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littlebigman
01/30/06, 10:13 am
http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/bushadmintext.html

here's a lilbit of what u can find bout yo papaz war at the above link -V-...and please try 2 remember that ALL WAR:twisted: z r A RAKKET!!!

" 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."

Jane of Arc
01/30/06, 07:13 pm
Excerpts from The Guardian UK:

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.

But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

The whole article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html#article_continue

snowdog
01/31/06, 10:26 am
So, with that said........should I be upset that Your great great great grandfather, or some member of your family, put my great great great
grandfather into slavery? should I be angry with you Jane?

what Prescott Bush did or didn't do is irrelevant to George W Bush OR
Gearge Herbert Walker Bush.

Lets talk about Joe Kennedy. Lets talk about some of the signers of the
constitution that owned slaves.

BenDover
01/31/06, 11:19 am
So, with that said........should I be upset that Your great great great grandfather, or some member of your family, put my great great great
grandfather into slavery? should I be angry with you Jane?

what Prescott Bush did or didn't do is irrelevant to George W Bush OR
Gearge Herbert Walker Bush.

Lets talk about Joe Kennedy. Lets talk about some of the signers of the
constitution that owned slaves.

Prescott Bush and those with Brown Brothers Harriman certainly helped to fund the rise of Nazi Germany....of that, there is no doubt. The impact that this had on later Bush generations was unmistakable....that making money superceded any other principle. Unlike Prescott, the present Bush dynasty realized most of their financial gains as a result of the multiple money-making opportunities that come along with connections made through access to high political office. Not to be moralistic and certainly the Bush's have no monopoly on unbridled greed on either side of the political spectrum, but it can certainly be said that most of what has driven them politically is based upon what has been in their own best interest from a monetary standpoint and not what is necessarily "right" or "wrong".

If my great-grandfather owned slaves (he didn't BTW), I certainly don't own them. Joe Kennedy's kids aren't bootlegging Candadian whiskey like their daddy did. But the Bush's continue to operate on the same "it's-money-that-matters" philosophy that Prescott taught them and that is the difference.

snowdog
01/31/06, 11:21 am
IS that a fact BendOver.......well then why does Ted Kenndey have millions
of dollars over in a small island? ummmm, do ya think he doesn't like paying
taxes.

BenDover
01/31/06, 12:10 pm
I just stated that greed like the Bush's is not a particularly singular trait confined to their side of the table so I'm not sure what your point is. My point is that when political power is placed in the hands of individuals whose primary purpose in gaining that power is to enhance their own financial fortunes, the interest and trust of the people who elected them have been compromised. If you want to argue with that, fire away.

snowdog
01/31/06, 07:03 pm
I just stated that greed like the Bush's is not a particularly singular trait confined to their side of the table so I'm not sure what your point is. My point is that when political power is placed in the hands of individuals whose primary purpose in gaining that power is to enhance their own financial fortunes, the interest and trust of the people who elected them have been compromised. If you want to argue with that, fire away.

No I don't mean to argue with ya, but how bout we wait and see if GWB
lines his pockets from his politics? I haven't heard anything that his father
got rich from being in the white house.... how bout being a bit more positive.
like I try to tell all, so much hate that, its almost as though you want GWB
to lie, steal etc. no of us should want that. lets see if GWB is found
guilty in a court of law of stealing, Lying, etc. the progressives appear so quick
to ensure that people rights aren't violated. Why can the President of the
United States enjoy those same rights?

BenDover
02/01/06, 01:26 pm
No I don't mean to argue with ya, but how bout we wait and see if GWB
lines his pockets from his politics? I haven't heard anything that his father
got rich from being in the white house.... how bout being a bit more positive.
like I try to tell all, so much hate that, its almost as though you want GWB
to lie, steal etc. no of us should want that. lets see if GWB is found
guilty in a court of law of stealing, Lying, etc. the progressives appear so quick
to ensure that people rights aren't violated. Why can the President of the
United States enjoy those same rights?


You misunderstand me. This has nothing to do with hate. I am not accusing GHWB or GWB of anything other than taking full advantage of their political connections to make money for themselves. These are the facts:

It goes way back to his Dad who used Sen. Prescott Bush's influence to hook GHWB up with Dresser Industries to help bankroll a high-risk oil start-up that wanted to lease mineral rights in West Texas, drill for oil and then reap a percentage of the profits. This enterprise later became Zapata Petroleum which was subsequently sold off when GHWB ran for office. Zapata made GHWB a millionaire. Read this excerpt from this website:

http://www.famoustexans.com/georgebush.htm

"In 1953, Bush got money from Brown Brothers Harriman and, with partners Hugh and Bill Liedtke, formed Zapata Petroleum. By the late 1950s they were millionaires. Bush bought subsidiary Zapata Off-Shore from his partners and went into business on his own in 1954. By 1958, the new company was drilling on the Cay Sal Bank in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. These islands had been leased to Nixon supporter and CIA contractor Howard Hughes the previous year and were later used as a base for CIA raids on Cuba. The CIA was using companies like Zapata to stage and supply secret missions attacking Fidel Castro’s Cuban government in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion. The CIA’s codename for that invasion was “Operation Zapata.” In 1981, all Securities and Exchange Commission filings for Zapata Off-Shore between 1960 and 1966 were destroyed. In other words, the year Bush became vice president, important records detailing his years at his drilling company disappeared. In 1969, Zapata bought the United Fruit Company of Boston, another company with strong CIA connections."

Certainly would seem that there were some political advantages that were capitalized on to me....

GWB likewise bankrolled Arbusto Energy largely through his Dad's political connections, including James R. Bath who invested $50,000 on behalf of a well-know Saudi Arabian businessman, Salem bin Laden (who just so happens to have a brother named Osama). Additionally, Jonathan Bush, GHWB's brother, lobbied supporters of the Reagan-Bush ticket to invest in Arbusto. Unfortunately, young George didn't have his father's business savvy anad Arbusto went "busto" and was on the verge of bankruptcy. Luckily for GWB, one of the then-VP GHWB's associates named Philip Uzielli was "persuaded" to invest $1 million in GWB's failing company to keep it afloat long enough for GHWB to intervene once again to arrange the sale of Arbusto to Spectrum-7, a company owned by GHWB campaign supporters William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds. GWB was subsequently made CEO and board chairman of Spectrum-7. Unfortunately, under GWB's leadership, Spectrum-7 lost $1.5 million in 1985 and, in 1986, was sold to Harken Oil & Gas for $2.2 million. GWB became a major stockholder and board member with Harken. In January, 1990, Harken was awarded a contract to drill for oil off the coast of Bahrain....an endeavor in which they had no previous experience. In June, 1990, GWB sold off his Harken shares one week before the company announced a loss of over $23 million which subsequently triggered an investigation by the SEC. GWB used the windfall that he made from the pre-collapse sale of the Harken stock to buy part ownership in the Texas Rangers baseball team. The entire Arbusto/Spectrum-7/Harken episode played out while GHWB was either VP or President.

I could go on about how Jeb got rich off the same type of dealings but I think you get the idea. I think these facts speak for themselves. You can easily find this information and a lot more on the web.