------ Forwarded Message > From: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com> > Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:05:47 EDT > To: Robert Millegan <ramille...@aol.com> > Cc: <ema...@aol.com>, <j...@aol.com>, <jim6...@cwnet.com>, > <christian.r...@gmail.com> > Subject: Economic Hitman Henry the K / the Rothschilds and China / > GoldmanSachs and Obama >
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-kissinger11-2010apr11,0,3 > 413800.story > > A newly declassified document has added to long-standing questions about > whether Henry Kissinger, while secretary of State, halted a U.S. plan to curb > a secret program of international assassinations by South American dictators. > > The document, a set of instructions cabled from Kissinger to his top Latin > American deputy, ended efforts by U.S. diplomats to warn the governments of > Chile, Uruguay and Argentina against involvement in the covert plan known as > Operation Condor, according to Peter Kornbluh, an analyst with the National > Security Archive, a private research organization that uncovered the document > and made it public Saturday. > > In the cable, dated Sept. 16, 1976, Kissinger rejected delivering a proposed > warning to the government of Uruguay about Condor operations and ordered that > "no further action be taken on this matter" by the State Department. ... "It > gave a green light to these dictators [to go] ahead with their terrorist > operations," said Jeremi Suri, author of a 2007 book on Kissinger. "It hurt > the reputation of the U.S. with the people of the region, who saw Washington > as complicit in the years of repression." > > Five days after Kissinger's message, Chilean exile Orlando Letelier and an > American colleague were killed in Washington's Embassy Row in a car bombing > later tied to Chilean secret police working through the Condor network. The > killings are considered one of the most brazen acts of terrorism ever carried > out in the capital. > > "The document confirms that it's Kissinger's complete responsibility for > having rescinded a cease-and-desist order to Condor killers," said Kornbluh, > author of a book on Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. > > > http://www.zeenews.com/news611654.html > > Kissinger, 86, regarded widely as Washington's trouble shooter arrived in > Beijing last weekend after discharged from a hospital in Seoul > <http://www.zeenews.com/news611654.html#> where he underwent treatment for a > stomach ailment. > > During his visit, coinciding with the tour > <http://www.zeenews.com/news611654.html#> of British Foreign Secretary David > Miliband, he met Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang and discussed with him the > strains in the bilateral relations. > > Li told Kissinger that he hoped America would safeguard the stable growth of > China-US ties. "The severe disturbance that recently occurred in bilateral > relations is not in accordance with the interests of both countries," Li said. > > Li praised the contribution made by Kissinger to advancing the China-US > cooperation, hoping he would continue his efforts for the growth of bilateral > relations, the report said. > > > http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/08-0 > > Today, [Robert] Rubin spends the bulk of his time in an office at the Council > on Foreign Relations ... talking about China and Russia with Henry Kissinger > ... > > And in December, he wrote a lengthy article for Newsweek in which he urged > Washington not to give up on the global economy -- and offered a few personal > thoughts that may presage his Capitol Hill testimony. Very few global > prognosticators, he wrote, foresaw the possibility of a "megacrisis." > > "I regret that I, too, didn't see the potential for such extreme conditions > despite my many years involved in financial matters and my concern for market > excesses," Rubin wrote. > > Behind the scenes, Rubin still wields enormous influence in Barack Obama's > Washington, chatting regularly with a legion of former employees who dominate > the ranks of the young administration's policy team. He speaks regularly to > Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who once worked for Rubin at Treasury. Many > of the basic assumptions underlying the president's approach to the economy > can be traced to former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin¹s ideas, say former > colleagues. > > > > http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rio-tinto-hires-henry-kissinger-as-china-advi > sor-2010-03-31 > > SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Rio Tinto Plc has taken on former U.S. secretary of > state Henry Kissinger as an advisor to help negotiate with China following a > guilty verdict for former Rio Tinto employee Stern Hu, the Sydney Morning > Herald reported Wednesday. > > Kissinger, a controversial figure who has won the Nobel peace prize, will help > the company rebuild its relationship with China after the sentences for Hu and > three colleagues on charges of bribery and stealing commercial secrets, the > Herald said. >> >>> >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_Group >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_Group> >>> >>> >>> On July 5, 2009, four Rio Tinto employees, including one Australian >>> citizen, were arrested in Shanghai for corruption and espionage. One of >>> the arrested, Australian citizen Stern Hu >>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Hu> , was suspected of stealing Chinese >>> state secrets for foreign countries and was detained on criminal charges," >>> according to a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry > > A Rio Tinto spokesman declined to comment on the article. > > Rio's relationship with China suffered last year after the miner backed out of > a US$19.5 billion deal with Rio Tinto's largest shareholder Aluminum Corp. of > China, known as Chinalco, that would have allowed it to boost its stake in the > miner as well as purchasing key stakes in major Rio Tinto operations. > > ------------------------- > > Rothschild¹s deep connections to Rio Tinto > <http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/rothschilds-deep-connections-to-rio > -tinto/> > > <http://seeker401.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/a69.jpg> > > http://www.pamil-visions.net/rio-tinto-and-chinas-hunger-for-resources/213276/ > <http://www.pamil-visions.net/rio-tinto-and-chinas-hunger-for-resources/213276 > /> > > Rio Tinto is interesting on more than one level. Outside today¹s announcement > <http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EJNL3G2.htm> that an > Australian executive and three Chinese officials working with the mining > conglomerate plead guilty to accepting bribes, there are the Chinalco deal, > and other oddities afoot. Some of the investors in Rio Tinto --besides the new > China connection, that is-- have their fingers in just about every natural > resource pit there is. > > Rio Tinto is currently the 4th largest mining conglomerate in the world. So, > this deal between China and the UK/Australian company may not seem like big > news, but looking just a degree or two left and right of the capital influx > promised Rio Tinto by Chinalco <http://www.chinalco.com/> (now number one by > the way), it is interesting to watch the movers and shakers in resource > commodities in the region and worldwide. > The Old World Charm of Natural Resources > Forget the deal, or lack of a deal as Goldman Sachs predicts in devaluing Rio > Tinto, and consider who is behind the company founded on the river of the same > name in Spain over a Century ago. If I brought up the Rothschild name again, > would it surprise you? The Rothschild family took over control of the company > way back in 1880, but the interesting part of this story fast forwards us to > today. Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and other members of the > world¹s most famous banking family, still hold significant stakes in one of > the old family businesses. A brief bit of research reveals Jacob Rothschild > has at least two subsidiaries of his own wealth portfolio vested in Rio Tinto > (among the many, many others). > > Rothschild¹s RIT Capital Partners held £12.5 million > <http://www.ritcap.co.uk/download/Half_Yearly_Report_Sept_09.pdf> of Rio > Tinto in September. But more interestingly, Rothschild¹s St. James Place > Capital owned 3 percent > <http://www.sjp.co.uk/gear/library/documents/factsheets/fact_intl_SJPI_fe.pdf; > jsessionid=B0FCRM323FXRUCRMLIHSFEY> of Rio Tinto at the beginning of this > year. This may not seem all that interesting on face value, but consider the > myriad of Rothschild holdings and subsidiaries. While not all that dramatic by > themselves, other Rothschild investments, which by the way are as difficult to > find out as hen¹s teeth, reveal some interesting associations. > Waking Up With the Fleas > Maybe the most interesting of these, one which also revolves around mining and > the far East, is the IPO of the world¹s largest aluminum conglomerate United > Company RUSAL. The world¹s biggest aluminum company recently went public on > the Hong Kong Exchange with none other than Nathaniel Rothschild as one of the > cornerstone investors. Among the others: Asia¹s richest man Li Ka-shing, > Libya¹s sovereign wealth fund, U.S. hedge fund Paulson & Co. The one I found > most curious was Libya¹s Sovereign Wealth Fund > <http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/libya-sovereign-wealth/574> ? Now > Qaddafi is wheeling and dealing with the big boys. My Mama always used to say; > ³If you go to bed with the dogs, you wake up with the fleas.² Do they have > fleas in Libya? > Ethics and the Lack Thereof > Just to further confuse and baffle my readers I thought I would throw in Rio > Tinto¹s report via Goldman Sachs JB Were at the Brisbane Resources Conference > <http://www.riotinto.com/documents/Strachan_GSJBWere_presentation_Brisbane_1Ju > n07.pdf> in 2007. Goldman seems to be playing the ³valuing / devaluing² game > again with regard to the Rio Tinto China deal first up > <http://economy-news.co.uk/rio-tinto-10201003.html> and then down > <http://www.streetinsider.com/Downgrades/Goldman+Sachs+Downgrades+Rio+Tinto+pl > c+(RTP)+to+Sell+/4495577.html> . I will leave the speculation to the reader on > this one, but the latest news of a marriage of a Chinese mining monstrosity > in bed with Rio Tinto? Maybe a marriage made in heaven if you consider one of > Rio Tinto¹s largest stakeholders > <http://www.northwoodswild.org/component/content/article/57-sulfide-and-uraniu > m-mining-news/136-large-rio-tinto-shareholder-divests-on-ethical-grounds> , > Norway¹s $375 billion Government Pension Fund-Global -divested themselves on > ethical grounds in 2008. Evidently, the Norwegians couldn't stomach Rio > Tinto¹s environmental practices. > > As for the Chinese infusion of cash into the company, if Goldman Sachs keeps > playing volleyball with Rio Tinto prices, Chinalco¹s nearly $20 billion dollar > stake could turn into half that overnight with the right news ... I wonder > who would suddenly step in and buy Rio Tinto stock cheap if the price fell > after the deal? . > Robust Ethics and Holding Companies > Finally, Rio Tinto has assured the world that they fully intend to abide by > the rules of countries where they have operations. They even came out to > remind us that those naughty people about to do hard time in China for taking > bribes and industrial espionage received a copy of the company¹s code of > conduct. The spokesman virtually assured the rest of us in the world that Rio > Tinto practices what he called > <http://www.smartmoney.com/news/ON/?story=ON-20100322-000046&cid=1244&source=T > heMotleyFool&hpadref=1> ³a robust² ethics policy. It must not have been > robust enough to keep the Norwegians from yanking their nearly one billion in > investment, or to discourage bribe taking in the most recent case. > > These Rio Tinto dealings, and the periphery surrounding them, provide > interesting points of contact for any number of high profile investors. The > Rothschilds (who finding any news story about it rare), John Paulson¹s company > (in with the Rothschilds on the RUSAL IPO), Libya¹s Qaddafi (of all people in > the RUSAL venture), Li Ka-shing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ka-shing> > (the most powerful man in Asia), and who knows who else, maybe even George > Soros behind some holding company, all seem very interested in the metals > business and China. > > Kissinger is well known in China after brokering an historic meeting for U.S. > president Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong in the early 1970s. > > > > http://www.bignews.biz/?id=800509&pg=2&keys=Rothschild-Goldman-Morgan-economy > > ... Goldman probably owes its survival to the fact it has long served as a > front or partner with JP Morgan, meaning the Rothschild empire, just as the JP > Morgan company survived by being a front for the Rothschild family. > > While Morgan has a market cap of over $130 billion, the Rothschild fortune is > estimated to be as high as $200 trillion, not billion. That is more than the > annual budgets of every nation on earth combined. The largest budget by far is > the USA at $3.44 trillion with $11.2 trillion in debt, pocket change to the > Rothschild family. > > If the Rothschilds are the puppet masters of the world, Goldman is their star > puppet, being in the forefront of every major financial catastrophe in recent > history and benefiting each time. > > They secretly backed Obama well before he was a candidate for President and > have been getting dividends on their investment ever since. Both Morgan and > Goldman got billions in bank bailout money from the last Administration, > approved by Congress and approved by Senator Obama. Neither needed or ever > used it. Since becoming President Obama gave billions to bail out AIG and AIG > turned around and paid off billions in debt owed to Morgan and Goldman. > > How do these things happen under the very nose of Congress and federal > regulators? > > Look at the record of where former Goldman executives have settled. Here is > just a partial list and it makes you wonder if Goldman Sachs is controlling > Wall Street or Washington? >> >> >> George Herbert Walker IV - member of the Bush family and current managing >> director at Neuberger Berman. >> >> >> Robert Zoellick - United States Trade Representative (2001-2005), Deputy >> Secretary of State (2005-2006), World Bank President. >> >> >> Henry H. Fowler - 58th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1965-1969). >> Robert Rubin - Former United States Treasury Secretary, ex-Chairman of >> Citigroup. >> Henry Paulson - Former United States Treasury Secretary. >> >> >> Edward Lampert- Hedge Fund Manager of ESL Investments. Brought K-Mart out of >> Bankruptcy in 2003. >> Joshua Bolten - former White House Chief of Staff. >> Michael Cohrs - Head of Global Banking at Deutsche Bank. >> Abby Joseph Cohen - Perma-bull market forecaster formerly of Drexel Burnham >> Lambert. >> Mark Carney - Current Governor of the Bank of Canada. >> Neel Kashkari - Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability. >> John Thain - former Chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch, and former chairman of >> the NYSE. >> etc., etc., etc. > ------ End of Forwarded Message
