Global Custodians and 9-11

 by Judi McLeod & David Hawkins 

(David Hawkins, Foundation Scholar-Cambridge University, and founder of the Citizen's Association of Forensic Economists at Hawks’ CAFE, and CFP investigative journalist Judi McLeod, have teamed up to write a series of articles on the UN’s radical socialist agenda executed across Intranets and virtual private networks, operated by the self-styled "Global Custodians". A new feature of Canada Free Press, the ongoing series combines McLeod’s investigative experience and communication skills with Hawkins’ brilliant research linking $40 trillion hedge funds, via an online portal on the 79th floor of One World Trade Center, to "disruptive technologies" developed by Canada for alleged use in the UN Oil-for-Food scam, 9/11 and Kyoto fraud.) This is the seventh in the series.

Toronto, ON-- Buttonwood International Group is the undisputed watchtower when it comes to looking out for the best interests of the self-styled Global Custodians".

Boasting that its Global Custodian clients represent nearly $50-trillion assets in custody, Buttonwood represents Pooh-Bahs with enough cash reserves to rule the world. They pack the kind of power that United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s right hand man, Maurice Strong once fantasized about when he told a reporter about the potential held by a group of world leaders who could actually capture control of the world’s capital markets by preventing the world’s stock markets from closing. In more contemporary times, there are some quarters worrying that the Global Custodians may soon cut off the lines of credit to America’s capital markets in order to induce the kind of panic Strong fantasized about.

In more conventional pursuits, Buttonwood produces a monthly newsletter and an annual Global Custody Yearbook.

Prestigious Buttonwood offers password-enabled access to Global Custodians–and only to Global Custodians. Buttonwood’s impressive A-List includes:

• ABN AMRO Mellon Global Securities Service

• The Bank of New York

• Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

• BNP Paribas (media-identified as "Saddam Hussein’s favourite bank")

• Citibank, N.A.

• Deutsche Bank

• Investors Bank & Trust

• JP Morgan (alleged oil-for-food scam ties)

• Mellon Trust

• The Northern Trust Company

• Royal Trust

• State Street Corporation

Buttonwood’s blue-chip custodian client JP Morgan Chase & Co., the third-largest U.S. bank agreed only Tuesday to pay $2.2-billion to settle a class-action lawsuit over its role in helping Enron Corp. engineer an accounting fraud that bilked investors out of billions of dollars. (MyWay.com, June 14, 2005).

The agreement, confirmed by the bank and plaintiffs, represents the largest settlement deal in lawsuits against banks, advisers and Enron executives connected to the energy trader’s 2001 bankruptcy. It also comes just four days after Citigroup Inc., the parent of Citibank, another one of Buttonwood’s blue-chip custodian clients, and America’s largest financial services firm, agreed to pay investors $2-billion to settle another class action lawsuit over the Enron fraud.

In some respects, Buttonwood seems to be the Sherlock Holmes’s dog that didn’t bark when its Global Custodian clients began "breaking and entering" into the world’s capital markets in a spooky d»ja-vue enactment of Maurice Strong’s fantasy.

There are some intriguing questions relating to Buttonwood International and September 11, 2001.

Buttonwood’s August 2001 business address was One World Trade Center, Suite 7967.

A click onto the Buttonwood page for December 2001, just three months after the terrorist attacks is interesting: http://web.archive.org/web/20011202083232/http://www.buttonwood.com/.

Note the WTC photo icon below goes to a page dated 9/11 with these sad and scary words, "September 11, 2001: Buttonwood International’s office support staff was located on the 79th floor of One World Trade Center. As of today, we are unable to confirm that all personnel are safely evacuated." But the main page of December 2001 fails to state how many, or if any, Buttonwood employees died in World Trade Center 1. Curiously, Buttonwood a self-touted management consultant for Global Custodians seems to have ignored the catastrophic events of 9/11 and its impact on its $40 (now $50) trillion clients in the "global securities industry". http://web.archive.org/web/2002205135057/www.buttonwood.com/WTC 0913.html.

The post-9/11 address for Buttonwood is 20th Floor, 14, Wall Street, New York, N.Y.

The post-9/11 list of "Global Custodians" is the same today as it was in August 2001. 

In the Buttonwood oddities’ department, Buttonwood’s post 9/11 homepage was updated on December 25, 2001. How many giants in the corporate world were working in Cyberspace on Christmas Day?

Then there’s what appears to be the photo of an anguished human face superimposed against a drape or flag with the Twin Towers as a backdrop on the August 2001 Buttonwood home page. http://web.archive.org/web/20010820234206/http://www.buttonwood.com/index.htm.

Why would Buttonwood, management consultants to the Global Custodians, ignore the death or survival of their staff and the related 9/11 panic of the stock markets which could have netted Buttonwood insiders and clients a huge amount of money if they were "shorting" Enron, Dynergy, Qwest, WorldCom, Tyco and Nortel shares at the time of 9/11, or lost them a huge amount of money if they were going "long" at the time of 9/11?

Big question of the stock market intrigues of our day: Were Buttonwood’s Global Custodians short or long on Enron shares on September 11, 2001?