Showing posts with label South African Reserve Bank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South African Reserve Bank. Show all posts

South Africa: Land and Taxes Part 3: From the Reserve Bank to the president.

Because I'm so frustrated with the narrative of media coverage in SA, and the entire framing of issues in the minds of South Africans, I'm going to do a whole series of posts on Banks, Mines, The JSE, the bogus reasoning of all our political parties etc. I'll be attempting to completely reframe the way we think about things here in SA.

Do not believe the MSN that the ANC Government is fully in control of the nation, do not believe the "State Capture " MSM reports regarding former president Zuma. That is SA's "Russiagate" . Even though our central bank works differently,  which a limited dividend private sharhealing from the public domain to compliment the cabal control,  private shareholders have no say in policy, and despite media lies, the government is not in control of its mandate, and it has tried to influence the mandate only to be met with thinly veiled threats from the big capital interests to sink the Rand. 


Blue text is an active link. 


Just when I thought Rhamaphosa was coming right, three months after saying all the right things we are losing momentum again.  Bankster trained economists knee jerk reaction to nationalising the SARB is always the same, point to the Rand moving downwards on news (will always happen, but we need the appetite and courage to overcome little bumps if we deserve our sovereignty).  They will also point to "foreign investment" and the bankster run credit ratings agencies, the ones that rated all the junk stocks as Tripple ""AAA"" just before the 2008 crises.  All of these are strongarm tactics designed to maintain the globalist banker capture of our state, the real state capture.

Here he is getting it right 3 months ago:


But old habits die hard, and that inspiration seems to be fading, or he has once more been gotten to.

This article is about how the SARB, aided by commercial banks steals prosperity from us and our children whilst it transfers wealth from the common people, the taxpayers, to the global fat-cat elites (From whom Rhamaphosa professes to want to reclaim land, but in fact it works the other way around because home loans are not loaned from a capital or asset account but created by banks magically on their balance sheet and the new currency starts its life on the national balance sheet as debt owed by a citizen to a bank despite no loan occurring, yet there is somehow exorbitant interest attached to the "loan" and defaults are seized by the banks.  This is nothing more than wealth transfer.  We must not lose sight of the fact that ultimately its property and land that have value, not the paper fiat currency which is not backed by anything other than SARB inflationary overprinting and bank overlending) but in essence this method is used in all countries because the central bankers have control over the whole global currency system and use similar methods everywhere.  You cannot mine on anything but land, farm on anything but land, or live on anything but land.

Do not harbour under the illusions that "White Owned" or "Black Owned" political talking points have any bearing on our reality, now influenced more by globalization and colonial legacy far more than race-baiting political baiting.  The land issue can only be resolved after the Reserve bank is nationalised and the banks are reformed. But that is a global battle, not just a local, and we all know what happened to the last few countries who dared keep sovereign control of their central banks (I'll give you a clue, those countries were/are Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, and North Korea....)



Do not harbour under any illusions of SARB reform or Treasury reform is imminent.



Before reading this I suggest checking out my earlier articles on the SARB and money creation:
http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2015/11/exposing-south-african-reserve-bank.html
http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2016/04/the-sa-reserve-bank-67-tons-of-rands-on.html
https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2019/04/money-printing-for-dummies.html


Governments can never repay the national debt, this is by design, and must always pay for civil and other services by DEFICIT SPENDING (meaning borrowing the money from private banks like the SARB)  If the government could simply issue its own currency, there would be no steadily increasing national debt, and a balancing the budget without deficit spending would become a priority with a sound money Austrian Economics approach rather than a Globalist Keynesian approach. However, since we (or our government on our behalf) borrow from private banksters who act as brokers for bondholders, a fractional reserve style, liquidity gearing national debt is created and the majority of all our tax we pay every month goes to servicing the interest portion of the national debt and paying the banksters.  Let's be clear on that, our tax pays the banks. Because money is borrowed at interest there is never enough to service the principle "debt" and money must always be borrowed for this purpose. Only the interest is serviced and the principle is never resolved, that is the goal. As far as the mechanics of this chicanery is concerned, this is done by issuing treasury bonds sold to the "Primary Dealers" (International bankster cabal like the usual suspect Rothschilds; Rockefellers as well as those same interests behind JP Morgan Deutsche Bank, Investec ; Citi) as well as SA's big four banks who are also owned in part by the banksters who own the SARB by a similar system of shareholder arrangements that evolved over time by mergers and acquisitions. Only a small portion of public shareholders have Reserve bank shares and shareholder arrangments centre this control out of germany.

The Bonds are auctioned off every second Friday in South Africa:
https://www.jse.co.za/trade/debt-market/bonds/government-bonds
https://wwwrs.resbank.co.za/mcm/showcontrib.aspx?category=BA

And there are a few scant reports in the media about certain aspects of this corruption, but a poor understanding of a public primed to focus on other issues by the media means no real interest in the most important issue facing all of us every day, the hidden theft of most of our money.
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-13-jse-tackles-primary-dealers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_dealer

These primary dealers make a "Secondary Market" (IE make a further profit off us by privileged of the mandate of first creating money with interest to turn us into debt slaves servicing our national debt with tax, then selling the bonds at profit in a secondary market.

Once this happens the bonds ensure all debt by the future taxation of a nation's children to service the interest for the international banksters. That's why Government Bonds are such secure investments, they are guaranteed by taxation of the public. We are the surety, our blood sweat and tears insure their profit.  Because of technology, the inflation (hidden taxation and savings destroyer) that is eroding our standard of living, compensates for the productivity deficit that builds, but one salary is no longer enough and soon we will have to co-habitat because we will not be able to have families afford their own homes as money loses it's purchasing power.

This would all stop if we had taxpayer oversight instead of an "Independent" SARB, based on real money, a store of VALUE instead of fiat currency which is created from DEBT.  Fiat currency and Keynesian chicanery are how the banksters pull the wool over our eyes, and since CODESA the government are mere administrators, those that truly control our economy will never give it up because those are the people that destroy entire countries to bring their central banks under their control. They would likewise sooner destroy the country (or than return it to the citizens. Their MO is divide and conquer, so they would more likely get that country to destroy itself, and South Africa is rife with potential divisions to exploit.  It;s safe to say that Rhamaphosa will not take meaningful action against the SARB, and his nepotism is no better than Zuma's, but concerns should go beyond that, (relatively little attention has been paid to the fact that the Total discovery of a gas field south off Mossel Bay – which Ramaphosa and Gwede Mantashe expressed delight about, stands to benefit just one South African individual, businessman Phutuma Nhleko, to the tune of potentially hundreds of billions) and more.  Concerns should go beyond his being a member of the board at Lonmin (London Mining SA) and Marikana, beyond his time at MTM and McDonalds.  It should also look beyond his joint venture with coal cabal Glencore and the costly coal price weighing so heavily on South Africans for electricity generation and beyond the two decades he spent immersing himself in the world of capital finance, a world far from the base and much closer to the controlling Bank interests of the South African Reserve, who are the same interests behind the climate change behind the scenes restructuring of our economy at the cost to the people, and the same people whose renewable energy plans and climate change cabal fixing of the coal price have caused massive operational cost hikes in Eskom, all loosely aligned to form the real group who have no plans to give land back to South Africans, despite what the President says.  Those people may be laundered in with local JSE fatcats or corporate entities, but ultimately those are offshore interests, such as behind the banks, Anglo, farms/vineyards/paper forest plantations or our energy reserves which will not benefit the people but rather fall victim to nepotism or bankster cronyism, just like our money supply.

These interests are laughing at us, because while they and their ilk have a long history of this, their insiders like Trevor Manual the Rothschild man, Tito Mbowemi the Goldman sacks man, Pravin Ghordan and Rhamaphosa himself will focus on "Land Reform" being a divide and conquer strategy along racial lines, and to keep the presidents perception problem with the black vote at bay, South Africans are too busy fighting among themselves demographically to spot the unseen hand operating the levers from afar.

This was a continuation of post:
https://dwahts.blogspot.com/2019/06/south-africa-land-and-taxes-part-2.html

Ramaphosa backstory:

lesson 101
By
Mtho Sibiya Nge Khomo

Cyril Ramaphosa was recruited as a Spy from the Police Reservists in 1971 (his father was also an SAP).
His University fees were paid by Urban Foundation of the Oppenheimers. 
While he was in his 20s, the Transvaal Mining houses led by the Oppenheimers and the Menels, they made him the head of Africa's biggest union (founded by White mining bosses, the Rand Club): NUM. 
In 1990, Craig Williamson, the NIA spy who successfully infiltrated the ANC inserted Ramaphosa on the Mandela Welcoming/Reception Committee even though Ramaphosa was not a member of the ANC and was not known by UDF. 
Ramaphosa was entered into the ANC Elective Conference without Credentials (since he has joined the ANC that very year in 1991). 
Even though he was young and unknown, Ramaphosa won becoming the SG or main administrator of the ANC: effectively meaning the ANC was captured by the White Apartheid State through Ramaphosa. 
The Media suddenly claimed that he was Mandela's preferred successor (the same Media support he receives now).
In an old TV episode with Evita Bezeidenhod; Ramaphos is shown at a large farm with no explanation how he obtain the farm. 
Pro-Black parties such as the PAC, Azapo and BCM were killed off in favour of the captured ANC which Negotiated at CODESA on behalf of Black people with Ramaphosa as Chief Negotiator.
He delivered for White Apartheid beneficiaries by giving us a pro-White (Sunset Clauses) Canadian Constitution with European values and maintaining the Vestigates of Apartheid and colonial gain such as Land. 
Ramaphosa was awarded for his Double Agent work by being made a Billionaire. 
The ANC was pressured by Business to appoint Ramaphosa as Zuma's Deputy in order to attract business. 
When Zuma did do that; he was suddenly poisoned with the same GEM that killed Yasser Arafat. Zuma was saved by Russian doctors (and MaNtuli was blamed). 
Remember how the Rating Agencies and the Media was worked up to high Anti-Zuma hysteria which all died down when Ramaphosa took over



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Cryptocurrency And Blockchain News In South Africa. May 2018


Earlier this year, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) revealed its plans to launch an initiative called Project Khokha, to experiment with distributed ledger technologies.
The project’s goal is to replicate interbank clearing which currently runs on the South African Multiple Option Settlement system.
Click here. for the rest of the article on My Broadband.

Or here for a Steemit article regarding the SARB trialing Bankymoon.

SARS’S STANCE ON THE TAX TREATMENT OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES

PRETORIA, 06 April 2018 - The South African Revenue Service (SARS) will continue to apply normal income tax rules to cryptocurrencies and will expect affected taxpayers to declare cryptocurrency gains or losses as part of their taxable income.
Click Here. (Link to SARS website info)

Or

Click Here. (Find out how Luno helps you pay your taxes earned from Crypto gains)

And for general interest this article written by Kent Barton who believes the enemy of the Crypto community is not just the financial establishment:

"Let’s start with a simple and powerful premise: distributed computing has the potential to make the world a better and freer place.
Can this fast-evolving technology actually fulfill that grand promise? While early indicators are good, we also face a mortal enemy: ourselves.

State Capture VS State Capture

The Latest Capture by the Gupta's is a fart in the wind against the banksters

Amid all the talk lately in the SA media about the Gupta's and State Capture (all valid mind you) it's sometimes easy to forget that the Gupta's are rank amateurs in the art, we are already in the midst of a state capture going back more than a century.  A State Capture happened in South Africa, just as it happened in the US and elsewhere, when the nations central banks were made unaccountable to voters.  This meant that no matter which party rules, whoever is elected, the central banks cannot be voted in or out and they will remain in power lending to the nation state at interest for no other reason other than the mandate they have to print the nations money supply.  They will always work with a finance minister who bank-affiliated  and compliant National Treasury. The nation will therefore always remain at fiscal deficits and known bankster agencies such as Moody's will always make lending even more expensive on each downgrade ,earning ever more interest for the banksters printing that same money out of thin air (in the form of Treasury Bonds guaranteed by taxation placing the nations children on the hook as debt surety). They then simply "lend" that currency (not money - this is important) simply and lending to the state. the risk is moot since they create the money from nothing there is essentially no risk to think of.

The commercial banks issue the balance of the nations currency from debt issued to consumers, out of thin air, and charge interest on that too as if it were loaned out from a capital or assets account, which it is not.  Real money is not Fiat currency debt created out of thin air, real money (like gold and silver) is a store of value and can only be loaned out from real reserves, justifying interest for risk.  This could become as much a Banks VS Gupta's issue as with either of them VS the State and the people.

Money VS Currency

http://ewn.co.za/2016/09/09/I-cant-fix-Gupta-problem-with-banks

http://www.financialmail.co.za/opinion/bruceslist/2016/09/02/bruce-s-list-zwane-and-the-zuptas-zoom-in-on-banks

http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/how-south-african-reserve-bank-steals.html

The banksters will always have (de facto) agents just like Pravin Gordhan who own shares in the banks and have a conflict of interest between the banks and the nation, they have since Trevor Manual and before.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-30/manuel-joins-rothschild-after-leaving-politics-in-may

This is for certain no reason to resist the State Capture the Gupta's are engaged in currently, it's simply a call to remember that for every cent the Gupta's steal, the bankers steal a Rand. The Nations national debt payments mostly go to servicing debt,at interest, lending from private bankers that create money from nothing, something the state could just as easily do for itself interest free, this is why we cannot afford movements like #FeesMustFall, something the ANC promised voters more than a decade ago!

http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/precisely-how-do-banksters-financially.html
http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2016/05/money-creation-for-dummies.html

So next time we get up in arms about the Gupta's, keep at it, it's great we are finally learning, but ask yourself why you suddenly care?


Watch This!

The above clip from Mike Maloney, episode four in his excellent "Hidden Secrets Money" series (Watch them all!) puts in a better way than I have yet seen it explained, it's essential viewing.



How The South African Reserve Bank Steals From Your Children & Grandchildren

SARB Steals more than the ANC could ever hope to
This article is about how the SARB steals prosperity from us and our children, and transfers wealth from the common people, the taxpayers, to the global fat-cat elites (of which the ANC only get nickles & dimes and are far down the chain) but in essence this method is used in all countries because the central bankers have control over the whole global currency system and use similar methods everywhere.

Before reading this I suggest checking out my earlier articles on the SARB and money creation:
http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2015/11/exposing-south-african-reserve-bank.html
http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2016/04/the-sa-reserve-bank-67-tons-of-rands-on.html
http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2015/10/all-wars-are-banker-wars-and-today.html
http://dwahts.blogspot.co.za/2016/05/money-creation-for-dummies.html

Governments can never repay the national debt, this is by design, and must always pay for civil and other services by DEFICIT SPENDING (meaning borrowing the money from private banks like the SARB)  If the government could simply issue it's own currency, there would be no national debt, but because we (or our government on our behalf) borrows from private banksters, a NATIONAL DEBT is created and the majority of all our tax we pay every month goes to servicing this national debt and paying the banksters.  Lets be clear on that, our tax pays the banks. Because money is borrowed at interest there is never enough to service the debt and money must always be borrowed for this purpose. This is done by issuing treasury bonds sold to the "Primary Dealers" (International bankster cabal like the usual suspect Rothschilds & Rockerfellers as well as JP Morgan Deutsche Bank, Investec & Citi) as well as SA's big four banks who are also owned in part by the banksters who own the SARB by a similar system of shareholder arrangements that evolved over time by mergers and acquisitions.

The Bonds are auctioned off every second Friday in South Africa:
https://www.jse.co.za/trade/debt-market/bonds/government-bonds
https://wwwrs.resbank.co.za/mcm/showcontrib.aspx?category=BA

And there are a few scant reports in the media about certain aspects of this corruption, but poor understanding of a public primed to focus on other issues by the media means no real interest in the most important issue facing all of us everyday, the hidden theft of most of our money.
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-01-13-jse-tackles-primary-dealers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_dealer

These primary dealers make a "Secondary Market" (IE make further profit off us by privileged of mandate of first creating money with interest to turn us into debt slaves servicing our national debt with tax, then selling the bonds at profit in a secondary market.

Once this happens the bonds insure all debt by the future taxation of a nations children to service the interest for the international banksters. That's why Government Bonds are such secure investments, they are guaranteed by taxation of the public. We are the surety, our blood sweat and tears insure their profit.  Because of technology, the inflation (hidden taxation and savings destroyer) that is eroding our standard of living, compensates for the productivity deficit that builds, but one salary is no longer enough and soon we will have to co-habitat because we will not be able to have families afford their own homes as money loses it's purchasing power.

This will never stop until WE TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY like adults and jail these criminals instead of voting them into office as our leaders and bankers.

This would all stop if we had real money, a store of VALUE instead of fiat currency which is created from DEBT.  Fiat currency and Keynesian chicanery is how the banksters pull the wool over our eyes and my next article will explain why REAL MONEY will put a stop to this nonsense.















The SA Reserve Bank, 67 Tons Of Rands On Pallets, The CIA Plane, The Dead Body & The Emergency Stop In Harare En Route To Durban



Dripping blood, a severed arm, & 67 tons of cash on a CIA plane

The MD-11 wide-body cargo jet is enroute from Munich to Durban, South Africa carrying what will later be called a “diplomatic shipment” for the South African Reserve Bank.
44Initial reports state the plane made either A. an emergency landing at the airport in Harare, as stated in initial reports. Or B. making a routine scheduled refueling stop, according to a press release put out three days later by the owners of the plane.
 Would they risk refueling if they were doing something underhanded and didnt absolutely have to? 
Blood spotted dripping from US plane as investigators find dead body and suitcases stuffed with millions of rand on boardThe smart money was always on “A.”
The wide-body cargo plane impounded in Harare belongs to “Western Global Airlines,” a Florida airline that is the successor to a long-time CIA subsidiary which itself is no stranger to blood dripping down the fuselage.
“Western Global Airlines” was once known as “Southern Air Transport.”  The same management owns it today that brought Southern Air out of bankruptcy back in 2002. So the plane belongs to a CIA contractor.
When Western Global started service, the airline announced, but probably not tongue-in-cheek, that it would  “serve the major cargo centers of South America, where they will be flying from Colombia to Miami carrying cut flowers.”
CECIL-THE-LION2But there’s another reason that’s the real clincher: The crisis PR firm the airline hires to release the press release did PR for the Minnesota dentist who killed “Cecil the Lion.”
No wonders the American electorate in both parties is so worried about national decline.

“Somebody call the cops”

1When the ground crew at Harare International Airport comes out to refuel the plane, they’re horrified to see blood dripping down the fuselage. Apparently the plane’s crew dismisses it. Its led by two Americans, who claim they hit a bird earlier. Somebody calls the cops.
“The ground crew refueling the plane alerted local authorities,” the Zimbabwe Herald reported. “Drops of blood were coming from a door, and state security officials stationed at the airport insisted it be opened.”
They make the pilot climb up the fuselage, and open the door leaking blood. What he finds: an adult male. No bird. No feathers.
“For some reason the pilot first put on latex gloves, and then opened the door,  which is quite high up the aircraft,” an aviation insider told the Zimbabwe Herald. “And thwack, a fully clothed body of a black man fell out.”
“Thwack?” Okay. But the body only falls half-out, and for the next several hours the partially-severed arm of a dead man drips blood down the fuselage which wells into a puddle on the tarmac while things sort themselves out.
The crew probably now realize that they face a bit of a sticky wicket. A dead body onboard. Cause of death unknown. Name unknown. Nationality unknown.

Senior investigator’s got some big ones

CHARAMBA2In Harare, at the airport, “state security officials” means Charity Charamba. She recently put away some elephant hunters poaching ivory. Big, hairy looking dudes.
When Senior Investigator  Charamba arrives at the airport, and learns of the crew’s attempts to extricate themselves from the dripping blood thing by offering an alternative explanation, she orders the plane impounded, and the crew arrested or—accounts varied—detained. Until a post-mortem can be completed, she rules, the cargo plane will not be allowed to leave the country.
The decision can’t have been easy. Reporters have noted cars from the US embassy going in and out of the airport all day.
Sir-Mark-Thatcher-arrives-008
This is all big news at the airport in Zimbabwe. It’s the biggest thing to happen there since sixty mercenaries were busted in 2004—including, in absentia, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s son, Sir Mark—on their way to launch a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
Some of the coup plotters, like Simon Mann,  did “five years in hell,” as one of them put it, in  notorious Zimbabwe prison. Sir Mark, on the other hand, admitted guilt in South Africa, and paid a fine of $500,000.
His picture shows why. He’s got a head that’s too big to fail.
And this is germane because this is very much a story about the one percent.
Fisher IslandBoth of Western Global’s principals, for example, have owned homes on Miami’s exclusive Fisher Island.
When the brouhaha was all over six days later, the All Africa News Agency headline is “Cargo aircraft released, but questions remain.”
When CIA aviation assets are involved, that’s often the case.
 Six Days In February
SARBWhat’s interesting is what happens between the time the plane is busted, and the moment Zimbabwe police official Charity Charamba releases the plane after the autopsy of the unidentified body showed the cause of death was lack of oxygen, indicating the man was likely a stowaway.
First, there’s the money. The plane’s carrying a lot of it.
The next day, South Africa Reserve Bank spokesman in Durban say the bank is making frantic efforts to ensure that its cargo was released and transported to South Africa immediately.
The MD-11 aircraft was enroute from Munich to Durban, South Africa carrying a “diplomatic shipment” for the South African Reserve Bank,  said the bank in its initial press release.
What was initially a “diplomatic shipment “quickly becomes “millions of rands.”
MONEYThe Associated Press reports the plane is carrying “millions of rands,” the currency of South Africa, on its way to South Africa’s Central Bank.  A million rands, the report noted helpfully, was about US $60,000.
“Millions of rands,” the AP story seems to suggest,  means roughly several hundred thousand dollars.
Several hundred thousand dollars is an interesting aside., but no big deal, right? Every day, Goldman Sachs executives altogether probably spend more on lunch.
Still, despite the reported small sum, increasingly elaborate explanations are issued from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB).  On the third day after the jet was impounded the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) issued a statement admitting the plane was carrying more than a few million rand.
Zimbabwe US Jet Seized“The aircraft currently detained at Harare Airport is carrying a consignment of South African banknotes that was produced overseas as part of the SARB’s annual production plan, says their press release the next day.
“The bulk of the annual production of banknotes is done locally in South Africa and a small percentage is done offshore as part of the contingency plans of the SARB.”
The next day, there’s more:
“The SARB, in the normal course of its currency operations, adheres to sound business practices and has business contingency planning arrangements in place to secure a continued supply of banknotes to the economy. These arrangements are put in place to mitigate any major disruption in the domestic banknote operations.”
Why is mention of any of this necessary?  Had someone asked for an explanation for the cash, and found the answer unavailing?
Smanna (1)tacked on pallets in the cargo hold of Western Global Airlines MD-11 wide-body cargo plane is 57 tons of South African currency.
By the time the plane is released, that figures will have increased by another 10 tons.
In Zimbabwe, a country flirting with bankruptcy, chaos and starvation, it must have appeared as if manna had just rained from the skies.

Zimbabwe’s Big WTF moment

FireShot Screen Capture #1'Harare, Zimbabwe to Durban, South AfricaBut what was the plane doing landing in Harare in the first place?  Sources reported the US freight company had never landed in Harare before. The US pilot was unknown in aviation circles in Zimbabwe.
“The US pilot was “vague” about why he needed permission to land in Harare.  The transcripts show three requests and none are clear. But he was flying low and so probably did therefore use a lot of fuel,” law enforcement sources said.
The Herald reported “A Western Global Airlines MD-11 enroute from Germany to South Africa performed an emergency landing in Harare (Zimbabwe) after being denied landing in Maputo (Mozambique).”
Senior Police Official Charamba said, “The plane tried to land in Mozambique, ‘because of technical problems’ but was refused permission to land. Only then did it divert to Harare.”
She said the plane’s crew failed to contact their company so they could land at King Tshaka Airport in Durban.
Aviation sources on the Internet were puzzled. From Munich to Maputo, then backtrack to Harare instead of continuing on to Durban? (See map.)
Speculation in aviation circles in Harare is that the US crew was trying to dump the body over Mozambique but could not open the ENA door from inside the aircraft because of cabin pressure so landed to refuel in Harare and somehow dump the body after taking off again.
 Earliest lie in a story about the CIA?
Take the coverage in the New York Times.  Like a UFC fighter looking for the record for the earliest knockout, the paper lies in its very first sentence:
FireShot Screen Capture #1078 - 'U_S_-Owned Plane Carrying Corpse and Cash Is Impounded in Zimbabwe - The New York Times' - www_nytimes_com_2016_02_16Since The Times was shameless enough to lie in the lead, it should come as no surprise that they close with a pitch for those go-getters and real humanitarians at “Western Global Airlines.”
“Western Global Airlines, which is privately owned, advertises itself as one of the world’s fastest-growing low-cost air cargo companies, with clients around the world. It flew dozens of humanitarian missions to West Africa during the height of the Ebola crisis.”
Isn’t that getting a little old?
 Predatory rich, sure. But patriotic.
Headquarters“Western Global Airlines” is just the latest non-descript moniker (if it’s ‘Western, can it also be Global?’) slapped onto a cargo carrier that for decades has been hauling cargo for the CIA. The same management has managed to stay aboard through a bewildering number of name changes.
Western Global is two men: James K. Neff and Randall P. Fiorenza.
Let’s let the company’s own press tell part of the tale.  “Southern Air exits bankruptcy” reported finance and business magazine The Deal on August 20, 2003.
“Southern Air Inc., the successor to CIA-backed Southern Air Transport, has emerged from Chapter 11 as a scaled-down cargo carrier. Founder and CEO James Neff filed a $2.5 million claim for the only major secured debt.”
“The company transports freight for foreign carriers like Korean Air and Lufthansa, and has also done some work for the U.S. government, particularly the Department of Defense.”
Older Americans may be a bit harder to fool. They remember General Richard Secord, who owned Southern Air during the Iran Contra Scandal, when its C-123 and C-130 military cargo planes were flying weapons down to Central America from Mena Arkansas, and returning with cocaine.
Remember Barry Seal? “El Gordo?” In the upcoming “Mena” Seal is played by Tom Cruise, who looks like Seal might look… if he’d just been released after a year of starvation in a prison in  North Korea.

 “Cecil,We Hardly Knew Ye”
Cecil
While this story starts like a covert war thriller, it unfortunately ends on a note all too familiar to an American electorate uneasy at what it perceive to be our national decline.
On the second day after CIA-affiliated Western Global Airlines’ wide-body cargo jet was impounded in Zimbabwe, they hired a crisis public relations firm.
Austin & Associates put out a release denying the plane’s detour had been an emergency. The plane had made ‘a routine fuel stop’ in Zimbabwe. Said the release: “During a routine fuel stop in Zimbabwe, a body was found in the lower compartment. The body is presumed to be a stowaway who may have entered the airplane during a previous stop. The situation is currently under review.”
CIA lion
Incredibly, they chose the company that did crisis PR for a Minnesota dentist who killed Cecil the Lion during a hunting trip in Zimbabwe, an effort  that hadn’t worked out particularly well.
“On Tuesday, the world lost its collective mind – whatever is left of it, anyway – when media discovered the identity of the killer of a Zimbabwean named Cecil the Lion, ” said the industry  website, Everything PR.  “The man who shot Cecil is a dentist who paid $55,000 for a big game permit, then hired a guide to lure Cecil out from a protected area. For his craven behavior he was vilified all around the world. Lets hope Western Global Airlines, the sleazy airline with bleeding bodies, dead people and tons of cash fares no better.” Posted http://www.madcowprod.com/ on  by Daniel Hopsicker



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