When I first came across the “Amazon Employs Nazis” story back in February, I anticipated a burst of outrage across the web. I fired up my RSS reader where I subscribe to over 100 podcasts and blogs. But as I scanned through them, I found something more shocking than the return of fascism itself:

Crickets.

The response to the story was surprisingly muted. Many mentioned the story, but in a desultory fashion. I was baffled. Where was the outrage?

A few weeks went by, and then the lightbulb over my head finally lit up, and I solved the riddle:

Lots of people doing business with Amazon.

People sell books through Amazon. People participate in their affiliate program. People host websites in their cloud. People take venture capital investments from them. People own their stock. Etcetera.

Amazon’s tentacles spread far and wide. Even I have a Kindle book in their store. However, in my book, I make the case that the size of corporations should be limited to prevent just this sort of all-encompassing influence. If Amazon wants to kick me out, then so be it.

What about you?

Because the hard truth is that if you do not raise your voice against the Nazis, you are effectively joining up with them. Now, I am not calling on you to stop doing business with Amazon. However, I am calling on you to oppose their fascist acts, and the fascist acts of other multinationals.

As far as I can tell, the manager who hired H.E.S.S. has not been identified or fired. I’m sure that he was a subcontractor of a subcontractor of subcontractor of Amazon, but that is no excuse. All of the multinationals are organized that way purposely to provide deniability for their dirty deeds. Another practice that I recommend banning in my book.

When labor unions are allowed to run wild, you end up with communism. When corporations are allowed to run wild, you end up with fascism. In both cases, people get marched into death camps. Personally, I subscribe to what I call the “Three Stooges Solution” to this problem of organizing society. It’s very simple, like Moe, the government slaps around Larry and Curly until they are cowed and compliant, and everybody plays nice together.

This may, in fact, be the single most important function of government. And it works. Just look at the way they do it in Germany: labor unions actually have seats on the board of directors of large companies. The German government enforces peaceful cooperation, and the result is arguably the most-successful industrial economy in the world.

Here in the USA, corporations are allowed to run wild, and have largely wiped out unions, captured control of the federal government, and gotten themselves declared to be “people.” This country is moving in a fascist direction – rapidly.

When the next atrocity occurs, and it is only a matter of time, I want to see more voices raised.

This means you.

So far, modern Nazis are only persecuting the poor and jobless. Working them like Alaskan sled dogs in their satanic mills. Chewing them up and spitting them out just as poor as they were when they were hired. Converting blood, sweat, and tears into record corporate profits. Perhaps these Nazis will limit themselves to monetizing the surplus humans of the world. Perhaps they will march on other peoples. I mean, if there is no opposition, why would they stop?

Dr. Benjamin Carson went viral recently after he criticized Obamacare while President Obama was sitting just a few feet away. Republicans fell in love immediately, drooling over the prospect of finally getting a share of the black vote if Carson were to enter politics.

The reason I say that he has been anointed is because of the way Larry Kudlow reacted to Carson in the video below. Recently, Kudlow has been campaigning against the minimum wage. He is “outraged” at the appalling unemployment rate in the black community. And his solution is to eliminate the minimum wage, because as everybody knows, the way to help poor people is to slash their wages. Of course, as a high-ranking member of the Oligarchy, Kudlow’s solution to pretty much every problem is austerity for the small people.

So, as he interviewed Carson, Kudlow brought up the subject (at the 2:30 mark in the video.) But Carson didn’t have the Kudlow Catechism down, and gave the wrong answer. Instead of austerity, he recommended spending more money on education. I was thinking, “Duck Ben! Kudlow is going to blow your head off!” But instead, Kudlow genuflected. I could hardly believe it. Kudlow didn’t show such deference even for Mitt Romney in the heat of the 2012 presidential campaign. In fact, Kudlow slammed both Romney and Ryan to the concrete during the convention.

Carson could easily raise money for a presidential run. The Republicans are already worshiping him. But Carson is a bit naive. When discussing the 30% high-school drop-out rate (at 3:30), he says:

“This is the Information Age, the age of technology. There’s just no way we can afford to lose 30% of our individuals.”

But we can, and quite easily. That’s the whole point of our mass-immigration policy: to replace us lazy, stupid, uneducated American citizens with “magical” immigrants who can do everything better than we can. The Oligarchy has been ruthlessly replacing black workers with immigrants on a mass scale for decades now. Note to Carson: catch a clue.

Kudlow thinks that lower wages will encourage employers to hire more blacks. But even if it did, where would they live? Who can pay the rent on Chinese-style wages of $2 per hour? New York City already has a huge homeless problem because of high rents. Perhaps Kudlow would have them live in cages, as they do in the libertarian Shangri-La of Hong Kong. I am not exaggerating, I wrote about the cage people in my book.

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There’s hope yet! The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was mentioned in a recent episode of HBO’s “Girls” series. The “Jessa” character said:

“What’s wrong with a Republican? It’s just the same as Democrat. They’re all dirt-bags. I mean, Bill Clinton is the one that got rid of our Glass-Steagall Act which is why our economy is in the toilet.”

The quote is at the 12:55 mark of show #12 “I Get Ideas” which is episode #2 of season #2 aired on January 20, 2013.

Back in the 1980s, Ayn Rand was pretty famous. People always wanted to know about her life in Russia, but she would never talk about it. She would always tell people to read her novel “We the Living” from which you could only get a vague idea of what her early life might have been like.

That always struck me as odd. Here was a Hollywood scriptwriter who lived through the Russian Revolution, and she didn’t want to talk about it???

But now I think I have solved the mystery. My guess is that she didn’t want to admit that the communists gave her a free education at Petrograd State University. She didn’t want to admit that the communists were less than 100% evil; that perhaps they were only 99% evil. Or maybe she was embarrassed that she didn’t refuse the hand out, that she didn’t pull herself up by her own bootstraps and earn her education.

At the beginning of the video below, you can see CNBC’s Larry Kudlow cheering for workers at Facebook for what is probably the first time in his life.

Kudlow is normally seen pounding the table and demanding lower pay for workers, not to mention savage austerity after their jobs have been offshored. Facebook pays its interns $5,600 per month, so Kudlow seized on that as proof that “free market capitalism” is working.

But we don’t have the “free market capitalism” that Kudlow advocates. Kudlow is a globalist and wants wide-open immigration – especially for the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs like the ones at Facebook. If Kudlow had his way, every one of those Facebook interns would be from India and getting paid $1,000 per month.

It is the people who fight against mass-immigration who can take credit for these workers getting a larger slice of the pie.

Note: It’s not all peaches and cream for workers in Silicon Valley. See this story.

What’s worse, sending a man’s $50,000 job to China, or cutting off his $1,600 per year food stamp card? Offshoring his job is obviously the much-larger financial blow.

Today, we are witnessing perfectly good jobs being sent to China for no other reason than to increase the profits of companies like Bain Capital. Perfectly good factories, making record profits, are sent out of the country (example: Sensata).

There is no other way to explain that than the austerity is being imposed upon the American workers in order to redistribute their income to management.

So, what people like Paul Ryan want to do is not the austerity part of the plan. Rather, it is the next phase: the mopping-up of the vast impoverished class that globalization-fueled austerity has already created. The suicides that we see as a result of European austerity are not taken as a cautionary tale here. They are taken as inspiration.

President Obama needs to reverse this entire process. And that can’t be done with any sort of compromise on a “Grand Bargain.”

Item: American voters struck down the Financial Elite’s candidate: Mitt Romney (read more here).

Item: Massachusetts voters elected Elizabeth Warren to the Senate. Warren wants to reign-in the financial elite by bringing back the Glass-Steagall Act, among other measures.

Item: Globalists failed to defeat their top target: protectionist Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown.

Item: Public Citizen reports that “…the election increased the net number of fair-trade members of the Senate by at least six…” Read their report here.

Americans are sick of globalization and sick of being ruled by a corrupt and incompetent financial elite – not to mention raging psycho warmongers like Mitt Romney. 2016 presidential hopefuls should take note of these developments.

For some reason, at Monday night’s presidential debate, CNBC’s Larry Kudlow was carrying on about President Obama being a “declinist” – meaning somebody who accepts the USA’s declining power in the world.

At 4:25 into the video below, Kudlow says:

“There’s the Group of 20, and there’s the United States. Does Obama want us to be one of the Group of 20, or does he want us the be the #1 world leader in economy, military, foreign policy, democracy?”

However, Kudlow is a hard-core globalist and approves of the USA’s membership in the World Trade Organization. And guess what? We only get one vote in the WTO, and we don’t have veto-power like we do on the United Nations Security Council.

In Kudlow’s pet WTO, we are only 1 of 157.

And it is our membership in the WTO that is stripping us of our superpower status.

Note to Kudlow: We most certainly are in decline, and you and your globalist pals are responsible.

After Romney’s infamous “47%” video came out, the Republicans responded with the Obama “redistributionist” video. However, there are more ways to redistribute income than just the tax code. And one of those ways is globalization.

Think of a plant before Romney sends it to China. The American workers there are receiving income. After the plant is moved to China, a small sliver of that income is redistributed to the Chinese workers. And the bulk of it is redistributed straight into Romney’s Cayman Islands account.

This form of “inverse redistribution” is what globalization is all about.

Note to democrats: if you support globalization, you are helping to build the oligarchy.