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So, this is a continuation of a series of comments I left on McMartin cover up - important context found on Voat by Heisenberg123 viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2472 where I was looking at at Gallery Elena Shchukina London.
Paris has also been a featured artist with Gallery Elena Shchukina in Mayfair and Unit London, Soho, London.


Gallery Elena Schukina is an established Russian owned elite art gallery whereas Unit London Soho was started by a couple of millennials with no money but 'innovation and the internet' , so the fable goes. I thought I'd take a closer look at Unit.

Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt have found that a different approach can pay dividends. Only 27, and in business for less than four years, the old school friends run Unit London, a large gallery in the centre of Soho, and represent 12 artists, regularly selling their works for £20,000 to £30,000 and sometimes as much as £100,000. reports the Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/inst ... -ct7gtv9j7

Those two are suddenly everywhere and with no apparent financial backing.. within 4 years they are now ensconced at a premiere London address in Hanover Square https://www.thegentlemansjournal.com/ar ... stemakers/
Unit London is a contemporary art gallery in Mayfair’s Hanover Square, counting Vogue House and Sotheby’s as neighbours.
None of the many articles on these two give any background information on Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt .. However, an image search produces..

Jonny Burt with sister Georgia Pemberton and family attend the Unit London Mayfair Launch and Preview of Ryan Hewett The Garden at Unit London on June 26, 2018 in London, England. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/ne ... popup=true

Georgia Pemberton https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6900036/bio ... _ov_bio_sm
Georgia made her big break at the tender age of 10 years old by landing the role of Fiona in Tim Burtons cult film of 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children', in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox.

Following the success of the film, other theatre credits include the lead role of Blousey Brown In 'Bugsy Malone' at the Lyric Hammersmith, directed by Sean Holmes in 2016.

2017 saw Georgia originate the role of 'Pandora Brathwaite' in 'the secret Diary of Adrian Mole age 13 3/4' at the Munier chocolate factory directed by Luke Shepherd' Following this she can be heard on the original cast recording of T'he Secret Diary of Adrian Mole' that was released in 2018.

Georgia is represented in the UK by Frances Stevenson and Jessica Jackson at Curtis Brown Offices.
So, Curtis Brown Offices are the agents for our up and coming Brit movie star.. and suddenly her brother makes it big in the art world... coincidentally, of course..

CURTIS BROWN GROUP LIMITED : Persons with Significant Control
Curtis Brown Group Holdings Limited https://find-and-update.company-informa ... nt-control
Curtis Brown Group Holdings Limited : Persons with Significant Control
Original Talent Limited : Persons with Significant Control
Grabiner Cbg Llp : Persons with Significant Control https://find-and-update.company-informa ... nt-control
Mr Stephen Grabiner
Mr Daniel Grabiner
Stephen Grabiner joins Times board of directors https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/ ... imes-board
Former Daily Telegraph executive is first director appointed by Times Newspapers since departure of James Murdoch
2016, ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATION: GAVIN PATTERSON, CEO OF BT https://blakeezrablog.com/2016/05/17/bt/
Bright and early this morning, Blake was on his way into the City of London to photograph an exclusive breakfast event for our good friends at UK Israel Business, the bilateral Chamber of Commerce between Israel and the UK.

There are always brilliant businesspeople and top-level speakers when UK Israel Business are involved, and this event was no exception. Hosted by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, guest speaker was Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT and President of the Advertising Association, in conversation with media investor Stephen Grabiner. He answered a range of expertly-posed questions candidly and thoroughly, and graciously took questions from invited guests.
Gavin Patterson was/is also involved with Salesforce and the whole COVID19 mess, as well as CIA imho.. just search for his name here on Voat.

Polishing the 'jewel' that is the JC https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/polishing ... jc-1.54934
The JC celebrated its 175th anniversary with a reception that saw 300 guests pay tribute to the world's oldest, continuously published, Jewish newspaper.

JC luminaries, including past editors Geoffrey Paul and Ned Temko, mingled with politicians, businessmen and women, communal leaders and rabbinical figures from all denominations of Judaism.

In his speech, Stephen Grabiner, the chairman of the JC, reflected on lessons from the paper's coverage of significant events over the 175 years of its existence.
There's not much that I can find on Stephen Grabiner's background in the press, but at this point I think I can work out a lot of it.

I'll continue to look into who owns the media in the UK.

https://alanaai.com/about/stephen-grabiner/
Stephen is a private investor and a philanthropist. Between 1999 and 2010 he led the global media team and the London practice of Apax Partners. Prior to Apax, Stephen was chief executive of ONDigital Plc, a pay TV start-up, executive director of United Business Media Plc and managing director of the Telegraph Plc. Stephen is a National Independent Director of Times Newspapers Ltd.
Voat posts re Apax:

Whinge and Cringe, formerly known as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, at Baby 2 Baby charity event. B2B has connections to Tom Ford, Jeffrey Epsetin's neighbor and other pedos..https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3985034
Baby2Baby co-presidents: Co-Presidents: Kelly Sawyer Patricof & Norah Weinstein

Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, Zoe Saldana, Tom Ford among turnout for star-studded Baby2Baby Gala - https://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-b ... story.html

Tom Hanks reveals what BFF Tom Ford taught him about fashion - https://pagesix.com/2019/08/15/tom-hank ... t-fashion/

According to the article, Hanks, 63, and his wife, Rita Wilson, “are among Ford’s and Buckley’s closest friends in LA.”

You don't say...

Co-president Kelly Sawyer is the wife of Jamie Patricof : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Patricof

Jamie Patricof is a movie and television producer and co-founder of Electric City Entertainment..Born to Jewish parents, Jamie Patricof is the son of Alan Patricof, the founder of Apax Partners private equity firm, and Edythe Susan Patricof, sister of Craig Hatkoff.

Craig Hatkoffs sister Susan Patricof is a CFR member and an "overseer" for the International Rescue Commission (which resettles “refugees” in the West). She married Alan Patricof, founder of APAX Partners, one of the world's biggest private equity funds, who is a longtime Clinton friend even invited to Chelsea's wedding. He was also appointed by Bush then Obama to head a federal foreign aid organization (i.e. his discretion determined countries’ eligibility).

His kids: Jon Patricof was President and Chief Operating Officer of Tribeca Enterprises which oversees the popular Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film, and Tribeca Cinemas..Jamie Patricof is a co-founder of Electric City Entertainment, a production company based in Los Angeles.....He is married to former model Kelly Sawyer.
David Petraeus - ex - CIA chief, new media mogul in Eastern Europe. The complete investigation - On Soros and Telecommunications in Eastern Europe https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagateTNT/3200988/18443398
Intelsat Corporation—formerly INTEL-SAT, INTELSAT, Intelsat—is a communications satellite services provider. Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO, or INTELSAT), it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services.

John F. Kennedy instigated the creation of INTELSAT with his speech to the United Nations on the 25th of September 1961.[5] Less than a year later, John F. Kennedy signed the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. INTELSAT was originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) and operated from 1964 to 2001 as an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast services. In 2001, the international satellite market was fully commercialized, and the US predominant role in INTELSAT was fully privatized after 2001 as Intelsat was formed up as a private Luxembourg corporation.

Intelsat was sold for U.S. $3.1bn in January 2005 to four private equity firms: Madison Dearborn Partners, Apax Partners, Permira and Apollo Global Management. The company acquired PanAmSat on 3 July 2006, and is now the world's largest provider of fixed satellite services, operating a fleet of 52 satellites in prime orbital locations.
Creepy porn lawyer Avenatti arrested. Co-conspirator is attorney Mark Geragos who represents Jussie Smollett, Colin Kaepernick and Clare Bronfman of NXIVM! https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3120380/17657584
Sir Ronald Cohen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mourad_Cohen
He is the chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures.
The Portland Trust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Portland_Trust
The Portland Trust was founded in London in 2003 by Sir Ronald Cohen, co-founder and former chairman of the private equity firm Apax Partners, together with Sir Harry Solomon, co-founder and former chairman and CEO of Hillsdown Holdings.

The other trustees are Lord Freud, current Minister for Welfare Reform in the British government and former vice chairman of UBS Investment Banking, and Mick Davis, founding partner of x2 Resources.
Lord Freud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Freud,_Baron_Freud
Freud is the son of Walter Freud and a great-grandson of the physician and pioneering psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

In 2006, Freud was asked by Tony Blair to review the UK's welfare-to-work system. The Daily Telegraph said that Blair had been "impressed by his role in raising finance for Eurotunnel and EuroDisney" while at UBS.

After the Conservatives won the general election in May 2015, Freud was promoted to Minister of State at the DWP, where he was given an enhanced role in overseeing the expansion of the Universal Credit scheme.
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< Intelsat was sold for U.S. $3.1bn in January 2005 to four private equity firms: Madison Dearborn Partners, Apax Partners, Permira and Apollo Global Management. >

Voat posts re Madison Dearborn Partners :
Hampstead, Momentous Relocation, SERCO, G4S... SIRVA.. the business of moving people around... and some random coinky dinks. https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/2972344
May 2018: New Owner of Sirva Inc. Seeks to Boost Growth for Household Goods Mover https://www.ttnews.com/articles/investm ... uire-sirva
Private-equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners did not disclose how much it paid for Sirva....Sirva, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., is a holding company for Allied Van Lines and North American Van Lines in the United States and Allied Pickfords in the United Kingdom. The company also operates a self-storage container moving business called Smartbox Solutions and provides relocation management and financial services.
Related vost posts:

John Podesta, BAM, Blackstone fraudulently stealing from taxpayers & shareholders by @Piscina https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/1874215
Larry Summers was Obama’s Chief of the National Economic Council; was a leading voice within the Clinton Administration; appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs and later in the United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. Summers was hired as a part- time managing director of the New York-based hedge fund D. E. Shaw for which he received $5 million in salary and other compensation.” DE Shaw was the majority owner of First Wind. Madison Dearborn Partners and its employees were the No. 2 donor to Rahm Emanuel's campaign. Dearborn Partners was the second largest owner of First Wind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Dearborn_Partners
Madison Dearborn Partners was founded in 1992 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. The founders, John A Canning Jr, Paul J. Finnegan, Samuel M. Mencoff, and Nicholas W. Alexos had previously made private equity investments for First Chicago Bank...

In 1998, the firm bought Reiman Publications, based in Greendale, Wisconsin, from Roy Reiman for $640 million. In 2002, the firm sold Reiman Publications to Reader's Digest Association.

In 2007, the firm joined forces with Michael Eisner's Tornante investment company to buy out baseball card maker The Topps Company.... On June 30, 2007, Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) announced that the company entered into a definitive agreement for BCE to be acquired pursuant to a plan of arrangement by an investor group led by Teachers Private Capital, the private investment arm of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Madison Dearborn Partners.
Paul J. Finnegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Finnegan
Paul James Finnegan (born 1953) is a Chicago-based investor and philanthropist. In 1992, he co-founded Madison Dearborn Partners and currently serves as the firm's co-CEO, and since 2014, has served as the Treasurer of the Harvard Corporation and the Chair of the Harvard Management Company...

Finnegan is also a director at AIA Corporation, CDW, Government Sourcing Solutions LLC, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
https://www.marketscreener.com/business ... biography/

CDW Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDW
CDW Corporation, headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois, is a provider of technology products and services for business, government and education. The company has a secondary division known as CDW-G, devoted solely to United States governmental entities, such as K-12 schools, universities, non-profit healthcare organizations, State & Local and the Federal government.

On 12 October 2007, Chicago based private equity firms Madison Dearborn Partners and Providence Equity Partners completed a $7 billion acquisition of CDW.

Berbee Information Networks Corporation
Berbee Information Networks Corporation, an American company specializing in IT, was purchased by CDW in 2006. Prior to that it was a privately held company headquartered in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.

CDW Non-Profit, a sector founded in 2007, assists in providing affordable technology tools and services to associations, foundations, governmental departments, religious and social service organizations.[12] The Brookings Institution, Salvation Army, PCAOB, Aids Healthcare Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Heart Association are some of their clients.
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Permira buys back NDS from Cisco for $1b https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-perm ... 1001233827
The fall in value of the Jerusalem based TV software solutions company, which was acquired by Cisco in 2012 for $5 billion, is due to changing consumer TV habits.
Private equity fund Permira has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions (SPVSS) business (formerly known as NDS). Following completion of the deal, Permira Fund will create a new, rebranded company focused on developing and delivering video solutions for the Pay-TV industry.

No financial details were disclosed but sources close to the deal say that Permira will be paying Cisco about $1 billion. The deal ends an unprofitable chapter for Cisco, which acquired NDS from Permira and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 2012 for $5 billion. Changes in the way people consume television have contributed to NDS's fall in value as the Jerusalem based company's customers are traditional cable and satellite TV providers.

Video industry leader Dr. Abe Peled, former chairman and CEO of NDS and adviser to the Permira Funds, will serve as chairman of the new company. The sale of the Cisco SPVSS business has been approved by Cisco’s board of directors.

The new company will encompass a broad portfolio, including Cisco’s Infinite Video Platform, cloud digital video recording, video processing, video security, video middleware, and services groups.

..Permira has in the past held a controlling stake in Israeli drip irrigation systems provider Netafim.

Permira post:

Russia Russia Russia https://searchvoat.co/v/ictory/3824007
Almost lost among the many revelations is the fact that Russia’s biggest bank uses The Podesta Group as its lobbyist in Washington, D.C. ...

As reported at the end of March, the Podesta Group registered with the U.S. Government as a lobbyist for Sberbank, as required by law, naming three Podesta Group staffers: Tony Podesta plus Stephen Rademaker and David Adams, the last two former assistant secretaries of state..

American Billionaires Vanish From Russian Fund's Website https://archive.is/YgKSe
Blackstone Group founder Stephen Schwarzman, TPG founder David Bonderman and Apollo Global Management LLC founder Leon Black became advisers to the Russian Direct Investment Fund in 2011. ...

The photos and names of the international board members were removed from the fund's website after Kurt Björklund, the co-managing partner of London's Permira, resigned from the board and was removed from the list at the end of August. ...

Pictures of Martin Halusa, the chairman of London's Apax Partners LLP, and Joseph Schull the European chief of Warburg Pincus, have also disappeared from the Russian fund's website. They also declined to comment.
Kurt Bjorklund, co-managing partner of Permira Advisers, participates in a panel discussion titled "Rethinking Risk in the Boardroom" during day one of the 2010 World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. The organizing theme for this year's meeting is "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild."
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George Soros, at the same meeting https://files.catbox.moe/l82199.jpg
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January 20, 2010
Leaders to meet in Davos to "rebuild" the world https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/leaders-to ... ld/8130934

Rethinking global cooperation and business values will be at the heart of talks at the 40th World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos next week, say WEF executives.

The annual five-day brainstorming, which opens on January 27 in the eastern Swiss mountain resort, is due to attract 2,500 participants from more than 90 countries. Haiti and global warming will also be top agenda items.

World leaders and business figures will be meeting under the motto “Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild” to take stock in the aftermath of the deepest recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

“The world has fundamentally changed,” Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and executive chairman, told a Geneva news conference on Wednesday.
Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2009/09/ ... n-rebuild/
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2010, WEF https://www.norwegianamerican.com/world-economic-forum/
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon is in Davos attending the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. The forum is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a call to action: “Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild”..

Later in the week Crown Prince Haakon will take part in the group discussion “Values in Your Everyday Life”, and will serve as a one of the Discussion Leaders of the concluding session “The Global Agenda 2010: The View from Davos” on the meeting’s closing day...

The Crown Prince is attending the Annual Meeting in his role as a Young Global Leader. The Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGL) comprises leaders under the age of 40 and is the most important voice for young people in the World Economic Forum. The Crown Prince first attended the meeting in Davos in 2005.

During the past year, Crown Prince Haakon has been responsible for coordinating the YGL’s efforts under the Global Redesign Initiative...

In all, 3,000 experts and leaders have contributed their input to the Global Redesign process. The YGL’s activities, led by the Crown Prince, have focused on generating ideas within six areas: Values, Governance, Education & Youth, Health, Sustainability & Environment, and Strengthening Economies.

Concrete initiatives under development include:

The YGL Global Business Oath – an oath for business people modelled on the Hippocratic Oath.
  • Deworm the World – a project that provided treatment to 12 million children in 2009 alone.
  • Global Dignity – an initiative launched by the Crown Prince and two other co-founders that has to date promoted dialogue on dignity among young people in over 30 countries.
  • Table for Two – a mechanism for alleviating hunger. Every time you eat a healthy “Table for Two” meal at a participating company cafeteria or restaurant, a small contribution is donated to fund a school meal in a country suffering from hunger.
  • Promoting Democratic Values – articulating and sharing best practices.
On Thursday, 28 January, the Crown Prince will participate in a panel debate in his capacity as Chair of the YGL Global Redesign Task Force. The session will be moderated by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, former Administrator of UNDP and former UK Minister of State with responsibility for Africa, Asia and the UN.

The other panellists are Michael Froman (Deputy Assistant to the US President), Indra Nooyi (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo), Samir Al Rifai (Prime Minister of Jordan), and George Yeo Yong-Boon (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Singapore).
Posts re Prince Haakon:

Nicole Junkermann and her child's Vatican baptism https://searchvoat.co/v/thinkdrafts/4037547/25743637
..Holy Baptism of the small Life Ingrid Mila, daughter of Count Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti, oilman, President and CEO of the API Group (first private European oil group..present some great names of the Roman and European aristocracy and personalities of international finance and the jet set. Among others HRH Kyril Saxe-Coburg, son of the King of Bulgaria..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyril,_Prince_of_Preslav
On 28 October 1987, Kyril escorted fellow Princeton graduate Brooke Shields to a dinner/fashion show hosted by Christian Lacroix in New York City..He and his wife have been known to socialize with many celebrities and royalty, such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Hugh Grant, the Crown Prince Haakon Magnus and Mette Marit of Norway, as well as the Spanish royal family..

Kyril and his wife separated in 2009. Since 2017 he has been in a relationship with British businesswoman Katharine Butler. He is the godfather of Prince Aristidis-Stavros of Greece and Denmark, son of Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
Breaking News! You'll Never Guess WHO Just Claimed They've Come Down with Coronavirus! None other than Tom Hanks and his Wife! https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3700415/22869053
Royal family of Norway Royal family of Norway placed into quarantine

Voat post: Yet another Kevin Spacey Accuser Dies. https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3579410

Princess Mette-Marit and Prince Haakon holiday with Bill Gates https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2 ... ill-gates/
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Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit + Epstein https://searchvoat.co/v/thinkdrafts/3545279/21881596
https://www. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7747501/Norways-Crown-Princess-Mette-Marit-apologises-meeting-Jeffrey-Epstein-2008-conviction.html

https://imgur.com/a/N6OyItv Haakon Magnus (L), Crown Prince of Norway, inspects construction material as he visits the Carrefour-feuille slum of Port-au-Prince on October 31, 2012. The Prince visits Haiti to strengthening cooperation between the two countries, specially in the environmental sector where Norway has various projects in Haiti.
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A gentle reminder :
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/busi ... gates.html

Also in that photo was BORIS NIKOLIC, a Croatian MD who said later he had no business ties with Epstein despite being named in Epstein's will as executor of his property.

Nope, nothing to see here.. move along..

Need to do a deep dive on him later.. starting with his business ties to eGenesis https://www.egenesisbio.com/portfolio-i ... -m-church/

https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articl ... -civil-war
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