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Manhatten Think Tank Integral
To Bush Administration Policies

By Robert Lederman
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
2-27-2

Axis of Evil: Another Manhattan Institute Slogan in Service to the NWO
 
The man who coined GW's now infamous slogan, "Axis of Evil" was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute (MI) before joining the Bush administration. He's just been dropped from the Bush payroll according to the Washington Times [see article below]. MI also coined the slogan, "Compassionate Conservatism" for GW, who publicly claims the Rockefeller-funded organizations' influence on his thinking is, "second only to the Holy Bible".
 
What is the Manhattan Institute?
 
MI is a right wing think tank founded in 1978 by William Casey, Bush/Reagan's CIA director. Following WWII Casey helped bring thousands of former Nazis involved in eugenics and the Holocaust to the U.S. As CIA director he later funded bin Laden and Co. with billions in arms, terrorist training and cash and was also a key player in arming the Contras.
 
MI is funded by JP Morgan/Chase bank (owned by David Rockefeller) and by pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer and Lilly) directly connected to Rockefeller, Bush senior and many of the current Bush administration officials. Bush senior was director of Eli Lilly in the late 70's. Bush Budget director Mitch Daniels was also a Lilly senior executive. Donald Rumsfeld formerly headed Searle Pharmaceuticals. All of these companies depend in large part for their products on research originally done by the IG Farben chemical cartel in Nazi Germany.
 
Rockefeller's Chase bank was among Hitler's biggest U.S. supporters before and during WWII. The Rockefeller families' Standard Oil of NJ was half owner of IG Farben - the industrial base of the entire Third Reich. GW Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush and Prescott's father-in-law George Herbert Walker (who GW is named after) were Wall Street bankers whose fortune was made operating and financing shipping companies, banks and steel foundries for the Nazi regime.
 
MI's most famous alumni after Rudy Giuliani is Charles Murray author of "The Bell Curve" a modern classic of eugenics. The Bell Curve popularized the idea that Blacks are genetically inferior in intelligence to Whites as a justification for eliminating welfare, increasing so-called quality of life arrests, limiting parole, taking children from Black families etc. Murray was a paid consultant on Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson's welfare program and is a spokesman for the Federalist Society, which has direct ties to a number of current U.S. Supreme Court judges.
 
Thompson's #2 man on welfare reform was Jason Turner, who Rudy Giuliani later hired to head up NYC's welfare reform. Turner actually quoted the motto from the gates of Auschwitz to explain Giuliani's workfare policy and was later forced to apologize. Rudy Giuliani also claims to get all of his ideas directly from MI. Many of his policy ideas are directly based on Murray's books.
 
MI has spearheaded a decades long effort to make the goals of eugenics respectable again. The Bush family, the Harriman family (the Wall Street business partners of Bush in financing Hitler) and the Rockefeller family are the elite of the American eugenics movement.
 
Axis of Evil. You'll find the center of that axis right here in NYC at the Manhattan Institute.
 
To verify that David Frum is associated with MI see: http://www.aei.org/bradley/bl0607 99.htm "Where Did the Sixties Come From? By David Frum Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute."
 
Or do a search at the MI website on David Frum manhattan-institute.org There are hundreds of pages of documents related to him.
 
Hundreds of mainstream media quotes on the Manhattan Institute, Bush, Giuliani, the CIA, Chase Bank and the connection of them all to Nazism, eugenics and 9/11 will be found in the articles at: http://baltech.org/lederman/ At the end of the eugenics article below are a sample of these quotes which I've spent eight years compiling.
 
Excerpted from THE WASHINGTON TIMES 2/26/2002 http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=print&ArticleID=200 20226-12 681279 'Axis of evil' writer leaves Bush's staff author: Robert Stacy McCain "David Frum, credited with authoring the headline "axis of evil" phrase in President Bush's State of the Union address, has left the White House speechwriting staff. "It has been the experience of a lifetime and it's been the honor of a lifetime to be here during this presidency," Mr. Frum said in a telephone interview yesterday. "I leave with nothing but the highest regard for all of my colleagues."...Mr. Frum specifically denied commentator Robert Novak's claim, made yesterday on CNN's "Inside Politics," that he was ousted from the speechwriting team because the president was angered by an e-mail from Mr. Frum's wife that became public this month. Author Danielle Crittenden e-mailed friends after the Jan. 29 State of the Union address expressing "wifely pride" that her husband had contributed the "axis of evil" phrase. Mrs. Crittenden's e-mail was published in an Internet journal by writer Timothy Noah...As for his role in the "axis of evil" speech, Mr. Frum said: "I contributed language to the president's speech. That is what I was paid to do. But what matters is not the language that is proposed to the president; what matters is the language the president decides to use. ... The words become important only because the president uses them." He praised Mr. Bush, saying, "I began [the White House job] thinking he would be a good president, but I go thinking he's proven himself to be one of the great presidents of American history."
 
Eugenics: More alive than ever by Robert Lederman robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net http://baltech.org/lederman/ (extensive documentation to support the statements in this essay will be found at the website)
 
Contrary to the commonly-held belief that eugenics programs ceased at the end of WWII, this pseudo-science has merely changed it's terminology and undergone a public relations makeover, retooled by think tanks like the Manhattan Institute. Today, eugenics is alive and well under the guise of su ch seemingly unrelated things as The Human Genome Project, genetic alteration of the food supply, U.N. population control measures, mandatory vaccinations, pesticide misuse, welfare reform, school vouchers, efforts to institute a national I.D., the war on drugs and the ever-expanding prison industrial complex.
 
Nowhere has the new eugenics - or as it was nicknamed by the Manhattan Institute "compassionate conservatism" - become public policy as thoroughly as in New York City under the administration of Rudy Giuliani.
 
Modern eugenics incorporates racial profiling, deliberately exposing people to massive amounts of pollutants and experimental vaccines, government agencies distributing drugs in order to create addiction and feed the prison system, denying equal educational opportunities and then claiming the resultant lack of achievement among targeted groups "proves" their lower intelligence, the massive over-prescription of pharmaceutical drugs and antidepressants, deliberately infecting people with diseases and any other governmental or corporate policies intended to reduce the fertility, lifespan or chances of success of specific groups of people.
 
Eugenics is practiced in many nations today and depending on who is behind it the targeted groups can be Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Africans, gays, the poor or any one else those in power wish to downsize or eliminate. Hard as it may be for most Americans to comprehend, the entire population of this nation is increasingly finding itself subject to eugenics-based policies.
 
If this sounds far-fetched ask yourself where issues such as rationing medical care and the so-called right-to-die are headed? Americans may someday find themselves asked to die for their country for economic rather than national defense purposes.
 
Nowhere else on earth did the ideas of eugenics reach such a complete marriage to a government's policies as in Nazi Germany. While Nazi Germany may have been defeated, many of it's ideas are alive and well and have found a welcome reception here in the U.S.
 
In a sense, the thousands of actual Nazis that were brought to the U.S. following WWII by men such as CIA director and founder of the Manhattan Institute, William Casey, were coming home to the source of the eugenics policies that made Nazi Germany infamous. In our nation's medical, military and educational establishments they found like-minded people of enormous influence who were more than ready to make use of their experience. Most importantly, they found unlimited funding from the Rockefeller family and it 's maze of philanthropies, medical research institutions and media outlets.
 
I tend to focus to a great degree on the Manhattan Institute, and for good reason. It is funded by Rockefeller's JP Morgan Chase bank, which admits it enthusiastically helped Hitler through much of WWII. Rockefeller's Standard Oil was half-owner of IG Farben, the industrial powerhouse of Nazi Germany. Among it's claims to fame, I.G. Farben was the builder and operator of Auschwitz and forty other slave labor death camps. Bayer, BASF and numerous other pharmaceutical and chemical companies are subsidiaries of I.G. Farben.
 
Both Rudy Giuliani and GW Bush claim they get their ideas directly from the Manhattan Institute.
 
MI is responsible for the academic reputation of Charles Murray, author of the Bell Curve, a modern classic of eugenics which advances the idea that Blacks are genetically inferior as a justification to cut government social programs. Most of the research the Bell Curve cites was funded by the Pioneer Fund, an openly pro-eugenics and pro-Nazi group with extensive ties to the entire white supremacy movement.
 
Murray wrote The Bell Curve during eight years as MI's top resident scholar. His ideas and works are promoted to this day on their website and formed the basis of Giuliani's welfare reform, homelessness, quality of life, school voucher and privatization campaigns. GW Bush claims MI's influence on his ideas is second only to the Bible.
 
In short, we now live in a society almost as eugenically-oriented as Nazi Germany was. There are two significant differences. One is that our eugenics policy is not directed specifically at Jews but tends to focus, at least for now, on Blacks, Native Americans, Latinos and impoverished Whites.
 
The second difference is that our eugenics policy uses terminology which unlike that used in Nazi Germany never acknowledges what it is really about. Imagine a Nazi propaganda campaign intended to convince Jews that plans for their extermination were based on compassion and you'd have the situation we are now witnessing today.
 
To fight eugenics in light of this reality we must first overcome two very mistaken ideas. The first is that this pseudo-science ended during WWII. The second is that having great personal freedom, Americans will never be forced to submit to such an agenda. If we don't wake up soon, we may be the last generations of Americans to hold these mistaken notions.
 
NY Times June 12, 2000 Bush Culls Campaign Theme From Conservative Thinkers "Gov. George W. Bush has said his political views have been shaped by the work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan Institute."
 
NY Times 5/12/97 Manhattan Institute Has Nudged New York Rightward "...the institute was founded as a free-market education and research organization by William Casey, who then went off to head the Central Intelligence Agency in the Reagan Administration."
 
From The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders, New Press [pg 132] "The fund raising arm of the Free Europe Committee [a CIA front] was The Crusade for Freedom for which a young actor named Ronald Reagan was a leading spokesman and publicist. The Crusade for Freedom was used to launder money to support a program run by Bill Casey, the future CIA director, called the International Refugee Committee in New York [aka International Rescue Committee], which allegedly coordinated the exfiltration of Nazis from Germany to the United States where they were expected to assist the government in fighting Communism...[pg 142]...The Ford Foundation gave $500,000 to Bill Casey's International Rescue Committee and substantial grants to another CIA front, the World Assembly of Youth...the convergence between the Rockefeller billions and the U.S. government exceeded even that of the Ford Foundation ."
 
NY Daily News 12/7/98 Chase Banked On Nazis - Report "The New York-based bank controlled by the Rockefeller family closed Jewish accounts even before the Germans ordered them to do so and did business with the Nazis while they were sending Jews to the gas chambers, Newsweek magazine reports in this week's edition. And while the U.S. was at war with the Nazis, Chase also apparently helped German banks do business with their overseas branches, the magazine reported...The relationship between Chase and the Nazis apparently was so cozy that Carlos Niedermann, the Chase branch chief in Paris, wrote his supervisor in Manhattan that the bank enjoyed "very special esteem" with top German officials and "a rapid expansion of deposits." Niedermann's letter was written in May 1942 - five months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. also went to war with Germany...And subsidiaries of Ford and General Motors have been accused of forcing thousands of Jews, Poles and others to work as slave laborers."
 
Boston Sunday Globe 2/22/98 "The Manhattan Institute clearly has become the force, and there is no progressive force to counter it. There isn't even a debate.' "The mayor has a very close working relationship with the Manhattan Institute," Giuliani's communications director, Crystine Lategano, said...Another sign of how much New York has changed: The most influential source of political ideas is a conservative think tank that was founded by [William Casey] Margaret Thatcher's mentor and Ronald Reagan's spymaster."
 
The Hard Heart of Poverty, 4/3/2001 Washington Post "His name is Myron Magnet. Eight years ago he published a book called "The Dream and the Nightmare," which George W. Bush has called the most influential book -- aside from the Bible -- that he's ever read. The new president's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, has declared "The Dream and the Nightmare" a "road map" to Bush's attitudes on the role of government. Magnet, 56, has also written columns defining compassionate conservatism for the Wall Street Journal and for City Journal, the provocative urban policy magazine he edits for the neoconservative Manhattan Institute...Giuliani, who says he often has drawn on Magnet's "searching" writings, goes further: A "tyranny of political correctness rules intellectual life" in New York, he says. "It's like the Spanish Inquisition."
 
"Education and Welfare: Meeting the Challenge A Message from CCI Chairman, Mayor Stephen Goldsmith [CCI is a division of Manhattan Institute] America is in the midst of an urban renaissance...CCI's April conference "Next Steps in Welfare Reform" highlighted just how far we've come. The conference brought together public officials like Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson [GW Bush's Sec. of Health and Human Welfare] and scholars like Dr. Charles Murray [author of The Bell Curve] to discuss how governments and private groups have reduced dependency and increased self-sufficiency...Fifteen years after the Manhattan Institute published Charles Murray's landmark study of American welfare policy, Losing Ground, the presentations showed that ideas once seen as radical now form the mainstream of the welfare debate."
 
 
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich." -John Loftus, former US Justice Dept. Nazi War Crimes investigator and President of the Florida Holocaust Museum quoted in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune 11/11/2000 http://www.newscoas t.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
 
Philadelphia Inquirer 9/10/98 David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible Nazi links," 9/10/98
 
From an announcement on the MI website in 1999 http://www.manhattan-institute.org/ Center for Civic Innovation Welfare Conference Held at the Manhattan Institute Topic: "Next Steps in Welfare Reform." Participants: [a partial list] Charles Murray (Author of Losing Ground; American Enterprise Institute), Jason Turner (Commissioner, NYC Human Resources Administration) April 14, 1999 New York
 
From: The Manhattan Institute website Summer 2000 Book review: "The Journal That Saved the City" http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_pi-the_journal_that_saved.htm "The City Journal [MI's quarterly magazine] is important not only because it has played a key role in the urban renaissance of recent years. It is important, too, for the lessons it provides other think-tanks. These institutions, some of them based in Washington and focused on one aspect or another of national domestic and foreign policy, others concentrating on regional affairs or, as with the Manhattan Institute, on policy at the state and local level, are rapidly replacing our universities as homes for scholars who seek to escape the stultifying politically correct atmosphere of campus life. In the case of the Manhattan Institute, we have it to thank not only for the City Journal but for supporting the research of such leading scholars as Charles Murray, whose Losing Ground has gone from a shockingly radical prescription for welfare reform to mainstream public policy in a few short years...To read, or in this reviewer's case, to reread the 35 articles reproduced here is to be reminded of why the City Journal has become the bible of New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose annual "State of the City Speeches" so closely follow City Journal articles that Magnet could easily win a plagiarism suit. "
 
From the Manhattan Institute website M.I. people and ideas in the Bush Administration . . . "John DiIulio has been named Director of the newly created White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives. Stephen Goldsmith has been named Special Advisor to the President for Faith-based and Community Initiatives and the board of the Corporation for National Services. David Frum has been named Special Assistant to the President for Economic Speech Writing. He is the author of How We Got Here: The 70's. Abigail Thernstrom, Senior Fellow since 1993, appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights | PRESS RELEASE. She is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. (Simon & Schuster, 1997) Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass is "The book that helped shape Bush's message" Walter Olson, MI Senior Fellow since 1986, appointed to the U.S. Justice Department Transition Advisory Committee Karl Rove Read about Karl Rove and litigation reform on Overlawyered.com. He is the author of two influential books, The Litigation Explosion and The Excuse Factory. Lawrence Lindsey, President Bush's chief economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, while a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, wrote The Growth Experiment: How the New Tax Policy is Transforming the U. S. Economy (Basic Books, 1990)."
 
Village Voice 8/8/2000 Uncle Shrub's Cabin "Absent in the sticky Philadelphia heat was the drumbeat of the fire-breathing, nay-saying Christian Right. In its place, singing the praises of the Jesus-influenced candidate and following a script laid out by the Manhattan Institute, were Reverend Herbert H. Lusk II, the former "Praying Tailback" for the Philadelphia Eagles, whose Greater Exodus Baptist Church had been transformed into a Republican revivalist stomping ground, and Stephen Goldsmith, the ex-mayor of Indianapolis, who is Dubya's main domestic-policy adviser. In June, Reverend Lusk told a GOP platform-drafting committee in Billings, Montana, that private, faith-based groups, such as his People for People, are better purveyors of social-welfare services than government welfare agencies. "The fact is, we are there_we do it better, and we do it cheaper," Reverend Lusk said. In the background on Sunday, thundering the gospel of the black church, was a mass choir. After an inspiring musical opening, the social scientists from the Manhattan Institute rolled out their charts and reported that kids who go to church in poor neighborhoods do fewer drugs and thus, churches, mosques, and synagogues "should be supported as uniquely qualified agencies of social control that matter a great deal in the lives of adolescents in America's most disorganized and impoverished communities."
 
From Accuracy in Media website http://www.accuracy.org/artic les/manhat.htm The Manhattan Institute: Launch Pad For Conservative Authors "The Manhattan Institute was founded in 1978 by William Casey, who later became President Reagan's CIA director. Since then, the Institute's track record with authors has been notable. Funneling money from very conservative foundations, the Institute has sponsored many books by writers opposed to safety-net social programs and affirmative action...Charles Murray's Losing Ground -- a denunciation of social programs for the poor -- catapulted him to media stardom in 1984. More than a dozen years later, the Philadelphia Inquirer (10/13/97) recalled that Losing Ground "provided much of the intellectual groundwork for welfare reform." As Murray wrote in the book's preface, the decision by Manhattan Institute officials to subsidize the book project was crucial: "Without them, the book would not have been written."...When Murray appeared on ABC's This Week (11/28/93), host David Brinkley introduced him with lavish praise as "the author of a much-admired, much-discussed book called Losing Ground, which is a study of our social problems." Minutes later, Murray was explaining his solution: "I want to get rid of the whole welfare system, period, lock, stock and barrel -- if you don't have any more welfare, you enlist a lot more people in the community to help take care of the children that are born. And the final thing that you can do, if all else fails, is orphanages."...: Shortly after The Bell Curve was published [in late 1994], the Institute sponsored a luncheon to honor Murray and the book, in which he proposes a genetic explanation for the 15-point difference in IQ between blacks and whites that is the basis for his dismissing affirmative action policies as futile."...Along with ongoing subsidies from a number of large conservative foundations, the Manhattan Institute has gained funding from such corporate sources as the Chase Manhattan Bank, Citicorp, Time Warner, Procter & Gamble and State Farm Insurance, as well as the Lilly Endowment and philanthropic arms of American Express, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CIGNA and Merrill Lynch. Boosted by major firms, the Manhattan Institute budget reached $5 million a year by the early 1990s."
 
NY POST 4/18/2001 "Tonight, the Manhattan Institute - the New York-based think tank that has served as the source for some of the most innovative proposals on the nation's urban problems - inaugurates its Alexander Hamilton Award. The first recipients of this honor, to be conferred at a gala dinner, are former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and William C. Steere Jr., chairman of the Pfizer Corp."
 
NY TIMES 6/27/98 City Official Is Sorry for Remark Some Thought Was Anti-Semitic "The Commissioner of the city's Human Resources Administration apologized yesterday for making an errant remark during a television interview that was construed by some viewers as anti-Semitic. During a televised discussion of the city's welfare-to-work program, the Commissioner, Jason A. Turner, said, "Work makes you free." A German version of the same phrase -- "Arbeit macht frei" -- was printed on the gates of Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz, where thousands of Jews were forced into slave labor before many were killed during World War II."
 
Newsday 8/18/89 Holocaust `Reminder' Claimed "A concentration camp suvivor who witnessed the murders of his parents and five siblings at Auschwitz claimed that during questioning after his arrest on bribery charges he was placed before a blackboard bearing a Nazi slogan by former U.S. Attorney General Rudolph Giuliani's office as part of an attempt to "break" him...Written on the blackboard was the German phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei." The slogan, "Work Shall Set You Free," adopted by the Nazi party, appeared over the gates at Auschwitz."
 
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