Open Society – Strategic Culture Foundation https://www.strategic-culture.org Strategic Culture Foundation provides a platform for exclusive analysis, research and policy comment on Eurasian and global affairs. We are covering political, economic, social and security issues worldwide. Sun, 10 Apr 2022 20:53:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.16 Who’s Missing From the Pandora Papers: The Main Offenders and Accomplices https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/10/11/whos-missing-from-pandora-papers-main-offenders-and-accomplices/ Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:35:42 +0000 https://www.strategic-culture.org/?post_type=article&p=757040 Missing from the elaborate Pandora “disclosure” are not only the main financial havens, companies and banks, but also today’s leading investors.

At a cost of many millions of dollars, euros, pesos, etc., 600 journalists from 148 media outlets and 117 countries have compiled the “Pandora Papers” over several months as part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ): 2.94 terabytes of data with 11.9 million documents on shell companies in numerous financial dossiers. Tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, corruption and the like among 330 named heads of state and government, other politicians, sports and cultural celebrities, and thousands of businessmen and billionaires are suspected, are probable.

29,000 shell companies

The heads of state and politicians are almost exclusively from dozens of smaller and remote countries such as Jordan, Montenegro, Kenya, Congo, Dominican Republic, Panama, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Honduras, Colombia, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, Qatar. Western prominent politicians are the major exceptions, and most are no longer in office: ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, ex-Italian head of government Silvio Berlusconi, ex-Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon, ex-Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, ex-European Commissioner John Dalli. Only three incumbent Western politicians in smaller states are mentioned: “Christian” Dutch Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra, Czech Prime Minister and oligarch Andrej Babis, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — that’s about it. USA, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia — all clean.

Among the cultural and sports celebrities, the ex-model Claudia Schiffer, the musicians Ringo Starr, Elton John, Julio Iglesias, the Nobel Prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa, and the soccer coach Pep Guardiola (FC Bayern Munich, Manchester City) are all from the colorful pages’ picture book. From the aristocracy, a daughter of Moroccan King Hassan, the royal family of Qatar, and Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, entrepreneur and playmate of the resigned Spanish scandal king Juan Carlos I. Who would have thought it?

Among the many businessmen mentioned by name, there are similarly picture-perfect ones from Western-connected countries known for messy dealings anyway, such as India, Pakistan, Turkey, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Colombia, the Philippines and the Western-assumed territory of Hong Kong. However, there are also a few lost figures from more important countries: Robert Smith/Vista Equity Partners and Robert Brockman/Reynolds&Reynolds, two donors to the two leading U.S. parties; Alexander Temerko as donor to the British Tories; India’s richest entrepreneur Mazumdar-Shaw; the Israeli multi-billionaire Benny Steinmetz, sentenced to prison for money laundering and bribery; Formula I racing promoter Bernie Ecclestone.

In the margins, the US corporations Apple, Abbott, Nike and RJR Nabisco appear abruptly, also the most important US business law firm BakerMcKenzie (from which ECB chief Christine Lagarde comes), admittedly without naming individuals, without further elaboration and without justification for this tiny selection.

The largest unified group so far consists of 1,892 owners of shell companies from China, including a brother-in-law of head of state Xi Jinping and a daughter of ex-premier Li Peng. The second largest unified group from one state is formed by the dozen Russian businessmen described as “close friends” of President Putin. And one Svetlana Krivonogikh, once presented by german scandal sheet BILD as an “alleged” former mistress of Putin and since 20 years belonging to the jet set in the Principality of Monaco, was now punctually rediscovered by ICIJ investigators, with “alleged” 85 million euros in the mailbox.

All normal, isn’t it? But Putin! And Xi Jinping!

All in all, according to the information so far, the Westerners are involved in personal business deals. For example, Tony Blair and his wife bought a property in London for 7.5 million, as befits their status. Real estate purchases in Great Britain are anyway for a long time a popular object for foreign super-rich. Jordan’s King Abdullah, for example, bought 14 houses here, incidentally also from Crown Estate, the administration of the British royal family. And President Aliyev of Azerbaijan also got hold of as many as 27 properties in the United Kingdom without difficulty. The Czech Republic’s oligarch Babis bought a “mansion” in France. Dutch Finance Minister Hoekstra made do with pea nuts, taking a stake of a good 20,000 euros in a tourism company, together with friends.

All this shows that the use of shell companies is also routine in Europe and the EU. But the leading media evaluation focuses not on the states that tolerate and promote these practices, but on individuals who take advantage of the generous offer. Asebaidjan’s Aliyev is otherwise powerfully denounced as authoritarian and corrupt — but that Britain enabled him to buy 27 properties with the help of shell companies — no criticism.

So people are pilloried who maintain shell companies. But the states and associations of states that promote the supply of shell companies, such as the USA, Great Britain, and by no means least the European Union, are not pilloried. We will come to that in a moment: The names of the Russian and Chinese owners of shell companies are known — but not the owners of the shell companies that are under the protection of BlackRock & Co.

When financial havens are part of the Western legal statehood after all

So far, the leading media portrayal has concentrated on a very special, tiny section: “Close friends of Putin” are the villains in the Pandora production. They use shell companies in financial havens! Financial havens that have been part of the system of US-led Western capitalism for decades.

When Western-friendly Russian oligarch Mikhail Chodorkovsky, owner of the privatized Yukos oil conglomerate, used several Western financial havens with the help of Western advisors, he was praised in the West for his skill and showered with loans and investments. He was convicted of tax evasion in Russia, facts he did not dispute. But the private arbitration court in The Hague, Netherlands, responsible for international financial relations, in 2014 ordered the Russian state to pay 50 billion in damages. By then, financial havens were part of Western rule of law, and no ICIJ investigators found anything wrong with that.

Missing: The most important financial havens

The most frequently mentioned financial havens are Panama, the British Virgin Islands, Belize, the Seychelles, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, and Switzerland. They traditionally specialize in hiding individual assets, money laundering and corrupt payments by individuals.

But missing are the financial havens that are central to corporations, banks and today’s leading investors: Right up front is the U.S. state of Delaware: for example, this is where most of the 500 U.S. companies on the Forbes and S&P lists have their legal and tax domiciles. In the EU, the most important financial havens for tax avoidance, lending, license sales of companies are: The states of Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In addition, the Cayman Islands (British overseas territory), Singapore and the British Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey are the most important.

Incidentally, they are all missing from the “black list” of the ICIJ and also from the financial havens drawn up by the EU, including the most recent one dated 22.2.2021. To demonstrate their ridiculousness, here are these insignificant financial havens branded by the EU: Samoa, Anguilla, Dominica, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, Seychelles, Trinidad&Tobago, Vanuatu.

In the Pandora Papers, 203 U.S. trusts also appear on the margin, domestic U.S. shell companies, so to speak. Most of them, 81, are located in South Dakota, in Florida 37, in Texas 24, in Nevada 14. Such trusts are also assigned to Delaware, 35. They are used by upscale layers of petty criminals. Here, too, the first league of US corporations and Wall Street is missing, which maintain tens of thousands of shell companies in the Cayman Islands, the British Channel Islands and, last but not least, in Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Cyprus and Malta.

For example: Deutsche Bank in Delaware

The major players are not represented in the insignificant to ridiculous financial havens in which Pandora investigators also dive. The largest location of corporate and banking mailboxes in the world, the U.S. state of Delaware is not mentioned at all in this regard. Nor is the world’s largest capital organizer, BlalckRock, which has its legal and tax headquarters here.

Let’s take an example from Germany: Deutsche Bank — in which BlackRock itself is also one of the leading shareholders — maintains many dozens of shell companies in the main financial havens of Delaware, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Cayman Islands.

Deutsche Bank in Delaware:

*Deutsche Bank Capital Finance LLC I
*Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital LLC II
*Deutsche Bank Contingent Capital Trust II

and four other dozens.

In Luxembourg, for example:

*Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. Fiduciary Deposits.
*Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. Fiduciary Note Programme

and four more dozen.

In Ireland, for example:

*Eirles Three Designated Activitiy Company.
*Eirles Two Designated Activity Company

and so on.

Attachment 1 shows an excerpt from Deutsche Bank’s list of shareholdings, last updated 2019. The place Wilmington mentioned therein is the capital of the U.S. state Delaware; Georgetown is the capital of the Cayman Islands.

Missing: Leading capital organizers BlackRock & Co.

Missing from the elaborate Pandora “disclosure” are not only the main financial havens and the companies and banks, but also today’s leading investors, capital organizers and asset managers who own the main Western companies and banks.

Foremost among these today is BlackRock: the largest capital organizer in the U.S.-led Western financial system, with $9 trillion in invested capital, has its legal and tax headquarters in Delaware. BlackRock is currently a co-owner/shareholder of 18,000 companies and banks worldwide, in most of the 500 largest companies and banks in the U.S. (e.g., Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Goldman Sachs, Tesla, Exxon, Boeing, Lockheed), similarly in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

In Germany, BlackRock is among all 6 major shareholders of all 30 DAX corporations, also in the just-mentioned Deutsche Bank, also in the fraud corporation Wirecard, and also in the 5 largest private housing corporations, namely Vonovia, Deutsche Wohnen, LEG, TAG and Grand City Properties. [See Werner Rügemer: The Capitalists of the 21st Century. An Easy-to-Understand Outline on the Rise of the New Financial Players, 308 pages, editing houtse tredition 2020, harcover, paperback, eBook.]

Missing: BlackRock’s wealthy investors

Today’s leading capital organizers and investors like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Blackstone, KKR & Co. get their capital from the super rich, if they have 50 or 100 million idle in one of their accounts, i.e. multi-millionaires and multi-billionaires, corporate foundations, entrepreneurs, top managers, pension funds. And these capital providers of BlackRock & Co are anonymized with the help of letterbox companies, and this capital and the proportionate profits from the 18,000 BlackRock companies and banks then enjoy the protection of the financial havens that are not on the EU blacklist.

That the clients of BlackRock & Co. use letterbox companies by default and are anonymized — this is not even mentioned in the Pandora Papers. And of course, these investors of BlackRock & Co. are then also not mentioned by name in the Pandora Papers — unlike the Russian and Chinese owners of shell companies.

BlackRock’s shell companies in the lignite group RWE

BlackRock is the largest shareholder in the German lignite company RWE, with 3.26 percent of the shares. This share currently represents a value of almost one billion euros. And this amount is distributed among 219 BlackRock subsidiaries/letterboxes, with an average amount of about 4 million euros.

BlackRock Deutschland AG is also one of these 219 companies. Its supervisory board chairman until 2020 was BlackRock’s lobbyist in Germany, Friedrich Merz, who also wanted so much to become CDU chairman, chancellor or at least finance minister and was also supported in this by the business and banking lobby in Germany. Hello ICIJ-investigative journalists: Have you ever pursued the question whether Friedrich Merz has a letter box company, or perhaps even several?

But the vast majority of these 219 companies are shell companies in financial havens and contain the respective invested capital of BlackRocks anonymous investors. The financial havens are not the Seychelles, Belize etc. mentioned by ICIJ and the EU, but they are Delaware, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Singapore.

Attachment 2 shows an excerpt from the list of these RWE-BlackRock shell companies; ticked are the shell companies in financial havens; the name part “Holdco” means: domicile in Delaware. (as of 6.10.2021) The fact that the average value of the shares is “only” 4 million should not come as a surprise: These shell companies belonging to individual investors also appear in numerous other companies and banks, thus uniting a much larger sum in themselves.

Missing: Joe Biden, the patron of Delaware

Oh, in case you didn’t know or forgot again, which can happen very easily nowadays, with this inundation of non-information: With the rise of Delaware to the largest corporate and investor financial oasis on earth also rose a certain Joe Biden, since 2021 president of “America First”.

Biden was a senator for the tiny U.S. state of Delaware from 1973 to 2009. He had already applied for this office as a 29-year-old business lawyer and held it for 35 years. The number of shell companies in Biden’s homeland is at least twice the number of eligible voters. Son Beau Biden became attorney general here without having to try very hard. Son Hunter Biden is an active financial speculator in Ukraine, among other places. When necessary, father Biden stood up for him on the ground in Kiev.

Joe Biden has recently received donations for his election campaigns from major digital companies such as Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix. But Delaware companies also promoted their influential senator, including credit card company MBNA and John Hynansky, who is from Ukraine and dominates the export of premium SUVs to Ukraine.

Biden, as a senator in Washington, always voted with Republicans on major financial sector deregulations. The largest financial oasis also includes an extremely “liberal” corporate constitution (extremely low liability, low disclosure requirements) and a judiciary to go with it.

And the largest company in the financial oasis, BlackRock and longtime lobbyist Joe Biden eventually found themselves quite close: Three top BlackRock executives became members of the Biden administration.

Pandora Papers: Funded by Soros’ Open Society Foundations

Like the similar Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, the Pandora Papers were coordinated by the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ. The associated media in the Western countries mainly include media outlets posing as “liberal” such as the New York Times (USA), Guardian and BBC (Great Britain), Asahi Shimbun (Japan) and from Germany the Süddeutsche Zeitung, WDR and NDR.

The sums of millions for the elaborate international research and coordination by the ICIJ come from the Open Society Foundations of the well-known major speculator and U.S. multi-billionaire George Soros. He financed the opening of entire states of Eastern Europe to Western “values” and investors with the help of numerous “colorful revolutions.” Oligarchs like Viktor Orban are his foster children, even if he later falls out with them. And against Putin’s Russia — Soros is always there. Against Putin’s corrupt and often drunken predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, the sellout of Russia, on the other hand, Soros and ICIJ had no objection.

“Enlightenment” in the Service of Counter-Enlightenment and Agitation

The Pandora Papers suggest personal, unclean dealings by the named individuals, such as fraud, money laundering, corruption and the like. This, we know from experience, will be true in many cases.

But the ICIJ investigators avoid making a clear distinction that is communicated in a publicly sustained way: In the case of the Russian and Chinese individuals mentioned, it is admittedly implied that the shell companies serve other purposes. For example, Alibaba, the largest Chinese trading company, organized its IPO in New York through a shell company. This was known to both the U.S. and Chinese sides — there was no other way, and it was because of U.S. rules. And when the Chinese leadership thus strengthens the Chinese national economy and subsequently gives Alibaba a proper regulatory squeeze, as happened, then this is something different from the permanent protection that the US and EU governments and now the ICIJ — “revelations” grant to the super-rich capital providers of BlackRock&Co.

If the Pandora Papers disclosures are followed by prosecutorial investigations,

If the U.S., U.K. and EU governments close their financial havens — most notably Delaware, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Ireland, the Cayman Islands and the English Channel Islands,

Then the prosperity of the nations and the majority populations would already have gained a lot.

But as long as “revelations” in the style of ICIJ turn out like now again the Pandora Papers, then they do not serve the enlightenment, but the counter-enlightenment: Greenwashing of the Western financial system and agitation against Russia and China.

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Xi and Putin Stand Up for Humanity at Davos: Closed vs Open System Ideologies Clash Again https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/02/01/xi-and-putin-stand-up-for-humanity-at-davos-closed-vs-open-system-ideologies-clash-again/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 20:30:33 +0000 https://www.strategic-culture.org/?post_type=article&p=678387 Where one system promotes the trojan horse seeds of its own annihilation, the other promotes the seeds of fruitful new epochs of continual growth and discoveries both on the surface of the earth and also beyond, Matthew Ehret writes.

Between January 25-29, 2021, world leaders were corralled into a digital conference titled “The Davos Agenda” in order to discuss the foundations of the emerging new world economic architecture which has come to be called “The Great Reset”.

For those who have not yet made this disturbing discovery, the Great Reset agenda was first unveiled by the World Economic Forum as a cover for imposing a new world economic order upon nation states. This reset hides behind a veneer of morality but is actually reveals a to feudalism with a technotronic twist.

“Technotronic” in this sense does not refer to the 1980s band that made “Pump up the Jam” famous but rather Zbigniew Brzezinski’s 1970 ‘Between Two Ages: America in the Technotronic Era’ where the arch globalist famously stated:

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

As I outlined in my recent study “Maurice Strong and the Roots of the Great Reset Agenda”, and which   Brzezinski’s life’s devotion indicates, while this plan was officially unveiled in June 2020, its origins can be traced back many decades earlier.

The formula driving this “global cure-all” is simple and starts with the following presumptions:

  • COVID-19 has caused world economic systems to grind to a halt. 2) Now the leaders of the world have a golden opportunity to correct the abuses of unbounded free market monetarism which became hegemonic since 1971 and establish a new global economic order. 3) This new order will be premised on a mass behavioral modification of humanity in order to end climate change (by decarbonizing the world to pre-industrial levels) while also creating top-down regimes that can end COVID-19, all in one unified thrust. Whether or not these crises are in fact the existential threats we have been sold or whether they are chimerical non-issues created by computer modellers is a topic to be tackled another day.

Giddy Technocrats Celebrate the Crisis

Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) last year, Prince Charles stated buoyantly “We have a golden opportunity to seize something good from this crisis- its unprecedented shockwaves may well make people more receptive to big visions of change. It is an opportunity we have never had before and may never have again.” (1)

WEF founder and Chairman Klaus Schwab echoed these words saying: “The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world”.

Even the Vatican itself under Pope Francis has jumped on board endorsing the Great Reset while creating a green “Council for Inclusive Capitalism With the Vatican”.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry stated on January 23: “The notion of a Reset is more important than ever before. I personally believe we’re at the dawn of an extremely exciting time.”

Of course, words like “social justice”, “equality” and “development” are freely bandied about by Davos creatures but when one digs into the means promoted to achieve the mass decarbonization of world civilization, a different picture emerges.

Not only would these “decarbonizing Green New Dealers” tie civilization to low quality, incredibly expensive and woefully unreliable forms of energy rooted in windmills and solar panels, but forcing the swift elimination of fossil fuels (and the conspicuous absence of nuclear power development) would constrict civilization’s ability to sustain its population and agro-industrial needs in stark terms. The greatest hit under this green paradigm would be the poor who, at least for a short period, desperately require vastly increased uses of the fossil fuels located under their soil in order to industrialize.

Additionally, Davos Creatures promoting this de-carbonized world have laid out in depth, a new system of Green hegemonic digital currency controlled by the City of London and the Central Bankers’ Climate Councils. These financiers love the idea of expert panels of managing humanity outside of the “messy institutions of democracies” which have historically blocked the enlightened elite from making the “tough draconian” decisions for the common good since the days of the League of Nations.

What is it about Putin and Xi which inspires such fear in the hearts of the Great Reset Architects? In the simplest terms, the answer is “open system economics”.

Open vs Closed Systems

While the Great Reset Architects are thoroughly committed to closed operating systems which demand computer models be imposed onto the world guiding a zero-growth policy towards total equilibrium and “entropy”, the multipolar alliance led by Xi and Putin are committed to “open system” thinking.

Where the closed system/unipolar model demands the submission of governments to a totalitarian system of controls of “experts” who are uniquely qualified to control the diminishing rates of return of fixed resources, the open system/multipolar model demands a respect for sovereign nations and a focus upon the creation of new resources via scientific and technological progress. Where one is premised on a zero-sum game of win-lose behavior (aka: the survival of the fittest), the other is premised upon a non-zero-sum game of win-win cooperation.

When confronted with resource scarcity and population growth, closed system thinkers adopt a Malthusian view that population growth must be culled to adhere to mathematical models of “carrying capacity” in some imagined stated of “natural equilibrium” which said models demand must exist.

This is the sort of thinking going on behind the eyeballs of World Wildlife Foundation founder Prince Philip of Mountbatten who stated in a 1988 interview with Deutsche Press Agentur:

“The more people there are, the more resources they’ll consume, the more pollution they’ll create, the more fighting they will do. We have no option. If it isn’t controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war. …In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”

Thomas Malthus and his model of population growth

On the other hand, open system thinkers promote scientific and technological progress and industrial growth in order to overcome said states of “carrying capacity”. This approach reflects an understanding that value is not located in money, or any material phenomenon per se, but rather in the immaterial powers of cognition and metaphysical laws of intention, creativity, morality, hope and justice. Malthusian materialists tend to get very uncomfortable at such “abstract” and “unscientific” ideas.

Where one system promotes the trojan horse seeds of its own annihilation, the other promotes the seeds of fruitful new epochs of continual growth and discoveries both on the surface of the earth and also beyond.

Xi Jinping’s Speech

Speaking on January 25, President Xi called for “four major tasks facing people of our times”: 1) macro economic needs, 2) a foreign policy of peaceful co-existence and win-win cooperation, 3) close the north south inequality gap and 4) coordinate to deal with global challenges.

On the first task, Xi stated: “We need to shift the driving forces and the growth models of the global economy and improve its structure, so as to set the course for long term, sound, and steady development of the world economy.”

Pushing back against the Hobbesian unipolarists presiding over the summit, Xi defended his 2nd Task saying: “Difference in itself is no cause for alarm. What does bring alarm is arrogance, prejudice, and hatred. It is the attempt to impose hierarchy on human civilization, or to force one’s own history, culture, and social system upon others. The right choice is for countries to pursue peaceful coexistence based on mutual respect, and only finding common ground, while shelving differences, and to promote exchanges and mutual learning. This is the way to add impetus to the progress of human civilization.”

Defending poor nations’ rights to control their own developmental pathways, Xi announced the 3rd task saying: “The international community should keep its eyes on the long run, honor its commitment to provide necessary support to developing countries and safeguard their legitimate development interests.”

And finally on the 4th task, Xi stated: “No global problem can be solved by any one country alone. There must be global action, a global response, and global cooperation.”

While Xi supported the WHO, globalization and Paris Climate Accords, his approach to net carbon neutrality by 2060 is hinged not on degrowth, but rather advanced scientific and technological progress, equal access for development, the defense of sovereign nation states as outlined in the UN Charter. On these points Xi stated:

“China will invest more in science and technology, developing and enabling systems for innovation as a priority, turn breakthroughs in science and technology into actual productivity at a faster pace, and enhance intellectual property protection, all for the purpose of fostering innovation-driven, higher-quality growth. Scientific and technological advances should benefit all humanity, rather than be used to curb and contain other countries’ development.”

Putin’s Speech

After paying lip service to Schwab and applauding the extension of the START treaty with the USA, Putin pointed out in his January 27 Davos speech that the overarching dynamic under Biden continues to be degenerative, driving us towards world war with stark parallels to the 1930s. Here Putin warned that experts “compare the current situation to the 1930s… As you are aware, the inability and unwillingness to find substantive solutions to problems like this in the 20th century led to World War 2 catastrophe. Of course, such a heated global conflict is impossible in principle, I hope. That is what I am pinning my hopes on, because this would be the end of humanity. However as I have said, the situation could take an unexpected and uncontrollable turn – unless we do something to prevent this. There is a chance that we will face a formidable break-down in global development, which will be fraught with a war of all against all and attempts to deal with contradictions through the appointment of internal and external enemies and the destruction of not only traditional values such as the family, which we hold dear in Russia, but fundamental freedoms such as the right of choice and privacy.”

Putin amplified Xi’s earlier remarks, laying out three domains for reform starting with 1) economic development for all, 2) the prevention of the takeover of world policy by big tech giants saying “they are de facto competing with states”, and 3) a reform towards win-win international relations.

While Putin’s entire speech should be studied in depth, the spirit of his message was captured in his clearly hopeful but stark warning that: “we have a shared responsibility to prevent this scenario which looks like a grim dystopia, and to ensure instead that our development takes a different trajectory- positive, harmonious and creative.”

The Nature of 21st Century Energy Needs

While China certainly invests quite a lot in green energy grids, it derives the actual industrial energy needed to power its capital-intensive infrastructure megaprojects and high-speed rail grids from its world leading investments into nuclear power and fossil fuels.

China, Russia and India together represent over 50% world nuclear energy projects while the west has all but abandoned the technology long ago.

China currently has 17 reactors under construction and has created the most advanced molten salt fast breeder (4th generation) reactor which is 60x more efficient than other reactors due to its closing of the fuel cycle (allowing its users to reprocess “waste” into new fuel rather than bury it as has been the common practice in the west since Carter sabotaged the closing of the fuel cycle in the 1970s.) As these next generation units featuring molten thorium are increasingly brought online (alongside similar ambitions in India and Russia), while the fuel cycle is finally brought to a close, such fears of meltdowns, radiation, and nuclear waste that poisoned generations of minds will finally be healed.

Additionally, China has become a leader in nuclear fusion development with openly stated aims to mine the moon for Helium 3 (found in abundance in Lunar soil, but nearly totally absent on the Earth due to our magnetic field). When the inevitable fusion breakthroughs arise, experts estimate that about three truck loads of this isotope shipped to the earth from the moon will supply one year of energy needs at current capacities.

At an important Energy summit in 2019, Putin laid out the important role of fusion power as the foundation for a harmonization between the realm of nature (the biosphere) and the realm of creative reason (the technosphere) saying: “super-efficient scientific, engineering and manufacturing solutions will help us establish a balance between the biosphere and the technosphere… fusion energy which in fact is similar to how heat and light are produced in our star, the sun, is an example of such nature-like technologies.”

Having signed several joint agreements on nuclear development and technology sharing over the past decade, China and Russia have become world leaders in nuclear power, not only in their own borders, but internationally as well, providing the technology widely across Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America as evidenced by the following map.

While earlier efforts to promote this type of policy were once championed by American statesmen during the 1940s-1960s, the deep state coup which emerged over the dead bodies of JFK, MLK and RFK, ensured that no such policy would ever be permitted under the Anglo-American empire.

Both China and Russia have signed an agreement to jointly build a lunar base by 2030 and both have expressed an understanding that space mining, fusion power, and large-scale infrastructure development via the BRI, Polar Silk Road and beyond which have opened vistas of potential for global growth and economic justice which keeps closed system technocrats up at night.

This is the foundation of the “Sustained development” open system paradigm of Eurasia which stands in total contrast to the deconstructionist “sustainable development” closed system paradigm of the west.

Which version of the Great Reset will ultimately come out on top still remains to be seen.

The author can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com

Note

(1) While many don’t pay the impending King of England much respect, the fact is the WEF website itself credits him as the key organizing force behind it stating: “The Great Reset is a new initiative from the WEF and HRH the Prince of Wales to guide decision-makers on the path to a more resilient, sustainable world beyond coronavirus”.

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The Empire Doubles Down: Open Society Foundations Will Now Be Run by Lord Malloch Brown https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/11/empire-doubles-down-open-society-foundations-will-now-run-lord-malloch-brown/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:00:14 +0000 https://www.strategic-culture.org/?post_type=article&p=621761 The hubris of empire has always struck me with shock and awe.

I mean it really takes balls to get caught with a prostitute and instead of apologizing to your wife, to instead buy the hooker a new fur coat and parade her publicly at a public event.

Such has been the case with George Soros’ long time bosom buddy Lord Mark Malloch Brown who after being revealed as a leading force behind the software used by the infamous Dominion Voting systems via Smartmatic (which transferred its operating systems to Dominion via Sequoia Inc), has now been made the president of Soros’ global Open Society Foundations.

What is the logic behind such a decision?

Simple: If these characters were truly guilty of the crimes they are being accused of, then why would they behave so unapologetically in public? Surely to be so confident, they must be innocent of wrongdoing. It may sound overly simplistic, but this formula has proven most effective in recent years.

This is a lesson learned just a few months go by Sir Kim Darroch (former British Ambassador to the USA 2016-2019). After having failed in his mission to “flood the zone” with British intelligence operatives to influence Trump’s perception of reality, Sir Kim found himself honoured as a Lord and life peer for services rendered rather than face anything close to a reprimand for “exceeding the boundaries of his job description” as one would have expected.

The doubling down of those deep state operatives like Comey, Brennan and Clapper who after having been caught artificially pushing a contrived lie to de-legitimize the 2016 elections under RussiaGate, would become ever more crazed and loud in their advocacy of Trump’s allegiance to the Kremlin.

But this is an old formula that wasn’t invented with Trump. Caught laundering drug money HSBC? No worries. Pay a few dollars in fines, wait a bit, then do it again, but go bigger. Caught orchestrating a color revolution in Georgia? No problem. Just do another one in Ukraine. What happens when your Georgian color revolutionary puppet starts a war with Russia and has to flee his own nation to avoid imprisonment for corruption? Give him Ukrainian citizenship and install him as Governor of the Nazi-infested province of Odessa.

Back to the Soros-Brown Lovefest

Despite these truths, I must admit that the December 4 announcement of Lord Malloch Brown’s rise to the Presidency of Soros’ Open Society Foundations did surprise me.

Knowing that Dominion Voting systems shared its office space with Soros’ Tides Foundation in Toronto Canada was pretty bad. Knowing that Dominion executive Eric Koomer was caught on Soros-connected Antifa organizing zoom calls publicly announcing that he had ensured that Trump would not win was also bad. Seeing the integration of Dominion’s voting systems with a Soros operation known as the Clinton Foundation Delian Project didn’t look good.

When it came to Soros/Malloch Brown characters active in Biden’s aspiring administration, we find the likes of Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Peter Neffenger have found themselves enmeshed in the current coup operation serving as U.S. head of Smartmatic. Other Soros-Malloch Brown connected operatives include International Crisis Group member Jake Sullivan as Biden’s pick for National Security Advisor, Neera Tanden (head of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress) who will head the White House Office of Management and Budget, and lest we forget Anthony Blinken – longtime friend of International Crisis Group President Robert Malley and son of Soros confidante Donald Blinken (whose Donald and Vera Blinken Open Society Archive in Hungary should serve as a constant reminder.)

Yet despite their decades of collaboration and devotion to the cause of destroying sovereign nation states as I outlined in my previous report, Soros and Malloch Brown didn’t make any effort to separate themselves amidst current surge of U.S. color revolution controversies but have instead doubled down dramatically.

Announcing the transfer of power from Open Society President Patrick Gaspard to Brown, the Open Society website proclaimed:

“Patrick Gaspard has announced his decision to step down as president at the end of the year. During his three-year tenure, he confronted significant threats to open societies around the globe, including the rise of authoritarian regimes and the spread of the COVID-19 virus worldwide. Under his capable leadership, the Open Society Foundations have emerged stronger than ever.

Succeeding him as president will be Mark Malloch-Brown, the former UN deputy secretary‐general and UK minister, who currently serves on the Foundations’ Global Board. Malloch-Brown will take over effective January 1.”

Soros commented on Lord Malloch Brown’s presidency saying: “Mark is deeply familiar with Open Society’s work and shares my vision of a political philanthropy that is focused and prepared for the future.”

What these Globalists Fear

The real threats to their joint vision for an “open society” (code for “technocratic post-nation state world order run by a Malthusian master class”) were enumerated on multiple occasions by both Lord Malloch Brown and Soros. Since the current battle across the globe between Great Reset oligarchs and patriots has coincided with a spike in misinformation and psy ops which have attempted to pin the USA into a war posture with China, it is a good moment to be reminded of what those fears are.

In his June 2020 speech promoting world government, Lord Brown stated: “In the wider world a more authoritarian form of government is the new majority. It is not China alone. This “new majority” embraces leaders who come to power by the ballot box and those who didn’t, but who all share a preference for a nationalist foreign policy, the weakening of domestic institutions and the rule of law”.

At another event a few months later, Lord Malloch Brown warned that the United Nations had been infiltrated by authoritarian nation states like Russia, and China. His solution? Create new transnational operations which “bypass the UN security council”. Apparently, only open society-friendly NGOs are enlightened enough to dictate global policy.

Outlining his understanding of the two greatest threats to “open society”, George Soros had targeted two villains in his January 23, 2020 Davos speech: #1) Xi Jinping’s China and #2: Donald Trump’s USA.

At this speech, Soros stated: “regrettably, President Trump seems to be following a different course: Make concessions to China and declare victory while renewing his attacks on U.S. allies. This is liable to undermine the U.S. policy objective of curbing China’s abuses and excesses.”

At the time Soros spoke, the U.S.-China trade deal had begun its first phase which aimed at ensuring China’s purchase of $200-$300 billion of U.S. manufactured goods. During these hopeful days of collaboration, President Trump understood much better than he does now that 10+ months of COVID insanity and anti-China psy war have flooded his support base, that the ultimate recovery of U.S. manufacturing was contingent upon good relations with China. Trump’s early words of support of Xi Jinping when COVID had newly emerged onto the scene calling the Chinese leader “my friend”, were truly prospects which scared the hell out of Soros, Malloch Brown (not to mention Soros’ right wing doppelganger Steve Bannon who has been set up as a false opposition over the past few years.)

USA-China Synergy is the greatest threat to a Bankers’ Dictatorship

The fact is that the vast markets being created by China’s Belt and Road Initiative provide important zones of demand for U.S. production and vital energy for long term big thinking unseen in the USA since the days of John F. Kennedy. China’s leadership in the multipolar alliance alongside Russia has not only created a foundation of serious resistance to the unipolar agenda, but has also re-awoken for the first time in decades, the multipolar foreign policy traditions that were once emblematic of the USA which I’ve written extensively about here and here and here and here.

This obvious synergy between the two “authoritarian” states of Xi’s China and Trump’s USA was, and continues to be, the greatest fear of those technocrats wishing to castrate nation states on the alter of green decarbonization schemes, world government and never-ending asymmetric wars to ensure that such inter-civilizational cooperative projects as the New Silk Road, be sabotaged under “divide and conquer” strategies. Sure these technocrats sometimes speak well of China, but I assure you that the only thing they admire are China’s centralized controls and surveillance infrastructure which they would love to have applied to control those democratically-minded nations of the west that they seek to dominate. Everything that China does that relates to poverty reduction, large scale infrastructure development, promotion of full spectrum economics abroad, win-win diplomacy, sovereign banking controls, mass education, and frontier creative leaps in science are considered deplorable and only worth destroying.

This is what makes the collapse of U.S. patriotic strategic thinking under an “anti-China” worldview so tragic and dangerous. For all of their courageous work exposing the election fraud and the ongoing 4 year coup attempt of Russia Gate, U.S. patriots like Sydney Powell, Michael Flynn and even Trump himself have demonstrated a tendency to fall for lines of simplistic reasoning that attempt to deflect the causal hand of British intelligence, and instead blame a combined assortment of secondary/tertiary reactive players like Iran and China as the ultimate villains of the story.

Perhaps if people would think a little more seriously about the CIA’s creation and protection of such Asian-scientology outfits like Falun Gong whose U.S.-based leader believes he is a messiah and which controls Epoch Times then they would be a little more weary about accepting every piece of information being slipping into their minds like mental trojan horses.

Perhaps these patriots would also recognize that Falun Gong’s expulsion from China in 1997 was due more to the outfit’s role in attempting to lead a color revolution akin to the Russian White Revolution of 2010 and not due to the CPC’s fear of the spread of “compassion, benevolence and kindness”. They might also realize that Soros/CIA Freedom House’s support for Falun Gong dovetails Bannon’s own collaboration with the same organization bringing both apparent “enemies” into direct synergy. Bannon’s calls for “uniting the global Christian right” under his Dignitas Humanitae Institute (connected to the highest echelons of the European black nobility) under a unified front to prepare for war with Chinese civilization and Islam is just a re-packaging of the neocon clash of civilizations doctrine that has played off of Soros’ anti-human brand of globalism for decades.

What is the carry away lesson from all of this?

Love your nation, and if you are American then defend the presidency from the likes of creeps like Soros, Mark Malloch Brown and Bannon. But keep in mind that the causal hand behind the subversion of the republic (or whatever nation state you might live in) is the same hand which desperately seeks to destroy China, and this same hand can only be chopped off once patriotic Americans and patriotic Chinese begin to work together.

The author can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com

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