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Thu 08 Aug 2009Obama faces threat from vested interests
The controversy over Obama’s healthcare reforms is a prelude to an even dirtier battle over climate change, writes JOHN GIBBONS
YESTERDAY, PRECISELY 75 years ago, Germans voted overwhelmingly in a plebiscite to support Adolf Hitler’s elevation to the new position of Führer, or absolute leader. The fateful date was August 19th, 1934. Not everyone was alarmed. Fortune magazine was positively gushing about the “ancient virtues” of the new wave of fascism sweeping Europe.
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