Fascism: Italian term meaning "a bundle of sticks", from the Latin word fasces. This was the name given to political organizations in Italy known as fasci. Mussolini's own account, the Fascist Revolutionary Party was founded in Italy in 1915.
Fascism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism 
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“Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, as well as strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century EU.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism 
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“ By the time of the Roman Republic, the fasces had developed into a thicker bundle of birch rods, sometimes surrounding a single-headed axe and tied together with a red leather ribbon into a cylinder.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces#United_States
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“ When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay
As ice-storms do...”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birches_(poem)#Analysis
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How did this happen?

Returns to discuss “this.”
👇🏻 https://twitter.com/LyceumWC/status/1275835566790238209?s=20
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“Early influences on Gurdjieff included his father, a carpenter and amateur ashik or bardic poet, and the priest of the town's Russian church, Dean Borsh, a family friend.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff
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“ Both Olga de Hartmann, the woman Gurdjieff called "the first friend of my inner life"...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff

“The senior senator, who replaced the Tsar at meetings in his absence, was Olga’s grandfather.”
https://www.gurdjieff.org/ourlife2.htm 
.8 Olga
“After her husband died in 1956, she helped supervise and support the development of Gurdjieff’s Work in North America.
Later years, she moved to Nambe, near Santa Fe, NM, where she died in 1979.” (Where Guislane Maxwell’s sister(s) lived/taught.)
https://www.gurdjieff.org/ourlife2.htm 
.9 Louise March
“1st yrs in New York, she met renowned photographer Alfred Stieglitz & painter Georgia O’Keeffe (who became lifelong friend). With their help, she managed the Opportunity Gallery in Manhattan within a circle of artists, writers...”.
https://www.gurdjieff.org/march2.htm 
.10 G. O’Keeffe
“O'Keeffe taught and headed the art department at West Texas State Normal College,” located 19 mi. S of the promiscuously re-platted neighborhood.(WTS Normal College, whereupon, O’Keefe was fired for an ‘affair‘ with an art student(s)).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe
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O’Keeffe’s “maternal grandfather George Victor Totto, for whom O'Keeffe was named, was a Hungarian count who came to the United States in 1848.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe
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Eventually, O’Keeffe married photographer Alfred Stieglitz. “Throughout his life Stieglitz maintained a fetish for younger women.“
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz

Stieglitz’s daughter Katherine was from his 1st marriage (to a brewery heiress).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stieglitz
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Katherine Stieglitz Stearns married Milton Sprague Stearns, a Harvard University graduate.
their son Milton Sprague Stearns, Jr. was born in June 3, 1923.

Katherine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Stieglitz

Milton Sprague Stearns, Jr., financier:
https://www.lorneandsons.com/obituary/3020320
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“Mr. Stearns was a former Group V.P. of the Fidelity Bank (now Wells Fargo) prior to establishing Charter Financial, Co., a financial consulting firm. Over the years he served as a member of the Boards of Directors for numerous companies including”:
https://www.lorneandsons.com/obituary/3020320
16. Addendums continued:

T.S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot); named after maternal grandfather Thomas Stearns Jr., a partner in the trading firm of Stearns & Bailey in Boston, MA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Champe_Stearns
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Robert B. Stearns (formerly Sterns) of Bear-Stearns
“He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1906 and Yale University in 1910. He may have changed his named when he enrolled at Andover, whose headmaster at the time was Alfred Stearns.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Stearns
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Donald Barr got JEpstein a job at Bear Stearns.

“As Dalton's headmaster, Barr is allgd to had a role in hiring JEpstein as a math teacher despite Epstein having dropped out of college & being only 21yrs old. In 1973, Barr published Space Relations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr
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...a sci-fi novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who perform child sex slavery. It has been noted that Epstein's crimes are similar to the plot of Barr's novel.”

DBarr was an OSS agent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services
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“Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.”

Subversion - a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed, in an attempt to transform the established social...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion 
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...order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms. Subversion can be described as an attack on the public morale and, "the will to resist intervention are the products of combined political and social or class loyalties...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion 
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...which are usually attached to national symbols. Following penetration, and parallel with the forced disintegration of political and social institutions of the state, these loyalties may be detached and transferred to the political or ideological cause of the aggressor".
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OSS was “based on the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE)“.

“1943 the OSS set up operations in Istanbul,Turkey, a neutral country, where it was able to infiltrate anti-fascist groups in 🇦🇹 , 🇭🇺 & 🇩🇪.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services
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1920, Gurdjeiff & his party traveled by ship to Istanbul. He rented an apartment near the Mevlevi Order (Rumi Sufis). Gurdjieff also met his future pupil Capt. John G. Bennett, then head of British Military Intelligence in Constantinople.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff
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The Masnavi I Ma'navi is a mystical poem by Rumi. The poem is composed of 6 volumes
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Masnavi_I_Ma%27navi

Excerpt: BOOK 1, Story #3

Depicts the author’s disdain for Christians and describes how to destroy them through subversion and division.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Masnavi_I_Ma%27navi/Book_I
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“Gurdjieff constituted a new teaching group in Paris. Known as The Rope, it was composed of only women, many of them writers, and several lesbians. Members included Kathryn Hulme, Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson and Enrico Caruso's widow, Dorothy.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff
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“Jane Heap, an American publisher & significant figure in the development & promotion of literary modernism. With Margaret Anderson, her friend & business partner (who was also her lover), she edited the celebrated literary magazine The Little Review.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Heap 
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“The Little Review published some of the most influential new writers in the English language, including Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound their London editor, and William Butler Yeats. The magazine's most published poet was NY dadaist...
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...Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven,Sherwood Anderson, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Ford Madox Ford, Emma Goldman, Amy Lowell, Francis Picabia, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Arthur Waley, & William Carlos Williams.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Heap 
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Ezra Pound “helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Robert Frost, and Ernest Hemingway.”
Pound moved to Italy & embraced Mussolini's fascism, supported Hitler, & wrote for British fascist Sir O. Mosley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound#Arrest_for_treason
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“During WWII, Pound was paid by the Italian government to make hundreds of radio broadcasts criticizing the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jews, as a result of which he was arrested in 1945 by American forces in Italy on charges of treason.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound#Early_life_(1885–1908)
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“Space Relations: A Slightly Gothic Interplanetary Tale is a space opera novel by Donald Barr, the father of current US Attorney General William Barr.”

“Planet Kossar, a human colony settled by the Carlyle Society, exile for political extremists...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations
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...and now is ruled by an oligarchical council of 7 nobles. Their boredom & absolute power drove them to madness...their empire stymied by treaty due to its practice of kidnapping humans to become illegal playthings of the galaxy's super-rich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations
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Barr’s “Carlyle Society” named after Thomas Carlyle

“Carlyle considered the Anglo-Saxon race as superior to all others”; anti-Jewish; racist; elitist/eugenicist; may have influenced fascism and Nazism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle

Great man theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
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This thread depicts 1 major sex ring built 100 yrs ago. FLWright left a footprint; notably 1 at 4009 Farm Road 1061 (or Boys Ranch Road). The building is located on Boys Ranch property.

Throughout these links are various commonalities & glaring discrepancies.

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