Once again, the “leaderless resistance” strategy has claimed victims, with the Cliven Bundy Freikorps figuring among the ideological assignations of the Las Vegas killers. Noteworthy here is the fact that Jerad and Amanda Miller were supporters of Ron Paul (at right), Eddie the Friendly Spook Snowden’s Presidential candidate of choice. Nazi fellow-traveler Glenn Greenwald, Snowden’s journalistic leaker of choice, ran legal interference for the “leaderless resistance” strategy as an attorney.
In the long FTR series on L’Affaire Snowden, we noted that all of the players were outright fascists and/or exponents of corporatist economic theory. That includes Pierre Omidyar, Nazi fellow-traveler Glenn Greenwald’s financial angel and backer of First Look media. Touting the laissez-faire economics of the GOP and other corporatist elements around the world, Omidyar has also helped to finance the rise of fascist elements abroad, including assisting in the ascent of the OUN/B successor forces in the Ukraine, as well as Narendra Modi, heir to the RSS Hindu fascists that spawned his BJP. Julian Assange, his political idol Rand Paul, Rand Paul’s supporter Ralph Nader and Snowden himself all figure strongly into this unsavory political landscape.
If you thought that campaign finance had become a sticky wicket in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United and McCutcheon decisions, you might be bitterly amused by the latest development in the lubrication of the wheels of democracy. The Federal Election Commission has given the nod to accepting Bitcoins as campaign contributions. Fans of Citizens United and McCutcheon will be thrilled to know that the top tenth of one percent of Bitcoin owners control 50% of the total of the currency in existence.
The fourth of our programs about Bitcoin, this broadcast further documents the predictable chaos and malfeasance resulting from a valuable monetary entity that is totally unregulated and open to all of the vagueries and criminality to which internet business is subject. Much of the program focuses on the collapse of the Mt. Gox exchange in Japan, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin marketplaces. Blamed initially on hackers, it may well be that the operators of Mt. Gox were engaged in deliberate malfeasance, as were anonymous hackers who called attention to the sins of the company’s management. The program notes that the concentration of ownership in the Bitcoin community is even more pronounced than it is in the regular economy.
Benito Mussolini, the world’s first fascist, defined fascism as “corporatism.” Ronald Reagan’s signature political aphorism was: “Government isn’t the solution to your problems. Government IS the problem.” Looming very large in the context of “L’Affaire Snowden” are the corporate connections to this political phenomenon and what we call the “public versus private dynamic.” With metadata to be stored by a “Third Party,” we examine Internet corporations and their social responsibiltiy, or lack thereof. QUICK: What authority signed off on Snowden’s actions, or those of WikiLeaks?
Summing up his political outlook, Snowden wrote that the elderly ‘wouldn’t be fucking helpless if you weren’t sending them fucking checks to sit on their ass and lay in hospitals all day.’ The forces for which he fronts are: ” . . . rooted in a theory that, in James Madison’s words, would “speedily put an end to the Union itself.”
Presented as an alternative to the existing monetary and fiscal paradigms, bitcoin is–in fact–as bad, or worse, than what it is designed to replace. Subject to a wide variety of crooked machinations, bitcoin also lends itself readily to concentration of ownership–get ready for the “bitcoin 1%.” The bitcoin milieu increasingly overlaps that of Eddie the Friendly Spook and “The Paulistinian Libertarian Organization.”
A right-wing libertarian political milieu is working to have states cut-off electricity to the NSA. As the authors of the story note: “The bill is rooted in a theory that, in James Madison’s words, would “speedily put an end to the Union itself.” More immediately, it could empower conservative state lawmakers to cut off Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, to frustrate civil rights enforcement or even to prevent federal law enforcement from investigating criminals.” The sponsor–the Tenth Amendment Center–heavily overlaps elements associated with the League of the South and the neo-Confederate movement, themselves inextricably linked with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, the “Paulistinian Libertarian Organization” and The Peach Fuzz Fascist himself [Snowden].
We have discussed Citizen Greenwald’s legal work, in which he spent years running legal interference for Nazi murderers and doing most of the work pro bono. One of his legal victories involved aiding two white supremacists who had attacked two Latino day laborers. In the past, Citizen Greenwald has had some deeply inflammatory things to say in the past concerning “illegal immigrants.” We wonder if his stated views on the evils of illegal immigration might be related to his work defending the attackers of the day laborers.
Excerpting some of Snowden’s 2009 online musings–crafted during the same time period in which he decided to leak NSA documents–gives us insight into his true nature. We’ve mentioned Snowden’s embrace of the gold standard, belief that we should eliminate Social Security and deep affinity for Ron Paul. Perhaps examining his actual pronouncements will prove educational. Snowden [at right] is a nasty little fascist. People should carefully consider the rest of his behavior in the context of his ideological statements.
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