"Trading With the Enemy" 1933 - 1949

"Trading With the Enemy" 1933 - 1949

The book: "Trading With the Enemy" (the Nazi-American Money Plot) was written
by Charles Higham, and is about 220 pages.

Essentially this is the story of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).
BIS as it was formed became the forerunner for the World Trade Organization
(WTO) of today.

This is about a global fraternity who actually created and then mastered the
"art" of "playing both ends against the middle - for mega-profits." The
uniqueness of this contribution to the history of the years involved, lies in
the fact that it was created before the war - was maintained throughout the
conflict, and continues today.

Thanks to declassified wartime documents the full story is coming out - and
while it's a page-turner, as an almost novel - this series of revelations is
ominous for those seeking change in the world today.

The "players" herein involved a huge fraternity of Nazi-sympathizers. Individual
players included all the major central banks of the major nations, plus Standard
Oil - in all its iterations, the Rockefellers, the Morgans, I. G. Farben, ITT,
RCA, Ford, and on and on including President Roosevelt - because most of this
"trading" was done under license from the US Government. In addition to the
complete story of how we supplied fuel (gasoline and aviation fuel) to the
Nazi's at the expense of the American home-front, and facilitated the transfer
of looted German gold - there's much much more. . .

Here's a partial quote to give you the idea of the scale of the "trading" that
was done. . .

Page 99,
"Not only did Behn own all the of the German companies of ITT outright
through the war but he also ran ITT factories in the neutral countries of Spain,
Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden, which continued to buy, sell and manufacture
for the Axis. Behn and his directors made repeated and persistent efforts to
obtain licenses for dealings with the enemy. When Morgenthau refused the license
s, they proceeded anyway. They also exported materials for their subsidiaries in
neutral nations producing for the enemy.
After Peal Harbor the German army, navy, and air force contracted with ITT
for the manufacture of switchboards, telephones, alarm gongs, buoys, air raid
warning devices, radar equipment, and thirty thousand fuses per month for
artillery shells used to kill British and American troops. This was to increase
to 50,000 per month by 1944. In addition ITT supplied ingredients for the rocket
bombs that fell on London, selenium cells for dry rectifiers, high frequency
radio equipment, and fortification and field communication sets.
Without this supply of critical material it would have been impossible for
the German air force to kill American and British troops, for the German army to
fight the Allies in Africa, Italy, France and Germany, for England to have been
bombed, or for Allied troops to have been attacked at sea. Nor would it have
been possible without ITT and its affiliates for the enemy to have kept in
contact with Latin American countries at a time when. . ." END of QUOTE

I thought I knew a few things about politics, but apparently there's been a huge
gap in my day-to-day awareness. Namely - I've underestimated the very real and
enormous pull of money on everything that happens in the international world.

How is this relevant to the project? Well one thing is clear - Wherever big
money is concerned, truth, ethics, philosophy, and nationality are all it seems
beside the point, because what trumps everything else is ruthless business,
conducted at the highest levels for mega returns: Wars only intensify the
profits!

I first noticed this concept in the film "Braveheart" when the Highlanders were
fighting England for their own land. Watching the film when the "nobles" would
agree before the battles to accept certain lands and monies instead of going to
war - was like watching the US Senate in its nefarious dealings behind the
scenes, and in both cases the "people" were always the mega-losers. So I guess
this has been around since there have been wars.

But the villains now are not just the Corporations (as in the years 1933 -
1949). Now it's definitely the stock-holders. Just this morning I saw a big
smile on the reporter's face as she reported that Ford is firing 112,000 more
people, and on that news the Markets went UP! So what is driving all this? What
does it say about our standards of measurement when we cheer the loss of jobs,
(a fact that the other car companies have said they will follow) - in order to
point to "profitability." If this is the measure of American prosperity, then
we've already lost not just the war, but any purpose in what we say (nationally)
that we "believe" in.

In sum the real danger to societies around the world - is not the wars - but the
trading and the profits earned by those who are playing both ends against the
middle. And the truly unique thing in our current involvements in the Middle
East are that WE ARE BOTH SIDES of the conflict. In addition to that, we're
siphoning off the profits directly to the corporations whose idea all of this
was, in the first place. So we've added not only the amazing complexity of
computers to the scams from WWII, but we've applied electronic and psychological
tactics to increase the take of the pirates several trillion fold.

Our true enemies are the international banking institutions: The World Bank, The
International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization. Followed by the
Investor's and the shareholders who are driving the scale of the theft - and
completed by the media who keep it all buried under layers upon layers of
technical crap and legalistic jargon.

Personally this has been a major blow to my own view of life and balance - but
it has also redoubled my desire to find new ways to challenge this insanity.
Just thought you guys should know about the existence of this book.

k

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Some Extracts

Some Extracts from http://www.ipsjps.org/jps/125roy.html

by Sara Roy

....I tried to remember my very first encounter with the occupation.
One of my earliest encounters involved a group of Israeli soldiers,
an old Palestinian man, and his donkey. Standing on a street with some
Palestinian friends, I noticed an elderly Palestinian walking down the
street, leading his donkey. A small child no more than three or four
years old, clearly his grandson, was with him. Some Israeli soldiers
standing nearby went up to the old man and stopped him.

One soldier ambled over to the donkey and pried open its mouth.
"Old man," he asked, "why are your donkey's teeth so yellow? Why aren't
they white? Don't you brush your donkey 's teeth?" The old Palestinian
was mortified, the little boy visibly upset. The soldier repeated his
question, yelling this time, while the other soldiers laughed.
The child began to cry and the old man just stood there silently,
humiliated.
This scene repeated itself while a crowd gathered.
The soldier then ordered the old man to stand behind the donkey and
demanded that he kiss the animal's behind. At first, the old man
refused but as the soldier screamed at him and his grandson became
hysterical, he bent down and did it. The soldiers laughed and walked
away. They had achieved their goal: to humiliate him and those around
him.
We all stood there in silence, ashamed to look at each other,
hearing nothing but the uncontrollable sobs of the little boy.
The old man did not move for what seemed a very long time.
He just stood there, demeaned and destroyed.

Throughout that summer of 1985, I saw similar incidents:
young Palestinian men being forced by Israeli soldiers to bark
like dogs on their hands and knees or dance in the streets.

I learned, for example, what sheer terror looked like from my
friend Rabia, eighteen years old, who, frozen by fear and
uncontrollable shaking, stood glued in the middle of a room
we shared in a refugee camp, unable to move, while Israeli
soldiers were trying to break down the front door to our shelter.
I experienced terror while watching Israeli soldiers beat a
pregnant women in her belly because she flashed a V-sign at them,
and I was too paralyzed by fear to help her. I could more
concretely understand the meaning of loss and displacement when
I watched grown men sob and women scream as Israeli army bulldozers
destroyed their home and everything in it because they built their house
without a permit, which the Israeli authorities had refused to give them.

It is perhaps in the concept of home and shelter that I find the most
profound link between the Jews and the Palestinians, and perhaps, the
most painful illustration of the meaning of occupation. I cannot begin
to describe how horrible and obscene it is to watch the deliberate
destruction of a family's home while that family watches, powerless
to stop it. For Jews as for Palestinians, a house represents far more
than a roof over one's head; it represents life itself. Speaking about
the demolition of Palestinian homes, Meron Benvenisti, an Israeli
historian and scholar, writes:

It would be hard to overstate the symbolic value of a house to an
individual for whom the culture of wandering and of becoming rooted
to the land is so deeply engrained in tradition, for an individual
whose national mythos is based on the tragedy of being uprooted from
a stolen homeland. The arrival of a firstborn son and the building of
a home are the central events in such an individual's life because
they symbolize continuity in time and physical space. And with the
demolition of the individual's home comes the destruction of the world.

Israel's occupation of the Palestinians is the crux of the problem
between the two peoples, and it will remain so until it ends.
For the last thirty-five years, occupation has meant dislocation and
dispersion; the separation of families; the denial of human, civil,
legal, political, and economic rights imposed by a system of military
rule; the torture of thousands; the confiscation of tens of thousands
of acres of land and the uprooting of tens of thousands of trees; the
destruction of more than 7,000 Palestinian homes; the building of illegal
Israeli settlements on Palestinian lands and the doubling of the settler
population over the last ten years; first the undermining of the Palestinian
economy and now its destruction; closure; curfew; geographic fragmentation;
demographic isolation; and collective punishment.

***
Occupation is about the domination and dispossession of one people by
another. It is about the destruction of their property and the destruction
of their soul. Occupation aims, at its core, to deny Palestinians their
humanity by denying them the right to determine their existence, to live
normal lives in their own homes. Occupation is humiliation. It is despair
and desperation. And just as there is no moral equivalence or symmetry
between the Holocaust and the occupation, so there is no moral equivalence
or symmetry between the occupier and the occupied, no matter how much we as
Jews regard ourselves as victims.

And it is from this context of deprivation and suffocation, now largely
forgotten, that the horrific and despicable suicide bombings have emerged
and taken the lives of more innocents. Why should innocent Israelis, among
them my aunt and her grandchildren, pay the price of occupation? Like the
settlements, razed homes, and barricades that preceded them, the suicide
bombers have not always been there.

Memory in Judaism--like all memory--is dynamic, not static, embracing a
multiplicity of voices and shunning the hegemony of one. But in the post-
Holocaust world, Jewish memory has faltered--even failed--in one critical
respect: it has excluded the reality of Palestinian suffering and Jewish
culpability therein. As a people, we have been unable to link the creation
of Israel with the displacement of the Palestinians. We have been unwilling
to see, let alone remember, that finding our place meant the loss of theirs.
Perhaps one reason for the ferocity of the conflict today is that
Palestinians
are insisting on their voice despite our continued and desperate efforts to
subdue it.

Within the Jewish community it has always been considered a form of heresy
to
compare Israeli actions or policies with those of the Nazis, and certainly
one
must be very careful in doing so. But what does it mean
---when Israeli soldiers paint identification numbers on Palestinian arms;
---when young Palestinian men and boys of a certain age are told through
Israeli loudspeakers to gather in the town square;
---when Israeli soldiers openly admit to shooting Palestinian children for
sport;
---when some of the Palestinian dead must be buried in mass graves while the
bodies of others are left in city streets and camp alleyways because
the army will not allow proper burial;
---when certain Israeli officials and Jewish intellectuals publicly call for
the destruction of Palestinian villages in retaliation for suicide
bombings or for the transfer of the Palestinian population out of the
West Bank and Gaza;
---when 46 percent of the Israeli public favors such transfers and
---when transfer or expulsion becomes a legitimate part of popular
discourse;
---when government officials speak of the "cleansing of the refugee camps";
---when a leading Israeli intellectual calls for hermetic separation between
Israelis and Palestinians in the form of a Berlin Wall, caring not
whether the Palestinians on the other side of the wall may starve to
death as a result.

What are we supposed to think when we hear this? What is my mother supposed
to think?

In the context of Jewish existence today, what does it mean to preserve the
Jewish character of the State of Israel? Does it mean preserving a Jewish
demographic majority through any means and continued Jewish domination of
the
Palestinian people and their land? What is the narrative that we as a people
are creating, and what kind of voice are we seeking? What sort of meaning do
we as Jews derive from the debasement and humiliation of Palestinians? What
is at the center of our moral and ethical discourse? What is the source of
our moral and spiritual legacy?
What is the source of our redemption? Has the process of creating and
rebuilding ended for us? I want to end this essay with a quote from Irena
Klepfisz, a writer and child survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, whose father
spirited her and her mother out of the ghetto and then himself died in the
ghetto uprising. I have concluded that one way to pay tribute to those we
loved who struggled, resisted and died is to hold on to their vision and
their fierce outrage at the destruction of the ordinary life of their
people.
It is this outrage we need to keep alive in our daily life and apply it to
all situations, whether they involve Jews or non-Jews. It is this outrage we
must use to fuel our actions and vision whenever we see any signs of the
disruptions of common life: the hysteria of a mother grieving for the
teenager
who has been shot; a family stunned in front of a vandalized or demolished
home; a family separated, displaced; arbitrary and unjust laws that demand
the closing or opening of shops and schools; humiliation of a people whose
culture is alien and deemed inferior; a people left homeless without
citizenship; a people living under military rule. Because of our experience,
we recognize these evils as obstacles to peace. At those moments of
recognition, we remember the past, feel the outrage that inspired the Jews
of the Warsaw Ghetto and allow it to guide us in present struggles. For me,
these words define the true meaning of Judaism and the lessons my parents
sought to impart.

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From: fpf
Desmond Tutu : Apartheid in the Holy Land

ISRAEL : MORE APARTHEID AND MORE GHETTOS !

UN Report Condemns Apartheid Wall & Settlements as ŒIllegal Conquest¹

Desmond Tutu : Apartheid in the Holy Land

"it reminded me so much of what happened to us

black people in South Africa."

Desmond Tutu,the former Archbishop of Cape Town :

Quote : "My heart aches. I say; why are our memories so short ?

Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation ?

Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in
their own history so soon ?

Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious
traditions ?

Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden ?

Desmond Tutu also is Chairman of South Africa's
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Apartheid in the Holy Land
Desmond Tutu
Monday April 29, 2002 The Guardian

In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people.
They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of
the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil. I have continued
to feel strongly with the Jews. I am patron of a Holocaust centre in South
Africa. I believe Israel has a right to secure borders.

What is not so understandable, not justified, is what it did to another
people to guarantee its existence. I've been very deeply distressed in my
visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened to us black
people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at
checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police
officers prevented us from moving about.

On one of my visits to the Holy Land I drove to a church with the Anglican
bishop in Jerusalem. I could hear tears in his voice as he pointed to Jewish
settlements. I thought of the desire of Israelis for security. But what of
the Palestinians who have lost their land and homes?

I have experienced Palestinians pointing to what were their homes, now
occupied by Jewish Israelis. I was walking with Canon Naim Ateek (the head
of the Sabeel Ecumenical Centre) in Jerusalem. He pointed and said: "Our
home was over there. We were driven out of our home; it is now occupied by
Israeli Jews."

My heart aches. I say why are our memories so short. Have our Jewish sisters
and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective
punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they
turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have
they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden?

Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another
people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the
violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds
taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in
the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the
injured.

The military action of recent days, I predict with certainty, will not
provide the security and peace Israelis want; it will only intensify the
hatred.

Israel has three options: revert to the previous stalemated situation;
exterminate all Palestinians; or - I hope - to strive for peace based on
justice, based on withdrawal from all the occupied territories, and the
establishment of a viable Palestinian state on those territories side by
side with Israel, both with secure borders.

We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness
could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in
the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the
Holy Land?

My brother Naim Ateek has said what we used to say: "I am not pro- this
people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti- injustice,
anti-oppression."

But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed
on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticise it is to be immediately dubbed
anti-semitic, as if the Palestinians were not semitic. I am not even
anti-white, despite the madness of that group. And how did it come about
that Israel was collaborating with the apartheid government on security
measures?

People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because
the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful. Well, so what? For goodness
sake, this is God's world! We live in a moral universe. The apartheid
government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler,
Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but
in the end they bit the dust.

Injustice and oppression will never prevail. Those who are powerful have to
remember the litmus test that God gives to the powerful: what is your
treatment of the poor, the hungry, the voiceless? And on the basis of that,
God passes judgment.

We should put out a clarion call to the government of the people of Israel,
to the Palestinian people and say: peace is possible, peace based on justice
is possible. We will do all we can to assist you to achieve this peace,
because it is God's dream, and you will be able to live amicably together as
sisters and brothers.

Full story Bishop Tutu URL : http://tinyurl.com/pb05

Encouraged by US, Israeli PM Sharon
Decides to ŒAnnex¹ Settlements

UN Report Condemns Apartheid Wall, Settlements as ŒIllegal Conquest¹
http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1067

Fwd by the FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
http://tinyurl.com/orc6
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/jo4y
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl

The Dutch author worked for many decades for international A/V media as foreign
correspondent,
of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle
East.
Seeing that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

HR

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