June 1, 2011 — Dean
Henderson
They are the Goldman
Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome
(Part one of a five-part series excerpted from Chapter 19: The
Eight Families: Big
Oil & Their Bankers…)
The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase,
Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal
Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP,
Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the
global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.
According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen
of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500
corporation. [1]
So who then are the stockholders in these money center banks?
This information is guarded much more closely. My queries to
bank regulatory agencies regarding stock ownership in the top 25 US bank
holding companies were given Freedom of Information Act status, before being
denied on “national security” grounds. This is rather ironic, since many of the
bank’s stockholders reside in Europe.
One important repository for the wealth of the global oligarchy
that owns these bank holding companies is US
Trust Corporation – founded in 1853 and now owned by Bank of America. A
recent US Trust Corporate Director and
Honorary Trustee was Walter Rothschild. Other directors included Daniel
Davison of JP Morgan Chase, Richard Tucker of Exxon Mobil, Daniel Roberts of
Citigroup and Marshall Schwartz of Morgan Stanley. [2]
J. W. McCallister, an oil industry insider
with House of Saud connections, wrote in The Grim Reaper that information he acquired from Saudi bankers cited 80%
ownership of the New York Federal
Reserve Bank- by far the most powerful Fed branch- by just eight families, four of which reside in the US. They are the
Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the
Rothschilds of Paris and London; the
Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of
Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.
CPA Thomas D. Schauf corroborates McCallister’s
claims, adding that ten banks control all
twelve Federal Reserve Bank branches. He names N.M. Rothschild of London,
Rothschild Bank of Berlin, Warburg Bank of Hamburg, Warburg Bank of Amsterdam,
Lehman Brothers of New York, Lazard Brothers of Paris, Kuhn Loeb Bank of New
York, Israel Moses Seif Bank of Italy, Goldman Sachs of New York and JP Morgan
Chase Bank of New York. Schauf lists William Rockefeller, Paul Warburg, Jacob
Schiff and James Stillman as individuals who own large shares of the Fed. [3]
The Schiffs are insiders at Kuhn Loeb. The Stillmans are Citigroup insiders,
who married into the Rockefeller clan at the turn of the century.
Eustace Mullins came to the same conclusions
in his book The Secrets of the Federal
Reserve, in which
he displays charts connecting the Fed and its member banks to the families of
Rothschild, Warburg, Rockefeller and the others. [4]
The control that these banking families exert over the global
economy cannot be overstated and is quite intentionally shrouded in secrecy.
Their corporate media arm is quick to discredit any information exposing this
private central banking cartel as “conspiracy theory”. Yet the facts remain.
The House of Morgan
The Federal Reserve Bank was born in 1913, the same year US
banking scion J. Pierpont Morgan died and the Rockefeller Foundation was
formed. The House of Morgan presided over American finance from the corner of
Wall Street and Broad, acting as quasi-US central bank since 1838, when George
Peabody founded it in London.
Peabody was a business associate of the Rothschilds. In 1952 Fed
researcher Eustace Mullins put forth the supposition that the Morgans were
nothing more than Rothschild agents. Mullins wrote that the Rothschilds,
“…preferred to operate anonymously in the US behind the facade of J.P. Morgan
& Company”. [5]
Author Gabriel Kolko stated, “Morgan’s activities in 1895-1896
in selling US gold bonds in Europe were based on an alliance with the House of
Rothschild.” [6]
The Morgan financial octopus wrapped its tentacles quickly
around the globe. Morgan Grenfell operated in London. Morgan et Ce ruled Paris. The Rothschild’s Lambert cousins set up Drexel
& Company in Philadelphia.
The House of Morgan
catered to the Astors, DuPonts, Guggenheims, Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. It
financed the launch of AT&T, General Motors, General Electric and DuPont.
Like the London-based Rothschild and Barings banks, Morgan became part of the
power structure in many countries.
By 1890 the House of Morgan was lending to Egypt’s central bank,
financing Russian railroads, floating Brazilian provincial government bonds and
funding Argentine public works projects. A recession in 1893 enhanced Morgan’s
power. That year Morgan saved the US government from a bank panic, forming a
syndicate to prop up government reserves with a shipment of $62 million worth
of Rothschild gold. [7]
Morgan was the driving
force behind Western expansion in the US, financing and controlling
West-bound railroads through voting trusts. In 1879 Cornelius Vanderbilt’s
Morgan-financed New York Central Railroad gave preferential shipping rates to
John D. Rockefeller’s budding Standard Oil monopoly, cementing the
Rockefeller/Morgan relationship.
The House of Morgan now
fell under Rothschild and Rockefeller family
control. A New York Herald headline read, “Railroad Kings Form Gigantic Trust”. J.
Pierpont Morgan, who once stated, “Competition is a sin”, now opined gleefully,
“Think of it. All competing railroad traffic west of St. Louis placed in the
control of about thirty men.”[8]
Morgan and Edward Harriman’s banker Kuhn Loeb held a monopoly
over the railroads, while banking dynasties Lehman, Goldman Sachs and Lazard
joined the Rockefellers in controlling the US industrial base. [9]
In 1903 Banker’s Trust
was set up by the Eight Families. Benjamin Strong of Banker’s Trust was the first Governor of
the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The 1913 creation of the Fed fused the power
of the Eight Families to the military and diplomatic might of the US
government. If their overseas loans went unpaid, the oligarchs could now deploy
US Marines to collect the debts. Morgan, Chase and Citibank formed an
international lending syndicate.
The House of Morgan was cozy with the British House of Windsor
and the Italian House of Savoy. The Kuhn Loebs, Warburgs, Lehmans, Lazards,
Israel Moses Seifs and Goldman Sachs also had close ties to European royalty.
By 1895 Morgan controlled the flow of gold in and out of the US. The first
American wave of mergers was in its infancy and was being promoted by the
bankers. In 1897 there were sixty-nine industrial mergers. By 1899 there were
twelve-hundred. In 1904 John Moody – founder of Moody’s Investor Services –
said it was impossible to talk of Rockefeller and Morgan interests as separate.
[10]
Public distrust of the
combine spread. Many considered them traitors working for European old money. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil,
Andrew Carnegie’s US Steel and Edward Harriman’s railroads were all financed by
banker Jacob Schiff at Kuhn Loeb, who worked closely with the European
Rothschilds.
Several Western states banned the bankers. Populist preacher
William Jennings Bryan was thrice the Democratic nominee for President from
1896 -1908. The central theme of his anti-imperialist campaign was that America
was falling into a trap of “financial servitude to British capital”. William
Howard Taft defeated Bryan in 1908, but by that time Taft’s predecessor and
mentor Teddy Roosevelt had been forced by this spreading populist wildfire to
enact the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. He then went after the Standard Oil Trust.
In 1912 the Pujo hearings were held, addressing concentration of
power on Wall Street. That same year Mrs. Edward Harriman sold her substantial
shares in New York’s Guaranty Trust Bank to J.P. Morgan, creating Morgan
Guaranty Trust. Judge Louis Brandeis convinced President Woodrow Wilson to call
for an end to interlocking board directorates. In 1914 the Clayton Anti-Trust
Act was passed.
Jack Morgan – J. Pierpont’s son and successor – responded by
calling on Morgan clients Remington and Winchester to increase arms production.
He argued that the US needed to enter WWI. Goaded by the Carnegie Foundation and
other oligarchy fronts, Wilson accommodated. As Charles Tansill wrote in America
Goes to War,
“Even before the clash of arms, the French firm of Rothschild Freres cabled to
Morgan & Company in New York suggesting the flotation of a loan of $100
million, a substantial part of which was to be left in the US to pay for French
purchases of American goods.”
The House of Morgan
financed half the US war effort, while receiving commissions for lining up contractors like GE,
Du Pont, US Steel, Kennecott and ASARCO. All were Morgan clients. Morgan also
financed the British Boer War in South Africa and the Franco-Prussian War. The
1919 Paris Peace Conference was presided over by Morgan, which led both German
and Allied reconstruction efforts. [11]
In the 1930’s populism resurfaced in America after Goldman
Sachs, Lehman Bank and others profited from the Crash of 1929. [12] House
Banking Committee Chairman Louis McFadden (D-NY) said of the Great Depression,
“It was no accident. It was a carefully contrived occurrence…The international
bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge
as rulers of us all”.
Sen. Gerald Nye (D-ND) chaired a munitions
investigation in 1936. Nye concluded that the House of Morgan had plunged the
US into WWI to protect loans and create a booming arms industry. Nye later
produced a document titled The Next War, which cynically referred to
“the old goddess of democracy trick”, through which Japan could be used to lure
the US into WWII.
In 1937 Interior Secretary
Harold Ickes warned of the influence of “America’s 60 Families”. Historian
Ferdinand Lundberg later penned a book of the exact same title. Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas decried, “Morgan influence…the most pernicious one
in industry and finance today.”
Jack Morgan responded by
nudging the US towards WWII. Morgan had close relations with the Iwasaki and
Dan families – Japan’s two wealthiest clans – who have owned Mitsubishi and
Mitsui, respectively, since the companies emerged from 17th Century shogunates. When Japan invaded Manchuria, slaughtering Chinese peasants at
Nanking, Morgan downplayed the incident. Morgan also had close relations with
Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, while German Nazi Dr. Hjalmer Schacht was a
Morgan Bank liaison during WWII. After the
war Morgan representatives met with Schacht at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. [13]
The House of Rockefeller
BIS is the most powerful bank in the world, a global central bank
for the Eight Families who control the private central banks of almost all
Western and developing nations. The first President of BIS was Rockefeller
banker Gates McGarrah- an official
at Chase Manhattan and the Federal Reserve. McGarrah was the grandfather of
former CIA director Richard Helms. The
Rockefellers- like the Morgans- had close ties to London. David Icke writes in Children of the Matrix, that the Rockefellers and Morgans were just “gofers”
for the European Rothschilds. [14]
BIS is owned by the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, Bank of
Italy, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank, NederlandscheBank, Bundesbank and Bank of France.
Historian Carroll Quigley wrote in his epic book Tragedy and Hope that BIS was part of a plan,
“to create a world system of financial
control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country
and the economy of the world as a whole…to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central
banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements.”
The US government had a historical distrust of BIS, lobbying
unsuccessfully for its demise at the 1944 post-WWII Bretton Woods Conference.
Instead the Eight Families’ power was exacerbated, with the Bretton Woods
creation of the IMF and the World Bank. The US Federal Reserve only took shares
in BIS in September 1994. [15]
BIS holds at least 10%
of monetary reserves for at least 80 of the world’s central banks, the IMF and
other multilateral institutions. It serves as financial agent for international agreements,
collects information on the global economy and serves as lender of last resort
to prevent global financial collapse.
BIS promotes an agenda of monopoly capitalist fascism. It gave a
bridge loan to Hungary in the 1990’s to ensure privatization of that country’s
economy. It served as conduit for Eight Families funding of Adolf Hitler- led
by the Warburg’s J. Henry Schroeder and Mendelsohn Bank of Amsterdam. Many
researchers assert that BIS is at the nadir of global drug money laundering.
[16]
It is no coincidence that BIS is headquartered in Switzerland,
favorite hiding place for the wealth of the global aristocracy and headquarters
for the P-2 Italian Freemason’s Alpina Lodge and Nazi International. Other institutions which the Eight Families
control include the World Economic Forum, the International Monetary Conference
and the World Trade Organization.
Bretton Woods was a boon to the Eight Families. The IMF and
World Bank were central to this “new world order”. In 1944 the first World Bank
bonds were floated by Morgan Stanley and First Boston. The French Lazard family
became more involved in House of Morgan interests. Lazard Freres- France’s
biggest investment bank- is owned by the Lazard and David-Weill families- old
Genoese banking scions represented by Michelle Davive. A recent Chairman and CEO
of Citigroup was Sanford Weill.
In 1968 Morgan Guaranty launched Euro-Clear, a Brussels-based
bank clearing system for Eurodollar securities. It was the first such automated
endeavor. Some took to calling Euro-Clear “The Beast”. Brussels serves as headquarters
for the new European Central Bank and for NATO. In 1973 Morgan officials met
secretly in Bermuda to illegally resurrect the old House of Morgan, twenty
years before the Glass Steagal Act was
repealed. Morgan and the Rockefellers provided the financial backing for
Merrill Lynch, boosting it into the Big 5 of US investment banking. Merrill is
now part of Bank of America.
John D. Rockefeller used his oil wealth to acquire Equitable
Trust, which had gobbled up several large banks and corporations by the 1920’s.
The Great Depression helped consolidate Rockefeller’s power. His Chase Bank
merged with Kuhn Loeb’s Manhattan Bank to form Chase Manhattan, cementing a
long-time family relationship. The Kuhn-Loeb’s had financed – along with
Rothschilds – Rockefeller’s quest to become king of the oil patch. National
City Bank of Cleveland provided John D. with the money needed to embark upon
his monopolization of the US oil industry. The bank was identified in
Congressional hearings as being one of three Rothschild-owned banks in the US
during the 1870’s, when Rockefeller first incorporated as Standard Oil of Ohio.
[17]
One Rockefeller Standard Oil partner was Edward Harkness, whose
family came to control Chemical Bank. Another was James Stillman, whose family
controlled Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Both banks have merged under the JP
Morgan Chase umbrella. Two of James Stillman’s daughters married two of William
Rockefeller’s sons. The two families control a big chunk of Citigroup as well.
[18]
In the insurance business, the Rockefellers control Metropolitan
Life, Equitable Life, Prudential and New York Life. Rockefeller banks control 25% of all assets of the 50 largest US commercial banks
and 30% of all assets of the 50 largest insurance companies. [19] Insurance companies-
the first in the US was launched by Freemasons through their Woodman’s of
America- play a key role in the Bermuda drug money shuffle.
Companies under Rockefeller control include Exxon Mobil, Chevron
Texaco, BP Amoco, Marathon Oil, Freeport McMoran, Quaker Oats, ASARCO, United,
Delta, Northwest, ITT, International Harvester, Xerox, Boeing, Westinghouse,
Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, International Paper, Pfizer, Motorola, Monsanto,
Union Carbide and General Foods.
The Rockefeller Foundation has close financial ties to both Ford
and Carnegie Foundations. Other family philanthropic endeavors include
Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, General
Education Board, Rockefeller University and the University of Chicago- which churns
out a steady stream of far right economists as apologists for international
capital, including Milton Friedman.
The family owns 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where the national
Christmas tree is lighted every year, and Rockefeller Center. David Rockefeller
was instrumental in the construction of the World Trade Center towers. The main
Rockefeller family home is a hulking complex in upstate New York known as
Pocantico Hills. They also own a 32-room 5th Avenue duplex in Manhattan, a
mansion in Washington, DC, Monte Sacro Ranch in Venezuela, coffee plantations
in Ecuador, several farms in Brazil, an estate at Seal Harbor, Maine and
resorts in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. [20]
The Dulles and Rockefeller families are cousins. Allen Dulles
created the CIA, assisted the Nazis, covered up the Kennedy hit from his Warren
Commission perch and struck a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood to create
mind-controlled assassins. [21]
Brother John Foster Dulles presided over the phony Goldman Sachs
trusts before the 1929 stock market crash and helped his brother overthrow
governments in Iran and Guatemala. Both were Skull & Bones, Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) insiders and 33rd Degree Masons. [22]
The Rockefellers were instrumental in forming the
depopulation-oriented Club of Rome at their family estate in Bellagio, Italy.
Their Pocantico Hills estate gave birth to the Trilateral Commission. The
family is a major funder of the eugenics movement which spawned Hitler, human
cloning and the current DNA obsession in US scientific circles.
John Rockefeller Jr. headed the Population Council until his
death. [23] His namesake son is a Senator from West Virginia. Brother Winthrop
Rockefeller was Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and the most powerful man in
that state until he died in 2006. In an October 1975 interview with Playboy magazine, Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller- who was also
Governor of New York- articulated his family’s patronizing worldview, “I am a
great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world
planning.”
But of all the Rockefeller brothers, it is Trilateral Commission
(TC) founder and former Chase Manhattan Chairman David who has spearheaded the
family’s fascist agenda on a global scale. He defended the Shah of Iran, the
South African apartheid regime and the Chilean Pinochet junta. He was the biggest financier of the CFR, the TC and (during
the Vietnam War) the Committee for an Effective and Durable Peace in Asia- a
contract bonanza for those who made their living off the conflict.
Nixon asked him to be Secretary of Treasury, but Rockefeller
declined the job, knowing his power was much greater at the helm of the Chase. Author Gary Allen writes in The Rockefeller File that in 1973, “David Rockefeller met with
twenty-seven heads of state, including the rulers of Russia and Red China.”
Following the 1975 Nugan Hand Bank/CIA coup against Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his British
Crown-appointed successor Malcolm Fraser sped to the US, where he met with
President Gerald Ford after conferring with David
Rockefeller. [24]
Next
Week: Part II: Freemasons & The Bank of the United States
[1] 10K Filings of Fortune 500 Corporations to SEC. 3-91
[2] 10K Filing of US Trust Corporation to SEC. 6-28-95
[3] “The Federal Reserve ‘Fed Up’. Thomas Schauf.
www.davidicke.com 1-02
[4] The Secrets of the
Federal Reserve.
Eustace Mullins. Bankers Research Institute. Staunton, VA. 1983. p.179
[5] Ibid. p.53
[6] The Triumph of
Conservatism.
Gabriel Kolko. MacMillan and Company New York. 1963. p.142
[7] Rule by Secrecy: The
Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the
Great Pyramids. Jim
Marrs. HarperCollins Publishers. New York. 2000. p.57
[8] The House of Morgan. Ron Chernow. Atlantic
Monthly Press NewYork 1990
[9] Marrs. p.57
[10] Democracy for the Few. Michael Parenti. St.
Martin’s Press. New York. 1977. p.178
[11] Chernow
[12] The Great Crash of 1929. John Kenneth Galbraith.
Houghton, Mifflin Company. Boston. 1979. p.148
[13] Chernow
[14] Children of the Matrix. David Icke. Bridge of Love.
Scottsdale, AZ. 2000
[15] The Confidence Game: How
Un-Elected Central Bankers are Governing the Changed World Economy. Steven Solomon. Simon &
Schuster. New York. 1995. p.112
[16] Marrs. p.180
[17] Ibid. p.45
[18] The Money Lenders: The
People and Politics of the World Banking Crisis. Anthony Sampson. Penguin
Books. New York. 1981
[19] The Rockefeller File. Gary Allen. ’76 Press. Seal
Beach, CA. 1977
[20] Ibid
[21] Dope Inc.: The Book That
Drove Kissinger Crazy. Editors of Executive
Intelligence Review. Washington, DC. 1992
[22] Marrs.
[23] The Rockefeller
Syndrome. Ferdinand
Lundberg. Lyle Stuart Inc. Secaucus, NJ. 1975. p.296
[24] Marrs. p.53
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