Yes

I think both of your first two links go to the same item.

Not from here they don’t, have just tested them. Although with the second long link there are two pages that can be accessed, with the initial page ‘Hidden History’ having an icon which will send you to the ‘Prolonging The Agony’.

There are plenty of links to specific topic available from the left hand pane below the calendar.

Lionel, I think both of your first two links go to the same item.

Oh Rhodes:

Yes, he was a mining Magnate, but that was only because he was an Anglo-Saxon supremacist and imperialist — possibly the most imperial of all the imperialists ever who was not head of the colonizing state, exactly (though he sort of was). And as it happened, he and his people colonized the most mineral rich chunk of the Earth’s Surface, the Kaapvaal Craton.

He also tried to be a RR magnate and that had not gone so well, but that would have worked for him as well.

The Rhodes Scholarship was actually set up by him, though deployed by his estate after his death.

In South Africa one learns early on to always say his name as “Cecil John Rhodes” though I’m not sure why. The word “gift” or the phrase “gift to the people of [wherever]) is usually in the same sentence as his name. He fully understood the process of buying off society.

Sorry about the holdup! Excellent comment.

I took time to create a response on Rhodes and associates which seems to have been sent into a black hole. Not pleased!

Another avenue worth following is that explored by Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty in their books ‘Hidden History, The Secret Origins of the First World War’ and ‘ Prolonging The Agony: How International Bankers and their Political Partners Deliberately Extended WW1’ Find out about the activities of ‘The Relgus Three’ of Asquith, Grey (some very devious machinations by that fellow)and Haldane pre WW1 and on into the conflict.

Some will no doubt dismiss this as unfounded conspiracy theory, but event led credence, as doe the later awakening of US Marine Major general Smedley Butler in his memorable ‘War Is A Racket’.

A briefer account, for those in a hurry, which covers some of the same ground is,

‘Lord Milner’s Second War: The Rhodes-Milner Secret Society; The Origin of World War I; and the Start of the New World Order’ by John P. Cafferky..

I learned something from that: There are George C. Marshall scholarships, along with the Rhodes (named for mining magnate Cecil John Rhodes) and the Fulbright (named for Senator J. William Fulbright), which is a cultural exchange program.

http://www.marshallscholarship.org/