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Every year, a couple of months or so after Ramadhan, there's an Islamic holy day called Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice. Animals, usually goats and cows, have their throats slit with a ceremonial knife and their blood is sloshed all over the mosque in a cleansing ritual.
Keep this in mind as you read details of the London Bridge attack, where the perpetrators used long hunting knives to slit the throats of their victims as they invoked Allah. If you are open minded enough, you might see a connection between Eid al-Adha and the attack.
Islam began as a backward religion. It borrowed heavily from the Old and New Testaments of Judaism and Christianity.
At the time Islam was being formed, around AD500, Judaism had mostly ceased live animal sacrifices, and Christianity had replaced them with a ritualistic sacrifice called the Eucharist. In other words, the two existing monotheisms had begun a reformation process that eschewed barbaric bloody sacrifice, at least insofar as it involved actual, living creatures.
Islam, however, sought to return to an earlier incarnation of these religions, adopting many of the (even then) ancient practices outlined in the Old Testament.
In this way, there is an existing mentality within Islam that the slaughter and spilling of blood is a sacred offering to Allah, who apparently enjoys the sight of innocent blood. By extension, the more radical elements within Islam would transfer the concept of bloody sacrifice from animals to humans. After all, if Allah is pleased with animal blood, he must find human blood even more so.
In other words, to the warped minds of the terrorists, if they are killed in the process of slaughtering innocents, then they are cleansed by the blood and eligible for great rewards in heaven. It is as if their bodies are representative mosques, and the sloshing of innocent blood on their bodies is a ritual cleansing that is most pleasing to Allah. Thus, the oft-cited "72 virgins" reward for being so pure when standing at the Pearly Gates, or however it is rendered in Islam.
This built-in mentality has been weaponized by certain elements in the West. It has been fostered and promoted since at least the days of Lawrence of Arabia. This mentality has been made a tool of Western policy and used to herd the citizens of the US and Europe in whatever direction is needed at the moment.
The weaponization reached a peak under the Nazi regime, where the natural rivalry between Jews and Muslims was a ready tool for those wishing to rid Europe of Jews. The network developed by the Nazis in the Middle East was taken over by the US after WW2, and put to use in recent times as a means of steering the masses.
This goes a long way toward explaining why Western governments are loath to stop the Muslim influx, and why these bloody attacks occur even when the perpetrators are known to be radicalized and have been under surveillance for some time. This is why Muslims are allowed to run amok in European countries and have the red carpet rolled out for them.
The radicalized Muslims are tools. They are created and controlled by Western governments as a means to herd the masses into surrendering their rights. The radicals are not out of control, they are completely under control. They have been brainwashed and sold a bill of goods by evil slime hiding in the shadows of Western power centers.
This is a condemnation not only of Western elites who foster and use the radicals, but of the radicals who allow themselves to be manipulated and used in such a way.
It is time for Islam to recognize that it is being manipulated by Western elites, and to reform itself in order to free Muslims from this crass manipulation. There is no glory in slaughter of innocents, there is only hell on Earth and elsewhere.
The other religions of the world have long since reformed and ceased the senseless and barbaric practice of bloody sacrifice. Isn't it about time Islam took a long, hard look at itself?
"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny." - Frederick William Robertson
Well, it's that special time of year again, when Muslims the world over sleep all day to avoid having to actually suffer the fast.
Don't know if you're familiar with the rituals of Ramadhan, so I will regale you with the fun and excitement of being surrounded by hungry, thirsty people in really bad moods.
Oh sure, it always starts off with lots of fanfare and enthusiasm, but in about 14 days, folks will be sullen, exhausted and listless - even the folks to opt to sleep through the month to avoid too much suffering.
If you are a devout Muslim, then for the next four weeks, you are forbidden to eat, drink or even swallow your saliva from sun-up till sun-down. While the idea is to mortify the body and take command of its cravings, the actual practice is somewhat less dramatic.
Most folks around these parts get up around 3am to gorge themselves on massive breakfasts and drink gallons of water to hold them through the day. Ironically, food prices spike before and during Ramadhan as people buy much more than their usual take. This practice of early morning gorging makes one feel full and able to get through most of the day before hunger pangs set in.
By the evening call to prayer, roads empty as folks dive into the nearest food stall to grab a meal and water. Even the folks who slept all day feel the need to chow down, even though they put forth their best effort to remain unconscious during the better part of the fasting hours.
One of the most annoying practices are roving gangs of noise-makers - drums, horns, clangers, and chanting - who stroll the neighborhood at 3am to wake the devout for their early morning feast before the 4am call to prayer that marks the beginning of the fast.
Newspapers and media outlets are wall-to-wall with fasting strategies and humorous tales of people passing out - particularly children in schools - from hunger and thirst.
In years past, I have made a concerted effort to be respectful and not eat or drink in view of those who have chosen to fast, and who can get rather irate at those of us who choose not to. It apparently does not occur to them that others might have different rituals, such as Catholics who fast for 40 days before Easter, rather than 28 days for Ramadhan, and whose fasts are around the clock and not just 12 hours a day.
This year, however, I've decided I don't really care. Since I have not seen or heard any Muslims crying in outrage at the killings of innocent people in England, Indonesia, Syria, Egypt, and the Philippines in the name of Islam as a way to mark the beginning of the Holy Month, then I feel no need to respect those fasting. Perhaps my complete disregard for their discomfort will in some small way be a reminder of all the suffering Muslims have caused to families around the world this Holy Season.
I have little use for religion to begin with, but one that appears to think it is perfectly alright to kill and maim hundreds of innocent people as a means to mark its holiest time of the year is beneath contempt.
I have not heard a single Muslim decry the slaughter of teenagers at a concert in Manchester. No one has beat their breast over the Coptic Christians gunned down in cold blood. None have shown remorse, nor even discomfort, at the wholesale butchery in Syria or the Philippines. And oddly, not a whimper of protest for the Muslims blown to pieces by Muslims in Jakarta.
If it were me, and the religion I professed was slaughtering, raping and beating people around the globe in the name of something I believed in, I would immediately and loudly quit that religion and walk away in disgust, just as I did from my home country when it began slaughtering thousands of innocent people under false pretenses.
I don't have much truck with hypocrites. Those who spew love of a god and find it quite alright to kill innocents in the name of that god do not deserve, and will not receive respect from me. And when folks put on a big show of fasting in the name of their religion, but do everything they can to avoid the unpleasant aspects of fasting, the hypocrisy is the same, though thankfully fewer people die horribly from it.
I walked away from Catholicism because of the hypocrisy and pain it had caused in the world. I walked away from the US because of the gross deception and anguish it has caused for something as petty as political expediency. I will certainly not give my respect, nor empathize with a religion that condones wholesale slaughter in cold blood of women, children and young folks who are obviously not combatants in any conceivable way.
Unless and until Islam and its followers can feel shame for its grave errors and evil actions, why should anyone go out of their way to accommodate those who fast in show only?
Indonesians are hard-core realists. It's at once one of their most frustrating qualities, and one of their most endearing - at least for people who live in the real world.
Minutes after two bombs went off in a crowded area of East Jakarta last night, social media was circulating graphic photos and videos of scattered body parts: a head here, a leg there, an arm over yonder. They like to take a good hard look at death. It's something that might change a few people in the West.
It would be good for the Katy Perrys of the world to take a good hard look at what terrorists do. All the open borders and fuzzy hugs and Post-Modernist hickies will not change this reality.
It's important to keep in mind that the Jakarta bombs last night were created by Muslims to be used on Muslims during a traditional pre-Ramadhan parade - the highest of holy days in Islam. This is what terrorists do to their own, why should we expect anything less against any other target.
The fact is that these terrorists have only one goal in mind: destruction. Can events like Manchester and Jakarta have any positive effect on reasonable people? Does anyone really think that wholesale death will win converts, much less hearts and minds?
These terrorists are sub-human beasts. They have no desire or purpose other than to kill, maim and destroy. They are weaponized individuals who honestly think there is some great reward in the afterlife for this kind of behavior, and their higher-reasoning facilities - if they ever existed - have been shorted out by those have no souls.
There is no amount of love and psycho-babble that will change these people. They are beyond hope. They have no loyalties but to death and destruction. There is no humanity in them to reach with group hugs and therapy sessions. No amount of concessions will ever placate them. At best, they are mindless beasts before they set off bombs in crowds of innocent people, and at worst they are wads of hamburger to be swept up before the dogs get to the meat.
In fact, there is one possible way I can see that might dissuade a few of these despicable animals. If clean-up crews were shown on global television in graphic color and detail picking up the scrambled remains of these wastes of life and feeding them to dogs and pigs. That might even be a fitting sentence for convicted terrorists - thrown into pits of ravenous dogs and swine. Let their fellow scum watch their buddies be defiled by haram animals on global TeeVee - that just might make an impact.
The point here is that we, the normal functional part of the world, are at war. The bad side knows no boundaries or rules. It is all-out warfare. Every other human on Earth is a combatant and these slime have one goal - wipe everyone out.
No, it's not to convert anyone to Islam. They blow up Muslims as frequently as any other group. They need to be utterly destroyed because they cannot be turned off or remediated. They have no ideals and cannot be reasoned with. They are hardly more than single-minded machines aimed and released at the desired targets.
The main problem here is not how to deal with these mindless scum. Since they will kill anyone for no reason at all - they are not aimed at any one offending group, but all humanity - they are not driven by ideology. They are, in fact, weaponized humans.
And that means there is someone else pulling their strings.
Behind these empty meat jackets called terrorists is some hidden group with an agenda. It is not religion, but social engineering that is the purpose. This hidden force has created a mass of disaffected psychopaths that they can set off against any target, anywhere for any reason. Anyone who tells you this is about Islam is either ignorant, or part of the hidden group.
The point of all this terror is fear and capitulation. It is not about spreading any religion, much less Islam. If it were, do you think the Muslims would be busy blowing each other up? No, this is an agenda to create a certain kind of society that accepts fear and domination as an everyday way of life.
The point of all this death and destruction is not to force us to accept a religion, it is to force us to accept domination and slavery. It is not about any god or philosophy, it is about abject submission to authority.
The use of fear and death is to herd us into begging authority for protection, to accept the dominance of the State as mother, father and source of life. The terrorists are just machines put to use by this hidden group of cowards, who want to spring forth at just the right moment to save us from the chaos.
There is only one way to fight, and that is to defend ourselves. We must take our own safety into our own hands; take full responsibility for protecting ourselves. We must fight for those things we all thought was a job delegated to governments. The governments obviously don't care, so we must forget about them, stop supporting them, and figure out our own ways and means to survive.
Witness the US, where the day after Manchester, the TSA became even more invasive and destructive of personal rights and dignity. Their job is not to protect anyone, otherwise they would be going after the real perpetrators. Their job is to make us choose between slavery and death, and frankly death is a better choice.
We must clearly see the target, and the target is not a bunch of weaponized drones spouting religious epithets. The target is a bunch of cynical overlords using our cultures against us. It is the media, the governments and the social structures we take for granted that are closing the trap around us.
We are cows to be herded, and the terrorists are the cowboys whose job it is to drive us into the corrals. The more we turn to "authorities" to save us from these drones, the more we play into the hands of the overlords.
Terrorists aren't the problem, they are a symptom of something much larger and far more evil. The terrorists are willing tools for something they can hardly comprehend, but which they have mistaken for a god.
We cannot make the same mistake. That god will not save us, it is the heart of the problem. Our job is to reject all the hands of the Machine and start relying on ourselves once again. The only remedy for this disease is personal responsibility for our own safety and well-being. And our best weapon is our wallets.
Do you feel sorry for the Manchester Arena victims? I don't. What I feel is disgust.
Suppose your kid comes home every day crying about how the bully stole his milk money again. The first couple of times you feel pity and want to give comfort, but as some point you get disgusted. Why do you take the same route to school every day, you ask? Why don't you fight back, you ask? Why don't you get some of your buddies together and kick the bully's ass, you ask?
I'm fed up with the constant chorus of "we have to be understanding" and "we can't fight back" in the propaganda Street Meat Media. I am sick of governments, established to protect their citizens, instead do everything to mollycoddle the bullies by letting them past the borders, then handing them the keys to the city.
It's time society grew a pair and, if the government isn't going to do its job, take matters into their own hands.
It is abundantly clear that the SJW/Post-Modernist bullshit is getting people killed. The more folks give, the more the bullies take. As if the past 40 years of bullshit hasn't been enough, these social numbnuts keep rolling over and asking to be slapped again. It's a case of mass masochism, and it needs to stop.
A tiny group of sub-humans have been allowed to kill, maim, rape and plunder with complete abandon. We, the victims, have been told to just let it happen, because all the killing and maiming is due to the bullies being victims, too. Well, guess what, I don't care what kind of childhood a mass murder had, he needs to be dispatched to the Great Beyond when his personal trauma becomes a detriment to society, and a bunch of kids being shredded by a nail bomb at a concert is most certainly a detriment.
The only thing bullies understand is force. It is how they relate to the rest of the world. They use force, and the only way to stop them is to return force.
Billions of people are being held hostage by a tiny group of shitwits who wave a book around as justification for causing death and mayhem. Well, guess what skeezix, it's time to get your ass handed to you on a platter.
The longer people continue to buy into this psycho-babble pablum, the more the bastards will escalate their attacks. They are like spoiled 3-year-olds. When they get away with saying "no" once, they continue until they find where daddy's limit is.
The way I learned it, a combatant puts on a uniform and identifies himself as a warrior in battle. Civilians used to be off-limits. You didn't attack the women, children and infirmed who weren't part of the fight. You picked your fights with those committed to fighting back. That was the manly thing to do.
When you use children to secretly plant bombs in public places to purposefully and with malice aforethought cause grievous harm to non-combatants, then the gloves came off and the fight got really, REALLY nasty.
Well, folks, it's time for the fight to get really, REALLY nasty. When a bunch of Shia muslims blow up a bunch of Sunni muslims who blow up a bunch of Wahabi muslims in their own countries, that's their problem. But when these folks pose as "refugees" in foreign countries and loudly demand respect - even special treatment - so they can blow up a bunch of teenagers, it's time to get nasty.
The only way to stop the bullies is to get a whole lot nastier on them than they have been on us. They main one, we main ten. They blow up 20, we blow up 50. No, I don't mean flying our gleaming coward machines (usu. called jet fighters) over their homes and bombing their non-combatants. I mean finding the assholes doing this harm on home soil and take them into the street and beat them senseless.
It is all they understand.
A couple of years ago, a bus driver here in Jakarta accidentally hit and killed a 12-year-old girl who ran out into the street in front of the bus. A crowd of men gathered around and pulled the driver out on the street and beat him to death on the spot. That's what bullies understand.
These are not religious people. They aren't even human in any sense of the word I know. They are vile vermin who slink around in the dark and kill those who can't or won't fight back.
And if it turns out that our own governments are supporting these slime in order to promote an agenda? Well, that makes the governments complicit in the crimes and on the same level as the bullies. And they should be dealt with accordingly.
Yayaya, I know I'm about 14 hours getting today's post up, but I have a doctor's excuse.
My wife and I are in Bali for four days of peace and relaxation, which means neither. At this very moment, we are trying to contact my daughter who occasionally works in an area of Jakarta that is in chaos at the moment from a terrorist attack earlier today.
Furthermore, today we had a 5.7 earthquake in Bali, though you could flog me with a sharp stick and I swear we felt nothing. I didn't even know until just now when I checked the Quake-O-Meter on my desktop.
Furthermore, Tuesday is Nyepi, which is a high holy day among Hindu where no one can work, cook, use tools or appliances, lights, etc. That means we are flying out Monday night before the island shuts down for 24 hours.
The concern is that Muslims and Hindu has been fighting for centuries because Muslim don't like anyone who worships multiple gods, much less their god. We are planning a night of fun and frolic in Legian, which is the Occident's version of New Orleans' French Quarter. It's the site of the 2002 Bali bombings. Most people think it was an attack on tourists and foreigners. Not so. It was an attack on the fact that the Hindu section of Indonesia gets more attention and money than the Muslim section.
At any rate, we are staying at the Novotel Resort in Nusa Dua and having a fantastic time. This morning, we went to the included breakfast buffet, where I gorged myself on PORK! That's right, I ate pork sausage, bacon, rashers, pork roast, and all the friggin' pork I could find.
Tonight, we went to the local supermarket and bought four kilos of pork. We bought pork sausages, pork bacon, pork rashers, smoked ham, more ham, and a bit of ham just for good measure.
Unless you live in a predominantly Muslim country, you might not understand this obsession with PORK.
In Jakarta, it is very hard to find pork, and when you can, it is very expensive and the selection is miserable. There are three locations in Indonesia which are pork-friendly: Manado (Sulawesi), Medan (Sumatera) and Bali, because the majority of the residents are either Christian or Hindu.
Tonight's excursion into Denpasar confirmed three of my defining characteristics: I hate religion, I hate crowds and I hate shopping.
Yes, I'm a hater and I am damn friggin' proud of it (he says juiced to the gills on London Dry Gin, which can be purchased at the local grocery store at reasonable prices in Hinduland).
I hate religion because it sets large groups of people on a collision course with each other. The Hindu believe that Vishnu destroys the Universe on occasion to start over. The Muslims believe that they will conquer the Earth and bring on the 12th Imam. The Christians believe that the Anti-Christ will destroy the Earth before Christ comes again (and they are trying to help). The Jews believe they must subjugate the Earth and destroy all non-believers before their Messiah comes.
Doesn't anyone believe in a Paradise of our own making? Oh yeah, the Buddhists.
Basically, three-quarters of the people on Earth are trying to destroy it in order to prove their religion is true. Friggin' idiots.
Then there's crowds. I hate crowds. I hate that I can't trust anyone. I hate that I am forced to assume that everyone who bumps into me just stole something from me. I hate that people have all the manners and social graces of a pen full of swine. I hate that if someone panics in a crowd, the entire bunch of them will mow down anything in front of them to get away from...whatever spooked them - flashing lights, muffler backfire, pure imagination.
And then there's shopping. I friggin' despise shopping. I hate jostling with other humans to get a handful of PORK. I hate comparing prices. I hate looking at expiration dates. I hate the whole friggin' experience.
I believe that for the right price, anyone will deliver anything to wherever I am sitting at the moment - for the right price. In Indonesia, the right price is just about right. Why should I get mauled and suffer horrible bouts of paranoia and have to touch other people I don't know and don't want to know, when for a few extra bux, I can ask someone else to do it who actually likes that kind of shit.
Basically, I am a misanthrope living in one of the most densely populated cities on Earth who hates crowds, other people's beliefs and opinions, and having to worry about someone else's sensibilities.
You know what? You don't like PORK, don't buy it and don't eat it. Screw you for trying to keep me from eating it. You don't like alcohol? Screw you. I do. I'm going to have a drink and I will breathe on you if you don't like it. You don't like privilege? Go shove it in your sphincter. I work my ass off for a few extra bux to take my wife on holiday in a tropical paradise that is two hours of flying time from my house. I really don't care what color you think I am or whether you think I have some privileges that others don't.
I work for them.
Oh yeah, apparently today was Earth Day. You know what? Screw Earth Day. Screw the people who dimmed my lights for an hour in pretense of saving the Earth. Screw anyone who has a heart beat who thinks they can do anything but kill themselves to save the Earth.
If you are breathing, you are killing something to live. If you are a vegan and think you are doing something special to save live...screw you. You kill plants, I kill animals. Same friggin' difference. If you are a vegetarian, double screw you, because you are killing some animals thinking you are doing something good for the world.
In the end, I am a misanthrope because I am fed up to my gills with hypocrisy. No one can live a perfect life or save anything but themselves or believe in anything that doesn't destroy something else.
And that's what I've learned from staying in a tropical paradise for four days.
Oh, by the way, there's an incredible electrical storm tonight - no rain, just lightning. I'm enjoying it from my privileged porch in my privileged suite in my privileged resort that I worked 18 months to be able to enjoy. I don't give a flying f%%k what color you think I am (bright pink after a day on my privileged private beach), I earned this vacation and no amount of liberal whining is going to diminish my enjoyment.
By the way, four days in Bali is only costing me $300, if my wife will stop spending money on PORK.
When I lived in Texas, I was hours away from Big Bend. When I lived in Dublin, I was hours away from Sugar Loaf Mountain. When I lived in Barcelona, I was hours away from San Tropez. When I lived in Munich, I was hours away from the Schwartzwald. Now I live in Jakarta and I'm just hours away from Bali.
The point is, we are all just hours away from Paradise. All we need to do is realize it when we are there.
When I read this article in Sputnik about the Pope cautioning the media that using rumors and fear is a form of terrorism, I almost literally had to pick myself up off the floor.
Considering the man represents an organization that has used rumor and fear for centuries to terrify and control masses of people, it seems a bit disingenuous for him to wag a bony finger at the media. Here's the first paragraph:
"VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Journalism based on gossip or rumors is a form of "terrorism" and media that stereotype entire populations or foment fear of migrants are acting destructively, Pope Francis said on Thursday."
I just can't get my mind around this one. The sheer depth and vastness of the hypocrisy in those few short sentences is just astounding. The sheer scope of cognitive dissonance it must take to listen to these comments and take them seriously makes my jaw go slack.
Let's take a moment to examine these comments.
Fear. The Roman Church knows nothing of using fear to control and terrorize masses of people. Certainly, the constant use of eternal roasting and torture in Hell doesn't count as terrorism. Neither does the use of Hell as a weapon to subjugate humans and force them to believe that your organization offers the only possible way out of Hell count as terrorism.
Most certainly the Holy Inquisition could not be considered by any rational human to be terrorism. In fact, the Inquisition not only terrorized people with torture and horrific deaths, but most of it was based on rumors. Shall we ask Giordano Bruno about the use of rumors by the Roman Church?
As for stereotyping, well...sheesh. Where do we begin?
Maybe for this point we should check with the Jews, or Africans, or the aboriginal peoples of the Americas and the South Pacific? In fact, the stereotyping and demonizing of vast numbers of people in order to justify mass slaughter, colonization and all manner of prejudices is a forte of the Roman Church.
I have little truck with the Roman Church (or any religion) as it is, but when I see blatant and utter hypocrisy, such as displayed in the Pope's recent comments, I get just a little riled up over it.
How many men, women and, dare we say it, children have been terrorized by the Church over the millennia? How many rumors were seized upon by the Inquisition as justification for brutal torture and death? How many races and peoples have been conquered and shunned by the Church in its quest to dominate the Earth?
And how many children even now go to sleep every night, haunted and terrorized by that wonderful little Roman bedtime prayer:
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should DIE before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Anyone in doubt that the US is finally and completely lost (even AFTER the TSA sex abuse) needs to watch the following video. The USDA OWNS the word 'organic?'
I am thoroughly disgusted. And lest anyone think they're safe anywhere else, these same rules are coming to a country near you.
The one saving grace about Indonesia is that the government is so corrupt that the people feel no obligation to follow any of the laws. But, that can't last forever. If Soeharto can come once, he can come again.
The thing is, I'm not so much disgusted with government. It is only doing what it has always done throughout all of history: get as far up in your life as you will let it. What disgusts me is that people are allowing it. And really not just allowing it, welcoming it, encouraging it, feeding it. They have gotten so snowed and brainwashed and drugged that they actually think there's a boogyman out there somewhere trying to kill them and the only thing that will save them is to let uneducated goons grope their genitals, force them to fill out forms to grow food and sell the extra, and track and trace their every move.
Got news for you, folks. The only boogyman is the government itself. It is creating an environment of fear and trepidation, to the extent of instigating acts of terror, in order to convince you that being a complete and mindless slave is the only way out.
AAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!
I actually heard an interview the other day in which a man who had been travelling in Asia recently bemoaned the significantly lower levels of pre-flight screening, compared to dear old Amerika. I wanted to reach through the speakers on my laptop and slap the idiot!
Are people really so controlled, so stupid, so...OWNED? The reason security is so much less intrusive here is that Asian men would beat anyone to a pulp that got all up in his wife's and daughter's stuff, for ANY reason!
If you took my advice and picked up a copy of Black's Legal Dictionary (pre-1950), you already know that the original and true definition of terrorism is 'state-sponsored acts of violence.' STATE-SPONSORED. Individuals, even organizations, can not be terrorists. They are insurgents, revolutionaries, malcontents, but not terrorists. States, i.e. governments, are terrorists. Does anyone doubt that Nazis were terrorists? Not in their right minds, they don't.
And speaking of Nazis, almost everything wrong with the world at the present time can be blamed directly on Nazis, with the sponsorship of the Vatican. Don't believe me? Try this experiment:
Place a small pile of cake flour on the table. Not too much. Don't want to spend the rest of the night cleaning up. Now, smack the palm of your hand down square on top of it, then lift your hand up.
The flour represents Nazis. Your hand stands in for the Allied Powers. What happened? Some of the flour stuck to your hand (Nurmberg Tribunals), some stayed in the original pile (Germany, Israel, Brussels), and the rest scattered out all over the table, some in clumps and some in a fine dusting across the table (Operation Paperclip and its equivalents).
Remember, the Nazis weren't a 'political' party, per se. They were a quasi-religious bunch of true believers in a school of thought that involved theology, genetics, mysticism, political science, in fact just about every aspect of life as we know it. That kind of mind-set just doesn't give up because Eisenhauer and Montgomery come tramping through.
On top of that, they had the lion's share of wealth scammed from all of Europe. Billions of dollars (1943 dollars) in gold, art, currency, you name it. With that kind of dough, you think they would all get whacked at the end of the war? Hell no. They scattered all over the place, and brought their loot with them.
The US took a bunch of them. Russia took a healthy share. South America was crawling with them. The Vatican helped scores of them escape, offering documents and safe-houses across the globe. Wherever they landed, their contagion spread, aided and abetted by their hosts. On top of that, the Nazis grew directly out of the eugenics and racial purity movements in turn-of-the-century America.
That's right, the US gave birth to the conceptual kernels that gave birth to the Nazis. Why do you think the 9/11 attack was a replay of the Reichstag fire? Or that the USAPatiot Act was a virtual verbatim translation of the Enabling Act? Or that the US and Russian space programs were a direct continuation of the Nazi V-2 program? Hell, the whole space race was nothing more than a ball-swinging exercise to see which side got the better Nazis.
Brown shirts, blue shirts, what's the difference? Fatherland, homeland, same thing. American fascism is just Nazism writ large across the globe. Only difference is that they've had 60 years to perfect the propaganda and brainwashing and death rays.
The fact is, the Nazis have taken over everything. They were scattered across the world, where they infiltrated into government, commerce and medicine. Slowly but surely, they spread their philosophy until now we can't tell the difference between the Sturn Abteilung and the TSA. Wars of conquest abroad, herding the folks back home. Fascism is the same, any time and any where.
As Joseph Farrell points out in "Babylon's Banksters," the Anglo-American bankster class sold its soul (what misery scrap of it there was to sell) for a piece of the Nazi loot, which funded most of the 20th century and America's imperialism. Now, the Nazis are calling in the chits, which we call 'bail-outs' and 'quantitative easing.'
And they've had 60 years to perfect it all.
BTW, go back on look that the logos for the Sturm Abteilung and the TSA. Don't look at the pictures, look at the design elements...the shapes and overall layout. Look the same? I thought so...
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In other news, something else that just PISSES me off!
These Nazi bastards simply plug-and-play with our lives. First, the Earth was cooling (70s), but then things got warmer. Then, the ozone was disappearing (80s), but the Anarctic hole was shown to be a natural phenomenon. Then it was global warming (90s), but the Earth started cooling. They are desperate to make us pay for carbon, WHICH IS THE FOUNDATION OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH! They want to tax us for breathing! That's all this bullshit scam is!
Of the four basic elements, earth, wind, fire, and water, they've already got taxes on land and water. They've damn near got a grip on air. And they're trying to control fire by saying the carbon released is killing the Earth.
THE EARTH AND ALL LIFE ON IT IS FOUNDED ON CARBON, YOU DOLTS!
Next thing you know, they'll tell us the di-hydrogen monoxide is a killer chemical and we have to eradicate it!
I'm positively sick to death of all this CRAP! It's all LIES, BULLSHIT and complete NON-SENSE!
Hell, Mars has orders of magnitude more CO2 in its atmosphere, but I don't see anyone saying the planet is balmy! At best, you'll get a chilly shirt-sleeve temp at high-noon in the dead of summer at the bottom of a deep crater.
Anyone who believes this tripe is sadly misinformed, completely brainwashed or a Nazi bastard. No other options available, sorry.
I'm going to go into a coma, somebody call me when people wake up and get a good, deep whiff of Kopi Luwak.
Remember the tsunami that flattened the Mentawai islands in west Indonesia? Ya, neither does anyone else. They are far away, don't pose and on-going problem and didn't bring in a lot of tourist and aid money.
But, Merapi? Wow! We can milk this baby for a while. Great drama. Fantastic video. Big aid bux. And right next to a heavy tourist draw, Jogjakarta.
Is it just me who's this cynical, or does anyone else see the bullshit game going on at the upper levels? I mean, look at the third link above. The US is concerned about Indonesian tourism because there are so many terror training camps and ongoing attacks here?
Oh sure, there was Bali a few years ago, and the JW Mariot last July, but there was Oklahoma City and 911 in the good ol' United Slaves of America. As a result, I'm still free in Indonesia and Americans are incarcerated.
The real terror training camps are in North America, where agents of the evil TSA, FBI, CIA, and other alphabet agencies are recruited and trained to terrorize American citizens.
You see, here's how it works. From inside Gulag America, it seems normal enough. Just don't notice all the cameras pointed at you and agents groping you. But from out here, you can see the bars and the guard towers. The media must continually hype threats in order to keep the inmates from questioning the prison.
Even Obama bringing 34 war ships, 6 aircraft and hundreds of troglodytes is all part of the illusion. The sham that the world is so dangerous that the prez can't go out without a huge retinue just fosters the whole "keep us safe, Onkel" mentality. Whose Onkel? Ah, go read up on the Khmer Rouge after the fall of Saigon. Then just add the name Sam to it.
"Oh sure, they fondled my wife, felt up my daughter and squeezed my gonads, but I feel so safe," old Joe Sixpack says.
The question is, how much dignity, privacy and real safety will people sacrifice before Fulsom prison erupts in riots?
They don't want Americans coming to Indonesia, because they will find out that even in the face of occasional terror threats, people can still be free and can take person responsibility for where they go and what they do.
Because, no matter what the cause, no one is ever safe. You can have those vile creatures in yellow shirts play with your genitals and the engine could fall off the plane, the volcano could erupt, a major earthquake could strike, or a tsunami could interrupt your dinner plans. Compared to those things, terrorism is a minor hassle, but all the fondling and luggage searching and nail-file confiscating won't stop a single one of them. You can get hit by a bus, sandwiched in a car accident or cut off your finger making a grilled cheese for lunch, and all the friggin' cameras won't stop it from happening. On a daily basis, those are far more likely to happen than for you to become a victim of state-sponsored terror.
In fact, in order to be a victim of state-sponsored terror, all you have to do is go to any American airport. Simple.
If I were the rest of the world, I would be issuing travel warnings for America. "Beware, tourist WILL lose their freedom, WILL be surveilled, WILL have their wives and children irradiated and groped by scum."
A lot of people ask me when I plan on going home. Frankly, my home is gone. The America I grew up in died somewhere around Nixon and was buried by Reagan. The America I knew is dead and gone. The America where women and children could be out at night and front doors didn't have to be locked and on weekends I could go plinking with my rifle are just distant memories.
People have forgotten the meaning of the symbols at the top of flagpoles. One of them is a round ball, signifying a cannon ball, and meaning a military induction center. Now, go look at the flagpoles in from of every school and post office in America. Cool, huh? (FYI, the eagle means sovereign authority and the spearhead means subordinate authority-see state and federal flags at your local courtroom).
How is it a blind man can see more than so many folks with their eyes wide shut?
I feel safer here, hell even in the deepest jungles of Borneo or Sumatra, than I do walking in the average American neighborhood. Here, in the middle of one of the largest cities in the world, a young woman can walk alone, children play outside even after sundown, and neighbors watch out for each other. If someone in my neighborhood here in Jakarta acted like the average TSA scum at the airport, there'd be a lynch mob at his door, and I'd be among them.
So, next time you have to go to the airport, opt out of the nude scanners and then threaten to file assault charges on anyone who touches you. They can wave their little wands around, if it makes them feel more powerful, but so much as brush the dust off my shoulder and we got a fight, buddy.
Unless, of course, you like being in prison and the possession of some bankster. Up to you. But they will go as far as you let them. It's all choice, you see.
In that fantastic film, The Shawshank Redemption, the character Brooks couldn't hack freedom. It scared him to be outside the box. Ultimately, he killed himself rather than face true freedom. As the other characters remarked, he had become institutionalized.
