Petrodollar Panic: Saudis Threaten To Dump USD-Oil Trades Over OPEC Anti-Trust Bill

Three year ago - almost to the day - Saudi Arabia rattled its first sabre towards the United States, with an implicit threat to dump US Treasuries over Congress' decision to allow the Saudis to be held responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

In a stunning report at the time by the NYTimes, Saudi Arabia told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Then, six months ago, the Saudis once again threatened to weaponize their wealth as the biggest importer of arms from America in the world.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-04/petrodollar-panic-saudis-threaten-dump-usd-oil-trades-over-opec-anti-trust-bill

"I was Hitler's Boss" by Captain Karl Mayr

published in the New York-based magazine "Current History" (November 1941.)

https://thisiszionism.blogspot.com/2008/09/was-hitler-just-pawn.html

I Was Hitler's Boss

Current History, 1:3(November 1941), 193-199

Background (back to top)

The author of this anonymously published article was a Reichswehr (World War I-era imperial German army) officer who supervised Hitler during the summer and fall of 1919, when Hitler was working for the conservative "white" Reichswehr as an informant on "red" groups.

We now know that he was Captain Karl Mayr. See Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (New York: Norton, 1998), 122 (with note 62 on p. 642):

"The organization of a series of 'anti-Bolshevik courses', beginning in early June, was placed in the hands of Captain Karl Mayr, who, a short while earlier, on 30 May, had taken over the command of the Information Department. Mayr, one of the 'midwives' of Hitler's political 'career', could certainly have claimed prime responsibility for its initial launch.

The first of Hitler's many patrons, Mayr had a maverick career which saw him swing from active engagement on the extreme counter-revolutionary Richt – he was an important Bavarian link with the putschist Wolfgang Kapp in 1920 – to become a strong critic of Hitler and an active figure in the Social Democrat paramilitary organization, the Reichsbanner. He fled to France in 1933, but was later captured by the Nazis, and died in Buchenwald concentration camp in February 1945. In 1919, his influence in the Munich Reichswehr extended beyond his rank as captain, and he was endowed with considerable funds to build up a team of agents or informants, organize the series of 'educational' courses to train selected officers and men in 'correct' political and ideological thinking, and finance 'patriotic' parties, publications, and organizations. Mayr first met Hitler in May 1919, after the crushing of the "Red Army'. Hitler's involvement in his battalion's investigations into subversive actions during the Räterepublik may have drawn him to Mayr's attention. And as we have noted, Hitler had already been engaged in propaganda work in his barracks earlier in the spring – though on behalf of the Socialist government."

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A. Joachimsthaler, Adolf Hitler, 1908-1920: Korrektur einer Biographie (Munich: Herbig, 1989): text and notes about Mayr. [added 8/20/07] This page has an introductory discussion about sources for Mayr's biography, including Machtan's 2001 Hidden Hitler.

See also the Links section, at bottom for information on Mayr gleaned from the internet.

http://marcuse.faculty.history.ucsb.edu/projects/hitler/sources/40s/41currhist/41vCurrHistHitlersBoss.htm

US State Dept Urges Americans to Leave Venezuela Before Saturday Demonstrations

American citizens and residents in Venezuela are being urged to leave the country before nationwide pro- and anti-government demonstrations on Saturday amid ongoing electrical blackouts that made protests especially chaotic in recent weeks, the US Embassy in Caracas said in a travel advisory on Thursday.

"Depart while commercial flights are available," the advisory stated. "If choosing to stay, ensure you have adequate supplies to shelter in place."

Public water supplies, cell phone networks, the internet, hospital emergency rooms and other public services have become unreliable due to continuing electrical outages, the advisory said.

Duelling demonstrations between supporters of President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido have become common in recent weeks, with protest this Saturday expected to be especially large, according to published reports.

The advisory warned Americans remaining in the country to avoid large demonstrations on Saturday.

In January, US-backed opposition leader Guaido illegally declared himself interim president of Venezuela after disputing Maduro’s re-election victory in May. Washington immediately endorsed Guaido and called on Maduro to step down.

Maduro has accused the United States of trying to orchestrate a coup in order to install Guaido as a US puppet. Russia, China, Cuba, Bolivia, Turkey and a number of other countries have voiced their support for Maduro as the only legitimate president of Venezuela.

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201904051073843509-usa-state-department-venezuela-demonstrations/