Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation | Earth's magnetosphere update - October 7, 2009 11pm CDT

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3.8 magnitude earthquake hits the Channel Island region, California - 31 mi SE of NW tip of San Clemente Is. - Oct 7, 2009 at 08:31 PM at epicenter

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
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MAP 3.8 2009/10/08 03:31:17 32.726 -118.212 0.2 CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, CALIFORNIA
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NaturalNews.com | The five most popular articles ever published on NaturalNews

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Rense.com - Webster Tarpley | Iceland Political Leader Calls For Debt Moratorium As Government Crumbles

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Valley Voice Newspaper | Homeless Camp Tent City in Visalia, California Gets Attention

Landowner May Allow Tents to Stay

Visalia, California - Visalia and county officials and advocates for the homeless are to meet today to try and find a solution to the growing homeless tent city on the northern boundary of Visalia.

The 1:30 p.m. meeting at the Tulare County Sheriff's Department, 2404 W. Burrel, Visalia, will bring together social service providers, law enforcement and public officials to find alternative housing for those camped out along the banks of the Saint Johns River, west of Ben Maddox.

Late Monday, it was reported that the property owner had decided to not only let the tents stay, but that she may provide electricity, water and porta potties.

City officials have become concerned about the camp, with Mayor Jesus Gamboa suggesting two weeks ago that the city provide water and portable toilets. That motion before the city council was defeated by a 4-1 vote, with those against it pointing out the encampment is outside of the city limits. By some estimates, the camp has around 100 people living there. Tents and makeshift tents are spread out over several hundred yards.

“The reason for the meeting is that we had complaints,” said Capt. Dave Williams of the Tulare County Sheriff's Department Patrol Division. “We've contacted all the property owners and they said they don't want them on the property.”

This kind of civic partnership to deal with a local homeless issue may be among the first of its kind. “I haven't seen other cities do anything like this,” Williams said. “I looked on the Internet and haven't found anything like this.

“The philosophy of policing has changed a lot,” he added. “We're more focused on developing partnerships rather than pushing the problem into other areas.”

“We're willing to be part of the committee,” said Jessica Van Ginkel, public relations manager at Visalia Rescue Mission, which serves an average of 550 meals a day, every day of the year. “We're here to help and we want to be part of the solution.
“We have beds available,” she added. “There is no reason they have to be at the (homeless) community.”

Van Ginkel said that a lot of people from the community come in for meals, but explained that there are two main reasons they choose not to stay overnight. “They have to be free from drugs and alcohol, and we separate the men and women.” She added that the Visalia Rescue Mission offers a program to help people overcome their dependence on alcohol and drugs.

“I think we should be part of the solution, and be part of the team,” said Gamboa. “There's a portion of CDBG (Community Development Block Grants) that allows for dealing with the homeless issue.

“If we evict them, where do you think they're going to go?” he asked. “They're going to come to Visalia.”

According to Mark McPhee of HomeLand Missions, one of the property owners in the area, after seeing the encampment, is now willing to allow people to camp on her property.

“When she saw with her own two eyes and saw the ministry – the people and those who were there helping these people – God changed her heart about them leaving,” he reported in an email. “She then went and got her children and grandchildren and took them down there and said, 'This is all your inheritance and you make sure to take care of these people!'”

He added that the woman plans to provide electricity, running water, a trash dumpster and portable toilets at the site.

If that is true, the legal issue would shift from trespassing to code compliance, with officials looking at violations such as substandard housing and insufficient utilities, according to Williams.

Some of those at today's meeting don't believe that all of the people will want to leave the homeless community, no matter what solutions are found. “A lot of people are not relocatable because there are a lot of issues,” Gamboa said.

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Undersea Pacific quakes stir panic in the South Pacific but tsunami proved tiny

Wed Oct 7, 2009 9:00pm EDT - SYDNEY (Reuters) - Undersea earthquakes caused panic in the South Pacific on Thursday, sending islanders fleeing to higher ground on fears of a second devastating tsunami in as many weeks, but the wave proved to be tiny and harmless.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning for the entire southwest Pacific, which included island resorts and Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia, after the quakes struck beneath the seas between Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.

Hawaii and the Philippines were placed on tsunami watch.

The Center canceled its warning after a 4 cm tsunami was recorded at Lunganville on Espiritu Santo island in Vanuatu.

But with memories still fresh of a destructive tsunami last week that killed some 150 people in American Samoa and Samoa, many islanders panicked when the quake hit and tsunami warnings were issued in each nation.

"People were frightened and some ran out of the building onto the street because it was so strong," Florence Cari, receptionist at Hotel Santo in Vanuatu, told Reuters by telephone.

A reporter at Vanuatu's Daily Post newspaper said people on Espiritu Santo island were running for higher ground. "We have had reports that the kids are running into the hills," she said.

Some villagers in outlying islands in the Solomons reported tidal changes.

"People on the coastal areas have noticed a tide difference. The hospital is on alert," a hospital spokesman on tiny Nendo island in southwest Solomon Islands told Reuters by telephone.

The tsunami warning center issued its warning after two subsea quakes, one measuring 7.8 magnitude and the other 7.3.

"Sea-level readings indicate a tsunami was generated," said the center. "The wave may have been destructive along coasts near the earthquake epicenter."

Islands near the epicenter are remote and sparsely populated, with communications difficult.

Moments before the Pacific quakes, a magnitude 6.7 tremor struck southeast of the Sulu archipelago of the Philippines which is still mopping up from a typhoon that killed at least 22 people.

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7.3 magnitude quake hits 330 km (205 miles) NW of Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - Thursday, October 08, 2009 at 09:18:43 AM at epicenter


List of Quakes on this map


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deg 		LON
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km 		Region
MAP 7.3 2009/10/07 22:18:43 -13.684 164.709 35.0 VANUATU REGION
MAP 7.8 2009/10/07 22:03:15 -13.052 166.187 35.0 VANUATU
MAP 4.9 2009/10/07 05:08:56 -13.615 165.942 35.0 VANUATU
MAP 4.6 2009/10/05 17:03:29 -18.776 169.223 250.2 VANUATU
MAP 5.4 2009/10/01 20:55:44 -12.291 166.430 85.5 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS

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Market Ticker | Will America Become Detroit??????

October 07, 2009 – Comments (11)

Under the current Zombulation Policy, much of America may become just like Detroit....but this time America may not have America to help it out like Detroit.

Thousands Line Up For Stimulus Money in Detroit........

DETROIT -- Detroit's homeless and low-income residents have another opportunity for a chance at millions of stimulus dollars.

The money is available to help low-income residents from becoming homeless and homeless residents to find housing.

Thousands of people lined up Tuesday.

Some people in line falsely believed they were registering for $3,000 stimulus checks from the Obama Administration.

Just like Detroit was dependent on the Auto Industry, America is dependent on the Domestic Leveraged Consumer. Without massive borrowing, America really doesn't have much of an Economy....whether it be consumer borrowing or government borrowing.

And without having the reserve currency, America will have a tough time borrowing.

And guess what the world is up to right now????? Pretty soon, Obama will be facing one of two choices, restructure our economy or attack the world............let's see which one he picks.

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Market Ticker | China Defaults, Currency Basket Threatens Dollar

Robert Fisk exposed revived discussions by the Gulf States, China, France, Japan, Brazil, and Russia to replace the dollar as the benchmark oil trading currency with a basket of currencies including gold within 10 years. This proposal is not new and discussions have been ongoing for decades. But other extraordinary moves in the capital markets suggest we should take this threat to the dollar’s position very seriously. For example, China has $2.3 trillion in currency reserves (about 70% in dollars), and China knows how to get its way.

In November 2008, Chinese banks said they would no longer play by our rules. Top tier banks (Bank of China and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) reneged on derivatives contracts. They failed to come up with billions in collateral on dollar/yen FX trades, which were out of the money after the yen’s October appreciation. This should have been headline news in every financial newspaper, but it wasn’t.

Chinese banks defaulted. They may have been partially motivated by U.S. malfeasance in the capital markets that caused losses in Asia. The U.S. squandered its credibility and our cover-ups have done nothing to restore it.

Most credit support annex agreements would say that closing out these trades would be an event of default, and then the cross default on all the trades would kick in with the same counterparty. But the credit of the Chinese banks was better than many of their counterparties. Everyone was forced to renegotiate contracts with the Chinese banks.

From the perspective of the derivatives markets, this is earth shattering. What would have happened if AIG had done the same thing? (Hey, Goldman, UBS, and others…you want your collateral? Well…Stuff It!)

At the end of August 2009, China signaled that state owned oil consumers: Air China, COSCO, and China Eastern could default on money-losing commodities derivatives contracts.

If we had been paying attention, the U.S. should have done everything in its power to correct our mistakes, clean up the mess in our financial system—instead of sweeping it under the carpet—and turned our efforts to maintaining the credibility of the capital markets and the credibility of the dollar.

Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct associate professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (1998, 2001), Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance (2003), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, September 2008). Tavakoli’s book on the causes of the global financial meltdown and how to fix it is: Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street (Wiley, 2009).

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6.7 magnitude quake hit the Celebes Sea - 280 km (175 miles) SE of Jolo, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines - October 7, 2009

6.7 magnitude quake strikes near Philippines

Reuters - ‎28 minutes ago‎
Initially, the US Geological Survey registered a 6.9 magnitude quake. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damages and no tsunami warning was ...



MAP 6.7 2009/10/07 21:41:15 4.043 122.584 582.8 CELEBES SEA

NOAA PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER


 Time (UTC) Region Type To: Details
1 07 Oct 2009 22:17 Vanuatu Islands Advisory Statement Haw html, text
1 07 Oct 2009 22:16 Vanuatu Islands Expanding Regional Warning Pac html, text
2 07 Oct 2009 21:51 Celebes Sea Information Statement Haw html, text
2 07 Oct 2009 21:50 Celebes Sea Information Bulletin Pac html, tex
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Huge 7.8 magnitude quake just hit Santa Cruz Islands - 373 km (232 miles) NNW (346°) from Santo (Luganville), Vanuatu -Oct 7, 2009

NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center




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km 		Region
MAP 7.8
2009/10/07 22:03:13 -12.280 166.280 33.0 SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS
NOAA PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER


 Time (UTC) Region Type To: Details
1 07 Oct 2009 22:17 Vanuatu Islands Advisory Statement Haw html, text
1 07 Oct 2009 22:16 Vanuatu Islands Expanding Regional Warning Pac html, text
2 07 Oct 2009 21:51 Celebes Sea Information Statement Haw html, text
2 07 Oct 2009 21:50 Celebes Sea Information Bulletin Pac html, tex
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Allnewsweb.com | Dutch UFO sighting gets media attention, video

7 October 2009

A UFO sighting, along with accompanying footage, that took place in the Netherlands is making headlines in that country.

Steve Van Der Velde could not believe his eyes when his girlfriend pointed at a strange point of light in the sky. The 32-year-old Steve took out his camera and started filming the UFO.
The footage below was taken a fortnight ago from Steve’s living room in the Dutch town of Delfgauw. 'It was a red object moving with great speed in the vicinity of our apartment. It just floated for some time in the air’, commented Steve to the Dutch newspaper, ‘Algemeen Dagblad’.
His girlfriend commented that she noticed the object at round 11:30pm.
‘The UFO was diamond shaped, not disc shaped’ continued Steve ‘I really doubt it was a Chinese lantern or a weather balloon’ he concluded.


Source: Antwerp Gazette
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Cave's Headlines | October 7, 2009


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Pandemic Flu Online | Doctors Concerned FluMist Vaccine Could Spread Live H1N1 Virus
Doctors and hospitals are expressing concern that the FluMist vaccine could endanger people because it contains live H1N1 virus, unlike the injectable shot that contains antibodies. With no less than 60 per cent of the U.S. population immunodeficient in one way or another, could FluMist be a pandemic waiting to happen?
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The Business Insider | The chance to line up at the government trough is a big reason why companies get into areas relating to green or weaponry

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FATA MORGNA EFFECT | Antarctica's fairy castles in the air

The coolest mountain you never actually saw

Photo of "Fata Morgana" effect
near McMurdo Station, Antarctica (by Jeff Fogg)

Oct 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM PDT

http://www.katu.com/blogs/weather/63687942.html

It can go down as Antarctica's prettiest mountain that doesn't actually exist.

Our friend Jeff Fogg, who is from Issaquah but working a 6-month tour as a heavy equipment operator down at McMurdo Station on Antarctica, sent another great photo from his arctic environment.

This is of a mirage-like phenomenon called "Fata Morgana." It has to do with light rays being reflected as the light travels through different densities of air masses, most likely related to temperature differences.

Here is a more complete explanation.

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Gilroy Dispatch | Jim Berkland: 'The Man Who Predicts Quakes'

When I was a kid growing up in Hollister in the 1980s, my family took part in an interesting U.S. Geological Survey experiment. Every Saturday evening, dad phoned a USGS hotline to report any unusual activities we might have noticed with our dogs, goats, chickens and geese.

The reason for this weekly ritual was to gather anecdotal data that might indicate any correlation between animal behavior and earthquake events. In the end, it turned out our animals made lousy prognosticators of tectonic activity.

With the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, many South Valley people will recall where they were during that 6.9 temblor. There will also certainly be much discussion about possible ways of predicting a major shaker. Accurate quake forecasts might one day save lives and reduce property damage when a high magnitude earthquake strikes. FULL STORY

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Ebook link from Clif High HalfPastHuman.com

From Clif High:

I mentioned an ebook on dealing with credit card debt on a radio show and have been asked repeatedly for the link to it.

http://e-library.net/How-To-Answer-a-Credit-Card-Debt-Lawsuit-and-Win-__ebooks14190.htm
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Rothschild family (Bankers owning Israel like bankers own the US)


"Just realize that Israel is ROTHSCHILD LAND - NOT Jews' Land -
the Jews there are being played like a fiddle" - David Icke

Comparable to the US populous being played like a fiddle by the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank bowing to banksters in London.

Rothschild family
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the investment bank founded by the family, see N M Rothschild & Sons.
For the private bank founded by the family, see LCF Rothschild Group.

The Rothschild family (often referred to simply as the Rothschilds) is an international dynasty of German Jewish origin that established worldwide banking and finance operations and was ennobled by Austria and the United Kingdom.

Origin
The family's rise to international prominence began with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild,[1] a money changer. Born in the ghetto (called "Judengasse" or Jew Alley) of Frankfurt am Main, he developed a finance house and spread his empire by installing each of his five sons in European cities to conduct business. An essential part of Mayer Rothschild's strategy for future success was to keep control of their businesses in family hands, allowing them to maintain full discretion about the size of their wealth and their business achievements. Mayer Rothschild successfully kept the fortune in the family with carefully arranged marriages between closely related family members. His sons were:
The Rothschild coat of arms contains a clenched fist with five arrows symbolizing the five sons of Mayer Rothschild, a reference to Psalm 127. The family motto appears below the shield, in Latin, Concordia, Integritas, Industria, (Harmony, Integrity, Industry).[2] The German family name means "Red Shield".
Families by country:
British war effort and Napoleon
The basis for the Rothschild fortune was laid during the latter stages of the Napoleonic Wars. From 1813 to 1815, Nathan Mayer Rothschild in London was instrumental in the financing of the British war effort, handling the shipment of bullion to the Duke of Wellington's army in Portugal and Spain, as well as arranging the payment of British financial subsidies to their Continental allies. Through the commissions earned on these transactions, the Rothschild fortune grew enormously.

The four brothers helped co-ordinate activities across the continent, and the family developed a network of agents, shippers and couriers to transport gold and information across Europe. This private intelligence service enabled Nathan to receive in London the news of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo a full day ahead of the government's official messengers.[3]

Nathan Mayer Rothschild started his London business, N. M. Rothschild and Sons in 1811 at New Court in St Swithin's Lane, City of London, where it trades today. In 1818, he arranged a £5 million loan to the Prussian government, and the issuing of bonds for government loans formed a mainstay of his bank’s business. He gained a position of such power in the City of London that by 1825–6 he was able to supply enough coin to the Bank of England to enable it to avert a market liquidity crisis.

Elevated to the nobility
In 1816, four of the brothers were each ennobled by Austrian Emperor Francis I; Nathan was elevated in 1818. All of them were granted the Austrian title of baron or Freiherr on 29 September 1822. As such, some members of the family used "de" or "von" Rothschild to acknowledge the grant of nobility. In 1885, Nathan Mayer Rothschild II (1840–1915) of the London branch of the family, was granted the peerage title Baron Rothschild in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Rothschild family banking businesses pioneered international high finance during the industrialisation of Europe and were instrumental in supporting railway systems across the world and in complex government financing for projects such as the Suez Canal. Major businesses directly founded by Rothschild family capital include Alliance Assurance (1824) (now Royal & SunAlliance); Chemin de Fer du Nord (1845); Rio Tinto Group (1873); Société Le Nickel (1880) (now Eramet); and Imétal (1962) (now Imerys).

After amassing huge fortunes, the name Rothschild became synonymous with banking and great wealth, and the family was renowned for its art collecting, as well as for its philanthropy.

In 1901, with no male heir to take it on, the Frankfurt House closed its doors after more than a century in business. It was not until 1989 that they returned when N M Rothschild & Sons, the British investment arm, plus Bank Rothschild AG, the Swiss branch, set up a representative banking office in Frankfurt.

The Rothschilds were supporters of the State of Israel, and Baron Edmond James de Rothschild was a patron of the first settlement in Palestine at Rishon-LeZion. In 1917 Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild was the addressee of the Balfour Declaration, which committed the British government to the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.

James A. de Rothschild financed the Knesset building as a gift to the State of Israel.
The Supreme Court of Israel building was donated to Israel by Dorothy de Rothschild.[4] Outside the President's Chamber is displayed the letter Ms. Rothschild wrote to Prime Minister Shimon Peres expressing her intention to donate a new building for the Supreme Court.[5]

French branches
Main article: Rothschild banking family of France
There are two branches of the family connected to France. The first was son James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868), known as "James", who established de Rothschild Frères in Paris. Following the Napoleonic Wars, he played a major role in financing the construction of railroads and the mining business that helped make France an industrial power. James' sons Gustave de Rothschild and Alphonse James de Rothschild continued the banking tradition and were responsible for raising the money to pay the compensation demanded by the occupying Prussian army in the 1870s Franco-Prussian War. Ensuing generations of the Paris Rothschild family remained involved in the family business, becoming a major force in international investment banking. The Rothschilds have led the Thomson Financial League Tables in Investment Banking Merger and Acquisition deals in the UK, France and Italy. In the United States, their Investment Banking Restructuring group has landed such deals as United Airlines and Delphi. The onslaught of competition from publicly traded banking giants from the United States and the European Union, with enormous capital at their disposal, resulted in the 2003 merger of the privately owned Rothschild banking house in France with its British banking cousins to create a single umbrella holding company.

James Mayer de Rothschild's other son, Edmond James de Rothschild (1845-1934) has been a strong supporter of Zionism. His grandson, Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, founded in 1953 the LCF Rothschild Group, a private bank. Since 1997, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild chairs the group. The group owns many wine properties in France (Château Clarke, Château des Laurets), in Australia or in South Africa.

The second French branch was founded by Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812–1870). Born in London he was the fourth child of the founder of the British branch of the family, Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836). In 1850, Nathaniel Rothschild moved to Paris, ostensibly to work with his uncle, James Mayer Rothschild. However, in 1853 Nathaniel acquired Château Brane Mouton, a vineyard in Pauillac in the Gironde département. Nathaniel Rothschild renamed the estate, Château Mouton Rothschild and it would become one of the best known labels in the world. In 1868, Nathaniel's uncle, James Mayer de Rothschild acquired the neighboring Chateau Lafite vineyard. The Paris business suffered a near death blow in 1982 when the Socialist government of François Mitterrand nationalized and renamed it Compagnie Européenne de Banque. Baron David de Rothschild, then 39, decided to stay and rebuild, creating a new entity Rothschild & Cie Banque with just three employees and $1 million in capital. Today, the Paris operation has 22 partners and accounts for a significant part of the global business.

Austrian branch
In Vienna, Salomon Mayer Rothschild established a bank in the 1820s and the family became admired and respected citizens. The Austrian Rothschilds were later elevated to nobility by the Austrian emperor for their services. The crash of 1929 brought problems, and Baron Louis von Rothschild attempted to shore up the Creditanstalt, Austria's largest bank, to prevent its collapse. Nevertheless, during World War II they had to surrender their bank to the Nazis and flee the country. Their Rothschild palaces were confiscated and plundered by the Nazis. Some of these family members sought sanctuary in the United States. In 1999, the government of Austria agreed to return to the Rothschild family some 250 art treasures looted by the Nazis and absorbed into state museums after the war.

Italian branch
The Unification of Italy in 1861 eventually brought about the closure of their Naples bank.

Modern business
In July 2003, a major reorganization of the Rothschild business structure took place when the London and Paris banks were united through a new master holding company, Concordia BV, under the chairmanship of David René de Rothschild. Under this banner, Rothschild et Cie Banque controls the Rothschild banking businesses in France and continental Europe, while Rothschilds Continuation Holdings AG controls the Rothschild banking elsewhere, including N M Rothschild & Sons in London.[6] Twenty percent of Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG was sold in 2005 to Jardine Strategic, which is a subsidiary of Jardine, Matheson & Co. of Hong Kong. In November 2008, Rabobank Group, the leading investment and commmercial bank in the Netherlands, acquired 7.5% of Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG, and Rabobank and Rothschild entered into a co-operation agreement in the fields of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) advisory and Equity Capital Markets advisory in the food and agribusiness sectors.[7]

N M Rothschild & Sons does most of its business as a mergers and acquisitions advisor. In 2006, it ranked second in UK M&A with deals totalling $104.9 billion.[8] In 2006, it recorded a pre-tax profit of £83.2 million with total assets of £5.5 billion.[9]

Another descendant of James, Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild (1926–1997) founded the LCF Rothschild Group, based in Geneva, which today extends to 15 countries across the world. The group's primary businesses include Banque privée Edmond de Rothschild S.A., La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild S.A., and COGIFRANCE. Although this Group is primarily a financial entity, specialising in asset management and private banking, its activities also cover winemaking (with estates in Bordeaux, South Africa and Argentina), mixed farming, luxury hotels, and yacht racing. The LCF Rothschild Group is currently presided over by Benjamin de Rothschild, Baron Edmond's son.
In 1980, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild resigned from N M Rothschild & Sons and took independent control of Rothschild Investment Trust (now RIT Capital Partners, one of the UK's largest investment trusts.) He went on to found J. Rothschild Assurance Group (now St James's Place Capital) with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1991.[10]

Prominent descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild
By marriage:
Popular culture references
The story of the Rothschild family has been featured in a number of films. The 1934 Hollywood film titled The House of Rothschild, starring George Arliss and Loretta Young, recounted the life of Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Excerpts from this film were incorporated into the National Socialist (Nazi) propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) and another German film Die Rothschilds (also called Aktien auf Waterloo) was directed by Erich Waschneck in 1940. A Broadway musical entitled The Rothschilds, covering the history of the family up to 1818, was nominated for a Tony Award in 1971.

In France, Rothschild is still considered a synonym for extreme wealth, though such usage is now dated. The family also has lent its name to "le goût Rothschild," a suffocatingly glamorous style of living whose decorative elements include neo-Renaissance palaces, extravagant use of velvet and gilding, a sense of Victorian horror vacui, and masterworks of art. Le goût Rothschild has much influenced interior designers such as Robert Denning, Vincent Fourcade, and others.

The name Rothschild is still used as a synonym for extreme wealth in Israel. In the Hebrew language version of the song "If I Were a Rich Man", the title line goes 'lu ha'yiti Rothschild, literally if I were a Rothschild. The origin of the song is from the Tevye the Dairyman stories, written in the Yiddish as Ven ikh bin Rotshild, meaning the same thing.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's album Old Money references the Rothschilds in the song title, "Family War Funding (Love Those Rothschilds)."
The German surnames "Rothschild" and "Rothchild" are not related to the Protestant surname "Rothchilds" from the United Kingdom.

Conspiracy theories
In Fritz Springmeier's book Bloodlines of the Illuminati, he argues that the Rothschild family is one of 13 dynastic bloodlines linked to the Illuminati. New World Order conspiracy theories present the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Phipps', DuPonts, Vanderbilts, Bush family, etc. as the real rulers or would-be rulers of the world.[11]
The acclaimed poet and Fascist Mussolini sympathizer Ezra Pound; in his World War II radio propaganda broadcasts from Fascist Italy, openly named the Rothschilds as the masters of a clique of banking houses that caused the World Wars in order to profit from them and get countries in debt to the lending central banks, which Pound claimed the Rothschild interests owned and exercised control of a nation's policy by having the power to issue the nation's money. Earlier, in 1935, Pound had speculated that "organized anti-Semitism might be the hidden war of Swiss Protestant dynasties against the Rothschilds, whom they had never forgiven for breaking into their banking monopoly."[12]
[edit] See also
Notes
  1. ^ Pohl, Manfred: Rothschild, Meyer Amschel. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Bd. 22, Berlin 2005, S. 131–133. (German)
  2. ^ Concordia, Integritas, Industria - The Rothschilds - LCF Rothschild Group
  3. ^ Victor Gray and Melanie Aspey, "Rothschild, Nathan Mayer (1777–1836)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, May 2006. Accessed 21 May 2007.
  4. ^ "Dorothy de Rothschild, 93, Supporter of Israel" (obituary), The New York Times, 13 December 1988. Accessed 19 June 2008.
  5. ^ The Presidents Chamber, Tour of Supreme Court, The Judicial Authority. http://elyon1.court.gov.il/eng/home/index.html.
  6. ^ Paris-Orléans
  7. ^ See: http://www.rabobank.com/content/news/news_archive/020-RothschildandRabobankestablishglobalfoodandagricooperation.jsp
  8. ^ League tables
  9. ^ Annual Report of N M Rothschild & Sons Limited for the year ended 31 March 2006.
  10. ^ St. James's Place Capital, plc | International Directory of Company Histories | Find Articles at BNET.com
  11. ^ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936
  12. ^ Pearlman, Daniel (1981). "The Anti-Semitism of Ezra Pound". Contemporary Literature 22 (1): 104–115. doi:10.2307/1208225.
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