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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

>>16409418

>>16409517

>>16409519

“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

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

“Ivan Glasenberg – Biography Of South African Mining Billionaire” - Glencore

https://www.entrepreneurs.ng/ivan-glasenberg/

April 30, 2020

Ivan Glasenberg is the chief executive officer of Glencore, a successful commodity trading and mining company. Ivan is also on the board of Minara Resources Ltd. He is a citizen of South Africa, Australia as well as Swiss.

Ivan was born on 7th January, 1957 in South Africa. His parents names are Samuel Glasenberg (a former luggage manufacturer and importer born in Lithuania) and Blanche Vilensky.

While growing up, he lived in Illovo, Gauteng with his family. As a young boy, Glasenberg was an athlete and interestingly, became a national junior champion in race walking in his early 20s. He is a champion race walker for both South Africa and Israel.

His Journey To Glencore International

Glencore is an abbreviation of Global Energy Commodity Resources. It is a British multinational commodity trading and mining company founded as Marc Rich & Co. AG in 1974. The founder’s name is Marc Rich, a billionaire commodity trader. Glasenberg joined Glencore in 1984 working in the coal department in South Africa and Australia.

Also, he managed Glencore’s Hong Kong and Beijing offices from 1989 to 1990. Due to hard work and dedication to duties, he became the head of the company’s coal department in 1991. Then, in 2002, he became the CEO of Glencore.

Glencore Xstrata

On May 2nd, 2013, Glencore and Xstrata merged to create a multi-billion mining company. After the merger, Glasenberg assumed the position of the CEO.

Meanwhile, it was reported that Mick Davis (Xstrata CEO) was supposed to be the CEO while Ivan would be the President in a merger-of-equals transaction.

But during the negotiations, the commodities trader, Glencore increased its offer for Xstrata to 3.05 Glencore shares for each of Xstrata’s share. This was largely after Qatar sovereign wealth fund, Xstrata’s second-largest investor, threatened to block the deal. Glencore had previously offered 2.8 shares for each of Xstrata’s shares.

After the merger, Glasenberg became the CEO while Davis left the company in July 2013.

Boards Where Ivan Glasenberg Serves

• Xstrata Plc, Executive director, since 2002

• Minara Resources Ltd, Non-Executive director, since 2000

• Rusal Plc, since 2007 >>16408829

• Century Aluminum Co, between 2010-2011

Loss Faced By Ivan Glasenberg

Glasenberg faced his fair share of loss in August 2011. Due to economic climate, he lost GB£788 million as his share price dropped by 13.2% leaving his 15.8% of the company worth GB£4.7billion.

However, Ivan being a future-forward businessman started buying shares of Glencore with his dividends that same year. He bought additional US$54million of Glencore stock.

As of April 2012, he held more than 15% of Glencore’s stock. This made him the 20th richest mining billionaire with Forbes estimating his net worth at US$7.3billion.

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 18:39:10 d3f4f2 No.16415399

>>16408721

“Revealed: Glencore bankrolled covert campaign to prop up coal” – Part 1

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/07/revealed-glencore-bankrolled-covert-campaign-to-prop-up-coal

6 March 2019

The mining company engaged Sir Lynton Crosby’s firm to push anti-renewables message and counter anti-coal activists

The multinational mining giant Glencore spent millions bankrolling a secret, globally coordinated campaign to prop up coal demand by undermining environmental activists, influencing politicians and spreading sophisticated pro-coal messaging on social media.

An investigation by Guardian Australia can reveal the covert campaign, dubbed “Project Caesar”, was orchestrated by world-renowned political operatives at the C|T Group, the firm founded by Sir Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor.

The C|T Group used teams in Sydney and London to further Glencore’s interests across the globe, including in Australia, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the project and documents seen by Guardian Australia.

Project Caesar began in early 2017 with an annual warchest of between £4m and £7m. Glencore has confirmed the project’s existence but said it moved to shut it down last month to “ensure alignment” with its recent decision to limit coal production for environmental reasons.

The campaign aimed to engage key politicians, both to gauge their views on coal and attempt to convince them of its continuing value.

Intelligence was collected about key coal detractors, including Greenpeace and 350.org, detailing their budgets, social media reach, and issues that could be used to embarrass or undermine them.

A sophisticated digital campaign was mounted to help shift public sentiment towards coal, using messaging informed by research, focus groups and polling conducted in multiple countries.

Campaign teams helped set up online grassroots groups to push positive messaging about clean coal technology, attack renewables and criticise the Australian Labor party. The practice is commonly known as astroturfing.

One source with knowledge of Project Caesar said it was linked to Energy in Australia, a Facebook group and website that attacks renewables, while supporting high efficiency, low emissions (Hele) coal plants through data, memes, graphics and video.

Posts blame renewables for blackouts in South Australia and Victoria, link renewable subsidies to “Saudi billionaires”, and stress a link between solar, wind and rising power prices. The group celebrated the formation of the Monash Forum, a group of federal MPs who speak in support of coal, including Coalition MPs Craig Kelly, George Christensen, and Tony Abbott.

Other posts warn of widespread blackouts due to the planned closure of the Liddell power plant in NSW, and tell followers that wind turbines are “desecrating our Diggers’ graves” in France, using photoshopped imagery of wind farms towering over an Anzac memorial. The wind farm, which was only in planning stages at the time, never went ahead.

Energy in Australia’s content is slickly-produced and its reach is significant. The Facebook page alone is followed by more than 20,000 people. Paid Facebook ads are also used to push posts into the feeds of other users.

Both the Energy in Australia website and Facebook group were taken offline following questions to Glencore and the C|T Group about the links to Project Caesar.

The sites are publicly authorised by a former Queensland Liberal National Party state MP, Matt McEachan.

When contacted by the Guardian, he could not say who else might be producing content for the group, aside from himself and other volunteers.

McEachan would not say who was providing funding, and said he did not know whether the C|T Group was involved in producing content for the site.

“I can’t really give you a comment or statement with any kind of authority in that respect,” he said.

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 18:40:01 d3f4f2 No.16415402

“Revealed: Glencore bankrolled covert campaign to prop up coal” – Part 2

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/07/revealed-glencore-bankrolled-covert-campaign-to-prop-up-coal

6 March 2019

Energy in Australia is similar in design and tone to a second pro-coal website, Australian Power Project, which was revealed in 2017 to have links to an employee of the C|T Group. Guardian Australia has found no evidence to suggest the Australian Power Project is part of Project Caesar.

Project Caesar also had a significant traditional media component, seeking to amplify and spread pro-coal voices and messaging in mainstream media sources.

The project had an overarching strategy of shifting the emotion and tone of the energy debate to favour coal by using arguments that were personally relevant to its target audience. Its messaging was centred on themes of cost, reliability and family security.

The campaign contrasts with Glencore’s more recent statement that it would cap global coal output, in part due to investor pressure to act on climate change.

It also potentially contrasted with the aims of another C|T Group client, the Liberal party, whose then leader Malcolm Turnbull was attempting to forge ahead with new reliability and emissions reduction guarantees, which would have reduced Australia’s reliance on coal.

In a statement, Glencore confirmed it had engaged the C|T Group on the project, which it said used research, focus groups, and polling to “better understand public views on coal”.

Glencore also confirmed it deployed a “proactive communications campaign” designed to counter the efforts of environmental activists.

It said the campaign complied with all relevant laws – Guardian Australia is not suggesting otherwise.

“The project also mandated CT Group to conduct a proactive communication campaign on coal in compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements,” the company said in a statement.

“The project’s objective was to convey simple facts about coal and in particular to counter misinformation from environmental activists.”

“Our business continues to engage with a range of stakeholders on the role that coal plays in socio-economic development and enabling access to reliable energy. We also acknowledge the need to transition to a low carbon economy. Glencore’s portfolio of commodities will allow the company to play a key role in this transition.”

Glencore said it told C|T Group to wrap up the project in mid-February to align with its announcement on climate change and the decision to cap coal output.

The C|T Group declined to comment, other than to say:

“All information about our clients is treated with the strictest confidence.”

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 18:41:57 d3f4f2 No.16415414

“Revealed: Glencore bankrolled covert campaign to prop up coal” – Part 3

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/07/revealed-glencore-bankrolled-covert-campaign-to-prop-up-coal

6 March 2019

The revelations shed new light on the C|T Group’s inner workings. Crosby, one of its founders, was knighted by the former UK prime minister, David Cameron, and has run the UK Conservative party’s last four general election campaigns.

The strategies employed for Glencore in Project Caesar appear strikingly similar to those offered in a pitch for a £5.5m campaign designed to cancel the 2022 Qatar football World Cup.

The World Cup project, dubbed Project Ball, proposed setting up full-time war rooms across the world, lobbying friendly politicians, academics and journalists, and pushing messaging on social media and astroturfing sites. Project Ball was pitched to a Qatari opposition figure living in London in an attempt to delegitimise the Qatari government and pressure Fifa to “restart the bidding process” for the World Cup hosting rights.

Project Caesar took place as Glencore made other aggressive plays to protect its Australian interests.

In 2017, Glencore mounted a surveillance operation targeting CFMEU members who were picketing its Oaky North mine in central Queensland. Its “clandestine and quasi-military activity” was described as “appalling” by Australia’s industrial relations umpire, the Fair Work Commission.

Glencore employed private investigators to secretly surveil union members using long-lens cameras and video. A map of the homes of key CFMEU members in the nearby town of Tieri was drawn up. Operatives took notes about their movements, reporting back to Glencore on a 24-hour basis.

“Nil Glencore staff members at the piquet [sic] lines in the past 24hrs,” one briefing note obtained by Guardian Australia read.

“Approximately 30 vehicles located at CFMEU guide hall 0800 hours this morning.”

Glencore also launched an operation codenamed Project Zuckerberg to find evidence of potential social media policy breaches in discussions in private Facebook groups used by CFMEU officials at Oaky North.

Documents and images seen by Guardian Australia show Glencore also asked a contractor to enter the lodgings of Oaky North workers when they called in sick. Photos of their empty beds were taken to help build evidence against the workers.

Guardian Australia has not found evidence to suggest the actions taken against the CFMEU Oaky North members were linked to Project Caesar.

Glencore’s actions in Africa have also come under close scrutiny in recent years.

The Paradise Papers, a leaked cache of millions of documents, showed how the commodities giant acted to further its mining interests in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The company engaged the mining magnate and Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler to negotiate with the DRC government in 2009, giving him a $45m loan in pledged shares repayable if agreement was not reached within three months. The loan was repaid in 2010.

Gertler had previously been cited by a 2001 UN investigation that said he had given DRC’s president $20m to buy weapons to help fight rebel groups in exchange for a monopoly on the country’s diamonds. Gertler strongly denies the allegations.

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 18:49:04 d3f4f2 No.16415450

>>16413886

“Glencore: the monster has landed!”

http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10916

Published by MAC on 2011-05-24

Source: Money Morning, Business Spectator, The Guardian

On May 19th and 20th the London Times lashed into Glencore with two unprecedented exposes of the company's current operations while The Guardian followed suit with additional indictments.

The allegations included that:

 a Glencore subsidiary had procured lucrative market-sensitive information from a European Union "mole" which threatens to undermine the EU's Common agricultural policy

 Glencore's Colombian subsidiary is operating on government-owned land that was forcibly taken from its previous residents by paramilitaries; at least 18 people were murdered in a six month "campaign of terror" at El Prado, northern Colombia

 The company has been guilty of causing river pollution at its operations in Bolivia

 Members of the Wutha Native Title Climants Group in Australia had been cheated of an agreement made with Glencore in 1996, under which the company guaranteed to employ some of them in return for mining nickel on their land. (The case was settled only recently out of court)

 Century Aluminum of the USA, 44% owned by Glencore, is being pursued for damages caused by its operations, in a string of cases brought by environmental agencies, local residents and other companies.

In order to make Glencore's debut as a publically traded giant a total home run, the company solicited the interest of "cornerstone" investors to commit to purchasing some of its shares. The rich crowd drawn into the Glencore IPO is reported to include:

 Aabar Investments, an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund that says it will invest $850 million as a "cornerstone" investor, and $150 million besides - bringing its total Glencore outlay to a cool $1 billion.

 The Government of Singapore Investment Corp. Pte. Ltd. - Singapore's sovereign wealth fund (SWF) that's more commonly referred to as GIC.

 Hedge fund Highbridge Capital Management LLC (owned by JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)).

 And BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK), the world's largest money-management firm.

The Key Takeaway From the Glencore IPO

That controversial chapter also closed the book on his tenure at Marc Rich & Co. In 1994, Rich was bought out of his interests in what would become Glencore International by its then managers for a reported $600 million. The rumor is that his partners forced him out after a $200 million loss on a bad Zinc trade.

There's little doubt that Glencore continued its secretive ways, while also maintaining the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Mossad connections that Rich had always been famous for.

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Anonymous 06/08/22 (Wed) 18:52:25 d3f4f2 No.16415472

“Glencore prepares to join FTSE amid scrutiny of Namibia court battle”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/may/19/glencore-ftse-namibia-namcor-battle

19 May 2011

Government of Namibia alleges commodity trader's high prices helped plunge state oil group Namcor into financial crisis

As Glencore prepares to join the FTSE 100 index of blue-chip businesses next week, it is also battling the government of Namibia over claims it deceived the country, and covered up secret "ambitions to control the local oil industry".

The legal case is one of many beginning to attract attention as Glencore emerges on to the public markets with its £37bn valuation – making it bigger than Tesco – after enjoying years of relative obscurity operating as a private partnership from its Swiss base.

Namibia's high court is hearing proceedings which centre on a deal the commodity trading company struck to supply the state oil group, Namcor. That agreement is being blamed by the government for helping plunge the African company into financial crisis as it was locked into paying high prices for fuel.

A Namibia cabinet briefing paper on the case, alleged: "Glencore has been negotiating with Namcor in bad faith and seems to have undisclosed ambitions to control the local oil industry in future."

Glencore has defended the contract, saying the government knew prices would be likely to rise yet it failed to put in place procedures to deal with the increases.

The report is understood to have been sent to President Hifikepunye Pohamba's office and forms part of the documents filed in a high court application where Glencore opposed the government's decision to suspend its Namcor contract. That suspension was subsequently overturned by the courts as it had ignored the parties' constitutional right to fair procedure. The Namibia government has appealed.

The legal case follows a 2009 PricewaterhouseCoopers audit of Namcor, which observed that dealing with Glencore "forces Namcor to continue to purchase from its current suppliers even though other suppliers may potentially offer lower prices".

Both Glencore and the Ministry for Mines and Energy declined to comment.

The listing prospectus does reveal a Belgian criminal investigation in which Glencore's Dutch-based grain trading operation, a former employee and one current employee have all been charged with bribing European officials, but the company does not detail any further legal battles as it believes it has "meritorious" defences and that any rulings will not adversely affect its finances.

The wide collection of cases continues the company's controversial legal tradition.

Glencore was among dozens of companies accused of paying kickbacks to Iraq in 2005 by a commission that investigated the UN's Oil for Food programme. A preliminary judicial investigation found "a lack of culpable information". Meanwhile, in 2009, Glencore agreed to pay a cash settlement to Aluminium Bahrain to resolve a dispute over "controversial payments associated with a Glencore agent".

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Anonymous 06/09/22 (Thu) 11:56:08 daff90 No.16418776

“Glencore 'linked to Colombian terrorist group'”

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2014-07-13-glencore-linked-to-colombian-terrorist-group/

13 July 2014

Glencore, the largest mining company listed on the JSE and headed by South African Ivan Glasenberg, has been accused in a new 245-page report of mining and exporting "blood coal" from Colombia.

The report, "The Dark Side of Coal", published by Dutch nongovernmental organisation PAX in Germany last week, says that Glencore's Colombian arm, Prodeco, secretly supported the right-wing United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (known by the Spanish acronym AUC) during that country's bloody civil war.

The AUC was listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation in 2005 and demobilised in 2006 after peace negotiations with the Colombian government. Colombia has not resolved its problems yet and the government is still negotiating with left-wing FARC guerrillas in Cuba.

Although the accusations against Glencore date back more than a decade, the report is likely to heighten scrutiny of the way it operates in some of its coal markets.

It has faced claims of tax dodging in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo and of selling materials to Iran for its nuclear programme.

In South Africa, communities who live on its coal mines in Belfast, Mpumalanga, accused Glencore of trampling their rights to blast for new mines in March. Glencore, which is South Africa's largest exporter of coal, has denied all these claims

In the Colombian case, Glencore is said to have supported the AUC to counter kidnappings and attacks on infrastructure conducted by left-wing guerrilla groups FARC and the ELN.

The new Colombian accusations are based largely on the testimony of José del Carmen Gelvez Alvarracín, known as "El Canoso", who was first hired as an intelligence agent by the Colombian army and then became a defence contractor for Glencore's security department in 1996, before joining the AUC in 2003.

Gelvez described meetings that took place since 1996 between the AUC and Glencore's security department head, Manuel Gutiérrez.

He testified that he and Glencore's managers, Manuel Gutiérrez and Luis Ochoa, "drove in a pick-up truck to a farm named La Ucrania …

"On entering, we saw approximately 30 people dressed in camouflage, who introduced us to the commander who went by the alias Lucho," says the PAX report.

"Manuel Gutiérrez, as head of the security department, spoke on behalf of the company, Prodeco, about providing this group of the AUC with whatever support it might need.

"It was clear that there was a direct link between the company and the AUC."

Colombia's 50-year civil war between the state and left-wing guerrillas groups reached a climax between 1994 and 2006 with the introduction of the AUC, which was created, financed and supported by drug cartels, members of the Colombian elite, the army, local businesses and multinational companies.

The AUC was created to counter the ever-increasing size and power of FARC and the ELN, but it was also used to consolidate drug trafficking routes, murder labour union leaders and displace farmers to allow for illegal land grabs from local elites and foreign companies. Glencore-Prodeco has denied owning land that belonged to farmers displaced by the AUC. It has also denied ever having any kind of link with the right-wing forces.

Glencore has criticised the report for being one-sided and uncritical in terms of evaluating the testimonies of former paramilitaries.

The company said it had contacted the human rights organisations involved in March, when the report was being written, but PAX did not include its objections in the final draft.

Last month, Glencore's head of sustainability, Dr Michael Fahrbach, sent a letter to PAX saying: "The report is distorted and unbalanced, and blindly follows accusations made by a condemned criminal, which came up years ago, in a judicial hearing to which we had no access and didn't have the right to be heard."

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Anonymous 06/09/22 (Thu) 11:58:55 daff90 No.16418782

Glencore – “Funding violence against anti-mining activists”, “Poisoning vital water supplies”, “Bribery and corruption”

https://londonminingnetwork.org/companies-in-focus-glencore/

April 2021

Funding violence against anti-mining activists

In the Philippines and Colombia, there are credible allegations that Glencore and its subsidiaries have funded the violent repression of social movements who oppose its mining projects. In the Philippines for example, Sagittarius Mines Inc – which at the time was majority owned by Xsrata – bought the rights to develop a copper-gold mine within the land of the B’laan, one of the indigenous community of Southern Mindanao. The B’laan organised against the occupation of their land and in response, Xstrata are alleged to have created and bankrolled a secret paramilitary unit that terrorised the community, murdering tribal leaders and their families for opposing the mine. Similar allegations have been levelled against the Colombian mining group Prodeco, which is wholly owned by Glencore. Former Prodeco staff and paramilitary commanders have attested that Prodeco funded and collaborated with paramilitary death squads that assassinated those who lay in the path of the mine’s expansion.

In Peru, in response to a strike called by mineworkers, an Xstrata director asked the police to take “direct, proactive and strong approach” against striking workers, who he described as “sons of whores.” The police brutally attacked the miners, and have been accused of killing two and torturing many more. Xstrata allegedly equipped riot police with rubber bullets and tear gas, and stationed them in barracks in their mine.

Poisoning vital water supplies

Glencore’s mines have had devastating impacts on their surrounding environments, with deadly consequences for those who live nearby. Entire rivers have been diverted to fuel Glencore’s mines, even in areas where water is scarce, and the remaining water supply is often so contaminated with lead and other heavy metals that it is unfit to support life.

In Cerro de Pasco, Peru, for example, waste from Glencore’s Volcan mine has left rivers contaminated with 160 times the maximum permissible level of lead. 78% of children in the city show symptoms of heavy metal poisoning. At Glencore’s Mopani mine, in Zambia, a malfunctioning pump discharged so much sulfuric acid into the water supply of neighbouring villages that over 1,000 residents were treated with severe vomiting, diarrhoea, and abdominal pains. Communities surrounding the Cerrejón mine, in northern Colombia, are currently fighting against a similar fate, and are campaigning for the reinstatement of the vital Arroyo Bruno river that has been diverted to supply the mine.

Glencore holds the dubious honour of being the first mining company to be charged with environmental contamination by a Latin American court. Xstrata vice-president Julian Rooney was charged in 2008 for environmental crimes relating to water contamination at the Alumbrera mine, Peru, and has had his assets seized whilst he awaits trial.

Bribery and corruption

The Paradise Papers leak, in 2017, shone a light onto some of the darkest secrets of mining giants, bringing to public attention the very things they had tried their hardest to keep hidden. Glencore was deeply implicated in this; the leaked documents confirmed Global Witness’s allegations that Glencore was involved in bribery and corruption in the DRC.

In 2008, Glencore subsidiary Katanga Mining was worried about the growing desire of the DRC state to retain some of the wealth from its mineral resources. Talks between Katanga and state-owned mining company Gécamines had stalled. So, Glencore co-directors and the chief officers of Katanga met with the disgraced diamond magnate Dan Gertler, and paid him $45m to shut down Gécamines’ demands and secure a favourable contract for Glencore. Gertler delivered, and Glencore’s payment reduced by three quarters, ending up at well below market rate. Gertler was extremely close to powerful members of the administration at the time, and had been criticised by the UN for an arms deal he made with the Congolese army during the brutal civil war.

The legal ramifications from these deals is still ongoing. The Ontario Securities Commission – the regulator for the Toronto Stock Exchange – fined Katanga CAD$30m in 2018, and forced board members to step down, including the head of Glencore’s copper operations, Aristotelis Mistakidis. The U.S Department of Justice has since launched its own corruption probe, the UK Serious Fraud Office is currently carrying out a bribery investigation, and the Swiss Attorney General has launched a criminal investigation.

For more detail on those events and the ruinous history of Glencore’s operations, see the timeline below.

https://londonminingnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Glencore-company-timeline.pdf

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Anonymous 06/09/22 (Thu) 12:03:18 daff90 No.16418789

“Glencore traded with Iranian supplier to nuclear programme”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/21/glencore-trade-iran-supplier-nuclear

21 April 2013

One of Britain's biggest companies has made millions of pounds selling goods to Iran, including to a state-owned firm that supplies the regime's nuclear programme.

Glencore, a commodity trading house run by the billionaire Ivan Glasenberg, traded $659m (£430m) of goods, including aluminium oxide, to Iran last year, the Guardian has established.

The company, which is one of the biggest businesses in the FTSE 100 and has a market value more than three times that of Marks & Spencer, has admitted that some of its aluminium oxide ended up in the hands of Iranian Aluminium Company (Iralco).

Trafigura, another commodity trading house, has also admitted to trading an unspecified aluminium oxide (also known as alumina) with Iralco in the past.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has named Iralco as supplying aluminium to Iran Centrifuge Technology Company (Tesa), which is part of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI). Aluminium oxide is an important material in gas centrifuges used to enrich uranium.

At the time of the Glencore and Trafigura trades with Iralco, it was not illegal or a breach of sanctions to supply Iran with alumina. It is unknown whether Glencore or Trafigura's alumina passed from Iralco to Tesa, or whether it was used in centrifuge construction.

Since 2006, AEOI has been subject to UN sanctions designed to prevent a drive by Iran toward nuclear armament. Trading with Tesa has been specifically banned under US, EU and UK sanctions since July 2010. Iralco was added to the EU sanctions list in December 2012.

Glencore said it "ceased transactions" with Iralco immediately when it learned of its links with Tesa, and the last trade was in October 2012. "Prior to EU sanctions in December 2012, we were not aware of a link/contract between Iralco and Tesa," the company said in a statement.

Glencore said it is "reliant on the relevant regulatory bodies/governments to advise us on developments in who we can/can't do business with".

Tehran, which some experts say already has enough enriched uranium to make several nuclear weapons, is in the middle of upgrading its stock of more than 10,000 centrifuges. The IAEA said Iran is replacing outdated centrifuges with thousands of more powerful IR-2m models.

Mark Wallace, a former US ambassador to the UN, said Glencore's dealings with Iran were "completely unacceptable", adding: "We might expect this from a Russian or Chinese company, but the truth is that even those companies usually stay away from this sort of exposure."

The Guardian has learned that Glencore traded $659m worth of metals, wheat and coal with Iranian entities during 2012. Buried deep in its annual report, one of Glencore's US affiliates, Century Aluminium, 46% owned by Glencore, states: "During 2012 non-US affiliates of the largest stockholder of the company [Glencore] entered into sales contracts for wheat and coal as well as sale and purchase contracts for metal oxides and metals with Iranian entities, which are either fully or majority owned by the GOI [government of Iran]."

Glencore declined to state how much of the $659m it dealt with Iran in 2012 was related to alumina/aluminium. The trades were not illegal or against sanctions at the time. It is not the first time Glencore's activities have attracted controversy. Last year the head of its food trading business said the worst drought to hit the US since the 1930s would be "good for Glencore" because it would lead to opportunities to exploit soaring prices. It has also attracted attention by selling more than £50m worth of wheat to the World Food Programme.

Trafigura, which came to global political attention when it was revealed that a licensed independent contractor of a ship it had chartered dumped tonnes of toxic oil slops in Ivory Coast, said: "We can confirm that Trafigura has traded with Iralco in the past. In October 2011, a physical swap agreement was reached whereby Trafigura provided alumina to Iralco in return for aluminium for Trafigura to export worldwide. No deliveries have been made or exports received since new EU sanctions were published in December 2012. Trafigura Group companies are compliant with national and international law where applicable."

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Anonymous 06/09/22 (Thu) 12:04:59 daff90 No.16418795

““Glencore Paid Judges To Make Cases Disappear” Tony Yengeni Spills Beans” – South Africa

https://www.ghanamma.com/za/2022/05/31/glencore-paid-judges-to-make-cases-disappear-tony-yengeni-spills-beans/

May 31, 2022

Tony Yengeni, a veteran of the African National Congress, has now revealed that the corporation Glencore used to pay judges to make cases disappear before the court.

Supposedly, Glencore paid bribes to judges to have lawsuits dismissed, bribes to gain oil contracts, and bribery to evade government audits.

When Tony Yengeni asked people to determine who is currently at the top of South African politics and is closest to Glencore, he raised many concerns.

“Glencore paid judges to dispose of cases! Who is currently the closest political entity to Glencore?” Yengeni said.

In South Africa, according to social critics, they will await Chief Justice Raymond Zondo’s response to this exposé before forming an opinion.

“As far as Eskom was concerned, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo stated that their hands and motives were clean. Zondo cannot be incorrect; these individuals are obviously captured “others said.

“In South Africa, they are exonerated and given an escape route from accountability by a factional political project known as the state capture commission, despite all the evidence presented against them.” It appears that the dots are slowly connecting, and it is only a matter of time before the entire truth is revealed.

State capture resembled a complex web, which explains why it took so long to be discovered despite the fact that a great deal was occurring.

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If You Want Become Rich People, All You Need To Do Is Listen To Me The Savior Messiah Buddha All Humanity 06/09/22 (Thu) 14:20:39 693bb4 No.16419245

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If You Want Become Rich People, All You Need To Do Is Listen To Me The Savior Messiah Buddha

Source, More Information: https://humanitywhole.wordpress.com

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 14:09:25 ec310d No.16425138

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Is history repeating in the form of corporations?

“Could Bill Clinton's 2001 pardon of Rich affect election?” (Posted November 2, 2016) - https://youtu.be/HgGfiaZJRxw

“HOW MARC [RICH] HELPED PLUNDER RUSSIA”

https://nypost.com/2001/02/15/how-marc-helped-plunder-russia/

February 15, 2001

Overlooked so far is Rich’s role in the looting of the disintegrating Soviet Union by Communist Party officials and their associates in the early 1990s.

You can read about it in “Godfather of the Kremlin,” an exhaustively researched book about Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky [Boris Abramovich Berezovsky was born in 1946, in Moscow, to Abram Markovich Berezovsky (1911–1979),[24] a Jewish civil engineer in construction works - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman)], which was published last fall. The author is Paul Klebnikov, an expert on Russia and a Forbes magazine senior editor.

The book details the myriad ways Berezovsky and his minions stole untold sums from the Russian people through international financial schemes.

According to Klebnikov, Rich came into the picture around 1990, when the Soviet Union began to open up to outsiders. [About the same time South African/Lithuanian Jew, Mendel Kaplan, ran Operation Exodus for Soviet Jews to return to Israel - >>16332096 ]

“Governmental authority began to crumble. All these local Communist Party bosses got to strike deals on their own,” the author tells me.

Based in Switzerland, with its secretive banking laws, Rich was in a prime position to help Russia’s plunderers carry out their dirty work. Klebnikov reported that Rich dealt in oil, aluminum, zinc and other raw commodities.

“He’d strike a deal with the local party boss, or the director of a state-owned company,” explains the author. “He’d say, ‘OK, you will sell me the [commodity] at 5 to 10 percent of the world market price.

“‘And in return, I will deposit some of the profit I make by reselling it 10 times higher on the world market, and put the kickback in a Swiss bank account.'”

For at least two years, as the Soviet Union was in its death throes, Rich was that nation’s largest trader of aluminum and oil on a spot basis.

“He made a complete mint off of Russia,” says Klebnikov.

A former foreign-trade minister told the author that Rich instructed the robber-baron elite how to skirt the law by doing secret deals through shell companies and the like.

“Marc Rich ended up being a mentor to all these young kids who came out of the Communist Party establishment, and who made billions off these schemes themselves,” Klebnikov charges.

There were allegations at the time in the Russian press and elsewhere that Rich was aiding and abetting capital flight from the country, but he was never charged.

A widely read 1999 article in the foreign-policy journal The National Interest, written by ex-CIA officer and National Security Council staffer Fritz W. Ermarth, noted that, as far back as 1985, the KGB was engaged in the massive transfer of assets abroad via commodities trading through front companies.

“The program evolved into . . . avenues for squirreling away funds for the safe retirement or political comeback of embattled communist leaders,” Ermarth writes.

If Rich had anything to do with this, then he would have had a key role in making the world safe for nuclear-armed communist tyrants who were America’s greatest enemies.

Can U.S. intelligence files from the era establish a link between Rich and the transferred KGB billions? Congress should find out.

Rich’s profitable relationship with the Russians ended in 1993, when the monster he helped create turned on him. The Russian swindlers became so good at Rich’s game that they muscled him out of the action.

“Applying the lessons they learned from Marc Rich, they bankrupted Russia,” Klebnikov alleges. “As a result, you have a ruined economy, bankrupt government, and an impoverished population.”

Tens of millions of Russians are suffering through the worst winter there in 50 years. They and their government are broke. There is no money to buy coal to run the power stations.

People are sick, cold and dying. They are freezing to death in the dark. One man told the Red Cross that life has turned into “a permanent struggle for survival. It’s not even life, it’s just existence.”

This is part of the legacy of the man pardoned by Bill Clinton. It is now part of the 42nd president’s legacy as well. Clinton, his belly full, sleeps in warmth and comfort in cozy Chappaqua. If he can sleep at all.

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 14:20:58 ec310d No.16425184

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Was the Russian Revolution Jewish? – Part 1

https://www.jpost.com/magazine/was-the-russian-revolution-jewish-514323

February 7, 2018

Below are excerpts

A hundred years after the Bolsheviks swept to power, historians and contemporaries still struggle to understand the prominent role played by Jews.

The role of Jews in the Russian Revolution, and by extension Communism writ large, has always been a sensitive subject because antisemitic voices often painted Soviet Communism as a Jewish plot, or “Jewish Bolshevism.” When Alexander Solzhenitsyn began work on a book called 200 Years Together, he was criticized for what touching this taboo issue. His own comments to the press didn’t help the matter, claiming two-thirds of the Cheka (secret police) in Ukraine were Jewish.

Winston Churchill agreed. In a piece in the Illustrated Sunday Herald in 1920, he broadly stereotyped Jews as either “international” communists, loyal nationalists or Zionists. He called it the “struggle for the soul of the Jewish people” and claimed the Jewish role in the Russian Revolution “probably outweighs [the role] of all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews.”

Churchill claimed that the driving power came from Jewish leaders, who eclipsed their counterparts. He named names: Maxim Litvinoff, Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Radek, Leonid Krassin. He called this tendency “astonishing” and accused Jews of playing “the prominent, if not indeed the principal part in the system of terrorism” that had then become known as “red terror” or the suppression of those in the Soviet Union who deviated from the communist line.

One of those whom Churchill singled out for opprobrium was Bela Kun, the Hungarian Jew who briefly played the leading role in Hungary when it was a Soviet republic in 1919. Kun fled when Hungary was invaded by Romania, fleeing to the Soviet Union where he was put in charge of the Revolutionary Committee in Crimea along with Rosalia Zemlyachka. Their regime there was responsible for murdering around 60,000 people. Kun was arrested during Stalin’s purges, accused of promoting “Trotskyism” and executed in 1938. His life was symbolic of so many others: a young revolutionary whose idealism was colored by the murderous methods of Communism and who ended up a victim of the very regime he sought to create, like so many Jewish revolutionaries, accused of being counter-revolutionaries.

The roughly three million Jews of the Soviet Union at the time of the revolution constituted the largest Jewish community in the world, but they were only around 2% of the USSR’s population. They were concentrated in the Pale of Settlement (a western region of Imperial Russia) and in Ukraine and Belarussia, where they were 5% to 10% of the population, whereas in Russia itself the 1926 census found only 600,000 Jews.

“There is an explanation. Oppositionist and revolutionary elements formed a higher percentage among Jews than among Russians. Insulted, injured and oppressed, they were more versatile. They penetrated everywhere, so to speak.” He claimed that Jews were more “active” than average Russians.

The fork in the road of history that led some Jews in the Russian Empire to embrace Zionism and many others to embrace various leftist revolutionary movements that eventually led to the Soviet Union was reached in the 19th century.

When Theodor Herzl visited the Russian Empire in 1903, he met Count Witte, the minister of finance. According to Leonard Schapiro, who authored The Role of the Jews in the Russian Revolutionary Movement in 1961, Herzl found that “50% of the membership of the revolutionary parties was Jewish.”

Pinsker’s friend Meir Dizengoff, a veteran of the Russian army, was the first mayor of Tel Aviv. Among the founders of the first self-defense organization in Palestine, called Hashomer, were Alexander Zaid from Siberia and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi from Poltava in Ukraine.

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 14:21:36 ec310d No.16425187

Was the Russian Revolution Jewish? – Part 2

https://www.jpost.com/magazine/was-the-russian-revolution-jewish-514323

February 7, 2018

Below are excerpts

One group sought a radical solution to their and society’s predicament, a communist revolution, and one that would not include other voices such as the Bund or Mensheviks, but solely that of their party. They had no compunction at murdering their coreligionists. They were not more or less ethical than their non-Jewish peers. How can we explain their disproportionate presence in the leadership of the revolution? It would be as if the Druse minority in Israel made up half of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, or Armenians were half of Emmanuel Macron’s government in France.

Perhaps the only way to understand some of it is to recognize that at Nelson Mandela’s 1963 Rivonia trial in South Africa five of the 13 arrested were Jewish, as were around one quarter of the 1960s Freedom Riders in the US. The 20th century was a century of Jewish activism, often for non-Jewish causes and often without an outwardly “Jewish” context. The Freedom Riders didn’t go as a “Jewish voice for African- Americans,” they went as activists for civil rights.

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 14:25:52 ec310d No.16425205

>>16425184

>The roughly three million Jews of the Soviet Union at the time of the revolution constituted the largest Jewish community in the world, but they were only around 2% of the USSR’s population. They were concentrated in the Pale of Settlement (a western region of Imperial Russia) and in Ukraine and Belarussia, where they were 5% to 10% of the population, whereas in Russia itself the 1926 census found only 600,000 Jews.

“Putin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-jewish/

19 June 2013

JTA — Russian President Vladimir Putin said that at least 80 percent of the members of the first Soviet government were Jewish.

“I thought about something just now: The decision to nationalize this library was made by the first Soviet government, whose composition was 80-85 percent Jewish,” Putin said June 13 during a visit to Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.

Putin was referencing the library of Rabbi Joseph I. Schneerson, the late leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The books, which are claimed by Chabad representatives in the United States, began being moved to the museum in Moscow this month.

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 14:31:58 ec310d No.16425237

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‘The Greatest Mass Murderers of all Time were Jews, says Jewish Columnist”

https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/08/the-greatest-mass-murderers-of-all-time-were-jews-says-jewish-columnist/

Important admission needs wider publicity.

In 2006, a remarkable article — and admission — appeared in the Israeli news source Ynet News. Titled “Stalin’s Jews” and written by Jewish columnist Sever Plocker, this piece confirmed the terrible crimes which Jewish Communists had committed under Stalin.

“We must not forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish,” Plocker started out by saying. He went on to make a number of startling confessions:

“Here’s a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago, between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka.

“Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB.

“Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their deeds without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined ‘terror officials,’ cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards, judges, perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the progressive Western Left and were deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and even provided it with a kosher certificate.

“And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name Genrikh Yagoda, the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU’s deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD.

“Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin’s collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people.

“His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system.

The Gulags: Jewish-Run Concentration Camps

As mentioned above, the infamous Soviet Gulags were under the direct control of the Jew Yagoda. He was not the only such Jew involved in the running of these camps, in which millions were interned and nearly 1.4 million died.

The most famous revelation about the Jewish nature of the Gulags was that of famous dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Speaking from personal experience as a Gulag prisoner, Solzhenitsyn gave a candid account of Jews in charge of the Soviet prison camps in his book, Two Hundred Years Together.

According to his observations, Jews made up a clear preponderance in the Gulag administration and in the early Bolshevist government, saying that of the 22 ministers in the first Soviet government three were Russian, one Georgian, one Armenian and 17 were Jews. In addition, he points out, from personal experience once again, that “two thirds of the Kiev Cheka” (secret police) were Jews.

In 1937, another book appeared in Germany called Jewish-Run Concentration Camps in the Soviet Union, which revealed that Communist Jews were the commandants of 11 out of the 12 main Gulags.

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 16:36:24 54aab2 No.16425794

“The Slimy Trail of Marc Rich: How One of the Clintons’ Best Friends Gave the Gift That Keeps on Giving” – Marc Rich Part 1

https://www.americanlibertyemail.com/articles/the-slimy-trail-of-marc-rich-how-one-of-the-clintons-best-friends-gave-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/

Below are excerpts

In the years following Bill Clinton’s scandal-tainted presidency, one name keeps popping up time and time again in relation to perhaps the last great brouhaha of that era; that name is Marc Rich.

When news of the dealings was made public, Rich became public enemy number one, and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Rudolph Giuliani made Rich’s prosecution his highest priority. The case dragged on two decades. Rich fled the United States to Switzerland, where he remained until his death in 2013, even after Clinton’s pardon, never to return to the country of his youth and education.

Why would Bill Clinton pardon someone so infamous and obviously disreputable? Certainly, Rich had the opposite of popular support in the U.S.; he was a billionaire who boasted of flouting the law and using tax loopholes to his advantage while the country suffered through recession during the 1980s.

The answer may be found in Rich’s wife’s donation of $450,000 to the Clinton Library and $1 million to Clinton-supported Democratic causes in the period prior to Rich’s pardon. Even to this day, Denise Rich remains a close personal friend of the Clintons and a repeated donor to Hillary Clinton’s senatorial and presidential campaigns, despite renouncing her American citizenship for tax purposes.

Denise’s good friend Beth Dozoretz, a veteran Democratic Party contributor, apparently was so close to Bill Clinton that he telephoned her 10 days before the pardon took place to give her advance notice of the good news to pass on to her pal. After Bill left office, Dozoretz was hired for a senior State Department post under Hillary after serving as the finance co-chair of her 2008 presidential campaign. In recent years, she’s supported Hillary’s “Ready For Hillary” Super PAC and donated up to $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation with her husband Ron.

Marc Rich’s former spouse isn’t the only association the Clintons retain with the now-deceased financier. The extended family of convicted money launderer and oil trader Gilbert Chagoury is also well-known to the Clintons. Chagoury sold Nigerian oil with Rich but was prosecuted in connection with embezzlement during the regime of his associate, Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha. Chagoury donated to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Senate presidential run and pledged $1 billion to the Clinton Foundation.

His money laundering conviction was later overturned, and it’s left to observers to ponder if tight connections to the Clintons had anything to do with it. Chaghoury’s nephew Michel in Los Angeles served on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign staff and was a bundler for big-money donors. Other Chaghoury relatives donated heavily to Clinton’s multiple federal campaigns.

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 16:37:21 54aab2 No.16425799

“The Slimy Trail of Marc Rich: How One of the Clintons’ Best Friends Gave the Gift That Keeps on Giving” – Marc Rich Part 2

https://www.americanlibertyemail.com/articles/the-slimy-trail-of-marc-rich-how-one-of-the-clintons-best-friends-gave-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/

Below are excerpts

Bill Clinton in return has championed Gilbert Chagoury, serving as a keynote speaker when the trader received a “Pride of Heritage” award within the Lebanese community. The Clinton Global Initiative gave Chagoury’s company a sustainable development award in 2009. Chagoury was a guest at Bill Clinton’s 60th birthday party.

Former Rich employee and Russian investor Sergei Kurzin made a fortune in commodities in the former Soviet Union. One of his larger deals was signed off on by Hillary Clinton’s State Department, whereby Russia purchased 20 percent of the United States’ uranium production capacity in 2010. During the time the deal was in negotiation, Bill Clinton was coincidentally given a fee of $500,000 to speak in Moscow by a Russian investment bank promoting the enterprise. At the same time, Kurzin donated $1 million to Bill’s favorite charity, the Clinton Foundation.

Former Rich commodity trading partners Simon and David Reuben made a fortune with their firm, Trans World Metals. Since then, they have been highly enthusiastic supporters of both Clintons, donating tens of thousands to the Clinton Foundation and co-sponsoring a star-studded gala for the charity in London. Other Rich partners and employees such as Clyde Meltzer (who was indicted in 1983 along with Rich) and Gershon Kekst, who handled Rich’s P.R., have been large donors to Hillary’s multiple campaigns. Rich’s former attorneys Jack Quinn, Robert Fink and Peter Kadzik have also donated to Hillary’s various bids for office.

Lastly, there are numerous undisclosed donors to the Clinton Foundation, despite its pledges of transparency in funding, which have links to the commodities and mining industries in Canada and other foreign nations.

In fact, many people suspect the bulk of the funding of the Clinton Foundation, which now boasts an endowment of more than $2 billion, is tied to foreign sources. If the Clinton’s political history was merely in the past, this might not be of such concern. But with Hillary in full-bore 2016 campaign mode and noted donors such as convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, French hedge-fund manager Arpad Busson, Canadian mining billionaire Frank Giustra (who alone has given the Clintons more than $25 million), U.K. retail magnate Richard Caring, financier George Soros, and hedge fund managers S. Donald Sussman and David E. Shaw supporting her efforts, it’s hard to see where the Clintons’ public interests stop and their private interests begin.

During the administrations of husband Bill, the Lincoln bedroom had a notorious revolving door for big donors. Under Hillary, who knows what might be promised to special interests and global third parties. Clearly, Marc Rich’s associates and their ilk have a favorite candidate in mind for 2016.

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 17:20:22 54aab2 No.16425988

“Glencore is more of a crime syndicate than a business”

https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/opinion/glencore-is-more-of-a-crime-syndicate-than-a-business-b05f6386-4c96-418a-94a6-d1d6bfe5762d

May 31, 2022

Glencore, the largest natural resources company in the world, is more of a crime syndicate than a business.

After becoming a fugitive for 18 years and being on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, President Bill Clinton pardoned [Marc Rich]

Today, Marc Rich's successor companies, Glencore Xstrata and Trafigura, control the price of just about every commodity.

They also dominate a considerable share of South African and global natural resources, led by South African billionaire Ivan Glasenberg who worked for Rich in the 1980s.

Another one of Rich's students is Alan Duncan, a British minister between 2010 and 2019. During his employment at Rich's company, Duncan violated sanctions in the 1980s by supplying oil to South Africa. He is alleged to have moved oil from Brunei to Durban and earned about £100K a year in the process.

John Deuss is another one of Marc Rich's proteges. Deuss, a Dutchman described as "sleazy", supplied 57% of South Africa's oil imports by 1981, and made $500 million.

Deuss used false flags, forged cargo papers and mid-sea cargo transshipments to move oil for the Apartheid regime.

In 1991, he signed a new contract to supply 45 000 barrels per day, an increase of 15 000 from the previous year.

These examples are to demonstrate the calibre of individuals that led Marc Rich + Co./Glencore.

Fast forward to 2021, former Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg refused to appear before the State Capture Commission after he was implicated as being the "mastermind" behind the "collapse" of Eskom, after allegedly bribing the current president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa with a chairmanship at one of his mining companies in 2012.

Glencore and Ramaphosa first did business together in 2005 when Glasenberg picked Ramaphosa’s company, Shanduka as its BEE partner on a coal export project before joining forces again in 2012 to supply coal via Glencore subsidiary, Optimum.

The allegations against Glencore were as follows: Cyril Ramaphosa was given a 9.64% stake in Glencore and become Chairman after the company had bought Optimum Coal Holdings (Eskom’s coal supplier in 2011).

According to former Eskom GCEO Brian Molefe, Glasenberg and Glencore appointed Ramaphosa to Optimum, to exert "political influence and the extent to which Glencore would be able to exert pressure on Eskom directors and management."

In 2014, Glencore subsidiary Optimum, chaired by Ramaphosa, renegotiated a 40-year coal contract with Eskom, demanding an increase from R150 to R530 a ton and a waiver of the R2 billion penalties accrued from failing to meet the existing supply agreement.

When Eskom tried to enforce the penalties, they were threatened with Ramaphosa's name, according to former Eskom Interim CEO Matshela Koko, while the Glencore subsidiary claimed it only owed R16 million in penalties.

To further show the decades-old culture of skullduggery at Glencore; Clinton Ephron, who was Optimum CEO at the time Ramaphosa was appointed to chair the company's board, went to the State Capture Commission and lied under oath saying Ramaphosa was never the Chairman of Optimum.

In February 2022, Glencore set aside $1.5 billion to be used to pay fines for bribing government officials and market manipulation in Brazil, Britain, the DRC, Nigeria, the US, and Venezuela.

Yet, interestingly, the South African government, under Ramaphosa, has raised no complaints against Glencore.

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 17:40:18 54aab2 No.16426089

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>>16386828

“Amabhungane details alleged cover-up in Ramaphosa farm theft” – Namibia Connection

https://youtu.be/tKyTS3WykNw

“The criminal complaint against President Cyril Ramaphosa laid by former spy boss Arthur Fraser on Wednesday has exponentially raised the stakes over exactly what transpired during and after a break-in on his farm in February 2020. Information obtained by investigative collective amaBhungane points to a major cover-up of the theft of a reported 4-million dollars in cash from the president's Phala Phala game farm in Limpopo. To share what they have uncovered let's talk to AmaBhungane Co-Managing Partner Sam Sole.”

“Ramaphosa’s stolen millions: the Namibian connection”

https://amabhungane.org/stories/220604-ramaphosas-stolen-millions-the-namibian-connection/

4 June 2022

In 2020 Namibian authorities identified suspects following a break-in at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s farm, but sources allege SA intelligence back-channels were used to get the Namibians to let the matter go. Now Arthur Fraser’s criminal complaint puts the President on the spot: what did he do, what did he know and why the cover-up?

Information obtained by amaBhungane points to a major cover-up of the 2020 theft of some US$4-million in cash from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game farm in Limpopo.

Now the criminal complaint against Ramaphosa laid by former spy boss Arthur Fraser on Wednesday has massively raised the stakes over what exactly happened in the days following the break-in on 9 February 2020.

The key questions are: what did Ramaphosa do, what did he know, and why was it hushed up?

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Anonymous 06/10/22 (Fri) 18:02:00 d5fdf4 No.16426171

>>16425237

ec310d, Let me save you some time. jpost (jerusalem post), times of israel, and especially national vanguard are all hate rags. Haaretz is just as much garbage

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Advice Help You Exit The Matrix, Obtain Nirvana Status All Humanity 06/10/22 (Fri) 23:27:29 dbe12c No.16427633

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Advice Help You Exit The Matrix, Obtain Nirvana Status

Source, More Information: https://humanitywhole.wordpress.com

I am the one who have fully exit the matrix (the circle of death rebirth) and obtain the Nirvana status.

Even though my journey in modern is not as the same as Gautama Buddha, but there are something similar. I will reveal some secret tips and advice for you guys in this post.

1. Not fear of death

Most people are fear of death, so how can tell a beings do not fear of death?

This is a state where a beings have zero connection with others.

The list including:

– No money, no wealth, no asset.

– Not in any group/party/organization.

– Do not have any servants/employees.

– Do not have any account in the bank or any website on the internet.

If you still fear that you can die because of any enemy or because of diseases or because of broke, etc. which mean you still not pass the first requirement of the Nirvana.

2. Learn to control the human body

3. Understand the environment on Earth

4. Increase the creative level

5. Learn to not judge others and also judge other in fair manner.

6. Believe in yourself

Many of you may not believe or even laugh my advice. But if you can use your brain to think and compare to history with many ancient teaching, it is very similar with the Gautama Buddha road way.

The state of emptiness is the MUST condition for all beings.

Do you see it fair to all?

Yes, people come in this world with empty hand, all the wealth/money are just the illusion.

So the only correct way to “pass” the test is empty hand again.

If you wonder what you should do with your wealth or your team/group/organization?

Then my answer is that you must spend it in the smart way such as buying a home with garden or buying learning material, seeking knowledge wisdom from others.

While all the team/group you are current in (no matter what position), you must leave because when you are in any team/group => it tells that you do not think all human are equal, either want to “control” others or “get protected” by others. Overall, fear of death.

Even though each humans have their own living condition but above hidden requirement are always correct in all timeline and with all human beings on this planet Earth.

I do have other details information that designed for each races/nations and many sacred knowledge that never been published or reveal to anyone because I can only reveal it to the one truly deserve it.

Well, that being said: life is always fair to all.

No matter how wealthy you own, death mean you’re the loser.

Only the one who escape circle of death and rebirth are the winner !

That the hidden untold rules in the current game on Earth planet you are living.

Whether you believe or not, it does not matter to me, but it only matter to you !

Best Regard,

The Savior Messiah Buddha

Source, More Information: https://humanitywhole.wordpress.com

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I Can Help You Evolve Become God Again, Read Carefully Very Special All Humanity 06/10/22 (Fri) 23:41:47 8c9e7d No.16427682

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I Can Help You Evolve Become God Again, Read Carefully Very Special

Source, More Information: https://humanitywhole.wordpress.com

Do you know human can evolve and live like God, never need to worry about money or disease ?!

In the world of chaos with endless stupid war between humans, nations, organization, there is some special beings like me that can help you.

Before activating full power, I have decide to give last opportunity to everybody.

A chance of receiving direct teaching/education that will help you evolve like God.

This is free but not free course.

You are free to join and receive my teaching, receive sacred knowledge wisdom from the savior.

You only need to “pay” me latter after you evolve, have power above the mortal humans.

I am going to teach you how to control yourself your body, how to adapt with any kind of environment, the secret of super abilities, and many other interesting subjects. All the methods are harmless because you do not need to harm any other animals/humans since is focusing on using mindset thinking.

So if you want to evolve and believe in me, you can send me this form:

=Become God Again Register Form=

– Name, Age, Gender, Nationality, Family Status, Jobs:

– Your experience about life so far: can tell anything you want.

– How much money/wealth you would like to donate/pay after evolve? Can be fixed money or % of your total assets.

– Anything else you would like to say:

=End=

One restricted rule for all is not allowed to reveal/share the information I have send to you to any other beings/groups/organizations under any circumstances.

You can send above form to me via 1 out of 3 methods below:

– Email: allhumanity@proton.me .

– Chat app getsession org, ID: 05d0872673eb5505e4574eeed3512ff8597b9dec012f2f74e0bddbe4fb2421df0e .

– Chatroom matrix org, Channel: humanitywhole:matrix.org ; username: allhumanity .

The register process will be opened for 10 days from June 5th 2022 to June 15th 2022.

After reviewing, I will decide whether to accept you or not.

It will take less than 1 years to become God again, that I can guarantee with you guys !

If you tell the people 1000 years ago that human can travel via plane in the future, they would laugh at you instantly, but the present day…

So everything is possible, wake up, open mindset so that you do not miss this divine opportunity.

Best Regard,

The Savior

All Humanity Whole

Source, More Information: https://humanitywhole.wordpress.com

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 02:06:21 d5fdf4 No.16433197

South African president dodges questions on theft scandal

Embroiled in controversy, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday refused to answer questions about his alleged cover-up of a theft of large amounts of cash from his farm, saying only that he will appear before his party’s integrity committee over the accusations

By GERALD IMRAY and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press Jun 10, 2022

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Embroiled in controversy, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday refused to answer questions about his alleged cover-up of a theft of large amounts of cash from his farm, saying only that he will appear before his party's integrity committee over the accusations.

Ramaphosa, 69, endured a second day of being shouted down in Parliament by opposition members before being peppered with questions from the press over the growing scandal.

Ramaphosa is facing allegations of money laundering, bribery and breaking South Africa's foreign currency laws over the theft, which reportedly involved $4 million in cash being stolen two years ago from his Phala Phala game farm in the northern Limpopo province.

He has confirmed that the theft took place and has denied any wrongdoing. He has said the money came from the sale of animals from the game farm. But Ramaphosa has dodged all questions seeking specific information about the robbery.

He repeatedly declined to answer questions from reporters including: How much cash was stolen? How did he obtain the foreign currency? Was it legally declared to South African authorities? Did he try to cover up his possession of the cash by bribing the thieves to keep quiet?

The story of the theft came to light earlier this month when the country's former intelligence chief, Arthur Fraser, filed a criminal complaint with police alleging that Ramaphosa had tried to cover up the robbery.

Fraser alleges that Ramaphosa had been keeping the cash hidden in furniture at his ranch when it was stolen. Instead of reporting the theft to police, Ramaphosa tried to cover it up by having members of his presidential protection unit track down the thieves, said Fraser in the affidavit filed with police.

Ramaphosa told reporters at the parliament complex in Cape Town that he wanted a full investigation to take place before answering questions about it.

“Let the due process happen as regards things like was this laundering of money … the issue of how much money was there," Ramaphosa said. “I’d like to hold onto that. And I do that with respect because … I’m a process person. The process must unfold.”

Ramaphosa said he has offered to appear before his African National Congress party's integrity committee. A date for that hearing has not yet been set, he said. If Ramaphosa is found to have broken the law or the party's ethics code, the ANC committee could ask him to step aside as the party's leader or suspend him, which could be the first step to Parliament removing him as president.

The scandal surrounding the farm theft is the biggest challenge to Ramaphosa's leadership of Africa's most developed economy and comes six months before a critical party elective conference in December, when Ramaphosa had already been expected to face a tough battle to be re-elected the party's leader.

Earlier, his attempts to speak in Parliament were disrupted for a second straight day as opposition lawmakers confronted him. Lawmakers from the populist Economic Freedom Fighters, the second biggest opposition party in Parliament, scuffled with security guards as they shouted that Ramaphosa should not be allowed to address the house. Eventually they were removed from parliament.

But not before they loudly and repeatedly accused Ramaphosa of laundering money and trying to hide it. The party is also demanding that Ramaphosa step down as president pending the investigations into the theft.

https://gazette.com/ap/international/south-african-president-dodges-questions-on-theft-scandal/article_8b6598d0-eec0-56c1-837b-c1b2961aa98a.html

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 02:08:46 d5fdf4 No.16433210

Airline's test in language of South Africa's Apartheid rulers sparks rage

Sarah Carter Wed, June 8, 2022 at 9:47 AM·2 min read

Sarah Carter

Wed, June 8, 2022 at 9:47 AM·2 min read

Airline's test in language of South Africa's Apartheid rulers sparks rage

Johannesburg — Shocked South Africans have taken to social media to voice their outrage that Ryanair is making some passengers take a test in Afrikaans in order to fly. Last week, the airline started asking passengers flying into the U.K. on South African passports to take the test to prove their nationality, in the language spoken by less than 20% of South Africa's population.

Zulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, at more than 20%, followed by Xhosa and then Afrikaans at 13%.

Ryanair defended the policy, saying in a statement that the test was put in place due to the "high prevalence of fraudulent South African passports."

But the relatively low prevalence of Afrikaans speakers in the country led many to wonder on social media why the airline had chosen to test people in the language imposed by South Africa's long-ousted, colonial white minority rulers during the days of Apartheid.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/airlines-test-language-south-africas-134725773.html

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 13:05:01 bb33b2 No.16434914

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“Time To Wake Up & BE Prepared!”

https://youtu.be/Q1lERu9CRKQ

3:56 – “Sometimes I think that the time of Apartheid, as much as people dislike it, even myself I didn’t like it, but sometimes I think that it was better living in Apartheid than living in a country like South Africa today.”

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 14:49:22 4aa658 No.16435203

“Ivan Glasenberg, obscure billionaire no more” – Part 1

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-02-06-ivan-glasenberg-obscure-billionaire-no-more/

6 February 2013

In Zambia, unemployment hovers at about 80%, and 60% of the population lives on less than a dollar a day. Seven thousand kilometres north, you’ll find a wealthy Swiss hamlet called Rüschlikon, where a powerful South African-born commodity trader lives, close to the mega-multinational he runs. This is the story of Ivan Glasenberg, whose time of relative obscurity may have just ended. By MANDY DE WAAL.

Glasenberg is reportedly so fanatical about his privacy that, when Glencore listed, a top UK law firm Schillings was retained to try to prevent journalists from digging into the billionaire’s private life. Schillings – famous for its gagging orders – directed letters to media companies in England to warn editors to only focus on the business aspects of the listing.

But the listing changed all that, as did Glasenberg’s next big move – pursuing Xstrata in a $33-billion deal that would see the company run by Mick Davis become a wholly owned subsidiary of Glencore. The deal has seen its fair share of action and nasty turns, which is said to have destroyed the friendship that existed between Davis and Glasenberg. Davis was earmarked to run the merged company, while Glasenberg said he’d do what he loved best – vacate the CEO’s seat to get back to trading. But then followed a flip-flop that proposed Davis be ousted and Glasenberg was firmly positioned for the helm.

Although Xstrata’s website talks about the company’s ‘small beginnings a decade ago’, the diversified mining giant was founded as an infrastructure and electrics company called Südelektra in Switzerland in 1926. In 1990 the company’s business changed dramatically when the man who started Glencore – namely Rich – acquired the majority of the company’s shares, focused the business on mining and got rid of non-core interests.

Rich sold his interests in Südelektra soon after his bad zinc deal and the run-in with his Glencore boys, which saw him exit the company. At one stage Xstrata was an obscure investment vehicle, but a series of aggressive acquisitions changed all that. Today Xstrata, listed on the LSE and Swiss Stock Exchange, operates in over 20 countries and employs over 70,000 people.

Glencore currently owns a 33.65% share in Xstrata, which produces copper, zinc, nickel and vanadium. Xstrata today is a major coal producer and the biggest exporter of thermal coal. Interestingly enough, at the same time that Xstrata listed, it acquired all of Glencore’s coal assets in SA and Australia. “A string of deals saw Glencore become the world’s largest shipper of coal used by power stations,” writes Reuters. “A plan to spin off the coal unit was scrapped after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Glencore instead sold the coal assets to Davis at Xstrata, in which Glencore at the time had a stake of about 40%.”

The Glencore listing propelled Glasenberg to the top of an elite rich list, but the Glencore-Xstrata monster merger will make him even richer. However, these events have brought with them the floodlights of a certain kind of fame. Gone are the days when Glasenberg was a trading great who was relatively unknown.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 14:50:15 4aa658 No.16435207

“Ivan Glasenberg, obscure billionaire no more” – Part 2

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-02-06-ivan-glasenberg-obscure-billionaire-no-more/

6 February 2013

To add fuel to this fire, the BBC recently aired a documentary on Glasenberg, Glencore and the tax quandary Rüschlikon is dealing with. The film opens with a black screen on which the question is written: “How much profit is fair?” This is followed with footage of the idyllic village with its pristine streets, houses and waterways.

“Real estate prices are booming, unemployment is virtually non-existent, and social problems are few and rare,” the voice continues. The documentary tells the story of how one of Rüschlikon’s five thousand or so inhabitants gave it a massive tax windfall. “However, Glencore’s copper mines in Zambia don’t generate similar tax windfalls for Zambians,” the makers of the film state. “The country has the third largest copper reserves in the world, but 60% of the population live on less than $1 a day and 80% are unemployed.”

The fact that Glencore taxes have made Rüschlikon so rich becomes darkly ironic when it is learned that the multinational was accused of evading taxes in Zambia. The charities received a leaked report which alleges Glencore increased costs in a mining operation in the copper-rich country between 2006 and 2008, as a means of tax avoidance. Glasenberg’s company denied the charges, but this didn’t stop the European Investment Bank freezing loans to the company because it had “serious concerns” about Glencore’s corporate governance. Back in Zambia, this case, which involved Glencore’s Mopani copper mines in that country, has become a rallying point for activists who believe the billions should be going to Zambian development.

But why should you care about Glencore? Glencore is the company that sources, produces, processes, refines, transports, stores, finances and supplies the stuff that makes all the other stuff that comprises our world. Whether its zinc, copper, lead, nickel iron ore, coal, crude oil, oil products, wheat, corn, sugar, cotton, biofuels, edible oils, or rice Glencore buys, sells, finances, grows, mines, makes or processes it.

The problem for South Africa is to fully understand what this merger could mean to local coal prices. The cost of coal directly affects the electricity rate given how dependent Eskom is on coal. Strangely enough, Eskom had significant concerns about the Glencore/Xstrata merger, citing that a giant merged entity would “influence domestic coal prices and take advantage of the utility’s supply shortfalls,” Mail & Guardian reported at the end of January 2013.

Curiously, Eskom withdrew its objections and the merger went through the competition authorities.

As Glasenberg stepped into Davos end January for the World Economic Forum (WEF), back home in Rüschlikon his postal box was shattered by an explosion that activists later claimed responsibility for. The anti-WEF agitators also claimed responsibility for a minor blast that shattered a window of the Zurich branch of Credit Suisse. The Glencore CEO is hurtling along a trajectory that appears to merge the apex of his success with proper spotlight, and detractors are starting to get angry.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 14:51:08 4aa658 No.16435212

“Gary Nagle to replace Ivan Glasenberg and guide Glencore into its greener future”

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-12-06-gary-nagle-to-replace-ivan-glasenberg-and-guide-glencore-into-its-greener-future/

6 December 2020

The big focus will be on the group’s coal business, which Nagle has been running since 2018.

Ivan Glasenberg will step down next year as CEO of Glencore, which under his direction has grown into one of the world’s largest natural resource companies. He will be replaced by another South African, Gary Nagle, who will oversee the low-carbon transition the world’s top coal exporter has outlined.

Glasenberg, 63, has been at the helm of Glencore since 2002 and oversaw its megamerger with Xstrata, one of the largest such deals in mining history. Nagle, 45, has commerce and accounting degrees from Wits and is currently global head of Glencore’s coal industrial business. He will move from his Australian base to Switzerland early in the new year to work on the transition. South Africa, it seems, still produces top mining executives.

Glencore’s tentacles reach out across the commodity value chain, and its trading divisions set it apart from many of its mining peers – even when prices are depressed, commodities get traded, generating revenue. The company is one of the world’s leading marketers of crude oil. Its production assets include copper, cobalt, nickel, zinc, lead and ferroalloys such as chrome ore. It is a major marketer and trader of iron ore. The company also has recycling operations.

Glencore also said it was targeting net-zero emissions by 2050, a goal that has also been announced by BHP and Rio Tinto, while Anglo American is aiming for 2040.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 15:56:52 4aa658 No.16435509

Glencore CEO & List of Directors 2021 – Gary Nagle (Glencore Prodeco Operation, Lonmin), Gill Marcus (ANC Member), Cynthia Carroll (previously, Anglo American), David Wormsley (previously, Citigroup)

https://minedocs.com/22/Glencore-AR-2021.pdf

Gary Nagle

Joined Glenore in 2000; Chief Executive Officer since July 2021.

Gary Nagle joined Glencore in 2000 in Switzerland as part of the Coal business development team. He was heavily involved in seeding a portfolio of assets to Xstrata in 2002, in conjunction with its initial listing on the London Stock Exchange.

Mr Nagle worked for five years (2008-2013) in Colombia as CEO of Glencore's Prodeco operation. He then moved to South Africa to be Head of Glencore's Ferroalloys assets (2013-2018). Following that he was the Head of Glencore’s Coal Assets based in Australia. He also served on the Board of Lonmin plc from 2013 - 2015 and has represented Glencore on the Minerals Councils of Australia and Colombia.

Mr Nagle has commerce and accounting degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa in 1999.

Gill Marcus

Appointed in January 2018

Gill Marcus was Governor of the South African Reserve Bank from 2009–14.

She worked in exile for the African National Congress from 1970 before returning to South Africa in 1990. In 1994 she was elected to the South African Parliament. In 1996 she was appointed as the deputy minister of finance and from 1999 to 2004 was deputy governor of the Reserve Bank.

Ms Marcus was the nonexecutive chair of the Absa Group from 2007–09 and has been a non-executive director of Gold Fields Ltd and Bidvest. She has acted as chair of a number of South African regulatory bodies. From 2018 to 2019, she was appointed to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into allegations of impropriety at the Public Investment Corporation.

Ms Marcus is a graduate of the University of South Africa.

Cynthia Carroll

Appointed in February 2021

Cynthia Carroll has over 30 years’ experience in the resources sector. She began her career as an exploration geologist at Amoco before joining Alcan. She held various executive roles there culminating in being CEO of the Primary Metal Group, Alcan’s core business. From 2007 to 2013 she served as CEO of Anglo American plc.

Ms Carroll is currently a non-executive director of Hitachi, Ltd (TYO: 6501), Baker Hughes Company (NYSE: BKR) and Pembina Pipeline Corporation (TSE: PPL).

She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Ms Carroll holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from Skidmore College (NY), a Master’s degree in Geology from the University of Kansas and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard University.

David Wormsley

Appointed in October 2021

David Wormsley worked in investment banking for 35 years. His last position at Citigroup was Chairman, UK banking and broking when he retired in March 2021. Mr Wormsley led a wide variety of corporate transactions in the UK and internationally, including IPOs and equity fundraising, both public and private, mergers & acquisitions and debt financing. During his period of management, Citigroup successfully acquired and integrated the majority of ABN Amro’s broking business. Under his leadership, the Citigroup UK M&A franchise was ranked between number 1 and 5 in the market.

Mr Wormsley is currently a non-executive director of Stanhope plc and a Governor of the Museum of London. He holds an economics degree from Downing College, Cambridge.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 16:40:10 626f6d No.16435721

>>16344476

>>16425988

>>16435207

>Strangely enough, Eskom had significant concerns about the Glencore/Xstrata merger, citing that a giant merged entity would “influence domestic coal prices and take advantage of the utility’s supply shortfalls,” Mail & Guardian reported at the end of January 2013.

>Curiously, Eskom withdrew its objections and the merger went through the competition authorities.

>>16435509

>Ms Carroll is currently a non-executive director of Hitachi, Ltd (TYO: 6501)

Hitachi, Ltd. - Cynthia Carroll and bribes to SA government

https://wallmine.com/otc/hthiy/officer/2014852/cynthia-carroll

1 May 2022

Cynthia Blum Carroll has been serving as Independent Director in Hitachi, Ltd. since June 2013. She is also a member of Nominating Committee of the Company. She used to work for Alcan Inc. and Anglo American plc.

“Hitachi to pay $19M to settle charges it bribed South African government”, dated September 30, 2015

https://www.advisenltd.com/hitachi-to-pay-19m-to-settle-charges-it-bribed-south-african-government/

Tokyo-based conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. has agreed to pay $19 million to settle charges it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when inaccurately recording improper payments to South Africa’s ruling political party in connection with contracts to build two multi-billion dollar power plants.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Hitachi sold a 25-percent stake in a South African subsidiary to a company serving as a front for the African National Congress, the agency said in a Sept. 28 press release. The arrangement gave the front company and the ANC the ability to share in the profits from any power station contracts that Hitachi secured.

Hitachi was ultimately awarded two contracts to build power stations in South Africa and paid the ANC’s front company approximately $5 million in “dividends” based on profits derived from the contracts, the SEC said. Through a separate, undisclosed arrangement, Hitachi paid the front company an additional $1 million in “success fees” that were inaccurately booked as consulting fees without appropriate documentation.

“Hitachi’s lax internal control environment enabled its subsidiary to pay millions of dollars to a politically-connected front company for the ANC to win contracts with the South African government,” said Andrew J. Ceresney, director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division. “Hitachi then unlawfully mischaracterized those payments in its books and records as consulting fees and other legitimate payments.”

According to the SEC’s complaint filed in US District Court for the District of Columbia:

• Hitachi was aware that Chancellor House Holdings (Pty) Ltd. was a funding vehicle for the ANC during the bidding process.

• Hitachi nevertheless continued to partner with Chancellor and encourage the company to use its political influence to help obtain government contracts from Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., a public utility owned and operated by the South African government.

• Hitachi paid “success fees” to Chancellor for its exertion of influence during the Eskom tender process pursuant to a separate, unsigned side-arrangement.

• Hitachi’s misconduct violated the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the federal securities laws, specifically Sections 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations, Hitachi agreed to a settlement that would require the company to pay a $19 million penalty, and it would be permanently enjoined from future violations. The settlement is subject to court approval.

“We particularly appreciate the assistance we received from the African Development Bank’s Integrity and Anti-Corruption Department and hope this is the first in a series of collaborations,” said Kara Brockmeyer, chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s FCPA Unit.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 16:58:21 d5fdf4 No.16435799

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>>16435721

Just eleven employees?

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:24:41 626f6d No.16436120

>>16435799

Oh there is more!

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:27:23 626f6d No.16436128

“Chancellor House: R266m for nine years of lies by ANC partner” – Part 1

https://mg.co.za/article/2015-09-29-chancellor-house-r266-million-for-9-years-of-lies-by-anc-partner/

29 September 2015

Treasurer Zweli Mkhize said the ANC “categorically states that the organisation was not involved, implicated nor approached to answer on anything relating to the charges brought against Hitachi. The ANC was further not involved in the transactions between Hitachi and Chancellor House, nor do we have any information on any impropriety relating to the award of the Medupi or Kusile [power station] contracts to Hitachi. The ANC therefore cannot comment on matters internal to the two parties.”

Mkhize said the ANC would study the outcome of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) matter and “identify appropriate lessons or actions, if any, to be taken.”

Damning for ANC

The long-running US investigation focused solely on the culpability of Hitachi, a company that falls under US jurisdiction by dint of its operations there. It did not examine the guilt or innocence of Chancellor House (and, by proxy, the ANC), leaving US regulators alleging only that Hitachi did the bribing, but not that the ANC was bribed.

To further complicate matters, the Hitachi settlement leaves the allegations made by the SEC untested in court, at least for the time being; the civil settlement does not preclude later criminal action.

Yet the evidence put forward by SEC investigators in its indictment of Hitachi is damning for the ANC, making it clear that Hitachi, at least, was under the impression that it was buying political influence and took steps to hide that fact.

The SEC, which has powers of subpoena and investigation, cites a 2005 Hitachi document that indicates Chancellor House was “politically preferred” when the foreign company was looking for an empowerment partner – with handwritten notes in the margin from an executive “recommendation by Escom [sic]” as well as “ANC treasury”.

A 2010 email confirmed that Hitachi “took ANC influence into consideration” in 2005, when it sold a 25% stake to Chancellor House at a sweetheart price.

Meanwhile, Hitachi sought to cover up the exact nature of its relationship with Chancellor House and so with the ANC. In 2005, it removed provision for a “success fee” payable to Chancellor House from a shareholder’s agreement – because that agreement would have to be made available during the auditing of empowerment credentials. Instead of allowing a “success fee” to a ruling party-linked entity to be “interpreted in a way which it is not intended”, the parties drafted a side agreement that ultimately netted Chancellor House $1-million.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:29:48 626f6d No.16436139

“Chancellor House: R266m for nine years of lies by ANC partner” – Part 2

https://mg.co.za/article/2015-09-29-chancellor-house-r266-million-for-9-years-of-lies-by-anc-partner/

29 September 2015

ANC funding vehicle

Chancellor House was set up in 2003 as an ANC funding vehicle. It bought a 25% stake in a local Hitachi subsidiary in 2005, which subsequently won large contracts with Eskom.

Despite a series of articles by the Mail & Guardian and other publications uncovering the relationships between the three entities, no local action was taken.

In late 2009, then public protector Lawrence Mushwana narrowly investigated a conflict of interest on the part of Moosa, who chaired crucial Eskom board meetings while serving as an ANC executive.

Mushwana found that Moosa should have done a better job of managing the conflict of interest involved, but also explicitly found that “the awarding of the contract by Eskom to an entity in which the ruling party has an interest was not unlawful”.

No other investigation was done into any of Chancellor House’s dealings, which included stakes in other government contracts as well as a controversial mine in Swaziland.

Denial

The ANC at various times said Chancellor House was at arm’s-length from the party, that there was no evidence of corruption or wrongdoing at Chancellor House and that the sale of the Hitachi stake in 2014 had put the entire matter “behind us”.

The more detailed denials were left to Hitachi, which variously said it did not know until too late that Chancellor House was a front for the ANC, that it was not allowed to donate money to political parties and that money paid to Chancellor House would not go to the ANC.

The SEC said Hitachi sold the 25% stake in a South African subsidiary to Chancellor House in an arrangement that “gave the front company and the ANC the ability to share in the profits from any power station contracts that Hitachi secured”.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:32:10 626f6d No.16436151

>>16436128

>Treasurer Zweli Mkhize said the ANC “categorically states that the organisation was not involved, implicated nor approached to answer on anything relating to the charges brought against Hitachi. The ANC was further not involved in the transactions between Hitachi and Chancellor House, nor do we have any information on any impropriety relating to the award of the Medupi or Kusile [power station] contracts to Hitachi. The ANC therefore cannot comment on matters internal to the two parties.”

>Mkhize said the ANC would study the outcome of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) matter and “identify appropriate lessons or actions, if any, to be taken.”

“SA minister Zweli Mkhize put on leave over corruption allegations”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/8/south-africa-health-minister-put-on-leave-over-corruption-allegations

8 June 2021

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has put his Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on special leave, after allegations his department irregularly awarded COVID-19-related contracts to a communications company controlled by his former associates.

“This period of special leave will enable the Minister to attend to allegations and investigations concerning contracts between the Department of Health and a service provider, Digital Vibes,” Ramaphosa’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.

It was the latest in a series of corruption allegations linked to coronavirus-related tenders that have caused public outrage. Ramaphosa has promised that corruption during the COVID-19 pandemic will be dealt with harshly.

Earlier on Tuesday, Mkhize told the press that he had approached the president about taking a special leave pending an investigation into the contracts awarded to communications firm Digital Vibes. He has previously denied any wrongdoing.

South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is probing the case, one of over 4,000 coronavirus-linked contracts suspiciously awarded since the start of the pandemic.

Revelations about alleged mishandling of coronavirus funds surfaced last year and have since led investigators to believe that billions of rands have fallen into the hands of politically connected companies.

The SIU last week said that 63 government officials had so far been handed over for prosecution, while 87 companies will be blacklisted.

Mkhize wrote to the ruling African National Congress party last week to request a meeting of its integrity committee to state his case.

A report on the outcome of the SIU probe, which the minister has vowed to make public, is expected by the end of this month.

Mkhize has been health minister since 2018 and led South Africa’s campaign against COVID-19.

He gained popularity through his handling of the pandemic and has been touted as one of the potential successors to Ramaphosa. But links to the coronavirus corruption scandals could tarnish his reputation.

Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane will serve as health minister in the interim. [Their next best person to handle a pandemic]

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:35:04 626f6d No.16436158

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>>16436128

>>16436151

Remember this which was posted on South Africa Research Board #3

“Co-Chairs’ Summary of the 3 rd Meeting of the Access to Covid-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Facilitation Council” – Zweli Mkhize- https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/co-chair_summary_3rd_facilitation_council.pdf?sfvrsn=bc162d6a_1&download=true. Below are a few excerpts.

Held on 14 December 2020 and co-Chaired by Dr Zweli Mkhize, Minister of Health of South Africa and Mr Dag-Inge Ulstein, Minister of International Development, Norway, the 3 rd meeting of the ACT Accelerator Facilitation Council had the following three objectives:

• To understand evolving Pillar priorities, plans and timelines in the era of COVID-19 vaccines

• To provide input on a draft financing framework to address the ACT Accelerator funding gaps

• To consider next steps for building the necessary political support for the financing framework

The Co-Chairs note that since the last Council meeting held in November 2020, where a clear macroeconomic case for urgently investing in the ACT Accelerator was laid out, there is even more evidence to suggest that ACT-Accelerator financing can give a solid ‘return on investment’.1

1 Global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines estimated to generate economic benefits of at least US$ 153 billion in 2020–21, and US$ 466 billion by 2025, in 10 major economies, according to new report by the Eurasia Group, published 3 December 2020, https://www.who.int/news/item/03-12-2020-global-access-to-covid-19-vaccines-estimated-to-generateeconomic-benefits-of-at-least-153-billion-in-2020-21

Summary of the programme – 3 rd Council Meeting, 14 December 2020

Co-Chairs: Dr Zweli Mkhize, Minister of Health, South Africa & Mr Dag-Inge Ulstein, Minister of International Development, Norway

Participation: 178 delegates & invitees online

Opening

Evolving ACT Accelerator Priorities and Timelines in the New ‘Era of COVID-19 Vaccines’

• Chair: Dr Mkhize, Minister of Health, South Africa

• Presenter: Dr Anban Pillay, Deputy Director General, Department of Health, South Africa

• Interventions (in speaking order): India, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Wellcome Trust, Civil Society Organization, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Unitaid, European Commission and International Chamber of Commerce

Developing a Comprehensive Financing Framework for the ACT Accelerator

• Chair: Mr Dag-Inge Ulstein, Minister of International Development, Norway 3

• Presenter: John-Arne Røttingen, Ambassador for Global Health, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Interventions (in speaking order): Nepal, Germany, Japan, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Civil Society Organization, World Bank, National Academy of Medicine, France, Indonesia, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Closing summary remarks and next steps

• Intervention: France (ACT-A Charter)

• Co-Chairs: Closing remarks

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:38:31 626f6d No.16436168

>>16436139

>The ANC at various times said Chancellor House was at arm’s-length from the party, that there was no evidence of corruption or wrongdoing at Chancellor House and that the sale of the Hitachi stake in 2014 had put the entire matter “behind us”.

“'Yes, we fund the ANC' says Chancellor House after more than a decade of denials of ANC influence on major deals”

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/investigations/yes-we-fund-the-anc-says-chancellor-house-after-more-than-a-decade-of-denials-of-anc-influence-on-major-deals-20210911

11 September 2021

Chancellor House Holdings, the investment arm of the ANC, has admitted that the ruling party is a beneficiary of a trust that owns the company outright - after years controversy over Chancellor’s valuable stakes in government linked deals.

This includes Hitachi Power Africa, now Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Africa, that was awarded a R20 billion deal in 2007 to build all six boilers at Eskom’s Kusile and Medupi power stations.

The projects are years late and billions of rands over budget. Chancellor House had a 25% stake in Hitachi Power Africa which said at the time it had conducted a due diligence on Chancellor House Trust, which owns Chancellor House Holdings, and found the beneficiaries of the trust included “black ‘natural’ persons, classified into groups such as youth, women, rural citizens and the disabled”, Engineering News reported in 2010.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:40:38 626f6d No.16436180

“ANC’s Chancellor House made 5000% return on the Hitatchi-Eskom deal”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/ancs-chancellor-house-made-5000-return-on-the-hitatchi-eskom-deal/

6 October 2015

Fin24 reports that he ANC’s front company, Chancellor House, was key in securing contracts worth $5.6 billion for Hitachi to build boilers for Eskom’s far-behind-schedule power plants, but according to a report by the SEC, Hitachi had “inaccurately recorded improper payments” to Chancellor House… a damning accusation that Hitachi had very little to say about.

Now, even though the SEC did not accuse the ANC of any wrongdoing, Chancellor House was mentioned and the deal between essentially the ANC, Eskom and Hitachi left SA with rolling power cuts and led to our economy shrinking by 1.3% in just three months. Oh and did we mention that the stations are four years behind schedule and that the process was started 10 years ago already?

Ok so let’s backtrack a bit and get some scope. Back in 2005 Hitachi Power Europe – they supply boilers and power stations – set up a joint venture with the ANC’s Chancellor House called Hitachi Power Africa as Hitachi had an eye on SA and Chancellor House could ensure that Hitachis African expedition conforms to BEE standards.

So it happened that Chancellor House bought a stake in Hitachi Power Africa and according to the SEC report, “Chancellor House was doing its very best” to get Hitachi the contract. Essentially, the ANC was bidding to get a job with the ANC and the people who had to approve the bid were… wait for it, ANC board members of Eskom. See the problem yet?

In 2007 Eskom awarded the Medupi bid to Hitachi without naming any other bidders and in 2008 they also won Kusile.

The French connection.

Ok so, according to the SEC report, Eskom had initially awarded the Medupi contract to a French multinational, but Hitachi had somehow learned that the deal was under some stress so “directed Chancellor House to help Hitachi win reconsideration of the boiler component of the Medupi power station contract.” To smooth the deal, Hitachi Europe agreed on a success fee that would be paid to Chancellor House, but only if they help them win the bid.Don’t believe it? Here’s an excerpt from an internal Hitachi memo the SEC got hold of: “Balance of political power in board (ANC driven currently in our favour).”

The ruling party’s cut.

Fin24 reports that Chancellor House paid $190 819 for its stake in 2005. By 2008, Hitachi’s African unit started making payments of success fees, which it reported as “consulting fees”, and dividends totalled around $6 million. In February 2012, it also paid Chancellor House $4.5 million to buy its 25% stake, giving the ANC’s Chancellor House a 5 000% return on its investment – even though Medupi isn’t running at half capacity and Kusile isn’t even finished — , the SEC documents read.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:42:34 626f6d No.16436187

“DA complains to IEC regarding Chancellor House’s R15 million donation to ANC”

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/da-complains-to-iec-regarding-chancellor-houses-r15-million-donation-to-anc/

19 November 2021

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has complained to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) about the R15 million donation Chancellor House has made to the African National Congress (ANC), saying it defeats the aim of ensuring transparency with regards to who funds political parties.

The ANC reported to the Electoral Commission in terms of the 2nd quarterly disclosures for the year as per the Political Party Funding Act, that the company, its investment vehicle, donated the money on 31 August.

The DA contends that by receiving donations through the trust, the ANC is able to conceal the source of its donations.

The DA wants the IEC to tighten up the Political Party Funding Act to ensure that political parties cannot subvert its objectives.

“If the ANC’s fundraising arm is giving R15 million to the ANC, it is obviously fundraised. Now it is highly unlikely that this was a huge amount of donations under R100 000, it is likely that this was donations over R100 000 where that came from we don’t know. Now, if it can be argued that this is interest from money that was earned I mean that is a significant amount of money,” says DA Federal Finance Chairperson Deon George.

The IEC however says that at this initial stage it is not empowered to probe non-disclosure or force political parties to disclose their donations.

“We have not looked at who the trustees are because we don’t go to that extent; we look at whether it is South African if it is a South African registered trust if it is allowed to donate to who it wants to donate. If there is prima facie evidence that can be brought before the commission then it will be looked at legally who are the trustees, are they allowed to donate or give dividends. As things stand we do not go into the details of investigating if the trustee is linked to the donor,” says IEC Deputy Chief Electoral Officer for Political Party Funding George Mahlangu.

Political analyst Lukhona Mnguni says that a number of loopholes exist in the Political Party Funding Act and can be exploited by mischievous political parties. Mnguni says there are a number of issues to consider in relation to the Chancellor House/ANC donation.

“ The ANC’s misgivings with Chancellor House Trust is that they should be able to gain as much as possible but now with the cap on a single donor per annum. It actually frustrates them because there may be more funds held at Chancellor House that could be of use to the party instead of the concern being Chancellor House concealing certain monies is whether or not in the future there will be transactions from Chancellor House to other entities and then those entities can then donate to the ANC which will mean that in fact, Chancellor House is donating much more as a single donor but through other multiple vehicles.”

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:50:42 626f6d No.16436216

>A widely read 1999 article in the foreign-policy journal The National Interest, written by ex-CIA officer and National Security Council staffer Fritz W. Ermarth, noted that, as far back as 1985, the KGB was engaged in the massive transfer of assets abroad via commodities trading through front companies.

>“The program evolved into . . . avenues for squirreling away funds for the safe retirement or political comeback of embattled communist leaders,” Ermarth writes.

>If Rich had anything to do with this, then he would have had a key role in making the world safe for nuclear-armed communist tyrants who were America’s greatest enemies.

“[In shock] | here is how much ANC received form Russian billionaire Viktor” – Part 1

https://za.opera.news/za/en/economy-finance/1c4e031e7912b369d0f31eb6270f096f

Posted 9 months ago

The cash-strapped ANC has received a $5 million donation from a mining company, part owned by the Russian billionaire oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who has ties to the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to the first party financing report released by the Independent Electoral Commission on Thursday, manganese mining company United Manganese Kalahari (UMK), the largest producer of quantity ore in the country and has a balance sheet of 2.5 billion rupees, was among the companies donated to the ANC between April and June this year [2021].

In 2000, Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska founded the United Company Rusal, the largest aluminium company in the world. From 2018 to 2016 he was president of EN Group, a Russian energy company, and since 2018 he has been head of the company.

One of the groups of oligarchies, the AAR consortium, which teamed up with BP to form TNK BP, is one of Russia's largest oil companies and has long-standing access to the industry through [Len] Blavatnik, founded in 1986, two years before he became a US citizen, which he now uses for investment.

Blavatnik is part of a group of oligarchs in the consortium AAR that has teamed up with the British oil giant BP to create TNK-BP, one of Russia's largest oil companies. His assets include the Siberian energy company Eurosibenergo (ru), 23% of Russia's largest private energy company.

He also owns 10% of InGosstrakh, one of the country's largest insurance companies, the Gaz Group, a manufacturer of cars, trucks and buses, and he is founder of the agricultural company Kuban Agro-Holdings.

Khodorkovsky hired a Western accounting firm, and Yukos became one of the few Russian companies to recognize its major shareholders.

Hardliners in the government feared that Putin would wake one morning to discover that Russia’s most strategically valuable energy companies had been seized by western corporations. In the end, BP and AAR were bought by a company owned by Russia's state-backed energy company Rosneft.

Deripaska is known for his close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian oligarch, who has a fortune of $5.5 billion (2.4 billion euros), is also known for his close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is a close ally of the Kremlin.

Ingosstrakh has 83 offices throughout Russia, and the companies "offices are located in 220 Russian cities.

The Russian state audit chamber, the equivalent of the US government accountability office, has a final report expected to be issued by the end of the year, but Russian officials said an interim report on inspections of 140 privatized companies had uncovered 56 violations of government regulations.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 18:51:36 626f6d No.16436219

“[In shock] | here is how much ANC received form Russian billionaire Viktor” – Part 2

https://za.opera.news/za/en/economy-finance/1c4e031e7912b369d0f31eb6270f096f

Posted 9 months ago

In an incident broadcast on Russian television, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a disused Deripaska cement factory and berated its management.

He forced Deripaskas to sign a contract in which he promised to pay $1 million in unpaid wages. Igor Shuvalov, one of Putin's economic advisers, warned that Yukos would not be the last company to be attacked.

Motorists no longer need to seek quotes from some well-known insurers. Online offers give policyholders the opportunity to discover several insurance companies and check their prices. It is one thing for foreign companies to be minority investors, but when they buy operational control, their payments can be diverted to oligarchs.

Blavatnik, who is a British and US citizen, has ties to Vladimir Putin in Russia, and the controversy over his business background means that criticism will follow his donations, especially when they relate to institutions named after the buildings in which he resided.

At a time when various Russian oilmen were courted by foreign majors, Western businessmen say, he was the only one who could sit down and negotiate deals. After the fall of communism, access to investment in Russia, especially in energy and aluminum companies, began after the country broke away.

Khodorkovsky's denunciation of the state oil company Rosneft presented Putin with a challenge, and the company was headed by Sergei Bogdanchikov, an associate of Siloviki.

US diplomats claim that one of AAR's masterminds, German Khan, was involved in a state-funded campaign against BP to force the company out of Russia.

The donor is Viktor Vekselburg, who has close ties to the Russian government. He said he had never had an objective reason to fear a prison sentence and resented the sanctions imposed earlier this year on Verkselberg, another billionaire and his former partner.

He has donated to government projects such as the Winter Olympics and the school in Sochi, but never more than a few million dollars, he says. The money that the Russian people gave to the African National Congress was to be paid to people who had not received a salary for three months.

Fridman's dilemma gives an insight into the relationship between business and power in Russia. He is known for being curious, polite and persistent. Linked to BP, he has given up half of his oil assets but says he has saved the other half from government pillaging.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 19:24:15 626f6d No.16436343

>>16436216

>One of the groups of oligarchies, the AAR consortium, which teamed up with BP to form TNK BP, is one of Russia's largest oil companies and has long-standing access to the industry through [Len] Blavatnik, founded in 1986, two years before he became a US citizen, which he now uses for investment.

“Fortunes of UK online billionaires soar by a FIFTH during lockdown: Sunday Times Rich List reveals record 171 billionaires in Britain despite lockdown as Sir Leonard Blavatnik comes out top with £23bn wealth”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9603711/Ukrainian-oligarch-Sir-Leonard-Blavatnik-tops-Sunday-Times-Rich-List.html

21 May 2021

A record 171 billionaires in the UK saw their fortunes soar by more than a fifth as they shook off the financial toll of the pandemic, the Sunday Times Rich List reveals.

Ukrainian-born Sir Leonard Blavatnik, 63, has topped the Rich List for the second time with his £23billion fortune following a £7.2billion leap in wealth.

Overall, the number of UK-based billionaires has jumped by 24 per cent compared to 2020 in a stark contrast with the economic turmoil of a global crisis which saw millions enter furlough.

But this had little impact on the very wealthiest, with the fortunes of billionaires increasing by 21.7 per cent over the year - rising by £106.5billion to £597.2billion.

Blavatnik, 63, saw his personal wealth leap by £7.219billion, placing him at the top of the Rich List for the second time since 2015 - when he was worth £13.17billion.

Chelsea owner and fellow Russian Roman Abramovich also saw his fortune climb, rising by £1.9 billion to £12.1 billion for the year.

#1 - Sir Leonard Blavatnik - £23 billion

Age: 63

Industry: Music and chemicals

The Ukrainian-born magnate sits atop an empire that spans from entertainment to chemicals.

After graduating from Colombia University with a degree in computer science, he made investments in Russian energy companies following the fall of the Soviet Union.

In 2013 he sold his stake in oil company TNK-BP, netting him more than £5billion. Two years prior, he had bought Warner Music for £2.4billion.

The philanthropist currently lives in London and has donated to UK institutions including Oxford University, which named its Blavatnik School of Government after him.

He has also donated to both U.S. Republicans and Democrats, including to Donald Trump's presidential inaugural committee.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 20:05:14 626f6d No.16436536

>You can read about it in “Godfather of the Kremlin,” an exhaustively researched book about Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky [Boris Abramovich Berezovsky was born in 1946, in Moscow, to Abram Markovich Berezovsky (1911–1979),[24] a Jewish civil engineer in construction works - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman)], which was published last fall. The author is Paul Klebnikov, an expert on Russia and a Forbes magazine senior editor.

>The book details the myriad ways Berezovsky and his minions stole untold sums from the Russian people through international financial schemes.

>“Marc Rich ended up being a mentor to all these young kids who came out of the Communist Party establishment, and who made billions off these schemes themselves,” Klebnikov charges.

>>16436343

>Chelsea owner and fellow Russian Roman Abramovich also saw his fortune climb, rising by £1.9 billion to £12.1 billion for the year.

“From poor orphan to billionaire oligarch: how Abramovich made his money” – Part 1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/roman-abramovich-billionaire-oligarch-money-russia-chelsea

21 March 2022

Roman Abramovich’s journey from an impoverished, orphaned childhood to Chelsea-owning billionaire was forged in the chaotic transformation of Russia itself, in the years after the iron curtain fell.

His elevation into an oligarch is unusually well documented, chronicled in painstaking detail in an English high court judgment of Lady Justice Gloster in 2012, when Abramovich succeeded in defending a lawsuit brought by his former mentor, Boris Berezovsky.

In the case, both men described their careers, and routes to becoming billionaires, as “a uniquely Russian story”.

After communism fell, he worked his way up in trading and transportation of oil and other industrial products. The court judgment records that at the time of his first, transformational meeting with Berezovsky, on a Caribbean cruise in December 1994, Abramovich was “a moderately successful businessman”.

Creation of Sibneft

The creation of the vast state oil concern Sibneft, whose formation and sale to Abramovich made his fortune, was an idea he conceived and suggested to Berezovsky, the court judgment noted.

Already rich from his dealings in the automotive sector, and politically connected, Berezovsky was the ideal business partner for Abramovich. Obsessed with opposing any prospect of Russia returning to communism [yeah right!], Berezovsky proposed Abramovich’s idea to the then president, Boris Yeltsin: merging a crude oil producer with a refinery, and handing control of the enlarged business to Abramovich and Berezovsky. In exchange, Berezovsky would use revenues from the new oil company to fund a TV station, ORT, to broadcast pro-Yeltsin propaganda.

Yeltsin created Sibneft by decree in August 1995, when Abramovich was still only 29. Then, the judgment records, the new huge oil concern was sold to Abramovich in a series of auctions whose price in some cases is stated to have been rigged, with other bidders discouraged by various means. Abramovich bought 90% of Sibneft for approximately $240m, using only $18.8m of his own capital, although Gloster said it was “possibly more”.

The judgment states that it was Abramovich’s own case that he had a deal to pay Berezovsky for political influence, that this deal was “corrupt”, and that Berezovsky’s political lobbying activities were “inherently corrupt”.

Abramovich’s barrister, Jonathan Sumption QC, “accepted that Mr Abramovich was privy to that corruption, but submitted that the reality was that that was how business was done in Russia in those times”. [and it still continues…]

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 20:06:49 626f6d No.16436544

“From poor orphan to billionaire oligarch: how Abramovich made his money” – Part 2

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/roman-abramovich-billionaire-oligarch-money-russia-chelsea

21 March 2022

‘Good relations’ with Putin

The court judgment also noted that Abramovich had “good relations” with Vladimir Putin, Yeltsin’s successor, and unlike Berezovsky and other oligarchs who fell out with the new president, Abramovich continued to flourish.

According to the judgment he made another fortune from the acquisition of companies in Russia’s aluminium industry, and in 2003 he sold a 25% stake in the RusAl aluminium company to another oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, for $1.9bn. He sold a further 25% for $540m.

Abramovich emerged from this brutal environment, described in the court case as “the wild east”, to global fame and celebrity when he bought Chelsea in 2003.

He and his management team, some of whom have remained trusted associates throughout, improved Sibneft and modernised its operations. Then in 2005, Gazprom, the huge fuel company majority-owned by the Russian state, bought his then 72% stake, paying £7.4bn.

Evraz

The billions Abramovich made from Russia’s privatisations funded his famously lavish lifestyle: grand houses, private jets, yachts and fast cars, the £1.5bn he pumped into Chelsea, and a portfolio of further investments.

The most public is a 29% stake in Evraz, a London Stock Exchange-listed industrial conglomerate with steel production plants in Russia, the US and Canada, which had revenues of $14bn in 2021. The UK government cited Evraz as a reason for targeting Abramovich with sanctions, along with its assessment that he had “a close relationship for decades” with Putin.

Evraz was accused of providing services or goods to the Russian state, “which includes potentially supplying steel to the Russian military which may have been used in the production of tanks”. The company denied that, saying it “supplies long steel to infrastructure and construction sectors only”.

The value of Evraz – £12bn in 2021 – has plummeted 86%, and trading in its shares was suspended after sanctions were imposed on Abramovich.

The oligarch has previously vehemently disputed reports suggesting his alleged closeness to Putin and Russia, or that he has done anything to merit sanctions being imposed against him.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 20:50:40 626f6d No.16436718

>>16436216

>The cash-strapped ANC has received a $5 million donation from a mining company, part owned by the Russian billionaire oligarch Viktor Vekselberg

“Rosneft deal makes Viktor Vekselberg Russia's richest man”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/oct/23/rosneft-deal-viktor-vekselberg-russia-rich

23 October 2012

He may not be the most famous businessman in Russia, but Viktor Vekselberg is now the richest.

That is the status the natural resources investor has been accorded by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, following AAR's sale of its 50% stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft for $28bn (£17.5bn) on Monday.

Vekselberg is one of five Russian oligarchs who control the AAR consortium – alongside Mikhail Fridman, Leonard Blavatnik, German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev – and his latest deal means he is now worth $18bn and the 40th richest person in the world. That puts him more than $700m ahead of the metals and technology investor Alisher Usmanov, the Arsenal investor who had previously topped the list.

The deal also added $1.2bn to Fridman's fortune, moving him past the Russian billionaires Roman Abramovich, the Chelsea owner, and the steel and mining billionaire Alexey Mordashov, according to Bloomberg, and making Fridman the country's fifth-richest person.

Vekselberg's rise is fascinating. Born in western Ukraine, he trained as an engineer and went into business in 1990, in the dying months of the Soviet Union. By 1996 he had risen to become chairman of Tyumen Oil (TNK) and negotiated the 50-50 partnership between TNK and BP. He also co-founded his own aluminium group, subsequently part of the giant Rusal, with his business interests now managed by his Renova Group.

During the same meeting the billionaire described himself as "half-American" – his wife, Marina, and their two children, a daughter and a son, are all US citizens. He also pleaded for "open communication" between Russian business and the west; in his role as chair of the international affairs committee of the Union of Russian Industrialists and Entrepreneurs he has dispatched delegations to Washington to meet US officials. His pragmatic attitude towards the US is at odds with the ferocious anti-western rhetoric frequently emanating from the Kremlin.

The revisions to the rich list occurred after the Kremlin-controlled oil group Rosneft said on Monday it would buy the whole of TNK-BP from AAR and BP for $55bn. As AAR sells its 50% TNK-BP holding to Rosneft, simultaneously the British-based oil company is also offloading its 50% stake in the joint venture for cash and shares in Rosneft valued at about $27bn.

The sale of TNK-BP has come after years of disputes between BP and AAR in which the pair have battled each other in the courts, AAR has blocked dividends from the joint venture and the Russian oligarchs have scuppered BP's hopes of an earlier tie-up with Rosneft in the Arctic.

While Vekselberg's fortune is on the rise, his ascent to the summit of his country's rich list was also was aided by woes for Usmanov. His fortune has dropped on the index by more than $1bn in the past week as MegaFon, Russia's second-largest mobile-phone company in which Usmanov is a key shareholder, postponed its London flotation.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 21:02:46 626f6d No.16436784

>>16408829

>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).

Is it not interesting that “Rusal” are the middle letters of "Je[rusal]em"?

“Rusal, Sual To Create Russian Aluminum Giant” – Merge with Glencore

http://www.worldal.com/news/russia/2006-11-07/126398397312619.shtml

November 7, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) – Russian aluminum producers Rusal Ltd. and Sual Group on Monday announced a three-way merger that would create the world's largest producer of aluminum, continuing a bigger-is-better trend sweeping the metals industry.

Moscow-based Rusal, currently the world's third-largest producer of the light metal, is combining assets with smaller Russian producer Sual and alumina refineries owned by Swiss commodities trader Glencore International in a stock-swap.

"The new joint company will be highly ambitious and today's announcement is a staging post towards our future objectives," said Rusal Chairman Oleg Deripaska in a statement.

Under the terms of Russian deal, Rusal shareholder EN+ the holding company for Rusal and two Russian energy firms will own 66% of the new company. SUAL's shareholders will take 22% and Glencore will own 12%.

The companies expect to complete the deal by April 2007, subject to antitrust approvals, and take the merged company public in London within three years of the closing.

With aluminum smelters and refineries spanning the globe, it will employ 110,000 people in 17 countries.

Alcoa will still outrank its European competitor in alumina. Pittsburg-based Alcoa makes about 15 million metric tons of alumina the white powder that's turned into aluminum to United Company Rusal's 11 million tons.

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Anonymous 06/12/22 (Sun) 21:20:28 626f6d No.16436854

>>16436784

>Russian aluminum producers Rusal Ltd. and Sual Group on Monday announced a three-way merger that would create the world's largest producer of aluminum, continuing a bigger-is-better trend sweeping the metals industry.

>>16436216

>>16409418

>>16413886

>>16414246 - Boards Where Ivan Glasenberg Serves - Rusal Plc, since 2007 >>16408829

It’s all connected

Viktor Vekselberg founded SUAL

https://www.skoltech.ru/en/team/viktor-vekselberg/

1990, together with his partners, Viktor Vekselberg co-founded Renova Group later became one of the largest diversified investment companies in Russia. Subsequently, Viktor Vekselberg bought out his business partners. In 1996, Renova founded SUAL Holding, and Viktor Vekselberg became its President and later in 2003 its Board Chairman. In 2007, SUAL Holding merged with Russian Aluminium into UC Rusal, and until 2012, Viktor Vekselberg chaired the board of the newly formed company. In 2002 – 2003, he chaired the Board of the Tyumen Oil Company (TNK), and in 2003 – 2013 was a member of the TNK-BP Board of Directors. In 2010, Renova shifted its investment focus onto solar power generation, and in 2013, the Group made an exit from the oil and gas business. [Going green?]

In 2010, Viktor was elected as Head of the Skolkovo Innovation Center project. In 2019 – 2020, he chaired the Skolkovo Board of Directors, and from 2020, he has been a member of the Board. In 2021, appointed as Chairman of the Skoltech Board of Trustees.

Viktor Vekselberg is a member of the Management Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, he chairs its Committee for International Cooperation and is a member of several transnational business councils (Russia-Germany, Russia-Italy, Russia-France, Russia-Switzerland, Russia-China). Viktor Vekselberg is a member of the Donor Group of Avenir Suisse, a think tank based in Switzerland.

Charity

Viktor spends a considerable amount of his time on charity, he supports museums and theaters. In 2004, he founded the Link of Times charity foundation with a mission to repatriate lost artworks. In 2004, Viktor Vekselberg purchased the world’s largest collection of imperial Easter eggs by Carl Fabergé and gave it a home at a museum he founded in St. Petersburg which has now become one of the largest private museums in Russia. He is a trustee of the Tretyakov Gallery and Chairman of Honor of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center and the founder of its Endowment. Also sponsors the annual Moscow Easter Festival, with Maestro Valery Gergiev as its artistic director, and the international music festivals in Verbier and Lucerne (Switzerland). He is a member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress and is its Counsellor for Countering Antisemitism. Member of the Council of Patrons of the Conference of European Rabbis.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 13:20:14 ec310d No.16439979

>>16425237

>>16426171 - Then the Jew who wrote the article is also a hater? How can one build a better future if one avoids the past? Do you not think that “antisemitism” can be used deflect accusations/facts?… Otherwise the worst in history will perpetuate.

“Stalin's Jews”

https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html

12.21.06

Sever Plocker

We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish

Here's a particularly forlorn historical date: Almost 90 years ago, between the 19th and 20th of December 1917, in the midst of the Bolshevik revolution and civil war, Lenin signed a decree calling for the establishment of The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, also known as Cheka.

Within a short period of time, Cheka became the largest and cruelest state security organization. Its organizational structure was changed every few years, as were its names: From Cheka to GPU, later to NKVD, and later to KGB.

We cannot know with certainty the number of deaths Cheka was responsible for in its various manifestations, but the number is surely at least 20 million, including victims of the forced collectivization, the hunger, large purges, expulsions, banishments, executions, and mass death at Gulag.

Whole population strata were eliminated: Independent farmers, ethnic minorities, members of the bourgeoisie, senior officers, intellectuals, artists, labor movement activists, "opposition members" who were defined completely randomly, and countless members of the Communist party itself.

In his new, highly praised book "The War of the World, "Historian Niall Ferguson writes that no revolution in the history of mankind devoured its children with the same unrestrained appetite as did the Soviet revolution. In his book on the Stalinist purges, Tel Aviv University's Dr. Igal Halfin writes that Stalinist violence was unique in that it was directed internally.

Lenin, Stalin, and their successors could not have carried out their deeds without wide-scale cooperation of disciplined "terror officials," cruel interrogators, snitches, executioners, guards, judges, perverts, and many bleeding hearts who were members of the progressive Western Left and were deceived by the Soviet regime of horror and even provided it with a kosher certificate.

All these things are well-known to some extent or another, even though the former Soviet Union's archives have not yet been fully opened to the public. But who knows about this? Within Russia itself, very few people have been brought to justice for their crimes in the NKVD's and KGB's service. The Russian public discourse today completely ignores the question of "How could it have happened to us?" As opposed to Eastern European nations, the Russians did not settle the score with their Stalinist past.

And us, the Jews? An Israeli student finishes high school without ever hearing the name "Genrikh Yagoda," the greatest Jewish murderer of the 20th Century, the GPU's deputy commander and the founder and commander of the NKVD. Yagoda diligently implemented Stalin's collectivization orders and is responsible for the deaths of at least 10 million people. His Jewish deputies established and managed the Gulag system. After Stalin no longer viewed him favorably, Yagoda was demoted and executed, and was replaced as chief hangman in 1936 by Yezhov, the "bloodthirsty dwarf."

Yezhov was not Jewish but was blessed with an active Jewish wife. In his Book "Stalin: Court of the Red Star", Jewish historian Sebag Montefiore writes that during the darkest period of terror, when the Communist killing machine worked in full force, Stalin was surrounded by beautiful, young Jewish women.

Stalin's close associates and loyalists included member of the Central Committee and Politburo Lazar Kaganovich. Montefiore characterizes him as the "first Stalinist" and adds that those starving to death in Ukraine, an unparalleled tragedy in the history of human kind aside from the Nazi horrors and Mao's terror in China, did not move Kaganovich.

Many Jews sold their soul to the devil of the Communist revolution and have blood on their hands for eternity. We'll mention just one more: Leonid Reichman, head of the NKVD's special department and the organization's chief interrogator, who was a particularly cruel sadist.

In 1934, according to published statistics, 38.5 percent of those holding the most senior posts in the Soviet security apparatuses were of Jewish origin. They too, of course, were gradually eliminated in the next purges. In a fascinating lecture at a Tel Aviv University convention this week, Dr. Halfin described the waves of soviet terror as a "carnival of mass murder," "fantasy of purges", and "essianism of evil." Turns out that Jews too, when they become captivated by messianic ideology, can become great murderers, among the greatest known by modern history.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 13:26:41 ec310d No.16439999

>>16439979

>>16426171 - The article ends with the following words whic I agree with.

The Jews active in official communist terror apparatuses (In the Soviet Union and abroad) and who at times led them, did not do this, obviously, as Jews, but rather, as Stalinists, communists, and "Soviet people." Therefore, we find it easy to ignore their origin and "play dumb": What do we have to do with them? But let's not forget them. My own view is different. I find it unacceptable that a person will be considered a member of the Jewish people when he does great things, but not considered part of our people when he does amazingly despicable things.

Even if we deny it, we cannot escape the Jewishness of "our hangmen," who served the Red Terror with loyalty and dedication from its establishment. After all, others will always remind us of their origin.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 13:37:47 ec310d No.16440035

>>16435203

>Although Xstrata’s website talks about the company’s ‘small beginnings a decade ago’, the diversified mining giant was founded as an infrastructure and electrics company called Südelektra in Switzerland in 1926. In 1990 the company’s business changed dramatically when the man who started Glencore – namely [Marc] Rich – acquired the majority of the company’s shares, focused the business on mining and got rid of non-core interests.

>>16425988

>Today, Marc Rich's successor companies, Glencore Xstrata and Trafigura, control the price of just about every commodity.

Jewish Chronicle “Power 100 2014” - “1: Mick Davis: New boss in town”

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/122424/jc-power-100-2014

http://web.archive.org/web/20140912191042/https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/122424/jc-power-100-2014

September 10, 2014

When Mick Davis became chairman of the trustees of the Jewish Leadership Council in July 2009, it may not have been exactly a palace coup but it showed who was boss in town.

The council had till then been led by the elected president of the Board of Deputies, Henry Grunwald, but while his successor Vivian Wineman became chairman of the JLC's "council of membership", it was Mick Davis who grasped the reins of its executive.

The burly South African émigré, who is 56, emerged into the spotlight in 2006 as chairman of the UJIA, which remains one of British Jewry's most powerful organisations, if not quite as dominant as yesteryear. During his tenure, he helped to stage the central London parade for Israel's 65th birthday in 2008, one of the most successful communal organisations in recent memory, and the We Believe In Israel advocacy conference in 2011.

He had proved his prowess in business, building up the mining company Xstrata into a FTSE 100 company until his departure last year after its merger with commodities giant Glencore. But Mick the Miner, as he is known in the business press, is not at a loose end; his new X2 venture was reported to be exploring a new multi-billion coalmining venture recently. His pockets are deep - he and his wife Barbara's names are almost everywhere on the donor lists of Jewish charities. He is also involved with Kew Gardens and the Royal Opera House and gave £500,000 to the Conservative Party last year.

JLC colleagues say he "leads from the front". But he took many by surprise four years ago when he stuck his neck out and broke a taboo long observed by senior community lay leaders by publicly criticising the Israeli government. His warning that, without a two-state solution, the country risked becoming an apartheid state triggered an explosive debate.

But his critics failed to recognise that as the UJIA was the prime sponsor of Zionist youth movements, he understood the new and more complex attitude to Israel apparent among many of the younger generation.

While his backing for the anti-boycott campaign and his unqualified support for Israel in its recent conflict with Hamas are clear, he has nonetheless been unafraid to court further controversy, complaining this year in an opinion piece in Ha'aretz that diaspora activists were battling with "one hand tied behind their back" because of Israel's posture on the peace process.

Mick the Miner had at one time looked like Mick the Diner but a few years ago he dramatically shed the pounds and a new slimline Mick strode on to the stage. "Many people in business, their businesses get smaller and they get bigger. He has managed to do things the other way round," David Cameron quipped in 2012. Last year the PM appointed him as chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Commission to consider its future remembrance in Britain, a position which reflected his unrivalled access and influence.

The challenges faced by British Jews because of events in the Middle East hardly need stating. But the JLC leader also has internal matters to attend to. Amid a growing feeling that there are too many Jewish organisations and too little money to pay for them, can he persuade the voluntary sector to follow his example and trim itself too?

And will the JLC and the Board show the way by pulling off a merger - a move which could mean Mr Davis having to give up some of his executive power for the sake of democracy?

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 14:12:02 daff90 No.16440151

“Everything Is A Weapon: The US Government Is Waging Psychological Warfare On The Nation” – Part 1

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-weapon-us-government-waging-psychological-warfare-nation

June 9, 2022

“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? … Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”

- U.S. Army Psychological Operations recruitment video

The U.S. government is waging psychological warfare on the American people.

No, this is not a conspiracy theory.

Psychological warfare, according to the Rand Corporation, “involves the planned use of propaganda and other psychological operations to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of opposition groups.”

For years now, the government has been bombarding the citizenry with propaganda campaigns and psychological operations aimed at keeping us compliant, easily controlled and supportive of the police state’s various efforts abroad and domestically.

The government is so confident in its Orwellian powers of manipulation that it’s taken to bragging about them. Just recently, for example, the U.S. Army’s 4th Psychological Operations Group, the branch of the military responsible for psychological warfare, released a recruiting video that touts its efforts to pull the strings, turn everything they touch into a weapon, be everywhere, deceive, persuade, change, influence, and inspire.

This is the danger that lurks in plain sight.

Of the many weapons in the government’s vast arsenal, psychological warfare may be the most devastating in terms of the long-term consequences.

As the military journal Task and Purpose explains, “Psychological warfare is all about influencing governments, people of power, and everyday citizens… PSYOP soldiers’ key missions are to influence ‘emotions, notices, reasoning, and behavior of foreign governments and citizens,’ ‘deliberately deceive’ enemy forces, advise governments, and provide communications for disaster relief and rescue efforts.”

Yet don’t be fooled into thinking these psyops (psychological operations) campaigns are only aimed at foreign enemies. The government has made clear in word and deed that “we the people” are domestic enemies to be targeted, tracked, manipulated, micromanaged, surveilled, viewed as suspects, and treated as if our fundamental rights are mere privileges that can be easily discarded.

Aided and abetted by technological advances and scientific experimentation, the government has been subjecting the American people to “apple-pie propaganda” for the better part of the last century.

• Weaponizing violence. With alarming regularity, the nation continues to be subjected to spates of violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country’s ecosystem, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and institute even more authoritarian policies for the so-called sake of national security without many objections from the citizenry.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 14:13:08 daff90 No.16440152

“Everything Is A Weapon: The US Government Is Waging Psychological Warfare On The Nation” – Part 2

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-weapon-us-government-waging-psychological-warfare-nation

June 9, 2022

• Weaponizing surveillance, pre-crime and pre-thought campaigns. Surveillance, digital stalking and the data mining of the American people add up to a society in which there’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence. When the government sees all and knows all and has an abundance of laws to render even the most seemingly upstanding citizen a criminal and lawbreaker, then the old adage that you’ve got nothing to worry about if you’ve got nothing to hide no longer applies. Add pre-crime programs into the mix with government agencies and corporations working in tandem to determine who is a potential danger and spin a sticky spider-web of threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, flagged “words,” and “suspicious” activity reports using automated eyes and ears, social media, behavior sensing software, and citizen spies, and you having the makings for a perfect dystopian nightmare. The government’s war on crime has now veered into the realm of social media and technological entrapment, with government agents adopting fake social media identities and AI-created profile pictures in order to surveil, target and capture potential suspects.

• Weaponizing digital currencies, social media scores and censorship. Tech giants, working with the government, have been meting out their own version of social justice by way of digital tyranny and corporate censorship, muzzling whomever they want, whenever they want, on whatever pretext they want in the absence of any real due process, review or appeal. Unfortunately, digital censorship is just the beginning. Digital currencies (which can be used as “a tool for government surveillance of citizens and control over their financial transactions”), combined with social media scores and surveillance capitalism create a litmus test to determine who is worthy enough to be part of society and punish individuals for moral lapses and social transgressions (and reward them for adhering to government-sanctioned behavior). In China, millions of individuals and businesses, blacklisted as “unworthy” based on social media credit scores that grade them based on whether they are “good” citizens, have been banned from accessing financial markets, buying real estate or travelling by air or train.

• Weaponizing compliance. Even the most well-intentioned government law or program can be—and has been—perverted, corrupted and used to advance illegitimate purposes once profit and power are added to the equation. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on COVID-19, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state’s hands.

• Weaponizing entertainment. For the past century, the Department of Defense’s Entertainment Media Office has provided Hollywood with equipment, personnel and technical expertise at taxpayer expense. In exchange, the military industrial complex has gotten a starring role in such blockbusters as Top Gun and its rebooted sequel Top Gun: Maverick, which translates to free advertising for the war hawks, recruitment of foot soldiers for the military empire, patriotic fervor by the taxpayers who have to foot the bill for the nation’s endless wars, and Hollywood visionaries working to churn out dystopian thrillers that make the war machine appear relevant, heroic and necessary. As Elmer Davis, a CBS broadcaster who was appointed the head of the Office of War Information, observed, “The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.”

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 14:13:55 daff90 No.16440155

“Everything Is A Weapon: The US Government Is Waging Psychological Warfare On The Nation” – Part 3

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-weapon-us-government-waging-psychological-warfare-nation

June 9, 2022

• Weaponizing behavioral science and nudging. Apart from the overt dangers posed by a government that feels justified and empowered to spy on its people and use its ever-expanding arsenal of weapons and technology to monitor and control them, there’s also the covert dangers associated with a government empowered to use these same technologies to influence behaviors en masse and control the populace. In fact, it was President Obama who issued an executive order directing federal agencies to use “behavioral science” methods to minimize bureaucracy and influence the way people respond to government programs. It’s a short hop, skip and a jump from a behavioral program that tries to influence how people respond to paperwork to a government program that tries to shape the public’s views about other, more consequential matters. Thus, increasingly, governments around the world—including in the United States—are relying on “nudge units” to steer citizens in the direction the powers-that-be want them to go, while preserving the appearance of free will.

• Weaponizing desensitization campaigns aimed at lulling us into a false sense of security. The events of recent years—the invasive surveillance, the extremism reports, the civil unrest, the protests, the shootings, the bombings, the military exercises and active shooter drills, the lockdowns, the color-coded alerts and threat assessments, the fusion centers, the transformation of local police into extensions of the military, the distribution of military equipment and weapons to local police forces, the government databases containing the names of dissidents and potential troublemakers—have conspired to acclimate the populace to accept a police state willingly, even gratefully.

• Weaponizing fear and paranoia. The language of fear is spoken effectively by politicians on both sides of the aisle, shouted by media pundits from their cable TV pulpits, marketed by corporations, and codified into bureaucratic laws that do little to make our lives safer or more secure. Fear, as history shows, is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of government and control a populace, dividing the people into factions, and persuading them to see each other as the enemy. This Machiavellian scheme has so ensnared the nation that few Americans even realize they are being manipulated into adopting an “us” against “them” mindset. Instead, fueled with fear and loathing for phantom opponents, they agree to pour millions of dollars and resources into political elections, militarized police, spy technology and endless wars, hoping for a guarantee of safety that never comes. All the while, those in power—bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporations—move their costly agendas forward, and “we the suckers” get saddled with the tax bills and subjected to pat downs, police raids and round-the-clock surveillance.

• Weaponizing genetics. Not only does fear grease the wheels of the transition to fascism by cultivating fearful, controlled, pacified, cowed citizens, but it also embeds itself in our very DNA so that we pass on our fear and compliance to our offspring. It’s called epigenetic inheritance, the transmission through DNA of traumatic experiences. For example, neuroscientists observed that fear can travel through generations of mice DNA. As The Washington Post reports, “Studies on humans suggest that children and grandchildren may have felt the epigenetic impact of such traumatic events such as famine, the Holocaust and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”

• Weaponizing the future. With greater frequency, the government has been issuing warnings about the dire need to prepare for the dystopian future that awaits us. For instance, the Pentagon training video, “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” predicts that by 2030 (coincidentally, the same year that society begins to achieve singularity with the metaverse) the military would be called on to use armed forces to solve future domestic political and social problems. What they’re really talking about is martial law, packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security. The chilling five-minute training video paints an ominous picture of the future bedeviled by “criminal networks,” “substandard infrastructure,” “religious and ethnic tensions,” “impoverishment, slums,” “open landfills, over-burdened sewers,” a “growing mass of unemployed,” and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots. “We the people” are the have-nots.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 14:15:06 daff90 No.16440158

“Everything Is A Weapon: The US Government Is Waging Psychological Warfare On The Nation” – Part 4

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-weapon-us-government-waging-psychological-warfare-nation

June 9, 2022

The end goal of these mind control campaigns—packaged in the guise of the greater good—is to see how far the American people will allow the government to go in re-shaping the country in the image of a totalitarian police state.

The facts speak for themselves.

Whatever else it may be—a danger, a menace, a threat—the U.S. government is certainly not looking out for our best interests, nor is it in any way a friend to freedom.

When the government views itself as superior to the citizenry, when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people, when the people are no longer able to peacefully reform their government, when government officials cease to act like public servants, when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people, when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class, when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for, when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice, and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution, then you no longer have a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”

What we have is a government of wolves.

Our backs are against the proverbial wall.

“We the people”—who think, who reason, who take a stand, who resist, who demand to be treated with dignity and care, who believe in freedom and justice for all—have become undervalued citizens of a totalitarian state that views people as expendable once they have outgrown their usefulness to the State.

Brace yourselves.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 14:29:09 daff90 No.16440215

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>>16367553

>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 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.

“Malema release shocking video evidence & Sends warning to Ramaphosa to Step aside” - Also holds the Namibian President accountable

https://youtu.be/Jt24bapcdg4

“WATCH: EFF releases slideshow of Ramaphosa farm robbery suspects”

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/watch-eff-releases-slideshow-of-ramaphosa-farm-robbery-suspects-phala-phala-step-aside-julius-malema-breaking-7-june-2022/

The party said if Ramaphosa refuses to step aside to allow an open and transparent investigation it will mobilise many sectors of society to stop recognising him as the President of South Africa and will not permit him to perform any presidential functions.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 20:20:07 28dac5 No.16441395

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“Honorary Doctorate Ceremony 2012 - Michael (Mick) Davis” (worked for Eskom, see video) - https://youtu.be/FSq3XbpwaTo

“Mick Davis launches $300 million battery metals SPAC”

https://www.mining.com/mick-davis-launches-300-million-battery-metals-spac/

March 15, 2021

Former Xstrata boss Mick Davis’ newly founded battery metals investment firm Vision Blue Resources (VBR) is stepping up efforts to reach the goal of becoming a battery metals giant by launching a $300 million special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

ESM Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: ESM), co-sponsored by VBR and private equity mining investor The Energy and Minerals Group, floated in the US last week. Its mandate is to hunt for and invest in mining projects focused on producing minerals needed for electric vehicles (EVs) and other green energy technologies.

The plan is to use the Vision Blue business to invest in small mining projects, while ESM will seek bigger investment opportunities.

“ESM’s strategy is to identify and complete an initial business combination with a target that can benefit from its leadership team’s significant experience in the natural resources industry,” VBR said in a media statement. “ESM intends to focus on a target business that is positioned to benefit from the global transition towards a low-carbon economy.”

SPACs are like “blank-check” firms with the purpose to raise money in a listing and use those funds to acquire assets within two years. They have boomed this year, leading to a record first quarter for initial public offerings (IPOs).

More than 600 issuers have raised $162.4 billion so far in 2021, the most ever at this point in the year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. SPACs accounted for half those proceeds.

Davis’ company also announced an $11.5 million investment in Ferro-Alloy Resources (LON: FAR), which is developing the Balasausqandiq vanadium project in Kazakhstan.

This is the second company VBR has invested in since its launch last month when it put $29.5 million into Canada’s NextSource Materials (TSX:NEXT), which is building a graphite mine in Madagascar.

Green revolution

Davis is a well-known name in the mining industry as he led Xstrata from a $500 million business in the early part of the last decade to an operation so big that — at one point — it made a takeover offer for Anglo American (LON:AAL).

In 2012, he sold Xstrata to Glencore (LON: GLEN) and ventured into setting up X2 Resources, a mining fund that was unable to score any deals in three years after launch.

Davis did not get discouraged by that failure. In 2019, he co-founded Niron Metals, an investment vehicle involved in bringing Guinea’s Zogota iron ore deposit into production.

The mining veteran now wants to seize the opportunity presented by the increasing need for battery metals, which include a host of materials from vanadium through to lithium, graphite, nickel, and cobalt.

Davis warned last month that the supply of those materials was not keeping pace with demand growth. He said that the need for battery metals would “dwarf anything the mining industry has ever seen before, including the commodity impact of China’s industrialization in the last 20 years.”

“It’s a gold rush on steroids,” Simon Moores, managing director of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, told the Financial Times. “You’ve got the emergence of this green revolution where you have to build infrastructure from scratch. It’s not just China this time, it’s North America at the same time as China, and Europe at the same time as China.”

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 20:27:00 28dac5 No.16441420

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“Former Glencore trader pleads guilty in New York over Nigerian oil bribery scheme”

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/former-glencore-trader-pleads-guilty-new-york-over-nigerian-oil-bribery-scheme-2021-07-26/

July 26, 2021

NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - A former U.K.-based trader for Glencore Plc (GLEN.L) pleaded guilty on Monday over what U.S. prosecutors called his role in a scheme to bribe officials in Nigeria in exchange for favorable contracts from that country's state-owned oil company.

Anthony Stimler admitted to conspiring to both violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and commit money laundering at a hearing in Manhattan federal court conducted by video, court records show.

Glencore is an Anglo-Swiss mining company and one of the world's largest commodity traders. It confirmed that Stimler had been an employee, and in a statement said it has cooperated with probes by the U.S. Department of Justice and other authorities.

"The conduct described in the plea is unacceptable and has no place in Glencore," the company said.

Stimler will remain free in the United Kingdom on $500,000 bond. His lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Bloomberg News reported the plea earlier on Monday.

Prosecutors said millions of dollars in bribes were paid to officials in Nigeria and elsewhere, in exchange for Nigerian National Petroleum Corp awarding oil contracts and providing "more lucrative grades of oil on more favorable delivery terms."

Court papers refer to seven alleged co-conspirators from several countries in the bribery scheme, which prosecutors said ran from 2007 to 2018. None was charged or identified by name.

Stimler worked on Glencore's West Africa desk from around 2002 to 2009 and again from around 2011 to 2019, court papers show.

The Justice Department has been investigating Glencore's business dealings in Nigeria, Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

U.K. and Swiss authorities have also been examining possible corruption involving Glencore, and various governments have investigated other large oil traders.

In March, former Glencore oil trader Emilio Jose Heredia Collado pleaded guilty in San Francisco to manipulating a key oil price benchmark.

The case is U.S. v. Stimler, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 21-cr-00471.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 20:29:20 28dac5 No.16441430

>>16441420

Ignore the video, it is not part of the article.

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Anonymous 06/13/22 (Mon) 20:30:49 28dac5 No.16441434

“Glencore Reaches $9.85 Million Zinc Rigging Settlement in New York”

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2021-07-26/glencore-reaches-985-million-zinc-rigging-settlement-in-new-york

July 26, 2021

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Glencore Plc agreed to pay $9.85 million to resolve a private U.S. antitrust lawsuit accusing two units of the Anglo-Swiss mining company of trying to monopolize the market for zinc, driving up its price.

The preliminary settlement disclosed in a Friday night filing with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan would resolve litigation that began in May 2014. It requires approval by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer.

Zinc purchasers accused U.S.-based Glencore Ltd and Pacorini Metals USA Inc of conspiring from September 2010 to February 2016 to ensure long queues for physical zinc, or Special High Grade zinc, at warehouses licensed by the London Metal Exchange.

They said this allowed Glencore to receive higher storage fees and command increased premiums when selling zinc.

Glencore did not immediately respond on Monday to a request for comment. It has denied wrongdoing.

Zinc is used to coat steel to protect against corrosion and is also used in batteries, castings and alloys such as brass.

The U.S. Geological Survey said zinc accounted for 7% of the country's $28.1 billion of metal mine production in 2019, trailing only gold, copper and iron ore.

Another federal judge in 2016 dismissed related claims by the zinc purchasers against Goldman Sachs Group Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The case against Glencore was put on hold for more than two years, until the federal appeals court in Manhattan in August 2019 revived similar price-fixing claims by aluminum purchasers against Glencore, Goldman and JPMorgan.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs led by Oklahoma Steel and Wire Co, Iowa Steel and Wire Co, Southwestern Wire Inc and Jasper Materials Inc said the zinc settlement was "substantively fair" and followed more than three months of negotiations.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 12:21:28 49acc9 No.16444132

>>16418789

>Last year the head of its food trading business said the worst drought to hit the US since the 1930s would be "good for Glencore" because it would lead to opportunities to exploit soaring prices.

“Glencore, Edelweiss offices raided over probe into pulses price fixing”

https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/glencore-edelweiss-offices-raided-over-probe-into-pulses-price-fixing/1519251/

March 18, 2019

CCI has been investigating allegations that the companies formed a cartel to discuss the pricing of pulses while importing and selling them in the Indian market at higher prices in 2015 and 2016, when India faced an acute shortage, the sources said.

India’s antitrust watchdog Competition Commission of India (CCI) raided units of global commodities trader Glencore and two other firms in Mumbai on Saturday in an inquiry into alleged collusion on the price of pulses, four sources with knowledge of the raids told Reuters.

More than 25 antitrust officials carried out the raids at the offices of local units of Glencore and Africa’s Export Trading Group, and India’s Edelweiss group which previously had a commodities business, two government sources told Reuters.

Two years of drought pushed up prices of pulses such as chickpeas and black grams, which are a staple of Indian cuisine, in 2015 and forced New Delhi to offer duty-free imports, encouraging foreign and Indian traders who imported pulses to sell locally.

“The collusion by these companies led to higher prices of pulses,” one of the government sources said, adding that the CCI’s inquiry started three months ago.

The investigation will also assess whether the companies have continued their alleged collusion even after the prices of pulses stabilised in recent years, the source said.

The raids on five company offices in India’s financial capital began on Friday and were concluded on Saturday.

Antitrust officials collected evidence, including documents and e-mails, and questioned company officials during the raids, a second government source said.

The CCI’s raids on commodities traders mark only its fourth such search operation in its near 10-year history.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 13:24:36 4cbfe7 No.16444440

File: a07d453fc93ad26⋯.pdf (9.45 MB, 32_130_1C09_84_Embargo_Apa….pdf)

“Embargo: Apartheid’s Oil Secrets Revealed” – Shipping Research Bureau (1 of 4)

http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-1C09-84-Embargo_Apartheids_Oil_Secrets_Revealed%20opt.pdf

Dated 1995

Page 146

The number 2, John Deuss' Transworld Oil, follows with 108 shipments and an estimated 13 per cent.

Why then did the title of one of the Bureau's publications in 1985 not refer to Rich but instead to Deuss as 'South Africa's main oil supplier'? According to the SRB's [Shipping Research Bureau] estimate, Deuss had provided South Africa with more than 25 per cent of its oil needs between 1979 and 1983. Rich had his 17 'Minoil' shipments, but for Deuss the Advocate-General men tioned a figure of 69 'Lucina' deliveries; many of these were not identified by the Ship ping Research Bureau, yet they served to boost his percentage. It is quite likely that Rich's ranking is due to the fact that he overtook Deuss at a later stage, - ' 2 although it is also clear that the Advocate-General did not do justice to Rich's role."

The list of SRB findings in this book testifies to the role of Marc Rich as a loyal oil supplier to apartheid South Africa even more forcefully than did the Bureau's former reports. Since the last update which the SRB published of its findings, the score for Marc Rich has more than doubled.

Page 147

On 13 October 1987, an oil-trading company which the Shipping Research Bureau had ranked as 'South Africa's main supplier of crude oil' made a surprising public announcement. Transworld Oil (TWO), owned by John Deuss, issued a statement to the effect that 'the company and its affiliates are no longer engaged in the supply of oil to South Africa.

In April 1982 a Netherlands-based South African journalist planned to write an article on Deuss, who had made headlines in South Africa, not because of any connection with oil but because he had bought South African golfing idol, Gary Player's, luxury mansion in Honey dew, north-west of Johannesburg.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 13:25:52 4cbfe7 No.16444450

The Shipping Research Bureau was set up in close consultation with the London office of the ANC (2 of 4)

http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-1C09-84-Embargo_Apartheids_Oil_Secrets_Revealed%20opt.pdf

Page 97

The Shipping Research Bureau was set up in close consultation with the London office of the ANC.

When the UN Special Committee against Apartheid and the ANC got into trouble because of the SRB's first main report, it was the reaction of the ANC which carried the most weight with the Dutch researchers.

The SRB was an offshoot of the activist community in the Western world, with its traditional focus on the collaboration of Western companies and governments with the apartheid regime. Now facts were emerging about oil supplies originating in oil-producing countries which were regarded as belonging in the ranks of the ANC's allies and who had shown - as opposed to a number of Western powers - their support for the oil embargo.

Page 99

Cor Groenendijk, chairman of the SRB from its inception to its demise, says that at no stage were there any doubts as to the orientation on the ANC, but he recalls how 'the Bureau had to claim its independence in order to avoid becoming a bureau "of' the ANC, which produced reports "for" the ANC which ran the risk of eventually gathering dust in a drawer if they were not top priority at the time of their completion, thereby being inac cessible to others who might want to do something with their contents.'

Page 100

For a few years the ANC feared a Bureau which could possibly thwart its diplomatic efforts. During this period the SRB informed the ANC of intended steps in a manner which can broadly be described as 'seeking its approval' as opposed to later when it became a matter of keeping the ANC abreast of developments and seeking its esteemed advice. The change had not yet taken place in 1982-83, when an idea emerged which as a matter of standard practice was put before and discussed with the ANC.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 13:27:04 4cbfe7 No.16444460

“1964: A pioneering conference” (3 of 4)

http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-1C09-84-Embargo_Apartheids_Oil_Secrets_Revealed%20opt.pdf

Page 11

In its first report to the General Assembly after its establishment in 1963, the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid recommended a study of the means to ensure an effective embargo on the supply of petroleum to South Africa.' 3 At that time, such a study, though not connected with the UN recommendation, was already being under taken by a group of British 'Young Fabians'.

In March 1960, following the announcement that the ANC was to be banned, the South African journalist Ronald Segal smuggled Oliver Tambo out of the country in his car. Four years later, Segal convened an International Conference on Economic Sanctions against South Africa, which was held in London from 14-17 April 1964 under the patron age of 11 heads of government from Africa and Asia. Proponents of economic sanctions and their opposite numbers had until then been involved in a debate on the issue described by Segal as 'a dialogue of pulpits, with the phrases of revelation'. The aim of the confer ence was 'to root the whole issue in reality'; it was 'essential to discover just how practical a proposition sanctions were if successful agitation for their employment against South Africa was ever to be mounted'.' 4 Segal commissioned a number of experts to cover all the main problems of sanctions in a series of papers. The collected writings, including the conclusions and recommendations, were published under the title Sanctions against South Africa and were a pioneering achievement in the field.

Ronald Segal

https://spartacus-educational.com/HISsegal.htm

Ronald Segal was born into an extremely wealthy Jewish family in South Africa on 14th July 1932.

On his return to South Africa in 1956 Segal launched Africa South. He used the magazine to campaign against the racist policies of the South African government. Over the next few years Segal became a leading figure in the anti-apartheid movement.

Segal went on a speaking tour of the United States where he argued for an economic boycott of South Africa. He also raised funds for the African National Congress and the defence fund of Nelson Mandela and others on trial for treason in Pretoria.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 13:28:54 4cbfe7 No.16444468

Marc Rich and De Beers (4 of 4)

http://kora.matrix.msu.edu/files/50/304/32-130-1C09-84-Embargo_Apartheids_Oil_Secrets_Revealed%20opt.pdf

Page 152

Tackling Marc Rich

During the embargo years, Marc Rich's involvement with South Africa was not limited to that of oil supplier. Rich was also mentioned as one of those involved in marketing oil from the South African strategic stockpile to Europe in late 1990;2' he most likely continued to be a channel for sales from the stockpile in subsequent years. 22 When his former employer, Phibro, stopped trading with South Africa in 1985 under pressure from the anti-

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apartheid movement in the USA, Rich stepped in, replacing Phibro as the exclusive sales agent for a giant South African lead mine.2 " Reports in the South African press in December 1990 had it that Rich was building a stake in De Beers, the diamond company within the Anglo/De Beers group.24 A year later there were reports that Marc Rich was supplying alumina to and 'from time to time' buying aluminium from the South African Alusaf concern. In the late 1980s Rich was also involved in some new developments in the South African mining industry, providing financial support for a ferrochrome smelter and a vanadium pentoxide plant.25

But most significantly, by the end of the 1980s Rich had reputedly become the largest trader in South African coal, selling the commodity to various countries, including Chile, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Turkey. Rich's coal division also supplied coking coal from Australia and New Zealand to South Africa in 1991. After the lifting of the French and Danish import restrictions in March 1992, Marc Rich was soon contracted to supply South African coal. 26

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 13:34:58 4cbfe7 No.16444504

>>16444440

> Transworld Oil (TWO), owned by John Deuss

“Deuss: From second-hand car dealer to controversial world figure” – (1 of 2)

http://www.bermudasun.bm/Content/Default/News-Older/Article/Deuss-From-second-hand-car-dealer-to-controversial-world-figure/-3/1294/31102

October 6, 2006

Edited extracts from an article written by David Marchant that appeared in the Bermuda Sun, February 18, 1994.

Bermuda-based oil magnate John Deuss has lived a life that is remarkable even among the rich and famous. Since his first car dealership went bust in the 1960s, he has outwitted the Soviets, broken an oil embargo in South Africa, had his home fire-bombed by anti-apartheid protesters and helped clinch the world's largest oil deal. In the process, this self-made Dutchman has made billions of dollars. Here are a few things you may or may not know about him:

Born Johannes Christiaan Martinus Augustinus Maria Deuss, the son of a garage owner from Nijmegen, Holland

His petro-dollars have bought him a string of homes around the world, Gulfstream jets and a magnificent 180-foot, three-masted schooner called 'Fluertje'.

Started his financial life as a dealer in Citroen cars at the age of 25. His second-hand car dealership in Holland went bust in 1967, owing 5.5 million Guilders.

Mr. Deuss apparently decided to go into the oil business during the 1973 oil crisis, putting together capital of $300,000 and forming Bermuda-based JOC Oil, an acronym for 'John's Own Company'.

In 1975, he formed Transworld Oil and Transworld Energy on the island and later incorporated Hydrocarbon Industries.

In 1976, Mr. Deuss hit the big time when he signed a contract with the Soviet Union's national oil company, Soujuznefteexport (SNE), to buy 3.85 billion tons of oil for re-sale to third parties.

But Mr. Deuss allegedly fell behind with his payments and the Soviets suspended deliveries in June, 1977 after 39 shipments of 1.28 million tons of oil and oil products.

A decade of bitter legal wrangling followed and the case was heard in the Bermuda Supreme Court, the Bermuda Court of Appeal and finally the Privy Council in England. Both sides claimed victory.

The company through which Mr. Deuss allegedly owed the money to the Soviets was Netherlands Antilles-based First Curacao International Bank - the same entity that he used in 1993 to buy a controlling 32 per cent stake in Bermuda Commercial Bank.

"He had this big villa where girls in bikinis were lounging around," said Dutch finance journalist Friso Endt, of NRC Handelsblatt, on meeting Mr. Deuss at the billionaire's Harrington Sound, Smith's Parish home [many years ago]. "A girl would bring him a telex about some deal and he would say 'yes' or 'no' and she would go away to carry out his orders. It was like something out of a Harold Robbins novel."

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 13:37:20 4cbfe7 No.16444522

“Deuss: From second-hand car dealer to controversial world figure” – (1 of 2)

http://www.bermudasun.bm/Content/Default/News-Older/Article/Deuss-From-second-hand-car-dealer-to-controversial-world-figure/-3/1294/31102

October 6, 2006

By the mid-1980s, Deuss was fabulously wealthy with an estimated net income of $1 million per week, according to De Telegraaf.

Started the fashion line Alexandra Christie in New York.

In 1984, the Observer newspaper in Britain revealed he had secretly delivered 60 million barrels of oil to South Africa over three years in defiance of an oil boycott against the country because of apartheid.

A week later, a terrorist group calling itself 'Pyromaniacs Against South Africa' firebombed his $6 million castle in Berg en Dal, Holland, causing extensive damage. Deuss was not at home during the attack and no-one was injured. Following the bombing, Mr. Deuss, who was already worried about possible assassination from the Soviet KGB, tightened security at all his homes around the world, including Deep Water, in Harrington Sound.

His South Africa connection - widely condemned around the world - caused barely a stir in Bermuda.

His importance to the South African economy was such that the Shipping Research Bureau, an Amsterdam-based anti-apartheid group, estimated that, in 1980, Mr. Deuss may have supplied as much as 20 per cent of the country's crude oil import requirement.

Journalist Friso Endt said of Mr. Deuss: "He never drinks or smokes, he likes women and he has very little humour. He's a complete workaholic. If the day had 48 hours in it, he would use them."

A particular non-business passion is horses - he owned the horse 'Irish', that won a bronze medal for the U.S. in the individual men's show-jumping event at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Mr. Deuss is known for his acts of kindness to his staff - he once flew all his female workers in Bermuda to New York for the day to celebrate Mother's Day and one year sent 50 pizzas around to Bermuda Commercial Bank so the staff could eat lunch.

His contribution to the Bermuda economy has been huge: not only have his companies provided valuable employment and contribute millions of dollars in foreign currency revenues, but Mr. Deuss is also believed to be a quiet supporter of local charities. It was also widely understood that he contributed funds to the UBP and subsequently to the PLP not long before its first election victory in 1998.

Mr. Deuss also brings immense prestige to the island through the sheer enormity of his business dealings. For example, Mr. Deuss played a pivotal role in clinching the world's largest oil deal - a $230 billion agreement between U.S. giant Chevron and Kazakhstan, elevating his reputation as a brilliant businessman of great influence in the oil world. He participated in the deal as president of Bermuda-based OOC, which represents Oman's international oil interests.

Asked by U.S. magazine Newsweek in 1985 why money was so important to him, Mr. Deuss is reported to have replied: "Don't you understand that it's a question of power and money means power. It's as simple as that."

Additional reporting by Coggie Gibbons. Copyright: Bermuda Sun.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 13:38:41 4cbfe7 No.16444536

>>16444522

My apologies, this should be (2 of 2)

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 13:43:10 4cbfe7 No.16444560

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>16444522

>Mr. Deuss also brings immense prestige to the island through the sheer enormity of his business dealings. For example, Mr. Deuss played a pivotal role in clinching the world's largest oil deal - a $230 billion agreement between U.S. giant Chevron and Kazakhstan, elevating his reputation as a brilliant businessman of great influence in the oil world. He participated in the deal as president of Bermuda-based OOC, which represents Oman's international oil interests.

“Kazakhgate: The Incredible Story of James Giffen” – John Deuss mentioned

https://youtu.be/HpaBewrwOw4

In March 2003, James Giffen is arrested at JFK International Airport for violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In the United States, nobody seems to know the middleman, but he reveals to be the most influential foreigner in Kazakhstan. This is the story of how James Henry Giffen came to be the right arm of the former authoritarian president Nursultan Nazarbayev and how its work fell at the center of an international corruption scandal known as Kazakhgate.

Timestamps

00:00 The arrest of James Giffen

01:55 From middleman to Nazarbayev’s pupil

02:16 Who is James Giffen

03:35 When Chevron obtained the rights on the Tengiz oilfield

04:13 The rival: John Deuss

04:31 Investing in Kazakhstan means oil

05:22 A luxurious life

08:03 The investigation

08:46 Hidden bribes

10:05 Trial to a CIA agent?

11:02 The sentence

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 14:40:51 4cbfe7 No.16444741

“Breakingviews - Review: The wild history of the commodities boys” (1 of 2)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-commodities-breakingviews-idUSKBN2AQ1YL

February 26, 2021

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Javier Blas and Jack Farchy should be awaiting the call from Hollywood. “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources” contains at least half a dozen narrative threads that would form the basis of a good thriller. But the authors’ main achievement is to subject the biggest commodity players, and their impact on the real world, to proper critical scrutiny.

It has become a cliché to describe Glencore, Vitol, Cargill and the handful of other major companies that trade oil, metals and food as shadowy, secretive and deceptively powerful. Even so, it’s not always apparent just how large they are. The five largest oil traders handle a quarter of the world’s daily demand for petroleum while the seven top agricultural traders process nearly half of the world’s grains and oilseeds. In 2019 the five largest trading companies had a combined turnover of $865 billion.

This kind of financial heft has made them political players of serious consequence. When Jamaica ran out of cash to pay for its 300,000 barrels a month of oil in the early 1980s, Energy Minister Hugh Hart’s only option to avoid riots on the streets was to call Marc Rich. The founder of the eponymous trading firm that eventually became Glencore delivered the oil within 24 hours. When rebels in Libya ran out of fuel in 2011, and when Cuba needed oil in the early 1990s, long-term Vitol boss Ian Taylor personally negotiated a fresh supply.

The striking aspect of these stories is how much risk the traders were taking. The Libyan rebels had no money, so had to pay for refined oil with their own crude, which dried up when government forces blew up a pipeline. When Cuba struggled to make payments to Vitol in the form of sugar, the country invited the trader to help develop domestic hotels. Such bets were ultimately shrewd: delivering for desperate clients meant charging fat fees and commanding their long-term gratitude. But the deals could also have threatened Vitol’s survival.

All of which engenders some respect for trader chutzpah. There’s also an enticing, spy novel feel to some of the goings-on, amplified by the occasional need to speak about countries subject to sanctions in code. Crude Number Three, for example, referred to illicit Iranian oil. Rich handled this via a bogus middleman from Burundi called Monsieur Ndolo, who was actually one of his own traders.

Still, the beneficiaries of the go-anywhere, do-anything mentality were not just plucky rebels. In a telling comment before he died in 2013, Rich professed his dislike of South Africa’s Apartheid policy, but he supplied the racist pariah state regardless. Glencore sold oil it had mixed with cheaper variants to Romania. In 2006, Trafigura paid an inadequate middleman to dispose of toxic waste on an open pit in Ivory Coast, causing a local health emergency.

Alongside their moral shortcomings, the traders also suffered from hubris. Rich, feeling U.S. outrage over his Iran oil trades, lost $172 million betting on zinc. Bermuda-based oil trader John Deuss lost $600 million in a failed attempt to corner the North Sea market. According to Blas and Farchy’s sources, even relatively restrained American agri-trader Cargill riskily shorted oil in 2008 and 2009, making a $1 billion profit.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 14:45:22 4cbfe7 No.16444758

>>16435203

>Glasenberg is reportedly so fanatical about his privacy that, when Glencore listed, a top UK law firm Schillings was retained to try to prevent journalists from digging into the billionaire’s private life. Schillings – famous for its gagging orders – directed letters to media companies in England to warn editors to only focus on the business aspects of the listing.

“Breakingviews - Review: The wild history of the commodities boys” (2 of 2)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-commodities-breakingviews-idUSKBN2AQ1YL

February 26, 2021

The depth of the reporting by the Bloomberg journalists, who previously worked for the Financial Times, is impressive. Details of Monsieur Ndolo’s cameo come from the man himself. The authors also conducted a five-hour “combative” interview with pugnacious Glencore boss Ivan Glasenberg. And they join the dots. One fascinating passage charts Glencore’s role in pushing for an export ban on Russian grain, how its surreptitious long position benefited from the subsequent jump in prices, and how those dislocations ultimately fed through to the popular risings of the 2011 Arab Spring.

The heyday of Rich and his cohorts looks to be long gone. Even if modern traders remain unconstrained by ethical considerations, practical ones loom. The banks on which they depend for credit lines are now wary of U.S. sanctions or being labelled pariahs by environmentally and socially conscious investors. The practice of paying bribes to officials and fixers in tricky jurisdictions, which in Switzerland were hilariously treated as tax-deductible expenses, is more likely to be punished. It’s also harder to carve out an information advantage when everyone is online and satellites can track oil tankers. Glasenberg long ago realised he needed to be a miner as well as a trader and snapped up cheap mines, a strategy that paid off spectacularly when China’s breakneck growth sent commodity prices soaring.

Traders remain major players in commodity markets. When U.S. oil prices briefly turned negative last April, Glencore snapped up the dirt-cheap crude, stored it in a massive tanker in the Strait of Malacca and wound up making $1.3 billion in the first half of the year. New tariffs and other trade barriers could also open up fresh opportunities. But if it becomes harder for this group of swashbucklers to nonchalantly change the course of world history, that would be no bad thing.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 15:04:06 4cbfe7 No.16444848

“How Commodity Traders Came To Run The World” (1 of 3)

https://slman.com/life/how-commodity-traders-came-run-world

06-04-2021

Together with his colleague Javier Blas, Bloomberg News journalist Jack Farchy has dug deeper into the closed world of commodity trading than anyone has gone before. Speaking to people who tend to remain tight lipped, they have uncovered a high-risk, high-reward business that explains how the global economy really works. Jack told Tobias Gourlay what they’ve found so far…

What inspired you to jump into the murky waters of commodities trading, Jack?

Javier and I were both journalists covering natural resources for the Financial Times, and we kept finding ourselves gobsmacked by the importance of a very small group of commodity trading companies, and equally surprised by how little anyone seemed to know about them. We wanted to learn more, but realised that almost no books had been written about them. That’s when we realised we’d have to go out there and get the story ourselves.

Tell us more about the importance of those companies…

Within those companies, there are a few individuals who have played a huge role in shaping our modern world. The story we discovered was one of how money and power interact in ways that most people don’t understand. Commodity traders have been growing in importance from the end of the Second World War through to the present day. They have shaped history along the way, playing a role in everything from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the rise of China.

How much of this was uncharted territory?

So much of the world of commodity traders is secretive, so a lot of what we found hasn’t been reported before. We spoke to more than 100 traders, many of whom have rarely if ever spoken in public before. Among other things, we discovered how American teachers’ pension savings went to fund an oil war in Iraq, with a little help from the world’s largest commodity trader; and we also found that the three largest commodity traders (which, because they are private companies, don’t have to publish accounts) made more money in the first decade of the 2000s than either Apple or Coca-Cola.

What was the discovery that surprised you the most?

It was a surprise to hear people talking quite openly about bribery as if it was just another business expense. This is not just something that happened many years ago – the world’s largest oil trading company, Vitol, admitted to paying bribes in Latin America as recently as July 2020. And we were genuinely shocked to discover that in Switzerland, paying bribes to foreign companies was not only legal but also tax deductible until as recently as 2016.

What gives commodity traders their influence?

Commodities mean money, and money means power – it’s as simple as that. As the companies who can turn commodities into cash for resource-rich governments or individuals, the traders get very close to power. And sometimes they influence it. Take the example of Vitol in the Libyan civil war of 2011. The Arab Spring was sweeping through the Middle East, and in Libya there was an uprising against the dictatorship of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. But the rebels had a problem – they didn’t have enough fuel. Gaddafi controlled all the refineries. Then Ian Taylor, the boss of Vitol, flew in to Benghazi and agreed to supply the rebels with $1bn of fuel – and it wouldn’t need to be paid for until after the war had been won. There’s little doubt that Vitol’s intervention altered the course of the conflict.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 15:05:24 4cbfe7 No.16444857

“How Commodity Traders Came To Run The World” (2 of 3)

https://slman.com/life/how-commodity-traders-came-run-world

06-04-2021

How did the traders become so influential?

A couple of big trends have benefited them massively over the past three-quarters of a century. One is the freeing up of global markets: the oil market, for example, used to be tightly controlled by the big oil companies known as the ‘Seven Sisters’. Then as governments in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America seized control of their resources, they needed someone to help them sell them – to turn them into cash – and the commodity traders stepped in.

The other big trend that worked in their favour was globalisation and the growth of global trade. More trade means more commodities that need to be traded, and so more money to be made for the traders. The most important development here was the growth of China, which triggered an enormous commodities boom in the 2000s.

Why do you think these once secretive people were happy to talk to you?

Javier and I have been covering the commodity sector for a long time, so a big part of it was the network of contacts we’ve built up over that time. People in the commodity trading industry know us; they know we’re serious and diligent journalists – even if they might not always like what we write. And then we really squeezed our network – asking and begging contacts for introductions to the key people we wanted to speak to.

Why are there so few commodities traders?

There are actually a lot of commodity traders, but there are only a few really big commodity traders: five trading houses handle a quarter of the global oil market; seven control half of the world’s food commodities; and the metals markets are dominated by just two companies. Why? It is an industry where size matters. And there is very little regulation.

Are all commodities traders dodgy to some extent? Or does the sector have some upstanding players?

My day job still involves writing about commodity trading companies, so I probably shouldn’t answer that question…!

Does commodities trading have to be as furtive as it is?

Not entirely. We’ve seen in the past few years that a number of the traders have become a lot more transparent – most notably Glencore, which since 2011 is a publicly listed company and so publishes lots of information about itself. But because information is the traders’ edge, they’ll always be cautious about revealing too much information about their trades.

Should it be better regulated?

Without doubt, regulators ought to have a much better understanding of what the commodity traders are doing and how they operate. We’ve been shocked in the past to receive calls from some governments and regulators to ask us basic questions about the industry and the markets. And there needs to be better coordination: commodity trading is a truly global business, so one country alone can only do so much.

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Anonymous 06/14/22 (Tue) 15:08:00 4cbfe7 No.16444876

“How Commodity Traders Came To Run The World” (3 of 3)

https://slman.com/life/how-commodity-traders-came-run-world

06-04-2021

Why has it been so hard to regulate to this point?

Few regulators focus on the actual physical commodities – like barrels of oil or bushels of wheat – instead, they spend their time looking at derivatives like futures and options. One reason is that the physical markets are hard to regulate: the trade in commodities often takes place on the high seas, beyond the reach of any one nation’s laws. And commodity traders themselves can move relatively easily, so they tend to be found in the places with the most lax regulatory regimes. [We are ruled by pirates]

Is there any prospect of change on the horizon?

The US appears to be scrutinizing the sector very carefully, particularly when it comes to corruption. That’s already changing some behavior. But there’s little movement towards a globally coordinated system of regulation for commodity traders.

Finally, Jack, some pretty remarkable characters pop in and out of the book. Tell us about your favourite…

John Deuss was the epitome of the freewheeling trader, and one of the dominant figures in the oil market of the 1970s and 1980s. With his mop of sandy-coloured hair, carefully parted on the side, and pinstriped suits with oversized lapels, Deuss looked like a character straight out of the film Wall Street. But his lifestyle was more like that of a Bond villain. From his base in Bermuda, he entertained business contacts and friends on his 187ft-long, three-mast yacht. His typical entourage included two English sheepdogs, and a troupe of bodyguards and striking female assistants. He crisscrossed the globe on one of his two Gulfstream private jets. He was unafraid to play politics, even becoming an adviser to the Sultan of Oman, and he gambled on the price of oil with abandon, making and losing hundreds of millions of dollars at a time.

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 20:49:09 ec310d No.16452297

“Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal” – Part 1

https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/paradise-papers-glencore-hid-link-to-ghost-shipping-fleet-during-iran-scandal-20171105-gzf0sz

November 6, 2017

Swiss commodities trader Glencore was struggling to contain a looming sanctions busting scandal when it secured Australian government approval to take over mining giant Xstrata in 2013.

The $US90 billion merger with Xstrata in May 2013 transformed Glencore into the third largest mining company in Australia and one of the largest coal producers in the world.

But behind the scenes Glencore was fighting allegations that linked one of its partners to secret deals with Iran, money laundering and bank fraud – claims which if unchecked could have had impacts on the newly merged group.

This centred on a major shipping company, SwissMarine Corporation, in which Glencore secretly was the major shareholder, according to leaked documents from the Paradise Papers.

The Australian Financial Review has identified material mis-statements and omissions in bank applications and financial agreements prepared by SwissMarine in 2013 which may skirt international anti-money laundering laws.

At the time, Greek shipowner Victor Restis, SwissMarine's second largest shareholder, was in jail awaiting trial for fraud, money laundering and embezzlement. But he remained a SwissMarine director.

SwissMarine's board approved bank account forms and an application to join NASDAQ OMX Commodities Clearing House in Stockholm which deleted Mr Restis from both the list of directors, and from the list of major shareholders, while explicitly denying that any director was under investigation for fraud or money laundering.

In a statement to the Financial Review on Saturday, SwissMarine said this was the result of an "inadvertent error", and that the company kept banks and counter parties fully informed "as required or as applicable".

Copies of the bank applications are contained in the files of Bermuda-based law firm Appleby, obtained by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The documents reveal Glencore's hidden links to the sanctions scandal, which unfolded as Western intelligence agencies worked in 2012 and 2013 to identify companies trading with Iran.

The documents show that Glencore secretly funds and helps operate a "ghost fleet" of 167 bulk cargo ships through SwissMarine Corporation.

Glencore owns 47.1 per cent of SwissMarine's voting stock but says that its three directors do not control the company, because Mr Restis, who has sold down to 23 per cent, also appoints three of SwissMarine's nine directors.

None of this would surface in 2012 when Glencore and Xstrata announced merger plans.

Australian government approval was a shoo-in, with the government desperate to keep miners onside while it introduced the Mining Tax.

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 20:50:38 ec310d No.16452311

“Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal” – Part 2

https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/paradise-papers-glencore-hid-link-to-ghost-shipping-fleet-during-iran-scandal-20171105-gzf0sz

November 6, 2017

Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey taunted the government, repeatedly citing Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg's comparison of Australia to the Congo: "At least in the Congo they need you. They want you there. And if they start changing the rules on you, you may not continue investing."

Today SwissMarine owns 11 Capesize vessels – the huge ships that carry coal and iron ore – and charters another 156 ships.

SwissMarine ships are regular visitors to Australian ports, carrying coal, iron ore and grain for BHP, Rio Tinto and Glencore

Glencore has its own subsidiary, ST Shipping, that operates ships under a tax-free deal with Singapore. So why would a commodities trader need or want a secret holding in another shipping fleet?

In its early days Glencore, then known as Marc Rich & Co AG, had a colourful reputation, notably for buying oil from Iran during the 1979 Teheran hostage crisis.

"Marc Rich knew how to deliver," Rich biographer Craig Copetas told German broadcaster WDR. "He knew how to do that on time and in massive amounts. You want oil in South Africa during an oil embargo – you call Marc Rich. He gets it there.

"You know how hard it is to get tankers of oil in and out of a sanctioned country? Marc Rich knew how to do it. It is all in the traffic."

By traffic, Copetas means shipping.

In February 2001, Glencore had just begun paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government for oil shipments in a breach of the UN's Oil For Food program, the 2005 Volcker report concluded (Glencore denied any knowledge that its agents paid up to $US25 million in kickbacks).

It was also that month, on February 2 and February 28 in 2001, that two Iraqi oil shipments bound for the US were diverted to Singapore and Croatia, where Glencore stood to make up to $7 million in extra profit (Glencore denied any intention to breach UN Oil For Food rules).

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 20:52:12 ec310d No.16452318

“Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal” – Part 3

https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/paradise-papers-glencore-hid-link-to-ghost-shipping-fleet-during-iran-scandal-20171105-gzf0sz

November 6, 2017

Between these two diverted shipments, on February 20 2001, Bermuda law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman lodged an application to register SwissMarine. Glencore declined to say why it decided to launch a shipping venture at that time.

Glencore and Restis Group, one of the 10 biggest ship-owning businesses in Greece, teamed with four former Cargill commodities traders in the new company.

Glencore and Restis each had 43 per cent of the voting A stock. Employees received B and C shares which were cash settled. This was not permanent equity – when employees resigned, their shares were paid out in cash.

By 2004 SwissMarine was grossing $US1 billion a year in freight revenue.

The Volcker report detailed the strict instructions Glencore gave to its bankers never to divulge its connection with Iraq oil sales. Glencore imposed similar levels of secrecy on its new shipping company.

Glencore held its stake in SwissMarine through a Swiss company, Sidhalu SA. Appleby Bermuda provided three SwissMarine directors to represent Sidhalu.

"We are providing these directors at the request of Glencore International AG but this is very confidential information," Appleby's April 2003 file note said. "Accordingly, do NOT associate Glencore with SwissMarine under any circumstances."

Glencore told the Financial Review, "For commercial reasons, Glencore's investment in SwissMarine Corporation Ltd ('SMC') was not widely disclosed. Where required, Glencore has disclosed its beneficial ownership in SMC, such as to banks or tax authorities."

In November 2012, the shipping market buzzed with gossip that Dimitris Cambis, a Greek professor with no previous shipping experience, had just bought eight ageing supertankers through a web of front companies for $US204 million.

On February 27 2013 Reuters journalist Jonathan Saul reported in London that "officials involved with sanctions" had shown him shipping documents which showed that Cambis' tankers were being used to ship Iranian oil to China to beat US sanctions.

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 21:01:26 ec310d No.16452371

“Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal” – Part 4

https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/paradise-papers-glencore-hid-link-to-ghost-shipping-fleet-during-iran-scandal-20171105-gzf0sz

November 6, 2017

Western intelligence

Cambis denied any involvement with Iran.

Two days later in New York another Reuters reporter, Louis Charbonneau, broke another story: "Glencore bartered with firm linked to Iran nuclear program."

He said he had been shown a report by a Western intelligence agency which revealed that since 2011 Glencore had a barter deal with Iran Aluminium Company (Iralco) to exchange thousands of tonnes of alumina in exchange for processed aluminium.

The report said that from mid-2012 Iralco had been supplying aluminium to Iran Centrifuge Technology Co (TESA), which was on the UN sanctions list and had been making uranium enrichment gas centrifuges for the nuclear program.

Glencore told Charbonneau the trade was legal and it had no knowledge of the link to Iralco until the EU banned alumina sales in December 2012, when it "ceased transactions".

On March 13 2013 the US Treasury blacklisted Cambris, 14 of his companies and his eight tankers, for helping Iran avoid oil sanctions.

At this point the Iran sanctions story had two unrelated arms: the aluminum deals by Glencore; and Cambris and his tankers. In both cases the information appeared to be based on Western intelligence sources.

Then on May 13 the stakes increased again. A US lobby group, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), claimed it had been given documents that showed that Victor Restis, his shipping firm EST, and the failing Greek bank he controlled, FB Bank, had been part of the Iranian tanker scheme—which Restis vehemently denied.

Later in court UANI would be more specific, claiming that "by at least mid-2010, Restis was conspiring with Cambris to devise a web of business entities and relationships to buy crude oil from Iran and sell it to Chinese buyers".

The UANI court documents gave a detailed account of Restis' involvement in the scheme and claimed that "Restis viewed himself as the strategic partner in the business plans because he had the knowledge and resources to provide and manage a fleet of tankers".

Glencore was in a difficult position. The merger with Xstrata had gone through on May 2 and the new group needed some good press.

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 21:02:43 ec310d No.16452388

“Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal” – Part 5

https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/paradise-papers-glencore-hid-link-to-ghost-shipping-fleet-during-iran-scandal-20171105-gzf0sz

November 6, 2017

On May 23 Charbonneau had another exclusive, reporting that a confidential UN Panel of Experts report had concluded the aluminum swap deals by Glencore and Trafigura could have been a way to get around international sanctions against Teheran over its nuclear program.

Glencore denies any wrongdoing and points to a UN Security Council statement in June 2104 13 months later, that "there are no sanctions that prohibit barter or swaps in aluminium or other materials".

But that was 13 months later. In mid-2013 Glencore was under pressure.

On July 19 2013 Restis sued UANI for $2 billion in defamation damages, claiming its documents were forgeries. Four days later Restis himself was arrested by Greek police and charged with bank fraud, embezzlement and money laundering.

The charges related €15 million in loans Restis had from FB Bank, part of €500 million in suspect loans to major shareholders of the bank, which previously Restis controlled.

Restis was released but when he returned to court on July 26 the magistrate remanded him in custody to face the charges.

Restis' lawyers said the Iran sanctions claims had been devastating to Restis' business, leading to the cancellation of a billion-dollar IPO on Nasdaq, while Restis' shipping company, Enterprises Shipping and Trading SA, had been put on a blacklist of companies said to trade with Iran – triggering difficulties with banks refusing to process its funds.

This was the prospect that Glencore faced: the two sides of the Iran sanctions story, the aluminum trading and the allegations about Restis and the oil tankers, had an obvious overlap – SwissMarine.

The secrecy that Glencore had attached to its shareholding, if it was revealed now in the context of the two Iran controversies, would look doubly bad for the newly formed Glencore Xstrata.

SwissMarine had just contracted to spend €300 million on six new ships, half of which was to be funded by Glencore. And now their partner was in prison, facing trial on fraud and money laundering charges.

At the minimum, the risk was that SwissMarine could be blacklisted, just as EST had been.

But this was only if the secret of the shareholdings became public knowledge.

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 21:03:30 ec310d No.16452393

“Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal” – Part 6

https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/paradise-papers-glencore-hid-link-to-ghost-shipping-fleet-during-iran-scandal-20171105-gzf0sz

November 6, 2017

In June 2013, before Restis' arrest, SwissMarine had filed a Know Your Customer form with Standard Chartered Bank which listed Restis owning 24.1 per cent of the company.

In October 2013 SwissMarine had to apply to join the Nasdaq OMX Commodities Clearing House in Stockholm, which was critical to the bunkerage and forward freight agreement contacts that SwissMarine used. It also had to set up a bank account.

Copies of SwissMarine's application to DNB Bank ASA Caymans branch and to Nasdaq were sent to Glencore's Appleby nominees on the SwissMarine board.

In the DNB form, Restis' name had been cut from the list of directors. SwissMarine listed Sidhalu SA as the only shareholder with more than 20 per cent and made no reference to Glencore or to Restis' holding.

SwissMarine's Nasdaq application included Restis in the list of directors but listed only Glencore as the ultimate beneficial owner of more than 30 per cent, despite Restis' contractual right to three of the nine board seats.

As part of the entry SwissMarine gave details of "Relevant Persons", which meant "the Company, its board directors, senior management and anyone controlling 30 per cent or more of the shares or voting rights".

The form asked: "Has any Relevant Person ever been convicted in a court of law of any theft, embezzlement, fraud, misfeasance, malpractice or other similar misconduct, or any other serious criminal offence? Has any Relevant Person been the subject of any such proceedings or been investigated for the same?"

Victor Restis, still a SwissMarine director, was in prison in Greece at the time.

SwissMarine ticked the box "No".

SwissMarine executive Peter Weernink told the Financial Review that it was not necessary for SwissMarine to answer this question, and ticking the No box was an inadvertent error.

He said in July 2013 SwissMarine had discussed Mr Restis' arrest with the Oslo compliance team of Nasdaq NOS, before it was merged into Nasdaq OMX in Stockholm.

With the DNB form SwissMarine had changed the way it calculated share capital for Standard Chartered Bank four months before. It now included the cash-settled employee shares, which reduced Restis' stake to 18.15%, which meant it did not have to be declared..

Mr Weernink said the form was submitted to DNB in February 2014 and did list Restis as a director.

However the copy of the form obtained by the Financial Review, which a senior Glencore executive sent to Appleby with instructions for directors to approve it, lists only five directors, and does not include Restis.

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 21:04:06 ec310d No.16452396

“Paradise Papers: Glencore hid link to ghost shipping fleet during Iran scandal” – Part 7

https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/paradise-papers-glencore-hid-link-to-ghost-shipping-fleet-during-iran-scandal-20171105-gzf0sz

November 6, 2017

The link between Glencore and Restis was never made public.

The Appleby directors did not appear to be aware that Mr Restis was in prison.

In the same period one Appleby director asked Glencore if they could be given more information when they approved decisions. Glencore refused and said that it would prefer if they acted as they always had.

Restis was released on bail on December 3 2013. He repaid the €15.8 million loans and three years later the charges against Restis, his mother Bella and 15 others were all dismissed by the Greek Supreme Court.

The UANI defamation case was dismissed in March 2015 after the US Department of Justice intervened to claim that for UANI to disclose its sources and other details that Restis' lawyers were demanding would threaten US national interests. It fuelled the belief that the information on Restis' alleged email accounts had come from US intelligence or the Mossad.

"As to Mr Restis," Glencore told the Financial Review, "Mr Restis is one of a number of other shareholders in SwissMarine which is a non- controlled investment of Glencore. Glencore has no other commercial relationship with Mr Restis."

This isn't quite accurate. While Restis remains on the SwissMarine board, the Appleby documents show he is also chairman of SwissMarine Services SA, an independent company where Glencore is the largest shareholder, which has a commissionaire agreement with the shipping group.

When asked if Glencore directors were aware of any sanctions breaches by SwissMarine vessels trading with Iran, Glencore responded: "Glencore is unable to comment on this question without more detail or access to the underlying documents being reviewed by the ICIJ that form the basis of this question."

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 21:06:29 ec310d No.16452412

>>16452396

>The UANI defamation case was dismissed in March 2015 after the US Department of Justice intervened to claim that for UANI to disclose its sources and other details that Restis' lawyers were demanding would threaten US national interests. It fuelled the belief that the information on Restis' alleged email accounts had come from US intelligence or the Mossad.

“Lawsuit Against Anti-Iran Group Dismissed Over US State Secrets”

https://www.newsmax.com/US/state-secrets-lawsuit-anti-iran-dismissed/2015/03/23/id/632017/

23 March 2015

The U.S. government on Monday won the dismissal of a private defamation lawsuit against an influential anti-Iran advocacy group, after claiming that the case could jeopardize U.S. national security by revealing state secrets.

U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos in Manhattan agreed with the Department of Justice that letting Greek shipping magnate Victor Restis pursue his case against United Against Nuclear Iran posed what the judge called an "unjustifiable" risk of damaging disclosures.

"The court recognizes that dismissal is a harsh sanction," Ramos wrote. "It is particularly so in this case because plaintiffs not only do not get their day in court, but cannot be told why."

But Ramos said dismissal was "appropriate," given that there was "a reasonable danger that disclosure of the facts underlying the government's assertion would in fact jeopardize national security," even if a trial were held out of public view.

The government has often successfully used the state secrets privilege to defeat court challenges to federal activity, such as the National Security Agency's covert wiretapping and the Central Intelligence Agency's treatment of terrorism suspects.

But its use in the Restis case marked a rare expansion by Attorney General Eric Holder into private civil litigation in which the government was not a party. [Or was it?]

The government did not publicly say why or on whose behalf it invoked the privilege, which empowers it to shield more information than necessary to protect law enforcement generally.

"We are mystified that the U.S. government has such a stake in this case that it would take such extraordinary steps to prevent full disclosure of the secret interest it has with UANI or others," Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Restis, said in a statement, using the abbreviation for United Against Nuclear Iran. He said Restis has not decided his next legal step.

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Anonymous 06/15/22 (Wed) 22:44:23 d5fdf4 No.16453018

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>>16439979

It's real simple

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Anonymous 06/16/22 (Thu) 09:22:18 d5fdf4 No.16455017

General Research #20816 >>16454268

BHP announces plans to close NSW's largest coal mine at Mt Arthur by 2030

Mining giant BHP has failed to find a buyer for New South Wales' largest coal mine, and will close the operation in 2030.

The company spent two years trying to sell its Mt Arthur operation in the state's Hunter Valley, which employs 2,000 people.

The mine, near Muswellbrook, is approved to operate until 2026, but BHP has told the ASX it would apply to extend that until 2030.

After that, it will close.

Rehabilitation of the site is expected to take 10 to 15 years.

The mine's pit was today shut temporarily while employees were informed of the decision.

BHP's minerals president Edgar Basto said the company had reviewed potential options for the mine, including divestment and future investment requirements.

"Seeking approval to continue mining until 2030 avoids closure in 2026 and enables BHP to balance the value and risk of those considerations and our commitments to our people and local communities," he said.

The mine was once valued at $2 billion, but that has been progressively slashed.

After a write-down last year, BHP said the mine was worth nothing, once rehabilitation obligations were factored in.

Upper Hunter MP Dave Layzell said BHP's decision to operate the mine until 2030 was "good news for the Hunter Valley".

"There are a lot of jobs that are involved at Mount Arthur and I need to make sure that those jobs are maintained for the foreseeable future," he said.

"It's good that they go through the extension."

The Nationals MP said the decision to continue operating the mine until 2030 wouldn't impact the NSW government's blueprint to get to net zero emissions by 2050.

"This is all coal that is exported overseas," he said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-16/bhp-to-close-largest-coal-mine-in-nsw/101157404

Australia closes a coal mine, South African coal gets more valuable. Watch the brokers start coming for long-term contracts to get the coal while it's cheaper

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Anonymous 06/16/22 (Thu) 11:30:11 daff90 No.16455295

>>16452412

>But its use in the Restis case marked a rare expansion by Attorney General Eric Holder into private civil litigation in which the government was not a party.

Eric Holder’s Connection to Marc Rich – Part 1

https://www.blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-eric-holder-and-marc-rich?page=2

Eric Holder is Barack Obama's choice to serve as Attorney General in the new administration. Holder was an adviser in the Obama campaign who oversaw the vetting process for potential running mates. He has a long history of government service, first as a Ronald Reagan appointed federal judge, and then as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in Bill Clinton's administration. Clinton later appointed Holder to the office of Deputy Attorney General.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/07/eric_holder_and_the_fugitives_marc_rich_and_edward_snowden.html

July 2, 2013

After becoming a fugitive, Rich continued globe-trotting, while still avoiding setting foot in the U.S. Over the years, his arrest became a personal obsession for a number of government agents. Ken Hill, a U.S. Marshall who had chased Rich for over a decade, told Reuters that "the smoking gun is greed," and that was what Marc Rich had thrived on. Rich had narrowly avoided capture in Finland, Germany, Britain and Jamaica. Besides Iran, he had also openly traded with other rogue regimes while under American sanction, including North Korea, Gaddafi's Libya, apartheid South Africa, Castro's Cuba, Pinochet's Chile and Milosevic's Yugoslavia.

At the same time, Rich became obsessed with obtaining a pardon so he could return to his adopted New York City. Over the years, he went through a number of high-priced lawyers, only to have his plans rejected by a series of U.S. Attorneys. In 1999, Rich hired the ultimate insider: Jack Quinn. He had been Vice President Al Gore's Chief of Staff and then had served as Bill Clinton's legal counsel before going into private practice.

By the time Quinn approached his friend Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder on behalf of his client in October of 1999, Rich was listed on the Interagency International Fugitive List as WANTED by the U.S. Marshal Service, the U.S. Customs Service and the FBI.

Rich was also listed on the Justice Department's website as an international fugitive. The posting further noted that the U.S. "will pay a reward for information that leads to the arrest of Marc David Rich," and even the IRS had offered a half-million dollar reward for his capture. Interpol had also posted Rich on its "Red Alert" list.

Holder was more than eager to help Rich's cause, and was later forced to admit that he and Quinn had discussed Holder becoming Attorney General in a potential Gore administration. Holder acted as a go-between for Quinn and then U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, but she flatly rejected the idea in February of 2000.

Quinn and the rest of Rich's legal team changed strategy, and moved towards getting Rich a pardon from President Clinton, and Eric Holder would eventually be called on again. Meanwhile, Rich's ex-wife Denise, who had received a generous divorce settlement from her former husband (and had also happened to be close to the Clintons and had contributed to Hillary's New York Senate campaign) had dramatically stepped up her campaign contributions to the Democratic Party and added another large donation to the Clinton Presidential Library (which would bring the final total to $450,000).

According to reports in the Israeli press, Rich himself funneled $120,000 to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's reelection campaign (and Rich would eventually press Barak for his assistance) and had also donated 200 million dollars to Jewish and Israeli foundations over the coming months.

In November, as Clinton's presidency was winding down, Quinn approached Holder again. The plan they came up with was to go around the normal procedure and avoid contacting the U.S. Pardon Attorney (Roger Adams) until the last minute. Adams would have to do a background check on Rich and Pincus Green (whom Quinn was also now representing) and then contact government attorneys and prosecutors involved with their criminal case.

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Anonymous 06/16/22 (Thu) 11:31:50 daff90 No.16455300

Eric Holder’s Connection to Marc Rich – Part 2

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/07/eric_holder_and_the_fugitives_marc_rich_and_edward_snowden.html

July 2, 2013

Holder told Quinn to contact White House counsel Beth Nolan, and have her to call him. On January 19th, 2001, on the eve of Clinton's final day in office, Quinn did just that, and Holder then told a stunned Nolan that he was "neutral, leaning favorable" toward a pardon for Rich and Green. He also added that Ehud Barak was supportive.

Nolan passed on this new info to Clinton, but she expressed her opposition to the pardons (Clinton would later use Holder's recommendation as an excuse for his controversial action). But even at that late hour, there was still a chance to stop the pardons.

Roger Adams would be required to sign the pardons, and when he was informed by White House staff that night, a perfunctory check was done. Adams was stunned to learn that Rich and Green were both fugitives. He tracked down Holder and called him at his home at 1 a.m. that morning.

Adams informed Holder that Clinton was giving serious consideration to pardoning the two fugitives. Holder told Adams that he was aware of that fact, and the conversation abruptly ended.

Holder has given numerous versions of his actions that morning. The narratives included: that he was distracted that night; that he thought that the pardons would never be issued; and that he assumed that Clinton had already made up his mind.

On January 22nd, after Clinton had left office, Holder was now acting attorney general, and the Rich pardon was beginning to erupt in the press. Holder personally advised Quinn to get the "merits of the case out publicly" including Ehud Barak's support. Holder also advised Quinn to have travel restrictions and arrest warrants lifted for Rich and Green, to go to the Manhattan Federal Courthouse and have the indictment dismissed, and finally, to contact Interpol concerning Clinton's decision.

During testimony before Congress that February, Holder was forced to admit under questioning by Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia that he never contacted the FBI, CIA, NSA, State Department nor the federal prosecutors in New York in advance of the Rich pardon.

Holder would also insist during his testimony that he only had a "passing familiarity" with the Rich case even though he discussed it at least nine times with Jack Quinn between October 1999 and January 2001, and that he was unaware of who Marc Rich was until he was first approached by Quinn.

But, during Holder's confirmation to become President Obama's Attorney General in 2009, it was discovered that during the years that Holder was U.S. Attorney in Washington in the mid-1990's, his office had settled a multi-million dollar fraud suit against Rich, but Holder claimed that his staff had kept him in the dark.

So, considering Mr. Holder's record, which includes his efforts to successfully obtain clemency for members of the deadly FALN terrorist group during his tenure under Clinton, as well as the deadly Fast and Furious gunwalking program during his tenure as Obama's Attorney General (which has led to Holder being held in both civil and criminal contempt by Congress), and now which currently includes his recent suspect testimony regarding whether he was involved with "potential prosecution" of members of the press, the question arises whether he should be the person to oversee the potential prosecution of Edward Snowden.

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Anonymous 06/16/22 (Thu) 11:39:12 daff90 No.16455319

>>16455295

“Obama forgot that Eric Holder dropped Stevens case” – Gifts from an oil company executive

https://mustreadalaska.com/obama-forgot-that-eric-holder-dropped-stevens-case/

May 11, 2020

President Obama this week lambasted the Justice Department’s abandonment of criminal charges against Michael Flynn as unprecedented, but his Justice Department did the same thing in another highly politicized criminal case.

In April 2009, then-Attorney General Eric Holder pulled the plug on the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, a liberal Republican who sided with Democrats on key issues including climate change and abortion.

The comparisons between Stevens and Flynn are striking. Both men faced the same criminal charges of making false statements, the same judge, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, handled both cases, and each had their criminal prosecution undone by a handwritten note that was buried by federal prosecutors.

Still, in a call Friday with thousands of supporters listening, Obama railed that Attorney General William Barr undermined the “rule of law” by dropping the charges against Flynn, who previously served as Trump’s national security advisor.

Although the Stevens prosecution began under President George W. Bush, conservatives at the time grumbled the case may have been initiated by left-leaning prosecutors looking to flip his Senate seat.

Holder dropped the criminal charges against Stevens nearly seven months after he was convicted by a federal jury. He cited allegations that prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence.

Federal prosecutors accused Stevens of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts from an oil company executive, including home repairs and a deal in which Stevens swapped a 1964 Ford Mustang for a new 1999 Land Rover Discovery.

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Anonymous 06/16/22 (Thu) 11:49:05 daff90 No.16455355

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>>16321313

“Marikana massacre | Judgment reserved in civil case”

https://youtu.be/e4Xr6MfW4v0

Posted June 14, 2022

“Judgment has been reserved in the case against President Cyril Ramaphosa, Sibanye-Stillwater, and the government. 329 miners are blaming them for actively inciting violence and exerting pressure which led to the Marikana massacre in August 2012. They are demanding compensation of R1-billion. eNCA senior journalist Aviwe Mtila has the story.”

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Anonymous 06/17/22 (Fri) 17:11:28 4aa658 No.16462506

“The ANC’s Oilgate” – Glencore, Iraq ties (Part 1)

https://mg.co.za/article/2005-05-03-the-ancs-oilgate/

3 May 2005

In what may be the biggest political funding scandal since 1994, the M&G has established that South Africa's state oil company, PetroSA, irregularly paid R15-million to Imvume Management — a company closely tied to the ANC — at a time when the party was desperate for funds to fight elections.

The M&G possesses bank statements and has seen other forensic evidence proving that Imvume transferred the lion's share of this to the ANC within days. PetroSA this week said it was unaware of this. The ANC denied impropriety and said it was not obliged to discuss its funders.

The scheme unfolded in two stages. First, PetroSA management bent over backwards to pay Imvume the money as an advance for the procurement of oil condensate. Then, when Imvume diverted the funds to the ANC instead of paying its own foreign suppliers, PetroSA had to cover the shortfall by paying the same amount again.

A multimillion-rand hole remains in the parastatalis books. PetroSA has gone through the motions to recover the debt by suing Imvume — but most of it remains outstanding.

The effect of the entire transaction was that PetroSA, and ultimately the taxpayer, subsidised the ruling party's election campaign: a blatant abuse of public resources.

Imvume's role as an ANC "front company" first emerged in February last year when the M&G exposed its oil dealings with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Imvume principal Sandi Majali obtained lucrative crude oil allocations from that regime when he travelled to Iraq with top ANC officials between 2000 and 2002. More recently, Imvume described its boss as ANC secretary-general Kgalema Motlanthe's "economic adviser".

But it was the diversion of the Petro-SA money four months ahead of the 2004 elections that is now lifting the lid on the funding scandal.

The deal puts the spotlight on PetroSA's management, which approved the payment; Imvume boss Majali, who asked for the advance and then issued the cheques to the ANC; and Motlanthe, who was Majali's ANC patron.

Imvume, now unable to pay its debts, was once the empowerment pin-up of the oil industry.

The contract that caused all the trouble was awarded by PetroSA to Imvume on October 15 2002 — the day President Thabo Mbeki publicly launched PetroSA as the national oil company.

Under the contract, Imvume — with the backing of Swiss-based resource trader Glencore International — was to supply PetroSA with regular cargoes of condensate, a feedstock for PetroSA's Mossel Bay gas-to-liquid fuels plant.

A number of condensate cargoes were delivered to Mossel Bay during 2003. The standard contractual procedure was for PetroSA to pay Imvume the full cargo price no later than 30 days after the bill of lading date (the date the cargo was loaded for shipment to Mossel Bay).

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Anonymous 06/17/22 (Fri) 17:16:02 4aa658 No.16462522

“The ANC’s Oilgate” – Glencore, Iraq ties (Part 2)

https://mg.co.za/article/2005-05-03-the-ancs-oilgate/

3 May 2005

Once it received payment from PetroSA, Imvume would immediately pay it on to Glencore, which sourced the cargo on international markets. Glencore paid Imvume a commission.

But in December 2003 the pattern was broken, and PetroSA has confirmed that standard procedure was departed from. The bill of lading date for that cargo was December 6 2003, meaning PetroSA's payment for the cargo — worth $10-million (about R65-million) — was due on January 5 2004. But Imvume's Majali asked PetroSA for an advance of R15-million (just more than $2-million of the $10-million) which was paid even before the cargo was discharged on December 22. PetroSA paid the advance into a different account to that usually used by Imvume for the contract.

Evidence in the M&G's possession confirms that Imvume Management's corporate account was credited with R15-million a day later, on December 19. And the M&G has seen forensic proof that within the next four days, Imvume's Majali issued a series of four cheques to the ANC — for R4-million, R3-million and R2-million (twice). These cheques, totalling R11-million, were all transacted on December 23.

This week Majali and Imvume did not dispute that the money was paid to the ANC, but claimed their support for the party was a "private affair".

The transfers to the ANC came four months before the elections, held on April 14 2004. A number of sources have described the party's financial straits around that time, claiming it had a bank overdraft typically running at more than R100-million.

When payment for the cargo became due to Glencore on January 5, Imvume failed to pay the company the R15-million advance — and, effectively, also withheld another R3-million from the balance owed.

Glencore turned to PetroSA for what it was owed, eventually threatening in February not to offload the next cargo. PetroSA agreed to cover the shortfall of R18-million, for fear that the Mossel Bay plant would run out of feedstock, leading to greater losses. Effectively, PetroSA paid R18-million twice — once to Imvume, and once to Imvume's supplier.

PetroSA maintains that the special circumstances of the empowerment environment largely excuse the actions of its management. It also denies that there was pressure from either the Minerals and Energy Ministry or the ANC to approve the advance to Imvume.

Circumstances, however, suggest that empowerment is not a sufficient explanation and that Imvume's ANC links played a role. These links were no secret in oil trading circles. A businessman active in the sector told the M&G last year: "It was talked about when they got tenders … that it was an ANC company … I certainly understand that ANC fundraising has a keen interest."

The advance payment to Imvume was irregular in that it was a departure from standard procedures. PetroSA maintains procurement policy allows for advance payments, but admits it "should have checked" whether the money was going into the usual account.

When the transaction with Imvume blew up in its face, PetroSA continued treating the company with kid gloves.

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Anonymous 06/17/22 (Fri) 17:16:53 4aa658 No.16462529

“The ANC’s Oilgate” – Glencore, Iraq ties (Part 3)

https://mg.co.za/article/2005-05-03-the-ancs-oilgate/

3 May 2005

On February 23 last year, four days after PetroSA had been forced to settle Imvume's debt with Glencore, Majali signed an acknowledgement of debt to PetroSA, agreeing to repay the R18-million plus interest within 90 days. He also ceded his company's revenue stream as security. But Imvume paid nothing in terms of that agreement.

Court records show more than a month passed after the expiry of the 90-day term before PetroSA issued a letter of demand. (See "PetroSA vs Imvume Management" download box on top right of this article for full documents).

PetroSA's choice of lawyer employed to pursue the demand raises further questions about PetroSA's seriousness of purpose.

The lawyer, Leslie Mkhabela, was previously Imvume's own attorney and still has a business relationship with Majali via their common interest in Forever Resorts Aventura, the privatised state leisure company. This raises conflict-of-interest questions.

Mkhabela maintained this week that this was not a problem as he had disclosed his business relationship with Majali to PetroSA.

The agreement signed between Mkhize and Majali was still not enforced. Instead new terms, much more favourable to Imvume, were agreed between PetroSA chief executive Sipho Mkhize and Majali in September last year.

Now PetroSA waived any claim to interest and agreed that Imvume could repay the capital amount in monthly instalments over four and a half years.

But again, in February this year and after paying only R1,33-million, Imvume defaulted, court papers show.

PetroSA took off the kid gloves for a little while, filing an application for summary judgement in the Johannesburg High Court. But the matter was postponed twice, and on a third court date — May 3 this year — PetroSA removed the matter from the roll. PetroSA this week claimed that this was to allow Imvume to remain operational, which would give PetroSA a better chance eventually to recoup the debt.

The ANC this week threatened legal action against the M&G without confirming or denying the flow of money to it.

Circumstantial evidence strongly suggests the ANC knew exactly where the funding was coming from. Between 2000 and 2002, when Majali was trading in oil allocations from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the ANC's Motlanthe repeatedly accompanied him to that country.

ANC treasurer general Mendi Msimang also went along on at least one occasion.

It is rumoured that the relationship between Majali and Motlanthe has cooled recently, but an Imvume brochure last year still described Majali as "economic adviser to the secretary general of the ANC". Describing the company's "winning formula", the brochure said Imvume had "access and influence on economic policy".

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Anonymous 06/17/22 (Fri) 17:17:31 4aa658 No.16462534

“The ANC’s Oilgate” – Glencore, Iraq ties (Part 4)

https://mg.co.za/article/2005-05-03-the-ancs-oilgate/

3 May 2005

How they responded …

PETROSA

The cornerstone of this deal is the policy adopted by PetroSA, which is a national initiative, black economic empowerment (BEE). PetroSA has a mandate to introduce hitherto disadvantaged South Africans into the oil and gas industry. PetroSA had a choice: to continue business as usual and exclude historically disadvantaged South Africans from the mainstream economy and prolong, if not propagate, the two-economies concept, or use our procurement muscle to bring fundamental change to the industry.

To procure a raw material referred to as condensate, the requirement was that the preferred supplier must have a South African partner who qualifies as a BEE candidate. This in effect introduced a major shift in the industry. We deliberately signed deals with the historically disadvantaged party to ensure that they were not "brought along" to the deal, but in fact they were the "principal partner" in the deal.

On the [High Court] case PetroSA brought against Imvume PetroSA suspended the case due to the fact that if Imvume were liquidated, there would be very little proceeds flowing into PetroSA from that exercise. Imvume is much better off remaining operational for PetroSA to be able to recoup the total sum owed to PetroSA as well as interest and the legal costs.

On Leslie Mkhabela [PetroSA's choice of lawyer to sue Imvume]

Mkhabela assured PetroSA of the following: he acted on behalf of Imvume during 2002/03. He later decided to resign from their business. While he acted for Imvume, he was invited into a consortium that submitted a bid for the Aventura Resort in exchange for his services. He retains no personal friendship with Imvume.

On PetroSA's actions and internal inquiry

At the request of Imvume, PetroSA effected a pre-payment into an account different from the normal account. We changed the account without considering that there may be negative ramifications. PetroSA has since tightened the controls around channels of communication and instruction from vendors on payments. PetroSA in its enquiry has not found any wrongdoing by any individual or individuals within PetroSA or external to PetroSA with line of sight to PetroSA. All the procedures and processes were followed. PetroSA honoured the letter of the contract. At times we assist suppliers to better deliver to PetroSA where possible. The procurement policy at PetroSA allows for payments of this nature.

On the double payment

Glencore held the product. Even though PetroSA did not have a contract with them, they had a ship in the harbour with our product. As we had already paid, PetroSA had to make a decision; to either pay them and deal with Imvume later — this would cost us $2,8-million — or refuse to pay and have our refinery cease operating for a minimum of 40 days, at the cost of $1-million daily. The PetroSA board ratified the decision.

Conclusion

It is the intention of PetroSA to recoup all the funds involved in this dispute. A liquidated Imvume would not generate the required proceeds for PetroSA. This would lead to an outright loss. PetroSA needs Imvume to pay back the money owed to PetroSA.

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Anonymous 06/17/22 (Fri) 19:03:18 ec310d No.16463074

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>>16453018 -

If Jewish terrorists justified their actions to push for a Jewish state… then it is relevant. Who says that they stopped? Is their plan to dominate the world? They have played major roles in organisations like the ANC and now it rules the country into the ground. It seems like that their playbook has never changed. Below are excerpts from a 1937 document… It is worth reading in full.

“THE GREATEST WAR IN HISTORY NOW ON! International Jewish System Against National Patriotism”

https://balderexlibris.com/public/ebook3/Beamish_Henry_Hamilton_-_Arcand_Adrien_-_Edmondson_Robert_Edward_-_The_greatest_war_in_History_now_on.zip

Captain Henry Hamilton Beamish notes;

“We are engaged in the greatest war history has ever known. The last war was a picnic compared to the one we are now fighting. The question is, whether the Jew shall rule the world, or we white men.

“Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. I found it out pretty quickly and I put it in writing. Jews are a race and not a religion.

“The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means Farmer. Many criticized a great power like Great Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon making inquiry, I found all the gold and diamond mines were owned by Jews; that Rothstein controlled gold; Samuels controlled silver, Samuels controlled oil; Baum controlled other minerals, and Moses controlled base metals. Anything those people touch they inevitably pollute.

“Up to 1933, Russia, France and other nations were politically Kosherized; England was going perfectly—all on complete Bolshevick architecture. Spain, with Prima Rivera, was really Judaized.

“What we have to realize today is that the Jews are working overtime to bring on another war. The position is serious. They tried their utmost in Spain. The movement having failed there, they have shifted to Shanghai, where there are 7,000 Jews—refugees, lawyers, doctors and dentists now working day and night to bring trouble to the far east.

“There are very few newspapers not owned or controlled by Jews except in the countries that have named the Bolshevists as the enemies of mankind. The newspapers never attack Kosher France, Belgium and England.

“Every man should be fined for saying “anti-Semitic.” The Arabs are Semites and they have been standing up against the Jews. In 1848 the word “anti-Semitic” was invented by the Jews to prevent the use of the word “Jew.” The right word for them is “Jew.” We are not against the Syrians, Armenians and Arabs, all of them Semites let down by the “kosher” power behind England.

“The real war began in Germany in 1918 when they had the “kosher” peace terms. It is the power behind. The Jew's make the wars. The Jews manufactured Bolshevism and inflation. The question of money is only the question of the Jew's manipulating it. The Jew' will inflate it or deflate it at will. Why is it done? To wipe out the upper and middle classes. It is the Jews who preach Communism for us, and who spread socialism, bolshevism and anarchy. Then the Jew is supreme.

“Who rules Russia? How do you account for the fact that out of 550 commissars in Russia only 17 are Russians?

Adrien Arcand notes;

“One of these slogans is ‘TOLERANCE’, which is the basis of the other slogan ‘No race, color or creed discrimination.’ The Jew has only to yell ‘TOLERANCE’, and the whole of Gentility immediately becomes paralyzed.

“But what is Tolerance? It is a word used only for evil. Can you tolerate Virtue, Good, Justice, Beauty? No, because they have rights by and in themselves. They exist by right and not by tolerance.

And the Jews call it ‘the century of progress,’ ‘the age of advancement!’ Out of the Ghetto, they have ghetto-ized the whole world. >>16332080

“The world is not brought to Communism ‘just like that’; and people won’t renounce their property from night to day. There were long preparations for that stage. >>16381002

“It began with the so-called democracy—which has never been democracy—brought by the Jews through the Illuminati one hundred and fifty years ago. >>16303715

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 15:20:19 bb33b2 No.16472264

>>16463074

>“We are engaged in the greatest war history has ever known. The last war was a picnic compared to the one we are now fighting. The question is, whether the Jew shall rule the world, or we white men.

>“The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means Farmer. Many criticized a great power like Great Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon making inquiry, I found all the gold and diamond mines were owned by Jews; that Rothstein controlled gold; Samuels controlled silver, Samuels controlled oil; Baum controlled other minerals, and Moses controlled base metals. Anything those people touch they inevitably pollute.

“Blacks sing about killing whites - Kill the Boer compilation”

https://youtu.be/KKy4OM9EIyI

“Joe Slovo - Jew & South African Communist Party leader”

3:33 – Ronnie Kasrils (next to Mandela) and Denis Goldberg (to the left of the screen) sing kill the whites… Both Jewish.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 15:31:10 bb33b2 No.16472307

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>>16463074

>“It began with the so-called democracy—which has never been democracy—brought by the Jews through the Illuminati one hundred and fifty years ago.

>>16472264

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 15:32:11 bb33b2 No.16472313

>>16472264

“FARM MURDERS ON THE INCREASE AGAIN”

https://afriforum.co.za/en/farm-murders-on-the-increase-again/

12/05/2021

The civil rights organisation AfriForum today released its latest statistics regarding farm attacks. Since April last year, there have been 395 farm attacks countrywide.

Although there was a decline in the number of farm attacks in the 2020/2021 financial year compared to the previous financial year, there was an increase in farm murders. During the past year, 59 people were murdered on farms in South Africa, compared to 41 in the previous year.

Farm attacks continue to be a source of grave concern because of the excessive violence that regularly is used during these crimes. In 22% of the attacks, victims were brutally tortured by burning them with irons, by battering or kicking them to death or by repeatedly stabbing them with a sharp object.

64% of victims were over the age of 50.

Items that were plundered most often during farm attacks are firearms, vehicles and electronic appliances, although in at least six farm murders nothing was stolen.

“The fact that farm murders and the brutality of the attacks have increased despite a decrease in the number of attacks is extremely worrying. It also shows that the lip service the Minister of Police and the President paid to the matter for a short while last year in fact has not yielded any results and that it is becoming increasingly important for communities to look after their own safety,” says Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Head of Policy and Action.

AfriForum encourages rural residents to take their safety in their own hands, within the framework of the law, and to establish safety networks or to join one of AfriForum’s 160 neighbourhood and farm watches countrywide.

The organisation recently also launched its Safeguard a Farm campaign. For more information about the campaign, please visit www.beveilignplaas.co.za.

Click here to read the report, https://afriforum.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Farm-murders-in-South-Africa-2020-2021-ENG.pdf.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 16:30:50 bb33b2 No.16472487

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>16472264

>https://youtu.be/KKy4OM9EIyI

Embedded

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:15:17 4cbfe7 No.16472648

“Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big” (1 of 3)

https://nypost.com/2016/01/17/after-pardoning-criminal-marc-rich-clintons-made-millions-off-friends/

January 17, 2016

Judge Abner Mikva, a counsel in the Clinton White House and mentor to President Obama, noted that even Obama “was very, very dismayed by the Marc Rich pardon and the basis on which it appears to have been granted.”

But does the story end there? Is it possible the payoffs continued after he left office?

The stench of the scandal in early 2001 sent people scurrying. Days after it was revealed that a senior UBS executive named Pierre de Weck had written a letter to Clinton “to support his request for a pardon,” the Swiss banking giant canceled its discussions with Clinton about a lucrative post-White House speech, apparently “worried that a large speaking fee would create an appearance of impropriety.”

Even Bill Clinton eventually admitted that the pardon had been “terrible politics.” “It wasn’t worth the damage to my reputation,” he said.

But while the pardon was a political mistake, it certainly was not a financial one. In the years following the scandal, the flow of funds from those connected to Marc Rich or the pardon scandal have continued to the Clintons.

Rich died in 2013. But his business partners, lawyers, advisers and friends have showered millions of dollars on the Clintons in the decade and a half following the scandal.

Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury is well known as a close ally and business associate of Rich. The Nigerian media declared in 1999 that the “Gilbert Chagoury-Marc Rich alliance remains a formidable foe.” They sold oil on international markets together. In 2000, Chagoury was convicted in Geneva of money laundering and aiding a criminal organization in connection with the billions of dollars stolen from Nigeria during the reign of dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.

As part of a plea deal, the conviction was later expunged.

Chagoury has been very generous to the Clintons in the years following the Rich pardon. He has organized an event at which Bill was paid $100,000 to speak (in 2003), donated millions to the Clinton Foundation and in 2009 pledged a cool $1 billion to the Clinton Global Initiative. The Chagourys were also active in Hillary’s 2008 presidential bid. Michel Chaghouri, a relative in Los Angeles, was a bundler and served on her campaign staff. Numerous other relatives gave the maximum $4,600 each to her campaign.

In return, Bill has lavished praised on Chagoury over the years. In 2005, Bill was the keynote speaker when Chagoury received the “Pride of Heritage Award” from the Lebanese community.

In 2009, CGI gave Chagoury’s company an award for sustainable development. In 2013, Bill showed up in Nigeria for a public ceremony involving one of Chagoury’s projects. When Bill Clinton had his 60th birthday party, Chagoury was an invited guest. Chagoury also attended the wedding of Bill’s longtime aide, Doug Band.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:16:39 4cbfe7 No.16472656

“Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big” (2 of 3)

https://nypost.com/2016/01/17/after-pardoning-criminal-marc-rich-clintons-made-millions-off-friends/

January 17, 2016

Then there’s Russian investor Sergei Kurzin. He worked for Marc Rich in the 1990s, traveling around Russia looking for suitable investment opportunities in the crumbled former Soviet Union.

An engineer by training, Kurzin has been involved in lucrative deals in Kazakhstan and other countries, including the lucrative Uranium One deal that involved Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra.

Russia bought 20 percent of all uranium production capacity in the US, a deal that needed to be signed off on by the State Department when it was headed by Hillary Clinton. While the deal was going through, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to give a speech in Moscow, paid for by a Russian investment bank promoting the uranium deal.

Kurzin, meanwhile, donated $1 million to the Clinton Foundation.

The London-based Reuben Brothers have made a fortune thanks in part to their commodities firm Trans World Metals. According to the World Bank, they founded that firm with money from Marc Rich.

And they have confirmed that they had business dealings with Rich. The Reuben Brothers, through their own Reuben Foundation, have been enthusiastic supporters of the Clintons. They co-hosted a star-studded gala with the Clinton Foundation in London dubbed the Millennium Network. They have also directly donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.

Beth Dozoretz, a longtime Democratic Party donor, was a friend to Denise Rich, and according to congressional investigations, played a “key role” in helping secure the Marc Rich pardon. On Jan. 10, 2001, Dozoretz received a phone call from President Bill Clinton informing her that he was planning to pardon international fugitive Marc Rich. Dozoretz informed her ski partner on that trip, Denise Rich, of the great news.

In the years since the pardon was granted, Dozoretz has served the Clintons closely: as the finance co-chair of Hillary’s 2008 campaign and as a senior State Department official during Hillary’s tenure. She has supported the super PAC Ready for Hillary and the Hillary Clinton campaign. Her husband, Ronald, has sent $25,000 to $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Even the smaller phantoms of the Marc Rich scandal have popped up, opening their wallets for the Clintons. Gershon Kekst, who was Marc Rich’s longtime p.r. man in the United States, has contributed more than $10,000 to Hillary’s campaigns since the pardon. Clyde Meltzer was named in the original 1983 DOJ indictment against Marc Rich and Pincus Green. Meltzer pleaded guilty rather than flee the country like Rich and Green. In the 1990s he rejoined Rich, working for the fugitive’s new firm, Glencore.

According to Federal Election Commission records, Meltzer has a slim history of giving money to candidates, giving only $1,000 to a congressional candidate. But in 2007 he gave the maximum allowed to the Hillary Clinton campaign. Three of Marc Rich’s attorneys, Peter Kadzik, Robert Fink and Jack Quinn, also a former counsel at the Clinton White House, have donated to Hillary’s campaigns. Quinn has given between $25,000 and $50,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:17:26 4cbfe7 No.16472661

“Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big” (3 of 3)

https://nypost.com/2016/01/17/after-pardoning-criminal-marc-rich-clintons-made-millions-off-friends/

January 17, 2016

These Rich connections are, of course, based on disclosed donations. But we now know that the Clinton Foundation has failed to disclose more than 1,000 donors, despite its written agreement with the Obama transition team that it would maintain complete transparency.

Many of those donations came through a Clinton Foundation project in Canada, which is heavily laden with donations from the natural resources and commodities industries. Kurzin, for example, has given via this route. Are there more Marc Rich-connected dollars that have flowed to the Clintons? Will they ever provide the full disclosure they have so often promised?

It cannot be mere coincidence that in the years of fundraising for the Clinton Foundation, one of the industries that has emerged as a big backer of the Clintons is the mining and commodities industry, where Marc Rich made his fortune.

When it comes to Washington scandals, news usually sends political figures scurrying for cover — leading them to avoid those connected to the scandal. Apparently not so with the Clintons. Are you connected to the disgraced Marc Rich and the terrible pardon? It’s OK, as long as the check clears.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:22:39 4cbfe7 No.16472685

>>16472648

>Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury is well known as a close ally and business associate of Rich. The Nigerian media declared in 1999 that the “Gilbert Chagoury-Marc Rich alliance remains a formidable foe.”

“Lebanese-Nigerian Billionaire [Gilbert Chagoury] and Two Associates Resolve Federal Probe into Alleged Violations of Campaign Finance Laws”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/lebanese-nigerian-billionaire-and-two-associates-resolve-federal-probe-alleged

March 31, 2021

LOS ANGELES – A Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire has resolved and two of his associates have agreed to resolve a federal investigation that they conspired to violate federal election laws by scheming to make illegal campaign contributions to U.S. presidential and congressional candidates, the Department of Justice announced today.

Gilbert Chagoury, 75, who presently resides in Paris, France, paid $1.8 million to resolve allegations that he, with the assistance of others, provided approximately $180,000 to individuals in the United States that was used to make contributions to four different federal political candidates in U.S. elections.

Chagoury, a foreign national prohibited by federal law from contributing to any U.S. elections, admitted he intended these funds to be used to make contributions to these candidates. He further admitted to making illegal conduit contributions – causing campaign contributions to be made in the name of another individual.

According to a deferred prosecution agreement with the government, Chagoury accepted responsibility for his role and conduct that resulted in violations of federal election contribution laws between June 2012 and March 2016 and agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation. Chagoury entered into the agreement on October 19, 2019, and he paid the fine in December 2019.

Federal prosecutors entered into the deferred prosecution agreement considering, among other factors, Chagoury’s unique assistance to the U.S. government, his payment of a fine, Chagoury’s acceptance of responsibility for his actions, and his residence outside the United States.

Relatedly, two Chagoury associates – Joseph Arsan, 68, also of Paris, and Toufic Joseph Baaklini, 58, of Washington, D.C. – agreed to resolve allegations that they violated campaign contribution laws by assisting Chagoury in his illegal contributions. Arsan, a physician who worked as an assistant to Chagoury, admitted helping Chagoury reimburse others for contributions to political candidates. In 2014, Arsan – at Chagoury’s direction – wired $30,000 to a third party and indicated on the wire information form that the funds were for a “wedding gift,” when he knew or should have known that the funds were reimbursement for making a political contribution to a campaign fund for a federal elected official.

Arsan’s deferred prosecution agreement, which took effect in November 2020, also resolves a criminal investigation into his alleged tax violations in the years 2012 to 2016 stemming from his failure to report money he held in foreign bank accounts. Arsan agreed to pay $1.7 million in penalties to resolve the tax probe and to cooperate in the government’s investigation.

In his deferred prosecution agreement signed on March 1, 2021, Baaklini admitted to giving $30,000 in cash provided by Chagoury to an individual at a restaurant in Los Angeles who, along with others, later made campaign contributions to the 2016 campaign of a U.S. congressman. Baaklini also agreed to pay a $90,000 fine as part of his agreement and agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation.

In a separate and unrelated matter, Ray LaHood, 75, who served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation from 2009 to 2013, paid a $40,000 fine to resolve a federal criminal investigation into LaHood’s conduct related to a $50,000 financial transaction between LaHood and Baaklini in June 2012.

LaHood, who at the time was suffering financial difficulties, admitted that in 2012 he accepted a $50,000 personal check from Baaklini – with the word “Loan” written in the check’s memo portion – and understood at the time that the money came from Chagoury. LaHood failed to disclose the $50,000 check on two government ethics forms as required because LaHood did not want to be associated with Chagoury. Later, LaHood also made misleading statements to FBI agents investigating Chagoury about the check and its source. As part of his non-prosecution agreement signed in December 2019, LaHood also agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation and repaid the $50,000 to Baaklini.

This matter was investigated by the FBI, IRS Criminal Investigation, and Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:37:30 4cbfe7 No.16472758

>>16472656

>Then there’s Russian investor Sergei Kurzin. He worked for Marc Rich in the 1990s, traveling around Russia looking for suitable investment opportunities in the crumbled former Soviet Union.

>“Applying the lessons they learned from Marc Rich, they bankrupted Russia,” Klebnikov alleges. “As a result, you have a ruined economy, bankrupt government, and an impoverished population.”

“An Interview With Sergei Kurzin” (1 of 5)

https://www.forbes.com [Unable to post full link. Board message; "Your post contains a spam link that has been filtered. Please remove the link and try again."]

April 20, 2009

Dmitry Sidorov

"I don't remember exactly how many times I met President Clinton," Kurzin told me as we sat in the London Mayfair offices of his mining companies, Orsus Metal and Oriel Resources. The 47-year-old mini oligarch, who made a fortune in the mining business, blames age for the occasional memory lapses. "I am getting old," he said. After a short pause accompanied by a wrinkled forehead and furrowed eyebrows, Kurzin fondly recalled three encounters with Clinton.

As I found out 40 minutes later, two meetings took place in Canada, and one occurred in London. Another one Kurzin may have forgotten could have taken place in Kazakhstan in early September 2005, when Kurzin's partner, Canadian mining mogul Frank Giustra, and Bill Clinton flew out to meet with the country's president, Nursultan Nazarbaev.

With a doctorate in nuclear physics, Kurzin is hardly a household name in the U.K., where he has lived for almost 20 years, or in Kazakhstan or Russia, where he conducts business, or in the U.S. and Canada, where some of his friends and partners reside. His name means almost nothing to a mining industry outsider, except for the fact that he was a partner of Frank Giustra in a successful and lucrative deal to purchase uranium mines in Kazakhstan in 2005.

I became interested in Kurzin after a friend pointed out some Russian names on the Clinton Foundation donors list. It was made public by the former president last December to clear the path for his wife's nomination as Secretary of State. Kurzin provided between $50,000 and $100,000 to the charity. Giustra, on another hand, donated $31.3 million via one of his foundations.

Kurzin also donated funds to the Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative Foundation, which works to eliminate poverty in areas of the developing world affected by mining. "I wrote a check for a million dollars. I don't think you can call it a small amount," he said. Kurzin was clearly indicating how proud he is, at the same time taking offense at my comment. I had been careless enough to say that his gift to the Clinton Foundation was insubstantial compared to the kindness of his Canadian partner or certain Arab businessmen.

Kurzin has dual British-Russian citizenship and lives in the picturesque seaside resort of Rye (beloved by American writer Henry James) with his wife, Jennifer, and two sons. The Kurzin family also has a nice piece of property in Italy and excellent connections in Kazakhstan and Russia.

"I started working in Kazakhstan immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union," Kurzin told me. He began as a London-based consultant to a number of Western oil and mining companies a few years after moving to the U.K. from Russia in 1990. But before that, Kurzin was a mail courier in London when he first arrived. "I didn't want my wife to support me," he explained.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:42:13 4cbfe7 No.16472775

>>16472758

>>16436536

>Roman Abramovich’s journey from an impoverished, orphaned childhood to Chelsea-owning billionaire was forged in the chaotic transformation of Russia itself, in the years after the iron curtain fell.

“An Interview With Sergei Kurzin” (2 of 5)

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April 20, 2009

Dmitry Sidorov

The breakthrough in his career came in the late '90s when he started a consulting business. Kurzin claimed credit for helping Canada's Bema Gold Corporation to develop the Kupol gold mine in Russia's Chukotka province. The deal brought Kurzin into contact with the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who was governor of the region at the time. "I started negotiations with the previous governor and got a deal, but when Abramovich was appointed, I asked for a meeting to seek his blessing," Kurzin told me and smiled.

It was a smart move to close the Kupol deal without leaving an unpleasant aftertaste with the powerful Roman Abramovich. "In 2006, I joined Abramovich in his private box at London's Chelsea stadium to watch the soccer team he owns play against some German club," Kurzin told me.

According to Kurzin, his success with Bema brought him into contact with Frank Giustra in the early '90s. But it was another Canadian mining promoter who would change Kurzin's life in 2003. Stephen Dattels, a former executive at Barrick Gold (one of the world's largest gold producers), teamed up with Kurzin to float a company called Oriel Resources on London's junior AIM stock exchange. Oriel got hold of a nickel project in Kazakhstan called Shevchenko.

Kurzin was transformed from a behind-the-scenes consultant to the CEO of Oriel. As a source involved in the Oriel float put it, "Steve (Dattels) was selling Sergey to the investors." Kurzin, fully bilingual and with extensive contacts in the former USSR, made a strong impression. It was the dawn of the mining boom, and investors were eager. Oriel IPO-ed in London on March 11, 2004, at 0.65 pounds per share, raising 40 million pounds. At the time, it was the largest mining IPO in the history of London's AIM exchange, according to the London Stock Exchange Web site.

But Kurzin and Dattels didn't stop there. Even before the Oriel IPO, in January 2004, they created Everfor Diamonds Plc. to explore diamonds in Russia's far north Murmansk region. Everfor would eventually IPO in London in April 2006.

By the spring of 2004 Kurzin was feeling good. He was earning 84,000 pounds per year as the CEO of Oriel, together with 96,000 pounds per annum from Fernview Finance Limited, the Oriel subsidiary; 54,000 pounds as the CEO of Everfor, according to Oriel and Everfor prospectuses; and another 36,000 pounds from Edlin Finance Limited–totaling 270,000 pounds per year.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:44:53 4cbfe7 No.16472786

>>16472758

>>16472775

“An Interview With Sergei Kurzin” (3 of 5)

https://www.forbes.com [Unable to post full link. Board message; "Your post contains a spam link that has been filtered. Please remove the link and try again."]

April 20, 2009

Dmitry Sidorov

Studying documents from Kurzin-promoted mining companies, I found patterns worth noting. In each case, the London arm of the Canadian brokerage Canaccord Adams handled the float. In each case, many of the early stage investors were the same.

According to the documents made available to me, these investors included Aran Asset Management, Barham Investment Group and various offshore trusts managed by Pinnacle Trustees in the Channel Island of Guernsey. Among others, there was one with the name Vnukam. "No investor was able to understand what it means," a source close to the Oriel float told me. Which is understandable, because Vnukam in Russian means "for the grandsons."

In each case, the companies promoted by Kurzin came by their mining projects in the former USSR through complicated deals involving offshore trusts and opaque Russian- and Kazakh-registered entities. Oriel purchased the Kazakh nickel mine by agreeing to buy all the shares of a British company called Brook Audley Resources from offshore trusts managed by Pinnacle Trustees, including a Kurzin-linked Malta trust, which in turn bought 90% of the shares of a Kazakh partnership called Luckstone LLP, which was the sole owner of another Kazakh partnership, Muzbell LLP, which held the license for the nickel mine, according to the Oriel prospectus. The total of $8 million in cash would pass from Oriel to undisclosed sellers of the nickel mine. According to a source it "included one individual close to Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbaev."

On July 17, 2005, the British tabloid Mail on Sunday reported that Aran Asset Management and Barham Investment Group sold their shares in Oriel within a week of its IPO for "windfall" profits. The Mail on Sunday speculated that the two companies were linked to senior Canaccord executives. The British publication also stated that one of the trusts managed by Pinnacle Trustees also sold Oriel shares soon after its IPO.

According to the documents obtained, these trusts are Pamir, Malta and Vnukam. The price of Oriel shares jumped to above 80 pence after its IPO but then languished well below its IPO price of 65 pence for many months thereafter. But it didn't matter to the inside investors who had sold quickly after the float. Aran, Barham and the Kurzin-linked trusts had gotten shares for one penny, according to a shareholders list.

Now back to the uranium deal in Kazakhstan and Giustra, Clinton, Kurzin and Dattels. This time Steve Dattels, Kurzin's partner in the Oriel and Everfor deals, would be cut out. "It wasn't only my decision but Giustra's as well, I told him," Kurzin responded to my question about Dattels' exclusion from the deal. "What, am I married to him? He had other partners as well," Kurzin added. According to him, any dispute with Dattels was taken care of. "We settled the score," Kurzin insisted without explaining how.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:47:21 4cbfe7 No.16472790

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“An Interview With Sergei Kurzin” (4 of 5)

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It was 2005, and the uranium deal was moving along. On Sept. 6, Giustra and Clinton traveled to Kazakhstan on a millionaire's private jet to meet with the president of the country, Nursultan Nazarbaev. "I was not on that plane," Kurzin almost shouted as the smile vanished from his face. The Giustra-Clinton voyage to Kazakhstan fueled speculation that the former U.S. president added weight to the Giustra-Kurzin efforts to nail down the uranium deal. Kurzin fiercely denied it but admits that he was the one who made the deal possible with his extensive connections in Kazakhstan.

Pictures of Giustra and Clinton, Kurzin and Clinton, Clinton and Nazarbaev, and Giustra and Putin stared out at me from the wall of Kurzin's office. Kurzin became extremely alert and suspicious moments before confirming his partnership with Giustra in the Kazakh uranium deal. "Why are you asking whether I was a consultant or a partner," Kurzin questioned me. "What's the difference?"

A consultant to a company is paid for his services, I explained, while a partner has a stake in a company. "I see, but a consultant can also be a shareholder. In any case, I was a partner, and not a consultant," Kurzin responded. Furthermore, Kurzin was not shy about admitting that his connections in Kazakhstan were instrumental when UrAsia Energy, a company Kurzin and Giustra started, purchased the title to uranium projects. UrAsia paid close to $450 million to Kazatom, Kazakhstan's state uranium company.

Funds raised privately by Kurzin and Giustra before UrAsia's IPO also went to the sellers of additional shares of an unknown private Kazakh-owned partnership. Two years later, in February 2007, UrAsia Energy was purchased by Uranium One for $3.1 billion.

"Clinton had nothing to do with the project," argues Kurzin, a tall man in an expensive dark navy suit. He became tense and could barely contain his anger when the former president's name came out of my mouth. "You're trying to nail Clinton because his wife became the Secretary of State, but there's nothing about the trip to Kazakhstan that will help you do it. The business I'm in doesn't work this way," he added shaking his head.

The anger was aimed not only at me but at the New York Times journalist who called Kurzin some time ago and quoted him in a story on Giustra and Clinton. "I was misquoted, and the journalist deceived me," he added with disgust. "How were you deceived?" I asked. "The journalist told me that the interview would be about the mining business, and it came down to the Clinton in Kazakhstan issue at the end," Kurzin replied.

Kurzin told me that Giustra was very unhappy with his quote in The New York Times. "Giustra yelled like hell at me over the phone after he saw the piece. He was furious that I talked to a journalist," Kurzin told me. He didn't explain what exactly was wrong with his quote but agreed to continue talking about Bill Clinton after I assured him that I was interested in his impression of the former U.S. president.

"There were four people present at that meeting in Kazakhstan," Kurzin told me. They were Frank Giustra, Bill Clinton, Nursultan Nazarbaev and billionaire Lakshmi Mitall, the head of ArcelorMittal. "Frank (Giustra) was just explaining to President Nazarbaev what he's doing in Kazakhstan, and Nazarbaev showed an interest in developing the stainless steel industry in his country," Kurzin candidly told me.

Whether he was in Kazakhstan at the time of the meeting or Giustra told him what it was about remained to be confirmed. I was unable to find anyone willing to talk about it either on or off the record.

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 17:51:13 4cbfe7 No.16472808

“An Interview With Sergei Kurzin” (5 of 5)

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April 20, 2009

Dmitry Sidorov

But the three meetings between Kurzin and Clinton were confirmed by Kurzin himself. The encounter at a private dinner at the Dorchester, one of London's finest hotels, is fascinating. Despite the fact that Kurzin once again was unable to recall exact dates, I figured it out. The event took place on Dec. 3, 2005, more than three months after Clinton's trip to Kazakhstan and close to one month after the deal to purchase the title for uranium mines was wrapped up. "I sat as close to Clinton as I am sitting to you," Kurzin emphasized. We were a few feet away from each other, separated by a round table located close to his desk.

During this meeting, Kurzin and Clinton had a half-hour of almost uninterrupted conversation. "The other guests complained that I hijacked the president," Kurzin stated proudly. "We talked about Russia and (President) Yeltsin," he recalled. Did you discuss Putin, I asked. "Yes,” he replied, "but I don't remember what was said. I don't know Putin personally and don't want to talk about him," Kurzin added.

The other two encounters occurred in Canada. The second meeting with Clinton took place in Vancouver, on April 23, 2006, at a charity event to raise funds for blood-related cancer research that took place at the Fairmont Hotel. Giustra's Radcliffe Foundation sponsored it. This time Kurzin was not so lucky. "I saw the president, and we had a brief conversation, but I was not seated at the same table as Giustra," he said. It was a private, invitation-only, black-tie dinner where Elvis Costello, Elton John and James Taylor performed.

The third encounter happened on Sept. 9, 2006, in Toronto's Royal York Hotel, where Giustra organized a celebration for Clinton's 60th birthday (actually on Aug. 19) combined with a fundraiser for the former president's HIV/AIDS initiative. "I donated $100,000 for this event," Kurzin told me.

Before I left we exchanged business cards, but I have a feeling we won't be seeing each other again. Kurzin probably won't like this story. Which is a shame, since I still have questions. One of them: "Why did President Clinton decide to spend almost half an hour with a person he presumably had never met before?"

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Anonymous 06/19/22 (Sun) 18:49:52 4cbfe7 No.16473081

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>The London-based Reuben Brothers have made a fortune thanks in part to their commodities firm Trans World Metals. According to the World Bank, they founded that firm with money from Marc Rich.

>And they have confirmed that they had business dealings with Rich. The Reuben Brothers, through their own Reuben Foundation, have been enthusiastic supporters of the Clintons.