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AND THEN THERE WAS WATER DANGLING FROM A ROPE JUST OUT OF REACH |
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2004-01-12 |
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by Jon Rappaport |
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JANUARY 12, 2004. Ive received much feedback on my weekend piece on the ownership of human genes by pharmaceutical/biotech companies.
The theme of ownership of all the worlds commodities and processes is a fertile one, in that it gives us clues as to the war which is taking place to control everything of material value to people from Nome to Tierra del Fuego to the Cape of Good Hope.
Such as: food, drugs, land, metals, minerals, water.
Water is a very interesting one. It has connections to opium, to a few major corporations, to compliant governments, to the European Union, to hidden elites. And to a company called VIVENDI, the largest water seller on the planet. Yes, that Vivendi, the leader in the entertainment galaxy.
On the planetary chessboard, water is one of those resources that is highly valued by the controllers. How long can a human last without water? Is there any limit to what people will pay or do for it? And for those who cant afford the going rate, is there anything else to call the lack of water except depopulation?
I have written and spoken hundreds of times about contaminated water supplies in the Third World, and the death that ensues from it, and the ease with which that situation could be corrected. But isnt. The World Health Organization has written God knows how many token reports on the need for cleaning up the water, but mysteriously nothing ever gets done on a large scale.
In the Third World, HIV, the virus that doesnt even exist and has never caused any form of human illness (see my archive), is the current cover story for death by contaminated water (and no food). HIV is a terrific smokescreen, and obscures the daily destruction of human life through MAINTAINING the contamination of water.
It would stand to reason that behind this operation, there would be companies and groups whose function is to make great profit from selling drinkable water (for the relatively few), and keeping it from the many who cant pay the price.
The trick is, clean water could be a universally abundant substance in very short order. Desalinizing plants are a reality, and if governments can subsidize oil and nuclear energy to the tune of billions, they can make that processed ocean water affordable to anyone.
But it doesnt happen. What happens instead is the creation of the illusion that good water is scarce, because that drives up the price. Ditto for gold. Ditto for diamonds. Ditto for heroin. Ditto for lots of things. Energy, for example.
Meanwhile, the medical cartel steps in and pretends, with great gaggles of technical language and useless research, that the central illness caused by no water is a really a germ-by-germ proposition. This disease, that disease, a new disease, an old disease, all of which need drugs and vaccines to kill the germs in question. Of course, the germs have nothing to do with it. People are dying because they have no water, or they are drinking filthy water filled with decaying matter and toxic chemicals. The heroic medical interventions are more cover story. More smokescreen.
There is not one human being on the planet who has ever been medically cured of chronic illness stemming from contaminated water. You have to clean up the water. And if you think I know this but no doctor knows it, you are deluding yourself.
Okay. With this prelude in tow, here are several articles on Vivendi and its connections I wrote and posted in the summer of 2002.
MONDAY, JULY 1, 2002 Another staggering corporate giant tries to right its ship. Vivendi.
ADD: The media and water titan has fired its chairman, Jean-Marie Messier. Its stock has tumbled to a 13-year low, reports AP.
ADD: Vivendi is in debt to the tune of $30 billion.
ADD: The French company will appoint an interim chairman, Jean-Rene Fourtou, who is now vice-chairman of Aventis, the pharmaceutical company which was formed out of a merger of Rhone-Poulenc and Hoechst.
ADD: Vivendi is the world's biggest seller of water. It is the number 3 media company in the world. In 2000, it bought Seagram and thereby obtained ownership of Universal Studios and the Universal Music Group. It also bought CANAL, the giant Euro cable-TV corporation. Vivendi, in 2002, purchased USA Networks' entertainment assets.
ADD: Vivendi reported 2001 sales of $35 billion. It employs 290,000 people.
ADD: No Enron or WorldCom-type scandals are being reported, but there are obvious questions. How did Vivendi lose $30 billion? Before its stock collapsed, it was obviously inflating the value of that stock by using it to buy these other companies--"You thought we were big and valuable before? Now we're bigger than big. Look at who we own." Who was promoting Vivendi stock in the run-up to its purchase of these other companies? Who was inflating its value that first time, before the purchase of those other companies inflated it the second time?
ADD: And how did all this promotion of Vicendi stock value take place while the company was piling up increasing debt out of the view of the public?
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2002 I believe it was the French writer, Jean Genet, who said, "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
ADD: When I read that remark many years ago, I thought it was incredibly cynical. I no longer think so. Particularly in an age when corporations and governments conspire to dominate the commercial world. Particularly in an age when, at the highest levels of power, the idea of the free and unfettered market is looked at as a joke, as a piece of trash to send out with the servants.
ADD: Which brings us, again, to the French corporate giant, Vivendi. Today, they suspended stock trading in Vivendi because it was falling like a big stone. In Paris, it was down 25% to a 14-year low. In the US, it dropped 17%. Boom.
ADD: Moody's has downgraded the debt of Vivendi to junk status. If you don't know what that means, think "very risky, maybe worth the paper it's printed on."
ADD: This, for the 3rd biggest entertainment company in the world, for the world's number one seller of water.
ADD: As Jean-Marie Messier flashes a big smile and walks the plank as the soon-to-be-former chairman of the company, the incoming interim chairman, Jean-Rene Forteau, who is a heavy hitter over at Aventis, the drug titan, is asking that his interim period be extended beyond the proposed six months.
ADD: An ominous sign. Yet another marriage of corporate entertainment, media, and medical drugs. Aventis itself is the result of a merger between Rhone Poulenc, one of the eight biggest pesticide companies in the world, and Hoechst, a former cornerstone of the infamous Nazi cartel, IG Farben.
ADD: The French newspaper Le Monde is reporting that Vivendi overstated its 2001 assets by $1.5 billion. If this is true, then you can be sure there are other crimes lurking behind that one.
ADD: Vivendi is in debt to the tune of $30 billion. There is a lot of talk in Paris about splitting up the company into pieces and selling them off. You can also be sure there are some serous wolves drooling at the prospect.
ADD: For some time now, Mr. Messier's stewardship of Vivendi has been under attack by the single biggest shareholder in the corporation: the BRONFMAN family. That ought to ring a few bells. That ought to make one stop and think, "Well, where did all that Vivendi money really come from, if you track it back far enough, if we are talking about the Bronfmans?"
ADD: Think Bronfman, think Seagram, think whiskey, think Canada.
ADD: Yes. Ever hear of something called Seagram chickencock? That's what the Canadian Bronfman gang shipped out of the great north to America during the years 1920-1930. Which included the period of the American experiment with Prohibition. Chickencock was reputed to have killed thousands of Americans, being a mixture of pure alcohol, sulfuric acid, with a little rye thrown in.
ADD: The Bronfman gang was the main supplier to what became American Organized Crime.
ADD: In fact, you might say that 1920-30 was a booze war on America, just as we once had the Opium War on China. And since the Bronfmans were, in reality, agents of England in their good work in Canada, the analogy holds up. The British ran the Opium War.
ADD: In the case of the Booze War, the Bronfmans were agents for the Distillery Company of London. DCL ran more than 50% of the world's scotch. It was owned by Brit aristocrats, with links all the way to the Crown.
ADD: Bronfman sent the liquor to the US, where it was turned over the major American mobster, Arnold Rothstein, the distributor. And oh yes, there were a couple of other US distributors, too. Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano.
ADD: From the classic treatise, Dope, Inc: "As Prohibition came to a close, Bronfman associates traveled to Shanghai and Hong Kong to streamline and expand the drug trade [heroin] into the United States, negotiating with the foremost Chinese drug runners who were not only encouraged but pressured by the British 'business community' to pull together an opium cartel."
ADD: Beginning in the 1930s, Sam Bronfman and other members of his family were transformed into scions of philanthropy, fronting for various charitable organizations. Like drug money, they were laundered.
ADD: In 1969, Sam was tapped by the Queen of England for a singular award: Knight of Grace of the most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Sam's brother Allan and his son Charles were made Knights of Justice in the same Order.
ADD: There is much more to this saga. But it does help answer the question, where did the $$ that represent the largest single shareholding in Vivendi come from, when you peel, with your fingernail, the veneer off that joke called History.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2002 I write and research the daily news, the real news, so I can present the real game behind the fake game.
ADD: So I can connect dots in a pattern that brings an end to illusions. With this in mind, here is big ripping away of a big curtain.
ADD: The stock price of Vivendi dropped another 15% today. Banks who have loaned Vivendi large sums are also watching their own stock prices drop. Vivendi's debt has been downgraded to the lowest level of junk status. But don't feel too sorry for the banks. They'll recover. After all, they're a conduit for arbitrarily printed paper $$.
ADD: Consider that Vivendi is France's largest employer. Now imagine a similar collapse in the US for, say, General Motors.
ADD: And in the US, as WorldCom circles the drain, its corporate spokespeople are saying that the company must be supported because it supplies vital and secure data services to the Dept. of Defense.
ADD: In a sense, WorldCom is part of the government.
ADD: Over the last 20 years or so, we have been fed a great deal of horse manure about the sheer stupidity of the banks which lend money to corporations that are obviously unstable. As if these banks' loan departments are staffed by complete morons.
ADD: I think not. Something else is going on here, and it has to do with giving companies enough rope to hang themselves.
ADD: Long-time financial analyst Richard Bell, a man I've interviewed in the Friday newsletter, offers this cautionary note. "You have to think about what a major bank IS, in the larger scheme of things. The global banking system has a political agenda.
ADD: "That agenda involves shrinking the number of people who control and run the world economy. Once you grasp that, all these bad loans to companies look different. What happens when you lend billions to corporations which are basically unsteady, which are, for example, trying to capture market share in an industry whose real size they can't accurately predict?
ADD: "These corporations use the bank loans to expand their operations. They try to eat more of the pie, and pretty soon they find themselves stretched to the limit, in terms of an available consumer base for their products. And this is just ONE problem they face as they plunge forward with all that new money from their banker friends.
ADD: "Finally, they are not making enough profit to pay back their loans on schedule. They are in trouble. They go bankrupt, or they fire their CEOs. They flail around, and then, in various ways, OTHER PEOPLE are brought in to bail them out.
ADD: "In the long run, these shattering companies fall into the hands of the very people who have the goal of capturing more and more of the global economy. And who helped that process along greatly? The banks who loaned these corporations the money they needed to destroy themselves."
ADD: I would add, look at the overt function of the International Monetary Fund. It seduces nations which are in trouble, it gives them loans. The nations cannot pay back the loans. The IMF offers more loans, with conditions.
ADD: The debtor nation must open up its most precious industries and utilities for "private investment." Read, takeover. By whom? Ultimately, by people who want more control of the entire global economy.
ADD: If such things can happen to nations--and they do happen--then why should we suppose that the situation is any different for corporations that are in trouble? It's the same game, different look. Light-gray suit, dark gray suit. It's still a gray suit.
ADD: THIS IS HOW IT WORKS.
ADD: "Look buddy, sure I'll lend you money. But if you can't pay it back, well, you know who we are. We don't mess around. We'll own you."
ADD: In the corporate world, these banking loan sharks are the grease on the wheels that lead companies down the path to destruction--which means takeover.
ADD: A takeover can go through several stages, with different casts of characters moving in and out. But finally, when the music stops, the heaviest of hitters control those companies. And the hitters are after much more than a few new corporations. They're after the whole pie.
ADD: It's unsightly and uncosmetic and too revealing if lender banks end up owning many of the biggest businesses in the world. Just as it's unsightly if too many people realize that money itself, in the US, is really controlled by a PRIVATE consortium of banks called the Federal Reserve.
ADD: So the banks don't become the boards of the corporations they helped destroy. The bank plays a more secretive role. A role I've just described..
THURSDAY, JULY 4, 2002 I knew there was something else about Vivendi, and it was right in front of me. This is the number-one seller of WATER on the planet.
ADD: A Guardian piece of April 24 opens a new door. The European Union has issued a 1000-page report on its hopeful Third World targets. Nations like Colombia, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Thailand. Nations which are still resisting, still dragging their heels on allowing their WATER UTILITIES COMPANIES TO BE BOUGHT OUT BY FOREIGN INTERESTS.
ADD: This EU report--war plan, actually--was put together by corporate heavy hitters under the name: the European Services Network. The chairman of this group was Andrew Buxton, who is the head of England's Barclays Bank.
ADD: And who is drooling at the water prospects? VIVENDI.
ADD: The EU plan--formulated under the rules of so-called "free trade"--would knock out any possibility that poor nations could tax a Vivendi and use that revenue to pay for getting water to the most desperate communities. The plan would also outlaw attempts to regulate the prices on water.
ADD: Right now, there are 1.3 billion people in the world who have no access to clean water. Contaminated water contributes to the deaths of 12 million children, worldwide, every year.
ADD: So the new EU plan would surely raise those disastrous figures. It's called depopulation.
ADD: The latest news on Vivendi is, it is selling 53 million shares in its division which includes water services, in order to obtain money to pay off a piece of its $30 billion debt.
ADD: This sale of shares, it is said, will put Vivendi in a minority-ownership position in its water-service business.
ADD: So the big question is, who will be the new majority owner, as these plans are being mounted to wreak higher levels of destruction on the Third World? The Bronfmans?
ADD: Is this, in fact, a Trojan Horse operation? How did the Bronfman family become the number one shareholder in Vivendi? Well, Vivendi bought Seagram, a Bronfman company, in order to obtain Universal Pictures and Polygram Records, both of which were owned by Seagram, by the Bronfmans.
ADD: This big purchase by Vivendi was aimed at getting the company into the entertainment business. It did. It also brought along the Bronfmans (whose criminal activities I briefly profiled yesterday).
ADD: Suppose that this new sale of 53 million shares in Vivendi's water operation has opened the way for the Bronfmans to buy in and exert more control over that aspect of the company? In order to spearhead a hoped-for monstrous water monopoly in the Third World.
ADD: Let's back up a bit here. Remember, this new EU report that outlines the plan for genocidal moves in the Third World vis-a-vis water was written by a committee headed by Andrew Buxton, the chief honcho at Barclays Bank. BARCLAYS.
ADD: What group, historically, has had great experience in monopolizing commodities which people desperately want? Well, how about those "warriors" who crafted the infamous Opium Wars against China? Opium is not water, but the same principles of warfare apply. Dominate the commodity, exempt it from taxes, and charge whatever you can get away with.
ADD: It is therefore interesting that Mr. Buxton's bank, Barclays, historically controlled Bank Leumi, which was once chaired by Ernst Japhet of the Charterhouse Japhet family, which made its money in the Opium War.
ADD: Different commodity, same basic strategy.
ADD: There is more. As outlined in Dope, Inc., a British outfit called the Eagle Star Insurance Company was once the major umbrella for street-drug sales, heroin, out of Canada. Through a cut-out, Eagle Star controlled the Trizec Corporations of the BRONFMAN family. The Bronfmans, by many accounts, were star booze and drug runners themselves.
ADD: And Eagle Star was a consortium, one of whose principal partners was BARCLAYS.
ADD: So historically, there is a major connection between the Bronfmans and Barclays. In fact, you could say Barclays controlled the Bronfmans. And now, just by accident, Mr. Buxton, the man who is in charge of crafting this water-domination plan--Mr. Buxton, the head of Barclays--is trying to open the way for Vivendi to play a huge role in that water plan. And Vivendi's number one shareholder is the Bronfmans. HELLO?
ADD: Edgar Bronfman, Jr. is vice-chairman of the board of Vivendi, and Edgar Bronfman, Sr. is a member of that Vivendi board.
ADD: Bronfman. Barclays.
ADD: Traditionally, Barclays has been stacked with men who are members of the Brit Royal Family's most elite order: Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
ADD: In 1969, Sam Bronfman was made a Knight of Grace in that very Order. Well after all, Sam's family had been working for some major British commercial interests in booze/heroin running out of Canada into the US.
ADD: So now is it WATER? Are the Bronfmans going to be the water boys for Barclays and/or other very high-ranking British OPS specialists?
JON RAPPOPORT www.nomorefakenews.com
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