World Fascist Forum

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Originally from Gus Van Horn,

The World Economic Forum met in Davos, Switzerland. Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and John McCain were there, as well as many beautiful celebrities. What is the World Economic Forum? Here is a statement on their web site:

The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Leaders partnering with industry to shape their agenda? That's socialism, specifically the form of socialism known as fascism.

The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal. (Ayn Rand, "The Fascist New Frontier")

Here is another statement:

The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world. The Forum provides a collaborative framework for the world's leaders to address global issues, engaging particularly its corporate members in global citizenship.

What does all this vague, feel-good language mean? What does it mean to engage corporate members in global citizenship? I'm sure corporations are willing to sell their product to anyone in the world without the encouragement of the world's leaders at the WEF. But helping corporations pursue a profit is not behind such warm and fuzzy words as "collaborative framework" and "improving the state of the world." WEF is about some degree of state control of corporations to pursue altruist-statist-collectivist ends.

Bill Clinton knew who he was talking to at the Forum. As Michelle Malkin put it,

Clinton... kindled the fires of the Euro-pointy heads with lots of gooey "global society" talk--including ranking "climate change" and global inequality ahead of terrorism as the world's most serious threats and making insipid pronouncements about how "people basically want to know that we're on their side, that we wish them well, that we want the best for them, that we're pulling for them."

Good ol' Bill, still feeling our pain. But to people whose heads are full of mush, mush sounds profound.

Reports Newsday:

"First, I worry about climate change," Clinton said in an onstage conversation with the founder of the World Economic Forum. "It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible."

Clinton called for "a serious global effort to develop a clean energy future" to avoid the onset of another ice age.

He also said the current global system "works to aggravate rather than ameliorate inequality" between and within nations _ including in the United States, where he lamented the "growing concentration of wealth at the top," alongside stagnation for the middle classes and rising poverty.

Clinton is pushing the scientifically dubious threat of another ice age to justify expanded state control over energy production. Then he laments the "growing concentration of wealth at the top." What could that be but the veiled threat of redistribution of wealth?

I have stated repeatedly that the trend in this country is toward a fascist system with communist slogans. But what all of today's pressure groups are busy evading is the fact that neither business nor labor nor anyone else, except the ruling clique, gains anything under fascism or communism or any form of statism -- that all become victims of an impartial, egalitarian destruction. (Ayn Rand, "The Moratorium on Brains")

In Davos, Switzerland, Bill Clinton spoke to those who would be the world's ruling clique.

[StarBuck]

fas·cism     P   Pronunciation Key  (fshzm)

n.

often Fascism

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.

Oppressive, dictatorial control.

[italian fascismo, from fascio, group, from Late Latin fascium, from Latin fascis, bundle.]

fas·cistic (f-shstk) adj.

Word History: It is fitting that the name of an authoritarian political movement like Fascism, founded in 1919 by Benito Mussolini, should come from the name of a symbol of authority. The Italian name of the movement, fascismo, is derived from fascio, “bundle, (political) group,” but also refers to the movement's emblem, the fasces, a bundle of rods bound around a projecting axe-head that was carried before an ancient Roman magistrate by an attendant as a symbol of authority and power. The name of Mussolini's group of revolutionaries was soon used for similar nationalistic movements in other countries that sought to gain power through violence and ruthlessness, such as National Socialism.

Who writes these metablogs?

[gags]

I'm not sure who wrote this one. Sometimes their origin is shown at the top.

What was your point in posting a definition of Fascism?

[softwareNerd]

I'm not sure who wrote this one. Sometimes their origin is shown at the top.

Thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed.