March 4, 2014

I think he/they’re trying a Mao strategy in perhaps attempting to depict Obama as trying to save the children - “The children…Putin will kill the children!” But it’s an epic failure since everyones laughing at him!

I initially laughed myself but on reflection it’s all so pathetic and we’ve got another three years of this bozo!

Published time: March 05, 2014 12:41                                                                                            Edited time: March 05, 2014 13:11

An anti-government protester sit near the bodies of two demonstrators killed by a sniper during clashes with the police in the center of Kiev on February 20, 2014.(AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky)

The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online.

“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the  snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new  coalition,” Paet said during the conversation.

“I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick that  up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton answered.

The call took place after Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet  visited Kiev on February 25 at the peak of clashes between the  pro-EU protesters and security forces in the Ukrainian capital.

    Met in Kiev with deputy speaker of Rada and head of Regions  Party fraction. It is important to form quickly new government.

— Urmas Paet (@Urmaspaet) February    25, 2014

  Paet also recalled his conversation with a doctor who treated  those shot by snipers in Kiev. She said that both protesters and  police were shot at by the same people.

“And second, what was quite disturbing, this same Olga  [Bogomolets] told as well that all the evidence shows that the  people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among  policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the  same snipers killing people from both sides,” the Estonian  FM stressed.

Ashton reacted to the information by saying: “Well,  yeah…that’s, that’s terrible.”

“So that she then also showed me some photos she said that as  a medical doctor she can say that it is the same handwriting, the  same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new  coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly  happened,” Paet said.

The file was reportedly uploaded to the web by officers of  Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) loyal to ousted President Viktor Yanukovich who hacked Paet’s and Ashton’s phones.

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/

This is coming from an Estonian Foreign Minister though at this point in the story it’s all alledged…

Published time: March 04, 2014 11:34

A woman and a young boy walk past pro-Russian self-defence activists standing guard in front of the Crimean Cabinet of the Ministers in Simferopol on March 2, 2014. (AFP Photo / Genya Savilov)As divisions deepen between the eastern and western regions of Ukraine, the backers of the putsch regime in Kiev portray Russia as a reckless aggressor to absolve their own responsibility for engineering the crisis.While denunciations of Moscow have streamed out of western  capitals in recent days over the standoff in Crimea, it should be  understood that the political crisis currently unfolding in  Ukraine could have been wholly avoided.

In attempts to defuse  unrest and maintain legal and societal order, ousted President  Yanukovich offered remarkable concessions in his proposal to  install opposition leaders in top posts in a reshaped government,  which was rejected.

Russia expressed readiness to engage in  tripartite negotiations with Ukraine and the European Union with  the hope that both Moscow and Brussels could play a positive role  in Ukraine’s economic recovery, but the EU was unwilling to  accept such a proposal.

The February-21 agreement was mediated by  Russia, France, Germany and Poland and aimed to end the bloodshed  in Kiev by reducing presidential powers and establishing a  framework for a national unity government, in addition to  electoral reform, constitutional changes, and early elections.

There was clearly no shortage of opportunities to ease the  polarization of the Ukrainian state through an inclusive  political solution, and yet the opposition failed to uphold its  responsibilities, resulting in the ouster of Ukraine’s  democratically elected leader to the detriment of the country’s  political, economic, and societal stability.

As the new self-appointed authorities in Kiev dictate terms and  push legislation through a rump parliament, the reluctance of  western capitals to address the clearly dubious legitimacy of the  new regime suggests that the US and EU condone what is  effectively a coup d’état with no constitutional validity.

The leaked phone call between Assistant Secretary of State  Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt,  is a testament to Washington’s proclivity for foreign meddling  and its brazen disregard of Ukraine’s sovereignty. It is no  coincidence that Arseniy Yatsenyuk – handpicked by Nuland (MC-> or her masters) for the  role of prime minister – now occupies that position in Kiev’s new  leadership, and much like the reckless agitation strategies  employed by the US elsewhere, extremist groups were manipulated  to allow the nominal moderates to seize power on Washington’s  behalf.

  A new dawn for the far right

In order to maintain enough momentum to oust Yanukovich,  Ukraine’s opposition leaders relied on allies in the radical camp  such as fascist groups like Svoboda, Trizub, and the Right  Sector. These organizations espouse ethnic hatred against Jews  and Russians and promote neo-Nazi ideals. The foot soldiers of  these movements laid the groundwork for the putsch by occupying  the Maidan [Independence Square], storming government offices,  and attacking riot police with Molotov cocktails, firearms, and  other lethal weapons.

Members of these far-right groups have been integrated in  so-called ‘self-defense forces’ that now patrol Kiev and  other major cities, and have been seen wearing symbols that  include the Celtic cross, which has replaced the swastika for  many modern white-power groups, the wolf-hook SS insignia, and  other occult symbols associated with the Third Reich. In his  capacity as prime minister, Yatsenyuk has relinquished control of  Ukraine’s national security forces to the heads of these radical  organizations, who have openly used threatening and bigoted  language to incite ethnic hostility, in addition to calls for  Russians and Jews to be either destroyed or expelled from  Ukraine.

Dmytro Yarosh, a leader of the Right Sector movement, addresses during a rally in central Independence Square in Kiev February 21, 2014. (Reuters / David Mdzinarishvili)

The political ascent of radical forces that represent a minority  of Ukrainian public opinion has alarmed minority communities,  indicated by Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman’s calls for  Kiev’s Jews to flee the country in light of recent political  developments. Regions in the east and southeast of Ukraine, where  many ethnic Russians and Russian speakers reside, are  experiencing the Maidan protests in reverse, as protestors plant  Russian flags atop government buildings in rejection of the new  leadership in Kiev.

Since seizing power, the putsch regime in Kiev has attempted to  pass laws against the official use of Russian and other languages  throughout the country, fueling social unrest and secessionist  sentiment in some quarters that culturally and linguistically  identify themselves as Russian. Fast-moving developments in Kiev  and actions taken by the new regime have enflamed the crisis, and  any Russian intervention should be seen against the backdrop of  eastern and southeastern Ukraine’s rejection of an  unconstitutional transfer of power that directly threatens the  integrity of the state.

  Russia as a stabilizing force

The request by the legitimate President Yanukovich and the  government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to bring a  limited contingent of Russian forces into the region to ensure  the safety of ethnic Russian citizens living within Crimean  territory is a reasonable request in light of the chaotic  socio-political situation currently facing Ukraine. It should be  understood that the movements of Russian forces in Crimea have  been entirely lawful, and within legal boundaries established by  existing security pacts with Ukraine. For western capitals to  threaten sanctions and accuse Russia of a belligerent  ‘invasion’ of Ukraine is completely unjustifiable, and  tinged with political bias.

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s statements alluding to Russia  behaving like a 19th century power by ‘invading’ Ukraine  on a trumped up pretext encapsulates Washington’s infinite  potential for hypocritical double standards and pathological  dishonesty. The egregious violations of international law by the  United States and its NATO allies are abundant and need not be  evoked to rebut Kerry’s desperate and deceptive accusation.

The outrage expressed by western capitals over the so-called  ‘Russian aggression’ is in stark contrast to the  restraint showed when Saudi Arabia militarily intervened in  Bahrain in 2011 to put down peaceful protests. Recent  interventions by France in its former colonies, Mali and the  Central African Republic, have roused no international  condemnation, despite notable local sentiment in those countries  that view Paris as an aggressive actor.

The western stance on when intervention is and isn’t legitimate  is highly selective, and for the interventionist countries to use  their soft power monopoly to portray Russia as a meddler intent  on aggressively undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty is truly a  politically loaded and dangerous notion.

Pro-Russian Rally – Simferopo, Crimea

The Obama administration, in an attempt to offer President Putin  ‘a face-saving way out of the crisis,’ has proposed that European forces take the  place of Russian forces in Crimea to guard against threats to the  population, knowing full well that Moscow would never accept such  an arrangement in a region like Crimea, which shares historic  political, economic, cultural, and strategic military ties.

The area in which Kiev’s new authorities need Washington and  Brussels most is in dealing with Ukraine’s impending debt crisis,  and indications suggest that any economic assistance from the  West would come with punishing terms and conditions, structural  adjustments and austerity measures that would generate widespread  social discontent in the country, and threaten the already shaky  legitimacy of the putsch authorities.

Internal divisions within the defense sector and the bureaucracy  of Ukraine, such as the prominent defection of the newly  appointed head of Ukraine’s navy, Admiral Denis Berezovsky, and  other significant figures in support of Crimea’s pro-Russian  stance suggests that the anti-Kiev sentiment is deepening and  showing no signs of abating.

Residents of the Crimea will take part in a referendum on March  30 to reevaluate the status of the peninsula, and the outcome is  widely expected to result in the region seeking greater autonomy  from Ukraine with a move towards federalism. If Russian  authorities feel that all possibilities for dialogue have been  exhausted, and a peacekeeping mission must be launched in  earnest, there is every indication that Moscow will act within  international law and show maximum restraint. Just as radical  forces have become empowered as a result of western policy  elsewhere, the result of the illegitimate putsch in Kiev is that  those countries who claim to defend the post-World War II  international order have empowered forces that sympathize with,  and seek to propagate, fanatical prejudice and extremism, on the  false notion that such radical groups will move aside peacefully  to allow nominal western-aligned moderates and neoliberals to  rule. It hasn’t worked elsewhere, and it won’t work in Ukraine.

http://rt.com/op-edge/ukraine-us-hypocrisy-russia-758/

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Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands/Partei der Arbeit (VSBD/PdA or People’s Socialist Movement of Germany/Labour Party) was a German Neo-Nazi organization led by Friedhelm Busse. It was founded in 1971 and banned in 1982. It used a stylized eagle on a shield bearing a stylized celtic cross and the wolfsangel as its party emblems.

The Wolfsangel on an old field boundary stone in the Deister in Lower Saxony.

A simplified Celtic cross.

A simplified Celtic Christian cross.

Different examples of eagles, from H. Ströhl‘s Heraldischer Atlas.

At a time when the far right in Germany was distancing itself from mainstream Nazism, the VSBD/PdA took the lead by supporting the more socialist-leaning version of Nazism, Strasserism.^[1] The Junge Front (Young Front), a youth movement attached to the party, was also organised.^[2]

Despite its name, the movement was not a registered party, which allowed the German Minister of the Interior to ban it in 1982 as an organization opposing the constitution. Usage of the stylized celtic cross was outlawed as well, unless used in an obviously innocuous context.^[3] Soon afterwards, many of its former members founded the Nationalist Front, which can be seen as a successor to the VSBD/PdA….

read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkssozialistische_Bewegung_Deutschlands/Partei_der_Arbeit

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The extreme right meets the extreme left…the horseshoe theory:

The horseshoe theory in political science asserts that rather than the far left and the far right being at opposite and opposing ends of a linear political continuum, they in fact closely resemble one another, much like the ends of a horseshoe. The theory is attributed to French writer Jean-Pierre Faye.^[1]

Horseshoe theorists argue that the extreme left and the extreme right are a lot more similar than members of either group would admit.

Horseshoe theory competes with the conventional linear left-right continuum system as well as the various multidimensional systems. Proponents of the theory point to similarities between the extreme left and the extreme right. Specifically, the two ends share an authoritarian element. In extreme left political systems (such as communism) the government takes control of the economic resources. In extreme right political systems (such as fascism) the government also takes control of the economic life, creating a central planning. With both extremes, this theory asserts, the power elite are opposed to genuine clean elections, genuinely free media and speech, and similar democratic institutions that characterise the political center.

More recently, the term has been used when comparing hostility towards Jews from both the far left and the far right (see New antisemitism).^[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory

Research the Balkans with an open mind, then go back (or forward) to other ”revolutions”, “conflicts”, “famines”, “wars” – there’s a clear pattern…

http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/the-biggest-lies-of-our-time-serbia-versus-the-new-world-order/

Follow the money…

September 12, 2013 | By WakingTimes

Sigmund Fraud, Staff Writer Waking Times

After marking the 12th anniversary of the terrible events of 9/11 and remembering the over 3000 lives that were lost, the American people find themselves embroiled in endless military conflict without clear objectives, without a clear definition of who or what we are still fighting, and without respectable leadership. This confusion has been highlighted by the recent push to initiate a bombing campaign against Syria, even though it is widely known that any campaign against the Syrian government would be in direct support of Al Qaeda, the group supposedly to blame for the attacks on 9/11.

For 12 years now the casualties on all sides have mounted and the Middle East has become increasingly destabilized. How is it that our national response to the 9/11 attack has triggered such a destructive, expensive, confusing and open-ended military conflict, largely presided over by a Nobel Peace Prize winning president?

Cui Bono – Who benefits?

In the 1930′s, an outstanding Major General of the Marine Corps, Smedley Butler, went public with information that he was approached by powerful industrialists to be involved in a plot to overthrow the United States government. Led by powerful business magnates with the intention of ousting President Roosevelt and installing a Fascist dictatorship ruled by business magnates and a private army of half a million US soldiers, this coup was disrupted by Butler’s integrity and willingness to be one of the military industrial complex’s first whistle-blowers.

These events led Butler to publish a short book that today still gives us a realistic and truthful picture of the forces keeping this nation in a perpetual state of emergency, involving us in war after war against other nations, and diverting so much of our wealth and resources to military buildup.

Maj. Gen. Butler’s book: War is a Racket

His credibility is immense. A highly decorated and courageous veteran of multiple overseas conflicts, Smedley Butler is still, to this day, one of a small handful of American soldiers to twice receive the Medal of Honor for bravery in combat. Having been wounded in the boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, and having seen the horrors of France during World War I, as well as combat in several other conflicts, Maj. Gen. Butler has unique credibility when it comes to discussing the workings of the war machine.

His book, War is a Racket, denounces the workings of the military-industrial complex, the network of industrialists, financiers, and government officials who directly profit from war, a security state, and the industries that support this. It is a must read still today, as his logic and clarity offers deep insight into why our priorities are so stoutly centered around war and security. It is very, very lucrative for people in high places.

He writes:

“WAR is a racket. It always has been

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

And what is this bill?

This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.”

Conclusion

Since Smedley Butler’s warnings nearly a hundred years ago, we have since received warnings from other high-ranking Americans about the insidiousness and danger of permitting an economy to be created out of war and destruction, most notably from former US Presidents Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

President Eisenhower (farewell address):

President Kennedy (final message)

These warnings by such prominent Americans are worth repeating and spreading as the national debate is steered toward military endeavors and away from other critical concerns. And with the high profile whistle-blowing cases of Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, the American public has again been alerted to the fact that government does not always obey it’s own laws, reveal it’s true motives, or serve the interests of the citizenry.

War is definitely a racket, and unless you’re taking dividends from the industries that press for it, you have nothing to gain.

About the Author

Sigmund Fraud is a survivor of modern psychiatry and a dedicated mental activist. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com where he pursues the possibility of a massive shift towards a more psychologically aware future for mankind.

Resources:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbutlerSD.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

http://www.examiner.com/article/smedley-butler-the-greatest-man-you-ve-never-known

This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links remain intact.

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/09/12/maj-gen-smedley-butler-military-industrial-complex-original-whistleblower/

We sacrifice our precious blood for these vampires. I feel sorry for the families of those who lost their lives in the Ukraine. The people around the globe need to get awaken and understand what’s happening. No more blood should be spilled for the greedy billionaires! Pretty much all governments are hand in hand with these blood-suckers – enough already!

Jesus Christ – “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Autumn Radtke, CEO of  First Meta, was found dead in her Singapore home last week. Radtke, did business  with major tech companies such as Verizon and Dell.

By  Irving  Dejohn     / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 1:40 PM

 Autumn Radtke’s LinkedIn profile detailed her extensive experience in  technology startups that did business with large companies such as Dell and  Verizon.

A U.S.-born Bitcoin currency executive was found dead in an apparent suicide  in her Singapore home, the company said in a statement.

Autumn Radtke, 28, CEO of First Meta, was found dead last week by local  police in her home in what is believed to be a suicide, but police have yet to  determine the cause of Radtke’s sudden death, CNBC reported.

Radtke had been in charge of the virtual currency company since 2012. She  previously held top positions at companies that worked closely with giants such  as Dell and Verizon, according to her LinkedIn profile.

“The First Meta team is shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our  friend and CEO Autumn Radtke,” First Meta said in a statement on its website. “Our deepest condolences go out to her family, friends and loved ones. Autumn  was an inspiration to all of us and she will be sorely missed.”

First Meta CEO Autumn Radtke,  right,  is shown here with Virgin CEO Richard Branson.

Her profile was filled with ringing endorsements from former colleagues.

“Autumn Radtke offers a rare combination of business smarts and grace,” Brendan Kenney wrote regarding her time at Geodelic Systems. “She possesses an  amazing ability to connect with people in a real way, building the type of  confidence, trust and relationships that open up doors and get business  done.”

The virtual currency Bitcoin has been in real turmoil lately following the  hacking of Mt.Gox, one of the world’s largest companies in the industry.

Facebook

Autumn Radtke, CEO of First Meta, a  Singapore-based Bitcoin company, was found dead at home Feb. 28.

Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy last month after a hacker stole roughly $500  million worth of the digital currency.

It’s unclear if the latest currency meltdown prompted personal issues with  Radtke, whose social media presence is filled with the executive smiling amongst  friends.

Her pal Katie Stone, with whom Radtke posted a Skype conversation in  October, posted an emotional farewell to her dear friend on her Facebook  page.

“You were the tough one, you were the one who bounced back and told me to do  the same. I’m so deeply grateful that I knew you. And was able to share my  passion with you,” Stone wrote. “I wish we could have had 50 more years of  friendship.”

idejohn@nydailynews.com

Twitter: @IrvingDeJohn

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bitcoin-ceo-found-dead-singapore-apparent-suicide-article-1.1711585#ixzz2v95tPSBG

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Weird that the WSJ reported on it 7 days ago yet the corporate media didn’t cover it until the past 24hrs – thereagain maybe not so strange:

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American CEO of Singapore Startup First Meta Dies

Feb 27, 2014 – 5:22 am

By Newley Purnell

Autumn Radtke, the American chief executive of Singapore-based virtual currency company First Meta, has died according to Douglas Abrams, the company’s director and non-executive chairman. (MC-> ”Prior to coming to Singapore, Douglas managed information technology at J.P. Morgan for 14 years.” – Source)

“I was informed by the Singapore police about her death,” Abrams told The Wall Street Journal Thursday. “The cause of death is still under investigation.”

Abrams said police yesterday told him that Radke, who was 28 years old, had died but he was unable to provide additional information about the circumstances of her death.

The company “is shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke,” said a brief statement Abrams provided later, which was also posted on First Meta’s website.

An official in the Singapore Police Force’s public affairs department did not immediately respond to a phone call or email requesting comment.

According to First Meta’s website, Radke moved to Singapore in January 2012. Earlier, she worked in business development for Los Angeles-based mobile platform company Geodelic Systems and Internet gaming community Xfire, according to her LinkedIn profile.

First Meta provides an exchange where users can buy and sell virtual currencies. Forbes reported in 2012 that the company received $466,000 in funding from   Sunnyvale, California-based business accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center and Singapore’s National Research Foundation.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/27/american-ceo-of-singapore-startup-first-meta-dies/

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Even zerohedge didn’t pick it up until yesterday!

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Report from zerohedge:

[UPDATE: Tech in Asia has updated the article to emphasize that suicide is only suggested and not certain]

The last few weeks have been dismally littered with two things. The virtual losses of virtual wealth from virtual currency speculation and the very real losses of very real humans with very real senior financial services positions. Sadly, as NewsWatch reports, tonight sees the two trends converge as the 28-year-old CEO of Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange First Meta has been found dead. The exact reason that may have led to the suicide is not known, and whether the Police have concluded that the cause of death is suicide is also unofficial..

There have been 9 senior financial services deaths in recent weeks:

1 – William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.

2- Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.

3 – Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.

4 – Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.

5 – Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun.

6 -Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.

7 – Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago.  No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.

8 – Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.

9 – James Stuart Jr., a “very successful banker” and Former National Bank of Commerce CEO found dead (with no details of what caused the death) in Scottsdale, Az.

…numerous Bitcoin-related losses – from today’s Flexcoin “bank” losses to the infamous Mt.Gox debacle:

As Wired notes,

… But beneath it all, some say, Mt. Gox was a disaster in waiting. Last year, a Tokyo-based software developer sat down in Gox’s first-floor meeting room to talk about working for the company. “I thought it was going to be really awesome,” says the developer, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. Soon, however, there were some serious red flags. …

According to a leaked Mt. Gox document that hit the web last week, hackers had been skimming money from the company for years. The company now says that it’s out a total of 850,000 bitcoins, more than $460 million at Friday’s bitcoin exchange rates. When bitcoin enthusiast Jesse Powell heard this, he was reminded of June 2011.

According to Tech in Asia, Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange platform First Meta’s 28 year old CEO Autumn Radtke committed suicide.

Reasons are currently unknown.

First Meta is a Singaporean start up company that runs a exchange platform for virtual currencies such as Bitcoin. The news of suicide of its CEO Autumn Radtke spread on Facebook and Twitter, drawing attention from the BItcoin industry.

The exact reason that may have led to the suicide is not known, and whether the Police have concluded that the cause of death is suicide is also unofficial. First Meta has stated that an official announcement will be given by the company soon.

Before joining First Meta, Radtke was the Director of Business Development at Xfire – a company that develops IM systems for GAMERS (my emphasis). Radtke was also the Co-founder, Business Development at Geodelic Systems, Inc. Source

Autumn was associated with gaming. Gamers keep coming up as a “theme”. Sean Smith one of the agents who was killed in Benghazi was a “gamer”. Edward Snowden was a “gamer”. There was another one or two “gamers” of news-note in between but can’t think of them at the moment.

From Linkedin:”In January 2012, at the age of 26 Autumn was recruited by prominent Singapore based investor Douglas Abrams to lead First Meta Exchange an early pioneer in digital banking and virtual currency.”

Douglas Abrahms managed IT at JP Morgan for 14 yrs just prior to going to Singapore. He was also Global Markets Head of Internet Marketing, and VP and Manager of Investment Banking Technology. Source

Abrahms has a heavy-duty resume whereas Autumns (RIP) wasn’t what one would expect..and how did she know people like Branson…

Video of Autumn and more info – she was a great presenter and really knew her stuff:

http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/tv/autumn-radtke-american-bitcoin-firm-ceo/

Related:

Another “Successful Banker” Found Dead (9th) - Posted on February 25, 2014

7th Banker has committed suicide – Posted on February 18, 2014

JPMorgan Vice President’s Death in London Shines a Light on the Bank’s Close Ties to the CIA – Posted on February 13, 2014 - recommend this article

Why Are Banking Executives In London Killing Themselves? – Posted on February 12, 2014

6th Banker Commits Suicide – Posted on February 12, 2014

4th Financial Services Executive Found Dead; “From Self-Inflicted Nail-Gun Wounds” – Posted on February 8, 2014

Third Banker Commits Suicide Within a Week – Posted on January 31, 2014

Two top ranking American bankers working in  senior positions in London have committed suicide in the space of two days. – Posted on January 29, 2014

By Robert McMillan - 03.03.14 – 6:30 AM

From a distance, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange looked like a towering example of renegade entrepreneurism. But on the inside, according to some who were there, Mt. Gox was a messy combination of poor management, neglect, and raw inexperience.

Its collapse into bankruptcy last week — and the disappearance of $460 million, apparently stolen by hackers, and another $27.4 million missing from its bank accounts — came as little surprise to people who had knowledge of the Tokyo-based company’s inner workings. The company, these insiders say, was largely a reflection of its CEO and majority stake holder, Mark Karpeles, a man who was more of a computer coder than a chief executive and yet was sometimes distracted even from his technical duties when they were most needed. “Mark liked the idea of being CEO, but the day-to-day reality bored him,” says one Mt. Gox insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Last week, after a leaked corporate document said that hackers had raided the Mt. Gox exchange, Karpeles confirmed that a huge portion of the money controlled by the company was gone. “We had weaknesses in our system, and our bitcoins vanished. We’ve caused trouble and inconvenience to many people, and I feel deeply sorry for what has happened,” Karpeles said, speaking at a Tokyo press conference called to announce the company’s bankruptcy. This would be the second time the exchange was hacked. In June 2011, attackers lifted the equivalent of $8.75 million.

Bitcoin promises to give a bank account to anyone with a mobile phone, no ID required. It’s clearly an amazing and potentially world-changing technology — the first viable, decentralized, reliable form of digital cash. It could democratize international finance. But it’s also a technology that was pushed forward by a community of people who were unprepared or unwilling to deal with even the basics of everyday business. A new wave of entrepreneurs may bring the digital currency a new level of respectability, but over its first several years, bitcoin has been driven largely by computer geeks with little experience in the financial world. The most prominent example is Mark Karpeles.

The King of Bitcoin

The 28-year-old Karpeles was born in France, but after spending some time in Israel, he settled down in Japan. There he got married, posted cat videos and became a father. In 2011, he acquired the Mt. Gox exchange in from an American entrepreneur named Jed McCaleb.

McCaleb had registered the Mtgox.com web domain in 2007 with the idea of turning it into a trading site for the wildly popular Magic: The Gathering game cards. He never followed through on that idea, but in late 2010, McCaleb decided to repurpose the domain as a bitcoin exchange. The idea was simple: he’d provide a single place to connect bitcoin buyers and sellers. But soon, McCaleb was getting wires for tens of thousands of dollars and, realizing he was in over his head, he sold the site to Karpeles, an avid programmer, foodie, and bitcoin enthusiast who called himself Magicaltux in online forums.

Karpeles soon set about rewriting the site’s back-end software, eventually turning it into the world’s most popular bitcoin exchange. A June 2011 hack took the site offline for several days, and according to bitcoin enthusiasts Jesse Powell and Roger Ver, who helped the company respond to the hack, Karpeles was strangely nonchalant about the crisis. But he and Mt. Gox eventually made good on their obligations, earning a reputation as honest players in the bitcoin community. Other bitcoin companies had been hacked and lost customer funds. Most of the time, they simply folded. But Karpeles and Mt. Gox did not.

As bitcoin prices took off, jumping from $13 at the start of 2013 to more than $1,200 at its peak, Karpeles, as Mt. Gox’s largest stake holder, appeared to become an extremely wealthy man. Mt. Gox did not offer company equity to employees, and by the time of the most recent hack, the company had squirreled away more than 100,000 bitcoins, or $50 million. Karpeles owns 88 percent of the company and McCaleb 12 percent, according to a leaked Mt. Gox business plan.

When Karpeles was interviewed by Reuters in the spring of 2013 — seated, inexplicably, on top of a blue pilates ball — he was a major player in the bitcoin world. He had ponied up 5,000 bitcoins to help kickstart the Bitcoin Foundation, a not-for-profit bitcoin software development and lobbying group, where he was a board member (he has since resigned). And, according to insiders, he thought nothing of dropping the business of the day to order flat screen TVs or $400 lunches for the staff of Gox’s expanded Tokyo headquarters, which now occupies three floors of a modern office building in the city’s Shibuya neighborhood. “He likes to be praised, and he likes to be called the king of bitcoin,” says another insider who spoke on condition of anonymity. “He always talks about how he’s a member of Mensa and has an above-average IQ.”

Citizen Karpeles

But beneath it all, some say, Mt. Gox was a disaster in waiting. Last year, a Tokyo-based software developer sat down in Gox’s first-floor meeting room to talk about working for the company. “I thought it was going to be really awesome,” says the developer, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. Soon, however, there were some serious red flags.

Mt. Gox, he says, didn’t use any type of version control software — a standard tool in any professional software development environment. This meant that any coder could accidentally overwrite a colleague’s code if they happened to be working on the same file. According to this developer, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange had only recently introduced a test environment, meaning that, previously, untested software changes were pushed out to the exchanges customers — not the kind of thing you’d see on a professionally run financial services website. And, he says, there was only one person who could approve changes to the site’s source code: Mark Karpeles. That meant that some bug fixes — even security fixes — could languish for weeks, waiting for Karpeles to get to the code. “The source code was a complete mess,” says one insider.

By the fall of 2013, Mt. Gox’s business was also a mess. Federal agents had seized $5 million from the company’s U.S. bank account, because the company had not registered with the government as a money transmitter, and Mt. Gox was being sued for $75 million by a former business partner called CoinLab. U.S. customers complained of months-long delays withdrawing dollars from the exchange, and Mt. Gox had tumbled from the world’s number one bitcoin exchange to position number three.

But Karpeles was obsessed with a new project: The Bitcoin Cafe. Inspired by a French bistro, it would be a stylish hang-out located in the same building as the Mt. Gox offices, a very-new-looking building of metal and glass within walking distance of Tokyo’s largest train station. You could drop by for a beer or some wine, and — using a cash register proudly hacked by Mark Karpeles — you could buy it all with bitcoin. When WIRED tried to meet with Karpeles and Mt. Gox at their offices this past October — and a company representative turned us away, saying that legal reasons prevented Mt. Gox from talking to the press — the placard in the lobby of the building already identified the cafe. This company representative said it would open by the end of the year. It never did.

One insider says that Mt. Gox spent the equivalent of $1 million on the cafe venture, renovating Mt. Gox’s office building to Karepeles’ specifications. At a time when Gox’s business was falling apart, this insider says, the project was a major distraction. “[Karpeles] was super-proud of being able to use his hacked cash register with the code he wrote,” this insider says.

Says another insider: “Aside from the cafe, he liked to spend time fixing servers, setting up networks and installing gadgets… probably distracting himself from dealing with the real issues that the company was up against.”

Then, in February, the company’s fortunes took another turn. Mt. Gox stopped paying out customers in bitcoins, citing a flaw in the digital currency, and after days of silence from the company, protesters turned up outside its offices, asking whether it was insolvent.

Years-Long Hack

According to a leaked Mt. Gox document that hit the web last week, hackers had been skimming money from the company for years. The company now says that it’s out a total of 850,000 bitcoins, more than $460 million at Friday’s bitcoin exchange rates. When bitcoin enthusiast Jesse Powell heard this, he was reminded of June 2011.

After Mt. Gox was hacked for the first time in summer of 2011, a friend asked Powell to help out, and soon, the San Francisco entrepreneur found himself on a plane to Tokyo. After landing, he rushed to Shibuya station, where he was met by his friend, Roger Ver, one of the world’s biggest bitcoin supporters who just happened to live across the street from Mt. Gox. Without bothering to drop off Powell’s bags, the two rushed to the Mt. Gox offices to see what they could do. They worked through the week with Karpeles, other employees, and a handful of other bitcoin enthusiasts. They answered support inquires, did troubleshooting on the site, and tried to support the tiny company in any way they could. At one point, Powell rushed to the Apple store and came back with $5,000 worth of computers that could support the cause. But two days later, the site was still offline.

Ver and Powell were set to work through the weekend, but when they arrived at the company’s tiny office that Saturday, there was a surprise. Mark Karpeles had decided to take the weekend off. The two volunteers were flabbergasted. “I thought that was completely insane and demoralizing for the rest of the team,” Powell remembers. On Monday, Powell says, Karpeles did return to work, but he spent part of the day stuffing envelopes. “I was like: ‘Dude why are you doing this? You can do this anytime. The site is offline. You need to get the site online.’”

Powell last met with Karpeles in January, before news of the latest hack broke. He now runs a competitor to Mt. Gox called Kraken. They had lunch in Tokyo, and Karpeles seemed unworried about Gox’s future. He was excited about his Bitcoin Cafe. “It was probably some light for them in a very dark world of dealing with banks and customer complaints all day,” Powell says. “I’m sure that Mark has been very stressed for a long time and probably the Bitcoin Cafe was a fun project.” But now that world is even darker.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/?mbid=nl_wired_03042014

By Raymond Ibrahim on March 5, 2014in

Back on January 17 and based on Arabic media,  I exposed the graphic attack on Fadi, a Christian man in Syria, who, after he was spotted wearing a cross around his neck — and thus exposed as a Christian — was beheaded by U.S.-supported “freedom fighters” and stabbed with said crucifix.

Image of her son

According to the original report, “And when the mujahidin [jihadis] approached the car, they noticed that Fadi was wearing a cross around his neck, so they decided to decapitate him and plant the cross in his chest.”

Now, a brief video of his mother describing her son’s ordeal gives a glimpse of the suffering of Christians and many others in Syria at the hands of the Islamic terrorists being supported by the U.S. Obama administration.

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/syria-christian-mother-describes-slaughter-and-cross-stabbing-of-son/

She really touched my heart with her pain. I think she’s speaking Chaldean – Aramaic.

The Our Father in the ancient Aramaic language (pic source)

Race to save the language of Jesus: Aramaic in danger of becoming extinct  as  number of speakers of ancient tongue plummets – Source

And we know at least one of the reasons it’s becoming extinct ergo the murder of this young man and tens of thousands of others, who have gone and are going through ethnic cleansing, leading to massive immigration or death at the hands of massive Western Funding to the Muslim Brotherhood and their Salifist Jihadi Groups.

‘Delta’ has headed ‘the Blue Helmets of Maidan’ of 40 men and women – including several IDF veterans – in violent clashes with government forces.

He calls his troops “the Blue Helmets of Maidan,” but brown is the color of the headgear worn by Delta — the nom de guerre of the commander of a Jewish-led militia force that participated in the Ukrainian revolution. Under his helmet, he also wears a kippah.

Delta, a Ukraine-born former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, spoke to JTA Thursday on condition of anonymity. He explained how he came to use combat skills he acquired in the Shu’alei Shimshon reconnaissance battalion of the Givati infantry brigade to rise through the ranks of Kiev’s street fighters. He has headed a force of 40 men and women — including several fellow IDF veterans — in violent clashes with government forces.

Several Ukrainian Jews, including Rabbi Moshe Azman, one of the country’s claimants to the title of chief rabbi, confirmed Delta’s identity and role in the still-unfinished revolution.

The “Blue Helmets” nickname, a reference to the UN peacekeeping force, stuck after Delta’s unit last month prevented a mob from torching a building occupied by Ukrainian police, he said. “There were dozens of officers inside, surrounded by 1,200 demonstrators who wanted to burn them alive,” he recalled. “We intervened and negotiated their safe passage.”

The problem, he said, was that the officers would not leave without their guns, citing orders. Delta told JTA his unit reasoned with the mob to allow the officers to leave with their guns. “It would have been a massacre, and that was not an option,” he said.

The Blue Helmets comprise 35 men and women who are not Jewish, and who are led by five ex-IDF soldiers, says Delta, an Orthodox Jew in his late 30s who regularly prays at Azman’s Brodsky Synagogue. He declined to speak about his private life.

Delta, who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s, moved back to Ukraine several years ago and has worked as a businessman. He says he joined the protest movement as a volunteer on November 30, after witnessing violence by government forces against student protesters.

“I saw unarmed civilians with no military background being ground by a well-oiled military machine, and it made my blood boil,” Delta told JTA in Hebrew laced with military jargon. “I joined them then and there, and I started fighting back the way I learned how, through urban warfare maneuvers. People followed, and I found myself heading a platoon of young men. Kids, really.”

The other ex-IDF infantrymen joined the Blue Helmets later after hearing it was led by a fellow vet, Delta said.

As platoon leader, Delta says he takes orders from activists connected to Svoboda, an ultra-nationalist party that has been frequently accused of anti-Semitism and whose members have been said to have had key positions in organizing the opposition protests.

“I don’t belong [to Svoboda], but I take orders from their team. They know I’m Israeli, Jewish and an ex-IDF soldier. They call me ‘brother,’” he said. “What they’re saying about Svoboda is exaggerated, I know this for a fact. I don’t like them because they’re inconsistent, not because of [any] anti-Semitism issue.”

The commanding position of Svoboda in the revolution is no secret, according to Ariel Cohen, a senior research fellow at the Washington D.C.-based Heritage Foundation think tank.

“The driving force among the so-called white sector in the Maidan are the nationalists, who went against the SWAT teams and snipers who were shooting at them,” Cohen told JTA.

Still, many Jews supported the revolution and actively participated in it.

Earlier this week, an interim government was announced ahead of election scheduled for May, including ministers from several minority groups.

Volodymyr Groysman, a former mayor of the city of Vinnytsia and the newly appointed deputy prime minister for regional policy, is a Jew, Rabbi Azman said.

“There are no signs for concern yet,” said Cohen, “but the West needs to make it clear to Ukraine that how it is seen depends on how minorities are treated.”

On Wednesday, Russian State Duma Chairman Sergey Naryshkin said Moscow was concerned about anti-Semitic declarations by radical groups in Ukraine.

But Delta says the Kremlin is using the anti-Semitism card falsely to delegitimize the Ukrainian revolution, which is distancing Ukraine from Russia’s sphere of influence.

“It’s bullshit. I never saw any expression of anti-Semitism during the protests, and the claims to the contrary were part of the reason I joined the movement. We’re trying to show that Jews care,” he said.

Still, Delta’s reasons for not revealing his name betray his sense of feeling like an outsider. “If I were Ukrainian, I would have been a hero. But for me it’s better to not reveal my name if I want to keep living here in peace and quiet,” he said.

Fellow Jews have criticized him for working with Svoboda. “Some asked me if instead of ‘Shalom’ they should now greet me with a ‘Sieg heil.’ I simply find it laughable,” he said. But he does have frustrations related to being an outsider. “Sometimes I tell myself, ‘What are you doing? This is not your army. This isn’t even your country.’”

He recalls feeling this way during one of the fiercest battles he experienced, which took place last week at Institutskaya Street and left 12 protesters dead. “The snipers began firing rubber bullets at us. I fired back from my rubber-bullet rifle,” Delta said.

“Then they opened live rounds, and my friend caught a bullet in his leg. They shot at us like at a firing range. I wasn’t ready for a last stand. I carried my friend and ordered my troops to fall back. They’re scared kids. I gave them some cash for phone calls and told them to take off their uniform and run away until further instructions. I didn’t want to see anyone else die that day.”

Currently, the Blue Helmets are carrying out police work that include patrols and preventing looting and vandalism in a city of 3 million struggling to climb out of the chaos that engulfed it for the past three months.

But Delta has another, more ambitious, project: He and Azman are organizing the airborne evacuation of seriously wounded protesters — none of them Jewish — for critical operations in Israel. One of the patients, a 19-year-old woman, was wounded at Institutskaya by a bullet that penetrated her eye and is lodged inside her brain, according to Delta. Azman says he hopes the plane of 17 patients will take off next week, with funding from private donors and with help from Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel.

“The doctor told me that another millimeter to either direction and she would be dead,” Delta said. “And I told him it was the work of Hakadosh Baruch Hu.” (MC->Hakadosh Baruch Hu = God)

http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.577114

IMO, this guy is genuine, if so, who were the snipers? And if he’s being insincere – what is the intent? Yeah, I’ve thought of the mossad but they’re not acting alone.

Who stands to gain?

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Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders – leaked EU’s Ashton phone tape - mediachecker

“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind  the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the  new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation.

“I think we do want to investigate. I mean, I didn’t pick  that up, that’s interesting. Gosh,” Ashton answered.

The call took place after Estonia’s Foreign Minister Urmas Paet  visited Kiev on February 25, following the peak of clashes  between the pro-EU protesters and security forces in the  Ukrainian capital.

Paet also recalled his conversation with a doctor who treated  those shot by snipers in Kiev. She said that both protesters and  police were shot at by the same people.

“And second, what was quite disturbing, this same Olga  [Bogomolets] told as well that all the evidence shows that the  people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among  policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the  same snipers killing people from both sides,” the Estonian  FM stressed.

Ashton reacted to the information by saying: “Well,  yeah…that’s, that’s terrible.”

“So that she then also showed me some photos she said that as  a medical doctor she can say that it is the same handwriting, the  same type of bullets, and it’s really disturbing that now the new  coalition, that they don’t want to investigate what exactly  happened,” Paet said.

Olga Bogomolets was the main doctor for the Maidan mobile clinic  when protests turned violent in Kiev. She treated the gravely  injured and helped organized their transportation to neighboring  countries, who had expressed a willingness to treat those with  severe wounds. From the outset, Olga blamed the injuries and  deaths on snipers. She turned down the position of Vice Prime  Minister of Ukraine for Humanitarian Affairs offered by the  coup-appointed regime.

http://rt.com/news/ashton-maidan-snipers-estonia-946/

Yes, this report is from a Russian Source, and the West has ->  These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America (the illusion of choice)) while the UK has the BBC…Germany has Speigel… and so on – but Olga Bogomolets doesn’t appear to have anything to gain, in fact, when she was offered a lucrative job by the oligarch usupers she turned them down.

I haven’t seen Urmas Paet’ name pop-up in any of the listings of the lobbyists for a European Union with Ukraine or any other “government-oligarch” - ”councils” – “institutes” – “think tanks” – and on the recording he appeared concerned about those injured – whereas Ashton….

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The similarities between the extreme left and the extreme right in the false political paradigm which highlights a pattern of collectivism. Collectivism is the opposite of individualism and believes that the interests of the individual must be sacrificed for the greater good of the greater number which unites the doctrines of communism and fascism. For example, the Republican and Democrat parties in the US are both committed to advancing collectivism which is why the same policies are followed no matter whose voted into the White House – endless wars for one…

Himmler visiting I.B. Farben

To the Shores of Tripolitania

Libya has known autocrats and invaders before. A century ago, Italians came, saw, conquered . . . and were defeated.

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Libya is periodically seized and re-seized, invaded and abandoned, playing out its human dramas against the bleak backdrop of the desert. This year the combatants were autocrat Muammar Gadhafi and rebels from the east. Nearly two millennia ago Libya was a Roman prize; before that, the region of today’s rebel power base was Greek, and was called Cyrenaica. Islamic armies came in the seventh century. The Knights of St. John arrived to fight pirates in the sixteenth century, and U.S. Marines charged onto “the shores of Tripoli” in 1805. More recently in the history of this North African nation, which lies along the lake of the ancient Western world, Libya and its provinces were Italian—but not for long.

“From the history of all periods, I have learned that nothing can be constructed unless a past that is no longer consistent with the present is destroyed, wholly or in part,” declared Rodolfo Graziani, commander of Italian forces in Libya, in 1931. He and General Pietro Badoglio had finally quashed two decades of guerrilla warfare there. The irony was that Marshal Graziani’s Fascist forces were far from destroying the past—instead they had brought from Italy their own romanticized view of antiquity, built on imperial Rome, to frame their countrymen’s North African expansion.

The postcard at left celebrates a battalion of the “Hunters of Africa,” characterizing the Italian cacciatori as an “unbreakable phalanx.” The address side of the card lists many of the battles the unit fought in Libya between 1914 and 1931. One of them was at Misrata, a prominent battleground in the 2011 Libyan civil war.

Libya fell into Italy’s hands in 1912 after the Italo-Turkish War, a small conflict among the dominoes leading to the Great War. Italian newspapers had encouraged their military to seize what is now Libya from the faltering Ottomans, assuming a quick victory, a welcoming population, and plenty of spoils. In a clash reminiscent of this year’s NATO-aided struggle against Gadhafi, the Italians rapidly took command of the sea and coastal centers—and then bogged down. A stalemate developed; the Italians were stuck in their strongholds, checked by an enemy they could not overcome. In 1912 the Turks agreed to withdraw, but Italian control of the restive Berbers, Arabs, and tribesmen remained spotty for years to come, especially inland. A religious-tribal movement called the Sanusi was Italy’s chief adversary.

“Their task is to open up the roads through which civilization will flow into the rich lands to be fertilized by the sweat of their brows,” reads Ruth Ricci Eltse’s glowing tribute.

Italy did not cement its control until after the military campaigns of 1919–31, which subjected native peoples to dislocation, concentration camps, and the public hanging of the Sanusi leader, Umar al-Mukhtar. Benito Mussolini, by then Italy’s dictator, was eager to fold North Africa into Mare Nostrum, “Our Sea,” the Mediterranean zone he believed Italy was destined to dominate. (Mussolini had been briefly jailed in 1911 for opposing the invasion of Libya.) In 1934 the Fascist government gave the provinces of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan their modern name—Libya—restoring the name chosen by Diocletian. Italy began encouraging emigration; built railways, ports, and roads; and enlisted thousands of natives into Fascist political and military structures. Soon after, Italians marched on to Ethiopia.

A collection of postcards from the colonial period sheds light on how Italians viewed themselves on what Mussolini called the “fourth shore.” The collection, recently acquired by the Hoover Archives and placed in the African Pictorial Collection, complements another group of more than sixty-five postcards depicting Italian military actions during the war in Ethiopia and Eritrea in the mid-1930s. Seeking to glorify Italy’s actions and rally public support for them, the postcards are propaganda, urging the modern Romans to conquer and cultivate distant provinces—and suggesting that Libya, in both racial and historical terms, is their birthright.

General Rodolfo Graziani commanded Italian forces in Libya in the 1920s. Afterward he co-led an invasion into the Horn of Africa, proclaiming, “The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.” Graziani was noted for his brutal treatment of conquered Africans, both civilians and fighters, subjecting them to concentration and labor camps, expulsions, and massacres. He survived World War II and was briefly imprisoned, though never prosecuted for war crimes.

The image on the cover of the Hoover Digest shows an Italian plowing behind a harnessed camel. Milizia Eroica, or Heroic Militia, reads the caption on the back, above a Latin insignia that says Alere Flammam—Feed the Flame. Camels had been used as desert draft animals; in fact, second-century Tripolitanian stone reliefs showed them yoked with oxen. But the context is unlikely: pastel-colored clouds, gentle light, and a pile of Roman columns in the foreground. (Roman ruins were and are visible in Libya, especially at Leptis Magna, the great city where the emperor Septimius Severus was born.) On the back of the postcard is a quote from Mussolini, stating that the militiaman and colonist must be as one, just as the Legionnaires not only fought but also built roads and tilled the fields.

“Adriatic—girls in the sun aboard the Sardinia, October 29, 1939,” reads the inscription on the back of this photo from the Eltse Collection. Italians like these were convoyed to Libya, which Mussolini considered part of his “fourth shore,” amid promises of jobs and land offered by a state corporation, the Libyan Colonization Society. More than one hundred thousand Italians lived in Libya in 1939, making up 12 percent of the population. Most returned to Italy after World War II.

Italo Balbo, in uniform, greets Italian immigrants to Libya. Balbo was a prominent figure in the Fascist revolution that brought Mussolini to power. An aviation enthusiast, he became Mussolini’s air marshal. The dashing Balbo led a squadron of seaplanes across the Atlantic to the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, a celebrated event that led to an invitation to the White House. Chicago renamed a street in his honor and accepted a commemorative pillar from Italy, which still stands by the shore of Lake Michigan. Later that year Balbo was appointed governor-general of Libya, a post of political exile: he had fallen out with Mussolini. Balbo died in 1940 when Italian gunners shot down his plane on approach to Tobruk. The crash was termed friendly fire, but many believed the Duce had Balbo assassinated.

The postcard at right depicts a native rifleman in battle. Special units composed of Arabs, Berbers, Bedouins, and various tribal members were set up in the Italian colonial forces. Many of the postcard images portray the native troops as fierce and fearless, but not necessarily modern or disciplined.

Ruth Ricci Eltse (1894–1977) was a volunteer nurse in the Italian-Ethiopian war and later roamed Italian-occupied Africa as a photojournalist. In articles and pictures, she displayed enthusiasm for the Fascist colonial project and styled herself an adventurer. Later she returned to her native New York state to lecture and teach, and then moved west and settled in Berkeley as the wife of Ralph R. Eltse, a lawyer who had served one term in the House of Representatives in the early 1930s. In this picture, inscribed “Always Forward!” and dedicated to “dear Captain Bacchiani,” Eltse strikes a characteristic pose. The date is given by both ordinary and Fascist calendars (XIV meaning 1936, the fourteenth year since Benito Mussolini seized power).

Italians claimed fertile areas of occupied Libya and built homes, schools, hospitals, and other facilities for themselves. This agricultural hamlet named Olivetti, not far from Tripoli, was among twenty-six established for one wave of twenty thousand immigrants—the ventimila— who arrived in 1938. True to the village’s name, olives were among the main crops cultivated by new arrivals.

Palm trees, Bedouin, and camels were stock motifs to evoke North Africa, but the subdued sun and soft colors distract the viewer—and perhaps future colonist—from the blinding light and heat endured by the new Romans, and from the desolate expanse beyond the coast. If the image looks oddly pastoral, it is because “Libya came to be portrayed as an Italian region,” according to Jacqueline Andall and Derek Duncan’s book Italian Colonialism: Legacy and Memory.

The militiaman has left his rifle and sword atop the ruins, the only visual acknowledgment that he is striving to overcome not just the land’s climate but also its inhabitants. Ruth Ricci Eltse, an American volunteer nurse in the Ethiopian-Italian war and a photographer-journalist who admired Italy’s conquest of North and East Africa, wrote an article titled “Marching with Shovel and Rifle in Ethiopia’s Land-Rush.” As in the postcard, “men are sent to East Africa to work, but their weapons are never out of reach,” she wrote. “Their task is to open up the roads through which civilization will flow into the rich lands to be fertilized by the sweat of their brows.”

Eltse, whose collected papers are also in the Hoover Archives, was a witness to Italian expansionism. The wife of a prominent New York obstetrician and Italian immigrant, James V. Ricci, she went abroad to serve with an Italian medical unit in Ethiopia and on a hospital ship. Later she took a grand tour by car of North and East Africa. In Libya she praised the Via Balbo, the crucial road link built amid brutal heat and thirst and overwork, and its namesake, Governor-General Italo Balbo, a famous aviator. Mussolini himself dedicated the highway in 1937. “Italy is proud to have accomplished a task which even Rome did not and could not undertake, the construction of the Libyan coast road,” Eltse wrote. “As Italo Balbo spread his silver wings across oceans, he is now spreading the wings of growth and civilization over some two thousand miles of African coast.” (The Via Balbo lives on as the modern Libyan Coastal Highway, where Gadhafi’s troops skirmished with the rebels.)

    This image shows a member of a colonial artillery unit. Mussolini claimed to be the protector of Arabs in conquered Libya, going so far as to refer to them as “Muslim Italians.” Thousands of native Libyans fought for Italy during World War II.

African soldiers stand in formation in this photo from the Eltse Collection. The military units recruited from among the natives included cavalry, camel troops, gendarmes, and even paratroopers, and helped in the invasions of Ethiopia and Egypt.

Eltse was not alone in praising Balbo’s programs to remake Libya, which included irrigation, tourism, scholarly gatherings, agricultural conferences, sporting events, air and auto races, even a trade fair. There were new villages and industries, as well as herds, vineyards, and olive groves—but everything was administered for the immigrants’ benefit. By 1939, more than one in ten inhabitants of Libya were from Italy. Yet after the onset of World War II, Mussolini’s dream of a fourth shore including coastal Libya and Tunisia was crushed.

    In 1912, in a clash reminiscent of this year’s NATO-aided struggle, the Italians rapidly took command of the sea and coastal centers—and then bogged down.

The 62nd Infantry Division Marmarica participated in the invasion of Egypt. Allied forces destroyed it during World War II. Bearing the ancient name for the land between Cyrenaica and Egypt, the Marmarica is linked here with a Roman emblem of authority, the motto SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus, or the Senate and People of Rome). The last Italian troops were driven out of Libya in 1943. Under a 1947 peace treaty, Italy abandoned all claims to its “fourth shore.”

Libya achieved independence in 1951. After 1969 it was ruled by Gadhafi, who claimed after his coup that his goal was to shake off a century of colonialism. This year, he found himself in somewhat the same position as the hated Italian colonizers: confined to his fortresses, using cruel methods against his enemies, insisting on his right to rule, and holding out against insurgents who had a different vision of what Libya should become. There were even rumors that Gadhafi had hidden weapons and troops in the ruins of Leptis Magna. He would not have been the first ruler to shelter behind the Roman shield and try to rewrite history in Libya’s sands.

Special to the Hoover Digest. Additional research by Yael Roberts and Bradley Bauer.

http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/96416

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/gallipoli.htm

The German-Dutch House of Orange, German-English House of Windsor, Italy, Germany, France et al invaded, destabilized, raped and pillaged the ME and Africa – they were so busy enriching themselves that they permitted multiple pogroms against the Armenians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Greeks, etc., in the Ottoman Empire, followed later - in 1915 – when millions of Armenians would be exterminated by the Turks - and actually assisted by the Germans! See: Photograph links Germans to 1915 Armenia genocide -> The Armenian Genocide (Warning: gruesome pictures) - http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/turkish-fm-1915-armenian-deportation-inhumane/” rel=”nofollow”>Turkish FM: 1915 Armenian deportation inhumane - http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/obama-prevents-smithsonian-from-display-of-armenian-artifact-on-genocide/” rel=”nofollow”>Obama prevents Smithsonian from display of Armenian artifact on genocide - http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/egypt-to-acknowledge-armenian-genocide/” rel=”nofollow”>Egypt to Acknowledge Armenian Genocide - Ruined Site of the Old Armenian City of Ani (Turkey) - The Turks and Germans have been allies since then.

Regular people of all stripes suffered but who cares since enrichment of the so-called “elites” in ALL these countries is the bottomline (and population control).

This article appeared as part of a feature in the December 8, 1995 issue of
Executive Intelligence Review. See Feature Introduction and Table of Contents.

by Richard Freeman

Ten to twelve pivotal companies, assisted by another three dozen, run the world’s food supply. They are the key components of the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss food cartel, which is grouped around Britain’s House of Windsor. Led by the six leading grain companies—Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and Born, André, and Archer Daniels Midland/Töpfer—the Windsor-led food and raw materials cartel has complete domination over world cereals and grains supplies, from wheat to corn and oats, from barley to sorghum and rye. But it also controls meat, dairy, edible oils and fats, fruits and vegetables, sugar, and all forms of spices.

Each year tens of millions die from the most elementary lack of their daily bread. This is the result of the work of the Windsor-led cartel. And, as the ongoing financial collapse wipes out bloated speculative financial paper, the oligarchy has moved into hoarding, increasing its food and raw materials holdings. It is prepared to apply a tourniquet to food production and export supplies, not only to poor nations, but to advanced sector nations as well.

The use of food as a weapon can be found at least four millennia ago in Babylon. Imperial Rome took this tack, as did Venice and various Venetian offshoots, including the Antwerp-centered, powerful Burgundian duchy, and the Dutch and British Levant companies, East India companies, and West India companies. Today, food warfare is firmly under the control of London, with the help of subordinate partners in especially Switzerland and Amsterdam. Today’s food companies were created by having had a section of this ancient set of Mesopotamian-Roman-Venetian-British food networks and infrastructure carved out for them.

The Windsor-led oligarchy has built up a single, integrated raw materials cartel, with three divisions—energy, raw materials and minerals, and increasingly scarce food supplies. Figure 1 represents the situation. At the top is the House of Windsor and Club of the Isles. Right below are two of the principal appurtenances of the House of Windsor: the World Wide Fund for Nature, headed by the Doge of London, Prince Philip, which leads the world in orchestration of ethnic conflict and terrorism, such as the British-created afghansi movement; and British intelligence’s Hollinger Corp. of Conrad Black, which is leading the assault to destroy Bill Clinton and the American Presidency.

The firms within each cartel group are listed. While they maintain the legal fiction of being different corporate organizations, in reality this is one interlocking syndicate, with a common purpose and multiple overlapping boards of directors. The Windsor-centered oligarchy owns these cartels, and they are the instruments of power of the oligarchy, accumulated over centuries, for breaking nations’ sovereignty.

The control works as follows: The oligarchy has developed four regions to be the principal exporters of almost every type of food; the oligarchy has historically acquired top-down control over the food chain in these regions. These four regions are: the United States; the European Union, particularly France and Germany; the British Commonwealth nations of Australia, Canada, the Republic of South Africa, and New Zealand; and Argentina and Brazil in Ibero-America. Through the centuries, the oligarchy has taken control of these regions’ markets, and thus over the world food supply. These four regions have a population of, at most, 900 million people, or 15% of the world’s population. The rest of the world, with 85% of the population—4.7 billion people—is dependent on the food exports from those regions.

British food cartel control intensified after World War II. Regions such as America had long been seen as important areas in which to increase control, in order to maintain the cartel’s global domination, especially around the turn of the twentieth century when Minneapolis, under the control of the Pillsbury and Peavey families, replaced Hungary as the world’s major miller of grain. But before World War II, the amount of grain that crossed borders, or oceans, seldom exceeded 30 million tons a year. America’s share of that was usually 10 million tons or less. This was a substantial amount, but small compared to the levels of trade that would follow. World War II ravaged the globe, creating mass hunger, especially in Europe and what is today the Third World. Under the impetus of American programs such as “Food for Peace,” PL 480, the worldwide trade in grain shot up to 160 million tons by 1979. Today it is 215 million tons per year. In addition, tens of millions of tons of other foodstuffs, from meat to dairy, are traded each year.

It is proper for countries with grain, meat, dairy, and other surpluses to export them. But the cartel’s four exporting regions were given preeminence in a brutal manner, while much of the rest of the world was thrust into enforced backwardness. The oligarchy denied these nations seed, fertilizer, water management, electricity, rail transportation, that is, all the infrastructural and capital goods inputs needed to turn them into self-sufficient food producers. These nations were reduced to the status of vassals: Either import from the cartel’s export regions, or starve.

Meanwhile, the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss food cartel reduced the export regions, which supposedly enjoy favored status, to a state of servitude as well. (MC-> first they come for thee and then they come for me…) During the last two decades, millions of farmers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, and Argentina have been wiped out. For example, in 1982, the United States still had 600,000 independent hog farmers. Today, that number is less than 225,000. The food cartel companies have concentrated hog production into their own hands. Farmers were paid far below a parity price, i.e., a price that covers costs of agricultural production plus a fair profit for investment in future production.

In 1983, Robert Bergland, President Jimmy Carter’s agriculture secretary in 1976-80, told an interviewer concerning Cargill, the world’s largest grain company: “Cargill’s view is … [that] they generally regard the United States as a grain colony.” Bergland continued, “When [in 1979] the Russians invaded Afghanistan and Jimmy Carter asked how much grain the Russians had bought [from the United States] … we couldn’t tell him because we didn’t know.” But Cargill and the other grain cartel companies knew. In 1976, when Cargill, Continental, and other grain cartel companies sold the Russians a record 12.4 million tons of American and Canadian grain (creating a grain shortage in the United States), the administration of President Gerald Ford learned of the sales only after the fact. The grain may have been American grown, but the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss cartel disposes of it as it pleases.

This article will document, for the first time, the extent of concentration and control that the British-centered raw materials cartel exercises over both the international and domestic trade in food. It will look at the food cartel’s international and domestic control of grains, milk, edible oils and fats, and meat. The article which follows provides a more detailed profile, with names and addresses, of the key forces in the cartel’s control of the world’s food supply.

Concentration in four food groups

Grains and grain products, milk and dairy products, edible oils and fats, and meat provide the majority of the intake of calories, as well as proteins and vitamins, which keeps the human species alive. Grain and grain products can be consumed as animal feed (especially corn and oats), and directly for human consumption, sometimes in grain form (the case of rice or barley), but often in a milled form, such as in bread and tortillas.

The “Big Six” leading grain cartel companies are: Minneapolis- and Geneva-based Cargill; New York-based Continental; Paris-based Louis Dreyfus; São Paulo, Brazil- and Netherlands, Antilles-based Bunge and Born; Lausanne, Switzerland-based André; and Illinois- and Hamburg, Germany-based Archer Daniels Midland/Töpfer. The first five of the companies are privately owned and run by billionaire families. They issue no public stock, nor annual report. They are more secretive than any oil company, bank, or government intelligence service. Just two of these companies, Cargill and Continental, control 45-50% of the world’s grain trade.

We look at the food cartel’s control over each of the four dominant food groups.

Grains: Grains, or cereals as they are often called, consist of wheat; the coarse grains, including corn, barley, oats, sorghum, and rye; and rice.

The Anglo-Dutch-Swiss cartel’s control over wheat exports is shown in Figure 2. For the crop year 1994-95, the cartel’s four food export regions produced and traded 88% of the world’s wheat exports of 97.2 million metric tons.

But, the four cartel food export regions, while accounting for 88% of worldwide wheat exports, accounted for only 39% of all the world’s wheat production of 522.4 million metric tons in the 1994-95 crop year (see Figure 2). That is, their share of world wheat exports was more than double their share of world wheat output. This underscores the point that the cartel built up four regions as the choke points over the world’s food supply, even though these regions, collectively, are not often the largest producers.

Figure 3 shows, for the 1994-95 crop year, the percentages that the cartel’s four food export regions control of the exports of the leading coarse grains. They control 95% of world annual corn exports, of 69.9 million metric tons; 76% of world barley exports, of 14.8 million metric tons; and 97% of world sorghum (milo) exports, of 6 million metric tons.

Within these export regions, the cartel’s six leading grain companies have, historically, built up total domination of the external grain markets. While the cartel’s export regions dominate 76-97% of the world’s grain trade, depending on the grain, the cartel’s six grain companies also control the exports of the four regions.

For example, in the 1994-95 crop year, the United States exported 102 of the world’s 215 million metric tons in grain exports, nearly half the total. It accounted for 33% of world wheat exports, 83% of world corn exports, and 89% of world sorghum exports, making it the leading exporter in each of these three markets.

Now, let us turn to the leading grain companies’ command of America’s grain export market, with America itself controlling nearly one-half of all world grain exports. Figure 4 shows that the cartel’s Big Six grain trading companies own and control 95% of America’s wheat exports, 95% of its corn exports, 90% of its oats exports, and 80% of its sorghum exports. A few smaller companies, almost all in the grain cartel’s orbit, control the remaining market share. The grain companies’ control over the American grain market is absolute.

The Big Six grain companies also control 60-70% of France’s grain exports. France is the biggest grain exporter in Europe (the world’s second largest grain exporting region), exporting more grain than the next three largest European grain exporting nations combined.

Figure 5 shows that the Big Six, along with some affiliated Argentine companies such as Nidera and ACA, control 67.8%, or two-thirds, of Argentina’s grain exports. Argentina is the fourth largest grain exporter in the world.

Canada and Australia combined are the world’s third largest grain exporting region, after America and Europe. Although they have their own unique internal picture, with a modicum of political influence from farmers, both are British Commonwealth nations, under the thumb of Queen Elizabeth II.

In sum, the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss food cartel dominates 80-90% of the world grain trade. In fact, however, the control is far greater than the sum of its parts: The Big Six grain companies are organized as a cartel; they move grain back and forth from any one of the major, or minor, exporting nations. Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus et al. own world shipping fleets, and have long-established sales relationships, financial markets, and commodity trading exchanges (such as the London-based Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange) on which grain is traded, which completes their domination. No other forces in the world, including governments, are as well organized as the cartel, and therefore, London’s power in this area remains unchallenged.

Milk and Milk Products: The big exporters of milk and milk products are three out of the cartel’s four basic export regions: the United States; the European Union plus Switzerland (which is not an EU member); and the British Commonwealth countries of New Zealand, in particular, and Australia.

In 1994, the cartel’s domination of dairy and dairy products was astonishing. Figure 6 shows that the cartel’s food export regions controlled 89% of the world’s export of whole milk powder, of 1.08 billion metric tons; 94% of the world’s export trade of 653 million metric tons of butter; and 86% of the world’s export trade of 1.11 billion metric tons of cheese. It also controlled a huge portion of the export of condensed milk.

The case of whole milk powder exemplifies the process of the cartel’s control. Milk is not usually exported in liquid form, except for short distances over nearby borders; it is usually exported either as whole milk or skim milk powder, or as condensed milk. When it is exported as whole milk powder, it is reconstituted upon delivery, usually at the ratio of 10 parts water to 1 part whole milk powder. Of the world’s export of 1.08 billion metric tons of whole milk powder in 1994, the developing world imported 885 million metric tons, or 82% of the total.

Nestlé Corp., S.A., based in Vevey and Cham (near Geneva), Switzerland, and Borden, Inc., based in Columbus, Ohio, are the two largest exporters of whole milk powder in the world. Founded in 1867, Nestlé grew significantly in 1905, when it merged with the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, also of Switzerland. Nestlé S.A. illustrates the food cartel’s global reach: It is the number-one world trader in whole milk powder and condensed milk; the number-one seller of chocolate, confectionery products, and mineral water (it owns Perrier); and the number-three U.S.-based coffee firm. Its products include Nestlé chocolate and candy; Libby fruit juice; Carnation Condensed Milk; Buitoni spaghetti; Contadina tomato paste; Hills Brothers and Nescafé coffees; and Stouffers’ restaurants and frozen foods. (It also owns 26% of the world’s biggest cosmetic company, L’Oreal.) All told, it is the biggest food company in the world. In 1994, there were 13 countries in which Nestlé had sales of 1 billion Swiss francs or more, including all advanced sector nations. Its total 1994 sales were SF 56.9 billion, or $45.5 billion. Its 1994 profits were $4.8 billion, bigger than all but a half-dozen companies.

Nestlé chairman Helmut Maucher is on the board of J.P. Morgan, British intelligence’s leading bank in the United States. Its board of directors serves as a retirement home for the world’s central bankers: Fritz Leutwiller, former chairman of the Basel, Switzerland Bank for International Settlements, the central bank of central banks, is on Nestlé’s board, as is Paul Volcker, who, as chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board in 1979 and the early 1980s, put the world economy through what was referred to as “controlled disintegration.”

Borden is the second biggest milk powder producer, through its KLIM milk powder division. It is also one of the world’s biggest condensed milk producers, through its Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk. In 1995, Borden was bought by the leveraged buy-out firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, which is headed by Henry Kravis, who was finance committee co-chairman of George Bush’s 1992 Presidential campaign. As a result of the 1988 merger of R.JU. Reynolds and Nabsico, KKR now owns 33% of, and effectively controls, RJR Nabisco, which produces nine of the top ten cookies and crackers brands sold in America. KKR also owns a portion of Beatrice Foods, a conglomerate, which makes KKR one of the top five food companies in the world.

Completing the picture of world control of whole milk powder is Unilever, a large player in this area as well as the number-one world producer of ice cream and margarine. Typifying the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy’s joint control over raw materials, Unilever, which is the result of a 1930 merger of a British and a Dutch firm, has headquarters in London and Amsterdam. On the Unilever board is Lord Wright of Richmond, GCMG. From 1986 through 1991, he was head of Britain’s Diplomatic Service and also permanent undersecretary of state at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Lord Wright is also a director of Barclay’s Bank, which is a major funder of Prince Philip’s World Wide Fund for Nature.

Unilever is an example of how the different corporate entities operate as part of one interlocked syndicate. The former chairman of Unilever, M.F. Van den Moven, now sits on the board of the other Anglo-Dutch giant, Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum, the world’s largest marketer of oil and a controlling force in the energy cartel.

Meat: The cartel’s four major export source regions (the United States; the European Union; the British Commonwealth countries of New Zealand, Australia, and Canada; and the Ibero-American nations Argentina and Brazil) exert enormous dominance over meat exports. As well, a Chinese bloc of China, Taiwan, and Hongkong (the last nation a re-exporter) is important in pork and poultry exports.

Figure 7 shows that for 1994, the cartel’s basic food export regions commanded 85% of the world’s export of beef and veal of 4.95 million metric tons; when the Chinese market is added in, these regions commanded 92% of the world’s export trade of 2.1 million tons of pork, and 93% of the world’s export trade of 5.84 million metric tons of poultry. The export of pork and poultry in China and Taiwan is increasingly run by the food cartel.

Four of the cartel’s biggest companies in beef export are Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland/Töpfer, ConAgra/Peavey, and Iowa Beef Processors, now called IBP. The Dakota City, Nebraska-based IBP exemplifies how the oligarchy employs its corporate offshoots. Once owned by Armand Hammer’s Occidental Petroleum Co., today 13% of the stock of IBP is owned by FMR Corp., the holding company for Fidelity Investments, the largest family of mutual funds in the United States, which is run by the Boston Brahmin oligarchical families. FMR is interlocked with other parts of the Windsor cartel—it is a large owner of raw material cartel companies, including shares of 5% or more of Homestake Mining, Coeur D’Alene Mines, and Santa Fe Pacific Gold Corp., three of the world’s largest gold mining companies.

Through IBP, the food cartel is intervening in the U.S. Presidential elections, giving heavy backing to the “free enterprise” Presidential campaign of Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.). On IBP’s board of directors is Alec Courtalis, a Florida real estate magnate who was national finance co-chairman of the 1992 Bush-Quayle campaign, and is currently chairman of the futuristic Armand Hammer United World College and finance committee chairman of the Gramm for President campaign. In addition, Gramm’s wife, Wendy Gramm, is an IBP board member. From 1988 to 1993, Wendy Gramm chaired the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, during which time the CFTC rigged the explosive growth in speculative derivatives instruments.

Edible oils and fats: The United States, the European Union, and Argentina and Brazil thoroughly dominate the export market in the soybean and its by-products, the most basic source of edible oils and fats. Figure 8 documents that the food cartel export source sectors are the masters of 90% of the international trade in soybeans, of 32.1 million metric tons per year; 90% of the international trade in soybean meal, of 31.1 million metric tons; and, along with British Commonwealth member India, 92% of the 31.1 million metric tons of soybean meal exports.

According to spokesmen for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as well as private industry, the same six companies that dominate the international grain trade also dominate the international trade in soybeans and by-products. The one additional cartel member company which is influential in the soybean trade, and which is smaller than the leading six companies, is S.I. Joseph Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Burton Joseph, chairman of this company, is a former national chairman and a leading member of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. He is a longtime enemy of Lyndon LaRouche.

Feed and seed: The cartel also controls feed for animals and seed for planting. British Petroleum, through its Nutrition division, is the largest feed producer in Europe. Having bought Purina Mills from Ralston Purina Company, British Petroleum, one of the House of Windsor’s key energy companies, is now the second largest feed producer in America. Cargill, the world’s largest grain exporter, through its Nutrena Feed division, is also the biggest producer of animal feed and hybrid seed in the world, while Continental Grain, through its Wayne Feed division, is one of the biggest producers of feed and a major force in hybrid seed production.

Domestic markets

The cartel exercises an iron hand over the domestic agricultural economies of nations, especially those that comprise the four export source regions of the food cartel. This is exercised through the processing industries: If one controls the processing industries, one controls domestic trade. Except for use as animal feed, corn, wheat, and soybean cannot be eaten in their unrefined form (excluding sweet corn, which is eaten by humans, but which is a minuscule percentage of the annual corn harvest). The grain, or soybean (which is a legume), must be processed. The same is true of meat, which must be slaughtered and cut, before it is fit for human consumption.

This is where the processing-milling industries, in the case of grains and soybean, and the packing/slaughtering industries, in the case of meat, come in.

Taking America as the test case, in order to make the case generally, one can see the cartel’s domination.

For example, Figures 9, 10, 11, and 12, demonstrate that the main grain companies of the oligarchy’s food cartel control 71% of the milling of America’s flour; 57% of the dry milling of America’s corn; 74% of the wet milling of America’s corn; and 76% of the crushing of America’s soybeans.

(In the dry milling of corn, the corn is turned into corn meal, muffins, corn flakes, etc. In the wet milling of corn, the corn is turned into sweetener, starch, alcohol, ethanol, etc. Of America’s corn crop of 7.4 million bushels, 5.6 million bushels will be consumed as animal feed; 1.5 million bushels will be wet milled; and 0.3 million bushels will be dry milled.)

Figures 13, 14, and 15 confirm that the largest meat companies in the food cartel (IBP, ConAgra, Cargill, and two smaller companies) control 72% of America’s beef slaughtering/packing; 45% of its pork slaughtering/packing; and 70% of its sheep slaughtering/packing. The meatpacking industry demonstrates the accelerated rate at which the cartel is building its concentration in these industries. I

n 1979, the top four packers controlled 41% of the industry. Today, they control 72%. (MC: -> today being 1995 when the article was written)

Finally, as Figure 16 shows, four of the six leading grain cartel companies own 24% of America’s grain elevator storage capacity. However, this figure is deceptive. Many of the grain elevators in America are in local areas, where there is a substantial degree of individual or cooperative ownership. When one gets to regional grain elevators, the grain cartel’s ownership percentage is higher. And at ports, where grain is transshipped, the same four grain cartel companies own 59% of all American grain elevator facilities.

A farmer must sell his grain either to a grain elevator, or, in the rarer case where he can afford transport, to a grain miller. In either case, it is a grain cartel company to which he must sell. By this process, the grain cartel sets the price to the farmer—at the lowest level possible.

The control apparatus

The control of food for use as a weapon is an ancient practice. The House of Windsor inherited certain routes and infrastructure. One finds the practice in ancient Babylon/Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago. In Greece, the cults of Apollo, Demeter, and Rhea-Cybele often controlled the shipment of grain and other food stuffs, through the temples. In Imperial Rome, the control of grain became the basis of the empire. Rome was the center. Conquered outlying colonies in Gaul, Brittany, Spain, Sicily, Egypt, North Africa, and the Mediterranean littoral had to ship grain to the noble Roman families, as taxes and tribute. Often the grain tax was greater than the land could bear, and areas of North Africa, for instance, were turned into dust bowls.

The evil city-state of Venice took over grain routes, particularly after the Fourth Crusade (1202-04). The main Venetian thirteenth century trading routes had their eastern termini in Constantinople, the ports of the Oltremare (which were the lands of the crusading States), and Alexandria, Egypt. Goods from these ports were shipped to Venice, and from there made their way up the Po Valley to markets in Lombardy, or over the Alpine passes to the Rhône and into France. Eventually, Venetian trade extended to the Mongol empire in the East.

By the fifteenth century, although Venice was still very much a merchant empire, it had franchised some of its grain and other trade to the powerful Burgundian duchy, whose effective headquarters was Antwerp. This empire, encompassing parts of France, extended from Amsterdam and Belgium to much of present-day Switzerland. From this Venetian-Lombard-Burgundian nexus, each of the food cartel’s six leading grain companies was either founded, or inherited a substantial part of its operations today.

By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British Levant and East India companies had absorbed many of these Venetian operations. In the nineteenth century, the London-based Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange became the world’s leading instrument for contracting for and shipping grain.

The five privately held grain companies were carved out from the centuries-old Mesopotamian-Venetian-Burgundian-Swiss-Amsterdam grain route, which today extends around the world.

The Big Five are Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and Born, and André. The Continental Grain Company is run by billionaire Michel Fribourg and his son Paul. Simon Fribourg started the company in 1813 in Arlon, Belgium. He moved the company to Antwerp, and then, in the 1920s, to Paris and London. Today, it has a New York office, along with a strong Swiss-French base.

In 1852, Léopold Louis Dreyfus, who was born in Sierentz, France, established wheat-trading operations in Basel, Switzerland. In this century, except during World War II, Louis Dreyfus has been headquartered in Paris (part of the old Lombard-Burgundian route).

Bunge and Born was founded by the Bunge family from Amsterdam in 1752. The company was eventually moved to Antwerp (today it is technically headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil and the Netherlands Antilles). The André Company was founded by Georges André in Nyon, Switzerland, and today is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Cargill Company, the world’s largest grain company, is based in the Minneapolis, Minnesota suburb of Minnetonka. It was founded by Scotsman William Cargill, in Conover, Iowa in 1865, and has been run, since the 1920s, by the billionaire MacMillan family. But the true nexus of Cargill is in Geneva, Switzerland, where Cargill’s international trading arm, Tradax, Inc., is headquartered, having been established there in 1956 (technically, Tradax is a Panamanian-registered company). Tradax has divisions all around the world, including in Argentina, Germany, and Japan. It is the major source for Cargill’s international trading; Cargill has a lot of money invested in it, and Cargill reaps a large return from Tradax’s operations. Tradax also has partial Swiss ownership. The Lombard, Odier Bank, as well as the Pictet Bank, both old, private and very dirty Swiss banks, own a chunk of Tradax. The principal financier for Tradax is the Geneva-based Crédit Suisse, which is one of the world’s largest money-launderers.

Archer Daniels Midland’s purchase of Töpfer, a Hamburg, Germany-based grain company, vastly increased ADM’s presence in the world grain trade. Töpfer’s trade is situated within the old Venice-Swiss-Amsterdam-Paris routes, and it has extensive business partnerships with the British Crown jewel, the Rothschild Bank.

Secret intelligence

The manner in which the grain cartel companies operate is highly secretive. All but ADM-Töpfer are private companies, and Bush ally and former Cargill employee Dwayne Andreas runs ADM as his personal fiefdom.

A strategic profile of each of the leading food cartel companies is contained in the following article, but it is worth noting here a few critical points about how they work. Much of their workings is shrouded in mystery, because they release little information to the public. People who have attempted to write books about the grain companies have spent years without getting a single interview from any of the reigning grain company families. Unlike many American companies, where the founding family has long since departed the scene, such as in the case of Morgan bank or Chrysler Corp., the grain cartel companies are run by the same families that have run them for centuries. The inter-married MacMillan and Cargill families run Cargill; the Fribourg family runs Continental; the Louis Dreyfus family runs Louis Dreyfus; the André family runs André; and the Hirsch and Born families run Bunge and Born.

However, the little that has been gleaned is very revealing. In 1979, Dan Morgan wrote The Merchants of Grain, about the world grain trade. He disclosed that Cargill’s Geneva-based trading arm, Tradax, operates not only such as to park sales of grain in order to escape taxes in the United States and most countries, but it confounds anyone trying to follow Cargill’s grain movements. In his book, Morgan reported:

“When Cargill sells a cargo of corn to a Dutch animal-feed manufacturer, the grain is shipped down the Mississippi River, put aboard a vessel at Baton Rouge and sent to Rotterdam. On paper, however … its route is more elaborate. Cargill first sells the corn to Tradax International in Panama, which will ‘hire’ Tradax/Geneva as its agent; Tradax/Geneva then might arrange the sale to a Dutch miller through its subsidiary, Tradax/Holland; any profits would be booked to Tradax/Panama, a tax-haven company, and Tradax/Geneva would earn only a ‘management fee’ for brokering the deal between Tradax/Panama and Tradax/Holland.”

While evading taxes and inspection, Cargill also uses its network to move large shipments of goods anywhere on the globe, on split-second notice. It has an in-house intelligence service that matches the CIA’s: It uses global communication satellites, weather-sensing satellites, a database that utilizes 7,000 primary sources of intelligence, several hundred field offices, etc.

Cargill is representative of all of the grain companies, and a brief examination of it gives insight into all the others. Cargill, which had $51 billion in annual sales in 1994, has a dominant position in many aspects of the world food trade. It is the world’s and the United States’ number-one grain exporter, and has a market share of 25-30% in each of several commodities. It is the world’s number-one cotton trader; the number-one U.S. owner of grain elevators (340); the number-one U.S. manufacturer of corn-based, high-protein animal feeds (through subsidiary Nutrena Mills); the number-two U.S. wet corn miller and U.S. soybean crusher; the number-two Argentine grain exporter (10% of market); the number-three U.S. flour miller (18% of market), U.S. meatpacker (18% of market), U.S. pork packer/slaughterer, and U.S. commercial animal feeder; the number-three French grain exporter (15-18% of the market); and the number-six U.S. turkey producer. It also has a fleet of 420 barges, 11 towboats, 2 huge vessels that sail the Great Lakes, 12 ocean-going ships, 2,000 railroad hopper cars, and 2,000 tank cars.

Cargill has been able to place its people in top posts around the world. Daniel Amstutz, a 25-year Cargill man, was U.S. Undersecretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs in 1983-87, from which post he decided on the export policy of U.S. grains. He later became a leader of the U.S. trade commission in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations on agricultural trade. Meanwhile, the head of Bunge and Born, Nestor Rapanelli, became Argentina’s economics minister within weeks of Carlos Menem coming in as Argentine President in 1989. Rapanelli began shifting Argentina from “State intervention to a ‘market driven’ economy.”

Today, Cargill Company is privately owned and run by the MacMillan family. The MacMillan family’s collective wealth, at $5.1 billion, according to the July 17, 1994 Forbes magazine, is larger than that of the better-known Mellon family. The MacMillans have always been of service to the British. John Hugh MacMillan, president of Cargill from 1936 to 1957, and then chairman from 1957 through 1960, held the title of “hereditary Knight Commander of Justice in the Sovereign Order of St. John (Knights of Malta),” one of the British Crown’s most important orders.

The drive to the East

The food cartel continues to consolidate its worldwide control in the face of the oncoming financial disintegration. In the past four years, the food cartel has bought up many milling-processing plants and bakeries throughout the former Soviet Union and East bloc, bringing these nations under tight food control. Recently, IBP moved to dump cheap Mexican meat there, in order to bankrupt beef producers. The Clinton Agriculture Department has brought them up for investigation.

The food cartel has also built up its control, in the food distribution industries, through such combines as Philip Morris, Grand Metropolitan-Pillsbury, and KKR-RJR-Nabisco-Borden. In the case of Philip Morris, which owns Kraft Foods, General Foods (Post cereals), the Miller Brewing Company, and a host of other brand names, 10¢ of every $1 that an American spends on brand-name food items is for a Philip Morris product.

The food cartel’s power must be broken. This year, the U.S. Justice Department’s Anti-Trust division launched an investigation into price-fixing in the case of corn-based fructose and lysine, by Archer Daniels Midland and some of the other food cartel companies. The case, if brought to trial, could provide valuable information and help to expose and possibly halt, in a limited way, a few of ADM’s practices. But the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss cartel is playing for high stakes—the ability to constrain the supply of raw materials, and above all, food, to turn back the clock of history, and reduce mankind from the 5.6 billion population it currently enjoys to the state of a few hundred million semi-literate souls scratching out a bare existence. (MC-> family members of both the German-Dutch-Orange and German-English-Windsor Houses belong to institutes and groups which advocate for population control, for example, the Club of Rome and the Wilderness Society).

That assault cannot be fought timidly. The full truth about the food cartel must be known.

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_windsor_food.html

Under the UN Agenda 21 the use of rainwater is illegal…

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The Club of Isles

This Brotherhood cartel controls every aspect of the global economic network, the banks, insurance companies, raw materials, transportation, factories, finished products, major retail groups (and by market rigging all the rest), the stock and material markets, governments, media, intelligence agencies and so on.

This is coordinated through the secret societies and one of their most important vehicles is the City of London-House of Windsor operation called the Club of the Isles. It was named after King Edward VII, Queen Victoria’s son, who was the first to carry the title Prince of the Isles. The title is held today by Prince Charles. Edward was heavily involved with Black Nobility barons of the Square Mile London financial district and helped them to engineer the Crimean War, the Russia-Japan War, the preparations for the First World War and the Opium Wars with China.

Through the central organization of the Club of the Isles comes the fantastic web of interlocking directorships which hold apparently independent’ companies in a network of common control and common agenda.

Some of this web include:

The Bank of England;

Anglo-American Corp of South Africa;

Rio Tinto;

Minorco Minerals and Resources Corp;

De Beers Consolidated Mines and De Beers Centenary AG N.M.;

Rothchild Bank Barclays;

Bank Lloyds;

Bank Lloyds Insurance;

Market Midland Bank;

National Westminster;

Bank Barings;

Bank Schroders;

Bank Standard Chartered Bank;

Hambros Bank;

S. G. Warburg,

Toronto Dominion Bank,

Johnson Matthey;

Klienwort Benson Group;

Lazard Brothers;

Lonrho J. P. Morgan and Co Morgan;

Grenfell Group;

British Petroleum;

Shell and Royal Dutch Petroleum;

Cadbury-Schweppes;

BAT Industries;

Assicurazioni Generali SpA, (Venice) Italy;

Courtaulds;

General Electric;

Cazeenove and Co;

Grand Metropolitan;

Hanson plc;

HSBS Holdings (Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank);

Imperial Chemical Industries;

Inchscape plc;

Inco Ltd;

ING Group;

Jardine Matheson;

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co (P & 0);

Pilkington Glass;

Reuters Holdings;

Glaxo Wellcome;

SmithKline Beecham;

Unilever and Unilever NV;

Vickers plc.

And that is just a few of them! Each of these corporations have staggering lists of subsidiaries going on for page after page. Lonrho alone at the time of writing has 640 subsidiaries. http://www.truthcontrol.com/quote/2520

Related:

What is (UN) Agenda 21?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/19/what-is-agenda-21-after-watching-this-you-may-not-want-to-know/

Oklahoma House votes to nullify Agenda 21 | mediachecker (USA – agenda 21)

Socialism Masquerading As Environmentalism – mediachecker (Australia – agenda 21)

Bill Gates, Monsanto, and Eugenics: A Corporate takeover of global agriculture It’s “Gods Work”

Who Put Bill Gates In Charge of the World?

Farmers File Lawsuit to Protect Themselves Against Monsanto

Google Bankrolled By a Branch of the CIA (and MI6…)

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Bill Gates Dodges Questions on Why He Owns 500,000 Shares of  Monsanto:

…It should come as no surprise, then, that Gates owns  500,000 shares worth 23 million US dollars (or more) of Monsanto  stock. The very same company that has been caught running slave rings  in Argentina in which workers were forced to work 14+ hours a day while  withholding payment, has used their massive finances to fund organizations that  literally fake FDA quotes to support GMOs, and of course peddling through GMOs  that have been linked to numerous health concerns.

This is not even taking into account the farmer suicides that occur around  every 30 minutes due to Monsanto’s failing GMO crop yield bankrupting small-time  farmers in India’s notorious ‘suicide  belt‘.

And if that’s not enough, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has  even teamed up with  Cargill to pump GMO soy into the third world.  Cargill, of course, is the the 133 billion dollar corporation that also has been  found in direct violation of human rights laws. Cargill was  sued by the International Labor Rights  Fund for trafficking children from Mali and forcing them to work on  cocoa bean plantations for around 12 to 14 hours each day without pay,  food, or sleep. The company even continues to purchase cotton from Uzbekistan,  where it is well known that child slave labor is used in the  cultivation.

Bill Gates himself even filmed commercials for Monsanto’s GMOs, propping them  up as the ‘solution’ to world hunger despite even the United Nations admitting  that GMOs cannot fight hunger as effectively as traditional farming. Headed by  an entity known as the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge,  Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD), a team of 900 scientists and  researchers studied the issue of world hunger. The results of the major study  were very simple: 900 scientists agreed that GMO crops were not the  answer to the world hunger, and revealed this in 2008 — long before  Bill Gates began claiming that GMOs were the answer while ignoring this readily  available information….
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/bill-gates-dodges-questions-owns-500000-shares-of-monsanto/#ixzz2vKR0QpHd

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Why is the Gates foundation investing in GM giant Monsanto?

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s investments in Monsanto and Cargill have come under heavy criticism.  Is it time for the foundation to come clean on its visions for agriculture in developing countries?

by William Engdahl

EIR Investigation Executive Intelligence Review (EIR),

November 1, 1996

The dossier that follows is based upon a report released on Oct. 1 by EIR’s bureau in Wiesbaden, Germany, titled -

“A Profile of Mega-Speculator George Soros.” Research was contributed by Mark Burdman, Elisabeth Hellenbroich, Paolo Raimondi, and Scott Thompson.

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	Obama – George Soros (György Schwartz) (2008)

Time magazine has characterized financier George Soros as a “modern-day Robin Hood,” who robs from the rich to give to the poor countries of eastern Europe and Russia. It claimed that Soros makes huge financial gains by speculating against western central banks, in order to use his profits to help the emerging post-communist economies of eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, to assist them to create what he calls an “Open Society.”

The Time statement is entirely accurate in the first part, and entirely inaccurate in the second. He robs from rich western countries, and uses his profits to rob even more savagely from the East, under the cloak of “philanthropy.”

His goal is to loot wherever and however he can. Soros has been called the master manipulator of “hit-and-run capitalism.”

As we shall see, what Soros means by “open,” is a society that allows him and his financial predator friends to loot the resources and precious assets of former Warsaw Pact economies. By bringing people like Jeffrey Sachs or Sweden’s Anders Aslund and their economic shock therapy into these economies, Soros lays the groundwork for buying up the assets of whole regions of the world at dirt-cheap prices.

The man who broke the Bank of England?

An examination of Soros’s secretive financial network is vital to understand the true dimension of the “Soros problem” in eastern Europe and other nations.

Following the crisis of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism of September 1992, when the Bank of England was forced to abandon efforts to stabilize the pound sterling, a little-known financial figure emerged from the shadows, to boast that he had personally made over $1 billion in speculation against the British pound. The speculator was the Hungarian-born George Soros, who spent the war in Hungary under false papers working for the Nazi government, identifying and expropriating the property of wealthy fellow Jews. Soros left Hungary after the war, and established American citizenship after some years in London. Today, Soros is based in New York, but that tells little, if anything, of who and what he is.

Following his impressive claims to possession of a “Midas touch,” Soros has let his name be publicly used in a blatant attempt to influence world financial markets—an out-of-character act for most financial investors, who prefer to take advantage of situations not yet discovered by rivals, and keep them secret. Soros the financier is as much a political animal, as a financial speculator.

Soros proclaimed in March 1993, with great publicity, that the price of gold was about to rise sharply; he said that he had just gotten “inside information” that China was about to buy huge sums of gold for its booming economy. Soros was able to trigger a rush into buying gold, which caused prices to rise more than 20% over four months, to the highest level since 1991. Typically for Soros, once the fools rushed in to push prices higher, Soros and his friend Sir James Goldsmith secretly began selling their gold at a huge profit.

Then, in early June 1993, Soros proclaimed his intent to force a sell-off in German government bonds in favor of the French, in an open letter to London Times Financial Editor Anatole Kaletsky, in which Soros proclaimed, “Down with the D-Mark!” Soros has at various times attacked the currencies of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Mexico, coming into newly opened financial markets which have little experience with foreign investors, let alone ones with large funds like Soros. Soros begins buying stocks or bonds in the local market, leading others to naively suppose that he knows something they do not. As with gold, when the smaller investors begin to follow Soros, driving prices of stocks or whatever higher, Soros begins to sell to the eager new buyers, cashing in his 40% or 100% profits, then exiting the market, and often, the entire country, to seek another target for his speculation. This technique gave rise to the term “hit and run.” What Soros always leaves behind, is a collapsed local market and financial ruin of national investors.

The secret of the Quantum Fund NV

Soros is the visible side of a vast and nasty secret network of private financial interests, controlled by the leading aristocratic and royal families of Europe, centered in the British House of Windsor. This network, called by its members the Club of Isles, was built upon the wreckage of the British Empire after World War II.

Rather than use the powers of the state to achieve their geopolitical goals, a secret cross-linked holding of private financial interests, tied to the old aristocratic oligarchy of western Europe, was developed. It was in many ways modeled on the 17th-century British and Dutch East India Companies. The heart of this Club of the Isles is the financial center of the old British Empire, the City of London. Soros is one of what in medieval days were called Hofjuden, the “Court Jews,” who were deployed by the aristocratic families.

The most important of such “Jews who are not Jews,” are the Rothschilds, who launched Soros’s career. They are members of the Club of the Isles and retainers of the British royal family. This has been true since Amschel Rothschild sold the British Hessian troops to fight against George Washington during the American Revolution.

Soros is American only in his passport. He is a global financial operator, who happens to be in New York, simply because “that’s where the money is,” as the bank robber Willy Sutton once quipped, when asked why he always robbed banks. Soros speculates in world financial markets through his offshore company, Quantum Fund NV, a private investment fund, or “hedge fund.” His hedge fund reportedly manages some $11-14 billion of funds on behalf of its clients, or investors—one of the most prominent of whom is, according to Soros, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, the wealthiest person in Europe.

The Quantum Fund is registered in the tax haven of the Netherlands Antilles, in the Caribbean [German-Dutch House of Orange]. This is to avoid paying taxes, as well as to hide the true nature of his investors and what he does with their money.

Legal headquarters moved to tax heaven Curacao

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	Jacob Mollerup / Möllerup (wrong spelling)
	Top Journalists that Serve on the George Soros-Funded Boards of Directors or Advisers – Officers and Directors Jacob Möllerup – Danish Broadcasting Corporation and president of ONO. Business & Media Institute
	Supported by The Open Society InstituteMembers Denmark: December 4 2009 Jacob Mollerup, viewers’ editor Danish Broadcasting Corporation DR December 4 2009 Bjarne Schilling, viewers’ editor, Politiken December 4 2009 Lars Bennike, viewers’ editor TV 2|denmark http://newsombudsmen.org/…/denmark Associate members Esben Ørberg Danish Union of Journalists Gl. Strand 46, Copenhagen, Denmark Head of Programme Fagfestival Head of Communications Dansk Journalistforbund http://newsombudsmen.org…members The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Who supports us: Open Society Foundations (mfl) ECFR’s Board members: Asger Aamund Uffe Ellemann-Jensen Lykke Friis Hans Hækkerup Helle Thorning Schmidt http://ecfr.eu/content/entry/12

In order to avoid U.S. government supervision of his financial activities, something normal U.S.-based investment funds must by law agree to in order to operate, Soros moved his legal headquarters to the Caribbean tax haven of Curacao. The Netherlands Antilles has repeatedly been cited by the Task Force on Money Laundering of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as one of the world’s most important centers for laundering illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine and other drug traffic. It is a possession of the NETHERLANDS [German-Dutch House of Orange].

Soros has taken care that the none of the 99 individual investors who participate in his various funds is an American national. By U.S. securities law, a hedge fund is limited to no more than 99 highly wealthy individuals, so-called “sophisticated investors.” By structuring his investment company as an offshore hedge fund, Soros avoids public scrutiny.

Soros himself is not even on the board of Quantum Fund. Instead, for legal reasons, he serves the Quantum Fund as official “investment adviser,” through another company, Soros Fund Management, of New York City. If any demand were to be made of Soros to reveal the details of Quantum Fund’s operations, he is able to claim he is “merely its investment adviser.” Any competent police investigator looking at the complex legal structure of Soros’s businesses would conclude that there is prima facie evidence of either vast money laundering of illicit funds, or massive illegal tax evasion. Both may be true.

To make it impossible for U.S. tax authorities or other officials to look into the financial dealings of his web of businesses, the board of directors of Quantum Fund NV also includes no American citizens. His directors are Swiss, Italian, and British financiers.

George Soros is part of a tightly knit financial mafia—”mafia,” in the sense of a closed masonic-like fraternity of families pursuing common aims. Anyone who dares to criticize Soros or any of his associates, is immediately hit with the charge of being “anti-Semitic”—-a criticism which often silences or intimidates genuine critics of Soros’s unscrupulous operations. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith considers it a top priority to “protect” Soros from the charges of “anti-Semites” in Hungary and elsewhere in Central Europe, according to ADL National Director Abraham Foxman. The ADL’s record of service to the British oligarchy has been amply documented by EIR (e.g. The Ugly Truth About the Anti-Defamation League [Washington, D.C., Executive Intelligence Review: 1992]).

According to knowledgeable U.S. and European investigators, Soros’s circle includes indicted metals and commodity speculator and fugitive Marc Rich of Zug, Switzerland and Tel Aviv; secretive Israeli arms and commodity dealer Shaul Eisenberg, and “Dirty Rafi” Eytan, both linked to the financial side of the Israeli Mossad; and, the family of Jacob Lord Rothschild. (MC->Clinton pardoned March Rich)

Understandably, Soros and the Rothschild interests prefer to keep their connection hidden far from public view, so as to obscure the well-connected friends Soros enjoys in the City of London, the British Foreign Office, Israel, and the U.S. financial establishment. The myth, therefore, has been created, that Soros is a lone financial investment “genius” who, through his sheer personal brilliance in detecting shifts in markets, has become one of the world’s most successful speculators. According to those who have done business with him, Soros never makes a major investment move without sensitive insider information.

On the board of directors of Soros’s Quantum Fund N.V. is Richard Katz, a Rothschild man who is also on the board of the London N.M. Rothschild and Sons merchant bank, and the head of Rothschild Italia S.p.A. of Milan. Another Rothschild family link to Soros’s Quantum Fund is Quantum board member Nils O. Taube, the partner of the London investment group St. James Place Capital, whose major partner is Lord Rothschild. London Times columnist Lord William Rees-Mogg is also on the board of Rothschild’s St. James Place Capital.

A frequent business partner of Soros in various speculative deals, including in the 1993 gold manipulation, although not on the Quantum Fund directly, is the Anglo-French speculator Sir James Goldsmith, a cousin of the Rothschild family.

>From the very first days when Soros created his own investment fund in 1969, he owed his success to his relation to the Rothschild family banking network. Soros worked in New York in the 1960s for a small private bank close to the Rothschilds, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder, Inc., a banking family which represented Rothschild interests in Germany during Bismarck’s time. To this day, A. & S. Bleichroeder, Inc. remains the Principal Custodian, along with Citibank, of funds of Soros’s Quantum Fund. George C. Karlweiss, of Edmond de Rothschild’s Switzerland-based Banque Privee SA in Lugano, as well as of the scandal-tainted Rothschild Bank AG of Zurich, gave Soros financial backing. Karlweiss provided some of the vital initial capital and investors for Soros’s Quantum Fund.

Union Banque Privee and the ‘Swiss connection’

Another member of the board of Soros’s Quantum Fund is the head of one of the most controversial Swiss private banks, Edgar de Picciotto, who has been called “one of the cleverest bankers in Geneva”—and is one of the most scandal-tainted. De Picciotto, from an old Portuguese Jewish trading family, who was born in Lebanon, is head of the Geneva private bank CBI-TDB Union Bancaire Privee, a major player in the gold and offshore hedge funds business. Hedge funds have been identified by international police agencies as the fastest-growing outlet for illegal money laundering today.

De Picciotto is a longtime friend and business associate of banker Edmond Safra, also born in Lebanon, whose family came from Aleppo, Syria, and who now controls the Republic Bank of New York. Republic Bank has been identified in U.S. investigations into Russian organized crime, as the bank involved in transferring billions of U.S. Federal Reserve notes from New York to organized crime-controlled Moscow banks, on behalf of Russian organized crime figures. Safra is under investigation by U.S. and Swiss authorities for laundering Turkish and Columbian drug money. In 1990, Safra’s Trade Development Bank (TDB) of Geneva was merged with de Picciotto’s CBI to create the CBI-TDB Union Banque Privee. The details of the merger are shrouded in secrecy to this day. As part of the deal, de Picciotto became a board member of American Express Bank (Switzerland) SA of Geneva, and two American Express Bank of New York executives sit on the board of de Picciotto’s Union Banque Privee. Safra had sold his Trade Development Bank to American Express, Inc. in the 1980s. Henry Kissinger sits on the board of American Express, Inc., which has repeatedly been implicated in international money-laundering scandals.

De Picciotto’s start as a Geneva banker came from Nicholas Baring of the London Barings Bank, who tapped de Picciotto to run the bank’s secret Swiss bank business. Barings has for centuries been private banker to the British royal family, and since the bank’s collapse in March 1995, has been overhauled by the Dutch ING Bank, which is reported to be a major money-laundering institution.

De Picciotto is also a longtime business partner of Venetian businessman Carlo De Benedetti, who recently was forced to resign as head of Olivetti Corp. Both persons sit on the board of the Societe Financiere de Geneve investment holding company in Geneva. De Benedetti is under investigation in Italy for suspicion of triggering the collapse of Italy’s Banco Ambrosiano in the early 1980s.

***The head of that bank, Roberto Calvi, was later found hanging from the London Blackfriar’s Bridge, in what police believe was a masonic ritual murder.***

De Picciotto and his Union Banque Privee have been implicated in numerous drug and illegal money-laundering operations. In November 1994, U.S. federal agents arrested a senior official of de Picciotto’s Geneva bank, Jean-Jacques Handali, along with two other UBP officials, on charges of leading a multimillion-dollar drug-money-laundering ring. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami, Handali and Union Banque Privee were the “Swiss connection” in an international drug-money-laundering ring tied to Colombian and Turkish cocaine and heroin organizations. A close business and political associate of de Picciotto is a mysterious arm dealer, Helmut Raiser, who is linked in business dealings with reputed Russian organized crime kingpin Grigori Luchansky, who controls the Russian and Swiss holding company Nordex Group.

Another director of Soros’s Quantum Fund is Isodoro Albertini, owner of the Milan stock brokerage firm Albertini and Co. Beat Notz of the Geneva Banque Worms is another private banker on the board of Soros’s Quantum Fund, as is Alberto Foglia, who is chief of the Lugano, Switzerland Banca del Ceresio. Lugano, just across the Swiss border from Milan, is notorious as the financial secret bank haven for Italian organized crime families, including the heroin mafia behind the 1980s “Pizza Connection” case. The Banca del Ceresio has been one of the secret Swiss banks identified in the recent Italian political corruption scandals as the repository of bribe funds of several Italian politicians now in prison.

The sponsorship of the Rothschilds

Soros’s relation to the Rothschild finance circle represents no ordinary or casual banking connection. It goes a long way to explain the extraordinary success of a mere private speculator, and Soros’s uncanny ability to “gamble right” so many times in such high-risk markets. Soros has access to the “insider track” in some of the most important government and private channels in the world.

Since World War II, the Rothschild family, at the heart of the financial apparatus of the Club of the Isles, has gone to great lengths to create a public myth about its own insignificance. The family has spent significant sums cultivating a public image as a family of wealthy, but quiet, “gentlemen,” some of whom prefer to cultivate fine French wines, some of whom are devoted to charity.

Since British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote his famous November 1917 letter to Lord Rothschild, expressing official British government backing for establishment of a Palestinian national home for the Jewish people, the Rothschilds were intimately involved in the creation of Israel. But behind their public facade of a family donating money for projects such as planting trees in the deserts of Israel, N.M. Rothschild of London is at the center of various intelligence operations, and more than once has been linked to the more unsavory elements of international organized crime. The family prefers to keep such links at arm’s length, and away from its London headquarters, via its lesser-known outposts such as their Zurich Rothschild Bank AG and Rothschild Italia of Milan, the bank of Soros partner Richard Katz.

N.M. Rothschild is considered by City of London sources to be one of the most influential parts of the British intelligence establishment, tied to the Thatcher “free market” wing of the Tory Party. Rothschild and Sons made huge sums managing for Thatcher the privatization of billions of dollars of British state industry holdings during the 1980s, and today, for John Major’s government. Rothschilds is also at the very heart of the world gold trade, being the bank at which twice daily the London Gold Fix is struck by a group of the five most influential gold trade banks. Gold constitutes a major part of the economy of drug dealings globally.

N.M. Rothschild and Sons is also implicated in some of the filthiest drugs-for-weapons secret intelligence operations. Because it is connected to the highest levels of the British intelligence establishment, Rothschilds managed to evade any prominent mention of its complicity in one of the more sordid black covert intelligence networks, that of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Rothschilds was at the center of the international web of money-laundering banks used during the 1970s and 1980s by Britain’s MI-6 and the networks of Col. Oliver North and George Bush, to finance such projects as the Nicaraguan Contras.

On June 8, 1993 the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Banking, Rep. Henry Gonzalez (D-Tex.), made a speech charging that the U.S. government, under the previous Bush and Reagan administrations, had systematically refused to prosecute the BCCI, and that the Department of Justice had repeatedly refused to cooperate with Congressional investigations of both the BCCI scandal and what Gonzalez claims is the closely related scandal of the Atlanta, Georgia Banca Nationale del Lavoro, which was alleged to have secured billions in loans from the Bush administration to Saddam Hussein, just prior to the Gulf War of 1990-91.

Gonzalez charged that the Bush administration had “a Justice Department that I say, and I repeat, has been the most corrupt, most unbelievably corrupt justice system that I have seen in the 32 years I have been in the Congress.”

The BCCI violated countless laws, including laundering drug money, financing illegal arms traffic, and falsifying bank records. In July 1991, New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced a grand jury indictment against BCCI, charging it with having committed “the largest bank fraud in world financial history. BCCI operated as a corrupt criminal organization throughout its entire 19-year history.”

The BCCI had links directly into the Bush White House. Saudi Sheik Kamal Adham, a BCCI director and former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence when George Bush was head of the CIA, was one of the BCCI shareholders indicted in the United States. Days after his indictment, former top Bush White House aide Edward Rogers went to Saudi Arabia as a private citizen to sign a contract to represent Sheikh Adham in the United States.

— continued in part 2 — — continued from part 1 —

But, what has never been identified in a single major Western press investigation, was that the Rothschild group was at the heart of the vast illegal web of BCCI. The key figure was Dr. Alfred Hartmann, the managing director of the BCCI Swiss subsidiary, Banque de Commerce et de Placement SA; at the same time, he ran the Zurich Rothschild Bank AG, and sat in London as a member of the board of N.M. Rothschild and Sons, Hartmann was also a business partner of Helmut Raiser, friend of de Picciotto, and linked to Nordex.

Hartmann was also chairman of the Swiss affiliate of the Italian BNL bank, which was implicated in the Bush administration illegal transfers to Iraq prior to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The Atlanta branch of BNL, with the knowledge of George Bush when he was vice president, conduited funds to Helmut Raiser’s Zug, Switzerland company, Consen, for development of the CondorII missile program by Iraq, Egypt, and Argentina, during the Iran-Iraq War. Hartmann was vice-chairman of another secretive private Geneva bank, the Bank of NY-Inter-Maritime Bank, a bank whose chairman, Bruce Rappaport, was one of the illegal financial conduits for Col. Oliver North’s Contra drugs-for-weapons network during the late 1980. North also used the BCCI as one of his preferred banks to hide his illegal funds.

Rich, Reichmann, and Soros’s Israeli links

According to reports of former U.S. State Department intelligence officers familiar with the Soros case, Soros’s Quantum Fund amassed a war chest of well over $10 billion, with the help of a powerful group of “silent” investors who let Soros deploy the capital to demolish European monetary stability in September 1992.

Among Soros’s silent investors, these sources say, are the fugitive metals and oil trader Marc Rich, based in Zug, Switzerland; and Shaul Eisenberg, a decades-long member of Israeli Mossad intelligence, who functions as a major arms merchant throughout Asia and the Near East. Eisenberg was recently banned from doing business in Uzbekistan, where he had been accused by the government of massive fraud and corruption. A third Soros partner is Israel’s “Dirty Rafi” Eytan, who served in London previously as Mossad liaison to British intelligence.

Rich was one of the most active western traders in oil, aluminum, and other commodities in the Soviet Union and Russia between 1989 and 1993. This, not coincidentally, is just the period when Grigori Luchansky’s Nordex Group became a multibillion-dollar company selling Russian oil, aluminum, and other commodities.

Canadian real estate entrepreneur Paul Reichmann, formerly of Olympia and York notoriety, a Hungarian-born Jew like Soros, is a business partner in Soros’s Quantum Realty, a $525-million real estate investment fund.

The Reichmann tie links Soros as well with Henry Kissinger and former Tory Foreign Minister Lord Carrington (who is also a member of Kissinger Associates, Inc. of New York). Reichmann sits with both Kissinger and Carrington on the board of the influential British-Canadian publishing group, Hollinger, Inc. Hollinger owns a large number of newspapers in Canada and the United States, the London Daily Telegraph, and the largest English-language daily in Israel, the Jerusalem Post. Hollinger has been attacking President Clinton and the Middle East peace process ever since Clinton’s election in November 1992. (MC->the Clintonite mafia vs the Bushite mafia – heh)

Soros and geopolitics

Soros is little more than one of several significant vehicles for economic and financial warfare by the Club of the Isles faction. Because his affiliations to these interests have not previously been spotlighted, he serves extremely useful functions for the oligarchy, as in 1992 and 1993, when he launched his attack on the European Rate Mechanism.

Although Soros’s speculation played a role in finally taking the British pound out of the ERM currency group entirely, it would be a mistake to view that action as “anti-British.” Soros went for the first time to London, where he studied under Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek at the London School of Economics.

Soros’s business ties to Sir James Goldsmith and Lord Rothschild place him in the inner circles of the Thatcher wing of the British establishment. By helping the “anti-Europe” Thatcherites pull Britain out of the ERM in September 1992 (and making more than $1 billion in the process at British taxpayer expense), Soros helped the long-term goal of the Thatcherites in weakening continental Europe’s economic stability. Since 1904 , it has been British geopolitical strategy to prevent by all means any successful economic linkage between western continental European economies, especially that of Germany, with Russia and the countries of eastern Europe. -  (MC->??)

Soros’s personal outlook is consonant with that of the Thatcher wing of the Tory Party, those who three years ago launched the “Germany, the Fourth Reich” hate campaign against unified Germany, comparing Chancellor Helmut Kohl with Adolf Hitler. Soros is personally extremely anti-German. In his 191 autobiography, Underwriting Democracy, Soros warned that a reunited Germany would “upset the balance of Europe …. It is easy to see how the interwar scenario could be replayed. A united Germany becomes the strongest economic power and develops Eastern Europe as its Lebensraum … a potent witches’ brew.” Soros’s recent public attacks on the German economy and the deutsche mark are fundamentally motivated by this geopolitical view.

Soros is quite close to the circles of George Bush in the U.S. intelligence community and finance. His principal bank custodian, and reputed major lender in the 1992 assault on Europe’s ERM, is Citicorp NA, the nation’s largest bank. Citicorp is more than a lending institution; it is a core part of the American liberal establishment. In 1989, as it became clear that German unification was a real possibility, a senior official at Citicorp, a former adviser to Michael Dukakis’s Presidential campaign, told a European business associate that “German unity will be a disaster for our interests; we must take measures to ensure a sharp D-Mark collapse on the order of 30%, so that she will not have the capability to reconstruct East Germany into the economic engine of a new Europe.”

While Soros was calling on world investors to pull down the deutsche mark in 1993, he had been making a strong play in the French media, since late 1992, to portray himself as a “friend of French interests.” Soros is reported to be close to senior figures of the French establishment, the Treasury, and in particular, Bank of France head Jean-Claude Trichet. In effect, Soros is echoing the old Entente Cordiale alliance against Germany, which helped precipitate World War 1.

Soros admits that he survived in Nazi Hungary during the war, as a Jew, by adopting what he calls a double personality. “I have lived with a double personality practically all my life,” Soros recently stated. “It started at age fourteen in Hungary, when I assumed a false identity in order to escape persecution as a Jew.” Soros admitted in a radio interview that his father gave him Nazi credentials in Hungary during the war, and he looted wealthy Jewish estates. Further research showed that this operation was probably run by the SS.

Soros did not leave the country until two years after the war. Though he and his friends in the media are quick to attack any policy opponent of Soros, especially in eastern Europe, as being “anti-Semitic,” Soros’s Jewish identity apparently has only utilitarian value for him, rather than providing moral foundations. In short, the young Soros was a cynical, ambitious person, the ideal recruit for the British postwar intelligence network.

Soros savages eastern Europe

Soros has established no fewer than 19 “charitable” foundations across eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. (MC->gone up tenfold since 1996 when this article was written.) He has sponsored “peace” concerts in former Yugoslavia with such performers as Joan Baez. He is helping send young east Europeans to Oxford University. A model citizen, is the image he broadcasts.

The reality is something else. Soros has been personally responsible for introducing shock therapy into the emerging economies of eastern Europe since 1989. He has deliberately fostered on fragile new governments in the east the most draconian economic madness, policies which have allowed Soros and his financial predator friends, such as Marc Rich and Shaul Eisenberg, to loot the resources of large parts of eastern Europe at dirt-cheap prices. Here are illustrative case histories of Soros’s eastern “charity”:

Poland: In late 1989, Soros organized a secret meeting between the “reform” communist government of Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski and the leaders of the then-illegal Solidarnosc trade union organization. According to well-informed Polish sources, at that 1989 meeting, Soros unveiled his “plan” for Poland: The communists must let Solidarnosc take over the government, so as to gain the confidence of the population. Then, said Soros, the state must act to bankrupt its own industrial and agricultural enterprises, using astronomical interest rates, withholding state credits, and burdening firms with unpayable debt. Once these were done, Soros promised that he would encourage his wealthy international business friends to come into Poland, as prospective buyers of the privatized state enterprises. A recent example of this privatization plan is the case of the large steel facility Huta Warsawa. According to steel experts, this modern complex would cost $3-4 billion for a western company to build new. Several months ago, the Polish government agreed to assume the debts of Huta Warsawa, and to sell the debt-free enterprise to a Milan company, Lucchini, for $30 million!.

Soros recruited his friend, Harvard University economist Jeffery Sachs, who had previously advised the Bolivian government in economic policy, leading to the takeover of that nation’s economy by the cocaine trade. To further his plan in Poland, Soros set up one of his numerous foundations, the Stefan Batory Foundation, the official sponsor of Sach’s work in Poland in 1989-90.

Soros boasts, “I established close personal contact with Walesa’s chief adviser, Bronislaw Geremek. I was also received by [President Gen Wojciech] Jaruzelski, the head of State, to obtain his blessing for my foundation.” He worked closely with the eminence gris of Polish shock therapy, Witold Trzeciakowski, a shadow adviser to Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz. Soros also cultivated relations with Balcerowicz, the man who would first impose Sach’s shock therapy on Poland. Soros says when Walesa was elected President, that “largely because of western pressure, Walesa retained Balcerowicz as minister.” Balcerowicz imposed a freeze on wages while industry was to be bankrupted by a cutoff of state credits. Industrial output fell by more than 30% over two years.

Soros admits he knew in advance that his shock therapy would cause huge unemployment, closing of factories, and social unrest. For this reason, he insisted that Solidarnosc be brought into the government, to help deal with the unrest. Through the Batory Foundation, Soros coopted key media opinion makers such as Adam Michnik, and through cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, imposed a media censorship favorable to Soros’s shock therapy, and hostile to all critics.

Russia and the Community of Independent States (CIS): Soros headed a delegation to Russia, where he had worked together with Raisa Gorbachova since the late 1980s, to establish the Cultural Initiative Foundation. As with his other “charitable foundations,” this was a tax-free vehicle for Soros and his influential Western friends to enter the top policymaking levels of the country, and for tiny sums of scarce hard currency, but up important political and intellectual figures. After a false start under Mikhail Gorbachov in 1988-91, Soros shifted to the new Yeltsin circle. It was Soros who introduced Jeffery Sachs and shock therapy into Russia, in late 1991. Soros describes his effort: “I started mobilizing a group of economists to take to the Soviet Union (July 1990). Professor Jeffery Sachs, with whom I had worked in Poland, was ready and eager to participate. He suggested a number of other participants: Romano Prodi from Italy; David Finch, a retired official from the IMF [International Monetary Fund]. I wanted to include Stanley Fischer and Jacob Frenkel, heads of research of the World Bank and IMF, respectively; Larry Summers from Harvard and Michael Bruno of the Central Bank of Israel.”

Since Jan. 2, 1992, shock therapy has introduced chaos and hyperinflation into Russia. Irreplaceable groups from advanced scientific research institutes have fled in pursuit of jobs in the West. Yegor Gaidar and the Yeltsin government imposed draconian cuts in state spending to industry and agriculture, even though the entire economy was state-owned. A goal of a zero deficit budget within three months was announced. Credit to industry was ended, and enterprises piled up astronomical debts, as inflation of the ruble went out of control.

The friends of Soros lost no time in capitalizing on this situation. Marc Rich began buying Russian aluminum at absurdly cheap prices, with his hard currency. Rich then dumped the aluminum onto western industrial markets last year, causing a 30% collapse in the price of the metal, as western industry had no way to compete. There was such an outflow of aluminum last year from Russia, that there were shortages of aluminum for Russian fish canneries. At the same time, Rich reportedly moved in to secure export control over the supply of most West Siberian crude oil to western markets. Rich’s companies have been under investigation for fraud in Russia, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal of May 13, 1993.

Another Soros silent partner who has moved in to exploit the chaos in the former Soviet Union, is Shaul Eisenberg. Eisenberg, reportedly with a letter of introduction from then-European Bank chief Jacques Attali, managed to secure an exclusive concession for textiles and other trade in Uzbekistan. When Uzbek officials confirmed defrauding of the government by Eisenberg, his concessions were summarily abrogated. The incident has reportedly caused a major loss for Israeli Mossad strategic interests throughout the Central Asian republics.

Soros has extensive influence in Hungary. When nationalist opposition parliamentarian Istvan Csurka tried to protest what was being done to ruin the Hungarian economy, under the policies of Soros and friends, Csurka was labeled an “anti-Semite,” and in June 1993, he was forced out of the governing Democratic Forum, as a result of pressure from Soros-linked circles in Hungary and abroad, including Soros’s close friend, U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos.

Lighting the Balkan Fuse

In early 1990, in what was then still Yugoslavia, Soros’s intervention with shock therapy, in cooperation with the IMF, helped light the economic fuse that led to the outbreak of war in June 1991.

Soros boasted at that time, “Yugoslavia is a particularly interesting case. Even as national rivalries have brought the country to the verge of a breakup, a radical monetary stabilization program, which was introduced on the same date as in Poland—January 1, 1990—–has begun to change the political landscape. The program is very much along the Polish lines, and it had greater initial success. By the middle of the year, people were beginning to think Yugoslav again.”

Soros is friends with former Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, the former U.S. ambassador to Belgrade and the patron of Serbian Communist leader Slobodan Milosevic. Eagleburger is a past president of Kissinger Associates, on whose board sits Lord Carrington, whose Balkan mediations supported Serbian aggression into Croatia and Bosnia.

Today, Soros has established his Foundation centers in Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, and a Soros Yugoslavia Foundation in Belgrade, Serbia. In Croatia, he has tried to use his foundation monies to woo influential journalists or to slander opponents of his shock therapy, by labeling them variously “anti-Semitic” or “neo-Nazi.” The head of Soros’s Open Society Fund—Croatia, Prof. Zarko Puhovski, is a man who has reportedly made a recent dramatic conversion from orthodox Marxism to Soros’s radical free market. Only seven years ago, according to one of his former students, as professor of philosophy at the University of Zagreb, Puhovski attacked students trying to articulate a critique of communism, by insisting, “It is unprincipled to criticize Marxism from a liberal standpoint.” His work for the Soros Foundation in Zagreb has promoted an anti-nationalist “global culture,” hiring a network of anti-Croatian journalists to propagandize, in effect, for the Serbian cause. (MC->retrospecitvely one can say they did a pretty poor job of it)

These examples can be elaborated for each of the other 19 locations across eastern Europe where George Soros operates.

The political agenda of Soros and this group of financial “globalists” will create the conditions for a new outbreak of war, even world war, if it continues to be tolerated. (MC-> true, for the Ukraine)

Related:

Denisto.eu 28 december 2013 – Khodorkovski, Poutine ……et Jacob? [Rothschild]

Balder.org 31 december 2010 – Peter Myers: Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s conviction exposes links with George Soros & Lord Jacob Rothschild.

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David Icke 31 december 2010 on Rothchild & Soros & Zionism – THEY DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME …

Balder.org – Alle 5 bestyrelsesmedlemmer af den amerikanske centralbank Federal Reserve (Fed) er Jøder + meget mere (All Fed CEOs are Jews)

Balder.org 8 april 2009 – Mind Bending Powers of the Masters of the Media (Who controlls the British media?)

Balder Blog 30 december 2010 – Hvorfor al den sympati for den jødiske finanskriminel Mikhail Khodorkovsky?

Spreelichter 28 december 2010 – Chodorkowski – das faire Verfahren

Evolutie 30 december 2010 – Rusland en de joden.

26 september 2012 – Jacob Rothschild je kriv za zavjeru protiv čovječanstva

http://balder.org/judea/George-Soros-The-Secret-Financial-Network-Behind-The-Wizard–By-William-Engdahl.php

“Then, said Soros, the state must act to bankrupt its own industrial and agricultural enterprises, using astronomical interest rates, withholding state credits, and burdening firms with unpayable debt. Once this were done, Soros promised that he would encourage his wealthy international business friends to come into Poland, as prospective buyers of the privatized state enterprises. A recent example of this privatization plan is the case of the large steel facility Huta Warsawa. According to steel experts, this modern complex would cost $3-4 billion for a western company to build new. Several months ago, the Polish government agreed to assume the debts of Huta Warsawa, and to sell the debt-free enterprise to a Milan company, Lucchini, for $30 million!”

In Poland, Rothchild and the Club of Isles agent Soros, used Jeffrey Sachs theory of economical ”shock therapy” trickery, which resulted in all of them making a ”killing” on the backs of regular working people! Yesterday Poland or Yugoslavia, today it’s the Ukraine. The protestors  have no idea what’s really happening or they wouldn’t have ousted their democratically elected president who actually did know what was happening. It’s sad they’re so taken by Europe and their/his “open”, “democracy” and “transparency” indoctrination schemes. Now the people have an “interim” parliment who were hand-picked by the dictators of the West, a parliment who’ll give away bank and country to the World Bank and the IMF.

Paul Craig Roberts Infowars.com March 6, 2014

Naive protesters who believed the propaganda that EU membership offered a better life are due to lose half of their pension by April. But this is only the beginning. Photo: streetwrk.com

According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s poor. http://www.kommersant.ua/doc/2424454 It is Greece all over again.

Before anything approaching stability and legitimacy has been obtained for the puppet government put in power by the Washington orchestrated coup against the legitimate, elected Ukraine government, the Western looters are already at work. Naive protesters who believed the propaganda that EU membership offered a better life are due to lose half of their pension by April. But this is only the beginning.

The corrupt Western media describes loans as “aid.” However, the 11 billion euros that the EU is offering Kiev is not aid. It is a loan. Moreover, it comes with many strings, including Kiev’s acceptance of an IMF austerity plan.

Remember now, gullible Ukrainians participated in the protests that were used to overthrow their elected government, because they believed the lies told to them by Washington-financed NGOs that once they joined the EU they would have streets paved with gold. Instead they are getting cuts in their pensions and an IMF austerity plan. [MC-> the Soros-Sachs "shock therapy".]

The austerity plan will cut social services, funds for education, layoff government workers, devalue the currency, thus raising the prices of imports which include Russian gas, thus electricity, and open Ukrainian assets to takeover by Western corporations.

Ukraine’s agriculture lands will pass into the hands of American agribusiness.

One part of the Washington/EU plan for Ukraine, or that part of Ukraine that doesn’t defect to Russia, has succeeded. What remains of the country will be thoroughly looted by the West.

The other part hasn’t worked as well. Washington’s Ukrainian stooges lost control of the protests to organized and armed ultra-nationalists. These groups, whose roots go back to those who fought for Hitler during World War 2, engaged in words and deeds that sent southern and eastern Ukraine clamoring to be returned to Russia where they resided prior to the 1950s when the Soviet communist party stuck them into Ukraine.

At this time of writing it looks like Crimea has seceded from Ukraine. Washington and its NATO puppets can do nothing but bluster and threaten sanctions. The White House Fool has demonstrated the impotence of the “US sole superpower” by issuing sanctions against unknown persons, whoever they are, responsible for returning Crimea to Russia, where it existed for about 200 years before, according to Solzhenitsyn, a drunk Khrushchev of Ukrainian ethnicity moved southern and eastern Russian provinces into Ukraine. Having observed the events in western Ukraine, those Russian provinces want to go back home where they belong, just as South Ossetia wanted nothing to do with Georgia.

Washington’s stooges in Kiev can do nothing about Crimea except bluster. Under the Russian-Ukraine agreement, Russia is permitted 25,000 troops in Crimea. The US/EU media’s deploring of a “Russian invasion of 16,000 troops” is either total ignorance or complicity in Washington’s lies. Obviously, the US/EU media is corrupt. Only a fool would rely on their reports. Any media that would believe anything Washington says after George W. Bush and Dick Cheney sent Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN to peddle the regime’s lies about “Iraqi weapons of mass destruction,” which the weapons inspectors had told the White House did not exist, is clearly a collection of bought-and-paid for whores.

In the former Russian provinces of eastern Ukraine, Putin’s low-key approach to the strategic threat that Washington has brought to Russia has given Washington a chance to hold on to a major industrial complex that serves the Russian economy and military. The people themselves in eastern Ukraine are in the streets demanding separation from the unelected government that Washington’s coup has imposed in Kiev. Washington, realizing that its incompetence has lost Crimea, had its Kiev stooges appoint Ukrainian oligarchs, against whom the Maiden protests were partly directed, to governing positions in eastern Ukraine cities. These oligarchs have their own private militias in addition to the police and any Ukrainian military units that are still functioning. The leaders of the protesting Russians are being arrested and disappeared. Washington and its EU puppets, who proclaim their support for self-determination, are only for self-determination when it can be orchestrated in their favor. Therefore, Washington is busy at work suppressing self-determination in eastern Ukraine.

This is a dilemma for Putin. His low-key approach has allowed Washington to seize the initiative in eastern Ukraine. The oligarchs Taruta and Kolomoyskiy have been put in power in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk, and are carrying out arrests of Russians and committing unspeakable crimes, but you will never hear of it from the US presstitutes. Washington’s strategy is to arrest and deep-six the leaders of the secessionists so that there no authorities to request Putin’s intervention.

If Putin has drones, he has the option of taking out Taruta and Kolomoyskiy. If Putin lets Washington retain the Russian provinces of eastern Ukraine, he will have demonstrated a weakness that Washington will exploit. Washington will exploit the weakness to the point that Washington forces Putin to war.

The war will be nuclear.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available. Source

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“Remember now, gullible Ukrainians participated in the protests that were used to overthrow their elected government, because they believed the lies told to them by Washington-financed NGOs that once they joined the EU they would have streets paved with gold. Instead they are getting cuts in their pensions and an IMF austerity plan.” [MC-> the Soros-Sachs "shock therapy".]

“The austerity plan will cut social services, funds for education, layoff government workers, devalue the currency, thus raising the prices of imports which include Russian gas, thus electricity, and open Ukrainian assets to takeover by Western corporations.”

“Ukraine’s agriculture lands will pass into the hands of American agribusiness.”

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Exactly, and so it goes, yet another country falling victim to the German-Dutch House of Orange and the German-Dutch House of Windsor – The Club of Isles.

The democratically elected president was ousted in a coup – so if he was so corrupt that it was justified – why didn’t his next in line takeover? Why permit outsiders to select the members of an interim Ukrainian Parliment?

The interim parliment are euphoric since they too will gain from the victimization of the Ukrainian people and their resources. Listen to the Nuland tape where she states who the next leader of the Ukraine is going to be…a central banker…she was even pictured with him (right) plus two spares. I believe they all got a seat at the table.

Cynical stunt coordinated with anti-Russian agitator

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 7, 2014

Ex-RT host Liz Wahl is not “brave” or “courageous.” Her resignation reeks of hypocrisy.

In a follow up interview with Fox News, Wahl, who resigned in protest against state propaganda, says “yes” she would take a job with CNN.

Yet…

Amber Lyon ex-CNN reporter (a three time Emmy winner) reveals CNN lies and war propaganda to this ex-RT reporter Liz Wahl (see above) from RT in October 3, 2012! As per the 2nd video posted above – ex-RT reporter said she’d take a job with CNN.

Ironic? heh

Then we’ve got Euronews – funded by the EU, the BBC – funded by the Foreign Minister Office and a member of Chatham House (Britains shadow government), the Guardian – partly funded by the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation and a member of Chatham House (Britains shadow government).  And…These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America (the illusion of choice)

One has to do lots of research to come up with a semblance of the truth. I find following the money to be a fairly decent indicator.

By SPIEGEL Staff

November 25, 2013

AP/dpa

The inability of European bureaucrats to keep up with the Kremlin’s manipulations — or Kiev’s political calculations — has cost the EU a trade deal with Ukraine, and severely damaged its foreign policy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decisive move came on Nov. 9. That day, after years of courtship, and several months of promises and threats, he met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych at a military airport near Moscow. The meeting was so clandestine the Russians initially denied that it had taken place at all.

Before that point, the plan had been for Yanukovych to sign a 900-page association agreement, a sort of engagement contract, with the European Union in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Nov. 29. But in early November near Moscow, Putin seems to have sealed an alliance with Ukraine, preempting his rivals in Brussels. And last Thursday Yanukovych postponed the signing of the EU agreement indefinitely.

After giving temporary asylum to whistleblower Edward Snowden and brokering a deal to have Syria give up its chemical weapons, it was Putin’s third recent victory over the West, albeit probably not a permanent one. After all, Yanukovych’s agreement with Putin is a marriage of convenience, not a marriage of love.

Europe’s ‘Eastern Partnership’ Dream

This tug-of-war began four years ago, when the EU proposed an “eastern partnership” with Ukraine as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Belarus. The EU offered cooperation, free trade and financial contributions in exchange for democratic reforms. (heh) Officials in Brussels spoke enthusiastically about the emergence of an historic Eastern European policy not unlike former German Chancellor Willy Brandt’s rapprochement with the Warsaw Pact countries in the 1970s. The planned partnership agreements were intended to facilitate visa-free travel, reduce tariffs and introduce European norms. The only thing that was not offered was EU membership.

The EU’s other goal, even though it was not as openly expressed, was to limit Russia’s influence and define how far Europe extends into the east. For Russia, the struggle to win over Ukraine is not only about maintaining its geopolitical influence, but about having control over a region that was the nucleus of the Russian empire a millennium ago. The word Ukraine translates as “border country,” and many feel the capital Kiev is the mother of all Russian cities.

This helped create Cold War-style grappling between Moscow and Brussels. The Russian president, hardened by his fights in the Kremlin, is more adept than EU bureaucrats at manipulating people with venality and affections. None of the top European politicians made a serious effort to win over Ukraine, with neither German Chancellor Angela Merkel nor European Commission President José Manuel Barroso flying to Kiev to convince its wavering president.

‘Unprecendented Pressure’ from Russia

“I believe the unprecedented pressure from the Russians was the decisive factor,” says former Polish Prime Minister and intermediary Aleksander Kwasniewski. “The Russians used everything in their arsenal.” Elmar Brok, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the European Parliament, says: “Yanukovych kept all options open until the end, so as to get the best possible deal.” [MC-> Duh!!!]

The official reason for the agreement’s failure is Yulia Tymoshenko, the opposition politician who has been in prison for the last two years. The EU had made her release a condition of the agreement. Yanukovych was unwilling to release his former rival, and last week the parliament in Kiev failed to approve a bill that would have secured her release. [MC-> while supposedly working for the Ukrainian people she was stealing from them - she needed to stay in jail.]

But then there are the financial incentives. In the end, the Russian president seems to have promised his Ukrainian counterpart several billion [MC-> actually it was 15 billion] euros in the form of subsidies, debt forgiveness and duty-free imports. The EU, for its part, had offered Ukraine loans worth €610 million ($827 million), which it had increased at the last moment, along with the vague prospect of a €1 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Yanukovych chose Putin’s billions instead.

The EU had been banking on its radiant appeal, and on its great promise of prosperity, freedom and democracy, but now Brussels must confront the fact that, for the first time, an attempt at rapprochement was rebuffed because the price was wrong. “If Yanukovych doesn’t want to make a deal, then he simply doesn’t want to,” says Brok.

Battle of the Unions

The EU’s eastern partnership had gotten off to a rocky start even before the Ukrainian incident. Belarus dashed the EU’s hopes it would join when protesters were violently suppressed after the reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko in 2010. Armenia called off an association agreement with the EU this September.

In the case of Ukraine, it initially seemed as if the Europeans’ rational arguments would prevail over Russia’s threatening gestures. According to an internal EU analysis, joining the “Eurasian Union” — a Russia-backed proposed political and economic union including Russia, Tajikistan, Kazahkstan, Belarus and others — would severely limit Ukraine’s sovereignty. Once such a union had been formed, Kiev would no longer be able to enter into any other free trade agreements without Moscow’s approval. An alliance with Moscow would thus have the exclusive nature of a marriage. The EU’s eastern partnership, in contrast, would still allow Ukraine to enter into other alliances.

And Yanukovych, who has been considered a puppet of the Kremlin, even implemented many of the reforms demanded by the EU. The legal system and criminal law were modernized, trade restrictions were reduced and a few political prisoners were released. “He implemented more reforms than the pro-Western predecessor regime under Tymoshenko,” says an EU negotiator.

EU Hopes Dashed

But it turns out those reforms didn’t go as the EU hoped. According to the Freedom House organization, democratic basic rights in these eastern partnership candidate nations have not been strengthened in the wake of EU reform demands. Instead, they claim, many of the reforms were implemented half-heartedly and governments only consolidated their power.

The Europeans had mistakenly believed Kiev would automatically turn to the West. After all, isn’t half of the population in favor of closer ties with the EU? And aren’t there more Ukrainian immigrant workers living in the West than in Russia? They based their argument on economic sustainability, believing they could convince Yanukovych with the prospect of long-term growth rates of at least 6 percent. By contrast, a customs union with Russia would reduce Ukraine’s economic growth in the long term.

But in truth, the most important goal for Yanukovych — who may come across as unsophisticated, but is in fact a shrewd poker player — is to hold onto power. In order to be reelected in 2015, he needs rapid economic improvement. Ukraine has slid into recession and could even be insolvent soon. The rating agencies have repeatedly downgraded the country’s credit rating. Besides, Ukraine is dependent on Russian natural gas, and Moscow has already flexed its muscles by turning off supplies in the winter on three occasions.

This is why Yanukovych needs the Putin who in recent months has made the consequences of an EU deal unmistakably clear to Ukraine. In August, Russian officials began painstakingly inspecting trucks from Ukraine bringing goods across the border into Russia. Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuck was barred from importing steel pipes to Russia, and a former cabinet minister was prevented from selling his chocolate in the country.

These measures have led to a 25 percent decline in exports since 2011. Ukraine exports a third of its goods to Russia and other former countries of the former Soviet Union, and only 25 percent to the EU. Russia also threatened that it would require Ukrainians to apply for visas to travel to the country in the future.

Three days after the secret meeting in Moscow, Ukrainian oligarchs, apparently in consultation with the Kremlin, asked Yanukovych to postpone signing the EU association treaty by a year.

Zurkov the Manipulator

The Kremlin made it clear the harassment could become permanent. Sergei Glazyev, Putin’s advisor for the economic reintegration of the republics that gained their independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, predicted that Kiev would experience an “economic disaster” if it signed the agreement with the EU. “Ukraine is sacrificing its sovereignty,” he said threateningly at a conference on the Crimean Peninsula, which is former Russian territory.

Vladislav Surkov — the Kremlin’s former main ideologist, who had fallen out of favor but was brought back by Putin two months ago — was sitting in one of the back rows. His mission was to help Moscow regain its control over the countries of the former Soviet Union.

When someone like Zurkov appears at a meeting, it means intrigues are under way. In Russia, Zurkov has founded parties and let them fade away based on Putin’s needs. He could do the same thing in Ukraine, by siphoning off Yanukovych’s pro-Russian voters and all but destroying Yanukovych’s chances of reelection.

It is unclear whether Putin had to voice all of these threats in his meeting with Yanukovych. It was probably no longer necessary. Yanukovych had already understood that his only hope for political survival was to throw in his lot with the Russians.

The threats were also accompanied by promises. Putin held out the prospect of loans, lower gas prices and debt forgiveness with Russian energy giant Gazprom, to which Ukraine owes $1.3 billion.

Pipeline Under Threat

Another project could suffer a fate similar to that of the association agreement: a natural gas contract, negotiated under the auspices of the EU, which was supposed to be signed on Nov. 22. Once again, everything seemed to have been agreed upon, but then the Ukrainians were suddenly saying minor technical details had yet to be ironed out. “This has already been going back and forth for a year now,” says one of the frustrated lead negotiators.

Everyone had expected the agreement to be signed, because it would have enabled the Ukrainians to liberate themselves, gas-wise, from the clutches of the Russians, especially as they now pay significantly more for Russian gas than major Western companies, such as German energy conglomerate RWE. Under the new agreement, pipelines in EU member-state Slovakia would be rebuilt to allow for reverse gas flows, so gas destined for Western Europe could also be transported to Ukraine in the future.

But Yanukovych is hesitating. Because of the necessary upgrading work, the gas from the West could not begin flowing to Ukraine until next September. This would make the Ukrainians vulnerable to blackmail, at least this winter. And the negotiations over the new contract already seem to have helped Yanukovych, with the Russians signaling significant price cuts for Ukraine. It appears Yanukovych has played his cards right once again.

That is, if he can contain the political anger within Ukraine. On Sunday, the largest demonstration in the country since 2004′s Orange Revolution took place in Kiev. According police estimates, 23,000 people protested the withdrawal from the EU pact negotiations, including boxing champ Vitali Klitschko. Organizers place the number at over 100,000. Yulia Tymoshenko’s daughter, Eugenia, personally reached out to Angela Merkel for help in an interview with Germany’s Bild tabloid, saying that, if nothing was done, her mother would die.

What Now?

In Brussels, European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Füle tried to compose himself last Friday. “Only when the summit officially begins will we know, once and for all, whether or not Ukraine intends to sign.” But no one expects a quick agreement anymore. Even Füle is already thinking about possible next steps. He also seems somewhat at a loss when he says that the EU has no interest in engaging in a competition with Russia — as if one hadn’t already happened.

“It’s difficult to say when the negotiations will be resumed,” says middleman Kwasniewski. The European Parliament will be elected next year, there will be changes at the European Commission, and a presidential election in Ukraine in 2015. “It seems to me that the pause is going to be longer rather than shorter,” Kwasniewski adds.

REPORTED BY CHRISTOPH PAULY, JAN PUHL, MATTHIAS SCHEPP, GREGOR PETER SCHMITZ AND CHRISTOPH SCHULT

Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/how-the-eu-lost-to-russia-in-negotiations-over-ukraine-trade-deal-a-935476-2.html

Yanukovych got a pretty good deal with Russia on behalf of the Ukrainian people…but now he’s ousted and billionaires installed as an interim government, the country will be sold to the floundering EU and their unelected bureauocrats in the Hague will be their new CEO’s!

The article was written 3 months ago, within that timeframe, the Ukraine had yet another manufactured “revolution” which eventually erupted into an intentionally created chaos-destabilization scenario which unsurprisingly led to violence (many people dead (RIP) or wounded) which meant the country (or specific targeted areas of the country) had to be “guarded” by freedom fighting jihadi or paid thugs, neonazi or paid thugs or by any other name a rose. Continuing to follow their Libyian strategy – within a couple of days or less there’s a “newly” unelected interim government selected and installed by the West, who within a few hours of their installment banned the Russian language and signed lots of okay documents for the oligarchy… Anyway the billionaires are now happy (isn’t that nice) while the people will undergo the Soros “shock therapy” treatment.

Aleksander Kwasniewski was the #1 Top Lobbyist - Stefan Füle, Victor Pinchuk, and Vitali Klitschko were all listed in the – “Top 10 lobbyists of Ukraine in the world” - they’re also “friends” of Victoria Nuland…

Note: Thusfar they’ve only labeled Yanukovych as having a lavish lifestyle…he’s a lot luckier than a few of his other ousted leaders since most of them are dead.

Freedom House (used as a source) in the article - >Freedom House …the founders of Freedom House also founded the UN – Freedom House is dominated by members of the CFR and CFR here. Practically none of Spiegels sources used in the article were objective since they’re involved in the coup…

Investigators suspect a vanished Malaysian airliner may have been blown out of the sky — just like the jumbo jet that rained deadly wreckage onto Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

As Vietnam reported the possible sighting of an aircraft door from the missing plane, a senior official involved in the probe of its disappearance said the evidence so far “appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet,” Reuters reported.

Asked if that suggested a bomb destroyed the Boeing 777, the source said there was no evidence yet of foul play, but noted the closest parallels to the plane’s disappearance early Saturday over the South China Sea were the 1980s bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie and Air India Flight 182 off the coast of Ireland.

Although the source added that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, could have broken apart due to mechanical failure, Malaysian officials have not ruled out a hijacking.

Meanwhile, Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said authorities have surveillance video of the two mystery passengers who boarded the plane using stolen passports, adding that “local and international” intelligence agencies were working to identify them.

Malaysian Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the unidentified passengers appeared to be Asians, and blasted the border officials who let them through while carrying passports from Austria and Italy.

“Can’t these immigration officials think? Italian and Austrian [passport holders] but with Asian faces,” Hamidi fumed.

Five booked passengers failed to show up for the flight, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Other troubling details emerged when a telephone operator on a China-based hot line for KLM airlines confirmed Sunday that the passengers traveling with the stolen passports had booked one-way tickets on the same KLM flight from Beijing to Amsterdam on Saturday.

The operator told the Associated Press that they had booked the tickets through China Southern Airlines, but she had no information on where they bought them.

Interpol — which called the use of the stolen passports a “great concern” — said a check of all documents presented by passengers on the ill-fated flight also revealed additional “suspect passports.”

An Interpol spokeswoman couldn’t say how many other passports were being investigated, or what country or countries issued them.

Hussein said Malaysia was seeking the FBI’s help in checking the identities of two other passengers.

Malaysia’s air force chief, Rodzali Daud, said radar showed the plane — which carried 239 people — may have turned back toward Kuala Lumpur.

No distress signals from the crew were reported.

The Vietnamese navy said one of its aircraft spotted an object floating in the Gulf of Thailand that might be one of the plane’s doors, but it was too dark outside to be certain. The search resumed at daybreak.

With Post Wires

http://nypost.com/2014/03/10/missing-airplane-likely-disintegrated-investigator/

The difference being, it’s almost 3 days with no sight of debris. Bizarre unless they’re looking in the wrong place? It’s a big ocean!

By Ap - PUBLISHED:  17:47 EST, 9 March 2014

Ten city blocks of Manhattan became a river  of black Sunday as 50,000 dark-clad ultra-Orthodox Jews took to the streets to  protest Israel’s proposal to force their young boys into its  army.

The gathering took up a stretch of Water  Street, with demonstrators standing behind police barricades amid tight security  as they prayed in solidarity with their brethren in Israel.

‘These kids, a lot of them don’t know how to  hold a gun. They don’t know what physical warfare is,’ said Long Island  rabbinical student Shmuel Gruis.

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 Peace and love and mitzvahs: The ultra Orthodox of  Israel have recently found themselves on the wrong side of the political tides  and fear their relative autonomy hangs in the balance

 Sea of black: The protestors’ traditional garb made for  a vivid sea of dark cloth flowing down Manhattan streets

 Hat tip: The American protest was a nod to the parallel  demonstrations in Israel in recent weeks, some of which have turned violent as  the ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police

 The demonstration temporarily shut down Water and Wall  Streets in Manhattan’s financial district

The throngs of demonstrators briefly shut  down Water and Wall Streets in Manhattan’s financial district.

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, is expected  to vote on the conscription bill later this month.

The bill, to go into effect in 2017, would  impose criminal sanctions on ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers. However, yeshiva  students would have the right to defer service until age 26.

Gruis, 18, from Phoenix clutched two tomes  of Jewish prayers as he hurried to the male section of the rally.

50,000 Orthodox Jews hold mass prayer in NYC  against Israel draft

Organizers kept to tradition, with men and  women in separate groups as they are at religious events.

‘Their whole world and their whole lifestyle  is peace and love and in doing mitzvahs,’ he said, using the Yiddish word for  good deeds. ‘And you take a bunch of kids out of the environment where they come  from – in my eyes, it’s wrong.’

Sunday’s prayer event brought together a  community of New York’s most Orthodox Jews, based in Brooklyn and in the village  of Kiryas Joel in Orange County, north of the city.

‘We’re all united against military  service  for religious men in Israel because it doesn’t allow for  religious learning,’  said Peggy Blier, an interior designer from  Brooklyn. ‘The Israeli government  is looking to destroy religious  society and make the country into a secular  melting pot.’

The huge gathering was itself spillover from  violent protests in Israel  that broke out last month in the wake of a Supreme  Court ruling ordered  funding halted to ultra-Orthodox seminaries whose students  dodge the  draft and laid bare one of the deepest rifts in Israeli society,  highlighting the fundamental disagreements between its secular majority  and a  devout minority over the character of the Jewish state.

And last weekend, hundreds of thousands of  ultra-Orthodox Jews rallied Sunday in the streets of Jerusalem, blocking roads  and paralyzing the city in a massive show of force against plans to require them  to serve in the Israeli military.

‘The change is beginning,’ Ofer Shelah, whose  Yesh Atid party stands behind the push to draft the ultra-Orthodox, told Israeli  Channel 10 TV. ‘This (law) will create a deep cultural change in the  ultra-Orthodox public.’

 Unwilling to fight: Thousands of the devout Jews filled  10 city blocks in Manhattan on Sunday to protest changes to Israel’s proposed  changes to its draft

 Separate: As they are during religious services and  throughout much of ultra-Orthodox society, women were separated from the men at  the event

 Spilling over: Barricades are secured as thousands of  the ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered on Water Street

Shelah and his party believe  integrating the  ultra-Orthodox into the military ultimately will lead to their inclusion in the  workforce and help sustain Israel’s economic  growth. Israel’s central bank  chief, as well as international bodies  like the Organization for Economic  Cooperation and Development, warn  that high unemployment in the ultra-Orthodox  and Arab sectors threaten  Israel’s economic prospects.

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox streamed toward  the entrance of Jerusalem as a heavy  haze settled on the gathering. Men clad in  traditional black suits and  hats bowed and swayed in prayer as others danced in  circles. Spectators  packed the balconies and roofs of nearby buildings as a  loudspeaker  blared prayers. Many held signs reading ‘the Torah shall not be  forgotten.’ Police said more than 300,000 people attended.

The city began grinding to a halt hours  before the rally began. Police  spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said 3,500 police  officers deployed for the  rally. He said authorities closed the central bus  station and halted  nearly all public buses into the city. In addition, public  transportation inside the city was being limited from afternoon until  night.  Some schools and government ministries also closed early.

 Determined: The gathered faithful, seen here hopping one  of the abundant security blockades, want Israel to keep laws that exempt such  groups from military service

 Praying for no change: ‘The Israeli government is  looking to destroy religious society and make the country into a secular melting  pot,’ said protestor Peggy Blier

 Dance it off: A dance circle is formed amidst the  praying protestors

Usually only men attend such public  demonstrations, but ultra-Orthodox  community leaders encouraged women and young  children to take part. A  major thoroughfare in Jerusalem was closed for traffic  and reserved for  ultra-Orthodox women in accordance with the community’s strict  separation of the sexes. Many women, wearing long skirts and head  coverings,  held prayer books close to their faces as they prayed, while  young children ran  between them.

‘They came out of fear of one thing: that  they are going to be changed, that  they will be put in a melting pot and  changed,’ ultra-Orthodox lawmaker  Israel Eichler told Israeli Channel 2  TV.

According to the draft bill up for a vote in  Israel’s parliament, only a fraction of eligible ultra-Orthodox Jews would be  expected to serve, said Inna  Dolzhansky, spokeswoman for lawmaker Shelah, who  is also a member of the committee drafting the bill.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews have for years been  exempt from military service, which is  compulsory for other Jewish Israelis.  The arrangement has caused  widespread resentment and featured prominently in  last year’s election,  after which the ultra-Orthodox parties lost ground and  found themselves  outside the governing coalition.

 Show of solidarity: The event stretched across ten  tightly packed city blocks

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 Sunday’s prayer event brought together a community of  New York’s most Orthodox Jews, based in Brooklyn and in the village of Kiryas  Joel in Orange County, north of the city

 For their sons: The protestors hope changes in Israel  won’t mean little boys like this will one day end up serving in the military,  interrupting their life of religious studies

The issue of army service is at the  core of  a cultural war over the place of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israeli  society. The  ultra-Orthodox, who make up about 8 percent of Israel’s 8  million citizens,  largely have been allowed to skip compulsory military  service to pursue their  religious studies. Older men often avoid the  workforce and collect welfare  stipends while continuing to study full  time.

The  ultra-Orthodox insist their young men  serve the nation through prayer  and study, thus preserving Jewish learning and  heritage, and maintaining a pious way of life that has kept the Jewish people  alive through  centuries of persecution.

Leaders of the community, which in Hebrew is  known as ‘Haredim,’ or those who  fear God, say their followers would rather sit  in jail than join the  military. They charge their ancient brand of Judaism is  under siege and  warn of an uprising if parliament approves the draft  plan.

Yair Sheleg, an expert on the Israeli  religious sector at the nonpartisan Israel Democracy Institute, said  the  outbursts reflect a genuine rage over the proposed plan but  also a show of  strength to try to limit its impact.

 A prayer book lay on a podium as the thousands of  Orthodox Jews gather in the background

 Organizers kept to tradition, with men (foreground) and  women (background) in separate groups as they are at religious events.

 Required for most: The proposed change to the law would  require a certain number of Yeshiva students to serve in the military in  Israel

‘They understand that things can’t go on the  way they have and they will have to make some concessions to the state, but they  are hoping to limit the damage,’ he said. ‘For the first time, they are starting  to really be  affected.’

Not all the  ultra-Orthodox are vehemently  opposed to enlistment and inclusion in Israeli society. Due to its high  birthrate and the relatively low  participation in the workforce, the  ultra-Orthodox community suffers  from high unemployment and  poverty.

Voices have begun to emerge criticizing the  ultra-Orthodox education system, which teaches students about Judaism but very  little math, English or science. More than a quarter of all Israeli  first-graders are ultra-Orthodox and government statistics project that if these  trends continue, the ultra-Orthodox could make up 15 percent of the country’s  population by 2025.

The tide has already begun to turn. In 2011,  for instance, 55 percent of ultra-Orthodox women and 45 percent of the men held  jobs, up from 48 percent and 33 percent respectively nine years earlier,  according to Israel’s central bank and its central bureau of statistics. The  numbers, while still far below the national average of around 80 percent, show  the community is far from the homogenous mass viewed by outsiders.

 Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray during a rally attended  by hundreds of thousands against plans to force them to serve in the Israeli  military, blocking roads and paralyzing Jerusalem (pictured)

 Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews rallied in  a massive show of force against plans to force them to serve in the Israeli  military last Sunday in Jerusalem (pictured)

 The mass rally blocked major thoroughfares and brought  Jerusalem (pictured) to a standstill

 The issue is the most serious point of contention  between ultra-conservative Israeli Jews and their more secular counterparts, who  find it unfair that the super devout are immune to the draft

 According to the draft bill up for a vote in Israel’s  parliament, only a fraction of eligible ultra-Orthodox Jews would be expected to  serve, said Inna Dolzhansky, spokeswoman for lawmaker Shelah, who is also a  member of the committee drafting the bill

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577015/Patriotism-persecution-Thousands-Orthodox-Jews-swarm-NYC-streets-protest-Israeli-armys-proposal-draft-young-men.html#ixzz2vZDSkWH6

These are the Satmar, one group of Hasidic Jews – as distinguished from the Lubavitchers, the Bobovers, the Skverers and other Hasidic groups. They are arguably the largest group, and their official teaching is that the State of Israel should not exist. While this doesn’t stop them from taking enormous amounts of public assistance from the government, they object to serving in the armed forces of that same government.

There is a more extreme faction that is not part of the Satmar but has members who have been affiliated with it called the Neturei Karta – this group actively collaborates with Hamas to destroy the State of Israel.

It is a longstanding theological dispute, at the heart of which is the belief that only the Moshiach (Messiah) can restore Jewish government in Israel, that secular government is an abomination. The vast majority of Orthodox Jews are also on welfare in the US.

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A historical structure in the eastern province of Van, which once was an Armenian church, has been converted into a hayloft after serving as a school for some time.

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Villagers fill the former church in the Korlu village of the Çatak district, 30 kilometers from Van, with hay, grass, cowpat and wood, but they have personally appealed to authorities to renovate it. Considering the villagers’ request, Van Culture and Tourism Provincial Director Muzaffer Aktuğ said the renovation could be started soon.

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The historical church had served as a primary school for five years when there was no school in the area 30 years ago. Thirty-five students were taught at the school, before it was abandoned and converted into a hayloft by villagers. Villagers have attached a wooden door to the church, some parts of which are about to collapse, and tried to restore to prevent it from collapsing.

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Tourists had come to the village to look at the church, but it was mostly neglected.
“For us, the church has a particular value because we graduated from here when we did not have a school. Now it is used as a hayloft. We want officials to restore the church and use it for tourism,” said villager Selim Gurban.

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Aktuğ said he would give instructions to the Van Museum Directorate to learn about the church’s situation and whether it was suitable for restoration. “Work will start according to the report after it is made by museum officials. We will discuss the report with the Van Monuments Directorate and we will renovate it if that is ultimately decided [by the directorate],” Aktuğ said.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/armenian-church–in-eastern-turkey-becomes-hayloft-after-serving-as-school.aspx?pageID=238&nID=63392&NewsCatID=375

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Ruined Site of the Old Armenian City of Ani (Turkey)

Situated on the eastern border of Turkey, across the Akhurian River from Armenia, lies the empty, crumbling site of the once-great metropolis of Ani [Armenia], known as “the city of a thousand and one churches.” Founded more than 1,600 years ago, Ani was situated on several trade routes, and grew to become a walled city of more than 100,000 residents by the 11th century. In the centuries that followed, Ani and the surrounding region were conquered hundreds of times — Byzantine emperors, Ottoman Turks, Armenians, nomadic Kurds, Georgians, and Russians claimed and reclaimed the area, repeatedly attacking and chasing out residents. By the 1300s, Ani was in steep decline, and it was completely abandoned by the 1700s. Rediscovered and romanticized in the 19th century, the city had a brief moment of fame, only to be closed off by World War I and the later events of the Armenian Genocide that left the region an empty, militarized no-man’s land. The ruins crumbled at the hands of many: looters, vandals, Turks who tried to eliminate Armenian history from the area, clumsy archaeological digs, well-intentioned people who made poor attempts at restoration, and Mother Nature herself. Restrictions on travel to Ani have eased in the past decade, allowing the following photos to be taken.  [27 photos]

Church of Saint Gregory of Tigran Honents, Ani, on June 19, 2011. Original here. (CC BY SA Martin Lopatka)

 A Military warning sign with the Citadel behind, in Ani, on June 8, 2011. Original here. (CC BY SA Adam Jones) # .Konstantin Paustovski a Russian Soviet writer, a Nobel prize nominee described Ani in 1923 with the following quotes:

“What is Ani like? There are things beyond description, no matter how hard you try.”

“On the other bank we saw basilicas, tiled Armenian domes and a complete absence of human beings. It was the ruins of the ancient Armenian capital, Ani – one of the real wonders of the world.”

The British member of parliament and businessman H. F. B. Lynch in 1893 also describes the city of Ani in his book “Armenia, travels and studies.”:

“But a lesson of wider import, transcending the sphere of the history of architecture, may be derived from a visit to the capital of the Bagratid dynasty, and from the study of the living evidence of a vanished civilization which is lavished upon the traveller within her walls. Her monuments throw a strong light upon the character of the Armenian people, and they bring into pronouncement important features of Armenian history. They leave no doubt that this people may be included in the small number of races who have shown themselves susceptible of the highest culture.”

“The roofs as well as the walls are composed of stone, and, as usual in Armenian churches, no wood or metal has been used. Even at the present day the Armenian masons are possessed of exceptional skill; and their natural gifts have been here directed by the conceptions of genius.

The merits of the style are the diversity of its resources, the elegance of the ornament in low relief, the perfect execution of every part.”

“We admire these buildings in much the same state and condition as when they delighted the eyes of Armenian monarchs nine centuries ago. Such a site would in Western lands be at least occupied by a small town or village; the solitude of Ani is not shared by creations of a culture that has disappeared.”

An Italian historian, traveler and diplomat Luigi Villari in 1905 recounts Ani as follows:

“We walked over one or two brown ridges, and suddenly the walls of Ani came in sight. There they stood, massive piles of masonry extending for nearly a mile, with huge round towers at short intervals, mute testimony to the deeds of the Armenians in the brave days of old.”

“Nowhere, except at Constantinople, have I seen more splendid defences of a mediaeval city. For about two-thirds of a mile they are still standing, and broken fragments of them extend along the whole length of the circumference of the city and descend into the ravine of the Arpa Chai.”

“The marvelous city shows evidence of a building power and architectural skill on the part of the ancient Armenians of the highest order, and enables us to realize that this people, in spite of the lamentable history of the last six centuries, is a nation with a noble past.

Today this spot, where proud kings once dwelt in splendid courts and held sway over prosperous lands and civilized subjects, where public life was active and vigorous, is a crying wilderness. None but the old priest and the peasant family dwell within the enclosure, and even the neighbouring country, formerly so fertile and well-peopled, is now almost uninhabited, and has become to a great extent barren desert. Is the state of Ani symbolical of that of the Armenian nation, and are they destined at last to disappear or be absorbed into other races, other religions? I do not think so, for with all the sufferings and persecution they have undergone they still preserve a vigorous national life. Many of them have been massacred, but the survivors are not absorbed. Their industry is more active than ever, and education is making great progress. They have built up the oil trade of Baku, they monopolize the commerce of Tiflis, and at Rostoff-on-the-Don, Baku, Odessa, Moscow, Kishinieff, Constantinople, Bombay, Calcutta, and many another city far removed from their ancestral homes, they form industrious, intelligent, and prosperous commercial communities. A people with such a past and such a present need surely not despair of its future.”

Little did Villari know that only 10 years after these words Armenians would endure maybe the darkest of days in their entire history. The horrible events of the Armenian Genocide. Yet almost prophetic his words came true when Armenians overcame even these horrendous events and today there is still such a country (albeit smaller than its historic territory) that is called Armenia.

Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, London 1928. recounts the visit of of Nestorian Christian monks Sawma and Markos to Ani in the 1270s:

“And when they arrived at the city of Animto (Ani) and saw the monasteries and the churches therein, they marvelled at the great extent of the buildings and at their magnificence.”

Yet another highly memorable quote comes from an English artist, author, diplomat and traveller Sir Robert Ker Porter in 1817:

“In the western extremity of this great town, in which no living beings except ourselves seemed breathing, we saw the palace, once of the kings of Armenia; and it is a building worthy the fame of this old capital. Its length stretches nearly the whole breadth between the walls of the city on one side, and the ravine on the other. Indeed, it seems a town in itself; and so superbly decorated within and without, that no description can give an adequate idea of the variety and richness, of the highly wrought carvings on the stone, which are all over the building; or of the finely-executed mosaic patterns, which beautify the floors of its countless halls.”

“The farther I went, and the closer I examined the remains of this vast capital, the greater was my admiration of its firm and finished masonry. In short, the masterly workmanship of the capitals of pillars, the nice carvings of the intricate ornaments, and arabesque friezes, surpassed anything of the kind I had ever seen, whether abroad, or in the most celebrated cathedrals of England.”

William J. Hamilton in 1836 too described the outstanding building techniques of the Armenian craftsman, being able to build structures that would last for centuries. He describes:

“There was something impressive and almost awful in the sight of a Christian town, built in a style so peculiar to itself, and unknown to modern Europe, now nearly in the same state in which its destroyers had left it eight centuries ago.”

“There is hardly a building in Anni of any consequence which is not covered with Armenian inscriptions.”

Foreign travelers are not the only once to have recorded Ani in such regard. Armenians who have visited the site of the ancient abandoned Armenian capital often had a hard time holding back their emotions.  Basmadjian in 1903 describes the sites as follows:

“The traveler or the pilgrim, whether coming by horseback, by carriage, or even on foot, before arriving at this city in mourning, looks towards the site with a thousand thoughts. He is impatient; he strains to see it – even for just a moment – from afar, one doesn’t know if it is to feel an inner contentment or to satisfy the longings of many years. It is a powerful feeling, an unexplainable desire, that burns, that strains at the hearts of all Armenians and even those of foreign travellers.

And then your companions cry out “ANI!” It is as if a bomb had suddenly exploded, or an electrical current had crossed your body! You tremble; the regular flow of your breathing is altered; your heart pounds; your nerves soften; you are filled with emotions and your eyes begin to moisten with tears; you are no longer your own master; the tears that you initially held back you now allow to flow, to pour down your cheeks. You cry like a child, in front of these crumbling walls, these half destroyed buildings, these heaps of moss covered stones that awaken old and powerful memories in you.”

British army officer Major-General Charles Gordon in his letter describes an account of his visit to Ani in the year 1857:

“The third day of our tour we passed through Ani the ancient capital of Armenia. This city is completely deserted, and has splendid churches still standing in it. These churches are capitally built and preserved. Some coloured drawings on their walls are to be seen even now. I have obtained some views for you from this interesting place. The towers and walls are almost intact; but the most extraordinary thing about so large a place is the singular quietness.

I feel myself unable to describe this extraordinary place as it ought to be done.”

Baron Max von Thielmann (1872) in his book ‘Journey in the Caucasus, Persia, and Turkey In Asia’ describes seeing Ani and its marvelous architecture that at “some parts are as fresh-looking as if they were only completed yesterday.” He further describes the sensation of being at the site as follows:

“On reaching a gentle ridge extending between two hills some 200 feet in height (near Kara-Kala in the Five Verst Map), a panorama disclosed itself to our gaze, which for wild and desolate grandeur is perhaps unparalleled. Before us lay extended a rocky plain about five miles in length, and at its further extremity was a mighty city, surrounded by walls with towers, churches and palaces – a noble pile, but devoid of animation.

The associations aroused by this scene were enhanced a thousand-fold by the tranquility and desolation which prevailed; for in days gone by the capital of a mighty empire had stood on this very spot in full glory and magnificence; and so intense was the impression occasioned by this solitude amongst ruins, that, even later on at Babylon and at Palmyra, I did not experience so acute a sensation.”

William of Rubruck in the account of his visit to Ani in 1255 states:

“On the feast of the Purifaction I was in a city called Ani. Its population is extremely strong: it contains a thousand Armenian churches…”

Contrast Turkish destruction with Israeli preservation: Magnificant Byzantine-era church uncovered in Israel

The sheer beauty in honor of God by the Armenians is breathtaking.  The Turks not only murdered almost 2 million Armenians but they’ve forced them to watch the destruction of their forefathers. This cruelty ends up with the Turks shooting themselves in the foot – one can only imagine the millions they’ve lost in tourism.

continued w/ more pics: http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/ruined-site-of-the-old-armenian-city-of-ani-turkey/

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Picture from – The Armenian Genocide (Warning: gruesome pictures)

But don’t expect a Liz Wahl-style media circus

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 10, 2014

CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson resigned today after facing pressure over reports she filed that were deemed to be overly critical of President Obama, but don’t expect the mainstream media to create a circus around Attkisson’s resignation like they did that of RT host Liz Wahl.

“Attkisson, who has been with CBS News for two decades, had grown frustrated with what she saw as the network’s liberal bias, an outsized influence by the network’s corporate partners and a lack of dedication to investigative reporting, several sources said. She increasingly felt like her work was no longer supported and that it was a struggle to get her reporting on air,” reports Politico, noting that Attkisson’s work was characterized as “agenda-driven” because she was hard on the Obama administration.

In the world of American state media, there is no room for adversarial reporting. Despite the fact that it used to be the role of the fourth estate to speak truth to power, Attkisson’s apparent unwillingness to let White House talking points go unchallenged has cost her her job.

Attkisson’s work over the past five years has primarily focused on Obama scandals such as the Fast and Furious gunrunning controversy and the attack in Benghazi, but she did also skewer Republicans. A source close to Attkisson told Politico that she was frustrated as CBS’ lack of support for anti-Obama investigative reporting.

While RT’s Liz Wahl received global attention and a slew of mainstream media appearances after she quit the Russian network for similar reasons, don’t expect the corporate press to afford Attkisson anything like the same level of attention.

As is documented in the video below, Wahl’s resignation was a cynical pre-planned stunt that had little to do with Russia’s actions in Crimea and everything to do with Wahl putting herself in the shop window for a job with CNN.

However, it was exploited by the establishment media as a tool with which to bash RT, which is stealing a good chunk of audience share from the likes of CNN and MSNBC, which have both lost around 50% of their viewership in the last year alone – precisely because they employ so few hard-hitting journalists like Sharyl Attkisson. Source

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Video’: The Truth About RT Host Liz Wahl’s Resignation and her interview with ex-CNN reporter Amber Lyons in 2012