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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ThirdEye who wrote (8088)	12/1/2000 7:09:50 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Re: Though I find your stance troubling, I love your style. Troubling but true.... Watching this whole US election mess from Brussels, I guess I've a sort of a special angle on the crisis. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I lean towards the belief that the ongoing gentleman's coup is related to the looming drift between Europe and America. Europeans just loved Clinton because he didn't threaten Europe's reliance on the U.S. Besides, as a "beatnik dodger", Clinton made his Grand Tour and, somehow, got acquainted with European customs and mores.... Furthermore he's been coopted by Bilderberg, that is, a lobby whose professed agenda is to further the transatlantic establishment. Accordingly, under the Clinton administration, the State Department was replete with American Jews --from the State Secretary herself to the lowliest underling.... (not to mention outsourced "escort services" such as the one supplied by Miss Lewinsky) Such a configuration brought about a double advantage: since, historically speaking, most American Jews originate from Europe, their monopoly in the State Department helps Americans to hit it off with their European cousins on the one hand and, on the other, it provides the state of Israel with a friendly, key bastion within the US executive branch.... Obviously, such a transatlantic conspiracy is not a mere camaraderie between Yanks, Frogs, Jerries and Eyeties. As retiring US Ambassador to France Felix Rohatyn would put it (in his latest interview with iht.com), there are over five millions Europeans working for US corporations and vice versa. Transatlantic trade alone amounts to $270 billion annually. And, last but not least, ethnically and ideologically speaking, Europe and North America share a common legacy. Now, bearing the above in mind, it's easy to understand why the corporate establishment --both in Europe and America-- who steadily scoops the transatlantic pool wants to keep it running. From the media behemoths like AOL-TimeWarner-CNN and their German partner Bertelsmann (Hollywood owns a 75% marketshare in European theatres) to Disney Corp. (Eurodisney near Paris and maybe another theme park in Spain) to the merchant banks (who've made a bundle out of the cross-atlantic M&A frenzy) to McDonald's to.... you name it! Enter George W. Bush, a Texas boy born with a silver spoon... At this moment in time, when both European and American leaders start having second thoughts about their mutual faithfulness --as regards trade relations, the euro, the relevance of NATO, etc-- the arrival of an all-American Texas governor on the US political stage is enough to scare our plump Bilderbergers stiff. Not only does would-be Prez Bush not display the elitist features that most Europeans expect from any political leader, but he dared flank himself with two African-Americans as his top advisers in foreign policy! Could it be that, as the son of a former CIA boss (George Bush Sr), Governor Bush's been clued in on the REAL mastermind of the bombing of two US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es-Salaam in 1998? Could it be that he consequently wanted to send the Europeans a message of sorts.... Could it be that Governor Bush is not the pea-brain the (Bilderberg) media have relentlessly made him out to be? Eventually, could it be that, just as the GOP fosters a more inclusive agenda --as regards minorities-- likewise, President Bush hints to the Europeans that a more "inclusive" geopolitics might be at work, that is, a US geopolitics that no longer rests upon the short-sighted carve-up of the Cold War era.... In short, a post-colonial world order? Gus.