Image by Terry RobinsonBankers hate peace …
Lee Fang reports:
The possibility of an Iran nuclear deal depressing weapons sales was raised by Myles Walton, an analyst from Germany’s Deutsche Bank, during a Lockheed earnings call this past January 27. Walton asked Marillyn Hewson, the chief executive of Lockheed Martin, if an Iran agreement could “impede what you see as progress in foreign military sales.” Financial industry analysts such as Walton use earnings calls as an opportunity to ask publicly-traded corporations like Lockheed about issues that might harm profitability.
Hewson replied that “that really isn’t coming up,” but stressed that “volatility all around the region” should continue to bring in new business. According to Hewson, “A lot of volatility, a lot of instability, a lot of things that are happening” in both the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region means both are “growth areas” for Lockheed Martin.
The Deutsche Bank-Lockheed exchange “underscores a longstanding truism of the weapons trade: war — or the threat of war — is good for the arms business,” says William Hartung, director of the Arms & Security Project at the Center for International Policy. Hartung observed that Hewson described the normalization of relations with Iran not as a positive development for the future, but as an “impediment.” “And Hewson’s response,” Hartung adds, “which in essence is ‘don’t worry, there’s plenty of instability to go around,’ shows the perverse incentive structure that is at the heart of the international arms market.”
The President of Stanford University (David Starr Jordan) reported that banksters are the true power behind the throne, and that – for many centuries – they’ve made their fortunes by financing war.
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.
The U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry found connections between the wartime profits of the banking and munitions industries to America’s involvement in World War I. Specifically, the Committee reported that between 1915 and January 1917, the United States lent Germany 27 million dollars, and in the same period, it lent to the United Kingdom and its allies 2.3 billion dollars, almost 100 times as much, and so the US entered the war so that the lenders would get repaid by their biggest debtors: The UK and its allies.
Subsequently, many big banks funded the Nazis.
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:
And they are one of the main sources of financing for nuclear weapons.
(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.)
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.
War Makes Banks Rich
Wars are the fastest way for banks to create more debt … and therefore to make more profit. No wonder they love war.
After all, the banking system is founded upon the counter-intuitive but indisputable fact that banks create loans first, and then create deposits later.
In other words, virtually all money is actually created as debt. For example, in a hearing held on September 30, 1941 in the House Committee on Banking and Currency, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Mariner S. Eccles) said:
That is what our money system is. If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.
And Robert H. Hemphill, Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said:
If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial Banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the Banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon.
Debt (from the borrower’s perspective) owed to banks is profit and income from the bank’s perspective. In other words, banks are in the business of creating more debt … i.e. finding more people who want to borrow larger sums.
Debt is central to our banking system. Indeed, Federal Reserve chairman Greenspan was so worried that the U.S. would pay off it’s debt, that he suggested tax cuts for the wealthy to increase the debt.
What does this have to do with war?
War is the most efficient debt-creation machine. For starters, wars are very expensive.
For example, Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz estimated in 2008 that the Iraq war could cost America up to $5 trillion dollars. A study by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies says the Iraq war costs could exceed $6 trillion, when interest payments to the banks are taken into account.
This is nothing new … but has been going on for thousands of years. As a Cambridge University Press treatise on ancient Athens notes:
Financing wars is expensive business, and the scope for initiative was regularly extended by borrowing.
So wars have been a huge – and regular – way for banks to create debt for kings and presidents who want to try to expand their empires.
Major General Smedley Butler – the most decorated Marine in American history – was right when he said:
Let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers.
War is also good for banks because a lot of material, equipment, buildings and infrastructure get destroyed in war. So countries go into massive debt to finance war, and then borrow a ton more to rebuild.
The advent of central banks hasn’t changed this formula. Specifically, the big banks (“primary dealers”) loan money to the Fed, and charge interest for the loan.
So when a nation like the U.S. gets into a war, the Fed pumps out money for the war effort based upon loans from the primary dealers, who make a killing in interest payments from the Fed.
War Is Horrible for the American People
Top economists say that war is destroying our economy. But war is great for the super-elites … so they want to keep it going.
And America’s never-ending wars are hurting our national security.
Never-ending wars are also destroying our freedom. The Founding Fathers warned against standing armies, saying that they destroy freedom. (update).
Perversely, our government – which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the big banks – treats anti-war sentiment – or protest of big banks (and here) – as terrorism.
"Interestingly, the Chicago Plan for full reserve banking came very close to passing in 1934. But the unfortunate death of one of its main Congressional sponsors – Senator Bronson M. Cutting – in a plane crash reversed the momentum for the bill."
That was a pretty convenient plane crash for the banksters.
In the linked PDF it says, "The influence of the Chicago plan was felt even before Irving Fisher's more widely known, and largely unsuccessful, efforts to enlist Roosevelt's support for the 100% reserve plan."
Roosevelt was no doubt attracted to socialistic possibilities that the Keynsian prescription for the government to deficit spend its way out of downturns presented. It's no surprise that Part B of John Maynard's prescription, for government surpluses during booms, was never followed by the politicos.
Congress? I spewed my Lafite Rothschild all over my 16th Century Louis XIV cadenza!
Even Adam Smith couldn't do the math. The man below did however.
(Pls. see my other attachment below.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEJCmrhDh9U
Kennedy described it perfectly, he just didn't mention their name.
OCTOGON
FOLLOW THE BOOTY! It always ends up in the same place. (The Caymans is but a weigh station.) The place that miraculously (like a work of God!) has never been attacked and has most of Western Europe's water.
All Politicians pay a pilgrimage to the Wailing Wall once in their acting careers, but ALL have a chalet in Fortress Alps, "Switzers", as described by Shakespeare in Hamlet (1603). His descrption is not flattering. Can you say Blackwater? Can you say Swiss Guard? Do you think guys like Larry Silverstein and Harvey Weinstein keep a schloss there because of the gefilte fish? Do you think the fact that the CEO,CFO and COO of Monsanto are all charter members of the Davos World Rape and Schussing Club is just because that's where their biggest growers, farmers or eaters are? All their members deserve searching scrutiny. OCTOGON. As you descend the rabbit hole further, watch your head and wear a hat.. It gets colder and colder. SKI HEIL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFK4340b8a0
George Washington was a mason...
It's always difficult to determine who is is behind wars, but the young, testosterone-laden, naive lads in front of wars are easily detected.
Its the NWO. Bunch of cities are having a contest to see how many banksters and traitors can be hung from their light posts. Pretty sure Ventura blvd in the San Fernando will have the most hanging. It goes for bout 15 miles with lamposts all along.
Lots of moneychangers living on that stretch of Ventura Blvd from Sherman Oaks all the way to Encino and beyond.
Interesting choice for naming the article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfEBupAeo4
Michael Rivero did a great job. And - yes - my subheading was 100% inspired by his video.
I think I posted this link before but it is an excellent discussion of NATO, more, resource, Putin, money and war
(and a nice update on Ukraine and Syria)
http://fromalpha2omega.podomatic.com/entry/2014-11-01T01_52_13-07_00
I'm so sick of the sociopaths
and despite all the crime, the goddamned empire does the same thing everytime and implodes itself with its own ego. military, debt and hatred that it spreads around the world
In the past 15 years or so?
The FalconFlights of the world....
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2013/06/the-machiavelian-threefold-game-of-the-...
I posted this before and there many example but this highlights the point you made. Once again good job.
http://www.no-debts.com/anti-federalist/files/ownmoney.txt
The U.S.A. has devolved to become solely an exporter of mass destruction--financial (debt) and military (weapons)
I knew I could make you work for it GW. I still have issue with some of the highlighted links but you actually posted a fuller story that didn't rely on just you saying it.
However you did seem to biased in an attempt to highlight Bush but did not go into depth with Wilson and many other presidents that all have connections to banks and war.
But I give you props for making the correct point of all wars are bankers wars. Just remember, sometimes banks are used as defense against other banks that are being used as a weapon against your country. I don't agree with it but it is what it is.
I wish you and other contributors who post narratives as such would elaborate the larger war that goes on under the sheets.
It's amusing that you think you matter this much.
From the peanut gallery - at what point do you take SG's post for what it is and drop the ad hominem? Just saying
When shitgum suicide apologizes for using the unfounded anti semite ad hominem attack then I will reconsider his posts and give him the benefit of the doubt...
Other than that I find is today's posts are incredible because of the other night's display of unwarranted behavior. Today, because he agrees, then what GW posts is now okay and all is forgiven? Perhaps he is here to promote his agenda and this fits into his promotion?Perhaps he does not care, or you do not care, and that is fine. Who am I?
Of course I also have an agenda which I promote here as well as search for that which is true.
Part of my agenda is antiwar. Spreading the Truth of Jesus Christ is a major part of it.
When Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine published that Public Service Announcement Ad in Hustler Magazine which stated, "Jesus is coming back and boy he is going to be pissed." Flynt was inadvertently telling the Truth.
You must understand that the murder, government sanctioned or not, of innocent children of any nationality, is absolutely abhorrent to me.
However there are many who financially and materially support this type of behavior.
We killed 580 Thousand Iraqi children during the 1990s. HooRah!!! Did you pay for that? Did you profit from that? Was your personal life better for that?
Unfortunately I must honestly answer yes to all three of those questions. I did not know that it was happening at the time. I was too busy trying to scrape out a living, self absorbed into my own ass, into my own personal problems and my marriage.
But when I learned about it I became enraged. I was filled with remorse and guilt.
And I am Hellbound as a result.
It is better that a man shall place a millstone on one's neck and cast himself into the sea rather than to harm one of these, said Jesus, when speaking about children. It is better that a man shall have NEVER BEEN BORN than it is to harm one of these.
Do you get it? Do you know the hell that this nation is about to pay as a result of our arrogance, our rejection of God Almighty, and our failure to repent?
Do you think that the California drought which will lead to NATIONWIDE FAMINE is by accident?
And then these assholes want more of the same, more war, more death, and more destruction?
To label someone as an anti semite because they protest the murder of innocent children is uncalled for, whether they are from Palestine, or not. That is something which I would expect from politicians out of Washington DC.
And I am just as angey that the Palestinians killed those Israeli teens.
Two wrongs to not make a right. You capture and prosecute those guilty of the crime. You do not retailate by bombing schoolhouses.
But that shit does not fly here, labeling people as something which they are not, as most recognize and reject it as the strawman debating tactic which it is.
That is what shitgum suicide did.
Because GW protests the slaughter of innocent Palestinian children, then shitgum suicide callously declares that GW is an anti semite rather than understand and realize his own responsibility?
Oh yes I have an agenda. Yes I do.
Perhaps i will be used as one of Yahweh's Avenging Angels, delivering death and destruction to the deserving. And those who are deserving are legions upon legions, some more deserving than others, but all culpable in that horrendous crime against God Almighty.
I am certainly not inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven as I misplaced my faith into my Government. Then they act to bring eternal condemnation on top of my head?
I am amongst the most deserving of all.
Oh yes I have an agenda.
OF course GW is not an anti semite because HE HATES THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS... That is ANTIWAR
GW decries in this article, and documents that the Banks cooperated with the Nazis in seizing and freezing Jewish Bank Accounts. Of course that was unethical and immoral. He PROTESTS IT AS I DO.
I am not anti semite because I disagree with the Warmonger policies of Zionism. Other Jews do as well..
But I am antiwar, regardless as to the nationalistic or religious, or any other attribute of the identity of the belligerants.
If ware are instigated by the Christian Zionists or Radical Islamists, the Russian Nationalists or the American colonialists, or Chinese attacks upon the Nepalese, or Japan, it makes no difference...IT IS STILL JUST AS WRONG.
I am against WAR.
As you well know...Smedley Butler is right and War is a Racket.
But without shitgum suicide's acknowledgement then it makes it difficult, FOR ME, to accept what he writes with any credibility.
Perhaps you can. But I cannot.
So knock yourself out.
And I am awaiting his callous response as his heart is a hardened as a stone.
War is unhealthy and it is not wholesome.
Fuck the NSA.
Remember the USS Liberty.
I logged on for the first time in over 4 months to give you an uptic.
I would Throw Radical Marijuana into the same shit pot too. He rallies for Eugenics and population control; albeit by educated means (as if he or others should have the right to decide), but if necessary by political resolution aka war and its' inevitability.
I've always liked your posts. Now I know why.
There is obviously too much history on posts for a newbie to form an intelligent opinion without knowing same. I will go into listen learn mode. I would say that while I am anti war - that does not mean I am unprepared for war. I just would like to see it directed at the right crowd - the banksters and their cronies - no left right, east west BS.
Anyway - fight the good fight
“Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who writes the laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of the House of Rothschild, and founder of Squid-Zionism.
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” -James Madison
The banksters need to repay us.
Fraudulent-Reserve Banking: The funding of the theft of real property and labor by way of stolen deposits and counterfeit fiat loans backed by the violence of government.
Bankster: One that employes or practices fraudulent-reserve banking.
"Save humanity. Guillotine the banksters." -K. Chris C.
kcchris,
You never had anything for any banker to take.
Repay you for what?
If you don't know, then why bother talking to you? Willful ignorance such as yours is a disease.
No. He did not have any skills of labors which the Banker's stole by using them and then confiscating, even the compensation for those labors, through taxation and debt, right?
Go fuck yourself, Augustus.
You place no value upon other people.
You must be in the same paid tribe of parasites as kcchris.
Want to get repaid for somethhing you never lost?
I'll bet you just swap ends with that butt plug and call it a good meal.
"All wars are banker wars" Well, now that 4,000 years of human history has been accounted for...unbelieveable. Gawd I hope the end is coming because a lot of scum needs scrubbing.
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=complete_timeline_of_the_...
May you and your ideological fellow travelers be scrubbed from the earth soon!
You know, thats not a bad idea at all Mr. D. Those ZIoscum sure must not like the light that GW sheds on their filthy asses. They gather in hordes to every one of his posts. Keep up the great work GW.
wars are just the government form of ponzi -- goes back as far as civilization; indeed is probably the definition of civilization.
Until people fully awaken & stop working for the BORG we will go round the toilet bowl .....
Excellent historical background post, GW.
Recommend this interview on Max Keiser show with Nomi Prins on current econowarfare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btSrp8ZSqGM&t=12m50s
Recommended reading for the enlightened:
Open Secret, by Erin Arvedlund
Private Equity at Work, by Eileen Appelbaum
Treasure Islands, by Nicholas Shaxson
Extreme Money, by Satyajit Das
Web of Debt, by Ellen Brown
The Divide, by Matt Taibbi
Gangs of America, by Ted Nace
All The Presidents' Bankers, by Nomi Prins
The Invention of Capitalism, by Michael Perelman
The Servant Economy, by Geoffrey Faux
what I like about max is his energy and his anger and his cuss words and his sarcasm
all of which is appropriate
for these murderous lying thieves
Have you read the invisible hand?
I'm behind all the wars. I invented them. I financed them. I even created George Washington.
GeoWash; another shiny babble for this ilk of sheeple. They're the biggest, most laughable cowards on the planet. The Zionists laugh and sneer at your bandwidth bullets.
If these GeoWashRumps believe what they say, why do they sit on their hoven huffs and do nothing? Aren't the potential consequences, a fair trade in defense of all that is good about Mankind and in defense of your convictions?
George Washington, the treasonous colonialist... and first US President, along with the poorest thousands in his army, walked the walk. These silly cybertroops wouldn't know bravery if it was wrapped in a knish inside a lox. :)
Seriously, tyranny has never been voted out of power, ever. There is but one way that oppression has ever thwarted.
As Josiah Stamp said, when he was head of the Bank of England:
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... The bankers own the world. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, with a flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this power away from bankers and all great fortunes like mine (he was the second richest man in Great Britain) will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this world would then be a happier and better world to live in. My sons should not object. They are well educated, and should be willing to take their places in the business world and forge their own fortunes... But, if you want to continue to be slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own enslavement, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit... However, as long as governments will legalize such things, a man is foolish not to be a banker."
(The last sentence may personify ex-CIA types, who seem disproportionately prone to become banksters after retiring from The Agency?)
THE BANKING RACKET
HAVE YOU ever wondered where the Banks get all their money from? When they grant you a loan or allow you an overdraft, where does the money come from? According to Frederick Soddy, former eminent Oxford University Professor, Banks are:
“Institutions which pretend to lend money, and do not lend it, but create it, and when it is repaid to them, de-create it and have achieved the physically impossible miracle thereby, not only of getting something for nothing but also of getting perennial interest from it.”
So the Banks create money out of nothing and charge you, the customer, over 10% interest to borrow it. And woe betide you if you default.
It is a delusion promoted by the Banks themselves that they are merely the custodians of their customers’ deposits, that they lend these same deposits, and that their profit consists of the difference in the rate of interest they pay depositors, and the interest they receive from borrowers.
The truth is that no Bank lends as much as a penny of the money deposited with it. Every Bank loan or overdraft is a creation of entirely new money (credit) and is a clear addition to the amount of money in the community. It is no more than a record in a Bank ledger or computer and is actually the creation of new money out of nothing.
When an account is drawn on by cheque and the cheque is lodged in another account at the same or another Bank, a deposit is created and the supply of money increased. Thus Bank loans create “deposits” which are not the source of loan money, but rather the other way round—they are the outcome of loans. Banks can create credit virtually without restraint. But usually sound Banking practice limits the creation of credit to nine or ten times the amount of cash or legal tender which a Bank holds.
When it is said that a particular Bank has so many million in deposits, it is erroneously believed that it actually has this amount of money to lend out. It is a complete delusion. Those deposits are not cash at all—they are nothing but an enormous superstructure of credit.
On June 25th, 1863, the Rothschild Brothers sent a letter to Messrs Ikleheimer, Morton and Vandergould at No. 3 Wall Street, New York, which included the following passage setting out the system by which Banks monopolize the creation, control and distribution of the nation’s money from nothing and charge exorbitant interest to borrow it:
“The few who understand the system ... will either be so interested in its profits or so dependent on 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 advantages that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without complaint and perhaps even without suspecting that the system is inimical to them.”
Good is oft a veneer over evil. Daddy Warbucks was a good man. He gave to Charity. He financed war and got rich. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=daddy+warbucks&t=ffsb&ia=about Bernie Madoff gave to charity. http://corporatefraudswatch.blogspot.com/2010/02/madoff-also-made-large-...
Bankers' wars create jobs.
The good that bankers do is dwarfed by their evil.
The big tobacco companies were the biggest sponsors of the New York Opera and other arts for years. I always thought that was odd; killin gmillions of people with one hand while showing how 'philanthropic' you are with the other.
George, no Rothschilds? Who the hell do you think Morgan was working for for fucks sake.
Dexter: Yes, David Starr Jordan goes into great detail about the Rothschilds pulling the strings ...
morgan family crypt house is just a few miles from me. found it by accident, lots of morgans in there, all dead, them and all the elites must think other elites control the after life, and they wont pay a price for all the evil they have done.
Q: Who's Behind All of the Wars?
A: Primitives like the anti-America islamic cult-worshiping vermin & russian neighbor-invading thieves and gangsters operating under the GW impostor banner.
ISIL is in Tikrit for financial gain? Who Knew? Thanks for clearing that up Geo Wash.
Houthie in Yemin are there for the gold?
Geo Wash is a confirmed trolling propagandist trained in the same studies as Obammie.
"Geo Wash is a confirmed trolling propagandist trained in the same studies as Obammie."
You mean a liberal, yes?
So I suppose the bankers were behind the Muslim jihads which effectively began in 632 ?
This hogwash about bankers being the cause of all wars is pure bull and demonstrates the existence of
a dead spot in critical, honest thinking.
It kinda reminds me of the blacks complaining that Whitey is behind all of their woes.
Nahhhh. Sometimes it is just the result of pure evil intent and greed.
The bankers come on board AFTER the realities of waging war are realized.
Bankers are enablers, but certainly not the reason behind the start of ALL wars.
Time to grow up, George.
What does it mean when you demand someone "grow up"? Are you assuming you are some kind of adult that can judge other people? I see no evidence of this.
If you can't see how bankers are culpable in the misery of the people on this planet, then you need to grow up. If you can't see that people who do bad things are responsible, regardless of the origin of the evil they do, then you need to grow up.
Bankers are simply evil little tools. They are small minded servants of people who own the system of slavery that we all must endure.
That does not excuse them, they are still accountable. They will pay eventually. They will be the first ones sacrificed by their masters. Look at the growing list of "suicides". Not a good place to be these days, is it?
Bankers know what they are doing, and they will get what they deserve.
When you feel resistance in your ear after inserting a Q-Tip, stop pushing it in.
I think you meant "push harder."
i think you've been over probed
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