Daniel Estulin Authors SHADOW MASTERS
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group,” Daniel Estulin’s first book, sold over 3.2 million copies — in 79 countries, 49 languages, five continents. His latest is “Shadow Masters.”
How Governments And Their Intelligence Agencies Are Working With International Drug Dealers And Terrorists For Mutual Benefit And Profit
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group,” Daniel Estulin’s first book, sold over 3.2 million copies — in 79 countries, 49 languages, five continents. His latest is “Shadow Masters.”
Estulin is an award-winning international journalist who thrives on controversy. He is considered the pre-eminent historian of the global elite, a scholar of remarkable breadth and erudition and one of the world’s most outspoken public intellectuals. Estulin doesn’t mince words and he doesn’t hold back when naming names, like David Rockefeller, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush, and identifying the cauldrons of chaos they have created. He exposes these and other “Shadow Masters” among the secret global power elite as the coolly vicious orchestrators of wars, terrorism, and grand-scale theft. Estulin also details the mind-boggling sums of money they reap from the proceeds of drug trafficking.
Served by minions with recognizable names like Oliver North, the Shadow Masters further their agendas using public monies and government resources around the world as if they personally owned them, notes Estulin. Meanwhile, banks launder hundreds of billions of narco-dollars yearly. And perpetrators meet annually and off the record to discuss how to move their agendas forward.
These Shadow Masters are well represented in Daniel Estulin’s first book, “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group,” currently being made into a $100-million motion picture by Halcyon. Now, in page after page of “Shadow Masters,” Estulin provides equally egregious revelations.
Major actions of the last two decades are revealed as “move/countermove” in a grisly game of geopolitics, set against the background of a crumbling Soviet Union, a nascent Russia, bizarre assassinations, wars and diamond, drugs and arms smuggling.
Estulin documents how Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, working with the International Monetary Fund, deliberately set up the circumstances for the massive transfer of Russia’s wealth into secret U.S. and other offshore bank accounts, leaving a collapsed economy and millions of people penniless and starving by the early 1990s. This agenda had been prearranged at a number of Bilderberg gatherings.
Mind-blowing from the beginning, Estulin’s book takes an even more astounding contemporary turn with his account of the sensationalistic nature of the international vilification campaign against Victor Bout, reputedly the largest weaponry dealer in the world. A former junior lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force, this “Lord of War” began an aviation transport business in Africa after the fall of the USSR. As conflicts raged all over the continent and airlines pulled out, Bout gained control of almost all the air transport business in Africa. When his business profile heightened in two areas of great interest to the Bilderberger’s Shadow Masters—arms and air transport—Bout now found himself an international pariah. An intense worldwide defamation campaign was launched, encompassing UN reports, press accounts, and a book titled “Merchant of Death,” by Douglas Farah who admittedly never met or interviewed Bout. The book’s nickname for Bout is constantly parroted in the U.S. media.
Suddenly intelligence officials considered the patsy Bout to be one of the world’s greatest threats to U.S. interests, in the same league as al Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden. Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest; the United Nations Security Council restricted his travel; President George W. Bush signed an Executive Order calling for Bout’s nonexistent U.S. assets to be frozen.
After the Washington Times and the Miami Herald printed erroneous reports connecting him to attempts by FARC rebels in Columbia to buy uranium for a dirty bomb, Bout was arrested in Thailand in 2008 in a U..S-led sting operation, and his extradition was requested. Estulin, the only Western journalist to regularly attend the Thai extradition proceedings, chronicles the mysterious mix of super espionage and Keystone Kops antics comprising the U.S. moves against Bout, and resulting in Thai refusal of extradition, U..S appeals, and Bout’s continuing residence in a Bangkok prison.
Unquestionably, Bout is the man the media most want to talk to, the million-dollar interview, the Pulitzer Prize, the Emmy interview. Estulin has interviewed Bout extensively for Shadow Masters, and tells an amazing story of what happens when the Shadow Master’s wish a person out of the way.
In “Shadow Masters” Estulin is inarguably the world’s most daring and experienced reporter on the global power elite. He meticulously documents his reporting and has developed sources other journalists don’t even know exist. Asked why he practices such a difficult and controversial brand of journalism, Estulin replies, “Because universal corruption and abuse of power and privileges at the deepest levels of society must be exposed and because I refuse to turn my back on inhumanity and violence.”
Publisher TrineDay, 347 pp, $24.95 USD.
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Summer Garden: Be Careful What You Wish For
We wished that our fruit blossoms not be zapped by late freezes this year. And somehow we dodged that bullet (unlike last year when all fruit was lost). At this point, it looks as if we may actually have a bumper crop of peaches, a few plums, and a few pears on our young trees. — Too soon yet to know about persimmons, pomegranates, grapes and pecans.
We wished that our fruit blossoms not be zapped by late freezes this year. And somehow we dodged that bullet (unlike last year when all fruit was lost). At this point, it looks as if we may actually have a bumper crop of peaches, a few plums, and a few pears on our young trees. — Too soon yet to know about persimmons, pomegranates, grapes and pecans.
Some things come back to life after the winter sleep much later than others. For instance, our tiny fig tree that’s been trying its best to grow for the last three years or so always greens up late. Every spring, Zack says, “Look at this. It’s DEAD!” And with that, he starts breaking off pieces of the poor little thing to show me. Every year, I push his hand away in horror and tell him it’s still dormant and needs more days of warm weather. Zack is not a patient man. Sure enough, the little fig tree will look for all the world like dead sticks for weeks later than everything else. Then suddenly, tiny leaves begin to appear. Every year it’s a little shorter in stature, though, due to Zack’s emphatic and demonstrative “pruning.” I think we’re producing a bonsai fig.
So many things can go wrong with fruit-bearing trees and plants — from the time the blossoms bring us one of our first breaths of spring — until they may eventually bear ripe fruit. So although things do look promising at this early stage, only time will tell the final tale.
We’re also putting the first plants into the garden just now. We finally took down last year’s old, dry plants stalks a few weeks ago (Other projects trumped striking the garden during the winter). Zack broke up the earth — with the large tiller behind the tractor — then the hand tiller, to make rows. Every year we promise ourselves we’ll wait until April 15 to plant the garden, and every year we break that promise. But at least this time, we managed to hold off a little longer. Looking at the 10-day weather forecast, it appears there won’t be any late cold snaps. We’ll see. “APPEARS” is the operative word. Last year we replanted three times when unexpected, late freezes killed the tender plants we had enthusiastically and prematurely entrusted to the earth. A year or so before that, we awoke one April morning to frost on our bluebonnets. This was a first in my memory.(Life is full of surprises). Our current crop of bluebonnets (and boy is the patch thickening and expanding!) just started blooming during these past few days, so wish us luck with this weather thing.
It’s always so exciting to begin again with this seasonal renewal, the affirmation of the return of warmth and promise. However — soon the reality of watering and weeding (in the hot, hot sun of late spring and summer) will set in. If most of the fruit matures and most of the garden plants do well — and if we’re lucky enough to have a wild mustang grape crop (for wine and jelly), we have just created almost endless work for ourselves come summer. Of course, I wasn’t thinking of any of that as I gleefully planted veggies this afternoon. (Well, OK, maybe for a fleeting moment).
Last year, there were no grapes or fruit due to the late freezes. And still, I almost worked myself to death with only my flower beds, the garden maintenance, harvest, and pickling of cucumbers and okra. How will I ever manage to wash, prepare, and cook or freeze all the fruit, weed the garden, and handle the bounty — if everything “makes”? It will be necessary to enlist Zack’s help, for sure. This will be the first growing season since he fell ill that he may be able to more fully pitch in to help reap what he hath sewn! Follow-through is everything!
Gene Ellis, Ed.D is a Bosque County resident who returned to the family farm after years of living in New Orleans, New York, and Florida. She’s an artist who holds a doctoral degree from New York University and is writing a book about the minor catastrophes of life. Check out Genie’s blog at <http://rusticramblings.wordpress.com/>.
What’s In That Tea?
This whole Tea Party thing is somewhat confusing. Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s great that people who are upset about politics are participating in protests rather than being apathetic. However, some things that they’re saying don’t make sense to me. The big cry is, “Give me my country back.” Where do they think their country went? Did they have a bad dream in which they wake up and suddenly can’t find all of the states? “Oh, no! Didn’t Delaware used to be over there? Whoever took it, should give it back.” And who do they think took it? Was it some country with fewer problems than we have? Are they calling out in this dream, “Hey, Monaco, we know you took our country. That’s not right. You don’t even have room for it.”
This whole Tea Party thing is somewhat confusing. Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s great that people who are upset about politics are participating in protests rather than being apathetic. However, some things that they’re saying don’t make sense to me. The big cry is, “Give me my country back.” Where do they think their country went? Did they have a bad dream in which they wake up and suddenly can’t find all of the states? “Oh, no! Didn’t Delaware used to be over there? Whoever took it, should give it back.” And who do they think took it? Was it some country with fewer problems than we have? Are they calling out in this dream, “Hey, Monaco, we know you took our country. That’s not right. You don’t even have room for it.”
Many of us were surprised by the recent demographic statistics that showed the Tea Party is not a movement consisting of people who have been unfairly deprived of achieving the American Dream. Tea Partiers say they don’t want the government so involved in their lives, yet the majority of them are in favor of Social Security and Medicare. In other words, they are against the government spending money on programs to help people except for the programs that they like. The majority of Tea Partiers are wealthier than the average American, better educated, and own nicer homes. So they achieved the American Dream. They just don’t care if anyone else ever gets to have that dream.
Just what are they unhappy with? What do they think has changed too much? Do they yearn for a time when there was runaway spending by the Bush Administration? They shouldn’t worry about that. We’ve still got runaway spending. Do they miss the days when we waged a senseless war in the Mideast? Cheer up. We’re still waging that war. Are they afraid that since Obama was elected, Wall Street’s traditional greed has been halted? There are two words that should get rid of this fear: “Goldman Sachs.” So where’s the “socialism?” What are the “radical” moves Obama has made?
Is it just about health care? Come on. Is there one American who either personally or through his or her family hasn’t had a horrible experience with a doctor, a hospital, or an insurance company? I don’t know any. Besides, if for some reason, you love your nice, caring insurance company, nobody’s making you change to something else. That doesn’t sound so radical to me.
So why are they upset with the Obama Administration? It goes beyond the Democrats who were upset with Bush becoming President. These are not the usual feelings that those among the political “outs” have for the political “ins.” There are some things having to do with the anger that these people feel towards Obama that is over the top. I’m talking about the out and out disdain, the name-calling, the drawings of Obama looking like Hitler that are displayed at their rallies. This is not just the traditional American rhetoric of those who were disappointed that their people were voted out of office. This is unabashed hatred.
I’m thinking of forming my own political group and calling it the Cola Party. I want my country back, too, and not just the good old America in which Coke only cost a dime. I would love to see the old America in which people could disagree politically, but still respect each other’s opinions — and their right to have them. Give me back my America in which people could calmly discuss their differences without calling each other un-American. Is it really “American,” is it really “patriotic” to not act this way?
Those who are actually spewing disgusting invective or bringing those Nazi posters to the rallies might very well be on the fringe of this fringe movement. I’m certainly not suggesting that everyone in the Tea Party is filled with this venom. But I worry that too many of them are.
So what makes these Obama opponents so much angrier, so much more threatened, and so much more involved in using violent images than Americans who haven’t liked previous Presidents throughout our history? It’s a mystery, isn’t it? Lets see. What is it about President Obama that’s different from all the other Presidents who’ve come before him? Maybe it’s not really such a mystery after all.
Lloyd Garver has written for many television shows, ranging from “Sesame Street” to “Family Ties” to “Home Improvement” to “Frasier.” He has also read many books, some of them in hardcover. He can be reached at lloydgarver@gmail.com. Check out his website at and his podcasts on iTunes.
