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Sheldon Adelson – The Dangerous American Oligarch Behind Benjamin Netanyahu
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
“What are we going to negotiate about? What I would say is, ‘Listen, you see that desert out there? I want to show you something,'” Adelson said at Yeshiva University. “You pick up your cellphone, and you call somewhere in Nebraska, and you say, ‘okay, let it go.’ So there’s an atomic weapon goes over — ballistic missiles — in the middle of the desert that doesn’t hurt a soul.”
Adelson continued: “Then you say, ‘See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran.’ So, we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position and continue with your nuclear development.
– From the Washington Post article: Adelson: Obama Should Fire Nuke to Send Message to Iran
That a handful of extraordinarily rich and powerful oligarchs as well as mega-corporations have completely hijacked the American political process is hardy news. It’s been the key topic of discussion here at Liberty Blitzkrieg and elsewhere for many years (see: New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy).
What makes their control so effective is the use of an army of lobbyists, lawyers, Super PACs and bought and paid for politicians to do their dirty work, thus employing an opaque network of well-heeled minions created to conceal who is really pulling the strings.
Of all the commentary written about Netanyahu’s embarrassing political stunt in front of the U.S. Congress last week, the most important angle was largely overlooked. That is, it sort of represented a coming out party for the American oligarch from behind the curtain.
Sheldon Adelson, by all accounts a vile and violent sort of the worst kind, has made entirely controlling the Republican party his lifelong achievement. Additionally, and quite significantly to U.S. and Israeli citizens, Mr. Adelson has transformed himself into the puppet-master behind Benjamin Netanyahu. Just so there’s no misunderstanding about who Sheldon Adelson is, let’s revisit a post from last year titled, Inside the Mind of an Oligarch – Sheldon Adelson Proclaims “I Don’t Like Journalism”. Here’s an excerpt:
Billionaire casino mogul and conservative donor Sheldon Adelson said Sunday that the Palestinians are a made-up nation which exists solely to attempt to destroy Israel.
At the conference, which also featured top Democratic funder Haim Saban, Adelson also said Israel would not be able to survive as a democracy: “So Israel won’t be a democratic state, so what?” he asked Saban, adding that democracy, after all, is not mentioned in the Torah,and recommended that the country build a “big wall” to protect itself, saying, “I would put up a big wall around my property.”
Saban and Adelson should buy The New York Times together in an effort to bring more “balance” to the newspaper’s coverage of Israel and the Middle East, Adelson suggested to wild applause.
“I don’t like journalism,” Adelson said, highlighting what he said was the media’s insistence on focusing on the empty half of the glass.
Bill Moyers recently hit the nail on the head when it comes to Sheldon Adelson and his war catalyzing puppet, Benjamin Netanyahu. He writes:
Everything you need to know about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress Tuesday was the presence in the visitor’s gallery of one man – Sheldon Adelson.
The gambling tycoon is the Godfather of the Republican Right. The party’s presidential hopefuls line up to kiss his assets, scraping and bowing for his blessing, which when granted is bestowed with his signed checks. Data from both the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics and the Center for Public Integrity show that in the 2012 election cycle, Adelson and his wife Miriam (whose purse achieved metaphoric glory Tuesday when it fell from the gallery and hit a Democratic congressman) contributed $150 million to the GOP and its friends, including $93 million to such plutocracy-friendly super PACs as Karl Rove’s American Crossroads, the Congressional Leadership Fund, the Republican Jewish Coalition Victory Fund, Winning Our Future (the pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC) and Restore Our Future (the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC).
Yet there’s no knowing for sure about all of the “dark money” contributed by the Adelsons – so called because it doesn’t have to be reported. Like those high-rise, multi-million dollar apartments in New York City purchased by oligarchs whose identity is hidden within perfectly legal shell organizations, dark money lets our politicians conveniently erase fingerprints left by their ink-stained (from signing all those checks) billionaire benefactors.
Adelson owns the daily Israel Hayom, a leading newspaper, as well as Makor Roshon, the daily newspaper of Israel’s Zionist religious right and NRG, a news website. He gives Israel Hayom away for free in order to promote his hardline views – the headline in the paper the day after Obama’s re-election was “The US Voted [for] Socialism.”
More important, he uses the paper to bang the drum incessantly for Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud Party, under the reign of which Israel has edged closer and closer to theocracy. As Hebrew University economist Momi Dahan put it: “De facto, the existence of a newspaper like Israel Hayom egregiously violates the law, because [Adelson] actually is providing a candidate with nearly unlimited resources.”
In fact, as Israel’s March 17 election approaches, Adelson has increased the press run of Israel Hayom’s weekend edition by 70 percent. The paper says it’s to increase circulation and advertising, but rival newspaper Ha’aretz reports, “Political sources are convinced the extra copies are less part of a business plan and more one to help Netanyahu’s re-election bid.” Just like the timing of Netanyahu’s “State of the Union” address to Congress this week was merely a coincidence, right? “I deeply regret that some perceive my being here as political,” Netanyahu told Congress. “That was never my intention.” Of course.
So Netanyahu gets the best of both of Adelson’s worlds – his powerful propaganda machine in Israel and his campaign cash here in the United States. Combined, they allow Netanyahu to usurp American foreign policy as he manipulates an obliging US Congress enamored of Adelson’s millions, pushing it further to the right on Israel and the Middle East.
There you have it: Not only is this casino mogul the unofficial head of the Republican Party in America (“he with the gold rules”), he is the uncrowned King of Israel — David with a printing press and checkbook instead of a slingshot and a stone. All of this came to the fore in Netanyahu’s speech on Tuesday: the US cannot determine its own policy in the Middle East and the majority in Congress are under the thumb of a foreign power.
Everything you need to know about Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress Tuesday was the presence in the visitor’s gallery of that man. We are hostage to his fortune.
Don’t forget the quote at the top where he suggested scaring Iran into submission by threatening to drop a nuke on Tehran. Who’s the aggressor again?
This whole thing takes on a much greater level of significance given Adelson’s near total control of the U.S. Republican party, as well as his control over Israel’s Prime Minister. The man is not only the 8th richest man in the world, he’s also a menace to civilized society, and people need to start paying a lot more attention to him.
I think the following illustration from Haaretz sums it up best:
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You might be interested in the text of the original 13th amendment to the Constitution.
"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."
Arrest the criminals.
Adelson is a parasite on the body of humanity no matter what his lineage, in the same vein as Sharpton or Soros. They don't care about you and I, its whats in it for them.
The sooner the Buffets, Turners, Gates and Alisher Usmanovs of the world are outed the better off we'll be.
With the words "...Bill Moyers recently hit the nail on the head..." the author beclowns himself once again.
Even a broken i-watch is right twice a day.
Not really. They're digital, so like your Casio they just go dark.
Not really not really. It's not called i-watch.
Milky licker Joe Biden wants to be in the zio club despite being horse-faced goy.
Adelson, the self-described "King Jew" backed good 'ol Newt Gingrich last time with over $10Million. The
Re Pubic An hopefuls are all over him like matzah on balls
Don't kid yourself, Zeroes.
It's the fault of the Jewish people that you're making $12/hour and leading a hard-scrabble existence.
Preach it, baby, preach it!! :-)
It's the fault of the Jewish people that Palestinian kids get blown to bits while playing on a beach.
Answer this if you are capable of any honesty.
How much have you or your direct family donated to the Jewish Fund?
For those who do not know, the Jewish Fund is a non-profit organisation that raises money around the world to support the expansion of illegal Israelly settlements.
So don't talk to me about innocent Jews.
Talk about material support for terrorism.
First...He is NOT HONEST. You are wasting your time.
Next NOT ALL JEWS support the murder of innocent children. Perhaps 51% do as their government is elected...er...SELECTED democratically as ours is in the USA.
(Do we really have a choice here? What makes you believe it to be different elsewhere?)
In Israel there is opposition to the Zionist regime as there is within the United States.
That is being honest. (And you know that I hate the wholesale slaughter of babies.)
So let's be honest.
Forgive me - but I want you to know that the handful of Jewish people on this planet have been told they are so fucking special that they can cheat, murder and lie their way to the top at the expense of honest, hardworking and sincere individuals. The path of destruction behind the financiers of the Jewish persusion is not difficult to see. We read the bullshit that is stated in a fucking HOLY BOOK regarding white people whom they address as goyim which apparently means cattle, that we are good-for-nothing but their servants and slaves, that we are less than they are and because of this, they deserve what our generations of families dedicated their lives to building and died early deaths because of.
So fuck you, fuck your clan. I have never met a Jew I liked. Obliterating the competition is essential to the Jewish frauds who call themselves businessmen and scholars because no one. NO ONE. not even them, will do business with a fraud, liar, cheat, fucking murderer unless it is the last fucking resort.
So suck it up and own it mother fucker who had his dicked sucked off before he coulid walk by a man (like THAT mankes any fucking sense). You freaks belong in a circus or in exile on an island so we can use our 70 or so years on this planet for something other than cleaning up the mess you leave when you Micky Mouse approach to doing business fails and the wails begin - OH PLEASE HELP US - WE ARE WICTIMS, WE ARE WE ARE - HELP US, FEED US, ARM US, so we can do it all over again. Fucker. I hate you for being so fucking guilty and presenting your wide eyed, confused and befuddled comment. FUCK YOU.
If we behave as cattle should we be treated as such? Or maybe as they do in India?
There are a lot of people who wish to impose their values upon all of us, some through their great wealth and others through the simple use of a gun or knife. Unfortunately life is as it has always been and freedom and liberty have ALWAYS come at GREAT cost. To believe that ANY person can be given power over us and not abuse that power is to surrender a million years of evolutionary truth. Be he a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim or Rastafarian makes no difference as their access to power will ultimately corrupt, and to put ones faith in the greatest ideological tyranny of all time, that of the religion of progressivism, is suicide, for it commands one to surrender ALL self interest to the collective, of which none of us apparently belongs because it reliably fucks each and every one of us.
We people constantly complain of being treated as sheep or cattle, even the most progressive entitlement addicted, all while continuing to behave as sheepishly as we can possibly emulate, almost to the point of appearing deliberate.
I hate to say it but the only way to the top of any society is to exhibit the personality traits you describe.
This is not about Jewish or other race/religion. Those are just bullshit divide and conquer tactics (the plebs kill each other over false labels and the oligarchs take everything).
The true enemy is the socio/psychopath. All societies' have these in abundance, especially in leadership positions.
This is untrue. One does not have to be born today to realize a business that is run well is the best business with the most customers. That is why we have laws. Social engineering has destroyed the American people who were once, comparatively speaking, dedicated to creating a community which was safe and sound for their children to grow up in. That is the point of society - to provide a life for the children which educates them on how a functioning infrastructure works. The men who went to the wars and died for the cause of freedom were good men goddam it. They were fathers and sons, they did what they were told. The milking of the system is achieved by a person who sneaks to the top and then changes the rules. Call it what it is, fraud. Allowing lawyers to be politicians is another stake in the heart of any possibility of creating a life worth living. These bottom feeders only get worse with power...and I do not need to tell you what higher education facilities spit out the sociopaths. Cheating through the exam itself is required. The self righteousness coming for the "we cheat and we deserve our stolen loot" camp is a bit much to stomach.
successful money lender = intelligent sociopath. selection pressure over 3000 years of successful money-lending (with interruptions) = disproportionately high percentage of intelligent sociopaths.
... and the denial of service attacks resume.
Just another progressive bastard. Owns American right my ass, there is no American right anymore, just more progressive assclown criminals.
Nuttyahoo's speech embarrassed the America Hater in Chief Obirdbrain and his neo-stalinist assclowns for being the stupid dhimmwits they are.
Just like super dhimmi Hillary Clinton got duped by Al Qaeda to come to their aid in Libya when Gaddafi had them on the ropes in Benghazi. Now another super dhimmi, Obirdbrain is being duped by the murdering Islamic tyrants in Iran. Nuttyyahoo spelled it out for everyone to see.
I wouldn't give Israel a dime. Nor anyone else. Oligarchs would be shot on sight within a hundred miles of DC.
Grimaldus
For anyone who wants to understand that Israel is all about have a look at this talk by the son of an Israeli General --- he tears the country to shreds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc
The weekly nutjob posting of a Mike Krieger story, which this week is a little bit different than the same story being floating on Salon by Bill Moyers.
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/07/we_are_hostage_to_his_fortune_sheldon_an...
TeamObama needs to work harder to avoid more screwups like this....
OMG only 2 down votes for exposing TeamObama's screwups... LOL What is happening to zerohedge...
Everyone knows that Moyer's and Salon are both only interested in peace and truth......as promoted by the progressive agenda.
Not until we are willing to recognize that ALL ideologies will be used against us as they are but a tool used to focus power into the hands of a few, we will be but lambs to slaughter. There is only one sustainable belief and that is the belief in one's self, in our individual struggle for survival. Those who achieve great power understand this more than most others and as such will do everything they can to make us believe the contrary. It is how they hold power, by convincing us to defer our power to them. Ultimately that is what democracy has become, a means to aggregate power, the mass consent of the people to the will of the few......for our own good, of course.
deport him.. or arrest him!
Ohhhhh boy. Now you're swacking at the root. A little deeper will reveal that the satanic rothschilllldzio thing owns this evil cretin also. Not much these days, other than ones own thinking, is NOT owned by the evil luciferian/satanic evil slithering moneygod freaks of nature, the rottenchidszionistsatanic babalonian.
If there was NO MOAR ziorottenchild moneygod, freaks like this adelson skuck and the bronfmoid puke gangs of criminals would shrivel up and blow away back to the empire of dust from whence thy all came from, and will go back to eventually.
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-leaders-rothschild-timeline.html
http://www.realzionistnews.com/?p=462
http://www.iamthewitness.com/
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/reststory/bronfmanscrime.html
http://lyndonlarouche.org/dope9.pdf
Big deal. He is a partisan supporting his side, just as there are numerous Libs supporting their side. Don't forget, nearly the entire MSM (with the sole exception of Fox News) is supporting Obama. Obama is supporting his puppet Herzog in Israel. (Or is that Hedgehog). And given the dynamics of Israel's election, Hedgehog will probably win.
Looks like the GOP are finished. A front for a sleazy gangster.
the oligarchy is also behind mass immigration/multiculturalism
Just vote for Eli Yishai-Yachad
I try to be rational about things. The must be a reason why Babylonians didn't like them. Egyptians didn't like them. Titus Vespasian didn't like them. Hell, even Josephus, being them, didn't like them. Spaniards didn't like them. English didn't care about them, because they didn't let them in. Poles didn't like them, because they did let them in and there was trouble. Russians didn't let them in to within 100 miles from metropolitan areas, so they didn't know them, and when it hit them it was too late. We all living through the consequences. Germans? Well, kind of a mute point. Still, in my rational way, I am tranquil: the pendulum always swings back. Every 50 to 100 years. It will again. Perhaps in my lifetime. I hope it to be so very much.
I don't believe the Jews can do anything to us that we don't enable them to do. If they have any super powers it must be the ability to see weakness and prosper on it.....pretty much how everyone does it. Bought a smartphone or car or house you really didn't need lately? We are easy to manipulate, especially for anyone who has been paying attention. Hell they even write books telling us how they do it and we just get back in line for more. We are so fucking simple that they can create a internet porn industry making billions by simply making videos that appeal to our need to fuck.....not reproduce, but fuck. We are not just simple, but stupid.
We watch all of these fuckers lie to us daily and we know it, and do nothing, not because we are afraid to call them out, but because we LIKE the lies. We want the lies because the fucking lies are so much better than the truth. We want to be SOLD! And we will not revolt until we are absolutely 100% sure that the lie will NEVER come true. Adelson is the devil....no its all the fucking Jews....no it Obama or Hillary or Bush (most definitely Bush, right?).
This is simply the most absolute demonstration of our stupidity...that we would award ANY of these people this kind of power and expect them NOT use it against us and NEVER suspect that it was us all along that enabled them, allowed them, GAVE THEM PERMISSION to fuck us at will. Adelson like almost every other rich fuck today became rich through gambling (yes, investing is fucking gambling), not by risking their money but by allowing others to risk their money. Its all the same game and its funded 100% by dupes looking for the something for nothing, the quick buck, the path to riches without really working at it.
Good job blaming yourself! This is what nice goys do so that the cycle can continue. Thank you.
Palestinian rock throwers should be shot !
Quicker and easier to bomb the little brown children.
Palestinian rock throwers should be shot
At least they have the guts to resist in some way.
Yanks just sit on their butts, gorge pizza and send their kids to die in Jewish wars.
I know which lot most of the planet has more admiration for.
Guess?
It ain't the Americans.
Unlike the banksters, mostly Gentile, none with any god but money or loyalty to anything but their balance sheets, who are cheering on any victim of a botched circumcision who might unseat Netanyahu and do their bidding in the Middle East, Adelson made his money honestly. The real problem is that men who manage to accumulate great fortunes and use their wealth and privilege to do good in the world are as rare as hen's teeth.
The banksters hate him, obviously, so Moyers, who lives high on the hog at taxpayer expense, has made him into the boogeyman of anti-Semites among the idle rich, living proof the modern GOP is a Jewish plot. Monsters like Soros, who gleefully ruin nations of all creeds to make a buck, and have cheerfully thrown their fellow Jews to the wolves when it suited them, get a pass.
If Adelson wants to give his own money to help elect American patriots to office in the US and Jewish patriots to office in Israel, good for him. At least we know where Bibi's war chest comes from.
If Adelson wants to buy the NYT, which in a few years he'll be able to do with petty cash, that's okay too. All I ask is that he shitcan Krugman on day one.
Oy vay, annuder pig out to destroy the world.
Adelson should move to Israel and get the fuck out of the US. His loyalty is to Israel, not the US.
As a Lutheran who is not familiar with Adelson this article appears to be anti jewish propaganda. I judge Netanyahu by his actions and results. Just like the USA, Netanyahu could nuke Iran out of existance but chooses not to. Iran on the other hand proclaims their objective to end the existance of Israel. Followed by any surviving Jews. Not too long ago there were Jewish and Christain populations in Iran. They are not longer there. There are still Islamic and Christain populations in Istael. Even women are oppressed in Iran.
Not sure how anyone can chose the way of Iran over the USA or Israel.
As an American guy who lives in Israel for many years now - I find you to be what in Hebrew we call a "fryer". This means sucker. Over here, it's quite obvious that Jews and Israel take advantage of goys as a matter of course. It's not something hidden or scary to say, like it is in the US. It is the premise.
There are still Jews in Iran, genius tard. They were offered 10s of thousands of dollars to move to Israel and they said "hell no" to Israel. You do not know what you're talking about. If you think the subservient slave-like position of muslims and Christians in Israel is ideal - then I invite you to send your Lutheran congregation to do some free labor on a kibbutz while the Jews "live like effendis" (if that quote doesn't mean anything to you, then look up the Chief Rabbi Ovadia Youssef and you'll get the general thesis).
It is one thing to be Christian and kind to strangers. It's another to be a victim who blames themselves. It's pathetic. Wake up!
At least we agree Netanyahu can nuke Iran out of existance but chooses not to while Iran proclaims they intend to wipe Israel off the map.
Prior to 1948 there were 150,000 jews in Iran. Today there are around 8,000. Before Iran's revolution there were 170,000 Christains. Tocay there are around 20,000. In both cases the population has be decimated.
You other comments and insults just show your true nature.
"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States...."
Sounds like high treason to me.
Sheldon Adelson is merely the most high profile front man for the extensive Israel first neo-con crime syndicate that has captured America.
The Bibi Forgery Road Show:
http://winteractionables.com/?p=18973
The thing to get your minds around is that the top level of US ruling class, the top few hundred families, as recently as the 1960's when C.Wright Mills wrote about them, were 100% white. 100% Christian (or some twisted version of it that allows camels to pass through eyes of needles) and nearly 100% Protestant. They incuded not just families like the Rockefellers, DuPonts, Morgans and Mellons, Armors, Hunts, Heinzes and Swifts, Carnegies, Fords, Astors and Roosevelts, but also the First Families of the CIA, wealthy families incuding the Bushes, Cheneys, Dulleses and Harrimans. Together they owned the Republican Party, and they came tantalizingly close to owning the world. They may have taken in some newcomers, but they're all still there. (If you want to get face time with them, getting invited to play on their private golf courses is not a bad way in.)
Sheldon Adelson may be fantastically wealthy and unusually ruthless even for a billionaire, but he didn't just waltz in and take over the Republican Party without the permission ot the Old Money or against their wills. Nor could he exercise the power that he reportedly has without the ruling class as a whole signing off on it.
So the question we should be asking is this: How does Adelson's power serve their interests, how did he gain their support and how does he keep it?
Excellent observation! I've wondered about this myself. Why did the WASP oligarchs allow the Jews into the upper echelons of wealth and power so quickly and easily. The answer to that would tell us a lot!
Nuclear blackmail.
Lightning rod
Jews make the very best lightning rods when the masses get angry, history has shown
begin in england just prior to the french revolution.
Dear US citizens, why didm't you kill the vermin yet?
Greed Ogre. Send him to the dungeon.
Sheldelson's contorted ugly mug says it all: Supreme Slime-Ball.
And yet, members of the USSA Knesset & wannabee Presidents can't get their collective tounge far enuf up his ashkenazi a$$ - selling us all out, for the Kosha Nostra Seal Of Approval... and a few shekels tossed into a campaign-chest.
www.realjewnews.com Takes one to know one!
Aldenson....doesn't run a bank...I don't care. Let's go catch the people actually stealing. This guy is nothing compared to Buffet, Steyer, Soros and many democrats.
Nothing to see here, it is simply coincidental that they are both Eskimos.
Adelson is good in a way as he's more blatant. There are 100s just like him who've owned the political process for years but they hide it better.
once the banking mafia get hold of the money supply it's simply a matter of time.
inflation doesn't happen when new money is created but when it is spent so at the point where it is spent new money has the same value as existing money. the value of money goes down afterwards as the extra money added bids up prices but the value of the asset bought with the new money retains the same relative value it did before.
this is how the creation of money acts as a wealth transfer mechanism.
it's easier to understand if you picture how it used to be in ancient times with silver or gold. a group of banking mafia take over the royal mint where people pay their taxes in silver denari. the banking mafia melt down 100 silver coins and add some tin or lead to make 110 debased coins keeping the new ones themselves. no inflation yet. they then buy an asset, say a farm, with the 10 extra coins they made and it's this addition of the new money into the economy that eventually leads to inflation through bidding up prices **but** the farm they bought for 10 coins keeps it's relative value. it was worth 10 silver coins before the inflation and it is worth 11 debased coins afterwards so the banking mafia counterfeiters have effectively extracted a small percentage of the value from the existing money supply and used it to buy themselves a real asset.
they do exactly the same thing with paper money except they don't need to physically melt it down first. as long as they buy real assets with the money they create out of thin air they can simply transfer wealth from the existing holders to themselves over time.
it's just legalized counterfeiting and once the wealth transfer mechanism is in place (Central Bank 1913) all it takes is time.
Good point, and quite a lot Know it too.
But what can we do? That is the question that need to be answered.
The only answer seems to be just live your life and wait for the natural destruction of this oligarchs. And try survive when their destruction causes harm to everyone.
Do you have any other?
Excellent analogy Tumblemore!