"Follow the money" is more than a line from the movie "All the President's Men." It is a truism as old as human kind. Money doesn't buy things, it buys power. Life and death power. Trust me. I worked for 30-years in the US defense industry. I know the kind of life and death power money can buy. I worked on programs that are being used today. I've also seen the power that can make that money flow like wine because it's the answer to only one thing: More power.
Following it to the source as you're doing is a great start. Eventually it's up to us to beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. Ah, but there's a reckoning that comes first and is not part of the current power equation. A much greater power will replace it.
The Enfield rule is the permanent contribution here and it'll outlive the rest of the series. Capital doesn't pick a side. It picks a flow. That sentence explains 1862, 1940, 2008, and whatever comes next, because the sentence isn't about any particular war or crisis. It's about the operating system underneath all of them.
The McKittrick detail is the one that makes comfortable people uncomfortable. He passed intelligence to Dulles by night and approved Reichsbank payments by day. Not because he was corrupt. Because the institution was bigger than his conscience. That's the scariest line in the piece and most readers will skip past it looking for the gold numbers. The gold is dramatic. McKittrick is structural. Dramatic fades. Structural repeats.
In any conflict, funded by banks,
Bankers win. Both sides lose.
Thats the Tl;dr version
Thanks for posting Rolf… for those of us who aspire to learn from history and not repeat its mistakes, I am truly indebted💜
This is massive amounts of research and connecting the dots. I sooo appreciate your work and steadfast belief that history leads us to the present.
Bankster gangsters always win. Napoleon was correct all along.
Rolf. What Nina said.
"Follow the money" is more than a line from the movie "All the President's Men." It is a truism as old as human kind. Money doesn't buy things, it buys power. Life and death power. Trust me. I worked for 30-years in the US defense industry. I know the kind of life and death power money can buy. I worked on programs that are being used today. I've also seen the power that can make that money flow like wine because it's the answer to only one thing: More power.
Following it to the source as you're doing is a great start. Eventually it's up to us to beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. Ah, but there's a reckoning that comes first and is not part of the current power equation. A much greater power will replace it.
Looking forward to 2-5.
The Enfield rule is the permanent contribution here and it'll outlive the rest of the series. Capital doesn't pick a side. It picks a flow. That sentence explains 1862, 1940, 2008, and whatever comes next, because the sentence isn't about any particular war or crisis. It's about the operating system underneath all of them.
The McKittrick detail is the one that makes comfortable people uncomfortable. He passed intelligence to Dulles by night and approved Reichsbank payments by day. Not because he was corrupt. Because the institution was bigger than his conscience. That's the scariest line in the piece and most readers will skip past it looking for the gold numbers. The gold is dramatic. McKittrick is structural. Dramatic fades. Structural repeats.