TL;DR
Andre Balazs is the owner of the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood that Q referenced in a post back on April 20, 2018. [1121272]
Nobody seems to have caught on to the fact that Balazs worked in the biotech industry before becoming a hotelier, which is HUGELY suspicious because the biotech industry relies on a constant supply of human tissue to make its products.
Let's look closer...
Andre Balazs' Background
Before he became a hotelier, Balazs worked at BioMatrix, his family's New Jersey based biotechnology company. [1]
Andre's grandfather Endre Balazs started the company up in 1981, where he developed a biomedical product that's manufactured out of hyaluronan, a "viscoelastic polysaccharide present in all tissues of the human body but in large amounts in the vitreous of the eye and the soft tissues of joints and skin." The process for making this product involves extracting the hyaluronan and purifying it in order to make a biomedical product used in surgery. [2]
Did you catch that? BioMatrix requires harvested human tissue to manufacture its products. Having worked there for his grandfather (probably in an administrative capacity, since he doesn’t appear to have any technical training), Andre Balazs would be familiar with the biotech industry and would probably have connections to companies that need tissue on a regular basis, as well as to tissue suppliers.
Andre Balazs married a woman named Katie Ford in 1985. [4] At the time of their marriage, Katie worked at her family's modeling agency, Ford Models, Inc. [8]
Balazs worked at BioMatrix until 1990 when he decided to venture into the hotel industry by buying the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. This was the first in a string of ritzy boutique hotels he has purchased over the years. [4] He opened the first Standard Hotel on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip in 1999, intending it to be an “affordable” if individualistic property, but the chain quickly attracted a high-end clientele. [19]
Meanwhile, Katie took over her family business in 1995, and as CEO she expanded it into a vast network of modeling scouts and recruiters that spans the globe, turning the business into one of the largest modeling agencies in the world with many high-end clients. [8]
BioMatrix was sold to Genzyme in 2000 for an estimated $738 million. [1] Endre Balazs, the owner of BioMatrix, was taken to court by Genzyme for artificially inflating the company's stock value in the months leading up to its sale in 2000. [3]
By 2010 Genzyme was the third largest biotech company in the world, with a presence in approximately 65 countries, including 17 manufacturing facilities and 9 genetic-testing laboratories, and employing over 11,000 people. They generated $3.8 billion in revenue in 2007. They’ve been buying up many smaller biotech companies over the years. [6]
In 2013, Balazs detached the Standard brand from Andre Balazs Properties, the company that holds his wider hotel and real estate empire. He formed a separate management company — Standard International — selling an 80% stake to a group of private individuals for an undisclosed price. [19]
In 2017, Balazs stepped down as chairman of the Standard Hotel brand, retaining a 20% share in Standard International and stakes in some of the individual hotels within that brand. He continued to own and manage other hotels outside of the Standard brand. [19]
Side Note: Standard Hotel employees were once caught dumping two 50-gallon drums of chemicals down a storm drain. One of the chemicals they were dumping - muriatic acid - is very similar to hydrochloric acid in that it can dissolve bone and tissue. [1]
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gogogogostop ago
More on Katie Ford
Katie Ford’s parents started Ford Modeling Inc. in 1946. Katie’s mother Eileen Ford had previously been working as a secretary for various friends who were models, and her husband Gerard stepped in to manage them when she became pregnant. Ford Models Inc. was established as a business soon after. In the 1970s, Ford Models introduced the first contracts for models to represent specific brands exclusively, with Revlon signing the first such contract. [21] This ties Ford Models and Katie Ford to the multi-billion dollar cosmetics industry and makes them heavily dependent on it for modeling contracts. Keep this in mind.
In 2004, Andre and Katie got divorced. [4] By this time, Ford Models was representing many high-end clients like Naomi Campbell and Kristy Brinkley. [8]
In 2007, Katie stepped down as CEO of Ford Models. In 2008, she decided to become an activist against human slavery after attending a UN human trafficking conference. [9]
A more recent 2018 interview with Katie reveals that she started her anti-trafficking crusade only after she was asked to speak at the UN's human trafficking conference in 2008, even though she admits she knew nothing at all about the subject at the time. [12]
What??? Why was she asked to speak? The UN is a very Satanic organization that the Deep State is a part of and has the same globalist agenda, so it's suspicious that she got involved in campaigning against human trafficking in the way she describes. I think there's an important connection here.
(Side Note: The United Nations was established to create a globalist society under a one-world government. Part of their agenda is to severely reduce the human population and eliminate ‘weak’ genetics from the human race. They facilitate this through such things as eugenics programs disguised as inoculation programs, which operate through orphanages, hospitals, refugee camps, etc. that have been set up in countries where birth records are not well maintained. Financial supporters for the globalist UN agenda include George Soros, the Bilderberg Group, Tavistock, CFR, Wall Street, etc. The use of NGOs that act as private functionary groups for the various UN programs allows these groups to be portrayed as humanitarian organizations while engaging in or serving as a cover for other activities.
In consideration of the UN’s globalist agenda and methods of operation, it appears that Katie Ford may have been brought in and used as a front and spokeswoman for one of these UN programs due to her popularity and connections.)
In the same interview, Katie describes how when she was younger, her family business would bring girls into the US from other countries, offering them "a hope and a dream" and "a better life financially" that "included stardom". [12] Isn't that what human trafficking victims are often told?
Soon after deciding to become an activist, Katie was made the Global Ambassador for an organization called Free the Slaves. [9] Free the Slaves advertises itself as a non-profit organization that saves, rehabilitates and educates slavery victims, while also conducting substantial advocacy on their behalf. [11]
Katie later started up her own non-profit organization, called the Katie Ford Foundation. [9] According to their marketing literature, the Katie Ford Foundation develops campaigns to raise awareness about human trafficking. Such campaigns have taken place in Montenegro, Ireland, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Malaysia and the Philippines. In addition to providing information about Free the Slaves, they partner with local anti-trafficking organizations that have a trafficking hotline. [10] This would put them in a strategic position if they were working for international human trafficking networks.
Free the Slaves co-founder Kevin Bales described Katie this way:
“Many activists are long on passion but short on strategy and organization. Katie’s got the skills of the business world combined with a sense of style.” [9] Scouting for and managing models could also come in handy when scouting for and managing sex slaves or future organ donors.
What other skills does Katie have that she can apply to fighting human trafficking? She points out that she has a knowledge of immigration laws from bringing models into the country, which she feels would be useful. [9] It's interesting that she already had experience in bringing people into the country and knew all the legal issues involved before she even started. Note that Free the Slaves doesn't advertise that it relocates people to other countries. So why does Katie consider this a useful skill?
Katie held a Free the Slaves benefit at Andre Balazs' Standard Hotel in New York on Oct. 20, 2010 to raise money from celebrities to help fight human slavery around the world. Andre was in attendance. [11] Nothing was said in the write-ups about what their fundraising goal was or how much they actually raised, and no explanation of what they intended to do with the money they raised - just a lot of celebrity names being dropped.
At some point, she also founded Freedom For All, another anti-trafficking foundation.
In the 2018 interview, Katie explained that her organization's activities consisted of working mainly in foreign counties where slavery is an internal problem. [12] These are places where poverty is extremely high and parents will often sell their children or even hand them over for free. Easy pickings for rich Americans who come with promises of a better life for these children. And nobody can keep an eye on what they're actually doing in these foreign countries or who might be working with them there.
She goes on to claim that with her partner organizations, she's been able to save over 10,000 people over the past few years. [12] No mention of who those partner organizations are, how many people her own organization was responsible for saving, or how they helped in saving them. Nor is there any mention of how much her foundation contributed in the way of funding. Just taking credit. And how does she know that all these people were actually saved?
Is Katie really rescuing human trafficking victims? Or is she providing a front for human traffickers? Is her foundation there to soak up donations that would otherwise be used to catch these human traffickers or save their victims? Do they use those donations to finance human trafficking operations? Does she play a part in something much bigger, related to UN-level operations?
Side Note: Remember Laura Silsby, who got caught trying to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti back in 2010? She was in heavy debt and had just lost her house to foreclosure when she headed to Haiti. Who prompted her with the idea to go, and who funded her? Was it one of these foundations? Why did the Clintons take such an interest in intervening in her case? What were Michael and Max Maccoby doing at that orphanage? Why does Silsby's story not stand up to scrutiny? Where was she really taking the children? For whom? What was she really involved in and how was it organized? Who were the masterminds? I don't think Laura even knew, because that's the way powerful people set these things up and that's why a lot of different people are used who you wouldn't think were involved because of their covers. Sometimes these people don't even know what they're involved in, and believe the cover story. Sometimes the cover story is exactly the opposite of what’s really going on.
We can't look at these people in isolation. We have to consider them in context to the bigger picture.
Truthseeker3000 ago
Katie Ford, daughter of Eileen Ford of Ford Models would know all about slave and child labor as her mother had underage girls living in her house in NY as up and coming models in the 80s and 90s. Beyond odd to say the least. The whole family is ass backwards. A lot of those same young 12 to 16 yr old models from way back then are pretty fucked up today. Wonder why.