1. The Bilderberg Group & the project of European unification
http://www.bilderberg.org/bildhist.htm#The
2. "Imagine yourselves to be dictators of Europe"
The Dekker Paper, the Political Agenda and a Constituency for Delors - extract
http://www.bilderberg.org/bildhist.htm#dictators
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Tony, having now read the two essays mentioned in the above links, both which I found extremely interesting by the way, I am writing these notes in formulating the reply which I promised you. So forgive me if they are presented in bits and pieces.
I first became aware of the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission amongst others such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1983 while doing some research for CND given me by Bruce Kent, its then Chairperson. The purpose of this research was to find out about the various organisations in the West which were promoting the Cold War.
While Holly Sklar's seminal book on Trilateralism produced tons of information on that group I was largely dependent on the State Research Bulletin for information on the Bilderberg Group, the Atlanticists of the old Labour Party including Denis Healy and the notorious Gang of Four who were largely responsible for destroying old Labour and paving the way for Thatcher. The SRB provided some excellent information on the infamous A Team-B Team exercise that took place in the US in which the hard-liners were able to fake a Soviet Menace in order to justify military and nuclear rearmament to the Reagan administration.
That exercise was an early version of the Dodgy Dossier more recently used as a justification for an attack on Iraq by the USUK.
Another extremely useful book on the ways that capitalism operated on unseen levels, in this case between the USA and the USSR, unfettered by the Cold War ideology being fed the masses. This was
Vodka-Cola by Charles Levinson in which he described the policy of Convergence with the USSR being practised by the Nixon administration.
One story Levinson relates was that of a General Motors official decorated by Hitler who when challenged about this stated something along the lines of "in these matters we are above the control and interests of nation-states." Levinson goes onto to illustrate that while General Motors' Vauxhall and GM factories supplied arms to the Allies their Opel factories supplied Hitler and the Axis. At the end of the war, GM claimed and received millions of dollars of war reparations from the US government for the damage done by Allied bombers to their Opel factories in Germany! Another was the revelation that all through the 'seventies the US supplied the USSR with ball-bearings for the gyroscopes in their guided nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and second-generation IBM computers for their nuclear Early-Warning System.
We are told that Lenin financed the Russian Revolution in Wall Street. We know Grandpa Prescott Bush helped finance Hitler and so on. Capital will first fund and then play both sides against each other with the winner taking all.
This idea simply became more sophisticated with groups like the CFR, Bilderberg and the Trilats who spend their time planning and mapping the future of capital within the power blocs it helps create. What your articles illustrate is how this has been done by the Bilderberg Group in relation to the founding of what is now known as the European Union.
While I found both articles interesting I have to repeat what I said earlier on. As Mike Peters in his essay observes a lot has changed since the events he described. The European Union is now increasingly challenging the old US imperialist model, friction is growing. And where the US originally planned a joint project with the Europeans through helping to set up European unity it saw the problems which were arising and started over by setting up a new power bloc, NAFTA.
This process of the shifting balance and realignment of powers Peters describes in the alternative Kautsky theory he quotes and that is actually what has happened. Hence the old political arrangement that Peters uses, merely as a case in point to illustrate his criticism of British academics, is already history. What the Dekkers article describes may be more relevant to the current plans of Eurocrats.
What both describe, however, is the development of a capitalist power bloc now called the European Union. A power bloc that is predictably morphing into something quite different to that which was intended by its erstwhile supporters in the USA.
And it is in recognizing that that I have put the question about where 911 Truthers should put their energy; ie in supporting the inexorable process of divergence that is taking place between the US and the EU or the present status quo of an Atlantic Alliance that Sarkozy is now trying to bolster by palling-up with Gordon Brown?
If they choose the idea of Britain leaving the EU then they are jumping from the frying pan into the fire. For Britain to leave the EU will only delay the process of that divergence, it won't stop it. But Britain will fall ever deeper into the present Atlantic alliance and probably into NAFTA as it is very unlikely it will be able to go it alone like Norway and Switzerland which are not comparable cases.
Of course we can all just throw up our arms and say a plague on all their houses, they're all capitalists playing the same game. That's true and they are. But in the present world we have no choice but to choose between brands of capitalism. That's why I say that in this limited world I choose the social-democratic brand traditionally associated with the EU now under attack by the forces of what is called neoliberalism.
Leaving the EU would not only be economically and socially disruptive. It would leave us just where we are today: a fledgeling British police state with all the rights afforded us under the Lisbon Treaty thrown away & under the total control of Washington, DC.
Anti-EU 911 Truthers need to think this out. Their present position is paradoxical.
I write profusely on things European on this Forum so that the anti-EU lot and the Europhobes can't have it all their way. There are many reasons why I remain a European federalist and one is that as a 911 Truther I recognise that the chief danger comes from its US conspirators, Bushco &c and that in the world we live in I'd rather be part of a European power bloc than fall into NAFTA, the American one.
