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Chapter 8: Power Brokers
Sam Bronfman’s 1963 Oil InvestmentsA significant fact pointing to Israeli involvement in President Kennedy’s assassination was Sam Bronfman’s mysterious oil investments in 1963. The Bronfman family—based in Montreal, Canada—is one of the most influential behind the scenes power brokers in the world today. Sam Bronfman (1891 - 1971) was the patriarch of the family dynasty, the son of Russian Jews—Mindel and Ekiel Bronfman—who migrated to the Americas seeking refuge from pogroms of Czarist Russia.1 His son, Edgar Bronfman, has been the president of the World Jewish Congress for years. Edgar’s son—Edgar Bronfman, Jr—is head of Universal Studios.
Sam Bronfman—a billionaire—was one of attorney Louis Bloomfield’s wealthiest clients. Bronfman made his fortune as a bootlegger during US prohibition. He bought Seagram’s and built it into a liquor dynasty. In 1963, former bootlegger Bronfman plunged into an unfamiliar business venture by aggressively purchasing huge oil holdings. He acquired Texas Pacific Oil and its subsidiaries in India, Malaysia, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Italy;2 plus Ranger Oil.
Bronfman biographer Michael Marrus summarized Sam Bronfman’s sudden interest in oil as follows:
| In 1963, when production was about 10,000 barrels a day, Sam made his biggest plunge with the purchase of Texas Pacific, a major producer—"the venerable Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, founded in 1888 and possessing one of the oldest of Texas charters," said Sam about the pedigree, speaking as if it were a famous distillery. While it is doubtful that Sam foresaw the energy crisis of subsequent decades as he later claimed, there is no question that his acquisition was a remarkable financial coup—at a time when "leveraged buyouts" were a concept of the future. With a Seagram working capital of $382 million and earnings of $34 million a year, Sam borrowed $75 million from institutional investors, in 25-year promissory notes. He put $50 million of that as a downpayment on the Texas Pacific purchase price of $266 million, and undertook to pay the balance out of future revenues—a strategy then facilitated by US tax laws. The key player in these arrangements was Mark Millard, a partner in Loeb, Rhoades and Co. and the man who had recommended the appointment of Carrol Bennett. Millard convinced Sam of the wisdom of the oil payment scheme and nudged him to make a Seagram bid. By 1975, Texas Pacific had paid off its debt, while in the process its oil and gas reserves expanded phenomenally. A handsome legacy to Seagram, the company proved to be one of Sam’s shrewdest moves; bought with only $50 million in borrowed cash, it was sold in 1980 to the Sun Oil Company for a grand total of $2.3 billion. Here too, Mark Millard played a major role. A decade after Sam’s death, Seagram used this capital to acquire a 20 percent interest in Dupont, taking the company that Sam had built from being a large wine and spirits company to a major diversified corporation. |
(Michael Marrus, Samuel Bronfman, pp. 372-373)
Kennedy’s Oil TaxIt’s interesting Sam Bronfman invested heavily in foreign subsidiaries of Texas Pacific in 1963. Kennedy had placed a heavy tax burden on foreign subsidiaries of US oil companies. Once Kennedy was removed from office, Bronfman’s oil investments began to increase. The following is researcher Jim Marrs’ description of Kennedy’s oil tax:| When John F. Kennedy became President in 1961, the oil industry felt secure. But President Kennedy then began to assault the power of the oil giants directly, first with a law known as the Kennedy Act, and later by attacking the oil depletion allowance. The Kennedy Act, passed on October 16, 1962, removed the distinction between repatriated profits and profits reinvested abroad. Both were now subject to US taxation. The measure also was aimed at preventing taxable income from being hidden away in foreign subsidiaries and other tax havens. While this law applied to industry as a whole, it particularly affected the oil companies, which were greatly diversified with large overseas operations. By the end of 1962, oilmen estimated their earnings on foreign investment capital would fall to 15 percent, compared with 30 percent in 1955. One of the most sacred of provisions in the eyes of oilmen was the oil depletion allowance, which permitted oil producers to treat up to 27.5 percent of their income as tax exempt. In theory this was to compensate for the depletion of fixed oil reserves but, in effect, it gave the oil industry a lower tax rate. Under this allowance, an oilman with a good deal of venture capital could become rich with virtually no risk. For example, a speculator could drill ten wells. If nine were dry holes and only the tenth struck oil, he would still make money because of tax breaks and the depletion allowance. It was estimated that oilmen might lose nearly $300 million a year if the depletion allowance was diminished. Attempts to eliminate or reduce the depletion allowance were rebuffed year after year by congressmen, many of whom were happy recipients of oil-industry contributions. Speaking of his tax reform act of 1963, President Kennedy pointed the finger at the oil companies, saying: "… no one industry should be permitted to obtain an undue tax advantage over all others." Included in Kennedy’s tax package were provisions for closing a number of corporate tax loopholes, including the depletion allowance. Needless to say, oilmen both in Texas and elsewhere felt threatened by Kennedy and his policies. Kennedy’s use of his personal power against the steel manufacturers had shown them that the young President meant the enforce his will in these matters. |
(Jim Marrs, Crossfire, pp. 276-277)
Was Sam Bronfman’s acquisition of Texas Pacific Oil truly a "shrewd move" as biographer Michael Marrus described, or was it a perk for participating in President Kennedy’s assassination?‘Suicide’ of Bronfman Biographer, Terrence RobertsonOther strange events followed the Bronfman family. In 1970, Bronfman biographer Terrence Robertson committed "suicide" after he "found out things they don’t want me to write about," as he confided to an associate. Canadian writer Peter Newman wrote of Robertson’s death in his 1978 biography of Sam Bronfman, King of the Castle. Newman wrote the following:
| Terence Robertson, the only writer known to have previously attempted a Bronfman biography (it was never published), took his own life after completing a rough draft of the manuscript. During a 1977 trial in which the Toronto publishing firm of McClelland and Stewart Ltd sued Mutual Life Assurance Co. to collect the $100,000 for which Robertson’s life had been insured, Roderick Goodman of the Toronto Daily Star’s editorial department testified that on January 31, 1970, the author had telephoned him from a New York hotel room to explain that he had been commissioned to write the history of the Bronfman family but that he had "found out things they don’t want me to write about." Graham Murray Caney, another Star editor, testified that Robertson had told him his life "had been threatened and we would know who was doing the threatening but that he would do the job himself." While he was still on the telephone, Caney had the call traced and alerted the New York Police Department. Detectives burst into Terence Robertson’s hotel room just minutes before he died of barbiturate poisoning. … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunoco http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbloomfield.htm Excerpt: Louis Mortimer Bloomfield, the son of Harry Bloomfield, was born in Canada, about 1910. A Zionist, Bloomfield joined the British military and served in Palestine as an Intelligence Officer under General Charles Orde Wingate. Bloomfield was involved in training the Jewish army, Haganah (1936-1939). President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Office of Strategic Services in 1942. Bloomfield was recruited and given the rank of major. In 1947, the OSS evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency, and Bloomfield continued doing contract work for the new organization. He was a regular visitor to Israel and met the Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion on 4th May, 1949. A successful lawyer he worked for years at the law firm of Phillips and Vineberg in Montreal. He was also a major stockholder of Permindex, a corporation based in Switzerland. He was also the author on several books on on international law including The British Hondurus Guatemala Dispute (1953) and Egypt, Israel and the Gulf of Aqaba (1957). In Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal (1970) William Torbitt claims that the assassination of John F. Kennedy was organized by Bloomfield and Permindex. Also involved included Defense Industrial Security Command, organized by J. Edgar Hoover and William Sullivan. Torbitt claims that Bloomfield was in control of the operation. DISC agents included Clay Shaw, Guy Banister, David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby. http://www.irandefence.net/showthread.php?t=14306 Excerpt: PERMINDEX AND SEAGRAMS USED THE SAME INVESTORS THE BUSH FAMILY USED. Roy Cohn was a very close friend of Lewis Rosenstiel, who was in turn a friend of Sam Bronfman. Bloomfield was also president of Heineken of Canada. What these companies seem to have in common is their shareholders, directors and financiers. They are the same persons who invested in Bush-Overbey, Zapata and Dresser Industries through the investment trusts they controlled. The 1992 edition of Dope, Inc. (a LaRouche publication) has this to say about the banks involved: |
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Former film-maker Edgar Bronfman Jr. showed last week that he still has a flair for the dramatic. Investors and analysts were kept on the edge of their seats as the 39-year-old chief executive of Seagram Co. Ltd. directed a high-stakes play that saw the Montreal-based liquor and fruit-juice maker sell a $12-billion stake in multinational chemical company E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The audience is now waiting for Edgar Jr. to sweep up MCA Inc., the company behind Jurassic Park, television’s Northern Exposure, the grunge-rock band Nirvana and the Universal Studios theme parks, all of which are currently owned by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Osaka, Japan. The expected price of admission to MCA: between $7.8 billion and $10 billion. But waiting for the final act in Seagram’s play has left many spectators in a knot. Critics panned the loss of DuPont’s dependable dividends and profits, which have contributed more than 70 per cent of Seagram’s earnings in recent years. That agitation was reflected in the widespread sell-off of Seagram shares last week, which knocked more than $2 billion off the company’s $16.5-billion market value. By week’s end, the company’s stock had dropped significantly to $36.38 from $44.38 a week earlier, an 18-per-cent decline.
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Former film-maker Edgar Bronfman Jr. showed last week that he still has a flair for the dramatic. Investors and analysts were kept on the edge of their seats as the 39-year-old chief executive of Seagram Co. Ltd. directed a high-stakes play that saw the Montreal-based liquor and fruit-juice maker sell a $12-billion stake in multinational chemical company E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The audience is now waiting for Edgar Jr. to sweep up MCA Inc., the company behind Jurassic Park, television’s Northern Exposure, the grunge-rock band Nirvana and the Universal Studios theme parks, all of which are currently owned by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. of Osaka, Japan. The expected price of admission to MCA: between $7.8 billion and $10 billion. But waiting for the final act in Seagram’s play has left many spectators in a knot. Critics panned the loss of DuPont’s dependable dividends and profits, which have contributed more than 70 per cent of Seagram’s earnings in recent years. That agitation was reflected in the widespread sell-off of Seagram shares last week, which knocked more than $2 billion off the company’s $16.5-billion market value. By week’s end, the company’s stock had dropped significantly to $36.38 from $44.38 a week earlier, an 18-per-cent decline.
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John Roby Penn, Junior (1875-1958)
John Roby Penn, Junior was born in Reno, Pennsylvania on August 11, 1875 to John Roby and Clara Darnell Penn. He had two younger sisters, Miss Dorothy Penn and Miss Mary Margaret Penn- both of whom attended Mount Holyoke College. Following graduation from Amherst College in 1896, he took a position with the Ohio Oil Company of Findlay Ohio, an early part of Standard Oil of New Jersey. In 1917, he joined Midwest Refining Company as Vice President, its President Henry H. Blackmer was embroiled in the Tepot Dome Scandal in 1923. In 1919, Mr. Penn became President of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, following its discovery of oil at Ranger, Texas. This discovery at No. 1 J. H. McCleskey opened the West Texas oil exploration boom. In 1923, Mr. Penn moved the TPC&O offices from New York City to Fort Worth, Texas. He served on the Fort Worth City Council, as a Director of Fort Worth National Bank, and as the Director of the Works Progress Administration under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Mr. Penn twice served as President of TPC&O, 1919 – 1929 and 1931 – 1949.
Texas Pacific Oil and Oil Company sold to Joseph E. Seagram and Sons in May 21, 1964 for what was then a record for the sale of an oil company, $216,000,000.00. Two signatures on the final sales document were- Babe Fuqua, Chairman of the Board and John Roby Penn III on behalf of Texas Pacific’s shareholders.
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History
The firm was originally founded as Carl M. Loeb & Co. by father Carl M. Loeb and son John L. Loeb in 1931, shortly after the onset of the Great Depression. Carl M. Loeb & Co. merged with Rhoades & Company, a white shoe Wall Street brokerage firm, in 1937 to form what became Loeb, Rhoades & Co. Rhoades & Company had been founded in 1905 by John Harsen Rhoades, Jr. (born 1869), formerly a partner of Rhoades & Richmond.[1] The firm operated under the Loeb, Rhoades name from 1937 through 1979 when it briefly used the name Shearson Loeb Rhoades, for two years prior to its acquisition by American Express in 1981.
Carl Loeb, who had built his personal wealth as president of American Metals Company resigned from the company and bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, at the urging of his son John in 1931. Three years after Loeb left American Metals, the company's stock was nearly worthless.[2] Together with his son John, Carl ran the firm for its first 24 years, from 1931 until his death in 1955. John L. Loeb was a partner in the firm from 1931 to 1955 and following the death of his father became the senior partner, a role which he retained through 1977 when the firm was merged. In 1951, John Loeb became a governor of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1956, Loeb Rhoades acquired a controlling interest in the Cuban Atlantic Sugar Company and sells its stake on December 31, 1958, a day before the Cuban Revolution.[3]
In 1973, Carl M. Mueller assumed management control of the firm before Loeb resumed his management responsibilities in the firm in 1977. Loeb oversaw the merger of Loeb, Rhoades with Hornblower, Weeks, Noyes & Trask to form Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Co. in January 1978 before handing over day to day control of the firm to his nephew, Thomas Kempner, a grandson of Carl Loeb who had joined the firm in 1950.[3]
The Hornblower merger turned out to be disastrous for Loeb Rhoades. The two firms incurred significant costs attempting to merge their back office operations, both of which had issues prior to the merger. By the end of 1978, less than a year after the merger, the combined firm was losing millions of dollars. Through the 1960s and 1970s, Sanford I. Weill was acquiring brokerage firms and by 1979 was running Shearson Hayden Stone, the culmination of nearly a dozen acquisitions. By early 1979, Loeb, Rhoades, now known as Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Co. was suffering and looking for a potential acquiror. During Mothers Day Weekend 1979, Loeb and Shearson agreed to a merger to form Shearson Loeb Rhoades. Weill was named the CEO of the combined firm and John Loeb became the firm's chairman. At the time, Shearson Loeb Rhoades was among the largest investment banking houses with $250 million of equity capital.[3][4]
In 1981, Shearson Loeb Rhoades bought the Boston Company, a money manager. The same year, Weill sold the combined company to American Express to form Shearson/American Express.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2423/was-j-edgar-hoover-a-cross-dresser
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1 Eventually Pasha himself turned against2 3 The military base defending the canal4 After World War Two, the English Empire had begun to decline5 Efforts on the part6 Great Britain began to feel that Nasser must be met with a strong7, however at the same time wasρ,8 As arms from the Soviet Union moved9 This fact, combined with England’s inherent distrust of10 11 12 Known as the Fedayeen, their attacks on Israel were a The High Aswan Dam was a proposal by Nasser to build a large dam across the Nile River in 13 th 1956. Rather than threatening Nasser with14 Not wanting to drive Nasser completelyth of July 1956, Nasser15. This act infuriated Great Britain and the French, however was16
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History
The firm was originally founded as Carl M. Loeb & Co. by father Carl M. Loeb and son John L. Loeb in 1931, shortly after the onset of the Great Depression. Carl M. Loeb & Co. merged with Rhoades & Company, a white shoe Wall Street brokerage firm, in 1937 to form what became Loeb, Rhoades & Co. Rhoades & Company had been founded in 1905 by John Harsen Rhoades, Jr. (born 1869), formerly a partner of Rhoades & Richmond.[1] The firm operated under the Loeb, Rhoades name from 1937 through 1979 when it briefly used the name Shearson Loeb Rhoades, for two years prior to its acquisition by American Express in 1981.
Carl Loeb, who had built his personal wealth as president of American Metals Company resigned from the company and bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, at the urging of his son John in 1931. Three years after Loeb left American Metals, the company's stock was nearly worthless.[2] Together with his son John, Carl ran the firm for its first 24 years, from 1931 until his death in 1955. John L. Loeb was a partner in the firm from 1931 to 1955 and following the death of his father became the senior partner, a role which he retained through 1977 when the firm was merged. In 1951, John Loeb became a governor of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1956, Loeb Rhoades acquired a controlling interest in the Cuban Atlantic Sugar Company and sells its stake on December 31, 1958, a day before the Cuban Revolution.[3]
In 1973, Carl M. Mueller assumed management control of the firm before Loeb resumed his management responsibilities in the firm in 1977. Loeb oversaw the merger of Loeb, Rhoades with Hornblower, Weeks, Noyes & Trask to form Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Co. in January 1978 before handing over day to day control of the firm to his nephew, Thomas Kempner, a grandson of Carl Loeb who had joined the firm in 1950.[3]
The Hornblower merger turned out to be disastrous for Loeb Rhoades. The two firms incurred significant costs attempting to merge their back office operations, both of which had issues prior to the merger. By the end of 1978, less than a year after the merger, the combined firm was losing millions of dollars. Through the 1960s and 1970s, Sanford I. Weill was acquiring brokerage firms and by 1979 was running Shearson Hayden Stone, the culmination of nearly a dozen acquisitions. By early 1979, Loeb, Rhoades, now known as Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Co. was suffering and looking for a potential acquiror. During Mothers Day Weekend 1979, Loeb and Shearson agreed to a merger to form Shearson Loeb Rhoades. Weill was named the CEO of the combined firm and John Loeb became the firm's chairman. At the time, Shearson Loeb Rhoades was among the largest investment banking houses with $250 million of equity capital.[3][4]
In 1981, Shearson Loeb Rhoades bought the Boston Company, a money manager. The same year, Weill sold the combined company to American Express to form Shearson/American Express.
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The cross-dressing thing, however, is a definite no. The story appears in Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover (1993), a gossipy biography by British journalist Anthony Summers, who has also written a JFK assassination conspiracy book. Summers says he got his info from Susan Rosenstiel, fourth wife of Lewis Rosenstiel, chairman of Schenley Industries, a liquor distiller with reputed mob connections. Ms. Rosenstiel claimed that in 1958 she and her husband went to a party at a New York hotel, where they met Hoover and McCarthy witch-hunt lawyer Roy Cohn. Hoover, whom Cohn introduced as "Mary," was supposedly wearing a wig, a black dress, lace stockings, and high heels. Hoover went into a bedroom, took off his skirt to reveal a garter belt, and had a couple of blond boys--one wearing rubber gloves--"work on him with their hands." Cohn and Hoover then watched while Lewis Rosenstiel had sex with the boys. A year later Ms. Rosenstiel attended another party at the same hotel; this time Hoover wore a red dress and a black feather boa. He had one of the blond boys, who were now dressed in leather, read to him from a Bible while the other "played" with him. Hoover then grabbed the Bible, tossed it down, and told the first boy to join in.
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1 Eventually Pasha himself turned against2 3 The military base defending the canal4 After World War Two, the English Empire had begun to decline5 Efforts on the part6 Great Britain began to feel that Nasser must be met with a strong7, however at the same time wasρ,8 As arms from the Soviet Union moved9 This fact, combined with England’s inherent distrust of10 11 12 Known as the Fedayeen, their attacks on Israel were a The High Aswan Dam was a proposal by Nasser to build a large dam across the Nile River in 13 th 1956. Rather than threatening Nasser with14 Not wanting to drive Nasser completelyth of July 1956, Nasser15. This act infuriated Great Britain and the French, however was16
nations while at the same time creating a military cooperation similar to NATO.
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After determining that ALPHA could not be successful, Secretary of State Dulles
proposed a new plan on March 28
force, Plan OMEGA would deny Egypt access to American arms, economic aid,
and prolong negotiations for Nasser’s Aswan Dam project as long as Egypt
continued to purchase Soviet arms.
towards the Soviet Union, the United States sought to put economic pressure on
Egypt to force them into more friendly relations with the West.
By placing economic pressure on Egypt, the United States and Great Britain
caused Nasser to react in an unexpected manner. On the 26
announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal, and Egypt seized control of Suez
Canal operation
not sufficient to warrant military action by either party. Egypt faced intense
international scrutiny in the weeks following the nationalization of the canal, but
they subsequently proved they were able to competently manage its operation.
At approximately 4:00pm on the 29
At approximately 4:00pm on the 29
paratroopers landed on the Sinai Peninsula 30 miles west of the Suez Canal. At the
same time, Israeli forces captured several military outposts along the Egyptian
border.
morning, without consulting the United Staes, Great Britain issued an ultimatum to
both Israel and Egypt demanding that all forces withdraw at least ten miles from
either side of the Suez Canal and allow a combined British and French force to
occupy the enclosed zone to “protect” shipping through the waterway. Israel
immediately agreed because it allowed them to proceed with their invasion of the
Sinai regardless, and Egypt rejected the ultimatum to protest the Anglo-French
A pro-Israel pressure group is orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), provided to The Electronic Intifada (EI), indicate the group is engaged in what one activist termed a "war" on Wikipedia
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9474.shtml
Evidence
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7250/jayjgsa5.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayjg
This Zionist and yes he is a Zionist deliberately makes lists of American Businesspeople smaller than they are. If you look at the page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople
You see only 6 names, the original list had 100's
If you try to add the names he automatically erases them.
Here is a list of actual Jewish American businessmen that were listed before he erased them all.
Finance
* Jack Abramoff
* Leonard Abramson
* George Akerlof
* Madeleine Albright, on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange
* Kenneth Arrow
* Jules Bache
* Charlene Barshefsky
* Bernard Baruch
* Gary Becker
* Joshua Bekenstein
* August Belmont
* Marc Benioff, Goldman Sachs
* Sandy Berger, chairman of Stonebridge International
* Ben Bernanke
A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), provided to The Electronic Intifada (EI), indicate the group is engaged in what one activist termed a "war" on Wikipedia
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9474.shtml
Evidence
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7250/jayjgsa5.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayjg
This Zionist and yes he is a Zionist deliberately makes lists of American Businesspeople smaller than they are. If you look at the page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople
You see only 6 names, the original list had 100's
If you try to add the names he automatically erases them.
Here is a list of actual Jewish American businessmen that were listed before he erased them all.
Finance
* Jack Abramoff
* Leonard Abramson
* George Akerlof
* Madeleine Albright, on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange
* Kenneth Arrow
* Jules Bache
* Charlene Barshefsky
* Bernard Baruch
* Gary Becker
* Joshua Bekenstein
* August Belmont
* Marc Benioff, Goldman Sachs
* Sandy Berger, chairman of Stonebridge International
* Ben Bernanke
CAMERA
From SourceWatch
The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is a powerful Boston-based lobby group that tries to curb criticism of Israel in U.S. media.Founded by Charles Jacobs in the wake of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, CAMERA claims to be "a media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East". According to its website, it "systematically monitors, documents, reviews and archives Middle East coverage" and its staffers "directly contact reporters, editors, producers and publishers concerning distorted or inaccurate coverage, offering factual information to refute errors." [1]
According to its Executive Director, what sets it apart from other media watch-dog groups is its "sizable paying, activist membership." [2]
CAMERA is widely regarded as a pro-Israeli lobby group that as put by Journalist and author Robert I. Friedman - "CAMERA, the A.D.L., AIPAC and the rest of the lobby don't want fairness, but bias in their favor. And they are prepared to use McCarthyite tactics, as well as the power and money of pro-Israel PACs, to get whatever Israel wants."[1]
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