Sunday, August 28, 2011

Bronfmans/Tiananmen Square Massacre Truth or fiction?/Rupert Murdoch?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kolber
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1)  Ernest Leo Kolber, OC (born January 18, 1929) is a Canadian businessman, company director, philanthropist and former Senator.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 and a Bachelor of Law in 1952 from McGill University. He was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1952. Kolber was President of CEMP Investments, a family holding company for the children of Samuel Bronfman. In the 1960s, Kolber played a key role in the construction of the Toronto Dominion Centre, a landmark building complex designed by Mies van der Rohe that is credited with helping to elevate Toronto to the status of a world class city. Kolber was also instrumental in two major Bronfman deals: Seagram's purchase of a stake in DuPont and the sale of the Cadillac-Fairview real estate company at the height of its value in 1987. In the process, Kolber acquired considerable wealth in his own right, including $100 million for arranging the Cadillac-Fairview sale.
Author Peter C. Newman wrote in his 1975 book The Canadian Establishment that Kolber was so close to the Bronfman family that "Sam [Bronfman] treated him as a son and Leo worshipped Sam as a father." Newman calls Kolber "the non-Bronfman Bronfman with the big brain" and "a tough cookie,"=

2)  Kolber's close friendship with Israeli President Shimon Peres dates back to the 1950s. Kolber's son Jonathan is an Israeli citizen who was chairman of Koor Industries Ltd., a leading Israeli investment firm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman,_Sr.
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Bronfman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Bill Clinton in August 1999 and the Star of People's Friendship by East German leader Erich Honecker in October 1988.
In 2000, he received the Leo Baeck Medal for his humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0010341
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http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2011/04/part-7-of-land-and-loot.html
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In 1963 the Bronfmans bought Texas Pacific Oil and Coal, which they held until 1981, using their $2 billion profit to take over Conoco, by means of stock acquired from DuPont. According to Kolber, the Bronfmans would sell off Cadillac Fairview in 1987 to buy MCA, but the years we'll be dealing with here occurred while they were in control--and while Edgar Bronfman, Jr., who controlled the corporate interests, was married to Ann Loeb, daughter of John Loeb and granddaughter of Carl M. Loeb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhn,_Loeb_%26_Co.
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Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was a bulge bracket, investment bank founded in 1867 by Abraham Kuhn[1] and Solomon Loeb. Under the leadership of Jacob H. Schiff, it grew to be one of the most influential investment banks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, financing America's expanding railways and growth companies, including Western Union and Westinghouse, and thereby becoming the principal rival of J.P. Morgan & Co. In the years following Schiff's death in 1920, the firm was led by Otto Kahn and Felix Warburg, men who had already solidified their roles as Schiff's able successors. However, the firm's fortunes began to fade following World War II, when it failed to keep pace with a rapidly changing investment banking industry, where Kuhn, Loeb's old-world, genteel ways, did not seem to fit; the days of the gentleman-banker had passed. The firm lost its independence in 1977 when it merged with Lehman Brothers, to create Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. The combined firm was itself acquired in 1984 by American Express, forming Shearson Lehman/American Express and with that, the Kuhn, Loeb name was lost forever. Kuhn Loeb is considered to be one of the last Gentlemen Investment houses.

http://deanhenderson.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/the-federal-reserve-cartel-part-iv-a-financial-parasite/
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In the 1920’s Baron Edmund de Rothschild founded the Palestine Economics Commission, while Kuhn Loeb’s Manhattan offices helped Rothschild form a network to smuggle weapons to Zionist death squads bent on seizing Palestinian lands.  General Julius Klein oversaw the operation and headed the US Army Counterintelligence Corps, which later produced Henry Kissinger.  Klein diverted Marshall Plan aid to Europe to Zionist terror cells in Palestine after WWII, channeling the funds through the Sonneborn Institute, which was controlled by Baltimore chemical magnate Rudolph Sonneborn.  His wife Dorothy Schiff is related to the Warburgs. [6]
The Kuhn Loebs came to Manhattan with the Warburgs. At the same time the Bronfmans came to Canada as part of the Moses Montefiore Jewish Colonization Committee.  The Montefiores have carried out the dirty work of Genoese nobility since the 13th Century.  The di Spadaforas served that function for the Italian House of Savoy, which was bankrolled by the Israel Moses Seif family for which Israel is named.  Lord Harold Sebag Montefiore is current head of the Jerusalem Foundation, the Zionist wing of the Knights of St. John’s Jerusalem.  The Bronfmans (the name means “liquorman” in Yiddish) tied up with Arnold Rothstein, a product of the Rothschild’s dry goods empire, to found organized crime in New York City.  Rothstein was succeeded by Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Robert Vesco and Santos Trafficante.  The Bronfmans are intermarried with the Rothschilds, Loebs and Lamberts. [7]

http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-09/bostonglobe/29401298_1_samuel-bronfman-edgar-bronfman-investment-firm
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Ann Margaret Loeb was born in New York City. Her father, John Langeloth Loeb Sr., was a Wall Street investment banker whose company was a predecessor of Shearson Lehman/American Express.
Her mother, the former Frances Lehman, was a scion of the Lehman Brothers banking firm. Her parents were major benefactors of Harvard and other colleges.
In 1950, Ann Loeb graduated from the private Rosemary Hall girls school in Connecticut. She attended Bennington College in Vermont before marrying Bronfman in 1953.
The union fostered many business ventures, with the Bronfmans using the Loeb, Rhoades & Co. investment firm to buy swaths of land and diversify its holdings into the entertainment and petroleum industries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Langeloth_Loeb,_Jr.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearson_Hayden_Stone#Shearson_Hayden_Stone_.281974.E2.80.931979.29
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Shearson Lehman Brothers
In 1984, American Express acquired the investment banking and trading firm, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, and added it to the Shearson family, creating Shearson Lehman/American Express.

Shearson Lehman logo
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, which itself was the merger of Lehman Brothers and Kuhn Loeb in 1977 was led by Pete Peterson, a former United States Secretary of Commerce and future founder of the Blackstone Group. However, by the early 1980s, hostilities between the firm's investment bankers and traders, who were driving most of the firm's profits, prompted Peterson to promote Lewis Glucksman, the firm's President, COO and former trader, to be his co-CEO in May 1983. Glucksman introduced a number of changes that had the effect of increasing tensions. Coupled with Glucksman’s management style and a downturn in the markets, these tensions resulted in a power struggle that ousted Peterson and left Glucksman as the sole CEO.[13] Upset bankers who had soured over the power struggle left the company. The company suffered under the disintegration, and Glucksman was pressured into selling the firm. After the merger, Peter A. Cohen was named Chairman and CEO of Shearson Lehman,[14]
During this period, Shearson Lehman was aggressive in building its leveraged finance business in the model of rival Drexel Burnham Lambert. In 1989, Shearson backed F. Ross Johnson's management team in its attempted management buyout of RJR Nabisco but were ultimately outbid by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, who were backed by Drexel.
In 1984 Shearson/American Express purchased the 90-year old Investors Diversified Services, bringing with it a fleet of financial advisors and investment products.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1528
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When he's not pontificating in the media about foreign affairs, he's engaging in foreign financial affairs through his secretive consulting firm, Kissinger & Associates. The firm, representing some 30 multinational companies -- including American Express, H.J. Heinz, ITT and Lockheed --earns profits by "opening doors" for investors in China, Latin America and elsewhere (New York Times, 4/30/89).

A Wall Street Journal article by John Fialka ("Mr. Kissinger Has Opinions on China -- and Business Ties", 9/15/89) reported that Kissinger also heads China Ventures, a company engaged in joint ventures with China's state bank. As its brochure explains, China Ventures invests only in projects that "enjoy the unquestioned support of the People's Republic of China." The Journal article was unusual in exploring the private business interests behind U.S. foreign policy, not the media's strong suit -- even when, as in Kissinger's case, they are rolled into one person.

http://www.lycos.com/info/henry-kissinger--communist-china.html
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nry Kissinger: Communist China
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Six months before the massacre in Tiananmen Square, Kissinger set up a limited investment partnership named China Ventures, of which he personally was chairman, CEO, and general partner. Its brochure helpfully explained that CV involved itself only with projects that "enjoy the unquestioned support of the People's Republic of China." The move proved premature; the climate for investment on the Chinese mainland soured after the post-Tiananmen repression and the limited sanctions approved by Congress. This no doubt contributed to Kissinger's irritation at the criticism of Deng. But while China Ventures lasted, it drew large commitments from American Express, Coca-Cola, Heinz, and a large mining-and-extraction conglomerate named Freeport-McMoRan.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Spinning_the_Battle_for_Bejing
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"Most of the hundreds of foreign journalists that night, including me, were in other parts of the city or were removed from the square so that they could not witness the final chapter of the student story. Those who tried to remain close filed dramatic accounts that, in some cases, buttressed the myth of a student massacre.
"For example, CBS correspondent Richard Roth's story of being arrested and removed from the scene refers to "powerful bursts of automatic weapons, raging gunfire for a minute and a half that lasts as long as a nightmare." Black and Munro quote a Chinese eyewitness who says the gunfire was from army commandos shooting out the student loudspeakers at the top of the monument. A BBC reporter watching from a high floor of the Beijing Hotel said he saw soldiers shooting at students at the monument in the center of the square. But as the many journalists who tried to watch the action from that relatively safe vantage point can attest, the middle of the square is not visible from the hotel.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/interviews/munro.html
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As a researcher in 1989 for Human Rights Watch in Beijing, Robin Munro witnessed first hand the weeks of pro-democracy demonstrations in the city and the People's Liberation Army's final assault on June 3-4. In this interview, he describes what he saw, the threat the Tiananmen protest movement posed for the Party and the symbolism of the young man who stood up to the tanks. Munro is a Hong Kong-based specialist on human rights in China. This is an edited transcript of interviews conducted on Nov. 11, 2005.
I think a common perception in the West among people at large is that the events of 1989 were just a student protest. Actually, the students did light the initial flame, but this soon became a mass protest all over the country.
Oh, absolutely. The students started the '89 pro-democracy movement, and they played a magnificent role in inspiring ordinary citizens in Beijing, Shanghai, dozens of cities. They became icons to the general public, especially after they started their mass hunger strike in Tiananmen Square. ... [At] the height of the hunger strike, every few minutes there was a hunger striker collapsing, and there were ambulances going in and out all the time down this emergency avenue. ... [T]his spectacle of students starving themselves for the good of the nation, this scene of self-sacrifice, really touched the hearts of ordinary Beijing people, and they came out in the hundreds of thousands to show support for and solidarity with those students. They began to think of them as "our" students.
... Once all those ordinary Beijing residents, workers and others were out on the streets, then another momentum began. Those people began raising their own demands. They had their own class interests and complaints to raise, and then it snowballed, and every single sector of Chinese society came out overwhelmingly in support of the students and [began] to press their own demands. Those demands were pretty consistent across the board: It was freedom of speech, press freedom in particular, end to corruption and some kind of movement towards more democracy. ... [T]his became a multi-class, across-the-board, national movement for democracy and greater freedom. ...
... Every sector and interest group and strata of Chinese society was out there with their own banners, saying: "We are the Beijing journalists. We demand press freedom. We demand the right to tell the truth." ... Then you had the Beijing steelworkers out, saying, "We demand better working conditions, higher pay, an end to corruption in society." All the groups were out there. It was a carnival of protest. So yes, it was very, very widespread. ...
What were the ordinary people protesting?
... [T]he economy had run into real trouble in the couple of years before May '89. Inflation was rampant. The cost of living was soaring. Meanwhile, workers' wages were staying steady, and they were hurting economically. On top of that, there was intense anger and resentment at what was perceived to be just corruption within the Party. It's almost ironic when we look back from our current vantage point some 16 years in the future, and what we see is that corruption then couldn't hold a candle to the level of corruption that we have now all over the country.
It's important to see it in context, because ... the Mao era was still a very recent memory in 1989, and Mao did many things wrong, but one thing that he did do that had a lasting impact on the Chinese population is insist on egalitarianism. The official ideology was that everyone was equal. Of course, they weren't in reality, but by and large, there were not big disparities of wealth and income and living standards. ... [F]or ordinary Chinese people, your neighbor would not have a lot more money than you did. This belief in equality was still very strong at that time, so the amount of corruption that had emerged by the late '80s really occasioned great resentment among ordinary Chinese people.''

http://concretekax.blogspot.com/2009/06/teachpaperless-shelly-blake-plock-wrote.html
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Friday, June 5, 2009


Tiananmen Square Massacre Never Happened

TeachPaperless' Shelly Blake-Plock wrote an article here about filtering in China and in U.S. classrooms. It brought back memories to me of teaching English in China in 1999 during the ten year anniversary of the Tienanmen Massacre.

I was teaching English at a university in ShenYang, a heavy industry and mining city in Northeast China (think Cleveland or Pittsburgh). I remember we were using The JoyLuck Club in one of our classes and we had to cut out a part of the appendix because it mentioned Tienanmen Square and "that never happened" according to our Chinese overseerers.
 here
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And as an educator who firmly believes in the right of free and universal access to information, it would be disgraceful to mark this year and not criticize the attempts by Chinese officials to write that ugly chapter out of the history of their country. Likewise it is disgraceful when developed countries celebrate the Chinese ascension as an economic power while casting a blind eye – or a knowing glance – in the direction of the Tiananmen dead.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/07/b122948.html  (duality???)  ...cal
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." In an effort to persuade Chinese dictators that he would never challenge their behavior, Murdoch "threw the BBC off Star TV" (his satellite network operating in China) after BBC aired reports about Chinese human rights violations. Murdoch argued the BBC "was gratuitously attacking the regime, playing film of the massacre in Tiananmen Square over and over again."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/aug/24/chinathemedia.rupertmurdoch
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One in 1993 was The Last Emperor, a dissection of Mao Zedong's gruesome character said to have transfixed the Beijing elite. Also there were constant references to Tiananmen.

http://www.truthwinds.com/siterun_data/media/mainstream_media/news.php?q=1310231046
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MURDOCH THE ENABLER OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATORS: According to the LA Times, Murdoch had his son James, now in charge of News Corp.'s China initiative, attack the Falun Gong, the spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government after 10,000 of its followers protested in Tiananmen Square



http://www.slate.com/id/2189903/
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http://www.slate.com/id/2184197/
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http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/can-you-spot-the-hidden-images-in-these-famous-logos-2528093/
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You’ve seen these famous logos countless times on billboards, passing by on trucks, and at the grocery store, but there is more to them than meets the eye. If you take a closer look, you will find that these recognized logos have hidden images and messages. Check out these inventive designs that cleverly use white space and optical illusions to display subliminal messages.

FedEx



This logo appears to be very simple, but if you look at the white space between the "E" and "x" in “Ex," you'll find it is more complex than you thought. Can you spot the arrow?


Tostitos


These popular party chips are a staple at many backyard BBQs, but chances are, you've never noticed the hidden celebration scene concealed within the letters. The second and third "t’s" are sharing a chip over an "i" that is dotted with a salsa bowl. Yum!

Do Subliminal Messages Really Work?


Le Tour de France

Named the world's most famous and prestigious cycling race, bike-lovers and non-cyclists alike are familiar with the event's emblem. However, you might be missing out on the logo's most interesting aspect. After careful examination, you'll notice an image of a person riding a bicycle; the yellow circle is the front wheel and the r is the body.



Amazon.com



Amazon.com has become a go-to source for electronic commerce. Clearly there is an arrow under Amazon, but have you ever thought about its significance? Take a look at where the arrow begins and ends: a and z. This secret message seems to conveys that Amazon offers everything from A to Z!


Hershey's Kisses


The Kisses logo doesn’t have much to it, but if you look at it sideways, you might see a chocolate kiss formed between the K and the I.


Toblerone



There’s a slightly obscured bear within the Matterhorn Mountain if you look closely. That’s because the candy bar hails from Bern, Switzerland, a city supposedly named for a bear.

The Funniest News Bloopers

Big Ten



Penn State became the 11th member of this university athletic conference, hence the embedded “11” in this logo. That is, until the University of Nebraska–Lincoln became number 12, ushering in a new logo era.


This Year's Wackiest College Courses


Northwest Airlines

Before merging with Delta, Northwest’s logo was one of the best in the industry. The N and W within the circle are fairly obvious, but did you know the circle also serves as a compass? And guess which direction the arrow in the upper-left-hand corner (or the beginning of the w) is pointing?







See 7 more logos with hidden messages!


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