How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. Red-handed

BEHIND THE BUSHES: Chronology of a family KEY WORDS: George W. Bush 19th century CONSORTIUM NEWS - In the late 19th Century, Samuel Bush moved to Ohio from Orange, New Jersey, where he had attended the nearby Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. He made the first big move in his manufacturing career as an engineer with Buckeye Steel Castings Company, which produced gun barrels and railroad parts. Samuel Bush became a confidante of the company's president, Frank Rockefeller, a brother of the enormously wealthy and powerful John D. CONSORTIUM NEWS - Samuel Bush took over from Frank Rockefeller as president of the company in 1908, and held that job for the next 20 years. . . Samuel's son, Prescott Bush, served as an artillery liaison officer with the French forces during the war and wrote back home about his heroic exploits in letters that were published. Prescott Bush Sr., leads a raid on a Indian tomb to secure Geronimo's skull for Skull & Bones. Prescott Bush married the daughter of George Herbert Walker. 1930s 1940s In 1980, when George H.W. . . .

Prescott Bush Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was an American banker and politician. He was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. Early life[edit] Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio,[1] to Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora Sheldon Bush. Bush attended St. According to Skull and Bones lore, Prescott Bush was among a group of Bonesmen who dug up and removed the skull of Geronimo from his grave at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1918.[2] According to historian David L. Prescott Bush was a cheerleader,[4] played varsity golf, football and baseball, and was president of the Yale Glee Club. Military service[edit] After graduation, Bush served as a field artillery captain with the American Expeditionary Forces (1917–1919) during World War I. Business career[edit] After his discharge in 1919, Prescott Bush went to work for the Simmons Hardware Company in St. Union Banking Corporation [edit]

Michele Bachmann's HPV hogwash: Her comments on Perry's Gardasil mandate are irresponsible Jae C. Hong/AP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's comment during a Republican debate that the HPV vaccine could cause mental retardation was irresponsible. On Sept. 12, in the Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Michele Bachmann served up a home-run pitch to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. He swung and missed. It was a terrible exchange for all who believe that intelligence generated from carefully performed scientific studies should determine public health policy. Bachmann was angry that Perry, through a 2007 executive order, mandated a Human Papillomavirus vaccine for Texas schoolgirls - with an opt-out provision for moms and dads who'd rather not have their daughters inoculated. The answer Perry ought to have given was obvious, even though he chose not to give it: "I make no apologies. After the debate, Bachmann upped the ante. The contention is remarkable, given that natural HPV itself doesn't infect the brain. But she should be.

The White House’s Nazis Among Washington’s most unsavory allies could be counted the unelected hereditary regime of Saudi Arabia, the homophobic, violent mobs of Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand, and of course Al Qaeda who has been serving America’s geopolitical agenda since the 1980′s when it first gathered the sectarian extremists together as a mercenary army to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Today the global terror enterprise is fighting on NATO’s behalf in Libya, Syria, Egypt, and southern Russia. But there is one group in particular that special interests within the United States has coddled, before, during, and after World War II that is perhaps the most iconic villain of recent human history – Adolf Hitler’s Nazis. US Collaboration with Nazis Before and During World War 2 Prior to WW2, many prominent American business owners and politicians were involved in the rise of Nazism. The same report would astoundingly claim (emphasis added): White House Resurrects Nazi Menace on Russia’s Doorstep

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