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FTR #397 The Virtual State & Machiavellian Politics

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The focus is the Machi­avel­lian impact of the Under­ground Reich’s pres­ence with­in both sides of bit­ter­ly oppos­ing eth­nic and ide­o­log­i­cal strug­gles. In par­tic­u­lar, the pro­gram high­lights Under­ground Reich pres­ence on both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian con­flict and with­in the anti-glob­al­iza­tion move­ment.

After review­ing some of the his­to­ry of Yass­er Arafat’s asso­ci­a­tion with piv­otal Nazi oper­a­tives Haj Amin al-Hus­sei­ni and Otto Sko­rzeny, the broad­cast high­lights the remark­able and dead­ly Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion’s sup­port for Israel and its inclu­sion of Jew­ish busi­ness­men in its struc­ture. This gives the Under­ground Reich tremen­dous influ­ence with­in Israel prop­er. The pro­gram sets forth the his­to­ry of fas­cist ele­ments with­in the Zion­ist move­ment. After briefly chron­i­cling the piv­otal role of the Holo­caust in the birth of Israel and the Arab nations’ expul­sion of Jews and the appro­pri­a­tion of their prop­er­ty fol­low­ing the Israeli war of inde­pen­dence, the broad­cast sum­ma­rizes the fascist/Zionist con­nec­tion. It is impor­tant to note that this is in no way intend­ed to imply that Zion­ism is fas­cist, any more than Islam is fas­cist. There are impor­tant fas­cist ele­ments with­in both. Israel’s polit­i­cal health and demo­c­ra­t­ic tra­di­tions are far in advance of those in the Arab and Mus­lim worlds.

A fel­low trav­el­er of Mus­soli­ni, Vladimir Jabotin­sky head­ed up the Betar in the 1930s. The two best-known grad­u­ates of the fas­cist Betar were for­mer Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Menaghem Begin and the late Meir Kahane. Jabotin­sky’s per­son­al sec­re­tary (and a pall­bear­er at his funer­al) was Ben­zion Netanyahu, the father and polit­i­cal men­tor of for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu. Anoth­er of the fas­cist ele­ments with­in the Zion­ist move­ment was the Stern Gang, which advo­cat­ed a mil­i­tary alliance between Nazi Ger­many and the Zion­ist move­ment in order to dri­ve the British from Pales­tine-the most famous grad­u­ate of the Stern Gang was Yitzhak Shamir, anoth­er Israeli Prime Min­is­ter. Feiv­el Polkes (a Pol­ish Jew and a mem­ber of the Hagan­nah) worked with Otto Von Bolschwing, Adolph Eich­man­n’s supe­ri­or and a key mem­ber of the Dulles/Gehlen axis.

The pres­ence of the Under­ground Reich in the Israeli right-wing is worth con­tem­plat­ing in the con­text of the Repub­li­can Par­ty’s active court­ing of the Israeli right dur­ing Clin­ton’s admin­is­tra­tion. Active­ly sub­vert­ing Clin­ton’s efforts at bro­ker­ing a Mid­dle East peace accord, the Repub­li­cans attempt­ed to have the US embassy moved to Jerusalem (from Tel Aviv.) This was against the advice of the late Yitzhak Rabin and was vetoed by Bill Clin­ton.

Next, the pro­gram reviews the prob­a­ble sub­ver­sion of the Camp David peace talks by the Repub­li­cans in July of 2000. Key mem­bers of the PLO nego­ti­at­ing team at Camp David were pro­teges of the anti-Semit­ic James Bak­er, the elder George Bush’s Sec­re­tary of State. Bak­er brought key Pales­tin­ian “mod­er­ates” to the Unit­ed States, where they were coached in the lat­est PR tech­niques by the CIA. Termed “Bak­er’s Dozen” by the Agency, they have become the dar­lings of the so-called “pro­gres­sive sec­tor.” In con­junc­tion with the fail­ure of the peace talks, one should bear in mind the fact that the PLO is bankrolled pri­mar­i­ly by Sau­di Ara­bia and the Saud­is are deeply involved with the Bush/Republican milieu.

The fail­ure of the peace talks assured that Al Gore would not be able to ride the crest of a suc­cess­ful Mid­dle East peace process to vic­to­ry in the 2000 elec­tions. It also doomed the for­tunes of Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ehud Barak, weak­ened the Labor Par­ty and boost­ed the Likud Par­ty into a posi­tion of pri­ma­cy. Inter­est­ing­ly, the Likud Par­ty sent a rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the nation­al con­fer­ence of the Allian­za Nationale in Italy (the suc­ces­sor par­ty to Mus­solin­i’s fascisti.) It is Mr. Emory’s view that Israel is the “Final Solu­tion” to the “Jew­ish Prob­lem.” In effect, it is a con­cen­tra­tion camp in which much of the world’s Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion has been “con­cen­trat­ed” by design-it will even­tu­al­ly become a death camp (such as Auschwitz) if the Under­ground Reich gets its way.

The con­clud­ing por­tion of the broad­cast exam­ines the man­ner in which ele­ments of the Under­ground Reich have fused anti-impe­ri­al­ist rhetoric with fas­cist ide­ol­o­gy. Cast­ing the Israeli/Palestinian con­flict in terms of “Zion­ist impe­ri­al­ism,” they have co-opt­ed the rhetoric of the anti-glob­al­iza­tion move­ment and, to a cer­tain extent, infil­trat­ed it.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Goebbels aide Johann Von Leers’ cel­e­bra­tion of the Nazi/Arab nationalist/Islamist alliance as the anti­dote to “West­ern Impe­ri­al­ism;” Hun­gar­i­an fas­cist Ist­van Csurka’s cel­e­bra­tion of the 9/11 attacks; Ger­man neo-Nazi Horst Mahler’s endorse­ment of the attacks; Mahler’s appar­ent­ly recent asso­ci­a­tion with the pre­vi­ous­ly anar­chist anti-fas­cist “Black Bloc;” the Black Bloc’s pres­ence at both the anti-glob­al­iza­tion demon­stra­tions in Genoa in 2001 and the recent anti-war march in San Fran­cis­co; the pres­ence of Allian­za Nationale chief Gian­fran­co Fini at Genoa in 2001.

1. The broad­cast reviews the con­cept of the “vir­tu­al state.” It is the bor­der­less, under­ground nature of the “vir­tu­al state” that is the Under­ground Reich that makes it so dead­ly, and so elu­sive. “Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas law pro­fes­sor Philip Bob­bitt spent 10 years work­ing on a book pub­lished this year that is prov­ing eeri­ly pre­scient. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of His­to­ry is a daunt­ing 919 pages about the trans­for­ma­tion of war. It’s filled with polit­i­cal the­o­ry. It’s laced with por­traits of key diplo­mat­ic fig­ures. It’s pages upon pages that dis­cuss the dif­fer­ences between what he terms the nation state, and the mar­ket state and the emer­gence of the vir­tu­al state (rep­re­sent­ed by Al Qae­da as an ene­my orga­ni­za­tion with­out a defin­able loca­tion.)” (“UT Pro­fes­sor Has Fin­ger on Pulse of War­fare” by Sharon Jayson; Austin Amer­i­can-States­man; 12/2/2002; p. B1. [PDF])

2. Briefly illus­trat­ing the pres­ence of the Under­ground Reich with­in the milieu of the PLO, the pro­gram reviews the asso­ci­a­tion of PLO chair­man Yass­er Arafat with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. An SS offi­cer and piv­otal Third Reich oper­a­tive, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Haj Amin Al-Hus­sei­ni) is described by author Mar­tin A. Lee. “Among those who gath­ered at the Mufti’s home dur­ing the mid-1950’s was his dis­tant cousin, Yass­er Arafat, then an engi­neer­ing stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cairo.” (The Beast Reawak­ens; Mar­tin A. Lee; Copy­right 1997 [HC]; Lit­tle, Brown & Co.; ISBN 0–316-51959–6; p. 128.) One should note that the “Gross­mufti” was the first leader of the Pales­tin­ian nation­al move­ment. One should not fail to note that Arafat, the first Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ist groups and SS Colonel (and ODESSA leader) Otto Sko­rzeny have strong his­tor­i­cal links.

3. Mar­tin Lee describes the Arafat/Skorzeny/terrorist links. “Sev­er­al young Pales­tin­ian refugees, includ­ing Yass­er Arafat, joined the Egypt­ian sol­diers who were learn­ing the ways and means of uncon­ven­tion­al war­fare. Although ini­tial­ly the intend­ed tar­get was the British, the future PLO chief real­ized that rig­or­ous com­man­do exer­cis­es would help pre­pare the Pales­tin­ian mil­i­tants who were eager to renew the bat­tle for their lost home­land. A grate­ful Arafat rec­og­nized Sko­rzeny’s abun­dant skills in this area, and the two men struck up a rela­tion­ship that last­ed for many years. Appar­ent­ly the Pales­tin­ian leader was quite fond of the scar­faced pal­adin [Sko­rzeny]. ‘Arafat would have done any­thing for Otto!’ remarked [Otto’s wid­ow] Ilse Sko­rzeny.’ ” (Ibid.; pp. 129–130.)

4. The Under­ground Reich’s pres­ence with­in the Islam­o­fas­cist milieu is exem­pli­fied by the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. Dis­cussing the dias­po­ra of the Broth­er­hood fol­low­ing its expul­sion from Egypt, he dis­cussed the estab­lish­ment of Munich as a pri­ma­ry base of oper­a­tions. Said Ramadan was very active against Israel dur­ing the War of Inde­pen­dence in 1948. ” ‘Why Munich, why Ger­many?’ I asked Rifaat Said. ‘Because there, one finds old com­plic­i­ties that go back to the late 1930’s, when the Mus­lim Broth­ers col­lab­o­rat­ed with the agents of Nazi Ger­many. . .By soak­ing up the sav­ings of these Mus­lim work­ers, Yussef Nada, like Said Ramadan, took advan­tage of an extreme­ly favor­able con­text and used it as a spring­board for the Mus­lim Broth­ers’ eco­nom­ic activ­i­ties.’ ” (Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The Unit­ed States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copy­right 2000 [SC]; Algo­ra Pub­lish­ing; ISBN 1–892941-06–6; p. 153.)

5. Before dis­cussing the Bor­mann influ­ence with­in Israel, the pro­gram presents a syn­op­tic account of the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion. “With the war years far behind him, Mar­tin Bor­mann goes on and on, qui­et­ly mak­ing his­to­ry in world­wide finan­cial cir­cles. He was eighty on June 17, 1980, and his chief of secu­ri­ty, Hein­rich Mueller, was sev­en­ty-nine the same year. Bor­mann today may be likened to the clas­sic chair­man of the board of a vast inter­na­tion­al busi­ness com­plex, of an orga­ni­za­tion hold­ing greater assets than any pri­vate invest­ment house on Wall Street. Bor­mann, aged though he is, con­tin­ues to guide the des­tiny of his finan­cial empire. But he is suf­fi­cient­ly pru­dent and far­sight­ed to real­ize that the assets he con­trols must be placed in younger hands, and today the lead­er­ship coun­cil of the senior NSDAP group is reflect­ed in a younger gen­er­a­tion, com­pris­ing pro­fes­sion­al man­agers, lawyers, and financiers, who are call­ing the shots as mon­ey and trade are moved among the mar­kets of the Amer­i­c­as and Europe. Their orga­ni­za­tion holds the bear­er bonds that give him a voice in banks and indus­tries of Ger­many, and like­wise they hold blue chip stocks in U.S. heavy indus­tries and chem­i­cal com­pa­nies. They are rep­re­sent­ed too on the boards of cor­po­ra­tions in France, Bel­gium, Hol­land, Swe­den, Lux­em­bourg, and Switzer­land, as well as in a myr­i­ad of oth­er coun­tries, includ­ing those in their bas­tion, Latin Amer­i­ca. Their man­age­ment is of the best and the com­pa­nies they oper­ate return a prof­it to every­one involved, from the West Ger­man gov­ern­ment in cor­po­rate tax­es and increased trade, to the share­hold­ers of all com­pa­nies that par­tic­i­pat­ed so long ago in Reich­sleit­er Bor­man­n’s flight cap­i­tal pro­gram.” (Mar­tin Bor­mann: Nazi in Exile; Paul Man­ning; Copy­right 1981 by Paul Man­ning; [HC] Lyle Stu­art Inc.; ISBN 0–8184-0309–8; p. 226.)

6. The pro­gram high­lights anoth­er inter­est­ing aspect of the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion’s influ­ence in the Unit­ed States, its select use of Jew­ish busi­ness­men as front men. One should note that the inclu­sion of Jew­ish busi­ness­men in the orga­ni­za­tion’s struc­ture con­tributes to the eco­nom­ic sup­port of Israel. In turn, the Bor­mann finan­cial sup­port of Israel helps to insure the rel­a­tive silence and com­plic­i­ty of Israel and the Zion­ist com­mu­ni­ty on sub­stan­tive issues con­cern­ing the post­war sur­vival of the Under­ground Reich. “Since the found­ing of Israel, the Fed­er­al Repub­lic of Ger­many had paid out 85.3 bil­lion marks, by the end of 1977, to sur­vivors of the Holo­caust. East Ger­many ignores any such lia­bil­i­ty. From South Amer­i­ca, where pay­ment must be made with sub­tle­ty, the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion has made a sub­stan­tial con­tri­bu­tion. It has drawn many of the bright­est Jew­ish busi­ness­men into a par­tic­i­pa­to­ry role in the devel­op­ment of many of its cor­po­ra­tions, and many of these Jews share their pros­per­i­ty most gen­er­ous­ly with Israel. If their pro­pos­als are sound, they are even pro­vid­ed with a spe­cial­ly dis­pensed ven­ture cap­i­tal fund. I spoke with one Jew­ish busi­ness­man in Hart­ford, Con­necti­cut. He had arrived there quite unknown sev­er­al years before our con­ver­sa­tion, but with Bor­mann mon­ey as his lever­age. Today he is more than a mil­lion­aire, a qui­et leader in the com­mu­ni­ty with a cer­tain share of his prof­its ear­marked, as always, for his ven­ture cap­i­tal bene­fac­tors. This has tak­en place in many oth­er instances across Amer­i­ca and demon­strates how Bor­man­n’s peo­ple oper­ate in the con­tem­po­rary com­mer­cial world, in con­trast to the fan­ci­ful non­sense with which Nazis are described in so much ‘lit­er­a­ture.’ So much empha­sis is placed on select Jew­ish par­tic­i­pa­tion in Bor­mann com­pa­nies that when Adolf Eich­mann was seized and tak­en to Tel Aviv to stand tri­al, it pro­duced a shock wave in the Jew­ish and Ger­man com­mu­ni­ties of Buenos Aires. Jew­ish lead­ers informed the Israeli author­i­ties in no uncer­tain terms that this must nev­er hap­pen again because a rep­e­ti­tion would per­ma­nent­ly rup­ture rela­tions with the Ger­mans of Latin Amer­i­ca, as well as with the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion, and cut off the flow of Jew­ish mon­ey to Israel. It nev­er hap­pened again, and the pur­suit of Bor­mann qui­et­ed down at the request of these Jew­ish lead­ers. He is resid­ing in an Argen­tine safe haven, pro­tect­ed by the most effi­cient Ger­man infra­struc­ture in his­to­ry as well as by all those whose pros­per­i­ty depends on his well-being. Per­son­al invi­ta­tion is the only way to reach him.” (Ibid.; pp. 226–227.)

7. The pro­gram relates an inci­dent in which orga­nized crime king­pin Mey­er Lan­sky tried to black­mail the Bor­mann group. This result­ed in his removal from Israel. “A reveal­ing insight into this inter­na­tion­al finan­cial and indus­tri­al net­work was giv­en me by a mem­ber of the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion resid­ing in West Ger­many. Mey­er Lan­sky, he said, the finan­cial advi­sor to the Las Vegas-Mia­mi under­world sent a mes­sage to Bor­mann through my West Ger­man SS con­tact. Lan­sky promised that if he received a piece of Bor­man­n’s action he would keep the Israeli agents off Bor­man­n’s back. ‘I have a very good rela­tion with the Israeli secret police’ was his claim, although he was to be kicked out of Israel when his pres­ence became too not­ed-and also at the urg­ing of Bor­man­n’s secu­ri­ty chief in South Amer­i­ca. At the time Lan­sky was in the pent­house suite of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, in which he owned stock. He had fled to Israel to evade a U.S. fed­er­al war­rant for his arrest. He sent his mes­sage to Bor­mann through his bag man in Switzer­land, John Pull­man, also want­ed in the Unit­ed States on a fed­er­al war­rant. Lan­sky told Pull­man to make this offer ‘which he can’t refuse.’ The offer was for­ward­ed to Buenos Aires, where it was greet­ed with laugh­ter. When the laugh­ter died down, it was replaced with action. Mey­er was evict­ed from Israel and was told by Swiss author­i­ties to stay out of their coun­try, so he flew to South Amer­i­ca. There he offered any pres­i­dent who would give him asy­lum a cool $1 mil­lion in cash. He was turned down every­where and had to con­tin­ue his flight to Mia­mi, where U.S. mar­shals, alert­ed, were wait­ing to take him into cus­tody.” (Ibid.; pp. 227–228.)

8. The impli­ca­tions of the Bormann/Lansky encounter were neat­ly summed up by Paul Man­ning. “The Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion has the ulti­mate in clout and sub­stance, and no one can tam­per with it. I have been told: ‘You can­not push these peo­ple. If you do it can be extreme­ly risky.’ Know­ing their her­itage I take this state­ment at face val­ue.” (Ibid.; p. 228.)

9. The Israeli right-wing has an his­tor­i­cal rela­tion­ship with fas­cism. After briefly chron­i­cling the piv­otal role of the Holo­caust in the birth of Israel and the Arab nations’ expul­sion of Jews and the appro­pri­a­tion of their prop­er­ty fol­low­ing the Israeli War of Inde­pen­dence, the broad­cast sum­ma­rizes the fascist/Zionist con­nec­tion. A fel­low trav­el­er of Mus­soli­ni, Vladimir Jabotin­sky head­ed up the Betar in the 1930’s (M30). The two best-known grad­u­ates of the fas­cist Betar were for­mer Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Menaghem Begin (M30) and the late Meir Kahane (M58). Jabotin­sky’s per­son­al sec­re­tary (and a pall­bear­er at his funer­al) was Ben­zion Netanyahu, the father and polit­i­cal men­tor of for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu (FTR#94). Anoth­er of the fas­cist ele­ments with­in the Zion­ist move­ment was the Stern Gang, which advo­cat­ed a mil­i­tary alliance between Nazi Ger­many and the Zion­ist move­ment in order to dri­ve the British from Pales­tine-the most famous grad­u­ate of the Stern Gang was Yitzhak Shamir, anoth­er Israeli Prime Min­is­ter (M30). Feiv­el Polkes (a Pol­ish Jew and a mem­ber of the Hagan­nah) worked with Otto Von Bolschwing, Adolph Eich­man­n’s supe­ri­or and a key mem­ber of the Dulles/Gehlen axis.

10. The Under­ground Reich is deeply involved with the Repub­li­can Par­ty. Dur­ing the Clin­ton admin­is­tra­tion the Repub­li­cans active­ly sub­vert­ed Clin­ton’s attempts at bro­ker­ing a peace accord between Israel and the Pales­tini­ans. For exam­ple, when Hillary Clin­ton came out in favor of the cre­ation of a Pales­tin­ian state, House Major­i­ty Leader Newt Gin­grich trav­eled to Israel and spoke out against this in an address to the Knes­set (the Israeli par­lia­ment.)

11. Exem­plary of the Repub­li­can sub­ver­sion of Clin­ton’s attempts at bro­ker­ing a Mideast peace accord was the Dole bill, which would have moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a move that Yitzhak Rabin (lat­er assas­si­nat­ed) advised against. Clin­ton vetoed the law. “Indeed, con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly, the Pres­i­dent can sus­pend the appli­ca­tion of a law approved by Con­gress if he judges it con­trary to the high­er inter­ests of the coun­try, as was the case for the Dole law that pro­posed to trans­fer the embassy of the Unit­ed States to Jerusalem.” (Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The Unit­ed States and Islam; p. 167.)

12. Next, the pro­gram reviews the prob­a­ble sub­ver­sion of the Camp David peace talks by the Repub­li­cans in July of 2000. Key mem­bers of the PLO nego­ti­at­ing team at Camp David were pro­teges of the anti-Semit­ic James Bak­er, the elder George Bush’s Sec­re­tary of State. Bak­er brought key Pales­tin­ian “mod­er­ates” to the Unit­ed States, where they were coached in the lat­est PR tech­niques by the CIA. Termed “Bak­er’s Dozen” by the Agency, they have become the dar­lings of the so-called “pro­gres­sive sec­tor.” In con­junc­tion with the fail­ure of the peace talks, one should bear in mind the fact that the PLO is bankrolled pri­mar­i­ly by Sau­di Ara­bia and the Saud­is are deeply involved with the Bush/Republican milieu. “Accord­ing to our sources, the CIA secret­ly brought sev­er­al mod­er­ate Pales­tini­ans to the Unit­ed States for inten­sive brief­ing. This group, code named ‘Bak­er’s Dozen,’ includ­ed most of the ‘offi­cial’ Pales­tin­ian nego­ti­at­ing team with Israel: ‘Hanan Ashrawi, Han­na Senio­ra, Saeb Erakat, Sari Nus­seibeh and oth­er low­er rank­ing Pales­tini­ans were sum­moned to Lan­g­ley for a three day con­fer­ence on inte­grat­ing their pol­i­tics with the U.S. . . . Ashrawi was sin­gled out as a good Pales­tin­ian image spokes­woman dubbed by the Com­pa­ny-the Pales­tin­ian Gol­da Meir.’ ” (The Secret War Against the Jews: How West­ern Espi­onage Betrayed the Jew­ish Peo­ple; John Lof­tus and Mark Aarons; Copy­right 1994 [SC]; St. Mar­t­in’s Press; ISBN 0–312-15648–0; p. 476.)

10. In the intro­duc­tion to their book, Lof­tus and Aarons note the sen­ti­ments of Bush (Sr.) Sec­re­tary of State James Bak­er. ” ‘What­so­ev­er ye shall do unto the least of men . . . So shall ye do also unto me.’ ‑Jesus of Nazareth, called by the Romans ‘King of the Jews,’ cir­ca A.D. 32.” (Ibid.; p. vii.)

11. ” ‘Fuck the Jews . . . they won’t vote for us any­way.’ ‑The Hon­or­able James Bak­er, Sec­re­tary of State, Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, cir­ca A.D. 1992.” (Idem.)

12. In the con­text of the Bak­er affil­i­a­tion of the Pales­tin­ian nego­tia­tors, it is inter­est­ing to note that the day that petro­le­um indus­try pro­fes­sion­al Dick Cheney (anoth­er Bush, Sr. cab­i­net offi­cer) was named as George W’s Vice-Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, Yass­er Arafat walked out of the Camp David peace talks that were being bro­kered by Pres­i­dent Clin­ton. (“Clin­ton Ends Dead­locked Peace Talks” by Jane Per­lez; New York Times; 7/26/2000; p. A1; “Bush Names Cheney, Cit­ing ‘Integri­ty’ and ‘Expe­ri­ence’ ” by Frank Bruni; New York Times; 7/26/2000; p. A1.) The pos­si­bil­i­ty that the Republican/petroleum industry/Saudi con­nec­tion may have played a back chan­nel role in inter­dict­ing the peace talks is not a pos­si­bil­i­ty to be too read­i­ly dis­card­ed. (It should be not­ed that the elder George Bush was in touch with the Sau­di Roy­al fam­i­ly dur­ing the 2000 cam­paign through the Car­lyle group. The Bush/Saudi con­nec­tion appears to have helped to destroy Jim­my Carter’s elec­tion prospects in 1980. Had Pres­i­dent Clin­ton suc­cess­ful­ly bro­kered the Israeli/Palestinian peace process, it might have very well giv­en the 2000 elec­tion to Al Gore.)

13. The broad­cast notes that the key State Depart­ment offi­cial involved with coor­di­nat­ing pol­i­cy with so-called “friend­ly” gov­ern­ments in the region is Dick Cheney’s daugh­ter, Eliz­a­beth. And you thought that Bush’s son was the one you had to wor­ry about. Turns out it’s Cheney’s daugh­ter. “Yet the work assigned to Ms. Cheney, a deputy US assis­tant under­sec­re­tary of state and daugh­ter of the vice-pres­i­dent, is hard­ly diplo­ma­cy as usu­al. The focus of her efforts is coun­tries in the Arab world. Her new­ly cre­at­ed post is at the fore­front of US efforts to insti­gate polit­i­cal reform among the author­i­tar­i­an regimes long regard­ed by Wash­ing­ton as allies.” (“ ‘Iraq Will Cause a Change in the Region and Make Amer­i­ca’s Ene­mies Des­per­ate’ ” by Rhoula Kha­laf; Finan­cial Times; 1/16/2003; p. 11.)

14. As a result of the col­lapse (Republican/Underground Reich sub­ver­sion?) of the Camp David peace talks: a dev­as­tat­ing and mutu­al­ly anni­hi­lat­ing con­clu­sion to the Israeli/Palestinian con­flict is clos­er than ever; the peace process and prospects for the Israeli Labor par­ty appear more remote than ever, despite the ongo­ing endorse­ment by the major­i­ty of the Israeli pop­u­la­tion for the estab­lish­ment of a Pales­tin­ian state; the Repub­li­cans (despite their Under­ground Reich con­nec­tions and anti-Semi­tism) have been able to trum­pet their sup­port for Israel as a cam­paign and pro­pa­gan­da tool; the Arab world (and many peo­ple out­side of the Mid­dle East) see the US as being con­trolled by a “Zion­ist con­spir­a­cy;” and the stage is set for the real­iza­tion of the sce­nario pre­sent­ed in Ser­pen­t’s Walk.

15. In Ser­pen­t’s Walk, a Nazi pro­pa­gan­da tract and teach­ing tool, like The Turn­er Diaries, the Nazi Fuehrer (Alan Less­ing) inveighs against the Jews. (This takes place after the Under­ground Reich has infil­trat­ed the US Army, a dev­as­tat­ing bio/terror attack involv­ing genet­i­cal­ly-engi­neered micro-organ­isms has wiped out much of the US pop­u­la­tion, mar­tial law is declared, Israel gets wiped out by an Under­ground Reich “pre­emp­tive strike”, and the Under­ground Reich takes over the world.) The premise of the tract is that the US and the world are being manip­u­lat­ed by a “Jew­ish conspiracy”-a theme one hears with increas­ing fre­quen­cy these days from the so-called pro­gres­sive sec­tor, as well as overt­ly fas­cist ele­ments. ” ‘A pre­emp­tive, sur­gi­cal first strike, just like the Izzies pulled on the Arabs a few times.’ He picked up a sheaf of doc­u­ments. ‘We keep this stuff, right? It’s evi­dence of their inten­tions. I’ll give it to Liese’s pub­lic­i­ty peo­ple right away, and we’ll have it on Home-Net before night­fall. I think we can promise you sup­port.’ ” (Ser­pen­t’s Walk by ‘Ran­dolph D. Calver­hall;’ Copy­right 1991 [SC]; Nation­al Van­guard Books; 0–937944-05‑X; pp. 432–433.)

16. ” ‘They deserved it!’ Kenow growled. ‘We did­n’t do noth­in’ to ‘em.’ ” (Ibid.; p. 433.)

17. ” ‘Even if you did, I doubt if our eth­nos group’ll make more than token objec­tions. The world’s had it. Any­body as unpop­u­lar as the Jews have always been . . . Egypt, Baby­lon, Rome, Spain, every coun­try in Europe dur­ing the Mid­dle Ages, Rus­sia, Amer­i­ca, the Third Reich . . . must be doing some­thing wrong! We’d have pre­ferred peace­ful . . . and sep­a­rate . . . and dis­tant . . . co-exis­tence, but they nev­er got the mes­sage. Now we don’t care any­more.’ ” (Idem.)

18. ” ‘It’s too bad . . .’ Wrench began.” (Idem.)

19. “Don’t waste your pity!’ ” Less­ing snapped. ‘They would­n’t waste any on you. Sure, it’s sad that inno­cent peo­ple have to suf­fer, but it can’t be helped. That’s real­i­ty! That’s Nature! You can’t save the dodo, the con­dors, and the oth­er losers in the bat­tle for sur­vival. Species-extinc­tion hap­pens over and over, like rain in the sum­mer-time. For­get ethics and moral­i­ty and ‘do-unto-oth­ers.’ The Izzies said ‘nev­er again!’ about the ‘Holo­caust,’ but then they turned around and did to the Pales­tini­ans every­thing they claimed the Ger­mans had done to them! They called it ‘self-defense’: war under the pre­text of peace, oppres­sion in the name of jus­tice and sta­bil­i­ty! The Arabs were weak and went under, but we’re a dif­fer­ent sto­ry. We’re going to make it, no mat­ter who gets in our way.’ ” (Idem.)

20. ” ‘I hear Bill God­dard again,’ Wrench mur­mured.” (Idem.)

21. ” ‘No, you hear me, Alan Less­ing! There was a time when I’d have waf­fled and gone for ‘turn the oth­er cheek,’ but not any­more! Now you hear me, and you hear our Par­ty, our eth­nos, our major­i­ty . . . our First Fuhrer! You hear the past, you hear the present, and you hear the future! We are the future!’ ” (Idem.)

22. Exem­pli­fy­ing the Under­ground Reich’s co-opt­ing of the rhetoric of “anti-Impe­ri­al­ism” and their alliance with Arab nation­al­ist move­ments and Islamists, for­mer Goebbels pro­pa­gan­da aide Johann Von Leers artic­u­lat­ed the posi­tion of the “vir­tu­al state” that is the Under­ground Reich in a let­ter to a col­league. ” ‘One thing is clear-more and more patri­ot Ger­mans join the great Arab rev­o­lu­tion against beast­ly impe­ri­al­ism. In Alge­ria half a com­pa­ny of Ger­man sol­diers, drag­ging with them two French offi­cers and two non-com­mis­sioned offi­cers, have cut their throats in the view of the Alger­ian rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies and have gone on the side of the Alge­ri­ans and have embraced Islam. That is good! To hell with Chris­tian­i­ty, for in Chris­tian­i­ty’s name Ger­many has been sold to our oppres­sors! Our place as an oppressed nation under the exe­crable West­ern colo­nial­ist Bonn gov­ern­ment must be on the side of the Arab nation­al­ist revolt against the West. Let Ade­nauer be furi­ous that hon­est Ger­man patri­ots are not extra­dit­ed to him or to his British or Amer­i­can boss­es, by those free­dom-lov­ing Arab coun­tries. May the British swine call us ‘meddlers’-in a short time British med­dling in the Mid­dle East will be over, as it has fin­ished in Iraq where the infi­del ser­vants of British impe­ri­al­ism are all killed. I hamd ul allah! . . . the back­ing giv­en by USA to the Jew­ish tyrants in Ger­many will make the Ger­man nation revolt. Indeed, for out nation there is only one hope, to get rid of West­ern impe­ri­al­ism by join­ing the Arab-led anti-impe­ri­al­ist group.”’ (Dream­er of the Day: Fran­cis Park­er Yock­ey and the Post­war Fas­cist Inter­na­tion­al; by Kevin Coogan; Copy­right 1999 [SC]; Autono­me­dia; ISBN 1–57027-039–2; pp. 382–383.)

23. Hun­gar­i­an fas­cist Ist­van Csur­ka held forth in a sim­i­lar vein after the 9/11 attacks. Notice the sim­i­lar­i­ty between the rhetoric of the so-called pro­gres­sive sec­tor and that used by this vir­u­lent, overt fas­cist. By way of fur­ther illus­trat­ing the con­cept of the “vir­tu­al state,” it is worth not­ing that Csur­ka and his polit­i­cal asso­ciates are close­ly iden­ti­fied with the Hun­gar­i­an Arrow Cross move­ment that was allied with Hitler. Both Arrow Cross vet­er­ans and Islam­o­fas­cists are affil­i­at­ed with the Al Taqwa milieu in the Repub­li­can Eth­nic Out­reach orga­ni­za­tion. “Ist­van Csur­ka, the far-right leader, used a com­mem­o­ra­tion of the vic­tims of the New York ter­ror tragedy in the Hun­gar­i­an Par­lia­ment to repeat his dec­la­ra­tion that the ter­ror­ist attacks on the USA were a ‘reac­tion from the oppressed peo­ples of the world against glob­al­iza­tion, exploita­tion and the delib­er­ate geno­cide . . . in Pales­tine.’ ” (“Hun­gary: Arrow Cross Ide­ol­o­gy Revived” by Karl Pfeifer; The Search­light; November/2001 [#317]; p. 32.)

24. Rhetoric sim­i­lar to that used by Von Leers and Csur­ka was employed by Ger­man neo-Nazi Horst Mahler in prais­ing the 9/11 attacks. (It is worth not­ing that Mahler is an asso­ciate of Al Taqwa direc­tor Ahmed Huber, who is also affil­i­at­ed with the NPD-the top Ger­man neo-Nazi par­ty. “One of the most promi­nent extreme Right-wingers in Ger­man pol­i­tics has caused uproar by prais­ing the ter­ror­ist attacks against Amer­i­ca on prime time tele­vi­sion. Horst Mahler, a for­mer mem­ber of the ter­ror­ist Red Army Fac­tion, and now a lead­ing voice in the Nation­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, said Amer­i­ca had got what it deserved and described the vic­tims as ‘col­lat­er­al dam­age.’ Mr. Mahler, a lawyer, was impris­oned dur­ing the 1970s for his ter­ror­ism links. He said on a polit­i­cal opin­ion pro­gram, ‘Panora­ma’: ‘at last the Amer­i­cans have been hit in the heart.’ He described the hijack­ers as ‘war­riors pre­pared to kill them­selves’ in the cause of ‘break­ing the pow­er of mon­ey.’ ” (“Ger­man Right-Winger Applauds Ter­ror­ists” by Toby Helm; Dai­ly Tele­graph; 9/25/2001; accessed at www.news.telegraph.co.uk.)

25. Also illus­tra­tive of the oper­a­tional nature of the “vir­tu­al state” that is the Under­ground Reich is the fol­low­ing very dis­turb­ing alle­ga­tion: that the afore­men­tioned Horst Mahler, along with oth­er neo-Nazis, has infil­trat­ed the Black Bloc, an orga­ni­za­tion that had a strong and impec­ca­bly anti-fas­cist gen­e­sis in Ger­many. Ele­ments of Black Bloc have descend­ed into agent-prova­ca­teur-like activ­i­ty in con­nec­tion with the anti-glob­al­iza­tion protests in Genoa, Italy, in 2001. “They have shaved heads, dress com­plete­ly in black, and wear hoods or ban­danas to dis­guise them­selves. They car­ry long met­al bars to smash ATMs or shop win­dows, and Molo­tov cock­tails to throw at police. They are the most feared group in the anti-glob­al­iza­tion move­ment: Black bloc.” (“ ‘L’In­ter­na­tionale’ of Chaos” by Pino Buon­gio; Panora­ma; 8/2/2001; p. 1.)

26. “Their polit­i­cal ances­try began in the ear­ly eight­ies when Ger­man squat­ters occu­pied thou­sands of aban­doned build­ings in Frank­furt, Ham­burg, and Berlin. The suc­cess of local ‘Auton­o­mis­ten’ in repelling police earned them the name ‘das Schwarz­er Bloc.’ A het­ero­ge­neous move­ment, born in an ‘Autonomous’ envi­ron­ment, Black Bloc lat­er widened to include neo-nazis from the for­mer East Ger­many, includ­ing the shaven heads of ‘Blut und Ehre’ (Blood and Hon­our), ‘die Dreien S’ (SSS), and ‘Gruppe Achtun­dachtzig’ (Group 88). The nazi-skins oppose glob­al­iza­tion in order to defend the Aryan race, as upheld by their ide­o­log­i­cal men­tor, the for­mer Red Army fac­tion ter­ror­ist turned NPD leader, Horst Mahler.)” (Idem.)

27. The Black Bloc was also present at the Jan­u­ary, 2003 anti-war demon­stra­tion in San Fran­cis­co and behaved in a sim­i­lar­ly provoca­tive fash­ion. “The band that broke away from the Jan. 18 peace march along San Fran­cis­co’s Mar­ket Street and spent 35 min­utes van­dal­iz­ing the Finan­cial Dis­trict marked the Bay Area’s intro­duc­tion to ‘black bloc’ protests, police say. The black bloc, named for its activists’ black attire, cou­ples a con­fronta­tion­al style of street protest with anar­chist philoso­phies. It arose in Europe dur­ing the late 1980’s. Amer­i­cans first saw the black bloc in 1999, when black-clad van­dals in masks pro­voked a police coun­ter­at­tack that turned a Seat­tle ral­ly against the World Trade Orga­ni­za­tion into a riot.” (“ ‘Black Bloc’ Pro­test­ers Make their Mark in S.F.” by Tom Abate; San Fran­cis­co Chron­i­cle; 1/27/2003; p. B1.)

28. Ranged oppo­site the anti-glob­al­iza­tion pro­test­ers at Genoa was Gian­fran­co Fini, the head of the Allian­za Nationale. As one grap­ples with the con­cept of the “vir­tu­al state” con­sid­er that Fini heads the suc­ces­sor to Mus­solin­i’s fas­cist par­ty and that the Israeli Likud Par­ty sent a rep­re­sen­ta­tive to that con­fer­ence as did a mem­ber of the US Repub­li­can Par­ty. Fini and his milieu are also con­nect­ed to the Al Taqwa/Muslim Broth­er­hood milieu that views the US and Israel as their mor­tal ene­mies. The Genoa anti-glob­al­iza­tion imbroglio illus­trates in a quin­tes­sen­tial way the con­cept of the Under­ground Reich as a “vir­tu­al state,” and why it con­sti­tutes such an elu­sive and dead­ly foe. Look at the many and var­ied ten­ta­cles of this par­tic­u­lar octo­pus. “The pres­i­dent of Egypt and the deputy prime min­is­ter of Italy have said in recent days that they were aware of a threat from Osama bin Laden’s net­work of Islam­ic ter­ror­ists to kill Pres­i­dent Bush and oth­er lead­ers of the indus­tri­al­ized world when they met at a sum­mit meet­ing in Genoa last July. . .” (“2 Lead­ers Tell Of Plot to Kill Bush in Genoa” by David E. Sanger; The New York Times; 9/26/2001; p. B1.)

29. “Sev­er­al days before Mr. Mubarak’s inter­view, in an appear­ance on Ital­ian tele­vi­sion, Gian­fran­co Fini, the Ital­ian deputy prime min­is­ter, dis­cussed par­al­lels between the attacks on the World Trade Cen­ter and the Pen­ta­gon, and warn­ings his gov­ern­ment had received before the Genoa meet­ing in July.” (Idem.)

30. For a sum­ma­ry analy­sis of the For The Record series on 9/11 and relat­ed top­ics, see FTR#397. The descrip­tion of this broad­cast is peri­od­i­cal­ly updat­ed in order to keep the infor­ma­tion cur­rent.

31. As the prospect of war with Iraq grows more like­ly, one should bear in mind that the “vir­tu­al state” of the Under­ground Reich is present in both the Bush admin­is­tra­tion and Sad­dam Hus­sein’s regime. It will be inter­est­ing to see if this “let’s you and him fight” sce­nario spells doom for the Unit­ed States, through a ter­ror­ist reprisal using weapons of mass destruc­tion and/or eco­nom­ic destruc­tion as a result of the pre­pos­ter­ous eco­nom­ic poli­cies of George W. Bush.

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