This Time The World

Let men say what they will, I say that as surely as the sun in the heavens once shone upon Britain and America united, so surely is it one morning to rise, to shine upon, to greet again the reunited states—the British-American Union.

-Andrew Carnegie, as quoted in...

REMARKS
of
HON. J. THORKELSON
OF MONTANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, August 19.1940

To expand upon these remarks, it might be said that in the 20th Century, following World War II, the British Empire went bloodied but unbowed in relinquishing direct control over much of its colonial territory while retaining a "merely" nominal claim on its commonwealth. Britain's imperial ambition retreated into a state of latency. Of late, however, there have been some audacious indications of a desire that this latency should end...

William Hague has outlined the Government's vision of Britain's role in the world, promising a sweeping overhaul of foreign policy aimed at expanding the country's influence to every inhabited continent.

And so just following the United States 234th annual celebration of independence, Elizabeth II came to the United States in order to address the United Nations, of which, it is noted, she "nominally" holds a considerable fraction.

The significance of this speech is examined in a rant of Joan M. Veon at Rense...

...the physical structure of the United Nations and its agenda represents the completion of the dream and aspirations of British aristocrat Cecil Rhodes to return the United States and the rest of the world back under British rule. He felt that "too little of the globe was British territoryand if we had retained Americathere would be millions more of English living."

In Rhode's 1877 will, it says

"the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire, the consolidation of the whole Empire, the inauguration of a system of colonial Representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to weld together the disjointed Members of the Empire," which may well ultimately be achieved, by the Roundtable which "publicized the idea of and the name `British Commonwealth of Nations.'"

Oftentimes, nowadays, Americans behave as if they are the Queen's subjects. The "special relationship" of the "USUK" has entangled the two in more than a few foreign mis-adventures, most recently of course in Iraq & Afghanistan. Then there is the accusation of Lyndon LaRouche that President Obama is in fact a British agent. On the cultural side, take a look at federally tax-funded public television, and note how much of its programming is of boring British fare.

On a more symbolical level, however, we have this recent addition to the skyline of Cincinnati, a Mid-West city named after a military society of veterans of the American Revolution, but sometimes known as the "Queen City"...

Workers will soon place the crowning tiara atop the Queen City Tower.

The "Grand Tiara" will be hoisted into place Tuesday by cranes to the highest point on the $322 million downtown skyscraper.

The 15,000-pound steel structure is intended as a tribute to the late Princess Diana.

Princess Diana has been in the news in other respects lately...

Princess Di's Scandalous Black Gown Auctioned for 276,000

A black-gowned princess, like the oil-coated pelicans on the Gulf coast...

Then there is the performance of Lady Gaga before the Queen Elizabeth late last year, where she had planned to commit virtual self-immolation before Her Majesty, as she had done at the MTV music awards to the song Paparazzi. Indeed, such a performance would have been intensely scandalous, especially in light of the circumstances of Diana's death (hounded as she was by the paparazzi). In any case, Lady Gaga met the Queen dressed as her predecessor, but in blood-red latex, like a pelican suffocating in red crude...

Gaga's Crown Yule