Trade has played a major role in human benefits where mutual agreements occur.
The expansion of the Roman Empire created great wealth and power through trade. Military prowess protected gains more for the Romans than those who traded under Roman rule since being conquered.
Military might tied to trade ensured new lands could be explored, conquered and ruled over during this brief existence of such human endeavour. (See previous blogs regarding how we exist due to a fluke of creating emissions which warmed the earth and prevented an every 10 thousand years ice age!).
We evolved to conquer all before us, and thought ourselves to be highly intelligent, above all other living things.
Technological prowess in military applications have become a major part of the arms trade. No longer just hardware, but now spyware.
I read a book, ‘Gideons Spies’ by Gordon Thomas, published in the early 2000s, and in it I was introduced to spyware called Promis.
Now, in 2024, having had coverage of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell become part of the Maxwell dynasty epic story, I link what I read decades ago to present spyware abuses.
the British East India Company owed much of its success to their intelligence operation, right up until the Napoleonic Wars when Nathan Rothschild’s intel operatives got him news of Napoleon’s defeat far ahead of anyone else. Rothschild parlayed this information into owning a controlling share of British war bonds, which he bought up for pennies on the dollar after using his information to leverage panic selling. Rothschild, for all intents and purposes, had control of the British economy and used it to garner an immense amount of political control. His intelligence services evolved into MI-5 and MI-6 and subsequently Mossad — remember Rothschild effectively bought Israel with the Balfour Declaration (1917). WWII brought about OSS, an offshoot of MI-6, that turned into the CIA in 1946… these are all controlled by the Rothschild/Rockefeller diaspora, the CIA through the Council on Foreign Affairs (CFA).
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1600 Queen Elizabeth 1 founded the East India Company.
1777 – 1836 Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild (rothschildarchive.org) and his brothers helped the British Government to finance military operations against Napoleon. He used his reliable strong family ties and unsurpassed communication network to build a business plan as a banker to pull together the funds needed to assist Wellington on the battlefield.
1941 Baron Victor Rothschild was head of the counter-sabotage unit of MI5. The German-British Jewish family had been contributing to the various war efforts since Nathan Rothschild. Victor Rothschild had an obvious personal interest in obtaining information on British Fascists such as Oswald Mosley, believing they might form a “5th column” and found sympathisers among the British public. So he ran a ‘fifth column’ himself to attract such people. Then he drew up a list of these sympathisers, and spread information amongst them so they thought they were part of a Nazi spy ring. Unknown to this group, they ended up providing useful information for MI5.
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The importance of gathering reliable information has proven vital to success in war, trade, global innovation.
Surveillance is big business. In the hands of ‘bad actors’ it can result in terrible consequences for opposition to dictators, which I will cover in a later blog.
Needless to say, Israel has expanded mutually satisfying trade relations, particularly with countries who can perhaps future protect it from Iran. Thus, human rights is always low on the list of suitable partners to trade with when Israeli military sales are on the bucket list of dictators.
Israeli Mossad has been in charge of building diplomatic connections with the regimes where none previously existed. Mossad would not share its own military Unit 8200-level spyware, but could offer the privately owned NSO Pegasus package covertly. To keep everything appearing to be compliant against claims of misuse, a London-based hedge fund, Novalpina, took on the role and became a majority owner in the NSO group.(They bought out Francisco Partners in early 2019) and helped NSO refurbish the company image after concerns of the Mexico and Kashoggi debacle (See later blogs).
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