Target Tehran?

Posted by ES on February 12, 2007, 01:40 PM | #

Who owns how much of the the “military-industrial complex”? And Haliburton? I would wager that members of organized Jewry at the highest levels own a dominant stake in Halib, with lesser allied families holding large stakes. That’s the usual way it works, it seems.

Posted by ES on February 12, 2007, 02:06 PM | #

Several bits of info:

—Haliburton is almost certainly controlled by those who placed Bush II in office. Why? It’s usual for organized Jewry to station goy-puppets as CEOs/board members/university presidents/think tank members at places they control during inter-officio years. That’s the U.S. farm system.

—Jews became a very substantial part of the budding “military-industrial complex” during WWI. (Recall Baruch directed the War Industries Board—i.e., the entire U.S. industrial effort for the war.)

—Rockefeller/Morgan/Rothschilds controlled the backbone of US industry by WWI (steel, oil, railroads, raw materials of every type, etc). It’s likely that Jews remained a substantial part of the Complex by 1950.

Posted by Guessedworker on February 12, 2007, 02:18 PM | #

ES,

Re: your first comment, I don’t think it does always work like that, actually.  Jewish power does not extend to owning everything.  It does have its place, which I have endeavoured to describe in the past as “Jannisaries in the culture war” and, obviously, Jewry is present among the elites in far greater numbers than its proportion of the population.  But the main roles in the power elite are occupied by white Anglo-Saxons whom organised Jewry works assiduously to keep “on-side”.

Generally, it behoves us to guard against sweeping statements on the JQ because sweeping generalisations upon our moral character flow back with tiresome regularity in our direction, and prevent our voices from being heard.

This is the website of the anti-Halliburton peacenik left, and is probably as good a commentary on the company as you’ll find anywhere.

Posted by Matra on February 12, 2007, 03:42 PM | #

The left’s Halliburton fantasies and “no blood for oil” sloganeering that monopolised the anti-war argument made it more likely the pro-war side would win the argument. From what I can tell the anti-war movement is dominated by Jews. Unsurprisingly they would rather talk about the Halliburton bogeyman than Israel and the neocons’ ethnocentrism. Remember how defensive even Noam Chomsky got when the Walt-Mearsheimer paper was released? Harvey Weinstein - who put out Fahrenheir 9/11 - Chomsky, and the rest would rather keep the focus on baddie capitalist oilmen (with Southern accents!), defence contractors, and the so-called “WASP establishment”. (Not that these groups are all innocent) Most US oilmen are despised by neocons because they are pro-stability which neocons interpret as pro-Arab.

Posted by alex zeka on February 12, 2007, 03:52 PM | #

Halliburton isn’t an oil company (which do benefit from stability), but a defence contractor, which relies on wars for its profits. Not that there’s anything wrong with mercenaries per se, but it is a worry when they start dictating foreign policy.

Posted by Matra on February 12, 2007, 07:32 PM | #

Halliburton isn’t an oil company (which do benefit from stability), but a defence contractor

Actually it is both.

which relies on wars for its profits

Are you sure about that? I don’t doubt they are profiting from their various contracts in Iraq but does the the company and its subsidiaries as a whole depend on these to profit? I suspect there are pretty low margins given the environment they are operating in. Though I’m just speculating on that.

Anyway, the point is that the left wing war opponents and some on the right (particularly in the US - the land of Economic Man) seem blind to the ethnic motivations of those who pushed hardest for war. It’s all about the money they say. I disagree.

Posted by ben tillman on February 12, 2007, 11:09 PM | #

“Halliburton isn’t an oil company (which do benefit from stability), but a defence contractor, which relies on wars for its profits.”

Oil companies acquire oil and sell it.  Halliburton, thus, does not qualify as an oil company.  Halliburton’s self-description:

http://www.halliburton.com/Default.aspx?navid=338&pageid=713

“For almost a century, Halliburton has made an indelible impression on the world. From developing breakthrough technologies and constructing monumental infrastructure projects to managing logistics for military operations, Halliburton and our predecessor companies have been leaders in the energy services and engineering and construction (E&C) industries.

“Halliburton has expanded through internal growth and acquisition since it was established in 1919. Major purchases include Brown & Root, an engineering and construction company, in 1962 and Dresser Industries, a major provider of integrated services and project management for the oil industry, in 1998. Dresser had acquired M.W. Kellogg, a leader in petroleum refining and petrochemical processing, technology, engineering and construction, in 1988.”