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Exactly 80 years ago, international capitalism stood on the verge of meltdown.
The collapse of the banking system in the summer of 1931 sent shockwaves through Europe, bringing governments to their knees and thousands out onto the streets.
In the United States, an increasingly careworn president and his congressional critics fought a bitter battle over government spending and tax rises.
With the banks refusing to lend, and millions of people thrown out of work, capitalism itself seemed utterly discredited.
In other countries, many turned to the far Right, swelling the ranks of the Nazis and their allies.
In Finland, the nationalist True Finns won 39 seats in Parliament earlier this month. The True Finns were rewarded with the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday and will be looking to make more gains as negotiations over the shape of the incoming coalition government continue this week.
Originally posted by redzareptile
reply to post by ALOSTSOUL
In this day and age of increased information will the "puppet-masters" be able to hide themselves for much longer?
People need to wake up and stop blindly following knuckleheaded leaders to the slaughter house of humanity.
I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT!!!!
Originally posted by Hessling
It hurts to say this, but you're quite likely on to something.
"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." ~ Pearl Buck
Here's a link to some more interesting parallels between WW2 and today:
Recent Significant Events Compared to WWII
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." American philosopher George Santayana.
From 1933-1939, Hitler steadily, gradually, changed law after law, rule after rule, and definition after definition, so he could impose his internal dictatorship; however, he took such tiny steps over this period of time that he did not raise the ire of his opposition. Only after he had legalized every act he wanted to carry out did he begin his world war and his internal genocide.
Our leaders are following exactly the same script today. They are carefully setting every paperwork change in place while taking care to not enact any of these new powers now, thus lulling most citizens to sleep, thinking these new powers will never be enacted.
Let's review the similarities between the lead up to World War 2 and current world events, so that we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.
Originally posted by Hessling
It hurts to say this, but you're quite likely on to something.
"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." ~ Pearl Buck
Here's a link to some more interesting parallels between WW2 and today:
Recent Significant Events Compared to WWII
Originally posted by BobAthome
In actions more reminiscent of the Cold War than modern times the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the Northern Fleet's Yekaterinburg nuclear powered submarine successfully fired a RSM-54 Sineva (SS-N-23 Skiff in NATO classification) ballistic missile from the Barents Sea across the North Pole into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean where upon its deploying of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) "device" succeeded in destroying an American Minuteman III ICBM fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
www.eutimes.net...
Original U.S. Article....
Intercontinental Missile Destroyed During Test Launch : Vandenberg Air Force Base Aug 2, 2011