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"America lives in a fascist state" – trend forecaster
Global Research
Gerald Celente
The merger of corporate and government powers in modern America is plain and simple fascism, believes Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute and publisher of Trends Journal.
Celente takes an in-depth look at what AIG and Goldman Sachs really are and the people behind them; explains the policies of the Obama’s administration, and the moral basis for a forthcoming new American Revolution.
RT: I’d like to begin by talking about the Treasury department. They’ve decided to extend bailout funds to a number of struggling life insurance policies. This is in addition to the auto industry and the banks. Do you think Americans are aware of what’s going on?
G.C.: They know about it, it’s a new trend. America is going from what used to be the major capitalistic country in the world of free market – a crusader – into what Mussolini would have called fascism: the merger of state and corporate powers. So it is not socialism as people believe, it is socialism’s egalitarianism. It’s not communism where the state controls monopolies – it’s fascism, plain and simple. The merger of corporate and government powers. State-controlled capitalism is called fascism, and fascism has come to America in broad daylight. But they’re feeding them it in little bits and pieces. First AIG was too big to fail. Mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were too big to fail. Banks too big to fail and auto companies. And now we give money to the people that make the auto parts. And now there’s talk about the technology companies, wanting their piece of the action. The merger of state and government is called fascism. Take it from Mussolini; he knew a thing or two about it.
RT: What can Americans do if they are opposed to the road that government officials are bringing them down?
G.C.: The people don’t really have a choice, there is no ballot box. I’m of Italian descent and I’ve heard enough of mafia stories for the rest of my life. If you want to look at a mafia, you can call it a republican and democratic party. And if you want to look at the two families, the heads of the mafia, all you have to do is to look at the Bushes and the Clintons. They’ve been running the show now for some 24 years. We heard about Obama who is going to bring in ‘change’. A change you could believe in if he is dumb, stupid and blind. Look who he’s brought in as his chief policy makers. Retreads from the old Clinton administration. It’s a two-headed one-party system. So it’s very difficult for the people to vote in a new administration that isn’t part of the old one.
RT: Can you tell me one thing that you like about President Obama?
G.C.: In the Trends Journal, the top trends of 2009, one of our trends was that people are going to be putting out ‘recession gardens’. And now as we see the Obamas, they are planting their own garden, and that trend is taking hold. So he is doing that in positive ways, he’s bringing an element of dignity back to society. Those are positives. But now let me look at whether it’s true or the hypocrisy. So, they are talking about planting their own gardens. And they are talking about buying local. Oh, all that is wonderful, but on the other side of the coin they are pushing genetically modified foods while they’re eating organic. So it’s like ‘let them eat Frankenfoods’ – this is the message. So I see hypocrisy at every level. When they show me truth and justice, and the real American way – then I’ll believe.
RT: If I revert to our previous interview, I asked you – “what kind of revolution do you think would happen and when, and why would it happen?” and you said there would be a tax revolt. And now we are hearing more and more about these ‘tea parties’. What do you make of that? Do you think that that’s just the first action and many actions to follow from the American public?
G.C.: There is going to be a lot more. This is just a beginning. As a Bronx boy, my saying is: ‘when people lose everything and they have nothing left to lose – they lose it’.
You’re gonna start see people taking to the streets, like they do in other countries. People have had it, they are fed up. They can’t afford it anymore. Look at what is going on. Ten major states are raising taxes again as people are losing their jobs, income is going down, they are losing their pensions, they are losing their investments – and the government is saying: more taxes, more taxes, more taxes…
At the same time, what’s happening is, on the top, they are changing the regulations so the thieves could steal more, just as they did with the new banking act. They call it mark-to-market. So it is now allowing them to do rather than putting the real loss of their assets – the toxic assets that they are holding – they are letting them make up what they want! Come up with fictitious numbers and you are going to start seeing ‘bank stocks going up again’.
It is fake, and what they are doing is they’re changing the regulations on the top so the big thieves could steal more, while they clamping down on the little people – and the little people have had it.
RT: These stimulus plans, both with former President Bush and with President Obama, were rushed through so quickly and you make a comparison to the way that the US launched the War on Iraq with the same urgency of the plans.
G.C.: They push it through so that people are kept off guard – they put fear into the people’s hearts. Remember the mushroom cloud that was going to explode if we did not do it very quickly with Iraq? And remember the financial system was going to collapse if we didn’t save AIG? And who ever knew the AIG was, to begin with?! “What’s an AIG?! I’ve never heard of one before!” most people would say.
When the AIG plan was rushed through, the only person outside of the Federal Reserve and Washington to sit on that AIG bailout was Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs got $13 billion of taxpayer money so that they wouldn’t take the loss of the AIG bailout because they bet bad with AIG.
And who was the Treasury Secretary at the time? Former CEO of Goldman Sachs Henry Paulson. Oh, and who did Obama bring in to run AIG now for the government? Ed Liddy. And where is Ed Liddy from? Goldman Sachs. The fix is in, the game is rigged. Forget about calling this ‘government’, Wall Street has hijacked Washington.
RT: So now what?
G.C.: We need a revolution. And we’re going to talk about that more in the future. And we’re going to be announcing our plans for the revolution in the coming weeks. And it is going to be much greater than the tea parties or the tax revolts.
My morality, the way I was raised, there are two things in the moral code that are against everything that I was taught. The first is that you don’t kill innocent people, and the US is involved in killing innocent people both in Iraq and Afghanistan. The facts speak for themselves. It has been proven that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, nor ties to Al-Qaeda. Yet the US is still waging war in Iraq. Number two, this whole thing about Afghanistan, taking over the country for whatever reasons, and the Russians know it even better than the Americans, and the English knew it before the Russians – this has been going on and on. The Afghani people have done nothing to the Americans. And now President Obama has sent another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan. So, killing innocent people is against my morality.
The second part of the revolution, why we are calling for revolution is that we are getting robbed in broad daylight. The numbers and facts we have discussed speak for themselves. They’re pick-pocketing the little people to pay off the big guys. This is against everything that has ever been taught to us in this country growing up as a free market society. It’s fascism.
RT: When somebody calls you a gloom-and-doomer, somebody that’s scaring the public… what is your response to that?
G.C.: My response is suppose you go to a doctor as if you feel that something is really wrong with you and the doctor gives you a diagnosis and this diagnosis is maybe cancer. Do you call the doctor a gloom-and-doomer? It’s the fact, people better grow up. The ship has hit the iceberg and it’s sinking.
"We are telling people, just as the doctor would tell a patient, “Look, there are ways out of it but first we have to recognize what the disease is. And then we are going to have to be very inventive about trying to attack it in a number of different ways. We could go through complementary medicine, we could go through traditional… we could even go through a combination of things.” But you respect what the doctor is saying, and you don’t call him a gloom-and-doomer. It is a childish response that people have that want to believe that they have a new leader, and that the new leader would lead them down the yellow brick road of happiness. Rather than understanding that there is nobody behind the curtain. It’s the Wizard of Oz. They’d better grow up; nobody is going to save them.
So, we put out the information, we’re saying: “This is the direction things are going in. This is where we believe they are going to end up. Here are some strategies to consider so you don’t go down with the ship.”
Fascism.....we fought World War II to save the world from Fascism and now we are it! The Nazi Philosophy has infected our Republic and we literally do nothing.
I am bewildered by the fact that so many are dis empowered and willing to accept the current state of affairs. It is not okay!
My generation (the baby boomers) have sold out to the system......they bought in to the deception....use their God given talents, their minds, their energy, their engineering skills to help the Perpetual War Policy ( sounds like Nazi Germany in the 1930's) the educated turned a blind eye to the reality of aggressive war, slave labor, (USA privatized penal system (for profit)(UNICOR Prison Industries) Government sanctioned inmate labor @$1.10 per hour) Yes a dollar ten cents per hour. The baby boomers hum along helping the super rich Elite appropriate the wealth of the middle class, crush the poor and set up a New World Order on top of the destruction of the old system. They help destroy the middle class reality as long as they continue to be paid.
I think it is obscene......where are the protests of the past? Where are the Hippies rejecting the model our parents bought into? Where are the true leaders when we need them?
"Time Magazine’s coverage of the swine flu scare has a noticeable subplot - preparing Americans for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing them to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.
In an article entitled How to Deal with Swine Flu: Heeding the Mistakes of 1976, the piece discusses how dozens died and hundreds were injured from vaccines as a result of the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when the Ford administration attempted to use the infection of soldiers at Fort Dix as a pretext for a mass vaccination of the entire country.
Despite acknowledging that the 1976 farce was an example of “how not to handle a flu outbreak,” the article still introduces the notion that officials “may soon have to consider whether to institute draconian measures to combat the disease.”
Later we discover exactly what this will entail, namely “when to institute mass vaccination programs,” according to Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan and a historical consultant to the CDC on flu pandemics.
Markel notes that the less politically combustible situation in America today compared to the post-Watergate era of Ford would make such draconian measures more achievable.
“Even so, he says, citizens still need to trust that the government is working for the greater good,” adds the article. “The American public has to be forgiving and patient and do [their] part too,” according to Markel.
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
Americans would indeed have to be very trustworthy and ultimately forgiving in taking a vaccine by government decree manufactured by a company that was been caught red-handed contaminating their vaccines with far deadlier viruses than swine flu.
As we reported yesterday, Baxter International confirmed over the weekend that it is working with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to curb the deadly swine flu virus that is blamed for scores of deaths in Mexico and has emerged as a threat in the U.S., reports the Chicago Tribune.
As reported by multiple sources last month, including the Times of India, vaccines contaminated with deadly live H5N1 avian flu virus were distributed to 18 countries last December by a lab at an Austrian branch of Baxter.
Since the probability of mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible, this leaves no other explanation than that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne.
These are the people we are supposed to “trust” and “forgive” according to Time Magazine and Markel when the federal government breaks down our door, guns drawn and dripping needle in hand."
Do NOT under any circumstance take their shots.............
Emergency transmission of the Swine Flu Outbreak in Mexico!!
April 25, 2009
"Swine flu panic is spreading in Mexico and soldiers are patrolling the streets after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which is seemingly affecting young, healthy people the worst, and that the bug is a never-before-seen intercontinental mixture of human, avian and pig viruses from America, Europe and Asia.
Clues that the virus may be a synthetic creation are already manifesting.
According to reports, the virus is a never-before-seen form of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses which consists of an intercontinental mix of viruses from North America, Europe and Asia.
CDC officials detected a virus with a unique combination of gene segments that have not been seen in people or pigs before, according to an Associated Press report.
This strain of swine influenza thats beencultured in a laboratoryis something thats not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza thats been identified, said Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director (video clip here).
Alarming reports are now filtering in about people catching the illness who have had no contact with pigs whatsoever. These include a man and his daughter in San Diego County, a 41-year-old woman in Imperial County and two teenagers in San Antonio, Texas. In fact, in all U.S. cases, the victims had no contact with any pigs.
Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego Countys public health officer, told KPBS We have had person-to-person spread with the father and the daughter, says Wooten, And also with the two teenagers in Texas, they were in the same school. So that also indicates person-to-person transfer.
Dr. Wooten says its unclear how people were exposed to swine flu. She says none of the patients have had any contact with pigs, according to the report.
Although the situation in the U.S. looks under control, panic is spreading in Mexico, where 800 cases of pneumonia in the capital alone are suspected to be related to the swine flu and the virus has hit young and healthy people, which is very rare with an flu outbreak. Despite the danger of a pandemic, the U.S. border with Mexico remains open.
Mexico has shut schools and museums and canceled hundreds of public events in its sprawling, overcrowded capital of 20 million people to try to prevent further infections, reports Reuters.
My level of concern is significant, said Dr. Martin Fenstersheib, the health officer for Santa Clara County. We have a novel virus, a brand-new strain thats spreading human to human, and we are also seeing a virulent strain in Mexico that seems to be related. We certainly have concerns for this escalating.
The WHO insists that the outbreak has pandemic potential and has been stockpiling supplies of Tamiflu, known generically as oseltamivir, a pill that can both treat flu and prevent infection, according to officials.
As we previously highlighted, those that have a stake in the Tamiflu vaccine include top globalists and BIlderberg members like George Shultz, Lodewijk J.R. de Vink and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Indeed, Rumsfeld himself played a key role in hyping an outbreak of swine flu back in the 1976 when he urged the entire country to get vaccinated. Many batches of the vaccine were contaminated, resulting in hundreds of sick people and 52 fatalities.
The fact that the properties of the strain are completely new, that the virus is spreading from people to people, and that the young and healthy are being hit worst, has disturbing parallels to the deadly 1918 pandemic that killed millions.
It is unclear as to why, if the virus is a brand new strain, that public health officials are so confident programs of mass vaccination, which are already being prepared, would necessarily be effective.
It certainly wouldnt be the first time that deadly flu viruses have been concocted in labs and then dispatched with the intention of creating a pandemic.
When the story first broke last month, Czech newspapers questioned if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.
Since the probability of mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible, this leaves no other explanation than that the contamination was a deliberate attempt to weaponize the H5N1 virus to its most potent extreme and distribute it via conventional flu vaccines to the population who would then infect others to a devastating degree as the disease went airborne.
However, this is not the first time that vaccine companies have been caught distributing vaccines contaminated with deadly viruses."
This is another 911 Psy/Op to force the US population to get immunized and inoculated with their poison shots. They create the problem the population demands a solution and BIG Brother, BIG Daddy offers the solution......the final solution.
I pray we can reach more people with the Truth and they will NOT take the shots.
Crisis as a Means to Building a Global Totalitarian State
by Olga Chetverikova
As the world financial and economic crisis comes into its own, the Western political leaders and elites are seeking to impress on mankind the idea that this upheaval will end up ‘turning the world into something different’.
Even though the picture of the 'new world order’ remains vague and fuzzy, the main idea is quite clear: A single global government, goes the argument, has to be established if we don’t want general chaos to prevail.
Every now and again, Western politicians mention the need for a ‘new world order’, a ‘new world financial architecture’, or some kind of ‘supranational control’, calling it a ‘New Deal’ for the world. Nicolas Sarkozy was the first to say so, while addressing the UN General Assembly in September 2007 (that is, before the crisis).
During the February 2009 meeting in Berlin convened to prepare the G20 summit, this was echoed by Gordon Brown, who said that a worldwide New Deal was needed. We are conscious, he added, that where the world financial flows were concerned, we would not be able to emerge from this situation with the help of purely national authorities alone. We need the authorities and world watchdogs to make the activities of financial institutions operating in the world markets totally open to us. Both Sarkozy and Brown are protégés of the Rothschilds. Statements made by certain representatives of ‘the global elite’ indicate that the current crisis is being used as a mechanism for provoking some deepening social upheavals that would make mankind – plunged as it is already into chaos and frightened by the ghost of an all-out violence – urge of its own free will that a ‘supranational’ arbitrator with dictatorial powers intervene into the world affairs.
The events are following the same path as the Great Depression in 1929-1933: a financial crisis, an economic recession, social conflicts, establishing totalitarian dictatorships, inciting a war to concentrate power, and capital in the hands of a narrow circle. This time, however, the case in point is the final stage in the ‘global control’ strategy, where a decisive blow should be dealt to the national state sovereignty institution, followed by a transition to a system of private power of transnational elites.
As early as the late 1990s, David Rockefeller, author of the idea of private power that is due to replace the governments, said that we (the world) were on the threshold of global changes. All we need, he went on, is some large-scale crisis that will make people accept the new world order.
Jacques Attali, Sarkozy’s adviser and former EBRD chief, claimed that the elites had been incapable of dealing with the currency problems of the 1930s. He was afraid, he said, that a similar mistake would be made again. At first we’ll wage wars, he went on, and let 300 million people perish. After that reforms will follow and a world government. Shouldn’t we better think about a world government already at this stage, he asked?
The same was stated by Henry Kissinger: "In the final analysis, the main task is to define and formulate the general concerns of the majority of countries, as well as of all leading states with regard to the economic crisis, considering the collective fear of a terrorist jihad. Next, all of that should be converted to a common action strategy… Thus, America and its potential partners are getting a unique chance for turning the moment of the crisis into a vision of hope."
The world is being led to accept the “new order” idea step by step to avoid provoking events that are likely to make the universal protests against the worsening conditions of human existence take ‘a wrong course’ and become uncontrolled. The main thing that Stage One managed to achieve was to start a wide-ranging discussion on ‘global government’ and the ‘inadmissibility of protectionism’ with an emphasis on the ‘hopelessness’ of the national-state models for emerging from the crisis.
This discussion is proceeding against the background of information pressures that help to build up human anxieties, fear, and uncertainty. Some of those information actions are the following: WTO forecasts to the effect that 1.4 billion people are likely to sink below the poverty line in 2009; a warning by the WTO director general that the biggest world trade slide in postwar history is in the offing; a statement by the IMF’s Dominique Strauss-Kohn (a protégé of Sarkozy’s) that a world economic crash is impending unless a large-scale reform of the financial sector of the world economy is implemented, and a crash that is most likely to bring in its wake not only social unrest but also a war.
Against this background, the idea to introduce a common world currency as a cornerstone of the ‘new world order’ was put forward. The real masterminds of this long-standing project are as yet in the shadow. Let us note that some or other representatives of Russia are pushed to the fore. This is reminiscent of the situation before World War I, where the Anglo-French circles that possessed some well-elaborated plans for a new division of the world instructed the Russian Foreign Minister to draw up a general program for the Entente Cordiale. It went down in history as the ‘Sazonov program’, even though Russia did not play an independent role in that war and was from the start built into the system of interests of the British financial elite.
On March 19, Henry Kissinger came to Moscow as a member of The Wise Men (James Baker, George Schultz, and others), who had meetings with the Russian leaders before the G20 summit. Dmitry Trenin, director of the Moscow Carnegie Center and participant in the latest US meeting of the Bilderbergers, called that meeting a ‘positive signal’. On March 25, Moskovsky Komsomolets published an article ‘The Crisis and the World Problems’, by Gavriil Popov (currently President of the International Union of Economists) that openly voiced what was normally discussed behind closed doors.
The article mentioned World Parliament, World Government, World Armed Forces, World Police Force, World Bank, the necessity of placing under international control the nuclear weapons, nuclear power generating capacities, the entire amount of space rocket technology, and the planet’s minerals, the imposition of birth-rate limits, the cleansing of humanity’s gene pool, the fostering of people intolerant to cultural and religious incompatibility, and the like.
The “countries that will not accept the global prospects,” says Popov, “must be expelled from the world community.”
Of course, the Moskovsky Komsomolets article conveys nothing new that would enable one to understand the strategy of the global elite. Another thing is important. The establishment of a totalitarian police order and the elimination of national states is being suggested as an open program of action, and what both the liberals, and the socialists, and the conservatives always viewed as ‘new fascism’ is being recommended as the only possible salutary path for the whole of mankind. Someone wants the discussing of these projects to become a norm. In this context, some ‘particularly trusted’ representatives of Russia are pushed to the fore, Russia that will become the main victim of the policy of total plunder should the ‘global government’ become a reality.
The G20 did not discuss the common world currency issue, since time had not yet come for that. The summit itself was a step forward on the way to chaos, because its decisions, if followed blindly, will only worsen the world socioeconomic situation and, to quote Lyndon LaRouche, will “finish off the patient.”
In the meantime, the crisis is being exacerbated, and analysts are predicting an era of mass-scale unemployment. The most pessimistic predictions come from LEAP/Europe 20201, which regularly publishes them in its bulletins and even set them out in an open letter sent to the leaders of the Twenty before the London summit.
As early as February 2006, LEAP was surprisingly precise in describing the prospects for the ‘systemic global crisis’ as a consequence of the financial illness caused by the US debt. LEAP analysts are viewing the current events in the context of the general crisis that began in the late 1970s and is now in its fourth, final and most grave stage, the so-called ‘elutriation phase’, where the collapse of real economy begins. According to LEAP’s Frank Biancheri, it is not simply a recession but the end of the system, in which its main pillar, the US economy, collapsed. “We are witnessing the end of an entire epoch before our own eyes.”
The crisis may lead to some most difficult consequences. LEAP forecasts a rise in unemployment to 15-20% in Europe and as much as 30% in the United States. If the key dollar problem fails to be solved, the world events will take a most dramatic turn. The dollar collapse may take place as early as July 2009, and the potentially decades-long crisis will trigger off “a world-wide geopolitical disintegration” with social upheavals and civil conflicts, with the division of the world into separate blocs, with the world coming back to Europe’s1914, with military clashes, etc. The most powerful popular unrest will take place in countries with the least developed social security systems and the biggest concentrations of weapons, primarily in Latin America and the United States, where social violence is already now manifest in the activities of armed gangs. Experts note the beginning of US population fleeing to Europe, where the direct threat to life is for the time being not so great. Aside from armed conflicts, LEAP analysts forecast power, food and water shortages in areas dependent on food imports.
LEAP experts describe behavior demonstrated by the Western elites as absolutely inadequate: "Our leaders have failed to understand what happened, and show the same amount of incomprehension to this day. We are amid a period of protracted recession, and it was necessary to engage in introducing some long-term measures to cushion the blows, whereas our leaders still hope to avoid a prolonged recession… All of them have been formed around the American pillar and cannot see that the pillar is a shambles…"
But this is not seen by the mid-level leaders, while the top-level world managers are, on the contrary, informed quite well; it is they who are implementing the ‘controlled chaos’ and general disintegration policy, including a civil war and the disintegration of the United States planned for the end of 2009, a scenario that is being widely discussed both by American and world media.
On the threshold of conflicts planned in various areas of the planets, a system is being established that will give a supranational center relying on a large-scale punitive machine total political, military, legal, and electronic control over the population. That system uses the network management principle that allows embedding into any society parallel structures of authority that report to external decision-making centers and are legalized through the doctrine of prevalence of international law over national law. The shell remains national, while real power becomes transnational. Jacques Attali calls this a ‘global law-based state’.
The ruling center of the global law-based state is located in the US. While its fundamentals began to emerge in the 1990s, the fight against terrorism after the 9/11 events has lead to radically new phenomena. The passing of the 2001 Patriot Act not only allowed security services to control the American population and suspected foreigners, but also accelerated the passing of state responsibilities into the hands of transnational corporate structures.
Intelligence activities, trade of war, penitentiary system, and information control are passing into private hands. This is done through so-called outsourcing, a relatively new business phenomenon that consists of trusting certain functions to private firms that act as contractors and relying on individuals outside an organization to solve its internal tasks.
In 2007, the American government found out that 70% of its secret intelligence budget is spent on private contracts and that “Cold-War intelligence bureaucracy is transforming into something new, where contractor’s interests dominate.” For American society (Congress included), their activities remain classified, which allows them to gather more and more important functions in their hands.
Former CIA employees say that nearly 60% of their staff are on contracts. Those people analyze most of the information, write reports for those who make decisions in state authorities, maintain communications among various security services, help foreign stations, and analyze data interception. As a result, America’s National Security Agency is becoming more and more dependent on private companies that have access to classified information. No wonder, then, that it is lobbying a bill in the Congress that is supposed to guarantee immunity to corporations that have worked with NSA for the last five years.
The same is happening to private military companies (PMCs), which have been assuming more and more army and police functions. On a significant scale, it started in the nineties in former Yugoslavia, but contract workers were especially widely used in Afghanistan and other conflict zones. They did the ‘dirtiest’ actions, as was the case during the war in South Ossetia, where up to 3000 mercenaries were involved. At the moment, PMCs are real armies, each up to 70,000 strong, that operate in over 60 countries, with annual revenues of up to $180 billion (according to Brookings Institution, USA) For example, over 20,000 employees of American PMCs work in Iraq along with the 160,000 American military contingent.
The system of private prisons is also growing rapidly in the US. The prison industry complex, which uses slave labor and sweatshop practices, is flourishing, and its investors are based on Wall Street. The use of convict labor by private corporations has been legalized in 37 states already, and it is used by major corporations such as IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, Texas Instrument, Intel, Pierre Cardin, and others. In 2008, the number of inmates in US private prisons was about 100,000, and it is growing rapidly, along with the total number of inmates in the country (mostly African-Americans and Latin Americans), which is 2.2 million people, or 25% of all convicts in the world.
After Bush came to power, privatization of the system for transportation and retention of migrants in concentration camps began. In particular, a branch of the notorious firm Halliburton, Kellog Brown and Root (once headed by Dick Cheney), did just that.
The biggest achievements have been made over the last few years in the area of establishing electronic control over people’s identities, carried out under the pretext of counterterrorism. Currently, the FBI is creating the world’s biggest database of biometric indexes (fingerprints, retina scans, face shapes, scar shapes and allocation, speech and gesture patterns, etc.) that now contains 55 million fingerprints. The latest novelties include the introduction of body scanning system in US airports, tracking of literature read by passengers in flight, and so on. A new opportunity to gather detailed information on people’s private lives follow from the NSA Directive N59, passed in summer 2008, ‘Identification and tracking biometry for the purpose of strengthening national security’, and the classified ‘Homeland Terrorism Preparedness Law’.
Evaluating the policy of America’s authorities, ex-Congressman and 2008 presidential candidate Ron Paul said that America is gradually turning into a fascist state, “We are approaching not a Hitler-type fascism, but one of a softer type, which shows in the loss of civil freedoms, when corporations rule everything and… the government lies in the same bed with big business.” May we remind you that Ron Paul is one of the few American politicians speaking for the closing of the Federal Reserve System as a secret unconstitutional organization?
With Obama’s coming to power, the police order in America is getting tighter and tighter in two directions – strengthening internal security and militarization of civilian institutions. Tellingly, having condemned the infringements on individual freedoms done by the Bush administration, Obama has put his own staff under total control by making them fill out a 63-question form that touches upon the most intricate details of their private lives. In January, the US President signed bills that enable the continuation of the illegal practice of abducting people, keeping them secretly in prisons, and moving them to countries where tortures are used. He also proposed a bill called National Emergency Help Center Establishment Act, which stipulates the establishment of six such centers in US military bases to provide help to people who are displaced due to an emergency situation or disaster and thus get into military jurisdiction. Analysts connect this bill with possible disturbances and consider it proof that the US administration is preparing for a military conflict which may follow after the provocation that is being planned.
The American system of police control is actively implemented in other countries, primarily in Europe – through the establishment of American law hegemony on its territory by means of closing various agreements. A big part here was played by US–European talks out of the glare of publicity on creation of the common ‘area of control over the population’ that were held in spring 2008, when the European Parliament adopted resolution that ratified creation of the single transatlantic market abolishing all barriers to trade and investments by 2015. The talks resulted in the classified report prepared by the experts from six participating countries. This report described the project to create the ‘area of cooperation’ in the spheres of ‘freedom, safety and justice’.
The report dwells upon the reorganization of the system of justice and internal affairs of the EU member states in such a manner that it would resemble the American system. It concerns not only the ability to transfer personal data and cooperation of police services (which is already being carried out), but also, for example, extradition of EU immigrants to US authorities in accordance with the new mandate that abolished all the guarantees the European procedure of extradition provided. In the US the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is in force, and it allows persecution or imprisonment of any person who is identified as an ‘illegally fighting enemy’ by the executive authorities and extends to immigrants from any country not at war with the US. They are persecuted like “enemies” not based on some evidence but because they were labeled so by the governmental agencies. No foreign governments have protested against this law which is of international importance.
Soon they will sign the agreement on personal data communication, in accordance with which the American authorities will be able to obtain such personal information as credit card numbers, bank account details, investments, travel routes or communication via Internet, as well as the information concerning race, political and religious beliefs, habits, etc.. It was under the US pressure that the EU countries have introduced biometric passports. The new EU regulation implies the overall switch of EU citizens to electronic passports from the end of June 2009 by 2012. New passports will contain a chip with not only passport info and a photo, but also fingerprints.
We are witnessing the creation of the global electronic concentration camp, and crisis, conflicts and wars are used to justify it. As Douglas Reed wrote “people tend to tremble in the face of an imaginary danger and are too lazy to see the real one.”
For scary speculation about the end of civilization in 2012, people usually turn to followers of cryptic Mayan prophecy, not scientists. But that’s exactly what a group of NASA-assembled researchers described in a chilling report issued earlier this year on the destructive potential of solar storms.
Entitled "Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," it describes the consequences of solar flares unleashing waves of energy that could disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, overwhelming high-voltage transformers with vast electrical currents and short-circuiting energy grids. Such a catastrophe would cost the United States "$1 trillion to $2 trillion in the first year," concluded the panel, and "full recovery could take 4 to 10 years." That would, of course, be just a fraction of global damages.
Good-bye, civilization.
Worse yet, the next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012, and coincides with the presence of an unusually large hole in Earth’s geomagnetic shield. But the report received relatively little attention, perhaps because of 2012’s supernatural connotations. Mayan astronomers supposedly predicted that 2012 would mark the calamitous "birth of a new era."
Whether the Mayans were on to something, or this is all just a chilling coincidence, won’t be known for several years. But according to Lawrence Joseph, author of "Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization’s End," "I’ve been following this topic for almost five years, and it wasn’t until the report came out that this really began to freak me out."
Wired.com talked to Joseph and John Kappenman, CEO of electromagnetic damage consulting company MetaTech, about the possibility of geomagnetic apocalypse — and how to stop it.
Wired.com: Do you think it’s coincidence that the Mayans predicted apocalypse on the exact date when astronomers say the sun will next reach a period of maximum turbulence?
Lawrence Joseph: I have enormous respect for Mayan astronomers. It disinclines me to dismiss this as a coincidence. But I recommend people verify that the Mayans prophesied what people say they did. I went to Guatemala and spent a week with two Mayan shamans who spent 20 years talking to other shamans about the prophecies. They confirmed that the Maya do see 2012 as a great turning point. Not the end of the world, not the great off-switch in the sky, but the birth of the fifth age.
Wired.com: Isn’t a great off-switch in the sky exactly what’s described in the report?
Joseph: The chair of the NASA workshop was Dan Baker at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Some of his comments, and the comments he approved in the report, are very strong about the potential connection between coronal mass ejections and power grids here on Earth. There’s a direct relationship between how technologically sophisticated a society is and how badly it could be hurt. That’s the meta-message of the report.
I had the good fortune last week to meet with John Kappenman at MetaTech. He took me through a meticulous two-hour presentation about just how vulnerable the power grid is, and how it becomes more vulnerable as higher voltages are sent across it. He sees it as a big antenna for space weather outbursts.
Wired.com: Why is it so vulnerable?
Joseph: Ultra-high voltage transformers become more finicky as energy demands are greater. Around 50 percent already can’t handle the current they’re designed for. A little extra current coming in at odd times can slip them over the edge.
The ultra-high voltage transformers, the 500,000- and 700,000-kilovolt transformers, are particularly vulnerable. The United States uses more of these than anyone else. China is trying to implement some million-kilovolt transformers, but I’m not sure they’re online yet.
Kappenman also points out that when the transformers blow, they can’t be fixed in the field. They often can’t be fixed at all. Right now there’s a one- to three-year lag time between placing an order and getting a new one.
According to Kappenman, there’s an as-yet-untested plan for inserting ground resistors into the power grid. It makes the handling a little more complicated, but apparently isn’t anything the operators can’t handle. I’m not sure he’d say these could be in place by 2012, as it’s difficult to establish standards, and utilities are generally regulated on a state-by-state basis. You’d have quite a legal thicket. But it still might be possible to get some measure of protection in by the next solar climax.
Wired.com:Why can’t we just shut down the grid when we see a storm coming, and start it up again afterwards?
Joseph: Power grid operators now rely on one satellite called ACE, which sits about a million miles out from Earth in what’s called the gravity well, the balancing point between sun and earth. It was designed to run for five years. It’s 11 years old, is losing steam, and there are no plans to replace it.
ACE provides about 15 to 45 minutes of heads-up to power plant operators if something’s coming in. They can shunt loads, or shut different parts of the grid. But to just shut the grid off and restart it is a $10 billion proposition, and there is lots of resistance to doing so. Many times these storms hit at the north pole, and don’t move south far enough to hit us. It’s a difficult call to make, and false alarms really piss people off. Lots of money is lost and damage incurred. But in Kappenman’s view, and in lots of others, this time burnt could really mean burnt.
Wired.com: Do you live your life differently now?
Joseph: I’ve been following this topic for almost five years. It wasn’t until the report came out that it began to freak me out.
Up until this point, I firmly believed that the possibility of 2012 being catastrophic in some way was worth investigating. The report made it a little too real. That document can’t be ignored. And it was even written before the THEMIS satellite discovered a gigantic hole in Earth’s magnetic shield. Ten or twenty times more particles are coming through this crack than expected. And astronomers predict that the way the sun’s polarity will flip in 2012 will make it point exactly the way we don’t want it to in terms of evading Earth’s magnetic field. It’s an astonoshingly bad set of coincidences.
Wired.com: If Barack Obama said, "Lets’ prepare," and there weren’t any bureaucratic hurdles, could we still be ready in time?
Joseph: I believe so. I’d ask the President to slipstream behind stimulus package funds already appropriated for smart grids, which are supposed to improve grid efficiency and help transfer high energies at peak times. There’s a framework there. Working within that, you could carve out some money for the ground resistors program, if those tests work, and have the initial momentum for cutting through the red tape. It’d be a place to start.
Wired.com: What’s the problem?
John Kappenman: We’ve got a big, interconnected grid that spans across the country. Over the years, higher and higher operating voltages have been added to it. This has escalated our vulnerability to geomagnetic storms. These are not a new thing. They’ve probably been occurring for as long as the sun has been around. It’s just that we’ve been unknowingly building an infrastructure that’s acting more and more like an antenna for geomagnetic storms.
Wired.com: What do you mean by antenna?
Kappenman: Large currents circulate in the network, coming up from the earth through ground connections at large transformers. We need these for safety reasons, but ground connections provide entry paths for charges that could disrupt the grid. Wired.com: What’s your solution?
Kappenman: What we’re proposing is to add some fairly small and inexpensive resistors in the transformers’ ground onnections. The addition of that little bit of resistance would significantly reduce the amount of the geomagnetically induced currents that flow into the grid.
Wired.com: What does it look like?
Kappenman: In its simplest form, it’s something that might be made out of cast iron or stainless steel, about the size of a washing machine.
Wired.com: How much would it cost?
Kappenman: We’re still at the conceptual design phase, but we think it’s do-able for $40,000 or less per resistor. That’s less than what you pay for insurance for a transformer.
Wired.com: And less than what you’d willingly pay for insurance on civilization. Kappenman: If you’re talking about the United States, there are about 5,000 transformers to consider this for. The Electromagnetic Pulse Commission recommended it in a report they sent to Congress last year. We’re talking about $150 million or so. It’s pretty small in the grand scheme of things.
Big power lines and substations can withstand all the other known environmental challenges. The problem with geomagnetic storms is that we never really understood them as a vulnerability, and had a design code that took them into account.
Wired.com: Can it be done in time?
Kappenman: I’m not in the camp that’s certain a big storm will occur in 2012. But given time, a big storm is certain to occur in the future. They have in the past, and they will again. They’re about one-in-400-year events. That doesn’t mean it will be 2012. It’s just as likely that it could occur next week.
We have entered an age where we must be willing to unmask the deception and lift the veil from our eyes. Now we are being called to stare the dragon in the face and confront our worst nightmare, that we have allowed our freedoms to slip away and failed to see the corrupt nature of our elected officials. We have failed to meet our personal and collective responsibility to guard against threats both internal and external. Now we must strip away the layers of deception and undo the false reality we have been living under.
Fascism has become the ruling power in our system. It is better termed Corporatism, the merging of government with multinational corporations. It is the power of government and business, in partnership, with the peoples interests a far second. The merger of the UNITED STATES government with industry has taken place a little bit at a time. It has now become a colossus and threatens our constitutional democracy. We have before us a set of conditions that if unchecked will destroy us from within. We must act, first by educating ourselves to the current state of affairs and then second by using the law to beat them at their own game.
I make the argument that we have crossed the line and have become a FascistState. We have lost our way and now find ourselves marching towards our own demise. We have allowed a motivated few to hijack our constitutional democracy and replace it with a fascist model. We have merged the corporate interest with the government and now find ourselves in a system that is consolidating power in the hands of a few, international bankers, energy companies, armaments manufacturers, pharmaceutical and chemical companies, in essence a New World Order, controlled by the international bankers, corporate titans, and their globalist political yes men.
All of us see the world through our own filter and with our own eyes but certain men and women have the gift to see things that many people are unable to see, unless it is pointed out and articulated in such a way that one is illuminated. I know one of my blessings, in this life journey has been an ability to recognize certain realities that many just can’t seem to see.
When I was released from Federal Prison in November of 1992, after eight years in custody, I was shocked at how many people seemed to be in a dream world as it pertained to what was going on in the world. I had been away for so long that I felt as though I was returning from a long trip, high on the mountain top, living a monastic lifestyle. In truth I might well have been on another planet returning from another space and time.
In many ways my prison experience was not unlike a person being kidnapped off the street, not returning home for dinner with their family but rather bundled up and transported to the other side of the world. I was placed high on a mountain top unable to communicate or visit with those I loved. I was forced into a monastic, meditative experience that transformed the way I processed reality and it gave me a perspective that was completely outside the box. I literally reprogrammed my way of seeing the world and I could recognize aspects that many seemed unaware of.
The fascist model that we have become was done a little at a time so that most North Americans seem to be oblivious to the changes that have taken place over the last fifty (50) years. I will try and comment on the eighteen characteristics that I have identified in the hopes that my perspective might help others to see.
When we embark on a journey to unmask the deception and lift the veil it becomes quite compelling and one must utilize their critical thinking skills. I will try and summarize the current state of affairs within these United States as it pertains to the (our) fascist system now a part of our collective experience.
I identify eighteen (18) steps to “Fascism in America” they are all well in place and we now find ourselves having to unscramble the egg, not an easy task for any nation. These eighteen steps are a part of our daily reality and it is only through our collective will and our focused intent that we can reverse this orchestrated subversion of our system and take back our constitutional democracy. To fail the test, at this time, means our self destruction.
Eighteen (18) Steps to “Fascism in America”:
Identify an Enemy
American Gulag
Corporate Security Services
NationalSecuritySuperState
Government turns on Citizens
Control of the Press
Dissent is Treason
Suspend the Rule of Law
Nationalism
Militarizing Society
Sexism
Partnership between Government and Religion
Corporate Power Dominant
Labor Movement is neutered
Arts and Intellectuals marginalized
Cronyism
Election Fraud
Human Rights Crushed
(1) Identify an Enemy:
We need only look at the 9/11 incident and the immediate response naming Osama Bi Laden and Al Qaeda as the evil perpetrators. The western media giants had their video feeds showing Bin Laden in his terrorist head dress with automatic weapon in hand at one of Al Qaeda’s training camps. They showed it over and over again until we were saturated with images of the twin towers collapsing, the Pentagon crumbling in on itself, the hole in the ground from Shanksville, Pennsylvania and of course Bin Laden shooting his automatic weapon.
As the Project for a New American Century proposed; they would need a catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor if they were to succeed in their quest to remake the world and establish a New World Order. Creating an outside enemy and demonizing a whole race/religion of people is utilized to scare the citizenry into believing they need protection. Citizens are all too willing to sacrifice their constitutional rights, for security, if they firmly believe there is a real internal or external threat. The governmental intelligence apparatus knows all too well how to manipulate the population with trauma based mind control. They whip the people into a state of fear with non stop programming that there are terrorists around every corner, they identify Osama Bi Laden and his Al Qaeda network as our mortal enemy and name them as the perpetrators of 9/11.
One only has to look through history to see how other fascist states manipulated their system and utilized these eighteen steps. One can see how the 9/11 incident completes step one and demonizes a whole region and religion in the process. They have given us an outside enemy to replace the Soviet Union after its collapse.
If a great nation is going to be viable then it needs an organizing element that is best served by an outside enemy. In other words, like the Report from IronMountain suggested, we need an outside enemy for cohesion and as a unifying force within the society. Perpetual war is a policy objective of our national government(s) in order to keep the population distracted, scared, easily led, complacent, and focused on something outside of the truth that a very few elite families control the whole world.
If we have an outside enemy then we need war production, we need to be protected from those who would do us harm. We need Big Daddy and Big Brother to protect us from the Weapons of Mass Deception, the potential Mushroom Cloud. If we can demonize a whole group of men and women and blame them for the evil that is being done in the world then it takes the heat off the real villains. Since the Middle East and that whole region have three quarters of the known energy reserves and control the pipeline routes to the Persian Gulf then it would stand to reason that a Fascist Corporate system controlled by the International Oil Companies, International Banks, and the huge Military Industrial Giants, in partnership with the BIGGEST military power the world has ever known, (UNITED STATES of America) would want to control that piece of real estate. This is not rocket science. This is power politics at play and if it is going to fly then the men in power know full well they need to demonize the people that live there and then rally the population at home to support their war of aggression.
These wars of aggression must be framed in a way that the United States citizen believes it is a war of liberation. So they organize, plan and fund their Al Qaeda network, through their intelligence services, utilizing any and all means in their pursuit of full power and control of the Middle East energy resources. They create and demonize the local population and then launch their war for liberation. How many truly believe the people of Afghanistan and Iraq think we are liberators? I would suggest we take our blinders off and do our own research because one would find that the local populations see us as occupiers not liberators. They know full well why we are there and that we do not intend to leave. The only population on the planet that thinks otherwise is our own North American population. We are convinced through our media that the Al Qaeda is out to get us and we are fighting to defend ourselves. Rubbish.
(2) American Gulag
Obviously I can speak from experience since I have experienced, first hand, the American Gulag System. The history of the prison system in America is a rather long and unhappy one. In truth it took a massive leap foreword and became a huge industry after the early 1960’s. Since the time of the old county and city jails we have been in a monumental building boom with private corporate interests taking the lead in the expansion of the prison industry. The government has outsourced the building of prisons, with private capital, and large multi national corporations not only building the prisons but also operating them for profit. We now incarcerate more men and women, per population, than any country on earth. It has become, in the last few decades, one of the fastest growing businesses in the United States.
Since the U.S. drug war started back in the 1980’s the United States has created a prison system that is world wide and utilizes host countries outside of U.S. law. The CIA has built a world wide system of prisons and maintains relationships with host countries in Egypt, Pakistan, the notorious Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and others throughout the world. The UNITED STATES Federal Prison System, Bureau of Prisons, (BOP) is incarcerating more people than at any time in history. The vast numbers of federal prisoners are in prison on drug related violations and doing longer sentences as a result of mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines instituted in the 1980’s during the early years of the drug war. We have now built up a system that is primed and ready to incarcerate more and more people, both here at home and abroad.
The general public still considers the incarcerated men and women as faceless, out of sight, out of mind and unless one has a loved one in prison they fail to experience the reality of the prison system. Most people tend to look at the terrorists as someone way out there, far-far away, who look different, has a warped religion that is beyond their understanding and “they” deserve whatever they get. Obviously this view is twisted and false. People are not easily classified into one group or another and in truth we are all one. The media demonizes the Moslem religion, they classify people of Middle Eastern decent as terrorists and they paint the picture that those in prison belong there and are there to protect us, again this is false.
The Military Tribunals set up as a result of the 9/11 incident are a system outside of our constitutional laws and fail to protect those people held against their will. They have no due process and deny the prisoners the ability to seek a legal remedy. The military tribunals become a parallel system that puts pressure on the regular courts to abandon their constitutional mandates and protections afforded the accused. It is one way a fascist system bypasses the rule of law and institutes courts that function outside of the constitutional court system.
The New Crime Control Act of 1984 was a watershed event in our criminal justice system because it ushered in the new sentencing guidelines, forfeiture laws and the ease to which the ruling class could oppress the black community within the system. If the system could flood the market with cheap cocaine from South America, (see the Iran Contra/CIA cocaine operation run out of the Reagan White House.) and then lock up a large percentage of the young black male population, all in the name of justice, then the old slave system takes on a new face. Same old power and control with a new improved version. They create the problem, illegal drugs; they flood the market and employ a whole system of workers to combat the problem, Judges, law enforcement agents, Police, Sheriffs, US Marshals, DEA, CIA, ATF, the BOP (Federal Bureau of Prisons). US Attorney’s, Prosecutors, Lawyers, Bail Bondsmen, the list goes on and on.
We have created a Prison Industry, UNICOR Prison Industries that employs millions of men and women under slave labor conditions. When I was incarcerated back in the 1980’s, for selling marijuana, the pay rate was about $1.10 cents an hour, making industrial wire harnesses. The Labor Camp in Petersburg, Virginia was in business to provide slave labor for the UNICOR Prison Industries. The majority of inmates were in for drug crimes and doing their time working in the factory.
The American public seems to be unaware of the imbalance between those that have and those that have not. The black community is represented in upside down numbers when it comes to the criminal justice system. They are about 15% of the total population in America and yet in the prison system they represent at least 50%. It seems a bit wrong when the intelligence services control and smuggle in the illegal drugs, they flood the black communities with it and then when the unemployed black men sell dope to feed their habit and their families, the system locks them up.
The fascist American system is quite cognizant of what they are doing. They are obsessed with crime and punishment, they know how many people are employed on both sides of the game, cops and robbers, and they choose to perpetuate the system because it is good for business. The white man keeps the black man down. The prison industries get a cheap labor force; remember the Nazi labor camps and Bayer pharmaceutical was IG Farben chemical conglomerate of Nazi Germany. We have sugar coated our expression but in truth it is the same.
(3) Corporate Security Services
Never in America!(Not) “Too soon we grow old, too late smart”. Backwater Security is a security service that operates, for profit, and sells its services to the government not only in places like Iraq or Afghanistan but also in places like New Orleans after natural disasters (or unnatural) like Hurricane Katrina. They operate above the law, like in Iraq where they can not be prosecuted, or when given the task of enforcing law and order here at home.
Nazi Germany was known for terrorizing the population with their Brown Shirt Nazi thugs literally scaring the people into submission. In these United States we believe we are above that kind of harassment and think it could never happen here. All of us have seen the level of law enforcement since 9/11. We have been made to believe that it is okay to be searched at the airport and stopped on the highway for any reason. We have allowed ourselves to be intimidated by the local police, our federal law enforcement, FBI, CIA, ATF and IRS. We have been willing to give up our bags and have our personal bodies searched when we travel by air. All of this creates a culture of intimidation and feeds a fear based reality that is manipulated to control the population. Our Constitutional rights are thrown out the window in the name of security and so we blindly acquiesce.
(4) NationalSecuritySuperState
Cointellpro was a government intelligence operation orchestrated by the FBI in the 1960’s and 1970’s against U.S. citizens identified and labeled subversive. People like Martin Luther King were targeted, with the intent to destroy the black civil rights movement and discredit their leadership. Martin Luther King was given top priority and it was without question one of the darkest chapters in our history. When the state utilizes all of its resources to discredit a citizen and destroy a movement it subverts our constitutional process. It creates an environment where no one is safe and the oppressed are unable to rise above their oppressors. Once again we are in a time when citizens that speak out and seek positive reform are labeled and identified as trouble makers and somehow less patriotic than those who support the government’s policy.
The fact that we need to be eternally vigilant and never allow our constitutional rights to be suspended in the name of security should be apparent to all. One only has to study the historical record to see that a government that is willing to overturn the protections our constitutional democracy gives us, is well on its way to tyrannical abuse. We have crossed the line and now find ourselves living under a system without the checks and balances spelled out in out constitution. We have replaced our founding documents with a set of laws that, (The Patriot Act- H.R. 5122 [109th]: John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007) our founders would sound a clarion call to action.
Both the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act and The Patriot Act are set up as an internal surveillance system. They have provisions that supersede the constitution and authorize the government to spy on U.S. citizens in the name of National Security. Once we have allowed the tyrannical government apparatus to overturn our constitutional protections we have crossed the Rubicon and anything is justified in the name of security.
We have allowed a NationalSecurityState to replace our Democratic Republic and we now find ourselves literally living in a Brave New World. President Eisenhower warned us in his parting speech, as he left the Presidency, that we must guard against to much unchecked power, in the hands of a few. Obviously his words seem quite prophetic now almost fifty years later. The National Security apparatus has permeated through all levels of our government and we have replaced our institutions with a permanent armaments industry that has its tentacles reaching through all aspects of our government and our policy considerations. It’s obscene the level of our GNP that goes into our NationalSecurityState.
The National Security Act is invoked each time the intelligence services break the law, smuggle drugs, assassinate Presidents, black activists, foreign leaders, or any other miss- adventure under the sun. They slap it on the UFO, Alien abduction phenomena. They invoke it when they topple foreign governments, subvert elections and all in the name of National Security.
Now we are living through the 9/11, Patriot Act reality and they have National Security on everything. They use it to justify their spying on Americans, our e-mail, our inter-net traffic and where we spend our money. The government has “Total Informational Control”, from cradle to grave, and all in the name of National Security.
(5) Government turns on Citizens
Legal protest, anti war, pro peace, and political opposition, all of these groups may have a grievance and yet under the new security initiatives they may be labeled subversive and targeted for harassment by the government. We have experienced many times when the government infiltrated citizen groups, targeting the leadership, bringing false charges, entrapping members into crimes that the government planned, recruited and executed for their own political gain. Obviously there are many organizations that are trying to make a positive difference in this world and they do work for many good causes. The Center for Constitutional Rights works diligently for the best interests of our constitutional democracy and yet it is groups like these which are targeted and harassed. We must recognize that a Fascist system is put in place one step at a time and is similar to the frog in the pan analogy. If we turn up the heat a little at a time and get use to the temperature sooner or later it is to late and we are toast, (cooked frog).
Citizen groups are a part of a healthy democracy and one group should not have the power to dictate their own philosophy over another. When a fascist system is put in place it starts off marginalizing the opposition, harassing its members and in the end outlawing any group that can organize a true opposition. This systematic approach has been a part of every fascist takeover, from Italy, Germany and Chili. Repressive regimes harass and intimidate any group that can organize an opposition to their rule.
The American Civil Liberties Union is one such group and reports that many of the attorney’s that have stepped foreword, pro-bono, to represent the inmates being held in Guantanamo BayCuba, are experiencing harassment and ridicule. Since when do we allow a few to dictate to the many? These men and women who are the leaders of this fascist takeover are literally drunk on their success. They have had no organized opposition to this takeover and in truth it is time we stand up and say, “It is not okay”.
Once again I know something about the scare tactics the federal government uses to intimidate and pressure those in opposition whether it is political descent or an organized opposition which has the potential to bring attention to their illegal acts. There are hundreds or thousands of well meaning groups that have protested for one reason or another, and found themselves locked up overnight. It is one thing to involve oneself in a sit down protest, get lock up and released the same day. It is a bit more harrowing to have a swat team take you off the street without any warning and lock you up, without a formal charge, only to release you several days later. If that is playing fair then Tonya Harding should have won the gold medal.
How many of us have packed our bags, driven to the airport and subjected ourselves to a security person who decides arbitrarily to pull you out of the line for a full body and bag search. If you have never been stripped searched by some stranger then pray God it does not happen because it is one of the most humiliating experiences anyone should ever have to go through. It is bad enough to have ones bags ruffled through, personal hygiene materials, underwear, reading material and whatever might make a personal bag personal.
Now, we have to make sure when we leave our house that we have our “papers please”. If one is riding in a car, and it gets pulled over, pray you have your papers because they might decide to hold you until they fully identify you with a real ID, i.e. Drivers license, Passport or Green Card. It is taking place every day and then some. Many of us as white working class Americans might slide by here and there but ask a black man or woman. Ask a Hispanic who is riding in some car trying to run to the market for some groceries. If it does get pulled over and everyone does not have their papers then it is a sure ride to the local lockup until they are produced.
We all support the government when they target the criminals and try and clean up the neighborhood. We protest when the local drug dealers take over a dilapidated dwelling and turn it into a crack house, and protest we should. It is another story when the law enforcement and other federal agents target a citizen who speaks out against 9/11 or CIA cocaine smuggling. How do we feel when good citizens call for the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney? How about those that call for hearings about the criminal fraud during the lead up to the war in Iraq?
When the government targets the political opposition utilizing the IRS, CIA, ATF and others we might raise our voice but usually only if we agree with those in opposition. Most of us turn our heads if we don’t identify with the individual. When Martin Luther King was being targeted many turned their heads the other way. Even now if one were to look at the black community they might say Jeremiah Wright was way past their comfort level. If the Federal Government targeted him because of his comments about the AIDS virus being the result of a U.S. biological weapons program to spread AIDS into the black community, by forces within our government, many might say target him. Obviously some take the time to do their own research and find out many troubling facts about the AIDS virus that may lead some to believe that Jeremiah Write is absolutely (W)right. So then what?
I find when one is a target, life can get very difficult and many choose to crawl back in their shell and not pursue the injustice, whatever it might be. These fascist men and women know all too well that we all have a breaking point and it is only a matter of increasing the pressure until one breaks. Targeting an individual is a tried and true approach to crush the opposing point of view. The Nazi, Soviet, Chinese, Cuban, Chilean and American tyrannical model sticks to a play book that has been developed over the centuries. Those who are willing to stand up and subject themselves to being a target have to understand that it simply goes with the territory and they better be strong in character, spiritually awake and willing to take the abuse or they will be crushed.
(6) Control of the Press
The large multinational corporations, US media giants: General Electric, AT&T/Liberty Media, Disney, Time Warner, Sony, News Corporation, Viacom and Seagram, plus Bertelsmann, the Germany-based conglomerate control what is purported as news. The western media giants and their boards are controlled by those same individuals that sit on the boards of some of the largest Military Industrial Corporations on the planet. It would stand to reason that we are only fed what they want us to digest and think about.
A free press is not free if the information is screened for a certain spin. I have watched the, quote free press, twist the message to fit the current play book. The only free press in the world is found over the inter-net doing your own critical thinking research. And that does not mean; Paris Hilton pregnant by Aliens. It means an open source approach to sifting through information and using your critical thinking skills to build a true picture of the world around us. It surely does not come from a controlled media corporation feeding the public a prepared meal of a one dimensional, linier perspective.
A fascist system targets journalists and T.V. producers putting pressure on them to stay on point or be marginalized and subjected to further harassment if they choose to get too vocal. Fascists plant false stories building a picture that is based on a false reality while at the same time limiting all stories that paint a true picture. One only has to look at the fear based media dealing with the terrorist threat. It is on every radio station, the TV news, Fox, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS. When one looks at the 9/11 incident it is quite clear that the military industrial complex has done everything in their power to create a climate of fear utilizing the media giants with their (mind control) programming.
This is an easy one to write about since I have experienced the way the government controls and manipulates the information distributed to the public. The CIA has a cadre of reporters on their payroll, spinning the stories and creating the kind of buzz they deem necessary for the manipulation of the masses. The media hype that was generated by the Bush/Cheney propaganda machine in the lead up to the War in Iraq was not only criminal fraud but was done with literally almost no opposition from the American media giants. One would have thought we were in Nazi Germany in 1939. The major press was all too willing to take the administration at face value and scare the public with stories of WMD, mushroom clouds and all the other lies Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powel and others told in support of their war agenda. Where were the critical thinkers? Where was the public in their assessment of the facts, or lack thereof?
When we follow the money we see that the western media is owned and controlled by a handful of large media giants. They are all too willing to spout the government line and push through stories that promote a war agenda and maintain a fear based reality to keep the population dependant on Big Brother. The population identifies with the father image and looks to government to take care of them. The society is founded on the principal that we live in a dangerous world and we need all of these people and the programs they run for our perceived benefit. The truth is much different. They need the programs for their benefit and they need to keep us scared or we will wake up to the manipulation and topple the bad guys from power.
Look at the Iran Contra/CIA Cocaine operation. The media was mostly silent as far as the drug conspiracy was concerned. Only the San Jose Mercury Leger had the guts to run the story and post it on their web site. Another is the Wilderness web site that has done a fabulous job at bringing to light the level of corruption within our intelligence services and their involvement in the illegal drug trade. The fact that George H.W. Bush, Richard Armitage, Ollie North, the late William Colby, (who was killed days before he was to testify before a Senate sub committee hearing), also William Casey, Colon Powel, General Richard Secord, Phillip Rodriguez and a host of others. We never read about it in the Washington Post and yet if one does their own research it is all there to read. William Colby ex DCI,Gen. Colon Powel and Richard Armitage, during their days in Vietnam while working with the Laotian tribesman, financing their dirty black operations, with money from the drug trade, drugs that made there way back to the states and addicted our youth dumbing down a whole generation.
George H.W. Bush and his illegal operation run right out of the White House while he was Vice President and the media killed the story. The Congress went into emergency closed door session when anything was testified to concerning CIA cocaine smuggling and where all the money went, obviously to fund their clandestine illegal war against Nicaragua.
The media in our country is an arm of the government and in truth is not the fifth estate, anymore. We may have had an independent press, at one time, in our history, but the forces at work have been busy tearing down anything that can stand in their way. In truth when they control the media they control what we think about and what we are fed.
The media has a role to play in the way governments create a false reality. They maintain their power when the population is kept in a state of fear. If they can keep people thinking about stupid things, i.e. Paris Hilton, Who wants to be a Millionaire, Football, and a million other entertainment venues and keep them scared at the same time, then game over. They need to control the media giants and they control the mind of man. It has become a science and whether it be the Jesuits, Roman Catholics, Nazi Germany, or now the good old USA they know how to push our buttons. The whole trauma based mind control is a big part of engineering the public in one direction or another, Study Project Paper Clip, MK Ultra, and follow the trail right into the lap of our research Universities, CIA, our media giants, and all the victims along the way.
I remember the Kennedy Assassination and the trauma our country went through experiencing our young President executed on the streets of Dallas. We heard Lee Harvey Oswald tell the nation on national TV that he was the Patsy, in other words it was set up. We saw Lee Harvey Oswald shot by Jack Ruby, in cold blood, while in the Sheriffs custody. And we were made to believe it was a lone gunman, a nut case, who shot our President. We were traumatized and watched the national tragedy unfold over the whole weekend. Maybe I am sounding a bit old remembering this first 9/11 but it is so eerily clear to me how they manipulated all of us and set us up to believe a lie. Even though Lee Harvey Oswald told us he was the patsy we believed the government version. The media never tried to pick apart the official sanitized Warren Commission Report and so we had to wait until a few investigative men and women uncovered the level of deceit.
9/11 is the same game plan. They pull off the crime of the century, they use trauma based mind control black magic and it takes investigative men and women to dig and dig until it becomes super compelling that the government’s version is the least plausibleconspiracy theory of all. And where is the main line media in all of this, they are not silent, just the opposite. They marginalize, discredit, and ratchet up the media machine to kill the story and try their best to keep the people away from the manipulation.
Unidentified Flying Saucers, (UFO’s) are some of the same media manipulation that has been going on since the late 1940’s. The government has done everything in their power to label those men and women who take the time to research this phenomenon as kooks, crack pots and a host of other descriptive adjectives that any sane informed person would say is crazy. Those who read and study ancient texts know full well that our civilization was founded by off world visitors. We know when we study our current time frame that the sky is full of UFO’s, some unidentified and some that have been confirmed by scores of people. We have thousands of abduction accounts, government whistle blowers, and 100% confirmation speaking to intelligent life in the universe and those galactic cultures that are inter-acting with us on a daily basis, where are the stories in the controlled media? In truth they only fill their pages with dis-information and lies. The truth only comes through when an informed citizen does their own research and then it becomes quite clear that our earth is teaming with intelligent life from other worlds.
(7) Dissent is Treason
What is the definition of “Enemy Combatant”, good question since the Congress passed the John Warner, Military Commissions Act of 2006, because it is what ever the President says it is. Since when do we live in a system where the chief executive is not only above the law but now has the last word on who is an enemy of the state or in other words, enemy combatant?
With their twisted logic a few men, at the top, decide who is good and who is bad. It’s that simple. The Congress has given the authority to the President who then authorizes whoever he chooses to make that judgment. We are at their mercy and can only hold onto a wing and a prayer if for any reason they see fit to label you an enemy combatant. How about a web site that articulates a different point of view? Or a writer who uncovers criminality in government and writes about it? How about an imbedded reporter who tells the truth and shows the public the level of corruption on the battlefield? Are they enemies of the state, enemy combatants, maybe not, but maybe so, if you get on the wrong side of the fence.
How does one get labeled an enemy of the state? Real easy if you are vocal and willing to tell the truth in spite of the political climate and the political fallout. Pot stirrers are not easily put in a box and that does not make them an enemy combatant. Political dissent is the American way. Dissent is crushed under a fascist system and those who are willing to organize and raise their voice are labeled treasonous. I would love to sit down with our founding fathers and ask them what we should do right now, at this historical moment in history. I think we all know what we should be doing and it involves agitating for the common good utilizing the Constitution and the freedoms we do still have to protest and educate ourselves in order that we might reverse the fascist model they have so cleverly orchestrated.
(8) Suspend the Rule of Law
Here we go again…..They cry for a New World Order, where the rule of law will be across the land and they break every law that suits there game plan. The illegal drug business has been controlled by the intelligence services since the British flooded the Chinese market with opium and addicted a whole nation. We financed our illegal war in South East Asia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, with heroin and addicted many of our soldiers coming back from Vietnam during the 1960’s and early 1970’s. George H.W. Bush, Richard Armitage, William Colby (who was killed in a boating accident before he was to testify about the Iran Contra/CIA Cocaine affair) are all up to their ears in the illegal drug business. They hide behind the National Security Act and justify their behavior saying it is part of the reality of the intelligence black operations business.
If we fail to see the illegal things being done in our name then we will literally reap what we sow. The CIA and their hidden partners, are flooding illegal drugs into our great nation from south East Asia, Afghanistan, (were production is at an all time high) Columbia and subverting the rule of law in the process.
As we have already been told it will only take one more 9/11 incident for the President to declare Marshall Law and suspend our remaining constitutional rights. This is not a bad dream we are living through right now. It is happening before our eyes and we are being told exactly what they intend to do. The really sick part in all of this is the fact that we can read history and see how it was done in Nazi Germany, The Soviet Union, Chili and China. All of it is done in the open and within the legal definition of the law. They are skilled in manipulating the system to pass the laws that subvert the constitution and bring in the Marshall Law. Once power is concentrated into the hands of a few they do not give it up easily. Read your history, Rome, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union. Each time the only way the rights of the people were restored was after the Republic fell.
(9) Nationalism
Nationalism is an organizing element that brings a sense of pride to the population. Like many things in life nationalism is not all good or bad. It has its place and can be a positive motivating force not unlike when the United States of America sent our men and women overseas to liberate Europe from the Nazi Fascist Regime of Germany. Our nation promoted our nationalism to achieve a victory in World War II and established a new order in Europe after the war. I can remember growing up with the 4th of July celebration and watching James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy sing, ‘Over there, over there, send the troops over there, and the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, the drums drums beating everywhere, over there…..’ I think many of us can take pride in our great republic and the nationalistic fever can cause us to shed a tear and thank God we live in such a wonderful land.
The Nazi Fascists, in Germany, also utilized nationalism to whip up support of their people, for a war of aggression, in order that they might take over the world and establish their Nazi Fascist system utilizing their military war machine, in effect forcing their Nazi Socialist movement on the rest of the world. Something we are trying to do now.
May I suggest that we read our history to understand what has really taken place since we defeated the Nazi war machine and liberated Europe. Europe experienced the Nazi jack boot on its back, crushing any and all opposition in their lust for power and control. When the German people were crushed in World War I they had their pride crushed as well. They felt their nation was mistreated during the armistice and the treaty of Versailles. Their nationalism was at an all time low and they were easily manipulated when fifteen years later the Nazi Fascists burned the Reichstag, their seat of Government, and passed the “Ermachtigungsesetz, the German Enabling Act”. Nationalism was at the heart of the German people and they were easily led to support the Government of the National Socialist Nazi Regime, in their war of aggression.
We need to be clear when our government puts the Nationalistic propaganda machine in full gear whipping up our citizens to go get the evil perpetrators of 9/11 and then we cloak our foreign adventures as a defensive war in the protection of our great nation. We are easily led when we think falsely that nineteen young men from Saudi Arabia, with box cutters and a few with private pilots licenses, take down our military industrial complex, with one blow.
Think how we have been played, rallying our nationalistic fever, into wars of aggression against sovereign nations, Al Qaeda may have had an operational role, but who was the motivating force behind the incident? Study the policy side to the operation and one will see a whole different perspective on who was involved and who set the operation into motion. Afghanistan was not behind 9/11 nor was Iraq. The nineteen young men were primarily from Saudi Arabia, the pay master was from Pakistan and the Taliban was only a marginal player giving aid and comfort to Osama Bin Laden.
What I am trying to articulate is a simple set of circumstances that if played the right way, utilizing the media, and the heartfelt positive nationalistic energy of our nation, can be twisted into justifying a doctrine of wars of aggression, the same thing the Nazis did when they invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia. The world saw it one way and the German people saw it another way. Why, because people are easily led, the German people were manipulated, through their national pride, to rally to their government, and support their policy of aggression. Sound all too familiar?
Here in the United Sates of America we pride ourselves on our intellect and our ability to reason. We don’t believe we could be fooled by the media or the intentions of the people in power and yet if one stands back from the current collective reality it is simple to see. We have been asleep at the wheel; our pride in our country has blinded us to their manipulation. Old Yankee Doodle Dandy would not be happy with our leaders misusing our national pride to justify wars of aggression. Too bad we seem to be going down the same road as the German people in the 1930’s. We love our country and support our leaders when we have been told a BIG lie. We justify our foreign policy, the war doctrine because we have been fed a set of facts that upon further examination are false. We rally our nationalistic pride in support of the war doctrine and in truth our nationalism is misdirected in support of a cause that is false.
Pride in our flag, pride in our men and women in uniform, pride in our way of life, pride in our founding documents, Pride in our Nation. Who can fault any of us when we hear America the Beautiful and shed a tear of joy and honor for the men and women who have died in defense of this great nation. They fought for our freedom and liberty and many died defending our rights as UNITED STATES citizens. Hell yea, of course we have pride in our country and want to believe our leaders when they call us to arms in defense of our way of life. What troubles me is when I read about the way that Hitler and his Nazi henchmen twisted the truth and ushered in World War II and I see the similarities with this current age and our war on terror. It is worth a serious study and one may come to a similar conclusion, like I always say; do your own research and come to your own truth.
(10) Militarizing Society
We have built the largest military machine in the history of the world and now fund an Empire that spans the globe. Our Military Industrial Complex, that Eisenhower warned us about, is literally a monster out of control. We have instituted a system based on weapons of war and the full militarization of our society. Security Clearances are prized as a way to climb the ladder of success. Jobs with that sector of our economy are booming. The rest of the country is in a depression and WashingtonD.C. hums along at full throttle. Working for the expansion of the Empire is big business and affords any worker a chance to climb the ladder of success.
I live outside Washington, D.C., in Northern Virginia, this is a company town and the government employs many educated high energy people who are all too ready to feed at the trough and climb the ladder of success. Most of my family, who are well intentioned loving men and women, have high paying jobs, with their security clearances, and see nothing wrong with working for the military industrial, government, corporate system. I say, go for it. But I also say, to myself, that something is not right when we are employing well intentioned men and women, who are smart, educated, loving people in the pursuit of policies that are fundamentally flawed. Like Nazi Germany we have a very industrious population, highly skilled, well motivated, a lot of engineers, who see nothing wrong with feeding their families, doing a good days work, building their retirement, and at the end of the day going home for super. Life seems all too regular and normal. In truth we are supporting many policy objectives that under closer examination don’t make any sense at all.
If we want to militarize our nation and the whole world, be a part of the effort to extend our Empire, do it at the expense of others, and then go home like it is just part of my job, then I say we need to rethink what we are doing with the few years we have on this earth, and maybe find another job. I am sure as I am sitting here that the German working population turned a blind eye to the injustices going on in the slave labor camps, on the front line, in the occupied countries, and at home where a group of men had planned and executed a world wide conflagration that would consume the world. How many of the German people spoke out and tried to rally their fellow citizens while they could? How many are really speaking out now? Or taking the time to analyze the facts around 9/11 or the fraud perpetrated on us during the lead up to the war in Iraq. How many marginalize those men and women who do try and raise the consciousness of our citizenry and label them trouble makers? Too many attack the messenger and fail to do their own research when something troubling is brought to light.
The military can be a blessing when the top brass is motivated from a good place. It is no different with our elected officials. The problem I see, at this current place in time, is the simple fact that they have a lust for power and control and those men and women who have chosen the service to self path are making every effort to exert as much effort, as is humanly possible, for fear they will lose their place in the hierarchy of full power and control if they fail.
To think that we have come so far and yet it is still about wanting to control the world. These men at the top of our military machine know full well they have an opportunity to set in place foreword bases, control of the energy resources of the Middle East and achieve absolute dominance of the strategic pipeline routs. They have sold their soul, in my view, by aligning with the corrupt political players and now see the golden prize at their finger tips. They need only act now while they still have time, or the Chinese might well act in the future. They justify taking the prize, falsely thinking that if we don’t do it then others will.
(11) Sexism
We live in a very male dominated culture and very right brain thinking society. The truth that a fascist system is very male dominated is spelled out when one looks at the political power in those regimes. Women are marginalized and the feminine quality is crushed. Obviously women are nurturers; they are focused on the softer side of life. They do not rise to the top in a fascist system because they are, for the most part, unwilling to brutally crush their opponents and opposition. They are not part of the top military hierarchy and so they fail to rise in a militaristic fascist system.
Gay men and women are also hired last, rarely rise to any prominent position and are fired when openly practicing their lifestyle. They can be brutally marginalized within a repressive fascist regime for the simple reason they are considered weak and people that have a talent for the arts and more left brain, nurturing, creative, service to others in their expression.
(12) Partnership between Government and Religion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Neo-Conservatism
“In Liberal Democracies,especially the United States, neo-conservatism is associated with assertively interventionist foreign policy, an emphasis on free trade/free market economics, and a disapproval of counterculture; it may also be strongly associated with particular domestic policy positions, although these vary more from country to country”.
We have to start with the current political philosophy now in power, in the United Sates, and the marriage between the Christian Right and the faith based initiatives currently within the Republican Party and their political agenda. They have succeeded, brilliantly, merging their domestic agenda into a political movement that has permeated the whole process.
The Christian Right has been manipulated into the political process and one is identified with certain political foreign policy objectives that demonize those with another belief system and cultural expression. If you don’t believe that Jesus is the only true Son of God then one is going straight to hell and shall be damned for eternity. The merging of the political process with a certain belief system is exactly what the founders tried to warn us and separate or governmental institutions from.
The Moral Majority-Jerry Falwell, Focus on the Family-James Dobson, The 700 Club-Pat Robertson, the anti abortion movement, and a host of other organizations that equate a certain religious belief with a political movement and peg all of it to being Patriotic, or not, is manipulated and utilized by the Neo-Conservatives. They marginalize the liberal left, counterculture, and those with a more progressive lifestyle. It becomes a rallying cry for their foreign policy objectives and one is made unpatriotic if they have a different belief system or a more progressive outlook on life.
The marriage between the religious right and government is promulgated and promoted as a means of control. When the government and religion (the institutional church) are focusing their energy, time, money and using their resources to push an agenda, it is very difficult for smaller groups to have their voice heard. It is the perfect storm and creates an environment that the fascist model supports.
The Vatican controlled the Catholic Church and under Pope Pius XI, signed a Concordat (Treaty) with Nazi Germany. The Concordat dissolved the German Catholicism’s trade unions and political organizations but guaranteed the church the right to practice the Catholic rite, to keep their schools open, and to appoint Catholic Priests.
The fascist Model tries to merge the church with their political movement synthesizing their ideology and protestant tradition into one expression. They unite the pageantry and the ritual and try and supplant the creator with the Dictator. It becomes blurred and the State is glorified and political thought is focused and directed, in support of the State.
(13) Corporate Power Dominant
Corporatism: the merging of the Government with Multi-National Corporations. Fascism can take on many expressions, Germany, Italy, Chili or America, but it still comes down to a partnership between the State and their corporate interests, with the citizen’s interests coming in a far second. We see this played out in our society on a daily basis. The Politicians have sold their soul to the corporate lobbyists and fund their campaigns with special interest money that dictates where they cast their votes. They relax the rules on Credit Card interest allowing the Banks to raise their rates, to the obscene levels that only loan sharks use to charge , (31 ¾%). Who are they protecting, the consumer, (citizen) or the corporations? It becomes quite apparent that the Corporations and the State have become one, and the people have lost their representation within the political process.
Again, one does not have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that we have been sold down the road by our political leaders. They have feathered their own nests and are in the pocket of the special interests. Our constitutional democracy has lost its power through the focused intent of Big Government, Large Multi-National Corporations and their political henchman. It works like a magnifying glass. When Big Government teams up with Big Corporations “We the People” (citizens) don’t have a chance. We have elected officials that have bought into the trickle down economics model. They give all the tax breaks and the subsidies to Big Business with the hope that it will trickle down to the little guy. You would think, after all of these years they would have figured out that trickle economics only trickles up to the few at the top.
The top income earners have seen their incomes and net worth rise over the last several decades while the middle class and the poor have seen their wages and ability to keep up diminish. The AmericanFascistState has grown into a monster that has crushed the little guy and destroyed their ability to earn a fair wage, provide for their family, enjoy true health care, and have any hope in the future.
The top twenty percent (20%) don’t understand why everyone is so upset. They support the Corporate Fascist model because it works for them. The corporations need an educated workforce to help them control the working middle class and poor. They get paid well, they enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, they educate their children and pass on the corporate model employing the new generation when they come of age. They don’t want to see anything change because life is good and the fascist system works, for them.
What about the working class and poor? We have seen the jobs shipped overseas, the multi-national corporations have destroyed the middle class outsourcing their jobs to India, China, and other markets where the cost of doing business is cheaper and the environmental controls are less strict. The politicians in Washington have not protected our interests but rather feathered their own with position, power and money.
Where is the true leadership in our political process? I can only meditate and pray that we wakeup to the reality of our failure to hold our elected officials accountable for doing the “Peoples Business”. They have bought into the corporate model of government and allowed the top 20% to prosper at the expense of the middle class and the poor. The really upsetting fact, is the world is hurting and the people in the world are hungry for the basic essentials, food, shelter clothing.
The corporations are making record profits, Exxon Mobile, Royal Dutch Shell, Microsoft, and Pfizer. We concentrate the wealth into the hands of the few and our politicians enjoy the revolving door. They move from the political backroom into the corporate headquarters and the little guy is left paying all the bills.
When the mortgage meltdown, orchestrated out of Wall Street, hit the American housing market, who came to the rescue? The Washington political machine went into overdrive and came to the rescue. The tax payers have now footed the bill for the Bears Sterns bailout. Fanny Mae and Indy Mac have come to the well requesting a financial bailout and once again the Federal Government protects the speculators and leaves the rest of us to fend for ourselves. How does the little guy navigate through a sea of sharks? It is almost impossible for anyone but the well connected to weather the storm.
I was watching a Bill Moyer’s Journal last night and it was speaking to this same issue of Corporations being protected by Big Government. It ran a story about a working mother and daughter; they worked as waitresses at a truck stop in Arkansas, and were deeply in debt, to a Hospital Collection Service due to the fine print on an admissions form when the daughter had a diabetic seizure.There was literally no way for them to pay this bill, with interest, on their combined earnings.
The top 20% work for the corporations helping them perpetuate this system and the 80% struggle just to keep up. They keep people separated and broken up into small groups so they don’t have a chance to organize any kind of sustained opposition and over time the masses get further and further behind. They max out their credit cards, they lose their equity in their house and they fail to put away anything for their retirement. Fifty Million US citizens are without healthcare and if they do get sick they don’t get the care they need.
(14) Labor Movement is neutered
Keep the people unorganized while the corporations are super focused and like a laser beam they can cut through any group that organizes against them. If the labor movement had legs and could focus their power they could demand from our politicians and their corporate partners a living wage and force the system to keep the jobs here instead of shipping them overseas. I have never understood why labor, the people, can’t organize a true political movement and kick the bums out in Washington. We are some of the most industrious people on the planet. We have a can do spirit that when unleashed is the hope of the world. If we wanted to produce everything we use right here in America and make it a sustainable model, with the best interests of the people as the primary focus, then we could really soar.
Obviously when the fascist system suppresses labor and their ability to organize it keeps the power in the hands of the few and concentrates it to the top. Corporations are a focusing lens that allows the super elite to maintain their power and control the level that the workers can attain.
The American labor movement was crushed so the Free trade people could exert their globalist agenda and bring in a New World Order. We have seen a steady erosion of our labor movement since the Democratic Party realigned themselves with a Fascist model. Instead of looking out for the working class like they did under Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal, they have passed laws and used the Justice Department to diminish the labor movement in this country. If a group of workers can’t organize an industry then the working men and women have no voice and their standard of living, health care, wages and benefits are greatly reduced. Keep labor suppressed and it keeps the power in the hands of the few.
(15) Arts and Intellectuals marginalized
The fascist don’t want the people to be thinking too hard or long about anything. If they can keep us simple-stupid, dumbed down and not pursuing the higher energy things in life, like music, art, knowledge, true science, vibrational, quantum, plasma, hyper-dimensional physics, ancient history, the why of life then they have us right where they want us. They want a pliable citizenry who accept what they are told and don’t have their critical thinking skills activated.
When a fascist system is in full force they go after the groups on the edges first, the most vocal, the unproductive, the sick, the opposition. Any group that can organize a sustained opposition is marginalized and eventually destroyed. The intellectuals and those in the arts are also targeted because they can bring attention to the fact that the people are considered as property. Humanity is best served by those in touch with their mind, their creative expression, their higher self. Fascism is the old paradigm; value is placed on the object and not on the consciousness behind all creation. The new paradigm is bringing to light the imbalance between the old feudal system and drawing attention to the universal truth that human beings are beyond this three dimensional reality.
When the fascist state gains full power they suppress those who can articulate and organize the masses to rise up and assert their true potential. People are hungry for color and texture and they will respond to those who bring out their higher self. The fascist model holds down true expression. It only survives when the arts and the intellect are marginalized and operate underground.
(16) Cronyism
Cronyism is the way at the top. Prescott Bush goes to Yale, joins the Secret Society, Skull and Bones and George H.W. Bush follows in his foot steps. George W. Bush follows Bush senior and then they all go into the family business. Follow the money and we see the political establishment hires from within, employs family and paves the way for the cycle to continue. The Fascist are experts at cronyism and corruption. They promote their blood line and keep the power concentrated in the hands of the few.
When the system is fundamentally corrupt it permeates through every aspect of the power structure and nothing keeps one from climbing the ladder to the top. When the Iran Contra scandal exposed the illegal operations run out of the White House many people were indicted for their crimes and one would have thought it would put an end to their careers. Just the opposite took place. George H.W. Bush was elected President after his team fell silent, to protect him, and he pardoned all of them except one.
Fascist regimes are governed by elite groups that almost always hire their family and friends and appoint them to governmental positions. They use the power of authority to protect their friends and associates from having to account for their misdeeds. The government is used as a funding mechanism for private businesses. The people at the top funnel government contracts to family owned businesses and use the resources of the government to manipulate their competition.
(17) Election Fraud
The election of George W. Bush, to the Presidency in 2000, was obtained using fraudulent means and forever changed the dynamic within our United States. We thought falsely, that it could never happen here and yet right before our eyes we see young republicans bused down to Florida, descending on the polling places where the recount is taking place. The people doing the recount feel threatened and so they stop the recount and the election is decided in the court. The Supreme Court takes the election from the people and throws the election to Bush. Was it the will of the people or the will of a few at the top? Did the system work, many believe not. Some believe we have passed the point of no return and whether it be the hanging chads, or the voting machines, that we can no longer trust the system to account for the vote in a free and fair way.
Fascist regimes control the vote either by all out voter fraud or by crushing the opposition and scaring the public to vote for the party in power. The Nazi party won the election and was voted into power when they scared the German people with their Brown Shirt thugs and fraudulent activity.
Our Democratic Republic can rise up and take back our power or sit ideally by and allow a few elite families to control the levers of power and dictate their Fascist ideology on the rest of us and the world. It is late in the game and without a focused intent, our emotional creative energy and awakening the consciousness of the people they may well succeed, or we may rise up on wings of eagles and turn this train around.
(18) Human Rights Crushed
I hear George W. Bush criticizing the Chinese leadership for their human rights abuses and I want to say what about getting rid of the log in our own eye before we point the finger and accuse others of their sin. Please….GuantanamoBay, CIA prisons in host countries, young black men incarcerated in up side down numbers per the population for drug crimes. The CIA and their black operations people flood the market with Columbian cocaine, Afghani heroin, and put it on the street only to have the society medicated and unconscious to the reality of their operation. They make all the money, funding their black operations, and we lock up a good part of the young black males in our population.
It makes my skin crawl when I hear George Bush talk about human rights and criticize one country after the other when in truth we have lost our way and we need to recommit ourselves to the truths we hold self evident, That all men are created equal and all should enjoy a very high standard when it comes to human rights.
We suspend military aid to fifty (50) countries because they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution. Think about what we do and not what we say. If we have a policy of being the bully in the world and we go around flexing our muscle giving security companies like Blackwater Security a free reign with no criminal exposure then know wonder the rest of the world hold us in such low esteem. They see one America painted with the Hollywood image. They see super highways, super markets, super Malls and yet with the other side of the brush they see a Fascist Military machine that thinks it can project power and control in the name of freedom while at the same time crushing those who protest their occupation.
Nicaragua comes to mind, Cuba, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. We should rememberthe Shah of Iran, Guatemala, Cambodia and Laos. I hate to think about what we did to Salvador Allende of Chili or other regimes that we supported in the world. It always has perplexed me how we go around speaking about human rights and in secret we support those Military regimes that are the most repressive in the world. Then we funnel arms to the military Juntas to fight their local population in wars of liberation. Of course we do it all covertly and then keep it from the American people. The locals sure know what is going on. Our enemies know what we are doing. It is only the American people who are kept in the dark. As long as our grocery stores are full, our gas is cheap, and our entertainment is running at full blast, we are happy, out of sight, out of mind. Human rights are about right action and right thinking. Distain for human rights means what do we do in practice not what do we say.
Patriot Act
We the people, of these United States, have allowed our way of life to be compromised and now find ourselves in a rather difficult predicament. How does a sovereign nation unscramble the egg and take back our constitutional republic? Not an easy thing to do once the congress has voted to enact laws, that some would argue, protect us from an outside threat. The fact that it is a difficult task should not keep us from the work, to restore the checks and balances spelled out within our constitution.
The German Ermachtigungsesetz (Enabling Act) was enacted on March 23, 1933 after the Reichstag building was burned by the Nazis and blamed on the communists. On February 27th 1933 The Nazis torched the seat of the German government and ushered in a reign of terror that destroyed much of Europe and the world. After the fire Hitler invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, and suspended civil liberties during the orchestrated crisis. This was a classic example of State sponsored terrorism. They created the crisis, the people reacted and the Nazi party offered a solution.
The constitutional protections that were abrogated included; the protection against search and seizure, freedom of the press, free expression of opinion, individual property rights, right of assembly and association, right to privacy of postal and electronic communications and states rights of self government.
The German people were manipulated into giving up their constitutional democracy for a Dictatorship. Hitler became commander in chief of the armed forces; this was in addition to being President and Fuhrer of the German Reich, to whom every German in the armed forces pledged their unconditional obedience.
The term Patriot Act sends chills up my spine and reminds me of a “Brave New World” where words are turned inside out, up means down and down means up. The term Patriot is synonymous with The Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution. Utilized for the Patriot Act it is a name for something that is anathema to our way of life and our constitutional democracy.
We study the historical record so we might learn from our experiences and not repeat those lessons that have plagued us in the past. The parallels between the Germany of 1933 and America today, are striking and very similar. We too have the opportunity to wake up to the manipulation before we have to pay a much higher price. Even now in the year 2008 we have before us a clear choice; i.e. to reject the “Patriot Act” as a document founded on false assumptions and hold our Constitution as sacred and in place to protect us from enemies both foreign and domestic. If we lose our constitutional rights then we lose the foundation of our constitutional system, or we can choose to do nothing and watch our constitutional system slip away.
We must remember that Hitler came to power legally. He and the Nazi party were elected democratically during a time of great national crisis. As David Icke has pointed out pointedly, the manipulation starts when the forces seeking to take full control organize and cause a situation to take place that creates a crisis, the people react and then elements within the government provide the solution. It is a scenario that has been used throughout the ages. Nero torched Rome and blamed the Christians ushering in a Dictatorship. Forces within our government bombed the battle ship Maine, in Havana harbor, and blamed the Spanish. The North American media wrote stories fueling anti Spanish sentiment whipping up cries for war. The gulf of Tonkin incident during the Vietnam conflict was later found to be false and yet the Congress used it as a pretext for a further escalation of the Vietnam War. Time and time again elements within the government apparatus have manipulated the public utilizing false flag operations. Legitimate well intentioned people working for the government have failed to identify the true perpetrators and so it becomes a game of smoke and mirrors.
Operation Northwoods is a well documented false flag operation that was planned and approved at the Joint Chief level only to be terminated when President Kennedy said no. It spelled out the following and I quote: “Code named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war”.
Sometimes we have to grow up and face the fact that there are bad people in the world and some of them work for our government. They justify their actions in the name of “National Security” falsely thinking that the end justifies the means. False flag operations are justified in the name of freedom and liberty. Assassinations become a part of legitimate black operations, illegal drug deals, subversion of the electoral process, including our own. They push the line further and further from what is acceptable and in the end we have lost everything that we stand for. In truth we stand for full power and control, not freedom and liberty.
Herman Goering stated: “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” Herman Goering was quoted during his war crimes trial and further stated how easily he and his fellow Nazis manipulated the democratic German government.
The first Patriot Act was passed on October 27th 2001 after the Bush Administration pushed through the legislation absent debate and time for the Congress to read it. It was written a year before 9/11 and the timing was orchestrated by Dick Cheney to give it maximum effect. It is a document that has been universally described as giving the President Dictatorial powers and is completely unconstitutional.
The Bush White House has crafted a political environment utilizing scare tactics and bullying the congress into passing a bill that is patently unconstitutional. They have painted a picture, through the media, that if you speak out about the details of the Patriot Act then you are unpatriotic. They go to great lengths to label you a traitor and someone who is weak on defense. The congress was literally scared into passage of the act just a month after 9/11. I say, shame on the congress for their lack of courage, and leadership, to protect our constitutional way of life.
The second Patriot Act, Patriot Act II, is a legal basis for the executive to override the will of the congress and gives the President, the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command unchecked power and control. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, (Patriot Act II) is a blueprint for full all out Dictatorship and the congress should be ashamed if they pass it.
As we begin to digest the enormity of the problem we come to realize that only an informed citizenry and an organized effort will overturn this unconstitutional document. We must educate ourselves to the rights and privileges spelled out in our founding documents and then work to restore our rule of law based not on the Patriot Act but rather on our Constitution. Our constitution is the basis for our rule of law. It is the foundation that all legislated-enacted laws spring from. If it is unconstitutional then it must be overturned. We must stand up and file suit in Federal District Court to have the law overturned, based on it being unconstitutional.
Obviously, we are in for a wild ride and given the current climate in the world and we must be eternally vigilant in our pursuit for truth. These people are not playing games and have every intention of staying the course until they complete there mission and in George H. W. Bush’s words, bring in a New World Order.
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