At 22:32 5.3.03 -0500, you wrote:
I find the eagerness with which some quarters on the left dwell on the
Jewishness Of Perle, Wolfowitz, etc. increasingly creepy. US policy is
not set by a cabal of intellectuals, zionist, Jewish or no. Regardless
of the state of democratic institutions (and, in the big picture, the
ones in the US aren't in too terrible shape) governmental policy is
negotiated through coalitions of various elites, ... Rather than dwelling
obsessively on the Jewishness of Perle, Wolfowitz, etc. people would do
better figuring out how their vision of the US role in the world has been
sold to something like a ruling coalition--what strands of corporate
interests support such a vision, what aspects of racism, Christian
fundamentalism et al are being mobilized, etc. Steven Sherman
my friend, thats what i thought, until i saw which direction the shooting,
bombing and strafing is coming from.
it's not eagerness, it's great reluctance overcome.
i'm afraid it is rather those who refuse to look at zionism (shudder) who
have an obsession with that old taboo.
don't be like the man who said to the author of a dictionary -
you are obsessed about money, the word appears a dozen times in your book!
who was obsessed - the author or the critic?
yes, our warmongering fascism is a complex coalition, but that doesn't
justify leaving out a major part of the mosaic.
[Subject: It's all about Oil - er, Isreoil - er, Royals]
The Oil Monarchs: George W. Bush and his Royal Kin
By Christopher Bollyn - American Free Press
While President George W. Bush is portrayed in the mass media as the chief
architect of the plan to conquer Iraq, his family's intimate connection
with those oil-rich European royals who also support him is seldom discussed.
On a daily basis the mainstream media presents expert opinions as to who is
behind the military campaign against Iraq and why. Lately there has been a
flurry of editorials seeking to debunk the notion that the major British
and American oil companies are behind the planned conquest of Iraq and its
rich oil fields. What is never discussed, however, is the kinship between
President George W. Bush and the European royals who support the U.S.-led
campaign against Iraq.
There are basically two schools of thought among those who do not accept
the official reasoning for war against Iraq. The first is that the conquest
of Iraq's oil resources is an agenda being pushed by the major oil
companies and their agents in the British and U.S. governments. The second
is that Israel and its supporters, seeking to further the Zionist agenda,
are the true architects behind the war of aggression being planned against
the most populous Arab state.
While these two theories are usually presented as being mutually exclusive,
the secret networks that exist between the government leaders in the United
States and Britain, "Big Oil" and Israel indicate they are connected and
appear to be part of a master plan.
The huge anti-war protests of Feb. 15 clearly demonstrated that a
significant majority, estimated to be 80 percent, of the people in Europe
are strongly opposed to war in Iraq. The largest protests were seen in
those nations that have allied themselves with the U.S. war policy on Iraq:
namely Britain, Spain, and Italy.
With so many Europeans opposed to war, the question being asked is: "Who is
supporting the Bush policy, and why?"
"Blair Petroleum"
Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is Bush's staunchest and most
visible ally in the campaign against Iraq. Blair has long taken an
aggressive position on Iraq and says it was the first thing he discussed
with the new president after Bush was declared winner of the flawed
election of 2000.
While Blair's intimate relationship with the Anglo-American oil giant
British Petroleum (BP) should be a matter of discussion in the context of
his war policy against Iraq, it is seldom mentioned in the main steam
British press.
Blair's "New Labor" policies are now more closely connected to both Big
Oil, particularly BP, and Israel, than they are with the British working
class. The close links between BP, which was originally known as the
Anglo-Persian Oil Co. having been founded to exploit Iranian oil reserves,
and Blair's politics have led to the company being dubbed "Blair Petroleum."
During his first term, Blair appointed then chairman of BP, Lord Simon, to
be trade minister in May 1997. A controversy surfaced when it emerged that
Simon still owned a considerable shareholding in the company.
BP's current chief executive Lord John Browne, whose mother was an
"Auschwitz survivor," is also said to be "close to the prime minister."
Blair added a peerage to Browne's knighthood after he helped end fuel
protests in Britain.
Anji Hunter, Blair's former secretary and close friend, was said to "be
among New Labor friends" when she left government to take the position as
director of communications at BP in November 2001. Hunter went to school
with Blair and has worked with him continuously since 1986.
"There is a bit of a revolving door," says Norman Baker, a Liberal Democrat
member of parliament who has looked into the ties between BP and the Blair
government. The connections are probably more extensive than with any other
UK company, Baker said.
One of Blair's closest allies is Lord Michael Levy. Levy serves as one of
the most important fundraisers for the Labor Party and Blair's unofficial
envoy to the Middle East, according to Red Star Research of London, which
investigates the ties of Blair's New Labor to Big Oil - and Israel.
Levy reportedly met Blair at a dinner party in 1994 held by Gideon Meir, a
senior Israeli diplomat, and became his tennis partner. Levy was put in
charge of donations to the 'private trust,' which funded Blair's office
before the 1997 election (which reached more than $10 million), and is now
the chief fundraiser for the 'high value' donors account at the Labor
Party. He is reported to have raised $18 million for the 'high value' fund
before the 1997 election, and became known as 'Mr. Cashpoint', according to
Red Star Research.
King George
While President Bush's war policy is strongly opposed by the leaders of
Europe's largest republics, Germany, France, and Russia, he is supported by
those nations where royal families are still in power, or close to it:
Britain, Spain, The Netherlands, and Bulgaria. What the U.S. mainstream
media fails to mention is that he is actually related to the royal families
of those European states where his policy on Iraq is supported.
As the media reported during the election of 2000, Bush is closely related
to every European monarch on and off the throne and has kinship with every
member of Britain's royal family, the House of Windsor.
Saxe-Coburg Gotha is the true name of Britain's royal family, but the name
was changed to hide their German ancestry during the First World War.
Bush has more ties to European royalty than other president to date, having
"blue blood" from both his paternal and maternal lines. His mother, Barbara
Pierce Bush, is related to European royalty through the Pierce family,
which also produced the fourteenth U.S. president, Franklin Pierce
(1853-1857).
Harold Brooks-Baker of London's Burke Peerage says Bush's royal connections
are startling. "Bush is closely related to every European monarch both on
and off the throne," Baker told American Free Press.
"They are cousins." Baker said when asked about the relationship between
Bush and the Bulgarian prime minister, Simeon Saxe-Coburg Gotha, who
visited the White House on Feb. 25. Gotha is the former King of Bulgaria
who was returned to power after decades spent in exile.
About the apparent close relationship between Bush and the Spanish king,
Juan Carlos, Baker said: "They know they are related." Asked why the media
fails to report these family ties, Brooks-Baker said, "The American public
does not know who these kings are. Not one person in a thousand has any
idea who these people are."
"Mr. Gore and Mr. Bush have an unusually large number of royal and noble
descents," Baker said during the election campaign of 2000. "In point of
fact, never in the history of the United States have two presidential
candidates been as well endowed with royal alliances."
There has always been a significant "royalty factor" in those who aspired
to the White House, with Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, among some 30 other
presidents, all boasting blue blood links.
Asked if the support of the European royals for Bush's war policy could be
attributed to the fact that these families are heavily invested in the
leading oil companies, Brooks-Baker said, "That's an interesting question.
Indeed, Royal Dutch Shell petroleum made Queen Beatrix of Holland one of
the richest women in the world. She owns more land in New York and the
United States than any other foreigner."
Queen Beatrix, the matriarch of the secretive Bilderberg group, is like
Queen Elisabeth of Britain and is not allowed to play a public role in
political matters. Behind the scenes, however, these monarchs continue to
exercise political influence.
Asked if he thought that kinship with the European royals was the reason
for their support of Bush's war policy, Brooks-Baker said: "I don't think
there is any question about it. These people are obsessed with supporting
relations. It has a great deal to do with it. They all work together as one
family."
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