MARCH 22, 2024 OPINION "This is a music article" ANONYMOUS It’s not incredibly comfortable to face reality at times, but some people just won’t hear the facts until it’s the end — too late. The problem is society often takes too much time and effort to discern the truth before it is able to apply intervention on ugly realities. The realities have been pretty ugly in the Middle East. In Palestine, the oppression is often met with dismissive attitudes instead of reflection. In other words, perhaps, a more intricate look at the finances of Zionism would prepare society to adapt for a new ending. A better one. Perhaps we should examine corruption from a different lens through linking participation in the Zionist movement with the music business. If we understood the business practices of these players, then we would be better able to adapt before the negative outcomes occur, even today. In the early 20th Century the copyright laws were in their nascent stages, but it was the player piano — the piano playing off perforated scrolls — that caused a conflict within influence on society but what people may not know is that Pannonica was born to the family responsible for creating the problems in the Middle East today —the Rothschild Banking Family. Her influence on the music industry is significant because her family’s wealth was responsible for renaissance-level accomplishments and corruption — ranging from biological organisms bearing their family name (e.g. Ornithoptera rothschildi) to war profiteering to the music business formation of the 20th century. It was not until 1954 when Prestige Records signed Mr. Monk, but in those 40 years Pannonica had been alive, her family was busy destabilizing governments and musicians alike. In order to understand a problem, the creative world: who earned the coins off the piano? The saloon owner? The person who composed the sheet music that went into the piano? Thus the royalty rates were born through the Copyright Act of 1909 and the establishment of American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1914. The jazz era was beginning and the relationships that came about in this era give us a rare look at the finances of the vanguards Zionism. Kathleen Annie Pannonica Koenigwarter was born four years before her jazz counterpart Thelonious Monk. The two shared a mutually fond relationship that funded the Jazz Bebop movement — she was largely liked by jazz people like Monk and Charlie Parker. They were infants when Zionism was beginning its of thorough research should be done inside and outside the context of the problem and its historical circumstances. In other words, to address the corruption surrounding Palestine, let us examine the money trail of this family in and outside of Palestine. In 1917, the Balfour Declaration was made: A letter from British politician Arthur Balfour to Walter Rothschild Jr. was the seed to establishing a colonial Jewish state in Palestine. This was Pannonica’s Uncle Walter, Charles Rothschild’s brother. Her father (Charles), her uncle Walter, her brother Victor, and her recently-deceased nephew Jacob, at different times, represented the banking dynasty, holding the title of Baron de Rothschild. As of February 26, 2024, her great-nephew, Jacob’s son Nat, became the new baron. These people are the most significant players in the creation of modern Zionism. They built the Israeli legislative house, the Knesset, and streets in Israel are named after them, which should indicate their major influence on the state, even today. Now it’s important that we investigate their contributions to the music business. If you played a soccer match and GROUNDCOVER NEWS 11 Thelonius Monk and Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica de Koenigswarter. Image from American Roots Music you lost, that imprints a memory, yes? The following match against the same opponent, what occurs? The following match you will try to adapt to eliminate the reasons you lost. Reality is if we have to wait till the end to learn the lessons, there will be a weaker grasp than if the learning commenced at the beginning. Today we stand in a world dominated by a money trail that can be almost impossible to track; however, with this information we have now, could we delve into Pannonica and her positive influences? Did Pannonica represent the same ideology? Being tied into the direct financiers of the State of Israel would highly suggest this is the case. How does her family’s involvement affect the music business today? Well, it entails the understanding of why we went from mechanical publishing to streaming. The era of digital copyright opened the floodgates to piracy that made it difficult for the corporations to manage their revenue streams, but what the lawsuits revealed were the heads of the music business and their ties to Zionism are quite prominent. Charles Bronfman Jr,. the former CEO of Warner Music Group and Seagrams heir, was the founder of Birthright Israel, the Zionist colonist project. It demonstrates the fact that if Zionist money has been and still is indeed the same money controlling Israel and the higher echelons of the music business perhaps the practices in Gaza and Music come from a similar place. I scoffed at the recent ironic legislation that Rashida Tlaib introduced to implement a rate of 1 cent a stream for the artists. The original rate was two cents and it got moved up to 8.1 cents by 1977. Imagine a business where someone collects your money for you — all of the money, before you see it. So you don’t know how much money was even earned in the first place. Then someone gives you an envelope and says “Here’s your take, be happy with it.” This article refelcts the opinion of the author, not Groundcover News. Logo of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ESSAY from last page coming of age through worldly deceptions caused by blinding social pain (betrayals happening like falling dominoes, mixed with soul-destroying verbal abuse, from the ages of 18 to 23), and started to not live fully for Yahweh after having already committed myself to Him. This fact was brought to my attention via a very rude awakening in my early thirties, which led me for the first time in over a decade to crack open the word of the Creator which is in the book collection we call the Bible. Having run the gamut, so to speak, I can relate to those who have lived for nothing but themselves while being subjected to the flow of causality that is called the zeitgeist; to becoming one who has personally applied faith in Messiah Yahshua (often considered an anachronism now); to one who has known what it means to struggle, even the reconciling of oneself; from life just breaking down amidst such opposing foundational backgrounds. It is within that picture of struggle, even potential reconciliation if dared, that society seems to find itself currently crescendoing in regards to the topics of homelessness and charity (let alone many of the other serious, parallel issues happening across the board in our current cultural consciousness). So, wherever you come from, whoever you are, and whatever your experiences thus far in life, I hope to have conveyed here a synopsis of not only my own personal life experiences plus travels as a street homeless person, but also to encourage you all, the readers, to reflect upon your own selves and situations in relation to these matters, along with the rest of these troubling times that we all communally share.
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