On Oil, the military industrial complex, and international financial monopolies

 

Ed also controlled the money that went in and out of the Democratic National Committee, and it was Ed that put Harry Truman in office for his second term. And I realize that the notion of one man, or a small group of men, being powerful enough to put leaders of countries in office, sounds repugnant. But it has been happening for thousands of years. 

 

Nevertheless, it would have been extremely difficult to find a wiser man in such a particular position of power than Ed Pauley. He did the right thing, and so did Harry Truman. Those were different days and circumstances when there were only about 2,300 million people on our planet, and it appeared much larger then because of the lack of population, education, and travel and communication technologies. For instance, only at that unique moment in world history, could Truman's atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have ended a war that would have been fought to the last man, and saved thousands of American and Japanese lives, and wherein the radioactive contamination and blowback over the jet stream to the United states contained only a fraction, only a fraction, of the radiation that the United States and Japan have incurred thus far from the Fukushima nuclear energy plant tragedy. 

 

Given what we now know about the serious environmental consequences of nuclear weapons, even though the bombing of civilian populations was practiced by all nations participating in World War II, the perpetrators of any such acts today should be brought to trial as war criminals. 

 

With regard to Ed Pauley's politics, he was neither really a Democrat or a Republican. He happened to have been in a position to have a strong influence in guiding the future of American policy, and he would have been in that position no matter what party was in power. Together, with his Office of Strategic Services friend Allen Dulles, he reallocated the assets of the defeated Axis powers and helped achieve stability after the war. His oil corporations later joined with those of the Bush family, and many of the familiar oil distribution corporations today such as Penzoil, owe their existence to Pauley. 

 

But lately, I have seen books, and internet articles, and a Wikipedia page, about an Ed Pauley that I never knew. For instance, while he was a Cold War warrior and an opponent of Communism, I have seen of late, statements attributed to him that would indicate he was against free speech, and that characterization, apparently drawn from documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, is just totally wrong. It makes me wonder sometimes what would be the shortest time span for the public mind to shift regarding a world history that has in large part never even happened. 

 

At any rate, it is not necessarily the organizations of the world which need to be replaced. They simply need to be continually reformed, or refocused upon their original charters, and as difficult as it may appear, improved by fresh new blood and direction. And as I mentioned before, I have just been speaking about very different times, and were Ed Pauley alive today, it would prove invaluable to have his clear headed thinking toward getting the drunken oil, military industrial congressional complex, and financial power genies back inside their little bottles. 

 

 

 

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