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He’s putting words into the 14th Amendment, when just two weeks ago he said that was forbidden.
Washington is Conquering Africa using France, Human Rights, Terrorism, and the National Endowment for Democracy
Clashes rage in Cairo for fourth day
Protesters battled police forces for the fourth consecutive day demanding an immediate end to military rule.
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US Drone Strikes Destabilize Pakistan
Fred Branfman: US policy should be to help develop Pakistan
( It doesn't seem as if Washington would agree - else they wouldn't be destroying it )
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Militarization of the Dream Act
Thanu Yakupityage: "Dreamers" oppose GOP plan to restrict path to citizenship to military recruitment
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( I immediately thought of the militarization requirement in both Greece and the movie based on the novel by Robert Heinlein : Starship Troopers which portrayed a military dictatorship posing as Democracy. Heinlein also wrote about the abandonment of veterans in 'Glory Road". Which doesn't mean I am an enthusiastic Fan. The quip that Heinlein is a pygmy writer with a giant typewriter has some merit. But - it is also very Hollywood.
Godwins Law - Definition
Godwin's law (also Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990. The law states that:- As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Nevertheless, there is also a widely-recognized codicil that any intentional invocation of Godwin's law for its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
* Suppress the topic - Mind Control
Economics : Fascism
If a formal architect of fascism can be identified, it is Benito Mussolini, the onetime Marxist editor who, caught up in nationalist fervor, broke with the left as World War I approached and became Italy’s leader in 1922. Mussolini distinguished fascism from liberal capitalism in his 1928 autobiography:
The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity. The Fascist State with its corporative conception puts men and their possibilities into productive work and interprets for them the duties they have to fulfill. (p. 280)Before his foray into imperialism in 1935, Mussolini was often praised by prominent Americans and Britons, including Winston Churchill, for his economic program.
Adolf Hitler, whose National Socialist (Nazi) Party adapted fascism to Germany beginning in 1933, said:The state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property. (Barkai 1990, pp. 26–27)
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The War on Drugs and American Fascism | The Anatomy of an American Fascist
Fascism is to be distinguished from interventionism, or the mixed economy. Interventionism seeks to guide the market process, not eliminate it, as fascism did. Minimum-wage and antitrust laws, though they regulate the free market, are a far cry from multiyear plans from the Ministry of Economics.
Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography. In this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism, a form of socialism originating on the left. The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan.
The fascist leaders’ antagonism to communism has been misinterpreted as an affinity for capitalism. In fact, fascists’ anticommunism was motivated by a belief that in the collectivist milieu of early-twentieth-century Europe, communism was its closest rival for people’s allegiance. As with communism, under fascism, every citizen was regarded as an employee and tenant of the totalitarian, party-dominated state. Consequently, it was the state’s prerogative to use force, or the threat of it, to suppress even peaceful opposition.
Robber Barons
Like most of the robber barons, Carnegie was a mass of contradictions--as if he was not one but three or four different people at once.
There was the son of the Scottish peasant, who had been forced off the land to America when the landlords wanted to replace peasant farmers with grazing sheep and when the coming of the power loom to Britain had destroyed the livelihood of the perhaps 4% of the British population who wove thread into cloth by hand in their cottages--the so-called "handloom weavers."
There was the union-buster who unleashed his lieutenant Henry Clay Frick to destroy the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers union's control over the Homestead, Pennsylvania steel plant: one of the bloodiest episodes in the already-bloody nineteenth century history of American labor relations.
Executive Orders - The Hallmarks Of
Executive Orders - The Hallmarks Of Fascist Tyranny By J. Speer-Williams 1-17-10 The Executive Branch of our federal government has become a 500 pound tick ...newresearchfindingstwo.blogspot.com/
In a representative democracy, laws are made by duly elected representatives, not by a head of state, by mere edict, with no debate, or samplings of public opinion, such as EOs are made into law: The former is known as "rule by law," the latter as "rule by men."
When establishing our Constitutional Republic, our founding fathers instituted the principle of government known as the Rule of Law (as opposed to the Rule of Men), which was intended to be a safeguard against arbitrary governance, and the unconstitutional edicts imposed by would be tyrants, which were not in accordance with written, publicly disclosed laws and enforced within legally established guidelines and procedures made by congress and signed into law by our chief executive, the president.
When a president tries to effect one of his Executive Orders into being a national law, he is attempting to circumvent congress, and contravene our Constitution, and move us closer to being a country ruled by men rather than a nation ruled by laws.
What is Fascism? - Holocaust Cybrary
Prosperity has never exactly been the hallmark of fascist regimes and economics is "central" to any form of government. Certainly a fascist regime uses ...www.remember.org/hist.root.what.htmla good many important people who believed that a somewhat modified form of fascism (power vested in the banks and business corporations instead of with the army) would lead the country out of the wilderness of the Great Depression -- put an end to the Pennsylvania labor troubles, silence the voices of socialist heresy and democratic dissent. (A Depression is a shrinkage of the money supply. The end of the GW Bush administration was concurrent with repercussions of fraud allowed by deregulation undermining investor confidence in an inflationary bubble fueled by easy credit - which was cut off and terms of lending changed to allegedly require more security...while perversely ensuring collapse. After all, if you can't get your money back from deadbeats and frauds - unemployment creating many such desperate for relief - nor make a profit while doing so...are you going to lend it out ! No way. Yet new technology and job creation depend on such....and on a solvent market.Your choice : banksters or banksters lite, gobbling up property for pennies on the dollar.Yet you still hear of market based retirement schemes as insurance.Not from me. I can't wrap my head around such economic gamesmanship: it sounds like more con fraud. ) 
... the war against fascism was lost on the home front, to the same cadre of American elitists who built Hitler's ... agenda of global corporatism. ... generations, the Bush ...books.google.com/books/about/The_Nazi_
Beware: American Fascism/Corporatism on the Rise ... Western civilisation," found that Hitler and fascism ... Bush Doctrine (9) Bush Tax Cuts (1) Bush ...moralphilosophyofcurrentevents.blogspot.com
Gulf Oil Catastrophe: Documented Effects
How Bush's grandfather helped
[Sep 25, 2004] George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the ...www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/Talk:Prescott Bush/Archive 1
Bush/Nazi Link Continued
After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen “enemy national” relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.
Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.
At the same time Bush and the Harrimans were profiting from their Nazi partnerships, W. Averell Harriman was serving as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s personal emissary to the United Kingdom during the toughest years of the war. On October 28, 1942, the same day two key Bush-Harriman-run businesses were being seized by the U.S. government, Harriman was meeting in London with Field Marshall Smuts to discuss the war effort.
In yet another attempt to deceive the governments of both the U.S. and Canada, Livense and his partners misreported the facts about the sale of a Canadian Nazi front enterprise, La Cooperative Catholique des Consommateurs de Combustible, which imported German coal into Canada via the web of Thyssen-controlled U.S. businesses.
“The Canadian authorities, however, were not taken in by this maneuver,” a U.S. government report states. The coal company was later seized by Canadian authorities.
UNDERSTANDING FASCISM AS CORPORATOCRACY
The collusion of Big Business with Big government behind Big Brother tyranny
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
~ Benito Mussolini, the archetypal corporate fascist "If we can change ourselves, we can change the world.
We are not the victims of the world we see,
we are the victims of the way we see the world."
- Dennis Kucinich, Ohio SenatorThe Ties That Bind NGOs
almost all development NGOs receive a great deal of their funding from government and in return follow government policies and priorities.
CIDA money was only for projects in Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti — three countries under military occupation. (The agreement prohibited Alternatives from using the money to “engage” the public and it excluded programs in Palestine and Central America.)
One important problem for Alternatives and the rest of the “progressive” government-funded NGO community is that their benefactor’s money is often tied to military intervention. A major principle of Canadian aid has been that where the USA wields its big stick, Canada carries its police baton and offers a carrot. To put it more clearly, where the U.S. kills Canada provides aid.
For government officials, notes Naomi Klein, NGOs were “the charity wing of the military, silently mopping up after wars.” Officials within the George W. Bush administration publicly touted the value of NGOs for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Three months after the invasion of Iraq Andrew Natsios, head of USAID and former World Vision director, bluntly declared “NGOs are an arm of the U.S. government.” Natsios threatened to “personally tear up their contracts and find new partners” if an NGO refused to play by Washington’s rules in Iraq, which included limits on speaking to the media.
In the lead-up to the invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell explained: “I am serious about making sure we have the best relationship with NGOs who are such a force multiplier for us and such an important part of our combat team.”
“It’s a useful counterinsurgency tool,” is how Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Doucette, commander of Canada’s provincial reconstruction team, described CIDA’s work in Afghanistan. Development assistance, for instance, was sometimes given to communities in exchange for information on combatants. After a roadside bomb hit his convoy in September 2009, Canadian General Jonathan Vance spent 50 minutes berating village elders for not preventing the attack. “If we keep blowing up on the roads,” he told them, “I’m going to stop doing development.”
If even a “progressive” NGO such as Alternatives can be pushed into working as a tool of the military, shouldn’t we at least come up with a better description than “non-governmental” organization?
( :) Another lament made ridiculous when put in context with 'public diplomacy' )
via RT Bot
Québec History 31 - FLQ October CrisisQuébec a Nation History 31 The October Crisis was a series of events triggered by two kidnappings of government officials by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during October 1970 in Québec. The FLQ demanded that the government release political prisoners who were sentenced to death, mens like François Schirm and Edmond Guénette who were sentenced to death for a robbery. These circumstances ultimately culminated in the only peacetime usage of the War Measures Act in Canada's history and in the execution of minister Pierre Laporte by the FLQ. The death penalty have been abolish in Canada in 1976, François Schirm and Edmond Guénette were not executed by the government. The War Measures Act was a Canadian statute that allowed the government to assume sweeping emergency powers in the event of "war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended". The act was invoked
Oppose Bacteriological Warfare: Biological Warfare During the Korean War (1952)thefilmarchive.org DVD: www.amazon.com During the 1948 Israel War of Independence, International Red Cross reports raised suspicion that the Jewish Haganah militia had released Salmonella typhi bacteria into the water supply for the city of Acre, causing an outbreak of typhoid among the inhabitants. Egyptian troops later claimed to have captured disguised Haganah soldiers near wells in Gaza, whom they executed for allegedly attempting another attack. Israel denies these allegations. During the Cold War, US conscientious objectors were used as consenting test subjects for biological agents in a program known as Operation Whitecoat. There were also many unpublicized tests carried out on the public during the Cold War. Considerable research on the topic was performed by the United States (see US Biological Weapon Testing), the Soviet Union, and probably other major nations throughout the Cold
( UN Sued Over Cholera Outbreak In Haiti
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The War on Drugs and American Fascism | The Anatomy of an American Fascist
Fascism is to be distinguished from interventionism, or the mixed economy. Interventionism seeks to guide the market process, not eliminate it, as fascism did. Minimum-wage and antitrust laws, though they regulate the free market, are a far cry from multiyear plans from the Ministry of Economics.
Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography. In this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism, a form of socialism originating on the left. The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan.
The fascist leaders’ antagonism to communism has been misinterpreted as an affinity for capitalism. In fact, fascists’ anticommunism was motivated by a belief that in the collectivist milieu of early-twentieth-century Europe, communism was its closest rival for people’s allegiance. As with communism, under fascism, every citizen was regarded as an employee and tenant of the totalitarian, party-dominated state. Consequently, it was the state’s prerogative to use force, or the threat of it, to suppress even peaceful opposition.
Robber Barons
Like most of the robber barons, Carnegie was a mass of contradictions--as if he was not one but three or four different people at once.
There was the son of the Scottish peasant, who had been forced off the land to America when the landlords wanted to replace peasant farmers with grazing sheep and when the coming of the power loom to Britain had destroyed the livelihood of the perhaps 4% of the British population who wove thread into cloth by hand in their cottages--the so-called "handloom weavers."
There was the union-buster who unleashed his lieutenant Henry Clay Frick to destroy the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers union's control over the Homestead, Pennsylvania steel plant: one of the bloodiest episodes in the already-bloody nineteenth century history of American labor relations.
Executive Orders - The Hallmarks Of
Executive Orders - The Hallmarks Of Fascist Tyranny By J. Speer-Williams 1-17-10 The Executive Branch of our federal government has become a 500 pound tick ...newresearchfindingstwo.blogspot.com/
In a representative democracy, laws are made by duly elected representatives, not by a head of state, by mere edict, with no debate, or samplings of public opinion, such as EOs are made into law: The former is known as "rule by law," the latter as "rule by men."
When establishing our Constitutional Republic, our founding fathers instituted the principle of government known as the Rule of Law (as opposed to the Rule of Men), which was intended to be a safeguard against arbitrary governance, and the unconstitutional edicts imposed by would be tyrants, which were not in accordance with written, publicly disclosed laws and enforced within legally established guidelines and procedures made by congress and signed into law by our chief executive, the president.
When a president tries to effect one of his Executive Orders into being a national law, he is attempting to circumvent congress, and contravene our Constitution, and move us closer to being a country ruled by men rather than a nation ruled by laws.
What is Fascism? - Holocaust Cybrary
Prosperity has never exactly been the hallmark of fascist regimes and economics is "central" to any form of government. Certainly a fascist regime uses ...www.remember.org/hist.root.what.htmla good many important people who believed that a somewhat modified form of fascism (power vested in the banks and business corporations instead of with the army) would lead the country out of the wilderness of the Great Depression -- put an end to the Pennsylvania labor troubles, silence the voices of socialist heresy and democratic dissent. (A Depression is a shrinkage of the money supply. The end of the GW Bush administration was concurrent with repercussions of fraud allowed by deregulation undermining investor confidence in an inflationary bubble fueled by easy credit - which was cut off and terms of lending changed to allegedly require more security...while perversely ensuring collapse. After all, if you can't get your money back from deadbeats and frauds - unemployment creating many such desperate for relief - nor make a profit while doing so...are you going to lend it out ! No way. Yet new technology and job creation depend on such....and on a solvent market.Your choice : banksters or banksters lite, gobbling up property for pennies on the dollar.Yet you still hear of market based retirement schemes as insurance.Not from me. I can't wrap my head around such economic gamesmanship: it sounds like more con fraud. )
... the war against fascism was lost on the home front, to the same cadre of American elitists who built Hitler's ... agenda of global corporatism. ... generations, the Bush ...books.google.com/books/about/The_Nazi_
Beware: American Fascism/Corporatism on the Rise ... Western civilisation," found that Hitler and fascism ... Bush Doctrine (9) Bush Tax Cuts (1) Bush ...moralphilosophyofcurrentevents.blogspot.com
Gulf Oil Catastrophe: Documented Effects
How Bush's grandfather helped
[Sep 25, 2004] George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the ...www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/Talk:Prescott Bush/Archive 1
Bush/Nazi Link Continued
After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen “enemy national” relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.
Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.
At the same time Bush and the Harrimans were profiting from their Nazi partnerships, W. Averell Harriman was serving as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s personal emissary to the United Kingdom during the toughest years of the war. On October 28, 1942, the same day two key Bush-Harriman-run businesses were being seized by the U.S. government, Harriman was meeting in London with Field Marshall Smuts to discuss the war effort.
In yet another attempt to deceive the governments of both the U.S. and Canada, Livense and his partners misreported the facts about the sale of a Canadian Nazi front enterprise, La Cooperative Catholique des Consommateurs de Combustible, which imported German coal into Canada via the web of Thyssen-controlled U.S. businesses.
“The Canadian authorities, however, were not taken in by this maneuver,” a U.S. government report states. The coal company was later seized by Canadian authorities.
UNDERSTANDING FASCISM AS CORPORATOCRACY
The collusion of Big Business with Big government behind Big Brother tyranny
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
~ Benito Mussolini, the archetypal corporate fascist "If we can change ourselves, we can change the world.
We are not the victims of the world we see,
we are the victims of the way we see the world."
- Dennis Kucinich, Ohio SenatorThe Ties That Bind NGOs
almost all development NGOs receive a great deal of their funding from government and in return follow government policies and priorities.
CIDA money was only for projects in Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti — three countries under military occupation. (The agreement prohibited Alternatives from using the money to “engage” the public and it excluded programs in Palestine and Central America.)
One important problem for Alternatives and the rest of the “progressive” government-funded NGO community is that their benefactor’s money is often tied to military intervention. A major principle of Canadian aid has been that where the USA wields its big stick, Canada carries its police baton and offers a carrot. To put it more clearly, where the U.S. kills Canada provides aid.
For government officials, notes Naomi Klein, NGOs were “the charity wing of the military, silently mopping up after wars.” Officials within the George W. Bush administration publicly touted the value of NGOs for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Three months after the invasion of Iraq Andrew Natsios, head of USAID and former World Vision director, bluntly declared “NGOs are an arm of the U.S. government.” Natsios threatened to “personally tear up their contracts and find new partners” if an NGO refused to play by Washington’s rules in Iraq, which included limits on speaking to the media.
In the lead-up to the invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell explained: “I am serious about making sure we have the best relationship with NGOs who are such a force multiplier for us and such an important part of our combat team.”
“It’s a useful counterinsurgency tool,” is how Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Doucette, commander of Canada’s provincial reconstruction team, described CIDA’s work in Afghanistan. Development assistance, for instance, was sometimes given to communities in exchange for information on combatants. After a roadside bomb hit his convoy in September 2009, Canadian General Jonathan Vance spent 50 minutes berating village elders for not preventing the attack. “If we keep blowing up on the roads,” he told them, “I’m going to stop doing development.”
If even a “progressive” NGO such as Alternatives can be pushed into working as a tool of the military, shouldn’t we at least come up with a better description than “non-governmental” organization?
( :) Another lament made ridiculous when put in context with 'public diplomacy' )
via RT Bot
Québec History 31 - FLQ October CrisisQuébec a Nation History 31 The October Crisis was a series of events triggered by two kidnappings of government officials by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during October 1970 in Québec. The FLQ demanded that the government release political prisoners who were sentenced to death, mens like François Schirm and Edmond Guénette who were sentenced to death for a robbery. These circumstances ultimately culminated in the only peacetime usage of the War Measures Act in Canada's history and in the execution of minister Pierre Laporte by the FLQ. The death penalty have been abolish in Canada in 1976, François Schirm and Edmond Guénette were not executed by the government. The War Measures Act was a Canadian statute that allowed the government to assume sweeping emergency powers in the event of "war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended". The act was invoked
Oppose Bacteriological Warfare: Biological Warfare During the Korean War (1952)thefilmarchive.org DVD: www.amazon.com During the 1948 Israel War of Independence, International Red Cross reports raised suspicion that the Jewish Haganah militia had released Salmonella typhi bacteria into the water supply for the city of Acre, causing an outbreak of typhoid among the inhabitants. Egyptian troops later claimed to have captured disguised Haganah soldiers near wells in Gaza, whom they executed for allegedly attempting another attack. Israel denies these allegations. During the Cold War, US conscientious objectors were used as consenting test subjects for biological agents in a program known as Operation Whitecoat. There were also many unpublicized tests carried out on the public during the Cold War. Considerable research on the topic was performed by the United States (see US Biological Weapon Testing), the Soviet Union, and probably other major nations throughout the Cold
( UN Sued Over Cholera Outbreak In Haiti
December 27, 2011 CNN MOXNews.com )
The Anatomy of an American Fascist
Fascism is to be distinguished from interventionism, or the mixed economy. Interventionism seeks to guide the market process, not eliminate it, as fascism did. Minimum-wage and antitrust laws, though they regulate the free market, are a far cry from multiyear plans from the Ministry of Economics.
Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography. In this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism, a form of socialism originating on the left. The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan.
The fascist leaders’ antagonism to communism has been misinterpreted as an affinity for capitalism. In fact, fascists’ anticommunism was motivated by a belief that in the collectivist milieu of early-twentieth-century Europe, communism was its closest rival for people’s allegiance. As with communism, under fascism, every citizen was regarded as an employee and tenant of the totalitarian, party-dominated state. Consequently, it was the state’s prerogative to use force, or the threat of it, to suppress even peaceful opposition.
Robber Barons
Like most of the robber barons, Carnegie was a mass of contradictions--as if he was not one but three or four different people at once.
There was the son of the Scottish peasant, who had been forced off the land to America when the landlords wanted to replace peasant farmers with grazing sheep and when the coming of the power loom to Britain had destroyed the livelihood of the perhaps 4% of the British population who wove thread into cloth by hand in their cottages--the so-called "handloom weavers."
There was the union-buster who unleashed his lieutenant Henry Clay Frick to destroy the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers union's control over the Homestead, Pennsylvania steel plant: one of the bloodiest episodes in the already-bloody nineteenth century history of American labor relations.
Executive Orders - The Hallmarks Of
Executive Orders - The Hallmarks Of Fascist Tyranny By J. Speer-Williams 1-17-10 The Executive Branch of our federal government has become a 500 pound tick ...
newresearchfindingstwo.blogspot.com/In a representative democracy, laws are made by duly elected representatives, not by a head of state, by mere edict, with no debate, or samplings of public opinion, such as EOs are made into law: The former is known as "rule by law," the latter as "rule by men."
When establishing our Constitutional Republic, our founding fathers instituted the principle of government known as the Rule of Law (as opposed to the Rule of Men), which was intended to be a safeguard against arbitrary governance, and the unconstitutional edicts imposed by would be tyrants, which were not in accordance with written, publicly disclosed laws and enforced within legally established guidelines and procedures made by congress and signed into law by our chief executive, the president.
When a president tries to effect one of his Executive Orders into being a national law, he is attempting to circumvent congress, and contravene our Constitution, and move us closer to being a country ruled by men rather than a nation ruled by laws.
What is Fascism? - Holocaust Cybrary
Prosperity has never exactly been the hallmark of fascist regimes and economics is "central" to any form of government. Certainly a fascist regime uses ...
www.remember.org/hist.root.what.html
... the war against fascism was lost on the home front, to the same cadre of American elitists who built Hitler's ... agenda of global corporatism. ... generations, the Bush ...
books.google.com/books/about/The_Nazi_Beware: American Fascism/Corporatism on the Rise ... Western civilisation," found that Hitler and fascism ... Bush Doctrine (9) Bush Tax Cuts (1) Bush ...
moralphilosophyofcurrentevents.blogspot.comGulf Oil Catastrophe: Documented Effects
How Bush's grandfather helped
[Sep 25, 2004] George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/
Talk:Prescott Bush/Archive 1
Bush/Nazi Link Continued
After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen “enemy national” relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.
Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.
At the same time Bush and the Harrimans were profiting from their Nazi partnerships, W. Averell Harriman was serving as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s personal emissary to the United Kingdom during the toughest years of the war. On October 28, 1942, the same day two key Bush-Harriman-run businesses were being seized by the U.S. government, Harriman was meeting in London with Field Marshall Smuts to discuss the war effort.
In yet another attempt to deceive the governments of both the U.S. and Canada, Livense and his partners misreported the facts about the sale of a Canadian Nazi front enterprise, La Cooperative Catholique des Consommateurs de Combustible, which imported German coal into Canada via the web of Thyssen-controlled U.S. businesses.
“The Canadian authorities, however, were not taken in by this maneuver,” a U.S. government report states. The coal company was later seized by Canadian authorities.
UNDERSTANDING FASCISM AS CORPORATOCRACY
The collusion of Big Business with Big government behind Big Brother tyranny
"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
~ Benito Mussolini, the archetypal corporate fascist
because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
~ Benito Mussolini, the archetypal corporate fascist
"If we can change ourselves, we can change the world.
We are not the victims of the world we see,
we are the victims of the way we see the world."
- Dennis Kucinich, Ohio Senator
We are not the victims of the world we see,
we are the victims of the way we see the world."
- Dennis Kucinich, Ohio Senator
The Ties That Bind NGOs
almost all development NGOs receive a great deal of their funding from government and in return follow government policies and priorities.
CIDA money was only for projects in Afghanistan, Iraq and Haiti — three countries under military occupation. (The agreement prohibited Alternatives from using the money to “engage” the public and it excluded programs in Palestine and Central America.)
One important problem for Alternatives and the rest of the “progressive” government-funded NGO community is that their benefactor’s money is often tied to military intervention. A major principle of Canadian aid has been that where the USA wields its big stick, Canada carries its police baton and offers a carrot. To put it more clearly, where the U.S. kills Canada provides aid.
For government officials, notes Naomi Klein, NGOs were “the charity wing of the military, silently mopping up after wars.” Officials within the George W. Bush administration publicly touted the value of NGOs for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Three months after the invasion of Iraq Andrew Natsios, head of USAID and former World Vision director, bluntly declared “NGOs are an arm of the U.S. government.” Natsios threatened to “personally tear up their contracts and find new partners” if an NGO refused to play by Washington’s rules in Iraq, which included limits on speaking to the media.
In the lead-up to the invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell explained: “I am serious about making sure we have the best relationship with NGOs who are such a force multiplier for us and such an important part of our combat team.”
“It’s a useful counterinsurgency tool,” is how Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Doucette, commander of Canada’s provincial reconstruction team, described CIDA’s work in Afghanistan. Development assistance, for instance, was sometimes given to communities in exchange for information on combatants. After a roadside bomb hit his convoy in September 2009, Canadian General Jonathan Vance spent 50 minutes berating village elders for not preventing the attack. “If we keep blowing up on the roads,” he told them, “I’m going to stop doing development.”
If even a “progressive” NGO such as Alternatives can be pushed into working as a tool of the military, shouldn’t we at least come up with a better description than “non-governmental” organization?( :) Another lament made ridiculous when put in context with 'public diplomacy' )
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