http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnJ0xGK8dC4
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aCxNITj90mPk&refer=home
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Marc Rich Had ‘Insignificant’ Exposure to Madoff (Update2)
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Marc Rich, the fugitive financier pardoned by President Bill Clinton, invested with accused Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff.
“We can confirm that the Marc Rich Group and Marc Rich have an insignificant exposure held indirectly,” spokeswoman Monika Meili said in an e-mail. It had “no material impact on the overall financial situation of the Group,” she said.
The loss was in a range of $10 million to $15 million, the New York Times reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with Rich’s finances. Rich had invested with Madoff through money manager J. Ezra Merkin, the newspaper said.
http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/Penson_Worldwide
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Penson Worldwide provides execution, clearing, custody, settlement and technology infrastructure products and services to financial services firms and others servicing the global financial services industry. Companies included in the group include Penson Financial Services, Inc., Penson Financial Services Canada Inc., Penson Financial Services Ltd., Nexa Technologies, Inc., Penson GHCO, First Capitol Group, LLC and Penson Asia Limited, among other companies.[1]
http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/Ralph_Goldenberg
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Ralph Goldenberg is chief executive officer of Goldenberg, Hehmeyer Trading Company, Ltd. (GH Traders). He is also vice chairman of Penson GHCO.
http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/Chicago_Board_of_Trade
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The former Chicago Board of Trade (officially, the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago) is the oldest and one of the largest futures exchanges in the world.
In July 2007, the 159-year-old Chicago Board of Trade was acquired by Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to form CME Group. The union of the two exchanges established CME Group as the world's largest and possibly most diverse exchange, with products spanning all major asset classes.
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/mark-mitchells-post-over-wwwdeepcapturecom
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Excerpt:“We can confirm that the Marc Rich Group and Marc Rich have an insignificant exposure held indirectly,” spokeswoman Monika Meili said in an e-mail. It had “no material impact on the overall financial situation of the Group,” she said.
The loss was in a range of $10 million to $15 million, the New York Times reported, citing an unidentified person familiar with Rich’s finances. Rich had invested with Madoff through money manager J. Ezra Merkin, the newspaper said.
http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/Penson_Worldwide
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Penson Worldwide provides execution, clearing, custody, settlement and technology infrastructure products and services to financial services firms and others servicing the global financial services industry. Companies included in the group include Penson Financial Services, Inc., Penson Financial Services Canada Inc., Penson Financial Services Ltd., Nexa Technologies, Inc., Penson GHCO, First Capitol Group, LLC and Penson Asia Limited, among other companies.[1]
http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/Ralph_Goldenberg
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Ralph Goldenberg is chief executive officer of Goldenberg, Hehmeyer Trading Company, Ltd. (GH Traders). He is also vice chairman of Penson GHCO.
http://www.marketswiki.com/mwiki/Chicago_Board_of_Trade
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The former Chicago Board of Trade (officially, the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago) is the oldest and one of the largest futures exchanges in the world.
In July 2007, the 159-year-old Chicago Board of Trade was acquired by Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) to form CME Group. The union of the two exchanges established CME Group as the world's largest and possibly most diverse exchange, with products spanning all major asset classes.
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/mark-mitchells-post-over-wwwdeepcapturecom
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Mark Mitchell's post : How the Russian Mafia Captured the DTCC — and the American Financial System
About Vladimir Putin’s beaten up son-in-law and the “bulls” from Kemerovo
http://rumafia.com/material.php?id=220
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The Antonovs had built a new bank empire by then, it included a number of British and Baltic banks, with “Investbank” being the core. Father and son refused to pay.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/russias-mysterious-dutch-businessman
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Our story begins in November 2010 with what appeared to be a typically Russian traffic incident. The driver of a BMW made some move or other which apparently didn't please the occupants of a Mercedes. The BMW was brought to a standstill by the Mercedes and an accompanying Volkswagen. A number of men wielding baseball bats jumped out of these vehicles and launched an attack on the BMW and its driver.
The driver in question was Dutch businessman Jorrit Faassen, deputy chairman of the board of directors of a Russian consultancy firm. Also a man with connections, according to many bloggers and journalists.
http://www.stroytransgaz.com/press-center/news/2009/03/02
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Board of Directors Elects New Management Board
Monday, March 02, 2009 he Board of Directors of Stroytransgaz has confirmed a new organization structure for the company and elected a new Management Board.The Management Board was fixed by the Board of Directors at 11 members. Those elected to serve on the body:
Vyacheslav Makhonin, Chairman of the Management Board
Evgeniya Neimerovetz, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board
Dmitry Firkalo, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board
Vladimir Chekasin, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board
Nikolai Bukharov
Vladimir Gurov
Evgeny Zagorodny
Alexander Kapnik
Sergei Inkov
Alexander Novopashin
Jorrit Faassen
The new organizational structure at Stroytransgaz is expected to bring many benefits: it will improve the effectiveness of planning, realization, and control of projects; increase the speed with which decisions are made and the accountability of company managers; reduce management expenses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroytransgaz
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OAO Stroytransgaz is a Russian engineering construction company in the field of oil and gas industry. The company was founded in 1990. It is a subsidiary of Gazprom.
[edit] Operations
The company is involved in the engineering and construction of pipeline systems, oil and gas production facilities, underground gas storages, as well as civil and industrial structures and facilities. In addition to Russia, the company is active in the CIS countries, in the Middle East, Turkey, India, Algeria, Germany and Greece. It is involved in the construction of the Arab Gas Pipeline, the Taweelah–Fujairah gas pipeline, and the Central Asia–China gas pipeline.[1][2][3]http://www.stroytransgaz.com/press-center/smi/ria-novosti/13_01_2010
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As Bernie Madoff’s former secretary noted in an article that she wrote for Vanity Fair magazine, right before Madoff turned himself over to the FBI, he made a point of flying to Switzerland to meet with Marc Rich. In fact, Marc Rich, the fellow who had been indicted for trading with Iran, was the last person Madoff met before going to jail.
http://www.russianlaw.org/wp082599.htm
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Who Robbed Russia? Did Al Gore know about the massive lootings?
By David Ignatius
Wednesday, August 25, 1999; Page A17You can see the question rumbling toward Al Gore like a freight train in the night: What did the vice president know about the looting of Russia by organized crime, and why didn't he do more to stop it?
That issue -- what the heck, let's call it "Russiagate" -- has come into sharper focus this month, thanks to some powerful reporting that has highlighted the lawlessness of modern Russia and the acquiescence of the Clinton administration in the process of decline and decay there.
The most dramatic revelation came last week, when the New York Times reported that investigators are exploring whether associates of a suspected Russian mobster named Semyon Mogilevich laundered up to $10 billion through the Bank of New York. Imagine that! A man identified by the FBI as long ago as 1993 as a likely figure in Russian organized crime may have used a U.S. bank to hide his ill-gotten loot.
"The U.S. government has had a difficult time focusing its activities on Russian organized crime," says Jim Moody, a former head of the FBI's organized crime efforts who's now a private security consultant and one of the leading U.S. experts on the new Russian mob.
What makes the Bank of New York case especially intriguing is that one of the bank employees who's suspected of involvement in the money-laundering scheme is married to Konstantin Kagalovsky, the man who was Russia's representative to the International Monetary Fund from 1992 to 1995. Investigators are exploring whether Bank of New York served as one of the conduits for $200 million or more that may have been diverted from IMF loans to Russia, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This alleged diversion of IMF funds could be a political hot potato for Gore. That's because the vice president was a loud advocate of continued IMF lending to Russia, even as evidence mounted that some of it was being misused by the business oligarchs and their political cronies.
Also potentially troubling for Gore is evidence that the Russian central bank speculated with some of the roughly $20 billion the IMF has lent to Russia since 1992. The Post's David Hoffman has reported that the speculation was allegedly managed through a firm operating in the Channel Island of Jersey. The Russians would use these funds partly to speculate in their own securities, buying up short-term government debt known as "GKOs" when the ruble plummeted and selling them back into the market when the price rose.
Gore's biggest vulnerability may be his close relationship with Russia's former prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin. The vice president formed what amounted to a political alliance with the Russian premier, despite evidence that Chernomyrdin was in league with the forces of corruption -- and an oligarch himself through his holdings in Gazprom, the state natural-gas monopoly he helped "privatize" under what can only be called dubious circumstances.
http://www.businesspundit.com/10-most-notorious-money-laundering-cases-of-the-20th-century/
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10 Most Notorious Money Laundering Cases of the 20th Century
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8. The Benex Scandal
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1999/2635money_washing.html
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The Bank of New York story
The renewed attention to Gore's role in aiding, abetting, and then covering up Russian corruption, was triggered by a story in the Aug. 15 New York Times, reporting that U.S. Federal officials are investigating one of the biggest money-laundering operations ever uncovered in the United States, involving as much as $10 billion funnelled through accounts at the Bank of New York—a figure which later was put at $15 billion. The initial coverage emphasized that the suspect accounts are linked to Semyon Yukovich Migolevich, a major figure in Russian organized crime, who is said to be involved in arms trafficking, extortion, prostitution, etc.As the story was breaking, the Bank of New York suspended two senior officers. One of these is Natasha Gurfinkel Kagalovsky, who headed the bank's eastern European division. Since 1995, she has been the wife of Konstantin Kagalovsky—a key figure in the inner circle of British-trained "reformers" who carried out the "shock therapy" and privatization program which decimated the Russian econony after 1991. As the scandal has developed, Kagalovsky has emerged as far more central to the scheme, than the mobster Mogilevich.
http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/traces/iss7pg1.htm
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Russian government sources played down the scandal and the allegations of high level involvement in organised crime. Moscow’s papers implied that the US Republican Party had inflamed the scandal to harm the presidential prospects of Al Gore. The Italian newspaper Corriere delle Serra alleged that the scandal reached President Yeltsin and his daughter, both of whom had credit cards paid for from an account in Switzerland registered with Mabetex bank. Yeltsin’s son-in-law held two accounts at the Bank of New York’s branch in the Cayman Islands.
In Russia, the investigation focused on Yukos Oil, the country’s second-largest oil company, and its holding company Rosprom. Its chairman, Mikhail Khodokovsky, was once the top official at Russia’s energy ministry before going on to found the Menatep bank. The FBI suspect Menatep of being part of the money laundering operation. Natasha Kagalovsky, one of the two Bank of New York executives under suspicion in the inquiry, is married to a vice chairman of Yukos and Menatep. Yukos has subsidiaries in Cyprus, Switzerland, the Isle of Man and the Caribbean. Some of its shareholders suspect the management of looting the company’s assets and hiding the proceeds abroad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semion_Mogilevich
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Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich[1] (Ukrainian: Семен Ю́дкович Могиле́вич, [sɛmˈɛn ˈjudkɔwɪt͡ʃ mɔɦɪˈlɛwɪt͡ʃ]; born June 30, 1946) is a Ukrainian-born organized crime boss, believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world.[2]
Mogilevich's nicknames include "Don Semyon", and "The Brainy Don" (because of his business acumen[3]). He is believed to control a vast criminal empire and has been called "the most dangerous mobster in the world".[4][5]
He is based in Moscow, Russia. He is believed to have ordered many assassinations of his enemies.[6]
http://interactives.wpri.com/photomojo/gallery/569/2/fbis-10-most-wanted/semion-mogilevich/
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Semion Mogilevich
Semion Mogilevich is wanted for his alleged participation in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud thousands of investors in the stock of a public company incorporated in Canada, but headquartered in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, between 1993 and 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act#Semion_Mogilevich
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Semion Mogilevich
Semion Mogilevich[32] (Ukrainian: Семьон Ю́дкович Могиле́вич, [sɛmˈjɔn ˈjudkɔwɪt͡ʃ mɔɦɪˈlɛwɪt͡ʃ]; is an organized crime boss and global con artist believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world.[33] Mogilevich's nicknames include "Don Semyon", and "The Brainy Don" (because of his business acumen and college education). He is believed to control a vast criminal empire, and has been called "the most dangerous mobster in the world".[34][35] In 2003, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation put Mogilevich on the "Wanted List" for participation in the scheme to defraud investors in Canadian company YBM Magnex International Inc. Frustrated by their previous unsuccessful efforts to charge him for arms trafficking, contract killing, drug trafficking, extortion, and prostitution they had now settled on the large-scale fraud charges as their best hope of running him to ground. He was, however, considered to be the most powerful Russian mobster alive.[36] In a 2006 interview, former Clinton administration anti-organized-crime czar Jon Winer said, "I can tell you that Semion Mogilevich is as serious an organized criminal as I have ever encountered and I am confident that he is responsible for contract killings."[36] On October 22, 2009 he was named by the FBI as the 494th fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.[37] A Ukrainian businessman charged with more than 40 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, and other economic crimes carried out in dozens of countries around the world is the newest addition to our Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Semion Mogilevich is wanted for his alleged participation in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors in the stock of YBM Magnex International, a company he controlled—which had its world headquarters just outside Philadelphia—that was supposed to manufacture magnets but instead bilked investors out of $150 million.
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1193821435642
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Corporate Fraud Data Base
Subscribe now to The American Lawyer
Last spring, as the five-year anniversary of the Corporate Fraud Task Force approached, The American Lawyer set out to review its record of fraud prosecution. This turned out to be a difficult undertaking. The U.S.Department of Justice, after repeated inquiries, finally explained that it collects its statistics from individual U.S. attorney's offices and does no tmaintain a centralized record of the corporate fraud cases that produced the 1,236 convictions cited by then attorney general Alberto Gonzales at the task force's anniversary celebration last July. So we developed our own database of significant corporate fraud prosecutions. In this we were guided by the Corporate Fraud Task Force Website, which identified about 80 investigations deemed important by the Justice Department. We added criminal cases cited in reports published by the task force, as well as more recent prosecutions mentioned by Justice Department officials in speeches or testimony. In all, we analyzed 124 corporate fraud investigations, which resulted in 440 indicted defendants.Our sources were publicly available case records, as well as interviews with hundreds of prosecutors and defense lawyers. This database contains information about when and where these 440 cases were brought, the lawyers on both sides, and how the cases turned out. In all, we believe the database provides a historic portrait of corporate fraud prosecution in the post-Enron age.
http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/semion-mogilevich/page/2/
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The man who runs the Mogilevich organization, Semion Mogilevich, is not only the “most dangerous mobster in the world”, but also sits as #2 on the FBI’s list of “Most Wanted” criminals, behind only Osama bin Laden. A declassified FBI report states that the Mogilevich organization is involved in everything from major league market manipulation to prostitution, Afghan heroin, and trafficking in nuclear weapons materials.
http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/semion-mogilevich/
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So, here’s what we know: Tuco Trading was a little, unregistered brokerage in Chicago with more than 100 accounts, one of them a strange account called Orange Diviner, which was controlled by the top henchmen of Roman Abramovich (arguably the most powerful man in Russia) and Semion Mogilevich (the leading figure in Russian organized crime and the most dangerous mobster in the world, involved in everything from market manipulation to manslaughter and the trafficking of radioactive materials).
In 1999, Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky (who jointly operated a vast business empire that controlled Russia’s media and minerals, and much of its radioactive materials) orchestrated the 1999 rise to power of Vladimir Putin, who was then the head of the FSB, successor agency to the KGB. Today, of course, Putin is prime minister of Russia.
Berezovsky has apparently had a falling out with Putin, though some in Russia speculate that the two men are still close. People in Russia whisper about the Abu Dhabi royals serving as messengers between Berezovsky and Putin. Just rumors, perhaps. The truth is, nobody knows. Nothing about these relationships is clear. But here’s a good rule: Beware the murk.
Berezovsky now resides in London, as did his employee, Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB operative killed in 2006 with radioactive polonium-210. That was soon after Litvinenko charged the Russian government with having ties to Al Qaeda. The Russian government denied this charge, stating that it was Litvinenko and Berezovsky who had ties with jihadi terrorist groups. Who knows what the truth is? But remember the rule: Beware the murk.
http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/orange-diviner/
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http://www.mondovisione.com/media-and-resources/news/cme-appoints-rahm-emanuel-to-board/
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CMEAppoints Rahm Emanuel to Board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act#Semion_Mogilevich
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Semion Mogilevich
Semion Mogilevich[32] (Ukrainian: Семьон Ю́дкович Могиле́вич, [sɛmˈjɔn ˈjudkɔwɪt͡ʃ mɔɦɪˈlɛwɪt͡ʃ]; is an organized crime boss and global con artist believed by European and United States federal law enforcement agencies to be the "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates in the world.[33] Mogilevich's nicknames include "Don Semyon", and "The Brainy Don" (because of his business acumen and college education). He is believed to control a vast criminal empire, and has been called "the most dangerous mobster in the world".[34][35] In 2003, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation put Mogilevich on the "Wanted List" for participation in the scheme to defraud investors in Canadian company YBM Magnex International Inc. Frustrated by their previous unsuccessful efforts to charge him for arms trafficking, contract killing, drug trafficking, extortion, and prostitution they had now settled on the large-scale fraud charges as their best hope of running him to ground. He was, however, considered to be the most powerful Russian mobster alive.[36] In a 2006 interview, former Clinton administration anti-organized-crime czar Jon Winer said, "I can tell you that Semion Mogilevich is as serious an organized criminal as I have ever encountered and I am confident that he is responsible for contract killings."[36] On October 22, 2009 he was named by the FBI as the 494th fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.[37] A Ukrainian businessman charged with more than 40 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, and other economic crimes carried out in dozens of countries around the world is the newest addition to our Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Semion Mogilevich is wanted for his alleged participation in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud investors in the stock of YBM Magnex International, a company he controlled—which had its world headquarters just outside Philadelphia—that was supposed to manufacture magnets but instead bilked investors out of $150 million.
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1193821435642
Excerpt:
Corporate Fraud Data Base
Subscribe now to The American Lawyer
Last spring, as the five-year anniversary of the Corporate Fraud Task Force approached, The American Lawyer set out to review its record of fraud prosecution. This turned out to be a difficult undertaking. The U.S.Department of Justice, after repeated inquiries, finally explained that it collects its statistics from individual U.S. attorney's offices and does no tmaintain a centralized record of the corporate fraud cases that produced the 1,236 convictions cited by then attorney general Alberto Gonzales at the task force's anniversary celebration last July. So we developed our own database of significant corporate fraud prosecutions. In this we were guided by the Corporate Fraud Task Force Website, which identified about 80 investigations deemed important by the Justice Department. We added criminal cases cited in reports published by the task force, as well as more recent prosecutions mentioned by Justice Department officials in speeches or testimony. In all, we analyzed 124 corporate fraud investigations, which resulted in 440 indicted defendants.Our sources were publicly available case records, as well as interviews with hundreds of prosecutors and defense lawyers. This database contains information about when and where these 440 cases were brought, the lawyers on both sides, and how the cases turned out. In all, we believe the database provides a historic portrait of corporate fraud prosecution in the post-Enron age.
http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/semion-mogilevich/page/2/
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The man who runs the Mogilevich organization, Semion Mogilevich, is not only the “most dangerous mobster in the world”, but also sits as #2 on the FBI’s list of “Most Wanted” criminals, behind only Osama bin Laden. A declassified FBI report states that the Mogilevich organization is involved in everything from major league market manipulation to prostitution, Afghan heroin, and trafficking in nuclear weapons materials.
http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/semion-mogilevich/
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So, here’s what we know: Tuco Trading was a little, unregistered brokerage in Chicago with more than 100 accounts, one of them a strange account called Orange Diviner, which was controlled by the top henchmen of Roman Abramovich (arguably the most powerful man in Russia) and Semion Mogilevich (the leading figure in Russian organized crime and the most dangerous mobster in the world, involved in everything from market manipulation to manslaughter and the trafficking of radioactive materials).
In 1999, Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky (who jointly operated a vast business empire that controlled Russia’s media and minerals, and much of its radioactive materials) orchestrated the 1999 rise to power of Vladimir Putin, who was then the head of the FSB, successor agency to the KGB. Today, of course, Putin is prime minister of Russia.
Berezovsky has apparently had a falling out with Putin, though some in Russia speculate that the two men are still close. People in Russia whisper about the Abu Dhabi royals serving as messengers between Berezovsky and Putin. Just rumors, perhaps. The truth is, nobody knows. Nothing about these relationships is clear. But here’s a good rule: Beware the murk.
Berezovsky now resides in London, as did his employee, Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB operative killed in 2006 with radioactive polonium-210. That was soon after Litvinenko charged the Russian government with having ties to Al Qaeda. The Russian government denied this charge, stating that it was Litvinenko and Berezovsky who had ties with jihadi terrorist groups. Who knows what the truth is? But remember the rule: Beware the murk.
http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/orange-diviner/
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http://www.mondovisione.com/media-and-resources/news/cme-appoints-rahm-emanuel-to-board/
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CME
Date 07/05/1999
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has appointed Rahm Emanuel to a two-year term on the CME Board of Directors. Emanuel, Managing Director of the investment banking firm Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc., had served as Senior Adviser to the President for Policy and Strategy in the Clinton Administration. "As a close adviser to the President during the most extensive economic expansion in U.S. history, Rahm Emanuel has demonstrated an understanding of financial, strategic and global issues that will serve the CME well as he joins our Board," CME Chairman Scott Gordon said. "We will welcome his insight as the Merc continues to implement its strategy for the next millennium." In his position at the White House, Emanuel oversaw the strategy for passing the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and coordinated the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserstein_Perella_%26_Co.
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Wasserstein Perella & Co. (sometimes referred to as "Wasserella") was an investment bank established by Bruce Wasserstein, Joseph R. Perella, Bill Lambert, and one other founder in 1988, former bankers at First Boston Corp., until its eventual sale to Dresdner Bank in 2000 for some $1.4 billion in stock. The private equity business of the investment firm was not included in the sale and was to be sold off to existing Wasserstein shareholders.[1]
The firm was described in the New York Times as a training ground which helped create "a dynasty of bankers and executives that has spread throughout Wall Street and corporate America".[2] They included Robert S. Wiesenthal who became chairman of Sony; Raymond J. McGuire of Citigroup; Douglas L. Braunstein of JPMorgan Chase; Deborah C. Wright of Carver Federal Savings Bank, Gail Zauder of Credit Suisse; and others.[2] A First Boston analyst Paul Mecurio left corporate life to become a comedian.[2]
Perella had left the firm for Morgan Stanley in 1993.
Wasserstein left the firm in 2002 to head investment bank Lazard.[3] The investment banking business of Dresdner Bank changed its name to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as a result of the deal, dropping Wasserstein's name only in 2006.
http://www.theotherrussia.org/2011/03/11/biden-meets-with-russian-oppositionists-rights-advocates/
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Yavlinsky said it was of upmost importance to solve the problem of how to replace the system created back in the ’90s – a much more far-reaching and difficult task than simply making personnel changes in the government. Moreover, the problem could only be resolved by Russian society, which needs to rely on its own strength more than anything else in this long and difficult effort, he said.
http://freetheplanet.net/articles/5/internationalists
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“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1846.
With the active participation of the Rockefellers, the Schiffs, the Warburgs and the Morgans, the Rothschild family monopolised international banking during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, along with political, social and cultural influence.
Though most of their wealth is hidden inside institutions with charitable status, the Rockefellers are widely believed to be the most powerful and wealthy American family. However, the House of Rothschild possesses the most comprehensive collection of global vested interests, including major shareholdings of the Rockefeller, Warburg, Schiff and Morgan portfolios, as well as seats on the boards of the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Federal Reserve Shareholders
According to recently unearthed testimony given by Christian Rakovsky, which has been studiously investigated by Henry Makow PhD, during an interrogation by the Stalinist police on 26 January 1938, Rakovsky stated that he and Leon Trotsky were representatives of an invincible power known as the Capitalist-Communist Financial International. This power, Rakovsky insisted, was being exercised by the House of Rothschild.
The Red Symphony
Rakovsky claimed that the organisation sought to use Communism to establish a global dictatorship of the super-rich. Since money is the current consensual basis of power and influence, which the internationalists create for themselves through the monopoly of the supply of credit and currency, the revolutionary Marxist movement was allegedly an attempt by the Rothschilds and their allies to protect and extend this monopoly by establishing a totalitarian New World Order.
“The Rothschilds were not the treasurers, but the chiefs of that first secret Communism…Marx and the highest chiefs of the First International … were controlled by Baron Lionel Rothschild [1808-1878].”
Rakovsky asserted that Lionel’s son, Nathaniel, needed to overthrow Russia’s Christian Romanoff dynasty in order to consolidate the domination of the Rothschilds in Europe. With this purpose in mind he used Jacob Schiff and the Warburg brothers to finance a Japanese war against the Russian empire. Rakovsky also testified that Rothschild hired Trotsky to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand in order to initiate the First World War, before arranging Wall Street finance to catalyse the Bolshevik Revolution.
Trotsky, having married the daughter of one of Rothschild’s closest associates, banker Abram Zhivotovsky, was lined up to lead the U.S.S.R. following the revolution, but his position was usurped by National Communist, Vladamir Lenin, who almost immediately made peace with Germany, signing the Treaty of Brest Litovsk in 1918. According to Rakovsky, this was contrary of the agenda of Rothschild, who had primed Trotsky to occupy the broken country, thus absorbing it into the Soviet Empire.
One of the first orders issued by Lenin’s new Bolshevik regime was to declare the banking industry a state monopoly. Lenin had already outlined his plan to do so in THE THREATENING CATASTROPHE, published in September 1917:
“Ownership of capital, which is manipulated by the banks is not lost or changed when the banks are nationalised and fused into one state bank… The nationalisation of banks would make circulation of checks compulsory by law for all the rich, and introduce the confiscation of property for concealing incomes.”
Later that year, Lenin survived Trotsky’s first attempt to assassinate him, almost certainly at the behest of the international bankers who financed the revolution. Three years later, Lenin had a stroke, and was allegedly killed by his doctor, Levin, on the orders of his political rival.
In his 1918 book, THE BOLSHEVIKS AND WORLD PEACE, Trotsky proclaimed himself an Internationalist, arguing for a global Communist dictatorship. Ironically, on the very brink of assuming power, Trotsky became sick himself, an opportunity which was seized by the ‘Bonapartist’, Josef Stalin, much to the chagrin of Wall Street, who had once again failed to install their man as Soviet Premier.
Professor Antony C. Sutton’s WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION is a detailed expose of the role of Rockefeller Standard Oil interests in the financing of the Bolshevik Revolution. Sutton writes about a report that was written by Wall Street lawyer, Thomas D. Thatcher, in which he referred to the support from William Boyce Thompson, director of the Rockefeller-owned, Chase Bank. Thatcher argued in the memo that:
“…the fullest assistance should be given to the Soviet government in its efforts to organise a volunteer revolutionary army.”
It is worthy of note that working for the Thatcher’s law firm, Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett, was future U.S. Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter, Cyrus Vance, who eventually became a senior director of the Rockefeller Foundation.
According to Daniel Estulin in THE TRUE STORY OF THE BILDERBERG GROUP, the American International Corporation was founded in 1915, with the main purpose of co-ordinating financial assistance for the Bolshevik Revolution, which was provided by the Rockefellers, J.P. Morgan and National City Bank.
The chairman of the new corporation was former president of National City Bank, Frank Vanderlip, who was also a member of the elite group of bankers who drew up the Federal Reserve Act at Jeckyll Island in 1910. The act was passed by a depleted Congress on December 23rd 1913, prompting Republican Congressman, Charles Lindbergh, to protest:
“The Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson] signs this Bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalised… The greatest crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.”
Between the American Civil War and the beginning of the First World War, the main U.S. agents of the Rothschild Empire were J.P. Morgan, Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb. Newsweek magazine published a brief history of Kuhn, Loeb & Co on February 1st 1936, which stated:
“Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb were general merchandise merchants in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1850. As usual in newly settled regions, most transactions were on credit. They soon found out that they were bankers…
In 1867, they established Kuhn, Loeb and Co., bankers, in New York City, and took in a young German immigrant, Jacob Schiff, as partner. Young Schiff had important financial connections in Europe.
After ten years, Jacob Schiff was head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., Kuhn having retired. Under Schiff’s guidance, the house brought European capital into contact with American industry.”
Those European “financial connections” were the Rothschilds and their German partners, the M.M. Warburg Company of Hamburg and Amsterdam. Over the next two decades, the Rothschilds provided John D. Rockefeller enough finance to dramatically expand his Standard Oil business. The mechanics of the investment were performed by the Warburgs and Jacob Schiff at Kuhn Loeb, who also financed Edward Harriman’s and Andrew Carnegie’s rail-road and steel empires.
With the conquest of the American Republic well under way, in 1907, Rothschild-controlled Kuhn Loeb chief, Jacob Schiff, warned the New York Chamber of Commerce that:
“…unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.”
Not long after this speech, the Rothschild’s agents allegedly created a financial panic on Wall Street, just as Nathan Rothschild had done in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, resulting in an enormous transfer of wealth to the international bankers. Reflecting upon this Paul Warburg told the Banking and Currency Committee:
“In the Panic of 1907, the first suggestion I made was, “let us have a national clearing house” [Central Bank]. The Aldrich Plan [for a Central Bank] contains many things that are simply fundamental rules of banking. Your aim must be the same.”
Warburg’s reward for bringing into being the U.S. Federal Reserve, was to be its first chairman. While speaking before the House Committee on Banking and Currency in 1913, Paul Warburg confessed that, having emigrated to America in 1902, following an extensive education in international banking in Europe, he became a partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co, another Rothschild-controlled shareholder of the American central bank.
Military-Industrial Banking Monopoly
In order to contain Stalin’s unexpected rise to power, the international bankers mobilised Wall Street finance to facilitate Hitler’s rise in Germany. As Rakovsky put it in The Red Symphony:
“The ambassador Warburg presented himself under a false name and Hitler did not even guess his race… he also lied regarding whose representative he was… Our aim was to provoke a war and Hitler was war… [The Nazis] received… millions of dollars sent to it from Wall Street, and millions of marks from German financiers.”
Bankers have long employed a standard policy of covertly facilitating corrupt dictatorships, such as Hitler’s in Germany, or Saddam Hussain’s in Iraq, then loaning compliant governments the money to wage expensive wars against the very same tyrants, to seize control of the broken country’s natural resources and wealth at rock bottom prices.
In almost all cases, the propagandised justification for war is the removal the oppressive regimes once disingenuously dismissed as benign. It has become a never-ending cycle of privatised war with national armies, with both sides financed and armed by the same military-industrial cabal.
The news published by the Guardian newspaper on January 10th 2008, that Tony Blair has taken a senior position at investment bank, J.P. Morgan, with a salary in excess of one million dollars a year, is proof that Blair’s political career certainly had the approval of the internationalists.
Blair and J.P. Morgan
For the international banks, nothing is more profitable than the armed conflict of nations, simply because of the enormous financial cost of waging war, and the fact that neither side can operate without their participation, as the only institutions with licenses to issue almost unlimited credit.
This they do at interest, when governments default on the vast loans sanctioned to wage war, always at the expense of the ordinary taxpayer. Inflation and recession are an integral part of this cycle of corporatist-sponsored violence. As are multi-billion dollar arms deals in the Third World. Inevitably, the international bankers are major shareholders in every profitable tentacle of the Military-Industrial Complex, from BAE Systems to Blackwater.
As we approach the end of 2010, there are thirty two wars being waged across the poorest continent on Earth. Most, if not all, have been initiated and financed by western profiteers, as they fight for control of Africa’s natural resources, actively participating in corporate piracy and state-sponsored genocide.
Humanitarian volunteers have claimed for decades that western aid almost always services debts to the World Bank, or pays for weapons from U.S. or European arms companies, rather than the food and sanitation so desperately needed by the poor, sick and starving.
The kind of sums involved could not be siphoned off by corrupt African regimes without the prior knowledge and cooperation of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS); the international banking operations of the United Nations, in which many people have invested so much unwarranted trust.
Whether we call it International Communism, Collectivism or Neo-Corporatism, every modern socio-economic system dictates that the rich get richer and more powerful, while the poor become even more enslaved by debt, poisoned by the food, water and health monopolies, and ever at the mercy of unaccountable, elitist government. The time for change is upon us.PEACEFUL NON-COMPLIANCE GRAND ILLUSIONS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserstein_Perella_%26_Co.
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Wasserstein Perella & Co. (sometimes referred to as "Wasserella") was an investment bank established by Bruce Wasserstein, Joseph R. Perella, Bill Lambert, and one other founder in 1988, former bankers at First Boston Corp., until its eventual sale to Dresdner Bank in 2000 for some $1.4 billion in stock. The private equity business of the investment firm was not included in the sale and was to be sold off to existing Wasserstein shareholders.[1]
The firm was described in the New York Times as a training ground which helped create "a dynasty of bankers and executives that has spread throughout Wall Street and corporate America".[2] They included Robert S. Wiesenthal who became chairman of Sony; Raymond J. McGuire of Citigroup; Douglas L. Braunstein of JPMorgan Chase; Deborah C. Wright of Carver Federal Savings Bank, Gail Zauder of Credit Suisse; and others.[2] A First Boston analyst Paul Mecurio left corporate life to become a comedian.[2]
Perella had left the firm for Morgan Stanley in 1993.
Wasserstein left the firm in 2002 to head investment bank Lazard.[3] The investment banking business of Dresdner Bank changed its name to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as a result of the deal, dropping Wasserstein's name only in 2006.
http://www.theotherrussia.org/2011/03/11/biden-meets-with-russian-oppositionists-rights-advocates/
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Yavlinsky said it was of upmost importance to solve the problem of how to replace the system created back in the ’90s – a much more far-reaching and difficult task than simply making personnel changes in the government. Moreover, the problem could only be resolved by Russian society, which needs to rely on its own strength more than anything else in this long and difficult effort, he said.
http://freetheplanet.net/articles/5/internationalists
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INTERNATIONALISTS
Mar 16, 03:06 PM
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1846.
With the active participation of the Rockefellers, the Schiffs, the Warburgs and the Morgans, the Rothschild family monopolised international banking during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, along with political, social and cultural influence.
Though most of their wealth is hidden inside institutions with charitable status, the Rockefellers are widely believed to be the most powerful and wealthy American family. However, the House of Rothschild possesses the most comprehensive collection of global vested interests, including major shareholdings of the Rockefeller, Warburg, Schiff and Morgan portfolios, as well as seats on the boards of the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Federal Reserve Shareholders
According to recently unearthed testimony given by Christian Rakovsky, which has been studiously investigated by Henry Makow PhD, during an interrogation by the Stalinist police on 26 January 1938, Rakovsky stated that he and Leon Trotsky were representatives of an invincible power known as the Capitalist-Communist Financial International. This power, Rakovsky insisted, was being exercised by the House of Rothschild.
The Red Symphony
Rakovsky claimed that the organisation sought to use Communism to establish a global dictatorship of the super-rich. Since money is the current consensual basis of power and influence, which the internationalists create for themselves through the monopoly of the supply of credit and currency, the revolutionary Marxist movement was allegedly an attempt by the Rothschilds and their allies to protect and extend this monopoly by establishing a totalitarian New World Order.
“The Rothschilds were not the treasurers, but the chiefs of that first secret Communism…Marx and the highest chiefs of the First International … were controlled by Baron Lionel Rothschild [1808-1878].”
Rakovsky asserted that Lionel’s son, Nathaniel, needed to overthrow Russia’s Christian Romanoff dynasty in order to consolidate the domination of the Rothschilds in Europe. With this purpose in mind he used Jacob Schiff and the Warburg brothers to finance a Japanese war against the Russian empire. Rakovsky also testified that Rothschild hired Trotsky to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand in order to initiate the First World War, before arranging Wall Street finance to catalyse the Bolshevik Revolution.
Trotsky, having married the daughter of one of Rothschild’s closest associates, banker Abram Zhivotovsky, was lined up to lead the U.S.S.R. following the revolution, but his position was usurped by National Communist, Vladamir Lenin, who almost immediately made peace with Germany, signing the Treaty of Brest Litovsk in 1918. According to Rakovsky, this was contrary of the agenda of Rothschild, who had primed Trotsky to occupy the broken country, thus absorbing it into the Soviet Empire.
One of the first orders issued by Lenin’s new Bolshevik regime was to declare the banking industry a state monopoly. Lenin had already outlined his plan to do so in THE THREATENING CATASTROPHE, published in September 1917:
“Ownership of capital, which is manipulated by the banks is not lost or changed when the banks are nationalised and fused into one state bank… The nationalisation of banks would make circulation of checks compulsory by law for all the rich, and introduce the confiscation of property for concealing incomes.”
Later that year, Lenin survived Trotsky’s first attempt to assassinate him, almost certainly at the behest of the international bankers who financed the revolution. Three years later, Lenin had a stroke, and was allegedly killed by his doctor, Levin, on the orders of his political rival.
In his 1918 book, THE BOLSHEVIKS AND WORLD PEACE, Trotsky proclaimed himself an Internationalist, arguing for a global Communist dictatorship. Ironically, on the very brink of assuming power, Trotsky became sick himself, an opportunity which was seized by the ‘Bonapartist’, Josef Stalin, much to the chagrin of Wall Street, who had once again failed to install their man as Soviet Premier.
Professor Antony C. Sutton’s WALL STREET AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION is a detailed expose of the role of Rockefeller Standard Oil interests in the financing of the Bolshevik Revolution. Sutton writes about a report that was written by Wall Street lawyer, Thomas D. Thatcher, in which he referred to the support from William Boyce Thompson, director of the Rockefeller-owned, Chase Bank. Thatcher argued in the memo that:
“…the fullest assistance should be given to the Soviet government in its efforts to organise a volunteer revolutionary army.”
It is worthy of note that working for the Thatcher’s law firm, Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett, was future U.S. Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter, Cyrus Vance, who eventually became a senior director of the Rockefeller Foundation.
According to Daniel Estulin in THE TRUE STORY OF THE BILDERBERG GROUP, the American International Corporation was founded in 1915, with the main purpose of co-ordinating financial assistance for the Bolshevik Revolution, which was provided by the Rockefellers, J.P. Morgan and National City Bank.
The chairman of the new corporation was former president of National City Bank, Frank Vanderlip, who was also a member of the elite group of bankers who drew up the Federal Reserve Act at Jeckyll Island in 1910. The act was passed by a depleted Congress on December 23rd 1913, prompting Republican Congressman, Charles Lindbergh, to protest:
“The Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson] signs this Bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalised… The greatest crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.”
Between the American Civil War and the beginning of the First World War, the main U.S. agents of the Rothschild Empire were J.P. Morgan, Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb. Newsweek magazine published a brief history of Kuhn, Loeb & Co on February 1st 1936, which stated:
“Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb were general merchandise merchants in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1850. As usual in newly settled regions, most transactions were on credit. They soon found out that they were bankers…
In 1867, they established Kuhn, Loeb and Co., bankers, in New York City, and took in a young German immigrant, Jacob Schiff, as partner. Young Schiff had important financial connections in Europe.
After ten years, Jacob Schiff was head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., Kuhn having retired. Under Schiff’s guidance, the house brought European capital into contact with American industry.”
Those European “financial connections” were the Rothschilds and their German partners, the M.M. Warburg Company of Hamburg and Amsterdam. Over the next two decades, the Rothschilds provided John D. Rockefeller enough finance to dramatically expand his Standard Oil business. The mechanics of the investment were performed by the Warburgs and Jacob Schiff at Kuhn Loeb, who also financed Edward Harriman’s and Andrew Carnegie’s rail-road and steel empires.
With the conquest of the American Republic well under way, in 1907, Rothschild-controlled Kuhn Loeb chief, Jacob Schiff, warned the New York Chamber of Commerce that:
“…unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.”
Not long after this speech, the Rothschild’s agents allegedly created a financial panic on Wall Street, just as Nathan Rothschild had done in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, resulting in an enormous transfer of wealth to the international bankers. Reflecting upon this Paul Warburg told the Banking and Currency Committee:
“In the Panic of 1907, the first suggestion I made was, “let us have a national clearing house” [Central Bank]. The Aldrich Plan [for a Central Bank] contains many things that are simply fundamental rules of banking. Your aim must be the same.”
Warburg’s reward for bringing into being the U.S. Federal Reserve, was to be its first chairman. While speaking before the House Committee on Banking and Currency in 1913, Paul Warburg confessed that, having emigrated to America in 1902, following an extensive education in international banking in Europe, he became a partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co, another Rothschild-controlled shareholder of the American central bank.
Military-Industrial Banking Monopoly
In order to contain Stalin’s unexpected rise to power, the international bankers mobilised Wall Street finance to facilitate Hitler’s rise in Germany. As Rakovsky put it in The Red Symphony:
“The ambassador Warburg presented himself under a false name and Hitler did not even guess his race… he also lied regarding whose representative he was… Our aim was to provoke a war and Hitler was war… [The Nazis] received… millions of dollars sent to it from Wall Street, and millions of marks from German financiers.”
Bankers have long employed a standard policy of covertly facilitating corrupt dictatorships, such as Hitler’s in Germany, or Saddam Hussain’s in Iraq, then loaning compliant governments the money to wage expensive wars against the very same tyrants, to seize control of the broken country’s natural resources and wealth at rock bottom prices.
In almost all cases, the propagandised justification for war is the removal the oppressive regimes once disingenuously dismissed as benign. It has become a never-ending cycle of privatised war with national armies, with both sides financed and armed by the same military-industrial cabal.
The news published by the Guardian newspaper on January 10th 2008, that Tony Blair has taken a senior position at investment bank, J.P. Morgan, with a salary in excess of one million dollars a year, is proof that Blair’s political career certainly had the approval of the internationalists.
Blair and J.P. Morgan
For the international banks, nothing is more profitable than the armed conflict of nations, simply because of the enormous financial cost of waging war, and the fact that neither side can operate without their participation, as the only institutions with licenses to issue almost unlimited credit.
This they do at interest, when governments default on the vast loans sanctioned to wage war, always at the expense of the ordinary taxpayer. Inflation and recession are an integral part of this cycle of corporatist-sponsored violence. As are multi-billion dollar arms deals in the Third World. Inevitably, the international bankers are major shareholders in every profitable tentacle of the Military-Industrial Complex, from BAE Systems to Blackwater.
As we approach the end of 2010, there are thirty two wars being waged across the poorest continent on Earth. Most, if not all, have been initiated and financed by western profiteers, as they fight for control of Africa’s natural resources, actively participating in corporate piracy and state-sponsored genocide.
Humanitarian volunteers have claimed for decades that western aid almost always services debts to the World Bank, or pays for weapons from U.S. or European arms companies, rather than the food and sanitation so desperately needed by the poor, sick and starving.
The kind of sums involved could not be siphoned off by corrupt African regimes without the prior knowledge and cooperation of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS); the international banking operations of the United Nations, in which many people have invested so much unwarranted trust.
Whether we call it International Communism, Collectivism or Neo-Corporatism, every modern socio-economic system dictates that the rich get richer and more powerful, while the poor become even more enslaved by debt, poisoned by the food, water and health monopolies, and ever at the mercy of unaccountable, elitist government. The time for change is upon us.
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