is it me or is Canada presenting more and more of a military edge as the years pass?
1/ She comes from the Albrecht Family
"a North German family whose members have been prominent as civil servants, politicians, and businesspeople. The family is descended from Barthold Albrecht (born 1557), who was a pastor in Bodenwerder."
5/ "the house of Hanover, British royal house of German origin, descended from George Louis, elector of Hanover, who succeeded to the British crown, as George I, in 1714"
6/ "The dynasty provided six monarchs and was succeeded by the house of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, which was renamed in 1917 the house of Windsor."
7/ "Hanover (an electorate, which became a kingdom in 1814) was joined to the British crown until 1837."
"Upon the death of William IV in 1837, the personal union of the thrones of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended."
8/ "The Kingdom of Hanover ended in 1866 when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia and the King of Hanover (and Duke of Cumberland) was forced to go into exile in Austria." but the ties didn't end there - any way to give you some idea of how things work
9/ PS the "The territory of Hanover had earlier been a principality within the Holy Roman Empire before being elevated into an electorate in 1708"
All roads lead back to Rome AND of course London
So let's move on
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"By the nineteenth century the Albrechts were merchant princes of Bremen, cotton importers who married into the slave- and plantation-owning Ladson family of South Carolina (hence Ursula’s London surname)"
15/ & as usual we have the elite family and their interest in mysticism
Her grandfather on her father's side was Carl Albrecht. He "developed a new method of meditation based on autogenic training, and who was known for his psychological research on mystical consciousness"
16/His mother was part of the American slave-owning cotton merchant family (Ladson) I mentioned above.
18/ They are also descendants of Baron Johann Ludwig von Knoop
"a cotton merchant and entrepreneur from the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen...one of the richest entrepreneurs in his time - made Baron by Alexander II of Russia in 1877."
22/ "As is typical for bourgeois Germans, the otherwise exhaustively documented history of the Albrecht family has a mysterious gap between 1936 and 1945. To avoid uncomfortable questions about where their power and money came from and what they did to earn it"
23/ She discusses Albrecht's first job under Hans von der Groeben with the European Coal and Steel Commission.
A nazi who was rewarded with a job after Germany was Denazified
24/ Walter Hallstein was unanimously "elected as the first President of the Commission of the European Economic Community and one of the founding fathers of the European Union."
"During World War II he (Hallstein) served as a First Lieutenant in the German Army in France. Captured by American troops in 1944, he spent the rest of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp in the United States,
28/ Makes you wonder why the hell he would be chosen for such a position after WW2
Ernst Albrecht "initially served as the Chef de Cabinet to the European Commissioner for Competition Hans von der Groeben in the Hallstein Commission, and in 1967, at the age of 37, he became the Director-General of the Directorate-General for Competition"
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More tomorrow
31/ So let's continue on with Ursula's Dad Ernst Albrecht
Ernst met Wilfried Hasselmann - who encouraged him to move to Hanover.
One should not that Hasselmann was a member of the NSDAP (National-socialist German Workers' Party) from 1942, which was radically antisemitic
34/ To give you some insight into how people like this think this is a quote from the Heiress of Bahlsen
“This was before my time and we paid the forced labourers exactly as much as German workers and we treated them well,”
Mmmmkay
35/ Ernst was earmarked for success. In 1976 Alfred Kubel (Social Democratic Party of Germany) stepped down and recommended his finance minister take his place.
The CDU put Albrecht up.
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He won in a "secret ballot" his opponent received 75 votes - Albrecht 77 (3 votes were marked as invalid)
Sounds familiar
37/ Remember, during this time the World Economic Forum was starting to take off.
"it was not clear which party would be favored by the victors of World War II, but by the end of the 1940s the governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom began to lean more toward the CDU" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian…
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The founder Andreas Hermes was imprisoned for being part of the Nazi resistance.
"Adenauer's Germany and the Nazi Past chronicles how amnesty laws for Nazi officials were passed unanimously and civil servants who had been dismissed in 1945 were reinstated liberally" cup.columbia.edu/book/adenauers…
45/ Also not everything was as it seemed.
Hans Globke was a confidant and advisor to Adenauer during the post war period.
"During the Third Reich Globke had given shape to some of the dictatorship’s most virulently antisemitic legislation, including the definitive handbook on the 1935 Nuremberg race laws."
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"Yet he also had a distinguished cast of anti-Nazis lining up to testify under oath that he had been an instrumental figure in the resistance against Hitler"
You will see throughout these is a lot of back and forth about these topics
49/
Globke "fed the Israeli prosecutors exonerative material on Globke and did everything he could to ensure that the prosecution remained limited to Eichmann." spiegel.de/international/…
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"He wanted to ensure that the Israelis did not emphasize, before the world public, the roles played by many other Germans."
51/ It is said Globke was a liaison between Germany, Nato and the CIA
52/ & another, Theodor Oberländer:
who "was an Ostforschung scientist and German Nazi official and politician, who after the Second World War served as Federal Minister for Displaced Persons, Refugees and Victims of War in West Germany from 1953 to 1960" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_O…
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Another CDU member: Kurt Georg Kiesinger - was also a Nazi
People try to spin things - but there are many that call out the truth
"The Social Democrats, party of Schmidt, and the radical Greens immediately called for parliamentary hearings into the operation, which they condemned as the illegal “use of terror to fight terror.”
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"But Albrecht said the deception “proves just how determined the democratic state is to defend itself against terrorists.”
58/ socialists were not big fans of Albrecht:
"In 1976, Albrecht’s book, The State, Idea and Reality: Outlines of a political philosophy, was published by the national-conservative Seewald Verlag."
"The work expresses his contempt for democratic legislation and the broad masses of the population, “the mob”, as well as his preference for Old Testament forms of rule."
60/
“If we succeed in bringing people of above-average capabilities to governance,” he writes, “an autocracy or the rule of the few will be able to create a better order than the rule of the people”.
This is the Key - where these people want us to go
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In 1976 he appointed Hans Puvogel as his minister of Justice.
60/ His ideas: “An individual's worth in the community is measured by his racial personality. Only a racially valuable person has the right to exist within the community. Someone who useless for the community because of his inferiority, or even harmful to it is to be eliminated
61/ This information I found particularly strange. A book mentioned in one of these articles that was supposedly written by CDU member Hand Edgar Jahn is expunged from the internet
"The Storming of the Steppes - Jewish-Bolshevik imperialism"
62/ Anyway Ursula and her father were close and she has said they share core common values.
So let's move on to the woman herself
63/
Ursula moved to London in the 70's to study economics at the LSE
....as we know she chose to use her 'murican slaving family name....so there's that
"The London School of Economics, today one of the most pre-eminent universities in the world, began far more humbly. A bequest of £20,000 left by Derby Fabian Henry Hutchinson to the Society for “propaganda and other purposes”"
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"was used by the Webbs, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw to found a research institute to provide proof positive of the collectivist ideal."
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Ahh the lovely George Bernard Shaw
Anyway.....
62/ Ursula graduated from Hanover medical school but not without some drama
"There were some instances of plagiarism in von der Leyen's thesis, said University President Christopher Baum, but not enough evidence of misconduct to void approval..." dw.com/en/german-defe…
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Seems she got a hall pass while Christine Anderson is called a liar
"Von der Leyen's website lists an extended stay at Stanford from 1992 to 1996, which includes a period in which she participated in activities at the Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Health Services Hospital Administration."
None counted as credits
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She was interestingly involved in epidemiology
"she taught at the Department of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research and earned a Master of Public Health degree."
74/ In this article about her new role, this is what the Guardian thinks is important
"By speaking out in favour of increasing the number of nurseries and the introduction of a women's quota, gay marriage and a nationwide minimum wage...."
75/
"Von der Leyen made enemies among the more traditionalist party members and won admirers on the left."
Yep very important when it comes to national defense lol
76/ This is when her career really started to take off, as evidenced by her invite to the Bilderberg meetings (2015 - 2019)
Ursula: "My first observation is that President-elect Biden is a committed trans-Atlanticist. He is of course proud of his Irish roots." cfr.org/event/conversa…
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"He also gets the European Union as a construct and the historical context in which it was shaped. He deeply understands the importance of European integration for both sides of the Atlantic."
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"And his speech to the European Parliament in 2010, where he makes that very case, is kind of recommended reading for Americans and Europeans alike. So we have again, a friend in the White House and the tone will change."
86/ Time magazine - a king maker dubbed her the most powerful woman in Europe
This is how she justified "mistakes made when was head of the defense ministry
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"she told the German parliament there had been “mistakes” in how external consultants were hired and said “this never should have happened.” she defended the use of consultants, saying they were required to undertake a huge overhaul of the ministry.
Anyone remember Google/Sidewalk Labs attempt to take over Toronto's waterfront with their smart city
....that was an epic fail bc people found out what they had planned?
I do
The timing was also no coincidence
2/ They plan to do this with or without people's consent that much is clear.
"The idea of an affordable, off-the-grid Eden in the heart of the city sounds great. But there was an entirely different urban utopia planned for this same 12-acre plot, known as Quayside...."
3/
"....just a few years ago. It was going to be the place where Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation arm of Alphabet, was going to prove out its vision for the smart city."