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COMMERCE SECRETARY HOWARD LUTNICK: The Khazarian Plant Secretly Directing The Global Trade & Tariff Wars<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howard Lutnick and the Commandeering of the Department of Commerce<\/h1>\n

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Trump\u2019s pick for Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, is poised to further facilitate the now long-standing, commandeered use of the Department of Commerce to engineer the rise of a global financial control system in private hands that runs on dollar-denominated debt.<\/h3>\n

by Mark Goodwin and by Whitney Webb
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On November 19, President-Elect Donald Trump\u00a0announced<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and co-chair of his transition team, would be his nominee for Commerce Secretary. Lutnick\u2019s company Cantor Fitzgerald and its subsidiaries are multinational in scope,\u00a0promote<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the implementation of the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals (which have major implications for\u00a0debt politics<\/u><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0economic activity<\/u><\/a>), and are even directly partnered with foreign state-owned firms that recently came under scrutiny following the release of the contents of the laptop of the current (and recently pardoned) First Son, Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n

Lutnick had previously been angling for a job as incoming Treasury Secretary, an unsurprising ambition given Cantor Fitzgerald\u2019s outsized role in the U.S. Treasury market (i.e. the U.S. government debt market) and its relationship to dollar stablecoins, which are rapidly becoming one of the main purchasers of U.S. debt. It is unknown currently why Lutnick was passed over for Treasury, despite endorsement for the position from Elon Musk and RFK Jr., and appointed to Commerce instead. However, Trump\u2019s previous Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross, was widely believed to have been given the role to repay a past favor of major significance. In Ross\u2019s case, it was his assistance in rescuing Trump from bankruptcy in the early 1990s. At the time, Ross worked for Rothschild Inc., and when clarifying why the European banking dynasty had bailed out the future President, Ross\u00a0stated<\/u><\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe Trump name is still very much an asset.\u201d Shortly before, Rothschild Inc. had been bankrolling the entry of Robert Maxwell, intelligence asset for Israel and arguably the Soviet Union, into the American economy, with a specific focus on New York City.<\/p>\n

During and following the campaign, Lutnick has been a major supporter of Trump\u2019s prospective plan to implement an extensive tariff regime in lieu of income tax. If confirmed, Lutnick will also oversee the approval of the export of sensitive technology of national security interest abroad, negotiate free trade agreements, and oversee the patents office, among other roles. While mainstream reports on his appointment have noted his \u201chawkish\u201d trade stance with China and his connections to the cryptocurrency agency, much has been left out about Lutnick, his current business entanglements and historical connections to intelligence networks that have sought to undermine the Commerce Department specifically to facilitate the transfer of sensitive U.S. military technology to ostensible adversary states, like China.<\/p>\n

Satellogic: Observation is Preservation<\/h2>\n

In exploring these issues, it is useful to look at one company now closely tied to Lutnick \u2013 Satellogic. Lutnick sits on Satellogic\u2019s board, as does former Treasury Secretary from the previous Trump administration Steve Mnuchin and former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, General Joe Dunford. Mnuchin and Dunford invested heavily in Satellogic through the private equity they now work for, Liberty Strategic Capital. Mnuchin has led that firm since its founding. Liberty Strategic Capital\u2019s first investment was in a controversial Israeli intelligence-linked cybersecurity firm called Cybereason. Cybereason\u2019s co-founder and CEO Lior Div\u00a0has described<\/u><\/a>\u00a0Cybereason as a continuation of his work in Israeli intelligence outfit Unit 8200, where Div worked on offensive cyber attacks targeting foreign nations. The firm became controversial in the lead-up to the 2020 election\u00a0for simulating<\/u><\/a>, along with U.S. security agencies like DHS, the necessary threshold of cyberattacks that would induce the cancellation of a U.S. presidential election and the imposition of martial law. Lutnick himself has significant ties to Israel and is a well-known billionaire mega-donor to Israeli and Zionist causes (discussed in detail later in this article).<\/p>\n

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Latin America is quietly being forced into a carbon market scheme through regional contractual obligations \u2013 enforced by the satellites of a US intelligence-linked firm \u2013 which seeks to create an inter-continental \u201csmart grid,\u201d erode national and local sovereignty, and link carbon-based life to the debt-based monetary system via a Bitcoin sidechain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Satellogic, for its part, employs a former Israeli intelligence officer, Aviv Cohen, as its head of \u201cspecial projects<\/u><\/a>.\u201d Cohen\u00a0previously co-founded<\/u><\/a>\u00a0Fraud Sciences Corp. with Unit 8200 alum Saar Wilf, which was later sold to PayPal and now forms the \u201cback-bone\u201d of its anti-fraud algorithm. Prior to that, Cohen worked for Core Security Technologies, the firm previously co-founded by Satellogic\u2019s co-founders that contracted for numerous U.S. intelligence and military agencies. Since we reported on Cohen\u2019s ties to Satellogic earlier this year in April, Satellogic has made Aviv Cohen\u2019s biography on the company website private.<\/p>\n

In an interview with\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0January 2022<\/u><\/a>, Lutnick and Mnuchin expressed the reasoning behind their venture into Satellogic via Liberty Strategic and CF Acquisition Group V, a subsidiary of Lutnick\u2019s Cantor Fitzgerald. \u201cWe felt that space and the satellites in particular is really the next coming gigantic market for data,\u201d explained Lutnick. \u201cI mean, to have images of the whole Earth \u2013 data on the whole Earth \u2013 the amount of decisions that will unlock, and the ability and the economics of how that will unlock, was extraordinary.\u201d Lutnick furthered that their proprietary lens technology allows customers of Satellogic to \u201ccount the containers on the ships,\u201d \u201ccount the cars,\u201d \u201ccount the trees,\u201d or \u201ccount the number of [panels] working and what\u2019s not working in a solar farm,\u201d which \u201cunlocks a vast, vast sea of opportunity in marketplaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same interview, Mnuchin expressed similar excitement about the opportunities downstream of such detailed Earth observational technology, but with a telling insight on how said data, when paired with artificial intelligence, can advance the interests of the national security state and increase government-led markets. \u201cWe\u2019re very focused on investments where not only can we bring capital but we can bring our expertise. And we\u2019re particularly focused on the technology area, national security, and other forms where we can add a lot of value,\u201d Mnuchin articulated. \u201cSo what we liked about this is great technology, very scalable, very affordable, and the combination of having a lot of data with a lot of AI really will enable both very big government markets, and more importantly, very big commercial markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lutnick\u2019s Cantor Fitzgerald, one of 24 primary dealers of the New York Federal Reserve, is no stranger to participating in the financing of the data broker industry, having given $100 million in equity financing to Near Intelligence Holdings\u2019 effort to go public in\u00a0May 2022<\/u><\/a>. Near was founded by Idealab\u2019s Bill Gross, the first institutional investor in PayPal, and currently boasts being \u201cthe world\u2019s largest source of intelligence on people, places and products.\u201d An\u00a0October 2023<\/u><\/a>\u00a0report by\u00a0the Wall Street Journa<\/em>l revealed that Near had \u201cprovided data to the U.S. military via a maze of obscure marketing companies, cutouts, and conduits to defense contractors.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Near business model operates in the shadows, feeding off data scraped from clever advertising mechanisms and unread user agreements behind mobile applications, Satellogic is directly attacking the billions of potential revenue from \u201ccreat[ing] all new types of markets\u201d downstream of \u201cscalable, affordable imagery,\u201d\u00a0according<\/u><\/a>\u00a0to Mnuchin. Lutnick, in the same conversation with\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em>, boasted that Satellogic can \u201ctake a video from space of more than a minute of an airport and tell you the brand of plane that is taking off,\u201d in his argument that \u201cthis kind of data is such a big market.\u201d Lutnick added that \u201cimagery from satellites\u201d is \u201cone of the world\u2019s great marketplaces.\u201d Echoing that same line of thinking, the former Treasury Secretary stated that he views Satellogic \u201cas more of a data company than necessarily just a space company,\u201d which can leverage \u201cvast amounts of data\u201d in order to \u201creally analyze climate issues, energy supply, food security,\u201d and \u201csupply chains.\u201d<\/p>\n

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