"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties."--New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922
"I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."--Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
"Competition is sin."--John D. Rockefeller
“There is a widespread conviction in the minds of the American people that the great corporations known as trusts are in certain of their features and tendencies hurtful to the general welfare …and in my judgment this conviction is right. When men receive from government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations … Corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be regulated if they are found to exercise a license working to the public injury. It should be as much the aim of those who seek for social betterment to rid the business world of crimes of cunning as to rid the entire body politic of crimes of violence.”--Actual President Teddy Roosevelt
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Pictured here:
Actual President Roosevelt points out the locations of the CIA’s CheatWare Voting Machines in Brazil,
placed there in order to hand Brazil over to the Obiden Regime’s Chinese Owners |
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."--Real Pres. Dwight D, Eisenhower(2017) Conservatives Must Regulate Google And All of Silicon Valley Into Submission--Kirt Schlichter
Yeah, I know that heavily regulating private businesses is not “free enterprise,” but I don’t care. See, “free enterprise” is a bargain, and they didn't keep their part of it, and I see no moral obligation for us to be played for saps and forgo using our political power to protect our interests in the face of them using theirs to disembowel us. I liked the old rules better – a free enterprise system confers huge benefits – but it was the left that chose to nuke them.
So what are we talking about? Well, size matters, and Silicon Valley’s giants are just too darn big. Time to chop them up like old Ma Bell. Let's apply the antitrust laws that were made for taming just these types of octopod monopolies. For example, Google and Facebook’s tentacles have slithered into every corner of the web and strangled the competition. There was a word for that back in the day – what was it? Oh, yeah. “Monopoly.” The left used to like breaking up monopolies until its leftist allies starting controlling them.
more Schlichter (from 2018):
The left is intent on mobilizing the corporations that form the infrastructure of society against us. We need to respond with our own political power, and that means casting off the tired shackles of an ideology that assumes we are in a pure free market scenario. “Free market solutions” don’t apply where companies instead act based on political ideology when choosing to exercise political power; how, exactly, do we respond to a company that acts against us but decides it doesn’t care about the market consequences? Well, we can’t – unless we use our own political power. Georgia refusing to give Delta a tax break – which it should not have gotten in the first place – is the template. If they want to declare a cultural war on us, let’s give them one. It’s not how you or I want it to be, but it is how it is. Maybe pain will motivate them to re-adopt the old rules. Surrender sure won’t.".......
(2017) Virgil -- Teddy Roosevelt’s Hammer: How the 'Great Trust Buster' Built the American Dream:
"... We might stop to focus on a single action that serves as a capstone to TR’s presidency. Or, better to say, will be remembered as the hammer that Roosevelt used to hammer out justice and opportunity for the American people.
That action was the epochal anti-trust case, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911. With the legal thunderclap, the principle was established: Here in the United States, the people, not the big corporations, would rule.
It should be remembered that Standard Oil was the great monopoly of the age; it controlled 90 percent of the national oil market. The Court’s decision, following the guidelines of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, broke Standard Oil into 34 separate companies.
Yet at the same time, we must also immediately note that TR was no kind of confiscator. After the Court’s action, those 34 spinoffs were all still privately owned; indeed, Rockefeller’s wealth actually increased in the wake of the breakup. Moreover, it’s been demonstrated that the economic well-being of the country rose, too, as those corporate pieces all had to compete with each other. As we know, monopolies can be smug, but competitors have to be on their toes.
Still, what was most important was that the company’s economic and political power was rightfully decreased; Uncle Sam would never have to bow down to plutocratic control. (Interestingly, TR’s victory came two years after he had left the White House, but everyone recognized it as his victory; the “Great Trust Buster” had laid the groundwork, and it was his hand-picked successor, President William Howard Taft, who oversaw the final resolution of the case.)
At the time, the case was understood to be a watershed. In particular, we might note the words of Justice John Marshall Harlan, a Republican appointee to the Court. In his written opinion, Harlan recalled the circumstances of 1890, the year in which the Sherman Anti-Trust law was sponsored by a Republican Senator, John Sherman of Ohio (brother of Gen. William T. Sherman of Civil War renown), enacted by a Republican Congress, and signed into law by a Republican president, Benjamin Harrison.
Looking back on the year 1890 from the perspective of 21 years later, Harlan wrote:
All who recall the condition of the country in 1890 will remember that there was everywhere, among the people generally, a deep feeling of unrest. The Nation had been rid of human slavery … but the conviction was universal that the country was in real danger from another kind of slavery sought to be fastened on the American people, namely, the slavery that would result from aggregations of capital in the hands of a few individuals and corporations controlling, for their own profit and advantage exclusively, the entire business of the country, including the production and sale of the necessaries of life.
To the contemporary reader, it might seem startling to speak of economic “slavery.” And yet that’s how America looked to many—even to many Republicans—back then.
Of course, as we all know, slaves have a way of rebelling—and when they do, it’s never pretty. Happily, thanks to TR, Harlan, and the other careful reformers and trust-busters, the American situation never reached that boiling point.
As TR proved, peaceful and legal progress is the way to social stability and continued economic growth. Indeed, because of that placid progress, the lot of the average improved considerably in the 20th century, as the American Dream was opened up to all. It’s the continuation of the American Dream that ought to be the paramount goal of political figures today.
Still, there are no permanent victories, and today it seems as if we’ve been lapsing back into the bad old days—although this time, it’s not Big Oil and the railroads we have to worry about, but rather Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Yet once again, the specter of hard-left Bernie Sanders-type ideology is haunting our politics. And so once again, conservative reformers must step forward, to preempt and thus preserve.
So we can see: The work of prudential reform must never end. As TR knew, capitalism is a wonderful thing, and yet in any era, it always needs to be checked, and it always needs to be balanced.
The New Nationalism: Always and Forever
What TR himself said in his famed “New Nationalism” speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, on August 31, 1910, can be said to apply, just as much, to today. In that address, TR described “the struggle of freemen to gain and hold the right of self-government as against the special interests, who twist the methods of free government into machinery for defeating the popular will.” A century ago, that was how one “drained the swamp.”
Roosevelt then added:
At every stage, and under all circumstances, the essence of the struggle is to equalize opportunity, destroy privilege, and give to the life and citizenship of every individual the highest possible value both to himself and to the commonwealth. That is nothing new.
We can flag those last words, “nothing new,” because that point applies to our time.
Indeed, the TR-ish struggle to reform, thereby securing the full blessings of citizenship, must always be new. Because in any era, if the struggle for reform ever grows old and tired, then we will lose those blessings." .......
How Rockefeller Founded Big Pharma And Waged War On Natural Cures ...
Jeff Bezos Positioning Washington Post (and Interests) to Mitigate Financial Exposure to President Trump - The Last Refuge:
"You will remember last year when I dug deep into the financial system around Twitter, Elon Musk’s purchase, and the viability of the business model. In short, by the time he reached October/November ’23 there was going to be no way for Musk to continue operating Twitter without some serious change in financial construct.
So, what happened?
Larry Ellison happened.
In a little-known background conversation that President Trump is well aware of, Oracle founder Larry Ellison said, “I will not allow Musk to fall.” Thus, an immediate and opportune alignment began that shows the strategic thinking of billionaire Larry Ellison.
Ellison gains around $50 billion per year from his operations. Oracle is huge. The X-platform subsequently began big contracts with Oracle. Twitter’s fate is now intrinsically linked to Ellison. Nuf said. ...
Elon Musk is now the biggest influence operation in the 2024 MAGA movement.
As a direct consequence of Musk’s position, Larry Ellison -by extension Oracle- is now easily positioned to be the biggest beneficiary of a Trump win. Ellison is the biggest influence operation; but as all influence and leverage operations go, he’s also the quietest influence.
Larry Ellison (Oracle) is the hand on the Elon Musk Marionette. All Musk moves are with this background alignment as the underpinning. With a Trump victory next week becoming more and more predictable, the biggest loser was set to be Larry Ellison’s billionaire competitor, Jeff Bezos (Amazon).
Jeff Bezos needs to position himself to avoid being totally shut out from White House influence ability. ....The biggest winners from the Trump victory will be Larry Ellison (Oracle), his super influence operator Elon Musk, and their smaller -albeit ideologically similar- friend, Peter Thiel (Palantir). ...
As long as they align with MAGA, all is cool. If their personal interests diverge from MAGA, we will have a problem.
There are trillions at stake." .......
Elon has made himself available for the forces of Civilization and there we stand in Unity, Amen! However, if any of these oligarchs are invested in government surveillance of the People, I have no interest in switching one for the other.
These internet companies now essentially function as Information Age Public Utilities.
Their criminal abuse of conservatives in the service of their One-Party vision is no different than the phone company screening your calls based on your party registration, the power company imposing a brown-out because of your voting record or the water company instituting water rationing because their meter reader didn't like your political yard sign.
It's bullshit and it's going to stop. We need some Modern Trust-Busting stat.
The old principles are constant. The difference today is the scale of the technologies, the scope of the conspiracy and the darkness of the debauchery. Not even John D. Rockefeller contemplated keeping a file on every person on earth.
Most Power-Mad Big Tech Oligarchs have proven they can't be trusted--but they can be Anti-Trusted.
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"The question must be, Is the right to prevail? Are the great laws of righteousness once more to be fulfilled? And the answer from a strong and virile people must be, "Yes," whatever the cost."
--Actual President Teddy Roosevelt
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Haggai 2:
6 For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable and precious things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory and splendor,’ says the Lord of hosts. 8 ‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the Lord of hosts. 9 ‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I shall give [the ultimate] peace and prosperity,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”
Hallelujah!
