ABEXIT - is it time for Alberta to think about leaving Canada?

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The Americans will **** up the State of Alberta, nicely too. They think that they're alienated now, you'd be lucky if more than 5% of Americans know that Alberta even exists.
This America?
https://www.freemansperspective.com/1913-america/
The Blow That Killed America 100 Years Ago


“There is a lot of ruin in a nation,” wrote Adam Smith. His point was that it takes a long time for nations to fall, even when they’re dead on their feet. And he was certainly right.
America took its fatal blow in 1913, one hundred years ago; it just hasn’t hit the ground yet. This is a slow process, but it’s actually fast compared to the Romans. It took them several centuries to collapse.
The confusing thing about our current situation is that America – and by that I mean the noble America that so many of us grew up believing was real – has long been poisoned. Its liver, kidneys, and spleen have all stopped functioning. Its heart beats slowly and irregularly. But it still stands on its feet and presents itself as alive to all those who would let their eyes fool them.
And I’m not without sympathy for those who want to believe. They find themselves in a world where politics is almighty, and where their comfort, prosperity, and perhaps their survival all hang in a delicate balance. They don’t want to upset anything, and questioning the bosses is a good way to get yelled at.
But just because someone wants to believe doesn’t make it so. We are not children and we are not powerless. We Producers should never be intimidated by those who live at our expense. So let’s start looking at the facts.
1913: The Horrible Year

For all the problems America had prior to 1913 (including the unnecessary and horrifying Civil War), nothing spelled the death of the nation like the horrors of 1913.
Here are the key dates:
February 3rd:

The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose income taxes on individuals. An amendment to a tariff act in 1894 had attempted to do this, but since it was clearly unconstitutional, the Supreme Court struck it down. As a result – and mostly under the banner of bleeding the rich – the 16th amendment was promoted and passed.
As a result, the Revenue Act of 1913 was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson in October. Income taxes began in 1914, with the government swearing (as in, “only a crazy person would say otherwise!”) that the rate would never, ever go higher than one or two percent.
And, by the way, the amendment was introduced by Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, to whom we’ll come again shortly.
April 8th:

The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, taking the powers of the states and transferring them to Washington, by mandating the popular election of senators.
Previously, senators were appointed by state legislatures, restraining the power of the national government. This change gave political parties immediate and massive power, nearly all of which was consolidated in the city of Washington.
The amendment was ratified in the name of restraining the rich and making government into a force for good. It was true that state governments were often corrupt, but the implied idea that Washington was pristine was and remains a bad joke. A structure featuring small, separate pockets of corruption is far less dangerous than one featuring a single, large seat of corruption, to which oceans of money are gathered. As Thomas Jefferson wrote:
It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.
December 23rd:

Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act, which had passed Congress just the previous day. This system – called the Aldrich Plan, and promoted by Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island – gave a monopoly on the creation of dollars to a consortium of large banks.
The Act was passed, by the way, in the name of financial stability.
And Senator Aldrich? Wikipedia says this about him:
He… dominated all tariff and monetary policies in the first decade of the 20th century… Aldrich helped to create an extensive system of tariffs that protected American factories and farms from foreign competition, while driving the price of consumer goods artificially high… Aldrich became wealthy with insider investments in streets, railroads, sugar, rubber and banking… His daughter, Abby, married John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the only son of John D. Rockefeller.
I’ll leave you to connect the dots on Aldrich, his family, the Rockefeller banking empire (Chase Manhattanand others), high political offices (such as Governor and Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller) and so on.
The Combination

Here is why I say that these three changes of 1913 killed America:
They robbed every producer in America of their money and handed it to politicians.
Until 1913, ordinary people kept their money. Carpenters, grocers, and repair men were able to make business loans and to retire on stock dividends. Once the income tax came in, however, politicians were empowered to skim off more and more of their money, which is precisely what happened. While the modern skim is multi-faceted, the average producer is now stripped of half his or her earnings every year, leaving politicians to spend it.
They consolidated all power in Washington DC.
This is precisely what James Madison wished to avoid when writing the US Constitution. (Again, note the Jefferson quote above.) By depriving the states of their remaining power, the City of Washington had no opposition. Since then, the Washington government has taken over practically everything on the continent and is choking it to death… a lot like the city and empire of Rome before it.
They created a money empire that took over almost everything.
When you start talking about the immense power of central banking, people generally turn away from it, because it’s just too much to take. So, let me say it this way:
How much money could you make, if you knew precisely when interest rates would go up or down?
A lot, right? Well, that’s exactly the power that these bankers have – because they’re the ones who set the rates.
Then, with that money, and with that foreknowledge, how many politicians could you pay off? How many pieces of legislation could you buy? Through all the financial problems of the past few years, which is the one group that has been protected at every step? Ever wonder why?
 

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Ottawa made the deal bud.. They don't seek approval of the great unwashed in any province
Who said they did, they get their marching orders from the Rothschild Banksters, just like the EU and the US. That rock you are under will be the death of you.


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The Rothschilds' fabulous stake in canada

The Rothschilds' fabulous stake in canada
Peter C. Newman
SAYS ANTHONY DE ROTHSCHILD: "There was the De Beers diamond mine, then the loan that helped Disraeli buy the Suez. Now this. This could be the biggest of them all"
LAST WINTER twenty Quortok Eskimos and two bearded prospectors herded ten huskydrawn sleds loaded with six tons of iron Ore through northern Quehecs numbing cold from Morgan Lake to an inlet off Ungava Bay just below the 60th Parallel. l.ike thousands of other Canadians who do not realize it. the members of this Arctic caravan were working for N. Ni. Rothschild & Sons. the world's most powerful private hank, which has during the past tour ears cautiously and secretly acquired a huge stake in (`anada. 1 he ore was being brought out I rom deposits owned by Oceanic Iron Ore of Canada ltd. for trans-shipment to metallurgical laboratories in Montreal after spring breakup. Oceanic is a suhsidiar'y of i'echnical NI Inc Consultants I ,ti,I., which in turn is owned by Rio Tinto Mining Co.
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Where the Rothschilds are building their new empire
of Canada. The Rothschilds stand at the top of this corporate spiral by virtue of holding the largest single share of Rio Tintos English parent company.
The Canadian empire of the Rothschilds now includes:
• An area bigger than England and Wales containing nearly till the unstaked mineral and lumber resources of Labrador and Newfoundland. Uranium deposits which could be the continent's largest have already been found in this area. Among its other riches is a waterfall twice as high as Niagara; when fully harnessed it will produce more power than any existing powci installation in the world.
• A substantial interest in the Rio 1 into group of fifty-five Canadian mining companies with shafts and claims in seven provinces. These
properties include three quarters of the Blind River district's known uranium reserves, and mills that may eventually produce one million dollars worth of uranium a day.
• A cluster of companies across Canada, which sell Canadians fire and casualty insurance, lend money to Vancouver car buyers, roll steel in Edmonton, and make barrel hoops at Mattaw a. Ont.
• Nine hundred acres just twenty miles west of Toronto Citv Hall on which Rothschild money is building an entire new town.
The Rothschilds do not associate their name with any of these enterprises. Few if any of their Canadian customers are aware that they are dealing with the same family that financed Britain's purchase of the Suez Canal and underwrote Cecil Rhodes’ development of the prodigious
De Beers diamond fields in South Africa. Originally insignificant money lenders, then blockade runners and international financiers, the Rothschilds emerged by 1818 as history’s most influential bankers. They had Europe at their feet in a way Napoleon never had. In fact, Rothschild gold financed the ambitious emperor’s defeat.
'The Rothschild invasion of Canada had its genesis four years ago during a luncheon in the private dining room of the family bank in London. The host was Anthony de Rothschild, the firm's senior partner. The guest of honor was Joseph Smallwood, who was stumping Europe for risk capita! to develop Newfoundland and Labrador. Six months of negotiation followed. Smallwood offered to close all remaining crown lands in the province to prospectors so that the Rothschilds could choose a fifty-thousand-squaremile concession out of the seventy-one thousand unstaked square miles of Labrador and half of Newfoundland's unstaked twenty thousand square miles. This would give the Rothschilds first choice in an area considerably larger than the combined size of Nova Scotia. New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
All mineral, power and lumber resources of the concession (which would gradually decrease to one third the size as useless ground was explored and discarded) would belong to the Rothschilds. In return. Smallwood demanded that the Rothschilds spend five million dollars exploring the territory over a period of twenty years and pay the provincial government an eight-percent royalty on profits.
The offer granted domain over three times as much territory as is held in Labrador by the Iron Ore Co. of Canada, which is now developing iron-ore deposits at Knob Lake. It was taken up by a syndicate made up of thirty of England's largest companies and a few Canadian investment houses, headed by N. M. Rothschild & Sons. Assets of the partners in the bold new enterprise, called British Newfoundland Corporation (and soon nicknamed “Brinco") exceeded five billion dollars—more than the Canadian government's entire annual budget. Smallwood claimed it was “the biggest real-estate deal on this continent in this century.” Sir Winston Churchill called the scheme "a grand imperial concept.”
While Malcolm Hollctt. member of Newfoundland's Progressive Conservative opposition, was still attacking passage of the bill to authorize the huge concession. Brinco was setting up exploration headquarters at North West River, a small settlement near Goose Bay. Canada's greatest game of geological hide-and-seek was under way. During the next twenty-four months Brinco engineers picked their concession outlines from a desolate rock-and-lake-strewn land that ranks among this continent’s least explored territories. At first they had little more to work from than wall-type maps.
During the summer of 1953 the company's float-equipped Beavers ferried survey parties on more than a thousand sorties. Aircraft crammed with geophysical equipment criss-crossed the region in the winter. During the summer of 1954 a Bell helicopter and the BRINCO, a forty-sixton motor launch, joined the search. To make sure no likely mineralization areas were being overlooked, the company hired Claude K. Howse, Newfoundland's top geologist who had been provincial deputy minister of mines, to guide its 228-man prospecting corps.
By the end of 1954 boundaries of the Brinco concessions were established, and so was their future importance. Ten miles southwest of Makkovik, a missionary outpost on Labrador’s cast coast, Brinco geologists traced a radioactive occurrence eight miles wide and eighty-five miles long that Premier Smallwood predicts will eventually outrank the Beaverlodge and Blind River uranium strikes. Brinco crews also uncovered significant iron-ore. titanium, copper, lead. zinc, nickel, asbestos and colombium deposits, and outlined nearly twenty million cords of virgin timber—the basis of a possible pulp-and-paper industry at Goose Bay, fed by a new railroad opening up the Labrador interior.
How the Rothschilds’ wealth and whims became a legend
But the prize asset of Brinco's northern kingdom is the foaming Hamilton River, which drops seventeen hundred feet in its wild cascade from the upper Labrador plateau into Lake Melville, at Goose Bay. About two hundred miles from its mouth the stream is broken by a succession of steep cataracts, finally plunging over a 302-
foot vertical precipice into Bowdoin Canyon wdth a roar audible fifty miles away.
This is Grand Falls, the site of one of the world's largest hydro potentials. Brinco engineers are now working on plans to divert the Hamilton through artificial lakes and retaining dykes that will allow a full 1,050-foot head to be harnessed in a single power plant, producing an ultimate four to five million horsepower. (The largest existing power installation is the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia River in the northwestern U. S. It produces a peak load of 3.102,000 horsepower.) "If Grand Falls had been in some of the developed areas of Canada,” says Senator C. C. Pratt, of St. John's, a Brinco director, "it would probably by this time have become the greatest power aid to industry in the world.”
A report by Brinco’s consulting engineers predicts Grand Falls can produce electricity at the lowest per-horsepower cost in Canada, partly because the main dam can be built entirely of rock from nearby pits. “The generators.” the study states, “will be larger than any now in existence.” The main problem will be selling the huge power load. An aluminum smelter is being considered. Power-short Montreal is only seven hundred miles away. Brinco is now building a hundred-mile access road to Grand Falls from Mile 286 of the Quebec North Shore Railroad. And the corporation recently said it would build a 250-mile transmission line from Grand Falls to Seven Islands.
The investigations leading up to the decision to develop Grand Falls underlined the cautious course followed in most things by the Rothschilds, who are investors, not gamblers. They even had their engineers weigh possible acts ol God. The reports they received showed that a power plant at Grand Falls would be immune to earthquake damage because it would be imbedded in the Canadian Shield — North America’s most stable rock formation. Brinco physicists also studied the incidence of lightning, landslides and avalanches. None of these natural phenomena were found likely to defy the power of the Rothschilds.
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Besides holding the huge Labrador and Newfoundland concessions, the Rothschilds have an equally significant, though quite separate, interest in the Rio Tinto Co., of London. This huge U. K. mining trust formed a partnership with Joseph Hirsh-horn’s gilded Canadian mining ventures to establish the Rio Tinto Mining Co. of Canada, a sixty-three-million-dollar group of uranium, gold, copper, silver, lead and zinc mines, with important properties in many Canadian mining districts.
The deal with Flirshhorn took four months of trans-Atlantic bargaining. At the four-hour signing-over ceremony in the sombre board room of the National Trust Company in Toronto. Hirshhorn signed his name twenty-five times and happily warbled: “This is the biggest
deal in my life. What a break for Canada!”
The contract gave Hirshhorn, a florid promoter from Brooklyn, five million dollars cash and more than thirteen million dollars worth of securities. It also made him a partner in Rio Tinto, whose chairman was the late Earl of Bessborough, Canada's governor-general from 1931 to 1935, and whose shareholders are rumored to include Britain's royal family. Rio Tinto was formed by the Rothschilds and other financiers in 1873. Its assets of nearly two hundred million dollars.include copper mines in Rhodesia, a large uranium producer in Australia and interests in the Rand gold fields of South Africa.
With customary British reserve Rio Tinto w'on't discuss its future plans in Canada, but the company has budgeted a million dollars a year for the next twenty-five years on Canadian mineral exploration. Its engineers are probing some of the properties transferred to Rio Tinto through the Hirshhorn deal. These include: a group of 1,019 claims at Windy Point, on the northwest shore of Great Slave Lake, where traces of important lead and zinc showings similar to the huge Pine Point find on the lake’s
south shore have been found; a suspected copper-zinc-gold-silver ore body ten miles northeast of Rouyn, Que.; a copper prospect near Sioux Lookout in northwestern Ontario; the silver values found thirteen miles east of Hazelton, B.C.; a copper discovery in Gaspe's Holland Township; the five-hundred-millionton Oceanic iron-ore body on the western side of Ungava Bay; and a three-millionton copper deposit at Waden Bay, on the northwest side of Lac la Ronge, in northern Saskatchewan.
Through their separate holdings in Brinco and Rio Tinto, the Rothschilds now have a major interest in nearly forty million acres of Canada’s most promising mining country. That’s an area almost twice the size of Canada’s total 1956 wheat acreage. But the family’s influence on Canada is confined neither to the future nor to the exploitation of natural resources.
Canadians have since 1892 been buying casualty and fire insurance from the Rothschilds through the Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver branches of the Alliance Assurance Co. of London, a subsidiary of their English insurance operation. While not ranking among Canada's largest insurers, the company now covers risks in Canada worth more than five hundred and fifty million dollars.
Three years ago. with other European investors and some private Canadian capital, the Rothschilds established a Montreal investment company called United North Atlantic Securities Ltd., which has since funneled millions into a variety of Canadian enterprises. In Vancouver, United set up Consolidated Finance Company, a car-financing operation. At Edmonton, the company built Premier Steel Mills—Alberta’s first steelrolling plant. In Hamilton it financed the new factory of Canadian Conveyors Ltd., which makes mechanical handling equipment. At Mattawa, Ont., and Seotstown, Que., the Rothschild-backed firm bought out Guelph Plywoods Ltd., a plywood processor and barrel-hoop manufacturer.
A United North Atlantic subsidiary is building a new town called Park Royal on nine hundred acres near Clarkson, Ont., on the Queen Elizabeth Highway, twenty miles from Toronto. Construction of the three thousand homes, churches, schools, a park, and community and shopping centres will be completed by I960. last April the Rothschilds incorporated another Canadian investment company, called Five Arrows Securities Ltd., after the design on the family’s coat-of-arms This coajt-of-arms is a
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reminder that there were originally five Rothschild banks—-in Frankfort, Vienna and Naples, as well as the still-functioning London and Paris houses. The new firm has an initial capital of eight million dollars, comprising investment by Dutch and French financiers, including Baron Guy de Rothschild, of Paris. There is speculation that this company will provide some of the funds for the further development of the power and mineral resources held by Brinco in I abrador.
There is speculation also that the Rothschilds may help develop a gold market in Canada. Long-standing restrictions on private gold trading were scrapped in Finance Minister Harris’ last budget and anyone can now buy, keep and sell gold. As gold-sales agents of the Bank of England (the exclusive clearing house for the South African gold output) the Rothschilds are the world’s most influential private gold dealers. They employ two hundred in their own mint at London, which can refine a million pounds’ worth of the precious metal a day.
Horse-race results too
But gold traffic is only a subsidiary passion with N. M. Rothschild & Sons. Besides being investment counselors to wealthy Englishmen and bankers for such world-wide organizations as the Bowater newsprint trust, the Rothschilds specialize in “financing foreign commerce”—a vague term that covers their Canadian activities. The bank operates as a closed partnership, all its shares held by the Rothschild family. Only the clients it chooses to accept are allowed to open accounts. The bank has never published a balance sheet, but London financial pundits set its current reserves at around thirty million pounds, though it controls assets of perhaps ten times that amount.
The bank sits unobtrusively at the end of a small, cobbled courtyard in downtown London, yet secluded from the city’s turmoil. It is built of inconspicuous greywhite stones, its calm Georgian architecture unmarred by identifying signs, except an oval shingle with five fading golden arrows. The hush in the portrait-filled lobby is broken only by two tickers— one for stock-market quotations, the other for horse-race results, which now ticks only for tradition. Anthony de Rothschild, the bank's sixty-nine-year-old partner, sold his final string of ten brood mares for forty thousand pounds in 1940.
Anthony and his thirty-nine-year-old nephew' Edmund, the bank's junior partner. conduct all their business from "The Room,” an imposing office dominated by a large marble fireplace, its paneled walls checkered with ancestral portraits. Twenty-nine-year-old Leopold, an-
other nephew, is the only other Rothschild currently with the firm. The bank’s basement is packed with historic archives and at least one stack of evidence that the Rothschilds have been studying Canada for a long time: copies of The Financial Post dating back to 1910.
The firm’s one hundred and fifty employees are served free lunch, coffee and cakes at eleven, tea and fruit at four. But no one can go out to eat without the office manager’s permission. It is seldom requested and seldom granted. The staff gets no overtime pay. but everyone receives a turkey for Christmas and the privilege of buying wine (bottled by Baron Phillipe de Rothschild near Bordeaux. France) at cost. Employees are seldom dismissed. If one leaves, the shock spreads to the partners.
All important visitors are screened by Edmund de Rothschild, a quick-witted, friendly financial wizard who is tremendously interested in Canada and eagerly questions businessmen from this side of the Atlantic about this country’s prospects. He visited Newfoundland in 1952 and Montreal in 1953, and has since made semi-annual inspection tours of the bank's Canadian properties.
Few proceed past “Mr. Eddy” to the marble desk of Anthony Gustave dc Rothschild, a frail-looking, white-haired introvert who rules the bank with despotic finality. “He has a personality on rubber soles,” says a friend. “He speaks rarely, but tell him something once and you never have to repeat it.” He was educated at Harrow and Cambridge and his initial ambition w'as to become a Cambridge history don. His only hobby is art. At his country home in Buckinghamshire he has one of the world’s most valuable collections of Oriental pottery, a pair of tripod Chippendale tables and paintings by Hogarth, Rubens and Holbein. When Princess Elizabeth married, he gave her a forty-four-piece Sèvres tea service.
As senior partner of N. M. Rothschild & Sons. Anthony has maintained the firm's financial eminence. But the bank’s current influence on world affairs is only a dim reflection of the power it held during the nineteenth century under the rule of Nathan. Anthony’s great grandfather. who operated a private Marshall Plan with a twist. He floated loans to needy nations aggregating billions of dollars, but charged “attractive” interest rates.
The Rothschilds' dealings formed the basis of many well-known facts and legends about this fabulous business dynasty. Rothschild money built most of western Europe’s railroads, their banks controlled a petroleum, diamond, mercury and copper empire of incredible proportions. They backed Cecil Rhodes when his De Beers Mines acquired most of the fabulous Kimberley diamond field. Rothschild banks were the exclusive financial agents for the Russian Empire, the Vatican. Brazil, Chile and half a dozen other countries.
Many modern financiers have tried to reconstruct the forces that inspired the unmatched money-making instinc* of the Rothschilds. Part of their success was based on the progressive methods they introduced to the primitive banking system of their day. They were the first to use widely the now-taken-for-granted procedure of remitting funds from one country to another through letters of credit, without the physical transfer of coinage. In all their dealings the Rothschilds followed the same principle: they imposed a strict limit on the profits from a transaction and did not strain for uncertain extra gains.
The typical reaction of a Rothschild receiving private news likely to raise the price of a stock was to rush into the Exchange and sell all his holdings. As the news spread that Rothschild was selling, brokers quickly followed his example, sinking the issue's price. Meanwhile agents secretly employed by Rothschild bought up the shares at their ebb quotations, to resell them when the market reacted to the favorable news Rothschild knew was on the way.
( ould Napoleon lose?
The success of such manoeuvres depended on being the first to receive important business information. Because mail moves at the same speed for everyone, the Rothschilds set up their own carrier-pigeon network and operated speedy trans-Channel packets, whose captains had strict orders to convey important messages regardless of weather.
Much of the Rothschild fortune was a by-product of this news service. A private agent waiting at Ostend, Belgium, for the outcome of the battle at Waterloo rushed across the Channel in one of the bank’s boats with news of Napoleon’s defeat. The British government had been previously informed that the French were winning. Word had leaked to the London Stock Exchange, brokers stampeded to sell. Nathan Rothschild reported Itis news to the Foreign Office, but wasn't believed. Meanwhile his brokers had bought up the securities panicked investors were throwing into the market. When news of victory was confirmed quotations sky-rocketed.
The Rothschilds still rely on private agents they appoint in every country, ['heir chief Canadian agent is Ronald I). Smith, an intellectual walrus-mustached Englishman who runs a small Toronto brokerage house. He trades stock for the Rothschilds and their customers and reports on Canadian business trends. "The Rothschilds have been more prominent in realizing the investment potentialities of Canada than any other firm in London,” says Smith. "I know of no other country where they have such a large new interest.
Another ingredient of Rothschild success has been the family's policy ot intermarriage. I his, according to the Rothschild creed, is good economies. You don’t have to share secrets that way —and dowries and bequests stay in the family. Besides, only a Rothschild, they claim, is really fit to bear a Rothschild. Of the fifty-eight marriages contracted during their first century of prominence, exactly half were between first cousins. When the daughter of Wilhelm de Rothschild. son of the Italian line's founder, married her cousin Edmond, geneologieal experts confirmed that on her father’s side she belonged to the fourth generation. on her mother’s to the fifth, while
she was marrying into the third. “It's not that we’re clannish,” Victor, the present Lord Rothschild, once explained, ’’it's just that Rothschild men find Rothschild women irresistible.”
Besides choosing brides from their own clan, the Rothschilds seem to prefer their ancestors’ names. Seven English Rothschilds have been called Nathan, after the first of their line. Their surname comes from the German Rot Schild, describing the red shield that hung over the entrance of the ghetto house in Frankfort. Germany, where Nathan was born in 1777. His father Meyer Amschel Rothschild was a junk dealer with a part-time money-lending and rarecoins business. The family's annual earnings rarely exceeded two thousand dollars. but profits increased as old Rothschild built up his lending business. He eventually became financial agent for a local prince who helped spread his influence.
The family separated in 1798. While Amschel, Meyer's eldest son, stayed to look after affairs at home, Nathan went to England. Carl to Italy. James to Paris and Solomon to Vienna. Each established a bank to co-operate with its brother organizations in building up the most powerful private banking complex in financial history. Carl became financial adviser to the Pope, but closed his branch in 1861. The charter house at Frankfort was closed in 1901. The Viennese Rothschilds became influential but Hitler's 1938 annexation of Austria permanently closed the business. Baron Louis, great grandson of the Austrian dynasty's founder, was jailed by the Nazis for fourteen months until his British and French relatives ransomed him—for twenty-one million dollars.
Among the Paris family’s main achievements were construction of many French and Belgian railroads and the historic guarantee of the five-billion-franc debt to Germany after the war of 1870. After the fall of France in 1940. Baron Edouard de Rothschild, head of the French bank, arrived in New York carrying a satchel containing a million dollars’ worth of diamonds which he described as “a mere bagatelle.”
If their operations had been confined to Paris, Vienna. Naples and Frankfort, however, the Rothschilds would have quickly been forgotten. But in 1804. Nathan Meyer, the third son and genius of the family, established N. M. Rothschild & Sons in I ondon. This bank's transactions (which now also include the huge Canadian investment) first pushed the family into the highest league of international banking, and have kept up its leadership through four generations.
Nathan's initial capital consisted largely of the six hundred thousand pounds sent to England for investment by Wilhelm. the Elector of Hesse-Cassel, at the advice of his financial counselor—Nathan's father. His first major deal was the smuggling of a million pounds’ worth of gold into Spain past Napoleon’s continental blockade, to provide (at a handsome commission) the Duke of Wellington with funds to provision his troops. The House of Rothschild matured quickly, specializing in foreign loans, a then unexploited, risky but profitable business. Nathan eventually became England's richest citizen. He hired Mendelssohn to teach his daughter music and bought her a harp of pure gold.
Nathan’s son Lionel tamed the bank's functions, but demonstrated typical Rothsehildean boldness in 1875, when Prime Minister Disraeli had found out that Khedive Ismail Pasha, the debtridden ruler of Egypt, was trying to sell his 177,602 shares in the Suez Canal Company. French financiers also wanted to buy the stock. Disraeli had no time to call parliament to sanction expenditure of the necessary four million pounds. Rothschild was eating grapes in his office when Monty Corry, Disraeli's secretary, burst in to ask for the loan. Lionel ate one of the grapes, spat out the skin, and said: "You shall have it.”
Lionel's son Alfred, uncle of the present partner, traveled to his holiday castle in a private train and stirred his tea with solid gold spoons. He amused his guests by conducting his private orchestra and performing in the ring with his own animal circus, dressed in a blue frock and lavender kid gloves. His estate at Halton was so big that when lie turned it over to the government in World War I its grounds were used to house and train twenty thousand men.
Except for their charity projects, the Rothschilds did little to gain popularity. One of the Austrian Rothschilds scandalized the courts of Europe by shaking lí is jacket on the floor of palace ballrooms, just to see the ladies ol the court diving after the pearls and diamonds that fell from it. Their riches did little to ease the Rothschilds' entry into aristocratic society, which could not forgive their ghetto origin, flic Austrian government, frantically trying to retain its precarious solvency, saw the opportunity of gaining loyalty of the rich bankers. On September 29, 1X22, Emperor Francis II called Solomon Rothschild to his palace at Schönbrunn and broke his country’s tradition of not conferring titles on Jews by raising the whole Rothschild tribe to a perpetual baronage. The Rothschilds changed the German "von” to the smoother-sounding French "de.”
His hobby was actresses
Only Nathan, first of the English Rothschilds, scorned the title. He considered the family name superior to other distinctions. His grandson, Nathaniel, however, was elevated to Britain s peerage in 1XX5 as the first Lord Rothschild, in recognition of his bank’s aid in empire affairs.
Lionel Walter, the second Lord Rothschild, was the first Rothschild to rebel against banking. He disgusted his father by driving around London in a cart pulled by four zebras. Baron Henri, one of the French Rothschilds, became famous with his books on infant diseases. Abyssinia was explored by one Rothschild, whose expedition, wags of the day claimed. was financed by his parents to lure him away from his other hobby: Parisian actresses.
f lic third and current Lord Rothschild lasted exactly one week at the London bank. He now lives near Cambridge conducting experiments which he describes as dealing with "the love lile of the frog. He is a doctor of biology and won three medals for his work in World War II with military intelligence. In 1946 he shattered family tradition by joining the British Labor Party. His hobby is as revolutionary as his politics. He plays a hot piano and is a friend of jazz pianist Teddy Wilson.
Anthony, the present banking power of the Rothschilds, alone knows exactly how many ot the family s millions will eventually be committed to Canada. He is an unemotional, ultraconservative banker who seldom makes predictions. But referring to his Canadian investment through the British Newfoundland Corporation, he has said: "1 here was the De Beers diamond mine, then the loan that helped Disraeli buy the Suez Canal. Now this. This could be the biggest project of them all.” it
 

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The US is about to split into two again, along pretty much along the same lines as in 1860 for modern versions of a lot of the same reasons. Their glorious leader, rather than seeking to unite his country, exploits the rifts like he's Mussolini.
 

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[SIZE=+1]Notice this cast of characters and entities.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Queen Elizabeth II of England[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The Bush Crime Family[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Saddam Hussein[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Criminal business center, Carlyle Group[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Paul Martin, the new Prime Minister of Canada[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Canada Steamship Lines, owned by Paul Martin and of which Paul Martin has been Chairman and CEO[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Republic of Vanuatu[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]South Pacific Islands Bank, Ltd[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]A Greek Bank, a CIA proprietary operation, once a branch of Rockefeller's First National Bank of Chicago[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Ionian and Poplar Bank, S.A., of Athens, Greece[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]If you do not already know, after reading this, you may conclude that they are part of dirty business in the extreme. By disguising their names and titles, could a Hollywood movie be made about them? Not hardly. Illusion-creating movie makers in years past, some say even today, have been accustomed to financing some of their productions through banks in Boston, enterprises long operated by traditional gangsters in combination with high-tone bankster judges and other low lifes.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The Carlyle Group has had Daddy Bush as a senior consultant and polished bagman and blackmailer, sent to shake-down and collect from, the degenerate Saudi royalty, long-time users, jointly with the rotted out royalty of Kuwait, of black chattel slaves. The directors of Carlyle have included former prime ministers, such as of the United Kingdom; an overthrower of the Portugal government, who had been a deputy director of the American CIA; and various expensive dressed sharks who know how to shake loose war contracts from the corrupt, blackmailable Pentagon and their military uniform swindlers.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Among other things, Carlyle buys up war-mongering industries, stock-watered down telecoms, big-time big-town real estate, such as downtown Chicago; and an assortment of related and unrelated businesses.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]A fraud upon the throne of England is Queen Elizabeth II, actually not British royalty, but from German royalty, from the House of Hanover. A fake name, the "House of Windsor", was created early in the 20th Century, to cover up the German domination of Buckingham Palace. A sizeable portion of supposed British royalty, including the Cliveden set (pals of the Kennedy Family) were pro-Hitler. On the eve of World War Two, King Edward 8th abdicated his throne. Why? Because he wanted to marry a commoner? No, because he was pro-Nazi.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]A true heir to the British throne was Princess Diana of Wales and her brother, from the Catholic House of Stuart. Thus, you can see why Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Phillip, arranged with British counter-intelligence, MI-6, to assassinate Princess Diana and pass it off as an "accident".[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The head of the conspiratorial private bank, the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, through his secret authorization codes, arranged a One Hundred Billion Dollar wire transfer to the joint account of the Bush Crime Family and Queen Elizabeth II, at her private bank, Coutts Bank London. Having a major interest in the same joint account has been Daddy Bush's former private business partner, Saddam Hussein (who is also a major owner of DaimlerChrysler; the magazine empire Hachette, publisher of George Magazine, now defunct, the assassinated editor of which was John F. Kennedy, Jr.; and Saddam is a large owner of Paris-based Matra which operates the light rail system at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, for transferring people and baggage, called "People Mover").[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Tied in to Carlyle, the Queen and Prince Phillip are themselves major owners of firms producing land-mines, opposed by a worldwide campaign by Diana. The Queen ordered the head of her private bank to become a top official of Carlyle. As stated in the Financial Times of London, December 19, 2001, "The Queen has a new bank manager, following the departure of Andrew Fisher, chief executive of Coutts, to the Carlyle Group, the US private equity firm".[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]So the Queen merged her worldwide financial, war-mongering interests with U.S.-based types who want to "bomb others into Democracy", in the process killing numerous women and children. And crippling and destroying children who unsuspectingly play around concealed land-mines.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The document showing the One Hundred Billion Dollar joint account is archived on <http://www.cloakanddagger.ca/>www.cloakanddagger.ca On Skolnick's website is the secret private partnership court case reference Bush/Saddam, story entitled "The Secrets of Timothy McVeigh".[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]With the Coutts Bank/Carlyle link, part of the One Hundred Billion Dollars began being transferred as bribery funds. The first part, 2.1 Billion Dollars U.S., was disguised as reputed "dividends" from Carlyle. This is referred to in a heavily-censored, watered down story in the Financial Times of London, February 6, 2004.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]HOW BRIBERY FUNDS WERE REPORTEDLY DISTRIBUTED[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1][1] The first portion of the over 2 Billion Dollars U.S, was trans-shipped through a Greek bank. The history of the bank:[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]It had for years been operating as a proprietary entity of the American CIA, as a branch unit in Athens of Rockefeller's First National Bank of Chicago (which later changed its name to Bank One, and then merged with the Queen of England's official transfer operation J.P. Morgan which, in turn, merged with Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank, becoming J.P. Morgan-Chase, now in the process of taking over Bank One).[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The Greek bank became the subject of a purported "embezzlement" case until it became evident in the court record that it was the CIA siphoning off funds of their Athens proprietary for political assassination covert operations. The case naturally came onto the docket of Chicago Federal District Judge Hubert L. Will, formerly CIA's head of Counter-Intelligence in Europe. In the federal court case, a vain attempt was made to block disclosure of the CIA role with the Greek bank. Trying the cover up in court was the then General Counsel of the now-infamous accounting book-cookers, Arthur Andersen (Enron, etc.) The court lawyer was Kennedy Family in-law R. Sargent Shriver, father-in-law of California governor usurper Arnold SchwartzenNAZI.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Skolnick was the only journalist covering the case and obtaining copies of the court records. His associates taped an interview with Shriver who tried to explain away the CIA link. In an interview on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse, Judge Will admitted to Skolnick it was just one of eight bank "embezzlement" problems for the American CIA.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1][2] Receiver of the bribery funds was an ostensibly fake numbered, fake name "nominee" account at the Greek bank for the new Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin. Also done reportedly as a concealed account for the company owned by Paul Martin and of which he has been Chairman and CEO, namely Canada Steamship Lines and their subsidiaries. The reputed secret bribery funds for Paul Martin went through an adjunct bank, namely Ionian and Poplar Bank, S.A., of Athens, Greece, personally, individually, and jointly, for Paul Martin and his shipping businesses.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]He is not, however, the head of the Canadian government. Under law, the Head of State is Queen Elizabeth II, a known point but seldom publicized or emphasized. The only radio program going into the Head of State question has been the Toronto-based program "Cloak and Dagger", taken off the air at the height of broadcast ratings for that time slot. [The program previously dared mention the Queen is by various schemes, actually also the Head of State of the United States. Among other tricks, she is the largest receiver of U.S. cotton subsidies.][/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Prime Minister Martin was instructed by his superior, the Queen, to begin the clandestine disbursing of the funds. Martin is to keep part of the loot, payment as a reward to Martin for assisting the Bushies, including Jeb Bush, in various criminality in the Toronto area and elsewhere in Canada, primarily in conjunction with international massive swindler Marc Rich. [The Marc Rich/Jeb Bush dirty business was discussed on Cloak and Dagger.] As one of his last presidential acts as outgoing occupant of the White House, Bill Clinton, January, 2001, pardoned Marc Rich. Some say Bill/Hillary received several million dollars as a "gift" for the presidential pardon. An Israeli government document shows that an Israeli government official reportedly asked for Marc Rich's U.S. presidential pardon on the basis Rich was a useful proprietary operative of Israeli intelligence, The Mossad (The Institute).[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1][3] Another part of the first section of bribery funds was to be forwarded by Martin to the Bush White House, to be received on behalf of George W., by his Rasputin, Karl Rove. [Rove and the Bush Family both have Nazis in their family background.][/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]This portion of the criminal currency was to be "reward" payments to be belatedly forwarded to certain American radio/tv executives for doing an excellent propaganda job in favor of the war-mongers, U.S. and Great Britain, approving of the slaughter of Iraqis supposedly for their own good. Yes, Saddam was a dictator and a son-of-a-bitch BUT HE WAS THE IRAQI's own SON-OF-A-BITCH, quite acceptable to most of the inhabitants there, but Daddy Bush's former private business partner, Saddam, stood in the way of the Bush Crime Family grabbing the Iraq oil treasures.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1][4] Other pay-off funds traveling through the joint account at Coutts Bank London, were secretly authorized to be forwarded by the Bushies/Carlyle/Queen Elizabeth II. The route was to be concealed by first sending the funds to two banks located at the reputed notorious and infamous Pacific basin Islands, Republic of Vanuatu. [The Vanuatu group lies roughly 500 miles west of Fiji and 250 miles north-east of New Caledonia.] Vanuatu is getting to be the preferred place to launder illicit funds such as for bloody black ops of the American CIA, MI-6, and the Mossad, by various banks now having units there, similar to the Channel Islands, off the French coast.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The two banks on Vanuatu, in turn, further laundered the bribery funds for Paul Martin, in concealed fake nominee, fake numbered accounts for him personally, and reportedly by and through his firm, Canada Steamship Lines and their subsidiaries. This done, by and through South Pacific Islands Bank, Ltd., of the Philippines.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The money was to be received later by Paul Martin, Canadian P.M., to influence financial and other power brokers, to strangle radio/tv shows in U.S. and Canada that severely criticize Queen Elizabeth II, the Bush White House, and Carlyle Group, such as "Cloak And Dagger" highest on such enemies list. White House and other Washington reporters that did not further the Big Lie of the war-mongers were to be made to sweat, and be pushed around, and threatened with less choice assignments.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The money trans-shipped through Vanuatu, however, had a built-in clinker. Some of it was very superior quality counterfeit U.S. and other paper currency, created by a highly-skilled team of engravers, known in the trade as "master cutters". The head of the team was instrumental in assisting the American CIA and a covert black ops group in the U.S. Treasury. What did they accomplish? Why, they produced a superior quality fake Soviet Ruble and used it, 1990-91, to topple the Soviet government, smashing the USSR's power by causing breakaway provinces which thereafter refused to collect taxes to be forwarded to the Moscow government.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Linked to the team has been Leo Wanta who contends he has been punished by false arrest and now house arrest, and cheated out of huge amounts guaranteed to him by contract. He says he has not been paid for his clearly patriotic services to the American CIA and the U.S. Treasury secret unit. In the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, he brought a damage suit seeking to collect what is, he says, owed to him and not paid for a decade. The defendants and their mouthpieces included Daddy Bush, the American CIA, the U.S. Treasury, and other named defendants.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The judge in his ruling shows the essential facts and contract set forth by Wanta are not disputed or challenged and are considered correct. The judge, however, states that Wanta should not be allowed to collect for his services, even though a contract provides for him to be paid. Why? The judge's ulterior purpose is to conceal, among other things, how the Elder Bush himself pocketed great sums belonging to Wanta. To accomplish this, the Judge falsely invoked so-called "national security". Are we to understand that there was no violation of "national security" when Daddy Bush and his criminal band grabbed large sums of the money? But when Wanta, by contract, not disputed or rebutted, demands payment for patriotic services rendered, "national security" is to blockade WANTA from being paid?[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]One of the provisions implicit in the contract, is that Wanta is to be paid in absolutely guaranteed valid and real currency, not superior quality counterfeit stuff. The banker-judges are clearly up the wall since they have reason to know that large quantities of the fake stuff have filtered back to the U.S. Why? Because large quantities of the countefeit U.S. currency were dumped on Saddam Hussein who was somehow tipped off. He, in turn, bought loads of equipment in Europe with it. The Europeans likewise were tipped off and dumped the counterfeit paper on Canada which, in turn, dumped it back on the U.S. And what is going to happen to the U.S. Stock Markets when someone discovers that the markets have been pumped up two ways?: First, with billions swiped from Enron by the Federal Reserve (one of the Enron executives was also a director of the Houston District Bank of the Fed);[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1][See Skolnick's website series on Enron.][/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Secondly, by using large quantities of the fake U.S. currency.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1][5] Leo Wanta also contends he was falsely jailed in a dungeon in Switzerland, later transferred to the U.S. on trumped up Wisconsin state tax charges, which he says he does not owe or has already paid. He is now out but under house-arrest. Why? He says he was part of a team that included CIA attorney Vincent W. Foster, Jr., who went on to become early on in the Clinton White House, as Deputy Counsel.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]In an open letter to top government officials (shown on Skolnick's website), Wanta related how he and Foster and others, part of a team, came within a hair of grabbing international massive swindler, Marc Rich, on the Swiss border. That team had been ordered to take Marc Rich back to the U.S. for federal criminal prosecution. About 1986, Daddy Bush as Vice President, corruptly arranged for Marc Rich to skip the U.S. headed for Zug, Switzerland, to evade criminal charges stemming from Rich's defrauding billions of dollars. Rich so corrupted Swiss officials that the Swiss prosecutor, while still in office, also became an official of one of Marc Rich's firms. The local Swiss Mayor likewise held two positions, one as Swiss official and also Rich company official.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Bill Clinton/Hillary Rodham Clinton, with financial deals with the Bush Crime Family, faced federal jail if their supposed "friend", Foster, was available to testify about them. So they arranged a tremendous cover up of the political assassination of Vincent W. Foster, Jr., passed off as a so-called "suicide".[/SIZE]
 

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Oh, haven't you heard? They're all leaving and going back to whence they came cuz there's no jobs here! So, won't be an issue should a referendum ever take place but even if it does, I doubt it will be successful. Albertans are not only proud of their province but proud to be Canadian. Unfortunately there are those in power who scorn all Canadians, calling them racist & bigots so you see, it's not only Alberta that has issues with the politicians, all of Canada has (and should be aware) of issues politically that we need to deal with and put a stop to before things get completely out of control.


Personally, I think Maxime is the one we need to right things - you know, fairness, financial integrity, immigration that is for the benefit of Canada etc., etc.


JMHO


Realistically Maxime might take votes from Scheer who is probably the only one who can defeat Justin.
 

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. And yet, he's been able to do so much damage to the country
He's done close to fukc all for good or ill to this country. It's as if he was never there, at all.

All of the horrible outrage is in your head. All of the damage is in your saunsitive little brain.

Get a grip, snowflake.
 

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He's done close to fukc all for good or ill to this country. It's as if he was never there, at all.

All of the horrible outrage is in your head. All of the damage is in your saunsitive little brain.

Get a grip, snowflake.


Think before opening your trap. The damage is the $billions gap in the bank account to be made up by TAXPAYERS!
 

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Think before opening your trap. The damage is the $billions gap in the bank account to be made up by TAXPAYERS!
So deli-cat. That deficit has not come down in seven decades. Tater Tot is just Act 12. Harper did nothing about it, either. Same, old. Same old.

Scheer is about to inherit the same problem and there are some gigantic big $$$$ expenditures looming like building a new naval fleet and air force to last the next half century. Trudeau is a transient piece of fluff .. a brief foot note, not the Voice of Doom.
 

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So deli-cat. That deficit has not come down in seven decades. Tater Tot is just Act 12. Harper did nothing about it, either. Same, old. Same old.

Scheer is about to inherit the same problem and there are some gigantic big $$$$ expenditures looming like building a new naval fleet and air force to last the next half century. Trudeau is a transient piece of fluff .. a brief foot note, not the Voice of Doom.
So if you see a guy jump into a fire, is it a good idea for you to follow? Trudeau supposedly ran for office so he could fix up the damage the other goofs left behind!
 

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So if you see a guy jump into a fire, is it a good idea for you to follow? Trudeau supposedly ran for office so he could fix up the damage the other goofs left behind!
Well, I remember what happened if you don't.

The Canadian voters fired the Tories after a decade (as we typically do) but did not necessarily hire the Liberals. Harper is a quiet introvert, not very personable and there were a few creepy members of his caucus wanting to do things like outlaw abortion, etc. that gave the Liberal media machine all sorts of ammunition. That and a young, personable, telegenic (and vacuous) leader that women swoon over and they squeeked a smallish majority out.
 

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He's done close to fukc all for good or ill to this country. It's as if he was never there, at all.

All of the horrible outrage is in your head. All of the damage is in your saunsitive little brain.

Get a grip, snowflake.
$30-49 billion in extra debt and nothing to show for it... He's made Canada a laughing stock on the international stage (read: India)... Ongoing allegations of corruption (SNC Lavlin)... Regional divisions at record levels (Western separation at an all time high)... Mr World's Leading Feminist cans women holding the 2 top Ministries... Screwed up 2 major trade deals...



The list goes on


Think before opening your trap. The damage is the $billions gap in the bank account to be made up by TAXPAYERS!


Ironically, buddy has a college aged daughter that will likely be starting her life in the near future and potentially having a family.... tater tot has further mortgaged her future and that of any grand children he may see.... No doubt he'll bitch and moan about how a single family home is out of reach for any of the aforementioned and probably blame the oilsands and Western Canada
 

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Well, I remember what happened if you don't.

The Canadian voters fired the Tories after a decade (as we typically do) but did not necessarily hire the Liberals. Harper is a quiet introvert, not very personable and there were a few creepy members of his caucus wanting to do things like outlaw abortion, etc. that gave the Liberal media machine all sorts of ammunition. That and a young, personable, telegenic (and vacuous) leader that women swoon over and they squeeked a smallish majority out.


How he got there doesn't excuse what he didn't do!