Rockefeller family
The Rockefeller family is an industrial, financial and political family in the United States of ethnic German origin. The family moved from the Rhineland to Cleveland, Ohio in the United States during the 18th century. Their rise to prominence came under John D. Rockefeller and William Rockefeller, brothers and oil magnates who founded and ran the Standard Oil Company, originally set up in 1870. As kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, John D Rockefeller became the world's richest man and first American worth more than a billion US Dollars. Allowing for inflation some regard him the richest man in history.
Some members have been involved in various globalist projects, such as the Bilderberg Meeting.
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Background
It is generally accepted that the Rockefeller family are ethnic Germans in ancestry, at least as far as can be shown. Their ancestor who moved from the Holy Roman Empire in 1732 was Johann Peter Rockefeller, who came from what is today Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Their name derives from a village in Feldkirchen, Neuwied called Rockenfeld, close to where Johann Peter Rockefeller was born. Some have historically speculated that they were descended from Huguenots, however this is unlikely because the name Rockenfeld is recorded in the area long before the Calvinists fled France in 1685.[1][2] Their oldest known paternal ancestor is Goddard Rockenfeller born in 1590.[2]
Some observers and critics have claimed (partial) Jewish ancestry.[3] This claim stems from the mentioning of the Rockefellers in two books; Stephen Birmingham's The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite and Americans of Jewish Descent by Malcolm Sten.[1] However this refers to a specific scion of the family, rather than the Rockefellers as a whole. Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller married Helen Gratz, a Jewess,[1] in 1923 and had seven children. He was grandson of Standard Oil co-founder William Rockefeller through third-son William Goodsell Rockefeller.
- The Rockefeller Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations intend to prevent, if they can, a repetition of what they call in the vernacular "the debunking journalistic campaign following World War I." Translated into precise English, this means that the Foundation and the Council do not want journalists or any other persons to examine too closely and criticize too freely the official propaganda and official statements relative to "our basic aims and activities" during World War II. In short, they hope that, among other things, the policies and measures of Franklin D. Roosevelt will escape in the coming years the critical analysis, evaluation and exposition that befell the policies and measures of Woodrow Wilson and the Entente Allies after World War I. – Prof. Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes[4]
Religious controversy
The Rockefeller family were caught up in the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within American Protestantism that began in the early 20th century. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. helped to fund the liberal-modernist side, especially through the Federal Council of Churches founded in 1908, which promoted the so-called "Social Gospel". Some conservative Presbytarians, such as Gary North in his book Crossed Fingers: How the Liberals Captured the Presbyterian Church, place much of the blame for the victory of liberal forces and the ascent of so-called "mainline Protestantism" as down to the Rockefellers.
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors finances the following organizations:[5]
- Anti-Defamation League
- Commission for Jewish Education of the Palm Beaches
- Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
- Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services, Inc.
- Jewish Braille Institute International
- Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County — Women’s Division
- Jewish Guild for the Blind
- Jewish Museum
- National Immigration Forum
- National Jewish Medical and Research Center
- Southern Poverty Law Center
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Are the Rockefellers of Jewish Descent?. Conspiracy Archive. Retrieved on 6 June 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Are the Rockefellers Jews?. Stormfront. Retrieved on 6 June 2010.
- ↑ Are Rockefellers & Sotomayor Illuminati Jews?
- ↑ Revisionism and the Historical Blackout
- ↑ Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
