The Rise of Fascism and the Demise of North Korea, Iran and Sudan

 We all learn from history that tremors in the financial and economic landscape have mostly produced massive changes in the wealth and physical boundaries of many countries. Any time there is a shift in power, in any form whatever, there are those fanatic and greedy leaders who would take bold chances to gain even more power and wealth. We see that now.

Our world now resembles much of the political and economic  landscape just before World War 1 where the ‘balance of power, ‘ collated by numerical alliances and treaties, was perturbed and  collapsed. This led to massive war. The great industrial powers gathered support and encouragement from their allies and turned on their huge war machines that killed 51 million people.  Some believe that the US was brought into the conflict from the financial threat of the United Kingdom not being able to pay off their war debts if they lost to Germany.[1] This conflict that destroyed most of Europe was never fully resolved and reflexive measures like the abominable Treaty of Versailles[2] merely delayed and accentuated the necessary vectors for a bigger war. Today, with our global economy, the players in various camps can wage financial and economic war and disregard physical boundaries.  We are engaged in such a global war. But, now this is an international class war. The ‘rich’ are being forced to give up their wealth.

Paraphrasing Carl Von Clausewitz[3] we can clearly state that the notion “…war is a continuation of politics by other means…” needs to be expanded and broadened in scope. The wars, or actions of politics as in the original observation, now may be economic, financial, debt-oriented and natural-resource oriented and, adding a final element: taxes of the international sort are now a form of war.  War may now be waged from computer keyboards and generals can easily sent orders to the troops by e-mail in seconds. The banks have become fortresses and corporations like bands of brigands. The United Nations wants the power to tax.

Any sudden change in debt level, monetary reserves, bond interest rates, trade agreements or tariffs or taxes may be considered an act of war in the new era.  Any affront may prompt retaliation in kind. Large quantitative shifts in any of these elements may lead to a shift in both political power and a tendency toward hoarding wealth and protectionism. Debtors become the tools of the bond holders but threats of default now can become sophisticated oblique field maneuvers.[4] Military action is now essential only in some limited instances but is secondary to the financial means available to new leaders. Terrorists who hide in the rocks of Afghanistan can churlishly call upon sympathizers to raise or lower the price of oil and punish aggressors. The unexpected changes in our economies, such as our recent stock market crash, have shifted the power from benign capitalists conducting two major shooting wars in Iran and Iraq to a fascist group with intentions far bolder than hunting down some fanatic terrorists. Any new economic changes of any sort may be conveniently exploited by the New Fascists.  What we observe is an intercalation of radical Marxism, Old World Fascism and Financial Adventurism blended into a power base with more financial muscle than the world has seen since Octavian seized the loot from Cleopatra. This is the New Fascism and it will be expensive.

Politicians who can swiftly adapt to opportunities are now strutting upon the world stage and the current shift in political vectors tend to be tax driven--taxes in the world wide sense--and the printing of money without sufficient reserves. The new weapon in this war is the printing press. We face a new-fangled form of something that resembles Debt Fascism where massive debt becomes the excuse to change public opinion via promises and threats and thus strongly influence world policy.  The Western Anglo world is awash in debt and is suffering in a downward debt-driven deflationary spiral[5] and now the debt itself becomes a major weapon in the war machines.  Debtors have as much power as creditors in some cases like the situation between the US and China. The battlefield is now multidimensional and there are debt battle maps, natural resource battle maps, credit battle maps, bond market battle maps and, the new one: international tax battle maps. Defaults can now be effective economic weapons. The graveyards now return to us Zombie Banks[6] with trillions of dollars of printing press backing to give them artificial life. [7]

We all know about the theories of battle and the need to put overwhelming forces into the fray at the direction of generals and this theory still applies. But, the ‘generals’ who command not military but financial, economic and tax forces now command the high ground. They can win bloodless battles with monetary and tax polities.

We should shudder with fear when we note just who controls power in the world now, and what they are what their beliefs hinge on:

Field Marshall Geithner:

We have Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner who now has the power to print and move trillions of dollars by himself and is immune from either inspection or responsibilities to the courts as generously granted in law by Congress.  He can create instant wealth or instant poverty by bypassing the banking system rules and stuff capital into the balance sheets of any bank, real or imaginary. There is no counterpart to this guy in history unless we probe deep into history for a Cleopatra or a Caesar Augustus. The Chinese know what he is doing and their dollar reserves are in jeopardy.

"We believe in a strong dollar ... and we're going to make sure that we repair and reform the financial system so that we sustain confidence," he said.”[8]-- Geithner tells China its dollar assets are safe On Monday June 1, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

The Chinese hate us for this:

““Mr Luo, whose English tends toward the colloquial, added: “We hate you guys. Once you start issuing $1 trillion-$2 trillion [$1,000bn-$2,000bn] . . .we know the dollar is going to depreciate, so we hate you guys but there is nothing much we can do.””[9]—wild rant by Luo Ping, a director-general at the China Banking Regulatory Commission.[10]

This kind of rhetoric certainly does not give me confidence in our government. Should I invest in China?

Colonel Klebb[11]: The Queen of State Hillary Clinton:

We have Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a known liar and one who defies the courts and escapes charges of perjury and who now announces which sovereign nations will not advance their development on nuclear weapons and missile systems. She has a mercurial personality, is vindictive and sour and offers ultimatums to Iran, The People’s Republic of North Korea [DPPK] and Sudan. Israel has been threatened with who knows what and now ‘temporarily’ suspends building projects moratorium in the West Bank.^[12] She is “optimistic.”[13] She has threatened them with something. We can only wonder how many petrodollars have been placed on a sacred pedestal in Basel for the Clintons to enjoy in the future. The greedy Clintons have already amassed hundreds of millions of dollars in their secret thus nefarious dealings in the Middle East. The slush fund known as the Clinton Liebrary is a massive tax dodge and suppository for graft and bribes.

The Wrath of Clinton:

"There is no place to go for North Korea," Clinton told reporters after reading a nearly seven-minute statement outlining U.S. policy on North Korea. "They have no friends left."—Hillary Clinton July 23, 2009.

And:

"What we've seen is this constant demand for attention," Clinton said. "And maybe it's the mother in me or the experience that I've had with small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention -- don't give it to them, they don't deserve it, they are acting out."—Hillary Clinton July 23, 2009.[14]

This is diplomacy. North Koreans need to pay her some ‘respect’ and toss a hundred million dollars to Billy and maybe she will quit this pathetic posturing and psychotic ranting.

This is such nonsense and grandstanding. No pair has ever called for so much attention as the Clintons. There is no way Iran, North Korea and others, working in concert for 50 years could come up with a missile system that could even suggest a challenge the US and others in the nuclear club. Also, we cannot shield the neighboring states around Iran with a defensive missile shield—the technology is just not there.  The development of nuclear arms is now only a routine political process and has nothing to do with long-term military strategy. Clinton and perhaps Obama use these topics as an excuse to hammer sovereign states that are merely following in the normal predictable pathway of development of arms.  There is a true threat that terrorists might use such weapons but then we all would have to deal with politicians who are building up their prestige and selling such devices to unruly and suicidal terrorists is not good politics. Why risk your status as a leader who has modernized his country and then has to deal with some ignorant and blatant act of terrorism.  Retaliation on an economic scale from such a terrorist attack might be massive and erase certain regimes. We can label this as blowback of the worst sort. There is no future in this kind of thinking and the leaders of the countries Hillary has targeted have no intention of feeding nuclear weapons to terrorists. But, this gives her a majestic platform and a justification to grab more power. She tilts at windmills amidst much applause.

Der Fuehrer: Obama, debt and inflation.

We have Barack H. Obama who appears to be a 60s era  radical ideological racist[15] until we look at his theories and note that his stimulus and other measures do not, as he proudly announced, stimulate the economy and create jobs. He only bloats government.  His promises are thin and ineffective. He appears upon the scene with some 600 million dollars in funding from the ‘little people’ who gave him less than $200 each we are lead to believe. Some $100 million or so came from the Middle East but what the heck. He now raises our public debt to unbelievable levels. He attacks some businesses while nationalizing others. His notions of printing money are received with mixed blessings or horrors depending on who is watching, citing the Labour Party of Gordon Brown in the UK and reacting with suspicion the government of Germany. The UK is heading for the financial latrine as is most of the Eurozone.[16][17] But, Our Fuehrer prints money and empowers his friends such as Goldman Sachs, GM, Chrysler Corporation with financial gifts and TARP funds and helps keep a tight control over unions. He announces that bond holders are ‘greedy’ thus intimidating the bankruptcy judge and for the first time in history secured bond holders get a ‘haircut’ and the unions get a majority of the auto companies they helped to wreck. All these measures will cost jobs not increase employment. He decides to fire the CEO of a Zombie Bank. His first approach is get the solid votes and then to work up government power to the point that the votes don’t matter any more and Congress is saddled like a donkey with serving his fascist programs. Hitler managed this with his Enabling Act.[18] Congress has outshined that metric. The power to nationalize businesses and banks and print unlimited amounts of money is now an economic version of the Enabling Act. Obama is our new Fuehrer.

Resistance:

Some people object of Obama and his Jeremiah Wright-inspired racism and ideologies. Obama said Americans believe "the religion and culture" of all people must be respected and that every person in the world should "be free to speak their minds."[19]-- Obama: Human rights important to US-China ties (AP) – 6 hours ago July 27, 2009 as of 4:04 PM.

Really? We then wonder if Obama and Pelosi will try to muzzle Rush Limbaugh and others who criticize the Democrats.  This definition of ‘human rights’ is a joke and a political fiddle made to be played only with certain tunes. Perhaps Obama will join with human rights demonstrators against Hamas in Gaza  on the point that “… that requires female attorneys to wear headscarfs[sic] and long-sleeved dresses while they are in court.[20] What did he say about “people clinging to their guns and religion?”[21] He speaks with forked tongue. I would be happier if Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi were required to cover their heads. So would my dog.

Not to even attempt to refute the foolish idea that political power rests only in the hands of the elected, we must look at Al Gore and his formal EcoNazism. The notion that our oceans will boil or rise with CO₂ levels is so preposterous as to invite a kazoo-honking crowd of hecklers to the podium until we note that many in the higher level fascist organizations in the energy world are all in favor of it. So called ‘scientists’ will now mumble in excited clusters  in the hope that they will get lucrative government contracts to do ‘research’ to reinvent car batteries, windmills, clean coal operations and solar cells. When confronted with a tautological intermezzo of ‘global warming follies[22]’ the victims of his scheme fail to recognize that his prediction was backward and that the temperature of the earth is now falling on average.  Does Al know about sunspots? The fact that his computer models[23] were reading toward the rear is no concern to those who wish to get in on the juicy profits from taxing and selling new forms of energy at wild profits. Any lie that works is a workable lie. The craft of science is now polluted with hucksters and frauds that are paid to endorse predictions that are silly or backward. This is a superficial marriage of Lysenkoism and Fascism. The proposed Cap and Trade taxes would be world wide.[24] There are the faint hopes for revolutionary changes requiring new inventions such as super car batteries.[25] We have made little engineering and scientific progress on batteries since 1805 but the slobbering hope and wild spending for such a marvel give some kind of emphasis and sanction to a massive transformation of our transportation system and new forms of taxes. Such a tax system would raise costs for everything produced anywhere on the planet. Revenues of such a tax would give unlimited power to power brokers to pick and choose what economies will be successful and which must be eliminated. Efficiency would be reduced, jobs would be lost and corporations would be dissolved because the stark business reality of negative earnings in the near and long term.  Exporting nations such as China, Brazil and India could be intimidated and their products declared an Enemy to the Environment by this new Lysenkoism.

And what would a society envisioned by Al Gore and The Clintons and Barack Obama look like? How about California?[26] States like CA, NY, NJ, MD, MI and OR are blue blue states that overwhelming voted for Obama and practice wild and massive spending on government in their respective states and endorse higher and higher taxes as the solution to government financing difficulties. These states have no financial stability. They are financially and morally bankrupt. California is an economic basket case and headed for financial default yet the New Fascists in Sacramento and Hollywood are the most loyal to Obama. They are also the states with the highest unemployment rates, the highest crime and drug addiction rates and the highest and most obnoxious anti-corporate taxes and policies and all of them abound in EcoNazism. These states now foster the highest possible hostile environment for entrepreneurs in the world. Their solution to every known problem is more taxes and bigger government.[27]

Many of California problems derive from people like Nancy Pelosi [a.k.a. Spartacus] ^[28]who “…don’t care if they are disliked.”[29] This is certainly the case. California has plunged into the drug and crime culture so deeply it is questionable if they can return to the surface. [30] Their handling of financing and ‘education’ are prime examples of how NOT to run a society. They are going broke spending money they don’t’ have and use some short-term political logic and blame of others to keep their self esteem.  They must believe that Obama will rescue them if they default, and he might.

Much of the world is heading for a depression[31] and it appears that US policy is to drive everyone into some kind of inflation trap. Printing money is economically suicidal and nobody has ever printed so much money as the US. But, some countries are resisting the psychotic measure of ‘quantitative easing’ as the penalty is very great and economies might require decades to pay off debts. Inflation wipes out currency but does not change the value of hard assets. So, the inflation must be used as a political weapon to raise taxes to the absolute limits and draw off as much liquidity as possible into the tax coffins. Hopefully for the Progressive Nazis[32], the inflation will force people to convert their tangible assets to worthless currency and thus deplete their wealth. There is no other reason to encourage inflation.

There will be winners and losers in this battle and those who succumb to the phony EcoNazism will lose. Thusly, China, North Korea, India and some other countries are not willing to partner in some phony scheme to destroy commerce and stick us with zero growth perhaps for decades to come.  As such, they must become targets of the New Fascists or the Progressive Nazis. Trade embargoes and other credit restraints must accompany any dealings with those countries who resist Obama and Al Gore and EcoNazism.

From Colonel Klebb:

"We are open to talks with North Korea. But we are not interested in half-measures," Clinton said. "We do not intend to reward the North just for returning to the table."—Obama Administration view as taught to the world by Hillary Clinton.

This is just the hangman demanding that the recently condemned must agree to certain styles of rope and agree on some fine details on how trap doors work.  The ‘human rights’ issue will be used in a similar fashion to bludgeon the Clinton enemies. This is like sticking a knife in your back and only giving it a half turn.

We can learn much from the Obama treatment of North Korea, Iran and Sudan in the coming months. We may find that the IMF and other organizations will boycott or cease lending to them when the world economies sink and they need help. The tariff wars may soon begin.

So, we have a sophist and an ideological racist who was politically  fine-tuned by Jeremiah Wright and launches into the xenophobic clouds on matters of race[33] e.g.-- howled that the police acted ‘stupidly’ without any evidence or accurate information in the Gates Crisis--has wild support from Africa, the welfare rights crowd, certain terrorist groups like the Black Panthers, the prison guests, the unions, most of the Middle East and Europe  and who, we observe,  has no experience other than 160 days as a ‘senator’ and has his little finger on some 50 trillion dollars in assets and wants to ‘spread it around. ‘

Ready for a change? That change is coming.

"And it's not surprising then they [now read liberals in power] get bitter, they cling to tax machines or drugs and have antipathy to people who aren't like them or pro-illegal-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."[1]—My paraphrase of Barack Obama’s off camera remarks in what he thought was a safe environment to express his views.[1] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

It is difficult to find a more bitter, twisted, racist and criminal crowd than the current occupants of the White House.

rycK

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