The Strange Case of Kim Schmitz aka “Kim Dotcom”: Cyber Agent Provacateur for the Corporations, Underground Reich?

COMMENT: In the after­math of the arrest of Kim Schmitz aka “Kim Dot­com” in the wake of the MegaU­pload take­down by the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, Herr Doc­tom has been var­i­ously por­trayed as a mar­tyr for inter­net free­dom and the Sec­ond Com­ing of Christ by his cyber-libertarian sup­port­ers and as the Beast of the Apoc­a­lypse by [...]

Iranian/Hezbollah Terror Team Allegedly Arrested in Argentina: Descendants of WWII Nazis Involved in Plot?

COMMENT: A joint Iranian/Hezbollah ter­ror team has been arrested in Argentina for plot­ting to attack a Habad cen­ter in Argentina, accord­ing to the DEBKA newslet­ter. (DEBKA has some good infor­ma­tion in it, but has an edi­to­r­ial bias that favors the Israeli right wing, which itself has a fas­cist her­itage, as we’ve seen.  Its content [...]

Reflections on S & P’s Downgrade of European Debt (Except for Germany’s): Pushing “Austerereich”

COMMENT: Stan­dard & Poor’s recent down­grade of euro­zone coun­tries’ credit rat­ings leaves us with much to ponder:

Germany’s credit rat­ing remained at triple-A.
The McGraw family–owners of S & P–are decades-long power elite asso­ciates of the Bush fam­ily.
As noted by Paul Krug­man (and the vig­i­lant “ter­rafractyl”)  S & P’s own analy­sis warns that the “con­tin­ued austerity” [...]

Nazis Infiltrating Germany’s Pirate Party

COMMENT: In the long For The Record series on Wik­iLeaks, Pirate Bay and the Arab Spring, we noted that the Pirate Party milieu in Europe has been the foun­da­tion of Wik­iLeaks’ pres­ence in Swe­den and Europe.
Osten­si­bly “anaarcho/Utopian” in their out­look, the Pirate Bay/Pirate Party milieu has man­i­fested strong fas­cist and Nazi con­nec­tions, despite its [...]

Daily Mail [UK]: Will 2012 Be the New 1932?

COMMENT: As things dete­ri­o­rate, a grow­ing num­ber of voices are echo­ing a warn­ing I’ve sounded for decades.
In the arti­cle below, Dominic Sand­brook notes that the col­lapse of the global econ­omy dur­ing the Great Depres­sion drove the des­per­ate into the arms of polit­i­cal extrem­ism.
Not­ing the inabil­ity of the feck­less coali­tion gov­ern­ment in Britain to [...]

Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, er . . . Democracy. Not With a Bang, but a Whimper!

COMMENT: As noted by blog­ger David Sea­mon, the demise of Amer­i­can democ­racy took place amid the volu­mi­nous, flat­u­lant pon­tif­i­ca­tion of U.S. media pun­dits, a pro­found dis­trac­tion in the event.
With very lit­tle notice from politi­cial or media insti­tu­tions and/or indi­vid­u­als, the National Defense Autho­riza­tion Act has incor­po­rated some fea­tures that would allow the vir­tual elim­i­na­tion of civil [...]

Behind the “Merkozy” Phenomenon: German Domination of Corporate France

COMMENT: Dur­ing the euro­zone debt cri­sis, France and Ger­many have jointly announced/proposed var­i­ous ele­ments of solu­tion, with state­ments care­fully crafted to shape the actions as best for all par­ties involved and deriv­ing from mutual inter­ests.
Yet, the media have rec­og­nized that the solu­tion will be a “Europa Ger­man­ica,” with Ger­man polit­i­cal and eco­nomic will [...]

“Now, Europe Will Speak German!” Germany to UK: Adopt the Euro, or Else!

COMMENT: As Ger­many cements its con­trol over the Euro­pean econ­omy and the Euro­pean Cen­tral Bank, the Ger­man power elite are openly and deri­sively call­ing for Britain to join the EMU.
(Note that the ECB could solve much of the euro­zone debt cri­sis by lend­ing money, but has been blocked by Ger­many from doing so. The only [...]

Au Revoir to European Democracy: “A Calm Judgement of Business Necessity”

COMMENT: View­ing events in Europe brings to mind the clos­ing words of James Stew­art Martin’s All Hon­or­able Men. Qui­etly, the Euro­zone debt cri­sis has brought about an orderly tran­si­tion to the “calm judge­ment of busi­ness neces­sity” with which Mar­tin closed his book.
As Greece and Italy have seen gov­ern­ments appointed by the Ger­man dom­i­nated “tech­noc­racy” with [...]

The New Germany and The Old Nazis

Book writ­ten in 1961 asks: Has Ger­many really changed? If so, where are the hun­dreds of thou­sands who once faith­fully and eagerly served Hitler’s reign of ter­ror? And what is life like today for the Jews who are still in Germany?