Thread by @artisbrutal2021

Time to look into the history of Schweizerischer Bankverein which became UBS

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1528628927954034688

"UBS was founded in 1862 as the Bank in Winterthur alongside the advent of the Swiss banking industry.

In 1912, the Bank of Winterthur merged with Toggenburger Bank to form the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBS

The Toggenburger Bank was a savings and mortgage bank for customers with a branch office network in Eastern Switzerland.

In 1882, Toggenburger Bank opened a branch in St. Gallen and began to shift its operations there through the end of the 19th C
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toggenbur…

The counts of Toggenburg (Grafen von Toggenburg) ruled the Toggenburg region of today's canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and adjacent areas during the 13th to 15th centuries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counts_of…

Friedrich Count Toggenburg, Royal and Imperial Minister of the Interior - Recipient of the Red Cross Merit Star with war decoration

Emperor Franz Joseph was the Proprietor of the Red Cross
omsa.org/red-cross-deco…

Frederick VII, Count of Toggenburg - Until 1406 he was a condottiero for the Austrians
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick…

> Italian captains in charge of mercenary companies

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condottie…
Condottieri notably served popes and other European monarchs ..

The first mercenary company with an Italian as its chief was the "Company of St. George" formed in 1339 and led by Lodrisio Visconti

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1480802942567464961

Colours kinda remind me of the Swiss Guard..

but I digress..

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1529357524788514816

"1859: The battle of Solferino..

The Swiss, Henry Dunant, intervenes to help the wounded on both sides, an act regarded as the beginning of the Red Cross movement"

swissinfo.ch/eng/chronology…

https://twitter.com/TheNewIndepend1/status/1276780608887422976

"Supreme Master Ching Hai worked for a time in Germany as a translator for the Red Cross ..

was happily married to a German scientist, who had doctorates in two fields"

I still can't track down who he was..

https://twitter.com/jeff_kaye/status/1477012623853899776

But again, I digress..

🤫👇

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1428257551829848064

Celine Cousteau with Isabel Maxwell - Ghislaine Maxwell's sister - and Al Seckel 🙄

https://twitter.com/doubleDutchquak/status/1529473535953055745

Franz Joseph I of Austria - Proprietor of the Red Cross
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Jos…

From 1 May 1850 to 24 August 1866 he was also President of the German Confederation

The German Confederation - Deutscher Bund - was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, which was dissolved in 1806

" the discussions and ideas of the period 1815-66 had a huge influence on the constitution of the North German Confederation. Most notably may be the Federal Council, the organ representing the member states

The successor of that Federal Council of 1867 is the modern Bundesrat "

Portrait of Franz Joseph I of Austria by Philip de László

In 1900, László married Lucy Guinness of Stillorgan, County Dublin, - a member of the banking branch of the Guinness family and a sister of Henry Guinness
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_de…

Henry Seymour Guinness dib.ie/biography/guin…

In 1902 he was appointed a director (1902–24) of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) and in 1910 he became a director (1910–24) of the Bank of Ireland

GNR was a constituent of the London and North Eastern Railway, which over in 1923

"UBS, through Swiss Bank Corporation, traces its history to 1854 when six private banking firms in Basel, Switzerland pooled their resources to form the Bankverein"

In 1871, the Bankverein coordinated with the German Frankfurter Bankverein to form the Basler Bankverein

Following the years 1885 and 1886, with further bank mergers, it changed its name to Schweizerischer Bankverein.

"On the eve of World War II in 1939, SBC, like other Swiss banks, was the recipient of large influxes of foreign funds for safekeeping. Just prior to the outbreak of the war, SBC made the timely decision to open an office in New York City...in the Equitable Building"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equitable…
In 1907, Daniel H. Burnham's company had proposed replacing the Equitable Life Building with a 33-story structure

Equitable president Paul Morton publicly denied plans for a new structure and ..the plan was ultimately dropped

The Equitable Life Building was destroyed by a fire on January 9, 1912, which killed six people

Thompson–Starrett (TS) was hired to clear the site

TS president Louis J. Horowitz approached businessman T. Coleman du Pont

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1471861635568615425

The new Equitable Building was completed in 1915

In 1925, du Pont sold the building to the New York Empire Company, a subsidiary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen. The next year, the Brotherhood sold the building to a syndicate composed of

William Henry Vanderbilt, Harry C. Cushing III, and Leroy W. Baldwin for $40 million

By the 1940s, the Equitable Office Building Corporation was in poor financial shape. Bankruptcy proceedings started in 1940, but were delayed due to World War II

#Vanderbilt

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent entry of the US into World War II, the National Gallery began preparations to move its most important works of art to safety at the Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate ..

where there are tunnels 🙄👇

https://mobile.twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1516845378775273472

UBS sponsors the St Gallen Symposium
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Galle…

formerly known as the International Management Symposium and the ISC-Symposium

founding presidents Wolfgang Schürer and Urs Schneider..

> Club of Rome

> the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies

https://mobile.twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1526968178387177473

Pity Jesse isn't around to continue this Club of Rome thing

Anyhoo

https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseMatchey/status/1478490949059702787

Here's Ching Hai again

Dr Ashok Khosla - Chairman, Center for Development Alternatives; former Co-President, Club of Rome

Al Gore mentor and associations (as they all do) with the Supreme Master Ching Hai cult, I mean Association

https://mobile.twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1476944401528201218

So in 2013 Bilderberger Peter Voser, chairman of the St. Gallen Foundation for International Studies, replaced Josef Ackermann (of Zurich Insurance)

There was a big scandal...

https://mobile.twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1482075625036861447

..maybe Tony Blair got all the inside gossip about that
🤔

https://mobile.twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1488147576352301061

"In 1977, the St. Gallen Symposium made the headlines with a round table discussion with German Employers' President Hanns Martin Schleyer and DGB Chairman Heinz Oskar Vetter"

Hanns was a member of the SS

"After World War II, the Allies held Schleyer as a prisoner of war for three years because of his membership as an Untersturmführer in the SS. In his denazification proceeding, Schleyer falsely understated his rank so as to reduce his prospective punishment."

"He was repatriated in 1948. In 1949 he became secretary of the chamber of commerce of Baden-Baden. In 1951 Schleyer joined Daimler-Benz, and, with help from a mentor, Fritz Könecke, eventually became a member of the board of directors."

"Successively, Schleyer became more involved in employers' associations, and was a leader in employer and industry associations. He was simultaneously president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) and the Federation of German Industries (BDI)."

"On 5 September 1977, an RAF unit "commando Siegfried Hausner", named after an RAF figure killed during the Stockholm embassy attack two years earlier, attacked the chauffeured car carrying Schleyer.."

"The RAF demanded that the German government release captured members of their organization. After this demand was declined the RAF members were all eventually found dead in their jail cells. After Schleyer's kidnappers received the news of the death of their imprisoned comrades"

"Schleyer was taken from Brussels on 18 October 1977, and shot dead en route to Mulhouse, France, where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy. "

🤔

"After his death Schleyer has been extensively honoured in Germany;

the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize, the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation and the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle are named in his honour."

In 2021 the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize winner was Wolfgang Ischinger
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_…
2001 to 2006, He was the German ambassador to the US

2006 to 2008 Germany's ambassador to the Court of St. James's (UK)

Wolfgang Ischinger serves on the European Advisory Board of Investcorp (London/New York)

🤔

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1482373541597167620

Wolfgang Ischinger also serves on the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

It provides data, analysis and recommendations for armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade as well as disarmament and arms control
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm…

Chair of the SIPRI Governing Board:

Jan Eliasson , retired Swedish diplomat and former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

"UN Links of Sex Trafficking Nygard Uncovered By Inner City Press As With Ghislaine Maxwell"
innercitypress.com/ungate1nygardl…

https://mobile.twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1469349705264123914

Black Tie International - NYGARD Fashion Concept Store

Stina Lundberg,
Antoinette Borg, Malta,
Irmeli Viinanen, spouse of the Permanent Representative of Finland to the UN,
Irina Churkina, Russian Federation to the UN

https://mobile.twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1469323806833618950

Black Tie International - NYGARD Fashion Concept Store

Lillian Liccardi - Hospitality Committee for UN Delegations - won Unlock The Secret

Hospitality Committee for UN Delegations - Honorary Chairman : Mrs Nane Annan , wife of Kofi Annan

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1488383742062346241

Kofi Annan was on Investcorp’s International Advisory Board along with Wolfgang Ischinger
investcorp.com/investcorp-hol…
and which is chaired by Mohammed Al Ardhi
euromoney.com/article/b12khn…

Nedim Kirdar, head of Arabian Gulf operations for Rockefeller Chase Manhattan Bank in the 70s.

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1507472676067196930

archive.ph/GPYRb

"At the Villa Serenada, Kirdar’s home in the south of France, he has entertained Prince Charles, George HW Bush, Colin Powell, William Cohen, King Abdullah II of Jordan, the former Empress of Iran Farah Pahlavi &the Emir of Qatar."

theguardian.com/theguardian/20…
"Last weekend, the generous Mr Kirdar gave the run of his idyllic Cap d'Antibes villa, Serenada, to a certain Mr Windsor and Ms Parker-Bowles. "
- Guardian, 2000

Address:
322 avenue Mrs.-L.-D.-Beaumont, 06160 Antibes, France

Well fancy that. Villa Serenada where Prince Charles and Camilla stayed, is just a 15 minute walk to
Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1468027004155056131

And Villa Serenada is a 5 minute walk from Jean Pigozzi's Villa Dorane at
365 Chem. de la Croe, 06160 Antibes

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1454783694120669185

Aand Nedim Kirdar's Villa Serenada is a 7 minute walk from Château de la Croë,
183-623 Chem. des Douaniers

owned by Roman Abramovich and conveniently recently seized by the French govt. coz Ukraine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2t…

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1472237623607443464

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…

"The former King Edward VIII leased Château de la Croë built in 1927 in 1936 after abdicating to marry Wallis Simpson.

Switzerland released papers which stated Abramovich may have ‘links to money laundering and organised crime’"

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1513693748819107845

"Following two major acquisitions in 1986 (Phillips & Drew and Deutsche Länderbank), UBS made its first purchase in the United States in 1991 with Chase Investors Management Corporation, the asset management business of Chase Manhattan Bank."

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1489305275148480524

""in 1992, the bankers on Chase Manhattan’s emerging markets desk were told by their boss, Jorge Jasson, that a new hire was joining the team. .."

Sajid Javid 🤔

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1499670956058497024

"UBS & SBC announced an all-stock merger on
8 Dec. 1997

UBS chairman Marcel Ospel originally wanted to call the company "United Bank of Switzerland" but settled on simply using "UBS" following the acquisition of American brokerage firm,Paine Webber"
🤔
chdata123.com/eu/ch-UBS/UBS-…

Apparently Marcel Ospel was involved with "Der Basler Tierkreis"

The "Basel Animal Circle" uncovered in 1998 was a pedo-criminal ring made up of academics, lawyers, doctors and business people from the "better circles of Basel.."
swprs.org/basler-tierkre…

"..who gave themselves animal names as camouflage and, since the 1960s, had used rent boys and underage boys in sadistic parties..

International connections to Spain and Thailand were proven..
Belgian Dutroux network were suspected. "

Linked to a long, comprehensive article by
Swiss Policy Research

swprs.org/geopolitik-und…

"UBS TO OPEN BLOCKCHAIN INNOVATION LAB IN LONDON"
bitcoinmagazine.com/business/ubs-o…
"“By establishing a dedicated innovation lab at Level 39 we are moving away from a purely in-house innovation strategy..” said UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann

crunchbase.com/person/oliver-…
UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann -
Senior Advisor, 3i Group

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1483042154629025792

Farouq Sheikh OBE has initiated and overseen the successful equity investments and the subsequent exits for 3i Group PLC (in 1996 and 2002) and Barclays Private Equity (in 2002 and 2005).

Farouq > Prince’s Trust &Advisory Board of Mosaic Network

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1495861972495183874

"Farouq Sheikh and his brother Haroon, right, with Sadiq Khan"

I knew I would get there in the end. The End.