CONTACT PHOENIX JOURNAL REVIEW News Reviews, Previews and Alternative Views NOT TO OPPOSE ERROR IS TO APPROVE IT NOT TO DEFEND TRUTH IS TO SUPPRESS IT VOLUME 45, NUMBER 13 NEWS REVIEW $ 3.00 SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 ByByBy AnAnAnyyy OtherOtherOther Name:Name:Name: FFFascismascismascism ininin AmerikaAmerikaAmerika 9/9/05—#1 (19-24) separation of those “nice” refuges from the “nasty” negate the necessity of rebuilding schools, etc. Fri., September 9, 2005 7:20 A.M. YR 19, DAY 24 refuges? Well you can KNOW that there are The full intention is to raze New Orleans and if Manila, Philippines major differences and it is well-calculated as is the a plague has to be brought upon the citizens to follow-on CONTROL of such “different” accomplish this task it shall be presented in its RE: FALTERING “WILL” TO CONTINUE—GCH/d personalities in classification of “qualified” proper time. If it is rebuilt you can KNOW that it “placements”. The last to be “dragged out” of New will be “according to already presented” plans and * * * Orleans, for instance, will be the ones most will have carefully orchestrated citizens. BLIND LAMBS OFF TO WONDERLAND troublesome and that is WHY the clean-up of Nothing is “out of control” as you will find that human persons is now confronting the “Masters” in EVERYTHING IS QUITE FUNCTIONALLY First you want to KNOW THE TRUTH and the game of “gotcha”. TOTALLY UNDER EXACTED CONTROL. now you want us to tell you: “it isn’t so!” Those “holed-up” rebels will run out of food and The government, U.S., is in a PERFECT exercise The world has witnessed the most incredible once dislodged from the broken houses can be for its purposes. You can’t even count on your game played against you since the Nazi Camps and easily gathered at gunpoint. It works every time. Internet “servers” to be on line. Communications, mostly you didn’t notice—BECAUSE THE Note that the oil will get back “on line” but only except for those under total control, are off line and PLAYERS ARE DIFFERENT IN THAT NOW the rig workers and depot repairmen will have jobs you can know they will STAY OFF LINE until the THEY ARE “YOU”. while temporary housing will be supplied during the task at hand is accomplished. Before we go further into the aftermath “fix-up” stage. There will be NO SERVICES IN You want more from me? Why? It is realities and expectations of a major hurricane THE CITY. Moreover, this will only be in the initial interesting in itself that you now want us to go to hitting the Gulf Coast of the USA, I suggest you clean-up stage and then the only “workers” will be the a more demanding schedule for truth publication ask yourselves some personal questions. maintenance crews. For a long time the barracks will while we have no facilities or backup sufficient to Do “you” want visitors IN YOUR HOME for be furnished on outfitted barges or on the actual rigs do such a thing. OUR PEOPLE ARE VOLUNTEEERS at least two years? You will have to pay the bills themselves. Families will be housed OUTSIDE the UNDER ANY AND ALL CIRCUMSTANCES as because there is disorganization rampant in “the area as evacuees or collateral families such as are brickbats fly randomly against them. system”. Do you believe that there will be treated in the military services for families in order to We have some who have helped? Yes indeed,
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The funds are put into gold to HOLD and, TRAINED FORCES, must wait until THEY ARE WITHIN OUR SECURITY, CORPORATIONS until gold increases enough to have gain, it is HELD. ASKED to take control. Then, as if by magic and no AND MANAGEMENT. If her TRUST is real as Those helping the paper to stay in publication are matter the mayhem, the problems will be extinguished she claims then she should produce it for your use as doing so under meticulously kept records to be repaid and magically the fires will even come under control. she claims, further, that it is FOR YOU-THE- when our mission is functional—with “interest” return. Oh goodness, can’t you see it? Even that PEOPLE, NESARA and other goody things. CAUSE It is not enough to even cover the cost of a publication incredibly expensive SuperDome will have to come HER TO PRODUCE IT, PROVE IT AND GIVE of an edition. It is not a nice world, readers—it is a down. First it is claimed “storm damage” but now it LEGALLY DOCUMENTED BACKUP. world in shutdown. is because the housed refugees destroyed it beyond Please note from those things we have shared Face it as you move into a time of absolute control repair—from within. with you from her claims, all were funneled into and you won’t even know what hit you. You want to Ah indeed, and what about all those people outside ROLL-TRADE programs from the “get-go” even blame FEMA? Go ahead but KNOW at the same the city in point or the Townships noted? Death and though the frauds in play were still quite “classically” time that they are doing, and have been doing, a job and criminally oriented. to the perfection of the guidelines. LISTEN TO THE VK DURHAM I further believe you can also see WHY our own NEWSCASTS where, even with little St. Gabriel town, CONTACT INFORMATION: functioning had to be removed from the USA with FEMA took over the very town and usurped a 127,000 recognition of our intent to meet our agreements in all ft “warehouse” for a morgue. The mayor grinned and 611 Moorhead St., ways. That means, readers, from upstart in INTENT said it was OK as the town wanted to “help” and Ida Grove, IA 51445 to holdings that by LAW should be forthcoming here guessed this was a good way but that he REALLY 712 364-3830 for the fundamental stability of whatever we issue or DIDN’T HAVE A CHOICE AS IT WAS POINTED [email protected]. present. OUT THAT NOW FEMA OWNED THE PLACE. The thefts from you people of the U.S. are so HE COULD GO ALONG WITH THE PLAN OR destruction are everywhere in the area involved and great as to disallow this program to work in your GO TO JAIL. now you have spread THE AREA INVOLVED over country as too much has been stolen FROM YOU Now, you also have noted that at least a THIRD at least ten states already in “emergency” status and and worthless paper poured upon you as to negate any of the local New Orleans police force “cut out” and now you stretch out for thousands of miles with value-balance whatsoever. simply disappeared into the mess. No, they mostly are “displaced” persons needing PERMANENT recovery. The U.S. is NOT in need of “money”. Money simply relocated to insure ORDERLY policed How long will the good-tidings of great joy and sharing can be printed or wired about the wireless systems in operations in the DETENTION centers. This couldn’t hold? Do we dare even think Christmas? Moreover, the span of a blinked eye. When you succumb to the happen in America? Of course it HAS ALREADY how many people are going to be pleased without lies, you become the LIE. Ponder it. Moreover, when HAPPENED in America. weekly FOOTBALL? Picnickers on daily food it is convenient to do something more drastic, then Moreover, what is witnessed in the current chaos service and laundry services are going to get unpopular you will have collapse of systems—right on cue. and servicing of the Philippines, IT IS ALREADY in just about a week—from NOW. Most of you will simply “slide” through and if you UNDER WAY HERE AS WELL. So, blame us or Can a well-intended mayor make a difference? are congenial and play “their” game, you may even don’t blame us, I do suggest you look around you and No, he will do exactly what he is expected to do—turn find it quite interesting and certainly somewhat non- read your JOURNALS. Then, please, weep a bit for it over to the “boots” and then, finally, give accolades abusive beyond what others are experiencing. the inability to keep up with the publication thereof for to the very preying-manti COME UPON THE LAND. What happens when civilizations collapse? Stick Hell is very similar to where YOU are headed at this Is it true that New Orleans will NEVER be “the around for you are just ready to witness it. Note how very minute. same” again? Of course, and in fact THE WORLD NOTHING works when the electricity, gas, sewage To help you decide to be cooperative there are WILL NEVER AGAIN BE “AS YOU KNEW IT”. and communications are DOWN AND OUT! TWO “next in line” storms sitting and waiting for Moreover, to make you understand your For a while you will feed on the few “miracles” another show and tell. Right off the Philippines there circumstances, you are only in the very start of a storm you PERCEIVE but that too shall pass as the bloom is one HOLDING just waiting for redirection if the season with expectation of WORSE and greater fades from the immediate thistles. Remember, also, people don’t fall into line and accept their plight at the storms hitting one after another. Japan, TODAY, is in that if these systems fail, we too are out of service hands of the Elite corruptors. It is also noted that the serious trouble while expecting another hit momentarily and any one leg, even though in about five separate major players in the “can you top this” grabbit games, and no help coming from anywhere. volunteer-serviced places, can stall out the entire ARE ALREADY NICELY ESTABLISHED IN THE Now what can I tell my crew here? KEEP publication until back “on line”. This is the hard FINEST OF HOUSING—WITH INCOME YOUR HEADS DOWN AND MOUTHS SHUT AS reality of what has come to be. The first to be SECURED—IN THE UNITED STATES OF ANY EXCUSE WILL BE USED TO QUIET THE expected, however, is inability to pay the bills which AMERICA WITH MORE ON THE WAY IF ISSUES. You are guests here but you MUST BE shuts everything down, for “volunteer” doesn’t cover PERCHANCE THE PEOPLE GET A HANDLE ON HERE so do not jeopardize any potential by any anything except a few individuals in offering of THEIR CRIMES. actions that can be construed as otherwise. Moreover, “service”. Everything from stamps to trucking is Can we insure anything? No, for it is not our we stop giving any assistance to that which does going to go into a funk while the governments shout, prerogative to do other than restate that GOD WINS! anything except move directly toward our “goal”. “Look how hard we tried”. What Hell may come while God is “allowing” is yet to Goose chases are not acceptable and Filipinos must During this exceptional time of “distractions” your be seen. come to understand. The point is to drag, snag and systems are being tampered to insure you all Don’t be too hard on George W. because he is frazzle us to the point of “just going home” and to heck understand how massive a failure can be—globally. doing EXACTLY that which needs to be done to with it all. No, we have NO home! Remember? It does become obvious that to best shut down a insure that emergency-powers can work properly in And while we are at it, we have no way to build our world is to simply UNPLUG it! It is certainly worthy the worst emergencies to hit. support system and yes indeed, we DO HAVE TO of consideration even as you make your threats and There had to be a time-delay which would allow CONFRONT REALITY. blames against God—WHO ALLOWS! Even “hope” for the citizens to WANT TO BE CONTROLLED in I suggest that we run as many of the articles, is up to YOU. the sheer helplessness of circumstances but focused especially first-hand experiences, presented on the It is a desperate time in the Philippines and we against a group of citizens which would only set back realization of FACTS and TRUTH as is possible for it must WAIT longer to even see what might be coming, integration a few thousand years as “slavery” is still a seems to be the only way you can deal with what we stay the course in WISDOM with WISE actions and very memorable plight in those minds in the colonial told you so long ago and now many of you choose to HOLD! There is no MAGIC afoot this day or any backwaters where Welfare has allowed slavery to be BLAME us for your own inactions and day except to deceive you further. So be it. Stay called something else. misunderstandings. [See article on page 3, informed and you can find your “way”. Get lost in Now, the Big Guys are sending in the backup “Eyewitness Accounts Show Government’s Real the muck and you will lose your “way”. And no, troops to really insure CONTROL in the form of Intent”.] Dharma, it shall NOT be too great as comprehension Cheney and Rumsfeld but I can promise you— I further suggest that in every possible encounter reminds you of that which you already KNOW. As THINGS WILL MOVE and they will move exactly on about “assets” you send the speculators and inquisitors long as we walk together, our team will not be without schedule and on plan. directly to VK DURHAM. [VK Durham contact light to see the path ahead. It is even structured that the local police information: 611 Moorhead St., Ida Grove, IA GCH organizations will have to do all the nasty work with 51445, 712 364-3830, [email protected].] We dharma SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL Page 3
Jerome Hill, were forced to evacuate. Pauline said, “The military told us that we had one minute to evacuate. We said that we weren’t ready and he said Eyewitness Accounts Show they can’t force us to leave but if we don’t leave anybody left would be arrested. But it was the end of the month. The two of us have been living for a couple of months on $600 a month and rent is $550. Government’s Real Intent At the end of the month, we only had $20 and 1/8 of a tank of gas. There was no way we could leave.” When it became apparent that nobody was coming The CNN-sanitized version of events in New have stayed in Algiers are Black but some are white. back to pick them up, the couple walked five miles to Orleans pointed to confusion between various One white man in his late 50s in Algiers pointed across the airport to see if they could get help. levels of government as the reason why victims of the street to a 10-acre grassy lot. It looks like a Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, doctors, Hurrican Katrina failed to receive outside help. beautiful park. He said, “I had my daughter call nurses and community organizations came from as far Next time you can bet federal forces will respond FEMA. I told them I want to donate this land to the as San Diego, California and Kentucky to provide more quickly and forcefully to subdue the people in need. They could set up 100 tractor trailers support during the crisis. None of them were people—whose needs would have been easily met with aid, they could set up tents. No one has ever dispersed into the community. When we arrived at the if FEMA had only allowed them to have adequate called me back.” He is clearly angry. airport on Sunday, September 4, there were food, water and shelter instead of interfering with Although some of the residents do express fear of approximately 20 medical people for every one patient spontaneous relief efforts. burglaries into houses, acts of heroism, sacrifice and while people in regions such as Algiers and the 9th The following eyewitness reports document the solidarity are evident everywhere. ward were left to fend for themselves. real intent of Bush and the Neo-Cons as they plan Steve, a white man in his 40s, knocks on Malik’s The majority of people in New Orleans blame the the future of Amerika. front door. He tells us, “Malik has kept this local and national government for the catastrophe. [QUOTING:] neighborhood together. We don’t know what we’d One young Black man said, “The government do without his help.” He has come in because he abandoned us. … [It’s] pre-meditated murder.” EYEWITNESS REPORT FROM NEW ORLEANS needs to use the phone. Malik’s street is the only one Another said, “Why would you [the government] By Alicia Jrapko,
for Oil problems with Kofi. Things are also totally terrible with Geo. Bush at the moment and he has already denied her even a brief “side-bar” encounter. Disasters and Trials: Oh gee and some really nasty opposition parties think they might just NOT LET HER RETURN. Her husband and son are already in “EXILE” (literally) in high-cost mansions in San Francisco and so we expect Riding out the Storms her to drop off to visit them—and Big Mike’s mistress. She (GMA) was scheduled to go first to Saudi Arabia to tinker with oil BUT they cancelled her 9/12/05—#1 (19-27) Guinea this week and it was never even mentioned— out so things are not good for her here in Pasig Mon., September 12, 2005 9:25 A.M. YR 19, DAY 27 high water or not. River City or for however many trombones she has Manila, Philippines I wonder what will be the ultimate outcome in the for her marching band. The band members Gulf Coast as things unfold because I think the Bad constantly scatter like the children in a play yard at RE: EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE ALL ABOUT Boys might not take everything the edict-givers toss recess. It is sort of like disaster circumstances in NOTHING! “BUT”, WE WILL OBSERVE out. This exercise was NOT a “failure” for we have the U.S. as NOBODY knows who is in charge and POLITICS IN TINY BRAINS (MICRO- never observed anything to rival this “success” at then you find it is THE PRESIDENT. CEPHALIC); POWER IN THE HANDS OF misery and confusion. We offered an organizational chart a few months IDIOTS AND POWER-BROKERS WHILE And how do we really feel about troops in our back and FEMA, readers, is now only about third PEOPLE DIE; AND UNFATHOMABLE BOGS IN streets? How about those Special Forces with the red down so nobody had responsibility in FEMA to attend SWAMPLANDS—DJE hats “all the way” as VK described Russell’s gear? I much of anything and now we find total chaos, well LOVE IT! I LOVE IT BECAUSE I TOO WANT orchestrated in every instance. We even had Bush DISASTERS AND TRIALS OF ALL KINDS TO BE SAFE IN MY PERSON. Never mind that calling for a National Emergency and the powers that my person is no more attended than my “things”. come with it—BEFORE THE STORM HIT Certainly there are a bunch of monsters to We do have some “different” things taking place ANYTHING. Facts are that he has those TOTAL confront but where to go first? How about an in our “affairs de business” just uncovered here but powers over every facet of American Society overview of 9-11-01. certainly among our commitments to the Foundation UNDER LAW! It is not missed on him. Just like It is interesting to note that now Mr. Silverstein holdings as to agreements to “reclaim and recover” “Daddy”, Geo. Jr. KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT HE (the owner of the towers? I could be wrong about the actual ordered items through the courts. We will share IS DOING ALONG WITH THE PLANNED name and it isn’t important) has his brand new empty a bit later because we are just as weary as you of OUTCOME NO MATTER HOW BAD IT GETS. tower (7, I think) ready to rent offices. [Silverstein, getting hopeful and “feeling this is ‘it’” only to be It even made the front pages of the paper here indeed. See “The New Jerusalem, Part 6”, page whacked at the ankles by more fraud and lead bars just how directed and planned that Hurricane 12.] He also came out with some $11 billion payout instead of gold. However, with each possibility we are Katrina actually was systematically programmed. for a $2 B investment. Oh my, he must be using given full instructions as to securing said potential and We found that interesting to say the very least! It VKD’s TRUST arrangements. Oh well. Every exactly what to do to legalize, formalize and maximize is truly a global community. And, it may well take year the truth comes out a bit more and more until our position and that of our colleagues. We will share more than Oprah Winfrey to get beyond the “black” in just taking the time required to read names on as we can but spare us the need to have a duel with issues coming out of this genocidal hit on the “least the air becomes too boring to continue much longer VK, et al., or the ASSUMPTION that somehow we of” the gifted. Of course Dr. Phil has the mental while people continue to fight over the funds have “something” more than anyone else. stuff under control. allotted to families, etc., in “claims”. Now THAT We found JUST THIS WEEK more garbage from I marveled at the foolish newscasters as they ONE (story on TV) about the harangues and VK on no less than the Belgium police contact site photograph everything, including the “giving” students abuses is truly akin to New Orleans as is unfolding. that SHE HAD SENT AND RE-SENT AND of a Houston, Tex. High School. The “council” was So, we witness fire (Towers) and water REPRESENTED AND DUMPED ONTO THEM meeting and right there while talking about the “giving (Hurricanes) and misery from every direction as the WHILE CALLING THEM “INTERPOL”. of themselves” there sat Louis Vuitton handbags on Power Forces take the last vestiges of Freedom under Good grief, we had seen some of it before and it the table with the Neiman Marcus adorned girls. Boy, the constitution away from citizens, even to the right seems to involve someone named Garry Stroud or some equality is far more equal than others. to have our own shelter or bodily placement. perhaps Gary Straud as VK never spells anything the But I already have capitulated to the “idea” of Already the fires are starting among the same way twice in a sentence. We are somehow being a good marcher. If a Special Forces Bo Gritz relieved and the relievers in the refugee supposed to be responsible for his “murder” yet and puts a gun in my face and says “jump” I will most circumstances so do we give it mere days to we had never heard of the name when she first certainly respond: “How high, SIR?” The actual explode or is it already too late? claimed these absurdities. He seems to be possibly “jumping” might be more difficult but even Bo would We note that thousands of people are relatively Canadian and he is supposedly “dead” if “murder” by make allowances, surely, for an old lady who has undamaged and refuse to leave their places in the us is a charge of the day. It certainly is all a good already been there and done that. damaged areas because they are able to attend reminder of WHY we agreed to stay out of the U.S. Snug and secure in our persons? I find it themselves, their pets and watch their property quite with any business exchanges because abuse of interesting that over a third of the New Orleans nicely. Of course they all have spray-paint graffiti all anything seems to begin and end with such as VKD Police went somewhere ELSE—right off the bat. over their houses and their doors are broken in by and her illusionary TRUST. Doesn’t it get harder and harder to find good help police but what the heck—after all, it IS America. Since this paper was first written in 2003 we these days? They obviously knew more than the Perhaps you at home are getting better news of it have to assume it is not getting much attention. guys who got stuck with the bewildering job at all but I doubt it for we get CNN in this place and My real suggestion is that you all just keep hand. CNN pictures are simply repeated on local news— demanding her to give over some of those “we-the- And golly-gee, over $3 a gallon for gas? Wow, over and over again until after awhile we can even people’” assets out of that “Trust” she claims holds now THAT was a purely neat stroke of genius and recognize the tattoos and rubber-tire “floats”. everything and on which she offers TRILLIONS of it worked GLOBALLY. We wait for the plagues to hit and they don’t. dollars to roll-over programs, debt swaps and you I also liked the interview with a shrimp We wait for the over 10,000 bodies to rise from the name it. If it is REAL as she claims then it should fisherman who was trying to get his boat fixed so muck and they don’t. What’s it all about, Alphy? And produce nicely for all involved. The fact that she he could get back to work. He said they tried to then, of course, we remember what it is all about as lies is not my cause to explain. haul him off to Tennessee but “you can’t catch the destroyers pass through with hugs and tears to We have PROOF of all we claim and as yet have shrimp from the Tennessee mountain and I don’t fool all of the people for about two minutes. nothing in return including $400 Trillion from China or, know nothing else to do”. It would appear to me Spare us for here we have witnessed, in two confound it, even those False Muslims or Chapter that Uncle Samuel Easy might have some problems weeks, two major Typhoons hitting north Taiwan Eight so all in all the day looks pretty good, clear and with some of those “fishermen”. and on to bury the coast of China and that doesn’t potentially no more negative than did yesterday or, in It was also quite interesting that comments make the news for interruption of name readings at this place, probably tomorrow. were rampant about why would these people hold Ground Zero. President GMA is off to the U.S. to address the out with it being so hot and all without air There was a 7.7 Earthquake in Papua New U.N. meeting where chaos already reigns with Food conditioning, etc. How many of those people do SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL Page 7 you suppose on lower Bourbon Street have “air conditioning”? It has always been hot and miserable in Louisiana and that’s what it’s all about, Alphy. Doesn’t anyone remember “pull that barge The New Jerusalem and tote that bale?” I also noted that one complaint was “boredom” with nothing to do but watch TV. (?????) All the while we were told there was NO POWER! Moreover, one man who refused to “go” showed us that he had water running right out Part 6: Those Who Reign Supreme of his faucet and had enough drinking water set out for a month and plenty to flush his toilet so as soon In this installment, author Michael Collins Thus, needless to say—with perhaps only a as the mail was running again so he could pick up Piper expounds upon a list of the wealthiest and handful of exceptions—the names listed here constitute his “check”, he was in really good shape. most powerful Jewish families in America first the “wealthiest of the wealthy” (and therefore most Moreover, another man said that the minute he left published in Avenue magazine. The list is, of powerful) among the American Jewish elite, but this is his place he became a problem and homeless while course, far from complete: It doesn’t include not to suggest that the names that appear here do he was no burden to anyone right there taking care some real biggies in the pornography indeed constitute a formal list of “the richest Jews in of himself while he didn’t even get a broken “industry”, for instance, which is perhaps America”. Far from it! window. understandable given the source. There are many other quite well-to-do enterprisers, I wonder if anybody else recognizes the With gratitude for permission to reprint, we so to speak, of Jewish origin who do not make the damaged areas as appearing to be exactly like resume the series following a hiatus for last headlines. There are many wealthy Jewish crime tornado damage where one street got demolished week’s Special Edition. figures, for example, who prefer a low profile and who while the next block had very little, if any, damage? [QUOTING:] do not seek to publicize themselves or their donations Something is wrong in all this mess, it appears to to Jewish philanthropies. And, in that regard, it’s me. Not only do we seem to be sheeple but pretty AMERICA’S WEALTHIEST highly unlikely that Avenue magazine would be quite blind sheeple at that. Well, I’m again with the AND MOST POWERFUL JEWISH FAMILIES: so prepared to laud the “accomplishments” of a Jewish masses—I want my social security check too as we THOSE WHO REIGN SUPREME crime figure. So, as a consequence, the list compiled earned our way through years of labor IN THE by Avenue is certainly incomplete in that regard. MARKET and it allows us one more try at getting The information that follows is based largely on And in all fairness to the multiple numbers of this last task, of this lifetime, accomplished. profiles of roughly 180 specifically named (and American Jewish millionaires—and perhaps One bit of stunned realization came from another many of them inter-connected) Jewish families that billionaires—who have not been honored by Avenue’s human interest show-and-tell in the “center” for appeared in a “special tribute issue” (dated 1997- list of “family achievement”, and who are not disease assurance was when there were several 1998, Vol. 21, No. 10) of the New York-based necessarily involved in criminal misdeeds, it should be mothers with children sitting around and they were so Avenue magazine—a “society” journal with little noted that many of those achievers have accumulated embarrassed to take charity—because they lived on circulation outside the realm of those who thrive on a great deal of wealth but have not sought public Welfare and took care of themselves. reading about the fashions and foibles of the power acclaim, recognition in society magazines or honors I came out early this morning to check on the U.S. elite. That special issue, titled “Portraits of Family from their own Jewish community. “day’s” happening in order to keep up and there were Achievement in the American Jewish Community”, So, again, there are certainly many, many more planes plowing into towers. I turned it off and will highlighted the names and ventures of American American Jewish fortunes that have gone wait for flood-damage information later in “our” day as Jewish families, focusing on those who have been unmentioned in the list compiled by Avenue. But all of you are sleeping in your beds now and everyone active in the Jewish community and its multiple the list that Avenue did compile is extensive and had to make it through 911. philanthropic and political enterprises. certainly as far as being a record of the major Life truly is all “illusion” with experiences very Now, please note that there are literally players—finance-wise—in Jewish “high society” the much in virtual vicarious relationships. We FEEL hundreds, if not thousands, of Jewish community Avenue list is a valuable assembly. (This author, involved and our hearts hurt and our brains become organizations, foundations and other entities, based frankly, has never seen anything so complete.) totally in overload while actually at any given time we both locally and nationally. So although there are It is probably safe to say that although Jewish are NOT EXPERIENCING THE CIRCUMSTANCE— a handful of Jewish groups such as the American- names do make up a considerable portion of the annual AT ALL. THAT is the REALITY of conscious Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest families in America, realization. I, for instance, have lived moment by Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith a secondary list of what one might loosely call “the moment in someone else’s experience for days now that frequently appear in the mainstream media, Forbes 800”—that is, a list including the second group without ability to do ANYTHING about it or the largely in the context of “political” news, there are of 400 wealthy families following the initial wealthiest circumstances represented. It truly is all but a many more such entities that are rarely ever 400—would undoubtedly include virtually all of the puzzlement. It is much like finding that the Wizard mentioned except in Jewish community newspapers names that appear on the Avenue magazine list that of Oz (the greatest man on Earth we are told) is which, of course, are not “everyday” reading for has been summarized in these pages. nothing but a little nerd clown playing God. We the average American. So although there is a great deal of Jewish tremble in fear and confusion and seek our luxuries And as far as the term “philanthropic”—as used wealth accumulated at the very top, there is an and comforts in every wrong place and face. This here—is concerned, the term is used quite loosely, for even greater accumulation in the much wider is such a major point to ponder that I think I shall truth be told, many—if not most—of the Jewish “middle ground” of wealthy American families. ask to walk across the street before I find out if families are largely philanthropic only toward Now, in regard to the list, note this: you will not New Orleans relatives sank or swam. And, God specifically Jewish charities, although there are find Henry Kissinger, for example, on the list. bless us all, please, whether or not we have earned exceptions. Certainly wealthy, by any estimation, and certainly such a place of “deserve it”. The Avenue list—as rendered here—does not Jewish, and certainly powerful, Kissinger’s wealth and Here in the Philippines this has been declared reference many of the multiple charities, both here in power has always come as a result of his having a day of PRAYER holiday. Yes, I mean it! The the United States (both Jewish and non-Jewish in moved in the sphere of wealthy and powerful people. orders are to go forth and pray for the nation and orientation) and in Israel, that the named families have Kissinger is a political figure and, as such, is actually GMA. We are to light candles and of course, burn funded to much applause. Only where one particular nothing more than a well-paid functionary of the down a few shanties as well while also blowing up family is closely associated with a particular “cause” American Jewish elite and the other elites with whom a few LPG tanks in the process. My goodness have we included that information. they interact for common gain. don’t I wish for a cult of some kind where I don’t Note, too, that most of the named families Kissingers’s fame and “accomplishments” are a have to “think” about these serious riddles! It seem—based on the Avenue report—to have creation of the Jewish-controlled media, in many becomes like “ring around the rosy—all fall down”. established one closely held family foundation or respects, but unlike many of those who do appear I think I’ll have a hamburger for lunch and dream another, utilizing those foundations to support a on the Avenue list, he is not one of the media’s of home! variety of causes. Most—but not all—of those owners, per se. And that may be just enough of Please accept this message as something you do causes are Jewish in nature and, quite often, a distinction for Kissinger not to be included. NOT have to seriously give consideration as everything connected to the state of Israel and various Although Kissinger serves on many corporate else is far more important. Love, D. agencies and institutions in that country. boards—including media entities, by the way—he Page 8 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 has always been more of a public figure (who Roosevelt—cousins later to become husband and contending that FDR—despite his bloody worldwide happens to be Jewish) who acts as a henchman and wife—were wealthy young members of the war against Hitler— “didn’t do enough to stop the facilitator for the real powers behind the scenes American elite, the family had shed its Jewish Holocaust”. rather than being a genuine “mover and shaker” on religious practices. In any case, it should be noted for the record his own. Without the patronage of powerful During the Roosevelt era, a widely-circulated that this author does recall reading, many years ago, sponsors, Kissinger would be nothing more than just Roosevelt family genealogical chart, which was in American Heritage magazine that a researcher another quaint and colorful Jewish academic, of circulated both in Europe and the United States, had found information suggesting that FDR’s which there are many. purported to claim that the original family name was maternal forebears in the Delano family were of In addition, for the reader’s consideration, there’s “van Rosenvelt” and subsequently changed to Jewish origin, an interesting detail considering that another factor that might be considered: Henry “Rosenvelt” and that another Jewish family strain— FDR’s mother was herself known to make anti- Kissinger’s rise to fame came in the sphere of the namely that of the “Samuels” line—was introduced Jewish remarks. The author would be pleased if Rockefeller family which (while perhaps originally of into the ensuing Roosevelt bloodline. However some researcher might be able to locate this Jewish origin) has always had its own various agendas exciting this information may have been at the time valuable historical tidbit from the expansive archives in a variety of arenas, and not always necessarily in to many of FDR’s critics, the provenance of this of American Heritage—unless it has been sync with Jewish interests per se. information is murky at best, however much many relegated to the Orwellian Memory Hole. As far as the Rockefeller family is concerned, may have wanted to believe it. There will always be rumors about notable it should be noted that there is no solid information Yet, for perhaps a more immediate source of persons and families having “Jewish blood” but the in the public arena indicating that they are of data in regard to possible Jewish heritage in the names that appear in the summary that follows are Jewish extraction, although there has been much Roosevelt family—according to a Jewish source— undoubtedly Jewish and proud of it. speculation and rumor for over a century. Contrary we may turn to the February 5, 1982 issue of The They do constitute an American elite all their to widespread perception, the often-touted “proof” London Jewish Chronicle which featured an article own and they are certainly among the very richest that “the Rockefellers are Jewish” is not proof at entitled “FDR ‘had Jewish great grandmother’”. and most powerful Jewish families in America all. The rumor about the Rockefellers being Jewish The article, by Leon Hadar, read as follows: today. stems from the fact that author Stephen This list is, of course, by no means complete Birmingham—in his 1971 Harper & Row book, The The late American President Franklin and comprehensive but hopefully a valuable Grandees, a profile of the history of America’s Delano Roosevelt had a Jewish great- reference. Sephardic Jewish elite (descended from Spanish and grandmother, it was stated last week by Mr. And please note that, unless otherwise Portugese Jewish families)—mentioned that the Philip Slomovitz, the editor of The Detroit specifically noted, the descriptive material which name “Rockefeller” can be found in a rare 1960 Jewish News, who released a letter sent to him appears in quotation marks in the list that follows is genealogical study, Americans of Jewish Descent 45 years ago by the late Rabbi Dr. Steven a DIRECT quotation from the “special tribute by Malcolm H. Stern. Wise, a former chairman of the World Jewish issue—1997/1998” of Avenue magazine, featuring Although some sources jumped on that Congress. Jewish power elite families. information and began circulating the story that this In his letter, Rabbi Wise described a Here then are America’s most powerful was “proof” that the Rockefellers are of Jewish luncheon his wife had with Mrs. Eleanor Jewish families—some you’ve heard about and descent, a close and careful read of the entire book Roosevelt, the late president’s wife (and a many that you will now meet for the first time. will demonstrate that the Rockefellers who do have distant cousin of his) who said: “Often cousin They are truly the “new elite”: Those Who Reign Jewish blood in their veins stem from the line of Alice and I say that the brains in the Roosevelt Supreme in America—The New Jerusalem. . . . Godfrey Rockefeller, who married one Helen Gratz, family come from our Jewish great- who was Jewish. Their family members and heirs, grandmother,” whose name was Esther Levy. ABESS. Miami, Florida. Control the City by the way, were raised in the Episcopal Church The letter added that Mrs. Roosevelt had National Bank of Florida. Members include and have had little—if anything—to do with Jewish told [MCP: Mrs. Wise] that “whenever mention Leonard Abess and Allan Abess, Jr. or Israeli affairs. is made of our Jewish great-grandmother by ALTHEIM. New York City. Philip and Godfrey Rockefeller, in fact, was from a cousin Alice or myself, Franklin’s mother gets Barbara Altheim control Forest Electric, a separate line of the Rockefeller family, descended very angry and says, “You know that is not so. subsidiary of EMCOR and the largest electric from one of the brothers of John D. Rockefeller, Why do you say it?” According to Rabbi Wise, construction company in the world. Sons and Sr., and was a second cousin to the famed Mrs. Roosevelt also told his wife, “You must daughters include Marc, Jill and Gary. Rockefeller brothers—Nelson, David, Laurence, and make no use of this. I think it is best to let the ANNENBERG. Philadelphia. Long headed by John D. III. Thus, any traces of Jewish blood in matter lie down now.” the late Walter Annenberg, who served as U.S. Godfrey’s heirs cannot be ascribed to the better- In a separate letter to Mr. Slomovitz, Ambassador to England, appointed by Richard known branch of the Rockefeller family. Franklin Roosevelt, the hundredth anniversary of Nixon. Triangle Publications empire. Published TV It is no great pleasure for this writer to sink the whose birth is being celebrated this year, wrote Guide and Philadelphia Inquirer. popular myth that “the Rockefellers are Jewish” that his ancestors “may have been Jews, ARISON. Miami. Israeli-born Theodore that has been widely circulated by many well- Catholics or Protestants”. Rabbi Wise, who “Ted” Arison founded the Carnival Cruise Lines. meaning people, but the facts about the origin of was very close to President Roosevelt, marked Ted’s son Micky now controls the family empire this rumor speak for themselves. This, of course, his letter to Mr. Slomovitz “strictly private and which includes the cruise line, hotels, resorts and is not to suggest that there is not any Jewish blood confidential”. Miami Heat basketball team. Ted Arison returned in the veins of the “famous” Rockefeller brothers, The editor observed that confidence until to Israel. but any charges to that effect should be based on last week, when the letter was published in a ARNOW-WEILER. Boston. Russian-born facts, not misinterpretation of a passing reference in book containing a number of his columns. One Jack Weiler partnered with Benjamin Swig in a book. of the ironies of this discovery is that the Nazis commercial development, grabbing more than seven As far as the Roosevelt family is concerned, portrayed Roosevelt as Jewish, calling him the million square feet. Daughter Joan and husband there has been widely published information “Jew Rosenfeld”. Robert Arnow and their son David now rule the suggesting that the Roosevelt family did have empire. They have a son, Noah. Jewish forebears, that the original family name was So … although the Nazis may have indeed BARNETT. Fort Worth, Texas. Operated “Rossocampo”, a name borne by Sephardic Jews been right—but perhaps not basing their information Hilton Hotels in Israel. Louis Barnett and his wife who were among those expelled from Spain in 1620. on information known only to the Roosevelts Madlyn (nee Brachman: See BRACHMAN) have The name, it is said, was ultimately changed as themselves—at the same time it should be pointed son Eliot who is involved in shopping center various family branches settled elsewhere in out that both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were development. Family also involved in real estate, Europe. Descendants of the Dutch-based members known to make private anti-Jewish utterances even pharmaceuticals and oil. Family funds Barnett of the family—evidently named Rosenvelt— though they were evidently of Jewish extraction. Institute of Biotechnology at Northeastern emigrated to the United States and ultimately the Despite this, needless to say, both became icons University. name evolved into the name “Roosevelt” that we in the Jewish world-view. However, this BELFER. New York. Refugees from Poland, know today. In the meantime, within several phenomenon has seemed to fade during the last Arthur and Rochelle Belfer founded the family now generations, there was inter-marriage with non- years of the 20th century and the opening years of headed by Robert Belfer and daughters Selma Jews and by the time Franklin and Eleanor the 21st as aggressive Jewish writers are now Ruben and Anita Saltz. Arthur Belfer was involved SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL Page 9 in oil and natural gas which later evolved into the network. CORWIN. Los Angeles. Bruce C. Corwin is infamous Enron corporation. Son Robert was on BLUMENTHAL. Charlotte, North Carolina. president of the Metropolitan Theatres Corporation Enron executive committee but escaped media Herman Blumenthal heads the Radiator Specialty which owns movie theaters and popcorn attention. Company than produces some 4,000 automotive concessions. Funders of “conservative” Pepperdine BELZ. Memphis. Belz Enterprises and the products. With wife Anita, has three sons Alan, University in fashionable Malibu. Peabody Hotel (Memphis) Group are part of the Philip and Samuel who are active in family’s CROWN. Chicago. The late Henry Crown family’s holdings established by Philip Belz who corporate and “philanthropic” affairs. was closely connected to organized crime in dabbled in real estate and management. His son BRACHMAN. Fort Worth. Family founder Chicago and built up a major real estate empire Jack Belz and wife Marilyn maintain the family’s Leon Brachman launched chemical manufacturing based in the Material Service Corp. a building affairs. Their daughter Jan, married to Andrew business and branched out to set up Computerized supply firm. In 1959 the family gained control of Groveman, is coming into her own, active in Soviet Business Systems, designing programs for small major defense contractor General Dynamics. The Jewish emigration. businesses. Son Marshall is associated with the Crown family were major players in helping finance BELZBERG. Canada-New York-Israel. Sam American-Israel Public Affairs Committee Israel’s secret nuclear arms development program. Belzberg heads Gibralter Capital corporation. Wife: (AIPAC) in Washington. Daughter Wendy lives in Son Lester now heads the family. Son Dan Frances. Daughter Wendy (an editor at the Israel. Family member Madlyn married into operates Crown theaters. influential Jewish newspaper, Forward, is married Barnett family of Ft. Worth (See BARNETT). CUMMINGS. Chicago. Nathan Cummings to Strauss Zelnick, head of BMG Records. BRAMAN. Miami. Norman Braman started founded the food production conglomerate best Daughter Lisa is married to Matthew Bronfman off in Philadelphia where he established the known for “Sara Lee” products. His three children (See BRONFMAN). The family [members] are Keystone Discount Stores (38 locations). He and and ten grandchildren are maintaining the family original financial backers of the Simon Wiesenthal wife Irma retired to Miami where he operates a foundation. Center. Their former rabbi, Marvin Heir, left chain of automobile dealerships. A former owner DAVIDSON. Detroit. William Davidson took Canada to go to Los Angeles where Heir set up of the Philadelphia Eagles team. over his uncle’s windshield business which evolved the Center. BROAD. Los Angeles. Eli Broad founded into Guardian Industries, the fifth largest glass BENARD-CUTLER. Boston. Along with his SunAmerica, Inc., a financial services firm. A co- manufacturer in the world. Owner of the Detroit partners—Sheldon Adelson, Irwin Chafetz and Dr. owner of the Sacramento Kings and well known as Pistons team. The Davidson-funded William Jordan Shapiro—Ted Benard-Cutler runs the a collector of contemporary art. Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan’s Interface Group, developer of Comdex, a global BUTTENWIESER. New York. The late School of Business Administration has been trade show for computers and communications Benjamin Buttenwieser was a partner in the Kuhn- interfering in the newly developing economies of industries. Comdex was sold to the Japanese Loeb banking empire and served as assistant U.S. Eastern Europe. Softbank Corporation in 1995. Benard-Cutler and high commissioner in Germany following World War DEUTSCH. Santa Monica. Carl Deutsch Chafetz now are heading GWV International which II. His wife, Helen, was a member of the Lehman operates the family’s real estate and management sets up tour packages for New England. Benard- Brothers banking family. Their son Lawrence is a services. Cutler and his wife Joan have sons Joel and Robert partner at the New York law firm of Rosenman & DURST. New York. Joseph Durst and his and daughter Ellen Colmas. Colin. Son Peter was a high school principal in three sons, Seymour, David and Royal, and BERNHEIM. New York. Stockbroker Philadelphia and is connected to the activities of the grandchildren Douglas, Robert, Jonathan and Joshua Leonard Bernheim was outshone socially by his (non-Jewish) Ford and Danforth foundations. Son have developed large areas of Third Avenue and wife Elinor Kridel Bernheim who was active in Paul is a psychiatrist and novelist in Belmont, New York’s West Side. New York Jewish affairs. Their sons Charles and Massachusetts. EISNER. Los Angeles. Michael Eisner Leonard are following in their mother’s footsteps. CARDIN. The wealth of Israeli-born engineered the merger between Capital Cities, BINSWANGER. Philadelphia. Isidore Shoshana Cardin’s late husband, real estate tycoon owner of ABC and other properties. Took over Binswanger was founder of Maimonides College, Jerome Cardin, made it possible for her to rise to Walt Disney Company in 1984. The grandson of the first rabbinical college on American shores. Son high prominence in the American Jewish community the co-founder of the American Safety Razor Co. Frank established a giant international real estate as the first female president of the Conference of EPPLER. Cleveland-Palm Beach. German- company with 20 offices throughout the U.S. and Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations born Heinz Eppler took over Miller-Whol and Canada. Also active in Japan and elsewhere in and as chair of the United Israel Appeal. His expanded the company to 420 women’s apparel Asia and Europe. Frank Jr. and John Binswanger daughter Nina is one of the first women admitted as stores sold in 1984 to Petrie Stores Corporation. are active in the family company. Son Robert heads a Conservative rabbi. Son Sandy Cardin runs the Son David is based in Washington, D.C. the graduate school of education at Dartmouth. Schusterman Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. EVERETT. Described as “successful private BLACK. New York. Leon Black is a former CARTER. Victor Carter is said to have investors”, Henry and Edith Everett are active in a managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert and “specialized in the turnaround of ailing companies” variety of Jewish philanthropies. Son David is also now president of Apollo Advisors LP and its affiliate but is best known for heading the United Way, City active in Jewish affairs. Lion Advisor, LP. Wife Debra is prominent in of Hope and Israel Bonds. His wife Andrea has FEINBERG. Chicago. Rueben Feinberg is Jewish affairs. been involved in—of all things—the Country Music president of Jefferson State Bank in Chicago. BLAUSTEIN. Baltimore. Louis Blaustein Commission. FELDBERG. Boston. Sumner and Stanley started off as a kerosene peddler, branching out to CHANIN. New York. Irwin and Henry Feinberg, cousins, founded the T.J. Maxx stores found American Oil Company (AMOCO). Son and Chanin, brothers, were major real estate developers (with more than 500 outlets), Hit or Miss stores heir Jacob was once called “the titular head of the in early 20th century New York. Irwin’s son, (with 500 outlets) and the Chadwick’s catalog American Jewish community” and was a major Marcy, and wife Leona Feifer Chanin (senior vice operation. player in the early years of the United Nations. president of the American Jewish Congress) have FELDMAN. Dallas. The late Jacob “Jake” Sisters Fanny Thalheimer and Ruth Rosenberg. children: two of whom are attorneys, James Chanin Feldman founded Commercial Metals, a major New Other family members include David Hirschhorn, of Oakland California and Ann Glazer of Los York stock exchange company. His son and heir Barbara Hirschhorn, Mary Jane Blaustein, Arthur Angeles. Another daughter, Nancy Sneider, resides Robert has been active in the Dallas Jewish Roswell, Elizabeth Roswell, Jeanne Blaustein Borko, in Boca Raton, Florida. Irwin’s son, Paul Chanin, community. Susan Blaustein Berlow. is based in Aspen, Colorado, where the family FEUERSTEIN. Westport, Connecticut- BLOCK. New York. Alexander Block foundation operates. He runs the famous Pinon’s Newport Beach, California-Los Angeles-New York founded Block Drugs that came to manufacture restaurant as a sideline. City. Heirs of Aaron Feurstein of the Malden Mills Polident, Nytol and Sensodyne. His son Leonard, COHEN. New Orleans. Rosalie Palter textile empire which produced Polartec fabric from grandson Thomas, and granddaughter Peggy Cohen, daughter of Universal Furniture founder the recycling of plastic bottles. Aaron’s brother, Danziger (wife of Richard Danziger) are active in Leon Palter, has been a major player in the Moses, was a leading figure in U.S. Orthodox the family’s corporation. powerful Jewish community in the Crescent City. Judaism. Moses’s son, Morty, leads the Orthodox BLOOMBERG. New York. Elected mayor CONE. A large Southern Jewish family community in Vancouver, Canada. of New York City in 2001, Michael Bloomberg (descended from 13 original children of Herman FISHER. New York. Founded by Zachary started out at Salomon Brothers and went on to Cone) which gained its wealth through the Cone and Lawrence Fisher, this is a major New York establish a multimedia empire providing stories to Mills, the largest manufacturer of denim in the real estate development family. newspapers and a 24-hour direct satellite television world. MAX FISHER. Detroit. A major oil Page 10 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 industrialist and top-level player in Republican Party “Ace” Greenberg chaired Bear Stearns and has Sportmart, a sporting goods chain. affairs, Max Fisher maintained long-standing been active in numerous Jewish causes. HOFFMAN. Dallas, Texas. Edmund business ties to Israel and to Israeli intelligence. MAURICE GREENBERG. New York. Hoffman made his fortune as the leading (Dallas- Once described by the National Police Gazette Known as “Hank” Greenberg, this insurance based) Coca-Cola bottler and distributor in (December 1974) as one of the powerful “mystery baron took over American International Group Southwest Texas. Son Richard is a well-known men” who told Michigan-based Republican politician (AIG) and has been active in the Far East. Plays physician in Colorado. Son Robert was one of the Gerald Ford (later U.S. president) “what to do and a prominent role in the influential Council on Foreign founders of the National Lampoon humor when to do it”. (In Final Judgment, this author’s Relations. Children include Jeffrey, Evan, magazine. JESSELSON. New York. Michael, study of the JFK assassination conspiracy, we Lawrence “Scott”, and daughter Cathleen. Daniel and Benjamin are the heirs of Ludwig outlined the Ford-Fisher connection—and Fisher’s GRUSS. New York. Joseph Gruss was active Jesselson, who had risen to become CEO of the ties to Israeli intelligence—in light of Ford’s role on in oil and gas exploration in Texas, Oklahoma and Philipp Brothers firm, one of the world’s largest the Warren Commission which ostensibly Wyoming and founded Gruss & Company, involved markets of more than 150 raw materials including “investigated” the JFK assassination, but which in oil and gas mergers and acquisitions. Daughter steel, crude oil, chemicals and cement. The firm effectively functioned as a cover-up of the long- Evelyn’s husband, Kenneth Lipper, an attorney, is was later acquired by Salomon Brothers, Inc., the secret Israeli link to the president’s murder.) an investment banker and former New York City international banking house. FRIEDMAN. Mill Valley, California. Eleanor deputy mayor for finance. His son Martin is KAPLAN. New York. Stanley Kaplan is the Friedman—one of several heirs to the Levi Strauss involved in horse racing. “educational” wizard who spawned the popular billions—and her husband, Jonathan Cohen, are GUMENICK. Miami. Nathan Gumenick built SAT-training courses that high school students use founders of the New Israel Fund, which is and owned 10,000 apartments and 500 houses in to study for the college entrance examinations. considered one of the “liberal” foundations Miami, the first high-rise apartment developer in the Stanley says he is particularly concerned with advancing left-wing causes in Israel, including Jewish retirement mecca. He was among the major grooming “leaders” in the Black and Hispanic women’s rights, religious pluralism and better supporters of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum communities, which means—to grassroots Black relations with native Palestinian Christians and in its developmental period. Son Jerome is active in and Hispanic leaders—grooming Black and Hispanic Muslims. the Jewish community in Richmond, Virginia. figures who will do the bidding of America’s Jewish GERBER. Chicago. Max Gerber established HAAS. The combined members of this elite. the Gerber Plumbing Fixtures Company which is immensely wealthy family are the heirs to the Levi- KEKST. New York. Gershon Kekst is the now controlled by daughter Harriet Gerber Lewis Strauss garment fortune. Altogether the combined head of the corporate and financial communications and her children, Alan and Ila. wealth of the various members of the family places firm, Kekst and Company. Has son, David, and GIDWITZ. Chicago. Gerald Gidwitz chairs them beyond any question in the highest ranks of wife Carol. Helene Curtis, the personal-care products company. the nation’s wealthiest families. KLINGENSTEIN. New York. Heirs of Dr. His son Ronald is president of the firm, which was HALPERN. Sam Halpern and his brother Percy Klingenstein who was chief of surgery of the acquired by Unilever in 1996. The family also owns Arie—Polish-born immigrants who came to Third General Hospital of the United States Army, Continental Materials Corporation, producers of America—have been heavily involved in include Frederick Klingenstein, an investment heating and cooling equipment. construction of resort hotels in Israel. Evidently banker, and John Klingenstein. GODCHAUX. New Orleans. Heirs to the Halperns accumulated their wealth in the black KRAFT. Boston. An owner of the New Godchaux Sugar, once Louisiana’s largest sugar market in the Soviet Union and later in the England Patriots, Robert Kraft made his fortune as producer, and to the famous Godchaux’s department construction industry in the United States. founder of International Forest Products, one of the store of New Orleans. Family members are spread HASSENFELD. New York-Rhode Island. largest privately held paper and packaging throughout the United States. Heirs to the Hasbro toy manufacturing empire companies in the country. GOLD. Los Angeles. Stanley Gold heads (producer of Mr. Potato Head and GI Joe), the KRAVIS. Tulsa. The family fortune was Shamrock Holdings, a diversified investment world’s largest toy company. Family members spawned by Raymond Kravis, an oil and gas company associated with the Disney heirs. A include Alan and Harold. consultant who included Joseph P. Kennedy and the major investor in Koor Industries, Israel’s largest HASTEN. Indianapolis, Indiana. Hart and Rockefeller-controlled Chase Bank among his industrial company. Gold has son Charles and Mark Hasten developed a chain of 1,500 clients. His sons Henry and George teamed up with daughter Jennifer. convalescent centers and have been involved in their cousin, George Roberts, and brought GOLDSMITH. New York. Several children banking and real estate, including the family holding international fame and fortune to their firm Kohlberg of stock broker Horace Goldsmith’s wife Grace— company, Hasten Bancshares, Inc. Hart is close to Kravis Roberts & Company in the leveraged buyout James, William and Thomas Slaughter—control the the Likud bloc in Israel. HECHINGER/ racket of the 1980s. They acquired some 36 foundation established with Goldsmith’s largess. ENGLAND. Washington, D.C. Spawned from companies including RJR Nabisco. The Kohlberg- Richard and Robert Menschel—both Goldman the Hechinger hardware store chain in the nation’s Kravis team were closely identified with Republican Sachs bankers who are cousins—are also involved capital region, founded by John Hechinger and Ross politics during the era. in the family’s enterprises. Hechinger. Richard England married into the KRIPKE. Omaha. Talk about good GOLDENBERG. Philadelphia. Heirs to Hechinger family. His son Richard has served on connections! Myer Kripke was a rabbi in Omaha, confectionery and candy bar fortune which the executive committee of the American-Israel Nebraska whose wife, Dorothy, wrote children’s produces the Goldenberg Peanut Chew—the firm’s Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). books. The wife of legendary (non-Jewish) only product. Family members include Carl and Ed GOTTESFELD HELLER. Fanya Gottesfeld Omaha-based billionaire investor Warren Buffet and David. Heller, widow of investor Joseph Heller, claims her liked Mrs. Kripke’s books, and the two women GOTTSTEIN. Alaska. Barney Gottstein. fame by virtue of not only her husband’s largess, became friends. As a result, the Kripkes were Heads Anchorage-based Carr-Gottstein Foods, the which she distributes to Jewish causes, but also as invited to become “modest investors” in Buffet’s largest Alaska-based company, involved in a result of having written a widely touted memoir Berkshire Hathaway company and made a bundle. supermarkets, wholesale groceries and real estate. of her years as a Ukraine-born “Holocaust Son Paul is a philosophy professor at Yale. Served as national vice president of the Israeli lobby survivor”. LAUDER. New York. Leonard and Ronald group, AIPAC, and on the Democratic National HEYMAN. New York-Connecticut. Sam Lauder are the heirs to the Estee Lauder cosmetics Committee. Son Robert has been working closely Heyman and his wife Ronnie (both graduates of fortune. Ronald also served as U.S. ambassador to with pro-Israel Christian evangelist Pat Robertson in Yale and Harvard) won their riches through Sam’s Austria and as president of the Jewish National promoting Jewish causes. involvement with the GAF Corporation, a major Fund and made a bid for mayor of New York on GRASS. Scranton, Pennsylvania. Alex Grass building materials and chemicals manufacturing the Republican ticket in 1989. took the Thrift Discount Center of small Keystone company. In 1991 Sam spun off the chemicals THOMAS H. LEE. Boston. A leveraged City state big time and established more than 2,700 division which is now a publicly-traded corporation buyout operator, Thomas H. Lee, made a mint when Rite Aid Pharmacies in 23 states, with subsidiaries known as International Specialty Products. Mrs. he sold his Snapple soft drink company to Quaker including Auto Palace auto parts, Concord Custom Heyman (nee Feuerstein: See FEUERSTEIN) was Oats. Now, like all Jewish boys made good, he’s Cleaners, Encore Books and Sera-Tec Biologicals. a law school classmate of Hillary Rodham Clinton. a philanthropist. Served as chairman of Israel’s Hebrew University. HOCHBERG. New York and Chicago. LEHMAN. Skokie, Illinois. Not to be Children include sons Martin and Roger. Heirs of Joseph Hochberg who ran Children’s confused with the German-Jewish “Our Crowd” ALAN GREENBERG. New York. Alan Bargaintown USA. Son Larry is chairman of international banking family of New York, this SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL Page 11
Lehman family—headed by Kenneth Lehman— ambassador to Denmark), and his daughter Ann estate enterprise, owning hotels, offices and made their money through a family business, Fel-Pro was married to Edgar Bronfman and produced apartments. They also controlled the international Incorporated, an automotive supply manufacturer. Edgar Bronfman, Jr. This intermarriage of Jewish United Brands empire for a period and in 1986 To his credit, Lehman is no slave driver. His family fortunes illustrates the manner in which the bought the Emigrant Savings Bank. Family company offers vast benefits to its employees and Jewish elite have kept their wealth “in the tribe”, so members Howard and Edward control Douglas all manner of financial gifts and scholarships. to speak. Incidentally, this Loeb family is not to be Elliman, a building management and brokerage LENDER. Connecticut. Marvin and Murray confused with the Loeb family of the Kuhn Loeb concern, and the Liberty Cable Television Lender are bagel tycoons. They sold their frozen banking empire—another major Jewish fortune Company. bagel enterprise to Kraft Foods in 1984 and are altogether. MUSHER. New York. Sidney Musher was now devoting their wealth to Jewish causes. LOWENBERG. San Francisco. Holocaust a pharmaceuticals executive who was a major LEVENTHAL & SIDMAN. Boston. Partners survivor William Lowenberg, head of the player in opening the American market for Israeli in Beacon Properties, the largest real estate investment Lowenberg Corporation, is a major San Francisco products. His sons David and Daniel are doctors. trust in the United States, Edwin Sidman and Alan real estate developer. Son David carries on the NAGEL. Los Angeles. The Nagel Leventhal took their company public in 1994 and have family name and involvement in Jewish affairs. Construction Company funds the affairs of Jack and expanded their interests on a national scale. Leventhal MACK. New York. H. Bert Mack started Gitta Nagal—both Holocaust survivors. Their has been closely associated with the political endeavors out in demolition and was responsible for major children include Ronnie, David, Careena—based in of Bill Clinton. operations at the sites where the United Nations, the Los Angeles. Daughter Esther lives in Englewood, LEVIN. New York. Gerald Levin, who rose New York World’s Fair and the Triboro Bridge New Jersey. to become CEO of the Bronfman family-controlled were built. The Mack Company is now a major NASH. New York. With his partner, Leon Time Warner empire, started out as a lieutenant of real estate developer. Sons include Earl, Bill, David Levy (See LEON LEVY), Jack Nash was a Lewis Strauss, the Jewish chief of the Atomic and Fred. founder of the hotly successful private money fund, Energy Commission. Although there’s nothing in MANDEL. Cleveland. Morton, Jack and Odyssey Partners. His son-in-law is investor the public record to suggest it, it’s a good bet that Joseph Mandel launched Premier Industrial George Rohr. Jack’s wife, Helen, is the Levin and Strauss had a hand in “helping” Israel Corporation which is today a major player in the sophisticated author of kosher cookbooks. achieve atomic weapons. Today Levin is a member production of rare electronic products. They NASHER. Dallas. Another of the elite Jewish of the Rockefeller-funded Council on Foreign merged Premier with Farnell Electronics, a British rulers of Texas, Raymond Nasher was a major mall Relations. A major media figure indeed. firm, to form Premier Farnell PLC. developer, including the famous North Park, among LEVINSON. New York. Morris Levinson’s MARCUS. Dallas. This is the family of the his success stories. widow, Barbara, has become a leading Jewish famed Nieman-Marcus Department Store. OFFIT. New York. A former manager at community figure through the distribution of the Although the company was sold in 1969, Stanley Solomon Brothers, Morris Offit went on to launch largess of Morris’s wealth accumulated as a food Marcus remained on the board for several years. his own investment bank, Offitbank, and his own and cosmetics conglomerate that merged with He also served as chairman of the American Retail investment advisory firm, Offit Associates. Nabisco. Morris was also a founder of the Center Federation. PEARLE. Dallas. Dr. Stanley Pearle, an for Democratic Studies which has been described BERNARD MARCUS. Atlanta. The Home optometrist, made his fortune in the famous Pearle as “the first ‘think’ tank”. Son Adam is based in Depot home supply empire—the largest in the Vision Centers, the world’s largest eyeglass Tallahassee, Florida but active in Jewish affairs country—is the brainchild of Bernard Marcus whose dealers. nationwide. Son Joshua is a professor at Hebrew children, Fred, Morris and Suzanne are the heirs to PECK. New York. Stephen and Judith Stern University. Daughter Judy is married to one John the fortune. Peck are Jewish socialites of the highest order. Oppenheimer. MERKIN. New York. Hermann Merkin set Stephen has been chairman of the board of famed LEVY. Dallas, Texas. Irving, Milton and up the Merkin & Co. investment banking firm that Mt. Sinai Hospital and Judith has been chair of the Lester Levy—brothers—control the NCH Corp., includes his son Sol and his son-in-law Andrew board of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation. which produces and distributes maintenance Mendes. Daughter Daphne has been a New York Their daughter-in-law, Stephanie Rein, and their products to hotels, government agencies and Times columnist and a novelist. son, Emmanuel, are also big names in New York industrial corporations. Their four sons are also in MEYERHOFF. Baltimore. Construction and Jewish affairs. the family business. shopping center tycoon Harvey Meyerhoff was first PERELMAN. New York. Born in LEON LEVY. New York. A leader of chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Philadelphia, the heir to Belmont Industries, a metal America’s Sephardic Jewish elite (commemorated in Washington, D.C. and also chairman of the fabricating enterprise that became a holding by Stephen Birmingham in his book, The United Way. His son Joseph Meyerhoff II is a company for several other businesses in the region, Grandees, Leon Levy made a fortune as CEO of major Baltimore figure as are his daughters Terry Ronald Perelman now controls more than 44 Urban Substructures, Inc. which was involved in Rubenstein and Zoh Hieronimus, a radio talk show companies through the MacAndrew & Forbes the construction and engineering of many leading host of some repute. empire. Among his holdings are his best known, properties in New York City. Levy also served as MEYERSON. Dallas. Mort Meyerson’s Revlon, the cosmetics giant, the Coleman Co. chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major claim to fame is his association with Ross Perot, (which makes camping equipment), California American Jewish Organizations. Children include and is said to be Perot’s “right hand man” serving Federal Bank, and Consolidated Cigar (which Mark, Mimi, Judy and Janet. His wife Elsi is a as president of Electronic Data Systems and then produces multiple cigar brands). His son Steven is professional musician. as CEO of Perot Systems Corporation. involved in the family’s business affairs. POLK. LIPPERT. New York. Albert and Felice MILKEN. New York-Los Angeles. The Chicago. Sam and Sol Polk created the Polk Lippert made their millions helping millions of infamous Milken brothers—Michael and Lowell— Brothers department stores which were a major people lose weight. Teaming up with Jean Nidetch, came to prominence in the financial trading scandals force in the Chicago metropolitan area until they a stout Jewish homemaker who had set up dieting in the 1980s but they nonetheless remain major closed up in 1992, but the family remains wealthy. support groups, they formed Weight Watchers figures in the worldwide Jewish community and Family members include Howard Polk, a International and sold the thriving enterprise to particularly respected among “conservatives” who stockbroker, Roberta Lewis and Bruce Bachmann, Heinz foods in 1978. Sons Keith and Randy. admire Milken-style piracy and hyper-capitalism. a real estate executive. LIST. New York. Albert List made a MILLSTEIN. New York. Ira Millstein is a PRITZKER. Chicago. Hyatt hotels, Royal success in distributing appliances and then branched partner in the influential New York law firm of Caribbean Cruise Lines, Continental and Braniff out and grabbed control of Hudson Coal Company, Weil Gotshal & Menges and has taught at the Yale Airlines, McCall’s magazine, and the Ticketmaster assembling a conglomerate that included the RKO School of Management and the New York entertainment octopus have all been part of the theater chain. University School of Law. He has served on Pritzker family’s gigantic fortune. The family LOEB. New York. The late Carl Morris numerous government commissions and on the founder Nicholas was an immigrant from Kiev who Loeb made his millions with American Metal Co. National Association of Corporate Directors. established a law firm that he used to launch the and later went on to found Loeb Rhoades (which is MILSTEIN. New York. The Circle Floor climb to wealth and power. His sons Harry, Jack now Shearson Lehman/American Express). Carl’s Company, founded by Morris Milstein, laid the and Abraham and the latter’s sons, Jay, Robert and son John married the daughter of Arthur Lehman of floors in Rockefeller Center and the United Nations, Donald, have been the “big” names in the family. the Lehman Brothers banking house. John Loeb but Morris’s sons Seymour and Paul developed the Their Marmon Group “specializes in buying and has two sons, Arthur and John Jr. (who was a U.S. family firm, Milstein Properties, into a major real restructuring troubled companies”. Page 12 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
RATNER. Cleveland-New York. The Ratner New York Corp. and the Swiss-based Trade the money they need to remain active in Jewish family’s Cleveland-based Buckeye Material Development (which merged with American affairs in New York. Company evolved into Forest City Enterprises (now Express), were quite powerful in the shadowy CHARLES E. SMITH. Washington, D.C. Forest City Ratner Companies), which is a major world of international finance. The family empire Don’t be fooled by the name. He’s Jewish and he real estate developer in their hometown and in New is now controlled by his brothers Joseph and Moise was one of the biggest real estate developers in York. They were involved in the 42nd Street and their heirs. Washington, D.C. Robert Smith and brother-in-law redevelopment. Family members include Charles, SAUL. New York. Joseph Saul founded the Robert Kogod now run the empire which includes James, Ronald, Albert, Leonard and Max, who was Brooks Fashion chain which he sold to great profit the Crystal City apartment complex in Arlington, the founder of the American-Israel Chamber of in 1984. He is now churning his profits into many Virginia, and Skyline City in Virginia. Commerce. Mark Ratner is a professor of Jewish causes, Israeli interests in particular. RICHARD SMITH. Boston. Based in New chemistry at Northwestern University. SAUNDERS. Boston. The Saunders Real England, the General Cinema movie chain expanded REDSTONE. New York. Born “Rothstein”, Estate Corp. of Donald Saunders owns the Park to take control of Neiman-Marcus (the Dallas- Sumner Redstone took over his father’s movie theater Plaza hotel in Boston, along with a host of other based department store) along with Harcourt Brace chain and expanded it to nearly 900 affiliates. In 1987 commercial properties in the Bay State. His Publishing (now Harcourt General). General he orchestrated the leveraged buyout of Viacom, Inc., daughters Lisa and Pamela are seen as heirs to the Cinema is now known as GC Cos. Robert Smith, which is one of the major global media enterprises, fortune. Saunders is married to actress Liv Ullman. son of Richard, has taken over the family’s affairs. controlling Paramount Studios, Blockbuster Video, SCHEUER. New York. A gas and coal The family is described as “very low profile”. Simon & Schuster, Nickelodeon and MTV. His company and New York real estate provided the SONNABEND. Boston. Robert, Paul and daughter Shari Redstone is increasingly involved in her foundation for this family’s wealth. One family Stephanie Sonnabend are the principals in the father’s empire. member, James, served in Congress. Walter is an Sonesta International Hotels Corporation. They RESNICK. New York. Jack and Pearl investment manager and documentary producer. have some 19 properties, including in Cairo, Egypt. Resnick and their son Burton have made a vast Steven is a media critic. Amy is a psychotherapist. SPERTUS. Chicago. Picture-frame fortune in New York real estate, dealing in office Richard has chaired the board of governors of manufacturing—through Metalcraft Corporation property purchase and renovation. Daughter Hebrew Union College and finances archeological (later Intercraft Industries Corporation)—made the Marilyn is married to Stanley Katz and active in digs in Palestine. family fortune. Jewish affairs both in the U.S. and Israel. SCHOTTENSTEIN. Columbus, Ohio. This SPIELBERG. Los Angeles. Everyone knows RIFKIND. New York. A well-known retail and real estate empire is known for the name of Stephen Spielberg, the movie legend attorney and a partner in the well-known elite firm Schottenstein Stores Corporation, Value City responsible for a wide array of popular films, not to of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Simon Department Stores, Value City Furniture and mention Schindler’s List. His primary company is Rifkind was an “advisor” to General Dwight American Eagle Outfitters. Jay Schottenstein is Dreamworks SKG. Amblin Entertainment is Eisenhower on issues such as the disposition of now head of the family’s empire. another part of the Spielberg empire. MARY ANN uprooted Holocaust survivors and was a major SCHUSTERMAN. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Charles STEIN. Indianapolis. Mary Ann Stein, heir to player in lobbying on behalf of the formation of Schusterman heads up Samson Investment bankers and businessmen, is active in liberal causes Israel. His son Robert, a partner in the equally Company, the largest independent gas producer, to the point that she become president of the New elite law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, was headquartered in Oklahoma. Daughter Stacy is Israel Fund, an organization devoted to promoting president of the American Jewish Committee. involved in the family business. Son Jay lives in “liberalism” in Israeli society, a cause that inflames ROSE. New York. Born in Jerusalem, David Colorado. Son Hal lives in Israel. hard-line Zionists to a certain extent, considering the Rose came to New York and set up a wide- SELIG. Atlanta. Heir to Ben Massell, a real New Israel Fund’s friendly gestures toward native ranging and powerful real estate firm, Rose estate developer, S. Stephen Selig is a major Palestinians. (See also FRIEDMAN.) Associates, that has built, owned and/or managed Atlanta developer in his own right, through Selig SAM STEIN. Jacksonville, Florida. Sam Stein properties in New York as well as Washington, Enterprises. His daughter is Mindy Selig Shoulberg, started the Steinmart Store in Mississippi and his D.C., Boston, Florida and Connecticut. His sons a major player in the city’s Jewish community. son Jay developed a chain of 150 stores specializing Frederick, Daniel and Elihu and grandchildren SILVERSTEIN. New York. The son of a in “upscale off-price merchandise” in 21 states. Adam and Jonathan are now in charge of the Rose real estate broker who rose to become a major Jay’s wife Cynthia is an art teacher active in Jewish empire’s affairs. high-rise office building developer, Larry Silverstein affairs in Jacksonville. ROSENWALD. Chicago-New Orleans. Julius is probably best known today as the Jewish STEINBERG. New York. Saul Steinberg Rosenwald made his fortune by grabbing control of operator who gained control of the leases of the made a fortune through Leasco, a computer leasing Sears & Roebuck, the catalog giant. His son World Trade Center shortly before the 9-11 firm, and then went big time with Reliance Lessing, however, upset many in the American tragedy, a subject that has been covered in some Insurance, which he purchased in 1968. His brother Jewish community by being a major supporter of detail by journalist Christopher Bollyn in American Robert and brother-in-law Bruce Sokoloff were anti-Zionist causes. Daughter Edith, who was a Free Press, the national populist newsweekly based heavily involved in family affairs. His daughter major supporter of “civil rights” causes in the South, in Washington, D.C. Rumors connecting Silverstein Laura is married to Jonathan Tisch of the powerful operating out of a fabulous mansion in New Orleans to both the CIA and organized crime activities have Tisch media empire (See TISCH.) His son modeled after “Tara” in Gone With the Wind, circulated for some time. Jonathan is owner of Financial Data which married into the Stern family. Her family ran the SIMON. Indianapolis. One of the five biggest publishes Individual Investor magazine. WDSU media empire in New Orleans and were shopping mall empires in the country—the second STEINHARDT. New York. Hedge-fund close personal friends of Clay Shaw, prosecuted by largest, in fact—is the basis of the fortune of manager/tycoon Michael Steinhardt has a “passion”, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, for brothers Melvin and Howard Simon who developed it is said: that being “Jewish continuity”. Even involvement in the assassination of John F. 62 malls and 55 shopping centers. In 1996 their though he “an avowed atheist” according to Avenue Kennedy. (See Final Judgment by this author, holdings grew even larger when they merged with magazine, Steinhardt is still “yet one of America’s Michael Collins Piper, for further details about the the (non-Jewish) DeBartolo Realty Corp. Mel co- biggest supporters of Jewish and Israel causes”. strange role of the Stern family in the affairs owns the Pacers basketball team and has produced He is a financier behind Forward, the influential surrounding Shaw and accused assassin Lee “trash” films such as Porky’s. His son David, who New York-based Jewish weekly. Harvey Oswald.) The family is quite large and had been an investment banker at CS First Boston STERN & LINDENBAUM. New York. remains active in real estate and cable television. and Wasserstein, Perella, is now assuming a role in Heir to the Hartz Mountain (pet supplies) fortune, RUDIN. New York. Jack and Lewis Rudin the family business which includes the famous Mall Leonard Stern owns the “liberal” Village Voice and their children, including sons William and Eric, of America in Minneapolis, at one time certainly the newspaper and is engaged in a variety of real are the rulers of Rudin Management which operates largest mall in America. estate ventures. His son Emanuel operates the New York-based office and residential buildings. SKIRBALL. Los Angeles. Jack Skirball was SoHo Grand Hotel and is married into the influential SAFRA. NewYork-Monte Carlo. Although a rabbi, a real estate developer and a film Peck family (See PECK). The wealth of Leonard’s Syrian-born Jew Edmond Safra died several years producer—three professions of interest to all good stepmother, Ghity Amiel Lindenbaum, also in Monte Carlo in a mysterious fire (with allegations Jewish boys, it seems. His wealthy family remains contributes to the family fortune. of involvement by Russian Jewish organized crime active in Jewish affairs in California. [END PART 6] in his death), there is no mystery about the fact that SLIFKA. New York. The Halcyon/Alan B. Due to space constraints the rest of this list will his global banking empire, based in the Republic Slifka Management Company provides this family be presented in the next issue. SEPTEMBER 21, 2005 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL Page 13 Public Notice In meeting the requirements for sufficient public notice, this is the first of three publications of this notice. Page 14 CONTACT: THE PHOENIX PROJECT JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
STATEMENT OF ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO AT THE 60TH SESSION OF THE UN World News Insights Belarusian Telegraph Agency, 9/15/05 ... Today the world is unipolar with all the All kinds of military and paramilitary forces COURT RULES U.S. CAN INDEFINITELY consequences stemming from this. The once have now converged on the Gulf Coast—including DETAIN CITIZENS prosperous Yugoslavia was devastated and foreign troops. By Jerry Markon, Washington Post, 9/9/05 disappeared from the map of Europe. The long- [QUOTING:] suffering Afghanistan became a hotbed of conflicts A federal appeals court ruled today that the and drugs trafficking. A bloody slaughter in Iraq is DUTCH, MEXICAN MARINES HELP US president can indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured continuing to the present day. The country has turned SOLDIERS WITH CLEANUP on U.S. soil in the absence of criminal charges, into a source of instability for the vast region. Iran and By George Pawlaczyk, Knight Ridder, 9/11/05 holding that such authority is vital to protect the nation North Korea are looked at through gun sights. from terrorist attacks. Belarus is a nation just like the majority represented The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the in this hall. Having emerged from the debris of the Cold Aboard the Papaloapan—The Marines have th landed in Biloxi. The Mexican Marines. 4 Circuit came in the case of Jose Padilla, a former War, Belarus became a state of advanced science and And Dutch Marines, too. Chicago gang member who was arrested in Chicago technology inhabited by ten million of highly educated and Marines from Mexico, the Netherlands and the in 2002 and designated an “enemy combatant” by tolerant people. The UN ranked us as a developed United States are allies in an international Hurricane President Bush. country with a high level of human development. Katrina cleanup effort based on ships about 20 miles ... Attorneys for Padilla and a host of civil liberties Like you, what we need from the world is peace offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Four Canadian ships organizations blasted the detention as illegal and said and stability. Nothing more. The rest we shall create are on the way. ... it could lead to the military being allowed to hold ourselves through our own efforts. [END QUOTING] anyone, from protesters to people who check out what My country is free from conflicts. Different And how should Americans feel about some of the government considers the wrong books from the nations and nationalities peacefully coexist in Belarus the most ruthless mercenaries in the world library. ... each practicing religions of their own and having their patrolling the streets with automatic weapons? [END QUOTING] own way of life. [QUOTING:] To the rest of the world some things are quite We do not cause any trouble for our neighbors, clear. Let’s look at what the President of neither through territorial claims nor trying to influence BLACKWATER MERCENARIES DEPLOY Venezuela had to say at the the UN last week. their choice of the way of development. IN NEW ORLEANS [QUOTING, emphasis added:] We gave up our nuclear arms and voluntarily By Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo, relinquished the rights of a nuclear successor to the
Foreign troops occupied the independent Afghanistan American Continent. ...” The relationship therefore between these two but the drugs production grew ten-fold. Did those troops ... To the efficiency of the American’s computer earthquake events in Arctic Russia and Quebec enter the country for this purpose? models there is no doubt, as they have successfully Canada can not be underestimated because, and as Today, Belarus, Tajikistan, Russia and other former predicted all of the catastrophic events to have hit them, stated by the Canadian Government’s Natural Soviet states are literally flooded with a wave of and as we can read as reported by the Los Angeles Resources Ministry, “Canada east of the Cordillera, “traditional” drugs from Afghanistan meeting a wave of Times News Service in their article titled “California extending north from the United States border to the previously unknown synthetic drugs from Europe. Earthquake Could Be the Next Katrina” and which says, Arctic Ocean, comprises about two-thirds of the stable The leaders of the sovereign Yugoslavia and Iraq “U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Lucy Jones craton of the North American plate.” were put behind bars on groundless, absurd and far- remembers attending an emergency training session in … The Darwinian mindsets of these Americans do fetched accusations. This was a very opportune way to August 2001 with the Federal Emergency Management not allow for their being able to understand the clear conceal the truth about annihilation of their countries. Agency that discussed the three most likely catastrophes warnings of these events that would lead them to the The trial of Milosevic was made into a caricature since to strike the United States. First on the list was a terrorist protection of their lives by preparing for these events. long ago. attack in New York. Second was a super-strength Even as the entire world continues to suffer grievous Saddam Hussein was abandoned to the winner’s hurricane hitting New Orleans. Third was a major blows from unrelenting weather changes, massive mercy, like in barbarian times. There is nobody to defend earthquake on the San Andreas fault. Now that the first storms, unremitting droughts and horrific earthquakes, their rights except the UN, their states no longer around, two have come to pass, she and other earthquake experts the American people remain the least prepared to destroyed. are using the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina either protect themselves, or to understand the sheer They should be released to be able to defend freely as an opportunity to reassess how California would apocalyptic nature of the changes our World is going their rights, honour and human dignity. handle a major temblor.” through. AIDS and other diseases are ravaging Africa and Russian Social Scientists point out though that after Today the early contingents of many of the Asia. Poverty and deprivation have become a real and many decades of not just ignoring the predictive values world’s armies are marching upon American soil for not a virtual weapon of mass destruction, moreover—a of computer models, but also in discouraging their the first time in the memories of their whole population. racially selective one. probabilities from being ‘taken seriously’ by the American Today the refugees in America number in the hundreds Who will be able to stop this? Who will insist that public, that the American Military Leaders reluctance to of thousands. Today vast areas of America lie in total the United States of America put an end to its attempts prepare for these events may lie in the very ruin. Yet today these most strange American people against Cuba and Venezuela? These countries will psychological mindsets they have instilled in their civilian cling to the belief that their tomorrows will always be independently determine their lives. population to begin with, and as we have reported on like their yesterdays, and one can not help but Trafficking in persons has become a flourishing previously these psychological mindsets are for the remember that these were also the very thoughts of the business. Sexual slavery of women and children are controlling of their peoples against social unrest and German peoples under the Nazi Regime of last century seen as a common thing, almost a norm of life. Who disorder, not to saving their lives. too. will protect them and bring to justice consumers of “live But the time is soon coming where even the most [END QUOTING] commodity”? controlled American citizen will no longer be able to We will underscore the foregoing by noting there ... This, in short, is the distressing account of the ignore the catastrophic changes being made to their has been a recent tremendous surge of magma to the transition to the unipolar world. country, not just by nature itself, but also in the west of Yellowstone. Was it for that purpose that we established the reordering of their entire social order towards Fascist [QUOTING:] United Nations? Is it not high time for the UN to put rule as more of their freedoms are stripped away and an end to internal corruption scandals and get down in their country becomes totally militarized. ORE. SCIENTISTS MONITOR BULGING GROUND deed to address anguish and misery of the world? The …But of greater concerns to Russian Scientists Associated Press, 9/5/05 answer to this question, in our view, is very clear. ... are the ‘unrelenting tectonic forces’ building upon the [END QUOTING] entire North American Plate, and where this weeks Bend, Oregon—A recent survey of a bulge that And now we come full circle to consider what the New York Region 3.6 Magnitude Earthquake provides covers about 100 square miles near the South Sister next major event might be. Tremendous pressures yet another warning to these people, and the indicates the area is still growing, suggesting it could continue to build on the North American tectonic significance of which we had previously reported on in be another volcano in the making or a major shift of plate. Please be prepared, readers. our March 6th report titled “Arctic Circle Earthquakes molten rock under the center of the Cascade Range. [QUOTING:] Begins North American Continent Instability, Greater Recent eruptions at nearby Mount St. Helens in Earthquakes Sure to Follow” and wherein we had Washington state have rekindled interest in the annual RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS WARN OF IMPENDING stated: Sisters survey and its findings. NORTH AMERICAN CATASTROPHIC EVENT… “Reports have reached us today that the Franz Oregon has four of the 18 most active volcanoes By Sorcha Faal,
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