Posted on 01/18/2012 3:32:04 PM PST by Nachum
Earlier this week on GBTV, Glenn Beck delivered what he referred to as “some of the most important information” on the economy he has ever given. Naturally, he discussed the eurozone crisis and the global economy.
As noted earlier on The Blaze, the EU continues to creep closer to the edge of total financial meltdown; there are many warning signs and Beck addressed some of these.
During the GBTV program, Beck dissected the situation in Italy, including the installation of unelected technocrats, and explained how policies that have been put in place in the EU could be coming to America.
Think that’s over-the-top? Consider what‘s going on right now in the EU and compare that to what’s happening with MF Global.
“Italy is rapidly heading towards fascism,” Beck said. “Their brand of newly unelected technocratic government should be kind of a red flag — or a black flag as far as Italy is concerned.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
The same crap led to it last time.
Wow. I didn’t know he had time to work on anything other than destroying Newt.
Beck..I did not know the Anime had an political side ?
Beat me to it. He's making his own government with total disregard for We the People or the Constitution.
Glenn has been warning about it coming to America for a while now. I believe the last listing had us at over 50 czars and at least as many “advisors”.
Unfortunately I have yet to hear a single GOP candidate mention that the office they seek should be reigned in.
Our Newt is going to take plenty of incoming, as is Romney finally, going through the vetting grinder and it won’t be pretty, but it seems we are past the moral purity contest among our candidates. We have determined none are pure and can now get on with the election, and find the one who can be the nearest thing to slam-stopping the cascading Marxism. Newt can do that if he wants to, and better and faster than the others. If he wants to. We don’t really know who we get anymore, until they are ensconced in the big chair. Frankly, I pray also for Calista who may actually have brains and sway over Newt’s ADD tendencies.
Personally, I think we will hear all about it in spades, in the General Election, and said well, IF Newt is the one saying it.
Newt is a progressive scumbag and more similar to Obama than anyone.
Nor will you hear many Freepers complain if the next president is Republican and asks for more executive power.
El Duce invented fascism, why wouldn’t they return to their favorite system.
Obviously democracy is to D*** hard.
Italian Life Under Fascism
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Fascism was unique among the radical forces produced by the early twentieth century, developing out of World War I without any clear predecessor in the nineteenth century. It first emerged in Italy in 1919, catapulting its leader, Benito Mussolini, into the premiership three years later and then to the creation of a new political dictatorship beginning in 1925. The term fascism, however, would later be applied to an entire cluster or genus of new revolutionary nationalist movements in Europe between the world wars, of which the most important was German National Socialism, or Nazism, for short, so that the Italian origins of the first fascism would often be overlooked, attention focusing primarily on Germany. The initial, or “paradigmatic” fascism nonetheless had specifically Italian roots and characteristics.
The term comes from the Italian fascio, derived from the ancient Latin fasces, which referred to the bundle of lictors, or axe-headed rods, that symbolized the sovereignty and authority of the Roman Republic. From approximately the 1870s, the term fascio was used in Italy in the names of radical new social and political organizations, normally of the left. Thus the revolutionary nationalists who sought to create a new left nationalist league in 1919, in the aftermath of World War I, formed a Fascio di Combattimento, transformed two years later into the new Fascist Party, and so a radical new “ism” was born.
Italian Fascism began on the left, seeking to combine strong nationalism with modern developmentalism and an aggressive new style of activism that prized violence, idealism, and anti-materialism. While reenforcing Italian colonialism, Fascism originally embraced national liberation and rejected extreme imperialism and racism. Mussolini did not create the movement but skillfully guided himself to power as its Duce (Dux, or leader), at the same time moving the party to the right and engaging in practical compromise with Italy’s established institutions. Though Fascists invented the term “totalitarian” for their new system, Mussolini was unable to complete a Fascist revolution and instead presided over a somewhat limited, semi-pluralist political dictatorship.
Though Fascists were at first wary of and even hostile to Hitlerism, the Nazi leader sought Mussolini as his chief ally. The Duce allowed himself to be convinced by the end of 1937, introducing Nazi-style racist and anti-semitic legislation in Italy despite the membership of many Jews in the Fascist Party. Participation in World War II as Germany’s ally produced the downfall of Mussolini in 1943, but in German-occupied northern Italy the Duce was installed as leader of a new puppet Fascist-based Italian Social Republic, which waged a savage civil war against Italian anti-Fascists in 1944-1945. Though approximately thirteen thousand Fascists were executed by partisans at the end of the war, the official purge of Fascists conducted by the new democratic system in Italy was limited and half-hearted. Thus the great majority of Fascists survived, and for nearly forty years neo-Fascism would be stronger in Italy than anywhere else in Europe.
Italian Fascism has been studied much less than German Nazism, but interest in the topic is increasing among American scholars, and thus the Fry Collection is being made available at a very opportune moment. It contains a wide variety of both primary and secondary materials dealing with many aspects of Fascism. These extensively document the character and range of Fascist propaganda and the special cult of the Duce that it fostered. Other materials illustrate Fascist social and educational policies, efforts to channel women’s activities and foster family life, and Fascist direction of youth activities. Fascist racial policies are represented, while many items deal with Italian colonialism, the rise and downfall of Fascism, and the anti-Fascist opposition.
http://specialcollections.library.wisc.edu/exhibits/Fascism/Intro.html
Newt said his second act as President will be to fire the czars.
Goes back earlier. From dictionary: "[from Russian tsar, via Gothic kaisar from Latin: from Caesar emperor, from the cognomen of Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 bc), Roman general, statesman, and historian]"
To be sure, Obama thinks the office should be reigned in; I, along with many conservatives, think it should be reined in...;)
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