Tuesday, December 31, 2019

War is a racket and racketeers and gangsters are running America




War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses…

There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism…

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.

The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. ~ Major General Smedley Butler USMC in his speech delivered in 1933

Amen, General Butler.  War is a racket and if there ever was a shining example of that it is what is going on in Ukraine.  The Oligarchs in congress are up to their eyeballs in pillaging Ukraine and have been since the beginning.  The hot bed of corruption known as the United States congress are the enemies of the American people.  They serve only their bankrolling masters.  The real reason President Trump is being impeached is that he has stumbled onto uncovering the real perpetrators of the corruption in Ukraine.  From F. William Engdahl at Information Clearing House:


Excerpt:

An American Oligarch‘s Dirty Tale of Corruption

Rarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following comes from correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire, now naturalized American speculator, George Soros.

The hacker group CyberBerkut has published online letters allegedly written by Soros that reveal him not only as puppet master of the US-backed Ukraine regime. They also reveal his machinations with the US Government and the officials of the European Union in a scheme where, if he succeeds, he could win billions in the plunder of Ukraine assets. All, of course, would be at the expense of Ukrainian citizens and of EU taxpayers…

In the longest memo, dated March 15, 2015 and marked “Confidential” Soros outlines a detailed map of actions for the Ukraine regime. Titled, “A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine,” the memo from Soros calls for steps to “restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement…”

Soros also calls for supplying lethal arms to Ukraine and secretly training Ukrainian army personnel in Romania to avoid direct NATO presence in Ukraine…

Naked asset grab

In his March 2015 memo Soros further writes that Ukrainian President Poroshenko’s “first priority must be to regain control of financial markets,” which he assures Poroshenko that Soros would be ready to assist in: “I am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement.”

He also calls on the EU to give Ukraine an annual aid sum of €11 billion via a special EU borrowing facility. Soros proposes in effect using the EU’s “AAA” top credit rating to provide a risk insurance for investment into Ukraine.

Whose risk would the EU insure?

Soros details, “I am prepared to invest up to €1 billion in Ukrainian businesses. This is likely to attract the interest of the investment community. As stated above, Ukraine must become an attractive investment destination.” Not to leave any doubt, Soros continues, “The investments will be for-profit but I will pledge to contribute the profits to my foundations. This should allay suspicions that I am advocating policies in search of personal gain. “

For anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the world since the late 1980’s, will know that his supposedly philanthropic “democracy-building” projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the 1990’s allowed Soros the businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries using Harvard University’s “shock therapy” messiah, and Soros associate, Jeffrey Sachs, to convince the post-Soviet governments to privatize and open to a “free market” at once, rather than gradually.

Naftogaz the target

The Soros memo makes clear he has his eyes on the Ukrainian state gas and energy monopoly, Naftogaz. He writes, “The centerpiece of economic reforms will be the reorganization of Naftogaz and the introduction of market pricing for all forms of energy, replacing hidden subsidies…”

In an earlier letter Soros wrote in December 2014 to both President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Soros openly called for his Shock Therapy: “I want to appeal to you to unite behind the reformers in your government and give your wholehearted support to a radical, ‘big bang’ type of approach.

That is to say, administrative controls would be removed and the economy would move to market prices rapidly rather than gradually…Naftogaz needs to be reorganized with a big bang replacing the hidden subsidies…”

Splitting Naftogaz into separate companies could allow Soros to take control of one of the new branches and essentially privatize its profits. He already suggested that he indirectly brought in US consulting company, McKinsey*, to advise Naftogaz on the privatization “big bang.”

The Puppet-Master?

The totality of what is revealed in the three hacked documents show that Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most of the strings in Kiev. Soros Foundation’s Ukraine branch, International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) has been involved in Ukraine since 1989.

His IRF doled out more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, creating the preconditions for Ukraine’s independence from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to financing the 2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that brought the current government into power.

Soros’ foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department.

In 2004 just weeks after Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation had succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, Michael McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post. McFaul, a specialist in organizing color revolutions, who later became US Ambassador to Russia, revealed:

Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The American agents of influence would prefer different language to describe their activities — democratic assistance, democracy promotion, civil society support, etc. — but their work, however labeled, seeks to influence political change in Ukraine…

Soros shapes ‘New Ukraine’

Today the CyberBerkut hacked papers show that Soros’ IRF money is behind creation of a National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential decree from Poroshenko which allows the Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine’s legislature. Soros writes, “The framework for bringing the various branches of government together has also emerged.

The National Reform Council (NRC) brings together the presidential administration, the cabinet of ministers, the Rada and its committees and civil society. The International Renaissance Foundation which is the Ukrainian branch of the Soros Foundations was the sole financial supporter of the NRC until now…”

Soros’ NRC in effect is the vehicle to allow the President to override parliamentary debate to push through “reforms,” with the declared FIRST PRIORITY BEING PRIVATIZATION OF NAFTOGAZ and raising gas prices drastically to Ukrainian industry and households, something the bankrupt country can hardly afford.

In his letter to Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, Soros hints that HE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN SELECTION OF THREE KEY NON-UKRAINIAN MINISTERS—Natalia Jaresko, an American ex- State Department official as Finance Minister; Aivras Abromavicius of Lithuania as Economics Minister, and a health minister from Georgia.

Soros in his December 2014 letter, referring to HIS PROPOSAL FOR A “BIG BANK” PRIVATIZATION OF NAFTOGAZ AND PRICE RISE, states, “You are fortunate to have appointed three ‘new Ukrainian’ ministers and several natives (sic) who are committed to this approach.”

Elsewhere Soros speaks about de facto CREATING THE IMPRESSION within the EU that the current government of Yatsenyuk is finally CLEANING OUT THE NOTORIOUS CORRUPTION that has dominated every Kiev regime since 1991. Creating that temporary reform illusion, he remarks, will convince the EU to cough up the €11 billion annual investment insurance fund…

While saying that it is important to show Ukraine as a country that is not corrupt, Soros reveals he has little concern when transparency and proper procedures block his agenda. Talking about HIS PROPOSALS TO REFORM UKRAINE’S CONSTITUTION TO ENABLE PRIVATIZATIONS and other Soros-friendly moves, he complains, “The process has been slowed down by the insistence of the newly elected Rada on proper procedures and total transparency…”

George Soros, now 84, was born in Hungary as a Jew, George Sorosz. Soros once boasted in a TV interview that he posed during the war as a gentile with forged papers, assisting the Horthy government to seize property of other Hungarian Jews who were being shipped to the Nazi death camps.

Soros told the TV moderator, “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets–that if I weren’t there–of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would.”

This is the same morality apparently behind Soros’ activities in Ukraine today. It seems again to matter not to him that the Ukrainian government he helped bring to power in February 2014 US coup d’etat is riddled with explicit anti-semites and self-proclaimed neo-Nazis from the Svoboda Party and Pravy Sektor.

George Soros is clearly a devotee of “public-private-partnership.” Only here THE PUBLIC GETS FLEECED TO ENRICH PRIVATE INVESTORS LIKE MR. SOROS and friends. Cynically, Soros signs his Ukraine strategy memo, “George Soros–A self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine, March 12, 2015.”

*The consulting company Soros brought in to split up Noftogaz, McKinsey is the previous employer of Mayor Pete Buttigieg who is running for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President.  If Mayor Pete replaces Trump, you can be sure he won’t be holding up money for lethal weapons for Ukraine.

In the Soros manifesto he talks about investing up to “€1 billion in Ukrainian businesses” to attract the investment community into Ukraine.  But Soros’ intentions aren’t to benefit the people of Ukraine it is like Smedley Butler said “It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”  Soros’ idea of investing in business in Ukraine are companies like Bayer, formerly Monsanto.  From Stalker Zone 2018:

Excerpt:

Monsanto Brings Its Carcinogenic Production to Ukraine

According to the Ukrainian president, the country is experiencing an investment boom, and one piece of proof of this is the opening of a super-modern seed plant of the German corporation Bayer, which took place recently in the Zhytomyr region.

However, in reality the “German investor” appeared to be the American company “Monsanto”, which has a very bad reputation worldwide because of the use of GMO and cancerogenic herbicides.

“The investment boom happening in Ukraine serves as bright confirmation of the trust that foreign investors have in our country,” pathosly said Poroshenko on his Twitter, having illustrated the “investment breakthrough” with footage of the sorting of corn cobs at the enterprise of the “powerful European investor”…

These investments confirm the resolute commitment of the Bayer company to Ukraine. It is planned to expand the activity of the plant and also deliveries to the foreign markets in the future,” it is said in the press release of the German company.

However, the investment project, grandiose by Ukrainian standards, turned out to be not the case when trousers “turn into elegant shorts”, after all, it became German relatively recently, namely after Bayer finished the merger with the American corporation of Monsanto in the summer of last year. Before this happened, investments were presented as “American”.

“Monsanto in 2018 plans to start a seed plant in the Zhytomyr region. The new seed plant, which will make high-quality corn seeds, will be opened in the Zhytomyr region in 2018. The plant will be better than the equivalent ones in the US,” it was noted in the information in the media dated 2017. 

The American Monsanto’s acquisition by the German Bayer helped to get rid of the toxic name of the American company in press releases, but it didn’t change its essence.

Monsanto has tried to expand its activity in Ukraine for a long time. Thus, the company declared the construction of a plant in 2013 in the Vinnytsia region with a volume of investment at the level of $140 million. On this territory it was planned to construct a seed plant, a logistic center, and also the accompanying infrastructure.

But back then the American company faced the negative reaction of the public of the city, which opposed the construction of a plant by a corporation possessing a doubtful reputation around the world.

In particular, in their homeland, in the US, “Monsanto” is widely known as an “unwanted neighbor”. The pesticides production plant in Anniston for more than 40 years deliberately dumped toxic waste into the river that ran through the city, which became the reason for mass death and disease among residents.

Scientific figures of the region unambiguously spoke against the construction of the plant too. “The problem is that it isn’t authentically known what exactly they plan to produce there,” said the professor and head of the botany, genetics, and physiology of plants department of the Vinnytsia agricultural university Vasily Mamalyga to the “20 minutes“ publication.

Without having received distinct explanations from the company concerning the details of the project, Vinnytsia officials were compelled to refuse to cooperate with “Monsanto”. The tender for the sale of Vinnytsia land wasn’t completed — all three attempts were unsuccessful.

But the transcontinental giant isn’t used to being refused, and it decided to transfer construction to another region, namely to the Zhytomyr region, which was declared already after the “revolution of dignity”…

The arrival of the “powerful investor” consecrated by Poroshenko will hardly please the inhabitants of Zhytomyr, because near by they received a rather dubious enterprise.

For example, the London newspaper “The Telegraph” noted that in 2015 in England and Wales the quantity of new oncological diseases exceeded the number of babies who were born to first-time mothers. And the largest charitable organisation Macmillan Cancer Support claimed that every day 980 citizens of Her Majesty are diagnosed with a malignant tumor. And the most awful thing is that the time will come when, with high probability, every second English person falls ill with this dreadful disease during their lifetime.

The carcinogens provoking malignant tumors are numerous, but the most dangerous source of evil is already known. It is herbicide glyphosate. Colin Todhunter, the British journalist, sociologist, and leader of the “EAST BY NORTHWEST” website, directly calls it one of the key reasons for the beginning of a cancer epidemic.

He is guided by the 19-page report of the well known ecologist Dr. Rosemary Mason, which includes convincing proof of the slow intoxication of the inhabitants of Wales by the production of the American company Monsanto, mainly glyphosate.

But Kiev doesn’t think of this. The most important thing is that news about investments became the next decoration on the list of “victories” on Poroshenko’s Twitter. Well, about the fact that “German” investments aren’t German at all, but very dubious American ones, and only the packaging changed – there is no need to present this to the local public. Although, it might be possible to not even hide it. Well, they will “kick up a fuss and then forget about it” – as one Ukrainian politician put it.

Yep, war is a racket.  Trump is being impeached for holding up the money congress allotted to fund George Soros’ plunder of Ukraine.  What a racket indeed.   Soros wouldn’t be able to achieve his goals in Ukraine if he hadn’t bought off powerful members of congress, like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry.  The U.S. State Department has Soros’ back. 

As the Soros manifesto commands, the U.S. must “create the impression that the current government is cleaning out the notorious corruption in Ukraine.”  But in fact Biden et al’s cleaning out corruption was an illusion.  From TheHill:

Excerpt:

US Embassy pressed Ukraine to drop probe of George Soros group during 2016 election

While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).

The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted.

The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing directly from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, where the Obama administration took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and the group.

“The investigation into the Anti-Corruption Action Center (sic), based on the assistance they have received from us, is similarly misplaced,” then-embassy Charge d’ Affaires George Kent wrote the prosecutor’s office in April 2016 in a letter that also argued U.S. officials had no concerns about how the U.S. aid had been spent.

At the time, the nation’s prosecutor general had just been fired, under pressure from the United States, and a permanent replacement had not been named.

A few months later, Yuri Lutsenko, widely regarded as a hero in the West for spending two years in prison after fighting Russian aggression in his country, was named prosecutor general and invited to meet new U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

Lutsenko told me he was stunned when the ambassador “gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute.” The list included a founder of the AntAC group and two members of Parliament who vocally supported the group’s anti-corruption reform agenda, according to a source directly familiar with the meeting.

It turns out the group that Ukrainian law enforcement was probing was co-funded by the Obama administration and liberal mega-donor George Soros. And it was collaborating with the FBI agents investigating then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s business activities with pro-Russian figures in Ukraine.

The implied message to Ukraine’s prosecutors was clear: Don’t target AntAC in the middle of an America presidential election in which Soros was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, Barack Obama, Ukrainian officials said.

“We ran right into a buzzsaw and we got bloodied,” a senior Ukrainian official told me.

Lutsenko suggested the embassy applied pressure because it did not want Americans to see who was being funded with its tax dollars. “At the time, Ms. Ambassador thought our interviews of the Ukrainian citizens, of the Ukrainian civil servants who were frequent visitors in the U.S. Embassy, could cast a shadow on that anti-corruption policy,” he said…

 In the end, no action was taken against AntAC and it remains thriving today. Nonetheless, the anecdote is taking on new significance.

First, it conflicts with the State Department’s official statement last week after Lutsenko first mentioned the do-not-prosecute list. The embassy responded that the claim was a fabrication and a sign that corruption is alive and well inside Ukraine.

But Kent’s letter unequivocally shows the embassy did press Ukrainian prosecutors to back off what normally would be considered an internal law enforcement matter inside a sovereign country. And more than a half-dozen U.S. and Ukrainian sources confirmed to me the AntAC case wasn’t the only one in which American officials exerted pressure on Ukrainian investigators in 2016…

Second, the AntAC anecdote highlights a little-known fact that the pursuit of foreign corruption has resulted in an unusual alliance between the U.S. government and a political mega-donor.

After the Obama Justice Department launched its Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative a decade ago to prosecute corruption in other countries, the State Department, Justice Department and FBI outsourced some of its work in Ukraine to groups funded by Soros.

The Hungarian-American businessman is one of the largest donors to American liberal causes, a champion of the U.S. kleptocracy crackdown and a man with extensive business interests in Ukraine.  One key U.S. partner was AntAC, which received 59 percent (or $1 million) of its nearly $1.7 million budget since 2012 from U.S. budgets tied to State and Justice, and nearly $290,000 from Soros’s International Renaissance Foundation, according to the group’s donor disclosure records. 

The U.S.-Soros collaboration was visible in Kiev. Several senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials and FBI agents appeared in pictures as participants or attendees at Soros-sponsored events and conferences.  One attendee was Karen Greenaway, then the FBI supervisor in charge of international fraud cases and one of the lead agents in the Manafort investigation in Ukraine. She attended multiple such events and won glowing praise in a social media post from AntAC’s executive director.

In one event during 2016, Greenaway and Ambassador Yovanovitch participated alongside AntAC’s executive director, Daria Kaleniuk, and Lutsenko was present. The message was clear: The embassy supported AntAC.

The FBI confirmed Greenaway’s contacts with the Soros group, saying they were part of her investigative work: “In furtherance of the FBI’s mission and in the course of their duties, FBI employees routinely travel and participated in public forums in an official capacity. At a minimum, all such travel and speaking engagements are authorized by the employee’s direct supervisor and can receive further authorization all the way up to the relevant division head, along with an ethics official determination.”  

Greenaway recently retired, and Soros’s AntAC soon after announced she was joining its supervisory board.

Internal memos from Soros’s umbrella charity organization, Open Society Foundations, describe a concerted strategy of creating friendships inside key government agencies such as State, DOJ and the FBI that can be leveraged inside the countries Soros was targeting for anti-corruption activism…

That same memo shows Soros’s organization wanted to make Ukraine a top priority, starting in 2014, and planned to use the Anti-Corruption Action Centre as its lead…

“Ukraine: Behind the scenes advice and support to Ukrainian partner Anti-Corruption Action Centre’s efforts to generate corruption litigation in Europe and the U.S. respecting state assets stolen by senior Ukrainian leaders,” the memo states.

The memo included a chart of Ukrainians the Soros team wanted to have pursued, including some with ties to Manafort.

Senior U.S. law enforcement officials confirmed to me that the early kleptocracy collaborations inside Ukraine led to highly visible U.S. actions against the oligarch Dmitri Firtash, a major target of the Soros group, and Manafort. Firtash is now represented by former Hillary Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis and former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb.

Documents posted online by Open Society Foundations show that after U.S. officials scored some early successes in corruption cases in Ukraine, such as asset forfeitures, AntAC requested to receive some of the seized money…

Michael Vachon, a spokesman for Soros, deferred any comment about AntAC to the group. But he did he confirm his boss supported the continued investigation of Russia collusion allegations against Trump well past 2016.

Vachon said Soros wrote a sizable check from his personal funds in fall 2017 to a new group, Democracy Integrity Project, started by a former FBI agent and Senate staffer Daniel Jones to continue “investigation and research into foreign interference in American elections and European elections.” 

Vachon said the group asked Soros not to divulge the size of his contribution, and Soros later learned the group hired Fusion GPS, the same firm that was paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party to create the infamous “Steele dossier” alleging Trump-Russia collusion…

Yes, war is a racket.  As Smedley Butler said, “It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.”  The American military is used by these racketeers as a “high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, the military are used as racketeers and gangsters for capitalism. 

President Trump has tried to end this situation and that is why he was impeached by the gangsters for capitalism in the U.S. government.  Let’s hope he can stay strong and fight off the gangsters and racketeers and save America.  Amen





No comments:

Post a Comment