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Making Business like a Rothschild
by Gilad Atzmon
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
BBC reported yesterday that Financier Nathaniel Rothschild has lost his libel case against the Daily Mail following a 2010 story which he said portrayed him as a “puppet-master”.
The paper said Rothschild set up a meeting between then EU Trade Commissioner Lord Mandelson and Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska on the eve of a major trade deal.
Mr Rothschild, 40, had sought substantial damages over what he described as
“sustained and unjustified attacks”
by the Daily Mail in the piece published in May 2010.
The paper had said Mr Rothschild had fostered a relationship it believed to be inappropriate at that time between oligarchs Mr Deripaska and Lord Mandelson.
But Mr Rothschild said the trip to Abakan was purely social and involved himself, Lord Mandelson, Mr Deripaska, and two other men. He said the group visited a smelter facility, a sauna, partook in skiing, football, ice-hockey and Russian billiards.
The Daily Mail spokesman said the judgment vindicated the paper’s report.
He said:
Mr Justice Tugendhat accepted Mr Rothschild’s conduct had been inappropriate in a number of respects”
and had
brought Lord Mandelson’s public office and personal integrity into disrepute and exposed him to accusations of conflict of interest”.
This case is a reminder, at a time when newspapers are under attack for invading privacy, that the rich and powerful regularly use the law to prevent legitimate scrutiny of their activities. Had the Mail lost this case, it could have incurred costs of more than £1m.
I guess that the High Court of Justice gave a green light to British press to chase our corrupted politicians and financiers who clearly lack the capacity to restrain themselves.
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on February 11, 2012. Filed under Britain.
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Jonathon Blakeley
February 11, 2012 at 4:35 pm
Lord Mandelson (A.K.A ‘The Prince of Darkness’) & the Rothschilds have a long history. Not surprisingly what links them is their Jewish tribal loyalty above all else. Peter Mandelson’s dad was Jewish and called Tony, and he worked as the advertising manager at the Jewish Chronicle no less. Funnily the JC declare ‘Peter Mandelson’ to be 42% Jewish.
ariadna
February 11, 2012 at 5:37 pm
“Funnily”?
Mr. Blakeley, I will excuse your failure to appreciate the importance of determining the precise racial mix percentages in a person’s ancestry.
It’s not your fault that you were not born an American.
Here we have a long tradition in this regard with respect to black and white ancestry for example: 1/4 black makes a quartoon, 1/5 a quintaroon and 1/8 an octaroon.
I suspect that the terms fell into disuse not out of a significant change in attitudes as much as due to the decline in general education, especially the elimination of Latin as a subject, which rendered the terms obscure.
If PM’s father was Jewish but his mother was not he could not possibly be as much as 42% Jewish. In fact technically he would not be Jewish at all.
Somebody on his mother’s side, even just a twice removed cousin up high in the genealogic tree, barely holding on with one hand to a branch, must have been Jewish, which would explain the odd number.
But all that, I suspect, is over your head, regretfully.
Science –proper science, that is–may one day develop a test to count the numbers of Magen David cells in a blood sample and then we’ll have really precise percentages.
Jonathon Blakeley
February 11, 2012 at 6:08 pm
You right it is all over my head. I am only a simple Yorkshire man. (85% Yorkshire / 15% Jewish)
ariadna
February 11, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Always glad to help. Not to boast but we know best.
We even invented democracy. I didn’t know that but I was pleased to find out from a Hillary Clinton speech.