Ray,
In answer to your questions below about corporatist links to fascism in
the 1930s, you may recall my having posted this twice before, and I
would suggest you visit the site and thoroughly read all four chapters
'cause it just gets better. You may consider Marshall off-putting for
good reasons, and I contest much of what he says about other things, but
his work on the history of oil wars seems to be compiled with hind sight
and logic that can easily be applied to the motives for the wars of the
last decade, which makes it all rather credible and scary as hell.
Natalia
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/black_gold_1.htm
-- by Marshall Douglas Smith
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What is often called the German or Italian form of Fascism had its
roots in America. Both Hitler and Mussolini were funded and brought into
power in the 1920's and '30s by international bankers, including the 12
banks which now make up the American Federal Reserve System. But I get
ahead of myself.
Beginning in the late 1800's, John D. Rockefeller, by means of a
deception, using a ploy with his Union Tanker Car Company was able to
control or "corner" the oil market. In this scheme, he owned the company
which had the design patent for the all-metal sealed oil tanker railroad
car. The same type of tanker cars are still in use today. Rockefeller,
through Union Tanker Car, leased tanker cars by the hundreds to the
owners of newly discovered oil fields so they could ship the crude to
the refiners. This often included kickbacks from the railroad for
increasing the profitable traffic on their rails.
In the late 1800's, prior to the design of the tanker railroad
car, petroleum was shipped to the refiner in open wooden barrels on
flatbed cars. Some of the oil was lost as it sloshed out whenever the
train stopped or started or went around corners. Much of the valuable
part of the crude oil simply evaporated from the open barrels before it
got to the refiner, often leaving only a heavy black tar. The wooden
barrels were difficult and time consuming to fill and drain.
The closed metal tanker car was a boon to the new petroleum
business. After several months of oil field development and shipments
from the numerous wells being sunk in the ground, and after the refiner
had built new facilities to handle the increased flow of crude, Union
Tanker broke the lease and took back all of its tanker cars.
Since there was no other source for the tanker cars, both the oil
field developer and the refiner began to lose money caused by the
instantaneous stoppage of the oil flow from field to refinery. Within
months the oil producer and the refiner, after making large investments,
were now on the verge of bankruptcy. Then John Rockefeller, through his
holding company, Standard Oil, simply walked in and purchased both the
oil fields and the refinery at pennies on the dollar. He usually also
ended up with the railroad in between.
Despite his reputation as an oil magnate, John D himself was not
really an oilman. He had little experience as either an oil driller or
refiner. He simply leased oil tanker cars and made money buying oil
fields and refineries at "distressed" prices. To run his oil fields and
refineries, Rockefeller often hired the very same entrepreneurs whom he
had just defrauded. They now worked for him. Only many decades later was
it discovered who caused the "distress." And any Rockefeller today will
point out, "...but it was not illegal."
In the period of 1900 to 1910 this conspiracy was repeated
numerous times and Standard Oil then owned almost all the oil fields in
California, Texas, Arkansas, New Jersey and Ohio, and several other
states. Thus John D. Rockefeller either owned or controlled about 90% of
what we now call the energy business. At that time, research shows, not
many people knew that Rockefeller owned the Union Tanker Car Company.
Otherwise, very few oilmen would have signed bogus leases for the cars
if they had known that John D. and Standard Oil owned all the tanker cars.
Many "muckraker" authors of the early 1900's, such as Ida Tarbell,
exposed the predatory monopolist marketing practice of Standard Oil. But
the Rockefeller connection with Union Tanker, and how Standard came into
being, was not discovered until many decades later. And it still is not
in the history books. And most of those few books which did show the
connection between John Rockefeller and the Union Tanker Car Company
have somehow mysteriously disappeared, but not all.
In 1911, the US government brought charges of monopoly against
John D. and Standard Oil, and the company was broken apart. The many new
companies all had names which were variations of the initials S.O., such
as SOHIO in Ohio, SOCONY in New York, ESSO ("S.O.") which later became
EXXON, etc. The splitting of the company was a mere inconvenience for
Rockefeller. In retaliation, John D. made a vow. He vowed he would put
his company back together. He also vowed in turn he would "break apart"
the United States. He and his sons and grandsons and their companies
have accomplished both. It was completed about 8 years ago. Again, I get
ahead of myself.
In the period of 1910 to 1914 there were only three major oil
companies in the world, (1) Standard Oil in America and its many
"mini-S.O.-standards" after the 1911 breakup, (2) the British-Persian
Petroleum Company, which controlled the large oilfields in Persia (now
Iran), roughly extending up into southern Russia, and (3) Royal Dutch
Shell which controlled the vast oil fields in the old Dutch East Indies
Colonies in Indonesia and southeast Asia. John D. resolved to take over
control of both the British-Persian Petroleum company and Royal Dutch Shell.
Rockefeller believed the world would be better served if all nasty
corporate competition were eliminated. Then he could make the decisions
to market petroleum like an efficient, smooth running, well oiled
machine. It was simply a continuation of his business practice in the US
for the previous 10 years. In several inter-corporate meetings around
1910 this was almost accomplished. He was distracted when the US
government broke apart his oil holdings, but he was not deterred.
The big three oil companies agreed, instead, to act jointly as if
they were one company, the first oil cartel. They settled on one world
price for oil, which from 1910 to about 1975 was the world pegged price
of "West Texas Sweet Crude." The law of "supply-and-demand" had been
subverted. It was as if everyone bought their oil in Texas from Standard
Oil regardless of from where in the world the oil came. They also agreed
to divide up the world into three oil zones to match their local oil
supplies and markets. To accomplish this they would need to eliminate or
take over control of all other smaller local national ownerships of
crude oil, or even the colonial ownership of any oil fields, such as in
the old colonies of France, Germany, Spain and Portugal.
This was the purpose of World War I from 1914 to 1918, though few
people realized it. The elimination of most of the colonialism of the
1800's and the carving up of the world was completed with the Treaty of
Versailles. The arbitrary carving of the world into three primary areas
is well documented in history books. Until recently, whose hands were
behind the carving had not been disclosed.
For Standard Oil to participate in the drawing up of the Treaty of
Versailles, the United States would need to participate in WWI. Although
the US entered the conflict belatedly and actually had a minimal affect
on the outcome of the European war, the US was in on the negotiations
and a signatory to the treaty. All went well, but, there was a fly in
the ointment. In 1917, Russia did not go along with the plan to steal
their huge oilfields. Russia had pulled out of WWI and did not
participate in the Treaty of Versailles. The Bolsheviks, after several
years of revolution, now had the world's largest supply of oil in
southern Russia. Those vast oil fields were not under the control of
either Standard, British Petroleum or Royal Dutch.
Prior to World War I, the most common use for petroleum was to
make kerosene, a cheap replacement for the smelly whale oil or smoky
coal oil in lamps for homes or businesses. Before the general use of
electric light bulbs, kerosene was a product which was highly desirable,
with a world-wide market. During WWI, it was discovered that petroleum
could also be easily refined to make gasoline or diesel fuel for the
internal combustion engines that were in the new airplanes, trucks,
ships, submarines and tanks developed during the war.
Thus it became clear after 1918, ownership of oil was not only
highly profitable but could now determine who won or lost a war. No
longer would empires be built on, nor wars fought in the search for and
conquest of gold. Gold had been superseded as the means to obtain
political power. The internal combustion engine had replaced the war
horse. In a period of only several years, a sudden shift in the
geopolitics of the world had just occurred. And most people never
noticed. He who has the most oil rules. Oil, black gold, became the fuel
for the engines of war. A new world empire was about to be created. A
new empire, not based on countries or nations, but of private corporations.
The arbitrary carving of the world into three pieces by the Big 3
oil companies in 1918, as determined by the Treaty of Versailles, was
one of the reasons why Adolf Hitler wanted to get rid of the Jews. John
D. Rockefeller, whose family name had originally been something like the
Germanic Rogenfelder, was considered Jewish by most Europeans. Since
Germany had just lost all its colonies with their oil fields under the
arbitrary carving of national boundaries along oil market lines by the
Versailles Treaty, Hitler blamed the "Jews" for all of Germany's
problems. Hitler believed those whose hands had done the carving were
all Jewish. That's right out of Hitler's book.
For John Rockefeller to overcome the problem of his oil holdings
being broken apart by the US government in 1911, he created another
stratagem even larger than the Union Tanker Car Company. He took his
vast wealth and created 12 large holding banks we now know as the
private Federal Reserve. The plot was to somehow sell his banks to the
US Congress. He succeeded two years later in 1913.
All federal taxes collected since 1913 go through the private
Federal Reserve System banks, whether they are gas taxes, import excise
taxes or income taxes. You file your tax return with the Internal
Revenue Service, but all the tax money withheld by your employer is sent
to a Federal Reserve Bank. At the end of the fiscal year, the government
IRS reports to the private Federal Reserve Banks how much income tax is
reported on tax returns and then that amount should be transferred to
the Federal government. The private Federal Reserve then pays that
amount, but does not report or pay the interest earned on that money
during the year. That is profit to the Federal Reserve Banks. This is
now true of the so-called "central banks" of most nations, which were
chartered along the same lines as the American Federal Reserve banks.
That is why they want you to "overpay" your taxes, and then at the
end of the year, when you file your return with the IRS, you get back a
refund, not from the Fed Banks, but with a check from the US Treasury.
The private Fed earns interest on the amount you overpay, but the
government Treasury loses the amount you get refunded. The private
Federal Reserve pays no taxes and reports to no one. Thus, John
Rockefeller and his heirs and assigns, have a cash flow each year equal
to a good percentage of the American gross national product and that
would be enough to buy out British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell, even
if Standard Oil was broken into smaller pieces.
Thus financially armed, the very next year, Standard Oil, British
Petroleum and Royal Dutch set out to carve up the world into three
markets in 1914, in what we call World War I. But ended up with the
lion's share of the world's oil still in the hands of the Bolsheviks,
later ignominiously called "communists." The Socialists wanted the
Russian state to control the national resources such as oil, and not
private profit making companies like Standard, British Petroleum or
Royal Dutch.
It would be hard for the Big 3 to corner and control the world oil
market if the Russians still had the lion's share. To counter the
Russian socialists, the Big 3 created and supported numerous
"anti-communist" movements, which we now call Fascist. In Fascism,
private profit-making corporations work hand-in-hand with governments,
as opposed to Socialism where private companies are eliminated, and the
country's resources and means of production are controlled by the
government, usually a dictator, and the people. The profit from the sale
of resources or goods produced goes to the people of the country, not
some private corporation.
It was John D. Rockefeller who called the shots at the early Big 3
oil company meetings, even though he could not yet buy out his
competitors, the British and the Dutch companies. Thus, as I said
previously, Fascism, as a counter to Russian "communism," came right
from the US. The Bolsheviks, Marxists and Leninists had long called
themselves "socialists." The USSR was the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST
Republics. They never called themselves "communists." It was John D. and
the Big 3 who coined the word and branded them "communists." This was
because the Russian Socialists held the oil fields as "community
property" and did not allow private corporations like Standard to come
in and privately own or steal the oil resources.
Fascism grew out of the attempt of the Big 3 oil companies to form
a world cartel to control the world's supply of petroleum and eliminate
any other competitors which they branded as "communists." Thus at the
end of WWI, after the Treaty of Versailles, and the take over of the
large oil fields in southern Russia by the socialists, came the creation
of both "communism" and "fascism." Both were constructs, inventions and
ploys of the Big 3: Standard Oil, British Petroleum and Royal Dutch
Shell. It was a deception which would lead to world empire.
In the 1920's and '30s the Big 3 decided on a plan to eliminate
Russian control of oil by "hiring" the small "fascist" movements in
Germany and Japan to attack and take over Russia and thus eliminate any
state control of oil fields. Most historians would blame large
international bankers for funding the rise of fascism. But the bankers
had no motivation and fringe fascists parties in Germany, Italy and
Japan did not look like good financial risks. But for the Big 3 Oil
companies there was a strong motivation to use the "fascists" to defeat
the "communists" in Russia and take over the world oil market. And the
vast oil wealth which they stored in their international banks provided
them with the means. In the 1920's the opportunity was ripe.
Thus the small fascist political parties in Germany, Japan and
Italy were given massive Big 3 financial backing to help those minor
political parties come to power and build up their military. But things
did not go quite as they had planned. The aging John D. had died and his
son and four grandsons had decided they would carve up the world along
different lines, and at the same time eliminate their competitors, the
British and Dutch oil companies.
In 1939 and '40, the Germans did not attack Russia as the Big 3
had expected. Instead German General Rommel went rushing across north
Africa to grab the Suez Canal and control all oil shipping through the
canal. He then planned to continue on to Persia and toss out the British
from the British-Persian oil fields. Also in 1939 the Japanese, after a
short abortive attack on Russia in which they were driven out, instead
went through southeast Asia and grabbed up all the oil holdings of Royal
Dutch Shell. Most of those Royal Dutch fields at the end of the WWII
came under the control of Standard Oil.
The British and Dutch companies probably knew in 1939 that their
"fascist oil" plan to grab the fields in southern "communist" Russia had
gone astray when both the Germans and the Japanese signed non-aggression
pacts with Russia, and instead went after the Persian and East Indies
oil fields. The grandsons of John D. were as sneaky and devious as their
grandfather, but that's the competitive nature of the oil business in
the new empire of energy.
The new Standard Oil plan was to have Germany and Japan attack and
control Russia and its oil, along with the fields in Persia and
Indonesia, then the US would attack and defeat Germany and Japan, thus
leaving all the Russian oil in the hands of Standard Oil. And at the
same time the holdings of British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell would
then be taken from the Germans and Japanese, which would then also be
controlled by Standard. And no one would be the wiser, since the British
and Dutch fields would then just be the spoils of war.
When it became clear that neither the Japanese nor Germans
"fascists" could complete the jobs for which they were "hired," the
American people were tricked into supplying the man-power by entering
WWII after the Pearl Harbor incident. In 1941, while nobody seems to
have been watching, the Japanese had become a very powerful militaristic
nation, well endowed with foreign funding from the Big 3, but they had
no energy or oil supply of their own. They relied on the supply of oil
for their new planes, ships, tanks and trucks coming from the Royal
Dutch fields in nearby Indonesia.
In July 1941, President Roosevelt signed an embargo to stop all
shipping to Japan, presumably in retaliation for the recent Japanese
invasion of French Indo-china. The Roosevelts and the Rockefellers had
long had friendly family ties. Roosevelt's US embargo cut off the
Japanese oil supply, which would have quickly shut down Japan, with the
obvious result. In late November 1941 the Japanese sent a written "war
warning" through diplomatic channels to Washington, declaring the
embargo should be stopped, or else many American sites in the Pacific
would be attacked in retaliation. That formal diplomatic warning was
ignored and the US sent back no reply. Just two weeks later the Japanese
broke the embargo, by bombing the American embargo ships parked in Pearl
Harbor.
It was no surprise attack. The Japanese had formally announced it
two weeks before. It was only the obvious result of the American
strangulation of the oil flow to Japan, and a clearly stated Japanese
warning which had been received and ignored. The American public had
been fooled into thinking it was a sneak surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor. Since Franklin Roosevelt said so, it must be true. The Pacific
war turned out to be a prolonged aircraft carrier war. Strangely, the US
aircraft carriers in the Pacific Fleet had been sent on maneuvers just
several days before the attack and none were in Pearl Harbor on Dec 7,
1941. Coincidence?
And it must also be by some strange logic, if Japan attacks the
US, then the US also declares war on Germany. Unless, of course, there
is some other larger plan afoot. The historical record shows Germany had
not attacked nor engaged the US in conflict, so why did Roosevelt
declare war on Germany in December 1941?
Records now show, that Hitler's plan had been to first capture the
oilfields in Romania by 1939 so Germany would have its own supply of
oil. This was accomplished. Then Rommel would capture the oilfields in
Persia by 1941, then capture the oilfields in Russia in 1942, and only
then would Hitler have sufficient fuel for prosecuting a war with the
United States. But the Japanese, on December 11, 1941, less than a week
after the Pearl Harbor incident, convinced Hitler to also declare war on
the United States. Hitler agreed only if the Japanese would attack
Russia, since the fascists were now bogged down in Russia and Hitler
would be helped if the Russians had to defend themselves from Japan. But
the Japanese did not attack Russia. Hitler was driven out of Russia and
now was without a fuel source. Was this the war plan of the new Empire
of Energy?
The Romanian oilfields in Ploesti were insufficient for Germany to
carry on a war on two fronts. With American assistance going to Stalin
to protect his southern Russian oilfields and with Rommel stopped in
Africa so he could not reach the Persian oilfields, it was only a matter
of time until Germany's war engines would run out of fuel. By the time
of the Allied invasion of Europe on June 6, 1944, Germany was running on
fumes. The last major German attack against the Allied invasion force
was the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler had intended for Rommel to attack
the invading allies with his tanks, then capture the fuel dumps which
the allies had amassed. This would stop the American and British forces,
and obtain needed fuel.
But when German General Rommel got to the fuel dumps he found
American General Eisenhower had ordered them burned. No, the Allies did
not win the Battle of the Bulge. It was Rommel and Hitler who lost.
Rommel's panzer tanks simply ran out of gas. The German army abandoned
their tanks right where they had quit. After that it was a rather swift
footrace with the Allies chasing the Germans in a fast retreat back to
Berlin. Is there something wrong with this picture? Yes. Its not the one
you were taught in school. You were taught the story about the horrors
of "fascism" and "communism" but you weren't taught about how black gold
had now become the motive and the means for war. He who owns the oil
rules. World War II was a demonstration of both, and the new power of
the Empire of Energy.
So the Japanese, the Germans and even the Americans were deceived
into fighting the "enemy." But in fact, at the end of the war in 1945,
it was Standard Oil who won the war in the Pacific and had taken control
of most of the oil fields in the Pacific area from Royal Dutch Shell.
All that was left was to acquire the oil fields in Persia and Russia.
The new Empire of Energy was just scant years away from complete world
domination.
On 10/14/2011 10:32 AM, Ray Harrell wrote:
How involved were the corporatists with 1930s Germany and Spain under
the Fascists and Nazis? I have a book that indicates that Hitler
was close with Henry Ford. I also have heard the term Neo-Corporate
in reference to Fascist in Italy and Spain.
1. Does anyone on the list have any information on how this all
fitted together?
2. Does anyone on the list know if there are parallels in the
private sector today?
ay
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