A WEEKLY COMMENTARY
Year Twenty-Nine ... Number Thirty ... July 30, 1982
THE GREATER WAR IS ECONOMIC, NOT MILITARY
For the fifth time since its recognition as an independent State, Israel is at war. And as would be expected, even though that war has almost run its course, the invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of sections of Beirut still dominate the news -- at least in the Middle East and in the Western World. There are some references to the statemated Iraqi-Iranian War. On rare occasions there's an item about the Soviet attempts to dominate the people of Afghanistan, Poland receives little attention by the media. The same is true of the Vietnamese atrocities in Cambodia, the actions of the Turks in Cyprus, the continuing little wars, revolutions, invasions, incursions and coups in all parts of Africa save within the Republic of South Africa, the only stable -- and therefore most hated -- government in that part of the world. Now that the Falklands forays are finished, the Middle East, especially Lebanon, dominates the news.
However, even while concentrating on the destruction and bloodletting in the Middle East, seldom if ever does a reporter, commentator or editor ever refer to these military conflicts as being but a part of a much greater, an economic war, which has to do with control of the oil centers of the world, and with the waterways which control the distribution of oil and the world's other resources. And this economic conflict makes the military conflicts seem very confusing. An important European news source commented just prior to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, that Israel, "the defender of American interests" in the Middle East, was shipping arms to Iran, and also helping Iraq. Likewise, the Soviet Union had a mutual aid and defense treaty with Iraq, but at the same time was sending arms and an estimated 2,000 Soviet advisers to Iran. While the USSR was aiding the PLO and Syria it was at the same time currying favor with Israel. Said an observer: "Obviously, none of the people of America, Israel, Syria, Iran and Iraq want war. But it's evidently wanted by Russian leaders and the U.S. State Department's foreign oil-profit policy (a Trilateral Commission policy - Ed.) And since the USSR doesn't have any money of her own, but lives on U.S. loans, it stands to reason that the oil-money monpolists who 'guide' U.S. foreign policy finance all sides of the Mid-East conflicts." If this is true, then why? Well, let's look at the record:
In 1952 there was published a book that certain interests tried to "burn." But so far as we know, the facts contained in the book have never been denied. It's title: "Rockefeller, Internationalist. The Man Who Misrules the World," by Emanuel Josephson. We quote from pages 212, 213 of that book:
| "In March 1926, Vacuum Oil Co. entered into an agreement with the Russian government monopoly, the Naptha Syndicate, for the purchase of 800,000 tons of crude oil and 100,000 tons of kerosene, primarily in order to ingratiate itself with the Russians. This was the first direct commercial postwar transaction between the Soviet Government and the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests. The terms of this agreement entered into by the Rockefeller interests and Soviet Russia have never been published. It was well known, however, that the monetary price paid by Standard Oil was most favorable and low. Price was no object to the Communists. World conquest on the basis of the plans laid down by Lenin was for them the prime consideration, and the oil deals were, for the Soviets, merely bait and the means to that end. Bearing in mind this fact and the subsequent course of events, however, it is not difficult to arrive at a reliable conclusion concerning the terms that were demanded by the Soviets and accepted by the Rockefeller interests." |
Josephson then makes a statement which is as true today as it was in 1926: "A regular demand of the Soviets in any deal they make or alliance they enter into, is that they dominate and eventually take over. Recognition and propaganda are merely steps in the direction of infiltration and control of the government of the allying power. Surrender to Soviet terms means, as a consequence, to become a satellite through the device of a 'popular front'. A 'popular front' in Communist language means a Communist government. The setting-up of a Communist controlled government in the United States is the ultimate Soviet purpose of any deal that the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests could have entered into on the basis of surrender to the Soviets in exchange for control of their oil ... Finally since both of the contracting interests (Rockefeller and the Soviet Union in 1926 - Ed.) aimed at world conquest and dominion, there was undoubtedly an initial agreement to divide the world between them as a beginning. (Unquote).
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DAMN THE CONSTITUTION, FULL STEAM AHEAD ON TAXES
Notice anything unusual about the following news item?
"Washington (AP) - A badly split House Ways and Means Committee failed to agree yesterday (July 27) on how to handle a bill written by Senate Republicans that would increase taxes by $98.5 billion during the next three years. Democratic leaders have indicated the House is prepared to accept most of the bill without a fight .. Such a strategy would virtually assure enactment of the Senate-passed legislation, which has been endorsed by President Reagan. The tax increase, aimed at cutting the federal deficit, would be the biggest in history."
In the first place, the Constitution is very rigid on this subject: "All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives." This bill originated in the Senate, and the House is acting on it. What happened to our Constitution?
In the second place, President Reagan based his whole program on cutting taxes, was very proud and outspoken when he won that comparatively small cut in income taxes. Now he has reversed himself and has endorsed the biggest tax-increase bill in history. And finally, under an administration that had promised less taxes and less federal spending, it is reported that "Federal deficits could reach $140 billion to $160 billion for each of the next three years, far above the administration's forecast and too high to permit a 'vigorous recovery' from the recession, the head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said yesterday (July 27)." GLOBESCAN comments:
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"U.S. debt is $1,300,000,000,000 - $1.3 trillion. That's just about the value of everything produced and all work done in the United States in a year. So, let's get with it and pay off the inflation-creating national debt and the interest on it. Of course, for a year there would be nothing to eat, no new clothes, no electricity, no heat. There would no nothing! So forget about it and pass the debt on to your children -- like your parents did when they accepted the deal. But the kids have to eat, too. And even if you and they both starve and give up everything for a week, (already Americans work more than one third of the year just to pay taxes) the interest on the debt would increase faster than the amount paid. Let's face it, the national debt will never be re-paid. Then what are taxes for? They are simply a 'cover up.' "Money is created by central banks in whatever quantity a government decides to spend -- the amount of money created out of nothing has no relationship with how much is produced by people or how much they pay in taxes. When government begins spending more than it can collect, the debt, boosted by interest, begins increasing exponentially. Inflation takes off and society starts coming apart. The cause -- the game of creating money out of nothing -- must be hidden or the people would catch on. So the tax is continued and even increased to make them feel that they are 'doing something' about reducing the debt. That's all taxes are about nowadays -- not to repay or even reduce the debt, but to make you feel good! And as the internationalists march further and further along the read to one world controlled government which will require one-world money, the Trilateral Commission has stated that the IMF should become the Central Bank of the World and create international money reserves -- again out of nothing. They call their nothingness Bancors. And they really are nothing -- just computer entries. Just like American Federal Reserve Money. And sure enough, to cover the blatant fraud of creating counterfeit money with which to buy up everyone's wealth, 'world taxation' has been proposed by Willie Brandt in his monumentally boring and intellectually void North-South report on the coming New International Economic Order. World wide taxation -- another one-world illusion to make people feel they are doing something to solve world problems. But the real problem is the creation of debt money by the international money monopolists who privately control the world's central banks, particularly the U.S. FED, and the IMF. Next time you pay your taxes remember you're doing it so you can feel good about 'doing something' for the national debt. In reality, you're helping cover the fraud and making it easier for those that control the money to steal yours and the world's assets. Feeling better?" (from GLOBESCAN, Geneva, Paris, U.S. Subscription Center, 1545 New York Ave., N.E., Washington D.C., 20002). |
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Of special interest is the fact that at about this time the Rockefeller and Carnegie controlled foundatons, the Council on Foreign Relations (which the Rockefellers had taken over in 1927) and our State Department all adopted and began to promote the policy that they should all work toward an eventual "merging" of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Added to the Soviet demand for "popular fronts," was a dream that began with Peter the Great in the seventeenth century. It was he who attempted to make Russia a part of Europe proper, had buttons sewed on the sleeves of his troops for sanitary reasons, taught them the beginnings of Western military tactics, and made French the social language of his royal court. Russia then was virtually landlocked, had no navy or ports of any importance. Peter knew that open corridors to seas and oceans were essential if Russia were to become at all "westernized." His one great dream was the conquest of the lands between the Russian border and the ports of the Indian Ocean. Now that the USSR has built the world's largest navy, access to the Indian Ocean is ever more important than in Peter's time. For, in addition to free access to the world's third largest ocean, control of the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz was possible. Consider these facts. There is this worldwide peace drive which originated in the Soviet Union and which has virtually neutralized the Nations of Western Europe, and caused a campaign for unilateral disarmament among the socialist and liberal elements in the United States. Add to this, there is the anti-nuclear movement which would make us more than ever dependent upon oil to keep our factories running and our industries producing. Also important in this connection is the report that the Soviets are preparing for war. Not necessarily a war that would involve Soviet troops, but another series of pressure-imposed "popular fronts" in which more Nations become Communist nations through infiltration, terrorism, revolution and the use of surrogate troops trained and supplied by the USSR. On June 14 Paul Scott wrote a column headed "Soviets Prepare for War." He warned that "President Reagan's tightly packed nine day voyage to Western Europe was designed to warn leaders of NATO countries and France that while Soviet leaders talk peace and nuclear disarmament, they are preparing to cut off Western Europe's life line from the oil-rich Middle East. When pieced together the evidence is this: planned are a major Soviet military thrust from newly established bases in Afghanistan through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean in the April-June period of 1983." To further cut off the United States and Western Europe came this Siberian gas pipeline scheme. Fear that they must deal with the USSR for their future supplies of energy, oil as well as gas, caused the Nations of Western Europe to reject Reagan's counsel and provide the money and materials to build the pipeline, while the USSR would supply the necessary slave labor to build it.
Speaking of military developments, Hilaire du Berrier wrote: "It would be wrong to think of the Israeli blitzkrieg into Lebanon and the seemingly hopeless predicament of Yasir Arafat's encircled Palestine Liberation Organization as creating a prelude to peace in the Middle East. From unimpeachable information reaching your correspondent, it is clear that what we are seeing now is only the beginning of a struggle which could make the word holocaust seem an understatement." Here is a list of a sequence of events which seem to confirm du Berrier's prediction:
A final note about that Soviet occupation of the Southern coast of Iran. At Chah Bahar and Bandar Abbas are huge military establishments, complete with dock facilities, airfields, sophisticated weaponry and computerized operational systems. This gives Russia one of its long desired "warm water ports" as well as control over all the shipping via the Straits of Hormuz. But the Soviets did not build these facilities. They were built and left intact when President Carter ordered the evacuation of U.S. personnel from Iran. The facilities remained unusued until, allegedly, Arafat and Brezhnev had their conference in November 1979, when it was decided that the big push would begin in the spring of 1983. The Kremlin made a deal with the government of Iran, reportedly paid $USD 4 billion for the whole thing. Reminds one of how Cam Rann Bay and other military facilities were left for the Communists when U.S. troops left Vietnam. Commented Globescan: "What a way to transfer technology and wealth to the created enemy. At least, this way, it looks as if it was all a mistake." Actually Russia paid nothing for the facilities in Iran. American taxpayers paid twice. Once when they were built. Second through continual loans to Russia which makes such purchases possible. Russia's socialist empire would collapse tomorrow without financial aid from Western bankers and suppliers. So who is the real enemy?
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