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But people don't realize when they were building the railroads, they were also capturing the land 100 miles on both sides and all of the natural resources of the United States.

So you look at Rockefeller and Standard Oil, how do you think they are Standard Oil? So, I mean, it's very, very incremental.

Like, it's just every step was planned at the roundtable.

I don't know at which part, but you're focusing on the right people.

It's building on each other.

They've rekeyed the locks so that everything works in their benefit and nobody else can get in.

You know, even when they break up your big conglomerate, your Standard Oil, what did you do? Break it up into a dozen different companies that became more powerful? Yeah.

So

Item, U.S., British, and German wolves soon found a bonanza of profit in selling to the new Soviet regime.

Standard Oil and General Electric supplied 37 million worth of machinery from 1921 to 1925, and that was just the beginning.

Junkers aircraft in Germany literally created Soviet air power.

At least 3 million slave laborers perished in the icy mines of Siberia, digging ore for Britain's Lena Goldfields Limited.

Her salt box house on the coast took her mind off St. Louis.

Bill was the heir to the Standard Oil name and money, and the town said, how did a middle-class divorcee do it? The wedding was charming, if a little gauche.

There's only so far new money goes.

They picked out a home and called it Holiday House.

And she was there because she was trying to get her mind off of St. Louis.

And that's probably where she met her man's bill.

mm-hmm mm-hmm right she was having a little summer vacay maybe or maybe as a rental whatever that version of Airbnb was where she bought the house or whatever she was on the coast and then she met Bill so if you don't know Standard Oil was the first monopoly or one of the first monopolies in American the American economy And so very, very rich, very, very powerful.

And she met Bill and she, I guess she had escaped St. Louis.

It is indeed a 19th century nightmare that culminates beyond South Chicago in the monstrous fungoid shapes.

The endless smoking chimneys, the squat retorts, the black smoke pall of the Standard Oil Company.

For a time the sun is veiled altogether by that.

And then suddenly Chicago is a dark smear under the sky and we in the large emptiness of America.

And this field house is not an isolated philanthropic enterprise.

It is just one of a number that are dotted about Chicago, mitigating and civilizing its squalor.

It was not distilled by begging and charity from the stench of the stockyards or the reek of Standard Oil.

It is part of the normal work of a special taxing body created by the legislature of the state of Illinois.

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This is why the, the, the lefties hate him so much.

Because, um, you know, if, um, some piss-ant government of some piss-ant South American country wants to get uppity and nationalize a bunch of United Fruit or Standard Oil stuff, the CIA would take time out of their day to fuck you in the ass, and take it all back, and probably, uh, you know, do bad stuff to you.

So the lefties kind of give him all this shit, because like, oh, he was, you know, you know, a servant of, you know, uh, capitalism or whatever.

Uh, now he was lifelong friends with David and, um, Nelson Rockefeller, and a lot of the business relationships between Standard Oil, which there are many, and the Third Reich.

Um, bringing IBM in to the Third Reich, bringing Ford and General Motors in, right? A lot of the companies that you saw in the Third Reich got there because two of the top lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell and their largest client, uh, John Rockefeller, wanted them there.

It's-

I know it came out that a lot of, I think it was like four or five relatively high ranking, not super duper high rankings.

Again, those people are all, you know, on lists came out when IBM pulled its people out.

It was JP Morgan.

Carnegie, right? One of them? Standard Oil.

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