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Not surprised. According to this article from Sept '04, Prescott Bush (A tire salesman who rose to power by corrupted practices, and George W.'s grandpa) was involved with the financing of Nazi Germany by laundering money to Hitler for years...

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by k r a y z e e . j o j o

Not surprised. According to this article from Sept '04, Prescott Bush (A tire salesman who rose to power by corrupted practices, and George W.'s grandpa) was involved with the financing of Nazi Germany by laundering money to Hitler for years...

So was Standard Oil, which conspired with the IG Farben cartels to suppress the introduction of Buna-N rubber into the US. So the US had to use natural rubber tires for a time, and the nationwide speed limit was reduced to - I think - thirty miles an hour to conserve wear on tires.

If you have a chance talk to a bomber pilot or two who served in Europe during World War II... quite a few report being given EXPLICIT instructions NOT to bomb petroleum plants that were owned in part by US firms.

Of course, folks, the White House in the early 1940s dissolved a State Department Research group that was working on Soviet Intelligence penetration into the US. Allegedly at the behest of Eleanor Roosevelt. Part of "Lend Lease" was shipping pilot plants, samples, blue prints and process guides for chemical and fertilizer plants to the Soviets. The whole thing came to light after the Venona intercepts at the start of the Cold War.

Gene