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JFK 🗽 knew what he was talking about.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 13, 2022, 3:16 pm
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August 13, 2022
milo • 6 hours ago
I think we Yanks invented the new demographic "deaths of
despair". We are the richest, most powerful nation on Earth. In
fact we're killing the planet in a quest to consume it all for
our fuel. But in the process we made no room for our
fulfillment. And so more and more of us discover that life is
not worth living. What does the future hold for us? Overdose and
suicide, notably. But also just terminal ennui. More of the
same, every day
AGelbert > milo 2 hours ago
I think JFK said a thing or two about what those irrefutably
accurate societal woes you just listed will inevitably lead
to...
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Kennedy[/move]
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Re: Corruption in Government
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 15, 2022, 1:58 pm
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[center]After 🦕 Chuckie Koch's Kinder, Gentler Rebrand
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/>Attempt, 😈 He Spent Over $1 Billion On 2020
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Hey, remember back in 2018 when Politico Magazine told us Chase
Koch, son of Charles Koch, "wants to steer the conservative
juggernaut his family created toward a kinder, gentler
libertarianism?" Or what about in 2020, when the Wall Street
Journal's Doug Belkin helped Charles "call me 'Chuckie'" Koch
attempt to rebrand as a "philosopher and, he hopes, unifer?"
Well if you were, like us, more skeptical than the "journalists"
who credulously served up this PR as "reporting", then
congratulations! You're not stupid enough to be a political
access-driven DC journalist.
Because it turns out that even as ol' Chuckie was telling the
WSJ how much he laments his past partisanship, he was still
steering ungodly amounts of money into the election. Belkin
claimed that "Koch Industries’ PAC and employees donated $2.8
million in the 2020 campaign cycle to Republican candidates and
$221,000 to Democratic candidates," but that seems to have
undersold things by an order of magnitude or two.
It's taken two years for all the paperwork to go through, but
Connor Gibson crunched the numbers for the Center for Media and
Democracy, and tallied up that "Koch Industries spent only $22.4
million on federal lobbying and campaign contributions in the
2020 election cycle."
But even that is "only" a fraction of the total spend, as across
the 28 organizations that Koch controls, plus his family and
Koch Industries executives, the total Koch spend on the 2020
election cycle was at least $1.1 billion.
Yes, billion, with a "B"!
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The supposedly post-partisan 😇 ;) Koch
👿🦖 network spent $1,100,000,000
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/>influencing American politics, in just one election cycle!
And even THAT is a conservative figure, Gibson notes, because
"these calculations likely fail to account for the total policy
and political spending overseen by Charles Koch since Koch
Industries and a fleet of Koch-controlled limited liability
companies (LLCs) do not disclose similar finances."
Over a billion dollars, and that's just from what they're forced
to disclose!
"Even though Koch told reporters he was so displeased with
Trump," Gibson writes, "that he might even support Democrats — a
rhetorical trick he pulls every few years — the tens of millions
of dollars his organizations invested in U.S. Senate and House
races went almost exclusively to Republicans."
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And it's not just the "good" Republicans who respect norms and
traditions like not overthrowing Democracy because you're a
loser: "Koch has financed groups involved in extremist activity,
including the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In 2022, Koch
Industries is still financing many politicians who worked to
invalidate
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/>the results of the 2020 presidential election, despite
signaling
to Politico that it would
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/>discontinue such support."
He's certainly getting what he paid for, too: "His astroturf
organization 🦖 Americans for Prosperity (AFP) spent
"seven figures" on efforts to support the confirmations of Trump
nominees 👿 Neil Gorsuch, 🐍 Brett Kavanaugh, and
🦖 Amy Coney-Barrett—for a total price tag of between $3
and $10 million."
Regardless, who wants to guess which supposedly DC-savvy,
access-driven journalistic mockery will fall for it the next
time Chuckie Koch wants some sympathetic press?
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Re: Corruption in Government
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Re: Corruption in Government
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 4, 2022, 3:49 pm
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EcoWatch
Updated: August 31, 2022 By: Kristina Zagame Edited By: Karsten
Neumeister (graphics by AGelbert)
[center]The Supreme Court’s Environmental Report Card: Which
😈 Justices are
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SNIPPET:
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In assigning our “Eco-Grades,” we looked at the top
[size=18pt]40 environmentally related cases decided by the
Supreme Court since 1992 (when the longest-serving justice,
Clarence Thomas, began his term) in order to evaluate the
environmental track record of each justice.
With more failures than passing grades, it seems our justices
have some studying up to do.
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Supreme Court Justice Starting Year
Eco-Grade
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.
F
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas 1991
F
Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito
F
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor
A
Associate Justice Elena Kagan
A
Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch
F
Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh
D
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett 2020
D
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
TBD
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Full article:
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[move]📢 "With half of the members of the extreme right
supermajority on the Supreme Court having been nominated by a
president who had lost the popular vote by 2.7 million votes and
confirmed by senators who represent well less than half of the
voters in the country, the court’s recent decisions move our
country perilously close to minority rule." [/move]
BY PAUL BLAND 08/23/22 5:30 PM ET
[center]Congress needs to modernize the 🦕 [b]Supreme
Court and bring it into the 21st century[/b][/center]
SNIPPETS:
In the last four years, my organization, Public Justice, has won
three victories at the U.S. Supreme Court. Two of those
victories were unanimous, and two of them were written by
justices who had been nominated by Republican presidents. So one
might think, given the court’s recent tendency to side with us
in important cases, that everything is just fine. If so, you’d
be wrong.
Instead, our view is that the nation’s highest court has
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/>veered off the rails in troubling and extreme ways. Far from
acting in a restrained, careful way, the court has recently
issued drastic and extreme opinions that are harmful to American
society. ... ...
... the
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/>🦖 Court invented a new doctrine (not based in any
serious reading of the text of the Constitution) sharply
limiting the ability of the federal government to protect the
environment, address the climate change crisis or limit
pollution.
And this builds upon other decisions in recent years that
undermine democracy, such as Citizens United v FEC (which paved
the way for billionaires to spend far more of their money on
elections, multiplying their power) and Shelby County v. Holder
(where the court greatly undermined the Voting Rights Act). And
the list goes on.
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With half of the members of the extreme right supermajority on
the Supreme Court having been nominated by a president who had
lost the popular vote by 2.7 million votes and confirmed by
senators who represent well less than half of the voters in the
country, the court’s recent decisions move our country
perilously close to minority rule. Each of the extreme decisions
described above is badly out of touch with the views of the
majority of the American people, and this fact is reflected in
the court’s plummeting public approval rating.
And
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/>they’re clearly not done yet. ... ...
The court has taken a case which raises the possibility that a
heavily gerrymandered state legislature could overturn a
presidential election 😵 in which a candidate the state
legislative majority disfavors wins the clear majority of the
votes. ... ...
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/>It is now clear that the court badly needs reforming and
modernizing. That’s why we at Public Justice are calling on
Congress to take action. First, the court should be expanded to
13 justices
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/> And second, term limits should be implemented, capping
service
at a maximum of 18 years
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/>... ...
Expanding the court should not be the end of Congress’s work to
modernize our judicial system, however. ... ...
In the past, justices have seemed to struggle to understand such
basic modern concepts as text messaging, social media and other
modern-day devices and issues, despite being asked to make
weighty and consequential decisions about them. Term limits
would also help address the growing problem of justice being
held as a political prisoner based on who happens to be
president when a sitting justice decides to retire or dies.
Absent death, justices increasingly step down when they believe
a president who shares their philosophy will nominate their
replacement. That hardly helps keep the court above the
political fray; indeed, it drops our most important legal body
right in the middle of political hurricanes. That was never
meant to be the case.
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Trump and his minions launched a vicious campaign against the
West Palm Beach-based judge.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 9, 2022, 1:47 pm
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/>NOTE: The level of corruption is MASSIVE. Just look at the the
background of the Judge Trump just judge shopped:
[shadow=black,right]Intrepid Report[/shadow]
Posted on September 8, 2022 By Wayne Madsen ✨
[center]Trump successfully 😈 judge-shopped for an
unqualified South Florida 🐘 right-winger[/center]
SNIPPETS:
Donald Trump, the New York real estate mobster who fled Gotham
City for Florida during his twice-impeached presidency to avoid
the arm of justice in the Empire State, needed a corrupt and
inexperienced federal judge to stymie the Justice Department’s
investigation of his theft of thousands of highly-classified and
other official documents from the White House. He found one in
Judge Aileen Mercedes Cannon, a right-wing Federalist Society
Cuban-American.
Being born in Cali, Colombia, should have been enough to set off
🚨 alarm bells when Trump nominated her for a lifetime
appointment to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
of Florida in July 2020. Trump was obviously stacking the
federal bench with right-wing toadies because he was in the
midst of a presidential campaign that polls indicated he would
lose to Democrat Joe Biden. ... ...
One other cause for concern is that Cannon served as an
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida
under U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who was partly responsible for
the “sweetheart” plea deal underage sex trafficker and one-time
Mar-a-Lago member Jeffrey Epstein received in 2007. Acosta
became Secretary of Labor under Trump, a position that placed
him in charge of investigating sex trafficking.
It appears that Cannon violated the South Florida District’s own
operating procedures when she accepted Trump’s litigation in the
Special Master case. The procedures state: “The assignment
schedule shall be designed to prevent any litigant from choosing
the Judge to whom an action or proceeding is to be assigned, and
all attorneys shall conscientiously refrain from attempting to
vary this Local Rule.”
There is another reason why Cannon should have recused herself
from a case involving Mar-a-Lago. Although it is not known
whether her husband’s wedding event planning business involved
Trump’s Palm Beach rental facility, it is known that two of
Mar-a-Lago’s most prominent members are former presidents of
Cannon’s native Colombia — Medellin ☠️
cartel-linked Alvaro Uribe, as well as Andres Pastrana.
Full article:
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How 💵😈🎩 billionaires took over democracy
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 14, 2022, 3:53 pm
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[center]How
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Robert Reich 371K subscribers
The Citizens United disaster, in a nutshell:
In 2008, before the ruling, billionaires contributed $31 million
to federal campaigns.
In 2020, billionaires contributed $1.2 billion.
That’s almost a 40-fold increase.
It never had to be like this.
AGelbert NOTE: It's the Social Darwinism, stupid! And, yeah, our
government was already thoroughly Fascist corrupted by 2008.
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March of 2008 Howard Zinn: “The election frenzy…seizes the
country every four years because we have all been brought up to
believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that
the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the
polls and choose one of the two mediocrities who have already
been chosen for us [by the
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/>class – P.S.]. It is a multiple-choice test so narrow, so
specious, that no self-respecting teacher would give it to
students.”
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Termites are able organizers, and thoroughly attached to their
way of life.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 3, 2022, 11:28 am
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AGelbert NOTE: Originally posted June 30, 2019
[center]All 💵🎩 Honorable
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/>Men[/center]
COPYRIGHT 1950, BY JAMES STEWART MARTIN
SNIPPET 1:
--- Quote ---
> In this book I have tried to tell the story of an important
problem and some of the things that happened when we tried to
deal with it. Though many of the events occurred in Germany,
before and during the military occupation, they seemed in an
increasing degree to be echoes of something more fundamental
that was happening back in the United States. For whatever
reason, the larger pattern is a repetition of what followed
after World War I; but the pace has been quicker, as though
greater powers were moving more rapidly toward a more
catastrophic result.
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SNIPPET 2:
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> THE day I started to write this we discovered termites in the
basement. We were preparing to build a wing on our old house and
found a colony of them in the heavy timbers.
>
> Termites are able organizers, and thoroughly attached to their
way of life. The area they occupy is small in relation to the
house (just the heavy underpinnings). They object vigorously to
outside interference from the people who live in the other parts
of the house. They object especially to structural changes,
which they are bound to consider unwarranted.
>
> They have two good reasons for objecting to changes. In the
first place exposure to light and air kills them. In the second
place any movement of the underpinnings ruins the whole
structure of tunnels and channels which their enterprise has
built within the framework of the house.
>
> We hated to disturb them. They looked busy and enterprising.
They seemed to want nothing more than a comfortable existence in
accordance with their way of life.
>
> We cleared the termites out to save the house, but I think I
know how they looked at the whole matter. At the end of the
Second World War I spent two and a half years in Germany dealing
with some people who must think pretty much the same way.
--- End Quote ---
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SNIPPET 3:
We were becoming a little ashamed of having farm "surpluses" and
industrial "overproduction" in one part of the world while
people starved and did without things in other parts.
The tremendous wartime production in our own country^
outstripping all estimates, had itself been an eye opener. Why
not have full production and full employment in peacetime, too?
We were beginning to have some feeling for the idea that
economic restrictions, depression, and war are not unrelated.
Francis Biddle's demand for curbs on the big German financial
and industrial combines was not ignored. The Financial Branch of
SHAEF, General Eisenhower*s headquarters in Europe, asked for
help in planning the necessary steps. They were preparing to
investigate the concentration of economic power in Germany. They
wanted to discover how the German leaders were smuggling great
fortunes abroad to provide a future base of operations after the
coming military defeat. ... ... It was going to be our job to
uncover records, and to find and talk to the German masterminds
who had laid their plans for turning military defeat into
economic victory. We had to find out what they had done and how
they had done it. ... ... Whatever their story might be, we had
to know how such men came to have power and what forces
determined the use they made of it.
SNIPPET 4:
During the German occupation of the neighboring countries they
had had new opportunities to strengthen their hold. Even before
we left the United States it took no powers of divination to
realize that German finance and industry would have made the
most of these opportunities to set up new vested interests in
hands that would appear to be French, or Dutch, or Belgian, or
Italian. We could expect to be greeted by these "allied"
defenders of the Nazi economic New Order, who would resist our
countermeasures by wailing that they had already "suffered"
under the Germans.
SNIPPET 5:
How were we going to fare when we ran up against real
demonstrations of German economic power and ingenuity, where the
opposition to change would be a lot more formidable because it
would be carefully engineered? The answer was not long in
coming.
We settled down out of the sky over England into a fog-covered
beehive called Bushy Park, headquarters for the future military
government of Germany, then known as the U.S. Group Control
Council. ... ... Our special team was assigned to work in the
Finance Division with Captain Norbert A. Bogdan, a charming
fellow who had been a vice president of the J. Henry Schroder
Banking Corporation, a firm in whose files the Nazi banking
affiliations were still warm when the United States went to war.
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Agelbert NOTE: I will continue providing snippets in subsequent
posts as I read this book. Aleady I have been flabbergasted by
the fact that U.S. ship and factory reinsurers, AFTER we were at
war with Nazi Germany, through Switzerland and South America on
to Germany, were notified of when ANY U.S. was to leave port AND
what cargo it had, providing the German submarines off our coast
a "to sink" list!
And all those factories making war stuff with lots of guards
posted to keep Nazi spies from knowing what was going on there?
Well, anyone could, and did, without any security clearance
whatsoevah, buy "required reinsurance document copies" for
pennies which included detailed descriptions of factories and
their contents including, in the case of magnesium processing
plants, what valve coulld not be closed because that would
"cause an explosion". All this info was required by reinsurers.
ANYBODY could access all this stuff, right down to where the
fire extinguishers were in the White House! In spite of this
OBVIOUS security threat, getting our own government to order
American corporations to STOP sending this info to Germany took
several MONTHS!
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You don't believe me? I just READ IT in this book! Read it
yourself!
--- Quote ---
> We proposed to have the Attorney General send a letter to each
company warning that transmission of marine and industrial plant
information of this type came within the scope of the Espionage
Act.
--- End Quote ---
--- Quote ---
> In the end the letter was sent out, nearly a year and a half
after the leakage had first been brought to the attention of an
agency of the government, and over four months after we in the
Economic Warfare Section had taken up the case and pointed out
what uses the Germans could be making of the information.
--- End Quote ---
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List of Germans who carried the major responsibility for what
had happened
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Agelbert NOTE: Continued from the previous post in this topic
thread.
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The struggle over the Ruhr had brought the first rnajor
breakdown of Allied policy in 1923 when Britain and the United
States refused to back up the French occupation of the valley;
and ten years later the financiers and industrialists of that
area had boosted Hitler into the driver's seat. ...
... Most Germans who meant anything in German industry or
politics after World War I considered it an act of patriotism to
evade the terms of the Versailles Treaty. In fact, in the years
after Versailles, the German courts would entertain prosecutions
for the crime of high treason against any German citizen who
concerned himself with the execution of the Treaty "in such a
way that a foreign power was advised of infractions."
Clearly, the Germans themselves would expect to be supervised
and watched. It would be a point of 😈 honor, as well as
self-interest, to defy detection, and to camouflage or conceal
their intentions.
From our discoveries during three years with the Economic
Warfare Section, we had already narrowed down the list of
Germans who carried the major responsibility for what had
happened. The list was impressively small; for somewhere among a
group of not more than a hundred men were those who had done the
lion's share of the planning and had carried out the world-wide
negotiations that made the economic preparations for war a
success.
Still, even a list of a hundred important individuals,
controlling sixty or seventy of the biggest companies, was too
large for pinpoint investigation by our small crew- Were there
some five or ten or twelve men among these who stood head and
shoulders above the others either in knowledge or in degree of
responsibility for the German efforts?
Perhaps the records of the International Steel Cartel at
Luxembourg would furnish clues to help us concentrate our
attention first on a few individuals and a few companies in
Germany. ...
... Quite by accident, our team arrived on a Saturday, and
simultaneously with a visit by General Eisenhower. The officials
of the steel cartel somehow gained the impression that General
Eisenhower's visit had been made especially to lend additional
high-level sanction to the visit of the Department of Justice
officials attached to SHAEF.
Hector Dieudonne, secretary of the cartel, and the other top
cartel officials, who were heading for the country over the week
end, told Eric Conrot, the office manager, to "give every
assistance" to the gentlemen from SHAEF. M. Conrot unexpectedly
took the instructions quite literally. ;D He opened up all the
filing cabinets in the office of the cartel and invited the
gentlemen from SHAEF to make themselves at home for the entire
week end. They did. 🧐
It is not hard to imagine the hair-pulling among the top
officials when they returned Monday morning. They found an
extremely weary and sleepless investigative crew sitting among a
mass of folders from which an index had been compiled of close
to four thousand documents. The investigators expressed their
gratitude and said they would very much like permission to make
photostats of the four thousand documents.
With a great deal of grinding of teeth and scarcely restrained
mutterings at M. Conrot's misunderstanding of diplomatic
language, they finally gave their consent, but not without
making a protest that their hospitality had in some way been
abused by what amounted to "police" methods. ...
... M. Aloyse Meyer, managing director of the Arbed steel
combine, returned quietly to the city of Luxembourg from
Germany. He had left when the Germans left, but came back with
the explanation that he had been kidnaped.
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The official attitude was that Meyer had become a hero by
keeping his firm intact during the war and thereby preventing
the removal of Luxembourg workers from the local steel plants to
Germany for work in the German plants. Some officials even
alleged that the Arbed management had arranged to slow down
production and thereby sabotage the German war effort, but the
comparative figures for Arbed and the other two Luxembourg firms
did not bear this out.
What the Luxembourgers chose to do with Aloyse Meyer did not
change what was on the papers in the files of the steel cartel.
It was not necessary to wait for photostats of all the thousands
of documents to realize that we now had an enlarged picture from
which to work.
Here was something that had gone beyond mere German resistance
to the occupation measures of the Allied powers after World War
1. It was a concrete example of how leading German manufacturers
had gone about the job of recapturing control over industries
and markets and making Germany the "industrial hub of Europe."
This was not resistance, but a counterattack that included
enlisting the help of industrialists in other countries. Here
again the step-by-step history threw some light on what had
happened, but at the same time raised questions about why the
otherss let the Germans get what they wanted.
The mid-twenties were remarkable for German industrial
combination. They marked the formation of the United Steel Works
in Germany, as a combination of the four biggest steel
producers, Ernst Poensgen, Fritz Thyssen, Otto Wolff, and the
others who drew this combine together had managed to get over a
hundred million dollars from private investors in the United
States. ...
... The loans which the bigger operators got from Britain and
the United States to put them on their feet after the inflation
also enabled them to pay prices far above the market values to
buy out troublesome competing firms. In effect, the foreign
loans and German government subsidies allowed the leading
companies, such as United Steel Works, Mannesmann, Krupp, Good
Hope and Rochling, to substitute private regulation and
elimination of competition for the technical efficiency they had
lost when their plants in Alsace and Lorraine went back to
French control after 1918. ...
... The Nazi Economic Ministry later gave due recognition to Dr.
Poensgen for his services to the German iron and steel industry
through his organization of the national and international steel
cartels. ...
... All members
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/>agreed that in foreign markets they would not undersell each
other but would undersell any nonmember in order to drive him
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Agelbert NOTE: As this excellent book makes clear, the
demonization of some "other", though intrinsic to the fascist
MO, is merely a peripheral part of the core 'business model',
which is Monopoly Capitalism through Cartelization of absolutely
every product that human society requires. The point is to
eliminate all 'pesky' competition. That is what sanctions are
all about. When sanctions do not accomplish the competition
crushing purpose, then war is next. The storm trooper racist
crazies are part of the divide and counqer distraction to keep
people from realizing they are being screwed 24/7 by a worldwide
fascist oligarchy.
As this book explains, fascist efforts to achieve worldwide
Monopoly Capitalism through Cartelization, interrupted by WWII,
continued after WWII by those who aided the rise of Hitler.
Shortly before WWII ended, these fascists moved huge fortunes
out of Germany to various places on the planet, including the
United States, for the express purpose of resurrecting the
fascist 'business model' wherever they could.
These industrialists are true believers in using the local
government to do whatever on their behalf, going back
generations BEFORE the word "Fascism" ever existed. This book
brings you up to 1950. As bad as the fascist infiltration of the
United States and Europe was by 1950, it got much worse after
that.
However, the continued value of this book is that it exposes
the, mostly surreptitious, step by step procedure that fascists
methodically engage in to exploit and enslave we-the-people.
Their Mens rea modus operandi has not changed in any way from
1950 to the present.
They targeted Europe after WWII and, with the help of the CIA
(which controlled the trillion dollar Anderson "Trust" through
the treason of Truman), succeeded in crushing Socialism there,
and eventually here. Socialsm is an obstacle to Monopoly
Capitalism through Cartelization, so fascists will always do
whatever to "eliminate" said obstacle.
The point is to eliminate all 'pesky' competition. That is what
sanctions are all about. When sanctions do not accomplish the
competition crushing purpose, then war is next. The storm
trooper racist crazies are part of the divide and counqer
distraction to keep people from realizing they are being screwed
24/7 by a worldwide fascist oligarchy.
Unfortunately, because it is is too nuanced/complicated, too few
people grasp the brutal reality stated above.
Fascists count on public's lack of introspection.
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I challenge you to find any difference between Hitler's mindset
in the following quotes and that of Trump, ALL Republicans, and
TOO MANY DINOs:
--- Quote ---
> “If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you
should not be there to explain!”― Adolf Hitler
>
> “Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are
insulting yourself.”― Adolf Hitler
>
> “I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
― Adolf Hitler
>
> “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” ―
Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Letters and Notes
>
> “The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their
intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is
enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective
propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on
these in slogans until the last member of the public understands
what you want him to understand by your slogan.” ― Adolf
Hitler
>
> “The very first essential for success is a perpetually
constant and regular employment of violence.”
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/>Adolf Hitler
--- End Quote ---
To be continued:
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as the American judges 😈 construed it, only those who
had forged the last link could be guilty
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 3, 2022, 2:28 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: Continued from the previous post
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/>on this book.
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COPYRIGHT 1950, BY JAMES STEWART MARTIN
[center]Full text of "All Honorable Men.pdf"
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Agelbert NOTE: As this excellent book makes clear, the
demonization of some "other", though intrinsic to the fascist
MO, is merely a peripheral part of the core 'business model',
which is Monopoly Capitalism through Cartelization of absolutely
every product that human society requires. The point is to
eliminate all 'pesky' competition. That is what sanctions are
all about. When sanctions do not accomplish the competition
crushing purpose, then war is next. The storm trooper racist
crazies are part of the divide and counqer distraction to keep
people from realizing they are being screwed 24/7 by a worldwide
fascist oligarchy.
As this book explains, fascist efforts to achieve worldwide
Monopoly Capitalism through Cartelization, interrupted by WWII,
continued after WWII by those who aided the rise of Hitler.
Shortly before WWII ended, these fascists moved huge fortunes
out of Germany to various places on the planet, including the
United States, for the express purpose of resurrecting the
fascist 'business model' wherever they could.
These industrialists are true believers in using the local
government to do whatever on their behalf, going back
generations BEFORE the word "Fascism" ever existed. This book
brings you up to 1950. As bad as the fascist infiltration of the
United States and Europe was by 1950, it got much worse after
that.
However, the continued value of this book is that it exposes
the, mostly surreptitious, step by step procedure that fascists
methodically engage in to exploit and enslave we-the-people.
Their Mens rea modus operandi has not changed in any way from
1950 to the present.
They targeted Europe after WWII and, with the help of the CIA
(which controlled the trillion dollar Anderson "Trust" through
the treason of Truman), succeeded in crushing Socialism there,
and eventually here. Socialsm is an obstacle to Monopoly
Capitalism through Cartelization, so fascists will always do
whatever to "eliminate" said obstacle.
The point is to eliminate all 'pesky' competition. That is what
sanctions are all about. When sanctions do not accomplish the
competition crushing purpose, then war is next. The storm
trooper racist crazies are part of the divide and counqer
distraction to keep people from realizing they are being screwed
24/7 by a worldwide fascist oligarchy.
Unfortunately, because it is is too nuanced/complicated, too few
people grasp the brutal reality stated above.
SNIPPETS:
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[center]Aloyse Meyer
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For years Aloyse Meyer, as head of Arbed, had been a director of
Arbed's subsidiary in Germany, the large Felten & Guilleaume
cable works. Working with M. Meyer, and serving as chairman of
the board of directors of Felten & Guilleaume, was Baron Kurt
von Schroder, Hitler's banker. As far as we were concerned, the
line from M. Meyer and Arbed and the International Steel Cartel
to von Schroder s private bank at Cologne could have been as
thin as a filament of spider's web. We were looking for the
spider.
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[center]Baron Kurt von Schroder[/center]
The Schroder family of Hamburg, into which Baron Kurt von
Schroder was born in November 1889, had been 🎩bankers
for generations. In a preceding generation, Baron Johann
Heinrich von Schroder had moved to London, adopted the
anglicized name, J. Henry Schroder, and developed an extensive
business financing overseas trade, especially with Latin
America.
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[center]Baron Johann Heinrich von Schroder J. Henry Schroder
(German no more but a loyal British Subject
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/>[/center]
Another member of the
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/>family, Baron Bruno von Schroder, Kurt's cousin, born in
Hamburg
in 1867, moved to London early in life but retained his German
citizenship until 1914 when he became a British subject.
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--- Quote ---
> 21 FEBRUARY 2019 Bruno Schroder, who has died aged 86, was the
billionaire proprietor of the investment bank that bore his
family name, but devoted most of his life to the gentle pursuit
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/>of other interests
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/>including the welfare of his Hebridean sporting estate.
Schroder
was a great-great-grandson of Johann Heinrich Schröder, who
arrived in London from his native Hamburg, aged 17, in 1802.
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Baron Bruno headed the banking firms J. Henry Schroder & Company
of London, and the J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation of New
York until his death in 1940, when he was succeeded by his son,
Helmuth W. B. Schroder, the present head.
There appeared to be ;) no community of ownership between the
Stein Bank of Cologne and the Schroder Banks of London and New
York, though the two groups acted as correspondent banks for one
another and participated jointly in so many deals that what the
Germans call an Interessen Gemeinsckaft, or community of
interests
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/>existed between them.
The pattern for this parallel action had been laid in 1914 when
the British closed down German banks in London, but allowed the
Schroder firm, headed by "British subjects," to operate through
the war.
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/>...
... Among the number of threads that had made us decide to pay a
call on Baron Kurt von Schroder and his bank had been an
argument back in England, at Bushy Park, when we were planning
our itinerary. I have already mentioned that for a time we were
assigned to work in the Finance Division of General Wickersham's
headquarters with Captain Norbert A. Bogdan, vice president of
the J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation of New York. Captain
Bogdan had argued vigorously against investigation o£ the Stein
Bank on the ground that it was "small potatoes.'
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/>We should concentrate our efforts on bigger targets, such as
the
Deutsche Bank and the Commerz Bank. To waste time on small-scale
private banks would discredit our investigations.
We had noted, however, that the day after this outburst two of
the permanent members of Captain Bogdan's staff requested
military travel orders to Cologne to investigate the Stein Bank.
This was an unusual application. Since Cologne had not yet
fallen, it was tantamount to a request to accompany the Forces
immediately behind the combat units. The Intelligence Division
blocked that one.
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Another thread had been the business collaboration of many years
standing between Baron Kurt von Schroder and a very good friend
of Franz von Papen, Gerhardt A. Westrick. Dr. Westrick was a
prominent German lawyer and a member of the law partnership of
Albert & Westrick. ...
... Legal work on the Schroder Bank loans was always handled in
Germany by the firm of Albert & Westrick, and in the United
States by Sullivan & Cromwell, the firm headed by John Foster
Dulles.
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[center]John Foster Dulles[/center]
But to return to Gerhardt Westrick: in April 1940, this
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/>fraternity brother had come to the United States ostensibly as
a
commercial counselor to the German Embassy, but actually on a
direct assignment as personal representative of the Nazi Foreign
Minister, von Ribbentrop. His mission was to attempt to convince
American business leaders that they would gain by a Hitler
victory, and to persuade them to help in keeping the United
States out of the war. ...
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[center]Gerhardt A. Westrick[/center]
... The American press congratulated itself on having made
Westrick 's propaganda mission an ignominious failure. But as we
looked into the transactions of Baron von Schroder and Dr.
Westrick, we wondered. There were many questions we would have
liked to ask Baron von Schroder had he been home that April
evening in 1945, but it was not until two months later that
another of our men, Robert West, formerly of the White House
detail of the Secret Service, tracked him down. Von Schroder was
found in a detention camp for SS prisoners in France,
masquerading in the battle fatigue dress of an SS corporal.
Some of the records began to make sense, even without Baron von
Schroder. Several bundles were the detailed ledgers of deposits
into the special account labeled "Sonderkonto S". What struck us
first was the all-star cast which made up this list of
depositors. Of the forty or fifty names which turned up
regularly in the pages, running all the way back to 1933, we
recognized about twenty immediately as well-known directors of
the biggest German industrial firms in the fields of coal, iron
and steel, machinery, chemicals, electrical equipment,
transport, and electric power. In the galaxy of corporations
deahng with the Stein Bank, this list of individuals might not
have seemed unusual except for two things: the regularity of the
deposits in this joint account, and the close relation between
decreases in the account and the Himmlier letters asking for
money.
This one account, we learned by putting Uttle pieces of evidence
together, covered only the running expenses of Himmler's SS, and
perhaps some of the Gestapo; but if one special account had the
letter "S" it was a fair guess that somewhere, in the Stein Bank
or elsewhere, there could be other special accounts "A" or "B"
or "Y" or "Z." The arrangement was simplicity itself. At a wink
or a nod from someone — in this case we later found it was
Wilhelm Keppler of the Nazis' "Hermann Goring'' steel combine —
the contributors would quietly make deposits into the special
account at the bank. When the leader of the party formation — in
this case Himmler — wanted money, he asked for it; and it was
drawn against the same account. No muss, no fuss, no "Nazi"
connections for the contributors.
...
... We hoped to find some of the living contributors to
"Sonderkonto S" and dig further into the reasons why they
considered it
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/>'good business' to make these donations.
In particular, I wanted to interview Baron von Schnitzler again.
In his villa near Frankfurt two weeks before von Schnitzler had
looked every inch a baron, from his black homburg, velvet
collar, and gray spats, to the young and beautiful baroness on
his arm. One would never have guessed that von Schnitzler was a
criminal, one of the financial mainstays of the Nazi regime, and
a mastermind of the I. G. Farben foreign organization. When
Frankfurt fell on the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth of March,
1945, von Schnitzler was living, comfortable and unperturbed, in
his villa not many miles outside the city. His manner was that
of the master of the house greeting the fire department. He was
affable, urbane, but kept the firemen in their place. He offered
brandy, and then withdrew it in deference to the
non-fraternization order. His manner managed to imply that the
non fraternization idea was an immature gesture typical of a
certain kind of American. The war had not touched Baron von
Schnitzler and, to hear him tell it, he had not touched the war.
It was a case of live and let live. ...
... Now that we had the records of his deposits into
"Senderkonto S", I wanted to get him back for a longer talk.
When we had him brought to our field office in the Reichsbank
building at Frankfurt for questioning, Baron von Schnitzler
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/>denied having had anything to do with Hitler or the Nazi
Party.
They were beneath him.
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/>He was a businessman and his factories had produced things
which
the Nazis needed; but they had come to him. Certainly he had
never contributed in any way to their activities. He had
deliberately avoided knowing anything at all about "government"
business done by the firm. That was handled by other directors.
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Baron von Schnitzler was thoroughly at ease throughout the
several hours of our questioning. We warned him repeatedly of
the stiff penalties for making false statements. But he talked
on persuasively and smoothly, in perfect English. The records of
"Sonderkonto S" seemed miles and ages away as the Baron talked.
Perhaps he did not know the records had been found and he was
bluffing or lying. But actually in his own mind he need not have
seen any inconsistency between his pose as an "unpolitical"
businessman who did not want to know about "government" business
— poison gas , slave labor, Auschwitz ☠️ and all
that — and his record of steady contributions of at least forty
thousand dollars a year to "Sonderkonto S." In his own way he
was speaking of a world in which one makes the necessary
contributions to ''causes" without feeling personally involved
at all.
That is not to say that the Baron was unaware of how his
behavior might be interpreted by those of us who did not belong
to his fraternity. All through our conversations, both at his
villa and in the Reichsbank building, the interrogators had been
anonymous. The German intelligence service had had most American
government officials bracketed in preparation for the
occupation; but they needed to know who was coming in order to
know what records to hide first.
We never addressed one another by name or gave any hint of the
reason for our interest in the Baron's business. To put him at
ease I pretended at the first interview that I had never heard
of the I.G. Farben firm nor of von Schnitzler.
At the outset I asked him what he did for a living. When he said
he was a director of I.G. Farbenindustrie, I asked him what that
was. He said it was a company. What did the company do, make
shoes, ships, textiles? It was a chemical firm, he stated; a
very large chemical firm.
As the questions rolled along, all of a police-blotter variety
implying a profound ignorance on our part, von Schnitzler sat
back with a bland and contented look, arching his eyebrows and
leveling a hawklike gaze along his Roman nose as though it were
the barrel of a fowling piece. He lied like a trooper through it
all.
Toward the end of the second interview, however, von Schnitzler
tried to find out who we were; and one of our men made the
mistake of calling me by name. For just one instant the Baron's
eyes registered a quick appraisal. He then carefully and
deliberately recrossed his legs, shifted his gloves from one
hand to the other, and asked if I was satisfied that all his
replies had been truthful and complete.
When I told him merely that if we wanted anything further he
would hear from us, he persisted for several minutes asking in
various ways if we did not want him to "clarify" any of his
answers. Later we found in his files copies of published
testimony on I.G. Farben that several of us had presented to a
Senate committee in 1944, with our names underlined in green
ink.
Von Schnitzler did not appear particularly surprised when at the
end of the interview he was taken to jail, charged with making
false statements to military government officers, and later held
for trial as an industrial war criminal. He was among those
convicted in 1948 and sentenced to twelve years for profiting
from the war and for being responsible for abuse of foreign
workers.
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He and all the other industrialists tried with him were
acquitted, however, of complicity in starting the war; because
the court held that they had not had advance knowledge of
Hitler's specific plans for military aggression.
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These
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/>men had started a chain of events whose inevitable outcome was
☠️ war. But in the eyes of the law, as the
🐵🙉🙊American judges 😈 construed
it, only those who had forged the last link could be guilty of a
crime.
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The old Frankfurt had been almost leveled to the ground, while
the I.G. Farben office building, one of the largest in the
world, stood untouched. The handsome cathedral where kings of
the Holy Roman Empire had been crowned, the little inns with
their carvings and paintings, and the hundreds of other
weathered and mellowed reminders of Germany's old life in the
times before Bismarck, Hohenzollern, and Hitler, all had
suffered the tortures of the damned.
But the Nazi edifice of the New Order, literally a giant filing
cabinet loaded with hundreds of tons of papers and records of
the Farben empire, remained whole.
To be continued.
If you would like to read the first post on this book, go here
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#Post#: 560--------------------------------------------------
The American Republican Party is run by descendents and still
surviving home-grown AmeroNazis
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 3, 2022, 2:34 pm
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The American Republican Party is run by descendents and still
surviving home-grown AmeroNazis who put Hitler into power in the
first place--and enabled the 3rd Reichsters to escape. Standard
Oil Frank A. Howard was a member in good standing of these
AmeroNazis.
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[center]😈 Frank A. Howard of the 🦖 Standard Oil
(NJ) Company[/center]
Continued from previous posts on this book:
[center]All 💵🎩 Honorable
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COPYRIGHT 1950, BY JAMES STEWART MARTIN
SNIPPET:
The papers we picked up indicated that Mr. Frank A. Howard of
the Standard Oil group and Dr. Ringer of I.G. Farben had met in
the last week of September 1939, at The Hague. They prepared a
document that became known as the "Hague Memorandum." This
document appeared on its face to be an agreement under which
I.G. Farben sold to Standard Oil of New Jersey various patents
and shares of stock. Actually the two men also prepared a
separate agreement, kept secret, under which I.G. Farben
retained the right to cancel the transfer and get its properties
back as soon as it was safe to do so. Mr. Howard did not even
keep a copy of this agreement. He signed the original and the
carbon copy on behalf of Standard Oil and handed both copies to
Dr. Ringer, who took them back to Frankfurt.
The
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/>Standard Oil case might very well have had a happy ending for
the
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/>fraternity brothers if the suit had been filed in 1947.
Even by 1946 it was to become very difficult for United States
government representatives to get facts from German files. It
was not long before we had to show cause why we should be
permitted to prowl about among the business papers of reputable
German concerns.
By 1947 investigations which the Germans considered troublesome
would appear doubly objectionable to
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in
Bizonia. Investigations that might disclose embarrassing
transactions between American and German companies were called a
"waste of taxpayers' money."
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Also, troubling busy German industrialists with unfriendly
questions would tend to "interfere with German recovery" and
might arouse ''antagonism."
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In the end we were caught between
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/>businessmen representing private interests and 😈
others
of the same persuasion holding official positions, where they
had power to change the orders under which we operated.
👎
But for a brief period in 1945 matters were not so well under
control. True, we found a number of members of the 😈
international brotherhood, commissioned as colonels and
brigadier generals in the occupation Army, moving about rather
freely in the field on matters of their own concern; but by the
same token it was also possible for representatives of the
government to get around freely as we all did in the Standard
Oil case.
The documents needed by the government to establish the falsity
of the Standard Oil claim were finally shipped by air back to
the United States, along with Dr. von Knieriem as a government
witness. Dr. von Knieriem, who had supervised Ringer's work, had
annotated his own copy of the secret Hague Memorandum with
comments showing its true intent. One of these phrases alone
should have been enough. It was a marginal note, "Nach Kriegs
Kamouflage" (postwar camouflage).
Not only was this case unusual in that enough trained manpower
was available, for once, to track down the evidence, and that
conditions permitting full investigation happened to prevail,
but because the Federal Courts in dealing with the evidence used
unusually strong language to describe what the fraternity
brothers had done. 👍
The following examples from the opinion of the Circuit Court of
Appeals may illustrate:
The negotiators prepared the so-called Hague Memorandum which
was neither an accurate summary of the past dealings of their
companies, nor complete and faithful representation of the
agreements made at the Hague. ...
The real agreement which was made by Mr. Howard and Dr. Ringer
and which was later ratified by their principals can be gleaned
only after a scrutiny of many documents and the oral testimony
of Mr. Howard. ...
The Court found that these were sham transactions designed to
create an appearance of Jersey ownership of property interests
which nevertheless continued to be regarded by the parties as
I.G. Farben owned. The parties intended that after completion of
the war and the resulting disappearance of the danger of United
States Government controls the property would be formally
returned to I.G. and the pre-war relationship resumed. ...
On the witness stand,
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/>Howard, testifying concerning the Hague Conference, was, in
the
opinion of the Court, not a credible witness.
In effect the courts held that the Standard Oil Company had
tried to put across a misrepresentation in order to protect an
outpost for I.G. Farben.
Whereas President Roosevelt had referred to the use made of the
I.G. Farben trust by the Nazis, and had insisted on the
"eradication of these weapons of economic warfare,"
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/>Standard Oil, in the middle of the war against the Nazi state,
had invoked the aid of the Federal Courts to defeat the measures
of the United States.
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Frank A. Howard was not prosecuted for perjury. The District
Court and Circuit Court of Appeals merely declared he was not a
"credible witness."
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/>The Supreme Court did no more than sustain the action of the
lower courts in upsetting the sham transactions and letting the
Alien Property Custodian keep the patents and stock. Mr. Howard
retired gracefully in 1945, full of honors 😇, as vice
president of 🦖 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
having retired the previous year from his other position as
president of the 🦕 Standard Oil Development Company.
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This arrangement between Standard and Farben was only one of
many conspiracies between German business leaders and their
counterparts in the United States and Britain to help in keeping
alive bridgeheads for future ''economic warfare."
At the time we discovered them it would have been hard to forget
the other side of the coin: that these same German organizations
— I.G. Farben, Krupp, Flick, Mannesmann, Siemens & Halske, and a
few dozen more — had shown their less gentlemanly and more
brutal side in the slave camps and murder factories, and in the
looting of occupied Europe, all by "legal" means under Nazi
laws.
Before the press carried pictures of the murder camps at Belsen
and Auschwitz and the records of I.G. Farben's poison gas
experiments on slave laborers, It might have been possible to
concede that some American businessmen connived at preserving
these organizations for the postwar period without knowing the
awful truth. We hoped that the record after 1945 would not
reveal any conniving in the revival of similar types of
"industrial" organizations, or any reliance on the same men to
guide Germany's economic recovery.
To be continued:
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Now you know why the Republican Party has ALWAYS championed
"subsidies" for the Rockefeller 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon
Hellspawn; they are 👹 FASCIST Birds of a feather.
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