Fortunate Son
By Not Sure
2 April 2023
Fortunate
Son is a song written by John Fogerty in 1969
which became an anti-war anthem of the Vietnam War era. In a 2010 interview with Songfacts,
Fogerty said that it “speaks more to the unfairness
of class than war itself.”
In
his 2015 memoirs, Fogerty said he was thinking about
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandson marrying the daughter of
then-president Richard Nixon. David
Eisenhower spent most of his three years in the military during the Vietnam War
as an officer posted on the USS Albany in the Mediterranean Sea.
“Fortunate
Son wasn't really inspired by any one event. Julie Nixon was dating
David Eisenhower. You'd hear about the son of this senator or that congressman
who was given a deferment from the military or a choice position in the
military. They seemed privileged and whether they liked it or not, these people
were symbolic in the sense that they weren't being touched by what their
parents were doing. They weren't being affected like the rest of us.”
Fortunate Son
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Some folks are born made to wave the flag
They're red, white and blue
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"
They point the cannon at you, Lord
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one
Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah
But when the taxman comes to the door
The house look a like a rummage sale
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one
Yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
They send you down to war
And when you ask 'em, "How much should we
give?"
They only answer, "More, more, more"
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no military son, son
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, one
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one
Written by John Cameron Fogerty, 1969
Album – Willy and The Poor Boys
Dwight D.’s military
achievements would lead to an appointment as the president of Columbia
University and later the presidency of the United States. But keep this little fact in mind for
later: Dwight D.’s son (David’s father)
would rise to brigadier general in the U.S. Army Reserve and later be the
U.S. ambassador to Belgium.
***
In this week’s Redux from
November 26, 2006, Alan Watt spoke with Henrik Palmgren
of Red Ice Radio. This conversation
takes us deep into the ancient brotherhood who use the con of money to keep the
system running down through time. One
point that Alan makes is that we are domesticated. We are sheep.
When the shepherd wants to kill some sheep for his personal use, he
doesn’t do that in front of the rest of the flock, so we are taught to trust
the shepherd.
Alan said, “…it was
common history to always beware of governments because they're worse than any
foreign army. They always use the army on you eventually. That was the routine
all down through the centuries and yet in one sense they've managed to train
the people in the opposite direction, that the army is good, that the guy at
the top – he's come out of a separate birth canal from the rest of us. He's
holy almost. It's a holy stature that is given to these people and that was the
trick of expertise, to conjure up through media propaganda (and it was tested
over a hundred years) an almost aura of a holy persona around the president or
prime minister and those around them. It's as though they're special people
different from the rest of us you see.”
This
same special, separate birth canal propaganda is used to promote certain
bankers to us as the good guys. A recent
Business Insider article about Jamie Dimon to
the rescue for struggling bank First Republic showed Dimon
upon a white horse with a halo around his head.
Exactly as Alan and Henrik discussed in this talk. Politicians and bankers are not average people. They are not like us. They are not psychopaths or opportunists,
gangsters, pirates or crooks. They are special. They are holy. We trust them with our lives.
***
Jamie
Dimon the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase caught
my attention a couple of weeks ago and to me, went from being “a banker” to a
person of very special interest. It was
the almost god-like way the media treated him as “America’s Banker” that first
grabbed me. Then it was the “ah, shucks”
coarseness of his speech. Camouflaging
his silver-spoon upbringing and first-class education with his plain-spoken
“I’m just an average Joe like you” presentation. Very slick.
There are couple of different
stories to explain why Jamie’s paternal grandfather (who worked as a banker) changed
the family name from Papademetriou to Dimon. In one story,
he was trying to impress a French girl he wanted to date by coming up with a
more French sounding name. In another
story, he sought work as a dishwasher and encountered prejudice against
Greeks. Whatever the true story, the
dishwasher/banker had a son (Jamie’s father) who became a banker. Both Father Dimon
and Grandfather Dimon were stockbrokers at Shearson.*
Jamie Dimon
is a fortunate son.
JPMorgan
Chase got its name from James Pierpont Morgan Sr., the financier and investment
banker who dominated Wall Street during what is called the Gilded Age. This period of economic boom which lasted
from roughly the end of the American Civil War until the beginning of the
twentieth century was given its name by historians in the 1920s who referred to
the title of a Mark Twain novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873.) J.P. Morgan (along with John D. Rockefeller)
was a driving force behind industrial consolidation (mergers and
acquisition.) Remember that John D.
Rockefeller famously said that competition was a sin.
We’re
left to wonder if he had lived, would he have participated in the creation of
the Federal Reserve? He died in Italy on
the 31st of March, 1913, while on a grand holiday. The Federal Reserve was created on December
23, 1913. His son, J.P. Morgan
Jr., took over the family business but was not as influential in part because
the Glass-Steagall act of 1933 split the company into three separate
businesses.
Chase
Bank traces its roots back to 1799 and the Manhattan Company, founded by Aaron
Burr who famously killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Part of their personal disagreements involved
the Bank of New York, which Hamilton had founded and is now one of the oldest
banks in the world. Burr was a
politician and lawyer who served as the third vice-president of the United
States. Hamilton was a military officer,
statesman, Founding Father and the first United States secretary of the treasury.
I’m
pointing out how far back the intermingling of politics, statesmanship and
banking go in the U.S., but I’m certain that one could make similar connections
if one studied the oldest banks in England or France.
* Shearson went
through many changes over the years and their name reflected those
changes. They finally became Shearson
Lehman Brothers. The bankruptcy of
Lehman Brothers in 2008 was the climax of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.
***
Jamie
Dimon will be questioned under oath about JPMorgan’s
connection with former client Jeffrey Epstein.
Former JPMorgan banker, Jes Staley, is taking
the heat for his personal and professional relationship with Epstein which cost
Staley his job as CEO of Barclay’s bank.
Staley’s father was the CEO of a chemicals company, his paternal
grandfather was the top executive of a chain of retail stores. His maternal grandfather was the president of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1948 to 1959. Jes Staley is a
fortunate son.
Looking
for the latest on Dimon, I discovered that Whitney
Webb of Unlimited Hangout published on March 27 what she promises will be the
first in an investigative series about Dimon and the
Jeffrey Epstein connection. “As
JPMorgan’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein are being scrutinized in court, Whitney Webb
reveals how the same powerful players who brought Epstein to prominence were
largely responsible for the rise of JPMorgan CEO, Jamie Dimon.”
The Rise of Jamie Dimon
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/03/investigative-series/the-rise-of-jamie-dimon/
One of the companies which factors into the rise of Jamie Dimon was Control Data Corporation (CDC.) A CDC subsidiary called Worldtech was created for the purpose of what are called “technology transfers,” sharing technology with foreign countries. In typical Whitney Webb style, we are taken on a journey back in time and around the world. We learn that CDC’s executive vice president was part of the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations (ACUSR, previously the American Committee on East-West Accord). Sound that one out. ACUSER! Other members at the time, specifically in 1977, included Robert Maxwell’s lawyer and confidant, Samuel Pisar (stepfather to current U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.) Robert Maxwell, a media baron, suspected spy, a committer of fraud, and the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, a former socialite who is now a convicted sex offender, serving her sentence in a low security prison in Florida.
***
Alan and Henrik talked about how people (in context it was politicians, specifically Hillary Clinton and George Bush) are chosen and groomed for their task. Alan said, “If they’re brighter, they’re selected to be brought into the secrets. You could have four children in a high family but each one will be tested to see according to their personality if they’re fit to be brought into the mysteries, because they might be a blabber mouth and they yap too much or drink too much or whatever. It’s only certain ones who are selected.”
We have the images of a bitter and outraged Hillary Clinton when she failed in her bid for the U.S. presidency, but she was Secretary of State four years under Barack Obama. Remember that clip where Hillary joked about getting her marching orders from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)? Remember her cackling, “We came, we saw, he died” regarding Gadhafi? The U.S. State Department, the Secretary of State and all those ambassadors can achieve an awful lot while we’re busy watching the latest installment of the Punch & Judy show. Donald Trump was indicted! Oh no! Oh dear!
It would be interesting to dig into some of these banking/finance/political/industry dynasties to see where the offspring are today. Since the death of David Rockefeller at the age of 101, is there another Rockefeller being groomed for an important task? One cannot discount the females of dynasty, but they are unlikely to be trained for those jobs deemed most crucial to the agenda.
The Rothschild family rose to prominence when Mayer Amschel Rothschild established his banking business in the 1760s. You’ll find them when you research the Napoleonic wars or want to learn who funded Cecil Rhodes for his “great work” in the creation of Rhodesia (now South Africa.) There has been family division in areas Jewish identity and Zionism, but the Knesset building, and the Supreme Court of Israel were gifts from the Rothschild family.
What Rothschilds may have a key role to play in the future? James Rothschild is an investment banker whose net worth exceeds $1.3 billion. A few years ago, he married Niki Hilton, a socialite, Hilton hotel heiress and younger sister of the “celebutante” Paris Hilton. Niki keeps James in the spotlight. Is this serving a “higher” purpose?
David Mayer de Rothschild is 44 years old with an estimated wealth of around $10 billion. His fame comes from his many adventures, his polar and tropical expeditions and his environmentalism. He recently had lunch with Council on Foreign Relations member Angelina Jolie which sparked rumors that they might be more than friends. I think they were talking about green and sustainable things over a platter of roasted crickets.
Family
fortunes, even the greatest, wane over time.
Old revered families fade away and new
dynasties are created, but as Alan said in this talk, “This has always been
with us, this same system, because money is money. It’s doesn’t matter as I say
what type it is. It’s run by the same people in all types and all forms.”
***
Let’s
back up to Samuel Pisar. Per Webb’s article, in the early 1970s he
told the U.S. congress that the world was moving “toward a single, unified
world economy, in disregard of national frontiers, and even ideological
boundaries.” He stated that “all conventional tools of national policy, it
seems to me, are rapidly becoming anachronistic [as] the State itself, even a
strong one, [..] is no longer a defendable economic entity.”
Pisar was the stepfather of the current U.S. Secretary of State and CFR member, Antony Blinken. During the Clinton administration, Antony Blinken served in the State Department and had several important appointments in the National Security Council. He advocated the 2003 invasion of Iraq and helped shaped U.S. policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the nuclear program of Iran. Antony Blinken’s father was Donald M. Blinken, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary and was a CFR member. Donald Mayer Blinken was also a co-founder of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm. A co-founder was Eric Warburg of THE Warburg banking family. Blinken's uncle, Alan Blinken, served as the U.S. ambassador to Belgium and was a CFR member. His paternal grandfather, Maurice Henry Blinken, was an early backer of Israel who studied its economic viability. Antony Blinken is a fortunate son.
Oh,
lest I forget! Jamie Dimon is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR.)
Jamie Dimon is a Fortunate Son!
© Not Sure
Additional reading:
The Rise of Jamie Dimon
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/03/investigative-series/the-rise-of-jamie-dimon/
JPMorgan Is Trying to Sue Its Way Out of an Epstein
Connection
Is Jamie Dimon the most
powerful person in finance?
https://www.businessinsider.com/most-powerful-person-in-the-finance-industry-2023-3?op=1