"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who
makes
her laws"
Meyer 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 theem 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 oof 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.