Biographies

It can continually be stated that entities like Deutsche Bank are solvent and that people like Josef Ackermann are financial legends, but the truth is far different. No Western banking entity is solvent. If Ackermann is to be congratulated on anything it is for his ability – for a while – to make a bank whose assets are divorced from an underlying commodity seem as if it were well run and "disciplined."

Mike Adams, known by his call sign, the Health Ranger, is key writer and editor-in-chief of the Natural News Network and producer of NaturalNews.TV. "The only thing that stands between a person and their own perfect health is information. Empowered with the right information, anyone can improve their health."

In the West, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been widely demonized. Various of his statements have been disseminated through the corporate media, often translated incorrectly. In perhaps the most infamous example of this, media reported Ahmadinejad said he wished to "wipe Israel off the map." It later emerged that Ahmadinejad had been mistranslated and that this is in fact not what he had said.

Bashar al-Assad has been criticized for corruption, human rights violations and economic inconsistencies. Assad has always been an outspoken critic of Israel and the United States. Bashar was expected to take a more liberal approach than his father, and had said that democracy in Syria was 'a tool to a better life,' but he also said that democracy could not be rushed.

Nelson Aldrich was a prominent businessman and Republican leader in the Senate where he served from 1881 to 1911. Aldrich did more than any other power elite controlled US politician to destroy the original decentralized republic and subvert the US Constitution. Aldrich was directly responsible for implementing a banker elite controlled fascist empire, which America still has today. 

Alexander the Third of Macedon, also known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the state of Macedon, located in the northeastern region of Greece. By the time Alexander was 30 he had created one of the largest empires in ancient history, stretching from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas, remembered best for his cultural diffusion, settling Greek colonists with their culture and beliefs in his eastern conquests.

In 1971, Alinsky published Rules for Radicals a how-to manual for organizing the left. The opening paragraph is telling. "What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be." Alinsky died on June 12, 1972, but his influence and perceptions live on. His legacy is an ugly one.

Gary Allen was a conservative journalist, certainly best known and remembered for his book, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, which was co-authored by Larry Abraham, a friend of several Daily Bell editors. Allen's bestselling book (more than five million copies sold) introduced many Americans to the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission and their plans for a new world order.

Though Louis Alphonse II, Duke of Anjou is not part of a governing class in France today, his position entitles him to respect and a great degree of stature. He is looked to for tradition and for his presence and impact in the world today. A great many people are aware of him and who and what he represents. Many of these same people follow the daily events of his life.

Aristotle, through his devotion to truth, his awareness of societal needs for a sound philosophical foundation and his many contributions to the field of logic and science – and most especially his contribution to the essence of scientific methodology – have all made him one of the most noteworthy of all philosophers. He has had a tremendous influence; novelist Ayn Rand described him as her muse.

Jeffrey Armstrong is an award-winning author of numerous books on Vedic knowledge including his 2010 book, Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar, Ancient Wisdom for a New World. Armstrong is a philosopher, practitioner and teacher of the Vedas for the past 40 years. He is the founder of VASA – Vedic Academy of Sciences & Arts in Vancouver, Canada.

It is true that Julian Assange has attracted an enormous amount of attention yet his leaks for the most part have not amounted to much. Some would speculate that the only way he would garner so much attention is if the Anglosphere elites themselves were behind him, the idea being that the mainstream media would never pay him so much attention otherwise.

Michele Bachmann is a well-known member of Congress from Minnesota's 6th District. A national leader of social conservatives and the Tea Party movement, she ran for the GOP nomination for president in 2012. She opposed the Wall Street bailouts and advocated for the break-up of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and the phasing out of Social Security and Medicare.

Matthew Barnett is pastor of Angelus Temple, with over 7,000 congregants attending weekly, and founder of the Dream Center in Los Angeles, California. Barnett authored The Church That Never Sleeps and The Cause Within You. Pastor Matthew Barnett is also a frequently featured speaker at church conventions, conferences and other churches and a consultant.

José Manuel Barroso is the former Prime Minister of Portugal (2002-2004), now President of the European Commission. As prime minister, Barroso slashed public expenditures to reach certain mandated EU goals. Barroso did not finish his efforts, however, as he became president of the European Commission in 2004 and then again in 2009.

Frédéric Bastiat was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, legislator and member of the French assembly. Bastiat championed private property, free markets and limited government. He was the author of many economic and political economic works, which were characterized by their strong argumentation, clear organization and sharp wit.

Warren A. Bechtel was the founder of the Bechtel Corporation, one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world. He was a natural leader and a dependable father figure, who was known as a good provider, even in his construction camps. Bechtel incorporated his business, W.A. Bechtel Company, in 1925 and made his three sons and his brother officers of the board.

Douglas Bell learned about farming and tenant farmer management issues from his father, who had inherited the family farms in Greeley, Colorado. Bell investigated farming after leaving Supercuts, while living in San Antonio, TX. Bell then discovered the farming opportunity in Uruguay, resulting in the current Grasslands UY, LLC project.

David Ben-Gurion was the first prime minister of Israel, in office from 1949 to 1963 except for a two year period in 1954 and 1955. The birth of the new nation was the culmination of Ben-Gurion's life work as a Zionist leader and Ben-Gurion helped lead Israel to victory in their war for independence in 1948. Ben-Gurion retired from politics in 1970 and lived the rest of his life in a kibbutz in the Negev desert.

C. Fred Bergsten is a political adviser, author and economist and has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the US Treasury and as director of the Washington based Peterson Institute for International Economics since its founding in 1981. Bergsten has written many books and writes for a number of influential establishment periodicals, including Foreign Affairs magazine.

Silvio Berlusconi obviously has powerful backers. He is worth some US$ 5.9 billion and in the modern age this sort of fortune is not amassed without the aid of Anglosphere elites and others supporting ever closer global governance. Berlusconi has been accused of many crimes in his life, including connections to the mafia, false accounting, tax fraud and corruption and bribery of police and judicial officials.

Ben Shalom Bernanke was born on December 13, 1953 in North Augusta, South Carolina but Bernanke spent most of his formative years in the small town of Dillon, South Carolina. On February 1, 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Ben Bernanke to a 14-year term as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and to a 4-year term as Fed Chairman.

Jeff Berwick is an anarchist, libertarian and freedom fighter against mankind's two biggest enemies: the state and the central banks. Jeff is the host of Anarchast, an anarchist video podcast, and is a contributing editor at many of the world's largest financial and precious metals related websites. Together with Ed Bugos, another respected free-market speaker, Berwick publishes The Dollar Vigilante. 

Ingrid Betancourt is a former Colombian senator and 2002 Green Oxygen Party candidate for president. In 2002 she was kidnapped by Colombian FARC guerrillas while on a campaign trip and held captive for over six years, finally liberated in Operation Jaque, conducted by the Colombian military under President Alvaro Uribe's leadership.

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the Vice President of the United States and was a US Senator from Delaware from 1973 to January 2009 when he was elected VP. Rising from rather humble circumstances and his surprising win in the 1972 senate election, Biden suffered personal tragedy with the loss of his first wife and youngest child in an automobile accident.

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden is said to be the founder of al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization accused of having been responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and other large-scale attacks on civilian and military targets. Bin Laden was a part of the wealthy Saudi-based bin Laden family, which has long-standing ties with the Bush family in the US.

Nathan Birnbaum was an Austrian writer and Jewish thinker and Zionist. He was also a proponent of the Yiddish language and Jewish culture. Birnbaum used a number of pseudonyms including Dr. N. Birner, Mathias Acher, Mathias Palme, Theodor Schwarz, Anton Skart and "Pantarhei." Nathan Birnbaum was elected Secretary-General of the Zionist Organization at the First Zionist Congress in 1897. 

Ingo Bischoff, a financial educator who might be termed a neo-Austrian, is the founder and president of the San Francisco School of Economics, previously the CEO of a commercial printing and publishing company for 28 years. Under Bischoff the School has a definitive point of view on most issues that blend free-market thinking with other forms of economic analysis.

Most everything Tony Blair did within his term increased the power of government, expanded Western (banking) influence abroad and diminished civil liberties domestically. He has been rewarded by the establishment with significant advisory posts at such firms as JP Morgan. Blair's personal wealth has swelled into the millions of pounds.

The opportunity that Americans currently have to invest in gold after it was outlawed and confiscated by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 is directly attributable to Jim Blanchard and his National Committee To Legalize Gold. He was the publisher of "The Gold Newsletter" and was president of Blanchard & Company, one of the largest precious metals companies in the United States.

Well-known and controversial during her life, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was influential on spiritualism and related subcultures. But today Blavatsky is known mostly for her celebration of Satan. She wrote as follows: "It is Satan who is the god of our planet and the only god ... and this without any allusive metaphor to its wickedness and depravity."

Godfrey Bloom is a Member of the European Parliament for Yorkshire and the Humber. A Member of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), he was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2009. Bloom is president of the eurosceptic pan-European political party, European Alliance for Freedom.

Rep. John Boehner is Speaker of the House, a Republican from Ohio .The role as probably suits Boehner, as he seems to lack much conviction. Like his mentor, Newt Gingrich, Boehner's rhetoric is far more forceful than his actions. His instinct is to compromise with Leviathan, and therefore he is more of a "good soldier" loyal to the status quo than a change maker.

Dr. Peter J. Boettke is the Deputy Director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, and a professor in the economics department at George Mason University. Dr. Boettke, born and raised in New Jersey, received his BA in economics from Grove City College and his PhD in economics from George Mason University.

Alexander Bogdanov was a central figure in the early days of the Bolshevik movement within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, considered one of its cofounders, and was Lenin's rival until he was expelled in 1909. During the first two decades of the Soviet Union, Bogdanov was an influential Marxist opponent of the government. 

Eugen Böhm-Bawerk was an early 19th century Austrian economists who made important contributions to the Austrian School of Economics, particularly through his magnum opus, Capital and Interest, which included a brutal critique of Marx's exploitation theory, published in the 1880s while a scholar at the University of Innsbruck.

Simon Bolivar was one of the most influential politicians in history and to many Latin Americans, he still is. In 1825 he was named the first president of then newly established Republic of Bolivia, and led the drive to establish Gran Colombia. Although he decreed himself dictator at times, he believed government's role is to assure that the rights of individuals are maintained at all costs.

Since founding Agora Inc. in 1979, Bill Bonner has found success and garnered camaraderie in numerous communities and industries. A man of many talents, Bonner's entrepreneurial savvy, unique writings, philanthropic undertakings, and preservationist activities have all been recognized and awarded by some of America's most respected authorities.

Antonio Borges is Director of the IMF's European Department. Borges holds a Ph.D in Economics from Stanford University and was Chairman of the Hedge Fund Standards Board in London before joining the IMF. Additionally, Borges was Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International in London from 2000 to 2008.

Fernando Botero Angulo is a painter and sculptor from Medellin, Colombia, known for his abstract, figurative style often referred to as "Boterismo," which features figures of exaggerated size with fine details. Many of Botero's works have been donated to the Museum of Antioquia, and Plaza Botero in Medellin features many of his large sculptures on permanent display.

James Bovard's writings have been publicly denounced by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General and the chiefs of the US International Trade Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Agency for International Development, etc.

More than four million copies of Dr. Branden's books are in print, including the classic The Psychology of Self-Esteem, originally published in 1969. In it, Dr. Branden explains the need for self-esteem, the nature of that need, and how self-esteem – or lack of it – affects our values, responses and goals. A practicing psychotherapist in Los Angeles, Branden also offers corporate consulting, workshops and conferences.

Samuel Bronfman founded Distillers Corporation Limited, which purchased and expanded the Seagram's brand after making a fortune bootlegging from Canada to the United States during the time of Prohibition. As a Canadian businessman and philanthropist Samuel Bronfman founded the powerful Bronfman family dynasty, which is a leader in promoting Jewish causes today.

Charles Bronfman is a Jewish Canadian philanthropist and businessman with a net worth, according to Forbes, in excess of $2 billion. Most of the Canadian Bronfman family's fortune came from the liquor business, as his family made hundreds of millions during US Prohibition bootlegging illegal alcohol to the United States.

Edgar Miles Bronfman, Jr. was born in on May 16th, 1955, the second of five children. In 1971, Bronfman's grandfather arbitrarily indicated that Edgar would be the heir to the Seagram Company and all of the wealth and power that went with the company, which he managed until he sold its DuPont holdings and Seagram's ceased to exist. Bronfman has been CEO of Warner Music Group since 2004. 

Edgar Bronfman Sr. is from one of the wealthiest Jewish families in Canada due to his family's ownership of the former Seagrams empire, but Bronfman is best known to the general public for his leadership of the World Jewish Congress. Elected president in 1981, Bronfman has been very successful in supporting and funding Jewish causes such as Hillel and offers Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel. 

Christina "Tina" Brown, AKA Lady Evans, is one of the most successful mainstream journalists working today. Born in Britain, Brown took up United States citizenship in 2005 when she took an editorial position in America. Brown began her career as editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine at only 25 years of age and then took the high-profile position of Vanity Fair editorship from 1984 to 1992.

Ellen Brown developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In Web of Debt, her international best-seller, Brown turns those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and "the money trust." Brown shows how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how "we the people" can get it back.

Harry Browne (June 17, 1933 – March 1, 2006) was a libertarian writer, free-market thinking analyst and inspirational speaker who wrote 19 books that sold over two million copies and ran for president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1996 and 2000. Browne co-founded the Downsize DC Foundation and hosted two weekly network shows, "The Libertarian Conversation" and "The Money Show."

A former Conservative Member of UK Parliament and graduate of the Harvard Business School, John Browne is an economist, investment adviser, nationally recognized weekly op-ed columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, worldwide lecturer on various political, economic, financial and defense issues and Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.