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Talk of oligarchs might tend to conjure pictures of mediaeval feu- Quigley also informs us that the ruling class has a very low opin- dal lords. However, a Federal Reserve study points out to elitism ion of the common people. He voices this elitist sentiment when he being alive, well, and existing in the "Land of the Free", the United — refers to the commoners as "the petty bourgeoisie..." (pp. States. In his Secrets of the Temple, former Washington Post editor 1243-1244). William Greider quotes the study (p. 39): So why is the great mass of human civilisation unaware of the oli- ...54 percent of the total net financial assets were held by the 2 garchs' presence among them? In The Architecture of Modern percent of families with the greatest amount of such assets and 86 _ Political Power, Daniel Pouzzner explains why (p. 16): percent by the top 10 percent; 55 percent of the families in the sam - The establishment cloaks itself in cultural camouflage, employing ple had zero or negative net worth... tactics for which it almost seamlessly maintains plausible deniabili - This concentration of wealth in so few hands certainly suggests ty. Subtle, ubiquitous, often implicit propaganda fosters a broad that there is a ruling class. It is highly naive to believe that this elite public acceptance and embrace of the authority of the establish - does not wield a great deal of influence over civilisation. In her ment, and of the establishment's definitions of good and evil, pre - book, Beyond The Ruling Class: Strategic Elites In Modern Society, venting the public from seriously contemplating the reality that the Professor Suzanne Keller states (p. 3): establishment is itself quite often evil by its own definition. The The notion of a stratum elevated above the mass of men may establishment reiterates the mantra that the President of the United prompt approval, indifference, or despair, but regardless of how States is "the leader of the free world", but a free world has no men feel about it, the fact remains that their lives, fortunes, and fate leader. The President of the United States is simply the most obvi - are and have long been dependent on what a small number of men ous spearhead of the authority of the establishment. He gathers in high places think and do. strength at the expense of the world's freedom. Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency William Generally, an errant public attributes the results of the establish - Colby recognised the existence of a network of bluebloods. When — ment's meddlesome actions to happenstance, or to motives viewed former Nebraska Senator and Vietnam as essentially innocuous or virtuous. The War hero John W. DeCamp was looking design is irrefutably evident only in the into elites' involvement in child abuse, pattern of results, or by actually show - drug running, gun running, and satanic ing proof of meddling. The public has ritual-murder, Colby warned him of the . been systemically conditioned to ignore hidden aristocracy and their power The connections between such patterns and to condemn those (DeCamp, pp. ix-x): the bin Laden and the Bush who draw attention to them (derisively "What you have to understand, John, “— . calling them "conspiracy theorists"). is that sometimes there are forces and families do not end with Thus, controlling access to and dissem - events too big, too powerful, with so Arbusto Energy. ination of information that constitutes much at stake for other people or institu - proof of meddling suffices in large part tions, that you cannot do anything about to protect the establishment program them, no matter how evil or wrong they from exposure. The compartmentaliza - are and no matter how dedicated or sin - tion of the establishment's covert appa - cere you are or how much evidence you ratus assures that those exposures have. That is simply one of the hard facts of life you have to face. which do transpire cause only limited damage. You have done your part. You have tried to expose the evil and wrongdoing. It has hurt you terribly. But it has not killed you up to Bush/Bin Laden Family Links this point. I am telling you, get out of this before it does. Are there any ties between the power elites and the current terror- "Sometimes things are just too big for us to deal with, and we ist network? The answer to that question lies with the Bush have to step aside and let history take its course." dynasty. Neither Bush Senior nor Bush Junior can be described as Probably the greatest source of "insider" information comes from Presidents in the Lincoln tradition. They do not come from lower Oxford professor (and mentor to former President Bill Clinton) the class backgrounds and modest upbringings. Webster Tarpley and late Carroll Quigley. After being close to the pro-British, Anton Chaitkin's in-depth investigation of George Senior led them Anglophile faction of the elite, Quigley wrote (p. 950): to propose the following in their excellent book, George Bush: The There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an internation - _ Unauthorized Biography (p. 9): al Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way One of our basic theses is that George Bush [Senior] is, and con - the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, siders himself to be, an oligarch. which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion In an article for the London Daily Mail, Peter Allen points out a to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and fre - connection between George W. Bush and Osama's brother, Salem quently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I __ bin Laden (pp. 1-2): have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in Incredibly, Salem went on to become a business partner of the the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. Ihaveno __man who is leading the hunt for his brother. In the 1970s, he and aversion to it and to many of its aims and have, for much of my life, George W. Bush were founders of the Arbusto Energy oil company been close to it and to many of its instruments. in Mr Bush's home state of Texas. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its poli - As he built his own business empire, Salem bin Laden had an cies (notably to its belief that England was an Atlantic rather than a intriguing relationship with the President-to-be. In 1978, he European Power and must be allied, or even federated, with the appointed James Bath, a close friend of Mr Bush who served with United States and must remain isolated from Europe), but in gener - him in the Air National Guard, as his representative in Houston, al my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain Texas. It was in that year that Mr Bath invested $50,000...in Mr unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be 7 known ry is signif 8 Continued on page 74 Bush/Bin Laden Family Links Are there any ties between the power elites and the current terror- ist network? The answer to that question lies with the Bush dynasty. Neither Bush Senior nor Bush Junior can be described as Presidents in the Lincoln tradition. They do not come from lower class backgrounds and modest upbringings. Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin's in-depth investigation of George Senior led them to propose the following in their excellent book, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (p. 9): One of our basic theses is that George Bush [Senior] is, and con - siders himself to be, an oligarch. In an article for the London Daily Mail, Peter Allen points out a connection between George W. Bush and Osama's brother, Salem bin Laden (pp. 1-2): Incredibly, Salem went on to become a business partner of the man who is leading the hunt for his brother. In the 1970s, he and George W. Bush were founders of the Arbusto Energy oil company in Mr Bush's home state of Texas. As he built his own business empire, Salem bin Laden had an intriguing relationship with the President-to-be. In 1978, he appointed James Bath, a close friend of Mr Bush who served with him in the Air National Guard, as his representative in Houston, Texas. It was in that year that Mr Bath invested $50,000...in Mr 16 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2003 The connections between the bin Laden and the Bush families do not end with Arbusto Energy. Continued on page 74 www.nexusmagazine.com