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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 09:45 AM Original message |
How many people are aware of the attempted coup in the u.s. during the great depression? |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
1. Wasn't Prescott Bush involved in that coup attempt? |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 09:51 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Yep. Grandpa Prescott was going to be Ambassador to Nazi Germany |
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neutron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. This reminds me what they're doing to Clinton RIGHT NOW |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. The thing that bothers me is that it was never brought up in 2000. |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. We should have a Gen. Smedley Butler day |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 09:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Sounds like a splended idea. Perhaps the first Monday before SOTU ? |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 10:39 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. His birthday is July 30th |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. His name would have been forgotten except that he objected to |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 07:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
27. What an excellent idea! He sure needs to be better known |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
3. Am aware of that little chapter of our history. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Gone to graveyards, every one |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
5. They failed then, but they succeeded in 2000...n/t |
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OneGrassRoot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 10:40 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Isn't that the truth. K&R and bookmarked. n/t |
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flashl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 10:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. And, in 2002 - 2004, all demonstration elections in the purest form. n/t |
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wtmusic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
11. Is that in Zinn's "People's History"? |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. no, it doesn't come up... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
12. I do, but you are right, most folks are not |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. civics isn't generally taught anymore either, let alone being required... |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
15. HARPERS: 1934: The Plot Against America |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
16. BBC Radio Report: The Whitehouse Coup |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:55 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. And George Walker. nt |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I read somewhere that the Great Depression was an effort by the same robber barons |
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Kansas Wyatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
21. Better question.... |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
23. It sounds like it was a conspiracy to commit a coup. |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
24. It's true, although there are some serious glaring errors in that version. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 05:57 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. hearst had a pretty sizable fortune to protect as well... |
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happydreams (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 09:57 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. FYI. Hearst tried to hire Mussolini to write for him. He succeeded in |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
26. Gee! THIS isn't in my kid's Social Studies book. . . . . . |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
28. This time it's the entire corporate cabal staging the coup, and |
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TheCentepedeShoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-29-08 07:25 PM Response to Original message |
29. I don't think I was aware of it |
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