“I found this day The New Bohemian Puritan Church upon the union of Lady Erasmus, and Robert Wilson. The Evangelicals have launched a Catholic-like rebellion against a true Democracy that Pope Francis – must address! The Protestant Church of America is guilty of Popism, and must purge itself of Trumpism, the worst heresy ever to visit Christianity.“
John Presco 8/14/21
San Sebastian Avenue
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John Presco
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor and I descend from Baron Erkinger IV. Eramus of Senshiem, 1st Baron von Schwarzenberg, The Senshiem line is said to have become extant in 1967. However, while looking at my great grandparents, an amazing linage was generated via the computer. In summoning this linage I found my post that is PURE PROPHESY! It predicts the coming of Plan 2025 – that was in the works in 2021. Plan 2025 will destroy the alliance the U.S. has with NATO Allies, and end any private affair European Royalty – thinks they have with the American people. I will now explore the Family Tree of the Pezold family – that are my kin! The trunk of our tree is planted in the Czech Republic with the Von Rosenbergs. This name means…….Rose Mountain!
Aha! The Ol Wittelsbach Tree is on – The Move! Like – Bamboo roots. They are Europes Prime Weed! I wonder if they secretly back the Heritage Foundation?
John Von John ‘The Nazarite’
It is no surprise that German media dubbed this weekend’s nuptials of Ludwig to Helene von Pezold the ‘dream wedding of Kreuzwertheim’.
Louis, 29, – the hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg – and Helene, 28, the third of four daughters of Kilian von Pezold, certainly had a star-studded day.
Guests at the Protestant wedding in the Wertheim collegiate church – included Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria, Baroness Sophia and Baron Clemens von Elverfeldt.
Löwenstein-Wertheim was a county of the Holy Roman Empire, part of the Franconian Circle. It was formed from the counties of Löwenstein (based in the town of Löwenstein) and Wertheim (based in the town of Wertheim am Main) and from 1488 until 1806 ruled by the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim who are morganatic descendants (and the most senior line) of the Palatinate branch of the House of Wittelsbach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm,_Prince_of_L%C3%B6wenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg
Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House.
“I have no idea who is behind it,” the former president recently claimed on social media.
Many people Trump knows quite well are behind it.
Six of his former Cabinet secretaries helped write or collaborated on the 900-page playbook for a second Trump term published by the Heritage Foundation. Four individuals Trump nominated as ambassadors were also involved, along with several enforcers of his controversial immigration crackdown. And about 20 pages are credited to his first deputy chief of staff.
Lady Ada Antionette Erasmus
Posted on August 14, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
I found this day The New Bohemian Puritan Church upon the union of Lady Erasmus, and Robert Wilson. The Evangelicals have launched a Catholic-like rebellion against a true Democracy that Pope Francis – must address! The Protestant Church of America is guilty of Popism, and must purge itself of Trumpism, the worst heresy ever to visit Christianity.
I have paid for the book on the descendants of John Wilson, my alleged great grandfather. John was the leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. I believe the Neo-Confederate Evangelical Traitors have put together a family tree that they want to rule America in the name of Jesus – with. I claim the history of all writers and artists that have had the name BOHEMIAN placed next to their name. Because my newspaper Royal Rosamond Press was founded in Eugene after the Miller Brothers, it is the foremost Bohemian Newspaper in the history of America. My fathers people immigrated from Bohemia. Bohemians have a long history of opposing Papal-like rule, something the Pranksters and Deadheads do not have a clue how to fight. How about Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey? Did they author a great Bohemian Declaration before they died? How about Jack London who descends from Puritans?
John ‘The Puritan Prophet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkinger_I_von_Seinsheim,_Baron_of_Schwarzenberg
Lady Ada Antoinette Erasmus (1425–1460) • FamilySearch
The Life Summary of Ada Antoinette
When Lady Ada Antoinette Erasmus was born in 1425, in Cham, Bavaria, Germany, her father, Baron Erkinger IV. Eramus of Senshiem, 1st Baron von Schwarzenberg, was 63 and her mother, Princess Barbara von Abensberg, was 27. She married Sir John Robert Wilson II, Earl of Cuper, Burgess of Edinborough in 1445, in Canongate, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons. She died in 1460, in Cupar, Fife, Scotland, at the age of 35, and was buried in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
Wilson and Webb
Posted on March 5, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
My kindred, William Wilson, and his brother-in-law, Erasmus Webb may have known William Shakespeare – intimately! Anne (Webb) Wilson lived at Windsor Castle. Her brother, Erasmus, was the Archdeacon of Buckingham Palace. Are we looking at the authors of Shakespeare’s plays? Why has this family lineage been buried, and all but forgotten? These are extremely educated men, whose wives would be at court. They would know all the intrigues, and, hear confessions. They would know the merry wives of Windsor. People would bring them all the gossip that is the bane of the church, aimed at bringing other down as they vie for royal favors.
This bloodline flows from Bohemia and has seeded several major religions. This is the ‘Hidden Seed’. The Webb family came to America. In the chart below we see that Sir Alexander Webb married Mary Wilson, the daughter of Thomas Wilson MP, the grandfather (or Great Uncle?) of Reverend John Wilson of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, that the Webb family played a large role in. Shakespeare’s line, died out, and thus, this is his American Seed.
Statesman, Thomas Wilson MP, was a stellar scholar and author who could have prepared the way for the writing of Shakespeare. Why not put Alexander Webb is the race? Surely the Webb-Wilson family saw themselves as the family-power behind the Church and Throne, and in need of new forum.
“Wilson belongs to the second rank of Elizabethan statesmen. An able linguist, he had numerous acquaintances among Spanish and Flemish officials in the Netherlands, and, in a wider context, his range of friends included Leicester, Burghley, Hatton, Davison, Sir Francis Knollys, Paulet, Walsingham, William of Orange, Jewel, Parker, Parkhurst, Gresham, Ludovico Guiccardini and Arias Montano.”
http://webb.skinnerwebb.com/gpage1.html
https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Wilson-MP/6000000010886211061?through=6000000006520219276
John Presco
Copyright 2019
(November 26, 2018, London) — Steptoe has secured a further success at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for the von Pezold family in its long-running dispute against the government of Zimbabwe over its racially discriminatory land reform program, in the case of Bernhard von Pezold and Others v Zimbabwe, ICSID Case No. ARB/10/15.
By way of background, in July 2015, an ICSID tribunal awarded the von Pezold family the return of property and damages (alternatively $195 million in damages), plus their full legal costs and interest. The damages awarded were among the highest ever awarded by an ICSID tribunal and represent about 80% of the damages claimed, which is a very high ratio for ICSID arbitrations. In its award, the tribunal found that Zimbabwe had breached the bilateral investment treaties that it has with each of Germany and Switzerland when it expropriated the von Pezolds’ property in 2005 pursuant its Land Reform Programme, and also treated the von Pezolds unfairly and inequitably in regard to their foreign exchange earnings. The most significant finding of the award was that Zimbabwe expropriated the von Pezolds’ property because of the color of their skin.
Zimbabwe subsequently sought the annulment of that award.
On November 21, 2018, the ICSID annulment committee hearing Zimbabwe’s annulment application dismissed that application in its entirety, and ordered Zimbabwe to bear the costs of the proceedings. In its annulment application, Zimbabwe argued that the original tribunal denied it the right to be heard, and was partial as evidenced by its conduct at the oral hearing and due to the fact that the president of the tribunal was also the chair of the World Bank Sanctions Board. The annulment committee held as follows: The tribunal gave Zimbabwe ample opportunity to be heard; the parties do not have a right to an unlimited opportunity to be heard. The president of the tribunal disclosed during the arbitration his position as the chair of the sanctions board, but Zimbabwe failed to act on that information before the arbitration proceeding closed and therefore waived its right to do so.
The committee also noted that, in any event, the sanctions board cannot sanction states and that the sanctions board had not applied any sanctions to World Bank projects in Zimbabwe. There was no evidence on the record to indicate that the tribunal had been partial and indeed at the end of the arbitration hearing, when asked by the president, Zimbabwe confirmed that it had had its day in court and had been treated fairly. A fuller description of the annulment committee’s findings can be found in Steptoe’s November 26 client alert.
In response to the committee’s decision, Heinrich von Pezold commented: “After eight years of arbitration proceedings, the von Pezold family is relieved that the proceedings have been successfully concluded. There is a stark contrast on the one hand between the manner in which Zimbabwe has treated foreign investors whose property it has expropriated and on the other hand the often repeated promise of President Mnangagwa that ‘Zimbabwe is open for business.’ Foreign investors will not return to Zimbabwe if it does not honor its international obligations. As such, it is of great concern that, as a matter of international law, Zimbabwe is already in breach of its obligation to pay the full compensation due under the award, and that this breach has continued even after President Mnangagwa became president in November 2017. During the annulment phase of the arbitration proceedings, Zimbabwe has stated that it would honor the award if its application to annul the award failed. That application has now failed. In order for Zimbabwe to show its commitment to the rule of law, and willingness to engage with the international community, the von Pezolds call upon Zimbabwe to immediately honor the award per its obligations and promises.”
The Steptoe team representing the von Pezold family in this arbitration is led by partner Matthew Coleman with associates Helen Aldridge and Tom Innes.
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Published by: Andrew Mizner on 14/09/2017
Zimbabwe is in breach of two arbitral awards totalling USD 240 million, after it missed a deadline to pay investors whose land was seized as part of the government’s racially motivated land reforms.
Zimbabwe has failed to pay arbitral awards worth nearly USD 240 million to a family of Swiss-German investors whose land was seized by settlers and the government on racial grounds.
The von Pezold family and their company Border Timbers won twin awards against the Zimbabwean government at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in July 2015, worth USD 230 million in damages and interest, GBP 8 million (USD 10.7 million) in legal fees and ZAR 705,000 (USD 53,000) in experts’ fees.
The government has spent the subsequent two years trying to have the award annulled by an ICSID panel, a fight that will not be decided until the middle of 2018. In the meantime, it has missed a 23 August deadline to pay the awards, with the claimants now entitled to seek enforcement, although there is no word on whether they will attempt to do so between now and the annulment hearings in April next year.
In the early 2000s, against the backdrop of President Robert Mugabe’s land reforms, settlers invaded farmland owned by the von Pezolds and Border Timbers, and in 2005, the government took ownership of a large part of the land.
Border Timbers, Timber Products International, and Hangani Development v Zimbabwe was filed at ICSID, the World Bank’s dispute resolution body, in July 2010 under the 1996 bilateral investment treaty (BIT) between Zimbabwe and Switzerland, while Bernhard von Pezold v Zimbabwe was filed in December that year by Adam von Pezold, Anna Webber, Elisabeth von Pezold, Felix von Pezold, Heinrich von Pezold, Johann von Pezold and Maria Batthyàny under the Swiss BIT and the 1995 Zimbabwe-Germany BIT.
All parties agreed that the two cases would be heard as one, but that there would be separate awards.
ICSID convened a panel led by leading Canadian arbitration Yves Fortier, who was joined by Malawi’s Peter Mutharika and David Williams QC of New Zealand. Mutharika was replaced by An Chen of China in 2011, who in turn was replaced by Michael Hwang SC of Singapore in 2013.
Both claimants were represented by the London-based chair of Steptoe & Johnson’s investment treaty arbitration practice Matthew Coleman, along with associates Helen Aldridge and Thomas Innes, and Charles Verrill Jr from Wiley Rein in Washington, DC. Valuation work was done by Tony Levitt from the London office of RGL Forensics.
The awards were distinguished by the panel’s findings that the government policy was racially motivated against the landowners.
“It is the first investment treaty arbitration case that has held that a state has been engaged in discriminatory behaviour based on the colour of the investor’s skin,” says Coleman, speaking from his London office. “That is the most unique thing about it.”
Despite the high-profile nature of Mugabe’s land policy, it is only the third international tribunal to consider the policy, following a 2008 Southern African Development Community tribunal which decided in favour of white farmer Mike Campbell and a previous ICSID case, Funnekotter v Zimbabwe, on which Coleman also worked.
The von Pezold case, he says, is “the most comprehensive analysis of Zimbabwe’s land reform programme”.
Zimbabwe was represented by the Zimbabwean attorney general, which at the time of the hearings was Prince Machaya, and advisers from his department, the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Legal Affair Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They were joined by a team from Parisian firm Kimbrough & Associés, led by name partner and Texas native Philip Kimbrough and his colleague Tristan Moreau.
AWARDS AND ANNULMENTS
The panel awarded in favour of the claimants in both cases in July 2015. For the first time in ICSID history, a panel ordered the restitution of the property, or payment of confiscation. But in October that year, Zimbabwe filed for annulment under article 52 of the ICSID Convention, which applies if the tribunal was not properly constituted, exceeded its powers, was corrupt, departed from its own rules or gave an award without good reason.
Filing the annulment claim put an automatic stay on the enforcement of the award, and both sides then spent 2016 arguing over whether the award could be enforced while the annulment proceedings were pending, with the annulment committee ultimately deciding in April this year that it could be enforced, setting a deadline of 23 July – 90 days from the order – for the return of the confiscated property, or alternatively, of 22 August for the payment of compensation.
On 22 August, as the deadline expired, the committee rejected an application by Zimbabwe to extend the deadline, meaning that as of 23 August, Zimbabwe has been in breach of the award.
In the meantime, the annulment proceedings continue. Zimbabwe filed a memorial in June, with the claimants due to file theirs in early October. The two sides will then file responses either side of the New Year, ahead of an oral hearing in April 2018.
“The clients are very confident that the annulment applications made by Zimbabwe will fail,” says Coleman. “The grounds put forward are completely baseless, some are absolutely ridiculous and they will enforce the awards, they will be paid.”
“They are confident that the awards will either be paid voluntarily or more likely they will be successfully enforced,” he notes, citing Zimbabwe’s public assurances that it will honour the awards when the stay is lifted and if it loses the annulment proceedings.
Though Zimbabwe’s claims in the annulment proceeding remain confidential, it is understood that they involve attacks on the tribunal, particularly Fortier.
Coleman says this tactic “has become increasingly common, unsatisfied parties attacking the way in which the arbitral tribunals have conducted the proceedings”, as was highlighted by Orsolya Toth of Keble College, Oxford last year, speaking at CDR’s Winter Arbitration Symposium
While unable to comment on details, Coleman describes Zimbabwe’s attacks as “quite unique”.
Fortier chaired the three-person arbitral panel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration which in 2014 decided the world record USD 50 million arbitral award made against the government of Russia over the demise of Yukos.
That award was overturned by the District Court of The Hague in April last year on the grounds of jurisdiction, but that decision has been appealed and it is possible that at some stage either the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court of the Netherlands will hear Russian claims that Fortier delegated too much responsibility to tribunal secretary Martin Valasek.
In 2012, Fortier beat Venezuelan attempts to have him disqualified from hearing an ICSID case brought by ConocoPhillips.
Concluding, Coleman says: “The clients are very pleased with the success they have had to date. They are frustrated by the extent to which Zimbabwe has dragged out the proceedings in the past and these proceedings aren’t going particularly quickly either. The complaints during the arbitration were that Zimbabwe amended its case out of time in regards jurisdiction on numerous occasions, which meant that we lost several dates for the final hearing and the proceeding as a whole was extended by at least 18 months.”
Kimbrough & Associés did not respond to requests for comment.
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