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Freemason secret in global
warlordism -part 3 :
Counterattack by Wendell Solomons After moneylending for East-West trade was blunted by the dissenting Alexander VI, Mediterranean finance houses drifted to reach northern and eastern Europe. In the Netherlands, then a Spanish colony, Protestants had attacked hundreds of Catholic monasteries and churches during revolts. Circa 1590 Amsterdam began to figure as the refugee capital of Europe and in return for its generosity the city gained unrivalled access to the world's most profitable trading networks. The wealth and the wide-ranging contacts of the Sephardic Jews of the Mediterranean made them welcome settlers. Their clans consolidated through the founding of the Bank of Amsterdam and then proceeded with plans to float a merchant company to hire sea navigators, sailors and troops to challenge the Portuguese in the Orient. The year 1602 founded the Dutch East India Company which relieved Portugal of all its East Indian possessions. In most of present-day Indonesia and in the Malay Peninsula, Sri Lanka, the Malabar Coast of India and Japan, it eliminated the Portuguese. In these dramatic events of the 17th century, the world at large was not privy to a return of finance houses into oriental trade, but just saw Dutch gloves replacing Portuguese ones in the colonies. At the peak of its power in 1669, the Dutch East India Company had 150 merchant ships, 40 warships and 10,000 soldiers. However, in 1795 through horse dealing when the Batavian Republic in Holland was formed under French influence, the company's fate was determined at a counting table. In 1798 the government of the Batavian Republic took over the company's possessions. The next horse deal for Oriental trade soon followed in the Treaty of Amiens signed in 1802 by Britain, France, Spain and the Batavian Republic. The detachment of the finance houses based in Britain would take over oriental trade using the British East India Company that was originally provided with a monopoly charter in 1600 by Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII. Footloose finance clans had composed themselves in Britain by using the greedy Henry VIII as a bridgehead. In time they witnessed the power of royals shrunk by Oliver Cromwell whose troops were financed well enough to fit a collar on the neck of the British monarchy. In our times the UK 'Daily Mirror' newspaper came out in October 2003 with a series of assertions by Paul Burrell who had served as Princess Diana's butler. The newspaper claimed that Diana wrote a letter 10 months before she died saying there was a plot to kill her by tampering with the brakes of her car. Paul Burrell mentioned another singularity. When he went public with what he had observed with Princess Diana at first hand, the Queen stepped forward to caution him about forces that he did not dream of. After the British East India Company received the Orient, the finance clans went from strength to strength. They reinforced their position as the force (a) behind the British throne and (b) behind the commerce of the new and extensive British colonial system. President Roosevelt and decolonisation At last Pope Alexander VI's edict of 1493 had been overturned and cosy times were assured for the clans behind the motto 'Britannia rules the waves.' On January 13th, 1909 Winston Churchill could confidently boast of England as the best country in the world for rich men. In complement to that an ad copywriter out in Chicago, USA, Edgar Rice Burroughs, would puff up genetic or natural British overlordship through writings on Tarzan. After Alexander VI, the dissenter who arrived on the scene was U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He might not have been a political successor to Alexander VI had he and wife Eleanor not noticed the inside story as members of the elite. When British rulership was challenged by World War II and Churchill as British PM wrote for US supplies and assistance, Roosevelt asked him in return for decolonisation. Winston Churchill did not relish signing away colonies in front of his hidden or open constituency. So when Churchill set sail flaunting Britain's spanking new battleship `Prince of Wales', it was a well-kept secret that he was on board. When cited, the ostensible purpose of Churchill's voyage was a fishing trip with Franklin D. Roosevelt who turned up aboard the US cruiser `Augusta'. The outcome of the meeting at sea was the Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941, which respected the rights of all peoples to self-determination. Though media was placated with the subsidiary story that the two ships met in mid-Atlantic for a wartime propaganda show, as soon as the war was over we know Britain began to grant Independence to its colonies. Roosevelt's elite dissidence confused finance capital no end. These consequences ensued. (1) A post-Colonial strategy of protectionism attempted to block industrialisation in newly emergent nations. The strategy, applied through blinds such as the World Bank and IMF, attempted to block industrialisation in newly emerging nations. The approach suffered obsolescence when the manufacturing industry took off with a bang in several nations. In Asia, Japan was followed by newly industrialised nations that were to include giant China and India. (2) From 1976 finance capital embarked on another course to impoverish emergent nations by making them weak, dependent interest- payers. Monetarist economists were used to set in place a vanity trap through the World Bank and IMF that would cause a 'war of each against the other.' Therefore, cooperation towards developing national resources would be impaired. Yet, that had the blow-back effect of hitting synergy in the USA and UK. Key financier George Soros recorded his alarm on the drastic change in everyday US business ethics when news headlines exposed a spate of corporate crime. Corporate nihilism is also experienced in the UK, where the nation's once proud auto-industry is being sold off, factory by factory, to foreign buyers. MG-Rover was the one to go in 2005, bought by Nanking Automobile, which flew in not only Chinese engineers but cooks too because it considered scrap meals inappropriate for the workforce. (3) Since strategies (1) and (2) proved thorny, Anglo- American leaders have been pushed into a crisis-fighting warlordism. That harms whatever residue of credibility it enjoyed in the world. Roosevelt's dissent of 1941 joins counterparts today in understandings being established by Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and Russia. Next, Russia joins China and four Central Asian nations with India as an observer in the Shanghai Cooperation Council, which recently asked the US to dismantle its airforce bases in Central Asia. That leads us to the larger picture of a warlordism already buffeted on the ground in several ways. |
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