Peewee wrote:
Time will tell, be patient. I'm not broke and don't need repairing. You do sound a lot like my ex's, stop pecking at me. Some guys can tolerate that, I can't. It feels like a betrayal to me and like the trust is gone. When I feel attacked I go silent until I can sort it out. Not a good time to be asking a lot of question and wanting answers. Maybe it's a male thing IDK but it's the way I am. For the second time, leave it alone.
First to address your comment about me being angered by your opinions. I am not even slightly miffed about your beliefs, many seem to share the same opinions. Having said that, as promised.
Ahhh.... the evil Rothschild, they rule the world, own all the banks. They are the NeoN**i bogyman, h**ed and discussed over nightly meals…. Not one Conspiracy websites is complete without mention of this greedy group of people who are responsible for financing every war that has ever been fought in every nation from before Jesus was born and they are responsible for the minor number of Jewish deaths in Concentration Camp (according to a few OPP members) and these were not Concentration Camps where people were gassed, they were mere work camps. In fact, many say that the Rothchild empire made the Holocaust possible. The Rothschild family run the Illuminati who were directly responsible for the assassination of John Kennedy and they hold secret meetings where they k**l babies and drink their blood. Well, that is what Conspiracy Theorist would have us believe. But, after digging into the National Achieves, reading a variety of books, and several wonderful conversations with a close friends of mine who also knows members of the Rothschilds....the t***h is a mixed bag.
If you follow my comments, you will know that I find it impossible to just address current issues without going into history. So, get ready....here we go.
If the Rothschild family own banks, there is a good reason; throughout Christian Europe, it was common for institutionalized antisemitism to prohibit Jews from owning property; so Jewish businesspeople had no choice but to work in the fields of commerce and finance, where money could be kept liquid and easily t***sferred or hidden. By denying Jews the stability of property ownership, Christians unwittingly forced Jews of the day into great financial expertise. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, was one of tens of thousands of marginalized, outcast children born into families who were forced to live in slums where each Sunday he could not leave the ghetto. Christian holidays found the edges of the ghetto patrolled, just in case one of these fleas infested, diseased Jews escaped to prowl the streets to peek into windows, or rob innocent Christians. And the other days of the week, the curfew after 7:00 PM each night. Mayer had two choices... one to live as his parents and die poor and on the streets or he could use the only option left open to him, go into money lending and finance. His first job was trading in rare coins and this is where he met Landgrave William, the E*****r of Hesse, one of only a tiny number of nobles empowered to elect the Holy Roman Emperor. (Remember this name, it appears later). This opened the door for international trade. By the age of 40, he had a sizable nest egg and good thing, he also had five sons. He installed each of his five sons as his agents in the five major financial centers of Europe: the eldest Amschel Mayer Rothschild in Frankfurt, Salomon Mayer Rothschild in Vienna, Nathan Mayer Rothschild in London, Calmann Mayer Rothschild in Naples, and the youngest Jakob Mayer Rothschild in Paris.
Many events were occurring throughout the world, of significance the The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom. The wars stemmed from the unresolved disputes associated with the French Revolution and its resultant conflict. This is where the true lies start. The popular version of the story claims that William gave the entirety of his fortune to Mayer to protect it from being seized by Napoleon. Mayer was able to hide the money by sending it to his son Nathan in London. This cannot be verified as a t***h or falsehood. Indeed, there are no records that the Rothschild empire backed the Queen of England in their fight against Napoleon. However, in my opinion this is a good possibility. What we do know and can be vetted is World Wars I and II costs exceeded the abilities of either the Rothschilds or any other banks to finance and resulted in the creation of the International Monetary Fund. This marked the Rothschilds' business making them turn from buying and selling gold or rare coins. In addition, N**i Germany devastated the Austrian Rothschilds and seized all their assets. This branch of the family escaped to the United States, but lost their entire fortunes to the N**is, including several palaces and a huge amount of artwork. The banks' sizable assets became the property of N**i Germany, and this is the only seed of t***h to the claim that the Rothschilds "funded the Holocaust". But, there were other, more personal and painful experiences…. Elisabeth Baroness de Rothschild was arrested by the Germans along with her then-estranged husband by the Vichy government on suspicion of being a spy for England and their property seized. Elisabeth reportedly died of epidemic typhus on March 23, 1945 at Ravensbrück, a N**i Concentration camp. As far as I can discover, she is the only Rothschild to die in the camps. So, as all good conspiracy theories, the nugget of t***h is the funds stolen by the N**i did shore up the German empire and in a round about way furthered the goals of Hitler to eliminate all Jews from not only Germany and their acquired land but the entire world.
So, on to banking. England's unregulated banks all went into crisis due to poor management of interest rates and costs of wars. It seems that Nathan Rothschild was paying attention and had the foresight to buy up huge amounts of gold from the struggling Bank of England at a fire sale price and sold it to the French national bank. When the Bank of England suffered a liquidity crisis as depositors demanded their funds, the bank was able to borrow that same money back from Nathan, and thus averted disaster. Virtually every conspiracy website claim that this is how the Rothschilds "took over the Bank of England". No. They gave them a loan, which was paid back. In later years one Rothschild descendant sat on the Bank of England's board for a time, but by no logic can it be defended that their 1825 t***saction constituted "taking them over".
If you go to any conspiracy website you will find a quote about controlling British money supply. “I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire, ...The man that controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply.” I found no original source for the quote at all, though it's repeated in dozens of conspiracy books and on tens of thousands of conspiracy websites. I did a thorough search of all available newspaper archives from Nathan's lifetime, and had some friends check various university library systems. I feel confident that he never made such a statement.
Another claim I have seen is the Rothschild family founded the Illuminati. Almost right. I found that Mayer Amschel Rothschild was one of the first members and supplied funding. Baron Adolph von Knigge was also a “first” member and played a considerable role in the society’s organization and expansion. (Although, Adam Weishaupt born a Jew (DNA) but converted to Christianity was the “brains” that gave birth to the Illuminati. From all accounts he was a forward-thinking professor.) As a former Freemason, Knigge was in favor of adopting rites like free masons. Members of the Illuminati were given a symbolic “secret” name taken from classical antiquity: Weishaupt was Spartacus and Knigge was Philo. The membership levels also became a more complex hierarchy. There was a total of 13 degrees of initiation, divided into three classes. The first culminated in the degree of illuminatus minor, the second illuminatus dirigens, and the third, that of king. The original illuminati were banned in Bavaria a year after its birth. In the course of carrying out arrests of members, Bavarian police found highly compromising documents, including a defense of suicide and atheism, a plan to create a female branch of the order, invisible ink recipes, and medical instructions for carrying out a******ns. The evidence was used as the basis for accusing the order of conspiring against religion and the state. In August 1787, the duke-e*****r issued a third edict in which he confirmed that the order was prohibited and imposed the death penalty for membership. On a side note, the Rothschild did become members of the Free Mason and many hold high levels of the order even today. If you do not know about Free Masons, it is a closed society and much of their ceremonies are secret. They are, by all accounts purely philanthropic, donating time and money for children and hospitals around the world. I can find no evidence that they sacrifice children or drink blood.
So, have I touched all the claims about the Rothschilds... probably not. It is my opinion that Mayer had a hard choice and under the circumstances made the lemons the Christian society dealt him into lemonade and sold it to those Christians.
Below is a partial list of books and articles used to produce this comment. My friend has asked to remain anonymous, but I am indebted to her for her time and willingness to answer my questions with suggestions on where to find more information.
References:
• The Rothschilds; a Family Portrait by Frederic Morton. Atheneum Publishers (1962) ISBN 1-56836-220-X (1998 reprint)
• The Rothschilds, a Family of Fortune by Virginia Cowles. Alfred A. Knopf (1973) ISBN 0-394-48773-7
• A History of the Jews by Paul M. Johnson (1987) HarperCollins Publishers ISBN 5-551-76858-9
• Rothschild: The Wealth and Power of a Dynasty by Derek Wilson. Scribner, London (1988) ISBN 0-684-19018-4
• House of Rothschild : Money's Prophets: 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson. Viking Press (1998) ISBN 0-670-85768-8
• The House of Rothschild (vol. 2) : The World's Banker: 1849-1999 by Niall Ferguson. Diane Publishing Co. (1999) ISBN 0-7567-5393-7
• "The Rothschild Affair: A Test of Austria's Conscience" by Jason Edward Kaufman in the Wall Street Journal, July 6, 1999, p. A13 [1]
• Was einmal war - A Handbook of Vienna's Plundered Art Collections by Sophie Lillie. Czernin Verlag, Vienna (2003)ISBN 3-7076-0049-1
• Dunning, B. Deconstructing the Rothschild Conspiracy, 22 May 2012
• "Alleged Federal Reserve Ownership." Web Skeptic: Researching outrageous claims on the internet.Anonymous, 10 Oct. 2008. Web. 18 May. 2012. <
http://webskeptic.wikidot.com/federal-reserve-ownership>• Ferguson, N. The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.
• Griffin, G. The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve. Westlake Village: American Media, 1994.
• Kaplan, H. Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years 1806-1816. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
• Neal, L. "The Financial Crisis of 1825 and the Restructuring of the British Financial System." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Review. 1 May 1998, Volume 1998: 53-76.
• Reeves, J. The Rothschilds: The Financial Rulers of Nations. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington, 1887.
• Thomas, L. "The Man Who May Become the Richest Rothschild." The New York Times. 9 Mar. 2007, Newspaper.