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Good riddance! Billionaire banker David Rockefeller dies aged 101

David Rockefeller
© Dennis Van Tine/Geisler-Fotopres / www.globallookpress.comDavid Rockefeller
Former Chase Manhattan Chief Executive David Rockefeller has died at the age of 101.

Rockefeller died in his sleep at home in Pocantico Hills, New York, on Monday morning as a result of congestive heart failure, according to a family spokesperson Fraser P. Seitel.

The businessman, who had an estimated fortune of $3 billion, retired as head of Chase Manhattan in 1981 after a 35-year career.

In the statement from the The Rockefeller Foundation confirming his death, Rockefeller was described as "one of the most influential figures in the history of American philanthropy and finance, considered by many to be 'America's last great international business statesman'."

Rockefeller, also known as 'the banker's banker', according to the statement, is said to have donated almost $2 billion over his lifetime to various institutions including Rockefeller University, Harvard University and art museum.

Propaganda

Trump as Putin's 'Manchurian Candidate': The NYT's tinfoil hat conspiracy

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The New York Timesโ€™ connect-the-dots graphic showing the Kremlin sitting atop the White House.
There are real reasons to worry about President Donald Trump's foreign policy, including his casual belligerence toward Iran and North Korea and his failure to rethink U.S. alliances with Saudi Arabia and Israel, but The New York Times obsesses on Trump's willingness to work with Russia.

On Saturday, the Times devoted most of its op-ed page to the Times' favorite conspiracy theory, that Trump is Vladimir Putin's "Manchurian candidate" though evidence continues to be lacking.

The op-ed package combined a "What to Ask About Russian Hacking" article by Louise Mensch, a former Conservative member of the British Parliament who now works for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and a connect-the-dots graphic that when filled out shows the Kremlin sitting atop the White House. But the featured article actually revealed how flimsy and wacky the Times' conspiracy theory is.

Usually, an investigation doesn't begin until there is specific evidence of a crime. For instance, the investigative articles that I have written over the years have always had information from insiders about how the misconduct had occurred before a single word was published.

In the early 1990s, for the investigation that I conducted for PBS "Frontline" into the so-called "October Surprise" case - whether Ronald Reagan's campaign colluded with Iranians and others to sabotage President Jimmy Carter's negotiations to free 52 American hostages in 1980 - we had some two dozen people providing information about those contacts from multiple perspectives - including from the U.S., Iran, Israel and Europe - before we aired the allegations.

Stock Down

South Korea accuses Beijing of trade retaliation in response to US missile defense

THAAD interceptors arrive at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea
© HO / AFPTHAAD interceptors arrive at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, March 7, 2017
Seoul has complained to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that Beijing is retaliating against South Korean companies in response to the country deploying a US anti-missile defense system.

"The South Korean government appealed to the WTO service council to determine if Chinese measures on South Korean tourism and retail businesses conflicts with WTO regulations," South Korean Trade Minister Joo Hyung-hwan said on Monday.

The complaint isn't regarded as legal action, as it is more a request for the organization to check if China is upholding trade agreements fairly, according to an unnamed trade ministry official, as quoted by Reuters.

Seoul claims Beijing has been taking punitive measures against South Korean corporations after the country agreed to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.

Attention

ยฃ1mn child abuse inquiry into ex-PM Edward Heath closed due to 'lack of evidence', Chief Constable under pressure to resign

Edward Heath
© Stringer / ReutersSir Edward Heath
A ยฃ1 million ($1.25mn) taxpayer funded child abuse investigation into former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath has been closed by police, reportedly due to a lack of evidence.

The inquiry, codenamed Operation Conifer, will be closed in the coming weeks, but the report on its findings will remain confidential, the Telegraph reports.

The huge bill has been criticized as a waste of taxpayer money since it was launched in August of 2015. Police have also been slammed for damaging the reputation of the late ex-PM, who cannot go on trial.

According to sources who spoke to the newspaper, private investigators that were hired by police to help conduct the inquiry have been told that their contracts will not be renewed.

"The inquiry is coming to an end. The contracts are up and have not been renewed, even though there was an option to do that," the source said.

Friends of Heath, who died in 2005 aged 89, insist that the inquiry found no evidence implicating the Tory politician, saying the questions police put to his former staff members and sailing friends were so lacking in detail that there appeared to be no hard evidence.

Comment:
As the Free Thought Project has previously pointed out, pedophilia among the elite is rampant. The problem has gotten so bad in England that officials issued an order last month to stop naming streets and landmarks after local heroes and politicians because they could later be exposed as pedophiles.

In February, the Free Thought Project reported on the fact that the police chief recently came forward and confirmed that the former Prime Minister of England, Sir Edward Heath, had raped dozens of children. The department also noted how those within the government helped cover up these crimes.

In December, we reported on the massive child sex ring that was blown apart in Norway. That investigation quickly led to arrests of "51 people, all men, (who) are so far involved in the case. 24 of them come from Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. 26 come from other areas of Norway, from Southeast to Finnmark in the north. Among the accused offenders, there is also one Swedish national. Two politicians, one Labor politician from Oslo and a former national Progress Party (FrP) politician from Eastern Norway are involved in the case." One is also a kindergarten teacher, and four of the 51 arrested were perpetrators in the video evidence collected.

Domestically, these higher level arrests are few and far between as anytime 'the elite' are mentioned alongside the term 'pedophile,' the Praetorian guard, aka the corporate media, shout down all those who dare pose any questions.

However, even though the media won't report on it, these disgusting child predators are so vile they are hard to ignore.

In January, admitted child rapist and former speaker of the house who is currently in jail, Dennis Hastert came across our radar after he demanded one of the children he raped pay back the hush money given to him by Hastert โ€” because he broke his silence about the rape.

When the victim, known only as 'Individial A,' broke his silence, Hastert's child rapes were exposed โ€” resulting in the subsequent prosecution.

"To the extent any contract existed between plaintiff [Individual A] and defendant [Hastert], plaintiff breached that contract," Hastert's lawyers wrote.

"Plaintiff's breach of conduct resulted in damages to defendant and plaintiff is accordingly required to return $1.7 million to defendant."

Individual A did not go public with this information โ€” he merely spoke to the FBI after the transactions were uncovered by investigators. However, this sicko couldn't care less about airing this repugnant grievance in the public forum as it was almost entirely ignored by the media.

There was also another massive pedophilia scandal in the United States in what became known as the Franklin child sex ring coverup. Once the FBI took over the investigation from state authorities, however, it turned into a witch hunt to persecute the child victims - going so far as to charge them with perjury in a successful attempt to scare the other 70+ victims to recant their testimony regarding the child sex ring.
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Attention

China disbanding 5 of PLA's 18 military corps amid downsizing of world's largest army

Chinese military
© Stringer / Reuters
China's People's Liberation Army will reportedly disband five of its 18 army corps, including two that served as the power base of two disgraced generals, sources with knowledge about the ongoing shakeup told the South China Morning Post.

Two years ago, Beijing announced that it would lay off 300,000 members of its 2.3 million-strong military as part of a major reform, which is meant to turn the PLA into a more efficient and flexible modern fighting force. The country's top brass has since been overhauled, and China has restructured its military and investigated generals for alleged corruption.

Among the dozens of senior officers caught in the anti-corruption probes were two former vice-chairmen of the Central Military Commission, Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong. According to the newspaper's sources, among the five army corps slated to be disbanded are the 16th and the 47th, which had served as the disgraced generals' power base.

Quenelle - Golden

Trey Gowdy warns against obstructing child sex abuse investigations (VIDEO)

Trey Gowdy
© Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is not a man to be trifled with.

The Tea Party Republican, former Federal prosecutor, and perhaps most notably chair of the Benghazi Committee, has a reputation for getting to the bottom of issues and rendering a fair opinion - even if it's unpopular with his own party. In the Benghazi report, Gowdy highlighted the Obama administration's systematic failures surrounding the tragic events of Sept. 11th, 2012 - though the findings did not conclude that Hillary Clinton was solely responsible - an outcome angering many Republicans:
"If you can read this report and you believe, in the last page of the report, that this is about one person rather than about four people, then there's nothing I can say that's gonna disabuse you of that," Gowdy said. "No amount of facts and no amount of evidence that's going to dissuade you from your previously held conviction."
Gowdy has been on the Committee on Ethics, Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security (Chairman), Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits and Administrative Rules, and the Subcommittee on Government Operations.

Star of David

Heinous act of aggression: Israel bombs small town in Syria, murders member of Syrian NDF

Israel Drone bombs Syrian forces
One member of the Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF), a paramilitary organisation, fighting alongside the Syrian army, was killed during an Israeli drone raid on Khan Arnaba, a town in the Syria's Quneitra province, located right next to the Golan Heights.

According to the announcement made on the official NDF Facebook site, Mr. Yasser Hussein Seyyed was martyred after an unmanned Israeli drone targeted his car in Khan Arnaba, while taking the road to Damascus. The news was also picked up by the Israeli press.

The incident comes two days after one Israeli jet was shot down by the Syrian army. On the early morning on Friday, March 17th, four Israeli military jets violated the Syrian airspace and targeted Syrian military positions near the Lebanese border. The Syrian defense systems responded by shooting down one Israeli jet and hitting another one, while the remaining two retreated. The Israeli government has since responded and threatened to destroy the Syrian defense systems, should they be activated again.

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Caesar

Russia's Orthodox Christianity has become 'natural defender of mainstream Islam'

Putin speech Church Russian Christian orthodox
The west's liberal crusade is anathema to both Russian traditions and Russia's legally stringent views on foreign policy

The contemporary foreign policy of the Russian Federation can be characterised as a pragmatic defence of self-interests along with the interests of its allies. All of these policies tend to be conducted within the framework of international law. In fact, Russia often finds herself having to define the precepts of international law to other nations who frequently violent it.

The forum where this is most frequently accomplished is the United Nations. The long-serving and recently deceased Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin became emblematic of Russia holding others to account, at least in terms of rhetoric and voting record.

Sherlock

Court documents reveal Turkey coup timeline, but mysteries remain

Erdogan coup attempt arrests soldiers
© REUTERS/Kenan GurbuzTurkish soldiers accused of attempting to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the night of last year's failed July 15 coup are escorted by gendarmes as they arrive for the first hearing of the trial in Mugla, Turkey, Feb. 20, 2017.

Despite a recently issued 2,700-page omnibus indictment, many questions remain unanswered about the July 15 military uprising in Turkey. The parts of the indictment supported by telephone records and camera recordings, and the documents that reached the news media, answer many questions but also leave some critical ones untouched.

About 221 suspects stand accused of participating in the incidents at the chief of staff headquarters. Lawyers who have seen a copy of the indictment told Al-Monitor it will be the basis of other indictments that will follow. The first part of the document broadly summarizes the background of the military uprising and coup attempt, and systematic efforts of the Gulen movement to infiltrate the military since the 1980s. In the rest of the document, preparations for the uprising are summarized with corroborative evidence, testimonies of the suspects and victims, telephone records, and military and civilian documents. It also identifies 38 members, all at the rank of lieutenant colonel and higher, as being in the "Peace at Home Council," the alleged brain trust of the coup.

Info

Lavrov: US antimissile deployment in Asia-Pacific 'disproportionate' to Pyongyang threat

THAAD interceptors
© Yonhap / Reuters
South Korea's decision to deploy the THAAD antimissile system from the US is disproportionate to the threat posed by North Korea, which was voiced as justification by both Seoul and Washington, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"We have drawn attention to the serious risks posed by the deployment of the US global antiballistic missile system in Asia-Pacific," Lavrov said after meeting his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida in Moscow. The two ministers met alongside their respective military colleagues, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada.

"We have voiced our assessments, according to which, if one wants to deal with threats posed by DPRK, the creation of such ABM system as well as pumping weapons into the region are a response far from proportionate," Lavrov said.

Comment: Lavrov makes a great point. And here is something else to consider: