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As part of the deal, Rabobank is buying a 7.5 per cent stake in one of the key
holding companies in the Rothschild empire, Rothschild Continuation Holdings,
which owns the N M Rothschild business in the UK.
Rabobank becomes the second biggest investor outside the family after the
trading group Jardine Matheson, which owns 20 per cent. Rabobank’s vice
chairman Sipko Schat joins the Rothschild board.
It is the second joint venture with a Dutch bank. Rothschild teamed up with ABN
Amro for 11 years in equity capital markets before dissolving the arrangement
when Royal Bank of Scotland took over ABN last year.
Rabobank’s stake was held in treasury by Rothschild after it bought it from the
insurer Eagle Star. No price was put on the deal. Jardine paid $185 million for
its 20 per cent in 2005.
Rothschild advisory clients include Rio Tinto, which is fighting a hostile bid from
BHP, British Energy in its deal with EDF of France and Alliance & Leicester
when it was sold to Banco Santander.' --- Rothschild pays out record bonuses to
staff by Patrick Hosking, Times Online, November 19, 2008
With full spectrum control of the world's private central banks and BIS firmly in the hands of the
House of Rothschild and their closed knit coterie, I of course, in my confused experiment of
thinking for myself, chalk that wizard financial success of bailing out from publicly traded banks
about to fail in a timely manner, and having only successes for one's own private family bank,
up to just another coincidence. I strongly suspect that Gary Allen's confusion on such
coincidences far exceeded mine as evidenced from his book None Dare Call it Conspiracy:
'Those who believe that major world events result from planning are laughed at
for believing in the "conspiracy theory of history." Of course, no one in this
modern day and age really believes in the conspiracy theory of history -except
those who have taken the time to study the subject. When you think about it,
there are really only two theories of history. Either things happen by accident
neither planned nor caused by anybody, or they happen because they are
planned and somebody causes them to happen. In reality, it is the "accidental
theory of history" preached in the unhallowed Halls of Ivy which should be
ridiculed. Otherwise, why does every recent administration make the same
The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity 288 / 334 Zahir Ebrahim