Mr Rothschild loaned his promissory notes to individuals and to governments. These would create overconfidence. Then he would make money scarce, tighten control of the system, and collect the collateral through the obligation of contracts. The cycle was then repeated. These pressures could be used to ignite a war. Then he would control the availability of currency to determine who would win the war. That government which agreed to give him control of its economic system got his support.
Collection of debts was guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy of the debtor. The profit derived from this economic methodology made Mr Rothschild all the more able to expand his wealth. He found that the public greed would allow currency to be printed by government order beyond the limits (inflation) of backing in precious metal or the production of goods and services.
In this structure, credit, presented as a pure element called ‘currency’, has the appearance of capital, but is in effect negative capital. Hence, it has the appearance of service, but is in fact, indebtedness or debt. It is therefore an economic inductance instead of an economic capacitance, and if balanced in no other way, will be balanced by the negation of population (war, genocide). The total goods and services represent real capital called the gross national product, and currency may be printed up to this level and still represent economic capacitance; but currency printed beyond this level is subtractive, represents the introduction of economic inductance, and constitutes notes of indebtedness.
War is therefore the balancing of the system by killing the true creditors (the public which we have taught to exchange true value for inflated currency) and falling back on whatever is left of the resources of nature and regeneration of those resources.
Mr Rothschild had discovered that currency gave him the power to rearrange the economic structure to his own advantage, to shift economic inductance to those economic positions which would encourage the greatest economic instability and oscillation. ibid.
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. Ronald Reagan, address to the Nation 16th January 1984
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia for ever. The bombing begins in five minutes. Ronald Reagan, microphone test 1984
States like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world. George W Bush
Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. George W Bush
I’m a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office on foreign policy matters with war on my mind. George W Bush
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace. George W Bush, Washington 18th June 2002
They are people who want war for ever. And this makes them much more like fascist movements than it does like conservative movements. Mark Crispin Miller, author The Bush Dyslexicon
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. Donald Rumsfeld
Freedom’s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. Stuff happens. Donald Rumsfeld, on Iraq looting post-US invasion
One war after another after another – we become a warfare state. Chalmers Johnson, author Sorrows of Empire
When war becomes that profitable you’re going to see more of it. Chalmers Johnson
Wars make prime ministers popular. Tony Blair
Our military presence of foreign soil is as offensive to the people who live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hate and resentment towards us. Ron Paul
What if American people learn the truth that our foreign policy has nothing to do with national security? That it never changes from one administration to the next? What if war and preparation for war is a racket serving the special interests? What if President Obama is completely wrong about Afghanistan? ... What if diplomacy is found superior to bombs and bribes in protecting America? Ron Paul, address 12th February 2009
Even if you irrationally decide to go to war it doesn’t mean you have to fight it in a widely irrational fashion ... Objective studies indicate that the post-war environment while hostile to human life, more hostile than the pre-war environment, will not be so hostile as to preclude normal and happy lives. Herman Khan, former RAND and defense consultant
I know that after Vietnam the British government had a very close look at the effect that the presence of television cameras [had] on the battlefield, and the free reporting – the newspaper reporting – of a war could have on the aims of the government in that war. Phillip Knightley, author The First Casualty
No code of morals can justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another. George Antonius
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism, or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi
War is a profit-making business. Anybody who says otherwise is a liar or a fool. Michael Piper, author Final Judgement
We have greed, financial resources ... and through the possession of those natural resources, we can control competing powers ... Will mankind be forever war-like? David Halpin, Make War History
The idea of any one child being harmed I find totally abhorrent. ibid.
The most important thing of all – and I really mean this – is to indict criminal leaders. ibid.
The living and the dead return – who visit – expectant army mums and soldiers with their medals – wave the union flags in happiness and glee. As they lionise the lads – who only do their job – no word is heard about darker races ... As patriotic feeling is massaged, visceral silent racism is fed and murder made banal. David Halpin, The Vortex Sucks Ever Louder, Alternative View II conference 31st May 2009
We stop the killing by bringing war criminals to the bar of the world court. Otherwise we are all complicit in the deaths, the maiming and the torture – both past and in the future. ibid. citing the Blair War Crimes Foundation website
The weapons become more devilish and numerous. And the people in control more predictable. ibid.
Death and desolation dealt out across Africa and Eurasia with no sobbing at the phosphorus-blinded child but still and pleasing images of very ordinary dead. The vortex sucks ever louder – how can its spiralling be stilled? No worry, the Chelsea Flower Show went well. ibid.
Naturally the common people don’t want war, but after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine its policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifist for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. Hermann Goering, Hitler’s Reich-Marshall, address to Nuremberg trials
How about creating a new world order by creating – what? – the illusion that there are men from out of space. There won’t be simply a war of the world. This is a war that is declared against the world. Anthony J Hilder, Lucifer 2000
We cannot allow our sons and daughters to be sent to die in a banksters’ war. Anthony J Hilder
The return from the killing fields is more than a debriefing ... It is a slow descent from hell. James Hillman, A Terrible Love of War
You don’t go to war in a country and not go to war with the people. Male soldier, The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends
For my entire life I’ve watched the corporate media sell us war after war. Always telling us who our enemies are, which countries need saving and which governments should be overthrown. And every single time it turns out they lied. Abby Martin
Nearly every war has been the result of media lies. Julian Assange