Uh, you think? The noted filmmaker Stone is working on a ten part documentary entitled The Secret History of the United States, and is stating that the leader of the German Republic turned National Socialist Empire was “enabled by Western bankers” and “seduced” Germany’s military industrial complex.
“Hitler is a monster. There is no question. I have no empathy for Hitler at all. He was a crazy psychopath,” Stone told reporters in the Thai capital. “But like Frankenstein was a monster, there was a Dr. Frankenstein. He is product of his era… What has America become? How can we in America not learn from Germany in the 1930s,” the Oscar-winning director asked.
This is old news, but it is history that is not taught to our children today. Brown Brothers Harriman, Union Banking Corporation, I.G. Farben, IBM, ITT, General Electric, DuPont, Standard Oil, General Motors, Dow Chemical…the list goes on. In fact, UBC’s assets were actually seized by the United States government during WWII by way of the Trading with the Enemy Act in response to their backing of Germany’s war machine (including transactions between George W. Bush’s grandfather and Nazi businessman Fritz Thyssen).
This seemingly paradoxical practice of big business financing big government (and often open Communist movements) may confuse at first, until after enough research one realizes that the monied powers of the world do not fear Communist of Socialist movements, because they are the ones controlling them. In historian Oswald Spengler’s book Decline of the West, the point is stated rather clearly.
“There is no proletarian, not even a Communist, movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, in the direction indicated by money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the’ slightest suspicion of the fact.”
People have been drawing comparisons between America and the Roman Empire as of late, but perhaps a comparison to the rise of the Third Reich is similarly appropriate. Germany was at one time known as the Weimar Republic. An engaging democratically elected populist was elected. Disaster struck as an iconic building was purposely destroyed and blamed on the establishment’s political enemies. Suddenly, a Republic had become an Empire under the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or National Socialist Workers’ Party - the Nazis.
While the first part of the narrative might sound just a little familiar, be it by happenstance or other means, we are seeing more and more policies unfold (with some stretching back to the early 20th century) that can be described as “Socialist.” Yet at the same time, all of it is braced against what is (at least ostensibly) a fervent nationalism. What’s good for Wall Street is good for America. What’s good for GM is good for America. What’s good for Goldman-Sachs is good for America.
In our once-modest Republic, it is now Corproratism that seems to be the name of the game. We don’t even make a secret of it anymore.
