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originally posted by: ScientificRailgun
I for one welcome our new Corporate Overlords. Now excuse me while I sip this Mountain Dew, eat part of my Kit Kat Bar, and continue to post on this website using my Sony Monitor, Type on my Dell Keyboard, and sit in my Hon office chair.
Someone tell the Vatican: Monarchy and banks don’t mix
...From the 1300s to the modern era, absolute monarchs—unaccountable to boards, investors, and even their own people—have had a poor track record of managing money, paying debts, and managing banks within their borders.
...(from the 1300's) kings and other great nobles ...began turning to the heavily capitalized Italian and German banks to provide funds. To banks, the royals were tempting clients, often deep in debt from wars and maintaining their sumptuous courts. Loans to monarchs were enormous and potentially very profitable, and they brought banks prestige and an entrée into national markets.
But,...they also carried peculiar risks. Piero de’ Medici, son of Cosimo de’ Medici, warned his own son, Lorenzo the Magnificent, not to make loans to monarchs, as they involved more “risk than profit.” Lorenzo ultimately lost much of the family fortune by ignoring his father’s advice...
...The wealthiest bankers of the 16th century were the Fugger family of the Bavarian city of Augsburg, who had built their unparalleled fortune on international trade, a pan-European mining operation, and a banking network almost three times the size of the Medicis’.
...the Rothschild dynasty, ...succeeded in banking to kings—in part by building an international asset network whose secrecy and inscrutability rivaled any monarch’s.
originally posted by: soficrow
a reply to: mSparks43
History shows the banksters control the monarchs through debt. You have it backwards.
originally posted by: PlanetXisHERE
originally posted by: soficrow
a reply to: mSparks43
History shows the banksters control the monarchs through debt. You have it backwards.
Of course. Those who appear to be in charge are really not, and those who are really in charge are hidden. Sad, but true. Has been this way throughout the ages. To believe otherwise is just naïve.
originally posted by: mSparks43
a reply to: PlanetXisHERE
alternatively.
those with the power to call to arms 90% of the world's military to defend their poppy fields and it's routes into China.
while having every media outlet convince you its cos of the evil brown people attacking your state that worship another god
probably are in charge.
...In other words, intelligence agencies, powerful business, drug traders and organized crime are competing for the strategic control over the heroin routes. A large share of this multi-billion dollar revenues of narcotics are deposited in the Western banking system. Most of the large international banks together with their affiliates in the offshore banking havens launder large amounts of narco-dollars.
This trade can only prosper if the main actors involved in narcotics have “political friends in high places.” Legal and illegal undertakings are increasingly intertwined, the dividing line between “businesspeople” and criminals is blurred. In turn, the relationship among criminals, politicians and members of the intelligence establishment has tainted the structures of the state and the role of its institutions including the Military.
originally posted by: mSparks43
a reply to: soficrow
no one AFAIK. buck seems to stop with either the house of wettin or sax coburg and gotha.
they play a slightly political game. but those freaks and their (innumerable) supporters really do believe they have blue blood and were appointed to their positions by god himself.
there's also the papacy of course. but they at least seem to be mostly moral and just these days. (and surprisingly democratic)
originally posted by: mSparks43
a reply to: soficrow
does it?
really?
cos last time I checked the monarchs makes the loans through the banks using currency stamped with their face.
originally posted by: mSparks43
a reply to: PlanetXisHERE
Yeah, worked a charm on the Germans after WWI.....
Which started because?