We blame the government because that is what we have been told to do by our media from Reagan forward.
The media being owned by the same uber class that has always fanned the flames of divisionism within this country. While I may well be mistaken, the Uber driving deal looks like just one more deckstacker
scam designed to extract and transfer funds from our working class communities to our uber class predators
that take delight in feeding off everything we do in life, as opposed to contributing to the betterment of all.
If I'm not mistaken, Prescott Bush amongst others had bets on both sides. They couldn't loose.Bit of an excerpt from 'The Brothers' by Steven Kinzer via Dave Emory
John Foster and Allen Dulles were attorneys with the powerful Sullivan & Cromwell law firm, arguably the most important of the “White Shoe” Wall Street institutions.
Signature business deals realized by the firm include: The 1882 creation of General Electric; the weaving together on behalf of J.P. Morgan of 28 different steel manufacturers into U.S. Steel; the forging of much of the Harriman railroad empire, and the creation of the newly independent country of Panama (formerly a province of Colombia), in order to build the Panama Canal. (1)
Foremost among Sullivan & Cromwell’s deals on behalf of the Axis was John Foster Dulles’ midwifing of the consummately powerful I.G. Farben Cartel. The driving engine of German industrial and war-making capacity, Farben grew out of the dyestuffs and chemical business dominated by the member firms of the conglomerate. (2)
The columnist Drew Pearson gleefully listed the German clients of Sullivan & Cromwell who had contributed money to the Nazis, and described Foster as chief agent for “the banking circles that rescued Adolf Hitler from the financial depths and set up his Nazi party as a going concern." (3)
Exemplifying Foster’s deft legal maneuvering and the enormous consequences of those gambits is the lawyer’s fashioning of a nickel cartel and fitting it into the growing corporate mosaic of I.G. Farben:
Among Foster's premier clients was the New Jersey-based International Nickel Company, for which he was not only counsel but also a director and member of the executive board. In the early 1930s, he steered it, along with its Canadian affiliate, into a cartel with France's two major nickel producers. In 1934, he brought the biggest German nickel producer, I.G. Farben, into the cartel. This gave Nazi Germany access to the cartel's resources.
“Without Dulles,” according to a study of Sullivan & Cromwell, “Germany would have lacked any negotiating strength with [International Nickel], which controlled the world's supply of nickel, a crucial ingredient in stainless steel and armor plate.” (4)
The corporate arrangements created by the company enabled I.G. global dominance in numerous vital war-making industrial products and gave Germany and her Axis partners significant leverage in the operation of industrial warfare manufacturing.
Dulles’ brother Allen was a top intelligence officer for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), America’s WWII intelligence service and a predecessor of the CIA. He was also on leave from Sullivan & Cromwell.
Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, Allen helped prominent Americans invest in Nazi Germany and then helped to mask those investments.
Some Americans were just bigots and made their connections to Germany through Allen Dulles' firm of Sullivan & Cromwell because they supported fascism. The Dulles brothers, who were in it for profit more than ideology, arranged American investments in Nazi Germany in the 1930's to ensure that their clients did well out of the German economic recovery. “Dulles clearly emphasized projects for Germany . . . and for Mussolini's fascist state . . . All told, these and more than a dozen similar transactions had a combined value in excess of a billion dollars.”(emphasis added) (5)
Among Dulles’ clients who invested in Germany were the Bush family, specifically George Herbert Walker and his son-in-law Prescott Bush, Sr.
Walker was one of Hitler's most powerful financial supporters in the United States. The relationship went all the way back to 1924, when Fritz Thyssen, the German industrialist, was financing Hitler's infant Nazi party. . . . Walker also set up a deal to take over the North American operations of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, a cover for I.G. Farben's Nazi espionage united in the United States. (6)
The Hamburg-Amerika line was controlled by a holding company, American Shipping and Commerce, which shared an address with Union Banking Corporation, on the board of which both George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush sat. Averell Harriman’s stock in American Shipping and Commerce was held by another company, the Harriman Fifteen Corporation, run out of Walker’s office. The directors of Harriman Fifteen were Averell Harrriman, George Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush. (7)
Dulles helped with the cloaking operations to shield both his son-in-law Walker and Averell Harriman from the authorities:
Instead of divesting the Nazi money, Bush hired a lawyer to hide the assets. The lawyer he hired had considerable expertise in such underhanded schemes. It was Allen Dulles. According to Dulles's client list at Sullivan & Cromwell, his first relationship with Brown Brothers, Harriman was on June 18, 1936. (8
Happy BirthdayI asked if they could repair my 10 year old mat. They said no. It wasn’t under warranty. Then they sent me this one for free. It’s at least a $300 mat. I thought it was my birthday.
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Those words triggered a memory from the fourth grade when I learned Stodola pumpa.Stol Lat
Those words triggered a memory from the fourth grade when I learned Stodola pumpa.
Enjoy!
Mrs. Champney was radical. We recited "Good better best; never let it rest; until my good is better; and my better best" every day after the Pledge of Allegiance.4th grade progressive programming.