search warrant, it allowed us to meet our quotas, and it was ongoing. If we found dope on a Black man we could put him in jail for a few days and no one cared. He has no money for a lawyer, and the courts are ready to convict; there's no expectation on the jury's part that we even have to make a case. So rather than go cold turkey he becomes an informant, which means we can make more cases in his neighborhood, which is all we're interested in. We don't care about Carlos Marcello or the Mafia. City cops have no interest in who brings the dope in. That's the job of federal agents."

Anyone who thinks it is any different nowadays is living in a fantasy world. Where I live, in Longmeadow, MA, the cops are the first line of defense against the blacks and Puerto Ricans in the nearby city of Springfield. About 15 years ago, there was a Mafia murder in Springfield's Little Italy section. At the time, blacks and Puerto Ricans were moving into the neighborhood and there was a lot of racial tension. The local TV station interviewed me about it, and I said the Al Bruno, the murdered Mafia boss, was probably an FBI informant. The next day, people I knew wouldn't talk to me. Comments were made. Someone told me Bruno's son went to the same health club as me. In a city like Springfield and its suburban neighborhoods, everyone is related to or friends with someone in the Mafia.

A few years before Bruno's murder, I had befriended the janitor at the health club I belong to. By chance, the janitor was the son of a Springfield narcotics detective. The janitor and I shot pool and drank beers in local bars. One day he told me a secret his father had told him. His father told him that the Springfield cops let the Mafia bosses bring narcotics into Springfield and in exchange, the hoods named their black and Puerto Ricans customers. That way, like Giarusso said above, the cops keep making cases and the minority communities have a harder time buying houses and encroaching on the established whites in their neighborhoods. This happens everywhere in the US every day.

Is it ironic to you that the whole drug trade wouldn't exist as it does today if the drugs were not illegal in the first place?

The outlawing of narcotic drugs turned the issue of addiction from a matter of "public health" into a law enforcement issue, and thus a pretext for expanding police forces and reorganizing the criminal justice and social welfare systems to prevent despised minorities from making political and social advances. The health care industry was placed in the hands of businessmen seeking profits at the expense of despised minorities, the poor and working classes. Private businesses established civic institutions to sanctify this repressive policy. Public educators developed curriculums that doubled as political indoctrination promoting the Business Party's racist line. Bureaucracies were established to promote the expansion of business interests abroad, while suppressing political and social resistance to the medical, pharmaceutical, drug manufacturing and law enforcement industries that benefited from it.

It takes a library full of books to explain the economic foundations of the war on drugs, and the reasons for America's laissez faire regulation of the industries that profit from it. Briefly stated, they profit from it just like the Mafia profits from it. Suffice it to say that Wall Street investors in the drug industries have used the government to unleash and transform their economic power into political and global military might; never forget, America is not an opium or cocaine producing nation, and narcotic drugs are a strategic resource, upon which all of the above industries - including the military - depend. Controlling the world's drug supply, both legal and illegal, is a matter of national security. Read my books for examples of how this has played out over the past 70 years

Is the CIA part of the opium problem today in Afghanistan?

In Afghanistan, CIA officers manage the drug trade from their hammocks in the shade. Opium production has soared since they created the Karzai government in 2001-2 and established intelligence networks into the Afghan resistance through "friendly civilians" in the employ of the opium trafficking warlord, Gul Agha Sherzai. The American public is largely unaware that the Taliban laid down its arms after the American invasion, and that the Afghan people took up arms only after the CIA installed Sherzai in Kabul. In league with the Karzai brothers, Sherzai supplied the CIA with a network of informants that targeted their business rivals, not the Taliban. As Anand Gopal revealed in No Good Men Among the Living, as a result of Sherzai's friendly tips, the CIA methodically tortured and killed Afghanistan's most revered leaders in a series of Phoenix-style raids that radicalized the Afghan people. The CIA started the war as a pretext for a prolonged occupation and colonization of Afghanistan.

In return for his services, Sherzai received the contract to build the first US military base in Afghanistan, along with a major drug franchise. The CIA arranged for its Afghan drug warlords to be exempted from DEA lists. All this is documented in Gopal's book. The CIA officers in charge watch in amusement as addiction rates soar among young Afghan people whose parents have been killed and whose minds have been damaged by 15 + years of US aggression. They don't care that the drugs reach America's inner cities, for all the economic, social, and political reasons cited above.

The drug trade also has "intelligence potential". CIA officers have an accommodation with the protected Afghan warlords who convert opium into heroin and sell it to the Russian mob. It's no different than cops working with Mafia drug dealers in America; it's an accommodation with an enemy that ensures the political security of the ruling class. The accommodation is based on the fact that crime cannot be eradicated, it can only be managed.

The CIA is authorized to negotiate with the enemy, but only if the channels are secure and deniable. It happened during the Iran Contra scandal, when President Reagan won the love of the American people by promising never to negotiate with terrorists, while his two-faced administration secretly sent CIA officers to Tehran to sell missiles to the Iranians and use the money to buy guns for the drug dealing Contras. In Afghanistan, the accommodation within the drug underworld provides the CIA with a secure channel to the Taliban leadership, with whom they negotiate on simple matters like prisoner exchanges. The criminal-espionage underworld in Afghanistan provides the intellectual space for any eventual reconciliation. There are always preliminary negotiations for a ceasefire, and in every modern American conflict that's the CIA's job. Trump, however, is going to prolong the occupation indefinitely.

The fact that 600 subordinate DEA agents are in Afghanistan makes the whole thing plausibly deniable.

Did the U.S. employ characteristics of the Phoenix program as a replay in Afghanistan? I ask especially related to the beginning of "Operation Enduring Freedom" when the Taliban leaders initially laid down their weapons.

Afghanistan is a case study of the standard two-tiered Phoenix program developed in South Vietnam. It's guerrilla warfare targeting "high value" cadre, both for recruitment and assassination. That's the top tier. It's also psychological warfare against the civilian population - letting everyone know they will be kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured, extorted and/or killed if they can be said to support the resistance. That's the second tier - terrorizing the civilians into supporting the US puppet government.

The US military resisted being involved in this repugnant form of warfare (modeled on SS Einsatzgruppen-style special forces and Gestapo-style secret police) through the early part of the Vietnam War, but got hooked into providing soldiers to flesh out Phoenix. That's when the CIA started infiltrating the military's junior officer corps. CIA officers Donald Gregg (featured by the revisionist war monger Ken Burns in his Vietnam War series) and Rudy Enders (both of whom I interviewed for my book The Phoenix Program), exported Phoenix to El Salvador and Central America in 1980, at the same time the CIA and military were joining forces to create Delta Force and the Joint Special Operations Command to combat "terrorism" worldwide using the Phoenix model. There are no more conventional wars, so the military, for economic and political reasons, has become, under the junior officer corps recruited by the CIA years ago, the de-facto police force for the American empire, operating out of 700 + bases around the world.

In what form and fashion is the Phoenix program alive today in America's homeland?

Karl Marx explained over 150 years ago how and why capitalists treat workers the same, whether at home or abroad. As capitalism evolves and centralizes its power, as the climate degenerates, as the gap between rich and poor widens, and as resources become scarcer, America police forces adopt Phoenix-style "anti-terror" strategies and tactics to use against the civilian population. The government has enacted "administrative detention" laws, which are the legal basis for Phoenix-style operations, so that civilians can be arrested on suspicion of being a threat to national security. Phoenix was a bureaucratic method of coordinating agencies involved in intelligence gathering with those conducting "anti-terror" operations, and the Department of Homeland Security has established "fusion centers" based on this model around the nation. Informant nets and psychological operations against the American people have also proliferated since 9-11. This is all explained in detail in my book, The CIA as Organized Crime.

How important is mainstream media for the public perception of the CIA?

It's the most critical feature. Guy Debord said that secrecy dominates the world, foremost as secret of domination. The media prevents you from knowing how you're being dominated, by keeping the CIA's secrets. The media and the CIA are same thing.

What FOX and MSNBC have in common is that, in a free-wheeling capitalist society, news is a commodity. News outlets target demographic audience to sell a product. It's all fake news, in so far as each media outlet skews its presentation of the news to satisfy its customers. But when it comes to the CIA, it's not just fake, it's poison. It subverts democratic institutions.

Any domestic Phoenix-style organization or operation depends on double-speak and deniability, as well as official secrecy and media self-censorship. The CIA's overarching need for total control of information requires media complicity. This was one of the great lesson defeat in Vietnam taught our leaders. The highly indoctrinated and well rewarded managers who run the government and media will never again allow the public to see the carnage they inflict upon foreign civilians. Americans never will see the mutilated Iraqi, Afghani, Libyan, and Syrian children killed by marauding US mercenary forces and cluster bombs.

On the other hand, falsified portrayals of CIA kidnappings, torture, and assassinations are glorified on TV and in movies. Telling the proper story is the key. Thanks to media complicity, Phoenix has already become the template for providing internal political security for America's leaders.

Is the CIA an enemy of the American people?

Yes. It's an instrument of the rich political elite, it does their dirty business.

References:

(1) Dan Baum: "Legalize It All - How to win the war on drugs", published at Harper's Magazine in April 2016 under: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

(2) "Haldeman Diary Shows Nixon Was Wary of Blacks and Jews", published at The New York Times on May 18, 1994 under: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/18/us/haldeman-diary-shows-nixon-was-wary-of-blacks-and-jews.html
Douglas Valentine (http://www.douglasvalentine.com/) is the author of the non-fictional, historical books "The Hotel Tacloban", "The Phoenix Program", "The Strength of the Wolf", "The Strength of the Pack", and "The CIA as Organized Crime".Related:
The CIA's Cult of Death - A review of Douglas Valentine's The CIA as Organized Crime (https://www.sott.net/article/350606-The-CIAs-Cult-of-Death-A-review-of-Douglas-Valentines-The-CIA-as-Organized-Crime)

The Truth Perspective: Interview with Douglas Valentine: The CIA As Organized Crime (https://www.sott.net/article/338324-The-Truth-Perspective-Interview-with-Douglas-Valentine-The-CIA-As-Organized-Crime)

[Satori]

The research I have done since I was a political science/philosophy major in college in the mid-70s, and more so, the research I have done even more extensively since 9/11, confirms every word in Herve's post--and then some.

Plausible deniability, compartmentalization, and need-to-know are three very important pillars of the global "intelligence agencies", not just the CIA, and where patterned after "organized crime" modalities. Another major pillar is murder. With smaller pillars such as intimidation, blackmail, extortion ....laying in the wings. You name it.

They are pieces of s**t, each and every one of them, and that includes CEOs of supra national "persons" called corporations, as well as [s]elected criminals who some call our "leaders" or "representatives" and the scum they appoint--including far too many judges.

It has been correctly observed, that the "mob", "Costa Nostra", "Mafia", whatever label you want to use, did not get shut down; rather it (they) moved into higher levels of business and government--such as, in the USA, Wall Street, Congress and the Whitehouse.

[Foxie Loxie]

Yes, it is all rather sickening! :mmph: What surprised me was that it was going on in the 1920's as well. But then the British Gov't took down China using opium, even before that! What I'm wondering.... could one say that the CIA is running the entire World? Sure looks that way, but that would be under The Handlers at the Top, right? Makes me think of R. Bernard's testimony of how things are run at the Top. No a pretty picture!

[shaberon]

No, I don't think one could say the CIA runs the world...just a disproportionately large chunk of it.

They aren't everywhere, and they are capable of failure. Plus, the military does not generally like them.

[Hervé]

Here’s what real US-Russian collusion looks like (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/heres-what-real-us-russian-collusion-looks-like/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Nov 15 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/heres-what-real-us-russian-collusion-looks-like/), 2017

The late great author and researcher, Antony Sutton (1925-2002), labored for many years to unearth US-Russian collusion at the highest levels. That’s why Sutton was censored by mainstream news and academic institutions.

The Best Enemy Money Can Buy (1986), and his three-volume classic, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, published between 1968 and 1973, exposed the deep historic relationship between US and Russian power players.

The recent Clinton Uranium One scandal, which gave Putin control over 20% of American uranium, should be viewed in the context of a much larger history.

Sutton meticulously documented the transfer of key technologies from the West to the USSR.

Why would the Rockefellers, Armand Hammer, and others take the lead in such a covert transfer program, over the course of decades? Because: money and profits, on one level.

On another level, bolstering the Russian Communist/Socialist State was part of the elite Rockefeller plan to expand socialism, in many forms, across countries all over the world.

Under the phony guise of helping the downtrodden establish a new and better world for all, the socialist goal was, as usual, top-down control. The theoretical foundation (Marx) was modern; the tyranny was as old as the hills.

Further, supplying Russia with vital technology it sorely lacked would eventually produce the Cold War. That mighty stand-off was a gigantic money maker. It was also created as a threat to Europe, which justified the rise of the European Union—another major Rockefeller/CFR/Bilderberg plan to extend the covert agenda of Socialist Globalism. The EU IS a regional face of Globalism.

With this brief introduction in tow, here are key Antony Sutton quotes from his 1986 book, The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. The quotes were compiled by Rolf Kenneth Aristos, at http://www.rolfkenneth.no/NWO_review_Sutton_Soviet.html:
“In Korea we have direct killing of Americans with Soviet weapons. The American casualty roll in the Korean War was 33,730 killed and 103,284 wounded…The 130,000-man North Korean Army, which crossed the South Korean border in June 1950, was trained, supported, and equipped by the Soviet Union, and included a brigade of Soviet T-34 medium tanks (with U.S. Christie suspensions). The artillery tractors were direct metric copies of Caterpillar tractors. The trucks came from the Henry Ford-Gorki plant or the ZIL plant. The North Korean Air Force has 180 Yak planes built in plants with U.S. Lend-Lease equipment. These Yaks were later replaced by MiG-15s powered by Russian copies of Rolls-Royce jet engines sold to the Soviet Union in 1947.”

“By using data of Russian origin it is possible to make an accurate analysis of the origins of this equipment. It was found that all the main diesel and steam-turbine propulsion systems of the ninety-six Soviet ships on the Haiphong supply run that could be identified (i.e., eighty-four out of the ninety-six) originated in design or construction outside the USSR [e.g., the US]. We can conclude, therefore, that if the [US] State and Commerce Departments, in the 1950s and 1960s, had consistently enforced the legislation passed by Congress in 1949, the Soviets would not have had the ability to supply the Vietnamese War – and 50,000 more Americans and countless Vietnamese would be alive today.”

“Who were the government officials responsible for this transfer of known military technology? The concept originally came from National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, who reportedly sold President Nixon on the idea that giving military techno¬logy to the Soviets would temper their global territorial ambitions. How Henry arrived at this gigantic non sequitur is not known. Sufficient to state that he aroused considerable concern over his motivations. Not least that Henry had been a paid family employee of the Rockefellers since 1958 and has served as International Advisory Committee Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a Rockefeller concern.”

“Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum is, of course, Moscow’s favored deaf mute capitalist, possibly vying with David Rockefeller for the honor. However, Armand has a personal relationship with the Soviets that could never be achieved by anyone with David’s Ivy League background. One fact never reported in U.S. newspaper biographies of Armand Hammer is that his father, Julius Hammer, was founder and early financier of the Communist Party USA in 1919. Elsewhere this author has reprinted documents backing this statement, and translations of letters from Lenin to Armand Hammer with the salutation ‘Dear Comrade’.”

“That Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum would supply the Soviets with massive plants that can quickly be converted to explosives manufacture is no surprise. What is a surprise is that Armand Hammer has had free access to every President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan — and equal access to the leaders in the Kremlin.”

“A tractor plant is well suited to tank and self-propelled gun production. The tractor plants at Stalingrad, Kharkov, and Chelyabinsk, erected with almost complete American assistance and equipment, and the Kirov plant in Leningrad, reconstructed by Ford, were used from the start to produce Soviet tanks, armored cars, and self-propelled guns. The enthusiasm with which this tank and armored-vehicle program was pursued, and the diversion of the best Russian engineers and material priorities to military purposes, have been responsible for at least part of the current Soviet problem of lagging tractor production and periodic famines…Since 1931, up to a half of the productive capacity of these ‘tractor’ plants has been used for tank and armored-car production.”

“Soviet tractor plants were established in the early I930s with major U.S. technical and equipment assistance. The Stalingrad tractor plant was completely built in the United States, shipped to Stalingrad, and then installed in prefabricated steel buildings also purchased in the United States. This unit, together with the Kharkov and Chelyabinsk plants and the rebuilt Kirov plant in Leningrad, comprised the Soviet tractor industry at that time, and a considerable part of the Soviet tank industry as well. During the war, equipment from Kharkov was evacuated and installed behind the Urals to form the Altai tractor plant, which opened in 1943.”
These quotes are but a brief sample of Sutton’s research on technology transfers to Russia from the US.

They open up a giant can of worms.

Understanding this history is understanding the elites’ political and economic system (absurdly) called Socialism.

It never has been “bottom-up.” It has always been “top-down.”

The legions of young dedicated Marxists running around in the streets, under a variety of banners, railing against monopoly crony capitalists, have actually been forwarding these monopolists’ primary goals.

You might want to read that last sentence again.

Jon Rappoport

[Foxie Loxie]

What struck me was how it was put in one of the posts(can't remember which one!) that the Capitalists actually funded Communism & got it off the ground. "Top down" really DOES explain everything that has been going on for AGES! The sad part is that the common everyday individual has no concept of how things are really run.

Hooray for Avalon!! :Party:

[Hervé]

Former 'Economic Hitman' to Sputnik: US Uses Loans to Control Other Countries (https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201711161059158765-economic-hitman-interview-us/)

Sputnik Opinion (https://sputniknews.com/analysis/)
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In his latest best-selling book "The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," John Perkins tells how American companies used loans from the World Bank to take control over developing nations. In the first part of an exclusive interview with Sputnik Germany, Perkins gave an inside look at his former job.

Sputnik: Your criticism of the current global economic system dominated by the United States is based on your own experience. Back in the day, you were an "economic hitman." What was your job?
John Perkins: My official position was called "senior economist and economic adviser" at a major consulting company. My job was to find countries with large reserves that our American companies wanted to seize. I mean oil and other things. Then I arranged large loans for those countries via the World Bank and its partner organizations. But those governments never received the money. Instead, the money was transferred – directly or indirectly – to American companies, including construction firms like Halliburton or suppliers like General Electric.

Those companies then launched infrastructure projects in the countries, including power grids, industrial parks and highways, which generated huge profits. But those profits ended up in the pocket of American companies and several rich local families. What those countries had was huge debts that caused suffering both for the poor and the middle class.

Sputnik: When working for Chas T. Main, an American consulting firm, you were involved in providing loans to developing countries. How large were those loans?
John Perkins: You know it’s difficult to recall because I was involved in this business back in the 1970s. The amount of a loan was different at the time. Some deals were multibillion. It depended on a country and on a particular project. For some countries, multimillion budgets were arranged to build a nationwide power grid. That included the construction of hydroelectric power plants and power distribution stations and cable installation. In such cases, it was always about big money.

Sputnik: What exactly you were doing? Could give us an example, maybe related to economic activities in Panama or Honduras? What does it look like when an "economic hitman" takes on a job in a developing country?
John Perkins: As for Panama, the plan was to build a power grid in the country and large loans were provided to the government. But the real goal in Panama was to discredit national leader Omar Torrijos, in other words to bribe him and then put him in a situation so he owed us a lot of money. So, we could blackmail and control him.

Torrijos tried to wrest the Panama Canal from the grasp of the US and return it to his country. But what was even more important, he had a reputation of a politician from a small country who could confront such a great power as the US. He was a man who wanted to return the Panama Canal to his people. But the situation was not only about the US control over the waterway. Torrijos was standing against American imperialism. He became a political and spiritual leader of a global scope.

(In 1977, Torrijos signed a deal with the US, which guaranteed that the government of Panama would have full control of the Panama Canal starting 1999. In 1981, he was killed in a car crash. Perkins was involved in activities in South America at the time. He claims that Torrijos was assassinated by the CIA. He tells this story in his book "The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" — Sputnik)

Sputnik: That is, those loans and hence debts were used to blackmail national leaders and to control them?
John Perkins: Credits were used in many ways. Panama was an exception, because it was about the political leadership of a state. As for more suitable examples, there are Ecuador, Indonesia and Colombia where we were hunting oil. We believed there were a lot of oil fields. We managed to persuade the governments to accept our huge loans and give their oil fields in pledge. So, we usually told them, "You borrowed millions of dollars from us, and in exchange, American companies will have access to your oil at very low prices and on very moderate market conditions, without the commitment to observe any environment rules and regulations."

When some of those countries were unable to service their debt we often said, "Ok, you may not pay now, but your country will vote to support the US at the next vote in the UN. Or you will allow the US to build a military base on your territory." Or something else of the kind. In fact, this is a very old form of establishing control over a nation. This practice goes down in history for centuries. Many empires have used it, including the Soviet Union.

Sputnik: You were involved in such activities until 1981. Today, where do you see signs of "economic hitmen"? Are they targeting Russia?
John Perkins: Of course, Russia is in the crosshairs. And at the same time, Russia is targeting the US. Two months ago, I was speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. I was on the stage with [Russian] President Vladimir Putin and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Putin had a pretty strong impression on me. He said: "Is Russia spying on the US. Yes, of course. Is the US spying on us? Sure. This is happening, of course." But he also said: "Basically, this is nothing new."

We need to learn to understand that we all have to deal with the global crisis, including climate change, security threats, injustice and the risk of nuclear war. I believe that many global leaders are realizing that the old system doesn’t work anymore. We need a new system. It looks like only US President Donald Trump understands nothing and is lagging behind everyone.

In the second part of this interview (https://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20171115318311180-wirtschaftskiller-perkins-exklusiv/), Perkins will tell how the former "economic hitman" knew that his employer was cooperating with the CIA and the NSA. Perkins will also explain why he decided to quit and speak out about "economic hitmen."

[Hervé]

Opioids are mind-control drugs; MKULTRA is alive and well (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/opioids-are-mind-control-drugs-mkultra-is-alive-and-well/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Nov 21 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/opioids-are-mind-control-drugs-mkultra-is-alive-and-well/), 2017

Wikipedia:
“[MKULTRA was] the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects, at times illegal, designed and undertaken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture in order to weaken the individual to force confessions through mind control…MKUltra used numerous methodologies to manipulate people’s mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals…”
A worldwide population enslaved to mind-control drugs—this is a dream that exceeds the fantasies of the old CIA MKULTRA warriors. And it’s here.

A few “adverse effects” of opioids: sedation, psychological dependence, physical addiction, hallucinations, delirium, brain fog, lowered level of consciousness, and thus, increased suggestibility.

Opioid effects may not be as overtly dramatic as those of MKULTRA LSD, but the overall impact on the mind is just as severe.

As I’ve shown in past articles, a major pipeline for opioids starts at the top of the food chain: pharma manufacturers like Purdue and Insys, who are traffickers. (note to reader: Opioid archive here (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/category/opioids/).)

This follows the pattern of LSD, which in the 1960s was manufactured by Sandoz (and then obtained in large quantities by the CIA for MKULTRA). However, now, there is no need for the CIA. Huge shipments of opioids go directly to rogue pharmacies and pain clinics, who are lower level dealers, and then on to addicts.

Mind control has gone public in a huge way—far beyond the reach of LSD in the 1960s and 70s.

In fact, Congress and former President Barack Obama have played a major role in protection of the pharmaceutical traffickers. This assist occurred in April of 2016, when a new law was passed and signed by Obama: Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016.

The whole thrust of that law was to create a much higher barrier, blocking the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from freezing pharma’s huge opioid shipments to lower level traffickers.

The Washington Post, which did a long piece on that law, reached out to Obama and his then Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, but both of them declined to comment. Well, enablers of the raging opioid epidemic would opt for silence, wouldn’t they?

Member of Congress, who are now bloviating about the need to curtail opioid trafficking, voted for the heinous law. They would now need to repeal it—but the horse is out of the barn.

The Guardian reports that “More than 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, most involving a prescription painkiller or an illicit opioid like heroin.”

Millions and millions of opioid addicts from every level of society are looking for their next fix in countries around the world.

In the US, AP states,
“The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504bn, or roughly half a trillion dollars. In an analysis…the Council of Economic Advisers says the figure is more than six times larger than the most recent estimate.”
Half a trillion dollars.

More than 80 years ago, the largest pharmaceutical and chemical cartel in the world, IG Farben, brought the Nazi regime into power in Germany. Farben’s ghastly medical experiments on prisoners during World War 2 set the tone for the future of the medical drug industry. We are now seeing that pattern playing out on the world stage with opioids.

I recently looked up the number of different opioid medical drugs on the market. I stopped counting at 50. This is outrageous. With morphine and two or three more powerful opioids, all the legitimate needs of patients in severe pain could be met. In fact, it is the proliferation of various opioids that laid the groundwork for the current addiction and death crisis. There is no way to control the distribution of so many drugs.

Roughly 10 years into its MKULTRA mind control program (circa 1960), the CIA discovered the following: drugs like LSD and more powerful spinoffs were not reliable for controlling minds. The effort to program people to commit certain acts (e.g., thefts and assassinations) and then forget what they had done was unpredictable. There might be some successes, but there were many failures.

However, a different picture emerged. The drugs were effective in creating mind CHAOS.

Yes, the drugs could make the brain resemble scrambled eggs. That was no major technical feat. It was easily accomplished.

—“Control” the mind in the sense of rendering it hopelessly confused, and making it a broadcaster of errant and useless signals. Making it, in later stages, deeply passive.

Enter what we call Globalism today. In essence, this international Rockefeller movement (Rockefeller interests held huge power in the pharmaceutical arena) was aiming for governance of the global population.

What was needed, to accomplish this goal, was a way to repress, derail, confuse, debilitate, and cancel the clarity of minds on a mass basis, in every country of the world.

A silent war. A long-term successful war, in order to erase resistance to a takeover.

Mind control in the sense of mind chaos.

This is the wider version of MKULTRA.

No better example exists than the current opioid epidemic.

Any conspiracy has several levels of “who benefits.” It’s easy to say pharma’s plots are all about money and profit and nothing else. But at the highest level, control over populations is the key. The money is taken for granted.

When a combine like the Rockefeller cartel has all the money it can hope for, it’s aiming for something else.

It wants the world.

And drugs are one of its greatest weapons.

Jon Rappoport

Related:
The CIA documented long-range planning for a drugged and debilitated society: OPIOIDS ARE A PERFECT FIT (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?56969-Psych-Drugs-The-Real-Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction&p=1192173&viewfull=1#post1192173)

[Hervé]

The big picture that got bigger...

The Matrix Revealed: Cartels That Run The World (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/the-matrix-revealed-cartels-that-run-the-world/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Dec 16 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/12/16/the-matrix-revealed-cartels-that-run-the-world/), 2017

The following information comes from insider interviews with Ellis Medavoy and Richard Bell, two people I interview extensively in my collection, The Matrix Revealed (http://marketplace.mybigcommerce.com/the-matrix-revealed/). This is just a brief taste of what they have to say…

Major institutions on this planet that control Military, Money, Energy, Government, Medical, Corporate, Media, and Education are becoming, more and more, global cartels, horizontally integrated across national borders.

This is more than a top-down command process. It’s organically evolving. Three steps forward, two steps back. There is a great deal of competition among the components of a given cartel, but there is also cooperation. And in the long run, the see-saw is tipping in the direction of cooperation, as these entities realize they may well have more to gain that way.

I can’t stress too strongly this EVOLVING process.

All attempts to merely assume twelve men in a room run the planet fall woefully short.

Instead, over time, people who lead a powerful institution (like Energy, for example) look out and recognize more major players, and in this recognition there is an impulse to compete and win and destroy, but there is also an impulse to build commonality and therefore monopolize the entire territory.

During one conversation with retired master propagandist Ellis Medavoy, I asked him about the extent of mutual cooperation in his given field, psychological warfare. He responded:
“Twenty years ago, I would have said we were all operating separately and jealously. Each of us was mining his own contacts and building his false pictures of reality for the masses. But then things began to change.

"Globally.

"First of all, more of us were pushing the same holograms. And because communication and travel were speeding up so rapidly, we were working a lot of the same venues. We would run into each other more often. We began to share information. I mean, it was cautious. We weren’t gushing with unbridled love, I assure you. The competitive factor was still strong. And we had fights. But through all that, we began to see through the fog, so to speak. We began to understand the effectiveness of cooperating. We would test each other with privileged information, to see if we could trust each other to keep it private. A tidbit here, a tidbit there.

“And you see, behind us, other groups were finding commonality, too. For example, in the area of medical propaganda, where I operated a lot of the time. And these groups saw they could join together for specific operations, on an international scale. They could push enormous lies globally, and everyone of their class would profit and gain wider control. So I would find myself working with a psy warfare guy from, say, France, or Germany in a joint venture. We would rub elbows. We’d be feeding from the same basic money trough.

“We’d both be briefed by a team of intelligence experts, and those experts would be of several nationalities. Slowly, I saw a new kind of umbrella structure emerging.

“See, suppose during the secret lead-up to a planned economic crisis [money cartel], you can distract everybody with a phony epidemic [medical cartel]. Do you see? Leaders perceive a reason to cooperate. Planners become more intelligent and clever. They reach across lines they never would have reached across before…

“You begin to see the outlines of a much more inclusive future structure.

"This is multi-front warfare.”
Richard Bell, another former insider, said to me:
“People like to assume that money is everything. If you can limit the amount of money the public has, eventually they weaken and cave in and they’re easier to control. And this is certainly true. But on the other hand, as mega-corporations gain more power and range and markets, you have a clash, because those corporations, which are now cooperating in ways they never have, as a cartel in some respects, want customers for their products. They don’t want abject poverty across the board. People have to be able to buy their products.

“So there is a heavy conflict. It’s a conflict between elite bankers [money cartel] and mega-corporations [corporation cartel]. It needs to be resolved through advance planning, over the long term. So now you have these powerful men sitting down and talking in a new way. Other big-time players get involved, too [government, media, energy cartels, for example].”
This is just the beginning of what these people have to say about the Matrix in their interviews and how it REALLY works.

[...]

Understanding Matrix is also understanding your capacity and power, and that is the way to approach this subject. Because liberation is the goal. And liberation has no limit.

I invite you to a new exploration and a great adventure.

Jon Rappoport

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"This is multi-front warfare.”Hence, the "multi-yields" results of any deep-state event/false flag.

[Hervé]

Interesting corroborations to Sue Arrigo's data from John Coleman in his The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America. (http://www.peerage.org/genealogy/2000_John_Coleman_The_Tavistock_Institute_of_Human_Relations.pdf) (PDF-pp 2-8):

[...]

As previously stated, the British people did not want war, and said so, but Toynbee, Lippmann and Bernays expected to change that by applying techniques designed to manipulate public opinion through the use of polling. Herein we provide a review of the methods that were devised and executed to bring Great Britain and the United States into the First World War, plus the techniques that were put into practice between the two World Wars and beyond. As will be seen propaganda was to play a major role.

One of the main objectives at Tavistock was to achieve the degradation of women. Tavistock recognized that Jesus Christ has brought a new place of respect in the order of civilization to womanhood, which prior to his coming had not been present.
3
After Christ's ministry, womanhood gained a respect and a high place in society absent from pre-Christian civilizations.

Of course it can be argued that such an elevated status existed in the Greek and Roman empires, and that would be true to a certain extent, but not to the extent that womanhood was elevated in post-Christ society.

Tavistock sought to change that and the process began immediately after WWI. The Eastern Orthodox Church which the Rus (Viking) princes of Moscow brought back from Constantinople, revered and respected womanhood, and their experience with the Khazarians whom they subsequently defeated and drove out of Russia, left them
determined to protect womanhood in Russia.

The founder of the Romanov dynasty, Michael Romanov was the scion of a noble family that had defended Russia on the basis of a Christian country. From 1613 the Romanovs sought to ennoble Russia and imbue it with a great spirit of Christianity, which meant also, protection for and the honoring of Russian womanhood.

The Princes of Moscow under Prince Dimitri Donskoi earned the unremitting hatred of the Rothschilds for Russia because of Donskoi's defeat and expulsion of the Khazarian hordes that inhabited the lower-regions of the Volga. This barbaric warrior nation of mysterious Indo-Turk origin, had adopted the Judaic religion on passage of a decree by King Bulant after the religion was approved by the chief Khazarian soothsayer-magician-sorcerer, David el-Roi.

It was el Roi's personal flag, now called the "Star of David" that became the official flag of the Khazarian nation when they settled in Poland after being forced out of Russia.
4
The flag was adopted by the Zionists as their standard and is still mistakenly called the "Star of David." Christians make the error of confusion linking it with the Old Testament King David, when in fact there is no relation between the two.

The hatred of Russia was compounded in 1612 when the Romanov dynasty led a Russian Army against Poland taking back large parts of Poland that had formerly belonged to Russia.

The principal architect of enmity brought to bear against Russia was the Rothschild dynasty and it was this burning hatred that Tavistock used and channeled in its plan to destroy Western civilization.

The first opportunity created by Tavistock came in 1905 with the attack by the Japanese Navy that completely surprised the Russian Fleet. The exercise was bankrolled by Jacob Schiff, the Wall Street banker, who was related to Rothschild.

The defeat of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur in a surprise attack marked the beginning of the pall of gloom that was about to roll in over Christian Europe. The Rockefeller Standard Oil Group directed by Tavistock and with the aid of the "300" engineered the Russo-Japanese War. The money used to finance the operation came from Jacob Schiff, but was actually provided by the Rockefeller General Education Board, whose outward purpose was to finance Negro education. All of the propaganda and advertising for the board was written and crafted by the Social scientists at Tavistock, which was then called "Wellington House."
5
In 1941 another Rockefeller front organization, the Institute for Pacific Relations (IPR) gave large sums to its Japanese counterpart in Tokyo. The money was then funneled to a member of the imperial family by Richard Sorge, a Russian master-spy, for the purposes of inducing Japan to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor. Again, Tavistock was the originator of all of IPR's publications.

Although it was not yet evident, as Spengler was to mention in his monumental work, published in 1936, it marked the beginning of the end of the old order. Contrary to most establishment accounts of history, the "Russian" revolution was not a Russian revolution at all, but a foreign ideology backed primarily by the Committee of 300 and its arm, the Tavistock Institute, that was violently forced upon a startled, unprepared and dismayed Romanov family.

It was political warfare, low grade warfare and psychological warfare in which Tavistock had become well versed.

As Winston Churchill was to remark: "They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia," and then once established "Lenin and Trotsky seized Russia by the hair of its head."

Much has been written (but nearly always in passing as if it is a mere postscript to history) about the "sealed truck," "sealed car," "sealed train," that transported Lenin and his Bolshevik revolutionaries safely through the midst of war-torn Europe and deposited them in Russia, there to begin their imported Bolshevik Revolution so mistakenly termed the "Russian Revolution."
6
Documents the author was privileged to study at Wellington House and what was revealed in the Arnold Toynbee papers and Bruce Lockhart's private papers, led to the conclusion that without Toynbee, Bruce Lockhart of MI6 British intelligence and without the complicity of at least five European nations, ostensibly loyal and friendly with the Court at St. Petersburg, the merciless Bolshevik Revolution would have been still-born.

As this account must of necessity be limited to Tavistock's participation in the affair, it will not be as a complete account of the skullduggery we would liked to have presented.

According to Milner's private papers his aides through Tavistock contacted a fellow Socialist Fritz Platten. (Milner was a leading Fabian Socialist although he scorned Sydney and Beatrice Webb.) It was Platten, who planned the logistics of the trip and oversaw it until the revolutionaries arrived in Petrograd.

This was confirmed and borne out by the Wilhelmstrasse Files the majority of which we were able to gain access to, which files were open to certain people qualified to read them. They tallied fairly closely with Bruce Lockhart's account in his private papers as well as what Lord Alfred Milner had to say about the underhand affair that betrayed Russia. It appeared that Milner had many contacts among the Bolshevik expatriates among them, Lenin. It was to Lord Milner that Lenin went, when he needed money for the Revolution. Armed with a letter of introduction from Platten, Lenin met with Lord Milner and laid down his plan for the overthrow of the Romanov's and Christian Russia.

Milner agreed on condition that he could send his agent Bruce Lockhart of MI6 to supervise the day-to-day affairs and report back on Lenin.
7
Lord Rothschild and the Rockefellers demanded that they be allowed to send Sydney Reilly to Russia to supervise transfer of Russia's natural resources and the gold rubles held in the Central Bank to London. This was agreed to by Lenin, and later Trotsky.

To seal the bargain, Lord Milner, on behalf of the Rothschilds, gave Lenin 60 millions pounds in gold sovereigns while the Rockefellers contributed around $40 million dollars.

Countries in complicity with the "sealed train" affair were Great Britain, Germany, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden.

While the United States was not directly involved, it must have been aware of what was going on. After all, on the orders of President Wilson, a brand new American passport was issued to Leon Trotsky, (whose real name was Lev Bronstein) so that he could travel in peace, although Trotsky was not a U.S. citizen.

Lenin and his compatriots were provided with a private well-appointed rail carriage by the top German government functionaries and always kept locked by agreements with stations along the line. Platten was in charge and he laid down the rules for the trip, some of which are listed in the Wilhelmstrasse Files:
The carriage was to remain locked for the entire trip.

No one could board the carriage without Platten's permission.

The train would have extra territorial status.

No passports were to be asked at borders.

Tickets would be bought at regular prices.

No "security issues" to be raised by the military or police of any country en-route.
8
According to the Wilhelmstrasse Files, the trip was authorized and approved by General Ludendorff and Kaiser Wilhelm. Ludendorff went so far as to say that if Sweden refused to let the Bolsheviks pass, he would guarantee them passage into Russia through the German lines! As it turned out, the Swedish Government raised no objection and neither did the Finnish Government.

One of the notable revolutionaries, who joined the train when it arrived at the German frontier with Switzerland, was Radek, who was to play a leading role in the bloody Bolshevik Revolution. There were some lighter moments too.

The Wilhelmstrasse Files describe how the carriage missed its engine at Frankfurt, resulting in it being shunted to and fro for about 8 hours.

The party had to de-train in the German Baltic town of Sasnitz where they were accorded "decent accommodation" by the German Government. The Swedish Government kindly gave them ferry transport to Malmo, from where they sailed to Stockholm, where "nice" accommodation awaited the Bolshevik party for an overnight layover and then it was on to the Finnish border.

There, the intrepid Platten left the high-spirited party and the final journey into Russia was made by train to Petrograd.

Thus an epic journey that began in Zurich, Switzerland, ended in Petrograd. Lenin had arrived on the scene and Russia was about to be brought low. And throughout, Bernays and Lippmann and their associates at Wellington House (Tavistock) kept up a steady flow of brainwashing propaganda that it is safe to conclude, duped much of the world.

[...]

[Hervé]

More wind to Coleman's sails:

MI-5 Used Terror Groups to Assassinate Leaders (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/01/Charles-Haughey.html)

Henry Makow January 4, 2018


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(Charles Haughey was Irish Prime Minister "Taoiseach" from 1979-1982 &1987-1992)


MI-5 tried to assassinate Irish Prime Minister in 1985
"Everyone with half-a-brain knows that Israel, the US, and Britain have used front groups like Isis and Al Nusra Front to wreak carnage in the Muslim world on behalf of Anglo-Zionist interests, but the same interests have long used western terror groups to get rid of domestic enemies and to furnish a pretext for the surveilled police state. "
by Jude Duffy
(henrymakow.com)

At Christmas 2017, Irish state papers revealed (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/loyalists-told-charles-haughey-mi5-asked-us-to-execute-you-1.3339804)that in 1985 the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) informed the Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey, (1925-2006) that MI5 had directed them to assassinate him.

According to the Protestant terror group - long a paramilitary wing of the British deep state - MI5 gave them comprehensive details of Haughey's movements, his mode of transport, his home, and even supplied aerial photos of the small island he owned off the south coast of Ireland. The UVF stated in the letter that they turned down MI5's request on the grounds that they didn't wish to take part in such "dirty tricks".

One can take this letter at face value, or one can speculate as to whether it may have been the British deep state's way of issuing a thinly veiled threat - via their stooges in the UVF - of the deadly consequences for Haughey of continuing to obstruct their agenda. Either way, it illustrates how globalists happily use terrorism to enforce their will.


GET HAUGHEY
In the early 1980s, using the age-old deep state twin techniques of bribery and relentless psychic driving media black propaganda, the Anglo-Masons made serious efforts to remove Haughey from the leadership of the Fianna Fail party. Around this time, Ray McSharry - a loyal senior minister in his government - secretly taped a ministerial colleague, Martin O'Donoghue, informing McSharry that there was "lots of money around" for Fianna Fail TDs (members of parliament) who would agree to support an internal party coup against Haughey. When the bribery gambit backfired, the deep state merchants apparently opted for a more permanent solution to the Haughey problem.

Indeed the would be UVF plot may have been only one of several efforts to "whack" the Fianna Fail leader. According to his son, Sean, Charles Haughey survived two serious car crashes, one plane crash landing, and the sinking of his yacht.

Significantly this latter"accident", in which Haughey's boat mysteriously capsized on a very calm day off the south coast of Ireland, happened the year after the UVF sent their letter, and only a few weeks after Haughey fiercely condemned the then Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister), the Rothschild globalist, Garret Fitzgerald, for his attendance at the MI6 aligned Bilderberg gathering.

Haughey eventually came on board with the neo-liberal anti-nationalist agenda of his enemies - thanks presumably to the bribes he and many other Irish politicians received from global Masonic interests (John Furze, the English born banker at the centre of huge scandal involving large bribes to Irish politicians - including Haughey - was given a full Masonic funeral when he died in 1997).

However, it's also eminently possible that Haughey towed the Anglo-Zionist line in later years partly because he had no wish to die prematurely in an "accident" or terrorist hit-job.


ILLUMINATI SPONSORSHIP OF TERROR GROUPS
Everyone with half-a-brain knows that Israel, the US, and Britain have used front groups like Isis and Al Nusra Front to wreak carnage in the Muslim world on behalf of Anglo-Zionist interests, but the same interests have long used western terror groups to get rid of domestic enemies and to furnish a pretext for the surveilled police state. The activities of the Red Brigades in Italy, the Baader Meinhof in Germany and both sets of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland illustrate this technique of internal subversion (Both wings of the IRA - the Provisionals and the "Officials" - were heavily infiltrated at the very top by British spooks, as were all the Protestant Masonic loyalist terror groups in Ireland).


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(Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco assassinated in bomb blast in 1975)


In 1973 the Freemasons assigned to the Basque separatist group ETA the task of murdering Franco's chosen successor, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, above, thus eliminating a crucial rallying figure of resistance to the Masonic socialist Reconquista of Spain when Franco eventually died in 1975.

In 1986 the Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was shot at point-blank range in front of his wife on a street in central Stockholm. Palme had become increasingly critical of US and Israeli policies and to this day no one has been convicted of his murder.

Another Swedish politician, the foreign minister, Anna Lindh, was murdered in a Stockholm shopping mall in 2003, days before a crucial referendum in her country on joining the European single currency. A strong supporter of the proposal, many believe she was killed in order to generate a sympathetic backlash in favour of a yes vote.

In 2002 the hugely popular Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn was shot dead nine days before a general election in which he was set to make a massive breakthrough on behalf of the anti-immigration cause.


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In 2008 the Austrian anti-immigration politician, Jorg Haider, above, died in a car crash just after his party had become a partner in government, a turn of events that provoked the "international community" into threatening Austria with all sorts of dire consequences - up to and including economic boycotts and suspension from the European Union. As with the death of Princess Diana, the Zio-media and the Austrian authorities blamed Haider's "accident" on drink driving - a claim hotly denied by Haider's wife and many of his colleagues and supporters.


In 1981 Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan were shot within six weeks of each other. Even many mainstream investigative journalists posit a Mossad role in the shooting of the Pope, while Reagan's would be assassin, John Hinckley Jr, had close family ties to the U.S. Vice President and former head of the CIA, George H.W. Bush.

In 1997, John F. Kennedy Jr., the publisher of 'George' magazine, incurred widespread establishment wrath for running an article blaming the Israeli internal secret service, Shin Bet, for the murder of Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Yitzhak Rabin. Kennedy Jr. had also made it clear he did not accept the official version of his father's death. In 1999 Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash - many elements of which remain unexplained.

In 2004 the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat died from suspected polonium poisoning; the Israeli deep state does not even seriously attempt to deny its involvement in his death.


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In 1994 the British Labour Party leader John Smith died suddenly after giving a speech at a posh hotel in central London. Since his election as leader in 1992, Smith had rapidly steered the party back to its working-class roots and away from the globalist cosmopolitanism of erstwhile Communist Peter Mandelson - the dominant figure in the entourage of the previous leader Neil Kinnock.


Mandelson, a Bilderberg ultra-Zionist, complained bitterly of being marginalized by the Smith leadership, but his exile turned out to be shortlived: after Smith's death, Zionist warmonger Tony Blair took over as nominal leader and his long-time "extremely close friend" "Mandy" Mandelson once again seized the tiller.

For some intriguing reason, Tony Blair, by his own account, always believed that John Smith would hand in his dinner pail in plenty of time for Blair and Mandy to contest the 1997 British general election as Labour Party nominal leader and controller respectively. Only a month before Smith's death, Blair told his wife, "If John dies I will be the leader, not Gordon , and somehow I think this will happen, I really do."

How very weird. Smith was only 55 at the time. Weirder still, a mainstream satirical fillm, 'The Hunt For Tony Blair', depicted Blair murdering Smith in the hotel toilet on the night Smith gave what turned out to be his final speech. Outlandish satire or 'revelation of the method'?

One can formulate a very simple counter-factual narrative regarding modern British political history: no death of John Smith = no Blair-Bush partnership, no Iraq War, no invasion of Afghanistan and no War on Terror.


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In 2005 the former British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook died suddenly while mountain climbing in Scotland. As in so many suspicious events and false flag attacks, official and media accounts of the cause of death varied wildly in the hours after his demise. Initially, corporate media outlets said he had succumbed to external injuries he received from a fall - a story later changed to death by cardiac arrest.

Cook was the only member of the British government to resign in protest over the Iraq War, and in the weeks and months before his death he had begun to question not just the conduct of the War On Terror, but its whole premise - going so far as to state that 'Al Qaeda' was simply another name for a list of CIA assets in the Muslim world.

By the way, 'The Hunt For Tony Blair' blamed Blair for Cook's murder as well...Cook was 59 at the time of his death.

On the day of the 2010 British general election, the then UKIP leader, Nigel Farage narrowly escaped death after the light plane he was traveling in crashed. Farage had aroused the anger of the British Zionist establishment, not only by opposing mass immigration and the EU, but also by standing in the election against the Speaker of the House of Commons, the arch-Zionist John Bercow.

In 2015, Farage once again narrowly escaped death when a wheel suddenly came off his car while he was driving home to England on a French motorway. Farage was forced to dive from his car and frantically scramble over a wall in order to avoid being mowed down by oncoming lorries. Farage said that the French police told him that the wheels of his car had been sabotaged in an effort to kill him - though tellingly he later said he regretted divulging this.

That in itself raises an intriguing question: Either the French police told Farage the episode was an assassination attempt or they didn't, and if they did say this, why would he regret publicly recounting what he had been told? Did the Rothschild deep state merchants make Farage feel the heat after he exposed the reality of mafia-style political hit squads, and force him to walk back on his original statement?

It is worth remembering in this context that by 2015 the Anglo-Zionists had a new reason to loathe Farage: in the wake of the Neocon coup in Ukraine he had refused to join the anti-Putin hysteria of the western political and media establishment

In 2010, the Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, died in plane crash in Russia, a crash that also killed many senior figures in the Polish military. Although Kaczynski was a fairly strong supporter of Israel, he had aroused the ire of the globalist establishment by taking a strong line against the LGBTQ agenda - going so far as to call the organizers of gay pride events "perverts" - and had also opposed feminism, abortion and the EU anti-nationalist agenda.

Not all sudden deaths are necessarily suspicious of course - even when they happen to those the globalist establishment hate - but the reverse also applies: not all deaths from long-term illnesses are necessarily innocent. The late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez accused the CIA of giving many Latin American leaders - including himself - cancer, an accusation that only seems far-fetched if you've never seen Hillary Clinton cackling ghoulishly over the stomach churningly brutal street murder of Muammar Ghadaffi, or if you never heard senior US politicians - including Clinton herself, Donald Trump, former Presidential candidate, John McCain, and former Speaker, Newt Gingrich - openly calling for deep state hit squads to illegally kill elected politicians and state officials in countries deemed to be enemies of the Greater Israel project.


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[B]Related:
CIA Domestic Assassination Program (https://www.henrymakow.com/2016/12/JFK-Mary-Pinchot-Meyer%20.html)

The Fox (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6960220/)(2017 movie)

[Hervé]

A List of Attempted and Successful Coup D'états by the US Government Over the Last 70 Years (http://williamblum.org)

William Blum Williamblum.org (http://williamblum.org)
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:59 UTC


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Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)



China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s

Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *

Congo 1960 *
France 1965

Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present

Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *

Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *

Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71

Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84

Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *

Q: Why will there never be a coup d'état in Washington?

A: Because there's no American embassy there.

William Blum is an author, historian, and U.S. foreign policy critic. He is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (https://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope/) and Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower (https://williamblum.org/books/rogue-state/), among others. Read more (https://williamblum.org/about/)

[Foxie Loxie]

:bump: Too amazing to see it in print! The sad part is that the average American had NO CLUE what was going on! :facepalm:

[Hervé]

Let's not forget the British homologues across the pond:

Historian compiles online database of declassified documents exposing 'the true history of British foreign policy since 1945' (https://www.rt.com/uk/416653-secret-government-declassified-curtis/)

Rachel Lang RT (https://www.rt.com/uk/416653-secret-government-declassified-curtis/)
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A historian determined to blow the lid on the UK government's shady international dealings is releasing hundreds of declassified documents on an online database. "The British public has little idea what has been done," he told RT.

Mark Curtis has recently created his own online database, aptly named 'Declassified' - a veritable A-Z of all secret dealings between Britain and virtually every country in the world. The comprehensive list of documents, sourced mostly from the UK's National Archives, aims to provide a "snapshot only of the true history of British foreign policy since 1945" - think everything from Nazis to nuclear warfare.

In an interview with RT, Curtis said he decided to compile the documents online as the "British public has little idea what has been done, and is being done, in their names."




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/916582367518756864/K2-D5R7A_bigger.jpg Mark Curtis‏Verified account @markcurtis30 (https://twitter.com/markcurtis30)

#DECLASSIFIED (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DECLASSIFIED?src=hash). UK files/articles on the Falklands. US documents from @nsarchiv shows several UK concerns before the 1982 war, including about the islands being the “centre of a vast pool of oil – perhaps nine times the size of the North Sea fields”. http://goo.gl/yyj7we (https://t.co/LqWz50VJYX)


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8:22 AM - 22 Jan 2018
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"I want everyone to be able to see at least some of the documents that I have seen because they tell a much truer story of this country's real role in the world than they will hear on the BBC or read in The Telegraph," said the historian.

"Of course, they don't tell a full story - not least because UK officials have destroyed many of the documents relating to their policies in the past, surely deliberately to cover up their crimes.

"It should also be said that, in the set of files I've looked at and am releasing, there are many documents that are still censored. One can only imagine what is there," he added.
The majority of the documents, while most are publicly available, are not available online.

"The British mainstream media covers only a fraction of the reality of UK foreign policy and academic studies are largely absent or heavily sanitized,"Curtis said.




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/916582367518756864/K2-D5R7A_bigger.jpg Mark Curtis‏Verified account @markcurtis30 (https://twitter.com/markcurtis30)

#DECLASSIFIED (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DECLASSIFIED?src=hash). UK govts made 100s of sales of nuclear materials to #Israel (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash) in the 1950s and 60s, helping it to develop nuclear weapons. http://goo.gl/gqTS6g (https://t.co/Cu9z2YHByC)


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5:26 AM - 22 Jan 2018
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"They're all technically in the public domain - housed in the National Archives and available to the public - but you have to physically go there to view them since most documents are not online."
Curtis, who is drip-feeding the documents through his site, (http://markcurtis.info/uk-declassified-documents/) says he will be addressing some of the most "ignored episodes" in British foreign policy - such as the UK's support for the Idi Amin coup in Uganda in 1971, the welcoming of the Pinochet military takeover in Chile, the covert operation to overthrow Sukarno in Indonesia in the late 1950s, and the covert UK war in Yemen in the 1960s.

Through his research, he said the files expose the true British mindset when it comes to dealing with international relations in the post-war world.

"One is that there is no interest in the human rights of the people that live in regions like the Middle East, Africa or Asia - British policy is all about geopolitics, promoting commercial interests and upholding Britain's power status," Curtis said.

"Another theme is that the British public is largely viewed as a threat and they therefore shouldn't be allowed to know what is being done in their names, so officials regularly reveal in the files that they are acting to keep those policies hidden.

"The danger is that the public might deflect elites from their policy course - this is unacceptable to Whitehall. This is, of course, consistent with the later burning and censoring of documents."
Curtis, who has written multiple books on the UK's often clandestine role in international relations, said many Britons are already questioning their government, and the role of social media and alternative news sources have a big part to play in unraveling the truth to the British public.




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/916582367518756864/K2-D5R7A_bigger.jpg Mark Curtis‏Verified account @markcurtis30 (https://twitter.com/markcurtis30)

#DECLASSIFIED (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DECLASSIFIED?src=hash). MI6 bombed 5 ships to prevent Jewish holocaust survivors reaching Palestine in 1946-8 and created a fake Arab group to provide cover for this secret operation. https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/operation-embarrass-you-bet-britain-s-secret-war-on-the-jews-1.18403 … (https://t.co/T4j44OVMU4) via @jewishchron (https://twitter.com/JewishChron)

(https://twitter.com/JewishChron)
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(https://twitter.com/JewishChron)Book reveals government plans to intimidate and burn boats of Shoah survivors trying to reach Palestine (https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/operation-embarrass-you-bet-britain-s-secret-war-on-the-jews-1.18403)

5:25 AM - 22 Jan 2018
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"We should be questioning government more but we should also be challenging the mainstream sources of 'news' and 'information,' which are actually keeping people in the dark or, even worse, pulling the wool over our eyes," he said.

"Social and alternative media is very encouraging - this is where people should be getting more and more of their information, bypassing mainstream sources."

Related:
Newly declassified files reveal strong British government support for Uganda dictator Idi Amin (https://sputniknews.com/military/201801221060969957-idi-amin-british-support/)

[East Sun]

yes, it's time the truth came out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Harve, Thanks

[Hervé]

Missing history: US oligarchs finance Socialism (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/missing-history-us-oligarchs-finance-socialism/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Feb 20 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/missing-history-us-oligarchs-finance-socialism/), 2018


Socialism was never a movement for “the masses”


By Jon Rappoport

In 1971, Gary Allen published his book, None Dare Call it Conspiracy (http://www.youbethejudgeandjury.com/none_dare_call_it_conspiracy.pdf) [PDF]. It quickly became an unofficial best seller.

Over the years, several million copies have been sold.

Allen’s thesis was stark: super-rich American capitalists were financing socialism. This bizarre paradox was resolved when socialism was properly understood—not as “power to the people”—but as elite power over the people. In other words, as a hoax.

These days, the socialist hoax is still unknown to most of the population:


Cloak a global power grab as progress for all of humanity.


Here, from chapter six of None Dare Call it Conspiracy (http://whale.to/b/allen_b1.html) [txt page], “The Rockefellers and the Reds,” is an explosive passage commenting on the period just after the Russian Revolution of 1917:
“The Rockefellers assigned their public relations agent, Ivy Lee, to sell the American public the idea that the Bolsheviks were merely misunderstood idealists who were actually kind benefactors of mankind.”

“Professor Antony Sutton of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, notes in his highly authoritative Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development:”

“’Quite predictably…[Ivy] Lee concludes that the communist problem is merely psychological. By this time he is talking about “Russians” (not Communists) and concludes “they are all right.” He suggests the United States should not engage in propaganda; makes a plea for peaceful coexistence; and suggests the United States would find it sound policy to recognize the USSR and advance credits [give loans].’ (Antony Sutton, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 1917-1930, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Calif., 1968, p.292)”

“After the Bolshevik Revolution, Standard [Oil] of New Jersey [Rockefeller] bought 50 per cent of the Nobel’s huge Caucasus oil fields even though the property had theoretically been nationalized [by Russia]. (O’Connor, Harvey, The Empire Of Oil, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1955, p.270.)”

“In 1927, Standard Oil of New York [Rockefeller] built a refinery in Russia, thereby helping the Bolsheviks put their economy back on its feet. Professor Sutton states: ‘This was the first United States investment in Russia since the Revolution.’ (Ibid, Vol.1, p.38)”

“Shortly thereafter Standard Oil of New York and its subsidiary, Vacuum Oil Company [Rockefeller], concluded a deal to market Soviet oil in European countries and it was reported that a loan of $75,009,000 to the Bolsheviks was arranged. (National Republic, Sept.1927.)”

“…Wherever Standard Oil would go, Chase National Bank was sure to follow. (The Rockefeller’s Chase Bank was later merged with the Warburg’s Manhattan Bank to form the present Chase Manhattan Bank.) In order to rescue the Bolsheviks, who were supposedly an archenemy, the Chase National Bank was instrumental in establishing the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1922. President of the Chamber was Reeve Schley, a vice-president of Chase National Bank. (Ibid, Vol.11, p.288) According to Professor Sutton: ‘In 1925, negotiations between Chase and [Russian] Prombank extended beyond the finance of raw materials and mapped out a complete program for financing Soviet raw material exports to the U. S. and imports of U. S. cotton and machinery.’ (Ibid, Vol.11, p.226) Sutton also reports that ‘Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust Company were leaders in the Soviet credit business.’ (Ibid, p.277)”

“The Rockefeller’s Chase National Bank also was involved in selling Bolshevik bonds in the United States in 1928. Patriotic organizations denounced the Chase as an ‘international fence.’ Chase was called ‘a disgrace to America… They will go to any lengths for a few dollars profits.’ (Ibid, Vol.11, p.291) Congressman Louis McFadden, chairman of the House Banking Committee, maintained in a speech to his fellow Congressmen:”

“’The Soviet government has been given United States Treasury funds by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks acting through the Chase Bank and the Guaranty Trust Company and other banks in New York City.”

“’Open up the books of Amtorg, the trading organization of the Soviet government in New York, and of Gostorg, the general office of the Soviet Trade Organization, and of the State Bank of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States’ Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York’. (Congressional Record, June 15, 1933.)”

“But the Rockefellers apparently were not alone in financing the Communist arm of the Insiders’ conspiracy. According to Professor Sutton ‘… there is a report in the State Department files that names Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (the long established and important financial house in New York) as the financier of the [Russians’] First Five Year Plan. See U. S. State Dept. Decimal File, 811.51/3711 and 861.50 FIVE YEAR PLAN/236.’ (Sutton, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 340n.)”

“Professor Sutton proves conclusively in his three volume history of Soviet technological development that the Soviet Union was almost literally manufactured by the U.S.A…”

“…Sutton shows that there is hardly a segment of the Soviet economy which is not a result of the transference of Western, particularly American, technology.”

“This cannot be wholly the result of accident. For fifty years the Federal Reserve-CFR-Rockefeller-lnsider crowd has advocated and carried out policies aimed at increasing the power of their satellite, the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, America spends $75 billion a year on defense to protect itself from the enemy the Insiders are building up.”
NOTE: The descendants of these bankers are now doing everything they can to build up the story that Donald Trump won the presidency by colluding with Russians. To call this an irony, in view of the above information, would be a vast understatement.

However, the motives of these men are clear: regardless of whether Trump meant to keep his promises to destroy Globalism (aka worldwide Socialism), his mere mention of Globalism as the enemy, during the presidential campaign, and his declared opposition to Globalist “free trade” treaties, was sufficient to warrant an all-out attack on him.

The whole idea of nationalism as preferable to Globalism could act as a contagious germ spreading to the people of other countries—so Trump as the face and symbol of such sentiments had to be defamed and crushed.

Through various front organizations, cutouts, dupes, brainwashed useful idiots, and violent hired thugs, that operation to crush Trump is well underway.

Again—and this point must be understood—IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER TRUMP EVER MEANT TO KEEP HIS PROMISE TO BURY GLOBALISM. THE MERE MENTION OF GLOBALISM AS THE ENEMY WAS AND IS SUFFICIENT TO WARRANT UNCEASING ATTACKS AGAINST HIM.

Many, many of Trump’s supporters want to see Globalism buried.

Ultimately, these supporters are the real target of the Globalists.

These millions of targets—human beings who want freedom, a return to Constitutional principles, and an end to both Globalism and American Empire—gave support to presidential candidates before Trump: Ross Perot and Ron Paul.

These “targets” aren’t going away. They understand how the American Republic was betrayed. The above evidence reveals that betrayal was a set-up, designed to prop up and rescue a system (the USSR) that was dead on arrival, a complete failure.

Elite money created Socialist Russia, sustained it, bailed it out, and propagandized it as a movement of the people.


Socialism is a movement of, by, and for the super-rich.


Jon Rappoport

[Ron Mauer Sr]

Reading Gary Allen's book, None Dare Call it Conspiracy (http://www.youbethejudgeandjury.com/none_dare_call_it_conspiracy.pdf) [PDF] was a major wake up event for me.

[Hervé]

Disclosure... indeed:

"Russian Meddling?" FDR's Soviet Spies Sodomized the US (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/02/Soviets-Sodomized-the-US-from-FDR-White-House.html)

henrymakow.com February 20, 2018


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(Maj. George Racey Jordan, Lend-Lease expediter
and liaison with the Russians during World War II.)


Russian "meddling" in 2016 election is a farce considering the US has been Communist-controlled since the FDR Administration when Soviet Agent Harry Hopkins was known as "Co-President and ran Foreign Policy."

Using Lend-Lease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease) as a smokescreen, and working out of the WH, Hopkins looted the United States and ran a massive espionage program.

A patriot, Major George Racey Jordan, exposed this travesty in his 1952 book, From Major Jordan's Diary. As you would expect, he has been disparaged and flushed down the memory hole. No Hollywood movies for real patriots. Americans are their mind-controlled prisoners.

How could this looting take place? The USSR was the Rothschild's private fiefdom and model for their NWO tyranny. (Now they think they can impose this tyranny with a happy face.)

Communism concentrates all (https://www.henrymakow.com/what_is_communism.html)power and money in their hands. (https://www.henrymakow.com/what_is_communism.html) The bankers control the American corporations and politicians that subsidized the USSR at the expense of the American people.
"This was a national looting far and above the exigencies of war supply."
-Diana West
Source (http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3633/Obama-Wasnt-the-First-The-Washington-Moscow-Uranium-Connection-Began-with-FDR.aspx)
by Diana West
(henrymakow.com)

A book called American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character (http://superstore.wnd.com/books/American-Betrayal-The-Secret-Assault-on-Our-Nations-Character-Hardcover) (St. Martin's Press, 2013) doesn't promise uplift and renewal. I know. I wrote it.

That said, the story of "betrayal" my new book lays out - betrayal enabled by a de facto Communist occupation of Washington by American traitors loyal to Stalin, which would solidify in the 1930s under FDR and be covered up by successive U.S. administrations and elites - is not without inspiration. I am talking about the inspiration of the truth-tellers.

"American Betrayal" presents a rewrite of most of World War II and Cold War history, something I never imagined doing when I first began writing the book. This is simply the story that took shape from my research. And it takes shape in the book in a first-person narrative exactly as I stumbled across the revelations and put them together according to two basic mechanisms.

One relates to revelations from secret archives in Moscow and Washington that opened, briefly and partially, after the USSR dissolved in 1991. I discovered that the treason documented in these archives, treason committed by Americans in government, some in the very highest positions of power, had not been incorporated into our general historical understanding of such defining events as World War II and the Cold War. So I did my best to incorporate them. What emerges makes our history look completely different - even our near-sacred history of World War II.

The other stream of new information that I was able to reweave into the American story came from those I think of as the truth-tellers. These are the forgotten and/or maligned witnesses and investigators who told and sought the truth about the massive penetration and infiltration by Americans serving a hostile foreign power. (Yes, among them is Sen. Joe McCarthy (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/02/Sen-Joseph-McCarthy%20.html).)

Their truth-seeking example is inspiring, particularly in an age of routine, serial lying and obfuscation in Washington. If there is one thing I hope my book does, it is to reintroduce us to these great Americans. Because they contradicted the official narrative - the "court histories" as author and historian M. Stanton Evans calls it - these Americans were smeared, marginalized and lost to us, their rudderless descendants.


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We need them back in our historical and moral consciousness. To that end, I am embarking on an occasional series devoted to truth-tellers highlighted in "American Betrayal."

I will begin with Maj. George Racey Jordan, who in 1949 and 1950 came forward to testify under oath before Congress that one big reason the Soviet Union had recently surprised the world by exploding an atomic bomb was that he, Jordan, the top "expediter" shipping thousands of tons of U.S. war supplies and aircraft through an airfield in Great Falls, Mont., to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease during World War II, had personally overseen the shipment of uranium to Moscow.

Really? Sure enough, as a congressional investigator would testify, two specific shipments of uranium oxide and nitrate were "completely documented to include even the number of the plane that flew the uranium ... out of Great Falls." This postwar revelation before Congress would shock and anger Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, because he had slapped an embargo on the wartime export of uranium from the U.S. Of course, the shipments in question came from Canadian stocks. How did that happen? Therein lies a tale - a tale of betrayal.

Meanwhile, it wasn't just uranium Jordan expedited, as he testified. Heavy water, too.

The congressional committee was able to document the shipment of heavy water, too.

In all, Jordan "expedited" 23 atomic materials through the big airbase in Montana to Moscow during the war, along with nearly 14 million pounds of aluminum tubes, also essential to atomic experimentation.

Findings in Soviet archives would later confirm that possession of the atomic bomb was what emboldened Stalin to trigger the Korean War in 1950. The implications of the theft of U.S. atomic secrets, then, becomes staggering.

After Jordan went public, all manner of witnesses stepped forward to corroborate different aspects of his story. There was the pilot who flew the uranium shipment (and said he handled brown grains of uranium that spilled from a box). There was the GI who recognized in Moscow-bound blueprints the chemical structure of uranium.


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Soviet defector Victor Kravchenko celebrated author of "I Chose Freedom," would himself testify before Congress and corroborate specific allegations by Jordan attesting to Lend-Lease as a giant conduit of Soviet espionage.

What even this skeletal synopsis of a tale that unfolds in detail in "American Betrayal" should make clear is that it wasn't just the Rosenberg atomic spy ring that enabled the Soviet theft of U.S. atomic secrets. There was a massive looting effort underway inside the U.S. government overseen by senior Washington officials.

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Chief among these powers was Harry Hopkins, FDR's very top, very enigmatic, very sinister (I have concluded) adviser. Hopkins was the power behind Lend-Lease - often the power behind Roosevelt, too - and a central figure in my book.

I knew none of this "lost" history going into my research more than four years ago. Precious few Americans, I've since learned, do. Hopkins, once famously known as Roosevelt's "co-president," is as absent from our national history lessons as Jordan, a credible eyewitness to what might well have been treason. Why do we have such blanks? Why isn't Jordan's earth-shaking testimony, most of it corroborated by documentation and supporting eyewitness accounts, ever taught? How did Hopkins, once the most powerful man in Washington next to FDR (and maybe more so) slip out of our collective memory? Who stole our history - and why?

These are the questions I set out to unravel in American Betrayal. (http://www.amazon.com/American-Betrayal-Assault-Nations-Character/dp/0312630786/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351518327&sr=8-1&keywords=American+Betrayal) On this quest, I learned there was nothing like seeking out, dusting off and listening to history's truth-tellers.


Related-
YouTube Lecture by Diana West (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjprabS9ZAs)
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Excerpts from American Betrayal re. Lend Lease-
"Singapore fell because 200 US fighter jets earmarked for the British enclave were diverted to Russia. As result, more than 100,000 British soldiers were interned. p. 45

"War supplies didn't just "flow" to the Soviet Union, they flooded it, with half a million trucks and jeeps, nearly 1$ billion (1940 dollars) of ordinance and ammunition, thousands of fighter aircraft, bombers and tanks, 13 million pairs of winter boots, 1.7 million tons of petroleum products. a merchant fleet, 1000 steam locomotives, 581 naval vessels including minesweepers, landing craft, sub chasers, frigates, torpedo boats... icebreakers and a light cruiser. " p.43

"Non-military supplies included diesel engines, entire prefab factories, and hydroelectric plants...hundreds of thousands of patents were stolen including secret military blueprints, pip-fabricating works, nearly a million miles of copper wire (sent after the war), tens of millions worth of switchboard panels, lathes and power tools for metalworking, machinery for textiles, woodworking, and typesetting, cranes, hoists, serricks, elevators, drills, not to mention $152 milion in women's dress goods, 18.4 million pounds of writing opaper and assorted cigarette cases, compacts, jewelled watches, lipstick, liquor. ...217,660,666 pounds of butter were shipped to the USSR at a time of strict rationing state-side. Planes for Russia were prioritized over US Airforce. " p. 44

"This was a national looting far and above the exigencies of war supply." Jordan opened a few of the hundreds of black suitcases being transferred to Russia through the Great Falls MT airbase and found espionage of the highest order, including the location and blueprints of key US factories and infrastructure, patents, and plans and materiel for the atomic bomb. ( pp. 138-142)
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Related-
FDR - Dupe or Fellow Traveller? (https://www.henrymakow.com/fdr_naive_exploited_or_fellow.html)

FDR Turned Blind Eye to Soviet Spies (https://www.henrymakow.com/2017/03/smoking-gun.html)

FDR Controlled by his (((Braintrust))) (https://www.henrymakow.com/310702.htmlhttps://www.henrymakow.com/310702.html)

McCarthy & the Khazar Curs (https://www.henrymakow.com/000162.html)e

[Hervé]

Well, while at it, more real disclosures:

Sen Joseph McCarthy - an American Hero (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/02/Sen-Joseph-McCarthy%20.html)

henrymakow.com February 17, 2018


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/young-joe-mccarthy.jpg


The US is a country of co-conspirators.

A measure of this subversion is the vilification of Joseph McCarthy, second only to Hitler. What do these two men have in common?

Resistance to Communism (https://www.henrymakow.com/what_is_communism.html), (i.e. the Masonic Jewish satanic cult.)

History has proven him right about Communist subversion. However this cancer has spread so far that the myth of a "witchhunt" continues to be perpetuated.

Most of those who denounce(d) him are(were) dupes or fellow travelers.
"Virtually every one of the people accused of being a Soviet agent by Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers -- both reviled and denounced for making false charges not only by political partisans in the 1940s but by historians ever since -- turns out to have been a Soviet spy."

"From its inception in 1919, the CPUSA had been generously funded by the Soviet Union, with subsidies that reached $3,000,000 a year by the mid-1980s... the Party leadership had worked closely with Soviet intelligence to ferret out American secrets."
"We have already ...possessed the minds of the goy communities...[they are] looking through the spectacles we are setting astride their noses."
Protocols of Zion, 12

Makow's Comment:
Historians like Klehr cannot see the BIG PICTURE. Even McCarthy lacked this.

Communism is a branch of Freemasonry (Cabalist Judaism), which is an instrument of the Rothschilds.

Illuminati insider Chaim Rakovsky revealed in 1938, "the aim of Freemasonry is the triumph of Communism." (https://www.henrymakow.com/000280.html) All the players are Freemasons or their tools, including FDR, Truman, Churchill, and Stalin. This is why McCarthy's warnings were ignored and he was destroyed. Soviet agents like Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White defined the postwar world. (https://www.henrymakow.com/understanding_de_facto_illumin.html)

The rot is so widespread that they now stage mass shootings on a regular basis to terrorize and disarm the American people.

Finally, add this to your list of movies that will never be made: How Joseph McCarthy (and also Defence Sec. James Forrestal) were murdered.


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Setting the Record on Sen. Joseph McCarthy Straight (https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/212053/setting-record-joe-mccarthy-straight-harvey-klehr)

by Harvey Klehr
(Excerpts by henrymakow.com)

McCarthyism is [regarded as] the most frightening and detestable era in modern American history.

For much of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990, there was a steady outpouring of books and articles arguing that the Communist Party of the United States was a small, inoffensive group of idealists committed to democracy, civil rights and labor organizing that was demonized and persecuted by an American Inquisition, headed not only by McCarthy, but also by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, and Richard Nixon, persecutor of Alger Hiss...


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/three-stooges.jpg
(Churchill, Truman and Stalin doing their Masonic shake. Cold War was a charade. All wars are ruses to kill patriots, increase power and make money.)


Among historians, there was widespread support for the idea that that American government had vastly overestimated the threat of Soviet espionage. The convictions of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs were widely regarded as miscarriages of justice. The charges by Elizabeth Bentley that dozens of government employees had given her secret data to turn over to the Russians were derided as the unsupported ravings of a deluded alcoholic. President Truman's imposition of a federal loyalty-security program was attacked as an unjustified intrusion on civil liberties...

Beginning in the mid-1990s, this simplistic version of an American history in which national security fears were merely the pretext for an attack on civil rights and liberties began to lose ground. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, previously closed Russian archives began to open to scholars.

I was the first American to gain access to the previously closed files of the Communist International and the CPUSA itself, located in Moscow, in the summer of 1992. Although I was originally far more interested in issues of the CP's political activities in America, I unexpectedly began to come across documents marked top secret being sent by a man named Pavel Fitin that contained the names of employees of the United States government who had been accused of being Soviet spies by Elizabeth Bentley, a defector from Soviet intelligence back in the late 1940s. It was interesting enough that these documents were labeled top secret; what was even more fascinating was that Fitin was head of the KGB's foreign intelligence branch and that his memos were dated from 1943 and 1944 -- long before Bentley went to the FBI.

That meant they were not reports on her testimony. Because the archivists had not realized that this material was in the files or its significance, I was able to take the microfilm copies out of the country. In The Secret World of American Communism (http://www.amazon.com/Secret-American-Communism-Annals-Series/dp/0300068557), John Haynes and I reprinted nearly one hundred Russian KGB documents establishing that Soviet intelligence had recruited American communists to spy on its behalf.

We also showed that from its inception in 1919, the CPUSA had been generously funded by the Soviet Union, with subsidies that reached $3,000,000 a year by the mid-1980s, and that the Party leadership had worked closely with Soviet intelligence to ferret out American secrets. And we found snippets of information about a very hush-hush American project, code-named Venona, that had worked to decipher coded Soviet messages.

After our book appeared in 1995 we were asked to testify before a commission chaired by former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on government secrecy. We pointed out the oddity of finding information about Venona in an open Russian archive while all information about it in America remained closed. Moynihan then pressed the director of the CIA, John Deutsch, a committee member, to consider declassifying the Venona material.

Later that year it was released -- some 2900 messages between KGB and GRU (Soviet military intelligence) headquarters and their stations in New York, Washington, San Francisco and points outside the United States...

VENONA REVELATIONS
As a result of the material that has emerged from Russian archives and the release of the Venona files, we now know a great deal about the extent of Soviet espionage from the 1930s through the 1940s. There is no longer any question about the fact that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were Soviet spies (although Ethel played a very minor role). Julius is identifiable in Venona under the code-name Liberal. By the way, the use of code names shows that the KGB had a macabre sense of humor. The code name for their bitter enemies, the Trotskyists, was Polecats, Zionists were Rats, San Francisco was Babylon and Washington DC was Carthage.


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There is no doubt that Alger Hiss, left, was a Soviet spy and continued to provide information through the Yalta Conference which he attended as an advisor to FDR. The Soviets thoroughly infiltrated the Manhattan Project and were able to build an atomic bomb several years before they otherwise would have because of such spies as Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British scientist, convicted of espionage in the late 1940s and Theodore Hall, a young American physicist who died in Britain in 1999, who had never been publicly named as a spy until the Venona material was released...

All told, some 350 Americans turn out to have worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II -- a time when we were allies. American counter-intelligence eventually identified more than 125 of these agents -- but were never able to nail down who the other 200 plus were. Virtually every one of the people accused of being a Soviet agent by Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers -- both reviled and denounced for making false charges not only by political partisans in the 1940s but by historians ever since -- turns out to have been a Soviet spy.

No Federal agency was immune to Soviet penetration. There were at least 16 Soviet agents in the OSS, predecessor to the CIA, including Duncan Lee, chief counsel to General William Donovan. The Office of War Information, the Board of Economic Warfare, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, War Production Board, War Department, Signal Corps, Censorship office, the Justice Department were all penetrated. In the State Department Alger Hiss was not the only Soviet spy. Larry Duggan, in charge of Latin American affairs, was an agent. Lauchlin Currie, one of six presidential assistants, provided information. The most highly placed spy was Harry Dexter White, the number two man the Treasury Department and one of the architects of the post-war international financial order -- he designed the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Bretton Woods agreement. The KGB so valued White's information -- including meetings at the founding UN conference where he revealed the American negotiating strategy -- that when he hinted at leaving government service because of financial pressures, the KGB offered to pay his daughter's college tuition...

MCCARTHY
There are several things about which Senator McCarthy was right -- although he was by no means the first or only person to note them. There was a very significant issue of national security presented by communist spying and subversion. No government can turn a blind eye to spying as extensive as that directed against the United States by the Soviet Union. Secondly, the American Communist Party was serving as an agent of a foreign power. ..

Thirdly, McCarthy was partially correct that the Roosevelt and Truman administrations had been slow to respond to the issue of Soviet espionage. Whittaker Chambers had first gone to Adolph Berle with information about Alger Hiss, Harry White, Lauchlin Currie and others right after the Nazi-Soviet Pact and nothing had been done. It was not just that many liberals refused to believe that people like Hiss could not be spies.


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Even J. Edgar Hoover's FBI did not make Soviet espionage a major priority until 1943 and their early investigations, while filled with promising leads, did not go very far...

But if McCarthy was right about some of the large issues, he was wildly wrong on virtually all of the details.

...The new information from Russian and American archives does not vindicate McCarthy. He remains a demagogue, whose wild charges actually made the fight against Communist subversion more difficult.

But if McCarthy was wrong on the details -- and what is history but details -- many historians today are both wrong on the details about McCarthyism and morally obtuse about the nature of communism. Far too many American historians believe that anti-communism or the search for Soviet spies was baseless paranoia. They recoil so strongly from McCarthy that they are unable to recognize that just because an objectionable politician cynically employed anti-communism does not mean that anti-communism was objectionable. The CPUSA was a haven for spies and Soviet subversion presented a genuine security threat to the United States.

But, for Ellen Schrecker, former editor of Academe, Journal of the American Association of University Professors, all varieties of anti-communism are species of McCarthyism. Opposition to communism, she has written," tapped into something dark and nasty ion the human soul." Blanche Wiesen Cook of CUNY lamented that "everything fine and creative in American thought has been splattered and smeared" by hostility to communism.

ACADEMIA IS COMMUNIST
One of the oddest phenomena in the academic world is the nostalgia so many professor display for communism. The human costs of that ideology, we now know, run upwards of 100 million dead in the former Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Eastern Europe and North Korea. In light of archival evidence that during the Great Purges of the 1930s, the USSR was executing almost 1000 political prisoners a day...

Most disturbing has been the willingness of many historians to blind themselves to historical evidence. As the new material has emerged from Russian archives and the declassified Venona documents, far too many historians have allowed their political and ideological biases to distort their historical judgment...

And then there are those historians who have, sometimes reluctantly, looked this new material in the face, admitted its validity, and provided retroactive support for one of McCarthy's charges -- that one segment of American opinion supported communism and the Soviet Union against their own country. These historians have concluded that the weight of the evidence of Soviet espionage is so overwhelming that it can no longer be denied...
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Related-
Our DeFacto Communist Society (https://www.henrymakow.com/2016/04/we-have-de-facto-communism.html)

McCarthy Charges Now Accepted as Fact (https://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jmc.htm)

The New World Order is Communism (https://www.henrymakow.com/160303.html)

How Communists Used McCarthy (https://www.henrymakow.com/mccarthy.html)

[Foxie Loxie]

Interesting part of The Big Picture we are living through right now!! :idea: FACTS never seem to matter, do they?!

[Hervé]

Revisiting Col. House's version of "The Protocols":

Protocols of Zion are Genuine: Col. House Had a Personal Copy (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html)

henrymakow.com March 17, 2018


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(Ventriloquist Edward House, right, with his Dummy President Woodrow Wilson, left)


Some time ago, Stan Monteith, (1929-2014) a pioneer NWO researcher, found a typewritten copy of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in the papers of Col. E.M. House at Yale University.

This seemed like confirmation of the widely held view that House (1858-1938) was a Rothschild agent. House was an "adviser" to Woodrow Wilson and FDR. It makes sense that he would have a copy of the Blueprint for the New World Order in his possession. He elaborated on this diabolical program in his political manifesto, "Philip Dru Administrator." (1912)

I began a comparison of the two manuscripts here. (https://www.henrymakow.com/col_em_houses_protocols_of_zio.html)

Spencer Percival continues this comparison below and makes the point:

Why would Rothschild's US consiglieri own a private typescript if The Protocols were a "forgery?"
"This is massive, the Protocols now having a direct provenance to an unimpeachable source which effectively destroys all the so-called debunking; even the ADL will have a hard job to discredit House as an anti-Semite."
Americans are physical collateral against the national "debt":

House on "Social Security"
-" Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges."
by Spencer Percival
(henrymakow.com)

Colonel Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 - March 28, 1938) was an adviser or 'puppet master' of two US presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, overseeing passage of the Federal Reserve Act, The so called Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution to permit Congress to levy an Income Tax, America's entry into World War one, Versailles (where he also helped set up the Council on Foreign Relations, America's equivalence of the Royal Institute), recognition of the Soviet Union, gold confiscation bank holiday, formed The New Deal.

Considered by many to be a major Rothschild agent, he exposed his agenda for humanity in a meeting with Woodrow Wilson. (http://www.gemworld.com/edmandellhouse.htm)
"[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property1 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote1sym) in a national system2 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote2sym) designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging.

"By such methodology, we can compel people3 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote3sym) to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency4 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote4sym).

"Every American will be forced to register or suffer being unable to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel5 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote5sym), and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions.

"Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading6 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote6sym) to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges.

"They will be stripped of their rights7 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote7sym) and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two should figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund the government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges.

"This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor to this fraud which we will call 'Social Insurance.' Without realizing it, every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and we will employ the high office8 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote8sym) of our dummy corporation9 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote9sym) to foment this plot against America."
DID HOUSE TYPE THIS MS HIMSELF?
Notwithstanding all the furor that accompanied the Marsden publication from 1919 which continued throughout the twenties and thirties, House and his executors determined to leave to posterity this version of the Protocols.

On receipt of the copies I was most surprised at the tattered looking images of which were 99 manual typewritten pages replete with typo's and multiple corrections and other indications11 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote11sym) that this was being copied and that the typist wasn't a professional and therefore likely to be Edward House himself, which may suggest he didn't wish any other eyes to see the document, however without going to Yale University and comparing them to his other papers I cannot say conclusively it is equally possible that he received the MS 'as is' from another party.

My first action was to scan, ocr12 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote12sym) and proofread the manuscript and when done, one of the first things to stand out was missing protocols and duplicate ones. Whilst the missing protocol and one 'duplicate protocol' could be put down to a typo the same couldn't be said for Protocol XI. for which there are two distinct 'protocols', thus the House MS has in fact 25 protocols as against 24 protocols in the Marsden MS which may or may not have esoteric significance.

On closer examination what shows is a slightly different Protocol numbering and the splitting of a Marsden Protocol into two, thus Marsden Protocol 3 'Methods of Conquest' has moved to House Protocol 10 causing Marsden Protocols 4 and 5 to become House Protocols 3 and 4, as House Protocol 5 doesn't exist they realign at Protocol 6 and the second House Protocol 6 is in fact the first part of Marsden Protocol 7 and completed with House Protocol 7, the first of two Protocols' 11 in House relates to Marsden Protocol 10 and the second House Protocol 11 realigns with Marsden Protocol 11.

The first thing noticed is the economy of paragraphs in the House MS. But reading the two texts, although using alternate vocabularies, both still impart the same meaning or intent, which continues throughout the Protocols.

In Protocol 11 there is a Latin phrase, now Latin in French, English or Russian should be the same but here we have modus vivendi in the House MS and modus agendi in the Marsden MS, whilst it falls in with a consistent alternate vocabulary that imparts the same meaning or intent, for the reasons stated above you would expect it to be the same if it were a translation, additional a French term coups d'état is used in House Protocol 11 but not in Marsden Protocol 11 but in Protocol 15 and not in House Protocol 15.

Henry Makow has compared (https://www.henrymakow.com/col_em_houses_protocols_of_zio.html) the first eight pages of the House MS with the Marsden MS, and he concludes that the nuances of the different words are significant and whilst I do not disagree with that statement I consider the intent of the vocabulary of the text to be more significant.

Conclusion: Protocols were "Serving Notice"
Anyone who makes a honest study of the complete MSs cannot help but come to the conclusion that the source for the both of them is the same, whether that be a meeting or a text, with the inconsistencies noted above it points more to a meeting(s) than text, yet this does not explain the different orders in parts of the MS. That being the case the existence of the House MS proves the authenticity of the Marsden MS which most non-coincident theorists would have known anyway.

This is massive, the Protocols now having a direct provenance to an unimpeachable source which effectively destroys all the so-called debunking, even the ADL will have a hard job to discredit House as an anti-Semite.

As to the writer, I do not think it was an opposition copy for the simple reason it stands unique and surely the purpose of an opposition copy would be to disseminate it as widely as possible so that by now, over 100 years on, there would be several copies coming to light, also with this being about 9 years before the Marsden book came to press, it would have been a 'hot book'.

I think that it is more likely the work of a group, possibly Chabad or given that most these people are Luciferians and Cabbalists it may have even been channeled, which brings to mind another Woodrow Wilson quote:
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
Currently, my time is very limited, my main region of research being Law13 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote13sym) and health, As such, I have learnt that Notice (as mentioned at the start) is an integral part of law systems starting with the cosmic law and down to the common and municipal law. Cities used to post (Notice) their laws at the gate, I now believe that such 'leaks' are in some cases by design, the fact is mankind has been noticed and on the fulfillment of their plans they can legally say you were told, you did not resist, you consented. However, I shall in all probability use the comparisons above as a start to complete a comparison volume (unless you beat me to it), but for now, here is House's ms PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETING OF THE ZIONIST MEN v2 Final (3).pdf (https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_docs/PROTOCOLS%20OF%20THE%20MEETING%20OF%20THE%20ZIONIST%20MEN%20v2%20Final%20%283%29.pdf)


References:
1 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote1anc) Children

2 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote2anc) Although all states had birth records by 1919, the use of the standardized version was not uniformly adopted until the 1930's

3 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote3anc) Persons would be more correct, as these are attached to people.

4 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote4anc) Backed by the "full faith and credit" of the U.S. Government!

5 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote5anc) Property

6 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote6anc) Record of Live Birth - Birth Certificate

7 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote7anc) The Bill of Rights does not apply to 14th Amendment U.S. Citizens.

8 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote8anc) Presidency

9 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote9anc) U.S.A. as opposed to the republic which is the united states of America.

10 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote10anc) Which may or may not be a translation.

11 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote11anc) Addition of footnotes and comments to MS.

12 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote12anc) Optical Character Reader.

13 (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/03/protocols-are-genuine.html#sdfootnote13anc) There are many misconceptions about law, part of the same consensus reality with assumptions and presumptions allowed to be inculcated into society, if you wish a glimpse of what real law as opposed to code is, a reasonable site to visit is Private Person (http://private-person.com/Welcome.html).

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Yale University... the fiefdom of Skull & Bones whose Bonesmen Elders were behind schedule in getting WW I going (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100971-The-Behind-The-Scene-Dirty-War-Of-WWII&p=1196326&viewfull=1#post1196326)...

[Hervé]

A short recap on how things got started (plucked from here (https://www.henrymakow.com/001822.html) <---) and how much out of hand they've gotten now:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/misc/quote_icon.pngThe New World Order is a fait accompli. They put "mission accomplished" (annuit coeptis) on the US dollar in 1929.http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/misc/quote_icon.png

[...]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/misc/quote_icon.png Nicholas Rockefeller admitted to Aaron Russo (http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/281006rockefellerpredicted.htm) that his family foundation started Women's Lib to get women out of the home, expand the tax base and indoctrinate the children from a young age. In 2000, Rockefeller foretold Sept. 11 and invited Russo to become part of the coming Fascist state.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/misc/quote_icon.png The Rockefeller Foundation is also the major sponsor of Planned Parenthood (Formerly "The Eugenics Society") contraceptive research and Feminism. There are 87K hits for the "RF and Women's Studies" on Google.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/misc/quote_icon.pngPreviously, the Rockefellers sponsored Josef Mengele's research on how to make a human slave at Auschwitz. Feminism is also dedicated to this long-term goal. (See this video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7373201783240489827&q=education%2Billuminati&hl=en) on the history of Rockefeller Social Engineering) http://projectavalon.net/forum4/images/misc/quote_icon.png

There you have it, that "BIG" picture, in the most succinct nutshell possible:


Nicholas Rockefeller [...] his family foundation started Women's Lib to get women out of the home, expand the tax base and indoctrinate the children from a young age.

[Valerie Villars]

It's a chilling picture.

Before I understood as much as I do now, I often thought how misguided the feminist move was, in the sense that the children are the ones who suffer. I felt that pain through the eyes of my child, too late, as I realized other people were raising my child while I was just busy trying to put food on the table.

Or later when I lived in the nice house and I was disgusted that the mercedes (my husband's) cost over 600.00 per month while no one was tending to the dynamics of the family. I left that marriage.

[Ewan]

(See this video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7373201783240489827&q=education%2Billuminati&hl=en) on the history of Rockefeller Social Engineering)





404. That’s an error.

The requested URL /videoplay was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

[Hervé]

I couldn't find it anymore either... too bad.

In any case, doing a search for " history of Rockefeller Social Engineering, video " I found those:


The Rockefellers & Social Engineering - Dr. Russell Blaylock... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WucbVbu7exA

Rockefeller Frankfurt School Tavistock Degeneracy - Jay Dyer / Tim Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBuHPcGofHU

SJWs From Tavistock, Project BLUEBIRD & MK Ultra - Jay Dyer (Half) VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P_vDcJuG24

卐 German Skull & Bones Rockefeller family were behind the funding of Josef Mengele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W88A-cVOlqA

1969: NWO insider reveals social engineering & depopulation plan! :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xos5IBrsGlU

[Hervé]

I moved three posts out of this thread to this new one: For an idea On The Big Picture Solutions (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?102563-For-an-idea-On-The-Big-Picture-Solutions) since this thread aims at collecting corroborations to what that "BIG" picture actually consists of.
(http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?102563-For-an-idea-On-The-Big-Picture-Solutions)

[Hervé]

The following article gives an idea on how the "BIG" picture gets implemented into medium and small pictures, down the line:

Craig Murray: Complete disillusionment with the Establishment (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/index-on-disgrace/)

Craig Murray craigmurray.org.uk (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/index-on-disgrace/)
Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:58 UTC


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© Reuters


The second half of my life has been a continual process of disillusionment with the institutions I used to respect. I suppose it started with the FCO, where I went from being Britain's youngest ambassador to being sacked for opposing the use of intelligence from torture, at the same time having an insider view of the knowing lies about Iraqi WMD being used as a pretext for invasion and resource grab.

I still had some residual respect for the BBC, which respect disappeared during the Scottish independence referendum where BBC propaganda and disregard for the truth were truly shameless.

My love of the universities was severely tested during my period as Rector of Dundee University, when I saw how far the corporate model had turned them from academic communities developing people and pursuing knowledge, to relentless churners out of unconsidered graduates and financially profitable research, with nearly all sense of community gone.

My respect for charities vanished when I discovered Save the Children was paying its chief executive £370,000 and had become a haven for New Labour politicos on huge salaries, which was why it was so involved in pushing a pro-war narrative in Syria. When Justin Forsyth and Brendan Cox - both massively salaried employees who came into Save the Children from the revolving door of Gordon Brown's office - were outed over sexual predation, that seemed a natural result of "charities" being headed by rich party hacks rather than by simple people trying to do good. As for respect for parliament, well the massive troughing expenses scandal and all those protected paedophiles...

It has become difficult to hang on to respect for any institution, and that is unsettling.

Which brings me to last week's annual awards from Index on Censorship. The winners of the awards (https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2018/04/indexawards2018-index-announces-2018-freedom-expression-awards-winners/) - from Cuba, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras and Egypt - all seem worthy enough, and there is even some departure from the neo-con narrative in recognising a human rights problem in Egypt.

But the Chairman of Index on Censorship is, incredibly, Rupert Murdoch lead hack David Aaronovitch, and he presided over the awards, in the very week in which the newspaper for which he writes produced this appalling attack on freedom of expression:


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Inside there was a further two page attack on named academics who have the temerity to ask for evidence of government claims over Syria, including distinguished Professors Tim Hayward, Paul McKeigue and Piers Robinson. The Times also attacked named journalists and bloggers and, to top it off, finished with a column alleging collusion between Scottish nationalists and the Russian state.

That the Chairman of "Index on Censorship" is associated with this kind of attack on freedom of speech, freedom of thought and freedom of research is sadly unsurprising. The guest list of the Index ceremony had a distinct right wing tinge including A C Grayling and Sara Khan, as well as a good smattering of the BBC, which was also represented on the judging panel. The irony of the state broadcaster being part of a panel on freedom of expression is plainly lost.

I realised something was very wrong with Index on Censorship when I contacted them over a decade ago, when Jack Straw attempted to ban the publication of my book Murder in Samarkand, after it had passed successfully through the exhaustive FCO clearance process over a time-consuming year. I tried to interest them again when my second book The Catholic Orangemen of Togo was dropped by my publisher following libel threats from mercenary commander Tim Spicer of Aegis/Executive Outcomes/Sandline. On both occasions I was told that then Chief Executive of Index, John Kampfner, did not regard these attempted book bannings as incidents of censorship. Presumably because they weren't somewhere like Cuba or Zimbabwe...

The truly appalling Times attack on academics was part of a coordinated and government-led campaign to delegitimise anybody doubting the official narrative on Salisbury and Syria. The BBC weighed in with this horrible effort (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43745629):


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The government then issued a ridiculous press release branding decent people as "Russian bots" just for opposing British policy in Syria. In a piece of McCarthyism so macabre I cannot believe this is really happening, an apparently pleasant and normal man called Ian was grilled live on Murdoch's Sky News, having been named by his own government as a Russian bot.


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The Guardian uncritically published the government's accusations in full, and astonishingly seemed proud that it had made no attempt to investigate their veracity but had merely published what the government wished them to publish:


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The Guardian naturally was just as reliable as the BBC in driving home the message that anybody who doubted the government's word on Syria was a flat-earth denier of the truth:


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Mr Freedland is of course a perfect representation of an interesting fact. Those who are most active in telling us that we must attack Syria, and that anybody who questions the government's pretexts is insane or evil, are precisely the same individuals who supported the war in Iraq and attacked those who doubted the existence of Iraqi WMD. Indeed these people - Jonathan Freedland, David Aaronovitch, Oliver Kamm, Alan Mendoza, Andrew Rawnsley, John Rentoul, Nick Cohen - are the leaders of the tiny, insignificant number of people who still believe that the invasion of Iraq was both justified and beneficial in its result.

Yet these people of proven terrible judgement, they and others of their media class, are the arbiters who are allowed to dictate the terms of what is and what is not an acceptable public utterance on the situation in Syria.

When Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the opposition, one of two things had to happen. Either the Overton window had to shift to allow for the reflection of views held by the leader of the official opposition and his myriad supporters, or the leader of the opposition had to be castigated and humiliated as an unreasonable lunatic. Corbyn's rational scepticism on British involvement in the conflict in Syria is a key moment in this process. Despite the fact Corbyn's scepticism is supported by a wide swathe of diplomatic and military opinion within the UK, it has to be portrayed as fringe, extreme and irrational.

We thus have the extraordinary spectacle of a coordinated government and media onslaught on anybody who doubts their entirely fact free narratives. Those who were demonstrably completely wrong over Iraq are held up as infallible, and given full control of all state and corporate media platforms, where they deride those who were right over Iraq as crackpots and Russian bots.

Meanwhile public trust in the state and corporate media hits new lows, which is the happy part of this story.


Finally, a change of policy on this blog.

For thirteen years now it has operated with a policy of not accepting donations, except for occasional legal funds. It has now reached a size and cost, not least because of continual attacks, that make income essential. It is also the case that due to change in personal circumstance I am no longer in a position to devote my time to it without income - the need to earn a living caused the blog to go dark for almost five months last year, and the last six weeks this journalism has stopped me doing anything else to pay the rent. So, with a certain amount of pride swallowed, here is your chance to subscribe (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/04/index-on-disgrace/).

[Hervé]

Billionaires are Behind Communism - Reece Committee (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/05/Reece-Committee-Exposed-Billionaires.html)

Henry Makow May 5, 2018


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Norman Dodd (1899-1987) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Dodd) was a banker/bank manager, worked as a financial advisor and served as chief investigator in 1953 for U.S. Congressman B. Carroll Reece Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations (commonly referred to as the Reece Committee).


Most of America's great fortunes were made by men chosen by the Rothschilds and given the money to become monopolies. Naturally, they share the Rothschild goal of worldwide Communism, which is essentially a monopoly over everything- money, power, belief & thought. Thus they must destroy all collective forces - race, religion (God), nation and family (gender).

As this article indicates, they used tax-exempt foundations to re-engineer America in the direction of Communism. (https://www.henrymakow.com/what_is_communism.html) Their mandate was "to alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union." This is the origin of endless war, globalism, miscegenation, feminism, "gay rights," gun control, political correctness, multiculturalism etc. Communism is pretty much a fait accompli in the West. (https://www.henrymakow.com/2016/04/we-have-de-facto-communism.html)

The following historical account is excerpted from Charlotte Iserbyt's book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/), page 46-48:


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Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations (http://abcsofdumbdown.blogspot.ca/2014/06/resume-reece-committee-investigation-of.html)
by Charlotte Iserbyt
(Excerpt by henrymakow.com)


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B. Carroll Reece

NORMAN DODD, A YALE GRADUATE, INTELLECTUAL AND NEW YORK CITY INVESTMENT BANKER, was chosen to be the research director for the Reece Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1953. The Reece Committee was named for its creator, Rep. Carroll Reece of Tennessee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Carroll_Reece), (above) and was formed to investigate the status of tax-exempt foundations.



Dodd sent committee questionnaires to numerous foundations, and as a result of one such request, Joseph E. Johnson, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, invited Dodd to send a committee staffer to Carnegie headquarters in New York City to examine the minutes of the meetings of the foundation's trustees. These minutes had long since been stored away in a warehouse. Obviously, Johnson, who was a close friend of former Carnegie Endowment's president and Soviet spy Alger Hiss, had no idea what was in them. [Word is the staffer went insane because of what she found.]

ENDLESS WAR
The minutes revealed that in 1910 the Carnegie Endowment's trustees asked themselves this question:

"Is there any way known to man more effective than war, to so alter the life of an entire people?"

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(John D. Rockefeller)


For a year the trustees sought an effective "peaceful" method to "alter the life of an entire people." Ultimately, they concluded that war was the most effective way to change people. Consequently, the trustees of the "Carnegie Endowment for International Peace" next asked themselves: "How do we involve the United States in a war?" And they answered,
"We must control the diplomatic machinery of the United States by first gaining control of the State Department."
Norman Dodd stated that the trustees' minutes reinforced what the Reece Committee had uncovered elsewhere about the Carnegie Endowment:
"It had already become a powerful policy-making force inside the State Department."
During those early years of the Carnegie Endowment, war clouds were already forming over Europe and the opportunity of enactment of their plan was drawing near. History proved that World War I did indeed have an enormous impact on the American people. For the first time in our history, large numbers of wives and mothers had to leave their homes to work in war factories, thus effectively eroding woman's historic role as the "heart" of the family.

The sanctity of the family itself was placed in jeopardy. Life in America was so thoroughly changed that, according to Dodd's findings,
"[T]he trustees had the brashness to congratulate themselves on the wisdom and validity of their original decision."
They sent a confidential message to President Woodrow Wilson, insisting that the war not be ended too quickly.


EDUCATION
After the war, the Carnegie Endowment trustees reasoned that if they could get control of education in the United States they would be able to prevent a return to the way of life as it had been prior to the war. They recruited the Rockefeller Foundation to assist in such a monumental task. According to Dodd's Reece Committee report:
"They divided the task into parts, giving to the Rockefeller Foundation the responsibility of altering education as it pertains to domestic subjects, but Carnegie retained the task of altering our education in foreign affairs and about international relations."

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Rowan Gaither

During a subsequent personal meeting with Mr. Dodd, President Rowan Gaither (above) of the Ford Foundation said,
"Mr. Dodd, we invited you to come here because we thought that perhaps, off the record, you would be kind enough to tell us why the Congress is interested in the operations of foundations such as ours?"
Gaither answered his own rhetorical question with a startling admission:


"Mr. Dodd, all of us here at the policy making level of the foundation have at one time or another served in the OSS [Office of Strategic Services, CIA forerunner] or the European Economic Administration, operating under directives from the White House. We operate under those same directives.... The substance under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to so alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."Stunned, Dodd replied,
"Why don't you tell the American people what you just told me and you could save the taxpayers thousands of dollars set aside for this investigation?"
Gaither responded,
"Mr. Dodd, we wouldn't think of doing that."
In public, of course, Gaither never admitted what he had revealed in private. However, on numerous public occasions, Norman Dodd repeated what Gaither had said, and was neither sued by Gaither nor challenged by the Ford Foundation. Dodd was subsequently warned that:

"If you proceed with the investigation as you have outlined, you will be killed."

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Wayne Hays

The Reece Committee never completely finished its work of investigating and receiving testimony in open hearings involving the representatives of the major tax-exempt foundations. The process was completely disrupted and finally derailed by the deliberately disruptive activity of one of its members, Congressman Wayne Hays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Hays) of Ohio, (above).



According to general counsel for the Reece Committee, Renee A. Wormser's account in Foundations: Their Power and Influence (Devin-Adair: New York, 1958, p. 341):
"[Hays] was frank enough to tell us that he had been put on the committee by Mr. [Sam] Rayburn, the Democratic Leader in the House, as the equivalent of a watchdog. Just what he was to 'watch' was not made clear until it became apparent that Mr. Hays was making it his business to frustrate the investigation to the greatest extent possible."

Related:
"The Aim of Freemasonry is the Triumph of Communism" (https://www.henrymakow.com/000280.html)

How University Betrays Students & Society (https://www.henrymakow.com/002046.html)

Dodd interview with Ed Griffin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RgRGWlDo70)

Interview with Stan Monteith (https://vimeo.com/23414990)

[Valerie Villars]

I have an idea on the big picture in a World Atlas book I have had since the early nineties. I began marking an X in every country in which there was a war or an invasion with a number, which I corresponded in writing on the side of the page, as to what country it was, the date and who was fighting, etc.

The map became so littered with X's and the side page so filled with script, I finally gave up. And that was only in a decade or less's time.

[Hervé]

Muslim Brotherhood Ideologue, Sayyid Qutb, was a Free Mason (http://www.voltairenet.org/article201316.html)





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The Egyptian historian, Helmi Nimnim has just published a new biography of Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966). Qutb theorized jihad as interpreted by the Muslim Brotherhood.

In this book, the historian reproduces an article that Qutb had written, entitled “Why I became a freemason” published in the journal al-Taj al-Masri (the “Crown of Egypt”) on 23 April 1943, i.e., before Qutb journeyed to the United States and became part of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A number of authors have already signaled the similarities between the initiation rites of the Muslim Brotherhood and Free Masonry. However this is the first time that someone is putting forward evidence that Sayyid Qutb was a Freemason

At that time, the Egyptian lodges were under the direct control of the British Secret Services and the Egyptian King Farouk was a Freemason. What we still need to clarify is whether Sayyid Qutb was a CIA Agent.

Translation: Anoosha Boralessa (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur126167.html?lang=en)

[Hervé]

Grand Deception: The Strangulation of the Russian Economy in the 1990s Was a Deliberate IMF Policy (https://thenakedhedgie.com/2018/07/18/the-strangulation-of-russian-economy-in-the-1990s-was-a-deliberate-imf-policy-part-3-in-a-6-part-series/)

Alex Krainer Sott.net (https://thenakedhedgie.com/2018/07/18/the-strangulation-of-russian-economy-in-the-1990s-was-a-deliberate-imf-policy-part-3-in-a-6-part-series/)
Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:31 UTC

... if the notion of billions of barrels of proven oil reserves and billions of tons of gold fills your dreams with visions of red-hot cash flow and ice-cold vodka, then Boris Yeltsin just might find some work for you. - Paul Hofheinz, Fortune Magazine, 23 September 19911 The foregoing article is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of my book Grand Deception: the Truth about Bill Browder, Magnitsky Act and Anti-Russian Sanctions (https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-bill-browder-magnitsky-act-russian-sanctions/). Part 1 is here (https://thenakedhedgie.com/2018/07/13/russia-decides-to-go-from-communism-to-capitalism-part-1-of-6-part-series/). Part 2 is here (https://thenakedhedgie.com/2018/07/14/russian-lawmakers-revolt-and-the-constitutional-crisis-of-1993-part-2-in-a-6-part-series/).


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A street vendor feeds a stray dog at an illegal food market in the outskirts of Moscow, January 1997. © Viktor Korotayev/Reuters


Shock therapy gave Russia one of the worst and longest economic depressions of the 20th century, an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe for a peacetime crisis, and a criminally inequitable privatization of public assets. The reasons why things happened this way in Russia generally aren't well understood in the west. Even among better informed intellectuals, the failure of shock therapy is often thought to be vaguely related to some sinister flaw in the Russian society. It is what Bill Browder characterized as "the dirty dishonesty of Russia," or "Russia's evil foundation," which spawned corruption and criminality of staggering proportions. In this toxic environment, the sweet fruits of western democracy and capitalism simply could not grow in spite of the generous benevolence of Russia's western friends.

Such a credulous version of events was never based on any coherent analysis of what transpired in Russia during the 1990s. Rather, it was based on purposeful perception management in the Western media. As late as April 2015, Washington Post provided a good example of this perception management. In an editorial board article, Washington Post informed its readers that in the 1990s, "thousands of Americans went to Russia hoping to help its people attain a better life. The American and Western effort over the last 25 years - to which the United States and Europe devoted billions of dollars - was aimed at helping Russia overcome the horrid legacy of Soviet communism, which left the country on its knees in 1991. ... The Americans," write Washington Post editors, "came for the best of reasons. ... a generous hand was extended to post-Soviet Russia, offering the best of Western values and know-how."2

Indeed, western role in Russian transition is almost invariably represented as generous benevolence. While many among Russia's western helpers did come with sincere and honorable intentions, the whole project, insofar as it was determined by its command and control structure, was simply a massive, bald-faced criminal enterprise.

IMF's Policy Dictate
When Jeffrey Sachs drafted his shock therapy recommendations, he estimated that for the reforms to succeed, Soviet Union would need financial support of about $15 billion per year for many years. This money was needed for the state to continue administering essential social services like pensions, health care and food aid for the country's population. But while the IMF and U.S. government insisted that Moscow abidingly implement the draconian shock therapy measures, they stubbornly refused to provide the needed financial aid. Sachs also advocated debt relief for the USSR which, before its collapse in 1991 was already $60 billion behind in payments to foreign creditors.

When he advised the Bolivian (1985-1986) and Polish (1989-1991) governments in implementing their own shock therapies, Sachs was able to negotiate a 50% debt write-off for Poland and a 90% write-off for Bolivia. By contrast, Russia would get no debt relief of any kind. To the contrary, at the G7 summit held in Moscow in November 1991, representatives of the seven leading western powers insisted that Soviet Union had to continue servicing its external debts at all cost, even menacing Yegor Gaidar that "any suspension of debt payments would result in the immediate suspension of urgent food aid and that the ships nearly arrived at the Black Sea ports would turn around."3 Moscow's endeavor to comply with these payment obligations completely depleted the government's treasury within only three months' time (by February of 1992).

Sachs later reported that in December of 1991 he held discussions with the IMF urging its representatives to advance the financial support needed for Russia's transition, but they insisted that Russia didn't need any such assistance and told him that they had instructed the G7 accordingly. Sachs found the methodology on which the IMF had based their decision "primitive beyond belief," which led him to assume that the IMF was simply "parroting the political decisions already decided by the United States." He was right, of course: as we now know, US aid policy for Russia was indeed determined by two key US government agencies: the Treasury Department run by Robert Rubin with Lawrence Summers in charge of Russian affairs, and the National Security Council.4

To be sure, IMF did advance some loans to Russia during its transition period, but the amounts in question were too small and came too late to provide any meaningful economic or social relief. In all, between 1993 and 1999 the IMF lent Russia between $30 and $40 billion, a far cry from the $15 billion per year that were thought necessary to support her economic reforms. Furthermore, the bulk of IMF loans were given to the oligarch-owned private banks which used them to fund capital flight, bond market speculation and betting against the ruble.5

There were further problematic aspects to the IMF loans: in 1995, with hardly any conditions attached, IMF advanced Russia a $6.7 billion loan through its Systematic Transformation Facility. Practically the entire $6.7 billion sum was used to finance Yeltsin's military assault on Chechnya.6 That operation was a disaster but domestically it served the purpose of distracting the public attention from economic problems and political corruption. IMF's very next loan to Russia was a thinly veiled mission to rescue Yeltsin and his government from Russia's democracy. Namely the Chechen misadventure cost Yeltsin dearly in the December 1995 parliamentary elections and his party suffered a devastating defeat to the Communists.

The president himself had become deeply unpopular. With his approval ratings languishing between 4% and 6%,7 Yeltsin was in real danger of losing the June 1996 presidential elections, which again risked reversing Russia's transition and nullifying the privatization of its economy. To avert this, Yeltsin's cabinet hired a team of American political strategists with ties to the Clinton administration to advise his election campaign. As the Americans got to work in March of 1996, one of the first things they realized was that the Russian people were furious about the government's failure to pay state salaries and pensions for months on end. Washington got the signal and the IMF took action: it promptly released a $1 billion tranche of its next, $10.2 billion loan so that Yeltsin could pay all the salaries and pensions his government owed. The loan served the purpose of improving Yeltsin's unpopularity and making the rigged election appear a bit less suspect.

IMF approved its largest, $22.6 billion loan to Russia as late as 20th July 1998 as its bankrupt government slid inexorably toward default. The loan served two key purposes: a large part of it was a gift to the oligarchs who helped themselves to the funds to convert their hoard of rubles into USD. Within four weeks they bought $6.5 billion and transferred most of it to foreign banks.8 Most of the rest of IMF loan was a stealth bailout for western financial institutions which had some $200 billion worth of loans and investments in Russia. The banks feared the prospect of Russian default which would leave them with crippling losses. These risks became even more acute in the aftermath of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis that would engulf Russia in 1998.

In a testimony before the U.S. Congress, veteran investor Jim Rogers characterized IMF's assistance to Russia as follows: "The activities of the organization are gussied up in sanctimonious prose about aiding the poor and raising the living standards of the third world. Don't be fooled. These bailouts are really about protecting interests of Chase Manhattan, J.P. Morgan, and Fidelity Investments."9

In addition to loading Russia up with unproductive debt, IMF also engineered Russia's hyperinflation and liquidity crisis. After eliminating price controls, IMF obliged Russia to maintain the ruble as the common currency for all Soviet Union successor states, giving each of the 15 new countries the incentive to issue ruble credits for their own benefit while fueling inflation for all others. Sachs reported that he strenuously argued with the IMF against this measure but "for inexplicable reasons," he was consistently rebuked. The result was a one-year delay in the introduction of national currencies for the former Soviet republics, pushing Russia into hyperinflation and needlessly prolonging its economic depression. At this same time, the IMF engineered Russia's staggering liquidity crisis that made it almost impossible for enterprises to pay their suppliers and workers. Under IMF's dictate, Russian economy struggled along on less than one sixth of the currency required to operate an economy of its size.

The extent of IMF's iron-fisted control over the Russian economy was exemplified in a letter from the IMF's representative Yusuke Horaguchi to Russia's central bank chairman Sergei Dubinin. The letter specified the precise schedule of Russia's ruble supply along with "harshly worded" instructions regarding bank credits, the state budget, energy policy, price levels, trade tariffs and agricultural policies. Horaguchi's letter even included a warning that any acts of the parliament contravening the IMF mandates would be vetoed by president Yeltsin.10

It is clear that shock "therapy" was little more than a relentless, cruel strangulation of Russia's economy to facilitate looting of her vast industrial and resource wealth. Nonetheless, most Western-published analyses of this episode tended to treat it as failure of good intentions. While lamenting the outcomes and certain questionable practices, most analysts essentially attribute the failure of Russian transition to honest errors, Russia's endemic corruption, and perhaps inexperience in many of the drama's protagonists. In New York Review of Books, Robert Cotrell provides a typical example: "One cannot really fault the youthful democratic movements for this failure. They were amateurs and innocents with a hazy grasp at best of what they wanted to achieve and no grasp at all of how concretely to achieve it."11 Goldman Marshall of Harvard and the Council of Foreign Relations wrote: "To be sure, there were unsettling reports of shady dealings during the takeovers, but most observers explained them away as inevitable side effects of such a far-reaching transformation."

Naturally, Marshall fails to detail how or where he polled these "most observers," but his message to the readers is unmistakable: move along folks, there's nothing to see here - especially pay no attention to the fact that many of those thousands of Westerners who came to Russia "for the best of reasons," including Bill Browder, Andrei Schleifer and Jonathan Hay,12 returned from Russia as multi-millionaires. Financial reporter Anne Willamson, who covered Russia for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal rightly remarked in her Congressional testimony that, "Americans, who thought their money was helping a stricken land, have been dishonored; and the Russian people who trusted us are now in debt twice what they were in 1991 and rightly feel themselves betrayed."

Notes

The quote from Fortune magazine is exact, but a correction is in order: neither Russia nor the rest of the planet Earth for that matter have billions of tons of gold. Perhaps Hofheinz didn't think millions of ounces sounded enticing enough.
(Hiatt 2015)
(Sachs 2012)
(Wedel 1998)
As Dr. Michael Hudson explained in his 1999 testimony before the Russian Duma, the banks traded currency forward contracts, exchanging rubles for dollars at some future date, usually three months. As the ruble's exchange rate reliably declined, the banks made huge profits on these trades. The IMF justified financing this practice as supporting the ruble, but it was in effect a simple giveaway to the banks at the expense of the Russian people (Hudson 1999).
(Sailer 2014)
By the time Yeltsin handed the presidency over to Vladimir Putin, his popularity had sunk to barely 2% - making him possibly the most unpopular leader in the history of mankind!
(Browder, Red Notice 2015)
From Jim Rogers'10th September 1998 testimony before U.S. Congress (Lindgren 1999)
(Williamson, Russia's Fiscal Whistleblower 1998)
(Cottrell 2001)
During his time managing the HIID's Moscow operation, Andrei Schleifer and Jonathan Hay took advantage of their position and relationships to make personal investments in Russia. An investigation by the FBI and U.S. Justice Department found evidence of fraud and money laundering by Harvard's consultants. In 2004, Schleifer was found guilty of fraud and he agreed to pay a $31 million fine to settle the case. Not only did Harvard University persist in defending Schleifer over the 8 years of investigations and trials, it paid the bulk of Schileifer's fine and kept him on university's faculty.


About the author

Alex Krainer is a hedge fund manager and author. His book, banned by Amazon (https://thenakedhedgie.com/2017/09/22/amazon-com-burns-my-book-and-you-need-to-know-about-this/) in September 2017, is now available in pdf, kindle, and epub formats at the following link: Grand Deception: Truth About Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act and Anti-Russian Sanctions. (https://thirdalliance.ch/product/grand-deception-the-browder-hoax/) Paperback version is now available here (https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-bill-browder-magnitsky-act-russian-sanctions/) (and on Amazon (https://smile.amazon.com/Grand-Deception-Magnitsky-Anti-Russian-Sanctions/dp/0692131957/)). Alex also wrote one book on commodities trading. (https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Uncertainty-Commodities-Trading-sustainable/dp/2955692301/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1522357129&sr=8-1&keywords=Alex+krainer&linkCode=ll1&tag=jubilee088-20&linkId=af1f5c9875c78d5274d76c137d035ec2) Originally published at The Naked Hedgie (https://thenakedhedgie.com/2018/07/18/the-strangulation-of-russian-economy-in-the-1990s-was-a-deliberate-imf-policy-part-3-in-a-6-part-series/).

[Hervé]

Erased history: how Rockefeller bankrolled Soviet Russia (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/erased-history-how-rockefeller-bankrolled-soviet-russia/)

by Jon Rappoport (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/author/jonrappoport/) Aug 6 (https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/erased-history-how-rockefeller-bankrolled-soviet-russia/) , 2018


In 1971, Gary Allen published his book, None Dare Call it Conspiracy. It quickly became an unofficial best seller.

Over the years, several million copies have been sold.

Allen’s thesis was stark: super-rich American capitalists were financing socialism. This bizarre paradox was resolved when socialism was properly understood—not as “power to the people”—but as elite power over the people. In other words, as a hoax.

These days, the socialist hoax is still unknown to most of the population.

Cloak a global power grab as progress for all of humanity.

Here, from chapter six of None Dare Call it Conspiracy, “The Rockefellers and the Reds,” is a devastating passage commenting on the period just after the Russian Revolution of 1917:
“The Rockefellers assigned their public relations agent, Ivy Lee, to sell the American public the idea that the Bolsheviks were merely misunderstood idealists who were actually kind benefactors of mankind.”

“Professor Antony Sutton of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, notes in his highly authoritative Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development:
“’Quite predictably…[Ivy] Lee concludes that the communist problem is merely psychological. By this time he is talking about “Russians” (not Communists) and concludes “they are all right.” He suggests the United States should not engage in propaganda; makes a plea for peaceful coexistence; and suggests the United States would find it sound policy to recognize the USSR and advance credits [give loans].’(Antony Sutton, Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 1917-1930, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Calif., 1968, p.292)”

“After the Bolshevik Revolution, Standard of New Jersey [Rockefeller] bought 50 per cent of the Nobel’s huge Caucasus oil fields even though the property had theoretically been nationalized . (O’Connor, Harvey, The Empire Of Oil, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1955, p.270.)”

“In 1927, Standard Oil of New York [Rockefeller] built a refinery in Russia, thereby helping the Bolsheviks put their economy back on its feet. Professor Sutton states: ‘This was the first United States investment in Russia since the Revolution.’ (Ibid, Vol.1, p.38)”

“Shortly thereafter Standard Oil of New York and its subsidiary, Vacuum Oil Company [Rockefeller], concluded a deal to market Soviet oil in European countries and it was reported that a loan of $75,009,000 to the Bolsheviks was arranged. (National Republic, Sept.1927.)”

“…Wherever Standard Oil would go, Chase National Bank was sure to follow. (The Rockefeller’s Chase Bank was later merged with the Warburg’s Manhattan Bank to form the present Chase Manhattan Bank.) In order to rescue the Bolsheviks, who were supposedly an archenemy, the Chase National Bank was instrumental in establishing the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce in 1922. President of the Chamber was Reeve Schley, a vice-president of Chase National Bank. (Ibid, Vol.11, p.288) According to Professor Sutton:
‘In 1925, negotiations between Chase and [Russian] Prombank extended beyond the finance of raw materials and mapped out a complete program for financing Soviet raw material exports to the U. S. and imports of U. S. cotton and machinery.’ (Ibid, Vol.11, p.226)
"Sutton also reports that ‘Chase National Bank and the Equitable Trust Company were leaders in the Soviet credit business.’ (Ibid, p.277)”

“The Rockefeller’s Chase National Bank also was involved in selling Bolshevik bonds in the United States in 1928. Patriotic organizations denounced the Chase as an ‘international fence.’ Chase was called ‘a disgrace to America… They will go to any lengths for a few dollars profits.’ (Ibid, Vol.11, p.291) Congressman Louis McFadden, chairman of the House Banking Committee, maintained in a speech to his fellow Congressmen:
“’The Soviet government has been given United States Treasury funds by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks acting through the Chase Bank and the Guaranty Trust Company and other banks in New York City.”

“’Open up the books of Amtorg, the trading organization of the Soviet government in New York, and of Gostorg, the general office of the Soviet Trade Organization, and of the State Bank of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States’ Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York’. (Congressional Record, June 15, 1933.)”

“But the Rockefellers apparently were not alone in financing the Communist arm of the Insiders’ conspiracy. According to Professor Sutton ‘… there is a report in the State Department files that names Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (the long established and important financial house in New York) as the financier of the [Russians’] First Five Year Plan. See U. S. State Dept. Decimal File, 811.51/3711 and 861.50 FIVE YEAR PLAN/236.’ (Sutton, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 340n.)”

“Professor Sutton proves conclusively in his three volume history of Soviet technological development that the Soviet Union was almost literally manufactured by the U.S.A…”

“…Sutton shows that there is hardly a segment of the Soviet economy which is not a result of the transference of Western, particularly American, technology.”

“This cannot be wholly the result of accident. For fifty years the Federal Reserve-CFR-Rockefeller-lnsider crowd has advocated and carried out policies aimed at increasing the power of their satellite, the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, America spends $75 billion a year on defense to protect itself from the enemy the Insiders are building up.”

NOTE: The descendants of these bankers are now doing everything they can to build up the story that Donald Trump won the presidency by colluding with Russians. To call this an irony, in view of the above information, would be a vast understatement.

However, the motives of these current Globalists are clear: regardless of whether Trump meant to keep his promises to destroy Globalism (aka worldwide socialism), his mere mention of Globalism as the enemy, during the presidential campaign, and his declared opposition to Globalist “free trade” treaties, was sufficient to warrant an all-out attack on him.

The whole idea of nationalism as preferable to Globalism could act as a contagious germ spreading to the people of other countries—so Trump as the face and symbol of such sentiments had to be defamed and crushed.

Through various front organizations, cutouts, dupes, brainwashed useful idiots, and violent hired thugs, that operation to crush Trump is well underway.

Again—and this point must be understood:
—IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER TRUMP EVER MEANT TO KEEP HIS PROMISE TO BURY GLOBALISM. THE MERE MENTION OF GLOBALISM AS THE ENEMY WAS AND IS SUFFICIENT TO WARRANT UNCEASING ATTACKS AGAINST HIM.
Many, many of Trump’s supporters want to see Globalism buried.

Ultimately, they are the real target of the Globalists, who want to neutralize and disperse them and make them passive and demoralized.


Jon Rappoport

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From Sue Arrigo:


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[B]

Rothschilds/John D. Rockefeller, Sr. funded the Bolshevik Revolution

Per his writings in the Archives, John D. Rockefeller helped fund the Bolshevik Revolution to get the wealth of the Czars, the labor of the Russian people, and much the Southern Oil fields in Russia. That wealth changed its name from Czarist, to Russian Government owned. Ignore the names, what happened to it? Did the people of Russia get it? No. The Rockefeller Archives show that he built a private army in Russia, much like the Brown Shirt army later. His accountant said that for each 2 cents that he spent to build that Army he got a dollar back. That Army was not staying up late to knit socks to sell. They were beating people up and committing assassinations, massacres, and mayhem to terrorize the populace into submission. And he was bribing officials to get what he wanted. He was apparently famous for that in the US as well. See www.reformation.org/rockefeller-bribery.html (http://www.reformation.org/rockefeller-bribery.html) .

[...]

In exchange, Rockefeller got some of the Czars crown jewels. The Rockefeller Family stored some of them in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I was able to prove that to the satisfaction of the Director of CIA at the time. They also got most of the profits from the Southern Russian oil fields. In about 1994, I went on a tour of them with Rodman Rockefeller so I know that for a fact. In addition, the Rockefellers charged about 18% interest on the money that they loaned Lenin for the Revolution. The way that agreement was set up made all of the loot that Lenin could seize in Russia, the Rockefellers/Rothschilds.

The Russian Famine Under Stalin and the Rockefellers

That meant that Lenin and Stalin could never get out of debt unless they could work people nearly to death to produce the goods Rockefeller/Rothschilds wanted. People thought that the ridiculous factory quotas the Russians tried to accomplish were the result of communism. That was not what I thought after reading the Archives. The Rockefellers were setting the quotas and delighting in the profits. They also delighted in giving the Russians quotas they could not meet as a way of humiliating them.

As the CIA’s intelligence negotiator to make an agreement with the Russians on how to form a single German Intelligence agency after the Berlin Wall fell, I had a chance to meet Gorbachev. That was not the only occasion. He once told me how he was motivated to help the Russian people because aunts/uncles of his had died in a famine when he was a 4-year old-boy. It was known that the agricultural policies under Stalin had caused that famine in the early 1930’s.

[...]

Knowing how important this event was to him [Gorbachev], I sent him copies from the Archives of documents that showed those policies had been forced upon Stalin by Rockefeller. While the people of Russia starved, Rockefeller was also insisting that Stalin sell him the grain at the price and amounts previously agreed to. But Rockefeller did not need that grain. And Rockefeller was, to a large extent, responsible for the bad policies that caused the poor crop yields and meant that selling that same amount of grain overseas ensured famine. It appeared to be a deliberate attempt, not just to get grain cheaply, but to starve people. The private journals of John D. Rockeller, Jr. confirmed that. The Rockefeller Family seemed obsessed by the desire to kill people off, including by warfare and starvation. The Rockefellers have long backed population control measures fairly publicly. That was not a secret, nor their funding of ‘eugenics’ research’.

See http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/omegafile29.htm (http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/omegafile29.htm) , http://www.eugenics-watch.com/eugbook/,euod_ch1.html (http://www.eugenics-watch.com/eugbook/euod_ch1.html) , http://illuminati-news.com/nazi-california.htm (http://illuminati-news.com/nazi-california.htm).

But, the behind the scenes maneuvers on how they were committing those Crimes Against Humanity were secret. To them Communism was a lovely excuse to steal the wealth of the rich Russians and then kill off the poor who were not working in their factories. The factories and the oil fields had the name of the Soviet Union on them, as if they belong to the Russian Govt.. But an examination of the chain of command structure and the flow of money made it look like the Rockefellers et al. were already well on their way to being Kings of the World.
See? In politics, things don't just "happen" as in "Oh, well, that's just bad luck..." ... things are intended and implemented.

[Ernie Nemeth]

The intended and implemented plan here being to galvanize the anti-global movement and compile a database for explicit targeting by application of specific and highly effective neutralization techniques, depending on the nature of each determined threat.

[Sophocles]

The purpose of the media - I remember from my early school years - is to keep governments in check with critical eyes on its activities while giving the people information / news that makes them more capable of constructively contributing politically (through elections and other activities) to the democracy. But again, one of the purposes of the educational system is exactly that; to make the individual obedient enough (through propaganda) so that it stays within the given framework of understanding.

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This article by Thierry Meyssan ties in with Herve`s post #36 about John Coleman`s findings regarding Tavistock`s social engineering (https://www.henrymakow.com/001487.html) and methods related to such activities:


The techniques of modern military propaganda (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html)

by Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire.net
18 May 2016

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The word «propaganda» refers to the Roman organisation
whose job was to propagate Catholicism over
Protestantism, the «Congregatio de Propaganda Fide».

Propaganda is a military technique which should be distinguished from strategic subterfuge. The former seeks to trick one’s own side, generally in order to garner support. The latter, whose antique archetype is the Trojan horse, aims to damage the adversary. As is often the case, this military technique has known many civil applications, in the commercial as well as the political sector.

While at first, the monarchic and oligarchic régimes were satisfied with making a display of their power, particularly through ceremonials and public architecture, the democratic régimes, as soon as they appeared, incited propaganda. Thus, the Athenian democracy favoured Sophism, in other words, a school of thought which attempted to present any presupposition as logical.

In the 16th century, a commercial family, the Medicis, imagined a way of re-writing its history and inventing a patrician origin for itself. To do so, it used «artistic patronage», soliciting the greatest artists of their country to materialise these lies through their works.

Later on, while religious wars were becoming generalised in Europe, Pope Gregory XV, facing the breakthrough of Protestantism, created a Ministry («dicastery») to defend and extend the Catholic faith. This was the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith («Congregatio de Propaganda Fide»), which is the origin of the word « propaganda ».

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In January 2015, following the assassination of the cartoonists
from Charlie-Hebdo, an administrator of Reporters Sans
Frontières, Joachim Roncin, launched the slogan «Je suis Charlie».
It was immediately adopted as a means for the individual to melt
into the crowd, and then used at the occasion of every terrorist
attack (for example, «Je suis Bruxelles» after the attacks of
March 2016). Individuals who refused to adopt the slogan
were accused of deviance and «conspiracism».


Propaganda in the industrial era

The industrial era provoked a massive rural exodus, the creation of vast urban groupings and the pooling of the working class. While the «masses» entered politics, the French sociologist Gustave Le Bon studied the psychology of «crowds», in other words, the infantilisation of the individual as part of a large group. By doing so, he identified the basic principle of modern propaganda – in order to be manipulable, the individual must first be submerged in the crowd.

At the beginning of the First World War, in September 1914, the British secretly created the Bureau of War Propaganda («Wellington House») as a branch of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Re-adopting the model of the Medicis, they recruited the great writers of the time – such as Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells or Rudyard Kipling – to publish texts attributing imaginary crimes to the German enemy, and also painters,who would render them in the form of images. They then also recruited the heads of the main daily newspapers - The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Chronicle – to ensure that these dailies would publicise their falsifications.

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This model was then used by President Woodrow Wilson, who created, in April 1917, the Committee on Public Information. This organisation is famous for having employed thousands of local leaders to spread the government gospel (the «Four Minute Men»). It developed visual propaganda by forming a departement dedicated to the creation of posters, which produced in particular the famous «I want you !» image. Another group also attempted to produce films. Above all, instead of recruiting famous writers, it gathered a group of psychologists and journalists around Edward Bernays (Sigmund Freud’s nephew) and Walter Lippmann – the group was charged with inventing extraordinary, terrible and edifying stories on a daily basis, which they would then publish with the collaboration of the Press moguls. In this way, the orientation given by Power to artists was replaced by «storytelling», fabricated systematically according to scientific rules.

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Having directed US propaganda during the First World War,
Walter Lippmann had convinced himself that people are
largely manipulable. For him, democracy was thus
impossible unless it was considered to be a deception
aimed at fabricating public consent.

While the Anglo-Saxons aimed only at striking the imagination and making adhesion to the war a popular trend, the Germans were experimenting with the means of forcing people to participate in the imaginary stories they were being told. They made a wide-spread use of uniforms, which enabled the individual to play a role, and organised grandiose spectacles - political and sporting events – which presented the opinion of the majority. This was without doubt the moment when «modern propaganda» was invented - in other words, the dissemination of beliefs which could not be criticised, and which could not be doubted. The individual who had participated in a black uniform marching in torch-light parades could no longer question his Nazi beliefs without questioning himself and having to rethink his past and his vision of the future. Joseph Goebbels instituted a daily briefing at the Ministry of Information during which he defined the «elements of language» that the journalists were ordered to use. It was not simply a question of convincing people, but modifying the crowds’ references. In addition, the Germans were the first to master the new means of communication, radio and the cinema. Thus they invited themselves into peoples’ homes by installing television.

Goebbels considered the art of propaganda as a combat against individuality. He underlined the importance of repetition and «brainwashing» to overcome intellectual resistance. This was even more important in that the use of television brought the crowd to the individual.

At the end of the Second World War, the UN General Assembly, under the insistence of the USSR and France, adopted a series of resolutions (n° 110 [1 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb1)], 381 [2 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb2)] and 819 [3 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb3)]) which forbade propaganda, and guaranteed the access to contradictory information. Each member state wrote these principles into their own national law. But in general, legal proceedings against propaganda can only be initiated by the public Ministry, in other words, the state, while propaganda is first of all practiced by the state. So nothing changed.

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviets were rivals in matters of propaganda. Contrary to a widely-accepted idea, the USSR made few innovations, except in matters of the re-writing of History. By retouching official photographs, they wiped out one current of thought or another and «disappeared» the leaders who represented them. As for the United States, they developed radio broadcasts aimed at the Soviets (Radio Free Europe), and others aimed at the Allies (Hollywood). At the same time, they innovated by creating pemanent organisations and «think-tanks» – allegedly private and scientific - charged with the a posteriori justification of public policy. As their name indicates, the purpose of these groups is not to study and offer propositions, as university teachers do, but to test the arguments in the Sophist sense of the term.

More interestingly, when faced with nationalist insurrections in the Third World, the US Army employed propaganda techniques to intimidate the Communist rebels and maintain the neo-colonial régimes. Until then, psychological warfare had worked to make the enemy believe that they could not trust their leaders, and should accept defeat as inevitable. For example, in the Philippines, General Edward Lansdale invented and staged a mythological monster which haunted the forest and devoured human beings. In this way, he discouraged the population from going to the help of resistants who were hiding in the forest.


Propaganda in the satellite and digital age

Three phenomena have been combined over the last twenty-five years - the entertainment industry, satellites, and the arrival of digital technology.

1- The entertainment industry

Since television is a spectacle, propaganda first of all supposes the organisation of spectacular events.

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Faux témoignage sur les couveuses koweitiennes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agLW-otK0a4)

For example, in order to present the reunification of Kuwait and Iraq as a war of aggression (1990), the US Department of Defense employed a public-relations firm, Hill & Knowlton, who produced the interview of an alleged nurse. She claimed that she had seen Iraqi soldiers steal the incubators from a Kuwaiti maternity hospital, leaving 312 babies to die.

In 1999, propaganda was pushed even further - NATO organised a gigantic event for the Press agencies to film and immediately impose their scripted interpretation. In three days, 290,000 Albanophones migrated to Macedonia. The resulting images made it possible to present the repression of UÇK terrorism as a plan for the extermination of Muslims («Operation Horshoe»), an invention by the German Minister for Defence, Rudolf Scharping, and thus to justify the war in Kosovo.

Even bigger - in 2001, two planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which then collapsed. Other inexplicable events surround these events – a fire ravaged the offices of the Vice-President, two explosions occurred at the Pentagon, and a third building collapsed in New York. The incoherencies in the narration of these events was used to disarm all questioning, while the authorities hid behind the contradictions, which were attributable to live coverage. For several days, television channels broadcast over and over again the images of two planes hitting the two towers, and nothing else, until the critical capacities of their audience were exhausted. In shock, Congress voted the permanent state of emergency (Patriot Act) and a series of wars was then launched.

Manipulation achieves perfection when it hammers home its message, invites spectators to accept it, then reveals that they are being tricked and forces them to follow what they now know to be a lie.

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Renversement "spontané" d'une statue du président Saddam Hussein (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVNUxJ2-oQ)

So, in 2003, the world watched Iraqis destroy a statue of Saddam Hussein. President George W. Bush commented live that the sight of a demonstrator hitting the feet of the statue with a sledge-hammer reminded him of similar images during the fall of the Berlin Wall. The message was that the fall of President Saddam Hussein was a liberation. We then discovered a wider shot of the square, which was barricaded by the US Army, and saw that the demonstrators were in reality just a small group of actors. Then the commentators continued as if nothing had changed [4 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb4)].

2- Satellites

In 1989, using new communication satellites, the US Army transformed a local TV channel in Atlanta into the first international «24-hour news network». The point was to use live coverage to guarantee the veracity of the images, since there there was no time to fake them. In reality, live coverage does not allow such images to be studied or checked [5 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb5)].

CNN passed off the attempted coup d’état by ex-Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang in China as a popular revolt which was murderously repressed on Tienanmen Square [6 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb6)]. It glorified the «Velvet Revolution» in the Czech Republic by pretending that the police had killed a demonstrator. It validated the discovery of the mass grave at Timisoara, in reality corpses which had been taken from a mortuary and presented as having been killed by the police during demonstrations, or else as victims of torture, in order to justify the coup d’état by Ion Iliescu against the Caucescus. Etc.

On the same principle, in 2005, the Emirate of Qatar took over the Arabo-Israeli dialogue channel Al-Jazeera and transformed it into a loud-speaker for the Muslim Brotherhood [7 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb7)]. In 2011, it played a central rôle in the «Arab Spring» operations. But its audience followed the same curve as the audience of CNN – after having enjoyed a resounding success with its imaginary scoops, it lost most of its audience when its lies were discovered.

The principle of radios destined for foreign parts was improved by Radio Marti, which the CIA broadcast from airborne AWACS off the coast of Cuba. In 2012, a vast project was organised to disconnect Syrian TV channels from their satellite and replace them with fake programmes which were to announce the fall of the régime and the flight of its leaders. This was prepared by the use of synthetic images showing the flight of President Bachar el-Assad [8 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb8)]. But seeing the reactions of Syria and Russia, the operation was cancelled, although a signal from an NSA base in Australia had already replaced that of Syrian TV on ArabSat.

3- Digital

During the same period, the progress of digital techniques, in particular the wide-spread use of computers and the Internet, caused a resurgence of the role of individuals, but without dispersing the crowd phenomenon.

In 2007, the CIA sent anonymous SMS messages to the areas inhabited by the Luos in Kenya, accusing the Kikuyus of having falsified the Presidential election. The Luos widely distributed the messages, and this led to riots. More than a thousand people were killed, and 300,000 displaced. Finally, the «ONG’s» offered to mediate, and then imposed Raila Odinga in power [9 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb9)].

The same year, the CIA tested the credibility of anonymous videos filmed by portable telephones. These narrow angle sequences do not permit the visualisation of their context, and their uncertain origin makes it imossible to know where they were filmed. And yet the videos showing monks setting themselves on fire, or scenes of military repression during the «Saffron Revolution» in Myanmar were held to be authentic. They were broadcast by television channels and were seen around the world.

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Thierry Meyssan decrypte le journalisme de guerre (8 août 2011) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US8OjcdG7pU)


The coalition of lies

Propaganda techniques have not evolved over the last few years. But they have been reinforced by the creation of a coalition of lies. Until now, each state managed its own campaign, but during the war against Iraq, in 2002, coordination was set up between the Ministries for Defense of the United States, the United Kingdom and Israël, then extended to Qatar and Saudi Arabia. This coalition tried first of all to manipulate the UN inspectors in Iraq into believing in the existence of weapons of mass destruction. Then, since it failed, it set about intoxicating the international media [10 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb10)].

In 2011, it was this coalition which filmed, in an open-air studio in Qatar, the images of the arrival of the rebels on Martyrs’ Square in Tripoli. Broadcast at first by the British channel Sky News, they were sufficient to make the Libyans believe that the battle was over, when in fact it was just beginning. As a result, NATO was able to take the city without notable losses (but 40,000 dead Libyans). Saïf al-Islam Kadhafi was obliged to go down to the Square and allow himself to be applauded by his followers in order to contradict the images which had been falsely filmed there the night before by Sky.

This coalition of lies got started during the war against Syria, which was started with the participation of 120 states and 16 international organisations – the greatest coalition in History.

In October 2011, NATO set up a show village, Jabal al-Zouia, in the North of the country. One after another, Western journalists were taken there by the public relations service of the Turkish Prime Minister. There they apparently witnessed the Free Syrian Army supported by the population. However, the operation ended when a Spanish journalist recognised the heads of this Free «Syrian» Army – the leaders of al-Qaïda in Libya, Abdelhakim Belhaj and Mahdi al-Harati [11 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb11)]. But no matter, the image told the story that there really existed a vast army composed of defectors, ex-soldiers of the Syrian Arab Republic.

In 2012, for the space of a month, the world was shown Baba Amr’s revolutionaries, beseiged and bombarded by the army of the régime [12 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb12)]. In reality, although the area was indeed beseiged, it had not been bombarded, because 72 Syrian soldiers were themselves surrounded in a supermarket. The jihadists blew up the houses of Christians in order to cause damage that they would blame on the Syrian Arab Republic. Tyres were burned on the rooftops so that witnesse would see the plumes of thick black smoke. France24 and Al-Jazeera paid «citizen journalists», as on-site correspondants, who witnessed a Revolutionary Tribunal. The bodies of 150 martyrs, whom the Tribunal had condemned to have their throats cut in public, were displayed on-screen as the victims of the alleged bombing [13 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb13)]. On site, a celebrated Franco-Israeli-US writer, Jonathan Littell, declared that the «revolution» was a beautiful thing. At last there were images and a witness testimonial to the «cruelty of the régime».

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InCoStrat met en scène l'Armée de l'islam (Jaysh al-Islam) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi_DBfq18mc)

In 2013, the United Kingdom created InCoStrat, a communications company in the service of the jihadist groups. It designed logos, made video clips by portable telephone, and printed brochures for a hundred of these groups, thus giving the impression of a popular uprising against the Republic. For example, together with the SAS, it made a spectacle of the most important group, Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam). Saudi Arabia supplied the tanks which were delivered from Jordan. Uniforms were made in Spain and distributed to the jihadists for an officer promotion ceremony. All this was choerographed and filmed by professionals in order to give the impression that the army was organised like regular forces and was capable of rivaling with the Syrian Arab Army [14 (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html#nb14)]. The idea was planted that this really was a civil war, and yet the images only showed a few hundred extras, most of whom were foreigners.

Source (https://www.voltairenet.org/article191813.html)

[Hervé]

Was Hitler an Illuminati Agent? (https://www.henrymakow.com/001399.html)

By Henry Makow
November 10, 2018


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Hallett's theory explains why Hitler, supposedly the arch enemy of Jewish bankers, acted like he didn't know the Rothschilds controlled England and America, when this was common knowledge.

If Hitler had been for real, he would have plucked out the Rothschild's heart, the City of London before taking on Russia. By Henry Makow Ph.D
(Updated from Jan 2006)

Greg Hallett's book "Hitler Was A British Agent" (http://greghallett.com/pages/Hitler-was-a-British-Agent.html) (2005) depicts war as a ghoulish illusion conjured by occult magicians in order to degrade and eventually enslave humanity in a world government.

Hallett's claim that Hitler was a "British" agent is based on the testimony of a shadowy network of retired intelligence agents. While he fails to provide documentary proof, Hallett does offer persuasive circumstantial evidence.

For example, Adolph Hitler was in England in 1912-1913, a fact supported by his sister-in-law's book: "The Memoirs of Bridget Hitler"(1979). Many historians including Hitler biographer John Toland have ignored this startling information. (If Hallett is right, historians like Toland are guilty perpetuating the myth that Hitler was a genuine threat to "Jewish bankers.")

Hallett says Hitler spent February to November 1912 being brainwashed and trained at the British Military Psych-Ops War School at Tavistock in Devon and in Ireland. "War machines need war and [that means they need] funded, trained and supported double agents to be their patsies, their puppets and their puppet enemies," Hallett writes (38).

His sister-in-law describes Hitler as completely wasted when he arrived at her Liverpool home baggage-less.
"I had an idea he was ill, his color was so bad and his eyes looked so peculiar," she wrote.

"He was always reading, not books, little pamphlets printed in German. I don't know what was in them nor exactly where they came from." (pp. 29,35) Hallett says these were Tavistock training manuals.

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"Hitler was a British Agent" is useful as an alternative paradigm. (Usually we cannot recognize truth because we have the wrong paradigm, i.e. our "education.") When Hallett says "British", he means Illuminati, the Masonic cult of super rich bankers who control an interlocking network of cartels. This cult is based in the City of London but uses England and most nations as sock puppets in a Punch and Judy show called history.

Hallett's claim would clarify many improbable events in the Second World War. For example, why did Hitler let 335,000 Allied soldiers escape at Dunkirk? This quixotic gesture was explained as a peace overture, but surely England would have been more compliant if its army were in Nazi POW camps.

The Nazi triumph in May 1940 was like a knock-out in the first round. The Illuminati did not intend for the match to end so soon, nor for the Nazis to finally win.

In the summer of 1940, when Britain was prostrate, Nazi Military Intelligence Chief (Abwehr) Admiral Wilhelm Canaris told Romanian Foreign Minister Prince Michael Sturdza to stay neutral because England would win the war (https://www.savethemales.ca/000936.html). He also gave this message to Spanish dictator Franco.

Hallett's theory also explains why Hitler, supposedly the arch enemy of Jewish bankers, acted like he didn't know the Rothschilds controlled England (and America) when this was practically common knowledge. (See, Hilaire Belloc, "The Jews" 1922) (https://www.henrymakow.com/englands_jewish_aristocracy.html). If Hitler were for real, he wouldn't have tried to accommodate these countries. England would have been invaded and conquered before Russia was attacked.

Hallett's hypothesis explains:
1)Why Hitler was able to expand into the Rhineland etc. without fear of retaliation.

2) Why the Nazi war machine was financed and built by the Bank of England and a Who's Who of Anglo American corporations controlled by the Illuminati.

3) Why Hitler never sealed the Mediterranean at Gibraltar; and why the Spanish dictator Franco remained neutral, despite the huge debt he owed the Nazis from the Civil War.

4) Why I.G. Farben headquarters in Frankfurt was never bombed. This became CIA headquarters.

5) Why the Bank of England rewarded Hitler for taking Prague by giving him the Czech gold reserves held in London.

6) Why Japan did not attack Russia despite the fact Hitler entered the war against the US after Pearl Harbor. Thus Stalin was able to fight on one front while Hitler fought on two.
It would explain why Hitler gave his ridiculous racial policies priority over actually winning the war. He could have enlisted millions of Slavs (and even many Jews) in overcoming Communist Russia. Instead, he made them implacable enemies willing to fight to the death.

We could also question why the Nazis never figured out that their communications were compromised; why Hitler didn't conquer the oil fields of Russia and the Middle East when he had the chance etc.; why the Sixth army wasn't allowed to withdraw from Stalingrad; but you get the picture. The fix was in.

WHO WAS HITLER?
The biggest improbability of all is that an Austrian tramp, street cleaner and gay prostitute could become the Chancellor of Germany. Hitler joins a long list of obscure blackmail-able figures who have been catapulted to world prominence with the aid of an unseen hand.


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(Salomon Rothschild 1844-1911 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_banking_family_of_Austria) not Lionel would be Hitler's grandfather)


Hallett writes that Hitler's grandfather was Nathan Meyer Rothschild. Maria Schickelgruber, Hitler's grandmother, was a maid in the Rothschild's Vienna mansion when his father, Alois was conceived "in fear" in a satanic ritual rape. The Rothschilds could only marry within their extended family so they had illegitimate children who functioned as anonymous agents.

(Apparently this is a pattern with the Illuminati. Bill Clinton is rumored to be a Rockefeller.)

His grandmother received child support from a Jewish businessman who was probably an intermediary for his grandfather. Bridget Hitler quotes Hitler's sister Paula: "Since [Adolf] started the race laws we have no grandfather, Adolf and I. Certainly anyone who wished could make a good deal out of that." (Memoirs, p. 175)

Rothschild's son, Alois Hitler's third marriage was to his niece, Klara, who became Hitler's mother. His father was abusive and his mother over- compensated. Hitler became destitute at age 18 when his mother died, and he lived in a Vienna men's hostel that was a homosexual haunt.

According to Lothar Machtan's "The Hidden Hitler" (2001), Hitler was a homosexual with a long police record for harassing men in both Munich and Vienna. These records reached both Russia and England but were never used for propaganda, more evidence that the war may have been a charade. (Machtan also says Hitler tried to join the Communist Party after the war but was rejected for demanding too much, evidence he may have been a "gun for hire.")

MAKING OF A MADMAN
In 1912, Hitler traveled to England for training as an Illuminati agent which took place in German. This "training" ranged from imbibing a sense of his role in Germany's destiny to learning how to mesmerize audiences.

It also included trauma brainwashing. The "alter's" consciousness is shattered by witnessing savage atrocities and suffering sexual abuse, all of which is filmed. Then the various fragments of consciousness are programmed and can be accessed with special code words.

Hitler returned to Germany in May 1913 and enlisted in the German army. During World War One, he served as a runner and was captured twice by the English. On both occasions, he was spared execution by an "angel" in British intelligence.

According to Hallett, Hitler enjoyed having women defecate on him. He also had undersized genitals and only one testicle. (Many women whom he courted committed suicide. He murdered the love of his life, his 17-year-old half-niece Geli (https://henrymakow.com/hitlersfirstmurderhtml.html), when she got pregnant by his chauffeur. Machtan argues that Hitler's real affections were for the chauffeur.)

(For more on Nazi Homosexuality, see "The Pink Swastika" (http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/)online.)

IMPLICATIONS
History is unfolding according to the Illuminati's long-term plan. Wars are plotted decades in advance and orchestrated to achieve the destruction of nations and natural elites, depopulation, demoralization, and of course power and profit.

The super rich have organized themselves into a satanic cult to prey on mankind and to establish their permanent hegemony. Put yourself in the central bankers' shoes. The nations of the world owe you trillions based on money you printed for the cost of paper and ink. The only way to protect this "investment" is to establish a thinly disguised dictatorship, using sophisticated methods of social and mind control. This is the true meaning of the "Terror." It's not directed at "Muslim terrorists." It's directed at you and me.

According to Hallett, Joseph Stalin was another Illuminati "agent of war" who attended the Tavistock Psyche Ops training school in 1907. Clifford Shack has suggested that Stalin was also an illegitimate son of a Rothschild.
(https://www.henrymakow.com/stalin_was_not_a_rothschild.html)
Hallett says Hitler's death was faked (a double was killed) and Hitler escaped to Barcelona where he lived until 1950, when he died of stomach cancer.

Greg Hallett is a maverick and his rambling book is full of repetition and digressions. I wouldn't swear by any of Hallett's claims as yet. But he deserves our thanks for advancing an alternative view of history that while far-fetched is more plausible than what supposedly transpired. We should be able to entertain speculative views without feeling compelled to accept or reject them.

World War Two achieved all of the Illuminati's goals. Germany and Japan were turned into a wasteland. Sixty million people were slaughtered. The Jewish holocaust motivated Jews to establish the Rothschild's world government headquarters in Israel. Idealists and natural leaders on both sides were slaughtered. Nations were laden with debt. The United Nations rose like a phoenix from the ashes. Hiroshima cast a pall of terror over the world. The USSR was a superpower and controlled Eastern Europe. The stage was set for the next act...the Cold War.

Given the bleak outlook for humanity, there is a tendency to actually idealize Hitler as an opponent of central banker hegemony. Hallett's book is an important reminder that like Stalin and Mao, Hitler was an agent; and the Illuminati sponsored "enemies" in order to foment conflict, and keep humanity in its thrall.



Related:
"Countdown to World War Three"
(https://www.savethemales.ca/000546.html)
"Winston Churchill, Illuminati Pawn"
(https://henrymakow.com/001071.html)
"Jacob" Hitler's 1924 French Police ID Card
(https://www.henrymakow.com/post_18.html)
Eight Signs Illuminati Orchestrated WW2 (https://www.henrymakow.com/eight_indications_the_illumina.html)


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When the truth of the last century chess moves are that simple... it hurts... not to have thought of it.

[Denise/Dizi]

So what do we do about it.. These people at the top have technologies we couldn't imagine, they can hear our thoughts LITERALLY as we have them, they can predict what we do, they can stop us before we even know we are going to rise up to meet their challenge. To say this is a fair chess game, is inaccurate... While I don't think we're completely screwed just yet, I DO think people ought be looking for other options instead. People need to stop reproducing like bunnies, and use the gift of life responsibly, as this planet and it's resources are only so finite... Just because we have the land to house everyone doesn't mean we need to fill it all.. Something has to give. Yet I believe these folks are heartless. We could reduce the population merely by not breeding out of control, and in a few generations, get our issues under control. But these folks know, most people can't fathom being told what to do, nor would they listen if it doesn't affect them directly and in a negative way today. So we really have some very big problems going on here. I don't believe the "Rulers" of this world are really as heartless as we want to believe they are, they're seeing a huge problem develop, and the only way to dictate where things go in the future for their offspring, is to control ours. And those stupid enough to not recognize that fact, will become cannon fodder, because if they don't the problems will follow them.

I myself am surprised at the seemingly unwillingness of the masses to ever want to even take responsibility for even the slightest of their actions... And I am frustrated with humanity itself as well.. It isn't easy to wake up is it?

[Hervé]

One Hundredth Anniversary -- The End of First Christian Holocaust (WW1) (https://www.henrymakow.com/downton_abbey.html)

by Henry Makow
November 11, 2018


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(Lord Ronald Grantham, Matthew Crawley and Lady Sybil Crawley, in "Downton Abbey.")


Nov 11, 2018 marks the 100 year anniversary of the end of WW1. We are doomed unless we recognize society has been subverted.

In historical perspective, anyone who takes seriously his country's call to war is a dupe. The enemy is within.


by Henry Makow Ph.D.
from Jan 31, 2012

Like millions of others, my wife and I have been enjoying the PBS Masterpiece Theatre TV series, "Downton Abbey."

Set in an English Manor House during World War One, the costume drama depicts the prevalent attitude that a man's virility and honor are measured by his willingness to die for his country.

There is no questioning the necessity of the war, nor any suspicion that it might be a sinister ruse.

In fact, the only character who is cynical is the villain, Thomas, who engineers a minor injury to escape service.


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The young heir to the Estate, Matthew Crawley, left, is paralyzed from the waist down.


This happens when you run into a hail of machine gun fire and mortar shells. He seems surprised by the consequences of his "heroism." He'll never be able to walk, or to procreate.

This is what the Illuminati (Masonic) bankers wanted, to destroy Europe's best.

The Masonic bankers were only a few hundred, and many were getting old. They were better at making deals, having gay sex and performing child sacrifices. (https://www.henrymakow.com/incest_survivor_lifted_veil_on.html) They were not capable, all by themselves, of slaughtering millions of strong, young men.

So they patiently concocted a world war. This was also highly profitable. They owned the companies that made the machine guns that killed the young men.

Illuminati Jews and Masons hate Christianity first and foremost.
"Christianity is our only real enemy since all the political and economic phenomena of the bourgeois states are only its consequences,"
Insider C. Rakovsky, told his NKVD interrogator (https://www.henrymakow.com/000275.html).
Their overall goal of WWI was to bring down Christian civilization. The German, Austrian and Russian monarchies were all destroyed.

Out of the old Christian order would emerge the (satanic) New World Order! ( This is the real meaning of the terms "revolution" and "progressive.")
"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime," said the British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, a Freemason who played a major role in engineering this catastrophe.
He got the leaders of France and Russia to sign a secret treaty that stated that if Germany or Austria-Hungary attacked, they would join England to defeat them. Sir Edward concealed the existence of the treaty, and lied to Parliament when asked about it.


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/downtondantrench1.jpg



The goal of the war was to kill the cream of the new generation of white Christian males. They succeeded: 10 million men were killed and 21 million maimed on both sides.


Sixty thousand Allies died in one day at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The Commander of the British Army was the Freemason Douglas Haig. The Commander of the US Expeditionary Force in 1917 was the Freemason John Pershing. Old Satanists sent young men to die.

HOW THEY MADE THE WAR
This war was concocted by Illuminati (Cabalist) Jewish bankers and Freemasons.

On the British side were Lord Robert Cecil, a wealthy banker; Lord Herbert H. Asquith, British Prime Minister 1908-1916; Viscount Haldane, Secretary of State for War; Lord Nathan Rothschild (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Mayer_Rothschild,_1st_Baron_Rothschild); and Lord Alfred Milner, the second most powerful man in the British government after 1916.

A French observer wrote:
"... for some time a group of financiers whose families for the most part are of German Jewish origin...exerts a dominant influence over [Prime Minister 1916-1922] Lloyd George. The Monds, the Sassoons, Rufus Isaacs, representatives of the International Banking interests, dominate England, own its newspapers and control its election."
Conditions in Germany were similar.
"...since the beginning of Kaiser Wilhem II's reign, the Illuminati Jews had been the real rulers of the German empire. For the last fifteen years, those in immediate personal contact with the Kaiser were the Hebrew financiers, Hebrew manufacturers and Hebrew merchants such as Emile and Walter Rathenau, Ballin, Schwabach, James Simon, Friedlander-Fuld, Goldberger etc."
(The Red Thread, p.153)
All that remained was to light the fuse. The First World War began August 14, 1914, after the assassination of the Austrian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28 by the Jewish Mason Gavrilo Princep.

Kaiser Wilhelm believed the Masons were responsible (http://www.yamaguchy.com/library/cikkek/wilhelm2_10.html) for the Great War. He wrote:
"I have been informed that an important role was played in the preparation of the World War directed against the monarchical Central Powers by the policy of the international 'Great Orient Lodge'; a policy extending over many years and always envisaging the goal at which it aimed..."

"In 1917 an inter-national meeting of the lodges of the 'Great Orient' was held, after which there was a subsequent conference in Switzerland; at this the following program was adopted:
Dismemberment of Austria-Hungary, democratization of Germany, elimination of the House of Hapsburg, abdication of the German Emperor, ... elimination of the Pope and the Catholic Church, elimination of every state Church in Europe."
Thus Max Nordau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Nordau), co-founder of the World Zionist (i.e. Masonic) Organization was able to predict WWI in 1903:
"Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl, the Zionist Congress, the English Uganda proposition, the future world war, the peace conference - where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created."
Thus, with Freemasons controlling both sides, it was easy to manipulate the Kaiser into attacking Belgium. The "mediator" was Albert Bellin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ballin), a prominent Illuminati Jewish businessman and friend of the Kaiser. Together with the English, he managed to mislead the Kaiser as to England's intentions.

To quote Andrei Krylienko (The Red Thread):
"An ambiguous statement by the British on the side of France and Russia, could still, as the French ambassador to Germany reported, have led Germany to decide against aggression...In short, war was not decided upon by Wilhelm II...but by the occult powers...by whose intrigues [it] was made to seem ineluctable." (155)
Wilhelm quickly recognized that he had fallen into a carefully laid trap. (https://www.henrymakow.com/illuminati_bankers_planned_wor.html)

In A Child of the Century, Ben Hecht wrote:
"the Twentieth Century was cut off at its knees by World War One."
The same can be said of mankind which has a cancer, Cabalism, gnawing at its vitals. We are at the mercy of a multi-generational satanic conspiracy which is nearing consummation. Modern history, properly understood, is the story of this process of subversion.

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Related:
Bankers Extended WWI by Three Years
(https://www.henrymakow.com/001583.html)
Bankers Started WW1 to Destroy Germany (https://www.henrymakow.com/illuminati_bankers_planned_wor.html)

Masonic Mass Murder on the Somme 101 Years Ago (http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=135589)

"Treason! Illuminati Betrayed British Agents in WW2" (https://www.henrymakow.com/illuminati_betrayed_british_ag.html)

World War One Casualties by Country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties)

About 100,000 Jews Served in German Armed Forces, 10,000 Died (http://www.germanjewishsoldiers.com/epilogue.php)
(Jewish Pop of Germany 550,00; Pop of Germany in 1914, 68 million, 2 million died.)

About 10-20,000 Jews Served in British Forces? (http://www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk/snillop.htm)

There were 500,000 Jews in pop of 46 million


During the course of World War One,


eleven percent (11%) of France's entire population were killed or wounded!



Eight percent (8%) of Great Britain's population (46 million) were killed or wounded, and



nine percent (9%) of Germany's pre-war population (68 million) were killed or wounded!

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Jews in US Military (http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/07/18/jews-in-the-military/)

Brother Nathaniel: Jewry's Lock on America's Security
(http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=694)

See also: James Corbett's "The WWI Conspiracy": To Start A War (https://www.corbettreport.com/wwi/)


tclAbWvBt70

[Hervé]

People need to stop reproducing like bunnies, and use the gift of life responsibly, as this planet and it's resources are only so finite...Interesting take on an enforced situation... I have seen it somewhere before...

... ah, yes, here! (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?42567-We-Need-to-Depopulate-the-Earth&p=451723&viewfull=1#post451723)

Where one can read:


Later I had a discussion with David Rockefeller over this Illuminati intended genocide of most of the planet’s population. That was shortly after Tenet resigned from the CIA but had not yet been replaced. So, McLaughlin was acting Director of CIA. And I had accompanied him to a Washington DC evening meeting at which David Rockefeller was present. After the meeting, McLaughlin and Rockefeller had a private meeting in which I was present mainly as a note taker. But since it touched on the expansion of the US BioWarfare programs, I was unable to keep my mouth firmly shut. Thus, I objected to the expansion and said so in no uncertain terms.

Rockefeller accused me of subverting his plans to “purge the world of its shaff.” I said “Other people are not disposable coverings of grain”. He said, “Of course, they are. They are as unnecessary to this planet as extra bolts in a factory which is done making the equipment. There is nothing left to do with them than throw them out when one is done with their usefulness.” I bristled at that. McLaughlin tried to change the subject to defuse the situation. Of course, there are other alternatives than the Agenda 21 one, like this one (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?42567-We-Need-to-Depopulate-the-Earth&p=452330&viewfull=1#post452330) (<---) to get a population to stabilize.

[East Sun]

Harve, it was worth reading again.


Thanks!

[Hervé]

This interview, Exomatrix (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100537-Stop-5G-before-it-s-irreversible-&p=1265864&viewfull=1#post1265864) found, is worth listening to as it relates how a "banker" woke up to the reality of the "Big Picture":


CjWhYOqoPUc

Stringing it along John Perkins (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1191155&viewfull=1#post1191155)' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", Ronald Bernard (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?97291-Privileged-Dutchman-about-Child-sacrifices-The-Occult-Luciferianism-etc.-Ronald-Bernard-English-Subtitles) satanic blackmail traps, Udo Ulfkotte (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89230-When-Vested-Interests-Take-Education-over...&p=1170448&viewfull=1#post1170448) media manipulations, etc. and one gets the broad strokes composing the "Big Picture."

As a side note, I find it interesting that this guy, Mads, found enough Alt-media truths to be able to wake up out of the MSM hypnotic trance :) :clapping:

[Ba-ba-Ra]

This interview, Exomatrix (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100537-Stop-5G-before-it-s-irreversible-&p=1265864&viewfull=1#post1265864) found, is worth listening to as it relates how a "banker" woke up to the reality of the "Big Picture":


CjWhYOqoPUc

Stringing it along John Perkins (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1191155&viewfull=1#post1191155)' "Confessions of an Economic Hitman", Ronald Bernard (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?97291-Privileged-Dutchman-about-Child-sacrifices-The-Occult-Luciferianism-etc.-Ronald-Bernard-English-Subtitles) satanic blackmail traps, Udo Ulfkotte (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89230-When-Vested-Interests-Take-Education-over...&p=1170448&viewfull=1#post1170448) media manipulations, etc. and one gets the broad strokes composing the "Big Picture."

As a side note, I find it interesting that this guy, Mads, found enough Alt-media truths to be able to wake up out of the MSM hypnotic trance :) :clapping:



Thanks Herve, I found this interesting on many levels.

First, that an investment banker (trader) didn't know that the Federal Reserve was private, until fairly recently. It doesn't surprise me that the average US citizen doesn't know this, but I would have thought that someone in his position would have been aware of that fact.

Second, that he named his party JFK-2021. If he was a US citizen organizing a 3rd party that wouldn't be completely surprising, but a Danish citizen doing this was quite surprising to me.

I wish him well; his intentions seem to be the best.

[waves]

....As a side note, I find it interesting that this guy, Mads, found enough Alt-media truths to be able to wake up out of the MSM hypnotic trance :)...


Very odd that he found them ALL - and nearly nothing fresh that hasn't been repeated ad nauseum in the alt community for years. It's as if he's a trained parrot reeling off every bullet point of the alt-right narrative including ALL the unsubstantiated hopium points too. For example, somewhere on this forum is a very succinct explanation of why the XX,000's of unsealed indictments is just a wide reaching backlog compendium, not a 'since' Trump generated list of swamp creature indictments in the least.

Ya, the included historical who's who of war making and war crimes and the existence of a real long planned and very organized/sophisticated agenda is not arguable, but this guy spewing every big and little related issue makes me now wonder if much of this narrative has been planted all along. On first hear all these points sound so logical and hopeful... but after years of so much unverifiable conclusion repeating it makes me start to feel really played and wonder if the really deep chess going on is starting to show.

[Hervé]

How the Illuminati Kickstarted the Cold War (https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/02/how-the-illuminati-kickstarted.html)

by Henry Makow PhD
February 3, 2019


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(Igor Gouzenko with wife Svetlana in hiding in Canada. They had eight children.)


When Igor Gouzenko defected in 1945, he exposed massive Soviet spying on their erstwhile allies taking place with the complicity of the traitorous Masonic elite. Luckily, the Illuminati were able to put Gouzenko's revelation to good use.

MASONIC WORLD GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY
"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
Treason is the secret policy of the governing Illuminati elite in the West. Wittingly or unwittingly, they serve the Masonic plan for "world government," a satanist police state. The aim of Freemasonry is the establishment of Communism, (https://www.henrymakow.com/000280.html) which is a monopoly over everything by the Cabalist (satanist) central banking cartel. (https://www.henrymakow.com/what_is_communism.html?_ga=2.82918227.497977044.1530235801-949981340.1431610500) With these bankers controlling all corporations, we have de facto Communism. (https://www.henrymakow.com/2016/04/we-have-de-facto-communism.html) Justine Trudeau-Castro, a Liberal PM who calls Canada a "post-national" state is another example of this elite treason.


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(Revised from Dec 2005)
by Henry Makow PhD

In September 1945, a month after Hiroshima, a Soviet Embassy cypher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected in Ottawa with material documenting massive Soviet espionage in the West including infiltration of the Manhatten Project. His first stop was the night shift of the Ottawa Journal (where I later worked as a reporter and covered the birth of Justine Castro with a front-page story Dec 25, 1971.) This was one of the biggest stories of the century, apparently too big for the now defunct Ottawa Journal who referred Gouzenko to the Ministry of Justice the next day.


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/spymaster.jpg
(Gouzenko's boss, spymaster Nikolai Zabotin)


George Jonas takes up the story: (https://nationalpost.com/opinion/george-jonas-the-harbinger-of-the-cold-war) "For two harrowing days, with a pregnant wife and two-year-old son in tow, Gouzenko tried to convince incredulous Canadian journalists and Ministry of Justice officials to give him a hearing. Having failed, the family sought refuge with a neighbour. By then, Soviet agents were breaking down their apartment door -- which prompted the neighbour to call the police."

Initially, Prime Minister MacKenzie King ordered his officials to stall Gouzenko whose life, and that of his family, were in grave danger. They referred the heroic little family from office to office, crossing town with their incriminating documents. The Gouzenkos were actually told to return to the Russian embassy or commit suicide!

Why? Ostensibly King didn't want to offend the USSR, a valued wartime ally.

In reality, King, famous for being "inscrutable," was afraid that Gouzenko would reveal that the governing elite in the West was infested with Soviet (i.e. Illuminati) agents like himself and his protege Lester Pearson.


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It appears that Gouzenko was saved because the Illuminati quickly devised a use for him. A top operative, "the Man Called Intrepid" Canadian William Stephenson, (http://spartacus-educational.com/2WWstephensonW.htm) above, Head of British Special Operations Executive suddenly appeared and took the Gouzenkos under his wing.

He used Gouzenko's revelations to kick start the phoney "Cold War." The news that the USSR had spies everywhere and was stealing atomic secrets caused a general panic that transformed public opinion of the USSR from benign to hostile overnight. (See William Stevenson, Intrepid's Last Case, p.214.)

The trick was to create enough fear to justify the Cold War without exposing the top figures in the elite conspiracy, both in Canada and abroad. They sacrificed minor figures like atomic scientist Allan Nunn May, who was arrested for espionage and served six years. Meanwhile, MacKenzie King, Lester Pearson and his high-ranking gang of Illuminati traitors were unscathed.


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(Rockefeller go-fer and traitor, Prime Minister MacKenzie King from 1921 until 1948, except for 1930-1935. King worked for J.D. Rockefeller from 1914-1918. The mogul described King as "my best friend.")


Meanwhile, Gouzenko was kept in limbo; records of his interrogations disappeared, and the volume of Mackenzie King's Diary pertaining to the case vanished from the National Archives. Gouzenko was subjected to the usual slander from liberal and left circles.

By the way, according to Peter Wright's Spycatcher, Stephenson's deputy, Von Petrov was a Soviet agent, but then who wasn't working for the Illuminati? (Spycatcher p, 327) Treason loses its meaning when the whole government has been subverted at the top.

THE UNITED STATES
The same thing happened in the US when Soviet agent Whittaker Chambers defected in 1938. In 1939, he saw Adolph Berle, FDR's Assistant in Charge of Internal Security and fingered dozens of Soviet spies in key positions, including Harry Dexter White, who later became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Nothing was done.


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In 1948, to fan the flames of the Cold War, they let Chamber's charges against Alger Hiss come to the forefront. Hiss was a Soviet agent and a senior State Department official who advised FDR at the Yalta Conference. He also drafted the UN Charter and served as its first acting Secretary General in 1945. When rumors about him began to circulate, he resigned to become President of Rockefeller's "Carnegie Endowment for World Peace."

Following Communist discipline, Hiss feigned outraged innocence and accused Chambers and his supporters of conducting a "witch hunt." He sued Chambers for libel and a 'who's who' of the Eastern Establishment came in his defense, including Felix Frankfurter and Adlai Stevenson.

Unfortunately for him, Chambers produced documents in Hiss's own handwriting and Hiss went to prison for three years-eight months for the relatively minor charge of perjury.

CANADA AGAIN
Lester Pearson (Canadian Prime Minister 1963-1968) provided confidential information to Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) while serving in Washington DC from 1942-1946, in his capacity ultimately as Canadian Ambassador.


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In August 1951, Elizabeth Bentley, a former GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) spymaster, testified that Lester "Mike" Pearson was a primary source. He fed confidential information to Hazen Sise, a Soviet agent under her control, who worked for the National Film Board of Canada.

Bentley told the US Senate McCarran Commission: "I understand from Hazen that Pearson knew Hazen was a Communist and was willing to help. Pearson by virtue of his position used to sit in on American functions, particularly British ones re. British polices, all of which was super hush-hush."


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Pearson was Canada's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1951 so this testimony was kept quiet. It is included in Appendix A (p.186) of "No Sense of Evil/ Espionage: The Case of Herbert Norman" (1986) by James Barros, a political science professor at the University of Toronto.

Herbert Norman, the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, was an NKVD agent and Pearson colleague who came under investigation in 1957 and "committed suicide." Pearson protected and covered for him.

Pearson met with Bentley's control officer, Anatoly Gorski ("Gromov") in Washington in Oct. 1944. Gorski was one of the KGB's top operatives, having run Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby in England. Barros speculates "the unthinkable" that "Pearson was Moscow's ultimate mole." (Barros, 169)

In 1957, the US State Dept. held a meeting on whether to press this issue. It concluded: "Pearson is a hero. Right now he is cooperating to the fullest extent with our government in defense contracts." (Barros 206)

Lester Pearson may have been recruited while a student at Oxford University in 1923. From 1935-1941, he served at the Canadian High Commission in London and rubbed shoulders with the leaders of the world government plot. He helped to establish the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and was the UN's point man during the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Canadian Navy Commander Guy Carr mixed with this clique of top civil servants in Ottawa in the 1930's and 1940's. They recognized each other by Masonic signals and indulged in "progressive" pursuits like wife-swapping. One told him: "Stop trying to save the human race. The vast majority aren't worth the time or trouble. Most will be better off under a totalitarian dictatorship; they will get what the government decides is good for them." (Satan: Prince of this World, p. 101. See also his Pawns in their Game and Red Fog Over America)

Elizabeth Bentley's charges were corroborated by decoded "Venona" messages between the Soviet Embassy and the KGB in Moscow and "assured American authorities of her veracity." (Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America Yale 1999, p. 12)

GREAT BRITAIN
The British bewail the five high ranking Soviet "moles" in their Diplomatic and Security services. But the USSR (and Israel) were the creation of British Freemasonry. In other words, the British elite is at the heart of this world government conspiracy, which in reality is just British Imperialism repackaged (https://www.savethemales.ca/000447.html). For heaven's sake, the fifth "mole," Anthony Blunt, was the Queen's personal art curator when he was "exposed" in 1979.

In 1945, there was another crisis when Konstantin Volkov the NKVD Chief in Istanbul, operating under the cover of Vice Counsel, inquired about defecting. He had worked at Moscow Center and had information on 300 agents including two spies in the British Foreign Office and another "directing a counter-espionage organization in London." (William Stevenson, Intrepid's Last Case, p.187-8)

I don't know how many counter espionage directors they have in London but MI5 Chief Sir Stewart Menzies instructed his counter-espionage director Kim Philby to "look after" the matter. He did. Volkov and his wife were heavily sedated and flown to Moscow for torture and execution. Philby later retired in Moscow on the pension of a KGB General. Similarly Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and the other more obvious "moles" in the heart of the British Foreign Service eventually retired to dachas in Russia. The BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/maclean_donald.shtml) continues to portray them as idealists and rogue heroes.

British atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs who betrayed the secrets of the Hydrogen Bomb to Moscow got all of 14 years in prison. He was released after just nine years and allowed to fly to East Germany where he became Deputy Director of Nuclear Physics Research.

CONCLUSION
"Success" in the West depends in part on a person's willingness to betray his nation, race, religion, culture and neighbors.

The real battle is not between "left" and "right" but the age-old conflict between the super-rich who want to monopolize all wealth, and the rest of humanity who seek a modicum to sustain a comfortable life.

The enemy is not capitalism but monopoly capitalism, not corporations but cartels that strive for the ultimate monopoly, world government. Communism, or state capitalism, is a ruse by which the bankers co-opted the collective instincts of mankind and harnessed our idealism to their diabolical agenda.

The true enemy is not Islam but an ancient Satanic cult gnawing at the heart of Western society, intent on hijacking humanity from its healthy natural path, and enslaving it using sophisticated methods of social control.

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Related:

How Canada Went Communist (https://nosnowinmoscow.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/soviet-espionage-fbi-file-on-lester-mike-pearson/)

Winston Churchill, Illuminati (https://www.savethemales.ca/001049.html)

Paul Desmarais' Web of Influence (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/may/030502a.html)

Out of Bondage by Elizabeth Bentley, Afterword by Hayden Peake, 1988

[ThePythonicCow]

A top operative, "the Man Called Intrepid" Canadian William Stephenson ... used Gouzenko's revelations to kick start the phoney "Cold War." The news that the USSR had spies everywhere and was stealing atomic secrets caused a general panic that transformed public opinion of the USSR from benign to hostile overnight. (See William Stevenson, Intrepid's Last Case, p.214.)

The trick was to create enough fear to justify the Cold War without exposing the top figures in the elite conspiracy, both in Canada and abroad. They sacrificed minor figures like atomic scientist Allan Nunn May, who was arrested for espionage and served six years. Meanwhile, MacKenzie King, Lester Pearson and his high-ranking gang of Illuminati traitors were unscathed.
This same trick is being played on us again.

Some, not all, key globalist, neocon, ... figures such as the Clintons and some of the top CIA, FBI and DOJ officials, are being exposed, while the real top figures remain hidden, and still on top.

Moreover, by splitting, in the US, those public figures who are being setup to be exposed (such as Democrat Hillary Clinton), from those who will likely remain mostly hidden (such as the Republican Bush's), the added smoke of a political battle further hides the reality. This Democrat vs Republican political battle is being amp'd up to the max, along whatever issues (abortion vs right-to-life, a wall on the southern border with Mexico versus anything Trump wants is bad, "Hillary is evil", "Orange man bad", Trump is loony, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is loonier, gun confiscation vs second amendment rights, ...) gain traction in major portions of the populace.

The battle lines are being drawn. Yet another deeply fake war is being setup.



Treason loses its meaning when the whole government has been subverted at the top.
Yes.

[Hervé]

Fiat Banking is Behind Imperialism (https://www.henrymakow.com/the_imperialism_of_jewish_capi.html)

by Henry Makow
February 11, 2019


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By 1864, the Masonic Jewish central banking cartel already had concentrated the wealth of the world in their hands. British imperialism was a mask for Jewish banker imperialism, as is the NWO today.

"This Money Power of the Money Quarter of London is the only grand pre-eminent Imperialism existing on the earth." The NWO in a nutshell?

Imperialism of Jewish Capital

by Henry Makow PhD.
Updated from Aug. 24, 2015

A book published in 1889 "The Red Dragon" by L.B. Woolfolk suggests to me that British (and American) imperialism originated in the need of Jewish bankers and their Masonic confederates to translate money they created out of nothing (thanks to their control of credit), into real wealth i.e. world ownership.

When these bankers finagled a credit monopoly in England in 1694, they turned into a monster that now has highjacked humanity. The London-based banking cartel literally has gobbled up the planet, and will not be content until it owns everything, and enslaves mankind, mentally and spiritually, if not physically. This, in a nutshell, is the New World Order.

The last push came from a secret society (http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis2.htm) that Cecil Rhodes started in 1891 to "absorb the wealth of the world" and "to take the government of the whole world."
A recent UN study (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6211250.stm) says 2% of the world's population own 50% of the wealth, while half own barely 1% of the wealth. Needless to say, the richest 2% are mainly the London-based bankers and their associates.

Today British, American and Zionist imperialism manifest the banker agenda for "world government" through the destruction of religion, nation, race and family. This imperialism does not express the interests or wishes of ordinary English, American or Jewish people who have themselves been colonized.

THE RED DRAGON


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L.B. Woolfolk was an American Baptist preacher who traced the machinations of the banking cartel in the decades after the Civil War. He had contacts with members of this cartel during visits to London. He wrote, "the Great Red Dragon" is the symbol of the "Jew London Money Power."


In his book, (http://www.biblestudysite.com/reddragon.htm) which is online, he describes how this cartel bought up the US economy through intermediaries and controlled it long before the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.

By 1864, 150 years ago, Woolfolk claims the wealth of the world already was concentrated in their hands.
"The Imperialism of Capital to which I allude is a knot of capitalists--Jews almost to a man--who make their headquarters in the Money Quarter of London, in Threadneedle Street, Lombard, and other streets in that vicinity, where bankers have their habitat.

These Jew capitalists have succeeded in centralizing in their own hands the industry and commerce of the earth. --They own almost all the debts of the world, --the debts of nations, states, counties, municipalities, corporations and individuals, --amounting in the aggregate, it is estimated, to seventy-five billion dollars, on which they are annually receiving about four billion dollars of interest. --They own the manufactories, the shipping, and the commerce of Great Britain, and most of the manufactures, shipping and commerce of the whole world. --They have attained control of the industry and trade of the whole earth; and are rapidly centralizing all business in their own hands.

They hold possession of all the great lines of trade and business of all kinds, and they regulate all prices by their own arbitrary methods. This Money Power of the Money Quarter of London is the only grand pre-eminent Imperialism existing on the earth."

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Woolfolk traces the spread of imperialism to the British East India Company in the early part of the Eighteenth Century.


"In 1764, the British East India Company was the grandest and richest corporation in the world. It was the only corporation, which ruled a territorial empire. It was enriched by traffic, by the extension of its trade through the conquest of the trading stations of its Continental rivals and by the wholesale plunder of India....it came to pass that the greater part of the stock of the East India Company, and of the other companies afterwards organized out of the dividends of that great company, fell into the hands of the Jews. The Jews became the great Money Kings of the world... History presents no career of conquest, in which fraud, deceit and rapine were so blended as in the conquest of India by the East India Company. It was the first example in the history of the world of a trading corporation becoming an imperial power; and its imperial rule was marked by the rapacity, chicane and fraud that characterize a great corporation in the soulless and conscienceless pursuit of gain."
With the invention of the steam engine in 1775, only the capitalists of the British East India Company had the means to profit from the industrial revolution. They set up hundreds of joint stock companies--manufacturing companies of all kinds, coal and iron mining, railways and ships, real estate-- which concealed their ownership.
"In commercial crises, often originated, and always manipulated by them, they managed systematically to break down rival companies, and buy them out, and to rob and plunder the minority stockholders; until, in the end, these organized capitalists got into their own hands and very cheap, all, or the greater part of the stock of the various companies, manufacturing, mercantile and shipping, that originated in steam manufactures. They thus reduced to a system and science the art of crushing rival companies, and freezing out minority stockholders."
Woolfolk speculates that the Rothschilds did not act alone but represented a syndicate of Jewish bankers.


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(Crowns of Europe beg before Lionel Rothschild)


"The rise of the house of Rothschild is memorable as the first grand combination of the Jews in a syndicate, for the transaction of a vast business in which all their capital might be combined. The Rothschilds became the head of the Jew Money Kings, and have ever since been the head of the Jews, acting as a syndicate. That house is probably at the head of the Jew Money Power of the world. The wealth of the Money Power is simply beyond calculation. It cannot amount to less than $160,000,000,000. It is probably nearer two hundred billions... The Money Power has so much money, now, that it can not find investment for it. In one more double it will about have all the property of the earth. At the beginning of its career, a double of its capital meant $100,000,000. Now a double of its capital means $400,000,000,000. And all the property of the world is less than $600,000,000,000."
According to Woolfolk, the Rockefellers and most great American industrialist-financiers were merely agents of the London Money Power. Standard Oil is a classic example of how it established a monopoly in every enterprise. Owning the railroads needed to transport oil, the Money Power put competitors out of business by undercutting their prices.

This cartel of cartels kept the business class in line by creating the spectre of Communism:
"It is their policy to keep up a hot agitation for Communism and Socialism in the great cities; so that the businessmen, in their antagonism to those ideas, will keep on the side of the Money Power. It is a significant fact that most of the agitators for Socialism are Jews, who are most probably the agents of the Money Power to keep up this agitation for their own purposes... It is a part of the consummate craft of these Money Kings."
CONCLUSION
"The Red Dragon" is an important reminder that even 150 years ago, wealth and power were concentrated in relatively few hands. Modern history reflects the hidden machinations of this Money Power to advance their "world government." The whole world is being colonized.

We see evidence today that one hand directs all the great multinationals. For example, they all sing from the same songbook of diversity, homosexuality and feminism. All US Presidents are front men for this banking cartel. Their Cabinets are chosen from the ranks of the Rockefeller-controlled CFR. Presidents who defy the Money Power are eliminated. (i.e. most recently JFK and Nixon.) All the Presidential candidates support Israel which was created by the banking cartel to be their world government capital.

This lethal problem arose because the nations of the world were too feckless to do something so simple as creating their own currency. They relied on a network of Jewish bankers to create their medium of exchange in the form of debt to themselves. No nation had the power or wit to break away from this worldwide imperialist system which is tightening its grip and inevitably must enslave mankind. Unfortunately, these bankers are not just interested in power or money. They are Satanists who wish to sabotage civilization and rededicate humanity to Lucifer. (https://henrymakow.com/2015/01/ten-signs-western-society.html)

We must reject this juggernaut in all its manifestations. Common sense eventually will prevail not because it is common sense, but because continuous violation of common sense produces collapse.

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Related:
"The Jewish Conspiracy is British Imperialism." (https://www.savethemales.ca/000447.html)


First Comment from Dan Butler (1955-1918) (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/02/Dan-Butler.html)-
Yes, it's important that the Rothschilds did not act alone but represented a syndicate of Jewish bankers. The Red Shield takes attention off of others. As far as we know the Rothschild clan may be fronting for a silent partner entirely unknown to any but the highest insiders.

The 'money power' isn't the whole story. Nathan Rothschild served as warden in the Great Synagogue in Manchester during the early 1800s. The family intermarried first with aristocratic Jewish families. Nathan married Hannah Cohen, daughter of the powerful London merchant from Amsterdam Solomon Cohen. Her sister Judith married Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, (Italian Jewish lineage). He founded the first Jewish settlement beyond old Jerusalem, called New Yishuv (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yishuv) in 1860.

Wikipedia says: "his correspondence with the British consul in Damascus Charles Henry Churchill in 1841-42 is seen as pivotal to the development of Proto-Zionism." [1] The Modern Rothschild family never concealed their substantial funding of the establishment of the State of Israel.

Jewish children are taught from the cradle that Theodore Herzl is the primary founder of Zionism. How can this be, when Herlz was born the year that Sir Moses Montefiore established New Yishuv? It helps to know the complete history since public perception today sees Israel as a Rothschild project. [2]

What was the interest of these European money power men in establishing their own sovereign state in the Middle East?


[1] 'Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question' with texts of protocols, treaty stipulations and other public acts and official documents, Lucien Wolf, published by the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1919

[2] http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-israel-supreme-court/

[Hervé]

Operation Gladio: The unholy alliance between the Vatican, the CIA and the Mafia (https://off-guardian.org/2019/04/06/operation-gladio-the-unholy-alliance/)

Antony C. Black Off Guardian (https://off-guardian.org/2019/04/06/operation-gladio-the-unholy-alliance/)
Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:26 UTC


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© Off Guardian


On the hot summer morning of Aug. 2, 1980 a massive explosion ripped apart the main waiting room of the Bologna railway station. Eighty-five people were killed and hundreds more injured. Though at first blamed on Italy's legendary urban guerrillas, The Red Brigades, it soon emerged that the attack had, in fact, originated from within the 'deep state' of the Italian government itself.

The full nature of this secret parallel state would only come to light a decade later when the Italian premier, Giulio Andreotti, under questioning from a special commission of inquiry, revealed the existence of arms caches stashed all around the country and which were at the disposal of an organization which later came to be identified as 'Gladio'.

The members of this group turned out to include not only hundreds of far-right figures in the intelligence, military, government, media, Church and corporate sectors, but a motley assortment of unreconstructed WW2 fascists, psychopaths and criminal underworld types to boot. And despite Andreotti's attempts to airbrush the group as 'patriots' it appeared evident to much of the rest of the Italian polity that these seemed rather more like pretty bad folk indeed. Little did they know. Follow-up research by the likes of Daniele Ganser, Claudio Celani, Jurgen Roth and Henrik Kruger traced connections to similar groups spread throughout Europe of which all were found to be deep state terrorist organizations, and all of which were found, ultimately, to be subservient unto the highest levels of the CIA and NATO command structures.

The moniker 'Gladio' (after the two-edged sword used in classical Rome) was eventually broadened to include a bewildering host of related deep state terrorist structures including: 'P2' In Italy, 'P26' in Switzerland, 'Sveaborg' in Sweden, 'Counter-Guerrilla' in Turkey and 'Sheepskin' in Greece. This (hardly definitive) European list was then found to have connections not only to virtually every US sponsored secret state terrorist organization the world over (including the likes of Operation Condor in Latin America), but also to many of the global drug cartels that provided the secretive wealth needed to fund and otherwise lubricate the whole rotting, corrupt shebang.

If all this sounds sinister enough, it pales in light of the detailed structure of the dazzlingly diabolical Gladio edifice. And it is to those details we now repair vis a vis an overview of the remarkable, if otherwise unheralded, 2015 work by journalist Paul L. Williams entitled, 'Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA and the Mafia'. Though there are other books on the subject worthy of honourable mention (including Daniele Ganser's seminal tome, 'NATO's Secret Armies', and Richard Cottrell's recent and stylishly written, 'Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe'), it is to Williams that I believe we owe a particular debt of gratitude in having provided a more or less fully integrated portrait of the global machinations of Operation Gladio.

Before embarking on our grim, if yet fascinating, journey it is worth first noting that whilst 'Gladio' was officially acknowledged and condemned by the European Parliament (in Nov., 1990; Washington and NATO having ever after refused 'comment' on the matter), and its multifarious organs and factions ordered dismantled, it is hardly likely that the latter was ever fully enacted. The historical context of 'Gladio', then, is really the quintessential backdrop to understanding the trademark false flag events of the modern era.

OF SPOOKS AND MADE MEN
The general origins of this labyrinthine network of deep state actors lay in the so-called 'stay-behind-armies' set up at the end of WW2 by the Allied powers (principally the US) ostensibly to act as resistance forces should the Soviets ever decide to invade Europe. Quickly, however, the raison d'etre of the 'armies' transmogrified into a mission to counteract, not external invasion, but 'internal subversion'. Such would eventually result in the undermining not just of post-war European socialism, but of Italian, Greek - and later global - democracy itself.

But we get ahead of ourselves.

The primal author of the 'stay-behind-armies', Williams informs us, was General Reinhard Gehlen, the head of German military intelligence during the Second World War. Having foreseen early on that the Reich was doomed to defeat, Gehlen had "concocted the idea of forming clandestine guerilla squads composed of Hitler youth and die-hard fascist fanatics" ostensibly to fend off the inevitable Soviet invasion. These guerilla units he referred to as 'werewolves'.

Not ones to miss a fascist opportunity when they saw it, the US Office of Strategic Services (the OSS, and the forerunner of the CIA), under the leadership of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan, quickly enlisted both Gehlen and SS General Karl Wolff (in 1945) in forming the Gehlen Organization (later to transform into the present-day German BND) and which received its initial funding from US Army G-2 intelligence resources.

The American point-man on this was Allen Dulles, the first president (in 1927) of the Council on Foreign Relations, and later the first head of the CIA. Duly incorporated into the American fold, the 'werewolves' were, given that their initial meddling took place in Italy, rebranded as 'gladiators'. Operation Gladio was born.

In 1947 the CIA (having, that year, superseded the OSS) was faced with its first daunting task, i.e. how to prevent the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from forming the next government. Elections were scheduled for 1948 and the PCI was a virtual shoe-in not just in Italy proper, but in Sicily as well. Fortunately, 'Gladio' was ready and waiting. The gladiators had been training in a special camp set up in Sardinia under the local command of the former WW2 Italian fascist leader, Prince Junio Valerio Borghese.

In addition, hundreds of American mafioso began to arrive on the shores of Italy to lend a hand with the communist 'problem'. The arrival of the 'made men' was the result of Donovan's efforts from 1943 onward in working with American mobsters Charles 'Lucky' Luciano and Vito Genovese to conger new (drug) funding for the OSS's off-books' operations, and to reinstall the Sicilian mafia on the island in the leadup to Operation Husky (the Allied invasion of Sicily). These forces were now unleashed on the Italian electorate, and through 1948 an average of five people a week were murdered by the CIA-backed terrorist units. The results were grimly predictable. Hallelujah, the PCI were defeated and the Christian Democrats returned to power.

Still, the threat remained. Fully half the Italian electorate were communist sympathizers and, moreover, leftist politics pervaded much of the rest of the diseased European body. More would have to be done. The problem, however, was money. There simply wasn't enough of it. Thus, the initial $200 million in funding for Gladio (which had come from the Rockefeller and Mellon foundations) was quickly exhausted. And though the National Security Act of 1947 had provided the loophole that allowed for the CIA's covert operations, it had not allowed for their overt Congressional funding. There lay the rub. Thankfully, Paul Helliwell knew how to salve the itch.

Paul Helliwell was an inner member of the original OSS (along with key scions of the Morgan, Mellon, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, DuPont and Ryan families) and, according to Williams, likely the greatest unsung hero of the nicknamed 'Oh-So-Social' club. It was he, who having cut his teeth in the drugs-for-arms trade by shepherding opium deals with the Kuomintang (KMT, the Chinese National Army fighting against Mao Zedung), conjured the brilliant inspiration to do the very same thing - in the United States itself.

Thus, it was at his suggestion that Donovan elected to forge the deep bond (and that exists to this day) between the nation's intelligence services and organized crime. Enter stage left such notables as 'Lucky' Luciano, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky and the Trafficante and Gambino crime clans. Quickly the streets of, first, New York, and later many an American metropolis, were flooded with heroin. These early, halcyon days would soon lead to the infamous 'French Connection', thence to the 'Golden Triangle' (where the CIA's very own 'Air America' transported drugs out of South East Asia during the Vietnam War) and, later, to the Balkan, Mexican, and Colombian drug cartels.

All very well and good. But, to begin with, there was yet a fly in the whole drugs-for-arms-for-terror ointment. To wit: how to pay off the mafioso without anyone noticing; indeed, how to stash, launder and hide all of this financial derring-do from the prying eyes of the authorities; you know, the real-enough authorities, the Treasury cops and so forth. How do you do that?

THE VATICAN CONNECTION
Article 2 of the Lateran Treaty of 1929 was clear and unequivocal. The Article, which served to regulate matters between the Holy See and the Italian state, expressly forbade any interference of the latter in the affairs of the former. It is hardly conceivable, of course, that the framers of the Treaty ever foresaw what such immunity could actually mean in practice. But then they probably hadn't reckoned on the fiendish formation of the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), or more colloquially, the Vatican Bank.

Established by Pope Pius XII and Bernardino Nogara in 1942, the Bank would quickly come to serve as the principal repository post-war both for the Sicilian Mafia and for the OSS/CIA wherein all of the monies and documents relating to drug trafficking and to Gladio would be stored and laundered. Already in 1945 the pope had held private audiences with Donovan to discuss the implementation of Gladio and where, as Williams reports, Donovan was knighted as an anti-Communist crusader with the Grand Cross of the Order of Sylvester. Prior to this time Pius XII had proven himself a loyal ally in working with Dulles and the OSS to establish the ratlines used to help prominent Nazis escape Europe. Now, new horizons beckoned. The first duty at hand, of course, was to destroy the communist menace in respect of the 1948 elections. To this end the pope authorized his own terror squads (under Monsignor Bicchierai) to assist the gladiators and the 'made men' in intimidating the Italian electorate. Task accomplished.

The second duty at hand, however, was longer term. Communism, socialism and, indeed, any Godless form of progressive government, anywhere, had to be stamped out at source. For this money would be needed. Lots of money. Untraceable money. Drug money. Now in the months before the 1948 election the CIA deposited some $65 million into the Vatican Bank. The source of these monies came from heroin produced by the Italian pharmaceutical giant, Schiaparelli, and which was then transported by the Sicilian mob into Cuba where it was cut and then distributed to New Orleans, Miami and New York by the Santo Trafficante family. Lucrative though this trade was, it was not nearly enough to suit the needs of the CIA and 'Gladio'. More would be required. More drug networks and more banks. Gladio was about to global.

To start with a new alliance was forged with the Corsican mafia. Unlike the Sicilian mob, the Corsicans had extensive experience in processing heroin, a skill they had picked up through years of working with Laotian, Cambodian and Vietnamese technicians in French Indochina. A supply route then emerged running from Burma through Turkey to Beirut and thence to Marseille. Alas, there was a slight hitch when the leftist dockworkers in Marseille, being sympathetic to the rebel army under Ho Chi Minh, refused to load and unload the boats from Indochina. No worries. A deft bit of terror administered by the Corsican boys (and funded by the CIA), and problem solved. By 1951, then, Marseille had become the center of the Western heroin industry. Voila, the 'French Connection'.

Meanwhile, Wild Bill Donovan had 'resigned' from the CIA to form the World Commerce Corporation (WCC) whose primary function was to facilitate the arms-for-drugs deals with the KMT. Paul Helliwell lent a needed hand at the helm by heading up Sea Supply, Inc., a CIA front company gainfully employed in shipping heroin from Bangkok. By 1958 the whole operation was so successful that a second supply route was established running through Saigon. Here, the help of Ngo Dinh Diem, the US installed despot of South Vietnam, proved invaluable.

Still, there was a potential cloud on the horizon, i.e. word of all these shenanigans was bound to leak out. What to do? The first reflex, naturally, was to pin the blame for the West's growing heroin problem on the Communist Chinese under Mao Zedung. Check. The second, more considered response, was to organize an ongoing campaign to deflect attention away from, and burnish the image of, the CIA. And to this end, in 1953, did the CIA establish 'Operation Mockingbird'. Under 'Mockingbird' the Agency recruited hundreds of American journalists to spread false stories and propaganda about the Company's 'benign' activities. Eventually, this depraved fabric of anti-journalism enlisted entire news networks including ABC, NBC, Newsweek, Associated Press, and The Saturday Evening Post. Now the guys and gals at Langley could relax. Henceforth, American (and global) eyes were dutifully prismed through the rose-coloured lens of 'Mockingbird'.

But back to the Vatican. The IOR, solid banking pillar of the Gladio community that it was, could hardly be expected to do all the heavy lifting itself. After all, the global heroin industry would, by 1980, be pulling in a cool $400 billion annually. En route an extensive and orchestrated financial network would be required to supplement God's Bank. As with any fine orchestra it helps to have a maestro of exquisite genius to run the show. A nice round of applause, then, for one Michele Sindona. The biography of Sindona begins, humbly enough, with his degree in tax law from the University of Messina in 1942 after which, in quick succession, he rockets to stardom as a leading financial adviser to the Sicilian mafia, an agent for the CIA, and, thereafter, a financial intimate of the Holy See. By the late 1950s Sindona had become the lynchpin in a nexus between the mob, the CIA and the Vatican that would eventually, as Williams chillingly puts it, "result in the toppling of governments, wholesale slaughter and financial devastation."

Though a full elaboration of this bewilderingly complex financial system is best left to the author, it is worth briefly savouring a few highlights. To begin with Sindona purchased Fasco AG, a Liechtenstein holding company and through which he purchased his first bank - the Banca Privata Finanziaria (BPF). The BPF then became, by way of a Chicago-based intermediary bank, Continental Illinois, a principal conduit for transferring drug money from the IOR for the purposes of Gladio. In fact, it was this banking pipeline in particular which provided the filthy lucre that fueled the 1967 coup d'etat in Greece. But more on this heady stuff in a bit.

It was through his Chicago contacts that Sindona first met Monsignor Paul Marcinkus, popularly known as 'the Gorilla'. The Gorilla was six foot four, "a gifted street fighter...and a lover of bourbon, fine cigars and young women". Under Sindona's patronage Marcinkus would soon rise to become both Pope Paul VI's personal body guard and the head of the IOR. A third musketeer in the person of Roberto Calvi (the assistant - and later full - director of the famous, Milan-based Banco Ambrosiano) came to complete the three Vatican amigos. Together they would cut a dramatic, collective figure in the global banking underworld all through the 'anni di Piombo' (the Gladio 'years of lead' in Italy from 1969 to 1987). Exactly how dramatic is illustrated, par excellence, by Calvi's eventual dark demise. Who among us, old enough to remember, can forget the macabre spectacle (June, 1982) of Calvi's body hanging from Blackfriars Bridge, his feet dangling in the Thames and pockets stuffed with five masonry bricks. Sindona would also later be murdered (1986) by means of a cyanide-laced cup of coffee whilst in jail and under 'maximum protective custody'.

Calvi was a key figure in establishing a series of eight shell companies (six in Panama, two in Europe) through which drug lords like Pablo Escobar in South America were encouraged to deposit their ill-gotten loot. (The CIA put shoulder to wheel by helping ferry the Escobar cocaine in a fleet of planes operating out of Scranton airport in Pennsylvania). The monies were then transferred via Banco Ambrosiano to the IOR which took a 15 to 20 percent processing fee. From there funds were distributed to a host of European banks set up by Sindona for use by Gladio units spread throughout the continent. In addition to the flow of cash from the cartels, funds were bled from Banco Ambrosiano into the eight shell companies - again for use by the CIA in funding its covert operations.

This points up a general operating procedure of the entire Gladio 'banking' system, i.e. the system, far from being designed to turn a profit, was expressly designed to 'lose' money; that is, to have it siphoned off into covert ops. Such explains the regular and spectacular failure of a host of CIA-related banks including: Franklin National Bank (purchased by Sindona), Castle Bank & Trust, Mercantile Bank & Trust (both set up by the ubiquitous Paul Helliwell), Nugan Hand Bank (in Australia, and from which funds were diverted to undermine Prime Minister Gough Whitlam during the Vietnam War), and the infamous Bank of Credit and Commerce International (based in Karachi in aid, primarily, of the Southeast Asian heroin trade). Indeed, it was precisely the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano itself that brought both Calvi and Sindona to their untimely ends.

Finally, it is worth noting here that these august institutions were linked in a tight criminal embrace with many of the most prestigious financial firms in America including Citibank, the Bank of New York, and the Bank of Boston. The base of the iceberg, in short, extended far and wide. But then, what was all this money really doing?

THE TERROR
Following the thwarting of Italian democracy in 1948 the Gladio 'secret armies' entered into a period of what one might characterize as pregnant incubation. Thus, it was during the 1950s that the various drug supply routes and financial networks were being created, as were some of the principal political organizations. Probably the most important of the latter was 'Propaganda Due' otherwise known as 'P2'.

Created in 1877 as a Freemasonry lodge for the Piedmont nobility, it was banned by Mussolini in 1924 only to be resurrected post-war with the approval of Allen Dulles, himself a thirty-third degree Mason. The lodge, though at first dominated mainly by spooks, spies, military and mafia figures, would soon encompass a who's who of Italian political, corporate, banking and media supremos to boot. Indeed, the organization would eventually spread shoots throughout Europe as well as North and South America, and its members would come to include such luminaries as Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig.

A 'P2' denizen of especial significance was Licio Gelli. The latter's pedigree was impressive: a former volunteer in the 735th Black Shirts Battalion, a former member of the elite SS Division under Field Marshall Goering and, thereafter, a chummy employee of the US Counter Intelligence Corps of the Fifth Army. Working with William Colby, the OSS agent in France, and Allen Dulles, the OSS director, Gelli soon gained entry to the Vatican where he helped set up the Nazi escape routes to Argentina. His ties with Argentina would later prove critical in facilitating Operation Condor (the US-backed mass assassination program in 1970s and '80s South America). Moreover, in 1972, Gelli would emerge as P2's supreme 'Worshipful Master' under whose leadership the lodge would reach its full, horrific flowering. Finally, it is worth mentioning at this juncture that it was as a result of a police raid on Gelli's villa in 1981 that the full, tentacled structure of Gladio would come to light. But we digress.

One of the first substantive actions of Gladio was the Turkish coup of 1960. Here the incumbent Prime Minister, Adnan Menderes, made the fatal mistake of believing he was really in charge and thereafter initiating a visit to Moscow to secure economic aid. The 'stay-behind-army' in Turkey known as Counter-Guerilla, in alliance with the Turkish military, quickly disabused him of any such delusions by arresting and executing him. Throughout the 1970s both Counter-Guerilla and its youth wing, the Grey Wolves, would stage "ongoing terror attacks...that resulted in the deaths of over five thousand students, teachers, trade union leaders, booksellers and politicians".

Counter-Guerilla would also figure in the Turkish coup of 1980 when its commander, General Kenan Evren, toppled the moderate government of Bulent Ecevit. According to Williams, US President Jimmy Carter phoned in his approval to the CIA station-chief in Ankara, Paul Henze, with a jubilant, 'Your boys have done it!' What they had done, of course, was set up a tyranny in which thousands more would be tortured while incarcerated. The Turkish Gladio boys would also be unleashed in the 1980s upon the PKK - the Kurdistan Workers Party. All of this was in keeping with Zbigniew Brzezinski's (Carter's national security advisor) core vision of the importance of controlling Central Asia to which Turkey was both a vital portal and, thus, a key NATO ally.

Alas, Gladio would prove something of a disappointment in France, where, after having backed a series of assassination attempts against the regrettably too independent President Charles de Gaulle, it found itself on the receiving end of de Gaulle's boot. Actually, it was NATO itself - at the time, headquartered in Paris - that was unceremoniously kicked out of France (in 1966, whence it took up its present cozy and famously corrupt abode in Brussels). But, of course, de Gaulle was ahead of the curve and understood all too well who was really behind the mayhem and murder.

Greece, unfortunately, did not fare as well. In 1967 the 'Hellenic Raiding Force', a franchise of Gladio and playing to a NATO authored script entitled Operation Prometheus, overthrew the left-leaning government of George Papandreou. The ensuing military dictatorship would last until 1974 though this would hardly signal the end of Greece's tribulations. From 1980 until near the turn of the millennium, the nation would suffer under a reign of terror and political assassinations nominally attributed to 'November 17', an alleged Marxist revolutionary group, but which in fact (and here I briefly tag-team with authors Cottrell and Ganser) was yet another faction of Greek-Gladio known as 'Sheepskin'.

This illustrates a point originally brought home by Ganser's research to the effect that virtually every alleged 'leftist revolutionary' group said to have been operating in Europe throughout the post-war years was, in truth, either a Gladio 'secret army' unit or else had been completely infiltrated by state intelligence services, and was subsequently being steered by them for Gladio-style state-terrorist ends. Such is well documented for the 'Red Brigades' in Italy and the 'Baader-Meinhof Gang' in Germany (the 'gang' being conveniently and cold-bloodedly exterminated on the 'night of the long knives', Oct.18, 1977, whilst under custody in Stammheim prison). It also, just by the by, speaks to the universally attested prior association of many a modern-day 'terrorist' and their police and intelligence handlers.

In Spain, during the early '70s, Stefano delle Chiaie and fellow Gladio agents from Italy provided their consulting expertise to General Francisco Franco's secret police who conducted over a thousand violent acts and some fifty murders. Following Franco's death in 1975, delle Chiaie moved to Chile to lend a fatherly hand in helping the CIA-backed Augusto Pinochet set up his death squads. In later years the Spanish Gladio unit would find gainful employment hunting down and assassinating the leaders of the Basque separatist movement.

Of Italy we have already mentioned the 'years of lead', but just to capture a few highlights. The 'strategy of tension' unleashed in 1969 in Italy - the same year 'Condor' was unleashed in Latin America - was in response to the renewed popularity of Communism throughout the country and which, itself, was partly in response to the uptick in revolutionary sentiment globally as a result of antipathy towards the US war on Vietnam. The antidote, naturally, to this woeful state of progressive affairs was a healthy dose of terror. According to Williams, "Henry Kissinger, Nixon's National Security Advisor, issued orders to Licio Gelli through his deputy, General Alexander Haig, for the implementation of terror attacks and coup attempts." The terror attacks began on December 12, 1969 when a bomb exploded in the crowded lobby of a bank in Milan's Piazza Fontana in which seventeen people were killed and eighty-eight injured. Over the ensuing years (from 1969 to 1987) there followed more than '14,000 acts of violence with a political motivation'. The most infamous of these was, of course, the Bologna bombing in August of 1980 and which led to the initial exposure of Gladio in Italy.

Of the many attempted coups and related high-level political machinations engineered by Gladio forces in Italy (1963, 1970, 1976) and Sicily (more or less continually on tap throughout the decade), the kidnapping on March 16, 1978 - and murder a month or so later - of Prime Minister Aldo Moro was likely the most sensational. Moro had dared to include communists in his new coalition government. At first blamed on the usual suspects, i.e. the Red Brigades, further investigation (to begin with by journalist Carmine 'Mino' Pecorelli who paid with his life) led to the real usual suspects including CIA operative Mario Moretti (eventually convicted of the killing) and thence up the line to Gelli, then to Italy's interior minister Francesco Cossiga and onwards to Zbigniew Brzezinski.

The high-level intrigue did not stop at the murder of a prime minister however. At least two Popes felt the sharp end of the Gladio sword as well. In August of 1978, Pope Paul VI died. His successor, the preternaturally timid John Paul I, soon gave his handlers a very real shock when, after looking at the IOR accounts, he issued a 'call for reform'. The very next day the otherwise fastidiously health-conscious pontiff - in office barely a month - was dead. Not just dead but expired with the telltale bulging eyes and horrific grimace of acute poisoning. His autopsy was definitively thwarted by an illegal and hastily contrived embalming, and his personal papers disappeared without a trace. Archbishop Marcinkus, having been temporarily removed prior, was returned to office whilst Calvi and Sindona, also under scrutiny at the time, breathed a (temporary) sigh of relief.

Having been (almost) burned once the overseers of Gladio made sure to engineer the follow-up Papal succession. Thus did Cardinal Karol Wojtyla shuffle onto the historical proscenium as Pope John Paul II. Now, at first, John Paul worked seamlessly with the CIA and Gladio. Together they oversaw the destruction of Liberation Theology in Latin America, the continued undermining of Italian democracy, and the dispensing of black funds for Solidarity in Poland. Ah, but how the best laid plans do oft go astray. By the spring of 1981 not only were events spinning out of control for Gladio itself, but so too were they for Banco Ambrosiano, and by extension, the IOR. The Pope, inexplicably, refused to act. Compounding this lapse was an unaccountable trifecta of moral turpitude that witnessed the Holy Father suddenly breaking into treasonous song singing the benefits of rapprochement with the Soviets; recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization; and, egads, nuclear disarmament. The order from on high was given: 'Kill the Pope'.

But best blame it on the Soviets. So issued the 'Bulgarian Thesis' wherein a lowly Bulgarian airline employee (Sergei Antonov) was set up as the patsy. In truth, the key actors in the Papal plot came straight from Gladio central casting. The starring role in the drama fell to General Giuseppe Santovito, the head of Italy's military intelligence (SISMI) and the commander of the Italian Gladio units. His co-star, Theodore Shackley, was the infamous CIA mastermind who had already served as executive producer on such epics as Operation Phoenix (involving the murder of some 40,000 non-combatants in Vietnam), Operation Condor, the setting up of Nugan Hand Bank, and, along with delle Chiaie, the murder of Salvador Allende. West Germany's BND (the national security services) garnered a significant credit by harbouring and financing the two actual assassins, Mehmet Agca and Abdullah Cath (both from Turkish Gladio). And, of course, the Mighty Wurlitzer, i.e. Operation Mockingbird, figured prominently in the aftermath grinding out endless tunes on the 'Bulgarian Thesis' - despite the fact of Agca's eventual (lone) conviction in the shooting.

The production ended all somewhat anticlimactically when the Pope (on May 13, 1981) was only seriously wounded. In a fascinating denouement, however, on Christmas Day 1983, the Pope opted to publicly forgive Agca. Italian state television was allowed to record the moment when John Paul asked his assassin from whom he had received his orders. Leaning forward to hear Agca's response the Pope appeared momentarily frozen, then clasped his hands to his face. Though the Pontiff kept it secret, there was little need to guess at the answer.

The adventures of both Agca and Cath are the stuff of legend. Indeed, Cath figures in events well beyond the time line of Gladio proper, enough to suggest that Gladio never really shut down at all. But that, as they say, is a whole other story - and one I leave to the author to take up.

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Paul Williams has made a fine contribution here. Certainly, if the day ever comes when, seated across from some smug establishment interlocutor, you are taken to task for being a 'conspiracy monger' - well, you need only lean back, smile gently, and utter but two words....'Operation Gladio'.

[Hervé]

How Rockefeller Founded Big Pharma And Waged War On Natural Cures (http://ehealthmagz.com/2018/08/17/how-rockefeller-founded-big-pharma-and-waged-war-on-natural-cures/?fbclid=IwAR06a2rwMQOHo8xq3uPgQvGqVZBHxgaKY1uET2PYhZBHsPYlewwWsWAwypA)

August 17, 2018 (http://ehealthmagz.com/2018/08/)


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Western medicine has some good points, and is great in an emergency, but it’s high time people realized that today’s mainstream medicine (western medicine or allopathy), with its focus on drugs, drugs, radiation, drugs, surgery, drugs and more drugs, is at its foundation a money spinning Rockefeller creation.

People these days look at you like a weirdo if you talk about the healing properties of plants or any other holistic practices. Much like anything else, politics and money have been used to warp people’s minds and encourage them to embrace what is bad for them.

It all began with John D. Rockefeller (http://yournewswire.com/big-pharma-was-invented-by-the-rockefellers/) (1839 – 1937) who was an oil magnate, a robber baron, America’s first billionaire, and a natural-born monopolist.

By the turn on the 20th century, he controlled 90% of all oil refineries in the U.S. through his oil company, Standard Oil, which was later on broken up to become Chevron, Exxon, Mobil etc.

World Affairs reports (https://worldaffairs.blog/2015/10/20/how-rockefeller-founded-modern-medicine-and-killed-natural-cures/): At the same time, around 1900, scientists discovered “petrochemicals” and the ability to create all kinds of chemicals from oil. For example, the first plastic — called Bakelite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite) — was made from oil in 1907. Scientists were discovering various vitamins and guessed that many pharmaceutical drugs could be made from oil.

This was a wonderful opportunity for Rockefeller who saw the ability to monopolize the oil, chemical and the medical industries at the same time!

The best thing about petrochemicals was that everything could be patented and sold for high profits.

But there was one problem with Rockefeller’s plan for the medical industry: natural/herbal medicines were very popular in America at that time. Almost half the doctors and medical colleges in the U.S. were practicing holistic medicine, using knowledge from Europe and Native Americans.

Rockefeller, the monopolist, had to figure out a way to get rid of his biggest competition. So he used the classic strategy of “problem-reaction-solution.” That is, create a problem and scare people, and then offer a (pre-planned) solution. (Similar to terrorism scare, followed by the “Patriot Act”).

He went to his buddy Andrew Carnegie – another plutocrat who made his money from monopolizing the steel industry (http://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/hammer-antitrust.asp) – who devised a scheme. From the prestigious Carnegie Foundation, they sent a man named Abraham Flexner to travel around the country and report on the status of medical colleges and hospitals around the country.

This led to the Flexner Report (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report), which gave birth to the modern medicine as we know it.

Needless to say, the report talked about the need for revamping and centralizing our medical institutions. Based on this report, more than half of all medical colleges were soon closed.

Homeopathy and natural medicines were mocked and demonized; and doctors were even jailed.

To help with the transition and change the minds of other doctors and scientists, Rockefeller gave more than $100 million to colleges, hospitals and founded a philanthropic front group called “General Education Board” (GEB). This is the classic carrot and stick approach.

In a very short time, medical colleges were all streamlined and homogenized. All the students were learning the same thing, and medicine was all about using patented drugs.

Scientists received huge grants to study how plants cured diseases, but their goal was to first identify which chemicals in the plant were effective, and then recreate a similar chemical – but not identical – in the lab that could be patented.

A pill for an ill became the mantra for modern medicine.

And you thought Koch brothers were evil?

So, now we are, 100 years later, churning out doctors who know nothing about the benefits of nutrition or herbs or any holistic practices. We have an entire society that is enslaved to corporations for its well-being.

America spends 15% of its GDP on healthcare, which should be really called “sick care.” It is focused not on cure, but only on symptoms, thus creating repeat customers. There is no cure for cancer, diabetes, autism, asthma, or even flu.

Why would there be real cures? This is a system founded by oligarchs and plutocrats, not by doctors.

As for cancer, oh yeah, the American Cancer Society (http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/medicine_and_health/1913_american_cancer_society) was founded by none other than Rockefeller in 1913.

In this month of breast cancer awareness, it is sad to see people being brainwashed about chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. That’s for another blog post …

[Hervé]

The following, also posted (here) (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?p=1293561#post1293561), demonstrates the length to which "globalists" go to manipulate emotionally driven individuals and populations:


Now , for the contorted, convoluted Machiavellian scam:


The Rockefeller Way: The Family’s Covert ‘Climate Change’ Plan (https://www.globalresearch.ca/rockefeller-familys-covert-climate-change-plan/5678775)

Executive Summary

By The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/the-energy-and-environmental-legal-institute) Global Research
May 28, 2019

The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute (https://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rockefeller-Way-Report-Final.pdf) (PDF) 1 December 2016


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“Beginning in the 1980s, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund became leading advocates of the global warming agenda. … In their Sustainable Development Program Review, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund boasts of being one of the first major global warming activists, citing its strong advocacy for both the 1988 formation of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 1992 establishment of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.” (excerpt from Report)
The following text is the Executive Summary of a full length report by The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute published in 2016.

This informative report is brought to the attention of Global Research readers. The CRG does not necessarily endorse the contents of this report. What is important to emphasize is the role of the Rockefeller family –which historically were the architects of “Big Oil”– in supporting the Climate Change debate as well as financing the NGOs involved in grassroots activism.

Read full report here (https://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rockefeller-Way-Report-Final.pdf).

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The Rockefellers are arguably the wealthiest and most powerful family in the history of the United States. For more than 100 years, they have shaped and directed America’s economic, financial, political, and public policy while simultaneously amassing one of the largest family empires in the modern era.

Most Americans hold the billionaire philanthropists in high esteem, associating the Rockefeller name with “oil” and “capitalism.” In reality, the Rockefellers are intent on controlling nearly every major institution in America, using philanthropy as a means of increasing their influence on the world stage under the guise of advancing various social causes. Their avid opposition to the very fossil fuel industry that made John D. Rockefeller America’s first billionaire shows that the Rockefellers are not political ideologues. Instead, they are mere opportunists who support political agendas convenient to enhancing their leverage in the global arena.

Through the Rockefellers’ web of family foundations, universities, and institutions, as well as huge grants to other charities, they have gained unprecedented influence in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, energy, and the environment. Their highly complex integration of hedge funds, interlocking boards positions, and non-profit organizations has steered public policy on these issues and provided them with foreknowledge of emerging markets and access to the developing worlds’ natural resources.

Since the beginning of their philanthropic endeavors, the Rockefellers have used social causes to amass influence in policy areas of their choosing. Since the 1980s, their cause of choice has been the climate change agenda (originally called global warming). Their crusade to collapse the fossil fuel industry in favor of renewable energy is well-documented, from their involvement in major global climate treaties and organizations – the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1992 to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol – to spending hundreds of millions to advance the renewable energy industry. Through their Sustainable Development Program, the Rockefellers continue to promote their self-serving “clean energy” policies throughout both the federal government and general public.

As the most prolific benefactors of the climate activist movement, the Rockefellers’ impact on the energy industry sees no bounds, as the family’s objectives permeate throughout federal and state energy policy, as well as international social engineering globalist compacts such as Agenda 21. With the immeasurable influence that accompanies mass wealth and power, the Rockefeller empire has proven an effective puppeteer of advancing its main objective: the destruction of the fossil fuel industry to increase its clout over the energy sector.


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On November 5, 2015, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (above) launched an unprecedented investigation into ExxonMobil to determine if the company had defrauded investors by not disclosing the risks that climate change could have on its business.1 This occurred only weeks after the Columbia Journalism School’s (CJS) Energy and Environment Reporting Fellowship accused Exxon of misleading the public through its Los Angeles Times article, “How Exxon went from leader to skeptic on climate change.”2

Despite the raging debate over the impact of man-made climate change, left-leaning politicians, lobbyists, and most significantly, billionaires, have declared it settled science, using the issue as a means of gaining control over the energy arena. Research shows that Eric Schneiderman’s legal investigation, as well as Columbia Journalism’s negative portrayal of ExxonMobil were neither objective nor independent. In fact, substantial evidence leads to the premise that both Columbia Journalism School’s accusations against ExxonMobil and Eric Schneiderman’s legal investigation into the oil giant were not only financed, but orchestrated by the Rockefeller family.

Notably, the Rockefellers bankrolled the Columbia Journalism School’s Energy and Environmental Reporting Fellowship Project’s demonization of the oil company.3 However, both Schneiderman’s investigation and Columbia Journalism School’s publications were years in the making.

The Rockefeller Family Fund hosted and led two closed door meetings with prominent climate activists – one in 2012 and one in January 2016. Uncovered emails show that the main issue at both gatherings was how to best take down the fossil fuel industry.4 Aside from key leaders of the Rockefellers’ many foundations, both summits included the major players in the climate movement such as: Matt Pawa (attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law), Sharon Eubanks (director of the Department of Justice’s tobacco litigation effort in the 1990’s and known anti Exxon activist), representatives of Greenpeace, and Carroll Moffit of the Climate Accountability Institute.5 During both summits, Eric Schneiderman was considered the possible catalyst to spearhead the legal investigation, while ExxonMobil was repeatedly mentioned as the possible target.

Schneiderman’s fervent outspokenness against “climate deniers,” and public call to enact policies conducive to increasing renewable energy use made him a perfect and willing candidate.6 When announcing his crusade against Exxon, Schneiderman cited studies from the Rockefeller funded outlets Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism School’s Exxon reports.7 Revealingly, numerous members of the Rockefeller family had long urged Schneiderman to investigate the oil company.

However, as evidenced in the Rockefeller-hosted La Jolla 2012 meeting report, the family and climate activists needed a well-known, respected, and objectively perceived media outlet to push the public narrative. Although not disclosed in the summit’s documentation, it appears they found one in the Columbia Journalism School. While arguably the most prestigious journalism school in the country, the Columbia Journalism School is not only a beneficiary of millions in Rockefeller donations, it is composed, almost entirely, of professors closely affiliated with the green movement.


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In 2013, a year after the plan was crafted, climate alarmist and author of a well-known book condemning ExxonMobil, Steve Coll, was appointed Dean of the Columbia Journalism School.

Not surprisingly, Coll spearheaded the school’s Energy and Environmental Reporting Fellowship’s project that smeared Exxon. Coll is closely tied to the Rockefellers, as he previously chaired the climate change proponent New America Foundation, which received significant funding from the family. These revelations suggest that the Rockefellers used their influence over both the Columbia Journalism School and Steve Coll to put Coll in place as Dean, providing him the platform to do what he had done voluntarily and enthusiastically once before: publically and thoroughly castigate ExxonMobil.

Along with Coll, as a bastion of climate activists, the Columbia Journalism School was likely an eager participant in the plot to smear Exxon. At least seven CJS professors are directly connected to green activist billionaire George Soros, receiving either awards or significant amounts of money from the socialist philanthropist. Moreover, several CJS alumni board members are prominent climate change advocates, including Scott Dodd, and Thomas Watkins.

This report proposes that the assault on ExxonMobil was neither the idea of Eric Schneiderman, nor the Columbia Journalism School. Instead, the Rockefellers, with the help of other billionaires and prominent climate activists, carefully orchestrated both the legal and media investigations into ExxonMobil in an effort to achieve their goal of collapsing the fossil fuel industry to gain control over the energy sector.

Read full report here (https://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rockefeller-Way-Report-Final.pdf).

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Notes:


1 Chris Mooney, “New York is investigating Exxon Mobil for allegedly misleading the public about climate change,” The Washington Post, Nov. 5, 2015, Accessed April 16, 2016.



2 Katie Jennings, Dino Grandoni and Susanne Rust, “How Exxon Went from leader to skeptic on climate change,”Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 2015, Accessed April 16, 2016.



3 Susanne Rust, “The Energy and Environment Reporting Fellowship,” Columbia Journalism School website,Columbia Journalism School, Accessed April 16, 2016.



4 Alana Goodman, “Memo Shows Secret Coordination Effort Against ExxonMobil by Climate Activists, Rockefeller Fund,” The Washington Free Beacon, April 14, 2016, Accessed April 28, 2016.



5 Katie Brown, “Wait Till You See These Secret Memos Laying Out Activists’ Plans to Target Exxon,” Energy InDepth, April 15, 2016, Accessed April 29, 2016.



6 “Schneiderman Delivers Speech on #Climate2014: “It’s Time for Action on Climate Change,” YouTube, Sep. 22,2014, Accessed April 20 2016.



7 Jon Entine, “How the Columbia Journalism School Smeared Exxon,” New York Post, March 1, 2016, Accessed April 21, 2016.



Related:



In Midst of ExxonMobil Climate Denial Scandal, Company Hiring Climate Change Researcher (https://www.globalresearch.ca/in-midst-of-exxonmobil-climate-denial-scandal-company-hiring-climate-change-researcher/5495843)

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Then it always boils down to the same: eliminate the competition via false flags (ExxonMobil)...

My guess, is that they found a way to stick a meter onto free energy devices... beside squeezing everyone dry with green taxes... sick!

The chain reaction goes:


Trigger a vast, large wave of fear
emotional energy mobilized
ball of emotional energy seeded with an "idea" (e.g. Anthropogenic Global Warming)
shame the emotionally driven individuals/populations into coughing up rights, freedoms, $$, legislations, whatever benefits the globalists...

That's the mechanics of how the "Problem -> Reaction -> Solution" can't help but work.

Ultimately, that's the crux of the battle between "Good & Evil"... the battle for the manipulation and conquest of the human mind, between empaths and psychopaths.

[Hervé]

Warrant reveals FBI agent's 8chan posts attempting to redirect white supremacist rage against Russia (https://ceinquiry.wordpress.com/2019/06/17/fbi-8chan/)

Henry Krinkie Current Events Enquiry (https://ceinquiry.wordpress.com/2019/06/17/fbi-8chan/)
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:00 UTC


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The unsealing of an application for a search warrant (https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.626722/gov.uscourts.casd.626722.1.0.pdf) by the federal government on 8chan's servers has unintentionally revealed that a federal agent has been trolling the site and attempting to redirect the users' conspiracy theories against the Russian government instead of the CIA or Mossad.

The legal case stems from the April 27th shooting at a California synagogue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poway_synagogue_shooting) by white supremacist and 8chan user John Earnest. The day of the shooting, Earnest is believed to have posted to 8chan a link to an anti-Semitic Pastebin manifesto and a not-so-cryptic suggestion that he was about to commit a murderous act of violence to back up his beliefs. In the accompanying affidavit to the search warrant application, FBI Special Agent Michael J. Rod requests the "IP address and metadata information about Earnest's original posting and the postings of all of the individuals who responded to the subject posting and/or commented about it. Additionally, agents seek information about any other posting coming from the IP address used by Earnest to post the subject posting."

In Appendix 1, Rod attaches a series of screen caps from an 8chan thread that took place the day of the synagogue attack (it is not ultimately clear that Earnest took part in this thread). What is notable is that next to the "Anonymous" user label on some of the posts is a "(You)" marking:


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As it turns out, this text is to let the user know that they are looking at their own posts! This means that Special Agent Rod inadvertently exposed himself as 8chan user ID "8f4812" by including these screenshots as his supporting exhibit. As it turns out, a more complete version of this thread was saved on archive.is (http://archive.is/YJzmC) before it was deleted. By using Ctrl+F on the page and inputting "8f4812", you can look at all the posts made by the FBI in this thread.

The longest reply can be found here (http://archive.is/YJzmC#selection-54329.2-54357.10):
Guys. Read my posts. I believe that thw ahooter did post on here but there is also more. Ive been here all day. There are at least two others that are posting in a bot, shilllike fashion to promote this. This theead never would have made the first page, where I found it this morning.
think there is outside involvement. Likely Russian.

In the posts not attributed the man himself, these two not only hyped this thread in an awkward way, they continued an odd pattern of posts to keep this thread alive. Look at the parallel language and style. pol does not talk like that.

Look at the memes chosen in these posts. Not even a ****ing clown.
While I believe John may have been motivated by hia own beliefs and reasons, I believe that there are other forces at work here that may have provoked him.

The original link leads to a Tarrants Lads group In russian.

He may have been rightfully upset with the way the world is, but he may have been manipulated into this by something that is not.

I'd blame Mossad, the CIA and FBI too, but this time I am not so sure. We know all three of them can meme because we are shilled all day long by them.

He chose a crappy pistol. Anyone would have planned a litte more thoroughly. If BT is a hero to him as he describes, he would have learned from this mistakes, or at a minimun made an effort to emulate him and do the same. To walk in there completey unprepared with a single pistol sends off even more red flags,

This is very unusual. This is not the typical (((conspiracy))) and I am worried. I dont believe this is the end of this.

I hope some one else takes it upon themselves to investigate what I posted above as well. In another series of replies the fed poster follows up on the Blame Russia theme:
This was posted by one of the shills that
knew of the shooting prior. Notice screen shot is at 20:00. That correlates with ukraine and western russia if you do the math
Seriosuly, one of you has to dig on this. Please review this thread. There is some russian/ukranian involvement. At one point, another user accuses the fed of being Mossad:
extremely fake. who believes this ****? sloppy job mossad The fed replies:
No. Not mossad. Stop attacking the board and sliding this thread. Sloppy job putin. Dick The other user:
suck my ball Fed:
Its balls. Let putin know your psyop worked, but you ****ed it up with your **** english.

I presume you were chosen because you said you could talk, speak, and type "like american?" Now, I don't think for one second that any 8chan posters were convinced by this FBI agent to be more suspicious of potential Russian black ops. At the same time, what the hell was this fed thinking? It certainly looks like he is attempting, however half-assedly, to get the white supremacists that inhabit 8chan's /pol/ forum to start directing their rage and conspiracism at Russia for a change.

This, of course, isn't the first time informants have been caught or revealed to be inflaming or attempting to inflame extremists. In 2015, an FBI agent texted ISIS sympathizer Elton Simpson advising him to "tear up Texas (https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-agent-apparently-egged-on-draw-muhammad-shooter?ref=scroll)." A couple of days later Simpson attempted to shoot up a Draw Muhammed event in Garland.

But more importantly, there is a long history of collaboration between various US security apparatuses and private right-wing groups (https://lorenzoae.wordpress.com/2018/09/08/a-brief-history-of-american-vigilantism/). The case of Howard Berry Godfrey and the Secret Army Organization (SAO) (https://sites.google.com/site/cointelprodocs/the-use-of-informants-in-fbi-intelligence-investigations#b221) is instructive. According to the Church Committee, Godfrey was a member of the "right-wing paramilitary" SAO and engaged in numerous acts of violence and sabotage against left-wing targets at the same time he was a paid FBI informant (bolding mine):
Godfrey and the FBI entered into a relationship in 1967 by which Godfrey would provide the Bureau information. This relationship was formalized in August of 1967 when Godfrey was officially "approved" by the FBI's Washington Headquarters as an informant. [...] Godfrey's relationship with the FBI lasted over five years, terminating in November of 1972. Godfrey was paid varying amounts from 1967 through 1970 when he began to receive $250 per month plus up to $100 per month in expenses. He continued at that level until his termination. [...] Examples of the types of actions Godfrey and/or the Secret Army were involved in include firebombing, smashing windows, placing stickers bearing SAO or Minutemen symbols on cars and buildings, propelling lug nuts through windows with sling shots, and breaking and entering. [...] The SAO's actions escalated to a level of violence and destruction where Godfrey's name had to be revealed as an FBI informant. Two events precipitated this. The first was the shooting of Paula Tharp, who was in the residence of the San Diego State University professor Peter Bohmer. Briefly, while Godfrey and an SAO associate were "on a surveillance" of Bohmer's residence (instituted by Godfrey), the associate, according to Godfrey, picked up a gun Godfrey had under the seat of his car and fired shots into the Bohmer house, one of which struck Ms. Tharp. [231] Previously the SAO and Godfrey had singled out Professor Bohmer in their literature for special attention:

For any of our readers who may care to look up Red Scum, and say hello, here is some information that may help. His address is 5155 Muir, Ocean Beach, telephone number is 222-7243, he drives a dark blue 1968 VW Sedam, California licence DKY 147. Just to make sure you talk to the right guy here is his description: he has dark brown shoulder length hair, green eyes, weight is about 160 lbs. and he is 5'10" tall. Now in case any of you don't believe in hitting people who wear glasses, to be fair I guess we will have to tell you he wears contact lences. [sic]

The significant factor for the Committee's analysis of FBI informants is that even this shooting incident did not immediately terminate Godfrey as an informant. Rather the FBI records show that Godfrey remained on the Bureau payroll until November, 1972. And, it was not until the second major act of destruction that Godfrey was "surfaced" as an informant.

The second major act of destruction which occurred was the bombing of the Guild theatre in San Diego. According to Godfrey, the bombing was perpetrated by his subordinate in the SAO, one William Yakopec. Godfrey participated in the SAO sale of some explosives to Yakopec. Yet, he promptly notified the FBI of Yakopec's alleged involvement in the Guild Theatre bombing. Yakopec, who maintains his innocence, was subsequently indicted and convicted of the bombing offenses in the local courts of San Diego. For more information on this affair, see: "The Strange Tale of The Secret Army Organization (USA): An investigation (http://www.unz.com/print/Ramparts-1973oct-00036)" by Richard Popkin, Ramparts Magazine, October 1973, pp. 36-37.

Also relevant are the Nazi sympathies of J. Edgar Hoover.

Frank Donner, The age of surveillance: The aims and methods of America's political intelligence system (https://books.google.com/books?id=bY4oAQAAMAAJ), 1980, p. 86:


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Eric Lichtblau, "In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazi (http://archive.is/f1zXy#selection-467.81-467.91)s," NYT, 26 Oct 2014:
Mr. Hoover, for his part, personally approved some ex-Nazis as informants and dismissed accusations of their wartime atrocities as Soviet propaganda. In 1968, Mr. Hoover authorized the F.B.I. to wiretap a left-wing journalist who wrote critical stories about Nazis in America, internal records show. Mr. Hoover declared the journalist, Charles Allen, a potential threat to national security. SOTT Comment (https://www.sott.net/article/415322-Warrant-reveals-FBI-agents-8chan-posts-attempting-to-redirect-white-supremacist-rage-against-Russia): It's notable that 8chan users immediately suspected US and Israeli involvement in attacks on US national security.


Related:


How You Can be 100% Certain That QAnon is Bull**** (https://www.sott.net/article/413804-How-You-Can-be-100-Certain-That-QAnon-is-Bull****)



How did Russiagate begin? (https://www.sott.net/article/414324-How-did-Russiagate-begin)



FBI's manufactured terror plots often directed against Jewish community, driving more division between Jews and Muslims (https://www.sott.net/article/318127-FBIs-manufactured-terror-plots-often-directed-against-Jewish-community-driving-more-division-between-Jews-and-Muslims?utm_content=buffer64462&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer)

[Bill Ryan]

https://henrymakow.com/upload_images/HWABA.jpg


Greg Hallett's book "Hitler Was A British Agent" (http://greghallett.com/pages/Hitler-was-a-British-Agent.html) (2005)

I tried to find this, but failed. However, I did find


Greg Hallett (and The Spymaster) - Gifting the United Nations to Stalin
(http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Greg%20Hallett%20-%20Gifting%20the%20United%20Nations%20to%20Stalin.pdf)http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Greg%20Hallett%20(and%20The%20Spymaster)%20-%20Gifting%20the%20United%20Nations%20to%20Stalin.pdf
Greg Hallett (and The Spymaster) - Stalin's British training - Breeding concubines, paedophiles at war
(http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Greg%20Hallett%20-%20Spymaster%20-%20Stalin's%20British%20training%20%20-%20Breeding%20concubines%2C%20paedophiles%20at%20war.pdf)http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Greg%20Hallett%20(and%20The%20Spymaster)%20-%20Stalin's%20British%20training%20%20-%20Breeding%20concubines%2C%20paedophiles%20at%20war.pdf
(http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Greg%20Hallett%20-%20Spymaster%20-%20Stalin's%20British%20training%20%20-%20Breeding%20concubines%2C%20paedophiles%20at%20war.pdf)

and
Operation Gladio: The unholy alliance between the Vatican, the CIA and the Mafia (https://off-guardian.org/2019/04/06/operation-gladio-the-unholy-alliance/)


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Paul L. Williams - Operation Gladio - The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Paul%20L.%20Williams%20-%20Operation%20Gladio%20-%20The%20Unholy%20Alliance%20between%20the%20Vatican%2C%20the%20CIA%2C%20and%20the%20Mafia.pdf (http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Paul%20L.%20Williams%20-%20Operation%20Gladio%20-%20The%20Unholy%20Alliance%20between%20the%20Vatican%2C%20the%20CIA%2C%20and%20the%20Mafia.pdf)

[Tintin]

https://henrymakow.com/upload_images/HWABA.jpg


Greg Hallett's book "Hitler Was A British Agent" (http://greghallett.com/pages/Hitler-was-a-British-Agent.html) (2005)

I tried to find this, but failed.


Here it is Bill, with a slightly clumsy title, and, I'm about to email the pdf over to you via email :sun:

https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/history/nazi/Hitler-was-a-British-Agent-So-7Mar2013_NoRestriction.pdf




From Bill: Excellent. :thumbsup:


Greg Hallett (and The Spymaster) - Hitler Was A British Agent
(http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Greg%20Hallett%20%28and%20The%20Spymaster%29%20-%20Hitler%20Was%20A%20British%20Agent.pdf)http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Greg%20Hallett%20(and%20The%20Spymaster)%20-%20Hitler%20Was%20A%20British%20Agent.pdf

[Hervé]

Canadian Premier Was Probably Murdered in 1943 for Opposing NWO (https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/07/william-aberhart-probably-murdered.html)

henrymakow.com
July 7, 2019


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(William Aberhart, December 30, 1878 - May 23, 1943)


"Bible Bill" William Aberhart, the Social Credit Party Premier of Alberta from 1935-1943, died just two weeks after he urged his listeners to "oppose, expose and resist by every means in your power this audacious and evil conspiracy by the Money Powers to set up a World Slave State."
He noticed that since 1939,

"there has been a steady stream of propaganda, carefully organized and well-financed, to win support for setting up a World Federation of Nations under an International authority."
Aberhart:
"There is absolutely no question about it that this plot, this evil conspiracy - to set up an international totalitarian dictatorship with control over every aspect of our lives and armed with overwhelming forces to impose their will upon us, can be traced to that small group of men which comprise International Finance...."
The Plan for World Control (https://blog.alor.org/index.php/an-aberhart-broadcast-to-canada-1943?tmpl=component&print=1&format=print)
(Broadcast May 6, 1943)

by William Aberhart
(Excerpt by henrymakow.com)

Suppose that you pick up your newspaper some evening and read bold headlines such as these: "World Totalitarian Dictatorship by Finance Proposed as New Post-War Order - Confidence Expressed British Empire and American Governments Will Be Hoaxed Into Acceptance of Plan."

What would be your reaction to that news? Would it make your blood boil? Would you feel indignant that anybody should dare to put forward treason like that while your son or your brother or your husband is over there risking his life for the ideals of democracy and our traditional British freedoms?

Well, my friends, let me tell you frankly, you have read that news in your papers, but it was not stated nearly so boldly. Possibly because what you read was complicated or was couched in altruistic language, and since you had no definite information on which to form an opinion, you just had to guess what it meant. And you probably guessed that there was nothing very sinister about it. That is what you were intended to do.

A short time ago you may remember reading in your newspaper that plans for an International Monetary Reform were published on the same day in both London, England, and in Washington, by the British and the United States Governments. These two plans were presented in the newspaper reports as simple and innocent expedients for making it easier to re-establish international trade after the war - a most desirable and worthy objective...

Let me draw to your attention some of the main features common to both the British and the American plans for an international money system. Both advocate setting up an international unit of money, based on gold. In one case the name "Bankor" is suggested; in the other the term "Unitas" is put forward. But what does the name matter anyway, since both plans involve control of the international money system by an international authority, which will likewise control international trade? You see it is all international - centralization of power, etc. Both plans suggest that some such system should be set up in a hurry. Both plead its necessity on the grounds that it is essential for the purpose of averting confusion in world trade after the war.

How plausible! How persuasive! "Will you come into my parlour said the spider to the fly," sort of manner.


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/John_Maynard_Keynes.jpg



Lord Keynes, a director of the Bank of England, is reputed to be the author of the British scheme. He is reported as having stated that such an international monetary system might be used to finance a World Police Force. All Totalitarian Powers evidently need a Gestapo. We are not told who was the author of the American plan.


On the face of it there seems to be nothing in those schemes to unduly alarm people, does there? But that is only because the people haven't the information which would enable them to understand what an international money system controlled by an international authority, backed up by an international Police Force, would mean to them.

GLOBALIST PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN DURING WWII
Listen carefully, Ladies and Gentlemen! For the past three years - in fact ever since the outbreak of war - there has been a steady stream of propaganda, carefully organized and well financed, to win support for setting up a World Federation of Nations under an International authority, to which all Nations would surrender control of finance, international trade, their armed forces and their citizenship rights. How long is it going to take for the people to realize what is going on and what it will mean to them?



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In the first place it would mean that the people of Canada would no longer be sovereign. They would no longer be the constitutionally supreme authority in their own country. By giving over control of finance to some alien dominated international dictatorship, they would be giving that authority complete control over every aspect of their national life. You see, control of finance would mean control of the money system - and that in turn controls every phase of production and distribution.


Stripped of all its camouflage, the final result will be a slave state, worse than anything as yet proposed by our bombastic dictators. Is that what our brave soldiers are fighting and dying for? Do you, as a true Canadian, desire such conditions? Then I ask, what are you doing about it?

Now is the time to act. If we wait until the bonds are welded and this dreadful totalitarian order set up, the people of Canada will then be helpless to do anything about it if they do not like the harsh conditions that are imposed upon them. Remember that in addition to control over finance, the international authority would also have control over the Armed Forces and the citizenship rights.

If any individual dared to challenge the authority of the international dictatorship he might find that they had deprived him of his citizenship rights. And if the people as a whole started to kick over the traces - well, they would be unarmed and helpless while the international over-lords would have control of all the Armed Forces and the World Police Force. So it would be just too bad for the people.

Do you consider it fantastic to imagine that anything like that could happen? How can you when the very idea I have outlined has been put forward seriously as the basis of our Post-War Order?

NWO PLANS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED
In the first instance, two books on the subject were published. One of these was written by a man connected with a newspaper which, on the evidence of a British Ambassador to the United States, was controlled by the banking institution that is the Headquarters of International Finance. The other book was by the son of one of the founders of the Money Power on this continent.

There is absolutely no question about it that this plot, this evil conspiracy - to set up an international totalitarian dictatorship with control over every aspect of our lives and armed with overwhelming forces to impose their will upon us, can be traced to that small group of men which comprise International Finance.

If ever that scheme should be put over, it would mean the end of democracy, the end of the British Empire, the end of freedom. On the other hand, it would be the establishment of a World Slave State more ruthless and vile than anything which the evil genius of the Nazis have (sic) as yet conceived. Yet poisonous propaganda in favour of this diabolical idea is being openly scattered far and wide in Canada - and that in wartime also. I assert that it is treachery of the worst kind that, even while all the suffering and sacrifices of this present war are going on to overthrow totalitarianism, anyone should even suggest that we do away with all that our brave lads are fighting to defend.

It is most important that we realise that the proposals for inveigling us into an international dictatorship are not put forward in an obvious, above-board manner. No, indeed! They are carefully wrapped up in an attractive, and subtle propaganda form. You are told that international control of money is a means for ensuring orderly world trade. You are not told that immediately you hand over constitutional control of finance to an international authority, it will be impossible for the people of Canada ever to change their unsatisfactory monetary system. That fact is kept hidden.


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/all-wars-are-bankers-wars.jpg



Again, you are told that international control of the Armed Forces is necessary to maintain world peace. The plausible term used to describe it is "an international police force." It sounds more innocent. You are not told that such a force would place the people of all nations completely at the mercy of the international authority which controlled that force.


And remember where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. As the British peer, Lord Acton, put it so aptly: "All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

I warn you, Ladies and Gentlemen, with every ounce of sincerity and vehemence I possess; for your own sake, for the sake of the brave lads who are fighting so heroically to overthrow tyranny, for the sake of your children, for the sake of the future of our country - yes - for the sake of everything you hold dear, oppose, expose and resist by every means in your power this audacious and evil conspiracy by the Money Powers to set up a World Slave State.

---

Thanks to Robert K for the tip!


Related:


Documentary about William Aberhart (https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/william-bible-bill-aberhart-social-credit-pioneer)

[Hervé]

I moved three posts out of "The Big Picture" thread onto the "Qanon bad day" thread where they more properly belong.


:focus:

[edina]

I moved three posts out of "The Big Picture" thread onto the "Qanon bad day" thread where they more properly belong.


:focus:

hmmm....
I thought those posts were on topic. ?!?

Thanks for letting us know that you moved them.

I'll continue some of the Greg Hallett book related conversation over there.

[Hervé]

How 1920s prohibition gave rise to the likes of Jeffrey Epstein (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/)

Whitney Webb MintPress News (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/)
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:10 UTC


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A composite image shows from left to right, Lewis Rosenstiel, Jeffrey Epstein, and Roy Cohn. ©Emma Fiala


Despite his "sweetheart" deal and having seemingly evaded justice, billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-of-minors-source) earlier this month on federal charges for sex trafficking minors. Epstein's arrest has again brought increased media attention to many of his famous friends, the current president among them.

Many questions have since been asked about how much Epstein's famous friends knew of his activities and exactly what Epstein was up to. The latter arguably received the most attention after it was reported that Alex Acosta — who arranged Epstein's "sweetheart" deal in 2008 and who recently resigned (https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/12/politics/alex-acosta-donald-trump-labor-secretary/index.html) as Donald Trump's Labor Secretary following Epstein's arrest — claimed that the mysterious billionaire had worked for "intelligence." (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight?ref=scroll)

Other investigations have made it increasingly clear that Epstein was running a blackmail operation (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/fraud-and-blackmail-jeffrey-epsteins-finances.html), as he had bugged the venues — whether at his New York mansion or Caribbean island getaway — with microphones and cameras to record the salacious interactions that transpired between his guests and the underage girls that Epstein exploited. Epstein appeared to have stored (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-12/jeffrey-epstein-s-private-island-in-the-caribbean-has-gone-quiet) much of that blackmail in a safe on his private island.

Claims of Epstein's links and his involvement in a sophisticated, well-funded sexual blackmail operation have, surprisingly, spurred few media outlets to examine the history of intelligence agencies both in the U.S. and abroad conducting similar sexual blackmail operations, many of which also involved underage prostitutes.

In the U.S. alone, the CIA operated numerous sexual blackmail operations throughout the country, employing prostitutes (http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Security-CIA/CIA%201025.pdf) to target foreign diplomats in what the Washington Post once nicknamed the CIA's "love traps." If one goes even farther back into the U.S. historical record it becomes apparent that these tactics and their use against powerful political and influential figures significantly predate the CIA and even its precursor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). In fact, they were pioneered years earlier by none other than the American Mafia.

In the course of this investigation, MintPress discovered that a handful of figures who were influential in American organized crime during and after Prohibition were directly engaged in sexual blackmail operations that they used for their own, often dark, purposes.

In Part I of this exclusive investigation, MintPress will examine how a mob-linked businessman with deep ties to notorious gangster Meyer Lansky developed close ties with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) while also running a sexual blackmail operation for decades, which later became a covert part of the anti-communist crusade of the 1950s led by Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), himself known throughout Washington for having a habit of drunkenly groping underage teenaged girls.

Yet, it would be one of McCarthy's closest aides who would take over the ring in later years, trafficking minors and expanding this sexual blackmail operation at the same time he expanded his own political influence, putting him in close contact with prominent figures including former President Ronald Reagan and a man who would later become president, Donald Trump.

As will be revealed in Part II, after this figure's death, the blackmail operation continued under various successors in different cities and there is strong evidence that Jeffrey Epstein became one of them.

Samuel Bronfman and the Mob
The Prohibition Era in the United States is often used as an example of how banning recreational substances not only increases their popularity but also causes a boom in criminal activity. Indeed, it was Prohibition that greatly increased the strength of the American Mafia, as the top crime lords of the day grew rich through the clandestine trade and sale of alcohol in addition to gambling and other activities.

It is through the bootlegging trade of the 1920s and the early 1930s that this story begins, as it brought together key figures whose successors and affiliates would eventually create a series of blackmail and sex trafficking rings that would give rise to the likes of Jeffrey Epstein, the "Lolita Express" and "Orgy Island."

Samuel Bronfman never planned to become a major producer of liquor but true to his family's last name, which means "brandy man" in Yiddish, he eventually began distributing alcohol as an extension of his family's hotel business. During Canada's Prohibition period, which was briefer than and preceded that of its southern neighbor, the Bronfman family business used loopholes to skirt the law (https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/seagram-company-limited) and find technically legal ways to sell alcohol in the hotels and stores the family owned. The family relied on its connections with members of the American Mafia to illegally smuggle alcohol from the United States.

Soon after Prohibition ended in Canada, it began in the United States and, by the time the flow of illegal alcohol had turned the other way, the Bronfmans - whose business ventures were then being led by Sam Bronfman and his brothers — were relatively late to an already flourishing bootlegging trade.

"We were late starters in the two most lucrative markets - on the high seas and across the Detroit River. What came out of the border trade in Saskatchewan was insignificant by comparison," Bronfman once told (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=snippet&q=%22make%20our%20real%20money%22&f=false) Canadian journalist Terence Robertson, who was then writing a biography of Bronfman. Nonetheless, "this was when we started to make our real money," Bronfman recounted. Robertson's biography on Bronfman was never published, as he died under mysterious circumstances soon after (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=snippet&q=terence%20robertson&f=false) warning his colleagues that he had uncovered unsavory information about the Bronfman family.


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Samuel Bronfman pictured in 1937 with his sons Edgar and Charles


Key to Bronfman's success during American Prohibition were the ties his family had cultivated with organized crime during Canada's Prohibition, ties that led many prominent members of the mob in the United States to favor Bronfman as a business partner. Bronfman liquor was purchased in massive quantities by many crime lords who still live on in American legend, including (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=onepage&q=moe%20dalitz%20lansky&f=false) Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Moe Dalitz, Abner "Longy" Zwillman and Meyer Lansky.

Most of Bronfman's mob associates during Prohibition were members of what became known as the National Crime Syndicate, which a 1950s Senate investigative body known as the Kefauver Committee described as a confederation dominated by Italian-American and Jewish-American mobs. During that investigation, some of the biggest names in the American Mafia named Bronfman (https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197618) as a central figure in their bootlegging operations. The widow of notorious American mob boss Meyer Lansky even recounted how Bronfman had thrown lavish dinner parties for her husband.

Years later, Samuel Bronfman's children and grandchildren, their family's ties to the criminal underworld intact, would go on to associate closely with Leslie Wexner, allegedly the source of much of Epstein's mysterious wealth, and other mob-linked "philanthropists," and some would even manage their own sexual blackmail operations, including the recently busted blackmail-based "sex cult" NXIVM (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/seagram-heiress-clare-bronfman-pleads-guilty-in-nxivm-sex-slave-case-825103/). The later generations of the Bronfman family, particularly Samuel Bronfman's sons Edgar and Charles, will be discussed in greater detail in Part II of this report.

Lewis Rosenstiel's dark secret
Crucial to Bronfman's Prohibition-era bootlegging operations were two middlemen, one of whom (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=onepage&q=rosenstiel%20reinfield&f=false) was Lewis "Lew" Rosenstiel. Rosenstiel got his start working at his uncle's distillery in Kentucky before Prohibition. Once the law banning alcohol was in force, Rosenstiel created the Schenley Products Company, which would later become one of the largest liquor companies in North America.

Though he was a high school drop-out and not particularly well-connected socially at the time, Rosenstiel happened to have a "chance" meeting with Winston Churchill in 1922 while on vacation in the French Riviera. According to the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/22/archives/lewis-rosenstiel-founder-of-schenley-empire-dies.html), Churchill "advised him [Rosenstiel] to prepare for the return of liquor sales in the United States." Rosenstiel somehow managed to secure the funding (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=onepage&q=rosenstiel&f=false) of the elite and respected Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers to finance his purchase of shuttered distilleries.

Officially, Rosenstiel is said to have built his company and wealth after Prohibition, by following Churchill's advice to prepare for Repeal. However, he was clearly involved in bootlegging operations and was even indicted for bootlegging in 1929, though he evaded conviction. Like Bronfman, Rosenstiel was close to organized crime, particularly members of the mostly Jewish-American and Italian-American mob alliance known as the National Crime Syndicate.

Subsequent New York state legislative investigations would allege that (https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/19/archives/exhead-of-schenley-industries-is-linked-to-crime-consortium.html)Rosenstiel "was part of a 'consortium' with underworld figures that bought liquor in Canada [from Samuel Bronfman]", whose other members (https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/19/archives/exhead-of-schenley-industries-is-linked-to-crime-consortium.html) were "Meyer Lansky, the reputed organized crime leader; Joseph Fusco, an associate of late Chicago gangster Al Capone and Joseph Linsey, a Boston man Mr. Kelly [the congressional investigator testifying] identified as a convicted bootlegger." Rosenstiel's relationship with these men, particularly Lansky (https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/19/archives/exhead-of-schenley-industries-is-linked-to-crime-consortium.html), would continue long after Prohibition and Samuel Bronfman, for his part, would also maintain his mob ties.

In addition to his friends in the mob, Rosenstiel also cultivated close ties with the FBI, developing a close relationship (https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/05/bourbon-empire-lewis-rosenstiel-and-how-bourbon-became-americas-native-spirit.html) with longtime FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and making Hoover's right-hand man and longtime assistant at the FBI, Louis Nichols, the Vice President (https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/12/archives/rosenstiel-link-to-crime-denied-but-schenley-aide-concedes.html) of his Schenley empire in 1957.

Despite their similar backgrounds as bootlegger barons turned "respectable" businessmen, Bronfman's and Rosenstiel's personalities were drastically different and their relationship was complicated, at best. One example of the dissimilarities between North America's top liquor barons was how they treated their staff. Bronfman was not necessarily known for being a cruel boss, whereas Rosenstiel was known for (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=onepage&q=rosenstiel&f=false) his erratic and "monstrous" behavior towards employees as well as his unusual practice of bugging his offices in order to hear what employees said about him when he wasn't present.


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Rosenstiel was connected to both the FBI and to organized crime


Such differences between Bronfman and Rosenstiel were also reflected in their personal lives. While Bronfman married only once and was loyal to his wife, Rosenstiel was married five times and was known for his relatively closeted bisexual antics, a part of his life that was well-known (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=snippet&q=rosenstiel%20rosie&f=false) to many of his close associates and employees.

Though for years there were only hints to this other side of the controversial businessman, details emerged years later during a divorce proceeding brought by Rosenstiel's fourth wife, Susan Kaufman, that would back the claims. Kaufman alleged (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=snippet&q=rosenstiel%20cohn&f=false) that Rosenstiel hosted extravagant parties that included "boy prostitutes" that her husband had hired "for the enjoyment" of certain guests, which included (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=snippet&q=rosenstiel%20cohn&f=false) important government officials and prominent figures in America's criminal underworld. Kaufman would later make the same claims under oath during the hearing of the New York's State Joint Legislative Committee on Crime in the early 1970s.

Not only did Rosenstiel organize these parties, but he also made sure that their venues were bugged with microphones that recorded the antics of his high-profile guests. Those audio recordings, Kaufman alleged, were then kept for the purpose of blackmail. Though Kaufman's claims are shocking, her testimony was deemed credible (https://books.google.cl/books?id=HpUaYvBsW-MC&pg=PT11&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=lewis%20rosenstiel&f=false) and held in high regard by the former chief counsel of the Crime Committee, New York Judge Edward McLaughlin, and committee investigator William Gallinaro and aspects of her testimony were later corroborated by two separate witnesses who were unknown to Kaufman.

These "blackmail parties" offer a window into an operation that would later become more sophisticated and grow dramatically in the 1950s under Rosenstiel's "field commander" (a nickname given by Rosenstiel to an individual to be named shortly in this report). Many of the people connected to Rosenstiel's "field commander" during the 70s and 80s have again found their names in the press following the recent arrest of Jeffrey Epstein.

The "Untouchable" Mobster
Bronfman and Rosenstiel became legendary in the North American liquor business, in part due to their fight for supremacy in the industry, which the New York Times described (https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/22/archives/lewis-rosenstiel-founder-of-schenley-empire-dies.html) as often erupting "into bitter personal and corporate battles." Despite their dueling in the corporate world, the one thing that united the two businessmen more than anything else was their close connection to American organized crime, particularly renowned mobster Meyer Lansky.

Lansky is one of the most notorious gangsters in the history of American organized crime and is notable for being the only famous mobster rising to notoriety in the 1920s who managed to die an old man and never serve a day in jail.

Lansky's long life and ability to avoid prison time was largely the result of his close relationships to powerful businessmen like Bronfman and Rosenstiel (among many others), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. intelligence community, as well as his role in establishing several blackmail and extortion rings that helped him keep the law at arm's length. Indeed, when Lansky was finally charged with a crime in the 1970s, it was the Internal Revenue Service that brought the charges, not the FBI, and he was charged with and acquitted of tax evasion.

Lansky was remarkably close to both Bronfman and Rosenstiel. Bronfman regularly threw (https://books.google.cl/books?id=CMqaBiLPmQYC&pg=PA100&dq=sam+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjzkYbD2LfjAhWLHbkGHbbgCKc4ChDoAQhGMAQ#v=onepage&q=lansky&f=false) "lavish dinner parties" in Lansky's honor both during and after Prohibition. These parties were remembered fondly by Lansky's wife, and Lansky in turn did favors for Bronfman, ranging from exclusive protection of his shipments during Prohibition to getting him tickets to coveted "fight of the century" boxing matches.

Rosenstiel also threw regular dinner parties honoring Lansky. Susan Kaufman, Rosenstiel's ex-wife, claimed to have taken numerous pictures of her ex-husband and Lansky socializing and partying together, photos that were also seen (https://books.google.cl/books?id=HpUaYvBsW-MC&pg=PT11&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=lewis%20rosenstiel&f=false) by Mary Nichols of The Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition, Lansky, per Kaufman's recollection, was one of the individuals that Rosenstiel sought to protect from legal scrutiny as part of his child prostitution and blackmail ring targeting high-ranking officials, and he was overheard saying (https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1993-02-09-9301080563-story.html) that if the government "ever brings pressure against Lansky or any of us, we'll use this [a specific recording taken at one of the 'parties'] as blackmail."

Lansky was known to address (https://books.google.cl/books?id=JSht36wh7BkC&pg=PA117&dq=meyer+lansky+%22supreme+commander%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1qjz_7njAhUSHLkGHb-oAc0Q6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=meyer%20lansky%20%22supreme%20commander%22&f=false) Rosenstiel as "Supreme Commander," a title that would later be used (https://books.google.cl/books?id=FU8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=lewis%20rosenstiel&f=false) to refer to Rosenstiel by another individual deeply connected to the mob and sexual blackmail operations, previously referred to in this report as Rosenstiel's "Field Commander."

Lansky also had close ties to the CIA and U.S. military intelligence. During World War II, Lansky — along with his associate Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel — worked with Naval intelligence in what was codenamed "Operation Underworld (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-devil-himself-explores-mobs-fight-against-nazis-during-wwii)," an operation the existence of which the government denied for over 40 years.

Journalist and noted chronicler of CIA covert activities, Douglas Valentine, noted in his book The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (https://www.amazon.com/CIA-Organized-Crime-Illegal-Operations/dp/0997287012) that the government's cooperation with the Mafia during World War II led to its expansion after the war and set the stage for its future collaboration with U.S. intelligence.

According to Valentine:
Top government officials were also aware that the government's Faustian pact with the Mafia during World War II had allowed the hoods to insinuate themselves into mainstream America. In return for services rendered during the war, Mafia bosses were protected from prosecution for dozens of unsolved murders. [...]

The Mafia was a huge problem in 1951 [when the Kefauver Committee (https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_KefauverEstes.htm) was convened], equivalent to terrorism today. But it was also a protected branch of the CIA, which was co-opting criminal organizations around the world and using them in its secret war against the Soviets and Red Chinese. The Mafia had collaborated with Uncle Sam and had emerged from World War II energized and empowered. They controlled cities across the country." Indeed, not long after its creation, the CIA forged ties with Lansky at the behest of CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton. The CIA would later turn to the Lansky-linked mob (https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/25/meyer-lanskys-heirs-want-money-from-cuba/) in the early 1960s as part of its consistently fruitless quest to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro, showing that the CIA maintained its contacts with Lansky-controlled elements of the Mafia long after the initial meeting with Lansky took place.

The CIA also had close connections (https://www.salon.com/2013/07/21/when_america_turned_to_gangsters_to_oust_castro_partner/) to associates of Lansky, such as Edward Moss, who did public relations work for Lansky and was said to be of "interest" to the CIA by the agency's then-inspector general J.S. Earman. Harry "Happy" Meltzer was also another Lansky associate that was a CIA asset and the CIA asked Meltzer to join an assassination team in December 1960.

In addition to the CIA, Lansky was also connected to a foreign intelligence agency through Tibor Rosenbaum, an arms procurer and high-ranking official in Israel's Mossad, whose bank - the International Credit Bank of Geneva - laundered much of Lansky's ill-gotten gains (https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/09/archives/a-global-bank-tangle-and-its-lost-millions-behind-israeli-arrest-an.html) and recycled them into legitimate American businesses.


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Lansky outside the High Court of Israel where he sought permission to emigrate in 1972. © AP


Journalist Ed Reid, author of the Virginia Hill biography The Mistress and the Mafia (https://books.google.cl/books?id=v38gGwAACAAJ&dq=virginia+hill+mistress&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirxYThgbrjAhUzC9QKHQMRAAYQ6AEIKDAA), wrote that Lansky was attempting to entrap powerful people through sexual blackmail as far back as 1939. Reid contends that Lansky sent Ms. Hill to Mexico, where his West Coast connections had established a drug ring that later involved the OSS, the forerunner to the CIA, to seduce numerous "top politicians, army officers, diplomats and police officials."

Eventually, Lansky was credited with obtaining compromising photos of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sometime in the 1940s, which showed "Hoover in some kind of gay situation", according to a former Lansky associate, (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jan/01/j-edgar-hoover-secret-fbi) who also said that Lansky had often claimed, "I fixed that sonofabitch." The photos showed (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/02/06/New-book-pictures-J-Edgar-Hoover-as-drag-queen/1064728974800/) Hoover engaged in sexual activity with his long-time friend, FBI Deputy Director Clyde Tolson.

At some point, these photos fell into the hands of CIA counterintelligence chief James J. Angleton, who later showed (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-06-mn-1078-story.html) the photos to several other CIA officials, including John Weitz and Gordon Novel. Angleton was in charge of the CIA's relationship with the FBI and Israel's Mossad until he left the agency in 1972 and, as was recently mentioned, he was also in contact with Lansky.

Anthony Summers, former BBC journalist and author of Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (https://www.amazon.com/Official-Confidential-Secret-Edgar-Hoover/dp/1480435201), has argued that it was not Lansky, but William Donovan, the director of the OSS, who obtained the original photos of Hoover and later shared them with Lansky.

Summers also stated (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/02/06/New-book-pictures-J-Edgar-Hoover-as-drag-queen/1064728974800/) that "To [gangster Frank] Costello and Lansky, the ability to corrupt politicians, policemen and judges was fundamental to Mafia operations. The way they found to deal with Hoover, according to several mob sources, involved his homosexuality." This anecdote shows that Lanksy and the CIA maintained a covert relationship, which included, among other things, the sharing of blackmail material (i.e., "intelligence").

It is also possible that Hoover was ensnared by the mob during one of Rosenstiel's "blackmail parties," at which Hoover sometimes found himself in attendance with prominent figures of the Mafia. Hoover was said to have worn women's clothing at the some of the events and Meyer Lansky's wife later said (https://books.google.cl/books?id=JSht36wh7BkC&pg=PA117&dq=meyer+lansky+%22supreme+commander%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1qjz_7njAhUSHLkGHb-oAc0Q6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=meyer%20lansky%20%22supreme%20commander%22&f=false) that her husband had photos of the former FBI director in drag. Furthermore, Hoover is on record (https://books.google.cl/books?id=HpUaYvBsW-MC&pg=PT11&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=lewis%20rosenstiel&f=false) showing an unusual concern in the FBI's handling of Rosenstiel's criminal links as early as 1939, the same year that his close associate Lansky was actively orchestrating the sexual blackmail of powerful political figures.

The blackmail acquired on Hoover and the mob's possession of the evidence has been cited (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/02/06/New-book-pictures-J-Edgar-Hoover-as-drag-queen/1064728974800/) as a major factor in Hoover's decades-long denial that nationwide networks of organized crime were a serious issue. Hoover asserted that it was a decentralized, local issue and therefore outside of the bureau's jurisdiction. By the time Hoover finally acknowledged the existence of national organized crime networks in 1963, they were so entrenched in the U.S. establishment that they were untouchable.

Congressional crime consultant Ralph Salerno told Summers (https://books.google.cl/books?id=HpUaYvBsW-MC&pg=PT11&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=ralph%20salerno%201993&f=false) in 1993 that Hoover's willful ignorance of organized crime for most of his career as FBI director "allowed organized crime to grow very strong in economic and political terms, so that it became a much bigger threat to the wellbeing of this country than it would have been if it had been addressed much sooner."

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J. Edgar Hoover: Blackmail Victim?
Most records place the beginning of Hoover's relationship with Rosenstiel in the 1950s, the same decade when Susan Kaufman reported that Hoover was attending Rosenstiel's blackmail parties. Rosenstiel's FBI file, obtained by (https://books.google.cl/books?id=HpUaYvBsW-MC&pg=PT11&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=lewis%20rosenstiel&f=false) Anthony Summers, cites the first Rosenstiel meeting as taking place in 1956, though Summers notes that there is evidence that they had met much earlier. After requesting the meeting, Rosenstiel was granted a personal face-to-face with the director in a matter of hours. The FBI file on Rosenstiel also reveals that the liquor baron heavily lobbied Hoover to aid his business interests.

During that time, the salacious details of Hoover's sex life were already known to the U.S. intelligence community and to the mob, and Hoover was aware that they knew of his closeted sexuality and penchant for women's clothing. Yet, Hoover apparently seemed to embrace the very type of sexual blackmail operation that had compromised his private life, given that he was seen at many of Rosenstiel's "blackmail parties" in the 1950s and 1960s, including at venues such as Rosenstiel's personal home and later at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Hoover's penchant for dressing in drag was also described (https://books.google.cl/books?id=HpUaYvBsW-MC&pg=PT11&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=rosenstiel%20two%20witness&f=false) by two witnesses who were not connected to Susan Kaufman.


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Hoover with Dorothy Lamour on the set of The Greatest Show on Earth in 1951


Soon after their first "official" meeting, the public relationship between the two men quickly flourished, with Hoover even sending Rosenstiel flowers when he fell ill. Summers reported that (https://books.google.cl/books?id=HpUaYvBsW-MC&pg=PT11&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=lewis%20rosenstiel&f=false), in 1957, Rosenstiel was heard telling Hoover during a meeting, "your wish is my command." Their relationship remained close and intimate throughout the 1960s and beyond.

Like Rosenstiel, Hoover was well-known (https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-director-hoovers-dirty-files-excerpt-from-ronald-kesslers-the-secrets-of-the-fbi) for amassing blackmail on friend and foe alike. Hoover's office contained "secret files" on numerous powerful people in Washington and beyond, files he used to gain favors and protect his status as FBI director for as long as he wished.

Hoover's own propensity for blackmail suggests that he may have associated with Rosenstiel's sexual blackmail operation more directly, given he already knew he was compromised and his involvement in the operation would have served as a means of procuring the blackmail he coveted for his own purposes. Indeed, if Hoover was merely being blackmailed and extorted by the Lansky-Rosenstiel connected mob, it is unlikely that he would have been so friendly to Rosenstiel, Lansky and the other mobsters at these gatherings and participated in them with such regularity.

According to journalist and author Burton Hersh, Hoover was also tied to Sherman Kaminsky, who ran a sexual blackmail operation in New York involving young male prostitutes. That operation was busted and investigated (https://books.google.cl/books?id=_fk4DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=kaminsky%201966&f=false) in a 1966 extortion probe led by Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan, though the FBI quickly took over the investigation and photos of Hoover and Kaminsky together soon disappeared from the case file.

Hoover and Rosenstiel's deep ties would continue to develop over the years, an example of which can be seen in Rosenstiel's hiring of long-time Hoover aide Louis Nichols as the vice president of his Schenley liquor empire and Rosenstiel's donation of over $1 million (http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/H%20Disk/Hoover%20J%20Edgar%20Foundation/Item%2005.pdf) to the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, which Nichols also ran at the time.

There is also more than one documented occasion wherein Hoover attempted to use blackmail to protect Rosenstiel and his "field commander," none other than the infamous Roy Cohn, the other key figure in Rosenstiel's sexual blackmail operation involving minors.

The Making of a Monster
Decades after his death, Roy Cohn remains a controversial figure in large part because of his close, personal relationship (https://www.history.com/news/roy-cohn-mccarthyism-rosenberg-trial-donald-trump) with current U.S. President Donald Trump. Yet reports on Cohn, both in recent and in past years, often miss the mark in their characterization of the man who became closely associated with the Reagan White House, the CIA, the FBI, organized crime and, incidentally, many of the figures who would later surround Jeffrey Epstein.

To understand the true nature of the man, it is essential to examine his rise to power in the early 1950s when, at just 23 years of age, he became a key figure in the high-profile trial of Soviet spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and later as the right-hand man of Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI).

Cohn's dedication to anti-communist activities in the 1950s is allegedly what first endeared him to J. Edgar Hoover, whom he first met in 1952. During that meeting, as described by Hersh in Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America (https://books.google.cl/books?id=_fk4DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=snippet&q=roy%20cohn&f=false), Hoover expressed admiration for Cohn's aggressive and manipulative tactics and told Cohn to "call me directly" whenever he had information worth sharing. From that point on, Cohn and Hoover "traded favors, effusive compliments, gifts and elaborate private dinners. It quickly became 'Roy' and 'Edgar.'" Hersh also describes Hoover as Cohn's soon to be "consigliere."

The date and circumstances around Cohn's introduction to Rosenstiel are harder to come by. It is possible that the connection was made through Roy Cohn's father, Albert Cohn, a prominent judge and an influential figure in the New York City Democratic Party apparatus then run by Edward Flynn. It was later revealed (https://nymag.com/news/features/crime/46610/) that the Democratic organization dominated by Flynn and based in the Bronx had long-standing connections to organized crime, including associates of Meyer Lansky.

Regardless of how or when it began, the relationship between Cohn and Rosenstiel was close and was often likened to that (http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/H%20Disk/Hoover%20J%20Edgar%20Foundation/Item%2005.pdf) of a father and son. They were said to frequently salute each other in public and remained close until Rosenstiel was near death, at which point Cohn attempted to trick (https://www.nytimes.com/1976/06/25/archives/bid-lost-by-cohn-on-estate-role-lawyer-had-sought-voice-in-lewis.html) his then-barely conscious and senile "friend" and client into naming him the executor and trustee of the liquor magnate's estate, valued at $75 million (more than $334 million in today's dollars).

LIFE magazine reported (https://books.google.cl/books?id=FU8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=lewis%20rosenstiel&f=false) in 1969 that Cohn and Rosenstiel had for years referred to one another as "Field Commander" and "Supreme Commander," respectively. Media references to these nicknames appear in other articles (http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/H%20Disk/Hoover%20J%20Edgar%20Foundation/Item%2005.pdf) from the period.

Though LIFE and other outlets had interpreted this as merely an anecdote about the nicknames shared in jest between close friends, the fact that notorious crime lord Meyer Lansky also called (https://books.google.cl/books?id=JSht36wh7BkC&pg=PA117&dq=meyer+lansky+%22supreme+commander%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjO1qjz_7njAhUSHLkGHb-oAc0Q6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=meyer%20lansky%20%22supreme%20commander%22&f=false) Rosenstiel "Supreme Commander" and the fact that Cohn and Rosenstiel would later become intimately involved in the same pedophile sex ring suggests that there may have been more to these "nicknames." After all, the mob to which Rosenstiel was connected often used military-themed titles like "soldier" and "lieutenant" to differentiate the rank and importance of its members.

Once he had made his connection with Hoover, Cohn's star began to rise even higher in Washington. Hoover's recommendation of Cohn would become the deciding factor in his appointment as Sen. McCarthy's general counsel over Robert Kennedy, a rival and bitter enemy of Cohn's.


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McCarthy covers the mic while having a whispered discussion with Cohn during a 1954 committee hearing. © AP


Though Cohn was ruthless and seemingly untouchable as McCarthy's counsel and helped the senator destroy many careers during both the red and lavender scares, his antics in relation to his work on the committee would eventually lead to his downfall (https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174) after he attempted to blackmail the Army in return for preferential treatment for committee consultant and Cohn's rumored lover, David Schine.

After he was forced to leave McCarthy's side due to the scandal, Cohn returned to New York to live with his mother and practice law. A few years later New York Judge David Peck, a long-time associate (https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/24/obituaries/david-w-peck-87-former-justice-and-court-reformer-in-new-york.html) of former CIA Director Alan Dulles, orchestrated Cohn's hire (https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1996/eirv23n28-19960705/eirv23n28-19960705_056-morris_and_the_cohn_family_crimi.pdf) to the New York law firm Saxe, Bacon and O'Shea — which would later become Saxe, Bacon and Bolan after Tom Bolan, a friend of Cohn's, became a partner in the firm. Upon his hire, Cohn brought the firm a slew of Mafia-linked clients, including high-ranking members of the Gambino crime family, the Genovese crime family and, of course, Lewis Rosenstiel.

What happened in Suite 233?
The connections Roy Cohn built during the 1950s made him a well-known public figure and translated into great political influence that peaked during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Yet, as Cohn built his public image, he was also developing a dark private life, which would come to be dominated by the same blackmail pedophile racket that appears to have first begun with Lewis Rosenstiel.

One of the "blackmail parties" Susan Kaufman attended with her then-husband Lewis Rosenstiel was hosted by Cohn in 1958 at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, suite 233. Kaufman described Cohn's suite as (https://books.google.cl/books?id=_fk4DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=blackmail%20cohn&f=false) a "beautiful suite...all done in light blue." She described being introduced to Hoover, who was in drag, by Cohn, who told her that Hoover's name was "Mary" in a fit of barely concealed laughter. Kaufman testified that (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/02/06/New-book-pictures-J-Edgar-Hoover-as-drag-queen/1064728974800/) young boys were present and Kaufman claimed that Cohn, Hoover and her ex-husband engaged in sexual activity with these minors.

New York attorney John Klotz, tasked with investigating Cohn for a case well after Kaufman's testimony, also found evidence of the "blue suite" at the Plaza Hotel and its role in a sex extortion ring after combing through local government documents and information gathered by private detectives. Klotz later told (https://books.google.cl/books?id=_fk4DgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=blackmail%20cohn&f=false) journalist and author Burton Hersh what he had learned:
Roy Cohn was providing protection. There were a bunch of pedophiles involved. That's where Cohn got his power from — blackmail." Perhaps the most damning confirmation of Cohn's activities in Suite 233 comes from statements made by Cohn himself to former NYPD detective and ex-head of the department's Human-Trafficking and Vice-Related Crimes Division, James Rothstein. Rothstein later told John DeCamp — a former Nebraska state senator who investigated a government-connected child sex ring based in Omaha — among other investigators, that Cohn had admitted (https://www.wikispooks.com/w/images/8/8e/The_Franklin_Cover-Up.pdf) to being part of a sexual blackmail operation targeting politicians with child prostitutes during a sit-down interview with the former detective.


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Flags fly over the main entrance of the Plaza Hotel in New York City in 1982. © Suzanne Vlamis | AP


Rothstein told (https://www.wikispooks.com/w/images/8/8e/The_Franklin_Cover-Up.pdf) DeCamp the following about Cohn:
Cohn's job was to run the little boys. Say you had an admiral, a general, a congressman, who did not want to go along with the program. Cohn's job was to set them up, then they would go along. Cohn told me that himself." Rothstein later told Paul David Collins, a former journalist turned researcher, that Cohn had also identified (https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/2014/08/24/the-ghost-of-roy-cohn/) this sexual blackmail operation as being part of the anti-communist crusade of the time.

The fact that Cohn, per Rothstein's recollection, stated that the child sex blackmail ring was part of the government-sponsored anti-communist crusade suggests that elements of the government, including Hoover's FBI, may have been connected at a much broader level than Hoover's own personal involvement, as the FBI closely coordinated with McCarthy and Cohn for much of the red scare.

It is also worth noting that among Hoover's many "secret" blackmail files was a sizeable dossier on Senator McCarthy, the contents of which strongly suggested that the senator himself was interested in underage girls. According to journalist and author David Talbot (https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174), Hoover's file on McCarthy was "filled with disturbing stories about McCarthy's habit of drunkenly groping young girls' breasts and buttocks. The stories were so widespread that they became 'common knowledge' in the capital, according to one FBI chronicler."

Talbot, in his book The Devil's Chessboard (https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174), also cites Walter Trohan, Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Tribune, as having personally witnessed McCarthy's habit of molesting young women. "He just couldn't keep his hands off young girls," Trohan would later say. "Why the Communist opposition didn't plant a minor on him and raise the cry of statutory rape, I don't know." Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that those "planting" minors on their political foes were McCarthy's allies and close associates, not his enemies.

The question that necessarily arises from revelations regarding Cohn's activities in Suite 233 is who else was Cohn "protecting" and servicing with underage prostitutes? One of them could very well have been one of Cohn's close friends and clients (http://www.nypress.com/cardinal-spellmans-dark-legacy/), Cardinal Francis Spellman of the Archdiocese of New York, who was said to have been present at some of these parties Cohn hosted at the Plaza Hotel.

Spellman — one of the most powerful figures in the Catholic Church in North America, who was sometimes referred to as "America's Pope" — was accused of not only condoning (https://www.salon.com/2019/02/09/i-was-groped-by-a-man-called-mary-the-world-changes-but-not-the-catholic-church/) pedophilia in the Catholic church and ordaining known pedophiles (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/uncle-teddy-mccarrick-boy-raper-catholic/comment-page-1/) including Cardinal Theodore "Uncle Teddy" McCarrick, but also engaging in it himself to such an extent that many New York area priests widely referred to him (https://www.salon.com/2019/02/09/i-was-groped-by-a-man-called-mary-the-world-changes-but-not-the-catholic-church/) as "Mary." Furthermore, J. Edgar Hoover was said to have a file (https://www.advocate.com/religion/2017/10/18/21-gay-popes-cardinals-and-assorted-catholic-leaders#slide-16) detailing the cardinal's sex life, suggesting Spellman's involvement in the ring and pedophile protection racket in which Cohn and Hoover were personally involved.


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Cardinal Francis ‘Franny’ Spellman. © Museum of the City of New York


People close to Cohn often remarked that he was frequently surrounded by groups of young boys, but seemed to think nothing of it. Similar off-handed comments about Epstein's penchant for minors were made by those close to him prior to his arrest.

Controversial Republican political operative and "dirty trickster" Roger Stone — who, like Donald Trump, was also a protégé (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6809557/Roy-Cohn-Donald-Trumps-ruthless-homophobic-attorney-partied-Studio-54-died-AIDS.html) of Cohn — said the following about Cohn's sex life during an interview (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster) with The New Yorker in 2008:
Roy was not gay. He was a man who liked having sex with men. Gays were weak, effeminate. He always seemed to have these young blond boys around. It just wasn't discussed. He was interested in power and access." (emphasis added) Compare this quote from Stone to what Donald Trump, who was also close to Cohn, would later say (https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/) about Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he was also closely associated:
I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life." (emphasis added) Though it is unknown how long the sex ring at the Plaza Hotel continued, and whether it continued after Cohn's death from AIDS in 1986, it is worth noting that Donald Trump purchased (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/27/nyregion/plaza-hotel-is-sold-to-donald-trump-for-390-million.html) the Plaza Hotel in 1988. It would later be reported (https://nypost.com/2016/10/25/trump-partied-with-teen-girls-at-the-plaza-hotel-in-the-90s-report/) and confirmed by then-attendees (https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-donald-trumps-one-stop-parties-attendees-recall-cocaine-and-very-young-models) that Trump "used to host parties in suites at the Plaza Hotel when he owned it, where young women and girls were introduced to older, richer men" and "illegal drugs and young women were passed around and used."

Andy Lucchesi, a male model who had helped organize (https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-donald-trumps-one-stop-parties-attendees-recall-cocaine-and-very-young-models) some of these Plaza Hotel parties for Trump, said the following when asked about the age of the women present: "A lot of girls, 14, look 24. That's as juicy as I can get. I never asked how old they were; I just partook. I did partake in activities that would be controversial, too."

The Roy Cohn Machine
Roy Cohn was only at the beginning of his career when he waded his way into the underground sexual blackmail ring apparently led by Lewis Rosenstiel. Indeed, when Cohn first met Hoover, he was only 23 years old. Over the next three decades or so, before his death from AIDS-related complications in 1986 at the age of 56, Cohn built a well-oiled machine, largely through his close friendships with some of the country's most influential figures.

Among Cohn's friends were top media personalities like Barbara Walters (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-08/if-you-flew-the-lolita-express-the-feds-want-to-talk-to-you), former CIA directors, Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/eavesdropping-on-roy-cohn-and-donald-trump), media moguls Rupert Murdoch (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch/) and Mort Zuckerman, numerous celebrities (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1996/03/studio-54-nightclub-new-york-city), prominent lawyers like Alan Dershowitz (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-10-bk-1279-story.html), top figures in the Catholic Church and leading Jewish organizations like B'nai B'rith (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cohn-Dinner.pdf) and the World Jewish Congress. Many of the same names that surrounded Cohn until death in the late 1980s would later come to surround Jeffrey Epstein, with their names later appearing in Epstein's now-infamous "little black book".


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Reagan meets with Rupert Murdoch, U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick, and Roy Cohn in the Oval Office in 1983. © Reagan presidential library


While President Trump is clearly connected to both Epstein and Cohn, Cohn's network also extends to former President Bill Clinton, whose friend and longtime political advisor, Richard "Dirty Dick (https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-09-01-9609010307-story.html)" Morris, was Cohn's cousin and close associate (http://www.dickmorris.com/eugene-j-morris-1910-2010/). Morris was also close to Clinton's former communications director, George Stephanopoulos, who is also associated with (https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/274264/abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-attended-jeffrey-daniel-greenfield) Jeffrey Epstein.

Yet, these were only Cohn's connections to respectable members of the establishment. He was also known for his deep connections to the mob and gained prominence largely for his ability to connect key figures in the criminal underworld to respected influential figures acceptable to the public sphere. Ultimately, as New York attorney John Klotz stated, Cohn's most powerful tool was blackmail, which he used against friend and foe, gangster or public official alike. How much of that blackmail he acquired through his sexual blackmail operation will likely never be known.

As Part II of this exclusive investigation will reveal, Cohn and Epstein, and the sexual blackmail operations they ran share many things in common, including not only many of the same famous friends and patrons, but also connections to intelligence agencies and consortiums of mob-linked businessmen, the modern-day equivalents of Samuel Bronfman and Lewis Rosenstiel who have since rebranded as "philanthropists."

Part II will also reveal that Cohn's operation was known to have successors, as revealed by a series of scandals in the early 1990s that have since been swept under the rug. The significant amount of overlap between Epstein's and Cohn's covert activities in sexual blackmail and their ties to many of the same powerful individuals and circles of influence strongly suggest that Epstein was one of Cohn's successors.

As will be shown in the final installment of this report, Epstein is only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive and sophisticated operation that offers a frightening window into how deeply tied the U.S. government is to the modern-day equivalents of organized crime, making it a racket truly too big to fail.
Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
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The Jeffrey Epstein case: A rare opportunity to focus (https://www.sott.net/article/417376-The-Jeffrey-Epstein-case-A-rare-opportunity-to-focus)



Epstein visited Clinton White House multiple times during the early '90s (https://www.sott.net/article/417373-Epstein-visited-Clinton-White-House-multiple-times-during-the-early-90s)



Epstein's money trail: Will probe into Deutsche Bank reveal powerful connections? (https://www.sott.net/article/417361-Epsteins-money-trail-Will-probe-into-Deutsche-Bank-reveal-powerful-connections)



Was Epstein an Israeli 'agent of influence'? (https://www.sott.net/article/417274-Was-Epstein-an-Israeli-agent-of-influence)

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Part II:

Jeffrey Epstein, Trump's mentor and the dark secrets of the Reagan era: Governing by blackmail (https://www.mintpressnews.com/government-blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trumps-mentor-dark-secrets-reagan-era/260760)

Whitney Webb MintPress News (https://www.mintpressnews.com/government-blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trumps-mentor-dark-secrets-reagan-era/260760)
Thu, 25 Jul 2019 21:00 UTC

Read Part I of Ms. Webb's expose here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1306987&viewfull=1#post1306987).


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Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who now sits in jail on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors, has continued to draw media scrutiny in the weeks after his arrest on July 6. Part of the reason for this continued media interest is related to Epstein's alleged relationship to the intelligence services and new information about the true extent of the sexual blackmail operation Epstein is believed to have run for decades.

As MintPress reported (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/) last week, Epstein was able to run this sordid operation for so long precisely because his was only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive operation that began in the 1950s and perhaps even earlier.

Starting first with mob-linked liquor baron Lewis Rosenstiel and later with Roy Cohn, Rosenstiel's protege and future mentor to Donald Trump, Epstein's is just one of the many sexual blackmail operations involving children that are all tied to the same network, which includes elements of organized crime, powerful Washington politicians, lobbyists and "fixers," and clear links to intelligence as well as the FBI.

This report, Part II of this series titled "The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big To Fail," will delve into Cohn's close ties to the Reagan administration, which was also closely tied to the same organized crime network led by the infamous mob figure Meyer Lansky, which was discussed in Part I (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/). Of particular importance is the "Iran Contra" network, a group of Reagan officials and associates who played key roles in the Iran Contra scandal. Though it has remained relatively unknown for years, many key figures in that same network, and several fronts for the CIA that were involved in funneling money to the Central American Contra paramilitaries, were also trafficking minors for their sexual exploitation and use in sexual blackmail rings.

Several of these rings made headlines at one point or another over the years — from the "call boy ring" run by Washington lobbyist Craig Spence, to the Franklin child-sex and murder ring run by Republican operative Larry King, to the scandal that enveloped the Catholic charity Covenant House in the late 1980s.

Yet, as this report will show, all of these rings — and more — were connected to the same network that involved key figures linked to the Reagan White House and linked to Roy Cohn — revealing the true scope of the sordid sexual blackmail operations and sex rings that involved the trafficking of children within the U.S. and even in Central America for their exploitation by dangerous and powerful pedophiles in the United States.

Appalling for both the villainous abuse of children itself and the chilling implications of government by blackmail, this tangled web of unsavory alliances casts a lurid light on the political history of the United States from the Prohibition Era right up to the present day and the Age of Trump, a fact made increasingly clear as more and more information comes to light in relation to the Jeffrey Epstein case.

"Roy could fix anyone in the city"
Since Donald Trump burst onto the political scene in 2015, the legacy of his mentor, Roy Cohn - as well as Cohn's influence on his most famous protege — have begun to garner renewed media attention. Many of the profiles on Cohn following Trump's rise have focused solely on certain shadowy aspects of Cohn's history, particularly his association (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910) with major figures in New York organized crime (https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/former-mccarthy-aide-showed-trump-how-to-exploit-power-and-draw-attention/2016/06/16/e9f44f20-2bf3-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html), his corrupt dealings, and his eventual disbarment. Some of these portrayals even went so far as to label (https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-roy-cohn-i-knew-was-a-small-sad-man) Cohn as politically impotent. While Cohn was known to deal with a sizable amount of sleaze in his career, such depictions of the man fail to note that he had created an influence machine of unrivaled power that included some of the most prominent people in media and politics as well as a cadre of celebrities.

Cohn was closely associated with numerous celebrities, famous politicians and political operatives. Many of his birthday parties over the years attracted (https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46616/dont-mess-with-roy-cohn/) such famous figures such as artist Andy Warhol, fashion designer Calvin Klein, and comedian Joey Adams, as well as notable political figures (https://www.thoughtco.com/roy-cohn-biography-4151275) including former Mayor of New York Abraham Beame and then-Assemblyman from Brooklyn and future Senator Chuck Schumer, among others. In 1979 Margaret Trudeau, mother of current Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, attended Cohn's birthday party, where she famously toppled (https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46616/dont-mess-with-roy-cohn/) his custom birthday cake; and of course Donald Trump, who became Cohn's protege in the mid-1970s, was a frequent fixture at social events held in Cohn's honor.

The politicians, journalists and celebrities invited to Cohn's exclusive parties were said to be those who "had open accounts in Cohn's 'favor bank (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6809557/Roy-Cohn-Donald-Trumps-ruthless-homophobic-attorney-partied-Studio-54-died-AIDS.html),'" his nickname for his unofficial balance sheet of political favors and debts that was surely informed and influenced by his extensive involvement in sexual blackmail operations from the 1950s well into the 1980s.

Many of Cohn's celebrity friendships were cultivated through his relationship with and frequent appearances at the famous and famously debaucherous New York nightclub Studio 54, which was described by Vanity Fair (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1996/03/studio-54-nightclub-new-york-city) as "the giddy epicenter of 70s hedonism, a disco hothouse of beautiful people, endless cocaine, and every kind of sex." Cohn was the long-time lawyer of the club's owners, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager.


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Among Cohn's closest friends were Barbara Walters, to whom Cohn often referred (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html) as his "fiancee" in public, and whom he later introduced to the head of the U.S. Information Agency, Chad Wick, and other high rollers in the Reagan White House. Yet, Walters was just one of Cohn's powerful friends in the media, a group that also included (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html) Abe Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times; William Safire, long-time New York Times columnist and New York Magazine contributor; and George Sokolsky of The New York Herald Tribune, NBC and ABC. Sokolsky was a particularly close friend of both Cohn and former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, whose involvement in Cohn's sexual blackmail operation is described in Part I of this investigative series. Sokolsky ran the American Jewish League Against Communism with Cohn for several years and the organization later named its Medal of Honor after Sokolsky.

Cohn was also the attorney and friend of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and, according (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html) to New York Magazine, "Whenever Roy wanted a story stopped, item put in, or story exploited, Roy called Murdoch;" and, after Murdoch bought the New York Post, Cohn "wielded the paper as his personal shiv." According to the late journalist Robert Parry (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch/), the friendship between Murdoch and Cohn first began thanks to their mutual support for Israel.

Cohn also leaned on his life-long friend (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html) since high school, Si Newhouse Jr., to exert media influence. Newhouse oversaw the media empire that now includes Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, and numerous local newspapers throughout the United States, as well as major interests in cable television. New York Magazine also noted (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html) that "Cohn used his influence in the early '80s to secure favors for himself and his Mob clients in Newhouse publications." In addition to Newhouse, Cohn's other high school pals (https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46616/dont-mess-with-roy-cohn/), Generoso Pope Jr. and Richard Berlin, later became the owners of the National Enquirer and the Hearst Corporation, respectively. Cohn was also a close friend of another media mogul, Mort Zuckerman, who - along with Rupert Murdoch - would go on to befriend Jeffrey Epstein.

Cohn's media confidants, like journalist William Buckley of The National Review and Firing Line, often attacked Cohn's political enemies - particularly long-time Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau — in their columns, using Cohn as an anonymous source. Buckley, whom historian George Nash once called (https://web.archive.org/web/20080303043521/http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=YmZkMTRmN2MyZjcwYWVhYWI4YjhkNjE5YTA5NmY3ODg) "the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure," received (https://books.google.cl/books?id=FU8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=william%20buckley&f=false) the George Sokolsky medal alongside Cohn's mob-linked client and "Supreme Commander" Lewis Rosenstiel from the Cohn-run American Jewish League Against Communism in 1966. Buckley later got a heavily discounted $65,000 loan to buy a luxury boat from a bank where Cohn held influence and whose president Cohn had hand picked, according to a 1969 article (https://books.google.cl/books?id=FU8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29&dq=lewis+rosenstiel&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAzq2KkLjjAhUGlosKHQMsCpsQ6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=william%20buckley&f=false) in LIFE magazine.

Buckley — along with Barbara Walters, Alan Dershowitz and Donald Trump — would later serve as character witnesses (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/frank-rich-roy-cohn-the-original-donald-trump.html) for Cohn during his 1986 disbarment hearings and all but Buckley would later draw controversy for their relationships with Jeffrey Epstein.

With connections like this, it's no wonder that Stanley Friedman — a law partner of Cohn, who was later imprisoned over a kickback and bribery scandal (https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/nyregion/up-from-politics-almost.html) while serving as New York's deputy mayor — told (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship) journalist Marie Brenner in 1980 that "Roy could fix anyone in the city."

Politically ubiquitous and polygamous
Roy Cohn's "favor bank" and his unique position as a liaison between the criminal underworld, the rich and famous, and top media influencers made him a force to be reckoned with. Yet, it was his political connections to leadership figures in both the Republican and Democratic parties and his close relationship to long-time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, among other figures, that made him and his dark secret "untouchable" for much of his life. Though most of his political influence was forged in the 1950s, Cohn became even more powerful with the rise of Ronald Reagan.

Even though he nominally maintained his affiliation with the Democratic Party throughout his life, Cohn was a well-known "fixer" for Republican candidates and this is clearly seen in his outsized roles during the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan. It was during the latter that Cohn would meet (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster) another of his proteges, Roger Stone, whom he infamously instructed to leave a hefty bribe (https://pando.com/2015/08/11/behind-scenes-donald-trump-roger-stone-show/) tucked in a suitcase at the doorstep of the Liberal Party's headquarters during the 1980 campaign. During this campaign, Cohn would also meet Paul Manafort — an associate of Stone and later Trump's 2016 campaign manager — and introduce both to Donald Trump.

Cohn's law partner, Tom Bolan, was also an influential force in the Reagan campaign and later chaired (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/nyregion/thomas-bolan-dead-roy-cohn-law-partner.html) Reagan's transition team in 1980. Reagan then named (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/nyregion/thomas-bolan-dead-roy-cohn-law-partner.html) Bolan, whom he considered a friend, a director of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the government's development finance institution, and he was also the New York finance co-chairman (https://outline.com/YZqURS) in the Reagan campaign in both 1980 and 1984. Bolan was also close (https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Tom-Bolan-dies-lawyer-conservative/2017/05/14/id/790052/) to others in Cohn's circle, such as William F. Buckley Jr., Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch.

Furthermore, Bolan was instrumental in securing federal judgeships for several individuals who would later become influential, including (https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Tom-Bolan-dies-lawyer-conservative/2017/05/14/id/790052/) future FBI Director Louis Freeh. Cohn was also able to get friends of clients appointed as federal judges, including (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/eavesdropping-on-roy-cohn-and-donald-trump) Donald Trump's sister, Maryanne Trump Barry. After Barry was appointed as a federal judge, Trump called (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/eavesdropping-on-roy-cohn-and-donald-trump) Cohn to thank him for pulling strings on his sister's behalf.

Though Cohn was not given a public position in the Reagan administration, he was not merely a "dirty trickster" who worked in the shadows during the Reagan campaigns. In fact, he worked closely with some of the more visible faces of the campaign, including the then-communications director for Reagan's 1980 campaign and later CIA director, William Casey. According to Christine Seymour (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/eavesdropping-on-roy-cohn-and-donald-trump) — Cohn's long-time switchboard operator from the late 1960s up until his death in 1986, who listened in on his calls — Casey and Cohn were close friends and, during the 1980 campaign, Casey "called Roy almost daily."

Seymour also noted that one of Cohn's other most frequent phone pals and closest friends was Nancy Reagan and she was also one of his clients (https://www.history.com/news/roy-cohn-mccarthyism-rosenberg-trial-donald-trump). Reagan, whose influence over her husband was well-known, was so close to Cohn that it was largely his death from AIDS that led her (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-nancy-reagan-aids-activism_n_56e31770e4b0b25c9181e002) to "encourage her husband to seek more funding for AIDS research."

Prior to Cohn's death, Nancy and her husband Ronald secured his spot (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch/) in an exclusive experimental AIDS treatment program, despite the Reagan administration's well-documented "non-response" to the AIDS crisis of the era. Ronald Reagan was also a friend of Cohn's and, according to late journalist Robert Parry (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch/), "lavished favors on Cohn, including invitations to White House events, personal thank-you notes and friendly birthday wishes" over the course of his presidency.

Given that Reagan heavily courted the evangelical right and promoted "family values" as president, the close ties between not only himself, but his inner circle, with Cohn may seem odd. However, Reagan, like Cohn, had deep ties to the same organized-crime factions that were among Cohn's clients and affiliates of the same Mafia figures close to Cohn's own mentor, Lewis Rosenstiel (see Part I (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1306987&viewfull=1#post1306987)).

Not unlike Cohn, Reagan's own mentor (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635094/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-MAFIA-helped-Ronald-Reagan-White-House-Shocking-documentary-reveals-Mob-connections-catapulted-presidency-probe-thwarted-highest-levels.html), Lew Wasserman, had close ties to the mob. Wasserman, the long-time president of MCA and the well-known Hollywood mogul, is known for not only making Reagan's film and television career, but also supporting (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635094/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-MAFIA-helped-Ronald-Reagan-White-House-Shocking-documentary-reveals-Mob-connections-catapulted-presidency-probe-thwarted-highest-levels.html) his successful push to become president of the Screen Actors Guild, which later launched Reagan's political career. In addition, MCA was a major financier of Reagan's successful gubernatorial bid in 1966 and, not long after Reagan became president, his administration controversially shut down (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-doc-alleges-ronald-reagan-711288) a massive Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into MCA's ties to organized crime.


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Ronald Reagan, center, with A.C. Lyles and Lew Wasserman, right. © A.C. Lyles


According to Shawn Swords, a documentary filmmaker who explored Reagan's ties to MCA in Wages of Spin II: Bring Down That Wall:

Ronald Reagan was an opportunist. His whole career was guided by MCA — by Wasserman and [MCA founder] Jules Stein, who bragged that Reagan was malleable, that they could do what they wanted with him...That thing about Reagan being tough on [organized] crime — that's a fallacy." Swords' characterization of this relationship is supported by (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635094/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-MAFIA-helped-Ronald-Reagan-White-House-Shocking-documentary-reveals-Mob-connections-catapulted-presidency-probe-thwarted-highest-levels.html) an unnamed Hollywood source cited in a declassified DOJ document, who called Reagan "a complete slave of MCA who would do their bidding on anything."

What elements of organized crime were connected to Wasserman? As a young man, Lew Wasserman joined the Mayfield Road Gang, which was run by Moe Dalitz, a close friend of Meyer Lansky who, per the FBI (https://books.google.cl/books?id=jgCpxTpPCPcC&pg=PA132&dq=%22moe+dalitz%22+%22meyer+lansky%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKtuKE_83jAhVTop4KHX2tDAwQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=%22moe%20dalitz%22%20%22meyer%20lansky%22&f=false), was a powerful figure in Lansky's criminal enterprise, second only to Lansky himself among members of the Jewish mob.

Lew Wasserman would later marry Edith Beckerman, whose father was Dalitz's lawyer (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/edie-wasserman-wife-lew-wasserman-225101). Wasserman's closest friend and lawyer (https://books.google.cl/books?id=YalWxsoWEIkC&pg=PA158&dq=%22lew+wasserman%22+%22meyer+lansky%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDmYOl-s3jAhXMFLkGHZ13DfoQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=%22lew%20wasserman%22%20%22meyer%20lansky%22&f=false), Sidney Korshak, also had close ties to Dalitz and once partnered (https://books.google.cl/books?id=n5lZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22lew+wasserman%22+%22meyer+lansky%22&dq=%22lew+wasserman%22+%22meyer+lansky%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDmYOl-s3jAhXMFLkGHZ13DfoQ6AEITjAF) with Lansky in the Acapulco Towers Hotel. Notably, the magazine New West stated (https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&ei=joQ4XYOaBMyp5OUPne-10A8&q=%22logical+successor+to+meyer+lansky%22&oq=%22logical+successor+to+meyer+lansky%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1078334.1083643.0.1083847.33.33.0.0.0.0.135.2633.24j8.32.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.7.603...0j0i19k1j33i10k1.0.4xom5UhIhF4) in 1976 that Korshak was the "logical successor to Meyer Lansky." Korshak, as a lawyer, fit a niche similar to Roy Cohn and gained a reputation (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1997/04/The-Man-Who-Kept-The-Secrets) as the bridge between organized crime and respectable society.

In addition, the DOJ probe into MCA that the Reagan administration quashed was reportedly spurred (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635094/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-MAFIA-helped-Ronald-Reagan-White-House-Shocking-documentary-reveals-Mob-connections-catapulted-presidency-probe-thwarted-highest-levels.html) after the Justice Department learned that an influential member of the Gambino crime family, Salvatore Pisello, was doing business with the massive entertainment company. At that time, the boss of the Gambino crime family, Paul Castellano, was a client (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910) of Roy Cohn.

Cohn, Murdoch and the Contras
Though Cohn's influence in the Reagan administration and his friendship with the Reagan family and their inner circle has been acknowledged, less well-known is how Cohn aided the CIA's covert propaganda efforts that were part of the larger scandal known as Iran-Contra.

Cohn, whose influence over the press has already been detailed, forged close ties with the director of the U.S. Information Agency, Chad Wick, even hosting a luncheon (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cohn-Wick4.pdf) in Wick's honor that was widely attended by influential figures in the conservative press, as well as senators and representatives. Soon after, then-CIA Director and Cohn friend William Casey was spearheading an extensive PR campaign aimed at shoring up public support for Reagan's Latin American policies, including support of the Contra paramilitaries.

This domestic propaganda effort was technically illegal and required that the CIA outsource the job to the private sector to minimize the risk of fall-out. As Robert Parry reported (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch/) in 2015, Wick took the lead in obtaining private funding for the effort and, just a few days after Wick promised to find private support, Cohn brought his close friend, the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, to the White House.


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Reagan meets with Rupert Murdoch, U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick, and Roy Cohn in the Oval Office in 1983. © Reagan presidential library


Parry later noted (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch/) that, after this meeting, "documents released during the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987 and later from the Reagan Library indicate that Murdoch was soon viewed as a source for the private funding" for the propaganda campaign.

After that initial meeting, Murdoch became the top media ally of this Casey-directed propaganda effort, and also became increasingly close to the Reagan White House. Murdoch, as a consequence, benefited greatly (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how-roy-cohn-helped-rupert-murdoch/) from Reagan's policies and his friendship with the administration, which allowed Murdoch to increase his U.S. media holdings and to create the Fox Broadcasting Corporation in 1987.


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"The man in the black tuxedo"
Roy Cohn was not the only one close to the Reagan administration who was simultaneously running sexual blackmail operations that abused and exploited children. In fact, there were several figures, all of whom shared direct connections to CIA Director William Casey and other close friends and confidants of Cohn.

One of these individuals was Robert Keith Gray, the former chairman and CEO of the powerful Washington-based public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton, which 60 Minutes once called "an unelected shadow government" due to its influence in the capitol. According to the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bob-gray-influential-washington-lobbyist-and-founder-of-gray-and-co-dies-at-92/2014/04/22/1db46e42-c96a-11e3-95f7-7ecdde72d2ea_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2b7a7415ac7c), Gray himself was "one of the most sought-after lobbyists in Washington" and a Post reporter once called him "a kind of legend in this town, ...the man in the black tuxedo with snow-white hair and a smile like a diamond."

Yet, Gray was much more than a powerful PR executive.

Gray, who had previously been a close adviser (https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100610006-2.pdf) to both Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, was a very successful Republican fundraiser who "collects money in six-figure globs," according to a 1974 report (https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88-01314R000100610006-2.pdf) in the Washingtonian. He first came into close contact with what would become Ronald Reagan's inner circle during Reagan's unsuccessful 1976 presidential campaign and later as deputy director of communications during Reagan's campaign in 1980. The latter position would see him work directly under William Casey, who later became CIA director.

Gray would go on to co-chair Reagan's Inauguration Committee and afterwards would return to the PR business, taking on several clients (https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Lord+of+the+lies%3B+how+Hill+and+Knowlton%27s+Robert+Gray+pulls...-a012529888) including Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and hedge fund manager Marc Rich. Both Khashoggi and Rich will be discussed more in detail in Part III of this report — particularly Rich, who was an asset of Israeli intelligence outfit Mossad, and whose later criminal pardon by Bill Clinton was largely orchestrated by members of the Mega Group like Michael Steinhardt and Israeli politicians like Ehud Barak.

The connection between Gray and Casey is particulary telling, as it was later revealed by former Nebraska state senator-turned-investigator John DeCamp that Gray was a specialist (https://www.wikispooks.com/w/images/8/8e/The_Franklin_Cover-Up.pdf) in homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA and was reported to have collaborated with Roy Cohn in those activities. Cohn and Gray were likely to have known each other well, as during Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign Casey — then Gray's boss — was calling Roy Cohn "every day," according to Cohn's former switchboard operator Christine Seymour (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/eavesdropping-on-roy-cohn-and-donald-trump).

Gray was a known associate of CIA agent and Naval Intelligence officer Edwin Wilson, having served in the 1970s on the board of Consultants International, an organization that Wilson had founded and that the CIA used as a front company. Though Gray attempted to distance himself from Wilson after the latter was caught illegally selling weapons to Libya in 1983, a Navy review of Wilson's intelligence career, unearthed (https://www.amazon.com/Manhunt-Peter-Maas/dp/0394552938) by journalist Peter Maas, stated that Gray described Wilson as a man of "unqualified trust" and that Gray and Wilson had been in professional contact "two or three times a month" as early as 1963.

Though Wilson's main specialty was front companies used to covertly ship and smuggle goods on behalf of U.S. intelligence, he also ran sexual blackmail operations for the CIA, particularly around the time of the Watergate scandal, according to his former partner and fellow agent at the CIA, Frank Terpil.

Terpil later told (https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agenda-Watergate-Deep-Throat/dp/0394514289) author and investigative journalist Jim Hougan:

Historically, one of Wilson's Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary.... Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasy in the flesh.... A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras.... The technicians in charge of filming ... [were] TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office." According to Terpil, Wilson ran his operation out of the George Town Club, owned by lobbyist and Korean intelligence asset Tongsun Park. According to the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1977/10/16/tongsun-parks-club/fc4e8ef5-f79b-4a55-b458-25bb6eeea07a/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fa8786cc8fe2), Park set up the club on behalf of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency "as a primary means in an illegal effort to influence U.S. politicians and officials." The president of the George Town Club at the time (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1977/10/16/tongsun-parks-club/fc4e8ef5-f79b-4a55-b458-25bb6eeea07a/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fa8786cc8fe2) of Wilson's alleged activities at the site was Robert Keith Gray.

DeCamp later reported (https://www.wikispooks.com/w/images/8/8e/The_Franklin_Cover-Up.pdf) that Wilson's activities were a spin-off of the same sexual blackmail operation in which Cohn became involved during the McCarthy era with Lewis Rosenstiel and J. Edgar Hoover.

Father Ritter and his favored youths
The operation allegedly ran by Gray and Wilson was not the only sexual blackmail operation connected to Cohn's network or to influential American politicians of the era. Another pedophile network that was connected to a close associate of former President George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s was run as an affiliate of the Catholic charity Covenant House, which was founded and run by Father Bruce Ritter.

In 1968, Ritter asked his superior (http://www.bishop-accountability.org/assign/Ritter_Bruce_N_ofm.conv.htm) — Cardinal Francis Spellman of the Archdiocese of New York — for permission to take homeless teenagers, boys and girls, into his home in Manhattan. As was noted in Part I of this series, Spellman was accused of pedophilia and ordained known pedophiles while serving as the highest-ranking Catholic priest in the United States. Spellman was also a close associate, client and friend of Roy Cohn, as well as of his law partner Tom Bolan, and Spellman was alleged to have been seen at least one of Cohn's "blackmail parties." In addition, Spellman's nephew, Ned Spellman, worked for (https://books.google.cl/books?id=FU8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA26&dq=%22roy+cohn%22+%22eugene+mccarthy%22+life&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJutKW0cvjAhWDB9QKHWZ5AgQQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=ned%20spellman&f=false) Roy Cohn, according to LIFE magazine.

Ritter, like Spellman and other priests who served under Spellman, was eventually accused (https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/this-nyc-priests-dramatic-downfall-was-just-the-beginning-of-perv-priest-scandals/) of having sexual relationships with many of the underaged boys he had taken in, and of spending Covenant House funds on lavish gifts and payments to the vulnerable teenagers he exploited.

One of Ritter's victims, Darryl Bassile, wrote an open letter (https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/this-nyc-priests-dramatic-downfall-was-just-the-beginning-of-perv-priest-scandals/%C3%A7) to him a year after the priest's preying on teenage boys was exposed by the press: "You were wrong for inflicting your desires on a 14-year-old . . . I know that someday you will stand before the one who judges all of us and at that time there will be no more denial, just the truth."

Notably, when Ritter's activities at Covenant House were exposed in 1989 by the New York Post, Charles M. Sennott, the Post reporter who wrote the story, would later state (https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/this-nyc-priests-dramatic-downfall-was-just-the-beginning-of-perv-priest-scandals/) that "the secular powers more than the archdiocese or the Franciscans protected him [Ritter]." Sennott's report was attacked viciously (https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/this-nyc-priests-dramatic-downfall-was-just-the-beginning-of-perv-priest-scandals/) by columnists in other New York media outlets, powerful politicians including then-Governor of New York Mario Cuomo, as well as by Cardinal Spellman's successor, Cardinal John O'Connor.

The likely reason these "secular powers" came to the aid of the embattled Ritter, who was never charged for having sexual relationships with minors and was merely forced to resign from his post, is that Covenant House and Ritter himself were deeply tied (https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/01/nyregion/ritter-inquiry-leading-many-to-quit-board.html) to Robert Macauley, Bush Sr.'s roommate at Yale and a long-time friend (https://fox61.com/2018/12/01/connecticut-reacts-to-loss-of-native-son-41st-u-s-president-george-h-w-bush/) of the Bush family. Macauley was described by the New York Times as "instrumental" to Covenant House fundraising after he joined its board in 1985 and brought on several "other wealthy or well-connected people," including former government officials and investment bankers.


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George Bush and first lady Barbara meet residents at New York's Convent House, June 22, 1989. Father Bruce Ritter is seated in the background. © Rick Bowman/Associated Press


Macauley's organization, the AmeriCares Foundation, which was later accused of funneling money to the Contras (https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1991-08-11-0000213209-story.html) in Central America, was one of the main sources of funding of Covenant House. One of the members of AmeriCares advisory board was William E. Simon, former U.S. secretary of the treasury under the Nixon and Ford administrations, who also ran (https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1991-08-11-0000213209-story.html) the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, which sent aid to the Contras.

AmeriCares was also known to work directly with U.S. intelligence. As the Hartford Courant noted (https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1991-08-11-0000213209-story.html) in 1991: "Knowledgeable former federal officials, many with backgrounds in intelligence work, help AmeriCares maneuver in delicate international political environments."

Furthermore, Ritter was known to have visited Macauley's Connecticut estate and served as Vice President of AmeriCares until he was forced to resign from Covenant House. Notably, George H.W. Bush's brother, Prescott, was also on the AmeriCares advisory board (https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1991-08-11-0000213209-story.html). After George H.W. Bush died last year, AmeriCares stated (https://fox61.com/2018/12/01/connecticut-reacts-to-loss-of-native-son-41st-u-s-president-george-h-w-bush/) that he had been "instrumental in founding the health-focused relief and development organization."

Years before Ritter was outed as a pedophile who preyed on the disadvantaged and vulnerable teenagers who sought refuge at his charity, Covenant House was praised heavily by President Ronald Reagan, even earning a mention in his 1984 State of the Union address, which called Ritter one of the country's "unsung heroes." From 1985 to 1989, Covenant House's operating budget grew from $27 million to $90 million (https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/this-nyc-priests-dramatic-downfall-was-just-the-beginning-of-perv-priest-scandals/) and its board came to include powerful individuals including top executives at IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank and Bear Stearns.

It was during this time that Covenant House grew into an international organization, opening branches in several countries, including Canada, Mexico and elsewhere in Central America. Its first branch in Central America was opened in Guatemala and was headed by Roberto Alejos Arzu, a CIA asset whose plantation (https://www.salon.com/2011/02/28/seymour_hersh_whowhatwhy/) was used to train the troops used in the CIA's failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba. Alejos Arzu was also an associate of the former U.S.-backed dictator of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, and a member (https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/no-accounting-for-40-million-in-charity-shipped-overseas/2162553) of the Knights of Malta, a Catholic order to which former CIA Director William Casey and Roy Cohn's law partner Tom Bolan also belonged. Alejos Arzu also worked for (https://www.salon.com/2011/02/28/seymour_hersh_whowhatwhy/) AmeriCares and was tied to several Central American paramilitary groups.

Intelligence community sources cited by (https://www.wikispooks.com/w/images/8/8e/The_Franklin_Cover-Up.pdf) DeCamp assert that the Alejos Arzu-led branch of Covenant House procured children for a pedophile ring based in the United States. Years later, Mi Casa, another U.S.-run charity in Guatemala that George H.W. Bush had personally toured with his wife Barbara in 1994, was accused (https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/12/nyregion/li-man-who-runs-home-for-boys-in-guatemala-is-on-trial-in-absentia.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=4D0E3C7D9BF86D1B315A8D1A384AA1AE&gwt=pay) of rampant pedophilia and child abuse.

The downfall of "Washington's Jay Gatsby"
After having left his job as an ABC News correspondent in the 1980s, Craig Spence found success as a prominent conservative Washington lobbyist. Spence would soon find his fortunes shift dramatically when, in June 1989, it was revealed that he had been pimping out children to the power elite in the nation's capital throughout the 1980s in apartments that were bugged with video and audio recording equipment. Much like Jeffrey Epstein, who ran a similar operation, Spence was often likened to Jay Gatsby, the mysterious, wealthy figure from the well-known Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby.

A 1982 New York Times article (https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/18/us/have-names-will-open-right-doors.html) written about Spence said that his "personal phone book and party guest lists constitute a 'Who's Who' in Congress, Government and journalism" and stated that Spence was "hired by his clients as much for whom he knows as what he knows." Spence was also known to throw lavish parties, which the Times described as "glitter[ed] with notables, from ambassadors to television stars, from senators to senior State Department officials." Roy Cohn, William Casey and Roy Cohn's journalist friend William Safire were just some of the other attendees at Spence's festivities.

"According to Mr. Spence," the Times article continues, "Richard Nixon is a friend. So is [former Attorney General under Nixon] John Mitchell. [CBS journalist] Eric Sevareid is termed 'an old, dear friend.' Senator John Glenn is 'a good friend' and Peter Ustinov is 'an old, old friend.'" Notably, Ustinov wrote for (https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/21/books/in-short-nonfiction-231795.html) The European newspaper soon after it was founded in 1990 by Robert Maxwell, the father of Epstein's alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell and a known Mossad agent.

It was revealed just seven years after the Times' published its doting profile of Spence that his "glittery parties for key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, media stars and top military officers" had been bugged in order "to compromise guests." According to the explosive report (http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf) published by the Washington Times, Spence was linked to a "homosexual prostuition ring" whose clients included "government officials, locally based U.S. military officers, businessmen, lawyers, bankers, congressional aides, media representatives and other professionals." Spence also offered cocaine to his guests as another means of acquiring blackmail.

According to the report, Spence's home "was bugged and had a secret two-way mirror, and ... he attempted to ensnare visitors into compromising sexual encounters that he could then use as leverage." One man who spoke (http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf) to the Washington Times said that Spence sent a limousine to his home, which took him to a party where "several young men tried to become friendly with him." According to DeCamp, Spence was known to offer young children for sex to attendees at his blackmail parties, along with illegal drugs like cocaine.

Several other sources, including a Reagan White House official and an Air Force sergeant who had attended Spence-hosted parties, confirmed that Spence's house was filled with recording equipment, which he regularly used to spy on and record guests, and his house also included a two-way mirror that he used for eavesdropping.

The report also documented Spence's connections to U.S. intelligence, particularly the CIA. According to the Washington Times report (http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf), Spence "often boasted that he was working for the CIA and on one occasion said he was going to disappear for awhile 'because he had an important CIA assignment.'" He was also quite paranoid about his alleged work for the agency, as he expressed concern "that the CIA might 'doublecross him' and kill him instead and then make it look like a suicide." Not long after the Washington Times report on his activities was published, Spence was found dead in the Boston Ritz Carlton and his death was quickly ruled a suicide.

The Washington Times report also offers a clue (http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf) as to what Spence may have done for the CIA, as it cited sources that had claimed that Spence had spoken of smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from El Salvador, an operation that he claimed had involved U.S. military personnel. Given the timing of these comments from Spence, Spence's powerful connections, and the CIA's involvement in the exchange of cocaine for weapons in the Iran Contra scandal, his comments may have been much more than just boasts intended to impress his party guests.

One of the most critical parts of the scandal surrounding Spence, however, was the fact that he had been able to enter the White House late at night during the George H.W. Bush administration with young men whom the Washington Times described (https://govcrime.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/washington-times-call-boy-article-1989/) as "call boys."


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Spence later stated (https://govcrime.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/spence-arrested-in-n-y-released-once-host-to-powerful-reduced-to-begging-sleeping-in-park/) that his contacts within the White House, which allowed him and his "call boys" access, were "top level" officials and he specifically singled out George H.W. Bush's then-National Security Advisor Donald Gregg. Gregg had worked at the CIA since 1951 before he resigned in 1982 to become National Security Advisor to Bush, who was then vice president. Prior to resigning from his post at the CIA, Gregg had worked directly under William Casey and, in the late 1970s, alongside (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2019-02-07/what-cia-tells-congress-or-doesnt-about-covert-operations-barrcheneybush-turning-point-cia) a young William Barr in stonewalling the congressional Pike Committee and Church Committee, which investigated the CIA beginning in 1975. Among the things that they were tasked with investigating were the CIA's "love traps," (http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Security-CIA/CIA%201025.pdf) or sexual blackmail operations used to lure foreign diplomats to bugged apartments, complete with recording equipment and two-way mirrors.

Barr would later become Bush's Attorney General, rising to that post yet again under Trump. Furthermore, Barr's father worked for the precursor to the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and recruited (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-dodged-questions-about-sex-with-his-dalton-prep-school-students) a young Jeffrey Epstein, then a high school drop-out, to teach at the elite Dalton School, from which Epstein was later fired. A year prior to hiring Epstein, Donald Barr published a science fiction fantasy novel about sex slavery (https://twitter.com/BurnsPhoenix/status/1149761142677544960). Notably, the same year (https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-epstein-barr-problem-of-new-york-citys-dalton-school/) Donald Barr hired Epstein, his son was working for the CIA. Bill Barr has refused calls to recuse himself from the Epstein case, even though he worked at the same law firm that has represented Epstein in the past.

Donald Gregg is also connected to Roy Cohn's "influence machine" through his daughter's marriage (https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/07/style/c-t-buckley-to-marry-lucy-s-gregg.html) to Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative journalist William Buckley, close confidant and friend of both Roy Cohn and Cohn's law partner Tom Bolan.

The Washington Times reports on Spence's child sex ring also reveal his close ties to none other than the ubiquitous Roy Cohn. One of the Times' sources for its first story (http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf) on the scandal alleged that he had attended a birthday party for Roy Cohn that Spence had hosted at his home and that CIA Director William Casey was also in attendance. Spence was also said in the report to often brag about his social companions and regularly mentioned Cohn and claimed to have hosted Cohn at his house on occasions other than the aforementioned birthday party.

"Bodies by God"
The revelation of Craig Spence's "call boy ring" soon led to the discovery of the infamous Franklin child sex abuse and ritual murder scandal. That sordid operation was run out of Omaha, Nebraska by Larry King (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/18/us/a-lurid-mysterious-scandal-begins-taking-shape-in-omaha.html), a prominent local Republican activist and lobbyist who ran the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union until it was shut down by federal authorities.

Buried in a May 1989 article in the Omaha World Herald's probe (https://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OWHB&p_theme=owhb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=franklin%20AND%20date(5/20/1989%20to%205/22/1989)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=5/20/1989%20to%205/22/1989)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(franklin)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no) into King's Credit Union and sex ring, is a telling revelation:
"In the 61/2 months since federal authorities closed Franklin, rumors have persisted that money from the credit union somehow found its way to the Nicaraguan contra rebels." The possibility that King's fraudulent credit union was covertly funding the Contras was supported by subsequent reporting (https://www.amazon.com/Mafia-CIA-George-Bush/dp/1561712035) by the Houston Post's Pete Brewton, who discovered that the CIA, in conjunction with organized crime, had secretly borrowed money from various savings and loans (S&L) institutions to fund covert operations. One of those S&Ls had Neil Bush, George H.W. Bush's son, on its board and it had done business with King's organization.

Another link between King and the Iran Contra team is the fact that King had co-founded and subsequently donated over $25,000 to an organization affiliated with the Reagan administration, Citizens for America (https://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OWHB&p_theme=owhb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=franklin%20AND%20date(5/20/1989%20to%205/22/1989)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=5/20/1989%20to%205/22/1989)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(franklin)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no), which sponsored speaking trips for Lt. Col. Oliver North and Contra leaders. The director of Citizens for America at the time was David Carmen, who simultaneously ran a public relations firm (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-18-fi-2605-story.html) with the former head (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/07/14/Max-Hugel-resigned-as-head-of-the-CIAs-covert/5660363931200/) of covert operations at the Casey-led CIA, his father Gerald, who had also been appointed by Reagan to head the General Services Administration and to a subsequent ambassadorship.

One of the investigative journalists who researched the Craig Spence ring later told DeCamp (https://www.wikispooks.com/w/images/8/8e/The_Franklin_Cover-Up.pdf) that Spence's ring was connected to King:

The way we discovered Larry King and his Nebraska-based call boy ring, was by looking through the credit card chits of Spence's ring, where we found King's name." It was later revealed (https://www.wikispooks.com/w/images/8/8e/The_Franklin_Cover-Up.pdf) that King and Spence were essentially business partners as their child trafficking rings were operated under a larger group that was nicknamed "Bodies by God."

Exactly how many groups operated under this umbrella group, "Bodies by God," is unknown. Yet, what is known is that the rings run by both King and Spence were connected to each other and both were also connected to prominent officials in the Reagan and subsequent George H.W. Bush administrations, including officials with ties to the CIA and Roy Cohn and his network.

Indeed Spence, just months before his alleged suicide in the Boston Ritz Carlton, had hinted (https://govcrime.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/spence-arrested-in-n-y-released-once-host-to-powerful-reduced-to-begging-sleeping-in-park/) to Washington Times reporters Michael Hedges and Jerry Seper, who had originally broken the story, that they had merely scratched the surface of something much darker:

All this stuff you've uncovered [involving call boys, bribery and the White House tours], to be honest with you, is insignificant compared to other things I've done. But I'm not going to tell you those things, and somehow the world will carry on." It is also worth noting the role of the FBI in all of this, particularly in the Franklin child sex abuse scandal. Indeed, Larry King's child sex abuse ring was quickly and aggressively covered up (https://www.wikispooks.com/w/images/8/8e/The_Franklin_Cover-Up.pdf) by the FBI, which used a variety of under-handed tactics to bury the reality of King's sordid operation. Here, it is important to recall the key role former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover played in similar sexual blackmail operations that abused children (See Part I (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/)) and the close relationship between Hoover, Roy Cohn and Lewis Rosenstiel, who later employed Hoover's former right-hand man at the FBI, Louis Nichols.

Years later, documents released (https://twitter.com/FBIRecordsVault/status/999696601475039232) by the FBI would show that Epstein became an FBI informant in 2008, when Robert Mueller was the Bureau's director, in exchange for immunity from then-pending federal charges, a deal that fell through with Epstein's recent arrest on new federal charges. In addition, former FBI Director Louis Freeh would be hired (https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article223315075.html) by Alan Dershowitz, who is accused of raping girls at Epstein's homes and was once a character witness for Roy Cohn, to intimidate Epstein's victims. As previously mentioned, Freeh's past appointment as a judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York was orchestrated by (https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Tom-Bolan-dies-lawyer-conservative/2017/05/14/id/790052/) Cohn's law partner Tom Bolan.

Thus, the FBI's cover-up of the Franklin case is just one example of the Bureau's long-standing practice of protecting these pedophile rings when they involve members of the American political elite and provide the Bureau with a steady supply of blackmail. It also makes it worth questioning the impartiality of one of the main prosecutors in the Jeffrey Epstein case, Maurene Comey (https://nypost.com/2019/07/07/daughter-of-ex-fbi-director-comey-is-prosecutor-in-epstein-case-report/), who is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.

The rot at the top
While there were several sexual trafficking operations connected to both Roy Cohn and the halls of power under the Reagan administration, in a matter of months after Cohn's death it appears that another individual became a central figure in the powerful network that Cohn had cultivated.


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That individual, Jeffrey Epstein, would be recruited, after his firing from the Dalton School, by Alan "Ace" Greenberg, a close friend (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cohn-Dinner.pdf)of Cohn, to work at Bear Stearns. After leaving Bear Stearns and working as an alleged financial "bounty hunter" for clients that are said to have included the Iran-Contra-linked arms dealer (https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-adnan-khashoggi-20170606-story.html) Adnan Khashoggi, Epstein would come into contact with Leslie Wexner, a billionaire close to the Meyer Lansky-linked Bronfman family, who himself was tied to members of organized crime syndicates once represented by Cohn.

The same year that Wexner would begin his decades-long association with Epstein, another Cohn friend with ties to the Reagan White House and the Trump family, Ronald Lauder, would provide Epstein with an Austrian passport containing Epstein's picture but a false name.

Lauder, Wexner and the Bronfmans are members of an elite organization known as the Mega Group, which also includes other Meyer Lansky-connected "philanthropists" like hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt (https://www.forbes.com/2001/11/08/1108steinhardt.html#1fbd574a28b8). While Epstein shares considerable overlap with the network described in this report and Part I (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/) of this series, he is also deeply connected to the Mega Group as well as its associates, including Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell.


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Part III of this series will focus on the Mega Group and its ties to the network that has been described in Parts I and II. In addition, the role of the state of Israel, the Mossad, and several global pro-Israel lobby organizations will also be discussed in relation to this network of sexual blackmail operations and Jeffrey Epstein.

It is here that the full breadth of the Epstein scandal comes into view. It is a criminal and unconscionable blackmail operation that has been run by influential figures, hidden in plain sight, for over half a century, exploiting and destroying the lives of untold numbers of children in the process. Over the years, it has grown many branches and spread well beyond the United States, as seen by the activity of Covenant House in Latin America and Epstein's own international effort to recruit more girls to be abused and exploited.

All of this has taken place with the full knowledge and blessing of top figures in the world of "philanthropy" and in the U.S. government and intelligence communities, with great influence over several presidential administrations, particularly since the rise of Ronald Reagan and continuing through to Donald Trump.



[B]Related:


POLICE STATE? How it came about in the US of A (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?26195-POLICE-STATE-How-it-came-about-in-the-US-of-A)



While you were out… business as usual (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?27790-While-you-were-out---business-as-usual)

[Hervé]

Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/)

by Whitney Webb (https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/)
August 07th, 2019

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The picture painted by the evidence is not a direct Epstein tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations.
Too Big to Fail, Part III

By Whitney Webb (https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/) Whitney Webb (https://www.facebook.com/whitneywebbwriter/?ref=page_internal)

As billionaire pedophile and alleged sex-trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein sits in prison, reports have continued to surface about his reported links to intelligence, his financial ties to several companies and “charitable” foundations, and his friendships with the rich and powerful as well as top politicians.

While Part I (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/) and Part II (https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/) of this series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” have focused on the widespread nature of sexual blackmail operations in recent American history and their ties to the heights of American political power and the U.S. intelligence community, one key aspect of Epstein’s own sex-trafficking and blackmail operation that warrants examination is Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and his ties to the “informal” pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as “the Mega Group.”

The Mega Group’s role in the Epstein case has garnered some attention, as Epstein’s main financial patron for decades, billionaire Leslie Wexner, was a co-founder of the group that unites several well-known businessmen with a penchant for pro-Israel and ethno-philanthropy (i.e., philanthropy benefiting a single ethnic or ethno-religious group). However, as this report will show, another uniting factor among Mega Group members is deep ties to organized crime, specifically the organized crime network discussed in Part I (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/) of this series, which was largely led by notorious American mobster Meyer Lansky.

(https://www.gofundme.com/fighting-social-media-censorship)By virtue of the role of many Mega Group members as major political donors in both the U.S. and Israel, several of its most notable members have close ties to the governments of both countries as well as their intelligence communities. As this report and a subsequent report will show, the Mega Group also had close ties to two businessmen who worked for Israel’s Mossad — Robert Maxwell and Marc Rich — as well as to top Israeli politicians, including past and present prime ministers with deep ties to Israel’s intelligence community.

One of those businessmen working for the Mossad, Robert Maxwell, will be discussed at length in this report. Maxwell, who was a business partner of Mega Group co-founder Charles Bronfman, aided the successful Mossad plot to plant a trapdoor in U.S.-created software that was then sold to governments and companies throughout the world. That plot’s success was largely due to the role of a close associate of then-President Ronald Reagan and an American politician close to Maxwell, who later helped aid Reagan in the cover-up of the Iran Contra scandal.

Years later, Maxwell’s daughter — Ghislaine Maxwell — would join Jeffrey Epstein’s “inner circle” at the same time Epstein was bankrolling a similar software program now being marketed for critical electronic infrastructure in the U.S. and abroad. That company has deep and troubling connections to Israeli military intelligence, associates of the Trump administration, and the Mega Group.

Epstein appears to have ties to Israeli intelligence and has well-documented ties to influential Israeli politicians and the Mega Group. Yet, those entities are not isolated in and of themselves, as many also connect to the organized crime network and powerful alleged pedophiles discussed in previous installments of this series.

Perhaps the best illustration of how the connections between many of these players often meld together can be seen in Ronald Lauder: a Mega Group member, former member of the Reagan administration, long-time donor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s Likud Party, as well as a long-time friend of Donald Trump and Roy Cohn.

From cosmetics heir to political player
One often overlooked yet famous client and friend of Roy Cohn is the billionaire heir to the Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune, Ronald Lauder. Lauder is often described in the press as a “leading Jewish philanthropist” and is the president of the World Jewish Congress, yet his many media profiles tend to leave out his highly political past.

In a statement (https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/950466895769210880) given by Lauder to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman in 2018, the cosmetics heir noted that he has known Trump for over 50 years, going back at least to the early 1970s. According to Lauder, his relationship with Trump began when Trump was a student at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which Lauder also attended.


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President-elect Trump walks with Ronald Lauder after meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Dec. 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla. Evan Vucci | AP


Though the exact nature of their early friendship is unclear, it is evident that they shared many of the same connections, including to the man who would later count them both as his clients, Roy Cohn. While much has been said of the ties between Cohn and Trump, Cohn was particularly close to Lauder’s mother, Estee Lauder (born Josephine Mentzer). Estee was even counted among Cohn’s most high-profile friends in his New York Times obituary (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/aids/080386sci-aids.html).

A small window into the Lauder-Cohn relationship surfaced briefly in a 2016 article (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-dinner-party-213923) in Politico about a 1981 dinner party held at Cohn’s weekend home in Greenwich, Connecticut. The party was attended by Ronald Lauder’s parents, Estee and Joe, as well as Trump and his then-wife Ivana, who had a weekend home (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenhowley/2018/04/30/roy-cohn-home-for-sale/#3bd2e0fa33ea) just two miles away. That party was held soon after Cohn had helped Reagan secure the presidency and had reached the height of his political influence. At the party, Cohn offered toasts to Reagan and to then-Senator for New York Alfonse D’Amato, who would later urge (https://books.google.cl/books?id=K8P9qd116CwC&pg=PA281&dq=%22stanley+friedman%22+%22ronald+lauder%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG-_fCt9_jAhW1H7kGHcPEACAQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%22stanley%20friedman%22%20%22ronald%20lauder%22&f=false) Ronald Lauder to run for political office.

Two years later, in 1983, Ronald Lauder — whose only professional experience at that point was working for his parent’s cosmetics company — was appointed (https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/about/president) to serve as United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs. Soon after his appointment, he served on (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cohn-Dinner.pdf) the Dinner Tribute Committee for a dinner hosted by the Jewish fraternal and strongly pro-Israel organization B’nai B’rith, the parent organization of the controversial Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in Roy Cohn’s honor. Cohn’s influential father, Albert Cohn, was the long-time president (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cohn-Dinner.pdf) of B’nai B’rith’s powerful New England-New York chapter and Roy Cohn himself was a member of B’nai B’rith’s Banking and Finance Lodge.

The dinner specifically sought (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Cohn-Dinner.pdf) to honor Cohn for his pro-Israel advocacy and his efforts to “fortify” Israel’s economy, and its honorary chairmen included media mogul Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump and then-head of Bear Stearns Alan Greenberg, all of whom are connected (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html) to Jeffrey Epstein.

During his time as deputy assistant secretary of defense, Lauder was also very active in Israeli politics and had already become an ally of the then-Israeli representative to the United Nations and future prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Lauder would go on to be one of the most important individuals in Netanyahu’s rise to power, particularly during his upset victory in 1996, and a major financier (https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/likuds-tangled-charity-web/) of Israel’s right-wing Likud Party.

In 1986, the year that Roy Cohn died, Lauder left his post at the Pentagon and became the U.S. ambassador to Austria, where his tenure was shaped by his confrontations (https://www.jta.org/1987/05/19/archive/u-s-shows-austria-the-documents-that-caused-waldheims-ban-from-u-s) with the then-Austrian president and former Nazi collaborator, Kurt Waldheim. Lauder’s interest in Austrian politics has continued well into recent years, culminating in accusations that he sought to manipulate (https://nypost.com/2012/12/09/ronald-lauder-accused-of-manipulating-austrian-elections/) Austrian elections in 2012.

After leaving his ambassadorship, Lauder founded (https://www.jta.org/1999/01/14/lifestyle/ronald-lauder-is-nominated-to-lead-conference-of-presidents-2) the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation in 1987 and later went on to run for Mayor of New York against Rudy Giuliani in 1989. Lauder was encouraged (https://books.google.cl/books?id=K8P9qd116CwC&pg=PA281&dq=%22stanley+friedman%22+%22ronald+lauder%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG-_fCt9_jAhW1H7kGHcPEACAQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%22stanley%20friedman%22%20%22ronald%20lauder%22&f=false) to run by then-Senator Alfonse D’Amato, who had close ties to Roy Cohn and his long-time law partner Tom Bolan, who was D’Amato’s adviser (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/nyregion/thomas-bolan-dead-roy-cohn-law-partner.html). At the aforementioned 1983 B’nai B’rith dinner honoring Cohn, D’Amato was the featured speaker.

The likely reason was that Giuliani, though once an ally of the “Roy Cohn machine,” was at the time deeply disliked (https://books.google.cl/books?id=zecCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&dq=%22roy+cohn%22+%22ronald+lauder%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil0J7stt_jAhVJHLkGHWCJCz0Q6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=%22roy%20cohn%22%20%22ronald%20lauder%22&f=false) by the late Cohn’s associates for prosecuting Cohn’s former law partner, Stanley Friedman, for racketeering, conspiracy and other charges. Giuliani also had a history of bitter disagreements with D’Amato. Lauder’s primary campaign, though unsuccessful, was noted for its viciousness and its cost, as it burned through (https://books.google.cl/books?id=zecCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47&dq=%22roy+cohn%22+%22ronald+lauder%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwil0J7stt_jAhVJHLkGHWCJCz0Q6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=%22roy%20cohn%22%20%22ronald%20lauder%22&f=false) more than $13 million.

A few years later, in the early 1990s, Lauder would join a newly formed group that has long evaded scrutiny from the media but has recently become of interest in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal: the Mega Group.

Lauder, Epstein and the mysterious Austrian passport
Before getting to the Mega Group, it is worth noting one particular act apparently undertaken by Lauder while he was U.S. ambassador to Austria that has recently come to light in relation to the arrest in early July of Jeffrey Epstein, a finding first reported by journalist Edward Szall. When police recently discovered an Austrian passport with Epstein’s picture and a fake name after raiding his Manhattan residence, the source and purpose of the passport came under media scrutiny.

According to the Associated Press (https://www.apnews.com/14dcf4ad8e2740ed89194712252be9e8), Epstein’s defense lawyers specifically argued that “a friend gave it to him [Epstein] in the 1980s after some Jewish-Americans were informally advised to carry identification bearing a non-Jewish name when traveling internationally during a period when hijackings were more common.” This claim appears to be related to concerns that followed the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/4/newsid_2786000/2786967.stm) in 1976 when Israeli and Jewish hostages were separated from other hostages based largely on the passports in their possession.

Given that Epstein was unable to meet the conventional qualifications for an Austrian passport — including long-term residency in Austria (the passport lists him as a resident of Saudi Arabia) and fluency in German — it appears that the only way to have acquired an Austrian passport was by unconventional means, meaning assistance from a well-connected Austrian official or foreign diplomat with clout in Austria.


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Ronald Lauder, right, and Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima pose with students from the Lauder Chabad School in Vienna, Austria in 1999. Martin Gnedt | AP


Lauder, then-ambassador to Austria for the Reagan administration, would have been well-positioned to acquire such a passport, particularly for the reason cited by Epstein’s attorneys that Jewish-Americans could be targeted during travel, and in light of Lauder’s very public concerns over threats Jews face from certain terror groups. Furthermore, the passport had been issued in 1987, when Lauder was still serving as an ambassador.

In addition, Lauder was (https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/18/giving/it-s-all-in-who-you-know-and-who-they-know.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=636195B784F7BBDE9816CC9CD6A3F321&gwt=pay) well-connected to Epstein’s former patron — former head of Bear Stearns Alan Greenberg, who had hired Epstein in the late 1970s immediately after the latter was fired from the Dalton School — and Donald Trump, another friend (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-perfectly-explains-why-he-doesnt-have-presidential-temperament/) of Lauder and Greenberg who began his friendship with Epstein in 1987, the same year the fake Austrian passport was issued. In 1987, Epstein also began his relationship with his principal financier, Leslie Wexner, who is also closely associated with Lauder (though some sources claim that Epstein and Wexner first met in 1985 but that their strong business relationship was not established until 1987).

Though Epstein’s defense attorney declined to reveal the identity of the “friend” who provided him with the fake Austrian passport, Lauder was both well-positioned to acquire it in Austria and also deeply connected to the Mega Group, which was co-founded by Epstein’s patron Leslie Wexner and to which Epstein has many connections. These connections to both the Austrian government and to Epstein’s mentor make Lauder the most likely person to have acquired the document on Epstein’s behalf.

Furthermore, Epstein and the Mega Group’s ties to the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, also suggest Lauder was involved in procuring the passport, in light of his close ties to the Israeli government and the fact that Mossad has a history (https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/israeli-secret-service-might-use-fake-irish-passports-891814) of using ambassadors abroad to procure false, foreign passports for its operatives.

Lauder himself has been alleged to have ties to Mossad, as he is a long-time funder of IDC Herzliya, an Israeli university closely associated with (https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israeli-spies-are-flooding-facebook-and-twitter/27596) Mossad and their recruiters as well as Israeli military intelligence. Lauder even founded (https://www.idc.ac.il/en/schools/government/pages/home.aspx) IDC Herzliya’s Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy.

Furthermore, Lauder co-founded the Eastern European broadcasting network CETV with Mark Palmer, a former U.S. diplomat, Kissinger aide and Reagan speechwriter. Palmer is better known for co-founding the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an organization often described as an accessory to U.S. intelligence, and one whose first president confessed to the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1991/09/22/innocence-abroad-the-new-world-of-spyless-coups/92bb989a-de6e-4bb8-99b9-462c76b59a16/) that “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.” A 2001 report in the Evening Standard noted that Epstein once claimed (https://columbusfreepress.com/article/wexners-royal-connection) that during the 1980s he worked for the CIA, but Epstein later backed away from that assertion.

The origins of the Mega Group Mafia
The Mega Group — a secretive group of billionaires to which Lauder belongs — was formed in 1991 by Charles Bronfman and Leslie Wexner, the latter of whom has received considerable media scrutiny following the July arrest of his former protege Jeffrey Epstein. Media profiles (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB894240270899870000)of the group paint it as “a loosely organized club of 20 of the nation’s wealthiest and most influential Jewish businessmen” focused on “philanthropy and Jewishness,” with membership dues upwards of $30,000 per year. Yet several of its most prominent members have ties to organized crime.

Mega Group members founded and/or are closely associated with some of the most well-known pro-Israel organizations. For instance, members Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt formed (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/222268) Birthright Taglit with the backing of then- and current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Steinhardt, an atheist, has stated that his motivation in helping to found the group was to advance his own belief (https://www.thenation.com/article/romance-birthright-israel/) that devotion to and faith in the state of Israel should serve as “a substitute for [Jewish] theology.”

Other well-known groups associated with the Mega Group include the World Jewish Congress — whose past president, Edgar Bronfman, and current president, Ronald Lauder, are both Mega Group members — and B’nai B’rith, particularly its spin-off known as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The Bronfman brothers were major donors to the ADL, with Edgar Bronfman serving as (https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=168721495) the ADL’s honorary national vice-chair for several years.


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Former Israeli president Shimon Peres, second from left, listens to Edgar Bronfman during a 1995 lunch thrown in Peres’ honor. From left are: Laurence Tisch, Chairman, President and Chief executive officer of CBS; Israeli Ambassador to the United States. Itamar Rabinowitz and Bronfman. David Karp | AP


When Edgar Bronfman died in 2013, long-time ADL Director Abe Foxman said (https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=168721495), “Edgar was for many years Chair of our Liquor Industry Division, Chair of our New York Appeal, and one of our most significant benefactors.” Other Mega Group members that are donors and major supporters of the ADL include Ronald Lauder (https://www.jta.org/1997/08/21/default/adl-opens-center-in-austria-to-combat-prejudice-in-europe), Michael Steinhardt (https://www.adl.org/who-we-are/annual-reports-financial-information/2016-annual-report/officers-of-the-adl-national) and the late Max Fisher (https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/classified/paid-notice-deaths-fisher-max-m.html). As previously mentioned, Roy Cohn’s father was a long-time leader of B’nai B’rith’s influential New England-New York chapter and Cohn was later a celebrated member of its banking and finance lodge.

In addition, Mega Group members have also been key players in the pro-Israel lobby in the United States. For instance, Max Fisher of the Mega Group founded (https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/us/max-fisher-96-philanthropist-and-adviser-to-presidents-dies.html) the National Jewish Coalition, now known as (https://electronicintifada.net/content/republican-jewish-coalition-and-pro-israel-lobby/5477) the Republican Jewish Coalition — the main pro-Israel neoconservative political lobbying group (https://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/republican_jewish_coalition/), known for its support of hawkish policies, and whose current chief patrons, Sheldon Adelson and Bernard Marcus, are among Donald Trump’s top donors.

Though the Mega Group has officially existed only since 1991, the use of “philanthropy” to provide cover for more unscrupulous lobbying or business activities was pioneered decades earlier by Sam Bronfman, the father of Mega Group members Edgar and Charles Bronfman. While other North American elites like J.D. Rockefeller had previously used philanthropic giving as a means of laundering their reputations, Bronfman’s approach to philanthropy was unique because it was focused on giving specifically to other members of his own ethno-religious background.

Sam Bronfman, as was detailed in Part I (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/) of this series, had long-standing deep ties to organized crime, specifically Meyer Lanksy’s organized crime syndicate. Yet, Bronfman’s private ambition, according to those close to him, was to become a respected member of high society. As a consequence, Bronfman worked hard to remove the stain that his mob associations had left on his public reputation in Canada and abroad. He accomplished this by becoming a leader in Canada’s Zionist movement and, by the end of the 1930s, he was head (https://books.google.cl/books?id=fIZ6wftL3oQC&dq=the+National+Conference+of+Israeli+and+Jewish+Rehabilitation+bronfman&q=bronfman#v=snippet&q=bronfman&f=false)of the Canadian Jewish Congress and had begun to make a name for himself as a philanthropist for Jewish causes.

Yet even some of Bronfman’s activism and philanthropy had hints of the mobster-like reputation he tried so hard to shake. For instance, Bronfman was actively involved in the illegal shipping of arms to Zionist paramilitaries in Palestine prior to 1948, specifically as a co-founder (https://books.google.cl/books?id=fIZ6wftL3oQC&pg=PA426&dq=the+National+Conference+of+Israeli+and+Jewish+Rehabilitation+bronfman&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLqpeDwb3jAhWdGbkGHcqpDRQQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22National%20Conference%20for%20Israeli%20and%20Jewish%20Rehabilitation%22%20bronfman&f=false) of the National Conference for Israeli and Jewish Rehabilitation that smuggled weapons (https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1992/eirv19n27-19920701/eirv19n27-19920701_019-the_bronfmans_rags_to_rackets_to.pdf) to the paramilitary group Haganah.

At the same time Bronfman was abetting the illegal smuggling of weapons to the Haganah, his associates in the criminal underworld were doing the same. After World War II, close aides of David Ben-Gurion, who would later become the first prime minister of Israel and was instrumental in the founding of Mossad, forged tight-knit relationships (https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/260133/gangsters-for-zion) with Meyer Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Mickey Cohen and other Jewish gangsters of the period. They used their clandestine networks to establish a vast arms smuggling network between the United States and Zionist settlements in Palestine, arming both the Haganah and the Irgun paramilitary groups. As noted in Part I of this report, at the same time these gangsters were aiding the illegal arming of ZIonsit paramilitaries, they were strengthening their ties to U.S. intelligence that had first been formally (though covertly) established in World War II.

After Israel was founded, Sam Bronfman worked with (https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/197618) future Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to negotiate the sale of Canadian armaments at half-price to Israel and the bargain weapons purchase was paid for entirely by a fundraising dinner hosted by Bronfman and his wife. Many years later, Peres would go on to introduce (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-scandal-has-even-spread-to-israels-election.html) another future prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, to Jeffrey Epstein.

The rest of the Bronfman family’s march on “the road to respectability” was undertaken by Bronfman’s children, who married into aristocratic families such as the European Rothschilds (https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/03/nyregion/baroness-aileen-bronfman-de-gunzburg-60.html) and the Wall Street “royalty” of the Lehmans and the Loebs (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ann-loeb-bronfman-philanthropist-whose-son-was-held-for-ransom-dies-at-78/2011/04/07/AFKtRKyC_story.html).

The Bronfmans’ newfound respectability did not mean that their association with the Lansky-led criminal empire had dissolved. Indeed, prominent members of the Seagrams dynasty came under fire in the 1960s and 1970s for their close association (https://books.google.cl/books?id=ZO8jKSn25DAC&pg=RA1-PA262&dq=%22mitchell+bronfman%22+obront&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1yYPx4-HjAhUVIbkGHSs3BoAQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22mitchell%20bronfman%22%20obront&f=false) with Willie “Obie” Obront, a major figure in Canadian organized crime, whom Canadian professor Stephen Schneider has referred to as the Meyer Lansky of Canada.

However, Edgar and Charles Bronfman were hardly the only members of the Mega Group with deep and long-standing ties to the Lansky-led National Crime Syndicate. Indeed, one of the group’s prominent members, hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, opened up about his own family ties to Lansky in his autobiography No Bull: My Life in and out the Markets, where he noted that his father, Sol “Red McGee” Steinhardt, was Lansky’s jewel fence of choice (https://www.forbes.com/2001/11/08/1108steinhardt.html#4637d31f28b8) and a major player (https://www.nytimes.com/1959/03/26/archives/top-jewel-fence-is-convicted-here-jury-finds-sol-steinhardt-guilty.html) in New York’s criminal underworld. Sol Steinhardt was also his son’s first client on Wall Street and helped him jumpstart his career in finance.

The ties between the Mega Group and the National Crime Syndicate don’t stop there. Another prominent member of the Mega Group with ties to this same criminal network is Max Fisher, who has been described as Wexner’s mentor and is also alleged to have worked (https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Max-Fisher-Distributor-and-Retailer.pdf) with Detroit’s “Purple Gang” during Prohibition and beyond. The Purple Gang were part of the network that smuggled Bronfman liquor from Canada into the United State during Prohibition, and one of its founders, Abe Bernstein, was a close associate (https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-michigan/michigan-history/when-the-purple-gang-ruled-detroit) of both Meyer Lansky and Moe Dalitz. Fisher was a key adviser (https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/us/max-fisher-96-philanthropist-and-adviser-to-presidents-dies.html) to several U.S. presidents, beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as to Henry Kissinger.


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Max Fisher, center, and Henry Kissinger, right, meet with leaders of Jewish organizations prior to Kissinger’s 1975 Middle East trip. Henry Burroughs | AP


In addition to Fisher, Mega Group member Ronald Lauder was connected to Roy Cohn and Tom Bolan, both of whom were closely associated with this same Lansky-led crime network (see Part I (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/) and Part II (https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/)) and who regularly represented top Mafia figures in court. Furthermore, another member of the Mega Group, director Steven Spielberg, is a well-known protege (https://variety.com/2016/biz/news/lew-wasserman-birthday-mover-shaker-1201721984/) of Lew Wasserman, the mob-connected media mogul and long-time backer of Ronald Reagan’s film and later political career, discussed in Part II (https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/) of this series.

One surprise connection to Cohn involves Mega Group member, and former president of U.S. weapons firm General Dynamics, Lester Crown, whose brother-in-law is David Schine, Cohn’s confidant and alleged lover during the McCarthy hearings, whose relationship with Cohn (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/) helped bring about the downfall of McCarthyism.

Another member of the Mega Group worth noting is Laurence Tisch, who owned CBS News for several years and founded Loews Corporation. Tisch is notable for his work for (https://www.jta.org/2008/08/18/archive/several-prominent-jews-spied-for-the-united-states) the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, where Donald Barry, who hired Epstein at the Dalton School, also served and which forged ties with Lansky’s criminal empire during World War II.

Wexner’s mansions and the Shapiro murder
Leslie “Les” Wexner, the other Mega Group co-founder, also has ties to organized crime. Wexner’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein have come under scrutiny following the latter’s recent arrest, as Wexner was the only publicly acknowledged client of Epstein’s suspicious hedge fund, the source of much of this wealth, and the previous owner (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-nyc-mansion.html) of Epstein’s $56 million Manhattan townhouse, which Wexner transferred to an Epstein-controlled entity for free.

Before Epstein received the townhouse, Wexner appears to have used the residence for some unconventional purposes, noted in a 1996 New York Times article (https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/11/garden/home-sweet-elsewhere.html) on the then-Wexner-owned residence, which included “a bathroom reminiscent of James Bond movies: hidden beneath a stairway, lined with lead to provide shelter from attack and supplied with closed-circuit television screens and a telephone, both concealed in a cabinet beneath the sink.” The Times article does not speculate as to the purpose of this equipment, though the allusion to famous fictional superspy James Bond suggests that it may have been used to snoop on guests or conduct electronic surveillance.

The 1996 Times article also noted that, after Wexner bought the residence for $13.2 million in 1989, he spent millions more decorating and furnishing the home, including the addition of the electronic equipment in the “James Bond” bathroom, only to apparently never live in it. The Times, which interviewed Epstein for the piece, quoted him as saying that “Les never spent more than two months there.” Epstein told the Times, which identified Epstein as Wexner’s “protege and one of his financial advisers,” that the house, by that time, already belonged to him.

That same year, Epstein was commissioning artwork for Wexner’s Ohio mansion. A recent article (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html) from the Times noted that:
In the summer of 1996, Maria Farmer was working on an art project for Mr. Epstein in Mr. Wexner’s Ohio mansion. While she was there, Mr. Epstein sexually assaulted her, according to an affidavit Ms. Farmer filed earlier this year in federal court in Manhattan. She said that she fled the room and called the police, but that Mr. Wexner’s security staff refused to let her leave for 12 hours.”

Farmer’s account strongly suggests that, given the behavior of his personal security staff at his mansion following Epstein’s alleged assault on Farmer, Wexner was well aware of Epstein’s predatory behavior towards young women. This is compounded by claims made by Alan Dershowitz — a former lawyer for and friend of Epstein’s, who has also been accused of raping underage girls — that Wexner has also been accused (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyDwFrbuy8U) of raping underage girls exploited by Epstein on at least seven occasions.
The presence of the electronic equipment in his home’s bathroom, other oddities related to the townhouse, and aspects of the links between Epstein and Wexner suggest there is more to Wexner, who has rather successfully developed a public image of a respectable businessman and philanthropist, much like other prominent members of the Mega Group.


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Leslie Wexner and his wife Abigail tour the “Transfigurations” exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Jay LaPrete | AP


However, bits and pieces of Wexner’s private secrets have occasionally bubbled up, only to be subjected to rapid cover-ups amidst concerns of “libeling” the powerful and well-connected billionaire “philanthropist.”

In 1985, Columbus (Ohio) lawyer Arthur Shapiro was murdered (https://www.dispatch.com/article/20100306/NEWS/303069782) in broad daylight at point-blank range in what was largely referred to as a “mob style murder.” The homicide still remains unsolved, likely due to the fact that then-Columbus Police Chief James Jackson ordered the destruction of key documents of his department’s investigation into the murder.

Jackson’s ordering of the documents’ destruction came to light years later in 1996, when he was under investigation for corruption. According to the Columbus Dispatch (https://www.dispatch.com/article/20100306/NEWS/303069782), Jackson justified the destruction of one “viable and valuable (http://freepress.org/article/shapiro-murder-file)” report because he felt that it “was so filled with wild speculation about prominent business leaders that it was potentially libelous.” The nature of this “wild speculation” was that “millionaire businessmen in Columbus and Youngstown were linked to the ‘mob-style murder.’”

Though Jackson’s efforts were meant to keep this “libelous” report far from public view, it was eventually obtained by Bob Fitrakis (http://freepress.org/article/shapiro-murder-file) — attorney, journalist, and executive director of the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism — after he was “accidentally” sent a copy of the report in 1998 as part of a public records request.

The report, titled “Shapiro Homicide Investigation: Analysis and Hypothesis (http://freepress.org/article/shapiro-murder-file),” names Leslie Wexner as linked “with associates reputed to be organized crime figures” and also lists the names of businessman Jack Kessler, former Columbus City Council President and Wexner associate Jerry Hammond, and former Columbus City Council member Les Wright as also being involved in Shapiro’s murder.

The report also noted that Arthur Shapiro’s law firm — Schwartz, Shapiro, Kelm & Warren — represented Wexner’s company, The Limited, and states that “prior to his death, Arthur Shapiro managed this account [The Limited] for the law firm.” It also noted that, at the time of his death, Shapiro “was the subject of an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service because he had failed to file income tax returns for some seven years prior to his death, and he had invested in some questionable tax shelters.” It also stated that his death prevented Shapiro from his planned testimony at a grand jury hearing about these “questionable tax shelters.”

As to Wexner’s alleged links to organized crime, the report focuses on the close business relationship between Wexner’s The Limited and Francis Walsh, whose trucking company “[had] done an excess of 90 percent of the Limited’s trucking business around the time of Shapiro’s murder,” according to the report. Walsh was named in a 1988 indictment (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/05/16/Trucker-charged-with-paying-off-Teamsters-local/2051579758400/) as a “co-conspirator” of Genovese crime family boss Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, whose long-time lawyer was Roy Cohn; and the Shapiro murder report stated that Walsh was “still considered associates of the Genovese/LaRocca crime family, and Walsh was still providing truck transportation for The Limited.”

Notably, the Genovese crime family has long formed a key part of the National Crime Syndicate, as its former head, Charles “Lucky” Luciano, co-created (https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/meyer-lansky) the criminal organization with his close friend Meyer Lansky. Upon Luciano’s imprisonment and subsequent deportation from the United States, Lansky took over the syndicate’s U.S. operations and his association with Luciano’s successors continued until Lansky’s death in 1983.


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The “Mega” Mystery and the Mossad
In May 1997, the Washington Post broke an explosive story (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/05/07/a-top-us-official-may-have-given-sensitive-data-to-israel/8a160042-26b9-40b4-80e9-32f7579733aa/?utm_term=.d7437fd9872b) — long since forgotten — based on an intercepted phone call made between a Mossad official in the U.S. and his superior in Tel Aviv that discussed the Mossad’s efforts to obtain a secret U.S. government document. According to the Post, the Mossad official stated during the phone call that “Israeli Ambassador Eliahu Ben Elissar had asked him whether he could obtain a copy of the letter given to [Palestinian leader Yasser] Arafat by [then-Secretary of State Warren] Christopher on Jan. 16, the day after the Hebron accord was signed by Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.”

The Post article continued:
According to a source who viewed a copy of the NSA transcript of the conversation, the intelligence officer, speaking in Hebrew, said, ‘The ambassador wants me to go to Mega to get a copy of this letter.’ The source said the supervisor in Tel Aviv rejected the request, saying, ‘This is not something we use Mega for.’”
The leaked communication led to an investigation that sought to identify an individual code-named “Mega” that the Post said “may be someone in the U.S. government who has provided information to the Israelis in the past,” a concern that subsequently spawned a fruitless FBI investigation. The Mossad later claimed (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-18-op-59966-story.html) that “Mega” was merely a codeword for the U.S.’ CIA, but the FBI and NSA were unconvinced by that claim and believed (https://www.jta.org/1997/06/05/default/fbi-investigating-possibility-of-u-s-spy-passing-secrets-to-israel) that it was a senior U.S. government official that had potentially once been involved in working with Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. naval intelligence analyst later convicted of spying for the Mossad.

Almost one year to the day after the “Mega” spy scandal broke, the Wall Street Journal was the first outlet (https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB894240270899870000) to report on the existence of a little-known organization of billionaires that was “informally” called the Mega Group and had been founded years prior in 1991. The report made no mention of the spy scandal that had spread concerns of Israeli espionage in the U.S. only a year prior. However, the group’s distinctive “informal” name and the connections of its members to the Mossad and to high-ranking Israeli politicians, including prime ministers, raise the possibility that “Mega” was not an individual, as the FBI and NSA had believed, but a group.

In 1997, when the “Mega” spy scandal broke, Netanyahu had recently become prime minister of Israel after an upset victory, a victory that was largely credited (https://www.jta.org/2018/08/14/culture/ronald-lauder-helped-make-benjamin-netanyahu-prime-minister-now-hes-publicly-opposing) to one well-connected Netanyahu backer in particular, Ronald Lauder. Beyond being a major donor, Lauder had brought Arthur Finklestein on to work for Netanyahu’s 1996 campaign, whose strategies were credited for Netanyahu’s surprise win. Netanyahu was close enough to Lauder that he personally enlisted Lauder and George Nader to serve as his peace envoys to Syria.


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Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara with Ronald Lauder in 1997. Photo | Reuters


Nader, who was connected to the Trump 2016 campaign and Trump ally and Blackwater (https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/blackwater-chief-accused-murder-gun-running/story?id=8258915) founder Erik Prince, was recently hit (https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-nader-witness-in-mueller-probe-hit-with-new-charges-of-sex-trafficking) with federal child sex trafficking charges last month, soon after Jeffrey Epstein had been arrested on similar charges. At the time Nader was picked to work with Lauder on Netanyahu’s behalf, he had already been caught (https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-nader-witness-in-mueller-probe-hit-with-new-charges-of-sex-trafficking) possessing large amounts of child pornography on two separate occasions, first in 1984 and later in 1990.

This strong connection between Netanyahu and Lauder during the time of the 1997 “Mega” spy scandal is important considering Mossad answers directly to Israel’s prime minister.

Another possible connection between the Mega Group and the Mossad owes to the Mega Group’s ties to Meyer Lansky’s criminal network. As was detailed in Part I, Lansky had established deep ties to U.S. intelligence after World War II and was also connected to the Mossad through Mossad official Tibor Rosenbaum, whose bank was frequently used by Lansky to launder money. In addition, Lansky collaborated on at least one occasion with notorious Mossad “superspy” Rafi Eitan, who he helped acquire (https://books.google.cl/books?id=SQGuAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT109&dq=%22meyer+lansky%22+mossad&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjQ_Yjm6eHjAhVzHbkGHYjaBwMQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%22meyer%20lansky%22%20mossad&f=false) sensitive electronic equipment possessed only by the CIA but coveted by Israeli intelligence. Eitan is best known in the U.S. for being the Mossad handler of Jonathan Pollard.

Notably, Eitan was the main source (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-18-op-59966-story.html) of claims that the code-word “Mega” used by the Mossad officials in 1997 referred to the CIA and not to a potential source in the U.S. government once linked to Pollard’s spying activities, making his claims as to the true meaning of the term somewhat dubious.

Given that the organized crime network tied to the Mega Group had ties to both U.S. and Israeli intelligence, the “Mega” codeword could plausibly have referred to this secretive group of billionaires. More supporting evidence for this theory comes from the fact that prominent members of the Mega Group were business partners of Mossad agents, including media mogul Robert Maxwell and commodities trader Marc Rich.

The mysterious Maxwells
The Maxwell family has become a source of renewed media interest following Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, as Ghislaine Maxwell, long described in the media as a British “socialite,” was publicly cited as Epstein’s long-time “on and off” girlfriend, and Epstein’s victims, as well as former wives of Epstein’s friends, have claimed that she was Epstein’s “pimp” and procured underage girls for his sexual blackmail operation. Ghislaine Maxwell is also alleged (https://www.scribd.com/doc/267173868/Virginia-Roberts-Affidavit) to have engaged in the rape of the girls she procured for Epstein and to have used them to produce child pornography.

Ghislaine was the favorite and youngest daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell. Maxwell, born Jan Ludvick Hoch, had joined the British Army in World War II.

Afterwards, according to authors John Loftus and Mark Aarons (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secret-war-against-the-jews-john-loftus/1111674325), he greatly influenced the Czechoslovakian government’s decision to arm Zionist paramilitaries during the 1948 war that resulted in Israel’s creation as a state, and Maxwell himself was also involved in the smuggling of aircraft parts to Israel.

Around this time, Maxwell was approached by British intelligence outfit MI6 and offered a position that Maxwell ultimately declined. MI6 then classified (https://www.wrmea.org/003-september/book-review-robert-maxwell-israel-s-superspy.html) him as “Zionist — loyal only to Israel” and made him a person of interest. He later became an agent of the Mossad, according to several books including Seymour Hersh’s The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, and Robert Maxwell: Israel’s Superspy by Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon.

According to Victor Ostrovsky (https://books.google.cl/books?id=2wlXxBhEMpMC&pg=PA210&dq=funeral+%22robert+maxwell%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGseit2eTjAhXwH7kGHUn6AvAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=PROMIS%20maxwell&f=false), a former Mossad case officer:
Mossad was financing many of its operations in Europe from money stolen from Maxwell’s newspaper pension fund. They got their hands on the funds almost as soon as Maxwell made the purchase of the Mirror Newspaper Group with money lent to him by Mossad.”
In exchange for his services, the Mossad helped Maxwell satisfy his sexual appetite during his visits to Israel, providing him (https://books.google.cl/books?id=2wlXxBhEMpMC&pg=PA210&dq=funeral+%22robert+maxwell%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGseit2eTjAhXwH7kGHUn6AvAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=PROMIS%20maxwell&f=false) with prostitutes, “the service maintained for blackmail purposes.” It was later revealed that the hotel in which he stayed in Israel was bugged with cameras, allowing the Mossad to acquire “a small library of video footage of Maxwell in sexually compromising positions.” As with the CIA, the Mossad’s use of blackmail against both friend and foe is well-documented (https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/spy-cables-mossad-used-sex-to-entrap-1823816) and known to be extensive (https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/sex-blackmail-and-theft-leaks-detail-israeli-spy-operations).

Maxwell was also a close associate and friend of Israeli “superspy” Rafi Eitan, who, as previously mentioned, was Jonathan Pollard’s handler and who had previously worked directly with Meyer Lansky. Eitan had learned (https://books.google.cl/books?id=2wlXxBhEMpMC&pg=PA210&dq=funeral+%22robert+maxwell%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGseit2eTjAhXwH7kGHUn6AvAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=PROMIS%20maxwell&f=false) of a revolutionary new software being used by the U.S. government known as “Promis” from Earl Brian, a long-time associate and aide to Ronald Reagan. Promis is often considered the forerunner to the “Prism” software used by spy agencies today and was developed by William Hamilton, who leased the software to the U.S. government through his company, Inslaw, in 1982.


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Ariel Sharon (right)meets with Robert Maxwell in Jerusalem on Feb. 20, 1990. Photo | AP


According to author and former BBC investigative journalist Gordon Thomas, Brian was angry (https://books.google.cl/books?id=2wlXxBhEMpMC&pg=PA210&dq=funeral+%22robert+maxwell%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGseit2eTjAhXwH7kGHUn6AvAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=PROMIS%20maxwell&f=false) that the U.S. Department of Justice was successfully using Promis to go after organized crime and money-laundering activities and Eitan felt that the program could aid Israel and restore his own standing within the Israeli intelligence community, which had been damaged by the public disclosure of Eitan’s involvement in the Pollard affair and Iran Contra.

A plan was hatched to install a “trapdoor” (https://books.google.cl/books?id=2wlXxBhEMpMC&pg=PA210&dq=funeral+%22robert+maxwell%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGseit2eTjAhXwH7kGHUn6AvAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=PROMIS%20maxwell&f=false) into the software and then market Promis throughout the world, providing the Mossad with invaluable intelligence on the operations of its enemies and allies while also providing Eitan and Brian with copious amounts of cash. According to the testimony of ex-Mossad official Ari Ben-Menashe, Brian provided a copy (http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?inslawpromis_the_inslaw_dispute_and_promis=inslawpromis_oversight_by_congress&timeline=inslawpromis) of Promis to Israel’s military intelligence, which contacted an Israeli American programmer living in California who then planted the “trapdoor” in the software. The CIA was later said to have installed its own trapdoor in the software but it is unknown if they did so with a version of the already bugged software and how widely it was adopted relative to the version bugged by Israeli intelligence.

After the trapdoor was inserted, the problem became selling the bugged version of the software to governments as well as private companies around the world, particularly in areas of interest. Brian first attempted to buy out Inslaw and Promis and then use that same company to sell the bugged version.

Unsuccessful, Brian turned to his close friend, then-Attorney General Ed Meese whose Justice Department then abruptly refused (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/may/16/FBI-promis-part-1/) to make the payments to Inslaw that were stipulated by the contract, essentially using the software for free, which Inslaw claimed to be theft. Some have speculated that Meese’s role in that decision was shaped, not only by his friendship with Brian, but the fact that his wife was a major investor (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/may/16/FBI-promis-part-1/) in Brian’s business ventures. Meese would later become an adviser to Donald Trump when he was president-elect.

Inslaw was forced to declare bankruptcy as a result of Meese’s actions and sued the Justice Department. The court later found (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/may/16/FBI-promis-part-1/) that the Meese-led department “took, converted, stole” the software through “trickery, fraud and deceit.”

With Inslaw out of the way, Brian sold the software all over the world. Eitan later recruited Robert Maxwell to become another Promis salesman, which he did remarkably well, even succeeding in selling the software to Soviet intelligence and conspiring with (https://www.wrmea.org/003-september/book-review-robert-maxwell-israel-s-superspy.html) Republican Texas Senator John Tower to have the software adopted by the U.S. government laboratory at Los Alamos. Dozens of countries used the software on their most carefully guarded computer systems, unaware that Mossad now had access to everything Promis touched.

Whereas the Mossad’s past reliance on gathering intelligence had relied on the same tactics used by its equivalents in the U.S. and elsewhere, the widespread adoption of the Promis software, largely through the actions of Earl Brian and Robert Maxwell, gave the Mossad a way to gather not just troves of counterintelligence data, but also blackmail on other intelligence agencies and powerful figures.

Indeed, Promis’ backdoor and adoption by intelligence agencies all over the world essentially provided the Mossad with access to troves of blackmail that the CIA and FBI had acquired on their friends and foes for over half a century. Strangely, in recent years, the FBI has sought to hide (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/jun/28/sir-robert-maxwells-fbi-PROMIS/) information related to Robert Maxwell’s connection to the Promis scandal.

According to journalist Robert Fisk (https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/03/26/the-ordeal-of-mordechai-vanunu/), Maxwell was also involved in the Mossad abduction of Israeli nuclear weapons whistleblower Vanunu Mordechai. Mordechai had attempted to provide the media with information on the extent of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, which was eventually published by the Sunday Times of London. Yet, Mordechai had also contacted the Daily Mirror with the information, the Mirror being an outlet that was owned by Maxwell and whose foreign editor was a close Maxwell associate and alleged Mossad asset, Nicholas Davies. Journalist Seymour Hersh alleged that Davies had also been involved in Israeli arms deals.

Per Fisk, it was Maxwell who contacted the Israeli Embassy in London and told them of Mordechai’s activities. This led to Mordechai’s entrapment by a female Mossad agent who seduced him as part of a “honey trap” operation that led to his kidnapping and later imprisonment in Israel. Mordechai served an 18-year sentence, 12 years of which were in solitary confinement.

Then, there is the issue of Maxwell’s death, widely cited by mainstream and independent media alike as suspicious and a potential homicide (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-mystery-of-maxwells-death-6107041.html). According to authors Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Maxwell had sealed his own fate when he attempted to threaten top Mossad officials with the exposure of certain operations if they did not help him rescue his media empire from crippling debt and financial difficulties. Many of Maxwell’s creditors (https://books.google.cl/books?id=2wlXxBhEMpMC&pg=PA210&dq=funeral+%22robert+maxwell%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGseit2eTjAhXwH7kGHUn6AvAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=PROMIS%20maxwell&f=false), who had grown increasingly displeased with the media mogul, were Israeli and several of them were alleged to be Mossad-connected themselves.

Thomas and Dillon argue in their biography (https://www.wrmea.org/003-september/book-review-robert-maxwell-israel-s-superspy.html) of Maxwell’s life that the Mossad felt that Maxwell had become more of a liability than an asset and killed him on his yacht three months after he demanded the bailout. On the other extreme are theories that suggest Maxwell committed suicide because of the financial difficulties his empire faced.


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Ghislaine Maxwell, far right, Robert Maxwell’s daughter, looks on his casket is unloaded from a plane in Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 1991. Heribert Proepper | AP


Some have taken Maxwell’s funeral held in Israel as the country’s “official” confirmation of Maxwell’s service to the Mossad, as it was likened to a state funeral and attended by no less than six (https://books.google.cl/books?id=2wlXxBhEMpMC&pg=PA210&dq=funeral+%22robert+maxwell%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGseit2eTjAhXwH7kGHUn6AvAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=funeral%20%22robert%20maxwell%22&f=false)serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence. During his funeral service in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogized him and stated (https://books.google.cl/books?id=2wlXxBhEMpMC&pg=PA210&dq=funeral+%22robert+maxwell%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGseit2eTjAhXwH7kGHUn6AvAQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=funeral%20%22robert%20maxwell%22&f=false): “He has done more for Israel than can today be said.” Other eulogies (https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/11/business/the-media-business-maxwell-is-buried-in-jerusalem.html?mtrref=undefined&gwh=AF94574B7DEA0E612B46A3DB88E7A34F&gwt=pay&assetType=REGIWALL) were given by future Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert (then Health Minister) and Shimon Peres, with the latter also praising (https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/03/26/the-ordeal-of-mordechai-vanunu/) Maxwell’s “services” on behalf of Israel.

Swimming in the same swamp
As he built his business empire — and even became a member of Parliament, Maxwell was also doing work for Israeli intelligence, as several of the Israeli companies in which he invested became fronts for the Mossad. In addition, as he became a media mogul, he developed a bitter rivalry with Rupert Murdoch, a close friend of Roy Cohn and an influential figure in American and British media.

Maxwell also partnered with the Bronfman brothers, Edgar and Charles — key figures in the Mega Group. In 1989 Maxwell and Charles Bronfman partnered up (https://www.jta.org/1989/04/17/archive/maxwell-and-bronfman-make-joint-bid-for-jerusalem-post) to bid on the Jerusalem Post newspaper and the Post described the two men as “two of the world’s leading Jewish financiers” and their interest in the venture as “developing The Jerusalem Post and expanding its influence among world Jewry.” A year prior, Maxwell and Bronfman had become (https://books.google.cl/books?id=_xklAQAAMAAJ&q=%22robert+maxwell%22+%22charles+bronfman%22&dq=%22robert+maxwell%22+%22charles+bronfman%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCu6DFv-TjAhVQGLkGHSkgCH0Q6AEIXzAJ) top shareholders in the Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva.

Maxwell also worked with Charles Bronfman’s brother Edgar in the late 1980s to convince the Soviet Union to allow Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel. Edgar’s efforts in this regard have received more attention (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/18/world/jewish-emigration-from-soviet-union-continues-to-rise.html), as it was a defining moment of his decades-long presidency of the World Jewish Congress, of which Ronald Lauder is currently president. Yet, Maxwell had also made considerable use (https://www.wrmea.org/003-september/book-review-robert-maxwell-israel-s-superspy.html) of his contacts in the Soviet government in this effort.

Maxwell also moved in the circles of the network previously described in Parts I and II in this series. A key example of this is the May 1989 party (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9383143/donald_trump_and_ghislaine_maxwell_on/) Maxwell hosted on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine — named for his youngest daughter and Epstein’s future “girlfriend.” Attendees of the party included Roy Cohn’s protege Donald Trump and his long-time law partner Tom Bolan. A close friend of Nancy Reagan was also present, journalist Mike Wallace, as was literary agent Mort Janklow, who represented Ronald Reagan and two of Cohn’s closest friends: journalists William Safire and Barbara Walters.

The CEO of what would soon become Time Warner, Steve Ross, was also invited to the exclusive event. Ross’ presence is notable, as he had built his business empire largely through his association (https://www.amazon.com/Master-Game-Steve-Creation-Warner/dp/0140244549) with New York crime lords Manny Kimmel and Abner “Longy” Zwillman. Zwillman was a close friend of Meyer Lansky, Michael Steinhardt’s father, and Sam Bronfman, father of Edgar and Charles Bronfman.

Another attendee of the Maxwell yacht party was former Secretary of the Navy and former Henry Kissinger staffer Jon Lehman, who would go on to associate with the controversial neoconservative think tank, Project for a New American Century. Prior to being secretary of the Navy, Lehman had been president of the Abington Corporation, which hired arch-neocon Richard Perle to manage the portfolio (https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/17/us/aide-urged-pentagon-to-consider-weapons-made-by-former-client.html) of Israeli arms dealers Shlomo Zabludowicz and his son Chaim, who paid Ablington $10,000 month. A scandal arose when those payments continued (https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/17/us/aide-urged-pentagon-to-consider-weapons-made-by-former-client.html) after both Lehman and Perle joined the Reagan Department of Defense and while Perle was working to persuade the Pentagon to buy arms from companies linked to Zabludowicz. Perle had been part of the Reagan transition team along with Roy Cohn’s long-time friend and law partner Tom Bolan (another Maxwell yacht guest).

In addition to Lehman, another former Kissinger staffer, Thomas Pickering was present at Maxwell’s yacht part. Pickering played a minor role in the Iran-Contra affair and, at the time of the Maxwell yacht party, he was U.S. ambassador to Israel. Senator John Tower (R-TX), who allegedly conspired with Maxwell in the Mossad-bugged Promis software at the Los Alamos laboratories, was also present. Tower died just months before Maxwell in a suspicious plane crash (https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/06/us/plane-crash-in-georgia-kills-23-including-former-senator-tower.html).

Ghislaine Maxwell was also at this rather notable event. After her father’s mysterious death and alleged murder on the same yacht that bears her name in 1991, she quickly packed her bags and moved to New York City. There, she soon made the acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein and, a few years later, developed close ties to the Clinton family, which will be discussed in the next installment of this series.

Jeffrey Epstein and the new “Promis”
After it was revealed that Epstein had evaded stricter sentencing in 2008 due to his links to “intelligence,” it was the Mossad ties of Ghislaine Maxwell’s father that have led many to speculate that Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation was sharing incriminating information with the Mossad. Former CBS executive producer and current journalist for the media outlet Narativ, Zev Shalev, has since claimed (https://twitter.com/ZevShalev/status/1155682139033284609) that he independently confirmed that Epstein was tied directly to the Mossad.


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Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida in 2000. Photo | Davidoff Studios


Epstein was a long-time friend of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who has long-standing and deep ties to Israel’s intelligence community. Their decades-long friendship has been the source of recent political attacks targeting Barak, who is running in the Israeli elections against current Prime Minister Netanyahu later this year.

Barak is also close to Epstein’s chief patron and Mega Group member Leslie Wexner, whose Wexner Foundation gave Barak $2 million (https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Jeffrey-Epstein-bankrolled-Ehud-Baraks-high-tech-investment-report-claims-595492) in 2004 for a still unspecified research program. According to Barak, he was first introduced to Epstein by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who eulogized Robert Maxwell at his funeral and had decades-long ties with the Bronfman family going back to the early 1950s. Peres was also a frequent participant (https://www.wexnerfoundation.org/resources/videos/?v=a-conversation-between-shimon-peres-and-david-gergen) in programs (https://www.wexnerfoundation.org/member-search/remembering-our-friend) funded by Leslie Wexner in Israel and worked closely (https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/468497/mossad-statement-on-the-passing-of-former-president-shimon-peres.html) with the Mossad for decades.

In 2015, a few years after Epstein’s release from prison following his conviction for soliciting sex from a minor in 2008, Barak formed a company with Epstein with the chief purpose of investing in an Israeli start-up then known as Reporty. That company, now called Carbyne, sells its signature software to 911 call centers and emergency service providers and is also available to consumers as an app that provides emergency services with access to a caller’s camera and location and also runs any caller’s identity through any linked government database. It has specifically been marketed by the company itself and the Israeli press as a solution (https://carbyne911.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CARBYNE_ActiveShooter_WhitePaper.pdf) to mass shootings (https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Israeli-countermeasures-571389) in the United States and is already being used by at least two U.S. counties.

Israeli media reported that Epstein and Barak were among the company’s largest investors. Barak poured millions into the company and it was recently revealed (https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-11-2019/) by Haaretz that a significant amount of Barak’s total investments in Carbyne was funded by Epstein, making him a “de facto partner” in the company. Barak is now Carbyne’s chairman (https://carbyne911.com/team/).

The company’s executive team are all former members of different branches of Israeli intelligence, including the elite military intelligence unit, Unit 8200, that is often likened to Israel’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Carbyne’s current CEO, Amir Elichai, served in Unit 8200 (https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/) and tapped former Unit 8200 commander Pinchas Buchris (https://carbyne911.com/team/https://carbyne911.com/team/) to serve as the company’s director and on its board. In addition to Elichai, another Carbyne co-founder, Lital Leshem (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lital-leshem/), also served in Unit 8200 and later worked for Israeli private spy company Black Cube. Leshem now works for a subsidiary of Erik Prince’s company Frontier Services Group, according to the independent media outlet Narativ.

The company also includes several tie-ins to the Trump administration, including Palantir founder and Trump ally Peter Thiel — an investor (https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/) in Carbyne. In addition, Carbyne’s board of advisers (https://carbyne911.com/team/) includes former Palantir employee Trae Stephens, who was a member of the Trump transition team, as well as former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. Trump donor and New York real-estate developer (https://therealdeal.com/2017/04/17/nyc-real-estate-players-are-wasting-no-time-backing-trumps-2020-run/) Eliot Tawill is also on Carbyne’s board (https://carbyne911.com/team/), alongside Ehud Barak and Pinchas Buchris.

Narativ, which wrote the first expose on Carbyne after Epstein’s arrest, noted that the Chinese government uses a smartphone app very similar to Carbyne as part of its mass surveillance apparatus, even though the original purpose of the app was for improved emergency reporting. According to Narativ, the Chinese Carbyne-equivalent “monitors every aspect of a user’s life, including personal conversations, power usage, and tracks a user’s movement.”

Given the history of Robert Maxwell — the father of Epstein’s long-time “girlfriend” and young-girl-procuring madam, Ghislaine Maxwell — in promoting the sale of Carbyne’s modified Promis software, which was also marketed as a tool to improve government efficacy but was actually a tool of mass surveillance for the benefit of Israeli intelligence, the overlap between Carbyne and Promis is troubling and warrants further investigation.

It is also worth noting that Unit 8200-connected tech start-ups are being widely integrated into U.S. companies and have developed close ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex, with Carbyne being just one example of that trend.

As MintPress previously reported (https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-electionguard-a-trojan-horse-for-a-military-industrial-takeover-of-us-elections/258732/), Unit 8200-linked outfits like Team8 have recently hired former National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike Rogers as a senior advisor and gained prominent Silicon Valley figures, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, as key investors. Many American technology companies, from Intel to Google to Microsoft, have merged with (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/) several Unit 8200-connected start-ups in recent years and have been moving many key jobs and operations to Israel with backing from key Republican donors like Paul Singer (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/). Many of those same companies, particularly Google and Microsoft, are also major U.S. government contractors.

Who was Epstein really working for?
Even though Jeffrey Epstein appears to have had ties to the Mossad, this series has revealed that the networks to which Epstein was connected were not Mossad-exclusive, as many of the individuals close to Epstein — Lesie Wexner, for instance — were part of a mob-connected class of oligarchs with deep ties to both the U.S. and Israel. As was discussed in Part I of this series, the sharing of “intelligence” (i.e., blackmail) between intelligence agencies and the same organized crime network connected to the Mega Group goes back decades. With Leslie Wexner of the Mega Group as Epstein’s chief patron, as opposed to a financier with direct ties to the Mossad, a similar relationship is more than likely in the case of the sexual blackmail operation that Epstein ran.

Given that intelligence agencies in both the U.S. and elsewhere often conduct covert operations for the benefit of oligarchs and large corporations as opposed to “national security interest,” Epstein’s ties to the Mega Group suggest that this group holds a unique status and influence in both the governments of the U.S. and of Israel, as well as in other countries (e.g., Russia) that were not explored in this report. This is by virtue of their role as key political donors in both countries, as well as the fact that several of them own powerful companies or financial institutions in both countries. Indeed, many members of the Mega Group have deep ties to Israel’s political class, including to Netanyahu and Ehud Barak as well as to now-deceased figures like Shimon Peres, and to members of the American political class.

Ultimately, the picture painted by the evidence is not a direct tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations.

Though this series has so far focused on the ties of this network to main Republican Party affiliates, the next and final installment will reveal the ties developed between this web and the Clintons. As will be revealed, despite the Clintons’ willingness to embrace corrupt dealings during the span of their political careers, their mostly friendly relationship with this network still saw them use the power of sexual blackmail to obtain certain policy decisions that were favorable to their personal and financial interests but not to the Clintons’ political reputation or agendas.


Feature photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera

Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.

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Interview with Whitney Webb: Epstein is one node in a network of sexual blackmail by CIA, Mossad and Mafia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A78Zu9ZgT8)

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Jeffrey Epstein, Trump's mentor and the dark secrets of the Reagan era: Governing by blackmail (https://www.sott.net/article/417558-Jeffrey-Epstein-Trumps-mentor-and-the-dark-secrets-of-the-Reagan-era-Governing-by-blackmail)



Mega Group, Maxwells And Mossad: The Spy Story at The Heart of The Jeffrey Epstein Pedo Scandal (https://www.sott.net/article/418215-Mega-Group-Maxwells-And-Mossad-The-Spy-Story-at-The-Heart-of-The-Jeffrey-Epstein-Pedo-Scandal)

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From “Spook Air” to the “Lolita Express”: The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship (https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/)


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A composite image shows from left to right, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Adnan Khashoggi and Robert Maxwell. Graphic by Claudio Cabrera


Far from being the work of a single political party, intelligence agency or country, the power structure revealed by the network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal enterprise that is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and control.


Too Big to Fail

by Whitney Webb (https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/)
August 23rd, 2019

On August 10th, and for several days after, speculation swirled after it was announced that Jeffrey Epstein had been found dead in his cell. His cause of death has officially been ruled suicide by hanging.

Epstein, the billionaire pedophile and sex trafficker with a myriad of connections to the rich and powerful in the United States and several other countries, had told those close to him that he had feared for his life prior to his sudden “suicide,” the Washington Post reported, while his defense lawyers claimed that he had planned to cooperate with federal authorities.

Following the controversial conclusion by the New York Medical Examiner that Epstein’s death was a suicide — a conclusion contested by Epstein’s attornies as well as by independent forensic pathologists, given the apparent evidence pointing towards strangulation — corporate media coverage of the Epstein case has slowed to a trickle, save for sensationalist stories about his alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and new salacious details of his past. Gone from corporate media are any hints of the larger scandal, revolving around the admission that Epstein had “belonged to intelligence.”

In this four-part series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail (https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/),” MintPress has revealed that Epstein’s activities — a sexual blackmail operation involving minors and connected to intelligence agencies — was one of many such operations that have taken place for decades, developing from the nexus forged between the CIA, organized crime and Israeli intelligence shortly after World War II.

As Part II (https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/) of this series revealed, these sexual blackmail operations proliferated during the Iran-Contra affair, which involved this same dark alliance between U.S./Israeli intelligence and organized crime. Though this series has thus far largely focused on the ties of Republican officials to those operations and associated crimes, the final installment of this series will focus on Democratic politicians, namely the Clinton family, and their ties to this same network as well as Jeffrey Epstein.

The Clintons’ own involvement in Iran-Contra revolved around the covert activities at Arkansas’ Mena Airport, which involved the CIA front company Southern Air Transport and occurred while Clinton was governor. Just a few years into the Clinton presidential administration, Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein would play a major role in Southern Air Transport’s relocation to Columbus, Ohio, leading to concerns among top Ohio officials that both men were not only working with the CIA, but that Wexner’s company, The Limited, sought to use the CIA-linked airline for smuggling.

During that same period of time, Epstein had already forged close ties to important Clinton White House officials and prominent Clinton donors like Lynn Forester de Rothschild and made several personal visits to the official presidential residence.

Some of these ties appear related to Epstein’s shady financial activities, particularly involving currency markets and offshore tax havens — activities he began to perfect while working for prominent Iran-Contra figures in the early 1980s, several of whom were tied to the CIA-linked bank Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and had known relationships with Israeli intelligence, namely the Mossad. The nature of Epstein’s work for these individuals and other evidence strongly suggests that Epstein himself had a relationship with BCCI after leaving Bear Stearns and prior to the bank’s collapse in 1991.

Of particular importance are Epstein’s relationship to the Clinton Foundation and the alleged role of Epstein’s Virgin Islands-based hedge fund and the Clinton Foundation in money laundering activity, a relationship still under investigation by MintPress.

It is this tale of intrigue that fully reveals the extent to which this decades-old alliance between organized crime, the CIA, and Israeli intelligence has corrupted and influenced politicians of both political parties, both through the use of sexual blackmail and through other means of coercion.

Far from being the work of a single intelligence agency or a single country, the power structure revealed by this network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal enterprise that transcends nationality and is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and control. Existing for decades and willing to use any means necessary to cover its tracks, this criminal racket has become so integrated into the levers of power, in the United States and well beyond, that it is truly too big to fail.

Iran Contra, Mena Airport and the Clintons
When one thinks back to the now-famous Iran-Contra scandal, names like Ronald Reagan, Oliver North and Barry Seal come to mind, but former President Bill Clinton also played an outsized role in the scandal — using his home state of Arkansas, where he was then serving as governor, as a sort of rallying point for the CIA's U.S.-side of the Central American operation.

In fact, during Clinton's reign as governor, a small town called Mena, nestled in the Ozark Mountains west of Arkansas' capital Little Rock, would be propelled into the national spotlight as a hub for drug and arms smuggling and the training of CIA-backed far-right militias.

Under the close watch of the CIA, then led by William Casey, the Mena Intermountain Regional Airport was used (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_epmurfIk8&feature=youtu.be) to stockpile and deliver arms and ammunition to the Nicaraguan Contras. The arms were sometimes exchanged for cocaine from South American cartels, which would then be sent back to Mena and used to fund the covert CIA operation.


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Though efforts have been made to dismiss Clinton's role in the scandal, his direct intervention in the Contras' attempts to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua suggests Clinton had some sort of personal stake in the efforts and was unlikely aloof to the major smuggling operation taking place in his state while he had been governor. In fact, while governor, Clinton split with many other state governments in sending a contingency (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/08/26/The-nations-governors-disagreed-sharply-Tuesday-over-the-Pentagons/5836525412800/) of the Arkansas National Guard to Honduras to train the Nicaraguan Contras on how to overthrow their Sandinista government. Clinton would also discuss his first-hand knowledge of the operation with now-Trump administration Attorney General William Barr.

Much of this channeling of both weapons and drugs was carried out by notorious drug smuggler and alleged CIA/DEA operative Barry Seal. According to the book Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859842585/counterpunchmaga) by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair:
A federal investigation aided by the Arkansas State Police established that Barry Seal, a drug dealer working for the Medellin cartel as well as with the C.I.A. and the D.E.A., had his planes retrofitted at Mena for drug drops, trained pilots there and laundered his profits partly through financial institutions in Arkansas. Seal, at this time was in close contact with [Oliver] North, who acknowledged the relationship in his memoir. These were the years in which North was constructing his covert supply lines for the contras. Seal was known to use aircraft that belonged to the company Southern Air Transport and he also employed flight crews that worked for that same company. Southern Air Transport, formerly Air America, was once directly owned by the CIA and today is remembered for being a CIA front during Iran-Contra. Less known is the relationship between the CIA-linked airline and Leslie Wexner and his then-close associate Jeffrey Epstein, which will be discussed in detail later in this report.


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Barry Seal

Seal seemed to always operate with much less than six degrees of separation from Clinton while the latter served as governor. In his 1999 confessional exposé, Cross-fire: Witness in the Clinton Investigation (https://www.amazon.com/Crossfire-Investigation-L-D-Brown/dp/1582750033), former Arkansas policeman turned personal driver and security guard for Bill Clinton, L.D. Brown, recounts how Clinton encouraged him to seek out a post at the CIA. Clinton allegedly went so far as to edit the essay Brown wrote for this employment application. The essay topic was drug-smuggling in Central America. Upon receiving his application, the CIA put Brown in touch with none other than Barry Seal. Seal would later be gunned down in 1986 while serving six-months probation for drug-smuggling charges.

Seal was not the only affiliate of Oliver North running a Contra-connected operation in Arkansas. Terry Reed, who had worked for North since 1983, claimed to have been put in touch with Seal by North and established a base just 10 miles north of Mena — in Nella, Arkansas — where "Nicaraguan Contras and other recruits from Latin American were trained in resupply missions, night landings, precision paradrops and similar maneuvers," according to Cockburn and St. Clair. Reed further asserted that drug money was being laundered through Arkansas financial institutions.

After Clinton's half-brother Roger was busted for cocaine smuggling (Clinton would later pardon him while president) the CIA sought to move Contra operations out of Arkansas, hoping to put a damper on the increasingly public and sloppy Arkansas-based operation. According to Terry Reed in his book Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA (https://books.google.com/books?id=zRlXGVfUJPsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false), co-written with John Cummings, a hushed meeting was held in a bunker at Camp Robinson in North Little Rock, Arkansas. During the meeting, William Barr, who represented himself as the emissary of then-CIA Director Bill Casey told Clinton:
The deal we made was to launder our money through your bond business but what we didn't plan on was you and your n****r here start taking yourselves seriously and purposely shrinking our laundry. Barr chastised Clinton for his sloppy handling of the delicate operation and his half-brother's very public fall from grace. He would later tell Clinton, according to Reed (https://books.google.com/books?id=zRlXGVfUJPsC&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&dq=The+deal+we+made+was+to+launder+our+money+through+your+bond+business+but+what+we+didn%27t+plan+on +was+you+and+your+*****+*******+here+start+taking+yourselves+seriously+and+purposely+shrinking+our+l aundry.&source=bl&ots=L16o_ybxA6&sig=ACfU3U3ifsFo9nHpD8Yl8xjD3dL4kSBhLw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixyMmetoDkAhVYCc0KHYCkDQsQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false),
Bill, you are Mr. Casey's fair-haired boy ... You and your state have been our greatest asset. Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to you that unless you **** up and do something stupid, you're No. 1 on the short list for a shot at the job that you've always wanted. You and guys like you are the fathers of the new government. We are the new covenant. Attempts to investigate Clinton's role in the Mena operations and more broadly in the Iran-Contra affair were allegedly axed by Clinton's own confidantes, who consistently denied he played a role in the scandal. According to the Wall Street Journal (http://www.idfiles.com/menacoverup.htm), former IRS investigator William Duncan teamed with Arkansas State Police Investigator Russell Welch in what became a decade-long battle to bring the matter to light. In fact, of the nine separate state and federal probes into the affair, all failed.

Duncan would later say of the investigations, "[They] were interfered with and covered up, and the justice system was subverted," and a 1992 memo (http://www.idfiles.com/menacoverup.htm) from Duncan to high-ranking members of the attorney general's staff notes that Duncan was instructed "to remove all files concerning the Mena investigation from the attorney general's office." The attorney general, serving under George H. W. Bush, at that time (https://www.justice.gov/ag/bio/barr-william-pelham) was William Barr, who is currently attorney general under Trump.

The Bank of Crooks and Criminals International
Another Clinton connection to the CIA and the Iran-Contra affair runs through the family's connection to Arkansas financier Jackson Stephens and the CIA-linked (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,157496,00.html) Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which critics nicknamed the "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International." Stephens was among the richest people in Arkansas and was also a major donor and backer of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/04/profile-jackson-t-stephens-mary-anne/) and Bill Clinton (http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930131&slug=1682819). He also played a key role in the rise of Walmart (https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/business/jackson-t-stephens-81-financier-dies.html).


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Jackson Stephens and other members of the Stephens family bankrolled (http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930131&slug=1682819) Bill Clinton's rise to political prominence, contributing large sums of money to both Clinton's gubernatorial and his later presidential campaigns. In addition, Worthen Bank, which was majority-owned by Stephens, provided Clinton's first presidential campaign a $3.5 million line of credit. In addition, Stephens' many businesses were frequently represented by the Rose Law Firm, where Hillary Clinton was a partner.

A redacted FBI report (https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/jackson-stephens-24420/#file-93170) from 1998 describes Stephens as having "lengthy and continuing ties to the Clinton administration and associates" and also discusses allegations that Stephens has been involved in the "illegal handling of campaign contributions to the Democratic National Party."

BCCI had originally been founded by a group of bankers from Pakistan, though Newsweek later reported (https://www.newsweek.com/bcci-cia-connection-just-how-far-did-it-go-195454) that CIA officials appeared to have been involved in the bank's founding and that BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi had been encouraged by the CIA to found the bank after "the agency realized that an international bank could provide valuable cover for intelligence operations." CIA documents that later surfaced during congressional hearings on the bank's activities and related scandals stated that (https://www.newsweek.com/cia-and-bcci-202850) BCCI was directly involved in "money-laundering, narco-financing, gun-running and holding large sums of money for terrorist groups."


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Evidence in the case against BCCI shows cocaine seized from a warehouse and suitcases full of cash to be laundered. © FLMD District Court


Though BCCI was known for its CIA links, Catherine Austin Fitts — former Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD during the George H. W. Bush administration, and investment banker with the firms Hamilton Securities Group and Dillon, Read & Co. — believes that those links went well beyond the CIA. Fitts — who was placed on the board of the BCCI subsidiary First American Bank following BCCI's collapse — told MintPress that, after reading through troves of documents regarding the bank's activities prior to its implosion, it was clear to her that there was "no way" its clandestine activities were carried on without the full knowledge of the Federal Reserve, specifically the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the White House.

BCCI also played a key role (https://www.alternet.org/2004/10/the_case_that_kerry_cracked/) in the Iran-Contra affair and accounts of the bank were used to send payoffs to individuals linked to the scheme. Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure and intermediary in the scandal, used one BCCI account to move more than $20 million related to illegal arms sales and BCCI-created fake documentation, including checks signed by Oliver North, allowing the sale to go forward. The bank later, when its activities subsequently came under congressional scrutiny, claimed it had no records of these transactions.


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In addition, BCCI appears to have been involved in the sex trafficking of underage girls, including girls that had not yet reached puberty. According to the report entitled "The BCCI Affair (https://archive.org/details/TheBCCIAffair/page/n69)," by then-U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Hank Brown (R-CO), BCCI officials were alleged to have obtained leverage with powerful individuals, including prominent members of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), by providing them with young virgins.

The report (page 70) specifically states (https://archive.org/details/TheBCCIAffair/page/n69):
According to one U.S. investigator with substantial knowledge of BCCI's activities, some BCCI officials have acknowledged that some of the females provided [to] some members of the Al-Nahyan family [one of the ruling families in the UAE] were young girls who had not yet reached puberty, and in certain cases, were physically injured by the experience. The official said that former BCCI officials had told him that BCCI also provided males to homosexual VIPs." BCCI was largely brought into the United States business community through the efforts of Jackson Stephens and Bert Lance, former budget director for Jimmy Carter, who assisted with BCCI's acquisition of First American Bank. The law firm involved in this effort (https://nationalinterest.org/feature/did-hillarys-law-firm-help-bring-terror-bank-america-16794) was Arkansas' Rose Law Firm and it involved several of the firm's lawyers, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Webster Hubbell and C.J. Giroir. Also involved in the effort was Clark Clifford, former Secretary of Defense under Lyndon B. Johnson, and Kamal Adham, former director general of Saudi intelligence.

One of the men added to the BCCI board after the acquisition of First American Bank was Robert Keith Gray, whom Newsweek described (https://www.newsweek.com/bcci-cia-connection-just-how-far-did-it-go-195454) as often having "boasted of his close relationship with the CIA's William Casey; Gray used to say that before taking on a foreign client, he would clear it with Casey." As was discussed in Part II (https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/) of this series, Gray was also an expert in homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA and was reported to have collaborated with Roy Cohn in those activities. Some of Gray's clients at the powerful PR firm he led, Hill & Knowlton, included BCCI clients and Mossad-linked individuals, such as Adnan Khashoggi and Marc Rich.

While the Rose Law Firm was assisting BCCI's entrance into the American financial system, it also represented (https://nationalinterest.org/feature/did-hillarys-law-firm-help-bring-terror-bank-america-16794) the Stephens-owned financial services company, Stephens Inc., as well as the data-processing company Systematics Inc., which Stephens acquired in the late 1960s. According to James Norman in his book The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century (https://books.google.cl/books?id=wDtCxUu-_NYC&pg=PA101&dq=%22systematics%22+%22rose+law+firm%22&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik8OmmoIXkAhUpIbkGHTHfB-AQ6AEIODAC#v=onepage&q=%22systematics%22%20%22rose%20law%20firm%22&f=false), Systematics was "a primary vehicle or front company for the National Security Agency in the 1980s and early 1990s to market and implant bugged software in the world's major money-center banks and clearinghouses as part of the Reagan/Bush 'follow the money' effort to break the Soviets."

The late journalist Michael Ruppert asserted that (https://books.google.cl/books?id=ezyLJrAu1SIC&pg=PA172&dq=%22systematics%22+promis&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwioq7f8zIXkAhWVHLkGHV38DHwQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22systematics%22%20promis&f=false) this "bugged software" was none other than the Promis software, which both U.S. and Israeli intelligence had bugged in order to spy on intelligence and which had been marketed in part by Robert Maxwell, father of Jeffrey Epstein's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell. Ruppert cited Systematics as "a primary developer of Promis for financial intelligence use." Promis had originally been leased by Inslaw Inc., a small software company founded by Bill Hamilton, to the Department of Justice — which later stole it from Inslaw, forcing it to declare bankruptcy.

According to a 1995 document (https://www.archives.gov/files/research/kavanaugh/releases/docid-70105136.pdf) sent on behalf of Inslaw's founders to then-independent Counsel Ken Starr that asked him to review Inslaw's case, Systematics had "covertly implanted [software] into the computers of its bank customers" that allowed "allied intelligence agencies surreptitiously to track and monitor the flow of money through the banking system" and had done so at "the behest of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its partner in Israeli intelligence." Inslaw also stated that the software was used by these same intelligence agencies in the "laundering of money, especially drug profits."

Systematics also had a subsidiary in Israel that, according to a former Israeli intelligence officer, was operated by contractors for the Mossad (https://www.archives.gov/files/research/kavanaugh/releases/docid-70105136.pdf) and sold software to banks and telecommunications companies. According to Richardson's letter, that Israeli subsidiary of Systematics also had a Massachusetts-based front company, which was partially owned by a former U.S. intelligence official.


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Danny Casolaro


Two partners in the Rose Law Firm who would later serve in the Clinton administration, Vince Foster and Webster Hubbell, acquired significant financial interests (https://www.archives.gov/files/research/kavanaugh/releases/docid-70105136.pdf) in Systematics through ownership in Alltel, which purchased Systematics in the early 1990s. The Hamiltons also provide considerable evidence that Foster's distress prior to his death in 1993 appears to have been related to concerns about litigation involving Systematics and the on-going litigation over Promis' theft.

BCCI itself was known to employ the Promis software after its theft by the DOJ; and one of its subsidiaries, First American Bank, also "filtered PROMIS money (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/may/20/casolaro-update/)" — i.e., laundered the money generated from the sale of the stolen Promis software — according to the late journalist Danny Casolaro.

Casolaro had been investigating an international crime syndicate he termed "the Octopus (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/may/16/FBI-promis-part-1/)" at the time of his death in 1991. Casolaro believed that this "Octopus" involved powerful individuals in the private and public sectors as well as the criminal underworld and that they were collectively responsible for some of the biggest scandals of the 1980s, including Iran-Contra, BCCI and the theft of the Promis software.

Casolaro had told friends and family that he was close to concluding his investigation and several people close to him had seen documents involving money transfers involving BCCI and the World Bank to people involved in these scandals, such as Earl Brian and Adnan Khashoggi. Casolaro went to Martinsburg, Virginia to meet with some sources to get the final piece of the puzzle and "bring back the head of the Octopus." Two days after arriving in Martinsburg, Casolaro was found dead (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/?tags=116544) in his hotel room and his briefcase full of his research notes and evidence was missing. His death was ruled a suicide.


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Crime scene photos show deep lacerations in Casolaro’s arms

Many, including Casolaro's family, do not believe that Casolaro committed suicide. A week before his death, Casolaro told his brother he had been receiving death threats and the manner in which he died, deep slashes in his arms, was not consistent with Casolaro's well-known squeamishness around even minor amounts of blood. Speculation only grew following the FBI investigation (https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/mar/15/danny-casolaro-primer/), given that the FBI lied to Congress, pressured its own agents not to question whether it was a suicide and lost 90 percent of its files related to Casolaro's death — among other glaring inconsistencies.

In a 1994 letter (https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Letters-Casolaro-Death.pdf) provided to MintPress by Inslaw Inc., Inslaw lawyer Charles Work told then-Assistant Attorney General John Dwyer that one of Inslaw's confidential sources in government had stated that Casolaro had been injected with a substance that deadened his nerves from the neck down, explaining the apparent lack of struggle and that the substance used had come from the U.S. Army inventory. The person who had arranged Casolaro's final meeting before his death was a U.S. military intelligence officer named Joseph Cuellar.

The same year that Casolaro died, there were several other suspicious deaths involving people directly connected to the Promis scandal or involved in Casolaro's investigation of "the Octopus" — including Alan Standorf (https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1991-02-07-2786588-story.html), one of Casolaro's sources; Robert Maxwell (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/12/23/robert-maxwells-death-at-sea-gives-birth-to-a-big-mystery/9f95c17d-fe11-4e45-9b19-50147764bfc2/), father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Mossad operative, and salesman of the bugged Promis software; and John Tower (https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/06/us/plane-crash-in-georgia-kills-23-including-former-senator-tower.html) — the former Texas senator who assisted (https://www.wrmea.org/003-september/book-review-robert-maxwell-israel-s-superspy.html) Maxwell in selling the bugged Promis software to the Los Alamos laboratories.

Jeffrey Epstein and "The Dirtiest Bank of All"
While the role Arkansas played in Iran-Contra is one aspect of the scandal that is often overlooked, so too is the key role played by Israeli intelligence-linked arms dealers and smugglers who would later be connected to powerful individuals in the Mega Group and Jeffrey Epstein, such as Marc Rich and Adnan Khashoggi.

One of the key players in the Iran-Contra affair was Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, uncle of the slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. One lesser known fact about Adnan Khashoggi is that, at the time of his Iran-Contra dealings, he was working for the Israeli Mossad, according to former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky.

Ostrovsky, in his #1 New York Times bestseller By Way of Deception (https://archive.org/details/ByWayOfDeception/page/n333), notes that Khashoggi had been recruited by the Mossad years before and that his private jet had been fitted in Israel. In relation to Iran-Contra, Ostrovsky claims that (https://archive.org/details/ByWayOfDeception/page/n333) it was a $5 million bridge loan that Khashoggi provided that helped to overcome the lack of trust between Israel and Iran during the initial arms deals in the early 1980s, and thus his participation was critical to the success of the scheme.

According to journalist Vicky Ward (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303), Adnan Khashoggi was a client of Jeffrey Epstein's in the early 1980s, not long after Epstein's departure from Bear Stearns in 1981. The reason Epstein left the bank remains murky. Though some former Bear Stearns employees claim he was fired, others — including Epstein himself — claimed that he resigned of his own volition.

Ward suggests that Epstein may have left the bank owing to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation into insider trading in a case that involved a tender offer placed by the Seagrams corporation for St. Joe Minerals Corp. Seagrams owner Edgar Bronfman, son of Meyer Lansky associate Samuel Bronfman and member of the Mega Group, had tipped off (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303) several investors and bankers of the coming tender offer. Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns the day after the SEC opened the case and later claimed he had left the company as a result of a relatively minor "Reg D" violation and rumors that he had an "illicit affair with a secretary."

Yet, as Ward noted (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303):
The SEC never brought any charges against anyone at Bear Stearns for insider trading in St. Joe, but its questioning seems to indicate that it was skeptical of Epstein's answers. Some sources have wondered why, if he was such a big producer at Bear Stearns, he would have given it up over a mere $2,500 fine. Regardless of the exact reason for Epstein's sudden departure, it was immediately after he left the bank that "the details [of Epstein's work history] recede into shadow. A few of the handful of current friends who have known him since the early 1980s recall that he used to tell them he was a 'bounty hunter', recovering lost or stolen money for the government or for very rich people. He has a license to carry a firearm."

Writing in Salon (https://www.salon.com/2019/07/09/i-was-a-friend-of-jeffrey-epstein-heres-what-i-know/), a former friend of Epstein's, Jesse Kornbluth, also stated that Epstein had claimed to be a 'bounty hunter' for the rich and powerful:
When we met in 1986, Epstein's double identity intrigued me — he said he didn't just manage money for clients with mega-fortunes, he was also a high-level bounty hunter. Sometimes, he told me, he worked for governments to recover money looted by African dictators. Other times those dictators hired him to help them hide their stolen money. (emphasis added) One of Epstein's clients after leaving Bear Stearns, per Ward's sources, was the CIA/Mossad-linked Khashoggi at the very time that Khashoggi was involved in Iran-Contra, an operation involving both U.S. and Israeli intelligence. British journalist Nigel Rosser reported in January 2001 in the Evening Standard that Epstein had claimed that he was also working for the CIA during this same time period.

Since Epstein's arrest, records of Rosser's article have been scrubbed from British newspaper archives, including the Evening Standard's own. However, MintPress independently confirmed with Bob Fitrakis, whom Rosser had interviewed for the article in question, that the article did allege that Epstein used to claim he worked for the CIA. In addition, other reports from the time period cited excerpts of Rosser's article, including the reference to Epstein's past claims of involvement with the CIA.

Specifically, Rosser's article had included the following passage:
He [Epstein] has a license to carry a concealed weapon, once claimed to have worked for the CIA, although he now denies it - and owns properties all over America. Once he arrived at the London home of a British arms dealer bringing a gift - a New York police-issue pump-action riot gun. 'God knows how he got it into the country,' a friend said." Though Epstein denied past connections to the CIA at the time Rosser's article was published, it is worth mentioning that Robert Maxwell — father of Ghislaine Maxwell and long-time Mossad operative — also vehemently denied his now well-documented links to Israeli intelligence until his death. Furthermore, as will be shown later in this article, Epstein and his only known billionaire "client," Leslie Wexner, would later forge a business relationship with the CIA front company Southern Air Transport and play a major role in the airline's relocation to Columbus, Ohio in the mid-1990s. During that period, two prominent Ohio officials believed that both Epstein and Wexner were working with the CIA, according to Ohio-based journalist Bob Fitrakis.

Past claims and evidence of Epstein's involvement with the CIA, coupled with his time as a "shadowy" financial fixer for double-asset Khashoggi, strongly suggest that, whatever Epstein was doing for Khashoggi during this time, it likely involved BCCI. According to "The BCCI Affair (https://archive.org/details/TheBCCIAffair/page/n505)" report, Khashoggi "acted as the middleman for five Iranian arms deals for the United States, financing a number of them through BCCI" and "served as the 'banker' for arms shipments as the undercover scheme developed." The report continued:
Khashoggi and [another Iran-Contra arms dealer Manucher] Ghorbanifer performed a central role for the U.S. government in connection with the Iran-Contra affair in operations that involved the direct participation of CIA personnel [and both Khashoggi and Ghorbanifer] banked at BCCI's offices in Monte Carlo and, for both, BCCI's services were essential as a means of providing short-term credit for sales from the U.S. through Israel to Iran." This connection is even more likely given the fact that Bear Stearns — Epstein's previous employer right up until he became a financial fixer for Khashoggi and other powerful people — also worked directly with BCCI during this period. Indeed, Bear Stearns served as a broker (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8753891/Treasury-loses-five-year-fight-to-conceal-40-names-linked-to-collapsed-bank-BCCI.html) to BCCI, a fact that remained hidden until a lengthy court battle in the UK concluded in 2011 and forced the government's "Sandstorm Report" about BCCI's activities to unredact the names of Bear Stearns and other institutions, individuals and countries that had done business with the CIA-linked bank.

Furthermore, there is the additional fact that BCCI trafficked underage girls for sex as a means of obtaining favors from and gaining leverage over powerful individuals, something in which Epstein would later become deeply involved. As was shown in Part II (https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/) of this series, several individuals who were running either sexual blackmail operations involving minors or child-trafficking operations were connected to CIA front companies like BCCI, other organizations connected to the Iran-Contra scandal, and several individuals close to the Reagan White House.

The CIA director at the time, Bill Casey, was a close friend of Roy Cohn, who also ran the sexual blackmail operation involving underage boys out of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, described in Part I (https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/) of this series. According to Cohn's long-time secretary Christine Seymour, Casey was one of Cohn's most frequent callers.


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William Casey and President George W. Bush

Another fact that further suggests that Epstein had connections to BCCI is that Epstein was known to have been close to other arms dealers of the period and BCCI was frequently used specifically for covert arms deals. After the bank's collapse in 1991, an article (http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973481-6,00.html) in Time magazine, entitled "BCCI: The Dirtiest Bank of All," noted the following:
...[T]he CIA may have used BCCI as more than an undercover banker: U.S. agents collaborated with the black network in several operations, according to a BCCI black-network "officer" who is now a secret U.S. government witness. Sources have told investigators that BCCI worked closely with Israel's spy agencies and other Western intelligence groups as well, especially in arms deals." (emphasis added) One of the arms dealers that Epstein apparently knew quite well was the British arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese. Leese was involved in brokering the first of a series of controversial British arms deals that involved Khashoggi (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/adnan-khashoggi-dead-saudi-arms-dealer-playboy-pleasure-wives-billionaire-lifestyle-wealth-profit-a7778031.html), known as the Al Yamamah Deal and allegedly involving bribery of members of the Saudi royal family and top Saudi officials. In addition to Khashoggi, several of those officials and royal family members had deep ties to BCCI.

Later iterations of that arms deal were allegedly brokered with the involvement of Prince Charles of the British royal family, and corruption investigations into Al Yamamah were later shut down by the efforts of Tony Blair as well as Prince Andrew. Leese is said to have spoken of Epstein's "genius" (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/final-evasion-for-30-years-prosecutors-and-victims-tried-to-hold-jeffrey-epstein-to-account-at-every-turn-he-slipped-away/ar-AAFCQl7) and lack of morals when he introduced him to Steve Hoffenberg of Tower Financial, and soon after that introduction Hoffenberg hired Epstein.

Two years after BCCI's fraud-driven collapse, Tower Financial imploded in 1993 in what is still considered to be one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. Hoffenberg later asserted in court (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/final-evasion-for-30-years-prosecutors-and-victims-tried-to-hold-jeffrey-epstein-to-account-at-every-turn-he-slipped-away/ar-AAFCQl7) that Epstein had been intimately involved in Tower's shady financial practices and had called Epstein the "architect of the scam." However, by the time Tower Financial had collapsed, Epstein was no longer working for the company. Despite Tower's testimony and abundant evidence regarding Epstein's role in the scheme, Epstein's name was mysteriously dropped from the case.


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Attorney John Mitchell and President Richard Nixon

Given that Epstein allegedly received his "sweetheart deal" in 2008 as a result of having "belonged to intelligence," Epstein's activities in the 1980s and early 1990s suggest that his ability to avoid charges in relation to the Tower Financial Ponzi scheme may have been for similar reasons.

Though Hoffenberg claims that he met Epstein through Leese, Epstein himself claimed (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303) that he had met the convicted fraudster through John Mitchell, former attorney general under Richard Nixon.

As was noted in Part II (https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/) of this series, Mitchell was a "friend" of disgraced Washington lobbyist Craig Spence, according to Spence before his fall from grace. Spence, for much of the 1980s, ran a sexual blackmail operation in D.C. involving underage boys and had taken some of those "call boys" on midnight tours of the White House that he said had been arranged by then-National Security Adviser Donald Gregg. Spence, after his trafficking and exploitation of minors was exposed, died under mysterious circumstances. His death was quickly labeled a suicide, not unlike Jeffrey Epstein's.

Part IV continues below...

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Part IV continued:

With Epstein and Wexner's Help, "Spook Air" Finds a New Home
While the state of Arkansas became a hub for CIA activity during the Reagan years and the Iran-Contra scandal, another state appeared to take its place in the 1990s — Ohio. Just as Arkansas oligarch Jackson Stephens helped attract the CIA to his home state during Iran-Contra, it was also an Ohio oligarch and his close associate that helped attract the CIA to the Buckeye State. Those men were Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein, respectively.

In Part III (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) of this series, MintPress detailed Wexner's alleged ties to organized crime and his links to the still unsolved homicide of Columbus, Ohio lawyer Arthur Shapiro. Shapiro, who was representing Wexner's company "The Limited" at the time of his death, was set to testify before a grand jury about tax evasion and his involvement with "questionable tax shelters." Columbus police described the Shapiro murder as "a Mafia 'hit'" and a suppressed police report implicated Wexner and his business associates as being involved in or benefiting from Shapiro's death, and as having links to prominent New York-based crime syndicates.

However, Wexner and The Limited also appear to have had a relationship with the CIA. In 1995, Southern Air Transport (SAT) — a well-known front company for the CIA — relocated (http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/9504191148/southern-air-moves-from-miami-ohios-rickenbacker-airport) from Miami, Florida to Columbus, Ohio. First founded in the late 1940s, SAT from 1960 until 1973 was directly owned (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/airline-swaps-gun-running-for-good-works-southern-air-transport-was-run-by-the-cia-and-started-the-1565324.html) by the CIA, which sought to use the company as a cover for covert operations. After 1973, the company was placed in private hands, although all of its subsequent owners would have CIA ties, including James Bastian, a former lawyer for the CIA, who owned SAT at the time of its relocation to Ohio.

SAT was intimately involved in the Iran-Contra affair, having been used to funnel weapons and drugs (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/01/20/ex-cia-airline-tied-to-cocaine/d7e5a04f-462f-479f-bf45-11502e772082/) to and from the Nicaraguan Contras under the guise of delivering "humanitarian aid," while also sending American weapons to Israel that were then sold to Iran in violation of the U.S. arms embargo. In 1986 alone, SAT transported (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/airline-swaps-gun-running-for-good-works-southern-air-transport-was-run-by-the-cia-and-started-the-1565324.html) from Texas to Israel 90 tons of TOW anti-tank missiles, which were then sold to Iran by Israel and Mossad-linked intermediaries like Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi.


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Even though the airline's CIA links were well known, Leslie Wexner's company, The Limited, sought to coax SAT to relocate its headquarters from Miami, Florida to Columbus, Ohio, a move that was realized in 1995. When Edmund James, president of James and Donohew Development Services, told the Columbus Dispatch in March 1995 that SAT was relocating to Columbus' Rickenbacker airfield, he stated that "Southern Air's new presence at Rickenbacker begins in April with two regularly scheduled 747 cargo flights a week from Hong Kong," citing SAT President William Langton. "By fall, that could increase to four a week. Negotiations are underway for flights out of Rickenbacker to the Far East... Much of the Hong Kong-to-Rickenbacker cargo will be for The Limited," Wexner's clothing company. "This is a big story for central Ohio. It's huge, actually," James said at the time.

The day following the press conference, Brian Clancy, working as a cargo analyst with MergeGlobal Inc., told (https://www.joc.com/2-major-carriers-set-relocate-midwestern-hubs-aif-southern-air-plan-big-expansions_19950316.html) the Journal of Commerce that the reason for SAT's relocation to Ohio was largely the result of the lucrative Hong Kong-to-Columbus route that SAT would run for Wexner's company. Clancy specifically stated that the fact that "[The] Limited Inc., the nation's largest retailer, is based in Columbus ... undoubtedly contributed in large part to Southern Air's decision."

According to documents obtained by journalist Bob Fitrakis (https://freepress.org/article/spook-air) from the Rickenbacker Port Authority, Ohio's government also tried to sweeten the deal to bring SAT to Columbus in order to please powerful Ohio businessmen like Wexner. Orchestrated by Governor George Voinovich's then-Chief of Staff Paul Mifsud, the Rickenbacker Port Authority and the Ohio Department of Development created a package of several financial incentives, funded by Ohio taxpayers, to lure the airline to relocate to Ohio. The Journal of Commerce described (https://www.joc.com/rickenbacker-airport-growing-cargo-hub_19950827.html) the "generous package of incentives from the state of Ohio" as "including a 75 percent credit against its corporate tax liability for the next 10 years, a $5 million low-interest loan, and a $400,000 job-training grant."In 1996, then-SAT spokesman David Sweet had told Fitrakis (https://freepress.org/article/spook-air) that the CIA-linked airline had only moved to Columbus because "the deal [put together by the development department] was too good to turn down."

Though SAT had promised Ohio's government that it would create 300 jobs in three years, it quickly laid off numerous workers and failed to construct the maintenance facility it had promised, even though it had already accepted $3.5 million in taxpayer funds for that and other projects. As the company's financial problems mounted, Ohio's government declined to recoup the millions in dollars it loaned the company, even after it was alleged that $32 million in the bank account of Mary Bastian, the wife of SAT's owner and former CIA lawyer James Bastian, were actually company funds (http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_widesearch=yes&p_multi=CLDB%7CCOAB%7CTWNB%7C&p_product=COLNP&p_theme=gatehouse&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=%22mary%20bastian%22%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22mary%20bastian%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no). On October 1, 1998, SAT filed for bankruptcy. It was the very same day that the CIA's Inspector General had published a comprehensive report on the airline's illicit involvement in drug-trafficking.

Furthermore, Fitrakis noted that in addition to Wexner the other main figures (https://freepress.org/article/spook-air) who were key in securing SAT's relocation to Ohio were Alan D. Fiers Jr., a former chief of the CIA Central American Task Force, and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, head of air logistics for SAT's covert action in Laos between 1966 and 1968, while the company was still known as Air America. Secord was also the air logistics coordinator in the illegal Contra resupply network for Oliver North during Iran-Contra. Fiers was one of the key individuals involved in Iran-Contra who was later pardoned by George H.W. Bush with the assistance of then-Attorney General Bill Barr. Barr — currently serving as attorney general in the Trump administration, and top of the chain of DOJ command in the investigation of Epstein's death in prison — has refused to recuse himself from the investigation into Epstein's network and his recent death.

Despite the involvement of these CIA-linked men, as well as the organized crime-linked Leslie Wexner, the then-president of SAT told the Columbus Dispatch that the airline was "no longer connected to the CIA."

Notably, it was during this same time that Epstein exerted substantial control over Wexner's finances; and, according to Fitrakis and his extensive reporting on Wexner from this period, it was Epstein who orchestrated logistics for Wexner's business operations, including The Limited. As was revealed in the Arthur Shapiro murder file and in ties between SAT and The Limited, much of The Limited's logistics involved figures and companies connected to organized crime and U.S. intelligence. It is also important to note that SAT was well-known for being a CIA front company prior to the efforts of Wexner et al to bring the airline to Columbus, and that, a few years prior, Epstein himself had previously worked for intelligence-linked figures also involved in Iran-Contra, such as Adnan Khashoggi.

In addition, during this time period, Epstein had already begun to live in the now infamous New York penthouse that had first been purchased by Wexner in 1989. Wexner had apparently installed CCTV and recording equipment in an odd bathroom in the home after his purchase, and never lived in the home, as was noted in Part III (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) of this series.

In an exclusive interview, Bob Fitrakis told MintPress that Epstein and Wexner's involvement with SAT's relocation to Ohio had caused suspicion among some prominent state and local officials that the two were working with U.S. intelligence. Fitrakis specifically stated that then-Ohio Inspector General David Strutz and then-Sheriff of Franklin County Earl Smith had personally told him that they believed that both Epstein and Wexner had ties to the CIA. These claims further corroborate what was first reported by Nigel Rosser in the Evening Standard that Epstein had claimed to have worked for the CIA in the past.

Fitrakis also told MintPress that Strutz had referred to SAT's route between Hong Kong and Columbus on behalf of Wexner's company The Limited as "the Meyer Lansky run," as he believed that Wexner's association with SAT was related to his ties to elements of organized crime that were connected to the Lansky-created National Crime Syndicate. In addition, Catherine Austin Fitts — the former investment banker and government official, who has extensively investigated the intersection of organized crime, black markets, Wall Street and the government in the U.S. economy — was told by an ex-CIA employee that Wexner was one of five key managers of organized crime cash flows in the United States.

As this series has noted in previous reports, Meyer Lansky was a pioneer of sexual blackmail operations and was deeply connected to both U.S. intelligence and Israel's Mossad. Furthermore, many members of the so-called Mega Group, which Wexner co-founded, had direct ties to the Lansky crime syndicate.


Marc Rich's Pardon and Israel's "Leverage" over Clinton

Another shadowy figure with connections to the Mega Group, Mossad, U.S. intelligence and organized crime is the "fugitive financier" Marc Rich, whose pardon during the last days of the Clinton White House is both well-known and still mired in controversy years after the fact.

Marc Rich was a commodities trader and hedge fund manager best known for founding the commodity trading and mining giant Glencore and for doing business with numerous dictatorships, often in violation of sanctions. He worked particularly closely with Israel and, according to Haaretz (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-jewish-billionaire-who-cost-hillary-her-presidency-1.5465414):
In the years after the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the ensuing global Arab oil embargo, a period when nobody wanted to sell oil to Israel, for almost 20 years Rich was the main source of the country's oil and energy needs. It was that trading on Israel's behalf that would ultimately lead to Rich being charged in 1983 for violating the U.S. oil embargo on Iran by selling Iranian oil to Israel. Rich was also charged with tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering and several other crimes.

Haaretz also noted (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-jewish-billionaire-who-cost-hillary-her-presidency-1.5465414) that Rich's businesses were "a source of funding for secret financial arrangements" and that "his worldwide offices, according to several reliable sources, frequently served Mossad agents, with his consent." Rich had more direct ties to the Mossad as well. For instance, his foundation — the Rich Foundation — was run by the former Mossad agent Avner Azulay. Rich was also friendly with prominent Israel politicians, including former Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Ehud Barak, and was a frequent provider of "services" (https://books.google.cl/books?id=0iT5MZqDd5gC&pg=PA203&dq=%22marc+rich%22+mossad&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3rf-O-ZbkAhUzILkGHargDwsQ6AEIMjAB#v=onepage&q=%22marc%20rich%22%20mossad&f=false) for Israeli intelligence, services he freely volunteered.


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Marc Rich, right, is pictured with Israel’s Shimon Peres in a photo from Mark Daneil Ammann’s “The King of Oil.”

According to Rich's biographer, Daniel Ammann, Rich also fed information to U.S. intelligence but declined to give specifics. "He did not want to tell with whom he cooperated within the U.S. authorities or which branch of the U.S. government he supplied with intelligence," Ammann said in an interview (https://www.thedailybeast.com/marc-rich-spills-his-secrets) with the Daily Beast.

One clue as to the nature of Rich's relationship to U.S. intelligence is his apparent ties to BCCI. "The BCCI Affair" report mentions Rich as a person to investigate in relation to the bank and states (https://archive.org/details/TheBCCIAffair/page/n575):
BCCI lending to Rich in the 1980s amounted to tens of millions of dollars. Moreover, Rich's commodities firms were used by BCCI in connection with BCCI's involv[ement] in U.S. guarantee programs through the Department of Agriculture. The nature and extent of Rich's relationship with BCCI requires further investigation. Rich was also deeply tied to the Mega Group, as he was one of the main donors to the Birthright Israel charity, along with Mega Group co-founder Charles Bronfman and Mega Group member Michael Steinhardt. Steinhardt was particularly close to Rich, first meeting the commodities trader in the 1970s and then managing (https://books.google.cl/books?id=1y_gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22marc+rich%22+steinhardt&dq=%22marc+rich%22+steinhardt&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigk8GR-5bkAhWyH7kGHXAMCnEQ6AEIPjAD) $3 million for Rich, Rich's then-wife Denise, and Rich's father-in-law from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s through his hedge fund. In the late 1990s, Steinhardt would enlist other Mega Group members, such as Edgar Bronfman, in the effort to settle the criminal charges against Rich, which eventually came to pass with Clinton's controversial pardon in 2001. Steinhardt claimed to have come up with the idea (https://books.google.cl/books?id=UnpnlYZOks0C&pg=PA197&dq=%22marc+rich%22+steinhardt&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF0_r2-5bkAhWhIbkGHVDGAXQQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22marc%20rich%22%20steinhardt&f=false) of a presidential pardon for Rich in late 2000.


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Michael Steinhardt, Mega Group member and founder of Birthright Israel

Rich's pardon was controversial for several reasons, and many mainstream outlets asserted that it "reeked of payoff." As the New York Post noted (https://nypost.com/2016/01/17/after-pardoning-criminal-marc-rich-clintons-made-millions-off-friends/) in 2016, in the run-up to the presidential pardon the financier's ex-wife Denise had donated $450,000 to the fledgling Clinton Library and "over $1 million to Democratic campaigns in the Clinton era." In addition, Rich had hired high-powered lawyers with links to powerful individuals in both the Democratic and Republican parties as well as the Clinton White House, including Jack Quinn, who has previously served as general counsel to the Clinton administration and as former chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore.

However, per Clinton's own words (https://www.jta.org/2001/02/20/lifestyle/jews-feel-clinton-scapegoating-them-in-rich-affair-2) and other supporting evidence, the main reason behind the Rich pardon was the heavy lobbying from Israeli intelligence, Israeli politicians and members of the Mega Group like Steinhardt, with the donations from Denise Rich and Quinn's access to the president likely sweetening the deal.


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Ehud Barak and Hillary Clinton © Reuters


Among the most ardent lobbyists (https://www.salon.com/2009/01/16/holder_4/) for Rich's pardon were then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister Shimon Peres, then-Mayor of Jerusalem Ehud Olmert, then-former Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami and former Director of the Mossad Shabtai Shavit. According to Haaretz (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-jewish-billionaire-who-cost-hillary-her-presidency-1.5465414), Barak was so adamant that Clinton pardon Marc Rich that he was heard shouting at the president on at least one occasion. Former adviser to Barak, Eldad Yaniv, claimed that (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-jewish-billionaire-who-cost-hillary-her-presidency-1.5465414) Barak had shouted that the pardon was "important... Not only from the financial aspect, but also because he helped the Mossad in more than one instance."

The Israel lobbying effort had considerable help from Mega Group member Michael Steinhardt as well as Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which was at the time heavily funded by Mega Group members, including Ronald Lauder and Edgar Bronfman.

There has been speculation for years that Clinton's decision to pardon Rich may have been the result of "leverage" or blackmail that Israel had acquired on the then-president's activities. As was noted in Part III (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) of this report, the Mossad-linked "Mega" spy scandal broke in 1997, whereby Israeli intelligence had been targeting Clinton's effort to broker a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine and had sought to go to "Mega," likely a reference to the Mega Group, to obtain a sensitive document.

In addition, Israel is known to have acquired phone conversations between Clinton and Monica Lewinsky before their affair was made public. Author Daniel Halper — relying on on-the-record interviews with former officials and hundreds of pages of documents compiled in the event that Lewinsky took legal action against Clinton — determined that (https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-to-have-offered-lewinsky-tapes-for-pollard/) Benjamin Netanyahu told Clinton that he had obtained recordings of the sexually-tinged phone conversations during the Wye Plantation talks between Israel and Palestine in 1998. Netanyahu attempted to use this information to get Clinton to pardon convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Clinton considered pardoning Pollard but decided against it after CIA Director George Tenet threatened to resign if the pardon was given.

Investigative journalist and author Gordon Thomas had made similar claims years prior (https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-to-have-offered-lewinsky-tapes-for-pollard/) and asserted that the Mossad had obtained some 30 hours of phone-sex conversations between Lewinsky and Clinton and used them as leverage. In addition, a report (https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-62401780/fbi-probes-espionage-at-clinton-white-house) in Insight magazine in May 2000 claimed that Israeli intelligence had "penetrated four White House telephone lines and was able to relay real-time conversations on those lines from a remote site outside the White House directly to Israel for listening and recording."

Those phone taps apparently went well beyond the White House, as revealed by a December 2001 investigative report by Carl Cameron for FOX News. According to Cameron's report (https://archive.org/details/CensoredIsraeliSoftwareSpyingOnUSAmDocsComverseInfosysCarlCameronDec2001):
[Israeli telecommunications company Amdocs] helped Bell Atlantic install new telephone lines in the White House in 1997...[and] a senior-level employee of Amdocs had a separate T1 data phone line installed from his base outside of St. Louis that was connected directly to Israel...

[I]nvestigators are looking into whether the owner of the T1 line had a 'real time' capacity to intercept phone calls from both the White House and other government offices around Washington, and sustained the line for some time, sources said. Sources familiar with the investigation say FBI agents on the case sought an arrest warrant for the St. Louis employee but [Clinton] Justice Department officials quashed it. (See archived video report here (https://archive.org/details/CensoredIsraeliSoftwareSpyingOnUSAmDocsComverseInfosysCarlCameronDec2001).)

According to journalist Chris Ketcham (https://www.counterpunch.org/2008/09/27/an-israeli-trojan-horse/):
are based in Israel - having arisen to prominence from that country's cornering of the information technology market - [B]and are heavily funded by the Israeli government, with connections to the Israeli military and Israeli intelligence...

The companies' operations, sources suggest, have been infiltrated by freelance spies exploiting encrypted trapdoors in Verint/Amdocs technology and gathering data on Americans for transfer to Israeli intelligence and other willing customers (particularly organized crime)." Given the extent of phone-tapping of the U.S. government by Israeli intelligence-linked companies and Netanyahu's previous use of intercepted phone calls to pressure Clinton to pardon Jonathan Pollard, it is entirely reasonable to speculate that some other trove of intercepted communications could have been used to push Clinton to pardon Rich in the final hours of his presidency.

Also notable is the fact that several figures who heavily lobbied Clinton over the Rich pardon had ties to Epstein, who also had ties to Israeli intelligence and Israeli intelligence-linked tech companies, as discussed in Part III (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) of this series. For example, Ehud Barak, a close friend and business associate of Epstein, and Shimon Peres, who introduced Barak to Epstein, were the major players (https://www.salon.com/2009/01/16/holder_4/) in convincing Clinton to pardon Marc Rich.

Furthermore, as will be shown in a subsequent section of this report, Jeffrey Epstein had developed ties with the Clinton administration beginning in 1993 and those ties expanded, particularly in 1996, when Epstein's intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation was underway. Clinton would later fly on Epstein's infamous private jet, nicknamed the "Lolita Express," and Epstein would later donate to the Clinton Foundation and claim to have played a key role (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-lawyer-claimed-alleged-pedophile-helped-devise-clinton-global-initiative/) in the creation of the Clinton Global Initiative.

In addition to the role of figures close to Epstein in securing Rich's pardon, Epstein himself appeared to share some level of connection with Rich's former business partners. For instance, Felix Posen — who ran Rich's London operations for years and whom Forbes described (https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/08/01/70845/index.htm) as "the architect of Rich's immensely profitable but suddenly very controversial business with the Soviet Union" — appears in Epstein's book of contacts (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html). In addition, Epstein's offshore structured investment vehicle (SIV), Liquid Funding, has the same attorney and director (https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/82004676) as several Glencore entities (https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/80039252): Alex Erskine (https://www.wsrw.org/a246x4014) of the law firm Appleby.

The significance of that connection, however, is unclear, given that Erskine was connected to (https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/80039252) a total of 274 offshore entities at the time of the "Paradise Papers" leak in 2014. Catherine Austin Fitts told MintPress that it could suggest that Epstein's Liquid Funding — 40 percent of which had been owned by Bear Stearns (http://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/07/jpmorgan-and-sidley-austin-were-involved-in-the-mysterious-6-7-billion-company-chaired-by-jeffrey-epstein/), and which may have received a "secret" bail-out (http://wallstreetonparade.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-chaired-a-6-7-billion-company-that-documents-suggest-may-have-received-a-secret-federal-reserve-bailout/) from the Federal Reserve — is part of the same shadow economy "syndicate" as Glencore.

This possibility merits further investigation, given that Glencore is partially owned (https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-xstrata-glencore-rothschild-idUKTRE66834M20100709) by British financier Nathaniel Rothschild, whose father, Jacob Rothschild, is on the board of advisers of Genie Energy, which includes Michael Steinhardt as well as several alleged associates of Epstein, such as Bill Richardson and Larry Summers. In addition, Nathaniel Rothschild's cousin by marriage, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, is a long-time associate of Jeffrey Epstein with considerable ties to the New York City "Roy Cohn machine." Marc Rich had long-standing ties to the Rothschild family, going back to the early 1970s (https://books.google.cl/books?id=GmKaAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT65&dq=%22marc+rich%22+rothschild&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidtrL5_JbkAhWqJ7kGHfJyCngQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=%22marc%20rich%22%20rothschild&f=false) when he began commodity trading at Philipp Brothers.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild's surprising interest in Epstein
After Epstein's arrests first in 2007 and then again last month, numerous media reports emerged detailing the links between Epstein and Clinton, with most asserting that they had met not long after Clinton left office in 2001 and, as recently mentioned, issued the controversial pardon of Marc Rich.

Those reports claimed that the Epstein-Clinton relationship had been facilitated by Epstein's long-time girlfriend and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell. However, documents obtained from the Clinton presidential library have revealed that the ties between Epstein and Clinton date back years earlier and were facilitated by powerful individuals who have largely evaded scrutiny in connection with the Epstein case.

One major player who has been largely overlooked in bringing Epstein and the Clintons together is Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Notably, Forester de Rothschild has long been connected to neoconservative Reagan era officials — the Lewis Rosenstiel/Roy Cohn network described in Parts 1 and 2 of this series, as well as the Mega Group, which was detailed in Part 3 of this series.


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Living History by Hilary Clinton Book Party Hosted Lynn Forester and Evelyn De Rothschild pose with Bill and Hilary Clinton at the Kensington Palace in London. © Alan Davidson


Lynn Forester de Rothschild became involved in the world of Democratic Party politics in the late 1970s when she worked on (http://www.avenuemagazine.com/american-royalty-lynn-forester-de-rothschild-has-a-new-mission-in-life/) the 1976 campaign of hawkish Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) alongside now-notorious neoconservatives like Elliott Abrams (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/01/14/the-contrary-evolution-of-elliott-abrams/07ee84e7-1632-4081-ac98-e213f7f81544/), who would go on to play an important role in the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan era and later serve in the State Department under Trump. She was also introduced to her second husband, Evelyn de Rothschild, by Henry Kissinger at a Bilderberg conference. Several of the individuals connected to the Mega Group and the Mossad-linked media mogul Robert Maxwell — including Mark Palmer, Max Fisher and John Lehman — were one-time aides or advisers to Henry Kissinger.

Before marrying into the Rothschild family in 2000, Lynn had previously been married to (http://www.avenuemagazine.com/american-royalty-lynn-forester-de-rothschild-has-a-new-mission-in-life/) Andrew Stein, a major figure in New York Democratic politics, with whom she had two sons. Andrew's brother, James Finkelstein, married Cathy Frank, the granddaughter of Lewis Rosenstiel, the mob-linked businessman who ran a sexual blackmail operation exploiting underage boys, as was discussed in Part 1 of this series. Rosenstiel's protege Roy Cohn was the lawyer for (https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/05/archives/notes-on-people-usery-is-confirmed-as-labor-secretary.html) Cathy Frank and James Finkelstein and it was at their behest that Cohn attempted to trick a nearly comatose Rosenstiel to into naming Cohn, Frank and Finkelstein the executors and trustees of his estate, valued at $75 million (more than $334 million in today's dollars).

According to the New Yorker (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/the-mystery-of-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-enabler), Lynn Forester de Rothschild requested "financial help" from none other than Jeffrey Epstein in 1993 during her divorce from Andrew Stein.

As far as Forester de Rothschild's ties to the Mega Group go, she is currently on the board of directors (https://www.elcompanies.com/en/who-we-are/leadership/board-of-directors) of Estee Lauder companies, which was founded and is still owned by the family of Ronald Lauder — a member of the Mega Group, a former Reagan official, a family friend of Roy Cohn, and the alleged source of Jeffrey Epstein's now-infamous Austrian passport. In addition, Forester de Rothschild also partnered with (https://www.mccaininstitute.org/staff/lynn-forester-de-rothschild/) Matthew Bronfman — son of Mega Group member Edgar Bronfman and grandson of Samuel Bronfman, who had close ties to Meyer Lansky — in creating the investment advisory firm Bronfman E.L. Rothschild LP.

It is unclear when Lynn Forester de Rothschild first met Jeffrey Epstein, but she was one of his leading advocates and had the ear of then-President Bill Clinton in the early 1990s, speaking to Clinton specifically about Epstein during her "fifteen seconds of access" with the president and also introducing Epstein to lawyer Alan Dershowitz in 1996.

Forester de Rothschild is a long-time associate of the Clintons and has been a major donor to both Bill and Hillary Clinton since 1992. Their ties were so close that Forester de Rothschild spent the first night of her honeymoon at the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House while Clinton was president. Furthermore, a leaked email between Forester de Rothschild and Hillary Clinton saw Clinton request "penance" (https://www.mintpressnews.com/hillary-clinton-begs-forgiveness-rothschilds-leaked-email/221570/) from Forester de Rothschild for asking Tony Blair to accompany Clinton on official business while she was secretary of state, preventing Blair from making a planned social visit to Forester de Rothschild's home in Aspen, Colorado. Humbly requesting forgiveness is not something Hillary Clinton is known for, given that her former bodyguard once said she could "make Richard Nixon look like Mahatma Gandhi."

In 1995, Forester de Rothschild, then a member of Clinton's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, wrote the following to then-President Clinton:
Dear Mr. President: It was a pleasure to see you recently at Senator Kennedy's house. There was too much to discuss and too little time. Using my fifteen seconds of access to discuss Jeffrey Epstein and currency stabilization, I neglected to talk to you about a topic near and dear to my heart. Namely, affirmative action and the future." Forester de Rothschild then states that she had been asked to prepare a memo on behalf of George Stephanopoulos, former Clinton communications director and currently a broadcast journalist with ABC News. Stephanopoulos attended (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html) a dinner party hosted by Epstein at his now infamous Manhattan townhouse in 2010 after Epstein's release from prison for soliciting sex from a minor.

While it is unknown what Forester de Rothschild discussed with Clinton regarding Epstein and currency stabilization, a potential lead may lie in the links of both Forester de Rothschild and Epstein to Deutsche Bank. Journalist Vicky Ward reported in 2003 (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/03/jeffrey-epstein-200303) that Epstein boasted of "skill at playing the currency markets 'with very large sums of money'" and he appears to have done much of this through his long-standing relationship with Deutsche Bank.

The New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/business/jeffrey-epstein-net-worth.html) last month:
[Epstein] appears to have been doing business and trading currencies through Deutsche Bank until just a few months ago, according to two people familiar with his business activities. But as the possibility of federal charges loomed, the bank ended its client relationship with Mr. Epstein. It is not clear what the value of those accounts was at the time they were closed. In the case of Forester de Rothschild, she served (https://www.mccaininstitute.org/staff/lynn-forester-de-rothschild/) as an advisor to the Deutsche Bank Microfinance Consortium for several years and is currently a board member of the Alfred Herrhausen Society of International Dialogue of Deutsche Bank.

The same year that Forester de Rothschild made the above-noted comments to Bill Clinton about Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein attended another Clinton fundraiser (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html), hosted by Ron Perelman at his personal home, that was very exclusive, as the guest list included only 14 people.

The evolution of the Epstein-Clinton relationship
Even before Forester de Rothschild's 1995 meeting with Clinton, Epstein was already an established Clinton donor. Records obtained by the Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-visited-clinton-white-house-multiple-times-in-early-90s) revealed that Epstein had donated $10,000 to the White House Historical Association and attended a Clinton donor reception alongside Ghislaine Maxwell as early as 1993.


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Arnold Paul Prosperi, left, with former attorney Richard Lubin in 1996

The Daily Beast (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-visited-clinton-white-house-multiple-times-in-early-90s) suggests that Bill Clinton's long-time friend from his college days, A. Paul Prosperi, was the facilitator of that early relationship, as Prosperi had a decades-long relationship with Epstein and even visited Epstein at least 20 times while he was in jail in 2008. Prosperi was intimately involved with the 1993 fundraiser for the White House Historical Association noted above.

The relationship between Epstein and Clinton would continue well after Clinton left office in 2001, a fact well-documented by Bill Clinton's now-infamous flights on Epstein's (recently sold) private jet — often referred to as the "Lolita Express." Clinton flew on the Lolita Express no less than 26 times (https://www.foxnews.com/us/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known) in the early 2000s according to flight logs. On some of those flights, Clinton was accompanied by his Secret Service detail but he was unaccompanied on other flights.

Arguably the most infamous flight taken by Clinton on Epstein's jet was a lengthy trip (https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-traveled-with-bill-clinton-kevin-spacey-2019-7) to Africa, where actor Kevin Spacey, who has also been accused of raping minors (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/11/07/kevin-spacey-scandal-complete-list-13-accusers/835739001/); Ghislaine Maxwell; and Ron Burkle, a billionaire friend of Clinton's who has been accused of (https://gawker.com/5284783/book-ron-burkle-hired-hookers-paid-paris-hilton-for-girl-on-girl-action) soliciting the services of "super-high-end call girls," were also present. Clinton specifically requested that Epstein make his jet available for the trip well in advance, with Doug Band as the intermediary. President Donald Trump, also a friend of Epstein, is said to have flown on the plane but appears only once (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-epstein-flight-logs-show-trump-flew-on-his-plane-in-1997) on flight logs. Both Trump and Clinton were known to have visited Epstein's private island, nicknamed "Orgy Island" and "Lolita Island."

In addition to flights, an Epstein-run foundation gave $25,000 (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-has-a-secret-charity-heres-who-it-gave-money-to) to the Clinton Foundation according to the 2006 filing tax return of Epstein's former charity, the C.O.U.Q. Foundation. Notably, Epstein's lawyers, Alan Dershowitz among them, claimed in 2007 (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-lawyer-claimed-alleged-pedophile-helped-devise-clinton-global-initiative/) that Epstein had been "part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative, which is described as a project 'bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.'"

Before the associations between Epstein and the Clinton White House in the early 1990s were made public, Ghislaine Maxwell was thought to have been the bridge (https://nypost.com/2019/07/21/ghislaine-maxwell-brought-bill-clinton-to-jeffrey-epstein-report/) between Epstein and the Clinton family because of her close relationship to the family. However, the close relationship between Maxwell and the Clintons appears to have developed in the 2000s, with Politico reporting (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/21/jeffrey-epstein-trump-clinton-1424120) that it began after Bill Clinton left office. Clinton associate Doug Band was also reportedly friendly to Maxwell, appearing at an exclusive dinner party she hosted at her residence in New York in 2005. Maxwell later became particularly close to Chelsea Clinton, vacationing with Chelsea in 2009 and attending her wedding a year later. Maxwell was also associated with the Clinton Global Initiative at least up until 2013.


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Ghislaine Maxwell can be seen as Bill walks Chelsea down the aisle. © Genevieve de Manio via Getty Images


Other close Clinton associates and officials in the early 1990s also had notable relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, including Mark Middleton, who was a special assistant to Clinton Chief of Staff Mack McClarty beginning in 1993, and met with Epstein on at least three occasions (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-visited-clinton-white-house-multiple-times-in-early-90s) in the White House during the early Clinton years. In addition, White House social secretary under Clinton, Ann Stock, appears (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-visited-clinton-white-house-multiple-times-in-early-90s) in Epstein's "little black book" as does Doug Band (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html), once referred to (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html) by New York Magazine as "Bill Clinton's bag carrier, body man, fixer, and all-purpose gatekeeper." Band also appears several times in the flight logs of Epstein's private jet.

Epstein was also associated (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-high-society-contacts.html) with both Bill Richardson, former ambassador to the UN and former secretary of energy under Clinton, and Larry Summers, secretary of the treasury under Clinton. Both Richardson and Summers sit on the advisory board of controversial energy company Genie Energy, alongside CIA director under Clinton, James Woolsey; Roy Cohn associate and media mogul, Rupert Murdoch; Mega Group member Michael Steinhardt; and Lord Jacob Rothschild. Genie Energy is controversial (https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-bill-recognizing-israel-sovereignty-golan-greenlight-joint-us-israeli-oil-operations/255672/) primarily for its exclusive rights to drill in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Bill Richardson also has ties to Lynn Forester de Rothschild as she was on the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board (https://www.mccaininstitute.org/staff/lynn-forester-de-rothschild/) while Richardson was secretary of energy.

Bill Richardson appears to be among the Clinton era officials closest to Jeffrey Epstein, having personally visited (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/the-epstein-scandal-spirals-a-new-focus-on-clinton) Epstein's New Mexico ranch and been the recipient of Epstein donations of $50,000 to his 2002 and 2006 gubernatorial campaigns. Richardson gave Epstein's donation in 2006 to charity after allegations against Epstein were made public. Richardson was also accused in recently released court documents (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7342865/Bill-Richardson-George-Mitchell-deny-allegations-alleged-Jeffrey-Epstein-victim.html) of engaging in sex with Epstein's underage victims, an allegation that he has denied.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal: A post-mortem
In 1990, Danny Casolaro began his fateful one-year investigation of "the Octopus," an investigation that played no small role in his untimely death. Shortly after he was found lifeless in a hotel bathtub, Casolaro's friend Lynn Knowles was threatened and told the following (http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/inslaw.rebuttal.html): "What Danny Casolaro was investigating is a business... Anyone who asks too many questions will end up dead."

Nearly thirty years later, that same "Octopus" and its "business" remains with us and has become ever more wrapped around the levers of power — particularly in the worlds of government, finance and intelligence.

This MintPress investigative series has endeavored to show the nature of this network and how the world of "the Octopus" is the same world in which Jeffrey Epstein and his predecessors — Craig Spence, Edwin Wilson and Roy Cohn among them — operated and profited. It is a world where all that matters is the constant drive to accumulate ever more wealth and ever more power and to keep the racket going at all costs.

While this network has long been able to ensure its success through the use of sexual blackmail, often acquired by the unconscionable exploitation of children, it has also been a driving force behind many other ills that plague our world and it goes far beyond human and child trafficking. Indeed, many of the figures in this same sordid web have played a major role in the illicit drug and weapons trades, the expansion of for-profit prisons, and the endless wars that have claimed an untold number of lives across the world, all the while enriching many of these same individuals.

There is no denying that such a network is "too big to fail." Yet, fail it must — otherwise this decades-long cycle of abuse, murder and fraud will continue unabated, destroying and taking even more lives in the process.

Though this report marks the end of MintPress' series on Jeffrey Epstein and the network of which he was part, this is not the end of MintPress' work on the case. Several spin-offs — investigating the real reasons why Epstein was arrested in July; his connections to money laundering and the intelligence "black budget;" and his network's connections to child trafficking in other countries, particularly the U.K. — are already in the works and will appear in Mint Press over the next few weeks.

[Ron Mauer Sr]

Now that many problems are recognized and defined we can brainstorm and focus on potential solutions. Solutions are the best place to focus our attention.
That is when the real fun begins.
The dark side will cause much trouble on their way out.

It may not be easy but we will have some great stories to tell.

Be prepared with a plan (http://ronmauer.net/blog/) for having clean water and food to ride the coming storm of unknown duration and intensity.


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[Hervé]

...

About "PROMIS" and what it was/is able to do:


Here is the technical feat PROMIS was/is able to perform:

Created in the 1970s by former National Security Agency (NSA) programmer and engineer Bill Hamilton... [...] ... PROMIS, from its first "test drive" a quarter century ago, was able to do one thing that no other program had ever been able to do. It was able to simultaneously read and integrate any number of different computer programs or data bases simultaneously, regardless of the language in which the original programs had been written or the operating system or platforms on which that data base was then currently installed.

In the mid 1970s, at least as far as computer programs were concerned, the "universal translator" of Star Trek had become a reality. And the realm of Star Trek is exactly where most of the major media would have the general public place the PROMIS story in their world views. But given the fact that the government of Canada has just spent millions of dollars investigating whether or not a special version of PROMIS, equipped with a so-called "back door" has compromised its national security, one must concede that perhaps the myths surrounding PROMIS and what has happened to it need to be re-evaluated. Myths, by definition, cannot be solved, but facts can be understood and integrated. Only a very few people realize how big the PROMIS story really is.

From: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html
From there, one can imagine what its expansion into "Octopus" could do with financial records... medical... Facebook... NSA records... etc....

[Hervé]

So, what do these networks, Epstein belonged to, actually do with their armies of trafficked humans?

Here is a heart-wrenching testimony on what Epstein was actually doing in his underground facilities:

Aug 18 2019 (https://pgchrys.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/why-they-say-epstein-is-dead-what-they-dont-want-you-to-know-featuring-hope-youtube/)
Why They Say Epstein is Dead – What They Don’t Want You to Know - featuring Hope


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Visit us at www.brideministriesinternational.com (http://www.brideministriesinternational.com)!

The official story is that Jeffrey Epstein was taken off of suicide watch at the prison he was being held at.

Then, he successfully commits suicide.

Around the world everyone is asking the same question: Are you serious?

This week Dan Duval has Hope, a survivor of various government mind control projects, child trafficking, and satanic ritual abuse, to talk about the issue. The fact of the matter is that Epstein's exposure goes far deeper than child trafficking. His darkness extends into the world of government mind control, genetic manipulation, occult rituals, and more.

As one who was abused by Epstein personally, Hope joins Dan Duval to walk through her testimony, and discuss the implications. Do not miss this episode!

[Hervé]

This "BIG" picture gets even bigger when the esoteric is taken into account as experienced and explained by Carolyn Hamlett:


Pt 1: The Brotherhood of The White Lodge and Their Plans For America ~ Carolyn Hamlett


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" The organization is behind schedule in many ways and may continue to stay behind schedule.

- They had planned that their global ruler would be in place before the year 2000.

Lots of things still need to happen before the people of this world will gladly embrace the planned global ruler.

My feeling is that this will soon escalate. Here's why...

The human members of my generation are getting on in their years.

They, just like their parents, have been promised great power and authority in the new order.

They are anxious to have this global order in place before they die.




Pt 2: The Brotherhood of The White Lodge and Their Plans For America ~ Carolyn Hamlett
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" Future plans for America Knowing whom is behind these plans will help you:
1.) Have a better understanding of what you are up against.

2.) Help you to not be caught off guard if the events transpire.

3.) Help you to know how to best prepare and deal with it if the events transpire.
Prepare: Physically, Mentally, spiritually. The organization is counting on people:
1.) losing their minds.

2.) losing their sense of reasoning.

3.) behaving like reactionary animals who

4.) bring harm to each other
Which will require the government to step in [to] bring various means of control.

When the government steps in to control, it will be under the guise of helping and protecting the American people.

The government will “protect the American people” through:
1.) Martial law.

2.) Arrest and incarcerate people and keep them incarcerated for undetermined lengths of time.

3.) People will be killed as a means of crowd control. All of this was planned out many years ago.
Various types of disasters and strife have been planned to take place in America."


Related:


See this post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?108463-What-would-you-do-If-you-get-the-chance-for-meeting-God&p=1311991&viewfull=1#post1311991) (<---)



See this thread: The Greenbaum Speech: Peeling Off the Ritual Abuse, MPD, MKultra, etc. Layers of Programmings (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?108393-The-Greenbaum-Speech-Peeling-Off-the-Ritual-Abuse-MPD-MKultra-etc.-Layers-of-Programmings)

[Hervé]

...

Of course, all the above courtesy of Tavistock's helping hand:

Tavistock: The Illuminati's Psychological War on Society (https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/08/tavistock-illuminati-war-on-society.html)

henrymakow.com
August 27, 2019

The Tavistock Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavistock_Institute) is dedicated to re-engineering society to serve the Illuminati.

It's time we told politicians, media and "educators" that we are tired of being messed with and lied to.

Below, Russ Winter exposes their hand in all the bizarreness.

Do not underestimate the Evil we face.

Dr. William Sargent of the Tavistock Institute reported to have been at the time working in the CIA's MKULTRA mind control program, in his 1957 book Battle for the Mind-- A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing elaborated on Kurt Lewin's theories by stating:

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(Tavistock pioneer, Kurt Lewin)


"Various beliefs can be implanted in many people after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger, or excitement. Of the results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is temporarily impaired judgment and heightened suggestibility. Its various group manifestations are sometimes classed under the heading of 'herd instinct,' and appear most spectacularly in wartime, during severe epidemics, and in all similar periods of common danger, which increase anxiety and so individual and mass suggestibility."
Jim Keith, Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness
More shocking quotes about Tavistock here (https://www.truthcontrol.com/tavistock-institute)
The Tavistock Method of Brainwashing and Social Psychiatry (https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/07/the-tavistock-method-of-brainwashing-and-social-psychiatry/)

by Russ Winter
(Excerpt by henrymakow.com)


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In his 2015 book "Tavistock Institute: Social Engineering the Masses," Daniel Estulin lists just some the ... goals of this Crime Syndicate mega-campaign:


Youth rebellion against imagined societal wrongs.



The generation gap, implying a changing paradigm.



Experimentation with new family structures. Interpersonal relationships in which homosexuality, lesbianism and transgenderism (the Caitlyn Jenner hoax) became "normalized" and "no different from other people acceptable at all levels of society, two lesbian moms."



The emergence of the fake conservation/ecology movements and women's liberation movement.



Black consciousness, racial mixing, breaking down taboos against mixed marriages as propounded by anthropologist Margaret Meade and Gregory Bateson of Tavistock.



It was decided at this meeting that an aggressive program would be launched to portray "colored races" as superior to western civilization's white persons. From this forum came Oprah Winfrey and a host of black persons who were picked up and trained for their roles to portray "mixed races" as superior to whites.



A surge in interest in eastern religious and philosophical perspectives.



A renewed interest in "fundamentalist" Christianity and evangelical Zionism.



An increasing interest in meditation and other spiritual disciplines. The Jewish inspired "Kabala" was to supplant Christian culture and special people were chosen to teach and spread Kabala. Early chosen disciples were Shirley McLean, Roseanne Barr and later, Madonna and Demi Moore.



The increasing importance of "self-realization" processes.



Reinvention of music, "hip-hop" and "rap," by such musicians as "Ice Cube."



A new language form in which English is so mutilated as to be unintelligible.

Estulin in his book specifically addresses the importation of gangs for the purpose of weaponized chaos. We addressed this in our recent articles on African mobs in (https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/01/african-gangs-the-plague-upon-melbourne-australia/)Melbourne and Sweden (https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/01/in-soviet-sweden-a-social-media-snitch-is-a-national-hero/).


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/Greta-Thunberg-e1544900289860.jpg
(The Illuminati uses mentally challenged children like Greta Thunberg to advance their perverse agenda)


Rockefeller interests also funded the counter-culture "revolution" for the Tavistock Institute. The Rockefellers funded the radical-leftist Students for a Democratic Society to foment instability and pseudo-revolution in the late '60s. The opportunity for constructive social change was lost thanks to the support of "Rockybucks." A highly revealing 1979 video has emerged of a reunion of pompous, bragging LSD pseudo-counterculture promoters (including Timothy Leary) and is now available for all to see. (https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/03/03/in-plain-view-jaw-dropping-video-of-lsd-promoters-holding-1979-meeting/)

Manufactured boogeyman terror is a key element of the equation. With it, humans can be reduced to a childlike and submissive state in which his powers of reason are clouded and in which emotional response to various situations and stimuli can become predictable -- or, in Tavistockian terms, "profitable." By controlling the levels of anxiety, it's possible to induce a similar state in large groups of people whose behavior can then be controlled and manipulated by the oligarchical forces for whom Tavistock worked [see] (http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/warfare.htm#6).
Aldous Huxley wrote to George Orwell:

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience."

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More advanced iterations include: rampant pornography, pedophilia normalization, feminization of males (https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/08/fewer-young-men-self-identify-as-masculine/), hedonism, Satanism, (https://www.winterwatch.net/?s=satanism) speculative modern art (https://www.winterwatch.net/2018/06/the-promotion-of-pyramid-scheme-inversion-art/) requiring "experts," drug abuse, spiraling into madness identity politics (not tolerating intolerance), the elastic use of the term "hate" for social control purposes, censorship and memory holing material that doesn't fit the Tavistock narrative, dumbing down, idiocracy (https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/05/unless-smart-choices-are-made-about-human-capital-the-idiocracy-is-here/) and technologically induced shortened attention spans, crisis management programs, and an endless strategy of tension via Gladio events and staged deceptions. Preaching against the nation-state as destructive to the progress of mankind is a core tenet of this scam.


Something extremely important at the moment is that this Tavistockian Crime Syndicate is licking its chops for social and economic convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, namely creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients and plantation dwellers of the future.

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Related:


Society is Carefully Controlled (https://www.henrymakow.com/001487.html)



MSNBC Thought Cops say it's "Incendiary" to believe in Two Genders (https://truepundit.com/msnbc-thought-police-say-its-incendiary-to-believe-in-two-genders-video/)

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First Comment from Ken Adachi

After reading your page, I read the original article from Russ Winter to which you linked - and Mama Mia, what a terrific exposition (with very tight, two-sentence paragraphs, bristling with cogent observation). All the more impressive because he appropriately identifies the deranged, elite Supremacist Swells who are responsible for foisting this evil upon the entire world as the (capitalized) "Psychopath Bertrand Russell" or the Freud 'quackery,' or Dr. Evil Adorno, or their (capitalized) 'Crime Syndicate campaigns.' THESE are the qualifiers we need to read to cement the absolute clarity and accuracy of these statements. Nothing is more liberating and energizing to the human spirit than to experience Naked Truth.

I'm glad he mentioned the role of the NEA [National Educational Association (http://www.nea.org/), national teacher's union] as I heard nothing BUT the nasal voice of Jewish NEA President Albert Shanker NIGHTLY on the NBC Nightly News for 20 years pitching the JWO socialist party line. Concerning Oprah's role in convincing White America that Blacks really are superior, I was contacted a couple of years ago by a white woman who knew the details of the Oprah Installation from her earliest days in Chicago with her father, right up to her salad days as daytime TV's first black billionaire talk show host. And her revelations followed the outline presented in this article but in much greater detail.

Also, we should never forget that all of the information and personalities presented in this article are due to the pioneering research of Dr. John Coleman at the British Museum, having been given special access to files (for 15 years) that were unavailable to other researchers, academics or least of all, the general public. We owe him a great debt of gratitude. I'm amazed to see that Russ Winter has borne the torch so high. Glad you posted this.

[Hervé]

What was the "Lone Gunman" Epstein actually part of...


Guns & Butter interview of Ms Whitney Webb focusing on Part I (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1306987&viewfull=1#post1306987) and part III (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1309297&viewfull=1#post1309297) of the above articles:


Whitney Webb | How Alliance of Intelligence & Organized Crime Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
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Source: http://gunsandbutter.org (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=r95uKm0y2eg&redir_token=mjQoVVOdjjcMNxcy1lraGYtG39d8MTU2NzE1NzczOUAxNTY3MDcxMzM5&event=video_description&q=http%3A%2F%2Fgunsandbutter.org) http://mintpressnews.com (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=r95uKm0y2eg&redir_token=mjQoVVOdjjcMNxcy1lraGYtG39d8MTU2NzE1NzczOUAxNTY3MDcxMzM5&event=video_description&q=http%3A%2F%2Fmintpressnews.com)


Organized crime pioneered sexual blackmail;



collaboration of organized crime and intelligence;



Lewis Rosenstiel, Samuel Bronfman and Meyer Lansky;



background of Jeffrey Epstein and Leslie Wexner;



former US AG, Alex Acosta;



the secretive Mega Group;



the Maxwells;



Mossad;



money laundering; insider trading;



BCCI;



Israeli military espionage in the US;



theft and compromise of Promis software;



Amdocs;



Verint;



Israeli tech incubator start-ups integrated into major US high tech;



Israeli 8200 Signal Intelligence Unit;



Carbyne and Team Eight start-ups;



American high-tech moves to Israel;



Pentagon cloud computing compromised;



intelligence and organized crime is a business.

[Hervé]

Echoing what Carolyn Hamlett (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1312073&viewfull=1#post1312073) has been repeating for a long while about "chaos" being orchestrated all around the world as a final stage of the real "disclosure" of the occult component of this eons long "conspiracy":

"Anti Semites" are Being Tagged for Extermination (https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/08/antisemites-are-being-tagged-for-extermination.html)

August 31, 2019


(Posted Aug 31 by "friends of David Goldberg")
449V3VPyaqM

On August 26 I posted this article about David Goldberg: "Dead Jewish Whistleblower Confirmed Occult WW3 Scenario." (https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/08/dead-jewish-whistleblower.html)

Goldberg, 59, was murdered on June 8. His dead man's switch has been activated in the form of this recording. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=449V3VPyaqM) He reveals that Cabalists in the White House have a project to "tag, track and identify" ("T, T & Id") opponents of Zionist world government.

They plan to eliminate these people: The "high-value people" through extermination; the "low value" people through viruses. Goldberg estimates the total at 15 million.

While I cannot vouch for it, this information is consistent with the fanaticism of Cabalists throughout history. (https://www.henrymakow.com/2014/03/do-americans-face-a-red-terror.html) Goldberg says Trump is an intrinsic part of this demented Zionist scheme. His first loyalty is to Israel. He is a con man first and foremost.

If Goldberg is a psyop, he is certainly one of the most outrageous. I take this seriously. We cannot be naive about the grave danger we face.

Make up your own mind. I would suspect this info if it weren't for a mountain of corroborating evidence, i.e. Trump's subservience to Israel and Chabad, the Epstein connection (https://fitzinfo.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/trump-controlled-by-mossad/) and his recent remarks about being the "King of Israel" and "destroying" antisemites.

Listen to the recording which I summarize below.

by Henry Makow PhD

David Goldberg was murdered on June 8. Although a Jew like myself, he felt compelled to warn humanity of the danger it faces.

His "dead man's switch" has been activated in the form of this recording which you should copy (https://keepvid.pro/download?video=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D449V3VPyaqM) because it will be taken down. So far it has only had only 75 views but it will go viral if it is not removed.

A White House insider, a Jewish woman, since fired, gave Goldberg a trove of documents and memos which indicate that the Cabalists (the Chabad cult) fear the increasing awareness about Zionist plans for a tyrannical world government based in Israel. Here are his main points:

1. The growing awareness of the Cabalist agenda for world government is a problem for Zionists. They have been shutting down some websites like The Ugly Truth. But, Goldberg says, they have initiated other web sites which actually tell the truth in order to identify people who subscribe. He speculates that Adam Green's Know More News is one of these but he does not know for sure. [I am not endorsing this view. Green has been invaluable in exposing the Cabalist agenda. I reserve judgment.] Goldberg calls these "gatekeeper" sites. He says Alex Jones is an obvious example. This "T, T & ID" program is called "Project Pogo."


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/ED-Briefs-chabad.jpg


2. The second program is called "Project Zyphr." This involves exterminating American opposition to Zionist world tyranny. He predicts power blackouts and/or world financial crash will be used as a cover to round up opposition. A flu-like virus may be used. He speculates that it will all go down in the winter of 2020-2021 after Trump's reelection which is guaranteed.

This is why the Demonrats are behaving so madly. Why they are pushing gun control. This is the motive behind all the mass shootings. The latest shooting was Saturday (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7415079/Multiple-injuries-reported-active-shooter-incident-Odessa-Texas.html).

They often hire the same people to stage these shootings. (See my Twitter feed for @Zyntrax.)

Left-Right (globalist-nationalist, fascist-communist) collaboration is part of a coordinated attack on humanity just like World War Two, and all wars. (Hitler vs Stalin yada yada) Americans are being led down a garden path. Trump is the "Chosen One."

All nation-states will be collapsed, Goldberg says. A world government and world currency will be presented as the only alternative to chaos.

Trump is totally on board. He has been promised the title "King of Israel" and his family will have the highest status.

Trump recently referred to himself, in the trade context, as "the Chosen One,"...the "King of Israel." (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/21/trump-press-conference-greenland-jewish-democrats) Trump has called for the death penalty for all antisemites. (https://www.henrymakow.com/cgi-bin/mt-5/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&id=9698&blog_id=1&saved_changes=1) The Noahide Laws say (https://dbryhwh.com/2018/02/07/jewish-noachide-laws-call-for-non-jews-to-be-beheaded/) that people who worship Christ and refuse to serve the Jews should be guillotined.

3. Trump has been a conscious agent of this conspiracy for years. The script -- "Make America Great," Build the Wall, etc. -- was all drafted five years ago. The election indeed may have been hacked ...by Israel. The Russian collusion is all diversion.

"Trump loved the script," Goldberg said. "He'll be President. He'll be able to do a lot of things he was already predisposed to do." See Insider: Is Trump Family Cult Behind Coming Armageddon? (https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/04/chabad-trump-family-cult.html)

JUDAS GOAT
If Goldberg is correct, Trump is false opposition, a Judas Goat, or Pied Piper leading Americans to destruction, like Hitler did to Germans, while pretending to defend their interests. (Consider also Steve Bannon's connection to the Zionist mouthpiece, Breitbart.)


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/stephen-miller-1539363093.jpg


4. Goldberg says Trump's speechwriter Stephen Miller, left, a Jew like Trump, is an ardent Zionist and plays a "big role" in the agenda.

5. Goldberg said he feared for his life. He sees black SUVs outside his residence which drive away when he approaches them. He has given friends copies of all the documents. He doesn't care if he dies because "this is getting serious"...it is reaching a "terrifying new level."

He estimates 15 million will die but "it could be more."

But everyone will be caught up in the blackouts and "financial meltdown." There will be food shortages and other mayhem which will be used to justify the new world government.

LITTLE PUSHBACK
I cannot vouch for this information but it would explain why I have received so little pushback. Yes, I am being partly shadowbanned on Google. But I suspect my Twitter followers and other readers are being identified.

I am not a witting part of "Project Pogo." I am inspired by a belief in God and God's purpose for humanity. Our lives are trivial if we are not doing God's work in some fashion. This is our common purpose, our common meeting place. Humanity should be led by the very finest people instead of the dregs.


https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/Trump-Chabad2.jpg


Goldberg's information will not deter me and I hope it won't deter you.

Let David Goldberg's sacrifice be our example. He is proof that while the Cabalist Jewish leadership is satanic, there are many fine courageous Jews who are prepared to sacrifice their lives for the betterment of humanity.

We must use our freedom to oppose this evil fate.

We must hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

Sorry to dump this on a Saturday night, of a long weekend!

It is a reminder to cherish every day of normalcy.

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Related:

Ken Adachi: When oh when is the American public going to wake up to the reality that the Israel/Satan- owned US Pentagon is practice-training with US and foreign troops in American cities and American civilian areas for the exclusive and SOLE purpose of combating and SLAUGHTERING AMERICAN citizens who don't want to go along with the JWO takeover and subversion of America into a communist tyranny? How much more can it be in your face???

The Army thinks its next war will go underground -- and it's spending a half-billion dollars to get ready


https://www.businessinsider.com/the-army-is-spending-half-billion-to-prepare-for-fighting-underground-2018-6



DARPA trains for domestic wars (https://amp.businessinsider.com/darpa-underground-spaces-prep-urban-warfare-2019-8)

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First Comment from CK:

Readers need to watch and DOWNLOAD a copy IMMEDIATELY. It's going into the memory hole, or they will use Deep Fake tech to change the content. You won't be able to tell the difference if you haven't seen or saved a copy.

That there is a plot to murder millions of people standing in the way of their ambitions is not surprising in the least. It's pure evil, that's all you can call it. They have always used bribery, blackmail, and murder to impose their monopoly of thought on the world. There is an even vaster conspiracy behind these people and it will shock even the evildoers when they learn the truth of where those thoughts in their minds came from. The human mind is truly the weakest.

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Most of the dots can be connected from the posts on these pages from Epstein to Goldberg via Carolyn Hamlett and Sue Arrigo, about the satanic rituals, abuses and programmings that's the undercurrent between the dots.

Then, there is also this from the last session with the Cs by the "chateau" crew:
Session Date: Aug 10 2019
Laura, Andromeda, and Artemis at the board

[...]

(L) Now... What was it that you wanted to ask, Niall?

(Niall) Current events questions. What caused the blackout in the UK?

A: Sabotage.

Q: (Niall) Is that the same people who did the sabotage in Argentina?

A: Yes

Q: (Niall) Geez. Why would they want to target the UK?

A: Create chaos.

Q: (Niall) They're nuts. Was there more than one shooter involved in the Texas shooting?

A: Yes

Q: (Joe) Standard operating procedure.

A: Yes Greenbaum type programming. We have discussed this before and are surprised that you have forgotten.

Q: (Joe) We haven't forgotten. I guess we don't need to ask questions like that anymore.

(Niall) What happened to the Russian navy submarine that blew up in July?

A: Sabotage.

Q: (Scottie) I think the answer to all those is: sabotage.

(L) We want to know what happened to Pierre the other day when he fainted?

A: In case you did not notice, a great wave of negative energy circled the planet over the past few days, affecting those who are vulnerable due to lack of awareness.

Q: (Artemis) What happened?

(Andromeda) There was all kinds of stuff like multiple shootings and...

(Artemis) Yeah, but why and from who?

A: General chaos generated from 4D STS sources.

Q: (L) Okay, are we done?

[...]

[Hervé]

Underground warfare, eh!?

Why Is DARPA Asking The Public For An Underground Research Facility By Friday (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-29/why-darpa-asking-public-underground-research-facility-friday)

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Thu, 08/29/2019 - 12:30

The US Government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has asked the public to help them find an underground facility "able to host research & experimentation" by Friday.


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"Attention, city dwellers! We're interested in identifying university-owned or commercially managed underground urban tunnels & facilities able to host research & experimentation," the agency tweeted on Wednesday.

"The ideal space would be a human-made underground environment spanning several city blocks w/ complex layout & multiple stories, including atriums, tunnels & stairwells. Spaces that are currently closed off from pedestrians or can be temporarily used for testing are of interest."


[...]

Full article: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-29/why-darpa-asking-public-underground-research-facility-friday

Related:


The Army thinks its next fight is underground, and DARPA's solution may be a horde of robot helpers straight out of sci-fi (http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/darpa-looks-for-underground-robot-as-army-readies-to-fight-underground-2018-8)




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[Bill Ryan]

Underground warfare, eh!?

Why Is DARPA Asking The Public For An Underground Research Facility By Friday (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-29/why-darpa-asking-public-underground-research-facility-friday)

That's SO weird!! :bigsmile:

[edina]

Is this the same David Goldberg mentioned in the above post, #141 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1312494&viewfull=1#post1312494)?

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


David Bruce Goldberg (October 2, 1967 – May 1, 2015) was an American management consultant and businessman. He was the founder of LAUNCH Media and the CEO of SurveyMonkey. He was married to Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook.
[Note from Hervé: David E. Goldberg - 1959-2019]

Yes, I'm trying to figure out who this David E Goldberg is,

Is he this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Goldberg


David Edward Goldberg (born September 26, 1953) is an American computer scientist, civil engineer, and former professor. Until 2010, he was a professor in the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (IESE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was noted for his work in the field of genetic algorithms. He was the director of the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL) and the co-founder & chief scientist of Nextumi, which later changed its name to ShareThis. He is the author of Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning, one of the most cited books in computer science.[1]

The dates don't match either?

And the C's quoted above are the "Cassiopeians", right?
Channeling that is not channeling? Scientific channeling, or something like that?

I found this blog that mentions a David E Goldberg, but it seems kinda sketchy?

David Goldberg found dead in his New York apartment after ... (https://israeltodaynews.blogspot.com/2019/06/david-goldberg-found-dead-in-his.html)

(Note added: Sorry, I have a lot of windows open right now and it seems that Herve' updated my post while I was also updating it. But his update still doesn't clarify the David E Goldberg in question?)

[Hervé]

Henry Makow updated his article (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1312494&viewfull=1#post1312494) on David Golberg with the following:

https://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/48147-36052.jpg
RED FLAG!!!!


David Elias Goldberg was supposedly a journalist but [if] google him: There is NOTHING. No other pictures. His image appears nowhere else on the Internet. (https://www.tineye.com/search/5b32194e42d2c10d790b4b98964730a7e11b1983?page=1) No obituary. No funeral. There is no evidence this man actually existed. He is a "Fellow at the Jewish Center for Antisemitic Studies" which doesn't exist. We are meant to discover all this.

Yet everything he says rings true. Think about it. Put out the truth and then discredit it. This may explain why the recording and this article are still up. Nothing to see here folks. Go back to sleep. (Dannielle Blumenthal was the first to raise this red flag.) (https://threader.app/thread/1139949747316432897)

Goldberg is a Jewish psyop, probably ADL, but I still take his message seriously. There is a mountain of corroborating evidence, i.e. Trump's subservience to Israel and Chabad, the Epstein connection (https://fitzinfo.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/trump-controlled-by-mossad/) and his recent remarks about being the "King of Israel" and "destroying" antisemites. We cannot be naive about the grave danger we face.
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PS: due to the above investigations, Henry re-interpreted his whole article reproduced in post # 141 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1312494&viewfull=1#post1312494) [original article] with this one:
https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/08/antisemites-are-being-tagged-for-extermination.html
and his previous article on Goldberg, now also re-interpreted:
https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/09/david-goldman-is-delivering-their-message.html

[Hervé]

[...]
and his previous article on Goldberg, now also re-interpreted:
https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/09/david-goldman-is-delivering-their-message.html
Regarding this article ^^^ and the "balance" to be kept to avoid some recoil, Carolyn Hamlett has this to say (https://carolynhamlettexposinglucifersplaninthelastdays.com/2019/05/23/lucifers-hierarchy-structure-and-purpose/):
There are two basic sides (“Lodges”) of Satan’s Organization: the “dark” side (the “left-hand path”), and the “light” side (the “right hand path”), and the top-ranking members of Satan’s Organization (the “Spiritual Hierarchy”) oversees and rules both.
⇒ Note: it didn’t always used to be this way, but today, it isn’t uncommon now for some, particularly those who are on higher levels within each section, to go back and forth between the “dark side” and the “light side,” depending upon the purpose they serve within Satan’s Organization and the message that the fallen want to channel through them. The reason for this is because in truth, both sides serve the same purpose! And this purposeful blurring of the line between “dark” and “light” and blending the two, is causing people to believe the lie that “dark” and “light” balance one another, that the “dark” is just as desirable as the “light,” and that “dark” can be used for “good.”
Then, the "having to tell what's in the cards" can only be understood in hindsight by anyone not in the loop... the ones who are in the loop are being given a direct message to the effect of: "It's on!"... it's not even "coded" à la "Q"... I mean why call a TV show "The Lone Gunman" and not trigger all those "Lone Gunmen" shoot outs? Well, that show just told the ones in the loop that the big shoot out was on for good!

Of course, the patsy "Lone Gunman" in the 911 case went by the name of Bin Laden. No need to look any further, anywhere, anymore: that's the culprit!

[Hervé]

How the CIA, Mossad and "the Epstein Network" are exploiting mass shootings to create an Orwellian nightmare (https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossad-jeffrey-epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/)

Whitney Webb MintPress News (https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossad-jeffrey-epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/)
Fri, 06 Sep 2019 06:33 UTC


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© Claudio Cabrera


Following the arrest and subsequent death in prison of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a little-known Israeli tech company began to receive increased publicity, but for all the wrong reasons. Not long after Epstein's arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein's close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.

Carbyne911, or simply Carbyne, develops call-handling and identification capabilities for emergency response services in countries around the world, including the United States, where it has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and has partnered with major U.S. tech companies like Google. It specifically markets its product as a way of mitigating mass shootings in the United States without having to change existing U.S. gun laws.

Yet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is deeply connected to the elite Israeli military intelligence division, Unit 8200, whose "alumni" often go on to create tech companies — Carbyne among them — that frequently maintain their ties to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli media reports and former employees, often "blur the line" between their service to Israel's defense/intelligence apparatus and their commercial activity. As this report will reveal, Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech companies marketing themselves as a technological solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to Israeli intelligence agencies.

In each case, these companies' products are built in such a way that they can easily be used to illegally surveil the governments, institutions and civilians that use them, a troubling fact given Unit 8200's documented prowess in surveillance as a means of obtaining blackmail and Israel's history of using tech companies to aggressively spy on the U.S. government. This is further compounded by the fact that Unit 8200-linked tech companies have previously received U.S. government contracts to place "backdoors" into the U.S.' entire telecommunications system as well as into the popular products of major American tech companies including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, many of whose key managers and executives are now former Unit 8200 officers (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/).

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it no secret that placing Unit 8200 members in top positions in multinational tech companies is a "deliberate policy" meant to ensure Israel's role as the dominant global "cyber power", while also combating non-violent boycott movements targeting Israel's violations of international law and stifling the United Nations' criticisms of Israeli government policy and military operations abroad.

As Jeffrey Epstein's links to intelligence in both the United States and Israel — the subject of a recent four-part series (https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/) exclusive to MintPress — began to be revealed in full, his financing of Carbyne came under scrutiny, particularly for the company's deep ties to Israeli intelligence as well as to certain Americans with known connections to U.S. intelligence. Ehud Barak's own role as both financier and chairman of Carbyne has also added to that concern, given his long history of involvement in covert intelligence operations for Israel and his long-standing ties to Israeli military intelligence.

Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from the Trump administration's proposed hi-tech solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas (https://www.mintpressnews.com/william-barr-unanswered-questions-fbi-foreknowledge-el-paso-shooting/261221/), President Trump — who received political donations from and has been advised by Thiel following his election — asked tech companies (https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mass-shooter-detection-software-social-media-1452612) to "detect mass shooters before they strike," a service already perfected by Thiel's company Palantir, which has developed "pre-crime software" already in use throughout the country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S. intelligence community and also has a branch based in Israel.

Perhaps most disturbing of all, whatever technological solution is adopted by the Trump administration, it is set to use a controversial database first developed as part of a secretive U.S. government program that involved notorious Iran-Contra figures like Oliver North as a means of tracking and flagging potential American dissidents for increased surveillance and detention in the event of a vaguely defined "national emergency."

As this report will reveal, this database — often referred to as "Main Core" — was created with the involvement of Israeli intelligence and Israel remained involved years after it was developed, and potentially to the present. It was also used by at least one former CIA official on President Reagan's National Security Council to blackmail members of Congress, Congressional staffers and journalists, among others.

Given recent reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/) on the Trump administration's plan to create a new government agency to use "advanced technology" to identify "neurobehavioral signs" of "someone headed toward a violent explosive act" using data collected by consumer electronic devices, the picture painted by the technology currently being promoted and implemented under the guise of "keeping Americans safe" is deeply Orwellian. In fact, it points directly to the genesis of a far-reaching surveillance state far more extensive than anything yet seen in American history and it is being jointly developed by individuals connected to both American and Israeli intelligence.

Demystifying Carbyne
Carbyne911, which will be referred to simply as Carbyne in this report, is an Israeli tech-startup that promises to revolutionize how calls are handled by emergency service providers, as well as by governments, corporations and educational institutions. Not long after it was founded in 2014 by veterans of Israeli military intelligence, Carbyne began to be specifically marketed (https://carbyne911.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/CARBYNE_ActiveShooter_WhitePaper.pdf) as a solution to mass shootings in the United States that goes "beyond the gun debate" and improves the "intelligence that armed emergency responders receive before entering an armed shooter situation" by providing video-streaming and acoustic input from civilian smartphones and other devices connected to the Carbyne network.

Prior to Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in July, Carbyne had been receiving high praise from U.S. and Israeli media, with Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/aging-9-1-1-systems-begin-to-see-video-and-text-upgrades-nationwide) hailing the company's services as the answer to the U.S.' "aging 911 systems" and the Jerusalem Post (https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/Jerusalem-looks-to-hi-tech-to-protect-social-workers-teachers-579737) writing that the company's platform offers "hi-tech protection to social workers and school principals." Other reports claimed (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/carbyne-partners-global-hitss-am-rica-m-vil-133000472.html) that Carbyne's services result in "a 65% reduction in time-to-dispatch."

Carbyne's call-handling/crisis management platform has already been implemented in several U.S. counties and the company has offices not only in the U.S. but also in Mexico, Ukraine and Israel. Carbyne's expansion to more emergency service provider networks in the U.S. is likely, given that federal legislation seeks to offer grants to upgrade 911 call centers throughout the country with the very technology of which Carbyne is the leading provider. One of the main lobby groups promoting this legislation, the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), has a "strong relationship" with Carbyne, according to Carbyne's website (https://carbyne911.com/i3-compliant/). In addition, Carbyne has also begun marketing its platform (https://carbyne911.com/sectors/#governments) for non-emergency calls to governments, educational institutions and corporations.

Yet, what seemed like the inevitability of Carbyne's widespread adoption in the U.S. hit a snag following the recent arrest and subsequent death of sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who exploited underage girls for the purpose of obtaining "blackmail" on the rich and poweful, an operation that had clear ties to intelligence (https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/banner.jpg). Epstein, after his first arrest and light sentence for soliciting sex from a minor in 2007, was tapped by former Israeli Prime Minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence Ehud Barak, to become a key financial backer of Carbyne.


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As a result of increased scrutiny of Epstein's business activities and his ties to Israel, particularly to Barak, Epstein's connection to Carbyne was revealed and extensively reported on by the independent media outlet Narativ, whose exposé on Carbyne (https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/) revealed not only some of the key intelligence connections of the start-up company but also how the architecture of Carbyne's product itself raises "serious privacy concerns."

MintPress detailed many of Carbyne's main intelligence connections in Part III (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) of the investigative series "Inside the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail (https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/)." In addition to Barak — former Israeli prime minister and former head of Israeli military intelligence — serving as Carbyne's chairman and a key financer, the company's executive team are all former members of Israeli intelligence, including the elite military intelligence unit, Unit 8200, which is often compared to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

Carbyne's current CEO, Amir Elichai, served in Unit 8200 (https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/) and tapped former Unit 8200 commander and current board member of AIPAC Pinchas Buchris (https://carbyne911.com/team/pinchas-buchris/) to serve as the company's director and on its board. In addition to Elichai, another Carbyne co-founder, Lital Leshem (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lital-leshem/), also served in Unit 8200 and later worked for Israeli private spy company Black Cube. The only Carbyne co-founder that didn't serve in Unit 8200 is Alex Dizengof, who previously worked (https://carbyne911.com/team/alex-dizengof/) for Israel's Prime Minister's office.

As MintPress noted in a past report (https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-electionguard-a-trojan-horse-for-a-military-industrial-takeover-of-us-elections/258732/) detailing Israeli military intelligence's deep ties to American tech giant Microsoft, Unit 8200 is an elite unit of the Israeli Intelligence corps that is part of the IDF's Directorate of Military Intelligence and is involved mainly in signal intelligence (i.e., surveillance), cyberwarfare and code decryption. It is frequently described as the Israeli equivalent of the NSA and Peter Roberts, senior research fellow at Britain's Royal United Services Institute, characterized the unit in an interview (https://www.ft.com/content/69f150da-25b8-11e5-bd83-71cb60e8f08c) with the Financial Times as "probably the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world and stand[ing] on a par with the NSA in everything except scale."

Notably, the NSA and Unit 8200 have collaborated on numerous projects, most infamously on the Stuxnet virus (https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1278286/nsa-israel-created-stuxnet-worm-together-attack-iran-says-snowden) as well as the Duqu malware (https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/duqu-2-0-the-most-sophisticated-malware-ever-seen/). In addition, the NSA is known to work with veterans of Unit 8200 in the private sector, such as when the NSA hired two Israeli companies (https://www.wired.com/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/), to create backdoors into all the major U.S. telecommunications systems and major tech companies, including Facebook, Microsoft and Google. Both of those companies, Verint and Narus, have top executives with ties to Israeli intelligence and one of those companies, Verint (formerly Comverse Infosys), has a history of aggressively spying (https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/) on U.S. government facilities. Unit 8200 is also known for spying (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/09/21/350274814/snowden-reveal-makes-israeli-spies-protest-an-american-issue) on civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories for "coercion purposes" — i.e., gathering info for blackmail — and also for spying on Palestinian-Americans (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/09/21/350274814/snowden-reveal-makes-israeli-spies-protest-an-american-issue) via an intelligence-sharing agreement with the NSA.

Unlike many other Unit 8200-linked start-ups, Carbyne also boasts several tie-ins to the Trump administration, including Palantir founder and Trump ally Peter Thiel — another investor (https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/) in Carbyne. In addition, Carbyne's board of advisers (https://carbyne911.com/team/) includes former Palantir employee Trae Stephens, who was a member of the Trump transition team, as well as former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. Trump donor and New York real-estate developer (https://therealdeal.com/2017/04/17/nyc-real-estate-players-are-wasting-no-time-backing-trumps-2020-run/) Eliot Tawill is also on Carbyne's board (https://carbyne911.com/team/), alongside Ehud Barak and Pinchas Buchris.

Yet, privacy concerns with Carbyne go beyond the company's ties to Israeli intelligence and U.S. intelligence contractors like Peter Thiel. For instance, Carbyne's smartphone app extracts the following information (https://www.govtech.com/biz/Carbyne-Cisco-Partnership-Means-IoT-Data-for-911-Dispatch.html) from the phones on which it is installed:
Device location, video live-streamed from the smartphone to the call center, text messages in a two-way chat window, any data from a user's phone if they have the Carbyne app and ESInet, and any information that comes over a data link, which Carbyne opens in case the caller's voice link drops out." (emphasis added) According to Carbyne's website (https://carbyne911.com/c-all/), this same information can also be obtained from any smartphone, even if it does not have Carbyne's app installed, if that phone calls a 911 call center that uses Carbyne or merely any other number connected to Carbyne's network.


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Carbyne gathers data points from users’ phones as well as a myriad of other web-connected devices.


Carbyne is a Next-Generation 9-11 (NG911) platform and the explicit goal of NG911 is for all 911 systems nationwide to become interconnected (https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/-Next-Generation-911-What-You-Need-to-Know.html). Thus, even if Carbyne is not used by all 911 call centers using an NG911 platform, Carbyne will ostensibly have access to the data used by all emergency service providers and devices connected to those networks. This guiding principle of NG911 also makes it likely that one platform will be favored at the federal level to foster such interconnectivity and, given that it has already been adopted by several counties and has ties to the Trump administration, Carbyne is the logical choice.

Another cause for concern is how other countries have used platforms like Carbyne, which were first marketed as emergency response tools, for the purpose of mass surveillance. Narativ noted (https://narativ.org/2019/07/27/building-big-brother/) the following in its investigation of Carbyne:
In May, Human Rights Watch revealed (https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-spying-on-us-has-reached-terrifying-levels-2014-5) Chinese authorities use a platform not unlike Carbyne to illegally surveil Uyghurs. China's Integrated Joint Operations Platform brings in a much bigger data-set and sources of video, which includes an app on people's phones. Like Carbyne, the platform was designed to report emergencies. Chinese authorities have turned it into a tool of mass surveillance.

Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app. The group discovered the app automatically profiles a user under 36 "person types" including "followers of Six Lines" which is the term used to identify Uyghurs. Another term refers to "Hajj," the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. The app monitors every aspect of a user's life, including personal conversations [and] power usage, and tracks a user's movement." Such technology is currently used by Israeli military intelligence and Israel's domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet to justify "pre-crime" detentions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. As will be noted in greater detail later in this report, Palestinians' comments on social media are tracked by artificial intelligence algorithms that flag them for indefinite detention if they write social media posts that contain "tripwire" phrases such as "the sword of Allah."

Carbyne's platform has its own "pre-crime" elements, such as it's c-Records component (https://carbyne911.com/c-records/), which stores and analyzes information on past calls and events that pass through its network. This information "enables decision makers to accurately analyze the past and present behavior of their callers, react accordingly, and in time predict future patterns." (emphasis added)

Concerns have recently been raised that "pre-crime" technology may soon become more widely adopted in the U.S., after President Trump stated (https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mass-shooter-detection-software-social-media-1452612) that one of his planned solutions to mass shootings in the wake of the recent tragedy in El Paso was for big tech companies to detect potential shooters before they strike.

Israeli intelligence, Blackmail and Silicon Valley
Though many of the individuals involved in funding or managing Carbyne have proven ties to intelligence, a closer look into several of these players reveals even deeper connections to both Israeli and U.S. intelligence.

One of Carbyne's clearest connections to Israeli intelligence is through its chairman and one of its funders, Ehud Barak. Though Barak is best known for being a former prime minister of Israel, he is also a former minister of defense and the former head of Israeli military intelligence. He oversaw Unit 8200's operations, as well as other units of Israeli military intelligence, in all three of those positions. For most of his military and later political career, Barak has been closely associated (https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-classically-enigmatic-farewell-of-ehud-barak/) with covert operations.

Prior to the public scrutiny of Barak's relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, following the latter's arrest this past July and subsequent death, Barak had come under fire for his ties to disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein. Indeed, it was Ehud Barak who put Weinstein in contact with (https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/08/ex-israeli-pm-introduced-weinstein-to-agents-who-suppressed-abuse-allegations) the Israeli private intelligence outfit Black Cube, which employs former Mossad agents and Israeli military intelligence operatives, as Weinstein sought to intimidate the women who had accused him of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Former Mossad director Meir Dagan led Black Cube's board until his death in 2016 and Carbyne co-founder Lital Leshem is Black Cube's former director of marketing (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lital-leshem).

After Barak put him in contact with Black Cube's leadership, Weinstein, according to The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies), used the private spy firm to "'target,' or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focused on their personal or sexual histories." In addition, The New Yorker noted that (https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies) "Weinstein monitored the progress of the investigations personally" and "also enlisted former employees from his film enterprises to join in the effort, collecting names and placing calls that, according to some sources who received them, felt intimidating."

Yet, more recently, it has been Barak's close relationship to Epstein that has raised eyebrows and opened him up to political attacks from his rivals (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-netanyahu-dirties-up-ehud-barak-over-jeffrey-epstein-scandal-so-he-looks-cleaner-1.7489402). Epstein and Barak were first introduced by former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in 2002, a time when Epstein's pedophile blackmail and sex trafficking operation was in full swing.

Barak was a frequent visitor to Epstein's residences in New York, so often that The Daily Beast reported (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-israeli-politician-ehud-barak-often-crashed-at-his-manhattan-apartment-neighbors-say) that numerous residents of an apartment building linked to Epstein "had seen Barak in the building multiple times over the last few years, and nearly half a dozen more described running into his security detail," adding that "the building is majority-owned by Epstein's younger brother, Mark, and has been tied to the financier's alleged New York trafficking ring." Specifically, several apartments in the building were "being used to house underage girls from South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union," according to a former bookkeeper (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-israeli-politician-ehud-barak-often-crashed-at-his-manhattan-apartment-neighbors-say) employed by one of Epstein's main procurers of underage girls, Jean Luc Brunel.

Barak is also known to have spent the night at one of Epstein's residences at least once, was photographed leaving Epstein's residence as recently as 2016, and has admitted to visiting Epstein's island, which has sported nicknames including "Pedo Island," "Lolita Island" and "Orgy Island." In 2004, Barak received $2.5 million (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article232658477.html) from Leslie Wexner's Wexner Foundation, where Epstein was a trustee as well as one of the foundation's top donors, officially for unspecified "consulting services" and "research" on the foundation's behalf.

In 2015, Barak formed a limited partnership company in Israel for the explicit purpose of investing in Carbyne (then known as Reporty) and invested millions of dollars in the company, quickly becoming a major shareholder and subsequently the company's public face and the chairman of its board. At least $1 million (https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-israeli-politician-ehud-barak-often-crashed-at-his-manhattan-apartment-neighbors-say) of the money invested in this Barak-created company that was later used to invest in Carbyne came from the Southern Trust Company, which was owned by (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3766639,00.html) Jeffrey Epstein.

In July, Bloomberg reported that Epstein's Southern Trust Company is identified in U.S. Virgin Islands filings as "a DNA database and data mining" company. Given Carbyne's clear potential for data-mining and civilian profiling, Epstein's investment in Carbyne using this specific company suggests that Carbyne's investors have long been aware of this little advertised aspect of Carbyne's product.

In a statement to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-revealed-jeffrey-epstein-entered-million-dollar-partnership-with-ehud-barak-in-2015-1.7493648), Barak asserted:
I saw the business opportunity and registered a partnership in my control in Israel. A small number of people I know invest in it...Since these are private investments, it wouldn't be proper or right for me to expose the investors' details." However, Barak later admitted (https://www.timesofisrael.com/jeffrey-epstein-was-ehud-baraks-business-partner-as-late-as-2015-report/) that Epstein had been one of the investors.

MintPress' recent series (https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/) on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal noted in detail Epstein's ties to CIA/Mossad intelligence assets, such as Adnan Khashoggi; CIA front companies, such as Southern Air Transport; and organized crime, through his close association with Leslie Wexner. In addition, Epstein's long-time "girlfriend" and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, has family links to Israeli intelligence (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) through her father, Robert Maxwell. While it appears that Epstein may have been working for more than one intelligence agency, Zev Shalev, former executive producer for CBS News and journalist at Narativ, recently stated (https://twitter.com/ZevShalev/status/1163938035425300480) that he had independently confirmed with two unconnected sources "closely connected to the Epstein story and in a position to know" that Epstein had "worked for Israeli military intelligence."



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Jeffrey Epstein: Building Big Brother
Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein's investment in an Israeli start-up reveals a myriad of links to Donald Trump and Israeli spies.
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12:17 AM - Aug 21, 2019 (https://twitter.com/ZevShalev/status/1163938035425300480)Notably, Epstein, who was known for his interest in obtaining blackmail through the sexual abuse of the underaged girls he exploited, also claimed to have "damaging information" on prominent figures in Silicon Valley. In a conversation last year with New York Times reporter James Stewart, Epstein claimed (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html) to have "potentially damaging or embarrassing" information on Silicon Valley's elite and told Stewart that these top figures in the American tech industry "were hedonistic and regular users of recreational drugs." Epstein also told Stewart (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html) that he had "witnessed prominent tech figures taking drugs and arranging for sex" and claimed to know "details about their supposed sexual proclivities."

In the lead-up to his recent arrest, Jeffrey Epstein appeared to have been attempting to rebrand as a "tech investor," as he had done interviews with several journalists including Stewart about technology investing in the months before he was hit with federal sex trafficking charges.

Jessica Lessin, editor-in-chief of The Information, told Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-interview-tech-reporters-weeks-before-death-2019-8) that a journalist working for The Information had interviewed Epstein a month before his recent arrest because "he was believed to be an investor in venture capital funds." However, Lessin claimed that the interview was not "newsworthy" and said the site had no plans to publish its contents. Business Insider claimed that (https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-interview-tech-reporters-weeks-before-death-2019-8) the way the interviews with Epstein had been arranged "suggests that someone in Silicon Valley may have been trying to help Epstein connect with reporters."

Though it is unknown exactly which Silicon Valley figures were most connected to Epstein and which tech executives were potentially being blackmailed by Epstein, it is known that Epstein associated with several prominent tech executives (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/jeffrey-epstein-arrest-spurs-tech-figures-to-distance-themselves), including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

Last year, Epstein claimed to be advising Tesla and Elon Musk, who had been previously photographed with Epstein's alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell. A few years ago, Epstein also attended a dinner hosted by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, where Musk had allegedly introduced (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/jeffrey-epstein-arrest-spurs-tech-figures-to-distance-themselves) Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Google's Sergey Brin is known to have attended a dinner hosted by Epstein at his New York residence where Donald Trump was also in attendance.


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These associations suggest that the person in Silicon Valley who was trying to boost Epstein's image as a tech investor before his arrest may have been Peter Thiel, whose Founders Fund had also invested in Carbyne. Thiel was an early investor (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/) in Facebook and is still on its board, connecting him to Zuckerberg; he is also a funder of Elon Musk's SpaceX and a former colleague of Musk's through PayPal. In addition, Thiel has ties (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/) to Reid Hoffman and both Thiel and Hoffman are prominent backers of Facebook.

It is unknown whether Epstein's "damaging information" and apparent blackmail on notable individuals in the American technology industry were used to advance the objectives of Carbyne, which recently partnered with tech giants Google and Cisco Systems — and, more broadly, the expansion of Israeli intelligence-linked tech companies into the American tech sector, particularly through the acquisition of Israeli tech start-ups linked to Unit 8200 by major U.S. tech companies.

The latter seems increasingly likely given that the father of Ghislaine Maxwell — one of Epstein's chief co-conspirators in his intelligence-linked sexual blackmail operation involving minors — was a Mossad operative who helped sell software (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) that had been bugged by Israeli intelligence to government agencies and sensitive facilities around the world, including in the United States.

As will be noted later in this report, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — to whom all of Israel's intelligence agencies answer by virtue of his position — has stated on more than one occasion that the acquisition of Israeli intelligence-linked start-ups by foreign tech giants, especially in Silicon Valley, is a current and "deliberate policy" of the state of Israel.

Carbyne's ties to U.S. intelligence
While Epstein and Barak are the two financiers of Carbyne whose ties to intelligence are clearest, another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has ties to U.S. intelligence and a history of investing in other companies founded by former members of Unit 8200. Thiel co-founded and still owns a controlling stake in the company Palantir, which was initially funded (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/williamalden/palantirs-relationship-with-americas-spies) with a $2 million investment from the CIA's venture capital fund In-Q-Tel and quickly thereafter became a contractor for the CIA.

After the success of its contract with the CIA, Palantir became a contractor (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/williamalden/palantirs-relationship-with-americas-spies) for a variety of federal agencies, including the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) and the military's Special Operations Command, among others. Last year, it won a contract (https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-palantir-contract-20180309-story.html) to create a new battlefield intelligence system for the U.S. Army. Palantir is also in demand for its "pre-crime technology," which has been used (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/30/palantir-peter-thiel-cia-data-crime-police) by several U.S. police departments. According to the Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/30/palantir-peter-thiel-cia-data-crime-police), "Palantir tracks everyone from potential terrorist suspects to corporate fraudsters, child traffickers and what they refer to as 'subversives'... it is all done using prediction."

Thiel has gained attention in recent years for his support of President Trump and for becoming an adviser to Trump following the 2016 election, when he was "a major force in the transition," according to Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trumps-shadow-president-in-silicon-valley-235372), and "helped fill (https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-palantir-contract-20180309-story.html) positions in the Trump administration with former staff." One of those former staffers was Trae Stephens, who is also on Carbyne's board of advisers. Thiel also has business ties (https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-ties-george-soros-goldman-sachs-peter-thiel-1-billion-loan-2017-5?op=1) to Trump's son-in-law and influential adviser, Jared Kushner, as well as to Kushner's brother (https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trumps-shadow-president-in-silicon-valley-235372) Josh. A senior Trump campaign aide told Politico (https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/donald-trumps-shadow-president-in-silicon-valley-235372) in 2017 that "Thiel is immensely powerful within the administration through his connection to Jared."

Thiel has also backed some prominent Israeli tech start-ups connected to Unit 8200, such as BillGuard, which Thiel funded (https://pando.com/2013/07/31/flush-with-20m-from-peter-thiel-zestfinance-is-measuring-credit-risk-through-non-traditional-big-data/) along with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and other investors. BillGuard was founded by Raphael Ouzan, a former officer in Unit 8200, who serves on the board of directors (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/) of Start-Up Nation Central (SUNC) alongside neoconservative American hedge fund manager Paul Singer, neoconservative political operative and adviser Dan Senor, and Terry Kassel, who works for Singer at his hedge fund, Elliott Management.


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Peter Thiel greets Netanyahu during a 2017 meeting in Israel. © Israel PM


SUNC is an organization founded by (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/) Paul Singer, who has donated heavily to both President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Since it was founded in 2012, SUNC has sought to integrate Unit 8200-connected Israeli tech start-ups into foreign companies, primarily American companies, and has helped oversee the shift of thousands of high-paying tech jobs from the U.S. to Israel.

Another Carbyne-connected individual worth noting is the former head of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, who serves on Carbyne's board of advisers. In addition to Chertoff's ties to DHS, Chertoff's company, The Chertoff Group, employees several prominent former members of the U.S. intelligence community as principals, including Michael Hayden (https://www.chertoffgroup.com/team/michael-hayden), former director of the CIA and former director of the NSA; and Charles Allen (https://www.chertoffgroup.com/team/charles-allen), former assistant director of Central Intelligence for Collection at the CIA, who worked at the agency for over 40 years.

The Chertoff Group has a long-standing and lucrative contract (https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26iht-edcohen.html) with the company OSI Systems, which produces full-body scanners and markets itself as a solution to mass shootings and crisis events, not unlike Carbyne. While Chertoff's company was advising OSI Systems, Chertoff went on a media blitz (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2010/01/01/ex-homeland-security-chief-chertoff-pushes-body-scanners-abuses-public-trust) to promote the widespread use of the machines produced by OSI Systems and even called on (https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26iht-edcohen.html) Congress to "fund a large-scale deployment of next-generation systems." Chertoff did not disclose (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2010/01/01/ex-homeland-security-chief-chertoff-pushes-body-scanners-abuses-public-trust) his conflict of interest while publicly promoting OSI's full-body scanners.

Some have also alleged that Chertoff's mother, Livia Eisen, had links to Israeli intelligence. According to her 1998 obituary (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176914514/livia-chertoff), cited by both researcher/author Christopher Bollyn and journalist Jonathan Cook, Eisen participated in the Mossad operation code-named "Magic Carpet" while working for Israel's El Al Airlines. Both Bollyn and Cook have suggested that Eisen's participation in this covert Israeli intelligence operation strongly indicates that she had ties to the Mossad.

Melding into Silicon Valley
Beyond its troubling connections to Silicon Valley oligarchs, Israeli military intelligence and the U.S.-military industrial complex, Carbyne's recent partnerships with two specific technology companies — Google and Cisco Systems — raise even more red flags.

Carbyne announced its partnership with Cisco Systems this past April, with the latter announcing that it would begin "aligning its unified call manager with Carbyne's call-handling platform, allowing emergency call centers to collect data from both 911 callers and nearby government-owned IoT [Internet of Things] devices." A report on the partnership published by Government Technology magazine (https://www.govtech.com/biz/Carbyne-Cisco-Partnership-Means-IoT-Data-for-911-Dispatch.html) stated that "Carbyne's platform will be integrated into Cisco Kinetic for Cities, an IoT data platform that shares data across community infrastructure, smart city solutions, applications and connected devices." The report also noted that "Carbyne will also be the only 911 solution in the Cisco Marketplace."

As part of the partnership, Carbyne's President of North American Operations Paul Tatro told Government Technology (https://www.govtech.com/biz/Carbyne-Cisco-Partnership-Means-IoT-Data-for-911-Dispatch.html) that the Carbyne platform would combine the data it obtains from smartphones and other Carbyne-connected devices with "what's available through nearby Cisco-connected road cameras, roadside sensors, smart streetlamps, smart parking meters or other devices." Tatro further asserted that "Carbyne can also analyze data that's being collected by Cisco IoT devices ... and alert 911 automatically, without any person making a phone call, if there appears to be a worthy problem," and expressed his view that soon most emergency calls will not be made by human beings but "by smart cars, telematics or other smart city devices."

A few months after partnering with Cisco Systems, Carbyne announced its partnership with Google on July 10, just three days after Carbyne funder Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in New York on federal sex trafficking charges. Carbyne's press release (https://carbyne911.com/carbyne-and-google_en/) of the partnership described how the company and Google would be teaming up in Mexico "to offer advanced mobile location to emergency communications centers (ECCs) throughout Mexico" following the conclusion of a successful four-week pilot program between Carbyne and Google in the Central American nation.


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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt meets Netanyahu at his Jerusalem office. © Israel PM | YouTube


The press release (https://carbyne911.com/carbyne-and-google_en/) also stated:
Carbyne will provide Google's Android ELS (Emergency Location Service) in real time from emergency calls made on AndroidTM devices. Deployment for any ECC in the country won't require any integration, with Carbyne providing numerous options for connection to their secure ELS Gateway once an ECC is approved. The Carbyne automated platform, requiring no human interaction, has the potential to save thousands of lives each year throughout Mexico." The reason Carybne's partnerships with Cisco Systems and Google are significant lies in the role that Cisco and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have played in the creation of a controversial "incubator" for Israeli tech start-ups with deep ties to Israeli military intelligence, American neoconservative donor Paul Singer, and the U.S.' National Security Agency (NSA).

This company, called Team8, is an Israeli company-creation platform whose CEO and co-founder (https://www.fastcompany.com/3042158/googles-eric-schmidt-cisco-israeli-spymaster-behind-new-cybersecurity-incubator-team8-ventur) is Nadav Zafrir, former commander of Unit 8200. Two of the company's other three co-founders are also "alumni" of Unit 8200. Among Team8's top investors (https://www.fastcompany.com/3042158/googles-eric-schmidt-cisco-israeli-spymaster-behind-new-cybersecurity-incubator-team8-ventur) is Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, who also joined Peter Thiel in funding the Unit 8200-linked BillGuard, as well as major tech companies (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco-nokia-microsoft-back-85m-team8-security-fund/2018/10/) including Cisco Systems and Microsoft.

Last year, Team8 controversially hired (https://www.team8.vc/member/mike-rogers/) the former head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, Retired Admiral Mike Rogers, and Zafrir stated that his interest in hiring Rogers was that Rogers would be "instrumental in helping strategize" Team8's expansion in the United States. Jake Williams, a veteran of NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) hacking unit, told CyberScoop (https://www.cyberscoop.com/mike-rogers-team8-nsa-board-criticism-unit-8200/):
Rogers is not being brought into this role because of his technical experience. ...It's purely because of his knowledge of classified operations and his ability to influence many in the U.S. government and private-sector contractors." Team8 has also been heavily promoted by Start-Up Nation Central (SUNC) (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/). SUNC prominently features (https://www.startupnationcentral.org/sector/cybersecurity/) Team8 and Zafrir on the cybersecurity section of its website and also sponsored a talk (https://www.team8.vc/press/israeli-cyber-warrior-puts-scare-ceos-davos/) by Zafrir and an Israeli government economist at the World Economic Forum, often referred to as "Davos," that was attended personally by Paul Singer.

SUNC itself has deep ties to Israeli military intelligence, with former Unit 8200 officer Raphael Ouzan serving on its board of directors. Another example of SUNC-Unit 8200 ties can be seen with Inbal Arieli (https://www.linkedin.com/in/inbalarieli/), who served as SUNC's Vice President of Strategic Partnerships from 2014 to 2017 and continues to serve as a senior adviser to the organization. Arieli, a former lieutenant in Unit 8200, is the founder and head of the 8200 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program (EISP), which was the first start-up accelerator in Israel aimed at harnessing "the vast network and entrepreneurial DNA of [Unit] 8200 alumni" and is currently one of the top company accelerators in Israel, alongside Team8. Arieli was the top executive at 8200 EISP while working at SUNC and several other top SUNC staffers are also connected to Israeli military intelligence.

Thus, Google and Cisco's connections to Team8 suggests that their partnerships with another Israeli military intelligence-connected firm like Carbyne is a deepening of those two companies' links to the growing bi-national security state that is uniting key players in the U.S. military-industrial complex and Israeli intelligence.


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Mossad-backed Panic Buttons, coming to a school near you
Carbyne is hardly the only Israeli intelligence-linked tech company marketing itself in the United States as a solution to mass shootings. Another Israeli start-up, known as Gabriel, was founded in 2016 in response to a shooting in Tel Aviv and the Pulse Nightclub shooting in the United States, which took place just days apart.

Created by Israeli-American Yoni Sherizen and Israeli citizen Asaf Adler, Gabriel is similar to Carbyne in the sense that elements of its crisis response platform require installation on civilian smartphones as well as devices used by crisis responders. The main difference is that Gabriel also installs one or a series of physical "panic buttons (https://www.gabriel.network/)," depending on the size of the building to be secured, that also double as video and audio communication devices connected to the Gabriel network.

As with Carbyne, the ties between Gabriel and Israeli intelligence are obvious. Indeed, Gabriel's four-person advisory board (https://www.gabriel.network/) includes Ram Ben-Barak, former deputy director of the Mossad and former director-general of Israel's intelligence ministry; Yohanan Danino, former chief of police for the state of Israel; and Kobi Mor, former director of overseas missions for the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet. The only American on the advisory board is Ryan Petty, the father of a Parkland shooting victim and friend of former Florida Governor Rick Scott.

Gabriel's only disclosed funder is U.S.-based MassChallenge, a start-up accelerator non-profit. Gabriel is funded by MassChallenge's Israel branch, which was opened six months prior to Gabriel's creation and is partnered with the Israeli government and the Kraft Group. The Kraft Group is managed by Robert Kraft, who is currently embroiled in a prostitution scandal and is also a close friend (https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriots-owner-robert-kraft-explains-why-hes-good-friends-with-donald-trump/) of President Trump.

Notably, one of MassChallenge Israel's featured experts is Wendy Singer, the executive director of SUNC, the organization created and funded by (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/) neoconservative Trump backer Paul Singer with the explicit purpose of promoting Israel's tech start-ups and their integration into foreign, chiefly American, businesses. As was noted in a recent MintPress report (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/) on SUNC, Wendy Singer is the sister of neoconservative political operative Dan Senor, who founded the now-defunct Foreign Policy Initiative with Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol, and was previously the director of AIPAC's Israel office for 16 years.

Gabriel's founders have been quite upfront about the fact that the uptick in shootings in the U.S. has greatly aided their company's growth and success. Last November, Sherizen told The Jerusalem Post (https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/The-Israeli-start-up-aiming-to-prevent-the-next-Pittsburgh-massacre-571358) that new mass shootings in the U.S. not only increased U.S. demand for his company's product but also were opportunities to show the effectiveness of Gabriel's approach:
Unfortunately every month there seems to be another high-profile event of this nature. After the Vegas shooting, we were able to show [that] our system would have managed to identify the location of the shooter much quicker." The Jerusalem Post noted (https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/The-Israeli-start-up-aiming-to-prevent-the-next-Pittsburgh-massacre-571358) that Gabriel is set to make considerable profits if concern over mass shootings continues to build in the U.S., writing:
With more than 475,000 soft targets across the US and amid increasing security fears, the potential market for Gabriel is huge. The company could gain revenues of almost $1 billion if only 10% of soft targets were to invest around $20,000 in its alert systems." Sherizen told the Jerusalem Post (https://www.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/The-Israeli-start-up-aiming-to-prevent-the-next-Pittsburgh-massacre-571358):
Our starter kit costs $10,000. Depending on the size and makeup of the community building, it would cost between $20-30,000 to fully outfit the location. We have made it very affordable. This is a game-changer for the lock-down and active shooter drills that are now a standard part of any child's upbringing in the States." Much more than just a start-up
While it is certainly possible that numerous former officials and commanders of elite Israeli intelligence agencies may have no ulterior motive in advising or founding technology start-up companies, it is worth pointing out that top figures in Israel's military intelligence agencies and the Mossad don't see it that way.

Last March, Israeli media outlet Calcalist Tech published a report entitled "Israel Blurs the Line Between Defense Apparatus and Local Cybersecurity Hub (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3735256,00.html)," which noted that "since 2012, cyber-related and intelligence projects that were previously carried out in-house in the Israeli military and Israel's main intelligence arms are transferred to companies that in some cases were built for this exact purpose." (emphasis added)

The article notes that beginning in 2012, Israel's intelligence and military intelligence agencies began to outsource "activities that were previously managed in-house, with a focus on software and cyber technologies." (emphasis added)

It continues:
In some cases, managers of development projects in the Israeli military and intelligence arms were encouraged to form their own companies, which then took over the project,' an Israeli venture capitalist familiar with the matter told Calcalist Tech." Notably, Calcalist Tech states that the controversial company Black Cube was created this way and that Black Cube had been contracted, and is likely still contracted, by Israel's Ministry of Defense. The private security agency Black Cube is known to have two separate divisions for corporations and governments. The firm was recently caught (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/black-cube-inside-shadowy-israeli-firm-accused-trying-undermine-iran-n877511) attempting to undermine the Iran nuclear deal — then also a top political objective of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — by attempting to obtain information on the "financial or sexual impropriety" (i.e., blackmail) of top U.S. officials involved in drafting the accord. NBC News noted (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/black-cube-inside-shadowy-israeli-firm-accused-trying-undermine-iran-n877511) last year that "Black Cube's political work frequently intersects with Israel's foreign policy priorities." As previously mentioned, one of Carbyne's co-founders — Lital Leshem, also a veteran of Unit 8200 — worked for Black Cube (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lital-leshem/) prior to starting Carbyne.


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The entrance to Black Cube’s offices on the 26th floor of a Tel Aviv high rise, Feb. 8, 2019. © Raphael Satter | AP


One of the main companies profiled in the Calcalist Tech report (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3735256,00.html) appeared to be a front for Israeli intelligence, as its registered owner was found not to exist: even high-level employees at the company had never heard of him; his registered addresses were for nonexistent locations in Israel's capital of Tel Aviv; and the three people with that name in Tel Aviv denied any association with the business.

This company — which Calcalist Tech was unable to name after the Israeli military censor determined that doing so could negatively impact Israeli "national security" — was deliberately created to service the Israeli military and Israeli intelligence. It is also "focused on cyber technologies with expertise in research and development of advanced products and applications suitable for defense and commercial entities." (emphases added) In addition, the company's management consists largely of "veterans of Israeli military technology units."

Notably, a former employee of this company told Calcalist Tech that "crossing the lines between military service and employment at the commercial outfit was 'commonplace' while he was working at the company."

It's not exactly clear why Israel's military intelligence and other intelligence agencies decided to begin outsourcing its operations in 2012, though Calcalist Tech suggests the reasoning was related to the difference in wages between the private sector and the public sector, with pay being much higher in the former. However, it is notable that 2012 was also the year that Paul Singer — together with Netanyahu's long-time economic adviser and former chair of the Israeli National Economic Council, Eugene Kandel — decided to create (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/) Start-Up Nation Central.

As MintPress noted (https://www.mintpressnews.com/neocon-billionaire-paul-singer-driving-outsourcing-us-tech-jobs-israel/259147/) earlier this year, SUNC was founded as part of a deliberate Israeli government effort to counter the nonviolent Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement and to make Israel the dominant global "cyber power." This policy is aimed at increasing (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-boycott-idUSBREA1G1CK20140217) Israel's diplomatic power and specifically undermining (https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-netanyahu-aide-world-wont-boycott-our-high-tech-for-palestinians/) BDS as well as the United Nations, which has repeatedly condemned Israel's government for war crimes and violations of international law in relation to the Palestinians.

Last year, Netanyahu was asked (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJs-1yQMD-o) by Fox News host Mark Levin whether the large growth seen in recent years in Israel's technology sector, specifically tech start-ups, was part of Netanyahu's plan. Netanyahu responded, "That's very much my plan ... It's a very deliberate policy." He later added that "Israel had technology because the military, especially military intelligence, produced a lot of capabilities. These incredibly gifted young men and women who come out of the military or the Mossad, they want to start their start-ups."

Netanyahu again outlined (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1uiwJ3m9KM) this policy at the 2019 Cybertech Conference in Tel Aviv, where he stated that Israel's emergence as one of the top five "cyber powers" had "required allowing this combination of military intelligence, academia and industry to converge in one place" and that this further required allowing "our graduates of our military and intelligence units to merge into companies with local partners and foreign partners."

The direct tie-ins of SUNC to Israel's government and the successful effort led by SUNC and other companies and organizations to place former military intelligence and intelligence operatives in strategic positions in major multinational technology companies reveal that this "deliberate policy" has had a major and undeniable impact on the global tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley.

Mossad gets its own In-Q-Tel
This "deliberate policy" of Netanyahu's also recently resulted in the creation of a Mossad-run venture capital fund that is specifically focused on financing Israeli tech start-ups. The venture capital fund, called Libertad, was first announced (https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-Mossad-is-looking-for-a-few-good-startups-498063)by Israel's Prime Minister's Office and was created with the explicit purpose (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3733822,00.html) of "increasing the Israeli intelligence agency's knowledge base and fostering collaboration with Israel's vibrant startup scene" It was modeled after (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3733822,00.html) the CIA's venture capital fund In-Q-Tel, which invested in several Silicon Valley companies turned government and intelligence contractors — including Google and Palantir — with a similar goal in mind.

Libertad declines to reveal the recipients of its funding, but announced last December that it had chosen five companies in the fields of robotics, energy, encryption, web intelligence, and natural language processing and text analysis. In regard to its interest in web intelligence, a Mossad employee told the Jerusalem Post (https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israels-Mossad-is-looking-for-a-few-good-startups-498063) that the intelligence agency was specifically interested in "innovative technologies for [the] automatic identification of personality characteristics - personality profiling - based on online behavior and activity, using methods based on statistics, machine learning, and other areas." (emphasis added)

According to Libertad's website (http://www.libertad.gov.il/index.html#faq), in return for its investment, now set at NIS 2 million (~$580,000) per year per company, "the Mossad will receive access to the IP developed during R&D [Research and Development] while under contract, and a non-commercial, non-exclusive license to use it. Libertad's contract with the company will not provide it with any additional rights." In an interview with Calcalist Tech (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3733822,00.html), Mossad Director Yossi Cohen told the paper that the Mossad's partnership with civilian companies in Israel is "excellent" and that the agency will continue to strengthen those ties.

Israeli intelligence has a documented history in placing "backdoors" into technology products for the purpose of surveillance, with one well-known case being Israel's repurposing of the PROMIS software, discussed in Part III (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) of MintPress' series on Jeffrey Epstein. Furthermore, given that U.S. intelligence, specifically the NSA, had "backdoors" placed into the products of major Silicon Valley companies (a service performed by Israeli intelligence-linked tech companies no less), Mossad may very well plan on doing the same with the technology products of companies it backs through Libertad.

Tim Shorrock, investigative journalist and author of Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing (https://www.amazon.com/Spies-Hire-Secret-Intelligence-Outsourcing/dp/0743282248), told MintPress that the Mossad's continuation of such practices through Libertad was definitely plausible, especially given what Shorrock described as the "unusual" choice of Libertad choosing not to release the identities of the companies in which it invests.

"The Mossad is trying to hide what they are investing in," Shorrock stated, adding that Libertad's secrecy "raises a lot of questions" particularly given that it was modeled after the CIA's In-Q-Tel. Shorrock noted that In-Q-Tel and other venture capital funds with ties to U.S. intelligence or the U.S. military rarely, if ever, hide the identities of the companies they finance.

However, Libertad is merely the latest and most public expression of the Mossad's interest in Israeli tech start-ups, the lion's share of which are created by veterans of Unit 8200 or other Israeli intelligence agencies. Indeed, former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo stated in 2017 (https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3726014,00.html) that "everyone" in the Israeli cybertechnology sector is an "alumni" of either Israeli intelligence, like the Mossad, or Israeli military intelligence, like Unit 8200. Pardo even went as far as to say that the Mossad itself is "like a start-up."

Pardo himself, after leaving his post as Mossad director in 2016, dove straight into the world of Israeli tech start-ups, becoming chairman of Sepio Systems (https://www.sepio.systems/about), whose two CEOs are former Unit 8200 officers. Sepio Systems' advisory board (https://www.sepio.systems/news-press/2017/6/12/sepio-systems-named-finalist-for-2017-red-herring-top-100-north-america-award-d79m7-8f547-9z8yh-5ng2e) includes the former chief information security officer of the CIA, Robert Bigman; former member of the U.S. Military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Geoff Hancock; and former head of the Israel National Cyber Bureau and veteran of Israeli military intelligence, Rami Efrati. Sepio Systems' cybersecurity software has been adopted by (https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/sepio-systems-introduces-an-end-to-end-solution-that-protects-organizations-against-rogue-hardware-cyber-attacks-2019-01-30) several banks, telecom and insurance companies, including in the U.S. and Brazil.

Pardo is not the only prominent figure in Israel's intelligence community to compare Israeli intelligence agencies to tech start-ups. Shin Bet Director Nadav Argaman described Israel's domestic spy agency in similar terms. "The Shin Bet is like an evolving start-up, with unmatched strength," Argaman stated (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/israel-security-chief-tech-prevented-more-than-2000-lone-wolf-terror-attacks-last-year) in a June 2017 speech, as he extolled the agency's use of "pre-crime" technology to detain Palestinians based on their social media activity.

Argaman, at the time, claimed that more than 2,000 Palestinians, whom he described as "potential lone-wolf terrorists," had been arrested as a result of these "breakthrough technological advances" that use artificial-intelligence algorithms to monitor the social media accounts of Palestinians, especially younger Palestinians, for the use of "tripwire" phrases that have been used by Palestinians who later committed acts of violence. In the case of those who use such terms, "their phones are tracked to see if they meet other suspects, or leave their districts to move towards potential Israeli targets. In such cases, security forces detain the suspect," according to a 2017 report (https://www.economist.com/international/2017/06/08/how-israel-spots-lone-wolf-attackers) on the practice by The Economist.

The road to fascism, paved by a corrupted PROMIS
Though Israeli intelligence's interest in tech companies goes back several years, there is a well-documented history of Israeli intelligence using bugged software to surveil and gain "backdoor" access to government databases around the world, particularly in the United States.

As was mentioned in Part III (https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/) of MintPress' Epstein series, a sinister yet cunning plan was executed to place a backdoor for Israeli intelligence into the Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS) software, which was then being used by the U.S. Department of Justice and was the envy of government agencies, particularly intelligence agencies, around the world. This bugged version of PROMIS — born out of the collusion between Earl Brian, Ronald Reagan's then-envoy to Iran, and Rafi Eitan, then-director of the now-defunct Israeli intelligence agency Lekem — was seeded around the world by Brian's company Hadron as well as by Mossad-linked media mogul Robert Maxwell, father of Jeffrey Epstein's long-time girlfriend and alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.

After this first PROMIS "backdoor" was discovered, Israel would again gain access to sensitive U.S. government communications, as well as civilian communications, thanks to the collusion between Israeli intelligence and Israeli telecom and tech companies, especially Amdocs and Comverse Infosys (now Verint) (https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/), that were operating throughout the United States. Today, Unit 8200-linked start-ups appear to have taken up the torch.

While the PROMIS software is perhaps best known for offering Israeli intelligence a backdoor into as many as 80 intelligence agencies and other sensitive locations around the world for nearly a decade, it was also used for a very different purpose by prominent officials linked to Iran-Contra.

One key Iran-Contra figure — Lt. Col. Oliver North, then serving on the National Security Council — decided to use PROMIS neither for espionage nor for foreign policy. Instead, North turned PROMIS' power against Americans, particularly perceived dissidents, a fact that remained unknown for years.

Beginning in 1982, as part of the highly classified Continuity of Government (COG) program, North used the PROMIS software (https://www.wired.com/1993/01/inslaw/) at a 6,100-square-foot "command center" in the Department of Justice, as well as at a smaller operations room at the White House, to compile a list of American dissidents and "potential troublemakers" if the COG protocol was ever invoked.

According to a senior government official with a high-ranking security clearance and service in five presidential administrations who spoke to Radar in 2008, (https://harpers.org/blog/2008/05/main-core-the-last-round-up/) this was:
A database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state' almost instantaneously." In 1993, Wired described (https://www.wired.com/1993/01/inslaw/) North's use of PROMIS in compiling this database as follows:
Using PROMIS, sources point out, North could have drawn up lists of anyone ever arrested for a political protest, for example, or anyone who had ever refused to pay their taxes. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon's enemies list or Sen. Joe McCarthy's blacklist look downright crude." The COG program defined this "time of panic" as (https://web.archive.org/web/20170626063208/www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=northpromis80) "a national crisis, such as nuclear war, violent and widespread internal dissent, or national opposition to a US military invasion abroad," whereby the government would suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, and incarcerate perceived dissidents and other "unfriendlies" in order to prevent the government's (or then-serving administration's) overthrow.

This secretive database has often been referred to as "Main Core" by government insiders and, most troubling of all, it still exists today. Journalist Christ Ketcham, citing senior government officials, reported in 2008 that, at that time, Main Core was believed to contain the names of as many as 8 million Americans (https://harpers.org/blog/2008/05/main-core-the-last-round-up/). Eleven years later, it is highly likely that the number of Americans included in the Main Core database has grown considerably.

Author and investigative journalist Tim Shorrock also covered other disturbing aspects of the evolution of Main Core back in 2008 for Salon. At the time, Shorrock reported (https://www.salon.com/2008/07/23/new_churchcomm/) that the George W. Bush administration was believed to have used Main Core to guide its domestic surveillance activities following the September 11 attacks.

Citing "several former U.S. government officials with extensive knowledge of intelligence operations," Shorrock further noted (https://www.salon.com/2008/07/23/new_churchcomm/) that Main Core — as it was 11 years ago at the time his report was published — was said to contain "a vast amount of personal data on Americans, including NSA intercepts of bank and credit card transactions and the results of surveillance efforts by the FBI, the CIA and other agencies."

Bill Hamilton, former NSA intelligence officer and the original creator of the PROMIS software, told Shorrock at the time that he believed that "U.S. intelligence uses PROMIS as the primary software for searching the Main Core database" and had been told as much by an intelligence official in 1992 and an NSA official in 1995. Dan Murphy, former deputy director at the CIA, had told Hamilton that the NSA's use of PROMIS was "so seriously wrong that money alone cannot cure the problem." "I believe in retrospect that Murphy was alluding to Main Core," Hamilton had told Shorrock.

Though most reporting on Main Core, from the time its existence was first revealed to the present, has treated the database as something used by the U.S. government and U.S. intelligence for domestic purposes, MintPress has learned that Israeli intelligence was also involved with the creation of the Main Core database. According to a former U.S. intelligence official with direct knowledge of the U.S. intelligence community's use of PROMIS and Main Core from the 1980s to 2000s, Israeli intelligence played a role in the U.S. government's deployment of PROMIS as the software used for the Main Core domestic surveillance database system.

Israeli intelligence remained involved with Main Core at the time of the August 1991 death of journalist Danny Casolaro, who was investigating not only the government's misuse of the stolen PROMIS software but also the Main Core database. This same official, who chose to remain anonymous, told MintPress that, shortly before his death, Casolaro had obtained copies of computer printouts from the PROMIS-based Main Core domestic surveillance database system from NSA whistleblower Alan Standorf, who was found murdered a few months before Casolaro's lifeless body would be found in a West Virginia hotel room.

The source also stated that Main Core's contents had been used for the political blackmail of members of Congress and their staff, journalists, and others by Walter Raymond, a senior CIA covert operator in psyops and disinformation who served on President Reagan's National Security Council during and after Main Core's creation. If used for this purpose by Raymond in the 1980s, Main Core has also likely been used by other individuals with access to the database for blackmailing purposes in the years since.

Given that Israeli intelligence was known to have placed a backdoor into the PROMIS software, before it was marketed and sold around the world by Earl Brian and Robert Maxwell, its role in the U.S. government's decision to use PROMIS in the creation of Main Core suggests that Israeli intelligence likely advocated for the version of PROMIS containing this backdoor, thereby giving Israeli intelligence access to Main Core. Given that Reagan aides and officials colluded with Israeli "spymaster" Rafi Eitan in his efforts to create a backdoor into the software for Israeli military intelligence, the use of this version of PROMIS in the Main Core database is certainly plausible.

Furthermore, the fact that Israeli intelligence was known to be involved in Main Core nearly a decade after its creation suggests that Israeli intelligence may have played a role in certain aspects of the database, such as the criteria used to flag Americans as "unfriendly," and — like Walter Raymond — may have used information in the database to blackmail Americans. In addition, the fact that the cooperation between U.S. and Israeli intelligence, particularly between Unit 8200 and the NSA, has only grown since 1991 further suggests that Israeli involvement in Main Core continues to the present.

While Main Core's very existence is troubling for many reasons, the alleged involvement of a foreign intelligence service in the creation, expansion and maintenance of a database with personal details and potentially damaging information on millions of Americans targeted for detention or increased surveillance in times of crisis is chilling. It is especially so considering that the Trump administration's latest proposals to prevent mass shootings before they occur are likely to use Main Core to flag certain Americans for increased surveillance or potentially detention, as was done by the George W. Bush administration following the September 11 attacks.

It appears that Main Core serves a dual purpose; first as a mass targeted surveillance system to crush dissent during times of "national crisis" — whether spontaneous or engineered — and, second, as a massive blackmail database used to keep every potential opponent in line during non-emergencies.

Peter Thiel's Seeing Stone
As was mentioned earlier in this report, Palantir — the company co-founded by Peter Thiel — is set to profit handsomely from the Trump administration's plans to use its "pre-crime" technology, which is already used by police departments throughout the country and also used to track Americans based on the company's integrative data-mining approach. Palantir, named for the "seeing stones" in the Lord of the Rings novels, also markets software to foreign (and domestic) intelligence agencies that predicts the likelihood that an individual will commit an act of terrorism or violence.

Aside from its "pre-crime" products, Palantir has come under fire in recent years as a result of the company's contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), where it created an intelligence system known as Investigative Case Management (ICM). The IB Times described (https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/palantir-provides-ice-mission-critical-software-further-trump-admin-deportations-report-1609524) ICM as "a vast 'ecosystem' of data to help immigration officials in identifying targets and creating cases against them" and also "provides ICE agents with access to databases managed by other federal agencies." ICM further gives ICE access to "targets' personal and sensitive information, such as background on schooling, employment, family relationships, phone records, immigration history, biometrics data, criminal records as well as home and work addresses." In other words, Palantir's ICM is essentially a "Main Core" for immigrants.

Notably, part of Oliver North's original intentions in "Main Core" was to track (https://www.democracynow.org/2008/7/25/main_core_new_evidence_reveals_top) immigrants then coming from Central America as well as Americans who opposed Reagan era policy with respect to Central America. At that time, Main Core was believed to be controlled by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), which is now part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

VICE News reported in July (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neapqg/300-californian-cities-secretly-have-access-to-palantir) that the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, which is run by DHS, "serves around 300 communities in northern California and is what is known as a 'fusion center (https://epic.org/privacy/fusion/#background),' a Department of Homeland Security intelligence center that aggregates and investigates information (https://ncric.org/html/NCRIC_MOU_2018.pdf) from state, local, and federal agencies, as well as some private entities, into large databases that can be searched using software like Palantir. " VICE further noted that this center alone used Palantir to surveil as many as 8 million Americans. There are many more (https://www.dhs.gov/fusion-center-locations-and-contact-information) such DHS "fusion centers" throughout the United States.

If the Trump administration moves forward with its proposal of employing technology to detect potential mass shooters before they strike, Palantir's technology is set to be used, given that it has already been used by U.S. law enforcement and U.S. intelligence to determine which people run "the highest risk of being involved in gun violence," according to an investigation of Palantir (https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predictive-policing-tool-new-orleans-nopd) by The Verge. Furthermore, Palantir's close ties to the Trump administration make the company's role in a future nationwide "pre-crime" prevention system based on technology appear inevitable.


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Palantir founder Peter Thiel listens to Trump during a meeting at Trump Tower in New York, Dec. 14, 2016. © Evan Vucci | AP


Worse still is the apparent overlap between Palantir and Main Core. Palantir — which has obvious similarities to PROMIS — is already known to use (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/30/palantir-peter-thiel-cia-data-crime-police) its software to track potential terror threats, including domestic terror threats, and a category of people it refers to as "subversives." Palantir's tracking of these individuals "is all done using prediction." Palantir's close ties to the U.S. intelligence community suggest that Palantir may already have access to the Main Core database. Tim Shorrock told MintPress that Palantir's use of Main Core is "certainly possible," particularly in light of the company's use of the term "subversive" to describe a category of people that its software tracks.

Palantir also has alleged ties to Israeli intelligence, as there have long been suspicions that Israeli intelligence has used Palantir as part of its AI "pre-crime" algorithms targeting Palestinians after Palantir opened (https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/mnc_page/palantir-technologies) a research and development (R&D) center in Israel in 2013. The current head of Palantir Israel, Hamultal Meridor (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamutalm/?originalSubdomain=il), previously founded a brain-machine interface organization and was senior director of web intelligence at Verint (formerly Comverse Infosys), which has deep connections to Unit 8200, a history of espionage in the United States and was one of the two companies contracted by the NSA to insert a "backdoor" into the U.S. telecommunications system and popular products of major American tech companies.

Given the above, Peter Thiel's 2018 decision to fund Carbyne, the Unit 8200-linked start-up that markets itself as a technological solution to mass shootings in the U.S., strongly suggests that Thiel has been anticipating for some time the now-public efforts of the Trump administration to employ "pre-crime" technology to track and target Americans who show signs of "mental illness" and "violent tendencies."

A nightmare even Orwell could not have predicted
In early August, in the wake of the shooting at an El Paso Walmart, President Trump called on big tech companies (https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mass-shooter-detection-software-social-media-1452612) to collaborate with the Justice Department in the creation of software that "stops mass murders before they start" by detecting potential mass shooters before they can act. Though Trump's ideas were short on specifics, there is now a new proposal that would create a new government agency that will use data gathered from civilian electronic devices to identify "neurobehavioral" warning signs, thereby flagging "potential shooters" for increased surveillance and potentially detention.

This new agency, as proposed by the foundation led by former NBC Universal president and vice chairman of General Electric Robert Wright, would be known as the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA) (https://www.harpa.org/) and would be modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Per the proposal, recently detailed by the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/), the flagship program of HARPA would be "Safe Home" (Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes), which would use "breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence," specifically "advanced analytical tools based on artificial intelligence and machine learning."

The program would cost an estimated $60 million over four years and would use data from "Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home" and other consumer electronic devices, as well as information provided by health-care providers to identify who may be a threat.

The Washington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/) that President Trump has reacted "very positively" to the proposal and that he was "sold on the concept." The Post also noted that Wright sees the president's daughter, Ivanka, as "the most effective champion of the proposal and has previously briefed her on HARPA himself." Ivanka has previously been cited as a driving force behind some of her father's policy decisions, including his decision to bomb Syria (https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-syria-582446) after an alleged chemical weapons attack in 2017.

Liz Fed — president of the Susan Wright Foundation, which is led by Robert Wright and created the proposal for HARPA and "Safe Home" — told The Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/) that the proposal emulated DARPA because "DARPA is a brilliant model that works. They have developed the most transformational capabilities in the world for national security...We're not leveraging the tools and technologies available to us to improve and save lives." Fed further asserted that DARPA's technological approach had yet to be applied to the field of healthcare.

For anyone familiar with DARPA, such claims should immediately sound loud alarm bells, especially since DARPA is already developing its own solution to "mental health" issues in the form of a "brain-machine interface" as part of its N3 program (https://singularityhub.com/2019/06/05/darpas-new-project-is-investing-millions-in-brain-machine-interface-tech/). That program, according to reports (https://singularityhub.com/2019/06/05/darpas-new-project-is-investing-millions-in-brain-machine-interface-tech/), involves "noninvasive and 'minutely' invasive neural interfaces to both read and write into the brain," help distance soldiers "from the emotional guilt of warfare" by "clouding their perception" and "to program artificial memories (https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-maestro-of-memory-manipulation-20160623/) of fear, desire, and experiences directly into the brain." Though N3 is intended to improve the prowess of American soldiers, it is also set to be used as a means of pursuing DARPA's Systems-Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) project, which aims to (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/darpa-program-to-develop-brain-implants-for-mental-disorders/) "to develop a tiny, implanted chip in the skull to treat psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, PTSD and major depression."

Given that HARPA's lead scientific adviser (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/22/white-house-considers-new-project-seeking-links-between-mental-health-violent-behavior/)is Dr. Geoffrey Ling, former director and founder of DARPA's Biological Technologies Office (BTO), which "merges biology, engineering, and computer science to harness the power of natural systems for national security," it seems likely that DARPA's neurological-focused research programs, like SUBNETS and N3, would be folded into HARPA's portfolio, making the proposed agency's approach to mental health very questionable indeed.

Aside from the dystopian nature of both DARPA and potentially HARPA's approach to mental health, there is grave cause for concern regarding the Trump administration's moves to address U.S. mass shooting events by implementing pre-crime technology based on artificial intelligence, data-mining and mass surveillance, technologies already laying in wait thanks to companies like Palantir and numerous Israeli tech start-ups led by former Unit 8200 officers.

With companies like Carbyne — with its ties to both the Trump administration and to Israeli intelligence — and the Mossad-linked Gabriel also marketing themselves as "technological" solutions to mass shootings while also doubling as covert tools for mass data collection and extraction, the end result is a massive surveillance system so complete and so dystopian that even George Orwell himself could not have predicted it.

Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, aggressive efforts will likely follow to foist these "solutions" on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent and would-be dissenters in the United States.
[I]Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.

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Re-visit post # 141 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1312494&viewfull=1#post1312494) and projects "Pogo" and "Zyphr"



Trump Administration Considering Social Credit Score System to Determine Who Can Buy a Gun (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105172-China-s-TERRIFYING-Social-Credit-System--it-s-already-here-&p=1312972&viewfull=1#post1312972)



Red List, Blue List, Black List, You List | Are You on FEMA’s ‘Kill”List? (https://beforeitsnews.com/police-state/2019/09/red-list-blue-list-black-list-you-list-are-you-on-femas-killlist-5407.html)



Federal court tells Apple & Google to share data of over 10,000 gun scope app users – report (https://www.rt.com/news/468213-google-apple-data-scope-app/)

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Zero Hedge further amplifying the awareness of these Whitney Webb / MintPressNews articles, the more awareness of these the better.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-09-07/webb-how-cia-mossad-epstein-network-are-exploiting-mass-shootings-create-orwellian

[TomKat]

Trump recently referred to himself, in the trade context, [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/21/trump-press-conference-greenland-jewish-democrats"]as "the Chosen One,"

It was a jocular remark. If we're playing poker and you agree to get beer, you might say "I'm the chosen one." Trump talks casually, like a normal person, without regard for the media's penchant for out-of-context twisting of remarks. He assumes a level of intellectual honesty that is completely absent from the public arena. He should know better, but it seems he can't be bothered.

[Hervé]

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Another version of "The Plan" as delivered in 1969:


Doctor Richard Day: Prophet or elite Insider? (http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=194608)

By wmw_admin (http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?author=1) The Truthseeker (http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk)
on September 11, 2019

Background Introduction – Sept 10, 2019


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Rockefeller insider, Dr. Richard Day (1905-1989)

In 1969 Dr Richard Day, late professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and a former director of Planned Parenthood, spoke of the plans of “The Order” to a group of pediatricians. Dr. Lawrence Dunegan was in the audience and prepared an audiotape from his notes in the conference.

What Dr Day said foreshadowed many recent developments that at the time seemed improbable, if not impossible. Dr Day predicted that abortion would become normal (spoken before Roe v Wade), sex education would be taught to young children, homosexuality would be promoted and American industry would be relocated overseas. Another of “The Order’s” objective was the destruction of the normal family structure.

We’ve seen much of this happen in recent decades. While more of what Dr Day spoke of is becoming a reality. Ed.


Forums – Ritchie Allen.co.uk
Steve (https://forums.richieallen.co.uk/member.php?action=profile&uid=130) – 02-16-2018

Dr Richard Day was a Rockefeller (Elite bloodline) insider, who told a group of paediatricians in Pennsylvania in 1969 how America and the world was going to change in line with a global plan. What he said has since proved to be correct in virtually every detail. All these people knew what was planned because there is a knowledge base within the Elite network that is very different to the one in the public domain. Recording or taking notes at the meeting was forbidden, however one brave audience member managed to recall and divulge much of the debate. This is what he said –

Politics
He said that very few people really know how government works. Something to the effect that elected officials are influenced in ways that they don’t even realise and they carry out plans that have been made for them and they think that they are authors of the plans. But actually they are manipulated in ways they don’t understand.

He went on to say that most people don’t understand how governments operate and even people in high positions in governments, including our own, don’t really understand how and where decisions are made. One of the statements was having to do with change … the statement was, ‘People will have to get used to the idea of change, so used to change, that they’ll be expecting change.

Nothing will be permanent.’ This often came out in the context of a society of … where people seemed to have no roots or moorings, but would be passively willing to accept change simply because it was all they had ever known. ‘Everything has two purposes. One is the ostensible purpose which will make it acceptable to people and second is the real purpose which would further the goals of establishing the new system …’ [He said] ‘People are too trusting, people don’t ask the right questions.’

Global economic dictatorship
The stated plan was that different parts of the world would be assigned different roles of industry and commerce in a unified global system. The continued pre-eminence of the United States and the relative independence and self-sufficiency of the United States would have to be changed.

This was one of the several times that he said in order to create a new structure, you first have to tear down the old, and American industry was one example of that … this was especially true of our heavy industries that would be cut back while the same industries were being developed in other countries, notably Japan. And at this point there was some discussion of steel and particularly automobiles –I remember him saying that automobiles would be imported from Japan on an equal footing with our own domestically produced automobiles, but the Japanese product would be better.

Things would be made so they would break and fall apart, that is in the United States, so that people would tend to prefer the imported variety and this would give a bit of a boost to foreign competitors. One example was Japanese. In 1969 Japanese automobiles, if they were sold here at all I don’t remember, but they certainly weren’t very popular. But the idea was you could get a little bit disgusted with your Ford, GM or Chrysler product or whatever because little things like window handles would fall off more and plastic parts would break which had they been made of metal would hold up.

Your patriotism about buying American would soon give way to practicality that if you bought Japanese, German or imported that it would last longer and you would be better off. Patriotism would go down the drain then. The United States was to be kept strong in information, communications, high technology, education and agriculture. The United States was seen as continuing to be sort of the keystone of this global system. But heavy industry would be transported out [exactly what has happened].

Centrally-controlled money Money would become predominately credit. It was already … money is primarily a credit thing but exchange of money would be not cash or palpable things but electronic credit. People would carry money only in very small amounts for things like chewing gum and candy bars. Just pocket sorts of things. Any purchase of any significant amount would be done electronically.

Earnings would be electronically entered into your account. It would be a single banking system. It may have the appearance of being more than one but ultimately and basically it would be one single banking system, so that when you got paid your pay would be entered for you into your account balance and then when you purchased anything at the point of purchase it would be deducted from your account balance and you would actually carry nothing with you.

Also, computer records can be kept on whatever it was you purchased so that if you were purchasing too much of any particular item and some official wanted to know what you were doing with your money they could go back and review your purchases and determine what you were buying.

There was a statement that any purchase of significant size like an automobile, bicycle, a refrigerator, a radio or television or whatever might have some sort of identification on it so it could be traced, so that very quickly anything which was either given away or stolen –whatever –authorities would be able to establish who purchased it and when. Computers would allow this to happen.

The ability to save would be greatly curtailed. People would just not be able to save any considerable degree of wealth. There was some statement of recognition that wealth represents power and wealth in the hands of a lot of people is not good for the people in charge so if you save too much you might be taxed. The more you save the higher rate of tax on your savings so your savings really could never get very far [see negative interest rates]. And also if you began to show a pattern of saving too much you might have your pay cut. We would say, ‘Well, your saving instead of spending. You really don’t need all that money.’ … The idea being to prevent people from accumulating any wealth which might have long range disruptive influence on the system.

People would be encouraged to use credit to borrow and then also be encouraged to renege on their debt so they would destroy their own credit. The idea here is that, again, if you’re too stupid to handle credit wisely, this gives the authorities the opportunity to come down hard on you once you’ve shot your credit.

Electronic payments initially would all be based on different kinds of credit cards … these were already in use in 1969 to some extent. Not as much as now. But people would have credit cards with the electronic strip on it and once they got used to that then it would be pointed out the advantage of having all of that combined into a single credit card, serving a single monetary system and then they won’t have to carry around all that plastic.

Microchipped people
So the next step would be the single card and then the next step would be to replace the single card with a skin implant. The single card [smartphone] could be lost or stolen, give rise to problems; could be exchanged with somebody else to confuse identity. The skin implant on the other hand would be not losable or counterfeitable or transferrable to another person so you and your accounts would be identified without any possibility of error. And the skin implants would have to be put some place that would be convenient to the skin; for example your right hand or your forehead [right on the third eye] …

There was some mention, also, of implants that would lend themselves to surveillance by providing radio signals. This could be under the skin or a dental implant … put in like a filling so that either fugitives or possibly other citizens could be identified by a certain frequency from his personal transmitter and could be located at any time or any place by any authority who wanted to find him. This would be particularly useful for somebody who broke out of prison. There was more discussion of personal surveillance [just look around at what is happening today].

Imposition of world system through nuclear war
If there were too many people in the right places who resisted this [world dictatorship], there might be a need to use one or two –possibly more –nuclear weapons. As it was put, this would be possibly needed to convince people that ‘We mean business’. That was followed by the statement that, ‘By the time one or two of those went off then everybody –even the most reluctant –would yield.’

He said something about ‘this negotiated peace would be very convincing,’ as kind of in a framework or in a context that the whole thing was rehearsed but nobody would know it. People hearing about it would be convinced that it was a genuine negotiation between hostile enemies who finally had come to the realisation that peace was better than war [This syncs with the Albert Pike letter in 1871 about three world wars and what would happen after the third one].

Engineered terrorism
There was a discussion of terrorism. Terrorism would be used widely in Europe and in other parts of the world. Terrorism at that time was thought would not be necessary in the United States. It could become necessary in the United States if the United States did not move rapidly enough into accepting the system [hence 9/ 11 to speed everything along]. But at least in the foreseeable future it was not planned … Maybe terrorism would not be required here, but the implication being that it would be indeed used if it was necessary.

Along with this came a bit of a scolding that Americans had had it too good anyway and just a little bit of terrorism would help convince Americans that the world is indeed a dangerous place … or can be if we don’t relinquish control to the proper authorities.

Population control and killing the elderly
Everybody has a right to live only so long. The old are no longer useful. They become a burden. You should be ready to accept death. Most people are. An arbitrary age limit could be established. After all, you have a right to only so many steak dinners, so many orgasms, and so many good pleasures in life. And after you have had enough of them and you’re no longer productive, working, and contributing, then you should be ready to step aside for the next generation.

Some things that would help people realise that they had lived long enough, he mentioned several of these. I don’t remember them all –here are a few: Use of very pale printing ink on forms that people … are necessary to fill out, so that older people wouldn’t be able to read the pale ink as easily and would need to go to younger people for help.

Automobile traffic patterns –there would be more high-speed traffic lanes … traffic patterns that … older people with their slower reflexes would have trouble dealing with and thus, lose some of their independence.

A big item … was elaborated at some length was that the cost of medical care would be made burdensomely high. Medical care would be connected very closely with one’s work but also would be made very, very high in cost so that it would simply be unavailable to people beyond a certain time. And unless they had a remarkably rich, supporting family, they would just have to do without care.

And the idea was that if everybody says, ‘Enough! What a burden it is on the young to try to maintain the old people,’ then the young would become agreeable to helping mom and dad along the way, provided this was done humanely and with dignity. And then the example was there could be like a nice, farewell party, a real celebration. Mom and dad had done a good job. And then after the party’s over they take the ‘demise pill’.

People won’t be allowed to have babies just because they want to or because they are careless. Most families would be limited to two. Some people would be allowed only one, and the outstanding person or persons might be selected and allowed to have three. But most people would allowed to have only two babies.

Education
… Pressures of the accelerated academic program, the accelerated demands where kids would feel they had to be part of something –one or another athletic club or some school activity –these pressures he recognised would cause some students to burn out. He said ‘the smartest ones will learn how to cope with pressures and to survive. There will be some help available to students in handling stress, but the unfit won’t be able to make it. They will then move on to other things.’

In this connection and later on in the connection with drug abuse and alcohol abuse he indicated that psychiatric services to help would be increased dramatically. In all the pushing for achievement, it was recognised that many people would need help, and the people worth keeping around would be able to accept and benefit from that help, and still be super achievers. Those who could not would fall by the wayside and therefore were sort of dispensable –‘expendable’ I guess is the word I want.

Education would be lifelong. Adults would be going to school. There’ll always be new information that adults must have to keep up. When you can’t keep up anymore, you’re too old. This was another way of letting older people know that the time had come for them to move on and take the demise pill. If you got too tired to keep up with your education, or you got too old to learn new information, then this was a signal –you begin to prepare to get ready to step aside.

He was already talking about computers in education, and at that time he said anybody who wanted computer access, or access to books that were not directly related to their field of study would have to have a very good reason for so doing. Otherwise, access would be denied.

Constant change
Nothing is permanent. Streets would be rerouted, renamed. Areas you had not seen in a while would become unfamiliar. Among other things, this would contribute to older people feeling that it was time to move on, they feel they couldn’t even keep up with the changes in areas that were once familiar.

Buildings would be allowed to stand empty and deteriorate, and streets would be allowed to deteriorate in certain localities. The purpose of this was to provide the jungle, the depressed atmosphere for the unfit. Somewhere in this same connection he mentioned that buildings and bridges would be made so that they would collapse after a while, there would be more accidents involving airplanes and railroads and automobiles. All of this to contribute to the feeling of insecurity, that nothing was safe.

Portrayal of violence (movies/ video games)
Violence would be made more graphic. This was intended to desensitise people to violence. There might need to be a time when people would witness real violence and be a part of it. Later on it will become clear where this is headed.

So there would be more realistic violence in entertainment which would make it easier for people to adjust. People’s attitudes toward death would change. People would not be so fearful of it but more accepting of it, and they would not be so aghast at the sight of dead people or injured people. We don’t need to have a genteel population paralysed by what they might see. People would just learn to say, well I don’t want that to happen to me. This was the first statement suggesting that the plan includes numerous human casualties which the survivors would see.

Food control
Food supplies would come under tight control. If population growth didn’t slow down, food shortages could be created in a hurry and people would realise the dangers of overpopulation. Ultimately, whether the population slows down or not the food supply is to be brought under centralised control so that people would have enough to be well-nourished but they would not have enough to support any fugitive from the new system. Growing one’s own food would be outlawed.

This would be done under some sort of pretext. In the beginning I mentioned there were two purposes for everything –one the ostensible purpose and one the real purpose, and the ostensible purpose here would be that growing your own vegetables was unsafe, it would spread disease or something like that. So the acceptable idea was to protect the consumer but the real idea was to limit the food supply and growing your own food would be illegal. And if you persist in illegal activities like growing your own food, then you’re a criminal.

Weather control
There was a mention then of weather. This was another really striking statement. He said, ‘We can or soon will be able to control the weather.’ He said, ‘I’m not merely referring to dropping iodide crystals into the clouds to precipitate rain that’s already there, but REAL control.’ And weather was seen as a weapon of war, a weapon of influencing public policy.

It could make rain or withhold rain in order to influence certain areas and bring them under your control. There were two sides to this that were rather striking. He said, ‘On the one hand you can make drought during the growing season so that nothing will grow, and on the other hand you can make for very heavy rains during harvest season so the fields are too muddy to bring in the harvest, and indeed one might be able to do both.’ There was no statement how this would be done. It was stated that either it was already possible or very, very close to being possible .

[B]Mass mind control
‘People can carry in their minds and act upon two contradictory ideas at one time, provided that these two contradictory ideas are kept far enough apart.’ And the other statement is, ‘You can know pretty well how rational people are going to respond to certain circumstances or to certain information that they encounter. So, to determine the response you want you need only control the kind of data or information that they’re presented or the kinds of circumstance that they’re in; and being rational people they’ll do what you want them to do. They may not fully understand what they’re doing or why.’

Telescreens
One more thing was said, ‘[I]You’ll be watching television and somebody will be watching you at the same time at a central monitoring station.’ Television sets would have a device to enable this [smart TVs]. The TV set would not have to be on in order for this to be operative. Also, the television set can be used to monitor what you are watching. People can tell what you’re watching on TV and how you’re reacting to what you’re watching. And you would not know that you were being watched while you were watching your television.

How would we get people to accept these things into their homes? Well, people would buy them when they buy their own television. They won’t know that they’re on there at first. This was described by being what we now know as Cable TV to replace the antenna TV [the rush to digital TV is part of this]. When you buy a TV set this monitor would just be part of the set and most people would not have enough knowledge to know it was there in the beginning. And then the cable would be the means of carrying the surveillance message to the monitor.

By the time people found out that this monitoring was going on, they would also be very dependent upon television for a number of things. Just the way people are dependent upon the telephone today. One thing the television would be used for would be purchases. You wouldn’t have to leave your home to purchase. You just turn on your TV and there would be a way of interacting with your television channel to the store that you wanted to purchase. And you could flip the switch from place to place to choose a refrigerator or clothing. This would be both convenient, but it would also make you dependent on your television so the built-in monitor would be something you could not do without.

There was some discussion of audio monitors, too, just in case the authorities wanted to hear what was going on in rooms other than where the television monitor was, and in regard to this the statement was made, ‘Any wire that went into your house, for example your telephone wire, could be used this way.

Day was talking here about the World Wide Web which wasn’t ‘invented’ officially until 1989 by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee who ‘wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland.’ Oh, really? So how did Richard Day know about it in 1969? Because ‘new’ technology is sitting in the wings all along waiting for the right time to be introduced. How did Day know about Telescreens or smart TVs many decades before they were ‘invented’? How did Orwell?

Human settlement zones
Privately owned housing would become a thing of the past. The cost of housing and financing housing would gradually be made so high that most people couldn’t afford it. People who already owned their houses would be allowed to keep them but as years go by it would be more and more difficult for young people to buy a house.

Young people would more and more become renters, particularly in apartments or condominiums. More and more unsold houses would stand vacant. People just couldn’t buy them. But the cost of housing would not come down. You’d right away think, well the vacant house, the price would come down, the people would buy it. But there was some statement to the effect that the price would be held high even though there were many available so that free market places would not operate.

People would not be able to buy these and gradually more and more of the population would be forced into small apartments. Small apartments which would not accommodate very many children [micro apartments]. Then as the number of real home-owners diminished they would become a minority. There would be no sympathy for them from the majority who dwelled in the apartments and then these homes could be taken by increased taxes or other regulations that would be detrimental to home ownership and would be acceptable to the majority [divide and rule].

Ultimately, people would be assigned where they would live and it would be common to have non-family members living with you. This by way of your not knowing just how far you could trust anybody. This would all be under the control of a central housing authority.

Have this in mind … when they ask, ‘How many bedrooms in your house? How many bathrooms in your house? Do you have a finished game room?’ This information is personal and is of no national interest to government under our existing Constitution. But you’ll be asked those questions and decide how you want to respond to them [happening].

Disappearance of dissidents
When the new system takes over people will be expected to sign allegiance to it, indicating that they don’t have any reservations or holding back to the old system. ‘There just won’t be any room’, he said, ‘for people who won’t go along. We can’t have such people cluttering up the place so such people would be taken to special places,’ the inference being that at these special places where they were taken, then they would not live very long and ‘disposed of humanely,’ . The system was not going to support them when they would not go along with the system. That would leave death as the only alternative.

He said there would not be any martyrs meaning that the people would not be killed in such a way or disposed of in such a way that they could serve as inspiration to other people the way martyrs do. Rather more like … ‘People will just disappear.’

The bringing in of the new system he said probably would occur on a weekend in the winter. Everything would shut down on Friday evening and Monday morning when everybody wakened there would be an announcement that the New System was in place. During the process in getting the United States ready for these changes everybody would be busier with less leisure time and less opportunity to really look about and see what was going on around them.

Richard Day also said that there would be mass movements and migrations of people without roots in their new locations because ‘traditions are easier to change in a place where there are a lot of transplanted people, as compared to trying to change traditions in a place where people grew up and had an extended family, where they had roots.’

This is one of the prime reasons for orchestrating the mass migrations from the Middle East and Africa into Europe with the targeting especially of Germany which has such a sense of its own traditions and culture. Chancellor Merkel knows exactly what she is doing and why.

Day even said in 1969 that soccer would be promoted in the United States because it was an international game and would help to break down a sense of a unique culture underpinned by baseball and American football.

Source (https://forums.richieallen.co.uk/printthread.php?tid=143)


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See more YouTube clips here… (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=richard+day+the+new+order+of+barbarians)



Related:


True Cabal Insider, Dr. Richard Day, Delivers Talk in 1969 Outlining 'the Full Agenda' (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?73054-True-Cabal-Insider-Dr.-Richard-Day-Delivers-Talk-in-1969-Outlining-the-Full-Agenda)



FUTURE SHOCK.....From Dr.Richard Day 1969 lays out projected plan for the future...The New Order of Barbarians (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?75132-FUTURE-SHOCK.....From-Dr.Richard-Day-1969-lays-out-projected-plan-for-the-future...The-New-Order-of-Barbarians)



Full Transcript of Tapes (http://www.sweetliberty.org/nobarbarians1.htm)



mp3 of tapes 1-3: https://archive.org/download/New_Order_of_Barbarians_remaster_tapes_1to3/New%20Order%20of%20Barbarians%20%5Bremaster%5D%20tapes%201%20to%203.mp3



The Revelations of Dr. Day (https://drrichardday.wordpress.com/)

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Guns & Butter interview of Ms Whitney Webb focusing on Part II (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1307275&viewfull=1#post1307275) and Part IV (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1311632&viewfull=1#post1311632) of the above articles:

Whitney Webb | From Reagan to Clinton: Organized Crime, Intelligence and Human Trafficking

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The insiders around Ronald Reagan including



fixer Roy Cohn and Estee Lauder



billionaire, Ronald Lauder;



Cohn’s influential power within the media, both print and broadcast, including many of his famous friends;



Ronald Reagan’s ties to organized crime through Lew Wasserman and talent agency MCA;



Ronald Lauder’s connections to the Mega Group, the World Jewish Congress and Israel;



Jeffrey Epstein’s Austrian passport;



the White House Call Boys Network during Bush senior’s administration;



savings and loan scandals; the Franklin Cover-Up;



FBI protecting pedophile rings;



the Clintons’ connections to Iran/Contra while in Arkansas;



Jackson Stephens’ complex financial web, connections to the Rose Law Firm, BCCI and Systematics;



speculation as to why Jeffrey Epstein re-arrested on July 7th;



the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board SFFAS 56 – Classified Activities.



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Whitney Webb | How Alliance of Intelligence & Organized Crime Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1312147&viewfull=1#post1312147)



Part II: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump's mentor and the dark secrets of the Reagan era: Governing by blackmail (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1307275&viewfull=1#post1307275)



Part IV: From “Spook Air” to the “Lolita Express”: The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1311632&viewfull=1#post1311632)

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Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israeli Intel (https://www.mintpressnews.com/ari-ben-menashe-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-israel-intelligence/262162/)

By Whitney Webb (https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/)
October 02nd, 2019


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A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.

Too Big To Fail
By Whitney Webb (https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/whitney-webb/)
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Since the apparent death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan prison, much has come to light about his depraved activities and methods used to sexually abuse underage girls and entrap the rich and powerful for the purposes of blackmail. Epstein’s ties to intelligence, described in-depth in a recent MintPress investigative series (https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/), have continued to receive minimal mainstream media coverage, which has essentially moved on from the Epstein scandal despite the fact that his many co-conspirators remain on the loose.


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For those who have examined Epstein’s ties to intelligence, there are clear links to both U.S. intelligence and Israeli intelligence, leaving it somewhat open to debate as to which country’s intelligence apparatus was closest to Epstein and most involved in his blackmail/sex-trafficking activities. A recent interview given by a former high-ranking official in Israeli military intelligence has claimed that Epstein’s sexual blackmail enterprise was an Israel intelligence operation run for the purpose of entrapping powerful individuals and politicians in the United States and abroad.

In an interview (https://narativ.org/2019/09/26/blackmailing-america/) with Zev Shalev, former CBS News executive producer and award-winning investigative journalist for Narativ, the former senior executive for Israel’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, Ari Ben-Menashe, claimed not only to have met Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, back in the 1980s, but that both Epstein and Maxwell were already working with Israeli intelligence during that time period.

“They found a niche”
In an interview (https://narativ.org/2019/09/26/blackmailing-america/) last week with the independent outlet Narativ, Ben-Menashe, who himself was involved in Iran-Contra arms deals, told his interviewer Zev Shalev that he had been introduced to Jeffrey Epstein by Robert Maxwell in the mid-1980s while Maxwell’s and Ben-Menashe’s involvement with Iran-Contra was ongoing. Ben-Menashe did not specify the year he met Epstein.

Ben-Menashe told Shalev that “he [Maxwell] wanted us to accept him [Epstein] as part of our group …. I’m not denying that we were at the time a group that it was Nick Davies [Foreign Editor of the Maxwell-Owned Daily Mirror], it was Maxwell, it was myself and our team from Israel, we were doing what we were doing.” Past reporting by Seymour Hersh and others revealed that (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/19/world/us-author-gets-apology-in-libel-case.html) Maxwell, Davies and Ben-Menashe were involved in the transfer and sale of military equipment and weapons from Israel to Iran on behalf of Israeli intelligence during this time period.

He then added that Maxwell had stated during the introduction that “your Israeli bosses have already approved” of Epstein. Shalev later noted that Maxwell “had an extensive network in Israel at the time, which included the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, according to Ben-Menashe.”

Ben-Menashe went on to say that he had “met him [Epstein] a few times in Maxwell’s office, that was it.” He also said he was not aware of Epstein being involved in arms deals for anyone else he knew at the time, but that Maxwell wanted to involve Epstein in the arms transfer in which he, Davies and Ben-Menashe were engaged on Israel’s behalf.


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Ariel Sharon (right) meets with Robert Maxwell in Jerusalem on Feb. 20, 1990. Photo | AP


However, as MintPress reported in Part IV (https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/) of the investigative series “Inside the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail (https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/),” Epstein was involved with several arms dealers during this period of time, some of whom were directly involved in Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. For instance, after leaving Bear Stearns in 1981, Epstein began working (https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/) in the realms of shadow finance as a self-described “financial bounty hunter,” where he would both hunt down and hide money for powerful people. One of these powerful individuals was Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms dealer with close ties to both Israeli and U.S. intelligence and one of the main brokers of Iran-Contra arms deals between Israel and Iran. Epstein would later forge a business relationship with a CIA front company involved in another aspect of Iran-Contra, the airline Southern Air Transport, on behalf of Leslie Wexner’s company, The Limited.

During this period, it is also known that Epstein became well acquainted with the British arms dealer Sir Douglas Leese, who collaborated with Khashoggi on at least one British-Saudi arms deal in the 1980s. Leese would later introduce (https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/) Epstein to Steven Hoffenberg, calling Epstein a “genius” and describing his lack of morals during that introduction. Thus, there are indications that Epstein was involved with Middle Eastern arms deals, including some related to Iran-Contra, during this period. In addition, Epstein would later claim (and then subsequently deny) having worked for the CIA during this period.

After having been introduced to Epstein, Ben-Menashe claimed that neither he nor Davies were impressed with Epstein and considered him “not very competent.” He added that Ghislaine Maxwell had “fallen for” Epstein and that he believed that the romantic relationship between his daughter and Epstein led Robert Maxwell to work to bring the latter into the “family business” — i.e., Maxwell’s dealings with Israeli intelligence. This information is very revealing, given that the narrative, until now at least, has been that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein did not meet and begin their relationship until after Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991, after which Ghislaine moved to New York.

Ben-Menashe says that well after the introduction, though again he does not specify what year, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein began a sexual blackmail operation with the purpose of extorting U.S. political and public figures on behalf of Israeli military intelligence. He stated:
“In this case what really happened, my take on it, in the later thing, is that these guys were seen as agents. They weren’t really competent to do very much. And so they found a niche for themselves — blackmailing American and other political figures.”
He then confirmed, when prompted, that they were blackmailing Americans on behalf of Israeli intelligence.

In response to his statement, Zev Shalev replied, “But, you know, for most people it’s hard for them to think of Israel as being … blackmailing their leaders in the United States, it’s a very …” at which point, Ben-Menashe interrupted and the following exchange took place:

Ari Ben-Menashe: You’re kidding? [laughs]…. It was quite their M.O. Sleeping around is not a crime, it may be embarrassing, but it’s not a crime, but sleeping with underage girls is a crime.

Shalev: It was a crime in 2000 as well, but they let him off that…

Ben-Menashe: And that it is [why] always so he [Epstein] made sure these girls were underage.

In addition, when Shalev asked Ben-Menashe about the relationship (https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossad-jeffrey-epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/) between Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Ben-Menashe stated
“After a while, you know, what Mr. Epstein was doing was collecting intelligence on people in the United States. And so if you want to go to the U.S. if you’re a high-profile politician you want to know information about people.”
Ben-Menashe subsequently stated that Barak was obtaining compromising information (i.e., blackmail) that Epstein had acquired on powerful people in the United States.

PROMIS, sex, and blackmail
If Robert Maxwell did recruit Epstein and bring him into the “family business” and the world of Israeli intelligence, as Ben-Menashe has claimed, it provides supporting evidence for information provided to MintPress by a former U.S. intelligence official, who chose to remain anonymous in light of the sensitivity of the claim.

This source, who has direct knowledge of the unauthorized use of PROMIS to support covert U.S. and Israeli intelligence projects, told MintPress that “some of the proceeds from the illicit sales of PROMIS were made available to Jeffrey Epstein for use in compromising targets of political blackmail.” As was noted in a Mintpress series on the Epstein scandal (https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/), much of Epstein’s funding also came from Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, who has documented ties to both organized crime and U.S. and Israeli intelligence.

After the PROMIS software was stolen from its rightful owner and developer, Inslaw Inc., through the collusion of both U.S. and Israeli officials, it was marketed mainly by two men: Earl Brian, a close aide to Ronald Reagan, later U.S. envoy to Iran and close friend of Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan; and Robert Maxwell. Brian sold the bugged software through his company, Hadron Inc., while Maxwell sold it through an Israeli company he acquired called Degem. Before and following Maxwell’s acquisition of Degem, the company was a known front (https://cryptome.org/promis-mossad.htm) for Mossad operations and Mossad operatives in Latin America often posed as Degem employees.

With Maxwell — Epstein’s alleged recruiter and father of Epstein’s alleged madam — having been one of the main salespeople involved in selling PROMIS software on behalf of intelligence, he would have been in a key position to furnish Epstein’s nascent sexual blackmail operation with the proceeds from the sale of PROMIS.

This link between Epstein’s sexual blackmail operation and the PROMIS software scandal is notable given that the illicit use of PROMIS by U.S. and Israeli intelligence has been for blackmail purposes on U.S. public figures and politicians, as was described in a recent MintPress report (https://www.mintpressnews.com/cia-israel-mossad-jeffrey-epstein-orwellian-nightmare/261692/).

Can an ex-spy be trusted?
When dealing in the world of deception and intrigue that defines intelligence operations, it is often difficult to determine whether any individual linked to an intelligence agency is telling the truth. Indeed, in the United States, there are examples (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180313/15105739419/clock-runs-out-perjury-charges-james-clapper-ensuring-he-wont-be-punished-lying-to-congress.shtml) of elected intelligence officials committing perjury and lying to Congress on several occasions (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/19/james-clappers-perjury-dc-made-men-dont-get-charged-lying-congress-jonathan-turley-column/1045991001/) with no consequences, and of intelligence officials feeding politically motivated and untrue information to agency assets in the media.

So, are Ari Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Epstein and the Maxwells trustworthy? In addition to the aforementioned, corroborating information for his claims, a review of Ben-Menashe’s post-intelligence career suggests this is the case.


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Ari Ben-Menashe arrives at Harare International Airport, in Zimbabwe, Feb. 22, 2002. Photo | AP


Prior to his arrest in November 1989, Ben-Menashe was a high-ranking officer in a special unit of Israeli military intelligence. He would later claim (https://books.google.cl/books?id=oLHxCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT121&lpg=PT121&dq=wire+transfer+%24600,000+from+israel+to+earl+brian&source=bl&ots=vc3GMLJAS9&sig=ACfU3U1Q5s8dti4V_ofaD-naQaDaUjNSQg&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=wire%20transfer%20%24600%2C000%20from%20israel%20to%20earl%20brian&f=false) that his arrest for attempting to sell American-made weapons to Iran was politically motivated, as he had threatened to expose what the U.S. government had done with the stolen PROMIS software if the U.S. did not cease providing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq with chemical weapons. Ben-Menashe was later acquitted (https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/05/ben-menashe-case-turns-on-bomb-samples/) when a U.S. court determined that his involvement in the attempted sale of military equipment to Iran was done on behalf of the Israeli state.

After his arrest, Ben-Menashe was visited in prison by Robert Parry, the former Newsweek contributor and Associated Press reporter who would later found and run Consortium News until his recent passing last year. Parry remembered that (https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/08/who-bombed-ben-menashes-house/), during that interview, “Ben-Menashe offered me startling new information about the Iran-Contra scandal, which I thought that I knew quite well.”

Israel’s government immediately began to attack Ben-Menashe’s credibility following his interview with Parry, and claimed that Ben-Menashe had never worked for Israeli intelligence. When Parry soon found evidence (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ben-menashe-letters.pdf) that Ben-Menashe had indeed served in Israeli military intelligence, Israel’s government was then forced to admit that he had worked for military intelligence, but only as a “low-level translator.” Yet, the documentation (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ben-menashe-letters.pdf) Parry had uncovered described Ben-Menashe as having served in “key positions” and performed “complex and sensitive assignments.”

A year later, Ben-Menashe would be interviewed by another journalist, Seymour Hersh. It would be Ben-Menashe who first revealed to Hersh secrets about Israel’s nuclear program and the fact that British media mogul Robert Maxwell was an Israeli spy, revelations that Hersh would not only independently corroborate but include in his book The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (https://www.amazon.com/Samson-Option-Israels-Nuclear-American/dp/0394570065). Hersh was then sued by Robert Maxwell and the Maxwell-owned Mirror Group for libel. The case was later settled (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/19/world/us-author-gets-apology-in-libel-case.html) in Hersh’s favor, as the claims Hersh had made were true and not libelous. As a result, the Mirror Group paid Hersh for damages, covered his legal costs, and issued him a formal apology.

After Ben-Menashe’s interviews by Hersh and Parry, Israel’s government was apparently concerned enough about what Ben-Menashe would tell congressional investigators that it attempted to kidnap him (https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/08/who-bombed-ben-menashes-house/) and bring him back to Israel to face state charges, much like Israeli intelligence had done to Israel’s nuclear-weapons whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. The plan was foiled largely thanks to Parry.

Parry, who broke many key stories related to the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980s and beyond, was tipped off by a U.S. intelligence source about a joint U.S.-Israel plan to have Ben-Menashe first be denied entry to the United States on his planned trip to give congressional testimony. Per the plan, Ben-Menashe would be denied entry to the U.S. in Los Angeles and then be deported to Israel, where he would have stood trial for “exposing state secrets.” Parry called Ben-Menashe and convinced him to delay his flight until he secured a guarantee for safe passage from the U.S. government.

Ben-Menashe subsequently gave a sworn statement (https://web.archive.org/web/20190901003642/http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?inslawpromis_the_inslaw_dispute_and_promis=inslawpromis_oversight_by_congress&timeline=inslawpromis) to the House Judiciary Committee that mostly focused on U.S.-Israel collusion regarding the theft and creation of a “backdoor” into the PROMIS software. Ben-Menashe offered to name names and provide corroborating evidence for several of his claims if he was offered immunity by the committee, which, for whatever reason. declined that request.

Prior to the conclusion of the Hersh “libel” trial, which would later uphold Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding Robert Maxwell’s Mossad activities as true, there was a concerted effort in the U.S. press to downplay Ben-Menashe’s credibility. For instance, Newsweek — in an article on Ben-Menashe entitled “One Man, Many Tales (https://www.newsweek.com/one-man-many-tales-201744)” — claimed that “inconsistencies may undermine Ben-Menashe’s testimony in the British courtroom proceedings,” citing inconsistencies from sources in Israel’s government and Israeli intelligence as well as Ben-Menashe’s ex-wife (https://www.newsweek.com/truth-or-dare-new-tales-ben-menashe-201774) and Israeli journalist Shmuel (or Samuel) Segev, a former IDF colonel (https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/samuel-segev-wonderful-warm-and-wise-165699046.html). It goes without saying that such sources had much to gain from any effort to discredit Ben-Menashe’s claims.

According to Parry, this media campaign, which employed American journalists with close ties (https://consortiumnews.com/2011/10/30/unmasking-an-october-surprise-debunker/) to Israel’s government and intelligence agencies, was very successful “in marginalizing Ben-Menashe by 1993, at least in the eyes of the Washington Establishment.” After a years-long media campaign to discredit Ben-Menashe, “the Israelis seemed to view him as a declining threat, best left alone. He was able to pick up the pieces of his life, creating a second act as an international political consultant and businessman arranging sales of grain.” The effort to marginalize Ben-Menashe has continued well into recent years, with mainstream news outlets still referring to him as a “self-described ex-Israeli spy (https://www.mynbc5.com/article/suspected-arson-destroys-home-of-self-described-ex-israeli-spy-in-montreal/3306340)” — despite the well-documented fact that Ben-Menashe worked for Israeli intelligence — as a means of downplaying his claims regarding his time in Israel’s intelligence service.

After the conclusion of the Hersh libel trial, Ben-Menashe became an international political consultant who “surrounded his far-flung business activities in secrecy and got involved with some controversial international figures, such as Zimbabwe’s leader Robert Mugabe,” and “conducted his international consulting business … in a wide variety of global hotspots, including conflict zones,” according to Parry. In addition to Mugabe, Ben-Menashe has also recently come under fire (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-ex-intel-officer-defends-lobbying-for-sudanese-junta-1.7563126) for his consulting work on behalf of Sudan’s military junta and Venezuelan opposition politician Henri Falcón.

Ben-Menashe has also maintained ties to several different intelligence services and eventually became (https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/05/ben-menashe-case-turns-on-bomb-samples/) a controversial whistleblower whose information led to the arrest (http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/11/the-long-reach-of-ari-ben-menashe/) of the former head of Canada’s Security Intelligence Review Committee, Arthur Porter.

As far as his character is concerned, Parry noted (https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/08/who-bombed-ben-menashes-house/) that Ben-Menashe could often be “his own worst enemy” and that, even though Parry considered his information regarding Iran-Contra and PROMIS reliable and noted that much of it was later corroborated, he “often compound[ed] his media problem by treating journalists in a high-handed manner, either due to his suspicions of them or his arrogance.”

Bill Hamilton, the original developer of the PROMIS software and head of Inslaw Inc., also found Ben-Menashe’s claims regarding the illicit use of PROMIS by U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies to be credible, though he expressed doubts about Ben-Menashe’s character.

Hamilton told MintPress the following about Ben-Menashe:
“Ari Ben Menashe was the first source to tell us reliable information about the role of Rafi Eitan and Israeli intelligence vis-a-vis PROMIS but, in the end, of course, he was a clandestine services-type guy whose official duties include the ability and willingness to lie, cheat, and steal.”
A threat revived
While Ben-Menashe may have been viewed as a “declining threat” after the early 1990s, his plans to meet with Robert Parry of Consortium News years later in 2012 to discuss Iran-Contra and other covert dealings of the 1980s appeared to change that. Right before he planned to travel from Canada to the United States to meet with Parry and “finally prove” the truthfulness of his past claims, a fire-bomb was thrown (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/fire-strikes-montreal-home-of-an-international-man-of-mystery/article5910846/) into his Montreal home, destroying it.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ben-Menashe-Home.jpg
Ari Ben-Menashe surveys the damage to his home after it was mysteriously firebombed. Photos | Robert Parry


Though Canadian media referred to (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/fire-strikes-montreal-home-of-an-international-man-of-mystery/article5910846/) the incendiary device as a “molotov cocktail,” Consortium News reported (https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/05/ben-menashe-case-turns-on-bomb-samples/) that “the arson squad’s initial assessment is said to be that the flammable agent was beyond the sort of accelerant used by common criminals,” leading to speculation that the accelerant was military-grade.

Had it not been for the bomb, the origins of which Canadian police failed to determine, Ben-Menashe would have traveled to the U.S. alongside a “senior Israeli intelligence figure” to be interviewed by Parry. The other intelligence-linked individual, according to Parry (https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/08/who-bombed-ben-menashes-house/), “concluded that the attack was meant as a message from Israeli authorities to stay silent about the historical events that he was expected to discuss.”

Though neither Ben-Menashe nor Parry directly blamed Israel’s government for the destruction of Ben-Menashe’s home, Parry noted (https://consortiumnews.com/2012/12/08/who-bombed-ben-menashes-house/) that the bombing did succeed in “intimidating Ben-Menashe, shutting down possible new disclosures of Israeli misconduct from the other intelligence veteran, and destroying records that would have helped Ben-Menashe prove whatever statements he might make.”

While Ben-Menashe’s post-intelligence associations with controversial governments and individuals have given plenty of fodder to the still thriving media campaign to discredit his claims about covert U.S.-Israel operations in the 1980s, there remain troubling indications that the Israeli government sees his information on decades-old events as a threat.

Now, with the major efforts by powerful Americans and Israelis to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein and other figures associated with his depraved sex trafficking operation, Ben-Menashe may soon again find his reputation — and perhaps more — under fire.

[Delight]

I think this is a part of the Big Picture.

Dr. Shiva exposes the Academic Industrial Complex and the need for REAL SCIENCE in an interview with Tiffany FitzHenry.

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[Hervé]

I think the above is a small picture that's the end result of this one (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1223323&viewfull=1#post1223323):
EDUCATION
After the war, the Carnegie Endowment trustees reasoned that if they could get control of education in the United States they would be able to prevent a return to the way of life as it had been prior to the war. They recruited the Rockefeller Foundation to assist in such a monumental task. According to Dodd's Reece Committee report:

"They divided the task into parts, giving to the Rockefeller Foundation the responsibility of altering education as it pertains to domestic subjects, but Carnegie retained the task of altering our education in foreign affairs and about international relations."
And this one (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25102-For-an-idea-on-the-big-picture&p=1143033&viewfull=1#post1143033):
Rockefeller Biology Research: 'Control the people...'
If philanthropy should be motivated by love of our fellow man, the grants of the Rockefeller Foundation are not. Take medical research. During the period until 1939 and the War, the Rockefeller Foundation financed biological research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. It was Nazi eugenics—how to breed a superior race and how to kill off or sterilize those they deemed "inferior." Rockefeller financed Nazi eugenics. Rockefeller's Standard Oil also violated US law to secretly supply the Nazi Air Force with scarce fuel during the War. After the War the Rockefeller brothers arranged for leading Nazi scientists involved in ghastly human experiments to be brought to the USA and Canada under sanitized identities to continue their eugenics research. Many worked in the CIA top secret MK-Ultra project.

In the 1950's the Rockefeller brothers founded the Population Council to advance eugenics, disguised as population research into birth control. The Rockefeller brothers were responsible in the 1970's for a US Government Top Secret project directed by Rockefeller National Security Adviser Kissinger, NSSM-200 titled, "Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests." It argued high population growth in developing nations with strategic raw materials like oil or minerals were a US "national security threat" as more population demands national economic growth, using those resources internally (sic!).NSSM-200 made developing world population reduction programs a precondition of US aid. In the 1970s David Rockefeller's Rockefeller Foundation also financed together with WHO development of a special tetanus vaccine that limited population by making a woman incapable of maintaining a pregnancy, literally going after the human reproductive process itself.

The Rockefeller Foundation created the entire field of genetic manipulation through its ownership of Monsanto Corporation and financing of university biology research to create the "gene cannon" and other techniques to artificially alter gene expression of a given plant. The aim of GMO, since Rockefeller sponsored the disastrous Philippine Golden Rice project, has been to use GMO to control the human and animal food chain. Today more than 90% of all soybeans grown in USA are GMO and more than 80% of all corn and cotton. Yet it is not labelled.

[kfm27917]

History Was Supposed To End. What Happened?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/history-was-supposed-end-what-happened

Anyone paying close attention at the turn of the 21st century could foresee the impending failure of the social-democratic consensus throughout the developed world.

he exalted experts who rose to power in the postwar period built gigantic state-based systems of social management and control and took over vast swaths of private society, imposing planning schemes across many sectors of economic life. They imagined themselves to be permanent fixtures of the socio-economic system. After all, this approach won the war (so they said), so why couldn’t it win the peace?

But there was a problem: over time nothing worked as it was supposed to. There were massive internal contradictions within the model, as Amity Shlaes shows in her new book on the Great Society. The new systems relied on bureaucratic command, not market signals. There was another problem: they were hugely imposing on people’s lives and property, and people don’t like that. Or rather: they will put up with it so long as they perceive that the benefits exceed or at least match the costs.

(and more...)