The United States Is Quickly Moving Twords Fascism

It would seem it’s shades of 2002 all over again as far as working up hype for another War in the Mideast.  You sure got the impression people on Meet the Press last week were gung ho for war.  But the government doesn’t play fair.  Apparently people in the Obama administration threatened to prosecute the family of James Foley for daring to offer ransom to the enemy, which is apparently against Federal law.  And of course James Foley was at an anti NATO demonstration and was the subject of a movie documentary “Four Days in Chicago”.  The government really is paranoid of protestors.  All aspects of the media seem to suppress and distort the views of anyone who is anti war.  It’s not even considered proper to broach the idea that we should not go to war again in the Mideast.   Foley’s certainly resents the idea of the Obama administration using James Foley as a poster boy for the war effort.  One magazine greatly distorted the results of one poll, where 65% of the people seemed to be against “Doing more in military involvement” and said the survey said “America has really come around to a more pro war stance in the past year”.   We know that Pat Tilman before he was killed by “friendly fire” was voicing doubts about the War we were in then- - and the Army burned his notebooks he had compiled.  And we also know that 9 – 11 families who speak out against further war in the Mideast aren’t treated very well by the media.  In fact we seem to be moving tword some sort of a Fascist state.   George Washington blog- - gave all sorts of links quoting various Americans including former Supreme Court justices- - as saying the United States was moving in a dangerous, Orwellian direction with all our drones and domestic spying.  Of course a rescue mission gone bad, like Jimmy Carter before him, is the last thing any President wants.  This blogger also reminds us that the United States is neither a democracy nor a republic, but an oligarchy  (I better look up that word) an elite few powerful people, running the country.  Of course Tim suggested in a phone call with me years ago that President Obama was “selling out liberal interests”  (my words) and he said “Perhaps the President is being forced to do this.  Perhaps certain people have made it clear the President’s life is in jeopardy if he doesn’t play ball”.    I have stated many times Michael Benner has had those same dark thoughts.

I watched that C-Span video on “What the next recession will be like” in this country but it was mostly looking back at the last recession.  Clearly that recession was caused not by anything Greenspan did, or even Bush’s deficit spending, but rather out of control private debt.  That’s the kind of debt no Republican wants to talk about that’s way larger than our total federal public debt.  But another lie was roundly refuted.  Actually before a major depression such as the 1920’s government revenue is actually UP and the government debt goes DOWN.  In fact a sign of an impending recession NOW could be is our federal deficit keeps going DOWN.  (Selah)  It’s no big surprise how a recession comes about.  There is an over-supply of too many unused buildings or goods and the people aren’t buying them and production is cut back, and people are laid off and don’t have money and can’t pay their debts.  But the kicker is that this author states that the banks are lending out lots of money still.   The Republicans in 2012 made a really BIG THING of the non-fact that “The banks aren’t lending to business because of the uncertainty caused by fear of Obama raising taxes again”.    That was the bogus lie of the year because lending- according to this author was only ever cut back by - - - wait for it - - two percent - - as opposed to over 25% in the Great Depression from 1929 to 1930.   And the other lie is that recovery is easy.  NOBODY I read back in 2009 EVER said this recovery would be EASY, in fact just the opposite was true.  I was told that real estate prices would STAY down for a long time and that unemployment would NOT improve for years and years.  If these Republicans imply public knowledge was anything other than this they were lying to you.  In Japan they had a financial crisis like ours in 1991 and may STILL have not recovered from it.  I’ve heard the economy has been “flat” (or flat lining) in Japan for over twenty years.

 I also watched a little “History of Intel” where Packard was from Silicon Valley.  Needless to say HP computers are almost universally regarded as the crappiest computers on the market.   There was praise heaped on Steve Jobs as well as some mentor who was “worthy of him”  (such modesty!) yeah- - Steve Jobs finally came across a guy who was good enough to teach him something named Noyse - - or something like that.  This guy died at a young age and it was traumatic for Steve Jobs.  There was a lot of talk about all of the greatest computer minds flying helicopters and airplanes together and otherwise taking physical risks and  “If anything had happened to us, it would have been like a cyber Buddy Holly type situation”.   (not the most modest person in the world)

This bit about Scotland having a referendum on Independence this Thursday is pretty silly.  Other than pure sentimentality- - it makes completely no sense economically, or in any other way.  But the crew of the Mc Laughlin group was slow to recognize this fact.  One need only look at our own Civil War to see the complete folly of this sort of secession.  After all the South was economically weaker than the North before the war began, and after the war they were nothing- - and could only help to survive by charity from the North.  In fact Quebec had a better cause for independence because they were ethinically and linguistically and culturally very different- - and yet the people back thirty or more years ago regarded that move as a bad joke.  This one is an even bigger joke, which is probably why I haven’t mentioned this news story before.  But I see it heads up “The Week” magazine I received at the dinner table.

Neil Savedra can talk about counterfeits all he wants.  Of course he is absurd to do so since if I were to rank Evangelists from totally sincere to totally bogus, of all the people I’ve ever heard preach in the past fifty years, Neil would be as close to pure bogusness as you could get.  Besides nobody in their right mind would CLAIM to be a fundamentalist Christian, if they were not in fact that- - since Evangelists of this sort have such a notoriously bad reputation.   By way of proof - - if Neil of KFI were at all serious about “sharing the Gospel” as the Bible mandates, he would do it for free.  But instead over half the time I’ve checked in-  - during the period when the Jesus Christ show is on- - it has NOT been Neil speaking but a commercial.  And maybe the notion of “Jesus wine” would make an entertaining Saturday Night spoof- - but in reality - - people who wrap themselves in commercialism just aren’t considered credible by the public.