-- begin forwarded message: -- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:24:14 +0900 From: Hendrik To: Multiple recipients of NETSOURCE-LSubject: [NS] Colony USA (add Canada to that) Excerpts from an article at by Samuel L. Blumenfeld, available at WorldNetDaily.com [...] In a column several weeks ago, we expressed the opinion that the real target of NATO is not puny Yugoslavia, but that huge continental expanse known as Russia. [...] As we all know, NATO is not a global charity. Humanitarianism is merely a convenient propaganda front [...]. What is really at stake is not ethnic harmony, but enormous economic wealth in the form of oil and other minerals. NATO is the military front for the Council on Foreign Relations, which is supported by such corporate giants as Chase Manhattan, Exxon, United Technologies, Lucent, Xerox, AT&T, J.P. Morgan, Chevron, Texaco, Shell, Newsweek, Time Warner, Mobil, Pennzoil, and a hundred more companies. [...] Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of U.S. News and World Report, is a member of the CFR. He frequently writes editorials in his magazine. The May 10 editorial is entitled "The big game gets bigger. Russia will gain wealth and influence if it controls Caspian Sea oil." After taking note of Russia's present weakness in Europe, he writes, "But in southern Eurasia, off the political radar of the West, Russia is making much of its limited resources in a region of weaker states where it still retains influence and remains welcome . We had better wake up to the dangers or one day the certainties on which we base our prosperity will be certainties no more." Apparently, the oil and gas reserves in that area of the world are valued up to $4 trillion, and that's why NATO is venturing so far off its North Atlantic base to form partnerships with those Eurasian nations that sit on that wealth. NATO and its CFR corporate sponsors want to be able to use American military assets to assure their ability to control that area should there be "ethnic disharmony" or "human rights violations." Who would be the enemy in that area? Zuckerman writes, "The competition for dominance in the Caspian will be the 21st century version of the 19th century covert duel between the Russian and British empires for control of central Asia." Zuckerman asks, "What are we doing about it?" His solution: "The first and most critical strategic step is clearly for the United States to ensure that multiple pipelines will be built out of the Caspian region, including at least one main export pipeline that would go through Turkey, a crucial ally." Aha, now we know why NATO is not concerned over how Turkey is treating its Kurdish dissidents. Forget about humanitarianism and ethnic cleansing. We need Turkey for NATO's Eurasian strategy. Finally, Zuckerman writes, "There is anxiety that American opposition to Russia might play into the hands of the even more undemocratic and anti-Western nationalist politicians waiting for a crisis in Moscow. These are reasonable arguments -- but make no mistake about it, the risks pale by comparison with the risks we run if Russia wins the biggest game while we sit on the sidelines." There you have it in a nutshell. We must risk nuclear World War III in order to gain political and military control of natural resources on Russia's borders. I wonder how we would feel if a group of foreign powers, armed with bombers and nuclear missiles, began surrounding the United States with its intention of gaining control over the natural resources in our backyard. What has actually happened is that America has become a colony of NATO, which can now use American men and women and our military assets to carry out its Strategic Concept without the consent of the American people, forcibly paid for by the American taxpayer. Is there a better definition of a colony? Meanwhile, we'd better start asking on what do we base our prosperity? On the resources of other nations, or on economic freedom and the resourcefulness of the American people? Mort Zuckerman has got it wrong. We don't need to control everybody else's resources in order to be prosperous. [...] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subscription information, appended by the listserver: * if you want to leave this list please send an empty message to <leave-netsource-list@hiz.bc.ca> * if you know someone who wants to join this list, please tell them to send an empty message to <join-netsource-list@hiz.bc.ca> ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- end forwarded message --