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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 12 Num. 46
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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INTERNATIONALISM: AN OLD TRICK
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In 1930-31, Father Charles Coughlin gave a series of radio
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sermons, later transcribed into a book, "By The Sweat of Thy
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Brow" (The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1931). Father
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Coughlin defined labor as a fundamental human right, as did Union
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General (and Congressman) James B. Weaver (*A Call To Action*,
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1892). Wrote General Weaver:
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All men have a natural right to a portion of the soil; and
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as the use of the soil is indispensable to life, the right
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of all men to the soil is as sacred as their right to life
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itself.
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The child... comes into this world clothed with all the
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natural rights which Adam possessed when he was the sole
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inhabitant of the earth. Liberty to occupy the soil in his
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own right, to till it unmolested as soon as he has the
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strength to do so and to live upon the fruits of his toil
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without paying tribute to any other creature, are among the
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most sacred and essential of these rights; and any state of
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society which deprives men of these natural and inalienable
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safeguards, is an organized rebellion against the
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providence of God, a conspiracy against human life and a
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menace to the peace of the community.
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-+- The Laborer -+-
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Father Coughlin, while acknowledging that "labor" includes
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creative and intellectual labor, limits his definition to the
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bulk of laborers: miners, farmers and factory workers:
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There is not one item in life which is independent of the
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laborer. Identified with every gold coin which is sent on
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its mission of wealth; intimately related to every
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locomotive which moves freight and produce and human beings
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across our continent; back of every airplane that skims
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past the skyline and over the clouds, there is some human
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being who has delved into the earth to fetch forth the
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gold, to fabricate the engine, and to spin for us the
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silken wings which fill the sky.
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He then goes on to stress that work is a human right, based on
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"the law of self-preservation which the Creator of human life has
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so impressed upon every individual that it supersedes every other
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law and annuls every man-made legislation which unreasonably
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comes in conflict with it." Coughlin's "three fundamental
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notions of life" are:
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1) Man is a social citizen.
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2) He and every other citizen has the right to preserve his life.
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3) The primary law of physical preservation is essentially
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connected with labor.
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-+- Where Money Is King -+-
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But mass consumption cannot keep up with mass production. As the
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machinery has improved, two contrary things occur: (1) the
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laborer is not as necessary, since the machine can do ever more
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of his labor, and (2) since the laborer is no longer as
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necessary, he becomes seasonally unemployed and cannot so easily
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afford (consume/purchase) the items of mass production. Coughlin
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is ahead of his time when he urges that there be less hours
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worked by those already employed so that =all= may be employed.
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The "radio priest" also condemned the vast gap in wealth between
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the few ultra rich and the masses of workers just struggling to
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provide for themselves and their families. (Quoting from Pope
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Leo XIII: "the concentration of many branches of trade in the
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hands of a few individuals, a small number of very rich men have
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been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a
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yoke that is little better than slavery itself.") Coughlin is not
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a communist nor a socialist, but he does urge that a living wage
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must be paid to all workers.
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Money, says Coughlin, is "substantially related to labor." Man
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is a social citizen (see point #1, above). Each citizen is a
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unit of a nation "whose social duties obligate him first to the
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political family of his fellow citizens." (This does not imply
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no obligation to mankind in general, but the =first= obligation
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is to "the political family of his fellow citizens.") It follows
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from this that the ultra rich cannot use their great wealth in a
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manner contrary to the general good of their countrymen.
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So how can these ultra rich (the one-third of one percent who
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control half the wealth of the country) commandeer "the many
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billions of American dollars made by American laborers" and
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expend them "building factories and creating industries abroad"?
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Coughlin warns that eventually "these foreign nations will be our
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competitors," that eventually they will force down the wages paid
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to American workers. Add to this the billions of dollars sent
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abroad as foreign aid:
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...American money to the extent of eighteen billion dollars
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loaned abroad since [World War I]. From the year 1920 to
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1928 foreign loans amounting to 14.5 billion dollars were
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publicly offered and accepted. Since that date other loans
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have been negotiated privately... Add to this the 12
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billion dollars of a government war loan. And the result
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is, that Europe and South America owe us today at least 30
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billion dollars, the interest on which these nations are
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now unable to pay...
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If gold or money is substantially related to labor, then
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the exportation of American gold in such abnormal and
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stupendous quantities is equivalent to the exportation of
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sixty billion hours of American labor valued at 50 cents an
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hour [1930 rates], or enough to keep approximately 30
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million workmen busy for one whole year.
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Yes, says Coughlin, here on earth the ultra rich own their
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wealth; but they are the =stewards= of that wealth. He quotes
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from St. Thomas Aquinas:
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The temporal goods which God permits to a man are his in
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regard to property. But in regard to use they are not his
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alone, but others also who can be sustained by what is
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superfluous to him. If the individual owner neglects his
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social responsibilities, it is the duty of the State to
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enforce their observance.
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What is the morality of "those Americans who made their money by
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the sweat of the brows of American laborers and then expend
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tremendous portions of it in foreign countries to build up
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competitors in the industrial market against their fellow
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citizens"?
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American money has been (and is being) exported abroad where it
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"will compete in neutral markets with our own industries."
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-+- "Scribes" Have Wrought Desolation -+-
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Almost 2500 years ago, it is recorded "that a condition somewhat
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similar to ours was extant... among the Jewish people. For
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personal reasons their leaders preferred to be blind to the
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situation, thinking that they could quell the disturbance in the
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public mind by the childish trick of crying, >>'Peace, Peace':
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when there was no peace.<< (Jeremias 8:11)"
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"The scribes [journalists] who depended for their livelihood upon
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the great men of the nation were content to remain silent lest
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their revenues be revoked. In fact they even co-operated in this
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childish diplomacy of propagating the lie >>'Peace, Peace': when
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there was no peace.<<"
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"No wonder, therefore, that the prophet expressed himself in
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unmistakable language when he wrote that 'the lying pen of the
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scribes hath wrought our desolation.' (Jeremias 8:8)"
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"A similar circumstance has arisen today. The modern scribe or
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journalist or publisher... too often finds himself openly
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partisan at the expense of honesty and brazenly optimistic at the
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expense of truth as he comforts himself with the sophistry that
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all the news is not good for the people. Only that news is good
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which benefits the apostles of privilege."
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-+- Internationalism: An Old Trick -+-
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Internationalism is a recurring scheme favored by those wanting
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to hog wealth and power. Alexander the Great was imbued with
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political internationalism "when he desired to Persianize the
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entire world... So was Augustus Caesar. So was Napoleon whose
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secret ambition was to make the world his footstool and France
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his throne." And so did Adolph Hitler seek eventual world
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conquest for his Third Reich. And so does/did international
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communism seek world conquest. Communism
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according to its founder, Adam Weishaupt, from whom Karl
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Marx drew his inspiration... is necessarily identified with
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atheism... This is the first tenet of communism...
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The second general belief of communism is expressed by the
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word 'internationalism.'
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Internationalism is "a heresy which strikes at the root of
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patriotism and prosperity: and aims not at elevating all peoples
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to the standard of American living, but rather at the leveling of
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our standard to the common denominator of foreign misery."
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-+- Loathsome Re-birth of Internationalism -+-
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"The most loathsome after-birth of the [First] World War has been
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the revival of this internationalism which in its last analysis
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is nothing more than universal class rule. On the one hand the
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Soviet desires to control the entire world by the military arm of
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an enslaved laboring class. And on the part of certain captains
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of industry and finance there seems to be a determination to rule
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the universe through the agency of wealth."
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"Identified both with the League of Nations and with the World
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Court... is this new Colossus called the International Bank." In
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the minds of many, the birth of the International Bank is a story
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into which is woven "the J.P. Morgan Banking Company... the Bank
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of England; [and] the names of certain gentlemen in our Federal
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Reserve Bank... Acting in collusion, these men succeeded in
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lowering American money to 3.5 percent; then exported more than
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500 million dollars in gold to Europe..."
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"Now that our gold has been poured into Europe, these same
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international bankers of Wall Street and of Washington are
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anxious that our nation shall surrender its independence by
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becoming a member of 'The Permanent Court of International
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Justice of the League of Nations.'"
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(Coughlin's "International Bank" may or may not be the same as
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the "Bank for International Settlements." Since Coughlin is
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speaking circa 1930 of a "new Colossus called the International
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Bank," it seems likely he is referring to the Bank for
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International Settlements. In Charles Higham's
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highly-recommended book on how corporate America continued doing
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business with Nazi Germany, even during World War II -- *Trading
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With the Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949* --
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background is given on the Bank for International Settlements
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(BIS): "The Bank for International Settlements was a joint
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creation in 1930 of the world's central banks, including the
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Its existence was inspired by
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Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi Minister of Economics and president of the
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Reichsbank." The BIS turned into "a money funnel for American
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and British funds to flow into Hitler's coffers and to help
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Hitler build up his war machine.")
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-+- Abraham Lincoln's Warning to America -+-
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Just before he died, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to a close
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friend in Illinois. Here is part of what he is reported to have
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said:
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Yes, we may all congratulate ourselves that the [Civil War]
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is nearing its close. It has cost a great amount of
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treasure and of blood. But I see in the near future, a
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crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to
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tremble for the safety of my country.
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As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned
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and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The
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money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its
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reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until
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all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic
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is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the
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safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of
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war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.
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Extrapolating from Coughlin's analysis, with its 1930s
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perspective, we now know that in the struggle between the two
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"evil empires" -- International Communism and International
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Corporatism -- the latter appears to have triumphed. The lust
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for wealth, power and world conquest is =not= something "brand
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new," but its current disguise of benevolence and "'Peace,
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Peace': when there is no peace" =is= new. Do not be deceived;
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beware of wolves in sheep's clothing.
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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of Conspiracy Nation, nor of its Editor in Chief.
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Aperi os tuum muto, et causis omnium filiorum qui pertranseunt.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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