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Billions In Blood Money Enjoyed by War Criminals’ Families
While you might not see them on Forbes’ list of wealthy people, criminals and their beneficiaries are some of the richest people on the planet.
For example, Bloomberg alleges that the heirs of a prominent Nazi are billionaires who own half of BMW who are also closely connected with Daimler. Four of the heirs are worth $1.2 billion each, and much of their wealth allegedly came from slave labor at German concentration camps.
Barclays, Chase, and the Bush family also made money hand over fist financing Hitler.
The Vatican has built a secret property empire worth close to a billion U.S. dollars using money Italian dictator Mussolini gave the church for blessing fascism.
Modern tyrants have gotten wealthy from oppressing people as well. For example, the family of U.S.-backed Egyptian dictator Mubarak holds $40-70 billion. Russian leader Putin also has a current net worth of $40 billion. (They pale in comparison to Libya’s Gaddafi, worth $200 billion.)
Indeed, given up to $32 trillion dollars are being hidden in offshore tax shelters, the amount of wealth accumulated through crime is nearly impossible to track.
What should have happened, of course, is that ill-gotten gains should have been clawed back from the criminals as soon as they were discovered, just as they should be clawed back from Wall Street fraudsters.
But that is not likely to happen, since many political and business leaders are unrepentant and unwilling to root out crime.
Indeed, when the elite profit from things such as laundering drug and terror money, funding both sides of wars and other unsavory acts, no one wants to stop the music.
Balzac may have been exaggerating when he said, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” There are some wealthy people who earned their money by honestly delivering a better or cheaper product or service.
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They weren't even Goebbels children. They were his wife's children from a prior marriage. The Quant family were industrialists from the 19th Century. The BMW Quants are not the ones the Bloomberg article was referring to, they have always been in the public eye. The so called "secret" billionaires are the ones who sold their stake in Daimler in the 70's.
Printing articles like this makes Bloomberg look like the National Enquirer of the Financial sector. Someone actually re-running it is twice as pathetic.
Because someone is distantly related to someone else isn't a story.
Every factory produces for a country during war time, it doesn't automatically make manufacturers war criminals. Prison populations are constantly used to produce goods, even during peace time.
Look at the USA, it's a booming business there.
"They pale in comparison to Libya’s Gaddafi, worth $200 billion"
I thought that Gaddafi was dead? Perhaps I got him mixed up with Elvis?
what happened to all that dough?CIA Swiss bank accounts maybe?
Most of his family survived ...
OK - so you meant his estate?
Yup ...
"Much of their wealth came from slave labor"
Apple
Yes - it was called the Marshall Plan. The slaves were US taxpayers!
As beaten as a dead horse, the late Major Gen. Smedley Butler USMC wrote "War is a Racket".
Take the profit out of war and there would be no war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
http://www.warisaracket.org/ - THE SMEDLEY BUTLER SOCIETY "WAR IS A RACKET"
War Is A Racket
by Major General Smedley D. Butler - USMC Retired
a Two-Time Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
“I spent 33 years in the Marines, most of my time being a high-class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for Capitalism.” — from War Is a Racket
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the
only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned
in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the
majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is
conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of
war a few people make huge fortunes.
Sometimes the cancer sneaks up on you and throws you out a window....
Steve Jobs is a descendant of the serpant who talked Eve into eating the apple.
Mercury is entirely correct. The Steves even let us know themselves. Checkout the price of the original Apple. And the garden of eden advertising campaign. And yes the prices you find on the pictures on the internet are real. I was there. I saw them first hand.
That wasn't an apple. It was knowledge.
It wasn't knowledge, they totally got it on. Maybe if someone took notes the kama sutra would have been around a few thousand years earlier.
You're both right.
It was the knowlege that sex was good.
It was knowledge of good and evil.
Ripping off stories from other sources does not make you a journalist, GW. Keep up the muckraking. Your stories are always half truths and sensationalisms. I will never understand why zh allows your Crap.
and yet...here you are?
Seriously everyone, go read the original goebbels story from the other day. It has almost nothing to do with goebbels except that their mother remarried goebbels. We all know war makes ultra billionaires, but GW always sensationalizes. Compared to all the brutal truth on zh, his stuff is amateur and caters to the stupid.
I'm thinking you REALLY are protesting too much.
Thank you for saying that I am not an accepted "journalist": In 1933, the American Press Was Proud that Hitler Adopted Its Propaganda Methods. Nothing Has Changed
I am not denying some thing are true. But for gods sake, some of your stuff is cut and pasted and over sensationalized. At least filter yourself for real truth.
lighten up on GW-at least he gets a man to thinkin'. if you don't like it don't read it- stick w/HuffPo,CNN, or NBC Nightly Bullshit -they'll do your thinkin' so you don't have to. keep up the good work GW. if this jagoff was still in Cuba Castro and his DGI would control what he could read,say and think.
I stopped reading his Crap last year. But clicked on this cuz I wanted to see how he ripped off a Bloomberg story. As usual he leaves at most of the facts to suit his taste. He always seems to try to cater to a zh mind. But he is a fake.
What facts does he leave out? Please supply a few.
feel free to stop sniping and start posting "the truth" so all of dumb 'ol mouthbreathers can unnerstan the wurld
what an unintelligent response. you are a fantastic critical thinker and debater.
your second sentence is spot on
I am only mildly surprised that everyone has missed my point. Instead of thinking of your next 2 second witty response, pause and think about my point. Just because you have been enlightened and realize the MSM is in bed with the elite, that power and wealth are all the politicans care about, and had your eyes opened to reality doesnt mean you need to stop thinking for yourself. Herd mentality and groupthink goes both ways. It would seem many of you are guilty of not criticially thinking and instead just assuming that every article on ZH is accurate and true. I merely pointed out that 90% of GW articles seem to be plagiarized from others. Time and again he cut and pastes other people's work and adds his own sensationlist touch, much as a grocery store checkout aisle rag does with simple stories.
I read almost every single article on ZH every single day. Most are good, some are great, others don't quite add up. One or two of these replies simply attack my zh screen name. Another somehow stretches to accuse me of working for the DHS. Really? Where in any of my replies did i stand up for big govt (left or right), ndaa, dhs, cia, fbi, etc etc? That's not even attempting to think. That's just a knee jerk, groupthink-produced response. I am the furthest thing from a communist, socialist, nazi, or liberal. But somehow, perhaps in an effort for instant gratification, you have chosen to try to be witty than try to understand my point. I wish you all luck. Just because you realize most things arent right in the world, doesnt mean you should stop educating yourself, arming yourself with truth, and preparing for when TSHTF. No one is infallible, certainly none of you.
And its funny how you think I am Cuban. My moniker has nothing to do with Cuba. He gets you thinking about the wrong things. He is. fraud pure and simple. Please try to critically think and don't assume just bc it is on zh it is fact.
whoever said that anything on ZH is fact-people are free to disseminate info AND think critically. how is he more of a fraud than the majority of fake,living-beyond-their-means broke-ass people in this broke-ass country?
his b.s. is just as dangerous as b.s. from the MSM. i am just saying dont read his stuff and assume it is as high quulity as all of Tyler's other articles and writers. of all the zh articles i read, his articles have the most holes and missing pieces. you and he can keep clicking the down arrow. i am not wrong on that point.
So, I hear you guys over at DHS are getting raises next month in the Psyops Department. Those new targets that let you shoot an entire family on full auto are supposed to be hi-tek.
Is he a mad pro-amnesty RINO Cuban like MArco Rubio friend of pro-amnesty RINo Rush Limbaugh. Or that F Tard Mark Cuban? Or does he just drink too much Cuban coffee and smoke too much weed like Fidel.
We should have a death pool to see who dies first
Buffett
Munger
Fidel
Hugo Chavez
Add Lohan
party like it's 1999...
with the Silver Liberation Army...
at
www.ZIRPinUSA.com
Aw, fuck off.
It was great to see sutton interviews on YouTube now. I had read about him many times and early on saw that the elite's lackeys had tried to smear him as anti-Semite. The propaganda worked on me and kept me away from his books a couple years. After reading his books and seeing his interviews it now seems absolutely outlandish to say he is a "anti-Semite" . He is merely a nice person who sees that the big wars were rackets.
And to think after 9-11 that Bush can walk into a ball park and throw the ball and have tens of thousands cheer him on. That's how they get away with what they do.......because most people are just outright fucking stupid.
anybody that pays that kind of money to watch overpaid,low IQ, preening shitheads play baseball is automatically fucking stupid
amen
Morons who watch TV, Hollywoods shit and ball games are the easiest sheep to brainwash.
I'm forever a student at zerohedge.edu. thank you
" Barclays, Chase, and the Bush family made money hand over fist financing the Adolph and the gang."
GOD BLESS YOU GEORGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone is finally telling the truth about the wall street nazis for whom the bush crime syndicate has and is doing much to advance their nazi ways.....naziism did NOT come from hitler or germany - it came from wall street, plutocrats, academics, and other scum who see people as robots to be enslaved and murdered to advance these wicked scums' demonic goals.....the bushes - and many other of their ilk - were/are card carrying nazis.....wall street won world war 2 by funding the nazis and then by taking the billions spent to defeat their "enemies" just as today al qaeda plays that very role in the good cop / bad cop ploy....
remember this, george bush and adolph hitler were both advocates of a new world order and 1000 points of light - senior inherited this from his nazi father prescott....and we can't forget henry ford's rabid anti-semitism which so inspired hitler who had a framed picture of ford on his wall - not for his industrial prowess but for his anti-semitism.....
Chase is the Rockefellers.
When Joe Kennedy, a bootlegger, who became the U.S.ambassador to England, he was a Hitler supporter. FDR recalled him.
Joe was also an inside trader but then sold everything, made a shit load of money doing it and recommeded that insider trading be made illegal. I wonder how successful he was with that recommendation.
Keep writing on this. It is the first thing I have seen from GW that makes sense.
Gerorge...!
Wheres your article on Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering ?...!
Seen the sun lately George....?