It's not a conspiracy, it's a web of cognoscenti
Trace the ever spinning webs of the capitalist cognoscenti. Identify the links between people, foundations, government, finance, commodities and industry.
BP joined with a shard of the most notorious oil company in history, Standard Oil, to form BP Amoco, now called BP. Both companies took refuge in greenwash, generating a touchy feely "eco" green flower logo. John Brown oversaw the merger before his protege Tony Hayward took over.
BP joined with a shard of the most notorious oil company in history, Standard Oil, to form BP Amoco, now called BP. Both companies took refuge in greenwash, generating a touchy feely "eco" green flower logo. John Brown oversaw the merger before his protege Tony Hayward took over.
The people living in the US and Mexican states that border the Gulf of Mexico will soon be able to touch and feel BPs eco-credentials when leaking oil from the burst undersea pipelines spills onto their shores.
Peter Sutherland, a hero of progressive capitalist imperialismThe Board Members of BP are:[41]
- Peter Sutherland, KCMG – Chairman of BP, board of Goldman Sachs
- Sir Ian Prosser – Non-executive director
- Byron Grote – Chief Financial Officer
- Andy Inglis – Chief executive, Exploration and Production
- Antony Burgmans – Non-executive director, board of Mauritshuis, AEGON, Unilever
- Cynthia Carroll – Non-executive director, CEO of Anglo American, also board of De Beers
- Sir William Castell – Non-executive director chairman of The Prince’s Trust
- George David – Non-executive director
- Tony Hayward – CEO/MD BP Worldwide
- Ian Conn
- George David vice-chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Erroll Davis, board of General Motors and Union Pacific.
- Douglas J Flint, CBE director HSBC
- Dr DeAnne Julius, director of Chatham House
Wikipedia
Peter Sutherland is special, but to understand the obvious power and influence that individuals can wield and understand the influence they can have on events then take a look at his biography. He is credited with being the driving force behind the creation of the Word Trade Organisation . He is on the steering committee of the Bilderburg group. He is a non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Capitalism is not supine, it is not a machine, it is sentient, it is Hobbsian and it still has a close grip on the reins of history.
Peter Sutherland is special, but to understand the obvious power and influence that individuals can wield and understand the influence they can have on events then take a look at his biography. He is credited with being the driving force behind the creation of the Word Trade Organisation . He is on the steering committee of the Bilderburg group. He is a non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Capitalism is not supine, it is not a machine, it is sentient, it is Hobbsian and it still has a close grip on the reins of history.
The subject of history is the haute bourgeoisie aristocracy represented by Peter Sutherland. But, inevitably, when we become men and women of action ultimately it backfires a little and we parody ourselves. Caricaturing himself as a conspiracist, Peter Sutherland, stupidly associated himself closely with the University of Navarre, raising suspicions that he was a fellow traveller of the Opus Dei. He probably is, but why be so open about it?
Shirley DeAnne Julius worked for the CIA and works for Chatham House. Then you've got "Cyanide" Cynthia. George David is also vice Chairman of the Peterson Foundation and was named by Forbes as "one of America's most powerful people", admittedly it was a while ago.
Other members of the BP board are also on the board of GLAXO and GE. They "advise" governments from the masked neutrality of sinecures in universities , foundations and think tanks.
Here, at the apex of BP we see the people at the top of the social Darwinian human food chain: the ones that cavilling philosophers like A.C. Grayling refer to "heroic entrepreneurs".
As a joke, in response to a bathetic Guardian comment article on Jaffa cakes, I quickly googled up the ownership of Jaffa Cakes and traved them to Peter George Peterson owner of Blackstone. On a black rock he built his empire. Read his wiki biography and feel your skin creep a little.
BP
B and P are now officially shorn of the name British Petroleum, 23 years after Thatcher privatised the national oil company. In fact, according to Lord Browne the former CEO, in an interview on Radio 4, B.P. is now more of a US corporation, despite the slight of hand trick of a London headquarters.
That's where our national family silver went. However, believe it or not, the board of BP are actually linked to the more enlightened assemblage of the US elite and not its brutish rump. In capitalist-imperialist land the BP board are positively pinkos.
Get real?
This is a world where, if you gain entry to it and you see the alignment of forces at the highest level, you shit yourself at the understanding of what some of the nastiest elements in power are capable of and you quickly start batting for the progressive imperialist capitalists - for the people Clinton and Obama represent - against the capitalists forces with the more raw and bestial instincts.
Then you turn round insolently, and say to your saddened, but still idealistic NGO friends and revolutionary strugglers and truth seeking academics and say:
"Get real Guys."
What a repulsive thing to say "Little Man" (grown big).
Shirley DeAnne Julius worked for the CIA and works for Chatham House. Then you've got "Cyanide" Cynthia. George David is also vice Chairman of the Peterson Foundation and was named by Forbes as "one of America's most powerful people", admittedly it was a while ago.
Other members of the BP board are also on the board of GLAXO and GE. They "advise" governments from the masked neutrality of sinecures in universities , foundations and think tanks.
Here, at the apex of BP we see the people at the top of the social Darwinian human food chain: the ones that cavilling philosophers like A.C. Grayling refer to "heroic entrepreneurs".
As a joke, in response to a bathetic Guardian comment article on Jaffa cakes, I quickly googled up the ownership of Jaffa Cakes and traved them to Peter George Peterson owner of Blackstone. On a black rock he built his empire. Read his wiki biography and feel your skin creep a little.
BP
B and P are now officially shorn of the name British Petroleum, 23 years after Thatcher privatised the national oil company. In fact, according to Lord Browne the former CEO, in an interview on Radio 4, B.P. is now more of a US corporation, despite the slight of hand trick of a London headquarters.
That's where our national family silver went. However, believe it or not, the board of BP are actually linked to the more enlightened assemblage of the US elite and not its brutish rump. In capitalist-imperialist land the BP board are positively pinkos.
Get real?
This is a world where, if you gain entry to it and you see the alignment of forces at the highest level, you shit yourself at the understanding of what some of the nastiest elements in power are capable of and you quickly start batting for the progressive imperialist capitalists - for the people Clinton and Obama represent - against the capitalists forces with the more raw and bestial instincts.
Then you turn round insolently, and say to your saddened, but still idealistic NGO friends and revolutionary strugglers and truth seeking academics and say:
"Get real Guys."
What a repulsive thing to say "Little Man" (grown big).
But what a repulsive situation to be in. How awful to find yourself having to making the "moral" choice to take a salary cut of a few $100,000 and work for the the progressive imperialists rather than the reactionary imperialists.
I think we should try to understand the attitudes of the people who puff their way into the upper levels of the cooling tower of the Foundations and university think tanks, the higher levels of government and corporate government.
Yes, these people are bought up. They look and feel like the high-paid intellectual prostitutes they are in truth. They "get real" and buy in and their moral choices are reduced to the problem of whether to work for the progressive establishment or the reactionary establishment or some other such fucker in between.
I think we should try to understand the attitudes of the people who puff their way into the upper levels of the cooling tower of the Foundations and university think tanks, the higher levels of government and corporate government.
Yes, these people are bought up. They look and feel like the high-paid intellectual prostitutes they are in truth. They "get real" and buy in and their moral choices are reduced to the problem of whether to work for the progressive establishment or the reactionary establishment or some other such fucker in between.
The irresistible Sara Lee Pound cake, a modern metaphor for capitalism.
Actually there does seem to be a connection between confectionery and the powerful. In Guadalajara a magnate invited me to his penthouse for a chat. Extremely proud, he took out a new biscuit one of his companies had just produced and excitedly asked me for my opinion. It was awful. Several of the members of the BP board worked for Sara Lee (a 13 billion dollar company with 44,000 employees) with its slogan:
"Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee"
Tate and Lyle Golden syrup, and the old metaphor for Capitalist imperialism.
In other words: "Nobody doesn't like the product of capitalism"To rephrase again, "Lifestyle capitalism is irresistible and we've got you by the short and curlies." Sara Lee Pound cake is a wonderful metaphor for the power of modern capitalism and lifestyle marketing. Its power is reminiscent of the power the famous Tate & Lyle inscription used to have.
"Out of strength came forth sweetness"
In its time, just as the Sarah Lee slogan currently does, the Tate&Lyle slogan served as the perfect philosophical justification for slavery, conquest, colonialism and Victorian labour conditions.
Now of course there is no global conspiracy to control the world, as such. It's not a conspiracy, so much as an interconnecting web of cogniscenti ready and willing to use their influence and power to mould the world in their shape.
To map this network use Wikipedia. Examine the membership of the different US and international foundations and institutes that have been set up by the ultra rich and look at the boards of the different top 500 companies in the world. See who sits on the board of which company. Trace how they got there and trace their networks of colleagues. Start by looking into the board membership of BP.
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These are people who do their utmost to shape the world that we live in and mould it into their image
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I found it very revealing listening to the - now rather dated - course given by the Managing Director of Ford's, Philip Caldwell , on leadership. The dismissive way in which he referred to democratic government was enlightening. He saw them as behaving constructivley or obstructively. Caldwell suggested that Ford would not hesitate to bargain for concessions and influence government policy.
People like Rockefeller, Caldwell, Soros, Peterson and Gates are people who do their utmost to shape the world that we all live in and mould it into their own image. And they are perfectly willing to use every shade of economic blackmail and every shape of carrot and stick to do so.
A couple of years ago I flew to South Africa and happened to sit next to the chairman of Anglo American or Rio Tinto. Some huge mining group anyway, he didn't say. He was a great friend of John Leonard King, now Baron King of Wartnaby and Chairman of BA. He was also on the board of around one hundred companies. He was taking time to look at some new mines he had acquired in a little consortium, in Mozambique. Charitably, he was also going to give a pep talk to the offices in Johannesburg.
His son kept phoning hm constantly to apologise for not managing to get first class, but only business class. He mollified his son. It's fine, I am sitting next to an interesting gentleman. The time will pass quickly.
We conversed for some of the trip. He disliked politicians, he had seen enough of them smarming up to him. He also despised the lazy descendents of the US elite, the Rockefellers and their ilk. According to him, they fought for one upmanship in their games of charity fundraising. Charity fundraising being the traditional way to trade in influences. The Rockefellars have their charitable Foundations and thousands of trusts and they were on to the trick well before Gates, Soros and Peterson were.
This was a seemingly unassuming and cosmopolitan man, of mixed parentage and houses on several continents, a cogniscenti of power fully aware of his position and an expert in the use of power and influence - though he looked as unassuming and chumly as Mr McGoo.
To imagine that governments control their countries and that together they control the world and that powerful companies and people just sit back and let them govern is just silly. Someone like Peter Sutherland doesn't hold back. If you think that then the answer is simple.
"Get real."
When I mentioned my trip and the person I had sat next to on the plane my parents just made little expressions of distaste and my father changed the subject to the malfunctioning pump in the river.
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