No,
I answered; the only purpose of those million-dollar ads
is to keep the station from featuring stories that show plastics in a bad light. Another example: Archer Daniels Midland doesn't
dump millions
of dollars into National Public Radio because it's a good citizen or because it
will help convince you to buy half a ton of lycine from them, but rather to
keep NPR on a leash. It's simply a
disguised kind of payoff that allows them to continue to profit handsomely from
getting away with murder.
Similarly,
the mainstream media is afraid to acknowledge that our war in Iraq was a
complete and total waste of three trillion dollars and three thousand American
lives, and that it will cost us another trillion or two just to take care of
the many thousands of wounded and disabled vets for the next 50 years -- vets
who are committing suicide at a higher rate than they were killed in the war
when they were on active duty. So how
long will it be before we get into another such war? After all, wars are so very profitable for
many of our major corporations, who have always been willing to betray us at
the drop of a hat. They always have been and they always will
be. No?
You don't think so?
Read
"Trading with the Enemy,"
by Charles Higham for the full story of the sordid dealings of much of America's
corporate elite with the Nazis, both before and throughout the war, and the punishments
that were meted out -- to those who tried to expose the Nazi-American
connection!
Excerpts from the preface of that book
Several
of the greatest American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi
corporations before and after Pearl Harbor.
Among those corporations our corporate leaders collaborated with were I.G.
Farben, the colossal Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. Our corporate leaders interlocked through an
association I have dubbed The Fraternity. Each of these US business leaders was
entangled with the others through interlocking directorates or financial sources. All were represented internationally by the
National City Bank [today's Citibank] or by the Chase National Bank and by the Nazi attorneys Gerhardt
Westrick and Dr. Heinrich Albert. All
had connections to that crucial Nazi economist, Emil Puhl, of Hitler's Reichsbank
and the Bank for International Settlements.
"Our
tycoons were linked by an ideology known
as the ideology of Business as Usual. Bound
by identical reactionary ideas, the members sought a common future in fascist
domination, regardless of which world leader might further that ambition. (Hitler's face even appeared on
the cover of Time Magazine as "Man of the Year" in 1939.
"Several
members of The Fraternity not only
sought a continuing alliance of interests for the duration of World War II but
supported the idea of a negotiated peace with Germany that would bar any
reorganization of Europe along liberal lines.
It would leave as its residue a police state that would place "The Fraternity" in postwar possession of
financial, industrial, and political autonomy.
When it was clear that Germany was losing the war the businessmen became
notably more "loyal." Then,
when war was over, the survivors pushed into Germany, protected their assets,
restored Nazi friends to high office, helped provoke the Cold War, and thereby insured
the permanent financial future of The
Fraternity.
"To
this day the vast majority of Americans have no idea that The Fraternity ever existed.
The government smothered all information about it, during and even (inexcusably)
after the war. After all, what would
have happened if millions of American and British people, struggling with
coupons and lines at the gas stations, had learned that in 1942 Standard Oil of
New Jersey managers shipped the enemy's fuel through neutral Switzerland and
that the Nazis were operating their army on American fuel? Suppose the public had discovered that the
Chase Bank in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl Harbor was doing millions of
dollars' worth of business with the Nazis, with the full knowledge of Chase's
head office in Manhattan? Or that Ford trucks were being built for the German
occupation troops in France with full authorization from Dearborn, Michigan?
Or that Colonel Sosthenes Behn, the head
of the international American telephone conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to
Madrid to Berne during the war to
help improve Hitler's communications systems and improve the robot bombs that devastated
London? Or that ITT helped build the Focke Wulf fighter planes that dropped bombs on,
and strafed, British and American troops? Or that hundreds of thousands of strategically-important
ball bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated customers in Latin America with
the collusion of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production Board operating in
partnership with Herman Goring's cousin in Philadelphia -- when American military machine manufacturers were desperately short of
them? Or that all these arrangements were known about in Washington and
either sanctioned or deliberately ignored?
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