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The International Bankers, World Wars I, II, and Beyond The International Bankers, World Wars I, II, and Beyond Mujahid Kamran All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any way without the written permission of the copyright owner. The International Bankers, World Wars I, II, and Beyond by Mujahid Kamran Copyright@ 2015 Mujahid Kamran Date of Publication: April, 2015 First Edition Published by the University of the Punjab, Lahore www.pu.edu.pk Printed and bound at the University of the Punjab Press ISBN: 978-969-9325-24-3 During the past one hundred years any theory of his- tory or historical evidence that falls outside a pattern established by the American Historical Association and the major foundations with their grant making power has been attacked or rejected - not on the basis of any evidence presented, but on the basis of the ac- ceptability of the argument to the so-called Eastern Liberal Establishment and its official historical line. There is an Establishment history, an official his- tory, which dominates history textbooks, trade pub- lishing, the media and library shelves. The official line always assumes that events such as wars, rev- olutions, scandals, assassinations, are more or less random unconnected events. By definition events can NEVER be the result of a conspiracy, they can never result from premeditated planned group action. An excellent example is the Kennedy assassination when, within 9 hours of the Dallas tragedy, TV networks announced the shooting was NOT a conspiracy, regardless of the fact that a negative proposition can never be proven, and that the investigation had barely begun. Woe betide any book or author that falls outside the official guidelines. Foundation support is not there. Publishers get cold feet. Distribution is hit and miss, or non-existent. Antony Sutton, 1983 To the fearless and audacious whistle blowers of U.S.A and Europe Contents Preface x 1 International Bankers and WW I 1 1.1 Why a World War? . 1 1.2 A Preplanned War - the Rothschild Tentacles . 17 1.3 Murder in Sarajevo - the Hidden Hands 39 1.4 The Deception . 48 1.5 Bloodshed by Fraud . 59 1.6 Manipulated US Entry Into War . 67 1.6.1 The Lusitania Tragedy . 77 1.6.2 Other Incidents . 82 1.6.3 Zimmermann Telegram . 84 1.6.4 US Declares War On Germany 90 1.7 Rothschild Zionists Prolong the War 94 1.8 The Price of War . 127 2 International Bankers and WW II 131 vi 2.1 WWI - A Review . 132 2.2 \Peace" Treaty and the International Bankers . 143 2.3 The Dawes-Young Plan and WW II . 160 2.4 Wall Street and \German" Cartels . 182 2.5 International Bankers Build and De- ceive Hitler . 192 2.6 Nazis and Zionists . 207 2.7 A War Prolonged and Business As Usual226 2.8 The Atom Bomb . 249 2.9 \Other Losses" . 273 2.10 The Human Cost . 284 3 The Elite, the \Great Game", and WW III 289 3.1 The High Cabal . 289 3.2 What They Control . 292 3.3 How They Manipulate Public Opinion 296 3.4 The Importance of Eurasia . 299 3.5 The Concocted War on Terrorism . 303 4 Who Really Controls the World? 311 4.1 The Elite Goals & Actions . 312 4.2 The High Cabal Exposed by JFK . 318 4.3 Interlocking Structure of Elite Control 322 4.4 Training the Young for Elite Member- ship . 327 vii 4.5 Selecting Future Prime Ministers to Serve the NWO . 334 5 The Murder of General Patton 340 5.1 Revelation and Media Silence . 340 5.2 The Story of Douglas Bazata . 344 5.3 The Warnings of Skubik . 349 5.4 Missing Files & the Wrong Car . 351 5.5 Thompson, the Truck Driver . 353 5.6 Fate of Scruce, the Driver . 355 5.7 Other Murder Attempts . 356 5.8 Why was Patton Murdered? . 360 5.9 Donovan . 366 5.10 Patton, Displaced Jews, & the Mor- genthau Plan . 378 5.11 Media Campaign Under \Semitic In- fluence” . 391 5.12 Patton Reveals His Intentions to a Freema- son . 399 5.13 Revealing Postscript . 403 6 Wars, Deceptions and Lies 407 7 \US" Prepares For Civil War & WW III 445 8 Homelessness, Poverty, and the NWO in America 463 viii Bibliography 494 Index 510 ix Preface I am not a historian by profession and the present book is written for ordinary readers by a non-special- ist. This book is a sort of sequel to my two ear- lier books The Grand Deception: Corporate Amer- ica and Perpetual War and 9/11 & the New World Order. It was my personal quest to understand 9/11 that led me to write the aforementioned books. The same quest also took me back to the two world wars and the Russian Revolution and then to the wars and revolutions that took place in Europe and the United States during the 18th and 19th cen- turies. The present volume looks back at the two most tragic events of the twentieth century, connect- ing them with the current global situation. While delving into the above mentioned matters it became fairly obvious to me that textbook his- tory about these subjects seems to ignore, perhaps deliberately and by design, the role of the most pow- erful forces that operate from behind the scenes. It also appears reasonable to infer that these powerful forces manipulate wars deliberately. These forces are variously called the international bankers, the Elite, the Fraternity, the Anglo-Saxon oligarchy, the One World cabal, and so on. Secrecy and anonymity are x extremely important to the successful operation of these powerful elements in this regard. It is because of the intense secrecy surrounding their activities, and also due to the control of media and education by these forces, that the historian has a very diffi- cult time in unmasking the real role of these secre- tive forces, whose operation also involves numerous secret societies with a long history. In view of this, one cannot but bow one's head in respect to the long line of Western writers who have assiduously unmasked these elements and their hideous machinations, even though they knew that the mainstream publishers would not publish their work. They also knew that the media as well as the \standard" academia, would remain silent about their deep work so that the younger generations, and public at large, remain unaware of the real culprits and remain the tool of the Elite. Many of these writ- ers suffered great hardship and persecution - some even lost their lives before they could publish their work. In his 1944 book (TV had not yet been invented) E.C. Knuth writes:1 ··· many of the great teachers and pro- fessors of our universities have tried to 1E.C. Knuth: The Empire of \The City": The Secret His- tory of British Financial Power; The Book Tree 2006, p 10; first published 1944. xi throw some light into this situation with little success, for their works have been accorded little recognition, and as \con- troversial" matter have been treated with the contempt of silence. One source es- timates the average circulation of books of this type at little over seven thousand copies. Contrast this with the massive million copy circulations of the highly acclaimed and widely publicized prod- ucts of proponents of Internationalism; with the complete domination of the ra- dio by International propagandists; with billion dollar funds out of the public trea- sury devoted to educating and inform- ing the people; with newspapers filled by foreign \information" services; with opposition controlled so as to be based on such superficial and spurious reasons as to merely hide and detract attention from the real reasons. This was in 1944. Now, 70 years later, the grip of these forces over the human race has become far more powerful and ubiquitous. Not only does the Elite control education, it also owns the media, and has, at its disposal, a vast ar- senal of the known and hidden techniques of mind control and mass brainwashing. Hollywood and the xii entertainment industry is a part of this arsenal, as are newspapers, news channels, magazines, journals and many of the books that are published by large publishers and \reviewed" in major newspapers and magazines. There is a digital and print matrix in which we live mentally and emotionally - it deeply influences and conditions what we think we know and what we think are our thoughts. The Elite has acquired unimaginable wealth thro- ugh usury, which is banned by Christianity, Islam and presumably, by pristine Judaism. There is un- deniable evidence that the Elite instigates conflicts between different nations, provides loans to both sides, and brings increasing segments of mankind under debt bondage. The core of this Elite, the in- ternational bankers, have intrigued incessantly and stealthily to own the central banks of nations. Thro- ugh ownership of central banks they can control the volume of currency in circulation, set interest rates, create inflation or depressions, etc. I intended to publish this book by August 2014, the hundredth year since WW I broke out. How- ever in view of the new material that I began receiv- ing around that very time I was forced to add and expand whatever I had written about the interna- tional bankers and the two world wars. Partly due to this and partly due to my responsibilities as Vice Chancellor the book has been delayed by about six xiii months. The book has been written in such a man- ner that each chapter can be read independently. This did entail some repetitions but it is more con- venient for the majority of the readers to have the freedom to begin this kind of book from any chapter.
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