US should buy control of Nokia, Ericsson to fight Huawei: Attorney General Barr Barr wants the United States to take controlling stakes in Nokia and Ericsson, creating a state corporation able to battle Chinese telecoms giant Huawei’s dominance of the 5G market. “From a national securi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fascism’
October 13th, 2019 - 10:26 am § in Donald Trump
TRUMPISM: Its roots
“[T]he Islamic world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. Islamic anti-Semitism ran deep… We had only to keep repeating our themes — that the United States and Israel were ̵[...]
December 4th, 2018 - 1:25 pm § in Donald Trump
Is Trump Hitler?
No, but Trumpism IS FASCISM The Trumpies are so desperate that they insist that their leader is not Hitler. They are correct. Trump doesn’t hate Jews or, probably even hate Mexicans. But he does foment hatred and his policies are fascist. Fascism was not originally about race or mass sla[...]
November 19th, 2018 - 1:20 am § in Foreign Affairs, Hypocrisy
Trumpism is Fascism
It is false to write of Trump’s behavior as not being fascist because he has not created concentration camps. Neither did Mussolini, Duterte, Pétain, Putin, or Quisling. McCarthy did not get the chance and for that I am grateful to the patriotic Americans who stood up to “uncle Joe.&#[...]
September 3rd, 2018 - 9:36 am § in America, Donald Trump
NAZI RALLY IN DRAKETOWN GEORGIA
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Mussolini is back!
The far-right Lega and anti-establishment Five Star parties chose law professor Giuseppe Conte as their consensus pick for Italy’s next prime minister, despite his lack of governing experience. Mattarella giving Conte a mandate to form Italy’s next government clears one of the final hurdles for [...]
February 11th, 2018 - 11:10 am § in America, Donald Trump
The Korean Femmebots
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP edited by SMS) — Twitter has clips of the singing and swaying young ladies doing such popular North Korean hits as “Happy to Meet You” Lipstick seemed frozen on their faces and their expressions never changed. 200 of them sang and smiled in uniosn. It’s[...]
January 20th, 2017 - 1:34 am § in Misc.
The Inauguration: Memories of Weimar
“This hardening of attitude was symbolised by the election in late 1928 of Alfred Hugenberg as chairman of the DNVP. Hugenburg had been managing director of Krupps steel works before the war, and was now a wealthy press baron, with a string of newspapers and news agencies, as well as interests[...]
December 26th, 2016 - 12:21 pm § in Misc.
Weimar Republic
“Brüning was replaced as Chancellor by a man few Germans had heard of, Franz von Papen. Though he was a member of the Catholic Centre Party, his political experience had been largely confined to the Prussian Landtag. Far from being a typical Weimar deputy, he was a wealthy aristocrat and reti[...]
The Incorporation of Russia and China
Putin Proposes State Corporate Structure Modeled After China After Vladimir Putin hinted at his September 5 Bloomberg interview that he might not run for presidency in 2018 and suggested that the next leader should be “fairly young” but “mature” [Note 1], pundits are now guessing his success[...]