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War As Mind Control

 

23/11/2004

Signs of the Times.org

 

 

 

As more and more information is uncovered about faked terror attacks,

bogus threats to our safety, government and military covert

operations, " secret wars " and the duplicity that seems to have defined

the nature of almost every " ruling elite " over the past two millennia,

we are forced to consider the possibility that there has been no

public war fought whose officially stated objective could not have

been achieved in secret, far from the gaze or awareness of the general

public.

 

 

 

Consider the many secret campaigns, waged at the behest of successive

US governments, that are only now, many years after the fact, coming

to light. In Chile for example, the CIA were able to effect the

overthrow of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende

and replace it with the 30-year-long brutal dictatorship of Pinochet.

The benefits for the US administration at the time, were little

different than if the US military had invaded Chile en masse and made

the country an American protectorate - but they did not, simply

because there was no need to.

 

 

 

 

 

Following on from this, we must then consider the possibility that

every public, large-scale war of any significance that has been fought

in recent history has been fought for a motive other than that which

was officially stated. We might say that, as a general rule, one of

the major goals of all wars (other than the basic death suffering and

money-making) has been, and continues to be, the shaping of the

perception of reality of a particular groups of people or humanity as

a whole, in order to accomplish the true, longer term and unspoken

objectives of the war makers.

 

 

 

Consider World War II for example. There exists copious and detailed

evidence to suggest that Hitler was actually facilitated in his rise

to power by the very people who would later claim that he was a threat

to the entire planet, a claim which lead to the deaths of 65 million

people and the establishment of the state of Israel. WWII could have

been prevented simply by denying this support, or in the unlikely

event that Hitler were to somehow continue to unilaterally accrue

power even in the absence of such support, efforts could have been

made, " a la Chile " to neutralise the threat that he presented. But

this is not what happened. Someone wanted the massive trauma,

bloodshed and re-ordering of the geopolitical world map that resulted

from the " war to end all wars " , and they had the knowledge and power

to make it happen, while convincing the world that it was the result

of pure chance.

 

 

 

Consider the following article from the UK Guardian newspaper which we

ran on the September 25th (04)edition of the Signs page

 

 

 

 

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

 

Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington

Saturday September 25, 2004

The Guardian

 

 

 

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. There has been a steady internet chatter

about the " Bush/Nazi " connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair.

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.

 

 

 

Interesting legacy eh? The current president's sojourn in the White

House was made possible, in part, by the fact that his grandfather

facilitated the deaths of 65 million people during WWII and profited

enormously from it.

 

 

 

Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received

public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the

documentation involving him. But now the multibillion dollar legal

action for damages by two Holocaust survivors against the Bush family,

and the imminent publication of three books on the subject are

threatening to make Prescott Bush's business history an uncomfortable

issue for his grandson, George W, as he seeks re-election.

 

 

 

" Remarkably " ?? We wonder in what way the authors of this article

believe that a scandal of such proportions would become public

knowlege? Would the scandal simply declare itself to the public? How

does " Joe sixpack " , preoccupied with the concerns of daily living, get

his information? The blindness of the authors as to how the mainstream

media actually funtions is all the more remarkable given that the

authors themselves work for a mainstream press publication and must

surely be aware of the editing that certain stories are subjected to.

Are they really unable to make the simple deduction that, since

knowledge is power, those in power control the extent of the knowledge

that is made available to the public? They seem to be completely

unaware of how the military-industrial complex operates and just how

all-powerful it is, but then again, most people on this planet are in

a similarly uneduated position.

 

 

 

While there is no suggestion that Prescott Bush was sympathetic to

the Nazi cause, the documents reveal that the firm he worked for,

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), acted as a US base for the German

industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who helped finance Hitler in the 1930s

before falling out with him at the end of the decade. The Guardian has

seen evidence that shows Bush was the director of the New York-based

Union Banking Corporation (UBC) that represented Thyssen's US

interests and he continued to work for the bank after America entered

the war.

 

 

 

Why is the argument hinging on whether or not Prescott Bush and his

associates were sympathetic to the Nazi cause? This is about money and

power, not ideals. Is the current George Bush sympathetic to the " Arab

terrorist " cause? Only insofar as furthering that agenda furthers his

own goals, and those goals and the goals of Prescott Bush at the time

are the real issue.

 

 

 

Tantalising

 

Bush was also on the board of at least one of the companies that

formed part of a multinational network of front companies to allow

Thyssen to move assets around the world.

 

 

 

Thyssen owned the largest steel and coal company in Germany and

grew rich from Hitler's efforts to re-arm between the two world wars.

One of the pillars in Thyssen's international corporate web, UBC,

worked exclusively for, and was owned by, a Thyssen-controlled bank in

the Netherlands. More tantalising are

 

 

 

Bush's links to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company (CSSC),

based in mineral rich Silesia on the German-Polish border. During the

war, the company made use of Nazi slave labour from the concentration

camps, including Auschwitz. The ownership of CSSC changed hands

several times in the 1930s, but documents from the US National Archive

declassified last year link Bush to CSSC, although it is not clear if

he and UBC were still involved in the company when Thyssen's American

assets were seized in 1942.

 

 

 

Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All

three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system

and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in

Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.

 

 

 

The first set of files, the Harriman papers in the Library of

Congress, show that Prescott Bush was a director and shareholder of a

number of companies involved with Thyssen.

 

The second set of papers, which are in the National Archives, are

contained in vesting order number 248 which records the seizure of the

company assets. What these files show is that on October 20 1942 the

alien property custodian seized the assets of the UBC, of which

Prescott Bush was a director. Having gone through the books of the

bank, further seizures were made against two affiliates, the

Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment

Corporation. By November, the Silesian-American Company, another of

Prescott Bush's ventures, had also been seized.

 

 

 

The third set of documents, also at the National Archives, are

contained in the files on IG Farben, who was prosecuted for war crimes.

 

A report issued by the Office of Alien Property Custodian in 1942

stated of the companies that " since 1939, these (steel and mining)

properties have been in possession of and have been operated by the

German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance

to that country's war effort " .

 

 

 

In 1924, his [Prescott's] father-in-law, a well-known St Louis

investment banker, helped set him up in business in New York with

Averill Harriman, the wealthy son of railroad magnate E H Harriman in

New York, who had gone into banking.

 

One of the first jobs Walker gave Bush was to manage UBC. Bush was

a founding member of the bank and the incorporation documents, which

list him as one of seven directors, show he owned one share in UBC

worth $125.

 

 

 

The bank was set up by Harriman and Bush's father-in-law to

provide a US bank for the Thyssens, Germany's most powerful industrial

family.

 

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