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by Des Griffin
(Condensed
from "Descent Into Slavery", Chapter Five)
from
Mega Website
For many years the words international
banker, Rothschild, Money and Gold
have held a mystical type of fascination for many people around the
world but particularly in the United States.
Over the years in the United States, the international bankers have
come in for a great deal of criticism by a wide variety of
individuals who have held high offices of public trust - men whose
opinions are worthy of note and whose responsibilities placed them
in positions where they knew what was going on behind the scenes in
politics and high finance.
President Andrew Jackson, the only one of our presidents
whose administration totally abolished the National Debt, condemned
the international bankers as a "den of vipers" which he was
determined to "rout out" of the fabric of American life. Jackson
claimed that if only the American people understood how these vipers
operated on the American scene "there would be a revolution before
morning."
Congressman Louis T. McFadden who, for more than ten years,
served as chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee, stated
that the international bankers are a,
"dark crew of financial pirates who
would cut a man’s throat to get a dollar out of his pocket...
They prey upon the people of these United States."
John F. Hylan, then mayor of New
York, said in 1911 that
"the real menace of our republic is
the invisible government which, like a giant octopus, sprawls
its slimy length over our city, state and nation. At the head is
a small group of banking houses, generally referred to as
’international bankers.’"
Were these leading public figures
correct in their assessment of the situation, or were they the
victims of some exotic form of paranoia?
Let’s examine history analytically and unemotionally and uncover the
facts. The truth, as it unfolds, will prove to be eye-opening and
educational to those who are seeking to more clearly understand the
mind-boggling events that have been (and are) taking place on the
national and international scenes.
HUMBLE BEGINNINGS
Europe, towards the end of the eighteenth century or at the time of
the American Revolution, was very different from what we know in the
same area today. It was composed of a combination of large and small
kingdoms, duchies and states which were constantly engaged in
squabbles among themselves. Most people were reduced to the level of
serfs - with no political rights. The meager ’privileges’ that were
granted to them by their ’owners’ could be withdrawn at a moment’s
notice.
It was during this period of time that a young man appeared on the
European scene who was to have a tremendous impact on the future
course of world history; his name was Mayer Amschel Bauer. In
later years his name, which he had changed, became synonymous with
wealth, power and influence. He was the first of the Rothschilds
- the first truly international banker!
Mayer Amschel Bauer was born in Frankfurt-On-The-Main in
Germany in 1743. He was the son of Moses Amschel Bauer, an
itinerant money lender and goldsmith who, tiring of his wanderings
in Eastern Europe, decided to settle down in the city where his
first son was born. He opened a shop, or counting house, on Judenstrasse (or Jew Street). Over the door
leading into the shop he placed a large Red Shield.
At a very early age Mayer Amschel Bauer showed that he
possessed immense intellectual ability, and his father spent much of
his time teaching him everything he could about the money lending
business, and the lessons he had learned from many sources. The
older Bauer originally hoped to have his son trained as a Rabbi but
the father’s untimely death put an end to such plans.
A few years after his father’s death Mayer Amschel Bauer went
to work as a clerk in a bank owned by the Oppenheimers in
Hannover. His superior ability was quickly recognized and his
advancement within the firm was swift. He was awarded a junior
partnership.
Shortly thereafter he returned to Frankfurt where he was able to
purchase the business his father had established in 1750. The big
Red Shield was still displayed over the door. Recognizing the true
significance of the Red Shield (his father had adopted
it as his emblem from the Red Flag which was the
emblem of the revolutionary minded Jews in Eastern Europe),
Mayer Amschel Bauer changed his name to Rothschild;
in this way the House of Rothschild came into being.
The base for a vast accumulation of wealth was laid during the 1760s
when Amschel Rothschild renewed his acquaintance with
General von Estorff for whom he ran errands while employed at
the Oppenheimer Bank.
When Rothschild discovered that the general, who was now
attached to the court of Prince William of Hanau, was
interested in rare coins he decided to take full advantage of the
situation. By offering valuable coins and trinkets at discount
prices he soon ingratiated himself with the general and other
influential members of the court.
One day he was ushered into the presence of Prince William
himself. His Highness bought a handle of his rarest medals and
coins. This was the first transaction between a Rothschild
and a head of state. Soon Rothschild was doing business with
other princes.
Before long Rothschild tried another ploy to secure an ’in’
with various local princes - and to further his own aims! He wrote
them letters that played on their princely vanity while asking them
for their patronage. A typical letter would read:
"It has been my particular high and
good fortune to serve your lofty princely Serenity at various
times and to your most gracious satisfaction. I stand ready to
exert all my energies and my entire fortune to serve your lofty
princely serenity whenever in future it shall please you to
command me. An especially powerful incentive to this end would
be given me if your lofty princely serenity were to distinguish
me with an appointment as one of your Highness’ Court Factors. I
am making bold to beg for this with the more confidence in the
assurance that by so doing I am not giving any trouble; while
for my part such a distinction would lift up my commercial
standing and be of help to me in many other ways that I feel
certain thereby to make my own way and fortune here in the city
of Frankfurt."
His tactics paid off. On September 21,
1769, Rothschild was able to nail a sign bearing the arms of
Hess-Hanau to the front of his shop. In gold characters it read:
"M. A. Rothschild, by
appointment court factor to his serene highness, Prince
William of Hanau."
In 1770 Rothschild married
Gutele Schnaper who was aged seventeen. They had a large family
consisting of five sons and five daughters. Their sons were Amschel,
Salomon, Nathan, Kalmann (Karl) and Jacob (James).
History records that William of Hanau, "whose crest had been
famous in Germany since the Middle Ages," was a dealer in human
flesh. For a price the Prince, who was closely related to the
various royal families of Europe, would rent out troops to any
nation. His best customer was the British government which wanted
troops for such projects as trying to keep the American colonists in
line.
He did exceptionally well with his ’rent-a-troop’ business. When he
died he left the largest fortune ever accumulated in Europe to that
time, $200,000,000. Rothschild biographer Frederic Morton
describes William as
"Europe’s most blue-cold blooded
loan shark" (The Rothschilds, Fawcett Crest, 1961, p.
40).
Rothschild became an agent for
this ’human cattle’ dealer. He must have worked diligently in his
new position of responsibility because, when William was
forced to flee to Denmark, he left 600,000 pounds (then valued at
$3,000,000) with Rothschild for safekeeping.
According to the late Commander William Guy Carr, who was an
Intelligence Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, and who had
excellent contacts in intelligence circles around the world, the
founder of the House of Rothschild drew up plans for
the creation of
the Illuminati and then
entrusted Adam Weishaupt with its organization and
development.
Sir Walter Scott, in the second volume of his Life of
Napoleon, states that the French Revolution was
planned by the Illuminati and was financed by the
money changers of Europe. Interestingly enough, the above book
(which this author has both seen and read) is the only book written
by Scott that is not listed under his name in any of the
’authoritative’ reference works. It is now a ’non book’!
"MORE BUSINESSLIKE" FACTS
For an account of what happened next we turn to the Jewish
Encyclopedia, 1905 edition, Volume 10, p. 494:
"According to legend this money was
hidden away in wine casks, and, escaping the search of
Napoleon’s soldiers when they entered Frankfort, was
restored intact in the same casks in 1814, when the elector
returned to the electorate. The facts are somewhat less
romantic, and more businesslike."
Pay particular attention to the last
nine words. They are loaded with significance. Here the leading
Jewish authority states that what Rothschild
actually did with the $3,000,000 was "more businesslike," from a
Jewish point of view, than what was stated in the legend.
The simple truth of the matter is that Rothschild embezzled
the money from Prince William. But even before the money
reached Rothschild it was not ’clean’ (or Kosherl). The vast sum had been paid to William of Hess
by the British government for the services of his soldiers. The
money was originally embezzled by William from his troops who
were legally entitled to it.
With the twice embezzled money as a solid foundation, Mayer
Amschel Rothschild decided to vastly expand his operations - and
become the first international banker.
A couple of years earlier Rothschild had sent his son,
Nathan, to England to take care of the family business in that
country. After a brief stay in Manchester, where he operated as a
merchant, Nathan, on instructions from his father, moved to London
and set up shop as a merchant banker. To get the operation under way
Rothschild gave his son the three million dollars he had
embezzled from William of Hess.
The Jewish Encyclopedia for 1905 tells us that
Nathan invested the loot in "gold from the East India company
knowing that it would be needed for Wellington’s peninsula
campaign." On the stolen money Nathan made
"no less than four profits:
(1) On the sale of
Wellington’s paper [which he bought at 50 cents on the
dollar and collected at par
(2) on the sale of gold
to Wellington
(3) on its repurchase
(4) on forwarding it to
Portugal. This was the beginning of the great fortunes of
the house"
(p. 494).
Yes, the Jewish Encyclopaedia
claims that the great fortune accumulated by the Rothschilds
over the years was based on the "businesslike" method of
fraud.
With their huge accumulation of ill-gotten gain the family
established branches of the House of Rothschild in
Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Naples. Rothschild placed a son in
charge of each branch.
-
Amschel was placed in
charge of the Berlin branch
-
Salomon was over the
Vienna branch
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Jacob (James) went to
Paris
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Kalmann (Karl) opened up
the Rothschild bank in Naples
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The headquarters
of the House of Rothschild was, and is, in
London
NATHAN
An anonymous contemporary described Nathan Rothschild as he
leaned against the ’Rothschild Piller’ at the London
Stock Exchange, hung his heavy hands into his pockets, and began to
release silent, motionless, implacable cunning:
"Eyes are usually called the windows
of the soul. But in Rothschild’s case you would conclude that
the windows are false ones, or that there was no soul to look
out of them. There comes not one pencil of light from the
interior, neither is there one gleam of that which comes from
without reflected in any direction. The whole puts you in mind
of an empty skin, and you wonder why it stands upright without
at least something in it. By and by another figure comes up to
it. It then steps two paces aside, and the most inquisitive
glance that you ever saw, and a glance more inquisitive than you
would ever have thought of, is drawn out of the fixed and leaden
eye, as if one were drawing a sword from a scabbard. The
visiting figure, which has the appearance of coming by accident
and not by design, stops just a second or two, in the course of
which looks are exchanged which, though you cannot translate,
you feel must be of most important meaning. After these the eyes
are sheathed up again, and the figure resumes its stony posture.
During the morning numbers of visitors come, all of whom meet
with a similar reception and vanish in a similar manner. Last of
all the figure itself vanishes, leaving you utterly at a loss."
(Frederic Morton, The
Rothschilds, p. 65)
MAYER AMSCHEL’S WILL
When he died on September 19, 1812, the founder of the
House of Rothschild left a will that was just days old.
In it, he laid down specific laws by which the House that bore his
name would operate in future year.
The laws were as follows:
(1) All key positions in the
House of Rothschild were to be held by members of
the family, and not by hired hands. Only male members of the
family were allowed to participate in the business. The eldest
son of the eldest son was to be the head of the family unless
the majority of the rest of the family agreed otherwise. It was
for this exceptional reason that Nathan, who was
particularly brilliant, was appointed head of the House of
Rothschild in 1812.
(2) The family was to intermarry with their own first
and second cousins, thus preserving the vast fortune. This
rule was strictly adhered to early on but later, when other rich
Jewish banking houses came on the scene, it was relaxed to allow
some of the Rothschilds to marry selected members of the
new elite.
(3) Amschel forbade his heirs,
"most explicitly, in any
circumstances whatever, to have any public inventory made by
the courts, or otherwise, of my estate .... Also I forbid
any legal action and any publication of the value of the
inheritance .... Anyone who disregards these provisions and
takes any kind of action which conflicts with them will
immediately be regarded as having disputed the will, and
shall suffer the consequences of so doing."
(4) Rothschild ordered a
perpetual family partnership and provided that the female
members of the family, their husbands and children should
receive their interest in the estate subject to the management
of the male members. They were to have no part in the management
of the business. Anyone who disputed this arrangement would lose
their interest in the Estate. (The last stipulation was
specifically designed to seal the mouths of anyone who might
feel like breaking with the family. Rothschild obviously felt
that there were a lot of things under the family ’rug’ that
should never see the light of day).
The mighty strength of the House
of Rothschild was based on a variety of important factors:
(A) Complete secrecy
resulting from total family control of all business dealings;
(B) An uncanny, one could almost say a supernatural
ability to see what lay ahead and to take full advantage of it.
The whole family was driven by an insatiable lust for the
accumulation of wealth and power, and
(C) Total ruthlessness in all business dealings.
Biographer Frederic Morton, in
The Rothschilds, tells us that Mayer Amschel Rothschild
and his five sons were "wizards" of finance, and "fiendish
calculators" who were motivated by a "demonic drive" to succeed in
their secret undertakings.
TALMUDIC INFLUENCE
From the same authoritative source we learn that,
"on Saturday evenings, when prayer
was done at the synagogue, Mayer would inveigle the rabbi
into his house. They would bend towards one another on the green
upholstery, sipping slowly at a glass of wine and argue about
first and last things deep into the night. Even on work days...
Mayer... was apt to tear down the big book of the
Talmud and recite from it... while the entire family
must sit stock still and listen"
(p. 31).
It could be said of the Rothschilds
that the "family that preys together stays together." And prey they
did! Morton states that it is difficult for the average
person to "comprehend Rothschild nor even the reason why he
having so much, wanted to conquer more." All five brothers were
imbued with this same spirit of cunning and conquest.
The Rothschilds formed no true friendships or
alliances. Their associates were but mere acquaintances who were
used to further the interests of the House of Rothschild,
and then thrown on the garbage heap of history when they had served
their purpose or outlived their usefulness.
The truth of this statement is demonstrated by another passage from
Frederic Morton’s book. He relates how, in 1806, Napoleon
declared that it was his,
"object to remove the house of
Hess-Cassel from rulership and to strike it out of the
list of powers."
"Thus Europe’s mightiest man decreed erasure of the rock on
which the new Rothschild firm had been built. Yet,
curiously, the bustle didn’t diminish at the house of the [Red]
Shield.... Rothschilds still sat, avid and
impenetrable, portfolios wedged between body and arm.
"They saw neither peace nor war, neither slogans or manifestos,
nor orders of the day, neither death nor glory. They saw none of
the things that blinded the world. They saw only steppingstones.
Prince William had been one. Napoleon would be the
next"
(pp. 38,39).
’Curious’? Not exactly! The House
of Rothschild was helping to finance the French dictator
and, as a result, had free access to French markets at all times.
Some years later, when both France and England were blockading each
other’s coast lines, the only merchants who were allowed to freely
run the blockades were - yes, you guessed it, the Rothschilds.
They were financing both sides!
"The efficiency which powered
Mayer’s sons brought on enormous economic spring cleaning: a
sweeping away of fiscal dead wood; a renovation of old credit
structures and an invention of new ones; a formation - implicit
in the sheer existence of five different Rothschild banks
in five different countries - of fresh money channels via
clearing-houses; a method of replacing the old unwieldy shipping
of gold bullion by a worldwide system of debits and credits.
"One of the greatest contributions was Nathan’s new
technique for floating international loans. He didn’t much care
to receive dividends in all sorts of strange and cumbersome
currencies.
"Now Nathan attracted him - the most powerful investment
source of the nineteenth century - by making foreign bonds
payable in Pounds Sterling" (p. 96).
THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO
As the wealth and power of the Rothschilds grew in size and
influence so did their intelligence gathering network. They had
their ’agents’ strategically located in all the capitals and trading
centers of Europe, gathering and developing various types of
intelligence. Like most family exploits, it was based on a
combination of very hard work and sheer cunning.
Their unique spy system started out when ’the boys’ began sending
messages to each other through a network of couriers. Soon it
developed into something much more elaborate, effective and far
reaching. It was a spy network par excellence. Its stunning speed
and effectiveness gave the Rothschilds a clear edge in all
their dealings on an international level.
"Rothschild coaches careened
down the highways; Rothschild boats set sail across the
Channel; Rothschild agents were swift shadows along the
streets. They carried cash, securities, letters and news. Above
all, news - the latest exclusive news to be vigorously processed
at stock market and commodity bourse.
"And there was no news more precious than the outcome at
Waterloo..."
(The Rothschilds p. 94).
Upon the battle of Waterloo
depended the future of the European continent. If the Grande Armée
of Napoleon emerged victorious France would be undisputed
master of all she surveyed on the European front. If Napoleon was
crushed into submission England would hold the balance of power in
Europe and would be in a position to greatly expand its sphere of
influence.
Historian John Reeves, a Rothschild partisan, reveals
in his book The Rothschilds, Financial Rulers of the Nations,
1887, page 167, that "one cause of his [Nathan’s] success was
the secrecy with which he shrouded, and the tortuous policy with
which he misled those who watched him the keenest."
There were vast fortunes to be made - and lost - on the outcome of
the Battle of Waterloo. The Stock Exchange in London
was at fever pitch as traders awaited news of the outcome of this
battle of the giants. If Britain lost, English consuls would plummet
to unprecedented depths. If Britain was victorious, the value of the
consul would leap to dizzying new heights.
As the two huge armies closed in for their battle to the death,
Nathan Rothschild had his agents working feverishly on both
sides of the line to gather the most accurate possible information
as the battle proceeded. Additional Rothschild agents were on hand
to carry the intelligence bulletins to a Rothschild command
post strategically located nearby.
Late on the afternoon of June 15, 1815, a Rothschild
representative jumped on board a specially chartered boat and headed
out into the channel in a hurried dash for the English coast. In his
possession was a top secret report from Rothschild’s secret service
agents on the progress of the crucial battle. This intelligence data
would prove indispensable to Nathan in making some vital decisions.
The special agent was met at Folkstone the following morning at dawn
by Nathan Rothschild himself. After quickly scanning the
highlights of the report Rothschild was on his way again,
speeding towards London and the Stock Exchange.
COUP OF COUPS
Arriving at the Exchange amid frantic speculation on the outcome of
the battle, Nathan took up his usual position beside the famous ’Rothschild
Pillar.’ Without a sign of emotion, without the slightest
change of facial expression the stony-faced, flint eyed chief of the
House of Rothschild gave a predetermined signal to his
agents who were stationed nearby.
Rothschild agents immediately began to dump consuls on the market.
As hundred of thousands of dollars worth of consuls poured onto the
market their value started to slide. Then they began to plummet.
Nathan continued to lean against ’his’ pillar, emotionless,
expressionless. He continued to sell, and sell and sell. Consuls
kept on falling. Word began to sweep through the Stock Exchange:
"Rothschild knows." "Rothschild knows." "Wellington has lost at
Waterloo."
The selling turned into a panic as people rushed to unload their
’worthless’ consuls or paper money for gold and silver in the hope
of retaining at least part of their wealth. Consuls continued their
nosedive towards oblivion. After several hours of feverish trading
the consul lay in ruins. It was selling for about five cents on the
dollar.
Nathan Rothschild, emotionless as ever, still leaned against
his pillar. He continued to give subtle signals. But these signals
were different. They were so subtly different that only the highly
trained Rothschild agents could detect the change. On the cue from
their boss, dozens of Rothschild agents made their way to the order
desks around the Exchange and bought every consul in sight for just
a ’song’!
A short time later the ’official’ news arrived in the British
capital. England was now the master of the European scene.
Within seconds the consul skyrocketed to above its original value.
As the significance of the British victory began to sink into the
public consciousness, the value of consuls rose even higher.
Napoleon had ’met his Waterloo.’ Nathan had bought
control of the British economy. Overnight, his already vast
fortune was multiplied twenty times over.
THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA
VOLUME X, 1905 (P. 494)
Owing to Napoleon’s seizure
of Holland in 1803, the leaders of the anti-Napoleonic league
chose Frankfort as a financial center where-from to obtain the
sinews of war. After the battle of Jena in 1806 the Landgrave of
Hesse-Cassel fled to Denmark, where he had already
deposited much of his wealth through the agency of Mayer
Amschel Rothschild, leaving in the hands of the latter
specie and works of art of the value of 600,000 pounds.
According to legend, these were hidden away in wine-casks, and,
escaping the search of Napoleon’s soldiers when they entered
Frankfort, were restored intact in the same casks in 1814, when
the elector returned to his electorate (see Marbot, "Memoirs,"
1891, i. 310-311).
The facts are somewhat less
romantic, and more business-like. Rothschild, so far from
being in danger, was on such good terms with Napoleon’s nominee,
Prince Dalberg, that he had been made in 1810 a member of
the Electoral College of Darmstadt. The elector’s money had been
sent to Nathan in London, who in 1808 utilized it to
purchase 800,000 pounds worth of gold from the East India
Company, knowing that it would be needed for Wellington’s
Peninsular campaign. He made no less than fonr profits on this:
(1) on the sale of
Wellington’s paper
(2) on the sale of
the gold to Wellington
(3) on its repurchase
(4) on forwarding it
to Portugal
This was the beginning of the great
fortunes of the house.
CLEAN UP IN FRANCE
Following their crushing defeat at Waterloo, the
French struggled to get back on their feet financially. In 1817 they
negotiated a substantial loan from the prestigious French banking
house of Ouvrard and from the well-known bankers
Baring Brothers of London. The Rothschilds had
been left on the outside looking in.
The following year the French government was in need of another
loan. As the bonds issued in 1817 with the help of Ouvrard
and Baring Brothers were increasing in value on the
Paris market, and in other European financial centers, it appeared
certain that the French government would retain the services of
these two distinguished banking houses.
The Rothschild brothers tried most of the gimmicks in their
vast repertoire to influence the French government to give them the
business. Their efforts were in vain.
The French aristocrats, who prided themselves on their elegance and
superior breeding, viewed the Rothschilds as mere peasants,
upstarts who needed to be kept in their place. The fact that the
Rothschilds had vast financial resources, lived in the most
luxurious homes and were attired in the most elegant and expensive
clothes obtainable cut no ice with the highly class conscious French
nobility. The Rothschilds were viewed as uncouth - lacking in
social graces. If we are to believe most historical accounts, their
appraisal of the first generation Rothschilds was probably
valid.
One major piece of armament in the Rothschild arsenal the
French had overlooked or ignored - their unprecedented cunning in
the use and manipulation of money.
On November 5, 1818, something very unexpected occurred. After a
year of steady appreciation the value of the French government bonds
began to fall. With each passing day the decline in their value
became more pronounced. Within a short space of time other
government securities began to suffer too.
The atmosphere in the court of Louis XVIII was tense. Grim
faced aristocrats pondered the fate of the country. They hoped for
the best but feared the worst! The only people around the French
court who weren’t deeply concerned were James and Karl
Rothschild. They smiled - but said nothing!
Slowly a sneaking suspicion began to take shape in the minds of some
onlookers. Could those Rothschild brothers be the cause of
the nation’s economic woes? Could they have secretly manipulated the
bond market and engineered the panic?
They had! During October 1818, Rothschild agents, using their
masters’ limitless reserves, had bought huge quantities of the
French government bonds issued through their rivals Ouvrard
and Baring Brothers. This caused the bonds to increase
in value. Then, on November 5th, they began to dump the bonds in
huge quantities on the open market in the main commercial centers of
Europe, throwing the market into a panic.
Suddenly the scene in the Aix palace changed. The Rothschilds,
who were patiently biding their time and waiting quietly in an ante
room, were ushered into the presence of the king. They were now the
center of attention. Their clothes were now the height of fashion.
"Their money [was] the darling of the best borrowers." The
Rothschilds had gained control of France... and control
is the name of the game!
Benjamin Disraeli, who was the prime minister of Britain,
wrote a novel titled Coningsby. The Jewish Encyclopedia,
Vol. 10, pp. 501, 5O2 describes the book as "an ideal portrait"
of the Rothschild Empire. Disraeli
characterized Nathan (in conjunction with his four brothers)
as,
"the lord and master of the money
markets of the world, and of course virtually lord and master of
everything else. He literally held the revenues of southern
Italy in pawn, and monarchs and ministers of all countries
courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions."
GROOMED "INAUDIBILITY AND
INVISIBILITY"
The financial coups performed by the Rothschilds in
England in 1815, and in France three years later, are just two of
the many they have staged worldwide over the years.
There has, however, been a major change in the tactics used to
fleece the public of their hard earned money. From being brazenly
open in their use and exploitation of people and nations, the
Rothschilds have shrunk from the limelight and now operate
through and behind a wide variety of fronts.
Their ’modern’ approach is explained by biographer Frederic
Morton:
"Rothschilds love to glisten.
But to the sorrow of the socially ambitious, Rothschilds
glisten only in camera, for and among their own kind.
"Their penchant for reticence seems to have grown in recent
generations. The founder of the house enjoined it a long time
ago; but some of his sons, while storming Europe’s innermost
bastions of power, wrapped their hands around every weapon,
including the rawest publicity. Today the family grooms the
inaudibility and invisibility of its presence. As a result, some
believe that little is left apart from a great legend. And the
Rothschilds are quite content to let legend be their
public relations.
"Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining
and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild.
Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and
never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other
report of their financial condition"
(The Rothschilds. pp. 18,
19).
Throughout their long history the
Rothschilds have gone to great lengths to create the impression
that they operate within the framework of ’democracy.’ This posture
is calculated to deceive, to lead people away from the fact that
their real aim is the elimination of all competition and the
creation of a world-wide monopoly. Hiding behind a multitude of
’fronts’ they have done a masterful job of deception.
ROTHSCHILDS AND AMERICA
It would be extraordinarily naïve to even consider the
possibility that a family as ambitious, as cunning and as
monopolistically minded as the Rothschilds could resist the
temptation of becoming heavily involved on the American front.
Following their conquest of Europe early in the 1800s, the
Rothschilds cast their covetous eyes on the most precious gem of
them all - the United States.
America was unique in modern history. It was only the second nation
in history that had ever been formed with the Bible as its law book.
[The United States was not formed
with the Bible as its law book. It was founded by Masonic
deists. Only low rank Masons respect the Bible and
consider it their law book; the Founders were
high rank Masons, and many professed their lack of respect
for the Bible. The writer probably means that the Colonies were
formed with the Bible as their law book, and this is basically
true. -Ed.]
Its uniquely magnificent Constitution was specifically designed to limit the power of
government and to keep its citizens free and prosperous. Its
citizens were basically industrious immigrants who ’yearned to
breath free’ and who asked nothing more than to be given the
opportunity to live and work in such a wonderfully stimulating
environment.
The results - the ’fruit’ - of such a unique experiment were so
indescribably brilliant that America became a legend around the
globe. Many millions across the far flung continents of the world
viewed America the Beautiful as the promised land.
The Big Bankers in Europe - the Rothschilds and
their cohorts - viewed the wonderful results borne by this unique
experiment from an entirely different perspective; they looked upon
it as a major threat to their future plans. The establishment Times
of London stated:
"If that mischievous financial
policy which had its origin in the North American Republic [i.e.
honest Constitutionally authorized no debt money] should become
indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish
its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be
without a debt [to the international bankers]. It will become
prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized
governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries
will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or
it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."
The Rothschilds and their
friends sent in their financial termites to destroy America because
it was becoming "prosperous beyond precedent."
The first documentable evidence of Rothschild involvement
in the financial affairs of the United States came in the late
1820s and early 1830s when the family, through their agent
Nicholas Biddie, fought to defeat Andrew Jackson’s move
to curtail the international bankers. The Rothschilds
lost the first round when in 1832, President Jackson vetoed
the move to renew the charter of the ’Bank of the United States’
(a central bank controlled by the international bankers). In 1836
the bank went out of business.
PLAN OF DESTRUCTION
In the years following Independence, a close business relationship
had developed between the cotton growing aristocracy in the South
and the cotton manufacturers in England. The European bankers
decided that this business connection was America’s Achilles Heel,
the door through which the young American Republic could be
successfully attacked and overcome.
The Illustrated University History, 1878, p. 504, tells us that the
southern states swarmed with British agents. These conspired with
local politicians to work against the best interests of the United
States. Their carefully sown and nurtured propaganda developed into
open rebellion and resulted in the secession of South Carolina on
December 29, 1860. Within weeks another six states joined the
conspiracy against the Union, and broke away to form the Confederate
States of America, with Jefferson Davis as President.
The plotters raided armies, seized forts, arsenals, mints and other
Union property. Even members of President Buchanan’s Cabinet
conspired to destroy the Union by damaging the public credit and
working to bankrupt the nation. Buchanan claimed to deplore
secession but took no steps to check it, even when a U.S. ship was
fired upon by South Carolina shore batteries.
Shortly thereafter Abraham Lincoln became President, being
inaugurated on March 4, 1861. Lincoln immediately ordered a
blockade on Southern ports, to cut off supplies that were pouring in
from Europe. The ’official’ date for the start of the Civil War is
given as April 12, 1861, when Fort Sumter in South Carolina was
bombarded by the Confederates, but it obviously began at a much
earlier date.
In December, 1861, large numbers of European Troops (British, French
and Spanish) poured into Mexico in defiance of the Monroe
Doctrine. This, together with widespread European aid to the
Confederacy strongly indicated that the Crown was preparing to enter
the war. The outlook for the North, and the future of the Union, was
bleak indeed.
In this hour of extreme crisis, Lincoln appealed to the
Crown’s perennial enemy, Russia, for assistance. When
the envelope containing Lincoln’s urgent appeal was given to
Czar Nicholas II, he weighed it unopened in his hand and
stated:
"Before we open this paper or know
its contents, we grant any request it may contain."
Unannounced, a Russian fleet under
Admiral Liviski, steamed into New York harbor on September 24,
1863, and anchored there. The Russian Pacific fleet, under
Admiral Popov, arrived in San Francisco on October 12. Of this
Russian act, Gideon Wells said:
"They arrived at the high tide of
the Confederacy and the low tide of the North, causing England
and France to hesitate long enough to turn the tide for the
North"
(Empire of "The City," p. 90).
History reveals that the Rothschilds
were heavily involved in financing both sides in the Civil War.
Lincoln put a damper on their activities when, in 1862 and
1863, he refused to pay the exorbitant rates of interest demanded by
the Rothschilds and issued constitutionally-authorized,
interest free United States notes. For this and other acts of
patriotism Lincoln was shot down in cold-blood by
John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, just five days after Lee
surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
Booth’s grand-daughter, Izola Forrester, states in
This One Mad Act that Lincoln’s assassin had been in
close contact with mysterious Europeans prior to the slaying, and
had made at least one trip to Europe. Following the killing,
Booth was whisked away to safety by members of the Knights
of the Golden Circle. According to the author, Booth
lived for many years following his disappearance.
INTERNATIONAL BANKERS PURSUE THEIR GOAL
Undaunted by their initial failures to destroy the United
States, the international bankers pursued their objective with
relentless zeal. Between the end of the Civil War and 1914, their
main agents in the United States were Kuhn, Loeb and Co.
and the J. P. Morgan Co.
A brief history of Kuhn, Loeb and Co. appeared in Newsweek
magazine on February 1, 1936:
"Abraham Kuhn and Solomon
Loeb were general merchandise merchants in Lafayette,
Indiana, in 1850. As usual in newly settled regions, most
transactions were on credit. They soon found out that they were
bankers... In 1867, they established Kuhn, Loeb and Co.,
bankers, in New York City, and took in a young German immigrant,
Jacob Schiff, as partner. Young Schiff had
important financial connections in Europe. After ten years,
Jacob Schiff was head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., Kuhn
having retired. Under Schiff’s guidance, the house
brought European capital into contact with American industry."
Schiff’s "important financial
connections in Europe" were the Rothschilds and their German
representatives, the M. M. Warburg Company of Hamburg and
Amsterdam. Within twenty years the Rothschilds, through
their Warburg-Schiff connection, had provided the capital
that enabled John D. Rockefeller to greatly expand his
Standard Oil empire. They also financed the activities of
Edward Harriman (Railroads) and Andrew Carnegie (Steel).
At the turn of the 20th century the Rothschilds, not
satisfied with the progress being made by their American operations,
sent one of their top experts, Paul Moritz Warburg, over to New York
to take direct charge of their assault upon the only true champion
of individual liberty and prosperity - the United States.
At a hearing of the House Committee on Banking and Currency in 1913,
Warburg revealed that he was,
"a member of the banking firm of
Kuhn, Loeb and Co. I came to this country in 1902,
having been born and educated in the banking business in
Hamburg, Germany, and studied banking in London and Paris, and
have gone all around the world...."
In the late 1800s, people didn’t study
banking in London and "all around the world" unless they had a
special mission to perform!
Early in 1907, Jacob Schiff, the Rothschild-owned boss
of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., in a speech to the New York Chamber of
Commerce, warned that,
"unless we have a Central Bank
with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going
to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its
history."
Shortly thereafter, the United States
plunged into a monetary crisis that had all the earmarks of a
skillfully planned Rothschild ’job.’ The ensuing panic
financially mined tens of thousands of innocent people across the
country - and made billions for the banking elite. The purpose for
the ’crisis’ was two-fold:
(1) To make a financial
’killing’ for the Insiders
(2) To impress on the
American people the ’great need’ for a central bank
Paul Warburg told the Banking and
Currency Committee:
"In the Panic of 1907, the first
suggestion I made was, ’let us have a national clearing house’
[Central Bank]. The Aldrich Plan [for a Central
Bank] contains many things that are simply fundamental rules of
banking. Your aim must be the same...."
Digging deep into their bag of deceitful
practices, the international bankers pulled off their greatest coup
to date - the creation of the privately owned
Federal Reserve System,
which placed control of the finances of the United States securely
in the hands of the power-crazed money monopolists. Paul Warburg
became the ’Fed’s’ first chairman!
Congressman Charles Lindbergh put his finger firmly on the
truth when he stated, just after the ’Federal’ Reserve Act was
passed by a depleted Congress on December 23, 1913:
"The Act establishes the most
gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson] signs this
Bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be
legalized....The greatest crime of the ages is perpetrated by
this banking and currency bill."
PLAN TO CONQUER THE WORLD
Having consolidated their financial grip on most of the European
nations by the middle of the last century, the international bankers
worked feverishly to extend their sphere of influence to the ends of
the earth in preparation for their final assault on the United
States - a nation which, through its unique Constitution, remained
free.
In the decades that followed it became apparent that, in order to
achieve their goal of world domination, they would have to instigate
a series of world wars which would result in leveling of the old
world in preparation for the construction of the
New World Order. This plan
was outlined in graphic detail by Albert Pike, the Sovereign
Grand Commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry and the top Illuminist in America.
In a letter to Guisseppe Mazzini dated August 15, 1871.
Pike stated that the first world war was to be fomented in order
to destroy Czarist Russia - and to place that vast land under the
direct control of Illuminati agents. Russia was then to be used as a
’bogey man’ to further the aims of
the Illuminati worldwide.
World War II was to be fomented through manipulation of the
differences that existed between the German Nationalists
and the Political Zionists. This was to result in an
expansion of Russian influence and the establishment of a
state of Israel in Palestine.
The Third World War was planned to result form the
differences stirred up by Illuminati agents between
the Zionists and the Arabs. The conflict
was planned to spread worldwide. The llluminati, said
the letter, planned to,
"unleash the Nihilists and Atheists"
and "provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its
horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute
atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then
everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against
the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those
destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned
with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that
moment be without compass [direction], anxious for an ideal, but
without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the
true light through the universal manifestation of the pure
doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the
public view, a manifestation which will result from the general
reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of
Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at
the same time."
At the time Pike wrote this
remarkable leaflet there were five different ideologies extant on
the world scene and involved in a "struggle for space and power."
These were:
1. The secret ideology of the
international bankers or the Illuminati as laid
out in Fourth Reich Of The Rich. Their aim was the
creation of a
One World Government to
be ruled over by the "Illuminated ones" at the
top.
2. The Russian "Pan-Slavic" ideology which was originally
conceived by William the Great and expounded in his will.
According to A.H. Granger, the author of England World
Empire, 1916, p. 173, this ideology called for the
elimination of Austria and Germany, then the conquest of India
and Persia and ends with the words: "...which will ensure the
subjugation of Europe."
3. The ideology of "Asia for the Asiatics" as
expounded by the Japanese. This called for a confederation of
Asian nations dominated by Japan.
4. The ideology of Pan Germanism which called for
German political control over the European continent, freedom
from the Crown’s restrictions on the high seas and the adoption
of an "open door" policy in trade and commerce with the rest of
the world.
5. Pan-American or the ideology of "America for
the Americans." This called for "trade and friendship with
all, alliances with none." Secretary of State Root stated
in 1906 that, under this ideology which was given expression in
the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, we are,
"debarred from sharing in the
political aims, interests, or responsibilities of Europe,
just as by the equally potential doctrine, now nearly a
century old, the European powers are excluded from sharing
or interfering in the political concerns of the sovereign
states of the Western Hemisphere."
If the plans of the international
banker/llluminati cabal were to be brought to fruition
Russia, Germany, Japan and the United surrender, poverty and
ignominy.
The llluminati plan for
world conquest, referred to by Albert Pike, was a diabolical
masterpiece of Luciferian ingenuity that would take
the lives of hundreds of millions of human beings and cost
hundred of billions of dollars in its accomplishment.
The plan that the Illuminati devised to accomplish
their world conquering goal is as simple as it is effective. Along
the way towards the accomplishment of their final objective this
plan has been adapted by the international bankers and their
comrades in arms around the globe to amass vast fortunes in real
estate. As we shall see, the implementation of the plan has been so
smoothly executed that it has frequently won applause from the ranks
of those it is destroying. Their plan can be called Urban
Renewal.
It has been said that there are three
types of people:
1. Those who make
things happen
2. Those who watch
things happen
3. Those who wonder
what happened
The vast majority of mankind
find themselves in the last two categories. Most have "eyes
to see" but don’t "see" what is happening. Most have "ears that
hear" but don’t "understand" what IS happening - LOCALLY, NATIONALLY
OR INTERNATIONALLY.
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