MAKE MINE FREEDOM: This Animated Cartoon Seemed Far-Fetched In 1948

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[DailyBail]

http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html

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[JTS]

Funny sad and true. I do like the politician with the record player saying everything is fine.
That sure came to be.

[James Street]

This cartoon represents the beginning of the Cold War propaganda effort. A year before the date of this cartoon, China had its communist revolution in 1947, and the communist Soviet Union had just defeated Hitler's army in 1945. The Korean War started two years later in 1950.

Hear "the bottle with isms in it," as "the bottle with communism in it."

America started an all-out propaganda war during this period against Communism and it was spearheaded by the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings in 1950. This was the beginning of a war of intellectual terrorism whose goal, and achievement, was to stamp out socialism and communism from America.

"McCarthy was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, McCarthy's tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

In the beginning McCarthy had wide support from the American Plutocracy which feared communism and had mostly sided with anti-Communist Adolf Hitler during the 1930's. "He supported the Taft–Hartley Act over Truman's veto, angering labor unions in Wisconsin but solidifying his business base.[20]" (Wikipedia article.) The Taft-Hartley Act was the first shot in a war against American labor unions that ended in American having lower union membership than any other industrialized country in the world. However, McCarthy was an alcoholic who made many baseless claims, ultimately embarrassing most of his supporters.

The American plutocracy is now in the process of taking away the freedoms of ordinary Americans which they accused the communists of planning to do, which helps demonstrate the thesis that the war against communism served as a screen on which America could project its own worst qualities, without doing anything to make them better.

Now, we Americans have no one to blame for the loss of our basic rights, except the plutocracy, and it appears we are terrified to to do it.

[Zarathustra]

CENTRAL BANK WANTS TO KILL THE EURO

"Initially I thought the euro was a good idea," Volcker said.

Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman and a widely respected economist, told students at the London School of Economics that it was difficult to have a common currency without a common government.

White House's Volcker: Future of Euro in Doubt
Published: Friday, 14 May 2010 | 3:50 AM ET Text Size By:

Europe's debt troubles could undermine its currency, White House Economic Adviser Paul Volcker said on Thursday.

[emaho]

Is this just a bit reminiscent of the recent cant on Wall Street, echoed by the whores in Washington? We're all victims of the greatest "ism" ever sold on the "free" market. Any ideology is just so much BS.

[Lingensjo]

Read "Blacklisted by History" for the TRUE story of McCarthy.

[RecoverylessRecovery]

Excellent example of good ol' fashioned American BRAINWASHING at its cartoon finest. Joseff Goebbels must be spinning in his grave wondering "why didn't * I * think of THAT? ..oh wait ...I DID!"

Anyway, the video pertains to a long-gone era which no longer exists anymore. IF it ever did at all.

[James Street]

I believe I wrote this in late 2008. It could have been written in 1998 by any student of European history:


The value of a nation’s currency


The value of a nation’s currency is determined not only by economic factors but by cultural and historical factors, which is another way of saying that economics rests on more than simply the amount of goods and services exchanged by a nation’s citizens.

If we look at the history of European unity we see that, for example, the Spanish Empire was definitively displaced by the American Empire with the defeat of Mexico in 1845 and the annexation of the Western United States. After that, Spain never succeeded in becoming a truly unified empire. In the Spanish mainland, at least four language groups, including Spanish, exist along with their independent traditions. Until recently, after the Civil War of the Anarchists, the only force capable of holding anarchist Spain together was the military dictatorship of Franco.

Italy is also divided into incompatible regions and usually wavers between de facto dictatorship (Berlusconi) and anarchy (rule by family and mafia.)

Both Germany and Italy only became countries in the late 19th century and Germany, after a long history of a patchwork of dictators and republics, is still a patchwork of dialects and loosely connected regions and traditions which include Austria, Switzerland, East Germany and West Germany and the regions each country contains.

Compared with the United States, France has been in a state of anarchy since the defeat of Napoleon and has been described by one of its leading sociologists as a Blocked Society, constantly at war with itself and its own interests.

After factoring in Germany’s disastrous early 20th century history, it is not easy to believe that the Euro will become a world currency because it is far from clear that Europe CAN unify, not to mention whether Germany, Italy, France and Spain can unify themselves.

America represents Anglo-Saxon civilization which has dominated the world in the form of the British Empire since the defeat of Napoleon. The American Revolution placed America in a position to exploit the massive resources of the North American continent and to surpass Britain itself in economic output by the beginning of the twentieth century.

World War I and II weakened Britain’s colonial empire and, to Britain’s shock and humiliation, gave America the opportunity to take over Britain’s role as ruler of the world, which of course we did. After the defeat of communism, America has had no other rival or enemy on earth OTHER THAN HERSELF.

[James Street]

Let me add that America is a formidable enemy indeed, and it isn't a foregone conclusion that We the People can defeat her, now that she has become our enemy.

[DailyBail]

http://www.chooseliberty.org/auditfed_us.aspx?pid=usFB

[DailyBail]

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