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Is the Quoran writer Roland Bartetzko a former terrorist?Additional note : answer augmented with 2 new & pertinent sources (NATO KFOR & legal source) on the 29/12/2020, and an aparte about the Podujevo bus bombing (16/02/2001, 12 dead Serb civilians, 40 injured), perpetrated by an unknown party but on a similar modus operandi than the Prishtina attack (18/04/2001) Roland Bartetzko has been convicted for.Disclaimer : Due to the outrageous Serbophobic propaganda campaign led on Quora by Roland Bartetzko, former German paramilitary in the Bosnian War and Kosovo-War, and convicted terrorist (yes indeed) and murderer now out of jail after 13 years of penance inflicted by an U.N court for the Priština bombing in 1pril 2001 which costed the life of Aleksandar Petrović, head of the Yugoslav Passport office in Priština (in Kosovo & Metohija, Serbia), and wounded 4 of his colleagues, and the success of said campaign (more than 45,000 followers, hundred of upvotes on every of his answer)… I feel like that a lot of Quorans are not aware of his background, and take for a freedom fighter who is actually a petty thug turned paramilitary during the Yugoslav Wars and then terrorist after their conclusion in what concerns Serbia.Hence this post, compiling the available sources and official documents related to Bartetzko’s criminal record, so the truth about him is available here on Quora, and hence its occasional pinning on my profile, so it reaches a maximum of people, in the hope that said truth finally reaches its legitimate audience, aka. everyone.Convicted terrorists and murderers should remain silent after they did their time, and not continue to spread publicly the hatred that led them to jail in the first instance.Accordingly to an U.N court in Priština who indicted[1] , tried[2] & sentenced him in 2002 for terrorism, murder, and attempted murder in 2001, a sentence that he served for 13 years until 2015, yes, Roland Bartetzko is. And with his Quora answers, book, and interviews, he made quite a business of the dirty soldier-of-fortune road leading him there.But let’s see for ourselves some sources beyond the well known BBC article mentioned in the question, aka. 8 different articles (the BBC one, 1 from the Hamburger Morgenposten, 3 of the Spiegel, newspapers from Germany, the country of origin of Roland Bartetzko ; one for the U.S conservative site FreeRepublic, one from the Deutsche Welle, one from NATO KFOR, and also as a bonus 3 different extracts of judgements involving Bartetzko’s conviction for terrorism, murder, and attempted murder) which speak about :his motivations,his dishonorable discharge from the Bundeswehr (German Army) in the early 90s,his paramilitary and petty-criminal intertwined career in the 90s,and a more-than-usual detailed account of the terrorist event (Priština bomb attack in 2001) he’s been indicted, judged, and sentenced for in 2002 by an U.N court.Then, 2 openings are made on Bartetzko’s tongue-in-cheek narration of the preparation of a war-crime he witnessed & its deadly outcome for a Serbian woman, and the Podujevo bus bombing (2 months before the similarly orchestrated Prishtina attack, for which Bartetzko was sentenced).Ultimately, Bartetzko’s own answer is commented at the end of my own.First one[3] :Second one[4], which is very interesting and bring some precisions (Criminal record of Bartetzko, Bartetzko fingerprints on the Prishtina bombing evidences, etc) :TERRORISM "Handwriting of a professional"A German ex-paratrooper, the UN investigators suspect, has done the dirty work for the Albanians in Kosovo. He is said to have killed unwanted Serbs with explosive attacks.Colonel Aleksandar Petrovic was a powerful man. The head of the Yugoslav passport office in Priština decided who was allowed to travel to Serbia from Kosovo and who was not, which was sometimes a life and death decision. Two opposites, between which there are sometimes only seconds in the Balkans.Last Wednesday, Petrovic was murdered with deadly precision. At around 2:50 p.m., the Serbian police officer had left his office with four companions and boarded a dark blue VW Passat. When the limousine passed a dilapidated house on Mostarstrasse, an explosive device hidden on the ground floor detonated. The remote-controlled five-kilo bomb was pointed like a funnel at the street and peppered with deadly metal fragments.Petrovic’ was shredded by shrapnel, his companions survived, some seriously injured. Only coincidence had prevented an even more serious bloodbath: Shortly before, a passerby had parked his car in front of the ruin - it significantly reduced the force of the pressure wave.A little later, a second explosive device was discovered, which apparently should have been detonated at the same time in order to literally circle the target Petrovic. It was connected to electrical wires that led to a nearby hiding place. Although the second bomb did not detonate, the UN police officers stated that the attack bore "the signature of a professional".This "handwriting" now causes considerable eddies far beyond the borders of the Balkans. Although 4,000 UN police officers and around 40,000 KFOR soldiers are on duty in Kosovo, thousands of Serbs and other ethnic minorities who have fled cannot return home from abroad. The German Foreign Ministry also warns of deportations to Kosovo; the refugees would have to fear "systematic pressures, intimidation and violent attacks, which are always fatal" by radical Albanians.And now, of all people, a German is supposed to have done the dirty work for the Albanians. An ex-Bundeswehr paratrooper was arrested as the alleged main perpetrator of the Petrovic murder. According to information from UN circles, he is also suspected of being responsible for three more terrorist attacks in Kosovo as a UÇK contract killer. The suspect was arrested shortly after the detonation. An Albanian police command had delivered a violent man to the UN police on the afternoon of April 18. He had a German passport in the name of Roland Bartetzko, 30 years old, a former non-commissioned officer.The all-over dust-covered Bartetzko violently denied having anything to do with the attack. The explosion terrified him. The criminal police in Pristina, which is headed by a German state guard, took his fingerprints and initially let him go again.Only later, after the Pristina Murder Squad (the UN police homicide) had compared the traces on the unexploded bomb to Bartetzko's fingerprints, the German was put out to search.On Friday, two days after the colonel's death, investigators from the Team Six anti-terrorist unit attacked. At around 11:30 p.m., they arrested Bartetzko near his apartment in Pristina. He resisted violently and was injured on the right arm during the action. The United Nations investigative judge Renate Winter issued an arrest warrant for murder, assault and terrorism.Bartetzko is not a blank slate. In 1991 the non-commissioned officer was "dishonorably" released from the Bundeswehr. As a member of a paratrooper unit stationed in Merzig, he is said to have previously participated in lone fighter courses and explosives courses.After his release, Bartetzko left Germany and initially lived in a student accommodation, a 20 square meter room for a monthly rent of 200 marks, in the Belgian town of La Calamine, not far from the German border. Former roommates today remember a "weapon tick" that he was said to have had at the time.In June 1995, Bartetzko's trail was initially lost - his data was deleted "ex officio" from the population register. At this point he had already broken off contact with his family. According to UN files, Bartetzko initially fought under the battle name "Matthias" on the Croatian side in the Yugoslav wars, until he was finally captured and even declared dead. But in truth the German was able to flee and later joined Muslim fighters.Only in January 1996 did Bartetzko reappear in Germany. After entering Austria, the police picked him up at the border crossing near Bad Reichenhall and secured his fingerprints. The BKA had tracked him down because of his mercenary activities, but there was no evidence: Service in a foreign force is not punishable under German law as long as there is no knowledge of specific crimes.Three months later, the obviously desperate Balkan Desperado was brought to the Munich Stadelheim Correctional Facility for handbag robbery. At the same time, the Austrian police searched for Bartetzko - also because of a robbery. After another detention, this time in Rastatt, the ex-mercenary apparently moved to Kosovo.After the invasion of NATO troops, Bartetzko appeared in Mitrovica, founded the security company Sucuir Kosova and married an Albanian. Vabona Mustafa was impressed by the socially romantic streak of the German, who never ceased to rave about the "human warmth", the "real feelings" and the "warmth of the people" in Kosovo. "Germany is freezing cold," he is said to have always said.Bartetzko apparently found human warmth above all at the UÇK. In his apartment on Ramiz-Sadiku Street, the police found photos of him posing in a combat dress next to his Albanian comrades. Because "Roland" sounded so strange to the militia officers, he let them call them "Shaban" (hero).The soft German, however, might also have its hard sides. The word "security company", it says in Pristina, is really nothing more than a nice paraphrase for terror and extortion. According to a UN spokesman, the former high school student "with the German passport, the Russian name and the Albanian woman" is now considered a "big fish" by insiders. It is currently being examined whether Bartetzko was involved in three other acts of terrorism:* The bombing of the "Center for Peace and Tolerance" in Pristina on August 18 last year, in which an employee of the Turkish People's Party was injured;* The bomb attack on the residence of the Belgrade government official in Kosovo, Stanimir Vukicevic, in which his chauffeur died on November 22;* The massacre of Serbian men, women and children, whose bus convoy had caught an explosive device near Pudojevo on February 16.The investigators are particularly suspicious of the perfidious technique of the last attack, which claimed at least ten lives. The perpetrators had deposited more than 220 kilos of explosives in a water pipe under the street and waited until the armored support vehicles of the Swedish Kfor escort had passed by. Just as the bus with the civilians was over the bomb, they detonated the explosive device over a one and a half kilometer cable by holding the bare ends against a car battery.A couple with a small child was among the dead; there were also 40 injuries, some of whom were seriously injured. The carnage even preoccupied the United Nations Security Council.Bartetzko, who faces 40 years imprisonment, has so far stubbornly refused to testify at all interrogations. His Albanian lawyer, Tom Gashi, says: "I haven't seen any of the alleged evidence yet, and I don't think he committed the Petrovic attack." Given the fingerprints on the bomb, belief will hardly help much.The Frankfurt public prosecutor Peter Korneck, a specialist in organized crime who has been assigned to the United Nations in Pristina, is currently investigating the German ex-mercenary. Above all, he wants to catch the backers who are suspected in circles of the Albanian leadership. Korneck is considering transferring the investigation to Germany because "the legal possibilities in Kosovo are reaching their limits".These limits became clear last Friday afternoon. Because there were indications of a violent liberation by radical UÇK fighters, Bartetzko was flown hastily and under the strictest security precautions by Pristina into the fortress-like "Bond Steel" camp of the US Kfor troops.GEORG MASCOLO, SVEN RÖBEL, ANDREAS ULRICHBy Georg Mascolo, Sven Röbel and Andreas UlrichThird one[5] :Fourth one[6] :Fifth one[7] :Sixth one[8], the famous BBC article mentioned by the OP :German guilty of Pristina bomb attackResidents had to be evacuated after the 2001 bombingA court in Kosovo has sentenced a German national to 23 years in prison after finding him guilty on charges of murder and terrorism.The bomb had been placed in a parked car and packed with metal fragmentsThe man, Roland Bartetzko, was accused of masterminding a bomb attack last year in the centre of the Kosovan capital, Pristina. One person was killed and four others injured in the blast.Bartetzko - who fought with ethnic-Albanian rebels against Yugoslav forces in 1999 - is the first westerner to be tried for murder in postwar-Kosovo.The high-profile case was heard by an international panel of three judges.Terrorism"Bartetzko was sentenced for murder, four acts of attempted murder and terrorism," Andrea Angeli, a spokesman for the United Nations mission in Kosovo said.Bartetzko, 31, pleaded not guilty to the charges when the trial opened in February."I did not plan the bombing," the fighter for the now disbanded Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) told the court.He was arrested by UN police several days after the explosion, which took place as a group of Serbs were leaving the offices of the Yugoslav representation in Pristina.The bomb - placed in a parked car - was packed with explosives and metal fragments.Yugoslav government official Aleksandar Petrovic was killed in the blast and four others were injured.Serbs targetedThe prosecution claimed that the bombing was a "revenge" attack" that stemmed from Bartetzko's hatred of Serbs.Serbs living in Kosovo have been targeted several times in attacks by majority Albanians angered by years of repression under Slobodan Milosevic's regime. (me : repression for what ? ;-)Several other killings of Serbs - including a bomb attack in February last year that killed at least 10 people - are still unsolved.Kosovo has remained a UN protectorate since 1999, when Nato bombed the province to drive out Serbian forces.Seventh source, from NATO KFOR itself[9] :Note the following part, paramount to understand HOW FAR Bartetzko was ready to go to blast his target, & HOW UNIMPORTANT were the “collateral damages” he could do IN PRISHTINA against ALBANIANS civilians, including children (the same Albanians who revere him as a hero today..) :"There would have been extensive casualties amongst people on the street, including the children playing in the area if all of the 10 kilos of explosives had gone off. The whole neighborhood would have been devastated," police spokesman Derek Chappell says about the explosion.Eight one[10] :As a German guerrilla in the Yugoslav warsRoland Bartetzko served in the Bundeswehr. He later fought as a volunteer in Bosnia and Kosovo. He wrote a book about his war experiences. Nemanja Rujevic spoke to him."To be able to call myself a soldier, I thought I had to fight. Otherwise I could have joined a paintball club." Roland Bartetzko describes his motivation so simply, why he left the newly united Germany in the early 1990s to go to the Bosnian war. His book "The Smell of War - Lessons from Battle" is now also available in German.Bartetzko now lives in the Kosovan capital of Pristina. Born in Würselen in the far west of Germany in 1970, he served as a teenager in the Bundeswehr. His logic that a soldier can only be called, whoever fights, irritates and makes one listen.The answer to a small question from the parliamentary group of the Left in 2001 shows that "RB" was released under paragraph 55 (5) of the Soldiers' Act. So only the Bundeswehr soldiers are put in front of the barrack door, who "culpably violate" their duty of service or whose further whereabouts "would seriously endanger the military order or the reputation of the Bundeswehr". But Bartetzko doesn't want to know about that.Guerrilla tactician and motivational coachThe request from the left in the German Bundestag also revealed other things: That around 100 Germans were fighting on the Croatian side - mostly right-wing extremists. Bartetzko a Nazi? Not at all, he replies. He calls them vile. "For me it was just a love of adventure. The others may have had problems - with the police, the wife or the family. There were also war tourists who thought it was cool to spend a week at the front."In retrospect, it was very problematic to research the reasons. "You are dishonest and say that you only fought for the freedom of Croatia or Kosovo. That is nonsense, of course," he says in an DW interview about why he joined the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) in Bosnia and later joined the Kosovar Liberation Army (KLA).Bartetzko seems to be driven to describe everyday life as a soldier. For years he has been serving Quora, a world-famous forum that distributed some of his posts to an audience of millions. It describes how to keep your butt and teeth clean during war, when water is scarce, why cigarettes can be a popular means of payment or how a deadly ambush is set. Or how to deal with your fear without going crazy."The next morning I woke up slowly, no one shot, the sun shone from outside in the basement, and I thought to myself: 'What a beautiful morning!' But slowly it came to my mind where I was and my next thought was: 'Shit!' "Anyone expecting a structured report will be disappointed after reading 172 pages. His book is more of a collection of anecdotal episodes. Bartetzko also tries as a tipster when it comes to guerrilla tactics, or is an amateur psychologist and motivational coach. "So much crap is being told. The book is meant to fight against this turbopatriotic mythization."Croatia and later Kosovo finally achieved their main goal: the detachment of their territories from Yugoslavia. In both countries, the wars are interpreted as a defense struggle against the "Serbian aggressor".Isn't a foreign volunteer, who also reports on the taboo topic of traumatizing soldiers or alcohol and drug consumption on the front, not perceived as nest polluter? "As soldiers, we didn't necessarily have to worry about having to liberate the country every day. It's not everyday life for soldiers."The second life in KosovoUnfortunately Bartetzko hides a lot in his booklet, although his personal experience could have been valuable. The brutal wars in disintegrating Yugoslavia in the first half of the 1990s killed more than 130,000 people and around two million lost their homes. But while the former fighter describes the crimes committed by Serbs in detail, there is no evidence of Croatian or Kosovar human rights crimes. "I haven't seen any crimes, which doesn't mean there weren't," Bartetzko told DW. "If you come as a foreigner, you won't be told such things."But he has a number in his head how many people were killed by his Kalashnikov. Or also how many died from the mines he laid. However, he does not mention the number. "I didn't check to see if they were actually dead."The book ends with the NATO bombing and surrender of Serbia in June 1999. Less than two years before Roland Bartetzko's life took a decisive turn. On April 18, 2001, a car from the Yugoslavian consulate in Pristina was blown up. A colonel from the Yugoslav police died and four other people were injured. A little later, the "deserved" KLA fighter Roland Bartetzko was arrested.As in court, Bartetzko denies his guilt to the press. He senses behind the allegations against him a conspiracy of the UN mission in Kosovo, which continues to control the judiciary in the protectorate. He did not have to serve the 20-year sentence - he has been on parole since 2015. He used the time behind bars to study law. His wife, a Kosovar Albanian, had the patience to wait for him. That is why he lives in Pristina, speaks fluent Albanian and is very well connected.Some of his friends at the time - and enemies of the war - have become War Dogs. That's the name of those who know nothing but war and don't want anything else. You move through the world as legionaries. They occasionally appear in the media when there are reports of foreign legionnaires in Croatia, Serb mercenaries in Donbas or Albanians who have become jichadists. Bartetzko is at home in Pristina and is very satisfied as a lawyer in a company that produces television series.Isn't it a bit like a paintball club? "Nope, I'm too old for war. It's a closed chapter."Chapters close indeed, with the help of time, but the book never end with Roland Bartetzko. And yet, time for that too is more than overdue. Is he a terrorist ?As for myself, my own opinion and answer is yes.Here is a brief of Bartetzko’s appeal case, with facts, charges, & first instance judgment.Full appeal on this document [11] .As a bonus, Yiannis Papadopoulos mentions in his comment the very opinion of the highest “jurisdictional body of Kosovo”, who’d might be inclined to be friendly to him due to his alignment during the Kosovo-War, and yet considers still that Bartetzko is… a convicted criminal[12]who failed to prove otherwise, or prove that his rights were not respected as such.And here is an extract of the review and inadmissibility of Bartetzko’s demand of release in december 2012[13] (courtesy of another Quoran answer[14]) :Tough life…Indeed, “dear” Roland Bartetzko, opinions of your own (national media, friendly jurisdictions), and facts, are always better than hostile propaganda to make a case. So I rest mine, at least for now, until (I hope), Quora moderators finally decides to rest yours on this platform which should not tolerate your kind to make their ad-nauseam advertising there.Second Bonus : Read the following answer[15] of Roland Bartetzko, the lightness of his prose toward… a Serbian woman killed by an antipersonnel mine placed by “one of his friend” under a car-seat, and put that in parallel with Prishtina and Pudujevo bombing : Roland is testing either everyone’s patience, either everyone’s idiocy.Yes, 918 upvotes at the time of the screenshot.Edit 15/12/2020 : Bartetzko finally answered[16] the question, and here’s my comment on the answer, that’s I’ll paraphrase.Oh yes, I’m a terrorist. A big one even.Indeed Roland. Blowing-up an official car, in peace-time, in an UN administrated territory is a big act of terrorism.Especially when 2 months sooner, on the 16 February 2001, a similar event occurred to a civilian bus full of Serbs near Podujevo[17](12 dead, 40 injured) with an unknown perpetrator with a similar skill-set to yours, & a similar setting (explosives, metal fragments, remote wire activation)The targetThe victimsThe bombings targeting Serbs in Kosovo curiously stopping after your arrestation.. “Honi soit qui mal y pense ?” ;-)I was sentenced according to the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for:Terrorism (Article 125):Whoever causes an explosion, fire or take some other generally dangerous action out of hostile motives against the SFRJ, or commits an act of violence which may create a feeling of personal insecurity in citizens or a in a group of citizens, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than five years.and, to top it all off, they added:Punishment for the gravest criminal acts (Article 139):(1) The offender shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than 10 years or by the death penalty for a criminal act referred to in article …of this law, which brought about the death of a person or caused danger to human lives or was coupled by heavy violence or large-scale destruction, or which led to the endangerment of the security, economic or military power of the country, or in other particularly heavy cases.Thankfully, the death penalty was abolished after the United Nations entered Kosovo, otherwise, I would have been in a tight spot.Sadly, the death-penalty, without due process nor judgement, was inflicted upon your victim(s), namely Aleksandar Petrovich.Other people who were sentenced by Yugoslav (Serbian) judges for terrorism offenses at around the same time were:then US president Bill ClintonBill Clinton engaged an illegal war against a sovereign country, & was almost impeached during his presidency for lying to a Grand Jury.U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,Madeline Albright publicly called for that war, after considering that the death of hundred of thousands Iraqi citizens during US sanctions was “worth it”.French President Jacques Chirac,Jacques Chirac engaged an illegal war against a sovereign country in 1999, and his responsible for huge troubles in Congo-Brazzaville during his presidency, who led to the death of dozen of thousands local civilians.British Prime Minister Tony Blair,Like Bill Clinton, Tony Blair is a friendly acquaintance of Rwandan Dictator Paul Kagame, who is running unchecked & unpunished for the genocide his forces led against Hutu population in Rwanda & Zaire/RDC. Example : Kibeho massacre in april 1995, where more than 4,000 Hutu civilians were slaughtered by his forces, the aftermath being witnessed by UN observers.German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder,After WW1 & WW2, Germany had no right to engage once again in an attack against Serbia/Yugoslavia, & yet, participated to the NATO strikes against Yugoslavia. His defense minister Rudolf Scharping has been caught red handed in propaganda-lies vs the FRY to justify the aggression.former German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel,Same bunch than the previous one, along yourself, Roland Bartetzko, German disgruntled paratrooper turned soldier of fortune then terrorist.German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer,Same bunch.French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine,Same bunch as Chirac.former British Foreign Secretary Robin CookSame bunch as Blair.As you can see, I find myself in a rather exquisite club. Feel free to call me a terrorist. For a few months, my name was even figuring on Serbia's “Most Wanted” list.“Exquisite” club of hypocrites warmongers & genocidal maniacs. Nothing unexpected from you though, considering the Serbophobic propaganda that you still display today.I'm freaking proud of that!We noticed. Answering yes to a serious question asking you if you are a terrorist & claiming pride for the given yes could be taken as a form of humor. Except that the question is serious, & so should be the answer, not only on the Yugoslav Law that you so much ironize about, but also on your crimes, that you cynically dodge to answer for in a public intervention which looks like a trolling dodge of the question more than anything else, aimed at amusing & gathering the support of your hateful cultIs expressing pride for a terrorist status that you earned for a terrorist action you were tried, sentenced, & jailed for during 13-14 years, part of the parole agreement that allowed you to go out of jail in 2015? I don’t think so, but I guess neither Prishtina nor Brussels, Berlin, or the UN, are keen to make you cease and desist. Sad.I see, at the time of my writing, that you got already 700+ upvotes in 8 hours. Serbophobia runs wide & deep, against the very principles that most of your supporters pretend to stand for. It’s ok, “we” are used to it. But that doesn’t make it any less shameful.And out of all of this, you just made this question more popular than it was before.. ;-)Translation of the German articles is a courtesy of Google Translate.As an ultimate note, I invite you all to follow the Quora topic : Roland Bartetzko (former German Army Paratrooper)Roland Bartetzko’s anti-Serb propaganda & very presence (as an unrepentant convicted terrorist) on Quora are both of public interest, and it is in the interest of the public debate that his dedicated Quora Topic grows beyond its current 200 followers & above the threshold of 1,000 followers, which will allow to publicize the question furthermore.Footnotes[1] UNMIK-OSCE-EU-UNHCR Press Briefing, 25 Oct 2001 - Serbia[2] MURDER-TERROR TRIAL BEGINS[3] Ex-Stabsunteroffizier der Bundeswehr bombte gegen Serben: Deutscher Kosovo-Terrorist[4] TERRORISMUS: „Handschrift eines Profis“[5] Deutscher Söldner im Kosovo vor Gericht - SPIEGEL ONLINE - DER SPIEGEL[6] KOSOVO: Söldner vor Gericht[7] UN Kosovo court sentences German mercenary for Albanians to 23 years in jail for terrorism[8] German guilty of Pristina bomb attack[9] Basic Information:[10] Als deutscher Guerillero in den Jugoslawienkriegen | DW | 14.02.2019[11] https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/4e777c/pdf[12] Roland Bartetzko vs. the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Kosovo - Constitutional Court[13] http://www.gjk-ks.org/repository/docs/gjkk_ki_78_13_ang.pdf[14] Nikolay Starostin's answer to Why hasn't Roland Bartetzko written a book about his experiences?[15] Roland Bartetzko's answer to Has Roland Bartetzko ever driven a tank in a battle?[16] Roland Bartetzko's answer to Is Roland Bartetzko a terrorist?[17] Seven die as Serb convoy is bombed in Kosovo

As the Rand report says, Israel and China have a long history including trade. For the US, Israel provides the only alliance we have in the Middle East. Iraq has proven to be a mirage with its current government not always on America’s side. For Israel, the US alliance is proving fleeting with its abandonment of Syria to Russia. If you look at history, China’s connection with Jews and Israel date back to ancient times and trade, also to the persecution of Jews in the world and a refuge in China during those periods.“Jews and Judaism in China are predominantly composed of Sephardi Jews and their descendants. Other Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented, including Ashkenazi Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a number of converts.The Jewish Chinese community manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions, and it also encompasses the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance. Though a small minority, Chinese Jews have had an open presence in the country since the arrival of the first Jewish immigrants during the 8th century CE. Relatively isolated communities of Jews developed through the Tang and Song Dynasties (7th to 13th centuries CE) all the way through the Qing Dynasty (19th century), most notably the Kaifeng Jews (the term "Chinese Jews" is often used in a restricted sense in order to refer to these communities).In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Jewish merchants from around the world began to trade in Chinese ports, particularly in the commercial centres of Hong Kong, which was for a time a British colony; Shanghai (the International Settlement and French Concession); and Harbin (the Trans-Siberian Railway). In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of Jewish refugees escaping from the 1917 Russian Revolution arrived in China. By the time of the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, only a few Chinese Jews were known to have maintained the practice of their religion and culture though the Kaifeng synagogue survived for around seven centuries until 1860. China's Jewish communities have been ethnically diverse ranging from the Jews of Kaifeng and other places during the history of Imperial China, who, it is reported, came to be more or less totally assimilated into the majority Han Chinese populace due to widespread intermarriage.Another wave of 18,000 Jews from Germany, Austria, and Poland immigrated to Shanghai in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Shanghai was an open city at the time and it did not have restrictions on immigration, and some Chinese diplomats such as Ho Feng Shan issued "protective" passports and the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara issued transit visas with which refugees could go to Shanghai after a short stay in Japan. In 1943, the occupying Japanese army required these 18,000 Jews, formally known as "stateless refugees," to relocate to an area of 0.75 square miles (1.9 km) in Shanghai's Hongkew district (today known as the Hongkou District) where many lived in group homes called "Heime". The total number of Jews who entered Shanghai during this period equaled the total number of Jews who fled to Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa combined. Many of the Jews in China later moved to found the modern state of Israel.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_ChinaFrom that background, in current history, China and Israel have been trading partners. If you include Hong Kong, China is second only to the US in trade for both exports and imports. Israel has provided China with military and civilian technologies to America’s dismay. Israel is also seeking a place in the SCO.https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/israel/tradestatshttps://www.newsweek.com/china-israel-military-technology-beijing-jerusalem-saul-eisenberg-weapons-607117“In March 2017, President Xi Jinping of China hosted two important visitors from the Middle East. The first was King Salman of Saudi Arabia, whose country’s oil supplies are crucial to China’s energy and economic outlook. The second was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Unlike Saudi Arabia—or Iran, or Iraq—Israel is one Middle Eastern country with no oil to offer China. Nor does it count China among the many customers for Israeli arms exports; to that prospectively lucrative arrangement, a 2005 dispute with the United States closed the door. Nor is there a large expatriate Chinese population in Israel clamoring for good relations with Beijing. Nor, in China itself, is there a Jewish community of any size whose interests an Israeli prime minister might deem a fit topic to bring up with his Chinese counterpart.Nonetheless, Netanyahu’s appearance in Beijing was more than a courtesy call, or an opportunity to discuss with an interested third party the changing shape of Israel-Arab relations (in which, coincidentally, the growing thaw between Jerusalem and Riyadh was playing a prime role). Instead, the visit was a ratifying event in one of the fastest-growing and most remarkable economic and political partnerships of the past two decades.In a joint statement after the visit, Netanyahu and Xi pledged increased cooperation in areas including “air-pollution control, waste management, environmental monitoring, water conservation and purification, as well as high-tech fields.” The statement also announced plans to create “a global technology center” and other joint projects in the area of innovation, with a standing invitation to Chinese companies to join in a variety of infrastructure projects within Israel itself. For his part, Netanyahu also expressed interest in Israel’s joining China’s massive multi-billion-dollar One Belt One Road project, and in signing a free-trade agreement between the two countries.Strikingly, the joint statement said very little about the usual Middle East political issues—this, despite China’s recent announcement of its by no means Israel-friendly “Four-Point Peace Plan” between Israel and the Palestinians. Instead, Netanyahu cordially encouraged China’s quest “to assume its rightful place . . . on the world stage,” adding that, for this effort, “We are your perfect junior partner. . . . I believe this is a marriage made in heaven.”There is certainly no denying that, in terms of trade and investment alone, the burgeoning economic partnership between Israel and China has at least the potential of transforming not only Israel itself but also Israel’s position vis-à-vis the rest of the Middle East—and most notably vis-à-vis Iran, which happens to be Beijing’s other key partner in the region. Inevitably, it could also have an impact on Israel’s relations with the United States.But is this a marriage made in heaven? Or is it something else?Weighing the answer to that question involves probing beneath the two countries’ currently successful dynamic of trade and commercial transactions to their respective geopolitical agendas. When it comes to Israel, the acknowledged junior partner, it also requires examining whether and how the relationship with China could become a dependency. Such a change might please Beijing, but it would impose on Israeli national security a new kind of vulnerability, one very different from the challenges it has faced successfully in the past.I. Israel Turns toward ChinaChina and Israel established diplomatic relations in 1992, under the respective leadership of Deng Xiaoping and Yitzḥak Rabin. But the growth of Chinese investment in Israel and the expansion of Israeli business in China are products of the last decade and especially of the last few years. In 2016, for example, China’s annual direct investment in Israel almost tripled from the previous year to $16 billion. During Netanyahu’s March visit last year, the two countries signed no fewer than ten bilateral business agreements amounting to a total value of $25 billion. At this rate, China could soon overtake the U.S. as the number-one source of overseas investment in Israel.From Israel’s point of view, a turn toward China made good economic sense. At a point when the U.S. and Europe were still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis and growing at a snail’s pace, and when Europe’s relationship with the Jewish state was becoming increasingly tainted by anti-Semitism, Asia in general and China in particular looked like safe bets for trade.Today, some Israelis see the Chinese connection in larger and rosier terms. To Alexander Pevzner, the founding director of the Chinese Media Center in Israel and a senior adviser to China’s Silk Road Group, “the huge potential going forward is evident.” As he framed it in the Jerusalem Post:Both Israel and China are ancient civilizations but new countries, established within a year of each other. . . . From academia to tourism, from business to culture, relations on both the governmental and non-governmental level have been developing at an astounding pace, creating a sea change not only in bilateral ties but in Israel’s position in Asia in general. Despite the wide gap in size and population, this relationship is a win-win.One might suppose a thoughtful Israeli would have paused before comparing the 1949 founding of the People’s Republic of China, which led to the murder of millions in Mao’s purges and the deaths of tens of millions more in his Great Leap Forward, with the 1948 founding of Israel. Nor, as Elliott Abrams stresses in a recent report for the Council on Foreign Relations, are the two countries today in any way natural partners; in fact, from the point of view of “sheer size, demography, and geopolitical orientation, they appear vastly different.”Yet there is no denying that both sides see the relationship as mutually beneficial—and both seem eager to extend it. More than 1,000 Israeli companies are now doing business in China, and many of them are specifically tailoring their products to the Chinese market. Israel is also now a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)—a multinational consortium aimed at making China as powerful a global financial player as the United States.Jerusalem has even made gestures toward becoming a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Beijing’s bid to create a network of strategic cooperation and coordination, similar to NATO, extending from East and Central Asia to the doorstep of the Middle East. Current members of SCO include Russia, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Among the observer nations is Iran.Behind this relatively sudden leap forward is, as Abrams notes, Israel’s well-deserved reputation as a hub of innovation, entrepreneurship, and research, which it has leveraged as a drawing card for a number of Asian countries, including India and Japan as well as China. The image of Israel as the Start-Up Nation is especially attractive to China, with its long history of an economy dominated, or more accurately burdened, by state-owned companies. President Xi’s “Made in China 2025,” a visionary agenda announced at the 19th Communist-party congress a year ago, is explicitly aimed at developing a strong, entrepreneur-based economy, and both he and others responsible for China’s economic future have publicly articulated the hope that the Israeli entrepreneurial spirit will “rub off” on their own businesses and executives.Israelis are poised to reciprocate. Just as China “is set on learning as much as it can in order to position itself as an innovation economy,” says Hagai Tal, chief executive of the Israeli mobile-advertising company Taptica, so Israeli companies “see important opportunities in the East—and the meeting point of these two approaches is what produces such successful business partnerships.”How successful? Annual trade between the two countries has now surpassed $11 billion, a small figure when compared with China’s trade with the United States or Europe but fully 200 times larger than it was at the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1992. (In the same period, American trade with China grew only twenty times larger.) Chinese investment money has also moved aggressively into Israeli markets, from food technology and environmental and health products to computers and lasers.The first major corporate foray of this kind was the 2014 acquisition of Tnuva, the largest Israeli dairy company, by China’s Bright Foods, followed four years later by the purchase of Ahava, maker of Dead Sea cosmetics, by the Chinese conglomerate Fosun.But nothing attracts China’s attention like Israel’s high-tech sector. The wave began in early 2010 with Yifang Digital buying up Pegasus Technologies, which develops and sells a digital pen for computers. Since 2014, Israeli companies snapped up by Chinese investors include TravelFusion, Natali HealthCare Solutions, and Alma Lasers. Meanwhile, Chinese Internet leviathans like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent Holdings are trolling for Israeli start-ups that can help them build new technologies to compete with Google and Apple.The flow of Chinese venture capital shows no signs of letting up. To help bring Israeli and Chinese companies together, a number of joint business events are now held regularly, and the mutual interest in research has also spilled over into academic cooperation.Last May, Alibaba’s founder and CEO Jack Ma and 35 other Chinese executives visited Israel with an eye (according to Israeli media) of setting up a major Alibaba research hub in the country. In 2014, Tel Aviv University announced that it would partner with Tsinghua University in Beijing to build the CIN Research Center with a focus on biotech, solar, water, and environmental technology. Two years later, the University of Haifa announced plans to build a joint laboratory at East China Normal University in Shanghai to research ecology, data, biomedicine, and neurobiology; all funding was provided by the Chinese government. In December 2017, an arrangement between Haifa’s Technion and Shantou University in southern China, funded by a $130-million grant from the Li Ka-shing Foundation and further bolstered by local public monies in China, came to fruition with the opening in Shantou of a joint campus for technological research.On the Israeli side, academic interest in Chinese culture and civilization has burgeoned via Asian-studies programs at the University of Haifa, Bar Ilan University, and Tel Hai College. Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes—one of the major conduits of pro-Beijing information and propaganda around the world—now operate at both the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University.Daniel Galily, an Israeli expatriate who has lectured in business at Beijing Geely University, sees a perfect complementarity at work in this growing meeting of Israeli and Chinese minds:The educational system in China places great emphasis on discipline and obedience to superiors, while the Israeli educational system and the Israeli army encourage students and soldiers to think about new ideas, and to solve problems in situations of uncertainty.Thus do the Chinese integrate Israeli creativity and innovation into their business enterprises while Israeli start-ups and entrepreneurs learn from their Chinese partners about long-term horizons and workforce organization.The arrangement may not be perfectly symmetrical, but few are pausing to contemplate its potential imbalances—a judgment that can be made about more than one aspect of this marriage.II. Deeper than BusinessIndeed, the China-Israel relationship runs much deeper than business. China has taken on a staggering number of infrastructure projects around the world in recent years, and Israel is one of its important venues.“This is an historic moment,” Prime Minister Netanyahu announced a year ago as he and Chinese executives laid the cornerstone of a new multi-million-dollar seaport at Ashdod being built by a Beijing-based harbor-construction firm. At $3 billion, this is one of the biggest overseas investment projects in Israel, ever—and also one of the biggest for the Chinese company, China Harbor Engineering.Ashdod on the Mediterranean coast is the destination of fully 90 percent of Israel’s international maritime traffic. Officials claim the new harbor will expand Israel’s ability to meet growing demand—including, it seems, from Chinese vessels stopping in Israel. For the Ashdod project also forms part of the vast overseas-development plan unveiled by Xi at the Boao Forum for Asia in March: the Silk Road Economic Belt and Maritime Silk Road. The plan, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, “is expected to change the world political and economic landscape through development of countries along the route, most of which are eager for fresh growth.”For Israel, one of those presumably eager countries, Beijing has very special plans. It sees the Jewish state as an important link in the even larger China-dominated trading chain mentioned earlier: the One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR) extending from the Indian Ocean and central Asia across the Middle East and thence to Europe. Xi hopes that OBOR will generate $2.5 trillion in trade for China over the next decade, with Ashdod serving as a crucial port of destination for seaborne trade with Europe.As a partner in construction projects, China brings big advantages: large pools of available capital, shorter set-up time, and faster construction of plant and infrastructure projects, often carried out by Chinese workforces brought in for the purpose. In Israel alone, according to a report by Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, “China is involved in . . . digging the Carmel tunnels in Haifa, laying the light rail in Tel Aviv, and expanding [both] the Ashdod and Haifa seaports”—and is also entering the residential construction industry.One outstanding example of Chinese capital helping to meet Israeli needs while also serving larger Chinese interests is Beijing’s involvement in the so-called “Red-Med” project, a 300-kilometer rail line linking the port city of Ashkelon, just fifteen miles south of Ashdod, to the Red Sea. The Israeli government, which has deemed “Red-Med” economically essential to the country’s future, responded enthusiastically to China’s offer to provide experienced labor and an approximately $2-billion investment. From China’s perspective, however, “Red-Med” forms only one node, albeit an important one, in the network of high-speed rail lines it intends to build across Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as in China itself.In short, OBOR subsumes Israel-based infrastructure projects like the Haifa and Ashdod port constructions and Red-Med within an ambitious trans-Asian strategy to pursue three key resources for China’s future greatness: petrochemicals, consumer markets, and advanced technology.Chinese military officials and their Israeli counterparts renewed their security relationship in a first-time visit to Israel by a delegation of Chinese military officials, and seven months later in a reciprocal IDF visit to China led by Brigadier General Avi Benayahu. The latter resulted in an agreement to provide select training for PLA officers at IDF facilities.Subsequently, the PLA’s chief of staff, General Chen Bingde, visited Israel to open discussions on joint manufacture of commercial-aircraft components, and in January 2016 Israel Aerospace Industries announced the formation of a joint venture with the Lingyun (Yichang) Science and Technology Group to establish a local maintenance, repair, and overhaul enterprise in Hubei Province—the first truly public instance of cooperation between the Israeli and Chinese defense sectors since the cancellation of the Harpy upgrade.Throughout, Israel has been careful to abide by the agreement with Washington not to sell defense equipment to China. That agreement, however, does not prevent the Israeli military from buying equipment from China. Reportedly, both the IDF and the Israeli police have purchased Chinese-made drones that take part in non-classified operations by Israeli ground forces; the IDF has reportedly sought as well to acquire 200 additional drones and spare parts pending completion of a project to develop an Israel-made drone with similar capabilities.This, too, is a breakthrough: the first time actual Chinese defense equipment has been used by Israeli security forces. There is no reason to believe it will be the last.”https://www.hudson.org/research/14663-israel-and-china-take-a-leap-forward-but-to-whereIsrael is known for its business acumen, same for the Chinese. It would seem they are cut from the same cloth. Maybe that characteristic makes China and Israel's relationship symbiotic and natural.

I’m going to excerpt from a book, but its not MY book (although I DO talk about the more modern day Illuminati - and by that I mean, going back not further than the mid-1700s - in my book- among many other things).But this guy, Bill Cooper, has a unique view on a lot of these things which lends credibility to any investigation because he was deeply involved in Naval and other Intelligence agencies through the instrumentality of his service in the Armed Forces.(Cooper says that he himself was a member of one of these secret combinations - which is what *I* call them - and that he speculates in his book that this may well have been a reason that he was picked for this kind of duty consistently during his period of service)What follows are EXCERPTS from his work BEHOLD, A PALE HORSE: and as pertains to your question, what you will see in the things Cooper says, is that Cooper seems to go far afield from the Illuminati proper (and for the purpose of making a more complete response, I include that “in”); and it seems to be his intention to enumerate and then connect miscellaneous various secret organizations to, not THE ILLUMINATI, as such - but RATHER, the greater concept of ILLUMINISM - which goes back MUCH further; so in responding to this question, the reader will, it is hoped, see that the REAL IDEA is not “THE ILLUMINATI” PER SE - but a LARGER PREMISE - which goes back much much further in time - to which all these secret combinations subscribe - called ILLUMINISM.So here we go with Cooper’s comments; and afterwards, I will have more to say which will add a little bit on a specific group that Cooper mentions, which is from my own research and writing:“Adam Weishaupt, a young professor of canon law at Ingolstadt University in Germany, was a Jesuit priest and an initiate of the Illuminati. The branch of the Order he founded in Germany in 1776 was the same Illuminati previously discussed. The Jesuit connection is important, as you will see later in this chapter. Researchers agree that he was financed by the House of Rothschild (the same Rothschild family mentioned in "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars"). Weishaupt advocated "abolition of all ordered national governments, abolition of inheritance, abolition of private property, abolition of patriotism, abolition of the individual home and family life as the cell from which all civilizations have stemmed, and abolition of all religions established and existing so that the Luciferian ideology of totalitarianism may be imposed on mankind." In the same year that he founded the Illuminati…[Adam Smith] published Wealth of Nations, the book that provided the ideological foundation for capitalism and for the Industrial Revolution. It is no accident that the Declaration of Independence was written in the same year. On the obverse of the Great Seal of the United States the wise will recognize the all-seeing eye and other signs of the Brotherhood of the Snake. Every tenet was the same. Date and beliefs confirm that Weishaupt's Illuminati is the same as the Afghan Illuminated Ones (The Roshinaya) and the other cults which called themselves "illuminated." The Alumbrados of Spain were the same - as were the "illuminated" Guerinets of France. In the United States they were known as the Jacobin clubs.“Secrets within secrets within secrets — but always at the heart is the Brotherhood.“[some believe]…Weishaupt was betrayed and set up for persecution because he ignored the rule that the word "illuminati" or the existence of the Brotherhood would never be exposed to public knowledge. His exposure and outlawing accomplished several goals of the still-hidden and still very powerful brotherhood. It allowed members to debunk claims of its existence on the grounds that the Illuminati had been exposed and outlawed and thus was no longer a reality. It allowed members to deny allegations of conspiracy of any kind. The Brotherhood of the Snake is adept at throwing out decoys to keep the dogs at bay.“Weishaupt may have been a fool — OR, he may have been doing exactly what he was told.“Weishaupt said, "The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation."“Allegations that the Freemason organizations were infiltrated by the Illuminati during Weishaupt's reign are hogwash. The Freemasons have always contained the core of Illuminati within their ranks, and that is why they so freely and so willingly took in and hid the members of Weishaupt's group.“You cannot really believe that the Freemasons, if they were only a simple fraternal organization, would have risked everything, including their very lives, by taking in and hiding outlaws who had been condemned by the monarchies of Europe.“It is mainly Freemason authors who have perpetuated the myth that Adam Weishaupt was the founder of the Illuminati and that the Illuminati was destroyed, never to surface again. The Masons are major players in the struggle for world domination….“The 33rd Degree is split into two. One split contains the core of the Luciferian Illuminati and the other contains those who have no knowledge of it whatsoever. ALL of the intelligence officers that I worked for while in Naval Intelligence were Masons.“Most members of the Freemasons are not aware that the Illuminati practices what is known as "secrets within secrets," or organizations within organizations. That is one purpose of initiation.“I firmly believe that all adult secret societies that practice degrees of initiation and consider the members to be "illuminated" are branches of the original ages-old Illuminati. Their goal is to rule the world. The doctrine of this group is not democracy or communism, but is a form of fascism.(Editor Note: Arguably, without the network of the southern jurisdiction Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, getting the South into the mindset and position where it could decide to secede from the Union, COULD NOT HAVE OCCURRED. There were some other networks – Yale’s Skull and Bones network had quite a bit to do with this – but all these other networks were under the general umbrella of the southern jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. So what was operating, ante-bellum, was a lot of Skull and Bones type, Scottish Rite Freemasonry, British influence, esp. in South Carolina – all of these interests wanted the U.S. to split up, right? For various nefarious reasons).OK - back to Cooper:“You must begin to think correctly.“The Illuminati are not Communists, but some Communists are Illuminati. (1) Monarchism (thesis) faced democracy (antithesis) in WWI, which resulted in the formation of communism and the League of Nations (synthesis). (2) Democracy and communism (thesis) faced fascism (antithesis) in WWII and resulted in a more powerful United Nations (synthesis). (3) Capitalism (thesis) now faces communism (antithesis) and the result will be the New World Order...“The 1953 report of the California Senate Investigating Committee on Education stated: "So-called modern Communism is apparently the same hypocritical world conspiracy to destroy civilization that was founded by the Illuminati, and that raised its head in our colonies here at the critical period before the adoption of our Constitution." The California Senate understood that communism is the work of the Illuminati. They failed to realize that the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission are also the work of the Illuminati.“YOU MUST BEGIN TO THINK CORRECTLY.(Ed. Note: AND SO SAY I ALSO)“The enemy is not communism, it is ILLUMINISM.“The Communists are not going to be much happier with the New World Order than we. I hope to show that most modern secret societies and especially those that practice degrees of initiation — and that is the key — are really one society with one purpose. You may call them whatever you wish — the Order of the Quest, the JASON Society, the Roshinaya, the Qabbalah, the Knights Templar, the Knights of Malta, the Knights of Columbus, the Jesuits, the Masons, the Ancient and Mystical Order of Rosae Crucis, the Illuminati, the Nazi Party, the Communist Party, the Executive Members of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Group, the Brotherhood of the Dragon, the Rosicrucians, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Open Friendly Secret Society (the Vatican), the Russell Trust, the Skull & Bones, the Scroll & Key, the Order — THEY ARE ALL THE SAME and ALL WORK TOWARD THE SAME ULTIMATE GOAL - a New World Order.“In 1952 an alliance was formed, bringing them all together for the first time in history. The Black Families, the Illuminati (the Order), the Vatican, and the Freemasons now work together to bring about the New World Order. All will protest their innocence…“You may notice that some of those listed in the preceding paragraphs do not, or so it appears, practice degrees of initiation. That is the public view. Look at the Council on Foreign Relations. Many members—in fact, the majority — never serve on the executive committees. They never go through any initiation of any kind. They are, in fact, the power base and are used to gain a consensus of opinion. The majority are not really members but are made to feel as if they are. In reality they are being used and are unwilling or unable to understand. The Executive Committee is an inner core of intimate associates, members of a secret society called the Order of the Quest, also known as the JASON Society, devoted to a common purpose. The members are an outer circle on whom the inner core acts by personal persuasion, patronage and social pressure. That is how they bought Henry Kissinger. Rockefeller gave Kissinger a grant of $50,000 in the early '50s, a fortune in those days, and made dear old Henry a member of the CFR. Anyone in the outer circle who does not toe the mark is summarily expelled and the lesson is not lost on those who remain. Do you remember the human desire to be a member of the elect? That is the principle at work.“The real power are men who are always recruited without exception from the secret societies of Harvard and Yale known as the Skull & Bones and the Scroll & Key. Both societies are secret branches (also called the Brotherhood of Death) of what is otherwise historically known as the Illuminati. They are connected to parent organizations in England (The Group of Oxford University and especially All Souls College), and Germany (the Thule Society, also called the Brotherhood of Death).“I learned this when I was with Naval Intelligence.“I was not able to explain why some members of the Executive Committee were not listed under the "Addresses" of Chapter 322 of the Skull & Bones Society until I read The Wise Men by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas, Simon and Schuster, New York. Under illustration #9 in the center of the book you will find the caption "Lovett with the Yale Unit, above far right, and on the beach: His initiation into Skull and Bones came at an air base near Dunkirk." I have found that members of these two societies were chosen on an ongoing basis by invitation based upon merit post-college and were not confined to only Harvard orY>ale attendees. Only members of the Order are initiated into the Order of the Quest, the JASON Society that makes up the executive members of the Council on Foreign Relations and, in fact, the Trilateral Commission as well. The executive members of the Council on Foreign Relations are the real elect in this country. George Bush is a member of the Order. Surprised? You shouldn't be. His father was also a member who helped finance Hitler.“It is important that you know that the members of the Order take an oath that absolves them from any allegiance to any nation or king or government or constitution, and that includes the negating of any subsequent oath of allegiance which they may be required to take. They swear allegiance only to the Order and its goal of a New World Order.“George Bush (to use one example) is not a loyal citizen of the United States but instead is loyal only to the destruction of the United States and to the formation of the New World Order. According to the oath Bush took when he was initiated into Skull & Bones, his oath of office as President of the United States of America means nothing.“The Trilateral Commission is an elite group of some 300 very prominent business, political, and intellectual decision-makers of Western Europe, North America, and Japan. This enterprise is a private agency that works to build up political and economic cooperation among the three regions. Its grand design, which it no longer hides, is a New World Order. The Trilateral Commission was the idea of its founder, American banking magnate David Rockefeller. The real reason for its formation was the decline of the Council on Foreign Relation's power as a result of the people's dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. The reasoning behind the move toward the Trilateral Commission was the same as entering two horses in the same race. It doubles the chances of winning. The real power has always remained solidly in the hands of the Council on Foreign Relations. The Rockefeller family was, is and always will be the benefactor of both organizations. Rockefeller, though powerful, is not in control in this country or anywhere else. The key to the REAL power is the fact that Rockefeller had to put out feelers at a Bilderberg Group meeting in 1972 about forming a private group of trilateral leaders.“The Bilderberg Group gave the nod and Rockefeller's man Zbigniew Brzezinski gathered up a membership and organized the Trilateral Commission in 1972, not in 1973 as the Commission claims. A key to the danger presented by the Trilateral Commission is its "Seminal Peace," written for them by Harvard Professor Samuel P. Huntington in the mid '70s. In the paper Professor Huntington recommended that democracy and economic development be discarded as outdated ideas. He wrote as co-author of the book Crises In Democracy, "We have come to recognize that there are potential desirable limits to economic growth. There are also potentially desirable limits to the indefinite extension of political democracy. A government which lacks authority will have little ability short of cataclysmic crisis to impose on its people the sacrifices which may be necessary." The crises and sacrifices he talks about will be discussed in a later chapter. Remember that George Bush was a member of the Trilateral Commission and only resigned as an expediency to get elected. He believes wholeheartedly in the Commission and its ideas and ideals. We…elected a President who believes that democracy and economic development must be discarded…Bush is still a member of the Order and the CFR.“The JASON Society, or JASON Scholars, takes its name from the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece, and it is a branch of the Order of the Quest, One of the highest degrees in the Illuminati. The golden fleece takes on the role of truth to JASON members. Jason represents the search for the truth. Therefore the name JASON Society denotes a group of men who are engaged in a search for the truth. The name Jason is spelled with capital letters when used as the name of the JASON Society. Lower-case letters are never used when referring to this secret group. Author's note: The name may even have a deeper meaning, as the name "Jason" and the Golden Fleece appear throughout history in relation to various other secret societies. In these instances the story represents man (Jason) looking for himself (Golden Fleece). Top Secret documents that I read while with Naval Intelligence stated that President Eisenhower had commissioned the JASON Society to examine all of the evidence, facts, lies, and deception and find the truth of the alien question. Founders of the JASON Group (not the same as the JASON Society) include members of the famous Manhattan Project, which brought together almost every leading physicist in the nation to build the atomic bomb during World War II. The group is made up mostly of theoretical physicists and is the most elite gathering of scientific minds in the United States. As of 1987 the membership included four Nobel Prize winners. Today JASON continues to offer scientific help the government cannot find anywhere else. They are probably the only group of scientists in the United States that know the true state of highest technology. JASON is shrouded in what appears to be unnecessary secrecy. The group refuses to release its membership list. None of the members list JASON membership on their official resumes. Working completely behind the scenes, JASON has guided the nation's most important security decisions. These include, but are not limited to, Star Wars, submarine warfare, and predictions about the greenhouse effect….[a]ccording to the Pentagon, the JASONS hold the highest and most restrictive security clearances in the nation. They are given the protocol rank of rear admiral (two stars) when they visit or travel aboard ships or visit military bases. The only other reference to the JASON group that I have been able to find is in The Pentagon Papers. The papers stated that JASON was responsible for designing the electronic barrier between North and South Vietnam for the purpose of sealing off infiltration of the South by North Vietnamese regulars during the Vietnam War. I was stationed on the DMZ and I can tell you that it did not work. The veil of secrecy drawn around the JASON Group has been so tight and so leak-proof since its conception that those who think the government cannot keep a secret need to reexamine that position.“The government was able to contain the JASON secret except for the one leak; but the JASON Group itself, a civilian group, did even better. No leaks have ever occurred from within JASON.“JASON is administered by the Mitre Corporation. Government contracts allotted to the Mitre Corporation are in reality allotted to the JASON scientists. This is done so that the name JASON does not ever appear in documents which may come under public scrutiny. What is the difference between the JASON Scholars or JASON Society and the JASON Group? The documents that I read referred to the JASON Society in exactly those words. In public documents the only JASON reference is to the JASON Group, administered by the Mitre Corporation. I believe the JASON Society is one of the highest degrees above the Skull & Bones and the Scroll & Key in the Illuminati. In other words, it is a higher level of initiation. The JASON Group is a scientific organization formed and hired by the JASON Society and the U.S. Government for obvious reasons. I know a lot more about the JASON Society and the JASON Group, but I do not want to injure Mr. Grant Cameron, who has done extensive research on these subjects. He will publish his research in the coming months. I guarantee his findings will amaze you. The Council on Foreign Relations has been the foremost flank of America's foreign-policy establishment for more than half a century. The Council on Foreign Relations is a private organization of business executives, scholars, and political leaders that studies global problems and plays a key role in developing U.S. foreign policy. The CFR is one of the most powerful semi-official groups concerned with America's role in international affairs. It is controlled by an elect group of men recruited from the Skull & Bones and the Scroll & Key societies of Harvard and Yale, which are both chapters of a secret branch of the Illuminati known as Chapter 322 of the Order….“The members of the Order make up the Executive Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations after undergoing initiation into the Order of the Quest, also known as the JASON Society. The Council on Foreign Relations is an off-shoot sister organization to the British Royal Institute of International Affairs. Their goal is a New World Order. Although it existed as a dinner club in New York, it did not take on its present power until 1921, when it merged with the Royal Institute of International Affairs and received its financial base from J.R Morgan, the Carnegie Endowment, the Rockefeller family, and other Wall Street banking interests.“The Council on Foreign Relations controls our government. Through the years its members have infiltrated the entire executive branch, State Department, Justice Department, CIA, and the top ranks of the military. EVERY DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CFR. MOST PRESIDENTS SINCE ROOSEVELT HAVE BEEN MEMBERS. The members of the CFR dominate ownership of the press and most, if not all, of America's top journalists are members. The CFR does not conform to government policy. The government conforms to CFR policy.“The CFR is a secret society in that it forbids the taking of notes or the publishing of minutes of its meetings. Any member who divulges the subject or any part of any conversation or talk that took place during a meeting is terminated. The goal of the Council on Foreign Relations is a New World Order. George Bush is a member of the CFR.ATTENTION!OK, now this is me again for a moment making a quick comment - this next part of Cooper excerpt is at least as important to pay attention to as the foregoing - THESE guys are REALLY NOT GOOD GUYS and they are VERY MUCH active today, right up to the present time:“The Knights of Malta play a powerful role in this scenario. In the 1930s General Smedley Butler was recruited to help take over the White House. He was told that he was needed because of his general popularity with the military. General Butler blew the whistle and named several prominent Americans as part of the plot. At the top of the list was John J. Raskob, who was a founding member of the U.S. branch of the Knights of Malta. He was board chairman of General Motors. He was, at the time, the U.S. Treasurer of the Knights of Malta. Congressional hearings were held to investigate the plot, but none of those named, including Raskob, was ever called to testify and nothing ever came of the hearings. Although you will find this in the Congressional records, you will NEVER find it in ANY history book anywhere. It is significant that the Iran-Contra episode has many similarities to the 1930s plot. William Casey was a member of the Knights of Malta. William Casey, with the help of Vice President Bush, Anne Armstrong and Donald Regan, caused the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board to be emasculated so that Bush, Casey, North and others could carry out their dirty deeds without oversight. They had also developed a plan to suspend the Constitution of the United States and were preparing to implement the plan when they were caught. These facts emerged from the hearings but were suppressed by the committee chairman, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. You must understand that tremendous power was involved in both attempts to overthrow the United States Government. William Casey was the Director of the CIA. He was a member of the CFR. Casey was a Knight of Malta. He was the head of Ronald Reagan's political campaign. He was head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. During the Nixon administration he was head of the Export-Import Bank. Casey arranged financing for the Kama River truck factory in the Soviet Union with 90% of the funds guaranteed or furnished by the U.S. taxpayer. This factory built military truck and tank engines for the Soviet Army. It was, and may still be, the largest factory in the world and could produce more heavy trucks than all U.S. factories together. I believe Casey was murdered. The Knights of Malta is a world organization with its threads weaving through business, banking, politics, the CIA, other intelligence organizations, P2, religion, education, law, military, think tanks, foundations, the United States Information Agency, the United Nations, and numerous other organizations. They are not the oldest but are one of the oldest branches of the Order of the Quest in existence. The world head of the Knights of Malta is elected for a life term, with the approval of the Pope. The Knights of Malta have their own Constitution and are sworn to work toward the establishment of a New World Order with the Pope at its head. Knights of Malta members are also powerful members of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission.The Vatican has been infiltrated over many years by the Illuminati. This is easily proven by the fact that in 1738 Pope Clement XII issued a Papal Bull which stated that any Catholic who became a Mason would be excommunicated, a very serious punishment. In 1884 Pope Leo XIII issued a proclamation stating that Masonry was one of the secret societies attempting to "revive the manners and customs of the pagans'' and "establish Satan's kingdom on Earth."(Cooper: Behold A Pale Horse; excerpts; interpolatory insertions are mine)ATTENTION!OK, now, this is ME, again, adding some stuff about the Knights and Sovereign Military Order of Malta.Comments on various Secret Societies: Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the Federalist Society (these are the guys who REALLY choose our judges, folks) is a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.What does this mean?It is essentially a society of European, titled nobility – feudal aristocrats -existing in today’s world -the branch that he is a part of is the Roman Catholic one, There’s also an equivalent of it in Britain called the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem -there’s another one called the Knights of Malta, a Russian order, but this is actually the American version, and what we’re dealing with here is split from the various organizations into different parts. It goes back to the Crusades, back to 10, 11, 1200 A.D., when they were the Hospitaliers of Jerusalem. It’s sovereign, aristocratic order. It is considered to be independent state. It had diplomatic relations with 107 countries. They have their own embassies.What do they do?They claim they do humanitarian work: medical emergencies; national disasters. In Germany you will see their ambulances. Look up the Maltese Cross.They have passports.They have a diplomatic pouch.They can go around the customs and the border patrols of the countries that they are in.They have License plates.Stamps.Coins.They have a LOT of the attributes of a sovereign state.There is a huge controversy about this, but it is not generally known.Up until recently the head of this group was Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke of the United States – Wisconsin. He was the overboss of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and then he became one of the leading critics of the Pope; he said that of formal censure of the Pope might be needed in consequence of his encyclical entitled Amoris Laetitia.Burke is a canon lawyer; he’s a reactionary; Cardinal; a Prelate – and he orchestrated a power play in that Burke tried to use some of his people in the Order to turn people against Francis. However, Pope Francis called in the main ally of Burke, and forced Burke’s guy to quit.Anyway: let me tell you who some of these people are: they are TITLED NOBILITY (you don’t get into this thing without that).(IMAGINE - in this day and age)1) the Prince and Grand Master, Giacomo Dell’Atore Del Tempio Del Sanguinetto; grand commander Ludwig Hauptmann von Rumerstein of Austria;2) Grand Chancellor Albrecht Freiherr von Burgerlager (an imperial Knight of the Holy Roman Empire);3) Grand Master of the Order was Matthew Festing (British) –4) The Grand Hospitaler is Dominic de la Rochefocault Mobel;5) the Receiver of the Common Treasure is Janos Count Esterhazy De Gallante.We ALL would do WELL to ask ourselves, in this time of political upheaval in the United States, just what exactly we are doing allowing people who have these kinds of connections to foreign (and in some cases FEUDAL) organizatoins and influences to do all the things that they are doing in the U.S., including, now, apparently choosing our judges, or having a SAY in choosing our judges, a’la my previous observation about Leo’s role in the Federalist Society.