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A few interesting factoids: [Israel]
Date: 5/26/03 10:39:07 AM Central Daylight Time
Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the
world's population, can make claim to the following:
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population
in the world.
Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other
nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people - as well as one
of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of
startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the
largest number of startup companies than any other country in the
world, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind
the US.
Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number
of NASDAQ listed companies.
Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East.
The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that
of the UK.
With an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s, Israel has the largest fleet
of the aircraft outside of the US.
Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its
immediate neighbors combined.
On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech
start-ups.
Israel has the largest raptor migration in the world, with hundreds of
thousands of African birds of prey crossing as they fan out into Asia.
Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees -
ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and
Holland - and 12 percent hold advanced degrees.
*Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
*In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at
risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel.
When Gold Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she
became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
When the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli
rescue teams were on the scene within a day - and saved three victims
from the rubble.
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship - and the highest
rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
*Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing
nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious
freedom, and economic opportunity.
*Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process,
an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's
most impenetrable flight security. U.S. officials now look to Israel for
advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
Israel's Maccabi basketball team won the European championships
in 2001.
Israeli tennis player Anna Smashnova is the 15th ranked female
player in the world.
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers was produced by Haim Saban, an
Israeli whose family fled persecution in Egypt.
*In 1991, during the Gulf War, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
played a concert wearing gas masks as scud missiles fired by
Saddam Hussein fell on Tel Aviv.
Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
*Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century
with a net gain in its number of trees.
Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
Israel has two official languages: Hebrew and Arabic.
Medicine
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring
proper administration of medications, thus removing human error
from medical treatment.
Every year in U.S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
Yeah and so the USA ranks 64 in infant mortality after the former, Chowchesque's Rumaniana. And in this
state Governor (Talaban) Patakiargued the city already gets more money than most districts nationwide, and that the
state constitution requires only that children get a "minimally adequate" education. He thinks an 8th. grade education is
Israel's Givun imaging developed the first ingestible video camera,
so small it fits inside a pill. Used the view the small intestine from the
inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive
disorders.
Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the
heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among
those with congestive heart failure. The new device is synchronized
with the heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system
of sensors.
Technology
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has
the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from
the Silicon Valley).
In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and
agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to
minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.
Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers
per capita.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in
the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S.,
over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of
its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first
in this category as well.
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its
largest development center in Israel.
Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by
Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US
in Israel.
The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996
by four young Israelis.
A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device,
produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue
light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct - all without damaging
surroundings skin or tissue.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale
solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in
southern California's Mojave desert.
The first PC anti-virus software was developed in Israel in 1979
"Very interesting and rather impressive. I'm not happy with how they are handling their problems with the Palestinians.
Both sides are acting deplorably. Do you agree? , S. Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:06:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Israeli Factoids Jun 2003 http://www.thegiganticheartlessmultinationalcorporation.com/id578.htm
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana (1863-1952) - American philosopher and poet
"The world is too dangerous to live in – not
because of the people who do evil, but because
of the people who sit and let it happen."
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- American (German-born) physicist
Jewish Settlers Seize a Palestinian Home in Jerusalem, and Erect a New Settlement
Jewish Settlers Seize a Palestinian Home in Jerusalem, and Erect a NewSettlement [ Post 667085 ]
Category: News & Opinion Topic: Crime & Corruption Synopsis: Source: International Press Center Published: June 6, 2003 Author: n/a For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use.
Jewish Settlers Seize a Palestinian Home in Jerusalem, and Erect a New Settlement (Israeli minister, Bini Ayalon and Lieberman, headed a mob of Jewish settlers attacked Wednesday a house owned by Palestinian civilian Rashad Maqdisyya, and occupied his house after banishing his family, Palestine News Agency (WAFA).)
EAST JERUSALEM, Palestine, June 4, 2003, (IPC+ WAFA)-- Armed Jewish settlers, headed by two Israeli extremist ministers, seized Wednesday a home owned by a Palestinian family in the occupied East Jerusalem.
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Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 07:23:42 EDT
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Onderw: [Fwd: Zen Judaism]
Datum: 21-6-2003 11:49:00 W. Europe Daylight Time
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Aan: G
N. D. wrote:
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single oy.
If you wish to know The Way, don't ask for directions.
Argue.
Take only what is given. Own nothing but your robes and an alms bowl.
Unless, of course, you have the closet space.
Let your mind be as a floating cloud. Let your stillness be as the wooded glen.
And sit up straight. You'll never meet the Budhha with posture like that.
There is no escaping karma. In a previous life, you never called, you never wrote,
you never visited. And whose fault was that?
Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story.
Do not let children play contact sports like football. These only lead to injuries and
instill a violent, war-like nature. Encourage your child to play peaceful games, like "sports doctor."
To practice Zen and the art of Jewish motorcycle maintenance, do the following:
get rid of the motorcycle. What were you thinking?
Learn of the pine from the pine. Learn of the bamboo from the bamboo.
Learn of the kugel from the kugel.
*Be aware of your body. Be aware of your perceptions.Keep in mind that not every physical sensation is a symptom of a terminal illness.
If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?
Those who know do not kibbitz. Those who kibbitz do not know.
*Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Forget this and attaining
Enlightenment will be the least of your problems.
*Do not kvetch. Be a kvetch. Become one with your whining.
(The Tao pronounced Dow.)
The Tao has no expectations. The Tao demands nothing of others. The Tao does not speak. The Tao does not blame. The Tao does not take sides. The Tao is not Jewish.
*Whenever you feel anger, you should say, "May I be free of this anger!"
This rarely works, but talking to yourself in public will encourage others to leave
you alone.
*Drink tea and nourish life. With the first sip, joy. With the second, satisfaction.
With the third, Danish.
*The Buddha taught that one should practice loving kindness to all sentient beings.
Still, would it kill you to find a nice sentient being who happens to be Jewish?
*Enter into your inner self and behold the eye of the soul. Gaze upon your original
face before you were even born. Shocked? Remember, this was before the nose job.
Be patient and achieve all things. Be impatient and achieve all things faster.
*In nature, there is no good or bad, better or worse. The wind may blow or not.
The flowering branch grows long or short. Do not judge or prefer.
Ask only, "Is it good for the Jews?"
*To Find the Buddha, look within. Deep inside your are ten thousand flowers.
Each flower blossoms ten thousand times. Each blossom has ten thousand petals.
You might want to see a specialist.
*Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
*Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have?
Bupkes.
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"The former German Minister of Technology has estimated
that up to $15 billion of insider trading occurred before 9/11.
Still unknown stock traders knew what airlines would be
hijacked as well as what corporations would be hardest hit
by their targets and placed billions in short selling puts on those companies. They also bought heavily in US. Treasury bonds, gold and oil futures which rose in value after the event as could have been expected if the attacks were known about.
DeutscheBank in Germany had the most connections to insider trading including placing the short selling of puts on United and American Airlines used by the hijackers and re-insurance groups covering the Trade Center.
DeutscheBank is still keeping their anonymous investors
names secret, through special rules called portage.
In fact our government investigation has not even asked them for this information.
Their bank in Hamburg held three of the named hijackers bank accounts.
One of DeutscheBank's senior investment agents was convicted of money laundering and arms trading for
Pakistani and Egyptians just weeks before 9/11.
Their global private banking chief resigned on Sept. 12.
The German bank probably has no worries about being investigated by the SEC.
They hired away its chief of enforcement and investigation only 20 days after the attacks.
They don't have much to worry from the congressional
joint committee either; the former head of the banking
division that handled the short selling puts was Buzzy
Krongard.
He's now the number three man in the CIA, appointed by George Bush, president..."
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Second guessing 
as American as You
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Even In The Ruins, Race Matters
Why close the libraries & there programs for inner-city kids, to balance the budget?
Or enact more Nazi like Eugenics Ghost of Rockefeller policies, getting even with protesters largely from public schools & Colleges... for sure dude...
Question No. 95
- In September the Securities and Exchange Commission initiated an inquiry to establish who benefited from the unusually high numbers of put options purchased prior to September 11 for shares in companies whose stock prices subsequently plummeted,on the supposition that whoever was behind the hijacking was also behind most of the purchases of these put options. Why has this inquiry stalled?
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We know this group as flag defacing flag burning nut balls !!
BUT what if it is true?
"Thanks to the September 11 A “Reichstag fire”, the state terrorists of
the U.S. military and government can now affect public postures of patriotic
defense. Immediately after9-11 they began speaking of America as
“the Homeland”, just as the Nazis spoke of “the Fatherland”. "
Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money!
Take a look for yourself at http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html.
{What did your Presidents Grandfather do during WW2?}
- Adapted from Ramsey Clark's address to the half a million demonstrators at the January 18th National March on Washington to
Stop the War on Iraq organized by International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism).
Thinking 4 your self. Left Over? http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,893062,00.html
I gotta admit its all a bunch of second guessing we will always have room for doubts.
That it was Hitler's favorite there is film on it ????
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ABCNEWS.com :
Auschwitz Survivor Sues Bayer for Nazi Ties
June 1, 2000 - ABCNEWS: Brian Ross investigates the claims of
a recent class-action lawsuit alleging that Bayer collaborated with the
Nazis in conducting medical experiments on concentration-camp prisoners.
Company names appearing in this article are:
Bayer AG
ABCNEWS.com : Former Slave Laborers Want Compensation
By Terence Nelan
ABC News.com: Special Report: The Profits of Plunder
By Alissa Kaplan - June 2, 1998
Details Emerge on WWII Assets' Fate
ABCNEWS.com : Table: Companies, Allegations, Responses
This table lists the major German firms accused of wrongdoing, the
allegations against them and what the companies have to say in their
defense.
Company names appearing in this article are:
AEG
BASF
BMW
Daimler-Benz
Degussa
Deutsche Bank
Dresdner Bank
Ford
General Motors
Hoechst
Krupp
Siemens
Volkswagen
ABCNEWS.com : Slave Labor Suits on Tricky Legal Ground
By Terence Nelan
ABCNEWS.com : Germany's Settlement Plan
By Terence Nelan
Company names appearing in this article are:
BASF
BMW
Daimler-Benz
Hoechst
Siemens
ABCNEWS.com : Jewish Officials on Suits' Historical Legacy
By Terence Nelan
BBC News by order of most recent date:
BBC NEWS | Business | Bertelsmann admits Nazi past
German book publishing giant admits it lied about its Nazi past, that it made big
profits from the Third Reich and used Jewish slave labour.
Tuesday, 8 October, 2002
BBC NEWS | Business | Siemens retreats over Nazi name
The German firm tells BBC News Online it is dropping plans to trademark a word very
close to the name of the poison gas used by the Nazis.
Thursday, 5 September, 2002
BBC NEWS | UK | Fury over Nazi gas sports shoe name
Sportswear firm Umbro apologises after naming a trainer Zyklon - the same name as the
deadly gas used in Nazi concentration camps.
Thursday, 29 August, 2002
BBC News | BUSINESS | IG Farben to be dissolved
Germany's IG Farben, which made the poison gas used in Nazi death camps, will
be wound up by 2003, 50 years after going into liquidation.
Monday, 17 September, 2001
BBC News | EUROPE | Swiss bank exploited Nazi slaves
One of the world's biggest banks, UBS, admits for the first time that it exploited Nazi slave
labourers during World War II.
Monday, 7 August, 2000
BBC News | Europe | Fund for Nazi slave labourers
A German company, IG Farben, which used slave labourers in Nazi concentration
camps has agreed to pay compensation to Holocaust survivors.
Wednesday, 18 August, 1999
BBC News | Europe | German Bayer company named in Nazi lawsuit
A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps of the Second World War has accused
the German pharmaceutical conglomorate, Bayer AG of conspiring with the Nazis to
conduct human medical experiments for profit.
Thursday, 18 February, 1999
BBC News | Europe | Volkswagen joins Holocaust fund
Compensation talks between German companies and Holocaust survivors are
boosted as Volkswagen joins a special fund.
Sunday, 14 February, 1999
BBC News | Europe | Car giant joins Holocaust fund
The german car firm, Volkswagen, has confirmed that it will take part in a fund
to compensate victims of the Nazi Holocaust in the Second World War.
Saturday, 13 February, 1999
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Boston.com | Boston Globe Online | Nation | The Secret History of World War II
The Boston Globe reexamines the history of World War II in light of the release
of millions of previously classified documents.
PART VII: CLOAKED BUSINESS
How Allied companies covered their deals with Axis
Blatent Propaganda Alert!!ED.
The Detroit Jewish News - "Return Unto Zion"
by Yosef Cohen
The Holocaust did not end with Hitler's ovens, but continues in a new form
appearing on the buses of Israel's cities, at a wedding, a holiday or Sabbath
festivity, and many other places throughout Israel in the form of terrorist
suicide mass murderers...
Friday, 25 April, 2003
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Hannibal Courier-Post - Surviving Mengele twin alleges Bayer collaborated
in Nazi experiments Friday, February 19, 1999 - Surviving Mengele twin
alleges Bayer collaborated in Nazi experiments
Company names appearing in this article are:
Bayer AG
The Jewish Press by order of most recent date:
The Jewish Press - "Daring To Tell The Truth"
by Herb Denenberg
I have become addicted to The Jewish Press because I find it almost
alone in telling it like it is among Jewish publications and Jewish
organizations. Anyone reading the April 11, 2003 edition will be convinced
that the Jewish establishment is asleep or afraid, and is unable to act in
the face of a worldwide explosion of anti-Semitism and the emergence of
an environment fraught with danger for Israel and for Jews everywhere.
Thursday, 01 May, 2003
Company names appearing in this article are:
Ford Motor Company
The Jewish Press - "The Nazism Of Abu Mazen"
by Chuck Morse Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, is now the prime
minister-designate of the Palestinian Authority. The so-called moderate
is being touted as the future leader of a new potential Palestinian state
that is scheduled to be carved out of Israel and ethnically cleansed of its Jews.
Monday, 21 April, 2003
The Jewish Press - "Time To Leave The 1920's Behind Us"
by Yosef Cohen
The Jewish people were silent during the early 1920's when anti-Semitism
was spawned by Henry Ford in his Dearborn Independent newspaper.
Ford's articles inspired a young Adolf Hitler and helped pave the road to
the Holocaust. A compilation of Ford's articles was later published in
book form, and to this day The International Jew - The World's Foremost
Problem continues to inculcate hatred of Jews.
Friday, 11 April, 2003
Archive 041103 Company names appearing in this article are:
Ford Motor Company
Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/04/2002 | How Henry Ford hoped to
mass-produce hatred of Jews
By Carlin Romano, Inquirer Book Critic - Thursday, April 04, 2002
How Henry Ford hoped to mass-produce hatred of Jews Neil Baldwin,
who wrote about the auto magnate's decades of deep anti-Semitism...
Company names appearing in this article are:
Ford Motor Company
Tikkun Magazine - "The Great Divide"
By Charles Patterson, Ph.D.
Where does all the war, racism, genocide, terrorism, violence, and
cruelty so endemic to human civilization come from? Why do humans
exploit and massacre each other so regularly? . .
May / June 2003 Company names appearing in this excerpt are:
Ford Motor Company
Washingtonpost.com: Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration
By Michael Dobbs Washington Post Staff Writer -
Monday, November 30, 1998; Page A01
Company names appearing in this article are:
Ford Motor Company General Motors Corporation
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European Colonialism Redux
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African Colonialism is Alive and Well
Just in case you thought colonialism had come to an end in Africa, think again, it has simply changed its name. In a sense the leopard has changed its spots Instead of being ruled by the former colonial powers Africa is now effectively owned and controlled by the Transnational corperations; in much the same way that the Dutch East India company once owned and controlled a large part of the British Empires dominion in India.
A few years ago South Africa’s Anglo American corporation owned or effectively controlled over 80% of the companies on the Joburg stock exchange. Even before the transition to majority rule Anglo American played a key role in South Africa’s affairs. Today its role is even more pronounced.
South Africa’s premier Thabo Mbeki may be black and talk about ‘his people’ but underneath it all he is very much an Anglo American man. During my time in South Africa he was a frequent visitor to Anglo’s operations head Bobby Godsell’s residence in Hyde Park, Joburg.The two would often go off on fishing trips together; in effect Mbeki was being groomed for his current position.
Mandela on the other hand was simply a puppet figure. I knew an Indian there who in turn knew two of Mandela’s senior advisor’s; according to him they described Mandela as a ‘dom kop’, literally a thick head who could be easily manipulated and beguiled.
He was simply used to pave the way for someone who would obediently do the Transnationals bidding, a company man, likeThabo Mbeki. Elsewhere in Africa the fundamentals are the same even though the names, personalities and circumstances may differ somewhat, outwardly at least. Effectively the Transnationals rule through corrupt despots, brutal but easily beguiled tyrants or through the discrete manipulation of humanitarian tragedy’s and conflicts.
One such is the ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Angola.
The current crisis has its origins over thirty years ago when Angola was still a Portugese colony. At the forefront of the fight to rid Angola of its colonial rulers were two movements, Unita and the MPLA. Whilst Jonas Savimbi’s Unita was backed by Western powers the MPLA was armed and equipped by the former Soviet Union; although both were fighting the Portugese colonials they remained at odds with each other. Thirty years on and nothing has changed. UNITA and the MPLA government are still at odds and currently engaged in their third civil war in as many decades. Hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes as of December 1998 there were an estimated 600,000 internally displaced people in Angola and at the last count that figure had swollen to 1.7 million.
Indeed the figures themselves make extremely sombre reading;1/3 of all children in Angola die before the age of 5.Every day around 200 people die of starvation. Angola now has the lowest life expectancy in the world at around 42.
There is however one critical difference to the situation, with the demise of the former Soviet Union there is no longer any super power involvement. Instead the Transnationals have stepped into the fray. In spite of the ongoing horrors and humanitarian tragedy Angola itself is phenomenally rich in mineral deposits, particularly oil and diamonds.
And it is this that largely accounts for the involvement of the Transnational corporations.
On the one hand UNITA supplies diamonds to De Beers which in turn controls over 80% of the world’s diamond market. Of course De Beers says it will not buy any diamonds from UNITA but on the diamond market there is no way that De Beers would know where the diamonds it buys come from with any certainty. In turn UNITA uses the money from its diamond sales for weapons purchases and such like.
On the other hand Angola has substantial oil reserves, particularly offshore and in the northern Cabinda province, both of which are firmly in the hands of the ruling MPLA. Security around the oil installations is further boosted by the oil companies themselves which employ the likes of London based Sandline Security as ‘security consultants’,in plain language hired guns.
Mobil, Elf, Shell, Texaco and Chevron are amongst a few of the major oil companies actively engaged in operations in Angola; in effect they are helping to finance the MPLA’s war efforts.
"We always take losses, then recover," one Angolan General told the BBC last year.. "If we lose a tank we pick up the phone and order another one."
Elsewhere in Africa a similar situation prevails.
Earlier last year oil companies in Niger delta were accused of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses. "The oil companies can’t pretend they don’t know what is happening around them," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, an international monitoring group based in New York.
In one particular incident in January 1999, soldiers using Chevron boats and Chevron helicopters attacked villages in two small communities in Delta State, killing villagers and burning most of the villages to the ground.
A Human Rights Watch report describes numerous such incidents where Nigerian security forces have beaten, detained or even killed those involved in protests over
oil company activity or called for compensation for environmental damage.
So just remember that when you next fill up at your local petrol station; the petrol you are buying has already been paid for, literally with ‘blood money.’ However it is not simply the Transnational Corporations that have embarked on policies that are little short of imperialistic. Zimbabwe, for example, now has around 11,000 troops stationed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to John Makumbe, a political scientist at the University of Zimbabwe and
a fierce critic of the government, "Zimbabwe seems intent on raiding the Congo and making it an economic colony."
According to him: "It won’t be Zimbabwe as a nation that benefits. Instead a number
of individuals in the political elite will enrich themselves."
Indeed Zimbabwe’s army has now embarked on a joint business venture with the Congolese army to buy and sell diamonds and gold. However Zimbabwe’s involvement in the war in the Congo is deeply unpopular at home, not least because
of mounting domestic problems; inflation stands at 70%, health services are in chaos. Finally, it should be noted that Ian Smith one time premier of the rebel state Rhodesia, recently addressed students at the University of Zimbabwe.
Significantly prehaps, he was removed from power in a deal arranged by Illuminati front men Lord Carrington and Henry Kissinger. Now in his eighties and a little frail he received a standing ovation from a packed hall of largely black students.
As journalist Russell Miller pointed out it is now not unusual to hear what would have once been unthinkable from many blacks in Zimbabwe: namely that life was actually better under Ian Smith than Zimbabwe’s present rulers.
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Power, Guns and Minerals in Southern Africa.
Richard Stone
In Southern Africa there is an area the size of a small country which is marked on maps as ‘Diamond mining area access forbidden’. The area itself is somewhat bigger than Wales and anybody who enters this barren area is intercepted by helicopters or four wheeled drive vehicles. In effect this small country is run by the
giant diamond mining conglomerate, De Beers, which in turn is part of South African mega-corperation, Anglo American. Valued at 21 billion dollars, De Beers is only
part of Anglo American’s mining interests.
As time has rolled by and the regimes have changed in South Africa and Namibia, the regime in this diamond mining area has remained the same -- total control by
De Beers, for generation after generation.
Of course this all poses the question, what is the real governing force in southern Africa, politics or big business?
It is openly admitted that Anglo American controls over 80% of the South African economy, which is vastly bigger than all the other economies in the region.
Thus Botswana, a country with a small population but a relatively prosperous one is also totally dependent on De Beers Botswana.
It is difficult to overestimate the power of this company; they negotiate with nations,
in fact one of the worlds biggest. For most of this century they had an agreement with Russia whereby they bought all of Russia’s uncut diamonds. Naturally this deal had
to be renegotiated with the fall of communism, accordingly it was and the deal still holds. Thus De Beers has a monopoly over the world’s diamond industry.
However De Beers is still only a part of the the aforementioned and much bigger Anglo American, which controls most of the South African economy and through it the southern African economic zone.
Since its inception, generations ago, Anglo American has been controlled by one family, the Oppenheimers. A jewish family originating from eastern Europe, they
were allegedly sponsored in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the Rothschilds banking and finance group; likewise the house of Rothschild itself is controlled by one family, the Rothschilds themselves.
Can we really believe that a company with such vast wealth and power as Anglo American is just a blind giant handing over taxes to the government? The truth is probably the other way around; namely that the countries of the region are the blind men being ‘guided’ forward by this mega corporation.
Recently De Beers operations in Angola were threatened when Unita took over certain diamond mines and began selling off a billion dollars worth of uncut diamonds. De Beers took immediate action hiring the deceptively named Executive Outcomes.
In plain language Executive Outcomes is a mercenary army consisting largely of ex-South African,Portuguese and Israeli soldiers.
In short order they can put 3,000 men in the field complete with tanks, artillery, large and small helicopters and even MIG jet fighters. Within eighteen months they had brought Unita to its knees, something nobody else had been able to do for over twenty years. Unita sued for peace and now they, like everybody else, kowtow to the mining companies.
Executive Outcomes chief executive officer offers ‘the speedy resolution of a conflict without partiality’. They have operated elsewhere in Africa, in Uganda, Sudan and Sierra Leone and further afield in Indonesia and Columbia..
Recently it was reported that the company had been disbanded. Perhaps that is so but it seems more likely that this is just a juggling of corporate names and the organisation remains essentially the same.
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