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Freedom to Fascism Redux: An American Timeline

Let me give you a timeline for the last few years of American history:

FREEDOM > PNAC > 9/11 > AUMF > PATRIOT ACT > CITIZENS UNITED > NDAA > SOPA PIPA > EEA > FASCISM

Here is what all that means...

FREEDOM: What the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights once guaranteed to all American Citizens.

http://www.usconstitution.net

PNAC: Our wars for oil and profit were planned LONG before 9/11, but an excuse was needed to justify them.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

[ Note: This letter was dated JANUARY 26 1998 and the last paragraph reads "We urge you to act decisively. If you act now to end the threat of WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION against the U.S. or its allies, you will be acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our interests and our future at risk." ]

9/11: The excuse that was needed to sacrifice lives and liberties while corporations raided our treasury.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25489

AUMF: Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40), a "war against terror" carte blanche.

http://news.findlaw.com/wp/docs/terrorism/sjres23.es.html

PATRIOT ACT: 68,000 words worth of Orwellian "1984" legislation supposedly drafted and passed in six weeks.

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ56

CITIZENS UNITED: The U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave corporations a legal way to buy U.S. elections.

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission/

NDAA: The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which codifies indefinite detention without trial.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-1540

SOPA/PIPA: The proposed Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, euphemisms for Internet censorship.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3261

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-968

EEA: The proposed Enemy Expatriation Act, under which dissent could result in revocation of citizenship.

http://amerikanreich.com/2012/01/10/the-enemy-expatriation-act-s-1698h-r-3166-a-statement-from-anonymous/

FASCISM: Rule by corporate elite we can only reverse by waking up 312 million mostly clueless Americans.

http://amerikanreich.com/2012/01/08/calls-to-action-nationwide-ndaa-2012-congressional-protest/

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Will WE THE PEOPLE stand by and watch? Video

Will we?

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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Admit it, We are Broke! A few charts and stuff

Were we able to remove the the terms republican and democrat plus the names of the Presidents from this slideshow we would have done so. Why? Why not just stick the truth out there? Because people do not like it. Also because our contention is that the presidents and the parties are bought and paid for. But if you actually get through the slide show before running in disgust, be advised the last slide mentions republican presidents under whom the debt was under control.

Unfortunately our choices from either party this time will probably be the final nail in the coffin.
 
 What we do know is that "Officially" we are now running over 15 trillion in debt. Which is really kind of Bogus because if you add up all the "off book" debt we are like pushing 200+ trillion. Whoops!

By law this year,  about $500 billion of fiscal tightening that will occur in January 2013. Current law will undoubtedly be changed, as no party wants to see that much tightening in that short a period. However, how current law is changed is extremely uncertain, and that uncertainty could restrain activity toward the end of the year.

As we have addressed the laws of exponentialities in previous posts, here and others. you can expect the debt clock to run faster the faster it runs.

Maybe we are being a bit optimistic. but considering that a body in motion stays in motion and that for every action there is an opposite reaction we can only see three possible resultant scenarios.

1. A depression that will make the "Great" Depression look like a cake walk.
2. Hyper inflation to make the Zimbabwe and Weimar experience look like Financial conservatism.  
or.....
3.  We do as Iceland did and say, Screw it we are bankrupt. Because in fact, we are.  At least for the lifetimes of most of us.

We pretty much discount number three because politicians and corporations have to much skin in the game. But if someone has can show us differently. Please feel free to do so.Add to Technorati Favorites

Apple forced to detail factory working conditions-

 What  was it we posted, oh about yesterday, Apples chinese slave camp has more problems and Apple, Inc. and Occupy Tallahassee's failure, about Apple slime?  It would appear that somebody is getting to the Apple big wigs as today, for the first time ever, Apple has disclosed a list of it's suppliers and their bogus claims pretending they were/are trying to do something to stop worker and environmental abuse in the hopes of allaying negative publicity. From the Wall Street Journal WITH our always astute observations, NOT derived from the BRAIN ON LOAN FROM GOD Limbaugh uses:

• TECHNOLOGY
• JANUARY 13, 2012, 1:12 P.M. ET

Apple Details Working Conditions at Factories

By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO

Apple Inc. disclosed a comprehensive list of its major suppliers for the first time, along with a detailed report on factory inspections, moving to combat an array of criticism about working conditions in its supply chain and the company's transparency about it.

US: Our site along with others have been documenting an posting on Apple Incs Human Rights, environmental lack of concern, off shoring Jobs and profits so they would not have to pay taxes for a number of years now.  To say they now wish to be transparent is intelectual bull. Which is our way of saying nicely, they are freaking liars.