IN CONTEXT V. 2016
“Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.”~Marshall McLuhan
Ex-UN President ‘Conveniently’ Crushes His Own Throat Before Clinton-Linked Federal Case Starts
Posted: 27 Jun 2016 09:00 PM PDT
The suspicious circumstances surrounding the death last week of former U.N. President John Ashe has left political pundits and conspiracy theorists alike speculating as to whether foul play was involved in his untimely demise. After Ashe was found dead Wednesday, the U.N. claimed that he had died from a heart attack, according to the New York Post’s Page Six. That claim was later disputed by local police officers in Dobbs Ferry, New York, who said that Ashe had died from a crushed throat during a workout accident. What makes this mysterious death so intriguing is the fact that Ashe was due in court on Monday with Chinese billionaire co-defendant Ng Lap Seng. Ashe was accused of receiving at least $500,000 in bribes to use “his official position to obtain for Ng potentially lucrative investments in Antigua,” according to a criminal complaint charging Ng.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Warns of Imminent Crisis — Urges Return to Gold Standard
Posted: 27 Jun 2016 09:00 PM PDT
On Monday, Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, dropped a bombshell that will both incite panic as well make people scratch their heads in disbelief. Speaking on Bloomberg in an extensive 30-minute interview, Greenspan gave his assessment of Brexit. The former fed chair said David Cameron made a “terrible mistake” by even holding the referendum. Greenspan went on to explain that Brexit will inevitably lead to both Scotland and Northern Ireland declarations of independence as well.
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European Banks Have Their Worst Two Day Stretch EVER As The Global Financial Crisis Intensifies
Posted: 27 Jun 2016 09:00 PM PDT
Over the last two trading days, European banks have lost 23 percent of their value. Let that number sink it for a bit. In just a two day stretch, nearly a quarter of the value of all European banks has been wiped out. I warned you that the Brexit vote “could change everything“, and that is precisely what has happened. Meanwhile, the Dow was down another 260 points on Monday as U.S. markets continue to be shaken as well. Overall, approximately three trillion dollars of global stock market wealth has been lost over the last two trading days. That is an all-time record, and any doubt that we have entered a new global financial crisis has now been completely eliminated.
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And now for a little morning clarity: Bilderberg meeting 2016
America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History — by Andrew J. Bacevich
Retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich provides a searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades.
From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country’s most respected voices on foreign affairs, offers an incisive critical history of this ongoing military enterprise—now more than thirty years old and with no end in sight.
During the 1980s, Bacevich argues, a great transition occurred. As the Cold War wound down, the United States initiated a new conflict—a War for the Greater Middle East—that continues to the present day. The long twilight struggle with the Soviet Union had involved only occasional and sporadic fighting. But as this new war unfolded, hostilities became persistent. From the Balkans and East Africa to the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, U.S. forces embarked upon a seemingly endless series of campaigns across the Islamic world. Few achieved anything remotely like conclusive success. Instead, actions undertaken with expectations of promoting peace and stability produced just the opposite. As a consequence, phrases like “permanent war” and “open-ended war” have become part of everyday discourse.
Connecting the dots in a way no other historian has done before, Bacevich weaves a compelling narrative out of episodes as varied as the Beirut bombing of 1983, the Mogadishu firefight of 1993, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the rise of ISIS in the present decade. Understanding what America’s costly military exertions have wrought requires seeing these seemingly discrete events as parts of a single war. It also requires identifying the errors of judgment made by political leaders in both parties and by senior military officers who share responsibility for what has become a monumental march to folly. This Bacevich unflinchingly does.
A twenty-year army veteran who served in Vietnam, Andrew J. Bacevich brings the full weight of his expertise to this vitally important subject. America’s War for the Greater Middle East is a bracing after-action report from the front lines of history. It will fundamentally change the way we view America’s engagement in the world’s most volatile region.
Praise for America’s War for the Greater Middle East
“Bacevich is thought-provoking, profane and fearless. . . . [His] call for Americans to rethink their nation’s militarized approach to the Middle East is incisive, urgent and essential.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Bacevich’s magnum opus . . . a deft and rhythmic polemic aimed at America’s failures in the Middle East from the end of Jimmy Carter’s presidency to the present.”—Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal
“A critical review of American policy and military involvement . . . Those familiar with Bacevich’s work will recognize the clarity of expression, the devastating directness and the coruscating wit that characterize the writing of one of the most articulate and incisive living critics of American foreign policy.”—The Washington Post
“[A] monumental new work.”—The Huffington Post
“An unparalleled historical tour de force certain to affect the formation of future U.S. foreign policy.”—Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)
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Collusion of US and Western Industrialist with the Nazis WWII
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Newly released documents expose more explicitly the details of the IBM pivotal role in the Holocaust- all six phases:
identification, expulsion from society, confiscation ghettoization,deportation and even extermination.
Moreover, the documents portray with crystal clear clarity the personal involvement am micromanagement of IBM president
Thomas Watson in the company co-planning and co- organizing of Hitler’s campiagn to destroy the Jews.
IBM 12 years alliance with the Third Reich was firt revealed in the book IBM and the Holocause written by E. Black.
The new expanded edition contains 32 pages of never before published internal IBM correspondence,
State Department and Justice Department momos, and concentration camp documents that graphically
chronicle IBM’s actions and what they knew during the 12 years of Hitler’s regime.
Among the newly released documents and archival materials are secrete correspondence setting up the Dutch subsidiary of IBM to work in tandem with the Nazis,
company President Thomas Watson ‘s personal approval for the 1939 release of the special IBM alphabetizing machines to help organize
the rape in Poland and the deportation of Polish Jews, as well as the IBM Concentration Camp Codes including IBM’s code for death by Gas Chamber.
Among the newly published photos of the punch card is the one developed for the statistician who reported directly to Himmler and Eichmann.
The significance of this document requires context:
Punch cards, also called Holerith cards, after IBM founder Herman Hollerith, were the forerunner of the computers that IBM is famous for today.
These cards stored information in holes punched in the row and columns . which then they were “read” by a tabulating machine.
The system worked like a player piano- but this one was devoted to the devil’s music.
First designed to tack people and organize a census, the Hollerith system was later adapted to any tabulation or information task.
IBM’s exclusive punch card technology and its global monopoly of information technology to organizer ,systematize and accelerate Hitler’s
anti-Jewish program step by step facilitating the tightening noose IBM headquarter in New York and later through subsidiaries in Germany
known as Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesseltschaft ( DEHOMAG) in Poland ,Holland ,France and Switzerland, as well as other European countries.
Among the punch cards published are two fro the SS one for the SS Rassenamt or Race Office ,which specialized in racial selections
and coordinated with many other Reich’s offices. Another cared was custom crafted by IBM for Richard Korherr, a top Nazi statistician and expert in
Jewish demographics who reported directly to Himmler and who also worked with Adolf Eichmann.
All cares show bear the proud indicia of IMB”s German subsidiary DEHOMAG.
Since 1937. with a war looming in the horizon, Hitler bestowed a special ward- created specifically fo the occasion-
to honor the service by foreigner to the the Third Reich. Watson accepted it, but he returned the medal years later in June 1940,
as a reaction to public outrage about the medal during the bombing of Paris.
The return of this medal has been used by IBM apologists to show Watson had second though about his alliance with the Reich.
Yet, newly released copy of a subsequent letter dated June 10, 1941, drafted in the IBM office confirm that IBM PERSONALLY DIRECTED the activities of the Dutch subsidiary
set up in Holland to identify and liquidate the Jews of Holland.
Hence while the medal was returned as a public relation maneuver, the company actually quietly expanded its rol in Hitler’s Holocaust.
Similar subsidiaries sometimes named as a variant of Watson Business Machines were set up in Poland ,Vichy France, and elsewhere on the Continent in cadence with the Nazi takeover of Europe.