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FASCISM:

The reality about fascism in America.

"There is a difference between a fifth columnist working in America for Hitler, Mussolini, or Stalin, and an American who would give his life for his country but would also like to see its social and economic life changed in the direction of the fascist pattern. You will get no such American to admit that what he believes in is fascism. He has other and more agreeable names for it. He would be provoked to knock you down if you called him a fascist. That is because he does not know what fascism is and makes the mistake of supposing that a fascist is one who is on the side of the Führer or the Duce."

America's top fascists don't wear uniforms. They're more subtle. This essay is even more applicable today than it was in 1944.

TAX AND SPEND:

Suddenly Obama is going to cut the deficit. But not by cutting spending. By playing class warfare.

REGULATION:

Call to abolish speed limits. They're just another way the ruling class loots us.

EDUCATION:

Government school bans students from bringing their own lunches. The lesson here is obvious. Families are too stupid to feed themselves. They must look to the government for sustenance. Government schools are crippling the minds of children.

GLOBAL WARMING AND ENERGY:

New gasoline engine claims to be five times more efficient, 20 percent lighter and 30 percent cheaper to manufacture. The downside is it has lower power, but that won't stop it from being marketable if it achieves those other goals.

WAR:

US Navy tests ship-mounted laser.

Pakistani government demands and end to US drone strikes and a reduction in US special forces and intelligence teams in Pakistan. This is going to cause some friction. On the one hand, you can't blame them. On the other, they have no control over what happens in this territory. They want it both ways. This is a situation that could only exist because of government.

FOREIGN POLICY:

The aristocrats are working up to invade Mexico. Why not? They kill and bully Arabs for decades, then they use the retaliatory terrorist attacks as an excuse to expand their aggression in the Middle East. Since they empower drug gangs with the war on drugs, and they've already invaded South American countries in the name of the war on drugs, it only makes sense they use drug gang violence as an excuse to expand aggression into Mexico.

"Over the past five years, an estimated 37,000 people have been killed as a result of the U.S.-funded war between the administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon and various narcotics syndicates. Several months ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry suggested that Washington should invade Mexico for the supposed purpose of ending the violence.  The only trivial impediment to that plan, Perry observed, is that Mexico's government would have to "approve" of the invasion."

I'm sure Washington wouldn't have to wait for approval. Or even a declaration of war. Of course Columbia invited US troops down there.

"The "electronic intelligence systems" he describes are already operating in Mexico; huge amounts of money are being poured into training and equipping Mexican military and police; and U.S.-trained paramilitaries are actively involved in the Drug War – on both sides of the conflict. "The U.S. agents generally provide intelligence and training, while Mexicans do the hands-on work," explains a recent AP dispatch from Mexico City. Brad Barker, president of a "private"mercenary firm called HALO Corporation, told the AP: "Yes, we're tracking vehicles, yes, we're tracking people.... There's been a huge spike in agents down here."For the nonce, however, the huge and growing population of U.S. military and intelligence "advisers" infesting Mexico have to "play down" their role, in order "to avoid rubbing nationalist raw spots.""

The DEA and border patrol have been operating in Mexico for years if not decades. I'm not surprised that US military advisors are operating there too. Americans are fools to support this.

"This assassination was hailed as a significant "victory" in Washington's drug war in Mexico. Indeed, from the perspective of the people who manage that war, it was an ideal victory – the kind that helps perpetuate the conflict, rather than bringing it to an end. As the AP points out, in the year following the killing of Beltran-Leyva, arrests of drug cartel leaders were up, cocaine seizures expanded, and the frequency of drug-related extraditions to the U.S.  increased – "and yet, killings jumped to a record high ... and more heroin and marijuana are being produced in Mexico and smuggled into the U.S." "

That's why only a fool would support it.

"Of course, the most effective way to destroy the criminal syndicates – as a growing number of war-weary Mexicans understand – would be to de-criminalize narcotics, which would mean an immediate end to the grotesquely inflated profits that sustain the cartels."

Only a fool wouldn't support legalization. Everybody is entitled to their opinions, but we all have to acknowledge facts, and the fact is the war on drugs is far, far more destructive than drugs themselves and that's because it's immoral to use violence to keep another from peacefully producing, trading or using drugs against his will.

"As Hillary Clinton admitted in a moment of stunning candor, de-criminalization of narcotics and de-escalation in the drug war simply aren't possible, because there is "too much money" to be made through prohibition. One illustration of this can be seen in the fact that when the global finance system went into cardiac arrest in 2008, laundered narcotics proceeds were the only liquid capital available for inter-bank loans."

I love it when politicians are accidentally honest.

POLITICS:

Republican Congressmen don't like any of the Republican candidates. How do you think the people feel? I bet all this hate on the Republican candidates is a precursor to drafting Chris Cristie. They have to lay the groundwork that defeat is sure without him before he can walk away from New Jersey.

The opening sentence says it all.

"An Indonesian MP who helped pass a tough anti-pornography law has resigned after being caught watching sexually explicit videos on his computer during a parliamentary debate."

All aristocrats are thoroughly corrupt.

MISC:

I don't want to smell blood perfume on anybody, but you know a bunch of weirdos will buy it.

FBI releases memo showing that a government agent originally reported finding three flying sauces with aliens at Roswell. This isn't surprising because that's what the original published report said.

Japanese government raises the rating of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to seven, the same as Chernobyl.