{"id":101982,"date":"2018-08-05T13:59:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T17:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101982"},"modified":"2018-08-05T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T18:00:40","slug":"war-of-the-billionaires-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101982","title":{"rendered":"War Of The Billionaires Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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America\u2019s Billionaires Battle Each Other for Political Control over Europe<\/h1>\n

ERIC ZUESSE<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

A contest for\u00a0political\u00a0control\u00a0of\u00a0Europe\u00a0is gearing up between two American teams, one headed by the long-established George Soros, and the\u00a0other\u00a0now being set up by the upstart Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump\u2019s former campaign-manager. Soros has long led America\u2019s liberal\u00a0billionaires\u00a0in controlling\u00a0Europe, and Bannon is now organizing a team of America\u2019s conservative\u00a0billionaires\u00a0to wrest that\u00a0control\u00a0from the liberal ones. Whereas Soros claims to represent the public\u2019s interests, Bannon claims to represent the population\u2019s interests \u2014 that\u2019s the \u2018populist\u2019 side of America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires, versus the established \u2018public-interest\u2019 (Soros) side of them.<\/p>\n

Two American brands of \u2018philanthropists’ will thus now be fighting for control over Europe’s political markets (or institutions).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a\u00a0battle\u00a0to serve either \u2019the public\u2019 or else \u2019the people\u2019, and\u00a0each\u00a0political\u00a0brand will be struggling to keep\u00a0Europe\u00a0as an ally in American\u00a0billionaires\u2019 war against Russia (which all American\u00a0billionaires\u00a0want to defeat)<\/strong>, but\u00a0each\u00a0team does this from a different ideological perspective, one being \u2018liberal\u2019, and the\u00a0other\u00a0being \u2018conservative\u2019.<\/p>\n

Just as there is\u00a0liberal-conservative\u00a0political\u00a0polarization between\u00a0billionaires<\/a>\u00a0domestically within a nation, there also is such\u00a0political\u00a0polarization between\u00a0billionaires\u00a0regarding their given nation\u2019s foreign policies; and America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires\u00a0are politically very highly polarized, both nationally and, increasingly, internationally as well. None of them is progressive, or left-populist. The only \u2018populism\u2019 that any billionaire currently promotes is right-\u2018populist’, which is Bannon\u2019s team. (Stalin was left-\u2018populist\u2019; and Hitler was right-\u2018populist\u2019; but neither dictator really was at all populist, which is simply democratic and against the aristocracy.) Both teams demonize\u00a0each\u00a0other\u00a0within the United States for\u00a0control\u00a0over\u00a0the US Government, but both are now competing against\u00a0each\u00a0other internationally for\u00a0control\u00a0over\u00a0the entire world, by two different brands: liberal versus conservative. Both brands endorse \u2018democracy\u2019 or \u201cthe allies\u201d; and\u00a0both support spreading that \u2018democracy\u2019 by means of invading and occupying \u2018dictatorships\u2019 or \u201cthe enemies.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0In\u00a0Europe, this is called \u201cimperialism\u201d; in America, it is called\u00a0\u201cneo-conservatism\u201d or \u201cneoconservatism\u201d<\/a>; but no American billionaire actively opposes it (because to oppose it would be to oppose the aristocracy itself, the\u00a0billionaires\u2019\u00a0control\u00a0over\u00a0the Government \u2014 the very system that\u00a0has been enormously successful for them, far more than the public itself recognizes<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

After World War II, America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires\u00a0took\u00a0control\u00a0of, first western\u00a0Europe, and, then, after 1990, once the Soviet Union and its communism and its Warsaw Pact military alliance ended, they gradually took all of\u00a0Europe. They did this not only by expanding NATO after 1990 (even as its mirror-organization the Warsaw Pact had disappeared and thus NATO\u2019s nominal\u00a0raison d\u2019etre\u00a0was actually gone) but by means of the EU, which was created in the 1950s as a joint effort by American and European\u00a0billionaires\u00a0and their agents \u2014 all of them being anti-Russian (or, as the public line at the time went, \u2018anti-communist\u2019).\u00a0Their real aim was conquest, first of all absorbing all allies of Russia, and then ultimately of absorbing Russia itself \u2014 complete global conquest.<\/a><\/p>\n

The public announcement of this new war by American\u00a0billionaires\u00a0for\u00a0control\u00a0over\u00a0Europe, appeared on 20 July 2018, in the US neoconservative (i.e., pro-imperialism) neoliberal propaganda-site, The Daily Beast (it\u2019s pro-Soros, anti-Bannon; and so says that Soros has \u201cgiven away $32 billion to liberal causes\u201d instead of \u201cpaid $32 billion to liberal causes\u201d \u2014 for isolating and ultimately defeating Russia). This \u201cliberal\u201d article, against the \u201cconservative\u201d Bannon, opened as follows:<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/inside-bannons-plan-to-hijack-europe-for-the-far-right<\/a><\/p>\n

HELLFIRE CLUB<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Inside Bannon’s Plan to Hijack\u00a0Europe\u00a0for the Far-Right<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bannon is moving to\u00a0Europe\u00a0to set up The Movement, a populist foundation to rival George Soros and spark a right-wing revolt across the continent.<\/em><\/p>\n

NICO HINES 07.20.18 9:57 PM ET<\/em><\/p>\n

LONDON \u2014 Steve Bannon plans to go toe-to-toe with George Soros and spark a right-wing revolution in\u00a0Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s former White House chief advisor told The Daily Beast that he is setting up a foundation in\u00a0Europe\u00a0called The Movement which he hopes will lead a right-wing populist revolt across the continent starting with the European Parliament elections next spring\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

Bannon has spent his career after the US military as an agent for various US\u00a0billionaires, most recently for the ones that backed Donald Trump in the Republican primaries and so bought the Party\u2019s nomination for him. Whereas the chief brain behind Democrat Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign was Google\u2019s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, the chief brain behind Donald Trump\u2019s was Steve Bannon who had been hired for this purpose by billionaire mathematician and private-equity chief Robert Mercer who partnered on the operation with billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel. After Trump won the nomination, Bannon stayed on and his operation came to be funded most by\u00a0the US-Israeli casino billionaire couple, Miriam and Sheldon Adelson<\/a>. But all of the Republican\u00a0billionaires(Jewish, evangelical Christian, and even some otherwise) were big supporters of Israel. Israel, of course, is\u00a0allied with the Sauds<\/a>, who own Saudi Arabia; and both Israel and the Sauds are even more focused on destroying Iran than on destroying Russia (the US aristocracy\u2019s chief goal). Only America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires\u00a0are obsessed to conquer Russia.\u00a0They’ve been that way ever since World War II ended.<\/a><\/p>\n

As the columnist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard accurately summarized in Britain’s\u00a0Telegraph,\u00a0“The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discover\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n

US intelligence funded the European movement secretly for decades, and worked aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into the project.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

As this newspaper first reported when the treasure became available, one memorandum dated July 26, 1950, reveals a campaign to promote a full-fledged European parliament. It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The key CIA front was the American Committee for a United\u00a0Europe\u00a0(ACUE), chaired by Donovan. Another document shows that it provided 53.5 per cent of the European movement’s funds in 1958. The board included Walter Bedell Smith and Allen Dulles, CIA directors in the Fifties, and a caste of ex-OSS officials who moved in and out of the CIA.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bill Donovan, legendary head of the war-time OSS, was later in charge of orchestrating the EU project.<\/em><\/p>\n

Papers show<\/a>\u00a0that it\u00a0<\/em>[ACUE]\u00a0treated some of the EU’s ‘founding fathers’ as hired hands, and actively prevented them finding alternative funding that would have broken reliance on Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is nothing particularly wicked about this. The US acted astutely in the context of the Cold War. The\u00a0political\u00a0reconstruction of\u00a0Europe\u00a0was a roaring success.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, his opinion at the end there isn\u2019t entirely true, because\u00a0at the same time, the CIA was working with thousands of secret Nazi and Fascist agents in\u00a0Europe, whom the OSS had secretly collected and protected at the end of WWII and who continued secretly throughout the Cold War to carry out CIA operations to subvert not just communist agents in\u00a0Europe\u00a0but, even more than that, to subvert democratic agents in\u00a0Europe\u00a0who favored not subordination to the US but instead the democratic sovereignty of Europeans,\u00a0over\u00a0their own land’s politics<\/a>. Therefore, from the very get-go, the EU was a means to impose, upon Europeans,\u00a0control\u00a0by US international corporations, for the benefit of corporate America. That was the overriding purpose of the EU \u2014 subordination to America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires, no authentic democracy. Vassalage within the US empire was and is the goal of them all \u2014 to conquer, first,\u00a0Europe, and then, the world.<\/p>\n

Evans-Pritchard urges his readers: \u201cIn my view, the Brexit camp should be laying out plans to increase UK defence spending by half to 3pc of GDP, pledging to propel Britain into the lead as the undisputed military power of\u00a0Europe.\u201d This pro-imperialist view of his,\u00a0is an extension of that by Cecil Rhodes late in the 1800s, for a UK-US global empire in which those two imperial powers \u2014 the old one and the new one \u2014 would gradually take\u00a0control\u00a0over\u00a0the entire world. George Soros has been working for that objective feverishly.<\/a>\u00a0Steve Bannon is against that \u2018internationalist\u2019 viewpoint, and he favors instead the \u2018nationalist\u2019 one, but in both the liberal and the conservative versions, America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires\u00a0will take in an increasing proportion of the world\u2019s wealth. The contest between these two teams is\u00a0over\u00a0how best to achieve this objective.<\/p>\n

There is also a second reason why America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires\u00a0are rabid against today\u2019s Russia, above and beyond that of America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires\u00a0demanding to\u00a0control\u00a0the world. This reason is that,\u00a0under Vladimir Putin, Russia\u2019s policy has been to demand that all\u00a0billionaires, both domestic and foreign, accept that in Russia, the welfare of the Russian public takes precedence\u00a0over\u00a0and above the welfare of any and all\u00a0billionaires<\/a>. This is a principle that\u00a0billionaires\u00a0everywhere, and especially the American ones who prior to Putin\u2019s leadership were robbing the Russian federal treasury, cannot tolerate. So: in siding with America\u2019s\u00a0billionaires, Europeans have been siding also with\u00a0billionaires\u00a0as a class \u2014 siding with the super-rich \u2014 against the public, everywhere. Why would Europeans be doing such a thing? Aren\u2019t they supposed to have at least some degree of choice in such a matter? Aren\u2019t they supposed to live in a democracy?<\/p>\n

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