Much value – : Banks to conform – : Diamonds are forever

Gary, thank you for your, very comprehensive, reply. I don’t know where to start, nor will I attempt to respond to all the issues you’re addressing. I like spoon fed, but this is more than a ~tea~spoon full. Also, I’ll read D I when I get round to it, as it arrives, and I’m not a fast reader.

I’ve never adhered much value to conspiracy theories, simply because I don’t believe I’m smart enough to unravel them, or even understand the implications. That said, I do believe in some research, in order to at least try to get a balanced view. Sometimes cutting corners by reading usually, in my opinion, reliable sources such as the NYT, the Atlantic, the Guardian and the Economist. That’s why I sent you those links.

As to Richard Nixon and 1971, this below explains the reason for having fiat money nowadays, and the demise of the Gold Standard. So effectively Nixon was forced; (what about crypto currencies as fiat money…?)

The Gold Pool collapsed in 1968 as member nations were reluctant to cooperate fully in maintaining the market price at the U.S. price of gold. In the following years, both Belgium and the Netherlands cashed in dollars for gold, with Germany and France expressing similar intentions. In August of 1971, Britain requested to be paid in gold, forcing Nixon’s hand and officially closing the gold window. By 1976, it was official; the dollar would no longer be defined by gold, thus marking the end of any semblance of a gold standard.

In August 1971, Nixon severed the direct convertibility of U.S. dollars into gold. With this decision, the international currency market, which had become increasingly reliant on the dollar since the enactment of the Bretton Woods Agreement, lost its formal connection to gold. The U.S. dollar, and by extension, the global financial system it effectively sustained, entered the era of fiat money.

I enjoyed the home video of your mother, in which she seemed very sharp,and content to me.

Take care and enjoy your travels!

Best- Erick

On 24 Feb 2019, at 22:07, Marie Dion <mariedion1@gmail.com> wrote:

Erick, I am now going to give you a “real time” update to the Diamond Invention Game [DIG]. Look at the current time, and note the difference in time since I sent it.

 

Also notice in the carbon copy section is my one Facebook friend, Dr. Rod Smith Phd who I have known intimately since the fall of 2001 when I was spearheading a Water Fund Project for a leading political lobbyist firm headquartered in Los Angeles, and Rod Smith, a former official of the Pentagon’s THINK TANK, RAND Corporation, was and remains the leading water authority west of the Colorado Rockies.

 

So be assured that Dr. Smith Phd who will have read Epstein’s The D I book at least once, and more likely close to 3 times and when necessary going back to clarify things in his head should what he read in the mainstream and non-mainstream media which is one and the same, have him confused, will be most interested in our discourse, starting with your delay in finishing the most interesting book ever written.

 

For you to take your eyes off The D I book to research what else Epstein has published and to read that very very long article, and moreover, to tell me that I must have read it, is as bizarre as this one section in chapter 18, aptly titled, THE AMERICAN CONSPIRACY:

 

Engelhard arranged for Oppenheimer to buy a controlling interest in his far-flung empire, since he had no male heirs to take over. 

 

The fact that Charles W. Engelhard Jr. who died on March 2, 1971, having turned just 54 the month before had no sons of his own is true, but he had a formidable wife, 5 daughters, banks of lawyers throughout the globe and to top it off he had named as his third executor, his most trusted chief executive officer, my father Bernie’s first cousin, David Gevisser [1926-2009] who was appointed ceo of Engelhard’s South African corporation, Engelhard Enterprises of South Africa in 1970.

 

Had Epstein simply written, “Engelhard arranged for Oppenheimer to buy a controlling interest in his far-flung empire”, it would make perfect sense given how Engelhard Enterprises of SA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Engelhard Minerals & Chemicals Corporation established in 1902 the same year the Anglo American Boer War ended, by his father of the same name, no one would have raised a single eyebrow.

 

When you get your hard copy turn to page 184. At the top, it reads:

 

Engelhard arranged for Oppenheimer to buy a controlling interest in his far-flung empire, since he had no male heirs to take over (he died in 1971).

 

The “(he died in 1971)” remains conspicuously absent in the free Internet edition.

 

You will recall in the article you pointed me to this section:

 

Donald Nixon, the nephew of former President Richard M. Nixon, and fugitive financier Robert L. Vesco were, according to the New York State attorney general, participating in the late 1970s in a high-pressure telephone campaign to sell “overvalued or worthless diamonds” by employing “a battery of silken-voiced radio and television announcers.” 

 

When you read my “lucky uncle” David Gevisser’s 2006 autobiography, THE UNLIKELY FORESTER, you could easily get bored to death before arriving at Chapter X, THE ENGELHARD EXPERIENCE

 

https://www.2facetruth.com/unlikely_forester/CH10_ENGELHARD_EXPERIENCE.pdf

 

Immediately following Engelhard Jr.’s death, the richest and most powerful person on the planet was David Gevisser who Engelhard instructed when he appointed him ceo of Engelhard Enterprises SA to begin transferring to Harry Oppenheimer Engelhard’s priceless South African mineral rights which included control of the world supply of platinum which is still found within the catalytic converter of the exhaust system of pretty much every non-electric vehicle produced throughout the world.

 

There is no reference in the article you sent me or within the hard copy or Internet free edition of The D I book any reference to the extraordinary speech President Nixon gave on August 15, 1971 announcing the official end of the Gold Standard and therefore no clear understanding of who stood to gain by Nixon’s treasonous speech where he failed to name those individuals who had him give the speech which was so blatantly self-incriminating.

 

Nor am I about to spoon feed you because that is not a good thing to do as it interferes with the learning process.

 

You and I met as I was negotiating a room rate as well as the quietest room in the same hotel we were staying at in Valencia, Spain. What I never explained to you because time was an issue and you simply wanted to get to your room as soon as possible as there had been a delay, probably the cleaning staff hadn’t finished cleaning, is that right after I had spoken with two of my multi-billionaire clients following my decision to break my 24 year deafening silence with De Beers-Barclays Bank on 11.11.2004 and these two individuals who also happened to be South Africans, Solly Krok and Jonathan Beare, explaining to them the lessons of The D I book and they immediately shut down and were most angry that they had been so horribly fooled and for their entire careers, I chose to do the smart thing and begin educating the people such as the front desk staff of hotels throughout the world.

 

This “bottoms up” approach is nothing new but when you are dealing with a century old worldwide conspiracy where the money that people trade has been manipulated to the Nth degree, you first of all see how very little difference there is between humans other than only the dirt poor who live on the street have the same level of wealth.

 

The reaction is the same.

 

To ignore, does not mean the truth goes away. It only means that the human is comfortable in being in the same room as the rest of the fools.

 

While it would be wrong to expect people to change their behavior which would mean overcoming the terrible feeling of stupid, the fact that there is this huge disparity of wealth and the gap between the “haves” and “have-nots” only getting bigger in size, means that each person also has different levels of greed which are not satisfied by ignoring the truth.

 

When people say, “But what I can I do about it?” it is not that they are looking for a solution but rather an excuse for not sharing the information about the DIG.

 

If you know someone who has been holding back on material information, you will not like that person.

 

A lot of young people have married for money reasons and you see this most clearly when you see an old woman like Macron’s almost 66 year old wife married to a rich 41 year old President of France.

 

I am not going to get into what favors Macron had to give to afford his first suit or acting lessons. This divergence was just to help keep you focused that I am not the biggest fool in the world.

 

When I last met on January 13, 2005 with Jonathan Beare who Google knows about, it was to discuss a Clean Water Fund Project that Rod Smith and I had put together and which had been vetted by J. Beare’s favorite nephew-heir, Derrick Beare who was my best friend. Nor did Dr. Smith Phd and I need anyone’s approval to know that we had the world’s best, and impossible to beat business plan as we had covered all the basis, other than who was going to run the operation which was a “no brainer”.

 

Rod Smith and I would run it without either of us needing titles.

 

Competent people are accomplished people. Accomplished people do not have egos.

 

So in essence Jonathan Beare knew when going into our breakfast meeting at a fancy hotel in Beverly Hills where he was staying and I had driven up from San Diego, that the business plan covered all the bases and only a fool or someone not wanting the poor of the world to get clean, fresh drinking water, would turn down an opportunity to invest.

 

Thus you see the real truth about how the rich feel about the poor.

 

The rich are like the church. Without the church there would be no poor. Without the poor there would be no church.

 

I also knew going into that meeting with J. Beare that he could not refuse on both logical and moral grounds from investing, which is why I expected him to write Dr. Smith Phd and myself a “blank check”.

 

I had also proven to J. Beare that besides for being smart, I was also honest and there is a positive correlation between competency and integrity.

 

J. Beare’s integrity was now being put to the test.

 

HIs decision to start the meeting with a distraction while catching me off guard for a moment was a very stupid move on his part.

 

He didn’t bring up the business plan he had received both from me as well as Derrick but began, “As a friend, I would like you to remove my name from all your email broadcasts. It is causing me embarrassment.”

 

Of course J. Beare couldn’t explain exactly what was untrue in my writings because it was the truth that he found most disturbing.

 

To make sure that there was no misunderstandings between the two of us, I asked him first what his thoughts were about the business plan and he answered that he hadn’t read it.

 

Most people when knowing that they have one of the richest people in the world by the short-hairs ask for a king’s ransom, but instead I told J. Beare to go fuck himself, but not in so many words.

 

I decided that his punishment was to get immediately acquainted with Epstein’s The D I book which I showed him on my laptop, pointing him to another section of chapter 18 which reads:

 

Engelhard found a legal loophole through that regulation: while it was illegal to export gold bars, it was legal to export objets d’art made of gold. 

 

That of course was truly bullshit and J. Beare had little difficulty in figuring that out given how rich and powerful was Engelhard who was the “control person” of the Oppenheimers and all their business interests including weapons development.

 

Most people don’t think about politicians sitting around in places like the White House WAR ROOM and deciding what weapon systems to produce and which weapon systems to cancel.

 

That is because most people don’t know how to think.

 

The arms business is rather sophisticated but easy to understand once you realize that the only business of government is war and defending against potential rivals.

 

But now you know from reading The D I book that De Beers-Barclays back all sides to war when they cannot possibly lose.

 

That is another thing that Epstein does not spell out in his book or article.

 

The fact that not a single government bank regulator can explain how the European Commission goes about allocating Euros to the different members of the European Union, is rather important for everyone including people like you selling investors on equity investments and the such.

 

Maybe you want to consider another line of business?

 

I proposed just the other day a new business to a young, about 31 years of age, very beautiful Russian woman who has no children yet and is married to a relatively successful filmmaker who specializes in helping real estate agents market very expensive homes. Would you like to see it?

 

So yes, I had seen that article which Epstein “cut and pasted” from chapters 13, THE DIAMOND MIND

 

https://edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap13.htm

 

as well as chapter 16, WARRING WITH ISRAEL

 

https://edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap16.htm

 

Let’s look at some of the differences with what we find in the article which was published in the February 1982 edition of The Atlantic.

 

The article contains the following section:

 

In early 1977, Sir Philip Oppenheimer dispatched his son Anthony to Tel Aviv, accompanied by other De Beers executives, to announce that De Beers intended to cut the Israeli quota of diamonds by at least 20 percent during the coming year. This warning had the opposite effect of what he intended. Rather than paring down production to conform to this quota, Israeli manufacturers and dealers began building up their own stockpiles of diamonds, paying a premium of 100 percent or more for the unopened boxes of diamonds that De Beers shipped to Belgian and American dealers. (By selling their diamonds to the Israelis, the De Beers clients could instantly double their money without taking any risks.) Israeli buyers also moved into Africa and began buying directly from smugglers. The Intercontinental Hotel in Liberia, then the center for the sale of smuggled goods, became a sort of extension of the Israeli bourse. After the Israeli dealers purchased the diamonds, either from De Beers clients or from smugglers, they received 80 percent of the amount they had paid in the form of a loan from Israeli banks. Because of government pressure to help the diamond industry, the banks charged only 6 percent interest on these loans, well below the rate of inflation in Israel. By 1978, the banks had extended $850 million in credit to diamond dealers, an amount equal to some 5 percent of the entire gross national product of Israel. The only collateral the banks had for these loans was uncut diamonds.

 

The D I internet edition reads:

 

De Beers became seriously concerned that the Israeli competition could disrupt the entire diamond trade. In early 1977, Sir Philip Oppenheimer dispatched his son Anthony to Tel Aviv, accompanied by other De Beers executives. Anthony Oppenheimer’s mission was to persuade the Israelis to curtail their expansion. He met with De Beers’ favored clients, the bankers who were extending credit to diamond dealers and the government officials who supposedly regulated the Israeli industry. He subtly warned them all that De Beers would not tolerate unbridled competition between Israel and Antwerp, and announced that De Beers intended to cut the Israeli quota of diamonds by at least 20 percent in the coming year.

 

Epstein removed the sentence, “He met with De Beers’ favored clients, the bankers …” which remains in the hardcopy book.