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>Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 13:48:01 -0700
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>Just received in.
>The Day of the Robber Baron: Fascism in America September, 1997 "For 
>the first time in more than a decade, socialists will be in a 
>majority when officials of the leading industrial nations meet in 
>Denver. The new balance is the result of elections in Europe and 
>Canada that, according to some socialists, showed capitalism has too 
>many shortcomings, at least in voters' minds. Hence...the abrupt turn 
>to the left by major Western nations." Peter K. Pfabe, Investor's 
>Business Daily (6/20/97)
>
>I. THE DAY OF THE ROBBER BARON: FASCISM IN AMERICA
>
>INTRODUCTION When political philosophies are discussed today, the 
>emerging, dominant system of the future is all but ignored. Despite 
>its growing influence in America and decades of dominance in many 
>other nations, fascism is seldom mentioned or considered by the 
>press.
>
>Perhaps the primary reason that fascism gets little attention is that 
>it is grossly misunderstood. The popular (and incorrect) definition 
>of fascism is an oppressive, ultra right-wing system. In reality, 
>fascism is a staunchly totalitarian ideology with numerous 
>similarities to socialism, Nazism and Communism. Communism's state 
>ownership and control of all property is modified in the other 
>people- controlling systems. Socialism's doctrine of some private 
>ownership along with considerable state ownership and government 
>control of all property is little more than diluted Communism.
>
>Nazism is merely an acronym for National Socialism. Like fascism, 
>Nazism is inaccurately described as a product of the far right. How 
>can any system that declares itself to be socialist come from the 
>right side of the political spectrum? Much of this incorrect labeling 
>has been a systematic, multi-decade strategy of the political left, 
>who reflexively label anyone opposing their views as "fascists" or 
>"Nazis." This tactic has been quite successful, as millions of 
>Americans now have a mental picture of wild- eyed demagogues 
>espousing conservative beliefs when they hear either term.
>
>[ED. NOTE: In the 1992 and '96 Republican primaries, conservative Pat 
>Buchanan was labeled by liberal Establishment Republicans as "Nazi," 
>"Nazi-like," "sympathetic to the Nazis or Hitler," "Hitler-like" in 
>order to discredit him and his message and scare away potential 
>supporters.]
>
>The mainstream media has also promoted the erroneous definitions of 
>Nazism and fascism. Neo-Nazis and their sympathizers are invariably 
>described as "ultra-rightists" and are usually linked with average 
>Americans who oppose big government. In reality, the neo- Nazis who 
>revere Hitler and his philosophy have more in common with the 
>self-anointed New York/Washington elite than they do with 
>middle-class people who are tired of Big Brother's interference in 
>their lives.
>
>What, then, is fascism? Simply stated, it can be described as a 
>marriage between big government and big business. It is a master of 
>disguises, which can operate under numerous aliases and in widely 
>diverse cultures. Name another system that has been implemented in 
>such diverse places as Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Italy 
>and Mexico. Fascist governments are ruling or have ruled in all of 
>those nations, and the list is likely to grow in the future.
>
>How can a fundamentally oppressive doctrine such as fascism operate 
>and even thrive, in America? Public ignorance and fascism's ability 
>to smoothly blend into established systems have been the key to its 
>rapidly growing influence in American business, politics and media.
>
>Mussolini gave fascism a bad name, so his ideological descendants 
>avoid the term at all costs. One well-known conservative speaker 
>describes fascism as "a system where the government tells you `This 
>is your business. These are the hours you'll be open, this is who you 
>will hire, this is what you will sell, and this is when you will 
>sweep the sidewalks. But don't let us tell you what to do C it's your 
>business.'" Webster's defines fascism as "a system of government 
>characterized by rigid one-party dictatorships, forcible suppression 
>of the opposition, the retention of private ownership of the means of 
>production under government control." Another definition of fascism 
>would be big government and big business working in collusion to 
>destroy any potential competitors or rivals.
>
>With our once-proud republic now on the fast track to socialism (and 
>fascism), this insidious system of people control is about to affect 
>virtually every aspect of our lives. [ED. NOTE: One of the chief 
>tools the political left (the socialists, Communists, Nazis, 
>fascists, and globalists) have employed over the past five decades to 
>advance their agenda and hobble or neutralize their opposition is to 
>change the meaning of words (or terms). Prior to World War II, it was 
>clearly understood that Communism, Nazism, and fascism were all on 
>the far political left, were all totalitarian dictatorships, and were 
>all opposed to freedom. However, since World War II, the political 
>left have redefined these terms and have called Nazism and fascism 
>"right wing," since the Nazis and fascists opposed the Communists in 
>World War II.
>
>They then manipulated the definitions of political terms so that 
>anyone who was opposed to the Communists was also called "right wing" 
>and could be equated with the Nazis or Fascists. They then redefined 
>"liberal" and "socialist" to be "moderate" and told us they were in 
>the middle of the political spectrum. By the new leftist redefinition 
>of terms, socialists like Bill and Hillary Clinton and Al Gore are 
>"moderates" and in the center of the political spectrum and even a 
>hard-core Marxist-Leninist like former Soviet dictator Mikhail 
>Gorbachev is defined as a "moderate."
>
>And political conservatives (who are really "moderates" or 
>"centrists") who support the U.S. Constitution and traditional 
>values, such as Jesse Helms, Ron Paul, and even our Founding Fathers 
>(Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Patrick Henry, etc.) are 
>redefined as "right wing extremists."
>
>Today, if you are opposed to the expanding, unconstitutional role of 
>big government, if you are opposed to socialism, globalism, or 
>fascism in America, you are labeled by the political left and its 
>surrogates in government as "anti-government." (MIA has been accused 
>in recent years of being "anti-government." This is not true, But I 
>am against the growing, unconstitutional "people control" aspects of 
>big government.) One of the major reasons the political left is 
>winning is because we have allowed them to redefine political terms 
>and manipulate our language.
>
>It has been said by renowned semanticists and political propagandists 
>that when your enemies can control your language and redefine 
>traditional words, terms, and concepts, that they can manipulate the 
>thinking of the masses and eventually take their freedom, and 
>completely control those masses. In George Orwell's classic on 
>socialist control of peoples' minds (1984), Big Brother redefined the 
>language ("war" was called "peace," "slavery" was called "freedom," 
>"hate" was called "love," etc.). The Communists and Nazis did the 
>same thing, and so are the socialists of our day.
>
>If we no longer understand the meaning of terms such as fascist, 
>Communist, socialist, etc. we will lose our freedoms to those groups 
>who will rule us under more deceptive benign labels.] A. POLITICAL 
>FASCISM As Webster's pointed out, fascism is characterized by 
>one-party dictatorships. What many people don't realize is that such 
>a system can be implemented without jackbooted comic opera villains 
>such as Mussolini, strutting about for the cameras. The sophisticated 
>fascist of our day would install a system that retains the appearance 
>of freedom, elections, and a semblance of opposition to the ruling 
>party while operating in a fascist manner. Welcome to modern-day 
>America!
>
>[ED. NOTE: MIA has long felt that America today actually has a one 
>party system C dominated by the liberal Eastern Establishment. The 
>Democrats (Socialist Party A) and the Republicans (Socialist Party B) 
>are actually controlled by the same liberal (socialist/fascist) elite 
>who create, through their control of the media, the illusion that 
>there are really two opposing parties. The GOP and Democrats are 
>actually two heads on the same body.] Any opposition to the 
>Republicrat oligopoly is shut down in a variety of ways. 
>Establishment media outlets censor any information about third-party 
>candidates who oppose the status quo. Election laws are written to 
>guarantee that only Republicans and Democrats win. [ED. NOTE: How 
>many Americans heard, saw, or read anything about Howard Phillips' 
>(USTP) or Harry Browne's (Libertarian) candidacies for president in 
>1996? Very few!] Lobbyists and large corporations (the main 
>beneficiaries of fascism) lavish their political allies in the 
>Republican and Democratic Parties with millions of dollars in 
>contributions and perks, while non-approved, "politically incorrect" 
>conservative candidates scrape for every nickel.
>
>Unlike the one-party fascist dictatorships of Italy and Mexico, 
>America's two-headed Beltway monster tries to pass itself off as a 
>system of genuine differences and competition between parties. 
>Politicians such as George "New World Order" Bush, Newt Gingrich, Ted 
>Kennedy, Bob Dole and Bill Clinton disagree only on the details of 
>how they want to implement U.S. fascism. And, as we saw in the '96 
>primaries, conservative candidates like Pat Buchanan, who oppose the 
>global/socialist agenda, will be destroyed by their own party.
>
>Elected officials who are ideological zealots end up at the fringes 
>of both the Republican and Democratic parties. Although the true 
>believers seldom advance to positions of real influence, they are 
>quite useful to the spinmeisters. Comparing Ron Paul and Helen 
>Chenoweth to Jesse Jackson and Dianne Feinstein is enough to convince 
>most people that the GOP and the Democrats are truly different, even 
>though 80 percent of the House and Senate are interchangeable clones.
>
>Woe to the person or group who publicly disagrees with the fascist 
>overseer. Mussolini's opponents usually received a bullet in the back 
>of the head. That still happens in fascist America (as Vince Foster 
>and dozens of others who have gotten too close to the Clintons have 
>discovered), but there are many other ways to deal with those who 
>insist on thinking for themselves.
>
>Much as the KGB was used in the former Soviet Union, the IRS is 
>turned loose on American dissidents, and financial ruin is often the 
>result. Licensed firearms dealers frequently receive the same kind of 
>treatment from the BATF. Business owners are subjected to the 
>capricious whims of OSHA and local zoning boards, while farmers, 
>ranchers, and other land owners are attacked or harassed by the EPA 
>and alternate medicine practitioners are persecuted by the FDA.
>
>If government agencies aren't used for a hit job, the mainstream 
>media is only too willing to vilify and demonize non-conformists. A 
>front-page article or segment on 60 Minutes, 20/20, or even on 
>"local" television news can turn a decent man or woman into a monster 
>in the eyes of his neighbors. No need to be factual and objective 
>when unfounded rumors, slander and lies can be employed.
>
>The U.S. media is a textbook example of fascism in action. Once a 
>diverse mix of locally owned newspapers and radio stations, the 
>mainstream media (especially in major markets) is now controlled by a 
>handful of corporations. Even small-market radio stations by the 
>hundreds are being absorbed in mergers and acquisitions. Laws that 
>once kept huge conglomerates from gaining control of multiple 
>information sources have been quietly rewritten to favor the fascist 
>model. Ted Turner's beliefs and philosophy fit comfortably into a 
>fascist world.
>
>If you're wondering why the hometown press sings the praises of NAFTA 
>and GATT as factories down the street are closing, keep in mind that 
>the "local" paper is usually owned by some faceless entity halfway 
>across the country. Reality and the declining economic status of the 
>working class means nothing to the media elite. Can't Joe Lunchbucket 
>realize that the loss of his well-paying job is a small price to pay 
>for inclusion into the New World Order?
>
>Entertainment has also embraced the fascist model. Mussolini would be 
>envious of the Disney system C a mega-corporation that squashes or 
>absorbs competitors. The company peddles and promotes perversion 
>while maintaining a generally positive image. Under chairman Michael 
>Eisner, Disney indoctrinates millions with its humanistic and New Age 
>views as they make money hand over fist.
>
>Some commentators have stated that they don't fear the federal 
>government as the potential Big Brother as much as they expect 
>corporate media to assume that rule. They could be right on target.
>
>B. BIG BUSINESS AND FASCISM No fascist government can survive for 
>long without the support of large corporations. Contrary to popular 
>belief, big business LOVES totalitarian governments. Consider the big 
>business contributors of our pro-China corporate lobby (discussed in 
>the May '96 issue of MIA entitled: "Red Tide: The Chinese Communist 
>Targeting of America"). This pro-Red Chinese corporate lobbying group 
>pours tens of millions of dollars into congressional, senatorial, and 
>presidential coffers, in order to buy a pro-China foreign and trade 
>policy, which in turn earns them billions of dollars.
>
>Whether it was Armand Hammer and Occidental Petroleum in the former 
>Soviet Union, I.G. Farben and Standard Oil in Nazi Germany, or the 
>cliques that run Japan and Mexico, big business and big government 
>are natural partners. For a piece of the profits, periodic bribes or 
>other considerations, fascists in government are always happy to let 
>monopolistic types operate with little interference.
>
>South Korea is a prime example of how big governments and 
>multinational corporations work hand-in-hand. The country is 
>dominated by a group of chaebols, or mega-companies such as Hyundai, 
>Daewoo and Samsung. Even though their wages are modest, Korean 
>consumers often pay higher prices for Korean-produced goods which are 
>sold in America for much less. Since competition is limited by the 
>government, the chaebols can demand more for their products.
>
>Asian cultures generally take a dim view of individualism, and their 
>group-oriented mentality provides an ideal climate in which fascism 
>can flourish. For example, citizens are not allowed to own firearms 
>in South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. Even though Taiwan is 
>next door to Red China, anyone who dares to own a gun is subject to 
>the death penalty.
>
>Freedom of speech is practically unknown in the Asian fascist 
>countries, with Singapore being the prime example. Never failing to 
>live up to its well-deserved totalitarian reputation, Singapore is 
>also a laboratory of sorts for the New World Order's growing list of 
>people- controlling surveillance gadgets and techniques.
>
>Once again, the media is totally clueless when it comes to fascism. 
>During the recent British surrender of Hong Kong to the Red Chinese, 
>at least one columnist lamented the likely crackdown on Hong Kong by 
>Beijing. "That would be a terrible move," he said. "Look how freedom 
>helps Singapore to prosper!"
>
>[ED. NOTE: Over the past seven years I have led several tours to the 
>Pacific Rim, Singapore included. Singapore has a repressive 
>freedom-stifling government. It is against the law to chew gum in 
>public, to eat an ice cream cone on the street, and if some hapless 
>teenager, hippie, or college student is caught with a half an ounce 
>of marijuana, they will be executed. And Singapore's Big Brother 
>government watches you everywhere with electronic surveillance, video 
>cameras, and satellite trackable computer chips in your car.] 
>Designer clothes and more consumer goods in the stores are not signs 
>of freedom. American visitors to Italy in the '20s and '30s marveled 
>at the surface improvements that occurred under Mussolini. The trains 
>finally ran on time, undoubtedly because of the compassionate 
>leadership of Il Duce. If you were the conductor, you'd make sure the 
>train was on time if a trip to the concentration camp was the penalty 
>for being five minutes late. Maybe Asia has gone for fascism in a big 
>way, but that could never happen in America, right? Wrong! Since 
>fascism is an unholy alliance between big government and big 
>business, America is now up to her eyeballs in fascism.
>
>The globalist NAFTA and GATT agreements belong in the Fascism Hall of 
>Fame. Even though calls to senators and congressmen ran as high as 
>1,000 to 1 against the treasonous deals, both sellouts passed with 
>bipartisan support.
>
>How did NAFTA and GATT get through despite fierce opposition from 
>both the left and right? The agreements were so repulsive that such 
>unlikely partners as Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, card-carrying ACLU 
>members and John Birch Society activists were united in their 
>opposition. The will of the people means nothing when the 
>multinational (i.e., big government and big business) fascists want 
>something, and they desperately wanted NAFTA and GATT.
>
>Lying through their teeth, PR hacks, lobbyists and corporate leaders 
>told endless lies about how NAFTA and GATT would result in an 
>ever-growing boom of American exports to untapped, "affluent" markets 
>such as Mexico (where $100/week is a big salary), Thailand, Malaysia 
>and Red China.
>
>As is often the case, the hucksters sanctimoniously invoked freedom 
>when they spoke of "free trade" that in reality was heavily regulated 
>and tilted in their favor. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (a puppet of 
>the multinationals and globalists) pushed hard for NAFTA and GATT 
>along with many small American companies who were foolish enough to 
>waste money on a Chamber of Commerce membership and believed the 
>pro-NAFTA/GATT lies. Millions of American blue-collar workers knew in 
>their hearts that the Ivy League shysters who touted NAFTA and GATT 
>were planning to stab them in the back and move their $10 and 
>$15/hour jobs overseas, and they were right.
>
>The corporate fascists scornfully told U.S. factory workers that they 
>were a bunch of unskilled bumpkins who toiled at "obsolete" jobs. 
>While those jobs weren't glamorous, they kept millions of American 
>families fed and clothed. Millions of America jobs have now been 
>moved to sweatshops in Asia (especially Red China, Vietnam and 
>Malaysia), Mexico and other Third World nations. Wages typically 
>range from $40 to $100/month, as the corporate fascists eagerly seek 
>new sources of virtual slave labor.
>
>C. ADDING INSULT TO INJURY If the deliberate destruction of U.S. 
>industry and assembly lines by the corporate and government fascists 
>wasn't bad enough, just imagine the outcry when word got out that 
>profitable multinational firms were receiving hefty subsidies and 
>cash grants from overburdened taxpayers via their accomplices in 
>government. The term "corporate welfare" was all but unknown a few 
>years ago, but it has become a prominent issue in recent months.
>
>Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute writes, "My colleague Dean 
>Stansel and I calculated that Uncle Sam doles out $80 billion each 
>year in unwarranted direct cash subsidies to business.
>
>"The spending subsidies range from high-tech R&D [research and 
>development] handouts to General Electric, AT&T and Chevron, to 
>export assistance to companies like Boeing and General Electric, to 
>billions of dollars of peanut, sugar, wool and mohair price supports, 
>to multi-million dollar agribusiness. Get rid of all this sludge, and 
>you could cut the budget deficit in half or alternately almost pay 
>for the abolition of the entire corporate income tax."
>
>The Department of Agriculture's $100 million/year USDA Marketing 
>Promotion Program and the $347 million/year Market Access Program is 
>free cash for well-connected corporations. Why should profitable 
>firms such as Campbell Soup, McDonald's, Dole fruit products and 
>Gallo wine receive millions of dollars in subsidies to buy 
>advertising overseas? If they want to sell their products elsewhere, 
>let them come up with the cash and take the risks.
>
>Let Uncle Ben's rice bear the cost of the $1 million they received 
>from Washington for ads they run in Poland, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. 
>V-8 vegetable juice and Friskies pet food can also pay for their own 
>foreign marketing campaigns. The government/corporate fascists should 
>quit picking the pockets of American middle class workers who have 
>lost their jobs to NAFTA.
>
>How does one get on the gravy train? Just fork over hefty campaign 
>contributions to both divisions of America's one-party political 
>system, and the subsidies will flow. While Newt Gingrich likes to 
>blast the Democrats for their free-spending ways, moderate 
>Republicans are the most vocal supporters of corporate welfare, which 
>may be the ultimate fascist program.
>
>[ED. NOTE: It is noteworthy that Republican politicians receive more 
>influence buying funds from big corporate lobbyists such as the 
>pro-China lobby than Democrats.] Examples of corporate welfare could 
>fill several large books. Over the years, Archer Daniels Midland has 
>received hundreds of millions in subsidies for ethanol (they have a 
>virtual monopoly on the product) and a host of agricultural goods. 
>ADM is run by globalist Dwayne Andreas, who bought Bob Dole with 
>generous contributions and favors. Why does a Fortune 500 corporation 
>with annual revenues in the $13 billion range need government 
>handouts?
>
>Along with ADM, Cargill is one of the giants in grain distribution. 	
>	Although Andreas has been the champion in the corporate welfare 
>sweepstakes, Cargill is no slouch when it comes to feeding at the 
>Washington trough. The company has collected a whopping $1.3 billion 
>since 1985 through the Export Enhancement Program.
>
>An especially outrageous example of corporate welfare is last year's 
>merger of military contractors Lockheed and Martin Marietta. Now 
>known as Lockheed Martin, the firm's $11.6 billion/year in military 
>sales and dependence on government spending makes it a corporate 
>fascist giant. Despite Lockheed Martin's solid financial footing, 
>taxpayers subsidized the merger by more than $1 billion for plant 
>closings, employee relocation and executive bonuses.
>
>Since bigger is better in a corporate fascist system, the recent 
>merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas shouldn't be a surprise. The 
>two aerospace giants have combined sales of $14 billion/year, with 
>much of their business coming from government sales. McDonnell 
>Douglas is one of the biggest boosters of aid and trade for Red 
>China, and the McDonnell Douglas faction of the new company wants to 
>build jets in China. The multinational firm that wants to replace 
>American workers with overseas serfs doesn't have to pick up the full 
>tab for moving to Asia or Mexico. The Overseas Private Investment 
>Corporation, International Monetary Fund, Export-Import Bank and the 
>United Nations' World Bank have all sorts of subsidized loans and 
>programs for the dedicated corporate fascist. The bulk of these funds 
>lent by the globalist bureaucrats comes from America and its 
>taxpayers.
>
>What happens if you can't pay back the loan, or you just feel like 
>being a deadbeat? No problem. Since the loan is guaranteed by the 
>U.S. taxpayers (the suckers), corporate fascists don't even have to 
>spend a dime to pay for their business mistakes or miscalculations C 
>a luxury which hundreds of thousands of small American businesses do 
>not enjoy.
>
>The corporate fascists are also doing very well at the local and 
>state level. Since decent jobs are a scarce commodity, multinationals 
>are pitting towns against one another in bidding wars. The city that 
>offers the most free land, utilities, tax writeoffs, subsidies and 
>barely-concealed bribes gets the factory, but at a very steep price. 
>That's how Alabama beat out South Carolina for a Mercedes-Benz auto 
>plant. Local residents are the ones who end up footing the bill for 
>Megacorp's new plant, which may later be closed down, dismantled, and 
>moved overseas, where low-wage workers are trained and ready to earn 
>their 35 cents an hour. Just ask Pennsylvania about what happened 
>when Volkswagen shut down a taxpayer-subsidized plant in their state. 
>Meanwhile, VW continues to build cars in Mexico and Brazil. Ford, 
>Chrysler and GM are now investing an estimated $15 billion in 
>low-wage Brazil while they are closing American assembly lines.
>
>The Big Three claim that the Latin American auto market is poised to 
>explode, but it doesn't take a genius to see that thousands of 
>American workers will have their jobs sent to South America once the 
>Brazilian plants are completed. It's a classic corporate fascist 
>operation, and much of the direct and indirect costs will be paid by 
>the U.S. government via fascism's victims C the U.S. taxpayer.
>
>D. MEDICAL FASCISM As much as fascism has pervaded American 
>government and business, its greatest influence may be in modern 
>medicine. While hospitals and doctors often describe American 
>medicine as the best in the world, that reputation is changing 
>rapidly as the fascist philosophy gains a stranglehold on health 
>care.
>
>Critics who justifiably opposed the Clinton national health care 
>(socialized medicine) program of 1993 tend to overlook the fact that 
>big government and big business already had many of the controls and 
>bureaucracy that Bill and Hillary sought. Tens of millions of 
>Americans have seen their medical insurance converted to Health 
>Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) in recent years. Many HMOs truly are 
>the worst of all worlds, as they can be a combination of stifling 
>bureaucracy, clueless customer service, mediocre medical care, and 
>high prices.
>
>Do you have a favorite doctor or specialist? Your HMO may not pick up 
>the tab unless you visit one of their approved physicians. 
>
>Did your child take a nasty fall, and you rushed him to the emergency 
>room for stitches or even a broken bone? Unless you stopped and 
>called the HMO for approval before going to the hospital, they could 
>refuse to pay the bill.
>
>Were you exhausted after giving birth, but you were literally shoved 
>out of the hospital hours after the baby was born? It could be the 
>HMO trying to cut costs and refusing to allow a day's rest to a new 
>mother. Those who don't have medical insurance have horror stories 
>just as bad or worse, since they are under the yoke of the federal 
>government and Medicaid or Medicare.
>
>These are just a few examples of how medicine operates when 
>megacorporations and government collude to dominate a business or 
>industry. Victims of HMO incompetence (such as the family that saw 
>their baby daughter go blind because their HMO took months to approve 
>treatment) find they have little recourse, since HMOs are virtually 
>immune from lawsuits.
>
>The overly hyped and deceptive "balanced budget" agreement that 
>passed in early August included a whopping $25 billion for government 
>programs aimed at children's medical care. This expanded federal 
>program is straight from the Clintons' nationalized (i.e., 
>socialized) health care package of '93, and it passed with 
>considerable support from the Republicans.
>
>The pharmaceutical cartel and the American Medical Association 
>provide one of the most obvious examples of fascism in action. Why 
>does it take years of testing and hundreds of millions of dollars to 
>get a new drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration? 
>Because drug giants such as Squibb and Lilly can afford to jump 
>through all the hoops and pass the costs on to consumers later, while 
>small start-up companies couldn't even dream about spending $200 
>million on a speculative new product.
>
>Compare the price of prescription drugs in Mexico (where the 
>pharmaceutical market is far less regulated) to America to see how 
>fascism profits the big multinational pharmaceuticals. Americans 
>often travel hundreds of miles to visit pharmacies in border towns 
>such as Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Nuevo Laredo.
>
>The cost of the trip is a relatively minor issue, since shoppers can 
>often obtain the same dosages in Mexico for a third of the price they 
>would pay just a mile away at a U.S. druggist. Simply compare Mexican 
>and American prescription prices to see the effects of fascism.
>
>Ask alternate practitioners such as chiropractors and naturopaths 
>about the drug cartel and the AMA, and you will be told about the 
>ongoing propaganda campaign and outright lies that they have 
>disseminated about anyone who deviates from the party line of drugs 
>(i.e., antibiotics, chemotherapy, etc.), shots, and invasive 
>medicine. Hundreds of natural (alternative) practitioners have had 
>their offices raided and shut down by the FDA, and dozens have been 
>jailed for successful non-cartel approved treatments of cancer, AIDS, 
>and other degenerative diseases.
>
>These Nazi-style efforts are often well publicized by the mainstream 
>media. Not surprisingly, the AMA hierarchy has never uttered a peep 
>of protest when a chiropractor or natural healer has been put out of 
>business or thrown in jail. Many such non- Establishment medical 
>practitioners have been forced to move to Mexico to stay in business. 
>Isn't it ironic that there is more medical freedom in a corrupt Third 
>World country such as Mexico than there is in America?
>
>On the positive side, a growing number of M.D.s are open to less 
>invasive and non-drug approaches such as herbs, supplements and 
>nutritional therapies. Honest and fair- minded doctors are admitting 
>that the allopathic (drug-based) approach is often ineffective, while 
>their patients are telling them that alternate therapies have cured 
>illnesses that were thought to be permanent and/or terminal.
>
>Some U.S. medical schools are even offering courses on alternate 
>medicine, and the pharmaceutical cartel has certainly noticed the 
>trend. There have been numerous legislative efforts in recent years 
>to regulate herbal remedies and supplements as prescriptions and shut 
>down health food stores.
>
>Undoubtedly, the Beltway battle against freedom-oriented medicine is 
>led by politicians who rake in lucrative campaign contributions from 
>the drug cartel. The fight is certain to intensify, as the corporate 
>medical mafia seeks to defend their lucrative and heavily regulated 
>turf. Don't expect the fascist tag team of big government and big 
>business to give up quickly on this issue.
>
>[ED. NOTE: The unholy trinity (or medical monopoly) in America, 
>consisting of the AMA, the large pharmaceutical multinationals (who 
>finance most medical schools and medical research in the U.S.) and 
>the Food and Drug Administration (the government "enforcer" for this 
>medical monopoly) is indeed the best (or worst) example of fascism 
>running amuck in our country today.]
>
>E. MUSSOLINI LIVES ON Although he was not the first dictator to 
>impose a fascist-style system, Benito Mussolini (1882-1945) is 
>virtually synonymous with the term. A longtime Communist, Mussolini 
>moderated his rhetoric and founded Italy's Fascist Party in 1921. He 
>rose to power two years later.
>
>Like Adolf Hitler a decade later, Mussolini was heaped with praise 
>from fellow leftists and pea-brained celebrities and academians. 
>Mahatma Gandhi called the Italian dictator a "superman," while the 
>Archbishop of Canterbury hailed Mussolini as "the one great figure in 
>Europe." Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the socialist president of 
>Columbia University and a friend of Mussolini's, praised fascism as 
>"a form of government of the first order of excellence."
>
>Even Winston Churchill initially took the bait. He praised Mussolini 
>for his allegedly "gentle and simple bearing and his calm, detached 
>poise." Il Duce's rise to power was supported and bankrolled by 
>Italy's large corporations, who saw Mussolini as the vehicle to 
>corporate fascist rule. Article VIII of Italy's Fascist Labor Charter 
>of 1926 declared the nation to be a "corporate state."
>
>[ED. NOTE: It is noteworthy that Hitler's rise to power was also 
>financed by large German and American corporate interests. (See 
>Antony Sutton's book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.)]
>
>As historian Christopher Leeds wrote in his book Italy Under 
>Mussolini, "Big industrialists were able to remain fairly free from 
>the state. They bought their freedom by generous gifts to Fascist 
>Party funds." Substitute "Republican" and "Democrat" for "Fascist" in 
>the previous sentence, and it would reflect the current American 
>system.
>
>Giovanni Gentile, Mussolini's Minister of Education, attempted to 
>define fascism when he described his ideal system as "the maximum of 
>liberty coincides with the maximum of state force." If he were alive 
>today, Gentile would be a leading candidate to run America's 
>unconstitutional Department of Education.
>
>It didn't take long for fascism to cross the ocean. When Franklin 
>Delano Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, he unleashed a 
>torrent of socialism and fascism that was never before experienced in 
>America, and which has never been repealed.
>
>In his memoirs, Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt's predecessor, described 
>what happened just before the election: "Among the early Roosevelt 
>fascist measures was the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA) of 
>June 16, 1933...[These ideas] were adopted by the United States 
>Chamber of Commerce. During the campaign of 1932, Henry I. Harriman, 
>president of that body, urged that I agree to support these 
>proposals, informing me that Mr. Roosevelt agreed to do so.
>
>"I tried to show him that this stuff was pure fascism; that it was a 
>remake of Mussolini's `corporate state' and refused to agree to any 
>of it. He informed me that in view of my attitude, the business world 
>would support Roosevelt with money and influence. That for the most 
>part proved true."
>
>Why would "business" support Mussolini in Italy and Roosevelt in 
>America? Don't make the mistake of confusing entrepreneurs and 
>family-owned firms with multinationals who have no loyalty to a 
>nation or their employees. Big Business is much more comfortable 
>operating sweatshops in Red China than they would be in a true free 
>enterprise system where subsidies and insider deals are eliminated. 
>As Thomas Jefferson once said: "Merchants have no country. The mere 
>spot on which they stand does not constitute so strong an attachment 
>as that from which they draw their gains."
>
>[ED. NOTE: During the period when I was heavily involved in affairs 
>in southern Africa in the 1970s and '80s, David Rockefeller visited 
>that region and stated that he actually preferred to do business with 
>Marxist governments because they offered more "stability," 
>"predictability" and "profits" than democratic ones. Of course, the 
>bottom line profits are much greater when slave labor is employed.
>
>In the early '80s I discussed with the managing director of a large 
>South African conglomerate with large mining interests in Zimbabwe 
>(which had just fallen to the Communists) the outlook for his 
>company. He beamed as he described how the outlook for profits in 
>newly Communist Zimbabwe had never been better. As he said, "the raw 
>materials are still there, the world markets are still there, and the 
>cost of labor is so much lower C we've never made so much money." It 
>was fascist business leaders like this one who collaborated with 
>socialist political leaders in the South African government to bring 
>the Communists to power in 1994.]
>
>Our present day corporate fascists could not care less if their 
>candidate is labeled a Democrat, Republican, Progressive, 
>conservative or Martian. As long as you're holding the winning 
>ticket, does it matter what the horse looks like? To paraphrase Vince 
>Lombardi, "winning is the only thing" for fascists.
>
>1933 was just the beginning of fascism in America. FDR piled on one 
>socialistic program or initiative on top of another, and the "crisis" 
>of World War II helped him to implement even more government controls 
>on the nation. With much cheering from the media, he completely 
>remade America in little more than a decade. FDR's successors, 
>whether Democrat or Republican, have faithfully followed his 
>blueprint for a fascist America. While the rhetoric may vary at times 
>(as with Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan), the results are pretty much 
>the same regardless of which of the fascist parties has the majority 
>in Congress.
>
>One of the hallmarks of fascism is the ease with which insiders move 
>back and forth between well-connected lobbying firms, sumptuous 
>corporate suites and upper-level government positions. Henry 
>Kissinger, George Shultz, Howard Baker, George Bush, Robert Rubin, 
>Bob Dole, Colin Powell, Winston Lord, and Bill Bradley are just a few 
>of the elitists who always seem to be ready and willing to cash in on 
>the spoils of fascism.
>
>The current administration may equal or even surpass Mussolini in 
>their fervent devotion to fascism. Clinton policy wonks can't talk 
>enough about "public-private partnership," more government programs 
>for everyone, federal intervention and surveillance over every facet 
>of life, and sweetheart deals for Red Chinese thugs. Current or 
>former government officials such as Janet Reno, Hillary Rodham 
>Clinton, Al Gore, Louis Freeh, EPA director Carol Browner, Laura 
>D'Andrea Tyson and Bill himself would not look out of place in a 
>group photo with Il Duce and his cabinet. [ED. NOTE: Consider the 
>much publicized photos of Bill Clinton with U.S. and Red Chinese 
>corporate business leaders.] However, the biggest promoters of 
>fascism today wear tailored suits, Gucci loafers and call themselves 
>"international businessmen" or "global citizens."
>
>F. THE RETURN OF THE ROBBER BARONS: IS THE WORLD RUN BY BIG BUSINESS? 
>In the 7/10/97 issue of The Reaper, R.E. McMaster wrote regarding the 
>present rule of the corporate "robber barons" in America: "Clearly 
>the robber barons of the 1890s, with their elitist doctrine of social 
>evolution and the survival of the fittest, saw big business (the 
>multi-nationals) as rightfully ruling on earth... Well, money is 
>power. Whoever has the gold (money) makes the rules. So big money, 
>multinationals, today run politics, that in turn establishes the laws 
>which rule economics. Money is the god of this world.
>
>"Just two decades ago, the Academy Award winning movie, Network, made 
>this above-discussed scenario very clear to the American people, just 
>as the smash hit, Independence Day and now, Men in Black, are 
>establishing another `conditioning reality' in the American psyche 
>today. In the key clip from the movie, Network, the head of a major 
>multinational corporation took a TV news anchorman (who still 
>believed in nationalism and ideologies) into a palatial corporate 
>board room, sat him down, and read him the riot act.
>
>"He told him the economic facts of life. The TV news anchorman was 
>named Mr. Beale. When you read the script of this movie that so 
>totally permeated the American consciousness two decades ago, you 
>can't help but realize how clearly this has been achieved. And now, 
>typical, average Americans have voluntarily interwoven their 
>financial fate, via the U.S. stock market, into the political, 
>military, social, environmental, financial and economic fabric of the 
>New World Order. "`You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, 
>Mr. Beale, and I won't have it...Is that clear? Do you think you 
>merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs are 
>taking billions of dollars out of this country and now they must put 
>it back... it is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological 
>balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and 
>peoples. There are no nations, there are no peoples, there are no 
>Russians, there are no Arabs, there are no third worlds, there is no 
>West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and 
>inane, inter-made, interwoven, interacting, multi-varied, 
>multinational dominion of dollars C petrodollars, electrodollars, 
>multidollars, reich marks, rands, rubles, pounds and shekels. It is 
>the international system of currency which determines the totality of 
>life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. 
>
>	That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things 
>today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you 
>will atone.
>
>"`You get up on your little 21-inch screen and howl about America and 
>democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only 
>IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those 
>are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians 
>talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their 
>lineal programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax 
>solutions and compute the price/cost probabilities of their 
>transactions and investments, just like we do.
>
>"`We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. 
>The world is a collage of corporations inexorably determined by the 
>immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It 
>has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will 
>live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world, in which there is no war, 
>or famine, oppression, or brutality C one vast and ecumenical holding 
>company for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which 
>all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all 
>anxieties soothed, all boredom amused, and I have chosen you, Mr. 
>Beale, to preach this evangel...'"
>
>CONCLUSION Americans were warned of the emergence of fascism more 
>than half a century ago by Indiana congressman Samuel Pettengill. A 
>Democrat, Pettengill was an American first, and he had no love for 
>FDR and his statist agenda. Although many other concerned citizens 
>have sounded the warning through the years, few have done so with 
>Pettengill's clarity and understanding.
>
>In his 1940 book Smoke Screen, Pettengill wrote, "The danger today is 
>a creeping collectivism. The New Deal...has set its feet on that 
>path. There will be no sudden coup d'etat. The march will be step by 
>step, and by muffled tread. It will move under the smoke-screen of 
>laudable `objectives' to its hidden goal. That goal is National 
>Socialism."
>
>Pettengill predicted, "We will continue to pay lip service to private 
>property...But the control and the profits, if not the actual 
>management of property, will be gradually C and stealthily C taken 
>from its owners and gathered into the hands of bureaucrats. For some 
>time, we will continue to call it Americanism, but it will become a 
>species of Nazism."
>
>Sadly, Pettengill's book has turned out to be very prophetic. The 
>hour is late, but America can and must reverse 60-plus years of 
>fascist infiltration and subversion. There is no other choice for 
>those who love and wish to preserve our freedom.
> 
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