Whatever you think of them, the Rothschilds were the first ones to really see the potential that mass literacy offered. In 1422, what did it mean to get a loan? What did it mean to pay a tribute? Inevitably it meant carrying out chests full of heavy gold ingots, and transporting them across vast distances – a tempting target if ever there was one. Part of the reason for these massive castles is that they were needed to store all of the gold; your average peasant was physically incapable of being wealthier than what he could reasonably store and reasonably defend. It was this physical limitation which the Rothschild patriarch had the foresight to see past.
“My sons,” he said on his deathbed, “My sons, I want you to always keep faith with one another. Go out and establish a bank in each of the financial capitals of Europe – London, Vienna, Paris – and when one of your clients wishes to send money across the continent, don’t risk that money to the roads where it can be taken through banditry and taxation. Instead – send a promissory note with your seal on it to one of your siblings, and then deliver the gold to your clients account. Through this we will control the finances of the continent.”
And this is exactly what came to pass. They took the risk out of possessing great wealth by centralizing it in their well-defended banks. They adopted the boring, conservative style of modern finance rather than the pomp and ceremony of the powerful in previous eras. Ultimately they used this bloodline-based financial market to gain a better understanding of the power positions of the different monarchs, and ultimately subvert them – financing both sides of the various European wars, thus guaranteeing that no matter who lost, the Rothschilds won. Say what you will about the morality of this – a shark which stops swimming, drowns – if it hadn’t been them it would have been the Blauschilds. The advent of widespread literacy and fast transport and communication meant that power was no longer local.
That is the essence of modernity: fast, easy transport and communication, alongside impregnable, robust institutions which serve as storehouses of power.
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“Christianity is our only real enemy since all the political and economic phenomena of the bourgeois states are only its consequences,” Rakovsky, says. (All page citations from Griffin, Fourth Reich of the Rich, 1988, p. 264)
– ‘Christian’ Rakovsky (born CHAIM Rakover in 1873) was a veteran Communist insider facing execution for plotting to overthrow Stalin.
“If my son’s did not WANT wars there would be NONE”. Gutle Schnaper Rothschild, wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, on her deathbed, 1849.
‘Thanks to the terrible power of our International Banks, we have forced the Christians into wars without number. Wars have a special value for Jews, since Christians massacre each other and make more room for us Jews. Wars are the Jews’ Harvest: The Jew banks grow fat on Christian wars. Over 100-million Christians have been swept off the face of the earth by wars, and the end is not yet.’ (Rabbi Reichorn, speaking at the funeral of Grand Rabbi Simeon Ben-Iudah, 1869.
“The role of the President of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel.” -Ann Lewis, speaking for Hillary Clinton, at the meeting for Jewish Leadership sponsored by the United Jewish Communities on March 18, 2008 (Jewess Ann Lewis is sister to Congressman Barney Frank).