The Lucis Trust behind Occupy Wall street

The secret financial network behind George Soros by William Engdahl
The reality behind George Soros is something other than his carefully cultivated media image.... George Soros is merely the visible face of a vast and very nasty network of private financial interests, controlled by the leading aristocratic and royal families of Europe. ...


Rather than use the direct powers of state to achieve crucial geopolitical goals, a secret cross-linked vast holding of private financial interests, tied to the old aristocratic oligarchy of Western Europe, was developed. It was in many ways modeled on the 17th-century British or Dutch East India Company models.



According to knowledgeable sources, the center of this Club of the Isles is the financial center of the old British Empire, the City of London. George Soros is a member of what were called in medieval days Hofjuden, or "Court Jews," who were and are run by this powerful, secretive network of aristocratic old families.

... Soros speculates in world financial markets through his secret offshore company, Quantum Fund N.V., a wholly private investment fond called a "hedge fund." ( Hedge funds have been identified by international police agencies as the fastest-growing outlet for illegal money laundering today.)



... Soros's Quantum Fund is registered in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, the Caribbean tax haven - so he avoids paying taxes, and also hides the nature of his investors, and what he does with their money.

By moving his legal headquarters to Curacao, Soros was able to avoid the kind of U.S. government supervision of his financial activities, that any U.S.- based investment fund must agree to, in order to operate. The Netherland Antilles, a possession of the Kingdom of Holland, has repeatedly been cited by the International Task Force on Money Laundering of the OECD as one of the world's most important centers for laundering the illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine and other drug traffic.

Soros has also taken care that none of the 99 individual investors who form his various funds, is an American national. By U.S. securities law, a hedge fund is limited to no more than 99 investors of highly wealthy individuals, so-called "sophisticated investors."



By structuring his investment company as an offshore hedge fund, Soros avoids public scrutiny. Soros himself is not even on the board of Quantum Fund. Instead, for legal reasons, he serves as official "Investment Advisor" to Quantum Fund N.V. through his company, Soros Fund Management, of 888 Seventh Avenue, New York City. If any demand be made of Soros to reveal the details of Quantum Fund, he can claim he is "merely its investment adviser."

... According to knowledgeable U.S. and European investigators, Soros is part of a circle which includes Marc Rich of Zug, Switzerland and Tel Aviv, the indicted metals and commodity speculator and fugitive; Shaul Eisenberg, the secretive Israeli arms and commodities dealer; and "Dirty Rafi" Eytan - both linked to the financial side of the Israeli Mossad, and to the family of Jacob Lord Rothschild.

Understandably, Soros and the Rothschild interests prefer to keep their connection hidden far from public view, so as to obscure the powerful friends Soros can claim in the City of London, the British Foreign Office, Israel, and the U.S. financial establishment.



The myth has therefore been created that Soros is a lone financial investment "genius" who, through sheer personal brilliance in detecting shifts in markets, has become one of the world' s most successful speculators. According to those who know him and have done business with him, Soros never makes a major investment move, whether against the pound or the franc or gold, without sensitive, high-level insider information. On the board of directors of Soros's Quantum Fund N.V. is Richard Katz.



Katz is a Rothschild man who is also on the board of the London N.M. Rothschild & Sons merchant bank, and the head of Rothschild Italia S.p.A. of Milan. Another Rothschild family link to Soros's Quantum Fund is Quantum board member Nils O. Taube. Taube is the partner of the London investment group, St. James Place Capital, whose major partner is Lord Rothschild. The London Times columnist, William Lord Rees-Mogg, is also on the board of Rothschild's St. James Place Capital.

Another member of the board of Soros's Quantum Fund is the head of one of the most controversial Swiss private banks, Edgar de Picciotto, who has been called "one of the cleverest bankers in Geneva," ... De Picciotto is a long-time friend and business associate of Edmund Safra, another Lebanese-born banker who controls the Republic Bank of New York.



Safra's Republic Bank today has been identified in U.S. investigations into Russian organized crime, as the bank involved in transferring billions of U.S. Federal Reserve notes from New York to organized crime-controlled Moscow banks, on behalf of Russian organized crime. As well, Safra is under investigation by U.S. and Swiss authorities for laundering Turkish and Colombian drug money.

...George Soros's relation to the secretive international Rothschild finance circle represents no ordinary or casual banking connection. It goes a long way toward explaining the extraordinary success of a mere private speculator, and Soros's uncanny ability to "gamble right" so many times in such high-risk markets.

Soros has access to the "insider track" in some of the most important government and private channels in the world. Since the Second World War, the legendary Rothschild finance family, at the heart of the financial apparatus of the Club of the Isles, has gone to great lengths to mislead, to create for itself a public aura of insignificance, behind which stands one of the world's most powerful and murkiest financial combinations. The family has spent significant sums cultivating a public image as a family of wealthy but quiet "gentlemen," ...

Among other things, they have wished to become known, since 1948, as being devoted to the cause of the new state of Israel, playing on the world's outrage over the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews during World War II. Indeed, since British Foreign secretary Arthur Balfour wrote his famous November 1917 letter to Lord Rothschild expressing official British government backing for establishment in Palestine of a national homeland for the Jews, the Rothschilds have been intimately involved in the creation of Israel. It is no surprise, therefore, to find that today Soros and Rothschild have ties to Israeli intelligence, as well as to British and American.

But behind their public facade as a family donating money for useful projects such as planting trees in the deserts of Israel, N.M. Rothschild of London is at the center of various intelligence operations ...

N.M. Rothschild is considered by City of London insiders to be one of the most influential components of that part of the British Intelligence establishment tied to the Thatcher "free market" wing of the Tory Party. Rothschild & Sons made huge sums managing for Thatcher the privatization of billions of dollars of British state industry holdings during the 1980s, and today, for John Major's government.



As well, Rothschilds is at the very heart of the world gold trade, being the bank at which, twice daily, the London Gold Fix is struck by a group of the five most influential gold trade banks. Gold forms a major part of the economy of drug dealings globally.

But N.M. Rothschild & Sons is also implicated in some of the filthiest drugs-for-weapons secret intelligence operations. Because it is well-connected to the highest levels of the British Intelligence establishment, Rothschilds managed to evade prominent mention of its complicity in one of the more sordid covert intelligence networks, that of BCCI (Bank of Commerce and Credit International).



Rothschilds was at the heart of the vast international web of money-laundering banks used during the 1970s and 1980s, by Britain's MI-6 and the network of Lt. Col. Oliver North and Vice President George Bush, to finance such projects as the Nicaraguan Contras.

On June 8, 1993, the chairman of the Banking Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, Henry Gonzalez of Texas, made an extraordinary speech in which he charged that the U.S. government, under the Bush and Reagan administrations, had systematically refused to prosecute BCCI, and that the Department of Justice had repeatedly refused to cooperate with Congressional investigations into the BCCI scandal, as well as what Gonzalez said was the intimately related scandal of the Atlanta, Ga. branch of Banca Nationale del Lavoro (BNL), which was alleged to have made billions of dollars in loans from the Bush administration to Saddam Hussein, just prior to the Gulf War of 1 990-91. ...

But, what has never been identified in a single major Western press investigation, was that the Rothschild group tied to George Soros was at the heart of the vast illegal web of BCCI.

... According to these reports, among Soros's silent investors are - as mentioned above - the reclusive fugitive metals and oil trader. Marc Rich, based in Zug, Switzerland, and Israeli arms merchant Shaul Eisenberg, who has been identified as a decades-long member of lsraeli Mossad intelligence, and who functions as a major arms merchant throughout Asia and the Near East.

First the bald faced bit of SOPA apologia posing as moderation plastered to the front page, which assumes that non-commercial infringement demands a legislative response, when the reality is that it is almost impossible to quantify the amount of damage that casual infringement actually causes, and there have been several studies (two examples being Pollara's report that the CRIA commissioned in 2006 and BI Norwegian School of Management's 2009 PTP study) that show that those who pirate the most copyrighted material, also tend to legally consume (purchase) more copyrighted material...

... and now this bit of well poisoning.

If OWS got its way, and America switched to publicly financed elections - what exactly would Soros get out of it? How would he benefit more from the change more than the Americans he's allegedly manipulating? Wouldn't he be making it more difficult for himself to influence politicians or buy legislation?

Reforms such as single payer health care and tax hikes for the wealthy - George Soros being among the ranks of the wealthy - would be more likely to pass in such an environment, and I doubt Soros harbors a masochistic desire to pay more taxes.

Any extension of unemployment or social security benefits would likely do little good for the independently wealthy Soros.

So, what's the angle? What does Soros get out of all this?

Time for some devil's advocacy I guess. Let's see if people can handle reading, understanding, and properly responding to opposing viewpoints:

Paragraph starting with the underlined portion= Short version. tl;dr at the bottom.

Sorry for the poor grammar.

Galactic said: ↑

From reading through this, what I got from it is, OWS, which is a largely left-wing movement, was started and funded by a left-wing organization, an organization which happens to be funded by George Soros, one of the wealthiest men in America and a pretty hardcore liberal.

What exactly is your issue with all of this? Liberals starting liberal causes? If you're telling conservative republicans to avoid the OWS movement... well then... I don't think you had much to worry about.

^_-;

Presumably he considers it notable because one of the major advertising gimmicks of OWS is that it's nonpartisan and doesn't derive its funding from any of the major political machines. Nevermind that it just looks strange when an anti-establishment organization is being funded by the establishment. But hey, people believe weirder things in politics.

The argument here is that it looks shady as fuck when "We are the 99%" is being financially backed by the 1% they claim to want to destroy.

milesokeefe said: ↑

If OWS got its way, and America switched to publicly financed elections - what exactly would Soros get out of it? How would he benefit more from the change more than the Americans he's allegedly manipulating? Wouldn't he be making it more difficult for himself to influence politicians or buy legislation?

More difficult if we presume that people who truly have malcontent toward a country and its citizens are going to especially care about "over the table" rules and regulations. It's the same fallacy that makes us think that a "no guns allowed" rule at a government building is going to stop someone who wants to shoot up the place from doing so. Naturally, people like Soros and co. are commonly believed by the opposite end of the political spectrum to have ill will towards the United States and its citizenry.

The argument here is that such laws will prevent legitimate and transparent political funding, without doing anything to stymie ( and even encourage really ) backroom deals, under the table payoffs and outright fraud.

Reforms such as single payer health care and tax hikes for the wealthy - George Soros being among the ranks of the wealthy - would be more likely to pass in such an environment, and I doubt Soros harbors a masochistic desire to pay more taxes.

Look again at the income brackets that most of these proposed taxes start at. Yes, they'll hurt the pocketbooks of the mega wealthy, but they also target upper-middle class and business owners. Looking past tha at Soros and crew, we have a bunch of people who already have a great deal of personal wealth ( as such, income tax is less significant of a burden for them ) and have the ability to make money outside the country.

The argument here is that these particular taxes will target the modestly wealthy and small to mid sized business owners while the "super rich" that we all love to hate will have access to avenues through which to avoid being seriously harmed by them.

Any extension of unemployment or social security benefits would likely do little good for the independently wealthy Soros.

On a personal level? Not very much. As a political agenda, it helps reinforce the concept of a permanent semi-dependant underclass. Which, again, according to dissenters essentially amounts to a voter buying scheme and an avenue through which to seize more government control of the private sector.

Combined with the bit about taxes above, and it's being used to disseminate a concept that success should be reviled and pit the "low" against the "middle" by having people who desperately need a bit of help just to get through the day and keep their lives in order becaues the greedy rich won't pay them decent wages against people who are sick of the government stealing all their money to pay off freeloaders.

The argument here is that, essentially, several different political agendas are being pushed under false pretenses of compassion for the downtrodden (which honestly just reads like something straight out of The Fountainhead, but whatever)

tl;dr Illuminati up in this shit.

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