George Bush and the Corporate Connection

by Richard Lederman

 

"What my cabinet shows is that I am not afraid to surround myself with strong and competent people...a good executive is one that understands how to recruit people and how to delegate authority and responsibility." GW Bush 1/2/2001 

 

As promised, GW Bush has recruited competent and experienced advisors. Despite their seeming diversity however they have a common denominator. The America they reflect is the oil, pharmaceutical, armament, Wall Street and eugenics interests long associated with the Bush family.

            Seventy years ago a similar configuration of oil, pharmaceutical, chemical, military supply and eugenics interests were organized by Wall Street into IG Farben/Standard Oil, Hitler's industrial powerhouse. To grasp the real significance of what GW Bush's cabinet has been brought together to accomplish, it is essential to understand the history of IG Farben, its relationship with American corporations, and how together they applied modern technology to the task of eugenics or scientific racism.

            According to former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes prosecutor John Loftus, who is today the director of the Florida Holocaust Museum, "The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich," " (Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000).

            Along with the Rockefellers (Standard Oil, Chase Manhattan Bank), Mellons (Gulf Oil, Alcoa Aluminum), DuPonts (DuPont Chemicals), General Motors and Henry Ford, banks and shipping companies operated by the Bush family were crucial players in setting up the industrial power behind the Third Reich. These companies poured hundreds of millions of dollars into IG Farben and provided it with technology for tactically-essential synthetic materials, while withholding the same materials and patents from the US government.

            The Rockefeller family, long aligned with the Bushes, owned Standard Oil. Through a stock transfer, they became half owners of Germany's IG Farben with Farben, likewise owning almost half of Standard Oil. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, IG Farben built and operated more than 40 concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Europe, including Auschwitz.

            At their slave labor/factory/death camps, chemicals, weapons, drugs, synthetic fuels and other materials vital to the Nazi war effort were manufactured. In addition, eugenicists like Dr. Josef Mengele used the human subjects in the camps for experiments, the data from which are today the basis for many drugs marketed by the pharmaceutical industry, not too surprising in light of the fact that more Americans die from prescription drugs than from any other single cause.

            At the end of WWII, the allies split up IG Farben into companies that are now the top pharmaceutical concerns on earth, among them Bayer, Hoescht, BASF, the Agfa-Gevaert Group, and Cassella AG. Many of Wall Streets' favorite pharmaceutical/chemical companies behind the proliferation of genetically-altered foods, transgenic animals, human cloning, dangerous psychiatric drugs, deadly vaccines and pesticides ' such as Aventis ' are subsidiaries of these same companies.

            War provides the necessary medium in which this witche's brew of oil, eugenics, pharmaceuticals, munitions, and Wall Street investing can reach maximum growth. Likewise, war is also the essential frame of reference for the newly formed GW Bush administration.

            The high-profile minorities who are working as Bush advisors have been hand-picked, funded and carefully cultivated by right wing think tanks and conservative foundations with a white supremacist philosophy in order to provide cover for their anti-poor, anti-minority eugenics agenda.

            For those who scoff at the validity of comparing the Bush administration to the Nazis and IG Farben, please note the following. I'm not suggesting that GW Bush is a literal Nazi nor am I implying that everyone who is an oil or pharmaceutical company executive automatically deserves to be linked to IG Farben. That the Bush wealth and prominence in American politics is derived from Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker's support of Hitler is a historical fact. If the connection ended in 1945 with the destruction of Nazi Germany, that might have been the end of it. It didn't end there however.

            Not only has the eugenics agenda continued, but many of the top Nazis who were advancing it during WWII were brought to the US after the war and installed in academia, the media, government research institutions and the CIA, by the same American officials who worked with the Bush family to build up Nazi Germany in the first place. Their ideas formed the basis for much of the agenda promoted by this nation's most influential right-wing think tanks, the same think tanks that are the sponsors of GW Bush and virtually every one of his appointees.

            Why is it significant that many of Bush's staff and cabinet appointees are former pharmaceutical company executives as was GW's father, former President George Bush? These corporations are voraciously patenting the earth's life forms, its plants, bacteria, viruses, animals and even human genetic lineages. Reproduction of plants, animals and humans may eventually be totally controlled by these corporations, genetically-altered, recombined into chimeric life forms and exploited for profit.

            The Human Genome Project, as it admits on the very first page of its website, is derived from the eugenics movement in the US and Nazi Germany during the first half of the 20th century. The Eugenics Records Office at Cold Springs Harbor, NY ' where American eugenics started ' was built by the Harriman family, the Bushes' Wall Street business partners in funding Hitler. This is the new frontier of colonialism in the 21st century, the total domination and exploitation of the earth and everything on it, the New World Order both former President Bush and Adolf Hitler so frequently called for.

            While my writings focus on the Republican aspect of this agenda, there is no question that many Democrats are participants and that none of these things could be accomplished without the full "bipartisan support" we hear about each and every day.

Some of the men and women who do the thinking for GW Bush:

Vice President Dick Cheney, arguably the real President-elect, was one of papa Bush's top advisors. His company, Haliburton, is one of the nation's largest recipients of government contracts, supplying military equipment, oil services and infrastructure. Cheney epitomizes corporate, welfare and, like most of Bush's appointees, is a multi-millionaire who will receive huge financial benefits from the administrations' policies and any wars it manages to get the US into.

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson, is known for his controversial welfare reforms, based in large part on two books by Charles Murray, Losing Ground and The Bell Curve. Murray was a consultant for the Wisconsin welfare reform program. Thompson's protege, Jason Turner, was later brought to NYC where he has run Mayor Giuliani's characteristically brutal welfare elimination program. Turner became notorious for quoting the motto on the gates over Auschwitz:  "Arbeit Macht Frei" work shall make you free. He is frequently a guest with Charles Murray in panel discussions at the CIA's Manhattan Institute and other Bush-connected think tanks. Murray wrote the Bell Curve while he was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute where his pseudo-scientific research on the genetic inferiority of African Americans was primarily financed by the Pioneer Fund. Since 1937 the Pioneer Fund has promoted eugenics and the ideology of white racial superiority.

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, who served as Vice-President Dan Quayle's chief of staff, spent years trying to abolish the very agency he will now head. His legislative positions include being against higher fuel efficiency standards for cars, being against government regulations for industry and support for opening up national parklands to oil drilling. He is a recipient of oil company contributions totaling more than $221,000 according to the NY Times. The American Petroleum Institute has said it looks forward to working with Abraham. Abraham helped found the conservative law group the Federalist Society which specializes in eliminating social programs, affirmative action, welfare and bilingual education. The Society is funded by the John M. Olin Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, and the Lilly Endowment, America's leading far right think tanks. Among its most prominent members are Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Thomas whose questionable election ruling gave Bush his illegitimate Presidency. Spokespersons for the Federalist Society include Bell Curve author Charles Murray, Manhattan Institute fellow Abigail Thernstrom, and Dinesh d'Souza of the American Enterprise Institute.

Secretary of Education Rod Paige, the latest African American Bush appointee, is a conservative public schools administrator in Texas and decades-long crony of the Bush family who supports vouchers, tying teacher pay directly to test scores and school privatization, all of which will negatively impact African American students by debilitating public education.

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense under President Ford. Rumsfeld like Powell, Cheney, Rice and numerous other Bush administration officials is a salesman for the Star Wars Missile Defense Shield. He served four terms in the US Congress where he voted against Medicare, anti-poverty programs like Headstart, food stamps and various healthcare proposals. Rumsfeld, who formerly headed Searle Pharmaceuticals, is part of the drug company axis within the Bush administration. Former President Bush was director of Eli Lilly. OMB head Mitchell E. Daniels was also senior executive of Eli Lilly, and John Ashcroft is known as a lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Gail R. Wilensky (one of numerous John M. Olin grant recipients attached to Bush) is the principal author of GW's Medicare plan. Wilensky serves on the boards of eight health care companies in which she owns more than $12 million in stock.

Secretary of State Colin Powell is a lifelong operative of the CIA/military-industrial complex. While working for the Pentagon, he earned his present stature by helping cover up the Mai Lai massacre, the contra/arms-cocaine deal and Gulf War Syndrome. Powell's reputation as a hero derives from presiding over a war in which US troops were used as guinea pigs for drug companies' experimental vaccines so they could "safely" fight George Bush's friend Sadamn Hussein, who had been supplied with chemical and biological weapons by the Bush administration. Unlike most of GW's appointees of color, Powell proudly admits he owes his career to affirmative action yet willingly joins an administration that considers ending affirmative action a top priority.

Secretary of the Treasury Paul H. O'Neill is the chairman of Alcoa Aluminum, one of the world's worst polluters and a leading corporate supporter of Nazi Germany and eugenics. O'Neill owns 1.6 million shares of Alcoa, worth more than $50 million. During WWII Alcoa negotiated a deal with the Nazis and IG Farben to supply Germany's war machine rather than the US military with aluminum. "If America loses this war," said then Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes on June 26, 1941, "it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America [ALCOA]." Alcoa produces hundreds of millions of tons of fluoride. This highly toxic waste byproduct of aluminum has been linked in thousands of medical studies to cancer and other degenerative diseases. In the 1950's, Alcoa arranged to have it added to our nation's drinking water rather than disposed of as toxic waste. During WWII in IG Farben's slave labor camps, Nazi scientists discovered that by adding fluoride to the drinking water, they could make prisoners more submissive to authority. O'Neill is a fellow at the RAND Corporation and at the American Enterprise Institute, two more extreme right-wing think tanks.

Attorney General John Ashcroft is a self-styled moral crusader as strongly anti-abortion as he is enthusiastic about the death penalty. Last year, Ashcroft received an honorary degree from Bob Jones University. He is closely aligned with the Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson and Southern heritage groups which admire the Confederacy and defend the institution of slavery as practiced in the South. He is known among lobbyists as an advocate for drug companies and the automotive industry and for preventing consumers from suing HMO's. The furor over Ashcroft's anti-abortion views is being played out exactly as planned by Team Bush. Not only will the Bush administration never make abortions illegal, if anything the eugenics agenda that underlies the Bush family history guarantees that abortion, sterilization and other technologies intended to limit population, including war, chemical exposure, pesticide use in urban areas, genetically-altered foods and vaccines, will proceed at an unprecedented level. The Bush gang are delighted to see Democrats, women's rights advocates and the left focusing on Ashcroft while virtually ignoring the other Bush appointees.

Robert Lederman is an artist, a regular columnist for the Greenwich Village Gazette [See: http://www.gvny.com/ for an extensive archive of Lederman columns] The Shadow, The African Sun Times, The Vigo-Examiner [see: http://www.vigo-examiner.com/archive.htm] and Street News, and is the author of hundreds of published essays concerning Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He is best known for creating hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator. He can be reached at artistpres@aol.com or (718) 743-3722.

Bush and Eugenics links

http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_INDEX.html

http://www.geocities.com/alanjpakula/triplecrown.html

http://www.shorejournal.com/elkhorn/

http://www.bartcop.com/nazigop.htm

The following is only a partial list of links to exposés on the Bush family. If only 25% of the information on them is true then the Bush family is among modern histories biggest criminals.

http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_INDEX.html http://www.geocities.com/alanjpakula/triplecrown.html http://www.copvcia.com/witness_list.htm http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm http://www.gwbush.com/ http://www.bushfiles.com/bushfiles/midland.html http://www.patrickcrusade.org/bush1.htm http://www.prorev.com/bush.htm http://afrocubaweb.com/bushes.htm http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles/bush.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3750/bush.htm http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook.html

More web sites about GW Bush and the CIA, Cocaine, Terrorism, Oil, Media manipulation, Conspiracy...

http://www.softskull.com/ (publisher of Fortunate Son by Hatfield)

http://www.gwbush.com/ (comical and farcical reports and anecdotes

http://www.earthsystems.org/seac/seac-region1/0175.html (report of "GW Bush flies in CIA drug smuggler's airplane, Why?")

http://www.angelfire.com/va2/bush2000/ (THE GW BUSH'OSAMA BIN LADIN CONNECTION)

http://www.illuminati-news.com/bush_video.htm (G.W. BUSH VIDEOTAPED COLLECTING COCAINE And MUCH MORE!)

http://www.angelfire.com/co3/ernesttbush14/ (GW BUSH AND RED CHINA"'I was in China ...My dad was ambassador and lived in Beijing")

http://www.politicalamazon.com/smirkorama.html#oil (all about the Bush family, Oil, media manipulation, the Bush Dynasty, Moonies, Cocaine, etc.)

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/nov2000/fox-n17.shtml (Elements of a conspiracy: How Bush's man at Fox News worked to shape the outcome of the US election by Kate Randall)

http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm ( a list of "skeleton"s in the closet' type articlces)

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=39&contentid=54 (George Bush: The Hitler Project (Pt. 1&2) by ALEX CONSTANTINE)

http://www.bushcampaignhq.com/books.html (bbokstore online that carries many anti-Bush books)

http://www.citizens-at-large.com/hiding.html (What's Hiding In GW's Cabinet?)

http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/message.shtml?1x32380 (Busn & Nazi conenction)

http://www.lpdallas.org/features/draheim/dr991216.htm (more of the above)

http://prorev.com/bush.htm (Behind the Bushes THE NEW

GENERATION; Manhattan Institute and other exposes of right wing think tanks... "Free Range Journalism From Washington"s Most Unofficial Source Edited by Sam Smith... for outrageous quotes click to http://prorev.com/quotes.htm)

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004Fnk (The Bush/Nazi Connection)

Books:

The followong are some books that deal with the Bush Family as well as superb material about the behind the scenes of normal politics... a great introduction to what's really happening.

The Mafia, CIA and George Bush by Pete Brewton

The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed by Russell S. Bowen

Dark Alliance : The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb, Maxine Waters

Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies by Rodney Stich

Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press by Alexander Cockburn, et al

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky

Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky

The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills

Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich

Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See by David McGowan

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen