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"Give me control of a nation's money, and
I care not who makes her laws"
Mayer
Rothschild, the most powerful man who ever lived.
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 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 synonamous 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 Frankurt 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 (red
shield); in this way the House of Rothschild came into being.
The base for a vast accmulation 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 handel 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 Franfurt."
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 consititing 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; and (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; Jacob
(James) went to Paris and Kalmann (Karl) opened up the Rothschild bank
in Naples. 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
resorted to 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
tare 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 networh 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 Armee 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
hundreds 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, and (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 governmant 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 he 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
virtally 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 naive 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. 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 retured. 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 operntions, 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 skilly 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, and
(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 monetaary 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 [directionl, 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 conquored 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 States would
surrender to 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
implimentation 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, and
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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