"Javanka" threatens to expand blood diamond trade By The Wayne Madsen Report

"Javanka" threatens to expand blood diamond trade

By The Wayne Madsen Report

The Trump White House advisory duo of Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, "Javanka" as they are known to their White House detractors, threatens to undo years of international efforts to stem the flow of conflict diamonds, or "blood diamonds" from Africa. Conflict diamonds from Africa pass into the hands of unscrupulous diamond brokers in Europe, the United States, and South Africa. Ms. Trump and Kushner are directly tied to Israeli and U.S. Orthodox Jewish diamond interests in New York that have overseen the flow of conflict diamonds from such nations as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Angola.

Part of the reason for the concern of international diplomats about the Trump administration's stand on conflict diamonds arises as a result of key vacancies within the State Department, including diplomats responsible for U.S. Africa policy. President Trump has shown no signs that he is ready to nominate anyone to fill secondary and tertiary level positions within the State Department, which, itself is facing a 30 percent budget cut.

The soon-to-be acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs is Donald Yamamoto, who is currently the vice president of the National Defense University and previously served as U.S. ambassador to Djibouti and Ethiopia. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has expressed a desire for former U.S. Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) to serve as Assistant Secretary for Africa. Kingston, one of Trump's cable news boosters, is known to harbor racist views, hardly an asset for someone who would oversee U.S. policy on Africa.

There are currently acting officials in charge of Africa desks at the National Security Council and Department of Defense. Meanwhile, there are reports that Africa policy for the Trump administration is being conducted by "outsiders" with vested financial and other interests on the continent.

What is of equal concern are the ties of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to unscrupulous Israeli and American Orthodox Jewish diamond merchants. Kushner and members of his family have been involved in real estate deals with members of the family of Israeli mining multi-billionaire Beny Steinmetz, including Raz Steinmetz, Beny's nephew. Steinmetz and his company, Beny Steinmetz Resources Guinea (BSRG), are under investigation in the United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Guernsey, Guinea, and Romania for fraudulent business dealings, including bribery. In the United States, Steinmetz is embroiled in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation involving alleged bribes paid by BSRG to government officials in Guinea, where Steinmetz has diamond and other mining interests. Raz Steinmetz, who has taken over a large part of his uncle's business empire, partnered with Kushner in trying to grab up New York City real estate. Some of the deals were in conjunction with the Trump Organization, including a development project in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood that involved, in addition to Kushner, Steinmetz, and Trump, Bayrock Group LLC, a Trump partner headed by Trump associate Felix Sater and bankrolled by suspected Eurasian organized crime figures.

Steinmetz, one of Israel's wealthiest men and who is believed to carry out special assignments for the Mossad, struck a lucrative deal with Guinea in 2008 to exploit the Simandou iron mine, which contains what is believed to be the largest iron ore deposit in the world. The deal between Steinmetz's BSRG and Guinea's President Alpha Condé saw Steinmetz invest $165 million in the deal. However, when BSRG struck a deal in April 2010 that saw the Brazilian mining firm Vale pick up 51 percent of the Simandou concession for a cool $2.5 billion, the CIA and Steinmetz Group business rival George Soros realized that Steinmetz had profited nicely from the Guinea deal.


Civil complaint brought by Rio Tinto, a major mining group, against Jared Kushner business partner, the Steinmetz family of Israel

The CIA convinced Condé that the Israelis had defrauded him and offered Guinea only a fraction of the actual worth of the Simandou mine. The message was clear: the Israelis swindled Condé. Condé demanded the joint mining firm established between BSRG and Vale, VBG, pay Guinea double the royalties in the venture.

Condé, concerned about BSRG's links to Mossad, barred BSRG's president, Asher Avidan, an Israeli national, from entering Guinea. Guinea cited "national security" concerns as the reason.

Condé agreed to give the green light to the CIA and the Soros operatives, and the latter who operate out of New York City and maintain regular contact with their bosses at the CIA headquarters in Langley, went to work. This past summer, the United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in London opened an investigation of the BSRG Guinean deal. The SFO also pressured the Financial Investigation Unit of Guernsey, where BSRG had established its headquarters, to open an investigation of the firm. Condé arrested two BSRG employees in Guinea. Meanwhile, the FBI arrested BSRG's representative in the United States. Frederic Cilins was arrested by the FBI in Jacksonville, Florida before he could begin destroying several BSRG documents proving that Steinmetz had paid bribes to Guinean officials in violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.


Trump's turning over Africa policy to grifters and corrupt businesses spells doom for Africa's children, many of whom are pressed into service by Israeli mining interests and Mossad

In September 2013, Guinea arrested four Israeli mercenaries for attempting to overthrow Condé's government. In retaliation for Condé cooperating with the CIA and Soros to strip him of his mine concession, Steinmetz, according to our intelligence sources, convinced Mossad and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government to authorize a "false flag" operation, a Mossad specialty, against Guinea. Commensurate with the Guinean parliamentary election, Mossad agents planned to pay members of the Guinean opposition and the anti-Condé Fula tribe to commit acts of terrorism. The election violence would force Guinean security and police, where Mossad has its "assets" in place, to launch a bloody crackdown. Mossad believed that in the midst of election violence, its assets in the Guinean military and police could successfully declare a state of national emergency and oust Condé and his government, replacing it with Israeli loyalists. It should be noted that 85 percent of Guineans are Muslims.

It was later discovered that Guinea arrested the Israelis based on tips received from the CIA and the French Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE) foreign intelligence service. The CIA and DGSE intelligence stated that Mossad had hired Israeli, French, and South African mercenaries to launch false flag attacks in preparation for a military coup.

With the Mossad coup unsuccessful, Condé's Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) party won the September election. Soros's NGOs, who served as election monitors, were rather muted in their criticism of the election, which was rife with fraud.



With Steinmetz's New York real estate partner, Kushner and his wife Ivanka, in the cat bird's seat advising Trump, the entire corrupt Israeli and New York, London, and Antwerp Jewish diamond industry sees a chance to grab up more lucrative mining deals in Africa. The links between the Steinmetz Group and Kushner also places U.S. Africa policy firmly in the hands of Israeli interlocutors.

Ms. Trump is no stranger to corruption in the diamond business. Her partner in Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry and Madison Avenue Diamonds LLC is a noted Orthodox Jewish New York business defendant Moshe, aka Mosha, Lax, who has been involved in lawsuit after lawsuit in New York, mostly for his failure to pay his bills or defraud business partners. Former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer kicked Lax out of rented business property in a building owned by Spitzer, which is located at 800 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, for failure to pay rent. Ivanka Trump has managed to avoid any repercussions from Lax's activities by merely failing to show up at court hearings in which she or her businesses have been named as defendants.


One of many lawsuits brought against Moshe Lax, Ivanka Trump's diamond business partner
With Ivanka and Jared Kushner in a position to force the State Department to look the other way when it comes to the smuggling of blood diamonds from Africa, the first victims will be African children who are press-ganged into becoming child soldiers, tribes who are forced off their ancestral lands for mining operations, and African governments trying to lift themselves out of rampant corruption brought about by foreign natural resource exploiters.

The Trump/Kushner "Trojan horse" inside the CIA has agency on alert By The Wayne Madsen Report

The Trump/Kushner "Trojan horse" inside the CIA has agency on alert

By The Wayne Madsen Report

The Central Intelligence Agency is no stranger to "moles" feeding highly-classified intelligence to outside parties. The Cold War and subsequent years saw moles within the CIA being ferreted out by U.S. counter-intelligence officers. However, what is unprecedented is the fact that the current CIA director, former Kansas Tea Party Republic Representative Mike Pompeo, is suspected by CIA counter-intelligence officials of conveying critical intelligence on certain key CIA operations to Donald Trump and his close associates, including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. It is well known that Kushner and his ex-con father, Charles Kushner, enjoy close relations with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Mossad.

What has CIA internal security and counter-intelligence personnel particularly worried is a decision by Pompeo to have the agency's Counterintelligence Mission Center (CMC) to report to him directly. The CMC is responsible for investigating Trump and the Trump Organization's links to a myriad of Russian and other Eurasian individuals, companies, and syndicates. Pompeo's decision was so egregious to CIA career employees, one or more leaked to The Washington Post Pompeo's unusual decision to have the CMC bypass its intermediate superiors within the agency's chain-of-command and pass on all relevant information on counter-intelligence operations, including raw intelligence, directly to Pompeo.

The CMC is an outgrowth of the CIA's original counter-intelligence center formed by the legendary CIA mole-hunter James Jesus Angleton, who suspected Soviet moles had penetrated the CIA and other government agencies. However, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover believed that Angleton was so paranoid about moles that Angleton may have been one himself. If Angleton, who was very Catholic and very anti-Communist, was a mole, it was probably for Mossad, with which he maintained an unauthorized close relationship.

 
Pompeo is a suspected Trojan horse and mole who is running the CIA

When Ronald Reagan's campaign finance chairman William Casey took over the reins at the CIA in 1981, he immediately appointed New York businessman Max Hugel to the post of Deputy Director of Operations. Hugel's off-the-books contacts with Mossad and the Israeli government ensured his quick departure from Langley and a counter-intelligence damage assessment from his short tenure -- May 1981 to July 1981  -- as the head of CIA clandestine operations. The official reason Hugel was sacked was a seven-year old civil case involving securities fraud. It was much more convenient for Casey and the agency to cite an old civil case in firing Hugel than having to admit they placed a suspected Mossad mole in charge of the CIA's espionage operations.

Bill Clinton's CIA director, John Deutch, was investigated by CIA counter-intelligence and the FBI for mislabeling several classified CIA laptop computers as "unclassified" and taking them home. After Deutch pleaded guilty on January 19, 2001, to a misdemeanor of mishandling government secrets, Clinton pardoned him. Deutch was discovered to have used his classified laptops from home to access a number of pornographic websites, some of which downloaded data-retrieving "cookies" programs on to the computers' hard drives.

CIA officers told the Post that Pompeo's political activism on behalf of Trump has the agency extremely concerned about security compromises. Agency officials expressed concern to the Post that never in the history of the CIA has there been a director so willing to place politics over the agency's non-partisan intelligence and counter-intelligence mission.

In what could be bad news for Trump and Pompeo, career CIA officers have responded to Pompeo's political meddling in CIA operations by providing counter-intelligence evidence on suspected security breaches committed by Pompeo to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller and agents with the FBI. Although the CIA and FBI have had a traditionally stormy relationship, the unofficial and low-level cooperation between the CIA and the Bureau has grown closer as Pompeo has shown himself to be a dangerous mole within Langley.

Pompeo has no prior intelligence experience, other than peripheral, from serving as an Army officer in Germany after graduating from West Point. Pompeo, who ran businesses in the oil sector, received his political boost from the Koch brothers.

One anonymous CIA officer told the Post, "People have to watch him [Pompeo] . . . It's almost as if he can’t resist the impulse to be political." Another CIA officer fretted, "if you were passing on something too dicey [to Pompeo] he would go to the White House with it." Even though White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and National Security Adviser (NSA) Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster have purged the White House of far-right political hacks, Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, with McMaster previously purging from the National Security Council ex-NSA Michael Flynn loyalists Ezra Cohen-Watnick, Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey, and Victoria Coates, Pompeo remains a significant malignant Trojan horse within the national security structure. Moreover, the continued presence of Kushner and Trump speechwriter, Stephen Miller, within the White House pose a significant counter-intelligence threat, especially where Israel's Mossad is concerned.

Thanks to Kelly and McMaster, neo-con war hawk and former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, is now also persona non grata in the Oval Office. Bolton has been trying to undo the Iranian nuclear agreement on behalf of his Israeli paymasters.

Politicizing disasters: it's an old Republican tactic BY THE WAYNE MADEN REPORT

Politicizing disasters: it's an old Republican tactic

BY THE WAYNE MADEN REPORT

The modern Republican Party can always be counted upon to inject its brand of racist politics into any natural disaster. Hurricane Harvey, which has brought about a 1000-year epic flood in northeast Texas, is no exception. No sooner had pictures emerged from the Houston area of flooded homes and stranded residents on rooftops, the GOP spin machine, egged on by conspiracy hate monger websites, the most prominent being located in Texas, began laying blame on elected and appointed Democratic officials.

Just as New Orleans Republican-turned-Democratic Mayor Ray Nagin became the target of hate merchants after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, with Rush Limbaugh constantly "mispronouncing" his name as "Naggir," the racist right and their GOP dog whistling allies began blaming Houston's monumental rescue effort on the city's African-American Democratic mayor Sylvester Turner.  One thing the radical right can never be accused of is heeding the lessons of history.

Although Nagin was, in fact, a corrupt politician and is now Federal prison inmate 32571-034, he realized he could only become New Orleans mayor if he became a Democrat. Nevertheless, it was the ineffectiveness of the George W. Bush administration, Bush's inept Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown ("Heckuva job Brownie"), and the cold political calculation of Bush's political adviser Karl Rove that saw Washington try to blame Louisiana's Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco, as well as Nagin, for the hundreds of deaths in and around New Orleans after the levees broke. In the aftermath of Katrina, whistleblowers working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cited corruption within the agency that led, in part, to the levee failures and the massive post-hurricane death count in Louisiana.

Criticisms by Trump acolytes of Turner have fallen flat. Attempts to paint Turner as a bungling mayor for not ordering the evacuation of, in concert with Harris County, of 6.5 million people from the greater Houston area, the fourth largest urban area in the United States, were not successful. Houston, as pointed out by the mayor and several other Houston officials, learned its lesson from Hurricane Rita, which followed Katrina by a few weeks and was the fourth most intense hurricane to strike the U.S. during modern meteorological record-keeping. When Texas's bumbling GOP Governor Rick Perry, now Donald Trump's Energy Secretary, pushed for the evacuation from Houston and Galveston of 3.7 million people, disaster struck on the highways. Among the 118 deaths caused by the mandatory evacuation order were 23 nursing home evacuees who perished when their bus caught fire on traffic-clogged Interstate 45. Many evacuees nearly drowned when their vehicles were swamped with flood waters while stuck in miles-long traffic jams. Other evacuees ran out of gas or saw their vehicles break down.

Turner did not want a repeat of Rita and decided that Houstonians were safer if they sheltered at home and be rescued by boat, high-water vehicles, or helicopter if the need arose. Turner's decision proved to be the wiser option. Thousands of Houstonians were rescued from rooftops who might have drowned in their vehicles had they been subjected to a mandatory evacuation order. Turner coordinated his efforts with Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, a Republican. Turner and Emmett rejected criticism of their decision not to order a mega-evacuation of the greater Houston area, rare cooperation between a Democrat and Republican during an era of childish name-calling from the White House.

Emmett also criticized Abbott for urging Harris County and Houston residents to evacuate north. Abbott said, "If I were living in the Houston region, as I once did, I would decide to head to areas north of there." Emmett scolded Abbott, saying, "We don’t need people getting on the highways.” Many Houston area highways, including interstates, turned into raging rivers after all the region's bayous overflowed their banks.

Many Trump observers expected the president to tweet criticisms of Turner as he did with London mayor Sadiq Khan after a jihadist terrorist attack in that city. Trump's constant refrain of "fake news" also resulted in initial state government lethargy over reports of over 20 stranded elderly residents of the La Bella Vita nursing home in Dickinson, in Galveston County. The nursing home operator was forced to transmit on social media a photo of her residents, some on oxygen and sitting in wheelchairs and on walkers in rising water, waiting on Texas National Guard air support for rescue. Even with the photo as dramatic proof of the in extremis situation of the residents, the Trump crowd, conditioned by their leader calling everything "fake news," claimed the photo of the flooded nursing home was photoshopped. This is yet another example of Trump's irresponsibility almost costing two dozen senior citizens their lives. If Trump could be sued for presidential "malpractice," he should be.

Trump was ensconced during the Houston disaster at Camp David, while Vice President Mike Pence chaired a Harvey response Cabinet meeting in the White House Situation Room. There was no plausible reason given by White House press representatives for Trump's absence from the White House. As the flood disaster in Houston unfolded, Trump busied himself by tweeting out comments about his winning Missouri by a large margin and, once again, threatening Mexico, which was providing hurricane relief assistance to Texas, with the "wall."


Trump's irrelevant tweets during massive flooding of Houston

George W. Bush was stung over his initial reaction with Katrina, choosing to conduct a flyover of flooded New Orleans from Air Force One after returning from vacation outings in California and Arizona. Bush later admitted his response to the disaster was lacking. Bush was not helped by his mother, Barbara Bush's insensitive comments about New Orleans evacuees, many of them African-American, housed in Houston's Astrodome being "underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." Trump, in reacting to Harvey and Texas, learned nothing from Bush's ineffectual response to Katrina and the New Orleans disaster.

President Obama certainly put politics aside when he toured the ravaged New Jersey shoreline after Super Storm Sandy, accompanied by Republican Governor Chris Christie, who was effusive with praise for the president's rapid response to the storm damage. In the aftermath of Harvey, Texas GOP Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are demanding the quick post-hurricane federal assistance they voted against for New Jersey and New York in the wake of Sandy. Nothing spells hypocrisy more than Cornyn and Cruz.


Irresponsible social media users, conditioned by Trump's "fake news" mantra, claimed the above nursing home picture was photoshopped. They were dead wrong and the delay in responding to the "SOS" from the facility almost cost the elderly residents their lives.

Mayor Turner was particularly incensed by social media rumors. He said, "False forecasts and irresponsible rumors on social media are interfering with efforts by the city of Houston, and its government and news media partners, to provide accurate information to the public about the expected effects of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Harvey."

One of the reasons why Turner received knee-jerk criticism from the right is because of his international standing. In June of this year, Turner was appointed, along with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the co-chair of Climate Mayors, a grouping of 372 mayors who endorsed the Paris Climate Accord after Trump withdrew the United States from the pact.

Although the radical right began blaming Turner for Houston's flooding ills, they did not attack Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Tea Party Republican. Yet, if blame were to be doled out, Abbott would be a worthy recipient. There were no good reasons why Abbott initially sequestered state resources, including Texas National Guard helicopters, until situations like that of La Bella Vita arose.

The radical right vipers are now waiting with fangs bared in the event Harvey causes a major disaster in Louisiana. They already have Louisiana Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards and New Orleans Democratic Mayor Mitch Landrieu in their gun sights. And with Trump's Twitter fingers at the ready, these disaster political parasites see an ally in the White House.

Trump's "virtual cyber-army" is not Russian but American-made

By The Wayne Madsen Report

Donald Trump has often bellowed that he has 100 million followers on Twitter. In fact, Twitter lists 32.4 million followers on Trump's Twitter account. However, most of his "followers" are not even human. There is increasing evidence that Trump's technical team manipulated Twitter by creating Twitter accounts for "bots," anonymous and autonomous programs that mimic real users on the Internet. In the world of biology, a bot is a parasite that lives in the guts of animals until it is defecated in the animal's feces. The biological definition of a bot squares nicely with the technical term when it comes to Trump world.

WMR has detected that its own tweets are automatically re-tweeted by Trump bots even though our tweets are often anti-Trump. The Trump bots are not "intelligent" enough to distinguish between pro- and anti-Trump tweets. This might have occurred as a result of WMR's Twitter account being pre-programmed as one friendly to Trump. Therefore, any tweet from "WMRDC" is automatically recognized by the Twitter bot accounts as pro-Trump and is re-tweeted. WMR has noticed this anomaly for several months. Our anti-Trump tweets are re-transmitted by Twitter accounts that contain long threads of pro-Trump re-tweet messaging. These bots are noticeable for their lack of original tweets, they all merely re-tweet. These bot accounts often contain no user photograph uploaded by the account holder but do feature photos of Trump, "Deplorable," "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) hats, or American flags in the Twitter banners.

Below are two suspected Twitter bots masquerading as actual Trump supporters. "Frank" claims to be a "legal immigrant for Trump" and includes dubious hashtags as "Deplorable," "MAGA," "HillaryforPrison," "Trump," and "BuildthatWall." Frank decided it was worthwhile to re-tweet WMR's comment on the counter-fascist protest in Boston that compared the number of counter-protesters (30,000) to "in-bred fascist" protesters (20). "Burt" claims to be "just a nobody," however, he or it includes as his or its photo a caricature of the alt-right cartoon figure "Pepe," another give-away that this re-tweet of WMRDC's description of Trump's decision to boycott the annual Kennedy Center honors was not part of the bot's programming.

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The creation of perhaps millions of bots on social media was well within the capabilities of four Trump campaign advisers who are connected to Internet "deep data mining" and data manipulation companies. They are Brad Parscale, the founder of San Antonio-based digital media firms Giles-Parscale and TechBloc; Robert and Rebekah Mercer, co-owners of the data manipulation firm Cambridge Analytica; and Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of Palantir Technologies.

The combined efforts of these three companies would have been more than enough to create bot users on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Palantir, which received its start-up funds from the Central Intelligence Agency's IN-Q-TEL venture capital firm, was in a position to transfer its offensive information warfare technology, gathered from its work for the CIA and the U.S. Cyber Command, to Trump "psychometrics" data manipulation and voter profiling teams.
 
Trump's "100 milllion" Twitter followers are a product of his imagination and a "bot army" created by his "Big Three" data manipulators: Cambridge Analytica, Palantir, and Giles-Parscale.

Palantir acquired a UK-based data mining start-up form called Gray Havens. Combined with the data mining technology of Cambridge Analytica, whose parent firm SCL Group, is also based in the UK, the Trump campaign and the current Trump White House is capable of crossing the line from convincing voters to support Trump to manipulating them to do so. Cambridge Analytica has been charged with conducting voter surveillance operations for various political candidates and movements, including Senators Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, and Thom Tillis; current Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson; the Brexit initiative in the UK, and former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton. While Facebook is the favorite platform for Cambridge Analytica and Palantir manipulation, with Thiel an early "angel investor" in Facebook, Giles-Parscale appears to have greater abilities to manipulate Twitter and Google, particularly the placement of politically-oriented Google Ads on social media. Brad Parscale is a close associate of Trump son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.

The one thing that can be determined by Trump's reliance on Cambridge Analytica, Palantir, and Giles-Parscale is that none of these firms are connected directly to Russian intelligence agencies. To the contrary, Palantir is a contractor for the CIA and NSA, while Cambridge Analytica appears to have links to British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) cut-outs at Cambridge University in the UK. Currently, Justice Department special prosecutor Robert Mueller is concentrating his investigation of Trump and his campaign by "following the money" to problematic Eurasian organized crime oligarchs. When one "follows the data" within the Trump campaign, it leads to a bot army with connections to U.S. and British intelligence, without a Russian agent anywhere to be found.

August 17-18, 2017 -- FBI releases file on Smedley Butler & Nazi plot to overthrow government/DAILY FORUM

By The Wayne Madsen Report

The FBI has just released 40-page file on retired Marine General Smedley Butler, who pro-Nazis and fascists had contacted in 1934 about heading a coup d'etat against President Franklin Roosevelt. Butler played along with them until he obtained the identities of all the ringleaders and passed them on to Congress. Has the FBI released the Butler file to warn America about Donald Trump's own links to Nazis and fascists that are found in yet-to-be-released FBI files? In DC, there are no coincidences.

  



General Butler warned the Samuel Dickstein committee in the U.S. House that among the neo-Nazis and fascists planning to overthrow FDR were "American Jewish leaders." Dickstein, who was Jewish, suppressed Butler's testimony. Today, as Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller support the neo-Nazi, pro-KKK stance of Trump, similar perfidy by right-wing Jews in support of Nazism and fascism emerges.

26 Comments Posted Leave a comment

Mark Nemeth (San Francisco)

And Felix Sater is telling associates that he and Trump will be going to prison.

"In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about,” Sater told New York Magazine. “Unfortunately, I can’t talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it ain’t anything as small as whether or not they’re gonna call me to the Senate committee.”

KING MIDAS (NY/NJ)

OOO GOY!!!

michael watts (nc)

I like Bannon's recent comment on N. Korea... A 'sideshow' he called it. What a crook... Makes me think the nazi thing is another sideshow.... Genius distraction... Mueller must be getting close to something. I'm reading some stuff about what he (Mueller) did with Norteno gangs in CA before he took over the FBI... The guy is slick and he knows what his power base is. It ain't the Trump machine... It will be interesting to see what the next news cycle brings...

Mark Nemeth (San Francisco)

Trump is a master distractor; king chaos! And thanks to a commenter here we see there is a Beverly Hills company that staffs political protests. But there really are white supremacists. They aren't fake. Bannon wants liberals to react, to take the bait and physically react. Bannon believes the GOP can then run on economic populism....which itself is dividing the Dems.

Deckard (Occupied America)

The Trial of Slobodan Milošević and the corruption of International justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTHCIdeeKHc

tried and tested (N/A)

Pence coming back early - If POTUS were to resign, would it be necessary for VPOTUS to be present?

Mark Nemeth (San Francisco)

A trump biographer thinks he'll resign soon but I don't. The FBI can't remove Trump. Only the GOP Congress can.

tried and tested (N/A)

IMO, Trump would resign rather than face impeachment and removal.

Mark Nemeth (San Francisco)

I listened to US militia call for a race war during the Bush Jr presidency. Fast forward trough 8 years of a black president, relentless manipulation by Mercer etc media and with Trump, the empowering trigger that the war is on and we have the Trump base. Is the CIA setting them up? It doesn't matter. They've existed for a long time. They are heavily armed. They believe this is their moment. The best they can hope for is what Trump and some here deliver - false equivalency -- the perception that there are two sides that are part of a whole. It's the mental disease the right has. Everything's someone else's fault. They're the oppressors, they're in charge of government, but they've convinced some folks that they are the victims of a
deep state. Indeed they are pawns of corporate fascism, with every action they take they look to blame or at least share blame, with the imaginary "Maoists" (ha!)

Mark Nemeth (San Francisco)

Tried and tested you could be right. How about a friendly wager? Impeachment is a high bar and takes time. This is one "bet" I hope I lose.

In other news, Bannon allegedly has a house in Miami where they cooked meth, filmed porn and had drug fueled sex parties.

Wayne Madsen (Washington)

Something for our far-right members who have said "good-bye." A remembrance for them of a much whiter and more plain vanilla America:

michael watts (nc)

Once again Wayne your observations on the link between nazis and zionists is right on the money... It's like the energy and infrastructure that was provided to the zionists who took Palestine away from the Palestinians... Energy provided by the nazis... That energy lingered. A fascist state is a fascist state... It 's all about social control... And crime...

Criminal gang sets do business with each other... When they aren't fighting each other... But there are still laws... And there are people who enforce the laws... How close is (are) Trump and Co. to getting busted? How desperate a move is it to rile up an extreme right wing base for support?

Wayne Madsen (Washington)

I'm being physically threatened by Nazis on Twitter. I just tell them to come meet my two friends, Mr Smith and Mr Wesson. Remember that old line from typing class? "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." It has real meaning now.

Mark Nemeth (San Francisco)

It sure does. Mainstream society is turning against them. I always like when business not government takes action. You can't outlaw white supremacy but businesses can fire people for actions against company values and there's a hell of a lot more potential customers than the white men clinging to their second place trophies (Wayne's description of conferees statues which is perfect).

“We’re not going to (associate with) you, you Nazi losers”, Schwartz writes, describing them as “khaki-and-New-Balance wearing Cheeto-breathed ogres with bad haircuts and worse facial hair who think white men have it harder than anyone else right now and think the only people who understand them are the YouTube gamers who think saying ‘faggot’ is edgy, and brave.”

“If you’re a 20-year-old pretending to be a Nazi, you’re not a bad boy; you’re a racist virgin so humiliated by his own sexual inadequacy and terrified at rejection that you’ll blame your feelings of weakness on some unseen Liberal Agenda,” she continued.

Mark Nemeth (San Francisco)

Ironic too that taking down anti-Semitic white supremacists also harms the Zionist agenda...temporarily anyway.

michael watts (nc)

Amigo... The one I remember from typing class is ' The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'... Zorro shifts shape and becomes what he needs to to get the job done. Twitter makes a lotta folks bold. But... It 's twitter... Lock and load bro... Remember what Dre say... " Long as I got my Beretta, I'm down for what eva...'" There is always a foxhole ready for you in the Great Northwest...

michael watts (nc)

In fairness to Lawrence we gotta remember Arthur Duncan...

tried and tested (N/A)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-fbi-knew-oklahoma-bomb-plot-suspect-is-schizophrenic/


When is this crap going to be stopped?

Sessions believes that state and local law enforcement should police themselves, without federal oversight.

DOJ should start policing their own agencies and hold accountable those who perpetrate this crap and a whole host of other incidences. Clean your own house, get rogue agents gone.

tried and tested (N/A)

While I'm at it, anyone looked at your local police forces lately? How many are sporting the "nazi" haircut? Shaved heads, tattoos, they look more like thugs than police officers.

Mark Nemeth (San Francisco)

They're clearly over compensating for their own inadequacies. #smallHands

Jboogey (miami)

Stand tall Wayne; those without "arms" or limbs - maybe hands - and sharp objects can terrify an enemy. Oddly, they believe that their "training" and "accuracy" will bolster them in the moment of confrontation without knowing the true vacancy of their conviction. I will not fight my fellow human without just cause, but I understand the need for protection against these fools. I thought we were past this, and i thought we fought wars to prove it - and more recently, military actions (i cannot justify, but duty to fulfill - like it or not, you do what is commanded) that we were past the questioning of acceptance of fascism, the alt-right or whatever term they want to use now. I am disgusted. Those who wish to do bodily harm are abhorrent and do not represent what we all stand for. No call to arms, but defense of our ENTIRE nation, with words and action- not the WHITE nation they espouse. Believe -anything can be a weapon in skilled hands. Its restraint that shows true humanity. O&O and Peace for us all.

Kathryn Hunt (Mansfield)

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/17/award-winning-journalist-just-revealed-trumps-ex-partner-ratting-bank-fraud/

Kathryn Hunt (Mansfield)

Wayne, many say Pence is even worse than Trump, because he is, cold, calculated, and capable.

Wayne Madsen (Washington)

Pence is a Christian Dominionist and a real kook, along with wife "Commano Karen," who the Lord apparently told to not wear panties, something known to many Hoosiers who've had the misfortune of being on the tarmac when she boards and deplanes on runway stairs. But Pence would be a hobbled POTUS, esp if he pardons a disgraced ex-POTUS Trump.

Kathryn Hunt (Mansfield)

I know about these dominionist, having lived in Dallas for many years. I was ostracized and shunned by them once I realized what was going on at church. That is too crazy about the underwear... How do you know these things??? I would like to be your sidekick, like your little Scout. My dad used to call me Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird. I am an ENFP and investigative journalists as the second top job for us.

Kathryn Hunt (Mansfield)

http://undergroundjournalist.com/2017/08/16/elite-banker-jumps-london-stock-exchange-building-chilling-warning/

 

 Was Trump's father a Nazi spy during World War II? 

by the WAYNE MADSEN REPORT

Most of what the world knows about Fred Trump, the ethnic German father of President Donald Trump, falls between 1927, when he was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan riot in Queens, in the pre-war 1930s when he built and managed several rental homes around Queens on behalf of his E. Trump & Son real estate development company, and the post-war years, when his Trump Management Company operated several apartment buildings and housing developments. Around New York City, Fred Trump's real estate mini-empire benefited from generous financing from the Federal Housing Administration. However, the years during World War II remain as a sketchy and nebulous gap in Fred Trump's "official" biography.



New York Times article on Fred Trump's 1927 arrest at a KKK rally in Queens

Fred Trump's FHA-funded apartment complex in Coney Island was so infamous for its policy of refusing to rent to blacks, even black veterans of the war, that Woody Guthrie, who lived in the tenement from 1950 to 1952, wrote a song titled "Old Man Trump." Little did Woody, the father of Arlo Guthrie, know that the son of "Old Man Trump" would not only become president of the United States, but its first openly pro-Nazi president.

Guthrie's song goes as follows:

"I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project

Beach Haven ain’t my home!
No, I just can’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!"

Among the hundreds of Trump real estate holdings Special Counsel Robert Mueller is now investigating is the Beach Haven LLC, the old Coney Island apartment building made infamous by Woody Guthrie.

In 1973, the federal government took Fred and his apprenticeship son Donald to court over their violation of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. It was the Richard Nixon administration that took the Trumps to court. The suit was settled in 1975 with no admission of guilt by the Trumps. That stance was courtesy of Donald's new mentor, the Joe McCarthy Red-baiting counsel Roy Cohn, a vicious self-hating Jew and a self-loathing homosexual. Cohn convinced Donald Trump to counter-sue the Nixon administration. The attempt failed but Trump learned that Cohn's advice to sue anyone at the drop of a hat would serve him well in the future.

Based on the fascination of his son, Donald Trump, with a book of Adolf Hitler's collected speeches, "My New Order," which Trump's first wife Ivana claimed he kept on the nightstand next to his bed, questions certainly arise about Fred's actual loyalties during the war against Nazi Germany. Although Fred's parents were German immigrants and Fred was conceived in the "Fatherland," Fred lied about his German roots during and after World War II. Why? Was he covering up a deep secret from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which was always on the lookout for German sleeper agents during the war? Fred Trump's KKK activities in Queens during the late 1920s, while Hitler's nascent Nazi Party was becoming a political force to be reckoned with in Germany, are suspicious. The same New York Times article that described Fred Trump's arrest in 1927 also describes fascist parade activity in The Bronx.

Trump's far-right political activities would have melded in well with the birth of the America First movement in the 1930s. Led by aviator pioneer Charles Lindbergh, whose Republican Congressman father was actually from Sweden but opposed America's entry into World War I against Germany, the America First movement was jam packed with Nazi members of the Friends of New Germany, formed in 1933 on the orders of Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess. Perhaps not coincidentally, "America First" was the rallying cry of the Trump presidential campaign from 2015 to 2016. The tenets of Lindbergh's America First and Trump's version of it are practically identical. Both relied on boosting white European racial identity at the expense of minorities.


Nazi sympathizers were concentrated in the Philadelphia area, including Chester, where Fred Trump was building barracks for the U.S. Navy within sight of departing troop transports

In 1936, the German Nazi government authorized the creation of a successor to the Friends of New Germany, the German-American Bund, which maintained its headquarters in Manhattan. The Friends and the Bund helped many legal and illegal German immigrants with Nazi sympathies to enter the United States. Bund leader Fritz Kuhn, himself had emigrated from Germany in 1934. Like Kuhn, these Friends and Bund immigrants were all loyal to Adolf Hitler and had Germany defeated the United States, these Germans would have been appointed by Berlin as the Nazi leaders of the German American States. After being caught embezzling funds from the Bund, Kuhn was replaced by Gerhard Kunze in 1939. A few weeks prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Kunze fled to Mexico and the protection of the Germany embassy in Mexico City. Kuhn spent the war years in Sing Sing prison in New York and an internment camp in Crystal City, Texas. After the war he was deported to Germany, where he died in 1951.


Bund leader Fritz Kuhn meeting Adolf Hitler in Berlin. Did Fred Trump have a relationship with Kuhn in New York City?

Around 1937, Fred Trump's pals in the Klan joined with the Bund and the Nazi Silver Shirts and Black Legion to form the Storm Troops. This early "United the Right" movement received heavy corporate funding. By 1937, Fred Trump was making handsome profits as a notorious Queens slum lord. Did any of those profits end up in the coffers of either the Bund or Storm Troops? The families of past U.S. presidents had every aspect of their histories examined in great detail, although some quite belatedly. In Trump's case, there has been no meaningful effort to delve into Fred Trump's background in the interwar years.

There were so many pro-Nazis, including a number of ethnic Germans, in the New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia corridor, that the German airship Hindenburg made it a point to fly over a number of cities and towns with high German concentrations as a propaganda display. These included, in addition to New York and Philadelphia, Paterson, Newark, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton, and Camden, New Jersey. The Hindenburg eventually exploded while mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey on October 9, 1936. There is a belief that the airship fell victim to anti-Nazi saboteurs. Perhaps Donald Trump should be asked what his father told him about the fly-by of the Hindenburg over New York City and whether it triggered any pro-Nazi comments from the one-time Klan supporter.


The route of the Hindenburg took it over populous cities, including those with large German-American populations like Fred Trump's New York City

All we are officially told about Fred Trump's activities during the war years is that he "built barracks and garden apartments" for the U.S. Navy near the major troop embarkation ports of Chester, Pennsylvania and Newport News and Norfolk, Virginia. Fred would have been in a prime position to conduct "troop counting" on the numbers of newly-trained recruits from Fort Dix and Camp Shanks, New Jersey and Fort Indiantown Gap and Camp Reynolds, Pennsylvania who were shipping out from Chester and recruits from Fort Eustis, Fort A. P. Hill, Camp Pickett, and Fort Lee, Virginia shipping out from Norfolk and Newport News to Europe. For someone like Fred, whose far-right political activities as a first generation German immigrant must have been well-known and a godsend to the Bund and Nazi Germany's Abwehr military intelligence and Gestapo, having a vantage point so close to Chester, Norfolk, and Newport News and so close to monitor the outbound and inbound shipping lanes for Philadelphia; Camden, New Jersey; and Baltimore would have been a double bonus.

One Bund member, a German immigrant named Waldemar Othmer, infiltrated the U.S. military as a civilian employee and dutifully sent via microfilm information to his Abwehr handlers in Berlin on the movements of British and American military vessels, convoys, and merchant ships out of Brooklyn and Norfolk. Sinking American ships was a high priority for German naval commander Admiral Karl Donitz, who dubbed the program Operation Paukenschlag or Drumbeat.

Another German immigrant spy, Hermann Lang, worked as a draftsman for the Carl L. Norden Corporation in New York City. Lang stole plans for the top secret Norden bomb sight and before the end of 1938, the Luftwaffe produced one of similar design. Gustav Guellich, who arrived in the U.S. in 1932, began working as a metallurgist at the Federal Shipbuilding Company in Kearney, NJ. Guellich provided the Nazis in Berlin with classified information on the Navy's new guns and shells and blueprints for naval destroyers. Most of the Nazi espionage efforts before and during the war were directed by master spies Frederick “Fritz” Duquesne, an Afrikaaner immigrant from South Africa, and Willliam Sebold, a naturalized German immigrant. Their spy headquarters was located at 120 Wall Street in lower Manhattan.

 
Nazi Bund Camp Nordland in Sussex County, New Jersey attracted several pro-Nazi German-Americans from the greater New York area. Camp Nordland invited members of the KKK for joint rallies. Was Fred Trump ever seen there?

In the days before and after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany's declaration of war on the United States, FBI agents swooped in on German-American spies, especially in the New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delmarva, and New York regions. There were four Bund camps located within a 15-minute drive from the Delaware River Bridge connecting Camden in south Jersey to Philadelphia. In Maple Shade, a suburban community on the railroad line used by troop trains from Fort Dix to the Delaware River, a husband and wife bakery was discovered to have had a radio set in the basement. The kindly German couple were sending coded messages to U-boats off the East Coast containing counts of troop trains heading to Camden, Philadelphia, and Chester for embarkation across the Atlantic. The Trump properties in Brooklyn and Queens would have visual vectors on the Brooklyn Naval shipyard.

 
Fred Trump with his building plans in New York [left]. Albert Speer showing his plans for Berlin to Adolf Hitler [right]. What else did they all have in common?

One horrific event was etched in the memories of every American, the February 3, 1943, sinking by U-223 of the USS Dorchester, a converted passenger-cargo ship in the icy waters of the North Atlantic. Of the 902 officers, GIs, and civilians on board, 675 died. When rescue ships reached the area, hundreds of passengers were found dead, still floating in their life jackets and all victims of hypothermia. Four chaplains gave their life vests to other servicemen and went down with the Dorchester. "The Immortal Chaplains" -- Rev. George L. Fox, a Methodist Minister; Rev. Clark V. Poling, a Dutch Reformed Minister; Father. John P. Washington, a Catholic Priest; and Rabbi Alexander D. Goode -- continue to this day to be honored as heroes.

FBI rounded up many Nazi agents in the Philly area

The U.S. Coast Guard was on patrol at the entrances to the Hudson, Delaware, and Chesapeake Bays and under orders to drop depth charges on any suspected U-boats. On several occasions, after a depth charge volley, Coast Guard personnel spotted oil slicks, air bubbles, and even clothing and bedding bobbing up to the ocean surface.

The Nazi spy threat in the mid-Atlantic region was real. German immigrant and Lutheran pastor Rev. Carl Emil Ludwig Krepper, who served congregations in Philadelphia and Williamstown and Newark, New Jersey, resigned from the church. Later, he joined a Nazi sabotage group ordered by Berlin to carry out Operation Pastorius, which included blowing up a cryolite metals plant in Philadelphia, the Horseshoe Curve railroad pass near Altoona, and Pennsylvania Station in Newark. There were so many non-Jewish German immigrants to the United States who sided with the Nazis, Fred Trump's own murky history during the 1930s and 40s should be examined through a powerful lens.

Unlike Donald Trump, who has trouble talking about what his father did during the war against Nazism and fascism, the story about the German bakery in Maple Shade was described to me many times by my late mother. In addition, my Uncle Thomas Gray, who joined the Coast Guard from his native Cape Hatteras, North Carolina at the age of 15 and advanced to Lieutenant Commander by war's end, reveled in describing his U-boat chasing efforts off of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas.


Fred and Donald Trump taken on by the Nixon administration for racial bigotry in renting property to blacks

I and many Americans  can recount the war stories from our parents, grandparents, and aunts and uncles, but not so Donald Trump. Fred Trump's association with the KKK and likely links to the Bund and America First movement do not make for great war stories, unless, of course, one is a Nazi offspring. What Nazi wouldn't be impressed by a father who conducted secret surveillance of departing U.S. troop transports heading into potential deadly torpedo attacks from U-boats? Donald Trump, who has made no secret of his admiration for Nazis, would most certainly be impressed.


"Fake Swedes" -- Fred and Donald Trump. Like German father, like German son?

A picture of Fred Trump is placed in reverence behind Trump's desk in the Oval Office. If Fred Trump can be exposed as a Nazi spy during World War II, that may be enough to set off Trump on national television, an emotional display that may end up with him shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue. 

SPECIAL REPORT. There's a suspicious body trail -- and it's on Trump's watch By The Wayne Madsen Report

SPECIAL REPORT. There's a suspicious body trail -- and it's on Trump's watch By The Wayne Madsen Report
Conspiracy-minded supporters of Donald Trump, egged on by right-wing fanatics like Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, and others, have been trying to assign blame for the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich on nefarious forces loyal to Hillary Clinton. However, a clear pattern is emerging of suspicious deaths of those involved, in one way or another, with the 2016 presidential campaign.

WMR has discovered a link between the Russian Moscow-based lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya and Trump's and his son-in-law Jared Kushner's first favored choice to replace fired FBI director James Comey to lead the bureau: former Senator Joe Lieberman. Now that it is known that it was Kushner who was pressing Trump to fire Comey, the choice of Lieberman to take his place is all the more germane. Veselnitskaya represented the interests of a Russian holding company, Prevezon Ltd. of Cyprus, which had a number of U.S. subsidiaries, including Prevezon Soho USA LLC, Prevezon Pine USA LLC (fronting for a luxury condo complex at 20 Pine Street in Manhattan), and Prevezon Alexander USA (an 88-unit complex at 250 East 49th Street at Turtle Bay, near the United Nations). Prevezon's international law firm is Debevoise & Plimpton, whose partners include former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith. It certainly helps the "Kosher Nostra" that surrounds Trump's White House to have a former British Attorney General on their team, since many of their offshore businesses are based in the British Virgin Islands.

Denis Katsyv is also a close business partner of Uzbek-Israeli diamond oligarch Lev Leviev, whose business empire happens to include ownership of The Times Square Building in Manhattan, the former headquarters of The New York Times. In 2015, Kushner Companies bought a 51 percent stake in the Times Square building from Leviev's Africa Israel (AFI) Investments Ltd. Leviev, the president of the World Congress of Bukharian Jews, is a major financial backer of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, with which Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump are also close. Leviev is a partner of the Hong Kong-based 88 Queensway Group, which is linked to Chinese para-statal corporations, one of which, Sonangol China, has a branch in Pyongyang, North Korea. Trump is threatening to impose further sanctions on Chinese companies doing business in North Korea. Does that include the Hong Kong-based joint ventures of his Israeli friend Lev Leviev?


Israeli-Uzbek oligarch Lev Leviev with Donald Trump. Leviev's business empire is not only connected to Kosher Nostra activities, including Jared Kushner's operations, but also business with Chinese intelligence-connected firms and North Korea through the mysterious 88 Queensway Group of Hong Kong.
One of Mukasey's closest friends is Lieberman, the man Trump and Kushner wanted to have preside over the investigation of Russian -- that is Russian-Eurasian-Jewish mob -- influence in the 2016 presidential election. It also just happens that Lieberman is a partner in the law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres Friedman, headed up by Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz.  Prevezon is primarily owned by Russian-Israeli businessman Denis Katsyv, whose father Pyotr Katsyv is the former vice governor of the Moscow region. Denis Katsyv's wife Maria is also an Israeli citizen.

In May of this year, Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim, in a surprise move, settled a federal money laundering case involving Manhattan condominiums that was brought against Katsyv and Prevezon by Kim's predecessor, Preet Bharara, who was fired by Trump after Trump signaled that he would retain him as U.S. Attorney for Manhattan. Named in the federal case against Prevezon and Katsyv, was Prevezon shareholder and Katsyv business partner Alexander Litvak, an Israeli national. The case saw Prevezon and Katsyv forfeit $6 million to the U.S. government, under half of what the government originally sought. Had the case gone to trial, information pointing to Prevezon's links to Trump's and Kushner's real estate operations in Manhattan may have been divulged. Some observers believe that Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, someone who has his own links to the Kosher Nostra in Baltimore, where he served as U.S. Attorney, and beyond, influenced the decision to go easy on Prevezon and Katsyv, especially with Bharara out of the way.


Russian Jewish businessman Denis Katsyv who received a sweetheart settlement from Trump's Justice Department after Trump fired U.S. Attorney for Manhattan Preet Bharara

The June 9, 2016 meeting at the Trump Tower between Veselnitskaya, Donald Trump, Jr., Kushner, and Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, in which Veselnitskaya offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, was also attended by a naturalized U.S. citizen who once worked for Soviet counter-intelligence, Rinat Akhmetshin. Looming over this meeting was the Russian-Jewish mafia -- called the "Eurasian" mafia by the FBI because of political correctness sensitivities. The meeting had been arranged between the Trump officials and Veselnitskaya by Rob Goldstone, a British music promoter and son of a London rabbi. Goldstone represents Russian singer Emin Agalarov, whose billionaire father Aras Agalarov has been dubbed the "Russian Trump." Aras Agalarov was a partner of Donald Trump for a planned Trump Tower and Hotel in Moscow.

Many U.S. media outlets use the term "Russian Financial Mafia" to hide the Russian mob's predominantly Jewish and Israeli connections. Among those at the meeting with ties to the mafia were Veselnitskaya, the lawyer for mobbed-up Russian Jewish businessman Katsyv, and Kushner, whose New York real estate operations closely rubs shoulders with the Kosher Nostra mob in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Jersey City. Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, served a federal prison sentence for illegal campaign contributions, criminal conspiracy, and witness tampering.


Fired U.S. Attorney for Manhattan Preet Bharara laying out the government's case against Prevezon and Denis Katsys. The Kosher Nostra enterprise is represented by Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner Russian lawyer interlocutor Natalya Veselnitskaya and the law firm of former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
The Katsyv-Leviev connection to Trump is noteworthy. Prevezon's bank of choice for its dodgy financial transfers was Bank Krainy Sever, a Russian bank that later declared bankruptcy. While it was in operation, Krainy Sever's Prevezon-linked accounts were handled by Russia's Alfa Bank. The FBI, under director Comey, was investigating several pings between Alfa Bank and a computer server of the Trump Organization during the presidential campaign.

Now to Trump's dead body count. In the early Sunday morning hours of July 10, 2016, DNC Staffer Seth Rich was gunned down in the Bloomingdale section of Washington, DC, without any clear evidence of a robbery intent. Trump campaign officials had been briefed a month earlier at the June 9 meeting at Trump Tower that Russian intermediaries could provide damaging information on Clinton and her campaign. Rich, far from being the source of the DNC emails sent between January 2015 through May 2016 -- revealed by WikiLeaks on July 22, 2017 -- may have been a witness to hacking activities of the DNC servers. His death should now be considered along with other recent suspicious deaths of those with a knowledge of the inner workings of Trump's campaign and its connection to unsavory criminal elements.


Just a small window on the mob ties of Donald Trump and his business associates. The entire Trump Syndicate Road Map, which has taken a good deal of time and money to prepare, is available at a nominal cost to members here.

On May 14, 2017, Peter Smith, a longtime GOP political operative who worked for a firm called DigaComm LLC from 1997 to 2014, reportedly died with no cause of death appearing in his obituary. Smith also ran a business called Corporate Venture Alliances out of the Hancock Building in Chicago. The obit notice merely stated: "Peter W. Smith, 81, of Lake Forest, Ill, passed away on May 14, 2017." In fact, just ten days after Smith spoke to The Wall Street Journal about attempting to work during the campaign with fired Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn to obtain 30,000 deleted Hillary Clinton emails, Smith was found at 1:17 pm lying with a plastic bag over his head next to a helium-filled tank at theAspen Suites in Rochester, Minnesota. Rochester is the home of the famed Mayo Clinic, where Smith is said to have gone for treatment for a heart condition. Instead, Smith is said to have asphyxiated himself  "due to displacement of oxygen in confined space with helium."

Smith left a suspicious "suicide" note that proclaimed "NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER" as far as his death was concerned. The note said he was taking his own life because of a "RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017" his suicide was related "TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING." However, life insurance policies normally do not cover suicides. And why would someone reportedly receiving top-quality medical care at the costly Mayo Clinic, suddenly decide to kill himself? The Mayo clinic will not confirm whether Smith was their patient, due to "privacy concerns."

Smith told the Journal that he and his "team" discovered five hacker groups, among them two in Russia, who claimed to have Clinton's deleted emails in their possession. Were these groups actually tied to the Russian government, something that President Vladimir Putin and other senior Russian government officials have denied, or were they groups associated with Trump's friends and colleagues in the worldwide Kosher Nostra?
The same day Smith died, May 14, longtime Albany, New York journalist Scott Christianson, 66, died from "massive head trauma" after falling down the stairs of his home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The reason for the fall was given as the stair's banister giving way. Of particular note is that Christianson had recently joined the investigation unit McClatchy news service and he had just completed a major story probing the links between Donald Trump, his presidential campaign, and hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Christianson's investigation of Trump's campaign was ongoing when he died. He was a seasoned investigative journalist who formerly worked for the Bethlehem Star (PA), Knickerbocker News, and the Albany Times Union.

These deaths can now be viewed in light of a blast of email threats made by Trump's personal attorney Marc Kasowitz, whose law firm also employs Joe Lieberman, Trump's first choice to head the FBI, as noted previously. After receiving an email from a person unknown to him that urged him to "Resign Now," Kasowitz replied with a series of threatening emails. The emails stated: "I’m on you now. You are fucking with me now. Let’s see who you are. Watch your back, bitch . . . Call me. Don’t be afraid, you piece of shit. Stand up. If you don’t call, you’re just afraid." Kasowitz's last email referred to being Jewish: "I'm Jewish. I presume you are too. Stop being afraid. Call me. Or give me your number and I will call you. I already know where you live, I'm on you. You might as well call me. You will see me. I promise.  Bro." Kasowitz appears to have implied that Jews should not be criticizing other Jews like Kasowitz. The entire email exchange resembles a scene out of "The Sopranos," with Tony Soprano's Italian mobsters being replaced by Jewish gangsters. The threats also document the lengths to which Trump's team will go to silence critics, damaging witnesses, or leakers.

There is one unusual postscript to this story. On July 12, just a few days ago, WMR reported on the cold case beating death of Stars & Stripes assistant managing editor David Butler on July 15, 2000. WMR followed up on the case in a report in 2009. Although in 2000, this editor's beat was the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon for a French publication, I did inquire about the details of Butler's death, especially since he was practically a neighbor of mine in Arlington, Virginia and worked, as did I, out of the National Press Building in downtown DC. The recent July 12 story on Butler arose from questions posed in a series of emails sent by someone who said he was a good friend of Butler while he lived in Texas. After a series of emails with Butler's purported "friend," he admitted that he really did not know Butler that well at all and inquired as to whether Butler ever worked, like Seth Rich, as a volunteer for the Democratic National Committee. From what I have gathered, Butler was a professional journalist who did not involve himself in partisan politics. However, bringing up the case of Butler, who was murdered 17 years ago, in relation to Seth Rich and the DNC was odd, to say the least.

Grand theft of ancient Middle Eastern artifacts proven to involve Israel - By The Wayne Madsen Report

Grand theft of ancient Middle Eastern artifacts proven to involve Israel - By The Wayne Madsen Report
The right-wing Christian-owned store chain Hobby Lobby has settled a federal case that saw the Oklahoma City-based crafts retailer fined $3 million for illegally importing stolen artifacts from Iraq for "the Museum of the Bible" the store's owner, Steve Green, is building near the National Mall in Washington, DC. Oddly, the title of the civil asset forfeiture case, brought in the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of New York, does not mention the 600-store Hobby Lobby chain or Green as the major culprits.Had the case been criminal, as it should have been since Hobby Lobby violated a 1990 law on trafficking of Iraq, the case would have been United States of America v. Hobby Lobby, Inc.

In 2016, Hobby Lobby donated to the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina, and the Senate campaigns of Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. In 2012, presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Herman Cain received Hobby Lobby campaign cash. Another major recipient has been Oklahoma Senator Jim Lankford.

Democrats in Congress suspect that the Justice Department, under pressure from Green's fellow right-wing Christian fundamentalist, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, gave Green a pass in allowing him to avoid criminal charges in return for accepting a fine and civilly forfeiting the stolen artifacts. Somehow, Green and Hobby Lobby managed to evade criminal prosecutions. The formal civil forfeiture case title is "United States of America, plaintiff, against Approximately Four Hundred Fifty (450) Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand (3,000) Ancient Clay Bullae." None of the Israeli or UAE agents are identified in the federal court filing. They are given the designations as “Israeli Dealer #1,” “Israeli Dealer #2,” "Israeli Dealer #3," and “UAE Dealer."


How many of the artifacts displayed in Hobby Lobby's $800 million Bible (or "Buy Bull") Museum, three blocks south of the U.S. Capitol, were stolen from Iraq in the neo-con occupation of that country? The museum is scheduled to open in November.

Green first inspected the artifacts in 2010 when he visited the United Arab Emirates. The artifacts were in the custody of two Israeli dealers who claimed they were the property of a third Israeli dealer. Another dealer from the UAE was present at Green's meeting with the Israelis. Hobby Lobby agreed to wire $1.6 million to seven bank accounts identified with five different individuals in return for the artifacts. Green used three different corporate entities to receive the shipments: Hobby Lobby, Mardel, Inc. and Crafts, Etc! One shipment of antiquities was falsely undervalued, with the invoice stating the contents were "57 'hand made [sic] miniature clay tiles (sample)' valued at $5.00 each for a total value of $285.00."

In any other similar case, Hobby Lobby would have been charged with criminal "construction of payments" to avoid detection of paying for stolen goods, that is, "money laundering." In January 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized five shipments containing Green's stolen artifacts at the FedEx facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Additional shipments, via express mail from Israel and the UAE, were seized by U.S. Customs at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Some of the shipments' points of origin were falsely identified as Turkey and Israel. Justice Department investigators discovered that Green's Israeli agents used fake invoices, shipping labels, and other documentation to mask the actual origin and nature of the stolen artifacts and antiquities.

An antiquities expert hired by Hobby Lobby before the purchase of the stolen goods was arranged warned the corporation that the items they planned to purchase may have been stolen. The following statement from the expert is excerpted from the federal case filing:

"I would regard the acquisition of any artifact likely from Iraq (which could be described as Mesopotamian, Assyrian, Akkadian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Parthian, Sassanian and
possibly other historic or cultural terms) as carrying considerable risk. An estimated 200-500,000 objects have been looted from archaeological sites in Iraq since the early 1990s; particularly popular on the market and likely to have been looted are cylinder seals, cuneiform tablets . . . . Any object brought into the US and with Iraq declared as country of origin has a high chance of being detained by US Customs. If such an object has been brought into the US in the past few years and was not stopped by US Customs, then you need to examine the import documents to see if the country of origin was properly
declared; an improper declaration of country of origin can also lead to seizure and forfeiture of the object."

Disregarding the expert's warning, Hobby Lobby negotiated the final sale and shipment of the items.

 
One of the priceless cuneiform tablets [left] from Iraq discovered in Hobby Lobby's stolen cache of artifacts destined for its Bible Museum in Washington. Cuneifrom tablets like the one above were falsely identified as "ceramic tiles" from Israel or Turkey. A clay bullae, or seal, also found in Hobby Lobby's stolen cache [right].

The Green family, which prides itself on Christian evangelism and conservative values, including opposition to gay marriage and abortion, conveniently ignored the sixth of the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not steal."

This editor first reported on the surgical theft of artifacts from Iraq on April 14, 2003: "U.S. troops stood by while Iraqi mobs looted and destroyed artifacts at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. They also reportedly joined looters who pillaged other lucrative targets like office buildings, stores, and private homes. The Bush regime ignored calls from Koichiro Matsura, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), who appealed to the United States to provide protection for Iraqi museums . . . One could feel the pain experienced by the museum's deputy director when she tearfully told Western journalists that 170,000 priceless artifacts dating back thousands of years to the very cradle of human civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, the fabled home of the biblical Garden of Eden, were looted or destroyed. She said one tank and one or two American soldiers would have been sufficient to protect the museum from the vandals. But instead, American troops stood idly by while 7000 years of Iraqi history was cleansed. Even irreplaceable archaeological files and computer disks were destroyed. Museum employees blamed U.S. troops for the carnage."

On August 17, 2007, WMR reported: ". . . the looting of Iraqi treasures has been surgical and accomplished by outsiders who know in advance what they wish to obtain. Arab interlocutors based in Beirut, Geneva, London, Saudi Arabia, and Dubai are laundering money made from the looting of Iraqi artifacts. Much of the money is being used to fund various right-wing and neocon causes in the United States, Europe, and other regions." That report was followed a few days later, on August 21, by the following: "[Israeli] Chief Superintendent Asher Ben-Artzi, the chief of Israel's INTERPOL branch . . . is under investigation for receiving stolen 'relics.'" Our report added, "Israel has been one of the destinations for a number of stolen artifacts and relics from Iraq, especially relics that have historical significance dating from the 'Babylonian Captivity' of the Biblical-era Jewish people."

On February 27, 2015, WMR reported: "Although ISIL [Islamic State] videos show jihadists destroying an Assyrian winged lion and a relief of a face, priceless archaeological finds from the Assyrian palace of King Sennacherib are believed to have been sold to black marketers, just as other artifacts looted from museums and ruins in Egypt, Babylon, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen have been sold to unscrupulous dealers of stolen antiquities, many of whom are based in Israel." Four years earlier, on February 14, 2011, WMR reported: "Artifacts from the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, including those from the Umayyad, Abbasid, Tulunid, Fatimid, Ayubid, Mameluk and Ottoman eras . . . ended up in the hands of black marketers, with many ending up in private hands in Israel or among Jewish fences in Europe."

U.S. Customs managed to identify one Israeli conduit for Hobby Lobby's artifact collection at its Bible Museum in Washington. Congress should demand that all the museum's additional holdings of 40,000 be audited by independent experts because there is a distinct probability that the thieving "Christian" fundies at Hobby Lobby managed to purloin other stolen artifacts from ancient sites in carnage-ravaged Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Libya, and Iraq with the help of their Israeli friends.