Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 America

I've just read an article by retired senior CIA analyst Ray McGovern in which he describes - as Naomi Wolf did in her essay Fascist America: In Ten Easy Steps - the parallels between the policies of the Bush/Cheney administration and those of Hitler's Nazi party in 1930's Germany. The article is based on a book called Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner, a young lawyer who lived in Berlin during the 1930's.

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"There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theater..."

Sebastian Haffner

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It seems to me that the question isn't so much to do with whether or not the US is becoming fascistic, rather it's a question of how people, journalists and so called opposing political parties are responding to the 'security' measures being undertaken in the US (and not just the US). For instance, Haffner records the "sheepish submissiveness" with which the German people reacted to measures taken for the sake of National Security following the Reichstag fire in 1933. Things like having one's "telephone tapped," one's "letters openned," one's "desk broken into." According to Haffner, none of his aquaintances "saw anything out of the ordinary" in this. Fast forward to today and you'll find that Bush has openly violated the Fourth Amendment of the US constitution which is meant to protect citizens from 'unreasonable searches and seizures'. Justified by the mantra, 'for the sake of National security', US citizens can now have their phones tapped without judicial approval, indeed, without reason, simply on Presidential whim. McGovern points out that such illegal surveillance formed a key part of Nixon's impeachment. Yet today no one seems to bat an eyelid. And Congress seems either impotent or consciously unwilling to lift a finger.

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"You don't have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep."

Ray McGovern

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Read McGovern's article here or here. Incidentally in Rums...felled!, the video on the bar to the right, it's Ray McGovern asking Rumsfeld why he lied to the world about Saddam's non-existent WMD's.

The Whisper Gets Louder

"The last nail in the coffin."

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If someone else had said the above, Alex Jones for instance, then I probably wouldn't pay so much attention. But it was Steven E Jones who said this at a recent 9/11 conference in Boston. He was refering to his analysis of egg shell like 'red chips' which, he claims, are fragments of unexploded thermite. These red chips share the same basic chemical signature of the once molten micro-spheres (both of which were found in WTC dust samples) and show a strong resemblence - a match? - to commercial themite.

Obviously this is significant. If these results are confirmed - Jones has sent samples to be independently verified, and invites others to analyse his work - then this is physical evidence of the existence of thermite at the WTC. Physical evidence. Whether or not it is the final nail in the coffin is hard to say. There's already quite a lot of nails in this particular coffin as it is. There might not be room for any more...

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[See excerpt of Jones discussing the red strips below.]

Yuletide Ghost Town

For most of my adult life I thought there probably existed around 2,000 years ago a man called Jesus Christ. And if he did exist, I thought, then it's very likely he was a truly remarkable human being, someone whose ideas were revolutionary, insightful, worthy of historic record. Where the Bible and subsequent manifestations of Christianity were concerned, I thought it probable that much mischief had been made at the expense of Christ's original intentions; that Christianity had become utterly corrupted over time by powerful groups and individuals intent on casting Christianity in a light which served their own political and social ends.

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All of this seemed plausible to me. Or at least possible. In the absence of a God the existence of Christianity has to be explained in a manner which precludes all basic theistic notions. Christianity requires a human explanation in human terms. An anthropological explanation, as Nietzsche might say. As it occurred to me last night, there's no path towards any particular religion that does not first require being indoctrinated into that religion. It's a matter of teaching rather than realisation.

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Tell me if I'm alone here, but I always believed that Christmas was a day which marked the birth of Jesus Christ. Just recently I found out that December 25th was originally a Pagan celebration and has seemingly nothing to do with Christ's supposed birth. This really bothers me. Who decides to teach these lies in a school of all places? And how come everyone else seems to know about this - even Christians? I had no idea.

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I recently saw a documentary about the origins of Christmas. It claimed that in the 3rd century AD, having tried but failed to abolish the December 25th Pagan celebration (it was enormously popular at the time), Christian leaders decided to claim it as their own by imposing a Christian meaning on it. If true that's pretty Orwellian. Unable to change history they simply re-wrote it.

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And it's hard to reconcile 'thou shalt not lie' with the act of rewriting history; that is, to reconcile it with lying. There's some kind of contradiction there.

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It does appear that the traditional Christ's-mass clebration is bullshit. And that it's been bullshit ever since it came into being 1700 years ago.

Merry Christmas Everyone.

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[Afterthought. You could also - capitalism aside - think of Christmas as a kind of annual advertisement for Christianity. A way of keeping Christianity - albeit superficially - in the public mind. We're all taught 'Christmas' in early youth, and then Christmas is simply perpetuated through repeated symbolic associations each year...People are 'conditioned' to accept Christmas - if you don't accept it you're perceived as weird - or informed...]

Bush's EPA and the Post-9/11 Toxic Air Cover-Up

Jenna Orkin (part of the World Trade Center Environmental Organization who I mentioned in the recent Loose Change piece) is part of a group of residents, students and office workers, exposed to the toxic dust following 9/11, who are bringing a case against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). When asked whether there might be occasions when it would be justified for the government to lie to the public by giving false reassurances Alisa Klein, an EPA lawyer, answered, "Yes." Read Orkin's piece here.

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Below Orkin talks about many of the hazzards contained in the dust following the collapse of the WTC buildings.

Michael Ruppert confronts the CIA (Coke Import Agency)

Michael Ruppert - of From the Wilderness - confronts Clinton's CIA director John Deutch about CIA drug running.

I thought I'd add a quote I came across recently. "The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." No, not Alex Jones. It was in fact said by William Colby, former director of the CIA (1973-1976). Incidentally, Colby was succeeded in his post by George Bush. President Ford had become increasingly pissed off with Colby for being so open with congress about CIA operations and tactics. This openess eventually cost Colby his job. What cost Colby his life? Supposedy it was some freak canoe accident - coincidentally, not long after he said the above. Hmmm. I'm saying nothing.

[Incidentally, if you look at Colby's Wiki entry (linked in the name above) be mindful that it is known that the CIA has edited parts of it. Source: Wikipedia's own WikiScanner programme, which shows the location of computers from which entries have been edited. In this particular case, they were computers known to be used by the CIA.]

Man Shaking the Tree

Remember Move Over, God? No, didn't think so. Well, it was a link to a story about how the US has been experimenting with weather control techniques (also known as geoengineering) since the late 1940's: primarily, and unsurprisingly, for militaristic purposes. The source for that story was a 2005 radio interview with Ben Livingstone, a Naval cloud physicist. Livingstone had been involved in US geoengineering projects since the 1960's and had personally flown on 265 missions into hurricanes and was involved in various projects in Vietnam, including increasing rainfall (called 'cloud-seeding') to impede the enemy. Following Hurricane Katrina, Livingstone went on record saying he was 'most disgusted' with US authorities, knowing, as he did, that the impact of the storm could have been minimised.

Well, I've just come across a new article about this by Prof Michel Chossudovsky called Weather Warfare: Beware the US military’s experiments with climatic warfare. It has the subtitle ‘Climatic warfare’ has been excluded from the agenda on climate change. According to US Air Force document AF 2025 Final Report, Chossudovsky says, US weather-modification cabilities extend to the 'triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes', and can also be used to 'generate precipitation, fog and storms on earth or to modify space weather'. This technology has both offensive and defensive uses, and can also be used as a deterant.
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Chussodovsky also talks about the HAARP Programme, established in 1992, an array of high powered antenna's in Alsaka that transmit massive amounts of energy into the atmosphere.

"Rosalie Bertell, president of the International Institute of Concern for Public Health, says HAARP operates as ‘a gigantic heater that can cause major disruptions in the ionosphere [the upper layer of atmosphere], creating not just holes, but long incisions in the protective layer that keeps deadly radiation from bombarding the planet’."

HAARP is intended to be used, says Chossudovsky, for the 'unthinkable'. That is, 'the covert manipulation of weather patterns, communications and electric power systems as a weapon of global warfare, enabling the US to disrupt and dominate entire regions.' If that wasn't disturbing enough, Chossudovsky also points out that such technology could be used to destabilise economies, ecosystems and agriculture. Just think about it: the Military Industrial Complex having the ability to covertly destroy (for instance) crops in other countries...

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HAARP is an Anglo-American project funded by Raytheon Corporation, the US Air Force, and British Aerospace Systems (BAE - the worlds third largest defence contractor).

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The very existence of this technology raises a lot of questions. Not least of which, as Chossudovsky says in his article: why isn't any of this mentioned by the media in regard to 'climate change' and 'global warming'? Could this technology hasten 'global warning'? Or halt it? And I don't know about you, but I'm not entirely sure that I trust these people to use this technology responsibly...

It's There, There

It occurs to me that NIST's assertion that it found no evidence of explosives at the WTC, twinned with its admission that it didn't test for explosives, serves as a pretty good analogy for a particuar kind of response people have to 9/11 Truth. Why don't you believe that the 9/11 Commission lied and ommitted crucial facts in their investigation? Because I've seen no evidence that they did. But have you looked? Well, no. Or, Yes, I've read newspapers, seen the TV reports...It's not that such views are without foundation. It's just that if the foundation is the mainstream press, then you've probably never even heard of WTC 7, Norman Mineta, the suspiscious put options, Atta's ISI link, etc. In other words, just because you haven't seen the evidence, doesn't mean it isn't there. And just because you don't believe that the Military Industrial Complex could do such a thing, doesn't mean they haven't.

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Someone who clearly doesn't need any convincing is former Italian president Francesco Cossiga who recently spoke out about 9/11. In Corriere della Sera, Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper, Cossiga said that 9/11 was 'planned and realised' by the CIA and Mossad (Israel's intelligence agency), and that US and European intelligence agencies all know this. As Paul Joseph Watson states in his article, this is unlikely to be mentioned by establishment media outlets. And I don't believe it was.

NIST: Request for Correction

In April 2007 several members of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice (STJ), including Steven Jones, filed a petition to NIST requesting that it correct and explain some of the fallacies and errors in its WTC report. Following an inadequate reply the STJ members have re-submitted their request in a new letter. Read it here. [More information can be found at the Journal of 9/11 Studies.]

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One of the requests for correction concerns NIST's open admission that it did not test for thermite residues in its investigation of the WTC collapses. It's standard practise, in fact its law, that following any building collapse or fire that the site be tested for thermite residues. If thermite residues are found then this shows that explosives were used in the collapse or fire. This is clearly important where arson or foul play is suspected: the existence of thermite residues go along way towards proving that a crime has been committed; thermite isn't the kind of substance you'd usually find lying around by accident. And yet NIST did not think it necessary to perform such tests in its 9/11 investigation. This becomes problematic because NIST says that it has found 'no evidence that explosives were used' in the WTC attacks: but then if NIST did not test for explosives, it's hardly surprising that they found no evidence of any. You see the problem. 'Officially', explosives were not used. But that's because 'officially', no one tested for them. See no evil. Hear no evil.

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9/11 Presentations

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Two new presentations. One by Steven Jones. The other by Richard Gage, member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. These lectures combined present the overwhelming body of evidence supporting the claim that explosives were used to bring down the three WTC buildings on 9/11.

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Professor Steven Jones : 9/11 Symposium November 2007

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AIA Architect Richard Gage: 9/11 Symposium November 2007 [Pt.1]

AIA Architect Richard Gage: 9/11 Symposium November 2007 [Pt.2]

FASCIST AMERICA: In Ten Easy Steps

Fascist America is a thought provoking essay by Naomi Wolf in which she identifies the basic blueprint for fascism and asks how far the Bush/Cheney administration has gone towards implememnting this blueprint in the US.

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Fascist America: In ten easy steps

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Interestingly I heard Wolf being interviewed on the radio a few days ago. She said that a friend of hers who had lost relatives (I think it was relatives) in the Holocaust had been telling her for some time about how fascistic the US is becoming, but Wolf thought this was an extreme reaction. But when Wolf looked into it she was surprised by what she found. Wolf said that she was escpecially struck by similarities between changes in German politics in the early 30's and changes in US politics today. Then as now, people are expected to surrender civil liberties for the sake of National Security. Then as now, people are told that this is necessay because of a marginalised, exaggerated and much fabricated threat. (Then as now, a false flag stood at the summit of these changes?)