Report By @SenWarren
Decades of Failure to Enforce Labor Standards in Free Trade Agreements
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015
8/03 list A -Z of 320 Tweeters For Bernie Sanders - Join The Voters Money Can't Buy
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Some Call It Treason: List Of 47 Senators By State That Sent A Letter To IRAN
G.O.P. Senators’ Letter to Iran About Nuclear Deal Angers
White House
Why Some Think 47 GOP Senators Broke the Law With Iran
Letter - ABC News -
http://abcn.ws/1wpFaxc via @ABC
47 GOP Senators Tell Iran They May Not Honor A Nuclear Deal
Here's a list of the GOP senators who signed the Iran letter
These 47 Republican senators sent a letter to Iran
Signed
Richard Shelby (Ala.)
Jeff Sessions (Ala.)
Dan Sullivan (Alaska)
John McCain (Ariz.)
John Boozman (Ark.)
Tom Cotton (Ark.)
Cory Gardner (Colo.)
Marco Rubio (Fla.)
Johnny Isakson (Ga.)
David Perdue (Ga.)
Mike Crapo (Idaho)
Jim Risch (Idaho)
Mark Kirk (Ill.)
Chuck Grassley (Iowa)
Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Pat Roberts (Kansas)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
Rand Paul (Ky.)
David Vitter (La.)
Bill Cassidy (La.)
Roger Wicker (Miss.)
Roy Blunt (Mo.)
Steve Daines (Mont.)
Deb Fischer (Neb.)
Ben Sasse (Neb.)
Dean Heller (Nev.)
Kelly Ayotte (N.H.)
Richard Burr (N.C.)
Thom Tillis (N.C.)
John Hoeven (N.D.)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Jim Inhofe (Okla.)
James Lankford (Okla.)
Pat Toomey (Pa.)
Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
Tim Scott (S.C.)
John Thune (S.D.)
Mike Rounds (S.D.)
John Cornyn (Texas)
Ted Cruz (Texas)
Orin Hatch (Utah)
Mike Lee (Utah)
Shelley Moore Capito (W.V.)
Ron Johnson (Wis.)
Mike Enzi (Wyo.)
John Barrasso (Wyo.)
Jeff Sessions (Ala.)
Dan Sullivan (Alaska)
John McCain (Ariz.)
John Boozman (Ark.)
Tom Cotton (Ark.)
Cory Gardner (Colo.)
Marco Rubio (Fla.)
Johnny Isakson (Ga.)
David Perdue (Ga.)
Mike Crapo (Idaho)
Jim Risch (Idaho)
Mark Kirk (Ill.)
Chuck Grassley (Iowa)
Joni Ernst (Iowa)
Pat Roberts (Kansas)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
Rand Paul (Ky.)
David Vitter (La.)
Bill Cassidy (La.)
Roger Wicker (Miss.)
Roy Blunt (Mo.)
Steve Daines (Mont.)
Deb Fischer (Neb.)
Ben Sasse (Neb.)
Dean Heller (Nev.)
Kelly Ayotte (N.H.)
Richard Burr (N.C.)
Thom Tillis (N.C.)
John Hoeven (N.D.)
Rob Portman (Ohio)
Jim Inhofe (Okla.)
James Lankford (Okla.)
Pat Toomey (Pa.)
Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
Tim Scott (S.C.)
John Thune (S.D.)
Mike Rounds (S.D.)
John Cornyn (Texas)
Ted Cruz (Texas)
Orin Hatch (Utah)
Mike Lee (Utah)
Shelley Moore Capito (W.V.)
Ron Johnson (Wis.)
Mike Enzi (Wyo.)
John Barrasso (Wyo.)
Did not sign:
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Jeff Flake (Ariz.)
Daniel Coats (Ind.)
Susan Collins (Maine)
Thad Cochran (Miss.)
Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Bob Corker (Tenn.)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Jeff Flake (Ariz.)
Daniel Coats (Ind.)
Susan Collins (Maine)
Thad Cochran (Miss.)
Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Bob Corker (Tenn.)
Monday, July 13, 2015
"The Bosses of the Senate", a cartoon by Joseph Keppler
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Bosses of the Senate", a cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicting corporate interests–from steel, copper, oil, iron, sugar, tin, and coal to paper bags, envelopes, and salt–as giant money bags looming over the tiny senators at their desks in the Chamber of the United States Senate.
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographsfor details.
"The Bosses of the Senate", a cartoon by Joseph Keppler depicting corporate interests–from steel, copper, oil, iron, sugar, tin, and coal to paper bags, envelopes, and salt–as giant money bags looming over the tiny senators at their desks in the Chamber of the United States Senate.
This frequently reproduced cartoon, long a staple of textbooks and studies of Congress, depicts corporate interests–from steel, copper, oil, iron, sugar, tin, and coal to paper bags, envelopes, and salt–as giant money bags looming over the tiny senators at their desks in the Chamber. Joseph Keppler drew the cartoon, which appeared in Puck on January 23, 1889, showing a door to the gallery, the "people’s entrance," bolted and barred. The galleries stand empty while the special interests have floor privileges, operating below the motto: "This is the Senate of the Monopolists by the Monopolists and for the Monopolists!"
Keppler’s cartoon reflected the phenomenal growth of American industry in the 1880s, but also the disturbing trend toward concentration of industry to the point of monopoly, and its undue influence on politics. This popular perception contributed to Congress’s passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890.
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
 | This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less. |
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This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographsfor details.
NWO What's It All About? Some YouTube Speeches
FDR "They may talk of a "new order" in the world, ... http://michaelangelo-raphaelo.blogspot.com/2014/06/fdr-they-may-talk-of-new-order-in-world.html?spref=tw
1961 speech Eisenhower Warns us of New World Order
https://youtu.be/rd8wwMFmCeE via @YouTube
Kissinger says an Obama presidency is a great opportunity to set up a New World Order https://youtu.be/GThfWVCfjVo via@YouTube
HW Bush's NWO Speech Of 9/11 1990
OBAMA NEW WORLD ORDER SPEECH in Brussels - Freedom isn't Free
https://youtu.be/mRR1LT9WZto via @YouTube
Kissinger talks more about Obama and the New World Order
https://youtu.be/RMVrxgvR_Xw via @YouTube
1961 speech Eisenhower Warns us of New World Order
https://youtu.be/rd8wwMFmCeE via @YouTube
JFK Secret Societies Speech (full version)
Kissinger says an Obama presidency is a great opportunity to set up a New World Order https://youtu.be/GThfWVCfjVo via
HW Bush's NWO Speech Of 9/11 1990
https://youtu.be/b8dAMZ6YdUovia @YouTube
OBAMA NEW WORLD ORDER SPEECH in Brussels - Freedom isn't Free
https://youtu.be/mRR1LT9WZto via @YouTube
Kissinger talks more about Obama and the New World Order
https://youtu.be/RMVrxgvR_Xw via @YouTube
Sunday, July 12, 2015
(Portland & Seattle added) Bernie Sanders' Recent 12 Speeches On YouTube - Get The Facts
We've Been Sliced, Diced and Divided
With #Sanders2016 We Are United
How and when to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Primaries (by State)
With #Sanders2016 We Are United
How and when to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Primaries (by State)
Bernie Sanders Stands For
Everything Voters Want
#Sanders2016 Represents People,
Not Banks, Not Corps
Get Facts From Bernie Sanders' Speeches On YouTube like these:Not Banks, Not Corps
The Corporate Owned Mass Media Is Shutting Out Bernie Sander
So Shut Off Corp Owned Media
So Shut Off Corp Owned Media
Get Bernie Sanders' Speeches On YouTube
https://youtu.be/r_-yMkRYJ58 Madison
https://youtu.be/tlZ44NQ7TuM Denver
https://youtu.be/6d9poJU6Kiw Portland, ME
https://youtu.be/b8d6eyGQ6KQ Iowa City
https://youtu.be/JzOmvzxb0B8 Seattle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cma8lfr1QYc Phoenix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRANfWPuWFQ Keene NH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TsQ_TdzQc Minneapolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws37b-Nz1A0 Kenner LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5C77r-4eM Houston
https://youtu.be/-0WT7rCZyUc Dallas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRANfWPuWFQ Keene NH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TsQ_TdzQc Minneapolis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws37b-Nz1A0 Kenner LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5C77r-4eM Houston
https://youtu.be/-0WT7rCZyUc Dallas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t32JN7ShLJc Portland, OR
AND:
JOIN THE VOTERS THAT MONEY CAN'T BUY
http://michaelangelo-raphaelo.blogspot.com/2015/07/724-list-z-of-320-tweeters-for-bernie.html
Corp Owned Media Shuts Out Bernie Sanders
So Shut Off Corp Owned Media
Get Bernie Sanders' Speeches On YouTube
Friday, July 10, 2015
John L. Spivak excerpt from secret armies
"Our laws and courts provide a machinery which can be used to prevent any infringement upon the democratically constituted rights of the people. It is of vital importance, however, that preparations for fascist lawlessness be vigilantly uprooted. The [160]Italian and German people made just this fatal mistake of tolerating the activities of Mussolini's and Hitler's gangs until they grew strong enough to seize power and crush every sign of democracy.
There is no reason why a great people, attacked by a pernicious ideology, cannot counteract such propaganda with greater and more intelligent propaganda to educate our people to the advantages of democracy—to what fascism really means to everyone, including the big industrialists and financiers, some of whom have been flirting with fascism. The Government, however, can and should be instructed by the representatives of the people, to take proper steps to stop the infiltration of [Fascist] agents and propagandists into this country.
There are various other and perhaps more practical and useful steps which can be taken, but those can be worked out once the people awake to the danger of permitting fascist propaganda to go on, and sentiment becomes strong enough to put an end to foreign-directed activities here."
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It Can Happen Here: What Happens When USA Has A Dictator
It Can't Happen Here
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Can't Happen Here (disambiguation).
First edition
| |
| Author | Sinclair Lewis |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Political fiction |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran and Company |
Publication date
| 1935 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 458 pp. |
| ISBN | 045121658X |
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical 1935 political novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. Published during the rise of fascism in Europe, the novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a populist United States Senatorwho is elected to the presidency after promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patriotism and traditional values. After his election, Windrip takes complete control of the government and imposes aplutocratic/totalitarian rule with the help of a ruthless paramilitary force, in the manner of Adolf Hitler and the SS. The novel's plot centers on journalist Doremus Jessup's opposition to the new regime and his subsequent struggle against it as part of a liberal rebellion. Reviewers at the time, and literary critics ever since, have emphasized the connection with Louisiana politician Huey Long, who was preparing to run for president in 1936 elections when he was assassinated in 1935 just prior to the novel's appearance.
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[show]Plot summary[edit]
In 1936 Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a charismatic and power-hungry politician, wins election as President of the United States on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and promising each citizen $5,000 a year (approximately $90,000, adjusted for inflation[1]). Portraying himself as a champion of traditional American values, Windrip easily defeats his opponents, Senator Walt Trowbridge and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Though having previously foreshadowed some authoritarian measures in order to reorganize the United States government, Windrip rapidly outlaws dissent, incarcerates political enemies in concentration camps, and trains and arms a paramilitary force called the Minute Men, who terrorize citizens and enforce the policies of Windrip and his "corporatist" regime. One of his first acts as president is to eliminate the influence of the United States Congress, which draws the ire of many citizens as well as the legislators themselves. The Minute Men respond to protests against Windrip's decisions harshly, attacking demonstrators with bayonets. In addition to these actions, Windrip's administration, known as the "Corpo" government, curtails women's and minority rights, and eliminates individual states by subdividing the country into administrative sectors. The government of these sectors is managed by "Corpo" authorities, usually prominent businessmen or Minute Men officers. Those accused of crimes against the government appear before kangaroo courts presided over by "military judges". Despite these dictatorial (and "quasi-draconian") measures, a majority of Americans approve of them, seeing them as necessary though painful steps to restore American power. Others, those less enthusiastic about the prospect of corporatism, reassure themselves that fascism cannot "happen here"; hence the novel's title.
Open opponents of Windrip, led by Senator Trowbridge, form an organization called the New Underground, helping dissidents escape to Canada in manners reminiscent of the Underground Railroad and distributing anti-Windrip propaganda. One recruit to the New Underground is Doremus Jessup, the novel's protagonist, a traditional liberal and an opponent of both Corpoism and communist theories, which Windrip's administration suppresses. Jessup's participation in the organization results in the publication of a periodical called The Vermont Vigilance, in which he writes editorials decrying Windrip's abuses of power. Shad Ledue, the local district commissioner and Jessup's former hired man, resents his old employer and eventually discovers his actions, having him sent to a concentration camp. Ledue subsequently terrorizes Jessup's family and particularly his daughter Sissy, whom he unsuccessfully attempts to seduce. Sissy does, however, discover evidence of corrupt dealings on the part of Ledue, which she exposes to Francis Tasbrough, a one-time friend of Jessup and Ledue's superior in the administrative hierarchy. Tasbrough has Ledue imprisoned in the same camp as Jessup, where inmates he had sent there organize his murder. Jessup escapes - after a relatively brief incarceration - when his friends bribe one of the camp guards. He flees to Canada, where he rejoins the New Underground. He later serves the organization as a spy in the northeastern United States, passing along information and urging locals to resist Windrip.
In time, Windrip's hold on power weakens as the economic prosperity he promised does not materialize and increased numbers of disillusioned Americans, including Vice President Perley Beecroft, flee to Canada. He also angers his Secretary of State, Lee Sarason, who had served earlier as his chief political operative and adviser. Sarason and Windrip's other lieutenants, including General Dewey Haik, seize power and exile the president to France. Sarason succeeds Windrip, but his extravagant and relatively weak rule creates a power vacuum in which Haik and others vie for power. In a bloody putsch, Haik leads a party of military supporters into the White House, kills Sarason and his associates, and proclaims himself president. The two coups cause a slow erosion of Corpo power, and Haik's government desperately tries to arouse patriotism by launching an unjustified invasion of Mexico. After slandering Mexico in state-run newspapers, Haik orders a mass conscription of young American men for the invasion of that country, infuriating many who had until then been staunch Corpo loyalists. Riots and rebellions break out across the country, with many realizing that the Corpos have misled them.
General Emmanuel Coon, among Haik's senior officers, defects to the opposition with a large portion of his army, giving strength to the resistance movement. Though Haik remains in control of much of the country, civil war soon breaks out as the resistance tries to consolidate its grasp on the Midwest. The novel ends after the beginning of the conflict, with Jessup working as an agent for the New Underground in Corpo-occupied portions of southern Minnesota.
Reception[edit]
Reviewers at the time of the book's publication, and literary critics ever since, have emphasized the connection with Louisiana politician Huey Long, who was preparing to run for president in 1936.[2] According to Boulard (1998), "the most chilling and uncanny treatment of Huey by a writer came with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here."[3] Lewis portrayed a genuine American dictator on the Hitler model. Starting in 1936 the WPA, a New Deal agency, performed the theatre version across the country. Lewis had the goal of hurting Long's chances in the 1936 election.[2] Keith Perry argues that the key weakness of the novel is not that he decks out American politicians with sinister European touches, but that he finally conceives of fascism and totalitarianism in terms of traditional American political models rather than seeing them as introducing a new kind of society and a new kind of regime.[4] Windrip is less a Nazi than a con-man-plus-Rotarian, a manipulator who knows how to appeal to people's desperation, but neither he nor his followers are in the grip of the kind of world-transforming ideology like Hitler's National Socialism.[5]
Adaptations[edit]
In 1936, Lewis and John C. Moffitt wrote a stage version, also titled It Can't Happen Here,[6] which is still produced. The stage version premiered on October 27, 1936 in 21 U.S. theatres in 17 states[7] simultaneously, in productions sponsored by the Federal Theater Project. A film version was in preparation at this time at MGM, but studio head Louis B. Mayer soon canceled the production to the publicly announced pleasure of the Nazi regime in Germany. Will H. Hays, responsible for the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code, had notified Mayer of potential problems in the German market.[8]
Influence[edit]
A 1968 television movie Shadow on the Land (alternate title: United States: It Can't Happen Here) was produced by Screen Gems as a pilot for a series loosely based on this book.
Inspired by the book, director–producer Kenneth Johnson wrote an adaptation titled Storm Warnings in 1982. The script was presented to NBC for production as a television miniseries, but NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too cerebral for the average American viewer. To make the script more marketable, the American fascists were re-cast as man-eating extraterrestrials, taking the story into the realm of science fiction. The revised story became the miniseries V, which premiered May 3, 1983.[9]
See also[edit]
- It Happened Here
- The Iron Heel, another early American dystopian novel
- V for Vendetta
References[edit]
- ^ Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–2014. Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
- ^ a b Perry 2004, p. 62.
- ^ Boulard 1998, p. 115.
- ^ Perry 2004.
- ^ See also Lingeman 2005, pp. 400–408
- ^ The Broadway League, IBdB.
- ^ Flanagan 1940.
- ^ David Mikies "Hollywood’s Creepy Love Affair With Adolf Hitler, in Explosive New Detail", Tablet, 10 June 2013
- ^ Simpson.
Bibliography
- Boulard, Garry (1998). Huey Long invades New Orleans: the siege of a city, 1934–36.
- Flanagan, Hallie (1940). Arena, The Story of the Federal Theatre. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
- Lingeman, Richard R. (2005). Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street. St. Paul, Minn: Borealis Books. ISBN 978-0-87351-541-2.
- Perry, Keith (2004). The Kingfish in fiction: Huey P. Long and the modern American novel.
- Simpson, MJ. "Kenneth Johnson interview". MJSimpson.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
External links[edit]
- Online text
- Book review
- Public Enemy by Joe Keohane, Boston Globe, December 18, 2005.
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