Remember this......... At the time of the 1997 firings, the chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission was Dallas lawyer Harriet Miers,
Illinois and GTECH
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Thursday, January 19,2006
Keno proposal draws lobbyists with connections to the governor
By Rich Miller
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that John Wyma is lobbying for GTECH. The Illinois Lottery contractor will most likely operate the state’s proposed keno network. Gov. Rod Blagojevich wants to put electronic keno gambling games in 2,000 taverns and restaurants to help fund a construction plan for schools. Wyma was the governor’s chief of staff when Blagojevich was a congressman, and he was the political director for the governor’s 2002 campaign. He is just the sort of guy whom companies like GTECH hire when they want to get something done in the state. Actually, it’s not just the state: The same thing goes for Chicago and most other municipalities in Illinois. And it’s not just Illinois: How many companies hired disgraced Washington, D.C., superlobbyist Jack Abramoff because they believed that he could grease the skids with the national Republican establishment?
John Wyna
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The identity of another important figure in the case against Mr. Blagojevich, known only as “Individual A” in the complaint, also became apparent on Wednesday. Law enforcement officials said he was John Wyma, a lobbyist, fund-raiser and close adviser to Mr. Blagojevich, who went to the federal authorities in October with a tale of corruption that helped lead to the use of wiretaps on Mr. Blagojevich and eventually the governor’s arrest on Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and soliciting bribes.
Mr. Wyma’s assertions did not center on the vacant Senate seat but on different accusations of corruption included in the case against Mr. Blagojevich. The lobbyist said Mr. Blagojevich was improperly squeezing recipients of state aid for large contributions in an attempt to amass a $2.5 million campaign fund before Jan. 1, when a new state law takes effect barring contributions from state contractors.
GTECH Scandal reached from NJ to Texas to the White House
Full Article:
By Bruce Golding • The Journal News • January 30, 2007
The farthest-reaching scandal involving GTECH Holdings Corp. sent a former top executive to prison and helped scuttle a nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
J. David Smith was GTECH's national sales director when he took almost $170,000 in kickbacks from lobbyists in New Jersey.
In 1996, he was convicted of fraud and other charges that sent him to prison for five years.
Smith's conviction led the Texas Lottery Commission to investigate GTECH's operations in that state, after Smith's pre-sentence report implicated him in another kickback scheme with the company's Texas lobbyists.
Those lobbyists included former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, who made headlines during the 2004 presidential campaign with his claim that he helped President Bush get into the National Guard and avoid combat during the Vietnam War.
No charges were filed over the Texas allegations, and the New Jersey judge made Smith's prosecutors apologize to Barnes and GTECH for the disclosure.
But the Texas probe led to the 1997 firing of Texas Lottery Director Nora Linares after officials learned that a friend, whom she later married, had secretly worked as a $6,000-a-month GTECH consultant.
Linares, a former state Democratic Party official, sued GTECH and the commission, claiming she had been fired for political reasons. In an out-of-court settlement, GTECH paid her $435,000, plus $290,000 for her lawyers. The company admitted no wrongdoing.
Linares' successor, Lawrence Littwin, lasted less than five months before he also was fired. Littwin, who had formerly worked for a GTECH competitor, also sued, claiming he was fired after looking into possibly illegal political contributions by GTECH.
Littwin won a $300,000 settlement from GTECH, which included a confidentiality order as part of the deal.
At the time of the 1997 firings, the chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission was Dallas lawyer Harriet Miers, who would later become White House counsel to Bush. Her resignation after six years in that job was announced this month.
In 2005, Bush nominated Miers to the Supreme Court to replace Chief Justice William Rehnquist after he died.
But Miers backed out of the nomination after widespread criticism of her qualifications, as well as published reports that predicted she would face grilling at her confirmation hearing over the controversies at the Texas Lottery.
I really enjoyed the following article. I have always found myself liking Blagojevich and like him even more now. ...cal
Blagojevich -Governor Sunshine
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Then an opportunity to acquire the visibility that still eluded Blagojevich emerged in the despised person of Slobodan Milosevic, the fiercely nationalistic Serbian president of Yugoslavia. NATO had launched air strikes against Yugoslav troops under Milosevic's command. Meanwhile, Milosevic was holding three American POWs. The Reverend Jesse Jackson wanted to go to Belgrade to meet with Milosevic and plead for the freedom of the Americans. As the only Serb in Congress, Blagojevich knew he could get that meeting, and his fluency in Serbian would help in negotiating. He approached Jackson through his son Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Arrangements were made to go-despite the opposition of the Clinton Administration, which stressed that the safety of Jackson and Blagojevich could not be guaranteed and that NATO would not stop bombing just because they were there.
Before dawn on their first night at the Hyatt Belgrade, a precision bomb "took out a huge building," recalls John Wyma, who accompanied his boss. The men were staying at opposite sides of the hotel, and at 3 a.m. Blagojevich awakened Wyma with a phone call. "Are you seeing this, man? Are you seeing this?" Wyma went to Blagojevich's room, where he found the congressman in his running shorts watching the destruction out his window as if it were a special effects extravaganza.
Reverse Spin
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Abby Ottenhoff, a spokeswoman for Blagojevich, said campaign contributions play no role in contract decisions. She said the present administration has often been unfriendly toward managed-care providers such as WellCare. “The idea that they have any advantage defies common sense,” she said. Chicago Tribune, Feb. 2006 after WellCare, a health care firm received $75 million in state business after donating $100,000 to the governor.
Blagojevich campaign spokesman Doug Scofield added that WellCare’s contributions will “have no impact” on the administration’s decisions. More Wellcare coverage.
“We did not know that John Wyma was a lobbyist for Gtech, never had a discussion with him regarding keno and simply did not know,” said Blagojevich spokeswoman Rebecca Rausch. After it was revealed that Wyma signed on with Gtech about the time the governor was floating Keno proposal in January of this year.
WellCare Helath plans
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Tampa-based WellCare Health Plans Inc. has agreed to pay $137.5 million to the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies to settle civil lawsuits accusing the company of overcharging for its Medicaid and Medicare programs.
But the deal, intended to resolve a nearly three-year federal investigation, faces a big hurdle out of the gate. Tampa attorney Barry Cohen late Friday said he will challenge the settlement for vastly understating the size of WellCare's fraud, which he estimated was between $400 million and $600 million. The government is allowed to seek triple the actual damages in fraud cases, so WellCare's total penalties could surpass $1 billion.
Cohen disclosed that he represents a whistle-blower who filed a case against WellCare under seal in June 2006, well before FBI agents raided WellCare's Tampa headquarters in October 2007.
Friday, July 30, 2010
James L. Connaughton and GW Bush and the environment
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James L. Connaughton was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 14 and appointed by President Bush on June 18, 2001 to serve as the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). In this capacity, he serves as the senior environmental, energy and natural resources advisor to the President as well as Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which oversees the development of environmental policy, coordinates interagency implementation of environmental programs, and mediates key policy disagreements among Federal agencies, state, tribal and local governments and private citizens.
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James L. Connaughton was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 14 and appointed by President Bush on June 18, 2001 to serve as the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). In this capacity, he serves as the senior environmental, energy and natural resources advisor to the President as well as Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which oversees the development of environmental policy, coordinates interagency implementation of environmental programs, and mediates key policy disagreements among Federal agencies, state, tribal and local governments and private citizens.
Miersgate (remember Harriet Miers)
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Several months ago many of us felt that the Lottery Commission should rebid the GTech contract when it came up for renewal. Leaders of the Republican Party strongly supported rebidding and I believe the Chair of the Commission also wanted to rebid. It is now time to disclose at least one reason why it was not rebid. Governor Bush thru Reggie Bashur made a deal with Ben Barnes not to rebid because Barnes could confirm that Bush had lied during the 94 campaign.
Bashur was sent to talk to Barnes who agreed never to confirm the story and the Governor talked to the Chair of the Lottery two days later and she then agreed to support letting GTech keep the contract without a bid.
This was not the end of Miers' efforts to silence Barnes. In 1998, when Bush was running for re-election as Texas Governor, Karen Hughes was laying the groundwork for a 2000 Presidential campaign. To make sure there were no skeletons in Bush's closet, Hughes hired Miers to "scrub" any potential problems. Miers sent Bush's top fundraiser, Don Evans, to see Barnes to make sure the $23 million bribe was still in effect. As Newsweek's Michael Isikoff wrote on 7/20/2000:
The Bushies' concern began while he was running for a second term as governor. A hard-nosed Dallas lawyer named Harriet Miers was retained to investigate the issue; state records show Miers was paid $19,000 by the Bush gubernatorial campaign. She and other aides quickly identified a problem--rumors that Bush had help from his father in getting into the National Guard back in 1968. Ben Barnes, a prominent Texas Democrat and a former speaker of the House in the state legislature, told friends he used his influence to get George W a guard slot after receiving a request from Houston oilman Sid Adger. Barnes said Adger told him he was calling on behalf of the elder George Bush, then a Texas congressman. Both Bushes deny seeking any help from Barnes or Adger, who has since passed away. Concerned that Barnes might go public with his allegations, the Bush campaign sent Don Evans, a friend of W's, to hear Barnes's story. Barnes acknowledged that he hadn't actually spoken directly to Bush Sr. and had no documents to back up his story. As the Bush campaign saw it, that let both Bushes off the hook. And the National Guard question seemed under control.
EXCERPT:
Several months ago many of us felt that the Lottery Commission should rebid the GTech contract when it came up for renewal. Leaders of the Republican Party strongly supported rebidding and I believe the Chair of the Commission also wanted to rebid. It is now time to disclose at least one reason why it was not rebid. Governor Bush thru Reggie Bashur made a deal with Ben Barnes not to rebid because Barnes could confirm that Bush had lied during the 94 campaign.
Bashur was sent to talk to Barnes who agreed never to confirm the story and the Governor talked to the Chair of the Lottery two days later and she then agreed to support letting GTech keep the contract without a bid.
This was not the end of Miers' efforts to silence Barnes. In 1998, when Bush was running for re-election as Texas Governor, Karen Hughes was laying the groundwork for a 2000 Presidential campaign. To make sure there were no skeletons in Bush's closet, Hughes hired Miers to "scrub" any potential problems. Miers sent Bush's top fundraiser, Don Evans, to see Barnes to make sure the $23 million bribe was still in effect. As Newsweek's Michael Isikoff wrote on 7/20/2000:
The Bushies' concern began while he was running for a second term as governor. A hard-nosed Dallas lawyer named Harriet Miers was retained to investigate the issue; state records show Miers was paid $19,000 by the Bush gubernatorial campaign. She and other aides quickly identified a problem--rumors that Bush had help from his father in getting into the National Guard back in 1968. Ben Barnes, a prominent Texas Democrat and a former speaker of the House in the state legislature, told friends he used his influence to get George W a guard slot after receiving a request from Houston oilman Sid Adger. Barnes said Adger told him he was calling on behalf of the elder George Bush, then a Texas congressman. Both Bushes deny seeking any help from Barnes or Adger, who has since passed away. Concerned that Barnes might go public with his allegations, the Bush campaign sent Don Evans, a friend of W's, to hear Barnes's story. Barnes acknowledged that he hadn't actually spoken directly to Bush Sr. and had no documents to back up his story. As the Bush campaign saw it, that let both Bushes off the hook. And the National Guard question seemed under control.
Frank G. Wisner wikipedia
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Wisner is married to Christine de Ganay (former wife of Pal Sarkozy and former stepmother of French president Nicolas Sarkozy), and they have four children.
Frank G. Wisner and AIG
AIG Vice Chairman Frank G. Wisner Announces Retirement.
NEW YORK -- Frank G. Wisner, Vice Chairman, External Affairs, has announced his plans to retire from American International Group, Inc. (AIG).
Ambassador Wisner, 70, joined AIG in 1997 and served on the Board of Directors from 1997 until 2003. Before coming to AIG, Ambassador Wisner had retired from the U.S. government with the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest grade in the Foreign Service. He joined the State Department in 1961 and served in a variety of overseas and Washington positions during his 36-year career. Among his other posts, Ambassador Wisner served …
Frank G. Wisner
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Who is US Special Representative to Kosovo Frank G. Wisner?
November 21, 2006 – 10:15 am On December 19, 2005, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the appointment of Ambassador Frank G. Wisner as the Special Representative of the US Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks.
Who is Frank G. Wisner, Jr.?
If his name sounds familiar that is because he is the son of Frank Gardiner Wisner, Sr., the CIA agent most responsible for the recruitment of Nazis by the US government after World War II. A former member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War II precursor to the CIA, Frank G. Wisner, Sr., was one of the most infamous CIA agents, the man behind Operation Bloodstone, the US government program of recruiting Nazis and SS members.
Frank Wisner Future Challenges of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East video 1 hour 9 mins. (I watched about 10 mins. but it made me sick to my stomach and I quit)
Frank Wisner (father of Frank G.)
In March 1945, Wisner was transferred to Wiesbaden, where he served as OSS liaison to the Gehlen Organisation.[2] In 1946, he returned to law practice, joining the New York City law firm of Carter Ledyard.
[edit] CIA
Wisner was recruited in 1947 by Dean Acheson to join the State Department's Office of Occupied Territories. In 1948, the CIA created a covert action division, the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). Frank Wisner was put in charge of the operation and recruited many of his old friends from Carter Ledyard. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." [1]
In 1947 Wisner established Operation Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic and foreign media. In 1952, he became head of the Directorate of Plans, with Richard Helms as his chief of operations. This office had control of 75% of the CIA budget. In this position, he was instrumental in supporting pro-American forces that toppled Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala [7] following the Alfhem affair.
The FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, became jealous of the CIA's growing power. He described the OPC as "Wisner's gang of weirdos" and began carrying out investigations into their past. It did not take him long to discover that some of them had been active in left-wing politics in the 1930s. This information was passed to Joseph McCarthy who started making attacks on members of the OPC. Hoover also gave McCarthy details of an affair that Wisner had with Princess Caradja in Romania during the war; Hoover claimed that Caradja was a Soviet agent.[8]
Enron and the Clintons
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In 1994, the Washington-based Export-Import Bank approved a $302 million loan to promote Enron's investment in a power plant in Dabhol, India. According to a 1997 article in Time magazine, Clinton took a personal interest in the project, deputizing his chief of staff, Thomas "Mack" McLarty III, to monitor it. McLarty later became a paid adviser to Enron.
A McLarty aide explained yesterday that the White House involvement was part of a broader administration effort to help U.S. companies take advantage of new opportunities abroad.
In 1996, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, stocked with Clinton appointees, helped Enron with a series of orders that weakened the monopoly of nuclear and coal-burning utilities. In July of that year, Enron gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party.
Bill Clinton and Enron WND
EXCERPT:
Then in January 1995, Lay accompanied Brown on the Commerce trade mission that helped seal the deal.
The Clinton administration got two federal export-finance agencies – the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. – to help underwrite the project by kicking in nearly $400 million in loans.
During the final negotiations, Clinton aide Thomas "Mack" McLarty rode herd on the project in Washington for Lay, his old energy-industry buddy.
He tracked the progress of Clinton's ambassador to India, Frank Wisner, who was helping speed the deal along.
Frank Wisner & Enron apfn
EXCERPT:
On 28 October 1997, Enron Corporation announced the entry of Frank G. Wisner
Jr. onto its board of directors. Most of the business press did not find this
untoward and it certainly did not emerge as part of the US discussions on
corruption at the highest level. Frank Wisner, as we know in India, was the
US Ambassador from 1994 until this year and his entry into Enron must be seen
in light of the scandal of Dabhol. Enron, like most US corporations, uses its
close association with the state (both its elected and bureaucratic arms)
for its own ends.
US campaigns are financed by corporations whose money not only enables
politicians to win elections, but it also buys businesses the state's power
both for domestic subsidies and for the use of US power in the international
arena.
Frank Wisner, Jr. was a big catch for Enron Corporation. His lineage is
impeccable, since his father, Frank Wisner Sr., was a senior CIA official
(from 1947 until his suicide in 1965) who was involved in the overthrow
of Arbenz of Guatemala (1954) and Mossadeq of Iran (1953). Wisner Junior
was well-known in the CIA and he worked as Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy and Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs;
his current boss, Kenneth Lay, Chief Executive Officer of Enron Corporation,
also worked for the Pentagon during the US war in Vietnam. With "economic
espionage" as a task for the CIA (see PD, 12 October 1997), there is little
doubt that Wisner used this instrument during his long-tenure as Ambassador
in Asian nations. A Wisner staffer told InterPress Services this year that
"ifanybody asked the CIA to help promote US business in India, it was
probably Frank".
EXCERPT:
Wisner is married to Christine de Ganay (former wife of Pal Sarkozy and former stepmother of French president Nicolas Sarkozy), and they have four children.
Frank G. Wisner and AIG
AIG Vice Chairman Frank G. Wisner Announces Retirement.
NEW YORK -- Frank G. Wisner, Vice Chairman, External Affairs, has announced his plans to retire from American International Group, Inc. (AIG).
Ambassador Wisner, 70, joined AIG in 1997 and served on the Board of Directors from 1997 until 2003. Before coming to AIG, Ambassador Wisner had retired from the U.S. government with the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest grade in the Foreign Service. He joined the State Department in 1961 and served in a variety of overseas and Washington positions during his 36-year career. Among his other posts, Ambassador Wisner served …
Frank G. Wisner
EXCERPT:
Who is US Special Representative to Kosovo Frank G. Wisner?
November 21, 2006 – 10:15 am On December 19, 2005, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the appointment of Ambassador Frank G. Wisner as the Special Representative of the US Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks.
Who is Frank G. Wisner, Jr.?
If his name sounds familiar that is because he is the son of Frank Gardiner Wisner, Sr., the CIA agent most responsible for the recruitment of Nazis by the US government after World War II. A former member of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War II precursor to the CIA, Frank G. Wisner, Sr., was one of the most infamous CIA agents, the man behind Operation Bloodstone, the US government program of recruiting Nazis and SS members.
Frank Wisner Future Challenges of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East video 1 hour 9 mins. (I watched about 10 mins. but it made me sick to my stomach and I quit)
Frank Wisner (father of Frank G.)
In March 1945, Wisner was transferred to Wiesbaden, where he served as OSS liaison to the Gehlen Organisation.[2] In 1946, he returned to law practice, joining the New York City law firm of Carter Ledyard.
[edit] CIA
Wisner was recruited in 1947 by Dean Acheson to join the State Department's Office of Occupied Territories. In 1948, the CIA created a covert action division, the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). Frank Wisner was put in charge of the operation and recruited many of his old friends from Carter Ledyard. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." [1]
In 1947 Wisner established Operation Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic and foreign media. In 1952, he became head of the Directorate of Plans, with Richard Helms as his chief of operations. This office had control of 75% of the CIA budget. In this position, he was instrumental in supporting pro-American forces that toppled Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala [7] following the Alfhem affair.
The FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, became jealous of the CIA's growing power. He described the OPC as "Wisner's gang of weirdos" and began carrying out investigations into their past. It did not take him long to discover that some of them had been active in left-wing politics in the 1930s. This information was passed to Joseph McCarthy who started making attacks on members of the OPC. Hoover also gave McCarthy details of an affair that Wisner had with Princess Caradja in Romania during the war; Hoover claimed that Caradja was a Soviet agent.[8]
Enron and the Clintons
EXCERPT:
In 1994, the Washington-based Export-Import Bank approved a $302 million loan to promote Enron's investment in a power plant in Dabhol, India. According to a 1997 article in Time magazine, Clinton took a personal interest in the project, deputizing his chief of staff, Thomas "Mack" McLarty III, to monitor it. McLarty later became a paid adviser to Enron.
A McLarty aide explained yesterday that the White House involvement was part of a broader administration effort to help U.S. companies take advantage of new opportunities abroad.
In 1996, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, stocked with Clinton appointees, helped Enron with a series of orders that weakened the monopoly of nuclear and coal-burning utilities. In July of that year, Enron gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party.
Bill Clinton and Enron WND
EXCERPT:
Then in January 1995, Lay accompanied Brown on the Commerce trade mission that helped seal the deal.
The Clinton administration got two federal export-finance agencies – the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corp. – to help underwrite the project by kicking in nearly $400 million in loans.
During the final negotiations, Clinton aide Thomas "Mack" McLarty rode herd on the project in Washington for Lay, his old energy-industry buddy.
He tracked the progress of Clinton's ambassador to India, Frank Wisner, who was helping speed the deal along.
Frank Wisner & Enron apfn
EXCERPT:
On 28 October 1997, Enron Corporation announced the entry of Frank G. Wisner
Jr. onto its board of directors. Most of the business press did not find this
untoward and it certainly did not emerge as part of the US discussions on
corruption at the highest level. Frank Wisner, as we know in India, was the
US Ambassador from 1994 until this year and his entry into Enron must be seen
in light of the scandal of Dabhol. Enron, like most US corporations, uses its
close association with the state (both its elected and bureaucratic arms)
for its own ends.
US campaigns are financed by corporations whose money not only enables
politicians to win elections, but it also buys businesses the state's power
both for domestic subsidies and for the use of US power in the international
arena.
Frank Wisner, Jr. was a big catch for Enron Corporation. His lineage is
impeccable, since his father, Frank Wisner Sr., was a senior CIA official
(from 1947 until his suicide in 1965) who was involved in the overthrow
of Arbenz of Guatemala (1954) and Mossadeq of Iran (1953). Wisner Junior
was well-known in the CIA and he worked as Under Secretary of Defense for
Policy and Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs;
his current boss, Kenneth Lay, Chief Executive Officer of Enron Corporation,
also worked for the Pentagon during the US war in Vietnam. With "economic
espionage" as a task for the CIA (see PD, 12 October 1997), there is little
doubt that Wisner used this instrument during his long-tenure as Ambassador
in Asian nations. A Wisner staffer told InterPress Services this year that
"ifanybody asked the CIA to help promote US business in India, it was
probably Frank".
Thursday, July 29, 2010
I've heard tell that this wedding is costing between 3-5,000,000. Hmmmmmm and I think that money has been made illegaly so mi thinks it is OUR business. TAXPAYERS are surely paying for it one way or the other, eh?
Chelsea's wedding will be a hidden secretive affair
EXCERPT:
Chelsea Clinton is getting married this weekend -- not that she thinks that's any of your business.
Is Obama distancing himself from the Clintons -He won't be attending Chelsea's wedding
Well, now we know who won't be attending Chelsea Clinton's wedding on Saturday – wherever it takes place.
That would be President Obama. Asked at the end of Monday's White House press briefing if the president would be at the nuptials for Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky, Robert Gibbs answered "no." Previously, Gibbs had said he didn't know if the president would attend.
So, that much is clear, even if little else is. The wedding of the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mezvinsky, himself the offspring of former politicians, will reportedly take place at the estate of John Jacob Astor, Astor Courts, in Rhinebeck, N.Y. But confirmation of that, along with many other details, has been hard to come by. The guest list is expected to number between 400 and 500 people, and the tab for the "wedding of the decade" could top $2 million.
13 Illuminati Bloodlines 1st name on list is Astor
EXCERPT:
The 13 Illuminati Bloodlines
The Astor Bloodline.
The Bundy Bloodline.
The Collins Bloodline.
The DuPont Bloodline.
The Freeman Bloodline.
The Kennedy Bloodline.
The Li Bloodline.
The Onassis Bloodline.
The Rockefeller Bloodline.
The Rothschild Bloodline.
The Russell Bloodline.
The Van Duyn Bloodline.
The Merovingian Bloodline.
The Disney Bloodline.
The Reynolds bloodline.
Seventeen little children youtube
Chelsea says question on Monica Lewinsky is none of our business youtube
Chelsea's future father in law attending wedding????
EXCERPT:
Mezvinsky, 73, was convicted in 2003 of several acts of fraud. Prosecutors called him a one-man "crime wave" who routinely pulled business scams that netted him $10 million in ill-gotten loot.
He said that after his 2008 release from federal prison he rebuilt his relationship with Marc and the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bill Clinton wants a NWO and the bombing of a wedding in Afghanistan by American troops is what the NWO is all about, eh?
EXCERPT:
July 7, 2008
Afghan inquiry into American bombing of 'wedding party'Tom Coghlan in Kabul Afghan officials are investigating reports from a remote area of eastern Afghanistan that US warplanes bombed a wedding party this morning, killing more than 20 civilians including women and children.
The incident in Deh Bala, a mountainous district of Nangahar Province very close to the Pakistan border, is the second alleged episode of “collateral damage” involving American aircraft in three days.
Chelsea Clinton getting married
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is marrying Marc Mezvinsky this Saturday in a ceremony that will be attended by Barack Obama, Barbra Streisand, and Oprah Winfrey. Here's what to expect from the nuptials:
Misguided toast from drunk uncle about Chelsea's "ugly years"
Continuing a White House tradition, Chelsea will wear the famous wedding dress worn by such former first daughters as Jenna Bush, Caroline Kennedy, Tricia Nixon, and Margaret Truman
An ultimately unsuccessful but surprisingly robust challenge from the wedding of Ross Perot's daughter
Photo booth manned by Annie Leibovitz
Countless requests to have groom pointed out
Janet Reno finally catching the bouquet
Liberal elite drowning themselves in the fruit borne of overtaxing the middle-class
A self-indulgent New York Times Weddings section write-up to end all self-indulgent New York Times Weddings section write-ups
Bill Clinton and the NWO youtube
Bill Clinton, "How Dare You" youtube
Chelsea's wedding will be a hidden secretive affair
EXCERPT:
Chelsea Clinton is getting married this weekend -- not that she thinks that's any of your business.
Is Obama distancing himself from the Clintons -He won't be attending Chelsea's wedding
Well, now we know who won't be attending Chelsea Clinton's wedding on Saturday – wherever it takes place.
That would be President Obama. Asked at the end of Monday's White House press briefing if the president would be at the nuptials for Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky, Robert Gibbs answered "no." Previously, Gibbs had said he didn't know if the president would attend.
So, that much is clear, even if little else is. The wedding of the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mezvinsky, himself the offspring of former politicians, will reportedly take place at the estate of John Jacob Astor, Astor Courts, in Rhinebeck, N.Y. But confirmation of that, along with many other details, has been hard to come by. The guest list is expected to number between 400 and 500 people, and the tab for the "wedding of the decade" could top $2 million.
13 Illuminati Bloodlines 1st name on list is Astor
EXCERPT:
The 13 Illuminati Bloodlines
The Astor Bloodline.
The Bundy Bloodline.
The Collins Bloodline.
The DuPont Bloodline.
The Freeman Bloodline.
The Kennedy Bloodline.
The Li Bloodline.
The Onassis Bloodline.
The Rockefeller Bloodline.
The Rothschild Bloodline.
The Russell Bloodline.
The Van Duyn Bloodline.
The Merovingian Bloodline.
The Disney Bloodline.
The Reynolds bloodline.
Seventeen little children youtube
Chelsea says question on Monica Lewinsky is none of our business youtube
Chelsea's future father in law attending wedding????
EXCERPT:
Mezvinsky, 73, was convicted in 2003 of several acts of fraud. Prosecutors called him a one-man "crime wave" who routinely pulled business scams that netted him $10 million in ill-gotten loot.
He said that after his 2008 release from federal prison he rebuilt his relationship with Marc and the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bill Clinton wants a NWO and the bombing of a wedding in Afghanistan by American troops is what the NWO is all about, eh?
EXCERPT:
July 7, 2008
Afghan inquiry into American bombing of 'wedding party'Tom Coghlan in Kabul Afghan officials are investigating reports from a remote area of eastern Afghanistan that US warplanes bombed a wedding party this morning, killing more than 20 civilians including women and children.
The incident in Deh Bala, a mountainous district of Nangahar Province very close to the Pakistan border, is the second alleged episode of “collateral damage” involving American aircraft in three days.
Chelsea Clinton getting married
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is marrying Marc Mezvinsky this Saturday in a ceremony that will be attended by Barack Obama, Barbra Streisand, and Oprah Winfrey. Here's what to expect from the nuptials:
Misguided toast from drunk uncle about Chelsea's "ugly years"
Continuing a White House tradition, Chelsea will wear the famous wedding dress worn by such former first daughters as Jenna Bush, Caroline Kennedy, Tricia Nixon, and Margaret Truman
An ultimately unsuccessful but surprisingly robust challenge from the wedding of Ross Perot's daughter
Photo booth manned by Annie Leibovitz
Countless requests to have groom pointed out
Janet Reno finally catching the bouquet
Liberal elite drowning themselves in the fruit borne of overtaxing the middle-class
A self-indulgent New York Times Weddings section write-up to end all self-indulgent New York Times Weddings section write-ups
Bill Clinton and the NWO youtube
Bill Clinton, "How Dare You" youtube
Good place to find law firms (Guantanamo bay attorneys)
EXCERPT:
Lawyer Detainee Notes
Douglas Abbott
Attorney with Holland & Hart[6][7]
Muneer Ahmad Omar Khadr Reported all references in his notes to Khadr's claims of abuse at Guantanamo were redacted.[8]
Elizabeth Ainslie Abd Al Nasir Mohammed Abd Al Qadir Khantumani and Muhammed Khan Tumani part of the team from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP[9]
Omar Akbar David Hicks attorney with Jenner & Block[7][10]
Ismail Alsheik Mohammed Jayed Sebai, et al. attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP[7][11][12]
Jim R. Alsup
attorney with O'Riordan Bethel LLP[7]
Emmanuel Altit Mohamedou Ould Slahi attorney with Avocat à la Cour, Paris, France[7]
Trisha B. Anderson 17 Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo Part of the legal team from Covington & Burling.[13]
David H. Anderson Muhammad Jayid Hadi Al-Subai'i, et al. attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP[7][11]
EXCERPT:
Lawyer Detainee Notes
Douglas Abbott
Attorney with Holland & Hart[6][7]
Muneer Ahmad Omar Khadr Reported all references in his notes to Khadr's claims of abuse at Guantanamo were redacted.[8]
Elizabeth Ainslie Abd Al Nasir Mohammed Abd Al Qadir Khantumani and Muhammed Khan Tumani part of the team from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP[9]
Omar Akbar David Hicks attorney with Jenner & Block[7][10]
Ismail Alsheik Mohammed Jayed Sebai, et al. attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP[7][11][12]
Jim R. Alsup
attorney with O'Riordan Bethel LLP[7]
Emmanuel Altit Mohamedou Ould Slahi attorney with Avocat à la Cour, Paris, France[7]
Trisha B. Anderson 17 Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo Part of the legal team from Covington & Burling.[13]
David H. Anderson Muhammad Jayid Hadi Al-Subai'i, et al. attorney with Schiff Hardin LLP[7][11]
ICE Attorney guilty bribery scandal
EXCERPT:
Watch
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KALLAS, CONSTANTINE PETER
Judicial/Attorney Misconduct*
in California
*Following are some of the attorneys, law firms, or judges who have been reported to have been disciplined by the State of California for unethical conduct, who may be a resident of California and who were disciplined in another jurisdiction, sued for malpractice, arrested, indicted, incarcerated, cannot practice law for one reason or another, whom we understand have been charged with unethical and/or criminal conduct, have violated the Supreme Law of the Land, or who have engaged in conduct which tends to defeat the administration of justice or to bring the courts and the legal business into disrepute, etc.
EXCERPT:
Watch
EXCERPT:
KALLAS, CONSTANTINE PETER
Judicial/Attorney Misconduct*
in California
*Following are some of the attorneys, law firms, or judges who have been reported to have been disciplined by the State of California for unethical conduct, who may be a resident of California and who were disciplined in another jurisdiction, sued for malpractice, arrested, indicted, incarcerated, cannot practice law for one reason or another, whom we understand have been charged with unethical and/or criminal conduct, have violated the Supreme Law of the Land, or who have engaged in conduct which tends to defeat the administration of justice or to bring the courts and the legal business into disrepute, etc.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Statute of the Jewry
EXCERPT:
The Statute of the Jewry was a statute issued by Edward I of England in 1275. It placed a number of restrictions on Jews of England, most notably outlawing the practice of usury.[1]
[edit] Context
Since the time of the Norman Conquest, Jews had been filling a small but vital role in the English economy. Usury by Christians was banned by the church at the time, but Jews were permitted to act as moneylenders and bankers. That position enabled some Jews to amass tremendous wealth, but also earned them the enmity of the English populace[2], which added to the increasing antisemitic sentiments of the time, due to widespread indebtedness and financial ruin among the Gentile population.
When Edward returned from the Crusades in 1274, two years after his accession as King of England, he found that land had become a commodity, and that many of his subjects had become dispossessed and were in danger of destitution. Jews traded land for money, and land was often mortgaged to Jewish moneylenders.
As special direct subjects of the monarch, Jews could be taxed indiscriminately by the King. Some have described the situation as indirect usury: the monarch permitting and encouraging Jews to practice usury and then "taxing" or expropriating some of the profit. In the years leading up to the Statute, Edward taxed them heavily to help finance his forthcoming military campaigns in Wales, which commenced in 1277. One theory[citation needed] holds that he had exhausted the financial resources of the Jewish community when the Statute was passed in 1275.[1]
[edit] Provisions
Usury was outlawed in every form.
Creditors of Jews were no longer liable for certain debts.
Jews were not allowed to live outside certain cities and towns.
Any Jew above the age of seven had to wear a yellow badge of felt on his or her outer clothing, six inches by three inches.
All Jews from the age of 12 on had to pay a special tax of three pence annually.
Christians were forbidden to live among Jews.
Jews were licensed to buy farmland to make their living for the next 15 years.
Jews could thenceforth make a living in England only as merchants, farmers, craftsmen or soldiers.
The license to buy land was included so that farming, along with trading, could give Jews an opportunity to earn a living with the abolition of usury. Unfortunately, other provisions along with widespread prejudice made this difficult for many.[3]
When the 15 years passed, and it was widely discovered that the practice of usury had been secretly continued by some Jews, they, along with all other Jews, were presented with the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.[4]
Edict of Expulsion
EXCERPT:
Edict of Expulsion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
This article describes the Edict of Expulsion, given by Edward I of England in 1290, that expelled all Jews from England for 350 years. For information on the 1492 Edict of Expulsion from Spain, see the Alhambra decree. For other legislations expelling Jews from their homes, see Jewish refugees.
In 1290, King Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. Lasting for the rest of the Middle Ages, it would be over 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656. The edict was not an isolated incident but the culmination of over 200 years of conflict on the matters of usury.
[edit] Buildup to Expulsion
The first Jewish communities of significant size came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. On the conquest of England, William instituted a feudal system in the country, whereby all estates formally belonged to the king, who appointed lords over vast estates, subject to duties and obligations (financial and knights) to the king. Under the lords were further subjects such as serfs, which were bound and obligated to their lords. Merchants had a special status in the system as did Jews. Jews were declared to be direct subjects of the King,[1] unlike the rest of the population. This had advantages for Jews, in that they were not tied to any particular lord, but were subject to the whims of the king. Every successive King formally reviewed a royal charter granting Jews the right to remain in England. Jews did not enjoy any of the guarantees of Magna Carta[2] of 1215.
Economically, Jews played a key role in the country. The church at the time strictly forbade usury, or the lending of money for profit. This created a vacuum in the economy of Europe that only Jews were able to fill (canon law was not considered to apply to Jews, and Judaism permits loans with interest between Jews and non-Jews).[3] As a consequence, some Jews made large amounts of money. However, taking advantage of their unique status as his direct subjects, the King could expropriate Jewish assets in the form of taxation. He levied heavy taxes on Jews at will without having to summon Parliament.[4] The Jewish community acted as a kind of giant monetary filter: Jews collected interest on money loaned to the people which the King could take at his pleasure.
Jews acquired a reputation as extortionate money lenders which made them extremely unpopular with both the Church and the general public. While antisemitism was widespread in Europe, medieval England was particularly antisemitic.[2] An image of the Jew as a diabolical figure who hated Christ started to become widespread, and antisemitic myths such as the Wandering Jew and ritual murders originated and spread throughout England, as well as Scotland and Wales.[5] Jews were said to hunt for children to murder before Passover so they could use their blood to make matzah.[6] Antisemitism on a number of occasions sparked riots where many Jews were murdered, most famously in 1190 when over a hundred Jews were massacred in the city of York.[6]
[edit] Expulsion
The situation only got worse for Jews as the 13th century progressed. In 1218, England became the first European nation to require Jews to wear a marking badge.[7] Taxation grew increasingly intense. Between 1219 and 1272, 49 levies were imposed on Jews for a total of 200,000 marks, a huge amount of money.[4] The first major step towards expulsion took place in 1275, with the Statute of Jewry. The statute outlawed all usury and gave Jews fifteen years to readjust.[8] However, guilds as well as popular prejudice made Jewish movement into mercantile or agricultural pursuits almost impossible.
While in Gascony in 1287, Edward ordered English Jews expelled. All their property was seized by the crown and all outstanding debts payable to Jews were transferred to the King’s name.[9] It was a bleak sign of things to come. Edward’s personal views on Jews are something of a mystery. In the glimpses we have of his dealings with them, he seems interested but unsympathetic. His mother, however, does seem to have been anti-semitic.[10] Whatever his personal feelings, by the time he returned to England in 1289 Edward was deeply in debt. The next summer he summoned his knights to impose a steep tax. To make the tax more palatable, Edward in exchange essentially offered to expel all Jews.[11] The heavy tax was passed, and three days later, on July 18, the Edict of Expulsion was issued. One official reason for the expulsion was that Jews had neglected to follow the Statute of Jewry. The edict of expulsion was widely popular and met with little resistance, and the expulsion was quickly carried out.
The Jewish population in England at the time was relatively small. While population estimates vary, probably less than 1% of England was Jewish; perhaps 3,000 people.[12] The expulsion process went fairly smoothly, although there were a few horrific stories. One story told of a captain taking a ship full of Jews to the Thames while the tide was going out and convincing them to go out for a walk with him. He then lost them and made it back to his ship before the tide came back in, leaving them all to drown.[10] Other stories exist of Jews being robbed or killed, but the majority of the Jews seem to have crossed the channel in safety.
They emigrated to countries such as Poland that protected them by law.
[edit] The intermediate period
Between the expulsion of Jews in 1290 and their formal return in 1655, there is no official trace of Jews as such on English soil except in connection with the Domus Conversorum, which kept a number of them within its precincts up to 1551 and even later. An attempt was made to obtain a revocation of the edict of expulsion as early as 1310, but in vain. Notwithstanding, a certain number of them appear to have come back; for complaints were made to the king in 1376 that some of those trading as Lombards were Jews ("Rot. Parl." ii. 332a).
Occasionally permits were given to individuals to visit England, as in the case of Dr. Elyas Sabot in 1410, but it was not until the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497 that any considerable number of Sephardic Jews found refuge in England.[citation needed] One of these as early as 1493 attempted to recover no less a sum than 428,000 maravedis which the refugees from Spain had entrusted to Diego de Soria.[citation needed] In 1542 many were arrested on the suspicion of being Jews, and throughout the sixteenth century a number of persons named Lopez, possibly all of the same family, took refuge in England, the best known of them being Rodrigo Lopez, physician to Queen Elizabeth, and who is said to have been the origin of Shylock.[citation needed] Besides certain distinguished converts like Immanuel Tremellius and Philip Ferdinand, the most remarkable visitor was Joachim Gaunse, who introduced new methods of mining into England.[citation needed] Occasional visitors, like Alonzo de Herrera and Simon Palache in 1614, are recorded.[citation needed] The writings of John Weemes provided a positive view in favor of the resettlement of the Jews in England.[citation needed]
The longest hatred An Examination of Anti-Gentilism
Publisher's Foreword
IT IS NOT a very commendable truism that in the Christian West today, we live in a materialistic society. But was it always so?
There must be enlightenment somewhere if we only knew where to look for it.
A good starting point is undoubtedly The Bible where, for instance, in the New Testament we find St. Matthew's warning in Chapter 6, Verse 24 of his Gospel: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon"—i.e. worldliness, riches and greed. Those six words of caution immediately suggest Christian soundness and common sense. We should remember too that it was Christ himself who angrily drove the money-lenders out of the Temple.
Left to their own devices and their somewhat unusual ideas of a contented, rewarding life, native Britons in the past instinctively shunned great wealth, preferring simpler tastes, pastimes and possessions, free from the massive financial entanglements which bear so heavily on us as we approach the 21st Century.
So, what has gone wrong? How can we start to give money its proper place in 'the daily round and common task' of life, without the burdens of insatiable borrowing which bestow a crippling legacy of interest-bearing debt upon our hapless children?
Try taking a close look at what this little book has to say about the problems confronting all of us. It makes a lot of sense, as you can see for yourself, and "serving mammon" really has so little going for it. "Serving God", on the other hand, could quickly remind us that the 'power without responsibility' wielded by those who largely underpin and manipulate our day-to-day lives through money-mania, is no substitute for honest-to-goodness living.
Jane Birdwood, London
July 1991
THE BANKING RACKET
EXCERPT:
The Statute of the Jewry was a statute issued by Edward I of England in 1275. It placed a number of restrictions on Jews of England, most notably outlawing the practice of usury.[1]
[edit] Context
Since the time of the Norman Conquest, Jews had been filling a small but vital role in the English economy. Usury by Christians was banned by the church at the time, but Jews were permitted to act as moneylenders and bankers. That position enabled some Jews to amass tremendous wealth, but also earned them the enmity of the English populace[2], which added to the increasing antisemitic sentiments of the time, due to widespread indebtedness and financial ruin among the Gentile population.
When Edward returned from the Crusades in 1274, two years after his accession as King of England, he found that land had become a commodity, and that many of his subjects had become dispossessed and were in danger of destitution. Jews traded land for money, and land was often mortgaged to Jewish moneylenders.
As special direct subjects of the monarch, Jews could be taxed indiscriminately by the King. Some have described the situation as indirect usury: the monarch permitting and encouraging Jews to practice usury and then "taxing" or expropriating some of the profit. In the years leading up to the Statute, Edward taxed them heavily to help finance his forthcoming military campaigns in Wales, which commenced in 1277. One theory[citation needed] holds that he had exhausted the financial resources of the Jewish community when the Statute was passed in 1275.[1]
[edit] Provisions
Usury was outlawed in every form.
Creditors of Jews were no longer liable for certain debts.
Jews were not allowed to live outside certain cities and towns.
Any Jew above the age of seven had to wear a yellow badge of felt on his or her outer clothing, six inches by three inches.
All Jews from the age of 12 on had to pay a special tax of three pence annually.
Christians were forbidden to live among Jews.
Jews were licensed to buy farmland to make their living for the next 15 years.
Jews could thenceforth make a living in England only as merchants, farmers, craftsmen or soldiers.
The license to buy land was included so that farming, along with trading, could give Jews an opportunity to earn a living with the abolition of usury. Unfortunately, other provisions along with widespread prejudice made this difficult for many.[3]
When the 15 years passed, and it was widely discovered that the practice of usury had been secretly continued by some Jews, they, along with all other Jews, were presented with the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.[4]
Edict of Expulsion
EXCERPT:
Edict of Expulsion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
This article describes the Edict of Expulsion, given by Edward I of England in 1290, that expelled all Jews from England for 350 years. For information on the 1492 Edict of Expulsion from Spain, see the Alhambra decree. For other legislations expelling Jews from their homes, see Jewish refugees.
In 1290, King Edward I issued an edict expelling all Jews from England. Lasting for the rest of the Middle Ages, it would be over 350 years until it was formally overturned in 1656. The edict was not an isolated incident but the culmination of over 200 years of conflict on the matters of usury.
[edit] Buildup to Expulsion
The first Jewish communities of significant size came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. On the conquest of England, William instituted a feudal system in the country, whereby all estates formally belonged to the king, who appointed lords over vast estates, subject to duties and obligations (financial and knights) to the king. Under the lords were further subjects such as serfs, which were bound and obligated to their lords. Merchants had a special status in the system as did Jews. Jews were declared to be direct subjects of the King,[1] unlike the rest of the population. This had advantages for Jews, in that they were not tied to any particular lord, but were subject to the whims of the king. Every successive King formally reviewed a royal charter granting Jews the right to remain in England. Jews did not enjoy any of the guarantees of Magna Carta[2] of 1215.
Economically, Jews played a key role in the country. The church at the time strictly forbade usury, or the lending of money for profit. This created a vacuum in the economy of Europe that only Jews were able to fill (canon law was not considered to apply to Jews, and Judaism permits loans with interest between Jews and non-Jews).[3] As a consequence, some Jews made large amounts of money. However, taking advantage of their unique status as his direct subjects, the King could expropriate Jewish assets in the form of taxation. He levied heavy taxes on Jews at will without having to summon Parliament.[4] The Jewish community acted as a kind of giant monetary filter: Jews collected interest on money loaned to the people which the King could take at his pleasure.
Jews acquired a reputation as extortionate money lenders which made them extremely unpopular with both the Church and the general public. While antisemitism was widespread in Europe, medieval England was particularly antisemitic.[2] An image of the Jew as a diabolical figure who hated Christ started to become widespread, and antisemitic myths such as the Wandering Jew and ritual murders originated and spread throughout England, as well as Scotland and Wales.[5] Jews were said to hunt for children to murder before Passover so they could use their blood to make matzah.[6] Antisemitism on a number of occasions sparked riots where many Jews were murdered, most famously in 1190 when over a hundred Jews were massacred in the city of York.[6]
[edit] Expulsion
The situation only got worse for Jews as the 13th century progressed. In 1218, England became the first European nation to require Jews to wear a marking badge.[7] Taxation grew increasingly intense. Between 1219 and 1272, 49 levies were imposed on Jews for a total of 200,000 marks, a huge amount of money.[4] The first major step towards expulsion took place in 1275, with the Statute of Jewry. The statute outlawed all usury and gave Jews fifteen years to readjust.[8] However, guilds as well as popular prejudice made Jewish movement into mercantile or agricultural pursuits almost impossible.
While in Gascony in 1287, Edward ordered English Jews expelled. All their property was seized by the crown and all outstanding debts payable to Jews were transferred to the King’s name.[9] It was a bleak sign of things to come. Edward’s personal views on Jews are something of a mystery. In the glimpses we have of his dealings with them, he seems interested but unsympathetic. His mother, however, does seem to have been anti-semitic.[10] Whatever his personal feelings, by the time he returned to England in 1289 Edward was deeply in debt. The next summer he summoned his knights to impose a steep tax. To make the tax more palatable, Edward in exchange essentially offered to expel all Jews.[11] The heavy tax was passed, and three days later, on July 18, the Edict of Expulsion was issued. One official reason for the expulsion was that Jews had neglected to follow the Statute of Jewry. The edict of expulsion was widely popular and met with little resistance, and the expulsion was quickly carried out.
The Jewish population in England at the time was relatively small. While population estimates vary, probably less than 1% of England was Jewish; perhaps 3,000 people.[12] The expulsion process went fairly smoothly, although there were a few horrific stories. One story told of a captain taking a ship full of Jews to the Thames while the tide was going out and convincing them to go out for a walk with him. He then lost them and made it back to his ship before the tide came back in, leaving them all to drown.[10] Other stories exist of Jews being robbed or killed, but the majority of the Jews seem to have crossed the channel in safety.
They emigrated to countries such as Poland that protected them by law.
[edit] The intermediate period
Between the expulsion of Jews in 1290 and their formal return in 1655, there is no official trace of Jews as such on English soil except in connection with the Domus Conversorum, which kept a number of them within its precincts up to 1551 and even later. An attempt was made to obtain a revocation of the edict of expulsion as early as 1310, but in vain. Notwithstanding, a certain number of them appear to have come back; for complaints were made to the king in 1376 that some of those trading as Lombards were Jews ("Rot. Parl." ii. 332a).
Occasionally permits were given to individuals to visit England, as in the case of Dr. Elyas Sabot in 1410, but it was not until the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497 that any considerable number of Sephardic Jews found refuge in England.[citation needed] One of these as early as 1493 attempted to recover no less a sum than 428,000 maravedis which the refugees from Spain had entrusted to Diego de Soria.[citation needed] In 1542 many were arrested on the suspicion of being Jews, and throughout the sixteenth century a number of persons named Lopez, possibly all of the same family, took refuge in England, the best known of them being Rodrigo Lopez, physician to Queen Elizabeth, and who is said to have been the origin of Shylock.[citation needed] Besides certain distinguished converts like Immanuel Tremellius and Philip Ferdinand, the most remarkable visitor was Joachim Gaunse, who introduced new methods of mining into England.[citation needed] Occasional visitors, like Alonzo de Herrera and Simon Palache in 1614, are recorded.[citation needed] The writings of John Weemes provided a positive view in favor of the resettlement of the Jews in England.[citation needed]
The longest hatred An Examination of Anti-Gentilism
Publisher's Foreword
IT IS NOT a very commendable truism that in the Christian West today, we live in a materialistic society. But was it always so?
There must be enlightenment somewhere if we only knew where to look for it.
A good starting point is undoubtedly The Bible where, for instance, in the New Testament we find St. Matthew's warning in Chapter 6, Verse 24 of his Gospel: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon"—i.e. worldliness, riches and greed. Those six words of caution immediately suggest Christian soundness and common sense. We should remember too that it was Christ himself who angrily drove the money-lenders out of the Temple.
Left to their own devices and their somewhat unusual ideas of a contented, rewarding life, native Britons in the past instinctively shunned great wealth, preferring simpler tastes, pastimes and possessions, free from the massive financial entanglements which bear so heavily on us as we approach the 21st Century.
So, what has gone wrong? How can we start to give money its proper place in 'the daily round and common task' of life, without the burdens of insatiable borrowing which bestow a crippling legacy of interest-bearing debt upon our hapless children?
Try taking a close look at what this little book has to say about the problems confronting all of us. It makes a lot of sense, as you can see for yourself, and "serving mammon" really has so little going for it. "Serving God", on the other hand, could quickly remind us that the 'power without responsibility' wielded by those who largely underpin and manipulate our day-to-day lives through money-mania, is no substitute for honest-to-goodness living.
Jane Birdwood, London
July 1991
THE BANKING RACKET
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Bank of Credit and Commerce International and Pakistan
EXCERPTS:
The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a major international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. The Bank was registered in Luxembourg. Within a decade BCCI touched its peak. It operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and had assets in excess of US$20 billion, making it the 7th largest private bank in the world by assets.[1][2
Stephen L. Norris Wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Corporate career
The Carlyle Group was founded in 1987 by Stephen L. Norris and David M. Rubenstein. As they wanted the firm to outlive them, Norris and Rubenstein named the firm after the Upper East Side area hotel in New York City, the Carlyle Hotel, where they first met to discuss the idea. Norris and Rubenstein later hired Dan D'Aniello, William E. Conway, Jr. and Greg Rosenbaum.[3] Rosenbaum left in 1987[4]; Norris left in 1995[5]. The three remaining founders are reported to collectively own around a 50% interest in the group's general partnership. The rest of Carlyle is owned by a group of individuals, most of whom serve as managing directors, and by two institutional investors. Prior to co-founding the Carlyle Group, Mr. Norris was a senior executive at Marriott Corporation.
In 2008, Norris announced a memorandum of understanding with the SCO Group, a Unix and Linux software company involved in lawsuits against IBM, Novell, and others. Under the terms of the plan, Norris would purchase a controlling interest in SCO for $100 million. The SCO Group Announces Reorganization Plan to Include $100 Million Financing by Stephen Norris Capital Partners] [2]
In March 2009, Gulf Capital Partners, LLC, announced the appointment of Stephen L. Norris as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Gulf Capital Partners is a private equity firm based in Beverly Hills, California with offices in Dubai, Doha and New York.
SCO fires Darl McBride
EXCERPT:
No one has taken SCO's lawsuits against Linux-using companies seriously for years, but somehow or the other, SCO kept hanging on like a bad cold that you couldn't quite shake. That's because SCO CEO Darl McBride doesn't know the meaning of surrender. Time after time, McBride would come up with a new buyer or a re-take on a long dead anti-Linux legal claim, and SCO would stagger forward once more. Until now. This morning, October 19th, SCO filed an 8K with the SEC, which announced that the company had fired McBride.
It took them long enough.
To be more precise, SCO, under the order of the Bankruptcy Court, has "eliminated the Chief Executive Officer and President positions and consequently terminated Darl McBride." That leaves COO Jeff Hunsaker, CFO Ken Nielsen, and General Counsel Ryan Tibbitts nominally in charge. It's clear as glass though that Edward Cahn, the Chapter 11 Trustee and former chief U.S. district judge, is the one who's really calling the shots.
World War III pending Rockefeller cartel and Rothschild pupputs need war to avert fiat money change
The little guy versus Cede & Co
The NewsLog of Flemming Funch
The little guy versus Cede & Co 2003-12-16 18:20
by Flemming Funch
Remember DTC, the little known 20 trillion dollar company that holds most stocks in the world in the name of its subsidiary "Cede & Co"? Well, this fellow just found out about them when he was trying to locate $600 worth of stocks he thought he owned, after he was told that they had been transferred to Cede & Co. And he actually called them up, trying to get some answers. Without very much luck, as he's just an individual, rather than a "participant". Anyway, he continues looking for more information on the net. And finds good things, like this letter concerning a group of stock brokers and stock transfer companies who tried to withdraw from their contract with DTC,, and found out that they couldn't. DTC is a monopoly. And apparently they run it a bit like a black box, where even brokerage houses can't really learn all the details about what happened with their stocks. There are irregularities like stocks being oversold, meaning that more are being offered than all the actually outstanding shares of the given companies. Very interesting letter.
Darl McBride and Stephen Norris
EXCERPT:
"Linux-watch is reporting that while The SCO Group may go on to pursue its plans with a $100 million buyout, it will do so without its longtime CEO Darl McBride. Buried in the proposed MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Unix vendor and Linux litigator SCO and SNCP (Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners) is the note that "upon the effective date of the Proposed Plan of Reorganization, the existing CEO of the Company, Darl McBride, will resign immediately.""
Cede and Co.
EXCERPT:
Remember DTC, the little known 20 trillion dollar company that holds most stocks in the world in the name of its subsidiary "Cede & Co"? Well, this fellow just found out about them when he was trying to locate $600 worth of stocks he thought he owned, after he was told that they had been transferred to Cede & Co. And he actually called them up, trying to get some answers. Without very much luck, as he's just an individual, rather than a "participant". Anyway, he continues looking for more information on the net. And finds good things, like this letter concerning a group of stock brokers and stock transfer companies who tried to withdraw from their contract with DTC,, and found out that they couldn't. DTC is a monopoly. And apparently they run it a bit like a black box, where even brokerage houses can't really learn all the details about what happened with their stocks. There are irregularities like stocks being oversold, meaning that more are being offered than all the actually outstanding shares of the given companies. Very interesting letter.
SCO fights off chapter 7
From the 'fight till the bitter end' files:
You gotta hand it to SCO, they've got an incredible knack for survival. I (like many others) was expecting SCO to enter into Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week - that means the existing Chapter 11 bankruptcy that protects SCO from creditors would be converted to a liquidation where creditors carve up SCO's assets.
As it turns out, SCO has another 'trick' up its sleeve -- pulling out a renewed agreement according to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune with investor Stephen Norris to pay off creditors and keep SCO's litigation claims against IBM, Novell and others afloat.
Groklaw reports that the new hearing set for July 16 with backup for July 27.
If the name Stephen Norris (no not Chuck) sounds familiar -- it should.
Norris came to the aid of SCO first in February of 2008 with a proposed $100 million lifeline. Norris is now back and his action - for now - is keeping SCO a going concern for at least another month.
SCO enterned into Chapter 11 protection in 2008 after losing a decision to Novell on the ownership of UNIX copyrights.The company had been delisted from NASDAQ in late December 2008, and has since been traded in over-the-counter "Pink Sheets."
VK Durham Cash Payoffs
EXCERPT:
CASH PAYOFFS, COUNTERFEIT U.S. DEBT INSTRUMENTS, BONDS, MURDER, BANK FRAUDS, BRADY BONDS ALL LINKED TO IRANIAN & LATIN AMERICAN CONTRA'S
By: V.K. Durham
9.14.05
Three of the European Nations called EU-3 (Germany, France and Great Britain) were bankrupted along with Japan and Russia for their involvement in the 1991 Bank Frauds and Brady Bonds 'transactions' allegedly under investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald’s Grand Juries which have the Contracts in hand involving the transactions noted in
http://www.theantechamber.net/V_K_Durham/TexasTwoStep7.html .
Hopefully you will open this up and study it carefully.
G7 the creditor how to resolve this current financial and economics derivatives crisis
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CREDITOR: HOW TO RESOLVE THIS CURRENT BANKING, FINANCING AND ECONOMICS DERIVATIVES CRISIS
By: V.K. Durham, CEO, Durham Holding Trust, Tias 12087 the Duly Constituted “CREDITOR”
As distasteful as it may be or even as one sided as it sounds.. it is a “Man Thing”… These are the Muslims who have been allowed deep inside US Corporate Federal Agencies .. who will not put up the alert on those Acting Not in Compliance with Law involved in THE “TROJAN HORSE” INSIDE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT & AGENCIES as exposed in http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?rea d=133566 and http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?rea d=133632 . These individuals do not acknowledge the Rights of Women. Its just that simple.
Cede PDF
Stephen L. Norris
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Steve Norris was one of the co-founders of The Carlyle Group in Washington, D.C. serving as President of its management company from inception in 1987 to 1996. He will be Chairman of Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partner's Investment Committee and will principally focus on sourcing of investment opportunities and investment strategy, as well as structuring and negotiating investments and exits from investments.
Bryan Cave
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Notable Transactions
Represented Ralcorp in the $2.6 billion merger between Ralcorp and Kraft Food's portfolio of cereals under the Post Cereal label.[6]
Advised Monsanto in its $290 million purchase of Aly Participacoes, a division of Brazilian global conglomerate Votorantim. Aly Participacoes operated two companies, CanaVialis S.A. and Alellyx S.A. which focus on sugarcane breeding and related applied genomics and biotech in the sugarcane industry.[7]
Counseled Barnes & Noble, the bookseller, on its $596 million purchase of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Inc., a division that had been spun off from Barnes & Noble in the mid-1980s. The acquisition closed on October 1, 2009.[8]
Joachim Gfoeller CFR member
1003. GFOELLER JOACHIM JR
Joachim Gfoeller Stephen Norris Partners
Joachim Gfoeller, Jr.
Mr. Gfoeller co-founded GMG Capital Partners in 1997 and has served as its Managing General Partner since then. Since 2004, Mr. Norris has been actively involved on the Board of Directors of a number of GMG portfolio companies.
Prior to joining the General Partner, Mr. Gfoeller was one of the founding partners of Stolberg Partners, a New York based $70 million buyout fund established in 1993. At Stolberg Partners, Mr. Gfoeller had extensive experience investing in the private equity market, particularly in the manufacturing and distribution industries. Prior to establishing Stolberg Partners, Mr. Gfoeller served as a vice president of the money management firm Weiss, Peck & Greer (1988-1993) and as a partner of its buyout group (1992-1993).
While at Stolberg Partners and Weiss, Peck & Greer, Mr. Gfoeller was responsible for generating private equity deal flow through his extensive network in the Midwest, the South and the East Coast and was involved in all phases of the private equity investment process from finding investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, making investments to creating exit strategies.
Mr. Gfoeller is a Director or Board advisor to Forum Systems, Lancope and OpenPeak. He also sat on the Board of Directors of Phobos and StorageApps prior to their acquisitions by, respectively, SonicWALL for approximately $270 million and Hewlett-Packard for approximately $350 million.
Mr. Gfoeller holds a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in International Studies from The Ohio State University (1981), a M.A., with honors, Economics/Latin American Studies from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1983) and an M.B.A., Finance from the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania (1988).
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The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a major international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. The Bank was registered in Luxembourg. Within a decade BCCI touched its peak. It operated in 78 countries, had over 400 branches, and had assets in excess of US$20 billion, making it the 7th largest private bank in the world by assets.[1][2
Stephen L. Norris Wikipedia
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Corporate career
The Carlyle Group was founded in 1987 by Stephen L. Norris and David M. Rubenstein. As they wanted the firm to outlive them, Norris and Rubenstein named the firm after the Upper East Side area hotel in New York City, the Carlyle Hotel, where they first met to discuss the idea. Norris and Rubenstein later hired Dan D'Aniello, William E. Conway, Jr. and Greg Rosenbaum.[3] Rosenbaum left in 1987[4]; Norris left in 1995[5]. The three remaining founders are reported to collectively own around a 50% interest in the group's general partnership. The rest of Carlyle is owned by a group of individuals, most of whom serve as managing directors, and by two institutional investors. Prior to co-founding the Carlyle Group, Mr. Norris was a senior executive at Marriott Corporation.
In 2008, Norris announced a memorandum of understanding with the SCO Group, a Unix and Linux software company involved in lawsuits against IBM, Novell, and others. Under the terms of the plan, Norris would purchase a controlling interest in SCO for $100 million. The SCO Group Announces Reorganization Plan to Include $100 Million Financing by Stephen Norris Capital Partners] [2]
In March 2009, Gulf Capital Partners, LLC, announced the appointment of Stephen L. Norris as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Gulf Capital Partners is a private equity firm based in Beverly Hills, California with offices in Dubai, Doha and New York.
SCO fires Darl McBride
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No one has taken SCO's lawsuits against Linux-using companies seriously for years, but somehow or the other, SCO kept hanging on like a bad cold that you couldn't quite shake. That's because SCO CEO Darl McBride doesn't know the meaning of surrender. Time after time, McBride would come up with a new buyer or a re-take on a long dead anti-Linux legal claim, and SCO would stagger forward once more. Until now. This morning, October 19th, SCO filed an 8K with the SEC, which announced that the company had fired McBride.
It took them long enough.
To be more precise, SCO, under the order of the Bankruptcy Court, has "eliminated the Chief Executive Officer and President positions and consequently terminated Darl McBride." That leaves COO Jeff Hunsaker, CFO Ken Nielsen, and General Counsel Ryan Tibbitts nominally in charge. It's clear as glass though that Edward Cahn, the Chapter 11 Trustee and former chief U.S. district judge, is the one who's really calling the shots.
World War III pending Rockefeller cartel and Rothschild pupputs need war to avert fiat money change
The little guy versus Cede & Co
The NewsLog of Flemming Funch
The little guy versus Cede & Co 2003-12-16 18:20
by Flemming Funch
Remember DTC, the little known 20 trillion dollar company that holds most stocks in the world in the name of its subsidiary "Cede & Co"? Well, this fellow just found out about them when he was trying to locate $600 worth of stocks he thought he owned, after he was told that they had been transferred to Cede & Co. And he actually called them up, trying to get some answers. Without very much luck, as he's just an individual, rather than a "participant". Anyway, he continues looking for more information on the net. And finds good things, like this letter concerning a group of stock brokers and stock transfer companies who tried to withdraw from their contract with DTC,, and found out that they couldn't. DTC is a monopoly. And apparently they run it a bit like a black box, where even brokerage houses can't really learn all the details about what happened with their stocks. There are irregularities like stocks being oversold, meaning that more are being offered than all the actually outstanding shares of the given companies. Very interesting letter.
Darl McBride and Stephen Norris
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"Linux-watch is reporting that while The SCO Group may go on to pursue its plans with a $100 million buyout, it will do so without its longtime CEO Darl McBride. Buried in the proposed MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) between Unix vendor and Linux litigator SCO and SNCP (Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners) is the note that "upon the effective date of the Proposed Plan of Reorganization, the existing CEO of the Company, Darl McBride, will resign immediately.""
Cede and Co.
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Remember DTC, the little known 20 trillion dollar company that holds most stocks in the world in the name of its subsidiary "Cede & Co"? Well, this fellow just found out about them when he was trying to locate $600 worth of stocks he thought he owned, after he was told that they had been transferred to Cede & Co. And he actually called them up, trying to get some answers. Without very much luck, as he's just an individual, rather than a "participant". Anyway, he continues looking for more information on the net. And finds good things, like this letter concerning a group of stock brokers and stock transfer companies who tried to withdraw from their contract with DTC,, and found out that they couldn't. DTC is a monopoly. And apparently they run it a bit like a black box, where even brokerage houses can't really learn all the details about what happened with their stocks. There are irregularities like stocks being oversold, meaning that more are being offered than all the actually outstanding shares of the given companies. Very interesting letter.
SCO fights off chapter 7
From the 'fight till the bitter end' files:
You gotta hand it to SCO, they've got an incredible knack for survival. I (like many others) was expecting SCO to enter into Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week - that means the existing Chapter 11 bankruptcy that protects SCO from creditors would be converted to a liquidation where creditors carve up SCO's assets.
As it turns out, SCO has another 'trick' up its sleeve -- pulling out a renewed agreement according to a report in the Salt Lake Tribune with investor Stephen Norris to pay off creditors and keep SCO's litigation claims against IBM, Novell and others afloat.
Groklaw reports that the new hearing set for July 16 with backup for July 27.
If the name Stephen Norris (no not Chuck) sounds familiar -- it should.
Norris came to the aid of SCO first in February of 2008 with a proposed $100 million lifeline. Norris is now back and his action - for now - is keeping SCO a going concern for at least another month.
SCO enterned into Chapter 11 protection in 2008 after losing a decision to Novell on the ownership of UNIX copyrights.The company had been delisted from NASDAQ in late December 2008, and has since been traded in over-the-counter "Pink Sheets."
VK Durham Cash Payoffs
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CASH PAYOFFS, COUNTERFEIT U.S. DEBT INSTRUMENTS, BONDS, MURDER, BANK FRAUDS, BRADY BONDS ALL LINKED TO IRANIAN & LATIN AMERICAN CONTRA'S
By: V.K. Durham
9.14.05
Three of the European Nations called EU-3 (Germany, France and Great Britain) were bankrupted along with Japan and Russia for their involvement in the 1991 Bank Frauds and Brady Bonds 'transactions' allegedly under investigation by Patrick Fitzgerald’s Grand Juries which have the Contracts in hand involving the transactions noted in
http://www.theantechamber.net/V_K_Durham/TexasTwoStep7.html .
Hopefully you will open this up and study it carefully.
G7 the creditor how to resolve this current financial and economics derivatives crisis
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CREDITOR: HOW TO RESOLVE THIS CURRENT BANKING, FINANCING AND ECONOMICS DERIVATIVES CRISIS
By: V.K. Durham, CEO, Durham Holding Trust, Tias 12087 the Duly Constituted “CREDITOR”
As distasteful as it may be or even as one sided as it sounds.. it is a “Man Thing”… These are the Muslims who have been allowed deep inside US Corporate Federal Agencies .. who will not put up the alert on those Acting Not in Compliance with Law involved in THE “TROJAN HORSE” INSIDE U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT & AGENCIES as exposed in http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?rea d=133566 and http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?rea d=133632 . These individuals do not acknowledge the Rights of Women. Its just that simple.
Cede PDF
Stephen L. Norris
Click here to download video.
Steve Norris was one of the co-founders of The Carlyle Group in Washington, D.C. serving as President of its management company from inception in 1987 to 1996. He will be Chairman of Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partner's Investment Committee and will principally focus on sourcing of investment opportunities and investment strategy, as well as structuring and negotiating investments and exits from investments.
Bryan Cave
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Notable Transactions
Represented Ralcorp in the $2.6 billion merger between Ralcorp and Kraft Food's portfolio of cereals under the Post Cereal label.[6]
Advised Monsanto in its $290 million purchase of Aly Participacoes, a division of Brazilian global conglomerate Votorantim. Aly Participacoes operated two companies, CanaVialis S.A. and Alellyx S.A. which focus on sugarcane breeding and related applied genomics and biotech in the sugarcane industry.[7]
Counseled Barnes & Noble, the bookseller, on its $596 million purchase of Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Inc., a division that had been spun off from Barnes & Noble in the mid-1980s. The acquisition closed on October 1, 2009.[8]
Joachim Gfoeller CFR member
1003. GFOELLER JOACHIM JR
Joachim Gfoeller Stephen Norris Partners
Joachim Gfoeller, Jr.
Mr. Gfoeller co-founded GMG Capital Partners in 1997 and has served as its Managing General Partner since then. Since 2004, Mr. Norris has been actively involved on the Board of Directors of a number of GMG portfolio companies.
Prior to joining the General Partner, Mr. Gfoeller was one of the founding partners of Stolberg Partners, a New York based $70 million buyout fund established in 1993. At Stolberg Partners, Mr. Gfoeller had extensive experience investing in the private equity market, particularly in the manufacturing and distribution industries. Prior to establishing Stolberg Partners, Mr. Gfoeller served as a vice president of the money management firm Weiss, Peck & Greer (1988-1993) and as a partner of its buyout group (1992-1993).
While at Stolberg Partners and Weiss, Peck & Greer, Mr. Gfoeller was responsible for generating private equity deal flow through his extensive network in the Midwest, the South and the East Coast and was involved in all phases of the private equity investment process from finding investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, making investments to creating exit strategies.
Mr. Gfoeller is a Director or Board advisor to Forum Systems, Lancope and OpenPeak. He also sat on the Board of Directors of Phobos and StorageApps prior to their acquisitions by, respectively, SonicWALL for approximately $270 million and Hewlett-Packard for approximately $350 million.
Mr. Gfoeller holds a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in International Studies from The Ohio State University (1981), a M.A., with honors, Economics/Latin American Studies from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1983) and an M.B.A., Finance from the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania (1988).
Benazir Bhutto 'Osama is dead' youtube
Bhutto murdered youtube
Wiki Leaks
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US paying Pakistan to kill American troops?
Posted on26 July 2010.
WASHINGTON: A treasure trove of US documents implicating Pakistan in its support for terrorism exploded in the public domain on Sunday, sending officials in both countries scurrying to defend a dubious alliance and straining a phony partnership based on a misreading of the ground sentiment and situation.
WikiLeaks, a whistleblower organization that publishes sensitive government leaks from anonymous sources, put a staggering 91,000 documents, mainly ground reports from US military personnel, in public domain on Sunday. Many of the documents exposed Pakistan’s double-faced policy of fuelling terrorism in Afghanistan while claiming to be fighting it as an US ally.
In effect, the chronicles suggested that Washington was blindly paying Pakistan massive amounts of money for access to Afghanistan even as Islamabad uses its spy agency, ISI, to plot the death of American and Nato troops, allied Indian personnel, and undermines US policy. The most devastating leaks showed that Pakistan allows representatives of its spy service, ISI, to meet directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize attacks against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders, including President Hamid Karzai.
WikiLeaks worked with three media organizations–The New York Times, Germany’s Der Spiegel and The Guardian–to make sense of the massive cache of documents, while not disclosing how it got hold of it. Stunned Washington experts compared it to the leaking of the Pentagon papers during the Vietnam War. What the cache highlighted most was the continuing Pakistani perfidy, and American credulity in accepting Islamabad as an ally and funnelling billions of dollars in aid even as it helped plot US downfall in the region and killed American soldiers.
“Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harboured strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants,” the New York Times said in its assessment of the report. “The records also contain firsthand accounts of American anger at Pakistan’s unwillingness to confront insurgents who launched attacks near Pakistani border posts, moved openly by the truckload across the frontier and retreated to Pakistani territory for safety,” it continued.
“The behind-the-scenes frustrations of soldiers on the ground and glimpses of what appear to be Pakistani skullduggery contrast sharply with the frequently rosy public pronouncements of Islamabad as an ally by American officials looking to sustain a drone campaign over parts of Pakistani territory to strike at Qaida havens,” it added.
That policy of ambivalence and appeasement continued even into the hours after the WikiLeaks expose, as US and Pakistani officials rushed to control the damage. US national security advisor James Jones condemned the “disclosure of classified documents by individuals and organizations”, which, he said, “could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security”, when, in effect, the documents suggest it is Washington’s appeasement of Pakistan which is doing that.
US officials also argued that the documents posted by WikiLeaks covered a period from January 2004 to December 2009 and pre-dated President Barack Obama’s new strategy announced on December 1, 2009, when they suggested there began a turnaround “with a substantial increase in resources for Afghanistan, and increased focus on Al Qaida and Taliban safe-havens in Pakistan, precisely because of the grave situation that had developed over several years”.
“I don’t think anyone who follows this issue will find it surprising that there are concerns about the ISI and safe havens in Pakistan. In fact, we’ve said as much repeatedly and on the record,” one official explained. “The period of time covered in these documents (January 2004-December 2009) is before the President announced his new strategy. Some of the disconcerting things reported are exactly why the President ordered a three-month policy review and a change in strategy.”
But the official also cast aspersions on WikiLeaks and its motive, saying, “It’s worth noting that WikiLeaks is not an objective news outlet but rather an organization that opposes the US policy in Afghanistan.”
Pakistan, as usual, reacted with fury to the disclosures, calling the leaks “malicious and unsubstantiated”. An unnamed official in Islamabad was quoted as saying, “They were from raw intelligence reports that had not been verified and were meant to impugn the reputation of the spy agency.”
A more restrained reaction came from Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani (whose book chronicles the Pakistani military’s jihadi connections and outlook). “The documents circulated by WikiLeaks do not reflect the current on-ground realities,” Haqqani said, plying the current Washington-Islamabad line that whatever happened was in the past.
Bhutto murdered youtube
Wiki Leaks
FULL ARTICLE:
US paying Pakistan to kill American troops?
Posted on26 July 2010.
WASHINGTON: A treasure trove of US documents implicating Pakistan in its support for terrorism exploded in the public domain on Sunday, sending officials in both countries scurrying to defend a dubious alliance and straining a phony partnership based on a misreading of the ground sentiment and situation.
WikiLeaks, a whistleblower organization that publishes sensitive government leaks from anonymous sources, put a staggering 91,000 documents, mainly ground reports from US military personnel, in public domain on Sunday. Many of the documents exposed Pakistan’s double-faced policy of fuelling terrorism in Afghanistan while claiming to be fighting it as an US ally.
In effect, the chronicles suggested that Washington was blindly paying Pakistan massive amounts of money for access to Afghanistan even as Islamabad uses its spy agency, ISI, to plot the death of American and Nato troops, allied Indian personnel, and undermines US policy. The most devastating leaks showed that Pakistan allows representatives of its spy service, ISI, to meet directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize attacks against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders, including President Hamid Karzai.
WikiLeaks worked with three media organizations–The New York Times, Germany’s Der Spiegel and The Guardian–to make sense of the massive cache of documents, while not disclosing how it got hold of it. Stunned Washington experts compared it to the leaking of the Pentagon papers during the Vietnam War. What the cache highlighted most was the continuing Pakistani perfidy, and American credulity in accepting Islamabad as an ally and funnelling billions of dollars in aid even as it helped plot US downfall in the region and killed American soldiers.
“Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harboured strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants,” the New York Times said in its assessment of the report. “The records also contain firsthand accounts of American anger at Pakistan’s unwillingness to confront insurgents who launched attacks near Pakistani border posts, moved openly by the truckload across the frontier and retreated to Pakistani territory for safety,” it continued.
“The behind-the-scenes frustrations of soldiers on the ground and glimpses of what appear to be Pakistani skullduggery contrast sharply with the frequently rosy public pronouncements of Islamabad as an ally by American officials looking to sustain a drone campaign over parts of Pakistani territory to strike at Qaida havens,” it added.
That policy of ambivalence and appeasement continued even into the hours after the WikiLeaks expose, as US and Pakistani officials rushed to control the damage. US national security advisor James Jones condemned the “disclosure of classified documents by individuals and organizations”, which, he said, “could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security”, when, in effect, the documents suggest it is Washington’s appeasement of Pakistan which is doing that.
US officials also argued that the documents posted by WikiLeaks covered a period from January 2004 to December 2009 and pre-dated President Barack Obama’s new strategy announced on December 1, 2009, when they suggested there began a turnaround “with a substantial increase in resources for Afghanistan, and increased focus on Al Qaida and Taliban safe-havens in Pakistan, precisely because of the grave situation that had developed over several years”.
“I don’t think anyone who follows this issue will find it surprising that there are concerns about the ISI and safe havens in Pakistan. In fact, we’ve said as much repeatedly and on the record,” one official explained. “The period of time covered in these documents (January 2004-December 2009) is before the President announced his new strategy. Some of the disconcerting things reported are exactly why the President ordered a three-month policy review and a change in strategy.”
But the official also cast aspersions on WikiLeaks and its motive, saying, “It’s worth noting that WikiLeaks is not an objective news outlet but rather an organization that opposes the US policy in Afghanistan.”
Pakistan, as usual, reacted with fury to the disclosures, calling the leaks “malicious and unsubstantiated”. An unnamed official in Islamabad was quoted as saying, “They were from raw intelligence reports that had not been verified and were meant to impugn the reputation of the spy agency.”
A more restrained reaction came from Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani (whose book chronicles the Pakistani military’s jihadi connections and outlook). “The documents circulated by WikiLeaks do not reflect the current on-ground realities,” Haqqani said, plying the current Washington-Islamabad line that whatever happened was in the past.
Chevy Chase makes splash at gala
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Cheeky Chevy Chase poked fun at billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr. in front of wealthy bidders at Christie's auction house, joking that his "Sailors for the Sea" charity encourages people to "protect the ocean and molest young boys."
Chase, the night's emcee, caused a stir with the line as he introduced co-chairs Rockefeller Jr. and his filmmaker wife, Susan, onstage at Christie's Green Auction Thursday night.
The "National Lampoon" legend quickly added, "I don't know where that came from," as the celebrity crowd which included Salma Hayek and supermodel Miranda Kerr burst into embarrassed laughter.
Rockefellers and Mexico
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Anne-Emanuelle Birn1
(1) Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School for Social Research, New York
Abstract This article explores how the Rockefeller Foundation's hookworm campaigns, sponsorship of local sanitary units and involvement in public health education in Mexico shaped the conceptualisation and practice of public health during the decades following the Mexican Revolution. A 1923 hookworm agreement set the terms of the relationship, minimising the Foundation's financial commitment while maximising its administrative control. In establishing rural health units, the Foundation adapted to local conditions without compromising scientific public health by ingeniously incorporating midwives while shunning other traditional healers. When President Lázaro Cárdenas's socialist politics threatened the Rockefeller model of public health in the 1930s, delicate tactics enabled the Foundation to overcome these challenges. For the Mexican government, the overriding goals of modernisation and progress required an acceptance of Rockefeller pressure and scientific expertise. The special status granted the Rockefeller foundation, its political, administrative, educational and financial strategies, and its institutional flexibility enabled it to influence profoundly the development of the Mexican public health system.
The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance provided by Christine Ridge in the preparation of this manuscript. This article is based on a paper presented at the International Society for Third-Sector Research 1994 Inaugural Conference held at Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary, July 1994.
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The Rockefellers and their hookworm campaign
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Late in October 1926, a poor man from Bucamaranga, Colombia, wrote a letter to the richest man in the world. Juan de la Rosa Quintero Parra informed John D Rockefeller that his ten-year-old son, José Vicente, had “died suddenly as a result of a purge administered by the Bureau of Uncinariasis”, the local incarnation of the Rockefeller Foundation’s global project to eradicate hookworm disease. The death of the boy, who worked full-time as a streetsweeper for the municipality, had been “a serious blow since he was the only one who contributed to the support of the family consisting of seven young children”. Having heard of Mr Rockefeller’s generosity, Quintero appealed to him for assistance, thanked him in advance for the attention he would give to the matter, and hoped that Divine Providence would spare the great philanthropist’s life for many years to come. He mailed the letter to Rockefeller Foundation headquarters at 61 Broadway in New York City, the same address where, probably unbeknownst to him, bits of his son’s organs had been sent following a post-mortem. Quintero Parra’s letter came to the attention of either the 84-year-old patriarch or his son, John D Rockefeller, Jr, the Foundation’s president. Their executive secretary, F M Read was instructed to make inquiries into the death of the child, José Vicente Quintero.1
History matters Mexico and Standard Oil
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The Reply to Mexico: Standard Oil Puts Forth Its Position
In 1933, newly elected President Franklin Roosevelt announced a “Good Neighbor Policy” that promised a more friendly and less interventionist policy toward Latin America. The policy was prompted as much by Latin American resistance to U.S. intervention as by the U.S. government’s benevolence. In 1937, the policy was put to the test when Bolivia charged that Standard Oil of New Jersey had defrauded the Bolivian government; Bolivia canceled the company’s oil drilling rights and confiscated its facilities. True to its new policy, the United States avoided military intervention and instead pressured Bolivia by withholding loans and technical assistance. The following year, a war of words erupted between the government of Mexico and the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey over who owned the rights to exploit a portion of Mexico’s oil reserves. After U.S. oil companies refused to accept the arbitration terms of the Mexican labor board, Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated oil company properties worth an estimated half billion dollars. In The Reply to Mexico, Standard Oil offered a vigorous response to the Mexican expropriation of its property in 1938.
Drug story
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Soon after the present-day Nujol was put on the market it was discovered by physicians to be harmful. It robbed the body of fat soluble vitamins and caused serious deficiency diseases. Standard Oil checked the loss in sales by adding carotene (one of the fat soluble vitamins) to Nujol and claiming this overcame these injuries. Physicians disagree with the sales department of Standard Oil on this point.
And what of Nujol, now being sold to the public as a laxative. For some uyears before his death Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York used to set up a radio microphone every morning in his Senate Office Building quarters in Washington, furnished by the American taxpayers, and plug this greasy concoction – at $75,000 a year.
The New York Senator was a doctor of sorts. Although he possessed a medical degree he was never able to make a living as a bedside practitioner. He went into politics and made medicine pay in a big way. First he became a health commissioner of New York City, then a Senator from the Empire State where he used the prominence thus gained to ballyhoo Nujol to unsuspecting radio listeners.
Hookworm in the South
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Eradication
Stiles was convinced that an education campaign could solve the hookworm problem, but it took several years of effort on his part before he could convince any authorities to implement such a program. In 1908 Stiles was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the Country Life Commission, a group formed to suggest ways to improve farm life. Through this appointment Stiles met Walter Hines Page, a crusading southern journalist. Page had connections at the General Education Board, a philanthropy funded by industrialist John D. Rockefeller. In October 1909 Rockefeller donated $1 million to fund the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission. This commission cooperated by invitation with state boards of health in creating education and eradication programs that helped hundreds of thousands of hookworm disease sufferers in the southern states. The commission operated until the end of 1914, by which time hookworm control was well advanced in those states. More than twenty years after Stiles's first suspicions about the "germ of laziness," his untiring efforts finally produced results.
Rockefellers
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1) AMERICA'S MEDICO-DRUG CARTEL Back To Top The medico-drug cartel was summed up by J.W Hodge, M.D., of Niagara Falls, N.Y., in these words: "The medical monopoly or medical trust, euphemistically called the American Medical Association, is not merely the meanest monopoly ever organized, but the most arrogant, dangerous and despotic organisation which ever managed a free people in this or any other age.
2) Rockefeller had always had a particular interest in China, where Standard Oil was almost the sole supplier of kerosene and oil "for the lamps of China". So he put up money to establish the China Medical Board and to build the Peking Union Medical College, playing the role of the Great White Father who has come to dispense knowledge on his lowly children. The Rockefeller Foundation invested up to $45,000,000 into "westernizing" (read corrupting) Chinese medicine. Medical colleges were instructed that if they wished to benefit from the Rockefeller largesse they had better convince 500 million Chinese to throw into the ashcan the safe and useful but inexpensive herbal remedies of their barefoot doctors, which had withstood the test of centuries, in favor of the expensive carcinogenic and teratogenic "miracle" drugs Made in USA, which had to be replaced constantly with new ones, when the fatal side-effects could no longer be concealed; and if they couldn't "demonstrate" through large-scale animal experiments the effectiveness of their ancient acupuncture, this could not be recognized as having any "scientific value".
Its millenarian effectiveness proven on human beings was of no concern to the Westem wizards. But when the Communists came to power in China and it was no longer possible to trade, the Rockefellers suddenly lost interest in the health of the Chinese people and shifted their attention increasingly to Japan, India and Latin America. THE IMAGE Back To Top "No candid study of his career can lead to other conclusion than that he is victim of perhaps the ugliest of all passions, that for money, money as an end. It is not a pleasant picture.... this money-maniac secretly, patiently, eternally plotting how he may add to his wealth.... He has turned commerce to war, and honey-combed it with cruel and corrupt practices.... And he calls his great organization a benefaction, and points to his church-going and charities as proof of his righteousness.
The Ludlow Massacre and the Rockefellers
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The Ludlow Massacre
A lot more than 2,000 miles separated the Rockefeller estate from Southern Colorado when on Monday April 20, 1914, the first shot was fired at Ludlow. One of history's most dramatic confrontations between capital and labor — the so-called Ludlow massacre — took place at the mines of the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).
The face-off raged for fourteen hours, during which the miners' tent colony was pelted with machine gun fire and ultimately torched by the state militia. A number of people were killed, among them two women and eleven children who suffocated in a pit they had dug under their tent. The deaths were blamed on John D. Rockefeller Jr. For years, he would struggle to redress the situation - and strengthen the Rockefeller social conscience in the process.
Contemporary voices provide a rare window into the divide that separated the Rockefellers from some of the harsh realities tied to their business decisions. They powerfully illustrate the clashing viewpoints that were at the heart of the crisis and shed light on Rockefeller's ultimate transformation.
Slaughter of the Innocents
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As somebody who has read many books about our mistreatment of animals, this is the most comprehensive book I've read about the wrongs of vivisection. Hans Reusch describes how vivisection or animal experimentation is wrong for the following reasons: 1. the horrific cruelty to animals; 2. it is fraudulent research and is not helping humans, eg., a drug which reacts in humans one way may react completely different in another species; and 3. how the pharmaceuticals are more interested in profiting from diseases instead of looking into preventing them in the first place.
Reusch gives great historical perspectives on medicine and pharmaceuticals. He provides plenty of footnotes. I also found it good that Reusch forwarns the readers of a chapter which can be skipped over because it graphically describes the actual experiments.
I'm giving the book four stars instead of five because I really hope Reusch considers a new edition. Everything written in this book rings true today. It would, however, be useful to see more recent examples of the harm which the experiments have brought to both animals and mankind.
Rockefellers and Rothschilds
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by Eustace Mullins
Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute control over the government and the people of United States . This thesis can be accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger issues . Two writers for whom the present writer has great respect, Dr. Emanuel Josephson and Morris Bealle, insisted on focusing on the Rockefellers and excluding all other aspects of the World Order . This severely limited the effect of their otherwise ground breaking work on the Medical Monopoly.
This writer advanced a contrary view in ``The World Order,'' fixing upon the Rothschild monetary power, which reached a point of world control by 1885, and its London policy group, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, as the policy makers for what has essentially been since 1900, re-established colonial government in the United States. The colonial, or occupation, government, functions primarily through the Council on Foreign Relations, but only as the subsidiary of RIIA and through the Rockefeller Foundation which controls government functions, the educational establishments, the media, the religions and the state legislatures.
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Cheeky Chevy Chase poked fun at billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr. in front of wealthy bidders at Christie's auction house, joking that his "Sailors for the Sea" charity encourages people to "protect the ocean and molest young boys."
Chase, the night's emcee, caused a stir with the line as he introduced co-chairs Rockefeller Jr. and his filmmaker wife, Susan, onstage at Christie's Green Auction Thursday night.
The "National Lampoon" legend quickly added, "I don't know where that came from," as the celebrity crowd which included Salma Hayek and supermodel Miranda Kerr burst into embarrassed laughter.
Rockefellers and Mexico
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Anne-Emanuelle Birn1
(1) Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School for Social Research, New York
Abstract This article explores how the Rockefeller Foundation's hookworm campaigns, sponsorship of local sanitary units and involvement in public health education in Mexico shaped the conceptualisation and practice of public health during the decades following the Mexican Revolution. A 1923 hookworm agreement set the terms of the relationship, minimising the Foundation's financial commitment while maximising its administrative control. In establishing rural health units, the Foundation adapted to local conditions without compromising scientific public health by ingeniously incorporating midwives while shunning other traditional healers. When President Lázaro Cárdenas's socialist politics threatened the Rockefeller model of public health in the 1930s, delicate tactics enabled the Foundation to overcome these challenges. For the Mexican government, the overriding goals of modernisation and progress required an acceptance of Rockefeller pressure and scientific expertise. The special status granted the Rockefeller foundation, its political, administrative, educational and financial strategies, and its institutional flexibility enabled it to influence profoundly the development of the Mexican public health system.
The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance provided by Christine Ridge in the preparation of this manuscript. This article is based on a paper presented at the International Society for Third-Sector Research 1994 Inaugural Conference held at Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary, July 1994.
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The Rockefellers and their hookworm campaign
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Late in October 1926, a poor man from Bucamaranga, Colombia, wrote a letter to the richest man in the world. Juan de la Rosa Quintero Parra informed John D Rockefeller that his ten-year-old son, José Vicente, had “died suddenly as a result of a purge administered by the Bureau of Uncinariasis”, the local incarnation of the Rockefeller Foundation’s global project to eradicate hookworm disease. The death of the boy, who worked full-time as a streetsweeper for the municipality, had been “a serious blow since he was the only one who contributed to the support of the family consisting of seven young children”. Having heard of Mr Rockefeller’s generosity, Quintero appealed to him for assistance, thanked him in advance for the attention he would give to the matter, and hoped that Divine Providence would spare the great philanthropist’s life for many years to come. He mailed the letter to Rockefeller Foundation headquarters at 61 Broadway in New York City, the same address where, probably unbeknownst to him, bits of his son’s organs had been sent following a post-mortem. Quintero Parra’s letter came to the attention of either the 84-year-old patriarch or his son, John D Rockefeller, Jr, the Foundation’s president. Their executive secretary, F M Read was instructed to make inquiries into the death of the child, José Vicente Quintero.1
History matters Mexico and Standard Oil
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The Reply to Mexico: Standard Oil Puts Forth Its Position
In 1933, newly elected President Franklin Roosevelt announced a “Good Neighbor Policy” that promised a more friendly and less interventionist policy toward Latin America. The policy was prompted as much by Latin American resistance to U.S. intervention as by the U.S. government’s benevolence. In 1937, the policy was put to the test when Bolivia charged that Standard Oil of New Jersey had defrauded the Bolivian government; Bolivia canceled the company’s oil drilling rights and confiscated its facilities. True to its new policy, the United States avoided military intervention and instead pressured Bolivia by withholding loans and technical assistance. The following year, a war of words erupted between the government of Mexico and the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey over who owned the rights to exploit a portion of Mexico’s oil reserves. After U.S. oil companies refused to accept the arbitration terms of the Mexican labor board, Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated oil company properties worth an estimated half billion dollars. In The Reply to Mexico, Standard Oil offered a vigorous response to the Mexican expropriation of its property in 1938.
Drug story
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Soon after the present-day Nujol was put on the market it was discovered by physicians to be harmful. It robbed the body of fat soluble vitamins and caused serious deficiency diseases. Standard Oil checked the loss in sales by adding carotene (one of the fat soluble vitamins) to Nujol and claiming this overcame these injuries. Physicians disagree with the sales department of Standard Oil on this point.
And what of Nujol, now being sold to the public as a laxative. For some uyears before his death Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York used to set up a radio microphone every morning in his Senate Office Building quarters in Washington, furnished by the American taxpayers, and plug this greasy concoction – at $75,000 a year.
The New York Senator was a doctor of sorts. Although he possessed a medical degree he was never able to make a living as a bedside practitioner. He went into politics and made medicine pay in a big way. First he became a health commissioner of New York City, then a Senator from the Empire State where he used the prominence thus gained to ballyhoo Nujol to unsuspecting radio listeners.
Hookworm in the South
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Eradication
Stiles was convinced that an education campaign could solve the hookworm problem, but it took several years of effort on his part before he could convince any authorities to implement such a program. In 1908 Stiles was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the Country Life Commission, a group formed to suggest ways to improve farm life. Through this appointment Stiles met Walter Hines Page, a crusading southern journalist. Page had connections at the General Education Board, a philanthropy funded by industrialist John D. Rockefeller. In October 1909 Rockefeller donated $1 million to fund the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission. This commission cooperated by invitation with state boards of health in creating education and eradication programs that helped hundreds of thousands of hookworm disease sufferers in the southern states. The commission operated until the end of 1914, by which time hookworm control was well advanced in those states. More than twenty years after Stiles's first suspicions about the "germ of laziness," his untiring efforts finally produced results.
Rockefellers
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1) AMERICA'S MEDICO-DRUG CARTEL Back To Top The medico-drug cartel was summed up by J.W Hodge, M.D., of Niagara Falls, N.Y., in these words: "The medical monopoly or medical trust, euphemistically called the American Medical Association, is not merely the meanest monopoly ever organized, but the most arrogant, dangerous and despotic organisation which ever managed a free people in this or any other age.
2) Rockefeller had always had a particular interest in China, where Standard Oil was almost the sole supplier of kerosene and oil "for the lamps of China". So he put up money to establish the China Medical Board and to build the Peking Union Medical College, playing the role of the Great White Father who has come to dispense knowledge on his lowly children. The Rockefeller Foundation invested up to $45,000,000 into "westernizing" (read corrupting) Chinese medicine. Medical colleges were instructed that if they wished to benefit from the Rockefeller largesse they had better convince 500 million Chinese to throw into the ashcan the safe and useful but inexpensive herbal remedies of their barefoot doctors, which had withstood the test of centuries, in favor of the expensive carcinogenic and teratogenic "miracle" drugs Made in USA, which had to be replaced constantly with new ones, when the fatal side-effects could no longer be concealed; and if they couldn't "demonstrate" through large-scale animal experiments the effectiveness of their ancient acupuncture, this could not be recognized as having any "scientific value".
Its millenarian effectiveness proven on human beings was of no concern to the Westem wizards. But when the Communists came to power in China and it was no longer possible to trade, the Rockefellers suddenly lost interest in the health of the Chinese people and shifted their attention increasingly to Japan, India and Latin America. THE IMAGE Back To Top "No candid study of his career can lead to other conclusion than that he is victim of perhaps the ugliest of all passions, that for money, money as an end. It is not a pleasant picture.... this money-maniac secretly, patiently, eternally plotting how he may add to his wealth.... He has turned commerce to war, and honey-combed it with cruel and corrupt practices.... And he calls his great organization a benefaction, and points to his church-going and charities as proof of his righteousness.
The Ludlow Massacre and the Rockefellers
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The Ludlow Massacre
A lot more than 2,000 miles separated the Rockefeller estate from Southern Colorado when on Monday April 20, 1914, the first shot was fired at Ludlow. One of history's most dramatic confrontations between capital and labor — the so-called Ludlow massacre — took place at the mines of the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).
The face-off raged for fourteen hours, during which the miners' tent colony was pelted with machine gun fire and ultimately torched by the state militia. A number of people were killed, among them two women and eleven children who suffocated in a pit they had dug under their tent. The deaths were blamed on John D. Rockefeller Jr. For years, he would struggle to redress the situation - and strengthen the Rockefeller social conscience in the process.
Contemporary voices provide a rare window into the divide that separated the Rockefellers from some of the harsh realities tied to their business decisions. They powerfully illustrate the clashing viewpoints that were at the heart of the crisis and shed light on Rockefeller's ultimate transformation.
Slaughter of the Innocents
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As somebody who has read many books about our mistreatment of animals, this is the most comprehensive book I've read about the wrongs of vivisection. Hans Reusch describes how vivisection or animal experimentation is wrong for the following reasons: 1. the horrific cruelty to animals; 2. it is fraudulent research and is not helping humans, eg., a drug which reacts in humans one way may react completely different in another species; and 3. how the pharmaceuticals are more interested in profiting from diseases instead of looking into preventing them in the first place.
Reusch gives great historical perspectives on medicine and pharmaceuticals. He provides plenty of footnotes. I also found it good that Reusch forwarns the readers of a chapter which can be skipped over because it graphically describes the actual experiments.
I'm giving the book four stars instead of five because I really hope Reusch considers a new edition. Everything written in this book rings true today. It would, however, be useful to see more recent examples of the harm which the experiments have brought to both animals and mankind.
Rockefellers and Rothschilds
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by Eustace Mullins
Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute control over the government and the people of United States . This thesis can be accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger issues . Two writers for whom the present writer has great respect, Dr. Emanuel Josephson and Morris Bealle, insisted on focusing on the Rockefellers and excluding all other aspects of the World Order . This severely limited the effect of their otherwise ground breaking work on the Medical Monopoly.
This writer advanced a contrary view in ``The World Order,'' fixing upon the Rothschild monetary power, which reached a point of world control by 1885, and its London policy group, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, as the policy makers for what has essentially been since 1900, re-established colonial government in the United States. The colonial, or occupation, government, functions primarily through the Council on Foreign Relations, but only as the subsidiary of RIIA and through the Rockefeller Foundation which controls government functions, the educational establishments, the media, the religions and the state legislatures.
Jay Rockefeller: Internet should have never existed youtube
Internet Kill Switch
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The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has approved a cybersecurity bill, Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA), that would give the president far-reaching authority over the Internet in the case of emergency.
As The Hill explains, the bill, sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins, and Tom Carper, would give the president "emergency authority to shut down private sector or government networks in the event of a cyber attack capable of causing massive damage or loss of life." The original bill granted the president the authority to "indefinitely" shut down networks, but an amendment to the PCNAA, approved yesterday, mandates that the president "get Congressional approval after controlling a network for 120 days."
Obama nominee Admiral Dennis Blair (Murderer my2cents -cal)
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Allan Nairn, Award-winning journalist who has reported from Indonesia for years. In 1999, he broke the story on Dennis Blair’s secret meeting with Indonesian generals to affirm US support for their violent crackdown on East Timorese.
Admiral Blair poor choice as director
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Admiral Blair Poor Choice as Director of National Intelligence, Says East Timor Rights Group
Blair’s History with Indonesia and East Timor Raises Questions about Likely Nominee Contact: John M. Miller, +1-718-596-7668, +1-917-690-4391 Ed McWilliams, +1-703-899-5285
January 7 - The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) called Adm. Dennis Blair “a poor choice for intelligence director." The group urged President-elect Obama to reconsider the nomination, and make a break from past policies that have undermined human rights worldwide.
"During his years as Pacific Commander, Blair downplayed human rights concerns. He actively worked to reinstate military assistance and deepen ties with Indonesia's military despite its ongoing rights violations in East Timor and consistent record of impunity," said John M. Miller, National Coordinator of ETAN.
Internet Kill Switch
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The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has approved a cybersecurity bill, Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA), that would give the president far-reaching authority over the Internet in the case of emergency.
As The Hill explains, the bill, sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins, and Tom Carper, would give the president "emergency authority to shut down private sector or government networks in the event of a cyber attack capable of causing massive damage or loss of life." The original bill granted the president the authority to "indefinitely" shut down networks, but an amendment to the PCNAA, approved yesterday, mandates that the president "get Congressional approval after controlling a network for 120 days."
Obama nominee Admiral Dennis Blair (Murderer my2cents -cal)
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Allan Nairn, Award-winning journalist who has reported from Indonesia for years. In 1999, he broke the story on Dennis Blair’s secret meeting with Indonesian generals to affirm US support for their violent crackdown on East Timorese.
Admiral Blair poor choice as director
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Admiral Blair Poor Choice as Director of National Intelligence, Says East Timor Rights Group
Blair’s History with Indonesia and East Timor Raises Questions about Likely Nominee Contact: John M. Miller, +1-718-596-7668, +1-917-690-4391 Ed McWilliams, +1-703-899-5285
January 7 - The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) called Adm. Dennis Blair “a poor choice for intelligence director." The group urged President-elect Obama to reconsider the nomination, and make a break from past policies that have undermined human rights worldwide.
"During his years as Pacific Commander, Blair downplayed human rights concerns. He actively worked to reinstate military assistance and deepen ties with Indonesia's military despite its ongoing rights violations in East Timor and consistent record of impunity," said John M. Miller, National Coordinator of ETAN.
Monday, July 26, 2010
G. Kennedy Thompson wikipedia
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G. Kennedy "Ken" Thompson (born November 25, 1950, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina) is an American businessman who was previously chairman, president, and CEO of Wachovia Corporation, formerly First Union Corporation, from 2000 through 2008.[1] First Union Corporation acquired Wachovia Corporation and changed its name to Wachovia in September 2001 after fending off a hostile takeover attempt by SunTrust Bank. Thompson succeeded Edward E. Crutchfield in 2000, who stepped down due to health reasons. Previous positions at First Union included vice chairman of the corporation and head of Global Capital Markets; president, First Union-Florida; senior vice president and head of First Union Human Resources; president, First Union Georgia.
Thompson previously served as president of the Federal Reserve Board's Federal Advisory Committee.
Thompson serves on the Boards of Directors for Hewlett-Packard (HP), Florida Rock Industries, Inc., (NYSE) and Carolinas Healthcare System. Professional affiliations include Board member, Financial Services Roundtable; vice chairman and board member, New York Clearing House; member, Financial Services Forum, The Business Council.
25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis The good intentions, bad managers and greed behind the meltdown
In the early 1980s, the Sandlers' World Savings Bank became the first to sell a tricky home loan called the option ARM. And they pushed the mortgage, which offered several ways to back-load your loan and thereby reduce your early payments, with increasing zeal and misleading advertisements over the next two decades. The couple pocketed $2.3 billion when they sold their bank to Wachovia in 2006. But losses on World Savings' loan portfolio led to the implosion of Wachovia, which was sold under duress late last year to Wells Fargo.
The Sandlers respond here: "Don't Pin the Blame on Us"
Clyde O'Connor
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After just two weeks, the plane was sold again in another mysterious transaction. The only evidence for this is an anomalous bill of sale with the name of the new owner: “Clyde O’Connor” He’s a well-known guy around Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport.
HALL: I had the sense they seemed to have known more about him than they were letting on, he seems to be a veteran around that area, who’s got a bit of a checkered past.
O’Connor’s been involved in at least two plane crashes and he was cited for Criminal Air Safety Violations in 2001.
Peter Dale Scott wikipedia
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Investigator
Scott has researched and written several investigative books about the role of the "deep state" (as opposed to the "public state"). However, Scott rejects the label of "conspiracy theory" and has used the phrase "deep politics" to describe his heavily-footnoted political writing. The investigative bent has spilled over into his works of poetry, some of which must contain marginal notes to explain to readers which documents or real-world news events are being referred to. His most recent book, The Road to 9/11 from the University of California Press, deals with historical and geopolitical context of the events of 9/11, and describes "how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11."[3]
An interesting aspect of Scott's work that combines both his investigating interests and his poetry is illustrated by The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11
Venezuelan general indicted in CIA scheme
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1) When news of the cocaine shipment broke in November 1993, Kent Harrington, then the chief spokesman for the C.I.A., called the matter ''a most regrettable incident,'' and characterized it as a serious accident. No C.I.A. official has been charged in the case, and there is no evidence that anyone at the agency profited from sales of the drugs.
2) After an investigation that lasted more than five years, the grand jury handed up a sealed indictment earlier this week against Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila, the officials said. The general was the chief of a program set up by the C.I.A. in the late 1980's in conjunction with the Venezuelan National Guard, which sought to infiltrate Colombian gangs shipping cocaine to the United States.
The C.I.A., over the objections of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a branch of the Justice Department, approved the shipment of at least one ton of nearly pure cocaine to Miami International Airport as a way of gathering information about the Colombian drug cartels.
But the cocaine ended up on the street because of ''poor judgment and management on the part of several C.I.A. officers,'' the intelligence agency said. One C.I.A. officer, Mark McFarlin, resigned after an internal investigation, and the agency's station chief in Venezuela was recalled to Washington.
The case of the Venezuelan cocaine is the only known instance in which the agency has acknowledged that its actions led to drugs being imported into the United States.
Whistleblowing can damage your career
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Whistleblowing can damage your career, says Wachovia Bank whistleblower Martin Woods
By OffshoreAlert, February 10, 2010
Are banks genuinely interested in clamping down on money laundering or do they consider compliance to be a nuisance that stands in the way of profits? The experience of former Wachovia Bank compliance officer Martin Woods suggests the latter might be the case.
After Woods reported suspicious activity of alleged money laundering by a notorious Mexican drugs cartel to Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency, Wachovia turned on him instead of thanking him, he claims.
In a whistleblower suit fled with an employment tribunal in London, Woods claims that his bosses at Wachovia bullied and demoted him, withdrew his reports of other suspicious activities involving other clients and may even have tipped off the bad guys about his laundering suspicions.
Juan Garcia Abrego wikipedia
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Juan García Abrego was a Mexican drug lord who started out his criminal career under the tutelage of his uncle Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who is reported to be the former head of a criminal dynasty along the U.S.-Mexico border now called the Gulf Cartel.
United States intelligence reports state Guerra reared his nephew on car theft before passing down his criminal enterprise.[1] The exact date of succession is unknown, however law enforcement officials recall an incident on January 27, 1987 when Tomás Morlet, former officer in an elite Mexican police force turned national trafficker, exchanged harsh words with García Abrego and was later found, shot twice in the back in the doorway of Guerra's Piedras Negras Restaurant.[1]
Juan Garcia Abrego and American Express
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For the Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday September 7, 1995 Home Edition Part A Page 3 Metro Desk 2 inches; 68 words Type of Material: Correction
Drug investigation--An article in Monday's Times about alleged Mexican drug lord Juan Garcia Abrego referred to a money-laundering case in which two American Express Bank employees were convicted, and to a civil suit arising from the criminal action. The company reports that its American Express Bank International subsidiary settled the civil suit for $36 million in fines, forfeitures and collateral late last year. The company admitted no guilt in the out-of-court settlement.
Ernesto Flores
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The World
July 18, 1986
Two men waiting in ambush machine-gunned to death the publisher and star reporter of a Mexican newspaper that has taken a strong stand against corruption and drug smuggling in the border city of Matamoros, police said. Ernesto Flores Torrijos, 46, publisher of El Popular, and reporter Norma Moreno Figueroa, 24, were shot as they stepped from their car in front of their office in Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Tex. Witnesses said dozens of shots were fired. Police said they have no suspects. It was the second time in a month that crusading Mexican journalists have been murdered in the border state of Tamaulipas.
Tomas Gringo Sanchez
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REVISED, May 26, 1998
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
_____________________
No. 97-20130
_____________________
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
JUAN GARCIA ABREGO,
Defendant-Appellant.
_________________________________________________________________
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Texas
_________________________________________________________________
May 6, 1998
Before KING, EMILIO M. GARZA, and DEMOSS, Circuit Judges.
KING, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-appellant Juan Garcia Abrego appeals his
conviction and sentence for ten counts of possession with intent
to distribute cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and
(b)(1)(A), five counts of money laundering in violation of 18
U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(A)(i), three counts of money laundering in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(A), one count of conspiracy
to launder money in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h), and one
count of conducting a continuing criminal enterprise in violation
of 21 U.S.C. § 848. We affirm.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
For approximately two decades, Juan Garcia Abrego was the
hub of a narcotics smuggling syndicate of staggering dimension.
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Headquartered in Matamoros, Mexico, Garcia Abrego's organization
was responsible for smuggling tremendous quantities of cocaine
and marijuana into the United States from the mid-1970s to the
mid-1990s.
Garcia Abrego began trafficking large quantities of
marijuana in the mid-1970s. In 1976, Carlos Resendez, a long
time friend of Garcia Abrego, delivered approximately 300
kilograms of marijuana to him. Francisco "Paco" Perez also began
working for Garcia Abrego in the drug trafficking trade around
1980. At Garcia Abrego's direction, Perez unloaded marijuana
flown in on a small plane by Oscar "El Profe" Lopez Olivares,
stored it in a warehouse on Garcia Abrego's ranch in Soliceno,
Mexico, and smuggled it across the border into the United States
in inner tubes.
In the early 1980s, Garcia Abrego expanded his operation.
According to some members of his organization, in 1985, Garcia
Abrego ordered the murder of Casimiro "Cacho" Espinoza, another
drug trafficker in Mexico, in order to eliminate competition.
Thereafter, Luis Medrano, who had previously worked for Espinoza,
went to work for Garcia Abrego.
In 1986, Garcia Abrego began trafficking cocaine because
marijuana was a seasonal business. Luis Medrano and Oscar
Malherbe worked as managers and supervisors one step below Garcia
Abrego in the chain of command in his organization. Medrano and
Malherbe enlisted the services of a number of other individuals,
including Jaime Rivas Gonzales, Tony Ortiz, Tomas "Gringo"
2
Claude de la O
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At Drug Trial, Mexican Suspect Faces Accuser
Juan Garcia Abrego, only drug dealer to ever make FBI's '10 Most Wanted' list, is being tried in Houston, Tex, on 22 counts of narcotics trafficking and money laundering; prosecution's star witness is Claude de la O, former FBI agent who infiltrated Garcia Abrego's Mexican drug organization by posing as corrupt FBI official; they had 18-month correspondence by phone, letter and messenger, but never met until trial; Garcia Abrego never agreed to face-to-face meeting, and de la O never allowed hi...
September 20, 1996
MORE ON JUAN GARCIA ABREGO AND: INFORMERS, DRUG ABUSE AND TRAFFIC, MEXICO, HOUSTON (TEX), FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, DE LA O, CLAUDE
Yolanda Figueroa and Fernando Balderas
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Details Emerge in Slaying of Mexico Family
Crime: Author, husband and children were killed by servants avenging sexual abuse, prosecutors say.
December 25, 1996|MARK FINEMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
MEXICO CITY — In the months that writer Yolanda Figueroa and her husband, Fernando Balderas, basked in prominence after the August release of their book on a powerful Mexican drug cartel, there were darker forces at work far closer to the couple's posh home here, prosecutors say.
Indeed, it was about when the couple launched the campaign to sell their muckraking expose on Gulf cartel boss Juan Garcia Abrego that investigators now say Balderas had also turned the family's maids into "sexual hostages."
Mario Ruiz Massieu
Mario Ruiz Massieu is the brother of assassinated Jose Francisco (Pepe) Ruiz Massieu, and a former Deputy Attorney General for Mexico (1993-1994). He led the investigation into his brother Pepe's murder, but gave it up after several months stating the investigation was being blocked by high-ranking PRI officials. He later was accused of trying to protect Raul Salinas.
On September 15, 1999, the former Mexican justice official apparently killed himself at his home in New Jersey rather than face money-laundering charges in the U.S. Ruiz Massieu had been under house arrest in the U.S. for several years as he fought U.S. attempts to extradite him to Mexico to face charges including money laundering and graft. A Houston jury had found that $8 million in his Texas bank accounts was paid him by drug cartels (in particular the Gulf Cartel) in exchange for protection. In his suicide note, Ruiz Massieu blamed Presdient Zedillo for his own death and that of his murdered brother.
Proceso's report (2/16/97) on the U.S.Justice Department's witness testimony in its lawsuit against Mario Ruiz Massieu. The witnesses implicate ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, his siblings Adriana and Raul, his father Raul Salinas Lozano, and his ex-brother-in-law Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu in drug trafficking operations. Includes documents/notes on witnesses testimony.
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G. Kennedy "Ken" Thompson (born November 25, 1950, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina) is an American businessman who was previously chairman, president, and CEO of Wachovia Corporation, formerly First Union Corporation, from 2000 through 2008.[1] First Union Corporation acquired Wachovia Corporation and changed its name to Wachovia in September 2001 after fending off a hostile takeover attempt by SunTrust Bank. Thompson succeeded Edward E. Crutchfield in 2000, who stepped down due to health reasons. Previous positions at First Union included vice chairman of the corporation and head of Global Capital Markets; president, First Union-Florida; senior vice president and head of First Union Human Resources; president, First Union Georgia.
Thompson previously served as president of the Federal Reserve Board's Federal Advisory Committee.
Thompson serves on the Boards of Directors for Hewlett-Packard (HP), Florida Rock Industries, Inc., (NYSE) and Carolinas Healthcare System. Professional affiliations include Board member, Financial Services Roundtable; vice chairman and board member, New York Clearing House; member, Financial Services Forum, The Business Council.
25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis The good intentions, bad managers and greed behind the meltdown
In the early 1980s, the Sandlers' World Savings Bank became the first to sell a tricky home loan called the option ARM. And they pushed the mortgage, which offered several ways to back-load your loan and thereby reduce your early payments, with increasing zeal and misleading advertisements over the next two decades. The couple pocketed $2.3 billion when they sold their bank to Wachovia in 2006. But losses on World Savings' loan portfolio led to the implosion of Wachovia, which was sold under duress late last year to Wells Fargo.
The Sandlers respond here: "Don't Pin the Blame on Us"
Clyde O'Connor
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After just two weeks, the plane was sold again in another mysterious transaction. The only evidence for this is an anomalous bill of sale with the name of the new owner: “Clyde O’Connor” He’s a well-known guy around Ft. Lauderdale Executive Airport.
HALL: I had the sense they seemed to have known more about him than they were letting on, he seems to be a veteran around that area, who’s got a bit of a checkered past.
O’Connor’s been involved in at least two plane crashes and he was cited for Criminal Air Safety Violations in 2001.
Peter Dale Scott wikipedia
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Investigator
Scott has researched and written several investigative books about the role of the "deep state" (as opposed to the "public state"). However, Scott rejects the label of "conspiracy theory" and has used the phrase "deep politics" to describe his heavily-footnoted political writing. The investigative bent has spilled over into his works of poetry, some of which must contain marginal notes to explain to readers which documents or real-world news events are being referred to. His most recent book, The Road to 9/11 from the University of California Press, deals with historical and geopolitical context of the events of 9/11, and describes "how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11."[3]
An interesting aspect of Scott's work that combines both his investigating interests and his poetry is illustrated by The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11
Venezuelan general indicted in CIA scheme
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1) When news of the cocaine shipment broke in November 1993, Kent Harrington, then the chief spokesman for the C.I.A., called the matter ''a most regrettable incident,'' and characterized it as a serious accident. No C.I.A. official has been charged in the case, and there is no evidence that anyone at the agency profited from sales of the drugs.
2) After an investigation that lasted more than five years, the grand jury handed up a sealed indictment earlier this week against Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila, the officials said. The general was the chief of a program set up by the C.I.A. in the late 1980's in conjunction with the Venezuelan National Guard, which sought to infiltrate Colombian gangs shipping cocaine to the United States.
The C.I.A., over the objections of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a branch of the Justice Department, approved the shipment of at least one ton of nearly pure cocaine to Miami International Airport as a way of gathering information about the Colombian drug cartels.
But the cocaine ended up on the street because of ''poor judgment and management on the part of several C.I.A. officers,'' the intelligence agency said. One C.I.A. officer, Mark McFarlin, resigned after an internal investigation, and the agency's station chief in Venezuela was recalled to Washington.
The case of the Venezuelan cocaine is the only known instance in which the agency has acknowledged that its actions led to drugs being imported into the United States.
Whistleblowing can damage your career
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Whistleblowing can damage your career, says Wachovia Bank whistleblower Martin Woods
By OffshoreAlert, February 10, 2010
Are banks genuinely interested in clamping down on money laundering or do they consider compliance to be a nuisance that stands in the way of profits? The experience of former Wachovia Bank compliance officer Martin Woods suggests the latter might be the case.
After Woods reported suspicious activity of alleged money laundering by a notorious Mexican drugs cartel to Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency, Wachovia turned on him instead of thanking him, he claims.
In a whistleblower suit fled with an employment tribunal in London, Woods claims that his bosses at Wachovia bullied and demoted him, withdrew his reports of other suspicious activities involving other clients and may even have tipped off the bad guys about his laundering suspicions.
Juan Garcia Abrego wikipedia
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Juan García Abrego was a Mexican drug lord who started out his criminal career under the tutelage of his uncle Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who is reported to be the former head of a criminal dynasty along the U.S.-Mexico border now called the Gulf Cartel.
United States intelligence reports state Guerra reared his nephew on car theft before passing down his criminal enterprise.[1] The exact date of succession is unknown, however law enforcement officials recall an incident on January 27, 1987 when Tomás Morlet, former officer in an elite Mexican police force turned national trafficker, exchanged harsh words with García Abrego and was later found, shot twice in the back in the doorway of Guerra's Piedras Negras Restaurant.[1]
Juan Garcia Abrego and American Express
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For the Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday September 7, 1995 Home Edition Part A Page 3 Metro Desk 2 inches; 68 words Type of Material: Correction
Drug investigation--An article in Monday's Times about alleged Mexican drug lord Juan Garcia Abrego referred to a money-laundering case in which two American Express Bank employees were convicted, and to a civil suit arising from the criminal action. The company reports that its American Express Bank International subsidiary settled the civil suit for $36 million in fines, forfeitures and collateral late last year. The company admitted no guilt in the out-of-court settlement.
Ernesto Flores
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The World
July 18, 1986
Two men waiting in ambush machine-gunned to death the publisher and star reporter of a Mexican newspaper that has taken a strong stand against corruption and drug smuggling in the border city of Matamoros, police said. Ernesto Flores Torrijos, 46, publisher of El Popular, and reporter Norma Moreno Figueroa, 24, were shot as they stepped from their car in front of their office in Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Tex. Witnesses said dozens of shots were fired. Police said they have no suspects. It was the second time in a month that crusading Mexican journalists have been murdered in the border state of Tamaulipas.
Tomas Gringo Sanchez
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REVISED, May 26, 1998
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
_____________________
No. 97-20130
_____________________
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
JUAN GARCIA ABREGO,
Defendant-Appellant.
_________________________________________________________________
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Texas
_________________________________________________________________
May 6, 1998
Before KING, EMILIO M. GARZA, and DEMOSS, Circuit Judges.
KING, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-appellant Juan Garcia Abrego appeals his
conviction and sentence for ten counts of possession with intent
to distribute cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and
(b)(1)(A), five counts of money laundering in violation of 18
U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(A)(i), three counts of money laundering in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(2)(A), one count of conspiracy
to launder money in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1956(h), and one
count of conducting a continuing criminal enterprise in violation
of 21 U.S.C. § 848. We affirm.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
For approximately two decades, Juan Garcia Abrego was the
hub of a narcotics smuggling syndicate of staggering dimension.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Headquartered in Matamoros, Mexico, Garcia Abrego's organization
was responsible for smuggling tremendous quantities of cocaine
and marijuana into the United States from the mid-1970s to the
mid-1990s.
Garcia Abrego began trafficking large quantities of
marijuana in the mid-1970s. In 1976, Carlos Resendez, a long
time friend of Garcia Abrego, delivered approximately 300
kilograms of marijuana to him. Francisco "Paco" Perez also began
working for Garcia Abrego in the drug trafficking trade around
1980. At Garcia Abrego's direction, Perez unloaded marijuana
flown in on a small plane by Oscar "El Profe" Lopez Olivares,
stored it in a warehouse on Garcia Abrego's ranch in Soliceno,
Mexico, and smuggled it across the border into the United States
in inner tubes.
In the early 1980s, Garcia Abrego expanded his operation.
According to some members of his organization, in 1985, Garcia
Abrego ordered the murder of Casimiro "Cacho" Espinoza, another
drug trafficker in Mexico, in order to eliminate competition.
Thereafter, Luis Medrano, who had previously worked for Espinoza,
went to work for Garcia Abrego.
In 1986, Garcia Abrego began trafficking cocaine because
marijuana was a seasonal business. Luis Medrano and Oscar
Malherbe worked as managers and supervisors one step below Garcia
Abrego in the chain of command in his organization. Medrano and
Malherbe enlisted the services of a number of other individuals,
including Jaime Rivas Gonzales, Tony Ortiz, Tomas "Gringo"
2
Claude de la O
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At Drug Trial, Mexican Suspect Faces Accuser
Juan Garcia Abrego, only drug dealer to ever make FBI's '10 Most Wanted' list, is being tried in Houston, Tex, on 22 counts of narcotics trafficking and money laundering; prosecution's star witness is Claude de la O, former FBI agent who infiltrated Garcia Abrego's Mexican drug organization by posing as corrupt FBI official; they had 18-month correspondence by phone, letter and messenger, but never met until trial; Garcia Abrego never agreed to face-to-face meeting, and de la O never allowed hi...
September 20, 1996
MORE ON JUAN GARCIA ABREGO AND: INFORMERS, DRUG ABUSE AND TRAFFIC, MEXICO, HOUSTON (TEX), FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, DE LA O, CLAUDE
Yolanda Figueroa and Fernando Balderas
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Details Emerge in Slaying of Mexico Family
Crime: Author, husband and children were killed by servants avenging sexual abuse, prosecutors say.
December 25, 1996|MARK FINEMAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
MEXICO CITY — In the months that writer Yolanda Figueroa and her husband, Fernando Balderas, basked in prominence after the August release of their book on a powerful Mexican drug cartel, there were darker forces at work far closer to the couple's posh home here, prosecutors say.
Indeed, it was about when the couple launched the campaign to sell their muckraking expose on Gulf cartel boss Juan Garcia Abrego that investigators now say Balderas had also turned the family's maids into "sexual hostages."
Mario Ruiz Massieu
Mario Ruiz Massieu is the brother of assassinated Jose Francisco (Pepe) Ruiz Massieu, and a former Deputy Attorney General for Mexico (1993-1994). He led the investigation into his brother Pepe's murder, but gave it up after several months stating the investigation was being blocked by high-ranking PRI officials. He later was accused of trying to protect Raul Salinas.
On September 15, 1999, the former Mexican justice official apparently killed himself at his home in New Jersey rather than face money-laundering charges in the U.S. Ruiz Massieu had been under house arrest in the U.S. for several years as he fought U.S. attempts to extradite him to Mexico to face charges including money laundering and graft. A Houston jury had found that $8 million in his Texas bank accounts was paid him by drug cartels (in particular the Gulf Cartel) in exchange for protection. In his suicide note, Ruiz Massieu blamed Presdient Zedillo for his own death and that of his murdered brother.
Proceso's report (2/16/97) on the U.S.Justice Department's witness testimony in its lawsuit against Mario Ruiz Massieu. The witnesses implicate ex-president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, his siblings Adriana and Raul, his father Raul Salinas Lozano, and his ex-brother-in-law Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu in drug trafficking operations. Includes documents/notes on witnesses testimony.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Marconi Communications wikipedia
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Marconi Communications was a principal subsidiary of the Marconi Corporation plc and was formerly known as GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT). The company was a world leading telecommunications manufacturer.
Rothschild is an international investment bank with presence in Mexico since 1970
EXCERPT:
1810, Just two years before Mexico became an independent nation in 1810, Nathan Mayer Rothschild set up business in London as a merchant and banker. By the end of the 1820s, he and his four brothers, now spread out across Europe, had become the most powerful international investment bankers in the world. Rothschild clients included all the major European governments as well as those of emerging nations around the globe.
It was N M Rothschild's interest in the mining, refining and trading of gold which first brought the bank to Mexico.
From 1830 N M Rothschild had secured a virtual world monopoly in the mining of mercury, essential to the refining of gold and silver. As the mineral wealth of Mexico began to be explored more fully in the 1830s, the Rothschild family saw an opportunity to sell mercury to the mining community.
Marconi Project mind control
Marconi
Mind control quotes Death towers Assassinations
[Between 1982 and 1990 twenty-five British based GEC-Marconi scientists and engineers who worked on the Sting Ray torpedo project, and other US Strategic Defense Initiative related projects (better known as Star Wars), are known to have died in mysterious circumstances.]
Mind control killings
CORRUPTION/TELEVISION/MARCONI/VERY LONG ANTENNA/MIND GAZING ---David Moncoeur.
Microbiologists' Deaths And Murders Echo Bizarre Marconi Deaths By Ian Gurney
Did 22 SDI Researchers really ALL Commit Suicide?
Dead researchers
Marconi
Bowden, Dr. Keith (Car accident) computer scientist, Essex University,engaged in work for Marconi,
Dajibhai, Vimal electronics graduate who worked at Marconi Underwater Systems
Ferry, John assistant marketing director for Marconi
Hill, Roger radar designer and draftsman, Marconi.
Knight, Trevor computer engineer, Marconi Space and Defense Systems.
Moore, Victor design engineer, Marconi Space Systems.
Sands, David senior scientist at Easams, a sister company to Marconi.
Sharif, Ashaad computer analyst who worked at the Marconi Defense Systems
Skeels, Edwin engineer, Marconi.
April 10, 1987: Shani Warren, 26
--Expertise: Personal assistant in a company called Micro Scope, which was taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her death.
--Circumstance of Death: Found drowned in 45cm. (18in) of water, not far from the site of David Greenhalgh's death fall. Warren died exactly one week after the death of Stuart Gooding and serious injury to Greenhalgh. She was found gagged with a noose around her neck. Her feet were also bound and her hands tied behind her back.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
(It was said that Warren had gagged herself, tied her feet with rope, then tied her hands behind her back and hobbled to the lake on stiletto heels to drown herself.)
Marconi worker Alan Blumlein died in an aviation accident in 1942
General Electric Company wikipedia
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General Electric Company plc
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
Not to be confused with the American company General Electric (GE).
General Electric Company plc
Former type Public
Industry Engineering
Fate Renamed Marconi plc
Successor Marconi plc
Founded 1886
Defunct 1999
Headquarters Coventry, England
Key people Lord Weinstock (Managing Director)
Products Electronics
The General Electric Company or GEC was a major UK company involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications and engineering. The Company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index: it was renamed Marconi Corporation plc in 1999 after its defence arm was sold to British Aerospace. In 2005 Ericsson purchased the bulk of Marconi and the remaining businesses were renamed Telent.
Marconi Electronic Systems wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of The General Electric Company (GEC). It was demerged from GEC and acquired by British Aerospace (BAe) on November 30, 1999 to form BAE Systems. GEC then renamed itself Marconi plc.
MES exists today as BAE Systems Electronics Limited, a subsidiary of BAE Systems, but the assets were rearranged elsewhere within that company. MES-related businesses include BAE Systems Submarine Solutions, BAE Systems Surface Ships, BAE Systems Insyte and SELEX Galileo (now owned by Finmeccanica).
Rothschilds losing control of both US and Russia Full Article
Rothschild Targets Putin and Bush-Cheney
September 3, 2004
Recent events reflect a battle that could derail the Rothschilds' plan for a Third World War by 2012, according to British-based intelligence analyst Tim Rifat.
The Rothschilds temporarily have lost control of both Russia and the United States.
In the case of Russia, Rifat says recent Chechen terrorist attacks on two airliners and a school were designed to punish and undermine Vladimir Putin for his interference with Rothschild oil giant Yukos. Putin has banished a number of "oligarchs" and seized their assets. According to Rifat, the oligarchs are all Rothschild fronts.
Rifat says the British government and MI-6 are under Rothschild control and financing Chechen resistance. He predicts Putin will be assassinated within two years.
In June 2004, Russian General Leonid Ivashov was quoted as saying:
"A terrorist network whose purpose is to undermine Russia is organized and coordinated from London. There, under the wing of British intelligence, thrive the world's most radical Islamic terrorist organizations, such as the "Islamic Liberation Party", the "Worldwide Islamic Front", the "Defenders of Shariat", the "Mukhadjiri" movement, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and others. I've named only those organizations which are forbidden in the majority of Islamic countries. In London also are located the nerve centers of Chechen terrorism along with the bank accounts of the terrorists."
In a statement Saturday Putin said some foes wanted to tear off parts of Russia, and others were helping them.
"...The people who sent the terrorists to commit that utterly heinous crime harbored a hope to set on our peoples to fight with one another and unleash a bloody feud in Northern Caucasus...They help, supposing that Russia - as one of the greatest nuclear powers - still poses a threat to them. So they have to get rid of that threat."
Akhmed Zakayev, a special envoy to Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has said that "a third force that brought Russian President Vladimir Putin to power" is behind all the terrorist attacks committed in Russia over the past two weeks. London-based Zakayev said this in an exclusive interview with the Caucasus Times newspaper, printed in Prague, Czech Republic.
Terrorists who seized a school in North Ossetia's Beslan, September 1, were receiving orders from abroad throughout the three suspense-laden days, says Aslanbek Aslakhanov, President Vladimir Putin's adviser for North Caucasian affairs.
"The men had their conversations not within Russia but with other countries. They were led on a leash. Our self-styled friends have been working for several decades, I deem, to dismember Russia. They are doing a huge, really titanic job. It's clear as daylight that those people are coming up as puppeteers and are financing terror," he said to the Rossia television company, national Channel Two, tonight.
PARALLELS TO THE US??
In the USA, Dick Cheney and the Joint Chiefs are behind U.S. defiance of the Rothschild agenda. This explains the investigation of Ahmed Chalabi and Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin for passing secrets to Iran and Israel respectively. Both men are part of the Neo-Con Rothschild Zionist apparatus in Washington and their treatment sends a message to their superiors, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Eliot Abrams and Paul Wolfowitz.
Georgia Democratic Senator Zell Miller's unusual address to the Republican National Convention can be seen in this context. He accused John Kerry of compromising American sovereignty by deferring to the [Rothschild-controlled]United Nations.
Rifat says that if the Bushies are re-elected, the NeoCons could be in trouble. Thus the Rothschilds' Number One Priority is to elect John Kerry in November and there is no telling what they may do.
If they were willing to sabotage planes and take children hostage to undermine Vladimir Putin, what mayhem would they cause to weaken George Bush? Mossad agents have been arrested in a variety of suspicious cases in the US.
Or might they use surging oil prices or a dollar decline as an excuse to crash the stock market ? Remember what happened to the US economy in 1992 after Bush's father demurred on Israeli loan guarantees.
The Rothschild-owned US TV networks will pull out all stops to get Kerry elected while trying to appear impartial. On Wednesday the NBC nightly news showed film clips which caught Dick Cheney lying when he denied he had ever claimed Sadaam Hussein was involved with Al Queda. Such enterprise on the part of the networks is rare and has a political purpose. This week the media is going full bore on Bush's bisexuality, draft dodging and coke use.
Rifat believes that if Bush gets elected, the US will attack Iran as soon as next year. He says Kerry's mission is to give Iran time to prepare for a global nuclear war, designed to destroy the U.S., Iran and Israel. So while the immediate outcome of a Kerry victory will be a few more years of peace, the ultimate result will be disastrous for the U.S.
Similarly he believes Israelis are being set up for destruction by the Rothschilds who are not really their friends. He claims the Rothschilds gave suitcase nuclear weapons to the Iranians.
The terror attacks are also designed to draw Russia into a wider war with NATO in the Caucasus Region which will require US intervention. This will distract the US from Iran, Rifat says.
Rifat believes Cheney-Bush represents a US-based elite's global hegemony while Kerry represents Rothschild-UK-EU hegemony. If we believe him, and that's a big IF, patriots may have to hold their nose and vote for George W. Bush.
The globalists operate like the Mafia. Rivalries develop as different families and alliances jockey for supremacy.
Rifat is a veteran Rothschild watcher. He is also a leading expert in "remote viewing" mind reading and clairvoyant skills that apparently are related to the occult and of great interest to intelligence agencies.
I am not endorsing his views but offering them as a possible explanation for recent and future events. Rifat is definitely unique. He says MI-5 is trying to kill him using microwave beams. He rejected their offer of employment. He calls England a "slave state" and says the elite is saturated with satanism.
It's possible he's on a mission to create support for Bush by pretending the Rothschilds are opposed to Bush. But I tend to listen to people like Rifat (or at least reserve judgment) until they disappoint me. His vision is consistent with my other research. He seems to be genuinely courageous and dedicated to humanity. I have no affection for Bush. Make up your own mind.
I differ from Rifat in that I am not sure Iran will be manipulated into posing a real threat to the U.S. or anyone else. The problem the US faces is, having removed Sadaam Hussein, it cannot leave Iraq without seeing it taken over by pro-Iranian factions. I would like to see the US make an accomodation with Iran but that is not likely as long as it pursues a policy of aggression.
EXCERPT:
Marconi Communications was a principal subsidiary of the Marconi Corporation plc and was formerly known as GEC Plessey Telecommunications (GPT). The company was a world leading telecommunications manufacturer.
Rothschild is an international investment bank with presence in Mexico since 1970
EXCERPT:
1810, Just two years before Mexico became an independent nation in 1810, Nathan Mayer Rothschild set up business in London as a merchant and banker. By the end of the 1820s, he and his four brothers, now spread out across Europe, had become the most powerful international investment bankers in the world. Rothschild clients included all the major European governments as well as those of emerging nations around the globe.
It was N M Rothschild's interest in the mining, refining and trading of gold which first brought the bank to Mexico.
From 1830 N M Rothschild had secured a virtual world monopoly in the mining of mercury, essential to the refining of gold and silver. As the mineral wealth of Mexico began to be explored more fully in the 1830s, the Rothschild family saw an opportunity to sell mercury to the mining community.
Marconi Project mind control
Marconi
Mind control quotes Death towers Assassinations
[Between 1982 and 1990 twenty-five British based GEC-Marconi scientists and engineers who worked on the Sting Ray torpedo project, and other US Strategic Defense Initiative related projects (better known as Star Wars), are known to have died in mysterious circumstances.]
Mind control killings
CORRUPTION/TELEVISION/MARCONI/VERY LONG ANTENNA/MIND GAZING ---David Moncoeur.
Microbiologists' Deaths And Murders Echo Bizarre Marconi Deaths By Ian Gurney
Did 22 SDI Researchers really ALL Commit Suicide?
Dead researchers
Marconi
Bowden, Dr. Keith (Car accident) computer scientist, Essex University,engaged in work for Marconi,
Dajibhai, Vimal electronics graduate who worked at Marconi Underwater Systems
Ferry, John assistant marketing director for Marconi
Hill, Roger radar designer and draftsman, Marconi.
Knight, Trevor computer engineer, Marconi Space and Defense Systems.
Moore, Victor design engineer, Marconi Space Systems.
Sands, David senior scientist at Easams, a sister company to Marconi.
Sharif, Ashaad computer analyst who worked at the Marconi Defense Systems
Skeels, Edwin engineer, Marconi.
April 10, 1987: Shani Warren, 26
--Expertise: Personal assistant in a company called Micro Scope, which was taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her death.
--Circumstance of Death: Found drowned in 45cm. (18in) of water, not far from the site of David Greenhalgh's death fall. Warren died exactly one week after the death of Stuart Gooding and serious injury to Greenhalgh. She was found gagged with a noose around her neck. Her feet were also bound and her hands tied behind her back.
--Coroner's verdict: Open.
(It was said that Warren had gagged herself, tied her feet with rope, then tied her hands behind her back and hobbled to the lake on stiletto heels to drown herself.)
Marconi worker Alan Blumlein died in an aviation accident in 1942
General Electric Company wikipedia
EXCERPT:
General Electric Company plc
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
Not to be confused with the American company General Electric (GE).
General Electric Company plc
Former type Public
Industry Engineering
Fate Renamed Marconi plc
Successor Marconi plc
Founded 1886
Defunct 1999
Headquarters Coventry, England
Key people Lord Weinstock (Managing Director)
Products Electronics
The General Electric Company or GEC was a major UK company involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications and engineering. The Company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index: it was renamed Marconi Corporation plc in 1999 after its defence arm was sold to British Aerospace. In 2005 Ericsson purchased the bulk of Marconi and the remaining businesses were renamed Telent.
Marconi Electronic Systems wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of The General Electric Company (GEC). It was demerged from GEC and acquired by British Aerospace (BAe) on November 30, 1999 to form BAE Systems. GEC then renamed itself Marconi plc.
MES exists today as BAE Systems Electronics Limited, a subsidiary of BAE Systems, but the assets were rearranged elsewhere within that company. MES-related businesses include BAE Systems Submarine Solutions, BAE Systems Surface Ships, BAE Systems Insyte and SELEX Galileo (now owned by Finmeccanica).
Rothschilds losing control of both US and Russia Full Article
Rothschild Targets Putin and Bush-Cheney
September 3, 2004
Recent events reflect a battle that could derail the Rothschilds' plan for a Third World War by 2012, according to British-based intelligence analyst Tim Rifat.
The Rothschilds temporarily have lost control of both Russia and the United States.
In the case of Russia, Rifat says recent Chechen terrorist attacks on two airliners and a school were designed to punish and undermine Vladimir Putin for his interference with Rothschild oil giant Yukos. Putin has banished a number of "oligarchs" and seized their assets. According to Rifat, the oligarchs are all Rothschild fronts.
Rifat says the British government and MI-6 are under Rothschild control and financing Chechen resistance. He predicts Putin will be assassinated within two years.
In June 2004, Russian General Leonid Ivashov was quoted as saying:
"A terrorist network whose purpose is to undermine Russia is organized and coordinated from London. There, under the wing of British intelligence, thrive the world's most radical Islamic terrorist organizations, such as the "Islamic Liberation Party", the "Worldwide Islamic Front", the "Defenders of Shariat", the "Mukhadjiri" movement, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and others. I've named only those organizations which are forbidden in the majority of Islamic countries. In London also are located the nerve centers of Chechen terrorism along with the bank accounts of the terrorists."
In a statement Saturday Putin said some foes wanted to tear off parts of Russia, and others were helping them.
"...The people who sent the terrorists to commit that utterly heinous crime harbored a hope to set on our peoples to fight with one another and unleash a bloody feud in Northern Caucasus...They help, supposing that Russia - as one of the greatest nuclear powers - still poses a threat to them. So they have to get rid of that threat."
Akhmed Zakayev, a special envoy to Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov has said that "a third force that brought Russian President Vladimir Putin to power" is behind all the terrorist attacks committed in Russia over the past two weeks. London-based Zakayev said this in an exclusive interview with the Caucasus Times newspaper, printed in Prague, Czech Republic.
Terrorists who seized a school in North Ossetia's Beslan, September 1, were receiving orders from abroad throughout the three suspense-laden days, says Aslanbek Aslakhanov, President Vladimir Putin's adviser for North Caucasian affairs.
"The men had their conversations not within Russia but with other countries. They were led on a leash. Our self-styled friends have been working for several decades, I deem, to dismember Russia. They are doing a huge, really titanic job. It's clear as daylight that those people are coming up as puppeteers and are financing terror," he said to the Rossia television company, national Channel Two, tonight.
PARALLELS TO THE US??
In the USA, Dick Cheney and the Joint Chiefs are behind U.S. defiance of the Rothschild agenda. This explains the investigation of Ahmed Chalabi and Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin for passing secrets to Iran and Israel respectively. Both men are part of the Neo-Con Rothschild Zionist apparatus in Washington and their treatment sends a message to their superiors, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Eliot Abrams and Paul Wolfowitz.
Georgia Democratic Senator Zell Miller's unusual address to the Republican National Convention can be seen in this context. He accused John Kerry of compromising American sovereignty by deferring to the [Rothschild-controlled]United Nations.
Rifat says that if the Bushies are re-elected, the NeoCons could be in trouble. Thus the Rothschilds' Number One Priority is to elect John Kerry in November and there is no telling what they may do.
If they were willing to sabotage planes and take children hostage to undermine Vladimir Putin, what mayhem would they cause to weaken George Bush? Mossad agents have been arrested in a variety of suspicious cases in the US.
Or might they use surging oil prices or a dollar decline as an excuse to crash the stock market ? Remember what happened to the US economy in 1992 after Bush's father demurred on Israeli loan guarantees.
The Rothschild-owned US TV networks will pull out all stops to get Kerry elected while trying to appear impartial. On Wednesday the NBC nightly news showed film clips which caught Dick Cheney lying when he denied he had ever claimed Sadaam Hussein was involved with Al Queda. Such enterprise on the part of the networks is rare and has a political purpose. This week the media is going full bore on Bush's bisexuality, draft dodging and coke use.
Rifat believes that if Bush gets elected, the US will attack Iran as soon as next year. He says Kerry's mission is to give Iran time to prepare for a global nuclear war, designed to destroy the U.S., Iran and Israel. So while the immediate outcome of a Kerry victory will be a few more years of peace, the ultimate result will be disastrous for the U.S.
Similarly he believes Israelis are being set up for destruction by the Rothschilds who are not really their friends. He claims the Rothschilds gave suitcase nuclear weapons to the Iranians.
The terror attacks are also designed to draw Russia into a wider war with NATO in the Caucasus Region which will require US intervention. This will distract the US from Iran, Rifat says.
Rifat believes Cheney-Bush represents a US-based elite's global hegemony while Kerry represents Rothschild-UK-EU hegemony. If we believe him, and that's a big IF, patriots may have to hold their nose and vote for George W. Bush.
The globalists operate like the Mafia. Rivalries develop as different families and alliances jockey for supremacy.
Rifat is a veteran Rothschild watcher. He is also a leading expert in "remote viewing" mind reading and clairvoyant skills that apparently are related to the occult and of great interest to intelligence agencies.
I am not endorsing his views but offering them as a possible explanation for recent and future events. Rifat is definitely unique. He says MI-5 is trying to kill him using microwave beams. He rejected their offer of employment. He calls England a "slave state" and says the elite is saturated with satanism.
It's possible he's on a mission to create support for Bush by pretending the Rothschilds are opposed to Bush. But I tend to listen to people like Rifat (or at least reserve judgment) until they disappoint me. His vision is consistent with my other research. He seems to be genuinely courageous and dedicated to humanity. I have no affection for Bush. Make up your own mind.
I differ from Rifat in that I am not sure Iran will be manipulated into posing a real threat to the U.S. or anyone else. The problem the US faces is, having removed Sadaam Hussein, it cannot leave Iraq without seeing it taken over by pro-Iranian factions. I would like to see the US make an accomodation with Iran but that is not likely as long as it pursues a policy of aggression.
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