Harrison Koehli and Elan Martin
Sott.netSat, 22 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
History is rarely cut and dried, but important historical events are quite often portrayed in a very limited context, providing a very narrow understanding of how the world actually works. Or how the omission of a certain set of facts can almost completely upend our 'map of reality'; the commonly understood factors which brought about the Russian Revolution of 1917 being just such a story.
When we can begin to ask whether or not the U.S. government was actively engaged in undermining the Tsarist power structure in Russia, or how, at the same time, some of the largest and most powerful figures in American banking and industry helped organize and fund radical left causes there, or how U.S.-based media magnates twisted the news out of Russia to fit the agendas of the above - then we may start getting somewhere..
This week we speak with author and historian
Richard B. Spence about his book
Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, and delving into the data, agendas and dynamics that led to what is arguably one of the most profoundly destructive developments of the 20th century. And if the broader picture presented is more accurate than the more simplistic view, then we will surely be better equipped to see and understand what it is the Western world may be experiencing right now.
Running Time: 01:52:05
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Harrison Koehli co-hosts SOTT Radio Network's
MindMatters, and is an editor for
Red Pill Press. He has been interviewed on several North American radio shows about his writings on the study of ponerology. In addition to music and books, Harrison enjoys tobacco and bacon (often at the same time) and dislikes cell phones, vegetables, and fascists (commies too).
Born and raised in New York City, Elan has been an editor for SOTT.net since 2014 and is a co-host for
MindMatters. He enjoys seeing and sharing what's true about our profoundly and rapidly changing world.
Reader Comments
Interseting chat/show. Thank You.
Q & A - how do you make sense of it ?
- Money.
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for sure, it an impressive lure...it drives the apparatus, greatly assists in achieving aims, lines pockets, buys services, promotes or undermines etc, perfect for sick minds to play sad games, history is full of them, well known household names that didn't have any place without someone somewhere, behind them, being desirous of Power.
he had been standing in line for an appartment and a brand new wartburg which was just to show up thanks to his grandfather's and his fathers inpeccable condolonces during their lifetime.
for him, it all fell to ruins when the wall fell 🤔
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COVID: Why did mega-corporations accept the lockdowns?
Three men who own corporate America by Jon Rappoport [Link]
Over the past 38 years working as a reporter, I’ve spoken with many medical people. Doctors, researchers, public health bureaucrats, business executives whose companies supply products to the medical industry, professors, etc.
In every case, these people completely and utterly support conventional medical reality. They are unshakable. A man like Fauci says jump and they jump. To do otherwise would be unthinkable.
As you read on, you’ll see why this is important…
Airlines, hotel chains---you name it, they all folded when the lockdowns were imposed. They closed up shop, they took a knee, they opted for bailouts. Why?
The CEOs of these corporations are supposed to be hard chargers and ruthless operators. Why didn’t they rebel?
I could cite several reasons. Here I want to focus on a little-known and staggering story.
Imagine an employee of a company is motivated to speak out against the lockdowns and go public. Then he thinks about the owner of the company. That owner happens to sit on the board of a large hospital.
Uh oh. That owner is SOLIDLY WIRED into official medical reality. He isn’t going to appreciate a naysayer who says the lockdowns are a ridiculous and destructive overreach. Better to stay quiet. Better to fit in and go along.
Well, it so happens that three of the most powerful corporate bosses in America DO have deep connections to major hospitals, and these three men run corporations that OWN CORPORATE AMERICA.
What???
The three men are Larry Fink, Joseph Hooley, and Mortimer Buckley.
Buckley is the CEO of the Vanguard Group. Hooley is the CEO of State Street. Fink is the CEO of BlackRock.
These three companies are titanic investment funds. Financial services companies.
Buckley is a board member of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. From 2011 to 2017, he was chairman of the hospital’s board of trustees.
Hooley serves on the president’s council of Massachusetts General Hospital.
Fink is the co-chair of the NYU Langone Medical Center board of trustees.
Let’s look at their investment funds: State Street, BlackRock, and Vanguard---known as The Big Three. The reference is an article at theconversation[dot]com, “These three firms own corporate America,” 5/19/17, by Jan Fichtner, Eelke Heemskerk, and Javier Garcia-Bernardo.
“Together, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street have nearly US$11 trillion in assets under management.”
“We found that the Big Three, taken together, have become the largest shareholder in 40% of all publicly listed firms in the United States.”
“In 2015, these 1,600 American firms [the 40%] had combined revenues of about US$9.1 trillion, a market capitalisation of more than US$17 trillion, and employed more than 23.5 million people.”
“In the S&P 500 – the benchmark index of America’s largest corporations – the situation is even more extreme. Together, the Big Three are the largest single shareholder in almost 90% of S&P 500 firms, including Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, General Electric and Coca-Cola.”
“What is undeniable is that the Big Three do exert the voting rights attached to these shares. Therefore, they have to be perceived as de facto owners by corporate executives.” (emphasis mine)
“Whether or not they sought to, the Big Three have accumulated extraordinary shareholder power, and they continue to do so…In many respects, the index fund boom is turning BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street into something resembling low-cost public utilities with a quasi-monopolistic position.”
If the CEO of a corporation whose main shareholder is The Big Three thinks about rebelling against the official COVID medical consensus…
And he knows that The Big Three bosses are heavily wired into the US medical complex…
That CEO has a HUGE reason to forget about being an old-time hard charger.
He has a reason to swallow his anger when he’s told to lock down and shut down.
He has a reason to knuckle under and play the game.
He has a reason to surrender to a story about a virus and Fauci and Bill Gates.
He has a reason to stand down and stand aside and watch economic devastation sweep over the land.
HIS CORPORATION IS OWNED BY THE BIG THREE, AND THE OWNERS OF THE BIG THREE ARE LOYAL MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL COMPLEX…THE COMPLEX THAT FORMS THE CURRENT POLICE STATE THAT HAS SUBDUED THE WORLD, UNDER THE FALSE BANNER OF “SAVING HUMANITY FROM THE VIRUS.”
It’s that stark.
I keep telling you we’re now living in a medical civilization.
From the financial side of things, you’ve just read how that is so.
The three men who own corporate America are also medical denizens.
Think it through.
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There is often little tid bits of info they slip in during back and forth discourse.
I believe they mentioned that Fink fella on one of their episodes a couple months ago.......
Anyhow, I think they are doing a good job and it is done essentially voluntarily and I appreciate what they are doing.
I don't necessarily agree with everything, but DUH, is that the "gold standard" of discourse - I hardly think so.
In fact, that is the opposite.
It is tyranny to insist all think the same as you and behave with all the rules that make no sense.
Tyranny it is!
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Poem of the Day , BK 12522 1025 est of us of a good newscast is hard to find these days.....
(i only ask because i am curious).
Ken
I mean do you want me to present the evidence of this - I could. But why waste my time on somebody, except for this last little communication, I've concluded doesn't have much to add to the conversation. I'm sure you have your own conclusions and to each their own....seemed like you were trying to hold onto something, but I think it is something you don't know how to hold onto.
Until next time rekarb ...until next time.
Instead, in the usual place (where the descendants of the "ancient Ukrainians" usually like to find their "Vkraniya", "Vkraina" or "Oukraina ") we find a toponym understandable for the whole of medieval Europe - GAZARIA! :
[Link]
Yes, yes , exactly "Khazaria", not " Ukraine "
GAZARIA = KHAZARIA = UKRAINA
The Thirteenth Tribe : The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage is a 1976 book by Arthur Koestler ( Hungarian British Jewish author and journalist ) , in which the author advances the thesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people.
Koestler hypothesized that the Khazars ( who may have converted to Judaism in the 8th century ) migrated westwards into Eastern Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries when the Khazar Empire was collapsing.
Khazar | Origin, History, Religion, & Facts | Britannica [Link] Rurik Dynasty | medieval Russian rulers | Britannica [Link]
"After the Mongol invasion (1240) the Russian princes were obliged to seek a patent from the Mongol khan in order to rule as grand prince."
The Ottoman Turks, founded in the 13th century, ended the Byzantine empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 ad.