Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Is the Global Surveillance State Exploiting Covid-19? NSO Group spyware, Cryptocurrency, Israeli Unit 8200 links, China's Belt and Road Initiative, and Globalist crisis/resource management (Part 1)

by Sean Jobst
31 March 2020
(Updated 3 April 2020)

I recently gave some advice and thoughts about what each of us can be doing in these "quarantine" times, the opportunities presented for us to take if we dare. Its no different for the elites although theirs is not about personal growth, but the profane growth of their power and control over others. They see the opportunities within every event and the Coronavirus is no exception. Among those are more surveillance of the masses, the push towards 5G and Cryptocurrencies, and various other schemes for this Globalist Technocratic elite within the classic Problem-Reaction-Solution model.

The Israeli spyware firm NSO Group Ltd has recently announced that it has developed an app which analyzes a large number of data to track people, ostensibly to track and thereby contain the spread of the Coronavirus. The technology matches the "infected" person's tracking information and matches it with location data collected by mobile phone companies pinpointing everyone within the person's vicinity for more than 15 minutes, according to what a relevant source told Bloomberg News. As can be expected from a company with a long record of enabling certain governments to track and even kill dissenters through its Pegasus software, Covid-19 "tracking" is merely the cover excuse.



Directly from the source

The Mexican and Saudi governments are among those
targeting dissidents with the Israeli Pegasus spyware


"The coronavirus crisis may highlight the overlap between the surveillance state and the cryptocurrency industry," writes Leigh Cuen for Coindesk. As founder of Genesis Partners and chairman of F2 Capital, NSO Group investor Eddy Shalev is also on the board of the bitcoin mining company Spondoolies Tech, as touted on his LinkedIn profile, which also details his various investments with Israeli high-tech companies. One of Spondoolies' investors is BRM Group, which also provided the initial investment for security software firm Check Point, founded in 1993 by Israeli Military Intelligence's elite Unit 8200 alumnis Gil Shwed and Shlomo Kramer.

Little surprise there are Unit 8200 fingerprints all over these links. The NSO Group itself was founded by Unit 8200 members Niv Carmi, Omri Lavie, and Shalev Hulio in 2010. Coindesk reveals that Lavie and Hulio have invested in the bitcoin startup Simplex. One of Simplex's executives, Tal Yahalom (not to be confused with the jazz guitarist of the same name), was a Unit 8200 business intelligence developer. Expressing his misgivings about the U.S. Dollar, Jacob Rothschild referred to "interesting opportunities in other currencies as well as gold" in the 2016 semi-annual RIT Capital Partners report.



Predictive programming by the Rothschild-
owned magazine The Economist in 1988


A move towards a global e-currency?

The decentralized nature of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies would seem to preclude control by the banking elites, but growth of the Technocracy has structurally enabled exactly this. One has to question why Soros, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs have all "cashed in" on the Cryptocurrency trend. On the cover of its January 9, 1988 issue, The Economist - whose primary shareholders are the Rothschild and Agnelli banking dynasties - portrayed a crowned Phoenix rising over burning world paper currencies, hanging from his neck a coin inscribed with "2018". 


Was this predictive programming of the 2018 "Cryptocurrency Crash", when plunging Bitcoin prices were seized upon by speculators like Soros, who suddenly expressed a rush to trade in the same currency they had previously dismissed? Its my contention this was a "hack" whereby the Globalist banking/technocratic elite co-opted the crypto bandwagon. There was increased speculation in the months leading up to this current crisis, with many politicians and other power figures making suspicious moves on the stock market and several corporate executives quickly launching what appeared to be contingency plans.

Israel entered into a "crypto partnership" with Switzerland involving blockchain technologies. Blockchains were invented to be the public transaction ledger of cryptocurrencies. One of the leading Israeli blockchain firm is Orbs, whose "Team" includes at least five alumni of Unit 8200. Another firm is Endor Protocol, which offers AI-powered predictions and includes blockchain data. At least three of its executives are alumni of Unit 8200. The Bank of Israel has considered incorporating blockchain into its operations. A government-issued cryptocurrency would obviously belie its "solution" to the problems of fiat paper money.



Trump's handler meeting with Trump's svengali


Along with the Israeli Finance Ministry, the Bank of Israel has flouted the idea of a "digital shekel" state-sponsored crypto. Representatives from both discussed blockchain with the hawkish Zionist US Deputy Treasury Secretary Sigal Mandelker in October 2018. Trump's powerful son-in-law and Chabad member Jared Kushner - who has passed Top Secret intelligence intercepts to Israeli intelligence much to the chagrin of the NSA - organized a Bahrain summit where Orbs co-founder Netta Korin (a World Economic Forum member) sold the White House on the idea of "social impact" blockchain. Former US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has links to the NSO Group. Netanyahu's niece and nephew, Guy and Galia Ben-Artzi, are co-founders of the blockchain start-up Bancor, which boasts of its Unit 8200 links.

Under the title "Israel and the Unexpected New World Order", Brian Schrauger, a West Bank-based Christian Zionist writer, made a stunning forecast: "A global currency collapse might be seen as a way to wipe the slate clean of nation-based currencies, especially the US dollar, and establish an international one, like Bitcoin, perhaps. If Bitcoin is the model for a new Internet-based global currency, Israel is likely to be its guardian too, protecting that currency from hackers around the world. As chief of security for the world's information and currency, and with energy independence, Israel stands to gain substantial wealth." This adds a global cryptocurrency to the schemes of China's Belt and Road Initiative in alliance with Israel. What do we make of this in light of the current event that originated in China?




Countries especially hit hard by Coronavirus, like Iran, Italy and Spain, all
appear to be important nodes on the Belt and Road Initiative. Coincidence?


Coronavirus, Unit 8200, and the Belt and Road Initiative

An article from February, when the virus was still largely contained to China and had not yet seen worldwide expansion, raised questions about China's own cryptocurrency moves in relation to its Belt and Road Initiative, including its "debt-trap diplomacy" to corral poorer countries within its orbit. My own contention about Coronavirus vis a vis the Chinese Communist regime is that the crisis got out of their control but to admit their inabilities would create ripple effects within China itself, destroy the image of a regime with complete control over the Chinese people so that a protest that started in Hong Kong could easily spread across the country.

Economies will be crashed and rebuilt, as the managerial elites "never let a crisis go to waste", to borrow Rahm Emanuel's famous catchphrase. A global economy founded upon speculation and management is revealing its internal flaws that were there all the while, but perhaps this is by design so they can move some things around, make certain crucial tweaks to give a new face to the old structure. One of these tweaks is the "outsourcing" of Globalist power centers around the world. "A 'unipolar' and a 'multipolar' world are still parallel poles to the same Globalist dialectic," as I wrote in January. "As surely as the trade networks of the ancient and medieval worlds, so too are the modern high-tech trade networks a Globalist interplay of political with mercantile elites."




One of the defining features of this modified Global Order is what Netanyahu referred to as "marrying Israeli technology with China's capacity". The links are innumerable but if we just follow up only some links directly related to the current Coronavirus, we reveal a strange complex network involving various Israeli private security and hi-tech firms founded and staffed by Unit 8200 alumni, American Neocons, Neoliberals and Trump officials, Russian-Jewish oligarchs closely tied to Putin, Chinese Communist officials, Globalist think-tanks and Communitarian technocrats, Gulf Arab oil sheikhs, and the Chabad movement. Among the main companies to watch are NSO Group, Black Cube, Frontier Services Group, Carbyne911, Renova Group, and Lev Leviev's Africa-Israel Investments.

Those of us aware of historical and natural cycles know there are epidemic cycles repeating every 100 years or so, but certain companies are exploiting the Coronavirus to slip in various AI-based algorithms to "predict" epidemics for what we can surmise are "management" purposes. Predictive analyst Kira Radinsky worked at a Microsoft Research medical data-mining operation and is currently chairwoman and Chief Technology Officer at Diagnostic Robotics, which develops Artificial Intelligence in the context of medical data and has partnered with the transhumanist Singularity Education Group. Aside from teaching at the Unit 8200-ridden Technion Institute, after her own stint in Unit 8200 she was selected for Unit 81, an even-more classified offshoot of Unit 8200. Interestingly in light of others capitalizing upon this event, Unit 81 broke its cover in a P.R. campaign about its role "fighting" the Coronavirus.

Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, a hardline Zionist who has a record in hi-tech firms, recently announced he wanted to use NSO Group to "fight the coronavirus". As Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Bennett promoted a system for identifying "anti-Semitism" on the Internet "developed by a company managed and staffed with former members of military technology units and veterans of the IDF Military Intelligence's Unit 8200." The system was "based on artificial intelligence that is capable of analyzing texts and provides significant information on the posts and users who upload them, all according to the definition of anti-Semitism determined by the government." This slippery definition is expanded to include opposition to Zionism, including certain activities of the Israeli government which subvert the sovereignty of other countries. We have seen that previous tragedies were similarly used to push a broad-sweeping agenda of surveillance and censorship.



The Carbyne/Frontier/Black Cube network


Carbyne911 is another crucial firm exploiting Covid-19 for an agenda we can clearly surmise through its past activities and its various investors and executives. Although also known simply as Carbyne, one has to wonder if the "911" addition serves a dual psychological imagery of "crisis management" on both a micro (911) and a more visceral macro (9/11) level. Carbyne's co-founder and shareholder Lital Leshem was an Israeli Military Intelligence Captain, who previously served as Marketing Director of Black Cube, an Israeli private intelligence firm  whose own website describes itself as "A select group of veterans from the Israeli elite intelligence units that specialises in tailored solutions to complex business and litigation challenges." Among those "challenges" were discrediting rape accusers of disgraced Hollywood movie executive (and Zionist) Harvey Weinstein, efforts against the Iran nuclear deal, and harassing lawyers involved in lawsuits against the NSO Group.

Ostensibly providing technology services to emergency centers, Carbyne exists in "a grey area giving it unprecedented access to private information". Chief Technology Officer Alex Dizengof previously handled cybersecurity in the Israeli Prime Minister's office. Carbyne CEO Amir Elichai served in a special elite and intelligence corps. According to an investigative report in Narativ, another Carbyne board member is Pinchas Buchris, former Director of Unit 8200. Two partners of his venture capital firm State of Mind Venture, Nir Adler and Yuval Baharav, were past executives at Amdocs, an Israeli billing data and credit checks firm investigated in the lead-up to 9/11 for espionage against the U.S.. Buchris serves as "mentor" to various Israeli cybersecurity start-ups founded by his former underlings, including being on the advisory board of Cybereason, founded by three Unit 8200 officers - Lior Div, Yossi Naar and Yonatan Striem-Amit. Techcrunch noted in its interview with Lior Div that "Cybereason’s work is the continuation of the six years of training and service he spent working with the Israeli army’s 8200 Unit."


Vekselberg, Putin, and Russia's Chabad Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar


Carbyne's investors include a cabal of creeps and scoundrels. Jeffrey Epstein invested $1.5 million of his pedo-money into a project that grew into Carbyne in 2015. His partner in the venture was former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, who has often appeared as Carbyne's front-man in media appearances. Two other crucial investors were billionaire Viktor Vekselberg and his cousin Andrew Intrater, who bought 24% of Carbyne's shares through the latter's Columbus Nova Technology Partners in 2017. As owner and president of the Renova Group, Vekselberg has close ties with Putin. In 2012, he donated $4.5 million towards the construction of the Chabad-directed Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow that was also partly-funded by Putin. As a member of its board of trustees, Vekselberg helped arrange for Lubavitcher Rebbe texts to be moved to the Museum. He also invested in Fifth Dimension, an Israeli company staffed by Mossad spooks such as its president, ex-Mossad deputy director Ram Ben-Barak, and CEO Doron Cohen. Intrater donated $250,000 to Trump's inauguration fund in 2017. Vekselberg and Intrater together sent $500,000 to Trump's lawyer through Columbus Nova, the American wing of Renova Group.

The Carbyne advisory board includes Michael Chertoff, the infamous head of Homeland Security under George Bush who co-authored that massive surveillance state power-grab called The Patriot Act. The treacherous dual American-Israeli citizen is notorious for ensuring the "five dancing Israelis" and other Mossad spies were not questioned after 9/11. He also blocked the criminal investigation of 9/11, ensuring that survivors' families could not seek any civil action in the courts. He appointed the Israeli Amit Yoran director of the Homeland Security's cybersecurity division, which we can now see as one of the early move outsourcing American cybersecurity to these Israeli networks. Chertoff has met with Chabad rabbis and participated in American Friends of Lubavitch dinners. An emergency dispatcher app was developed by Reporty, a direct offshoot of Carbyne whose board of directors include Barak, Chertoff, and Buchris.




Ben-Gurion's full "vision" reads like a concise utopia to all the
Globalist networks: Multipolar power blocs, Jerusalem as the
center of the world, rule by a Technocratic elite, Noahidism


These companies were already developing the software that will now be seized upon for the current crisis, but lurking underneath is a mass surveillance agenda. Another Carbyne investor is billionaire Peter Thiel, the Bilderberg Steering Committee member who has invested heavily in surveillance applications. His data analysis company Palantir Technologies use "war on terror tools to track American citizens". Thiel epitomizes the Globalist Technocrat, promoting Singularity projects and financing AI research. His obsession about cheating death calls to mind the similar transhumanist/technocratic vision (predictive programming) made by Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to Look Magazine in 1962. Thiel's fellow Palantir alum Trae Stephens, who was chair of Trump's Department of Defense transition team, also serves on Carbyne's advisory board, as does Eliot Tawil, a New York real estate developer and major Trump donor.

Managing Crises and Resources for the Belt and Road

Carbyne co-founder and shareholder Lital Leshem was former Business Development Executive of Mobileye, the Israeli subsidiary of Intel which has taken part in the GoforIsrael Conference that introduced around 100 Israeli high-tech startup companies to Chinese investors in Shanghai. She currently serves as Executive Director of the private equity fund Frontier Resource Group (FRG), which invests in "natural resource opportunities in frontier markets". FRG's founder is none other than Erik Prince of Blackwater private contractor infamy. FRG is merely the latest manifestation of this company that was also known as Xe for a time, but throughout the "theocon" Prince has employed Knights Templar imagery which is a useful psyop of the Zionist/Globalist dialectic.

The FRG is officially based in the UAE, but is actually a subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group (FSG), a logistics and security company owned by Chang Zhenming after Prince sold his majority stake in FSG to the Chinese investor in 2013. Zhenming is chairman of China's massive state-owned investment company Citic Group. For its own wreckless actions in Iraq, outside the command of a Neocon/Zionist-dominated Pentagon that outsourced operations to such private contractors, Blackwater in its current FSG mask seems keen on obediently carrying out China's interests in all strategic and resource-rich hotspots of the Belt and Road. "Frontier focuses on protecting Chinese enterprises in Africa and Asia" in its mining operations in conflict-ridden areas.




The new imperialist overseer at a copper mine in Zambia


Tracing the FRG/FSG's activities and how these intersect to those of the three main Eurasian Union/Belt and Road power centers - Israel, China and Russia - reveal just how crucial "crisis" patterns (whether real or engineered) are used to manage natural resources. One of Erik Prince's recent projects is investing in the discovery, exploitation, and delivery of resources to produce electric car batteries. His operations include the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which account for the majority of the world's cobalt. The elites push "green" technology through their engineered psyop of an apocalyptic Extinction Rebellion meant to shame working-class masses for their "carbon footprint" while its elitist advocates hypocritically pollute the most. Such a  psyop is providing the fuel (pardon the pun) for the likes of Prince, his Chinese bosses, Israeli Unit 8200 partners, and various oligarchs to profit. Indeed he was quick to assure that his mining operations are done in "an efficient and environmentally acceptable manner".

That the Chinese Communist regime oversees some of the world's worst environmental abuses is ignored exactly because in many ways this combination of the old dialectic of Capitalism and Communism overseen by a bureaucratic managerial class is exactly the elitists' utopia. While common workers in Europe and North America are told to "atone" for the "sins" of Western imperialism, China has vastly expanded its imperialist activities over Africa with no concern for either "carbon emissions" or humanitarianism. "China is a key transit point for cobalt," writes Australian investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein. "Because Chinese companies dominate the supply chain, placing Prince in prime position to capitalize, given his deep ties to Beijing. Many Chinese firms have also been found to buy cobalt mined by children in Congo."


Globalism under the same utopian banner


Blood Mines of the Chabad and Eurasianist Oligarchs

The Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) won a lucrative $101.5 million license to extract copper at the DRC's Frontier mine. The ENRC previously bought Congolese mining assets belonging to Israeli diamond merchant Dan Gertler. In 2000, the Kabila regime gave Gertler a sizable cut of Congo's vast copper and cobalt resources in exchange for Israeli military aid, in a deal that was brokered by Gertler's spiritual adviser and business partner, Chabad Rabbi Chaim Leibovitch - who organizes many Chabad actitivies and has called for the Lubavitcher Rebbe's teachings being spread to "redeem the entire world". Through his Dan Gertler International and Emaxon Finance Corporation, Gertler donates to Chabad and works closely with its Kinshasa branch. It was Gertler's grandfather Moshe Schnitzer who as President of the Israeli Diamond Exchange, oversaw Israel becoming the world's largest diamond center. Gertler's public relations is handled by a firm whose clients include Israeli aeronautics and robotic weapons and intelligence companies.

Although the ENRC is based in Kazakhstan, its primary shareholder and former director Alexander Mashkevitch holds an Israeli passport and "rarely spends more than a week each month in Kazakhstan" while controlling "one-fourth" of its entire economy. He founded the Jewish Congress of Kazakhstan under Chabad auspices and funded the Chabad synagogue in its capital. As former president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Mashkevitch met Israeli leaders and wanted to create a TV network to "represent Israel on an international level". The ENRC was the subject of a UK corruption probe that began in 2013. Mashkevitch is an investor and business partner of the real estate investment firm Bayrock Group, whose founders Tevfik Arif and Felix Sater have assorted links with Chabad, Putin, and the Trump administration. The Russian-born Sater associates with the Chabad of Port Washington in Long Island, received its "Man of the Year" award, and told Politico that he sits on the board of numerous Chabad entities. Although not Jewish, the Kazakh-Turkish citizen Tevfik Arif is among the top benefactors of Chabad of Port Washington. He was arrested and his yacht seized in Turkey on suspicion of running an international sex trafficking ring in 2010. Arif also served as an "agent on the ground" in Kazakhstan for Trans World Group, a natural resource firm whose founders, the brothers David and Simon Reuben, profited from Russia's aluminum privatization in cooperation with such future Kremlin-linked oligarchs as Roman Abramovitch in the 1990s.

Mashkevich went to the Seychelles to meet with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed in January 2017, in a meeting that also included Erik Prince, Kremlin-linked Russian investor Kirill Dmitriev, Saudi banker Abdulrahman Bin Mahfouz, and Trump-associated businessman George Nader. Mashkevitch is one of the current owners of Alferon Management, a London-based mining acquisition company with operations in Zambia, the DRC, Indonesia, Russia, Kosovo, and other countries. He owns another firm called International Mineral Resources, which along with Israeli-owned company called Cunico, operates the iron-nickel plant Ferronikeli which has caused toxic air and water pollution in Kosovo. Cunico is owned by billionaire diamond merchant Beny Steinmetz, whose real estate partners include the Reuben brothers and Olayan Group, a Saudi investment company deeply connected with the military-industrial Bechtel Corporation and a host of international banks. Steinmetz was involved in a real estate scam in Romania alongside political adviser Tal Silberstein and Shimon Sheves, Yitzhak Rabin's chief of staff. Steinmetz came under controversy for his mines in Guinea until he sold them to a Chinese company. This parallel takeover of African natural resources by Israeli and Chinese firms is a recurring story.






A 2006 report by the American Jewish Committee detailed how after 1980, "Mossad agents, military emissaries, and a small group of private businessmen....replaced diplomats as Israel's main interlocuters with African leaders and political (mainly opposition) groups," specifically citing Angola, DRC and the Central African Republic. One of these is the Uzbek-Russian-Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, whose Chabad links I discussed in 2017 and have earned him the nickname "missionary mogul", such that Leviev says: “The rebbe is my role model, and my values are his values." Holding up the elitist technocrat Bill Gates as his own model, Leviev has also built a vast "philanthropy" empire from his unscrupulous profits. "To make this vast philanthropic enterprise run, Leviev subsidizes an army of some 10,000 Jewish functionaries from Ukraine to Azerbaijan, including 300 rabbis. Most of the 300 rabbis are Chabadniks", according to an informative biographical piece by the staunchly Zionist journalist Zev Chavets. Leviev personifies how all these Globalist interests and power-centers intersect through one vast network.

Leviev's vast business interests which include real estate and infrastructure projects in the United States and Western Europe, as with his diamond and mining interests in Africa, does position him to speculate and profit from the current crisis once the microbes settle. This includes recent real estate moves in the United States tied to well-connected oligarchs. The high tech security system at his headquarters can be expanded in ways that, as we have seen earlier, will be used for surveillance and other less than savory purposes. Leviev's primary international corporation is Africa Israel Investments (hereafter known as Africa Israel), which he purchased from Israel's Bank Leumi in 1996. One of its branches is AFI Europe, whose vast real estate activities in Central and Eastern Europe, combined with Leviev's other real estate activities in New York, seem to lend credence to Shimon Peres' boast in a Hotel Hilton Tel Aviv speech on 10 October 2007, that "From such a small country like ours, this is almost amazing. I see that we are buying up Manhattan, Hungary, Romania and Poland. Thanks to our talent, our contacts and our dynamism, we get almost everywhere."







Not surprising in light of the deepening Israeli-Chinese alliance, Leviev was the subject of a 2010 report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission that accused him of ties to Chinese intelligence via his business deals. These included Africa Israel's selling the JP Morgan building across from the New York Stock Exchange, to China Sonangol, owned by Sam Pa who has ties to Chinese intelligence. Veteran Israeli investigative journalist Yossi Melman writes: "Using the group, Chinese intelligence acquires oil and energy companies and other important assets in countries in Africa, Latin American, Southeast Asia, as well as in the United States. In this way it promotes Chinese national interests, increases its influence and guarantees the supply of raw materials - first and foremost oil - necessary for its economy." China Sonangol is part of the Hong Kong-based 88 Queensway Group, whose senior director Wu Yang "provided the Registrar of Companies in Hong Kong with an address that matches the address of Chinese foreign intelligence". Leviev had earlier sold the New York Times building to Jared Kushner, who has his own Chinese dealings. The "right hand man" of Leviev is Rotem Rosen, who as long-time CEO of the Sapir Organization - founded by a billionaire donor to Chabad - profited off the 2007-2008 economic crisis.

Leviev is also connected to the other main Eurasian power-center, the Russia of Putin whom he describes as a "true friend". The two have been close ever since Putin took Leviev and Chabad's side in an internal dispute within the Russian Jewish community, appointing Leviev's candidate Berel Lazar as the Chief Rabbi rather than the more-secular Reform Jewish elite. After this both Chabad and its oligarchs rose in prominence within Russia. Two of them, Leviev and Abramovich, funded the Chabad-run Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. Leviev's influence extends among other leaders of former Soviet republics, including Azerbaijan's Aliyev, as well as business interests in Kazakhstan, where he serves as Israel's honorary consul. In 2002, Leviev partnered with Henry Kissinger to honor Uzbek President Islam Karimov for his support of both the "War on Terror" and Chabad's activities in his country. Leviev was also present when Karimov received the "international leadership award" from Beer Hagolah Institute, a New York-based front associated with Russian-Jewish mobsters (sponsoring many of their visas into the US) and the Great Neck Chabad House.



Dos Santos and Leviev dividingprofits from Angola's resources


Although the two later had a major falling out over profits, the crucial figure in Leviev's expansion into Africa was the Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkady Gaydamak, who made US$790 million from trafficking Russian and Czech arms in the Angolan Civil War on behalf of the Communist MPLA government. A grateful Angolan President José Eduardo Dos Santos awarded Gaydamak with an Angolan passport and role of economic adviser. Leviev says he was introduced to Gaydamak by former Mossad chief Danny Yatom, with whom Gaydamak had established a company with activities in Kazakhstan and Angola. In 1999, Leviev and Gaydamak established a joint metallurgy operation in Kazakhstan. Aside from those two countries, Leviev also owns the Namibian Minerals Corporation, accused by both Interpol and the Namibian government of stealing and smuggling diamonds from that country. In 2002, Leviev became the second-largest exporter of Congo's diamonds, exceeded only by Gertler.

In a joint venture with the Russian state-owned diamond company Alrosa, a Brazilian company, and the Angolan state diamond company Endiama, Leviev bought into the Catoca mine. Alrosa's chairman, Anton Siluanov, is Putin's Finance Minister and current Russian regional head of the IMF and World Bank through the Eurasian Development Bank. Upon Leviev's suggestion in 1999, Dos Santos centralized control over Angola's diamond resources through their joint venture, Ascorp. In 2004, Leviev and Endiama formed a new company called Sodiam, with its office in Ramat Gan, Israel. Dos Santos and his daughter Isabel have a personal stake in these deals with Israeli and Russian diamond merchants, making "a fortune at the expense of the Angolan people" according to the Luanda Leaks report. Chabad has a presence in Angola to cater to these merchants. Not surprisingly, Lital Leshem is also drawing upon Israel's business networks in Angola on behalf of Frontier Services.

[To be continued in Part 2, about more activities of Frontier Group and NSO, and the intersecting links these companies all have to the Communitarian Smart Cities technocracy agenda. - SJ]

Friday, March 27, 2020

Coronavirus Reflections and Advice - Opportunities for Growth

by Sean Jobst
27 March 2020

We are living in interesting times, made all the more by what it has brought out of people. I've noticed that exactly in these times, people ironically show their powerlessness by ceding those very things that are in their personal control - how they respond and react to things. This has been the most concerting to see throughout this whole process. People giving in to fear and hysteria have allowed their most base habits to froth to the surface, although I also see inherent opportunities. For there is balance within all things; potentials for growth on all levels insofar as we can make our reality.

My concern is not about the statistics, the various debate about what this Covid-19 or what has been termed "Coronavirus" really is, or even conspiracy theories about where this all is heading to. But my interest is foremost on the metaphysical level. Obviously there are real medical concerns and people are dying. My thoughts particularly go out to areas seemingly affected most, not only my own country but also Italy, and especially one of my ancestral countries, Spain. We can stay within our chosen Internet bubbles and obsess about the theories, but clearly families and societies will continue to be affected to some measure on the ground.

Nearly all of us are now out of work and in varying degrees of "quarantine" or "social distancing". We are all taking a financial hit and there is uncertainty about the future. In these times I advise people to look within themselves and really appreciate what matters. That is family and the people within your lives who truly matter. Do not focus on "waking up" or "changing" people on any mass scale, but through those energies flowing from your most positive drives, impact and inspire those directly around you so they can connect to the strengths and potentials within themselves.

The sad reality is that in these times of crises - even if the specific crisis is more one engineered by (or manipulative of) fear and hysteria - many people will reveal their true selves, that they won't think twice about turning on people who trusted them if it means their own personal benefit. Such people are better left out of your lives, letting them wallow in the negative aspects by which they have chosen of their own will to construct their lives. Sovereignty for each soul and being requires that, including those harmful to our growth or vice versa.

Its all about discernment and polarities. The discerning eye can better appreciate what truly matters and, conversely, what's of no benefit for your own personal growth as an individual. The Principle of Polarity states that everything has poles, its pair of opposites which are identical in nature but different in degree. A good example are polarities of Love and Fear. If we see even emotions as vibrations we realize each one contains both negative or positive charges - it all depends on what you will to put your energy into. Our emotions and perceptions have a direct correlation with our physical state, including upon our immune system.

Explore new lines of research and curiosity. Take up old hobbies and passions. Use this time to the best now that you are do not have the distractions you had before. Create works that really follow your true soul desires. Realize your inherent power to create and thus affect changes within your own immediate sphere. I have learned that those spheres outside our control often depend upon our willing consent or willing ignorance but that their power is ultimately of what we choose to give them. Spring has always been recognized throughout many cultures as a cleansing season of great potential and growth, so too should we appreciate these liminal cycles. Simple facts our Ancestors instinctively knew, such as the amazing benefits of sunshine, are validated now more than ever.

Observe events but do not obsess about them. Channel your energies into what's immediately within your own realm of control - and explore your creativity to the max during this time. And if enough of us do so we have potential to create an amazing historical period that our descendants can look back to with pride and inspiration. The choice is ours and solely ours to make. Accustomed to seeing ourselves as powerless, if we drown out all the noise (foremost the endless news cycle) we can truly see just how much power we have. It starts in the Mind and our Perception of Reality, whether we control it ourselves or cede it to governments, media, and other babysitting institutions is our choice.

Aspects of our own habits are revealing themselves to the discerning eyes now. These habits are not "bad" in and of themselves but, as with all other things, there needs to be balance. If we don't choose to balance them they will occur naturally - and in the most rude awakenings. Certain harmful aspects upon the landscape are now being restored to balance, freed from the excessive unbalanced actions of some individuals, particularly the very elites that like passing blame to the masses. The skies are becoming more clear, free from the smog that excessive industrialization has wrought; bodies of water restored to their natural state, such as the canals of Venice; forests and landscapes in general are teeming with more life amidst the deaths - if we only choose to align to those vibrations our senses that have finally been detoxed from many of the distractions.

Possible outcomes of this have been noted by some of the figures and thinkers who inspire me. I see the potentials for the extremes to be phased out. Not only in our personal lives but certainly on the macro level. Well-funded controlled opposition narratives exposed as the psyops they are. For example, the imbalances of hysteria seen in the dialectic of that doomsday apocalyptic power-grab called "Extinction Rebellion" and of false hope seen in the other dialectic of "QAnon". All these illusory narratives promoting new versions of old fictions such as an "end of the world", a "savior" or a "mass awakening" should be exposed as just varying schemes to herd the most number of people into their chosen unbalanced frequencies of Fear or Hope.

Balance is by rejecting all these narratives and choosing to foremost look within. Using your own natural instincts and senses to guide you rather than distractions and illusions. False dependencies on governments or supranational institutions for guidance during these times are revealing themselves now, with the natural drive for local solutions asserting themselves to be more lasting and efficient than those imposed from these higher levels. Communities will continue to show the great potentials in the face of the panic and confusion shown in this crisis by adherents of Centralism and Globalism. Where are the elites, celebrities, and politicians you looked up to for "solutions" all these years?

I am as uncertain about the future as the rest of us. I don't know when my normal routine will resume. I also don't know what will become of some major travel plans I was planning for this summer. But I am using this time to explore my own creativity and passions. Producing more writings around lines of research I've been pursuing lately around the most pressing issues that we should be observing rather than the distractions. Issues I will describe within the upcoming days. Likewise pursuing my spiritual and folklore interests, as this is really the culmination of a process all the while recognizing that life is a beautiful process full of opportunities, growth, enlightenment, and the journey itself. And finally acting on what I have come to know about gardening and permaculture, unlocking within me ancestral memories as a descendant of farmers, as growth without complements the growth within.

We are each the product of a long line of Ancestors who survived plagues, wars and other crises, no matter where in this beautiful world we descend. Its not a question of if we will overcome - for that is illusory, having within itself an innate doubt disguised as "hope" (thus designed to keep us in a mental loop) - but we need to mentally convince ourselves that we can create our reality by our thoughts. So we have overcome this, as we are already on the same vibration that creates our future. We should think of this as already passing us by, knowing deep from within ourselves that its just a matter of time. But in the meantime its up to each one of us how we choose to react - how we choose to use our precious time.


Inspired by an idea proposed by one of my favorite channels,
I am already mentally in the future and have already overcome
any fears or hysteria upon the completion of the next lunar cycle.
Releasing these into the Ether, out of sight out of mind.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Roots of Proto-Celtic/Germanic Mythos, folk faith in prehistoric Swabia? (Part 3)

by Sean Jobst
24 March 2020

[For Part 1 and Part 2 of this series]

There are two final Paleolithic artifacts to discuss in relation to understanding native spiritual traditions of Schwaben and, generally, Celtic and Germanic folk faith in the process. Called such due to its posture of outstretched arms and legs as if in worship, "The Adorant" statue was found in the Geißenklösterle cave near Blaubeuren in 1979. Its dimensions are 38mm (1.50 inch) tall, 14 mm (0.55 inch) wide, and 4.5 mm (0.18 inch) thick. It was carved from mammoth ivory but microscopic analysis uncovered traces of manganese and ochre.(1) One of its most apparent features are the geometric notch rows on the long and short sides and upon the back.(2)





The placement of the incisions parallel across the arms suggests something deeper than the clothing, tattoos or scars that were proposed for the Venus of Hohle Fels.(3) These parallel markings also exist on the Löwenmensch (2,000 years younger than the Adorant), suggesting the same culture that settled in ancient Swabia.(4) A 32,000-year-old relief sculpture found in Stratzing in Lower Austria is also remarkably similar to the Adorant, establishing certain broad features of a common Alpine Paganism we can identify as prehistoric, extending to the Hallstatt Celts, and finally with the South Germanic tribes like the Suebi, Alemanni, Bavarii and Marcomanni.(5)

These Swabian artifacts are not only the oldest known Aurignacian art within Europe, but the oldest figurative art found worldwide to date. "A striking, though still insufficiently studied feature of the figurative art of the Swabian Jura are the numerous markings. Many figurines bear sequences of marks, usually found in the form of parallel lines, crosses and cross-lines, diamonds, V-shaped signs and points."(6) On the left of the raised arms are five notches; 39 notches along the edges; and 48 markings on the back. Scholars as varied as Alexander Marshack, Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Clive Ruggles and Michel Cotte have each proposed astronomical symbolism behind the Adorant's elaborate array of notches and incisions.





Hunter in the Sky

Prehistoric peoples observed forces of the cosmos that we tend to take for granted nowadays, but appreciated the deeper symbolism enough to encode it within art, wherein they encapsulated its vastness. "Long before astronomy revealed to men the terrifying extent of the great starry spaces, the idea of vastness and of distances to tantalize the mind was already present in heathen thought."(7) A notable example are the bull cave paintings at Lascaux dating back to 15,000 BCE, which Michael Rappenglück of the University of München identified with the constellation Taurus and the Pleiades seven stars. He theorized the Adorant's use as an amulet and as a compass prototype, but more with its posture. "The shape of the anthropomorphic figure (Adorant) resembles the Orion constellation. In other words, the ivory slate from Geißenklösterle would be an example of a specialized tool for controlling the human pregnancy period in relation to the movement of the Orion constellation and the Moon."(8)

The proportions fit the location of Orion 32,000 years ago as astroarchaeology has been able to reconstruct. Indeed, ancient portrayals of Orion personified it as a male figure standing with bent knees. The Greeks were not alone in presenting him as a hunter. The ancient Sumerians viewed Orion as the hunter fighting the Bull that personified Taurus, while ancient Chinese astronomers named him the hunter Shen. Our prehistoric European ancestors seemed to invest it with more elements of fertility - Cosmic forces linked to those of Nature, all relating to reproductive cycles. "Orion was of great significance to the people of the Aurignacian, not just because of the brightness of Syrius, but because it is visible for 9 months of the year from German latitudes, which corresponds to the human gestation period. Thus linking Orion with human births."(9)


Stars are subject to life-cycles much like humans


The hunter receives the abundance and bounties of the Earth, which itself relies upon the rains and other cosmic forces for its own fertility. Innumerable sources have demonstrated the various Mythos having their role as deeper allegories of Cosmic, Natural and Human Reproductive cycles. These three cycles as well as archetypes of the Psyche, are an important way of "decoding" the Mythos and knowing them to be more "real" than those accustomed more to literalism than allegory. The Moon's connection to female cycles is well-known, so that all the various aspects of the Adorant taken together shows not coincidence but a coherent time-reckoning system of all these cycles, as two scientists expressed in an UNESCO study:

"The grouping of the notches on the plate suggests a timerelated sequence. The total number of notches (88) not only coincides with the number of days in 3 lunations (88.5) but also approximately with the number of days when the star Betelgeuse (Orion) disappeared from view each year between its heliacal set (about 14 days before the spring equinox around 33,000 BP) and its heliacal rise (approximately 19 days before the summer solstice). Conversely, the nine-month period when Orion was visible in the sky approximately matched the duration of human pregnancy, and the timing of the heliacal rise in early summer would have facilitated a ‘rule of thumb’ whereby, by timing conception close to the reappearance of the constellation, it could be ensured that a birth would take place after the severe winter half-year, but leaving enough time for sufficient nutrition of the baby before the beginning of the next winter."(10)


These two Surrealist paintings, the first by Wojtek Siudmak
and the second by Vladimir Kush, both inspired by my
favorite artist Salvador Dalí, perfectly convey the symbolic
interplay of Cosmic and Earth energies through our birth.


"Cosmic Egg": Metaphysical Powers of Above and Below

That the Earth and Cosmos were joined through the human being was also conveyed in the "Cosmic Egg", a common motif in Indo-European cultures whereby a primordial being came into existence by "hatching" from an "egg" the cosmos laid upon the Earth's primordial waters.(11) This concept is to be understood as allegorical, more about the primordial forces within the universe than an actual "creation" myth as conceived by the Abrahamics. This motif was conveyed in such mythologies as the Vedic "egg-shaped cosmos" and the Greek "Orphic Egg". As for Orion, its significant that many Indo-European languages had the same symbolism.(12) Placing the origin of the Vedas with Orion's most ancient position, the Hindu astrologer and teacher Bal Gangadhar Tilak also examined the Germanic Yuletide season extending across the end of one year and beginning of the next year, to express his "opinion that the German traditions are the reminiscences of a time when the vernal equinox was in Orion, the hunter."(13)

In contrast to the "cosmic egg" symbolism, our Celtic and Germanic ancestors tended to see fire and water as the primordial elements - ice replaced this same function of water within the Norse mythos. Water symbolic of the beginning and fire of the end: We are born from the watery uterus and the fire released us from this earthly existence as cremation was our original tradition. This likewise extended into symbolism of the "fire" radiating from the Sun then fertilizing the "water" emanating from within the Earth.(14) This purifying "fire" aspect of the Sun - but not the Sun itself - was later conveyed in the Danubian Celtic myths of Grannus, various continental Celtic figures related to Bellenos, and the Germanic myth of the shining god Balder. All these further relate to the seasons.






A Lunisolar Worldview

Another cosmic symbolism with the Adorant is the lunar and solar aspect. Scholars have noted the figure's edges are cut at equal intervals, with the number 13 repeated frequently. They conclude this is a record of the relationship of the Sun and Moon, with 13 lunar months equal to one solar year. This relationship was known to Paleolithic hunters whose nomadic way of life was subject to basic changes in Nature. During a year when the Sun returned to the same point on the horizon, the Moon already made 13 full cycles - four for each lunar phase from one full-moon to another. The Adorant's four rows of dimples can also be connected to the four lunar phases of full moon-waxing-waning-full moon.(15) These recurring numbers can be seen as 13 x 4 = 52, which happens to be the number of weeks within the solar year. It takes 354 days to complete 12 lunar cycles, but 365 days for the Earth to orbit the Sun, so that special reckonings were made to account for the 11 day difference (called the "epact") in the two. The Ancients knew that lunar and solar cycles were synchronized every 18 years.

Indeed this ancient lunisolar joining of solar and lunar cycles (also seen on such artifacts as the Greek antikythera mechanism etc.) later formed the basis of Celtic and Germanic calendars. This is contrary to the fixed solar festivals around the equinoxes and solstices that form the basis of such modern "neo-paganisms" as Wicca, Asatru or "Druidry", whose "Wheel of the Year" and its various "sabbats" (a Hebrew phrase having nothing to do with European languages) are not attested in any historical sources documenting actual Celtic or Germanic traditions. Rather, its founded upon the imperial Roman calendar that was Christianized and imposed upon our Ancestors to eradicate their lunisolar worldview that was an impediment to monotheistic, centralist control and thought systems. Its worth detailing both calendars to show just how continuous our traditions have been from the Prehistoric.

The Germanic Heathen calendar was well attested in many contemporary sources(16), that attested to celebrations or other auspicious times reckoned by full or new moons, not fixed around solar events; time was reckoned by nights not days. The two halves of the year - Summer and Winter - were further divided into four quarters based on full moons with three moons assigned to each season. Summer had seven and not six moons every lunar leap year which occurred every three lunar years, so to keep alignment every three years an extra moon or month was added to Summer. This ensured that the second Yule month did not start before the Winter Solstice. The Spring festival Ostara did not occur on the Vernal Equinox (and was purely Continental Germanic and Anglo-Saxon, not celebrated by the Norse) but on the first full moon after. Midsummer was a quarter-year marker and not actually celebrated. Yule was on the first full moon after the first new moon after the Solstice, or three full moons after Winter Nights (itself the first full moon after the Autumn Equinox) - hence usually sometime in January. It was a three-day festival and not a Christianized "12 Days" replacement for "Christmas".(17)


Like the Adorant, the Gaullish Coligny bronze
calendar has holes for small wooden pegs to be
placed in to finely tune a synchronization of
solar and lunar cycles every 19 years

The Celtic Coligny calendar was created in Gaul between 40BCE and 100CE at a time when the Romans were genociding the Druids, who preserved this living testament to their advanced knowledge. There are 12 lunar months, each comprising six weeks or 29-30 days, extending from Samonios (October-November) to Cantios (September-October). To synchronize with the solar year, a 13th intercalary month known as Sonnocingos was added every 2.5 years and alternated between being inserted before Samonios or before the Spring months of Cutios and Giamonios. After a five-year cycle, two months were added. Each month was divided into halves, one "light" and one "dark", with the second half being an atenoux "renewal". Just as the day began with night (as with the Germanic), so too did the year begin with the descent into "darkness" of Winter. The entire calendar cycle was 30 years, totaling six rotations around the cycle.(18) 

Although often known as priests, the Druids had advanced knowledge of astrology, astronomy, folk medicine, and divination. In many areas of the Celtic world they were associated with upholding the tribal laws. The Romans noted their intricate awareness of lunar phases. Julius Caesar noted the 19 years following the Druid's first year as a novice, directly corresponding to the entire lunar cycle. To be worthy of the title Druid, one had to study for 20 years - which could thus relate to the beginning of a new lunar cycle after completion of the 19-year-cycle. Aside from the common lunisolar worldview, divination methods of the continental Germanic tribes as observed by Caesar and Tacitus were also similar to those of the Druids; as was the veneration of the Oak.

FOOTNOTES:

(1) Joachim Hahn, "Eine aurignacienzeitliche Menschendarstellung aus dem Geißenklösterle bei Blaubeuren, Alb-Donau-Kreis," in Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg – Nachrichtenblatt der Landesdenkmalpflege, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1980, pp. 56-58.

(2) Gerd Albrecht and Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, eds., Die Anfänge der Kunst vor 30000 Jahren, Stuttgart: Theiss, 1987, p. 75.

(3) Luc Renaut, "What to Make of the Prehistory of Tattooing in Europe?," in Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing, eds. Lars Krutak and Aaron Deter-Wolf, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017, p. 252.

(4) Genevieve von Petzinger, The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols, New York: Atria Paperback, 2017, pp. 90-91.

(5) With common features such as the Maibaum (May Pole), Summer bonfires and sacred rites involving fire, the Winter processions associated with the goddess Perchta or Frau Holle/Holda, common traditions involving the Wild Hunt, etc.. Folklore and traditions surviving long after conversion that indicate a continuity from ancient times. The great Austrian scholar Guido von List even placed the Germanic urheimat (primeval homeland) within the Danubian regions of Austria, Bavaria and Swabia rather than far to the north.

(6) Ewa Dutkiewicz, "The Vogelherd Cave and the discovery of the earliest art - history, critics and new questions," in Human Origin Sites and the World Heritage Convention in Eurasia, Volume II, ed. Nuria Sanz, Paris/Mexico City: UNESCO, 2015, p. 81.

(7) Hilda R.E. Davidson, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1964.

(8) Aleksander Dzbynski, The Power of the Line: Metaphor, Number and Material Culture in European Prehistory, Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013,  p. 19.

(9) Neil Harrison, The Origins of Europeans and Their Pre-Historic Inventiveness From 6 Million to 10,000 BCE, New York: Algora Publishing, 2019, p. 171.

(10) Clive Ruggles and Michel Cotte, Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: A Thematic Study, Paris: ICOMOS/International Astronomical Union, 2010, p. 19.

(11) Anna‐Britta Hellborn, "The creation egg," Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, No. 1, 1963, pp. 63-105.

(12) K.S. Krishnan, Origin of Vedas, Chennai, India: Notion Press, 2019.

(13) Bal Gangadhar Tilak, The Orion, Or, Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas, Bombay: Mrs. Rádhábái Átmárám Sagoon, 1893, p. 142.

(14) Wolf-Dieter Storl, The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present, Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2017, pp. 36, 42.

(15) Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Die Steinzeit: der Weg der Menschen in die Geschichte, München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2001, pp. 66-68.

(16) Tacitus, Germania, circa 98CE, Chapter 11; Bede, De Temporum Ratione, 725CE, Chapter 15; and Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni, circa 817-833CE, Chapter 29. From these and other historical sources, we can reconstruct an actual Continental Heathen calendar.

(17) I am indebted to the work of the Chicago-based Saxon reconstructionist Heathen Robert Sass, whose website Aldsidu.com is an essential source for Continental Heathens; and the Swedish scholar Dr. Andreas Nordberg's work on the historic Norse calendar: Jul, disting och förkyrklig tideräkning: Kalendrar och Kalendariska riter i det förkristna Norden (Uppsala: Kungl Gustav Adolfs Akademien för Svensk folkkultur, 2006).

(18) For the Coligny calendar and Druidic astrology in general, I recommend the work of the Quebecois Celtic Pagan Michel-Gérald Boutet.