Blairs American Connection
Anti-Blair | 08.10.2002 21:24
For those old enough to remember the miners strike and for those too young it is important to go back to history to understand what it happening today. Thatcher used an American to lead the attacks on the miners, thus paving the way for the almost complete de-industrialisation of Britain. After the miners were crushed, the printers and dockers followed. In such a manner Britain became a social laboratory for large US multinationals. Blairism is aiming to complete the task and if it fails, the Tories are waiting in the wing to continue the task, although their rise to power will probably occur after a massive abstention of voters.
Blairism is attempting to deregulate the public sector to such an
extent that it mirrors the de-industrialisation of Britain. He
emphatically stated that people should no longer rely on the state for
anything, other than its armed fists, the police and army alongside
its newly created paramilitary thugs.
The union leaderships forever loyal to the Labour Party are also
playing their role in the charade. Bob Crow has apparently joined Ken
Livingstones co-management body which takes control of part-privatised
London Underground. Livingstone also recruited an American, Bob Kiley who made his name bumping off people in Latin America in the 1960's. The Post office Union tops have joined the discussion of the Sawyer report to essentially break-up the postal service and hand it over lock stock and barrel to the large multinationals from the US. In nursing the Royal College of Nursing has appointed an American women who has been instrumental in bringing in 20,000 Phillipino 'nurses' thus ensuring the further deregulation of the NHS.
The aim is clear to shut down every serivice built up over decades by
the state.
The Left plays its part in this by asking people to always vote for
Bankrupt Labourites. The war will intensify the desire for social
change. If strikes break out and they have, Lock out in the West Coast
and possible Firemen strike in Britain, demands will be placed to
attack the workers vehemently.
The war against Iraq has as much to do as the war at home than anything else. In order to ram through globalisation with a hidden and not so hidden fist the British state is handing over its affairs to Americans who are trained in a different culture and have a different history. Its no coincidence that Wall Street called the Argentinian ruling class bankrupt and demanded Wall Stree take direct control.
New Labours last conference was the death knell of the Labour Party. It was a declaration that it will be for globalisation and war no matter what. The irony of the situation was that the misnamed group Labour Against the War was seen clapping for Clinton (another American) when he explained why cowboys always go it alone...
Blairism is attempting to deregulate the public sector to such an
extent that it mirrors the de-industrialisation of Britain. He
emphatically stated that people should no longer rely on the state for
anything, other than its armed fists, the police and army alongside
its newly created paramilitary thugs.
The union leaderships forever loyal to the Labour Party are also
playing their role in the charade. Bob Crow has apparently joined Ken
Livingstones co-management body which takes control of part-privatised
London Underground. Livingstone also recruited an American, Bob Kiley who made his name bumping off people in Latin America in the 1960's. The Post office Union tops have joined the discussion of the Sawyer report to essentially break-up the postal service and hand it over lock stock and barrel to the large multinationals from the US. In nursing the Royal College of Nursing has appointed an American women who has been instrumental in bringing in 20,000 Phillipino 'nurses' thus ensuring the further deregulation of the NHS.
The aim is clear to shut down every serivice built up over decades by
the state.
The Left plays its part in this by asking people to always vote for
Bankrupt Labourites. The war will intensify the desire for social
change. If strikes break out and they have, Lock out in the West Coast
and possible Firemen strike in Britain, demands will be placed to
attack the workers vehemently.
The war against Iraq has as much to do as the war at home than anything else. In order to ram through globalisation with a hidden and not so hidden fist the British state is handing over its affairs to Americans who are trained in a different culture and have a different history. Its no coincidence that Wall Street called the Argentinian ruling class bankrupt and demanded Wall Stree take direct control.
New Labours last conference was the death knell of the Labour Party. It was a declaration that it will be for globalisation and war no matter what. The irony of the situation was that the misnamed group Labour Against the War was seen clapping for Clinton (another American) when he explained why cowboys always go it alone...
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Support Blair as a rope supports a hanged man
08.10.2002 23:05
The reason why revolutionists call for a vote for the Labour Party, is, as Lenin long ago argued, because they support Labour like a "rope supports a hanged man".
In opposition, Labour can posture as the party of workers. Talk is cheap and it can promise the earth. In power, Labour either has to deliver or expose itself as the bankrupt, thoroughly corrupt, agency of the bosses that it is. The fact that the Labour Party is in power at the moment means that the left has a much easier target than it would if Labour were in opposition, bullshitting and promising the earth to workers. Everyone with half brain in their head within the working class can now see that Blairism is a warmongering enemy of the anti-working class. But the majority of workers still have illusions in Labour--I am not talking about the politically clued up workers, but the average working class dingbat who knows fuck all about what is happening in politics.
Putting Labour in power is a TACTIC to give Labour enough rope to hang itself, not a political endorsement. The only way politically clueless workers will ever learn is by hard experience. They are now beginning to understand that Blair is shitting on them, and preparing to deliver their sons and daughters as cannon fodder in a war over big oil. We are seeing the beginnings of a breakthrough in the union elections. The hard right is being kicked out and a less openly right wing crew is being elected. They are still a bunch of ex-Stalinists who would sell their own grandmothers, but it is an indication of discontent over PFI and other attacks on the public services.
Putting labout in power is important--they are an easier target for the left. The Anarchist muddlesheads are too thick to understand this.
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The Largest Empire In the History of the World
The Largest Empire In the History of the World
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Printed in The American Almanac, August 25,
1997.
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The New British Empire
Site Map
Overview Page
"Before she set out on her Diamond
Jubilee procession, on the morning of
22 June 1897, Queen Victoria of England
went to the telegraph-room at
Buckingham Palace.... It was a few
minutes after eleven o'clock. She
pressed an electric button, an impulse
was transmitted to the Central
Telegraph Office in St. Martin's le
Grand; in a matter of seconds, her
Jubilee message was on its way to every
corner of her Empire. It was the
largest Empire in the history of the
world, comprising nearly a quarter of
the land mass of the earth, and a
quarter of its population. Victoria
herself was a Queen-Empress of such
aged majesty that some of her simpler
subjects considered her divine, and
slaughtered propitiatory goats before
her image.''
--James Morris, in Pax
Britannica (London: The Folio Society:
1992)
In the minds of the political,
industrial, and intellectual elites of
the overwhelming majority of nations of
the world today, there exists a deadly
dangerous myth: that the British Empire
has disappeared from the face of the
Earth; and that Great Britain, the
United Kingdom, is of little
consequence in world affairs.
According to this fairy tale,
Britain's royal family is a powerless
relic of days gone by, collecting its
modest pension, fulfilling its
ceremonial obligations, and, perhaps,
drawing in a few tourist dollars, to
justify its upkeep. In the extreme
version of this Big Lie, today's
Britain is cast in the role of a benign
force in world affairs, a ``friend of
the downtrodden,'' and ``diligent
defender of human rights.''
Even the recent, shameless public
displays of marital infidelities by
Queen Elizabeth II's ``Baby Boomer''
offspring, and the voluminous ``soap
opera'' news coverage that they have
generated, have only added to this
mis-evaluation. (When dealing with
hereditary monarchies, decadence can
never be reliably used as an indicator
of decline. Rather, it must be
understood as a way of life. See, for
example, 18th Century British
intelligence figure Jeremy Bentham's
``In Defense of Pederasty,'' the
companion piece to his more widely
known ``In Defense of Usury.'' These
two documents convey an efficient
definition of the
monarchical-oligarchical outlook.)
In the minds of many leading world
figures, including in Russia, the
``enemy image'' of the British Empire
of old, has been replaced by that of a
modern ``imperial power,'' the United
States of America.
The authorship of both of these
complementary hoaxes--the demise of the
British Empire, and its replacement by
the U.S.A. as the new ``Great
Satan''--is traceable to Britain's own
vast propaganda and intelligence
apparatus, associated with such
institutions as British Broadcasting
Corp., Reuters News Service, the
Hollinger Corp., the Tavistock
Institute, the Mont Pelerin Society,
Oxford and Cambridge universities, the
British Commonwealth, and His Royal
Highness Prince Philip's World Wildlife
Fund. With the recent enthusiastic
revival of the century-old Anglo-French
Entente Cordiale, French intelligence
agents and propagandists have joined in
the America-trashing campaign,
especially inside Russia.
From Khartoum, to Moscow, to
Buenos Aires, among policymakers and
culture-shapers, this
British-orchestrated game of historical
revisionism has taken deep root. Its
disorienting effect has opened the door
to possibly grave and irreversible
policy blunders.
Hence, this EIR
strategic study.
Strategic Importance of Debunking
the Myth
If the human race is to survive
the coming global financial and
monetary blowout, without going through
a protracted New Dark Age, in which
billions needlessly die, it will be
necessary for the United States,
Russia, and China--as the three great
world powers today--to revive the World
War II alliance against the British
Empire, which was the cornerstone of
the late U.S. President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's post-colonial strategic
vision.
The first order of business of
such a revived ``FDR Coalition,'' is to
dump the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) system and organize a new set of
global financial and monetary
agreements, based on sound principles
of national banking and scientific and
technological progress. These
principles formed the basis for the
U.S. Constitution and what came to be
known, during the nineteenth century,
as the American System of Political
Economy.
Although neither Russia nor China
ever achieved the full status of
nation-statehood, there are powerful
forces inside both countries today,
that aspire to such a circumstance.
They are potential natural allies of
the United States in an anti-world
government, anti-British Empire,
anti-IMF concert.
To achieve that goal, the
circumstances of the collapse of that
Roosevelt policy must be grasped.
With the untimely death of FDR on
April 12, 1945, a great moment found a
little man, FDR's successor and Winston
Churchill's willing dupe, Harry S
Truman. Truman succumbed to Sir
Winston's vision of a postwar
Anglo-American strategic
partnership--the proverbial ``British
brains,'' joined with ``American brawn.''
He approved the dropping of the atomic
bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even
though the Japanese emperor had sent
clear signals (via the Vatican and
certain reliable U.S. Office of
Strategic Services personnel) that
Japan was prepared to surrender, and
even though American military
strategists were aware that Japan had
already been effectively defeated,
largely through the effects of a
successful U.S. naval embargo.
With Churchill's 1947 ``Iron
Curtain'' speech in Fulton, Missouri,
the last prospects of Russian-American
and Sino-American cooperation were
scotched, and the Cold War was on.
Under Cold War conditions, and, as
the result of the horrors of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, Lord Bertrand Russell's
scheme for using thermonuclear terror
(``mutually assured destruction,'' or
MAD) as a battering ram against the
nation-state, and as a weapon for
forging a one-world government, under
United Nations rubric, proceeded apace.
At only one point during the Cold
War era, during the John F. Kennedy
Presidency, was there a glimmer of hope
of the United States breaking from the
Russellite paradigm. Twenty years
before Ronald Reagan, President Kennedy
invoked the idea of ``peace through
strength'' and strategic defense,
launched the Apollo program to put a
man on the Moon, and revived facets of
the American System of Political
Economy, through investment tax
credits, and the printing of U.S.
Treasury bills, the first step in a
move that, had he lived, would have
likely led to a severe curtailment of
the independent power of the Federal
Reserve System. Kennedy paid with his
life for this break with Britain and
with the Russellite one-world empire.
Lord Russell and British intelligence
figure Sir Hugh Trevor-Roper, in 1964,
launched the ``British Who Killed
Kennedy Committee,'' the first
``critique'' of the Warren Commission
report, to ensure that London's hand in
the JFK murder and coverup was never
exposed.
With a very few exceptions, the
United States, and the world, have been
in an accelerated economic and cultural
decline ever since the Kennedy
assassination.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in
1989, and the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991, bringing to an end the
Cold War, defined a moment of great
opportunity. British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, and her obedient
lap-dog, U.S. President George Bush,
instead accelerated the drive to
implement Lord Russell's ``world
government,'' calling it ``the new
world order.'' They set about imposing,
upon the states of the former Warsaw
Pact, IMF conditionalities, as harsh as
those which spread genocide in Africa,
Asia, and Ibero-America over the
previous 15 years. With the 1991
``coalition'' war against Iraq, the
precedent was set for the final
implementation of the new empire.
These plans were disrupted,
however, with the 1992 election of
William Jefferson Clinton as President
of the United States. President
Clinton, with some institutional
backing, has broken the Anglo-American
``special relationship,'' and gotten
into what Lyndon LaRouche has described
as ``a war and a half'' with the
British....
The first step is to bust up the
prevailing mythology that the British
Empire is a thing of the past.
Alive and prospering
The British Empire is very much
alive and well today. Behind closed
doors at such locations as Chatham
House, the London headquarters of the
Royal Institute for International
Affairs (RIIA), blueprints for the
consolidation of one-world empire,
drawing upon the resources of the
British Commonwealth and the United
Nations Organization (UNO), have
already been drawn up, and construction
is under way.
The fact that the most powerful
nations on Earth (not including the
British Empire, which is not a
nation)--the United States; a
temporarily impaired, but
thermonuclear-armed Russia; and
China--have, so far, stood impotent in
the face of IMF diktats, and made no
effort to prevent the formation of the
World Trade Organization, the ``third
leg'' of the United Nations world
financial dictatorship, illustrates the
extent to which supranational world
government is already a reality.
The United Kingdom itself has very
little to do with the new British
Empire. England, Scotland, Wales, and,
especially, Northern Ireland, are today
little more than slave plantations and
social engineering laboratories,
serving the needs of a collection of
families, numbering no more than
3,000-5,000 people, who live and work
in and around the City of London, a
one-mile-square financial and corporate
district, which represents the greatest
concentration of financial power ever
assembled in one location.
These families constitute a
financier oligarchy; they are the power
behind the Windsor throne. They view
themselves as the heirs to the Venetian
oligarchy, which infiltrated and
subverted England from the period
1509-1715, and established a new, more
virulent, Anglo-Dutch-Swiss strain of
the oligarchic system of imperial
Babylon, Persia, Rome, and Byzantium.
Among their own ranks, these
financier oligarchs refer to themselves
as the Club of the Isles, after the
original ``Prince of the Isles,''
Edward Albert (King Edward VII), the
son of Queen Victoria, who orchestrated
the Crimean War, the Opium Wars, the
Russo-Japanese War, and World War I, to
consolidate Britain as the primus
inter pares (first among equals)
of the European monarchies and feudal
families. The Club of the Isles, under
the direction of the British monarchy,
draws in resources and personalities
from the Netherlands, Switzerland,
France, Germany, and Italy, and
orchestrates the actions of a caste of
terminally Anglophilic Americans,
typified by Henry Kissinger and former
President George Bush.
To begin to understand the breadth
and scope of the British Empire today,
it is necessary to look first at the
British Commonwealth, as the Club of
the Isles is itself looking at it.
In 1995, the RIIA published
Discussion Paper 60, by Katharine
West, titled ``Economic Opportunities
for Britain and the Commonwealth.''
West, an Australian professor and
business consultant on retainer with
Chatham House, made a compelling case,
that the 52 nations that comprise the
British Commonwealth have the potential
to dominate every regional economic
bloc in the world, from the Group of
77, to the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC), to the
Organization of African Unity (OAU), to
the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN), to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), and, even
the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA). The Commonwealth, which
includes one of every three nations on
this planet, comprises the largest
single voting bloc in the UN General
Assembly, making the Warsaw Pact at the
height of Soviet Russian power, pale by
comparison (see Figure 1).
The City of London dominates the
world's speculative markets (see
(Table 1). A tightly interlocking
group of corporations, involved in raw
materials extraction, finance,
insurance, transportation, and food
production, controls the lion's share
of the world market, and exerts virtual
``choke point'' control over world
industry.
In a recent column in the Club of
the Isles' flagship publication, the
London Times, Washington, D.C.
Sunday Times bureau chief James
Adams candidly admitted that the
banking houses in the City of London
are now laundering $400 billion per
annum in illegal narcotics profits. The
British Commonwealth subsumes many of
the world's most notorious
flight-capital and hot-money havens.
The Mont Pelerin Society, the
radical-free market secret organization
founded in 1947 by Friedrich von Hayek,
and patronized today by Prince Philip,
maintains the most accurate accounting
ledgers on the world's underground
economy. How is that possible? Because
the Club of the Isles, since the era of
the Opium Wars against China, and the
escapades of Lord Palmerston's personal
agent Giuseppe Mazzini in the last
century, has been the leading sponsor
and controller of global organized
crime.
The importance of Club of the
Isles control over organized crime
cannot be understated. Lord William
Rees-Mogg, a life peer in the House of
Lords, a former editor-in-chief of the
London Times, and British
intelligence's current chief case
officer for the propaganda war against
U.S. President Clinton, has written
recently that the world is moving into
a post-industrial ``Third Wave''
paradigm, which will see the erosion of
nation-states, and their replacement by
a form of one-world ``electronic
feudalism.'' In Rees-Mogg's Brave New
World, only 5% of the population, the
``cognitive elite'' or what he calls
the ``Brain Lords,'' will prosper and
enjoy the fruits of modern technology.
The vast majority of peoples of the
world are doomed to a life of misery.
To prevent social unrest under
these brutal conditions, the British
financier oligarchy has gone to great
lengths, since the Kennedy
assassination, to foster a
drug-rock-sex counterculture, that
creates, in the words of Aldous Huxley,
as ``a concentration camp of the
mind.'' From the ranks of that
counterculture, Prince Philip, his
World Wildlife Fund, and its ``1,001
Club'' adjunct, have recruited a
radical environmentalist movement, a
neo-pagan gang like the Hitler Youth of
the 1920s.
To achieve world empire, as Prince
Philip has admitted, 80% of the world
population must be eliminated within
two generations. Over 4 billion people
are to die to realize the Windsor/Club
of the Isles New Dark Age!
Treat this report as a combat
manual for a war against the British
Empire. The survival of all nations,
and billions of human beings, depends
on victory over this new empire, and
that victory begins with knowledge of
the nature of the enemy.
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the Emperor with His new clothes
40% Didn't Vote
09.10.2002 08:07
The argument about supporting Blair till the cows comes home obviously must come from someone who supported Blair and Livingstone and who will support Blair again after two wars, Yugoslavia and the coming conflict with Iraq.
The working class in its core constituencies abstained this time round for voting for Blair as they saw his party in action during his first term and did not like what they saw. Blair actually has less of a mandate than Thatcher ever did this being inevitable as after all, Blair is out to complete Thatchers project to privatise everything.
The argument that the Labour Party has something to do with the working class is as fallable as saying that Bush has something to do with workers as he employs them to clean the White House. The Labour Party and the top layers of the TUC belong to Big Business, not the workers. The last conference showed their craven support for everything American, even when faced with destruction in the Middle East.
Rev
So Unreconstructed Trot
09.10.2002 13:27
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