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George W. Bush, The Neocons, & The Nazis
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 16 September 200413 comments
By Glen Yeadon
Numerous writers have compared the Bush tactics with those used by Hitler, while others have documented the connection between Prescott Bush and the Nazis. However, there is much more to what has lead the Bush regime to transform the United Stated into a fascist police state. Few people are aware that it is the Republican Party which paid for Nazi broadcasts in the 1930s or that the GOP employed Nazis in election campaigns. Fewer are aware that Herbert Hoover conspired with top Nazi officials in Berlin to unseat Roosevelt in the 1940 election. Others have forgotten that George Bush senior as chairman of the Republican Party set up the ethnic heritage groups of the party as havens for former Nazis or that he employed known Nazi war criminals on his campaign staff.
Moreover, as the New York Republican convention nears convening, it is increasingly obvious that protestors will be dealt with brutally. New weapons such as a sound blaster developed for the military are already in place in New York blurring the lines between the military and civilian affairs. Over fifty protestors are being tightly watch and tailed, their only crime is their opposition to Bush. The Republican governor has suggested that free speech is not a right but a privilege that can be revoke. Additionally there is a massive operation going on in Florida and other states to deny Blacks their right to vote. Finally the Bush administration is using terror alerts to frighten voters and to condition them to the possibility of a canceled election. These and similar tactics are no different than the tactics Hitler’s brown shirts employed.
The fascist philosophy underlying the present Bush administration. (See accompanying diagram.) http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushadmin.html
There are numerous connections between the Bush family and the Nazis. Moreover, the philosophy of the neocons within the Bush administration has already been connected with fascism. However, no article has attempted to present an overview of the fascist connections within the Bush administration. This article will begin to outline the fascist connections between the present Bush administration and the Nazis, using a two-prong approach. The philosophical roots of Bush and the neocons can be traced back to one of America’s notorious fascist.
Several authors have already noted the link between senior members of the Bush administration and the fascist Leo Strauss. However, exploring further the philosophical roots of Bush administration, we see that this connection leads back to the robber barons and the empire of J.P Morgan. Due to the natural congeniality between the robber barons and the corporate state of fascism, most of America’s leading industrialists became America’s leading supporters of fascism. They were responsible for bringing Hitler to power and for building Hitler’s war machine.
Strauss is nominally portrayed as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany. However, Strauss wasn’t the hapless Jewish refugee that he is purported to be. Strauss adopted Zionism at the age of 17. There is a close and sinister association between Zionism and the Nazis. Many of the Zionists supported Hitler and the Nazis. In fact, the Nazis concluded a transfer agreement with the Zionists. The Zionists were attempting to limit the choices available for Europe’s Jews to two choices: immigrate to Palestine or perish in the Holocaust.
As a student, Strauss began studying the philosophers that provided the basis for fascism: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Schmitt. He became a devoted lifelong follower of their philosophy. Strauss’s philosophy and views became increasingly fascist as his studies progressed. The hallmark of Strauss’s philosophy was his belief in totalitarian government. He rejected all principles of natural law and believed in keeping the masses ignorant and in general servitude.
Strauss left Nazi Germany with the warm commendation of the Nazi jurist and philosopher Carl Schmitt. Schmitt was personally responsible, in 1934, for arranging a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship for Strauss, which enabled him to leave Germany, to study first in France and then England. He arrived in the United States from Britain in the fall of 1937. Briefly appointed Research Fellow in the Department of History of Columbia University, he then became a member of the graduate faculty at the New School for Social Research in 1938.
The New School of Social Research was founded in 1919, a year after Willard Straight’s death from influenza. Straight had been a partner of J.P. Morgan. He believed that America’s security depended upon the British fleet and that it was in the United States own interest to enter the war. At the same time, he saw the war as an opportunity for American bankers and industrialists to make substantial gains internationally at the expense of Britain. Morgan was an anglophile and believed in the entry of the U.S. in the war. In 1915, Straight left the Morgan empire for a position with the American International Corporation, itself affiliated with the National City Bank.
In 1914, Straight and his wife Dorothy (maiden name, Dorothy Payne Whitney) invited Herbert Croly to edit the first edition of the New Republic, a new magazine funded by Straight. During WWI, J.P. Morgan was obsessed with the media and endeavored to control it. Providing backing for the New Republic had a threefold purpose for Morgan. Firstly, it would keep him abreast of the thinking in left-wing circles. He even had an inside man in the communist press. Secondly, Morgan believed a magazine such as the New Republic allowed the left to blow off steam, thus acting as a safety valve. Finally, he also believed it would give him a power of veto on any actions originated by the left, in case they ever went radical.
Funding the New Republic was not the only effort funded by Morgan to gain control of the press. In 1915, he got together 12 leading men within the newspaper business and commissioned them to determine how one could control the national press. They agreed that, to control the national press, all that was needed was to control 25 of the most influential papers. Morgan immediately sent emissaries to purchase the editorial policy of the 25 selected papers. Morgan also used his money to form the American Legion and to craft it into a union busting and redbaiting group of hired thugs that ran amok during the 1919 Red Scare terrorizing and murdering countless union leaders and leftists.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was another Morgan front group aimed at controlling the American people. The CFR evolved out of the Rhodes Roundtable group during WWI. Most of the early members were Morgan employees who had met their English counterparts during the Paris Peace Conference. The CFR was a bridging group between the Morgans and the Rockefellers, and the Rockefellers provided much of the financial support. As the Rockefeller fortune came to outgrow the Morgan fortune, the CFR became more dominated by the Rockefellers. Percy Rockefeller, a Skull and Bones member who served on the board of the Morgan Guaranty Trust further strengthened the bridge between the Morgan and Rockefeller dynasties.
The New Republic certainly fits the blueprint of Morgan’s efforts to control the media. Initially, all outside contributions had to be unanimously approved by its editorial board. The New School for Social Research followed in the footsteps of the New Republic. Straight’s widow and the wife of another J.P. Morgan partner, Mrs. Thomas Lamont, were instrumental in establishing the New School. Two years later in 1921, Alvin Johnson, the assistant editor of the New Republic was named Director of the New School. Strauss remained at the Morgan-connected New School for Social Research for ten years. In 1948, he accepted a position at the Rockefeller founded University of Chicago.
Not only was Strauss a promoter of fascist ideology, but his entry into the United States and his work there through most of his life was supported financially by two of the most powerful American fascist families. While the dealings of the Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil Company with the Nazis during the war allowed the family the thin pretense that they were not personally involved, other actions by the Rockefeller family confirm their fascist ideology. It was the Rockefeller Foundation that provided funding for much of the Nazi research into eugenics, including the funding for the twin research conducted in the concentration camps by Mengele.
Strauss’s connections to the neo-cons within the Bush administration are well known at this point. Numerous other neo-cons serving in the Bush administration or the American Enterprise Organization, who funded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), were students and followers of Strauss. Not only can this be seen in their dictatorial approach but it is also visible in their strong pro-Israeli views. An interesting aspect of Strauss’s tenure at the University of Chicago is that it is during his tenure that both David Rockefeller and John Ashcroft received their degrees from the University of Chicago.
The Rockefeller family played a key role not only in funding Strauss but also in destroying the economies of Third World nations. The Rockefellers have used the University of Chicago and their various family foundations to promote an economic policy of ruin. The laissez-faire economics promoted by the Chicago school has failed numerous times in the past and was one of the leading causes of the 1929 stock market crash and resulting Great Depression. Such economic policies only lead to global fascism and corporate rule, which are the prime goal of the Rockefeller family.
This is evident in David Rockefeller’s support of free trade agreements, the World Trade Organization and the World Bank. These trade organization and agreements have impoverished much of the Southern Hemisphere with their draconian demands for privatization and cuts in social spending. Moreover, these trade agreements effectively reduce the government’s role to that of an enforcer of corporate policies. All of these free trade agreements contain a clause setting up a tribunal comprised of corporations to settle all disputes, including claims against the government. The clause effectively bypasses the court systems in signatory countries. In effect, these clauses confer supreme sovereignty to multinational corporations who answer to no one. Under these clauses, corporations are free to claim environmental laws, labor laws and other laws are harmful to the company and cause it financial loss, which results in massive settlements against the government and in the overturning of needed laws.
One of the chief advocates of these free trade agreements is Dick Cheney, who has promised David Rockefeller that he would deliver a hemisphere trade agreement before the end of the current Bush administration.
Such unconstitutional trade agreements have become commonplace as a result of the Rockefellers’ ability to control and direct economic thought in the United States. In essence, the Rockefellers maintain a monopoly on economic theory. To understand how they gained such control brings us back to the 1920s. During the 1920s, two economists rose to prominence: Ludwig von Mises, and Friedrich A. Hayek. Both were helped by Rockefeller money. Von Mises toured the United States in 1926. The tour of American Universities was sponsored by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation and was greatly successful in promoting the views of the Austrian School of Economics. Hayek tutored personally David Rockefeller in economics.
In 1950, von Hayek was brought to the United States to teach at the University of Chicago. He didn’t teach economics, he was actually made a professor on the Committee on Social Thought. This was an exceptionally dangerous position for a man that held the views von Hayek did. In 1945, von Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom was published. This poorly written book was an attack on the concept of the nation-state. In it, von Hayek argued that the nation-state was a hindrance to peace, and socialism led to totalitarian systems, which treated their citizens as serfs. In place of the nation-state von Hayek proposed a supra-national authority or world federation consisting of the financial elite.
This elite would then be free to rule the world according to their own interest. In 1947, von Hayek created the Mount Pelerin Society, made up of the financial elite of Europe, as a first step toward his supranational authority. In the years since, the Mount Perlin Society has been influential in creating numerous "conservative" think tanks, which promote free market economic policies for the Establishment. The society has expanded to include the following think tanks: the Heritage Foundation in 1973, the Fraser Institute in 1974, the Manhattan Institute in 1977, and the Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research in 1978.
The influence of the Chicago University on modern economics is unprecedented. Since 1969, most of the Nobel prizes in economics have been awarded to the free traders, despite the spectacular failures of laissez-faire economies.
Economists who dare publish articles opposing the thought of the Chicago University, are quickly ridiculed, their works dismissed, and their careers wrecked. All this is a testimony to the power of the Rockefeller family and its control over economy and free thought.
The connection between the University of Chicago and fascism was renewed in the 1960s under Pinochet in Chile. It was the "boys from Chicago", students of Milton Friedman, who destroyed the economy and reduced the citizens to serfdom in Pinochet’s fascist Chile, where dissent was eliminated by right-wing death squads.
According to von Hayek’s views, corporations are given the status of sovereign nations while the nation-states are reduced to mere quislings of the corporate state and enforcer of their laws. This is the same agenda as that of the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary fund and the many so-called "free trade agreements." Many of the Bush neocons are further linked with von Hayek by their beliefs in Mandeville. (Von Hayek rejected the idea that man was created in the image of god and traced his philosophical ancestry to the early eighteenth century Satanist, Bernard Mandeville.)
At this point, it becomes clear that the Bush administration’s philosophical roots are clearly grounded in fascist ideology and in the fascist dogma of the corporate state. That these roots come from two of America’s richest families confirms fascism as a top-down revolution by the elite to maintain their control and power. The fascist roots of the Bush regime are manifested in the operative side of its philosophy, through the Psychological Strategy Board under Nelson Rockefeller. C D Jackson served in the Eisenhower administration; he was in charge of the psychological warfare. Both Bruce and Howell Jackson were part of the PNAC project, the blueprint for the Bush regime.
The operative route: how the fascists manifested themselves. (See accompanying diagram.) http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushadmin.html
A return to the partners of J.P Morgan provides the operative connection between the Bush administration and fascism. Thomas Lamont was a prominent figure in the 1934 fascist plot to remove Roosevelt from office. The plot called for retired Marine General Smedley Butler to lead the force —much of it consisting of American Legionnaires— to take over the White House. Roosevelt would be given a chance to step down and to cooperate with the plotters. If Roosevelt refused to let the business leaders seize power, then the plotters would kill him.
However, Butler was an honorable man, and he leaked the information concerning the plot to Roosevelt. Roosevelt knew he could not simply dismiss it when it was connected with several leading industrialists and bankers. To foil the plot, Roosevelt leaked information about it to the press. The resulting commotion in the front pages of the country’s newspapers undermined any efforts by the plotters to proceed.
Butler described his military career as follows.
"War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.... I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
A third partner of J. P. Morgan, Henry Davison, financed the Yale Aviation Club, of which his son Trubee was a member. Many of the Aviation Club members were also members of the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale. The club gained fame during WWI. Robert Lovett led the unit during the war. Artemus Gates was another member. Trubee was injured in a crash during training and never saw combat.
The most interesting aspect of this group of college aviation buffs is how many of them later served in WWII on the targeting selection committee. Henry Simpson, Secretary of War and a former Bonesman, appointed John McCloy as his Assistant Secretary of War in charge of intelligence. Robert Lovett was appointed Assistant Secretary of War for air. Directly under Lovett was Trubee Davison. Davison held the position of assistant chief of staff at A-1. Artemus Gates served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for air. James Stillman Rockefeller served with the Airborne Command and Airborne Center as assistant chief of staff.
Clearly the Department of War, and particularly the command for air had an unusually high number of members from the Yale Aviation Unit and the Skull and Bones. Moreover, these individuals all had extensive ties to Wall Street firms, which had a history of doing business with the Nazis. Certainly they were able to influence the target selection in the air campaign against Germany. Lovett was a lifelong advocate of what amounts to terror bombing, the bombing of civilian centers.
The air campaign against Germany left eighty percent of the homes destroyed. Factory production was only reduced by twenty percent. However, much of the reduction in factory production came about not by damage to the factories, but from delays and shortages of parts caused by the disruption of the transportation system from bombing damage. For example, Cologne was a city targeted for massive bombing attacks. While the city lay in ruins, the Ford and I.G. Farben plants escaped all but minor bomb damage. In Berlin, a city that had been reduced to rubble from the bombing campaign, the Allies chose the I.G. Farben building for their headquarters. It had escaped all but minor damage from the bombs.
Robert Lovett and Prescott Bush were both Bonesmen employed by Brown Brothers and Harriman. In fact, many of the top directors and partners of Brown Brothers & Harriman were Bonesmen. It was one of the main firms on Wall Street to have extensive dealings with the Nazis.
The deals with the Nazis were so extensive at Brown Brothers & Harriman that Prescott Bush had 23 firms seized from him for trading with the enemy. Five firms were seized from Bush in 1942, another 18 firms were seized shortly after the war. The 18 firms had been allowed to operate during the war only because seizing them had been judged detrimental to the war effort and their continued operation posed little risk to the Allies.
Before the firms were seized, Prescott Bush hired the Dulles brothers to conceal the Nazi ownership in these firms. Any window of deniability slammed shut the minute Bush hired the Dulles brothers to conceal the Nazi’s ownership. This is when it becomes treason by both Bush and the Dulles brothers. It confirms that both parties knew that the continued operation of these companies was in violation of U.S. policy and of the Trading with the Enemy Act. Moreover, it confirms that both parties freely chose to aid the Nazis when the U.S. was at war with Nazi Germany.
The Wall Street law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell employed both John Foster and Allan Dulles. Throughout the 1930s and the early 1940s, the Dulles brothers were busy cloaking Nazi ownership of numerous corporations and their cartel arrangements with I.G. Farben. Not only was their work treasonous in and of itself, it also delayed the production of war materials and munitions.
Aside from his 23 corporations seized for violating the Trading with the Enemy Act, Prescott Bush was a leader in the American eugenic movement. The American eugenic movement was successful in the passage of sterilization laws in many states for anyone judged unfit. These laws served as the basis of the Nuremberg Laws passed by the Nazis. Much of the Nazi eugenic research was funded, even during the war, with money from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation. The Harriman’s were also large financial backers of the movement.
After the war, John Foster Dulles, with the aid of Rockefeller money, led a world tour of third-world nations stressing the danger of population expansion of nonAryan races. George Bush, Prescott’s son, has followed in his father’s footsteps in setting up population control in third-world nations through the UN. In his first political race, George Bush campaigned against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and as a member of congress he warned of the danger of too many Black babies. While population control may be a laudable goal, in the hands of the Bush family it becomes another eugenic tool aimed at eliminating nonAryan races.
Moreover, Cold Springs Harbor, the center of eugenic research in the 1920s and 1930s is still operating. It is currently a leader of the human genome project. While the genome project will undoubtedly provide many future medical benefits, Cold Springs remains firmly under the control of the same families involved in the American eugenics movement. Current directors William Gerry and Allen Dulles Jebsen are the grandsons of Harriman and Allan Dulles respectively.
The genome project provides the ideal cover to develop a genome-specific bioweapon, a weapon with the sole purpose of committing genocide on a massive scale. Such a weapon has been described by the PNAC as a politically useful tool. The PNAC is the road map George W. Bush is following as a "War President."
This is not the only link between the Rockefeller Foundation and questionable programs. In 1931, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads infected human subjects with cancer cells. Rhoads later established the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama. It was named the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he began a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.
Following the war, Allan Dulles faced an investigation for treason. While Dulles was crafty enough to escape the charges, one of those aiding him in covering up his crimes was Richard Nixon. While still serving in the navy, Nixon was given some captured documents to review. The contents would have revealed Allan Dulles as a traitor. In exchange for burying the documents Dulles agreed to fund Nixon’s first political campaign. Nixon’s campaign benefited from large contributions from a large New York bank connected with Brown Brothers and Harriman.
Captured Nazi documents reveal they had a comeback plan. Their plan to regain power after the war revolved around using their friends or other fascist sympathizers in other countries —and particularly in the United States— to do their bidding while rebuilding Germany. The documents note that, as late as 1944, the Nazis were hoping for a Republican victory in the presidential election because they would get an easier peace. The second part of their plan aimed at provoking a war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which would allow the Nazis to retake power in Germany without U.S. intervention.
Politically, Eisenhower had a tin ear, and he was politically naïve. When John Foster Dulles approached him in Europe to run for election in 1948, Eisenhower had no foreign policy concept formulated. He was easily swayed by Dulles’ idea of massive nuclear retaliation, which led to the appointment of Dulles as secretary of state. While Eisenhower was no Nazi and expressed his hatred of Nazis and Germans in his letters to his wife, he allowed the American Nazis like the Dulles brothers to gain a great deal of control over his administration. Eisenhower appointed Allan Dulles as CIA Director, and Prescott Bush and John Lovett were Eisenhower’s close golfing buddies. Prescott Bush was also the driving force in selecting Richard Nixon as Eisenhower’s running mate. Nelson Rockefeller was appointed to head the Psychological Strategy Board. Numerous employees of Sullivan and Cromwell, the two Wall Street firms most involved with the Nazis, held important positions within the administration.
John McCloy and General Draper, both from the former Control Council of Germany, fulfilled important roles in the Eisenhower administration. Nothing was left to chance in the rebirth of the Nazis. In postwar Germany, the three most powerful figures: John McCloy head of the Control Council, Lewis Douglas, the head of the Finance Division of the Control Council and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, were all brothers-in-law. They all had wed daughters of Fredrick Zinsser, a partner of JP Morgan.
While the American Nazis succeeded in gaining partial control of the Eisenhower administration and were able to stoke the fires of the Cold War, they failed to secure total control. Although these American Nazis managed to dupe the tired old general, they never succeeded in completely tricking him. Even after suffering a debilitating heart attack the old general refused to turn over the reins of power to Nixon, a man he loathed. Before leaving office, Eisenhower realized he had been duped and left us his rather cryptic warning about the military-industrial complex, suggesting the dangers of corporate rule.
Since 1960, Eisenhower’s warning has gone largely unheeded. Beginning with the rise of fascism and the elitism within the Reagan administration, the military keeps taking up a bigger portion of the budget, social welfare has been largely eliminated —just as it was eliminated in Nazi Germany. Today, under the regime of George W. Bush, it is clear that the corporations within the military-industrial complex are in control of the country. It allows Dick Cheney to pad his retirement account at Halliburton with millions of dollars of Halliburton overcharges for services not delivered in the Iraq War. Meanwhile, many of the soldiers are sent into combat without body armor.
A recently disclosed top-secret document from the NSC reveals that the NSC staff were instructed to cooperate fully with Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force as it considered the "melding" of two seemingly unrelated areas of policy: "the review of operational policies towards rogue states," such as Iraq, and "actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields." The document suggests that Cheney’s Energy Task Force was actually a discussion for geostrategic plans for oil, putting the issue of war in the context of the captains of the oil industry sitting down with Cheney and laying grand, global plans. This would confirm Bush’s plans for regime change in 60 countries and his support for rebel forces opposing the democratic government of Venezuela as well as the increasing hostility of the Bush administration towards Iran.
Too many people still believe that fascism can’t happen here. It is happening here today. The Gestapo is firmly in place in the form of Ashcroft’s justice department. The FBI no longer serves to protect the citizens; instead it is being used to protect this regime, by such means as the gagging of Sibel Edmonds, for instance. The FBI is no longer primarily charged with criminal investigation instead its being used to enforce this regime’s policies and finally the FBI, other federal law enforcement agencies and the military are illegally spying on anyone opposed to this regime. Moreover, Representative Porter Goss, Bush’s choice to head the CIA has introduced legislation that would allow the CIA to conduct operations inside the United States including arbitrary arrests of American citizens.
Ike’s military-industrial complex, the PNAC document, the World Trade Organization, free trade agreements, and the George W. Bush regime are all parts of the many-headed Nazi Hydra in America.
If George Bush declares a red alert or martial law or manages to steal another election, will you be one of the first sent to the concentration camps? Will you go quietly like a lamb? Will you allow the Gestapo to haul away your neighbor, your wife, your son or daughter? Will you live next to the crematories with your head in the sand as the Germans did? Or will you oppose the regime and help reestablish the constitutional republic?
The time to decide is now, tomorrow may be too late. The corporate state of fascism has risen from the ashes of 9/11 like a giant phoenix. It will consume all that opposes it. The Fourth Reich has risen. Beware. Your life and freedoms depend on it.
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17 September 2004, 01:34
This article is pure, unadulterated misrepresentation of the ideas of several individuals, most prominently Hayek and Mises. It should be noted that the followers of Mises and Hayek in the United States are HIGHLY critical of the Bush administration’s push for War and his expansion of the welfare-warfare state....to lump Mises and Hayek, who had to flee Nazi persecution, with the Nazis is ludicrous.
17 September 2004, 03:09
Is there any part of this spewage that is NOT absurd? I’m guessing that these theories were beamed directly into your fillings, thereby circumventing your tinfoils hat?
Heheheheheheh
You’re a funny man. Keep writing - I need the laugh!
(I’m guessing that this will be considered "abusive" and will disappear silently into the ether... as opposed to the article, which is in *no way* abusive, right? Hehehehehehehe.)
10 January 2010, 02:23, by R.James
Prescott Bush did have 23 companies seized from him in 1942 under the Trading With Enemy Act. This information can be viewd in the
Library of Congress and The National Historical Society.
It is not theory it is FACT.
17 September 2004, 03:21
Poor Mr. Yeadon clamoring on about how everyone’s a fascist. Except that I note he’s apparently opposed to free trade agreements. Now there are many problem with free trade agreements (namely they don’t promote free trade), but Mr. Yeadon appears to be opposed to the notion of free trade in general. As I recall, that was a hallmark of Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s naziism; free trade was a danger to the volk and the worker and must be resisted. It’s amazing how in the modern world, most of the biggest advocates of fascism are European’s who fancy themselves as left-socialists and call their political enemies fascists. Not only are they laughable, they’re becoming increasingly BORING.
17 September 2004, 05:45
Thanks for the details and the history. Recently while waiting in a line at the airport I was standing behind a military family. I did not know that they were in the military they had civilian wear on. I made a comment about the Bush administration being like Nazis and these military people went ballistic, they went on about how they were keeping me safe and defending me in Iraq.
I couldn’t believe they were so rude as to evesdrop on my private conversation and then attack me for not agreeing with their war... I explained to them that I was a war protestor and that I was proud of that and I felt that I was doing that for them too, that I did not want them to sacrifice themselves in Iraq for me, I would be safer if they were to refuse to go there and do the dirty work for the Nazi regieme that is now in control. What if the U.S. held a war and nobody came?
17 September 2004, 09:50
Freedom To Do Without Not Good Enough!
Your article Glen Yeadon is right on line. George Orwell is alive and well sad to say.
"Emperor Bush and his Fascist Administration are causing the ’Daily’
suffering and deaths of Poor American Disabled, Senior Citizens,
Children,Veterans and the Unemployed by Economic Deprivation. It
leaves no finger prints at the crime scene." Officer T. Porter D.P.O.
17 September 2004, 14:55
I couldn’t believe that so much absurd logic, false claims, and paranoid delusions could be crammed into one piece of drivel.
18 September 2004, 04:37
It would appear from the negative postings it is hard to accept.
Then Republicans have never been able to accept the truth. They
follow like blind mice without ever questioning the realities of
Truth. They have either narrow minds or have never done their
homework. If they have gone to school they have gone to very
conservative schools that have only enforced the mind set that
it is ok to ignore the rights of Freedom in a Deomcracy ruled as
a Republic. Sad to say under the appointment of George W. Bush
and Hellaburton Dick Cheney we are living in the most Nazi type
ruled government America has ever seen. Unless they are sent back
to Crawford, Texas from the November 2nd elections then we can
say good bye to the America we once knew. I am sure there will be
people who think this is not a reality. For those who think this way
then they are already lost and you can not reach them with any logic
of reason. Well when they can not buy gasoline to fuel their SUV’s
and buy Food and Pay for a Roof over their heads then and only then
will they wake up. Sad to say it will be to late by the time this would
happen. The power of the people as American Citizens is in our VOTE.
Ok I know many feel left out because their vote was not counted in 2000.
As much as the Fascist we now have living in our White House now, the
Freedom of Speech is still a right of all Americans. It is what makes the
difference between America and other countries that do not have it. Iraq and
the Mid East is a lost cause. With all the destruction we have had from three
Hurricanes in Ameirca and Fires in Forest in the West we have had more loss
and economy shot out the window. Being told by Emperor Bush things are
getting better are hollow words. They may be getting better for the 1% Rich
but surely not for the 99% of American citizens. Bush and Cheney lie and
People Die. What more does anyone have to understand? Yes for the majority
of American Citizens it is enough to just try to stay above water in many ways.
That has been the master plan of the Republican Party. This way we the citizens
can not take the time to make a difference or attend protest. If anyone wants
to question the numbers of people upset in America you only have to recall just
weeks ago the largest Peace March ever held in America with over 1/2 Million
marching in New York City. The media controled by Corporation America built
it up as if the marchers were going to take over the city. It would be doom and the
end of civilization as we knew it. This is once again proof how the Media continues
to control the mind set of people by putting FEAR into those who buy this. Of course
the Peace March was never one of Doom. It was the most Peaceful expression of
Freedom of Speech in the history of America. You don’t have this happen when
everything is going just great in America. Under the leadership of President Bill
Clinton we had a great economy, jobs, food and roofs over our heads. Under Emperor
George W. Bush we now see how America is turning into a 3rd World Country in
real time. If you can’t smell the coffee one day brewing it will be due to the reason
there is no coffee we can afford to buy to brew. Time to Wake Up America! Your
Freedom is Calling You! Oh and if anyone wants to question the morals of President
Bill Clinton to the thinking that George W. Bush has morals only has to look into
the past decades of George W. Bush. When you compare the two, President Bill
Clinton looks like an Angel. From the beginning of America every President has had
their need to have something on the side. George Washington has babies burried
At Mt. Vernon that were surely not Martha’s. As the saying goes, when a President
is happy the country is doing well. When we have a President that is not happy the
country does poorly. When is the last time anyone saw a person in a Bush/Cheney
crowd that tried to express an opinion other than the message being preached by
Bush or Cheney and seen being taken out by force? We see this daily on the news.
The only thing is the Media surely do not allow to broadcast what the person is saying
before they are by force removed. Laura Bush just yesterday was speaking and the
mother of a Dead American Soldier was trying to ask Laura Bush a question. The
reply was force in having her removed and the crowd as in the Nazi style was with
fist in the air saying, "4 More Years" "4 More Years". This is how a Democracy
ruled as a Republic acts? I thought I was watching a 3rd World country rally. Like
I said time to wake up before you find all your freedoms gone. You won’t even have
the choice to be able to Shop and be in Fear at the same time anymore. You also
want to remember by the Bush/Cheney and groups of thugs they have are calling now
America the HomeLand. Amazing this is what Hitler called Germany. If that does
not scare you then you have been bought, sold and hoodwinked beyond help. Then
you could be woken up from your dream of granduer and remember before Emperor
Bush and Court Jester Cheney and McCarthyism Ashcrook and Killum Cowboy
Rumsfeld, we had a balance of reality that was workable. It has never been easy
maintaining freedom in America but we have never until the Bush/Cheney group
took over our White House have seen such Fascist Dictatorship rule. There are days
I feel it is already lost then I realize what goes up must come down. In other words
what goes up by Hot Air has to come down and when Bush/Cheney do come down
is when America will see how full of Fascist rule they have been.
In Iraq alone we have lost 1032 to date. We have 6,435 Paralyzed and Disabled
American Troops. There have been over 11,000 Iraq Citizens murdered in the name
of Peace? There have never been any WMD ever found and this was the base that
was sold to America as the reason to go to a military action against Iraq. We have a
C.I.A. that has a yearly budget of 38 Billion bucks each year. At any time Saddam
and his two sons could of been taken out. Then it was never Saddam that caused any
of 9/11 but for many Americans if you hear it enough you think it must be true.
Has anyone heard about Ben La La? Oh ya he was the one who was going to be smoked
out of his hole. He was the one that was Wanted Dead or Alive. Anyone realize that
9/11 was citizens from Saudi Arabia and now we get back to why America never
attacked Saudi Arabia, because of the many decades of family connections with the
Bush Family and the Saudi Arabia Family. You just don’t hear on the Corporate
Control Media a word about why Emperor Bush attacked Iraq and not Saudi Arabia.
For the 3,000 people who died on 9/11 they can never be brought back to life. They
where not just Americans. They came from 61 different countries. Does anyone find
it odd that you never hear from Bush/Cheney other than about Ground Zero in N.Y.C.
and not bring up about the Pentagon or the Field in PA.? They don’t want us to think
about what else was hit on 9/11. If they did then they would bring up the fact that
those who on 9/11 took controls of our Commercial Airlines and used 4 U.S. Commercial
Jet’s to turn on our own citizens and citizens of other countries in those attacks.
What were the Air Traffic Control Operators doing? You have 4 first take off jets
of the day loaded with fuel going west and all turning around. That would of set off
some major alerts. Then George W. Bush was safe in Florida reading or being read
to by grammer school children about a Goat. Then when told the second WTB was
hit it took 7 minutes for him to think about it. As other Presidents would of said
"Kids I have to leave now on offical buisness for America." Then we ask for in our
Leaders to be Leaders not sit on their butts for 7 plus minutes to think of the Color
of the day program to be started by Homeland security which has failed big time.
I still feel so cheated I never could afford one of the pictures of George W. Bush on
Air Force 1 as he flew around the country like a dog with his tail between his legs
stopping for media press spin. Time to wake up America. The 1% Republican
Rich will never care once ounce for your life other than what they can get from it.
24 September 2004, 00:37
Some rough patches and generalizations, but for the most part, the history you present is sound.
The free market fundamentalists — ignorant, as so many of them are, of their own heroes’ true histories and beliefs — responded in the only way they know how.
Keep digging. Keep up the good work.
26 September 2004, 18:58
This is the most beautiful article I have read on this subject. I have asked webmaster@rense.com to post this link as it is soooo right on . The Fourth Reich Has Risen and people need to wake up to this. So easy to say all of this is absurd but unfortunatly it is true. There are signs people and you need to look at the signs. Look around and listen and you will hear the music of the Fourth Reich it’s only going to get louder...and before long the only drummer that you will be following is the drummer of the Fourth Reich !
3 October 2004, 02:41
Thanks for the kind words. I see as usual the neocons are shitting their pants and telling more lies. In particular that sorry fool that went on about how the Nazis and Musollini opposed free trade. I wonder if the damn fool ever read any history about the Nazis or fascism. The foreign policies and trade agreements of Harding, Cooldige and Hoover were very advantageous for Italy. In fact all 3 Republican presidents in the 1920s supported Mussolini and cultivated his support. They didn’t give a damn about a fascists dictator ---all they saw was Mussolini strong anti-communist platform. In fact there is an entire book that documents it if one is lucky enough to find a copy as it is rather expensive $150 a copy if you can find it---but then there is a reason for that---can’t have the truth get out.
Then of course there was the Nazi trade with south America, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland.
4 October 2004, 03:05
The truth hurts too much...its so warm and fuzzy to believe in Bush and the Easter bunny and Santa.
7 December 2005, 23:34
TWO PERSPECTIVES ON THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
I
THE IRAQ WAR IS OVER!
GW Bush insists that he will not pull out until
victory; but is pulling out regardless, then calling
it victory!
The first installment will be to buy himself a
continued Republican dominated Congress; without that
he can’t pay back his 2004 campaign contributors with
domestic legislation before he leaves office. Then
will come more in preparation for his 2008 farewell,
for, no matter what he sais, how he will look in
history is important to him also. So we may well be
out of Iraq before he’s out of the White House. Should
we therefore just forget about it as we did with
Vietnam?
In answer let me remind you of what Santayana said:
those who do not learn from history are doomed to
repeat it. Vietnam was sort of repeated in Iraq
because we didn’t learn from it. Probably more
Americans know the baseball statistics since we went
into Iraq than know how we got into Iraq. But if we
are to survive past the Bush Era, we will have to
study and understand the mechanics of the Bush
policies that got us into this war because we might
not survive the consequences of a repeat. And, there
are a lot of other Bushes with presidential ambitions
(though they seem a lot smarter than this one). We
must understand— and pass that understanding to our
kids— how we re-elected such a proven morally,
intellectually and functionally formless individual
for the highest office in the land.
In fact, Bush is not be the whole issue, for he was
more a permissive element than a causative one, no
matter how many books the court scribe, Bob Woodward,
writes on Bush’s behest to make him look "in charge."
The real evil doers, it is now clearer than ever, were
Rumsfeld and Cheney. One jumped in in service of the
neocons, hoping they would make him president, the
other jumped in to use the White House to salvage the
Halliburton Corporation he had incompetently
devastated while its CEO. And, of course, there were
all these oil interests to appease.
I recall during the Ike, JFK, LBJ and Nixon
administrations the tremendous agitation and worry
that the American people would never appreciate how
poisonous is the Communist pill made palatable with a
liberal sugar coating. And they were right, people
didn’t take them seriously unless frightened half to
death by government propaganda. It was the Communists
who defeated themselves by growing too fast as we
relented instead of contain them. Well, over time,
those very same anti-Communist liberals floated to the
right, enjoying all the benefits that entailed
influence peddling, to became the moral and
pseudo-intellectual sugar coating for a "globalist"
American imperialism in the Middle East, playing
second fiddle to Ariel Sharon. The rant of GW Bush at
his second inaugural about spreading democracy across
the globe and not stopping until all men and women
enjoy their God-given right to freedom, is not even
ideology but mere wordsmith pap, as I tried to make
some polisci academics appreciate. The notion of
preemption too is not a doctrine but merely an excuse
for using American firepower to impose the interests
of a few payed for by the many. And Bush was only the
permissive factor that makes it all constitutional.
One need only compare the words and the actions, the
goals and the achievements, the operational concepts
of global unity and the going it alone reality. The
principle is: the weak who believed in him pay as Bush
tries to squirm out of the mess he is in. That may go
a long way to explain why all those multi-color
democratic revolutions all turned corrupt gray.
What in fact Bush made possible is far more
destructive to the American Way of Life than anything
binLaden could ever have done. 9/11 was the product of
irresponsible airlines’ corporate greed. In the 1970s
it was decided that from then on all passenger
aircraft will have an impenetrable pilot’s cabin and
sky marshalls on board in order to deter or stop
skyjackings, then so numerous. But the CEOs of the
airlines deemed that too costly and alQaeda spotted
the vulnerability. Instead of recognizing that it was
our own fault as a nation, the result of our being so
reckless and not learning our skyjacking lessons from
the 70s, we pretended that we did nothing wrong and
instead blew alQaeda into some omnipotent and beastly
monster than can do to us anything it wants anytime,
and indeed will. So a frightened American people
allowed Bush to sent their sons and daughters first to
Afghanistan and then to Iraq, never questioning why we
couldn’t deal with the problem quietly through
coordinated intelligence services, eliminating these
crazed assassins, along with all our allies. We were
panicked into thinking that we are at war with a
global force and thus became passive when Bush
declared himself a war president and now demands that
we simply obey instead of questioning. In the
meantime, the neocons who had always gotten their way
by accusing us of "anti-Semitism" if we did not give
them what they want (calling the mass majority of Jews
who don’t agree with them "self-hating Jews), turned
to running an "anti-Semetic" campaign of their own,
this one directed at Arabs and Arab-Americans. To this
day they call for abandonment of the Atlantic Alliance
and use the British and French problems with Muslims
to argue for restriction of all Islamics in America
and barring others from entering. European reluctance
to participate in this venture was attributed to
"Islamization" of Europe, made possible by its
"anti-Semitic heredity"!!!! Declaring Europe lost, the
necons called for American unilateralism. They got the
war they wanted, but it did not go their way. Then, in
his second term, Bush, in a fit of arrogance, dumped
all the neocons from power, leaving his administration
as a clear road for a faith-based greed campaign.
Meanwhile bin Laden was not captured, nor was
Zarkawi—not because we couldn’t get them but because
if they were destroyed the fear that fuels the Bush
rule would have dissipated and people would have taken
a closer look at what he is doing to our country.
The Bush parallel with the way totalitarian
governments come to power through public panic is
eerie. We are lucky that Bush & Co. are such
incompetents and patriotic middle level government and
military bureaucrats risked their careers to expose
the Bush Administration— most of these "leakers" were
Conservative Republicans whom the neocons simply
dismissed as "paleocons," dismissing them as
dinosaurs. At the same time, these critics continue to
be slandered as "anti-Semites" and the Jews who form
the mass majority of the neocons’ critics are still
called "self-hating Jews." We truly faced a
"Bolshevikoid revolution" based on slander and
deception by the Lenin blueprint.
Another struck of luck for America is that in his
second term Bush threw out all the neocons in a fit of
arrogance. But is it? Now he is left alone to clean up
the mess he permitted them to make. And, at the same
time, all the tricks they pulled to dupe the American
people in his name are coming home to roost. Bush is
floundering trying to avoid admitting that he allowed
so much that is wrong to pass while seeking to regain
public confidence in order to hold on to the Congress
in 2006. His goal is to pay off his 2004 campaign
contributors with business windfall legislation and
he’ll do anything that will maintain his Congressional
majority. Yet, so desperate was he to cloak his
mundane helpless permissiveness to the fraud and
recklessness of ambitious incompetent neocons, Cheney
and Rumsfeld in his first term, that he demands muting
of critics and no looking back so that he not be
exposed. Cheney’s office in the first term and Rove’s
in the second have been running numerous quiet
slanderous whisper campaigns to discredit Bush critics
or outraged insiders that broke free; they still hope
that the greater American public will continue to
settle for speechwriters’ pap. Yet, everything Bush,
reading from the prepared speeches, deemed vitally
essential even though costly in blood and treasure, he
is now trying to wrap-up in time for the 2006
election.
Fearful of being targeted, what with everything Rove
has on them, the neocons are quiet. So in essence, the
Ship of State is heading for the reef and most of us
ignorantly watch sit-coms on TV, fat dumb and happy.
For most people, unlike during the Vietnam War, there
is minimum stress over Iraq due to the "ain’t my kid
over there" Syndrome. So Bush thinks that if he pulls
out the troops, nobody is going to wonder why they
went there in the first place.
Note how all this relies on cowering those who know
and keeping those who don’t know fat, dumb and happy.
And if he gets away with this, he will have done far
worse to this nation than anything he has done before.
For if ignorant other generations may well elect
another like him and find our nation smashed on the
reef.
It is therefore, I believe, critical that BOTH Senate
and House elect Democrat majorities, even though I am
a Republican. For only then will there be a calling to
account in endless Congressional investigations before
Bush leaves without a trace. Now, their fate tied to
Bush’s, the Congressional Republicans in desperation
have become co-conspirators. But the Abramov
deformation through greed has marked so many of them
that they will surely be wiped off the floor of
Congress in shame. So I can only hope that after the
2006 Congressional election everything will be exposed
and we will all learn HOW it was done. Knowing the
whats and hows is the only way to inoculate our people
against such a catastrophic repeat.
Daniel E. Teodoru
II
I carefully reread 10 of Bush’s Iraq strategy speeches
and also his made to order NSC victory proposal that’s
supposed to be a document from early in his
administration just now declassified. From these and
all the media discussion supporting Bush’s alleged
"strategy to victory," I have anxiously come to the
depressing conclusion that we are facing an official
dumbing down of America’s intellectual discourse on
national priorities.
Rumsfeld parades before us generals, that I guess are
supposed to be intimidating icons of brute force in
desert camouflage, but really, from their gorilla
appearance and drawl spewing the latest Rumsfeld
snowflakes (supposed combat aphorisms), invoke more
the stereotype dimwit giant "Lenny," from OF MICE AND
MEN. Case in point: a general comes before the media
in Baghdad (though they look out of place in starched
fatigues and living in Saddam’s luxury palaces)
complaining that a video made by the "terrorists" and
broadcast on their web-site is an "outrageous lie"
because in it they "pretend" to be freely marching
about Falluja showing their guns and firing mortars,
assumedly at Americans. The good general also calls it
a "disgusting lie" because we hold Falluja and if they
ever got out into the street: we sure would know about
it and they would be dead. That night, presumably
after the good general had already retired to his
bunk-down in Saddam’s palace, ten men are killed and
even more are wounded in an ambush near Falluja.
Another: a briefer complains about the "propaganda" in
al-Jazzirah. Bragging, Rumsfeld himself, at his
Pentagon news briefing, contrasts Saddam media
propaganda with the free and open press in Iraq now. A
bit later, a story blows out on the wires that the
Pentagon writes stories about how bad the "terrorists"
are and how good the American occupation is; then it
translates them and pays millions to get them
published under the bi-line of Iraqi journalists, well
rewarded for the borrowing of their names. That’s what
the Pentagon has become— on and on Rummy stands
before the press showering it with a blizzard of his
snowflakes; but by now they are all so full of Bushit
that they are turning brown. But never mind, Rummy
proudly takes on the media, remembering how Nixon
thought him such a wonderful sophist, even better than
Agnew!
And then there is Rove with his slanderous whisper
campaigns. But as the infection emanating from the
open wound that is his office spreads, he can’t stop
gloating about what a strong and infectious
personality he has. After all, he had corralled all
those doggies for Christ to get Bush re-elected,
proving that, though small and puny, he can be just as
good a cowboy as the Marlboro man. Like a symphony
orchestra conductor he coordinates the Bible-babble of
these hordes through closed circuit TV terminals to
each of their parishes. For them, Bushit babble is
Divinely inspired and, to make sure they realize that,
he reminds them from time to time that the President
wants them to know that when it comes to policy, "God
told me to do it, so as I, your president, am doing
the Lord’s work, following my [holy] gut." (and this
they call "coded messages"!)...
And then there’s VP Cheney. He is like a Mafia family
enforcer, who personally goes for "briefings" from the
intelligence agencies and then angrily demands: why
haven’t the intel assessments concluded what I just
said on TV? Like a cloud over sunshine, he goes on the
media and insists that there is no way but his way in
the intel community, so how could he be wrong? Half
the press doesn’t want to throw into fibrillation
what’s left of his myocardium, the other half fears
that he will make their hearts stop. So they lob at
him timid questions about what he had previously said
and he firmly responds: I never said that; if you
check the transcript, you’ll see that I never said
that.... So, they roll the tape— sure enough, there
he is, actually saying that; but, alas, by then he’s
gone off to repeat the pattern on some other TV show.
It’s quite effective, for, according the the polls, he
has totally hypnotized 26% of Americans into believing
him. The rest, well, they’re just little people who,
through taxes finance his company, Halliburton, by the
billions and can’t do anything about it
anyway....wait, VP, until a Democrat Congress comes in
2006!
Behind all these hides GW Bush whose profligate and
totally useless life was rendered no trespassing" when
he declared everything before,"Jesus saved me," is out
of bounds. Unchallenged, he then seized the nation’s
top command before anyone ever had a chance to ask
him: what really are you good at?
This mediocritocracy has surrounded itself with the
best— surely not the brightest— of unskilled and
unformed hustlers of dubious skills whose only
qualification for their executive posts was loyalty to
the Bush campaign, loyalty in the face of utter
dysfunction and still blind to reality’s warning
signs.
It is with great anxiety that I recall another bunch
of sub-par mediocrities in the last century who also
came to power surrounded by brawn not gifted with
brains and sundry other traits whose loyalty expressed
to their leader much as the sycophancy Bush seems to
require. I found myself recalling this latter bunch as
I watched the 2004 Republican Convention unfold like a
scene from TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. But the latter group
was not as lucky as Bush & Co. They didn’t have a 9/11
to wrap themselves in and so they set the Reichstag’s
on fire and blamed it on the Jews. Our New bunch is
ridding another kind of anti-Semitism, Arabs needin’
to be taught of Texas-style democracy at the point of
a gun.
Goebbels’ propaganda machine rounded up hoary schooled
professionals and experts to expound an academic
version of their racism. The new guys, well they are
all "security" experts who sit around discussing
torture in interrogation instead of their old jobs,
spending the day watching shoplifters on the shopping
center’s closed-circuit security TV monitors. I don’t
think all these people were randomly brought together;
it is all the fulfillment of some "intelligent
design."
Now, since the neocons were all pushed out, here we
are, ruled by the best mediocrities money can buy. Mr.
Brown, the guy who made FIMA notorious, is the
template for all this Bushit bureaucratic "intelligent
design." Such talent was acquired on the basis of one
rule: the dog that jumps highest for a morsel, no
delay— without first tilting his head wondering, why
bother—is the mush-dog selected for harnessing to
Bush’s sleigh.
We have gone from the good ol’ boys from Arkansas to
the dumb ol’ boys from Texas. If anyone doubts this,
just consider how Bush wordsmith, Dan Bartlett,
defines the task ahead for the Bush Administration:
***********************quote*************************************
"We have to show here, Ray, that we can walk and chew
gum at the same time. And President Bush, I believe in
the coming weeks and months, will show that we can do
just that."
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Wow!
So get to it, little Bushit doggies, take a step, chew
once, take another step, chew again....wait a minute,
if that’s too complicated try this: left step, jaw
open; right step, jaw closed; left step, jaw open;
right step, jaw closed....That’s it! Well, if you
don’t get it it’s alright because you have three more
years to learn while the rest of us try to figure out
why we voted into the presidency this man, victim of a
neurotoxic brew of alcohol and cocaine, doing nothing
with his life, until Jesus saved him.
Daniel E. Teodoru