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Here we will attempt to answer questions such as "Do you think our government really gives a dam about US common-folk?" And "What countries like or dislike US and why?" Feel Free to Join the FrayMz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-21336337719493526282011-03-21T20:16:00.000-04:002011-03-21T20:17:29.952-04:00VICTORY! ACLU Challenge to Bush Wiretapping Law ReinstatedFrom: ACLU Communications<br />Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 12:46 PM<br />To: ACLU National Staff<br />Subject: VICTORY! ACLU Challenge to Bush Wiretapping Law Reinstated<br /><br />VICTORY! Court Says Plaintiffs Can Challenge Bush Wiretapping Law<br /><br />In a huge victory for privacy and the rule of law, a federal appeals court today reinstated our landmark lawsuit challenging the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), a statute that gives the executive branch virtually unchecked power to collect Americans' international e-mails and telephone calls.<br /><br />The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of a broad coalition of attorneys and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations whose work requires them to engage in sensitive and sometimes privileged telephone and e-mail communications with colleagues, clients, journalistic sources, witnesses, experts, foreign government officials and victims of human rights abuses located outside the United States.<br /><br />A federal district court dismissed the case in August 2009, ruling that the plaintiffs did not have the right to challenge the new surveillance law because they could not prove that their own communications had been monitored under it.<br /><br />But with the support of law professors, the NYC Bar Association, the Reporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press and many others, we appealed that decision to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.<br /><br />Today, the appeals court reversed the lower court decision, finding that the plaintiffs have standing to challenge the law even though they cannot show to a certainty that the government is acquiring their communications. According to today's ruling, "the FAA has put the plaintiffs in a lose-lose situation: either they can continue to communicate sensitive information electronically and bear a substantial risk of being monitored under a statute they allege to be unconstitutional, or they can incur financial and professional costs to avoid being monitored. Either way, the FAA directly affects them."<br /><br />In a statement today, ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said:<br /><br />"The government's surveillance practices should not be immune from judicial review, and this decision ensures that they won't be. The law we've challenged permits the government to conduct dragnet surveillance of Americans' international communications, and it has none of the safeguards that the Constitution requires. Now that the appeals court has recognized that our clients have the right to challenge the law, we look forward to pressing that challenge in the trial court."<br /><br /><br />© ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-9655013210738450382011-02-24T15:24:00.002-05:002011-02-24T15:29:37.128-05:00NY to Rally in Support of Wisconsin ProtestersAfter almost two weeks of massive protests, Wisconsin's workers aren't giving up.<br />We aren't either. The protests have created an opportunity we've got to seize. For too long, anti-worker lawmakers have dominated the debate over the economy. But this time, they've gone too far, and our country has reached a turning point.<br /><br />American Rights at Work has joined with allies nationwide to organize solidarity rallies in all 50 states – including every state capitol – to demand an end to the vicious assault on the middle class in Wisconsin and across the country.<br /><br />Can you join us on Saturday at noon? Find out the details and sign up to join your local rally by going to our website: <a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/">http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/</a>.<br /><br />The fight in Wisconsin matters everywhere. Instead of solving our jobs crisis, anti-worker politicians are openly talking about Wisconsin as the staging ground for despicable laws in their own states. We've already shown our strength in Indiana, where lawmakers are backing away from repealing workers' rights after landmark protests in Indianapolis this week. But if we don't keep the pressure on, governors across the nation will start stripping workers of their salaries, their benefits, their right to bargain, and their ability to form unions.<br /><br />This is our chance to shift the debate and put Republicans like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his Tea Party friends in Washington on the defensive.<br /><br />This is a moment where all of us need to come together in support of a future where workers have a voice. This is the moment where we need to show up in full force and defend our rights as loudly as we can.<br /><br />This is a now-or-never moment for workers across the country.<br /><br />I know it's short notice, but this is urgent. This Saturday at noon, can you join with your friends, your coworkers, and your neighbors to support Wisconsin's workers? <br /><br />We've come together with a huge coalition – including student activists, civil rights coalitions, environmental groups, community organizations, and the labor movement – to help organize these rallies and make sure that the folks in Wisconsin know that millions of people across the country are standing with them.<br /><br />Thank you for standing in support of workers' rights, in Wisconsin and in every state.<br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Liz, Beth, Zoe, Michael, and the American Rights at Work team<br /><a href="http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/">http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-8073610656211644032011-02-20T23:24:00.001-05:002011-02-20T23:25:57.673-05:00The Dukester Out-Does Himself: Obombas Veto of UN Resolution on IsraelDr. David Duke News & Updates<br />*************************************<br /><br />Dear Friend,<br /><br />I hope you are ready for the hardest hitting video I have ever made.<br /><br />Perhaps I have gone too far because I really take the gloves off on this one! I promise you that have never seen me more animated than in this one!<br /><br />I speak as passionately and emotionally in this video as in any I have ever done. It concerns Obama's veto of the unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel for its 44 year ongoing theft of the Palestinian West Bank. It deals with the theft of billions of American taxpayer's dollars to support Israel's crimes! It confronts the Israeli terrorism and treachery against Israel's biggest benefactor: the U.S.<br /><br />Here is the Link for my new Video: *** Zionist Running Dog Obama and the UN Veto<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA-mMA18dXU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA-mMA18dXU</a><br /><br />Please spend a bit of time helping to promote this important video!<br /><br />Please sure to remember to watch both and follow all the steps. That's how many new people are able to hear my message.<br /><br />So, Remember for EACH VIDEO:<br /><br />1. Watch it<br />2. 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We need your financial support at this time very much in the ongoing fight for our free speech and the vital message of that SPEECH!<br /><br /><a href="https://shop.davidduke.com/duke_donation.php">https://shop.davidduke.com/duke_donation.php</a><br /><br />Thanks again!<br /><br />Dr. David Duke<br /><br />--Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-92138452318161744532011-02-20T16:21:00.002-05:002011-02-20T17:10:37.922-05:00The Rothschild "Red Shield" Family<strong>Ethnicity Ashkenazi Jewish<br /><br />Current region Monaco, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands<br /><br /><br />Information<br />Place of origin Frankfurt am Main<br /><br />The Rothschild family (known as The House of Rothschild,[1] or more simply as the Rothschilds) is a European family of German Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses from the late eighteenth century. Five lines of the Austrian branch of the family were elevated into the Austrian nobility, being given hereditary baronies of the Habsburg Empire by Emperor Francis II in 1816. The British branch of the family was elevated into the British nobility at the request of Queen Victoria.[2][3] It has been argued that during the 19th century, the family possessed by far the largest private fortune in the world, and by far the largest fortune in modern history.[3][4][5]<br /><br />The family's rise to European prominence began in 1744, with the birth of Mayer Amschel Rothschild in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild (born circa 1710),[6] <span style="color:#ff0000;">a money changer, who had traded with the Prince of Hesse. </span>Born in the ghetto (called "Judengasse" or Jewish Alley) of Frankfurt, Meyer developed a finance house and spread his empire <span style="color:#ff0000;">by installing each of his five sons in European cities to conduct business. Unlike the old court Jews, the new kind of international firm the Rothschilds created was impervious to local attack.</span> In 1819, as if to demonstrate that newly acquired Jewish rights were illusionary so far, anti-Semitic violence broke out in many parts of Germany. These Hep-Hep riots as they were called, included an assault on the Rothschild house in Frankfurt. <span style="color:#ff0000;">It made no difference</span>. Nor did a further attack during the 1848 revolution. The money was no longer there. It was paper, circulating through the world. The Rothschilds completed a process the Jews had been working on for centuries: <span style="color:#ff0000;">how to immunize their lawful property from despoiling violence</span>. <span style="color:#ff0000;">Henceforth their real wealth was beyond the reach of the mobs, almost beyond the reach of greedy monarchs</span>.[7] Another essential part of Mayer Rothschild's strategy for future success was to <span style="color:#ff0000;">keep control of their businesses in family hands, allowing them to maintain full discretion about the size of their wealth and their business achievements.</span> About 1906, the Jewish Encyclopedia noted: "<span style="color:#ff0000;">The practise initiated by the Rothschilds of having several brothers of a firm establish branches in the different financial centers was followed by other Jewish financiers, like the Bischoffsheims, Pereires, Seligmans, Lazards, and others, and these financiers by their integrity and financial skill obtained credit not alone with their Jewish confrères, but with the banking fraternity in general. By this means Jewish financiers obtained an increasing share of international finance during the middle and last quarter of the nineteenth century. The head of the whole group was the Rothschild family...".</span> It also states: "Of more recent years, non-Jewish financiers have learned the same cosmopolitan method, and, on the whole, the control is now rather less than more in Jewish hands than formerly."[8] <span style="color:#ff0000;">This practice followed a royal and aristocratic technique</span>, which also was copied later by business dynasties such as the Du Pont family.[9]<br /><br />Mayer Rothschild successfully kept the fortune in the family with carefully arranged marriages, including between first or second cousins, although by the later 19th century, almost all Rothschilds had started to marry outside the family, usually into the aristocracy or other financial dynasties.[9] His sons were:<br /><br />Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855): Frankfurt, died childless, passed to sons of Salomon and Calmann<br />Salomon Mayer Rothschild (1774–1855): Vienna<br />Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836): London<br />Calmann Mayer Rothschild (1788–1855): Naples<br />Jakob Mayer Rothschild (1792–1868): Paris<br /></strong><br /><strong>The Rothschild coat of arms contains a clenched fist with five arrows symbolizing the five sons of Mayer Rothschild, a reference to Psalm 127: "Like arrows in the hands of a warrior". The family motto appears below the shield, in Latin, Concordia, Integritas, Industria, (Harmony, Integrity, Industry).[10] The German family name means "Red Shield". Today, it would be spelled "Rotschild", and is pronounced approximately ROTE-shillt in German, not wroth(s)-child as it is in English.<br /><br />Families by country:<br /><br />Rothschild banking family of Naples<br />Rothschild banking family of England<br />Rothschild banking family of Austria<br />Rothschild banking family of Germany<br />Rothschild banking family of France<br />Rothschild banking family of Switzerland<br /></strong><br /><strong>The Napoleonic Wars</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>The Rothschilds already possessed a very significant fortune before the start of Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), and Nathan Mayer Rothschild gained preeminence in the <span style="color:#ff0000;">bullion trade</span> at this time.[11] From London in 1813 to 1815, he was instrumental in the financing of the British war effort, financing the shipment of bullion to the Duke of Wellington's armies across Europe, as well as arranging the payment of British financial subsidies to their Continental allies. In 1815 alone, the Rothschilds provided £9.8 million (in 1815 currency prices) in subsidy loans to Britain's continental allies.[12]<br /><br />The brothers helped co-ordinate Rothschild activities across the continent, and the family <span style="color:#ff0000;">developed a network of agents, shippers and couriers</span> to transport gold across war-torn Europe. The family network was also to provide Nathan Rothschild time and again <span style="color:#ff0000;">with political and financial information ahead of his peers, giving him an advantage in the markets and rendering the house of Rothschild still more invaluable to the British government.</span> In one instance, the family network enabled Nathan to receive in London the news of Wellington's victory at the Battle of Waterloo a full day ahead of the government's official messengers.[11]<br /><br />The basis for the Rothschild's most famously profitable move was made after the news of British victory had been made public. Nathan Rothschild calculated that the future reduction in government borrowing brought about by the peace would create a bounce in British government bonds after a two year stabilisation, which would finalise the post-war re-structuring of the domestic economy.[12][13][14] In what has been described as <span style="color:#ff0000;">one of the most audacious moves in financial history, Nathan immediately bought up the government bond market, for what at the time seemed an excessively high price, before waiting two years, then selling the bonds on the crest of short bounce in the market in 1817 for a 40% profit. Given the sheer power of leverage the Rothschild family had at its disposal, this profit was an enormous sum.[12]<br /><br /></span>Contrary to stories emanating from an article about the family in a late nineteenth-century magazine with decidedly antisemitic undertones, Rothschild's first concern on this occasion was not the potential financial advantage on the market which the knowledge would have given him; he and his courier immediately took the news to the government.[11] It is believed that this is a myth that originated in a partisan French pamphlet in 1846 and was embellished by John Reeves in 1887 in The Rothschilds: the Financial Rulers of Nations. It was then repeated in later popular accounts, such as that of Morton.[13][14]<br /><br />Nathan Mayer Rothschild initially started his business in Manchester England in 1806, and gradually moved it to London, where in 1809 he acquired the location at 2 New Court in St. Swithin's Lane, City of London,[11] where it operates today; he established N. M. Rothschild and Sons in 1811. In 1818, he arranged <span style="color:#ff0000;">a £5 million loan to the Prussian government</span>, and the issuing of bonds for government loans formed a mainstay of his bank’s business. He gained a position of such power in the City of London that by 1825–6 he was able to supply enough coin to the Bank of England to enable it to avert a market liquidity crisis.<br /><br />International High Finance"</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>"I have not the nerve for his operations. They are well-planned, with great cleverness and adroitness in execution – but he is in money and funds what Napoleon was in war." —Baron Baring on Nathan Rothschild[15]<br /><br />In 1816, four of the brothers were each elevated to the <span style="color:#ff0000;">hereditary nobility by Austrian Emperor Francis I; moreover, a fifth brother, Nathan, was elevated in 1818. All of them were granted the Austrian title of baron or Freiherr</span> on 29 September 1822. As such, some members of the family used "de" or "von" Rothschild to acknowledge the grant of nobility. In 1885, Nathan Mayer Rothschild II (1840–1915) of the London branch of the family, was granted the hereditary peerage title Baron Rothschild in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.<br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Rothschild family banking businesses pioneered international high finance during the industrialisation of Europe and were instrumental in supporting railway systems across the world and in complex government financing for projects such as the Suez Canal</span>. The family bought up a large proportion of the property in Mayfair, London. Major businesses directly founded by Rothschild family capital include Alliance Assurance (1824) (now Royal & SunAlliance); Chemin de Fer du Nord (1845); Rio Tinto Group (1873); Société Le Nickel (1880) (now Eramet); and Imétal (1962) (now Imerys). The Rothschilds financed the founding of De Beers, as well as Cecil Rhodes on his expeditions in Africa and the creation of the colony of Rhodesia. From the late 1880s onwards, the family controlled the Rio Tinto mining company.<br /><br />The Japanese government approached the London and Paris families for funding during the Russo-Japanese War. The London consortium's issue of Japanese war bonds would total £11.5 million (at 1907 currency rates).[16]<br /><br />After amassing huge fortunes, the name Rothschild became synonymous with extravagance and great wealth, and the family was renowned for its art collecting, for its palaces, as well as for its philanthropy. By the end of the century, the family owned, or had built, at the lowest estimates, over 41 palaces, of a scale and luxury perhaps unparalleled even by the richest Royal families.[12] The soon to be British Prime Minister Lloyd George claimed, in 1909, that <span style="color:#ff0000;">Lord Nathan Rothschild was the most powerful man in Britain.[17][3]<br /><br /></span>In 1901, with no male heir to take it on, the Frankfurt House closed its doors after more than a century in business. It was not until 1989 that they returned when N M Rothschild & Sons, the British investment arm, plus Bank Rothschild AG, the Swiss branch, set up a representative banking office in Frankfurt.<br /><br />Rothschild banking family of France<br /><br />Chateau de Ferrieres, the largest Chateau of the 19th century, was built in 1854 to house James Mayer de Rothschild, east of Paris. It is set in a 30 km² estate.There are two branches of the family connected to France. The first was son James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868), known as "James", who established de Rothschild Frères in Paris. Following the Napoleonic Wars, he played a major role in financing the construction of railroads and the mining business that helped make France an industrial power. James' sons Gustave de Rothschild and Alphonse James de Rothschild continued the banking tradition and was the guarantor of the 5 billion in reparations [18] demanded by the occupying Prussian army in the 1870s Franco-Prussian War.[citation needed] Ensuing generations of the Paris Rothschild family remained involved in the family business, becoming a major force in international investment banking. The Rothschilds have since led the Thomson Financial League Tables in Investment Banking Merger and Acquisition deals in the UK, France and Italy.<br /><br />James Mayer de Rothschild's other son, Edmond James de Rothschild (1845–1934) was very much engaged in philanthropy and the arts, and <span style="color:#ff0000;">was a leading proponent of Zionism. </span>His grandson, Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, founded in 1953 the LCF Rothschild Group, a private bank. Since 1997, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild chairs the group. The group has €100bn of assets in 2008 and owns many wine properties in France (Château Clarke, Château des Laurets), in Australia or in South Africa.<br /><br />In 1961, the 35 year old Baron Edmond purchased the company Club Med, after he had visited a resort and enjoyed his stay.[19][20] His interest in Club Med was sold off by the 1990s. In 1973, he bought out the Bank of California, selling his interests in 1984 before it was sold to Mitsubishi Bank in 1985.<br /><br />The second French branch was founded by Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812–1870). Born in London he was the fourth child of the founder of the British branch of the family, Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836). In 1850, Nathaniel Rothschild moved to Paris, ostensibly to work with his uncle, James Mayer Rothschild. However, in 1853 Nathaniel acquired Château Brane Mouton, a vineyard in Pauillac in the Gironde département. Nathaniel Rothschild renamed the estate, Château Mouton Rothschild and it would become one of the best known labels in the world. In 1868, Nathaniel's uncle, James Mayer de Rothschild acquired the neighboring Chateau Lafite vineyard. By 1980, Guy de Rothschild's business had an annual turnover of 26 billion francs (in the currency rates of 1980).[21] But then the Paris business suffered a near death blow in 1982 when the Socialist government of François Mitterrand nationalized and renamed it Compagnie Européenne de Banque.[needs citation] Baron David de Rothschild, then 39, decided to stay and rebuild, creating a new entity Rothschild & Cie Banque with just three employees and $1 million in capital. Today, the Paris operation has 22 partners and accounts for a significant part of the global business.<br /><br />Austrian branch<br /></strong><br /><strong>In Vienna, Salomon Mayer Rothschild established a bank in the 1820s and the family became admired and respected citizens. The Austrian Rothschilds were <span style="color:#ff0000;">elevated to nobility by the Austrian emperor for their services</span>. The crash of 1929 brought problems, and Baron Louis von Rothschild attempted to shore up the Creditanstalt, Austria's largest bank, to prevent its collapse. Nevertheless, during World War II they had to surrender their bank to the Nazis and flee the country. Their Rothschild palaces, a collection of vast palaces in Vienna built and owned by the family, were confiscated, plundered and destroyed by the Nazis. The palaces were famous for their sheer size, and for their huge collections of paintings, armour, tapestries, statues (some of which were restituted to the Rothschilds by the Austrian government in 1999). <span style="color:#ff0000;">All family members escaped the Holocaust, some of them moving to the United States, and only returning to Europe after the war</span>. In 1999, the government of Austria agreed to return to the Rothschild family some 250 art treasures looted by the Nazis and absorbed into state museums after the war.<br /><br />Naples branch<br /></strong><br /><strong>The C M de Rothschild & Figli bank arranged substantial loans to the <span style="color:#ff0000;">Papal States</span> and to various Kings of Naples plus the Duchy of Parma and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. <span style="color:#ff0000;">The Rothschild family worked alongside the Vatican Bank</span>. However, in the 1830s, Naples followed Spain with a gradual shift away from conventional bond issues that began to affect the bank's growth and profitability. The Unification of Italy in 1861, with the ensuing decline of the Italian aristocracy who had been the Rothschild's primary clients, eventually brought about the closure of their Naples bank, due to declining profits, growth and their forecasts for long-term business sustainability.<br /><br />Jewish Identity and Positions on Zionism</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Some Rothschilds were supporters of Zionism, <span style="color:#ff0000;">although other members of the family opposed the creation of the Jewish state </span>on the grounds that it would encourage anti-Semites to question the existing national identities of assimilated Jews around the rest of the world.[18] In 1917 Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild was the addressee of the <span style="color:#ff0000;">Balfour Declaration to the Zionist Federation</span>,[22] which committed the British government to the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.<em> <span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff0000;">Later, Lord Victor Rothschild was against granting asylum or even help to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust</span>.[18]<br /><br /></em>After the death of James Jacob de Rothschild in 1868, Alphonse Rothschild, his oldest son, who took over the management of the family bank, was the most active in support for Eretz Israel.[23] <span style="color:#ff0000;">The Rothschild family archives show that during the 1870s the family contributed nearly 500,000 francs per year on behalf of Eastern Jewry to the Alliance Israélite Universelle.[24] Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, James Jacob de Rothschild's youngest son was a patron of the first settlement in Palestine at Rishon-LeZion, and bought from Ottoman landlords parts of the land which now makes up present-day Israel. In 1924, he established the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA), which acquired more than 125,000 acres (22,36 km²) of land and set up business ventures.[25] In Tel Aviv, he has a road, Rothschild Boulevard, named after him as well as various localities throughout Israel which he assisted in founding including Metulla, Zikhron Ya'akov, Rishon Lezion, and Rosh Pina. A park in Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, the Parc Edmond de Rothschild (Edmond de Rothschild Park) is also named after its founder.[26] The Rothschilds also played a significant part in the funding of Israel's governmental infrastructure. James A. de Rothschild financed the Knesset building as a gift to the State of Israel[27] and the Supreme Court of Israel building was donated to Israel by Dorothy de Rothschild.[28] Outside the President's Chamber is displayed the letter Mrs. Rothschild wrote to the then current Prime Minister Shimon Peres expressing her intention to donate a new building for the Supreme Court.[29]<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">Interviewed by Haaretz in 2010, Baron Benjamin Rothschild, a Swiss-based member of the banking family, said that he supported the peace process: "I understand that it is a complicated business, mainly because of the fanatics and extremists - and I am talking about both sides. I think you have fanatics in Israel... In general I am not in contact with politicians. I spoke once with Netanyahu. I met once with an Israeli finance minister, but the less I mingle with politicians the better I feel." On the subject of religious identity, he stated that he held an open-minded attitude: "We do business with all kinds of countries, including Arab countries[...] My oldest daughter's boyfriend is a Saudi. He is a great guy and if she will want to marry him, she can."[30]<br /><br /></span>Modern business<br /></strong><br /><strong>Since the end of the 19th century, the family has taken a low-key public profile, donating many of their most famous estates, as well as vast quantities of art, to charity, keeping full anonymity about the size of their fortunes, and eschewing conspicuous displays of wealth.[31] The family once had one of the largest private art collections in the world, and a significant proportion of the art in the world's public museums are Rothschild donations which were sometimes, in the family tradition of discretion, donated anonymously.[32]<br /><br />Since 2003, Rothschild investment banks have been controlled by Rothschild Continuation Holdings, <span style="color:#ff0000;">a Swiss-registered holding company</span> (under the chairmanship of Baron David René de Rothschild). Rothschild Continuation Holdings is in turn controlled by Concordia BV, a Dutch-registered master holding company. Rothschild et Cie Banque controls Rothschild banking businesses in France and continental Europe, while Rothschilds Continuation Holdings AG controls a number of Rothschild banks elsewhere, including N M Rothschild & Sons in London.[33] <span style="color:#ff0000;">Twenty percent of Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG was sold in 2005 to Jardine Strategic, which is a subsidiary of Jardine, Matheson & Co. of Hong Kong.</span> In November 2008, Rabobank Group, the leading investment and commercial bank in the Netherlands, acquired 7.5% of Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG, and Rabobank and Rothschild entered into a co-operation agreement in the fields of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) advisory and Equity Capital Markets advisory in the <span style="color:#ff0000;">food and agribusiness</span> sectors.[34] It was believed that the move was intended to help Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG gain access to a wider capital pool, enlarging its presence in <span style="color:#ff0000;">East Asian markets</span>.[35]<br /><br />Paris Orleans S.A. is an investment banking and holding company, founded in 1838, and registered in France. It has over 2000 employees. The company has offices in France, the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, Switzerland, North America, Asia, Australia, and other European countries. Directors of the company include Eric de Rothschild, Robert de Rothschild, and Count Philippe de Nicolay.[36] A London investment bank, N M Rothschild & Sons does most of its business as a mergers and acquisitions advisor. <span style="color:#ff0000;">In 2004, the investment bank withdrew from the gold market</span>, a commodity the Rothschild bankers had traded in for two centuries.[18] In 2006, it ranked second in UK M&A with deals totalling $104.9 billion.[37] In 2006, it publicly recorded a pre-tax annual profit of £83.2 million with assets of £5.5 billion.[38]<br /><br />One member of the (non-winemaking) Paris branch of the family, Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild (1926–1997) founded the LCF Rothschild Group, based in Geneva, with €100 billion in assets, which today extends to 15 countries across the world. Although this Group is primarily a financial entity, specialising in asset management and private banking, its activities also cover mixed farming, luxury hotels, and yacht racing. The LCF Rothschild Group's committee is currently being chaired by Benjamin de Rothschild, Baron Edmond's son.<br /><br />Rothschild family banks include, amongst others, Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, RIT Capital Partners, St James's Place Capital, Banque privée Edmond de Rothschild, La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild S.A., and COGIFRANCE.<br /><br />During the 19th century, the Rothschilds controlled the Rio Tinto mining corporation, and to this day, Rothschild and Rio Tinto maintain a close business relationship. The Rothschild family also owns many wine estates: their estates in France include Château Clarke, Château de Ferrières, Château des Fontaines, Château Lafite, Château de Laversine, Château des Laurets, Château Malmaison, Château de Montvillargenne, Château Mouton Rothschild, Château de la Muette, Château Rothschild d'Armainvilliers, Château Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt. They also own wine estates across North America, South America, South Africa and Australia.<br /><br />In 1980, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild resigned from N M Rothschild & Sons and took independent control of Rothschild Investment Trust (now RIT Capital Partners, one of the UK's largest investment trusts.) He went on to found J. Rothschild Assurance Group (now St James's Place Capital) with Sir Mark Weinberg in 1991.[39] In December 2009, <span style="color:#ff0000;">Jacob Rothschild invested $200 million of his own money in a North Sea Oil company</span>. He also currently chairs another Rothschild family investment trust, RIT Capital Partners, which has reported assets of $3.4 billion in 2008.[40][41] In January 2010, Nathaniel Philip Rothschild bought a substantial share of the <span style="color:#ff0000;">Glencore mining and oil </span>company's market capitalization. He is also buying a large share of the aluminium mining company United Company RUSAL.[42]<br /><br />In late 2010, Baron Benjamin Rothschild said that the family had been <span style="color:#ff0000;">unaffected by the financial crisis of 2007–2010</span>, due to their conservative business practices: "We came through it well, because our investment managers did not want to put money into crazy things." He added that they were still a small-scale, traditional family business, and took greater care over their clients investments than American companies, adding: "<span style="color:#ff0000;"><em>The client knows we will not speculate with his money". [43]<br /><br /></em></span>Popular culture references<br /></strong><br /><strong>In the words of the Daily Telegraph: "This multinational banking family is a byword for wealth, power – and discretion... The Rothschild name has become synonymous with money and power to a degree that no other family has ever matched."[44]<br /><br />The story of the Rothschild family has been featured in a number of films. The 1934 Hollywood film titled The House of Rothschild, starring George Arliss and Loretta Young, recounted the life of Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Excerpts from this film were incorporated into the National Socialist (Nazi) propaganda film Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) and another German film Die Rothschilds (also called Aktien auf Waterloo) was directed by Erich Waschneck in 1940. A Broadway musical entitled The Rothschilds, covering the history of the family up to 1818, was nominated for a Tony Award in 1971. Nathaniel Mayer ("Natty") Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild appears as a minor character in the historical-mystery novel Stone's Fall, by Iain Pears.<br /><br />In France, the word "Rothschild" was throughout the 19th and 20th centuries a synonym for seemingly endless wealth, neo-Gothic styles, Byzantine splendour, grand manners and epicurean glamour.[45] The family also has lent its name to "le goût Rothschild," a suffocatingly glamorous style of living whose decorative elements include neo-Renaissance palaces, extravagant use of velvet and gilding, vast collections of armour and sculpture, a sense of Victorian horror vacui, and the highest masterworks of art. Le goût Rothschild has much influenced interior designers such as Robert Denning, Vincent Fourcade, and others.<br /><br />The name Rothschild used as a synonym for extreme wealth inspired the song "If I Were a Rich Man", which is based on a song from the Tevye the Dairyman stories, written in the Yiddish as Ven ikh bin Rotshild, meaning "If I were a Rothschild".<br /><br />The German surnames "Rothschild" and "Rothchild" are not related to the Protestant surname "Rothchilds" from the United Kingdom. The surname "Rothschild" is originally derived from "Rote Schild". This is the German phrase for Red Shield and refers to the red shield emblem that used to be over the doorway to the original bank owned by the Bauer family in Frankfurt.<br /><br />Conspiracy theories</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Over more than two centuries,[13][14] the Rothschild family has frequently been the target of conspiracy theories.[46][47][48] These theories take differing forms, such as claiming that the family belongs to the Illuminati,[49] controls the world's wealth and financial institutions,[50][51] or encouraged wars between governments. Discussing this and similar views, the historian Niall Ferguson wrote: "As we have seen, however, wars tended to hit the price of existing bonds by increasing the risk that a debtor state would fail to meet its interest payments in the event of defeat and losses of territory. By the middle of the 19th century, the Rothschilds had evolved from <span style="color:#ff0000;">traders into fund managers</span>, carefully tending to their own vast portfolio of government bonds. Now having made their money, they stood to lose more than they gained from conflict. The Rothschilds had decided the outcome of the Napoleonic Wars by putting their financial weight behind Britain. Now they would sit on the sidelines."[52]<br /><br />Prominent descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.<br />Prominent lineal descendants of Mayer Amschel Rothschild include amongst many others:<br /><br />Baron David René de Rothschild, current French chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons and formerly of De Beers<br />Lord Ferdinand von Rothschild (1839–1898)<br />Countess Sibyl Sassoon (1894-1989)<br />Lionel de Rothschild, whose colt won the 1879 Epsom Derby<br />Vermeer's The Astronomer, donated to charity by the family in 1982<br />Prince Alexandre Louis Philippe Marie Berthier, (1883–1918), died fighting in WW1<br />Albert Salomon von Rothschild (1844–1911), the once majority shareholder of Creditanstalt<br />Alfred Charles de Rothschild (20 July 1842 - 31 January 1918)<br />Alice Charlotte von Rothschild (1847–1922) close friend of Queen Victoria<br />Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1885–1909), French socialite<br />Lady Aline Caroline Cholmondeley (1916-)[citation needed]<br />Baroness Alix Hermine Jeannette Schey de Koromla (1911–1982)[53]<br />Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827–1905)<br />Amschel Mayor James Rothschild (1955–1996, Paris), patron of motor racing<br />Princess Andréa de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (born Paris 1972)[citation needed]<br />Anthony Gustav de Rothschild (1887–1961), horse-breeder<br />Anthony James de Rothschild (born 1977)<br />Anselm von Rothschild (1803–1874), Austrian banker<br />Anselm Alexander Carl de Rothschild (1835–1854)[citation needed]<br />Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet (1810–1876)<br />Antoine Armand Odélric Marie Henri de Gramont, 13th Duke of Gramont, (1951-)[citation needed]<br />Alain James de Rothschild (1910–1982)[citation needed]<br />Lady Barbara Marie-Louise Constance Berry (born 1935)<br />Count Armand de Cossé-Brissac (1967-)[citation needed]<br />Miriam Caroline Alexandrine de Rothschild[citation needed]<br />Lord Charles Robert Archibald Grant[citation needed]<br />Ariane de Rothschild<br />Ariella de Rothschild[citation needed]<br />Arthur de Rothschild (1851–1903)[citation needed]<br />Benjamin de Rothschild (born 1963, Paris)<br />Princess Béatrice de Broglie (born 1913)[citation needed]<br />Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild (1864–1934)<br />Bethsabée de Rothschild (1914–1999)<br />Carl Mayer von Rothschild (1788–1855)<br />Cécile Léonie Eugénie Gudule Lucie de Rothschild (1913-)[citation needed]<br />Charlotte de Rothschild<br />Charlotte Henriette de Rothschild (born 1955), British opera singer<br />Charlotte von Rothschild(1818–84)<br />Count Charles-Emmanuel Lannes de Montebello (born 1942)[citation needed]<br />Charles Rothschild (1877–1923), banker and entomologist<br />Constance Flower, 1st Baroness of Battersea, (1843–1931)[citation needed]<br />David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley (1960-), Lord Great Chamberlain of England<br />David Mayer de Rothschild (b. 1978), billionaire[54] British adventurer and environmentalist<br />David René de Rothschild (born 1942)<br />Diane Cécile Alice Juliette de Rothschild (1907-)[citation needed]<br />Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild<br />Edouard Etienne de Rothschild, (born 1957)<br />Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949) financier and polo player<br />Prince Edouard de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, (1949-)[citation needed]<br />Edmond James de Rothschild (1845–1934)<br />Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916–2009)<br />Elie de Rothschild (1917–2007)<br />Princess Elisabeth de Broglie (1920-)[citation needed]<br />Emma Rothschild (born 1948)<br />Evelina de Rothschild(1839–66)<br />Evelyn Achille de Rothschild (1886–1917), died fighting for the British army in WW1<br />Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (born 1931), banker<br />Guy de Rothschild (1909–2007)<br />Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898)<br />Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery née Hannah Rothschild (1851–1890)<br />Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon, (1924–2001)<br />Henri James de Rothschild (1872–1946)[citation needed]<br />Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (1898–1987)[citation needed]<br />Duke Hélie Marie Auguste Jacques Bertrand Philippe, (1943), 10th Duke of Noailles<br />Henriette Rothschild (1791–1866) married Sir Moses Montefiore (1784–1885)<br />Count Henri de Gramont (1909–1994)[citation needed]<br />Hugh Cholmondeley, 6th Marquess of Cholmondeley (1919–90), Lord Great Chamberlain of England<br />Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, (born 1936), investment banker<br />James Armand de Rothschild (1878–1957)<br />James Mayer Rothschild (1792–1868)<br />Lady Lavinia Anne Alix de Rothschild, of the Rothschild and Borghese family<br />Marie-Hélène de Rothschild (1927–94), French socialite<br />Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818–1874)<br />Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery (1929-)<br />Neil James Archibald Primrose (1882–1917), MP, killed fighting in WW1<br />Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter (née Baroness Pannonica Rothschild) (1913–1988), patron of bebop and jazz writer<br />Baron Léon Lambert (1929–1987), Belgium art collector[citation needed]<br />Leopold de Rothschild (1845–1917)<br />Leopold David de Rothschild (1927-)<br />Leonora de Rothschild (1837–1911)[citation needed]<br />Lionel Nathan Rothschild (1808–1879)<br />Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild (1882–1955)<br />Countess Magdalene-Sophie von Attems, (1927-)[citation needed]<br />Miriam Louisa Rothschild (1908–2005), famous entomologist and zoologist<br />Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom (1868–1937)<br />Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812–1870)<br />Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836)<br />Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom (1840–1915)<br />Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom (born 1936)<br />Nathaniel Robert de Rothschild (1946), French financier<br />Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild of the United Kingdom (1910–1990)<br />Nathaniel Philip Rothschild (born 1971), a co-chairman of Atticus Capital, a £20 billion hedge fund [55]<br />Nathaniel Anselm von Rothschild (1836–1905), Austrian socialite<br />Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet (1888–1939), British First Commissioner of Works and Under-Secretary of State for Air<br />Count Philippe de Nicolay (born 1955), of the House of Nicolay, a great-grandson of Salomon James de Rothschild, he is a director of the Rothschild group.[56]<br />Philippe de Rothschild (1902–1988), vintner<br />Philippine de Rothschild (born 1935), vintner<br />Jacqueline Rebecca Louise de Rothschild, born November 6, 1911, chess and tennis champion<br />Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974) Earl of Roseberry<br />Raphael de Rothschild (1976–2000)[citation needed]<br />Salomon James de Rothschild, (1835–1864)<br />Lady Serena Dunn Rothschild, (born 1935)<br />Countess Sophie von Löwenstein-Scharffeneck, (1896–1978)[citation needed]<br />Lady Sybil Grant (1879–1955), British writer<br />Sybil Rachel Betty Cecile Sassoon, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, (1894–1989)<br />Valentine Noémi von Springer, (1886, d. 1969)[citation needed]<br />Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild<br />Victoria Katherine Rothschild (1953-)[citation needed]<br />Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, zoologist<br />Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild[citation needed]<br /></strong><br /><strong>Prominent marriages into the family include, amongst many others:<br /><br />This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.<br /></strong><br /><strong>Maurice Ephrussi (1849–1916), of the Ephrussi banking dynasty<br />Ben Goldsmith (1980-), son of financier James Goldsmith<br />Anita Patience Guinness (1957), of the Guinness family, married Amschel Mayor James Rothschild[57]<br />Cora Guggenheim (1873–1956), of the Guggenheim family, married Louis F. Rothschild (1869–1957)<br />Abraham Oppenheim (1804–1878), of the Oppenheim Family, married Charlotte Beyfus (1811–1887)<br />Elisabeth de Rothschild (1902–1945), (born Pelletier de Chambure), the only member of the Rothschild family to die in the holocaust.<br />Count François de Nicolay (1919-1963), of the House of Nicolay, married Marie-Hélène Naila Stephanie Josina van Zuylen van Nyevelt<br />Aline Caroline de Rothschild (1865–1909) married Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Baronet, of Kensington Gore (1856–1912), of the Sassoon family<br />Antoine Alfred Agénor, 11th Duc de Gramont, (1851–1921)[citation needed]<br />Dorothy de Rothschild (1895–1988), on her death she left the largest probated estate in Britain<br />Pauline de Rothschild (1908–1976), fashion designer and translator of Elizabethan poetry<br />Lady Irma Pauahi Wodehouse (1897), of the Wodehouse family[58]<br />Prince Louis Philippe Berthier, (1836–1911)[citation needed]<br />Jeanne de Rothschild (1908–2003), actress<br />Princess Sophie de Ligne (1957-), of the House of Ligne, married Philippe de Nicolay (born 1955), a director of the Rothschild group,[59] and the great-grandson of Salomon James de Rothschild<br />Liliane de Rothschild (1916–2003) art collector<br />Princess Olimpia Anna Aldobrandini, of the House of Borghese, House of Aldobrandini and the House of Bonaparte[58]<br />Richard Francis Roger Yarde-Buller, 4th Baron Churston of Churston Ferrers and Lupton, (1910–1991), married Olga Alice Muriel Rothschild<br />Serena Dunn Rothschild (b. 1935), grand-daughter of Sir James Hamet Dunn, 1st Baronet<br />Lynn Forester de Rothschild (born 1954), business woman<br />Carola Warburg Rothschild (1894–1987), philanthropist, born into the Warburg family[60]<br />Edward Maurice Stonor (1885–1930), son of Francis Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys[citation needed]<br />Lady Pamela Wellesley Grant, (born 1912), great-great-grand-daughter of The Duke of Wellington, married Lieutenant Charles Robert Archibald Grant, great-great-grandson of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild<br />Baroness Rozsika Edle von Wertheimstein[61]<br />Count Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt of the House of Van Zuylen van Nijevelt - married Baroness Hélène de Rothschild (1863–1947).[62]<br />Baron Sigismund von Springer (1873-1927), married Baroness Valentine Noémi von Rothschild (1886-1969), after whom the asteroid 703 Noëmi is named<br />In 1943 Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild (1917-), married Lady Liliane Elisabeth Victoire Fould-Springer, grand-aunt of actress Helena Bonham Carter[63]<br />See </strong><strong>also;</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>De Beers<br />House of Medici<br />Rio Tinto Mining Group<br />Avenue Foch<br />Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild<br />Bethmanns and Rothschilds<br />Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey<br />Château Lafite-Rothschild<br />Château Mouton Rothschild<br />Palais Rothschild<br />Rothschild (Fabergé egg)<br />Rothschild properties in and around Buckinghamshire<br />Hotel Lambert<br />Cecil John Rhodes<br />Rockefeller family<br />Old Money<br />Ascott House<br />The House of Rothschild (1934 film), addresses Rothschild roles in the Napoleonic era<br />Wallenberg family<br /></strong><br /><strong> Notes1.^ The House of Rothschild: Money's prophets, 1798-1848, Volume 1, Niall Ferguson, 1999<br />2.^ The House of Rothschild: Money's prophets, 1798-1848, Volume 1, Niall Ferguson, 1999, introduction<br />3.^ a b c The House of Rothschild: Money's prophets, 1798-1848, Volume 1, Niall Ferguson, 1999, page 481-85<br />4.^ The Independent, UK: The Rothschild story: A golden era ends for a secretive dynasty<br />5.^ The secret life of the Jazz Baroness, From The Times April 11, 2009, Rosie Boycott<br />6.^ Pohl, Manfred: Rothschild, Meyer Amschel. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 22. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, S. 131–133. (German)<br />7.^ Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews, p.317.<br />8.^ Jewish Encyclopedia c.1906 Finance<br />9.^ a b Go Ahead, Kiss Your Cousin by Richard Conniff, From the August 2003 issue, published online August 1, 2003<br />10.^ "Concordia, Integritas, Industria - The Rothschilds - LCF Rothschild Group". Lcf-rothschild.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20071024114837/http://www.lcf-rothschild.com/en/groupe/rothschild/concordia.asp. Retrieved 2010-07-08.<br />11.^ a b c d Victor Gray and Melanie Aspey, "Rothschild, Nathan Mayer (1777–1836)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, May 2006. Accessed 21 May 2007.<br />12.^ a b c d The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, (London 2008), page 78.<br />13.^ a b c Victor Rothschild - "The Shadow of a Great Man" in Random Variables, Collins, 1984.<br />14.^ a b c *Ferguson, Niall. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, ISBN 0-297-81539-3<br />15.^ Philip Ziegler, The Sixth Great Power: Barings, 1726-1929, (London 1988), pp.94f<br />16.^ Richard Smethurst, "Takahasi Korekiyo, the Rothschilds and the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1907". Retrieved 4 September 2007.<br />17.^ A History of the Jews, Paul Johnson (London 2004), page 319-20<br />18.^ a b c d Vallely, Paul (2004-04-16). "The Rothschild story: A golden era ends for a secretive dynasty". London: The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-rothschild-story-a-golden-era-ends-for-a-secretive-dynasty-756388.html. Retrieved 2010-02-18.<br />19.^ Faith, Nicholas (4 November 1997). 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"The Redeemers of the Land". Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Modern+History/Centenary+of+Zionism/The+Redeemers+of+the+Land.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-08.<br />27.^ "James Armand de Rothschild on the Knesset web site". Knesset.gov.il. http://www.knesset.gov.il/lexicon/eng/rotchild_ja_eng.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-08.<br />28.^ "Dorothy de Rothschild, 93, Supporter of Israel" (obituary), The New York Times, 13 December 1988. Retrieved 19 June 2008.<br />29.^ The Presidents Chamber, Tour of Supreme Court, The Judicial Authority. http://elyon1.court.gov.il/eng/home/index.html.<br />30.^ Family values, Haaretz, Magazine, 11:15 05.11.10, By Eytan Avriel and Guy Rolnik<br />31.^ The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty, By Frederic Morton, page 11<br />32.^ The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty, By Frederic Morton, page 11-13<br />33.^ "Paris-Orléans". Paris-orleans.com. http://www.paris-orleans.com/?lang=en&ct=bd34e9c1add36c737bf17947f7d24d85&invid=38. 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Rothschild, Ex-Girl Scout Official NY Times, Published: Tuesday, September 1, 1987<br />61.^ The secret life of the Jazz Baroness, From The Times April 11, 2009, Rosie Boycott<br />62.^ Baron Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt van de Haar and baroness Hélène de Rothschild<br />63.^ Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3416. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.<br /></strong><br /><strong>Further reading</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798–1848 (ISBN 0-14-024084-5)<br />Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849–1998 (ISBN 0-14-028662-4)<br />Frederic Morton: The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty (ISBN 1-56836-220-X)<br />Amos Elon: Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time, 1996. (ISBN 0-670-86857-4)<br />Egon Caesar Conte Corti: Rise of the House of Rothschild, B. Lunn (translator), Books for Business 2001 (reprint of 1928 translation published by Gollancz), ISBN 978-0894990588, Amazon.co.uk searchable online view<br />Joseph Valynseele & Henri-Claude Mars, Le Sang des Rothschild, L’Intermédiaire des Chercheurs et Curieux, Paris, 2004 (ISBN 2-908003-22-8)<br />Derek A. Wilson: Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power (ISBN 0-233-98870-X)<br /></strong><br /><strong> Documentary film</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - The early history of the Rothschild's family business feature in the second of a four part series by Niall Ferguson, aired on Channel Four<br /></strong><br /><strong>External links</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Official website of the late Baron Philippe de Rothschild<br />Family website<br />Chateau de Ferrieres Official website<br />N. M. Rothschild and Sons<br />LCF Rothschild Group<br />Rothschild Archive<br />Chateau Lafite Rothschild<br />Chateau Mouton Rothschild<br />Compagnie vinicole Baron Edmond de Rothschild<br />Yahoo! - NM Rothschild & Sons Limited Company Profile<br />Niall Ferguson: The House of Rothschild, vol. 1. Table of contents and beginning of first chapter.<br /></strong><br /><strong>Retrieved from; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family</a></strong><strong><br /></strong><br /><strong>Categories: American bankers Austrian bankers English bankers Family businesses French bankers German bankers History of banking Italian bankers Jewish families Jewish-German families Noble families Business families Rothschild family<br /><br /></strong><strong></strong>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-67595625420845766032011-02-20T11:32:00.000-05:002011-02-20T11:32:39.721-05:00Let It Cut Both Ways: US Foreign Aid and State-Sponsored Terrorism by Sibel Edmonds<a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/edmonds-s2.1.1.html">Let It Cut Both Ways: US Foreign Aid and State-Sponsored Terrorism by Sibel Edmonds</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-57965168080722398032011-02-20T10:29:00.017-05:002011-02-20T16:21:42.657-05:00Ideas to Cut Federal Budget Deficit WITHOUT Hurting the Working Class and/or the Poor & Ways to Generate IncomeIdeas wanted! <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heres</span> mine;<br /><br />Cut the presidents salary which is set at 1/2 ml + per year;<br /><a href="http://www.presidentsusa.net/presidents_salary.html">http://www.presidentsusa.net/presidents_salary.html</a><br /><br />Cut congressional salaries which are set at a (minimum) of nearly $200,000 per year;<br /><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/19/2668173/some-lawmakers-say-its-time-to.html">http://www.kansascity.com/2011/02/19/2668173/some-lawmakers-say-its-time-to.html</a><br /><br />Cut <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Whitehouse</span> staff salaries; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/2007stafflistsalary.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/graphics/2007stafflistsalary.html</a><br /><br />Cut foreign aid to oppressive regimes; <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/edmonds-s2.1.1.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/edmonds-s2.1.1.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Stop funding for <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">un</span>-necessary programs;<br /><br /></strong><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">DOD's</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">NASCAR</span> ($7M+ per yr.); <a href="http://lead-lap.com/2011/02/16/congresswoman-calls-pentagons-nascar-sponsorships-a-waste/">http://lead-lap.com/2011/02/16/congresswoman-calls-pentagons-nascar-sponsorships-a-waste/</a><br /><br />"AMERICAS ARMY" Video (Recruitment) Games; <a href="http://counter-recruitment.blogspot.com/2010/02/end-americas-army-funding.html">http://counter-recruitment.blogspot.com/2010/02/end-americas-army-funding.html</a><br /><br />END the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">militarys</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">ridiculously</span> high "Bonus Pay Recruitment Incentives"; <a href="http://counter-recruitment.blogspot.com/2010/02/myth-of-low-military-pay.html">http://counter-recruitment.blogspot.com/2010/02/myth-of-low-military-pay.html</a><br /><br />END Federal Tax Breaks for Animal Breeders;<br />Alpacas; <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Stossel/taxbreaks-alpaca-breeders-agriculture/2010/12/22/id/380713">http://www.newsmax.com/Stossel/taxbreaks-alpaca-breeders-agriculture/2010/12/22/id/380713</a><br /><br />Racehorses; <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/05/09/36504/farm-bill-includes-tax-breaks.html">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/05/09/36504/farm-bill-includes-tax-breaks.html</a><br /><br />Pet Breeders;<br /><br /><br /><strong>Ways to GENERATE Income for US;<br /><br /></strong>Initiate a "Robin Hood Tax" on Big Banks and Corporations;<br /><a href="http://robinhoodtax.org/">http://robinhoodtax.org/</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-22229512799916481932011-02-11T22:25:00.001-05:002011-02-11T22:27:16.281-05:00The Boystown Scandal: Conspiracy of SilenceThe documentary the Pope and Washington, DC wouldnt let Discovery Channel air; <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2345735649154738485#docid=866739408240639313">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2345735649154738485#docid=866739408240639313</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-49367896772148056502011-01-28T15:35:00.001-05:002011-01-28T15:36:50.765-05:00NGO's in Haiti: Handmaidens of Imperial Domination<a href="http://uruknet.com/?p=m74317&hd=&size=1&l=e">http://uruknet.com/?p=m74317&hd=&size=1&l=e</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-48046599773394729932011-01-12T21:02:00.010-05:002011-01-12T21:15:33.271-05:00Can You Guess What This Brand Spanking New Building Is?1.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu42RegSMfK5xeUYKX4URnLwEPVw486hwB3rHNuPncNxQx1cYWBDMzRukkbQ4N1DgrHhclreSoWcVm7E5ACkvwXi7V8vI1W6UIiHktrviRjF_ntb-b31fO1hGUkhLkt9mssnDSAHQMKlJZ/s1600/COOK+CO.1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 194px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561487169941621330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu42RegSMfK5xeUYKX4URnLwEPVw486hwB3rHNuPncNxQx1cYWBDMzRukkbQ4N1DgrHhclreSoWcVm7E5ACkvwXi7V8vI1W6UIiHktrviRjF_ntb-b31fO1hGUkhLkt9mssnDSAHQMKlJZ/s320/COOK+CO.1.jpg" /></a>
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<br />Got it yet? Didnt think so. Its the New Cook County Correctional Center , Chicago , Illinois, where the inmates even get to choose their "three-squares" from a menu!
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<br />Who was the US Senator who helped arrange the funds to build this beautiful "punishment center"???
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<br />Oh yes, it was Obomba!!
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<br />No wonder he sees nothing wrong with the wasted spending in his "Stimulus Plan".
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<br />This is where he plans on putting the terrorists from Gitmo.
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<br />We have Americans living in cardboard boxes on the streets that have never killed anyone.
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<br />Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-82965795086725404652010-12-30T21:12:00.001-05:002010-12-30T21:13:08.321-05:00The Stench of the New World Odor<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5651655835829964406">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5651655835829964406</a>#<br /><br />Now learn about the gov'ts persecution of George HansenMz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-62598359828228507972010-12-14T10:55:00.004-05:002010-12-30T21:12:11.023-05:00A Message from Gov. Dean about Bernie Sanders & the Progressive MovementChristine -<br /><br />I have known Bernie Sanders for more than 20 years. I have often worked with him in Vermont, but when he took to the floor of the Senate last week to stand up and denounce the extension of the Bush tax cuts for billionaires in an unconventional nine-hour filibuster, I'd never been more honored to call him my friend and my Senator.<br /><br />Bernie is a progressive hero. He has spent his entire life fighting for the poor and the middle class, just as he is now in this tax cut fight.<br />(Bernies amazing speech; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OtB298fHY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5OtB298fHY</a>)<br /><br />Make no mistake about it; this tax cut deal that President Obama struck with Republicans may be good short-term politics, but it's not the best course for the country. It's not fiscally responsible in addressing the deficit, the biggest long-term threat to America. There is no shared pain in this agreement. Instead, this is the easy way out for everybody.<br /><br />Bernie Sanders didn't back down against long odds -- he had the backbone to stand up and fight for what's right. Washington needs more bold leadership like Bernie's. Let's make sure that every Democrat in Washington gets the message: when you stand up and fight, we'll have your back.<br /><br />Support a progressive hero -- Please contribute $5 right now; <a href="http://www.democracyforamerica.com/about">http://www.democracyforamerica.com/about</a><br /><br />This isn't just about tax cuts for the rich either. The deal includes borrowing $120 billion from China and other sources in order to make up a shortfall in revenue for the Social Security Trust Fund caused by the additional payroll tax cut.<br /><br />We all know Republicans are chomping at the bit to destroy Social Security. Cutting funding will only embolden them to step up their attacks to cut benefits, raise the retirement age, and privatize the program entirely.<br /><br />Social Security is a cornerstone of the American middle class yet Republicans, who will control the House of Representatives in 2011, want to destroy it. This payroll tax cut sets us up to make it that much harder to stop them. So while most in Washington are ignoring the real damage this bill could cause in the years to come, Bernie has made it a central part of his opposition.<br /><br />Today, we can send a message even Washington will understand by supporting a progressive hero for standing up for America.<br /><br />Please contribute now.<br /><br />Bernie stood up for us. Let's make sure everyone in Washington knows we have his back.<br /><br />And thank you, Christine, for everything you do.<br /><br />-Howard<br /><br />Gov. Howard Dean, M.D.<br />Founder, Democracy for America<br /><br /><br /><br />Democracy for America relies on you and the people-power of more than one million members to fund the grassroots organizing and training that delivers progressive change on the issues that matter. Please Contribute Today and support our mission.Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-3735329164348109982010-12-08T22:32:00.003-05:002010-12-08T22:38:02.488-05:00A Message from Senator SandersChristine -<br /><br />President Obama is right about one thing -- Republicans in Congress are holding the middle class hostage.<br /><br />We have a $13.8 trillion national debt, a collapsing middle class and the most unequal distribution of wealth of any major country. With all this in mind, Republicans in Congress say they will block tax cuts to the middle class and block unemployment benefits to more than two million families unless the President gives huge tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.<br /><br />Their behavior is morally bankrupt. It is reprehensible.<br /><br />But instead of challenging the Republicans for their absurd demands and their outrageous tactics, the President gave them virtually everything they wanted.<br /><br />I cannot and will not support this deal. I will do everything I can to uphold the promise made to the American people to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich.<br /><br />Join me and my friends at Democracy for America today and sign our pledge calling on Congress to reject this deal; <a href="http://www.democracyforamerica.com/activities/419?t=e1">http://www.democracyforamerica.com/activities/419?t=e1</a><br /><br />One of the most underreported parts of this deal is a cut to the Social Security payroll tax. In just one year, over $120 billion of revenue will be cut from Social Security under the President's compromise plan, weakening the program and virtually guaranteeing benefit cuts in the future.<br /><br />Make no mistake about it. Social Security has not added one dime to the national debt and this cut will only embolden Republican attempts to privatize the program and increase the age of retirement. Social Security is a vital safety net for all Americans and a cornerstone of our commitment to protect the middle class.<br /><br />We are not alone in standing against this compromise. Republicans are holding the middle class hostage and the American people know it. I come from a small state and yesterday my office received more than 1,000 calls on this issue, with over 90% of them in opposition to this deal.<br /><br />Last night, thousands of DFA members joined me on DFA Live where we had a lively discussion on this issue. One thing was clear to me during that call -- DFA members nationwide want Democrats to stop this deal and fight for the middle class, working people, senior citizens and the unemployed while making sure that millionaires and billionaires are not given massive tax breaks.<br /><br />Make sure Congress gets the message -- Join the fight now and sign the petition opposing this so-called "compromise."<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />-Bernie<br /><br />Bernie Sanders<br />U.S. Senator , (I) VtMz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-38731032474756824672010-12-07T19:46:00.002-05:002010-12-07T19:52:27.532-05:00Cholera Epidemic in Haiti Worsens and Spreads, Thousands Sicken & DieCHOLERA - HAITI (27): UPDATE<br />****************************<br />A ProMED-mail post<br /><http://www.promedmail.org><br />ProMED-mail is a program of the<br />International Society for Infectious Diseases<br /><http://www.isid.org><br /><br />In this update:<br />[1] Haiti: update<br />[2] Dominican Republic: update<br />[3] USA ex Haiti: 3rd case confirmed<br /><br />******<br />[1] Haiti: update<br />Date: Tue 7 Dec 2010<br />Source: Haiti Libre [edited]<br /><http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-1848-haiti-cholera-epidemic-93-222-cases-and2-120-deaths-the-epidemic-is-gaining-ground.html><br /><br /><br />Since the beginning of the epidemic (19 Nov 2010), 93 222 people were<br />infected with cholera and treated, 44 157 were hospitalized and 2120<br />people died of the disease (latest figures of 4 Dec 2010 published by<br />the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) on 6 Dec 2010).<br /><br />The epidemic spread throughout the territory. The south is seriously<br />affected and the partial assessment of the department of Grand Anse<br />looks very heavy, with a mortality rate of 58.1 percent.<br /><br />Period from 30 Nov 2010 to 4 Dec 2010 (5 days)<br />----------------------------------------------<br />Assessment at the national level (all ages)<br />Total cholera patients<br />30 Nov 2010: 84 391<br />4 Dec 2010: 93 222 (increase of 8831 cases or 10.46 percent)<br /><br />--<br />Communicated by:<br />ProMED-mail<br /><promed@promedmail.org><br /><br />[The outbreak dramatically continues. - Mod.LL]<br /><br />[A continually updated interactive map of the cholera situation in<br />Haiti is available from HealthMap at<br /><http://www.healthmap.org/haiti/>. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]<br /><br />******<br />[2] Dominican Republic: update<br />Date: Tue 7 Dec 2010<br />Source: Dominican Today [edited]<br /><http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2010/12/7/37889/Public-Health-reports-Cholera-cases-now-22-but-under-control><br /><br /><br />The number of confirmed cases of cholera in the country climbed to<br />22, Public Health Ministry said Tuesday, 7 Dec 2010, reporting that<br />the 2 latest cases were detected in the western border province Elias<br />Pina.<br /><br />It said Santiago and Santo Domingo have reported the most cases, with<br />a Dominican farmer, 53, and a Haitian, 23, the most recent, being<br />treated in the hospital at Banica and in stable condition.<br /><br />--<br />Communicated by:<br />ProMED-mail<br /><promed@promedmail.org><br /><br />[Exactly how many of the Dominican cases were acquired in the<br />Dominican Republic is not stated but it is likely that many of them<br />are locally acquired. - Mod.LL]<br /><br />[The HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of the Dominican Republic<br />can be seen at<br /><http://healthmap.org/r/0ihk>. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]<br /><br />******<br />[3] USA ex Haiti: 3rd case confirmed<br />Date: Mon 6 Dec 2010<br />Source: The Miami Herald, Associated Press (AP) report [edited]<br /><http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/06/1960882/fla-sees-3rd-cholera-case-after.html><br /><br /><br />Miami health officials say test results confirm that an American<br />Airlines passenger who became ill on a flight from the Dominican<br />Republic to Miami on Thanksgiving, 25 Nov 2010, had cholera. The<br />Miami-Dade Health Department released the results Monday, 6 Dec 2010.<br />Officials said the man was a doctor who had been treating cholera<br />patients.<br /><br />This marks the 3rd confirmed case in Florida. State health officials<br />say a Collier County woman and an Orlando-area woman have recovered<br />from cholera linked to an outbreak in Haiti.<br /><br />--<br />Communicated by:<br />ProMED-mail<br /><promed@promedmail.org><br /><br />[The HealthMap/ProMED-mail interactive map of the US state of Florida<br />can be seen at<br /><http://healthmap.org/r/00uk>. - Sr.Tech.Ed.MJ]<br /><br />[see also:<br />Cholera - Haiti (26): update 20101130.4311<br />Cholera - Haiti (25): update 20101127.4279<br />Cholera - Haiti (24): update, WHO 20101125.4256<br />Cholera - Haiti (23): update 20101122.4224<br />Cholera - Haiti (22): update 20101120.4204<br />Cholera - Haiti (21): USA (FL) 20101117.4171<br />Cholera - Haiti (20): update, Dom. Rep. conf. alert 20101117.4167<br />Cholera - Haiti (10): increased cases 20101103.3986<br />Cholera - Haiti: suspected, RFI 20101021.3818<br />Disease situation, post-earthquake - Haiti (02) 20100307.0750<br />Disease situation, post-earthquake - Haiti 20100207.0411]<br />...................................ll/mj/lm<br /><br />*##########################################################*<br />************************************************************<br />ProMED-mail makes every effort to verify the reports that<br />are posted, but the accuracy and completeness of the<br />information, and of any statements or opinions based<br />thereon, are not guaranteed. The reader assumes all risks in<br />using information posted or archived by ProMED-mail. 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Please speak out again, while you still have the<br />breath to do so, to stop this horrible bill.<br /><br />Stop S. 510 Action Page: <a href="http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1057.php">http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1057.php</a><br /><br />We had a health care so-called reform bill this year that did nothing<br />as a bottom line but turn over our entire national health care system<br />to special interest corporations. The Supreme Court said corporations<br />can do whatever they want to tilt our elections without limit, and<br />Congress did absolutely nothing about it. Is anybody else noticing a<br />pattern here?<br /><br />S. 510 is just another bill written by big corporations FOR big<br />corporations, so that small healthy farm operations can be persecuted<br />even more than they are now, while nothing of substance is done to<br />prosecute the real food adulteration criminals on big factory farms.<br />It's just another power play to use a real problem, dangerous<br />organisms in our food supply, and to do absolutely the wrong thing<br />about it.<br /><br />But you can read the bill yourself, and some good supporting<br />reference links, if you just go to the action page now and make your<br />voice heard by using our server resource to send instant faxes to all<br />your members of Congress in real time.<br /><br />Stop S. 510 Action Page: <a href="http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1057.php">http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1057.php</a><br /><br />And after you submit the action page, please consider picking up one<br />of the new "Last War Crime" movie caps to help promote the new<br />feature film we will start shooting in just two more weeks. You can<br />help us promote the launch of this new movie by getting one of these<br />caps and starting a conversation about its upcoming release.<br /><br />"The Last War Crime" is the story of what would have happened, and<br />what should still happen, if any member of the Justice Department had<br />the integrity to prosecute the war criminals who told knowing lies to<br />get us entrapped into endless and counterproductive occupations of<br />both Iraq and Afghanistan, using false confessions obtained by<br />torture to sell them.<br /><br />Any donation you can make allows us to employ good progressive<br />activists as cast and crew to make this new creative media project a<br />reality. With your kind support we will have this destined to be<br />controversial new film playing in theatres all over the country in<br />the new yearas a policy advocacy action. So here is a link directly<br />to the page where you can get your own "Last War Crime" cap.<br /><br />Last War Crime page: <a href="http://www.peaceteam.net/last_war_crime.php">http://www.peaceteam.net/last_war_crime.php</a><br /><br />Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed<br />to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.<br /><br />If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at<br /><a href="http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm">http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm</a><br /><br />Or if you want to cease receiving our messages, just use the function<br />at <a href="http://www.usalone.net/out.htm">http://www.usalone.net/out.htm</a><br /><br />usalone417b:58676Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-1395671943739917782010-11-05T19:27:00.001-04:002010-11-05T19:28:48.652-04:00Currency Wars: Germany Upset w/ US Stimulus PlanBerlin - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble sharply criticized on Friday the US central bank's new monetary stimulus plan aimed at shoring up the recovery in the world's biggest economy.<br /><br />"With all respect, my impression is that the US is in the dark," Schaeuble said after the US Federal Reserve launched on Wednesday moves to pump 600 billion dollars to help lower interest rates and bolster economic growth.<br /><br />His comments following criticism of the Washington-based monetary authorities' plan from around the world.<br /><br />The Fed's capital-injection push also threatens to exacerbate the current conflict over world currency rates ahead of next week's summit of the Group of 20 (G20) leading industrialized and emerging economies in Seoul.<br /><br />Schaeble described the US central bank's decision as incomprehensible, saying that the current problems facing the US had nothing to do with a shortage of liquidity.<br /><br />"Saying now that we once again make an additional 600 billion dollars available will not solve the problem," the German finance minister said in Berlin.<br /><br />One result of the Fed's new monetary stimulus measures was to help push up the euro against the dollar.<br /><br />The euro was trading at more than 1.41 dollars Friday after breaching the 1.42-dollar mark on Thursday.<br /><br />The common currency has gained about 20 per cent against the greenback since the start of June, consequently raising concerns about the outlook for exports from the 16-member eurozone.<br /><br />In his remarks, Schaeuble also criticized Washington's current currency market policy. A conflict between the US and China over the value of the yuan lies at the heart of what has been dubbed a currency war.<br /><br />Schaeuble said Europe would help to defuse the current currency dispute between China and the US.<br /><br />He said there was an impression that the US acted as similar as it claimed China did.<br /><br />The US has claimed for years that China maintained its currency at artificially low levels in order to boost its export advantage. <br />Posted by Earth Times StaffMz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-76484595199180503932010-11-05T18:00:00.001-04:002010-11-05T18:00:58.189-04:00U.S. War Contractor Settles Over-billing CaseTruth-Out Today;<br /><br />The war contractor Louis Berger has agreed to pay a multi-million-dollar settlement for over-billing the U.S. government in Afghanistan. The settlement could reach as much as $65 million. In return, the U.S. Justice Department has agreed to drop a probe into whether Louis Berger intentionally overcharged taxpayers. According to McClatchy Newspapers, the company will also remain eligible for new lucrative contracts in Afghanistan.Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-3801913738521918232010-11-04T02:44:00.001-04:002010-11-04T02:46:32.331-04:00Dr. David Duke News & UpdatesMy Friend,<br /><br />My new Video is: ***........................ 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Diversity is a weapon.<br /><br />in this video I give direct evidence of the Zionist technique for dominating a society.<br /><br />This one is MY BEST SO FAR.YOU'LL SEE!<br /><br />HERE'S THE LINK<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjSzXkm55o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjSzXkm55o</a><br /><br />And please take a moment to go to <a href="http://www.davidduke.com/">http://www.DavidDuke.com</a><br /> and give us a gift that will enable us to fight back against the efforts to silence us!<br /><br />Best to you,<br />David Duke<br /><br />Remember<br /><br />1. Watch it<br />2. Rate it<br />3. Favorite it<br />4. Comment on it<br />5. Send links to your email list<br />6. Post news of this video on forums and in chat rooms.<br />7. Help support my work with your generous contributions please.<br /><br />Don't forget, it is your support that keeps our videos online! And your funds make this work possible!<br /><br />Here's the link to contribute!<br /><br /><a href="https://shop.davidduke.com/duke_donation.php">https://shop.davidduke.com/duke_donation.php</a><br /><br />Thanks again!Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-68320618796403522302010-11-01T23:54:00.002-04:002010-11-01T23:55:08.644-04:00Another Blow to Justice and Black Eye for America<a href="http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/home-mainmenu-289/6750-in-omar-khadrs-sentencing-phase-us-government-introduces-islamophobic-expert-and-irrelevant-testimony">http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php/home-mainmenu-289/6750-in-omar-khadrs-sentencing-phase-us-government-introduces-islamophobic-expert-and-irrelevant-testimony</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-27145996835371827982010-10-23T03:44:00.002-04:002010-10-23T03:44:21.388-04:00U.S. MUST Investigate Detainee Torture as New Evidence is WikiLeaked<a href="http://blog.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/us-must-investigate-detainee-abuse-claims-in-wikileaks-files/">http://blog.amnestyusa.org/waronterror/us-must-investigate-detainee-abuse-claims-in-wikileaks-files/</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-91124326287759511972010-10-10T10:58:00.002-04:002010-10-10T13:25:51.656-04:00Say Good-Bye to Light Bulb Production in the USA as Market Moves to ChinaFederal Light Bulb Ban Creating Jobs in China<br />
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A federal law banning ordinary incandescent light bulbs has already had a negative effect on the American economy — GE has closed its last major bulb producing factory in the United States, creating job opportunities in China. <br />
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Legislation enacted in 2007 orders the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs beginning with the 100-watt bulb in 2012 and ending with the 40-watt light in 2014. These bulbs cannot meet efficiency requirements dictated by law. <br />
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Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are the least expensive alternative. But the manufacture of CFLs is “labor intensive and too expensive to be done at U.S. wage rates,” according to a report from The Heartland Institute, which estimates that domestically produced CFLs would be 50 percent more expensive than bulbs manufactured in China. <br />
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So instead of retrofitting its plant in Winchester, Va., to produce CFLs, GE closed the plant in September and laid off 200 workers. <br />
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CFLs are already being manufactured in China, and increasing American demand will no doubt create new jobs there. <br />
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As the Insider Report disclosed earlier, while CFLs use about 75 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs and last far longer, they cost significantly more, take longer to turn on, can flicker, and contain small amounts of highly toxic mercury, which creates problems for users when they break or need to be disposed of after they burn out. <br />
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“Environmental activists and their allies in Washington were either too ignorant of basic economics to see these job losses coming, or they were simply too callous to really care,” said Heartland Institute science director Jay Lehr. <br />
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“Either way, compact fluorescent light bulbs in the real world fail to live up to environmental promises, unnecessarily subject American households to toxic mercury, produce poor-quality light, and are sending American workers to the unemployment line.” <br />
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And Sam Kazman, general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said: “If the new energy-saving technologies being pushed by government are really that good, then we don’t need government to mandate them. And if they are being mandated, that’s a sure sign that they’re not very good.” <br />
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Three Republican members of Congress — Joe Barton, Marsha Blackburn and Michael Burgess — have introduced a bill that would repeal the ban on the incandescent bulb. <br />
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The three said in an article on The Daily Caller: “The unanticipated consequence of the ’07 act — layoffs in the middle of a desperate recession — is what sometimes happens when politicians think they know better than consumers and workers.”Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-79551379567509221312010-10-08T02:16:00.002-04:002010-10-08T02:16:56.198-04:00Americans on Survivalist Mode<a href="http://legal-eaze.blogspot.com/">http://legal-eaze.blogspot.com/</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-41052997620667022122010-09-13T00:00:00.002-04:002010-09-13T00:00:25.018-04:00HuffPost Founder Talks about Her New Book: Conversion; Third World America<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/conversation-world-america-11584582&tab=9482931§ion=1206825&playlist=&page=1">http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/conversation-world-america-11584582&tab=9482931§ion=1206825&playlist=&page=1</a>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-41723754344093046622010-08-06T03:03:00.000-04:002010-08-06T03:04:31.157-04:00The Duke on America<div id="ms__id52"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ghostfighterradio/2010/08/06/boots-backyard-with-special-guest-a-longtime-ghostfighter-rr">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ghostfighterradio/2010/08/06/boots-backyard-with-special-guest-a-longtime-ghostfighter-rr</a></div>Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8181085416117326426.post-23085240116673311722010-07-26T22:02:00.001-04:002010-07-26T22:03:37.125-04:00No Funding for F-35 Joint Strike FighterWe are on the verge of winning a multiyear battle against one of Washington’s most intractable special-interest boondoggles, but I need your help today to succeed.<br /><br />The House and Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittees will begin marking up their fiscal year 2011 Defense Appropriations bills this week, and I urge you to tell your U.S. Representative and Senators to oppose funding for the wasteful, unnecessary alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is siphoning off billions of taxpayer dollars from other vital national defense priorities.<br /><br />Both the Bush and Obama Administrations have tried to cancel the alternate engine because the Department of Defense has repeatedly said it does not want or need program. The U.S. Air Force and two independent panels have concluded that an alternate engine is “not necessary and not affordable” and that the alleged savings from creating a “mock competition” will never be achieved.<br /><br />However, members of Congress with facilities in their states and districts where the alternate engine would be built have kept the program alive with $1.2 billion in self-serving earmarks since 2004! <br /><br />Just completing testing and getting the alternate engine ready for production is estimated to cost $2.9 billion on top of what has previously been spent -- when the original engine contracted by the Pentagon for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has already received approval and is being manufactured and tested in aircraft right now. <br /><br />The F-35 is designed to serve as the cornerstone of our nation’s future aerial defense capabilities by replacing the aging fighter and strike aircraft of the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines. If the Department of Defense has to maintain two engines with different parts and technicians and requiring different upgrades over time, the overall cost of the F-35 program will climb dramatically, and America’s warfighters will get fewer of these vitally needed aircraft.<br /><br />In fact, Air Force General Mark Shackelford testified before a Senate subcommittee last year that funding an alternate engine would mean cutting two to four aircraft in 2009 and as many as 53 in the next five years.<br /><br />Christine, this could not be a more clear-cut case of members of Congress jeopardizing the safety of our troops and this nation so that they can "bring home the bacon"! The alternate engine is not only a catastrophic waste of tax dollars at a time when America can least afford it, it is also an obscene politicization of the Defense Budget. <br /><br />CBS Evening News has called the alternate engine, “the engine no one wants.” The Houston Chronicle dubbed it, “pork with wings,” and both Politico and RedState have called it the new “Bridge to Nowhere.”<br /><br />What’s more, a recent Clarus Research Group survey found that 87 percent of those surveyed agreed with the statement: “If America’s military leaders at the Pentagon determine that a multibillion-dollar defense contract with a private company is wasteful and unnecessary, Congress should NOT spend the money.” <br /><br />Christine, in the face of record budget deficits, we have indications that members of Congress may be losing their appetite for this pork. That’s why I urge you right now to tell your tell your U.S. Representative and Senators to oppose any effort to fund the alternate engine in the fiscal 2011 Defense Appropriations Act.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br /><br />Thomas A. Schatz<br />President<br /><br />P.S. Retired General John Michael Loh, former Air Force vice chief of staff and a former commander of the Air Force’s aircraft and engine acquisition center, wrote in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “Alternate engines for military aircraft are not necessary…Alternate systems add cost, complexity and safety problems. They don’t pay economically or operationally. The F-35 alternate engine program flies in the face of smart acquisition policies. It is a contrived competition ginned up by special interests in Congress.” Tell your U.S. Representative and Senators today that you want them to put a stop to this wasteful boondoggle!<br /><br /><br /><br />The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), the nation's largest taxpayer watchdog organization with more than one million members and supporters nationwide. CCAGW is a 501(c)(4) nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that lobbies for legislation to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. Contributions to CCAGW are not tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes. For more information about CCAGW, visit http://www.ccagw.org/ Make a contribution today to help CCAGW wage and win this battle to stop this multibillion-dollar waste of Defense Budget funds.Mz.Many Nameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024590325712635526noreply@blogger.com0