Preparing the Public for War with Iran—for Israel
by James M. Rockefeller with Jeff Gates
“What kind of democracy you believe we ought to be, and what the American people have a right to expect in the conduct of their President.” — Congressman Adam Schiff (January 22. 2020)
Since publication of the analysis below, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, continued a personal meltdown when pressed by journalists on the rationales offered and the results achieved with the January 3rd U.S. killing in Iraq of an iconic Iranian general. On January 24, on a National Public Radio interview, Pompeo lashed out at NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly. He then summoned her to his private dining room where, while repeatedly using the “f-word”, he challenged her intelligence and further berated her. The State Department then banned an NPR reporter from Pompeo’s trip to a region where freedom of the press is, at best, challenged. The Kelly incident led Donald Trump to question why NPR exists, putting at risk the U.S. commitment to a free press. The next day, in an announcement of his Middle East Peace Plan (with Benjamin Netanyahu at his side), Trump praised Pompeo’s treatment of the NPR reporter [1] as “impressive”.[2]
Working through asset Donald Trump, the U.S. is edging closer to a war with Iran sought by the Israeli Right with support from the Zionist Christian Right. Those responsible include Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, who assured Israeli journalists in March 2019 that he believes it “possible” that Donald Trump was sent by God to protect Israel from Iran. A decade ago, Kansas Congressman Pompeo assured his friends and colleagues that he would not withdraw from public service until Iranian Qassim Suleimani was killed. On January 3, 2020, he was assassinated in Iraq.
By allowing personal agendas and beliefs to dictate U.S. foreign policy, Pompeo mirrors the behavior of Donald Trump who, to advance his personal political agenda, withheld Congressionally approved military aide to Ukraine.[3] U.S. national security and the future of democracy are endangered by those who operate above the law to satisfy their personal goals or act out their beliefs. That self-absorbed mindset is the greatest danger now facing democracy and the gravest threat to world peace.
Both President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu face political vulnerability and potential criminal liability. The release of damning new emails and an explosive trove of evidence released January 14 further confirm that Trump abused his presidential power, the key charge supporting his impeachment by the House and potential removal by the Senate. Reports from inside the White House confirmed that he embraced Pompeo’s plan to kill Suleimani in an effort to hold onto enough Republican support in the Senate to block his removal from office.[4]
Israeli extremists have long sought a war with Iran. So too have Christian Zionist extremists such as John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel.[5] Israeli leaders knew that Barack Obama had turned against their extremism and militarism and their efforts to induce the U.S. to war with Iran. Netanyahu charged that Obama’s failure to set “red lines” for Tehran denied him the “moral right” to stop an Israeli attack on Iran.[6] Obama was also angry that Netanyahu and Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer raised funds in Florida for Republican opponent Mitt Romney, a Zionist Mormon (aka from the “Lost Tribe of Israel”).
The Israeli Right feared that Obama’s reelection could put that Zionist goal beyond reach. In September 2016, pro-Israel lobbyist Patrick Clawson called for “crisis initiation” to “step up the pressure” for war with Iran.[7] Trump never had a strong party affiliation, switching to the GOP to support Romney in 2012. He came into national politics as an “empty vessel” quickly filled with anti-Obama, pro-Israel policies. Thus his opposition to “Obamacare” and the Obama-era Iran nuclear accord. His obsession with Obama reflects that of Bibi Netanyahu who realized that Obama knew of his duplicity. The 2020 Pompeo/Trump assassinations may yet provoke the reaction sought to initiate a crisis for pro-Israel extremists.[8]
My father pointed out in a 1964 speech at Harvard that those who pose the greatest threat to democracy share a “tireless genius for crisis”. Or, as my life experience proves, a genius for well-timed crisis. For those I profiled while being stalked, staged crises provide a proven means to displace both facts and critical thinking and fill that void with what others can be induced to believe is true, empowering those such as evangelical Christian Mike Pompeo and poorly informed policy makers such as Donald Trump.
Similar to the false intelligence deployed to induce a disastrous war in Iraq, both Pompeo and Trump actively deceived the public about the rationale for killing an Iranian military official in Iraq while not disclosing a failed same-day attempt to assassinate a second Iranian in Yemen.[9] When Defense Secretary Mark Esper disavowed Trump’s claim of an imminent attack on four U.S embassies, Trump tweeted “it doesn’t really matter” if the threat was imminent.[10] As the imminence rationale was discredited, deterrence became the justification. When that rationale failed, Pompeo (citing the “Iranian Example”) announced on January 13 a U.S. policy titled, The Restoration of Deterrence with a clear implication of preemptive deterrence,[11] a policy long pursued by the Israeli Right to go anywhere and kill anyone deemed a threat.
Due to this well-timed crisis, Trump’s removal from office is now constrained by the prospect of undercutting a Commander-in-Chief while another potential war in the Middle East looms due to the preemptive assassination in Baghdad of Iran’s top military official. Also killed was a senior Iraqi official who had been working alongside the U.S. to defeat ISIS. The Islamic State celebrated the deaths as an act of divine intervention benefitting jihadists as one of their primary enemies, the U.S. president, killed another while also enabling ISIS to take advantage of instability, chaos and weakened and divided enemies.
These assassinations, with advanced notice to Israel, were preplanned operations in search of a plausible pretext of an imminent threat. As former U.S. diplomat Chas Freeman points out,[12] this was a “strategy-free gambit, equivalent to beginning a game of chess with only an opening move in mind” that also risks legitimizing assassinations as a tool of U.S. foreign policy. The result makes the U.S. appear as lawless as the Israeli extremists whose decades of assassinations and deadly provocations make the U.S. appear guilty by our association with those whose behavior we now mimic.
A similar crisis emerged in post-invasion Iraq when, with our removal of a despot, brutal Islamic extremists emerged who had been contained by the brutality of Saddam Hussein. U.S. forces may now be forced to withdraw from Iraq, achieving a key strategic objective of Islamic extremists, both Sunni and Shia.
These well-timed assassinations also served the political and personal agenda of Bibi Netanyahu who faces a March 2 election after two inconclusive elections. If not reelected, he faces criminal prosecution for corruption. His first election victory in 1996 by less than one percent of the vote followed a series of terrorist attacks provoked by the Israeli killing of a Palestinian whose violence, in turn, was provoked by the brutal terms of the Israeli occupation.[13] Netanyahu’s 2020 campaign needed a well-timed crisis to portray him as best qualified to protect Israel from Iran. The U.S. assassination of Iranian and Iraqi officials provided the “messaging” he required while also associating him with Donald Trump’s savior-like status among extremists both on the Israeli Right and with Trump’s base within the Zionist Christian Right.[14]
In classic game theory warfare fashion, Iran announced in response to the assassination that it no longer feels bound by the terms of the six-party 2015 nuclear accord. Tehran’s withdrawal pre-stages a rationale that can be cited to justify an Israeli-initiated attack on Iran, igniting a war sought by Israeli extremists and welcomed by rapture-awaiting Zionist Christians in fulfillment of their apocalyptic End Times beliefs.[15] The missing piece: a casus belli such as a deadly terrorist attack that well may be in the pre-staging phase—perpetrated by any of the many Hezbollah-affiliates that often operate on their own initiative.
The “dispensationalist” mindset shared by fundamentalists within evangelical Christianity risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy when, as now, it risks triggering another disastrous war in a volatile region where a key actor (Israel) possesses an arsenal of nuclear weapons. And where, as now, a U.S Commander-in-Chief must please the Christian Right to improve his troubled prospects for reelection in November.
Who Benefits? When Qassim Suleimani landed in Baghdad on the morning of his death, he was reportedly seeking to stabilize relations between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, the crux of so much strife in the region and beyond. As Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister explained to the Iraqi Parliament, “I was supposed to meet him in the morning the day he was killed, he came to deliver a message from Iran in response to the message we had delivered from the Saudis to Iran.” Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi also revealed that Trump had called him to ask that he mediate after protestors stormed the U.S. embassy on January 31 and reportedly called again to thank him for his help when the protestors dispersed the next day.
The fact that he arrived on a commercial flight suggests he was expected as an envoy. U.S. intelligence would have had this information. Given Pompeo’s personal interests and his faith-based agenda, informing Donald Trump was a different matter. Israeli intelligence also would have known but likewise had multiple motivations to remain silent. Is it possible that General Suleimani was lured to his death shortly after Trump hung up from thanking Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi?
Donald Trump faces the same challenge as George W. Bush in relying on filtered intelligence—as documented in the 2018 film, Vice. A key difference: Trump routinely ignores intelligence and analysis, relying instead on gut instinct and his favorite T.V. commentators. That mindset—when combined with his known lack of curiosity—ensures his vulnerability to manipulation by those who national security analysts describe as “the people in between”. I studied such operatives while being stalked my entire life as the son of Nelson Rockefeller, four-time Governor of New York and Vice President to Gerald Ford.
Those I profiled routinely lie, deflect, deceive, provoke and displace facts with manipulated beliefs—as with our belief in Iraqi WMD. One year after 9/11, 69% of Americans surveyed in a September 2002 Washington Post/ABC poll believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in those attacks despite the fact that he detested Islamic extremists and routinely gave orders to kill them. Those I identified also undermine faith in the facts. Thus the role of Devin Nunes who, as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, (a) lobbied Trump to name Committee Member Mike Pompeo as Director of Central Intelligence, (b) ensured the appointment of aide Derek Harvey to the National Security Council, and (c) assured that aide Kashyap (“Kash”) Patel was appointed to the NSC’s counter-terrorism team.[16]
February 2018 saw release of the “Nunes memo” alleging an FBI conspiracy against Trump. That fact-displacing memo fueled the “deep state” conspiracy theory cited by Trump to justify disparaging or ignoring intelligence while creating a trusted back channel to feed Trump more disinformation.[17]
The consistency of the behavior patterns I profiled over decades points to ongoing pre-staging of a fact-displacing, fear-and-insecurity narrative meant to induce the U.S. to wage another disastrous war—for the Israeli Right. A flurry of anti-Semitic attacks deflects attention and deters investigators fearful of being smeared as anti-Semites should they inquire about the role of the Israeli Right in catalyzing serial crises that impose steadily increasing costs on the U.S., undermine stability worldwide and hamper our ability to focus on genuine threats—such as the crisis of climate change and the time-critical need to transition to a sensible economic model.
The U.N. recognized climate change as “the defining issue of our time” yet we may allow those described to induce us into waging yet another wasteful war against our true interests. That’s insanity on steroids. The problem resides in the duplicitous U.S.-Israel relationship dating to more than seven decades ago. Below is a partial chronicle of the ongoing step-by-step pre-staging for the next war:
May 18, 2018—Trump abandoned the 2015 Iran nuclear accord negotiated by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and the EU (P5+1) and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, a form of non-military warfare. No one, including Tel Aviv, claimed Tehran was in noncompliance. That decision delighted the Israeli Right, alienated other signatories, isolated the U.S. and removed any remaining doubt about the war-with-Iran influence wielded by pro-Israelis inside our government.[18]
The preamble to the agreement reads: “Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.” The terms of the agreement assured compliance verified by periodic international inspections for 15 years. With Iran’s withdrawal in response to the assassinations, the “breakout period” required to develop weapons was reduced to an estimated five months. That possibility can—and likely will—be cited to justify an attack on Iran. The sizeable nuclear arsenal available for use by Zionist extremists remains largely unmentioned.
September 2018—Netanyahu flew to London to meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
February 5, 2019—Trump appointed an envoy to combat anti-Semitism.
March 21-22, 2019—While visiting Israel, our evangelical End Times Secretary of State Mike Pompeo assured reporters he believes it “possible” that Trump was sent by God to protect Israel from Iran.
April 8, 2019—The Trump administration designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, the first time the U.S. has so designated the military forces of another nation.
April 22, 2019—The Trump administration canceled sanction waivers for Iran’s remaining oil customers, further curbing revenues, triggering inflation and crippling their economy—a form of warfare.
May 7, 2019—Pompeo canceled a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and flew to Baghdad reliant on Israeli intelligence that Americans are at risk due to rising tensions with Iran. Netanyahu: “The first subject that I will raise is Iran, the second subject is Iran, and so is the third, and many more.” The intelligence turned out not to be actionable (Israel’s Channel 12 confirmed Israel was the source). That high-profile trip “messaged” that plans were underway to proceed against Iran.
Reports following the January 7, 2020 Iranian missile attack on a U.S airbase in Iraq identified Zionist Christian Pompeo as the principal architect in the Trump administration for war with Iran. As a former CIA Director, he knew how to bypass legitimate intelligence channels. An investigation should examine all communications between Netanyahu and Pompeo. The facts suggest they were planning no later than this May 7, 2019 meeting to assassinate an Iranian official in January 2020. Trump and Pompeo then fabricated intelligence to suggest an attack was imminent.
June 12, 2019—Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Tehran for a two-day diplomatic mission aimed at cooling tensions. The day before, the Trump administration criticized Tehran for breaching the nuclear deal that Trump abandoned 13 months earlier.
June 13, 2019— The day after Abe’s arrival, a Japanese-owned oil tanker was set ablaze in the Gulf of Oman. Despite the suspicious timing, the U.S. blamed the incident on Iran. Tehran denied responsibility. Videos showed Iranians removing mines. Critics questioned whether this was an attempt to stage a Gulf of Tonkin incident to induce the U.S to wage another disastrous war in the region. Trump humiliated the Japanese leader while in Iran, tweeting, “They are not ready, and neither are we.”
June 20, 2019—Iran shot down a U.S. drone it claimed was on a spy mission over its sovereign territory. The U.S. said the drone was in international air space. In response, Trump claimed that he ordered strikes on Iran, then claimed that he canceled the attacks ten minutes prior to his alleged order to strike.
July 4, 2020—At the request of the U.S., the U.K. military seized an Iranian tanker, alleging Tehran was shipping oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions. Iran accused the U.K. of acting on behalf of the U.S. A court in Gibraltar authorized detention of the ship for an additional 14 days.
July 19, 2019—Two weeks later, Iran took into custody a UAE-owned, U.K.-flagged oil tanker, releasing it September 27.
July 28, 2019—The U.S. shot down an Iranian drone for flying too close to a U.S. warship in the Strait of Hormuz.
Sept. 14, 2019—Saudi Arabia took no action in response to an attack on its oil facilities by a swarm of 17 missiles that briefly disabled half its production. Trump said the U.S. is “locked and loaded” to attack Iran.
After the U.S. was deceived to invade Shia-dominant Iraq, ensuring a closer alliance with Shia-dominant Iran, Israel allied with its former sworn enemies—the U.S.-armed, anti-Iran Sunni oil monarchies of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. When Washington declined to respond to this attack on Saudi oil assets, Riyadh began diplomatic overtures to Tehran through Iraqi channels, lending credibility to reports that Suleimani was acting as an envoy to mediate friction between Iran and Saudi Arabia when he arrived at Baghdad International Airport the morning he was assassinated. Regardless whether this account is correct, whose interests were advanced when talks were shut down, diplomacy undermined and tensions heightened? The UAE also had talks underway with Iran.
November 15, 2019—Trump extended clemency to SEAL Eddie Gallagher after his court martial for war crimes. That presidential intervention discredited the U.S. military, undermined its good order and discipline and undercut the confidence of U.S. troops in their Commander-in-Chief.[19] Cui bono?
November 19, 2019—Netanyahu thanked Trump for Mike Pompeo’s November 18 decision repudiating a State Department legal opinion that West Bank settlements were illegal under international law, a decision certain to provoke Palestinians and delight of 600,000 Jewish settlers while removing any possibility of the agreed-to “two-state solution” to a seven-decade conflict..
December 1, 2019—Netanyahu and Trump spoke by phone about the threat of Iran.
December 2, 2019—Citing security concerns, the U.K. denied Netanyahu’s request to meet with Mike Pompeo in London on the sidelines of a NATO summit. He reportedly also planned to discuss Iran with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s President Emmanuel Macron, as well as other leaders (Merkel and Macron reportedly rebuffed inquiries about meeting with Netanyahu).
December 4, 2019—Pompeo met with Netanyahu in Lisbon where they again “messaged” the threat of Iran. Bloomberg Newsreported: “Netanyahu Joins Pompeo in Lisbon to Decry Iranian Aggression.”
December 4, 2019—Nationwide news accounts reported, “Trump may send 14,000 troops to the Middle East as the Iran threat grows.” The Pentagon denied the report even as that messaging grained traction. The Wall Street Journal reported that announcement, including “dozens more ships”, was in response to a threat posed by Tehran following warnings by Israel.
The profile given this report suggests the pre-staging of a war-with-Iran agenda in search of a crisis as its rationale. Pre-staging was also signaled when U.S. media outlets began featuring photos of the little-known Suleimani. Such “messaging” suggests a “prepare the minds” operation was underway well before the January 3 assassination. On New Year’s Day 2020, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Suleimani, “This was media and political preparation for his assassination.”
See The Indonesia Connection for the high-profile branding of Islamic extremists six months prior to the war-catalyzing provocation of 9/11. See also The Poland Connection for my interaction with Israeli operative Jerome Corsi who described the agenda-advancing role of “preparing the mind”.
December 9, 2019—Five days later, a rocket attack in Baghdad wounded members of Iraq’s U.S.-trained Counterterrorism Service. The U.S. blamed Iran-backed militias in Iraq.
December 11, 2019—The Trump White House issued an Executive Order on anti-Semitism likely to chill on-campus debate about the influence of the Jewish state, countering the potential (as with the Vietnam War) that campus demonstrations may catalyze opposition to the Israeli role in inducing the U.S. to war. Jared Kushner published a same-day op-ed in The New York Times: “Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.”
December 13, 2019—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “messaged” that any rocket attack carried out by Iran or its proxies in Iraq that harm Americans “will be answered by a decisive U.S. response.”
December 27, 2019—More than 30 rockets were fired at an Iraqi base that hosts U.S. forces, killing an American interpreter in Kirkuk. The U.S. blamed Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah (KH).
December 29, 2019—retaliatory U.S. airstrikes on five remote KH bases in Iraq and Syria killed a reported 25 people and wounded at least 50. To preserve Iraqi sovereignty, Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister announced that the Iraqi government will reconsider its relationship with the U.S. military.
December 29, 2019—Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper[20] and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley flew to Palm Beach and convened a high-profile press briefing on rising tensions with Iran.
December 30, 2019—Iraq began an official three days of mourning for those killed in U.S. airstrikes. The Iraqi prime minister confirmed he had insisted that U.S. forces not proceed with those airstrikes.
December 31-January 1—Kataib Hezbollah and others stormed the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad reminiscent of the storming in 1979 of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in June 2012 (see below). Televised images of that (game theory foreseeable) crisis reportedly provoked Trump who then gave final approval to the assassinations planned by Pompeo and Netanyahu.
January 2, 2020— Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced the U.S. will take pre-emptive action to protect U.S. forces and defend American lives (“The game has changed.”). Netanyahu remained silent.
January 3, 2020—Drone airstrikes in Iraq killed Iran’s senior military official along with two senior Iraqi military officials and seven others. Pentagon messaging claimed, “General Qassim Suleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.” Key advisers on whom Trump reportedly relied: Zionist Christians Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who, two days later, “accidentally” described Israel as a “nuclear power”.
Absent intelligence indicating an imminent attack, those killings provided Iran a casus belli by assassinating on sovereign Iraqi soil an Iranian official equivalent to killing a Secretary of Defense or Vice President. The last time the U.S killed a major military leader in a foreign nation was 1943 during WWII when U.S. forces shot down a plane carrying Japanese Marshall Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto who, after the U.S. imposition of economic sanctions and a crippling oil embargo on Japan (a form of non-military warfare), proposed the surprise December 7, 1941 attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.[21]
Jan. 3, 2020—Replacing Trump negotiator Jason Greenblatt, Avi Berkowitz was dispatched to Israel to discuss a peace plan crafted by Trump senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Conspicuous by its absence was any proposal to advance a two-state solution, an omission certain to insult and likely provoke the Palestinians.[22] Berkowitz assisted Kushner in managing the 2016 Cambridge Analytica psy-op that “elected” Donald Trump and granted him the perceived authority of Commander-in-Chief of the world’s most powerful military with virtually unlimited power to wage war—for Israel.
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A Closer Look at Lengthy Pre-Staging. Let’s take a step back to review the depth and duration of this latest pretense for war:
In 2014, Cambridge Analytica was retained to orchestrate the Facebook-enabled psy-op used to “elect” to the U.S. Senate Tom Cotton from Arkansas. Six days after a March 3, 2015 Netanyahu speech to Congress sought to undermine ongoing six-party nuclear negotiations with Iran, Cotton released an open letter to the Iranian leader signed by 47 Republican Senators stating that any Obama-negotiated accord could be reversed by the Senate or the next president “with the stroke of a pen”.[23] That letter signaled the Israel lobby to support the GOP candidate most vigorously opposed to the Iran accord and signaled outspoken candidates of assured support from the Israel lobby. The Trump campaign targeted that voting bloc along with rapture-seeking Zionists of the evangelical Christian Right.[24]
The role played by the Israeli Right, its leadership and its expansive lobby (600-plus organizations in the U.S. alone) was apparent but went largely unmentioned by a predominantly pro-Israel mainstream media. Media outlets also failed to report on how forcefully and consistently Netanyahu pressed the U.S. for war with Iran. Trump’s election gave Bibi what Zionist extremists sought: disavowal of the Iran nuclear accord (despite Iranian compliance), recognition of Jerusalem as the “eternal capital” of the Jewish state, an end to the two-state solution and funding for Palestinian refugees, a U.S. grant of legitimacy to West Bank settlements and the Israeli occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights, etc. Those who attended the May 2018 dedication of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalemconfirm how few were required to achieve these goals.
Those skeptical that a 37-year old freshman Senator would take this step on his own initiative had good reason to worry. President Obama ordered the NSA to monitor Netanyahu and his aides when they and the Israel lobby sought to undermine the Iran accord meant to prevent a war that Obama knew was being sought by Zionist extremists. Cotton was overheard conferring with Netanyahu while his campaign received more than $2 million from pro-Israeli groups and individuals. At that time, no single incident was enough to indict anyone for espionage or treason.
The influence of Robert Mercer was apparent in his donation of more than $1 million to the Club for Growth Action, a Super PAC (political action committee) that backed Cotton. The Emergency Committee for Israel, led by neoconservative William Kristol, invested $960,250 in last-minute ads. With Robert Kagan, Kristol co-founded in 1997 the Project for a New American Century to lobby for regime change in Iraq—for Israel. Another $250,000 was invested in Cotton by Paul Singer, a New York hedge fund billionaire and supporter of sayanim-recruiters Birthright Israel (along with Sheldon Adelson and his equally rightwing Israeli wife). Seth Klarman, a Boston-based pro-Israel billionaire, contributed $100,000. Victoria Nuland, Kagan’s wife, was active in inducing regime change in Ukraine. She became known internationally with release of the transcript of her February 2014 phone call in which this U.S. diplomat, contrary to U.S. policy, proclaimed, “F—k the EU.” [All EU member states support the Israel-opposed International Criminal Court.]
At least $825,000 was invested in Cotton’s pro-Israel politics by a political action committee led by former Bush-era U.N. Ambassador and pro-Israel neocon John Bolton, an outspoken promoter of regime change in Iran. The Bolton PAC was financed largely by Mercer and daughter Rebekah and by Irving and Cherna Moskowitz of Miami who were best known for funding settlements meant to create a Jewish majority in Arab neighborhoods. Robert Mercer was the primary owner of Cambridge Analytica where Steve Bannon served as Vice-President, then Trump campaign manager and, after 2016, White House strategist.
Advised by proponents of the Israeli Right, Bolton appeared on Trump’s short list for Secretary of State; Cotton was short-listed for Secretary of Defense. After 520 days as National Security Adviser, Trump fired Bolton on September 10, 2019. Bolton praised the Trump-ordered assassination of General Suleimani and voiced hope on Fox News that his death was the “first step to regime change in Tehran”.
Staffing a Trump Presidency. Trump was clearly surprised when he won an Electoral College victory. Those who produced his presidency were not. As his administration was formed, Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer was among the most frequent visitors to Trump Tower. An American who forfeited his U.S. citizenship to serve as Israel’s Ambassador, Dermer had long been a Netanyahu confidante for whom he orchestrated his March 3, 2015 Iran-bashing speech to a joint meeting of Congress and ensured that the Israeli leader received more standing ovations than President Obama during his January 20 State of the Union address. Dermer made those arrangements without consulting either the White House or the State Department, further angering Obama who knew that the Israeli Right sought another war in the region.
Meanwhile, Jared Kushner, a devotee of the ultra-Zionist Chabad Lubavitch sect of messianic Judaism, sought a back channel to the Kremlin—likely to lobby Moscow to disavow the Iran nuclear accord, making it appear less obvious that the presidency of his father-in-law was “produced” in large part to do the bidding of the Israeli Right. Loyal to an extremist branch of Hasidic Judaism founded in Lithuania in 1775, Chabad followers include convert Ivanka Trump and senior advisers in the Trump Organization.
Trump bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman, appointed Ambassador to Israel, has long raised funds for Jewish settlements in “Judea and Samaria” (aka the West Bank). Trump Organization attorney Jason Greenblatt was appointed international negotiator (Trump was involved in at least 3,500 legal actions).[25] Three days prior to the November 2016 election, Greenblatt accompanied Jared and Ivanka to Brooklyn to pray at the Crown Heights gravesite of Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneerson. The Lubavitcher Rabbi, who died in 1994, is considered a messiah in Chabad circles. Trump’s personal fortune traces to sectors dominated by those profiled: casinos, pop culture (The Apprentice) and commercial real estate in mid-town Manhattan.
Staff firings by Trump include two of four generals (one quit and the fourth retired) and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, former CEO of Exxon-Mobil, derived from Standard Oil, founded by my great-grandfather. Successor Mike Pompeo took office with four qualifications: (1) he’s an evangelical Zionist Christian, (2) he had forged a close relationship with Bibi Netanyahu, (3) he avoided the “Never Trump” movement, and (4) as a Congressman, he was an outspoken critic of how Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handled the June 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.[26] Pompeo’s weak character and ineptness were on display when he (a) outsourced U.S. policy in Ukraine to Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, (b) remained silent when Trump threatened U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and (c) undermined and demoralized our diplomatic corps worldwide by failing to protect her from Giuliani and Trump.
When Pompeo complained that European allies “haven’t been as helpful as I wished that they could be,” he revealed a profound lack of understanding. Europeans know the source of the systemic corruption inside our government.[27] My life experience proves that this corruption permeates government at the federal, state and local level. Just prior to his death in 2006 at age 85, Dr. Glenn Olds, an adviser to both my father (1945-1979) and myself (1994-2006), informed me that European governments agreed that, based on what I can prove, this corruption has become far too systemic for the U.S. to remedy without the help of other governments. A confidante to four presidents (two of each party), Glenn advised that, when we see other governments pushing back against Israel, we’ll know that these facts and analyses have been engaged and steps are being taken to hold those profiled accountable.
The Pompeo-marketed Benghazi incident further confirms the strategic duplicity deployed by the militaristic Israeli Right when pre-staging crises that advance their goals while undermining ours. For example: On April 14, 1986, 160 U.S., British and German aircraft dropped sixty tons of bombs on Libya, killing 40 civilians in Tripoli and Benghazi, pre-staging the June 2012 anti-American reaction in Benghazi.
The immediate provocation: an April 5, 1986 terrorist attack on Berlin’s La Belle Discotheque killed two U.S. servicemen. The pre-staging: in mid-February, the Mossad launched Operation Trojan, a bogus broadcasting operation in Tripoli designed to make it appear that Libyan leadership was transmitting terrorist instructions to their embassies worldwide. Though the phony transmissions failed to deceive French or Spanish intelligence—who warned this was a Mossad operation—U.S. intelligence was reassured when authenticity was confirmed by Israel, our “special friend” and purported ally. Since its founding, the Mossad motto has been, “By way of deception, thou shalt make war”.
Pre-staging 9/11. With Mossad operatives tied into terrorist organizations throughout Europe able to trigger profiled assets, it was only a matter of time before Americans would become a target. In terms of the algorithm-derived math underlying game theory warfare, such a terrorist incident was probabilistic. With President Reagan (like Trump) proposing a “red line” to retaliate against any nation shown to endanger Americans, the orchestration was complete. Ronald Reagan, another classic asset, was a friend of my step-uncle Robert King Cunningham dating from their service together in the Signal Corps during WWII.
An introduction to The Hidden Tax on Humanity and an online timeline summarize this personal history. Donald Stralem, a Manhattan-based manager of Rothschild interests in the U.S., arranged the 1956 marriage of my mother to the brother of Stralem employee Robert King Cunningham. In 1951, Stralem produced Duck and Cover starring an animated Bert the Turtle and a seven year-old Mia Farrow. Shown by mandatory attendance to 40 million U.S. schoolchildren, that film internalized the fear and insecurity that eased a seamless transition from WWII to the Cold War.
The timeline dates the modern-day component of this geopolitical duplicity to no later than 1850 when Donald’s father, Casimir, co-founded in Manhattan an investment banking firm (Hallgarten & Company) that financed both sides in America’s Civil War. My premise was simple: I knew early on that who I met and what was done to me would lead me to the core of their model provided I could get close enough before they realized I was profiling them while they were stalking me. That premise proved correct, as documented online in The Hidden Tax on Humanity.
On April 9, 2003, the Los Angeles Superior Court granted my petition to take my birthfather’s surname. My Uncle David and cousin Jay (Senator John D. Rockefeller IV) were served legal notice. When the judge asked if there was any objection from members of the Rockefeller family or their counsel, no objection was heard. Had there been an objection, the court was prepared to order a DNA test at UCLA Medical Center.
Launched in Libya 15 years prior to the provocation of 9/11, Mossad operatives conceded Operation Trojan was pre-staging for inducing the U.S. to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein: “After the bombing of Libya, our friend Qadhafi is sure to stay out of the picture for some time. Iraq and Saddam Hussein are the next target. We’re starting now to build him up as the big villain. It will take some time, but in the end, there’s no doubt that it’ll work.”[28]
That Israeli bravado proved correct, aided by (a) a provocative Pearl Harbor-like crisis (9/11), (b) media-aided marketing of fear-inducing false intelligence fixed around the goals of Zionist extremists,[29] and (c) Congressional testimony by Netanyahu in favor of the U.S invasion of Iraq, assuring U.S. lawmakers, “There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking, is working toward, is advancing toward the development of nuclear weapons.”
Asset Condi Rice also advanced the narrative with her perceived authority as National Security Adviser to Zionist Christian George Bush. Her fear and insecurity-inducing imagery that hyped the phony threat of Iraqi WMD included: “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”[30]
The 1986 attack on Tripoli and Benghazi by U.S.-led coalition forces (Operation El Dorado) suspended negotiations for the release of hostages in Lebanon (similar to how U.S. operations against ISIS have been suspended) and ensured, in response, the retaliatory execution of American University of Beirut librarian Peter Kilburn, held captive for 16 months. That foreseeablereaction to an Israel-orchestrated provocation (a classic game theory warfare operation) raised the global profile of “radical Islamic extremists” as a plausible threat to the U.S. and the EU and pre-staged the plausibility both of the pre-9/11 narrative, The Clash of Civilizations, and the post-9/11 messaging of Islamo-fascism.[31]
General Wesley Clark, former NATO Commander, recalls how, ten days following 9/11, he visited the Pentagon where, after seeing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, he spoke to a general on staff of the Joint Chiefs who told him that, to his surprise, the U.S. was going to war with Iraq. A few weeks later, the same general told Clark he had just received a memo describing how our military was going to be used “to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off, Iran.”[32]
As my life experience proves, the true enemies of democracy and the fact-based rule of law are the duplicitous few I profiled while I was being criminally stalked. Had the facts of my life experience been investigated in good faith, the common source of this systemic corruption would have been apparent. The justice denied me is similar to the justice that Senate Leader Mitch McConnell denied the American people when he denied access to the facts required to assess whether Donald Trump should be removed from office. How could those stalking me be brought to justice unless the facts were followed to their conclusion? How could Senators—when denied access to the facts—hold Donald Trump accountable?
Until the 1967 War, moderate Jews opposed the militarism and terrorism that Zionist zealots deployed to drive Palestinians from their ancestral lands. In a December 1948 letter to The New York Times, Albert Einstein and 27 other prominent Jews were candid in their appraisal: “This is the unmistakable stamp of a Fascist party for whom terrorism (against Jews, Arabs, and British alike), and misrepresentation are means, and a ‘Leader State’ is the goal.” (emphasis added) Jewish novelist and political theorist Hannah Arendt was even more courageous and candid, describing Zionist extremists of that post-Holocaust era as “Jewish Nazis.”
The Jewish elites and Zionist extremists who founded the Jewish state remain its dominant force. Bibi Netanyahu, its present-day face, is fully intent on inducing the U.S. to wage another disastrous war—for Israel. As we now know, the “Six-Day War” of 1967, marketed as defensive, was a provocative land grab that an Israeli general later conceded had been planned since 1951. Designed to manipulate Jewish identity and prey on the fear and insecurity of the broader Jewish community, that aggression succeeded in its goal of enlisting broad-based Jewish support for the goals of Zionist extremists while silencing any Jewish dissenter fearful of being portrayed as a “self-hating Jew”.[33]
Research and analysis pivoting off my life experience profiling those complicit confirmed that those I identified, while albeit predominantly “Jewish”, are only nominally Jewish in the sense that they share none of the values of the broader Jewish community on whose identity they have long preyed. When class identity failed to gain traction a century ago, identity politics emerged from the Frankfurt School. The ability to manipulate behavior based on a perception of shared identity remains an oft-deployed weapon in the psy-ops arsenal of those adept at hate-mongering. Thus the routine use of race (Black Lives Matter), nationality (e.g., white nationalism), ethnicity, gender, etc.
Leader State. Though Donald Trump is marketed as a solution to systemic corruption (“drain the swamp”), he’s symptomatic of a far deeper problem: the systematic displacement of facts with beliefs to satisfy an extremist few who ignore facts to satisfy theirpersonal beliefs. America’s emergence as a Leader State is being driven by those such as Attorney General Bill Barr who embrace the Unitary Executive Theory that, in practical effect, would grant unlimited power to a classic asset whose presidency was the 2016 product of a Facebook-enabled psy-op. The manipulation of presidential elections (ongoing in 2020)[34] put U.S. war powers in the hands of an impulsive and insecure man-child and clinical narcissist.[35]
A former Cambridge Analytica executive (see The Great Hack) concedes that online profiling and voter manipulation is now a global phenomenon, making a mockery of free elections while undermining faith in self-governance. Load up the courts with True Believers in the unbridled power of the Unitary Executive—a judicial nomination process ongoing at a rapid pace under Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—and watch as the democracy’s separation of powers atrophy, representative government is displaced and political power without accountability (aka tyranny) emerges as a real possibility.
Donald Trump is not the issue; the problem is a product of the U.S.-Israel relationship that has long enabled anti-democratic trends that are now becoming apparent. Nor is the issue Jewishness but “Chosen-ness”—a psychosis (a break from external reality) common to zealots of many faiths, including extremists within the Zionist Christian community. This systemic (and internalized) corruption includes a transnational, well-capitalized lobby that remains unregistered as foreign agents. Their influence is aided by a 2010 Supreme Court decision (Citizens United) that allows unlimited financial support for political candidates. This mental disorder is not limited to Christians and Jews. Muslim adherents of ISIS consider themselves Chosen and thereby entitled to decapitate people and destroy cultural artifacts. “Chosen” Buddhists in Myanmar are now murdering each other.
The Hidden Tax. Those I profiled while being criminally stalked know that well-timed crises also distract a long-deceived public from grasping the source and magnitude of this hidden tax on humanity. With the benefit of hindsight, history will view Trump as a “useful idiot” placed in office to discredit democracy and undermine the fact-based rule of law. A self-described “very stable genius”, his arrogance and ignorance shattered our post-WWII security apparatus, alienated our allies, stymied our fight against ISIS, emboldened our enemies and destabilized a nation (Iraq) on whose stability we invested trillions while squandering countless lives in an unnecessary and disastrous war that could have been prevented had those with line responsibility engaged me in good faith on my return from Baghdad in February 1997.
My life experience proves beyond any reasonable doubt that this deceit traces to a common source. The repetitive behavior patterns—over decades—confirm the present-day outcome was intentional and by design, including the production of serial ‘plausible’ enemies by those adept at creating serial crises. Today’s Iran-the-Evil-Doer narrative was pre-staged no later than when White House speechwriter David Frum inserted the phrase “Axis of Evil” (linking North Korea, Iran and Iraq) into the January 2002 State of the Union address by Zionist Christian President George W. Bush. As shown below, oil-rich Iran was targeted long ago by those I profiled.
Those responsible know transparency will lead to accountability. That’s why, I believe, what we now see emerging is the “last gasp” of these duplicitous few as they act out their “tireless genius for crisis”. Those I profiled while being stalked and denied access to the rule of law see themselves as rightly entitled (as “Chosen”) to operate above the laws of man. Similar to Trump, their arrogance will be their undoing as proof of their “genius” becomes undeniable and its costs widely known. That’s what I now see emerging, informed by a lifetime of profiling those responsible.
Who would have the means, motivation and opportunity to use the circumstances of my out-of-wedlock birth to preemptively compromise my father’s prospects for the U.S. presidency? Where would a moderate “Rockefeller Republican” fit along today’s rightward-trending political spectrum? Clearly, he would be well to the “left” of hawkish Democrat Hillary Clinton. Who benefits from our two-decade long immersion in costly, unnecessary and unwinnable wars in a region that accounts for four percent of the world population? My father believed we should talk to our adversaries. Who benefits when we do not? Yet Trump barred Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif from entering the U.S. to address the United Nations.[36]
Because those stalking me are also stalking the U.S. and, importantly, our core values, I was routinely drawn into “fields within fields” of relationships pre-staged by those I dedicated much of my life to profiling. That firsthand experience confirmed that this ongoing geostrategic duplicity derives from a common source. A few examples will help illustrate—based on my Iran-related interactions.
Profiling from the Inside. In 1987, I was drawn into a transaction involving the sale of 650 Fifth Avenue, a Manhattan office building acquired with a portion of the reported $51 billion stolen from Iran by the Shah. The intermediary was Hashemi Rafsanjani, then president of the Iranian Parliament and later Chairman of its powerful Expediency Council. His well-known corruption earned him the title, “Mr. Five Percent”. I also communicated with Hermoz Moin, the Shah’s banker. See The Iran Connection. During the Carter presidency, my Uncle David Rockefeller played a key role in gaining the Shah admittance to the U.S., falsely citing a medical issue that could only be treated in the U.S.[37] The Shah’s absence triggered the 1979 hostage crisis that helped put asset Ronald Reagan in the White House, a friend since WWII of my step-Uncle Bob (Robert King Cunningham).
The top two floors of 650 Fifth Avenue were occupied by arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, corrupt partner of “junk bond king” Michael Milken. Their prosecution by U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani provided him the public profile to emerge as “America’s Mayor” in the aftermath of 9/11. Giuliani-led negotiations allowed Milken and his family to retain hundreds of millions of dollars (now $2 billion according to Forbes).
Bernie Kerik, New York City Police Commissioner under Giuliani, was forced to resign as the first director of what became the Department of Homeland Security when his ties to organized crime became too obvious.[38] The consistency of the fact patterns confirm it’s no coincidence that Roy Cohn, counsel to organized crime figures in New York, mentored New Yorker Donald Trump. To understand Trump’s gangster mentality, mob boss demeanor and arrogant behavior, see the 2019 film, Where’s My Roy Cohn?[39] Cohn’s motto, embraced by Trump: Deflect and distract, never give in, never admit fault, lie and attack. Trump adds to that toxic mix a steady stream of insults and attempts to intimidate.
With financing confirmed for the 650 Fifth Avenue building, a meeting to close the sale included Pincus Green, partner to Marc Rich best known for (a) selling Iranian oil to Israel during an Iran embargo,[40] (b) sharing the profits with Israeli intelligence, and (c) receiving a pardon from Bill Clinton on his last day as president after lobbying by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert and former Director of Mossad, Shabtai Shavit.[41] The property title became “clouded” when I assured those assembled for a closing that I would use my $35 million commission to identify and expose those stalking me. When that agreed-to deal then collapsed, I continued my profiling.
In 2004, Dr. Glenn Olds, my senior adviser, asked if I knew at the time the magnitude of the criminality I was uncovering by allowing myself to be drawn into venues they staged while I remained vulnerable.[42] At Glenn’s home, as we watched first-term U.S. Senator Barack Obama give his speech at the 2004 Democratic Party Convention in Boston, he was certain that Obama would be elected president in 2008. Glenn had studied the research confirming how (Jewish) organized crime holds this corruption intact. [43]He told me that, based on his meeting with Michelle Obama (like Glenn’s wife, Eva, a stabilizing force), he believed that Obama would turn on the Israelis provided he could win a second term.
The Iran Connection. I was also asked to find a buyer for an 18% interest held by the Iranian government in a refinery in South Africa. That stake was originally acquired by the Shah’s father in August 1941 when the Soviets and the British, fearing he would ally with the Germans, forced him into exile in South Africa with its apartheid social structure and an economy dominated by Jewish Zionists. I’m confident future research will find that those I profiled began targeting oil-rich Iran no later than the Shah’s exile.
Bernard Baruch began producing the political career of James Byrnes with his election to the House of Representatives in 1910 and the Senate in 1930 where he served as a mentor to Zionist Christian Harry Truman when he was placed in the Senate in January 1935 by the Pendergast component of organized crime in Kansas City. Byrnes was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt in 1941. Four years later, he became Truman’s Secretary of State and played a major role in the Potsdam Conference that ceded much of Eastern Europe and Iran to the Soviet sphere of influence. Byrnes had little formal education (he did not graduate from high school). Born in 1870, Baruch was a native of South Carolina where his wife’s grandfather served as the Rabbi of Charleston when this southern port was the third largest U.S. city due to trade in cotton, rice and slaves. A commodities trader and financier, Woodrow Wilson named him Chair of the War Industries Board.
Note in The Iran Connection that I was also drawn into the network of those who, following the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, pre-staged the 1964 election to ensure the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. His presidency, in turn, ensured that (a) the U.S. would continue to wage a disastrous and unwinnable war in Vietnam (that Kennedy proposed to end), and (b) a pro-Israel president would support the Zionists’ provocative land grab of June 1967, since marketed as the defensive and “heroic” Six-Day War.[44]
Confirming the lengthy pre-staging of that region-wide provocation and the frequent use of illicit sex to target and compromise profiled policymakers, former Irgun operative Mathilde Krim was “servicing” our Commander-in-Chief (LBJ) in the White House the night that Israel began their aggressive land grab. Husband Arthur Krim, then president of United Artists, chaired the finance committee for the Democratic Party led by the man ‘servicing” his wife. The night before the invasion began, LBJ had dinner at the home of Abe Fortas who successfully defended Johnson when an election fraud in the 1948 Texas primary for the Democratic Partyput LBJ in the Senate where he quickly rose to Majority Leader in 1955. As President, LBJ named Fortas to the Supreme Court in 1965 and sought to appoint him Chief Justice.[45]
In 1964, when I was 12 years old, I walked in on a heated argument between my step-grandmother and step-uncle that unknowingly connected me to those who ordered the assassination of President Kennedy. I continue to believe that chance encounter remains a key reason why I have been stalked nonstop. That stalking remains ongoing. [See Appendix B and the online timeline.]
In Jakarta in March 2001, six months prior to the mass murder provocation of 9/11, Indonesia intelligence chief Arie Kumaat shared with me his concerns that (a) an Israeli operation had been uncovered that sought to bribe the Indonesian Parliament to push the U.S. out of the region in favor of China, (b) an Israeli defense firm had staged sting operations to destabilize key Ministries of Defense in pursuit of a (then unknown) global operation, and (c) the Taliban’s widely reported bombing in Afghanistan of the ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan on the ancient Silk Road appeared timed to support an operation that (we later found) proved useful in branding “Islamic extremists” as solely responsible for what, six months later, became 9/11.[46]
In January 2002, Arie Kumaat was murdered (poisoned) within days of agreeing to set meetings for me to brief leaders of Muslim nations on what I knew was false Iraqi WMD intelligence then being deployed to deceive us to wage an unnecessary and disastrous war in Iraq—for the Israeli Right. In January 1997, I met in Baghdad with Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Nadhal Al-Hamdani who oversaw Iraq’s nuclear-related industrial complex prior to the Israeli destruction in June 1981 of their under-construction nuclear complex at Osirak. She explained that Saddam was a brutal despot but he was no fool. He knew that, if he sought to develop nuclear weapons, the Mossad would tell the U.S. and his reign would be terminated.
Dr. Nidhal Al-Hamndani (physicist) in her office in Iraq in 1997. Dr. Al Hamdani ran Saddam’s industrial complex pre-Gulf War with 40,000 employees answering to her. I took the photo when she answered the phone and greeted Saddam Hussein in Arabic, “Saddam”.
Evil Doer Pre-Staging. Iranian General Suleimani is not the originating Evil Doer in this latest war-mongering narrative. The true evil-doers (as my experience proves) are those who orchestrated the circumstances in Iran that led to his emergence—consistent with game theory warfare, an area in which Israelis boast they are world leaders. My experience proves how, by deploying serial well-timed crises, a few extremists leverage their small numbers to wield power and influence worldwide, aided by manipulating the U.S. (and using our military) as their naïve and trusting “special friend”.[47]
Similarly, the interests of the Israeli Right were at work when, four days after 9/11, an FBI Special Agent appeared at the home of an Iraqi colleague near San Diego to inquire if he was funding me. Why? We had returned from Baghdad in February 1997 with (a) evidence of no WMD, (b) an offer by senior Iraqi sheiks to remove Saddam without a war (he reportedly agreed), and (c) an offer to provide U.S. firms with $160 billion in contracts for reconstruction and oil. Why did the FBI appear then?
That same day (September 15, 2001), Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a well-placed neocon in the Bush administration, argued in a principal’s meeting at Camp David that, in response to 9/11, the U.S should invade Iraq, a nation that played no role in that provocation. That same FBI agent paid rent and cashed checks for the two San Diego-based terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings.
Eighteen months prior to that mass murder, my Iraqi-American colleague was invited to meet with Taliban leader Mohammed Omar. Sensing a set-up by those stalking me, I persuaded him not to go. Had he traveled to Kabul, he would have become the alleged (and still missing) “high level contact” between Saddam Hussein and Islamic extremists, and I would have been portrayed as guilty by association.
As the Israelis know (unknown to most Americans), Saddam Hussein detested Islamic extremists and routinely killed them. Portraying him as a plausible Evil Doer threat to the U.S. dates to no later than the 1986 Mossad Operation Trojan in Libya. The success of the pre-9/11 psy-op messaging is proven by the fact that, post-invasion of Iraq, almost 70% of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein played a role in 9/11. The displacement of facts with false beliefs lies at the core of the geostrategic duplicity that endangers democracies and undermines the rule of law worldwide.
The Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising—literally, a “shaking off”) dates from September 2000 when Likud Prime Minister Ariel Sharon led an armed march to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. When, after a year of calm, suicide bombings recommenced following that provocation, Sharon and Netanyahu observed that only when Americans “feel our pain” would we understand their plight. Both men mentioned a weighted body count of 4,500 to 5,000 Americans lost to terrorism—the initial estimate of those who died a year later in the twin towers of New York City’s World Trade Center.[48]
Agent Provocateurs and Game Theory Practitioners. Extremists on the Israeli Right were short-term beneficiaries of the highly symbolic assassination of an Iranian military official certain to “ignite the street” in both Iran and Iraq as throngs of outraged mourners shouted, “Death to America”.[49] Meanwhile, Bibi Netanyahu polished his image as the Great Defender of the Jewish people—regardless of the impact on the U.S. as Israel’s “special friend”. Peace and stability are not what Zionist extremists seek; that would only undermine their victim narrative and undercut their expansionist goals. Plus, with stability would come the in-depth analyses able to prove the common source of serial well-timed crises, including the war-catalyzing mass murder provocation of 9/11.
Despite seven decades of nonstop deceit, Israel continues to exploit its “unbreakable bond” with the U.S. kept intact by an expansive lobby that continues to evade registration as foreign agents. If Donald Trump is not re-elected, the Israeli Right knows the concessions he granted could be reversed, including restoration of the Iran nuclear accord and a revival of the two-state solution. Stability will also shine light on the steadily rising costs of this oft-exploited relationship. That includes evidence confirming the corrupt source of the vast wealth amassed by the (predominantly Jewish) oligarchs who financially stripped Russia during the 1990s, a multi-decade fraud that began more than a century ago, orchestrated by the same trans-generational criminal syndicate I profiled while being stalked. [See Appendix A.]
China is the clear long-term beneficiary of this duplicity. As the U.S is again being induced to squander its blood and treasure in the Middle East, 300 million-plus members of China’s fast-growing middle class increasingly see authoritarian “socialism with Chinese characteristics” as superior to a democracy under siege from within that continues its drift toward a militarized autocracy while allowing its “special relationship” with Zionist extremists to draw our military into serial wars that undermine U.S. interests.
The long-term objective of those profiled, I believe, includes destabilization of the entire Middle East as a means to gain more influence over global financial markets as they gain virtual control over markets for oil and gas. Based on who I am and the role my paternal ancestors played in creating those markets, I am confident those described are targeting nations with large proven reserves of oil and gas.
With Iran-Contra operative Elliott Abrams dispatched as special U.S. envoy to Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of oil, no one should be surprised if any progress toward stability proves illusory.[50] Though the transition to alternative means of monetization (such as cybercurrencies) is beyond the scope of this analysis, nor should anyone be surprised that the Basel-based Bank of International Settlements lodged objections to the Mark Zuckerberg-led proposal for the alternative Libra currency.
Key components of a systemic solution must include an acknowledgment that naïve and trusting Americans (including many Jewish-Americans) have been deceived, defrauded and manipulated by a trusted ally. That treachery remains ongoing. Corrective components include:
A requirement that the Israel lobby comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act. [U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made the case January 16 when he cited the dangerous role of “foreign influence” in U.S. elections.]
Reinstatement of the Iran nuclear accord and lengthening its term to 25 years.
Re-designation of U.S. offices in Tel Aviv as the U.S Embassy in Israel; reopen the Consulate General in Jerusalem as a conduit to Palestinian leaders; transform Consulate offices into a facility to coordinate aid to Palestinians and recover Palestinian properties within the 1948 borders.
Restoration of the two-state solution as our core diplomatic initiative for Middle East peace along with renewed support for Palestinian refugees and a conversion of the former Consulate offices to house Palestine TV’s offices shut down in November 2019.
Convene hearings in the House and Senate to openly debate the pros and cons of the “unbreakable bond” that sustains the U.S.-Israel relationship.
Commission an appraisal of the financial costs of this special relationship, both direct and indirect, since U.S. President Harry Truman extended nation-state recognition in May 1948.
Convene hearings to consider shifting this relationship from the U.S to China, a government with which, the facts suggest, Israelis long have been collaborating while undermining U.S interests, including the transfer to China of sensitive U.S.-developed technologies.[51]
Convene federal grand juries in key locations (New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Minneapolis[52]) to consider indictments for those identified as aiding and abetting this systemic criminality.
Consider testimony from key operatives, commencing with high-profile neoconservatives, including former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Chief of Staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Douglas Feith, head of the intelligence-fixing Office of Special Plans under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.[53]
Termination of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, as President Kennedy sought in 1963, and insist on Israeli agreement to the terms of all applicable non-proliferation accords. [See Appendix B.]
Recommence ISIS-fighting joint operations with Iranian-backed militias and Russian forces in conjunction with U.S Special Forces and other specialized coalition forces.
Direct federal law enforcement and the Defense Intelligence Agency to investigate in good faith what can now be proved based on facts and analyses pivoting off my life experience. Insist that the evidence be followed wherever it may lead and publish the findings.
Rather than the use of military proportionality, unleashing a cycle of violence, commence negotiations for economic proportionality to recoup for the benefit of the Iranian people those foregone oil revenues that, due to U.S.-imposed sanctions, benefitted other producers in the region (e.g., Saudi Arabia recently achieved its envisioned $2 trillion market capitalization for Aramco).
More broadly, the U.S. should acknowledge that the globalized “Washington consensus” economic model not only does not support workable patterns of wealth and income distribution, it forceeably creates autocracies everywhere it is embraced, including in the U.S., Russia and “communist” China. Discussions should commence on how to ensure that natural resource wealth (such as oil and gas) is best used to support bottom-up, stakeholder-inclusive economies while leaving those hydrocarbons in the ground.
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Appendix A. The Real Russian Interference
Facts and analyses pivoting off my life experience confirm the common source of an ongoing transnational criminal syndicate that stretches across generations. Its common thread is not nationality but the self-absorbed shared identity of a duplicitous few who consider themselves Chosen and thereby entitled to (a) operate above the law,[54] and (b) shape law and legal precedent to their liking.
German-Jewish banker Jacob Schiff married the daughter of Solomon Loeb who made his first fortune in Cincinnati selling trousers to the Union Army in a crisis that fractured and almost destroyed our fledgling nation. Felix Warburg served as best man in Schiff’s 1875 wedding and later advised on crafting the nonprofit component of our federal income tax code enacted in 1916. Brother Paul Warburg emerged as chief architect of the Federal Reserve, founded in December 1913 during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Decorated by the Emperor of Japan as a key financier of its victory over Czarist Russian in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), Schiff helped with the distribution of revolutionary literature to 50,000 Russian prisoners of war, helping pre-stage the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 for which he also served as a key financier, he said, to combat anti-Semitism in Russia.
Schiff was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. a Manhattan-based international investment banking firm founded in 1867. Under the leadership of Schiff, Loeb’s son-in-law, the firm grew to be one of the most influential investment banks. In 1977, the firm merged with Lehman Brothers, creating Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc. The combined company was acquired in 1984 by American Express, forming Shearson Lehman/American Express and retiring the Kuhn, Loeb name. Jean Ickelheimer Lehman, granddaughter of Philip Lehman, was married to Donald Stralem for whom my Uncle Bob (Robert King Cunningham) worked for more than a half-century.
Fast-forward seven decades from the Russian-Jewish commissars of the 1920s to the Russian-Jewish oligarchs of the 1990s. After financially pillaging Russia, these oligarchs emerged to play a role in financing the Trump Organization, as son Eric Trump conceded. This work will identify how much of that financing was provided through individual Russians and through loans from Deutsche Bank as it recycled funds that German bankers laundered for those oligarchs.
Deutsche Bank may have laundered as much as $20 billion from Russia and possibly $80 billion. Over two decades, Donald Trump borrowed more than $2 billion from Deutsche Bank. Future research will determine to what extent this transnational money-laundering of Russian-oligarch funds explains how Trump, a heavily leveraged real estate developer, survived the 2008 subprime fraud.[55] Jared Kushner married Ivanka Trump in 2009.
Russia was not the primary beneficiary of Trump’s 2016 “election” and Moscow did not enable him to prevail in the Electoral College with 77,744 votes in three states. Russian interference is real but also, relative to Israel, a sideshow. The key operatives in that election-fraud psy-op were (1) Jared Kushner who retained the Facebook-enabled psy-op specialists at U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica,[56] (2) Assistant Avi Berkowitz who now oversees Kushner’s Middle East peace initiative, (3) campaign strategist Steve Bannon who (despite his portrayal in mainstream media as an “anti-Semite”) Kushner described as a “an incredible Zionist who loves Israel”, and (4) Russian-Jewish oligarch Yuri Milner who provided an early $200 million investment (in 2009) to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, pre-staging its 2016 role.[57]
Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked for Russian-Jewish oligarch Oleg Deripaska who, after marrying into the family of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, amassed $40 billion by age 40. A known alcoholic, the two-term presidency of Yeltsin, a classic asset,[58] was produced by those who (as with asset Trump) used the appearance of presidential legitimacy to defraud the Russian people of more than $1 trillion in wealth (according to Mikhail Gorbachev), largely through the pre-staging of fraudulent transactions granted the cover of lawful authority. Trump’s rich-get-richer, deficit-financed supply-side tax cut (enacted December 2017), was projected to cost $1.5 trillion in foregone tax revenues.[59]
In 2016, Russian-Jewish oligarch Viktor Vekselberg ($13 billion net worth) provided $500,000 to Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to shore up Trump support within his socially conservative Christian Right base by buying the silence of women who acknowledged affairs, including porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. David Pecker, Jewish publisher of the National Enquirer, played the key role in ensuring that coverup. His successor suggested that Pecker’s subsequent attempt to extort Amazon founder Jeff Bezos looked “like organized crime”. My life experience proves that all the incidents chronicled in this account trace to a common source in trans-generational (Jewish) organized crime.
Globalized Organized Crime. Chabad Lubavitch member Felix Sater, son of a Russian-Jewish crime boss in Brooklyn and a childhood friend of Trump counsel Michael Cohen, became a Trump confidante and a Trump intermediary with Moscow. In Russia, Yuri Milner worked for Russian-Jewish oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the mega-thieves who financially stripped Russia during the corrupt Perestroika era of privatization. That fraud, enabled under cover of the Washington consensus, was pre-staged in 1917 when Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronshtein) and Vladimir Lenin set in motion the Bolshevik Revolution, putting in place a model certain to fail. What is one to make of the fact that, on May 16, 2019 a federal judge confirmed that Mr. Sater, a member of Russian-Jewish organized crime, possessed five of the personal satellite telephone numbers for Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 terrorist attacks?[60]
This same evidentiary trail leads to Arizona, the mobbed-up state to which I was induced to relocate in 1973 at age 21. Thus our ability to prove their repeated use of the John McCain war hero “brand” to facilitate serial frauds—including not only his leadership in the “Keating Five” Savings and Loan fraud in the 1980s but also his marketing of the false Iraqi WMD narrative that deceived us to invade Iraq in 2003—aided by Senator Joe Lieberman, a self-described Zionist.[61] In between those two mega-frauds, McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” doubled the amount that members of the Israel lobby and others can lawfully contribute to political candidates nationwide. That 2002 legislation pre-staged the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United that now enables unlimited special interest spending on political campaigns with no mention of how this court ruling favors the interests of these elites and extremists.[62]
Multi-billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson ($32 billion) and his Israeli wife have since reportedly invested hundreds of millions of dollars in pro-Israel political candidates.[63] They were the largest contributor to a 2016 presidential campaign that put Roy Cohn’s protégé in the Oval Office.[64] The consistency of the fact patterns confirms ongoing success in inducing the U.S. to step into a series of costly (aka profitable) conflict-of-opposites narratives—from the fascism vs. freedom of WWII to the communism vs. capitalism of a profitable half-century Cold War that segued seamlessly into a profitable war-without-end narrative, The Clash of Civilizations between the Christian West and the Islamic East.[65]
Profiling the Network. After I secured in 1986-87 a $5 million contract for my company (AlphaBase Systems, Inc.) from U.S. West/AT&T (with $200 million in anticipated contracts), my ex-wife was drawn to Knoxville, Tennessee by Mormon Bob Rankin who abused both her and our three children.[66] I am confident that operation was overseen by Guilford Glazer, founder of Knoxville-based Glazer Steel. I am also confident that my business success triggered the stalking of my family—unaware as to why. To protect them, I withdrew from business and deliberately discredited myself. When the stalking continued, I concluded it must be because of something that those I focused on profiling must believe that I know.
Glazer Steel was a contractor for the Oak Ridge nuclear facility and a Vietnam War defense contractor. I first met Guilford in 1995 at a World Affairs Council meeting in Beverly Hills to which Dr. Vladimir Zelman invited me and introduced me to Glazer. After shaking his hand, I was intuitively certain he was complicit in this stalking. Vladimir told me about the first Council meeting to which Armand Hammer invited him as his guest when Vladimir immigrated to the U.S. with Hammer’s help.[67] Hammer leaned over and whispered in his ear, “You know who’s the richest Jew in this room? It isn’t me. It’s that guy over there (pointing to Glazer).”
On New Year’s Day 1996, Glazer phoned and asked me the source of anti-Semitism to which I responded, “your own community” and then explained based on my firsthand experience profiling those deceitful few whose behavior risks making the broader Jewish community appear guilty by association. Soon after our first research compilations began circulating online confirming the common source of this systemic criminality and identifying Glazer as a key operative, he sold his interest in Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California, the nation’s second largest mall, for $442 million in May 2003.
During the Cold War, Glazer was a principal funding source for Russian dissidents such as Natan Sharansky and supported Russian émigrés who make up a core voting bloc for the rightwing Likud Party (successor to Irgun) of Ariel Sharon and Bibi Netanyahu. A debate continues in Israel over whether Glazer-funded immigrants are Jewish. Demonstrating the ongoing close collaboration between “Chosen” Zionist extremists and authoritarian Chinese,[68] Glazer founded a Jewish studies program in Nanjing.
See above for an account of my 2001 visit to Indonesia with evidence of Israeli extremists undermining the U.S. in favor of China. See also how, in 2000, this same transnational criminal syndicate undermined an agreed-to “hybrid” business model for ecommerce in China with an initial reach of 235 million schoolchildren, their families and their communities. Nokia agreed to invest $250 million. That education-centric model was designed to provide a perpetual funding source for education consistent with a series of Rockefeller family grants provided anonymously to China for education. The first grant was given at the turn of the 20th century; the second in the 1970s to assist recovery from Mao’s disastrous Cultural Revolution. As my father realized while serving as Governor of New York, education will be democracy’s “last line of defense” against the duplicitous few chronicled in these accounts.[69]
In 2004, Russian-Jewish dissident Natan Sharansky published The Case for Democracy with Ron Dermer.[70] Confirming the Zionist influence inside the George W. Bush presidency, Dubya (like Trump, a notorious non-reader) cited the Sharansky/Dermer book in several venues. Future research will identify who wrote those speeches. A likely candidate: Bush speechwriter David Frum who coined the “Axis of Evil” phrase.
In 1995, I led a two-day discussion about this work for Dr. Vladimir Zelman, St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Mayor Sobchak was a law professor for both Vladimir Putin (then his Deputy Mayor) and Dmitry Medvedev, then Putin’s deputy who succeeded him as President of Russia, 2008-2012. Dr. Zelman, a pioneer in neuroanesthesia, described how extremist Jews advising Joseph Stalin exiled Vladimir and many other Jews to death camps in the remote Irkutsk region where, but for Stalin’s death, they would have been murdered. After saving Armand Hammer’s life on a Moscow operating table with his brain-chilling procedure, Hammer sponsored Dr. Zelman’s relocation to the U.S. where he remains a clinical professor of anesthesiology at the USC Keck School of Medicine.
When Anatoly Sobchak died in February 2000 of a heart attack at age 62, his two bodyguards tested positive for poison. In January 2002, an Indonesian official who sought to assist this work (Intelligence Chief Arie Kumaat) died from a reported heart attack. An autopsy confirmed it was induced by poison.
Dr. Vladimir Zelman, St. Petersburg Mayor Anatoly
Sobchak and Mel Rockefeller(Beverly Hills 1995)
Appendix B. Assassinations, Murders and Economic Warfare
Staged crises, whether personal or geopolitical, often advance multiple agendas. The emotionally wrenching mass murder of 9/11 displaced the critical thinking required for a reasoned response. Rational analysis dictated the U.S should capture or kill those responsible. Instead, we invaded a nation that played no role in the attack when we were deceived to rely on false and outright fixed intelligence (e.g., Iraqi WMD). That pre-staged deceit shaped policy decisions consistent with goals sought by the Israeli Right.
Supportive narratives were launched well in advance, including the publication and global marketing of The Clash of Civilizations. [See, for example, The People in Between chronicling the role played by CNN asset Fareed Zakaria dating to when he was in his mid-20s.] Agenda-setting psy-ops, typically in the form of consensus opinion, are a powerful weapon in the arsenal of seasoned game theory war-planners. Thus the key role played by media when pre-staging political reactions to geostrategic provocations such as 9/11. Note the ongoing role of CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, 17 years with The Jerusalem Post, former editor of Near East Review, published by AIPAC, and White House correspondent during the Clinton presidency.
Economic warfare can have a similar impact in provoking reactions. Struck by U.S.-imposed sanctions and a crippling oil embargo, Japan began planning its December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The reaction took us to war. In response to crises, outcomes become not certain but predictable—within an acceptable range of probabilities. Complexity theorists suggest that even outcomes accompanying apparent chaos are “remarkably predictable, deterministic and simple.”
Economic warfare can be expected to incite a reaction among those targeted. The reparations burden imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles imposed a devastating debt that, in turn, triggered a poverty-inducing hyperinflation. The financially predictable impact helped trigger WWII.[71] Sanctions have a similar effect (as with Iran) by constraining revenues, debasing the currency and ensuring a poverty-inducing inflation (30.5% in 2018). A similar inflation devastated Russia in the 1990s and enabled its oligarch-ization by those described. Candor requires a concession that sanctions are a form of warfare.
Based on my life experience, the historical origins of those skilled at creating such math-derived outcomes trace to antiquity. If correct, that means human history did not evolve naturally but, in substantial part, is the product of a game theory model deployed by those profiled to wield power and amass wealth. The modus operandi never strays far from its foundation in mathematics while “variables” are managed as required to keep events on a desired trajectory. Thus the need for lengthy pre-staging such as producing political candidates, staffing a presidency and the pre-staged messaging of plausible narratives to displace facts with manipulated beliefs—such as creating a critical mass of consensus opinion around Iraqi WMD.[72]
For me, this analysis is not theory but grounded in personal experience amassed over a lifetime of being stalked by those who put an operative inside my home at age four. By the time I was 12, I knew intuitively that I was displaced and sought to identify my true father. Using postmarks from foreign correspondence mailed by my step-Uncle Bob to his mother, I matched his trips abroad with events while he was there. Without fail, his travels coincided with assassinations, coup d’états, insurrections, wars or similar crises, including a period he spent living on a houseboat in Tibet while the Dalai Lama fled the invading Chinese.
That’s why I propose a brief review of several key historical events to see if this game theory premise holds up over time. For example, the 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, presumptive heir to the Austria-Hungary empire, triggered the Great War (WWI) that killed an estimated 20 million people and wounded another 21 million in a senseless slaughter that, even now, cannot be explained. Woodrow Wilson was reelected November 1916 on a platform: “He kept us out of the war.” In April 1917, the U.S. entered WWI after a “gentlemen’s agreement” obliged American Zionists to lobby U.S. lawmakers to enter that disastrous war in support of the British. In return, Brits agreed to view “with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.[73]
The post-war reparations imposed on Germany in December 1919 by the war-ending Treaty of Versailles crippled the German economy, humiliated a proud people and fueled a poverty-inducing hyperinflation.[74] The reaction evoked an extreme ethnic nationalism that led to a Second World War with 70-85 million casualties, including 418,500 Americans killed. More recently, crisis-catalyzed immigration evoked in response an ethnic nationalism in Europe and the U.S. The consensus model-assured financial squeeze on middle-class households is prompting a turn toward nationalist politicians in Europe and the U.S.[75]
The Nazi response also triggered a mass murder of Jews and others seen as ill-suited to an Aryan future. Absent the Holocaust (91% Jewish), there would be no Jewish state. On a smaller scale, absent the mass murder of 9/11, there would have been no invasion of Iraq, no Israeli alliance with Sunni oil monarchies, no ISIS and, arguably, no pending U.S. war with Shia Iran. Did these dynamic forces emerge “naturally” or were they game theory “model-able” and set in motion by those with a “tireless genius for crisis”?
Osama bin Laden was initially radicalized by the U.S. role in a 1982 Israeli operation in Lebanon that killed more than 17,000. He was further radicalized by the arrival of U.S. forces (“infidels”) on lands considered sacred, particularly by a Saudi fundamentalist sect (Wahabism) on whose support the Saudi royal family rely to sustain the legitimacy of their reign as custodians of the two holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina. U.S. troops arrived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1991 in response to an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
While in Baghdad in early 1997, I met at length with Dr. Salah Al-Hadithi, a U.S.-educated Ph.D. and senior foreign policy adviser to Saddam Hussein.[76] Dr. Al-Hadithi described how Israelis were behind the demand that the Emir of Kuwait made for the “repayment” of oil proceeds that Kuwait transferred to Iraq when, by agreement, Kuwait sold slant-drilled oil drawn from Iraqi reserves. That transfer of funds was characterized as a “loan” as a means for Baghdad to bypass its OPEC production quotas.
At the time, Iran had the stronger military based largely on the sale of U.S. arms to Tehran during the Shah’s reign. Saddam agreed to Kuwait’s sale of Iraqi oil to fund its war with Iran. The Emir’s demand for “repayment” triggered Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and, in response, provided the pretext for the first Gulf War (Desert Storm). That pre-staged crisis, in turn, pre-staged Israel’s long-sought regime change war in Iraq set in motion by the provocation of 9/11. Pre-staged false intelligence portrayed Saddam, a former U.S. ally, as the requisite Evil Doer. I was told that Saddam, in hindsight, realized that his invasion of Kuwait was a strategic blunder orchestrated by Israel and by pro-Israelis inside the U.S government. The eight-year war between Iran and Iraq led to (a) the conversion of oil proceeds into profitable sales of armaments and munitions, and (b) the death of more than one million Iraqis and Iranians.
The cycle is clear: provocation and reaction followed by a cascade of reactions to reactions—all algorithmically model-able with “variables” addressed on an as-needed basis. A Mossad case officer explained game theory warfare in simple terms, “When the orchestra starts to play, we just hum along.”
For example, place a dysfunctional evangelical Zionist Christian in the U.S. presidency (George W. Bush), surround him with a cadre of complicit neoconservative operatives (Wolfowitz, Libby, Feith, et.al.) willing to convey false intelligence and the reaction to 9/11 became “probabilistic”. Similarly, developments now emerging in the Middle East are fully consistent with game theory warfare—with those profiled operating as serial agent provocateurs arrogant enough—as Chosen—to believe they won’t get caught.
As usual, those complicit are acting out their self-absorption on a global scale with no concern for the costs imposed on others. Thus the title, The Hidden Tax on Humanity. It makes perfect sense that a clinical narcissist would emerge as their most recent asset to occupy the White House.
Multi-purpose Murders. If the premise is correct, that also may explain the multi-purpose rationale for the assassination of John F. Kennedy and, five years later, his younger brother, Robert, just as he was poised to win the Democratic Party nomination for president. In closing, the following examines that premise and describes how my life experience supports it, dating to my inadvertently overhearing a heated family argument in 1964 when I was age 12 that connected my step-uncle, Robert King Cunningham, to those complicit in a national crisis that began Americans’ loss of faith in their government.
In the late stages of Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign, he sought financial assistance from the Manhattan-based Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. According to Kennedy friend Charlie Bartlett (who introduced Jack to Jackie, the future First Lady), the freshman Senator from Massachusetts was outraged when he was offered financial support provided he turned over to them U.S. policy in the Middle East. Bartlett reports that Jack was livid that anyone would present such a proposal to the presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party.[77]
As successor to President Dwight Eisenhower, Kennedy would have been well briefed by Ike on the Zionist duplicity experienced by the former five-star U.S. Army General. When Israel launched its Sinai Campaign during the last week of Eisenhower’s 1956 reelection campaign (aka the well-timed Suez Crisis), Ike knew he had been lied to as Israeli troops parachuted into the Sinai and refused to leave. French and British forces soon withdrew. Not the Israelis.[78] When Ike requested help from Congressional leaders, they declined—confirming the Zionist lobby’s virtual control of the U.S. Congress more than six decades ago. He turned instead to a nationally televised appeal to the American people.[79]
As a liberator of death camps at the close of WWII, his support for Truman’s recognition of the Zionist enclave as a state helped offset the strenuous opposition of General George Marshall, Truman’s Secretary of State—but only after the founding Zionists assured General Eisenhower they would take no more land and he conveyed that assurance to Arab leaders.[80] Dr. Glenn Olds, an adviser both to my father and myself, described how, while playing in a golf foursome with President Eisenhower in the 1950s in Colorado, Ike described how angry he remained that Zionists “made a liar of me.”
The Narrative Makers. Kennedy would also have known that, in response to Ike’s anger at the Israelis’ deceit, Ed Gottlieb, a Manhattan public relations specialist, commissioned novelist Leon Uris to write Exodus, a romanticized novel about the founding of Israel. That book helped obscure a dark reality after Zionist zealots ethnically cleansed 400-plus Palestinian villages. That fact, if known by Americans, risked creating ill will with a nation essential to their perception as a legitimate nation-state and ally. The exodus remains a central part of Israel’s founding story. After all, if there was no exodus of the Jewish people, there could be no return, the fundamental premise underlying the legitimacy of the Jewish state.[81]
The ill will that their Sinai Campaign created with a U.S. president prompted the translation of Exodus into 51 languages as Zionists turned to Hollywood to market a narrative appealing to naïve Americans unaware of the depth, duration and steadily rising costs of this duplicity. With the film rights pre-sold, this multi-faceted “messaging” campaign included a 1960 Christmas blockbuster film released as Americans flocked to theaters over the holidays to see a 3-1/2-hour epic featuring romance, handsome freedom fighters and the triumph of Jewish destiny over Arab wickedness.
All of this was set against a Yuletide backdrop of Biblical prophecy as heroic Jews returned to their Promised Land—consistent with the Scofield Bible’s dispensationalist teachings that the Christian messiah will not return and their longed-for “rapture” will be deferred until the Israelites return to their “eternal capital” of Jerusalem. This internalized narrative helps explain why Donald Trump remains politically beholden to the Christian Right as devoted defenders of the Israeli Right
Many moviegoers failed to realize that Exodus was not fact but a glorified fiction adapted from that 1958 Leon Uris novel, the biggest bestseller since the 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind, romanticized a bloody civil war that killed an estimated 620,000 Americans. While Uris was completing Exodus, the novel was being made into a film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Paul Newman and starlet Eva Marie Saint. Released in December 1960, the film featured Lee J. Cobb, Rat Pack member Peter Lawford, brother-in-law of the just-elected President, and Italian crooner Sal Mineo, a teen heartthrob singer who received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a heroic Jewish émigré.
In 1964, at age 12, I answered the phone at the home of my step-grandmother when Lawford called looking for my “Uncle Bob” who was personal friends with many Hollywood stars of that era.
In combination, a best-selling novel and a star-studded film advanced a narrative of victimized Jews as sympathetic and honest protagonists while Arabs were portrayed as conniving villains and Evil Doers, with the only good Arab a dead Arab.[82] To displace facts with fiction requires a period of “preparing the mind” to accept fiction as fact. Or, as with Exodus, blending fact and fiction such that a targeted populace can be induced to embrace policies inconsistent both with reality and their true interests. When Eisenhower realized how badly he had been deceived, the deceivers deployed mass media messaging and pop culture to “advance the narrative.” As with a movie script, the production of a geopolitical narrative requires credible casting, a plausible storyline and a lengthy period of costly pre- and post-production. Thus their sustained focus on politics and their lobby’s unparalleled power in Washington, D.C.
Settling Accounts with the Kennedys? In 1991, I was drawn to New Orleans while the local scenes were being filmed for the December 1991 release of JFK, a Kennedy assassination conspiracy movie. Following a pre-staged arrest by officers from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Department, I was told that I would not leave their jail alive.
Thereafter I faked a seizure anticipating I would be sent to the infirmary where a sympathetic nurse agreed to call my mother who, I believe, contacted my cousin, Senator John D. (“Jay”) Rockefeller IV, who was then seeking the Democratic Party nomination for president. Shortly after that call, a judge ordered my release and Jay flew to New Orleans, ostensibly to tour a local hospital. As reported, he disappeared for several hours and, soon thereafter, the charges against me were dropped. On August 7, 1991, he announced his withdrawal from the presidential primaries citing “personal family reasons” that remain undisclosed.[83]
Six months after the 1991 release of JFK, 70 percent of Americans believed that their own government murdered their popular young president. Not until 2011 was it publicly acknowledged that JFK producer Arnon Milchan, an Israeli citizen, was a Mossad specialist in psychological operations. While Americans were working to end apartheid in South Africa, Milchan was organizing positive messaging for its apartheid regime and providing nuclear triggers to Pretoria on behalf of Tel Aviv. With a personal wealth of $5 billion, Milchan reportedly remains an unregistered foreign agent and continues his work as a prolific producer at Regency Productions. Hollywood’s narrative-advancing role continues in plain sight, a key point to which I return below.
On June 15, 1963, President Kennedy sent a cable to U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour with instructions to deliver it to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. That cable increased the pressure on Israel to shut down its nuclear weapons program, insisting that “Israel’s purposes” must “be clear to the world beyond reasonable doubt.” Deploying an “entropy strategy,” Ben-Gurion resigned before the cable could be physically delivered. By the time a functioning Israeli government was in place, the Kennedy “variable” had been managed. Not since Eisenhower’s insistent message to Ben-Gurion in 1956 during Israel’s well-timed Sinai Campaign had a U.S. president spoken so bluntly to an Israeli Prime Minister.
Foreign Agent Registration. During this same time frame, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, pressed the American Zionist Council to register as foreign agents. Those two threats to Zionist goals ended with the murder of Jack Kennedy in November while visiting Dallas, Texas. With Texan Lyndon Johnson as president, the American Zionist Council morphed into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Now the nation’s most influential lobby, AIPAC remains unregistered as a foreign agent even as its annual Spring conference became a “must attend” event for Members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat. Not since the Eisenhower era (1953-1961) has a U.S. president dared speak candidly about its influence.
With his opposition to the war in Vietnam, Robert Kennedy surged in the 1968 presidential primaries. Had he become president, the U.S. would be a very different nation if, as anticipated, he had followed in his brother’s footsteps and (a) required that the expansive Israel lobby register as foreign agents (Senator Fulbright remained a popular Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations), and (b) either forced Israel to shut down its nuclear weapons program or exposed its existence.[84] On the day that RFK won the California primary, he was murdered in Los Angeles. The hands-on gunman was Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, advancing a narrative of Islamic extremism (Sirhan insists he was drugged) while the earlier association with Russia-linked shooter Lee Harvey Oswald advanced an anti-Russia Cold War narrative.
JFK Director Oliver Stone was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director for his role in that psy-op film. Milchan remained unexposed as an Israeli intelligence operative until the publication in 2011 of Confidential: The Life of a Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan. Authors Justin Gelman and Meir Doron portrayed Milchan as a heroic James Bond-like character. We “outed” him in a 2010 book on Interfaith Dialogue while explaining the “how” of this ongoing exploitation of thought and emotion.
The plot of JFK revolved around the purported role played in Kennedy’s death by New Orleans antiques dealer Clay Shaw who was a business colleague of my step-uncle, Robert King Cunningham. When New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, a known publicity seeker, filed with the City Council for funds to commence the case, 32 international news organizations flew into New Orleans and remained until the 1967 trial was over. Shaw was the “patsy” who the jury quickly acquitted. In the film, Garrison portrayed Earl Warren who chaired the Warren Commission report on the assassination. Media obsession with the trial helped divert attention when Israel launched its June 1967 land grab (aka the Six Day War).
When Israeli asset Bill Lucky invited me to New Orleans in 1991, I knew there was a high probability that I would be subjected to another stalking operation. I knew Bill’s wife was gravely ill and that personal need would provide the leverage to make his cooperation “probabilistic.” After my release from jail, Bill took me to a Dillard’s Department Store in New Orleans to buy new clothes. Thereafter, in 1992 I was living in a hostel in San Pedro, California preparing for my trial against Barry Weingart, my (Jewish) partner from Cleveland who defrauded me of my equity stake in AlphaBase Systems, Inc., a business applications software firm that we co-founded. At the time, Barry was one of the few people who knew my true identity. Each night, I found on my pillow a receipt from Dillard’s dated the same week I was arrested in New Orleans in 1991—featuring a different amount on the receipt each night.
The sophisticated coordination required for this nonstop psychological stalking is typical of the enigma in which those stalking me believed they had me trapped. Had I not known my true identity, I’m confident I would have either killed myself or one of the operatives complicit in stalking me. The U.S. “special relationship” with those I profiled imbedded Americans in a similar enigma as we are induced to look outward for an enemy when the true foe is an enemy within—obscured behind a façade of false friendship and an internalized fear of being portrayed as an anti-Semite for even harboring the thought.
Internalized Narratives. The Poland Connection chronicles several of the many insights into this internalized corruption provided o me by my friend, Bill Dufty, who was married to actress Gloria Swanson at her death in 1983 (Bill died in 2002). Bill knew Trump counsel Roy Cohn from the gay baths in New York. Already a friend of artist Yoko Ono, her husband John Lennon also became a friend. Lennon sent as gifts copies of Bill’s classic 1975 nutrition book, Sugar Blues (1.6 million copies sold). Bill also had a long-running affair with jazz singer Billie Holiday and co-authored her 1956 biography, Lady Sings the Blues, later made into a 1972 movie starring Motown legend Diana Ross.
A Detroit native and speechwriter for United Auto Workers founder Walter Reuther, Bill described how the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings (for which Roy Cohn served as counsel) were a “double blind cover”. As Bill explained, those high-profile hearings were convened not to blacklist communists from Hollywood (the official messaging) but to intimidate anyone who would not cooperate with those using cinema and pop culture to advance the agenda-advancing narratives of those who Bill quickly realized I was profiling while being stalked. Seven years earlier, Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, testified before the House Unamerican Activities Committee, helping hype the Red Scare that internalized the Cold War and enabled what President Eisenhower described as the threat of the “military-industrial complex”.[85]
When Reagan testified in 1947, he had just been put into that SAG position by Sidney Korshak, consigliere to the “Chicago Outfit”, with Korshak operating at the direction of Chicagoan Jules Stein and Cleveland native Lew Wasserman.[86] With Reagan’s help, a talent agency (MCA) was transformed into into a major film studio (Universal). That outcome was made possible by a “special exemption” that SAG president Reagan (with future wife Nancy Davis a board member) allowed MCA so it could represent both the talent (actors, writers, etc.) and the studio. Even now, Reagan’s MCA “deal” outrages informed SAG members.
Systemic Deceit. Americans’ confidence in democracy will not recover until those responsible for this internalized duplicity are made transparent and held accountable—a key purpose of The Hidden Tax on Humanity series. Those described don’t necessarily do anything to others; we are deceived to do it to ourselves—which makes the duplicity all the more threatening to systems of governance reliant on informed consent to protect our freedom. To date, this criminality has escaped culpability under linear law where guilt requires that an actor possess the mens rea (state of mind) to connect the perpetrator to the crime—consistent with the concept of free will. In this case, those targeted become the unwitting actors as we “act out” internalized narratives unaware that its source is an enemy within—both psychologically and politically.
Thus the agenda-setting role played by the creation of consensus opinions that find their way into education and, over time, into law. As this work encompasses both diagnosis and prescription, we will show how the “Chicago model” of economics morphed into the globalized “Washington” consensus.[87] Long known to concentrate both wealth (undermining democracies) and income (undermining consumer markets), how did this shared mindset—with all its known dysfunctions—become the economic model branded worldwide as “ours”?[88] Do its foreseeable results make democracy appear guilty by association? And, importantly, what must change to address time-critical challenges such as climate change?
Think of it as the threat within. As my personal experience proves, those I profiled target the mindset, confident that outcomes flow downstream from consensus opinions, a fact well understood among systems theorists.[89] By granting financial signals not just deference but outright dominance, all other values are displaced. Reliant on this consensus, money managers now oversee $102 trillion in assets under management worldwide. Any value that cannot be identified, calibrated and captured in terms of money is displaced. In this solely transactional model, no value is assigned to civil cohesion, fiscal foresight, environmental sustainability or an array of other concerns valued by people worldwide.
Money-myopic, finance-fixated and transaction-dependent, the model, as presently designed, is disconnected, dumbed-down and dangerous. Unable to respond to a broader bandwidth of values, it’s no wonder that in no domain are its operations sustainable: social, financial or ecological. Accountable solely to itself, it provides no means to reflect a broader bandwidth of values required for systems resilience. Operating worldwide within a “closed system of finance”,[90] capitalism is not designed to create more “capitalists” but instead systematically finances more capital, largely for its preexisting owners. How can private property be essential yet its patterns irrelevant?
Credit Suisse projects we’ll see 11 trillionaires within two generations.[91] In terms of game theory warfare, this society-fracturing outcome was long ago mathematically model-able and “probabilistic”. I am confident that this internalized worldview exemplifies Plato’s concept of the “Noble Lie”[92]—a moral rationalization that the wise must conceal their true motives from an “ignorant public” that may otherwise seek reprisals. Was today’s outcome purposeful?
In the 1940s, my father was tasked by President Harry Truman with devising an alternative to the appeal of communism in developing countries. At the time, he was serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs. As Dr. Glenn Olds told me, my father said that communism was not the problem; it could be contained—and was. The problem, as my father put it, was the “rapacious greed” of capitalism—nowhere more evident than in the oligarchies that typified South and Central America. Imagine if that message—from a Rockefeller—had gained traction while those described were pre-staging the profitable Cold War narrative of capitalism versus communism.
That challenge led to his “hybrid” approach to business designed to bridge the public/private divide with a bottom-up, stakeholder-inclusive approach crafted to counter the top-down and exclusive model that, in desperation, fueled the appeal of communism with all its many known dysfunctions. His hybrid notion catalyzed what became the U.S. Agency for International Development overseen by the State Department where it morphed into the top-down/exclusive Washington consensus touted by the World Bank Group.
Finance remains humanity’s most powerful non-military force. Yet, as the laws are currently crafted, it is immoral and remorseless. Both commonsense and time-critical climate sustainability mandate a different approach. To broaden the values to which that $102 trillion responds requires a far more “relational” model designed to reflect the values of those whose lives are affected. Ethics and morality demand a future better able to protect our shared habitat. That future, in turn, requires ensuring that in-the-ground wealth (such as oil and gas) are viewed as a commons whose value can be financially accessed while leaving those hydrocarbons in the ground, per the core design features of the NewRock model.
The Threat. The “canary in the coalmine” of today’s unaccountable capitalism can be seen in the U.S. with its epidemic “deaths of despair” from drugs, alcohol and suicide—largely by those who have lost their personal dignity and their sense of purpose. In the course of shifting from the Soviet system to its “consensus” successor, more than 12 million Russian men “disappeared” due to suicide, alcoholism, a failing healthcare system and self-destructive behavior. While the narrative of their lives was stripped out from under them, those described financially pillaged the nation.
In May 2016, the Federal Reserve published its Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households. The report found that, if faced with emergency expenses of $400, almost half the 5,600 respondents said they either would not be able to cover the expense or would be forced to sell something or borrow to do so. Meanwhile the U.S. recorded the fastest rise in inequality among the seven leading high-income economies. Between 1980 and 2015, the nation’s share of pre-tax income for the top 1 percent of Americans jumped from 10 percent to 18 percent. Even after tax, it grew from 8 percent to 12 percent. While the topmost prospered, the total increase in median earnings since 1979 was only 1.2 percent, 0.03 percent per year. [See Robert J. Shiller, “What’s Behind a Rise in Ethnic Nationalism,” The New York Times, October 16, 2016]
The dominant social narrative, embraced by Alan Greenspan, the Reagan-appointed former Chairman of the U.S Federal Reserve, assumed that financial signals are sufficient unto themselves. That mindset traces to Ayn Rand (né Russian-Jewish novelist Alisa Rosenbaum) who touted the perfection of markets with the help of devotee Greenspan whose Rand-inspired beliefs helped enable the 2008 financial crisis. Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the House, credited Rand with inspiring him to enter politics. Rand’s harsh libertarian worldview, embraced by members of both major political parties, confirms the role of education when shaping a mindset, no matter how flawed. Absent a genuinely inclusive, accountable and “relational” capitalism, results will continue to worsen at a steadily accelerating pace.
Those profiled face an existential threat not from Iran but from an informed populace. When a long-deceived global public grasps the source and scale of this hidden tax on humanity, accountability will rightly be sought for serial financial mega-frauds, massive geopolitical manipulations and ongoing crimes against humanity.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz testified before Congress that the war in Iraq would cost $50 billion and could be recovered from the sale of Iraqi oil. As of November 2019, the financial costs alone of post-9/11 wars total $6.4 trillion spent and obligated, including $925 billion in interest paid to date. The opportunity costs are far higher. “If war spending ceased immediately, interest payments on the $2 trillion of existing war debt would rise to over $2 trillion by 2030 and to $6.5 trillion by 2050.” [93]
One unquantifiable cost is the impact on other nations as the worldwide refugee population soared to a record high of 70.8 millionand immigration flows fractured cultures throughout Europe, ensuring the emergence of a renewed nationalism as this crisis triggered a steady drift rightward. As Glenn Olds told me, my father recognized the fragility of our democratic institutions. He anticipated they would fail us, as they have under a nonstop, multi-decade assault by those with a “tireless genius for crisis.”
You cannot fight fire with fire nor defeat hate-mongers with hate. The way forward is with improved design that ensures people can better shape the forces, including financial forces, that impact their lives. Freedom has long required it. The climate crisis now demands it.
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[1] See “Trump praises Pompeo for confrontation with NPR reporter: ‘You did a good job on her’”, Politico, January 28, 2020.
[2] “I think you did a good job on her.” Trump praises Pompeo for blasting NPR host, USA Today, January 28, 2020.
[3] On January 16, the Government Accountability Office issued a report concluding that the Trump administration broke the law by withholding from Ukraine $391 million in Congressionally approved funds. On the same day, Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas revealed more facts confirming Trump’s role.
[4] On January 17, 2020, it was confirmed that Trump’s defense team includes Harvard University Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, an ardent Zionist. A well-known liberal Democrat, he is not defending either Republican Trump or, as he asserts, the Constitution; he is defending Trump’s role in advancing Israeli goals.
[5] The May 2018 inauguration of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem featured two well-known Zionist Christian dispensationalist preachers: San Antonio minister John Hagee, the founder in 2006 of Christians United for Israel, and Dallas End Times pastor John Jeffress who describes anti-Trump Christians as “morons”. Honored guests included U.S. casino magnate Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, his Israeli wife, Trump’s top campaign contributors. In his 2006 book, Jerusalem Countdown, Hagee (aka “Pastor Strangelove”), imagined a scenario whereby a U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran triggered an “inferno [that] will explode across the Middle East, plunging the world toward Armageddon.”
[6] Jeffrey Heller, “Obama victory spells trouble for Israel’s Netanyahu,” Reuters, November 7, 2012.
[7] See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsvDWZTVP3E&feature=endscreen. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) was founded in 1985 as a research component of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most visible component of the Israel lobby.
[8] Masada, the former Roman fortress site that Israelis are taught to revere, was occupied largely by Jewish rebel assassins led by Eleazar, leader of the Sicarii who are often considered among the earliest terrorists.
[9] “U.S. Bid to Kill Second Iranian Didn’t Succeed,” The New York Times, January 11, 2020, p.1.
[10] According to a senior U.S. official, Pompeo first spoke with Trump about killing Soleimani months earlier. In 2016, he sought a visa to travel to Iran to confront him. See How Pompeo convinced Trump to kill Soleimani and fulfilled a decade-long goal.
[11] The U.S. and Israel had already collaborated on a form of preemptive warfare when, in 2010, we jointly developed Stuxnet, the first known digital weapon, aimed at disabling Iranian centrifuges used to process uranium into useable medical isotopes (according to Tehran) or for use in nuclear weapons (according to Tel Aviv). A 2016 documentary charges in Zero Days that, when Stuxnet was launched by the Israelis, this self-replicating malware (utilizing more than 10,000 lines of code and launching a new era of warfare) could have damaged the U.S., our allies and others. The Israeli Defense Forces Unit 8200 employs at least 5,000 “cyber warriors”.
[12] The power of the Israel lobby was on display in 2009 when their libelous attacks on Ambassador Freeman forced him to withdraw from consideration as chair of the National Intelligence Council.
[13] While many wrote off Netanyahu before the furor surrounding Rabin’s assassination on November 5, 1995 by Likud Party ultranationalist Yigal Amir, his “anti-Oslo” position was strengthened by a spate of four suicide bombings within eight days that killed 59 Israelis after Israel assassinated Hamas “engineer” Yahya Ayyash in January 1996. Netanyahu succeeded in portraying his competitor, Shimon Peres, as weak and ill-prepared to achieve security for Israelis. In March 1996, he was elected to his first of four terms as prime minister after whipping up a nationalist fervor that many claim led to Rabin’s death. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2yPKGBHvVc
[14] Among evangelicals, Trump is marketed as a modern-day Persian King Cyrus from the Bible’s book of Isaiah who freed a population of Jews living in Babylon, a narrative also promoted by Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer. This narrative traces back to Zionist Christian President Harry Truman who proclaimed, “I am Cyrus” when induced to extend U.S. recognition to Israel in1948.
[15] For Mike Pompeo’s embrace of this worldview, including his belief in the rapture, see this sermon delivered by Congressman Pompeo at the evangelical Christian Summit Church in Wichita, Kansas during a June 2015 “God and Country” rally (at 24:45 of this YouTube video).
[16] By creating mistrust in the “expert consensus on reality”, those described can displace the findings of all 17 of our intelligence organizations as well as the analyses offered by intelligence agencies operated by our allies. See “How Devin Nunes Turned the House Intelligence Committee Inside Out,” The New York Times, April 24, 2018.
[17] An identical fact-displacing modus operandi has been deployed against me as part of an ongoing operation that, to date, has prevented functional engagement with the facts and analyses compiled while profiling those stalking me.
[18] Founded in 2004 at the urging of the Israel lobby, the U.S. Treasury Office for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence has been led since its inception by pro-Israel stalwarts. Former Under Secretary Sigal Mandelker was the daughter of Holocaust survivors. As she informed AIPAC, her mother was on the ship Exodus. She was appointed in 2017 by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin who traveled to Israel for the dedication of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Ms. Mandelker was preceded by Adam Szubin and succeeded in late 2019 by Justin Muzinich (acting). Mr. Szubin was preceded by David Cohen, former Deputy Director of the C.I.A., who was preceded by Stuart Levey who designed the first measures for isolating Iran from the international financial system.
[19] Trump’s failure to consult with military leaders before announcing key decisions (withdrawing troops from Syria, abandoning the Kurds, threatening to bomb cultural sites in Iran, proposing the use of disproportionate force, etc.) is steadily eroding the legitimacy, stature and credibility of the U.S. military while fueling its perception as an occupying force (similar to Israel). Trump’s 15,413 false or misleading claims over 1,055 days (The Washington Post) further erode U.S. trustworthiness and forfeit U.S. authority as a leader on whom other nations can rely. The (foreseeable) result isolates the U.S. and makes us vulnerable. See “It’s terrible: Fears Grow that Trump is kneecapping the Pentagon.” By disparaging and kneecapping our intelligence community in which U.S. taxpayers invest $80-$100 billion per year, he shifted more influence over decision-making to the deceitful few chronicled in these accounts, aiding their long-term goals. Military fitness and readiness is further handicapped by his emphasis on sophisticated and expensive (i.e., profitable) weaponry over the fitness and readiness of those who use them.
[20] Mark Esper, a classmate of Pompeo at the U.S. Military Academy, was formerly the senior lobbyist for Raytheon, a major defense contractor. See year-end 2019 defense contract awards.
[21] The origins of the Trump/Pompeo idea of “preemptive self-defense” regardless of imminent danger traces to the George W. Bush presidency when, with his embrace of the “Bush Doctrine”, he mimicked an Israeli mindset whereby the Mossad can go anywhere and kill anyone believed to be a threat. Israelis cite the Talmud as justification: “If someone comes to kill you, get up early in the morning to kill him first.” In September 2011, U.S. Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (aka Sheikh Anwar) became the first American citizen since the Civil War to be hunted and killed without trial by his own government with an Obama-ordered drone strike in Yemen where he became radicalized while imprisoned by the U.S. Though removed from the physical battlefield, he remains a powerful presence on the (Internet-enabled) battlefield of extremist mindsets. The fact that he was killed by Americans enhanced the appeal and reach of his anti-American jihadist message, making him far more influential in death than when alive. A similar impact is poised to accompany the “martyr-ing” of an iconic Iranian figure who reportedly hoped to become a martyr. See also How Israel Helped Spawn Hamas. For an analysis of the occupation-provoked origins of Hamas and Hezbollah, see Israel Created Two of Its Own Worst Enemies—Hamas and Hezbollah.
[22] The Kushner-devised proposal was praised by Netanyahu whose relationship dates to when he stayed overnight in the Kushner home in New Jersey where he slept in the teenager Jared’s bed while Jared slept in the basement.
[23] Seven days after the assassination in Iraq of the second-highest official in Iran, Cotton published an op-ed in The New York Times, “The Case for Killing Qassim Suleimani” (January 7, 2020).
[24] The widespread embrace of this religious fervor, widely shared among fundamentalist and evangelical Christians who most avidly support Zionism, traces to a dispensationalist mindset initially popularized just prior to the Great War (WWI) with the publication and widespread distribution of the Scofield Reference Bible.
[25] Many of those cases were handled by Trump attorney Roy Cohn who was known for his intimidation tactics. See “How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America.
[26] The attack led to the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
[27] See “Donald Trump is currently a bigger headache for Europe than Iran is” CNN, January 11, 2020.
[28] The Other Side of Deception by Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), pp. 113-117.
[29] Judith Miller was the most persistent “journalist” in promoting false intelligence when editors at The New York Times allowed her to use their front page to promote lies told to her by Iraqi Ahmad Chalabi, an asset developed by those described while living as an Iraqi ex-pat in London where his group, the Iraqi National Congress, received more than $100 million from the C.I.A. and other agencies while providing misleading intelligence consistent with advancing the long-term goals of the Israeli Right.
[30] When the family of Condoleezza Rice relocated to Denver, they moved in next door to the father of Benjamin Netanyahu. Then a precocious teen, she was mentored at the University of Denver by Professor Josef Korbel, a Jewish-Czech defector and father of Madeleine Albright (né Marie Jana Korbel). After her nomination in 1996 as asset Bill Clinton’s second-term Secretary of State, Albright claimed an “epiphany” on discovery of her Jewish heritage. In August 2000, she named the U.S. State Department after Zionist Christian Harry Truman, the president best known abroad for overruling his Secretary of State, George Marshall, when the former general opposed the recognition of Israel as a legitimate state.
[31] Any mention of Jewish fascism risks portrayal as an anti-Semite despite that description by Albert Einstein.
[32] Paul Wolfowitz, the “architect” of the war in Iraq (assuring Congress it would cost $50 billion and pay for itself), expressed his enthusiasm for the Trump/Pompeo-ordered assassinations.
[33] See The New Anti-Semitism, an online chapter from Guilt By Association (2008). When Jeff Gates began his research, he did a Google search that included the three-letter noun “Jew”. In return, he received a warning directly from the Anti-Defamation League accusing him of being an “anti-Semite” for using that word in an online search. On January 16, 2020, the market capitalization of Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, reached $1 trillion. Co-founder Larry Page has a personal net worth of $66.3 billion and Sergey Brin $63.9 billion. Both founders are Jewish.
[34] See “Facebook Opts to Influence 2020 Election,” The New York Times, January 11, 2020, p. 1. The irony of a democracy granting unbridled authority to a Unitary Executive includes its potential to empower a Supreme Leader similar to those we oppose in North Korea, Iran and elsewhere such as authoritarian China. Or to shift political power into the hands of a Sanhedrin-like structure.
[35] Consider the remarkable timing and narrative-enabling impact of this murder spree: on October 2, 2002, random sniper attacks began around the Washington, D.C. area, killing ten people and wounding three over a three-week period. The effect created a well-timed fear-and-insecurity crisis as Washington became a city under siege the day before debate began on Senate Resolution 46, introduced by Senator Joe Lieberman a self-described Zionist, to authorize the use of U.S. armed forces against Iraq. That crisis-aided expansion of the War Powers Act in 2002 is now being cited as precedent for granting Trump presidential authority to take the U.S to war with Iran in 2020. Is it possible that pre-disposed “assets” were identified and “triggered” to produce that fear-infused policy environment? The consistency of the fact patterns suggests “yes” though it may never be conclusively proven.
[36] U.N. headquarters buildings in Manhattan were constructed on land acquired with funds donated by my grandfather at the urging of my father.
[37] See “How a Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S.”, The New York Times, December 29, 2019, p. 8. In the mid-50s, my Uncle David acquired the headquarters building of Hallgarten and Company and built One Chase Manhattan Plaza.
[38] Arizonans who declined to engage and follow these facts in good faith include Senators Kyrsten Sinema, Jon Kyl, Jeff Flake and John McCain and Congressman David Schweikert. Despite numerous requests, attempts at engagement by local and state law enforcement proved unproductive. In December 2005, a three-volume evidentiary trail was provided to Attorney General Terry Goddard and Governor Janet Napolitano. Had those facts and analyses been engaged consistent with their oaths of office, this systemic corruption could by now have been addressed. In January 2009, Ms. Napolitano was appointed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, succeeding Michael Chertoff. On September 30, 2013, Ms. Napolitano succeeded Mark Yudof as President of the University of California. Wife Judith Yudof is a past international president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
[39] Notorious for a personal nastiness and confrontational belligerence unhampered by morality, ethics or decency, Cohn’s sense of entitlement made him unapologetic, remorseless and shameless—key personal qualities exhibited by his protégé. See The Final Lesson Donald Trump Never Learned from Roy Cohn.
[40] Israel has long secretly purchased oil from the Kurdish area of Northern Iraq through Turkey, amounting to as much as three-quarters of its oil supplies says Financial Times.
[41] President George H. W. Bush infuriated the Israeli Right and the Israel lobby when, as president, in March 1992 he rejected a loan guarantee for Israel because its terms enabled them to continue building settlements in the occupied territories. I am confident that those who wanted him removed persuaded Ross Perot to mount a vote-splitting presidential race that helped put asset Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. I met Perot in 1981-82 who I believe knew my true identity. Perot amassed much of his personal fortune at EDS (Electronic Data Systems) by providing services to SAVAK, the notoriously brutal secret police, domestic security and intelligence service for the Shah of Iran.
[42] The consistency of these encounters suggests an underlying math that, in turn, led me to consider the concept of congruences. For example, what is the probability that in 2004 I would overhear Bob Weinstein plotting to blackmail his brother, Harvey, for being a sexual predator. Later reports of Harvey Weinstein’s behavior as a sexual predator catalyzed to the “Me Too Movement”. See Harvey & Bob Weinstein and the Role of Congruences.
[43] Barack Obama relocated to Chicago, a major node in this network, where his political career was nurtured. Based on the shared identity of his supporters and promoters, former Chicago Congressman Abner Mikva described Obama as “our first Jewish president”. In 2014, Obama presented Mikva the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His top fundraiser was Penny Pritzker who he appointed Secretary of Commerce. Both her grandfather and great-grandfather were lawyers for the “Chicago Outfit” of organized crime. His second largest contributor was the Crown family (né Krinsky from the Pale of Settlement), major shareholders in General Dynamics, one of the largest beneficiaries of the war in Iraq and Homeland Security. I believe that Obama realized he was an asset and sought to expose the influence of the Israeli Right and its lobby. He was particularly suspicious of Bibi Netanyahu. After French President Nicholas Sarkozy was overheard calling Netanyahu a liar in November 2011, Obama was overheard saying, “You are fed up with him, but I have to deal with him even more often than you.”
[44] LBJ’s support included covering up the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 35 Americans and injured 173. See “McCain Family Secret: The Coverup” Guilt by Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War.
[45] See Chapter Four from Guilt By Association where I am identified only as John Doe. An ultra-Zionist, Fortas and New York investment banker John Loeb hosted LBJ and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara at the Fortas home the night before Israel launched their attack. After dinner, Johnson returned to Mathilde Krim in the White House.
[46] Should Trump, as he proposed, order the U.S. military to attack cultural sites in Iran, he would consign our troops to the same war crimes category as the Taliban and ISIS. When criticized, he explained, “I like to obey the law.”
[47] This “special relationship” with religious extremists also enabled the emergence of Osama bin Laden with U.S. support for the 1982 Israeli bombardment and siege of Beirut that killed more than 17,000 people in the “Paris of the Middle East”. As he conceded: “God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but after the situation became unbearable—and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon—I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were those of 1982 and the events that followed—when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me to punish the unjust the same way: to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we were tasting and to stop killing our children and women.” The Guardian (London, October 30, 2004). Though the rationale for the siege included dislodging from Lebanon the Palestine Liberation Organization, only after the death of PLO leader Yasser Arafat was it revealed that tens of millions of dollars in PLO funds diverted by Arafat to Swiss bank accounts were managed by a former senior official of Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, and a former Israeli intelligence officer (Mossad).
[48] In an apparent campaign of incitement and provocation meant to provoke reactions, Israeli confiscations and demolitions of Palestinian homes increased 45 percent in 2019.
[49] Still fresh in the minds of Iranians is the August 1953 coup d’état that overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, an operation orchestrated by the United States and the United Kingdom.
[50] Due to the common source of the trans-generational syndicate criminally stalking me my entire life as the son of Nelson Rockefeller, I was routinely drawn into the circles of those complicit in major geopolitical manipulations. See, for example, the Iran-Contra “bagman” identified in The Iran Connection.
[51] Beijing proved its arrival as a potential military opponent and an Information Age superpower with a January 2007 demonstration of its ability to destroy a surveillance satellite. China gained that military capability with the help of sophisticated gyroscopic technology provided by Loral Space & Communications, then led by CEO Bernard Schwartz, asset Bill Clinton’s largest political contributor. The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) reports that advisory board member Stephen Bryen served for eight years as a Reagan-era Deputy Under Secretary of Defense where he founded the Defense Technology Security Administration and served as its first director. He then served on the Government Security Committee of Space Systems/Loral.
[52] As chronicled in The Poland Connection, an attempt was made to discredit me by framing me for a 1995 fraud in an operation based in Minneapolis after my return from Baghdad in 1997 with intelligence that could have prevented the war in Iraq and, if investigated in good faith, may have uncovered the pre-staging for 9/11. FBI agents in the Minneapolis office were directly involved in the stalking of my person, including an attempt to suborn perjury. A Freedom of Information Act request confirmed that an FBI agent in Berlin accused me of “extortion” after I promised to reveal the role of FBI agents in this stalking and it its impact on national security. A friendly FBI agent told a colleague in Minnesota that Janet Reno, Attorney General for asset Bill Clinton, flew to Minneapolis and returned to Washington with my FBI files.
[53] With the possibility that these assassinations may advance the Israeli Right’s long sought war with Iran, Iraq hawks from the Bush presidency remerged to assist with messaging, including Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld’s speechwriter Mark Thiessen, and George W. Bush’s press secretary Ari Fleischer. Numerous others should also be questioned for their role in aiding and abetting this corruption, including Richard Perle, David Wurmser, Stephen Bryen, Martin Indyk, Michael Ledeen, Dennis Ross, Ron Dermer and others. Due to the nonlinear and diffused nature of this corruption, shared intent is proven by showing the consistency of behavior patterns over time.
[54] The first conclave of the National Crime Syndicate was convened in Atlantic City in 1929. In 1931, the Syndicate convened a “Jews only” conclave in the Franconia Hotel in Manhattan where North America and Cuba were divided into 24 territories with Murder, Inc. formed for enforcement. Italians and Sicilians were thereafter featured as the public face of organized crime with Hollywood-assisted “messaging” (The Godfather, The Sopranos, The Irishman, etc.). Al Capone, the iconic “Chicago” gangster, was dispatched to Chicago from Brooklyn which remains a key node in this network. In 1934, the Kansas City component of this syndicate (aka the Pendergast political machine), “elected” Zionist Christian Harry Truman to the Senate. At the July 1944 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago, Truman emerged as Roosevelt’s running mate after direct intervention by organized crime. On January 20, 1945, this shopkeeper from the American Bible Belt of Missouri became Vice-President to Franklin Roosevelt. With FDR’s death on April 12, 1945, Truman succeeded him as an unelected President. They reportedly met only twice.
[55] See, the buyer in July 2008 of a Trump estate in Palm Beach for $95 million for which Trump paid $41 million in 2004. The buyer was Russian oligarch and multi-billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev ($6.8 billion).
[56] Cambridge Analytica also played a key role in the Brexit campaign that fractured the U.K and the E.U., reinforcing nationalist movements Europe-wide. See: Brexit: An Uncivil War. A U.K.-focused anti-Semitism campaign aided a record defeat of the U.K. Labour Party in July 2019 and helped bring Brexit advocate Boris Johnson to office as Prime Minister. See The New Anti-Semitism and The Weaponization of Anti-Semitism.
[57] In 1979, I met Canadian math genius Gus German, the preeminent mind in computers and algorithms. In the 1960s, Gus and a four-person team at Waterloo University devised the math for taking computers from punch cards and reel tapes to hard disk drives. He also invented RAID (redundant array of independent devices). When Jeff and I met with him in Canada in 2003, he was working on amorphous storage or what later became cloud computing. Why did I meet Gus? Because the same parties stalking the son of Nelson Rockefeller were also stalking the world’s most brilliant minds. The Mossad was then seeking to recruit Paul Sop, Gus’s colleague in developing amorphous storage. See the “IT Security” graphic given to Paul by the Mossad accompanying The New Anti-Semitism, a chapter from Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008).
[58] For a chronicle of the role of Russian-Jewish oligarchs in keeping Yeltsin in office to give their nation-scale fraud the appearance of legitimately-attained personal wealth, see The Presidency and Russian Organized Crime from Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008).
[59] Trump’s $1.5 trillion deficit-financed supply-side tax bill was modeled after similar deficit-financed tax legislation enacted in 1981 at the urging of Ronald Reagan, an earlier “conservative” who, like Trump, was a classic asset. My step-Uncle Bob was close to Reagan dating from their WWII service together in the Signal Corps making films for the military. For an analysis of the foreseeable, nation-fracturing, rich-get-richer financial dynamics of both supply-side initiatives, see Money, Democracy and the Great Divide from Guilt by Association (2008).
[60] See Protecting the U.S. from the True Extremists and The Presidency and Russian Organized Crime.
[61] On January 5, 2020, Lieberman published in the Wall Street Journal praise for the Trump-ordered assassinations. In September 2000, while Senator Lieberman was campaigning in California on the Gore-Lieberman presidential ticket, Senior Secret Service Agent Brian J. Korbs came to my home in Fresno accompanied by two Fresno police officers in an attempt to discredit me—one year prior to 9/11. A search for Korbs in the Timeline will provide the details of that encounter.
[62] See John McCain and Organized Crime in Arizona from Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War(aka “the McCain book”) featuring three chapters chronicling the production and repeated use of John McCain as a classic asset for the entirety of his political career. See also John McCain—A Last Chance at Honor and John McCain: Your Apology to the American People.
[63] Much of their casino-derived fortune originates in China (Macao). The Trump campaign slogan (“Make America Great Again”) was first used by those who produced the Reagan presidency.
[64] See online the New York Times seating chart for the Trump inaugural to which this Zionist power couple donated $5 million.
[65] For an analysis of how this latest narrative was created, marketed and sustained, see The People in Between.
[66] I was subjected to a series of financial frauds as the perpetrators drew me into business transactions pre-staged to fail. Until 1994, this serial criminal stalking was overseen by Mormon Doug Skeen and then by Carol Barr from the Rocha clan of Portugese-Sephardic Jews who settled California’s Sacramento Delta. While being drawn into the “fields within fields…within fields” of relationships through which this trans-generational syndicate operates, I was brought into close contact with those perpetrating the $150 billion-plus Savings and Loan fraud of the 1980s, the “dotcom crash” of 2000 (a financial fraud perpetrated with inflated appraisals), and the Enron fraud revealed in 2001. Julius Stulman, president of B’nai B’rith, sponsored the publication of a book series that helped explain the nonlinear, relationship-based nature of this operation titled Fields Within Fields…Within Fields. [New York: World Institute Council, 1968-72]. Mr. Stulman gave copies to Dr. Glenn Olds who provided them to me. Those stalking me were routinely well rewarded. The payoff for Doug Skeen was a co-founding stake in Valutech, a cash management and payments processing firm handling over $1 billion per day in health insurance claims. He then became president of ClearCycle and Chief Financial Officer of Leeyo Software. A resident of Reno, Nevada, Skeen walked away with a fortune for his role in helping strip me of all my assets, including my family home (1982-1993). Barr resides in Payson, Arizona.
[67] Dr. Zelman described how he lived in a Rothschild estate in Italy for six months while awaiting his U.S. visa.
[68] Former Israel Defense Forces Colonel Jason Barzilay was involved in stalking me three separate times over 15 years, beginning in 1982. He bragged about using U.S. foreign assistance to found Packard Bell (trading on the name recognition of both firms) to become largest seller of personal computers in the U.S. He also boasted about persuading Bronx-born California Governor Gray Davis, a former Assemblyman from Beverly Hills, to enact legislation forbidding insurance firms from transacting business in the world’s fifth largest economy until they settled their Holocaust claims, netting a reported $8 billion though the use of funds remains unclear. [California Insurance Code Section 790.15.] He also described how he changed Israeli law to enable IDF and Mossad operatives to take stock options in Israel’s high-tech sector for which they stole technologies that led to the creation of the IDF’s clandestine Unit 8200, enabling Israel to become the “Start-Up Nation”. Their targets were the U.S. and other trusting allies whose intellectual property was pilfered, often selling it to China. That operation helps explain how Israel became a world leader in information technology and cybersecurity and why it now poses a global threat due to its knowledge of how to bypass the IT security systems it sells worldwide while touting Israel’s “special relationship” with the U.S. See Israel-based NSO and its Pegasus spyware and its use in the October 2018 assassination in Istanbul, Turkey of U.S. resident and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi. Barzilay maintains offices in Beijing and Tel Aviv.
[69] Note in The China Connection, the parties who stalked a Rockefeller in Beijing in 2000 used the same law firm that lobbied John and Robert Kennedy (and Senator Bill Fulbright) in 1962-63 when they sought to force the Zionist Organization of America to register as what they were then and remain: foreign agents who have yet to comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
[70] As my life experience proves, South Florida has long been a key node in this transnational network. Both Dermer’s father, Jay Dermer, and his brother, David Dermer, served as Mayor of Miami. Note Ron Dermer smiling behind Netanyahu as he gives Congressional testimony on September 12, 2002 as a private citizen assuring U.S. lawmakers, “If you take out Saddam’s regime, I guarantee you, it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.” As he told them in the lead-up to the U.S.-led invasion of a nation that played no role in 9/11 and had no WMD: “I think the choice of Iraq is a good choice, it’s the right choice.”
[71] British economist John Maynard Keynes left the negotiations to write The Economic Consequences of the Peace, his first well-known treatise. The point is this: these outcomes can be anticipated and algorithmically modeled.
[72] The only new component of this mental and emotional manipulation is the technologically enhanced means to deceive on a global scale. As Abraham Lincoln pointed out in the first Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858), “Public sentiment is everything.” Thus the deception-enabling sentiment accompanying a “special relationship”.
[73] See Alison Weir, Against Our Better Judgment (2014) for a description of the elite Jewish-Zionist delegations who attended the Paris Peace Conference and the lengthy pre-staging, much of it overseen by Zionist Louis Brandeis, a close friend of Woodrow Wilson who appointed him to the Supreme Court. By creating a cadre of like-minded people and placing them in positions of influence, those described proved how a few could leverage their influence, the modus operandi that continues to be deployed by those described.
[74] For a chronicle of the Zionist delegations attending negotiations in Paris, see Alison Weir, Against Our Better Judgment (2014). At the conclusion of those negotiations, the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations was founded at the Majestic Hotel in Paris. Search for the Council in The War in Iraq Could Have Been Prevented.
[75] See “Canada’s Shrinking Middle Class Has Its Own Minister”, The Wall Street Journal, December 24, 2019. The foreseeable fracturing of civil society is imbedded in the financial dynamics of a (now globally dominant) consensus economic model, as illustrated in “Democracy, Money and the Great Divide”, a chapter from Guilt by Association.
[76] The proposed shared prosperity model for Iraq offered a means for Saddam to step aside and implement a stability-enhancing development strategy with a bottom-up and inclusive structure as a counterbalance to the top-down, “Washington consensus” known to create autocracies and enable dictatorships rather than ensuring a secure foundation for free enterprise and democracy while making finance capitalism more accountable.
[77] Discussion between Charlie Bartlett and Jeff Gates at the urging of George Pillsbury and former Republican Congressman Paul Findley of Illinois, the first Member openly removed by the Israel lobby (in 1982). Dick Durbin, Findley’s successor, was handpicked by the lobby. Elected to the Senate in 1996, Durbin serves as Assistant Democratic Leader to New York’s Chuck Schumer as Senate Democratic Leader. In the U.K., an Israeli embassy official was filmed covertly in January 2017 as he bragged about setting up groups to influence U.K. policy and offering to “take down” Members of Parliament seen as hostile to Israeli goals, including a current foreign minister..
[78] See “The Suez Crisis: Israel Wins a War (France and Britain Were Never the Same)”, The National Interest, Oct. 20 2019.
[79] Well-timed crises remain a part of the Israeli Right modus operandi. Its Operation Cast Lead involved similar election-year timing. That brutal campaign (launched and concluded during political ‘down time’ in the U.S.) began two days after Christmas 2008 and ended two days before the January 2009 U.S. presidential inaugural of Barack Obama. That well-timed provocation killed an estimated 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 350 under age 18.
[80] Marshall was adamant in his objection. Likewise for the C.I.A., our diplomatic corps and the Joint Chiefs who warned Truman in 1948 that recognition would “prejudice U.S. interests” by engaging us “in a continuously widening and deepening series of operations intended to secure maximum Jewish objectives.”
[81] Skepticism about this creation story is addressed in numerous books, including, Gilad Atzmon, The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics (2011), and Zeev Sternhell, The Founding Myths of Israel (1998).
[82] Narrative-advancing films remain a staple of Hollywood and the Academy Awards. The year 2008 saw the release of a record eight Holocaust-themed films, including The Reader starring Kate Winslet who received an Academy Award for best actress in a leading role. She joked about the influence wielded by those who dominate both Hollywood and popular culture. In a 2005 filming of Extras, a comedy series in which she played herself, an actor congratulated her on her role in a Holocaust-related film, to which she responded: “I don’t think we need another film about the Holocaust, do we? It’s like, how many have there been? We get it. It was grim. Move on. No, I’m doing it because I’ve noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust, [you’re] guaranteed an Oscar. I’ve been nominated four times—never won. The whole world is going, ‘Why hasn’t Winslet won one?’ That’s it. That’s why I’m doing it. Schindler’s bloody List. The Pianist. Oscars coming out of their ass!” Winslett is is one of only a few pop culture stars willing to concede who wields control in Hollywood. See here. When British rock star Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was asked why so few in the arts community are willing to speak out about the common source of this obvious dominance, he answered, “They are scared shitless. If they say something in public, they will no longer have a career. They will be destroyed.”
[83] In 1992, I met Ron Burd who was then working for the Law Offices of Mormon Steven Smith who was representing me. When Ron uncovered evidence that one or more of my attorneys (or third parties) were undermining my case and deleting documents proving my co-founder’s equity in AlphaBase Systems, Inc., he left the firm and has since represented me at enormous personal cost.
[84] After Richard Nixon lost the 1960 presidential race to Kennedy and the 1962 governor’s race to Pat Brown in California (father of Governor Jerry Brown), he moved to Manhattan where the (predominantly Jewish) Mudge Rose et.al. law firm was renamed Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Mitchell. John Mitchell was a partner and Leonard Garment a rising junior partner. Bob Haldeman was brought in from the Los Angeles office of J. Walter Thompson advertising agency to rebrand Nixon (“He’s tan. He’s fit. He’s rested.”). Len Garment became White House counsel to Nixon, John Mitchell was appointed Attorney General and Haldeman became White House Chief of Staff. By quickly striking an agreement with Nixon, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir won for Tel Aviv’s nuclear arsenal an “ambiguous” status, enabling Israel to avoid compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Later, in representing Iran oil-trader Marc Rich, Garment was joined by Mudge Rose alumnus Lewis “Scooter” Libby who was then working in the Pentagon office of Paul Wolfowitz in the George H.W. Bush administration. As Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration, Wolfowitz allied with Libby, then serving as Chief of Staff to Vice-President Cheney, in providing the false intelligence on which President G.W. Bush was induced to rely when ordering the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. See the Introduction to The Hidden Tax on Humanity.
[85] My father gave Harry Truman a book by Vietnamese General Tran Hung Dao who twice defeated the Mongols using the same guerilla tactics deployed to defeat the U.S. seven centuries later. A political product of organized crime in Kansas City, Truman initiated U.S. involvement in Vietnam. JFK proposed to end U.S. involvement. In 1965, Lyndon Johnson instead increased U.S. troop strength eight-fold, from 23,000 to 184,000. By 1968, he had ordered 548.000 U.S personnel to Vietnam. That disastrous (yet profitable) war continued for another decade, killing at least 58,220 Americans and as many as 3.6 million Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians. The Pentagon Papers, revealed in 1971, have their present-day counterpart in the December 2019 release of The Afghanistan Papers confirming similar systemic duplicity in support of yet another disastrous (yet profitable) war.
[86] Asset Bill Clinton presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Wasserman in 1996 and Mathilde Krim in 2000.
[87] As an example of how consensus paradigms are created and sustained, the U.S.-based Aspen Institute, founded in Chicago in 1949, trains current and future leaders by studying classic literature with the help of professional moderators. Participants are then shown how this consensus reflects the “timeless values” revealed in that literature.
[88] For an analysis of the foreseeable dysfunctions accompanying this model, see online Money, Democracy and the Great Divide, a chapter from Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit took America to War (2008),[#need a period instead of a comma]
[89] See “Places to Intervene in a System” for the “upstream” role of the shared mindset in determining results.
[90] See the “closed system of finance” in Money, Democracy and the Great Divide, an online chapter from Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008).
[91] Credit Suisse, “World likely to have 11 trillionaires within two generations,” October 10, 2013.
[92] See The Noble Lie—By Consensus, an online chapter from The Hidden Tax on Humanity.
[93] From The Costs of War Project published by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. “This calculation uses the interest rate on the 10-year treasury note as the interest rate applied to the debt held each year…. About 40 percent of the post-9/11 wars have been financed by foreign borrowing…. Currently, about one third of foreign-held U.S. treasury securities are held by Japan and China, with Japan holding about 17 percent and China 16 percent as of August 2019.”
