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Ike's conservative Republican Party

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Wrapped in the Flag and Constitution

Billionaires foment Fascist Revolution

Where guns and the bible meet

GOP feed their base red meat

To keep the GOP base engaged

With racism and hate enraged

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Hillary a counterfeit populist

Schumer a #47Traitors apologist

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Third branch infectious 

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"War Is A Racket" By Major General Smedley Butler - From Wikipedia

War Is a Racket

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket 

War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare.

After his retirement from the Marine Corps, Butler made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech "War is a Racket". The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a small book with the same title that was published in 1935 by Round Table Press, Inc., of New York. The booklet was also condensed in Reader's Digest as a book supplement which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader's Digest version, Lowell Thomas, the "as told to" author of Butler's oral autobiographical adventures, praised Butler's "moral as well as physical courage" 

It contains this key summary:

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

The book has significance historically as Butler points out in 1935 that the US is engaging in military war games in the Pacific that are bound to provoke theJapanese.

"The Japanese, a proud people, of course will be pleased beyond expression to see the United States fleet so close to Nippon's shores. Even as pleased as would be the residents of California were they to dimly discern through the morning mist, the Japanese fleet playing at war games off Los Angeles."

Butler explains that the common rationale for the buildup of the US fleet and the war games is fear that "the great fleet of this supposed enemy will strike suddenly and annihilate 125,000,000 people."

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Voices of People markedly silenced

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Executive branches are sought

Supreme Courts, third jewel in crown 

Not long before they too are bound

THE CULT OF SECRETS

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Tell their secrets and you’re through

Secret dogmas are inviolate

Known only to the initiates

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Until autocrats buy or steal the next elections

WAR and Racketeering Under The RICO ACT: Foment, Incite and/or Conduct Illegal War for Profit Updated 8/12/15

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket 

USMC Major General Smedley D. Butler:
 "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."


 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(crime)#The_RICO_Act

A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem,

such as for a problem that does not actually exist,

that will not be put into effect,

or that would not otherwise exist if the racket did not exist.

CONDUCTING A RACKET IS RACKETEERING.

Particularly, the potential problem may be caused

 by the same party that offers to solve it,

although that fact may be concealed,

with the specific intent to engender

continual patronage for this party.

The RICO Act

On October 15, 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968), commonly referred to as the "RICO Act", became United States law. The RICO Act allowed law enforcement to charge a person or group of people with racketeering, defined as committing multiple violations of certain varieties within a ten-year period. The purpose of the RICO Act was stated as "the elimination of the infiltration of organized crime and racketeering into legitimate organizations operating in interstate commerce". S.Rep. No. 617, 91st Cong., 1st Sess. 76 (1968). However, the statute is sufficiently broad to encompass illegal activities relating to any enterprise affecting interstate or foreign commerce.

Section 1961(10) of Title 18 provides that the Attorney General of the United States may designate any department or agency to conduct investigations authorized by the RICO statute and such department or agency may use the investigative provisions of the statute or the investigative power of such department or agency otherwise conferred by law. Absent a specific designation by the Attorney General, jurisdiction to conduct investigations for violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1962 lies with the agency having jurisdiction over the violations constituting the pattern of racketeering activity listed in 18 U.S.C. § 1961.[3]

ARMAGEDDON—AND AFTER BY W.L. COURTNEY, M.A., LL.D. LONDON CHAPMAN & HALL, Ltd. 1914

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Armageddon--And After, by W. L. Courtney 

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ARMAGEDDON—AND AFTER

BY

W.L. COURTNEY, M.A., LL.D.

LONDON

CHAPMAN & HALL, Ltd.

1914

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DEDICATED

WITH ALL HUMILITY AND ADMIRATION

TO

THE YOUNG IDEALISTS OF ALL COUNTRIES

WHO WILL NOT ALLOW THE DREAMS OF THEIR

YOUTH TO BE TARNISHED BY THE

EXPERIENCES OF AN

OUTWORN AGE

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Contents

Preface
Chapter I	Chapter II	Chapter III
Problems Of The Future	Lessons Of The Past	Some Suggested Reforms
A Colossal Upheaval	Naked Strength	An Ignoble Pacification
Never Again!	Public Right	A New Europe
Unexpected War	A Common Will	Evil Of Armaments
Proximate And Ultimate Causes	A Hundred Years Ago	Absence Of Provocation
European Dictators	Equilibrium	Fear Of Russia
The Personal Factor	The Holy Alliance	Military Autocracy
Kaiser Wilhelm	Diplomatic Criticism	Limitation Of Armaments
An Aggressive Policy	Failure	Protection Of Commerce
Militarism	A Deceptive Parallel	Trade In Armaments
The Evils Of Autocracy	Metternich	Financial Interests
The Military Caste	Castlereagh And Canning	Protection Of Financiers
Diplomacy	Earthen Vessels	Investing Money Abroad
Balance Of Power	Small Nationalities	Ideal Aims
Change Of Policy	Some Plain Issues	Greatness Of States
Balance Or Concert?	European Partnership	Apostles Of The New Era
Control Of Foreign Policy	A Moral For Pacifists
	Compulsory Arbitration
	Democratic Unanimity

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vii

PREFACE

I dedicate this little book to the young idealists of this and other countries, for several reasons. They must, obviously, be young, because their older contemporaries, with a large amount of experience of earlier conditions, will hardly have the courage to deal with the novel data. I take it that, after the conclusion of the present war, there will come an uneasy period of exhaustion and anxiety when we shall be told that those who hold military power in their hands are alone qualified to act as saviours of society. That conclusion, as I understand the matter, young idealists will strenuously oppose. They will be quite aware that all the conservative elements will be against them; they will appreciate also the eagerness with which a large number of people will point out that the safest way is to leave matters more or less alone, and to allow the situation to be controlled viiiby soldiers and diplomatists. Of course there is obvious truth in the assertion that the immediate settlement of peace conditions must, to a large extent, be left in the hands of those who brought the war to a successful conclusion. But the relief from pressing anxiety when this horrible strife is over, and the feeling of gratitude to those who have delivered us must not be allowed to gild and consecrate, as it were, systems proved effete and policies which intelligent men recognise as bankrupt. The moment of deliverance will be too unique and too splendid to be left in the hands of men who have grown, if not cynical, at all events a little weary of the notorious defects of humanity, and who are, perhaps naturally, tempted to allow European progress to fall back into the old well-worn ruts. It is the young men who must take the matter in hand, with their ardent hopes and their keen imagination, and only so far as they believe in the possibility of a great amelioration will they have any chance of doing yeoman service for humanity.

The dawn of a new era must be plenarily accepted as a wonderful opportunity for reform. If viewed in any other spirit, the ixsplendours of the morning will soon give way before the obstinate clouds hanging on the horizon. In some fashion or other it must be acknowledged that older methods of dealing with international affairs have been tried and found wanting. It must be admitted that the ancient principles helped to bring about the tremendous catastrophe in which we are at present involved, and that a thorough re-organisation is required if the new Europe is to start under better auspices. That is why I appeal to the younger idealists, because they are not likely to be deterred by inveterate prejudices; they will be only too eager to examine things with a fresh intelligence of their own. Somehow or other we must get rid of the absurd idea that the nations of Europe are always on the look out to do each other an injury. We have to establish the doctrines of Right on a proper basis, and dethrone that ugly phantom of Might, which is the object of Potsdam worship. International law must be built up with its proper sanctions; and virtues, which are Christian and humane, must find their proper place in the ordinary dealings of states with one another. Much clever dialectics will probably xbe employed in order to prove that idealistic dreams are vain. Young men will not be afraid of such arguments; they will not be deterred by purely logical difficulties. Let us remember that this war has been waged in order to make war for the future impossible. If that be the presiding idea of men's minds, they will keep their reforming course steadily directed towards ideal ends, patiently working for the reconstruction of Europe and a better lot for humanity at large.

Once more let me repeat that it is only young idealists who are sufficient for these things. They may call themselves democrats, or socialists, or futurists, or merely reformers. The name is unimportant: the main point is that they must thoroughly examine their creed in the light of their finest hopes and aspirations. They will not be the slaves of any formulæ, and they will hold out their right hands to every man—whatever may be the label he puts on his theories—who is striving in single-minded devotion for a millennial peace. The new era will have to be of a spiritual, ethical type. Coarser forms of materialism, whether in thought or life, will have to be banished, because the scales have at last dropped from our xieyes, and we intend to regard a human being no longer as a thing of luxury, or wealth, or greedy passions, but as the possessor of a living soul.

W.L.C.

November 10, 1914.

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