This was linked to from glennsacks.com today:
S.A.C. Capital Advisors LCC: Major hedge-fund company S.A.C. Capital Advisors, founded in the early 1990s, is a "$14 billion dollar group of multi-strategy, multi-discipline" company. Yet in 2007, a scandal erupted that "stunned" Wall Street. Former S.A.C. Capital Advisors employee Andrew Tong filed suit against his supervisor Ping Jiang, whom is said to have forced Tong into taking female hormones and wearing female clothing in order "to eliminate the trader’s aggressive male attitude so he could become a more obedient and detail-oriented player" at work, The New York Times reports. According to CNBC, S.A.C. Capital Advisors and Ping Jiang "vehemently deny the charges" and have reached no settlement with Tong.
I don't really have anything to add to that. There's not much more I can say.
So let's move on. Or rather back, to Christmas of 1914. The fighting men showing their humanity to their fellow man through the medium of football, a nice little kickabout in no-man's land. Germany winning through and offside-goal, I hear, although in reality there were considerably more than one game. It's not the most impressive of shows of working-class solidarity, but it's the most human. No Americans invited of course, being both before their involvement and in the form of a sport their organised working class was never strong enough to adopt.
A little known fact is that the first international cricket match was between the USA and Canada.
Class, as I say, is a nation, more likely to make people similar than the country in whcih they were born, especially with the ruling class. Nation is just an illusion created by the prestidigitators of the masses. Bloody Mary gave Calais back to the French and married a Spaniard because she was a ruler first and English second if at all.
Stockholm syndrome is a good example. The origins of the name are in a Swedish bank vault where some bank robbers and their hostages took refuge after the police arrived before they had a chance to escape. I imagine the hostages weren't best pleased to start with, having been made hostages, but eventually they got over their annoyance. They became very friendly with their captors, offering to act as human shields and engaging in sexual relations with their captors. Of course the forces of law and order like to portray this as sinister mind control, which they'd know all about, but it's something far more dangerous to them: empathy. Stockholm Syndrome has never been reported between people who speak different languages and come from different cultures, such as westerners in Lebanon, but it's the normal experience between similar people. It should be expected. Only the artificial seperations imposed on us make it surprising.
This fellowship is obviously stronger between men.
ray's blog:
Headless and heedless, she gallops across the globe, shrieking for -- and getting -- the manblood that, for reasons still unexplained, sustains and comforts and delights her.
And from Njal's Saga, in some bizarre olde time translation I found on the web:
"Not so," says she, "thou shalt live all the same, and be called a better man, if thou betrayest not him to whom thou oughtest to behave best."
Then she took a linen hood out of her bag, it was clotted with blood all over, and torn and tattered, and said, "This hood, Hauskuld Njal's son, and thy sister's son, had on his head when they slew him; methinks, then, it is ill doing to stand by those from whom this mischief sprang."
"Well!" answers Ingialld, "so it shall be that I will not be against Njal whatever follows after, but still I know that they will turn and throw trouble on me."
"Now mightest thou," said Rodny, "yield Njal and his sons great help, if thou tellest him all these plans."
"That I will not do," says Ingialld, "for then I am every man's dastard if I tell what was trusted to me in good faith; but it is a manly deed to sunder myself from this quarrel when I know that there is a sure looking for of vengeance but tell Njal and his sons to be ware of themselves all this summer, for that will be good counsel, and to keep many men about them."
.. I am inclined to regard the enormous importance of the sissy concept in American life as due to that feminine dominance which is everywhere apparent ...
-- Eric Dingwall, "the American Woman"
Fascism is a female dominance cult, a hysterical movement of the weak-minded into militarism and the ill-focused effeminate vengefulness they're so famous for.
"In like manner, the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities, probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will be brought into play.... All the boys and girls will learn from an early age to be what is called 'co-operative,' i.e., to do exactly what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without being punished, will be scientifically trained out of them."
-- Bertrand Russell
It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.
.....
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called 'education.' Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part.... It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.
-- Russell
More eventually. Next year, most like.
Monday, 31 December 2007
Saturday, 29 December 2007
A Rigorous Look at Feminism
not too Rigorous when it comes to their pet biases, are they?
-- ray retardsman
It's an interesting board, rigorousintuition. I'll give them credit for not banning me yet, this is quite a bit longer than I lasted at the supposedly liberal Straight Dope Message Board. Still, I imagine I'll be out before too long, as Nemo and Doodad have been banned and Jeff is evidently on a bit of a roll of bannings. He requested that a thread be started about the CIA involvement in feminist, but I don't expect that to change things. Perhaps I'm just paranoid. Of course, it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you and the PC police are the leading enemies of free speech to this day. Just today the papers reported the banning of sexist jokes in prison. Of course, just because it's in the papers doesn't make it true. See Winterval.
"Our hypothesis is that worthy victims will be featured prominently and dramatically, that they will be humanized, and that their victimization will receive the detail and context in story construction that will generate reader interest and sympathetic emotions. In contrast, unworthy victims will merit only slight detail, minimal humanization, and little context that will excite and enrage."
—E. S. Herman and N. Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent:1
That, of course, was the reason for the founding of soc.men, because the anti-feminists were ejected from the newly moderated soc.women.
Now, feminism isn't just evil because it's backed by the CIA/Nazi/Thule/Condor network and the generational pederasts of the Seneca Falls Convention, but because of it's acts for which the members of the movement must take responsibility. They lend their support to the movement, they are the source of its legitimacy, they can't wash their hands of it. It's rank and file feminist who is disturbing. Sally Miller Gearhart writing her gendercidal book isn't that bad, that so many women bought it is.
In truth there are no heroes and no villains, we humans can only make an impact as movements and organisations. There are evil movement, if not villains, my feminist friends, so you can't pass the buck and deny reponsibility.
This is the reality, not just a conspiracy, but feminists allowing evil to be done in their names while denying responsibility.
Women prefer to use their "woman's way of knowing" about feminist and therefore divine that it only works for good, those of us with a firmer base in proper epistemology know better. That's what feminism's about, though, it's an internal movement with external effects. This was spotted by the author of "A Twist of Faith" and by the feminist Alice the Kurious on rigint, feminism is an internal movement to transform women and indeed humans generally. It's the left-hand path of self-worship and internal godhood.
The external phenomoenon, injustices and lies, are just the manifestations of this transformation and the means by which this transformation is brought about. Sheer Hite, say, with her claim that one in four college women is raped. It doesn't take much to disprove it, the knowledge that most of these "victims" didn't accept that they had been raped, the knowledge that she defined sex under the influence as neccesarily rape, and so forth. But there's no questioning and, as Goebbels knew, a lie repeated becomes an accepted truth.
It reminds me of the time Jon Ronson went to meet the official KKK, who had gone all PC and rebranded themselves. They'd banned the word "nigger", banned hatred of other races and adopted the theme of working for the white race so-called rather than against the other races. Most of the membership had gone off ot splinter groups who still hate niggers. The same claims are made by feminists, to only be pro-woman not anti-man but in a society dominated by women's interests this idea in untenable for to be pro-woman to the exclusion of others in this situation is TO BE anti-man. It's illogical, like the pathetic claims of the rump KKK, but it gets no rival claims from the Big Lie media.
For example, feminists still campaign for AA and so-called positive discrimination in education, despite existing disparities in favour of women. The assumption is always of a disadvantage for women, the reality usually the opposite.
Here's a list of discriminations against men. Here's another.
-- ray retardsman
It's an interesting board, rigorousintuition. I'll give them credit for not banning me yet, this is quite a bit longer than I lasted at the supposedly liberal Straight Dope Message Board. Still, I imagine I'll be out before too long, as Nemo and Doodad have been banned and Jeff is evidently on a bit of a roll of bannings. He requested that a thread be started about the CIA involvement in feminist, but I don't expect that to change things. Perhaps I'm just paranoid. Of course, it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you and the PC police are the leading enemies of free speech to this day. Just today the papers reported the banning of sexist jokes in prison. Of course, just because it's in the papers doesn't make it true. See Winterval.
"Our hypothesis is that worthy victims will be featured prominently and dramatically, that they will be humanized, and that their victimization will receive the detail and context in story construction that will generate reader interest and sympathetic emotions. In contrast, unworthy victims will merit only slight detail, minimal humanization, and little context that will excite and enrage."
—E. S. Herman and N. Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent:1
That, of course, was the reason for the founding of soc.men, because the anti-feminists were ejected from the newly moderated soc.women.
Now, feminism isn't just evil because it's backed by the CIA/Nazi/Thule/Condor network and the generational pederasts of the Seneca Falls Convention, but because of it's acts for which the members of the movement must take responsibility. They lend their support to the movement, they are the source of its legitimacy, they can't wash their hands of it. It's rank and file feminist who is disturbing. Sally Miller Gearhart writing her gendercidal book isn't that bad, that so many women bought it is.
In truth there are no heroes and no villains, we humans can only make an impact as movements and organisations. There are evil movement, if not villains, my feminist friends, so you can't pass the buck and deny reponsibility.
This is the reality, not just a conspiracy, but feminists allowing evil to be done in their names while denying responsibility.
Women prefer to use their "woman's way of knowing" about feminist and therefore divine that it only works for good, those of us with a firmer base in proper epistemology know better. That's what feminism's about, though, it's an internal movement with external effects. This was spotted by the author of "A Twist of Faith" and by the feminist Alice the Kurious on rigint, feminism is an internal movement to transform women and indeed humans generally. It's the left-hand path of self-worship and internal godhood.
The external phenomoenon, injustices and lies, are just the manifestations of this transformation and the means by which this transformation is brought about. Sheer Hite, say, with her claim that one in four college women is raped. It doesn't take much to disprove it, the knowledge that most of these "victims" didn't accept that they had been raped, the knowledge that she defined sex under the influence as neccesarily rape, and so forth. But there's no questioning and, as Goebbels knew, a lie repeated becomes an accepted truth.
It reminds me of the time Jon Ronson went to meet the official KKK, who had gone all PC and rebranded themselves. They'd banned the word "nigger", banned hatred of other races and adopted the theme of working for the white race so-called rather than against the other races. Most of the membership had gone off ot splinter groups who still hate niggers. The same claims are made by feminists, to only be pro-woman not anti-man but in a society dominated by women's interests this idea in untenable for to be pro-woman to the exclusion of others in this situation is TO BE anti-man. It's illogical, like the pathetic claims of the rump KKK, but it gets no rival claims from the Big Lie media.
For example, feminists still campaign for AA and so-called positive discrimination in education, despite existing disparities in favour of women. The assumption is always of a disadvantage for women, the reality usually the opposite.
Here's a list of discriminations against men. Here's another.
Feminism, in fact, is the leading enemy of both equality and democracy in the present day. Take women in parliament, for example. When the policy is to appoint women to safe seats they complain that they aren't trusted in competitions. When given other seats they're being set up for failure. When the Labour party introduced women's only shortlists they were challenged in European courts and defeated. The won the election adn changed the law to allow them. They're generally used to appoint leadership-friendly females who'll follow the party line instead of favoured local candidates. Democracy has occasionally bit back, as at Blaenau Gwent in 2005 when Peter Law ran as and Independant and overturned one of the biggest Labour majorities in the country. Generally, though, we who favour democracy haven't done well. The Tories are no better, they only disagree on method.
Child Support is a war on the poor, as Glenn Sacks has shown and the special pleading of the crime exceptum called rape and the laws that prosecute it is one of the great injustices of our time. Not only do rape shield laws deny the right to face an accuser while not protecting the accused but accusers are paid compensation just for making an allegation, paid by the government. Nifong was sensible, though not just, to prosecute. Could have been a vote winner. Next time choose white woman, black man, might get away with it then. People don't remember it now that Civil Rights is dead at the feet of feminism, it's life force drained away, but it was the accusations of rape by white women that led to the majority of lynchings in the American South.
Rebels have suffered. The likes of Farrell and Hoff-Summers ahve just been ignored, Pizzey need police protection when she visits her own country because she out their terrorist antics and Steinmetz was shot at by people who didn't like the results of her scientific studies.
DV shelters have also been know the be embezzled, according to the EJF book, a known source of CIA funds.
I've talked before about the presence of foreskins in anti-wrinkle creams and the trade in torture and severed body-parts circumcision generates in the US. No less serious, it is, than the ritual sacrifice of Ukrainian new-borns for the harvesting of their stem cells for use in Caribean cosmetic quackery.
As a socialist the history of feminism makes me sad. Like the Gaitskillite CIA takeover of the Labour party the left was destroyed from within by the enemies of the working class, not new enemies but the same ones as ever. The Dulles brothers were just as evil when working for the CIA as when for the Nazis as when for the United Fruit Company. And the nazis were as evil running coke for the CIA as when they were killing Jews for Hitler. And the Thule society never ended, despite the prohibition on occult organisations under the Nazis Barbie and the Condor network (a post-war Condor Legion) were still following the old ways...
I say this: women are not little angels but are humans and a frail and faulty like the rest. It only takes a small act of will, the popping on of Roddy Piper's shades, and you know the truth.
Saturday, 22 December 2007
A quick going over
I've been spending my time arguing against feminism at RI, but here's a bit of a quickie.
Mixed Sex hospital wards aren't going to be abolished, after all, it would seem. Can't say I really care, just brought to mind something from Private Eye a bit back, The Mail used a photo to illustrate a piece about the scandal of mixed sex wards continuing. The same photo, it turns out that they used decades ago to celebrate the introduction of mixed sex wards.
Orwell's attitude to women has always fascinated me, he was obviously torn. Hitler's refence ot women in trousers in Mein Kampf, also.
I still don't believe blacktown.net to be a CIA front.
Sally Murrer, of the Milton Keynes citizen has been a victim of police brutality and intimidation, not to mention wrongful prosecution, from doing a journalist's job and collecting information from sources, which she didn't pay for. The police were embarrassed by some of this information, such as the fact that they lost a ccmplete set of keys to the cop shop. So they arrested her, did a body cavity search and insisted on taking her to court, where she'll be in the coming year. If she loses it will become a crime to receive information from any public official.
Mixed Sex hospital wards aren't going to be abolished, after all, it would seem. Can't say I really care, just brought to mind something from Private Eye a bit back, The Mail used a photo to illustrate a piece about the scandal of mixed sex wards continuing. The same photo, it turns out that they used decades ago to celebrate the introduction of mixed sex wards.
Orwell's attitude to women has always fascinated me, he was obviously torn. Hitler's refence ot women in trousers in Mein Kampf, also.
I still don't believe blacktown.net to be a CIA front.
Sally Murrer, of the Milton Keynes citizen has been a victim of police brutality and intimidation, not to mention wrongful prosecution, from doing a journalist's job and collecting information from sources, which she didn't pay for. The police were embarrassed by some of this information, such as the fact that they lost a ccmplete set of keys to the cop shop. So they arrested her, did a body cavity search and insisted on taking her to court, where she'll be in the coming year. If she loses it will become a crime to receive information from any public official.
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Class is a nation
It's the ruling class that wage the class war, although they're always happy to shift the blame to those who don't succumb quietly enough.
I'm not a big fan of the European Union, I agree with Tony Benn that it's a force opposing democracy, too big to be accountable and too comfortably in bed with the corporate elites.
It's given me another reason to oppose it, the treaty of Prum. This is a law related treaty, policing and so on, very much part of the global war on terror. It allows snatch squads of armed thugs from one European country to storm over the border and nab someone from neighbouring territory then drag them off to foreign legal processes. I don't want to be dragged off to a Dtuch court, which don't have juries, or to who knows what barbarities in some Bulgarian hell hole. It's bad enough when they ignore the law and kidnap people off the streets, changing the law to legitimise their activities is worse. Should keep the Americans happy, we can send for people from abroad and the Americans can use our extradition treaty to take them off to who knows where. Watch out Roman Polanski.
It all reminds me of Operation Condor, the international gang of terrorists and death squads that operated, and presumably still operates, throughout Latin America as a link between various gangs of Tyrants, unreconstructed Nazis and Gloria Steinem. They would send hitmen from one country to its neighbours to do their dirty work for them, so the "nationalists" running Uruguay could recruit the Chilean government to deal with their dissidents and the Chileans could get the FBI to deal with Orlando Letelier. And they could put Steinem's fuckbuddy on the job.
So much for nationalism and soveriegnty. Elites will always favour fellow elites over fellowcountrymen. It's nothing new, of course, it's the same old Gladio system in operation, trans-European terrorist gangs with their lists of people who need offing in the event of some ill-defined emergency.
I'm normally fond of the BBC, despite Panorama's recent fall from grace, but it has to be outed here. They, through the World Service, initiated the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran and a coup in Italy. They're also know to have doctored footage of Orgreave and the Christmas Tree files show that they hire on the basis of ideological conformity. Also that they're not just ignorant, but wilful disinformation artists.
More next time.
powell contiunity of power
I'm not a big fan of the European Union, I agree with Tony Benn that it's a force opposing democracy, too big to be accountable and too comfortably in bed with the corporate elites.
It's given me another reason to oppose it, the treaty of Prum. This is a law related treaty, policing and so on, very much part of the global war on terror. It allows snatch squads of armed thugs from one European country to storm over the border and nab someone from neighbouring territory then drag them off to foreign legal processes. I don't want to be dragged off to a Dtuch court, which don't have juries, or to who knows what barbarities in some Bulgarian hell hole. It's bad enough when they ignore the law and kidnap people off the streets, changing the law to legitimise their activities is worse. Should keep the Americans happy, we can send for people from abroad and the Americans can use our extradition treaty to take them off to who knows where. Watch out Roman Polanski.
It all reminds me of Operation Condor, the international gang of terrorists and death squads that operated, and presumably still operates, throughout Latin America as a link between various gangs of Tyrants, unreconstructed Nazis and Gloria Steinem. They would send hitmen from one country to its neighbours to do their dirty work for them, so the "nationalists" running Uruguay could recruit the Chilean government to deal with their dissidents and the Chileans could get the FBI to deal with Orlando Letelier. And they could put Steinem's fuckbuddy on the job.
So much for nationalism and soveriegnty. Elites will always favour fellow elites over fellowcountrymen. It's nothing new, of course, it's the same old Gladio system in operation, trans-European terrorist gangs with their lists of people who need offing in the event of some ill-defined emergency.
I'm normally fond of the BBC, despite Panorama's recent fall from grace, but it has to be outed here. They, through the World Service, initiated the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran and a coup in Italy. They're also know to have doctored footage of Orgreave and the Christmas Tree files show that they hire on the basis of ideological conformity. Also that they're not just ignorant, but wilful disinformation artists.
More next time.
powell contiunity of power
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Briefly
Unpleasant image, it is. That triumphalist look isn't one I like at all, at all.
“You've never heard complaints about paying child support until it's a woman who has to pay it.”—Family Law Attorney Lisa Scott
A useful quote, but I'll have more next time.
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Incestuous
I don't feel right posting this now, having just been attacking incest over at RI (where my least-favourie post theeKultleaser is defending it), but here it is, from football365.com:
Mediawatch's Celebrity Update
Jermain Defoe is now dating Teddy Sheringham's ex Danielle Lloyd. The Tottenham striker has dumped fiancée Charlotte Mears, a reported 'pal' of serial footballer sha**er Ms Lloyd, and thrown her out of their house. Meanwhile, Marcus Bent, another footballing ex of Ms Lloyd, is now with Gemma Atkinson having dumped the mother of his child to get together with Cristiano Ronaldo's ex last month.
It's an incestuous business this footballing lark...
Sounds like a good idea to me, sending out our strumpets to gather the genome of exotic football talents from around the world. Breeding the ideal super-footballer. And to think, they said Brian Barwick didn't know what he was doing...
Something odd going on in my area. It's not exactly Yoko Ono's peace tower, but perhaps reminiscent of the thousand points of light I seem to recale being associated with a certain speech of the Elder Bush and a castle in darkest Belgium. Which is what links it to incest, the nominal theme of this post.
Then I came across original rocketman, who tried to breed the anti-Christ.
But we're all friends here. This take me back to tKl, supporting incest and referencing padeophilia websites, all innocent, like. Bush and the Nazis. Steinem, Pottinger and Pinochet. Nice tidy little networks.
There was a film on the other night, to veer totally away from the incest theme (although I once saw a film called "The Importance of Being Earnest", the happy ending being that they all ended up fucking their cousins, which is aristos for you). It was called a Knight's Tale and had a female blacksmith in it. Not a bit of feminist revisionism, there were female blacksmiths in history. Supposedly the Romans went to try to get nails made for the crucifixion but could only get the blacksmith's wife to make them. Of course, feminists have revised that in light of the necessity of the crucifixion.
More tomorrow, I think.
Mediawatch's Celebrity Update
Jermain Defoe is now dating Teddy Sheringham's ex Danielle Lloyd. The Tottenham striker has dumped fiancée Charlotte Mears, a reported 'pal' of serial footballer sha**er Ms Lloyd, and thrown her out of their house. Meanwhile, Marcus Bent, another footballing ex of Ms Lloyd, is now with Gemma Atkinson having dumped the mother of his child to get together with Cristiano Ronaldo's ex last month.
It's an incestuous business this footballing lark...
Sounds like a good idea to me, sending out our strumpets to gather the genome of exotic football talents from around the world. Breeding the ideal super-footballer. And to think, they said Brian Barwick didn't know what he was doing...
Something odd going on in my area. It's not exactly Yoko Ono's peace tower, but perhaps reminiscent of the thousand points of light I seem to recale being associated with a certain speech of the Elder Bush and a castle in darkest Belgium. Which is what links it to incest, the nominal theme of this post.
Then I came across original rocketman, who tried to breed the anti-Christ.
But we're all friends here. This take me back to tKl, supporting incest and referencing padeophilia websites, all innocent, like. Bush and the Nazis. Steinem, Pottinger and Pinochet. Nice tidy little networks.
There was a film on the other night, to veer totally away from the incest theme (although I once saw a film called "The Importance of Being Earnest", the happy ending being that they all ended up fucking their cousins, which is aristos for you). It was called a Knight's Tale and had a female blacksmith in it. Not a bit of feminist revisionism, there were female blacksmiths in history. Supposedly the Romans went to try to get nails made for the crucifixion but could only get the blacksmith's wife to make them. Of course, feminists have revised that in light of the necessity of the crucifixion.
More tomorrow, I think.
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Exercising Reality
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
-- T E Lawrence, a local lad.
"I'm not answering anymore questions without my solicitor", not a difficult thing to say. I wonder why Peter Power (good name) didn't say it. Maybe he didn't know how important what he was saying was, but he had been a big chief at the Met anti-terrorism branch, so that wouldn't say much for his competence in his former line of work, would it.?
I remember thinking, when I listened to him on the Beeb at the time, why on earth is he admitting all this? Such a high-ranking and well informed man can have had only one intention, to pass the information to the public, possibly as a kind of covert whiste-blowing but more likely as a tactic of subconscious intimidation. Rubbing it in our faces. Ha ha, we're evil, we got away with it, sort of thing.
-- T E Lawrence, a local lad.
"I'm not answering anymore questions without my solicitor", not a difficult thing to say. I wonder why Peter Power (good name) didn't say it. Maybe he didn't know how important what he was saying was, but he had been a big chief at the Met anti-terrorism branch, so that wouldn't say much for his competence in his former line of work, would it.?
I remember thinking, when I listened to him on the Beeb at the time, why on earth is he admitting all this? Such a high-ranking and well informed man can have had only one intention, to pass the information to the public, possibly as a kind of covert whiste-blowing but more likely as a tactic of subconscious intimidation. Rubbing it in our faces. Ha ha, we're evil, we got away with it, sort of thing.
Friday, 14 December 2007
God save Amaracu
Well, we can hope. Won't happen, though.
But on Amaracu anyway. I've been thinking about the Kennewick Man, although I don't know much about it. From what I gather the basic story is that a skull came to light, very probably not of redskin origin, and the reds decided they wanted to destroy it for "religious" reasons. I can understand it. They must be paranoid, after all that mistreatment at the hands of the slightly-less-native Americans, so they want to destroy any evidence that they are only the Second Peoples. Personally, I don't see why it's important. They were there before the current majority, if we're to take precedence as virtue. I don't even agree that being somewhere first gives you any great right to a place. Then again, I don't want the Welsh making a comeback.
There's somewhere else this comes out: South Africa. The current black majority of Bantus is far from being the original population of that land. They weren't even there ahead of the white folks. When the first Portugoose rounded the cape that region was only occupied by Khoisan hunter-gatherers. Only after they adopted some European crops could the Bantus sweep in and dispossess, enslave and massacre the little savages that made up the native population, a small band of men who hunt not with their primitive spears but by running after their prey until the prey dies of exhaustion. Or they do. No match for negroids, though.
Don't say I told you, though. They don't want it getting out. They think racists will use it against them. Maybe they're right, but we can't be denying the truth just to quiet racists. The former peoples of lands will just have to accept the new order. Mind you, we should probably stop these wholesale repopulations. The Welsh, Basques, Lapps, Tuaregs, Copts and Khoisan are stuffed, but it's not too late for the Uighers.
But there are people out there destroying evidence for less laudable reasons. Or, I suppose, the same reason. A will not to believe. It cannot exist, so I will make it not exist. The Smithsonian, for example, who supposedly run regular cruises into the ocean to dump artefacts they don't like the implication of into the murky blue depths. As with the paranormal. They claim the moral high ground, the name empiricist, the superiority of their epistemology, but in reality they only see what they want to see. It's like the right-wing economists who set up a the so-called Nobel Prize for economics without any input from the Nobel Foundation, as a mutual back-patting club. It's a bit of a pattern: deny the facts and their implications while claiming a monopoly on all knowledge and reason.
Fictional Interpretation
This isn't something I've really gone into before but the interpretation of myth (which I generally accept as at least partly real) and fiction interests me.
Of course it often tells you more about other things than the fiction, that's the point. The various interpretations of the Robin Hood mythos, for example, reflect their time. The Norman Yoke got an outing and he was provided with a cause: fighting for natives against incomers, most recently in the 90s film "Robin Hood" starring Uma Thurman. I suppose that follows on from above, although that wasn't the intention. He's then painted as a sylvaticus, a woodsman gone off into the forest a la HerewarD "The Wake" to set himself up in opposition to the Normans.
Then the romantic movement came in, which gave us the Robin as dispossesed nobleman meme. Obviously this appealed to noblemen rather than the common folk. The oldest tales invariably refer to him as a yeoman, a good English thing to be, although something that causes problems for the experts who argue over whether a yeoman would be an independent man, a sort of large-scale super-peasant, or a rank of servant in a noble household. It was both, it was many other things. A large tenant farmer, small landowner, ship-owner, servant of appropriate rank, shop-keeper, forester, soldier, anyone could be a yeoman. It was like the Old English term thegn in that respect, a thegn could be anyone. You could become one by war, by landowning, by inheritance, by sailing your ship on three trading voyages. We are a nation of shopkeepers, after all.
Then there's the Scottish angle, a derivation of the Earl of Huntingdon idea. Also links in to the similar stories of Gamelyn and William of Cloudesly which are set further up Scotland way. Scotland was essentially an English state long before then. The little Gaelic invasion of dal Riada and the Welshmen of Rheged had been overtaken. Early on the men of Bernicia had occupied Lothian, although they never made it further. Even in the eleventh century Earl Siward went north to eliminate McBeth and replace him with a more pro-English candidate. After 1066 the men of Bernician Lothian were added to by Anglo-Saxon exiles, no doubt mostly from the ruling class and no doubt in large numbers given the thousands who made it to Constantinople so much further away.
As I say, he and his gang were merely "yeomen good", a thief, a forester, a gang-leader and the son of a miller (a wealthy profession), later joined by a shepherdess (the long-forgotten Clorinda) and a friar with his big gang of dogs. In other words, a decent middling sort of bunch, no-one from the extremes of society.
There's a TV version of Robin Hood on the Beeb now. It fits the modern trends perfectly, a girly Robin, a manly Marian, lots of super-intelligence Muslims and the Crusades in the background, like the 90s film "Robin Hood", not starring Uma Thurman, in which Samuel L Jackson introduces the Caesarian and gunpowder into Christendom. Well, the BBC hasn't got such a big budget so there's less explosions and some Arab woman working wonders with her knowledge of the herbal lore of English woodland plants. Crusades in the background. Lots of Muslims passing through, more than you'd expect in thirteenth century Nottinghamshire, certainly, introducing the savage native to steel, gunpowder, medicine and carrier pigeons, and so it goes on.
I prefer fiction that's a bit more realistic. I don't know who benefits fron fictionalisation, but it's not for me to say.
Spock in Star Trek. Was he a reference to Dr Spock, child mind control expert? An Englishman in a Cold War Allegory? Or a Jew in the same thing, as Nimoy thinks? I don't know. I notice a spate of Jungian archetypes in sci-fi. Sliders and Stargate SG-1, for example. The anima, the wise-old-man and the inscrutable savage. Well, they've both got an active woman with what I believe they call "moxy", that's the anima to a T. There's the clever one, a professor in one and a man with glasses in the other. Then there's the savage, these being American programmes that's the black bloke.
Yes, I prefer realistic fiction. Something where you can't trust anyone. Look at the McLibel trial. Half of the members of the Greenpeace group at some of their meetings were spies for McDonalds. They even spied on their spies and used honey traps to entice people to give information. That's nothing to do with the government, but they got information from Special Branch (who settled with the victims out of court). The Karen Silkwood case, they poisoned her with radioactive gases.
Then there's the Vril-ya in the famous Bulwer-Lytton book. They were sexist, I remember writing a tremendously long Usenet post (or cutting and pasting one, anyway) about their matriarchal ways. I've spotted numerous realistic elements of that book, such as the super-beings not flapping their wings in flight, similar to mothman.
I continue my feud with Fortean Times
I can't help thinking that this is a very one sided feud, in that I keep giving them money for their magazine. You may remember that I had a falling out with them over their ignorance of the work of one Dr Igor Smirnoff.
This issue of the esteemed organ was dedicated to the notorious follower of the left-hand path Aleister Crowley. I had intended to send another vitriolic e-mail to them, but I now realise I didn't not who wrote the article and other salient details, so I won't bother. I'll tell you this, though, they defend his "philosophy" as "agency and self-responsibility"!
We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world.
-- Book of the Law, Aleister Crowley
The author claimed to be "both and academic and magician", well I'm not suprised. Both require closed minds and the aceptance of authoritarianism.
He then lists a number of things, such as alcoholism, that tend to plague those who dabble in the dark side. These, he says "cannot be Aleister's fault", because they are merely imperfect followers of his perfect philosophy. I suppose I hardly need point out that he died a smack addict in a Hastings doss-house.
But on Amaracu anyway. I've been thinking about the Kennewick Man, although I don't know much about it. From what I gather the basic story is that a skull came to light, very probably not of redskin origin, and the reds decided they wanted to destroy it for "religious" reasons. I can understand it. They must be paranoid, after all that mistreatment at the hands of the slightly-less-native Americans, so they want to destroy any evidence that they are only the Second Peoples. Personally, I don't see why it's important. They were there before the current majority, if we're to take precedence as virtue. I don't even agree that being somewhere first gives you any great right to a place. Then again, I don't want the Welsh making a comeback.
There's somewhere else this comes out: South Africa. The current black majority of Bantus is far from being the original population of that land. They weren't even there ahead of the white folks. When the first Portugoose rounded the cape that region was only occupied by Khoisan hunter-gatherers. Only after they adopted some European crops could the Bantus sweep in and dispossess, enslave and massacre the little savages that made up the native population, a small band of men who hunt not with their primitive spears but by running after their prey until the prey dies of exhaustion. Or they do. No match for negroids, though.
Don't say I told you, though. They don't want it getting out. They think racists will use it against them. Maybe they're right, but we can't be denying the truth just to quiet racists. The former peoples of lands will just have to accept the new order. Mind you, we should probably stop these wholesale repopulations. The Welsh, Basques, Lapps, Tuaregs, Copts and Khoisan are stuffed, but it's not too late for the Uighers.
But there are people out there destroying evidence for less laudable reasons. Or, I suppose, the same reason. A will not to believe. It cannot exist, so I will make it not exist. The Smithsonian, for example, who supposedly run regular cruises into the ocean to dump artefacts they don't like the implication of into the murky blue depths. As with the paranormal. They claim the moral high ground, the name empiricist, the superiority of their epistemology, but in reality they only see what they want to see. It's like the right-wing economists who set up a the so-called Nobel Prize for economics without any input from the Nobel Foundation, as a mutual back-patting club. It's a bit of a pattern: deny the facts and their implications while claiming a monopoly on all knowledge and reason.
Fictional Interpretation
This isn't something I've really gone into before but the interpretation of myth (which I generally accept as at least partly real) and fiction interests me.
Of course it often tells you more about other things than the fiction, that's the point. The various interpretations of the Robin Hood mythos, for example, reflect their time. The Norman Yoke got an outing and he was provided with a cause: fighting for natives against incomers, most recently in the 90s film "Robin Hood" starring Uma Thurman. I suppose that follows on from above, although that wasn't the intention. He's then painted as a sylvaticus, a woodsman gone off into the forest a la HerewarD "The Wake" to set himself up in opposition to the Normans.
Then the romantic movement came in, which gave us the Robin as dispossesed nobleman meme. Obviously this appealed to noblemen rather than the common folk. The oldest tales invariably refer to him as a yeoman, a good English thing to be, although something that causes problems for the experts who argue over whether a yeoman would be an independent man, a sort of large-scale super-peasant, or a rank of servant in a noble household. It was both, it was many other things. A large tenant farmer, small landowner, ship-owner, servant of appropriate rank, shop-keeper, forester, soldier, anyone could be a yeoman. It was like the Old English term thegn in that respect, a thegn could be anyone. You could become one by war, by landowning, by inheritance, by sailing your ship on three trading voyages. We are a nation of shopkeepers, after all.
Then there's the Scottish angle, a derivation of the Earl of Huntingdon idea. Also links in to the similar stories of Gamelyn and William of Cloudesly which are set further up Scotland way. Scotland was essentially an English state long before then. The little Gaelic invasion of dal Riada and the Welshmen of Rheged had been overtaken. Early on the men of Bernicia had occupied Lothian, although they never made it further. Even in the eleventh century Earl Siward went north to eliminate McBeth and replace him with a more pro-English candidate. After 1066 the men of Bernician Lothian were added to by Anglo-Saxon exiles, no doubt mostly from the ruling class and no doubt in large numbers given the thousands who made it to Constantinople so much further away.
As I say, he and his gang were merely "yeomen good", a thief, a forester, a gang-leader and the son of a miller (a wealthy profession), later joined by a shepherdess (the long-forgotten Clorinda) and a friar with his big gang of dogs. In other words, a decent middling sort of bunch, no-one from the extremes of society.
There's a TV version of Robin Hood on the Beeb now. It fits the modern trends perfectly, a girly Robin, a manly Marian, lots of super-intelligence Muslims and the Crusades in the background, like the 90s film "Robin Hood", not starring Uma Thurman, in which Samuel L Jackson introduces the Caesarian and gunpowder into Christendom. Well, the BBC hasn't got such a big budget so there's less explosions and some Arab woman working wonders with her knowledge of the herbal lore of English woodland plants. Crusades in the background. Lots of Muslims passing through, more than you'd expect in thirteenth century Nottinghamshire, certainly, introducing the savage native to steel, gunpowder, medicine and carrier pigeons, and so it goes on.
I prefer fiction that's a bit more realistic. I don't know who benefits fron fictionalisation, but it's not for me to say.
Spock in Star Trek. Was he a reference to Dr Spock, child mind control expert? An Englishman in a Cold War Allegory? Or a Jew in the same thing, as Nimoy thinks? I don't know. I notice a spate of Jungian archetypes in sci-fi. Sliders and Stargate SG-1, for example. The anima, the wise-old-man and the inscrutable savage. Well, they've both got an active woman with what I believe they call "moxy", that's the anima to a T. There's the clever one, a professor in one and a man with glasses in the other. Then there's the savage, these being American programmes that's the black bloke.
Yes, I prefer realistic fiction. Something where you can't trust anyone. Look at the McLibel trial. Half of the members of the Greenpeace group at some of their meetings were spies for McDonalds. They even spied on their spies and used honey traps to entice people to give information. That's nothing to do with the government, but they got information from Special Branch (who settled with the victims out of court). The Karen Silkwood case, they poisoned her with radioactive gases.
Then there's the Vril-ya in the famous Bulwer-Lytton book. They were sexist, I remember writing a tremendously long Usenet post (or cutting and pasting one, anyway) about their matriarchal ways. I've spotted numerous realistic elements of that book, such as the super-beings not flapping their wings in flight, similar to mothman.
I continue my feud with Fortean Times
I can't help thinking that this is a very one sided feud, in that I keep giving them money for their magazine. You may remember that I had a falling out with them over their ignorance of the work of one Dr Igor Smirnoff.
This issue of the esteemed organ was dedicated to the notorious follower of the left-hand path Aleister Crowley. I had intended to send another vitriolic e-mail to them, but I now realise I didn't not who wrote the article and other salient details, so I won't bother. I'll tell you this, though, they defend his "philosophy" as "agency and self-responsibility"!
We have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. For they feel not. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world.
-- Book of the Law, Aleister Crowley
The author claimed to be "both and academic and magician", well I'm not suprised. Both require closed minds and the aceptance of authoritarianism.
He then lists a number of things, such as alcoholism, that tend to plague those who dabble in the dark side. These, he says "cannot be Aleister's fault", because they are merely imperfect followers of his perfect philosophy. I suppose I hardly need point out that he died a smack addict in a Hastings doss-house.
Thursday, 13 December 2007
Corridors of Power
I've never been asked whether I really think there's a conspiracy in some room somewhere evilly plotting. I prefer to keep my ideas to myself. I do believe it, of course. More than that, I know it for a fact. We occasionally get glimpses of it in the mainstream media, little bits of the iceberg poking above the surface. Still shows you what's going on underneath.
Government isn't conducted in Parliament or in the minuted meetings of ministers and civil servants, it's done behind the seems by money and influence. Like Lobbygate, and the similar American scandal involving drug-dealing Jack Abramoff. There's no FOIA documents to show the conspiracy in action, although some occasionally come close. Gottlieb incinerated his archives, but he was naive to write them in the first place. They're a liability. It's not like he needs them for when he writes his memoirs.
What did the media call it? Sofa government, was it? Blair and his little coterie getting together over some exotic coffee concoction to plot and to work other peoples plots into government policy. That's the modern corridors of power, of course. Back then they'd step out of the meeting where the minutes were being taken and make the decisions in the corridors, then it'd be back into the meeting to concoct the pubilc record. It's for the plausible deniability. Send some rogue, like Oliver North, to do your bidding. Get somewhere cosy and decide what you want, then send someone off to do it. If he gets caught there's no record and old Ollie's the one to get the blame for the drug business. A little Escobar all of your own.
Of course it all came out eventually, more or less, the drug business. But by the Lewinsky was on the go and no-one paid attention. Our own secretives wouldn't have been stupid enough to get caught in the first place. Hopsicker can document the connections between drugs and 9/11 but he can't make people take notice. No-one in this country seems all that interested, besides, perhaps, Craig Murray. He's right about the UK involvement in the Central Asian heroin trade, of course. Hasn't cottoned onto the rendition flights being used for illicit drug transport yet, though.
There's a billboard in New York beaming voices into people's heads. Part of an advertising gimmick. Someone over on the RI board who I particularly dislike was unsurprised, "This technology was announced months ago" sort of thing. Of course it was detailed by nessie over at sfbg.com as was many years ago when I was first on the interweb and it was old news even in his day. Psychotronic devices are as old as the psyche. Those Masonic lodges with the draughts-board floors aren't there because they're pretty, it's all for the ffect on the human mind. Psychotronic devices are just a bit less sophisticated now. Who needs psychological techniques when you can use subliminal messages and microwave sound-rays?
But the old ways haven't gone, and probably never will do. Hitler used his oratory, the cinema just made it more widespread. The footage of the mujahideen during the anti-Soviet struggle was noble men with rifles against the skyline, now it's "oppresed" women in desert hovels. classic psyop stuff.
Here's a puzzle: why is it that Orwell, notoriously an enemy of authoritarism, shot by fascists in the Spanish Civil War is the favourite of narco-pederasts and Gladio-ists today? Anything you haven't got, hijack. The CIA made Animal Farm and 1984 into movies and the CIA today still make sure those are his best known works, the works of fiction. Not the suggestions for council housing and allotments in The Road to Wigan Pier or the defence of the homeless in Down and Out in Paris and London. There won't be any press statements or minutes documenting this. There's no need for a Ministry of Truth to doctor the records, although both in corporations and the state it does happen, because things can be effectively sidelined by a system of though entrenched enough to exclude evidence, common sense and masic morality.
We've always been at war with Eastasia and so on.
Which is how power works, in the world of illusion. Dingwall, the parapsychologist's anti-feminist, mentions how Americans live in a world of illusion when it comes to women. Well, this is true of all things, now at least, if not then. The angelification of women is still one of the big ones, and one of the most useful for the powers that be, as well as one of the oldest. It is, in fact, the driving force behind it all. The way to stop people uniting is to keep them paranoid of a spy and enemy under their own roof, as Orwell realised in one of the less-famous parts of 1984. To raise up the ancestral feminine, as Fairhall and ray fear, is only another part of the illusion, for it won't be the goddess lurking behind the scenes and pulling the strings, it'll be those with the right will to power.
Tyrants will always be the same and they will be their own biggest victims for the will to power over your fellow man opens you to forces that would have power over you. As Keel says, we must consciously choose the path we take. Accept the leaven of the Holy Spirit or go down the left-hand-path of Sophia, the Devil, the false enlightenment, the serpent people, whatever you want to call it. Corruption. You will be a proxy either way, of course. You just get to choose for yourself what you will be a proxy to. What you want for others you get for yourself.
Government isn't conducted in Parliament or in the minuted meetings of ministers and civil servants, it's done behind the seems by money and influence. Like Lobbygate, and the similar American scandal involving drug-dealing Jack Abramoff. There's no FOIA documents to show the conspiracy in action, although some occasionally come close. Gottlieb incinerated his archives, but he was naive to write them in the first place. They're a liability. It's not like he needs them for when he writes his memoirs.
What did the media call it? Sofa government, was it? Blair and his little coterie getting together over some exotic coffee concoction to plot and to work other peoples plots into government policy. That's the modern corridors of power, of course. Back then they'd step out of the meeting where the minutes were being taken and make the decisions in the corridors, then it'd be back into the meeting to concoct the pubilc record. It's for the plausible deniability. Send some rogue, like Oliver North, to do your bidding. Get somewhere cosy and decide what you want, then send someone off to do it. If he gets caught there's no record and old Ollie's the one to get the blame for the drug business. A little Escobar all of your own.
Of course it all came out eventually, more or less, the drug business. But by the Lewinsky was on the go and no-one paid attention. Our own secretives wouldn't have been stupid enough to get caught in the first place. Hopsicker can document the connections between drugs and 9/11 but he can't make people take notice. No-one in this country seems all that interested, besides, perhaps, Craig Murray. He's right about the UK involvement in the Central Asian heroin trade, of course. Hasn't cottoned onto the rendition flights being used for illicit drug transport yet, though.
There's a billboard in New York beaming voices into people's heads. Part of an advertising gimmick. Someone over on the RI board who I particularly dislike was unsurprised, "This technology was announced months ago" sort of thing. Of course it was detailed by nessie over at sfbg.com as was many years ago when I was first on the interweb and it was old news even in his day. Psychotronic devices are as old as the psyche. Those Masonic lodges with the draughts-board floors aren't there because they're pretty, it's all for the ffect on the human mind. Psychotronic devices are just a bit less sophisticated now. Who needs psychological techniques when you can use subliminal messages and microwave sound-rays?
But the old ways haven't gone, and probably never will do. Hitler used his oratory, the cinema just made it more widespread. The footage of the mujahideen during the anti-Soviet struggle was noble men with rifles against the skyline, now it's "oppresed" women in desert hovels. classic psyop stuff.
Here's a puzzle: why is it that Orwell, notoriously an enemy of authoritarism, shot by fascists in the Spanish Civil War is the favourite of narco-pederasts and Gladio-ists today? Anything you haven't got, hijack. The CIA made Animal Farm and 1984 into movies and the CIA today still make sure those are his best known works, the works of fiction. Not the suggestions for council housing and allotments in The Road to Wigan Pier or the defence of the homeless in Down and Out in Paris and London. There won't be any press statements or minutes documenting this. There's no need for a Ministry of Truth to doctor the records, although both in corporations and the state it does happen, because things can be effectively sidelined by a system of though entrenched enough to exclude evidence, common sense and masic morality.
We've always been at war with Eastasia and so on.
Which is how power works, in the world of illusion. Dingwall, the parapsychologist's anti-feminist, mentions how Americans live in a world of illusion when it comes to women. Well, this is true of all things, now at least, if not then. The angelification of women is still one of the big ones, and one of the most useful for the powers that be, as well as one of the oldest. It is, in fact, the driving force behind it all. The way to stop people uniting is to keep them paranoid of a spy and enemy under their own roof, as Orwell realised in one of the less-famous parts of 1984. To raise up the ancestral feminine, as Fairhall and ray fear, is only another part of the illusion, for it won't be the goddess lurking behind the scenes and pulling the strings, it'll be those with the right will to power.
Tyrants will always be the same and they will be their own biggest victims for the will to power over your fellow man opens you to forces that would have power over you. As Keel says, we must consciously choose the path we take. Accept the leaven of the Holy Spirit or go down the left-hand-path of Sophia, the Devil, the false enlightenment, the serpent people, whatever you want to call it. Corruption. You will be a proxy either way, of course. You just get to choose for yourself what you will be a proxy to. What you want for others you get for yourself.
Tuesday, 11 December 2007
"...as the Devil looks at Lincoln"
"These capitalists generally act in concert to fleece the people."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 1837
Skidbrooke: St Botolph's church. I don't know what it is about that Botolph, a local lad, but his churches seem to attract weirdness. Him and Magdalene, hiding behind Christ, like. In Skidbrooke the locals have had the fight off, quite literally, devil worshippers offering up sacrifices to their unclean Gods in old Botolph's church.
Lincoln City Football Club: nickname the Imps.
"The continuous consolidation of money and power into higher, tighter and righter hands."
-- George H.W. Bush in 1992
People don't understand the market. Wrinkle cream. Market logic: make wrinklier, increase marekt for wrinle cream. What do you suppose the wrinle cream does?
-- Abraham Lincoln, 1837
Skidbrooke: St Botolph's church. I don't know what it is about that Botolph, a local lad, but his churches seem to attract weirdness. Him and Magdalene, hiding behind Christ, like. In Skidbrooke the locals have had the fight off, quite literally, devil worshippers offering up sacrifices to their unclean Gods in old Botolph's church.
Lincoln City Football Club: nickname the Imps.
"The continuous consolidation of money and power into higher, tighter and righter hands."
-- George H.W. Bush in 1992
People don't understand the market. Wrinkle cream. Market logic: make wrinklier, increase marekt for wrinle cream. What do you suppose the wrinle cream does?
Monday, 10 December 2007
The Undeserving Rich
There was a film on last night, I forget what it was called, but it had a gambler in it. I wasn't really watching it. Too busy sleeping.
As I say, there was a gambler. That got me thinking. A gambler is a good example of the old idea of the undeserving poor. It is an old fashioned idea now, mostly Victorian. The deserving poor should be someone who works every hour God sends to support his family and still needs the odd handout. The undeserving poor is a dissolute and drink-sodden wastrel who'll waste any money he gets and is too idle to get any himself. Of course, neither one exists in this perfect form. Neither one exists at all, it's just a construct of the rich to justify their wealth. I believe it was Marx who said the rich will always invent belief systems that justify them holding onto their wealth. Might've been Orwell. Or Orwell quoting Marx, mayhap.
This, as I say, is an obsolete idea. Back in the pre-Thatcherite social democratic era there were no undeserving poor, simply those badly served by the system. I like that. Now it's the Thatcherite model, entrepreneurialism and so on. Wealth is virtue. Right makes might. So forth. The poor are now meant to be undeserving by definition as anyone worth their keep should be able to make it. But it's none of it true. It's a pity. It's a nice Darwinist view of the world, the normal right-wing pattern of seeing the world as they want it to be rather than as it actually is. The truth is that the tax system dictates how many poor and rich there will be and how poor and rich they will be. The economic system. Of course, if I was an entreprenuer I could shove myself to the top of the pile by being the biggest bastard in the big pile of bastards, but I'd rather not. The system simply dictates that you've got to be a bastard to get on, it doesn't pick a name out of a hat to decide who's rich, anyone can be rich. Opportunity and all that. But not everyone can be rich. The reason there are poor people isn't because they lack the entreprenuer gene, although perhaps they do, it's that the structure of society requires some people to be poor and they're the ones best suited to the role.
If they ceased to be poor someone else would have ot take their place.
Could be immigrants, there's been an effort to replace our freedom loving stock with slavish foreigners. Good for the economy, they say. Low wages. Not good for the economy from my point of view. Our ecnomy is based on services and the export of financial services, I don't think a few low-wage labourers is going to help. A few Poles aren't going to enable us the compete on wages with the Chinese and I don't see the bankers in a race to the bottom. They don't want to pay too much for their gardeners and cleaners, I suppose.
I notice Sweden doesn't have extremes of poverty. Has high taxes too. Shocking. Surely they should be bankrupt, forcing those oh-so-valuable entreprenuerial spirits out of their country. The man who invented TetraPak, a glorified cardboard box, is a Swede. He left the country because of the government's outrageous demands that he pay his taxes, as if he was a normal person rather than a Nietzchean superman. Silly Swedes. Look what they've lost! The pleasure of getting to lick the boots of a very rich man. And this is an "inventor", one of the deserving rich if there is such a thing, who made the money himself. Well, collected it in licencing fees, anyway. But all the Swedes have lost is his tax money and he didn't want to pay that anyway.
If only our government would take the hint. We don't need to worship the rich, they're no good for us. I say: "pay your taxes or get out of my country". Cunts. I blame Cromwell. Ireton, too. He argued that the rich had a permanent stake in the Kingdom as its owners and therefore should run it, not give it over to a democracy. It's wrong, even if it wasn't sucha bad argument. The rich can take themselves off whenever they want, the poor are stuck. Especially before the invention of bikes to get on. The rich should pay their taxes, more than proportionately as Adam Smith said, because they get more in return (even if we don't count all the tax moneys they steal in overpriced contracts as so forth). The tax-funded government is the only thing standing between them and a forcible redistribution, you'd think they'd be more grateful.
Society is like Total Football. There are positions to be occupied, all that changes is the individuals occupying them. Robert Maxwell and Arthur Scargill. Maxwell is supposed to be more vituous, a wealth creator rather than a parasite. He pissed off roofs and laughed at the people below.
Other matters
Things indicative of a lack of civilisation: minding the cold, good sense of smell, talking too much.
Dole incidents: agency, ascot hat (I've told that story).
There was a terror alert recently, turned out to be a hoax, up at Kelham Hall.
I went to a school called Lovers' Lane. I remember now that there was always a belief that there were tunnels under the playing field. I believed it. There was a wooden board in the ground, like a railyway sleeper, which we believed to be the roof. There was also a few stairs leading down into the ground, buried, made of bricks, in some trees. There was a hole too. Supposedly an ant hole but with no ants or anything else, which went as far as the arm could reach. An air hole for the tunnels was the common opinion. In hindsight this all stink of SRA, as do several other things.
Panorama, the BBC flagship documentary has really gone downhill since it was taken over by women. Now it's only half an hour long, picks rubbish subjects and covers them badly. And it's got that Vine on it to make it as much like Tonight wi' Sir Trev as possible. Makes me sick.
As I say, there was a gambler. That got me thinking. A gambler is a good example of the old idea of the undeserving poor. It is an old fashioned idea now, mostly Victorian. The deserving poor should be someone who works every hour God sends to support his family and still needs the odd handout. The undeserving poor is a dissolute and drink-sodden wastrel who'll waste any money he gets and is too idle to get any himself. Of course, neither one exists in this perfect form. Neither one exists at all, it's just a construct of the rich to justify their wealth. I believe it was Marx who said the rich will always invent belief systems that justify them holding onto their wealth. Might've been Orwell. Or Orwell quoting Marx, mayhap.
This, as I say, is an obsolete idea. Back in the pre-Thatcherite social democratic era there were no undeserving poor, simply those badly served by the system. I like that. Now it's the Thatcherite model, entrepreneurialism and so on. Wealth is virtue. Right makes might. So forth. The poor are now meant to be undeserving by definition as anyone worth their keep should be able to make it. But it's none of it true. It's a pity. It's a nice Darwinist view of the world, the normal right-wing pattern of seeing the world as they want it to be rather than as it actually is. The truth is that the tax system dictates how many poor and rich there will be and how poor and rich they will be. The economic system. Of course, if I was an entreprenuer I could shove myself to the top of the pile by being the biggest bastard in the big pile of bastards, but I'd rather not. The system simply dictates that you've got to be a bastard to get on, it doesn't pick a name out of a hat to decide who's rich, anyone can be rich. Opportunity and all that. But not everyone can be rich. The reason there are poor people isn't because they lack the entreprenuer gene, although perhaps they do, it's that the structure of society requires some people to be poor and they're the ones best suited to the role.
If they ceased to be poor someone else would have ot take their place.
Could be immigrants, there's been an effort to replace our freedom loving stock with slavish foreigners. Good for the economy, they say. Low wages. Not good for the economy from my point of view. Our ecnomy is based on services and the export of financial services, I don't think a few low-wage labourers is going to help. A few Poles aren't going to enable us the compete on wages with the Chinese and I don't see the bankers in a race to the bottom. They don't want to pay too much for their gardeners and cleaners, I suppose.
I notice Sweden doesn't have extremes of poverty. Has high taxes too. Shocking. Surely they should be bankrupt, forcing those oh-so-valuable entreprenuerial spirits out of their country. The man who invented TetraPak, a glorified cardboard box, is a Swede. He left the country because of the government's outrageous demands that he pay his taxes, as if he was a normal person rather than a Nietzchean superman. Silly Swedes. Look what they've lost! The pleasure of getting to lick the boots of a very rich man. And this is an "inventor", one of the deserving rich if there is such a thing, who made the money himself. Well, collected it in licencing fees, anyway. But all the Swedes have lost is his tax money and he didn't want to pay that anyway.
If only our government would take the hint. We don't need to worship the rich, they're no good for us. I say: "pay your taxes or get out of my country". Cunts. I blame Cromwell. Ireton, too. He argued that the rich had a permanent stake in the Kingdom as its owners and therefore should run it, not give it over to a democracy. It's wrong, even if it wasn't sucha bad argument. The rich can take themselves off whenever they want, the poor are stuck. Especially before the invention of bikes to get on. The rich should pay their taxes, more than proportionately as Adam Smith said, because they get more in return (even if we don't count all the tax moneys they steal in overpriced contracts as so forth). The tax-funded government is the only thing standing between them and a forcible redistribution, you'd think they'd be more grateful.
Society is like Total Football. There are positions to be occupied, all that changes is the individuals occupying them. Robert Maxwell and Arthur Scargill. Maxwell is supposed to be more vituous, a wealth creator rather than a parasite. He pissed off roofs and laughed at the people below.
Other matters
Things indicative of a lack of civilisation: minding the cold, good sense of smell, talking too much.
Dole incidents: agency, ascot hat (I've told that story).
There was a terror alert recently, turned out to be a hoax, up at Kelham Hall.
I went to a school called Lovers' Lane. I remember now that there was always a belief that there were tunnels under the playing field. I believed it. There was a wooden board in the ground, like a railyway sleeper, which we believed to be the roof. There was also a few stairs leading down into the ground, buried, made of bricks, in some trees. There was a hole too. Supposedly an ant hole but with no ants or anything else, which went as far as the arm could reach. An air hole for the tunnels was the common opinion. In hindsight this all stink of SRA, as do several other things.
Panorama, the BBC flagship documentary has really gone downhill since it was taken over by women. Now it's only half an hour long, picks rubbish subjects and covers them badly. And it's got that Vine on it to make it as much like Tonight wi' Sir Trev as possible. Makes me sick.
Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Monday, 3 December 2007
Twist of Faith
"Sophia, Creator God, let your milk and honey flow. . . . Shower us with your love . . . ." chanted more than 2000 women gathered at the 1993 Re-Imagining Conference in Minnesota. "We celebrate sensual life you give us. . . . We celebrate our bodiliness. . . . the sensations of pleasure, our oneness with earth and water," continued one of the leaders. Representing main-line denomination, the women had come from the Presbyterian Church USA (about 400), the United Methodist Church (about 400), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (313), the United Church of Christ (144), and Baptist, Episcopal, Church of the Brethren churches about (150). About 230 were Roman Catholics. To most of these worshippers, Sophia symbolized inner wisdom and "the feminine image of the Divine." Playful, permissive, and sensuous, she has "become the latest rage among progressive church women."
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Rituals help challenge the old and establish the new. To make them more palatable, use old, familiar steps to ease into the new celebrations -- which is just what conference leaders did on the last day, during Sunday morning's alternative to a traditional church service. The "blessing of milk and honey" ritual simply followed the format of a traditional communion service.
The women sang, but not about Jesus. They celebrated with two elements, but not bread and wine. They mentioned God and grace, but the new meanings reflected the pagan context. They celebrated freedom, but mocked the only One who could set them free.
Clinking their glasses of rice milk, they shared in a dramatic responsive reading and singing rite. The speakers read -- with drama and feeling -- the lines of the prayer below (the most erotic suggestions were banished to the endnotes). "Sophia Creator God..." sang the exuberant women between each part. "Let your milk and honey flow... Sophia... Sophia..." Over and over and over...
"Our maker Sophia, we are women in your image. With the hot blood of our wombs we give form to new life....
[All:] Sophia, Creator God, let your milk and honey flow.... Shower us with your love....
"Our mother Sophia, we are women in your image. With the milk of our breasts we suckle the children.... Sophia, Creator God....
"Our guide Sophia, we are women in your image. With our moist mouths we kiss away a tear... With the honey of wisdom in our mouths we prophesy a full humanity to all peoples. Sophia, Creator God... (All drink of the milk and honey)
"Sophia, we celebrate your life-giving energy which pulses through our veins... Halleluya! Pelo tsa rona. . . [21]
"...We celebrate our unique perspectives, intelligence.... our guides, our spiritual mothers, our models. Halleluya! Pelo tsa rona. . . .
"We celebrate the nourishment of your milk and honey. Through the sharing of this holy manna [could be a hidden reference to "Mana": Moon Mother, creative energy, Goddess of Creation and death] we enter into community which strengthens and renews us for the struggle. Halleluya! Pelo tsa rona . . . .
"We celebrate sensual life you give us.... We celebrate the fingertips vibrating upon the skin of a love. We celebrate the tongue which licks a wound or wets our lips. We celebrate our bodiliness, our physicality, the sensations of pleasure, our oneness with earth and water."[22]
"Not surprisingly, Sophia seemed to reserve a special blessing for lesbian love." observed Kathy Kersten, "The prayer above was read by individual women, except for the ''vibrating fingertips' line, which was read by two women together."[23]
The more sensual and shocking expressions help speed the planned paradigm shift. They cause what educators call cognitive dissonance -- a form of mental confusion that forces people to rethink and stretch their old values to accommodate new ideas and experiences. Their end justifies the means, argue the radical feminists, and their planned end is total cultural transformation. If they have their way, every family, community, business and church would have to conform to feminist beliefs and values.
Hmm.
Friday, 30 November 2007
A far better history of feminism.
"The next time you find yourself with a woman" he tells his male students, "Challenge yourself to find that spark of divinity that man can only achieve through union with the sacred feminine.
'The women smiled knowingly, nodding.
The men exchanged dubious giggles and off-colour jokes.
Langdon sighed. College men were still boys."
-- Chapter 74, Page 413, Da Vinci Code
http://www.users.bigpond.com/sarcasmo/sexpolitics/hystery.html
This account is derived from a women's monthly fashion magazine, and highlights the diversity, perversity and commonality of feminist claims. The Church of Wicca has a project that entails regaining female powers through deference to the Goddess Within. While the religion preaches equality, there is a hint of neo-hippy sexual debauchery, just to keep things interesting
[...]
An incident that is of particular interest is related to the building of a bridge in South Australia, which gained notoriety as the Hindmarsh Bridge Affair, involving the Australian Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Robert Tickner.[49] A bridge linking the mainland to an island, subject to tourist development, was not built because of protests by aboriginal women. Of great importance to the credibility of their objections to its construction was an important document detailing 'secret women's business'.
It is of some interest that a 'patriarchal capitalist' society with a development agenda ground to a halt because of one document, which could not be viewed by men, including male ministers. The document which detailed women's ancient fertility rites and secrets could only be viewed by female ministers and bureaucrats.
Undoubtedly the whole event was to some extent an orchestrated stunt gaining national political notoriety. However many people took it very seriously and it reveals that women of ancient societies probably had a special power over their own men, which appears to be related specifically to the mysteries of fertility. As a study of Aboriginal culture expressed in 1913:
"...ignorance of the result of sexual intercourse is not a primitive condition but is acquired by superstition, originating in the Female mind and accepted by the Male."[50] Women of ancient cultures are socially influential by the manipulation of men's incomprehension of women's complex physical functioning, mental processes, and their centrality to race survival. Such powers eventually evolved into witchcraft, and aspects of midwifery roles.
But it seems that this women's power also has an extraordinary influence over the contemporary Minister of Aboriginal Affairs who paid great deference to 'women's secret business.'[51]
[Maybe he didn't know where babies come from either. Maybe that's the reason for the wreck of the education system.]
There is no doubt that the study of the movement of Sun, Moon and stars was one of the great breakthroughs for humanity, in terms of understanding the periodicity of seasonal changes and the determination of optimal crop planting. Modern agriculture is utterly reliant on this work performed thousands of years ago. However, what is of some interest is that the natural science of astronomy was distorted from its beginning by the quasi-science of astrology. This activity has been used to befuddle the ignorant populace for centuries and allegedly even Kings....and Queens.
Astrology, an activity dominated by women, has used the movements and orientation of Sun, Moon and stars to make predictions about auspicious days for conducting war...or having an affair. It is effectively the women's science of manipulating gullibility. The ignorance of the general population about the predictive power of a quasi-science has helped to make them believe these spurious insights. Astrology allows a control over superstition and it is a realm that appears to have always been dominated by women both as clients and as agents. The Oracle of Delphi operating near Athens, is the most prominent ancient example of this art and the job was held by a female.
Undoubtedly the vast majority of soothsayers, card readers and astrologers today, and most of their clients, are still female. All women's magazines and many newspapers today include a significant section on star signs.
One can only conclude that women's power to manipulate public and private opinions and hopes goes back to the time when stars first appeared in the sky and women dreamed of meeting tall swarthy strangers.
'The women smiled knowingly, nodding.
The men exchanged dubious giggles and off-colour jokes.
Langdon sighed. College men were still boys."
-- Chapter 74, Page 413, Da Vinci Code
http://www.users.bigpond.com/sarcasmo/sexpolitics/hystery.html
This account is derived from a women's monthly fashion magazine, and highlights the diversity, perversity and commonality of feminist claims. The Church of Wicca has a project that entails regaining female powers through deference to the Goddess Within. While the religion preaches equality, there is a hint of neo-hippy sexual debauchery, just to keep things interesting
[...]
An incident that is of particular interest is related to the building of a bridge in South Australia, which gained notoriety as the Hindmarsh Bridge Affair, involving the Australian Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Robert Tickner.[49] A bridge linking the mainland to an island, subject to tourist development, was not built because of protests by aboriginal women. Of great importance to the credibility of their objections to its construction was an important document detailing 'secret women's business'.
It is of some interest that a 'patriarchal capitalist' society with a development agenda ground to a halt because of one document, which could not be viewed by men, including male ministers. The document which detailed women's ancient fertility rites and secrets could only be viewed by female ministers and bureaucrats.
Undoubtedly the whole event was to some extent an orchestrated stunt gaining national political notoriety. However many people took it very seriously and it reveals that women of ancient societies probably had a special power over their own men, which appears to be related specifically to the mysteries of fertility. As a study of Aboriginal culture expressed in 1913:
"...ignorance of the result of sexual intercourse is not a primitive condition but is acquired by superstition, originating in the Female mind and accepted by the Male."[50] Women of ancient cultures are socially influential by the manipulation of men's incomprehension of women's complex physical functioning, mental processes, and their centrality to race survival. Such powers eventually evolved into witchcraft, and aspects of midwifery roles.
But it seems that this women's power also has an extraordinary influence over the contemporary Minister of Aboriginal Affairs who paid great deference to 'women's secret business.'[51]
[Maybe he didn't know where babies come from either. Maybe that's the reason for the wreck of the education system.]
There is no doubt that the study of the movement of Sun, Moon and stars was one of the great breakthroughs for humanity, in terms of understanding the periodicity of seasonal changes and the determination of optimal crop planting. Modern agriculture is utterly reliant on this work performed thousands of years ago. However, what is of some interest is that the natural science of astronomy was distorted from its beginning by the quasi-science of astrology. This activity has been used to befuddle the ignorant populace for centuries and allegedly even Kings....and Queens.
Astrology, an activity dominated by women, has used the movements and orientation of Sun, Moon and stars to make predictions about auspicious days for conducting war...or having an affair. It is effectively the women's science of manipulating gullibility. The ignorance of the general population about the predictive power of a quasi-science has helped to make them believe these spurious insights. Astrology allows a control over superstition and it is a realm that appears to have always been dominated by women both as clients and as agents. The Oracle of Delphi operating near Athens, is the most prominent ancient example of this art and the job was held by a female.
Undoubtedly the vast majority of soothsayers, card readers and astrologers today, and most of their clients, are still female. All women's magazines and many newspapers today include a significant section on star signs.
One can only conclude that women's power to manipulate public and private opinions and hopes goes back to the time when stars first appeared in the sky and women dreamed of meeting tall swarthy strangers.
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
A few things.
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
In my life Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
Two lovers entwined pass me by
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
-- Morrissey
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy... But either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same policies".
-- Carroll Quigley, "Tragedy and Hope", 1966, p. 1247-48
And a far better history of feminism.
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
In my life Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
Two lovers entwined pass me by
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now
-- Morrissey
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy... But either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same policies".
-- Carroll Quigley, "Tragedy and Hope", 1966, p. 1247-48
And a far better history of feminism.
Friday, 23 November 2007
For seven and-a-half years I’ve worked alongside Reagan, and I’m proud to be his partner. We’ve had triumphs, we’ve made mistakes, we’ve had sex... uh, I mean setbacks....” - Vice President George Bush , 6 May 1987
Whence the Margate Grotto? A huge cave with patterns in shells on the walls. Templars, says some.
Democracy's a funny business. You'd assume participatory would be better than representative democracy, but as Stalin said it's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes. In the case of Gordon Brown's citizen juries the votes are counted by his friends at "Opinion Leader Research". Self-proclaimed experts in "though leadership". Watch your thoughts with them around. Never know where they might be leading you.
Pollsters, they are. Remember "We Want Wilkie", the BSC rigged the Republic conference using opinion polls. Opinion polls don't reflect opinion, they make it. See "Captive State" by George Monbiot, the part about Southampton. The public consultation was hijacked by someone working for the developer and only his views were reported. There was a minister on the TV or radio last night, I forget which. Might have been this morning. He was talking about a public consultation. The interviewer was asking how many dissenters it would take to change his mind. He didn't give an answer, as any reasonable number would easily be met, he merely said the quality of the submissions would have more impact that brute numbers. Those who agree with the government, thereby demonstrating their responsibility, will no doubt be weighted accordingly heavily.
Still, I'm sure it's all fine.
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
A series...
... of interesting but unrelated things.
Mark Thomas on Coke was on last night. Coca Cola, that was, of course. Coca Cola really did used to have cocaine in it apparently. On an unrelated note Coca Cola have been funding the AUC in Columbia to eliminate trade unionists. As have the banana barons at Chiquita, formerly the United Fruit Company, one-time owners and operators of the CIA. Interesting fact: the day before his death Martin Luther King called for a boycott against Coca Cola. There was a picture of a Hitler Youth activity book. Sponsored by... well, that was a long time ago. As the Daily Express headline said "Hurrah for the Blackshirts".
Robert Maxwell used to piss off the roof of his building. Onto passers by.
A little mouse with clogs on. Well I declare.
Panorama, formerly the BBC's flagship documentary series but now half-length, staffed by women and with a talking head to introduce it a la Tonight with Sir Trev. Last nights' was a full-length special, about the McCanns, but it really showed that they've discarded quality. The whole thing was based around one of the McCanns' friends having given them some behind-the-scenes footage, of the hunt and so on. It could have been a tabloid story with EXCLUSIVE written above it. They didn't even mention the government spin doctor, Mitchell is it?, and steered as far from the facts as possible.
In fact, the Nazi Party in Germany was projected into power with the women's vote. Women were the most hysterical supporters in the Nazi rallies. No surprise there. Women are hysterical. Women are even more hysterical in crowds. (Look at them at pop concerts, or watching the stars arriving for the cinema awards. And women are normally 'right wing' voters. The weakening of the Unions, the curtailment of civil liberties, the increased State interference in personal matters, and the media dumb-down - i.e. a shift to totalitarianism - have all coincided with the rise of feminism and the power of the women's vote.
In the U.S. Congress, meanwhile, it seems lately you can sell anything to the democratic leadership if it has a “security” label on it. House leader Nancy Pelosi was quoted as admitting to not knowing the content of the new plan and in the same breath implying she would support it since national security “is our highest priority.”
Most importantly, if we do want to build a world in which killing is increasingly rare, more scientists, soldiers, and others must speak up and challenge the popular myth that human beings are “natural born killers.” Popular culture has done much to perpetuate the myth of easy killing. Indeed, today many video games are actually replicating military training and conditioning kids to kill—but without “stimulus discriminators” to ensure that they only fire under authority. Even at elite intellectual levels, the natural born killer myth is too often embraced uncritically and promoted aggressively, sometimes at the service of an ideological agenda.
We may never understand the nature of the force in humankind that causes us to strongly resist killing fellow human beings, but we can be thankful for it. And although military leaders responsible for winning a war may be distressed by this force, as a species we can view it with pride. It is there, it is strong, and it gives us cause to believe that there may just be hope for human-kind after all.
Or, as Gunnar of Hlidarendi said, "I would like to know, whether I am by so much the less brisk and bold than other men, because I think more of killing men than they?"
Or, as Gunnar of Hlidarendi said, "I would like to know, whether I am by so much the less brisk and bold than other men, because I think more of killing men than they?"
Group Plans March to Free Lauriane
Father Claims Daughter Molested, Held Political Prisoner in France
by James Ridgeway with Sandra Bisin
Supporters of a French girl believed by some to have been snared in a Nice sex ring say they'll march across New York City during a UN summit on the rights of children, slated for September 19 through 21. The girl's father, Karim Christian Kamal, will lead the demonstration, designed to get the attention of UN secretary general Kofi Annan. Last week, Kamal, a French pearl dealer, received a highly unusual granting of political asylum from a Los Angeles judge who slammed French officials for persecuting the man and his family. Kamal claimed prominent French judges and police brass trapped his daughter in a child-sex scheme and are now out to get him for exposing their pedophile racket.
It was a claim Judge Ronald N. Ohata found credible. "The French government's persecution has strong elements of personal revenge and vendetta, Mr. Kamal having complained about the corruption of the government and having been sued and persecuted following this complaint," Ohata stated. "It is pure abuse of power from individuals who are in control, and who are connected, against people who they feel are not."
The U.S. rarely grants political asylum to someone from a friendly nation. It's hard enough for people who have a well-grounded fear of repressive regimes in their home countries. France has a lengthy tradition of respect for human rights, but that hasn't been enough to stave off a public furor. The French press has gone bananas over the case, with headlines screaming "Save Lauriane."
The case itself is byzantine. During a rancorous divorce proceeding in 1993, Kamal charged that his wife, Guyot, had caused Lauriane, then five, to be abused by prominent Nice pedophiles, including judges and other local political bigwigs. The judge assigned to the case in Nice threw it out. Kamal said that was no coincidence, since he claimed the judge himself was a member of the ring.
Later, child psychologists in the U.S. examined Lauriane and reported that indeed she had been sexually abused.
Claiming the French judges were out to get him, in 1994 Kamal took the little girl and fled to California where his sister, Dalila Kamal-Griffin, an L.A. attorney, launched court actions to protect both her brother and the girl by seeking political asylum for them in the U.S.
Two months later, the plot took a twist. French officials, accompanied by two Santa Monica detectives, appeared unannounced and without warrants at Kamal's home, seized the child, and headed for the airport to take her back to France. At this point, the FBI stepped in and ordered the kid off the plane. But the French didn't give up so easily, shunting Lauriane from the U.S. to Mexico and back to France, where she lives with her mom in Nice. The French government says Kamal—who was convicted in absentia for abduction and malicious prosecution—is lying and that the daughter should have been sent home to begin with. U.S. Immigration officials agree. Guyot, the former wife, accuses Kamal of failing to pay child support and denies the pedophile charges.
For Kamal's supporters, the removal of Lauriane to France was clearly wrong. "Can you imagine for a second, what the U.S. and world reaction would have been if Elián González has been kidnapped by the Castro regime with the help of the Miami police instead of going through the courts?" asks his sister. She has founded a Web site, for the cause of missing and exploited children.
Race may also be a factor. Judge Ohata also agreed with Kamal's suspicion that he was a victim of discrimination because he is of Moroccan descent. "In this case you have a family that is being persecuted," Ohata declared, "and it is an Arab family. And it is a family that has become whistle-blowers."
From some time ago. There's not much about it on the interweb. Same goes for David Fabb Holdings, which I've mentioned before.
Again, from the Usenet, in quote form:
"Of course the men have to pay and buy you presents. Men have to spoil you. You have to be spoiled," says Mimi Valcin, 26, who works in public relations. "If you don't think you're a princess you're not going to be treated like one. You have to make sure you know -- and they know -- you're a princess. This is my feminism. It's the new feminism to say, "I'm expensive. I need lots of attention. I need men to bend over backwards for me."
-- "Material Girls Have More Fun" by Rebecca Eckler, National Post (Canada) 26 Aug 2000
And again:
[C]onsumer culture is female culture, though men do go a long way into making it possible by their work. That's sex roles, where he works so she can shop. But men are left out of the fun. He gets to shop at "The Men's Wearhouse" - akin to a large hardware store - while she has boutiques like "The Fashion Gal", "Posh", and "CJ's Creations". She gets to luxuriate; he gets to be functional. --
"Television" by The Martian Bachelor Scientist
A juxtaposition:
Here: The Hypogeum made us feel as if we were inside the womb of the Goddess. Within its walls, our tour group lost all consciousness of linear time and calendar days.
Branton: Other sources say that ABOUT 30 CHILDREN vanished in these catacombs on the study tour, and that when the "Hypogeum" was first discovered nearly 30,000 human skeletons of men, women and children (victims of ancient sacrifice to the "underworld gods", performed by an old neolithic race) were discovered as well.
One article written by a Miss Lois Jessup, at the time an employee of the British embassy and later secretary for the New York Saucer Information Bureau (better known as NYSIB), appeared in an old issue of Riley Crabb's BORDERLAND SCIENCE magazine, published by the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (B.S.R.F.) and was later reprinted in full in Dr. Allen's book ENIGMA FANTASTIQUE. Miss Jessup claimed that she visited Malta and the Hypogeum also, once before the tragic disappearance of the children, and shortly thereafter.
One article written by a Miss Lois Jessup, at the time an employee of the British embassy and later secretary for the New York Saucer Information Bureau (better known as NYSIB), appeared in an old issue of Riley Crabb's BORDERLAND SCIENCE magazine, published by the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (B.S.R.F.) and was later reprinted in full in Dr. Allen's book ENIGMA FANTASTIQUE. Miss Jessup claimed that she visited Malta and the Hypogeum also, once before the tragic disappearance of the children, and shortly thereafter.
A photomontage:
Jeff from rigorousintuition:
I find that really interesting, and this thread's a good example of how ideas and interests cluster together, and you often find the same people there. "Exterminating Angel," for instance, is also the title of one of my favourite Bunuel films, and so I started to think of him before I read bz's post. I also have much love for Alex Cox. Something he says sounds like it belongs on the RI board so I'll copy it here. He was offered The Three Amigos to direct but chose to make Straight to Hell instead. Asked if he regrets his choice:
Not at all. Of course, if I'd done THE THREE AMIGOS I would have earned a lot more money. But that money would be spent by now. I would have had to shoot in the United States, and not in my beloved Almeria. I would essentially have been a hired hand for some comedians from Saturday Night Live. It would not have been a good experience, for them or me. The script had these weird political overtones: it promoted the idea that Americans have the right to intervene in a violent way in foreign countries - for all that it was supposed to be a comedy, it was actually propaganda for the Monroe Doctrine. STRAIGHT TO HELL, for better or worse, is my film, and I like it very much.
I get the sense that a lot of people here have chosen their own Straight to Hell over someone else's Three Amigos, and I'm very glad to be in their company.
And from Adam Curtis:
TV now tells you what to feel.
It doesn't tell you what to think anymore. From EastEnders to reality format shows, you're on the emotional journey of people - and through the editing, it gently suggests to you what is the agreed form of feeling. "Hugs and Kisses", I call it.
I nicked that off Mark Ravenhill who wrote a very good piece which said that if you analyse television now it's a system of guidance - it tells you who is having the Bad Feelings and who is having the Good Feelings. And the person who is having the Bad Feelings is redeemed through a "hugs and kisses" moment at the end. It really is a system not of moral guidance, but of emotional guidance.
Morality has been replaced by feeling.
That's what all the disorders are about. They are a way of oppressing and measuring whether what you're feeling is the correct feeling. Intellect and morality are intimately related but feeling is now predominant.
The "feeling" provides all the moral guidance they need?
It's very difficult to take people out of themselves.
Because what you're doing is reinforcing the priority of their own feelings about themselves. The thing about our age is that everyone monitors themselves. It's really fascinating. I did this with the psychological disorders in The Trap. They've become a way of policing yourself.
"Am I the right shape? Am I the right emotional construct?"
So you edge back to the right emotional shape, or the right physical shape.
And vanity in our time - is about pleasing yourself. It's about making yourself feel better about yourself. We live within our selves. We should find a way of escaping it, but the program makers don't have the imagination or the confidence....I think that was true of marketers who saw in Freud's ideas a way of saying, "Look, we can shape how people fulfil their desires". That was also true of the neo-conservatives. They have a dark and pessimistic view of human beings, but they also have an optimistic view of a vision of the world which is that if we create a world that's grand enough, it will contain those dark desires and make them better. A lot of them are ex-Marxists, so it's not surprising.
Well, when you talk to the computer utopians and ask them, "Why are you so evangelical?" - to figure out what they really believe in - there's nothing there. What it really boils down to is a faith in inevitability, just like a Marxist view of history. It's technology, so don't fight it!
If you look at the Soviet Union the 1980s under Brezhnev were called the years of stagnation. I would argue that we are living through our own years of stagnation
I come across some interesting things. Far fewer come from me.
Friday, 16 November 2007
Ninth post this week, too many.
Just some minor observations now.
Blair introduced the house system to our comprehensive school system. Terrible. Remember the good old days of fagging and inter-house rugger matches from his public school days, I suppose. That's what happens when you let Etonian types loose in society. Bring back matron! Spanking never did me any harm! A bit of buggery is good for the armed forces!
Do you think I would leave you dying
There's room on my horse for two
Climb up here Joe, we'll soon by flying
Back to the ranks so blue
Can you feel Joe I'm all a tremble
Perhaps it's the battle's noise
But I think it's that I remember
When we were two little boys
-- Rolf Harris
Nice song. Remember the Templar logo: two men on a horse.
Greg Palast, I think it was, mentions a woman who was a director of a vote machine company. Got herself elected to office, with her own dodgy tech.
A quote, I think in the book "India Brittanica", that India becoming a parliamentary democracy would be the proudest day in British history, said in the 18th century.
Healthcare and trauma/shock economics - not the profit motive, but politics and ideology.
h(b?) boham(botham?)(higginbotham?) carter + gibson -- what did I write that for?
Blair introduced the house system to our comprehensive school system. Terrible. Remember the good old days of fagging and inter-house rugger matches from his public school days, I suppose. That's what happens when you let Etonian types loose in society. Bring back matron! Spanking never did me any harm! A bit of buggery is good for the armed forces!
Do you think I would leave you dying
There's room on my horse for two
Climb up here Joe, we'll soon by flying
Back to the ranks so blue
Can you feel Joe I'm all a tremble
Perhaps it's the battle's noise
But I think it's that I remember
When we were two little boys
-- Rolf Harris
Nice song. Remember the Templar logo: two men on a horse.
Greg Palast, I think it was, mentions a woman who was a director of a vote machine company. Got herself elected to office, with her own dodgy tech.
A quote, I think in the book "India Brittanica", that India becoming a parliamentary democracy would be the proudest day in British history, said in the 18th century.
Healthcare and trauma/shock economics - not the profit motive, but politics and ideology.
h(b?) boham(botham?)(higginbotham?) carter + gibson -- what did I write that for?
Thursday, 15 November 2007
A brief history of feminism, part four.
So, further back through time. Before the CIA and before the Nazis and their western branches.
Back so far we wind up at first wave feminism, in fact in no way the first variant of feminism, but even so. That's the name it now goes by. It gained its power, ironically in view of its later eugenical pretentions, by trailing on the coat tails of the justified sympathy for blacks. It's been a common trope, feminists sit themselves on the crest of a rising wave and when the wave recedes under their weight, whether civil rights or pacifist radicalism or anti-slavery, they're left at their new height, with a little help from their friends in high places.
There's a lot of myths about suffragism, first wave feminism. The idea that it was heroic, sacrifical, stoical under government persecution, dedicated to democracy. Even that it earned women the right to own property and so on, manifestly untrue. Women have always been able to own property in England. For a true picture of the society women of the time supposedly found so oppressive see the works of E Belfort Bax.
These myths are the founding myths of a movement, but no more true for that. The woman who threw herself before the king's horse and was killed, had a return ticket that day. Just an accident. I've even heard it alleged that dastardly men, so fearful of female participation in democracy, tortured the suffragists of the time. Look closed and they mean force feeding. Those who went on hunger strike in prison were force fed because the government couldn't have the PR damage associated with women starving to death, rich white women at that, in British prisons.
Furthermore they were in prison for good reason, suffragists blew up Lloyd George's house. He later signed into law the act allowing women the vote. Terrorism works. As Pizzey says, feminists have been involved in terrorism more recently too.
Look at true government oppression in denial of the vote if you will: the protests of 1832, in which the King's Own Dragoons hacked down so many poor men - who wanted nothing more the democracy - all around Bristol.
Women were late to the party. It was a movement. It went up and took feminism with it. It came down again, without even achieving industrial democracy or the last points of the Charter. Feminism stayed on high, lifted up by the resilience of men.
There was a placard on the Simpsons: Draft men not beer. A good start for many lines of thought. The feminist blue ribbon movement against booze. Created modern organised crime, as well as allowing a holier-than-thou, sentimental feminist (in Bax's term) grab for the moral high-ground, whence to look down upon te atavistic menfolk.
Again, an actual placard from reality: "Votes for women, chastity for men."
Whatever happened to Angilion who used to post on the Usenet, I wonder? Again, it's ironical, given the later feminist turn to race-based biological warfare, that back then it was a common feminist belief that STDs were a conspiracy against women, a sort of male biological warfare plot to use VD they'd picked up from hookers to infect their wives. Why would they want to do that? Answer comes there none.
We're getting towards the pre-history of feminism now. That's for another time. Dingwall, Weishaupt, Wollstonecraft, the reemergence of Venus and Tertullian's statements about the doorway to the devil. Later.
Back so far we wind up at first wave feminism, in fact in no way the first variant of feminism, but even so. That's the name it now goes by. It gained its power, ironically in view of its later eugenical pretentions, by trailing on the coat tails of the justified sympathy for blacks. It's been a common trope, feminists sit themselves on the crest of a rising wave and when the wave recedes under their weight, whether civil rights or pacifist radicalism or anti-slavery, they're left at their new height, with a little help from their friends in high places.
There's a lot of myths about suffragism, first wave feminism. The idea that it was heroic, sacrifical, stoical under government persecution, dedicated to democracy. Even that it earned women the right to own property and so on, manifestly untrue. Women have always been able to own property in England. For a true picture of the society women of the time supposedly found so oppressive see the works of E Belfort Bax.
These myths are the founding myths of a movement, but no more true for that. The woman who threw herself before the king's horse and was killed, had a return ticket that day. Just an accident. I've even heard it alleged that dastardly men, so fearful of female participation in democracy, tortured the suffragists of the time. Look closed and they mean force feeding. Those who went on hunger strike in prison were force fed because the government couldn't have the PR damage associated with women starving to death, rich white women at that, in British prisons.
Furthermore they were in prison for good reason, suffragists blew up Lloyd George's house. He later signed into law the act allowing women the vote. Terrorism works. As Pizzey says, feminists have been involved in terrorism more recently too.
Look at true government oppression in denial of the vote if you will: the protests of 1832, in which the King's Own Dragoons hacked down so many poor men - who wanted nothing more the democracy - all around Bristol.
Women were late to the party. It was a movement. It went up and took feminism with it. It came down again, without even achieving industrial democracy or the last points of the Charter. Feminism stayed on high, lifted up by the resilience of men.
There was a placard on the Simpsons: Draft men not beer. A good start for many lines of thought. The feminist blue ribbon movement against booze. Created modern organised crime, as well as allowing a holier-than-thou, sentimental feminist (in Bax's term) grab for the moral high-ground, whence to look down upon te atavistic menfolk.
Again, an actual placard from reality: "Votes for women, chastity for men."
Whatever happened to Angilion who used to post on the Usenet, I wonder? Again, it's ironical, given the later feminist turn to race-based biological warfare, that back then it was a common feminist belief that STDs were a conspiracy against women, a sort of male biological warfare plot to use VD they'd picked up from hookers to infect their wives. Why would they want to do that? Answer comes there none.
We're getting towards the pre-history of feminism now. That's for another time. Dingwall, Weishaupt, Wollstonecraft, the reemergence of Venus and Tertullian's statements about the doorway to the devil. Later.
Screenwipe
Charley Brooker's Screenwipe. On the beeb. Ended with him "saluting the new world order" whilst gagged because under the BBC's new production guidelines it's not allowed to talk over the credits of a programme as Auntie might feel the need for the announcer to speak over them, or to crush the credits to half the screen size so as to use the other half to advertise their other programmes.
The continuity announcer, a woman, then called him a good boy and joked about not "crushing his bits", whilst talking all over the cr5edits.
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
A brief history of feminism, part the third.
As I say, the Nazis didn't arrive in the West after the war. They didn't arrive in the west at all, for this is whence they sprung. Of course they have their root in the Thulists and company, but even Yggdrasil has three roots.
It might have been Thule that pioneered the Polar Man and World Ice, but it was the Rockefellers and company who pioneered the more pragmatic scum-killing. THEY are still going today, advertising the cosmetics with phalates in and pumping organophosphates into the environment. I'm no anti-environmentalist, but organophosphate poisoning is a more likely explanation even than over fishing for the decline in fish stocks (although the truth is probably OPs, over fishing and bad fishing technique, like dredging.
Being scared of the animalistic breeding abilities of those bestial wogs is a continuous line through history, from well before the War to a peak somewhere closer to the present day. The Birth Control League and Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Planned Parenthood and Zero Population Growth.
That's bit of a pattern, the German ideologues dream their dreams of ancient Aryan glory while the Americans go quietly about the dirty business. IBM with death camp administration, GM making Hitler's trucks, BIS collecting interest on the loans from western financiers that had allowed the Nazi economic boom. Right into 45 the USA was collecting interest on the Nazi loans, although by then Britain had been forced to liquidate its foreign holdings as part of the American manipulation of the war for post-war financial purposes.
But before our fall we'd been involved too. It was our national elites who procured the planes for Franco to fly his Foreign Legion, the only decent troops Spain had, to Spain. Franco's Spain was given recognition right from the start. The Americans sent him oil paid for by the Republic, FIFA recognised his Spain as the Spain. Not a surprise. FIFA is a big money laundering operation. Havelange was a crook in Brazil before he got the top job. That job saved him from jail. His successor is in with the P2 gang and his predecessor was a great supporter of Apartheid. Rous. Raus! Schnell, schnell!
Yes, it would have been different without those planes. The military coup couldn't rely on its own army. The troops had to be got drunk or told they were fighting AGAINST a coup to get them on the streets, then when the truth came out they started deserting in droves, apart from the officers. These weren't exactly first division soldiers anyway. They were no match for the democratic armed forces of the unions. The hardened Morrocan veterans and the Condor Legions were a different matter. At no time did the Condors and other fascist "volunteers" outnumber the international brigades by less than three to one.
Nessie writes, in one of his articles once written for sfbg.com:
Then there's the documentable certainty that research into race specific biological weapons has been going on since at least 1951 when Navy personnel deliberately contaminated (2.) ten wooden crates with Serratia marcescens, Basillus globigii, and Aspergillus fumagatus before they were shipped from a supply depot in Pennsylvania to the navy base in Norfolk, Virginia. This test was designed to establish how easily bacteriological weapons might be disseminated among the people employed to handle the boxes. Of the three infectious bacteria, Aspergillus fumigatis had been specifically chosen because African-American workers at the base would be particularly susceptible to it.
Well, cold war times. Terror of those Commies drove the USG into all sorts of things they didn't want to do. No, no, there's no racism in the American government. Certainly not. They just needed a bioweapon to use against those dastardly Soviets. You know, all those black fellahs in Eastern Europe. Just in case the nukes didn't work. Can never be too careful, you know.
Look at how charitable towards the black fellahs the governments of the west that once ruled and/or tried to eradicate them now are. All those vaccines. Nessie again:
In a very real sense, it was an act of genocide, and not an act of rebellion that gave birth to our nation state. Genocide is the American way. It's how we got here. Ask any Native American. Biological warfare was part of that genocide. It's as American as apple pie and Chevrolet. At least one of its perpetrators has been honored by having a town named after him. Amherst, Mass. is named for a man who gave Indians blankets contaminated with smallpox during the 1754-67 French and Indian War.
One day giving some natives smallpox. The next saving some other natives somewhere else from the same disease. To think.
You may think this is getting away from feminism, but it's not. This is what feminism is about, the politics of fascism, murder and persecution. In the west the feminists are house niggers, keeping working men down for their rich masters, in the rest of the world they're concentration camp guards.
...many blacks wonder whether black civil rights and abortion fit so neatly together. Black pregnancies have historically been the target of social engineers such as Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Sanger was convinced that blacks, Jews, Eastern Europeans, and other non-Aryan groups were detracting from the creative intellect and social potential of America, and she wanted those groups' numbers reduced...
-- Greg Keath, in the "Wall Street Journal", 27/9/89/
That's the Ireton role of government: to allow those who own to enjoy their property in peace.
This country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority - and so it remains.
-- Chomsky, as quoted by the Manic Street Preachers
Ocean Colour Scene, to finish us off:
And all those just trying toplay their part
Don't wanna fight no more
And all those who own a human heart
Don't wanna fight no more
But there's no profit in what you want
So we must fight some more
And all those who got an axe to grind down
Don't wanna fight no more
And all those who got their burning lives
Don't wanna fight no more
But there's no profit in ever being right
So we must fight some more
And all the people under broken homes
Don't wanna fight no more
But there is profit in the land you own
So we must fight some more
And all those who got a tired face
Don't wanna fight no more
And all those who are lost without a trace
Don't wanna fight no more
But there is profit in the love of hate
So we must fight some more
And so it remains.
It might have been Thule that pioneered the Polar Man and World Ice, but it was the Rockefellers and company who pioneered the more pragmatic scum-killing. THEY are still going today, advertising the cosmetics with phalates in and pumping organophosphates into the environment. I'm no anti-environmentalist, but organophosphate poisoning is a more likely explanation even than over fishing for the decline in fish stocks (although the truth is probably OPs, over fishing and bad fishing technique, like dredging.
Being scared of the animalistic breeding abilities of those bestial wogs is a continuous line through history, from well before the War to a peak somewhere closer to the present day. The Birth Control League and Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Planned Parenthood and Zero Population Growth.
That's bit of a pattern, the German ideologues dream their dreams of ancient Aryan glory while the Americans go quietly about the dirty business. IBM with death camp administration, GM making Hitler's trucks, BIS collecting interest on the loans from western financiers that had allowed the Nazi economic boom. Right into 45 the USA was collecting interest on the Nazi loans, although by then Britain had been forced to liquidate its foreign holdings as part of the American manipulation of the war for post-war financial purposes.
But before our fall we'd been involved too. It was our national elites who procured the planes for Franco to fly his Foreign Legion, the only decent troops Spain had, to Spain. Franco's Spain was given recognition right from the start. The Americans sent him oil paid for by the Republic, FIFA recognised his Spain as the Spain. Not a surprise. FIFA is a big money laundering operation. Havelange was a crook in Brazil before he got the top job. That job saved him from jail. His successor is in with the P2 gang and his predecessor was a great supporter of Apartheid. Rous. Raus! Schnell, schnell!
Yes, it would have been different without those planes. The military coup couldn't rely on its own army. The troops had to be got drunk or told they were fighting AGAINST a coup to get them on the streets, then when the truth came out they started deserting in droves, apart from the officers. These weren't exactly first division soldiers anyway. They were no match for the democratic armed forces of the unions. The hardened Morrocan veterans and the Condor Legions were a different matter. At no time did the Condors and other fascist "volunteers" outnumber the international brigades by less than three to one.
Nessie writes, in one of his articles once written for sfbg.com:
Then there's the documentable certainty that research into race specific biological weapons has been going on since at least 1951 when Navy personnel deliberately contaminated (2.) ten wooden crates with Serratia marcescens, Basillus globigii, and Aspergillus fumagatus before they were shipped from a supply depot in Pennsylvania to the navy base in Norfolk, Virginia. This test was designed to establish how easily bacteriological weapons might be disseminated among the people employed to handle the boxes. Of the three infectious bacteria, Aspergillus fumigatis had been specifically chosen because African-American workers at the base would be particularly susceptible to it.
Well, cold war times. Terror of those Commies drove the USG into all sorts of things they didn't want to do. No, no, there's no racism in the American government. Certainly not. They just needed a bioweapon to use against those dastardly Soviets. You know, all those black fellahs in Eastern Europe. Just in case the nukes didn't work. Can never be too careful, you know.
Look at how charitable towards the black fellahs the governments of the west that once ruled and/or tried to eradicate them now are. All those vaccines. Nessie again:
In a very real sense, it was an act of genocide, and not an act of rebellion that gave birth to our nation state. Genocide is the American way. It's how we got here. Ask any Native American. Biological warfare was part of that genocide. It's as American as apple pie and Chevrolet. At least one of its perpetrators has been honored by having a town named after him. Amherst, Mass. is named for a man who gave Indians blankets contaminated with smallpox during the 1754-67 French and Indian War.
One day giving some natives smallpox. The next saving some other natives somewhere else from the same disease. To think.
You may think this is getting away from feminism, but it's not. This is what feminism is about, the politics of fascism, murder and persecution. In the west the feminists are house niggers, keeping working men down for their rich masters, in the rest of the world they're concentration camp guards.
...many blacks wonder whether black civil rights and abortion fit so neatly together. Black pregnancies have historically been the target of social engineers such as Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Sanger was convinced that blacks, Jews, Eastern Europeans, and other non-Aryan groups were detracting from the creative intellect and social potential of America, and she wanted those groups' numbers reduced...
-- Greg Keath, in the "Wall Street Journal", 27/9/89/
That's the Ireton role of government: to allow those who own to enjoy their property in peace.
This country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority - and so it remains.
-- Chomsky, as quoted by the Manic Street Preachers
Ocean Colour Scene, to finish us off:
And all those just trying toplay their part
Don't wanna fight no more
And all those who own a human heart
Don't wanna fight no more
But there's no profit in what you want
So we must fight some more
And all those who got an axe to grind down
Don't wanna fight no more
And all those who got their burning lives
Don't wanna fight no more
But there's no profit in ever being right
So we must fight some more
And all the people under broken homes
Don't wanna fight no more
But there is profit in the land you own
So we must fight some more
And all those who got a tired face
Don't wanna fight no more
And all those who are lost without a trace
Don't wanna fight no more
But there is profit in the love of hate
So we must fight some more
And so it remains.
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
A brief history of feminism, part the second.
As we trace the tentacles from the mangled corpse of LeTellier, we see feminism linked in with the internation post-war fascist/terrorist/cocaine nexus. From the bloated bellies of starving Africans they lead elsewhere, but always through feminism. From the modern feminist movement there's another link, ramrod straight, to the works of the madmen von List and Liebenfels, in the idea that spirals on mediterranean boats are the eye of the all seeing goddess, in the book "Martian Genesis", in the beliefs in a prehistoric Utopia of psychic supermen(women) brought down by interbreeding with beastly lower castes. The Kurgan invasion for the Jewish untermenschen. The digs in the same places, the same sites.
Most notably through one woman, Gimbutas. Her youth has corrupted the world. Let's trace it, and where it leads.
There are two versions, of course. The official line, favoured by herself, her feminist cohorts and the establishment, and the truth. As usual, it's a matter of emphasis as much as fact. She claims, for example, to have joined the Lithuanian underground resistance. Probably true. The resistance, to the Soviets, that is, was formed from Nazis and the former local SS branch, as in all eastern Europe, see "MI6", by Stephen Dorrill, amongst others.
I could go on all day about the activities of fugitive White Russians and other eastern fascists after their eviction by Red forces, from the Zinoviev letter to Stefano delle Chiaie and the involvement of the ethnic wing of the Republican party in the 1990 US election. But I won't. Suffice it to say that they were a nasty bunch of genocidal maniacs and that the Lithuanians were particularly murderous, putting up a years long fight against the Soviet reconquista with American support before finally adopting the usual exile.
The Nazis had a long interest in the area, despite its history as a part of the Balt ethnosphere, therefore lacking Aryan connections, they saw it as part of their pre-historic Aryan empire, occupied by their psychic five-eyed forebears, before they were dragged down by their interbreeding with the love-pygmies and sodom-apelings. The Ahnenerbe conducted many digs there, none of them with any real scientific rigour. They found what they wanted to find.
When the Nazi panzers roled towards Leningrad they took control of the area and could do dedicate themselves to the hunt. They were looking for the Aryan supermen of yore and their advanced culture, always an SS obsession. The Aryan superman was really meant to be a superman, to be bred back to its original state of autochthonic and godlike perfection. It was in this tradition that Gimbutas was trained. She went to Germany to study in 1942, she wasn't struggling through marshes fighting oppressors with her baby on her back, as some have tried to make out. She was studying Nazi orthodoxy. After the war she joined the other eastern European SS men in exile in the USA, meaning she almost certainly had contact with the CIA, directly or indirectly, in her needs for asylum. After that she was looked after, given positions her Nazi leanings qualified her for in academia.
She used her new position, along with the new Nazi/CIA puppet movement of feminism to push the old beliefs on new people, with a new twist of course. Now the master race were not the no-longer-fashionable Aryan supermen of old, but feminists. They were brought down by invading "Kurgans", not the interbreeding of the racially inferior (although it was interbreeding with the Kurgans, so the theme continues).
The psychic powers of the matriarchs of old are down-played these days, theosophy is long gone into the past and the five-eyed-ness is less beguiling, but the fringes of the rad fems still believe it and the goddess worshipping ideas have taken its place. Now it's "I survived five thousand years of patriarchy" and so forth. Finding symbols of long hidden underground goddess worship in the medieval witchcraft trials, in the Hypogeum of Hal Saflienti's strange subterranean architecture and in the fake history of the self-proclaimed Old Religion of Wicca, as von Liebenfels saw symbols of runes in the woodwork of medieval cottages. The Old Religion isn't very old. Even the genuinely Old Ways weren't as old as our own path. The Great Old Ones aren't so great, nor so old, nor so one as they would have us believe.
It's designed to re-ignite the left hand path and subjugate the ego. The left hand path, the god(dess) within. The right hand path the god without. The women dancing naked on pews, painting red dots on their foreheads and singing about sofia; milk and honey. Eisler on the go. As in Twist of Faith, the web-book about this subject. , that is, which doesn't come at the top of the google search. There's a film above it, of the same name. More keyword hijacking, perhaps. That's one conspiracy theory I didn't think I'd come to adopt.
Riane Eisler and company are the next generation. Savitri Devi was a neo-Nazi who pursued the same lines, feminist and prehistoric, as the mainstream feminist movement. There are plenty of links between Catholicism and Nazism, of course, beyond Stepinac, the forced conversions and the post-war ratline. Well, there we have a line going far further back in time. Two Babylons, for the feminists are right in seeing a goddess worshipping pagan cult in the past, but wrong in seeing it as witches lurking in woods. It was popes in Rome that were behind it.
Branton, in the Mojave Files (Or, The Conspiracy Against Reality), Page Two says:
These took place during the Dark and Middle Ages of so-called 'holy' Roman Empire rule which 'began' when the last of the Emperors or 'Pontifex Maximus' of the Roman Empire, CONSTANTINE, declared himself to be the FIRST official Roman 'Pontiff' or 'Pope'. Constantine payed lipservice to 'Christianity' yet secretly held to the ancient Babylonean Mystery Religion of which he himself was High Priest or Pontifex Maxiumus, one in a long line of many which can be traced back to Nimrod, the first King of Babylon, himself. (This statement may raise anger in some who religiously defend man-made 'traditions', however history is history and facts are facts).
And in Page Seven:
F. W. Holiday, in his book 'THE DRAGON AND THE DISK' (W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. New York, N.Y. 1973) relates some unusual facts concerning the relationship between serpent or 'dragon' legends and the modern 'UFO' phenomena:"...Satanism -- that is to say the religion of the dragon... seems to have been contemporaneous in BABYLON and Bronze Age Britain. In both countries it was probably practiced by minority groups and became official only in times of decadence.
"When Cryus occupied Ur...a form of dragon-worship seems to have been in vogue. The priests of this cult escaped the Persians by fleeing north with their PONTIFF (or 'PONTIFEX MAXIMUS', a position which has allegedly been secretly held in an unbroken chain from Babylon up to modern times - Branton) into the mountains of Asia Minor. They finally came to rest at a place called Pergamos in Lydia (western Turkey) and there set up a religious centre which became known as 'Satan's seat'. St. John said: 'And to the angel of the church of Pergamos, write: These things saith He [God] which hath the sharp sword with two edges [judgment and mercy]: I know they works, and where thou dwellest, EVEN where Satan's seat is...'
"The ROMANS also knew about Satan's seat AND ANNEXED IT INTO THEIR EMPIRE IN 133 B.C., after the death of Attalus III, the last of the Pergamite kings. About this period A PLAGUE BROKE OUT IN ROME and prayers were offered to the Roman 'gods' in vain. It was decided, therefore, to appeal to Satan at Pergamos.
"The symbol of the cult was A SERPENT and a special ship was sent to Lydia TO TRANSPORT THE GOD TO ROME. (Most likely a depiction or "idol" representation of the "god", in that idols among early pagans were indistinguishable from the so-called "gods" themselves - Branton) There it was installed as a deity with great pomp. The disease had probably run its course and the resulting improvement in public health was attributed to Satan. The new religion was so popular that snakes of inoffensive species were allowed to glide around at parties -- at least so Seneca says. In HISTORIA AUGUSTA they are called DRACUNCULI or little dragons.
"The Aesculapian Serpent -- as the 'god' was called -- is shown on a carving at Pompeii and is unlike anything known to herpetologists. It had vertical humps and snail-like horns, exactly like the monsters (sea serpents - Branton) of Scotland and Ireland. A bronze Urarian cauldron in Rome carries the erect head and neck of the creature modeled in the round. It is hideous. It has a shovel-like mouth, bulging eyes and tentacles or sensory-organs hanging on each side of the face.
"No-one, of course, thought that snakes were dragons. The malignant Great Serpent of Babylonia was TYPHON or Teitan, Satan, the author of wickedness...
"Politicians, however, never look a gift-horse in the mouth as long as it produces results. After giving the Roman people carnage in the guise of circus entertainment, there was no reason for the EMPERORS to shrink from a little devil-worship. Even the national flag was given the treatment. Ammianus Marcellinus describes the standard 'PURPUREUM SIGNUM DRACONIS'. And when Julius Caesar appeared in full regalia as the PONTIFEX MAXIMUS he was dressed in reddish-purple robes the same as the Pergamite dragon-priests. The reader can trace the rest of the story in Gibbon's 'RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE'.
"DRAGON-WORSHIP PERSISTED LONG AFTER CHRISTIANITY (and also 'Catholicism?' - Branton) HAD BEEN PROCLAIMED. Tertullian complained: 'These heretics magnify the serpent to such a degree as to prefer him even to Christ himself; for he, they say, gave us the first knowledge of good and evil.'
See also the book "Europe's Full Circle".
And I think that brings us back to the Nazis. Our Gimbutas again. She trained under Ernst Kassener, a Nazi ideologue. That's who taught our hero of feminism her trade. The only difference is the identity of the good guys and the bad guys.
Gustaf Kossina and Ernst Kassener, there beliefs should have died with them, Nazi, feminist and all alike.
2 Timothy 3:
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
So, some hope for the future there, anyway. It's no coincidence that msot abductees are women.
Since the discovery of the 'Venus of Willendorf', as this little artwork came to be called, scores more goddess figurines have come to light. The wide geographical scope is one indication of the goddess religion. One goddess figurine, discovered before the Willendorf Venus, is seldom mentioned in the standard texts of archaeology. It came from a well boring at Nampa, Idaho, in 1889. It was no more than an inch and a half long, a female figure that '...would do credit to the classical centres of art' according to G.F. Wright. This figurine has been dated to the Plio-Pleistocene era, which makes it about 2 millions years old. Not even the Ancient Egyptians believed their civilisation reached back to that time. But it acccords quite neatly with the idea that the earliest of our civilisationswas a transplant from the planet mars and raises a fascinating field of speculations.
To date, many of those tempted to discuss the sex of the face on Mars, have concluded it is male. The 'platform' surrounding the face itself is often taken as a headdress, of even military helmet. The 'diadem' which emerges on computer enhancement is seen as an indication that this is the face of a king.
Yet such conclusions may be no more than the projection of a male-oriented culture. If the face is in fact female - and the 'helmet' actually a styling of hair - then it becomes possible that Earth's ancient goddess religionliterally came down from the heavens.
-- Martian Genesis, Chapter Nine, Section Three
Also [url=http://www.awakenedwoman.com/malta.htm]Mothers and Daughters in Malta[/url] (SMOM/Blackwater - also Branton's talk of the underground of the Hypogeum of Hal Saflienti, all things are connected).
Rockefeller financed the Nazis through I.G. Farben. He sponsored the American Eugenics Society that had close links to its Nazi counterpart.
Rockefeller financed Alfred Kinsey, the homosexual pederast whose "Kinsey Report" replaced married love with casual sex.
Rockefeller continues to finance "Women's Studies" which is a training ground for fascist zealots who spread their poison in society as "change agents." (See Daphne Patai, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies.)
The elite is promoting homosexuality to bring about a fascist New World Order. Homosexuality is a developmental disorder characterized by a failure to bond with a member of the opposite sex. Lesbianism (feminism) which coerces women to be like men (and vice-versa) makes it difficult to achieve such a bond. As a result, millions of men and women have been defrauded of happiness and suffer the same symptoms as homosexuals, i.e. arrested development, and obsession with sex. Easy to promote homosexuality. Bad town planning, crowding, heavy metal (lead, etc.) poisoning, all so it very well.
The same lines of the conspiracy go back and forth. The strings of the puppet, you might say.
But the Nazis didn't only come to the west after the war.
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