I'm just getting started on another book...
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Posted on 01/13/2012 8:50:24 AM PST by truthkeeper
I am trying to work and listen at the same time, but is anybody else hearing this??
Obama is asking Congress to reinstate his Executive authority to streamline six agencies into one, so he could "help businesses grow, save businesses time, save businesses money."
He's making it sound like the best thing since sliced bread. News media is eating it up.
"Reform and remake our government so that it works. This should not be a partisan issue."
Although I'm tempted to invoke Godwin's Law, I believe you are correct. Also, didn't Hitler go over the edge of "Freaking Nuts" there towards the end of the war trying to hold on to what little power he had? Well, it looks like the Obamanation is about to repeat that.
Because the war won’t be about one vast geographic region seceding from another, it will be about neighbor vs. neighbor.
That would be a fascinating book to read. I’m going to check into that. Thank you!
“What We Knew” by Eric A Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband
Obama is just the puppet everybody sees. What he really wants to do is play basketball and golf and eat at fancy restaurants with his wife.
What we need to look at is what his HANDLERS want - and it seems apparent to me that his handlers are an alliance of communists and Islamists. Both of which want absolute power.
Our tanks are in Afghanistan, and our military leadership has shown a willingness to even say that lawful authorization for combat orders is “irrelevant” to the lawfulness of those orders.
If the military ever steps up to save the Republic from Obama it will be rogue elements within the military - not the military establishment.
I’ve been reading up on Hitler’s rise to power. In order to go past the rank-and-file military at the start of his power grab he raised up the SA to do his take-over thug-work for him, and then later to get the rank-and-file to support him he betrayed the SA on the Night of the Long Knives (executing Rohm, for instance) only to replace them with the SS which was fully under his control.
I think the German template has to be understood because we see so many parallels. And back when Lt Col Lakin was being court-martialed I said that if the military claimed power independent of the Authorization to Use Force (which stipulates that only the Commander-in-Chief has the authority to decide to use force in the war on terror), it would mean that the law is “irrelevant” to the lawfulness of orders. It would separate the military from the law, and the military would be lawless - ruled merely by men and not by any semblance of law.
We are in very, very serious times.
To see what happens to those within the military who resist the will of an entrenched dictator, see “Valkyrie”.
I see a dictator as similar to a computer trojan. The pop-up pretending to be McAfee says your computer is infected and you must click on the “Fix” box. Once you make the mistake of clicking the box, the trojan has complete control to make your computer do whatever it wants and you have no way of knowing what it’s doing or stopping it. From that point on you can’t trust anything. That’s exactly what happened with Hitler. Once his cabinet was lawfully given permission to legislate without the Reichstag, Hitler had the power to lawfully do whatever he wanted, and he took over all the systems.
The point at which to stop a trojan or a dictator is when they are seeking the authorizations - which is always made to look like a small but necessary thing in order to effectively respond to a current problem. We see Obama making those moves right now. And we’ve already seen that the military leadership has no will to resist his lawlessness.
And why should they? It is he who put them in the positions of power, just like he put into power the US Attorneys (such as the AZ US attorney who is guilty of trying to cover up Fast and Furious’ lawless war on Mexico and the US), AG Holder, DHS head Napolitano, SCOTUS injustices Sotomayor and Kagan, etc. The election of November 2008 gave him the power to totally take over the execution branch of the government. He gets to put whatever .exe files he wants into this system, and we’ve seen the crap he puts in and how they take over everything.
He didn’t need an “Enabling Act of 1933” in order to sidestep Congress; he simply appointed “czars”. And now he’s on this big kick of saying he will do what he wants, with or without Congress, so he’s blatantly defying the Constitution without fear - because he knows Congress only has the power to impeach and the Senate stooges will never convict him.
If anybody in Congress tries suing him, Obama already knows he has the courts by the jugular, as evidenced by even the “conservative” justices (I believe Chief Justice John Roberts) being willing to pretend that a usurper in the White House isn’t a serious enough issue to warrant a hearing.
To be truthful, at this point I believe Congress has to reclaim its own sole authority to decide to use military force. That’s the only way to keep Obama from using the military to complete his own coup. The Libya escapade might well have been Obama’s testing of the waters, to see how far Congress was willing to let him go. They failed that test so now Obama knows he can do whatever he darn well pleases with the military.
I have a copy on the way - I put it on my wish list when I heard about it on GBTV.
A few weeks back Glenn had someone on who was talking about how the Nazis walled off the Jews “for their protection”. I’m going to see if I can find the video for that...it was quite informative how they lied to the people to get them to load themselves up like cattle to “evacuate” their homes. By the time they realized they were lied to, the Nazis were marching them into the death camps.
Several months ago, Glenn also discussed a propaganda film that Hitler had made (”Hitler gives a town to the Jews”).
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080212012442AA6vvCU
DUh-bama’s moves are eerily similar...and “average Joe” needs to OPEN THEIR EYES!
I'm just getting started on another book...
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Yes, that is exactly where I heard of the book also.
PRogressives are establishing the premise that government now doesn’t work because the Republicans won the House of Representatives and are now using their power to be “obstructionist”.
And, even though Congress had a low approval rating before the Republican majority, they’re establishing another premise that the low approval rating is because of the Republican majority.
Absolutely freaking amazing.
(Brilliant intellectual Independents + absolutely brilliant Progressives + hardcore base + phantom voters =
President Obama in 2013, 55% to 45%.)
IMHO
Exactly so. Lincoln would not let the South go in peace, and neither will Obama.
Next thing he will ask for is streamlining of the Executive Branch, Judicial Branch and the Legislative Branch!
—If Obama announced the suspension of elections, the White House would be surrounded by tanks in 5 minutes.—
Today, yes. We are not the country we were just a few months ago. We will not be the same country a few months from now that we are today. Things are changing VERY fast.
Remember Zelaya and his support of his refusal to step down?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/honduras_and_iran_obama_betray.html
In Russia, President Obama Explains His Support for Ousted President of Honduras
(I can’t wait to see those ‘get a law degree from home’ Harvard transcripts)
His calls for Mubarak to step down?
Guess who posted this in October ‘11? Wade Rathke:
“An International Dialogue in Egypt
“September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011
“Our fall 2011 International Dialogue will be located in Egypt where we will meet with labor and community organizers and other activists in Cairo. There are exciting changes and developments that are currently taking place in Egypt with elections coming soon to determine leadership transitions in what has been an autocratic regime, now challenged by the Muslim Brotherhood and succession and democracy issues. The trip is still in the planning stages, and we will post updates as soon as we have them.
“We plan to travel with approximately 15-20 participants, and we will strive to have a mix of both community and labor organizers/leaders from a variety of community organizations and unions. We look for participants to meet in Cairo, pay their own travel and visa costs in addition to a program fee. The Organizers Forum will pay for food, lodging, and ground transportation. And, yes, though we are only planning to spend time in one city on this dialogue, we will see the Pyramids!
“If you are interested in applying to attend this dialogue, we invite you to apply by sending an email of interest to Wade Rathke chair@organizersforum.org Organizers’ Forum. Please respond as early as possible and certainly no later than July 1 because there are a limited number of spaces.”
Obama Calls Ben Ali a Dictator in the last State of the Union Address, Is Egypt Next ?
http://www.tunisiachronicle.com/?p=3
Remember, Ben Ali was Obama’s buddy before that:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/u-s-copter-sales-cant-save-wiki-ousted-tunisian-dictator/
Side: Tunisia – Refurbishment of Twelve SH-60F Multi-Mission Helicopters
WASHINGTON, July 2, 2010 – The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress June 30 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Tunisia for the refurbishment of 12 SH-60F Multi-Mission Utility Helicopters, being provided as Excess Defense Articles, and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $282 million.
The Government of Tunisia has requested a possible sale for the refurbishment of twelve SH-60F Multi-Mission Utility Helicopters being provided as Excess Defense Articles (grant EDA notification is being submitted separately), 29 T700-GE-401C engines (24 installed and 5 spares), inspections, spare and repairs parts, support equipment, personnel training and training equipment, publications and technical data, U.S. Government and contractor engineering, technical and logistics support services, and other related elements of logistics support. The estimated cost is $282 million.
This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that has been and continues to be an important force for economic and military progress in North Africa.
I remember Susan Rice lying her *ss off about arming Libyan ‘Rebels’, not to mention we had boots on the ground way before Obama’s ‘30 day/weeks’ Libya lie.
Assad and others being asked to step down as well.
I also remember his SOTU stating the US stands with Tunisia when this all started.
I remember what he did in Libya... without congressional approval.
I remember his silence on Iran... because we shouldn’t get involved in other countries ‘business’.
Did you miss how much money has been promised to the Middle East re: the Arab spring (caliphate)?
OK, i’m finished.
Good Morning everyone! I don’t think it was mentioned here but last night on either Fox Biz or Fox, a gentleman said Romney ran on this in 2008. In fact we know he advocates it now. I think it is a good thing in the right hands.
Obama and dems have known for sometime Romney was the chosen one by the old guard RINO’s. So my guess is they are looking closely at all Romney speeches,legislation and politics to find those they have in common (romneycare)or come out with new gimmicks that are similar.Show that Obama and Romney are the same so why change.
Obama placing SBA to administration level cannot be good.Anti business Obama would destroy anything being done ever. He would place his two socialists, Browner and Solis in control and their goal would be a smaller economy and Agenda 21. Pelosi would head the committee for sure since Agenda 21 is her baby.
Obama also knows after his unconstitutional power grabs, he knows this will be another battle. He will be creating as many as he can this year. I can hear him now, do nothing republicans won’t give me the same power they gave Reagan.(Insert some sort of racism, maybe because I am different) How can I govern like their hero Reagan when they oppose me at every level.
And my last thing, the old guard ARE NOT doing anything and when they do it is signing onto NDAA or SOPA. We need a clean sweep with new blood that knows we will get rid of them too when they abuse their powers. It’s a new age and we are no longer in the dark with social media’s and the best researchers around to find truth.
I was gonna tweak that speech to make it sound like Obaama and see how many people would recognize it.
Cheers!
Nuts! I wa sjust too tired when I posted that to do the same but I did think to do it. It is sooooo spooky the similarities.
One year ago, almost to the exact DATE!
Timely **bump***
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