- Under the headline "Lord Rothschild Backs
John McCain"
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- The Washington Post(March 15, 2008) informs us that "Sen.
John McCain plans at least one campaign event on his week-long congressional
trip to Europe and the Middle East: a March 20 fundraiser in London. An
invitation sent out by the campaign says the luncheon will be held at Spencer
House, St. James's Place, 'by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE
and the Hon Nathaniel Rothschild.' Tickets to the invitation-only event
cost $1,000 to $2,300. Attire is listed as "lounge suits.
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- How innocent is that?
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- "The time to buy is when blood is running in the
streets." This remark was made by an earlier Nathan Rothschild, the
one who reduced the Bank of Englands gold reserves by 100,000 pounds by
cahsing hundreds of small notes, almost sinking that institution because
the bank would not cash his one of his larger notes. You will note
that as blood has been running in Wall Street Goldman Sachs has been investing billions
in its hedge funds, paying off %16 percent in just one month, "contrarian-like-a-fox"
profitably buying up selected assets as share prices tumble. But the
Rothschilds are also playing this game with their hedge funds. Are they
placing bets which McCain will turn into sure things? Consider what is
behind that question:
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- "Nathaniel Philip Rothschild (b. 1971), British
investor, co-chairman of Atticus Capital. More than 200 years after Mayer
Amschel Rothschild founded the family dynasty that offered discreet counsel
and investment wisdom to kings, queens, emperors and industrial titans,
his 35-year-old direct descendant, Nathaniel, has emerged as a kingmaker
in his own right and an investor who some say may become the richest Rothschild
of them all. In five short years, the man in line to be the fifth Baron
Rothschild became close to becoming a billionaire through a web of
private equity investments in Ukraine, Eastern Europe and most significant,
his partnership stake in Atticus Capital, the fast-growing $14 billion
hedge fund. Rothschild began his career in 1994 at Lazard Brothers Asset
Management in London, before joining Gleacher Partners, the New York-based
mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm founded by Eric Gleacher,
former head of M&A at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. Rothschild
is partner and co-chairman of Atticus Capital LLC, an international investment
management firm established in 1995, that has offices in New York and London. Mr.
Rothschild is also a director of RIT Capital Partners plc, and a director
of The Rothschild Foundation. Rothschild is a member of the Belfer Center's
International Council at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
and the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution. He
is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Barrick Gold
Corporation. Mr. Rothschild was nominated as a "Young Global
Leader" by the World Economic Forum in 2005. Among the top money
makers of the world almost all of the money coming from earnings of his
investment in Atticus Capital hedge fund. He is partner and co-chairman
of Atticus. In addition to his responsibilities at Atticus, Rothschild
is director of RIT Capital Partners, his father's publicly traded U.K.
investment trust. He is also director of JNR Ltd. -- the initials stand
for Jacob and Nathaniel Rothschild -- a merchant banking boutique that
specializes in emerging markets. Like his forebears, Nathaniel Rothschild prefers
that his influence remain unseen. Mr. Rothschild is a principal adviser
to Oleg Deripaska, one of the richest oligarchs in Russia and the owner
of the aluminum giant Rusal, which recently merged with two other companies
to create the world's largest aluminum company. Mr. Rothschild received
no public credit despite having played a crucial role in getting the deal
done.
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- "Lord Jacob Rothschild, OM GBE was born Nathaniel
Charles Jacob Rothschild, the fourth Baron Rothschild. The 78 year old
merchant banker is President of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research,
an organization dedicated to cooperation in research, analysis and policy
planning on issues affecting Jewish life worldwide. He is head of the
English branch of the Rothschild family and chairman of RIT Capital Partners
plc. Lord Rothschild is a member of the board of trustees of the Open
Russia Foundation and serves as chairman of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild
foundation which built and handed over to the State of Israel the buildings
for both the Knesset and the Supreme Court. He is also Chairman of Rothschild
Investment Trust (now RIT Capital Partners plc), an investment trust listed
on the London Stock Exchange. He is a shareholder in Rothschild Continuation
Holdings, the Swiss-based holding company for the Rothschild interests
which has positions in many of the family businesses, including the bank
N M Rothschild & Sons. From his headquarters in St James's Place in
London, Jacob Rothschild has cultivated an influential set of clients,
business associates and friends who have extended his interests far beyond
the normal scope of a banker. He maintains strong personal and business
links with Henry Kissinger. His country estate has been a regular venue
for visiting heads of state including Bill Clinton. He hosted the European
Economic Round Table conference in 2002, attended by such figures as James
Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, Nicky Oppenheimer, Warren
Buffett and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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- "Forbes magazine poses lower ranking billionaires
like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as the richest men in the World. Retired
management consultant Gaylon Ross Sr, author of Who's Who of the Global
Elite, has been tipped from a private source that the combined wealth
of the Rockefeller family in 1998 was approx (US) $11 trillion and the
Rothschilds (U.S.) $100 trillion. A recent article in the London Financial
Times indicates why it is impossible to gain an accurate estimate of the
wealth of the trillionaire bankers. Discussing the sale of Evelyn Rothschild's
stake in Rothschild Continuation Holdings, it states: ...[this] requires
agreement on the valuation of privately held assets whose value has never
been tested in a public market. Most of these assets are held in a complex
network of tax-efficient structures around the World. The power of the
Rothschild family was evidenced on 24 Sept 2002 when a helicopter touched
down on the lawn of Waddedson Manor, their ancestral home in Buckinghamshire,
England. Out of the helicopter strode Warren Buffet, - touted as the
second richest man in the World but really a lower ranking player- and
Arnold Schwarzenegger (the gropinator), at that time a candidate for the
Governorship of California. Also in attendance at this two day meeting
of the World's most powerful businessmen and financiers hosted by Jacob
Rothschild were James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank and Nicky
Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers. Arnold went on to secure the governorship
of one of the biggest economies on the planet a year later. That he was
initiated into the ruling class in the Rothschilds' English country manor
suggests that the centre of gravity of the three hundred trillion dollar
cartel is in the U.K. and Europe not the U.S. "
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- "United Kingdom banker N M Rothschild & Sons
Ltd. is one of the last remaining of the great family-controlled banking
dynasties established in the 19th century. Dwarfed by its larger, public
rivals, Rothschild nonetheless remains a mythical name in the banking world.
N M Rothschild provides banking and treasury financing services, treasury
metals, and resource banking, including a central position in the world
bullion markets, investment banking services (together with its joint-venture
partnership with ABN AMRO), and risk management services. Since the 1990s,
N M Rothschild has been taking steps to consolidate the operations of the
various and far-flung Rothschild financial operations, most of which operate
as subsidiaries under the Rothschild family-controlled Rothschild Continuation
Holdings AG, established in Switzerland in the early part of the 20th century
to protect the family's ownership of its banking empire. N M Rothschild
has also been working in close cooperation with the--independent--Paris
branch of Rothschild banking interests, Rothschild & Cie, led by David
de Rothschild, who also functions as deputy chairman of N M Rothschild
and is the heir-apparent to chairman and long-time leader Evelyn de Rothschild.
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- "N M Rothschild found plenty of work in the great
wave of British privatization that swept the country during the late 1980s.
The company was involved in a number of the country's most ambitious privatization
programs, including the £5.6 billion privatization of British Gas
in 1986, the exit of the British government from British Petroleum in 1987,
and the privatization of the United Kingdom's water and sewage industry
in 1989. At the same time, N M Rothschild, while remaining true to its
family-owned and independent status, nonetheless made moves to establish
itself as a globally operating entity capable of competing with the financial
industry's heavyweights. As such N M Rothschild bolstered its international
presence, consolidating its United States operations under the single Rothschild
Inc. entity, based in New York, in 1981 and establishing separate Canadian
operations with its Rothschild Canada Inc. subsidiary. The firm also opened
offices in Germany and Italy at the end of the decade. During the 1990s,
N M Rothschild began making stronger moves to draw together the various
elements of the Rothschilds' empire. One of the last of these was the highly
successful Paris-based banking arm, Rothschild & Cie., which retained
its independent status. This business, led by David de Rothschild, had
been created in the mid-1980s as France's banking industry shrugged off
the ill-fated nationalization of the country's commercial banking system
under the Socialist government in the early 1980s. The former Banque de
Rothschild had been nationalized in 1982. Two years later, Baron Guy de
Rothschild and son David took the compensation they had received--about
80 million--and started a new investment banking firm, Paris-Orleans Finance.
It was not until 1986, however, that the French Rothschilds were granted
a new banking license and the right to restore the family's name to their
bank, as the French banking industry once again became privatized.
- David de Rothschild quickly took the lead in rebuilding
Rothschild & Cie, transforming it into a new French financial powerhouse
and one of the driving forces behind many of the country's largest business
deals through the next decade. When Evelyn de Rothschild began to look
toward consolidating the family's banking interests, he tapped David de
Rothschild to become N M Rothschild's deputy chairman in 1992, establishing
his younger cousin as his heir apparent. That position was reinforced in
1996, when N M Rothschild engaged in a restructuring of its global operations,
reorganizing its businesses around five main product lines: resource banking
and treasury operations; investment banking; asset management; development
capital; and private banking and trust management services. At the same
time the Rothschild operations set up a group investment banking committee
charged with coordinating the global financial business of the Rothschild
empire. David de Rothschild was named as head of the new committee. Also
in that year, N M Rothschild established a joint venture with Dutch bank
ABN AMRO to compete for contracts in the world's equity markets. By 1999,
that venture--ABN AMRO Rothschild--was completing deals worth more than
$125 billion per year.
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- In the late 1990s, N M Rothschild client-intensive approach
paid off as the group became an important player in the booming European
market for mergers and acquisitions.
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- The firm took part in such important deals as the launch
of EADS, the European aerospace group created from the merger of France's
Aerospatiale, Spain's CASA, and Germany's DASA. N M Rothschild was also
an advisor on the massive restructuring of Deutsche Telekom, valued at
more than $15 billion; the firm also backed England's National Grid Group
in its $8.9 billion takeover of Niagara Mohawk Holdings in the United States,
while playing a supporting role in the takeover of Mannesmann by Vodaphone,
worth more than $200 billion.
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- "As the company celebrated more than 200 years of
operations at the heart of the world's financial markets, N M Rothschild
continued to explore new frontiers. In 1999 the company announced its plans
to extend the ABN AMRO Rothschild joint venture to cover the lucrative
market for initial public offerings in the United States.
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- "N M Rothschild found plenty of work in the great
wave of British privatization that swept the country during the late 1980s.
The company was involved in a number of the country's most ambitious privatization
programs, including the £5.6 billion privatization of British Gas
in 1986, the exit of the British government from British Petroleum in 1987,
and the privatization of the United Kingdom's water and sewage industry
in 1989. At the same time, N M Rothschild, while remaining true to its
family-owned and independent status, nonetheless made moves to establish
itself as a globally operating entity capable of competing with the financial
industry's heavyweights. As such N M Rothschild bolstered its international
presence, consolidating its United States operations under the single Rothschild
Inc. entity, based in New York, in 1981 and establishing separate Canadian
operations with its Rothschild Canada Inc. subsidiary. The firm also opened
offices in Germany and Italy at the end of the decade.
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- "During the 1990s, N M Rothschild began making stronger
moves to draw together the various elements of the Rothschilds' empire.
One of the last of these was the highly successful Paris-based banking
arm, Rothschild & Cie., which retained its independent status. This
business, led by David de Rothschild, had been created in the mid-1980s
as France's banking industry shrugged off the ill-fated nationalization
of the country's commercial banking system under the Socialist government
in the early 1980s. The former Banque de Rothschild had been nationalized
in 1982. Two years later, Baron Guy de Rothschild and son David took the
compensation they had received--about 80 million--and started a new investment
banking firm, Paris-Orleans Finance. It was not until 1986, however, that
the French Rothschilds were granted a new banking license and the right
to restore the family's name to their bank, as the French banking industry
once again became privatized.
-
- "David de Rothschild quickly took the lead in rebuilding
Rothschild & Cie, transforming it into a new French financial powerhouse
and one of the driving forces behind many of the country's largest business
deals through the next decade. When Evelyn de Rothschild began to look
toward consolidating the family's banking interests, he tapped David de
Rothschild to become N M Rothschild's deputy chairman in 1992, establishing
his younger cousin as his heir apparent. That position was reinforced in
1996, when N M Rothschild engaged in a restructuring of its global operations,
reorganizing its businesses around five main product lines: resource banking
and treasury operations; investment banking; asset management; development
capital; and private banking and trust management services. At the same
time the Rothschild operations set up a group investment banking committee
charged with coordinating the global financial business of the Rothschild
empire. David de Rothschild was named as head of the new committee. Also
in that year, N M Rothschild established a joint venture with Dutch bank
ABN AMRO to compete for contracts in the world's equity markets. By 1999,
that venture--ABN AMRO Rothschild--was completing deals worth more than
$125 billion per year. In the late 1990s, N M Rothschild client-intensive
approach paid off as the group became an important player in the booming
European market for mergers and acquisitions. The firm took part in such
important deals as the launch of EADS, the European aerospace group created
from the merger of France's Aerospatiale, Spain's CASA, and Germany's DASA.
N M Rothschild was also an advisor on the massive restructuring of Deutsche
Telekom, valued at more than $15 billion; the firm also backed England's
National Grid Group in its $8.9 billion takeover of Niagara Mohawk Holdings
in the United States, while playing a supporting role in the takeover of
Mannesmann by Vodaphone, worth more than $200 billion. As the company celebrated
more than 200 years of operations at the heart of the world's financial
markets, N M Rothschild continued to explore new frontiers. In 1999 the
company announced its plans to extend the ABN AMRO Rothschild joint venture
to cover the lucrative market for initial public offerings in the United
States.
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