Quote:This map illustrates "The American Technate," a radical geopolitical proposal by a radical organization based on pseudo-scientific economics and authoritarian, nationalist politics.

As the Great Depression deepened in the early 1930s, Americans looked in desperation to a variety of radical social and political solutions. One of the most popular was "Technocracy," which "offered a seemingly scientific explanation of America's ills," namely, the "disastrous inefficiency" of "the wage-price system, the very heart of capitalism." The technocrats proposed abandoning business and representative government as the driving forces of our economy, and replacing them with massive social engineering centered on "technicians - especially engineers . . . as the efficient, scientific, anticapitalistic, elite capable of reorienting the economic order around rational production and distribution. Theirs was a clarion call for technicians to plan and engineer the new order." Akin 1977, ix-x.

"Politically unbiased experts in red-and-gray Technocracy uniforms would assay each nation's yearly energy output, then divide it fairly among the citizenry." Goods and services could be purchased at prices set out "on a table of energy equivalents calculated by objective Technocratic savants," all led by the "Great Engineer." Mann 2018, 273. While originally based on energy calculations by scientists at Columbia University, the Technocracy dogma was written by "a charismatic Greenwich Village layabout named Howard Scott." Scott, who "dismissed the world's businesspeople, social scientists, lawyers, and teachers as charlatans" (ibid., 273-74), was the long-time Director-in-Chief of Technocracy Incorporated. Its program was essentially a "techno-autocracy," with a self-perpetuating elite, overt hostility to "aliens and Asiatics," and a wide range of "fascist trappings." Temple 1943, 118-119.

By the outset of World War II, the popularity of the Technocracy movement had declined substantially, but it continued to be active. In July 1940 - as war raged in Europe while America had not engaged - Scott published the organization's position, "America - Now and Forever," in the Official Magazine of Technocracy Inc. Consistent with the movement's isolationist policy, it proposed a dramatic increase in the nation's continental defense. Among other things, the government was to greatly increase the size of the military; "conscript" all American means of transportation, communications systems, public utilities, manufacturing industries, mining enterprises, and patents; close all bars; "abolish" all foreign language periodicals, advertising, radio programs, and organizations; and prohibit outgoing transfers of currency (pp. 13-14).

Along with these proposed steps, Scott wrote that the territory of the United States must be expanded in order to defend it properly. The new "Technate of America" was to include all of Canada, Greenland, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of Columbia, Venezuela and the Guyanas. "Defense Bases" were to be established around the perimeter as far afield as Attu; Pago Pago; the Galapagos; Georgetown, Guyana; Bermuda; St. John's, Newfoundland; and Cape Farewell, Greenland. In Scott's words, "On the map accompanying this issue is delineated the geographical territory required for the adequate defense and operation of this Continental Area. . . . We should immediately acknowledge our planned intentions of consolidating these territories, not as separate political entities, but as part of the Continent of North America. . . . America must possess all North American territories on the accompanying map of the Technate, for the defense of this Continent." (Pp. 10, 12.)

How to achieve this monumental consolidation? "The government of the United States should take immediate action to acquire these territories and others, such as Greenland and the Galapagos Islands. The acquisition of these territories should be a mandatory part of the program of Continental defense for immediate achievement - either by purchase, negotiation, or the force of arms." (P. 12.)

The success of the New Deal had already reduced the attractiveness of Technocracy's economic and political proposals at the time this map was published, and the attack on Pearl Harbor ended support for the isolation of the United States. Technocracy Inc. nevertheless continued to evolve, and it exists to this day (see technocracyinc.org).

Technate of America (Cornell Univ Library)

(01-10-2025, 04:30 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:
...ABOUT LOS ANGELES: 14 of the 15 members of the Los Angeles City Council are Democrats. There's one independent. Zero Republicans. The mayor is a Democrat. The governor is a Democrat. The California General Assembly is controlled by a super-majority of Democrats. Every government agency in California is controlled by Democrats.

At some point the citizens of California must be held accountable for electing criminally incompetent people. Elections have consequences, but so do bad life choices. Why should the hard-working taxpayers of America be forced to bail out Californians because of their own electoral stupidity and their racism?...

Quote:I recommend that the large water supply main be continued from its present terminus on Mulholland Highway, westerly along this highway on the city limits line;  and that laterals be run from this main along each existing and contemplated fire road, running from Mulholland Highway to Ventura Boulevard on the north and to Sunset Boulevard on the south.  This will entail a large expenditure which must be assumed if dangerous fires, occurring under the climatic conditions which caused this extensive fire, are to be suppressed in early stages.  Hydrants at suitable distances along all such mains are of course a part of the recommended improvement.

    Further I recommend that the program of motorway building continue without delay until the comprehensive program previously planned and authorized is brought to completion.  The roads already constructed were of incalculable value in the late emergency.  Also, I recommend that sufficient appropriations be made so that the existing firebreaks which, as stated, have not been cleaned for several years, may be made absolutely clear of all vegetable matter.  If this is done, the Fire Department will have an excellent chance of controlling any fire in its early stages,  except on the rare occasions when the elements (dry winds from the interior accompanied by excessively low humidity) are against us.

The Grape Vine, 1938

Quote:According to the beliefs of the Church of Scientology, the Marcab Confederacy is said to be one of the most powerful galactic civilizations still active. Church founder L. Ron Hubbard describes it as:

    Various planets united into a very vast civilization which has come forward up through the last 200,000 years, formed out of the fragments of earlier civilizations. In the last 10,000 years they have gone on with a sort of decadent kicked-in-the-head civilization that contains automobiles, business suits, fedora hats, telephones, spaceships — a civilization which looks almost an exact duplicate but is worse off than the current US civilization.

Marcab Confederacy

Quote:Under the above title the Saturday Evening Post of January 17, 1959 presents such a shocking exposure of the dangers we face from the Jesuits (Society of Jesus) as to fill the heart of every loyal citizen with dread. This article provides conclusive documentation of the dire threat of this Roman Catholic order and of the forces of the Vatican affiliated with this order, which I have attempted to drive into the consciousness of yourself, officials in the government, and the sleep-walking people of the United States for the past five years, risking my very life from day to day to do so. At last you must listen, for the truth is now spread before you from impartial sources. Permit me to re-analyze for youre comprehension the salient facts presented in this article:

1. PURPOSES: The fundamental purposes of the people of the United States are to pro- mote the principles of liberty stated in our Declaration of Independence and in the Preamble and Bill of Rights of our Constitution.

The fundamental purposes of the Jesuits an International Dictatorship are dia- metrically opposed to our Charters of Liberty, and are publicly and arrogantly pro- moted on our own soil by this anti-American organization. I refer you to the "Syllabus of Errors" of Pope Pius IX, in which our freedoms are categorically condemned, point by point, thus establishing the forces of Jesuitism Vaticanism as enemies of our state.

  The Constitution of the United States provides for democratic government of, by and for the people. The Constitution of the Jesuits (and imposed upon all Roman Catholics by command of the Pope), provides for a military dictatorship under the command of a "commanding general", the "Black Pope" of Roman Catholicism, to whom even the "White Pope" must yield authority, and backed by the claimed 30 million Roman Catholics in the United States.

Quote:Zeppelins Over Norfolk

Airship L4 (commanded by Kapitänleutnant Count Magnus von Platen-Hallermund) continued a westerly course and headed over Cromer before dropping a bomb on the seaside resort of Sheringham. This bomb, which fell on Jordan’s Yard, Wyndham Street (now Whitehall Yard) at 8.30pm, was the first to be dropped by air on British soil. Having failed to explode, a local resident picked it up and put it in a bucket.

A few minutes later, a second bomb was dropped in Sheringham; although this did explode, it caused no damage.

Reaction in the Press

Reporting the incident the following morning,  The Times speculated:

It was plain that the source of the disturbance was aircraft, though precisely of what kind could only be conjectured. The opinion is generally held that it was a dirigible, for what appeared to be searchlights were seen at a great altitude. Others, however, say that the lights were not the beams of a searchlight, but the flash of something resembling a magnesium flare.

—The Times Wednesday, 20 January 1915; p.8

Further news was published about the raid in the following days; here the reporter describes one of the unexploded bombs:

The upper part, for all the world like the "cone" to be found in every art classroom, is made of thin metal and packed with a resinous substance which, after experiment on a very small scale in an ordinary firegrate, I found to be highly inflammable.

—The Times Thursday, 21 January 1915; p.9

The attacks by airships continued for most of the war. A total of 52 raids by Zeppelin and other airships were carried out on the UK, although by 1917 these attacks were becoming less effective. Only six raids took place in 1917, and only four in 1918, the last taking place in August 1918.

Although these airship raids may have caused localised panic, the effect on Britain’s war industries was negligible. While they may have slightly interrupted war production in isolated areas, the most significant outcome of these raids was to cause a great deal of public anger.