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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
35. YoungDemCA, what do you do best?
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 11:03 AM
Oct 2015

Like the time you wrote: "The poster in question is (in)famous for this sort of thing." You even had the nice emoticons to emphasize your smear:

Any source-no matter how delusional or paranoid or bigoted-is fair game in showing that the "BFEE" are responsible for everything, from the JFK assassination to 9/11 to the Holocaust to faking the moon landing to chemtrails to crop circles -along with the Rockefellers and Rothschilds, of course.


My reply:

Both of these guys had ancestors and cronies in the slave trade.



Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, share a moment and some information, back in the day.

The people who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids.

And their offspring* and connected cronies in crime are the ones* screwing America now.

What's different today, is we don't have Smedley Butler or FDR to stop them.

* Of course, it's not just a few rich families's offspring who screw the majority today. They've hired help and built up the giant noise machine to continue their work overthrowing the progress FDR and the New Deal brought America for 80 years.

Why would the nation and world's richest people do that? Progress costs money. And they don't want to pay for it, even when they've gained more wealth than all of history put together. Instead, whey continue to work -- legally, through government and lobbyists -- to amass even more, transferring the wealth of the many to themselves.

And instead of an armed mob led by a war hero on a white horse, as planned in 1933, their weapon since Pruneface made his first payment to the Ayatollah has been "Supply Side Economics." To most Americans, that means Trickle-Down.



Rothschild and Freshfields founders’ had links to slavery, papers reveal

By Carola Hoyos
Financial Times

Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family’s 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery, records from the National Archives show, even though both have often been portrayed as opponents of slavery.

Far from being a matter of distant history, slavery remains a highly contentious issue in the US, where Rothschild and Freshfields are both active.

Companies alleged to have links to past slave injustices have come under pressure to make restitution.

JPMorgan, the investment bank, set up a $5m scholarship fund for black students studying in Louisiana after apologising in 2005 for the company’s historic links to slavery.

CONTINUED (with registration, etc) ...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c0f5014-628c-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html



Generation upon generation, knowing only service to power and property.



Kevin Phillips called them a ''multigenerational family of fibbers.''



The Barreling Bushes

Four generations of the dynasty have chased profits through cozy ties with Mideast leaders, spinning webs of conflicts of interest

by Kevin Phillips
Published on Sunday, January 11, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times

EXCERPT...

During these years, Bush's four sons - George W., Jeb, Neil and Marvin - were following in the family footsteps, lining up business deals with Saudi, Kuwaiti and Bahraini moneymen and cozying up to BCCI. The Middle East was becoming a convenient family money spigot.

Eldest son George W. Bush made his first Middle East connection in the late 1970s with James Bath, a Texas businessmen who served as the North American representative for two rich Saudis (and Osama bin Laden relatives) - billionaire Salem bin Laden and banker and BCCI insider Khalid bin Mahfouz. Bath put $50,000 into Bush's 1979 Arbusto oil partnership, probably using Bin Laden-Bin Mahfouz funds.

In the late 1980s, after several failed oil ventures, the future 43rd president let the ailing oil business in which he was a major stockholder and chairman be bought out by another foreign-influenced operation, Harken Energy. The Wall Street Journal commented in 1991, "The mosaic of BCCI connections surrounding Harken Energy may prove nothing more than how ubiquitous the rogue bank's ties were. But the number of BCCI-connected people who had dealings with Harken - all since George W. Bush came on board - likewise raises the question of whether they mask an effort to cozy up to a presidential son."

Other hints of cronyism came in 1990 when inexperienced Harken got a major contract to drill in the Persian Gulf for the government of Bahrain. Time magazine reporters Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne, in their book "The Outlaw Bank," concluded "that Mahfouz, or other BCCI players, must have had a hand in steering the oil-drilling contract to the president's son." The web entangling the Bush presidencies was already being spun.

CONTINUED...

http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kevin_phillips.htm



Of course no one's heard of the BFEE. While they wonder how Saddam got WMDs, Wall Street gets ahead.

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How can anyone possibly justify this? Scuba Oct 2015 #1
This isn't a matter of politics. It's a matter of integrity. Octafish Oct 2015 #8
To quote Alan Grayson ... Scuba Oct 2015 #16
WikiLeaks showed all of that is for-profit. Octafish Oct 2015 #18
"traiters, warmongers, war profiteers, and psycho killers run the nation's war machine...' YoungDemCA Oct 2015 #20
Because it's all done for the 'freedoms'...... daleanime Oct 2015 #30
You seem anxious to paint me a Conspiracy Theorist. Octafish Oct 2015 #33
A MSF person said on Andrea Mitchell that tishaLA Oct 2015 #2
Business as usual for Andrea Mitchell. Octafish Oct 2015 #11
Someone fairly far up the chain of command authorized that strike Fumesucker Oct 2015 #3
Abu Ghraib got pinned on the noncoms and lower ranks. Octafish Oct 2015 #10
In my view the reason they came out with this story is because no credible enlisted scapegoat Fumesucker Oct 2015 #19
Here comes the spin ! Truprogressive85 Oct 2015 #4
One brave soldier went to jail over war crimes. Octafish Oct 2015 #9
You are correct Truprogressive85 Oct 2015 #15
The real world isn't as simple as "good guys" vs "bad guys" YoungDemCA Oct 2015 #21
As soon as the US forces conduct their FlatBaroque Oct 2015 #5
I know where you're going with this... Octafish Oct 2015 #12
nut with a gun bad, president with a drone....good nt msongs Oct 2015 #6
This one is on the CIA or Pentagon... Octafish Oct 2015 #13
Now it is the Afghan forces who asked the US to conduct malaise Oct 2015 #7
It is a nightmare for us... Octafish Oct 2015 #14
When the alibi keeps changing somebody lying. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #17
Top U.S. general in Afghanistan: Hospital was ‘mistakenly struck’ Octafish Oct 2015 #34
Glenn Greenwald should stick to what he does best YoungDemCA Oct 2015 #22
In the pantheon of "pathetic responses to an OP" ..................... marmar Oct 2015 #25
That was pretty pitiful wasn't it? hobbit709 Oct 2015 #26
Hall of Shame...... daleanime Oct 2015 #31
YoungDemCA, what do you do best? Octafish Oct 2015 #35
I disagree. Greenwald does this quite well too. Exploiting tragedies for his BS worldview uhnope Oct 2015 #36
Blowing up a hospital is just a "tragedy" huh? More of that collateral damage? marmar Oct 2015 #39
lol uhnope Oct 2015 #40
Lol translated: You've got nothing. marmar Oct 2015 #41
you think a horrible accident is not a "tragedy"? WTF? uhnope Oct 2015 #43
k/r while reading this excellent piece nationalize the fed Oct 2015 #23
+1. nt bemildred Oct 2015 #27
Militarism is always accompanied by pants-on-fire lies. marmar Oct 2015 #24
only western militarism. Russian militarism is honest and pure and good because it is anti-Western uhnope Oct 2015 #37
Good grief. Give it a rest. marmar Oct 2015 #38
I knew they'd come up with this type story. cwydro Oct 2015 #28
For several days, Afghan government forces have been fighting the Taliban cheapdate Oct 2015 #29
My off-the-wall theory nitpicker Oct 2015 #32
It was not a mistake, that was a deliberate bombing strike. Rex Oct 2015 #42
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