What's Hiding In GW Bush's Cabinet?
by Robert Lederman
"I'm very good at delegating authority...I'll surround myself with
the best minds in America". Exactly who are these, best
minds in America, and where is GW Bush getting them from?
There is a common thread connecting all of Bush's appointees so far-pharmaceuticals, oil,
Wall Street and the historical
connection between the CIA, major US corporations and Nazi Germany. If you've studied the
Bush family history in any
depth you won't find many surprises among his nominations.
Paul O'Neill, the Bush nominee for Treasury Secretary, is the chairman of Alcoa Aluminum,
one of the nation's largest toxic
polluters. 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 is the producer of hundreds of millions of tons of fluoride. This highly toxic
byproduct of aluminum has been
scientifically linked in thousands of medical studies conducted since the 19th century to
cancer and other degenerative diseases. In the 1950's Alcoa arranged to have it profitably
added to our nation's drinking water rather than disposed of as toxic waste. During WWII
the Nazis discovered that by adding fluoride to the drinking water in concentration camps
they could make prisoners far more submissive to authority. .
Melquiades R. Martinez, designated Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, is a Cuban
refugee who established his
political reputation by preventing new housing from being built in conservative Orange Co.
Florida-claiming it was a quality of
life violation. As chair of Orange County, Martinez eliminated the department of community
affairs, a civil rights agency that
was set up to give poor people a voice in local government. It is probable that Martinez
received CIA indoctrination after he
arrived in the US at age 15 as part of a government airlift program of children whose
parents did not want them to grow up under the Castro regime.
NJ Governor Christie Whitman is the Bush designee for the Environmental Protection Agency.
Her massively polluted state hosts some of the world's largest oil refineries and chemical
manufacturing plants. Environmental non-expert Whitman has said she doubts that the giant
ozone hole over the North Pole or global warming are actually serious problems.
Donald L. Evans, the nominee for Commerce Secretary, is an insider in the Texas "oil
mafia" and is GW's closest friend and
confidant. He's also a close friend, confidant and contributor to one of America's biggest
recipients of government contacts,
Halliburton's Dick Cheney.
Rev. Floyd Flake, Dubya's nominee for Secretary of Education, was the only prominent
African American leader in NYC to
endorse Bush pal Rudy Giuliani, the racist NYC Mayor who has executed a seven year long
campaign of violence, harassment and false arrest aimed at African Americans. Giuliani's
most memorable quote on education was a proposal to blow up the entire NYC Board of
Education.
Last year, to his everlasting credit, Flake publicly denounced Giuliani as a mental case.
Like numerous GW Bush aides and
advisors, Rev. Flake is part of the CIA's Manhattan Institute which masterminded
Giuliani's entire social eugenics agenda.
Among the areas Flake is likely to focus on for Bush is turning public education over to
religious institutions and corporations.
Ann M. Veneman, Bush's appointee for secretary of agriculture, was deputy secretary for
agriculture under President George Bush. She is known as an advocate for letting
corporations exploit public land and for widespread distribution of foods containing
genetically-altered animal genes, viruses, self-contained insecticides and bacteria. Bush
has said he wants to open up Federal reserves, national forests and other pristine areas
of public land to oil drilling, mining and road construction. Under Bush stewardship, we
could see corporations running frankenfood farms in Yosemite or drilling for oil in the
Grand Canyon.
John Ashcroft, GW's choice for Attorney General, is a self-styled moral crusader as
strongly against abortion as he is enthusiastic about the death penalty. He lost his
Senate seat in the 2000 election to an opponent who died during the campaign. Last year,
Ashcroft received an honorary degree from Bob Jones University and is closely aligned with
the Christian Coalition and Pat Robertson. Ashcroft is also an outspoken fan of Supreme
Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He is known among lobbyists as an advocate for drug
companies and the automotive industry and for preventing consumers from suing HMO's.
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., nominated as director of the Office of Management and Budget was
senior executive of the Eli Lilly
drug company-which Bush's father headed from 1977-79. Daniels was also previously the
president of the arch-conservative think tank Hudson Institute. Daniels, who advocates
strict enforcement of laws against casual drug users, was arrested for marijuana
possession in 1970.
Secretary of State designee Colin Powell is a lifelong operative of the
CIA/military-industrial complex. While working for the
Pentagon he helped cover up the Mai Lai massacre, the contra/arms deal and Gulf War
Syndrome. Powell's fame derives from presiding over a war in which US troops were used as
guinea pigs for experimental vaccines so that they could "safely" fight George
Bush's friend Sadamn Hussein-who had been given the go ahead to attack Kuwait after being
supplied with chemical and biological weapons by the Bush administration. Like many of
GW's appointees of color, Powell proudly admits he owes his career in large part to
affirmative action while joining an administration that considers ending affirmative
action one of its topmost priorities.
Condolezza Rice, Bush's National Security advisor was formerly a security advisor under
President George Bush and an aide to Colin Powell. She has the job of explaining the basic
elements of foreign policy to GW, about which Bush admits to knowing almost nothing. A
large part of her career was involved in administering the CIA's foreign policy
objectives. She serves on the board of Chevron Oil-known as one of the African continents
most violent human rights abusers. A grateful Chevron recently named an oil tanker after
her.
The emerging profile of the Bush administration-moderately conservative and
multi-racial-is a facade. To see their real agenda one has to examine the administration's
ideological source-the Manhattan Institute. GW may cultivate the image of a plain-talkin'
good ole boy who prefers barbecuing to making policy, but virtually every idea presented
as central to his agenda comes from this elite east coast institution.
A little background MI (The Manhattan Institute) was started in 1978 by William Casey, one
of the top intelligence operatives in US history. During WWII Casey worked with OSS chief
William Donavan and Allen Dulles to bring top level Nazi officials to the US where they
were recruited into the newly-formed CIA, the military, government-connected medical
research institutions and the media. The stated rational for importing Hitler's top
intelligence operatives, social scientists and propagandists to the US was that they would
be employed in fighting Communism-exactly what Hitler claimed he used them for. In reality
they were brought here to help establish fascism in America-a goal which they are
increasingly succeeding at.
Before WWII started Dulles was involved with GW's grandfather Prescott Bush on Wall Street
where, along with George Herbert Walker (Prescott Bush's father-in-law) they operated
banks and shipping companies that were later declared by the US Congress to be fronts for
the Nazis. In 1942 shortly after the US entered WWII the assets of these Wall Street
companies were seized by the US government under the Trading With The Enemy Act.
Dulles was the legal counsel for both Standard Oil and for Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben-one
of the world's largest industrial
powerhouses-which was co-owned by the Rockefeller family-the main funders of the Manhattan
Institute.
The US ambassador to Germany at the time had this to say about The Rockefellers, the
Bush's, the Mellons (owners of
Alcoa) and the other wealthy Americans who were backing Hitler and promoting
Eugenics, or scientific racism:
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant
our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany. I
have had plenty of opportunity in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling
families are to the Nazi regime. . .They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of
power, and they are helping to keep it there." - William Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to
Germany, 1937.-Facts and Fascism, G Seldes, p. 122 Also, Trading with the Enemy,
Charles Higham, p.167
When IG Farben was broken up after Germany lost the war its parts became the top
pharmaceutical companies in the world-
BASF, Hoechst, Bayer AG, Agfa-Gevaert and Cassella AG. Today these companies, along with
Pfizer and Eli Lilly-which
former President George Bush headed from 1977-1979-are the largest manufacturers of
prescription and over the counter
drugs sold in the U.S. Both the Pfizer and Eli Lilly drug companies are sponsors of
MI.
These oil, pharmaceutical and Wall Street investment banking elites are the foundations of
the Rockefeller and Bush dynasties
and are the real constituents of the new Bush administration.
Being a business partner with the Third Reich posed no problem for Dulles who became the
first CIA director in 1947.
In fact, their relationship with the Nazis and Wall Street was exactly how Dulles, former
Pres. Bush and William Casey all
became CIA directors. GW's father was made CIA director in 1976. Shortly after creating
the Manhattan Institute, William
Casey was made CIA director by Ronald Reagan.
In 1954 Casey put together a consortium of investors including top US intelligence experts
who had made fortunes on Wall
Street to form Capital Cities. In the interim, Casey served as Chairman of the Securities
and Exchange Commission from
1969 to 1977. By 1985 Casey's Capital Cities had so much cash it was able to buy ABC and
operate it as a propaganda arm of the US government-which it continues to be today.
Casey was the top stockholder in ABC while he was director of the CIA under the Reagan and
Bush administrations. ABC,
CNN and Rupert Murdoch's rabidly right wing network FOX were instrumental in fabricating
GW Bush's illegitimate
presidency, the myth that Colin Powell is a hero and the idea that the Gulf War was a
military victory-rather than a human
and ecological disaster fought solely to benefit the oil industry.
The reason this history is crucial to understanding GW Bush and his ties to the Manhattan
Institute is that these same themes-Wall Street investing, Eugenics, the oil and drug
industries, working for the Rockefeller family, manipulating the media and the
directorship and ideology of the CIA-are the foundation on which the MI and it's influence
within the new Bush administration can be understood.
The connection between Nazi Germany, the Bush family and the CIA is simultaneously
political, financial and ideological. It
encompasses investment banking, legal and illegal drug dealing and Eugenics, the
pseudo-science of population control. Unlike
openly racist groups, they are equal opportunity employers carefully cultivating
operatives among all races. Academics,
politicians, doctors, clergy, prominent new anchors, social scientists and in some cases
even street gangs are among their
assets in the war to exert social control.
If you visit the MI website you will find a list of academics who are their roster of
so-called conservative experts. Their areas of expertise are race, eliminating welfare,
deregulation of business and the privatization of virtually everything the government
presently manages-including education, prisons, parks, streets, social security, courts
and welfare.
A number of their experts, including Bush's domestic policy advisor Stephen Goldsmith and
Rev. Floyd Flake, are slated for
cabinet positions. Others MI notables, including Myron Magnet, are the inventors of Bush's
doublespeak theme, "compassionate conservatism". GW has stated that next to
Jesus and the bible, Magnet's book on the so-called underclass
has been the single greatest influence on his ideas.
The Pioneer Fund, perhaps the world's greatest promoter of Eugenics, funded MI's
best-known resident scholar, Charles
Murray, during eight years in which he wrote The Bell Curve. Despite tremendous
controversy about his ideas Murray
remains the MI's leading expert on welfare reform, IQ and affirmative action. The Bell
Curve advances the idea, as do
virtually all Pioneer Fund projects, that African Americans are genetically inferior,
disease prone, have low IQ and are a drain
on the US economy. Murray's books have been heavily promoted by the MI and are the
intellectual foundation for the
movement in the US to end affirmative action and welfare.
Murray is glowingly mentioned hundreds of times on their website, speaks at their seminars
and is cited as a brilliant scholar by none other than GW Bush's top domestic policy
advisor, Stephen Goldsmith.
Many Americans didn't seem to mind seeing the CIA ruthlessly manipulate the political and
social fabric of other nations for
the second half of the 20th century. How they will feel about America being openly run by
the CIA and this circle of racist
corporate gangsters may well determine the history of the next century.
Robert Lederman 12/23/2000
NY Times June 12, 2000
Bush Culls Campaign Theme From Conservative Thinkers “Gov. George W. Bush has said
his political views have been shaped by the work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan
Institute.” Also see: The Dallas Morning Star 4/16/2000 The Godfathers of
'Compassionate Conservatism
NY Times Monday, May 12, 1997
Turning Intellect Into Influence Promoting Its Ideas, the Manhattan Institute Has Nudged
New York Rightward "...the
institute was founded as a free-market education and research organization by William
Casey, who then went off to head the
Central Intelligence Agency in the Reagan Administration."
See: Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000
http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
Director of Florida Holocaust Museum links Bush family to Nazis
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the
dictator." -12/18/2000 GW Bush
See CNN transcripts http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html
Boston Globe 12/11/2000 Conspiracy theories on election abound - "Robert Lederman
spies a conspiracy around virtually
every corner of American government, and nowhere more so than in the post-election drama
playing out in Florida.
Lederman...spotted signs of a sinister plot from the moment Florida Governor Jeb Bush flew
home after election night.
Since then, the rulings by various courts and elections officials have only confirmed his
worst suspicion: the existence of a
''vast right-wing conspiracy,'' probably tied to the CIA, orchestrated to win the White
House for George W. Bush."
Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists’ Response To Illegal State Tactics)
ARTISTpres@aol.com (718) 743-3722
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