News for Immediate Release
11/23/00
Jonathan Levy Thomas Dewey Easton Attorneys
513-528-0586 resistk@yahoo.com  

Vatican Lodges Diplomatic Protest with US government

Alperin v. Vatican Bank, a class action lawsuit by Holocaust survivors seeking restitution from the Vatican Bank and others was the focus of a diplomatic protest by the Vatican Secretariat of State to the United States Ambassador to the Holy See.

In court papers filed last Monday in San Franciscoi Federal Court by the Vatican Bank and only just received by attorneys for plaintiffs, the Vatican Secretariat of State  expresses "surprise and regret" about the lawsuit by Holocaust survivors and asks for intervention by the United States government.

(Copy of document attached)  Email author resistk@yahoo.com to obtain document!

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1. Bilderberg's Magic Wand of Power
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posted at http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#wand

Bilderberg, according to rumour, has an uncanny knack of inviting people who later reach very powerful public positions. Surely another one of those unprovable allegations, that the most powerful people in the world are selected or 'interviewed' for supposedly democraticly elected jobs, including heads of state, at Bilderberg.

Hard evidence of anything to do with Bilderberg policy-wise is almost impossible to get hold of. All venues are swept for bugs (not that we were using any at Genval this June!) and minutes of the steering group are definitely not publicly available.

Nevertheless... circumstancial evidence suggests Bilderberg really do have a magic wand. Take a look at the list of important career moves for the following democratic appointments:

Bill Clinton - Head of State - USA
Attends Bilderberg meeting, Germany, 1991 - gets Presidential Nomination
Aug 1992

Tony Blair - Head of State - UK
Attends Bilderberg meeting, Greece, 1993 - becomes party leader Jul 1994 -
becomes Prime Minister May 1997

Jack Santer - Head of State (sacked for corruption) - Europe
Attends Bilderberg, Germany, 1991 - becomes European President Jan 1995

Romano Prodi - present Head of State - Europe
On Bilderberg Steering Committee mid 1980's, attends Bilderberg meeting,
Portugal, Jun 1999 - sworn in as President of Europe Sep 1999 (term lasts
until Jan 2005)

George Robertson - CEO - NATO
Attends Bilderberg meeting, Scotland, 1998 - sworn in as Secretary General
of NATO Aug 1999

A remarkable series of coincidences.

Why not see if your favourite head of state went to Bilderberg a year or two before an important success in his or her career? Why not search the attendance lists on the Bilderberg meeting pages? http://www.bilderberg.org/1999.htm is a good place to start.

I have not dug deep for this information, a few minutes on the internet is enough to put two and two together here. They, how you say, take the piss! Bon chance!

Do please let me know if you find other Heads of State in the good old free western world world that got one of those magical Bilderberg invites, before they hit the big time.

cheers, Tony

btw - The President of the European Commission is the unelected President of Europe. For those of you that haven't been told yet the European Commission is an unelected cabinet government for a corporate controlled European superstate. This apparatus is looking decidedly fascist in its unaccountable top-down structure with policy being 'suggested' to the Commission by the European Round Table of Industrialists, a group the current Bilderberg Chairman Etienne Davignon helped found. It really is a small world.

Even MEP's will tell you their role is merely to rubber stamp directives issued by the Commission. It is verging on the critical that treaties are not signed and what admittedly imperfect national sovereignty we have left is not ceeded to such an organisation which is being given increasing power without proper accountability.

Democratic Europe yes, Corporate European Superstate no thanks very much.

2. Bilderberg freindly European Commissioner Pascal Lamy outed - GATS - Greens in the European Parliament expose EU Commissioner

Source: Corporate Europe Observatory http://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/igcwatch/igcwatch.html
 
EU tries to take control of trade negotiations
posted at  http://www.bilderberg.org/2000.htm

The talks going on in the European Union, under the heading of the Inter Governmental Conference (IGC) have attracted some attention in the mainstream media, but this has centred on issues such as the expansion to the East.  Little has been said about a far more important issue, the proposed changes to the EU treaty which would mean the European Commission taking over sole charge of trade negotiations. The following letter from Caroline Lucas MEP to the Financial Times explains it.

Dear Sir

The battle over the extension of Qualified Majority Voting, highlighted in your article on the outcome of the informal Biarritz summit (France to issue guide for Nice talks, 16 October 2000), is also at the heart of a further highly controversial battle over who controls EU policies on investment, and on trade in services and intellectual property.

Changes are currently being proposed to Article 133 of the Amsterdam Treaty that would place all international trade issues under EU authority, with individual countries no longer being able to veto proposals.

Such an expansion of the Commission's powers would be a further step away from democratic control over key policy areas.   The power of national veto has long been a safeguard against the Commission's over-zealous deregulation ambitions.  In recent years, for example, it has successfully halted misguided ventures such as Commissioner Brittan's proposal for a EU-US free trade zone by 2010, as well as plans for a Multilateral Agreement on Investment, both of which were vetoed by France.

Far from being a piece of simple "modernisation", as Commissioner Pascal Lamy would have us believe, these latest proposals demonstrate a worrying trend towards the establishment of a US-like "fast track" negotiating mandate for the European Commission in the World Trade Organisation.  

The Commission believes that, without the national veto, decision-making can be speeded up significantly - and naively hopes it could be a way of avoiding the increasing backlash to trade and investment liberalisation. However, what we need is more democracy in this headlong rush to greater globalisation, not less.   Unless the unelected Commission wants Nice to be the natural successor to Seattle and Prague, it should drop these highly undemocratic and damaging proposals now.

Yours sincerely

Dr Caroline Lucas MEP, Green Party Member, Trade Committee, European
Parliament

If you have access to the internet, you can find more information on this important issue on the website of Corporate Europe Observatory at
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/igcwatch/igcwatch.htmlhttp://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/
igcwatch/igcwatch.html.  If you do not have internet access and would like a copy please contact me (see bottom of page).
 
GATS: The new threat

We are on the verge of a breakthrough in public awareness of globalisation, and this is coming just in time, because now the negotiations on services at the WTO have been speeded up, and threaten to bring in many of the aspects of the Multinational Agreement on Investment. 

According to Robert Vastine of the Coalition of Service Industries (the US based lobby group representing services which has been aggressively lobbying for liberalisation of services, with one of its main targets the entry of US firms into European health care!) we are where we were if the Seattle Ministerial meeting of the WTO last year had succeeded in launching a new round of comprehensive trade liberalisation negotiations.  Services negotiations are being seen as the way for the WTO to restore its credibility after the battering it took at Seattle; both the European Commission and the US want to see services liberalisation, in contrast to agriculture (the other main area of current negotiations at the WTO) where arguments over the subsidies to EU farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy make progress less likely.

GATS threatens public services

It is intended to lead ultimately to the commercialisation of all public services,  throughout the world; public funding is a 'trade distorting subsidy' which must be removed by successive re-negotiations of the GATS. And as with Thatcher's government in the 1980s, Blair is now leading the way, with everything from hospitals to prisons to schools being brought under private control, using a variety of methods, from the Public Private Partnerships which are being used to build new schools, prisons, hospitals, waste incinerators etc, to straightforward privatisation of existing prisons, and transfers of council housing stock.  The House of Lords have just voted against the privatisation of Air Traffic Control, which was not in Labour's manifesto, and is not needed for raising public funds.  No other country in the world has privatised its Air Traffic Control system, so why is New Labour doing it now?

GATS threatens ALL government regulations

Commercialisation of public services is not the only threat from the GATS. ALL government regulations, at every level of government, even if they do not discrimate between domestic and foreign firms, could be subjected to a test of 'necessity'.  This would mean they had to be necessary to fulfill an objective the WTO regarded as legitimate, and also that this objective could not be achieved by a measure which was less restrictive of trade. This is a gross intrusion into democratic decision making.

Resources

The World Development Movement are preparing a briefing on GATS, they have also prepared some leaflets on Global Trade Rules in the form of 'cheque books', and a briefing on Debt and Trade ('The Missing Link').  You can obtain them by phoning them free on 0800 328 2153.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have just published an excellent book on GATS, by Scott Sinclair.  You can order it over the internet or read a summary at http://www.policyalternatives.ca/  or contact them at Suite 410, 75 Albert St, Ottawa, ON, K1P 5E7, Canada, tel 001-613-563-1341, fax 001-613-233-1458.  Although written mainly for Canadians, it is also applicable to the rest of the world, since GATS is a global agreement.

Caroline Lucas wrote a report 'Watchful in Seattle' about a year ago, which contains a lot of information on the threats from GATS to public services, and much of it remains relevant today. 

Contact me, Caroiline Lucas MEP, for a copy, or find it on the internet at http://www.greenparty.org.uk/globalisation

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PEPIS #24 - 22Nov00 - The Magic Wand of Power

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THE ISRAELI ARMY CAN'T WIN by Barry Chamish

On Wednesday evening, the Yesha Council will hold a mass rally in downtown Jerusalem under the slogan, "Let The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Win." It's not just an empty slogan, devoid of anything but jingoism, it is also wrong. The IDF can't win because it doesn't want to. But the Yesha Council is far too shallow to understand why.

Two weeks ago, one of the most decorated officers in the history of the IDF visited my home. He wanted the full story of the Rabin assassination and wanted to understand why the IDF was acting in such a cowardly and inefficient manner. He said he was representing a group of officers who demanded answers immediately.

First, I gave him my Rabin murder evidence, which he understood without me having to repeat a point twice. He knew, without question, that Shimon Peres had to have been the organizer of the murder based on what he had seen. It didn't take long for him to grasp that Rabin was desperately trying to get out of the "peace" process and that was the primary motive for his murder. And he concluded on the spot that the Israeli media were actively cooperating in the coverup by creating a false Rabin, one who died at the hands of anti-peace inciters.

And because of that manufactured stigma, the Yesha Council has chosen a non-inflammatory, meaningless slogan. They do not want to be branded "inciters" by utilizing such words as "traitors," or phrases like, "Put The Oslo Criminals On Trial." That, they concluded, after a successful five year media brainwashing, could lead to another political assassination. So the Yesha Council organizers are misleading their followers and allowing them to take the unwarranted blame for Rabin's murder. And that permits Peres and his Shabak partners in murder, to control the high moral ground.

Meanwhile, Israel is aflame and hasn't got long to live.

My visitor noted that the IDF officers who had advanced the farthest, were the most incompetent. And he had witnessed these men in action. "Rabin," he recalled, "was a disaster in the field but he was an excellent administrator who built a superb fighting force. But people like Lipkin-Shahak and Barak were cowardly in battle and rotten administrators. Why were they the ones chosen to force this peace with the PLO on us?"

I took a chance and gave him the full global picture. I began easy with Prof. Uri Milshtein's books on the history of the IDF, proving that from the beginning, the worst, most scandal-ridden officers were advanced and later entered high politics, while it was the most courageous men who remained enmired in the middle ranks.

Then I gave him the deep story and he understood it as quickly as he caught on to the real Rabin assassination. It begins early in the century when some really nasty British and American robber barons were informed of the vast oil wealth beneath the sands of the Middle East. British Petroleum and the Rothschild family felt a Jewish state loyal to Britain would be a stable base to ensure control of the region. A major motivation for World War One was Britain's desire to take over the richest oil fields and for that purpose, diverted over a million badly needed troops from the European front, to drive the Ottomans  out of the land.

So the British, with the great help of their provocateur T.E. Lawrence, armed two Arabian tribes to oust another ally, the Hussein clan from the oil-rich lands of Arabia, and as a sop, moved the Husseins north to Jordan and Iraq to rule foreign, artificially-created nations. Thus, the British won control of the Saudi oil fields through their puppets, the Ibn Saud and Wahabi tribes.

But back in America, a few really nasty families, notably the Rockefellers but later the Bushes, wanted the oil just as badly. So they used their wealth to arm and bribe tribes on the Persian Gulf and thus created their own kingdoms with their personal choice of royalty. While Rockefeller's Standard Oil took control of the Gulf's riches, they spread the wealth to their equally nasty allies, like the Bushes, who created the Kuwaiti oil industry for the Al Sabah tribe.

The British and Rockefeller clan both understood that to maintain control and vastly increase the value of their properties, they needed a powerful political organization behind them. So in 1911, two British imperialists, Cecil Rhodes and Lord Milner founded their Round Table, which by 1920, became the Royal Institute For International Affairs, to protect Anglo Saxon interests. Two years later, the Rockefellers pooled their money with that of the J.P. Morgans and founded the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) for the same purposes, which included the ultimate formation of a one world government run by, guess who, themselves. To promote their cause, they placed their well-paid, unscrupulous adherents in the top levels of government, academia and the media.

The British ruled Palestine the same way they maintained control throughout the empire. They chose the least ethical quislings to run the colonial governments, beginning with David Ben Gurion and Chaim Weizmann. Both did the dirtiest work for the British, including rounding up and imprisoning those Jews who had figured out what was going on, the most famous being Menachem Begin. So with Rothschild money and British support, a Jewish state was aborning.

However, in the early 1930s, the Round Table/CFR  Arab puppets began rebelling against the Jews in their midst and they now had the muscle to influence their masters. You see, the Rockefellers were avoiding paying American taxes by a quirky law they arranged, which replaced American taxes with "allotments" paid to their corrupted oil sheikhs. While Standard Oil was ripping off Americans at the gas lines and funneling billions into its CFR, the sheikhs had the power to blow the whistle on them and end the scam.

Well aware of their precarious position, the Round Table/CFR gang tried to put an end to the emerging Israel by cutting off immigration. The plan was working well, thanks to the cooperation of Ben Gurion at the beginning, but even he woke up to the fact that his bosses were betraying him. And he finally, almost too late, joined in the rebellion against the British, as far as he could go without endangering his own existence. It was a delicate balancing act. He gave as much as he could, which will turn out to be too much, while trying to preserve his nation.

The end of World War 2 brought worldwide guilt-ridden support for the new state of Israel, as well as a doubling of its population. The Arabs felt betrayed and unsuccessfully attacked Israel. After the first failure, the Royal Institute/CFR diplomats promised their sheikhs that they would wear Israel down until it disappeared.

The first step was the corruption of the IDF. Ben Gurion was ordered to advance his weakest officers and prepare them for public service. He realized the longterm plan and as usual, compromised. Thus utterly inappropriate officers like the unabashed antiquities thief Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin, the shooter of the helpless men swimming away from the burning ship, the Altalena, rose to the highest military and political ranks and once there, appointed the same kind of weaklings to further high posts.

These men owed their power to the CFR, which continued to finance and groom their rising careers. It is no different with Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak et al. They were all bought and have debts to repay the CFR. Rabin bravely reneged on his debts and was murdered for it. Barak knows he has to play ball by their rules or he will suffer the same fate.

So he will never let the IDF win and the Yesha Council is deluding its followers.

However, something new is happening in Israel; the middle-level officers are beginning to grumble and plot. I lecture several times a week and at the end of each evening, there are always people with inside information who want to talk to me. One IDF officer told me, "We all know what has to be done. The PA has to be utterly cut off; no power, fuel, food or anything let in until they turn their guns over to us. The world will be riled up to condemn us no matter what we do and its either an embargo or near carpet bombing. Barak has chosen to avenge brutal murders with rocket attacks on empty buildings. That strategy will bleed us to death. If he doesn't act, there may be a rebellion from the middle in the IDF."

And still, believing the IDF is too loyal to rebel, Barak will not upset his masters by actually defending his country. So the Yesha Council is wasting its breath and everybody's time.

If its members really want to preserve their own existences and that of the Jewish State, they would be far better off organizing a massive rally to reinvestigate the Rabin murder. That would be worth a million of their current fruitless demonstrations.

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The updated edition of Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, which names the names, is published in the US by Brookline Books. Write brooklinebks@delphi.com or call 1 800 666BOOK.

The Zionist Book Club is reprinting a Hebrew edition of Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin as well as the author's new book The Last Days Of Israel. Write  perkins@netvision.net.il  or call 02 6712284

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