In my last note, I mentioned Armand Hammer, the industrialist who supported the Bolsheviks. Even though he is no longer around and causing trouble, his great grandson was recently given a part in a high-profile movie about the founding of Facebook.

Image: [right] Armand Hammer [1898 - 1990].

Jacob Schiff, the other Bolshevik supporter who I mentioned in my last note, has a descendant named Andrew who married Al Gore's daughter [I've added details and photos below].

Armie Hammer [Upper Left Photo]
Armie Hammer, age 24, is Armand Hammer's great grandson. In the 2010 film The Social Network, Armie plays Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss [with a body double].

Image: [right] The real Winklevoss twins.

The Winklevoss twins and Mark Zuckerberg were students at Harvard as Zuckerberg was creating the computer code for Facebook.

After the Facebook launch, the Winklevoss twins claimed that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social network and won a lawsuit for $65 million dollars. According to a November 15, 2010 Bloomberg report, Facebook is the third largest Internet company behind Amazon and Google. It is valued at $41 billion.

Image: [right] The real Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg's Wikipedia entry contains a photo of him at the World Economic Forum.

On September 22, 2010, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss appeared on the Today Show [right] to discuss why they are reopening their lawsuit against Facebook. The twins want the settlement vacated because they were misinformed about how much Facebook is worth.

Bramley on the Bolsheviks and Communism
Bramley's coverage of the Bolsheviks in The Gods of Eden is extensive. Here's an excerpt from his book that provides details about Stalin:

[p. 349] Under the Five Year Plan begun in 1928 by Stalin [right], all privately owned land was to be "collectivized," i.e., it was to be put under government ownership. Many peasants and landowners understandably resisted. Stalin's government responded by launching a program of mass murder similar to the French Reign of Terror. Peasants and landowners were targeted for physical extermination in order to seize their land and remove them as obstacles to communist utopia. This extermination campaign lasted from 1929 until 1934. Millions of people were murdered for no other crime than that they happened to own land.

The total death count between 1917 and 1950 as a direct and indirect result of the establishment of communism in Russia is estimated at roughly 34 to 40 million people. This is one of the largest mortality rates from any single episode in history. To this figure we should add the deaths associated with the establishment of communism in other countries, such as the two million land owners murdered in China during Mao Tse-Tung's crash industrial program of the 1950s, and the millions butchered ini Cambodia in the early 1970s under the Khmer Republic. In terms of the sheer number of lives lost, communism was one of the single most catastrophic events in human history.

Gore Hammer Connection
Numerous Web sites describe a connection between Armand Hammer and Al Gore. This photo of Armand Hammer and Al Gore standing in front of a photo of Joseph Stalin [right] provides evidence of the connection.

A WorldNetDaily article, published in 2000, says Gore is sensitive about his "Hammer Connection."

Jacob Schiff
Jacob Schiff [1847 - 1920] was a German-born New York City banker who, according to his grandson, also financed the Bolsheviks. Bramley describes Schiff as one of several German industrialists and financiers who supported the communist movement. He writes:

[p. 340] Jacob Schiff who, though an American, came from the same German family which has shared a house in Frankfurt generations earlier with the Rothschild family. According to Schiff's grandson, Schiff had loaned about twenty million dollars to the early communist government in Russia [to Levi Braunstein, also known as Trotsky, and Vladimir Ilich Blanc Ulanyoff, also known as Lenin].

In a 2006 USA Today article about Karenna's book called Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America, Andrew Schiff is described as a former doctor who manages a biotechnology investment fund. Karenna is quoted in the article as saying he has "gone over to the dark side."

Image: Al Gore and his wife Tipper arrive to attend the Nobel Peace Prize Banquet at the Grand Hotel in Oslo on December 10, 2007. Al Gore is the co-winner, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."

Connection to the Rothchilds
Andrew Schiff is Jacob Schiff's great, great grandson. New York Observer reporter Elon R. Green was not vague about the name of the biotechnology fund that Andrew manages.

According to Elon, Dr. Andrew (Drew) Schiff is a managing director at Perseus-Soros BioPharmaceutical Fund. The Biospace Web site provides this detail:

Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund, L.P. was established by Perseus, L.L.C. and Soros Private Funds Management. George Soros is a billionaire who Forbes says is worth $14 billion. His photograph [below, right] on his Wikipedia entry was taken at the World Economic Forum meeting in 2010.

Author F. William Engdahl has this to say about George Soros:

Soros has been identified as a front man of the Anglo-French Rothschild banking group. Understandably neither he nor the Rothschilds want this important fact to be public, so the tight links to his friends in the London 'City,' in the British foreign ministry, in the state of Israel and to his mighty friends in the American Establishment would stay concealed.

If Bramley and Engdahl are correct, Andrew Schiff, whose ancestors shared a house in Frankfurt with the Rothschilds, is in business with their front man, George Soros.

Mary Jo