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Ruckafella’s Standard Oil brought The Homelan into codependence with The Kingdom after WWII, and that ultimately enabled The Family’s lock on Power.

But as early as May ’11, The Supreme Court said: “Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.”

This dissolution created 33 new companies, greatly increasing The Ruckafellas’ wealth.

Thirty-three.

As part of The Revenue Act of ’13, The Oil Depletion Allowance slashed taxes on any income derived from oil production by 5%.

And oil fortunes ballooned.

Regardless of actual costs, automatic deductions were given to compensate for waning assets in the ground.

And by ’26 this deduction had risen to 27.5%.

And The New Republic reported that Capital City was “wading shoulder deep in oil. In the hotels, on the streets, at the dinner tables, the sole subject of discussion is oil. Congress has abandoned all other business.”

As far back as ’22 the mayor of NY, John F. Hylan, felt compelled to say: “The real menace of our republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over our city, state and nation . . . At the head of this octopus are the Ruckafella-Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as the international bankers [who] virtually run the Homelan government for their own selfish purposes.”

And by the early ’60s scrappy TX had essentially defected from The Homelan.

Far-flung oil empires had long depended on corporate covert operations.

But East Coast Upper Crust privilege + oil fortunes + intel = an unprecedented sense of entitlement to other countries’ resources.

And by ’64 The NYT claimed that Dallas had formed an “invisible government . . . [that ran] Dallas without an electoral mandate.”

An example of this invisible “Government” in TX is GaDoyla, founder of TX Instruments.

Tight with European oil men and Arab leaders, his career spanned eight presidential administrations.

Chummy with most of these Prezs, all of them answered to him.

His son-in-law worked with GDM on The Council of World Affairs.

GaDoyla’s son-in-law once sat at Iran’s Mossadegh’s bedside for 80 hours working to negotiate ownership of The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

The talks turned out unsuccessful.

And two years later a CIA coup overthrew Mossadegh.

This invisible “Government” did not like King Arthur at all.

His greatest offense, along with his reticence toward Vietnam: his stance against The Oil Depletion Allowance.