Women of the Rothschilds

[FrankDialogue]

The woman you refer to is Baroness Pannonica de Koennigswarter, the daughter of one of the British senior Rothschilds...She was marries to either a young Frenchmen or German, but she was later divorced and left for the USA because she was a 'nigger lover'...This was shortly after WWII.

She was given an inheritance and bought a house in Weehauken NJ, after living for a number of years in NYC...She was a good friend to the early great jazz musicians like Charlie Parker, Art Blakey, and especially the great Thelonious Monk, who had a schizophrenic disorder...She took care of Monk and his family until his death in the 1970s...Their relationship was purely platonic.She was well loved by many...She mainly lived with her cats after having children with her first husband.



Oddly enough, her later inlaw, Elizabeth Forrester Rothschild, later grew up in North Jersey, She sold blue jeans in Israel until  she later married the famous Evelyn Rothscheld, still one of the heirs of the English banking house.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Looks like Rothschild women hooking up with Black musicians was par for the course. As was Rothschild men hooking up with underage girls/boys was too.  --CSR

Early life

Miriam Rothschild was born in 1908 in Ashton Wold, near Oundle in Northamptonshire, the daughter of Charles Rothschild of the Rothschild family of Jewish bankers and Rozsika Edle Rothschild (née von Wertheimstein), a Hungarian sportswoman and member of the first Jewish family in Europe to be ennobled.[2] Her brother was Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild and one of her sisters (Kathleen Annie) Pannonica Rothschild (Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter) would later be a bebop jazz enthusiast and patroness of Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.

Her father had described about 500 new species of fleas, and her uncle Lionel Walter Rothschild had built a private natural history museum at Tring. By the age of four she had started collecting ladybird beetles and caterpillars and taking a tame quail to bed with her. World War I broke on the eve of Miriam's sixth birthday in 1914, while the Rothschilds were holidaying in Austro-Hungary. They hurried home on the first westward train but, unable to pay, had to borrow money from a Hungarian passenger who commented "This is the proudest moment of my life. Never did I think that I should be asked to lend money to a Rothschild!" Her father died when she was 15 and she became closer to her uncle. She was educated at home until the age of 17, when she demanded to go to school. She thence attended evening classes in zoology at Chelsea College of Science and Technology.[citation needed]

1930s-1940s

During the 1930s she made a name for herself at the Marine Biological Station in Plymouth, studying the mollusc Nucula and its trematode parasites (Rothschild 1936, 1938a, 1938b). Because of her inherited wealth, she never had to apply for any grants or funding. As a result of this and her lack of formal education—all her doctorates were honorary—she would always be an "amateur".

Prior to World War II, she pressed the UK Government to admit more German Jews as refugees from Nazi Germany. During the war, she worked at Bletchley Park on codebreaking.[3]

Personal life

She married Captain George Lane, MC in 1943.[4] The marriage was dissolved in 1957. They had six children: two sons and four daughters. (Married Goy?)

Science and entomology

Rothschild was a leading authority on fleas. She was the first person to work out the flea's jumping mechanism. She also studied the flea's reproductive cycle and linked this, in rabbits, to the hormonal changes within the host. Her New Naturalist book on parasitism (soo... fitting...  :shock:  --CSR)   (Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos) was a huge success. Its title can be explained as: external parasites (e.g. fleas), internal parasites (e.g. flukes) and others (the cuckoo is a 'brood parasite'). The Rothschild Collection of Fleas (founded by Charles Rothschild) is now part of the Natural History Museum collection, and her catalogue of the collection (in collaboration with G. H. E. Hopkins) is a master-work.[citation needed]

Rothshild was a member of the Oxford genetics school during the 1960s, where she met E.B. Ford. She was one of the few women with whom Ford was on good terms and she campaigned with Ford for the legalisation of homosexuality.[5]  

Rothschild authored books about her father (Rothschild's Reserves – time and fragile nature) and her uncle (Dear Lord Rothschild). She wrote about 350 papers on entomology, zoology and other subjects.

She founded the Schizophrenia Research Fund in 1962, an independent registered charity formed "to advance the better understanding, prevention, treatment and cure of all forms of mental illness and in particular of the illness known as Schizophrenia". In March 2006, following her death, the name of the Fund was changed in her memory to the Miriam Rothschild Schizophrenia Research Fund.[6] The pioneer of British Art Therapy, Edward Adamson and his partner and collaborator, John Timlin, were regular visitors to Ashton Wold. Between 1983 and 1997, the influential Adamson Collection of 6000 works of art by people with major mental disorder, created at Netherne Hospital with Adamson's encouragement, was housed and displayed to the public in a medieval barn at Ashton. Rothschild was both a Trustee and, subsequently, Patron of the Adamson Collection Trust. "All my life," she said, "I have tilted against hopeless windmills".[7]

Awards/honours

Rothschild was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985 and was made a Dame in 2000. She received honorary doctorates from eight universities, including Oxford and Cambridge. She gave the Romanes Lecture for 1984–5 in Oxford.

Legacy

There are numerous compositions in her honour. Gigi Gryce's "Nica's Tempo", Sonny Clark's "Nica", Horace Silver's "Nica's Dream", Kenny Dorham's "Tonica", Kenny Drew's "Blues for Nica", Freddie Redd's "Nica Steps Out", Barry Harris's "Inca", Tommy Flanagan's "Thelonica" and Thelonious Monk's "Pannonica" were all named after her. The San Francisco

art rock band Oxbow released a recording entitled "Pannonica" name checking Koenigswarter (unrelated to the Thelonious Monk composition) with reissues of their 1991 album King of the Jews[/u].

Literature

In October 2006 the French company Buchet Chastel published Nica's book Les musiciens de jazz et leurs trois vœux ("The jazz musicians and their three wishes"). Compiled between 1961 and 1966, it is a book of interviews with 300 musicians who told her what their "three wishes" would be, and is accompanied by her Polaroid photographs. The book was edited for publication by Nadine de Koenigswarter, whom Nica always introduced to people as her granddaughter but who was in fact her great-niece.[6] An English-language version has appeared in paperback as Three Wishes: an Intimate Look at Jazz Greats. Her photographs were exhibited in 2007 at Rencontres d'Arles festival (France).

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Hannah Rothschild on Nica: 'I saw a woman who knew where she belonged'

The moment she first heard Thelonious Monk play the piano, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter walked out on her own life, including five children, and devoted herself to the American jazz genius. The Rothschild family disowned her, but now her great niece, Hannah Rothschild, tells her extraordinary story


Monk & The Baroness At The Five Spot

Thelonious Monk and Nica de Koenigswarter at the Five Spot jazz club, New York, 1964: 'She's in love with him: the way she gazes at him... but I don't believe that sex was at the heart of it.' Photograph: Ben Martin/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

In the 19th century, the English branch of the powerful and immensely rich Rothschild family built the most famous of their country houses in the Vale of Aylesbury, which is why, one misty morning in late March, I find myself at Waddesdon Manor, a picture-perfect Victorian replica of a French chateau. "I think this house will give you a sense of how the family used to live," says Hannah Rothschild, my host. "The blinds and curtains drawn to protect the art, the panelling and drapes creating a deadening effect. These were houses that killed noise, even the noise of children." Overflowing with servants – at Tring Park, down the road, footmen were required to carry cherry trees to the table, that diners might pick their fruit straight from the branch – and run to a routine as immutable as marble, growing up in such a house was like living in a gilded cage.

Hannah wants me to soak up this atmosphere, airless and introspective, because she believes that it explains, at least in part, the extraordinary life of her great aunt, Pannonica, aka Nica, the subject of her startling new book, The Baroness. Nica, who was born in 1913, grew up at Tring Park (Tring is now a school; Waddesdon Manor, though administered by a trust under the chairmanship of Hannah's father, Jacob, was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1957). There, she wiled away her young days in a starched white dress, sewing and playing the piano; her parents did not approve of education for girls and running and hiding were forbidden lest her frock be ruined. Life was monotonous and dull but, knowing nothing else, she did not think to kick against it. In 1934, she was duly presented at court and her marriage in 1935, to Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, a handsome French diplomat, was predictable, if not the soaring match her ambitious mother had dreamed of. If he was controlling, well, she was used to that.

In 1948, however, something happened. On her way to the airport after a visit to New York, Nica stopped to visit a friend, the jazz pianist Teddy Wilson, who played her a recording of "Round Midnight" by a then unknown jazz pianist, Thelonious Monk. Unable to believe her ears, she listened to it 20 times in a row and was bewitched. Having missed her plane, she never went home again. Abandoning her husband and five children, she moved into a suite at the Stanhope hotel and set about trying to meet the man who had made this extraordinary record. Naturally, it took a while to track the erratic Monk down. It wasn't until 1954 that she finally laid eyes on him, having flown to Paris for the privilege. Did he live up to her dreams? Oh, yes. He was, she said, "the most beautiful man she had ever seen". From that moment, there was no going back. For the next 28 years, Nica devoted her life to Thelonious Monk. In her eyes, he could do no wrong. He was a genius, pure and simple, and there was nothing she would not do – no money she would not spend, no place she would not go – to make his life easier.

It has taken Hannah almost as long to write about Nica. She first heard about this unlikely relative when she was 11, from her grandfather Victor, another extraordinary Rothschild (Victor famously liked to water-ski in a Schiaparelli dressing gown). "You're like my sister," he said, as Hannah struggled to master the 12-bar blues. "You love jazz, but can't be arsed to learn to play it." Hannah knew her other great aunts, Liberty and Miriam, but this Pannonica was a mystery. When she asked her father about her, all he would say was: "No one ever talks about her." When she asked Miriam, she said: "She's the Peggy Guggenheim of jazz" and: "She is vulgar."

Growing up, though, the whispers Hannah heard were tantalising. She's known as the Jazz Baroness. Charlie Parker died in her apartment. She lived with 306 cats. Twenty-four songs were written for her. She raced Miles Davis down Fifth Avenue. She went to prison so he wouldn't have to... So when, in 1984, Hannah went to New York for the first time, she decided to telephone her. "Would you like to meet up?" she said, nervously. "Wild," said her great aunt, who was then 71. "Come to the club downtown after midnight." She informed Hannah that she would know the spot by the sight of her car – a large pale-blue Bentley – parked outside.
Thelonious Monk and Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter Thelonious Monk and Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter get into her Bentley outside the Five Spot cafe, New York, 1964. Photograph: Ben Martin/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Hannah Rothschild was 22 and "failing to live up to the expectations, real or imagined, of my distinguished family"; Pannonica, a success only in her own terms, seemed to throw her a kind of lifeline. Nica's very existence suggested that perhaps one could escape one's past. "I looked across the table at this newly discovered great aunt," she writes in her book, "and felt a sudden, inexplicable surge of hope. A stranger walking into the club would merely have seen an old lady sucking on a cigarette, listening to a pianist. They might have wondered what this fur-coated, pearl-wearing dame was doing, swaying to the music, nodding appreciatively at a particular solo. I saw a woman who seemed at home and who knew where she belonged." Did her aunt give her any advice? Only this. "Remember," she would say. "There is only one life."

Hannah returned to London where she finally landed a job at the BBC ("I'd always wanted to work there, but I could have papered a room with rejection letters," she says). She and her aunt met again just twice; in 1988, Nica died suddenly, following a heart-bypass operation. But by then, Hannah was hooked. She wanted to know all about her aunt's mysterious life, to sort fact from fiction. In the face of some opposition from her family, one of whose primary traits is, she says, was "obsessive secrecy", she decided to research her story. It wasn't easy. Rothschild women refused to take her phone calls; she also received two threatening letters. Nica's children, having initially been enthusiastic about the idea of a book, would not co-operate. "I can't speak for them, but perhaps they felt protective, that this is their story, not mine. Do they think I'm trespassing? I don't know."

But she got there in the end. In the years since, Hannah has made a radio documentary about her aunt and a film – and now, finally, she has written her biography. Is she done? "Yes," she laughs. "I've called time, I promise." And does she think she has solved the mystery of Nica and Monk? Were they lovers? Or merely loving friends? (Monk had a devoted wife, Nellie, from whom he never officially separated.) "I don't think it was a steamy, hot love affair," she says. "There's a tendency to sexualise every relationship, especially one that crosses class and race. When you look at Nica with him [in photographs and on film], she's in love with him: the way she gazes at him, the way she's laid her life out before him like a golden cloak of devotion. But I don't believe that sex was at the heart of it, because I don't believe it would have lasted so long if it had been. This was 30 years of being tested [by Monk] to the extreme. It's difficult, though. I went through a lot of soul-searching. I didn't want to portray her as a sad groupie with lots of money. Is she using him? Is he using her? And why did Nellie put up with it? Because it didn't have to be sexual for Nellie to be fed up about it." Monk's last years, when his mental health became so bad that he disappeared from the jazz scene altogether, were spent at Nica's cat-infested New Jersey home. But at his funeral – Monk died in 1982, from a stroke – Nellie and Nica sat side by side in the front row of the church and mourners paid their respects to each of them, as if both were widows.

Hannah Rothschild grew up, not in some vast palace, but in Maida Vale, west London, in a house she now owns (a single divorcee, she lives there with her three teenage daughters). When did she realise, then, that her family was not quite like other people's? "I don't think I ever did. Your family is just your family." Her great aunt Miriam, a famous entomologist, lived in another huge country house, Ashton Wold, which was so overrun with ivy and buddleia and honeysuckle – to encourage insects – that in summer time, it was almost impossible to see out. "She had a pet owl and a pet fox. My grandfather Victor [also a distinguished scientist], had a pet owl, too, that used to fly around and hoot. So I realised they were quite eccentric, but that was all I knew. One thing I was certain of, though, was that they were frightening. They were fiercely intellectual and they didn't suffer fools. If you bored them, they would tell you. They'd leave the room mid-conversation.

"It [Rothschild] is a big name to have. It means banking, and Jewish, and money. But then, on my side, there was this extra thing of being intellectual and academically high-achieving. I didn't feel like a banker's daughter [her father, Jacob, is an extremely successful businessman, as is her brother, Nat]. But nor did I live up to this other side. Of course, there are huge advantages – huge – to growing up in that world. Financial advantages, yes, but also people remember your name, you get access to things. I cannot sit here and say: poor me. I was incredibly lucky."

Until the second world war, after which its fortunes were depleted – some 3,500 works of art were stolen by the Nazis and many of its companies nationalised – the family's rise had looked unstoppable. "Seven generations ago, we were living in a ghetto in Frankfurt in a house that was 14 feet wide," she says. "There seemed to be no chance that the family would ever escape that ghetto until, rather ironically, the French shelled it [in the 1790s], breaking down the walls, so the Jews were finally able to get out."

It was at this point that Mayer Amschel, the Rothschild patriarch, famously sent his five sons to five European capitals where, between them, they eventually built the biggest bank in the world. And of these five, it was Nathan Mayer, Nica's great-great-grandfather, who arrived in England in 1798 with no formal education, and speaking no English, who was most determined to succeed. By the late 19th century, the British branch of the family had a title, a collection of priceless art, many country estates (a painting Hannah shows me depicts some 40 Rothschild houses) and the ear of the prime minister.

Nica's father was Charles Rothschild. Like his zoologist brother, Walter, who turned the grounds of Tring into an extraordinary wildlife park with kangaroos, giant tortoises, emus, rheas and cassowaries, and who drove a carriage pulled by zebras, Charles had a passion for natural history. He was a keen amateur entomologist and named his youngest daughter Pannonica for a species of moth. However, this was not an interest he was free to pursue. Instead, every day, he was required to put on a suit and go to work in the family bank. This did not suit him one bit.

Charles also suffered from a mood disorder that may or may not have been schizophrenia (so, later, did his another of his daughters, Liberty). At times, he would not speak for days. On other occasions, he was manic, unable to sleep or stop talking. As he grew older, the gaps between these episodes grew ever shorter. Finally, in 1923, he went into a bathroom, locked the door and slit his throat with a knife.

Hannah believes that Charles's suicide lies at the heart of Nica's unlikely bond with Monk, who suffered from a similar illness, with similarly debilitating symptoms. "Her father's death was incredibly violent, but afterwards it was never mentioned: suicide was still illegal. When she met Thelonious, there must have been huge resonances. He behaved in a very similar way to Charles, and Charles had been made to live a certain kind of life, going to the office every day, when what he wanted to be doing was collecting butterflies. Her passionate attempts to dignify Thelonious's life, to protect him, to say it's all right to spend the day sleeping if that's what you want or need to do... I'm sure this was her way of addressing an earlier injustice. It was a kind of reparation. In return, he gave her an incredible sense of purpose and belonging. If you think of her as a woman who'd been evicted from a close family, that's quite a frightening thing. But Thelonious and a whole group of musicians said to her: come and be part of this. We'll hang with you." Monk wasn't the only one who wrote a song for Pannonica. So did Art Blakey, Sonny Clark, Kenny Drew and at least a dozen others.

But life in New York had a dark side, too. In 1955, Nica was evicted from her suite at the Stanhope when Charlie Parker, having turned up at her door one night with nowhere else to go, choked and died there (she claimed to have heard a clap of thunder as the life left him – a sound that has since passed into jazz folklore). In 1958, Nica decided to drive the impoverished Monk to a gig in Maryland. In a town called New Castle, Delaware, she stopped the car outside a motel so he could use the bathroom. As she waited, the police approached; in this part of America, the sight of a white woman and black man together was unusual enough to attract attention. There followed an altercation. Monk was beaten up. The police searched the car. When they found marijuana, Nica knew exactly what to do. Monk was too fragile to go to prison. She told them that the dope was hers.

The consequences of this moment of bravery were potentially dire. Nica faced a prison sentence of up to 10 years, followed by immediate deportation. Her life with Monk would be over, but the prospect of a return to England was just as painful. How would her family react? Would her husband ever let her see her children again? "It must have been terrifying," says Hannah. "I finally found out how terrifying in a letter she wrote to her friend Mary Lou Williams the night before her trial in January 1962. She is in Delaware. She writes that she is going to go into a church and light a candle. She writes, 'This is the day upon which my entire future may well depend.' She says she can't talk to Thelonious or Nellie about it because they have their own worries. She was so completely alone. I felt quite distressed on her behalf. Where is everyone? I thought." In the end, though, there came a miracle: the case was dismissed on a technicality, her lawyer arguing that the troopers had searched her car without her permission.

In The Baroness, Hannah tells this story with care, balancing narrative tension with a desire to lay out all the facts so readers can make up their own minds. Like the rest of the book, it is wholly gripping. So will she write another or will she return to her first love, films? "I am working on a novel. It's a strange thing. Having been a documentary film-maker for my entire adult life, suddenly I'm not sure if I am one anymore." It is getting harder to find homes for the kind of films – detailed, beady, slow-burning – that she makes. Her marvellous fly-on-the-wall Peter Mandelson documentary, filmed in the build-up to the 2010 election (the one in which he ate a yoghurt in a way that made him look like a stoat devouring a field mouse), was not commissioned and she only sold it to BBC4 after it was finished.

"It was quite embarrassing. He would say, 'Where is our film going?' And I would have to tell him that I didn't know." Has she heard from him since? "He saw the film, and he liked it, and that was it." Mandelson is a friend of her brother, Nat (Mandelson famously holidayed at his home in Corfu). But she can't talk about Nat. "He really, really hates it. I love my brother. He's a fantastic guy. But I have to respect that."

To outsiders, the wonder is that she works at all. A lot of people from her background would have gone to Oxford, as she did, and got on with the business of allowing their trust fund to screw them up. "Yes," she says. "But the truth is that work is fantastically interesting. It's the one thing you can rely on, actually, and it's so exciting – my father taught me that. But while I was writing the book, I did think about the work ethic, the way it persists in our family. Unlike aristocratic British families, perhaps we haven't forgotten where we came from." As for money, she has "made my peace with it... if it were swilling round without any purpose I would feel very differently, but the inheritance enables us to do good things at our foundation. I think it's completely right that people who have more should give it away and make life better for those who don't. My father is planning to give his away. Actually, he's already started, and good for him."

We move downstairs, to tour the house, where I enjoy the silly thrill of stepping behind velvet ropes and walking through doors marked Private. The house is very beautiful but, as she points out, it is all of a piece. The Rothschilds had no furniture to inherit and this one's interiors came courtesy of a couple of French hotels that were being demolished following Haussmann's remodelling of Paris. Does she wish it was in the family still? "Good God, no," she says, with a theatrical shudder. "But writing my book has made me understand these houses. They were a way for the family to anchor itself, to show the world that they mattered. When you really think about it, this house is just a three-dimensional calling card."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/ap ... -interview

[FrankDialogue]

Ah, yes, Nica was quite a character, and I always get the Rothschilds confused when it comes to names and family members. Seems as if she has moved to Paris, or is it London now, now that the jazz music thing is past it's prime...They have so many houses and buildings, I suppose they will give them all away....Wonder what happened to the house in New Jersey?

With the fleas, that was Uncle Victor, correct?...Victor was also a spy for both the Soviets and MI6, with Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby et al...

Nica did OK with Monk, let him stay at her house when his wife could no longer manage him...I will have to read 'The Baroness' when I get a chance.

Thank you.

[FrankDialogue]

Let me correct my last post: Pannonica is dead, I was referring to her niece, Hannah, who I expect has a choice of various residences in England and 'the continent'.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

May be posted on TIU elsewhere... has a bit of disinfo on the 19-hijackers... --CSR

The House of Rothschild

January 5, 2011 — Dean Henderson

     The Rothschild family combined with the Dutch House of Orange to found Bank of Amsterdam in the early 1600's as the world's first private central bank.  Prince William of Orange married into the English House of Windsor, taking King James II's daughter Mary as his bride.  The Orange Order Brotherhood, which more recently fomented Northern Ireland Protestant violence, put William III on the English throne where he ruled both Holland and Britain.  In 1694 William III teamed up with the Rothschilds to launch the Bank of England.

     The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street- as the Bank of England is known- is surrounded by thirty foot walls.  Three floors beneath it the third largest stock of gold bullion in the world is stored.  The biggest hoard lies beneath the Rothschild-controlled Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  According to the excellent movie The Money Masters, much of this gold was confiscated from now-empty vaults at Fort Knox as collateral on US debt obligations to the Eight Families Federal Reserve crowd.

     This financial mafia further consolidated its control over the world's gold stock when 200 million tons of the stuff belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia was recovered from beneath the carnage of the World Trade Center.  One day after its November 1, 2001 recovery, New York Mayor Rudy Gulliani laid off hundreds of rescue workers at Ground Zero.  A short time later he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth and named Time magazine's "Man of the Year".

     The daily London gold "fixing" occurs at the N. M. Rothschild Bank in the City of London.  Here, five of the Eight Families-linked banks unilaterally decide what the price of gold will be each morning.  Kleinwort Benson's Sharps Pixley subsidiary is one of five firms.  Another is Mocatta Metals.  It is majority-owned by Standard Chartered- the Cecil Rhodes-founded bank whose Dubai branch wired Mohammed Atta the funds he needed to carry out the 911 operation.  

     According to British MP Michael Meacher in an article for The Guardian, Omar Saeed Sheikh- the man who beheaded US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002- was a British MI-6 agent.  He says it was Sheikh who- at the behest of Pakistani ISI General Mahmood Ahmed- wired the $100,000 to Mohammed Atta from Standard Chartered's Dubai branch before 911.  Meacher's claim has been corroborated by Dennis Lomel- director of FBI's financial crimes unit- and by an October 11, 2001 article in The Times of India.  Mocatta Metals is also a favorite conduit for Israeli Mossad financing.  

     Midland Bank subsidiary Samuel Montagu is a third London gold "fixer".  In 1999 Midland, headquartered in cocaine-money infested Panama, was bought by the British oligarchy-controlled HSBC- the old Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Corporation opium laundry and now the world's second largest bank.  Midland is partially owned by the Kuwaiti al-Sabah monarchy.  The other two gold fixers are Johnson Matthey and N. M. Rothschild, both of which have interlocking boards with Anglo-American and HSBC.

     Anglo-American is the world's third largest mining company.  It is controlled by the Rothschilds and South Africa's Oppenheimer family.  It owns both Engelhardt- which enjoys a near monopoly in global gold refining- and the DeBeers diamond monopoly.  The current De Beers chairman is Nicky Oppenheimer.  De Beers was indicted in 1994 for price-fixing by the US Justice Department.  To this day company officials do not set foot on US soil for fear they may be nabbed by US authorities.    

     The Rothschilds also control BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, the two biggest global miners, as well as Royal Dutch/Shell, BP and Bank of America.  As Bank of England Deputy Governor George Blunden put it, "Fear is what makes the bank's powers so acceptable.  The bank is able to exert its influence when people are dependent on us and fear losing their privileges or when they are frightened."  

     Mayer Amschel Rothschild sold the British government German Hessian mercenaries to fight against American Revolutionaries, diverting the proceeds to his brother Nathan in London, where N.M. (Nathan and Mayer) Rothschild & Sons was established.  Mayer was a serious student of Cabala and launched his fortune on money embezzled from William IX- royal administrator of the Hesse-Kassel region and a prominent Freemason.

     Rothschild-controlled Barings bankrolled the Chinese opium and African slave trades.  It financed the Louisiana Purchase.  When several states defaulted on its loans, Barings bribed Daniel Webster to make speeches stressing the virtues of loan repayment.  The states held their ground, so the House of Rothschild cut off the money spigot in 1842, plunging the US into a deep depression.  It was often said that the wealth of the Rothschilds depended on the bankruptcy of nations.  Mayer Amschel Rothschild once said, "I care not who controls a nation's political affairs, so long as I control her currency".

     War also enhanced the family fortune.  The House of Rothschild financed the Prussian War, the Crimean War and the British attempt to seize the Suez Canal from the French.  Nathan Rothschild made a huge financial bet on Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, while also funding the Duke of Wellington's peninsular campaign against Napoleon.  Both the Mexican War and the Civil War were goldmines for the family.

     A Rothschild family biography mentions a London meeting where an "international banking syndicate" decided to pit the American North against the South as part of a "divide and conquer" strategy.  German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck once stated, "The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War.  These bankers were afraid that the United States...would upset their financial domination over the world.  The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed."

     Rothschild biographer Derek Wilson says the family was the official European banker to the US government via the Federal Reserve-precursor Bank of the United States.  Family biographer Niall Ferguson notes a "substantial and unexplained gap" in Rothschild correspondence from 1854-1860.  He says all copies of outgoing letters written by the London Rothschilds during this Civil War period "were destroyed at the orders of successive partners".

     French and British troops had, at the height of the Civil War, encircled the US.  The British sent 11,000 troops to Crown-controlled Canada, which gave safe harbor to Confederate agents.  France's Napoleon III installed Austrian Hapsburg family member Archduke Maximilian as his puppet emperor in Mexico, where French troops massed on the Texas border.  Only an 11th-hour deployment of two Russian warship fleets by US ally Czar Alexander II in 1863 saved the United States from re-colonization.  That same year the Chicago Tribune blasted, "Belmont (August Belmont was a US Rothschild agent and had a Triple Crown horse race named in his honor) and the Rothschilds...who have been buying up Confederate war bonds."

     President Abraham Lincoln- now aware of the Eight Families-controlled Bank of the United States plot- countered by issuing Greenbacks from the US Treasury.  The London bankers were fuming.  Salmon Rothschild stated derisively of President Lincoln, "He rejects all forms of compromise.  He has the appearance of a peasant and can only tell barroom stories."

     Lincoln was soon assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who was whisked away from Ford Theatre by members of a secret society known as Knights of the Golden Circle.  Booth's granddaughter later wrote This One Mad Act, in which she details Booth's contacts with "mysterious Europeans" just before the Lincoln assassination.

     Baron Jacob Rothschild was equally flattering towards the US citizenry.  He once commented to US Minister to Belgium Henry Sanford on the over half a million Americans who died during the Civil War, "When your patient is desperately sick, you try desperate measures, even to bloodletting."

     Salmon and Jacob were merely carrying forth a family tradition.  A few generations earlier Mayer Amschel Rothschild bragged of his investment strategy, "When the streets of Paris are running in blood, I buy".

     Mayer Rothschild's sons were known as the Frankfurt Five.  Amschel ran the family's Frankfurt bank with his father, while Nathan ran London operations.  Youngest son Jacob set up shop in Paris, while Salomon ran the Vienna branch and Karl the branch in Naples.  Author Frederick Morton estimates that by 1850 the Rothschilds were worth over $10 billion.  The old axiom "money begets more money" certainly holds true.  Researchers believe that the Rothschild fortune today exceeds $100 trillion.

     The Warburgs, Kuhn Loebs, Goldman Sachs, Schiffs and Rothschilds have intermarried into one big happy banking family.  The Warburg family- which controls Deutsche Bank and Banque Paribas- tied up with the Rothschilds in 1814 in Hamburg, while Kuhn Loeb powerhouse Jacob Schiff shared quarters with Rothschilds in 1785.  Schiff immigrated to America in 1865.  He joined forces with Abraham Kuhn and married Solomon Loeb's daughter.  Loeb and Kuhn married each others sisters and the Kuhn Loeb dynasty was consummated.  Felix Warburg married Jacob Schiff's daughter.  Two Goldman daughters married two sons of the Sachs family, creating Goldman Sachs.  In 1806 Nathan Rothschild married the oldest daughter of Levi Barent Cohen, a leading financier in London.  The Cohen family was now part of the club.

     Today the Rothschild's control a far-flung financial empire, which includes majority stakes in nearly all the world's central banks.  The Edmond de Rothschild clan owns the Banque Privee SA in Lugano, Switzerland and the Rothschild Bank AG of Zurich.  The family of Jacob Lord Rothschild owns the powerful Rothschild Italia in Milan.  They are members of the exclusive Club of the Isles, which provides capital for George Soros' Quantum Fund NV.  Quantum made a killing in 1998-1999 destroying the currencies of Thailand, Indonesia and Russia.  Soros was a major shareholder in George W. Bush's Harken Energy.

     Quantum NV handles $11-14 billion in assets and operates from the Dutch island of Curacao, in the shadow of massive Royal Dutch/Shell and Exxon Mobil refineries.  Curacao was recently cited by an OECD Task Force on Money Laundering as a major drug money laundering nation.  The Club of Isles group which funds Quantum is led by the Rothschilds and includes Queen Elizabeth II and other wealthy European aristocrats and Black Nobility.  Fugitive Swiss financier and Mossad cutout Marc Rich, whose business interests were recently taken over by the Russian mafia Alfa Group, is also part of the Soros network.  Rich was pardoned by President Clinton as he exited the White House.

     Ties to drug money are nothing new to the Rothschilds.  N. M. Rothschild & Sons was at the epicenter of the BCCI scandal, but escaped the limelight when a warehouse full of documents conveniently burned to the ground around the time the Rothschild-controlled Bank of England shut BCCI down.  The Rothschild's Bank of America provided the seed money to launch BCCI.

     Perhaps the largest repository for Rothschild wealth today is Rothschilds Continuation Holdings AG- a secretive Swiss bank holding company.  By the late 1990s scions of the Rothschild global empire were Barons Guy and Elie de Rothschild in France and Lord Jacob and Sir Evelyn Rothschild in Britain.  Evelyn is chairman of the Economist.

     If we wish we make the world a better place and to usher in a new consciousness; we must study, discuss and expose the source of global warfare, depopulation schemes, oil-addiction, drug addiction, poverty and environmental degradation.  The head of the serpent is the House of Rothschild.

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The Rothschilds got out of the gold price fixing business (LBMA) right after 9-11...I suspect that they thought that their own supply had reached it's max, and decided to leave the actual price fixing to lesser Jews and their cronies.





Me thinks they figured that digital money was the coming thing anyway, and are heavily involved with controlling the power levers of the coming new grid.

Also, I saw an interview with Sir Evelyn, Number #2 in the English house...He is supposedly retired from any Rothschild family banking, and claimed to the young lady interviewing him that he had placed his own money into commodities and primarily British treasury notes...Just like his old relative who lied to the British stock market about the Battle of Waterloo.

The Rothschild gold is most likely held in a family trust, following the will of Mayer Amschel, the founder, and it just sits in a variety of vaults...If the Rothschild boys need pocket money, they have Platinum credit cards, which I'm sure their accountants pay the charges for every month, so that fees and interest charges are avoided....They might have a few pound notes in the pocket if they wish to stop for a coffee or something like that, just for fun.  :lol:  






Heir to the British House, Nat Rothschild: the 'Bill Clinton' of the family, and, as you can see, the cat who got the canary.

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Rothschild dynasty unites after 190 years
2007 07 20

By Sophie Brodie | news.com.au


The French and English branches of the Rothschild banking dynasty are to unify ownership of the firm in a single holding company for the first time since the family separated in the 19th century.

Under the new structure, the two sides of the family will own shares in a holding company, FamilyCo, which in turn will own the French and English banks through an existing French vehicle called Paris-Orleans, listed on the Paris bourse.

Paris-Orleans will pay €446m (£300m) for a 50pc stake held by the English branch of the family in Concordia BV (after the family motto "concordia, integritas, industria"), a holding company created under an initial alliance in 2003.

Paris-Orleans already owns the other 50pc of Concordia. It will pay half the €446m in shares and half in cash to allow the 75-year-old head of the English branch, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, to dispose of his €200m stake.

Sir Evelyn stepped down as chairman of the English bank four years ago when the two sides agreed to merge their businesses. At the time, French aristocrat Baron David de Rothschild, son of Guy de Rothschild, who died last month, became executive chairman of both the English and French banks, uniting them at an operational level.

Now they are to be united at shareholder level to "secure the unity and long-term independence of the banking group", said a statement released yesterday.

The move comes almost two centuries after the founder, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a successful money lender in Frankfurt-am-Main, despatched four of his five sons to different European capitals to take advantage of the rise of capitalism and the growth of international trade.

Nathan was sent to London, where he founded NM Rothschild, and James to Paris, where Banque Rothschild was formed. Over the years, the two sides developed a friendly, and sometimes not so friendly, rivalry.

Legend has it that Nathan was with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo when Napoleon was defeated and raced back to London to buy British government stock before news of victory spread. He had supplied Wellington with gold to finance the campaign. One hundred and ninety years later, the banks continue to thrive on both sides of the Channel, having survived political upheaval, the threat of larger predators and family strife.

Rothschild banking group unifies

From: news.com.au

The French and English branches of the fabled Rothschild banking family announced their unification overnight, ending a separation that dates from the 19th century.

Under an agreement announced overnight the two will unify their shareholdings under a single holding company, the French group Paris-Orleans.

Symbols of big money and finance, the Rothschild dynasty, which includes media personalities, amateurs of horse racing and owners of prestigious vineyards, is best known for its capital management activities.

The two branches were created at the beginning of the 19th century when the founder of the dynasty, Frankfurt-based Meyer Amschel, sent his sons on a mission throughout Europe to develop the bank he had created.

Mr Amschel was renamed Rothschild by his neighbours because of the red shield which adorned his house.

Of the four sons who left Germany, Nathan settled in London and founded NM Rothschild and Sons. Jacob Meyer, who was nicknamed James, settled for Paris.

Jacob Meyer's success was astounding. He in no time gained influence, largely thanks to his interest in high society life.

The success of the British branch was also spectacular. The son of Nathan, Lionel, in 1858 became the first Jewish member of the upper house of parliament, the House of Lords.

His descendant, Sir Evelyn, the former chief of the British branch who is now aged 75, had privileged relations with the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

A backer of the merger between the French and British branches, Sir Evelyn has passed responsibility over to his three children, Jessica, 33, Anthony, 30 and David 28, who all inherit a share in the new group.

Paris-Orleans is to buy the 50 per cent stake held by the English branch of the family in a holding company that controls the banking empire, Concordia BV.

The transaction will cost Paris-Orleans €446 million ($707.71 million), with payment made 50 per cent in shares and 50 per cent in cash.

Sir Evelyn will receive most of the cash, with the shares passed to his children.

The French cousins David and Eric de Rothschild are the two strongmen of the banking empire.

The former already oversees Rothschild's entire banking activities and he will be soon be at the head of the Paris Orleans holding company that groups the two branches.

Eric will remain president of the Paris Orleans supervisory board.

They will thus share the reins of an international group, active in mergers and acquisitions, as well as private asset management.

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Chosen Jews and Unchosen Jews - Rothschildian Race Improvement: Jews Breeding Jews

By Clifford Shack | geocities.com/cliff_shack

Be it grapes, horses, or themselves, the Rothschilds have been obsessed with genetics.  

According to Jewish tradition, after the Creator created the world, He occupied Himself with people- principally matchmaking. In other words...breeding. The Creator breeds people.Marriages "made in heaven". If you gaze into the bible, there a great deal of emphasis on people-breeding? First Adam, then ten generations to Noah, ten generations to Abraham. Weeding out Ishmael and Esau then finally Jacob and his sons. Alas someone to build a chosen nation upon...The word chosen is a breeding term. The breeder cultivated a particular bloodline for a particular task.

Horses are a great example. Horses are bred for different tasks. Some are bred for work, others for speed. Particular attention is paid to character. Character is a very important aspect particularly with dog breeders. Family pets should be kind, watchdogs should be tough,etc.

It is said that horseracing is the sport of kings. The Rothschilds and their sons from August Belmont to Guy de Rothschild, have been breeding and racing the world's top thouroughbred racehorses. Their breeding talents don't end there.

The world is well aware that Rothschild vineyards produce the worlds finest grapes and wines .

But did the Rothschild breeding efforts stop there? If horses are the sport of kings then what is the sport of super kings? As kings have been debtor/puppets to the Rothschilds for the past two hundred years...the Rothschilds' status is likened to that of the gods. So what kind of breeding do the Rothschilds quietly occupy themselves with? If you remember, the Creator bred people, tribes, races and nations. Could it be that the Rothschilds occupy themselves with the same kind of breeding. Do the Rothschilds equate themselves with the Supreme being?

Were the Rothschilds concerned the "lowly" Eastern European Jewish immigrants would intermingle and breed with the peoples of Western Europe? The Rothschilds were embarrassed by their Eastern European co-religionists. They found them to be work-shy and asocial. Certainly not the kind of blood that should be allowed to mingle with the Nordic stock prized by the Eugenicists of the day. They feared that over time, with millions of Eastern European Jewish immigrants continually pouring into Western Europe, Nordic stock would be forever altered and eventually extinquished.

Such is unsupervised breeding. In the end you get weeds. Just ask botanist Lord Victor Rothschild.

Of course, the Rothschilds, themselves of German-Jewish origin, were pleased with the native Jews of Germany. The Rothschilds, through the efforts of the Warburgs, would transplant these Jews to Palestine. Protecting them from the planned racial cleansing implemented by Rothschild agent, Adolph Hitler. Hitler and Stalin, also a Rothschild agent, would work in concert to eliminate the majority of Eastern European Jewry while their respectable German-Jewish cousins would be allowed to flourish and shine as examples to the rest of the world. The Eastern European Jews, true victims of the capitalist system were to be eliminated.
Their numbers could no longer be allowed to infect the western world.

Spacious America's doors were opened to millions of Eastern European Jews. Unfortunately, the majority did not want to immigrate further west than New York's Lower East Side. By 1908, 50% of the city's criminals were Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Rothschild agent, Jacob Schiff, spent thirty years of his monumental life helping these immigrants assimilate into American society. Then he died. The immigrants kept coming. Finally the doors were closed and the human reservoirs were eliminated. It didn't happen by accident. After sufficient numbers of German Jewish immigrants had reached the shores of Palestine; the fate of the rest of Europe's Jews was sealed.

With the chosen Jews settled in Palestine, the unchosen Jews were eliminated. The rest is history. This history is still sealed.

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