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>[This is the same building where the Shell House massacre occurred – “South Africa March 28 1994 Pre-Election Zulu-ANC Violence in Johannesburg”, https://youtu.be/H18dCmjTlmo (embedded)]

Remember, Mandela gave the order

“South Africa-Mandela Attacked Re 'Shoot To Kill'”- https://youtu.be/6Xe8ZnzDzro

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Anonymous 05/18/22 (Wed) 18:09:11 49acc9 No.16298879

>>16298769

>This first article is just to document how the U.S. Clinton Administration helped persuade the UN to play into to the concept that De Beers had some humanitarian concerns related to African countries.

New York Times, 1977 article – US delegate to the UN was Oppenheimer’s guest in South Africa

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/16/archives/oppenheimer-apartheid-foe-faces-snag-political-rebuff-is-seen-as.html

Prime Minister John Vorster, in a remarkable and much‐criticized outburst in parliament, questioned the executive's loyalty to South Africa.

During an attack on the Carter Administration and on those in South Africa who support its demand for full political participation by blacks, the Prime Minister described Mr. Oppenheimer as “the spiritual father” of the Progressive‐Reform Party, the most liberal group in parliament. “It is time,” Mr. Vorster added, “that he told South Africa where he stands and what he is doing.”

Mr. Vorster declined to retract his comments, and it was generally assumed that he intended the remark as a warning to Mr. Oppenheimer in the wake of the visit to South Africa of Andrew Young, chief United States delegate to the United Nations. Mr. Young spent two days in Johannesburg as Mr. Oppenheimer's guest.

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Anonymous 05/18/22 (Wed) 18:15:46 49acc9 No.16298907

>>16298769

Harry Oppenheimer : The King of Diamonds (USSR dealings) – Edwards Jay Epstein Diary, December 4, 1978

Keep in mind, the Soviet Union provided the ANC with weapons and training.

http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diary/opp.htm

If one man can be said to control the world's diamonds it is Harry Frederick Oppenheimer.

The block-long building, with its imposing neocolonial facade and marble entranceway, looked much more like a government institution than the headquarters of the mining company. As it turned out, it housed in its offices far more power than most government buildings. Indeed, Oppenheimer even had a private treaty with the Soviet Union, although the terms have never been publicly revealed.

I had come to South Africa to write a book on the diamond business. Oppenheimer's father, Ernest Oppenheimer, had developed the monopoly, De Beers, that runs it. Oppenheimer explained that it was no secret that De Beers acquired through subsidiaries all the uncut diamonds that the Soviet Union wanted to sell on the open market.

"We paid the Soviet Union more than half a billion dollars last year," he answered. "This is not a sum it can easily replace, and I can see no conceivable reason why it would want to abandon such a profitable arrangement." His logic was brutally direct: De Beers provided the Soviet Union with its single largest source of hard currency (only petroleum was a more important export for Soviet trade in 1977)If the Soviet Union withdrew its diamonds from De Beers, it would have to find other outlets to sell its uncut diamonds. And if it precariously dumped these diamonds on the market, the price would collapse, and the Soviet Union would lose an important source of foreign exchange. "What could the Russians possibly gain by competing with us?" he asked rhetorically.

He further pointed out that De Beers provided the Soviets with certain types of industrial diamonds that were important for drilling and producing electronic wiring. Its Siberian mines apparently did not produce these strategically important diamonds. By selling gem stones to De Beers, the Soviet Union received the credits for importing the industrial diamonds it needed.

The Soviet Union also had considerable influence in other diamond producing areas in Black Africa, such as Angola [ANC had camps in Angola, the most notorious was Quatro]. I wondered if the logic of the arrangement between De Beers and the Soviets required the Soviets to use their power in those countries to help De Beers retain its control over diamond mines there.

Oppenheimer was concerned with the possibility of the United Nations imposing economic sanctions against South Africa, since his empire exported billions of dollars worth of South African commodities. He did not believe, however, that they could affect the diamond trade. "I can think of no commodity less susceptible to dangers from UN sanctions than diamonds," he said. He was stating the obvious: diamonds were after all one of the most convenient commodities to transport across borders. For example, an entire month of production of diamonds from the Namibian mines, worth $40 million, could be smuggled out of Namibia in an attache case.

Oppenheimer also gave little credence to the fear that De Beers might be running out of quality diamonds. He pointed out that De Beers was developing vast new mines in the Botswana desert, which he planned to visit the next day. These Botswana mines would provide the world with an ample supply of diamonds well into the 1990s.

Oppenheimer insisted that the black-white confrontation in Africa would not present a problem for De Beers. He termed the arrangement between De Beers and Black African nations "Mutually advantageous." He further suggested that it might be useful for me to inspect at first hand some of De Beers' mining operations in independent nations to more fully understand how the "arrangement" works. He offered to provide me air transportation and access to the mines in Botswana, Lesotho and other independent nations.

[take note, Lesotho did not lose its independence in 1994 unlike other Bantustans/Homelands in South Africa like Bophuthatswana, Transkei, etc.]

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Anonymous 05/18/22 (Wed) 21:16:23 4aa658 No.16299738

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>16298769

>who knows how many people were killed in the process also

Don’t forget the murders of Prime Minister Dr. HF Verwoerd and Bernt Carlsson

Prime Minister Dr. HF Verwoerd assassinated on 6 September, 1966, and following changes occured about a month later.

Botswana (diamonds) – Independence day, 30 September 1966

Lesotho (diamonds) – Independence day, 4 October 1966

Namibia (diamonds) - in October 1966, the UN General Assembly decided to end the mandate, declaring that South Africa had no further right to administer the territory, and that henceforth South West Africa was to come under the direct responsibility of the UN (Resolution 2145 XXI of 27 October 1966). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Namibia

Dr Verwoerd was an implacable foe of the Money Power and wanted to achieve independence for South Africa. He commissioned the Hoek Report from Professor Piet Hoek of Pretoria University, and the report showed that the Anglo American Corporation controlled the English language newspapers and 70% of all companies in South Africa, while paying 10% of the tax.

http://reclaimingrhodesia.com/hendrick-verwoerd/

Bernt Carlsson who died in the Lockerbie bombing

United Nations Assistant Secretary-General & UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, who would have assumed control of the country until Namibia's first universal franchise elections had been held, was unable to attend the signing ceremony, being one of the 243 passengers killed when Pan Am Flight 103 crashed at Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.[7]

Following the UN Commissioner's death at Lockerbie, South African foreign minister Pik Botha went ahead and signed the Tripartite Accord on 22 December 1988. However, instead of handing control of Namibia to the United Nations, Pik Botha put the apartheid regime's Administrator-General, Louis Pienaar, in charge.

No investigation by the Scottish Police, the CIA, the FBI or the United Nations has ever been conducted into the evident targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103, despite the branding of apartheid South Africa as a "terrorist state" by Governor Michael Dukakis, Democratic nominee in the 1988 US presidential election campaign.

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/The_How,_Why_and_Who_of_Pan_Am_Flight_103

“Bernt Carlsson and The Case of the Disappearing Diamonds [Namibia] Part 3” - https://youtu.be/IHIDaGrIsmY (embedded) [The Thirion report exposed the cartel]

Following Bernt Carlsson's untimely death in the Lockerbie bombing, the case against URENCO [the joint Dutch/British/West German uranium enrichment company] was inexplicably dropped and no further prosecutions took place of the companies and countries that were in breach of the United Nations Council for Namibia Decree No. 1.

https://www.serendipity.li/more/lockerbie_bombing.htm

Thirion Report – “The three hundred and fifty page mining report from Judge Thirion and his team paints a devastating portrait of the world wide De Beers diamond cartel and its behaviour towards Namibia.”

http://www.gordonbrownisinnocent.co.uk/thirionreport.html

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Anonymous 05/18/22 (Wed) 21:23:29 4aa658 No.16299757

>>16299738

>Namibia (diamonds) - in October 1966, the UN General Assembly decided to end the mandate, declaring that South Africa had no further right to administer the territory, and that henceforth South West Africa was to come under the direct responsibility of the UN (Resolution 2145 XXI of 27 October 1966). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Namibia

In 1973, the UN recognised the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) as the official representative of the Namibian people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibia

Oranjemund Journal; Swapo and De Beers: Are They Engaged to Wed? – dated 1989

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/10/world/oranjemund-journal-swapo-and-de-beers-are-they-engaged-to-wed.html

While Namibia remained under South African rule, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. enjoyed a monopoly through its subsidiary, Consolidated Diamond Mines of South-West Africa.

The multinational corporation, whose lease here was not due to expire before the end of the year 2010, has been cultivating new ties with the South-West Africa People's Organization, or Swapo, which is expected to win the elections next month for a constituent assembly that will draft a constitution for the country.

Nicholas F. Oppenheimer, the deputy chairman of De Beers, met with the organization's representatives in London, a company executive said, and other officials from Swapo have twice been flown down from Windhoek, Namibia's capital, to view the diamond mining operation.

Oranjemund, the administrative center for diamond mining, is a company town visited by invitation only. Two hundred miles of southern coastline have been closed off to form a zone prohibited to outsiders that reaches up to 60 miles into the desert. The active surface mining area is surrounded by a wire fence and is accessible only through a set of electronically controlled doors.

Everyone leaving the site, including company executives, must submit to random X-rays for diamonds, which give off a telltale fluorescence.

Mining officials say they would be content with the kind of arrangement De Beers enjoys in neighboring Botswana, where diamond mines are jointly owned by the Government and the mining corporation.

Regardless of which government comes into power, we feel we are quite able to develop a meaningful track record, Mr. Stockill said.

[SWAPO has been ruling Namibia since 1994]

During the wave of decolonization in Africa, armed struggle was used by a number of liberation movements as a means to carry out their ‘inalienable’ right to self-determination. Such was the case regarding Namibia’s turbulent road to independence. Between 1960 and the attainment of its independence in 1990, the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) fought tenaciously for the liberation of Namibia from South African occupation. At the outset of its emergence, this movement maintained, ‘we have no alternative but to rise up in arms and bring about our liberation’.1 SWAPO had widespread international support, as evidenced through many United Nations (UN) General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions. Leading scholar on terrorism, David C. Rapoport classifies the events regarding movements of national liberation within the third ‘wave’ of modern terrorism, as this violence was a manifestation of the struggle to assert self-determination.2 In essence, it was a dimension of terrorism that was characterized by the resistance ‘against larger political power. . . specifically designated to win political independence or autonomy’.3 In this chapter, terrorism will be viewed as the deliberate use of violence or the threat of violence against civilians with the intent of achieving a specific ideological or political objective. Terrorism is also linked to generating an atmosphere of violence within a specific population.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203093467-19/swapo-united-nations-struggle-national-liberation-shaloma-gauthier-shaloma-gauthier

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Anonymous 05/19/22 (Thu) 12:36:36 a09ad3 No.16303474

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Anonymous 05/19/22 (Thu) 12:42:50 28dac5 No.16303484

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“Jewish people played a critical role in ending apartheid in South Africa.”

Below are excerpts

Joe Slovo

Born to Jewish-Lithuanian parents in South Africa, Slovo was devoted Marxist-Leninist who was one of the founding members of the ANC and its military wing MK. His first marriage was to fellow activist Ruth First, both of whom were member of the Congress Alliance that drafted the Freedom Charter, which resulted in the Treason Trial. Between 1963-90, Slovo lived overseas in exile, mostly in London. While in exile, he continued his political activism, including sanctioning the Church Street Bombing. Upon his return to SA, he famously implemented the ‘sunset clause’. After the ANC came to power, he was named Minister of Housing.

Harry Oppenheimer

Head of the Anglo American Corporation and chairman of DeBeers, Oppenheimer entered politics and fought throughout his life to dismantle apartheid. During WWII, he aided British Intelligence in North Africa. A chief of the Ford Foundation called him “a tireless fighter who tried to change the apartheid system from within”.

In March 2011, a series of postage stamps called “Legandary Heroes of Africa” were released as a joint issue by the countries of Gambia, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to celebrate Jewish heroes of the South African Liberation struggle.

https://jewishcontributions.com/infotables/infotable-south-africa-apartheid/

Notice that the ANC members went into exile or escape to or continued their activism in England and not the USSR.

“90% of all Jews in South Africa are Litvaks [Lithuanians]” - https://vilnews.com/2011-01-litvaks-in-south-africa

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Anonymous 05/19/22 (Thu) 13:40:10 daff90 No.16303715

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“THE SOUTH AFRICAN VOTE: THE VOTING; Was the Election Fair? Voting Chief Is Satisfied” – Dated May 3, 1994

[The ANC has ruled SA ever since!]

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/03/world/south-african-vote-voting-was-election-fair-voting-chief-satisfied.html

Judge Johann Kriegler [was a board member of Oppenheimer’s Urban Foundation] casually uses the word "breakdown" to describe the election he is running.

He concedes that many ballots never left the warehouse, that polling places failed to open, that ballot boxes were stuffed "to a significant degree," that voting places often had no impartial monitors and that some election officials were partisan, if not crooked.

But there is no doubt in South Africa that within a few days he will baptize the new democracy by pronouncing the required four-word benediction "substantially free and fair" over the results.

"From the outset the commission had no illusions that it could mount a really efficient election," the judge said today during an intermission from the crises that still beset the counting of votes. "It is an Africa-style election. It is not to be measured by European or North American standards. What we're trying to do is put together a credible test of the will of the people."

"If it is manifest in a given situation that the rules ought to be stretched because that would do justice, yes, that's my approach," he said today in his office at the electoral commission. "And I've applied it here."

The huge and insatiable press corps is annoyed at his testy reaction to questioning and his peremptory decision to ban reporters from polling places (a rule that few local poll officials enforced).

Dennis Davis [Jew], a law professor who helped draft the new Constitution under which the election is taking place, said he was worried that the commission's failure to prevent rampant abuses in the embattled Zulu province, KwaZulu/Natal, could encourage the losers there to reject the result and resume their 10-year violent partisan conflict.

"We estimated that we had an electorate of about 22 1/2 million," he said. "Nobody knew. Nobody still knows."

Then a week from the end, after 80 million ballots had been printed [in England and the total population of SA was about 40 million at the time], the Inkatha Freedom Party decided to participate, requiring that gummed stickers be added by hand at the end of each ballot.

The voting became a giant improvisation. When ballot boxes got full because of unexpected turnout, poll officials ripped off the seals, poured the ballots into plastic bags, and reused the boxes.

When Inkatha stickers failed to arrive, officials let voters write in the name. Rather than risk an Inkatha walkout, Mr. Kriegler authorized the write-ins, and extended voting a day in the Zulu province.

When counting bogged down, Mr. Kriegler discarded the elaborate procedures designed to account for all ballots.

Cheating, he says, was widespread but probably not enough to distort the outcome seriously.

"To affect a national seat in Parliament, you need an error of 50,000 votes," he said, now an expert in the arithmetic of political larceny. "And if a ballot box was stuffed, what have you got? At the most 3,000 papers. If it wasn't very skillfully done 2,500, even a little less." [The South African election was held between 26 and 29 April 1994. Will that not be sufficient time to stuff the ballot boxes?]

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Anonymous 05/19/22 (Thu) 14:20:11 4aa658 No.16303888

>>16299757

>[SWAPO has been ruling Namibia since 1994]

Correction. SWAPO has been ruling Namibia since 1990, its independence.

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Anonymous 05/19/22 (Thu) 15:09:44 e39ffa No.16304187

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Behind the Scenes of Nelson Mandela’s 70th Birthday Concert held in England, 1988 – Video

https://www.bitchute.com/video/3aovCvQJ46GB/

“This video takes a closer look at 1988 political concert held in the UK which was broadcasted across the world and viewed by 600 million people in the guise of celebrating Mandela’s 70th Birthday who was unknown at the time to push for the release of political prisoners and change in South Africa. It also discusses the people behind the event who were accused of child abuse and never investigated, namely Bishop Trevor Huddleston, President of the Anti Apartheid Movement which later became Action for South Africa (ACTSA).”

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Anonymous 05/19/22 (Thu) 19:31:44 49acc9 No.16305521

>The ANC was given $20 million by Lonrho to move their offices from Lusaka, Zambia to Johannesburg to consolidate their internal support. The idea was to set up a political machinery in South Africa, and that costs a lot of money.

Lonrho’s History – Connections to MI6 and the British Royals

https://ebin.pub/tiny-rowland-the-ugly-face-of-neocolonialism-in-africa-0943235081-9780943235080.html

Sir Basil Smallpeice was taken on by Lonrho as deputy chairman in 1972, after the near-collapse of Lonrho in a criminal scandal. Smallpeice had been Comptroller and Managing Director of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), and Chairman of Cunard Steam-Ship Co. At the time of his appointment to Lonrho, Smallpeice was Administrative Adviser to the Queen’s Household, or, as Rowland later put it, “Comptroller of Buckingham Palace,” a position he held from 1964 until 1980.3 Gerald Percy played an essential role in Lonrho’s African business. Since the 1950s, he was an Africa operative of MI-6. Born in 1928, he is the son of Lord William Percy, 5th son of the 7th Duke of Northumberland, one of the most ancient and powerful families in Britain. His relative. Sir Algernon Percy, became Lord Steward of Her Majesty’s Household in 1973. Gerald Percy emigrated to South Africa in 1951, married the daughter of a prominent industrialist, and joined the British South Africa Company, Cecil Rhodes’ old firm, where he was personal assistant to the chairman. Lord Robins. On more than one occasion, the dubious activities of Rowland’s company have brought frantic Royal appeals to protect the Windsors from contamination by their Lonrho connection. On November 19, 1969, two senior members of the British Establishment paid a visit to Angus Ogilvy. Lord Burke Trend, Secretary of the Cabinet since 1963, and Lord Greenhill of Harrow, Permanent Undersecretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, were acting officially on behalf of the Queen.

Though pressured to resign from Lonrho, Ogilvy did not at that time. But there were more scandals to come. In 1971, Lonrho treasurer Fred Butcher and two other company officials were arrested in the Republic of South Africa, on charges of fraud against minority shareholders in Lonrho subsidiaries. The documentation was precise; Lonrho had been caught red-handed.

After Butcher’s arrest, an evidently panicked Princess Alexandra telephoned South Africa, awakening a journalist in the middle of the night, to try to estimate the damage. The Royal links of Lonrho were openly talked about in Africa at the time. The Rhodesian monthly Property and Finance wrote, “As P&F has reported several times, the British Royal Family is directly involved in the entire affair. The Hon. Angus Ogilvy, an executive director, was its representative on the Lonrho board; and Sir Basil Smallpeice (former chairman of BOAC and then of ill-fated Cunard), who is a close adviser to the Royal Family, was appointed to the board last year at the insistence of the Bank of England.”7 In the hubbub after Butcher’s arrest, “a small notice in the [South African] Government Gazette appeared saying that a London investment company handling the risk capital of the British Royal Family had quietly removed substantial Royal assets from So. Africa to Britain.”

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Anonymous 05/19/22 (Thu) 20:16:07 e39ffa No.16305798

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>>16299757

> terrorism will be viewed as the deliberate use of violence or the threat of violence against civilians with the intent of achieving a specific ideological or political objective.

>From the moment of the unbanning of the ANC, the whole organization was enveloped by the Anglo complex. Between February 1990, and the elections of April 1994, Anglo poured the sum of R364 million rand ($180 million) into the coffers of the ANC.

>At the same time, Tiny Rowland of the British multinational Lonrho was also funding the ANC. Lonrho is within the Rothschild orbit, and is a business partner of Anglo, with extensive interests in South Africa, covering gold, coal and platinum. The ANC was given $20 million by Lonrho to move their offices from Lusaka, Zambia to Johannesburg to consolidate their internal support. The idea was to set up a political machinery in South Africa, and that costs a lot of money.

Onslaught against the Peoples of SA - Part 1

https://youtu.be/7GhPmys_QFw

“ANC & SA Communist Party indiscriminate onslaught against the Peoples of South Africa during the 80's in the name of the struggle and justice. Since coming to power the violence has worsened and spiralled out of control!”

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Anonymous 05/22/22 (Sun) 13:03:38 28dac5 No.16321313

>Oppenheimer insisted that the black-white confrontation in Africa would not present a problem for De Beers. He termed the arrangement between De Beers and Black African nations "Mutually advantageous."

>>16303715

“Lonmin plc, formerly the mining division of Lonrho plc”

Lonmin plc, formerly the mining division of Lonrho plc, is a British producer of platinum group metals operating in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Its registered office is in London, and its operational headquarters are in Johannesburg, South Africa.[2]

Lonmin rose to international attention following the Marikana miners' strike in August, 2012, in which over 100 striking Lonmin employees were shot (36 killed, 78 wounded) by South African Police Service officers. [At the time, Cyril (Ramaphosa) was a non-executive director of Lonmin. His company Shanduka was a minority shareholder in Lonmin, so this meant their profits were very much part of his business too. https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/marikana-what-did-cyril-ramaphosa-do/]

History

The Company was incorporated in the United Kingdom on 13 May 1909 as the London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company Limited.[3]

Businessman Tiny Rowland was recruited as chief executive in 1962.[4] For many years during the second half of the twentieth century it was frequently in the news, not only due to the politically sensitive part of the world in which it had mining businesses, but also – as it strove to become a conglomerate not wholly dependent on these businesses – in a number of takeover battles, most notably for the Harrods of Knightsbridge department store.

In 1968, Lonrho acquired Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, a gold mining business in Ghana.[5] The former Conservative minister Duncan Sandys, a director of Ashanti, became Lonrho's chairman in 1972.[6]

Sir Angus Ogilvy, married to a member of the British royal family (Princess Alexandra), was a Lonrho director and this increased media interest in the company's affairs. Ogilvy's career ended when Lonrho was involved in a sanctions-busting scandal concerning trade with Rhodesia. Prime Minister, Edward Heath, criticised the company, describing it in the House of Commons in 1973 as "an unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism."[7]

By 1979, Lonrho employed 140,000 people worldwide.[8]

During the 80s, Lonrho entered the British newspaper market, buying the Sunday newspaper The Observer in 1981[9] and the newly launched daily Today in 1986.[10] Today was sold to News International the following year,[11] while the Guardian Media Group bought the Observer in 1993.[9]

Tiny Rowland was finally ejected from Lonrho in October 1993 after a boardroom tussle with director Dieter Bock.[12] He was replaced by Nick Morrell, a former chief executive of The Observer.[13]

Two months before Rowland's death (on 26 July 1998) the assets of Lonrho were split. Two publicly listed companies, Lonrho plc and Lonrho Africa plc were created – the former retaining all the non-African businesses and mining assets.[14] In 1999, Lonrho plc was renamed as Lonmin plc and a new era as a focused mining company began.[15] In 2000 Gordon Haslem became CEO.[16]

In 2004 Brad Mills became CEO: Mills in turn announced his intention to resign from his position in 2008. Mills leaves behind a "significant contribution in developing the company over the past four years" according to chairperson, Sir John Craven, as his introduction of mechanized mining has increased safety for the miners, as well as increasing productivity.[17] Lonmin indicated that former chief strategic officer responsible for the company’s business development, Ian Farmer, would replace him.[18]

On 1 October 2008, after building a 24.9% stake in Lonmin, Xstrata announced it was not proceeding with a takeover pitched at £33 per Lonmin share, blaming the failure of its bid on "unprecedented uncertainty in financial markets" caused by the Global financial crisis.[19] Xstrata and its 24.9% stake in Lonmin was later acquired by Glencore on 2 May 2013.[20] Glencore announced on 11 February 2015 that it intends to divest its 23.9% stake in Lonmin, which it inherited through the acquisition of Xstrata. Glencore's divestment in Lonmin will be implemented by way of a distribution in specie to Glencore shareholders.[21]

Farmer resigned as CEO in 2012 for health reasons.

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Anonymous 05/22/22 (Sun) 13:35:17 28dac5 No.16321406

>>16321313

Here is the link, http://yamm.finance/wiki/Lonmin.html.

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Anonymous 05/23/22 (Mon) 11:43:43 e39ffa No.16326020

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>>16303715

>Judge Johann Kriegler [was a board member of Oppenheimer’s Urban Foundation] casually uses the word "breakdown" to describe the election he is running. He concedes that many ballots never left the warehouse, that polling places failed to open, that ballot boxes were stuffed "to a significant degree," that voting places often had no impartial monitors and that some election officials were partisan, if not crooked.

>But there is no doubt in South Africa that within a few days he will baptize the new democracy by pronouncing the required four-word benediction "substantially free and fair" over the results.

Judge Johann Kriegler

”Judge Johann Kriegler - 2011 IFES Democracy Awards” - https://youtu.be/6r5pjYNNu5I (embedded)

“Judge Johann Kriegler of South Africa accepts the 2011 Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award from IFES on Sept. 15. IFES presents the award each year to three individuals a Republican, a Democrat and a member of the international community who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to democracy and human rights. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida were also honored.”

https://www.wikimzansi.com/judge-johann-kriegler/

Johann Kriegler, a one-time human-rights lawyer in apartheid South Africa, headed his country’s transitional elections in 1994 and later served on its first Constitutional Court. Since retiring from that court he has, at the behest of the United Nations, the African Union and a number of governments and national and international NGOs, been engaged as an expert in many parts of the world, more specifically in electoral administration and dispute resolution as well as in training electoral administrators, judges, prosecutors and trial lawyers.

His involvement in these and other human-rights, good-governance and rule-of-law initiatives has extended from Timor-Leste through Maldives, Afghanistan, the Middle East and much of Africa to the Caribbean and Ibero-America. He has chaired international enquiries into judicial independence in Uganda and Malawi, audits of violence-torn presidential elections in Kenya and of Bangladesh’s criminal-justice system, an international tribunal into the Iranian massacre of political prisoners and the selection of electoral commissions for Iraq and Sierra Leone. In addition Judge Kriegler currently lectures in one or other of his fields of expertise, most recently in Libya, Sudan, Pakistan and Egypt.

At home in South Africa he conducts arbitrations and serves as a trustee of several human-rights NGOs: Freedom Under Law, of which he is founder chair, actively engages in strategic litigation defending the rule of law against executive abuse. He is an extraordinary professor of law at his alma mater, an honorary life member of the Johannesburg Bar and an honorary bencher of Gray’s Inn.

https://www.wikimzansi.com/johann-kriegler/

Johann Kriegler is a life-long human-rights lawyer who headed South Africa’s transitional elections in 1994 and was subsequently appointed a founding justice of the newly established Constitutional Court. Since completing his term in 2002 he has been engaged in some 40 countries on five continents — from East Timor through Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Maldives and Libya to West and most of sub-Saharan Africa — on behalf of the UN, the AU, the Commonwealth and various international NGOs in electoral work, training judges and advocates, and conducting inquiries. He was a founder of the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights, currently chairs SECTION27 and Freedom Under Law while serving on the boards of a number of human rights/rule of law bodies, and from time to time conducts arbitrations/mediations.

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Anonymous 05/23/22 (Mon) 12:09:33 e39ffa No.16326071

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>>16303715

>>16326020

>He [Judge Johann Kriegler] was a founder of the Legal Resources Centre

Legal Resources Centre (LRC) – Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge (Both Jews) - Funded by Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller

https://lrc.org.za/about/history/

Together with our partners and supporters, we’ll apply more pressure domestically and internationally for visible results, placing substantive transformative change at the heart of our efforts.

Our legacy of fighting for freedom, social justice, and equality in South Africa will propel us, and help us reignite a truly transformative organization.

At the LRC, over the past 40 years in South Africa, we have, inter alia, played a significant role in dismantling apartheid, abolishing the death penalty and corporal punishment, advancing and protecting the constitutional rights of women, girls, and people with disabilities, and made important breakthroughs in healthcare and environmental justice, as well as established significant precedents in land and education rights.

Together with our supporters, we will continue to honor our legacy.

“The founding of…the LRC in 1979, by Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge…represented the triumph of an idea – the belief that lawyers had an especial role and a particular responsibility in the face of gross injustice.”

– Justice Cameron | Justice at the Constitutional Court

>“Jewish people played a critical role in ending apartheid in South Africa.”

Arthur Chaskalson

A prominent human rights lawyer, Chakalson served on the defense team of the Rivonia Trial. With the help of Jack Greenberg, the Jewish Direct-Counsel of the NAACP, Chakalson established the Legal Resources Centre which was funded by Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller monies. He later became President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and then Chief Justice.

Sydney & Felicia Kentridge

A legal power-couple, the two were life-long activists against Apartheid and served as legal defense for Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Albert Luthuli. Together, they were co-founders of the Legal Resoucers Centre. The South African General Bar Council named the Sydney and Felicia Kentridge Award in their honor.

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Anonymous 05/23/22 (Mon) 12:38:58 e39ffa No.16326145

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>>16326020

>>16326071

Legal Resources Centre (LRC) - Professor Michael Katz (Jew), Trustee

https://lrc.org.za/patrons/patron-alpha/

Professor Michael Katz is a practicing attorney and chairman at Edward Nathan Sonnenberg (ENS) Africa, specializing in corporate and commercial law. Professor Katz also teaches company law at Witwatersrand University. He has published numerous articles, chapters and papers on legal and fiscal topics and co-authored the Butterworths Company Law Precedents (four volumes) and South Africa’s contribution to the United Nations and Harvard University’s Corporate Law Tools Project. He is also a trustee of numerous trusts including The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, The Constitution Hill Trust, and The Constitutional Court Trust.

Prof Michael Katz wins Chambers Lifetime Achievement Award

https://www.wits.ac.za/news/sources/alumni-news/2022/prof-michael-katz-wins-chambers-lifetime-achievement-award.html

The awards statement read: “With a reputation that reaches across Africa and beyond, Michael Katz has been a pioneering figure in the corporate and transactional market in South Africa for many years. As chair of one of the continent’s most recognised legal brands, ENSafrica, he is routinely lauded by commentators, both for his immense experience and his role in the transformation of the South African legal sector. In addition to leading his firm, he is a recognised scholar and thought leader on company law and regularly provides expert commentary on legislative changes, such as the Companies Amendment Bill, 2021. His recognition this year comes off the back of a host of positive feedback from market observers, with some labelling him ‘the doyenne’ and ‘Godfather’ of the South African M&A market, while others noted him as ‘world-renowned’ figure.”

Currently he serves as Honorary Professor and course director for Advanced Company Law at Wits and was awarded an honorary doctorate in law in 1998 for “being imbued with an ethic of service”.

His other career highlights include chairperson of the Katz Commission of Inquiry into the South African tax system in 1995; chairperson of the Tax Advisory Committee; member of the Security Regulation Panel; member of the King Committee on Corporate Governance; chairperson of the Committee for the re-structuring of the JSE; and chairperson of the Specialist Committee on Company Law.

In 2020 Professor Katz was asked by the president of South Africa to be a board member of the national Solidarity Fund, set up to support medical response and relief efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was awarded the Absa Business Icon Award at the Absa Jewish Achiever Awards in 2020.

Professor Katz is a member of a number of boards and was Chairman of the Board of the National Housing Finance Corporation Limited which was established by government to enable affordable finance for low-cost housing. Professor Katz is a trustee of a number of trusts including the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, the Legal Resources Trust, Constitutional Court Trust, Donald Gordon Foundation, Constitution Hill Trust, the FIFA World Cup Legacy Trust and South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. He has been mentioned for many years in legal periodicals as a leading South African lawyer. He is the course director of Advanced Company Law I and II at the Mandela Institute.

“We are truly honoured to work alongside such an admirable leader and colleague who has accomplished so much and changed the face of law in South Africa," said Mzi Mgudlwa, ENSafrica‘s chief executive.

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Anonymous 05/23/22 (Mon) 13:24:10 e39ffa No.16326294

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>>16326145

Gill Marcus (Jewish)

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/marcus-gill

Gill Marcus was born in South Africa in 1949; her parents had also been born in South Africa, but her grandparents had immigrated from Lithuania.

While conscious and proud of her Jewish heritage, Gill Marcus is not religious in any active sense.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/gill-marcus

Gill Marcus was born in 10 August, 1949 to parents who were active members of the African National Congress (ANC). She grew up in Johannesburg, where she attended Barnato Park High School for Girls. Her parents,both accountants who belong to the banned Communist Party (CP), emigrated to Britain with their four children in 1969.

Marcus went on to study for a Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) degree at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits), but then decided to study Industrial Psychology, a degree she completed in London when her parents decided to leave South Africa in 1969. She resumed work with the ANC in 1970 when she worked for the party’s Department of Information and by 1976 she had become the editor of the ANC’s weekly bulletin, the Weekly News Briefing that enabled ANC members and supporters worldwide to stay in touch with political developments inside South Africa. Meanwhile her father, who had been the accountant for the law firm of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, acted as the ANC regional treasurer in Tanzania.

Marcus later went into exile where she spent her time clipping South African newspapers for the ANC and discussing radical politics. On her return from exile in 1990, after the unbanning of the ANC and other political organisations, Gill took up a post in the ANC's Department of Information and Publicity where she quickly became one of the ANC's more prominent voices. In July 1991, she was elected into the ANC’s National Executive Committee and was co-opted to the national working committee. Before the 1994 elections, she trained ANC media workers and voter educators and accompanied Nelson Mandela on his election campaign into the provinces. Gill played a leading role in determining media policies for the ANC in the run up to the 1994 elections.

After the election, she was elected to parliament and quickly established a reputation for her efficiency in her position as chairperson of the parliamentary joint Finance committee. This is a position she held from June 1994 until June 1996 when she was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance. On the 1st of July 1999, Gill was appointed as Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, the first woman to hold such a position. Marcus has also held senior positions in the private sector, including serving on the boards of the mining company becoming chairperson of Absa Bank in (2007), Western Areas and the Absa Group. Marcus’ more recent achievements have included being made professor of policy, leadership and gender studies at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (2005) and governor of the Reserve Bank (2009-2014).

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Anonymous 05/23/22 (Mon) 13:48:26 e39ffa No.16326385

>>16326294

Gill Marcus – Links to Mining Companies, including Glencore

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/wals-gill-marcus-joins-gold-fields-board-as-nonexec-director-2007-02-14/rep_id:3650

Western Areas chairperson Gill Marcus had been appointed as a nonexecutive director of Gold Fields with immediate effect, the company said in a note to shareholders on Wednesday.

This follows a successful takeover bid by Gold Fields for the smaller gold-miner, which became a fait accompli in late January, after 94% of Western Areas shareholders tendered their shares into Gold Fields' all share offer of 35 of its own shares for every 100 Western Areas shares.

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/gill-marcus-steps-down-from-gold-fields-board-2009-07-21/rep_id:3650

South African mining company Gold Field reported on Tuesday that Gill Marcus would resign from its board, effective from July 20.

Marcus’ resignation followed her appointment as Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, effective from November, when she replaces Tito Mboweni.

https://talent4boards.com/glencore-announces-gill-marcus-board-independent-non-executive-director/

Glencore plc (LSE:GLEN), announces the appointment of Gill Marcus as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 January 2018.

Ms Marcus was the non-executive chairperson of the Absa Group from 2007 to 2009. She has also been a non-executive director of Gold Fields Ltd and Bidvest .

Ms Marcus has acted as chairperson of a number of South African regulatory and supervisory bodies, including the Financial Services Board and the Standing Committee for the Revision of the Banks Act. She has also served as a non-executive director of the Advisory Board of the Auditor General and was a member of the Millennium Labour Council.

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 90 commodities. The Group’s operations comprise around 150 mining and metallurgical sites, oil production assets and agricultural facilities.

With a strong footprint in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, Glencore’s industrial and marketing activities are supported by a global network of more than 90 offices located in over 50 countries.

Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, oil and food processing sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities. Glencore’s companies employ around 155,000 people, including contractors.

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Anonymous 05/23/22 (Mon) 22:31:12 d5fdf4 No.16329126

>>16326294

Why does it matter so much that she's Jewish?

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 11:59:11 e39ffa No.16332080

>>16329126

Mostly Lithuanian Jews with ties to communism were heavily involved in the ANC;

- Its founding

- Writing of its Freedom Charter

- The establishment of its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

Once the ANC gets into power, the Jews attain key positions in government and get involved in international affairs.

>“90% of all Jews in South Africa are Litvaks [Lithuanians]” - https://vilnews.com/2011-01-litvaks-in-south-africa

The Jewish Museum in Cape Town offers visitors a journey back in time. Most museums do. The striking feature of this museum, however, is that the journey to the past also brings us to a completely different part of our world, from Africa's southern tip to a seemingly modest little country far to the north, to a country where around 90% of South Africa's Jewish population has its roots (there are today about 80,000 Jews in South Africa).

The museum's basement is dominated by a village environment (shtetl) from the late 1800s. A few houses are reconstructed in full scale, and you can clearly see how people lived and co-existed at the time. The village is called Riteve. It was recreated in the museum on the basis of entries made in the 1990s by a group of experts who went from South Africa to Lithuania to find traces of the family of the museum's founder, Mendel Kaplan.

The village is called Rietavas in Lithuanian. It is there to this day, less than a half hour drive from Klaipeda, at the highway direction Kaunas and Vilnius. The Kaplan family emigrated from here in the 1920s, while the village's population was still 90% Jewish. Today, no Jews live in Rietavas.

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 12:10:52 e39ffa No.16332096

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>As it turned out, it housed in its offices far more power than most government buildings. Indeed, Oppenheimer even had a private treaty with the Soviet Union, although the terms have never been publicly revealed.

>>16332080

>The village is called Riteve. It was recreated in the museum on the basis of entries made in the 1990s by a group of experts who went from South Africa to Lithuania to find traces of the family of the museum's founder, Mendel Kaplan.

Mendel Kaplan

A prominent industrialist who fought apartheid, Kaplan served as chairman of the Jewish Agency, Keren Hayesod’s World Board of Trustees, the Jerusalem Agency and National chairman of the United Communal Fund of South Africa and the Israel United Appeal. He was also vice president of the South African Jewish Board of deputies. In 2000, he was the founder of the South African Jewish Museum, which was opened by Nelson Mandela.

“Homeward Bound : Operation Exodus Lends Support to Soviet Jews in Their Return to Israel” – Mendel Kaplan (South African)

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-11-vw-81-story.html

[Soon after the release of Mandela and the Soviet Union “collapsed” a year later in December 1991. The attached image of a truck with the words, "From Russia with Love", which was taken at about 3:17 of the video located at https://youtu.be/9_IRzvtqB7I - was it not during the so called Cold War?]

Kaplan, a steel and wire manufacturer who doubles as chairman of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors, is in Los Angeles on a private trip. But he concedes it is almost impossible to extract himself completely from the complex operation behind “another great moment in Jewish history, the ingathering of the last reservoir of Jews left in the world.”

In his Jewish Agency role, the bluff, no-nonsense Kaplan is at the focal point of a worldwide campaign to raise $600 million over the next three years to pay for the unprecedented and controversial flood of Jews leaving the Soviet Union for Israel. Jewish communities in the United States are expected to raise more than two-thirds of this amount, some $420 million. In Los Angeles, the goal is $36 million.

Based on the number of Soviet Jewish families who have requested resettlement in Israel, Kaplan estimates that 600,000 to 700,000 currently are eligible to come to Israel. In Los Angeles, officials orchestrating the local fund-raising drive acknowledge the influx of Soviet Jews involves explosive issues, such as where they settle in Israel and the long-running uprising of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, taken by Israel in the 1967 Middle East War.

Kaplan admits there has been a hurry-up nature to the resettlement program because the influx from the Soviet Union has been much greater than expected. In February, the Jewish Agency estimated that 70,000 Jews would come to Israel this year, and that number had been bumped up from 33,000 last fall. Now the agency is planning for 150,000 Jews to arrive in 1990.

Black South Africans are already in their homeland, he says, whereas Soviet Jewish emigration to Israel is another act in the age-old Jewish search for a homeland.

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 14:19:07 d5fdf4 No.16332551

>>16332080

Ah, I get it. So swinging away from Oppenheimer and going to those that helped the ANC attain Rule. Thus I need the stuff in the ANC Bun

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 19:58:25 daff90 No.16334079

File: 384a96f2f5f4f12⋯.pdf (1.7 MB, NTI_Paper_BIO_TTX_Final.pdf)

“Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats” – 2021 Monkeypox Simulation (Like Event 201 for the Coronavirus)

https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf

Below is an excerpt.

In March 2021, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) partnered with the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. Conducted virtually, the exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures and explored opportunities to improve capabilities to prevent and respond to high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

The exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 20:16:57 e39ffa No.16334157

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“South Africa - Mandela Pays Tribute To Jews”

https://youtu.be/18GeelXaOaA

“(7 May 1994) South African President elect Nelson Mandela this morning attended a service at the Sea Point Synagogue outside Cape Town. Addressing several hundred people outside the synagogue after a hour long service Mr Mandela paid tribute to the Jewish community for their role in the struggle against apartheid. He said the anc would give priority to uplifting the plight of the african, indian and coloured community. In a rare scene members of the Jewish community sang praises to Mr Mandela and shouted "one mandela, one president".”

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 20:19:27 e39ffa No.16334165

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>“Jewish people played a critical role in ending apartheid in South Africa.”

“A Tribute to Arthur Goldreich” - https://youtu.be/62W5snx7fRg

Arthur Goldreich – Links to Palmach/Haganah (Jewish Terrorism) and ANC Military Wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

"In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah. He returned to South Africa and became a successful artist. Together with fellow activist Harold Wolpe, he used SACP funds to purchase Liliesleaf Farm, also aiding the armed wing MK. After escaping from prison, he left to live in Israel."

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 20:21:30 e39ffa No.16334176

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>In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah.

“Jewish Defense Organizations: History of the Haganah” - https://youtu.be/vonmcopF-a8

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia” [Haganah] – Part 1

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-hidden-terror-attacks-of-the-haganah-israel-s-pre-state-militia-1.8914765

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the formation of the forerunner of the Israeli army. While the Haganah boasts of its heroic acts and looks down on similar right-wing groups, its history also includes dark operations it would prefer not to mention

These scathing words were published in the Labor movement daily Davar 81 years ago. A few weeks earlier, in the summer of 1939, members of the Haganah – the underground, pre-independence army of Mandatory Palestine’s Jews, founded by the movement’s members – had murdered two men and a woman, and injured a young girl and a toddler. All of them were innocent Arabs from the village of Lubya in the Lower Galilee, shot dead at home in the dead of night.

The murders, described as a revenge attack for the killing of a Jew by villagers in Lubya, was carried out by members of the Haganah’s special ops unit. Each man who took part in the mission has a place of honor in the local history books: The most senior was Yigal Allon, who later headed the Palmach (the Haganah’s elite strike force), and became an Israel Defense Forces general and education and foreign minister.

The operation’s organizer was Nahum Shadmi, a senior Haganah member and a future IDF colonel and president of a military appeals tribunal, as well as a Mapai Party activist (Mapai was the forerunner of the Labor Party). His son Issachar was commander of the Border Police brigade whose members committed the 1956 massacre in the Arab town of Kafr Qasem.

This month marks the centenary since the founding of the Haganah. Its pre-1948 actions included assisting with illegal Jewish migration to British Mandatory Palestine; covert overnight construction of new settlements (the “Tower and Stockade” operations); dispatching operatives – such as Hannah Szenes – into Nazi-occupied Europe or commandos to Vichy-controlled Lebanon; as well as other heroic feats that have become part of this country’s legacy.

But there is another aspect to the Haganah that will not feature prominently in the centenary celebrations, and which is not well known to the public or part of the high school curriculum. This aspect has been excluded from museums, parades, and the official and state-sanctioned history books. It shows that the hallowed “purity of arms” concept was interpreted very loosely by the organization that gave birth to the IDF.

“Now, after 100 years, it’s time to talk about these chapters as well,” says Peleg Levy, a documentarian who has interviewed hundreds of veterans over the last decade – including members of right-wing and left-wing underground organizations – as part of a project documenting Israel’s history. They told him about assassinations, reprisals and terror attacks attributed to the Haganah. Among the wider public, such operations are normally only associated with the right-wing Irgun and Lehi organizations.

“If there’s a Lehi conference in which they don’t talk about the assassination of Folke Bernadotte [the Swedish diplomat murdered by Lehi members in 1948], people will complain. If the Irgun holds one in which they don’t talk about the King David Hotel operation, people will jump on them. So why do they allow the Haganah to write its history without talking about similar things their people perpetrated?” Levy asks.

Later in our conversation, he notes that the Labor movement called members of these two underground groups “terrorists,” while taking pride in the “purity” of the Haganah organization’s actions and stressing that their methods were different.

Despite this, the Haganah has a list of blemishes to its name, ones that former members would be only too happy to expunge from memory. They never took responsibility for most of these operations, making do with some general condemnation or blaming rogue elements in the organization. This is how the murder in Lubya was described in Davar. The paper said, without noting the identity of the perpetrators, that this act was “a horrific murder, attesting to the perpetrators’ loss of any ability to distinguish [innocents] and their lack of any human sensitivity. These shots, which killed elderly people, women and a baby, show that we are on a dark slope, sliding toward an abyss.”

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 20:22:56 e39ffa No.16334184

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>In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah.

“Notes from the (Jewish) Underground, Haganah Youth” - https://youtu.be/Fj8iujgXbsY

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia” [Haganah] – Part 2

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-hidden-terror-attacks-of-the-haganah-israel-s-pre-state-militia-1.8914765

‘Nest of killers’

Nine years later, in January 1948, Haganah members were involved in an operation that, over 70 years on, appears never to have been thoroughly investigated.

It’s unlikely that most people reading this will have heard of the Semiramis Hotel bombing in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood by the Haganah’s Moriah battalion. This may be due to the fact that it occurred at the height of the War of Independence, which was marked by many violent acts. However, it’s probable that the writers of Haganah history deliberately chose to minimize any mention of this incident – as many right-wingers believe.

The blast was meant to hit the headquarters of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, commander of the Arab militias fighting Jewish forces in the Jerusalem area. A squad of Haganah soldiers gained entrance to the hotel’s basement and placed explosives there before detonating them. Husayni was not in the building, but dozens of Arab civilians were. The exact number of dead and injured is unknown to this day. According to one report, 26 people were killed and a further 60 injured.

Most of the dead were from the Christian Abu Suawan family, including women and children, as well as the Spanish vice-consul to Jerusalem, who was living in the hotel. Davar reported the incident the next day and, like before, did not provide its readers with the full picture. “The Haganah blew up Arab militia headquarters in Jerusalem,” the headline read. “This was one of the nests of killers in Jerusalem,” the paper declared.

Another building was blown up by the Haganah some two years earlier, in February 1946. This was part of a Palmach operation targeting British police stations across the country. Three British women and a child were killed in the explosion. “Over the years, Haganah leaders and the pre-state Jewish community accused us of being irresponsible in carrying out such attacks and yet here, Haganah members were the first to hit British women,” wrote Natan Yellin-Mor, a Lehi leader who later became a peace activist.

Due to a rise in the number of Jewish women being raped by Arabs at the time, “the Palmach decided to retaliate according to the biblical injunction to chop off a thief’s hand – or, in this case, the organ used to commit the crime; in other words, to castrate him,” Mossad member Gamliel Cohen wrote years later, in a book describing the first undercover operations in which Jews dressed up as Arabs.

The official website of the Palmach describes the castration incident as one of “the exceptions, an extremely cruel one,” committed by its members in those years. This operation was initiated by Allon and carried out by Yohai Ben-Nun (a future naval commander), Amos Horev (a future IDF general and president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) and Yaakov Cohen (later a member of all three intelligence agencies). “The instructions were that the castrated man should remain alive, walking around with his injuries in order to deter others,” the Palmach website explains. The team was briefed by a doctor in Afula on how to perform this “operation.”

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 20:24:57 e39ffa No.16334200

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>In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah.

“Zipporah Porath - The Oath of Allegiance” - https://youtu.be/4VUSFOJ0ZfE

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia” [Haganah] – Part 3

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-hidden-terror-attacks-of-the-haganah-israel-s-pre-state-militia-1.8914765

Sacrifices in the name of immigration

The 80th anniversary of one of the most lethal events in the history of the Zionist movement will be marked in six months’ time: the bombing of the British ship Patria on November 25, 1940 – an incident that also failed to lead to any expressions of remorse by the Haganah, even though its members were the perpetrators. The plan was to prevent the expulsion of some 2,000 illegal immigrants, who the British were deporting from Haifa to a detention camp in Mauritius. However, the damage wrought by the blast was so immense that the ship sank along with some 250 passengers.

Instead of relating to the affair as a tragedy that warranted the investigation of its perpetrators, the Labor movement insisted on turning it into a symbol, its victims turned into martyrs sacrificed on the altar of defending the homeland, with no note of who was actually responsible for their deaths.

Berl Katznelson, the ideological leader of the labor movement, wrote the next day to Shaul Avigur, one of the Haganah’s leaders: “Know that the day of the Patria sinking is for us like the day of [the 1920 fall of] Tel-Hai,” thus trying to assign to the event foundational national status. He added that the Patria operation was “the biggest Zionist action in recent times.” Yitzhak Tabenkin, among the leaders of the Kibbutz Movement, called the victims “heroic unknown soldiers.”

Eliyahu Golomb, the undeclared head of the Haganah, also spoke about the incident in the same vein. “For me, the day of the Patria is not a black day, nor the blackest day,” he said. “These were sacrifices made in the name of immigration, for our right to immigrate. These victims were not without meaning.”

The massacre committed by members of the Palmach’s Third Battalion in the village of Ein al-Zeitun, near Safed, was also ultimately glossed over. Today, every history buff in Israel knows about the April 1948 massacre in Deir Yassin, carried out by right-wing underground members. But few have heard about the one a month later by underground members of a left-wing organization. They conquered the village and imprisoned dozens of Arab combatants. Two days later, on May 1, they executed them with their hands bound.

In 1939, the Jewish Agency’s political department issued a “Thou shall not murder” decree, signed by the most senior spiritual leaders of the age, in which they warned against Jews killing Jews. The decree was aimed at the Irgun organization, which had murdered Jews it deemed “traitors.” But these leaders ignored the fact that the Haganah also executed Jews and non-Jews who it identified as traitors and informants, says Gili Haskin, a tour guide who wrote a Ph.D. thesis about the “purity of arms” concept in those days.

Haskin wrote in an article that the executions carried out by the Irgun and Lehi groups were overt and publicized, whereas the ones carried out by the Haganah were surreptitious, performed by special ops teams.

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 20:28:13 e39ffa No.16334221

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>In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah.

“שיר הפלמח - The Hymn of Palmach” - https://youtu.be/JYUh1KqtVVs

Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia” [Haganah] – Part 4

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-hidden-terror-attacks-of-the-haganah-israel-s-pre-state-militia-1.8914765

'No clean hands'

The first Jew to be executed by the Haganah was Baruch Weinschell, who was accused of giving the British information about illegal immigration. He was killed in October 1940, in Haifa. Oscar Opler, a kibbutznik from the Lower Galilee, was also executed. He was a British informant who had revealed the location of hidden weapons and was subsequently condemned to death by the Haganah. Moshe Savtani was exposed as an informant and shot in the stairwell of his house by the Haganah. He died of his wounds in hospital. Yitzhak Sharansky from Tel Aviv, Baruch Manfeld from Haifa and Walter Strauss and others also fell victim to internal assassinations by Haganah members.

Such operations continued right up to the establishment of the state. At the end of March 1947, Mordechai Berger, who worked in the Mandatory police’s traffic division, was murdered in the street after being suspected of divulging information about the Haganah to the British. “The assailants gagged him and hit him over the head with clubs. Berger fell bleeding,” wrote Prof. Yehuda Lapidot, an Irgun member who later researched the history of Mandatory Palestine.

“None of the organizations emerges with clean hands from this dark matter,” Haskin wrote. He added that the fingers of right-wing organization members were lighter on the trigger, but emphasized the role of Haganah members in assassinating Jews.

In this context, one cannot ignore the first political murder of a Jew in Mandatory Palestine. The victim was Jacob de Haan, a strange character and proud poet who became ultra-Orthodox and an anti-Zionist, talking with Arabs about the possibility of revoking the Balfour Declaration. Haganah member Avraham Tehomi and other associates were believed to be behind de Haan’s assassination on a Jerusalem street in June 1924.

The Haganah, meanwhile, killed British officer William Bruce, who was shot in Jerusalem at the end of Simchat Torah, in October 1946. “A British inspector was murdered last night while walking alone in Jerusalem, wearing civilian clothes,” Haaretz reported the next day.

Exceptionally for those days, the perpetrators were members of the Palmach: the Haganah’s commando force had been set up in 1941, cooperating with the British in its early years. The murder was in response to Bruce’s abuse of Palmach prisoners in a British prison a few months earlier.

Peleg Levy’s documentary project included an interview from 2010 with the commander of that operation, Aharon Spector. He told Modi Snir and Levy that he had followed Bruce with the intent of punishing him. “I waited for him, he sensed he was a target,” he recounted. The assassination was preceded by a trial by a special Palmach court, which sentenced Bruce to death. According to Spector, the order came from Yigal Allon.

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 20:51:06 e39ffa No.16334357

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>>16334221

>In this context, one cannot ignore the first political murder of a Jew in Mandatory Palestine. The victim was Jacob de Haan, a strange character and proud poet who became ultra-Orthodox and an anti-Zionist, talking with Arabs about the possibility of revoking the Balfour Declaration. Haganah member Avraham Tehomi and other associates were believed to be behind de Haan’s assassination on a Jerusalem street in June 1924.

“General Smuts Addresses The Mother Of Parliaments In London (1942)” - https://youtu.be/8fcQ5gD_7UA

Jan Smuts – League of Nations, United Nations, Balfour Declaration and World Wars

”THE PREAMBLE OF THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER: THE CONTRIBUTION OF JAN SMUTS”

https://www.academia.edu/es/39825987/The_Preamble_of_the_United_Nations_Charter_The_contribution_of_Jan_Smuts

While South Africa is in the process of taking its seats in the international organisations tasked with supervising the protection of human rights, it is perhaps worth considering the central role which that country has played in the development of the United nations human rights machinery.

This intense and eventually stormy historical relationship between South Africa and the United Nations is nowhere captured better than in the life of General Jan Smuts (1870-1950), South African premier from 1919-1924 and 1939-1948.

One the one hand it is difficult to identify any individual who has made a more consistent contribution towards bringing the idea of some kind of world government, which concerns itself with human rights on the global level, to life. Smut provided the model on which the forerunner of the United Nations, the League of Nations, was built and helped to draft its Covenant; he largely wrote the Preamble for the Charter of the United nations and played a substantial role in shaping the rest of its contents.

“Smuts was the driving force behind the Balfour Declaration”

https://www.sajr.co.za/smuts-was-the-driving-force-behind-the-balfour-declaration/

It is perhaps worth noting that South Africa’s prime minister, General Jannie Smuts, always harboured an affection for the Jewish people

Smuts was the driving force of what became known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which became one of his dearest causes. He encouraged (British Prime Minister) Lloyd George and his foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, to issue the Declaration.

“Jan Smuts: The warrior-statesman” – (only individual to have signed the peace treaties after both World Wars)

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/jan-smuts-warrior-statesman

In 1919, Smuts attended the Paris Peace Conference that formally ended the First World War.

Second World War: On the renewal of global conflict, he again joined the Imperial War Cabinet. Such was his influence at this time that a plan was hatched for Smuts to take over as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, should anything happen to Winston Churchill.

He was appointed a British field marshal in May 1941 and signed the peace settlement that eventually ended the fighting. This makes Smuts the only individual to have signed the peace treaties after both World Wars.

https://www.change2100.com/contents/en-us/d87.html

…The concept of a National Jewish Home in Palestine as set forth in the Balfour Declaration was approved by the League of Nations Council on July 24, 1922, and endorsed by a joint resolution of the United States Congress on June 30, 1922. The "Mandate for Palestine" was issued by the League of Nations…

…Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country…

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 21:59:55 d5fdf4 No.16334683

>>16334176

Haaretz is terrible sauce

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 22:19:39 d5fdf4 No.16334791

==Updated=

International Q Research Threads

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Anonymous 05/24/22 (Tue) 22:21:30 d5fdf4 No.16334797

>>16334791

somehow I had two New Zealands in there, sorry about that

>>16040627 ————————————–——– Australia #22

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>>16268803 ————————————–——– Canada #32

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>>15879739 ————————————–——– Ukraine #1

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 14:42:10 e39ffa No.16338657

>>16334683 - Haganah caused atrocities which were never investigated but, instead, they were integrated into the Israeli government. Would you prefer these sauces?

>>16334176

>"In his youth, Goldreich lived in Palestine and fought Palestinians as part of the Palmach; the Elite military wing of Haganah. He returned to South Africa and became a successful artist. Together with fellow activist Harold Wolpe, he used SACP funds to purchase Liliesleaf Farm, also aiding the armed wing MK. After escaping from prison, he left to live in Israel."

>>16332096

>A prominent industrialist who fought apartheid, Kaplan served as chairman of the Jewish Agency

Haganah Atrocities

https://spanishhalyon.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/the-original-terrorists/

June 30, 1924

Dutch Jew Jacob Israël de Haan was assassinated by Avraham Tehomi on the orders of Haganah leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi for his anti-Zionist political activities and contacts with Arab leaders.

Shlomo Nakdimon; Shaul Mayzlish (1985). Deh Han : ha-retsah ha-politi ha-rishon be-Erets Yisraʼel / De Haan: The first political assassination in Palestine (in Hebrew) (1st ed.). Tel Aviv: Modan Press. OCLC 21528172.

Marijke T.C.Stapert-Eggen. «The Rosenthaliana’s Jacob Israel de Haan Archive». University of Amsterdam Library.

November 25, 1940

Haganah kill 250 Jews and 7 non-Jews.

«Jews fleeing Europe in 1940 were refused entry in to Palestine by the Jewish Agency because a large number were elderly and children. The passengers were transferred to Mauritius.

«The Jewish Agency…..decided to use the lives of the immigrants for a gamble with a drastic, dramatic act aimed at achieving political goals. Haganah activists took an enormous explosive charge into the ship despite the danger to the lives of the 1,783 people. The ship blew up. The British did all they could to save the passengers, but the number of victims nonetheless reached 257. The following day the Jewish Agency declared that the act was carried out by the passengers themselves in protest.» (Christopher Sykes, p. 269)

Saliha massacre

70 Lebanese civilians from the village of Saliha were herded into the village square and machine gunned to death by members of the Haganah Jewish militia. They did this after being told that no harm would come to them. It was later claimed that the corpses were left there for four days and the Haganah returned to bulldoze their bodies towards the mosque. And blew it up.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/1998/May-14/25712-zionisms-first-lebanese-victims-remembered.ashx

“In September 1948, when the first Arab-Israeli war was at its height, around 70 Lebanese civilians from the village of Salha were herded into the village square and machine gunned to death by members of the Haganah Jewish militia, the forerunner to the Israeli army.”

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 14:45:22 e39ffa No.16338673

>>16338657

“The crimes of 1948: Jewish fighters speak out” – Haganah

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/crimes-1948-jewish-fighters-speak-out

More than 60 years after these events, the combatants express little remorse: the territory needed to be liberated to found the Jewish state and there was no room for Arabs

For the Israelis, 1948 represents the high point of the Zionist project, a major chapter in the Israeli national narrative when the Jews became masters of their own fate and, above all, succeeded in realising the utopia formulated 50 years earlier by Theodor Herzl – the construction, in Palestine, of a state of refuge for the "Jewish people".

For the Palestinians, 1948 symbolises the advent of the colonial process that dispossessed them of their land and their right to sovereignty – known as the “Nakba” (catastrophe, in Arabic).

In theory, Israeli and Palestinian populations disagree over the events of 1948 that drove 805,000 Arabs into forced exile. However, in practice, Jewish fighters testified early on to the crimes of which they perhaps played accomplice, or even perpetrator.

Yosef Nahmani, a senior officer of the Haganah, the armed force of the Jewish Agency that would become the Army of Defence for Israel, wrote in his diary on 6 November 1948: “In Safsaf, after the inhabitants had hoisted the white flag, [the soldiers] gathered the men and women into separate groups, bound the hands of 50 or 60 villagers, shot them, then buried them all in the same pit. They also raped several women from the village. Where did they learn such behaviour, as cruel as that of the Nazis? […] One officer told me that the most ferocious were those who had escaped the camps."

In 1949, the Israeli writer and politician, Yizhar Smilansky, published the novella Khirbet Khizeh, in which he described the expulsion of an eponymous Arab village. But according to the author, there was no need to feel remorse about that particular chapter of history. The “dirty work” was as a necessary part of building the Jewish state.

Other works were published but few as realistic as Netiva Ben-Yehuda’s trilogy, The Palmach Trilogy, published in 1984, recounting the events of a three-month period in 1948. A commander in the Palmach, the elite fighting force of the Haganah, she evokes the abuses and acts of violence perpetrated against Arab inhabitants and provides details of the massacre at Ein al Zeitun, which took place around 1 May 1948.

The Deir Yassin massacre

On 4 April 1972, Colonel Meir Pilavski, a former Palmach fighter, was interviewed by Yediot Aharonot, one of Israel’s three largest daily papers, on the Deir Yassin massacre of 9 April 1948, in which nearly 120 civilians lost their lives. His troops, he claims, were in the vicinity at the time of the attacks, but were advised to withdraw when it became clear the operations were being led by the extremist paramilitary forces, Irgun and Stern, which had broken away from the Haganah.

From then on, the debate would focus on the events at Deir Yassin, to the point of forgetting the nearly 70 other massacres of Arab civilians that took place. The stakes were high for the Zionist left: responsibility for the massacres would be placed on groups of ultras.

As for the massacres, for some, the acts were merely part of the “cleansing” operations, since the leaders of the Zionist movement had authorised them to “cross this line”, in certain cases. The “line” was systematically crossed when inhabitants refused to leave, put up resistance, or even fought back.

More than 60 years after these events, the combatants expressed little or no remorse. According to them, it was necessary to liberate the territory promised by the UN in order to found the Jewish state, and this meant there was no room for Arabs in the national landscape.

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:37:35 ec310d No.16340431

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 1

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

The Jewish author Chaim Bermant in his book The Jews (Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1977, Sphere Books 1978) devotes a chapter to an aspect of Communism that is hardly generally known today, or at least not usually mentioned in the history books and encyclopaedias.

"No people is so averse to change yet none in recent times has dissipated more of its energy on revolution.. Although Jews formed less than five percent of Russia's population, they formed more than fifty percent of its revolutionaries..

"It must be added that most of the leading revolutionaries who convulsed Europe in the final decades of the last century and the first decades of this one, stemmed from prosperous Jewish families.. They were perhaps typified by the father of revolution, Karl Marx.. Thus when, after the chaos of World War I, revolutions broke out all over Europe, Jews were everywhere at the helm; Trotsky, Sverdlov, Kamenev and Zinoviev in Russia, Bela Kun in Hungary, Kurt Eisner in Bavaria, and, most improbable of all, Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin.

"To many outside observers, the Russian revolution looked like a Jewish conspiracy, especially when it was followed by Jewish-led revolutionary outbreaks in much of central Europe. The leadership of the Bolshevik Party had a preponderance of Jews and included Litvinov (real name Wallach), Liadov (Mandelshtam), Shklovsky, Saltz, Gusev (Drabkin), Zemliachka (Salkind), Helena Rozmirovich, Serafima Gopner, Yaroslavsky (Gubelman), Yaklovlev (Epstein), Riaznov(Goldendach), Uritsky and Larin. Of the seven members of the Politburo, the inner cabinet of the country, four, Trotsky (Bronstein), Zinoviev (Radomsky), Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Sverdlov, were Jews."

"Jews had a prominent role in Communist parties elsewhere.."

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:38:59 ec310d No.16340445

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 2

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

Is Bermant alone in these very serious allegations?

'The paroxysm of strong anti-Semitism came after the critical role of Jews in International Communism and the Russian Revolution and during the economic crises of the 1920s and 30s Anti-Semitism intensified throughout Europe and North America following the perceived and actual centrality of Jews in the Russian Revolution.. Such feelings were not restricted to Germany, or to vulgar extremists like the Nazis. All over Northern Europe and North America, anti-Semitism became the norm in 'nice society', and 'nice society' included the universities.'

- Black Athena (vol. 1) by Martin Bernal (1987) pp. 367, 387.

"The major role Jewish leaders played in the November (Russian) revolution was probably more important than any other factor in confirming (Hitler's) anti-Semitic beliefs."

- Who Financed Hitler, J&S Pool, p.164.

"There has been a tendency to circumvent or simply ignore the significant role of Jewish intellectuals in the German Communist Party, and thereby seriously neglect one of the genuine and objective reasons for increased anti-Semitism during and after World War 1.. The prominence of Jews in the revolution and early Weimar Republic is indisputable, and this was a very serious contributing cause for increased anti-Semitism in post-war years.. It is clear then that the stereotype of Jews as socialists and communists.. led many Germans to distrust the Jewish minority as a whole and to brand Jews as enemies of the German nation."

Hitler, Germans and the "Jewish Question" by Sarah Gordon (Princeton 1984) p23.

Was this Jewish involvement in Communism simply a well-intentioned, philanthropic activity aimed at improving the lot of the poor? Alexander Solzhenitsyn the Russian writer spent eight years in Soviet labor camps but afterwards received the Nobel Prize for literature. According to him, in the eighty years that preceded the Revolution in Russia, - years of revolutionary activity, uprisings and the assassination of a Czar, an average of ten persons a year were executed. After the Revolution, in 1918 and 1919, according to the figures of the Cheka (the secret police) itself - more than a thousand persons were executed per month without trial. In 1937-8, at the height of Stalin's terror, more than 40 000 persons were executed per month (Alexander Solzhenitsyn Speaks to the West (1978) p17).

Millions of persons were executed or sent to labor camps. In his magnum opus The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn credits Naftaly Frenkel, a 'Turkish-born Jew', with being chief overseer of the one-hundred-and-forty-mile-long Belomor (Baltic-White Sea) canal, built entirely with slave labour (paperback edition vol 2 p 72)… Is Solzhenitsyn alone in his accusations? Why are these names generally unknown to ordinary citizens in the West? The reason is unquestionably related to the very high involvement of Jews in gatekeeper roles in opinion-forming institutions such as the universities and particularly through ownership and control of the media.

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:41:02 ec310d No.16340452

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 3

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

2. JEWS AND COMMUNISM IN SOUTH AFRICA

Against this background, have things in South Africa shown any parallels? Perhaps the best way to gain an insight into this topic is to quote from the books of various authorities.

BOOK ONE

A History of Communism in South Africa by Dr Henry R Pike (published by Christian Mission International of South Africa, Germiston, South Africa (1985, 1988).

A large number of Jews have worked to promote Communism in South Africa, as Pike's book indicates. Many of these Jews were involved in the organization of trade unions, particularly black trade unions. Some of the names mentioned by Pike are A Z Berman 'a noted Marxist' who headed the Industrial Socialist League in Cape Town; the communist writer David Shub, Solly Sachs, secretary of the Garment Workers Union and expelled from and then readmitted to the South African Communist Party, Bennie Weinbren who directed the Non-European Trade Union Federation, Issy Diamond, Abraham Levy, Hymie Levin, Issie Wolfson, Julius Lewin, Louis Joffe, Dr Max Joffe, Molly (Zelikowitz) Wolton, Lazar Bach, Rebecca (Notlowitz) Bunting, Fanny Klenerman, Michael Harmel, Sam Kahn, Katy Kagan, Eli Weinberg, Yetta Barenblatt, Hymie Barsel, Leon and Norman Levy, Lionel Forman, Jacqueline and Rowley Arenstein, Erroland Dorothy Shanley, Monty Berman, Bertram Hirson and Neville Rubin.

Dr Pike (p 212-3) quotes from a South African Government Gazette Extraordinary (vol VI 16 Nov 1962 pp 2-28) which listed 'persons who have been office-bearers, officers, members or active supporters of the Communist Party of South Africa'. The list included 66 'clearly identifiable as Jews', 61 'white non-Jews' and two uncertain. At the time, the South African population was approximately 3 million whites, while the South African Jewish population was 110 000 (World Almanac 1958 p270).

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:45:12 ec310d No.16340475

>>16332096

>Black South Africans are already in their homeland, he says, whereas Soviet Jewish emigration to Israel is another act in the age-old Jewish search for a homeland.

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 4

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

BOOK TWO

Jews and Zionism: the South African Experience (1910-67), by Dr Gideon Shimoni (Oxford University Press, 1980). This book appears to have been written for a Jewish readership.

Two extended quotes from the book will serve as a summary of the situation some decades ago.

[Dr Shimoni was born in South Africa to parents from Lithuania, but settled in Israel where he lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and where he gained post-graduate degrees in Jewish history. While bitterly contemptuous of South Africa under the apartheid system, Dr Shimoni in effect identifies with the concept of geographically based ethnic groupings that was the basis of the South African system. This kind of irony, not to say hypocrisy, is typical of Jews opposed to 'racism' in Europe, the US or South Africa.]

Dr Shimoni writes of '..the extraordinary salience of Jewish individuals in the white opposition to the regime of apartheid. Throughout this period Jewish names kept appearing in every facet of the struggle: amongst reformist liberals; in the radical Communist opposition; in the courts, whether as defendants or as counsel for the defense; in the lists of bannings and amongst those who fled the country to evade arrest. Their prominence was particularly marked in the course of the Treason Trial which occupied an important place in the news media throughout the second half of the 1950's. This trial began in December 1956, when 156 people were arrested on charges of treason in the form of a conspiracy to overthrow the state by violence and to replace it with a state based on Communism. Twenty-three of those arrested were Whites, more than half of them Jews. They included Yetta Barenblatt, Hymie Barsel, Lionel (Rusty) Bernstein, Leon Levy, Norman Levy,Sydney Shall, Joe Slovo, Ruth (First) Slovo, Sonia Bunting, Lionel Forman, Isaac Horvitch, Ben Turok, Jacqueline Arenstein, Errol Shanley, Dorothy Shanley. To top it all, at one stage in the trial the defense counsel was led byIsrael Maisels, while the prosecutor was none other than Oswald Pirow. The juxtaposition was striking: Maisels, the prominent Jewish communal leader, defending those accused of trying to overthrow White supremacy; Pirow, the extreme Afrikaner Nationalist and former Nazi sympathizer, defending White supremacy.' (pp. 227-8).

'In this extended five-year period between the emergence of violent opposition and its effective suppression, the prominent involvement of individual Jews was in the public eye more than ever before. This was even more so than in the dramatic circumstances of the 'Rivonia arrests'. On 11 July 1963 the police raided the home of Arthur Goldreich in Rivonia near Johannesburg, where it captured, by surprise, the leadership cadre of the Umkonto we Sizwe underground. Seventeen people were arrested.. Five of those arrested were Whites, all of them Jews. They were: Arthur Goldreich, Lionel Bernstein, Hilliard Festenstein, Dennis Goldberg and Bob Hepple.. [There was an] overwhelming impression that Jews were in the forefront of the White radicals who were trying to overthrow the system of White supremacy in South Africa. When the secret African Resistance Movement (ARM) was crushed during 1964, it again became evident that many Jews were involved. One of its founders was identified as Monty Berman.. others were Adrian Leftwich and Bertram (Baruch) Hirson. Among those who were associated with ARM were Neville Rubin and Michael Schneider [and ] others implicated were Frederick and Rhoda Prager, Raymond Eisenstein and Hugh Lewin..' (pp. 232-3).

Dr Shimoni records with obvious distaste the wording of an Afrikaans letter in a newspaper criticizing this fundamentally hypocritical proclivity of Jews: 'They (the Jews) themselves are the most exclusive apartheid people, yet they exert themselves here for integration.' While Jews themselves have shown no intention to integrate or merge with the African masses, they have been hyper-critical of mainstream whites who are reluctant to follow this route, criticizing churches with segregationist policies, while their synagogues have remained ethnically 100% Jewish.

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:46:28 ec310d No.16340483

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 5

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

BOOK THREE

Cutting Through the Mountain: Interviews with South African Activists Edited by Immanuel Suttner (Viking-Penguin, England and USA 1997). This book also appears to have been written for a Jewish readership. It is a thick expensively bound book of over 600 pages, financially supported by the Liberty Life Foundation created by the Jewish mega-capitalist Donald Gordon. Suttner says 'a disproportionate number of individual Jews played a part in transforming South Africa into a more just society. There are two streams: those who fought 'within the system' as jurists, members of parliament, via the media, or in civil society, and those who entered 'illegal' organizations which were socialist, communist or mass-based in character.' (p.2) He says the book 'welcomes (these Jews) back not only as worthy South Africans, socialists, communists or liberals, but as worthy Jews' (p.3). Some of the 'remarkable people' (page vii) who are heroes of the book include:

Taffy Adler who was involved in the 1970s and '80s in the 'formation and consolidation of the black trade union movement'. His father was a Lithuanian Jew who emigrated to South Africa in 1926 and who 'was tremendously loyal to Stalin and Russian communism' right up to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. His uncle, Michael Harmel, became general secretary of the South African Communist Party.

Ray Alexander (Rachel Alexandrowich) arrived in South Africa from Latvia and joined the SA Communist Party five days later. She played a leading role in the organization of trade unions. She was married to Jack Simons, a 'devoted communist' and lecturer at the University of Cape Town.

Pauline Podbrey (Podbrez) born in Lithuania came to South Africa at the age of eleven. She joined the Communist Youth League, run by Max Joffe, and the related Labor League of Youth, run by Hilda Bernstein. Of the Communist Party she says 'the majority of the members were Jewishlooking back on it now, it seems as if everybody was Jewish.' (*p52). She married a prominent Indian trade unionist and Communist Party leader, resulting in her mother being ostracized by the South African Jewish community, although it has been and still is normal practice for this community to depict white non-Jews as despicable prejudiced racists.

Joe Slovo born in Lithuania, came to South Africa where he joined the Young Communist League at the age of sixteen. He became a central member of the Communist Party of South Africa and a 'hard-line Stalinist', becoming general secretary in 1986. He concentrated on building up Umkhonto we Sizwe, the 'armed wing' of the ANC (African National Congress), becoming its chief of staff and head strategist in the campaign of bombings directed at civilian targets and other acts of terror. He only abandoned his commitment to Stalinism and Soviet-style communism when the Soviet bloc started falling apart in the late 1980s and it became necessary to do so. A key strategist representing the ANC in the negotiations with De Klerk's government in the hand over of power, he became a minister in Mandela's Cabinet.

when the ANC came to power in 1994. He died of cancer a few years later. His daughter published an autobiographical book describing her father's affair with a Jewish Communist friend's wife and his utter refusal to acknowledge the son born of this relationship.

Gill Marcus, the daughter of parents involved with the Communist Party, a long-time member of the Party and of the ANC, is now a Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank after being a member of the first Mandela Cabinet.

Ronnie Kasrils became a central figure in the South African Communist Party and head of military intelligence of the ANC's military wing. He became Deputy Minister of Defense in the Mandela government, and is now Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry.

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:50:30 ec310d No.16340512

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 6

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

BOOK FOUR

Traitors' End: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Movement in Southern Africa by Nathaniel Weyl (Tafelberg Press, South Africa and Arlington House, USA, 1970).

'For the most part, the Jews had come to South Africa from Lithuania at the turn of the century.. They had been popular at first, but by the mid-1930's this was no longer the case. The Jews had become heavily urbanized. In Johannesburg, they constituted 17 per cent of the population and were sufficiently conspicuous so that the metropolis was sometimes referred to, not as Jo'burg, but as Jewburg. They aroused envy and some rancor during the years of depression because they controlled a large part of the business of Johannesburg and other cities.. Anti-Semitism was fed by the economic discontent.. A perhaps more important ingredient was the prominence of South African Jews in finance, mining and the other economic command posts of the nation, on the one hand, and in revolutionary and racial reform movements on the other. From the outset, the Jews had been prominent in the Communist Party and its various fronts. They were equally conspicuous in the various movements that sought to break down the barriers separating the White from the non-White population. South African anti-Semitic propaganda.. depicted the Jew as a deracinated element who sought to destroy White civilization and nationalism with the twin weapons of Communism and international finance. Given the visible prominence of Jews in both areas, this doctrine fell on receptive ears.'

The famous Rivonia Trial of the 1960's resulted from a raid on a farm near Johannesburg in which many of the top leadership of the Communist party were detained. The White defendants were virtually all Jews, including Dennis Goldberg, 'a civil engineer who served as commander in a Communist camp that trained young guerrillas', and Lionel 'Rusty' Bernstein, the only prisoner to be acquitted. A Johannesburg architect, Bernstein 'admitted to having been a Communist for 25 years, but successfully alleged that he had left the party, without, however, changing his revolutionary convictions.' (Weyl pp 122-3). Amongst those implicated during the trial were the Jews Joe Slovo and his wife Ruth First, Bob Hepple andMichael Harmel. 'Operation Mayibuye [a plan for guerrilla warfare, armed invasion of South Africa and Communist conquest of the country] was drafted by Arthur Goldreich, perhaps the most important of the men captured by the South African Police at Rivonia. Goldreich managed to bribe his way out of prison.. During the trial, Goldreich was referred to by Nelson Mandela and other defendants as a military expert who served as an officer in the Israeli war for independence.. Goldreich's plan was modeled on the guerrilla strategy of the Chinese Communists.. Goldreich's notebook shows constant preoccupation with the practical details of revolutionary war. He goes into the types of explosives and fuses needed and their characteristics' (Weyl pp124, 127-8).

'On December 16, 1966, the United Nations branded Rhodesia "a threat to international peace". President Johnson's Ambassador to the United Nations, Arthur Goldberg, immediately pledged United States support for sanctions against Rhodesia "in order to drive home to the illegal regime (of Ian Smith) that the international community will not tolerate the existence of a discriminatory system based on minority rule in defiance of the United Nations and its principles." Ambassador Goldberg's logic was extraordinary, to say the least. Over half of the 122 UN member states had governments not based upon majority rule As for the United Nations statement that Rhodesia threatened international peace, the statement simply reversed the facts of the matter. Rhodesia was exposed to attacks by guerrillas, armed, financed, trained and abetted by Black African member states of the United Nations in flagrant defiance of the UN Charter.. AmbassadorGoldberg had shown on previous occasions that, where racial issues were involved, he practiced a double standard of morality in favor of Black demands.. Ambassador Goldberg was not alone in his fanatical hostility to White rule in Africa..' (Weyl pp 162-3).

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:52:19 ec310d No.16340519

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 7

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

Jews in South Africa in the main and those mentioned above in particular have all been pushing for a majoritarian government in which population numbers effectively mean that whites have no say over their own affairs. The new ANC-dominated South Africa is proclaimed to be a 'democracy', although a leading political scientist, Professor Hermann Giliomee, has described the election system as a simple ethnic census. Whites, for example, have no effective power over the government as far as their own interests, such as schooling for their children or their language rights are concerned. The Constitutional Court, supposedly the custodian of these rights, has an over-representation of Jews who have shown little sympathy for white non-Jewish rights. Even the traditionally English South African game of cricket is being transformed - the Jewish director of the cricket board, Dr Ali Bacher, is doing everything in his power to turn cricket in the country into a black-dominated sport.

There are various kinds of hypocrisy at work here. Authors such as Immanuel Suttner perhaps unwittingly communicate their clear belief that Jews are morally better than South African whites, because of their political stance. This in itself is not only racist but also not true. We can study the attitude of South African Jews to Middle Eastern issues to see whether they really do display a genuine moral superiority. Until a few years ago South African Jews gave more per capita to Israel than any other Jewish community, including that of America (Suttner p. 420).

'When Ronnie Kasrils, a leader of the ANC's armed campaign against apartheid South Africa, returned home after 27 years in exile, he was lionized by a local Jewish establishment belatedly eager to associate itself with the struggle. His picture was put in the Jewish Museum in Cape Town and his name in the Book of Honor. The Jewish community basked in his reflected glory' (Fair Lady 22 May 2002 p.37). South Africa's Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris officiated at the funeral of Joe Slovo, calling Slovo 'a better Jew than most' (ibid p.39). Who was Slovo? He was general secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and chief of staff of the armed terrorist wing of the ANC (African National Congress). When Kasrils, in an awkward position because of his cabinet post in the ANC government which includes several very influential Moslems, became one of a very small number of Jews to speak out against Israeli policies against the Palestinian people in Palestine, his name became mud. He signed a petition along with 286 other Jews to the effect that Israel's treatment of the Palestinians does not have their blessing. The South African Zionist Federation quickly organized a rival petition in support of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, and collected 11500 signatures. Helen Suzman, the veteran anti-Apartheid Jewish member of the South African parliament and consequently the recipient of numerous international honors and awards, 'believes that everything Israel has done has been retaliatory' (ibid p39) in spite of the fact that the Israelis, with support from Jews elswhere particularly in the US and its government, have been able to take over Palestine with absolute impunity, disregarding with absolute and violent contempt the lawful rights of the Palestinians. This hypocrisy is very common in the Zionist community which forms the overwhelmingly dominant part of South African Jewry.

No candid discussion of the issues raised above was permitted to take place in South Africa before the fall of white rule owing to the ownership pattern of the newspaper cartel. There has been much talk of a 'Jewish Capitalist-Communist nexus' - we have to recognize that monopoly capital has an affinity with Communism. According to Antony Sutton (Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution) international bankers funded the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1917, Trotsky and 200 revolutionaries were literally transferred from New York's Lower East Side to St. Petersburg to foment the revolution in Russia. Jews are internationally synonymous with hyper-capitalism or monopoly-capitalism, where ever-greater financial power is continually being sought, and there is the impression that the hunger behind this urge is insatiable. Media control is an important part of this program, because criticism must be stifled at all costs. These powerful people are ever-seeking to instruct or coerce non-Jewish people of European ancestry in the direction of non-discrimination, but always supporting their own country with its fundamental racial discrimination whereby Palestinians born in Jerusalem have no rights, while even atheistic Jews born in Milwaukee or Miami have citizenship full rights in Israel.

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:54:17 ec310d No.16340528

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 8

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

The large reserves of gold, diamonds and other natural wealth attracted Jews in large numbers from Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Russia. The discovery of gold in the Boer republic of the Transvaal turned out to be tragically unfortunate for the Boers. According to J A Hobson, an English liberal-socialist thinker and correspondent who reported on the Boer War, 'a little ring of international financiers', mainly Jews, led Britain into the war for their own selfish capitalist interests. (Hobson, The War in South Africa ¬ its causes and effects (New York, Macmillan, 1900, pp194, 184, 190). Boer farms and towns were burnt to the ground. Boer women and children were herded into concentration camps, where 26 000 died through epidemics and unsanitary conditions. But the Jews gained a wonderful ascendancy in the gold and diamond industry, with leading names including Barney Barnato, Solly Joel and Lionel Phillips. Eventually the Oppenheimer family, with financial support from Rothschild interests, controlled not only the largest gold mines in the country but also the world diamond cartel De Beers and a very large part of the South African economy, as well as the English language newspaper monopoly. De Beers in recent decades has been often implicated in trading in 'blood-diamonds' from war zones in Africa. (The international diamond trade in New York and Amsterdam is also largely Jewish-controlled.) The Oppenheimer press cartel normally depicted white efforts in South Africa to find political self-determination, including the apartheid policy of parallel or separate development, as totally and utterly reprehensible and unacceptable. At the same time the cartel ensured that the Israeli State did not come in for parallel criticism for its incomparably inhumane and violent oppression of the native Palestinians. The Jews have found it useful to their ethnic agenda to exacerbate tensions between white and black in South Africa, with the clear objective of subverting the apartheid idea of ethnic self-determination for a situation in which non-Jewish whites would be subject to unfettered black political and social control. Since this goal has been achieved, Jews have been emigrating in large numbers, primarily to the United States. Although scornful of white non-Jews for racism during the apartheid era, none of these Jewish emigrants are known to have moved to any African country. As Immanuel Suttner says 'The Jewish community.. will likely continue to shrink through emigration, and those Jews who choose to stay in South Africa, and choose to involve themselves fully in South Africa's unfolding story, face a difficult period of redefining their role and finding a niche in which they believe they are relevant and useful.' (Cutting Through the Mountain p.4).

Why are Jews prominent as political activists in all western countries, but definitely not on behalf of the Palestinians, as fifty years of history have shown? Why were US Congressmen Stephen J. Solarz and Howard Wolpe, instrumental in securing financial sanctions against the South African apartheid regime, but 'unwavering in their commitments to Israel' (ex-Congressman Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Insttutions Confront Israel's Lobby (1985) p70-71). Are hidden tribal agendas a factor in American politics?

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:55:20 ec310d No.16340534

“Jews & Communism - The SA Experience” – Part 9

https://rense.com/general85/jcom.htm

George Steiner, Cambridge professor of English and comparative literature, author of numerous books such as Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, Language and Silence etc, set out his sobering views in a novel called The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. (1981). Strangely enough (Dr Steiner is a Jew) he hypothetically 'gives Hitler the chance to defend himself before a Jewish court', 'to defend the indefensible'. How on earth can a Cambridge professor, a Jew, in effect defend A.H., the 'greatest embodiment of evil in human history'? What can be his argument? In summary (Steiner pp 120-126):

Point One: 'The Nazi race doctrines were but a "parody" of the Jewish doctrine of "a chosen people, chosen by God for his own, the only race on earth chosen, exalted, made singular among mankind.. to set a race apart, to hold before it a promised land".'

Point Two: 'The Jew's addiction to the ideal.. "It is no accident that Marx and his minions were Jews, that the congregations of Bolshevism ¬ Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, Kamenev, the whole fanatic, murderous pack ¬ were of Israel..'

Point Three: "You have exaggerated. Grossly. Hysterically. What were Rotterdam or Coventry compared to Dresden and Hiroshima? Did I invent the camps? Ask the Boers.. To whom did you hand over millions, tens of millions of men and women from Prague to the Baltic? What did (Solzhenitsyn) say? That Stalin had slaughtered thirty million. I was a man of a murderous time, but a small man compared to him. That he perfected genocide (of the kulaks) when I was still a nameless scribbler in Munich. My boys used their fists and their whips. I won't deny it. The times stank of hunger and blood. But when a man spat out the truth they would stop their fun. Stalin's torturers worked for the pleasure of the thing. To make men befoul themselves, to obtain confessions that are lies, insanities, obscene jokes. The truth only made them more bestial. It is not I who assert these things: it is your own Jewish survivors, your historians, the sage of the Gulag. Who, then was the great destroyer, whose blood-lust the more implacable? Stalin's or mine? Our terrors were a village carnival compared to his. Our camps covered absurd acres; he had strung wire and death-pits around a continent. Yet Stalin died in bed, and yet you hunt me down like a rabid dog.."

Point Four: 'Zionism was shaped in the image of German nationalism.. "The Holocaust gave you the courage of injustice, to drive the Arab out of his home, out of his field, because he was without resource, because he was in your way, knowing that those you had driven out were rotting in refugee camps, not ten miles away, buried alive in despair and lunatic dreams of vengeance.. You used the Holocaust to create Israel.. Should you not honour me who have made your long, vacuous dream of Zion a reality?".'

Why is anti-Palestinianism, without doubt a form of anti-Semitism, not 'politically incorrect'? As various commentators for years have been pointing out, the Palestinians have been made for decades to pay for the Holocaust. Is this fair or just? Is it logical or even reasonable? Does it matter? Does anything matter?

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 19:55:50 d5fdf4 No.16340540

>>16338657

>>16338673

Don't see how these relate to South Africa. What I see is a bunch of what Main board calls "muh joo"

The Oppenheimer, LRC, Lornrho, and Glencore stuff was great, thanks for that

What is helpful now is Zuma, Ramaposa, anything about China doing a Belt & Road at the ports of Durban or Capetown.

Another big thing would be an upswing in mining. Coal , Iron ore, platinum. The EU is trying to break away from Russian supplies. What they have is Australia and Singapore, who is at maximum capacity. India has already stopped wheat exports, not sure what will stop next.

What I'm looking for is an increase in exports from South Africa to the EU while imports of oil & petroleum products start coming into South Africa from Russia.

The BRIC nations (Brazil, India, China, Russia) are going to be working trade deals and South Africa stands to be a big player.

Consider Brazil has State-run Petrobras and could easily start shipping oil to South Africa.

Venezuela was trading oil with Iran, something about the VE stuff needing thinned out. US had all those sanctions on Venezuela, but now here comes Biden wanting oil from them after shutting out the Keystone XL pipeline and stopping new leases domestically.

The US and Europe has mostly ignored the African Continent, just big pharma wanting to peddle their vaccines and other poisons. The virtue signalling about apartheid is gone and Mandela is becoming a dim memory.

Now China has already signed Belt & Road with Kenya, even has a port set up. Kenya does not know how screwed they are from that yet. China needs iron ore, China needs coal. China can buy coal from South Africa buy the ship-load and say how good they are maintaining sanctions on North Korea, and the NK stuff is lower quality than South Africa anyway.

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Anonymous 05/25/22 (Wed) 20:20:43 d5fdf4 No.16340654

>>16340540 (me)

Europe shot themselves in the foot over Ukraine. Brazil, Venezuela, even Angola for oil. Canada and some from the US for LNG, which as Biden kills off the industry means less from the US, just like coal.

Iron ore means Africa. The way I first came to this part of the boards was the Katanga Province going for independence in the 1960s. Katanga in the DRC is rich in iron and other ores, which is why Belgian companies did not want to let it go out of their control. Katanga is far inland, South Africa can mine the ore and get it ports much cheaper and faster.

Until Russia and China start connecting each other with oil pipelines South Africa and Angola are where to go.

Watch, China and Europe are going to come calling. South Africa has the commodities and the labour pool they need. I just hope Ramaphosa and his government don't screw the pooch and just enrich themselves. South Africa is in a great position, don't let China or the "West" take advantage. Don't fall for the heartstring angle "oh our poor old people will freeze in Winter. Oh, our indstries are shuuting down , all those joblesss boo hoo." Ask the bastards where they've been for the last 30+ years while South Africa struggled on alone. They want the stuff, make them pay. Just be wary about being offered fiat currency, the dollar and the euro are on the verge of tanking. Have the Trade Minister keep a bunch of krugerrands in his pocket so during the negotiations he can drop them on the table. Real money or goods like farm machinery and industrial/medical equipment in trade. Don't want to? fine, go begging back to Russia.

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 13:43:25 4cbfe7 No.16344476

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

“SA's Electricity crisis | An interview with Eskom CEO André De Ruyter”

https://youtu.be/BxqGNJLeunQ

“South Africa's electricity crisis continues to be front and centre of everyone's minds. Many people just want an end to the rolling blackouts. eNCA reporter Heidi Giokos had a one-on-one sit-down with Eskom's CEO, Andre De Ruyter about issues facing the power utility.”

[Electrical plants are in disrepair due to corruption and are experiencing sabotage and theft as well. The perpetrators have not been brought to book.]

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 14:39:36 d3f4f2 No.16344757

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>>16340654

> I just hope Ramaphosa and his government don't screw the pooch and just enrich themselves.

Will you trust Ramaphosa to do the right thing when he cosy's up to the Soros family and the like?

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 16:39:12 28dac5 No.16345467

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“The 21st century African land rush”

“Worldwide, up to 115 million acres of farmland are leased to foreign investors, and the bulk of that is in Africa. Food security and the push to produce biofuels drive the land rush. This map shows a sampling of reported deals in Africa.”

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 17:36:52 d3f4f2 No.16345817

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“Africa: A possible solution for Europe’s energy troubles” – Part 1

https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/africa-a-possible-solution-for-europes-energy-troubles/

An opportunity for Africa

The rapid rise in oil and gas prices is changing the landscape for Africa’s leading energy powerhouses. However, it is on a political level—as in Europe’s desire to end its dependence on Russian hydrocarbon—where Africa’s economic opportunity truly lies.

Countries in Africa, particularly in the western part of the continent, such as Nigeria, Angola, and Senegal, offer largely untapped potential for LNG [liquified natural gas].

At face value, Africa’s hydrocarbon resources are a promising solution to Europe’s Russian problem. The continent’s vast fossil fuel reserves, its proximity to Europe, and its growing LNG market may tempt European leaders to look southwards. African countries that have traditionally been gas suppliers to Europe are well placed to scale up their exports. This is because certain African countries already have existing pipelines connected with the wider European gas grid across the Mediterranean. Current pipeline exports from the continent to Europe run through Algeria into Spain and from Libya into Italy. It is going to take some time before the new pipelines operationalise.

Just as recently as April 2022, Italy, the world’s eighth largest economy, was the front mover by striking new deals with Angola and the Republic of Congo for natural gas supplies that would help it compensate for its cuts on Russian imports.

This represents a great opportunity for African oil and gas producers with strong ties with European nations, particularly those where Italian supermajors, Eni, has a solid foothold, like Angola, where Eni is a dominant driver in the market. The MoU, signed in Luanda by Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio and Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani, establishes the protocols for natural gas trade between the two nations for years to come.

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 17:38:45 d3f4f2 No.16345829

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“Africa: A possible solution for Europe’s energy troubles” – Part 2

https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/africa-a-possible-solution-for-europes-energy-troubles/

Oil and gas pipelines in Africa

As the conflict in Ukraine rages on, European gas prices have soared. Russia has already halted and cut off gas supplies to countries like Poland, Bulgaria, and Finland over the energy payments dispute. This has led Europe to search for contingency energy supplies, and Africa, by way of proximity, has emerged as the natural choice to replace Russian oil and gas. It is no secret that Africa has some of the world’s deepest gas reserves.

Indispensable to economic and social development, Africa’s rich endowment of oil and gas reserves are projected to catalyse growth across the continent in the long term. In the medium term, African countries could become a proper stopgap solution for natural gas as Europe looks to reduce its dependence and reliance on Moscow “well before 2030”. However, their ability to step in to fill a gap – a demand of anywhere between 50-190 bcm annually that Russia has supplied, is contingent on many factors like adequate energy infrastructure and the capital necessary to build the requisite infrastructure.

As of 2021, Africa’s crude oil reserves amounted to 125.3 billion barrels, while natural gas reserves stood at 625 trillion cubic feet.

There are several ongoing and upcoming oil and gas projects in Africa. Some of the major projects are listed below;

• Trans-Saharan gas pipeline (NIGAL): This is a planned natural gas pipeline expected to run along 4,401 kilometres from Nigeria to Algeria. The project was initially proposed in the 1970s but no progress was made until 2002 when an MoU was signed between Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Algerian national oil and gas company, Sonatrach. The cost of the project is estimated to be around US $13 billion and the annual capacity of the pipeline is up to 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

• Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline (NMGP): In 2016, Nigeria and Morocco signed an agreement to develop a 5,560 kilometres pipeline that is expected to connect many West African countries to Europe. The pipeline is intended to deliver Nigeria’s natural gas resources to 13 countries in the West and North Africa as a continuation of the existing West Africa Gas Pipeline (WAGP) between Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, and Togo. The OPEC Fund for International Development is set to contribute US $14.3 million to fund the second phase of the NMGP project’s front-end engineering study.

• Medgaz pipeline project: The Medgaz pipeline is a 210-kilometre subsea pipeline between Beni Saf in Algeria and Almeria in Spain. The pipeline can carry 8 billion cubic metres per year of natural gas. Since the pipeline does not pass through any third countries, it increases the security of supply to southern Europe.

• Trans-Mediterranean pipeline (TRANSMED): This is a 2,475-kilometre pipeline built to transport natural gas from Algeria to Italy via Tunisia and Sicily. The total cost of the project is around US $6.25 billion and has a capacity of 33.5 billion cubic metres annually.

• Tanzania Liquified Natural Gas Project (TLNGP): This project, also known as the Likong’o-Mchinga Liquified Natural Gas Project, has been in the pipeline since Tanzania’s first natural gas discovery in 2010. Tanzania has a proven natural gas reserve of 57tcf with a further 29.5 trillion cubic feet located far offshore. The project is expected to cost around US$30 billion and will have a capacity to produce 10 million tonnes per annum of LNG. Regulatory delays halted the construction of this project which is now expected to start in 2022 and conclude in 2028.

• Rovuma LNG Liquification Plant: The US $30-billion Rovuma LNG Terminal located off the Cabo Delgado coast in northern Mozambique is based on three gas reservoirs in Area 4 block of the Rovuma Basin which contains an estimated 85tcf of natural gas. ExxonMobil is leading the construction and operation of the facility and the facility has a planned capacity of 15.2 million tons of LNG per year.

• Namibe Refinery Complex (NAMREF): The Namibe refinery is proposed to be built at Namibe in Angola and is expected to start operations in 2025. The cost of the project is estimated to be around US $12 billion in which a new 400,000 barrels per day refinery would be built in Namibe, Angola.

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 17:40:27 d3f4f2 No.16345842

“Africa: A possible solution for Europe’s energy troubles” – Part 3

https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/africa-a-possible-solution-for-europes-energy-troubles/

Challenges

The plethora of ongoing and upcoming oil and gas projects in Africa underscores the critical opportunity for African countries to play a more central role in the global energy market as European countries look for alternative suppliers. However, if African countries are to take advantage of this opportunity, they need to overcome and address certain bottlenecks.

The foremost issue is the considerable lack of investment in gas infrastructure which has hampered the energy industry, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This lack of transnational infrastructure makes Africa’s natural gas reserves difficult to export. For African countries to adequately meet Europe’s gas needs by having enough pipelines and adequate storage and processing facilities, they need a significant uptake in investments in African gas and infrastructure by financial institutions, energy companies, and European countries.

Ensuring the security of energy supplies is another challenge. Most of the energy exported from sub-Saharan Africa would need to pass through the Sahelian region. The region faces multiple political, social, economic, and security challenges, which are exacerbated by terrorism, violent extremism, and communal violence. The situation on Africa’s eastern coast is also no different, where Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado forced TotalEnergies to halt work and withdraw its personnel due to growing insecurity.

For the EU, reducing reliance on Russian gas is not going to be an easy task. However, if the capital necessary to build Africa’s gas infrastructure is accrued and the security of energy supplies from the continent is ensured, Africa has the potential to reduce Europe’s energy dependence on Russia.

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 20:33:06 49acc9 No.16346727

File: d488f9256e5d024⋯.jpg (211.49 KB, 1300x1045, 260:209, IMG_20220419_WA0082.jpg)

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“Government of South Africa and The United Nations in South Africa sign the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework”

https://southafrica.un.org/en/177999-government-south-africa-and-united-nations-south-africa-sign-un-sustainable-development

19 April 2022

General Assembly resolution 72/279 elevates the UNSDCF as “the most important instrument for implementation of the UN development activities at country level.

The Presidency of South Africa and the United Nations in South Africa today signed the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) at the headquarters of the Government Communication Information System (GCIS) in Pretoria.

The ceremony, led by the Minister in the Presidency, Mr. Mondli Gungubele, the outgoing Resident Coordinator for the UN South Africa office, Ms. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, and the Acting Resident Coordinator, Dr Ayodele Odusola, began with a moment of silence for those affected by the recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal.

The UNSDCF is a partnership framework comprehensively detailing the works of the UN in South Africa for the period 2020-2025 following a detailed consultation process that included the private sector, civil society, academia and research institutions, women, and youth.

In her remarks, Ms. Bekele-Thomas spoke of the need for “coherent and critical results-based programming based on national needs and priorities” before noting that “our dream is becoming a reality today.”

Delivering the keynote address, Minister Gungubele emphasised the commitment of Government to implementing the UNSCDF while highlighting this “truly consultative process that is an integration of global, continental and national goals.”

Following the actual signing of the Framework, the UN Resident Coordinator (a.i.), Dr Ayodele Odusola, emphasized South Africa’s unique relationship with the United Nations before reminding those present that “effective implementation of the cooperation framework will depend on strong accountability mechanism’.

General Assembly resolution 72/279 elevates the UNSDCF as “the most important instrument for planning and implementation of the UN development activities at country level in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda).”

In closing the ceremony, Dr Ayodele noted that “coherence coordination and collaboration is why it is very important for us to deliver together.”

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For interviews and media enquiries, please contact Zeenat Abdool, UN South Africa - Associate Public Information Officer, at abdool@un.org or +27 827788080

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 20:34:43 49acc9 No.16346735

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United Nations - The Sustainable Development Goals in South Africa

https://southafrica.un.org/en/about/about-the-un

“The Sustainable Development Goals are a global call to action to end poverty, protect the earth’s environment and climate, and ensure that people everywhere can enjoy peace and prosperity. These are the goals the UN is working on in South Africa:”

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 23:20:34 d5fdf4 No.16347722

>>16345467

Can I get some sauce on that?

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 23:23:59 d5fdf4 No.16347737

>>16344757

Would this be one of the reasons for the big push against Jacob Zuma? He wouldn't play along?

If Soros in into it, Ramaphosa gets actually little, just enough to make him think he's doing well, George pours the rest into his NGOs

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Anonymous 05/26/22 (Thu) 23:37:59 d5fdf4 No.16347805

>>16346727

>Following the actual signing of the Framework, the UN Resident Coordinator (a.i.), Dr Ayodele Odusola, emphasized South Africa’s unique relationship with the United Nations before reminding those present that “effective implementation of the cooperation framework will depend on strong accountability mechanism’.

>General Assembly resolution 72/279 elevates the UNSDCF as “the most important instrument for planning and implementation of the UN development activities at country level in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda).”

They've already started

Does that "accountability mechanism" work both ways?

Elevated by General Assembly Resolution to "most important?"

They want cheap materials, cheap labour, and want to control any kind of improvements or expansions in Industry under their watchful eye because of "Climate Change" and "Environment"

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Anonymous 05/27/22 (Fri) 12:53:37 28dac5 No.16350209

>>16345467

>>16347722 - The image can be found in the wayback machine; http://web.archive.org/web/20111104174034/http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/are-foreign-investors-colonising-africa

Are Foreign Investors Colonising Africa?

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

New economic powers India and China are being accused of buying land cheaply and uprooting indigenous communities.

Indian, Chinese and U.S. companies are among many inking land-investment deals in Africa, including Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Sudan, Mali, and Mozambique. According to a study by the U.S.- based Oakland Institute, foreign investors bought or leased a land area in sub-Saharan Africa about the size of France in 2009 alone.

American universities’ trusts (including Harvard’s) are also buying up land, reportedly displacing millions of farmers in the process.

Advocates say the land is being taken from indigenous communities by often violent means, and that land rights are handed over without proper contracts after closed-door deals. A lack of regulations in these countries allows foreign firms to purchase or lease large tracts of arable land, leaving little recourse for displaced residents.

Investors claim to be growing food for the global market that will indirectly alleviate food shortages in Africa, but land is very often used to grow non-edible export commodities such as flowers and biofuels.

Defendants of the deals say local farmers who are employed by foreign firms earn more working the land than they otherwise could, and that infrastructure developments (like clean water facilities or improved irrigation systems) are there to help them.

But many of the long-term social and environmental costs are more hard to predict, and critics say the “land grabs” are already causing “deprivation and destitution” for locals.

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Anonymous 05/27/22 (Fri) 13:44:44 d3f4f2 No.16350432

>>16347737

Zuma may have played along initially but there seems to be a big push against him now.

Ramaphosa became a billionaire since the ANC started ruling the country, so he is living very comfortably.

“'Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative'”

https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/zumas-self-survival-rooted-in-being-ex-anc-intelligence-operative-11636924

President Jacob Zuma’s inclination to appoint his close friends into leadership positions, including in the SABC and other state entities, has a lot do with his being a former ANC intelligence operative.

Intelligence officers, according to Professor Somadoda Fikeni, have a tendency to be suspicious of other people and operate on the basis of self-survival and preservation.

Fikeni said Zuma, a former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and intelligence head of the ANC during the fight against apartheid, had carried with him all those characteristics of an intelligence operative into his reign as president of South Africa.

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Anonymous 05/27/22 (Fri) 16:14:45 daff90 No.16351131

>>16346727

>>16350209 - Then they push for urban planning

“Sound urban planning now a need in Africa”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/africa/urban-planning-in-africa/

27-05-2022

Rapid urban growth and an increasing number of climate change related disasters, such as the recent floods in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, have put the importance of sound urban planning in Africa in the spotlight.

There are good reasons for arguing for this shift. Master plans are often viewed as colonial legacies, modelled on modernist visions of utopian urban futures. Strategic planning on the other hand responds more directly to local needs and realities, especially in the context of cities in the global South.

By tracing Africa’s planning trajectory over time we show that master planning has served the entwining interests and ambitions of international as well as local actors in Africa. The dominant Western narrative fails to take account of this. This narrative successfully explains why master planning, which once dominated in the West, has been supplanted by strategic planning approaches. But it does not engage with the diversity of practices globally.

In particular, it fails to observe the persistence of master planning traditions in East Asia (China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and elsewhere) and the Middle East. It also says nothing about the influence of these regions on other parts of the world. This includes urban Africa.

We conclude that these practices are not simply a throwback to a previous era. Rather, they serve the real interests, political or functional, of national and local elites.

Nevertheless, in post-colonial years master planning, with its focus on shaping the future, became an important instrument for asserting national identity and development.

A range of master plans were prepared for existing and new cities. They involved a diverse range of international expertise, actors and partnerships. Among them were Greek, Croatian, Hungarian and Japanese planners and architects.

The 1980s were a relatively quiet period for master planning as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Structural Adjustment Programmes dominated. Then in the 1990s, international development agencies such as UN Habitat worked to introduce more strategic and participatory approaches to planning.

RESURGENCE OF MASTER PLANNING

During the first two decades of the 2000s, there has been a resurgence of master planning in Africa. This has happened for both new and existing cities. In our article, we identify over 20 new city developments across the continent. Here master planning is about design on an empty canvas and has been undertaken mainly by large international architecture and design firms.

These new cities reflect the ambitions of individual politicians, an expanding middle class with new lifestyle demands, as well as increased foreign investor interest in urban Africa. For example, a major developer of Africa’s new cities has been the Moscow based firm, Renaissance Capital, through its property developer Rendeavour.

Much more complex is master planning for existing cities where there is no empty canvas but rather a complex set of local and international actors and interests. The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is a big player, having prepared master plans for cities from Lilongwe to Cairo.

Singapore’s Surbana Jurong is another actor. It has secured contracts or prepared urban master plans for the Rwandan capital, Kigali and Burundi’s Bujumbura among others. The Chinese are not directly involved but have a powerful demonstration effect in the many study tours to their master-planned cities. Large firms based in London, New York, Tokyo, Beirut, Dubai, Cairo, and Johannesburg, are also involved in master plan preparation.

International interests in master planning may be geopolitical as well as economic. For example, they may be pursued in the hope that by preparing a master plan for an African city there will be downstream opportunities for infrastructure investment.

National and local actors have different interests, although sometimes there are synergies with international players. They support master planning in the hope of, for example, securing foreign investment, to mediate difficult local conflicts, to manage growth or impose urban order.

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Anonymous 05/30/22 (Mon) 12:53:16 4cbfe7 No.16367535

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Fourth International – “Supporters of the Fourth International are active in the Amandla! collective.”

https://fourth.international/en/africa/93

https://fourth.international/en/166

Defending the self-organization of the exploited and oppressed, towards the abolition of capitalism and the building of ecosocialism, the Fourth International brings together organizations convinced that this is not possible without a root and branch, revolutionary, transformation of society.

Its founding principles are those of the best classical Marxist tradition: democracy “the emancipation of the workers will be the work of the workers themselves”, and internationalism, “socialism will be international, or it will not exist.” In our 1985 resolution we formulated these principles for our epoch.

The FI is present in the five continents, with organizations in more than 40 countries. Its activists participate in the class struggle, building social movements and parties in order to advance a revolutionary and emancipatory project for the 21st Century.

It functions as a democratic political current, with World Congresses every 7-8 years, and elected and accountable leadership bodies, the International Committee (political leadership) and Executive Bureau.

The FI has an international research and education institute in Amsterdam, which also sponsors sessions in Asia, providing political education with yearly intensive schools for activists of all ages. The IIRE also organizes seminars on ecology, the women's movement, economy, anti-racism, LGTBIQ struggles and others, bringing together the experiences of activists from across the globe to deepen our analysis on these questions and strengthen our collective practice.

The Fourth International holds a yearly International Revolutionary Youth Camp, self-organized by the youth organizations of its European sections, and held in a different European country every year.

Some History

The Fourth International was founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and other revolutionary militants, in opposition both to the despotic Stalinist bureaucracy that had betrayed and destroyed the revolutionary dynamic unleashed by the October revolution of 1917 – both within Russia and internationally –, and to capitalism in all its variants, whether liberal-democratic, authoritarian or neo-fascist.

Due to harsh defeats and terrible militant losses (both in Stalinist USSR, in China and Indochina and in the European antifascist resistance), but also to dire isolation and the complexity of the world that emerged from World War II, the Fourth International went through several splits during the 1940s and 1950s, but was for the most part reunified in 1963 on the basis of a common understanding of the new dynamics of the three sectors of the world revolution: anti-bureaucratic upsurges in the Eastern bloc, a renewed radicalization of youth and the working class in the advanced capitalist countries, and anti-colonial and anti-imperialist uprisings in the so-called third world. The reunified current that resulted is still called “Unified Secretariat” by some after the leadership body that was formed at the time.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the FI and its sections participated in the worldwide wave of struggles, promoting the radicalization and self-organization of youth, workers and women, opposing colonial and imperialist wars, in Algeria, in Vietnam and in solidarity with the Cuban revolution. This, notably in the May-June 1968 upsurge in France, helped our current to understand the importance of youth struggles and led us to converge in many countries with the new radical vanguards of the time, to root and broaden our membership. Through that process the FI renewed itself, incorporating the new experiences of the mass movements, and understanding the need to develop the struggle against the different specific oppressions and class struggle into a shared revolutionary project.

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Anonymous 05/30/22 (Mon) 12:56:02 4cbfe7 No.16367553

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>>16367535

“About Amandla!”

https://amandla.org.za/about/

Amandla is a left wing media project built around a magazine that publishes six editions per year. It was initiated in 2006/7 by activists coming from different political traditions on the left. Driving the project were independent left activists working together with militants from the South African Communist Party that were searching for a break with the social liberal policies of the ruling ANC and the bureaucratic politics of the SACP. Linking up with radicalising social movement activists coming out of the anti-globalisation movement it was felt that an important moment had opened up for encouraging a dialogue amongst activists on questions of perspective and strategy. The South African transition had been stalled and many of the democratic and social gains flowing from the ending of Apartheid were under threat.

That was the immediate context for the launching of Amandla. Subsequently Amandla has evolved to take into account the new reality of both the deepening of an organic crisis affecting the post-Apartheid transition and the possibilities for the development of new movements and popular alliances that can challenge an exhausted and corrupted national liberation project.

2012 was a turning point for progressive forces in South Africa. The great mineworkers strike and the Marikana massacre brought back into focus with a vengeance the power and militancy of labour as a driving force for challenging not just the mine owners but the system itself.

That this was quickly followed by the farm worker rebellion, only helped to reinforce the depth of the rupture that was taking place with the social liberal framework provided by the ‘94 settlement. The student uprisings of 2015 and the alliances forged between students and workers in the symbiotic and mutually reinforcing struggles for free education and insourcing pointed to the power of worker-student-community alliances. The potential for all of this to come together in a new movement inspired by an anti-capitalist emancipatory vision was provided by the ‘NUMSA moment’ – movement led by Africa’s biggest trade union for a political break with the ANC and the emergence of the Economic Freedom Fighters – a split from the ANC’s youth movement.

Amandla has redefined itself as a project integrally linked to these new processes seeking to build a new, open, non-dogmatic left politics which creates space to reflect on the crisis of the transition in South Africa while locating and identifying itself with similar initiatives in the Southern African region, across the African continent and globally. We see ourselves as part of a broader international project that needs to address the crisis of politics, i.e. the crisis of providing solutions when national solutions are not sufficient while at the same time recognising the weaknesses and disruptions of regional and international terrains and institutions necessary for new emancipatory processes to gain a mass resonance and power. All this means coming to terms with the questions of agency taking into account new forces and methods of struggle, the problem of the state and not least a mutating capitalism that poses new challenges and most critically threats to the very survival of our and other species.

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Anonymous 05/30/22 (Mon) 12:57:50 4cbfe7 No.16367561

>>16367535

>>16367553

Amandla Advisory Board

To name a few;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunus_Carrim

Yunus_Carrim

Yunus Carrim is a South African politician who served as the Minister of Communications from 2013–2014.[1][2] Carrim is a self-proclaimed Marxist and serves on the South African Communist Party Central Committee and is a Politburo member.[3]

Currently, Honorable Carrim is also a Board member of The Parliamentary Network on the World Bank & International Monetary Fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Cronin

Jeremy Cronin

Jeremy Patrick Cronin (born 12 September 1949) is a South African writer, author, and noted poet. A longtime activist in politics, Cronin is a member of the South African Communist Party and a former member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress.[1] He served as the South African Deputy Minister of Public Works from 2012 until his retirement in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregs_Govender

Pregs Govender

Pregaluxmi "Pregs" Govender (born 15 February 1960) is a South African human rights activist, author, and politician.

Brought up in a political family she was taking action against apartheid by the age of 14. She became a teacher in Durban joining unions and the ANC. In 1994 she entered the first South African Democratic parliament where she argued for women's rights including the laws permitting abortions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Achcar

Gilbert Achcar

Gilbert Achcar (Arabic: ; 5 November 1951) is a Lebanese socialist academic and writer. He is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

His research interests cover the Near East and North Africa, the foreign policy of the United States, Globalization, Islam, and Islamic fundamentalism.

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Anonymous 05/30/22 (Mon) 13:03:23 4cbfe7 No.16367589

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>>16367535

>>16367553

>>16367561

Alternative Information and Development Centre [AIDC]

https://aidc.org.za/about-us/our-vision/

A merger with Amandla Publishers in 2008 has provided a communication focus for rebuilding the organization into an effective capacity enhancing and knowledge producing organization.

https://aidc.org.za/about-us/

Such alliances become increasingly possible in a context in which a profound reorganisation and realignment of forces underway, propelled by the significance of the Marikana massacre and highlighted by the decision of COSATU’s biggest affiliate the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to break-away from the ruling Tripartite Alliance and establish a workers party. This process is enhanced by the emergence of the militant mineworkers union, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) and the rise of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as a mass anti-capitalist youth formation that has over 60 representatives in national and provincial parties as well as several other progressive grassroots formations that challenge government’s neoliberal policies.

AIDC has come to occupy a uniquely important role in relation to many of these major movements as well several ongoing struggles in South and Southern Africa that can and must be linked, consolidated and rallied behind an urgent call for a just transition to a just and sustainable development path. This position both enables and obligates AIDC to exert its best efforts in supportively shaping and guiding the unfolding reconfiguration of forces into a meaningful counter-force that is capable of leading the struggle for a just transition to a just and sustainable alternative development path.

Movement-Building Advocacy

Alliances and coalitions of labour, community, faith-based, environmental and women’s organisations are campaigning locally, nationally and regionally for decent work, a living wage, essential services and an environment free of pollution, and for a just transition to a low-carbon, wage-led, sustainable and equitable economy.

In pursuing these objectives we will work with beneficiaries from organisations and movements in the labour, faith-based, community and environmental justice sectors, principally in South Africa but with activities that reach across the southern Africa region – well over 100,000 people in total. In the coming period we envisage increasing work with a growing number of formations throughout southern Africa, especially Swaziland, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, the DRC and Mauritius.

This plan was developed in consultation with several organisations and movements that have been intimately involved in developing and implementing AIDC programmes over the last three years.

https://aidc.org.za/programmes/united-and-just-southern-africa/

An alternative paradigm of development that secures the possibilities for living well for all the region’s peoples and overcoming environmental degradation is in reality a call for a new liberation struggle, a fight against neo-colonialism and for social, economic and environmental justice. At the heart of this struggle are the popular initiatives in the region: trade union, social movements, environmental, women’s youth and other formations that are involved in defensive struggles for jobs and decent work, agrarian reform and food sovereignty, against patriarchy, for democratic rights and against authoritarianism and corruption; and even the more transformative struggles for solidarity and low carbon economies, the rights of nature and even anti-capitalist futures. All these exist across Southern African, some initial and embryonic some bold and inspiring. It is likely these initiatives will be enhanced and emboldened by global developments as resistance grows in the heartlands of global capitalism to austerity and the global crisis. The challenge will be to build on what are mostly national responses and process and to regionalise them in a context of building an alternative regionalism.

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Anonymous 05/30/22 (Mon) 19:11:39 4cbfe7 No.16369559

File: 353f1d3a80f709d⋯.jpg (110.84 KB, 1401x857, 1401:857, Bertha_Foundation_Albie_Sa….JPG)

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>>16367589

Bertha Foundation funds Amandla! - Albie Sachs Connection

https://berthafoundation.org/

https://vimeo.com/230910015?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=13378586

6:54 – “Learning activism from real activists, they learning media so that how dream of having activists working with storytellers and lawyers that can become a reality.”

>>16326071 - Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is a “Bertha Justice Partner”

Albie Sachs speaks on Bertha’s video at about 4:32

>>16303484 - “An attendee of the Congress of the People, Sachs began practicing law at 21, defending people in defiance of the country’s racial laws. He was subsequently raided, placed in to solitary confinement and eventually went in to exile. In exile, he lost his arm in a car bomb and was a close associate with Oliver Tambo and drafted the ANC’s Code of Conduct. Sachs would later engage in negotiations prior to the 1994 election. When the ANC came to power, Sachs became the architect of the post-apartheid constitution of 1996."

“Albie Sachs award: George and Amal Clooney honour SA judicial icon - The Clooney foundation’s new awards have been named after South African judicial icon Albie Sachs. George Clooney has sung his praises.”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/albie-sachs-george-clooney-amal-clooney-award/

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Anonymous 06/01/22 (Wed) 10:59:12 cfdeb4 No.16379485

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Anonymous 06/01/22 (Wed) 18:13:21 ec310d No.16381002

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>16369559

>Sachs became the architect of the post-apartheid constitution of 1996.

“Albie Sachs adds his voice to the land issue”

https://youtu.be/HxH7askckLA

Jul 27, 2018

“Retired Constitutional Court judge Albie Sachs believes land expropriation without compensation can be achieved without changing the Constitution. He says a very strong case can be made for this. Sachs was giving the opening address at the land colloquium being held at the University of Cape Town.”

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Anonymous 06/02/22 (Thu) 17:46:58 e39ffa No.16386558

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>16369559

>>16381002

“Judging the Judges After Transition: The Kenyan Experience” – Albie Sachs Speaking, Presented by Sujit Choudhry

https://youtu.be/GPBpbHnCPiU

“On April 16, 2013, the Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law and the NYU African Law Association brought Albie Sachs, Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, for a lecture on the reform of the Kenyan judiciary. A panel discussion followed with Professor Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and Professor Sujit Choudhry, Cecelia Goetz Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for Constitutional Transitions.”

4:38 – Choudhry: “Albie’s talk today about the Kenya experience, in a way is sort of a soft launch for a large international research project that we are participating at NYU on what to do with judges after transitions and political transitions… It is not a problem confined to Kenya, it is a pervasive problem in many transitional democracies. And this is a project that we are working on with the Bingham Centre for Rule of Law.”

5:52 – Albie: “Late in 2010, in a very large hall in Nairobi, the Chair of the Electoral Commission got up to announce the results of a very hotly contested presidential campaign part of the general elections in Kenya and he stood and he said, not giving you the exact figures but it was something like this. “Nairobi, Kebaki 544,399; Odinga 495,232. Somebody stood up, those are not the figures that I sent in. The officer went on… My informant told me that we saw that, the way she put it, saw the elections being stolen on television. The next day, the final tally was announced and in the evening without any of the ceremonies or the people attending and the fanfare, almost in secret, the winner declared by the head of the election agency was sworn in. There was mayhem after that. People went out into the streets, members of one party starting attacking other members of another party. It extended beyond that.”

8:38 – Albie: “It was in the areas where there been the most living together, where the people were the most interactive, mixed up, living cheek by jowl. That’s where the most vicious attacks took place and it went on for days. And gangs roamed with pangas and they burnt down houses. Chopped up people.”

9:26 – Albie: “And the question was asked but if you saw the elections being stolen on TV and you had slam dunk evidence, why didn’t you go to court? Kenya has a judiciary that has buildings, very erudite judges. Why didn’t you go to them? And the opposition party that claimed that the elections have been stolen from said, it would have been a total, total waste of time. No matter how powerful the evidence, how compelling, the judges would have found a way to twist the facts, to twist the law and to ensure that Kebaki was confirmed as president.” [Does this not sound familiar?]

17:12 – Albie: “The team of the [Kenya judges and magistrates vetting] board includes 3 Kenyan lawyers, 3 Kenyan non-lawyers and 3 foreign judges. In fact, judges they say of some distinction from commonwealth countries who going to participate as full members of the board. A friend of mine, Lord Stephen Sedley [father was a Jewish immigrant, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sedley] a wonderful judge from the court of appeal in England, retired had agreed. He’d helped with the drafting of the regulations… I had some contact with Kenya and the judiciary having been invited about 10 years before that to attend a meeting in which a number of judges and others were considering the establishment of a truth and reconciliation commission in Kenya and they wanted to hear about the South African experience.”

1:04:56 – Albie: “The strongest argument in his favour was that he [Willy Mutunga] had never been a judge, he had been a law professor, he had been imprisoned, he had been part what they called a second liberation. So he was appointed chief justice, a strong new supreme court was established, the judicial service commission became truly independent, that’s choosing judges properly and they managed to get 2.5 times the budget they got before. And so our vetting process was just part and parcel and I think this is a very important aspect of transitional justice.”

1:06:21 – Albie: “The revolution in a way was created through the constitution. There was a revolution and the constitution came afterwards to deal with the past.”

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Anonymous 06/02/22 (Thu) 18:09:39 e39ffa No.16386621

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>>16386558

>“Judging the Judges After Transition: The Kenyan Experience” – Albie Sachs Speaking, Presented by Sujit Choudhry

“Sujit Choudhry Talks About the Center for Constitutional Transitions | NYU Law”: https://youtu.be/vocvUJ-QLjA

Sujit Choudhry

https://sujitchoudhry.com/

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Sujit Choudhry practices constitutional law, both in Canada and globally

A constitutional law resource for counsel, governments, and businesses

Sujit Choudhry has a broad public law practice on questions of constitutional law, administrative law, public international law and international human rights law, in the Canadian courts, including in judicial reviews, appeals, and arbitrations. He frequently appears as counsel, including in the Supreme Court of Canada. He also has an extensive counsel practice. Choudhry is often retained by other lawyers across Canada to work with them on complex constitutional cases, including to serve as co-counsel. He also holds the Q.Arb designation from the ADR Institute of Canada.

Democracy support, constitutional reform and peace processes

Choudhry is an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law. He has been an advisor to democracy support, constitutional reform, and peace processes for over 20 years, including in Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Libya, Myanmar, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunisia, Ukraine, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

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Anonymous 06/02/22 (Thu) 18:47:03 4cbfe7 No.16386828

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“Arthur Fraser lays criminal chargers against President Ramaphosa” – Theft and Kidnapping

https://youtu.be/edQNKL5g7e4

“The South African Police Service has confirmed that former State Security Agency Director-General Arthur Fraser, has laid criminal charges against President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Rosebank Police Station in Johannesburg.”

Arthur Fraser lays charges of R60m theft, kidnapping against Cyril Ramaphosa

https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/arthur-fraser-lays-charges-of-r60m-theft-kidnapping-against-cyril-ramaphosa-a7687428-0ade-452f-a51e-e3e5e6f69b24

Pretoria - Former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general Arthur Fraser has laid criminal charges against President Cyril Ramaphosa at a Johannesburg police station, accusing him of stealing $4 million (more than R60 million) and paying people to conceal the matter.

Fraser also accuses Ramaphosa of defeating the ends of justice, kidnapping suspects who were allegedly interrogated on his property at Phala farm in the Waterberg district of Limpopo.

In a media statement seen by the Pretoria News, Fraser states that he laid formal criminal charges against Ramaphosa at Rosebank police station yesterday. He added that he gave police supporting documents including photographs, bank accounts and video footage.

“Today I have taken the unprecedented step to lay charges against his excellency of the Republic of South Africa, Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa. The details of the charges and supporting evidence including photographs, bank accounts, video footage and names are contained in my statement filed at the Rosebank police station,” Fraser said in the statement.

“The charges emanate from the theft of millions of US dollars (in access of 4 million dollars) concealed within the premises of the president’s Phala farm in Waterberg, Limpopo, by criminals who were colluding with his domestic worker. They also include defeating the ends of justice, kidnapping of suspects, their interrogation on his property and bribery. The president concealed the crime from the SAPS and Sars and thereafter paid the culprits for their silence.”

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Anonymous 06/03/22 (Fri) 04:20:07 d5fdf4 No.16389497

'Oh, the WHO is coming to Africa to "help"

General Research #20733 >>16389435

Monkeypox outbreak needs united global response, World Health Organization says

Africa must be part of a united global fight against monkeypox as developed countries respond to unusual outbreaks of the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Key points:

Monkeypox is endemic in some African countries

Cases in developed nations have sparked a flurry of scientific research into the disease

The WHO is calling for lower-income nations to benefit from the fruits of that labour as well

"We must have one connected global response to monkeypox to avoid it becoming endemic in more countries," D. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Africa director, said in an online briefing.

As countries in the developed world find ways to limit the spread of monkeypox, "it is very important that … we make sure that we share those tools, we build capacities all over the world to respond to these outbreaks," she said.

"What is extremely important now is to avert any potential for a repeat of the inequitable access to COVID-19 vaccines experienced by African countries early in the pandemic," Dr Moeti said.

Monkeypox is a virus that can cause symptoms such as fever, aches and a distinctive bumpy rash.

It is ordinarily found in countries in West and Central Africa with tropical rainforests, but recently more than 550 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported by at least 30 countries outside of Africa, according to the WHO.

Many of the cases were reportedly tied to sexual activity at two recent raves in Europe.

While cases have been detected in Australia, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, the United States and Israel, no deaths have been reported.

Cases of monkeypox were confirmed in Sydney and Melbourne last month.

Meanwhile, seven of Africa's 54 countries have reported the disease and there have been about three times as many monkeypox cases as usual.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-03/monkeypox-outbreak-needs-united-response-says-who-africa-says/101123240

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Anonymous 06/03/22 (Fri) 04:57:36 d5fdf4 No.16389583

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>>16389497 (me)

These go with

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:13:33 49acc9 No.16399968

MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards – Part 1

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/07/308817/mwn-investigation-reveals-amnesty-internationals-reckless-double-standards

Below are excerpts

Human rights NGO Amnesty International’s reporting on the case of Moroccan journalist Omar Radi has thrown into light the organization’s clear pro-Western bias. A closer look at the history of Amnesty International [AI] and its reporting on alleged human rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa region, as well as other Global South states, reveals clear double standards and a neo-colonial standpoint towards developing countries.

American human rights lawyer and former Amnesty International board member Francis Boyle said in a 2002 interview for Global Policy Forum: “Amnesty International is primarily motivated not by human rights but by publicity. Second comes money. Third comes getting more members. Fourth, internal turf battles. And then finally, human rights, genuine human rights concerns.”

On July 2, the government released a second statement calling on Amnesty International to back up their claims with tangible evidence. The statement said the NGO’s allegations “are in line with the strategy Amnesty International has been employing for years against Morocco’s interests, attempting to undermine the country’s internationally-recognized progress in the field of human rights.”

Morocco’s government reiterated its belief that the NGO is aiming to become a “political actor” in Morocco and is operating with a clear agenda after Amnesty launched a targeted social media campaign in Morocco.

Double standards in reporting US and UK privacy breaches

The use of spyware and invasion of personal privacy is not new. However, Amnesty International’s loud and strongly-worded protestations are. In 2013, the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden shone the spotlight on both the US and the UK.

The leaks revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had accessed the telephone records of millions of American citizens. Meanwhile, the British intelligence service, GCHQ, has been accessing private information online through a surveillance program known as Prism.

Amnesty International brought a claim against the UK after it was revealed that the British intelligence service had hacked the communications of an Amnesty staff member. The claim was accompanied by a gentle reminder.

A press release dated August 29, 2013, gave the US and the UK a softly toned reprimand, in sharp contrast to the outrage and vitriolic condemnation of Morocco’s alleged breaches of the right to privacy. The double standard reflects Amnesty international’s pro-Western lens and unwillingness to bite back at those who pay the bills.

Morocco World News asked Amnesty International about social media campaigns and mainstream media campaigns: “Amnesty International launched a series of targeted posts warning Moroccan journalists about spyware but the same did not happen in the US or the UK in 2013 after Amnesty found that both countries were using spyware. Why the difference in handling?”

Amnesty International declined to comment.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:17:37 49acc9 No.16399979

MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards – Part 2

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/07/308817/mwn-investigation-reveals-amnesty-internationals-reckless-double-standards

Below are excerpts

AIUSA and Israel

The Moroccan government’s theory that the report and one-sided investigation are part of a “defamation campaign” is understandable, bearing in mind Amnesty’s history of manipulating investigations and campaigns to fit certain political agendas.

The shocking truth about Amnesty International dates back decades. Boyle, a founding member of the Amnesty International Middle East Coordination groups, shared the story of his disillusionment with Morocco World News. In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon, breaking international law and violating human rights laws. Both Amnesty International and Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) stood by in silence as over 20,000 people died.

Boyle contacted Nobel Peace Prize winner Sean MacBride, calling on him to intervene with AI in London. MacBride persuaded the general secretary of AI to appoint Boyle as a human rights consultant for AI’s work in the Middle East.

At the first meeting, Boyle warned the AI Mid-East Co-Group that they must respond strongly to the atrocities Israeli forces were carrying out in the Middle East, with full USA support. “Soon thereafter, I found out that the Members of the AIUSA Mid-East Co-Group had been instructed to have nothing more to do with me by a direct order coming from the AIUSA Board of Directors,” Boyle recounted.

Boyle outlined how AIUK and AIUSA consistently failed to crack down on human rights violations and instances of Israeli government-approved torture against Palestinians for over a decade.

“I am confident the pro-Israel groups threatened the AI Secretary General that they would have their members withhold or reduce their contributions to AI and AIUSA if AI/London did not reign in its pathetic, pitiful, and meager criticisms of Israel. While I was on the AIUSA Board, AIUSA paid about 20% of the budget for AI/London. He who pays the piper calls the tune,” the human rights lawyer explained.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:18:04 49acc9 No.16399981

MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards – Part 3

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/07/308817/mwn-investigation-reveals-amnesty-internationals-reckless-double-standards

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War mongering

On December 19, 1990, the world collectively shivered in horror after Amnesty International released a chilling report of atrocities in the Middle East.

“Iraqi forces in occupied Kuwait have tortured and executed hundreds of unarmed civilians, some of them children, arrested thousands of others and cut off 312 premature babies from hospital incubators, according to a report released here today by Amnesty International,” the Washington Post wrote.

Boyle had seen the report ahead of publication and found that it lacked tangible evidence, was rife with technical errors, and was missing facts. Boyle feared that the US and the UK would use the report as evidence to provoke a war with Iraq, and warned Amnesty International UK not to publish it. The NGO ignored the warnings and proceeded to launch what Boyle calls a “Disinformation” campaign against Iraq.

“From this episode I could only conclude that AI/London deliberately intended the Dead-Babies Report and Campaign to be used in order to tip the balance in favor of war against Iraq,” he said.

At the height of the US warmongering campaign, Amnesty International had no qualms about confidently stating that it had “verified” the accusations peddled by a Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah. In a recriminating 82-page report it published in December 1990, Amnesty International left no doubt in the minds of readers that the evidence was airtight.

The report was strongly worded, and included no hint that the sources may not be reliable. It was presented as a substantiated and wholly “verified” report whose legitimacy was beyond doubt.

Seven US Senators used the spurious testimony, legitimized by Amnesty International, to justify their support for the war. President George H.W. Bush used the report on six occasions in the following weeks. Then, on January 9, 1990, the president cited the report in a letter he sent to university newspapers across the US.

Some time later, it became clear that the stories of Iraqi soldiers unplugging premature babies were fabricated. The 15-year-old who peddled the allegations turned out to be the daughter of the then Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Amnesty then launched a coverup campaign to disassociate itself from the political machinations the report had facilitated.

Perhaps, like former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in May 1995, Amnesty International thinks that the price “was worth it” to build “democracy” and establish human rights in Iraq, further corroborating the idea of Amnesty International as a neo-colonial tool.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:18:42 49acc9 No.16399984

MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards – Part 4

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/07/308817/mwn-investigation-reveals-amnesty-internationals-reckless-double-standards

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Apartheid and Amnesty

Boyle fears that nothing has changed at Amnesty International in the intervening years. “For all I know, the same people at AI/London who waged this Dead-Babies Disinformation Campaign against Iraq are still at AI/London producing more disinformation against Arab/Muslim states in the Middle East in order to further the political and economic interests of the United States, Britain, and Israel. Because of its Dead-Babies Disinformation Campaign against Iraq and its ensuing coverup, Amnesty International will never have any credibility in the Middle East!”

Boyle believes a similar campaign of disinformation and refusal to take on diplomatic heavyweights, such as the US, defined Amnesty’s response to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

According to Boyle, Amnesty was the only human rights body in the world not to intervene in the battle to end apartheid. The NGO claimed they could not work against this type of government.

“But the truth of the matter was that Amnesty International is headquartered in London, and AIUSA is headquartered in New York and Washington. The biggest political supporters of the criminal apartheid regime in South Africa were the governments of Britain, the United States, and Israel. Likewise, the biggest sources of economic investments in the criminal apartheid regime in South Africa came from Britain and the United States. Once again, he who pays the piper calls the tune,” Boyle said, bringing the argument back to funding and political influence.

The human rights professor outlined Amnesty International’s refusal to report on violations in Ireland and Puerto Rico, echoing his fundamental belief that Amnesty International exists as a neo-colonial global policeman, unwilling to bite the hand that feeds it.

“Effectively, Amnesty International and AIUSA function as tools for the imperialist, colonial and genocidal policies of the United States, Britain, and Israel,” he said.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:19:58 49acc9 No.16399985

MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards – Part 5

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/07/308817/mwn-investigation-reveals-amnesty-internationals-reckless-double-standards

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Iraq as a victim of international politics – in part through reckless reporting

Amnesty International’s report fueled the US decision to start a war that resulted in the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Iraqi civilians. The international community and Amnesty International, did not, however, learn from the mistakes of the 1991 Iraq war.

In 2003, the US administration declared their intention to invade Iraq again, enjoying support from the UK despite opposition from a number of fellow UN member states, including France. The UK, under Prime Minister Tony Blair, tried and failed to secure support from the UN Security Council but pledged support for the US regardless.

The operation to invade Iraq was, for the UK, based on spurious evidence that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The US aimed to remove Saddam Hussein from power, a motive the UK could not legally support.

Years later, the Chilcot Inquiry found that the claims Iraq was developing WMDs were baseless, meaning Blair had led his country to war with lies in pursuit of the US agenda in the wake of 9/11.

Despite the repercussions of the first Iraq war and Amnesty International’s involvement in lighting its fuse, the NGO remained fairly neutral on the prospect of a second war in Iraq based on the spurious evidence that Iraq was developing WMDs.

On March 19, 2003, Amnesty International General Secretary Irene Khan penned an open letter to Blair, President George W. Bush, and Saddam Hussein. The letter does not warn against going to war with Iraq, but sets a low bar in gently prompting both sides to adhere to human rights laws during the conflict.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:21:00 49acc9 No.16399986

MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards – Part 6

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/07/308817/mwn-investigation-reveals-amnesty-internationals-reckless-double-standards

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‘Uncorroborated and highly manipulated information’

Amnesty International’s tendency to side with the money and the controlling politics of Western powers reared its ugly head again in 2018 when the NGO released a series of reports on the civil society protests in Nicaragua.

Conscientious objector and anti-war activist Camilo Mejia wrote an open letter to Amnesty International, accusing the NGO of “destabilizing” the situation in Nicaragua and “contributing to the chaos in which the nation finds itself.”

Mejia said the Amnesty International reports on the protests created a misleading narrative, disseminating a strong anti-government message which covered up the complexities of the situation on the ground.

“Amnesty International’s assertions are mostly based on either testimony by anti-government witnesses and victims or the uncorroborated and highly manipulated information emitted by US-financed anti-government media outlets and non-profit organisations collectively known as ‘civil society,’” he wrote.

Mejia emphasized that the vast majority of news organizations and sources Amnesty International cited in its two reports on the unraveling political chaos and violence in Nicaragua are funded by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and, by extension, the US.

The anti-war protestor and Iraq War veteran shone the spotlight on Washington’s historic hegemony in Latin America, arguing that, to preserve US dominance through economic control, the capitalist superpower aimed to sabotage the potential success of an independent Nicaragua.

In 2019, Mejia published a report in collaboration with the Alliance for Global Justice in which he set out the disinformation in Amnesty International’s Nicaragua reports, highlighting the clear bias and gaping holes in evidence.

Amnesty International’s intervention in Nicaragua, and refusal to see the situation as anything other than a black and white narrative of good vs. bad, reflects the neo-colonial, imperialist lens through which the NGO views the world.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:21:31 49acc9 No.16399988

MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards – Part 7

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/07/308817/mwn-investigation-reveals-amnesty-internationals-reckless-double-standards

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Money, money, money

Amnesty International relies on donations and membership payments for survival. Access to detailed information about the nationality of donors and members is nigh on impossible. However, the little transparent information that is available strongly suggests the NGO’s membership is largely based in Western countries, including Australia (250,000), Canada, Sweden (upwards of 100,000), and Germany. Of Amnesty International’s two million members, nearly half come from the Netherlands (255,000), the US (350,000), and the UK (200,000) alone.

The organization’s worldview, including prejudices and stereotyping, echoes that of its membership, who, sitting comfortably in a warm armchair, credit card in hand, feel that they are doing their part to help in far away crises: Crises that affect other people, in other cultures, and other countries.

However, the question of funding goes much deeper than that of membership. The organization’s neo-colonial, teacher-child view on developing countries echoes and takes its cue from US foreign policy, among others.

Amnesty International’s 2017 financial review states, “We are independent of any government, ideology, economic interest and religion. Our only interest is in achieving human rights for all.” The review also explicitly states that the NGO does not accept donations from governments or political organizations. However, previous reports show that this is not the case.

A 2017 report by Reseau International shows that Amnesty International received funding from the “National Foundation for American Democracy (NED), which is officially funded by the United States Congress, through the budget of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).”

The Reseau International report explains that the NGO is far from transparent in terms of access to information, and that information about donors is increasingly difficult to find. “Today, it is almost impossible to find direct evidence that in 2008, the Israeli branch of Amnesty International accepted a donation of NIS 130,186 (£30,277) from the State Department of the United States government,” the report notes.

The Embassy of the Netherlands in Israel, the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID), the US government, through other associations, and the Norwegian Telethon are among other Western organizations with lobbying weight.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:22:32 49acc9 No.16399993

MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards – Part 8

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/07/308817/mwn-investigation-reveals-amnesty-internationals-reckless-double-standards

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Where is the money going?

In 2010, facing fierce international criticism for its response to human rights abuses in Iraq at the hands of British and US soldiers, Amnesty International made the decision to overhaul its management. Among the heads to roll were former General Secretary Irene Khan, the organization’s first Muslim leader, and her deputy, Kate Gilmore.

The organization paid Khan £533,103 to leave Amnesty International, while Gilmore was sent packing with £325,244. The massive payoffs sent waves of doubt throughout Amnesty’s membership, with many wondering how much of their donations went to paying corporate-sized salaries and hush money.

In a less-than-transparent statement, Amnesty International’s international executive committee (IEC) chairman, Peter Pack said the "substantial majority (of the payments) reflected contractual entitlements.”

Before the giant cash-in-hand payoff, Khan was earning £132,490 a year, without bonuses, relocation grants, and support for expenses. Upon leaving Amnesty International, Khan stepped straight into a chair on the British Charity Commission board, having been appointed by the British government via the Cabinet Office.

The former general secretary’s replacement, however, has topped the City of London-style salary. Salil Shetty earns £192,800 a year on top of a £7,800 annual housing allowance.

When asked directly how far donors can “restrict” their contributions and where the 4% of restricted donations come from, Amnesty refused to comment.

MWN also asked the NGO where the 10% classed as “other income” comes from. Amnesty again refused to comment, sending only a link to another defamatory report about Morocco.

Moving forward

The NGO’s consistent refusal to engage with questions over its lack of transparency and bias is reflective of a lack of respect for Morocco and the journey it has made, and continues to make, since its independence in 1956.

It would be ludicrous to deny that human rights violations go on in Morocco, or in any other country in the world. No state, however established its democracy or developed its economy, is immune. Striving to eradicate human rights violations will be humanity’s mission for centuries to come. This said, every state, however established its democracy or developed its economy, should be viewed and judged on an equal basis.

Amnesty International, however, is willing only to see, and actively look for, the negative aspects of Moroccan policy and security, in line with its own entrenched imperialist world view of Muslim-majority and Global South countries.

Until the NGO revitalizes its world view with a modern, impartial perspective based on truth rather than international agendas and neo-colonial attitudes, the blindly negative, condemnatory narrative about these countries will not change and Amnesty International will not achieve the global impact its noble goals deserve.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:24:52 49acc9 No.16400008

>>16399968

>Human rights NGO Amnesty International’s reporting on the case of Moroccan journalist Omar Radi has thrown into light the organization’s clear pro-Western bias.

>>16369559

Bertha Foundation, Clooney Foundation and Amnesty International’s Support of Omar Radi

STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR OMAR RADI, BERTHA CHALLENGE FELLOW

https://berthafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Statement-in-support-of-Omar-Radi-July-2021.pdf

At Bertha Foundation the year 2020 will always be remembered for two events: the outbreak of Covid and its devastating impact on the most vulnerable people across the world and the year that Omar Radi, Moroccan investigative journalist and Bertha Challenge Fellow, was subjected to lengthy and relentless state sponsored harassment, which ultimately led to his imprisonment in July 2020. Almost a year to the day, on 19 July 2021, he was sentenced to six years in prison on spurious charges of rape and espionage.

Bertha Foundation, after more than a decade fighting for a more just world, knows that the world is becoming increasingly repressive and dangerous for journalists. The Bertha Challenge fellowship has supported some of the bravest and most talented journalists and activists working across 26 different countries. Omar, together with the 2020 cohort, investigated how the relationship between property, profit and politics contributes to land and housing injustice. His work focussed on how the Moroccan state is using expropriation of tribal lands for its own enrichment.

Omar is a kind and loyal colleague with a deep love for justice and truth and for marginalised and landless people of his country, Morocco. At Bertha we are proud to be associated with him and we are deeply concerned that the Moroccan government did not allow for a fair trial as evidenced by an independent report from the Clooney Foundation.

Morocco Condemns Amnesty International's ‘Political Interference’

https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2022/03/348032/morocco-condemns-amnesty-international-s-political-interference

Amnesty International has been claiming that Morocco used spyware against activists and journalists, including Moroccan journalist Omar Radi.

A Moroccan court sentenced Radi to six years in prison in July 2021. Casablanca’s Court of Appeal upheld the sentence against Radi, confirming the charges he had been arrested for – including “rape” and “receiving funds from a foreign agent” to “undermine Morocco’s security.”

Prior to and after his trial, Amnesty International continued to release reports and statements, accusing Morocco of using spyware against the journalist.

In response, the Moroccan government has been asking the NGO to provide evidence for its claims, which Amnesty International has failed to answer.

Morocco renewed its request demanding evidence from Amnesty International on February 28 of this year. Moroccan authorities emphasized on March 19 that the NGO did not send any evidence to back its claims.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:28:10 49acc9 No.16400015

“Moscow-Pretoria expose widens” – Dated February 7, 1984 – Part 1

https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1984/eirv11n05-19840207/eirv11n05-19840207_013-gold.pdf

Last week on this page I reviewed the evidence of Soviet-South African collaboration in the gold market; in parallel, the West German weekly Der Spiegel, something of an equivalent to Newsweek, published a similar story which I had the opportunity to review after filing. Whether Der Spiegel's sources are better than mine, I cannot tell; in any event, many believe that the Hamburg journal has intimate ties to Soviet intelligence, among other services. Its publisher, Rudolf Augstein, is in any event a leading advocate of German "neutrality" and reunification.

What Der Spiegel reports is well known to informed financial circles in Western Europe, if not to American newspaper readers, and certainly not to gold investors, many of whom appear to view South Africa as some sort of bastion of virtue. In truth, apart from the repugnance of Pretoria's racial policies, its strategic ties to the Russians should be a matter of concern for the West at large. It is striking, the extent to which these ties are coming to the surface.

I translate from the Spiegel report, which appeared in the Jan. 23 issue:

"In November of last year, the apartheid state had its first official exchange of diplomaric notes with the Soviet Union since the break of relations 27 years ago. And since then, all movements from the 'land of atheistic enslavement,' as Premier Pieter Willem Botha calls it, are painfully recorded.

"Foreign Minister Roelof Botha openly admitted the exchange of notes with Moscow-at the height of the latest South African invasion of Angola last week, while Pretoria's soldiers were involved in heavy fighting with Cuban-supported and Soviet-armed Angolan troops.

"In any event Moscow's note to Pretoria did not strike one as friendly; Soviet diplomats in the United States, according to Botha, had given over a document which emphatically cited Moscow's 1976 friendship treaty with Angola ….

"But despite the noisy reaction of the premier and some army officers to the note, the foreign ministry in Pretoria last week was not excluding 'some possibilities for rapprochement for Southern Africa. '. . .

"In fact, the Soviet Union and South Africa are the world's largest producers of gold, chromium, vanadium, manganese, platinum, and diamonds.

"That is good for profits, beyond political emnity,. Thus the Soviets and South Africans meet regularly in the official Wozchod-Handelsbank in Zurich, to consult over the erratic movements of the gold market; the two countries control more than 80 percent of world sales.

"In the case of the precious metal platinum, the political arch-enemies cover 94 percent of world supply …. 'It can't be proven that there is price-fixing, ' wrote the I nternational Herald Tribune. 'but contacts contribute to orderly marketing.'

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 14:30:10 49acc9 No.16400023

> As it turned out, it housed in its offices far more power than most government buildings. Indeed, Oppenheimer even had a private treaty with the Soviet Union, although the terms have never been publicly revealed.

“Moscow-Pretoria expose widens” – Dated February 7, 1984 – Part 2

https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1984/eirv11n05-19840207/eirv11n05-19840207_013-gold.pdf

"Many threads are spun between South Africa and the Soviet Union in the glass-and-steel world of Johannesburg's high finance. In the west of the city are based the Anglo-American Corporation and its sister firm in the diamond industry, De Beers. Chairman of the board of the worldwide enterprise is Harry Oppenheimer. . . .

"Oppenheimer's intimate and former son-in-law Gordon Waddell was spotted in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, 'just passing through.'"

This refers to the first reports of Soviet -South African gold market discussions, revealed by EIR on July 20, 1980, months before our reports made their way to the London Financial Times.

Otherwise, the article reviews the familiar facts of Soviet diamond marketing through De Beers' sales monopoly, the Central Sales Organization (CSO).

"In the Soviet Union, the secondlargest producer of jewel diamonds in the world, the capitalist management of the CSO is highly prized," reports Spiegel. "When the CSO conducts its sales of 'packets' of diamonds of different size and quality, mixed in are stones of Soviet origin.

"The economic ties of political opponents in southern Africa are entirely paradoxical, as in the case of Angola. The Luanda government is viewed as linked to Moscow, because it accepts help from the Soviets and Cuba in its fight against South Africa and the Unita guerillas. But one of the greatest sources of state revenues (after the American-managed oilfields in the north) depends on the sale of diamonds, through the South African CSO."

We permit readers to draw their own conclusions concerning the implications of such collaboration over the gold price during a period of financial turmoil.

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 19:17:42 d5fdf4 No.16400996

>>16400015

>>16400023

Good Stuff!

Are they still making such deals?

In 2022, what deals are in effect with China?

With the virtue signalling of sanctions on Russia, which EU countries come calling for those metals, and coal, first?

Honestly, don't take "Belt & Road" deals on the ports from China, make the EU pay fair prices for the commodities and there will be funds for port expansion. South Africa has, EU wants. Economics 101: Supply and Demand

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 19:19:45 d5fdf4 No.16401000

Amandla! Collective Bun

>>16367535 Fourth International and the Amandla! Collective

>>16367553 About Amandla!

>>16367561 Amandla! Advisory Board

>>16367589 Alternative Information and Development Centre [AIDC]

>>16369559 Bertha Foundation funds Amandla! - Albie Sachs Connection

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 19:19:53 d5fdf4 No.16401001

ANC Bun

>>16298818 Anglo’s involvement with the ANC prior to the 1994 election

>>16303484 Jewish people played a critical role in ending apartheid in South Africa

>>16305521, >>16321313, >>16321406 Lonrho’s History – Connections to MI6 and the British Royals

>>16305798 Onslaught against the Peoples of SA - Part 1 (video)

>>16326294, >>16326385 Gill Marcus – Links to Mining Companies, including Glencore

>>16332096 Mendel Kaplan and Operation Exodus

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 19:20:40 d5fdf4 No.16401007

Commodities Bun

>>15510235 Anglo American Platinum Sells 50% Interest in South Africa Project to Sibanye-Stillwater

>>15510248 South African Coffee Industry Landscape to 2025 - Featuring AVI, Caffeluxe and Chilla Beverage Among Others - ResearchAndMarkets.com

>>15815144 Ships Sail For South African Coal After Russia Sanctions

>>15853546 Void left by ban on key metal from Russia can't be filled

>>16264922 South Africa's Harmony Gold reports four mine deaths

>>16344476 SA's Electricity crisis | An interview with Eskom CEO André De Ruyter (video)

>>16400015, >>16400023 “Moscow-Pretoria expose widens” – Dated February 7, 1984 (Parts 1 & 2)

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 19:20:55 d5fdf4 No.16401008

Covid Bun

>>15544456 Approval of COVID vaccine made in South Africa could take 3 years, WHO says

>>15557324 In South Africa, The End Of The Covid Pandemic Is In Sight

>>15578966 COVID-19 vaccine production quietly suspended at Johnson & Johnson

>>16264961 South Africa COVID-19 test positivity rate nears record

>>16334079 2021 Monkeypox Simulation (Like Event 201 for the Coronavirus)

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 19:21:13 d5fdf4 No.16401009

Oppenheimer Bun

>>16298769 The Long and Winding Rhodes – #4 (Running Governments and a Diamond Cartel) – Oppenheimer families’ fingers are all over

>>16298879 New York Times, 1977 article – US delegate to the UN was Oppenheimer’s guest in South Africa

>>16298907 Harry Oppenheimer : The King of Diamonds (USSR dealings) – Edwards Jay Epstein Diary, December 4, 1978

>>16299757 Oranjemund Journal; Swapo and De Beers: Are They Engaged to Wed? – dated 1989

>>16303715 >>16326020, >>16326071, >>16326145 Judge Johann Kriegler and the Legal Resources Centre

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 19:23:05 d5fdf4 No.16401016

Notables are NOT Endorsments

passing 160

>>15510152 Ex-South African president appeals ruling in corruption case

>>15510222 A crisis of faith in South Africa: ‘People have given up on the state’

>>15510185 South Africa's rand recovers, central banks in focus

>>15510222 A crisis of faith in South Africa: ‘People have given up on the state’

>>16264942 South Africa president abandons rally after booing

>>16298848 South Africa-Mandela Attacked Re 'Shoot To Kill (video)

>>16299738 Don’t forget the murders of Prime Minister Dr. HF Verwoerd and Bernt Carlsson (video)

>>16345467, >>16350209, >>16351131 Are Foreign Investors Colonising Africa?

>>16345817, >>16345829, >>16345842 Africa: A possible solution for Europe’s energy troubles Parts 1-3

>>16346727, >>16346735 Government of South Africa and The United Nations in South Africa sign the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework

>>16350432 Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative

>>16381002, >>16386558, >>16386621 Albie Sachs/Sujit Choudhry Land Grab and judging the judges (videos)

>>16386828 Arthur Fraser lays criminal chargers against President Ramaphosa – Theft and Kidnapping

>>16399968, >>16399979, >>16399981, >>16399984, >>16399985, >>16399986, >>16399988, >>16399993 MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards (Parts 1-8)

>>163400008 Bertha Foundation, Clooney Foundation and Amnesty International’s Support of Omar Radi | Morocco Condemns Amnesty International's "Political Interference"

>>16401000 Amandla! Collective Bun

>>16401001 ANC Bun

>>16401007 Commodities Bun

>>16401008 Covid Bun

>>16401009 Oppenheimer Bun

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Anonymous 06/05/22 (Sun) 19:24:25 d5fdf4 No.16401018

>>16401016 (me)

Fixed it

Notables are NOT Endorsements

passing 160

>>15510152 Ex-South African president appeals ruling in corruption case

>>15510222 A crisis of faith in South Africa: ‘People have given up on the state’

>>15510185 South Africa's rand recovers, central banks in focus

>>15510222 A crisis of faith in South Africa: ‘People have given up on the state’

>>16264942 South Africa president abandons rally after booing

>>16298848 South Africa-Mandela Attacked Re 'Shoot To Kill (video)

>>16299738 Don’t forget the murders of Prime Minister Dr. HF Verwoerd and Bernt Carlsson (video)

>>16345467, >>16350209, >>16351131 Are Foreign Investors Colonising Africa?

>>16345817, >>16345829, >>16345842 Africa: A possible solution for Europe’s energy troubles Parts 1-3

>>16346727, >>16346735 Government of South Africa and The United Nations in South Africa sign the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework

>>16350432 Zuma's self-survival rooted in being ex-ANC intelligence operative

>>16381002, >>16386558, >>16386621 Albie Sachs/Sujit Choudhry Land Grab and judging the judges (videos)

>>16386828 Arthur Fraser lays criminal chargers against President Ramaphosa – Theft and Kidnapping

>>16399968, >>16399979, >>16399981, >>16399984, >>16399985, >>16399986, >>16399988, >>16399993 MWN Investigation Reveals Amnesty International’s Reckless Double Standards (Parts 1-8)

>>16400008 Bertha Foundation, Clooney Foundation and Amnesty International’s Support of Omar Radi | Morocco Condemns Amnesty International's "Political Interference"

>>16401000 Amandla! Collective Bun

>>16401001 ANC Bun

>>16401007 Commodities Bun

>>16401008 Covid Bun

>>16401009 Oppenheimer Bun

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 14:40:18 49acc9 No.16404187

>>16400996

“Silent Weapons for Quite Wars”

It seems to me that the document, “Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars”, is playing out in the world.

The world put sanction on South Africa during Apartheid but it would not affect the Oppenheimer family due to their global investments but local businesses suffered.

With the COVID shutdowns, the elites benefited where a few more billionaires were created however millions of small businesses suffered globally.

They create the problem, then provide a solution to the problem they created.

https://archive.org/details/SilentWeaponsForQuietWarsOriginalDocumentCopy/page/n1/mode/2up

https://enchantedlifepath.com/war-on-humanity/silent-weapons-for-quiet-wars/

This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called the 'Quiet War' , being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with 'silent weapons'.

This book contains an introductory description of this war, its strategies, and its weaponry.

May 1979

Silent weapon technology has evolved from Operations Research (0.R.) a strategic and tactical methodology developed under the military management In England during World War II.

Immediately, the Rockefeller Foundation got in on the ground floor by making a four year grant to Harvard College.

The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintain some measure of social order, peace, and tranquillity for the ruling upper class.

Therefore, the silent weapon Is a type of biological warfare. It attacks the vitality, options, and nobility of the individuals of a society by knowing, understanding, manipulating, and attacking their sources of natural and social energy, and their physical, mental, and emotional strengths and weaknesses.

Economic engineers achieve the same result in studying the behavior of the economy and the consumer public by carefully selecting a staple commodity such as beef, coffee, gasoline, or sugar, and then causing a sudden change or shock in its price or availability, thus kicking everybody’s budget and buying habits out of shape.

The objective of such studies is to acquire the know-how to set the public economy into a predictable state of motion or change, even a controlled self-destructive state of motion which will convince the public that certain “expert” people should take control of the money system and reestablish security (rather than liberty and justice) for all. When the subject citizens are rendered unable to control their financial affairs, they, of course, become totally enslaved, a source of cheap labor.

Not only the prices of commodities, but also the availability of labor can be used as the means of shock testing. Labor strikes deliver excellent tests shocks to an economy, especially in the critical service areas of trucking (transportation), communication, public utilities (energy, water, garbage collection), etc.

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 14:41:37 49acc9 No.16404192

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>16400996

The Oppenheimer family have gone beyond the South African borders

“Jonathan Oppenheimer speaks at the 10th annual Oppenheimer Research Conference”; https://youtu.be/6aLPYuUB7aQ (discussing “climate change”)

https://briefly.co.za/60119-jonathan-oppenheimer-age-children-wife-parents-businesses-net-worth.html

Jonathan was among the decision-makers who delisted De Beers in 2001 and sold the Oppenheimer family shares to AngloAmerican in 2012 for $5.1 billion. At De Beers, he served for many years.

Jonathan co-founded Brenthurst Foundation with his wife. It spearheads the growth of Africa. The Oppenheimer's family and Temasek Holdings came together and established Tana Africa Capital that invests in various business opportunities in Africa. He is also the non-executive director of a chemical company called Umicore.

The Presidential Advisory Committee on the Economy in Malawi, which was established by Brenthurst Foundation, is one of the many boards and advisory panels that he has sat on.

https://www.thebrenthurstfoundation.org/about/story/ - The Brenthurst Foundation states;

Our team engages with experts, policy specialists, and senior government officials in Africa and beyond. Our activities focus on:

Policy advice

We identify and share international best practice with governments, addressing not just what to do but how to do it. Our wide experience across different African countries affords us unique insights.

Thought leadership

Drawing on our global network of analysts we undertake research and develop new thinking to address Africa’s challenges and support economic transformation.

We work at the invitation of African governments.

Born in 2004, the Brenthurst Foundation was established by the Oppenheimer family to build on the work of the Brenthurst Initiative of 2003. This was a programme that instigated debate around policy strategies in South Africa to accelerate economic expansion. The debate continues across the continent, driven by the sharing of ideas, data, and experiences.

The Brenthurst Foundation is part of Oppenheimer Generations, a community consisting of a collection of autonomous but interconnected entities, each playing a critical and unique role to fulfil our long-term commitment of leaving our world better than how we found it.

We bring together policy-makers and policy-shapers.

Since its inception, the Foundation has regularly brought together the world's leading thinkers and practitioners to consider ways to enhance the continent's economic growth and development. We are fortunate to count these key players, from presidents and finance ministers to renowned scholars and UN officials, among our advisors and associates.

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 14:48:20 49acc9 No.16404208

>>16386558

> A friend of mine, Lord Stephen Sedley [father was a Jewish immigrant, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Sedley] a wonderful judge from the court of appeal in England, retired had agreed. He’d helped with the drafting of the regulations…

“Put everyone on DNA database, says judge” – Stephen Sedley “Former” Communist

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1562193/Put-everyone-on-DNA-database-says-judge.html

5 September 2007

Lord Justice Sedley's comments came in a BBC interview, though he has been advocating a national database for several years.

He conceded that such a move would be authoritarian but said the current random additions to the database were unfair and indefensible.

Sir Stephen is ex-member of the Communist Party

Unusually - perhaps uniquely for an Appeal Court judge - Lord Justice Sedley is a former member of the Communist Party.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Stephen Sedley was renowned as a radical lawyer.

Born in 1939, he was called to the bar in 1964 after coming down from Cambridge and became a QC in 1983.

He became a High Court judge 10 years later and joined the Appeal Court in 1999.

The judge was a strong supporter of the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law through the Human Rights Act.

He has long had an interest in the retention of DNA.

In 2002, he was among the Appeal Court judges who dismissed a case brought on behalf of a 12-year-old boy whose DNA was kept on the database even though he had been declared innocent of any offence. The court said it did not breach human rights laws.

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 15:04:32 49acc9 No.16404262

“Is This The Stupidest Thing The UN Has Ever Done?”- North Korea assumed control as the chair of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stupidest-thing-un-has-ever-done

Last week, North Korea assumed control as the chair of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, the U.N. forum for negotiating multilateral disarmament efforts across the globe. It’s the latest in a string of questionable moves the U.N. has taken in putting nation officials in contradictory positions.

North Korea officially took over the U.N. disarmament conference on Monday, according to NK News. The U.N. move quickly drew criticism from nongovernmental organizations that noted North Korea’s major nuclear weapons development efforts in recent months.

In March, North Korea conducted its first full intercontinental ballistic missile test in over four years. North Korea also conducted a ballistic missile test just days before President Joe Biden visited neighboring South Korea.

“North Korea has just taken over as chair of the Conference on Disarmament here at the United Nations in Geneva,” tweeted United Nations Watch executive director Hillel Neuer.

“This is not a joke. When they preside at tomorrow’s meeting, our coalition of 40 UN-accredited NGOs is calling on all democracies to walk out.”

“Having the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un preside over global nuclear weapons disarmament will be like putting a serial rapist in charge of a women’s shelter,” Neuer added.

The U.N. has faced criticism for other controversial picks to lead major initiatives.

In April 2020, the U.N. appointed Jiang Duan, the minister at the Chinese Mission in Geneva, to represent the Asia-Pacific Group (APG) on the U.N. Human Rights Council’s Consultative Group. Some groups have criticized the U.N. for giving China expanded powers on human rights panels despite carrying out human rights abuses against their minority Uyghur population.

In May 2020, the U.N. also named Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan as a World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador. Peng had been photographed in a Chinese military uniform singing for Chinese troops at Tiananmen Square in 1989 after they violently dispersed protestors in an event known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

The U.N. also named Chinese television anchor James Chau as a goodwill ambassador. Neuer noted Chau had broadcasted the Chinese government’s forced confession of captured British national, Peter Humphrey, who was made to confess to stealing the data of Chinese citizens.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has also criticized the U.N. Human Rights Council for including “murderers, dictators and thieves.”

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 15:48:13 4cbfe7 No.16404434

“Oppenheimer family taps Asia’s wealthy”

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/2021-10-20-oppenheimer-family-taps-asias-wealthy/

The Oppenheimers join a growing number of billionaires turning to Singapore as fortunes surge across Asia

The family office for Nicky Oppenheimer and his son, Jonathan, has set up an outpost in Singapore to boost its Asia exposure and partner with the region’s wealthy.

Edoardo Collevecchio, the former chief of staff for Oppenheimer Generations, is moving from London to build and lead its team in Singapore, while Yi Ling Ong joins from Temasek Holdings as head of investment for the Asia unit, the company said in a statement.

The investment firm, which represents a branch of the dynasty that founded mining giant Anglo American and turned De Beers into the world’s largest diamond producer, said it hopes a presence in the city-state will help drive investments between Asia and its home market of Africa.

“Over the next 20 or 30 years, the synergies between Africa and Asia are going to be substantial,” Collevecchio said in an interview. “We want to be here at the start of that journey.”

The Oppenheimer family has a combined net worth of $8.2bn, largely through the 2012 sale of their stake in De Beers for about $5bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The Oppenheimers join a growing number of billionaires turning to Singapore as fortunes surge across Asia.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin and vacuum-cleaner billionaire James Dyson have both set up investment firms to manage their wealth in the city-state, known for its high standard of living, political stability and plethora of tax treaties. Bridgewater Associates’ Ray Dalio also signalled in 2020 he would open a family office there to run his investments and philanthropy in the region. The number of family offices in Singapore rose fivefold between 2017 and 2019, according to government data.

“We look forward to deepening relationships with like-minded partners,” Jonathan Oppenheimer, the family office’s executive chair, said in the statement.

The Oppenheimers trace their fortune to the 1917 formation of Anglo American in SA. The firm later took control of De Beers, where Nicky Oppenheimer was chair from 1998 to 2012.

Oppenheimer Generations, which was created after Anglo American bought the family’s 40% stake in the diamond firm, now has more than two dozen employees in SA, the UK and Jersey, according to LinkedIn data. Its other investments include Tana Africa Capital, a private-equity joint venture set up a decade ago with Temasek to invest in African companies.

“This is an incredibly exciting challenge,” Collevecchio said about Asia. “We see so much potential.”

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 15:54:07 4cbfe7 No.16404473

“Oppenheimer family sells stake in Anglo to Chinese group – report” – dated 10th November 2006

https://www.miningweekly.com/article/oppenheimer-family-sells-stake-in-anglo-to-chinese-group-report-2006-11-10/rep_id:3650

The Oppenheimer family sold a third of its stake in Anglo American Plc, the company it founded in 1917 and which has grown into the world's second-biggest miner, to China Vision Resources, controlled by billionaire Larry Yung, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

The stake is worth 419-million pounds, some $803-million, based on Anglo's closing price of Thursday, the news service said. The Oppenheimers will retain more than 2%.

The sale underscores China's attempts to bolster its hold on mining resources and accelerates Anglo's transformation from a chiefly South African gold and platinum producer to an international industrial metals producer.

Bloomberg quoted a political analyst, from Cape Town, Nic Borain as saying that it was “extraordinary significant” for China to take over from what symbolised old colonial capital.

“It's the end of an era and beginning of new one in which China will have a much bigger role in Africa.”

The family company, E Oppenheimer & Son, would invest more of its money in African nonmining businesses and South African private equity units, Bloomberg reported.

It quoted Oppenheimer as saying on Friday that the Oppenheimer family had a “long and emotional” debate, but that the logic was quite simple. “Its all to do with asset allocation.”

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 18:14:17 ec310d No.16405067

“Glencore redirected over $75 million in mining payments to scandal-hit friend of Congolese President, Global Witness reveals”

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/glencore-redirected-over-75-million-mining-payments-scandal-hit-friend-president-global-witness-reveals/

March 3, 2017

Below are excerpts.

Between 2013 and 2016 mining giant Glencore paid over $75m to Dan Gertler, a controversial businessman accused of bribing senior officials in Democratic Republic of Congo to advance his mining interests, Global Witness revealed today. These payments were due to be paid to Congo’s state mining company Gécamines under the terms of the original contract it had with Glencore.

Glencore did not disclose in company filings that it was instead making these payments to Gertler, a known corruption risk. That he was the recipient of the payments comes to light only weeks after Glencore bought Gertler out of mining assets it held jointly with him in Congo in a billion dollar deal.

A Global Witness investigation found that from 2013 to 2016 Toronto-listed Katanga Mining, majority-owned by Glencore, made “signature bonus” and other payments totalling over $75 million to Dan Gertler’s Africa Horizons company, registered in the Cayman Islands. Under the original contract these payments would have gone to Gécamines, but Global Witness wrote to Glencore after reviewing company documents and filings that raised questions over the true recipient of the payments. Glencore admitted that they were made to Gertler’s company.

“It’s outrageous that Glencore has been making payments to a friend of the Congolese President who has been accused of bribery and corruption, and then not telling its shareholders or the public that it’s done so,” said Pete Jones from the Congo team at Global Witness. “Glencore has been in business in Congo with Gertler for a decade and has known about the allegations that have been made against him for years.”

Gertler is a close friend of Congo’s President Joseph Kabila and has been a focus of major foreign bribery investigations in the US and UK. In a finding by US authorities in September against the hedge fund Och-Ziff, an “infamous Israeli businessman” was identified as having paid bribes to Congolese officials to win mining licences for Och-Ziff. The businessman is widely understood to be Gertler. He is reported to be a central focus of a corruption investigation by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office into Kazakh mining company ENRC, based in part on ENRC’s deals with Gertler in Congo. Gertler’s spokesman told Bloomberg that his company “vigorously contests any and all accusations of wrongdoing in any of its dealings in [Congo]”.

Congo has vast natural resource wealth, but corruption, mismanagement and the sale of mines below market value have helped keep it one of the world’s poorest countries, consistently languishing near the bottom of the UN Human Development Index.

Glencore has now admitted, in a letter to Global Witness, that these payments actually went to Gertler from 2013 to 2016.

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 18:15:44 ec310d No.16405077

>>16405067

>Glencore has now admitted, in a letter to Global Witness, that these payments actually went to Gertler from 2013 to 2016.

“Cyril Ramaphosa’s history a red flag – expert” - Glencore

https://www.security.co.za/news/47386

3 June 2022

Glencore denied Ramaphosa’s direct involvement in its operations

A leading scholar on the workings of multinationals, has poohpoohed as “an evasion of tough questions” a move by mining house Glencore to absolve President Cyril Ramaphosa from day-to-day operational involvement in a major coal mine supplying Eskom.

Ramaphosa was chair and co-owner of the company’s subsidiary Optimum Coal Holdings (OCH) prior to being appointed deputy president in 2014.

University of Johannesburg sociology professor Patrick Bond was responding to this week’s statement by Glencore, in which it denied Ramaphosa’s direct involvement in the company’s operations, or in its Eskom-supplying Optimum Coal Mine (OCM).

“Mr Ramaphosa divested his entire interest in OCH on 22 May 2014 – prior to him taking office as deputy president and prior to his involvement with the Eskom war room,” the statement read. [They are covering up for him]

Citing Ramaphosa’s past involvement as a director of London Stock Exchange-listed Lonmin, Bond said: “We have learnt a lot about what multinational mining houses want from Cyril Ramaphosa – for example his e-mail on 15 August 2012, to political decision-makers.

“What these multinationals need is a licence to do what they want to do in any country, by assimilating a guy who has influence. In the case of Lonmin, it regrettably meant using Ramaphosa to put down a strike,” said Bond.

“We saw this in an e-mail he sent to then minerals minister Susan Shabangu, describing the Lonmin strike as a criminal act and not a labour dispute.

“We must remember what followed when the police force went overboard in doing what they thought he wanted [now known as the Marikana Massacre].”

Turning to the Glencore saga in which the company was last week fined more than $1.5 billion (about R23 billion) after pleading guilty in the US to bribery and market manipulation, mainly against Africans, Bond said: “The fine of $1.5 billion they paid is not compared to the revenue they collected over this period, which amounted to $3.2 trillion.

“This is a slap on the wrist. And Washington collects the fine, not victims in Africa.

“They are the single biggest mining and commodities trading house in the world.

“The other question is that when Glencore was fined, its share price went up by six percent on the London Stock Exchange and Johannesburg Stock Exchange. How does this happen?

“Here we are dealing with a company employing bribery as its main technique – seen in other parts of the world like Ghana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, elsewhere in Africa and Venezuela.”

Former Eskom chief executive Matshela Koko this week told The Citizen of his intention to submit documents to the US attorney-general about flaws in the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, which he maintained failed to properly investigate Ramaphosa’s role in pushing Optimum’s agenda.

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Anonymous 06/06/22 (Mon) 20:31:07 d5fdf4 No.16405564

>>16405077

Glencore deserves its own Bun, please keep that coming!

Nameless, faceless "experts" though, ugh

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 12:29:51 ec310d No.16408650

“Scandal-hit mining companies BHP and Glencore pay record $12bn to investors”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/feb/15/scandal-hit-mining-companies-bhp-and-glencore-pay-record-12bn-to-investors

15 February 2022

Scandal-hit mining companies BHP and Glencore have paid out a record $12bn in dividends to investors as the price of the materials the companies mine continues to boom.

BHP, the world’s biggest mining group which scrapped its dual stock market structure dropping London last year for a sole listing in Sydney, announced a record $7.6bn half-year dividend on Tuesday.

The company makes most of its profits from mining iron ore in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, where it has ministerial permission to destroy as many as 40 sites of cultural importance to the country’s native Aborigines.

Following investor outrage at its mining plans, the company subsequently pledged not to damage any of the sites without “extensive consultation” with native owners.

BHP is aiming to transition its business to derive half of revenues from “future facing commodities” – metals needed in a low-carbon economy beyond fossil fuels – by 2030. BHP made $9.7bn in adjusted profits for the half year to the end of December, a 57% year-on-year increase.

Anglo-Swiss rival Glencore, one of the world’s biggest miners and commodity traders, has also benefited from the soaring price of oil, gas and metals as economies seek to recover from the pandemic.

The company paid a $4bn dividend to shareholders as it reported record adjusted profits of $21.3bn last year, an 83% increase over 2020. Glencore also said it had set aside $1.5bn to pay for the costs of investigations into bribery and market manipulation.

The company is facing corruption investigations in the US, UK and Brazil relating to its mining operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, home to the world’s largest reserves of cobalt, a crucial metal in electric battery manufacture, as well as Venezuela and Nigeria.

“We recognise there has been misconduct in this company historically. We’ve worked hard to correct that,” said Gary Nagle, chief executive at Glencore. “Looking forward, we remain focused on our strategy … while operating in a responsible manner across all aspects of our business.”

Glencore, which said it expects to resolve the US, UK and Brazilian investigations this year, still faces potential corruption and bribery investigations by other countries, including Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Instead of selling or spinning off its coal operations as a number of its peers are – a strategy activist investor Bluebell Capital Partners has also urged the company to do – Glencore is instead pursuing a strategy of running them down with the aim of closure by the mid-2040s.

“Touting the work the company is doing in reducing its exposure to fossil fuels is one thing but while its peers are distancing themselves from coal, Glencore seems happy to hang onto it and deplete its use ‘responsibly’,” said Dan Lane, senior analyst at Freetrade. “The best PR machine out there wouldn’t be able to convince the market that the coal division is a sustainable or responsible one.”

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 12:51:15 ec310d No.16408706

“Glencore’s Corruption guilty verdict vindicates Critics of the New Dawn’s blind trust in dodgy Mining Houses” – Zambia

https://www.lusakatimes.com/2022/06/02/glencores-corruption-guilty-verdict-vindicates-critics-of-the-new-dawns-blind-trust-in-dodgy-mining-houses/

June 2, 2022

The New Dawn government has been accused of being too cosy to the mining houses despite their poor record. The UPND administration’s development strategy is mainly anchored on mining without making changes to decades old agreements and unfair incentives, through negotiations with mining houses, despite overwhelming evidence in the past 20 years which shows that they have been ripping Zambia off with all sorts of legal machinations as well as through financial and environmental criminal practices.

The corruption guilty verdict in the US, of Glencore, the former owners of Mopani Copper Mines (MCM), vindicates the New Dawn critics. Glencore bought MCM for $30m and sold it back to Zambia for $1.5billion, after 20 years of paying no income taxes, claiming losses throughout the period.

Glencore, is expected to pay to authorities in the US, UK and Brazil the sum US$1.5bn after pleading guilty to a 10-year international bribery scheme as well as a plot to manipulate commodity prices. Guess what, the penalty may even be paid from the loan repayments they receive from Zambia for MCM which they sold us at such an exorbitant amount having bought it for a song.

“The scope of this criminal bribery scheme is staggering,” Damian Williams, US attorney for the Southern District of New York told a press conference. “Glencore paid bribes to secure oil contracts. Glencore paid bribes to avoid government audits. Glencore bribed judges to make lawsuits disappear. At bottom, Glencore paid bribes to make money – hundreds of millions of dollars. And it did so with the approval, and even encouragement, of its top executives.”

According to the US Department of Justice, Glencore was involved in a “decade-long scheme by Glencore and its subsidiaries to make and conceal corrupt payments and bribes through intermediaries for the benefit of foreign officials across multiple countries”. And between 2007 and 2018, Glencore paid around US$80mn to third-party intermediaries to secure business with state-owned or state-controlled entities. The practices took place in several African and Latin American countries, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Brazil and Venezuela. Glencore is also said to use inflated invoices, sham consulting agreements and intermediary companies to conceal payments to foreign officials

In its recent opinion piece on the verdict, the UK Financial Times wrote: “Glencore is not alone in needing a cultural overhaul on bribery. Broadly, the contribution of global resources companies to the impoverishment and penury of African nations was considered a niche concern in the Square Mile.” (the Square mile is the City of London- Central London- which has been a doyen of dirty and bloody money which we never knew until the Ukraine-Russia was has exposed the City)

The Financial Times Opinion clearly show that Glencore is not the only Mining house involved in corruption but others are also guilty of this. But Glencore appears to have been in the premier league of Multinational corruption and has been caught red handed. Although Zambia is not mentioned by name in guilty the verdict, it is included in the phrase “multiple countries”, “African Countries”. It follows that Zambia should not be naïve and have blind trust of other Mining houses. In any case, Vendetta Resources is another mining house in Zambia whose record in Zambia for various crimes is well documented.

It is with the above back ground, that critics including the author of this article have been critical of the New Dawn’s fallacious belief that ramping up production to 3million tonne will benefit Zambia without negotiating better deals, including revision of the archaic development agreements. The reality is that increased production will only benefit foreign mining houses’ shareholders and very little will remain in Zambia for development. The argument by critics is that Zambia will not sufficiently benefits from increased mining production as Mining houses having been involved in widespread schemes financial crimes like corruption, tax evasion through transfer pricing and other machinations to deny Zambia sufficient benefits from their natural resources due to pure greed by foreign investors and their local accomplices.

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 12:56:26 ec310d No.16408715

“China’s GEM Co. Ltd and Glencore extend their long-term strategic cobalt partnership”

https://www.glencore.com/media-and-insights/news/Chinas-Gem-Co-Ltd-and-Glencore-extend-their-long-term-strategic-cobalt-partnership

Baar, Switzerland 7 October 2019

GEM Co. Ltd (GEM) and Glencore are pleased to announce that they have entered into a five year agreement for the supply of cobalt hydroxide (cobalt).

Under the terms of the agreement, Glencore will provide a minimum of 61,200 tonnes of Cobalt for GEM between 2020 and 2024.

Mr Xu, Chairman of GEM commented:

“GEM is very pleased to announce this long-term strategic co-operation with Glencore. This agreement represents a major cornerstone in GEM’s cobalt sourcing strategy as it will support GEM’s continued contribution to the Chinese New Energy Market.

“In an ever-changing and fast evolving cobalt environment, GEM and Glencore have managed to maintain a very strong working relationship.

“By securing a key battery raw material, GEM clearly demonstrates its ability to implement and deliver its vision for an electrified, carbon-free transportation system.

“GEM will continue focusing on the development and the manufacturing of high quality sustainable cobalt products to meet the fast growing demand for cobalt containing battery products.

“GEM truly appreciates Glencore’s long term approach and its support in establishing a stable and sustainable cobalt supply chain.”

Nico Paraskevas, Head of Marketing, Copper & Cobalt, Glencore, commented:

“The extension of our long established partnership with GEM further endorses Glencore’s important role in supplying the materials that enable the energy and mobility transition. Furthermore, this long term partnership provides Glencore with a stable outlet for a significant portion of its expected future Cobalt Hydroxide production.”

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 13:00:11 ec310d No.16408721

”China Huaneng Group and Glencore sign MOU on CCUS Project” – Australian Funding

https://www.glencore.com/media-and-insights/news/china-huaneng-and-glencore-sign-mou-on-ccus-project

Beijing, China

12 April 2021

On 10 April at the 6th China International Conference on CO2 Capture Utilization and Storage, China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Carbon Capture Transport and Storage Company of Glencore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the cooperation on carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology, commencing with the CTSCo Project in Millmerran power station in Australia.

Glencore is one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies and China Huaneng is one of the world’s largest energy and technology companies.

Signing the MOU today both companies committed to supporting the deployment of low emissions technologies like CCUS to reduce greenhouse emissions from the use of fossil fuels and other industrial processes.

The CTSCo Project in Queensland, Australia will use China Huaneng’s CO2 capture technology at the Millmerran coal fired power station to capture a stream of CO2 which will then be transported and stored permanently in a non-potable aquifer at a depth of more than 2 kilometres.

“This is the first integrated international carbon dioxide capture and storage project that China has participated in. Huaneng will work with Glencore to complete a high-quality carbon capture project in Australia's Surat Basin, build a high-quality cross-industry international cooperation project, help coal-fired power generation achieve "near zero emissions", and enhance its international influence,” said Dr Li Weidong, Chairman of China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Glencore CEO, Ivan Glasenberg, welcomed the ongoing collaboration with China Huaneng. “We are very pleased to strengthen our collaboration with China Huaneng on the CTSCo Project. This project is vitally important because it can scale up to support the reduction of Scope 3 emissions from the use of fossil fuels across a broad range of industrial sectors.”

The CTSCo Project is Australia’s most advanced onshore CCUS project and will demonstrate CCUS at an industrial scale. Key funding and project participants include Glencore, China Huaneng, Low Emission Technology Australia (LETA), Australian National Low Emissions Coal Research and Development (ANLECR&D) and the Australian Government.

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 13:28:42 ec310d No.16408829

“Glencore to honour pre-existing Russia contracts, no new deals”

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/glencore-honour-pre-existing-russia-contracts-no-new-deals-2022-03-30/

March 30, 2022

LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - Global mining and trading Glencore (GLEN.L) said on Wednesday it had "no realistic way to exit" its stakes in Russian company En+ Group and state oil firm Rosneft (ROSN.MM) after reviewing its business ties.

The London-listed miner added in the statement that it would "not enter into any new trading business in respect of Russian origin commodities unless directed by the relevant government authorities".

On March 1, the Swiss company said it was reviewing its business activities in Russia.

Western companies began severing ties with Moscow days after its invasion of Ukraine, under pressure from governments and shareholders.

Glencore holds a 10.5% stake in aluminium and hydropower company En+ that in turns is the majority owner of Russian aluminium producer Rusal (RUAL.MM).

Glencore has a 0.57% stake in Rosneft.

It does not have any board or management representation in either company.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rusal-glencore-idUSKBN21L1AO

“Rusal, Glencore agree aluminium deal worth up to $16.3 billion” – April 3, 2020

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Rusal has approved a new long-term aluminium supply contract with Glencore worth up to $16.3 billion, it said in a Hong-Kong regulatory statement on Friday.

Swiss trader and metals producer Glencore has long been one of the main clients of Hong Kong-listed Rusal, the world’s largest aluminium producer outside China.

Glencore owns a stake in Rusal parent En+ Group.

The new contract is for 2020-2024 and can be extended for 2025, Rusal said.

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 13:45:33 ec310d No.16408886

“Calls mount for SA probe into Glencore” – Ties to the ANC

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies/calls-mount-for-sa-probe-into-glencore-39c35f28-3721-46ea-828f-c4e94419f468

THE CALLS for a local investigation into the activities of diversified miner Glencore are intensifying as civil society organisations have requested South Africa to look at its relationship with the company following it being found guilty of corruption.

Bench Marks Foundation, Corruption Watch and South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu), supported the calls from civil rights groups in countries where bribes took place to conduct further probes into Glencore.

The Anglo-Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company this month admitted to paying more than $100 million (R1.5 billion) in bribes to officials in Brazil, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, South Sudan and Venezuela between 2007 and 2018.

On Friday, the Bench Marks Foundation, which has conducted investigations on Glencore on pollution in some African countries, said there needed to be an investigation into Glencore in Africa, particularly in South Africa.

It said it was not surprised by the latest allegations that had come out regarding corruption of Glencore and its officials.

In an interview, Bench Marks chief researcher David van Wyk said: “In the past, we pointed out direct incidents of very problematic allegations that are now proven in the US, which happened in the DRC. We have been saying this since 2010, and now it's come out.”

Van Wyk said Glencore and South Africa had a long history and that warrants an investigation on its South African dealings.

“We suspect that Glencore was involved in bribes in South Africa, but worse we suspect that it and other companies are involved in tax haven fraud. These companies are registered in tax havens like Zurich in Switzerland or Cayman Islands. They mine the minerals here and sell them below global prices to themselves in those countries and then sell them at high global prices, that way they avoid paying tax here,” he said.

Van Wyk said if Glencore could be found guilty of corruption in the US, how was South Africa exempted?

“If they could participate in bribing and price-fixing around America, how much of that happened in Africa? How is it that SA escaped that? I don’t believe that for a moment,” he said.

Van Wyk said an investigation of Glencore in South Africa would depend on the upcoming ANC conference, as the company has ties to the ruling political party.

“If the current factions win that conference there will be no investigation. If the opposing faction wins that conference, then, there will be an investigation. This means the investigation would not be based on principle, or on ethics, it would be based on opportunism, and faction power in the ruling party,” he said.

“It is the culture of that organisation. That company was the one that managed to get arms in SA during apartheid. They also got oil from the apartheid government to run their military by dubious means,” according to Van Wyk.

Ncala agreed with Van Wyk and said: “To say that people have left the organisation as a form of defence to ward off any enquiry is preposterous. It is very disingenuous, in this particular era, we are looking for ethical leadership, we need to bear in mind that Glencore is a company that is a legal person so an entity needs to look at how it conducts itself,” he said.

Saftu on Friday also called on the government to initiate investigations into all Glencore operations.

“We have a reason to believe, because of Glencore’s notoriety in dealing with commodities across the world over the years, that it may have been involved in bribery,” it said.

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 16:08:57 ec310d No.16409418

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Glencore’s History – Marc Rich, Rudolph Giuliani and Bill Clinton

https://www.glencore.com/south-africa/who-are-we

Glencore’s marketing activities in South Africa began in 1974, with mining starting 14 years later, in 1988. Over the years, we have established a strong presence in South Africa’s coal and ferroalloy sectors, and have become a major contributor to the country’s local, provincial and national economies.

“The four-decade story of Glencore's explosive rise and fall”

https://www.businessinsider.com/glencores-history-and-what-happened-to-the-company-2015-10?op=1&r=US&IR=T

Oct 7, 2015

The company's name doesn't give much away about what it does, and it's a relative newcomer to the public markets, listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2011.

But it's important to understand what trouble at Glencore means because of the huge size of the company's debt pile, banks' exposure to it and its role in the world economy as a producer and trader of more than 90 commodities.

So here's an explainer of Glencore's mess is and how it got there.

The story starts with Belgian-born commodities billionaire Marc Rich, who, in 1974, circumvented the Arab oil embargo to buy oil from Iran and Iraq for $12 a barrel and sell it for a huge profit to US companies.

With the profits, Rich founds Marc + Co. AG in 1974. The company focuses on trading metals and oil.

In 1981, the company acquired a Dutch grain trading business, expanded into agricultural commodities and adds coal to its list of traded products.

In 1983, Marc Rich was indicted in the U.S. by then-U.S. prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani for multiple criminal activities including tax-evasion, racketeering and embargo breaches.

The charges could have come with a 300-year jail sentence, but Rich fled to Switzerland, protesting his innocence. He stayed on the FBI's most wanted list for many years. HIs companies pay $90 million in fines for breaches of the tax code.

In 1987, Glencore diversified away from pure commodities trading. It bought a 27% stake in a U.S. aluminium smelter. A year later, it bought a two-thirds stake in a Peruvian lead and zinc mine. The company became notable for its use of debt financing – a deliberate strategy adopted by Rich.

In 1993, Rich lost $172 million and control of his firm in a failed attempt to dominate the market for zinc. After a management buy-out, Marc Rich + Co AG was reborn as Glencore in 1994. Willy Strothotte became CEO.

In 2001, Marc Rich was controversially pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day as US president. It later emerged that Denise Rich, Marc Rich's wife, made a $1 million donation to the Democrat party.

Glencore went public on the London and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges in 2011. Shares were priced at 530p each in a deal valuing the company at $60 billion. The prospectus provided to investors about the company was 1,637 pages long.

In 2013, Glencore completed its merger with mining company Xstrata. The deal, which took 450 days, created a company with 190,000 employees in 50 countries and more ships than the British navy. Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg took the helm of the new firm.

Marc Rich died in the same year.

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 16:33:00 ec310d No.16409517

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Marc Rich’s ties to Apartheid – Part 1

https://www.opensecrets.org.za/marc-rich-open-secret/

July 17, 2013

There has been a stream of obituaries for Marc Rich, infamous billionaire, sanctions-buster, and one-time “King of Oil”. But these obituaries cannot tell the full story: we are still piecing together his true legacy

Probably the most successful oil trader of all time, Marc Rich’s true fame came from his 1983 indictment in the US on tax evasion charges, which led him to flee to Switzerland to avoid prosecution. After 18 years (during which time he was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list) Rich was pardoned by Bill Clinton, during Clinton’s final hours in office. For this he became even more famous – perhaps the most notorious businessman who ever lived.

Marc Rich’s successes as a trader – in oil primarily, but also in metals and minerals – will be forever be eclipsed by the unsavoury people he did business with (including corrupt dictatorships, and rightwing regimes such as Franco’s Spain and apartheid South Africa). There were also unlikely business bedfellows for a man with strong ties to the Israeli state such as the Ayatollah of Iran and Soviet Russia, to name a few. However, what enabled all of this were his controversial methods of conducting business. His disregard for international sanctions has become legendary – as he based Marc Rich & Co. in neutral Switzerland, he refused to recognise international sanctions on South Africa or any other country.

While all of his obituaries mention his apartheid business link in passing, the regime in Pretoria may have been the single greatest source of his wealth. In the years before his death, Rich admitted that busting oil sanctions for South Africa was his company’s “most important and most profitable” business[1]. Where others feared to do business with South Africa directly, Marc Rich was happy to step in as a middleman ¬– along with characters such as Marino Chiavelli of Italy, John Deuss of the Netherlands, and the Greek shipping merchant Tony Georgiadis (who continued to find ways to do business with a democratic South Africa).

Those who were willing to break sanctions did so for a higher price, earning huge commissions. Although the true extent of the relationship has yet to come to light, Marc Rich & Co. insiders have reportedly claimed that business with South Africa brought in as much as US$2 billion in pure profit[2], an extraordinary figure at that time. Much of this was channeled through a front company called Minoil.

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 16:33:32 ec310d No.16409519

Marc Rich’s ties to Apartheid – Part 2

https://www.opensecrets.org.za/marc-rich-open-secret/

July 17, 2013

This is the double devilry of those who profit from sanctions busting: not only do they violate international sanctions, but they also rip off the end user in the process. The National Party government estimated that South Africa paid about $22 billion more than market prices for oil between 1973 and 1984.[3]

Yet these give just a hint of the extent of the relationship, and the story has yet to be told in full. Much of what is known was pieced together during the period of sanctions by the Shipping Research Bureau, a Dutch NGO that monitored oil traffic to South Africa. Though their reports were vital in exposing unseemly secretive relationships in the oil industry at the time, the record remains incomplete.

Rich himself managed to achieve a remarkable cognitive dissonance on the question of his relationship with the apartheid state. He denied that his business had helped prolong apartheid, insisting: “I was fundamentally against apartheid. We were all against apartheid. I just was doing normal business with South Africa.”[4] (The definition of ‘normal business’ is, of course, flexible: his success in selling oil from Soviet Russia to apartheid South Africa at the height of the Cold War, is as remarkable as his ability to trade oil between Iran and Israel. An early, critical biography of Rich raised the allegation, via an anonymous ‘former shareholder’ that “We were selling Iranian and Soviet oil to South Africa in return for Namibian uranium we sold to the Soviets”[5].)

He also freely admitted that bribery was an acceptable practice in his business. Many of the mainstream business media have criticised Rich’s legacy, but how unusual was this way of doing business? United States law did not forbid the bribing of foreign officials until 1977. In Switzerland, bribes to foreign officials were treated as tax-deductible business expenses until 2000. Britain’s lax regulations on international bribery were only tightened in 2010. Rich’s approach may have been extreme, but it is a symbol of amoral business practices legitimised by weak regulation. (Not all are so equivocating: two weeks ago a columnist in the Financial Times claimed that Marc Rich “deserves credit as one of the greatest creators and sharers of wealth in business history.”)

Furthermore, those who believe that Rich’s legacy lies in the past misunderstand the nature of that legacy. One of the most remarkable things about Marc Rich was his ability to make money talk louder than politics – hence why, after 1994 he was able to continue doing business with South Africa, despite his links to the apartheid regime.

The Spectator argues: “his former protégés and apprentices now control, through his empire’s successor companies Glencore Xstrata and Trafigura, the price of just about everything.” They control a truly startling share of the world’s natural resources.

It is also worth remembering that, before his indictment in 1983, Rich was virtually unknown outside of trade circles – despite having already built up a commodities empire that was in bed with every oil-producing dictatorship and every oil hungry regime; unknown to many at the time, it even included a secret 50 percent of the entertainment empire 20th Century Fox. His indictment and eventual pardon made Rich notorious – yet it was his way of doing ‘normal’ business, no matter what the human cost, which did such terrific harm. The full extent of that harm – this is a question that still begs an answer and a far greater sense of public accountability than was ever achieved in his lifetime.

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Anonymous 06/07/22 (Tue) 16:38:20 ec310d No.16409535

File: cafb89af9563a75⋯.jpg (431.42 KB, 1328x881, 1328:881, Rich_Web.jpg)

>>16409517

>>16409519

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 13:00:21 4cbfe7 No.16413778

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The Oppenheimers and Charles Engelhard Inspired Ian Flemming’s writings

How Ian Fleming smuggled Enigma secrets into Bond’s adventures: Author was so interested in Bletchley Park he left clues in the books in a ‘wild contravention’ of the Official Secrets Act

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3818915/How-Ian-Fleming-smuggled-Enigma-secrets-Bond-s-adventures-Author-interested-Bletchley-Park-left-clues-books-wild-contravention-Official-Secrets-Act.html

Sinclair McKay, who has written a number of books on Bletchley Park, told Henley that the details would have been deliberately included because of his ‘adoration for the code breakers was enormous.’

Later, he told The Daily Telegraph: ‘Ian Fleming was involved in naval intelligence during the war.

‘He was one of the very, very few outside the Bletchley operation that knew precisely what these women and men achieved. He had to sign the Official Secrets Act because of it.’

https://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/scandals/diamonds.html

Some accounts of the breaking of the diamond smuggling network in the 1950s give Sir Percy Sillitoe the credit for MI5's success. The double-cross system had actually been run by John Masterman, an Oxford don who had been Harry Openheimer's tutor in politics at Oxford. According to the Dictionary of National Biography, Sillitoe was in overall charge of the police forces in Kent during the war. Peter Wright, a former British agent who created great controversy by publishing his memoirs, Spycatcher, in 1987, claimed that Sillitoe was made boss of MI5 by the prime minister Clement Atlee in 1946 as a snub to the intelligence services which Atlee blamed for the Zinoviev letter in 1929.

In 1953, not long after Sillitoe had retired, he was approached by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer for assistance in combatting illicit traffic in diamonds.

The story of IDSO was told by Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels and himself a former officer in British naval intelligence. Fleming was approached by one of Sillitoe's agents, who used the alias "John Blaize" without, according to Fleming the blessing of De Beers, in April 1957. That was the year following the publication of the novel Diamonds are Forever - (the title was inspired by the famous advertising slogan, of which it is the plural form) - in which Bond took on diamond smugglers. What Fleming learnt from "Blaize" became the basis of a series of articles in the Sunday Times during September and October 1957, and the Diamond Smugglers a book about the IDSO.

By the spring of 1957 these attempts to encourage sales through official channels and the efforts of Sillitoe's agents in targetting some of the brains behind the smuggling rings had proved so successful that the IDSO was disbanded, its mission having been accomplished. Some of its men went back to intelligence or security work and others took jobs with De Beers and the Anglo-American Corporation. (Smillie, Gberie & Hazleton, 2000)

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00322.htm

In 1960 Jesselson, assisted by his friend Andre Meyer of Lazard Freres, merged the firm with Minerals & Chemicals (Minorco). A second major change occurred in 1967—about the time Rich was arriving in Madrid—when Andre Meyer convinced Jesselson to merge with Engelhard Industries, owned by “Meyer’s friend and sometime business partner Charles Engelhard, the legendary inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger.”

Virtually all the trading done at Phibro (as Philipp Brothers was called after the Minorco merger) was extremely secretive. Minorco, S.A. (Luxembourg) was then the international trading and investment arm of the Oppenheimer mining interests—trading in diamonds, gold and other precious materials. Engelhard and Harry Oppenheimer were bosom buddies, who first met in South Africa. Just as Engelhard played a vitally strategic role in maintaining a predictable level of necessary metals for the United States’ needs for coinage and national defense purposes, the Oppenheimer family had long performed the same functions for the British Empire.

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 13:25:18 4cbfe7 No.16413886

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“RICH WAS SPY FOR ISRAEL – FUGITIVE FAT CAT ALSO OFFERED AID TO CIA & OTHERS”

https://nypost.com/2001/02/05/rich-was-spy-for-israel-fugitive-fat-cat-also-offered-aid-to-cia-others/

Billionaire Marc Rich lived a double life during his 20 years as a fugitive, funneling secret data to Israeli and other intelligence services about some unsavory governments.

Sensational details about Rich’s ultimate high-wire act as a spy for Israel and other countries were provided to The Post as congressional committees prepare to hold hearings into former President Bill Clinton’s controversial decision to pardon the fugitive commodities trader.

Among the issues that will be explored by the House Oversight Committee in its probe of the hotly disputed Rich pardon, according to congressional sources, are:

* Rich’s lengthy relationship with the Israeli Mossad.

* His numerous contacts with federal prosecutors in New York, during which his lawyers offered to provide intelligence to the CIA in return for leniency.

But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak repeatedly cited Rich’s contributions to Israel’s “national security” in phone calls to President Clinton last month in which he lobbied for Rich’s pardon, according to Barak spokesman Gadi Baltiansky.

And a letter from former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit to Clinton confirming that Rich provided “assistance” to the Israeli spy agency that produced results “beyond the expected” was among the documents released last week by Rich’s lawyer Jack Quinn to support the Rich pardon.

Rich and partner Pincus Green fled the country in 1983 ahead of federal charges that they ripped off taxpayers for $48 million. Both were among the 140 people pardoned or given clemency on Clinton’s last day in office.

A storm of controversy has erupted over the unusual way the Rich pardon was handled, as well as over the involvement of Rich’s ex-wife, Denise Rich, who raised $1 million for the Democratic party and gave the Clintons $7,000 in furniture for their new homes.

Accounts of Rich’s life on the lam – provided by former prosecutors, Rich’s lawyers and the Israeli government – sound like a plot from a James Bond movie [the irony >>16413778 ] as the ruthless and nimble Rich extended his empire on five continents and built up a business worth almost $30 billion.

He sold Iranian oil to Israel and Nigerian oil to South Africa.

He brokered the sale of North Korean arms to Iran and did several deals involving gold, grain, nickel and tin with the Russian Mafia and henchmen of the former Soviet Union.

Lawyers close to the case say there is no doubt that Rich had contacts with spies and security services throughout Europe and the Middle East. Those contacts not only helped him make money but may have also helped him stay one step ahead of U.S. lawmen trying to capture him, lawyers say.

Shavit, who headed the Mossad from 1989 to 1996, provided a fascinating glimpse of Rich’s role in the murky netherworld of spies. In his letter to Clinton released by Quinn’s office, Shavit said that he had a long relationship with Rich.

“We requested his assistance in looking for MIAs and his help in the rescue and evacuation of Jews from enemy countries,” Shavit wrote.

“Mr. Rich always agreed and used his extensive network of contacts in these countries to produce results that sometimes were beyond the expected.”

Murkier still were Rich’s efforts to become a superspy for the CIA.

Asked whether security and intelligence considerations involving the United States played any role in the Rich pardon, a former Clinton aide said, “I simply don’t know.”

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 13:39:28 4cbfe7 No.16413927

Marc Rich, “A Citizen of the World”

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00322.htm

Craig Copetas, Marc Rich’s biographer, labels his subject one of the “Metal Men,”[1] and attempts to trace Rich’s mysterious background. The Belgian Reich family fled Europe during World War II, assisted by a Jewish placement agency, and changed their surname to Rich.

A Citizen of the World

Marc Rich fits snugly into this new world order.

For years Howard Safir, working for Rudy Giuliani as his New York City police commissioner and later as chief of operations for the U.S. Marshals Service, had been tracking Rich down from one country to another. Safir told Larry King: “He was hard to get because he had a great deal of influence in a lot of countries, and we were pretty much restricted to just a few countries where we could apprehend him. He had a Bolivian passport, he had a Spanish passport. The Israelis were very clear they weren't going to help us apprehend him. So it was very difficult to get him, plus he had a lot of money….You know, Marc Rich is one of those people who considers himself a citizen of the world, inconvenienced by the petty laws of nations. And the message that this sends is outrageous.”[11]

Such “world citizenship” makes perfect sense, of course, to those persons who make their livelihood from global trade—what can best be termed the merchant adventurer class which brought us slavery, tobacco, rum, spices, and last but not least, opium. Part of the author’s research is to explore the genealogies of various members of this class of merchant traders from one generation to another to see how their accumulated knowledge and interrelationships have been used to take control of governments throughout the world and to indoctrinate others through advertising techniques and propaganda.

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 15:01:41 4cbfe7 No.16414246

“The toxic chocolatier – The case for prosecuting Glencore executives” – namely Ivan Glasenberg

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-05-31-the-toxic-chocolatier-the-case-for-prosecuting-glencore-executives/

31 May 2022

By pleading guilty to decades of bribery, corruption and price manipulation around the world, Glencore confirmed a poorly kept secret – criminality was a key pillar of the company’s business model.

Yet the company’s executives, including South African Ivan Glasenberg, became extraordinarily wealthy on the back of this criminal system.

As Manhattan US Attorney Damian Williams commented at a media conference last week, “Bribery was built into the corporate culture.”

Who drove this culture? Not the middle management, according to US law enforcement, who went on to add that:

“The tone from the top was clear: whatever it takes.”

Glencore traders used the codeword “chocolates” for bribe payments, hardly an effort to hide the practice from their seniors.

One executive who cashed in during this period was Glencore’s CEO, Ivan Glasenberg. Born and educated in South Africa, and now an Australian citizen living in Switzerland, Glasenberg was at the helm of Glencore for nearly two decades – from 2002 to 2021 – a period in which this system of bribery was created and entrenched.

Today, Glasenberg’s wealth is estimated at R135-billion. Though he resigned in 2021, he still has a 9% stake in Glencore.

It is not yet clear which executives the US Attorney refers to when saying that Glencore’s corruption was encouraged by “top executives”.

Take Glasenberg’s mentor, Marc Rich, the commodity trader who, by hook or by crook, established the Glencore empire. Rich is perhaps the most infamous oil and commodities trader of all time, trading with autocrats and war criminals around the world.

Glasenberg is the scion of Rich, starting work as a coal trader for Marc Rich & Co just after Rich was indicted in 1983 in the US on tax evasion charges and fled to Switzerland. This also coincided with a period in which the apartheid regime’s coal exports were under a growing global embargo for gross human rights violations, just like Russia faces today.

Glasenberg and Rich’s other protégés would go on to build and lead global commodities giants such as Glencore and Trafigura. Rich was never held to account.

Rich is the rule, not the exception. High-flying CEOs become billionaires leading multinational corporations, but are rarely held to account for crimes committed by those companies with their knowledge.

A good example is the CEOs of the banks and other financial institutions responsible for the 2008 global financial crisis and the catastrophic human costs that followed.

While US authorities collected billions in fines linked to this mass fraud, only one Wall Street banker was convicted. In this context, executives know that violation of the law in pursuit of profit is a lucrative strategy with little personal risk.

It is encouraging that the US settlement agreement does not preclude criminal prosecution of any Glencore executives. Further, there are ongoing investigations by authorities in Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Where there is sufficient evidence, criminal prosecutions must follow – and speedily.

Only this can change the calculus for corporate executives and ensure that economic crime doesn’t pay.

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 15:22:28 4cbfe7 No.16414359