The Shadow State 81 Sykes-Picot & The Balfour Declaration

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0:20 gladio meets secret societies we've been going over the pilgrim society um how are you doing war hamster good been a wonderful week and uh another fun show i'm gonna always gonna i gotta play with some maps today so i will have always have a good time when i get to play with my maps but uh you know it's funny we thought we'd be all the way to treaty versailles like two weeks ago but these just we're just saying for the show there's so much history um and so much bad history

0:48 for this whole time period and so foundational for the entire 20th century and we talked about last week that whole 1901 1902 just changed everything and that's like babysitting took us into world war one that's kind of what we're going to talk about today is how did the us get into world war one and that's an interesting story shall we jump in sure all right let me get my mirror board ready

1:14 You cannot really talk about the U.S. in World War I without talking about Woodrow Wilson. Now, I believe we've been saying that he was officially a Fabian, and I cannot find that document. No, I never said he was officially one. He just acts like one. What I was saying is his history, affiliation with Columbia, which was the designated...

1:42 location for them to kind of set up camp in the United States as far as the collegiate. And then they moved over, according to the history that I've read, then they kind of moved over to Chicago and then into many of the, like Boston, into the economics with the Fabians. So, yeah. Yeah, I'd say the whole Ivy League.

2:11 because he was certainly in contact with them when he became president of Princeton. But let's jump into his story. Woodrow Wilson. Oops, be nice if I have the right part of my nose. Give me one second. All right, born in 1856, died in 1924. He is born in Virginia to Scotch-Irish parents. His father supported the Confederacy. Interesting little history side note. He is one of two...

2:45 U.S. presidents in history that ever lived in the Confederacy. The other one would have been John Tyler, who we call the most constitutional president of all time because he vetoed everything Congress tried to do to the point that his own party kicked him out while he was a sitting president. So interesting side note. His father was a founder of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. So strong Presbyterian background for Woodrow.

3:14 He'd go to several colleges. I'm not going to go through the whole litany because he bounced around a bit, including one called the College of New Jersey, which we now know as Princeton. And again, I'm not going to go to all the details on Woodrow's background like I do with some of these guys because, you know, he's one of the most famous presidents in history. And this is, you know, everyone learned most of the stuff in, you know, as far back as high school or even earlier. Finally becomes a professor in 1885 at a women's college in a place called Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

3:46 where he writes one of his first books, or maybe it's only a paper, but it's called The Study of Administration. And this is important because he basically says public administration should be in its own field, not just a subfield of political science. And when he's talking about public administration, he's talking about the administrative state. Correct. Which wasn't really a term. Basically, I call this, he's like the father of the technocrats. So it's kind of a big deal. This is in the 1880s.

4:20 He was influenced in his writings by none other than one Frederick Hegel. Hegel had a view on how public institutions arise and mediate social conflict. So we need those public administrators. 1890, he joins the Princeton faculty. Sort of gets in politics. He's a Democrat. And in the 1896 Democratic primaries, he rejected.

4:52 The guy who ended up getting their nomination, none other than William Jennings Bryan. He called him too far to the left. You guys got to remember that name because we're going to come back to William Jennings Bryan. He was a regular contributor to something called Political Science Quarterly. It's some kind of a quarterly newspaper magazine. Then he writes a textbook called The State, which was widely used into the 1920s.

5:29 In it he says, governments could legitimately promote the general welfare by forbidding child labor, by supervising the sanitary conditions of factories, by limiting the employment of women in occupations hurtful to their health, by instituting official tests of the purity of the quality of goods sold, by limiting the hours of labor in certain trades, and by 101 limitations

5:53 of the power of unscrupulous or heartless men to outdo the scrupulous and merciful in trade or industry what's that sound like to you the administrative state yeah it's also social welfare or welfare and that's very much uh part of his entire philosophy his version of that and it's going to come up over and over again throughout his career you know when he did when he was in office um

6:21 the administrative state grew exponentially. Right. So this bloat of government we have today, I'd say he's one of the three or four presidents most responsible for that. 1902, he becomes the president of Princeton University and becomes more involved in politics. He starts implementing campus reform and got a lot of funding from a guy by the name of Andrew Carnegie, who once again is a pilgrim.

6:55 And there's that magic year in 1902 again. Yes. So Woodrow worked very hard to keep blacks out of Princeton University while other Ivy League schools were actually opening their doors. He tried to curtail influence of, but this is a great one. He tried to curtail the influence of social elites at Princeton by abolishing the upper class dining clubs. Probably why he was never invited to be a pilgrim or anything.

7:28 He would become disillusioned with all the campus politics, and he decided he was going to get into real politics. So at the 1908 Democratic National Convention, he starts dropping hints that he'd be interested in the nomination, but don't you dare consider me for the vice president. He obviously did not get that nomination. In 1910, he's still in New Jersey. The party bosses had lost like five straight governor elections to him.

8:00 to the Republicans in New Jersey at that point. They're tired of losing, and they decide to push for an unconventional and untested candidate by the name of Woodrow Wilson. His academic reputation made him really an ideal spokesman against the trusts, because this is the trust-busting era. Teddy Roosevelt had just gotten through that, and corruption. He's outspoken against corruption.

8:25 And there's something really interesting going on between the Democrat Party and the Republican Party, which I'll get to in a little bit. But at the time, the Republican Party were seen as very pro-business. And the Democrats, who had previously been small government, were now favoring social welfare. And this is a big, William Jennings Bryan has a lot to do with this, so I'll touch on that a little bit later. But understand that the party shift is starting to happen. So he's the governor of New Jersey. Oh, he's New Jersey.

8:56 Party bosses thought, you know, this guy's inexperienced. We can lead him around by his nose, right? He'll be easy to influence. So he becomes a governor, and he was there from 1911 to 1913. He instead ignores the demands of the party machine, and he starts implementing political reform that curtails corruption. This is important because New Jersey was known as the mother of trusts because the one company that was headquartered in New Jersey was Standard Oil. Standard Oil.

9:30 Rockefeller. And he's sitting there trying to be a follow-up trust buster. Comes interesting. Anyways, he gets a national reputation of being a big part of the progressive movement. We're into the progressive era of politics, which started in 1901 with Teddy Roosevelt. We get to the DNC in 1912, and he gets the Democrat nomination. Let me see something. Okay, we're not going there yet. 1912 election is very interesting. Roosevelt

10:10 who had been president from 1901 to 1908, had supported his vice president, Howard Taft, who was president from 1909 to 1912. Well, Roosevelt gets a little ticked off at Taft because he's too conservative. You know, Roosevelt, the rough rider that everyone thinks is this great Republican? No, he was completely progressive. They thought Taft was too conservative. So he decides to take him on in the Republican primary.

10:39 And it was pretty close, but Taft holds on and wins. So Teddy Roosevelt then launches a third-party bid known as the Bull Moose Party. What's its official name, Colonel? I don't remember. It's the Progressive Party. Progressive, that's right. So when I say Teddy Roosevelt was the first progressive, he's the one who ushered in the progressive era, which gave us all kinds of bad government. The Democrat National Convention was really close. There was a Democrat Speaker of the House by the name of Champ Clark.

11:12 It was pretty popular, and so was Woodrow Wilson. It actually took the Democrats 46 ballots to elect Wilson as their delegate or nomination. And the only thing that happened because a guy by the name of William Jennings Bryant, another progressive, decided to back Wilson instead of Champ Clark. And the Socialist Party, of course, runs its usual candidate, a guy by the name of Eugene Debs. The Socialist Party would be sort of like the Greens today. In that vote, Woodrow Wilson.

11:45 Gets 41.8% of the vote for 435 electoral votes. So again, we have a president taking us to war without a majority of popular support. Teddy Roosevelt will get 27.4% of the vote. Taft got 223.2, so you can see if they didn't split the vote, that would have been 50.6%, and Wilson never becomes president. The Socialist Party got 6%, so it really wasn't that important. Now, something really interesting going on.

12:22 in that campaign. And I'm going to go down here. There's an author by the name of William, I'm sorry, Curtis Dahl. And I got to find this real quick. There it is. And he wrote a book called FDR, My Exploited Father-in-Law. Now, big hat tip to Ron Partain, our good friend who runs the Untold History channel, because Ron...

12:50 uh pointed this out to me more than five years ago and he provided these screenshots for me this week so thank you ron but this is really important we need to read it is it uh can you guys read it from here no go ahead and read it all right well i'm gonna try to blow it up so you can i'm just reading the red highlighted stuff in 1912 the democratic party headquarters of new york city was located on lower fifth avenue oops uh how'd that happen a good friend of mine a young man

13:24 Then a young man spent considerable time at the headquarters working as a sort of messenger boy. He was the son of a well-known New York family of Judaic background, and he related to me the following intriguing story which occurred there right before his eyes. Occasionally on a Saturday morning in the summer of 1912, Bernard Baruch, and we're going to talk about Baruch after this, so don't give away that one. I'm glad you're laughing because he's important. He would walk into the Democratic headquarters with Woodrow Wilson in tow.

13:56 leading him like one would a poodle on a string wilson could be quite solemn-faced in appearance dressed in dark formal clothes having just arrived in new york from trenton according to my friend wilson would be given his special indoctrination course in politics by several of the top advisers assembled there the course consisted chiefly of outlining to him and his agreeing in principle to one

14:24 aiding in pushing the projected Federal Reserve Bank legislation through Congress when Paul Warburg approved the final draft of the proposed act then being worked on. Two, aiding in changing the method of electing U.S. senators by establishing a direct vote of the people, which provided more control over the Senate by the professional politicians. There's your 17th Amendment, people, which you've heard me bitch about nonstop.

14:52 Three, agreeing to aid and introduce the graduated personal income tax, which was brought over here from England, to drain off the results of our individual initiative. All three of those things happened. 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, Federal Reserve Act in 1913. Four, if called upon to lend a sympathetic ear and aid, indicated policy if war should break out in Europe.

15:20 Five, to lend a thoughtful ear to recommendations made by policy in respect to filling key cabinet posts. Wilson dutifully received and absorbed his indoctrination, shook hands all around, and then departed. Whereupon the leaders and advisors went into the back room of headquarters, shut the door, and had a big belly laugh. Someone would then ask, how is our other candidate doing? The other candidate was Theodore Roosevelt, the Bull Moose leader.

15:51 And the strong support of that steering committee in the 1912 election went out to both Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, who had lined up against President Taft. It appeared that President Taft had not been very receptive and disapproved of the political desires expressed by certain pro-Zionist political leaders here in respect to U.S. relations with Russia. Thus, the Republican vote was nearly split by the insurgent Bull Moosers and the Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson won.

16:23 Thoughts? I'm with you so far. I mean, it's basically just rigging the election. Say again? I said it's basically just rigging the election. Yeah, yeah, and rigging both sides of it, which they've never done before anywhere, have they? Right. But it's also a very pro-Pilgrim standpoint, and there are Pilgrims in that room. Yes. The pro-English, but it's also starting to see not only pro-English, but pro-Zionist.

16:56 And 1913 is one of the worst years in American history because of that legislation. Right. That's how we became tax slaves. I'll remind everybody that just two years prior, they created the Tax-Free Foundation. First two were Carnegie and Rockefeller. All right, Bernard Baruch. This is the cover of a book that calls him a financial genius, statesman, and advisor to presidents. And the colonel laughed when I brought up his name because he shows up quite a bit throughout history, yeah? Yes. So Bernard Baruch.

17:30 Born 1870 to 1965. He was born in Camden, South Carolina to a Jewish family. He would later marry into an Episcopalian family. So I do not think that he was a, his career does not make it seem like he's a pro-Zionist or his Jewishness had a real big impact on his viewpoints. His dad was a physician and a Confederate surgeon in the war. They would move to New York City when Bernard was 10. He goes to City College of New York at age 14.

18:02 Gets out of school young, becomes a broker at a company called A.A. Hausman & Company, eventually becomes a partner there. Makes enough money to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange at a very young age. I believe it was about $15,000 across then. It's about $750,000 would be in today's dollars. He made such a fortune by age 30, he started speculating on the sugar market, which was booming in Hawaii and, of course, Puerto Rico.

18:36 annexing hawaii and also the spanish-american war of 1898 and he's one of the people speculating on the sugar he would then go on to found something called the intercontinental rubber company the intercontinental what rubber company okay now you've had rubber's been a big part of some of the gladio operations right yes um both in brazil and vietnam and in um africa

19:09 You want to hear some of his partners in that company that he's founded? Sure. Start with Daniel Guggenheim, who's a huge mining heir, banker named George Foster Peabody, and then a couple of nobodies by the name of Senator Nelson Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller Jr. So Bernard Baruch is rubbing elbows with the big boys, right? Right.

19:40 He is known, his nickname was called the Lone Wolf of Wall Street. That's where that came from, people. He would not work for the big firm. He only worked for himself. 1916, he leaves Wall Street to advise Wilson. This is after helping him with a campaign. He leaves Wall Street to advise Wilson on national defense and the terms of the peace. What the heck, Colonel, does Bernard Baruch know about national defense and terms of peace? Well, it's...

20:14 obviously we're not going to have any peace that was the whole purpose of the federal reserve so that the we could have banker wars um and as far as national defense we understand quite clearly now that none of what our military has done has been in our defense it's always been to facilitate and participate in these wars so

20:44 Funny William Jennings Bryan was it John Nagel and Shaft says William Jennings Bryan was a cowardly lion That's that's a pretty good history lesson there. He was a Wizard of Oz Called William Jennings Bryan the cowardly lion because he was afraid of the gold standard the Wizard of Oz the yellow brick road All of that is a banking. It's a story about banking. So nice nice catch there John We'll get more when it wins James Bryan in a second. All right He later

21:18 becomes the chairman of the War Industries Board. And that's really interesting. A Wall Street banker is in charge of War Industries Board. It just shows you how it's the multinational corporations that are running the show already. Later on, he would oppose the strict penalties on Germany and Versailles and supported the League of Nations. That's parallel with Woodrow Wilson's views, so you don't know who actually supported that. A little bit later in the 1930s, despite all his connections, there was something called the Nine Committee.

21:52 that was invest congressional committee to investigating war profiteering and he got investigated nothing happened no slap on the wrist no nothing but apparently he made a lot of money in world war one have you seen that before yes every time uh later on world war ii fdr would appoint him as special advisor to the director of the office of war mobilization um but we'll get to that later we'll get to world war ii eventually and last little side note on um bernard baruch

22:24 was he was very good, close personal friends with none other than Pilgrim Winston Churchill. And just to close that up, from my research, the modern day version of him would be a George Soros type guy, with this exception. Bernard was very, very actively involved in mentoring.

22:54 what will become some of the biggest military leaders in the next several decades. Among those that I found was John Pershing, George Marshall, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Good points. All right, let's get to our next character. You can't talk about Woodrow Wilson without talking about Colonel Edward Mandel House. His keeper?

23:33 I would call him his handler. Yes, there you go. That's the word. And we've already made it pretty clear that Woodrow Wilson was being handled. So why did Colonel House get to be that guy? By the way, he's no colonel. He never performed in the military in his life. It's an honorary title that he gave himself, but he made sure everyone called him Colonel House. It's a little irritating, don't you think? Yeah, I don't refer to him as Colonel House. I refer to him as Ed. All right, Ed.

24:06 Fair enough, Ed. He was a senior advisor to Wilson. Where did he come from? He came from Texas. He was a big backroom politician. He was a kingmaker. He basically had put like four consecutive governors on the throne in Texas. He was always a guy who worked behind the scenes, never really wanted the publicity. Colonel House, sorry, Ed House, he had a real technocratic vision of government.

24:38 If you listen to some of the things he said, they'd be repeated up through the 1930s. And you might even see that the fascists, I'm sorry, the Nazis copied some of the things that he talked about. So he was perfect to work with Woodrow Wilson. We've got technocrats working with technocrats. You'd also be at the Paris Peace Conference, which we're hoping to get to next week, behind the scenes, though.

25:06 about Ed House is he's a huge admirer of the British liberal welfare reforms. And we're right in the heart of the progressive era of America, which completely transformed this country, created a welfare state, and basically gave us unburdened, just government burdens that we're still dealing with today to the point where I don't want to get to where our taxes are today. We work like six months of the year before we see our first dollar. And this all happened under these guys' watch.

25:37 So, all right, so we're going to the cause of World War I. And a lot of people think it had to do with the sinking of the Lusitania. Well, can I, before we transition, I want to read a quote. He actually, House went to school at a private school in England during his childhood. So there's that connection as far as the whole Fabian story goes as well.

26:11 He also I found a quote. I I'm not sure if this is his wiki page or whatever, but it says that he was very interested in the British welfare reforms. Yeah. And yeah, that quote is so important because what he's praising the Britain for instituting income tax.

26:41 old age pensions and basically mandating different types of insurance. And those all come to pass due to his handling of Wilson. And so he has a very close relationship. As a matter of fact, I read where his daughter was presented to the English royal family.

27:11 So he has a very close relationship across the pond. Yeah, and it's obviously, which is incredibly important because what we're talking about, the Anglo-American relationship, the Pilgrim Society. Correct. Bear with me one second. I need to double check something. And I'd also add the only way that somebody that grows up in Texas and takes the...

27:49 that he has and basically buys himself a place in the New York society, gets involved in railroads and banking and stuff like that. And he's one of those kind of a bootstrap guys that thrusts himself into this Eastern group. Yes.

28:18 He needed a niche, and his niche is going to be being involved in this Fabian Pilgrim's kind of reshaping of America. Yeah, and if anybody's followed any of the stuff I do on the Constitution, you know that this stuff drives me nuts because the only moral purpose for a government is to secure your God-given natural rights of life, liberty, and property. Anything else is tyranny.

28:46 Yeah, he's supposed to handle defense, international affairs, but anything else the government does is it starts to slip or slope down to full-on socialism, which eventually ends in totalitarianism of one form or another. Right. And it's been happening in our country incrementally, you know, as far back as Hamilton, the first bank of the United States. And it just continues to get worse. And one thing the government never does is gives back any ground at all. Correct. So there's like, you know, I talk about this stuff more on the Federalist Show, where we talk about...

29:15 and I get into the constitutional stuff. But I'm actually holding back my anger when I talk about these people in the progressive era because I hate it. I mean, I'd like to undo everything in 1913. In fact, I'd like to undo that entire 20-year period. I agree. I'd like to undo FDR. Absolutely. I'd like to undo LBJ and his great society. Yep. All of that stuff. And it's just been incrementally that government takes more and more power. We no longer live in a constitutional or federal republic like we're supposed to.

29:45 It is becoming full-blown. I don't even know if that gives us the right term for it, but it is a technocracy. It is the administrative state. It is so close to democracy. It's scary. And that 17th Amendment is a big part of that. These are all the architects of that. So I'm not doing justice to how much I hate 1913. All right. Now can I sink the boat? Yes. I want to sink the boat. The Lusitania, May 7, 1915.

30:15 German U-boats are basically being used to counter. The war is on already. Germany, the Central Powers, and the Allies are already fighting it out in Europe. We already talked about Churchill's falling. It's already happened. America is basically staying independent or neutral at the time, and that's basically because the American people do not want any war. We have an isolationist history. We're staying out of European wars. That's what the American people wanted.

30:43 We've already talked about how some major business interests like JP Morgan and friends and a lot of the pilgrims wanted America into the war. And they were using propaganda to make that happen. Well, at the time, America, as they're paying JP Morgan 1% on everything we ship to Europe, the German U-boats are countering the British naval blockade. And the German sub sinks this British passenger, the RMS Lusitania. 1,200 people are killed.

31:14 including 128 Americans. There's some theories out there about whether Lusitania was sunk intentionally to get America into the war. Any thoughts on that? So from what I've read, they're on the military side. They put weapons on the Lusitania. And knowing that during this period of time,

31:48 code breaking going on and so there i i've read many different books about the fact that the the germans were well aware of the english who wanted to get us into the war slipped this leaked this information that there was whether it's true or not there was communication that

32:20 the passenger piece of this was almost like a cover for them to be able to get weapons to the British. And that is what made it a target for the Germans. Almost a false flag. Yeah, I wouldn't say almost. I would say it was a false flag, and the communication leak that there were weapons on it was what prompted that. Okay.

32:50 I was hoping you were going to go there. So obviously this outrages Americans because Americans got killed, and it started to strain our relationships with Germany. Remember, we were neutral at the time. Woodrow Wilson would then go, you know, later on. Let's get to that in a second. So Wilson then demands Germany stop attacking passenger ships, and Germany temporarily restricts their submarine campaign because they wanted to avoid drawing the U.S. into the war. This is called the Sussex Pledge.

33:22 So the U-boats are benched or beached. Secretary of State at the time was none other than William Jennings Bryan. He would resign his post over the handling of the Lusitania because he thought we were too aggressive with it. He wanted to stay out of war. He would immediately be replaced by none other than Robert Lansing. And we're going to talk more about Lansing probably next week. But I want to just touch on Bryan right now.

33:55 As we talked about the Wizard of Oz, he was one of America's first populists. And, of course, he was anti-big business, which made him a Republican. He hated the robber barons, so that makes him a Democrat. He wanted a lot of labor reforms. He was a big proponent of the free silver project. We were on a gold standard, and silver was not being able to be used for coinage. And that really punished the Western states.

34:26 where the silver was being mined. Wall Street gained more power by keeping silver out of it. And that's where that Wizard of Oz story comes in that was mentioned in chat. The yellow brick road was the gold road. There's actually a couple of great videos out there that just tell that whole story, so I'll leave it to that. He gave a famous cross of gold speech where he attacked the gold standard, said America's going to die on a cross of gold. I guess that's probably...

34:58 There's a picture of him giving that. William Jennings Bryan, the Cross of Gold speech. He was a brilliant orator. He would end up being a three-time Democratic candidate for president, but never won. And even though he was an opponent of Woodrow Wilson from time to time, Woodrow Wilson did name him as Secretary of State, and then he would resign in 1915 after Lusitania. Robert Lansing.

35:27 It's a very interesting character. Like I said, we've got to go into more detail on him. He was a big advocate for American involvement in World War I. He married the daughter of former Secretary of State, got a name of John Foster. Foster's daughter, Edith, married a Presbyterian minister named Alan Macy Dulles, and their two sons were John Foster Dulles and Alan Dulles.

35:58 So we've got three secretaries of state out of one family. Do you want to tell me we are not inbred? I want to go into more detail on that story because that was one of my first rabbit holes when I really started going into this period of history. But it's a big Ohio connection with that family. And I'll get into it next week. So there's a little teaser. But Lansing wanted us in war. Lansing was influential in the Treaty of Versailles. Lansing got his way. We've got the propaganda. Hang on, let me find it.

36:35 oh yes now we've got all the propaganda going on i want you for the u.s army came a little bit later they're doing advertising the newspapers to make the germans seem like monsters destroy this mad brute and enlist and i can't read german so i don't know what this says but they were basically calling the germans evil blaming germany for starting the war which was already covered that they did not agreed yep

37:08 And, of course, they would then again go with the propaganda to the women, join the workforce, fuel the front lines. So that's our propaganda exploding into time period. In 1917, German U-boats resumed attacks on all ships in the war zone around Britain. Okay, good. Hang on, I just want to get the right place. And there's a lot written about the fact that House was instrumental in getting Lansing.

37:55 appointed as secretary of state so just keep that in mind too yeah thank you um talk more about that next week when you do the lansing deeper dive yeah um real quick was lance i believe that lansing was a pilgrim but let me double check that real quick i'll have to double check that next week okay okay so the germans start resuming their u-boats on all ships in a war zone around britain german idea

38:31 is that they could starve Britain into submission before the U.S. could mobilize. And Wilson responds by breaking diplomatic relationships with Germany on February 3rd. Now, the dates here are important. Soon thereafter, the German subs would sink several American merchant ships. So that's getting us really close to war. But we're not there yet. Then something called the Zimmerman Telegram comes out.

39:06 in January of 1917, just before the German U-boats started, about the exact same time. This is a telegram from the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, where he's supposed to have sent a secret coded telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico, where he would propose a military alliance with Mexico. Allegedly, this is intercepted by British intelligence. But I'm going to read these 67 words, because it's important.

39:41 This is the English translation. We intend to begin the 1st of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis. We make war together. We make peace together. We will give you generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory

40:12 in texas new mexico and arizona the settlement in detail is left to you you will inform the president of mexico of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the united states of america is certain and add the suggestion that he should on his own initiative invite japan to immediate adherence and at the same time mediate between japan and ourselves please call the president attention to the fact that the ruthless employment of our submarines

40:43 now offers the prospect of compelling England to make peace within a few months. Acknowledge receipt, signed Zimmerman. Mexico at the time was in the midst of a revolution. They did not have any military capacity to invade the United States, and they doubted German support across the Atlantic. They would formally decline this offer in April of 1917 after the U.S. had already entered the war. Now, it was intercepted by the British intel and shared with the U.S.

41:18 Is it legitimate? Was it fake? Well, your thoughts first. I'll just tell you right now. Zimmerman himself publicly confirmed the telegram in March of 1917. So that's what the historians are going to say. It was legitimate. But I know you've got thoughts on this. Well, I look at what the end result is and the fact that the circumstances when he does admit it is, in my book, suspect.

41:50 the fact that this is there we've already established that they're building up a false premise for getting America into the war right anything that comes out of the UK that feeds into that narrative is suspect so I don't know that we'll ever have a definitive answer but I would fall in line with

42:17 the dominoes of getting the U.S. into the war and that it not being true. Yeah, it's just to me, it's such an absolutely ridiculous strategy. Germany's going to stalemate stuff like that. Do you really expect Mexico to try to invade us? No. Yeah, I mean, it's just a little bit too fanciful for me. Germany knew that Mexico was in the middle of a civil war.

42:44 And they could not mount an effective anything against the United States. And so the entire premise of it in the context, now it's really good to look back on it now and not know all of the details of what was going on and think that it's probable that something like that could have happened, but not with what we know about.

43:09 this entire period in the context of that they would have been no benefit at all germany was not stupid and the fact that um they you you can't get somebody in the middle of a civil war to mount a war that's external to their country they they didn't even have any capacity to do that but it serves a perfect tool to

43:37 Create a telegram, pretend like it's real, and then use that as the impetus to get the United States into the war because they have no ability to know the outcome unless the U.S. gets into the war. Yeah. And if you want to start a war with America, just go mess with Texas. That's a really good idea. Yeah. As a Texan, I can assure you that's not going to work out very well.

44:01 The Brits shared the telegram with Woodrow Wilson on February 24th. The U.S. press would publish it widely on March 1st. Now the American people are saying, you know, now they're rip-roaring ready for war. This whole anti-war isolationist sentiment has been buried. On April 4th, the Senate approves the war revolution on a vote of 82 to 6. The House passes it 373 to 50. Wilson signs the treaty the same day, and we are now at war with Germany. We declare war on Austria-Hungary.

44:31 uh about seven months later so that is how america got into world war one and a lot of people had a lot of motives to make that happen and a lot of very interesting developments it took to get the american people behind it from propaganda who were sitting in the northeast of the united states yes same as it always was all right let's shift gears a little bit we're not going to be world war one historians and talk about all the battles

45:04 But I do want to talk about the Balfour Declaration. And there's a lot to know about this. I guess we should probably share the screen. That's not what I want. Try that again. There you are. There he goes. The Earl of Balfour. So the Balfour Declaration was released on November 2, 1917. It is a letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour. Pilgrim.

45:48 Do none other than Lord Walter Rothschild. Okay. And this is the 67 Ward letter. I'm going to get that up on page. His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object. It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done.

46:18 which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. That last little bit, the non-Jewish communities in Palestine, is very important. And we're going to get to that a little bit more later. 67 words that changed the world, and Balfour didn't actually write them. So here's some details on this.

46:50 Basically, the letter is asking, the letter then would ask Rothschild to convey this statement to the Zionist Federation. Zionist Federation was about 30 organizations, about 50,000 affiliated members. The Zionist Federation is still active today, and they're doing, really working hard on the anti-BDS movement. And let me just emphasize here, we're not in World War II, people. We're in World War I. Indeed. And really the thought behind this.

47:21 there's this idea that, well, the Zionists are trying to sell the idea that, well, if you back a Zionist nation in Israel, stuff like that, all the Jews are going to support you because they're all Zionists. And what else is going to happen? Remember, this is November 17. The U.S. is already in the war, but you're going to get all the Jews in America to put their money behind this effort because everyone's a Zionist. And that's really the thought behind this. So let's talk about... It's like hanging out a little piece of treat for your dog.

47:53 Yeah, and I'm going to disprove today that everyone's a Zionist who's Jewish because it's clearly not the case. But that was what they were trying to do. James Balfour, Lord Arthur James Balfour, born in 1848, lived in 1930. He was the conservative prime minister of England from 1902 to 1905. Oh, wait a minute. What was going on in 1902 to 1905? Isn't that when all the shit was created? Yeah.

48:26 Maybe the Pilgrim Society? Yeah, good catch. Okay. He would later become the foreign secretary for liberal Lloyd George during the war in 1916-1919. Lloyd George is a liberal. Earl Balfour was a conservative, but this is a coalition government to fight the war. He was the chief secretary for Ireland after entering Parliament in 1874. He always opposed Irish home rule and suppressed unrest. His uncle...

48:59 was a guy by the name of Lord Salisbury, who we just talked about from the Society of the Elect. In 1891, Balfour would lead the conservative party in the House of Commons while his uncle, Lord Salisbury, was the PM. How would you feel if we had a president of the United States whose cousin or relative was like the Speaker of the Senate? All right. And of course, when his...

49:31 uncle stepped down from the prime minister that's when balfour stepped up um he would get a lot of heat because you know for the boer wars and a lot of it had to do with the chinese slavery they were they're using chinese slaves in south africa and the boer wars which colonels talked about non-step but that's when he was the prime minister wait wait i thought the british was the one that did away with slavery go ahead sorry i just had to throw that out there

50:00 Just like in America, the North freed the slaves and then created slave-like working conditions in their factories and on the railroad chain gangs. Yeah, just like that. Because it was a cheaper business model and you don't have to house and feed them. But didn't we bring in Chinese to work on all the railroads too? Yes, we did. Quite a few. Yeah. Yeah, and those atrocious working conditions led to the labor unions, which is why, as we go through this history of the late 1800s,

50:28 There was a need for labor unions. They just got captured by the progressive ideas. We're seeing the reverse of that today. All right. The Conservatives lose badly in 1906. He resigns from PM. So he's back in Parliament. In 1911, there's something called the Parliament Act of 1911, which is a really interesting part of British history.

50:59 They were getting a lot of deadlock because the House of Commons would want to do one thing and the House of Lords would block them. And this act basically asserted the supremacy of the House of Commons. In the British Constitution, there's something about the only the House of Commons can initiate bills that have to do with spending. We imitated that in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, although it was hotly debated. Come watch my show, The Federalist Report, as we go through Madison's notes to the convention, because we're talking about that right now every Wednesday.

51:31 Basically, it's limited legislation, kind of limited the blocking powers of the House of Lords. There's a guy who influenced this, and I don't think I brought his picture. No, I didn't. Sure, I didn't. I did not. A guy by the name of A.V. Dicey is a British Whig jurist and constitutional theorist. He wrote something called The Introduction to the Study of Law and the Constitution. He was one of the very first professors of law at something known as the London School of Economics.

52:14 He's the guy who popularized the phrase rule of law. He was a Benthamite, Jeremy Bentham, who was the founder of modern utilitarianism. Again, Dicey was the opponent to Irish home rule, opposed to women's suffrage, opposed to, he opposed what's called the right to ignore unjust laws. And he's the guy who introduced something called parliamentary sovereignty.

52:38 which basically is that the legislative body has absolute sovereignty over executive or judicial bodies. Congress is king, is what he's saying. Congress can repeal, or their version of Congress can repeal any previous legislation, not bound by written law or precedent. This is this whole idea that they think that our Democrats today think that if you get 50% plus one, they can change the Constitution or anything they want. This all comes from this guy, Dicey.

53:07 He's the one reason they got the Parliament Act of 1911 that the Earl of Balfour opposed. So important piece of history there. Remember, England and America are maybe cousins, but we are not the same. We are founded on a totally different system with a totally different constitution. But these pilgrims and these Fabians came over here and they brought their ideas. And for the love of God, the New England elites keep trying to impose them upon us incrementally over the last century.

53:37 so that's why i bring this up lord balfour would succeed winston churchill as the first lord of the admiralty in 1915 after churchill screwed up and then balfour becomes the foreign minister in 1916. he would resign after the treaty of versailles he is listed in pilgrim records beginning in 1914 and as long late as 1927 he is absolutely a pilgrim

54:08 He's the guy that presided over the banquet in 1917, the Pilgrim's Banquet, that welcomed the United States into war. So that is Lord Balfour. Now his counterpart on this letter was the Right Honorable Lord Rothschild. This is Walter Rothschild. We are going to do a show at some point going through all the Rothschilds, dismissing some of the theories, showing you which ones are true and which ones aren't. But the bottom line is the Rothschilds...

54:40 one of the most powerful banking families in history. They are Jewish. They came from Germany. Many of them were Zionists, and a lot of their money did go towards the founding of Israel. Those are all factually true. Some of the other stuff that you see online, a little bit exaggerated, but we're going to get into some of it today, but that deserves a show of its own, so people don't get upset that I'm not going to call them the Antichrist or go through their entire history. So who is Lord Walter, 1868 to 1937?

55:10 He's a banker, a zoologist, a soldier. He's the eldest son of Nathan Rothschild, who was the first Baron Rothschild and also the first Jewish peer in England. Money will get that for you. But he's a zoologist and didn't really like the banking, so he would keep kangaroos and exotic birds as pets. He actually gave up banking in 1908, and his parents would have found a zoological museum for him.

55:41 He spent most of his time taking expeditions all over the world to seek out unusual animals. But he's also a very active Zionist. So the reason they wrote this letter to Lord Rothschild was because they thought his name was so important, it would give it weight among the other Zionists. But that's about as important as Lord Walter Rothschild was. He wasn't a very serious man. But somehow he was part of this. Now, who really wrote the letter was Lord Il...

56:15 Lord Milner. Oh, wait. Okay. And a guy by the name of Leo Amory. Should be a household name. Yep. So Leo Amory is an interesting guy. He was born in British India. His dad was English and his mother was a Hungarian Jew. He would go to a boarding school called the Harrow School where he was an excellent student. One of the underclassmen while he was there was a guy by the name of Winston Churchill. There's some anecdotal stories between the two of them.

56:51 Maybe they didn't quite get along so well at times in school, but I'm not going to bother with that. He'd go to Oxford where he was in All Souls. Leo Amory was always a very active Freemason. And you can find him in Pilgrim Society records beginning as far back as 1920 all the way through 1952. Leo is a conservative party politician and journalist. There's that media connection again. Yep. He was a correspondent for the Times, big London newspaper.

57:28 during the second boer war why does that boer war keep coming up in these stories because it's intermixed with all of these players um the the milner group um and and i find it interesting that this guy um origins is india which then indicates that his parents were involved in the milner um uh

58:00 expedition into India to basically set it up like they had South Africa through this integration or infiltration and so you just see all of these playing out in a ripple effect that these people operate in like a a vacuum of this is what they're going to do and you're just moving the pieces on the chessboard

58:27 Yeah, and it's part of this whole Anglo-American empire going on. And, you know, we may have the different sides of the aisle there between conservatives and liberals, or what we call, you say fascist versus socialist, corporatist versus socialist. At the end of the day, we all know that throughout the 20th century, they ended up working together. And as far back as 1902, we could see them starting to work together when they have common interests. It's just a matter of, you know, it's going to be bigger government.

58:55 It's going to eventually be a totalitarian authoritarian state. It's just a question of who's going to run it. Right. And his name comes up a lot in the Fabian reading. A lot. Well, it's about to come up here. Okay. So when he's in the Boer Wars, he's a correspondent just like Churchill. And when Churchill got captured, Leo Amory almost got captured with Churchill. I've got a note here that says he's critical of free trade. When they say free trade, I say that with a caveat because when the British call free trade and when I call free trade are two totally different things. Yes. I just wanted to point that out.

59:27 He was a member of something called the Coefficient's Dining Club, which was set up in 1902 by none other than Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The Fabians. Yes. So another example of a pilgrim out with Fabians. Correct. The Coefficient's Dining Club, they were imperialist reformers. And the big names there that were part of this dining club, a guy by the name of Halford Mackinder.

1:00:01 who we've talked about because he's the Lennon School of Economics director from 1903 to 1908. And McKinder was also one of the founders of what we call geopolitics. Another person at that dining club is none other than Alfred Milner. And then there was Bertrand Russell. And another big name that popped off was none other than H.G. Wells. Right. We'll have to spend some time at H.G. Wells one of these days because we keep mentioning him and I never go into any depth. We'll have to circle back to H.G.

1:00:35 So World War I breaks out. Leo Amory was an intelligence officer, of course, because he knew Hungarian. And he's there in the Balkans campaign, which we talked about a little bit with Serbia and things like that when we were looking at Churchill's folly. But he's a British intel agency in that part of the war. He's a guy that was always pushing for military preparedness, a British India, pushed the British Empire, and he was absolute opposition to appeasement with Germany.

1:01:05 So this guy is a war hawk. Fair enough? Yes. So he's working for the cabinet secretariat in Lloyd George's government. He would push for what's called the All Red Route to India. Did I map that? I think I did. Nope, I didn't. This basically consists of we want English control of the Suez Canal. We want British control of the Cape of Good Hope around South Africa. We want British control of the land routes to India and the Middle East.

1:01:40 Pretty much anything from the East-West trade, he wanted Britain to have the monopoly on it. Right. He viewed the Russian alliance as temporarily necessary, but that's it. He would argue vociferously about the German threat. And he, you know, when they're starting to get ready to think about peace, one of the ideas, and we'll get into this with Treaty of Versailles, one of the ideas is we return the German colonies to them. And he's saying, hell no.

1:02:15 He wanted more British armies in the Caucasus region and into Persia and Central Asia. Because England could afford that at this point, huh? And it was Milner, Lord Milner, who asked him to rewrite the Balfour Declaration. And it's a really important thing here. I'm going to go back to the Balfour Declaration. It promised a Jewish home and not a Jewish state, which is a big difference. Right. Because the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities. This angered a lot of the Zionists.

1:02:53 And it's obviously been an issue to this very day. Jewish wouldn't obviously get their state in 1947, 48, and that would change a little bit. But that is the ball for a declaration. It's a big deal. And the fact that it was written by a Fabian and a pilgrim. Yes. That's the piece that always gets left out.

1:03:25 A little bit more about Amory. He'll show up again because he was involved in the Treaty of Versailles. He was very much opposed to the League of Nations, but his reasoning is interesting. He said, you know, the League of Nations treats all nations as equal. And he says, all nations are not equal. England is still superior. He'd go on to become the first Lord of the Admiralty from 1922 to 1924, and then the Colonial Secretary from 1924 to 1929.

1:03:56 And again, the colonial secretaries in charge of their commonwealth around the world. Yeah, it's really important. He says basically to be our secretary of state for the colonies. And he wanted to develop colonies into white-ruled dominions, places like Rhodesia, Kenya, Palestine, try to create East African dominions in Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, which the League of Nations actually blocked.

1:04:27 So we know how all that turned out, but this is the guy who's pushing for the white, you know, white rule dominant, you know, dominion. And obviously that was the anti-colonial period three decades later would reverse all that. Well, kind of. To some degree, yeah. 1930s, he has an interesting career. He kind of goes into the private life and he sits on the boards of directors of quite a few companies.

1:04:58 including several German metal engineering companies. As the Nazis are coming into power and starting to rearm themselves, reindustrialize, he's sitting on the boards of directors. And actually, Hitler found it alarming that there is a Brit on board of directors of German companies. The two of them actually met in the 1930s, Hitler and Amory. Amory also met with Mussolini at one point. And of course, he would become the chairman of the Iraq Currency Board.

1:05:31 which is an interesting gig. In the 1930s, Amory would advocate for a bigger army. While Churchill is working for a bigger Air Force and Roger Keyes is pushing for a bigger Navy, Amory wants a bigger army. It's a bit of a tug-of-war of where the money should be spent. And he's, again, he finds the League of Nations useless. And he's very critical of appeasement of Germany. And we'll get more into that later. It was Amory, in 1940, debate in the House of Commons. It's called the Norway Debate.

1:06:04 where he attacked Neville Chamberlain for incompetence in a fight against Hitler. That forced Chamberlain to resign and was replaced by none other than Winston Churchill. So Leo Amory is a name we should know a lot more about, and he's a very influential guy, huh? He brought Churchill in. Oh, yeah. He's the guy who got rid of Chamberlain. And he was a war hawk. All right. Let's get to the real story behind the Balfour Declaration, though, because there's more to it.

1:06:37 It was a financial and political transaction more than anything else. It's a deal struck between a bankrupt empire in the hopes of survival. That's what England was at the time, despite what Leo Amory thought. Britain had built the greatest empire in human history with a dominant navy and a global reserve currency in 1914, entering the war. But the industrial-scale war changes everything, and it needs constant money. The costs are off the charts.

1:07:05 In 1914, British total debt was about 650 million pounds. By 1919, it's 7.7 billion pounds, more than tenfold increase in five years. Britain goes from a creditor nation to a debtor. And they owed a lot of that money to America, and now Wall Street takes over for the city of London as the banking capital of the world. They owe J.P. Morgan a loan of $400 million. Something happens in 1917.

1:07:37 Because of all that debt, Woodrow Wilson urged the U.S. banks to curb their loans to England and France. This gives the U.S. a ton of leverage in negotiating with their European allies, not just during the war, but in post-war. And that is the whole thing Wilson was doing, is positioning America to be the power center after World War I. And it had all to do with banking. At the time, Palestine was actually a province of the Ottomans still.

1:08:08 And they had about 700,000 people there. They're mostly Arab, Muslims, and Christians, with Jews making up about 10% of the population. And you go back to the final line of the Balfour Declaration, and nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities. They put that in there for a reason. Enter a guy by the name of Chaim Wiseman. I think it's Chaim. That's how you say it. In fact, I know that.

1:08:48 Very important part of this story. Kayim Wiseman, who they should have written a letter to, is a Russian-born Jew, became a biochemist, studying in Germany and Switzerland, before immigrating to England in 1904. He would develop a bacterial fermentation process for producing acetone. Acetone is needed for thermite. You need thermite for artillery shells. England's shooting thousands of artillery shells a day at the Germans. This guy was an incredibly valuable person.

1:09:19 And Churchill himself approaches Kayim for help to basically produce, get mass production, excuse me, mass production going. The war probably, without Kayim, the war probably ends in about a lot sooner because it would have ran out of ammunition. So Wiseman was a Zionist, very good friends with politicians like the Lord George and Balfour. There's another Zionist by the name of Herbert Samuel, initially mistrusted by Kayim as a type of...

1:09:52 quote, type of Jew who by his very nature is opposed to us. But Samuel would end up writing an important memo with options for Palestine in 1915. So they end up working together. Those are two of the big names of the Zionist movement. Balfour then says to Kayim Wiseman, how can we repay you for your help in the war? And of course he asks for a Jewish homeland. He's the one who makes the claim that most Jews are Zionists who would help England, which turned out not to be true. It was exaggerated.

1:10:27 And he said that he's the guy who said the pro-Zionist stance would attract the U.S. support. And that didn't quite work that way. At the time, the Bolsheviks had already taken over, so the intent of the Balfour Declaration of keeping Russia in the war was moot, but they still dissented. And why was the letter addressed to Rothschild over Weizmann? It's a signal to American Jewish banking interests. It is propaganda, and it's to push America deeper into the war.

1:10:58 The other important name to know about the Zionist movement there is a guy by the name of, I believe it's Cherm Sokolow. And he was the president of the World Zionist Organization. He and Chaim were disappointed that it didn't grant a Jewish homeland. Weissman would later go on to become the very first president of Israel in 1949. So kind of important names, part of all this. So Britain had already made other promises about Palestine and the rest of the Middle East.

1:11:35 which is a bit of a problem. A guy by the name of Sir Harry McMahon had sent letters back and forth with Hussein ibn Ali, who's the emir of Mecca, about post-war, we're going to have an independent Arab state. And Hussein would claim to be representing all Arabs, and he sought the independence for the entirety of Arabic-speaking lands east of Egypt. This kind of segues into the Lawrence of Arabia story. England's...

1:12:10 trying to get the arabs to fight against the ottomans and i'm going to pass the baton to that over to the colonel so um just a little bit about lawrence um thomas edward lawrence 1888-1935 he was a british archaeologist military officer diplomat and writer what's interesting about this is

1:12:39 from the research that we've done there are certain disciplines archaeology is one of them and geologists or another that we begin to recognize are actually actually used as intelligence so they have the cover story of going around doing quote unquote archaeology or geology just mapping um creating maps and stuff like that but all of this

1:13:08 is part of an intelligence structure because when you look at how these things operate being able to have people in foreign countries especially hostile foreign countries that you may have conflict with under the use of a university or whatever doing archaeology digs is a very big deal and the fact that Lawrence also

1:13:38 was in the military is very telling. So, basically, it's interesting that he gets married and he leaves his legal wife and hooks up with his kids' governess. They never marry. They track around all over. But,

1:14:09 he's originally spends all of his time before he while he's not on his junkets in oxford around all of these same people that we've been talking about this entire time so um the the very and oxford is one of the sponsors of his um archaeologist um fellowships and

1:14:41 source of money behind him, which to me is very telling as well. So he learns Arabic and he travels extensively through that region. And he also surveyed the Sinai area for the Palestine Exploration Fund and published a report on it. So at the outbreak of war in 1914,

1:15:11 He joins the British Army. And where does he work in all of the Army? Oh, just the intelligence area, right? So he's now an official intelligence officer for the British Army. And specifically, his original assignment was in Cairo, which just plays right into everything that Warhamster just laid out. However, he was sent as a liaison officer to the Hashemite forces led by Sharif,

1:15:41 hussein and he also is very involved with emir faisal that name should be familiar for everybody in the arabian area so his purpose during this time was to arrange an arab revolt so basically you have the ottoman empire that is um

1:16:11 on the non-allied force right they're they're aligned with germany federal powers so what his mission was is to go to their rear go into the heart of the ottoman empire and basically start a revolt a revolution and how does he do that

1:16:40 Well, interestingly enough, if you read the descriptions of how he did it, it looks a lot like Gladio. He goes around to all of these different tribal people, and he's basically promising them the leadership, the leaders, the leadership of a country, because they're going to remap all of the area.

1:17:09 And so he's doing deals with all of these people so that he can then basically create guerrilla forces that operate inside of the Ottoman Empire to attack them using guerrilla tactics. So he's creating insurgents in the Ottoman Empire. That's the bottom line. There's a lot about how all that went, but he's doing Gladio inside the Ottoman Empire.

1:17:38 Without a doubt. And they're making promises to all these tribal leaders. While halfway across the world, they're doing the Balfour Declaration. And at the same time, something else is going on. Hang on, try that again. Trying to share my screen. There we go. Please put that up. We've got the French and the English negotiating something called the Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916. And you can see, they're going to have a little bit of area in international control.

1:18:13 You know, the British control up here in the red. And Iraq is going to be under British influence. And some blue, dark blues in French control. Light blue is French influence. The Syria part, that's really interesting because you talked about Hussein, who's negotiating with his British counterpart. His son, Faisal, would show up at a peace conference in 1920 making his claim for Syria. And they said, nah, we're going to give that to England. Or, sorry, France. And Faisal was a little ticked off about it. So they got him.

1:18:43 basically the arabs got completely undercut because england's making promises to three different groups and uh it's interesting here's a finding fun map with ottoman palestine after 1888 all this whole area of syria they're talking about and of course this is jerusalem down here but this is the area they're really talking about um it's a little bit more about sykes picot

1:19:16 A secret treaty between the UK, France, with assent from Russia and Italy. Remember, this is 1916. It's about how to partition the Ottoman Empire once they're done. They were going to leave Turkey, have the littlest piece of the pie. They still have a little bit of a country. Palestine would be internationally controlled. Well, what happens is the Bolsheviks come into power, and they find this agreement, and they publish it, and the Arabs are furious.

1:19:49 and I don't think they've stopped being furious ever since. But that's really, you can see the duplicity, or the triplicity, I guess it's called, of what the English are doing, trying to carve up the Middle East before the war's even won. You mean they lied? Yeah, it's British imperialism at its finest. I wanted to hit on one other topic real quick with the Rothschilds, and we have time to do it, because it really does matter.

1:20:20 Going on at the time is a guy by Edmund James de Rothschild. He is from the French side branch of the Rothschild banking family. He's a huge supporter of Zionism, although not exactly an active participant. He's really interested in arts and philanthropy and not banking, but he's a guy who bankrolled, wait for it, many archaeological digs in Egypt. Yeah. He's the largest employer in Palestine, and he spent decades investing there.

1:20:52 He's a guy who believes in friendship with the Arab neighbors with a twist. In 1931, he says, we must hold them down with a strong hand. And then in 1934, he writes the League of Nations, the struggle to put an end to the wandering Jews could not have as its result the creation of the wandering Arab. So when they talk about Jews were already colonizing Lebanon prior to

1:21:22 the Balfour Declaration. This is Edmund D. James de Rothschild's commercial interests, and some workers are coming, but the population is still 90% Arab and 10% Jewish. This would change. And they were not on a financially level playing field. The Jews were far wealthier at the time. There's another Rothschild, Lionel de Rothschild, who matters. Very dapper young man. Lionel, born in 1882 to 1942, he was a...

1:21:54 British banker and conservative politician, but he's more interested in horticulture than he was in banking. Kind of an interesting trend. You know, I always say that the Rothschilds banking influence, you know, as big as it once was, it would filter out as it would be kind of diluted through the generations. Well, this is what happened. Not all of them go into banking. Some of them, you know, decide to do other things that don't make money. And it's very common with all these uber wealthy families.

1:22:25 This guy goes to the House of Commons in 1910, Lionel. In 1917, he's a co-founder of the Anti-Zionist League of British Jews, which opposes the Balfour Declaration and does not believe that Jews constitute a separate nationality. He considers himself British, not Jewish. So here you have one Rothschild who is pro-Zionist, and here we have another who is anti-Zionist. There is no homogeneity. They're not homogenous, even in the same family.

1:22:58 Interestingly enough, Lionel has five children, one of whom would be a gentleman by the name of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, born 1882 to 19, I'm sorry, his son is Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, 1916 to 2009, who just happens to be a pilgrim. Interesting subnote, when the Balfour Declaration happened, the British forces had already taken Palestine.

1:23:29 They were able to claim Palatine for itself. They already had the Suez Canal. They were working to get a land bridge. Sykes from Sykes-Picot was a Zionist, and he saw post-war justification that they actually thought that Israel would acknowledge that they owe their existence to Britain. That kind of didn't really play out that way historically. Well, I'm going to put a footnote on that.

1:24:00 I don't know that that's not what's still playing out. Because the whole impetus for putting Israel down there in my book is part of that whole strategy of tension. It gives them the leverage to be able to incite violence, war, whatever, at a moment's notice. I do think there is a very strong tether there because of that arrangement. Yeah, there is a relationship, but it's not one of...

1:24:29 oh we're submissive we're so thankful i guess that's the point i'm making yeah the balfour declaration would be uh ratified uh officially by the league of nations whether that means anything or not in 1922 and it made britain legally responsible for both creating a jewish state and protecting arab rights and we've seen from the last sentence of the balfour declaration that's an incompatible mandate and obviously we saw which side they chose when i was to create the jewish state in 1947.

1:24:59 Or 48. Yep. That's your Balfour Declaration. This is your cause of the U.S. getting into World War I. And that's going to lead us next week to the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles. That's going to be a great show, you guys. You don't want to miss that one. Yeah, we're going to get some dullesses in there. We're going to get a lot of these characters coming in there. And you'll know a lot. What do you think about today? Fun story? I think it was awesome.

1:25:29 Yeah, it definitely finishes out the foundation to move on to the Treaty of Versailles. Yeah, all the pieces are in place on the chessboard now, and now we're going to see how they wind up. How they maneuver. Oh, yeah. Yeah, and a lot of the characters we've been talking about are going to make a reappearance, so I'm going to have to scramble on my mirror board to see if I can get them all lined up. Move them all around. I'm going to have to. I don't want to. Anyway, this was fun.

1:26:00 I made it my 90-minute goal, so that was good. Good job. All right, everybody, thank you for joining us for another session on our Secret Society Deep Dive. Warhamster, do you have anything coming up that you want to let everybody know about? Nothing too spectacular. We're still just cruising along with Madison's notes for the original intent of the conversation. And when is that show on? That's on Wednesdays. I usually have it posted sometime around noon.

1:26:30 on wednesdays noon eastern i don't do it live yet i don't do it live yet because i'm too lazy to figure out how okay all right awesome i will see you guys all at four o'clock take care everybody

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United Kingdom31 United States29 World War II25 Woodrow Wilson25 West Germany25 Balfour Declaration16 Leo Amery15 T. E. Lawrence12 Winston Churchill11 Edward Mandel House11 Bernard Baruch11 American Pilgrims11 Arthur Balfour11 Rothschild family10 Democratic Party10 Palestine10 1912 United States Presidential Election8 William Jennings Bryan8 Sinking of the RMS Lusitania8 Mexico7 Zimmermann Telegram7 Theodore Roosevelt7 Fabian Society7 Turkey6 Republican Party6 Chaim Weizmann6 Treaty of Versailles6 United Nations6 Soviet Union5 Princeton University5 France5 Walter Rothschild5 Robert Lansing5 New Jersey5 William Howard Taft4 New York City4 India4 Boer War4 Lionel de Rothschild4 Sykes-Picot Agreement4

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Woodrow Wilson relationship_with World War II host_asserted ▶ 0:48

“for this whole time period and so foundational for the entire 20th century and we talked about last week that whole 1901 1902 just changed everything and that's like babysitting took us into world war…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Fabian Society host_asserted ▶ 1:14

“You cannot really talk about the U.S. in World War I without talking about Woodrow Wilson. Now, I believe we've been saying that he was officially a Fabian, and I cannot find that document. No, I neve…”

Woodrow Wilson died_in United States documented ▶ 2:11

“because he was certainly in contact with them when he became president of Princeton. But let's jump into his story. Woodrow Wilson. Oops, be nice if I have the right part of my nose. Give me one secon…”

Woodrow Wilson born_in Virginia Giuffre documented ▶ 2:11

John Tyler operated_in Confederate States of America documented ▶ 2:45

“U.S. presidents in history that ever lived in the Confederacy. The other one would have been John Tyler, who we call the most constitutional president of all time because he vetoed everything Congress…”

Woodrow Wilson operated_in Confederate States of America documented ▶ 2:45

Woodrow Wilson studied_at Princeton University documented ▶ 3:14

“He'd go to several colleges. I'm not going to go through the whole litany because he bounced around a bit, including one called the College of New Jersey, which we now know as Princeton. And again, I'…”

Woodrow Wilson taught_at Bryn Mawr College documented ▶ 3:14

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Frederick Hegel host_asserted ▶ 4:20

“He was influenced in his writings by none other than one Frederick Hegel. Hegel had a view on how public institutions arise and mediate social conflict. So we need those public administrators. 1890, h…”

Woodrow Wilson taught_at Princeton University documented ▶ 4:20

Woodrow Wilson influenced_by Frederick Hegel host_asserted ▶ 4:20

Andrew Carnegie member_of American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 6:21

“the administrative state grew exponentially. Right. So this bloat of government we have today, I'd say he's one of the three or four presidents most responsible for that. 1902, he becomes the presiden…”

Woodrow Wilson funded Princeton University documented ▶ 6:21

Woodrow Wilson headed Princeton University documented ▶ 6:21

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Andrew Carnegie documented ▶ 6:21

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 6:55

“And there's that magic year in 1902 again. Yes. So Woodrow worked very hard to keep blacks out of Princeton University while other Ivy League schools were actually opening their doors. He tried to cur…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Standard Oil host_asserted ▶ 8:00

“to the Republicans in New Jersey at that point. They're tired of losing, and they decide to push for an unconventional and untested candidate by the name of Woodrow Wilson. His academic reputation mad…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with John D. Rockefeller host_asserted ▶ 8:00

Woodrow Wilson operated_in New Jersey documented ▶ 8:25

“And there's something really interesting going on between the Democrat Party and the Republican Party, which I'll get to in a little bit. But at the time, the Republican Party were seen as very pro-bu…”

Theodore Roosevelt supported William Howard Taft documented ▶ 10:10

“who had been president from 1901 to 1908, had supported his vice president, Howard Taft, who was president from 1909 to 1912. Well, Roosevelt gets a little ticked off at Taft because he's too conserva…”

Theodore Roosevelt founded Progressive Party documented ▶ 10:39

“And it was pretty close, but Taft holds on and wins. So Teddy Roosevelt then launches a third-party bid known as the Bull Moose Party. What's its official name, Colonel? I don't remember. It's the Pro…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with William Jennings Bryan documented ▶ 11:12

“It was pretty popular, and so was Woodrow Wilson. It actually took the Democrats 46 ballots to elect Wilson as their delegate or nomination. And the only thing that happened because a guy by the name …”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Champ Clark documented ▶ 11:12

William Jennings Bryan supported Woodrow Wilson documented ▶ 11:12

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Eugene Debs documented ▶ 11:12

Bernard Baruch relationship_with Woodrow Wilson book_quoted ▶ 13:24

“Then a young man spent considerable time at the headquarters working as a sort of messenger boy. He was the son of a well-known New York family of Judaic background, and he related to me the following…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Bernard Baruch book_quoted ▶ 13:24

Paul Warburg relationship_with Federal Reserve book_quoted ▶ 14:24

“aiding in pushing the projected Federal Reserve Bank legislation through Congress when Paul Warburg approved the final draft of the proposed act then being worked on. Two, aiding in changing the metho…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Federal Reserve book_quoted ▶ 14:24

Bernard Baruch proposed Federal Reserve book_quoted ▶ 14:24

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Soviet Union book_quoted ▶ 14:52

“Three, agreeing to aid and introduce the graduated personal income tax, which was brought over here from England, to drain off the results of our individual initiative. All three of those things happe…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with West Germany book_quoted ▶ 14:52

Edward Mandel House relationship_with Bernard Baruch book_quoted ▶ 15:20

“Five, to lend a thoughtful ear to recommendations made by policy in respect to filling key cabinet posts. Wilson dutifully received and absorbed his indoctrination, shook hands all around, and then de…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Theodore Roosevelt documented ▶ 15:20

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with William Howard Taft documented ▶ 15:51

“And the strong support of that steering committee in the 1912 election went out to both Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, who had lined up against President Taft. It appeared that President Taft had…”

Theodore Roosevelt relationship_with William Howard Taft documented ▶ 15:51

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 16:23

“Thoughts? I'm with you so far. I mean, it's basically just rigging the election. Say again? I said it's basically just rigging the election. Yeah, yeah, and rigging both sides of it, which they've nev…”

Bernard Baruch relationship_with American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 16:23

John D. Rockefeller member_of American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 16:56

“And 1913 is one of the worst years in American history because of that legislation. Right. That's how we became tax slaves. I'll remind everybody that just two years prior, they created the Tax-Free F…”

Bernard Baruch born_in Camden, South Carolina documented ▶ 17:30

“Born 1870 to 1965. He was born in Camden, South Carolina to a Jewish family. He would later marry into an Episcopalian family. So I do not think that he was a, his career does not make it seem like he…”

Bernard Baruch studied_at City College of New York documented ▶ 17:30

Bernard Baruch invested_in Hawaii documented ▶ 18:02

“Gets out of school young, becomes a broker at a company called A.A. Hausman & Company, eventually becomes a partner there. Makes enough money to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange at a very you…”

Bernard Baruch invested_in Puerto Rico documented ▶ 18:02

Bernard Baruch member_of A.A. Hausman & Company documented ▶ 18:02

Bernard Baruch invested_in New York Stock Exchange documented ▶ 18:02

Bernard Baruch founded Intercontinental Rubber Company documented ▶ 18:36

“annexing hawaii and also the spanish-american war of 1898 and he's one of the people speculating on the sugar he would then go on to found something called the intercontinental rubber company the inte…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Daniel Guggenheim host_asserted ▶ 19:09

“You want to hear some of his partners in that company that he's founded? Sure. Start with Daniel Guggenheim, who's a huge mining heir, banker named George Foster Peabody, and then a couple of nobodies…”

Bernard Baruch did_business_with John D. Rockefeller documented ▶ 19:09

Bernard Baruch did_business_with Nelson W. Aldrich documented ▶ 19:09

Bernard Baruch did_business_with George Foster Peabody documented ▶ 19:09

Bernard Baruch did_business_with Daniel Guggenheim documented ▶ 19:09

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with George Foster Peabody host_asserted ▶ 19:09

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Nelson W. Aldrich host_asserted ▶ 19:09

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with John J. Pershing host_asserted ▶ 19:09

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with West Germany documented ▶ 21:18

“becomes the chairman of the War Industries Board. And that's really interesting. A Wall Street banker is in charge of War Industries Board. It just shows you how it's the multinational corporations th…”

Nine Committee investigated Bernard Baruch documented ▶ 21:18

Bernard Baruch supported United Nations documented ▶ 21:18

Woodrow Wilson supported United Nations documented ▶ 21:18

Bernard Baruch relationship_with West Germany documented ▶ 21:18

Bernard Baruch relationship_with World War II host_asserted ▶ 21:52

“that was invest congressional committee to investigating war profiteering and he got investigated nothing happened no slap on the wrist no nothing but apparently he made a lot of money in world war on…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 21:52

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with George C. Marshall host_asserted ▶ 22:24

“was he was very good, close personal friends with none other than Pilgrim Winston Churchill. And just to close that up, from my research, the modern day version of him would be a George Soros type guy…”

Bernard Baruch relationship_with Winston Churchill host_asserted ▶ 22:24

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Winston Churchill host_asserted ▶ 22:24

Bernard Baruch mentored George C. Marshall host_asserted ▶ 22:54

“what will become some of the biggest military leaders in the next several decades. Among those that I found was John Pershing, George Marshall, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Good points. All right, let's …”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Edward Mandel House host_asserted ▶ 22:54

Bernard Baruch mentored John J. Pershing host_asserted ▶ 22:54

Bernard Baruch mentored Dwight D. Eisenhower host_asserted ▶ 22:54

Edward Mandel House relationship_with Woodrow Wilson documented ▶ 24:06

“Fair enough, Ed. He was a senior advisor to Wilson. Where did he come from? He came from Texas. He was a big backroom politician. He was a kingmaker. He basically had put like four consecutive governo…”

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Paris Peace Conference host_asserted ▶ 24:38

“If you listen to some of the things he said, they'd be repeated up through the 1930s. And you might even see that the fascists, I'm sorry, the Nazis copied some of the things that he talked about. So …”

Edward Mandel House relationship_with Paris Peace Conference host_asserted ▶ 24:38

Edward Mandel House studied_at United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 25:37

“So, all right, so we're going to the cause of World War I. And a lot of people think it had to do with the sinking of the Lusitania. Well, can I, before we transition, I want to read a quote. He actua…”

Edward Mandel House relationship_with Fabian Society host_asserted ▶ 25:37

Woodrow Wilson relationship_with Sinking of the RMS Lusitania host_asserted ▶ 25:37

Edward Mandel House relationship_with United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 26:41

“old age pensions and basically mandating different types of insurance. And those all come to pass due to his handling of Wilson. And so he has a very close relationship. As a matter of fact, I read wh…”

Edward Mandel House relationship_with American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 28:18

“He needed a niche, and his niche is going to be being involved in this Fabian Pilgrim's kind of reshaping of America. Yeah, and if anybody's followed any of the stuff I do on the Constitution, you kno…”

J.P. Morgan & Co. financed_via United States host_asserted ▶ 30:43

“We've already talked about how some major business interests like JP Morgan and friends and a lot of the pilgrims wanted America into the war. And they were using propaganda to make that happen. Well,…”

West Germany ordered_assassination_of United States speculative ▶ 31:14

“including 128 Americans. There's some theories out there about whether Lusitania was sunk intentionally to get America into the war. Any thoughts on that? So from what I've read, they're on the milita…”

William Jennings Bryan resigned United States documented ▶ 33:22

“So the U-boats are benched or beached. Secretary of State at the time was none other than William Jennings Bryan. He would resign his post over the handling of the Lusitania because he thought we were…”

Robert Lansing succeeded William Jennings Bryan documented ▶ 33:22

Woodrow Wilson appointed William Jennings Bryan documented ▶ 34:58

“There's a picture of him giving that. William Jennings Bryan, the Cross of Gold speech. He was a brilliant orator. He would end up being a three-time Democratic candidate for president, but never won.…”

West Germany carried_out_attack United States documented ▶ 37:08

“And, of course, they would then again go with the propaganda to the women, join the workforce, fuel the front lines. So that's our propaganda exploding into time period. In 1917, German U-boats resume…”

Woodrow Wilson removed_from_power West Germany documented ▶ 38:31

“is that they could starve Britain into submission before the U.S. could mobilize. And Wilson responds by breaking diplomatic relationships with Germany on February 3rd. Now, the dates here are importa…”

Union Intelligence Service spied_on West Germany documented ▶ 39:06

“in January of 1917, just before the German U-boats started, about the exact same time. This is a telegram from the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, where he's supposed to have sent a secret …”

Arthur Zimmermann proposed Mexico documented ▶ 39:06

Mexico targeted_for_regime_change United States documented ▶ 39:41

“This is the English translation. We intend to begin the 1st of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of…”

West Germany funded Mexico documented ▶ 39:41

Mexico proposed Japan documented ▶ 40:12

“in texas new mexico and arizona the settlement in detail is left to you you will inform the president of mexico of the above most secretly as soon as the outbreak of war with the united states of amer…”

Union Intelligence Service traded_network_to United States documented ▶ 40:43

“now offers the prospect of compelling England to make peace within a few months. Acknowledge receipt, signed Zimmerman. Mexico at the time was in the midst of a revolution. They did not have any milit…”

Arthur Zimmermann exposed Zimmermann Telegram documented ▶ 41:18

“Is it legitimate? Was it fake? Well, your thoughts first. I'll just tell you right now. Zimmerman himself publicly confirmed the telegram in March of 1917. So that's what the historians are going to s…”

United States carried_out_attack West Germany documented ▶ 44:01

“The Brits shared the telegram with Woodrow Wilson on February 24th. The U.S. press would publish it widely on March 1st. Now the American people are saying, you know, now they're rip-roaring ready for…”

United States carried_out_attack Austria-Hungary documented ▶ 44:31

“uh about seven months later so that is how america got into world war one and a lot of people had a lot of motives to make that happen and a lot of very interesting developments it took to get the ame…”

Arthur Balfour proposed Palestine documented ▶ 45:48

“Do none other than Lord Walter Rothschild. Okay. And this is the 67 Ward letter. I'm going to get that up on page. His Majesty's government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national…”

Arthur Balfour member_of Conservative Party of Ontario documented ▶ 48:26

“Maybe the Pilgrim Society? Yeah, good catch. Okay. He would later become the foreign secretary for liberal Lloyd George during the war in 1916-1919. Lloyd George is a liberal. Earl Balfour was a conse…”

Lloyd George member_of United Kingdom documented ▶ 48:26

Lord Salisbury relationship_with Arthur Balfour documented ▶ 48:59

“was a guy by the name of Lord Salisbury, who we just talked about from the Society of the Elect. In 1891, Balfour would lead the conservative party in the House of Commons while his uncle, Lord Salisb…”

Arthur Balfour succeeded Lord Salisbury documented ▶ 49:31

“uncle stepped down from the prime minister that's when balfour stepped up um he would get a lot of heat because you know for the boer wars and a lot of it had to do with the chinese slavery they were …”

Arthur Balfour carried_out_attack Boer War documented ▶ 49:31

A.V. Dicey member_of United Kingdom documented ▶ 51:31

“Basically, it's limited legislation, kind of limited the blocking powers of the House of Lords. There's a guy who influenced this, and I don't think I brought his picture. No, I didn't. Sure, I didn't…”

A.V. Dicey taught_at London School of Economics documented ▶ 51:31

A.V. Dicey founded Parliament Act of 1911 host_asserted ▶ 53:07

“He's the one reason they got the Parliament Act of 1911 that the Earl of Balfour opposed. So important piece of history there. Remember, England and America are maybe cousins, but we are not the same.…”

Arthur Balfour member_of American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 53:37

“so that's why i bring this up lord balfour would succeed winston churchill as the first lord of the admiralty in 1915 after churchill screwed up and then balfour becomes the foreign minister in 1916. …”

Arthur Balfour appointed United Kingdom documented ▶ 53:37

Arthur Balfour succeeded Winston Churchill documented ▶ 53:37

Walter Rothschild member_of Rothschild family documented ▶ 55:10

“He's a banker, a zoologist, a soldier. He's the eldest son of Nathan Rothschild, who was the first Baron Rothschild and also the first Jewish peer in England. Money will get that for you. But he's a z…”

Walter Rothschild member_of Zionist Federation documented ▶ 55:41

“He spent most of his time taking expeditions all over the world to seek out unusual animals. But he's also a very active Zionist. So the reason they wrote this letter to Lord Rothschild was because th…”

Leo Amery relationship_with Winston Churchill documented ▶ 56:15

“Lord Milner. Oh, wait. Okay. And a guy by the name of Leo Amory. Should be a household name. Yep. So Leo Amory is an interesting guy. He was born in British India. His dad was English and his mother w…”

Leo Amery studied_at Harrow School documented ▶ 56:15

Leo Amery member_of American Pilgrims host_asserted ▶ 56:51

“Maybe they didn't quite get along so well at times in school, but I'm not going to bother with that. He'd go to Oxford where he was in All Souls. Leo Amory was always a very active Freemason. And you …”

Leo Amery studied_at All Souls College documented ▶ 56:51

Leo Amery member_of Conservative Party of Ontario documented ▶ 56:51

Leo Amery did_business_with The New York Times documented ▶ 56:51

Leo Amery carried_out_attack Boer War documented ▶ 58:55

“It's going to eventually be a totalitarian authoritarian state. It's just a question of who's going to run it. Right. And his name comes up a lot in the Fabian reading. A lot. Well, it's about to come…”

Winston Churchill carried_out_attack Boer War documented ▶ 58:55

Gary Webb member_of Fabian Society documented ▶ 59:27

“He was a member of something called the Coefficient's Dining Club, which was set up in 1902 by none other than Sidney and Beatrice Webb. The Fabians. Yes. So another example of a pilgrim out with Fabi…”

Leo Amery member_of Cohens' Dining Club documented ▶ 59:27

Sidney Webb member_of Fabian Society documented ▶ 59:27

Halford Mackinder member_of Cohens' Dining Club documented ▶ 59:27

Sidney Webb founded Cohens' Dining Club documented ▶ 59:27

Gary Webb founded Cohens' Dining Club documented ▶ 59:27

H. G. Wells member_of Cohens' Dining Club documented ▶ 1:00:01

“who we've talked about because he's the Lennon School of Economics director from 1903 to 1908. And McKinder was also one of the founders of what we call geopolitics. Another person at that dining club…”

Halford Mackinder taught_at London School of Economics documented ▶ 1:00:01

Bertrand Russell member_of Cohens' Dining Club documented ▶ 1:00:01

Alfred Milner member_of Cohens' Dining Club documented ▶ 1:00:01

Leo Amery member_of United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:00:35

“So World War I breaks out. Leo Amory was an intelligence officer, of course, because he knew Hungarian. And he's there in the Balkans campaign, which we talked about a little bit with Serbia and thing…”

Leo Amery opposed West Germany host_asserted ▶ 1:00:35

Leo Amery operated_in World War II host_asserted ▶ 1:00:35

Leo Amery member_of Lloyd George host_asserted ▶ 1:01:05

“So this guy is a war hawk. Fair enough? Yes. So he's working for the cabinet secretariat in Lloyd George's government. He would push for what's called the All Red Route to India. Did I map that? I thi…”

Leo Amery proposed Cape of Good Hope host_asserted ▶ 1:01:05

Leo Amery proposed Suez Canal host_asserted ▶ 1:01:05

Leo Amery proposed India host_asserted ▶ 1:01:05

Leo Amery proposed Caucasus host_asserted ▶ 1:02:15

“He wanted more British armies in the Caucasus region and into Persia and Central Asia. Because England could afford that at this point, huh? And it was Milner, Lord Milner, who asked him to rewrite th…”

Alfred Milner appointed Leo Amery host_asserted ▶ 1:02:15

Leo Amery proposed Iran host_asserted ▶ 1:02:15

Leo Amery proposed Central Asia host_asserted ▶ 1:02:15

Leo Amery headed United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:03:25

“A little bit more about Amory. He'll show up again because he was involved in the Treaty of Versailles. He was very much opposed to the League of Nations, but his reasoning is interesting. He said, yo…”

Leo Amery member_of United Nations host_asserted ▶ 1:03:25

Leo Amery proposed Rhodesia host_asserted ▶ 1:03:56

“And again, the colonial secretaries in charge of their commonwealth around the world. Yeah, it's really important. He says basically to be our secretary of state for the colonies. And he wanted to dev…”

Leo Amery proposed Tanganyika host_asserted ▶ 1:03:56

Leo Amery proposed Uganda host_asserted ▶ 1:03:56

Leo Amery proposed Palestine host_asserted ▶ 1:03:56

Leo Amery proposed Kenya host_asserted ▶ 1:03:56

Leo Amery relationship_with Benito Mussolini host_asserted ▶ 1:04:58

“including several German metal engineering companies. As the Nazis are coming into power and starting to rearm themselves, reindustrialize, he's sitting on the boards of directors. And actually, Hitle…”

Leo Amery relationship_with Adolf Hitler host_asserted ▶ 1:04:58

Leo Amery member_of Nazi Party host_asserted ▶ 1:04:58

Leo Amery headed Iraq Currency Board host_asserted ▶ 1:04:58

Leo Amery opposed Neville Chamberlain host_asserted ▶ 1:05:31

“which is an interesting gig. In the 1930s, Amory would advocate for a bigger army. While Churchill is working for a bigger Air Force and Roger Keyes is pushing for a bigger Navy, Amory wants a bigger …”

Leo Amery removed_from_power Neville Chamberlain host_asserted ▶ 1:06:04

“where he attacked Neville Chamberlain for incompetence in a fight against Hitler. That forced Chamberlain to resign and was replaced by none other than Winston Churchill. So Leo Amory is a name we sho…”

United Kingdom financed_via J.P. Morgan & Co. host_asserted ▶ 1:07:05

“In 1914, British total debt was about 650 million pounds. By 1919, it's 7.7 billion pounds, more than tenfold increase in five years. Britain goes from a creditor nation to a debtor. And they owed a l…”

Woodrow Wilson ordered_assassination_of United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:07:37

“Because of all that debt, Woodrow Wilson urged the U.S. banks to curb their loans to England and France. This gives the U.S. a ton of leverage in negotiating with their European allies, not just durin…”

Chaim Weizmann studied_at West Germany host_asserted ▶ 1:08:48

“Very important part of this story. Kayim Wiseman, who they should have written a letter to, is a Russian-born Jew, became a biochemist, studying in Germany and Switzerland, before immigrating to Engla…”

Chaim Weizmann born_in Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 1:08:48

Chaim Weizmann moved_to United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:08:48

Chaim Weizmann relationship_with Arthur Balfour host_asserted ▶ 1:09:19

“And Churchill himself approaches Kayim for help to basically produce, get mass production, excuse me, mass production going. The war probably, without Kayim, the war probably ends in about a lot soone…”

Winston Churchill recruited Chaim Weizmann host_asserted ▶ 1:09:19

Chaim Weizmann proposed Balfour Declaration host_asserted ▶ 1:09:52

“quote, type of Jew who by his very nature is opposed to us. But Samuel would end up writing an important memo with options for Palestine in 1915. So they end up working together. Those are two of the …”

Herbert Samuel proposed Palestine host_asserted ▶ 1:09:52

Arthur Balfour proposed Balfour Declaration host_asserted ▶ 1:09:52

Chaim Weizmann headed Israel host_asserted ▶ 1:10:58

“The other important name to know about the Zionist movement there is a guy by the name of, I believe it's Cherm Sokolow. And he was the president of the World Zionist Organization. He and Chaim were d…”

Nahum Sokolow headed World Zionist Organization host_asserted ▶ 1:10:58

Hussein bin Ali located_in Mecca host_asserted ▶ 1:11:35

“which is a bit of a problem. A guy by the name of Sir Harry McMahon had sent letters back and forth with Hussein ibn Ali, who's the emir of Mecca, about post-war, we're going to have an independent Ar…”

Henry McMahon relationship_with Hussein bin Ali host_asserted ▶ 1:11:35

T. E. Lawrence member_of United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:12:10

“trying to get the arabs to fight against the ottomans and i'm going to pass the baton to that over to the colonel so um just a little bit about lawrence um thomas edward lawrence 1888-1935 he was a br…”

T. E. Lawrence studied_at Oxford host_asserted ▶ 1:14:09

“he's originally spends all of his time before he while he's not on his junkets in oxford around all of these same people that we've been talking about this entire time so um the the very and oxford is…”

T. E. Lawrence member_of Palestine Exploration Fund host_asserted ▶ 1:14:41

“source of money behind him, which to me is very telling as well. So he learns Arabic and he travels extensively through that region. And he also surveyed the Sinai area for the Palestine Exploration F…”

T. E. Lawrence operated_in Sinai host_asserted ▶ 1:14:41

T. E. Lawrence member_of United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 1:15:11

“He joins the British Army. And where does he work in all of the Army? Oh, just the intelligence area, right? So he's now an official intelligence officer for the British Army. And specifically, his or…”

T. E. Lawrence operated_in Cairo host_asserted ▶ 1:15:11

T. E. Lawrence member_of Hashemite Forces host_asserted ▶ 1:15:11

T. E. Lawrence relationship_with Faisal I of Iraq host_asserted ▶ 1:15:41

“hussein and he also is very involved with emir faisal that name should be familiar for everybody in the arabian area so his purpose during this time was to arrange an arab revolt so basically you have…”

T. E. Lawrence carried_out_attack Turkey host_asserted ▶ 1:17:09

“And so he's doing deals with all of these people so that he can then basically create guerrilla forces that operate inside of the Ottoman Empire to attack them using guerrilla tactics. So he's creatin…”

T. E. Lawrence carried_out_attack Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:17:09

France proposed Sykes-Picot Agreement host_asserted ▶ 1:17:38

“Without a doubt. And they're making promises to all these tribal leaders. While halfway across the world, they're doing the Balfour Declaration. And at the same time, something else is going on. Hang …”

United Kingdom proposed Sykes-Picot Agreement host_asserted ▶ 1:17:38

Bolsheviks exposed Sykes-Picot Agreement host_asserted ▶ 1:19:16

“A secret treaty between the UK, France, with assent from Russia and Italy. Remember, this is 1916. It's about how to partition the Ottoman Empire once they're done. They were going to leave Turkey, ha…”

Sykes-Picot Agreement targeted_for_regime_change Turkey host_asserted ▶ 1:19:16

Edmond James de Rothschild funded Palestine host_asserted ▶ 1:20:20

“Going on at the time is a guy by Edmund James de Rothschild. He is from the French side branch of the Rothschild banking family. He's a huge supporter of Zionism, although not exactly an active partic…”

Lionel de Rothschild founded Anti-Zionist League of British Jews host_asserted ▶ 1:22:25

“This guy goes to the House of Commons in 1910, Lionel. In 1917, he's a co-founder of the Anti-Zionist League of British Jews, which opposes the Balfour Declaration and does not believe that Jews const…”

Lionel de Rothschild opposed Balfour Declaration host_asserted ▶ 1:22:25

United Nations ratified Balfour Declaration host_asserted ▶ 1:24:29

“oh we're submissive we're so thankful i guess that's the point i'm making yeah the balfour declaration would be uh ratified uh officially by the league of nations whether that means anything or not in…”