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Re: The 2019 market crash
By: Firestarter Date: December 25, 2018, 9:40 am
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[quote author=Firestarter link=topic=228.msg2661#msg2661
date=1544027257]It’s not a question of “if” but only of “when”
they will orchestrate another market crash...[/quote]
Back in early October, the Dow Jones hit an all-time high of
26,952, but on Monday it closed at only 23,593.
On Monday 17 December, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost
another 507 points, and in the following days continued to go
down.
The Russell 2000 is often an early indicator of where the rest
of the market is going, possibly the Dow and the S&P 500 will
fall a lot farther.
Compared to their peak values the following indexes have gone
down more than 12.5%:
Dow -12.7%
S&P -13.7%
Nasdaq Composite -17.3%
Dow Transports -19.4%
Russell 2000 -20.6%
US stocks have not fallen this dramatically in December since
the Great Depression of the 1930s (that lasted the whole
decade).
[IMG]
HTML https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/styles/inline_image_desktop/public/inline-images/2018-12-18_4-43-16.jpg?itok=62JpfISw[/img]
Trillions of dollars of paper wealth has disappeared, and hedge
funds are expected to go down like dominoes.
Earlier today, the New York Post described this as: “[I]The
stars of the biggest hedge funds are losing their shirts as
analysts fear a major financial wipeout is imminent[/I]”.
Ron Paul told CNBC: “[I]Once this volatility shows that we’re
not going to resume the bull market, then people are going to
rush for the exits[/I]” and that “[I]it could be worse than
1929[/I]”:
HTML https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-18/worst-december-stocks-great-depression
Member of Skull & Bones, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who
has previously worked for Goldman Sachs, George Soros and Sir
Leonard Blavatnik on Sunday increased the panic by announcing
that he spoke with CEO’s of the 6 largest American banks: Brian
Moynihan of Bank of America; Michael Corbat, Citi; David
Solomon, Goldman Sachs; Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase; James
Gorman, Morgan Stanley; and Tim Sloan of Wells Fargo.
Media outlets labelled this as creating the “plunge protection
team”.
Predictably on Monday, the Dow Jones lost another 650 points
(2.9%); the worst Christmas Eve trading day on record.
The S&P 500 index slid 65.5 points (2.7%), the Nasdaq lost 140.1
points (2.2%), and the Russell 2000 index lost 25.2 points (2%).
Technology stocks, health care companies, and banks took some of
the heaviest losses in the sell-off.
The dollar fell from 111.3 yen on Friday to 110.5 yen and the
euro rate went from $1.137 to $1.142.
France’s CAC 40 fell 1.5%, while the British FTSE 100 index slid
0.5%. South Korea’s Kospi dropped 0.3% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng
lost 0.4%. Australia’s S&P ASX 200 increased with 0.5%.
Germany’s DAX and the markets in Japan and Indonesia were
closed.
Donald Trump accused Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell for
raising interest rates, threatened to fire him and tweeted:
“[I]The Fed is like a powerful golfer who can’t score because he
has no touch – he can’t putt![/I]”:
HTML https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2018/12/24/dow-down-600-xmas-eve/
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Atlas Network in Latin America
By: Firestarter Date: February 10, 2019, 10:59 am
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The Atlas Network is affiliated with the powerful Mont Pelerin
Society that was co-founded by Knight of Malta, Crown Prince to
the non-existent Austrian throne, Otto von Habsburg (who also
established the Pan-Europa Union).
The Atlas Network works with 450 foundations, NGOs, think tanks
and advocacy groups, with an operating budget of $5 million in
2016, coming from charitable and non-profit foundations from
the US.
Atlas helped to alter the political landscape in various
countries in Latin America and is effectively an extension of
Anglo-American foreign policy. The think tanks associated with
Atlas are financed by the Koch billionaire brothers, State
Department and National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
The NED and the State Department funded Pan American Development
Foundation (PADF), Freedom House and United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), are the major entities who
share guidelines and resources for concrete results in the
asymmetric war.
15 of the most important organisations financed by Koch are:
Americans for Prosperity, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation,
American Legislative Exchange Council, Mercatus Center,
Americans for Tax Reform, Concerned Veterans of America,
Leadership Institute, Generation Opportunity, Institute for
Justice, Independent Institute, Club for Growth, Donors Trust,
Freedom Partners and Judicial Watch.
The Atlas network has 13 affiliates in [B]Brazil[/B]; 12 in
[B]Argentina[/B], 8 in Chile and Peru; 5 in Mexico and Costa
Rica; 4 in [B]Venezuela[/B], Uruguay, Bolivia and Guatemala; 2
in Dominican Republic, Ecuador and El Salvador: and 1 in
Colombia, Panama, Bahamas, Jamaica and Honduras:
HTML https://peoplesdispatch.org/2018/08/29/atlas-network-the-right-wing-libertarians/
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/BvvJF)
The Atlas Network has financed a variety of organisations that
influence the public and promote “right wing” propaganda in
Latin america.
Records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal
efforts of US politicians to use Atlas´ think tanks to
destabilise [B]Venezuela[/B] in support of (?) the Maduro
government.
As early as 1998, Cedice Libertad, the flagship of Atlas in
Caracas, received regular financial support from the Center for
International Private Enterprise.
There are other NGOs and foundations working for Atlas, like
Provea (financed by the Open Society Foundation of George Soros,
the Ford Foundation and the British embassy), the Civil
Association of Citizen’s Power, and the Venezuelan Observatory
of Social Conflict (which is financed by the NED).
In [B]Brazil[/B] there are now about 30 “non-profit”
institutions acting and collaborating with each other, like the
Estudantes Pela Liberdade (Students for Liberty) and the MBL
(Free Brazil Movement).
The Millennium Institute: founded in 2006, received funding from
Bank of America, Merryll Lynch, Grupo RBS, Gerdau and Am-Cham
Brazil. The Millennium Institute was instrumental in organising
demonstrations against former President Dilma Rousseff.
The Interdisciplinary Centre of Ethics and Personal Economics of
Rio de Janeiro: a think tank of Atlas that develops religious
arguments that benefit the major corporations. The centre
imitates the US Acton Institute financed by Trump´s Secretary of
Education Betsy DeVos (sister of Erik Prince).
The DeVos family has also funded the Heritage Foundation.
In [B]Argentina[/B] the Pensar Foundation of the Atlas Network
became the political party PRO that propelled Mauricio Macri to
the presidency in 2015.
Leaders of Pensar and Fundación Libertad (Freedom Foundation,
also of Atlas) today occupy key positions in the Argentine
administration.
In [B]Honduras[/B] the Eléutera foundation was founded after the
coup in 2009 against elected president Manuel Zelaya. The leader
of Eléutera, Guillermo Peña Panting, previously worked at the
Atlas think tank in North Carolina the John Locke Foundation and
has given numerous seminars for the organization.
The present government of Honduras asked for the political
support of Eléutera:
HTML https://peoplesdispatch.org/2018/09/03/the-atlas-networks-insidious-impact-on-the-ground/
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/jaOpa)
The following interesting picture was released by Wikileaks
(originally released more than 10 years ago), from a classified
Pentagon paper.
It shows that the World Bank, IMF, Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), and Bank for International
Settlements (BIS) are used as as “[I]U.S. diplomatic-financial
venues[/I]” to pressure foreign state and nonstate actors and:
[quote]apply unilateral and indirect financial power through
persuasive influence to international and domestic financial
institutions regarding availability and terms of loans, grants,
or other financial assistance to foreign state and nonstate
actors.[/quote]
[IMG]
HTML https://archive.is/iR5kO/83c7deb84bef997c65085fa712ca583db95caf12[/img]
The picture, text comes from the hundreds of pages document
“[I]Field Manual (FM) 3-05.130, Army Special Operations Forces
Unconventional Warfare[/I]” (2008):
HTML https://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-fm3-05-130.pdf
#Post#: 3807--------------------------------------------------
Re: Atlas Network in Latin America
By: guest8 Date: February 10, 2019, 5:48 pm
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[quote author=Firestarter link=topic=228.msg3797#msg3797
date=1549817998]
The Atlas Network is affiliated with the powerful Mont Pelerin
Society that was co-founded by Knight of Malta, Crown Prince to
the non-existent Austrian throne, Otto von Habsburg (who also
established the Pan-Europa Union).
The Atlas Network works with 450 foundations, NGOs, think tanks
and advocacy groups, with an operating budget of $5 million in
2016, coming from charitable and non-profit foundations from
the US.
Atlas helped to alter the political landscape in various
countries in Latin America and is effectively an extension of
Anglo-American foreign policy. The think tanks associated with
Atlas are financed by the Koch billionaire brothers, State
Department and National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
The NED and the State Department funded Pan American Development
Foundation (PADF), Freedom House and United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), are the major entities who
share guidelines and resources for concrete results in the
asymmetric war.
15 of the most important organisations financed by Koch are:
Americans for Prosperity, Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation,
American Legislative Exchange Council, Mercatus Center,
Americans for Tax Reform, Concerned Veterans of America,
Leadership Institute, Generation Opportunity, Institute for
Justice, Independent Institute, Club for Growth, Donors Trust,
Freedom Partners and Judicial Watch.
The Atlas network has 13 affiliates in [B]Brazil[/B]; 12 in
[B]Argentina[/B], 8 in Chile and Peru; 5 in Mexico and Costa
Rica; 4 in [B]Venezuela[/B], Uruguay, Bolivia and Guatemala; 2
in Dominican Republic, Ecuador and El Salvador: and 1 in
Colombia, Panama, Bahamas, Jamaica and Honduras:
HTML https://peoplesdispatch.org/2018/08/29/atlas-network-the-right-wing-libertarians/
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/BvvJF)
The Atlas Network has financed a variety of organisations that
influence the public and promote “right wing” propaganda in
Latin america.
Records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal
efforts of US politicians to use Atlas´ think tanks to
destabilise [B]Venezuela[/B] in support of (?) the Maduro
government.
As early as 1998, Cedice Libertad, the flagship of Atlas in
Caracas, received regular financial support from the Center for
International Private Enterprise.
There are other NGOs and foundations working for Atlas, like
Provea (financed by the Open Society Foundation of George Soros,
the Ford Foundation and the British embassy), the Civil
Association of Citizen’s Power, and the Venezuelan Observatory
of Social Conflict (which is financed by the NED).
In [B]Brazil[/B] there are now about 30 “non-profit”
institutions acting and collaborating with each other, like the
Estudantes Pela Liberdade (Students for Liberty) and the MBL
(Free Brazil Movement).
The Millennium Institute: founded in 2006, received funding from
Bank of America, Merryll Lynch, Grupo RBS, Gerdau and Am-Cham
Brazil. The Millennium Institute was instrumental in organising
demonstrations against former President Dilma Rousseff.
The Interdisciplinary Centre of Ethics and Personal Economics of
Rio de Janeiro: a think tank of Atlas that develops religious
arguments that benefit the major corporations. The centre
imitates the US Acton Institute financed by Trump´s Secretary of
Education Betsy DeVos (sister of Erik Prince).
The DeVos family has also funded the Heritage Foundation.
In [B]Argentina[/B] the Pensar Foundation of the Atlas Network
became the political party PRO that propelled Mauricio Macri to
the presidency in 2015.
Leaders of Pensar and Fundación Libertad (Freedom Foundation,
also of Atlas) today occupy key positions in the Argentine
administration.
In [B]Honduras[/B] the Eléutera foundation was founded after the
coup in 2009 against elected president Manuel Zelaya. The leader
of Eléutera, Guillermo Peña Panting, previously worked at the
Atlas think tank in North Carolina the John Locke Foundation and
has given numerous seminars for the organization.
The present government of Honduras asked for the political
support of Eléutera:
HTML https://peoplesdispatch.org/2018/09/03/the-atlas-networks-insidious-impact-on-the-ground/
(archived here:
HTML http://archive.is/jaOpa)
The following interesting picture was released by Wikileaks
(originally released more than 10 years ago), from a classified
Pentagon paper.
It shows that the World Bank, IMF, Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD), and Bank for International
Settlements (BIS) are used as as “[I]U.S. diplomatic-financial
venues[/I]” to pressure foreign state and nonstate actors and:
[quote]apply unilateral and indirect financial power through
persuasive influence to international and domestic financial
institutions regarding availability and terms of loans, grants,
or other financial assistance to foreign state and nonstate
actors.[/quote]
[IMG]
HTML https://archive.is/iR5kO/83c7deb84bef997c65085fa712ca583db95caf12[/img]
The picture, text comes from the hundreds of pages document
“[I]Field Manual (FM) 3-05.130, Army Special Operations Forces
Unconventional Warfare[/I]” (2008):
HTML https://file.wikileaks.org/file/us-fm3-05-130.pdf
[/quote]
[shadow=blue,left]
It is not surprising as the Bible tells us of the coming One
World Government and One World Religion.
Blade[/shadow]
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World Bank and IMF in Yemen
By: Firestarter Date: March 5, 2019, 9:51 am
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The IMF and World Bank have been “helping” Yemen to destruction
since at least the 1990s.
I have found a plan that details the strategy of the IMF and
World Bank from 1999 to 2001 for Yemen:
HTML https://www.imf.org/external/np/pfp/1999/yemen/index.htm#I
First a short summary of this strategy.
The dirt poor Yemen must pay off their “debts” to the banks by
increasing tax collection, while at the same time increasing
prices. For example in 2005 protests broke out when the Yemeni
government guided by the World Bank increased the prices of oil,
diesel and gas with respectively 100, 200 and 50 per cent:
Increase the power of the legal system to protect the financial
institutions
Decrease subsidy, so what’s left of the economy will collapse,
but on the other hand increase the spending for hospitals and
education (so that only the good slaves will survive).
Following is my (more detailed) summary of the strategy of IMF
and World Bank for Yemen with excerpts.
Increase prices
[quote]raising subsidized prices despite lower world market
prices (also for cereals), thereby significantly reducing
subsidies, and by cuts in development expenditure (…)
the intensive civil unrest following the June 1998 increases in
administered prices pointed to the need to enhance public
awareness of the reform program to ensure that further progress
on reforms is not delayed.[/quote]
Increase taxes
[quote]the taxpayer identification number system (TIN) will be
extended beyond the current range of major taxpayers to medium-
and smaller-sized contributors and will be enforced through
penalties for non-observance. In addition, the need for
computerization to enhance the effectiveness of the TIN's use
will be reviewed.[/quote]
Reduce subsidies
[quote]in January 1999 the government eliminated the wheat
subsidy by liberalizing the trading and pricing of wheat--well
ahead of the initial target date--and plans to halve the flour
subsidy through an increase in price early in 1999. The flour
subsidy will be abolished in full by the start of 200[/quote]
More hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and schools
[quote]GDP for 1999-2001 are to be increased to average 8.2
percent for education, 1.6 percent for health, and 1.2 percent
for social safety net programs. In addition, reform programs
will be implemented in the education and health sectors to
ensure better management of scarce public resources (…)
To support this effort, trade in pharmaceuticals will be
delegated to the private sector by eliminating the government
procurement monopoly effective by the year 2000.[/quote]
Increase repaying of debts and a strong legal system to protect
the banks
[quote]The soundness of the banking system is vulnerable because
of weak enforcement of prudential regulations, high levels of
nonperforming loans in certain (mostly state-owned) banks, and a
weak judiciary system
(…)
government gives immediate priority to introducing the legal,
judiciary, and regulatory framework necessary to establish a
free market environment for private sector activity and
investment (…)
A new Central Bank Law will soon be approved by the cabinet with
the goal to become effective by end-1999. It will give the
central bank greater independence and focus its mandate on price
stability through changes in the composition of the Board of
Directors, allow it to issue its own securities, if needed, for
open market operations, limit public sector financing to
emergency loans, grant it freedom to define and adopt its own
monetary and exchange rate policy, and require greater
accountability (…)
Accordingly, the reform program over 1999-2001 will include
specific steps aimed at advancing reintermediation in a
competitive market environment and in particular to unblock the
loan recovery process. Measures such as requiring that all court
decisions be made in writing and published promptly,
strengthening enforcement through introduction of a bailiff
system, establishment of a quantitative system for monthly
monitoring of court operations, and reducing the fee for filing
a case in court will be considered. The delinquent borrower
notification system implemented in 1997 will be
continued.[/quote]
HTML https://www.dawn.com/news/148827/wb-imf-policies-led-to-riots-in-yemen
And it’s not only the bombing and blockade that finishes the
destruction of Yemen.
The situation is in turn used as an argument to stop the
“humanitarian” aid to Yemen.
The banks simply block the transfer of money to import food.
They don’t even disguise their sick plans!
In July 2016 importers couldn’t import food to Yemen, because
more than $260 million of their credit couldn’t be transferred
to foreign bank accounts.
In turn the traders must ship the money in cash to the food
seller (for example by plane) to purchase food:
HTML http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-shipping-food-idUSKCN0ZU0F2
In December 2016 wheat imports to Yemen were simply stopped due
to a “crisis” at the Yemen Central Bank. They can’t import
because it has “no access to foreign reserves at all”:
HTML http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-food-exclusive-idUSKBN1450H6
For more on the genocide of Yemen:
HTML https://3169.createaforum.com/firestarter-on-fire/yemen-the-ignored-genocide/
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Ingraham - Modern Anglo–Dutch Empire
By: Firestarter Date: September 22, 2019, 8:41 am
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Lyndon LaRouche’s publications often speak about the Anglo–Dutch
banking system. The following relatively short book, shows how
our “modern day” banking system evolved from Venice to Amsterdam
to London.
[B]Venice, until beginning 17th century[/B]
From the period of the first Crusade in 1099 until the founding
of the Order of the Garter in 1348, Europe was dominated by the
Venetian empire (now located in Italy). Venice with the Norman
nobility of Europe, particularly from France and Angevin
England, controlled Europe.
This allied nobility also controlled the Black Guelph (Welf)
party of the northern Italian cities, allied with the Vatican.
In 1176, the Guelphs created the Lombard League, which came to
include all the major cities of northern Italy (except Milan).
These cities became the centers for the usurious Lombard banking
system. The Lombard bankers became the de facto creditors and
financial dictators of Europe.
The Lombard bankers first drove their victims into debt and then
seized assets. For example, in 1325 the Peruzzi bank owned all
the revenues of the Kingdom of Naples.
In Castile and England wool production was pledged as collateral
for the Lombard loans. Naples and England were bankrupted, food
production declined and by 1290 Europe began to depopulate (like
we´re seeing these days...). Continent-wide famines struck in
1314-17, and again in 1328-9.
By the early 1400s, Lombard bankers were expelled from several
countries: Arragon in 1401, England 1403, Flanders 1409, and
France in 1410. The Venetian financial empire started to
crumble.
In the midfifteenth century Venice was still the most powerful
maritime nation in Europe, controlling Europe's slave and
bullion trade. The Venetians created a new financial front to
replace the now defunct Lombard bankers – the House of Fugger.
Their agent Jacob Fugger was put in control of silver and copper
mines in central Europe. From the vast wealth accumulated,
Fugger created the most powerful banking house in Europe, and
then bankrolled the Austrian Habsburgs (with many KG’s) to take
control of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1518, by a series of strategic marriages, the Habsburgs took
control of Spain and the Fuggers became the bankers to the
Spanish monarchy. After the Spanish bankruptcy of 1575, Genoa
replaced the Fuggers as the financial controllers of the Spanish
crown.
In 1461, Louis XI became King of France, allied with the Medici
in Florence, and proceeded to build ports, roads, schools,
printing houses, industry and infrastructure, which was based
on Nicholas de Cusa's “Commonwealth” principle.
In 1485, Henry Tudor invaded England, overthrew the last of the
Plantagenet kings, Richard III, and established Tudor rule. As
King Henry VII, he adopted similar methods as Louis XI.
In France and England, food production, national income, and
population all increased for the first time in more than a
century. These initiatives were copied in the Iberian peninsula,
Flanders, and elsewhere.
By the mid-16th century, Venice was threatened with the loss of
her colonies and access to trade with the east, because of the
Ottoman Turks. In 1573, Venice lost Cyprus and other colonies
after a humiliating defeat by the Turks.
In the late 1570s, the Giovani (“youthful”) faction took over
Venice emerged, by taking over the Senate.
In the 1590s, Paolo Sarpi became the intellectual leader of the
Giovani faction, and his views determined the policies of Venice
until his death in 1623. In this period, Venice was controlled
from salons where the Giovani orchestrated their actions.
In 1587, the Giovanni founded the first “public” bank in Venice,
the Banco della Piazza di Rialto (sometimes called the Bank of
Venice).
In 1619, this was followed by a second bank, the Banco Giro.
These 2 banks were granted a monopoly by the Venetian government
on issuing bank notes and bills of credit. These banks were
really the beginnings of what today we call private central
banking.
In 1620, Venice was still the most important European center for
Bills of Exchange.
The Banco della Piazza di Rialto would later be imitated for the
Bank of Amsterdam.
In 1638 the Venetian Grand Council, established the first
state-owned gambling house (and bordello) in Europe, the
Ridotto. At the Ridotto, aristocrats, prostitutes, pimps,
usurers, degenerate gamblers, and foreign visitors rubbed
shoulders, wearing masks to protect their identity. The Ridotto
functioned as an ideal tool to corrupt and blackmail its guests.
[B]From Venice to Amsterdam[/B]
In the 1520s, the Netherlands, which then included Belgium and
Luxembourg, were under Spanish-Habsburg rule. In 1523, the first
Protestant “heretic” was publicly burned and by the 1530s
hundreds had been executed.
In 1567, the Duke of Alva arrived with 10,000 Spanish troops, to
enforce the Inquisition and extract money that the Spanish Crown
owed to its Fugger creditors. In years, Alva had more than
12,000 people executed. Alva also campaigns against cities like
Mechlin, Zutphen and Haarlem in 1572 that were looted and burnt
to the ground, with many people murdered, raped and tortured.
In 1576, the premier city of the Netherlands, Antwerp, was
occupied, and over 8,000 civilians were slaughtered. In 1585,
the Antwerp Bourse (stock exchange) was closed, followed by the
" exodus" to the north provinces of the Netherlands, with most
of the more than 19,000 merchants, bankers, and Bourse
speculators settling in Amsterdam.
These emigrants included Jan de Wael, Jacob Poppin, and Isaac Le
Maire, who would play a major role in founding the VOC (Dutch
East India Company) in 1602.
In 1608, the Amsterdam Exchange (the New Bourse) and in 1609 the
Amsterdamsche Wisselbank (Bank of Amsterdam) were founded. These
financial institutions copied much of the Antwerp model.
The Wisselbank, like the Bank of Venice, was a privately owned
public bank; with a monopoly on all exchange of specie, and
trade in precious metals; a clearinghouse for bills of exchange;
and owned the debt of the Dutch government.
It established the new "bank money" as the center of the city's
securities trading.
The Bourse was a money market, a finance market, and a stock
market.
This included trade in futures, options, margin loans, financial
leverage, speculation in foreign securities, and derivatives
(known as ductions).
By the second half of the 17th century, the Wisselbank had
amassed an enormous financial power, which gave them the ability
to expand the Empire and finance wars on a scale never seen
before and made Amsterdam the financial centre of the world.
In the 1680s, when the Wisselbank ended the right of specie
withdrawal, paper money was in effect. Since then, the
Ango-Dutch bankers, have worked hard to make money the heart of
the economy.
It is a system based on money, usury, and debt, where both the
people and government, are controlled through the Central Bank’s
power over money and debt.
In 1609, the Giovani-controlled Venetian Senate was the first
government in Europe to recognise Dutch independence from Spain.
In 1609, the Treaty of Antwerp was signed in which Spain
recognised Dutch independence.
From 1610 to 1618, there was an undeclared war between Venice
and Habsburg Spain, and Venice and the Netherlands began an
unofficial military alliance. In the 1615-1617 war between
Venice and Habsburg Austria, 5,000 Dutch mercenaries fought at
the side of Venice, and 12 Dutch warships blockaded Spanish aid
to Austria.
In 1613, arguably the most powerful man in Dutch government,
founder of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC, Dutch
East India Company) Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, appointed Hugo de
Groot (or Grotius) Pensionary of Holland, the second most
powerful post in the government. Hugo de Groot was in
correspondence with Sarpi for many years.
In 1618, Sarpi personally directed the signing of the
Dutch-Venetian alliance, which included a mutual defense pack
against the Habsburgs. In 1618, Van Oldenbarneveldt, wanted to
extend the 12 year truce with Spain. Because the black nobility
wanted war to erupt Europe-wide, Maurits of Nassau (Knight of
the Garter, KG in 1612) had Oldenbarneveldt arrested and
executed, while De Groot was imprisoned.
In exile, De Groot would become an active member of the
empiricist Mersenne Circle, which included Thomas Hobbes and
members of the Cavendish family, and was connected to Sarpi's
secretary Micanzio.
In 1621, Maurits of Nassau resumed the war against Spain. Venice
financed the Dutch government at The Hague with more than 1
million ducats.
This was all part of the plan of a war between the Dutch, James
I of England, and the German Protestant princes on the one side
against Spain, the Holy Roman Emperor and the Papacy on the
other. After the 1610 assassination of King Henry IV, the chaos
could be used to rekindle the religious wars in France, so that
Louis XI’s and Henry VII’s “commonwealths” could be eradicated.
The VOC was a private empire with the greatest maritime empire
in the world, which had the right to wage war against nations,
including their home country. The VOC dominated Asia trade for
almost 2 centuries, it took until the late 18th century before
the British East India Company surpassed is.
In 1605, the Dutch started their takeover of Indonesia, which
would be looted for almost 350 years.
In 1621, the natives of the Island of Band refused to give the
Dutch a nutmeg monopoly. In response, to protect “free trade”,
the VOC Governor General Jan Pieterszoon had the population
exterminated, and slaves were brought in to work the Dutch
plantations.
In 1641, the Dutch established a monopoly on trade with Japan
which lasted until 1853,
The VOC started pressing coins around 1650, both in the
Netherlands and colonised parts of Asia.
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In 1606, the first known Dutch slave ships sailed.
In 1621, the Vereenigde Westindische Compagnie (VWC, Dutch West
India Company) was founded, to take over the African slave trade
from Spain and Portugal. This was achieved by 1650, when the
Dutch had seized most of the Spanish and Portuguese slave
fortresses in West Africa. By 1700, the percentage of slaves
was: 52% Batavia; 42% Capetown; 53% Colombo; 66% Makassar.
The Dutch took slaves from East Africa, Madagascar, New Guinea,
the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Between 1450 and 1850,
at least 20 million Africans were either taken or killed as a
result of the slave trade.
Of the total amount of slaves taken from Africa between 1500 and
1850, 70% were shipped between 1700 and 1800. The record was set
in 1768, when 110,000 people were taken from Africa to be sold
as slaves.
In 1650, Stadthouder Willem II (KG in 1645) died without
successors. This initiated a 21 year period of civilian rule.
From 1653 to 1672, Johan de Witt served as the Grand Pensionary
of Holland and effectively ran the Dutch government, with his
brother Cornelis de Witt.
In 1672, the French armies of Louis XIV occupied large parts of
the Netherlands, who put Willem III of Nassau (KG in 1653) into
power, who had the brothers De Witt executed...
Venice was not only alligned with Dutch “stadthouder” (city
holder) Maurits of Nassau but also with the Venetian Party in
London, grouped around Robert Cecil (1st Earl of Salisbury – KG
in 1606; there have been 13 KG Cecils), Francis Bacon, and the
Cavendish family.
In 1598, Sir Edwin Sandys was living in Venice and allegedly
co-wrote a book with Paolo Sarpi. Nine years after leaving
Venice, Sandys became one of the founders of the London Virginia
Company, chartered by King James I, for the purpose of
establishing English colonies in North America. From 1618 to
1623, Sandys effectively ran the company.
Under the rule of Paolo Sarpi’s friend Edwin Sandys, the
Virginia Company brought the first slaves into Jamestown in
1618, and held the first public slave auction in 1638. By 1715,
24% of Virginia’s population were slaves. Sandys was also active
in the British East India Company and later became an MP for
many years where he introduced bills in support of “free trade”.
According to W.E.B. Du Bois, between 1600 and 1800, about 12
million slaves were brought into the Americas, about 60% of all
trans-Atlantic emigration.
Many young British aristocrats traveled to Venice to meet Sarpi,
including future British Prime Minister Robert Cecil, another
founder of the London Virginia Company William Cavendish, and
the “philosopher” Thomas Hobbes. The Cavendish family were the
closest personal allies of Sarpi in England.
In 1603, James I became King of Scotland. His first Privy
Council included Edward Wotton and Robert Cecil, who were on
intimate terms with Sarpi’s Giovani leadership in Venice.
Another Sarpi ally was Henry Wotton, who would serve 3 times as
the British Ambassador to Venice from 1604 to 1624. Wotton
played an important role in recruiting and organising the
Venetian circle at Oxford University, which included Robert
Cecil, Thomas Walsingham, John Donne, and James Florio.
In 1614, William Cavendish accompanied Thomas Hobbes on a trip
to Venice where they met Sarpi and his group. Cavendish
maintained a 13 year correspondence with Sarpi and his secretary
Micanzio, and introduced Francis Bacon to Sarpi. Bacon would
spread Sarpi's method of “empiricism” into England.
[B]From Amsterdam to London[/B]
Algernon Sidney had a close relationship with Dutch leader
Johann de Witt. Sidney came under the influence of the English
Ambassador William Temple and John Locke's employer, Anthony
Ashley Cooper (the Earl of Shaftesbury), who were orchestrating
a Dutch coup in England.
In England, the group that was plotting to install the House of
Orange on the English throne included: William Cavendish, Robert
Spencer (2nd Earl of Sunderland, KG in 1687 installed by Charles
II), Lord Orford (Edward Russell), and Bishop Compton.
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592 – 1676) became a
Knight of the Garter in 1650. Since then at least 15 more
members of the Cavendish family counts have become Knights of
the Garter. Queen Elizabeth II counts the Cavendish family among
her ancestors.
In 1666, Sidney – on the orders of Temple and Cooper - proposed
to De Witt to launch an invasion of England to restore
“Parliamentary rule”.
In 1678 a marriage was arranged between the Dutch Stadthouder
Willem III of Orange and Mary, daughter of King James II, and
the first in line of succession to the English throne. In 1679,
Temple sent Algernon’s brother Henry back to the Netherlands to
motivate the Dutch to invade; even offering the English crown to
Willem III.
In 1682, Algernon Sidney was arrested for the “Rye House Plot”
against King Charles II, and was executed along with several
others.
In 1681, Henry Sidney became the English Ambassador to the
Netherlands.
William Cavendish, First Duke of Devonshire (1640-1707), KG in
1689, was one of the “Immortal Seven” who signed the Letter of
Invitation to Willem III of Orange in 1688, asking him to invade
England: [quote]If the circumstances stand so with your Highness
that you believe you can get here time enough, in a condition to
give assistances this year sufficient for a relief under these
circumstances which have been now represented, we who subscribe
this will not fail to attend your Highness upon your landing and
to do all that lies in our power to prepare others to be in as
much readiness as such an action is capable of...[/quote]
In 1688, after Willem III landed in England, others rallied to
the side of the Dutch, including John Churchill (Duke of
Marlborough, KG in 1702), William Bentinck (Earl of Portland, KG
in 1697) and Charles Montagu (Earl of Halifax, KG in 1714). Many
of these Whig leaders were proteges of Anthony Ashley Cooper.
Dutch Stadthouder Willem III of Orange was crowned King William
III of England and the Anglo-Dutch Empire was realised with the
bloodiest penal code in Europe.
In 1690, John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government was published,
to provide the “philosophy” for the transformation. The 2 banks
of Venice and the Dutch VOC became the model for the Bank of
England in 1694 and the VOC for “new” “British” East India
Company in 1698.
While Amsterdam as a financial centre was already successful, in
London the financial oligarchy became the de facto government.
The Bank and East India Company were in private hands, and the
third pillar of power, the Exchequer was effectively a fifth
column of the oligarchy.
Even to this day, there is no British Constitution or a British
“government” in any meaningful definition of that term.
William Paterson became the founder of the Bank of England. He
had earlier been in Holland with Willem III, and was active in
the Dutch invasion. The key government agent of the Bank of
England was Charles Montagu, who had greeted Willem III at the
dock when his invasion fleet landed. In 1697, the first of a
series of Acts was passed by Parliament, with the end result
being that the Bank had a total monopoly over banking in
England.
In 1707, the Bank took over the national debt, which at £7
million was rising.
In 1742, Parliament gave the Bank of England the exlusive right
to print money and for the next 80 years was the only jointstock
bank allowed in England.
After 1690, and particularly after 1720, Dutch capital took over
the English financial markets.
By the 1730s, 30% of East India Company (EIC) stock and 35% of
Bank of England stock was in Dutch hands. Another 10% of these
companies was held by Geneva-based Swiss investors.
By 1750, Dutch investors held 20% of the shares on the London
Stock Exchange and 26% of England’s national debt.
In 1710, Jonathan Swift's faction, including Robert Harley,
Henry St. John (Bolingbroke), Matthew Prior, and the Duke of
Ormond, took control of the British government. In 1711, they
founded the South Sea Company to challenge the Bank of England,
and until 1713 £9.4 million of government debt were exchanged
for South Sea stock, cutting the power of the Bank.
After Anne died in 1714, Harley and Prior were charged with
treason and Bolingbroke and Ormond fled to France.
The "Act of Settlement" was used to make George I of Hanover the
new British king. Within six months after his coronation, the
Bank of England took over all government borrowing operations
from the Exchequer, and by 1719 it controlled most government
stocks. The manipulation of those stocks and loans to the
government, were used to wage wars all over the globe.
Like the Dutch VOC, the East India Company had its own army,
navy, to wage war, and take all the loot. In 1803, the EIC had a
private army of about 260,000 — double the British Army.
In 1757, India - hundreds of millions of people - came under the
rule of the EIC. India was its property.
With the defeat of the French in the Seven Years War in 1763,
the EIC (also) took possession of the French colonies to
establishe a worldwide private empire.
The East India Company coined its own money, see for example.
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[B]Conclusion[/B]
Because the last chapters in the book, from Chapter 11, are
dedicated to praising the American System of Economics, it looks
like the main conclusion of the writer Ingraham, is that the
(protectionist) American System of Economics can protect us from
the the British (Empire) System of Free Trade.
My most important conclusion is that the current system of
bilateral treaties, World Bank, IMF, WTO, UN and privately owned
state debt is really the consequence of what was started in the
17th century (or even before in Venice) in the Netherlands and
Britain.
Bertrand Russell in 1952 wrote: [quote]At present the population
of the world is increasing ... War so far has had no great
effect on this increase...
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which
population can be kept from increasing. There are others...
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in
every generation, survivors could procreate freely without
making the world too full ... the state of affairs might be
somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people
are indifferent to suffering, especially that of others.
[/quote]
From 1822 to 1838, the British-made Indian famines killed an
estimated 29 million people.
The genocide against the people of Ireland was almost identical
in method to that in India. In 1845, more than 75% of the Irish
were tenant farmers, the equivalent of feudal serfs, owned by
aristocratic Lords.
In 1846-1849, British officials exported from Ireland enough
wheat, barley, oats, butter, pigs, and eggs to feed the entire
population, while people were dying by the hundreds of thousands
of starvation, causing more than 2 million Irish to die.
In 1844 the population of Ireland had been over 8 million. Today
Ireland has an estimated population of 4.8 million...
By the 1830s, there were more than 10 million drug addicts in
China; when in 1838 the Chinese government tried to wipe out the
drug trade, the British responded by going to war.
Robert D. Ingraham - [I]The Modern Anglo–Dutch Empire; its
Origins, Evolution and anti-human Outlook[/I] (2008):
HTML http://wlym.com/archive/oakland/brutish/TheModernAngloDutchEmpire.pdf
(archived here:
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20190517035636/http://wlym.com/archive/oakland/brutish/TheModernAngloDutchEmpire.pdf)
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Re: Ingraham - Modern Anglo–Dutch Empire
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date=1569159692]
Lyndon LaRouche’s publications often speak about the Anglo–Dutch
banking system. The following relatively short book, shows how
our “modern day” banking system evolved from Venice to Amsterdam
to London.
[B]Venice, until beginning 17th century[/B]
From the period of the first Crusade in 1099 until the founding
of the Order of the Garter in 1348, Europe was dominated by the
Venetian empire (now located in Italy). Venice with the Norman
nobility of Europe, particularly from France and Angevin
England, controlled Europe.
This allied nobility also controlled the Black Guelph (Welf)
party of the northern Italian cities, allied with the Vatican.
In 1176, the Guelphs created the Lombard League, which came to
include all the major cities of northern Italy (except Milan).
These cities became the centers for the usurious Lombard banking
system. The Lombard bankers became the de facto creditors and
financial dictators of Europe.
The Lombard bankers first drove their victims into debt and then
seized assets. For example, in 1325 the Peruzzi bank owned all
the revenues of the Kingdom of Naples.
In Castile and England wool production was pledged as collateral
for the Lombard loans. Naples and England were bankrupted, food
production declined and by 1290 Europe began to depopulate (like
we´re seeing these days...). Continent-wide famines struck in
1314-17, and again in 1328-9.
By the early 1400s, Lombard bankers were expelled from several
countries: Arragon in 1401, England 1403, Flanders 1409, and
France in 1410. The Venetian financial empire started to
crumble.
In the midfifteenth century Venice was still the most powerful
maritime nation in Europe, controlling Europe's slave and
bullion trade. The Venetians created a new financial front to
replace the now defunct Lombard bankers – the House of Fugger.
Their agent Jacob Fugger was put in control of silver and copper
mines in central Europe. From the vast wealth accumulated,
Fugger created the most powerful banking house in Europe, and
then bankrolled the Austrian Habsburgs (with many KG’s) to take
control of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1518, by a series of strategic marriages, the Habsburgs took
control of Spain and the Fuggers became the bankers to the
Spanish monarchy. After the Spanish bankruptcy of 1575, Genoa
replaced the Fuggers as the financial controllers of the Spanish
crown.
In 1461, Louis XI became King of France, allied with the Medici
in Florence, and proceeded to build ports, roads, schools,
printing houses, industry and infrastructure, which was based
on Nicholas de Cusa's “Commonwealth” principle.
In 1485, Henry Tudor invaded England, overthrew the last of the
Plantagenet kings, Richard III, and established Tudor rule. As
King Henry VII, he adopted similar methods as Louis XI.
In France and England, food production, national income, and
population all increased for the first time in more than a
century. These initiatives were copied in the Iberian peninsula,
Flanders, and elsewhere.
By the mid-16th century, Venice was threatened with the loss of
her colonies and access to trade with the east, because of the
Ottoman Turks. In 1573, Venice lost Cyprus and other colonies
after a humiliating defeat by the Turks.
In the late 1570s, the Giovani (“youthful”) faction took over
Venice emerged, by taking over the Senate.
In the 1590s, Paolo Sarpi became the intellectual leader of the
Giovani faction, and his views determined the policies of Venice
until his death in 1623. In this period, Venice was controlled
from salons where the Giovani orchestrated their actions.
In 1587, the Giovanni founded the first “public” bank in Venice,
the Banco della Piazza di Rialto (sometimes called the Bank of
Venice).
In 1619, this was followed by a second bank, the Banco Giro.
These 2 banks were granted a monopoly by the Venetian government
on issuing bank notes and bills of credit. These banks were
really the beginnings of what today we call private central
banking.
In 1620, Venice was still the most important European center for
Bills of Exchange.
The Banco della Piazza di Rialto would later be imitated for the
Bank of Amsterdam.
In 1638 the Venetian Grand Council, established the first
state-owned gambling house (and bordello) in Europe, the
Ridotto. At the Ridotto, aristocrats, prostitutes, pimps,
usurers, degenerate gamblers, and foreign visitors rubbed
shoulders, wearing masks to protect their identity. The Ridotto
functioned as an ideal tool to corrupt and blackmail its guests.
[B]From Venice to Amsterdam[/B]
In the 1520s, the Netherlands, which then included Belgium and
Luxembourg, were under Spanish-Habsburg rule. In 1523, the first
Protestant “heretic” was publicly burned and by the 1530s
hundreds had been executed.
In 1567, the Duke of Alva arrived with 10,000 Spanish troops, to
enforce the Inquisition and extract money that the Spanish Crown
owed to its Fugger creditors. In years, Alva had more than
12,000 people executed. Alva also campaigns against cities like
Mechlin, Zutphen and Haarlem in 1572 that were looted and burnt
to the ground, with many people murdered, raped and tortured.
In 1576, the premier city of the Netherlands, Antwerp, was
occupied, and over 8,000 civilians were slaughtered. In 1585,
the Antwerp Bourse (stock exchange) was closed, followed by the
" exodus" to the north provinces of the Netherlands, with most
of the more than 19,000 merchants, bankers, and Bourse
speculators settling in Amsterdam.
These emigrants included Jan de Wael, Jacob Poppin, and Isaac Le
Maire, who would play a major role in founding the VOC (Dutch
East India Company) in 1602.
In 1608, the Amsterdam Exchange (the New Bourse) and in 1609 the
Amsterdamsche Wisselbank (Bank of Amsterdam) were founded. These
financial institutions copied much of the Antwerp model.
The Wisselbank, like the Bank of Venice, was a privately owned
public bank; with a monopoly on all exchange of specie, and
trade in precious metals; a clearinghouse for bills of exchange;
and owned the debt of the Dutch government.
It established the new "bank money" as the center of the city's
securities trading.
The Bourse was a money market, a finance market, and a stock
market.
This included trade in futures, options, margin loans, financial
leverage, speculation in foreign securities, and derivatives
(known as ductions).
By the second half of the 17th century, the Wisselbank had
amassed an enormous financial power, which gave them the ability
to expand the Empire and finance wars on a scale never seen
before and made Amsterdam the financial centre of the world.
In the 1680s, when the Wisselbank ended the right of specie
withdrawal, paper money was in effect. Since then, the
Ango-Dutch bankers, have worked hard to make money the heart of
the economy.
It is a system based on money, usury, and debt, where both the
people and government, are controlled through the Central Bank’s
power over money and debt.
In 1609, the Giovani-controlled Venetian Senate was the first
government in Europe to recognise Dutch independence from Spain.
In 1609, the Treaty of Antwerp was signed in which Spain
recognised Dutch independence.
From 1610 to 1618, there was an undeclared war between Venice
and Habsburg Spain, and Venice and the Netherlands began an
unofficial military alliance. In the 1615-1617 war between
Venice and Habsburg Austria, 5,000 Dutch mercenaries fought at
the side of Venice, and 12 Dutch warships blockaded Spanish aid
to Austria.
In 1613, arguably the most powerful man in Dutch government,
founder of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC, Dutch
East India Company) Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, appointed Hugo de
Groot (or Grotius) Pensionary of Holland, the second most
powerful post in the government. Hugo de Groot was in
correspondence with Sarpi for many years.
In 1618, Sarpi personally directed the signing of the
Dutch-Venetian alliance, which included a mutual defense pack
against the Habsburgs. In 1618, Van Oldenbarneveldt, wanted to
extend the 12 year truce with Spain. Because the black nobility
wanted war to erupt Europe-wide, Maurits of Nassau (Knight of
the Garter, KG in 1612) had Oldenbarneveldt arrested and
executed, while De Groot was imprisoned.
In exile, De Groot would become an active member of the
empiricist Mersenne Circle, which included Thomas Hobbes and
members of the Cavendish family, and was connected to Sarpi's
secretary Micanzio.
In 1621, Maurits of Nassau resumed the war against Spain. Venice
financed the Dutch government at The Hague with more than 1
million ducats.
This was all part of the plan of a war between the Dutch, James
I of England, and the German Protestant princes on the one side
against Spain, the Holy Roman Emperor and the Papacy on the
other. After the 1610 assassination of King Henry IV, the chaos
could be used to rekindle the religious wars in France, so that
Louis XI’s and Henry VII’s “commonwealths” could be eradicated.
The VOC was a private empire with the greatest maritime empire
in the world, which had the right to wage war against nations,
including their home country. The VOC dominated Asia trade for
almost 2 centuries, it took until the late 18th century before
the British East India Company surpassed is.
In 1605, the Dutch started their takeover of Indonesia, which
would be looted for almost 350 years.
In 1621, the natives of the Island of Band refused to give the
Dutch a nutmeg monopoly. In response, to protect “free trade”,
the VOC Governor General Jan Pieterszoon had the population
exterminated, and slaves were brought in to work the Dutch
plantations.
In 1641, the Dutch established a monopoly on trade with Japan
which lasted until 1853,
The VOC started pressing coins around 1650, both in the
Netherlands and colonised parts of Asia.
[IMG]
HTML https://archive.is/9bldX/7cf869d84fd46124db89d9089facf82df060cf09.jpg[/img]
In 1606, the first known Dutch slave ships sailed.
In 1621, the Vereenigde Westindische Compagnie (VWC, Dutch West
India Company) was founded, to take over the African slave trade
from Spain and Portugal. This was achieved by 1650, when the
Dutch had seized most of the Spanish and Portuguese slave
fortresses in West Africa. By 1700, the percentage of slaves
was: 52% Batavia; 42% Capetown; 53% Colombo; 66% Makassar.
The Dutch took slaves from East Africa, Madagascar, New Guinea,
the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Between 1450 and 1850,
at least 20 million Africans were either taken or killed as a
result of the slave trade.
Of the total amount of slaves taken from Africa between 1500 and
1850, 70% were shipped between 1700 and 1800. The record was set
in 1768, when 110,000 people were taken from Africa to be sold
as slaves.
In 1650, Stadthouder Willem II (KG in 1645) died without
successors. This initiated a 21 year period of civilian rule.
From 1653 to 1672, Johan de Witt served as the Grand Pensionary
of Holland and effectively ran the Dutch government, with his
brother Cornelis de Witt.
In 1672, the French armies of Louis XIV occupied large parts of
the Netherlands, who put Willem III of Nassau (KG in 1653) into
power, who had the brothers De Witt executed...
Venice was not only alligned with Dutch “stadthouder” (city
holder) Maurits of Nassau but also with the Venetian Party in
London, grouped around Robert Cecil (1st Earl of Salisbury – KG
in 1606; there have been 13 KG Cecils), Francis Bacon, and the
Cavendish family.
In 1598, Sir Edwin Sandys was living in Venice and allegedly
co-wrote a book with Paolo Sarpi. Nine years after leaving
Venice, Sandys became one of the founders of the London Virginia
Company, chartered by King James I, for the purpose of
establishing English colonies in North America. From 1618 to
1623, Sandys effectively ran the company.
Under the rule of Paolo Sarpi’s friend Edwin Sandys, the
Virginia Company brought the first slaves into Jamestown in
1618, and held the first public slave auction in 1638. By 1715,
24% of Virginia’s population were slaves. Sandys was also active
in the British East India Company and later became an MP for
many years where he introduced bills in support of “free trade”.
According to W.E.B. Du Bois, between 1600 and 1800, about 12
million slaves were brought into the Americas, about 60% of all
trans-Atlantic emigration.
Many young British aristocrats traveled to Venice to meet Sarpi,
including future British Prime Minister Robert Cecil, another
founder of the London Virginia Company William Cavendish, and
the “philosopher” Thomas Hobbes. The Cavendish family were the
closest personal allies of Sarpi in England.
In 1603, James I became King of Scotland. His first Privy
Council included Edward Wotton and Robert Cecil, who were on
intimate terms with Sarpi’s Giovani leadership in Venice.
Another Sarpi ally was Henry Wotton, who would serve 3 times as
the British Ambassador to Venice from 1604 to 1624. Wotton
played an important role in recruiting and organising the
Venetian circle at Oxford University, which included Robert
Cecil, Thomas Walsingham, John Donne, and James Florio.
In 1614, William Cavendish accompanied Thomas Hobbes on a trip
to Venice where they met Sarpi and his group. Cavendish
maintained a 13 year correspondence with Sarpi and his secretary
Micanzio, and introduced Francis Bacon to Sarpi. Bacon would
spread Sarpi's method of “empiricism” into England.
[B]From Amsterdam to London[/B]
Algernon Sidney had a close relationship with Dutch leader
Johann de Witt. Sidney came under the influence of the English
Ambassador William Temple and John Locke's employer, Anthony
Ashley Cooper (the Earl of Shaftesbury), who were orchestrating
a Dutch coup in England.
In England, the group that was plotting to install the House of
Orange on the English throne included: William Cavendish, Robert
Spencer (2nd Earl of Sunderland, KG in 1687 installed by Charles
II), Lord Orford (Edward Russell), and Bishop Compton.
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592 – 1676) became a
Knight of the Garter in 1650. Since then at least 15 more
members of the Cavendish family counts have become Knights of
the Garter. Queen Elizabeth II counts the Cavendish family among
her ancestors.
In 1666, Sidney – on the orders of Temple and Cooper - proposed
to De Witt to launch an invasion of England to restore
“Parliamentary rule”.
In 1678 a marriage was arranged between the Dutch Stadthouder
Willem III of Orange and Mary, daughter of King James II, and
the first in line of succession to the English throne. In 1679,
Temple sent Algernon’s brother Henry back to the Netherlands to
motivate the Dutch to invade; even offering the English crown to
Willem III.
In 1682, Algernon Sidney was arrested for the “Rye House Plot”
against King Charles II, and was executed along with several
others.
In 1681, Henry Sidney became the English Ambassador to the
Netherlands.
William Cavendish, First Duke of Devonshire (1640-1707), KG in
1689, was one of the “Immortal Seven” who signed the Letter of
Invitation to Willem III of Orange in 1688, asking him to invade
England: [quote]If the circumstances stand so with your Highness
that you believe you can get here time enough, in a condition to
give assistances this year sufficient for a relief under these
circumstances which have been now represented, we who subscribe
this will not fail to attend your Highness upon your landing and
to do all that lies in our power to prepare others to be in as
much readiness as such an action is capable of...[/quote]
In 1688, after Willem III landed in England, others rallied to
the side of the Dutch, including John Churchill (Duke of
Marlborough, KG in 1702), William Bentinck (Earl of Portland, KG
in 1697) and Charles Montagu (Earl of Halifax, KG in 1714). Many
of these Whig leaders were proteges of Anthony Ashley Cooper.
Dutch Stadthouder Willem III of Orange was crowned King William
III of England and the Anglo-Dutch Empire was realised with the
bloodiest penal code in Europe.
In 1690, John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government was published,
to provide the “philosophy” for the transformation. The 2 banks
of Venice and the Dutch VOC became the model for the Bank of
England in 1694 and the VOC for “new” “British” East India
Company in 1698.
While Amsterdam as a financial centre was already successful, in
London the financial oligarchy became the de facto government.
The Bank and East India Company were in private hands, and the
third pillar of power, the Exchequer was effectively a fifth
column of the oligarchy.
Even to this day, there is no British Constitution or a British
“government” in any meaningful definition of that term.
William Paterson became the founder of the Bank of England. He
had earlier been in Holland with Willem III, and was active in
the Dutch invasion. The key government agent of the Bank of
England was Charles Montagu, who had greeted Willem III at the
dock when his invasion fleet landed. In 1697, the first of a
series of Acts was passed by Parliament, with the end result
being that the Bank had a total monopoly over banking in
England.
In 1707, the Bank took over the national debt, which at £7
million was rising.
In 1742, Parliament gave the Bank of England the exlusive right
to print money and for the next 80 years was the only jointstock
bank allowed in England.
After 1690, and particularly after 1720, Dutch capital took over
the English financial markets.
By the 1730s, 30% of East India Company (EIC) stock and 35% of
Bank of England stock was in Dutch hands. Another 10% of these
companies was held by Geneva-based Swiss investors.
By 1750, Dutch investors held 20% of the shares on the London
Stock Exchange and 26% of England’s national debt.
In 1710, Jonathan Swift's faction, including Robert Harley,
Henry St. John (Bolingbroke), Matthew Prior, and the Duke of
Ormond, took control of the British government. In 1711, they
founded the South Sea Company to challenge the Bank of England,
and until 1713 £9.4 million of government debt were exchanged
for South Sea stock, cutting the power of the Bank.
After Anne died in 1714, Harley and Prior were charged with
treason and Bolingbroke and Ormond fled to France.
The "Act of Settlement" was used to make George I of Hanover the
new British king. Within six months after his coronation, the
Bank of England took over all government borrowing operations
from the Exchequer, and by 1719 it controlled most government
stocks. The manipulation of those stocks and loans to the
government, were used to wage wars all over the globe.
Like the Dutch VOC, the East India Company had its own army,
navy, to wage war, and take all the loot. In 1803, the EIC had a
private army of about 260,000 — double the British Army.
In 1757, India - hundreds of millions of people - came under the
rule of the EIC. India was its property.
With the defeat of the French in the Seven Years War in 1763,
the EIC (also) took possession of the French colonies to
establishe a worldwide private empire.
The East India Company coined its own money, see for example.
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[B]Conclusion[/B]
Because the last chapters in the book, from Chapter 11, are
dedicated to praising the American System of Economics, it looks
like the main conclusion of the writer Ingraham, is that the
(protectionist) American System of Economics can protect us from
the the British (Empire) System of Free Trade.
My most important conclusion is that the current system of
bilateral treaties, World Bank, IMF, WTO, UN and privately owned
state debt is really the consequence of what was started in the
17th century (or even before in Venice) in the Netherlands and
Britain.
Bertrand Russell in 1952 wrote: [quote]At present the population
of the world is increasing ... War so far has had no great
effect on this increase...
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which
population can be kept from increasing. There are others...
If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in
every generation, survivors could procreate freely without
making the world too full ... the state of affairs might be
somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people
are indifferent to suffering, especially that of others.
[/quote]
From 1822 to 1838, the British-made Indian famines killed an
estimated 29 million people.
The genocide against the people of Ireland was almost identical
in method to that in India. In 1845, more than 75% of the Irish
were tenant farmers, the equivalent of feudal serfs, owned by
aristocratic Lords.
In 1846-1849, British officials exported from Ireland enough
wheat, barley, oats, butter, pigs, and eggs to feed the entire
population, while people were dying by the hundreds of thousands
of starvation, causing more than 2 million Irish to die.
In 1844 the population of Ireland had been over 8 million. Today
Ireland has an estimated population of 4.8 million...
By the 1830s, there were more than 10 million drug addicts in
China; when in 1838 the Chinese government tried to wipe out the
drug trade, the British responded by going to war.
Robert D. Ingraham - [I]The Modern Anglo–Dutch Empire; its
Origins, Evolution and anti-human Outlook[/I] (2008):
HTML http://wlym.com/archive/oakland/brutish/TheModernAngloDutchEmpire.pdf
(archived here:
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20190517035636/http://wlym.com/archive/oakland/brutish/TheModernAngloDutchEmpire.pdf)
[/quote]
[shadow=blue,left]again, Firestarter... This may or maynot be
true. It may have been posted for your benefit.
God hass everything under control and is unfolding His plan as
we speak.
Blade[/shadow]
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George Soros, Trump, Nazis, Mont Pelerin, Ritual Child Sacrifice
By: Firestarter Date: February 20, 2020, 9:35 am
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George Soros has been made in some sort of boogeyman for the far
right media controlled by the Mont Pelerin Society.
It is well-known that George Soros has been a major funder of
the Clintons.
It should come as no surprise that Soros has also financed
Donald Trump and the Cadre of the Kushner family or that Soros
was a business partner of Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury
Steve Mnuchin (of Skull & Bones).
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For more information on the funding of the Cadre of Donald’s
son-in-law Jared Kushner with $250 million by George Soros:
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Memes like the following have been thoroughly “debunked”:
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Even though it has been “debunked” that George Soros is an evil
Jew, who at only 14 helped the Nazis to confiscate assets of
Hungarian Jews, the December 1998 interview on which this is
mostly based, has been deleted by Youtube.
Clearly I wouldn’t want anybody to make the wrong assumptions
based on quotes taken out of context from an interview more than
20 years ago. I wouldn’t want to be accused of abusing our
wonderful right of “freedom of speech”…
See some quotes from the interview; as you can see this doesn’t
prove that black Georgy (György Schwartz) actively confiscated
Jewish property… he was only helping out his stepfather “in a
funny way” and he didn’t feel guilty because if he “wasn’t doing
it, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow”.
[quote]KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation
of property from the Jews.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that’s–that sounds like an experience that would
send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many
years. Was it difficult?
Mr. SOROS: Not–not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you
don’t–you don’t see the connection. But it was–it created no–no
problem at all.
KROFT: For example that, ‘I’m Jewish and here I am, watching
these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be
there.’ None of that?
Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c–I could be on the other side or I
could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. [B]But
there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was –
well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets – that
if I weren’t there – of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody
else would – would – would be taking it away anyhow. And it was
the – whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the
property was being taken away. So the–I had no role in taking
away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.[/B][/quote]
Here’s the interview (I wouldn’t be surprised if Youtube deletes
it… again), starting at 8:00, black Georgy explains about being
a “spectator” in taking away Jewish property.
Soros also explains that as a “philanthropist” he supports
regulations against financial predators (“players” like
himself), but as a “businessman”, staring at 11:50, he tells
that his Quantum Funds is registered in the Dutch Antilles to
escape regulation…
HTML https://youtu.be/CAyQG_SzkCM
It is even stranger that George Soros is used as the boogeyman
for the Mont Pelerin controlled far right media, as Soros was
highly influenced by 2 of the founders of the Mont Pelerin
Society.
He even named his Open Society Institute (now Open Society
Foundations) after Mont Pelerin cofounder Karl Popper and his
1945 book “The Open Society and Its Enemies”. Popper was a good
friend of Friedrich von Hayek (Nobel Prize winner in 1974); they
met at the London School of Economics.
See Popper and Hayek years later.
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When George Soros attended the London School of Economics (LSE),
Karl Popper became his mentor. Soros was also influenced by LSE
professor Hayek.
In 2018, George Soros was named “person of the year” by the
Rothschild-affiliated Financial Times for his wonderful
philanthropic work:
HTML https://www.irf.ua/en/dzhordzh_soros_lyudina_roku_za_versieyu_the_financial_times/
(
HTML http://archive.is/u7wvD)
Another of Hayek’s friends was Nobel laureate Milton Friedman,
both founding members of the Mont Pelerin Society
In a 1978 interview with the UCLA, Hayek admitted that he really
was a “Fabian socialist”: [quote]I never was a social democrat
formally, but I would have been what in England would be
described as a Fabian socialist. I was especially influenced —
in fact the influence very much contributed to my interest in
economics — by the writings of a man called Walter Rathenau, who
was an industrialist and later a statesman and finally a
politician in Germany, who wrote extremely well.
He was Rohstoff diktator in Germany during the war, and he had
become an enthusiastic planner. And I think his ideas about how
to reorganize the economy were probably the beginning of my
interest in economics. And they were very definitely mildly
socialist.[/quote]
On his close friend Karl Popper since the 1930s, Hayek said:
[quote]It was sufficient for me to have recognized this, but
when I found this thing explicitly argued and justified in
Popper, I just accepted the Popperian philosophy for spelling
out what I had always felt. Ever since, I have been moving with
Popper. We became ultimately very close friends, although we had
not known each other in Vienna. And to a very large extent I
have agreed with him, although not always immediately. Popper
has had his own interesting developments, but on the whole I
agree with him more than with anybody else on philosophical
matters.[/quote]
HTML http://hayekcenter.org/?p=628
(
HTML http://archive.is/auhlq)
For some reason, the following has been completely ignored by
almost ALL media (whether “mainstream” or “alternative”).
It is the testimony of disbarred Dutch attorney Anne Marie van
Blijenburgh, from 5 June 2014. She thinks she saw “an old man …
George Soros” at some festivities for the elite that involved
brutally raping and murdering children from Dutch child
detention centres.
[quote]My name is Anne Marie van Blijenburgh. I have been
married for twenty four years to Kees van Korlaar. Together with
his three brothers, Kees van Korlaar forms a criminal
organization known as the Octopus Syndicate. They have worked
from 1960 on to today. By order of Queen Beatrix they have
organized the murder, torture, rape and killing of children in a
public setting.
(…)
The people who I recognized there were Prince Johan Friso, his
psychiatrist Guus Pareau Dumont, [b]I recognized Friso’s wife
Mabel Wisse Smit, she was there with an old man, I think it was
George Soros[/B], I recognized Mr. Donner, a former minister of
the law department, the vice roy of the Netherlands, I
recognized Ernst Hirsch Ballin, a very important former Minister
of Justice, I recognized a Mr. van Emster, he was for years the
head of all judges in the Netherlands, I recognized Dick
Berlijn, he’s a former head of the military department in the
Netherlands. I recognized Gerlof Leistra, a very important
journalist of Elsevier. I recognized Carla Eradus, the wife of
Friso’s psychiatrist Guus Pareau Dumont, Carla is the President
of the Court in Amsterdam, a judge. I recognized Mark Rutte,
he’s at this moment the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. I
recognized Geert Wilders, he is at this moment the head of the
political party PVV and head of the Dutch Parliament.
(…)
If you just think how many people since 2004 have been killed,
it’s been ten years, they kill perhaps ten or twenty people a
year if not more, it’s horrible. I have shown the police four
places in the Netherlands they use as grave yards for people
they killed. Never, never, has any policeman ever taken the
trouble to look.[/quote]
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20150108015929/http://itccs.org/2014/09/10/transcript-of-anne-marie-van-blijenburghs-testimony-about-child-murders-in-belgium/
HTML https://youtu.be/SbhMfZRhsXw
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John Pilger – Hidden agendas
By: Firestarter Date: February 20, 2020, 9:38 am
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In this post a book by the Australian John Pilger. Because this
1998 book describes different situations in a variety of (mostly
third world) countries I find it hard to catagorise and
summarise the book.
According to Pilger it’s about the “slow news” that never gets
much media attention. The news about “unpeople” in underveloped
countries being terrorised by dictatorial goverments that are
supported with arms from the US and Britain. Brutal dictatorial
regimes are even helped to get control over a country.
The wars of Britain and American are against democracy and
freedom; and are nothing but genocide.
In 1998, President Clinton is re-arming much of Latin America,
and a £22 billion arms bonanza is near with NATO expanding into
Eastern Europe.
British arms company Mil-Tac, armed the Hutu militia in former
Zaire.
[B]World Bank, IMF, debt and “free” trade[/B]
Countries are enslaved by debt and it are only the wealthy that
profit from these loans. Multinational corporations take the
profit from exploiting the third world.
In 1995, more than 80% of investment ended up in just 12
countries. The 48 least developed countries attracted only 0.5%.
In 1998, a Filipino child died every hour, in a country where
more than half the national budget is given over to the World
Bank and IMF to repay “loans”.
Almost half the world's “free trade” is conducted as
transactions within 180 multinational corporations, mostly from
the US and Japan, with the rest British, French, German and
Swiss. Annual sales of the largest 8 companies exceed the Gross
Domestic Product of 50 countries with over half the world's
population.
The world government was hard at work following the collapse of
Asia. What was reported in the West as a “bail out” by the
International Monetary Fund, in reality the IMF's “rescue
packages” represent an audacious takeover of Asian economies,
for example in South Korea, where companies are forced to
surrender to foreign control and workers' rights are slashed.
Following a plan devised by President Reagan's Treasury
Secretary James Baker, indebted countries were offered World
Bank and IMF loans in return for “structural adjustment”. This
meant that the economic policy of these countries would be
dictated from Washinton DC.
To add to the bewildering array of imperial acronyms (TRIMS,
TRIPS, NAFTA, SAPs and so on), there is now the Multilateral
Agreement on Investment (MAI) that gives multinational
corporations the right to challenge local laws before an
international tribunal, while governments or their citizens have
no right to take action against offending corporations.
[B]The industrial military complex[/B]
In Britain, almost half of all research and development funds
are allocated to “defence”.
More than half of all British “aid” to the developing world goes
through the Aid for Trade Provisions (ATP) scam. In 1988, Alan
Clark, Thatcher's Trade Minister, set up a little-known fund of
£1 billion, from which the Export Credit Guarantee Department
(ECGD) financed Third World regimes to buy British arms. By
1993, more than half of the credit guarantees of the ECGD
underwrote arms sales, mostly to Indonesia and Malaysia. In one
of those strange coincidences, the highest recipients of British
“aide” are among the biggest buyers of British weapons...
In 1995, the Independent reported that the British subsidiary of
the now bankrupt British multinational Astra, BMARC,
circumvented a British Government embargo by sending arms to
Iran via Singapore.
What wasn´t revealed was that in 1990, BMARC also secretly
supplied arms and ammunition to the Burmese generals through
Singapore and in defiance of another British Government ban.
Reportedly the group surrounding Margaret Thatcher´s son, Mark,
received 5% of $4 billion as commission on the arms sales to
Saudi Arabia.
Diego Garcia is a British colony in the Indian Ocean. Its
inhabitants were simply deported to install a US army base
there, in violation with Articles 9 and 13 of the United Nations
Declaration of Human Rights, which states that “no one should be
subjected to arbitrary exile” and “everybody has the right to
return to his country”.
In the 1960s, 40% of US tax dollars went towards subsidising the
“'military industrial complex”.
In 1993, almost two-thirds of American arms export agreements
with developing countries were with Saudi Arabia.
[B]The end of the Cold War[/B]
Gore Vidal described the Cold War with the Soviet Union as “an
American fiction”, with an effective agreement on “spheres of
influence”. The United States had no intention to rescue the
Hungarians when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest in 1956 or the
Czechoslovaks when they were invaded in 1968. The Soviet Union
had no desire to help the Vietnamese to expell the American
invader, or to fight in Latin America.
Secret British planning documents, dismiss the “Soviet threat”
as non-existent, even in the Middle East.
Since the re-invasion of Russia by the forces of globalisation,
Russia's economy has halved and its GDP has been reduced to that
of the (much smaller) Netherlands.
[B]The free press myth[/B]
We have government by the media, and media for the government.
Alfred Hugenberg controlled nearly half the German press by the
end of the 1920s. Without Hugenberg “the triumph of the Nazis”
wouldn´t have been possible.
In 1991, Richard Norton-Taylor of the Guardian disclosed that
some 500 prominent Britons were paid by the CIA through the
corrupt Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) in
London, including 90 journalists, many in “senior positions”.
The supposed once “high standards” of British journalism were
destroyed, mostly by Rupert Murdoch, who has succeeded in
evading taxes by shell companies in offshore money laundering
paradises. MI5 agent Robert Maxwell looted the pension fund and
destroyed the “quality” of the Mirror (where Pilger worked at
the time).
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[B]Genocide of Iraq[/B]
The Gulf War in 1991 was reported as an event of bloodless
science in which there were “miraculously few casualties” – and
quite a miracle it was! In reality 70% (!) of the 88,500 tons of
bombs dropped on Iraq and Kuwait missed their targets and many
fell in populated areas, killing civilians.
Few journalists reported the truth that at least 250.000 Iraqis
were slaughtered by the brutal bombing – including cluster
bombs. Since then, another at least half a million children died
as a result of the economic sanctions. Because of munition made
from Depleted Uranium, with a radioactive half-life of 125,000
years, the devastating effects on future generations will be
similar to those of “Agent Orange” in Vietnam.
Norman Schwarzkopf boasted that at least 100,000 Iraqi soldiers
were killed, he forgot the civilian deaths.
US Ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright, who later was
appointed Secretary of State, answered the question whether the
lives of half a million Iraqi children were too high a price,
with: “[I]I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we
think, is worth it[/I]”.
[B]Exploiting the third world[/B]
According to the World Health Organization in 1998, one third of
the children in the world are malnourished.
Thailand, China and India produce sport shoes and toys for very
low wages, including child labour.
In 1993, 2 industrial fires in toy factories in Thailand and
China, killed 275 workers, most of them in their early teens.
Hundreds were terribly burned.
In Haiti, girls from very poor families produce baseballs for
the US.
General Augusto Pinochet was made dictator with the help of the
CIA, during his military reign 130,000 Chileans were murdered,
tortured and “disappeared”.
The World Bank and IMF proudly boasted on the results: Chile's
debt grew to officially a whopping almost half of the GDP but in
reality was even higher, with most of Chile's debt concealed in
“debt-equity swaps”.
[B]Mandela the president for white South Africa[/B]
In 1975, IMF funded “Apartheid” South Africa more than the rest
of the continent together.
After the lawyer Nelson Mandela became the first black president
of South Africa, it were mostly the white elite that profited.
Mandela became president on condition that the multinational
corporations would be helped as they “opened up” the South
African economy.
Black frontmen were selected as the corporate faces for
white-controlled companies. Like for example Cyril Ramaphosa,
chairman of a number of leading companies, and a close ally of
the next President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki.
Since South Africa became a “democracy”, the amount money going
to the police and prisons has risen by a quarter in a country
with already one of the world's biggest security systems. From
1995 to 1998, deaths in police custody doubled.
Since Mandela became president the wealth gap has grown like
never before, up to 100,000 jobs a year were lost and the
desperately needed public services were curtailed. Many farm
labourers are arbitrarily evicted as if nothing had changed.
But instead black South Africans have received the right to
abortions!
[B]From Thatcher and Reagan to Blair and Clinton[/B]
While small-time dealers are pursued in Clinton's “war on
drugs”, money laundering, much of it related to the
international “narco-trade”, flows unimpeded through the
Caribbean tax havens to the US.
At the end of Reagan as president, the top 20% of the population
got most of the income, while the bottom 60% had record lows.
Wages fell below 1973 levels.
In Clinton's “Democracy”, 1% of the population controls 40% of
the national wealth; profits are at an all-time high, having
risen by 19% in 5 years while wages and welfare benefits have
grown with only 1%.
Since the year Lady of the Garter Margaret Thatcher became
Elizabeth’s Prime Minister, more than £63 billion in subsidies
has been transferred from the poor to the rich. When Margaret
Thatcher was PM, the number of poor Britons rose with 60%, to a
quarter of the British population by 1998. The UN Human
Development Report for 1997 writes that in no other country has
poverty “increased as substantially” since the early 1980s.
In Britain, Peter Mandelson solved the problem of the “poverty”
by renaming it “Social Exclusion”.
Peter Mandelson, George Robertson, Marjorie Mowlam, Chris Smith,
Elizabeth Symons and Blair's chief of staff Jonathan Powell were
members of the British-American Project for the Successor
Generation funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts of Philadelphia,
established by the billionaire J. Howard Pew, chairman of Sun
Oil.
Among the right-wing groups supportd by Pew are the Heritage
Foundation and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (set
up by former head of the CIA William Casey).
In the 1980s, hundreds of miles of waterfront and docks in
Britain were handed over to bankers, financiers and speculators.
According to chairman Gordon Waddell “[I]It was odd, that a
company with a government shareholder should be buying a
privatised port[/I]”. This is a striking example of “wealth
creation”, using tax pounds.
[B]Liverpool dockers replaced by cheap labour[/B]
While in Liverpool the dockers generated greater profit than
almost anywhere in Britain, its inhabitants remain very poor.
On 25 September 1995, dockers working for Torside, were ordered
to work overtime for a disputed rate. After they protested, they
were immediately fired. Three days later, they mounted a picket
line and the 329 men employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour
Company that refused to cross it, were also summarily dismissed.
They were replaced with cheap, flexible labour, for an hourly
rate of £4 for “all hours”, without any guarantee on the amount
of hours of work and pay per week. Men were placed “on call”
during their days off, so that they could be summoned back to
work at any time.
The dockers were represented by Britain's second largest union
the Transport and General Workers' Union that did nothing for
them “because” the dockers' action was technically against the
recently introduced law.
The Liverpool dockers succeeded in arranging strikes in ports
all over the globe instead, including in: Newark, Florida and
Los Angeles in the US; New Brunswick and Montreal in Canada;
Sweden; Denmark; Rotterdam in the Netherlands; Greece; France;
Germany; Sydney, Australia; Auckland, Wellington and Lyttleton
in New Zealand; South Africa.
[B]Suharto and the Timor genocide[/B]
More than 60,000 people were slaughtered in the first 3 months
of the invasion. In the 20 years since Indonesia illegally
invaded East Timor, at least 200,000 people have died. According
to Gabriel Defert, the real figure is closer to 300,000.
On arrival in Indonesia, Robin Cook gave one of the world's
most vicious dictatorships a “deal on human rights”. At the
time, Suharto’s Indonesia were conducting “Operation Finish Them
Off in East Timor”, with British arms whose delivery he refused
to stop.
Indonesia's special forces, Kopassus, patrol East Timor in
civilian dress in unmarked vehicles, armed with Heckler and Koch
automatic weapons from British Aerospace. Their marksmen train
on simulators used by the SAS and their death squads train in
British equipment. Indonesian military officers and pilots are
trained in Britain.
[B]Burmese days – Ne Win[/B]
In February 1995, the International Confederation of Free Trade
Unions reported that in the Burma of dictator General Ne Win a
million people had been forced from their homes in Rangoon
alone. The following violations were commonplace: “[I]Torture,
summary and arbitrary executions, forced labour, abuse of women,
politically motivated arrests and detention, forced
displacement, important restrictions on the freedoms of
expression and association and oppression of ethnic and
religious minorities[/I]”.
Burma plays an important role in the world production of heroin.
In the south of Burma, the death railway was constructed with
slave labour, including children. This is connected to the
pipeline of the French oil company Total in a consortium that
includes Unocal, the British Premier Oil, Nippon Oil and Texaco.
The German electronics conglomerate Siemens, the Dutch
multinational Philips and Ireland's Dragon Oil are major
investors in this project.
[B]The US victory in Cambodia and Vietnam[/B]
Orchestrating the Cambodia genocide started in 1969, with the
brutal secret bombing campaign, launched by President Nixon and
his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (who later was awarded
the Nobel Price for bringing peace to the region!). Between 1969
and 1973, American bombers killed some 750.000 Cambodian
peasants. To conceal this crime, US pilots' logs were falsified.
In reality, the genocidal Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were
promoted by the US and Britain.
In 1992, when the Western powers returned to Cambodia, they came
under the United Nations' flag to impose a “peace plan” devised
by US Congressman Stephen Solarz.
Not only the Gulf of Tonkin attack was completely fake; the
later announced “conclusive proof” of Hanoi's preparations to
invade the south - weapons found floating in a North Vietnamese
junk off China Beach were a “master illusion'”.
In 1983, former senior CIA specialist Ralph McGehee told Pilger
that “[I]The CIA, loaded up the junk with communist weapons,
floated it off the coast, then brought in the international
press. We got the headlines we wanted, and the marines
followed[/I]".
According to Pilger, the US didn´t really lose in Vietnam as
they took control of all the countries surrounding it.
In the 1990s, Vietnam was told that the price for entry into the
“global economy” are cities of sweatshops and a countryside of
landlords.
Vietnamese journalist Nhu T. Le wrote that the new foreign banks
and private enterprises, [quote]are meant to create a Hobbesian
world of scarce resources inhabited by desperate people willing
to do almost anything to feed their families. The marketeers are
making an argument about human nature – that fear and greed are
the fundamental human motivations. But in Vietnam, three million
people in the grave serve as its greatest refutation.[/quote]
John Pilger – [I]Hidden agendas[/I] (1998):
HTML https://archive.org/details/fp_Hidden_Agendas-John_Pilger
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HTML http://archive.is/xpNbq)
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Re: World Bank and IMF destroy economies or modern day slavery
By: patrick jane Date: May 20, 2020, 12:58 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZwJgheuUQ
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Re: World Bank and IMF destroy economies or modern day slavery
By: Firestarter Date: May 31, 2020, 11:26 am
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Here’s some interesting information on the African Development
Bank (AfDB). There is a connection to the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
In June 2019, the AfDB in partnership with the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation (BMGF), Agence Française de Développement (AfD)
and the Government of Luxembourg launched the Africa Digital
Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI):
HTML https://www.afdb.org/en/documents/call-proposals-dfs-projects-africa-digital-financial-inclusion-facility-adfi
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HTML http://archive.is/3j8dK)
Since 2011, the African Development Bank has been working with
(for?) the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on sanitation for
sub-Saharan African cities.
According to eugenics psychopath Bill Gates, the African Water
Facility Urban Sanitation program (2018-2022), new approaches
for sterilizing human waste may help end almost 500,000 infant
deaths and save $233 billion annually in costs linked to
diarrhoea, cholera and other diseases caused by poor water,
sanitation and hygiene:
HTML https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/african-development-bank-to-invest-over-us-500-million-in-new-city-wide-inclusive-sanitation-projects-with-support-from-gates-foundation-18644
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HTML http://archive.is/tFC6l)
Rodrigo Salvado worked for the African Development Bank before
joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:
HTML https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Policy/Development-Policy-Finance/Strategy-Leadership/Rodrigo-Salvado
A more recent story is that the African Development Bank has
sold $4.6 billion in bonds on the London Stock Exchange’s
Sustainable Bond Market.
$3 billion of this money will be used to make Africa into the
perfect corona police state:
HTML https://www.lseg.com/markets-products-and-services/our-markets/london-stock-exchange/fixed-income-markets/fixed-income-news/african-development-bank-group
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HTML http://archive.is/AJpAT)
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