Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY [LINK | Article]
Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
Mansfield Smith-Cumming
adopted 'Cumming' on marriage to: Leslie Marian Valiant-Cumming
heiress of Logie first director of Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)
aka M16
SIS headquarters at 2 Whitehall Court
great-grandson of John Smith director of:
1. South Sea Company
South Sea Bubble - speculation induced
South Sea Company to assume national debt of UK in exchange for lucrative bonds
would reap profit in international trade in: cloth, agricultural goods, slaves
but by 1720 company began to collapse & shares plunged
Robert Walpole nicknamed 'The Screen' or 'Screenmaster-General' 1721 investigation into corruption scandal of UK govt cabinet
implicated:
John Aislabie, Chancellor of the Exchequer - impeached, imprisoned
James Craggs, the Elder (Postmaster General) - disgraced
James Craggs the Younger (Southern Secretary) - disgraced
Lord Stanhope, head Ministry - impeached - got off b/c Wapol influence
Lord Southerland, head Ministry - impeached - got off b/c Wapol influence
1721 left Walpole as the most important figure in the admin
was appointed
- First Lord of the Treasury
- Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Leader of the House of Commons
2. East India Company
son of Abel Smith, Notthingham banker
served Royal Navy:
ops against Malay pirates (1875–6)
in Egypt 1883
unfit for service, seasickness
liked to lie about how he lost his leg
enjoyed shocking by stabbing his artificial limb
Smith-Cumming came to rely heavily on Sidney Reilly (ie. Shlomo Rosenblum), the 'Ace of Spies'
British agent based in St Petersburg
WWI - outbreak
involved in Special Branch arrest of 22 German spies in England
11 German accused executed
Sir Roger Casement found guilty of treason 1916
During WWI
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) offices renamed:
-- MI5 (Security Service) = domestic division
-- M16 - Foreign Division = Secret Intelligence Service
WWI agents for M16
Augustus Agar
Paul Dukes
John Buchanan
Compton Mackenzie
W. Somerset Maugham
M16 motto: 'Every man his own stylo" refers to use of semen as invisible ink
1919 - Home Office Civil Intelligence Directorate
assumes control of MI5
successful WWI MI5/Special Branch partnership disturbed
meanwhile, Sinn Fein and Irish Republican Army launching independence campaigns
1920 - IRA Intel ('the Squad')
IRA Intelligence Chief
General Michael Collins
conducts successful ops to assassinate x14 Smith-Cumming SIS case officers
hasty British withdrawal of most of remaining SIS agents from Ireland
single greatest catastrophe in history of British Secret Service
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South Sea Company
(officially:
The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain
trading to the South Seas
and other parts of America
for the encouragement of fishing
British joint-stock company
f. 1711
public-private partnership
*to consolidate & reduce cost of national debt
granted a monopoly to trade with South America
Spain controlled South America
Britain involved in War of Spanish Succession
company never realised significant profit
expanded its operations dealing in government debt
peaked expansion 1720
company stock rose enormously in value upon expansion
but company collapsed, just over its original flotation price
known as: South Sea Bubble
aka 'speculative bubble', 'speculative mania', 'balloon'
(trade where prices based on implausible view of future trading / returns)
term 'bubble' originated from this 1711-1720 British South Sea Bubble
Bubble Act 1720
forbade creation of joint-stock companies
without royal charter
(promoted by South Sea Company prior its collapse)
Due to share collapse:
national economy greatly reduced
people were ruined
founders engaged in insider trading
using advance knowledge of when national debt was to be consolidated
to make large profits from PURCHASING DEBT IN ADVANCE huge bribes given to politicians to support legislation in parliament
favourable to the government debt dealing scheme of South Sea Company
*company money was used to deal in its own shares
select individuals buying shares were given loans backed by those shares
to spend on buying more shares
public share purchasing encouraged
by expectation of vast wealth from South American trade only significant trade done was in slaves
& even this wasn't managed profitably
politicians disgraced
individuals found to have profited unlawfully from company
had assets confiscated
but most were already wealthy & remained wealthy
South Sea Company
restructured continued to operate for over a century after the Bubble
HQ Threadneedle Street, London 1711-1850s
Threadneedle Street
location of Bank of England
'the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street'
(reserve of UK treasury & others) 5,000 tonnes of gold bars held
Threadneedle Street
to 2004 was location of London Stock Exchange
now: 10 Paternoster Square, London
formerly the 'Royal Exchange'
founded by English financier Thomas Gresham (father silk merchant)
modelled on Antwerp Bourse (stock exchange)
1571 - opened by Elizabeth I
stockbrokers not permitted in Royal Exchange (rude manners)
operated from nearby establishments (eg Jonathan's Coffee House)
Royal Exchange building later destroyed in Great Fire of London
1669 - rebuilt & re-established, as modern model of stock exchange
housed brokers, merchants & merchandise
BIRTH OF THE REGULATED STOCK MARKET
govt levied heavy penalties on those brokering without licence (1697)
fixed number of brokers at 100 (later increased)
led to street trading by disaffected or ejected brokers
'Exchange Alley', or 'Change Alley'
Seven Years' War (1756–1763) trade at Jonathan's coffee house boomed
1773, Jonathan, together with 150 other brokers, formed a club
opened more formal 'Stock Exchange' in Sweeting's Alley
had a set entrance fee, through which traders could enter stock room and trade securities
trading also occurred in the Rotunda of the Bank of England
fraud was also rife
solution: annual fees and turning the Exchange into a Subscription room
1801 - first regulated exchange in London
government used the Exchange's organised market
& may not have managed without it to RAISE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR WARS AGAINST NAPOLEON
Following war, booming world economy
growing market in foreign trade to: Brazil, Peru, Chile
London benefited from international trade Liverpool and Manchester sites of business development
1836 both Liverpool and Manchester Stock Exchanges opened
stocks known to rise up to 30% in a week
stockbroking began to be considered a real profession
but busts followed the booms
eg. 1835 'Spanish panic'
Technology - late 1880s - revolution in work of Exchange:
telephone
ticker tape - digital electronic communication medium
transmitted stock price info over telegraph lines 1870 to 1970
telegraph - long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic messages
like a semaphore / signalling WWI - London financial centre of the world
city & Stock Exchange closed the stock exchange July to New Year
to prevent bank runs
causing re-introduction of street business (challenge system)
1914 and 1918 limitations on business (eg. cash-only transactions)
many quit Stock Exchange
1923 - London Stock Exchange - own coat of arms:
Dictum Meum Pactum [my word] my covenant My Word is My Bond
pre WWII - 1937 London
finance men readied for war
London Stock Exchange officials drew up plans, based on WWI experience
1939 - opening of war, London Stock Exchange closed doors for a week
1940 incendiary bombing struck LSE floor (extinguished)
trading then done mainly on phone, to reduce bodily risks
LSE traded and remained open through WWII
(trading in basement)
1990 IRA bombing
considerate IRA bombers give Reuters warning 30 mins before blast
1986 - 'Big Bang'
SUDDEN DEREGULATION OF FINANCIAL MARKETS IN UK
'Big Bang' describes measures, incl:
-- abolition of fixed commission charges
-- abolition re distinction b/w stockjobbers & stockbrokers
-- change from 'open outcry' to electronic, screen-based trading
1995 - Alternative Investment Market (AIM)
launched to let growing companies expand into international markets
1997 - Electronic Trading Service (SETS) launched
CREST settlement service launched
2000 - London Stock Exchange's shareholders
vote to become public limited company: LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE PLC
Financial Services Authority (FSA)
was a quasi-judicial body
responsible for the regulation of the financial services industry
between 2001 - 2013
2007—2009 credit crisis
FSA was held by some observers to be weak and inactive
permitting irresponsible banking & 'credit crunch'
led to:
shrinking of housing market
increased unemployment esp. financial & building sectors)
public bail-outs
EDX London
derivatives exchange (managed by London Stock Exchange)
absorbed into Turquoise trading platform (2011)
Trading took place on the three Scandinavian linked exchanges:
Stockholm Stock Exchange (Sweden)
Copenhagen Stock Exchange (Denmark)
Oslo Børs (Norway)
*some Russian stocks
2009 - Nasdaq takes over OMX
cooperation between EDX London & OMX terminated
contracts moved to Nasdaq OMX
*only Norwegian derivatives with EDX London
Turquoise (trading platform)
equities trading platform
multi-lateral trading facility (MTF)
dealing services at 50% discount to traditional exchanges
hybrid system: trading both on and off traditional exchanges
advertised as: pan-European platform based on London
set up by consortium of banks:
BNP Paribas
Citi
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
Goldman
Sachs
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
Société Générale
UBS
EuroCCP - provide clearing & settlement services
Sweden's Cinnober = its trading platform
real-time market surveillance system to capture breaches of trading rules etc
2009, London Stock Exchange Group
agrees to take a 60% stake in trading platform Turquoise
Turquoise had 7% share market
subsequent merger with Baikal Global 2014, Turquoise migrated to MillenniumIT platform
expansion: to option & future derivatives, futures contracts
DARK POOL
2016, Turquoise plans to extend dark pool to Czech, Poland, Hungary 'dark pools' are trading venues that allow investors to buy and sell shares anonymously
prices displayed only after a transaction finalised ***do not provide trading information, such as trade sizes and prices, to the public prior to trades taking place
attractive to fund managers who need to conceal trading intentions on large orders
trading across major European dark pools
totalled 79.2 billion euros ($90.33 billion) ONE MONTH
http://www.reuters.com/article/europe-markets-darkpools-idUSL3N18950E
Occupy London
London Stock Exchange, Paternoster Square
initial target of protests 2011
protester attempts to occupy square
defeated by police & the courts
entrance to square sealed off by police as 'private property'
High Court injunction granted ahead of time, prohibiting public access
protestersmoved to St Paul's Cathedral
'Paternoster'
L. 'Our Father'
3. A sequence of words spoken as a prayer or a magic formula.
1. often Paternoster The Lord's Prayer.
2. One of the large beads on a rosary on which the Lord's Prayer is said.
[from Late Latin : Latin pater, father; see pater + Latin noster, our]
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Paternoster
NASDAQ Stock Market
aka NASDAQ
USA stock exchange
second-largest exchange in world by market capitalisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ
LSE Group CEO: Xavier Rolet
b. Aix-les-Bains, France
military parents
raised in Algeria & France
French Air Force Academy
MBA from Columbia Business School
MSc in Management Science and Finance (KEDGE Business School, bus. school France)
post-graduate degree from IHEDN (Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence) in Paris
1984-1994, Rolet worked at Goldman Sachs in New York & London
1994-1996, Credit Suisse First Boston
1997-2000, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
2000–2008, Lehman Brothers, various + Banque Lehman Brothers CEO
2009, London Stock Exchange board - later CEO
under his leadership, LSE acquired:
MillenniumIT 2009
Turquoise 2010
FTSE Group 2011
TRS 20111
Gatelab Srl 2012
EuroTLX Srl 2013
LCH.Clearnet 2013
Bonds.com 2014
Exactpro 2015
XTF 2015
Frank Russell Company 2014
Northwestern Mutual (sold asset management arm 2015)
Xavier Rolet
member PM David Cameron's 'Business Advisory Group'
various other, see link
member Governor of the Bank of England's Financial Services Forum
member Bank of England's Open Forum in Oct 2015, he was (KBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (2015) appointed Echansonnier of Echansonnerie de Châteauneuf-du-Pape (2015)
Knight of the National Order
of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic by Presidential decree (2016)
Legion of Honour
highest French order for military and civil merits established 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte
hilarious: order's motto
"Honneur et Patrie"
("Honour and Fatherland")
French Revolution, all French orders of chivalry were abolished
French Revolution replaced orders of chivalry with Weapons of Honour
Chivalric order - equestrian order, society of knights
Catholic military order of Crusades (circa 1099-1291) founding or inspiration
paired with medieval concepts of chivalry
fall of Acre in 1291 = end of crusades
however, many crusades against Ottoman Empire planed & executed
well into 14th century & 15th century ongoing military effort against Islam
fall of Constantinople 1450s
rise of Ottoman Empire
15th century orders of chivalric dynastic orders of knighthood
became courtly fashion, some purely honorific institutions gave rise to modern 'orders of merit' of states
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalric_order
SWEDEN
Royal Order of the Seraphim
1748, founded by Frederick I of Sweden
Hebrew, pl. 'seraphim' = the burning ones, celestial or heavenly being
in Christianity & Judaism
highest rank in Christian angelic hierarchy
fifth rank in Jewish angelic hierarchy of ten
triple invocation of holiness (formula known as Trisagion)
influenced theology, literature & art
*trisagion = ancient hymn seen in works depicting angels, heaven & apotheosis (to deify, glorification of subject to divine level)
word seraph/seraphim appears three times in the Torah
used to describe a type of celestial being or angel other five uses of the word refer to serpents
heavenly creatures standing nearest to throne of god
also called the Ikisat: serpents, dragons, alternate term for Hell
under the rule of Gabriel
flying elements of the sun
multiple wings and burst into song at sunrise
Kabbalah:
Maimonides placed the seraphs in the fifth of ten ranks of angels
Seraphim = part of angelarchy of modern Orthodox Judaism
Medieval Christian theology, seraphim = caretakers of god's throne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seraph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Order_of_the_Seraphim
Great Chain of Being
Medieval and Renaissance thinkers
humans unique position on 'chain of being'
straddling spiritual & physical
thought ot possess divine powers: reason, love, imagination
like angels, spiritual beings
unlike angels, human souls bound to physical body
subject to passions & physical sensations, just like animals lower on chain of being
angel is only capable of intellectual sin such as pride
(see Lucifer fall from heaven)
humans, however, capable of both intellectual sin & physical sin (eg. gluttony)
humans, sensory: sight, touch, taste, sound, smell - limited by organs
highest ranking human being: king
great chain was seen as a God-given ordering
ranking of world's organisms goes back to Aristotle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
Rome - apotheosis
process where deceased ruler was recognised as having been divine by his successor
by decree of Senate & popular consent (usually)
grovelling to popular former rulers by new rulers
done to legitimise their subsequent rule
upper class did not always take part in imperial cult (subject of satire)
at height of imperial cult, emperor's family, lovers etc deified as well
sometimes temples and columns erected as places of worship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotheosis
LSE launched CURVE GLOBAL
new Futures Exchange co-owned with:
- Barclays Bank
- Bank of America
- Citi
- Goldman Sachs
- Societe Generale
- Chicago Board Options Exchange
2016 - Deutsche Boerse AG to merger with LSE
companies to be bought under new holding co: UK TopCo
HQ in both London & Frankfurt
will create one of the largest exchange companies in the world
combined value: £21bn
terms:
45.6% - LSE shareholders
54.4% - Deutsche Boerse shareholders
Xavier Rolet said LSE & Deutsche Boerse merger:
"creating an industry-defining combination"
merger anticipates savings on combined operation costs: @ about 20%
30% of new group's revenue = from UK
30% of new groups revenue = from Europe
19% of new groups revenue = from USA
06% of new groups revenue = from other
LSE group
owns Milan-based Borsa Italiana
Result: combination of London, Frankfurt and Milan
group better positioned to compete against large US peers
boosting position in China and Asia generally
Donald Brydon (LSE chairman)
will be chair: UK TopCo Carsten Kengeter (Deutsch Boerse chief exec)
will be chief executive: UK TopCo
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
(owns New York Stock Exchange)
considering making offer for LSE
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35818997
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Rolet
Open house at palace of ill-gotten gains
By Clive Aslet
PUBLISHED: 00:01, Mon, Jun 3, 2013
EXTRACTS (not in order)
... Amazingly it’s not only still in private hands (indeed, the Marquess of Cholmondeley actually owns two stately piles, the other being Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire) but like Goodwood, Arundel Castle, Chatsworth and Alnwick Castle, it is firing on all cylinders.
To this day Walpole remains our longest serving prime minister. After the uncertainty and wars that followed James II’s expulsion in 1688, his 20 years in the job – serving from 1721 until 1742 without a break – brought stability and peace. Walpole also steered the country through the Jacobite rebellion and all the anti-Hanoverian plots.
His job of political management was made easier by George I, newly arrived from Hanover and bored by the House of Commons. He delegated to Walpole. Critics accused Walpole of corruption and the evidence of Houghton suggests they had a point. The charitably disposed might say it was not only showcase of great art but a tool of statecraft. It could supposedly accommodate 100 guests at an hour’s notice.
Marquess of Cholmondeley
"... descendent of both the Rothschild family and the Sassoon family through his paternal grandmother, Sybil Sassoon." [wikipedia]
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