The British Broadcasting Corporation would have us believe that the first never legitimately existed...
But "illegal" or not, the United States of America has flourished like no other nation in history; its abundance gained through a mixture of bold exploration, rapine conquest, prolific ingenuity, "fair and square" theft, and otherwise an inextricable mixture of virtues and vices unleashed by the principle of limited government. Gradually, however, that principle was turned on its head, so that a government-corporate complex has now become its sarcophagus.
When it happened is subject to debate. The decline began as far back as a century ago, with the passing of the Federal Reserve Act, which muddled the Congressional powers relating to currency as indicated in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution. Another milestone in its demise was the passing of the National Security Act in 1947, setting up the CIA which by subtle design was to operate above the law (in theory never domestically but in practice quite the contrary) and hence in open defiance of the rule of law principles of the republic that created it. The assassination of Kennedy was another milestone, as a traumatic assault of psychological warfare upon the American people. The momentum of its flourishing made it difficult for the American people to notice that their nation was terminally afflicted. But, the bell toll came on 9/11/01, which would perhaps best qualify as the date to place on the epitaph of the good ol' USA. For it was then, in reaction to this PSYOP assualt, that the American people effectively consented to the violation of their sovereignty as delineated in the Bill of Rights.
At this stage we are only seeing, more and more, the rot of this death. The American people are being sexually assaulted in airports and stadiums by government goons. The one calling himself "President of the United States" now declares the right to kill "American citizens" on the basis of secret evidence without any recourse to due process whatsoever - this an affront not only to the US Constitution, but to the Magna Carta of the mother country. And on the world stage, the actions of its State Dept. and Military (not to mention CIA, etc.) betray this USA as belonging on the same list of historical pariahs as Hitler's Germany, Imperial Japan, or Stalin's USSR, if not quite on the scale of atrocity of these regimes, then certainly most firmly on the same path of infamy.
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And this brings us to the other USA...
We can build United States of Africa, Gaddafi says
That was in July of 2010, and within a year, any hope for this endeavor would be all but nixed, as the marionette corpse of the first USA became the necessary vehicle to perform an abortion of the embryonic USA.
Now that the champion of the United States of Africa has been removed, AFRICOM - commanded aptly enough by one General Ham (after the biblical Curse of Ham against the African peoples) - now may proceed to enforce the looting of the continent of its rich natural resources. A looting that comes in manifold forms... The opportunities are endless. But just to take two:
Chocolate hedge funds to squander the Ivory Coast...
That was in July 2010. Then, within a year...
As British carbon traders evict Ugandan farmers...
Land tenure in Uganda is a subject of much dispute, and last year's farming evictions have left 20,000 homeless
Against such creative looting schemes, Colonel Qadaffi had a relatively simple plan: a pan-African gold-backed dinar. This could not stand...
Against such creative looting schemes, Colonel Qadaffi had a relatively simple plan: a pan-African gold-backed dinar. This could not stand...
