War is just a racket. A racket is best
described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of
people. Only a small inside group knows
what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the
expense of the masses…
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag
that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point
out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain
men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big
Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to
adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three
years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's
most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks
from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high
class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In
short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism…
I
helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in
1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank
boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central
American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.
The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the
international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name
before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar
interests in 1916. In China I helped to
see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a
swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel
that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to
operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. ~ Major
General Smedley Butler USMC in his speech delivered in 1933
Amen, General Butler.
War is a racket and if there ever was a shining example of that it is
what is going on in Ukraine. The
Oligarchs in congress are up to their eyeballs in pillaging Ukraine and have
been since the beginning. The hot bed of
corruption known as the United States congress are the enemies of the American
people. They serve only their
bankrolling masters. The real reason
President Trump is being impeached is that he has stumbled onto uncovering the
real perpetrators of the corruption in Ukraine.
From F. William Engdahl at Information Clearing House:
Excerpt:
An American Oligarch‘s Dirty Tale of Corruption
Rarely does the world get a true
look inside the corrupt world of Western
oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their fortunes at
the expense of the public good. The following comes from correspondence of
the Hungarian-born billionaire, now naturalized American speculator, George
Soros.
The hacker group CyberBerkut has
published online letters allegedly
written by Soros that reveal him not only as puppet master of the US-backed
Ukraine regime. They also reveal his machinations with the US Government
and the officials of the European Union in a scheme where, if he succeeds,
he could win billions in the plunder of Ukraine assets. All, of course, would
be at the expense of Ukrainian citizens and of EU taxpayers…
In the longest memo, dated March
15, 2015 and marked “Confidential” Soros outlines a detailed map of actions for
the Ukraine regime. Titled, “A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for
the new Ukraine,” the memo from Soros calls for steps to “restore the
fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement…”
Soros also calls for supplying
lethal arms to Ukraine and secretly training Ukrainian army personnel
in Romania to avoid direct NATO presence in Ukraine…
Naked asset grab
In his March 2015 memo Soros further writes that Ukrainian
President Poroshenko’s “first priority must be to regain control of financial
markets,” which he assures Poroshenko that Soros would be ready to assist
in: “I am ready to call Jack Lew of
the US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement.”
He also calls on the EU to
give Ukraine an annual aid sum of €11 billion via a special EU borrowing
facility. Soros proposes in
effect using the EU’s “AAA” top credit rating to provide a risk insurance for
investment into Ukraine.
Whose risk would the EU insure?
Soros details, “I am prepared to
invest up to €1 billion in Ukrainian businesses. This is likely to attract the
interest of the investment community. As stated above, Ukraine must become an
attractive investment destination.” Not to leave any doubt, Soros continues, “The investments will be for-profit but I
will pledge to contribute the profits to my foundations. This should allay suspicions that I am
advocating policies in search of personal gain. “
For anyone familiar with the
history of the Soros Open Society Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the
world since the late 1980’s, will know that
his supposedly philanthropic “democracy-building” projects in Poland, Russia,
or Ukraine in the 1990’s allowed
Soros the businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries using
Harvard University’s “shock therapy” messiah, and Soros associate, Jeffrey
Sachs, to convince the post-Soviet governments to privatize and open to a
“free market” at once, rather than gradually.
Naftogaz the target
The Soros memo makes clear he has his eyes on the Ukrainian state gas
and energy monopoly, Naftogaz. He writes, “The centerpiece of economic
reforms will be the reorganization of
Naftogaz and the introduction of market
pricing for all forms of energy, replacing hidden subsidies…”
In an earlier letter Soros wrote in December 2014 to both President
Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Soros openly called for his Shock
Therapy: “I want to appeal to you to unite behind the reformers in your
government and give your wholehearted
support to a radical, ‘big bang’ type of approach.
That is to say, administrative controls would be removed
and the economy would move to market prices rapidly rather than gradually…Naftogaz
needs to be reorganized with a big bang replacing the hidden subsidies…”
Splitting Naftogaz into separate companies could allow Soros to take
control of one of the new branches and
essentially privatize its profits. He already suggested that he
indirectly brought in US consulting company, McKinsey*, to advise Naftogaz on the privatization
“big bang.”
The Puppet-Master?
The totality of what is revealed in
the three hacked documents show that
Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most of the strings in Kiev.
Soros Foundation’s Ukraine branch, International Renaissance Foundation (IRF)
has been involved in Ukraine since 1989.
His IRF doled out more than $100
million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall of the Soviet Union,
creating the preconditions for Ukraine’s independence from Russia in 1991. Soros
also admitted to financing the 2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that
brought the current government into power.
Soros’ foundations were also
deeply involved in the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought the corrupt but
pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko
into power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department.
In 2004 just weeks after Soros’
International Renaissance Foundation had succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko
as President of Ukraine, Michael McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post. McFaul, a specialist in organizing color
revolutions, who later became US Ambassador to Russia, revealed:
Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The American agents of influence would
prefer different language to describe their activities — democratic assistance,
democracy promotion, civil society support, etc. — but their work,
however labeled, seeks to influence political change in Ukraine…
Soros shapes ‘New Ukraine’
Today the CyberBerkut hacked papers
show that Soros’ IRF money is behind
creation of a National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential
decree from Poroshenko which allows the Ukrainian president to push bills
through Ukraine’s legislature. Soros writes, “The framework for
bringing the various branches of government together has also emerged.
The National Reform Council (NRC)
brings together the presidential administration, the cabinet of ministers, the
Rada and its committees and civil society. The
International Renaissance Foundation which is the Ukrainian branch of the Soros
Foundations was the sole financial supporter of the NRC until now…”
Soros’ NRC in effect is the vehicle to allow the President to override
parliamentary debate to push through “reforms,” with the declared FIRST
PRIORITY BEING PRIVATIZATION OF NAFTOGAZ
and raising gas prices drastically to Ukrainian industry and households,
something the bankrupt country can hardly afford.
In his letter to Poroshenko and
Yatsenyuk, Soros hints that HE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN SELECTION OF THREE KEY NON-UKRAINIAN MINISTERS—Natalia
Jaresko, an American ex- State Department official as Finance Minister; Aivras
Abromavicius of Lithuania as Economics Minister, and a health minister from
Georgia.
Soros in his December 2014 letter, referring to HIS PROPOSAL FOR A “BIG
BANK” PRIVATIZATION OF NAFTOGAZ AND PRICE RISE, states, “You are fortunate to have appointed three ‘new Ukrainian’ ministers
and several natives (sic) who are committed to this approach.”
Elsewhere Soros speaks about de
facto CREATING THE IMPRESSION within
the EU that the current government of Yatsenyuk is finally CLEANING OUT THE NOTORIOUS CORRUPTION that has dominated every
Kiev regime since 1991. Creating that
temporary reform illusion, he remarks, will convince the EU to cough up the €11
billion annual investment insurance fund…
While saying that it is important
to show Ukraine as a country that is not corrupt, Soros reveals he has little
concern when transparency and proper procedures block his agenda. Talking about HIS PROPOSALS TO REFORM
UKRAINE’S CONSTITUTION TO ENABLE PRIVATIZATIONS and other Soros-friendly moves,
he complains, “The process has been
slowed down by the insistence of the newly elected Rada on proper procedures
and total transparency…”
George Soros, now 84, was born in
Hungary as a Jew, George Sorosz. Soros once boasted in a TV interview that he
posed during the war as a gentile with forged papers, assisting the Horthy government to seize property of other Hungarian
Jews who were being shipped to the Nazi death camps.
Soros told the TV moderator, “There was no sense that I shouldn’t be
there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in
markets–that if I weren’t there–of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would.”
This is the same morality apparently behind Soros’ activities in
Ukraine today. It seems again to matter not to him that the
Ukrainian government he helped bring to power in February 2014 US coup d’etat
is riddled with explicit anti-semites and self-proclaimed neo-Nazis from
the Svoboda Party and Pravy Sektor.
George Soros is clearly a devotee of “public-private-partnership.” Only here THE PUBLIC GETS FLEECED TO
ENRICH PRIVATE INVESTORS LIKE MR. SOROS and friends. Cynically,
Soros signs his Ukraine strategy memo, “George Soros–A self-appointed advocate
of the new Ukraine, March 12, 2015.”
*The consulting company Soros brought in to split up
Noftogaz, McKinsey is the previous employer of Mayor Pete Buttigieg who is
running for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. If Mayor Pete replaces Trump, you can be sure
he won’t be holding up money for lethal weapons for Ukraine.
In the Soros manifesto he talks about investing up to “€1
billion in Ukrainian businesses” to attract the investment community into
Ukraine. But Soros’ intentions aren’t to
benefit the people of Ukraine it is like Smedley Butler said “It is conducted
for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.” Soros’ idea of investing in business in
Ukraine are companies like Bayer, formerly Monsanto. From Stalker Zone 2018:
Excerpt:
Monsanto Brings Its Carcinogenic Production to Ukraine
According to the Ukrainian
president, the country is experiencing
an investment boom, and one piece of proof of this is the opening of a
super-modern seed plant of the German corporation Bayer, which took place
recently in the Zhytomyr region.
However, in reality the “German investor” appeared to be the American
company “Monsanto”, which has a very bad reputation worldwide because of
the use of GMO and cancerogenic herbicides.
“The investment boom happening in Ukraine serves as bright confirmation
of the trust that foreign investors have in our country,” pathosly said
Poroshenko on his Twitter, having illustrated the “investment breakthrough”
with footage of the sorting of corn cobs at the enterprise of the “powerful
European investor”…
These investments confirm the resolute commitment of the Bayer company
to Ukraine. It is planned to expand the activity of the plant and also
deliveries to the foreign markets in the future,” it is said in the press
release of the German company.
However, the investment project,
grandiose by Ukrainian standards, turned out to be not the case when trousers
“turn into elegant shorts”, after all, it became German relatively recently,
namely after Bayer finished the merger
with the American corporation of Monsanto in the summer of last year. Before
this happened, investments were presented as “American”.
“Monsanto in 2018 plans to start a
seed plant in the Zhytomyr region. The new seed plant, which will make
high-quality corn seeds, will be opened in the Zhytomyr region in 2018. The plant will be better than the
equivalent ones in the US,” it was noted in the information in the media
dated 2017.
The American Monsanto’s acquisition by the German Bayer helped to get
rid of the toxic name of the American company in press releases, but it
didn’t change its essence.
Monsanto has tried to expand its activity in Ukraine for a long time. Thus,
the company declared the construction of a plant in 2013 in the Vinnytsia
region with a volume of investment at the level of $140 million. On this
territory it was planned to construct a seed plant, a logistic center, and also
the accompanying infrastructure.
But back then the American company faced the negative reaction of the
public of the city, which opposed the construction of a plant by a
corporation possessing a doubtful reputation around the world.
In particular, in their homeland,
in the US, “Monsanto” is widely known as an “unwanted neighbor”. The
pesticides production plant in Anniston for more than 40 years deliberately
dumped toxic waste into the river that ran through the city, which became the
reason for mass death and disease among residents.
Scientific figures of the region unambiguously spoke against the
construction of the plant too. “The problem is that it isn’t authentically
known what exactly they plan to produce there,” said the professor and head of
the botany, genetics, and physiology of plants department of the Vinnytsia
agricultural university Vasily Mamalyga to the “20 minutes“ publication.
Without having received distinct
explanations from the company concerning the details of the project, Vinnytsia officials were compelled to
refuse to cooperate with “Monsanto”. The tender for the sale of Vinnytsia
land wasn’t completed — all three attempts were unsuccessful.
But the transcontinental giant isn’t used to being refused, and it
decided to transfer construction to another region, namely to the Zhytomyr region,
which was declared already after the “revolution of dignity”…
The arrival of the “powerful investor” consecrated by Poroshenko will
hardly please the inhabitants of Zhytomyr, because near by they received a
rather dubious enterprise.
For example, the London newspaper
“The Telegraph” noted that in 2015 in England and Wales the quantity of new oncological diseases exceeded the number of babies
who were born to first-time mothers. And the largest charitable
organisation Macmillan Cancer Support claimed that every day 980 citizens of
Her Majesty are diagnosed with a malignant tumor. And the most awful thing is that the time will come when, with high
probability, every second English person falls ill with this dreadful disease
during their lifetime.
The carcinogens provoking malignant tumors are numerous, but the most
dangerous source of evil is already known. It is herbicide glyphosate.
Colin Todhunter, the British journalist, sociologist, and leader of the “EAST
BY NORTHWEST” website, directly calls it one of the key reasons for the
beginning of a cancer epidemic.
He is guided by the 19-page report
of the well known ecologist Dr. Rosemary Mason, which includes convincing proof of the slow intoxication
of the inhabitants of Wales by the production of the American company Monsanto,
mainly glyphosate.
But Kiev doesn’t think of this. The
most important thing is that news about investments became the next decoration
on the list of “victories” on Poroshenko’s Twitter. Well, about the fact that “German” investments aren’t German at all,
but very dubious American ones, and only the packaging changed – there is
no need to present this to the local public. Although, it might be possible
to not even hide it. Well, they will “kick up a fuss and then forget about it”
– as one Ukrainian politician put it.
Yep, war is a racket.
Trump is being impeached for holding up the money congress allotted to
fund George Soros’ plunder of Ukraine.
What a racket indeed. Soros
wouldn’t be able to achieve his goals in Ukraine if he hadn’t bought off
powerful members of congress, like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry. The U.S. State Department has Soros’
back.
As the Soros manifesto commands, the U.S. must “create the
impression that the current government is cleaning out the notorious corruption
in Ukraine.” But in fact Biden et al’s cleaning
out corruption was an illusion. From TheHill:
Excerpt:
US Embassy pressed Ukraine to drop probe of George Soros group during
2016 election
While the 2016 presidential race
was raging in America, Ukrainian
prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an
investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as
the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
The focus on AntAC — whose youthful
street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was
part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s
Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight
corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted.
The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing
directly from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, where the Obama administration took the rare step of trying to press the
Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and the
group.
“The investigation into the
Anti-Corruption Action Center (sic), based on the assistance they have received
from us, is similarly misplaced,” then-embassy
Charge d’ Affaires George Kent wrote the prosecutor’s office in April 2016 in a
letter that also argued U.S. officials had no concerns about how the U.S. aid
had been spent.
At the time, the nation’s prosecutor general had just been fired, under pressure
from the United States, and a permanent replacement had not been named.
A few months later, Yuri Lutsenko, widely regarded as a hero in
the West for spending two years in prison after fighting Russian aggression
in his country, was named prosecutor general
and invited to meet new U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
Lutsenko told me he was stunned when the ambassador “gave me a list of
people whom we should not prosecute.” The list included a founder of the
AntAC group and two members of Parliament who vocally supported the group’s anti-corruption
reform agenda, according to a source directly familiar with the meeting.
It turns out the group that Ukrainian law enforcement was probing was
co-funded by the Obama administration and liberal mega-donor George Soros. And it was collaborating with the FBI
agents investigating then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s business
activities with pro-Russian figures in Ukraine.
The implied message to Ukraine’s
prosecutors was clear: Don’t target
AntAC in the middle of an America presidential election in which Soros was
backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, Barack Obama,
Ukrainian officials said.
“We ran right into a buzzsaw and we
got bloodied,” a senior Ukrainian official told me.
Lutsenko suggested the embassy
applied pressure because it did not want Americans to see who was being funded
with its tax dollars. “At the time, Ms.
Ambassador thought our interviews of the Ukrainian citizens, of the Ukrainian
civil servants who were frequent visitors in the U.S. Embassy, could cast a
shadow on that anti-corruption policy,” he said…
In the end, no action was taken
against AntAC and it remains thriving today.
Nonetheless, the anecdote is taking on new significance.
First, it conflicts with the State
Department’s official statement last week after Lutsenko first mentioned the
do-not-prosecute list. The embassy
responded that the claim was a fabrication and a sign that corruption is alive
and well inside Ukraine.
But Kent’s letter unequivocally
shows the embassy did press Ukrainian
prosecutors to back off what normally would be considered an internal law
enforcement matter inside a sovereign country. And more than a half-dozen
U.S. and Ukrainian sources confirmed to me the AntAC case wasn’t the only one in which American officials exerted
pressure on Ukrainian investigators in 2016…
Second, the AntAC anecdote highlights a little-known fact that the
pursuit of foreign corruption has resulted in an unusual alliance between the
U.S. government and a political mega-donor.
After the Obama Justice Department
launched its Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative a decade ago to prosecute
corruption in other countries, the State
Department, Justice Department and FBI outsourced some of its work in Ukraine
to groups funded by Soros.
The Hungarian-American businessman
is one of the largest donors to American liberal causes, a champion of the U.S.
kleptocracy crackdown and a man with
extensive business interests in Ukraine.
One key U.S. partner was AntAC,
which received 59 percent (or $1 million) of its nearly $1.7 million budget
since 2012 from U.S. budgets tied to State and Justice, and nearly $290,000
from Soros’s International Renaissance Foundation, according to the group’s
donor disclosure records.
The U.S.-Soros collaboration was visible in Kiev. Several senior
Department of Justice (DOJ) officials and FBI agents appeared in pictures as
participants or attendees at Soros-sponsored events and conferences. One
attendee was Karen Greenaway, then the FBI supervisor in charge of
international fraud cases and one of the lead agents in the Manafort
investigation in Ukraine. She attended multiple such events and won glowing
praise in a social media post from AntAC’s executive director.
In one event during 2016, Greenaway
and Ambassador Yovanovitch participated alongside AntAC’s executive director,
Daria Kaleniuk, and Lutsenko was present. The message was clear: The embassy supported AntAC.
The FBI confirmed Greenaway’s contacts with the Soros group, saying
they were part of her investigative work: “In furtherance of the FBI’s
mission and in the course of their duties, FBI employees routinely travel and
participated in public forums in an official capacity. At a minimum, all such travel and speaking engagements are authorized
by the employee’s direct supervisor and can receive further authorization
all the way up to the relevant division head, along with an ethics official
determination.”
Greenaway recently retired,
and Soros’s AntAC soon after announced she was joining its supervisory board.
Internal memos from Soros’s umbrella charity organization, Open Society
Foundations, describe a concerted strategy of creating friendships inside key
government agencies such as State, DOJ and the FBI that can be leveraged inside the countries Soros was targeting for
anti-corruption activism…
That same memo shows Soros’s organization wanted to make Ukraine a top
priority, starting in 2014, and planned to use the Anti-Corruption Action
Centre as its lead…
“Ukraine: Behind the scenes advice
and support to Ukrainian partner Anti-Corruption
Action Centre’s efforts to generate corruption litigation in Europe and the
U.S. respecting state assets stolen by senior Ukrainian leaders,” the memo
states.
The memo included a chart of Ukrainians the Soros team wanted
to have pursued, including some with ties to Manafort.
Senior U.S. law enforcement
officials confirmed to me that the early kleptocracy collaborations inside Ukraine led to highly visible U.S. actions against
the oligarch Dmitri Firtash, a major target of the Soros group, and Manafort.
Firtash is now represented by former Hillary Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis and
former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb.
Documents posted online by Open
Society Foundations show that after U.S. officials scored some early successes
in corruption cases in Ukraine, such as asset forfeitures, AntAC requested to receive some of the seized money…
Michael Vachon, a spokesman for Soros, deferred any comment about AntAC to the group.
But he did he confirm his boss supported the continued investigation of Russia
collusion allegations against Trump well past 2016.
Vachon said Soros wrote a sizable check from his personal funds in fall 2017 to a
new group, Democracy Integrity Project, started by a former FBI agent and
Senate staffer Daniel Jones to continue “investigation and research into
foreign interference in American elections and European elections.”
Vachon said the group asked Soros
not to divulge the size of his contribution, and Soros later learned the group hired Fusion GPS, the same firm that was
paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party to create the
infamous “Steele dossier” alleging Trump-Russia collusion…
Yes, war is a racket.
As Smedley Butler said, “It has its "finger men" to point out
enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain
men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss"
Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.” The
American military is used by these racketeers as a “high class muscle- man for
Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, the military are
used as racketeers and gangsters for capitalism.
President Trump has tried to end this situation and that is
why he was impeached by the gangsters for capitalism in the U.S. government. Let’s hope he can stay strong and fight off
the gangsters and racketeers and save America.
Amen
