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Bankers are Behind the Wars

Former managing director of Goldman Sachs – and head of the international analytics group at Bear Stearns in London (Nomi Prins) - notes:
Throughout the century that I examined, which began with the Panic of 1907 … what I found by accessing the archives of each president is that through many events and periods, particular bankers were in constant communication [with the White House] — not just about financial and economic policy, and by extension trade policy, but also about aspects of World War I, or World War II, or the Cold War, in terms of the expansion that America was undergoing as a superpower in the world, politically, buoyed by the financial expansion of the banking community.
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In the beginning of World War I, Woodrow Wilson had adopted initially a policy of neutrality. But the Morgan Bank, which was the most powerful bank at the time, and which wound up funding over 75 percent of the financing for the allied forces during World War I … pushed Wilson out of neutrality sooner than he might have done, because of their desire to be involved on one side of the war.
Now, on the other side of that war, for example, was the National City Bank, which, though they worked with Morgan in financing the French and the British, they also didn’t have a problem working with financing some things on the German side, as did Chase …
When Eisenhower became president … the U.S. was undergoing this expansion by providing, under his doctrine, military aid and support to countries [under] the so-called threat of being taken over by communism … What bankers did was they opened up hubs, in areas such as Cuba, in areas such as Beirut and Lebanon, where the U.S. also wanted to gain a stronghold in their Cold War fight against the Soviet Union. And so the juxtaposition of finance and foreign policy were very much aligned.
So in the ‘70s, it became less aligned, because though America was pursuing foreign policy initiatives in terms of expansion, the bankers found oil, and they made an extreme effort to activate relationships in the Middle East, that then the U.S. government followed. For example, in Saudi Arabia and so forth, they get access to oil money, and then recycle it into Latin American debt and other forms of lending throughout the globe. So that situation led the U.S. government.
Indeed, JP Morgan also purchased control over America’s leading 25 newspapers in order to propagandize US public opinion in favor of US entry into World War 1.
And many big banks did, in fact, fund the Nazis.
The BBC reported in 1998:
Barclays Bank has agreed to pay $3.6m to Jews whose assets were seized from French branches of the British-based bank during World War II.
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Chase Manhattan Bank, which has acknowledged seizing about 100 accounts held by Jews in its Paris branch during World War II ….”Recently unclassified reports from the US Treasury about the activities of Chase in Paris in the 1940s indicate that the local branch worked “in close collaboration with the German authorities” in freezing Jewish assets.
The New York Daily News noted the same year:
The relationship between Chase and the Nazis apparently was so cozy that Carlos Niedermann, the Chase branch chief in Paris, wrote his supervisor in Manhattan that the bank enjoyed “very special esteem” with top German officials and “a rapid expansion of deposits,” according to Newsweek.
Niedermann’s letter was written in May 1942 five months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. also went to war with Germany.
The BBC reported in 1999:
A French government commission, investigating the seizure of Jewish bank accounts during the Second World War, says five American banks Chase Manhattan, J.P Morgan, Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, Bank of the City of New York and American Express had taken part.
It says their Paris branches handed over to the Nazi occupiers about one-hundred such accounts.
One of Britain’s main newspapers – the Guardian – reported in 2004:
George Bush’s grandfather [and George H.W. Bush's father], the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings … continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act
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The documents reveal that the firm he worked for, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen’s US interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered the war.
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Bush was a founding member of the bank [UBC] … The bank was set up by Harriman and Bush’s father-in-law to provide a US bank for the Thyssens, Germany’s most powerful industrial family.
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By the late 1930s, Brown Brothers Harriman, which claimed to be the world’s largest private investment bank, and UBC had bought and shipped millions of dollars of gold, fuel, steel, coal and US treasury bonds to Germany, both feeding and financing Hitler’s build-up to war.
Between 1931 and 1933 UBC bought more than $8m worth of gold, of which $3m was shipped abroad. According to documents seen by the Guardian, after UBC was set up it transferred $2m to BBH accounts and between 1924 and 1940 the assets of UBC hovered around $3m, dropping to $1m only on a few occasions.
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UBC was caught red-handed operating a American shell company for the Thyssen family eight months after America had entered the war and that this was the bank that had partly financed Hitler’s rise to power.
Indeed, banks often finance both sides of wars:
(The San Francisco Chronicle also documents that leading financiers Rockefeller, Carnegie and Harriman also funded Nazi eugenics programs … but that’s a story for another day.)
After all, wars are the fastest way for banks to create more debt ... and therefore to make more profit. No wonder they love war.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks also help to start wars by financing them. Thomas Jefferson and the father of free market capitalism, Adam Smith, both noted that the financing wars by banks led to more – and longer – wars.
And America apparently considers economic rivalry to be a basis for war, and is using the military to contain China’s growing economic influence.
Multi-billionaire investor Hugo Salinas Price says:
What happened to [Libya's] Mr. Gaddafi, many speculate the real reason he was ousted was that he was planning an all-African currency for conducting trade. The same thing happened to him that happened to Saddam because the US doesn’t want any solid competing currency out there vs the dollar. You know Gaddafi was talking about a gold dinar.
Senior CNBC editor John Carney noted:
Is this the first time a revolutionary group has created a central bank while it is still in the midst of fighting the entrenched political power? It certainly seems to indicate how extraordinarily powerful central bankers have become in our era.
Robert Wenzel of Economic Policy Journal thinks the central banking initiative reveals that foreign powers may have a strong influence over the rebels.
This suggests we have a bit more than a ragtag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. “I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising,” Wenzel writes.
Indeed, many claim that recent wars have really been about bringing all countries into the fold of Western central banking, and that the wars against Middle Eastern countries are really about forcing them into the dollar and private central banking.
The most decorated American military man in history said that war is a racket, and noted:
Let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers.
The big banks have also been laundering money for terrorists. The big bank employee who blew the whistle on the banks’ money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels says that the giant bank is still aiding terrorists, saying:
The public needs to know that money is still being funneled through HSBC to directly buy guns and bullets to kill our soldiers …. Banks financing … terrorists affects every single American.
He also said:
It is disgusting that our banks are STILL financing terror on 9/11 2013.
And see this.
According to the BBC and other sources, Prescott Bush, JP Morgan and other leading financiers also funded a coup against President Franklin Roosevelt in an attempt – basically – to implement fascism in the U.S. See this, this, this and this.
Kevin Zeese writes:
Americans are recognizing the link between the military-industrial complex and the Wall Street oligarchs—a connection that goes back to the beginning of the modern U.S. empire. Banks have always profited from war because the debt created by banks results in ongoing war profit for big finance; and because wars have been used to open countries to U.S. corporate and banking interests. Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan wrote: “the large banking interests were deeply interested in the world war because of the wide opportunities for large profits.”
Many historians now recognize that a hidden history for U.S. entry into World War I was to protect U.S. investors. U.S. commercial interests had invested heavily in European allies before the war: “By 1915, American neutrality was being criticized as bankers and merchants began to loan money and offer credits to the warring parties, although the Central Powers received far less. Between 1915 and April 1917, the Allies received 85 times the amount loaned to Germany.” The total dollars loaned to all Allied borrowers during this period was $2,581,300,000. The bankers saw that if Germany won, their loans to European allies would not be repaid. The leading U.S. banker of the era, J.P. Morgan and his associates did everything they could to push the United States into the war on the side of England and France. Morgan said: “We agreed that we should do all that was lawfully in our power to help the Allies win the war as soon as possible.” President Woodrow Wilson, who campaigned saying he would keep the United States out of war, seems to have entered the war to protect U.S. banks’ investments in Europe.
The most decorated Marine in history, Smedley Butler, described fighting for U.S. banks in many of the wars he fought in. He said: “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
In Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins describes how World Bank and IMF loans are used to generate profits for U.S. business and saddle countries with huge debts that allow the United States to control them. It is not surprising that former civilian military leaders like Robert McNamara and Paul Wolfowitz went on to head the World Bank. These nations’ debt to international banks ensures they are controlled by the United States, which pressures them into joining the “coalition of the willing” that helped invade Iraq or allowing U.S. military bases on their land. If countries refuse to “honor” their debts, the CIA or Department of Defense enforces U.S. political will through coups or military action.
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More and more people are indeed seeing the connection between corporate banksterism and militarism ….
Indeed, all wars are bankers’ wars.
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bonoparte could not became The Napoleon if he did not had financing ....hence his insight n the inner workings summarized on the phrase cited above. The same bankers financed both sides Napoleon and the allies, duke Wellington, prince Meternick etc. At some point, Napoleon had served his purpose and the hand who gives, stopped giving and the rest is history ... same book over and over ... simple, very simple ... follow the money
If you are kooky enough, here is one view, this is the devils era, as foretold, and the next era is also foretold. That story is out in the open hidden also. For those who still like to dream of revolution, which, is ok as a dream........................... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rryGNsjhp_M
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVHbzlzUS8&list=PLDbSvEZka6GFokYmj74zgJX...
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EXCELLENT article!
The link to Mike Rivero is a welcome one!
Try also, "War Is A Racket", by Maj. General Smedley Butler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8sUvpSdWfc
I read the book some years ago. I think he wrote it in 1933 (during the time when they tried to recruit him to attempt a military coup of the United States).
Here is Butler's testimony before Congress in 1934:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1cq6KrkHHA
Through out American history the President of the United States has always had servants--maids and butlers taking care of the White House residence. Every President has dealt with these people every day regarding the ongoing routine of the President. Generally speaking it would have been a more laid back time of the day compared to the rest of the day for the President and his receptiveness would have been enhanced. I would offer up a theory that during those off hours of the day, more often than we look like to know, the President would ask for an opinion from these laborers for no other reason than to get the opinon of a 'guy in the street'. Sooo, the butler did it.
Wrong-o, Duude! It's more like serpents...
There is ALWAYS a member of the Tribe™ immediately behind the throne. That's no bullshit...that's historical fact.
Real History...it's what they don't want you to know. Kill your TV...read a history book.
..read a history book."
Quigley's "Tragedy and Hope" would be a good start.
Good suggestion!
I found a free copy of it here:
https://archive.org/details/TragedyAndHope_501
Thanks for that...
Kudos, I have been trying to find a copy of that.
These banks are the Whores of Babylon ... the mother of all prostitutes that sell themselves to all sides, to maximise death and destruction for their own profit and power.
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total self destruction is built into the money system,
how many times need it be said?
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through essential inflation the
current structure of the “money”
/debt system kills trust, perverts all human
motivation and behaviour. how many times need
this be pointed out before more
than a “handful” of people in the world get it?
yet some learn to love their own tape worm,
become that worm. granted, the beast is infinitely
slippery, cunning and, if unchecked, will sleep in your
hat while eating your brains for breakfast.
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“The few who understand the system will either be so interested in its profits or be so dependent upon its favours that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.” The Rothschild brothers of London writing to associates in New York, 1863.
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“The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.” William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England in 1694, then a privately owned bank
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The real truth of the matter is,as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government ever since
the days of Andrew Jackson… -Franklin D. Roosevelt
(in a letter to Colonel House, dated November 21, 1933)
Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/04/this-is-nuts-inflation-does-not-justify...
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THE LIFEBOAT HOUR – CAROLYN BAKERFOR & MIMI GERMAN – 04/13/14
Posted on: April 13th, 2014 by Archivist
http://prn.fm/lifeboat-hour-carolyn-bakerfor-mimi-german-041314/
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thanks for the lifeboat link
Wars must be financed and banks have money. Where is the new news in this?
Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why why, why, why, is this who's on top meme repeated. None of this is possible without the power of government.
So what's the point? Eliminate CBs and cartel level banks and tyranny become impossible?
Just who do you think is beholden to whom...?
In Wezet (small Belgian town) last night around 23h a 37 year old BNP-Fortis-Paribas banker was killed (shot in head and belly) when he, his partner and her 9 year old son wanted to enter a house. Both the 37y woman and her 9 years old child were killed to. (7 bullets were fired from a car) according to the newssite..
http://www.vandaag.be/binnenland/149539_vrouw-partner-en-kind-doodgescho...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/benoit-philippens/29/4b9/925
You sir, are a fool...or a shill...or both.
Great way to miss the issue.
the news is the banks don't have money.
they subvert national sovereignty and
government and treasuries to give them
the capacity to create debt/money out
of thin air and then loan that to their
frenemies to kill each other and then pay
back all the loans to them, the banks,
with interest,
both victor and vanquished then to lean
on the populations for the paybacks in
real assets to cover the loans from
the wispy, fresh and thin air.
have you not been paying attention?
Why is that basic fact about death and finance not taught to our children?
the children might then get the idea that they may become
responsible and free to govern and finance themselves?
All Zero Hedge articles about "bankers" are actually written in a simple substitution code.
Just replace the word "banker" with the word "Jew" to understand the real meaning.
(This post is sarcastic for the sake of anybody not familiar with Poe's law)
And here I read this as only goy bankers were mentioned as warmongers.
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The Ethiopian native was a soldier in Israel when a friend signed her up to compete; now she represents her country on the world stage
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/meet-black-woman-crowned-israel-ar...
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ok, she is african, jewish, israeli, female, a queen of beauty , was a soldier
and an orphan but, i do not think she has ever been a banker or a bankster.
i don't know if she is a neocon, zionist or a jihadist, capitalist, communist
or socialist. she is certainly no ashkenazi but sephardic and i'm pretty sure she is human.
is she a semite? who cares? that is the thing, someone will need to know for
some very important reason to themselves.
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what does she have to do with the federal reserve system of 1913 or triffin dilema?
Heres a good link ==> http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/meet-black-woman-crowned-israel-article-1.1702592
thanks for the good link.
What is a "jew"?
What is an "Israeli"?
What is an "Israelite"?
What is a "Hebrew"?
All I would care to know is which privately owned city corporation on the Greenwich meridian funded JP and from which area the actual financiers came from.
I will take my fish and chips with a side of gefilte and a slightly cooled beverage from Bayerische Staatsbrauerei.