A retired senior MI6 Executive made a public statement, which was filmed by the INL News Group as part of a 50 year investigation into the influence of Mossad/Israel/MI6/CIA/Five Eyes has on the world's politics, business, banking, finance, media, the police, governments, science and other sections of society.... he stated as a matter of fact, that...
"...no person, organisation or company can not become a billionaire without the approval of.. Mossad/Israel/MI6/CIA/Five Eyes..."
Thus for Hamas and the Heads of Hamas to be billionaires, they have to have been approved by Mossad/Israel/MI6/CIA/Five Eyes..
Mossad/Israel/MI6/CIA/Five Eyes.. created and funded Hamas and its major heads so that they can play the role of an imaginary enemy to Israel and the Israel People... by allowing Hamas Operatives to attack Israel on the 7th October, 2023, and on previous occasions, to give Israel and its IDF Army and air force as excuse to attack Gaza, and completely obliterate 70% plus of the residential homes, schools, universities, hospitals, mosques and other infrastructures and buildings in Gaza, and slaughter and murder over 30,000 innocent Palestinians, which includes over 20,000 of women and children..
The reward given to the heads of Hamas, to pretend to be an imaginary enemy as cruel vicious evil terrorist group to keeps making public statements that "..Hamas (which is simply a business marketing name) is continue to attack Israel and its populations and wipe Israel and its population off the face of the earth..."...is to set up the heads of Hamas and their families to become multi-billionaires so they can live the luxury life in other places, other than Gaza.... the heads of Hamas and their wealth are not in Gaza, and simply pay and influence a few low level Hamas Fighters to appear to be fighting the Israel Defence Force Soldiers ... but the reality the heads of Hamas have handed Gaza and the Palestinian People living in Gaza on a Silver Platter in return for making the heads of Hamas and their families multi-billionaires..
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Top 3 Hamas leaders worth $11 bn, living luxurious life in Qatar: Report
The wealth in the top Hamas leadership is reported to come from various sources including Qatar, which has been allegedly supporting them with financial aid.
While Palestinians in the Gaza Strip scramble for essential needs such as medicine, food and shelter amid the carnage following the October 7 surpise attack on Israel, the top leadership of Hamas is reportedly living a life in opulence in a sanctuary far from Gaza, a coastal Palestinian enclave for which they claim to have been fighting the war. Majority of over 2 million population of Gaza live in dire poverty.
At Al Udeid air base, the US has one of its most important presences in the Middle East. Visitors have included Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in 2021.AP
“Since UNRWA has long insisted it has no political screen on its aid, and since Hamas is viewed as a political party, we know with near certainty that our taxpayer dollars have been delivered into the hands of Hamas,” the FDD said, adding that the Trump administration ended US contributions to UNRWA because of the Hamas connection.
One of the sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh lounges in a luxury hotel suite in Qatar. Haniyeh is worth more than $4 billion.
Hamas leaders live the high life while many of the more than 2 million residents of Gaza City live in abject poverty. EPA
Last month, US Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) called on Bill Gates to ban Hamas from staying at any Four Seasons Hotel, including the one in Doha.AFP via Getty Images
Doha, with its five-star hotels, lavish shopping, arts facilities, and last year the soccer World Cup, offers a lifestyle for Hamas chiefs far removed from the reality of Gaza.moofushi – stock.adobe.com
Hamas leader Khaled Mashal is a table tennis enthusiast. The billionaire lives a life of luxury in Qatar, and also in Turkey, according to reports.
Three of the terror group’s top leaders enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar. Mapcreator.io/OSM.org; AW3D30 (JAXA)
Mashal is one of the $11 billion squad whose lifestyle has been much different from that of the people Hamas rules.
The importance of Qatar is regularly underlined, such as this visit by US Central Command commander Gen. Erik Kurilla to the Qatari armed forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Salem Bin Hamad Al-Nabit, last year. U.S. Central Command
At Al Udeid air base, the US has one of its most important presences in the Middle East. Visitors have included Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in 2021.AP
Hamas leaders worth staggering $11B revel in luxury — while Gaza’s people suffer
During a psychiatric assessment consultation in 2015 Daniel Cregg (58) expressed child abuse views that were a source of concern for his GP.
Daniel Cregg Exposes Irish Independent Newspaper Breaking EU Law
Daniel Cregg (58), of Edenvale Road, Ranelagh, Dublin, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday (WEDS) where he received a two year suspended sentence for possession of child abuse images. PIC: Collins Courts 4/5/22
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“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” -Dietrich Bonhoefferhttp://stopthecrime.net/
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During a psychiatric assessment consultation in 2015 Daniel Cregg (58) expressed child abuse views that were a source of concern for his GP.
Daniel Cregg Exposes Irish Independent Newspaper Breaking EU Law
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Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz talks about viruses and swine flu.Aajonus Vonderplanitz (April 17, 1947 – August 28, 2013) was an American alternative nutritionist and food-rights activist who focused on raw foods, especially meat and dairy. Especially controversial, he conducted legal battles and implemented legal workarounds for consumer access to raw milk, and developed a diet based largely on raw meat, the Primal Diet.[4][5][6][7] Yet his later years, marked by his allegations of conspiracies and by his infighting within the food-rights community, drew him notoriety even among advocates of alternative healthcare and food rights. He claimed hospital diagnosis of cancer soon ruled terminal, but experiencing remission via raw carrot juice and raw dairy by age 21. Later, he began informal nutritional counseling. By age 25, he had adopted raw veganism. Yet at age 29, he added raw meat, which he claimed to vastly improve healing. After publication of his first book, We Want to Live, in 1997, he became a leading alternative nutritionist. In September 1986, at age 39, living in a Beverly Hills “slum” while freelancing in nutrition, Vonderplanitz returned to Cincinnati, Ohio. There, his only child, his son, estranged for about 20 years, had recently been in a severe car wreck, driving, without a seatbelt on, straight into a tree.[29] Vonderplanitz claimed to have sabotaged his son’s conventional medical treatment, in Mercy Hospital‘s intensive-care unit, and used raw foods to awaken and retrieve his comatose son from imminent death, and to reverse his paralysis and brain damage. Ten years after his son’s recovery, Vonderplanitz recounted the tale in his first book, We Want to Live, first published in 1997 and revised in 2005. Upon the 1997 release of Vonderplanitz’s first book, Robert Atkins interviewed him, based by then in Malibu, on Atkins’s nationally syndicated radio show. Vonderplanitz had claimed that his own protocol had cured over 200 clients of cancer.[9] In 2000, Vonderplanitz trademarked the name Primal Diet. Unlike later diets called “primal”,[e] Vonderplanitz’s Primal Diet principally includes raw meat, raw eggs, raw dairy, raw fats, and unheated honey. In 2002, his other book, the Recipe for Living Without Disease, was published. Nearing 2010, he was still claiming over 90% rate of cancer remission among his clients closely heeding it. Despite mainstream dismissal, his Primal Diet gained a sizable following. We Want to Live Written by Aajonus Vonderplantz We Want to Live: Written by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, 1997 Edition, Publisher: Carnelian Pr [Hardcover] This book includes a remedy section listing hundreds of diseases and ailments, with specific foods and combinations of food We Want to Live: The Primal Diet (2005 Expanded Edition) Hardcover – 16 Sept. 2005 by Aajonus Vonderplanitzs that people have used to cure themselves. Listed is everything from beauty tips, the common cold and infant problems, to aging, muscular dystrophy, HIV and cancer. https://www.beyondveg.com/nieft-k/rvw/rvw-we-want-to-live.shtml
We Want to Live
Volume One–Out of the Grips of Disease and Death (the story) & Volume Two–Healthfully (the facts)
by Aajonus Vonderplanitz (1997) Carnelian Bay Castle Press.
As indicated in the subtitle, the book is divided into two parts. The first is the mother of all conversion/testimonial stories (125 pages worth). The second starts with a 5-page intro by Ron Strauss and is followed by an encyclopedic listing of foods and preparations (23 pages), then on to 90 pages of “food remedies,” and then 10 pages of “health methodologies.” (The “We Want to Live” web page contains the table of contents in more detail.) Finally, there are 33 pages of appendices (A-X) which are not labeled by topic but serve largely as extended footnotes of material from the “testimonial” section.Volume One’s “the story” is told as first-person narrative. The present-tense story starts with a phone call notifying Aajonus (pronounced like “homogenous” without the “hum”) that his long-estranged son has been in a severe auto accident and because of extensive head injuries is not expected to survive the next 24 hours. After stocking up on Californian raw honey, butter, papayas, etc., Aajonus flies out to stay with his son. By stealthfully replacing his son’s medications with raw-food recipes (initially a mixture of raw honey and butter placed under his tongue while he is in a coma) eventually the brain damage is miraculously repaired to a large degree. Along the way he battles with the hospital administration and policies. We learn through extensive (and somewhat confusing) flashbacks of his own recovery from cancer and of the recovery of others due to his (mostly) successful nutritional counseling, and even hear about an out-of-body near-death experience (also part of his “conversion”) where the tennis shoes he is wearing melt onto the room’s radiator. We are further privy to his conversion to raw animal foods (he had previously been fruitarian/vegan). After being unsuccessfully coached on the benefits of raw meat by Elk-of-the-Black-Moon (the spirit of Black Elk himself?) at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation vision quest (this bit is confined to an appendix for no apparent reason), it takes a pack of wild coyotes to convert him: He has decided to fast to death in the desert instead of returning to a diseased civilization (fruitarians love stuff like this, no? ???? ) but the coyotes have other plans for him, eventually killing and offering him a rabbit which he eats, and after which, of course, he is reborn. This is just the tip of the story’s iceberg, though. We learn not only about his troubled past and the “mandatory” health problems, but also about his teenage parenthood and “divorce,” and in general of his path from angry youth to health-seeker to “raw is law.” And he usually has some sort of detox going on: a poison mushroom took him many years to completely cure from, and an Electro Dermal Screening Device (whatever that might be) provided him ill-effects, including a most dramatic detox of bone epoxy used on his skull during previous surgery for an injury. The bonding with his estranged son, and his interaction with the hospital staff, family, and friends (including half a “pick-up” story about a woman in a health-food store which he never gets back to and finishes!) make the narrative surprisingly readable. In a Reader’s Digest “Drama in Real Life” sort of way. ???? As I’ve said, this is the mother of all testimonial/conversion stories ever put to print. Vonderplanitz’s new-age sensibilities lead to a high-pitched “Awww, come on!” reaction from a fellow like me, but it is a whale of a tale, and one suspects mostly true, or at least believed so by the author, who indeed makes an endearing and humble-humble narrator on such a journey. (Highlight: getting the yogis all revved up for the “pleasures of the flesh” by feeding them a diet of avos and citrus. “Awww, come on!” ???? ) The section surveying foods, remedies, and therapies is much more troubling, and perhaps ironically much more intriguing to me. I am reminded of Dr. Henry G. Bieler’s Food is Your Best Medicine, Herbert Shelton’s Fasting Can Save Your Life, and most every new-age remedy book I’ve ever seen–all rolled into one, and with a RAF (raw-animal-food) slant to boot! Mr. Vonderplanitz does indeed seem to have a cure/recipe for every affliction from cancer to athlete’s foot, but at the same time he is big on following your intuition/craving/instinct–and that what works for one will not for another. His “theoretical explanations” are at once intriguing and head-slapping. Can you figure out which parts of the examples below are which to this reviewer?
The thought of delicious, heavily buttered garlic bread came to mind. I knew it was instinct, my body telling me what is needed to raise my blood pressure. I went back into my apartment and ate a raw clove of garlic with French bread and lots of unsalted butter. Within moments I felt better, satisfied. I decided from that moment on that at least 70% of my diet would consist of raw foods. (p. 48) Fat resins and residues from cooked or processed green foods first collect in the intestines, becoming impacted. Secondly, they collect as gummy resins in the glands (as in prostatitis, leading to prostate cancer), and thirdly, they collect as gummy resins in the brain (as in Alzheimer’s disease). XXX The resins and residues from cooked or processed red fruits and vegetables most often collect in the lymph and skin, causing acne, sickly-looking tongues, hard and brittle bones, and deep lesions in the skin when the weather turns cold…. XXX People who lack the enzyme-mutations for digesting, assimilating, and utilizing cooked or processed yellow foods most often look pasty around the nose and eyes, and have very slow digestion, especially after eating a cooked or processed yellow or orange food. XXX People who lack enzyme-mutations for eating all three food groups–cooked or processed green, red (including orange) and yellow (including orange)–have a predisposition toward HIV positive.” (pp. 136-137) It is believed that whole raw eggs should not be eaten because albumin in egg white binds with biotin (part of the B-complex) in the body, causing side-effects. Egg yolk contains plenty of biotin to be utilized with albumin in egg white. The albumin/biotin combination is helpful because it helps to dissolve biocarbons and helps muscles retain carbohydrates. Whole raw eggs contain a wonderful, natural balance when eaten in a normal diet (whether the diet is raw or not). XXX In my experience with animals including human, who ate only the yolk and not the white (along with other foods on a raw diet), metabolism was considerably increased, usually withOUT increasing energy. The side-effects were that often hunger increased to a frenzy and dispositions tended to be irritable. It has been my experience in every case and condition that eating the whole raw egg was more nourishing, and better for metabolic and emotional balance. (p. 146)
And so on. His theoretical explanations (a la Bieler’s, and beyond!) seem like wholesale additions to modern nutritional myth and folklore. The lack of references (or intellectual humility, for that matter) severely limits his explanations, to my mind. Yet, given the paucity of info/experience of folks eating RAF over the long term, I am bound by curiosity to his experiences consuming large amounts of RAF, and his “clients” doing the same. For anyone with the slightest interest in RAF, We Want To Live is almost must reading, but I would hope that any reader would be skeptical of the claims and explanations (and further hope that you don’t become a “raw butter mixed with raw honey” junkie!, though there are worse addictions in this world to be sure ???? ). A non-instincto take on RAF is always interesting to someone like me who is steeped in instincto lore. Ronald Schmid’s Native Nutrition is far more informative and well-written, but lacks any of the first-person stuff in We Want To Live. But in such a paltry arena as RAF, beggars can’t be choosers as far as the books they might read. And there are many who prefer the testimonial approach much more than I do. Mr. Vonderplanitz is reportedly a very polished speaker, and with his impressive physique (never works out, of course ???? ) and commanding presence is very persuasive in the few public appearances he has given so far. But, if he expects to be taken at all seriously, he will need to document his claims, be much more specific in his methodology (if there exist any specifics to his methodology), and back way off with his naive “theoretical explanations.” Smooth talk and a likeable presence are probably enough for the uncritical minds of most folks into fringe diets–and Mr. Vonderplanitz is almost assured a small fringe following. But if he hopes to impress the mainstream (or get any attention from serious researchers) with the importance of his approach, he will have to provide documentation along with anecdote. He will have to provide a verifiable methodology as well as a winning smile. For more on Aajonus Vonderplanitz and his approach to eating and health, see the “We Want to Live” website. —This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Recipe for Living Without Disease Written by Aajonus Vonderplantz The Recipe For Living Without Disease contains all of the basic dietary information that has helped thousands improve their health and reverse disease. Indeed it has proved to be a recipe to achieve living without disease The Recipe for Living Without Disease
Wall Street Journal
By Douglas MacMillan and Robert McMillanOctober 8, 2018
Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data. It found no evidence of misuse.
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Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
As part of its response to the incident, the Alphabet Inc. unit on Monday announced a sweeping set of data privacy measures that include permanently shutting down all consumer functionality of Google+. The move effectively puts the final nail in the coffin of a product that was launched in 2011 to challenge Facebook Inc. and is widely seen as one of Google’s biggest failures.
A software glitch in the social site gave outside developers potential access to private Google+ profile data between 2015 and March 2018, when internal investigators discovered and fixed the issue, according to the documents and people briefed on the incident. A memo reviewed by the Journal prepared by Google’s legal and policy staff and shared with senior executives warned that disclosing the incident would likely trigger “immediate regulatory interest” and invite comparisons to Facebook’s leak of user information to data firm Cambridge Analytica.
Chief Executive Sundar Pichai was briefed on the plan not to notify users after an internal committee had reached that decision, the people said.
The closure of Google+ is part of a broader review of privacy practices by Google that has determined the company needs tighter controls on several major products, the people said. In its announcement Monday, the company said it is curtailing the access it gives outside developers to user data on Android smartphones and Gmail.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act”. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Google Advertising Revenue Is Under Major Threat In Australia
Earlier this month a court in Australia reversed a lower court’s decision and ruled that the ads Google allows to run on its search engine are “misleading and deceptive”.
After this ruling by the Federal Court, Google was caught completely off-guard (typical Google arrogance of course) and they definitely were not expecting it to go in that direction. It also extremely worries Google and could set a threatening precedent to their business model. Google is concerned that the Australian court’s decision could be copied by other courts in different countries and it will hurt their bottom line. Google’s ad revenue is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia alone.
Google will fight the court’s decision tooth and nail to avoid this from spreading and to make sure their money-making machine is protected. The company has less than 14 days to appeal the decision to a High Court. What Google is most concerned about is protecting their money and not making sure that their users are protected. This isn’t the first time that the company has gotten themselves in deep trouble over their ad business. The US government forced Google to pay up half a billion dollars for aiding and abetting a con artist commit his crimes (I will post an update story on this soon ,which I forgot to post).
The point is that Google has repeatedly shown that they are willing to accept money from every advertiser, every company, and even criminals if they can get away with it. They obviously have very little ethics and I sure wouldn’t trust them. Be careful clicking on those ads.
This Australian legal battle against Google is a very interesting one to watch. ABC News in Australia did a fantastic report on this story. The video is below and if you want to read the transcript, you can go to their website
Forbes: 6 Months Later and Google Plus Still Sucks
According to a writer for Forbes named Paul Tassi, Google’s latest attempt at social networking is still a failure. Mr. Tassi wrote about his dissatisfaction using Google Plus last year and he received some criticism from loyal diehards of the site – although most people would agree with Mr. Tassi’s observation that the site…well, sucks.
The Wall Street Journal a little while ago published an article claiming that the site is a virtual “ghost town” and users only spent like 3 minutes on the site per month. Of course Google denies this and released vague numbers to contradict any negative publicity.
Anyway, Mr. Tassi gave Google Plus some more time and a second chance to prove itself. He published another article today and he says that Google’s social networking site still doesn’t impress him. He wrote:
“…but I thought now was the time to revisit my thoughts on the site, quite a bit down the road. Over half a year has gone by since then. I’ve posted nearly every day to my G+ page, and have engaged others in conversation about many a topic… I still do not believe Google Plus is the social network it needs to be, nor do I believe it will ever pose a significant threat to Facebook in its current form.”
Mr. Tassi says that none of his friends use Google Plus and don’t seem like they ever will. His friends are using several other social media on the Web, including the red-hot Pinterest which I’m hearing a lot about lately. I think I remember reading someplace that Pinterest is credited for giving websites much of their referral traffic – far exceeding Google Plus.
Mr. Tassi believes that Google Plus appeals to a “niche community” of tech geeks and people who are in certain industries that find the site useful in connecting with the general public versus connecting with friends. Google Plus isn’t really a place you go if you want to connect with your close friends. He says that Google Plus is full of strangers who don’t comment much or engage with the site often. So even though he believes Google Plus isn’t necessarily a “ghost town” based on how you look at the numbers, it sure does give off the feeling that it’s empty and cold.
I have posted an article on my blog calling Google Plus “pretentious” once. I actually think Google sells its social networking site as being a high-brow version of Facebook – as if Facebook is that place common folks exchange frivolous things with one another while Google Plus folks share more meaningful material. It’s typical Google arrogance.
Google’s social networking site does not look like it will get any better any time soon or ever. It’s been around for a long time now and the company has huge expectations for the site. Google desperately wants to see its struggling social networking site grow and become a success, there is a lot weighing on it. Yet even with so much invested in the site, Google cannot seem to win.
To read Paul Tassi’s full article, please click here
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Victim Of Brutal Beating Says She Is “Afraid” of Google Executive’s Family.
There is disturbing bombshell news that has been exposed the other day and it involves a major employee of Google. Marissa Mayer has been with Google since the very early days of the company, she is often said to be the 20th employee of Google. As one of the very first employees of Google, Marissa knows a lot about Google and she is deeply embedded in this company. Her current job title is Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location services.
Marissa became a very wealthy woman after Google became a public company in 2004. She is often seen as the public face of Google itself. You see her everywhere doing all sorts of different interviews with newspapers and even on television programs like the Martha Stewart Show. She has become somewhat of a celebrity and a spokeswoman for Google. The company uses her bright smile and photogenic looks to give itself an attractive public image.
However, Google might want to keep Marissa out of the spotlight for awhile – perhaps never again. The innocent looking and charming woman Google used as the public face of the company is part of a family that isn’t so attractive.
Now, I have written here before that this blog doesn’t focus on tabloid topics or personal issues, but this particular case involving the Mayer family is different. I don’t like gossipy, irrelevant, and frivolous stuff – but I will focus on criminal activity that has strong connections to Google.
The younger brother of Marissa, Mason Mayer, has been accused of three felonies: assault, false imprisonment and domestic violence. He allegedly brutally beat his girlfriend, Kelli Ann Trent, after a night out back in September 2011. We are learning about this now because The San Francisco Appeal newspaper investigated this case and published their findings yesterday.
Alright – so here’s what happened, according to court documents obtained by the newspaper. An affidavit submitted by San Francisco Police Department Inspector Michael Becker, details exactly what allegedly happened between Mason Mayer and his girlfriend:
On the evening of September 24, Mason and Kelli were getting ready to go to a party. They were at Mason’s condo residence at the time. Prior to the leaving to go to the party, they had an argument over a woman – who Mason allegedly cheated with – attending the party too.
The couple went to the party but there was still tension between them. According to the court document, Mason angrily accused a bartender of hitting on his girlfriend. He also became angry at Kelli Ann Trent for speaking with Marissa Mayer’s husband. Mason apparently “dislikes” his brother-in-law for some reason.
The couple left the party and went back home to Mason’s condo residence. While walking through the building hallway, Mason shoved Kelli. He then took her inside the residence, locked her in his bedroom, and then threw Kelli on the floor of the bedroom.
Mason began spitting in the face of his girlfriend, pulling her hair out, and he slammed her head against the marble bedroom floor. Kelli was in agony and in the fetal position trying to protect herself. Mason repeatedly punched her in the face, while Kelli struggled to get away. He told her that the only way she was going to get out of the beating was by driving her to the Golden Gate Bridge and throwing her off it.
Luckily for Kelli, before things could get any worse, Mason’s cell phone started ringing. It was a friend of the couple who was calling to ask to pick up his personal items from the condo. While on the phone, Kelli screamed for help.
The friend eventually arrived at the condo residence and Mason answered the front door to let him in. Kelli ran out of the bedroom hysterical and crying out for help. Mason grabbed her and wouldn’t let her go. The friend asked Mason to let her go but he refused. The friend said that he would call the police if he didn’t let her go. After Mason finally agreed to let Kelli go, she went back into the bedroom to retrieve her bag.
But Mason followed her back into the bedroom and locked the door shut again. The friend decided to stay the night at the condo to make sure nothing bad happened. The next morning, Kelli got up and she noticed all the injuries to her body.
Kelli eventually went to the police to report what happened to her. The 33-year-old Mason Mayer was arrested by police on November 28, 2011. In January a judge ordered Mason to stay away from Kelli. He has pleaded not guilty – but if found guilty he faces a maximum four years and eight months in state prison. Mason Mayer has a pretrial conference in a Superior Court on April 18th, 2012.
This is all so disturbing and vile. I need a shower after reading the court documents and seeing the injuries on the alleged victim. Mason Mayer is apparently very close to his famous sister and lives off her success. According to The San Francisco Appeal newspaper, Mason lives in the same luxury building as his sister and he was never worked since his sister struck it rich working at Google.
Just keep this in mind: these are the type of people you entrust your personal information with when you use Google. I certainly wouldn’t want people like Mason Mayer and his executive sister anywhere near my personal data. Knowing about the ethics and morals of the people who handle very sensitive data about you is so important.
If I don’t trust you, I will not do business with you – ever.
UPDATE:
I wrote another article on this story with more details – clickhere
For more information:
The Francisco Appeal, “Brother of Google Executive Marissa Mayer Facing Charges…” – click here
Federal Agency Fines Google $25,000 “Deliberately” Impeding Investigation
It was reported yesterday that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined Google $25,000 for not cooperating with an investigation over Google’s massive invasion of privacy involving its Street View service.
The FCC said that Google “deliberately impeded and delayed” its investigation. Google made it very difficult for investigators to gain access to employees and hid important evidence. Google did not answer emails and the company even tried to hide the identities of the employees involved in the privacy violations from two years ago.
In 2010, Google’s Street View cars collected very private information from unencrypted home computers. When Google was caught doing this it apologized and said that it didn’t deliberately try to capture private data. Soon after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated and sided with Google’s explanation that it was a mistake. Although the US didn’t take the massive privacy violation seriously, European countries were more concerned.
Now the FCC has come out and exposed Google’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation. This is really embarrassing for a company that claims it’s so transparent about everything it does and is cooperative with regulators. This is not the first regulators have complained about Google’s secrecy, arrogance, and unwillingness to cooperate with investigations. The French data protection agency currently investigating Google’s new privacy policy said that Google neglected to contact them before implementing their controversial and intrusive privacy policy.
The $25,000 Google is now forced to pay will do nothing to the company’s bottom line. Google raked in about $40 billion last year. Over 90% of Google’s revenues come from advertising – this means that Google makes money by selling your personal data to advertisers. This is the reason Google consolidated their privacy policies into a singular policy – it makes it easier for the company to figure you out and it’s more profitable. A Google spokesman said that the company is on a mission to combat against “the faceless Web”.
Google paying a $25,000 fine is like an average person paying a one cent fine – but don’t get too hung up on the amount of that fine. The biggest hit Google received from this new report by the FCC is its reputation. Most people think way too highly of this company and if more reports like this come out to expose Google’s dirt then the better it will be for the general public.
I love what Christina DesMarais, PCWorld, wrote in her article:
“…if Google’s uncooperative behavior is true as the FCC maintains, the obvious question is, ‘What is Google hiding?’ Consumers and advocacy groups have often criticized Google’s seemingly insatiable appetite for personal information, such as its recent consolidation of its privacy policies so as to have a better view into user behaviors and preferences. Because of the amount of attention those privacy concerns have garnered, you’d think a policy of transparency on Google’s part would bode well with those who have doubts about whether or not the company can be trusted with increasing amounts of personal data.”
Things that make you go hmmm…
For more information:
The New York Times, “Google Is Faulted for Impeding U.S. Inquiry on Data Collection” – click here
PCWorld, “Google Hit With $25K Fine, But FCC Finds Street View Data Collection Not Illegal” – click here
CNET, “FCC nails Google with $25K fine for dragging heels in StreetView probe” – click here
Three years ago, The New York Times published an article titled “Putting a Bolder Face on Google” and it’s a fantastic read. It focuses on Marissa and really let’s you know more about her character. Here are some interesting quotes about her in the article:
“Mayer, who is Google Employee No. 20…A popular guest on TV news programs and talk shows, a Google-booster often quoted in print, and a rapid-fire presence on San Francisco’s social scene, she is the rare executive who has become — at least in the sometimes cloistered world of computer geeks — a celebrity”
“Ms. Mayer, 33, plays a pivotal, serious role at Google…She is one of the few Googlers with unfettered access to and influence over Mr. Brin and Mr. Page”
A 2009 Gawker.com article described her as “the best known Google executive outside the search engine’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, and its billionaire founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin”
Ms. Mayer has even dated the current Google CEO Larry Page at one point. This is a woman very much part of the identity of Google and a recognizable face of the company.
I’m leaving you a video of her on the Martha Stewart show
Embarrassing Apples Is Responsible For The Vast Majority of Google’s Mobile Revenue
There are new revelations about the health of Google’s mobile business and it looks like Google is in really bad shape. Thanks to documents submitted in the legal battle between Google and Oracle over patents, the public gets a new look at exactly how well Google’s Android is performing.
Google is secretive about letting the public know about how much revenue Android brings in – but now we know that Android actually doesn’t make much money for Google at all. Google’s overall 2011 revenues totaled about $40 billion and much of that is from ads from search results on desktop computers. Very little of Google’s overall revenues is from mobile.
According to The Guardian, Android generated less than $550 million between 2008 and 2011 – pitiful. Google produces the Android software which it then gives away for free to handset makers to sell. Google makes its money from ad revenue on the mobile devices and from applications on Google Play (formerly known as Android Market), which is doing extremely poorly compared to Apple’s App store.
Here is where it gets particularly interesting – Google actually makes more money from Apple’s mobile devices than it does from its own Android powered smartphones! Now isn’t that hilarious, ha-ha, especially considering the recent bad blood between Google and Apple.
Apple is responsible for generating more than four times as much revenue for Google! This is because at least half of all smartphone owners use an Apple device and Google is the default search engine. Apple also extensively used Google Maps – but as recently told Google to get lost and is now using a mixture of its own acquired mapping technology and free crowdsourced mapping.
Who knew that Apple had such a big role in Google’s mobile business?
Majority of Google’s mobile traffic can be credited to Apple. Google should be grateful to Apple for being so helpful, but Google treats Apple like crap. Google expressed its gratitude to Apple by trying to impose itself into Apple’s territory, which infuriated Apple.
What did Apple do as payback?
Apple no longer extensively uses Google Maps, Apple added other search engines as alternative options to Google’s, and Apple appears to be ditching Google altogether in China (a huge and attractive market). And we all know about how Apple set its Safari Web browser default to automatically block third-party tracking cookies – however, it was exposed last month that Google illegally circumvented this security feature, but is now facing countless lawsuits from Apple users.
Psst…hey Google…don’t bite that hand that feeds you.
For more information:
The Guardian, “Google’s Android has generated just $550m since 2008, figures suggest” – click here
I have made the claim that the media doesn’t give Google enough scrutiny and that the company often gets underserved favorable press. This is a major reason I started this blog in the first place, so that the average person out there can see what Google is really all about.
I remember seeing articles recently claiming that Google currently has the best reputation among any company in America. This is very disturbing considering all the sordid details I have been posting about Google’s lack of privacy, their pitiful ethics, their lies, the incessant lawsuits, and even criminal investigations. It’s disappointing and saddening that so many Americans put so much trust in this company – it just leaves me shaking my head and I think to myself “if only they knew better”.
I came across three really great articles comparing Google to Microsoft. I want to share these articles with you, but please don’t view this as me trying to sell Microsoft to you. I’m just using the articles to illustrate media bias and to show you how much Google has changed over the years.
The article published by InfoWorld’s J. Peter Bruzzese is excellent and lays out evidence to argue that the media unfairly bashes Microsoft way too often while Google’s errors are conveniently overlooked. He writes,
“I’ve noticed an unfair, ongoing trend: If Microsoft does something a little off, it gets bashed into the ground for it. But if Google… missteps, it generally gets mild reprimands and even support from the media and those drinking the Kool-Aid.”
Ever since I started this blog earlier this year I have been reading about the comparisons people are making between Microsoft and Google. These comparisons argue that Google has really changed for the worse over the years. As some of you probably already know, Google’s infamous unofficial motto is “don’t be evil”. In the early idealistic days of Google the company didn’t want to be like other established tech giants (i.e. Microsoft) because they perceived them as representing negativity and as being old-fashioned. But now people are starting to notice that little ol’ Google ain’t all that different from Microsoft – actually, some argue, that Google is worse now.
The article published by Forbes gives you 7 similarities between Google and Microsoft – perhaps now the pot should stop calling the kettle black– to read the Forbes article, please click here.
Finally, a very interesting article appeared on The Daily Beast website by Dan Lyons. The author spent 30 days using nothing but Microsoft products to compare it with Google’s products. He wanted to see if Microsoft can win him over and if Google’s products are really worth keeping. To find out what he concluded you gotta read the full article for yourself – click here
Google is currently enjoying much of the general public’s trust– but what is most hopeful is that this is slowly changing. As more people become knowledgeable and fed-up with Google’s antics, their arrogance, their invasion on our privacy, and other wrongdoings we will finally see Google fall off its throne. As any good business person will tell you, the most important thing in business is rightfully earning the trust and admiration of the public – once you lose this you’ve lost everything.
MARISSA MAYER IS NOMINATED TO SERVE ON WALMART’S BOARD
Google’s top woman has been nominated to serve on the board of Walmart. The massive retailer corporation made the announcement today that Marissa Mayer could potentially take the board’s 16th spot.
And yes, it’s that same Marissa Mayer…you know…the same high-profile Google executive whose brother allegedly brutally beat up his girlfriend and threatened to throw her off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge…
At only 36, Ms. Mayer will be the youngest person on the board if elected at the company’s shareholder’s meeting on June 1st. I was reading through different articles about her nomination to board, many questioned whether she is the right fit for the company’s board. She doesn’t really have much experience outside of Google, if any at all. She was hired at Google straight out of graduate school in 1999 and shuffled around at that Google ever since.
Is she a one-hit wonder? Can her leadership skills at Google translate over to other companies that operate in a completely different way? Walmart seems to think that she can be useful in helping them with their online services. Google benefits from learning about how a retail giant does business.
Anyway, it’s interesting news and I thought it is worth posting. She said this in a statement:
“I have long been a customer and admirer of the company. Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world’s most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day. I look forward to contributing to Walmart’s continued growth, success, and innovation in the years to come”
And according to Forbes, she also serves on the boards of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Ballet, the New York City Ballet and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
For more information:
The Register, “Google’s top female cheese nominated to serve on Walmart board” – click here
Wall Street Journal, “Wal-Mart Taps Google’s Marissa Mayer for Board Seat” – click here
Forbes, “Wal-Mart Names Google’s Marissa Mayer To Its Board” – click here
Google Executive’s Family Allegedly Made Life Of Abuse Victim A Living Nightmare.
Last month I published an article titled “Victim of Brutal Beating Says She’s ‘Afraid’ of Google Executive’s Family”. It was one of the most read and commented on posts I’ve published on my blog. I received great feedback and the vast majority of readers appreciate knowing about this disturbing story involving a major Google executive’s family. If you haven’t already read that article please do so before reading this one – click here
After I posted my article I received an email from a person who said they wanted to set the record straight about what happened to Mason Mayer’s alleged victim, Kelli Trent. This person told me that they were troubled by false information being spread around and asked for my assistance in having Kelli’s side of the story told.
This person told me lots of information about the Mayer family and the dysfunctional relationship between Mason Mayer and Kelli Trent. This person has politely asked that I not reveal their identity and so I have decided to respect their privacy. I will simply refer to this person as my “source” from this point on.
The information my source revealed to me is disturbing, to say the least. It will give you a greater sense of what happened before the night of the alleged abuse and what took place after that night.
Kelli Trent is an intelligent and hardworking young woman. She moved to San Francisco back in 2005 after completing college and has been consistently employed ever since. Her friends describe her as being very generous and she always tries to help out any way she could. My source wanted to point out that Kelli comes from “a decent amount of wealth herself” and that she often pays for the needs of loved ones without hesitation. She has held some jobs in banking and she even recently tried her hand in a startup company.
Kelli and Mason met back in early February 2011 on his birthday and they started dating immediately after that. Their relationship was very brief but even in that short time it was plagued with serious problems. My source alleges that Mason had been controlling and abusive toward Kelli on numerous occasions.
Mason had not lived in San Francisco for that long. He moved from Minneapolis in the fall of 2010 after his famous sister, Google executive Marissa Mayer, allowed him to live in her penthouse condo. My source alleges that the reason behind Mason’s move is due to him getting in legal trouble in Minneapolis after abusing a “rebound” girlfriend. Marissa apparently wanted to keep him away from “psycho girls” and moved him close to her. Mason and his ex-wife, Kara Mayer, divorced in July 2010.
After he moved to San Francisco and started dating Kelli everything was fine for the first few months. My source alleges that the abuse on Kelli actually began in May after she wanted to leave the relationship. The source showed me a photo of Kelli taken in May with a badly bruised inner arm. The source also alleges that a few days before the night of September 24th Kelli and Mason were at a gym and he didn’t like the way she was interacting with men. He allegedly threw her belongings around and got physically aggressive with her.
Finally the abuse escalated to what took place on night of September 24th. Kelli not only suffered physical injuries but she also sustained a concussion, was disoriented, and had fainting spells. After this incident, she took photographs of her injuries and sent them to Mason’s parents and Marissa was soon notified. My source claims that Kelli was shown little respect by the Mayer family and that they never asked if she was okay. Kelli demanded that Mason get help and the Mayer family came up with Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and therapy sessions – which Mason began two days after the family was notified.
The source claims that Kelli was never offered any financial assistance for her medical needs or for her therapy sessions, which she was badly in need of. Kelli pretty much had to suffer alone and isolated herself in the apartment she shared with a roommate. She didn’t go out much since the beating and only confided in a few close friends.
The source says that soon after, in early October, the Mayer family booked Mason a trip on a European holiday for two weeks, which Kelli took as being insensitive and an insult to her. The source says that the Mayer family neglected to understand the magnitude of the problems between Kelli and Mason. The family also didn’t hold Mason accountable for anything. This is when Kelli was starting to realize that she wanted out of the relationship and was pretty much done protecting the Mayer family.
Sadly, while the Mayer family was off on their European holiday, Kelli’s grandmother passed away. After hearing about her loss, she left to go to Tennessee to be with her family. While with her family, the source claims that Mason phone called Kelli and told her that she was not invited to the Mayer family pumpkin carving party. Marissa allegedly did not want Kelli at the party, which Kelli took as a slap in the face. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back and Kelli finally knew she was done with the relationship with Mason and done with the Mayer family.
Kelli came back to San Francisco on October 30th and Mason was at the airport to pick her up. This is when Kelli broke up with him. The source alleges that Mason was infuriated by this and showed up later in the day to Kelli’s apartment threatening to release nude photos of her and allegedly vowed to smear her reputation. Mason then took the witness of the September 24th beating to the family party.
On November 11th Kelli went to the police to report everything that happened to her. Keep in mind that Kelli and Mason were not together often since the night of September 24th and up until the day she finally reported the alleged abuse to the police. My source says that it took Kelli awhile to come to the realization that she desperately needed to leave the relationship for good. This is consistent with many victims of domestic abuse who feel like they can change their partner’s ways if they just stay in long enough and are often too afraid to leave.
Soon after a warrant was issued while Mason and the rest of the Mayer family were on their annual Thanksgiving holiday in Hawaii.
The source claims that this is when the campaign to discredit Kelli began and her reputation was torn to pieces. Kelli had her life investigated as Mason’s legal team started subpoenaing texts messages, called her former employers, contacted her ex-boyfriends, etc. The source claims that Kelli depends on a good reputation to secure jobs but obtaining employment in her field has become nearly impossible and that her life is in shatters.
The source described to me one incident in January when Kelli was asked to interview at a company event hosted at Founders Den – this is the workplace of Marissa Mayer’s husband, Zack Bogue. Kelli was in the middle of an interview at the event when suddenly Zack allegedly tapped Kelli on the shoulder and loudly told her to get out. Needless to say, Kelli was thoroughly shaken and embarrassed. She promptly left without finishing her interview. My source points out that Kelli had a stay-away order at the time which specified that any third parties related to Mason are not allowed to directly contact Kelli in any way, “so Zack had no right to speak to her that night”.
Kelli has now left San Francisco. This is a woman who depended on her networking capabilities to get jobs but life is harder for her now. The source says that Kelli never wanted to have all this trouble surrounding her – Kelli fell into a brief and tumultuous relationship with Mason which is a mistake she thoroughly regrets.
While Kelli has been suffering for the past 6 months – Mason has gone on holidays and he’s attended several San Francisco society events (thanks to his sister Marissa) such as the opening of a ballet and a Midwinter Gala. The source claims that Mason owns shares in Google, gifted to him by Marissa, and was invited to an exclusive Google company event featuring Lady Gaga back in March 2011. My source finds it revolting that Mason was being “flaunted” around by his family even after they knew what he did to Kelli.
Kelli has not retained a lawyer and is being represented by a District Attorney. The pretrial conference had been postponed three times since January and is now scheduled for April 18th – if found guilty Mason faces a maximum of four years and eight months in state prison.
Disclaimer: Everything in this post should not be taken as fact. They’re allegations described to me by the source and it’s from their point of view of what occurred. There are many sides to everything and this is just one. If there are any issues you have with anything written in this post please email me.
Eric Hague is a humor writer – a funny letter he wrote pretending to be a member of Google’s privacy team was published by The Wall Street Journal today.
Google seems to think it knows what is best for us, knows everything about us, and is smarter than us – the amusing piece by Mr. Hague has a little fun with all that.
Apple Makes Business More Difficult For Google in China
It is being reported that Apple will be ditching Google in China and replacing it with Baidu as the default search engine. Baidu is the dominant search engine provider in China with a market share estimated at 78%, while Google doesn’t even come close to that number.
Apple’s new operating system will integrate various popular Chinese Internet services – this will make it more attractive for consumers. This will further weaken Google in China, which is a huge loss for the company because the Chinese market is a very attractive one. Apple is making it even more difficult for Google to get its foot in the door. Apple also plans to ditch Google as the default search engine on mobile devices in China.
Recently, it was also reported that Apple ditched Google Maps and is now using a free crowdsourcing mapping service for its mobile devices. It looks like the battle between Apple and Google is getting even more intense and Google is losing.
For more information:
ITProPortal, “Apple To Replace Google With Baidu For The Chinese Market” – click here
DailyFinance, “Are Apple and Baidu About to Team Up on Google?” – click here
googleexposed, “Apple Tells Google Maps To Take A Hike” – click hereTagged
Google Plus Ad Campaign Is Boring and Fails To Promote Strugging Website
Google really doesn’t “get” social. It seems to me that they lack the ability to understand how people want to connect and how they interact. Google executives like Marissa Mayer have admitted that Google has fallen behind in the social aspect of the Web and they are desperately trying to play catch-up.
Well, today Google UK uploaded a video on YouTube advertising the company’s social networking site called Google Plus. The campaign to get more people to use Google Plus doesn’t impress me much. Their video is titled “Google+: Tom” and it shows a man going through life on Google Plus. We see the man add his wife to his circles, it then shows the couple’s newborn child, and other significant moments in life. The video ends with a future look at the aged man as he reminisces about his youth with his friends in a video chat.
Sorry, but the video is so dumb.
I find it so pretentious, over-the-top, and confusing. I don’t like how the video doesn’t show the consistent and linear progression of the man’s life. In my first passive viewing of the video I got confused about whose life was being shared – the dad or the child? When it switches from the little boy in the green school uniform to the prom scene, I thought it was the little boy grown up ha-ha…but it was actually the dad.
I had to take a closer second viewing of the video to catch the stuff I missed.
Afterwards the narrator goes on about being a solider, being in a cannon, being a Justice, and a wise soul ha-ha. It finally ends with a corny aged look of the man with his friends, and he then adds his grandchild to his circles.
I know what this video is trying to be, but I don’t think it successfully accomplished it. It doesn’t pull on the heartstrings, it doesn’t excite me, and it doesn’t make me want to use Google Plus. I don’t think the video is mainstream enough and, quite frankly, it’s boring.
Also, I really don’t want Google keeping decades of personal data of my life “well saved” on Google Plus. No thanks!
FACEBOOK OVERTAKES GOOGLE IN BRAZIL AS THE MOST VISITED WEBSITE
Facebook has hit another important milestone in South America. Things are looking very promising in Brazil where the social networking giant is improving rapidly. Just this past January it was reported that Facebook is now the dominant social networking site in Brazil, beating Google’s now struggling Orkut.
And now – Experian Hitwise, a digital intelligence tool, is reporting that Facebook has surpassed all of Google’s properties to become the most visited site in Brazil. Over the past year, Facebook’s popularity has skyrocketed while Google is experiencing a gradual decline.
Facebook dominated Google as the most visited site at least five different times this year, mostly on weekends when visits to social networking sites tend to increase. Nevertheless, this is a great sign for Facebook and a disaster for Google. Perhaps Facebook might eventually overtake Google in other countries too…
For more information:
AllFacebook, “Facebook Surpasses All Google Properties In Brazil” – click here
ZDNet, “Facebook passes Google as top site in Brazil, for now” – click here
TNW, “Hitwise: Facebook became the most visited site in Brazil over the weekend” – click here
Huge Fine Against Google For Violating Privacy Is Imminent
The other day the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a strongly worded report condemning Google’s privacy violations and the company’s deliberate obstruction of an investigation into the gathering of sensitive data off personal computers.
The FCC was deeply disturbed by what Google did but they’re hands were pretty much tied and couldn’t take serious action against Google. The federal agency fined Google $25,000 for impeding their investigation and they said what Google did was technically not illegal. According to PCWorld, this is because the laws are not up-to-date with technology. What Google did was obviously an invasion of privacy and SHOULD be illegal but Google seems to have gotten away scot-free because there aren’t laws that protect Americans from criminals who steal their personal data off unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
Anyway, I came across an article yesterday by the Mercury News stating that Google is about to be hit hard by another federal agency, this time it’s the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As you all should already know, the FTC has been in the middle of conducting their investigation on Google’s illegal circumvention of Apple’s Safari Web browser.
The Wall Street Journal exposed Google back in February for deliberately bypassing the privacy and security settings of Safari users. Apple set the default setting on its Safari browser to maximum security to protect their users from tracking companies – Google hated this and used a secret code to bypass this security setting. This exposed millions of Safari users to tracking for months without them every knowing about it. Immediately after the Journal released their story several lawsuits against Google popped up.
Now, according to the Mercury News, the major fine against Google is imminent. The newspaper spoke to a source who says that the FTC will take action against Google within a month. The FTC already has a consent order against Google which was put in place late last year. Google violated the privacy of their users when they launched their failed social networking tool called “Buzz”. After an investigation, Google agreed to a settlement that would require the company to regularly submit a compliance report to the FTC and they agreed to two decades of close monitoring from the FTC. Google also promised never to violate the privacy of their users or any company’s users – evidently they couldn’t keep their promise.
Google faces a fine of $16,000 per violation per day. There were millions of Apple users affected and victimized by this invasion of privacy so you can imagine that the fine could be colossal. Let’s hope the FTC puts Google in its place and hits them hard – Google definitely deserves it.
For more information:
PCWorld, “Google Says Snooping on Wi-Fi Networks Isn’t Illegal” – click here
Mercury News, “Google target of new federal privacy probe” – click here
Computerworld, “Privacy watchdog, lawmaker push for Google probe” – click here
The Register, “Google faces WHOPPING FTC fine for Safari privacy gaffe” – click here
The Hill, “FTC official: Sharing on social sites ‘can’t be forced’” – click here
INL News Group Planning To Take a Class Action Court Application on behalf of the Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank and on behalf of the Palestinian People World Wide, Against the State of Israel and the USA Government, Benjamin Netanyahu Israel Prime Minister, and the other major Israel Government Officials, the USA President Joe Biden, USA State Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other USA Government Officials, members of the Mossad the Israel Security Agency, and others to be arrested for a criminal conspiracy to murder of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, along with a court application that they conspired together in a criminal conspiracy to murder of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children in Gaza, the between the 8th October 2023 and the 15th January 2024., and for further orders the that all they are all jointly and severally liable for the general and aggravated damages to the Palestinian families and others that have suffered such general and aggravated damages, along with orders for all of the respondents names in such court action to be jointly and severally liable for the costs of rebuilding the buildings and infrastructure destroyed in Gaza and the Western Bank by the named respondents in such court application, along with the court to make a legal determination as to what the amount damages the respondents in such court action should be jointly and severally liable for.
South African Hague ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” -Dietrich Bonhoefferhttp://stopthecrime.net/
Google Unequivocally Violates Your Privcy and You Should Be Concerned.
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During a psychiatric assessment consultation in 2015 Daniel Cregg (58) expressed child abuse views that were a source of concern for his GP.
Daniel Cregg Exposes Irish Independent Newspaper Breaking EU Law
Daniel Cregg (58), of Edenvale Road, Ranelagh, Dublin, at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday (WEDS) where he received a two year suspended sentence for possession of child abuse images. PIC: Collins Courts 4/5/22
GOOGLE CHIEF EXECUTIVE SUNDAR PICHAI WAS BRIEFED ON A PLAN NOT TO NOTIFY USERS OF A SOFTWARE GLITCH THAT GAVE OUTSIDE DEVELOPERS POTENTIAL ACCESS TO PRIVATE DATA.
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Volume One–Out of the Grips of Disease and Death (the story) & Volume Two–Healthfully (the facts)
by Aajonus Vonderplanitz (1997) Carnelian Bay Castle Press.
As indicated in the subtitle, the book is divided into two parts. The first is the mother of all conversion/testimonial stories (125 pages worth). The second starts with a 5-page intro by Ron Strauss and is followed by an encyclopedic listing of foods and preparations (23 pages), then on to 90 pages of “food remedies,” and then 10 pages of “health methodologies.” (The “We Want to Live” web page contains the table of contents in more detail.) Finally, there are 33 pages of appendices (A-X) which are not labeled by topic but serve largely as extended footnotes of material from the “testimonial” section.Volume One’s “the story” is told as first-person narrative. The present-tense story starts with a phone call notifying Aajonus (pronounced like “homogenous” without the “hum”) that his long-estranged son has been in a severe auto accident and because of extensive head injuries is not expected to survive the next 24 hours. After stocking up on Californian raw honey, butter, papayas, etc., Aajonus flies out to stay with his son. By stealthfully replacing his son’s medications with raw-food recipes (initially a mixture of raw honey and butter placed under his tongue while he is in a coma) eventually the brain damage is miraculously repaired to a large degree. Along the way he battles with the hospital administration and policies. We learn through extensive (and somewhat confusing) flashbacks of his own recovery from cancer and of the recovery of others due to his (mostly) successful nutritional counseling, and even hear about an out-of-body near-death experience (also part of his “conversion”) where the tennis shoes he is wearing melt onto the room’s radiator. We are further privy to his conversion to raw animal foods (he had previously been fruitarian/vegan). After being unsuccessfully coached on the benefits of raw meat by Elk-of-the-Black-Moon (the spirit of Black Elk himself?) at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation vision quest (this bit is confined to an appendix for no apparent reason), it takes a pack of wild coyotes to convert him: He has decided to fast to death in the desert instead of returning to a diseased civilization (fruitarians love stuff like this, no? ???? ) but the coyotes have other plans for him, eventually killing and offering him a rabbit which he eats, and after which, of course, he is reborn. This is just the tip of the story’s iceberg, though. We learn not only about his troubled past and the “mandatory” health problems, but also about his teenage parenthood and “divorce,” and in general of his path from angry youth to health-seeker to “raw is law.” And he usually has some sort of detox going on: a poison mushroom took him many years to completely cure from, and an Electro Dermal Screening Device (whatever that might be) provided him ill-effects, including a most dramatic detox of bone epoxy used on his skull during previous surgery for an injury. The bonding with his estranged son, and his interaction with the hospital staff, family, and friends (including half a “pick-up” story about a woman in a health-food store which he never gets back to and finishes!) make the narrative surprisingly readable. In a Reader’s Digest “Drama in Real Life” sort of way. ???? As I’ve said, this is the mother of all testimonial/conversion stories ever put to print. Vonderplanitz’s new-age sensibilities lead to a high-pitched “Awww, come on!” reaction from a fellow like me, but it is a whale of a tale, and one suspects mostly true, or at least believed so by the author, who indeed makes an endearing and humble-humble narrator on such a journey. (Highlight: getting the yogis all revved up for the “pleasures of the flesh” by feeding them a diet of avos and citrus. “Awww, come on!” ???? ) The section surveying foods, remedies, and therapies is much more troubling, and perhaps ironically much more intriguing to me. I am reminded of Dr. Henry G. Bieler’s Food is Your Best Medicine, Herbert Shelton’s Fasting Can Save Your Life, and most every new-age remedy book I’ve ever seen–all rolled into one, and with a RAF (raw-animal-food) slant to boot! Mr. Vonderplanitz does indeed seem to have a cure/recipe for every affliction from cancer to athlete’s foot, but at the same time he is big on following your intuition/craving/instinct–and that what works for one will not for another. His “theoretical explanations” are at once intriguing and head-slapping. Can you figure out which parts of the examples below are which to this reviewer?
The thought of delicious, heavily buttered garlic bread came to mind. I knew it was instinct, my body telling me what is needed to raise my blood pressure. I went back into my apartment and ate a raw clove of garlic with French bread and lots of unsalted butter. Within moments I felt better, satisfied. I decided from that moment on that at least 70% of my diet would consist of raw foods. (p. 48) Fat resins and residues from cooked or processed green foods first collect in the intestines, becoming impacted. Secondly, they collect as gummy resins in the glands (as in prostatitis, leading to prostate cancer), and thirdly, they collect as gummy resins in the brain (as in Alzheimer’s disease). XXX The resins and residues from cooked or processed red fruits and vegetables most often collect in the lymph and skin, causing acne, sickly-looking tongues, hard and brittle bones, and deep lesions in the skin when the weather turns cold…. XXX People who lack the enzyme-mutations for digesting, assimilating, and utilizing cooked or processed yellow foods most often look pasty around the nose and eyes, and have very slow digestion, especially after eating a cooked or processed yellow or orange food. XXX People who lack enzyme-mutations for eating all three food groups–cooked or processed green, red (including orange) and yellow (including orange)–have a predisposition toward HIV positive.” (pp. 136-137) It is believed that whole raw eggs should not be eaten because albumin in egg white binds with biotin (part of the B-complex) in the body, causing side-effects. Egg yolk contains plenty of biotin to be utilized with albumin in egg white. The albumin/biotin combination is helpful because it helps to dissolve biocarbons and helps muscles retain carbohydrates. Whole raw eggs contain a wonderful, natural balance when eaten in a normal diet (whether the diet is raw or not). XXX In my experience with animals including human, who ate only the yolk and not the white (along with other foods on a raw diet), metabolism was considerably increased, usually withOUT increasing energy. The side-effects were that often hunger increased to a frenzy and dispositions tended to be irritable. It has been my experience in every case and condition that eating the whole raw egg was more nourishing, and better for metabolic and emotional balance. (p. 146)
And so on. His theoretical explanations (a la Bieler’s, and beyond!) seem like wholesale additions to modern nutritional myth and folklore. The lack of references (or intellectual humility, for that matter) severely limits his explanations, to my mind. Yet, given the paucity of info/experience of folks eating RAF over the long term, I am bound by curiosity to his experiences consuming large amounts of RAF, and his “clients” doing the same. For anyone with the slightest interest in RAF, We Want To Live is almost must reading, but I would hope that any reader would be skeptical of the claims and explanations (and further hope that you don’t become a “raw butter mixed with raw honey” junkie!, though there are worse addictions in this world to be sure ???? ). A non-instincto take on RAF is always interesting to someone like me who is steeped in instincto lore. Ronald Schmid’s Native Nutrition is far more informative and well-written, but lacks any of the first-person stuff in We Want To Live. But in such a paltry arena as RAF, beggars can’t be choosers as far as the books they might read. And there are many who prefer the testimonial approach much more than I do. Mr. Vonderplanitz is reportedly a very polished speaker, and with his impressive physique (never works out, of course ???? ) and commanding presence is very persuasive in the few public appearances he has given so far. But, if he expects to be taken at all seriously, he will need to document his claims, be much more specific in his methodology (if there exist any specifics to his methodology), and back way off with his naive “theoretical explanations.” Smooth talk and a likeable presence are probably enough for the uncritical minds of most folks into fringe diets–and Mr. Vonderplanitz is almost assured a small fringe following. But if he hopes to impress the mainstream (or get any attention from serious researchers) with the importance of his approach, he will have to provide documentation along with anecdote. He will have to provide a verifiable methodology as well as a winning smile. For more on Aajonus Vonderplanitz and his approach to eating and health, see the “We Want to Live” website. —This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Wall Street Journal
By Douglas MacMillan and Robert McMillanOctober 8, 2018
Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data. It found no evidence of misuse.
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Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
As part of its response to the incident, the Alphabet Inc. unit on Monday announced a sweeping set of data privacy measures that include permanently shutting down all consumer functionality of Google+. The move effectively puts the final nail in the coffin of a product that was launched in 2011 to challenge Facebook Inc. and is widely seen as one of Google’s biggest failures.
A software glitch in the social site gave outside developers potential access to private Google+ profile data between 2015 and March 2018, when internal investigators discovered and fixed the issue, according to the documents and people briefed on the incident. A memo reviewed by the Journal prepared by Google’s legal and policy staff and shared with senior executives warned that disclosing the incident would likely trigger “immediate regulatory interest” and invite comparisons to Facebook’s leak of user information to data firm Cambridge Analytica.
Chief Executive Sundar Pichai was briefed on the plan not to notify users after an internal committee had reached that decision, the people said.
The closure of Google+ is part of a broader review of privacy practices by Google that has determined the company needs tighter controls on several major products, the people said. In its announcement Monday, the company said it is curtailing the access it gives outside developers to user data on Android smartphones and Gmail.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act”. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Google Advertising Revenue Is Under Major Threat In Australia
Earlier this month a court in Australia reversed a lower court’s decision and ruled that the ads Google allows to run on its search engine are “misleading and deceptive”.
After this ruling by the Federal Court, Google was caught completely off-guard (typical Google arrogance of course) and they definitely were not expecting it to go in that direction. It also extremely worries Google and could set a threatening precedent to their business model. Google is concerned that the Australian court’s decision could be copied by other courts in different countries and it will hurt their bottom line. Google’s ad revenue is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia alone.
Google will fight the court’s decision tooth and nail to avoid this from spreading and to make sure their money-making machine is protected. The company has less than 14 days to appeal the decision to a High Court. What Google is most concerned about is protecting their money and not making sure that their users are protected. This isn’t the first time that the company has gotten themselves in deep trouble over their ad business. The US government forced Google to pay up half a billion dollars for aiding and abetting a con artist commit his crimes (I will post an update story on this soon ,which I forgot to post).
The point is that Google has repeatedly shown that they are willing to accept money from every advertiser, every company, and even criminals if they can get away with it. They obviously have very little ethics and I sure wouldn’t trust them. Be careful clicking on those ads.
This Australian legal battle against Google is a very interesting one to watch. ABC News in Australia did a fantastic report on this story. The video is below and if you want to read the transcript, you can go to their website
Forbes: 6 Months Later and Google Plus Still Sucks
According to a writer for Forbes named Paul Tassi, Google’s latest attempt at social networking is still a failure. Mr. Tassi wrote about his dissatisfaction using Google Plus last year and he received some criticism from loyal diehards of the site – although most people would agree with Mr. Tassi’s observation that the site…well, sucks.
The Wall Street Journal a little while ago published an article claiming that the site is a virtual “ghost town” and users only spent like 3 minutes on the site per month. Of course Google denies this and released vague numbers to contradict any negative publicity.
Anyway, Mr. Tassi gave Google Plus some more time and a second chance to prove itself. He published another article today and he says that Google’s social networking site still doesn’t impress him. He wrote:
“…but I thought now was the time to revisit my thoughts on the site, quite a bit down the road. Over half a year has gone by since then. I’ve posted nearly every day to my G+ page, and have engaged others in conversation about many a topic… I still do not believe Google Plus is the social network it needs to be, nor do I believe it will ever pose a significant threat to Facebook in its current form.”
Mr. Tassi says that none of his friends use Google Plus and don’t seem like they ever will. His friends are using several other social media on the Web, including the red-hot Pinterest which I’m hearing a lot about lately. I think I remember reading someplace that Pinterest is credited for giving websites much of their referral traffic – far exceeding Google Plus.
Mr. Tassi believes that Google Plus appeals to a “niche community” of tech geeks and people who are in certain industries that find the site useful in connecting with the general public versus connecting with friends. Google Plus isn’t really a place you go if you want to connect with your close friends. He says that Google Plus is full of strangers who don’t comment much or engage with the site often. So even though he believes Google Plus isn’t necessarily a “ghost town” based on how you look at the numbers, it sure does give off the feeling that it’s empty and cold.
I have posted an article on my blog calling Google Plus “pretentious” once. I actually think Google sells its social networking site as being a high-brow version of Facebook – as if Facebook is that place common folks exchange frivolous things with one another while Google Plus folks share more meaningful material. It’s typical Google arrogance.
Google’s social networking site does not look like it will get any better any time soon or ever. It’s been around for a long time now and the company has huge expectations for the site. Google desperately wants to see its struggling social networking site grow and become a success, there is a lot weighing on it. Yet even with so much invested in the site, Google cannot seem to win.
To read Paul Tassi’s full article, please click here
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Victim Of Brutal Beating Says She Is “Afraid” of Google Executive’s Family.
There is disturbing bombshell news that has been exposed the other day and it involves a major employee of Google. Marissa Mayer has been with Google since the very early days of the company, she is often said to be the 20th employee of Google. As one of the very first employees of Google, Marissa knows a lot about Google and she is deeply embedded in this company. Her current job title is Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location services.
Marissa became a very wealthy woman after Google became a public company in 2004. She is often seen as the public face of Google itself. You see her everywhere doing all sorts of different interviews with newspapers and even on television programs like the Martha Stewart Show. She has become somewhat of a celebrity and a spokeswoman for Google. The company uses her bright smile and photogenic looks to give itself an attractive public image.
However, Google might want to keep Marissa out of the spotlight for awhile – perhaps never again. The innocent looking and charming woman Google used as the public face of the company is part of a family that isn’t so attractive.
Now, I have written here before that this blog doesn’t focus on tabloid topics or personal issues, but this particular case involving the Mayer family is different. I don’t like gossipy, irrelevant, and frivolous stuff – but I will focus on criminal activity that has strong connections to Google.
The younger brother of Marissa, Mason Mayer, has been accused of three felonies: assault, false imprisonment and domestic violence. He allegedly brutally beat his girlfriend, Kelli Ann Trent, after a night out back in September 2011. We are learning about this now because The San Francisco Appeal newspaper investigated this case and published their findings yesterday.
Alright – so here’s what happened, according to court documents obtained by the newspaper. An affidavit submitted by San Francisco Police Department Inspector Michael Becker, details exactly what allegedly happened between Mason Mayer and his girlfriend:
On the evening of September 24, Mason and Kelli were getting ready to go to a party. They were at Mason’s condo residence at the time. Prior to the leaving to go to the party, they had an argument over a woman – who Mason allegedly cheated with – attending the party too.
The couple went to the party but there was still tension between them. According to the court document, Mason angrily accused a bartender of hitting on his girlfriend. He also became angry at Kelli Ann Trent for speaking with Marissa Mayer’s husband. Mason apparently “dislikes” his brother-in-law for some reason.
The couple left the party and went back home to Mason’s condo residence. While walking through the building hallway, Mason shoved Kelli. He then took her inside the residence, locked her in his bedroom, and then threw Kelli on the floor of the bedroom.
Mason began spitting in the face of his girlfriend, pulling her hair out, and he slammed her head against the marble bedroom floor. Kelli was in agony and in the fetal position trying to protect herself. Mason repeatedly punched her in the face, while Kelli struggled to get away. He told her that the only way she was going to get out of the beating was by driving her to the Golden Gate Bridge and throwing her off it.
Luckily for Kelli, before things could get any worse, Mason’s cell phone started ringing. It was a friend of the couple who was calling to ask to pick up his personal items from the condo. While on the phone, Kelli screamed for help.
The friend eventually arrived at the condo residence and Mason answered the front door to let him in. Kelli ran out of the bedroom hysterical and crying out for help. Mason grabbed her and wouldn’t let her go. The friend asked Mason to let her go but he refused. The friend said that he would call the police if he didn’t let her go. After Mason finally agreed to let Kelli go, she went back into the bedroom to retrieve her bag.
But Mason followed her back into the bedroom and locked the door shut again. The friend decided to stay the night at the condo to make sure nothing bad happened. The next morning, Kelli got up and she noticed all the injuries to her body.
Kelli eventually went to the police to report what happened to her. The 33-year-old Mason Mayer was arrested by police on November 28, 2011. In January a judge ordered Mason to stay away from Kelli. He has pleaded not guilty – but if found guilty he faces a maximum four years and eight months in state prison. Mason Mayer has a pretrial conference in a Superior Court on April 18th, 2012.
This is all so disturbing and vile. I need a shower after reading the court documents and seeing the injuries on the alleged victim. Mason Mayer is apparently very close to his famous sister and lives off her success. According to The San Francisco Appeal newspaper, Mason lives in the same luxury building as his sister and he was never worked since his sister struck it rich working at Google.
Just keep this in mind: these are the type of people you entrust your personal information with when you use Google. I certainly wouldn’t want people like Mason Mayer and his executive sister anywhere near my personal data. Knowing about the ethics and morals of the people who handle very sensitive data about you is so important.
If I don’t trust you, I will not do business with you – ever.
UPDATE:
I wrote another article on this story with more details – clickhere
For more information:
The Francisco Appeal, “Brother of Google Executive Marissa Mayer Facing Charges…” – click here
Federal Agency Fines Google $25,000 “Deliberately” Impeding Investigation
It was reported yesterday that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined Google $25,000 for not cooperating with an investigation over Google’s massive invasion of privacy involving its Street View service.
The FCC said that Google “deliberately impeded and delayed” its investigation. Google made it very difficult for investigators to gain access to employees and hid important evidence. Google did not answer emails and the company even tried to hide the identities of the employees involved in the privacy violations from two years ago.
In 2010, Google’s Street View cars collected very private information from unencrypted home computers. When Google was caught doing this it apologized and said that it didn’t deliberately try to capture private data. Soon after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated and sided with Google’s explanation that it was a mistake. Although the US didn’t take the massive privacy violation seriously, European countries were more concerned.
Now the FCC has come out and exposed Google’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation. This is really embarrassing for a company that claims it’s so transparent about everything it does and is cooperative with regulators. This is not the first regulators have complained about Google’s secrecy, arrogance, and unwillingness to cooperate with investigations. The French data protection agency currently investigating Google’s new privacy policy said that Google neglected to contact them before implementing their controversial and intrusive privacy policy.
The $25,000 Google is now forced to pay will do nothing to the company’s bottom line. Google raked in about $40 billion last year. Over 90% of Google’s revenues come from advertising – this means that Google makes money by selling your personal data to advertisers. This is the reason Google consolidated their privacy policies into a singular policy – it makes it easier for the company to figure you out and it’s more profitable. A Google spokesman said that the company is on a mission to combat against “the faceless Web”.
Google paying a $25,000 fine is like an average person paying a one cent fine – but don’t get too hung up on the amount of that fine. The biggest hit Google received from this new report by the FCC is its reputation. Most people think way too highly of this company and if more reports like this come out to expose Google’s dirt then the better it will be for the general public.
I love what Christina DesMarais, PCWorld, wrote in her article:
“…if Google’s uncooperative behavior is true as the FCC maintains, the obvious question is, ‘What is Google hiding?’ Consumers and advocacy groups have often criticized Google’s seemingly insatiable appetite for personal information, such as its recent consolidation of its privacy policies so as to have a better view into user behaviors and preferences. Because of the amount of attention those privacy concerns have garnered, you’d think a policy of transparency on Google’s part would bode well with those who have doubts about whether or not the company can be trusted with increasing amounts of personal data.”
Things that make you go hmmm…
For more information:
The New York Times, “Google Is Faulted for Impeding U.S. Inquiry on Data Collection” – click here
PCWorld, “Google Hit With $25K Fine, But FCC Finds Street View Data Collection Not Illegal” – click here
CNET, “FCC nails Google with $25K fine for dragging heels in StreetView probe” – click here
Three years ago, The New York Times published an article titled “Putting a Bolder Face on Google” and it’s a fantastic read. It focuses on Marissa and really let’s you know more about her character. Here are some interesting quotes about her in the article:
“Mayer, who is Google Employee No. 20…A popular guest on TV news programs and talk shows, a Google-booster often quoted in print, and a rapid-fire presence on San Francisco’s social scene, she is the rare executive who has become — at least in the sometimes cloistered world of computer geeks — a celebrity”
“Ms. Mayer, 33, plays a pivotal, serious role at Google…She is one of the few Googlers with unfettered access to and influence over Mr. Brin and Mr. Page”
A 2009 Gawker.com article described her as “the best known Google executive outside the search engine’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, and its billionaire founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin”
Ms. Mayer has even dated the current Google CEO Larry Page at one point. This is a woman very much part of the identity of Google and a recognizable face of the company.
I’m leaving you a video of her on the Martha Stewart show
Embarrassing Apples Is Responsible For The Vast Majority of Google’s Mobile Revenue
There are new revelations about the health of Google’s mobile business and it looks like Google is in really bad shape. Thanks to documents submitted in the legal battle between Google and Oracle over patents, the public gets a new look at exactly how well Google’s Android is performing.
Google is secretive about letting the public know about how much revenue Android brings in – but now we know that Android actually doesn’t make much money for Google at all. Google’s overall 2011 revenues totaled about $40 billion and much of that is from ads from search results on desktop computers. Very little of Google’s overall revenues is from mobile.
According to The Guardian, Android generated less than $550 million between 2008 and 2011 – pitiful. Google produces the Android software which it then gives away for free to handset makers to sell. Google makes its money from ad revenue on the mobile devices and from applications on Google Play (formerly known as Android Market), which is doing extremely poorly compared to Apple’s App store.
Here is where it gets particularly interesting – Google actually makes more money from Apple’s mobile devices than it does from its own Android powered smartphones! Now isn’t that hilarious, ha-ha, especially considering the recent bad blood between Google and Apple.
Apple is responsible for generating more than four times as much revenue for Google! This is because at least half of all smartphone owners use an Apple device and Google is the default search engine. Apple also extensively used Google Maps – but as recently told Google to get lost and is now using a mixture of its own acquired mapping technology and free crowdsourced mapping.
Who knew that Apple had such a big role in Google’s mobile business?
Majority of Google’s mobile traffic can be credited to Apple. Google should be grateful to Apple for being so helpful, but Google treats Apple like crap. Google expressed its gratitude to Apple by trying to impose itself into Apple’s territory, which infuriated Apple.
What did Apple do as payback?
Apple no longer extensively uses Google Maps, Apple added other search engines as alternative options to Google’s, and Apple appears to be ditching Google altogether in China (a huge and attractive market). And we all know about how Apple set its Safari Web browser default to automatically block third-party tracking cookies – however, it was exposed last month that Google illegally circumvented this security feature, but is now facing countless lawsuits from Apple users.
Psst…hey Google…don’t bite that hand that feeds you.
For more information:
The Guardian, “Google’s Android has generated just $550m since 2008, figures suggest” – click here
I have made the claim that the media doesn’t give Google enough scrutiny and that the company often gets underserved favorable press. This is a major reason I started this blog in the first place, so that the average person out there can see what Google is really all about.
I remember seeing articles recently claiming that Google currently has the best reputation among any company in America. This is very disturbing considering all the sordid details I have been posting about Google’s lack of privacy, their pitiful ethics, their lies, the incessant lawsuits, and even criminal investigations. It’s disappointing and saddening that so many Americans put so much trust in this company – it just leaves me shaking my head and I think to myself “if only they knew better”.
I came across three really great articles comparing Google to Microsoft. I want to share these articles with you, but please don’t view this as me trying to sell Microsoft to you. I’m just using the articles to illustrate media bias and to show you how much Google has changed over the years.
The article published by InfoWorld’s J. Peter Bruzzese is excellent and lays out evidence to argue that the media unfairly bashes Microsoft way too often while Google’s errors are conveniently overlooked. He writes,
“I’ve noticed an unfair, ongoing trend: If Microsoft does something a little off, it gets bashed into the ground for it. But if Google… missteps, it generally gets mild reprimands and even support from the media and those drinking the Kool-Aid.”
Ever since I started this blog earlier this year I have been reading about the comparisons people are making between Microsoft and Google. These comparisons argue that Google has really changed for the worse over the years. As some of you probably already know, Google’s infamous unofficial motto is “don’t be evil”. In the early idealistic days of Google the company didn’t want to be like other established tech giants (i.e. Microsoft) because they perceived them as representing negativity and as being old-fashioned. But now people are starting to notice that little ol’ Google ain’t all that different from Microsoft – actually, some argue, that Google is worse now.
The article published by Forbes gives you 7 similarities between Google and Microsoft – perhaps now the pot should stop calling the kettle black– to read the Forbes article, please click here.
Finally, a very interesting article appeared on The Daily Beast website by Dan Lyons. The author spent 30 days using nothing but Microsoft products to compare it with Google’s products. He wanted to see if Microsoft can win him over and if Google’s products are really worth keeping. To find out what he concluded you gotta read the full article for yourself – click here
Google is currently enjoying much of the general public’s trust– but what is most hopeful is that this is slowly changing. As more people become knowledgeable and fed-up with Google’s antics, their arrogance, their invasion on our privacy, and other wrongdoings we will finally see Google fall off its throne. As any good business person will tell you, the most important thing in business is rightfully earning the trust and admiration of the public – once you lose this you’ve lost everything.
MARISSA MAYER IS NOMINATED TO SERVE ON WALMART’S BOARD
Google’s top woman has been nominated to serve on the board of Walmart. The massive retailer corporation made the announcement today that Marissa Mayer could potentially take the board’s 16th spot.
And yes, it’s that same Marissa Mayer…you know…the same high-profile Google executive whose brother allegedly brutally beat up his girlfriend and threatened to throw her off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge…
At only 36, Ms. Mayer will be the youngest person on the board if elected at the company’s shareholder’s meeting on June 1st. I was reading through different articles about her nomination to board, many questioned whether she is the right fit for the company’s board. She doesn’t really have much experience outside of Google, if any at all. She was hired at Google straight out of graduate school in 1999 and shuffled around at that Google ever since.
Is she a one-hit wonder? Can her leadership skills at Google translate over to other companies that operate in a completely different way? Walmart seems to think that she can be useful in helping them with their online services. Google benefits from learning about how a retail giant does business.
Anyway, it’s interesting news and I thought it is worth posting. She said this in a statement:
“I have long been a customer and admirer of the company. Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world’s most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day. I look forward to contributing to Walmart’s continued growth, success, and innovation in the years to come”
And according to Forbes, she also serves on the boards of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Ballet, the New York City Ballet and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
For more information:
The Register, “Google’s top female cheese nominated to serve on Walmart board” – click here
Wall Street Journal, “Wal-Mart Taps Google’s Marissa Mayer for Board Seat” – click here
Forbes, “Wal-Mart Names Google’s Marissa Mayer To Its Board” – click here
Google Executive’s Family Allegedly Made Life Of Abuse Victim A Living Nightmare.
Last month I published an article titled “Victim of Brutal Beating Says She’s ‘Afraid’ of Google Executive’s Family”. It was one of the most read and commented on posts I’ve published on my blog. I received great feedback and the vast majority of readers appreciate knowing about this disturbing story involving a major Google executive’s family. If you haven’t already read that article please do so before reading this one – click here
After I posted my article I received an email from a person who said they wanted to set the record straight about what happened to Mason Mayer’s alleged victim, Kelli Trent. This person told me that they were troubled by false information being spread around and asked for my assistance in having Kelli’s side of the story told.
This person told me lots of information about the Mayer family and the dysfunctional relationship between Mason Mayer and Kelli Trent. This person has politely asked that I not reveal their identity and so I have decided to respect their privacy. I will simply refer to this person as my “source” from this point on.
The information my source revealed to me is disturbing, to say the least. It will give you a greater sense of what happened before the night of the alleged abuse and what took place after that night.
Kelli Trent is an intelligent and hardworking young woman. She moved to San Francisco back in 2005 after completing college and has been consistently employed ever since. Her friends describe her as being very generous and she always tries to help out any way she could. My source wanted to point out that Kelli comes from “a decent amount of wealth herself” and that she often pays for the needs of loved ones without hesitation. She has held some jobs in banking and she even recently tried her hand in a startup company.
Kelli and Mason met back in early February 2011 on his birthday and they started dating immediately after that. Their relationship was very brief but even in that short time it was plagued with serious problems. My source alleges that Mason had been controlling and abusive toward Kelli on numerous occasions.
Mason had not lived in San Francisco for that long. He moved from Minneapolis in the fall of 2010 after his famous sister, Google executive Marissa Mayer, allowed him to live in her penthouse condo. My source alleges that the reason behind Mason’s move is due to him getting in legal trouble in Minneapolis after abusing a “rebound” girlfriend. Marissa apparently wanted to keep him away from “psycho girls” and moved him close to her. Mason and his ex-wife, Kara Mayer, divorced in July 2010.
After he moved to San Francisco and started dating Kelli everything was fine for the first few months. My source alleges that the abuse on Kelli actually began in May after she wanted to leave the relationship. The source showed me a photo of Kelli taken in May with a badly bruised inner arm. The source also alleges that a few days before the night of September 24th Kelli and Mason were at a gym and he didn’t like the way she was interacting with men. He allegedly threw her belongings around and got physically aggressive with her.
Finally the abuse escalated to what took place on night of September 24th. Kelli not only suffered physical injuries but she also sustained a concussion, was disoriented, and had fainting spells. After this incident, she took photographs of her injuries and sent them to Mason’s parents and Marissa was soon notified. My source claims that Kelli was shown little respect by the Mayer family and that they never asked if she was okay. Kelli demanded that Mason get help and the Mayer family came up with Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and therapy sessions – which Mason began two days after the family was notified.
The source claims that Kelli was never offered any financial assistance for her medical needs or for her therapy sessions, which she was badly in need of. Kelli pretty much had to suffer alone and isolated herself in the apartment she shared with a roommate. She didn’t go out much since the beating and only confided in a few close friends.
The source says that soon after, in early October, the Mayer family booked Mason a trip on a European holiday for two weeks, which Kelli took as being insensitive and an insult to her. The source says that the Mayer family neglected to understand the magnitude of the problems between Kelli and Mason. The family also didn’t hold Mason accountable for anything. This is when Kelli was starting to realize that she wanted out of the relationship and was pretty much done protecting the Mayer family.
Sadly, while the Mayer family was off on their European holiday, Kelli’s grandmother passed away. After hearing about her loss, she left to go to Tennessee to be with her family. While with her family, the source claims that Mason phone called Kelli and told her that she was not invited to the Mayer family pumpkin carving party. Marissa allegedly did not want Kelli at the party, which Kelli took as a slap in the face. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back and Kelli finally knew she was done with the relationship with Mason and done with the Mayer family.
Kelli came back to San Francisco on October 30th and Mason was at the airport to pick her up. This is when Kelli broke up with him. The source alleges that Mason was infuriated by this and showed up later in the day to Kelli’s apartment threatening to release nude photos of her and allegedly vowed to smear her reputation. Mason then took the witness of the September 24th beating to the family party.
On November 11th Kelli went to the police to report everything that happened to her. Keep in mind that Kelli and Mason were not together often since the night of September 24th and up until the day she finally reported the alleged abuse to the police. My source says that it took Kelli awhile to come to the realization that she desperately needed to leave the relationship for good. This is consistent with many victims of domestic abuse who feel like they can change their partner’s ways if they just stay in long enough and are often too afraid to leave.
Soon after a warrant was issued while Mason and the rest of the Mayer family were on their annual Thanksgiving holiday in Hawaii.
The source claims that this is when the campaign to discredit Kelli began and her reputation was torn to pieces. Kelli had her life investigated as Mason’s legal team started subpoenaing texts messages, called her former employers, contacted her ex-boyfriends, etc. The source claims that Kelli depends on a good reputation to secure jobs but obtaining employment in her field has become nearly impossible and that her life is in shatters.
The source described to me one incident in January when Kelli was asked to interview at a company event hosted at Founders Den – this is the workplace of Marissa Mayer’s husband, Zack Bogue. Kelli was in the middle of an interview at the event when suddenly Zack allegedly tapped Kelli on the shoulder and loudly told her to get out. Needless to say, Kelli was thoroughly shaken and embarrassed. She promptly left without finishing her interview. My source points out that Kelli had a stay-away order at the time which specified that any third parties related to Mason are not allowed to directly contact Kelli in any way, “so Zack had no right to speak to her that night”.
Kelli has now left San Francisco. This is a woman who depended on her networking capabilities to get jobs but life is harder for her now. The source says that Kelli never wanted to have all this trouble surrounding her – Kelli fell into a brief and tumultuous relationship with Mason which is a mistake she thoroughly regrets.
While Kelli has been suffering for the past 6 months – Mason has gone on holidays and he’s attended several San Francisco society events (thanks to his sister Marissa) such as the opening of a ballet and a Midwinter Gala. The source claims that Mason owns shares in Google, gifted to him by Marissa, and was invited to an exclusive Google company event featuring Lady Gaga back in March 2011. My source finds it revolting that Mason was being “flaunted” around by his family even after they knew what he did to Kelli.
Kelli has not retained a lawyer and is being represented by a District Attorney. The pretrial conference had been postponed three times since January and is now scheduled for April 18th – if found guilty Mason faces a maximum of four years and eight months in state prison.
Disclaimer: Everything in this post should not be taken as fact. They’re allegations described to me by the source and it’s from their point of view of what occurred. There are many sides to everything and this is just one. If there are any issues you have with anything written in this post please email me.
Eric Hague is a humor writer – a funny letter he wrote pretending to be a member of Google’s privacy team was published by The Wall Street Journal today.
Google seems to think it knows what is best for us, knows everything about us, and is smarter than us – the amusing piece by Mr. Hague has a little fun with all that.
Apple Makes Business More Difficult For Google in China
It is being reported that Apple will be ditching Google in China and replacing it with Baidu as the default search engine. Baidu is the dominant search engine provider in China with a market share estimated at 78%, while Google doesn’t even come close to that number.
Apple’s new operating system will integrate various popular Chinese Internet services – this will make it more attractive for consumers. This will further weaken Google in China, which is a huge loss for the company because the Chinese market is a very attractive one. Apple is making it even more difficult for Google to get its foot in the door. Apple also plans to ditch Google as the default search engine on mobile devices in China.
Recently, it was also reported that Apple ditched Google Maps and is now using a free crowdsourcing mapping service for its mobile devices. It looks like the battle between Apple and Google is getting even more intense and Google is losing.
For more information:
ITProPortal, “Apple To Replace Google With Baidu For The Chinese Market” – click here
DailyFinance, “Are Apple and Baidu About to Team Up on Google?” – click here
googleexposed, “Apple Tells Google Maps To Take A Hike” – click hereTagged
Google Plus Ad Campaign Is Boring and Fails To Promote Strugging Website
Google really doesn’t “get” social. It seems to me that they lack the ability to understand how people want to connect and how they interact. Google executives like Marissa Mayer have admitted that Google has fallen behind in the social aspect of the Web and they are desperately trying to play catch-up.
Well, today Google UK uploaded a video on YouTube advertising the company’s social networking site called Google Plus. The campaign to get more people to use Google Plus doesn’t impress me much. Their video is titled “Google+: Tom” and it shows a man going through life on Google Plus. We see the man add his wife to his circles, it then shows the couple’s newborn child, and other significant moments in life. The video ends with a future look at the aged man as he reminisces about his youth with his friends in a video chat.
Sorry, but the video is so dumb.
I find it so pretentious, over-the-top, and confusing. I don’t like how the video doesn’t show the consistent and linear progression of the man’s life. In my first passive viewing of the video I got confused about whose life was being shared – the dad or the child? When it switches from the little boy in the green school uniform to the prom scene, I thought it was the little boy grown up ha-ha…but it was actually the dad.
I had to take a closer second viewing of the video to catch the stuff I missed.
Afterwards the narrator goes on about being a solider, being in a cannon, being a Justice, and a wise soul ha-ha. It finally ends with a corny aged look of the man with his friends, and he then adds his grandchild to his circles.
I know what this video is trying to be, but I don’t think it successfully accomplished it. It doesn’t pull on the heartstrings, it doesn’t excite me, and it doesn’t make me want to use Google Plus. I don’t think the video is mainstream enough and, quite frankly, it’s boring.
Also, I really don’t want Google keeping decades of personal data of my life “well saved” on Google Plus. No thanks!
FACEBOOK OVERTAKES GOOGLE IN BRAZIL AS THE MOST VISITED WEBSITE
Facebook has hit another important milestone in South America. Things are looking very promising in Brazil where the social networking giant is improving rapidly. Just this past January it was reported that Facebook is now the dominant social networking site in Brazil, beating Google’s now struggling Orkut.
And now – Experian Hitwise, a digital intelligence tool, is reporting that Facebook has surpassed all of Google’s properties to become the most visited site in Brazil. Over the past year, Facebook’s popularity has skyrocketed while Google is experiencing a gradual decline.
Facebook dominated Google as the most visited site at least five different times this year, mostly on weekends when visits to social networking sites tend to increase. Nevertheless, this is a great sign for Facebook and a disaster for Google. Perhaps Facebook might eventually overtake Google in other countries too…
For more information:
AllFacebook, “Facebook Surpasses All Google Properties In Brazil” – click here
ZDNet, “Facebook passes Google as top site in Brazil, for now” – click here
TNW, “Hitwise: Facebook became the most visited site in Brazil over the weekend” – click here
Huge Fine Against Google For Violating Privacy Is Imminent
The other day the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a strongly worded report condemning Google’s privacy violations and the company’s deliberate obstruction of an investigation into the gathering of sensitive data off personal computers.
The FCC was deeply disturbed by what Google did but they’re hands were pretty much tied and couldn’t take serious action against Google. The federal agency fined Google $25,000 for impeding their investigation and they said what Google did was technically not illegal. According to PCWorld, this is because the laws are not up-to-date with technology. What Google did was obviously an invasion of privacy and SHOULD be illegal but Google seems to have gotten away scot-free because there aren’t laws that protect Americans from criminals who steal their personal data off unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
Anyway, I came across an article yesterday by the Mercury News stating that Google is about to be hit hard by another federal agency, this time it’s the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As you all should already know, the FTC has been in the middle of conducting their investigation on Google’s illegal circumvention of Apple’s Safari Web browser.
The Wall Street Journal exposed Google back in February for deliberately bypassing the privacy and security settings of Safari users. Apple set the default setting on its Safari browser to maximum security to protect their users from tracking companies – Google hated this and used a secret code to bypass this security setting. This exposed millions of Safari users to tracking for months without them every knowing about it. Immediately after the Journal released their story several lawsuits against Google popped up.
Now, according to the Mercury News, the major fine against Google is imminent. The newspaper spoke to a source who says that the FTC will take action against Google within a month. The FTC already has a consent order against Google which was put in place late last year. Google violated the privacy of their users when they launched their failed social networking tool called “Buzz”. After an investigation, Google agreed to a settlement that would require the company to regularly submit a compliance report to the FTC and they agreed to two decades of close monitoring from the FTC. Google also promised never to violate the privacy of their users or any company’s users – evidently they couldn’t keep their promise.
Google faces a fine of $16,000 per violation per day. There were millions of Apple users affected and victimized by this invasion of privacy so you can imagine that the fine could be colossal. Let’s hope the FTC puts Google in its place and hits them hard – Google definitely deserves it.
For more information:
PCWorld, “Google Says Snooping on Wi-Fi Networks Isn’t Illegal” – click here
Mercury News, “Google target of new federal privacy probe” – click here
Computerworld, “Privacy watchdog, lawmaker push for Google probe” – click here
The Register, “Google faces WHOPPING FTC fine for Safari privacy gaffe” – click here
The Hill, “FTC official: Sharing on social sites ‘can’t be forced’” – click here
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor
What does Smedley Butler mean when he says war is a racket?
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Butler, the author, who is a former U.S. Marine Corps general, delivers a scathing critique of the military-industrial complex, contending that war is predominantly a means of generating profits for corporations, at the expense of ordinary people, who are forced to do the fighting and dying.
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War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare.
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Major GeneralSmedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed the Maverick Marine, was a senior United States Marine Corps officer. During his 34-year career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the Banana Wars. At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. By the end of his career, Butler had received sixteen medals, including five for heroism; he is the only Marine to be awarded the Brevet Medal as well as two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.
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In 1933, he became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become dictator, similar to fascist regimes at that time. The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot, which included the father of George H. W. Bush, Prescott Bush, and the media ridiculed the allegations, but a final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed some of Butler's testimony.
Butler later became an outspoken critic of American wars and their consequences. In 1935, Butler wrote the book War Is a Racket, where he alleged imperialist motivations for U.S. foreign policy and wars (such as those in which he had been involved). After retiring from service, he became a popular advocate, speaking at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists, and church groups in the 1930s.
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After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War Is a Racket". The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. His work was condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas, who wrote Butler’s oral autobiography, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage".
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this world would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain slaves of the Bankers and pay for the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits." -- Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain I know many people have a great deal of difficulty comprehending just how many wars are started for no other purpose than to force private central banks onto nations, so let me share a few examples, so that you understand why the US Government is mired in so many wars against so many foreign nations. There is ample precedent for this. The United States fought the American Revolution primarily over King George III's Currency act, which forced the colonists to conduct their business only using printed bank notes borrowed from the Bank of England at interest.
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Haaretz Nov 4, 2014The Islamic State group is the creation of Israel's Mossad, Iran's deputy foreign minister said Tuesday, accusing the spy agency of aiming to "tarnish the image of Islam," the Iranian news outletFars reported.
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Why is it said that ISIS has been created by the CIA?
Well there are many theories which support the view that ISIS was nurtured, funded and in fact created by CIA. But possibilities are high that they did'nt know that the animal they were feeding would turn out to be a venomous snake.
These two actions have cost them (and the rest of the world) very dearly-
1.Iraq- It dates back to 2006 when Saddam Hussein was executed on several charges (that is a whole different story). It created a power vacuum in Iraq which lead to sporadic rise of several rebellious groups in Iraq.
2.Syria- Syria was also struck with a problem of its own. People in Syria were
The support of Islamic Terrorists by Western Security Agencies:
See UN Report: Israel has been materially aiding ISIS.
This is the moment when our Governments and controlled MSM narrative on the War on Terror has officially lost all credibility and begins to resemble a Walt Disney production.
Besides, how many more times can the American airforce "accidentally" drop weapons to ISIS/ISIL in Syria or Iraq's Anbar Province?
In 2015 the Iraqi's shot down both British and US Airforce planes delivering weapons and equipment to ISIS. That's one way to keep a US Military presence in a country. Secretly enable the very terrorist groups you're there to assist with eradicating. Why do you think Iraqi Parliamentarians stood up and demanded the US Military leaves Iraq?
How do you accidentally ship 3,000 tons of weapons to ISIS via Croatia?
Remember the pictures of the long convoys of ISIS fighters in their fleets of Toyota Trucks? The fleets of Toyota trucks (confirmed by Toyota) came from Saudi, Qatar, UAE and Jordan with about 60,000 vehicles purchased.
If the US had genuinely wanted to defeat ISIS they would have done it when they were an easy target striking the huge long conveys that were visible from satellites(!) moving East out of Syria and crossing the border into Iraq before the “inexplicable” fall of Mosul in the early summer of 2014.
Mosul citizens were used as human shields by ISIS as the US Coalition liberates the city.
Interesting how these terrorists are protected around oil producing regions...
This terrorism in Syria is a Western construct - See EX head of the DIA, General Flynn 2012 who warned that without tackling ISIS they would form a Caliphate.
See Ex French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas who has gone on record as stating this inconvenient truth in a live TV interview:-
The British planned the "civil war" in Syria in 2009 using "rebels."
And Wikileaks also revealed the long term plan for regime change in Syria. Killary Clinton and Ambassador Roebuck are caught discussing regime change by stirring up Sunni/Shia sectarian violence in Syria: (The same approach happened in former Yugoslavia)
The most damaging email reveals that Clinton knows that Qatar and Saudi Barbaria are funding Islamic State, yet this neither stops her shipping arms to those countries or accepting donations to the Clinton Foundation.
We know Israel’s position on ISIS because the Israeli’s have been giving these NATO backed Jihadi mercenaries brigades medical aid in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
A senior Israeli Army Officer has already stated that Israel would be prefer ISIS in Syria to Assad.
We know that an Israeli Colonel was captured leading an ISIS brigade.
We know Pakistani Intelligence caught an ISIS leader who told then he was being paid $600 by the Americans for each new Jihadi recruit he signed up.
We know that when Eastern Aleppo was liberated from these Jihadi psychopaths, that 14 Intel Officers (from various GCC & Western countries and including Israel) were caught in a bunker. They had been giving logistics to the know terrorist group:
Al Nusra Front. There are NO moderate fighters in Syria.
They are all terrorists. 85% of them are foreign to Syria:
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One of the original planned paths would go through the Arabah valley, cut west before the Dead Sea basin through the hills and curves north again to avoid the Gaza Strip
Since Israel launched its onslaught on the besieged enclave, it has pushed Palestinians to move south by relentlessly bombing northern Gaza before carrying out a ground invasion weeks later. At least 400,000 Palestinians have been displaced from the north to the south, according to statistics from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).
Some 800,000 Palestinians remained in areas considered "north" - namely past north of Wadi Gaza. Israel's indiscriminate bombing campaign, which has mostly targeted the north - has killed at least 11,470 people in Gaza - mostly civilians, including women and children.
The death toll has not been updated for days due to Israel's targeting of the largest hospital in Gaza, Al-Shifa, which was a centre for collecting data on deaths and the wounded.
Israel denies it has plans to annex the Strip but it had called for the "voluntary migration" of Palestinians in Gaza amid accusations that it was "ethnically cleansing" the enclave.
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The support of Islamic Terrorists by Western Security Agencies:
See UN Report: Israel has been materially aiding ISIS.
This is the moment when our Governments and controlled MSM narrative on the War on Terror has officially lost all credibility and begins to resemble a Walt Disney production.
Besides, how many more times can the American airforce "accidentally" drop weapons to ISIS/ISIL in Syria or Iraq's Anbar Province?
In 2015 the Iraqi's shot down both British and US Airforce planes delivering weapons and equipment to ISIS. That's one way to keep a US Military presence in a country. Secretly enable the very terrorist groups you're there to assist with eradicating. Why do you think Iraqi Parliamentarians stood up and demanded the US Military leaves Iraq?
How do you accidentally ship 3,000 tons of weapons to ISIS via Croatia?
Remember the pictures of the long convoys of ISIS fighters in their fleets of Toyota Trucks? The fleets of Toyota trucks (confirmed by Toyota) came from Saudi, Qatar, UAE and Jordan with about 60,000 vehicles purchased.
If the US had genuinely wanted to defeat ISIS they would have done it when they were an easy target striking the huge long conveys that were visible from satellites(!) moving East out of Syria and crossing the border into Iraq before the “inexplicable” fall of Mosul in the early summer of 2014.
Mosul citizens were used as human shields by ISIS as the US Coalition liberates the city.
Interesting how these terrorists are protected around oil producing regions...
This terrorism in Syria is a Western construct - See EX head of the DIA, General Flynn 2012 who warned that without tackling ISIS they would form a Caliphate.
See Ex French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas who has gone on record as stating this inconvenient truth in a live TV interview:-
The British planned the "civil war" in Syria in 2009 using "rebels."
And Wikileaks also revealed the long term plan for regime change in Syria. Killary Clinton and Ambassador Roebuck are caught discussing regime change by stirring up Sunni/Shia sectarian violence in Syria: (The same approach happened in former Yugoslavia)
The most damaging email reveals that Clinton knows that Qatar and Saudi Barbaria are funding Islamic State, yet this neither stops her shipping arms to those countries or accepting donations to the Clinton Foundation.
We know Israel’s position on ISIS because the Israeli’s have been giving these NATO backed Jihadi mercenaries brigades medical aid in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.
A senior Israeli Army Officer has already stated that Israel would be prefer ISIS in Syria to Assad.
We know that an Israeli Colonel was captured leading an ISIS brigade.
We know Pakistani Intelligence caught an ISIS leader who told then he was being paid $600 by the Americans for each new Jihadi recruit he signed up.
We know that when Eastern Aleppo was liberated from these Jihadi psychopaths, that 14 Intel Officers (from various GCC & Western countries and including Israel) were caught in a bunker. They had been giving logistics to the know terrorist group:
Al Nusra Front. There are NO moderate fighters in Syria.
They are all terrorists. 85% of them are foreign to Syria:
We know that Turkey & Israel were the largest buyers of looted ISIS oil (along with providing medical support for extremists as mentioned), whilst America was caught delivering 3,000 tons of weapons to ISIS via Croatia.
You know the "War on (of) Terror is a complete fabrication (See Ex FBI whistleblower Sibil Edmonds and Operation Gladio B) designed to placate UK Daily Mail Readers and Fix (Fox) News consumers while the European and Zionist Bankers exploit and loot natural resources of Foreign non US aligned countries. (See Rothschild’s Genie Energy and one of its subsidiary stealing Syrian Golan oil).
If your still not convinced that the Security Services have given support to Islamic terrorists here are two further pieces of evidence:
15 of the 19 Saudi Terrorist hijackers were given fast tracked US Visas via the CIA consulate in Jedda - they were being recruited by the CIA - see US Consulate whistleblower J. Michael Springmann who wrote the book "Passports for Al Qaeda."
And..
Dutch Ex Money Launderer for the top 1%, Roland Bernard, conducted an interview in April 2017 revealing that the top 1% are Jewish Zionist Satanic Banking elite: Caution, not particularly easing viewing at times. (39 min interview - #Childsacrifice)
We know that Turkey & Israel were the largest buyers of looted ISIS oil (along with providing medical support for extremists as mentioned), whilst America was caught delivering 3,000 tons of weapons to ISIS via Croatia.
You know the "War on (of) Terror is a complete fabrication (See Ex FBI whistleblower Sibil Edmonds and Operation Gladio B) designed to placate UK Daily Mail Readers and Fix (Fox) News consumers while the European and Zionist Bankers exploit and loot natural resources of Foreign non US aligned countries. (See Rothschild’s Genie Energy and one of its subsidiary stealing Syrian Golan oil).
If your still not convinced that the Security Services have given support to Islamic terrorists here are two further pieces of evidence:
15 of the 19 Saudi Terrorist hijackers were given fast tracked US Visas via the CIA consulate in Jedda - they were being recruited by the CIA - see US Consulate whistleblower J. Michael Springmann who wrote the book "Passports for Al Qaeda."
And..
Dutch Ex Money Launderer for the top 1%, Roland Bernard, conducted an interview in April 2017 revealing that the top 1% are Jewish Zionist Satanic Banking elite: Caution, not particularly easing viewing at times. (39 min interview - #Childsacrifice)
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Is it true that ISIS was created by Mossad?
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America (and half of the world, to be fair - even Maoist China and isolated Australia) did fund terrorists who fought the USSR in Afghanistan, and who later took over and became the Taliban and Al Qaeda. From Al Qaeda's Syrian/Iraqi faction comes ISIS.
But I won't stop there.
America is also partially responsible for creating an environment where ISIS could survive.
We don't have the greatest track record for helping the people of the Middle East. We helped take down Muammar Gaddafi, who was without a doubt better for Libya than the current “government” there; to quote old Ben Keno
The US did not deliberately create ISIS. But there would have been no ISIS but for American missteps and incompetence during the US occupation of Iraq.
Before we invaded in 2003, there were no armed islamist groups like ISIS in Iraq. Horrible as Saddam was, he had at least managed to keep a lid on them. Then we invaded, removed Saddam from power, and the Pentagon failed to issue the necessary orders for securing property. That led to widespread looting and a nearly instantaneous social breakdown in the absence of minimal security.
There is a minor change in your question. It was not created by CIA, but the training has been provided by them : Not for ISIS, but for Free Syrian Army(FSA). Initially FSA seeks help for the Military Upgrade. As a training module, CIA done its job well by providing military equips, & other -vehicles. But they were unaware that the members of FSA will join ISIS or gets converted into ISIS. Here at this point, DIA (Defense Intel Agency) learnt that they had feeded King Cobras, as they got evidence of the same from the Photos posted by ISIS on Twitter :
There is a minor change in your question. It was not created by CIA, but the training has been provided by them : Not for ISIS, but for Free Syrian Army(FSA). Initially FSA seeks help for the Military Upgrade. As a training module, CIA done its job well by providing military equips, & other -vehicles. But they were unaware that the members of FSA will join ISIS or gets converted into ISIS. Here at this point, DIA (Defense Intel Agency) learnt that they had feeded King Cobras, as they got evidence of the same from the Photos posted by ISIS on Twitter :
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Why is it said that ISIS has been created by the CIA?
Well there are many theories which support the view that ISIS was nurtured, funded and in fact created by CIA. But possibilities are high that they did'nt know that the animal they were feeding would turn out to be a venomous snake.
These two actions have cost them (and the rest of the world) very dearly-
1.Iraq- It dates back to 2006 when Saddam Hussein was executed
on several charges (that is a whole different story). It created a power vacuum in Iraq which lead to sporadic rise of several rebellious groups in Iraq.
2.Syria- Syria was also struck with a problem of its own. People in Syria were
After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War Is a Racket". The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. His work was condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas, who wrote Butler’s oral autobiography, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage".
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ALL WARS ARE BANKERS' WARS!
by Michael Rivero
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this world would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain slaves of the Bankers and pay for the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits." -- Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain I know many people have a great deal of difficulty comprehending just how many wars are started for no other purpose than to force private central banks onto nations, so let me share a few examples, so that you understand why the US Government is mired in so many wars against so many foreign nations. There is ample precedent for this. The United States fought the American Revolution primarily over King George III's Currency act, which forced the colonists to conduct their business only using printed bank notes borrowed from the Bank of England at interest.
Marine Officers at Veracruz. Front row, left to right: Wendell C. Neville; John A. Lejeune; Littleton W.T. Waller, Commanding; Smedley Butler
Boxer Rebellion
Butler being carried on the back of another Marine to safety across a river at the Battle of Tientsin.
Major GeneralSmedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed the Maverick Marine, was a senior United States Marine Corps officer. During his 34-year career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the Banana Wars. At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. By the end of his career, Butler had received sixteen medals, including five for heroism; he is the only Marine to be awarded the Brevet Medal as well as two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions.
In 1933, he became involved in a controversy known as the Business Plot, when he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become dictator, similar to fascist regimes at that time. The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot, which included the father of George H. W. Bush, Prescott Bush, and the media ridiculed the allegations, but a final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed some of Butler's testimony.
Butler later became an outspoken critic of American wars and their consequences. In 1935, Butler wrote the book War Is a Racket, where he alleged imperialist motivations for U.S. foreign policy and wars (such as those in which he had been involved). After retiring from service, he became a popular advocate, speaking at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists, and church groups in the 1930s.
Early life
Smedley Darlington Butler was born July 30, 1881, in West Chester, Pennsylvania, the eldest of three sons. His parents, Thomas and Maud (née Darlington) Butler,[1] were descended from local Quaker families. Both of his parents were of entirely English ancestry, and their families had been in North America since the 17th century.[2]
His father was a lawyer, a judge, and later served in the House of Representatives for 31 years, serving as chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee during the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Smedley's Marine Corps career successes occurred while his father held that politically influential Congressional seat, controlling the Marine Corps manpower and budget.[3] His maternal grandfather was Smedley Darlington, a Republican congressman from 1887 to 1891.[4] His paternal grandfather was Samuel Butler, who served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and served as Pennsylvania State Treasurer from 1880 to 1882. Butler's childhood home is a registered landmark.
Butler attended the West Chester Friends Graded High School, followed by The Haverford School, a (then) Quaker-affiliated secondary school, popular with sons of upper-class Philadelphia families.[5] He became captain of the school baseball team and quarterback of its football team.[1] Against the wishes of his father, he left school 38 days before his seventeenth birthday to enlist in the Marine Corps during the Spanish–American War. Haverford awarded him his high school diploma, nevertheless, on June 6, 1898, before the end of his final year. His transcript stated that he completed the scientific course "with Credit".[1]
Military career
Spanish–American War
In the Spanish war fervor of 1898, Butler lied about his age to receive a direct commission as a Marine second lieutenant.[1] He trained at Marine Barracks, Washington, D.C. In July 1898, he went to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, arriving shortly after its invasion and capture.[6] His company soon returned to the U.S., and after a short break, he was assigned to the armored cruiser USS New York for four months.[7] He came home to be mustered out of service in February 1899,[7] but on April 8, 1899, he accepted a commission as a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps.[7]
Philippine–American War
The Marine Corps sent him to Manila, Philippines.[8] On garrison duty with little to do, Butler turned to alcohol to relieve the boredom. He once became drunk and was temporarily relieved of command after an unspecified incident in his room.[9]
In October 1899, he saw his first combat action when he led 300 Marines to take the town of Noveleta from Filipino troops of the new Philippine republic. In the initial moments of the assault, his first sergeant was wounded. Butler briefly panicked, but he quickly regained his composure and led his Marines in pursuit of the fleeing enemy.[9] By noon, the Marines had dispersed the native defenders and taken the town. One Marine had been killed, 10 were wounded, and another 50 had been incapacitated by the humid tropical heat.[10]
After the excitement of this combat, garrison duty again became routine. He met Littleton Waller, a fellow Marine with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship. When Waller received command of a company in Guam, he was allowed to select five officers to take with him. Butler was amongst his choices. Before they had departed, their orders were changed, and they were sent to China aboard the USS Solace to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.[10]
Boxer Rebellion
Once in China, Butler was initially deployed at Tianjin (then often romanized as Tientsin). He took part in the Battle of Tientsin on July 13, 1900, and in the subsequent Gaselee Expedition, during which he saw the mutilated remains of Japanese soldiers. When he saw another Marine officer fall wounded, he climbed out of a trench to rescue him. Butler was then shot in the thigh. Another Marine helped him get to safety, but he was also shot. Despite his leg wound, Butler assisted the wounded officer to the rear. Four enlisted men would receive the Medal of Honor in the battle. Butler's commanding officer, Major Waller, personally commended him and wrote that "for such reward as you may deem proper the following officers: Lieutenant Smedley D. Butler, for the admirable control of his men in all the fights of the week, for saving a wounded man at the risk of his own life, and under a very severe fire." Commissioned officers were not then eligible to receive the Medal of Honor, and Butler instead received a promotion to captain by brevet while he recovered in the hospital, two weeks before his 19th birthday.
He was eligible for the Marine Corps Brevet Medal when it was created in 1921, and was one of only 20 Marines to receive it.[11] His citation reads:
The Secretary of the Navy takes pleasure in transmitting to First Lieutenant Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps, the Brevet Medal which is awarded in accordance with Marine Corps Order No. 26 (1921), for distinguished conduct and public service in the presence of the enemy while serving with the Second Battalion of Marines, near Tientsin, China, on 13 July 1900. On 28 March 1901, First Lieutenant Butler is appointed Captain by brevet, to take rank from 13 July 1900.[12]
Banana Wars
Butler participated in a series of occupations, "police actions", and interventions by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean, later called the Banana Wars due to their goal of protecting American commercial interests in the region, particularly those of the United Fruit Company. This company had significant financial stakes in the production of bananas, tobacco, sugar cane, and other products throughout the Caribbean, Central America, and the northern portions of South America. The U.S. was also trying to advance its own political interests by maintaining its influence in the region and especially its control of the Panama Canal. These interventions started with the Spanish–American War in 1898 and ended with the withdrawal of troops from Haiti and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy in 1934.[13] After his retirement, Butler became an outspoken critic of the United States' business interests in the Caribbean, criticizing the ways in which American businesses and Wall Street bankers imposed their agenda on U.S. foreign policy.[14]
Honduras
In 1903, Butler was stationed in Puerto Rico on Culebra Island. Hearing rumors of a Honduran revolt, the United States government ordered his unit and a supporting naval detachment to sail to Honduras, 1,500 miles (2,414 km) to the west, to defend the U.S. Consulate there. Using a converted banana boat renamed the Panther, Butler and several hundred Marines landed at the port town of Puerto Cortés. In a letter home, he describes the action: they were "prepared to land and shoot everybody and everything that was breaking the peace",[15] but instead found a quiet town. The Marines re-boarded the Panther and continued up the coastline, looking for rebels at several towns, but found none.
When they arrived at Trujillo, however, they heard gunfire and came upon a battle in progress that had been ongoing for 55 hours between rebels called Bonillista and Honduran government soldiers at a local fort. At the sight of the Marines, the fighting ceased, and Butler led a detachment of Marines to the American consulate, where he found the consul, wrapped in an American flag, hiding among the floor beams. As soon as the Marines left the area with the shaken consul, the battle resumed, and the Bonillistas soon controlled the government.[15] During this expedition, Butler earned the first of his nicknames: "Old Gimlet Eye". It was attributed to his feverish, bloodshot eyes (he was suffering from some unnamed tropical fever at the time) that enhanced his penetrating and bellicose stare.[16]
Marriage and business
After the Honduran campaign, Butler returned to Philadelphia. He married Ethel Conway Peters of Philadelphia, a daughter of civil engineer and railroad executive Richard Peters, on June 30, 1905.[17] His best man at the wedding was his former commanding officer in China, Lieutenant Colonel Littleton Waller.[18] The couple eventually had three children, a daughter, Ethel Peters Butler, and two sons, Smedley Darlington Jr. and Thomas Richard.[19]
Butler was next assigned to garrison duty in the Philippines, where he once launched a resupply mission across the stormy waters of Subic Bay after his isolated outpost ran out of rations. In 1908, he was diagnosed as having a nervous breakdown and received nine months sick leave, which he spent at home. He successfully managed a coal mine in West Virginia, but returned to active duty in the Marine Corps at the first opportunity.[20]
Central America
From 1909 to 1912, Butler served in Nicaragua, enforcing U.S. policy. With a 104-degree fever, he led his battalion to the relief of the rebel-besieged city of Granada. In December 1909, he commanded the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment on the Isthmus of Panama. On August 11, 1912, he was temporarily detached to command an expeditionary battalion he led in the Battle of Masaya on September 19, 1912, and the bombardment, assault, and capture of Coyotepe Hill, Nicaragua, in October 1912. He remained in Nicaragua until November 1912, when he rejoined the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines at Camp Elliott, Panama.[4] In private Butler was highly critical of the operation, writing to his parents:
What makes me mad is that the whole revolution is inspired and financed by Americans who have wild cat investments down here and want to make them good by putting in a Government which will declare a monopoly in their favor . . . The whole business is rotten to the core.[21]
Veracruz and first Medal of Honor
Butler and his family were living in Panama in January 1914, when he was ordered to report as the Marine officer of a battleship squadron massing off the coast of Mexico, near Veracruz, to monitor a revolutionary movement. He did not like leaving his family and the home they had established in Panama, so he intended to request orders home as soon as he determined he was not needed.[22]
On March 1, 1914, Butler and Navy Lieutenant Frank J. Fletcher (not to be confused with his uncle, Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher) "went ashore at Veracruz, where they met the American superintendent of the Inter-Oceanic Railway and surreptitiously rode in his private car [a railway car] up the line 75 miles to Jalapa and back".[23] A purpose of the trip was to allow Butler and Fletcher to discuss the details of a future expedition into Mexico. Fletcher's plan required Butler to make his way into the country and develop a more-detailed invasion plan while inside its borders. It was a spy mission, and Butler was enthusiastic to get started. When Fletcher explained the plan to the commanders in Washington, DC, they agreed to it. Butler was given the go-ahead.[citation needed] A few days later, he set out by train on his spy mission to Mexico City, with a stopover at Puebla. He made his way to the U.S. Consulate in Mexico City, posing as a railroad official named "Mr. Johnson".
March 5. As I was reading last night, waiting for dinner to be served, a visitant, rather than a visitor, appeared in my drawing-room incognito – a simple "Mr. Johnson," eager, intrepid, dynamic, efficient, unshaven! * * *[24]
He and the chief railroad inspector scoured the city, saying that they were searching for a lost railroad employee; there was no lost employee, and in fact, the employee who they said was lost never existed. The ruse gave Butler access to various areas of the city. In the process of the so-called search, they located weapons in use by the Mexican army and determined the size of units and states of readiness. They updated maps and verified the railroad lines for use in an impending U.S. invasion.[25] On March 7, 1914, he returned to Veracruz with the information he had gathered and presented it to his commanders. The invasion plan was eventually scrapped, when authorities loyal to Mexican General Victoriano Huerta detained a small American naval landing party (that had gone ashore to buy gasoline) in Tampico, Mexico, which led to what became known as the Tampico Affair.[26]
When President Woodrow Wilson discovered that an arms shipment was about to arrive in Mexico, he sent a contingent of Marines and sailors to Veracruz to intercept it on April 21, 1914. Over the next few days, street fighting and sniper fire posed a threat to Butler's force, but a door-to-door search rooted out most of the resistance. By April 26, the landing force of 5,800 Marines and sailors secured the city, which they held for the next six months. By the end of the conflict, the Americans reported 17 dead and 63 wounded; the Mexican forces had 126 dead and 195 wounded. After the actions at Veracruz, the U.S. decided to minimize the bloodshed and changed their plans from a full invasion of Mexico to simply maintaining the city of Veracruz.[27] For his actions on April 22, Butler was awarded his first Medal of Honor.[4][12] The citation reads:
For distinguished conduct in battle, engagement of Vera Cruz, 22 April 1914. Major Butler was eminent and conspicuous in command of his battalion. He exhibited courage and skill in leading his men through the action of the 22d and in the final occupation of the city.[12]
After the occupation of Veracruz, an unusually high number of U.S. military personnel received the Medal of Honor. The Army presented one, nine went to Marines, and 46 were bestowed upon naval personnel. During World War I, Butler attempted to return his medal, explaining he had done nothing to deserve it. The medal was returned to him with orders to keep it and to wear it, as well.[28]
Haiti and second Medal of Honor
In 1915, Haitian President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam was killed by a mob. In response, the United States ordered the USS Connecticut to Haiti, with Major Butler and a group of Marines on board. On October 24, 1915, an estimated 400 Cacos ambushed Butler's patrol of 44 mounted Marines when they approached Fort Dipitie. Surrounded by Cacos, the Marines maintained their perimeter throughout the night. The next morning, they charged the much-larger enemy force by breaking out in three directions. The startled Haitians fled.[29] In early November, Butler and a force of 700 Marines and sailors returned to the mountains to clear the area. At their temporary headquarters base at Le Trou, they fought off an attack by about 100 Cacos. After the Americans took several other forts and ramparts during the following days, only Fort Rivière, an old, French-built stronghold atop Montagne Noire, was left.[29]
For the operation, Butler was given three companies of Marines and some sailors from the USS Connecticut, about 100 men. They encircled the fort and gradually closed in on it. Butler reached the fort from the southern side with the 15th Company and found a small opening in the wall. The Marines entered through the opening and engaged the Cacos in hand-to-hand combat. Butler and the Marines took the rebel stronghold on November 17, 1915, an action for which he received his second Medal of Honor, as well as the Haitian Medal of Honor.[12] The entire battle lasted less than 20 minutes. Reportedly, only one Marine was injured in the assault; he was struck by a rock and lost two teeth.[30] About 50 Haitians in the fort were killed.[29] Butler's exploits impressed Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, who recommended the award, based on Butler's performance during the engagement.[31] Once the medal was approved and presented in 1917, Butler achieved the distinction, shared with Dan Daly, of being the only Marines to receive the Medal of Honor twice for separate actions.[4] The citation reads:
For extraordinary heroism in action as Commanding Officer of detachments from the 5th, 13th, 23d Companies and the Marine and sailor detachment from the U.S.S. Connecticut, Major Butler led the attack on Fort Rivière, Haiti, 17 November 1915. Following a concentrated drive, several different detachments of Marines gradually closed in on the old French bastion fort in an effort to cut off all avenues of retreat for the Cacos. Reaching the fort on the southern side where there was a small opening in the wall, Major Butler gave the signal to attack and Marines from the 15th Company poured through the breach, engaged the Cacos, took the bastion, and crushed the Cacos resistance.[12]
Subsequently, as the initial organizer and commanding officer of the Gendarmerie d'Haïti (the native police force), Butler established a record as a capable administrator. Under his supervision, social order, administered by the dictatorship, was largely restored.[32] He recalled later that during his time in Haiti, he and his troops "hunted the Cacos like pigs."[30]
World War I
During World War I, Butler was (to his disappointment) not assigned to a combat command on the Western Front. He made several requests for a posting in France, writing letters to his personal friend, Wendell Cushing Neville. While Butler's superiors considered him brave and brilliant, they described him as "unreliable."[6]
In October 1918, at the age of 37, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and placed in command of Camp Pontanezen at Brest, France, a debarkation depot that funneled troops of the American Expeditionary Force to the battlefields. The camp had been unsanitary, overcrowded, and disorganized. U.S. Secretary of WarNewton Baker sent novelist Mary Roberts Rinehart to report on the camp. She later described how Butler tackled the sanitation problems. He began by solving the problem of mud. "[T]he ground under the tents was nothing but mud, [so] he had raided the wharf at Brest of the duckboards no longer needed for the trenches, carted the first one himself up that four-mile hill to the camp, and thus provided something in the way of protection for the men to sleep on."[6]Gen.John J. Pershing authorized a duckboard shoulder patch for the units. This earned Butler another nickname: "Old Duckboard." For his exemplary service, he was awarded both the Army Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, as well as the French Order of the Black Star.[4] The citation for the Army Distinguished Service Medal states:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I. Brigadier General Butler commanded with ability and energy Pontanezen Camp at Brest during the time in which it has developed into the largest embarkation camp in the world. Confronted with problems of extraordinary magnitude in supervising the reception, entertainment and departure of the large numbers of officers and soldiers passing through this camp, he has solved all with conspicuous success, performing services of the highest character for the American Expeditionary Forces.[12]
The citation for the Navy Distinguished Service Medal states:
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services in France, during World War I. Brigadier General Butler organized, trained and commanded the 13th Regiment Marines; also the 5th Brigade of Marines. He commanded with ability and energy Camp Pontanezen at Brest during the time in which it has developed into the largest embarkation camp in the world. Confronted with problems of extraordinary magnitude in supervising the reception, entertainment and departure of large numbers of officers and soldiers passing through the camp, he has solved all with conspicuous success, performing services of the highest character for the American Expeditionary Forces.[12]
Quantico
Following the war, he became commanding general of the Marine barracks at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. At Quantico, he transformed the wartime training camp into a permanent Marine post. He directed the Quantico camp's growth until it became the "showplace" of the Corps.[33] Butler won national attention by taking thousands of his men on long field marches (many of which he led from the front) to Gettysburg and other Civil War battle sites, where they conducted large-scale re-enactments before crowds of distinguished spectators.[33]
In 1921, during a training exercise near the Wilderness battlefield in Virginia, he was told by a local farmer that Stonewall Jackson's arm was buried nearby, to which he replied, "Bosh! I will take a squad of Marines and dig up that spot to prove you wrong!"[34] Butler found the arm in a box. He later replaced the wooden box with a metal one and reburied the arm. He left a plaque on the granite monument marking the burial place of Jackson's arm; the plaque is no longer on the marker, but it can be viewed at the Chancellorsville Battlefield visitor's center.[34][35]
Philadelphia Director of Public Safety
In 1924, newly elected Mayor of PhiladelphiaW. Freeland Kendrick asked President Calvin Coolidge to lend the city a military general to help him rid Philadelphia's municipal government of crime and corruption. At the urging of Butler's father,[3] Coolidge authorized Butler to take the necessary leave from the Corps to serve as Philadelphia's director of public safety, in charge of running the city's police and fire departments from January 1924 until December 1925.[4] He began his new job by assembling all 4,000 of the city police into the Metropolitan Opera House in shifts to introduce himself and inform them that things would change while he was in charge. Since he had not been given authority to fire corrupt police officers, he switched entire units from one part of the city to another,[3] in order to undermine local protection rackets and profiteering.[36][37]
Within 48 hours of taking over, Butler organized raids on more than 900 speakeasies, ordering that they be padlocked and destroyed in many cases. In addition to raiding the speakeasies, he also attempted to eliminate other illegal activities, including bootlegging, prostitution, gambling, and police corruption. More zealous than he was political, he ordered crackdowns on the social elite's favorite hangouts, such as the Ritz-Carlton and the Union League, as well as on drinking establishments that served the working class.[38] Although he was effective in reducing crime and police corruption, he was a controversial leader. In one instance, he made a statement that he would promote the first officer to kill a bandit and stated, "I don't believe there is a single bandit notch on a policeman's guns [sic] in this city; go out and get some."[36] Although many of the local citizens and police felt that the raids were just a show, they continued for several weeks.[37]
Among his many accomplishments as the director of public safety, he implemented programs to improve city safety and security, established policies and guidelines for the administration, and developed a Philadelphia police uniform that resembled that of the Marine Corps.[39] Other changes included military-style checkpoints into the city and bandit-chasing squads, who were armed with sawed-off shotguns and armored police cars.[39] The press began reporting on both the good and the bad aspects of Butler's personal war on crime. They praised the new uniforms, the new programs, and the reductions in crime, but they also reflected the public's negative opinion of their new public safety director. Many felt that he was being too aggressive in his tactics and resented the reductions in their civil rights, such as the stopping of citizens at the city checkpoints. Butler frequently swore in his radio addresses, causing many citizens to suggest that his behavior, and particularly his language, was inappropriate for someone of his rank and stature.[40] Some even suggested that Butler was acting like a military dictator, even charging that he wrongfully used active-duty Marines in some of his raids.[40] Maj. R.A. Haynes, the federal prohibition commissioner, visited the city in 1924, six months after Butler was appointed. He announced that "great progress"[41] had been made in the city, and he attributed that success to Butler.[41]
Eventually, Butler's leadership style and the directness of actions undermined his support within the community, so his departure seemed imminent. Mayor Kendrick reported to the press, "I had the guts to bring General Butler to Philadelphia and I have the guts to fire him."[42] Feeling that his duties in Philadelphia were coming to an end, Butler contacted Gen. Lejeune to prepare for his return to the Marine Corps. Not all of the citizens felt that Butler was doing a bad job, though, and when the news started to leak that he would be leaving, people began to gather at the Academy of Music. A group of 4,000 supporters assembled and negotiated a truce between him and the mayor to keep him in Philadelphia for a while longer, and the president authorized a one-year extension.[43]
Butler devoted much of his second year to executing arrest warrants, cracking down on crooked police, and enforcing prohibition. On January 1, 1926, his leave from the Marine Corps ended, and the president declined a request for a second extension. Butler received orders to report to San Diego and prepared his family and his belongings for the new assignment.[44] In light of his pending departure, he began to defy the mayor and other key city officials. On the eve of his departure, he had an article printed in the paper that stated his intention to stay and "finish the job".[45] The mayor was surprised and furious when he read the press release the next morning and demanded Butler's resignation.[45] After almost two years in office, Butler resigned under pressure, stating later that "cleaning up Philadelphia was worse than any battle I was ever in."[38]
San Diego duty
Following the period of service as the director of public safety in Philadelphia, Butler assumed command on February 28, 1926, of the U.S. Marine Corps base in San Diego, California, in ceremonies involving officers and the band of the 4th Marine Regiment.[46]
China and stateside service
From 1927 to 1929, Butler was commander of a Marine Expeditionary Force in Tianjin, China, (the China Marines). While there, he cleverly parlayed his influence among various generals and warlords to the protection of U.S. interests, ultimately winning the public acclaim of contending Chinese leaders. When he returned to the United States in 1929 he was promoted to major general, becoming, at age 48, the youngest major general of the Marine Corps. But, the death of his father on May 26, 1928, ended the Pennsylvania Congressman's ability to protect Smedley from political retribution for his outspoken views.[3]
In 1931, Butler violated diplomatic norms by publicly recounting gossip[47][48] about Benito Mussolini in which the dictator allegedly struck and killed a child with his speeding automobile in a hit-and-run accident. The Italian government protested and President Hoover, who strongly disliked Butler,[49] forced Secretary of the NavyCharles Francis Adams III to court-martial him. Butler became the first general officer to be placed under arrest since the Civil War. He apologized to Secretary Adams and the court-martial was canceled with only a reprimand.[50]
Military retirement
When Commandant of the Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Wendell C. Neville died July 8, 1930, Butler, at that time the senior major general in the Corps, was a candidate for the position.[33] Although he had significant support from many inside and outside the Corps, including John Lejeune and Josephus Daniels, two other Marine Corps generals were seriously considered, Ben H. Fuller and John H. Russell Jr. Lejeune and others petitioned President Herbert Hoover, garnered support in the Senate and flooded Secretary of the Navy Charles Adams' desk with more than 2,500 letters of support.[51] With the recent death of his influential father, however, Butler had lost much of his protection from his civilian superiors. The outspokenness that characterized his run-ins with the mayor of Philadelphia, the "unreliability" mentioned by his superiors when they were opposing Butler's posting to the Western Front, and his comments about Benito Mussolini resurfaced. In the end the position of commandant went to Fuller, who had more years of commissioned service than Butler and was considered less controversial. Butler requested retirement and left active duty on October 1, 1931.[6][33]
Later years
Even before retiring from the Corps, Butler began developing his post-Corps career. In May 1931 he took part in a commission established by Oregon Governor Julius L. Meier which laid the foundations for the Oregon State Police.[52] He began lecturing at events and conferences, and after his retirement from the Marines in 1931 he took this up full time. He donated much of his earnings from his lucrative lecture circuits to the Philadelphia unemployment relief. He toured the western United States, making 60 speeches before returning for his daughter's marriage to Marine aviator Lt. John Wehle. Her wedding was the only time he wore his dress blue uniform after he left the Marines.[53]
During his Senate campaign, Butler spoke out forcefully about the veterans' bonus. Veterans of World War I, many of whom had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression, sought immediate cash payment of Service Certificates granted to them eight years earlier via the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924. Each Service Certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment, plus compound interest. The problem was that the certificates (like bonds), matured 20 years from the date of original issuance, thus, under extant law, the Service Certificates could not be redeemed until 1945. In June 1932, approximately 43,000 marchers, including 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, protested in Washington, D.C.[56] The Bonus Expeditionary Force, also known as the "Bonus Army", marched on Washington to advocate the passage of the "soldier's bonus" for service during World War I. After Congress adjourned, bonus marchers remained in the city and became unruly. On July 28, 1932, two bonus marchers were shot by police, causing the entire mob to become hostile and riotous. The FBI, then known as the United States Bureau of Investigation, checked its fingerprint records to obtain the police records of individuals who had been arrested during the riots or who had participated in the bonus march.[56][57]
The veterans made camp in the Anacostia flats while they awaited the congressional decision on whether or not to pay the bonus. The motion, known as the Patman bill, was decisively defeated, but the veterans stayed in their camp. On July 19, Butler arrived with his young son Thomas, the day before the official eviction by the Hoover administration. He walked through the camp and spoke to the veterans; he told them that they were fine soldiers and they had a right to lobby Congress just as much as any corporation. He and his son spent the night and ate with the men, and in the morning Butler gave a speech to the camping veterans. He instructed them to keep their sense of humor and cautioned them not to do anything that would cost public sympathy.[58] On July 28, army cavalry units led by General Douglas MacArthur dispersed the Bonus Army by riding through it and using gas. During the conflict several veterans were killed or injured. Butler declared himself a "Hoover-for-Ex-President-Republican".[59]
Anti-war Lectures
After his retirement and later years, Butler became widely known for his outspoken lectures against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism, and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States.
In December 1933, Butler toured the country with James E. Van Zandt to recruit members for the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). He described their effort as "trying to educate the soldiers out of the sucker class." In his speeches he denounced the Economy Act of 1933, called on veterans to organize politically to win their benefits, and condemned the FDR administration for its ties to big business. The VFW reprinted one of his speeches with the title "You Got to Get Mad" in its magazine Foreign Service. He said: "I believe in...taking Wall St. by the throat and shaking it up."[60] He believed the rival veterans' group the American Legion was controlled by banking interests. On December 8, 1933, he said: "I have never known one leader of the American Legion who had never sold them out—and I mean it."[61]ø
In addition to his speeches to pacifist groups, he served from 1935 to 1937 as a spokesman for the American League Against War and Fascism.[62][63] In 1935, he wrote the exposé War Is a Racket, a trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views on the subject are summarized in the following passage from the November 1935 issue of the socialist magazine Common Sense:[14]
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
In November 1934, Butler told the committee that one Gerald P. MacGuire told him that a group of businessmen, supposedly backed by a private army of 500,000 ex-soldiers and others, intended to establish a fascist dictatorship. Butler had been asked to lead it, he said, by MacGuire, who was a bond salesman with Grayson M. P. Murphy & Co. The New York Times reported that Butler had told friends that General Hugh S. Johnson, former head of the National Recovery Administration, was to be installed as dictator, and that the J.P. Morgan banking firm was behind the plot. Butler told Congress that MacGuire had told him the attempted coup was backed by three million dollars, and that the 500,000 men were probably to be assembled in Washington, D.C. the following year. All the parties alleged to be involved publicly said there was no truth in the story, calling it a joke and a fantasy.[67]
In its report to the House, the committee stated that, while "no evidence was presented... to show a connection... with any fascist activity of any European country... [t]here was no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution..." and that "your committee was able to verify all the pertinent statements made by General Butler, with the exception of the direct statement about the creation of the organization. This, however, was corroborated in the correspondence of MacGuire with his principal, Robert Sterling Clark...."[68]
No prosecutions or further investigations followed, and historians have questioned whether or not a coup was actually contemplated. Historians have not reported any independent evidence apart from Butler's report on what MacGuire told him. One of these, Hans Schmidt, says MacGuire was an "inconsequential trickster".[69][70][71][72] The news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax".[73] When the committee's final report was released, the Times said the committee "purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true" and "... also alleged that definite proof had been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington, which was to have been led by Major Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, according to testimony at a hearing, was actually contemplated".[74] The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot.
Death
Upon his retirement, Butler bought a home in Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, where he lived with his wife.[75] In June 1940, he checked himself into the hospital after becoming sick a few weeks earlier. His doctor described his illness as an incurable condition of the upper gastro-intestinal tract that was probably cancer. His family remained by his side, even bringing his new car so he could see it from the window. He never had a chance to drive it. On June 21, 1940, Smedley Butler died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia.[76]
The funeral was held at his home, attended by friends and family as well as several politicians, members of the Philadelphia police force, and officers of the Marine Corps.[77] He was buried at Oaklands Cemetery in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania.[78] His modest gravestone is located in Section B-1 (see site map). After his death, his family maintained his home as it was when he died, including a large quantity of memorabilia he collected throughout his storied career, until 2014.[77][79]
USS Butler(DD-636), a Gleaves-classdestroyer, was named in his honor in 1942.[4] This vessel participated in the European and Pacific theaters of operations during the Second World War. She was later converted to a high speed minesweeper.[4][83]
The Boston, Massachusetts, chapter of Veterans for Peace is called the Smedley D. Butler Brigade in his honor.[84]
Butler was featured in the 2003 Canadian documentary film The Corporation.[85]
A fictionalized version of Butler is portrayed by Robert De Niro as a retired marine named Gilbert Dillenbeck, in the 2022 movie Amsterdam, a movie that revolves around him foiling the attempted business plot by fascist conspirators. [87]
——; Lejeune, John Archer; Miller, J. Michael (2002). My Dear Smedley: Personal Correspondence of John A. LeJeune and Smedley D. Butler, 1927–1928. Marine Corps Research Center.
^The Expeditionary Medal, as was worn for part of his career, would have used award numerals; in Butler's case, a "4" would have been worn to denote 4 deployments. The wearing of numerals was discontinued in 1921 in favor of service stars.
References
^ Jump up to:abcdHans Schmidt, Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998) p. 7
^Smedley D. Butler, USMC: A Biography By Mark Strecker page 3
^ Jump up to:ab"Leatherneck legends; Swapping some sea stories at the birthday ball? Here are 8 of the Corps' best". Marine Corps Times: 22. November 15, 2004.
^Associated Press, "Butler Takes Over San Diego Marines," The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Monday March 1, 1926, Volume LVIII, Number 1, page 4.
^Talbot, David (2010). Devil dog : the amazing true story of the man who saved America (hardcover). Spain Rodriguez, illustrator (1st ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 114. ISBN978-1-4391-0902-1. as more evidence of Mussolini's road mayhem began to surface...Il Duce's American passenger came forward to corroborate the story. He turned out to be globe-trotting newspaperman and son of fortune Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr...
^David Talbot (October 5, 2010), Devil Dog: The Amazing True Story Of The Man Who Saved America (hardcover), Spain Rodriguez, illustrator (1st ed.), Simon & Schuster, p. 114, ISBN978-1-4391-0902-1, Butler...told the young officer that President Hoover had an ulterior motive for punishing him so harshly...During the Boxer Rebellion [and the] siege of Tientsin [Butler's marines were] disgusted to find an American engineer hiding in the basement with the women and children... 'Do you know who that man was?' Butler asked his visitor. 'Herbert Hoover.'
^Ortiz Stephen R (2006). "The 'New Deal' for Veterans: The Economy Act, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of the New Deal". Journal of Military History. 70: 434–5. doi:10.1353/jmh.2006.0119. S2CID153329997.
^George Wolfskill, The Revolt of the Conservatives: A History of the American Liberty League, 1934–1940 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962), 85–91, 94–5
^Weinstein, Allen; Vassiliev, Alexander (March 14, 2000). The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America – The Stalin Era. New York: Modern Library. pp. 140–150. ISBN978-0-375-75536-1.
^Table data from Marine Corps Muster Rolls, unless otherwise cited.
^Strecker, 2011, p. 24. Strecker lists June 23, but his account mistakenly substitutes June for July in several instances. July 23 fits the dated events of the Battle of Tientsin and its aftermath.
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Sweetman, Jack (1968). The Landing at Veracruz: 1914. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD.
After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War Is a Racket". The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. His work was condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas, who wrote Butler’s oral autobiography, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage".
Contents
In War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering.
The work is divided into five chapters:
War is a racket
Who makes the profits?
Who pays the bills?
How to smash this racket!
To hell with war!
It contains this summary
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
Recommendations
In the booklet's penultimate chapter, Butler recommended three steps to disrupt the war racket:
Making war unprofitable. Butler suggests that the means for war should be "conscripted" before those who would fight the war:
It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labour before the nation's manhood can be conscripted. […] Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our ship-builders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted — to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.
Acts of war to be decided by those who fight it. He also suggests a limited referendum to determine if the war is to be fought. Eligible to vote would be those who risk death on the front lines.
Limitation of militaries to self-defense. For the United States, Butler recommends that the Navy be limited, by law, to operating within 200 miles of the coastline, and the Army restricted to the territorial limits of the country, ensuring that war, if fought, can never be one of aggression.
Married: Ethel C. Peters, of Philadelphia, June 30, 1905
Awarded two congressional medals of honor:
capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
Distinguished service medal, 1919
Major General - United States Marine Corps
Retired Oct. 1, 1931
On leave of absence to act as director of Dept. of Safety, Philadelphia, 1932
Lecturer -- 1930's
Republican Candidate for Senate, 1932
Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, June 21, 1940
For more information about Major General Butler, contact the United States Marine Corps.
CHAPTER ONE
War Is A Racket
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.
And what is this bill?
This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.
Again they are choosing sides. France and Russia met and agreed to stand side by side. Italy and Austria hurried to make a similar agreement. Poland and Germany cast sheep's eyes at each other, forgetting for the nonce [one unique occasion], their dispute over the Polish Corridor.
The assassination of King Alexander of Jugoslavia [Yugoslavia] complicated matters. Jugoslavia and Hungary, long bitter enemies, were almost at each other's throats. Italy was ready to jump in. But France was waiting. So was Czechoslovakia. All of them are looking ahead to war. Not the people -- not those who fight and pay and die -- only those who foment wars and remain safely at home to profit.
There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making.
Hell's bells! Are these 40,000,000 men being trained to be dancers?
Not in Italy, to be sure. Premier Mussolini knows what they are being trained for. He, at least, is frank enough to speak out. Only the other day, Il Duce in "International Conciliation," the publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said:
"And above all, Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. . . . War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it."
Undoubtedly Mussolini means exactly what he says. His well-trained army, his great fleet of planes, and even his navy are ready for war -- anxious for it, apparently. His recent stand at the side of Hungary in the latter's dispute with Jugoslavia showed that. And the hurried mobilization of his troops on the Austrian border after the assassination of Dollfuss showed it too. There are others in Europe too whose sabre rattling presages war, sooner or later.
Herr Hitler, with his rearming Germany and his constant demands for more and more arms, is an equal if not greater menace to peace. France only recently increased the term of military service for its youth from a year to eighteen months.
Yes, all over, nations are camping in their arms. The mad dogs of Europe are on the loose. In the Orient the maneuvering is more adroit. Back in 1904, when Russia and Japan fought, we kicked out our old friends the Russians and backed Japan. Then our very generous international bankers were financing Japan. Now the trend is to poison us against the Japanese. What does the "open door" policy to China mean to us? Our trade with China is about $90,000,000 a year. Or the Philippine Islands? We have spent about $600,000,000 in the Philippines in thirty-five years and we (our bankers and industrialists and speculators) have private investments there of less than $200,000,000.
Then, to save that China trade of about $90,000,000, or to protect these private investments of less than $200,000,000 in the Philippines, we would be all stirred up to hate Japan and go to war -- a war that might well cost us tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives of Americans, and many more hundreds of thousands of physically maimed and mentally unbalanced men.
Of course, for this loss, there would be a compensating profit -- fortunes would be made. Millions and billions of dollars would be piled up. By a few. Munitions makers. Bankers. Ship builders. Manufacturers. Meat packers. Speculators. They would fare well.
Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn't they? It pays high dividends.
But what does it profit the men who are killed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children?
What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits?
Yes, and what does it profit the nation?
Take our own case. Until 1898 we didn't own a bit of territory outside the mainland of North America. At that time our national debt was a little more than $1,000,000,000. Then we became "internationally minded." We forgot, or shunted aside, the advice of the Father of our country. We forgot George Washington's warning about "entangling alliances." We went to war. We acquired outside territory. At the end of the World War period, as a direct result of our fiddling in international affairs, our national debt had jumped to over $25,000,000,000. Our total favorable trade balance during the twenty-five-year period was about $24,000,000,000. Therefore, on a purely bookkeeping basis, we ran a little behind year for year, and that foreign trade might well have been ours without the wars.
It would have been far cheaper (not to say safer) for the average American who pays the bills to stay out of foreign entanglements. For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people -- who do not profit.
CHAPTER TWO
Who Makes The Profits?
The World War, rather our brief participation in it, has cost the United States some $52,000,000,000. Figure it out. That means $400 to every American man, woman, and child. And we haven't paid the debt yet. We are paying it, our children will pay it, and our children's children probably still will be paying the cost of that war.
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit. All that traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has the money. Let's get it.
Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket -- and are safely pocketed. Let's just take a few examples:
Take our friends the du Ponts, the powder people -- didn't one of them testify before a Senate committee recently that their powder won the war? Or saved the world for democracy? Or something? How did they do in the war? They were a patriotic corporation. Well, the average earnings of the du Ponts for the period 1910 to 1914 were $6,000,000 a year. It wasn't much, but the du Ponts managed to get along on it. Now let's look at their average yearly profit during the war years, 1914 to 1918. Fifty-eight million dollars a year profit we find! Nearly ten times that of normal times, and the profits of normal times were pretty good. An increase in profits of more than 950 per cent.
Take one of our little steel companies that patriotically shunted aside the making of rails and girders and bridges to manufacture war materials. Well, their 1910-1914 yearly earnings averaged $6,000,000. Then came the war. And, like loyal citizens, Bethlehem Steel promptly turned to munitions making. Did their profits jump -- or did they let Uncle Sam in for a bargain? Well, their 1914-1918 average was $49,000,000 a year!
Or, let's take United States Steel. The normal earnings during the five-year period prior to the war were $105,000,000 a year. Not bad. Then along came the war and up went the profits. The average yearly profit for the period 1914-1918 was $240,000,000. Not bad.
There you have some of the steel and powder earnings. Let's look at something else. A little copper, perhaps. That always does well in war times.
Anaconda, for instance. Average yearly earnings during the pre-war years 1910-1914 of $10,000,000. During the war years 1914-1918 profits leaped to $34,000,000 per year.
Or Utah Copper. Average of $5,000,000 per year during the 1910-1914 period. Jumped to an average of $21,000,000 yearly profits for the war period.
Let's group these five, with three smaller companies. The total yearly average profits of the pre-war period 1910-1914 were $137,480,000. Then along came the war. The average yearly profits for this group skyrocketed to $408,300,000.
A little increase in profits of approximately 200 per cent.
Does war pay? It paid them. But they aren't the only ones. There are still others. Let's take leather.
For the three-year period before the war the total profits of Central Leather Company were $3,500,000. That was approximately $1,167,000 a year. Well, in 1916 Central Leather returned a profit of $15,000,000, a small increase of 1,100 per cent. That's all. The General Chemical Company averaged a profit for the three years before the war of a little over $800,000 a year. Came the war, and the profits jumped to $12,000,000. a leap of 1,400 per cent.
International Nickel Company -- and you can't have a war without nickel -- showed an increase in profits from a mere average of $4,000,000 a year to $73,000,000 yearly. Not bad? An increase of more than 1,700 per cent.
American Sugar Refining Company averaged $2,000,000 a year for the three years before the war. In 1916 a profit of $6,000,000 was recorded.
Listen to Senate Document No. 259. The Sixty-Fifth Congress, reporting on corporate earnings and government revenues. Considering the profits of 122 meat packers, 153 cotton manufacturers, 299 garment makers, 49 steel plants, and 340 coal producers during the war. Profits under 25 per cent were exceptional. For instance the coal companies made between 100 per cent and 7,856 per cent on their capital stock during the war. The Chicago packers doubled and tripled their earnings.
And let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers. Being partnerships rather than incorporated organizations, they do not have to report to stockholders. And their profits were as secret as they were immense. How the bankers made their millions and their billions I do not know, because those little secrets never become public -- even before a Senate investigatory body.
But here's how some of the other patriotic industrialists and speculators chiseled their way into war profits.
Take the shoe people. They like war. It brings business with abnormal profits. They made huge profits on sales abroad to our allies. Perhaps, like the munitions manufacturers and armament makers, they also sold to the enemy. For a dollar is a dollar whether it comes from Germany or from France. But they did well by Uncle Sam too. For instance, they sold Uncle Sam 35,000,000 pairs of hobnailed service shoes. There were 4,000,000 soldiers. Eight pairs, and more, to a soldier. My regiment during the war had only one pair to a soldier. Some of these shoes probably are still in existence. They were good shoes. But when the war was over Uncle Sam has a matter of 25,000,000 pairs left over. Bought -- and paid for. Profits recorded and pocketed.
There was still lots of leather left. So the leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of McClellan saddles for the cavalry. But there wasn't any American cavalry overseas! Somebody had to get rid of this leather, however. Somebody had to make a profit in it -- so we had a lot of McClellan saddles. And we probably have those yet.
Also somebody had a lot of mosquito netting. They sold your Uncle Sam 20,000,000 mosquito nets for the use of the soldiers overseas. I suppose the boys were expected to put it over them as they tried to sleep in muddy trenches -- one hand scratching cooties on their backs and the other making passes at scurrying rats. Well, not one of these mosquito nets ever got to France!
Anyhow, these thoughtful manufacturers wanted to make sure that no soldier would be without his mosquito net, so 40,000,000 additional yards of mosquito netting were sold to Uncle Sam.
There were pretty good profits in mosquito netting in those days, even if there were no mosquitoes in France. I suppose, if the war had lasted just a little longer, the enterprising mosquito netting manufacturers would have sold your Uncle Sam a couple of consignments of mosquitoes to plant in France so that more mosquito netting would be in order.
Airplane and engine manufacturers felt they, too, should get their just profits out of this war. Why not? Everybody else was getting theirs. So $1,000,000,000 -- count them if you live long enough -- was spent by Uncle Sam in building airplane engines that never left the ground! Not one plane, or motor, out of the billion dollars worth ordered, ever got into a battle in France. Just the same the manufacturers made their little profit of 30, 100, or perhaps 300 per cent.
Undershirts for soldiers cost 14¢ [cents] to make and uncle Sam paid 30¢ to 40¢ each for them -- a nice little profit for the undershirt manufacturer. And the stocking manufacturer and the uniform manufacturers and the cap manufacturers and the steel helmet manufacturers -- all got theirs.
Why, when the war was over some 4,000,000 sets of equipment -- knapsacks and the things that go to fill them -- crammed warehouses on this side. Now they are being scrapped because the regulations have changed the contents. But the manufacturers collected their wartime profits on them -- and they will do it all over again the next time.
There were lots of brilliant ideas for profit making during the war.
One very versatile patriot sold Uncle Sam twelve dozen 48-inch wrenches. Oh, they were very nice wrenches. The only trouble was that there was only one nut ever made that was large enough for these wrenches. That is the one that holds the turbines at Niagara Falls. Well, after Uncle Sam had bought them and the manufacturer had pocketed the profit, the wrenches were put on freight cars and shunted all around the United States in an effort to find a use for them. When the Armistice was signed it was indeed a sad blow to the wrench manufacturer. He was just about to make some nuts to fit the wrenches. Then he planned to sell these, too, to your Uncle Sam.
Still another had the brilliant idea that colonels shouldn't ride in automobiles, nor should they even ride on horseback. One has probably seen a picture of Andy Jackson riding in a buckboard. Well, some 6,000 buckboards were sold to Uncle Sam for the use of colonels! Not one of them was used. But the buckboard manufacturer got his war profit.
The shipbuilders felt they should come in on some of it, too. They built a lot of ships that made a lot of profit. More than $3,000,000,000 worth. Some of the ships were all right. But $635,000,000 worth of them were made of wood and wouldn't float! The seams opened up -- and they sank. We paid for them, though. And somebody pocketed the profits.
It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war itself. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way. This $16,000,000,000 profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy sum. And it went to a very few.
The Senate (Nye) committee probe of the munitions industry and its wartime profits, despite its sensational disclosures, hardly has scratched the surface.
Even so, it has had some effect. The State Department has been studying "for some time" methods of keeping out of war. The War Department suddenly decides it has a wonderful plan to spring. The Administration names a committee -- with the War and Navy Departments ably represented under the chairmanship of a Wall Street speculator -- to limit profits in war time. To what extent isn't suggested. Hmmm. Possibly the profits of 300 and 600 and 1,600 per cent of those who turned blood into gold in the World War would be limited to some smaller figure.
Apparently, however, the plan does not call for any limitation of losses -- that is, the losses of those who fight the war. As far as I have been able to ascertain there is nothing in the scheme to limit a soldier to the loss of but one eye, or one arm, or to limit his wounds to one or two or three. Or to limit the loss of life.
There is nothing in this scheme, apparently, that says not more than 12 per cent of a regiment shall be wounded in battle, or that not more than 7 per cent in a division shall be killed.
Of course, the committee cannot be bothered with such trifling matters.
CHAPTER THREE
Who Pays The Bills?
Who provides the profits -- these nice little profits of 20, 100, 300, 1,500 and 1,800 per cent? We all pay them -- in taxation. We paid the bankers their profits when we bought Liberty Bonds at $100.00 and sold them back at $84 or $86 to the bankers. These bankers collected $100 plus. It was a simple manipulation. The bankers control the security marts. It was easy for them to depress the price of these bonds. Then all of us -- the people -- got frightened and sold the bonds at $84 or $86. The bankers bought them. Then these same bankers stimulated a boom and government bonds went to par -- and above. Then the bankers collected their profits.
But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill.
If you don't believe this, visit the American cemeteries on the battlefields abroad. Or visit any of the veteran's hospitals in the United States. On a tour of the country, in the midst of which I am at the time of this writing, I have visited eighteen government hospitals for veterans. In them are a total of about 50,000 destroyed men -- men who were the pick of the nation eighteen years ago. The very able chief surgeon at the government hospital; at Milwaukee, where there are 3,800 of the living dead, told me that mortality among veterans is three times as great as among those who stayed at home.
Boys with a normal viewpoint were taken out of the fields and offices and factories and classrooms and put into the ranks. There they were remolded; they were made over; they were made to "about face"; to regard murder as the order of the day. They were put shoulder to shoulder and, through mass psychology, they were entirely changed. We used them for a couple of years and trained them to think nothing at all of killing or of being killed.
Then, suddenly, we discharged them and told them to make another "about face" ! This time they had to do their own readjustment, sans [without] mass psychology, sans officers' aid and advice and sans nation-wide propaganda. We didn't need them any more. So we scattered them about without any "three-minute" or "Liberty Loan" speeches or parades. Many, too many, of these fine young boys are eventually destroyed, mentally, because they could not make that final "about face" alone.
In the government hospital in Marion, Indiana, 1,800 of these boys are in pens! Five hundred of them in a barracks with steel bars and wires all around outside the buildings and on the porches. These already have been mentally destroyed. These boys don't even look like human beings. Oh, the looks on their faces! Physically, they are in good shape; mentally, they are gone.
There are thousands and thousands of these cases, and more and more are coming in all the time. The tremendous excitement of the war, the sudden cutting off of that excitement -- the young boys couldn't stand it.
That's a part of the bill. So much for the dead -- they have paid their part of the war profits. So much for the mentally and physically wounded -- they are paying now their share of the war profits. But the others paid, too -- they paid with heartbreaks when they tore themselves away from their firesides and their families to don the uniform of Uncle Sam -- on which a profit had been made. They paid another part in the training camps where they were regimented and drilled while others took their jobs and their places in the lives of their communities. The paid for it in the trenches where they shot and were shot; where they were hungry for days at a time; where they slept in the mud and the cold and in the rain -- with the moans and shrieks of the dying for a horrible lullaby.
But don't forget -- the soldier paid part of the dollars and cents bill too.
Up to and including the Spanish-American War, we had a prize system, and soldiers and sailors fought for money. During the Civil War they were paid bonuses, in many instances, before they went into service. The government, or states, paid as high as $1,200 for an enlistment. In the Spanish-American War they gave prize money. When we captured any vessels, the soldiers all got their share -- at least, they were supposed to. Then it was found that we could reduce the cost of wars by taking all the prize money and keeping it, but conscripting [drafting] the soldier anyway. Then soldiers couldn't bargain for their labor, Everyone else could bargain, but the soldier couldn't.
Napoleon once said,
"All men are enamored of decorations . . . they positively hunger for them."
So by developing the Napoleonic system -- the medal business -- the government learned it could get soldiers for less money, because the boys liked to be decorated. Until the Civil War there were no medals. Then the Congressional Medal of Honor was handed out. It made enlistments easier. After the Civil War no new medals were issued until the Spanish-American War.
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
So vicious was this war propaganda that even God was brought into it. With few exceptions our clergymen joined in the clamor to kill, kill, kill. To kill the Germans. God is on our side . . . it is His will that the Germans be killed.
And in Germany, the good pastors called upon the Germans to kill the allies . . . to please the same God. That was a part of the general propaganda, built up to make people war conscious and murder conscious.
Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was the "war to end all wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United States patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure."
Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month.
All they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill . . . and be killed.
But wait!
Half of that wage (just a little more than a riveter in a shipyard or a laborer in a munitions factory safe at home made in a day) was promptly taken from him to support his dependents, so that they would not become a charge upon his community. Then we made him pay what amounted to accident insurance -- something the employer pays for in an enlightened state -- and that cost him $6 a month. He had less than $9 a month left.
Then, the most crowning insolence of all -- he was virtually blackjacked into paying for his own ammunition, clothing, and food by being made to buy Liberty Bonds. Most soldiers got no money at all on pay days.
We made them buy Liberty Bonds at $100 and then we bought them back -- when they came back from the war and couldn't find work -- at $84 and $86. And the soldiers bought about $2,000,000,000 worth of these bonds!
Yes, the soldier pays the greater part of the bill. His family pays too. They pay it in the same heart-break that he does. As he suffers, they suffer. At nights, as he lay in the trenches and watched shrapnel burst about him, they lay home in their beds and tossed sleeplessly -- his father, his mother, his wife, his sisters, his brothers, his sons, and his daughters.
When he returned home minus an eye, or minus a leg or with his mind broken, they suffered too -- as much as and even sometimes more than he. Yes, and they, too, contributed their dollars to the profits of the munitions makers and bankers and shipbuilders and the manufacturers and the speculators made. They, too, bought Liberty Bonds and contributed to the profit of the bankers after the Armistice in the hocus-pocus of manipulated Liberty Bond prices.
And even now the families of the wounded men and of the mentally broken and those who never were able to readjust themselves are still suffering and still paying.
CHAPTER FOUR
How To Smash This Racket!
WELL, it's a racket, all right.
A few profit -- and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation -- it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted -- to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.
Let the workers in these plants get the same wages -- all the workers, all presidents, all executives, all directors, all managers, all bankers -- yes, and all generals and all admirals and all officers and all politicians and all government office holders -- everyone in the nation be restricted to a total monthly income not to exceed that paid to the soldier in the trenches!
Let all these kings and tycoons and masters of business and all those workers in industry and all our senators and governors and majors pay half of their monthly $30 wage to their families and pay war risk insurance and buy Liberty Bonds.
Why shouldn't they?
They aren't running any risk of being killed or of having their bodies mangled or their minds shattered. They aren't sleeping in muddy trenches. They aren't hungry. The soldiers are!
Give capital and industry and labor thirty days to think it over and you will find, by that time, there will be no war. That will smash the war racket -- that and nothing else.
Maybe I am a little too optimistic. Capital still has some say. So capital won't permit the taking of the profit out of war until the people -- those who do the suffering and still pay the price -- make up their minds that those they elect to office shall do their bidding, and not that of the profiteers.
Another step necessary in this fight to smash the war racket is the limited plebiscite to determine whether a war should be declared. A plebiscite not of all the voters but merely of those who would be called upon to do the fighting and dying. There wouldn't be very much sense in having a 76-year-old president of a munitions factory or the flat-footed head of an international banking firm or the cross-eyed manager of a uniform manufacturing plant -- all of whom see visions of tremendous profits in the event of war -- voting on whether the nation should go to war or not. They never would be called upon to shoulder arms -- to sleep in a trench and to be shot. Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.
There is ample precedent for restricting the voting to those affected. Many of our states have restrictions on those permitted to vote. In most, it is necessary to be able to read and write before you may vote. In some, you must own property. It would be a simple matter each year for the men coming of military age to register in their communities as they did in the draft during the World War and be examined physically. Those who could pass and who would therefore be called upon to bear arms in the event of war would be eligible to vote in a limited plebiscite. They should be the ones to have the power to decide -- and not a Congress few of whose members are within the age limit and fewer still of whom are in physical condition to bear arms. Only those who must suffer should have the right to vote.
A third step in this business of smashing the war racket is to make certain that our military forces are truly forces for defense only.
At each session of Congress the question of further naval appropriations comes up. The swivel-chair admirals of Washington (and there are always a lot of them) are very adroit lobbyists. And they are smart. They don't shout that "We need a lot of battleships to war on this nation or that nation." Oh no. First of all, they let it be known that America is menaced by a great naval power. Almost any day, these admirals will tell you, the great fleet of this supposed enemy will strike suddenly and annihilate 125,000,000 people. Just like that. Then they begin to cry for a larger navy. For what? To fight the enemy? Oh my, no. Oh, no. For defense purposes only.
Then, incidentally, they announce maneuvers in the Pacific. For defense. Uh, huh.
The Pacific is a great big ocean. We have a tremendous coastline on the Pacific. Will the maneuvers be off the coast, two or three hundred miles? Oh, no. The maneuvers will be two thousand, yes, perhaps even thirty-five hundred miles, off the coast.
The Japanese, a proud people, of course will be pleased beyond expression to see the united States fleet so close to Nippon's shores. Even as pleased as would be the residents of California were they to dimly discern through the morning mist, the Japanese fleet playing at war games off Los Angeles.
The ships of our navy, it can be seen, should be specifically limited, by law, to within 200 miles of our coastline. Had that been the law in 1898 the Maine would never have gone to Havana Harbor. She never would have been blown up. There would have been no war with Spain with its attendant loss of life. Two hundred miles is ample, in the opinion of experts, for defense purposes. Our nation cannot start an offensive war if its ships can't go further than 200 miles from the coastline. Planes might be permitted to go as far as 500 miles from the coast for purposes of reconnaissance. And the army should never leave the territorial limits of our nation.
To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
We must take the profit out of war.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.
CHAPTER FIVE
To Hell With War!
I am not a fool as to believe that war is a thing of the past. I know the people do not want war, but there is no use in saying we cannot be pushed into another war.
Looking back, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1916 on a platform that he had "kept us out of war" and on the implied promise that he would "keep us out of war." Yet, five months later he asked Congress to declare war on Germany.
In that five-month interval the people had not been asked whether they had changed their minds. The 4,000,000 young men who put on uniforms and marched or sailed away were not asked whether they wanted to go forth to suffer and die.
Then what caused our government to change its mind so suddenly?
Money.
An allied commission, it may be recalled, came over shortly before the war declaration and called on the President. The President summoned a group of advisers. The head of the commission spoke. Stripped of its diplomatic language, this is what he told the President and his group:
"There is no use kidding ourselves any longer. The cause of the allies is lost. We now owe you (American bankers, American munitions makers, American manufacturers, American speculators, American exporters) five or six billion dollars.
If we lose (and without the help of the United States we must lose) we, England, France and Italy, cannot pay back this money . . . and Germany won't.
So . . . "
Had secrecy been outlawed as far as war negotiations were concerned, and had the press been invited to be present at that conference, or had radio been available to broadcast the proceedings, America never would have entered the World War. But this conference, like all war discussions, was shrouded in utmost secrecy. When our boys were sent off to war they were told it was a "war to make the world safe for democracy" and a "war to end all wars."
Well, eighteen years after, the world has less of democracy than it had then. Besides, what business is it of ours whether Russia or Germany or England or France or Italy or Austria live under democracies or monarchies? Whether they are Fascists or Communists? Our problem is to preserve our own democracy.
And very little, if anything, has been accomplished to assure us that the World War was really the war to end all wars.
Yes, we have had disarmament conferences and limitations of arms conferences. They don't mean a thing. One has just failed; the results of another have been nullified. We send our professional soldiers and our sailors and our politicians and our diplomats to these conferences. And what happens?
The professional soldiers and sailors don't want to disarm. No admiral wants to be without a ship. No general wants to be without a command. Both mean men without jobs. They are not for disarmament. They cannot be for limitations of arms. And at all these conferences, lurking in the background but all-powerful, just the same, are the sinister agents of those who profit by war. They see to it that these conferences do not disarm or seriously limit armaments.
The chief aim of any power at any of these conferences has not been to achieve disarmament to prevent war but rather to get more armament for itself and less for any potential foe.
There is only one way to disarm with any semblance of practicability. That is for all nations to get together and scrap every ship, every gun, every rifle, every tank, every war plane. Even this, if it were possible, would not be enough.
The next war, according to experts, will be fought not with battleships, not by artillery, not with rifles and not with machine guns. It will be fought with deadly chemicals and gases.
Secretly each nation is studying and perfecting newer and ghastlier means of annihilating its foes wholesale. Yes, ships will continue to be built, for the shipbuilders must make their profits. And guns still will be manufactured and powder and rifles will be made, for the munitions makers must make their huge profits. And the soldiers, of course, must wear uniforms, for the manufacturer must make their war profits too.
But victory or defeat will be determined by the skill and ingenuity of our scientists.
If we put them to work making poison gas and more and more fiendish mechanical and explosive instruments of destruction, they will have no time for the constructive job of building greater prosperity for all peoples. By putting them to this useful job, we can all make more money out of peace than we can out of war -- even the munitions makers.
Mini Documentary: All Wars Are Banker Wars / What The Private Central Banks DON'T WANT YOU to Know! Truths you weren't allowed to learn in school. This might be one of the most important documentaries that anyone can watch right now given current events and escalations involving the US.
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Dr. Aajonus Vonderplanitz talks about viruses and swine flu.Aajonus Vonderplanitz (April 17, 1947 – August 28, 2013) was an American alternative nutritionist and food-rights activist who focused on raw foods, especially meat and dairy. Especially controversial, he conducted legal battles and implemented legal workarounds for consumer access to raw milk, and developed a diet based largely on raw meat, the Primal Diet.[4][5][6][7] Yet his later years, marked by his allegations of conspiracies and by his infighting within the food-rights community, drew him notoriety even among advocates of alternative healthcare and food rights. He claimed hospital diagnosis of cancer soon ruled terminal, but experiencing remission via raw carrot juice and raw dairy by age 21. Later, he began informal nutritional counseling. By age 25, he had adopted raw veganism. Yet at age 29, he added raw meat, which he claimed to vastly improve healing. After publication of his first book, We Want to Live, in 1997, he became a leading alternative nutritionist. In September 1986, at age 39, living in a Beverly Hills “slum” while freelancing in nutrition, Vonderplanitz returned to Cincinnati, Ohio. There, his only child, his son, estranged for about 20 years, had recently been in a severe car wreck, driving, without a seatbelt on, straight into a tree.[29] Vonderplanitz claimed to have sabotaged his son’s conventional medical treatment, in Mercy Hospital‘s intensive-care unit, and used raw foods to awaken and retrieve his comatose son from imminent death, and to reverse his paralysis and brain damage. Ten years after his son’s recovery, Vonderplanitz recounted the tale in his first book, We Want to Live, first published in 1997 and revised in 2005. Upon the 1997 release of Vonderplanitz’s first book, Robert Atkins interviewed him, based by then in Malibu, on Atkins’s nationally syndicated radio show. Vonderplanitz had claimed that his own protocol had cured over 200 clients of cancer.[9] In 2000, Vonderplanitz trademarked the name Primal Diet. Unlike later diets called “primal”,[e] Vonderplanitz’s Primal Diet principally includes raw meat, raw eggs, raw dairy, raw fats, and unheated honey. In 2002, his other book, the Recipe for Living Without Disease, was published. Nearing 2010, he was still claiming over 90% rate of cancer remission among his clients closely heeding it. Despite mainstream dismissal, his Primal Diet gained a sizable following. We Want to Live Written by Aajonus Vonderplantz We Want to Live: Written by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, 1997 Edition, Publisher: Carnelian Pr [Hardcover] This book includes a remedy section listing hundreds of diseases and ailments, with specific foods and combinations of food We Want to Live: The Primal Diet (2005 Expanded Edition) Hardcover – 16 Sept. 2005 by Aajonus Vonderplanitzs that people have used to cure themselves. Listed is everything from beauty tips, the common cold and infant problems, to aging, muscular dystrophy, HIV and cancer. https://www.beyondveg.com/nieft-k/rvw/rvw-we-want-to-live.shtml
We Want to Live
Volume One–Out of the Grips of Disease and Death (the story) & Volume Two–Healthfully (the facts)
by Aajonus Vonderplanitz (1997) Carnelian Bay Castle Press.
As indicated in the subtitle, the book is divided into two parts. The first is the mother of all conversion/testimonial stories (125 pages worth). The second starts with a 5-page intro by Ron Strauss and is followed by an encyclopedic listing of foods and preparations (23 pages), then on to 90 pages of “food remedies,” and then 10 pages of “health methodologies.” (The “We Want to Live” web page contains the table of contents in more detail.) Finally, there are 33 pages of appendices (A-X) which are not labeled by topic but serve largely as extended footnotes of material from the “testimonial” section.Volume One’s “the story” is told as first-person narrative. The present-tense story starts with a phone call notifying Aajonus (pronounced like “homogenous” without the “hum”) that his long-estranged son has been in a severe auto accident and because of extensive head injuries is not expected to survive the next 24 hours. After stocking up on Californian raw honey, butter, papayas, etc., Aajonus flies out to stay with his son. By stealthfully replacing his son’s medications with raw-food recipes (initially a mixture of raw honey and butter placed under his tongue while he is in a coma) eventually the brain damage is miraculously repaired to a large degree. Along the way he battles with the hospital administration and policies. We learn through extensive (and somewhat confusing) flashbacks of his own recovery from cancer and of the recovery of others due to his (mostly) successful nutritional counseling, and even hear about an out-of-body near-death experience (also part of his “conversion”) where the tennis shoes he is wearing melt onto the room’s radiator. We are further privy to his conversion to raw animal foods (he had previously been fruitarian/vegan). After being unsuccessfully coached on the benefits of raw meat by Elk-of-the-Black-Moon (the spirit of Black Elk himself?) at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation vision quest (this bit is confined to an appendix for no apparent reason), it takes a pack of wild coyotes to convert him: He has decided to fast to death in the desert instead of returning to a diseased civilization (fruitarians love stuff like this, no? ???? ) but the coyotes have other plans for him, eventually killing and offering him a rabbit which he eats, and after which, of course, he is reborn. This is just the tip of the story’s iceberg, though. We learn not only about his troubled past and the “mandatory” health problems, but also about his teenage parenthood and “divorce,” and in general of his path from angry youth to health-seeker to “raw is law.” And he usually has some sort of detox going on: a poison mushroom took him many years to completely cure from, and an Electro Dermal Screening Device (whatever that might be) provided him ill-effects, including a most dramatic detox of bone epoxy used on his skull during previous surgery for an injury. The bonding with his estranged son, and his interaction with the hospital staff, family, and friends (including half a “pick-up” story about a woman in a health-food store which he never gets back to and finishes!) make the narrative surprisingly readable. In a Reader’s Digest “Drama in Real Life” sort of way. ???? As I’ve said, this is the mother of all testimonial/conversion stories ever put to print. Vonderplanitz’s new-age sensibilities lead to a high-pitched “Awww, come on!” reaction from a fellow like me, but it is a whale of a tale, and one suspects mostly true, or at least believed so by the author, who indeed makes an endearing and humble-humble narrator on such a journey. (Highlight: getting the yogis all revved up for the “pleasures of the flesh” by feeding them a diet of avos and citrus. “Awww, come on!” ???? ) The section surveying foods, remedies, and therapies is much more troubling, and perhaps ironically much more intriguing to me. I am reminded of Dr. Henry G. Bieler’s Food is Your Best Medicine, Herbert Shelton’s Fasting Can Save Your Life, and most every new-age remedy book I’ve ever seen–all rolled into one, and with a RAF (raw-animal-food) slant to boot! Mr. Vonderplanitz does indeed seem to have a cure/recipe for every affliction from cancer to athlete’s foot, but at the same time he is big on following your intuition/craving/instinct–and that what works for one will not for another. His “theoretical explanations” are at once intriguing and head-slapping. Can you figure out which parts of the examples below are which to this reviewer?
The thought of delicious, heavily buttered garlic bread came to mind. I knew it was instinct, my body telling me what is needed to raise my blood pressure. I went back into my apartment and ate a raw clove of garlic with French bread and lots of unsalted butter. Within moments I felt better, satisfied. I decided from that moment on that at least 70% of my diet would consist of raw foods. (p. 48) Fat resins and residues from cooked or processed green foods first collect in the intestines, becoming impacted. Secondly, they collect as gummy resins in the glands (as in prostatitis, leading to prostate cancer), and thirdly, they collect as gummy resins in the brain (as in Alzheimer’s disease). XXX The resins and residues from cooked or processed red fruits and vegetables most often collect in the lymph and skin, causing acne, sickly-looking tongues, hard and brittle bones, and deep lesions in the skin when the weather turns cold…. XXX People who lack the enzyme-mutations for digesting, assimilating, and utilizing cooked or processed yellow foods most often look pasty around the nose and eyes, and have very slow digestion, especially after eating a cooked or processed yellow or orange food. XXX People who lack enzyme-mutations for eating all three food groups–cooked or processed green, red (including orange) and yellow (including orange)–have a predisposition toward HIV positive.” (pp. 136-137) It is believed that whole raw eggs should not be eaten because albumin in egg white binds with biotin (part of the B-complex) in the body, causing side-effects. Egg yolk contains plenty of biotin to be utilized with albumin in egg white. The albumin/biotin combination is helpful because it helps to dissolve biocarbons and helps muscles retain carbohydrates. Whole raw eggs contain a wonderful, natural balance when eaten in a normal diet (whether the diet is raw or not). XXX In my experience with animals including human, who ate only the yolk and not the white (along with other foods on a raw diet), metabolism was considerably increased, usually withOUT increasing energy. The side-effects were that often hunger increased to a frenzy and dispositions tended to be irritable. It has been my experience in every case and condition that eating the whole raw egg was more nourishing, and better for metabolic and emotional balance. (p. 146)
And so on. His theoretical explanations (a la Bieler’s, and beyond!) seem like wholesale additions to modern nutritional myth and folklore. The lack of references (or intellectual humility, for that matter) severely limits his explanations, to my mind. Yet, given the paucity of info/experience of folks eating RAF over the long term, I am bound by curiosity to his experiences consuming large amounts of RAF, and his “clients” doing the same. For anyone with the slightest interest in RAF, We Want To Live is almost must reading, but I would hope that any reader would be skeptical of the claims and explanations (and further hope that you don’t become a “raw butter mixed with raw honey” junkie!, though there are worse addictions in this world to be sure ???? ). A non-instincto take on RAF is always interesting to someone like me who is steeped in instincto lore. Ronald Schmid’s Native Nutrition is far more informative and well-written, but lacks any of the first-person stuff in We Want To Live. But in such a paltry arena as RAF, beggars can’t be choosers as far as the books they might read. And there are many who prefer the testimonial approach much more than I do. Mr. Vonderplanitz is reportedly a very polished speaker, and with his impressive physique (never works out, of course ???? ) and commanding presence is very persuasive in the few public appearances he has given so far. But, if he expects to be taken at all seriously, he will need to document his claims, be much more specific in his methodology (if there exist any specifics to his methodology), and back way off with his naive “theoretical explanations.” Smooth talk and a likeable presence are probably enough for the uncritical minds of most folks into fringe diets–and Mr. Vonderplanitz is almost assured a small fringe following. But if he hopes to impress the mainstream (or get any attention from serious researchers) with the importance of his approach, he will have to provide documentation along with anecdote. He will have to provide a verifiable methodology as well as a winning smile. For more on Aajonus Vonderplanitz and his approach to eating and health, see the “We Want to Live” website. —This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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By Douglas MacMillan and Robert McMillanOctober 8, 2018
Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data. It found no evidence of misuse.
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Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so would draw regulatory scrutiny and cause reputational damage, according to people briefed on the incident and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
As part of its response to the incident, the Alphabet Inc. unit on Monday announced a sweeping set of data privacy measures that include permanently shutting down all consumer functionality of Google+. The move effectively puts the final nail in the coffin of a product that was launched in 2011 to challenge Facebook Inc. and is widely seen as one of Google’s biggest failures.
A software glitch in the social site gave outside developers potential access to private Google+ profile data between 2015 and March 2018, when internal investigators discovered and fixed the issue, according to the documents and people briefed on the incident. A memo reviewed by the Journal prepared by Google’s legal and policy staff and shared with senior executives warned that disclosing the incident would likely trigger “immediate regulatory interest” and invite comparisons to Facebook’s leak of user information to data firm Cambridge Analytica.
Chief Executive Sundar Pichai was briefed on the plan not to notify users after an internal committee had reached that decision, the people said.
The closure of Google+ is part of a broader review of privacy practices by Google that has determined the company needs tighter controls on several major products, the people said. In its announcement Monday, the company said it is curtailing the access it gives outside developers to user data on Android smartphones and Gmail.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act”. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Google Advertising Revenue Is Under Major Threat In Australia
Earlier this month a court in Australia reversed a lower court’s decision and ruled that the ads Google allows to run on its search engine are “misleading and deceptive”.
After this ruling by the Federal Court, Google was caught completely off-guard (typical Google arrogance of course) and they definitely were not expecting it to go in that direction. It also extremely worries Google and could set a threatening precedent to their business model. Google is concerned that the Australian court’s decision could be copied by other courts in different countries and it will hurt their bottom line. Google’s ad revenue is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in Australia alone.
Google will fight the court’s decision tooth and nail to avoid this from spreading and to make sure their money-making machine is protected. The company has less than 14 days to appeal the decision to a High Court. What Google is most concerned about is protecting their money and not making sure that their users are protected. This isn’t the first time that the company has gotten themselves in deep trouble over their ad business. The US government forced Google to pay up half a billion dollars for aiding and abetting a con artist commit his crimes (I will post an update story on this soon ,which I forgot to post).
The point is that Google has repeatedly shown that they are willing to accept money from every advertiser, every company, and even criminals if they can get away with it. They obviously have very little ethics and I sure wouldn’t trust them. Be careful clicking on those ads.
This Australian legal battle against Google is a very interesting one to watch. ABC News in Australia did a fantastic report on this story. The video is below and if you want to read the transcript, you can go to their website
Forbes: 6 Months Later and Google Plus Still Sucks
According to a writer for Forbes named Paul Tassi, Google’s latest attempt at social networking is still a failure. Mr. Tassi wrote about his dissatisfaction using Google Plus last year and he received some criticism from loyal diehards of the site – although most people would agree with Mr. Tassi’s observation that the site…well, sucks.
The Wall Street Journal a little while ago published an article claiming that the site is a virtual “ghost town” and users only spent like 3 minutes on the site per month. Of course Google denies this and released vague numbers to contradict any negative publicity.
Anyway, Mr. Tassi gave Google Plus some more time and a second chance to prove itself. He published another article today and he says that Google’s social networking site still doesn’t impress him. He wrote:
“…but I thought now was the time to revisit my thoughts on the site, quite a bit down the road. Over half a year has gone by since then. I’ve posted nearly every day to my G+ page, and have engaged others in conversation about many a topic… I still do not believe Google Plus is the social network it needs to be, nor do I believe it will ever pose a significant threat to Facebook in its current form.”
Mr. Tassi says that none of his friends use Google Plus and don’t seem like they ever will. His friends are using several other social media on the Web, including the red-hot Pinterest which I’m hearing a lot about lately. I think I remember reading someplace that Pinterest is credited for giving websites much of their referral traffic – far exceeding Google Plus.
Mr. Tassi believes that Google Plus appeals to a “niche community” of tech geeks and people who are in certain industries that find the site useful in connecting with the general public versus connecting with friends. Google Plus isn’t really a place you go if you want to connect with your close friends. He says that Google Plus is full of strangers who don’t comment much or engage with the site often. So even though he believes Google Plus isn’t necessarily a “ghost town” based on how you look at the numbers, it sure does give off the feeling that it’s empty and cold.
I have posted an article on my blog calling Google Plus “pretentious” once. I actually think Google sells its social networking site as being a high-brow version of Facebook – as if Facebook is that place common folks exchange frivolous things with one another while Google Plus folks share more meaningful material. It’s typical Google arrogance.
Google’s social networking site does not look like it will get any better any time soon or ever. It’s been around for a long time now and the company has huge expectations for the site. Google desperately wants to see its struggling social networking site grow and become a success, there is a lot weighing on it. Yet even with so much invested in the site, Google cannot seem to win.
To read Paul Tassi’s full article, please click here
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Victim Of Brutal Beating Says She Is “Afraid” of Google Executive’s Family.
There is disturbing bombshell news that has been exposed the other day and it involves a major employee of Google. Marissa Mayer has been with Google since the very early days of the company, she is often said to be the 20th employee of Google. As one of the very first employees of Google, Marissa knows a lot about Google and she is deeply embedded in this company. Her current job title is Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location services.
Marissa became a very wealthy woman after Google became a public company in 2004. She is often seen as the public face of Google itself. You see her everywhere doing all sorts of different interviews with newspapers and even on television programs like the Martha Stewart Show. She has become somewhat of a celebrity and a spokeswoman for Google. The company uses her bright smile and photogenic looks to give itself an attractive public image.
However, Google might want to keep Marissa out of the spotlight for awhile – perhaps never again. The innocent looking and charming woman Google used as the public face of the company is part of a family that isn’t so attractive.
Now, I have written here before that this blog doesn’t focus on tabloid topics or personal issues, but this particular case involving the Mayer family is different. I don’t like gossipy, irrelevant, and frivolous stuff – but I will focus on criminal activity that has strong connections to Google.
The younger brother of Marissa, Mason Mayer, has been accused of three felonies: assault, false imprisonment and domestic violence. He allegedly brutally beat his girlfriend, Kelli Ann Trent, after a night out back in September 2011. We are learning about this now because The San Francisco Appeal newspaper investigated this case and published their findings yesterday.
Alright – so here’s what happened, according to court documents obtained by the newspaper. An affidavit submitted by San Francisco Police Department Inspector Michael Becker, details exactly what allegedly happened between Mason Mayer and his girlfriend:
On the evening of September 24, Mason and Kelli were getting ready to go to a party. They were at Mason’s condo residence at the time. Prior to the leaving to go to the party, they had an argument over a woman – who Mason allegedly cheated with – attending the party too.
The couple went to the party but there was still tension between them. According to the court document, Mason angrily accused a bartender of hitting on his girlfriend. He also became angry at Kelli Ann Trent for speaking with Marissa Mayer’s husband. Mason apparently “dislikes” his brother-in-law for some reason.
The couple left the party and went back home to Mason’s condo residence. While walking through the building hallway, Mason shoved Kelli. He then took her inside the residence, locked her in his bedroom, and then threw Kelli on the floor of the bedroom.
Mason began spitting in the face of his girlfriend, pulling her hair out, and he slammed her head against the marble bedroom floor. Kelli was in agony and in the fetal position trying to protect herself. Mason repeatedly punched her in the face, while Kelli struggled to get away. He told her that the only way she was going to get out of the beating was by driving her to the Golden Gate Bridge and throwing her off it.
Luckily for Kelli, before things could get any worse, Mason’s cell phone started ringing. It was a friend of the couple who was calling to ask to pick up his personal items from the condo. While on the phone, Kelli screamed for help.
The friend eventually arrived at the condo residence and Mason answered the front door to let him in. Kelli ran out of the bedroom hysterical and crying out for help. Mason grabbed her and wouldn’t let her go. The friend asked Mason to let her go but he refused. The friend said that he would call the police if he didn’t let her go. After Mason finally agreed to let Kelli go, she went back into the bedroom to retrieve her bag.
But Mason followed her back into the bedroom and locked the door shut again. The friend decided to stay the night at the condo to make sure nothing bad happened. The next morning, Kelli got up and she noticed all the injuries to her body.
Kelli eventually went to the police to report what happened to her. The 33-year-old Mason Mayer was arrested by police on November 28, 2011. In January a judge ordered Mason to stay away from Kelli. He has pleaded not guilty – but if found guilty he faces a maximum four years and eight months in state prison. Mason Mayer has a pretrial conference in a Superior Court on April 18th, 2012.
This is all so disturbing and vile. I need a shower after reading the court documents and seeing the injuries on the alleged victim. Mason Mayer is apparently very close to his famous sister and lives off her success. According to The San Francisco Appeal newspaper, Mason lives in the same luxury building as his sister and he was never worked since his sister struck it rich working at Google.
Just keep this in mind: these are the type of people you entrust your personal information with when you use Google. I certainly wouldn’t want people like Mason Mayer and his executive sister anywhere near my personal data. Knowing about the ethics and morals of the people who handle very sensitive data about you is so important.
If I don’t trust you, I will not do business with you – ever.
UPDATE:
I wrote another article on this story with more details – clickhere
For more information:
The Francisco Appeal, “Brother of Google Executive Marissa Mayer Facing Charges…” – click here
Federal Agency Fines Google $25,000 “Deliberately” Impeding Investigation
It was reported yesterday that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined Google $25,000 for not cooperating with an investigation over Google’s massive invasion of privacy involving its Street View service.
The FCC said that Google “deliberately impeded and delayed” its investigation. Google made it very difficult for investigators to gain access to employees and hid important evidence. Google did not answer emails and the company even tried to hide the identities of the employees involved in the privacy violations from two years ago.
In 2010, Google’s Street View cars collected very private information from unencrypted home computers. When Google was caught doing this it apologized and said that it didn’t deliberately try to capture private data. Soon after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated and sided with Google’s explanation that it was a mistake. Although the US didn’t take the massive privacy violation seriously, European countries were more concerned.
Now the FCC has come out and exposed Google’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation. This is really embarrassing for a company that claims it’s so transparent about everything it does and is cooperative with regulators. This is not the first regulators have complained about Google’s secrecy, arrogance, and unwillingness to cooperate with investigations. The French data protection agency currently investigating Google’s new privacy policy said that Google neglected to contact them before implementing their controversial and intrusive privacy policy.
The $25,000 Google is now forced to pay will do nothing to the company’s bottom line. Google raked in about $40 billion last year. Over 90% of Google’s revenues come from advertising – this means that Google makes money by selling your personal data to advertisers. This is the reason Google consolidated their privacy policies into a singular policy – it makes it easier for the company to figure you out and it’s more profitable. A Google spokesman said that the company is on a mission to combat against “the faceless Web”.
Google paying a $25,000 fine is like an average person paying a one cent fine – but don’t get too hung up on the amount of that fine. The biggest hit Google received from this new report by the FCC is its reputation. Most people think way too highly of this company and if more reports like this come out to expose Google’s dirt then the better it will be for the general public.
I love what Christina DesMarais, PCWorld, wrote in her article:
“…if Google’s uncooperative behavior is true as the FCC maintains, the obvious question is, ‘What is Google hiding?’ Consumers and advocacy groups have often criticized Google’s seemingly insatiable appetite for personal information, such as its recent consolidation of its privacy policies so as to have a better view into user behaviors and preferences. Because of the amount of attention those privacy concerns have garnered, you’d think a policy of transparency on Google’s part would bode well with those who have doubts about whether or not the company can be trusted with increasing amounts of personal data.”
Things that make you go hmmm…
For more information:
The New York Times, “Google Is Faulted for Impeding U.S. Inquiry on Data Collection” – click here
PCWorld, “Google Hit With $25K Fine, But FCC Finds Street View Data Collection Not Illegal” – click here
CNET, “FCC nails Google with $25K fine for dragging heels in StreetView probe” – click here
Three years ago, The New York Times published an article titled “Putting a Bolder Face on Google” and it’s a fantastic read. It focuses on Marissa and really let’s you know more about her character. Here are some interesting quotes about her in the article:
“Mayer, who is Google Employee No. 20…A popular guest on TV news programs and talk shows, a Google-booster often quoted in print, and a rapid-fire presence on San Francisco’s social scene, she is the rare executive who has become — at least in the sometimes cloistered world of computer geeks — a celebrity”
“Ms. Mayer, 33, plays a pivotal, serious role at Google…She is one of the few Googlers with unfettered access to and influence over Mr. Brin and Mr. Page”
A 2009 Gawker.com article described her as “the best known Google executive outside the search engine’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, and its billionaire founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin”
Ms. Mayer has even dated the current Google CEO Larry Page at one point. This is a woman very much part of the identity of Google and a recognizable face of the company.
I’m leaving you a video of her on the Martha Stewart show
Embarrassing Apples Is Responsible For The Vast Majority of Google’s Mobile Revenue
There are new revelations about the health of Google’s mobile business and it looks like Google is in really bad shape. Thanks to documents submitted in the legal battle between Google and Oracle over patents, the public gets a new look at exactly how well Google’s Android is performing.
Google is secretive about letting the public know about how much revenue Android brings in – but now we know that Android actually doesn’t make much money for Google at all. Google’s overall 2011 revenues totaled about $40 billion and much of that is from ads from search results on desktop computers. Very little of Google’s overall revenues is from mobile.
According to The Guardian, Android generated less than $550 million between 2008 and 2011 – pitiful. Google produces the Android software which it then gives away for free to handset makers to sell. Google makes its money from ad revenue on the mobile devices and from applications on Google Play (formerly known as Android Market), which is doing extremely poorly compared to Apple’s App store.
Here is where it gets particularly interesting – Google actually makes more money from Apple’s mobile devices than it does from its own Android powered smartphones! Now isn’t that hilarious, ha-ha, especially considering the recent bad blood between Google and Apple.
Apple is responsible for generating more than four times as much revenue for Google! This is because at least half of all smartphone owners use an Apple device and Google is the default search engine. Apple also extensively used Google Maps – but as recently told Google to get lost and is now using a mixture of its own acquired mapping technology and free crowdsourced mapping.
Who knew that Apple had such a big role in Google’s mobile business?
Majority of Google’s mobile traffic can be credited to Apple. Google should be grateful to Apple for being so helpful, but Google treats Apple like crap. Google expressed its gratitude to Apple by trying to impose itself into Apple’s territory, which infuriated Apple.
What did Apple do as payback?
Apple no longer extensively uses Google Maps, Apple added other search engines as alternative options to Google’s, and Apple appears to be ditching Google altogether in China (a huge and attractive market). And we all know about how Apple set its Safari Web browser default to automatically block third-party tracking cookies – however, it was exposed last month that Google illegally circumvented this security feature, but is now facing countless lawsuits from Apple users.
Psst…hey Google…don’t bite that hand that feeds you.
For more information:
The Guardian, “Google’s Android has generated just $550m since 2008, figures suggest” – click here
I have made the claim that the media doesn’t give Google enough scrutiny and that the company often gets underserved favorable press. This is a major reason I started this blog in the first place, so that the average person out there can see what Google is really all about.
I remember seeing articles recently claiming that Google currently has the best reputation among any company in America. This is very disturbing considering all the sordid details I have been posting about Google’s lack of privacy, their pitiful ethics, their lies, the incessant lawsuits, and even criminal investigations. It’s disappointing and saddening that so many Americans put so much trust in this company – it just leaves me shaking my head and I think to myself “if only they knew better”.
I came across three really great articles comparing Google to Microsoft. I want to share these articles with you, but please don’t view this as me trying to sell Microsoft to you. I’m just using the articles to illustrate media bias and to show you how much Google has changed over the years.
The article published by InfoWorld’s J. Peter Bruzzese is excellent and lays out evidence to argue that the media unfairly bashes Microsoft way too often while Google’s errors are conveniently overlooked. He writes,
“I’ve noticed an unfair, ongoing trend: If Microsoft does something a little off, it gets bashed into the ground for it. But if Google… missteps, it generally gets mild reprimands and even support from the media and those drinking the Kool-Aid.”
Ever since I started this blog earlier this year I have been reading about the comparisons people are making between Microsoft and Google. These comparisons argue that Google has really changed for the worse over the years. As some of you probably already know, Google’s infamous unofficial motto is “don’t be evil”. In the early idealistic days of Google the company didn’t want to be like other established tech giants (i.e. Microsoft) because they perceived them as representing negativity and as being old-fashioned. But now people are starting to notice that little ol’ Google ain’t all that different from Microsoft – actually, some argue, that Google is worse now.
The article published by Forbes gives you 7 similarities between Google and Microsoft – perhaps now the pot should stop calling the kettle black– to read the Forbes article, please click here.
Finally, a very interesting article appeared on The Daily Beast website by Dan Lyons. The author spent 30 days using nothing but Microsoft products to compare it with Google’s products. He wanted to see if Microsoft can win him over and if Google’s products are really worth keeping. To find out what he concluded you gotta read the full article for yourself – click here
Google is currently enjoying much of the general public’s trust– but what is most hopeful is that this is slowly changing. As more people become knowledgeable and fed-up with Google’s antics, their arrogance, their invasion on our privacy, and other wrongdoings we will finally see Google fall off its throne. As any good business person will tell you, the most important thing in business is rightfully earning the trust and admiration of the public – once you lose this you’ve lost everything.
MARISSA MAYER IS NOMINATED TO SERVE ON WALMART’S BOARD
Google’s top woman has been nominated to serve on the board of Walmart. The massive retailer corporation made the announcement today that Marissa Mayer could potentially take the board’s 16th spot.
And yes, it’s that same Marissa Mayer…you know…the same high-profile Google executive whose brother allegedly brutally beat up his girlfriend and threatened to throw her off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge…
At only 36, Ms. Mayer will be the youngest person on the board if elected at the company’s shareholder’s meeting on June 1st. I was reading through different articles about her nomination to board, many questioned whether she is the right fit for the company’s board. She doesn’t really have much experience outside of Google, if any at all. She was hired at Google straight out of graduate school in 1999 and shuffled around at that Google ever since.
Is she a one-hit wonder? Can her leadership skills at Google translate over to other companies that operate in a completely different way? Walmart seems to think that she can be useful in helping them with their online services. Google benefits from learning about how a retail giant does business.
Anyway, it’s interesting news and I thought it is worth posting. She said this in a statement:
“I have long been a customer and admirer of the company. Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world’s most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day. I look forward to contributing to Walmart’s continued growth, success, and innovation in the years to come”
And according to Forbes, she also serves on the boards of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Ballet, the New York City Ballet and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
For more information:
The Register, “Google’s top female cheese nominated to serve on Walmart board” – click here
Wall Street Journal, “Wal-Mart Taps Google’s Marissa Mayer for Board Seat” – click here
Forbes, “Wal-Mart Names Google’s Marissa Mayer To Its Board” – click here
Google Executive’s Family Allegedly Made Life Of Abuse Victim A Living Nightmare.
Last month I published an article titled “Victim of Brutal Beating Says She’s ‘Afraid’ of Google Executive’s Family”. It was one of the most read and commented on posts I’ve published on my blog. I received great feedback and the vast majority of readers appreciate knowing about this disturbing story involving a major Google executive’s family. If you haven’t already read that article please do so before reading this one – click here
After I posted my article I received an email from a person who said they wanted to set the record straight about what happened to Mason Mayer’s alleged victim, Kelli Trent. This person told me that they were troubled by false information being spread around and asked for my assistance in having Kelli’s side of the story told.
This person told me lots of information about the Mayer family and the dysfunctional relationship between Mason Mayer and Kelli Trent. This person has politely asked that I not reveal their identity and so I have decided to respect their privacy. I will simply refer to this person as my “source” from this point on.
The information my source revealed to me is disturbing, to say the least. It will give you a greater sense of what happened before the night of the alleged abuse and what took place after that night.
Kelli Trent is an intelligent and hardworking young woman. She moved to San Francisco back in 2005 after completing college and has been consistently employed ever since. Her friends describe her as being very generous and she always tries to help out any way she could. My source wanted to point out that Kelli comes from “a decent amount of wealth herself” and that she often pays for the needs of loved ones without hesitation. She has held some jobs in banking and she even recently tried her hand in a startup company.
Kelli and Mason met back in early February 2011 on his birthday and they started dating immediately after that. Their relationship was very brief but even in that short time it was plagued with serious problems. My source alleges that Mason had been controlling and abusive toward Kelli on numerous occasions.
Mason had not lived in San Francisco for that long. He moved from Minneapolis in the fall of 2010 after his famous sister, Google executive Marissa Mayer, allowed him to live in her penthouse condo. My source alleges that the reason behind Mason’s move is due to him getting in legal trouble in Minneapolis after abusing a “rebound” girlfriend. Marissa apparently wanted to keep him away from “psycho girls” and moved him close to her. Mason and his ex-wife, Kara Mayer, divorced in July 2010.
After he moved to San Francisco and started dating Kelli everything was fine for the first few months. My source alleges that the abuse on Kelli actually began in May after she wanted to leave the relationship. The source showed me a photo of Kelli taken in May with a badly bruised inner arm. The source also alleges that a few days before the night of September 24th Kelli and Mason were at a gym and he didn’t like the way she was interacting with men. He allegedly threw her belongings around and got physically aggressive with her.
Finally the abuse escalated to what took place on night of September 24th. Kelli not only suffered physical injuries but she also sustained a concussion, was disoriented, and had fainting spells. After this incident, she took photographs of her injuries and sent them to Mason’s parents and Marissa was soon notified. My source claims that Kelli was shown little respect by the Mayer family and that they never asked if she was okay. Kelli demanded that Mason get help and the Mayer family came up with Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and therapy sessions – which Mason began two days after the family was notified.
The source claims that Kelli was never offered any financial assistance for her medical needs or for her therapy sessions, which she was badly in need of. Kelli pretty much had to suffer alone and isolated herself in the apartment she shared with a roommate. She didn’t go out much since the beating and only confided in a few close friends.
The source says that soon after, in early October, the Mayer family booked Mason a trip on a European holiday for two weeks, which Kelli took as being insensitive and an insult to her. The source says that the Mayer family neglected to understand the magnitude of the problems between Kelli and Mason. The family also didn’t hold Mason accountable for anything. This is when Kelli was starting to realize that she wanted out of the relationship and was pretty much done protecting the Mayer family.
Sadly, while the Mayer family was off on their European holiday, Kelli’s grandmother passed away. After hearing about her loss, she left to go to Tennessee to be with her family. While with her family, the source claims that Mason phone called Kelli and told her that she was not invited to the Mayer family pumpkin carving party. Marissa allegedly did not want Kelli at the party, which Kelli took as a slap in the face. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back and Kelli finally knew she was done with the relationship with Mason and done with the Mayer family.
Kelli came back to San Francisco on October 30th and Mason was at the airport to pick her up. This is when Kelli broke up with him. The source alleges that Mason was infuriated by this and showed up later in the day to Kelli’s apartment threatening to release nude photos of her and allegedly vowed to smear her reputation. Mason then took the witness of the September 24th beating to the family party.
On November 11th Kelli went to the police to report everything that happened to her. Keep in mind that Kelli and Mason were not together often since the night of September 24th and up until the day she finally reported the alleged abuse to the police. My source says that it took Kelli awhile to come to the realization that she desperately needed to leave the relationship for good. This is consistent with many victims of domestic abuse who feel like they can change their partner’s ways if they just stay in long enough and are often too afraid to leave.
Soon after a warrant was issued while Mason and the rest of the Mayer family were on their annual Thanksgiving holiday in Hawaii.
The source claims that this is when the campaign to discredit Kelli began and her reputation was torn to pieces. Kelli had her life investigated as Mason’s legal team started subpoenaing texts messages, called her former employers, contacted her ex-boyfriends, etc. The source claims that Kelli depends on a good reputation to secure jobs but obtaining employment in her field has become nearly impossible and that her life is in shatters.
The source described to me one incident in January when Kelli was asked to interview at a company event hosted at Founders Den – this is the workplace of Marissa Mayer’s husband, Zack Bogue. Kelli was in the middle of an interview at the event when suddenly Zack allegedly tapped Kelli on the shoulder and loudly told her to get out. Needless to say, Kelli was thoroughly shaken and embarrassed. She promptly left without finishing her interview. My source points out that Kelli had a stay-away order at the time which specified that any third parties related to Mason are not allowed to directly contact Kelli in any way, “so Zack had no right to speak to her that night”.
Kelli has now left San Francisco. This is a woman who depended on her networking capabilities to get jobs but life is harder for her now. The source says that Kelli never wanted to have all this trouble surrounding her – Kelli fell into a brief and tumultuous relationship with Mason which is a mistake she thoroughly regrets.
While Kelli has been suffering for the past 6 months – Mason has gone on holidays and he’s attended several San Francisco society events (thanks to his sister Marissa) such as the opening of a ballet and a Midwinter Gala. The source claims that Mason owns shares in Google, gifted to him by Marissa, and was invited to an exclusive Google company event featuring Lady Gaga back in March 2011. My source finds it revolting that Mason was being “flaunted” around by his family even after they knew what he did to Kelli.
Kelli has not retained a lawyer and is being represented by a District Attorney. The pretrial conference had been postponed three times since January and is now scheduled for April 18th – if found guilty Mason faces a maximum of four years and eight months in state prison.
Disclaimer: Everything in this post should not be taken as fact. They’re allegations described to me by the source and it’s from their point of view of what occurred. There are many sides to everything and this is just one. If there are any issues you have with anything written in this post please email me.
Eric Hague is a humor writer – a funny letter he wrote pretending to be a member of Google’s privacy team was published by The Wall Street Journal today.
Google seems to think it knows what is best for us, knows everything about us, and is smarter than us – the amusing piece by Mr. Hague has a little fun with all that.
Apple Makes Business More Difficult For Google in China
It is being reported that Apple will be ditching Google in China and replacing it with Baidu as the default search engine. Baidu is the dominant search engine provider in China with a market share estimated at 78%, while Google doesn’t even come close to that number.
Apple’s new operating system will integrate various popular Chinese Internet services – this will make it more attractive for consumers. This will further weaken Google in China, which is a huge loss for the company because the Chinese market is a very attractive one. Apple is making it even more difficult for Google to get its foot in the door. Apple also plans to ditch Google as the default search engine on mobile devices in China.
Recently, it was also reported that Apple ditched Google Maps and is now using a free crowdsourcing mapping service for its mobile devices. It looks like the battle between Apple and Google is getting even more intense and Google is losing.
For more information:
ITProPortal, “Apple To Replace Google With Baidu For The Chinese Market” – click here
DailyFinance, “Are Apple and Baidu About to Team Up on Google?” – click here
googleexposed, “Apple Tells Google Maps To Take A Hike” – click hereTagged
Google Plus Ad Campaign Is Boring and Fails To Promote Strugging Website
Google really doesn’t “get” social. It seems to me that they lack the ability to understand how people want to connect and how they interact. Google executives like Marissa Mayer have admitted that Google has fallen behind in the social aspect of the Web and they are desperately trying to play catch-up.
Well, today Google UK uploaded a video on YouTube advertising the company’s social networking site called Google Plus. The campaign to get more people to use Google Plus doesn’t impress me much. Their video is titled “Google+: Tom” and it shows a man going through life on Google Plus. We see the man add his wife to his circles, it then shows the couple’s newborn child, and other significant moments in life. The video ends with a future look at the aged man as he reminisces about his youth with his friends in a video chat.
Sorry, but the video is so dumb.
I find it so pretentious, over-the-top, and confusing. I don’t like how the video doesn’t show the consistent and linear progression of the man’s life. In my first passive viewing of the video I got confused about whose life was being shared – the dad or the child? When it switches from the little boy in the green school uniform to the prom scene, I thought it was the little boy grown up ha-ha…but it was actually the dad.
I had to take a closer second viewing of the video to catch the stuff I missed.
Afterwards the narrator goes on about being a solider, being in a cannon, being a Justice, and a wise soul ha-ha. It finally ends with a corny aged look of the man with his friends, and he then adds his grandchild to his circles.
I know what this video is trying to be, but I don’t think it successfully accomplished it. It doesn’t pull on the heartstrings, it doesn’t excite me, and it doesn’t make me want to use Google Plus. I don’t think the video is mainstream enough and, quite frankly, it’s boring.
Also, I really don’t want Google keeping decades of personal data of my life “well saved” on Google Plus. No thanks!
FACEBOOK OVERTAKES GOOGLE IN BRAZIL AS THE MOST VISITED WEBSITE
Facebook has hit another important milestone in South America. Things are looking very promising in Brazil where the social networking giant is improving rapidly. Just this past January it was reported that Facebook is now the dominant social networking site in Brazil, beating Google’s now struggling Orkut.
And now – Experian Hitwise, a digital intelligence tool, is reporting that Facebook has surpassed all of Google’s properties to become the most visited site in Brazil. Over the past year, Facebook’s popularity has skyrocketed while Google is experiencing a gradual decline.
Facebook dominated Google as the most visited site at least five different times this year, mostly on weekends when visits to social networking sites tend to increase. Nevertheless, this is a great sign for Facebook and a disaster for Google. Perhaps Facebook might eventually overtake Google in other countries too…
For more information:
AllFacebook, “Facebook Surpasses All Google Properties In Brazil” – click here
ZDNet, “Facebook passes Google as top site in Brazil, for now” – click here
TNW, “Hitwise: Facebook became the most visited site in Brazil over the weekend” – click here
Huge Fine Against Google For Violating Privacy Is Imminent
The other day the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a strongly worded report condemning Google’s privacy violations and the company’s deliberate obstruction of an investigation into the gathering of sensitive data off personal computers.
The FCC was deeply disturbed by what Google did but they’re hands were pretty much tied and couldn’t take serious action against Google. The federal agency fined Google $25,000 for impeding their investigation and they said what Google did was technically not illegal. According to PCWorld, this is because the laws are not up-to-date with technology. What Google did was obviously an invasion of privacy and SHOULD be illegal but Google seems to have gotten away scot-free because there aren’t laws that protect Americans from criminals who steal their personal data off unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
Anyway, I came across an article yesterday by the Mercury News stating that Google is about to be hit hard by another federal agency, this time it’s the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As you all should already know, the FTC has been in the middle of conducting their investigation on Google’s illegal circumvention of Apple’s Safari Web browser.
The Wall Street Journal exposed Google back in February for deliberately bypassing the privacy and security settings of Safari users. Apple set the default setting on its Safari browser to maximum security to protect their users from tracking companies – Google hated this and used a secret code to bypass this security setting. This exposed millions of Safari users to tracking for months without them every knowing about it. Immediately after the Journal released their story several lawsuits against Google popped up.
Now, according to the Mercury News, the major fine against Google is imminent. The newspaper spoke to a source who says that the FTC will take action against Google within a month. The FTC already has a consent order against Google which was put in place late last year. Google violated the privacy of their users when they launched their failed social networking tool called “Buzz”. After an investigation, Google agreed to a settlement that would require the company to regularly submit a compliance report to the FTC and they agreed to two decades of close monitoring from the FTC. Google also promised never to violate the privacy of their users or any company’s users – evidently they couldn’t keep their promise.
Google faces a fine of $16,000 per violation per day. There were millions of Apple users affected and victimized by this invasion of privacy so you can imagine that the fine could be colossal. Let’s hope the FTC puts Google in its place and hits them hard – Google definitely deserves it.
For more information:
PCWorld, “Google Says Snooping on Wi-Fi Networks Isn’t Illegal” – click here
Mercury News, “Google target of new federal privacy probe” – click here
Computerworld, “Privacy watchdog, lawmaker push for Google probe” – click here
The Register, “Google faces WHOPPING FTC fine for Safari privacy gaffe” – click here
The Hill, “FTC official: Sharing on social sites ‘can’t be forced’” – click here
Companies owned by GAA manager and businessman Séamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney and 14 other members of his family have been paid more than €130 million by the State to house asylum seekers and refugees since 2020.
Firms controlled by Mr McEnaney’s family received more than €50 million in payments between April 2022 and September 2023.
This is on top of over €83 million paid to a company belonging to Mr McEnaney himself since 2020, when the procurement of asylum accommodation was taken over by the Department of Integration.
The hotelier and former Monaghan, Meath and Wexford football manager was also among the highest earners from the direct provision system under the Department of Justice for several years up to 2020.
Séamus McEnaney.
But providing accommodation for people seeking international protection or fleeing conflict has really become a family affair since 2022.
No fewer than 13 companies belonging to Mr McEnaney’s family members have secured lucrative State contracts for such accommodation since April 2022, shortly after the war broke out in Ukraine.
Seven of these firms received their first payment between April and June 2022, with one receiving its first payment in the final three months of the same year.
A further four companies received their first payments in 2023.
Séamus McEnaney.
Mr McEnaney’s own company, Brimwood Unlimited Company, of which he is listed as director along with his daughters Laura and Sarah, was paid €83,128,338 between January 2020 and last September – the latest period for which the Department of Integration has released figures.
Oakgate Limited, set up in April 2022 with Mr McEnaney’s sisters Bernadette Walsh and Margaret McCarville listed as directors, was paid €9,771,896 between then and last September.
Margaret McCarville is listed as the 100% shareholder – as she is with JMA Ventures Limited, which was paid €7,527,734 in the same 18-month period.
That company was set up in August 2021 and lists Ms McCarville as the sole director.
Séamus McEnaney.
Corduff JG Enterprises Limited began receiving payments from the department in May 2022, and had received €9,171,723 by last September.
Mr McEnaney’s son Gavin is its sole director and shareholder.
Between April 2022 and last September, Longfield Ventures Limited was paid €7,639,141. It is jointly owned and directed by Mr McEnaney’s son John and his nephew Gary McEnaney.
And Rosscorp Limited, whose sole director and shareholder is listed as Mr McEnaney’s nephew Conor, was paid €4,477,690 from the department between April 2022 and September 2023.
Conor is also co-director and co-shareholder of Rossblue Management Limited, along with his brother Christopher. That company was paid €5,380,434.00 in the same 18-month period.
Séamus McEnaney.
Copperwhistle Limited was paid €1,610,300.00 between April 2022 and September 2023. Its directors are Frank McEnaney, Banty’s brother, along with Frank’s wife Mary and his son Cahal. Mary is listed as 1,00% shareholder.
Foxstrand Limited was established in July 2022 and received its first payment three months later. It had been paid €769,080 by last September. Its 50/50 shareholders and co-directors are listed as Mr McEnaney’s nephews, Dylan and Kian McEnaney.
Of the four companies whose first payments came in 2023, Highgrove Property Limited has received the most money so far, according to available figures.
It was paid €3,034,013 in the first nine months of last year. It is a quarter owned by Mr McEnaney’s son John, a quarter by his nephew Gary, and half by Orla Marron, all of whom are listed as directors.
Brother Baghin Limited, established in July 2021 and jointly owned and directed by John and Gary McEnaney, was paid €2,772,960 between January and September of last year.
Fernboro Limited, which has the same ownership and directorship and was set up in March 2021, was paid €981,050 in the same period.
And Blueburn Limited, owned and directed by Christopher McEnaney according to paperwork on Vision- Net, was paid €1,042,020 over the same nine months.
In total, the 13 companies in which Séamus McEnaney and 14 other family members are involved have been paid €106,918,379 in taxpayers’ money since the beginning of 2022 for what the department lists as ‘Provision of accommodation and services’ or ‘Ukraine Accommodation and/or Related Costs’.
The Department of Integration paid more than €1.3 billion in the first nine months of last year to companies providing accommodation for International Protection Applicants (IPAs) and refugees from Ukraine.
Séamus McEnaney’s Brimwood was the second-highest-paid company, receiving a total of €28,863,543 from the State between January and September 2023. In 2018, a hotel linked to Mr McEnaney made a massive €2.58 million settlement to the taxman. The payment by the Westenra Arms Hotel Limited was the single largest settlement in a list of tax defaulters for the third quarter of that year.
The company behind the hotel is owned by another firm, Corvalley Enterprises, which in turn was owned by shareholders including Mr McEnaney, other members of his family, and Padraig Hegarty.
The settlement, made on foot of a Revenue investigation, was for the under-declaration of PAYE, PRSI, USC and VAT.
The huge sums of money paid by the State to private accommodation providers revealed in the MoS in recent weeks have sparked a planned investigation by the Dáil spending watchdog into the payments, which have enabled seven people to amass vast fortunes out of the deepening immigration crisis.
Earlier this month the Irish Mail on Sunday revealed that half of the companies earning the most lucrative State contracts to provide accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers are fully owned or majorityowned by entities based abroad, including in tax havens such as the Isle of Man, Guernsey, and the British Virgin Islands. Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member and Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon said the latest revelations underline the need to end the State’s reliance on private emergency accommodation.
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) member and Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon.
In a stark criticism of his own Government, the Mayo TD said it is time the Coalition ‘got real’ and pushed ahead with plans for Statebuilt reception centres for asylum seekers as quickly as possible.
Mr Dillon told the MoS: ‘There is that elephant in the room here… How sustainable is this in the long run in relation to exchequer funding? It’s not, I think, and the sooner we can get the new reception centres built the better.
‘It’s really important we have a clear focus and a path on how we transition from using these companies which have now mushroomed up overnight in all parts of Ireland.
‘In many senses, those who have been validated early in the process have expanded into multiple sites. Who is authorising this and who is scrutinising it?’
While Mr Dillon stressed the Government has a responsibility to provide ‘safe shelter’ for genuine asylum seekers and refugees, he said: ‘There comes a point where the Government needs to get real with what they are facing and circle the wagons in relation to how much further they intend to go.’
He said: ‘There is the commercial element to subsume other hotels and properties into the same type of accommodation model, not for tourism or the local economy, but more focused on capitalising on the immediate accommodation crisis.’
PAC chair Brian Stanley said the lack of ‘clear procurement rules and controls’ relating to lucrative State contracts to accommodation providers ‘is an invitation to abuse’.
PAC chair Brian Stanley. Pic: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos
He told the MoS: ‘We need to determine the level of payments and who receives them. There are serious and legitimate questions; are a small elite creaming off huge profits at the expense of the taxpayer? There is genuine concern over the role of middlemen and fixers. What are the payment structures and what controls exist?’
The Sinn Féin TD added: ‘An entire class of fixers appear to have evolved. We need to know how they operate, are there controls and are the taxpayer and refugees protected. There is a worrying looseness. We need to move on from the current ad-hoc system.
‘It is an invitation to abuse.’
The MoS attempted to contact Séamus McEnaney and members of his extended family involved in the asylum accommodation business. However, none responded to written correspondence delivered to their homes on the outskirts of Carrickmacross and Monaghan town.
A woman answered the door of the red-brick bungalow where Mr McEnaney and his wife Rose Marie raised their four children. Set on a generous site, their home has been extended over the years and the property does not look out of the ordinary compared to neighbours’ houses in the area. In contrast, Esmore Hall on the outskirts of Carrickmacross, which their son John lists as his address, is an imposing residence.
Perched on top of a hill with sweeping views of the surrounding countryside, the property lies behind a pair of imposing pillars, electric gates and meticulously maintained landscaped gardens.
John McEnaney’s uncle Frank lives in a similar-style property on the outskirts of Monaghan town, also at the top of a hill with an impressive driveway. Séamus McEnaney’s nephew Gary has also made a determined effort to protect his privacy. The entrance to his imposing two-storey residence, in a remote cul de sac, is also protected by electric gates.
" Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney And 14 Family Members Paid Over €130m To House Refugees
Seamus 'Banty" MeEnaney's Company Owns and runs the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin as emmergency accommodation for the homeless and the vulnerable .. and gets paid around €200 euros per bed per night ..by the Dublin City Council...
Seamus 'Banty" MeEnaney's Company is doing what he can to reduce operating costs and at the same time imcreasing revenues ...as much as possible in various ways, such
1. Reducing the amount of staff,
2. Employing staff on the cheapest wages as possible, on various government schemes which pay most of his conpany's employee wages... who either speak no or very little English, who have no experience or qualifications in the hospitality industry and/or social and/or humanitarian caring to know how to be caring and compatiinate to the homeless vulnerable people living at the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin.
3. For the last 3 month no longer employing hotel room cleaning staff for the last 3 plus months to clean each hotel room each week.. as was originally done for the previous last 4 years.. where Hotel Room Cleaners would vacume each room, clean each bathroom, change the sheets and provide a change of towels .. provide new toilet rolls etc.
4. Getting tenants to clean their own rooms,and removing the warm carpets that helps to keep the hotel rooms warm in the winter.. and replacing the warm carpets with cold lino..
5. No longer delivering meals to the hotel roòms with good fresh meals made in the Ripley Court Hotel kitchen.
6. Providing premade meals in plastic containers that have to be collected from a fridge on the ground floor, which have to be heated in a microwave oven which is well known that microwaving all meals in a microwave completely destroys all the nutriants in the meals. Wheres previously for 3 plus years meals were freshly made in normal gas ovens and hot plates ..the ways healthy meals are normally made.. with only using microwave in an emmergency on rare occassions.. rather than uding a microwave to hest up every meal
7. Increasing the revenue by finding any manufsctured technical excuse to evict a tenant who has been living at the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin who has been living in a single bed room for 3 to 4 years... so SeamusMcEnaney"s company can change each room from a single bed room to a 2 to 6 bed room ...(2 or 3 double bunks will mean 4 to 6 people can be put in one room to share one small bathroom.. ). Because the Dublin City Council for the homeless and vulnerable or the State Governmemt pay around €200 per bed per night... thus a single bed room will give an income of €200 per night... whereas a two bed room will give an income of €400 per night... a 4 bed room will give an income of €800 per night .. a 6 bed room will give an income of €1,200 per night..
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Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney And 14 Family Members all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires....."
Emergency housing: How a small network of companies is making millions from a ballooning industry
Please read these full stories below on this www.inltv.co.uk webpage
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy, who raised the issue of companies running emergency accommodation in the Dáil this week
" Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney And 14 Family Members Paid Over €130m To House Refugees
Seamus 'Banty" MeEnaney's Company Owns and runs the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin as emmergency accommodation for the homeless and the vulnerable .. and gets paid around €200 euros per bed per night ..by the Dublin City Council...
Seamus 'Banty" MeEnaney's Company is doing what he can to reduce operating costs and at the same time imcreasing revenues ...as much as possible in various ways, such
1. Reducing the amount of staff,
2. Employing staff on the cheapest wages as possible, on various government schemes which pay most of his conpany's employee wages... who either speak no or very little English, who have no experience or qualifications in the hospitality industry and/or social and/or humanitarian caring to know how to be caring and compatiinate to the homeless vulnerable people living at the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin.
3. For the last 3 month no longer employing hotel room cleaning staff for the last 3 plus months to clean each hotel room each week.. as was originally done for the previous last 4 years.. where Hotel Room Cleaners would vacume each room, clean each bathroom, change the sheets and provide a change of towels .. provide new toilet rolls etc.
4. Getting tenants to clean their own rooms,and removing the warm carpets that helps to keep the hotel rooms warm in the winter.. and replacing the warm carpets with cold lino..
5. No longer delivering meals to the hotel roòms with good fresh meals made in the Ripley Court Hotel kitchen.
6. Providing premade meals in plastic containers that have to be collected from a fridge on the ground floor, which have to be heated in a microwave oven which is well known that microwaving all meals in a microwave completely destroys all the nutriants in the meals. Wheres previously for 3 plus years meals were freshly made in normal gas ovens and hot plates ..the ways healthy meals are normally made.. with only using microwave in an emmergency on rare occassions.. rather than uding a microwave to hest up every meal
7. Increasing the revenue by finding any manufsctured technical excuse to evict a tenant who has been living at the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin who has been living in a single bed room for 3 to 4 years... so SeamusMcEnaney"s company can change each room from a single bed room to a 2 to 6 bed room ...(2 or 3 double bunks will mean 4 to 6 people can be put in one room to share one small bathroom.. ). Because the Dublin City Council for the homeless and vulnerable or the State Governmemt pay around €200 per bed per night... thus a single bed room will give an income of €200 per night... whereas a two bed room will give an income of €400 per night... a 4 bed room will give an income of €800 per night .. a 6 bed room will give an income of €1,200 per night..
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"It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney and their families .... who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires....."
The Journal attempted to contact Mallon, Holbrook and Turner for comment via the email address of a company directed by Turner this week, but no comment was received by the time of publication.
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy also told the Dáil this week that she had asked how the government decides to award contracts to companies like those above, and was informed that “the only real issue that is considered is if they are tax-compliant”.
She told The Journal that the State should be doing more to learn about such companies before they are awarded contracts, particularly as they are dealing with vulnerable members of society.
“We’re in an almost constant emergency situation in relation to the provision of accommodation, so a lot of those normal checks and balances are absent,” she said.
“Even if these public elements are are absent, you would be expecting that the relevant authorities would pay more attention to doing things like background checks on companies – more than tax-compliance, which I would regard as totally inadequate.
“I completely accept we’re in an emergency; but even in emergency situations, it’s really important that you don’t abandon the normal checks and balances, even if they’re done in a different way.”
Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon have been paid over 200 Million Euros by the Irish Government and the Dublin City Council to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless and the vulnerable in Ireland;
Thus, even though Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon and their families have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland, they seem to have been helping to solve this this emergeny accommodation crisis in Dublin and Ireland that has been caused by the ongoing lack of affordable housing in Ireland, and the massive increase in asylum seekers turning up Dublin and Ireland over the last few years, which has been worsened by the Ukraine War, and the recent major economic and violent uprising crises in many other countries around the world,
Irish Democrats TD Catherine Murphy told the Journal.ie Investigators and journalists, that Irish State should be doing more to learn about such companies, their directors and shareholders, before they are awarded such extremely lucrative and profitable emergency accommodation providing contracts.
It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and their families who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland.
Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon have been paid over 200 Million Euros by the Irish Government and the Dublin City Council to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless and the vulnerable in Ireland;
Journal.ie Investigators and journalists, that Irish State should be doing more to learn about such companies, their directors and shareholders, before they are awarded such extremely lucrative and profitable emergency accommodation providing contracts.
It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and their families who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland.
Sinn Féin support hits lowest level in three years, falling by six points, poll shows
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Emergency housing: How a small network of companies is making millions from a ballooning industry
One TD has called for more oversight into the provision of emergency housing.
"It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney and their families .... who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires....."
The Journal attempted to contact Mallon, Holbrook and Turner for comment via the email address of a company directed by Turner this week, but no comment was received by the time of publication.
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy also told the Dáil this week that she had asked how the government decides to award contracts to companies like those above, and was informed that “the only real issue that is considered is if they are tax-compliant”.
She told The Journal that the State should be doing more to learn about such companies before they are awarded contracts, particularly as they are dealing with vulnerable members of society.
“We’re in an almost constant emergency situation in relation to the provision of accommodation, so a lot of those normal checks and balances are absent,” she said.
“Even if these public elements are are absent, you would be expecting that the relevant authorities would pay more attention to doing things like background checks on companies – more than tax-compliance, which I would regard as totally inadequate.
“I completely accept we’re in an emergency; but even in emergency situations, it’s really important that you don’t abandon the normal checks and balances, even if they’re done in a different way.”
Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon have been paid over 200 Million Euros by the Irish Government and the Dublin City Council to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless and the vulnerable in Ireland;
Thus, even though Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon and their families have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland, they seem to have been helping to solve this this emergeny accommodation crisis in Dublin and Ireland that has been caused by the ongoing lack of affordable housing in Ireland, and the massive increase in asylum seekers turning up Dublin and Ireland over the last few years, which has been worsened by the Ukraine War, and the recent major economic and violent uprising crises in many other countries around the world,
Irish Democrats TD Catherine Murphy told the Journal.ie Investigators and journalists, that Irish State should be doing more to learn about such companies, their directors and shareholders, before they are awarded such extremely lucrative and profitable emergency accommodation providing contracts.
It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and their families who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland.
Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon have been paid over 200 Million Euros by the Irish Government and the Dublin City Council to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless and the vulnerable in Ireland;
Journal.ie Investigators and journalists, that Irish State should be doing more to learn about such companies, their directors and shareholders, before they are awarded such extremely lucrative and profitable emergency accommodation providing contracts.
It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and their families who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland.
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Emergency housing: How a small network of companies is making millions from a ballooning industry
Seamus “Banty” McEnaney GAA boss paid over €200 million Euros as a lucrative Golden Freemason Handshake by the Irish Government to accommodate Refugees to come to Ireland as Asylum Seekers
A secret hidden Irish Government Plan for Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney, to increase his current around 9,000,000 euros per year from his 100 room One Star Dublin Hotel currently accommodating the homeless and the vulnerable, to earning around 46,000,000 euros per year accommodating Refugees
An insider that works as a high up executive in one of the Irish Charities that provides Emergency Accommodation for the Homeless and the vulnerable in Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, has stated among other things, in an exclusive interview with the USAWeekly.com.au ... " ... there is a secret Irish Government plan for Seamus “Banty” McEnaney GAA boss and other private Homeless accommodation providers, and Various Irish Homeless Accommodation Charities to turn all of the current emergency accommodation hostels and hotels from providing emergency accommodation to the homeless and the vulnerable , into Refugee Accommodation Facilities were they will pack in as many double bunk beds into each room as possible. because the Irish Government pays around 250 Euros per night per bed, to the operators of these Refugee Accommodation Facilities.
This means that one of the Dublin One Star Hotels owned by Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney, who currently earns around 9,000,000 euros per year from his 100 room One Star Dublin Hotel, from the Dublin City Council, which pays his company around 250 euros per night per bed, to provide emergency accommodation to the homeless and the vulnerable in Dublin... will end up earning around 46,000,000 euros per year, by receiving around 250 euros per night per bed, from the Irish Government for 500 plus beds in his Dublin One Star Hotel.
Emergency housing: How a small network of companies is making millions from a ballooning industry
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Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy, who raised the issue of companies running emergency accommodation in the Dáil this week
The settlement, made on foot of a Revenue investigation, was for the under-declaration of PAYE, PRSI, USC and VAT.
The huge sums of money paid by the State to private accommodation providers revealed in the Irish Mail on Sunday in recent weeks have sparked a planned investigation by the Dáil spending watchdog into the payments, which have enabled seven people to amass vast fortunes out of the deepening immigration crisis.
Earlier this month the Irish Mail on Sunday also revealed that half of the companies earning the most lucrative State contracts to provide accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers are fully owned or majority owned by entities based abroad, including in tax havens such as the Isle of Man, Guernsey, and the British Virgin Islands. Public Accounts Committee (PAC)member and Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon said the latest revelations underline the need to end the State's reliance on private emergency accommodation.
In a stark criticism of his own Government, the Mayo TD said it is time the Coalition "got real" and pushed ahead with plans for Statebuilt reception centres for asylum seekers as quickly as possible.
Mr Dillon said: "There is that elephant in the room here - How sustainable is this in the long run in relation to exchequer funding? It's not, I think, and the sooner we can get the new reception centres built the better.
"It's really important we have a clear focus and a path on how we transition from using these companies which have now mushroomed up overnight in all parts of Ireland.
"In many senses, those who have been validated early in the process have expanded into multiple sites. Who is authorising this and who is scrutinising it?"
While Mr Dillon stressed the Government has a responsibility to provide "safe shelter" for genuine asylum seekers and refugees, he said: "There comes a point where the Government needs to get real with what they are facing and circle the wagons in relation to how much further they intend to go."
He said: "There is the commercial element to subsume other hotels and properties into the same type of accommodation model, not for tourism or the local economy, but more focused on capitalising on the immediate accommodation crisis."
PAC chair Brian Stanley said the lack of "clear procurement rules and controls' relating to lucrative State contracts to accommodation providers 'is an invitation to abuse".
BRIAN STANLEY SAID THE LACK OF "CLEAR PROCUREMENT RULES AND CONTROLS' RELATING TO LUCRATIVE STATE CONTRACTS TO ACCOMMODATION PROVIDERS 'IS AN INVITATION TO ABUSE". PIC: SAM BOAL/ROLLINGNEWS.IE
He said: "We need to determine the level of payments and who receives them. There are serious and legitimate questions; are a small elite creaming off huge profits at the expense of the taxpayer? There is genuine concern over the role of middlemen and fixers. What are the payment structures and what controls exist?"
The Sinn Féin TD added: "An entire class of fixers appear to have evolved. We need to know how they operate, are there controls and are the taxpayers and refugees protected. There is a worrying looseness. We need to move on from the current ad-hoc system.
"It is an invitation to abuse."
An attempt was made by the paper to contact Séamus McEnaney and members of his extended family involved in the asylum accommodation business.
Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney And 14 Family Members all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires....."
Emergency housing: How a small network of companies is making millions from a ballooning industry
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Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy, who raised the issue of companies running emergency accommodation in the Dáil this week
" Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney And 14 Family Members Paid Over €130m To House Refugees
Seamus 'Banty" MeEnaney's Company Owns and runs the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin as emmergency accommodation for the homeless and the vulnerable .. and gets paid around €200 euros per bed per night ..by the Dublin City Council...
Seamus 'Banty" MeEnaney's Company is doing what he can to reduce operating costs and at the same time imcreasing revenues ...as much as possible in various ways, such
1. Reducing the amount of staff,
2. Employing staff on the cheapest wages as possible, on various government schemes which pay most of his conpany's employee wages... who either speak no or very little English, who have no experience or qualifications in the hospitality industry and/or social and/or humanitarian caring to know how to be caring and compatiinate to the homeless vulnerable people living at the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin.
3. For the last 3 month no longer employing hotel room cleaning staff for the last 3 plus months to clean each hotel room each week.. as was originally done for the previous last 4 years.. where Hotel Room Cleaners would vacume each room, clean each bathroom, change the sheets and provide a change of towels .. provide new toilet rolls etc.
4. Getting tenants to clean their own rooms,and removing the warm carpets that helps to keep the hotel rooms warm in the winter.. and replacing the warm carpets with cold lino..
5. No longer delivering meals to the hotel roòms with good fresh meals made in the Ripley Court Hotel kitchen.
6. Providing premade meals in plastic containers that have to be collected from a fridge on the ground floor, which have to be heated in a microwave oven which is well known that microwaving all meals in a microwave completely destroys all the nutriants in the meals. Wheres previously for 3 plus years meals were freshly made in normal gas ovens and hot plates ..the ways healthy meals are normally made.. with only using microwave in an emmergency on rare occassions.. rather than uding a microwave to hest up every meal
7. Increasing the revenue by finding any manufsctured technical excuse to evict a tenant who has been living at the Ripley Court Hotel at 37 Talbot Street Dublin who has been living in a single bed room for 3 to 4 years... so SeamusMcEnaney"s company can change each room from a single bed room to a 2 to 6 bed room ...(2 or 3 double bunks will mean 4 to 6 people can be put in one room to share one small bathroom.. ). Because the Dublin City Council for the homeless and vulnerable or the State Governmemt pay around €200 per bed per night... thus a single bed room will give an income of €200 per night... whereas a two bed room will give an income of €400 per night... a 4 bed room will give an income of €800 per night .. a 6 bed room will give an income of €1,200 per night..
..
"It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty' McEnaney and their families .... who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires....."
The Journal attempted to contact Mallon, Holbrook and Turner for comment via the email address of a company directed by Turner this week, but no comment was received by the time of publication.
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy also told the Dáil this week that she had asked how the government decides to award contracts to companies like those above, and was informed that “the only real issue that is considered is if they are tax-compliant”.
She told The Journal that the State should be doing more to learn about such companies before they are awarded contracts, particularly as they are dealing with vulnerable members of society.
“We’re in an almost constant emergency situation in relation to the provision of accommodation, so a lot of those normal checks and balances are absent,” she said.
“Even if these public elements are are absent, you would be expecting that the relevant authorities would pay more attention to doing things like background checks on companies – more than tax-compliance, which I would regard as totally inadequate.
“I completely accept we’re in an emergency; but even in emergency situations, it’s really important that you don’t abandon the normal checks and balances, even if they’re done in a different way.”
Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon have been paid over 200 Million Euros by the Irish Government and the Dublin City Council to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless and the vulnerable in Ireland;
Thus, even though Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon and their families have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland, they seem to have been helping to solve this this emergeny accommodation crisis in Dublin and Ireland that has been caused by the ongoing lack of affordable housing in Ireland, and the massive increase in asylum seekers turning up Dublin and Ireland over the last few years, which has been worsened by the Ukraine War, and the recent major economic and violent uprising crises in many other countries around the world,
Irish Democrats TD Catherine Murphy told the Journal.ie Investigators and journalists, that Irish State should be doing more to learn about such companies, their directors and shareholders, before they are awarded such extremely lucrative and profitable emergency accommodation providing contracts.
It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and their families who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland.
Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and Irish property developer Rohan Mallon have been paid over 200 Million Euros by the Irish Government and the Dublin City Council to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless and the vulnerable in Ireland;
Journal.ie Investigators and journalists, that Irish State should be doing more to learn about such companies, their directors and shareholders, before they are awarded such extremely lucrative and profitable emergency accommodation providing contracts.
It seems to be that the top earner has been Irish CAA Manager Seamus 'Banty; McEnaney and their families who all have become "Instant Homeless Industry Multi Millionaires" from funds that have been paid to them through extremely lucrative and highly profitable contracts, by the Irish Government spending money belonging to the Irish People to provide emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, the homeless, and the vulnerable in Dublin and Ireland.
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Emergency housing: How a small network of companies is making millions from a ballooning industry
The former Shipwright pub in Ringsend in Dublin Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie
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Emergency housing: How a small network of companies is making millions from a ballooning industry
One TD has called for more oversight into the provision of emergency housing.
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LAST YEAR, BEFORE fire and smoke damaged the seven-bedroom residence known as Honeywood in Kildare, the property and its adjoining land were described by one estate agent in especially glowing terms.
“Undoubtedly this is one of the finest infill residential development opportunities to come on the market in Leixlip in recent times, offering the superb opportunity to create a high-class residential development for either the owner-occupier or to acquire a substantial residence on a mature superbly located large site,” a sale listing read.
The property was bought for over €1 million last May by a company called Faldecs Limited, which had incorporated less than a year beforehand in October 2022.
The house appears to have remained vacant until it was set alight in a suspected arson attack on 7 February, after what Gardaí say was “a significant volume of misinformation” and claims it would house International Protection (IP) applicants.
Faldecs Limited may be a new company, but it had already changed directors by the time it bought Honeywood last year; in March 2023, developer Ronan Mallon – the company’s sole director when Faldecs was incorporated – resigned and was replaced by Ronan Holbrook.
Company records show how Holbrook and Mallon’s names interweave across a string of companies with property and business interests across the country.
Between them, they are listed as current directors of more than 50 companies, which include companies that have been paid more than €20 million between them in public funds for providing accommodation to Ukrainian arrivals and IP applicants in the past two years.
The activities of these companies shine a light on the multi-billion euro industry that’s sprung up around housing refugees in Ireland, and how businesses here are making vast sums of money out of the ongoing crisis.
The companies connected to Mallon and Holbrook are, at the same time, providing accommodation to refugees and asylum seekers on behalf of the Government during an emergency shortage of places for them to stay, and there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by those companies or their directors.
A spokesperson for the Department of Integration said that the increase in expenditure by the Government on accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers since 2019 was due to a significant increase in numbers of new arrivals.
“In 2019, less than 7,000 people were in State provided accommodation for asylum seekers,” a statement said.
“By the end of 2023 over 75,000 people were in State provided accommodation, with the general breakdown as one third international protection applicants and two thirds were Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection.”
Public spending skyrockets
With tens of thousands of people now seeking refuge in Ireland every year, increasing amounts of public money have been spent on finding somewhere for them to sleep.
The cost of doing so has skyrocketed since the pandemic, with Government spending on accommodation now dwarfing the total value of payments in the last years of last decade.
Figures from the Department of Justice (which was then tasked with housing of IP applicants) show that it spent just over €130 million on what it described as ‘asylum seeker accommodation’ in 2019, when 4,781 people arrived in Ireland seeking international protection.
One reason for the significant increase was the fact that individual providers are being paid more than they were in 2019 for their services.
For example, Mosney Holidays plc, which operates a direct provision centre for hundreds of asylum seekers in Co Meath, was paid more than €20 million last year, compared to €9.9 million in 2019.
Next Week & Co Ltd, the company that runs the Abbeyfield Hotel at Ballaghaderreen in Co Roscommon where a number of asylum seekers live, was paid almost €7 million last year for IP accommodation, compared to €4.9 million five years ago.
And Millstreet Equestrian Services, which provides accommodation for hundreds of asylum seekers in Cork and Waterford, likewise made over €12 million last year, compared to €11 million in 2019.
It is possible that these companies were paid more because they hosted more refugees last year compared to 2019, or because the price of accommodation increased.
The Journal contacted Mosney Holidays plc (via the Mosney Holiday Centre), Next Week and Co Ltd and Millstreet Equestrian Services (via Millstreet Green Glens) via email to clarify whether this was the case earlier this week, but no response was received by the time of publication.
Tents belonging to asylum seekers outside the International Protection Office on Mount Street in Dublin Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie
More tourism providers are getting on board too.
Last week, Fáilte Ireland said that 12% of registered tourism accommodation in Ireland has been withdrawn for humanitarian reasons.
The body estimated that this was costing the Irish economy between €750 million and €1.1 billion, including €200 million in lost tax revenue, (though these figures have not been independently verified by The Journal).
One major factor has been the arrival of almost 70,000 Ukrainians following the invasion of their homeland by Russia, particularly at a time when tourism providers are also telling Fáilte Ireland that they are under pressure from rising costs.
Despite the arrival of a record 13,651 IP applicants in 2022, Government spending on IP accommodation was around €136 million that year (the last full year for which figures are available), roughly the same as it was in 2019.
However, an extra €99 million was spent housing Ukrainian refugees on top of that.
As more and more Ukrainians continued to arrive in 2023, costs grew further.
The most up-to-date figures only show what was spent during the first three quarters of last year, but already reveal that costs for 2023 have far outstripped previous years.
According to Government data, more than €1 billion was spent housing new arrivals between January and September last year, the overwhelming majority of it – €870 million – going towards ‘Ukraine accommodation and/or related costs’.
The data also shows how the sector itself has ballooned, with ever more companies being paid increasing amounts of money for their services.
The 2019 figures from the Department of Justice show that just over 60 companies were contracted by the Government for IP accommodation, with only two earning more than €10 million – East Coast Catering and Mill Street Equestrian, who were paid €11 million each.
But in the first three quarters of 2023 alone, the Department of Integration contracted more than 800 companies, five of whom (Cape Wrath Hotel Unlimited, Brimwood Limited, Travel Lodge Hotels, Holiday Inn Dublin Airport and Guestford Limited) were paid more than €100 million in the first six months of the year alone.
New companies
Although the vast majority of companies given public money last year were already involved in the hospitality industry – like established hotel chains and B&Bs – a handful were new companies or are companies that have recently been taken over by directors who had no prior background in the sector.
There has been speculation that some of these companies are operated by beneficial owners – individuals who reap the benefits of owning a companies despite the company ownership officially being in someone else’s name.
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy raised the issue in the Dáil this week, when she questioned how the same group of individuals were able to buy a number of buildings, including some earmarked as accommodation for homeless people and asylum seekers.
“The former pub, the Shipwright in Ringsend, was intended for use by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive to house 16 families [...],” she told the Dáil.
“The ownership of the Shipwright pub, the building on Sherrard Street and Honeywood House in Leixlip are all linked.
“The same group of people in different capacities are involved in many buildings. Some of those who are purported to own these buildings are far from wealthy and there are legitimate questions about where the money is coming from.”
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy, who raised the issue of companies running emergency accommodation in the Dáil this week Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie
Ronan Mallon and Ronan Holbrook have at different stages been involved in companies that have earned millions from providing accommodation to Ukrainians and asylum seekers.
Among them were Me Libérer Limited, a company that currently lists Holbrook – the director of Faldecs Limited, which owns Honeywood – as its sole director and only shareholder.
The company was only founded in June 2022 and, as a new company, it is yet to file accounts so the extent of its assets is not publicly known.
However, it paid €1.6 million for a stately home known as Ryevale House (also near Leixlip) the same year it was founded. It was given a contract to house 80 IP applicants at Ryevale House from March 2023.
The contract was awarded despite Kildare County Council saying the same month that Ryevale House was not exempt from having to seek planning permission to change its use into accommodation for asylum seekers.
The council subsequently investigated the works carried out at the property – which is a protected structure – and issued a warning letter in May last year, saying that measures should be taken to address “alleged unauthorised use of the structure”.
Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman told the Dáil on 9 May last year that pending the outcome of the dispute, his Department had decided to use Ryevale House because of “the pressure on the State accommodation system” for IP applicants.
Figures from his Department show that almost €2 million was paid by the Government for the use of Ryevale between May and September 2023, all of it for housing IP applicants.
The planning notice against Ryevale House was not the last time that a property linked to one of Holbrook’s companies was subject to an enforcement notice by Kildare County Council either.
On 1 February, the local authority issued a notice, seen by The Journal, alleging that there may have been an intention to use Honeywood – which was set alight a week later after what Gardaí described as “misinformation” about the property – as a premises to accommodate IP applicants. There is no suggestion that Holbrook was involved in the attack.
Kildare County Council claimed that this use may have constituted an unauthorised development that would require planning permission (though there is no formal indication – such as a planning application – that shows that Honeywood was set to house IP applicants).
Like Faldecs, Me Libérer lists developer Ronan Mallon as a previous director, a position he held for just two months between February and April 2023, during which the company acquired a mortgage from investor Glenigo Capital.
Mallon took over as director from Holbrook, before being replaced by him days after details of the mortgage were logged with the Companies Record Office.
Records also show that Faldecs Limited’s sole shareholder at the time of its last annual return in 2023 was a company called Jinus Limited, whose sole director was listed last month as Holbrook (and whose sole shareholder, in turn, was named as Mallon).
Other companies have similar arrangements involving the pair, including those which were not set up to provide accommodation for refugees or asylum seekers.
Gris Developments Limited was set up in February 2023, and currently lists Mallon as its sole director after he replaced Holbrook – who was the company’s sole shareholder when it filed its most recent annual return – last August.
It owns the former Shipwright pub in Ringsend which caught fire on New Year’s Eve in similar circumstances to Honeywood: Gardaí are investigating the fire as an arson attack, and the pub was the subject of protests and misinformation before it was set alight. There is no suggestion that Mallon or Holbrook were involved in this attack.
The Dublin Regional Homeless Executive had confirmed to The Journal before the fire that it was seeking to use the building as emergency accommodation for families who presented as homeless.
The former Shipwright pub in Ringsend after it was damaged in a suspected arson attack Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie
Emergency accommodation
But these are not the only companies which Mallon and Holbrook have been involved in the provision of emergency accommodation.
Holbrook is also named as the current director of Rupopado Limited, the operator of the Eagle Heights B&B in Enniscrone in Sligo, which received almost €1.2 million for housing IP applicants during the first nine months of 2023.
The company, which incorporated in July 2022, had listed Mallon as a director between October 2022 and March 2023, during which it filed its first annual return, though as a new company it has yet to file accounts showing its turnover or any profit or loss.
An annual return filed in January 2023 named Jinus Limited – the company which is also the owner of Faldecs Limited, the owner of Honeywood – as its sole shareholder.
Mallon is named as the sole director of several companies which have never listed Holbrook as a director, and which have been paid more than €20 million since 2022.
They include Auburn Ventures Limited, the owner of the Kilkenny Inn Hotel which appointed Mallon as its sole director in February 2023; the company reported a loss of €502,726 up to December 2022 – two months prior to Mallon’s appointment – before being paid €2.9 million by the Government last year.
Its primary sole shareholder is Baroyle Limited, another company directed by Mallon which is in turn owned by Turphy Enterprises Limited, another Mallon-directed company in which he is the primary shareholder.
Mallon is also the director of Country Manor Hotels Limited, which runs the Celbridge Manor Hotel in Kildare.
Its most recent accounts, for the year up to 31 December 2021, show it had net liabilities of almost €2 million before Mallon was subsequently appointed its sole director four months later in April 2022.
The company was paid €3 million by the Department for IP accommodation that year, before receiving another €7.8 million in the first nine months of 2023.
Its only shareholder is the holding company Coldec Investments Limited, directed by Mallon who is its only shareholder.
Mallon is likewise the only named director of Sicuro Holdings Limited, which runs Harry’s Hotel in Kinnegad in Co Westmeath where the housing of asylum seekers was subject to a local protest in the summer of 2022.
Company accounts show that Sicuro Holdings posted a net loss of €288,013 at the end of 2021, before Mallon was appointed to the company in June 2022.
Months later, in October 2022, the company received two payments totaling more than €1.5 million were made to the company by the Department of Integration for the provision of IP accommodation. It reported a net profit of €823,690 that December.
Sicuro Holdings was then paid a further €3.8 million in the first nine months of 2023, more than €3.5 million of it for providing accommodation to Ukrainian refugees.
Its only shareholder is Coldec Holdings Limited, another holding company directed by Mallon, who is also that company’s only shareholder.
And last year, Mallon also took over as the director of Laupteen Limited, the owner of the My Place hostel on Gardiner Street in Central Dublin, in May last year.
The company had been paid more than €1.5 million by the Department since the start of 2022 before Mallon was appointed, after which it made a further €372,000 up until September 2023.
Laupteen also has contracts with Dublin City Council for the provision of homeless accommodation, though it is not known how much these are worth.
Other companies
Ronan Holbrook, meanwhile, is named as a director of companies with links to other new companies that have separately signed contracts with the Department for the provision of IP accommodation and which received millions from the Government last year.
They include Amarilla Developments Ltd, owner of the former Burkes of Ballycastle tourist accommodation in north Co Mayo.
Amarilla only incorporated in February last year and lists an agreement with another company, DHMG Properties Limited, which signed a contract with the Department of Integration to provide IP accommodation on 9 January this year.
Holbrook is named as the company’s sole shareholder in an annual return filed in August last year.
Company records also show that Rio Azul Developments Limited, another company of which Holbrook is the sole director, has an arrangement with yet another company called DHMG Properties – its primary shareholder – which is listed as owning three houses on Upper Drumcondra Road in Dublin.
Figures from the Department of Integration state that DHMG Properties, which incorporated in June 2022, was paid over €4.2 million for providing IP accommodation in the first nine months of 2023.
It has never listed Mallon or Holbrook as a director, though its sole director and shareholder – Daire Turner – is named as the secretary of several companies where the pair currently or used to serve as directors.
The Journal attempted to contact Mallon, Holbrook and Turner for comment via the email address of a company directed by Turner this week, but no comment was received by the time of publication.
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy also told the Dáil this week that she had asked how the government decides to award contracts to companies like those above, and was informed that “the only real issue that is considered is if they are tax-compliant”.
She told The Journal that the State should be doing more to learn about such companies before they are awarded contracts, particularly as they are dealing with vulnerable members of society.
“We’re in an almost constant emergency situation in relation to the provision of accommodation, so a lot of those normal checks and balances are absent,” she said.
“Even if these public elements are are absent, you would be expecting that the relevant authorities would pay more attention to doing things like background checks on companies – more than tax-compliance, which I would regard as totally inadequate.
“I completely accept we’re in an emergency; but even in emergency situations, it’s really important that you don’t abandon the normal checks and balances, even if they’re done in a different way.”
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"..Joe Biden US President and Antony Blinkin US Secretary are both deliberately denying $500 million to UNRWA for Humanitarian for Palestinians in Gaza while giving Israel another $15 billion for military aid to murder 20,000 plus women and children in Gaza and pushing for another $50 billion for military aid to purchase killing machines sold by Joe Biden's Zionist partners and friends who own arms companies who make hundreds of billions of dollars each year from supplying Arms to both sides of all the Wars around the world... for Ukraine to continue to fight the two year old never ending Russian Ukraine War to kill more people that would not even have started, if I was US President instead of Crooked Joe Biden ...:... " ..Donald Trump tells USAWeekly.com.au and INLTVNews in an exclusive INLTVNews interview to be included a new INLTVNews movie called "The Gate Is Open ... The Dark Truth Behind The Israel Hamas Gaza War..."
ISRAEL WAS FOUNDED BY, AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTROLLED BY, THE ROTHSCHILDS AND THE REST OF THE ELITE. THE “JEWISH HOMELAND” SCAM IS JUST A SMOKESCREEN AND JEWISH PEOPLE ARE PAWNS IN THE GAME.
An insider in the Five Eyes Spy Security Alliance Network has spoken out exposing Lord Jacob Rothschild and his private security agency Mossad are behind controlling and financing Hamas and the 7th October 2023 attack in Israel and influencing 13 Western Powers to stop humanitarian funding to Palestinians in Gaza
ISRAEL WAS FOUNDED BY, AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONTROLLED BY, THE ROTHSCHILDS AND THE REST OF THE ELITE. THE “JEWISH HOMELAND” SCAM IS JUST A SMOKESCREEN AND JEWISH PEOPLE ARE PAWNS IN THE GAME.
An insider in the Five Eyes Spy Security Alliance Network has spoken out exposing Lord Jacob Rothschild and his private security agency Mossad are behind controlling and financing Hamas and the 7th October 2023 attack in Israel and influencing 13 Western Powers to stop humanitarian funding to Palestinians in Gaza
British investment banker. Both the presidents of Israel and the USA both act under instructions of Jacob Rothschild
"The fourth Baron de Rothschild, Lord Jacob Rothschild of Great Britain, has been called the 21st Century's "King of Israel." He and other Rothschilds preside over the planet's greatest banking cartel, and Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, and others bow to Rothschild dictates. Politicians in world capitals, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, and Tokyo grovel before their awesome power...",,... James Kleck Senior INLTV News Investigator
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel from Lord Jacob Rothschild, Israel's Genocide on the Palestinian People in Gaza and the West Bank would immediately stop.. unfortunately the protesters against the Israel Gaza War are not publicly demanding the boss of bosses Lord Jacob Rothschild, to order the stopping of Israel's Genocide on the Palestinian People in Gaza and the West Bank ... the public rhetoric between Joe Biden US President and
Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel about the USA calling for a two state solution is just shadow boxing....no prime minster of the USA or Israel is appointed without the approval of Lord Jacob Rothschild .... see historical INLNews article 'Obama Rothschild's Choice' .. see "... James Kleck Senior INLTV News Investigator
Yahya Sinwar shadowy Hamas leader behind the war against Israel
Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, attends a demonstration held to mark Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, a commemorative day in support of the Palestinian people celebrated annually on the last Friday of the Muslim month of Ramadan, in Gaza City on April 14.
New INLTV World News book and film "The Gate Is Open" exposes the shocking reality of the terms of Israel and Mossad agreeing to the release from a life sentence prison sentence on murder convictions of Hamas Military Leader Yahya Sinwar accused of being behind the 7th October 2023 Hamas Attack In Israel
Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from terror and violence, and embraced instead the teachings of another famous Middle East leader. In Son of Hamas, Mosab Yousef-now called "Joseph"-reveals new information about the world's most dangerous terrorist organization and unveils the truth about his own role, his agonizing separation from family and homeland, the dangerous decision to make his newfound faith public, and his belief that the Christian mandate to "love your enemies" is the only way to peace in the Middle East.
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, FRS (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician
INLTV News Secret Investigation Report shows how and why the real powerbase behind the Israel Gaza War and Israel's Genocide Aims on the Palestinian People in Gaza and the West Bank is connected to Lord Jacob Rothschild, and the former British Zionist Jewish Leader Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild and the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which lead to " the formation of Israel in 1948, an episode that resulted in the ethnic cleansing of some 750,000 Palestinians from their land..."
South Africa levels accusations of ‘genocidal conduct’ against Israel at UN Int'l Court of Justice
Yahya Sinwar shadowy Hamas leader behind the war against Israel
"The majority of Hamas members look at him as . . . someone who sacrificed most of his life for the sake of Hamas and the sake of the country, Palestine ....." ..... Waleed al-Modallal, Gaza’s Islamic University
Yossi Cohen in 2019 in Tel Aviv. As chief of Mossad in 2016, he dismantled Harpoon.
Tamir Pardo, a former head of Mossad, in September in Herzliya, Israel. The Harpoon Task Force, he said, was “one of the most important tools the Mossad had.”
Saleh al-Arouri Senior Hamas official killed in Israel Drone Strike Musharafieh Beirut, Lebanon
The audacious attack hit Hamas’s office in Musharafieh, a southern suburb of Beirut. Senior Hamas official. Saleh al-Arouri was Saleh al-Arouri Senior Hamas official killed in Israel Drone Strike Musharafieh Beirut, Lebanon
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation on March 26, 2000. Besides a one-term stint as Prime Minister, from 2008 to 2012, he has remained there ever since.
It is with heavy hearts that we share the devastating news of the loss of our dedicated Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Dakka during the recent coverage in Gaza in an Israeli airstrike. His unwavering commitment to truth and storytelling has left an indelible mark on our team.…
Smoke billows over buildings following an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip as the Israeli military says Hamas leader Yehya Sinwar is underground. Follow our live updates of the Israel-Hamas war.
Israeli Intel Picked Up Hamas Attack Plans 12 Months Before 7th October 2023 Hamas Attack Then Dismissed It Says Journalist . So why wasn't the Israeli Army and Israeli Mossad Not Fully Prepared to Make Sure that Hamas Could Not in Anyway Penetrate The Israeli Gaza Border.. which helps support the view by many that the Israeli Army and Israeli Mossad conveniently allowed Hamas to break through the Israeli Gaza Border so that paid Hamas Mercenaries that did not look like normal Palestinians ... and more looked like young paid mercenaries from African Nations could rape, kidnap an kill Israel People as a good (9/11 type) excuse for Israel to start the Israel Hamas War where over 1,700 innocent Palestinians, the majority women and children have been killed... which is claimed to be two innocent Palestinians killed to every one alleged Hamas Fighter..
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Youdon't get Dublin ... you don't understand her' ...
local Dublin TDs react to Irish Minister For Justice McEntee statement
Some analysis of the possible reasons for a mentally deranged Moslem Algerian man to lose the plot and snap to carry out such horrific attacks on young Irish children, may well have been as a result of the Israel/USA rockets sent over into Northern Gaza which indiscriminately murdered thousands of innocent civilian Palestinian women and children and men who were not part of the Israel Hamas War..
Police car set on fire in Dublin as protests ramp up in city after stabbing incident
Burned bus wreckage removed from O'Connell Street as Dublin cleans up after night of looting and riots
Thirty-four arrests after rioting in Dublin following school knife attack
PSNI send two water cannon to gardaí following last night's riots in Dublin
Irish Citizen, in his 40's who originally from the Algerian Army, which at the time, was well known to get its Algerian soldiers to commit all sorts of horrific violent atrocities on men, women and children, who has lived in Ireland for 20 years.. allegedly stabbed a woman and a five-year-old girl. They are in serious condition in a Dublin Hospital.
A 43-year-old Brazilian Deliveroo Driver, Calo Benico, was widely praised for jumping off his moped and knocking the man over the head with his helmet. Then other people rushed forward to grab the man's knife.
Siobhan Kearney, who witnessed the stabbing, said the scene was "absolutely bedlam". "Without thinking, I just took across the road to help out," she told Irish broadcaster RTE. "We got another young man, disarmed (the attacker) with the knife, and put it away for the police to find it."
A photo of Dublin City last night. A photo of Dublin City Black Friday 24th November 2023
A stolen bus also burns and a passerby stands in front of a burning tram in Dublin on November, 2023. An Algerian man allegedly stabbed threr children and an adult outside an Irish Language School, sparking intense riots in the city of Dublin.
Mounting evidence and reports of the 7th October 2023 attack on Israel with Israeli hostages taken was a well planned Israeli Mossad False Flag Operation created as a excuse to the world to completely level Northern Gaza Strip with rockets, bombs, bulldosers and tanks, kill thousands of Palestinian men, women and children, and make over two million Palestinians homeless and force those still living to flee the Northern Gaza Strip to make way to build an new Canal through Israel and The Gaza Strip as an alternative to the Suez Canal.
The threat of the nuclear apocalypse loomed over the 1980s. Is the world regressing to this scenario? Will humanity go from a global pandemic to a new world war?
Give peace a chance
Right now, nuclear war is just a hypothetical scenario run by Princeton University. Let's hope it doesn't ever become reality.
A 40 year Secret INL News Investigation Reveals the Real Reason Why Mark Chapman Murdered John Lennon
John Lennon and Yoko Ono in bed for peace
Lennon married the Japanese avant-garde artist Yoko Ono in March 1969
John Lennon was murdered in New York on 8 December 1980 by Mark Chapman
A 40 year Secret INL News Investigation Reveals the Real Reason Why Mark Chapman Murdered John Lennon
The 40 year INL News Secret Investigation Report into the real undisclosed background and reasons for Mark Chapman murdering John Lennon and who else was involved in John Lennon's murder will be revealed in a
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Bank shares plunged again this morning as market fears shifted focus from the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on global banking to new problems at Credit Suisse.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Bank of Ireland was the hardest hit among the Irish banks by midday, with shares plummeting 10.4pc. AIB shares were down 7.6pc. The two were the worst performing stocks on the Irish stock exchange.
Shares in insurer FBD also took a pouinding, falling 7pc.
Silicon Valley Bank fails in largest bank collapse since 2008 crisis | Banking | The Guardian
Yahoo Real Estate Pty Ltd receives One Billion offer for 51% of its domain name www.YTweet.org
Jack Dorsey the founder of Twitter.com and Mark Elliot Zuckerberg the founder of FaceBook.com always knew that that Domain Names a Better Investment than Real Estate.
Yahoo Real Estate Pty Ltd receives One Billion offer for 51% of its domain namewww.YTweet.orgfrom Amit Ashram, which is backed by an Indian Investment Group who want to take on Twitter which as just purchased by Elon Musk for $44 billion, to create an
"Independent Uncensored Voice"
for everyone on planet earth
Are Domain Names A Better Investment Than Real Estate?
Jack Dorsey and Evan "Ev" Clark Williams the founders of Twitter.com and Mark Elliot Zuckerberg the founder of FaceBook.com always knew that that Domain Names a Better Investment than Real Estate.
Following the announcement of Twitter's initial public offering (IPO) in 2013, the company was valued at between US$14 billion and US$20 billion
Evan "Ev" Clark Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American billionaire technology entrepreneur who is the co-founder of several technology companies, including Twitter. Williams was previously chairman and CEO of Twitter, Inc.. He also founded Blogger and Medium, two of the largest internet platforms of their kind. In 2014, he co-founded the venture capital firm Obvious Ventures. As of February 2022, his net worth is estimated at US$2.1 billion
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American business magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder
The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has completed his $44bn (£38.1bn) takeover of Twitter, according to a filing with the US government.
Mr Musk tweeted "the bird is freed" and later said "let the good times roll".
A number of top executives, including the boss, Parag Agrawal, have reportedly been fired. Mr Agrawal and two other executives were escorted out of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters on Thursday evening, said Reuters.
Joe Farr : A smooth talking con man sharpshooter real estate agent from the USA who operates at Joe Farr Platinum Properties 7/130 Scarborough Street Southport QLD 4215
To view other Members of Joe Farr and Joe Farr's Platinum Properties Real Estate Gold Coast Queensland Fraud Gang go to
$5 billion dollar offer for all Yahoo Real Estate Pty Ltd shares.
The Shareholders of the 15-year-old Australian company that has had its registered office and main place of business at 93 Cambridge Street, Mitchell, Queensland, Australia, 4465, since 2014, have been offered $500 per share for the 10,000,000 issued Yahoo Real Estate shares. The shareholders originally paid $1 (one dollar) per share in the year 2008, when the company purchased all the media assets of International News Corporation Ltd. This puts a total market capitalization of $5 billion dollars on Yahoo Real Estate Pty Ltd shares. It is understood that the proposed buyers, backed by a large merchant banker, are planning to backdoor list all the Yahoo Real Estate Pty Ltd issued shares into an existing public company at $1,000 a share. They are confident of doubling their five-billion-dollar investment in Yahoo Real Estate Pty Ltd shares on completion of the backdoor listing of all the Yahoo Real Estate Pty Ltd shares into an existing public company at $1,000 a share
Western Hotel 93 Cambridge Street, Mitchell, Queensland, Australia
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The INL News Investigation and Legal Team have been investigating a most serious conspiracy being committed by various high profile real estate agents in who operate in Whitsunday and the Gold Coast of Queensland and property investors, to defraud a non-profit charity formed to create health and healing health retreats to teach people how to cure cancer the natural way, on thei charity's 80-acre pristine rainforest property on the edge of the Pacific Ocean in the Airlie Beach\Conway Beach Whitsunday Region and the edge of a 500-acre fresh water lake near Perth, the capital City of Western Australia.
There is other information that has been supplied to the INL News Investigation and Legal Team, that the buyers of this 80-acre pristine rainforest property on the edge of the Pacific Ocean in the Airlie Beach\Conway Beach Whitsunday Region, are purchasing the property for the purpose to help import, grow, manufacture, store and\or distribute illegal drugs.
Joe Farr and his Platinum Properties Real Estate Group Accused Of
Multi-Million Dollar Fraud over the marketing of
The Maranoa Hotel
93 Cambridge Street, Mitchell, Queensland, 44650 which is on the market for $2.950,000 through www.y-realtor.com
and
a 80 acre Pacific Ocean Front Unique Prestine Rain Forest property at 171 Allan Road, Airlie/Conway Beach/Whitsunday Region of Queensland,which is on the market for $4.9000,000 through
Joe Farr and his Platinum Properties Real Estate Group Accused by INL NEWS Investigators of Multi-Million Dollar Property Frauds
Multi-Million Dollar Fraud over an allegation that "Joe Farr and his Platinum Properties Real Estate Group conned the director on the registered title holder of 171 Allan Road, Airlie/Conway Beach/Whitsunday Region as trustee for a cancer fighting non profit charity, into signing fraudulently low $630,000 sale contract to Shayna Narelle Chapman and William Leslie Chapman, on the 9th of September, 2022 knowing that the true market value of the property is $4,500,000 plus, and was previously on the market through East West Realty for $29 million with the name and development plan for the Eco Airlie Beach Health and Tourist Resort "
Joe Farr and his Platinum Properties Real Estate Group Accused by INL NEWS Investigators of Multi-Million Dollar Property Frauds
with a secure $250,000 per year passive lease income
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216 Bambun Road, Bambun, Perth, Western Australia, 6503
Offered for $9,900,000 first time for sale in 45 years
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Lakeside home on 12 acre near Perth, Western Australia
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62 Yappar Street, Karumba, Queensland, Australis, 4891 Property Description... Perfect Lifestyle. A very rare opportunity to own 11 luxury villas on the sea in the far north of Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria, being one of the best all year round fishing and prawning spots in the world. A great rental income under management or live in one of the luxury villas and receive the income from the other 10 luxury villas. Karumba, Queensland is one of the best fishing spots in the world, with a vast number of unique features, attractions, and activities to see and do, including fishing, crocodile spotting, feeding Barramundi, river cruises, bird watching, and much more. The property has 11 self contained luxury fully furnished airconditioned villas, with an great outside entertainment area with a spa, barbeque area and a swimming pool. The sunsets are the best you have ever seen. Catch your tiger prawns, yellow prawns, barramundi, king whiting and many more types of fish and seafood. There are many other activities around this resort, such golf, tennis, hiking, bike riding, and many more. Surrounding the resort there are all the facilities that are all the facilities that are in any other town, including a school, shops, a hotel, a post office, Medical Clinic, Ambulance, A Police Station, a Westpac and Commonwealth Bank Agencies, sporting amenities and a hospital. Karumba has over 500,000 visitors each year that come from all directions. You will enjoy the sea breeze as you and your family sit on your balcony of your spacious self contained luxury villa, grill your freshly caught fish on the barbeque, or swim in the pool, amongst a lush garden setting and BBQ area. Meet new friends and relax with Karumba's magnificent sunsets. Karumba, on the Gulf of Carpentaria along with the Gulf of Thailand, the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico are some of the best fishing places on Planet Earth to catch fish, because of a one-tide-a-day thing that happens in Karumba, on the edge of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. Karumba is situated on the mouth of the Noman River, which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria. Karumba is the centre of the Gulf's prawn and barramundi industries. Visit the Barramundi Discovery Centre to find out how to explore the fascinating insights into these spectacular fish and learn about how the Barra spawn in captivity and how their lavi are reared to fingering size for release into the wild. If you are an amateur fisherman or a first timer fisherman, you will enjoy the pristine conditions of the Gulf Waters. You can enjoy a fun filled atmosphere if full or half day river and sea charter with an experienced crew. You can take a stroll on the beach while enjoying the magnificent views and sunsets
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$2,000,000 Mortgage Loan at10% interest per year
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that neither the Western Australian Police, The Western Australian Government, the Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Hall, or even the Defense Team for Bradley Robert Edwards wanted to hear about, read or know about
The New Explosive Book that lifts the lid off who was behind the
Claremont Serial Abductions, rapes and killings,
why they happened and why and how the
Western Australian allowed them to happen.
It is all exposed in the new book being published and
Liam Bartlett's question to Chris Edwards the Western Australian Police Commissioner:
"Here's the bottom line in this case, Bradley Robert Edwards from 1988 for 10 years that we know was attacking, abducting, raping, assaulting and murdering for 10 years around Perth and he was never even a suspect on the WA Police Radar out of the around 18,000 suspects that you had admitted where listed as suspects in the 1995 Karrakatta Abduction and Rape of a young17 year old girl, until the yes 2016... Mr Dawson ... how was that possible? ... and how is that anywhere neat good police work?" ...Liam Bartlett
Bradley Robert Edwards (called Young Bradley by his Telecom boss after his 1990 sexually motivated assault at Hollywood Hospital) has admitted sexually assaulting the girl in 1995 in the Karrakatta Cemetery. He threw her to the ground and straddled her while he tied her wrists together behind
Chris Dawson returned to the newly named Western Australia Police Force as Commissioner, after three years as the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.
Liam Bartlett @LiamBartlett9 60 Minutes Reporter Liam Bartlett returned to Channel Nine Perth in 2015 as anchor of the weekend news bulletins and to present special reports
The book and film
Chilling Words - Dark Side of the Claremont Murders
is making public for the first time the facts, information and legal and factual analysis that neither the Western Australian Police, The Western Australian Government, the Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Hall, or even the Defense Team for Bradley Robert Edwards wanted to hear about, read or know about before or during the long six months trial of Bradley Robert Edwards.
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It may have something to do with the fact that this video accuses to the CIA and other powerful elite of being in control of much of the content presented to the general public in films and television.
" The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the Major Media.."
....Former CIA Director William Colby
Quotes of the Month “What happened to Kennedy is nearly what happened to me. America is in danger of upheavals. But you'll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They'll do everything to stifle the scandal. They will throw Noah's cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don't want to know. They don't want to find out. They won't allow themselves to find out." ~ French president after returning to Paris from JFK's funeral on November 24th, 1963 (Peyrefitte's memoir in "It Was de Gaulle") - Charles de Gaulle I never make the same mistake twice ...I make it like five or six times, you know .....just to be sure I am currently under construction .. thank you for your patience