The Bush Family Are America's Romanovs

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The Bush Family Are America's Romanovs

From the time of the poisoning of Catherine the Great's husband in 1762 until the Czar and his family were shot in a cellar after the 1917 October Revolution, Russia was ruled by Prussian and Hapsburgian nobles. Today, we would call them Germans. For two centuries, Russia was essentially a huge feudal estate run by and for a small group of Baltic German aristocrats, who maintained their grip on power despite a series of disastrous wars by an efficient secret police. Until the Bolsheviks, the resistance movement was largely ineffectual, riddled with agents provocateur who carried out bombings and outrageous acts of international terrorism. Its democratic opposition thus discredited, Russian autocrats held power for decades after dynastic rule disappeared in most of the other major powers.

Move forward to the end of World War Two. For the second time in a quarter-century, German imperial ambitions have just been reduced to ruins by the western powers and the United States. Russia has thrown off its occupiers and emerged as the Soviet Superpower. It carves off the Eastern half of Germany and the Austrio-Hungarian empires as its own colonial holdings. If you're a German aristocrat, what do you do? You call on your old friends, the Dulles Brothers and the Harrimans.

At the end of the First World War, John Foster and Allen Dulles became Germany's outside counsel through their Wall Street firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, a law firm that had already earned its reputation as "the CIA before there was a CIA." Sulivan & Cromwell, along with William Donovan's competing firm across the street, represented virtually every American corporation doing business in Germany, including Brown Brothers Harriman, the employer of Herbert Walker and Prescott Bush, who are tapped to manage Union Trust Bank, the American holding of German Industrialist and banker Fritz Thyssen. Fritz was head of the German steel trust, the earliest large corporate contributor to the emerging Nazi Party.

Come 1942, Union Trust Bank is seized along with other American subsidiaries of German companies managed by Walker and Bush. Other Sullivan & Cromwell clients, including Standard Oil and DuPont Chemical are investigated by the Custodian of Enemy Property for continuing to trade with Nazi Germany, with which the U.S. is now at war. With good lawyers, nobody goes to jail, and the New York Times buries the story.

John Foster Dulles stays in New York, where he is the Chairman of the Republican National Committee while his brother Allen heads to Switzerland where he will run the OSS office in Bern, the Swiss banking capital which continues to service both sides during the war.

Come the end of World War Two, the Republicans take control of Congress, and narrowly miss winning the 1948 Presidential election. In 1950, Prescott Bush receives a plum from Dulles and is appointed to fill the seat of a retiring GOP Senator from New York. John Foster becomes Ike's Secretary of State and Allen is appointed Director or Central Intelligence two years later. Under the Dulles Bros., America enters a Cold War with the Soviet Union, which almost results in a nuclear exchange after a failed invasion of Cuba and the discovery of nuclear weapons on Cuban soil.

Move forward to 1974. George Herbert Walker Bush, former oilman, Ambassador to China, and head of the Republican National Committee, is appointed CIA Director. He is tapped to be Ronald Reagan's running mate in 1980. With money provided by Islamic bankers and drug barons, he sets up something called the Enterprise, a sort of private CIA, from which the Iran-Contra operation is run, and an army of loyal political dirty-trickster and enforcers are trained and maintained. Despite the scandal, he is elected the 41st President in 1988. Bush invades Iraq in 1992, but rather than occupy the country, Saddam Hussein is left in power.

As the Reagan-Bush era unfolds, another dynasty is nurtured. After the death of Avarell Harriman, his widow Pamela (who had earlier divorced the son of Winston Churchill), by force of charm and deep pockets assumes the role of Grand Dame and kingmaker of the Democratic Party, which she steers to the Right, mentoring a talented and compromised couple into the White House.

That brings us, finally, to George W. Bush, like his father an unsuccessful oilman with huge debts held by the Arabs, is appointed President by the Republican dominated Supreme Court in 2000. The GOP takes control of every branch of government. Following claims that Saddam Hussein is developing nuclear weapons, the US occupies Iraq, and the occupation sinks into a costly mire of continued resistance, casualties, and scandalous payouts to companies aligned with the Administration and the Republican Party. The US economy stagnates, and its industrial base and technology industries are transferred offshore to China and India. American government collapses into a One-Party police state under the guise of an endless "War on Terrorism". That war is started after a former friend of the Bush family and ex-CIA operative organizes a spectacular terrorist attack that topples the tallest buildings on Wall Street. America teeters on the brink of dictatorship, political upheaval, and economic crash, as inflated US assets are bought up, jobs destroyed, and profits sent abroad.

The Bush Dynasty, like the Romanovs before them, are essentially resident managers of a large colony owned by foreign speculators. The Bushes are an alien dynasty kept in power by secret police in order to pay off endless war debts. The future comes down to a race between a determined prosecutor and those within the cabal pushing a yet more devastating and costly war.

Mark G. Levey, 2006