Showing posts with label Bankster's Paradise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bankster's Paradise. Show all posts

Sunday, January 4, 2026

Marco Rubio and the Narco-Terrorist Elite | Maureen Tkacik

If you’re a little too online, you likely know that Marco Rubio as a teenager made extra cash working for his late brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia. The business imported and sold exotic animals as a front for moving nearly a half million pounds of cocaine and marijuana.
 
» What politician doesn't have a felon relative? «
Marco Rubio, south of the US border commonly known as "El Gusano" and "Narco Rubio." 

[...] Rubio has sworn he knew nothing about the drugs. He was only 16. (Admittedly, one of Cicilia's co-defendants had been only 16 when Tabraue had allegedly ordered him to murder his estranged wife to stop her from telling the feds what they'd done with the body of another guy they'd murdered the year earlier.) Not that it matters, of course: What politician doesn't have a felon relative? But for Rubio in particular, the connection seems too incongruous with his long-cultivated squeaky-cleanness. 
 
» Too incongruous with his long-cultivated squeaky-cleanness. «

[...] Today, Marco Rubio is the Trump administration's most formidable liar. When Pam Bondi or Pete Hegseth or Karoline Leavitt or Stephen Miller refers to an anti-genocide protester or a day laborer or a sandwich hurler or a fisherman clinging to the wreckage of a fishing boat that has just been struck by a Hellfire missile as a "terrorist," they come off as pathological. 
 
But Rubio's approval ratings are the highest in the Republican Party, even as he is the architect of what is arguably Trump’s single most cynical policy: the scheme to appoint drug cartel bosses and their cronies atop the governments of every Latin American country, in the name of fighting drug cartels.

In September, Rubio hailed Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa, who leads a country whose homicide rate has risen eightfold since 2016, as an "incredibly willing partner" who "has done more just in the last couple years to take the fight to these narco-terrorists and these threats to the security and stability of Ecuador than any previous administration." Just five months earlier, a damning investigation revealed that Noboa’s family fruit business had trafficked 700 kilos of cocaine to Europe in banana crates between 2020 and 2022. 
 
Rubio has tirelessly promoted the cause of convicted (alas, just-pardoned) drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández. In 2018, Rubio personally and publicly commended Hernández, then president of Honduras, for combating drug traffickers (and supporting Israel), just seven months before his brother was indicted for trafficking 158 tons of cocaine in containers stamped "TH," for Tony Hernández.

 » Marco Rubio is the Trump administration's most formidable liar. «
 
Rubio has raved about the crime-fighting efforts of Salvadoran and Argentine junior strongmen Nayib Bukele and Javier Milei, in spite of the former’s documented alliance with MS-13 and the various Miami cocaine trafficking scandals that enveloped his libertarian political party last fall, as well as both leaders’ slavish devotion to the drug cartels' single favorite mode of money laundering.
 
Rubio has been one of the Beltway’s biggest backers of newly elected Chilean president José Antonio Kast, the son of a literal Nazi war criminal who has spent his entire political career lionizing, whitewashing, and promising a restoration of the brutal reign of Augusto Pinochet, who personally ordered the Chilean army to build a cocaine laboratory, consolidated the narcotics trade inside his terrifying secret police, and then allegedly "disappeared" key conspirators like his secret police chemist Eugenio Berríos.

And for at least a decade, Rubio has lauded, strategized with, and viciously condemned the multitude of criminal investigations into former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, whom some describe as a kind of Kissingerian figure to the former Florida senator. 
 
A 1991 Pentagon analysis described Uribe, whom Rubio depicts as a kind of paradigmatic drug warrior, as one of the 100 most important Colombian narco-terrorists, a close personal friend of Pablo Escobar and a political figure "dedicated to collaboration with the Medellín [drug] cartel at high government levels."

» Álvaro Uribe [on the left, next to Pablo Escobar], whom some describe
as a kind of Kissingerian figure to the former Florida senator. «

That brings us to Rubio’s current campaign of state-sponsored terrorism against Venezuela and fisherman emanating from there, on the pretense that Nicolás Maduro runs something called the "Cartel of the Suns," which has flooded the United States with cheap cocaine. The case that this is anything but a fairy tale is laid out in a 2020 indictment whose insanity I hope to explore soon, but its flimsiness is also underscored by the puny vessels SOCOM has chosen to drone-strike into oblivion.
 
Last week, Berkeley professor emeritus Peter Dale Scott wrote a letter to The New York Times disputing the newspaper's characterization of "a remarkable dissonance" between Trump's simultaneous massacres of subsistence traffickers and pardoning of a convicted trafficker of more than 400 tons of cocaine. Actually, he pointed out, the "contradiction" was markedly unremarkable: "The ill-conceived and deliberately misnamed 'War on Drugs' has been a cover for contradictory CIA involvement with drug​-traffickers for decades." 
 
This is especially true in Venezuela, Scott noted. Customs Service investigators probing a 998-pound cocaine seizure in the country in 1990 discovered the Agency had been operating a joint venture with top military generals to traffic cocaine as a purported means of "infiltrating" Colombian cartels. The venture had been nicknamed "Cartel de los Soles," and the Times itself reported that it had successfully smuggled tons of cocaine into the United States with virtually no accountability until Hugo Chávez imprisoned the general who had spearheaded the cartel and expelled the DEA from Venezuela, at which point it became fashionable to finance industrial sabotage, military coups, and ultimately terror attack projects, under the premise that it was a "narco-state."
 
US officials said was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.
 
[...] Rubio returned to Miami and never left, any misgivings about his ties to a scary narcotics gang apparently negated by his conspicuous political talent. By the time he ran for city commissioner in the late '90s, Jeb Bush was donating to his campaign, as were a number of executives of the Fanjul sugar empire and a collection of eye doctors including (and likely corralled by) the ophthalmologist and onetime political fixer Alan Mendelsohn, who would later host the first fundraiser for Rubio's first presidential campaign exploratory committee. 
 
In one of the more "only in Miami" episodes of recent history, a midsized ship seized by the Coast Guard in the Pacific Ocean in 2001 turned out to have 12 tons of cocaine concealed inside its fuel tank, along with a cursory paper trail that led investigators to a Miami-based Ponzi scheme that was laundering drug cartel proceeds, whose ringleader had in turn funneled millions into Mendelsohn's various foundations and political action committees in a vain attempt to "fix" his legal problems.  
 
But where that scandal took down Rubio's close friend and sometime roommate David Rivera, who was elected to Congress in the 2010 election that sent Liddle Marco to the Senate, he emerged untainted. As one local political consultant told Rubio's biographer, "He was the anointed golden child, even then."
 
»
The cartels are running Mexico. We have to do something. «
  » Colombia is run by a sick man. He's not going to be doing it for very long, it will be an operation by the US. «
» Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again, and if they are, we're going to have
 to knock them down. We'll knock them down. We'll knock the hell out of them.
« 
» We need Greenland. For defence reasons. «
Genocide Ziocon MIGA Don, January 3-4, 2026.
 

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Friday, August 22, 2025

How Opium Trade Fueled the Sassoon Dynasty, the "Rothschilds of the East"

David Sassoon (1792–1864), born into a prominent Jewish family in Baghdad (or possibly Aleppo), traveled to Constantinople to appeal to Sultan Mahmud II, accusing the local governor Dawud Pasha of corruption. When Sassoon's actions became known, Ottoman authorities accused him of conspiracy and betrayal. He was subsequently arrested and threatened with death unless a large ransom was paid. 

David Sassoon (
seated) and his sons Elias David, Albert (Abdallah) 
and Sassoon David, Bombay, around 1855. 
 
Facing death or ruin, Sassoon fled Baghdad in 1829. He reunited with his family in Bushehr, Persia, before resettling in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1832. At the time, Bombay was part of the British Empire's holdings in India, before the British Raj period (1858-1947). The Sassoon family is said to have arrived there penniless, but they were equipped with resilience, high ambitions, unscrupulousness, multilingual skills, and an established extensive network within the Jewish Baghdadi diaspora that stretched from London to Shanghai.
 
In Bombay, David founded David Sassoon & Co. in a modest counting house, and traded in cotton yarn, tea, silk, spices, precious metals—and, critically, opium. Already an extremely profitable enterprise, the opium trade became even more lucrative after the First Opium War (1839-42), when Britain used a series of imposed treaties to open Chinese markets. Sassoon established branches across Asia—including in Calcutta, Hong Kong (1843), Shanghai (1845), Canton, and Yokohama—as well as in major cities in Persia and the UK, placing his sons in charge, similar to how the Rothschilds ran their operation in Europe.
 
 
When patriarch David Sassoon died in 1864, he left his 14 children a fortune of approximately £4 million, roughly equivalent to $3 billion today. His company, David Sassoon & Co., continued to dominate the opium trade, controlling an estimated 70% of the India-to-China market by the 1860s and 1870s. Surpassing rivals like Russell & Company, Jardine Matheson, and Dent & Co., the family's immense profits for decades after his death cemented their status as one of the world's wealthiest and most influential families, earning them the nickname "the Rothschilds of the East." 

Following its initial 1729 anti-opium edict, China saw imports surge from 200 chests annually to 4,500 by 1800. This explosive growth accelerated in the 1830s, reaching 40,000 chests by 1838. The trade only intensified after the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, climbing to 70,000 chests (4,550 metric tons) annually by 1858, approximately equivalent to one year's worth of the total global production of opium between 1995 and 2005.

After David's death, the Sassoon family empire fragmented as his sons Abdallah (later Sir Albert) and Elias David established separate ventures. Elias founded E.D. Sassoon & Co. in 1867, and both branches diversified beyond opium, moving into cotton mills, banking, real estate, and infrastructure projects like the Sassoon Docks in Bombay and the iconic Sassoon House in Shanghai. As treaties phased out the opium trade in the early 20th century, the family’s focus on new industries became critical. David’s granddaughter, Flora (Farha) Sassoon, a daughter of Albert, became a partner and effectively ran the Bombay operations starting in 1894. Under her leadership, profits rose despite regional turmoil, but her brothers, unwilling to accept a woman in charge, removed her after just seven years.

 
While the Sassoons and other prominent figures—including Warren Delano Jr., Thomas Handasyd Perkins, John Perkins Cushing, John Jacob Astor, Robert Bennet Forbes and John Murray Forbes—built family fortunes, dynasties and financial empires on the opium trade, its human cost in China was devastating. The widespread addiction of up to 20 million Chinese destabilized society and drained precious metals from the Middle Kingdom during its “Century of Humiliation.” This economic and political chaos, a direct result of the two Opium Wars (1839–1842 and 1856–1860) and British and American opium trafficking, fueled a chain of disastrous events. The most catastrophic was the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), which resulted in an estimated 20 to 30 million deaths from fighting, famine, and plague. 
 
Opium stockpiled in a warehouse in Patna, 1850s: The Sassoon family's extensive opium trade into China was
directly related to the British East India Company's monopoly on opium production in places like Patna in Bengal.
 
In 1853, David Sassoon gained British citizenship, boldly affirming his allegiance to Queen Victoria in Hebrew and reframing the family's identity as "British-Jewish." His immense success in drug trafficking was accompanied by extensive philanthropy: he commissioned synagogues, schools, orphanages, hospitals, and libraries, dedicating about 0.25% of profits to religious and charitable tzedakah. By the early 20th century, the dynasty began to decline. This was a result of internal rivalries, over-assimilation into the British aristocracy, and poor strategic decisions—such as Victor Sassoon's failure to foresee Imperial Japan's rise when he centralized operations in Shanghai.  

Sir Victor Sassoon (1881-1961), the last of the great merchant princes of the Sassoon dynasty, with
glamorous women (including Marlene Dietrich on the right) during one of his Shanghai parties in 1935. 
 
Yet, today, the Sassoon family's legacy continues through the Sassoon Family Continuation Trust and J. Sassoon Financial Group LLC, led by non-executive chairman David Shlomo Sassoon. This modern entity has diversified away from the family's historical ventures, now managing investments in a range of sectors including composite materials, oil and gas, finance, mining, and food security, focused particularly on the US, Israel, and African markets. Beyond their financial operations, many of the Sassoons maintain a discreet profile and remain "grounded in Jewish heritage." This is exemplified by individuals such as Rabbi Sliman Sassoon, who leads initiatives like the Ohel David Sassoon Institute in Jerusalem, and by the fact that a street there has been named in honor of Flora Sassoon.
 
 
» Bruce Fein, Master Trustee of the Sassoon Family Continuation Trust, unveiled today plans to transfer all Trust's unsurpassed assets valued at over $100 billion to the United States located at present in Switzerland or elsewhere abroad. The Sassoon Family Continuation Trust originated 1495 in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition.  Its longevity and wealth are unrivaled.  The Trust proudly honors and celebrates Orthodox Judaism and is committed to the welfare of the United States and the economic and physical security of Israel. The trust's sole beneficiary is David E. Sassoon, grandson of Eli Nissim Sassoon and executive chairman of J. Sassoon Group, a Washington, DC based private equity and investment banking firm. « 
  
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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Money Creation—Banking’s Best-Kept Secret | Richard A. Werner

In an era when gold was money, people believed it was essential for transactions. But carrying gold was perilous—dangerous even today in cities like London, let alone in the 15th-17th centuries amid bandits on lawless roads. So, people sought safe storage. Professions handling gold, like goldsmiths crafting jewelry for kings, aristocrats, and the wealthy, had secure vaults and private guards. Naturally, individuals deposited their gold with these goldsmiths for safekeeping.
 
» We don't need to lend actual gold. «
"The Moneychanger and His Wife", painted by Quinten Matsijs, 1514.
 
To prove ownership, depositors received receipts—crucial evidence in case the goldsmith died and his son denied the claim. Goldsmiths charged a fee for this service, which seemed fair. Now, imagine we’re neighbors in Hampshire. I’m buying a plot of land from you, and we agree on a price in gold. My gold’s stored with a goldsmith in London. “I’ll go fetch it,” I say. You reply, “What’ll you do with it? You’ll risk your life fetching it, and then I’ll have to risk mine carrying it back.” We pause, then realize, “We might as well leave it there, and I’ll give you my deposit receipt.” Thus, these receipts for deposited gold evolved into Europe's first paper money—gold certificates, transferable and convenient.
 
Goldsmiths soon noticed that depositors rarely withdrew their gold; it stayed put, which was handy. This led to secrecy-shrouded practices. People knew goldsmiths held gold reserves, so they approached them for loans when in need. But until about 350 years ago, lending at interest was illegal in most European countries, forbidden by Christian doctrine and Biblical prohibitions against usury. A goldsmith might whisper, "Maybe I can lend, but keep it secret because I'll charge interest." The borrower agrees: "I'll pay, and we'll keep it secret." Goldsmiths began lending out portions of the deposited gold—especially standardized bullion—while swearing everyone to secrecy to evade arrest for illegal interest.
Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I, by William Shakespeare, 1596.
 
As guilds do, goldsmiths convened to discuss trade secrets: “How do we handle lending too much gold? We need to work together—if one runs short, the others help, or else the whole scheme unravels, and we all get arrested for interest altogether.” One innovative goldsmith proposed, "I've got an idea—we don't need to lend actual gold. The next guy who comes begging every Monday—I've turned him down before. But now I'll lend to him to show you."
 
»
 All banks have always created money out of nothing. 
That's the secret of banking. «
 
The borrower arrives, pleading. The goldsmith says, “Today I’ll lend. Standard contract: small print, interest, your daughters sold into slavery if not repaid.” “Fine,” the borrower consents. “One more thing: 300 grams of gold. Sign here, I sign, and I lend it—but you must deposit it with me immediately.” The borrower protests, “I need the gold.” “You get the deposit receipt,” replies the goldsmith. “Yes, that’s all I need.” With the loan contract signed, the goldsmith records it as an asset on his balance sheet. He hands over the 300 grams of gold momentarily—now you see it, now you don’t—and it’s redeposited. The borrower leaves with a receipt for a new deposit.
 
» 
Banking has not been very well understood: legally, a "deposit"
is a loan to the bank, now owned by the bank, not the depositor. «
 
Double-entry accounting, invented for banking to obscure such maneuvers, made it appear legitimate: “All correct; the borrower deposited.” But it is fraudulent—the borrower enters with no gold and leaves with a document claiming a deposit, without increasing the goldsmith’s actual reserves. This is the essence of modern banking: fractional reserve lending and money creation out of thin air, born from these historical practices.
 
Reference:
 
» Today, due to the institutionalisation of interest and the advent of digital money,
roughly 97 percent of modern money comes into existence as interest-bearing debt
—i.e., it "comes into being only when someone promises to pay back even more of it." «
Yusuf Jha, 2013.
 
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Saturday, August 9, 2025

"Satoshi Nakamoto" and the Origin of Bitcoin | Richard A. Werner

The chain of events that led central banks and major financial institutions to get involved with blockchain-based digital currencies really started with the introduction of Bitcoin on January 3, 2009. Even before Bitcoin’s white paper appeared on October 31, 2008, the NSA—a sister organization to the CIA—had already published various white papers on related topics.
 
»
 
They like to drop hints. «

When Bitcoin emerged, some mainstream organizations surprisingly promoted it early on. Outlets like the Financial Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg—sources that provide financial quotes—were already including Bitcoin prices and running major articles about it, even when Bitcoin was still tiny, fringe, and virtually unknown. Over time, the coverage increased. Large banks such as JP Morgan began announcing partnerships with people involved in Bitcoin or similar electronic, distributed-ledger, blockchain-related currencies. Then central banks joined in, saying, “We have to get in on this.” Bitcoin ended up serving as an excuse for central banks to claim there was market demand for such technology. Christine Lagarde even said this is why we need to consider introducing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)—because “we have to offer something.”

»
 
We have to get in on this. «
 
The origins of Bitcoin remain a black box—nobody really knows. They do give hints, though. Having lived in Japan for 12 years, I was curious about Bitcoin’s supposed founder—this legendary, possibly fictional figure—named Satoshi Nakamoto. People speculated about who it might be, but no one could confirm an actual person by that name. Still, it’s clearly a Japanese name. Let’s look at it as a Japanese name, where the family name comes first: Nakamoto Satoshi. 
 
■ Written in Japanese, Nakamoto is 中本. The first character, 中 (Naka), means “middle,” “center,” or “inside,” and is also part of the name for China, the “Central Kingdom.” The second character, 本 (Moto), means “origin,” “source,” or “root,” and is used in the Japanese name for Japan. Together, 中本 (Nakamoto) can be interpreted as “central origin” or “center source.”
■ The name Satoshi (さとし) can be written with various kanji, such as 智 or 悟司. The character 智 means “wisdom” or “intelligence” in both Chinese (pronounced zhì) and Japanese (satoshi). In Japanese, two kanji are sometimes combined to deepen a concept—for example, 聡智 (sōchi) means “cleverness and wisdom,” where 聡 means “intelligent” or “clear-hearing,” paired with 智 for “wisdom.” 
 
In the context of Nakamoto Satoshi, this combination could be interpreted as “very central” or “Central Intelligence.” If you understand Japanese writing, it’s not hard to see. I also think intelligence agencies sometimes like to drop hints—because even though they operate in secret, they still like to be talked about.

 
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Monday, February 24, 2025

Waiting for the Axe of History to Fall | Constantin von Hoffmeister

Aristotle, the ancient diagnostician of democracy, looms over this spectacle like an unblinking oracle. He saw this coming over two thousand years ago. In Politics, he warned of democracy’s slow suicide, its descent into ochlocracy, the rule of the mob, where plebeian apathy and elite corruption conspire to suffocate the soul of the polis. And now? Germany, the heart of the European project, is gasping in its terminal stage, a civilization devouring itself in the throes of bureaucratic sterility. Aristotle’s nightmare — where democracy degenerates into oligarchic tyranny — has unfolded before our eyes, and the people, battered and betrayed, have turned to the AfD in search of salvation.


This is not just another election. It is an insurrection of the disillusioned, the dispossessed, the ones cast aside in the great sacrificial burning of European industry, European identity, and European will. The AfD’s 20% is more than a number. It is a hammer blow to the temple of a senile establishment that clings to power like a parasite to a dying host. Oswald Spengler, always lurking in the shadows of decline, grins from the abyss, his vision of the West’s Untergang — the inevitable sinking into civilizational night — now fully realized in the pale, hollow eyes of Merkel and Scholz’s progeny.

Germany, once a titan of industrial might, now watches its factories shuttered, its energy bills soaring to heights unknown, its streets flooded not with the march of progress but with the quiet desperation of a people abandoned. Unvetted mass immigration further strains an already collapsing system, diluting national cohesion, fueling rising crime, and deepening economic turmoil. Deindustrialization is not a policy; it is a ritual suicide, orchestrated by an elite class that sneers at the workers it claims to represent. This self-inflicted ruin stems from the foolish decision to sever Russian oil and gas supplies while simultaneously shutting down perfectly safe and clean nuclear power plants, triggered by green hysteria, leaving the nation energy-starved and vulnerable. The AfD’s rise is the backlash, the return of the repressed, the last, desperate howl of a nation refusing to kneel before its executioners.


And yet, even as the AfD ascends, the rot remains. 20% is not enough. Not yet. The CDU, ever the shapeshifting chameleon of power, will twist itself into whatever grotesque coalition is required to keep the machine grinding on. The system is designed to perpetuate itself, to stifle true revolution before it can take root. Aristotle knew this, too — democracy’s end does not come with a sudden coup but with a slow, meticulous suffocation, the masses lulled into a stupor while the oligarchs tighten their grip.

Europe, as a geopolitical force, is vanishing. The great capitals — Berlin, Paris, London — are husks, their relevance bleeding away with every year that passes, every decision made to weaken their own people. Power is shifting, tectonic, and irreversible. The new centers of the West are no longer in Brussels or Strasbourg, those necropolises of decrepit bureaucracy, but in Moscow and Washington, in the hard men of Russia and the Trumpist resurgence in America, where will-to-power has not yet been extinguished.

The AfD, for all its momentum, must now decide whether it is content to be a protest vote or whether it will grasp the mantle of true revolution. Because Spengler’s twilight is here, and Aristotle’s lesson rings louder than ever: democracies do not die in flames; they decay from within, rotting until they are but incinerated ruins waiting for the axe of history to fall.

And the axe is coming.

Constantin von Hoffmeister
February 23, 2025.
 
 

The term 'banana republic' is inappropriate to describe the 'German' regime: 
To begin with, Germany is not a sovereign state and has no constitution—just like the State of Israel in Palestine, the so-called 'Federal Republic of Germany' is merely another illegitimate occupation regime for a pitiful territory with defeated and displaced natives in it, getting settled by foreign migrants, ruled and exploited since 80 years by Anglo-US-French Zionists, their stooges, and a Basic Law. The good news is that both the State of Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany are crumbling.
 
 
» I know, Jews will be resented for their leading role. «
 Dr. Barbara Lerner Spectre, calling for the destruction of Christian European ethnic societies
 
See also: 
Marrakesh Migration Compact, formally known as the United Nations Global Compact
 for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, Morocco, December 10, 2018. 

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