Benito Mussolini wasn’t so bad, was he? Italy and Fascism

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Der visionäre Bau einer Autobahn nach Mailand wird hundert Jahre alt

Hat Hitler etwa Mussolini abgekupfert? War Mussolini wirklich ein Visionär oder ist die NZZ etwas euphorisch?

Ich bin kein historischer Experte was den Faschismus angeht, aber das Mussolini schon 1924 Autobahnen gebaut hat, war mir nicht bekannt.

Hitler hat seine erste Reichsautobahn wohl nicht vor September 1933 gebaut (Source).

"Im September 1924 wurde die «Autolaghi» im Grenzgebiet zur Schweiz eingeweiht. Für die Italiener war die neue Schnellstrasse das Symbol des Aufbruchs in die Moderne, für ferienhungrige Nordeuropäer der Anfang vom Glück."

100 Jahre Autobahn Varese-Mailand: Strasse des Booms und der Vorfreude

Schnurgerade, asphaltiert, an Dörfern und Städten vorbei - gebaut für das Autozeitalter. Die «Autostrada dei Laghi», kurz «Autolaghi», verbindet die Region um Varese und Como mit Mailand.

The Origins Of Mussolini's Italy narrated by Charlton Heston

Very recommendable! Il Duce often looks like clown! Italians used poison gas in their war 1935-37 with Ethiopia. Nazi Germany provided weapons to Ethiopia to fight the Italians. Like Japanese Americans, Italian Americans were also rounded up into internment camps in the U.S.

When Italy invaded Greece, Germany assisted the underperforming Italian military, which may have delayed Hitler's invasion of Russia.

Famous organised crime boss Lucky Luciano was involved in the Allied invasion of Sicily.

Just a reminder that the so called Interwar Period was anything but peaceful!

Communist Atrocities During Spanish Civil War

Posted: 11/18/2017

How The Left Distorted History

As a german, I learnt many times that Franco and Hitler collaborated. That the German air force bombing of the civilians living in the Basque village of Guernica was early war crime committed by the Nazis. A painting depicting Guernica by Pablo Picasso made this event and the painter famous.

We also learnt much about the fascist dictator Franco

We also learnt how many prominent artists were personally involved in the Spanish Civil War like Ernest Hemingway (communist sympathizer at least early in his career), George Orwell (outspoken anti totalitarian, democratic socialist), and Robert Capa (possibly a communist sympathizer).

What We Were Not Told About The Spanish Civil War

How much the Italian fascist dictator Mussolini was involved in this war.

The heavy involvement of Stalin’s Soviet Union in support of communist groups active in the Spanish Civil War.

Just read this horrible article by the Acton Institute:

Remembering those martyred by socialism during the Spanish Civil War

I was stunned to read that communist affiliated groups during the so called Red Terror (1931 - 1939) killed killed more than 6,800 bishops, priests, monks (including 13 bishops and 4,184 priests), and religious citizens. “As many as 20,000 churches were destroyed, many of them before the war commenced.” According to this article it was this brutal terror against catholics that contributed to Franco’s military intervention in the Spanish Civil War.

Obamacare Is Nothing But Nationalization Of Health Care

The Affordable Care Act Is

Full Of Unconstitutional Mandates

I am still surprised that the many other, interdependent mandates of the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act (ACA) were not more vigorously constitutionally challenged. Thus, it has also escaped my attention how pernicious and unamerican this act is.

Here are the major mandates of the ACA, I am aware of:

1.       The individual mandate to buy health insurance

2.       The employer mandate to provide health insurance

3.       The guaranteed issue mandate aimed at health insurance companies

4.       The community rating mandate also aimed at health insurance companies

For sake of brevity, I will not comment on each of these mandates.

Each one of them is a massive intervention in individual liberty, free enterprise, and freedom of contract. None of these massive interventions is necessary. Only Big Government in collusion with corporatism are able to come up with such a horrific law.

Successive Nationalization Of Health Care In the US

Even today, major parts of US healthcare are already nationalized. Here is a quick rundown:

·         Health care for older Americans (Medicare)

·         Health care for the poor (Medicaid)

·         Health care for veterans

·         Health care for children in need (CHIPS and SCHIP)

Thus, a huge number of Americans have been already covered by government run health care before Obamacare was passed.

There is no doubt in my mind that this law would lead to basically a further nationalization of health care in the US. Private insurance companies would be not much more than an extended federal bureaucracy. Every time things would not develop as envisaged on Capitol Hill more intervention would be imposed (vicious spiral of intervention according to Ludwig von Mises). The penalty tax will surely be raised as soon as too many Americans do not comply and so on.

The New Deal Reloaded

Only seventy years after the New Deal, Democrats forced this continuation of 20^th century all powerful government on its citizens. Who thought that Fascism or Socialism are in the dustbin of history, should quickly wake up. The Statue of Liberty is inconsolably weeping.