Mining is one of the most damaging and dangerous industries producing numerous negative environmental impacts.
This danger increases when, as now, mining exploitation is in the hands of a few companies whose agenda is questionable.
De Beers:
Diamonds:
Eighty per cent of the world's diamond market is controlled by De Beers, who in their turn are controlled by the Oppenheimer family.
The value of diamonds is regulated by the supply of "rough" allowed on to the market, and not because diamonds are rare. Almost all commerce in diamonds is in the hands of Jews.
This goes back a long time. Until the early part of the eighteenth century, the world's supply of diamonds came from India and the Jews, with feelers in all the markets of Europe and through connections in the Ottoman Empire, were the conduit through which much of the gems passed. Interestingly enough the rising Indian trade in diamonds is offering a threat to the De Beers' monopoly.
In 1998 De Beers were accused of colluding in the war in Angola and trading in "war diamonds". A booklet entitled "A Rough Trade" was produced by the organisation Global Witness and caused De Beers, caught on the back foot, to announce the closure of its office in Angola.
The low-key visit by President Putin to South Africa in September 2006, was most certainly not to shake the hand of President Mbeki, but to meet N. Oppenheimer on a diamond deal. A case of the mountain going to Mahomet?
Anglo American:
Also controlled by the Oppenheimer family, Anglo American is ranked as one of the largest mining corporations in the world along with BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Alcoa.Gold:
Mines in South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Namibia, Tanzania, Peru, Colombia and Alaska. Its investment in Trans-Siberian Gold provides opportunities for further growth in Russia and has recently acquired Ashanti, the world's second largest gold mining company in terms of production.
Iron:
Controlling interest in Kumba, one of the world's leading iron ore producers.
Platinium:
Anglo Platinum supplies forty per cent of the world supply. Plus a joint venture for platinium group metals in China's Sichuan Province.
Base Metals:
Copper: Namibia
Zinc: Skorpion mine operated by Anglo Base metals in Namibia.
Acquisition of Minera Sur Andes, the Collahuasi Rosario Project in Chile and Codemin in Brazil.
Coal:
Anglo Coal and BHP Billiton proposed expansion of coal in South Africa.
Possible coking coal mine in Queensland, Existing operation in Moura in Queensland.
BHP Billiton:
Another mining giant with world wide interests, covering Iron Ore, Coal, Copper, Oil and Gas, Diamonds, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Aluminium and Alumina, Chrome and Manganese.
One of the major shareholders is Chase Nominees i.e. Rockefellers.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc.
This Company is one of the world's largest and lowest cost copper and gold producers from its Grasberg mine in Irian Jaya. It was listed in 1996 as one of the ten worst corporations and has been focused for decades by labour, indigenous and human rights as well as environmental groups. The Grasberg concession's worth is estimated at $50 billion.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FTX) has other business interests besides copper and gold mining. These include a joint venture partnership in IMC-Agrico Co. This is one of the largest fertilizer producers in the world. FTX also produces phosphate-based animal feed ingredients through IMC-Agrico. In addition FTX is the largest producer of Frasch sulphur worldwide.
A noteworthy member of the Freeport Board of Directors is the former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, the company's main lobbyist for dealings with Indonesia. Dr. Kissinger has had strong connections in Indonesia since his meeting with President Suharto prior to the invasion of East Timor, reportedly to provide full American support. Kissinger's firm receives a yearly retainer fee of $200,000 from Freeport and he has been a director of the parent Company Freeport McMoran Inc. since the late 1980s.
ExxonMobil:
Petroleum:
Petrol is the principal combustible of the modern age.
In 2003 ExxonMobil topped all companies for profits and the City Group tailed only Exxon.
ExxonMobil is the combination of the Rockefellers' Standard Oil of New Jersey and Standard Oil of NY, Chevron is the old Standard Oil of California. Citi group is the old First National City Bank, now dominated by the Rockefellers. Chase is the historic flagship of Rockefeller finance.
ExxonMobil is labelled as one of the "bad" companies for environmental and Human Rights violations and Standard Oil's reputation in South America does not read well.
Although the Rockefellers do not appear to be Jewish in origin, they do have Jewish connections. In some quarters it has been suggested that they are a front for the workings of the Rothschilds.
Certainly Laurance Rockefeller and Rothschild were the founding members of the Bilderberg Society whose agenda is world domination.
The founder of the Rockefeller family, William Avery Rockefeller, was a travelling salesman, who fled from a number of indictments for horse stealing, eventually disappearing and re-emerging as Dr. William Levingston and was interred in an unmarked grave under that name.
John Rockefeller, William's son. was a war profiteer during the American Civil War, who acquired a near monopoly of the petroleum industry in the United States. and founded Standard Oil.
The family appear to be great philantrophists, but a glance at what they fund is interesting. Education (a useful method of indoctrination), churches (with a world religion agenda) and numerous supposedly "green" groups.
Is there not an anomaly here? ExxonMobil, the source of their wealth, is a company (as was Standard Oil) guilty of numerous anti-environmental misdemeanours. How does this accord with their role as protectors of the environment?
Could it be that all this apparent generosity is merely a means of retaining control of those societies who may become a hindrance to their aims? After all "he who pays the piper calls the tune".
BP (British Petroleum)
No other British Company has more members on Government Task Forces. BP have paid for employees to work in the British Embassy in Washington and on the Foreign Office's Middle East Desk in London. They also have staff working inside the DTI.
In 1993 BP were accused of backing a coup in the former Soviet State of Azerbaijan which installed a ruthless ex-KGB man as President. President Haydar Aliyev then proceeded to sign a five billion pound deal which gave BP the lead role in a consortium of Western companies which now dominates the oil business in the region.
In 1996 a Colombian Government report revealed that BP had collaborated with death squads in Colombia. BP spent millions funding the Colombian army - in 1998 they gave an extra thirty nine million pounds.
The Colombian Government's independent ombudsman, Jose Castro Caycedo, carried out an enquiry into BP's environmental record between 1991 and 1997. His report was a devastating catalogue of pollution, illegal deforestation, water contamination and the dumping of untreated toxic waste.
In 1994 BP received the biggest fine in Colombian history for serious environmental damage at five oil rigs.
In September 1999 a subsidiary of BP-Amoco had to pay twenty-two million dollars in fines and compensation after admitting it illegally disposed of hazardous waste in Alaska.
The Chairman of BP during this period was "Lord" Simon appointed in 1997 by Tony Blair as Minister for European Trade and competition, at which time he resigned from his other directorships at Grand Metropolitan, Deutsche Bank and Rio Tinto Zinc.