14 signs of fascism-The USA turning into a fascist country?

According to a college professor, Dr. Lawrence Britt (expert on Fascist Regimes & author of "Fascism Anyone?"), there are 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism:

1. Powerful & Continuing Nationalism
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights.
3. Identifying Enemies or Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause.
4. Supremacy of The Military.
5. Rampant Sexism.
6. Controlled Mass-Media.
7. Obsession with National Security.
8. Religion & Government Our Intertwined.
9. Corporate Power is Protected
10. Labor Power is Suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals & The Arts.
12. Obsession with Crime & Punishment.
13. Rampant Cronyism & Corruption.
14. Fraudulent Elections.

1. Powerful & Continuing Nationalism

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Patriotic Tribute to our Military

An awe-inspiring tribute to those serving in the United States Armed Forces. The song LIBERTY reminds all Americans of the many freedoms that we enjoy and what a true privilege it is to live in this great country.

Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue


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2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights.

- Some of the "Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators

Corporations carry out some of the most horrific human rights abuses of modern times, but it is increasingly difficult to hold them to account. Economic globalization and the rise of transnational corporate power have created a favorable climate for corporate human rights abusers, which are governed principally by the codes of supply and demand and show genuine loyalty only to their stockholders.
Though it isn't easy, we can check the power of corporations—and citizens around the world are stepping up to do it. Global Exchange developed this list of some of the world's worst corporate abusers to illustrate that on issues as diverse as assassination, torture, kidnapping, environmental degradation, abusing public funds, violently repressing political rights, releasing toxins into pristine environments, destroying homes, discrimination, and causing widespread health problems, familiar companies like Dow Chemical, Coca Cola, Caterpillar, Lockheed, Philip Morris, and Wal-Mart play a big role.

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3. Identifying Enemies or Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause.

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4. Supremacy of The Military.

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5. Rampant Sexism.

- KBR Chief Knocks Alleged Victim's Rape Claims


- Jamie Leigh Jones - KBR Gang Rape ABC 20/20

"Jamie Leigh Jones, says that in 2005 after she was raped by multiple men at KBR's Camp Hope facility in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.

"Don't plan on working back in Iraq. There won't be a position here, and there won't be a position in Houston," Jones says she was told.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its subsidiary at that time, KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave."

- Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away
- US: DynCorp Disgrace

Middle-aged men having sex with 12- to 15-year-olds was too much for Ben
Johnston, a hulking 6-foot-5-inch Texan, and more than a year ago he blew
the whistle on his employer, DynCorp, a U.S. contracting company doing
business in Bosnia.

According to the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) lawsuit filed in Texas on behalf of the former DynCorp aircraft mechanic, "in the latter part of 1999 Johnston learned that employees and supervisors from DynCorpwere engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were purchasing illegal weapons, women, forged passports and [participating in other immoral acts. Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally
 buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, and employees
 would brag about the various ages and talents of the individual slaves they
 had purchased."

 Rather than acknowledge and reward Johnston's effort to get this behavior
 stopped, DynCorp fired him, forcing him into protective custody by the U.S.
 Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) until the investigators could get him safely out of Kosovo and returned to the United States. That departure from the war-torn country was a far cry from what Johnston imagined a year earlier when he arrived in Bosnia to begin a three-year U.S. Air Force contract with DynCorp as an aircraft-maintenance technician for Apache and Blackhawk helicopters.

- Dyncorp Used Armored Car To Transport Prostitutes in Iraq

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6. Controlled Mass-Media.

Murdoch’s Newsday Deal Is Bad News for New York

According to numerous press reports, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is close to completing a $580 million deal to purchase the Long Island daily Newsday from Tribune Company. S. Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, made the following statement:
"Completion of this backroom deal between Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell would give one company, News Corp., control of Newsday, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and two TV stations in the New York market. And that doesn't even take into account Murdoch’s ownership of the Fox network, Fox News Channel, and all of his other holdings in cable TV, movies, local TV stations and newspapers worldwide. That’s too much power in too few hands.
“The sale of Newsday to News Corp. is a clear violation of even the severely weakened FCC limits on how much media one company can own in one market. This sale should not be permitted under any circumstances. New York, like the rest of America, needs more media choices, viewpoints and competition -- not more consolidation.”

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EXPOSED: Media ignore Pentagon Pundits scandal

Mainstream media are ignoring one of the biggest political scandals in recent memory. Demand a full Congressional investigation here:
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OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.

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Pentagon Pundits Scandal: John Stauber debates Bob Zelnick


BANNED Pres. Bush Interview




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7. Obsession with National Security.

- NSA Leaker Is Subpoenaed To Testify Before Federal Grand Jury

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Cathy O'brien presents: TRANCE Form America Pt. 1

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Cathy O'brien presents: TRANCE Form America Pt. 2

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8. Religion & Government Our Intertwined.



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- Feds Train Clergy To "Quell Dissent" During Martial Law

Shocking KSLA 12 news report confirms story we broke last year, Pastors to cite Romans 13 as reason for public to obey government orders, relinquish guns and be taken to camps during state of emergency

New American Theology of Civil Submission

What is the opposite of liberation theology? This presentation may illustrate part of the answer; a theology of civil obedience.

The government has predetermined an important role for the clergy should martial law become a reality in America. While federal military-police powers will hold a key position of authority, the clergy may provide the means for further subduing the public.

- 26,000 Pastors for Martial Law Continuity of Government

Video compilation about continuity of government plans for martial law including the KSLA News report of the 26,000 pastors recruited for handling the people during a martial law take over.

There are over 800 camps throughout the United States.
Recently 26,000 pastors were recruited by FEMA(Federal Emergency Management Association) to instruct their congregations that in case of an emergency they are to peacefully hand over their arms and their children and go to the camps.
In a case like Hurricane Katrina, people were starving, and had no home.
They had no choice but to go to the FEMA camps or die of starvation.
Is this the choice you want to be left with in the event of a local or national emergency, or might it be smarter to prepare now with emergency food, water and supplies?

- Ministers recruited for census sermonsPastor balks at Bureau's push to preach government gospel

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9. Corporate Power is Protected

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IBM, VERICHIP and the FOURTH REICH

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The Corporation

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- A Special Break for Corporate Criminals

If you got caught robbing a bank, chances are excellent that you'd be facing some serious time in the pokey. But what if a bank robs you?

- In Bush's America, Corporate Criminals Walk

Why is Congress poised to pass a new bill that could make it almost impossible for the feds to get at these culprits?

- Bush Tough on Corporate Criminals — Except His Pals


10. Labor Power is Suppressed.

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Where have all the jobs gone? Oh yeah it was that thing called NAFTA.

80,000 jobs lost, unemployment spikes

Employers slash jobs for third straight month while unemployment jumps to 5.1%, a nearly three-year high.

Indian 'slave' children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap

Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
Speaking to The Observer, the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.
Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using child labour. It announced it had withdrawn the garments involved while it investigated breaches of the ethical code imposed by it three years ago.
The discovery of the children working in filthy conditions in the Shahpur Jat area of Delhi has renewed concerns about the outsourcing by large retail chains of their garment production to India, recognised by the United Nations as the world's capital for child labour.
According to one estimate, more than 20 per cent of India's economy is dependent on children, the equivalent of 55 million youngsters under 14.

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Nike factory in China
Unfortunately, on top of inherent tendencies of labor markets to under-compensate many laborers, the Chinese government suppresses the price of labor as well. In 2004 the AFL-CIO released a report detailing the repression of workers' rights in China. In this report they concluded that the activities of the Chinese government are responsible for lowering the wages of Chinese workers by 47 to 86 percent. Among the criticisms of Chinese working conditions cited by the report are the inability of Chinese workers to form unions (they can only be members of the official state union, which actually does more to work against the rights of workers than for them), the lack of safe working conditions, the lack of enforced minimum wage, and the use of forced labor.

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Mobile phones and computers contain a cocktail of toxic chemicals so they cannot be recycled or disposed of safely. Every year, hundreds of thousands of old computers and mobile phones are dumped in landfills or burned in smelters.

Thousands more are exported, often illegally, from the Europe, US, Japan and other industrialised countries, to Asia. There, workers at scrap yards, some of whom are children, are exposed to the dangerous chemicals when they take them apart.

Greenpeace wants electronic companies to make clean, safe products. It is asking them to stop using toxic chemicals and to take old products back for safe reuse, recycling or disposal when we discard them.

It also wants an end to the illegal toxic waste trade and has been investigating the e-waste yards in China and India to assess the extent of the problems there.

Freelance journalist, David Murphy, accompanied Greenpeace to one of the yards in Guiyu, China. Here is what he discovered...

Mobile phones and computers contain a cocktail of toxic chemicals so they cannot be recycled or disposed of safely. Every year, hundreds of thousands of old computers and mobile phones are dumped in landfills or burned in smelters.

Thousands more are exported, often illegally, from the Europe, US, Japan and other industrialised countries, to Asia. There, workers at scrap yards, some of whom are children, are exposed to the dangerous chemicals when they take them apart.

Greenpeace wants electronic companies to make clean, safe products. It is asking them to stop using toxic chemicals and to take old products back for safe reuse, recycling or disposal when we discard them.

It also wants an end to the illegal toxic waste trade and has been investigating the e-waste yards in China and India to assess the extent of the problems there.

Freelance journalist, David Murphy, accompanied Greenpeace to one of the yards in Guiyu, China. Here is what he discovered...

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11. Disdain for Intellectuals & The Arts.

Shepard Smith Explodes at Naomi Wolf!

On Studio B this afternoon Shep was interviewing Wolf and Kellyanne Conway. When Wolf made a crack about Fox News Shep went off on her. Things calmed down after a bit of squabbing, but then Shep got in a last shot at her at the end.

Talk by Naomi Wolf - The End of America


Music Video Banned on MTV (which is owned by Viacom):
"Bombs" by Faithless

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Who Owns What: Viacom

One of the largest global media empires, Viacom has a financial interest in broadcast and cable television, radio, Internet, book publishing, and film production and distribution. Some of this vertically integrated conglomerate's highly recognizable properties include the CBS network, MTV, Infinity broadcasting, Simon & Schuster, Blockbuster and Paramount Pictures. With such a diverse portfolio of properties, Viacom is one of the most profitable media giants as CBS is a top draw for older viewers while MTV remains the most popular teen orientated media outlet.

Katie Couric's Notebook: 'Banned Books Week' (CBS News)


- Banned Books Online
- University of Texas: Banned Books Week
- Banned Books Week Read-Out

1. The Great Gatsbyby F Scott Fitzgerald
 2. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
 9. 1984 by George Orwell
 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
 15. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 
 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
 24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
 29. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
 53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
97. Rabbit Run by John Updike

14 Banned Books

The Anarchist Cook book. One of the most famously Banned pieces of text that fell into the hands of someone who acutally tried making explosives in a barn yard. If you havn't heard of it, you probably will soon enough. Certain articles etc are always Banned from the public but still remain as E-books worldwide but are no longer allowed to be sold on teh public market. Well, Personally I Loved the Anarchist Cook book by William Powell and also the JollyRoger version/spinoff. Theres a ton more of these you can probably find at some underground text dump, but there are 14 that have been noteably banned which I decided to Find , And upload.

I obviously don't advise you try this crap, but I do urge you to take alook at what was banned by the authorties before you wonder if its "real".

Dangerous stories? Librarians push banned books

Across the country, there is a small group of people who dislike certain booksand seek each year to have them banished from libraries, presumably with the intent of protecting children.
Audra Alexander is not one of those people. She's a librarian at Bluffton High School, and for the past few days, she's lured students back to the library with candy bars if they check out a "banned" book, one that has been listed as frequently challenged, according to the American Library Association.
In support of a nationwide Banned Book Week, the association released a new list of the most challenged books in 2006.
The list inlcudes "And Tango Makes Three" about two male penguins that may or may not be gay and "The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things," which apparently has anti-family and sexual content and offensive language, and old "banned book" stalwarts such as "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved," both by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison.

Lists of Banned Books, 1932-1939

What was forbidden? What was burned? It is difficult to say for sure, in part because there were so many agencies which got involved. According to Leonidas Hill, author of "The Nazi Attack on Un-German Literature, 1933-1945," by 1934, over forty agencies had lists ennumerating 4,100 publications to be banned. The following list is necessarily partial, but should represent the most influential literature blacklists from 1933 to 1935.

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12. Obsession with Crime & Punishment.

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Bell's fiancee: 'They killed Sean all over again'

A day after three New York police detectives were acquitted on all counts in the case of Sean Bell -- an unarmed man killed in a hail of 50 police gunshots -- his fiancee told supporters that the justice system let her down.Sean Bell, an innocent man walking out of a nightclub was shot fifty times by cops. Not one or twice, but fifty shots. In front of numerous eyewitnesses. The cops were all found not guilty.

TIMOTHY WORLEY TASERED BY POLICE OFFICER

Timothy Worley was tasered by Georgia police for "becoming confrontational" at a traffic stop according to news reports, but the video shows that the extent of Worley's aggression was merely pointing at the cop and raising his voice.

After Worley exits the vehicle and appears calm, the cowardly officer accuses him of "making fists" when Worley is doing no more than crossing his arms. Apparently, incorrect body language is now an offence that justifies "pain compliance" correction by means of a Tasering.

Worley even puts his palms together in a prayer-like pose in an attempt to reassure the officer he is calm but that is not good enough, after Worley points at the cop for half a second, the officer then approaches Worley who backs away but is then Tasered.

What should Worley's correct body language have been to have avoided 50,000 volts shooting through his body? Should he have kneeled and licked the officer's boots while he was being lectured?

Why are police being trained that simply talking to cops or pointing a finger is evidence of an imminent physical threat?

Perhaps Worley's behavior was deserving of a little torture when compared to the revelation that the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority Police Service are tasering passengers who dodge their fares.

Maybe he got off lightly in comparison with the 16-year-old Palmdale schoolgirl who had her arm broken by a thug security guard and was later arrested by police for dropping cake.

How about the UCLA student who was repeatedly shocked as he screamed in agony for the crime of failing to present his ID in a campus library? Maybe Worley should be grateful for the fact that he wasn't brutalized to the point where he begged for his Mommy, as happened to Mostafa Tabatabainejad.

This is yet more evidence as if it were needed that Taser guns have become an official instrument of oppression in America, as roid-head cops maraud the nation looking for the most minor indiscretion as an excuse to use them against everybody, including children and pregnant women.

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13. Rampant Cronyism & Corruption.

- Rupert Murdoch Loves Hillary Clinton
- Rupert Murdoch backs Hillary Clinton


ROTHSCHILD FAMILY SUPPORTS HILLARY'S PRESIDENCY

Lynn Forrester de Rothschild has thrown the immense support of her family behind the Presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton.

CNN on the Bilderberg Group


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Cronyism, Incompetence & Immorality



Heckuva Job DHS! 5 Years of Corporate Cronyism

Since its creation five years ago, Americans have been inundated with stories of waste, fraud and abuse at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Read more at www.homelandsecurityforsale.org

Bush sings at White House Correspondents Dinner

George Bush sings about incompetence and scandals at White House Correspondents Dinner. Keith olbermann and Chris Matthews comment

Superdelegates explained


- McCain’s staff and Bush’s staff talk ‘everyday.’

Iraq for Sale

A Robert Greenwald film about corporations in Iraq. To watch more great movies or to learn the truth about the 9/11 attacks.

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George W. Bush and the King of Saudi Arabia

Underground - George W. Bush and King Abdullah (king of Saudi Arabia)spend a day together and find out that they have more in common that just oil.

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14. Fraudulent Elections.





Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early


FOX News Exposes Princeton / Diebold Vote-Reversal Story

HELP MAKE THIS THE MOST WATCHED YOUTUBE VIDEO OF ALL TIME!! Email this link to others! Princeton University shows how they quickly reversed the outcome of a mock vote -- leaving no evidence that they did so.

This particular Diebold machine will be used for 10% of the U.S. electorate this November.

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