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US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
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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
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Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
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Showing posts with label Xavier Rolet. Show all posts
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June 14, 2016

History in Brief: Intelligence, Government, Banking, Commerce




British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Bubbles, Speculators, Wars, Deregulation, Financial Conglomerates, Rome, Gods, Imperial Cult, Angels

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
-------/\/\/

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:

  1. Stockholm Stock Exchange (Sweden)
  2. Copenhagen Stock Exchange (Denmark)
  3. 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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDX_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise_%28trading_platform%29

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.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/404501/Open-house-at-palace-of-ill-gotten-gains


Marquess of Cholmondeley
"... descendent of both the Rothschild family and the Sassoon family through his paternal grandmother, Sybil Sassoon." [wikipedia]










Think I like the last one best.