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In reply to the discussion: Know your BFEE: MAFIA helped Ronald Reagan move into White House [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)52. It's like dragging our consciousness through a sewer.
Yet, if we don't, we are ruled by our inferiors, as Plato observed, and we live in the world which we see all around today: Wars for profit without end. Welfare for the Wealthy. Justice for "Just Us."
Apart from a few administrations in the United States, it's been the way of the world since Machiavelli was buttering up the Prince: "Money to get the power, power to keep the money."
Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, sharing a moment and a bit o' information in this small world.
Rothschild and Freshfields founders had links to slavery, papers reveal
By Carola Hoyos
Financial Times
Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking familys 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery, records from the National Archives show, even though both have often been portrayed as opponents of slavery.
Far from being a matter of distant history, slavery remains a highly contentious issue in the US, where Rothschild and Freshfields are both active.
Companies alleged to have links to past slave injustices have come under pressure to make restitution.
JPMorgan, the investment bank, set up a $5m scholarship fund for black students studying in Louisiana after apologising in 2005 for the companys historic links to slavery.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c0f5014-628c-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
Know your BFEE: Spawn of Wall Street and the Third Reich
Why would they feel that way? The Privilege of Birthright, of course:
Know your BFEE: Eugenics and the NAZIs - The California Connection
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reagans biggest crime against democracy and america was killing of the fairness doctrine
certainot
May 2014
#30
All true. But the media hammered Carter unmercifully. The media manufactured public opinion.
Enthusiast
May 2014
#31
He looks so smug after getting away with Iran-Contra, an operation he probably designed.
Enthusiast
May 2014
#32
One DUer posted, way back when I first saw it, that he looks like he's already got Alzheimer's.
Octafish
May 2014
#81
The Mafia was under a lot of pressure as organized crime. So what did they do? sometime in the 70s
jwirr
May 2014
#3
That's what happened to Vegas. Back when it was for adults, it was clearly mob-controlled.
valerief
May 2014
#28
If you wonder why our government is unresponsive to us there is your answer right there.
Enthusiast
May 2014
#33
As he was before W, Raygun caused more harm to this country than all others combined
randys1
May 2014
#4
Some days, the realization would dawn upon me anew: "My god, Ronald Reagan is president!"
NBachers
May 2014
#7
I lived in Berklely when James Rector was killed, and Alan Blanchard's eyes were shot out
NBachers
May 2014
#43
I have a hardbound copy of "Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob"
Zen Democrat
May 2014
#10
I long ago lent my copy to a friend who read it and lent it to somebody else -- a favor on my dime.
Octafish
May 2014
#50
Then why did the Reagan Administration let Rudolph Giuliani go after The Mob
no_hypocrisy
May 2014
#27
The same reason Giuliani was friends with Homelandreichsmarschall-designee Bernie Kerik?
Octafish
May 2014
#35
The poster asked you if the Mafia put in Reagan then why did he allow Giuliani to go after them.
former9thward
May 2014
#48
Like cockroaches scattering when the kitchen light turns on...So, where's the Press?
Octafish
May 2014
#65
I believe it's early in the madministration, as that may be James Brady in the background...
Octafish
May 2014
#71
From the late Steve Kangas -- THE REAGAN YEARS: A Statistical Overview of the 1980s
Octafish
May 2014
#72