A British Lynx 2 helicopter.(AFP Photo)
Democracy had another near-fatal stroke, and the military industrial
complex further tightened UK defense spending with the appointment of
ex-army officer and Tory hothead Rory Stewart MP as the new chairman of
Westminster’s Defence Select Committee.
Last week the Home Affairs Select Committee delivered a damning
verdict on Britain's defense and secret service oversight, on
taxpayer accountability. It said the refusal of the director
general of MI5, Andrew Parker, to appear before them and lack of
any effective supervision was
"undermining the credibility of
the intelligence agencies and parliament itself."
Surely nothing could surpass the
‘Dodgy Dossier', the
criminal conspiracy that led to the US and Britain, as the Arab
League put it in 2003, to
'Opening the Gates of Hell in
Iraq'? But with Stuart's appointment to oversee public
scrutiny of UK military spending just two weeks before NATO's
political cabal of which he's a member, the Bilderberg
conference, meets in Copenhagen later this month, it is clear to
those who still have eyes to see that those bloody lessons have
not been learned and the worse could be yet to come.
The most powerful private club in the world
In their Christmas 1987 edition, The Economist described
Bilderberg as
‘Ne Plus Ultra’ the most powerful private
club in the world. Its power has certainly not diminished as the
decades have rolled by and neither has its secrecy. Although it
began with trades unionists and powerful people it wanted to
persuade, in its final days Bilderberg has boiled down to a
rotten core of bankers, royalty, arms industry, oil and media
barons and Rory Stuart MP, in the tradition of Kissinger, Blair,
Cameron, Osborne and Balls, has thrown his lot in with them.
In 1943, half way through the war, the US power elite saw that,
barring any big surprises, Hitler was going to lose World War
Two, so their
‘War And Peace Studies Group’ of the
Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) quietly began to prepare the
Marshall Plan for the post-war world. Alongside the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS), a sizable budget was set aside to fund
a range of activities which would ensure Europeans didn't vote
communist and were welded economically, culturally and
politically to the US for the foreseeable future.
British
soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Nick Lock (C) checks his equipment before
conducting a patrol with soldiers of the 1st Batallion of the Royal
Welsh in streets of Showal in Nad-e-Ali district, Southern Afghanistan,
in Helmand Province.(AFP Photo / Thomas Coex )
Born in a Nazi ‘witches cauldron’ of British blood
Bilderberg's first chairman, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands,
was born into the German aristocracy. He joined the Nazi party at
university, then the SS but he married into the Dutch royal
family, dropping the silver deaths-head and black SS uniform
before the war. His newly adopted Holland was invaded by his old
Nazi friends in 1941, so he fled to Britain with Dutch Queen
Wilhelmina and his wife, Princess Juliana.
As a former SS officer he was scrutinized by the Admiralty's
wartime spymaster, Ian Fleming who, after a year of watching
Bernhard, signed him to the British army as a trusted Dutch
liaison officer.
With 1944 came one of Bernhard’s most important jobs: to
supervise the Dutch underground in the run-up to September's
liberation of large parts of Holland. Field Marshall Montgomery’s
audacious airborne operation, the biggest in history, depicted in
Cornelius Ryan’s 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, was codenamed
'Market Garden' and intended to end the war by Christmas.
As liaison officer for the coming Arnhem deliverance, Bernhard
sent in Dutch spy, Christiaan Lindemans, codename 'King Kong',
ten days beforehand to prepare resistance fighters for the allies
lunge through Eindhoven, Nijmegen and over the Rhein into Arnhem.
But instead of making contact with the Dutch underground,
Bernhard’s
'King Kong' found some German soldiers and
demanded to be taken straight to the Abwehr, German military
intelligence. The allies’ plans for the airborne assault were in
enemy hands because Bernhard’s precious Lindemans was a double
agent. He had wrecked the allies’ all-important element of
surprise.
‘King Kong’ was arrested and quizzed after the war by
the British but never got a chance to tell his story because,
under Dutch orders, he was whisked off to Germany and died in
suspicious circumstances.
Operation Market Garden went ahead on Sunday September 17, 1944,
but the British paratroopers at Arnhem were quickly split and
surrounded by forces containing self-propelled guns, tanks and
crack SS troops, who happened to be resting nearby. Frost's 2nd
battalion held on to the bridge leaving the rest of the 1st
Airborne Division surrounded in what the Nazis called the
Hexenkessel or 'witches cauldron', pinned down in the suburb of
Oosterbeek.
On Wednesday 20 September, 1944, as British airborne Colonel John
Frost’s remaining paratroopers were being mauled by SS Panzers at
Arnhem Bridge, the tanks of the Grenadier Guards, along with US
paratroopers, were tantalizingly close, destroying the last
German defenses down the road in Nijmegen. Ironically, it was a
young captain, who was also to chair the Bilderberg meetings in
later life, Lord Peter Carrington, who was leading the Grenadier
battle group of Sherman tanks as they took the penultimate
bridge. At 8 o'clock that evening, he was just a 20-minute drive
from reinforcing Frost at the Arnhem Bridge, and victory.
But although they still had eight hours or so before Arnhem
Bridge would finally fall into German hands, Carrington’s force,
along with the Irish guards, of a hundred or so tanks
inexplicably stopped, just over the Nijmegen Bridge in the
village of Lent, for an eighteen hour rest. After the war, 10 SS
Panzer Division General Heinz Harmel mocked Carrington saying,
“The British tanks made a mistake when they stayed in Lent.
If they had carried on it would have been all over for us.”
'Colonel Frost later put the blame,' as Stuart Hills
reports in
'By Tank To Normandy',
'firmly on the
lack of drive by Guards Armoured,' of which Carrington's
Grenadiers were the spearhead.
'Comparing their relatively
light casualties with those suffered by the British 1st Airborne
and US 82nd. Forty years later,' in 1984, 'he stood on the
bridge at a reunion, shook his fist and roared a question into
the air for the guards.
'Do you call that fighting!'
So Bilderberg’s first 1954 venue in Oosterbeek, Holland, was
highly significant, being the same spot where a decade before the
British army had suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in of one of
the last Nazi bloodbaths of World War II. Bernhard had given the
game away and when it looked like, despite his treachery, the
brave allied soldiers might pull it off, Carrington and his corps
of tanks ground to a halt for an eighteen hour tea break.
AFP Photo / Dan Chung
Psychos always return to the scene of the crime
Like the psychopath, who feels compelled to return to the scene
of the crime, Prince Bernhard returned to Oosterbeek to chair the
inaugural Bilderberg meeting in 1954. The conferences led to the
signing of the Treaty of Rome, which started the European
Economic Community (EEC) three years later.
Surrounded by the great and good of the post war world, the
prince hoped nobody would examine his reasons for choosing
Oosterbeek. At the best it was an in-joke – at the worst the
battle was thrown. Whatever way you look at it sixty years on,
the coded message from that first Bilderberg meeting should be
clear to us now. Ten years after the war, the Nazis were back.
The seventy year Bilderberg project is almost complete
So seventy years since the Arnhem slaughter and sixty years since
the first Bilderberg conference, the EEC has become the EU.
NATO's new feudal oligarchy of Western banksters and
multinationals own and control all the big political parties as
well as almost everything that moves both sides of the Atlantic.
Some saw it coming: former SS general Paul Hausser, who became
chief of HIAG, the German SS veterans group after the war,
claimed that
"the foreign units of the SS were really the
precursors of the NATO army." Others detailed the Nazis'
transformation from military to financial empire including former
CBS News correspondent Paul Manning in his 1981 book 'Martin
Bormann Nazi in Exile'.
Bilderberg’s latest wheeze is the Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership (TTIP). This treaty makes voting pointless
by letting multinationals sue governments and will leave only the
thinnest veneer of democracy for the mainstream media to chew on
both in Europe and America. The ‘nation states’ will become mere
prefectures and the European Commission will be the unelected
government of the United States of Europe.
As ordinary people across Europe and America cry out for decent
basic standards such as fresh water, food, shelter, healthcare,
heating and full employment, the mainstream media barely hear
them because this is not the Bilderberg way. Instead, these
pinstriped fascists bury us in debt, steal our leisure time,
erode quality time with children, friends and family, and then
blame us for demanding a fair share of the rewards of human
progress.
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