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this is like watching world wrestling

Oct 14

Posted by A. Peasant in Brazil, France, Hasbara, Iran, Israel, Oil | No Comments

It does not necessarily make a lot of sense….BUT:

Nice tights.

Brazil’s economy added payroll jobs for the eighth straight month in September, the latest sign of an economic recovery that is prompting companies to hire workers to meet growing demand for manufactured goods and new homes, government data showed on Wednesday….Brazil emerged from a brief recession in the second quarter of this year, becoming one of the first major economies to bounce back from the global crisis.

Big muscles. http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6494

The recently signed agreements between Brazil and France are about much more than the purchase of armaments. They indicate the creation of a military industrial complex, a goal which forms part of the National Defense Strategy of Brazil. This new industrial superpower, owner of the seventh largest oil reserves of the world and the world’s largest area of natural biodiversity in the Amazon, is now seeking to protect its riches and assert itself as a new military power.
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The recent treaty between Colombia and the United States allowing the latter country to use seven military bases in Colombia provoked much high-level military discussion in the Brazilian press. Luis Eduardo Paiva Rocha, retired general and professor at Brazil’s Officer Training Academy, published an article in Defesanet provocatively entitled, “Strategic short-sightedness and military indigence are the biggest threats to Brazilian sovereignty.”13 The general criticizes the “populist hysteria” of the Bolivian leadership with regard to the Colombian military bases and points out that neither Brazil nor any other neighboring country presented an alternative: “The Colombian bases to be used by the United States would not present a problem for Brazil if Brazil had the military power which reflects the international standing in the world it purports to have. What threatens us is our weakness because ‘amongst other things, to be unarmed is to be insignificant (Machiavelli).’”

He adds that “the Brazilian Armed Forces are completely incapable of resisting an invasion from a modern military power.” The threats will most probably come from those attempting to gain control of the riches of the Amazon or the oil reserves of the South Atlantic. The current commander of the navy, Julio Soares de Moura Neto, responded much in the same vein when asked to comment on the French deal by the Folha de Sao Paulo: “Brazilians must become aware of the fact that we have enormous wealth in the sea and the navy must be constantly on alert in order to defend the nation’s sovereignty.”14

The admiral continues by warning that the risks have increased dramatically now that Brazil is not only an emerging economic power but also a potential oil-producing super-state. One comment in particular reveals the changed attitude toward the United States: when George Bush reactivated the Fourth Fleet and deployed it to the South Atlantic, the decision “was conveyed to Brazil neither politically nor diplomatically.”

This must be why Lula, sure that Brazil is well on its way to becoming a great power in the 21st century, is also building the framework which will ensure that the country can defend itself militarily. Brazil will have the largest navy in Latin America as well as the largest air force. It will have the only military industrial complex in the region. The fact that it has sought the help of France, a country that has so openly maintained its political and military independence from Washington, is very significant.

It is possible, as maintained by the analysts of Dedefensa, that Washington will regard the actions of both Brazil and France as a “declaration of war.”15 This development would fit in perfectly with the world vision as seen by the elites who benefit most from the Washington Consensus. The situation was perhaps best summarized by the Italian Dario Azzellini, a specialist in the “new wars”: “War is no longer needed to establish a new economic model—war itself is the model.”16

OK so let me get this straight. Nicky Sarkozy the Zionist tag-teams up with Brazil’s Lula ‘we must never deny the Holocaust’ da Silva, to face off against the American team of Zionists, a team too deep to even contemplate but on the brink of financial ruin?

(scroll down: http://www.jewishresearch.org/newsletter.htm)

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva joined Jewish leaders to mark the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps, saying the Holocaust must never be denied and urging the world to prevent it from ever happening again. “In the 21st century we cannot accept the denial of the Holocaust as a historical fact…nor can we accept those who deny that six million Jews were massacred,” Silva told some 500 people at the Sao Paulo Jewish Congregation’s synagogue on Friday.

“Each time we pay homage to the victims of the Holocaust, we strengthen those forces that will prevent that same horror from repeating itself,” he said after praising the United Nation’s General Assembly for last week’s approval of a resolution condemning the denial of the Holocaust. Silva’s remarks came at a ceremony held to commemorate the January 27, 1945 liberation and to mark the second International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

He did not specifically mention Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the congregation’s chief rabbi, Henry Sobel, said the Brazilian president’s presence at Friday’s event represented a repudiation of Ahmadinejad’s insistence that the Holocaust was a myth. Sobel also said he was concerned by what he called growing anti-Semitism in Venezuela. “President Hugo Chavez’s rhetoric is anti-Semitic and he is a close ally of the president of Iran, and both of them share a profound hatred of Israel,” Sobel said.

Chavez has cultivated friendly ties with Ahmadinejad and last year called Israeli attacks in Lebanon during a conflict with Hezbollah militants a new Holocaust. He has made other remarks criticized by some Jewish groups as anti-Semitic, though he said his comments were misinterpreted. At about 130,000 strong, Brazil’s Jewish community is the second-largest in South America after Argentina, which is home to an estimated 200,000 Jews.

Crazy Don King style manager hyping everything.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=345512&CategoryId=13303

Dear President Lula, Again,

I wrote to you in the spring, deeply concerned about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s scheduled visit to Brasilia on May 6. Thankfully, that visit did not take place. Sadly, it is now slated to occur next month. Mr. President, please reconsider.

You are a widely admired political leader. Brazil, under your guidance, has rapidly emerged on the world stage, to quote you, as a “first-rate citizen” of the international community. Why would you wish to confer your considerable prestige on Ahmadinejad, who craves it but surely does not deserve it? And why would Brazil, today a towering bastion of democratic values, seek closer ties with Iran, your polar opposite?

Mr. President, you spoke passionately at the UN a few weeks ago about the kind of world you seek to build. You called for the preservation and expansion of human rights. Under the current regime, however, Iran has trampled on human rights – flagrantly, brutally, repeatedly.

You expressed support for disarmament and non-proliferation. Under the current regime, however, Iran is rapidly arming and is violating binding UN Security Council resolutions and International Atomic Energy Agency guidelines on nuclear proliferation. {LIES}

You appealed for a confrontation with terrorism “without stigmatizing ethnic groups and religions.” Under the current regime, however, Iran actively promotes and funds terrorism and has targeted specific ethnic groups and religions, including the Jewish community in your own backyard, South America. {PROOF??}
And you articulated a vision of a two-state solution, a Palestinian state living alongside Israel. Under the current regime, however, Iran seeks a world without Israel, pure and simple. {GIVE IT A REST!}

In other words, Mr. President, not only does Iran not share your core views, it actively opposes them. You will perhaps assert that dialogue between nations can change minds. At times, yes, absolutely. But many have already tried that kind of dialogue with Iran, each claiming they could find the key to usher in a promising new era with Tehran. The results prove the contrary. Iranian leaders have only hardened their stance over the years, while seeking to exploit the diplomatic and commercial opportunities they have been afforded in visits to capitals from Ankara to Moscow, from Kuala Lumpur to New Delhi.

Now, as you know, there is a new dialogue with Iran, but this one is meant to be different. Earlier this month, representatives of six nations, the permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany, met with Iranian officials to tell them that patience is quickly wearing thin with Tehran’s all-too-familiar pattern of denial and deceit regarding its nuclear program.

For now, at least, these talks hold out the best hope for diverting Iran from its dangerous course. Why the need to host President Ahmadinejad, when the effect, however unintended, could be to complicate the negotiations still further?

Mr. President, last spring when I wrote to you, the case against Ahmadinejad’s Iran was already compelling. In the ensuing months, it has only become more so.

Consider the June 12th elections in Iran. It is clear there was massive tampering and vote-rigging. {CIA? MOSSAD?} Or the aftermath. How many Iranians who took to the streets in protest have been arrested, beaten, tortured, and killed? Recall the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan, who came to symbolize the regime’s violence against its own people. {CIA? MOSSAD?} Consider the fate of seven Baha’i leaders, members of a long persecuted community, who were seized on trumped-up charges and face the death penalty. The trial is scheduled for this month, having been postponed from August, since their attorney was thrown in prison after the elections.

Consider Ahmadinejad’s hateful speech on Al-Quds Day, September 18th. Once again, he called the Holocaust a fabrication. Consider his UN remarks a few days later, in which he accused Jews of all sorts of nefarious crimes, prompting a walkout from the General Assembly of many European and Latin American delegations, though, regrettably, Mr. President, not yours.

Consider Iran’s trumpeted launch of Shabab-3 and Sejil-2 missiles the same month. Are these symbols of Iran’s commitment to peaceful coexistence with its neighbors?

And then, of course, there was Qum. Despite Iran’s effort to “spin” the story of its undeclared enrichment facility, it is clear that Iran was caught red-handed in a grand deception. {OH REALLY?????} How many other such undeclared facilities might there be in Iran? And what is their purpose if not to advance Iran’s quest for nuclear-weapons capability?

Mr. President, do the right thing. For the sake of your commitment to human rights and democratic values, do the right thing. For the sake of your pursuit of non-proliferation and peaceful coexistence, do the right thing. For the sake of the brave Iranians who have risked their lives, in some cases paid with their lives, to challenge the regime’s abuse of power, do the right thing. For the sake of all those in Brazil and beyond outraged by Iran’s treatment of women, gays, religious minorities, independent journalists, student activists, and labor union organizers, do the right thing. For the sake of Brazil’s conscience and its example to the world, do the right thing.

Or, next month, will it be the red carpet, the extended hand, the captivating smile, the warm embrace, the signed deals, and the promise of closer ties with Iran? Mr. President, while there is still time, I urge you to reconsider – and do the right thing.

Oh, and really big asses.

i always hated october

Oct 13

Posted by A. Peasant in Mind Control, NWO, Occult, Resistance | No Comments

Well, in the style of throwing some things against the wall here and seeing what sticks, here goes nothing…

First, a brilliant illustration by David Dees.

Mind control is real.
Ritual sacrifice is real.
Playing with your emotions is real.

IF TPTB wants to effect a paradigm change, which we believe they do, they’re having some problems executing.

People have caught on to the swine flu psyop. People know that the financial system is totally corrupt. People know about false flag operations like 9/11. We still have the internet. We’re still here. Every day we live to resist another day is a day that WE HAVE WON, just like the Palestinians. OK? Give yourself a pat on the back. We are human beings, and we will prevail.

IF TPTB wanted to soften us up, they would do something to get everyone very emotional, preferably weepy emotional rather than fighting emotional. They’d have you crying your eyeballs out while glued to the teevee for the latest CNN crawl to find out WHO DID IT. WHO DID THIS TO US?

And then when you’re down, when you’re confused and you dropped your tissues and your nose is running, that’s when they kick you in the head and the back. That is why I think they might go for Obama first, and then lower the boom on the financial crisis or false flag or bio-attack or some combination thereof. NOT that everyone loves Obama, that’s not what I’m saying because obviously everyone doesn’t. But a lot of people still do. Enough people. I covered the concept of “enough” in the last post. So perhaps the time is ripe to harvest the fruit, before it rots on the vine.

IF Obama is under mind-control, which to be honest I would be astonished if he weren’t, an “accident” wouldn’t be difficult to arrange. I have also covered in my last few posts the way the New Prince of Peace idea fits into the Passion Narrative. If you have any understanding of the goals of the NWO, you realize that a great culture war between Muslims and Christians needs to be arranged. You know that the NWO hates Christianity and wants to destroy Christianity as well as Islam.

Look at the loaded symbolic language here from this Newsweek op-ed by Howard Fineman:

In the rose garden last Friday, Barack Obama, with a deep sense of humility and in the name of all mankind, reluctantly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision proclaiming him president of planet Earth. He will be sworn in at a glittering ceremony in Oslo in December….OK, I’m joking. Obama isn’t going to be sworn in as planetary president. But it doesn’t matter; in his mind, he already is. From the time he announced his candidacy, his appeal—and his sense of himself—has been global…For one of his first major speeches, he flew to Cairo, offering himself as a human bridge between the West and Islam in an event that had the aura of a Second Inaugural Address, this one aimed at the whole world…In office for a mere nine months, Obama is now a full-blown “ism.” And Obamaism—the idea that there must be shared global responsibility for virtually every problem we face—makes some obvious sense….But the president had better be careful…The bigger risk for Obama is personal. No one in recent decades has come into office with such high—perhaps dangerously high—expectations…To be sure, he tried to be humble in the Rose Garden.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/217096

Obama “offered himself as a human bridge between the West and Islam” in Cairo? Do I need to point out the significance of Cairo, Egypt to the occult world? Does Obama know he did that? What happens if that human bridge gets blown up? I guess there’s no way for “the West” and Islam to get together then, hmm? That fits nicely into a little end-times scenario, along with all the other chaos going on in the Middle East, and especially depending on *who* might be blamed should something happen to Obama, the New Prince of Peace. That’s why it’s convenient that not everyone loves Obama. It allows for the finger to be pointed somewhere with legitimacy.

Also note that “Obamanism” was created in just nine months. Naturally. How symbolic.

Sacrifice is real. Ritual sacrifice is real to the occult, and this culture of death has been exposed via the organ harvesting in Israel. And then you’ve got this angle, the war against women, as symbolized by the attack on the moon. And it all comes together in gory horrific clarity upon learning that in China, where couples routinely abort girl babies, they sell the fetuses to restaurants to be prepared in aphrodisiac soups. I warn you this is gruesome and disturbing to the bone — pictures of little tiny babies on cutting boards.

And it’s October, traditional month of “surprises.”

I had a vivid dream last night in which a young black man was going to attack someone wrongly, using trickery, and the crisis was averted when an ugly, simple woman approached him and whispered “say Amen practice saying Amen” to him, which caused him confusion and diverted his will to attack, and at the same time a very small crowd of people did nothing much but approach and sort of got in the way between him and the person he wanted to attack, very peacefully, and shifted the situation until the danger passed.

I believe something like that can still happen, that the crisis can be averted. But it takes wisdom and attention and the willingness of enough people to pay attention, pray, and have the courage to stand up for each other. May the resistance live as long as it is needed.

this is an education

Oct 11

Posted by A. Peasant in Language & Meaning, Mind Control | No Comments

From 1985. There’s been a whole other generation baked into the cake since then, and *their* kids are in the frosting tube.

So…you ready to be lined up against the wall and shot, or what?


Yuri Bezmenov
by onmyway02

h/t specific gravy

chaos ensued

Oct 11

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Jesus ministered for three years.

The #1 thing he preached about was hypocrisy.

He had to go.

Jesus knew that Judas betrayed him and remarked on it at the last supper with his disciples.

Judas prearranged with the Pharisees, who paid him for this service, to identify Jesus to the soldiers by kissing him in the garden.

Judas betrayed the Prince of Peace for money.

The drama of the passion immediately ensued.

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Do *I* personally think Obama is the Messiah? Of course not. Do I think Obama is playing the Messiah role in an occult drama?

What if he is? What might we expect to happen next?

Something…..

you are here: in the garden

Oct 11

Posted by A. Peasant in Language & Meaning, Mind Control, Obama/Biden, Religion, Symbolism | No Comments

AP image

Below you can read the Passion Narrative According to John, which is traditionally chanted on Good Friday services in the Catholic Church. Some People think this narrative is anti-Jewish because it seems to accuse the Jews of killing Jesus. If you read the narrative, however, you will see that the Jews indeed had Jesus killed, which is why the narrative seems to accuse them of said murder, though they used Roman proxies to do the deed. Anyway, this “perception” has caused such a furor over the years that it had to be addressed in the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate to absolve “The Jews” for the death of Christ.

“Even though the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ, neither all Jews indiscriminately at that time, nor Jews today, can be charged with the crimes committed during his passion. It is true that the Church is the new people of God, yet the Jews should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this followed from holy Scripture.”

[http://www.jfrankhenderson.com/pdf/goodfridaypassion.pdf]

This sentiment is usually expressed today as “Not All Jews…” For instance, not all Jews believe we should attack Iran; and not all Jews think the settlements should be expanded, etc. Naturally. And what of it? Doesn’t the “not all…” caveat hold for any group? Not all American school children believe in Santa Claus, but enough do. Enough believe that lie to justify an annual consumer orgy bloodbath allegedly to celebrate Jesus’ birth. And the children who know that Santa is a lie are expected not to let on so as not to ruin the fun for their little friends, or even more bizarrely, for their parents, who often just love the whole charade. I mean, if everyone knew the truth they might have to get real with their expectations. What fun is that?

You don’t need all, you only need enough. There are enough. {http://tinyurl.com/yfsmbk7} But the “not all” category creates a very convenient safety zone. Whenever “the Jews” as a tribe are accused of collective bad behavior, any single Jew can immediately fragment the tribe by claiming that not all Jews are responsible, diverting your wrath to those (unspecified) bad Jews over there. And not all are responsible basically means, in practice, that none are responsible, because those good Jews who supposedly disagree with the tribe on any particular issue are never expected to actually disavow the tribe and forego the tribe’s many benefits. That would be unreasonable. Perish the thought. The tribe has no real fault lines which are deep enough to fragment it. Any and all fragmentations are purely temporary and automatic, like an animal defense mechanism, and will seamlessly disappear once the danger has passed. On the contrary, it’s very useful for some amount of disagreement to always persist among Jewry because it allows them to play monkey in the middle with non-Jews forever and ever. They even have an expression for this, three Jews four opinions, which is supposed to be funny ha ha. Do you get it? Nobody is actually ever responsible for the fourth opinion. It just gets passed around like a hot potato until some whack-job like Bibi or the settlers hold it, and then Bibi and the settlers become the hot potato but nothing ever really gets done about them because the Jews know they’re providing a valuable service to the tribe by being the bad Jews over there, thereby allowing everyone else to look good by comparison. It’s a game, a game the Catholic Church very helpfully officials.

So here’s the story of what happened to Jesus according to John:

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples across the Kidron valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place; for Jesus often met there with his disciples. So Judas, procuring a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. Then Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?” They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When he said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground. Again he asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he; so if you seek me, let these men go.” This was to fulfil the word which he had spoken, “of those whom thou gavest me I lost not one.” Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave and cut off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus. Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?”

So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him. First they led him to Annas; for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. It was Caiaphas who had given counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. As this disciple was known to the high priest, he entered the court of the high priest along with Jesus, while Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the man who kept the door and brought Peter in. The maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are not you also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.” Now the servants and the officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves; Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.

The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching. Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in the synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together; I have said nothing secretly. Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to them; they know what I said.” When he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?” Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?” Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “Are not you also one of his disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.” One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?” Peter again denied it; and at once the cock crowed.

Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not enter the praetorium, so that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. So Pilate went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?” They answered him, “If this man were not an evildoer, we would not have handed him over.” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “it is not lawful for us to put any man to death.” This was to fulfil the word which Jesus had spoken to show by what death he was to die.

Pilate entered the praetorium again and called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew?” Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me; what have you done?” Jesus answered, “My kingship is not of this world; if my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight, that I might not be handed over to the Jews; but my kingship is not from the world.” Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again, and told them, “I find no crime in him. But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover; will you have me release for you the King of the Jews?” They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe; they came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. Pilate went out again, and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you, that you may know that I find no crime in him.” So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him.” The Jews answered him, “we have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God.”

When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid; he entered the praetorium again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave no answer. Pilate therefore said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?” Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.”

Upon this Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend; everyone who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar.” When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Pavement, and in Hebrew, Gabbatha. Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” They cried out “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your king?” The chief priests answered, “We have no King but Caesar.” Then he handed him over to them to be crucified.

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote a title and put it on the cross; it read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘This man said, I am the King of the Jews.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

When the four soldiers had crucified Jesus they took his garments and made four parts, one for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was without seam, woven from top to bottom; so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfil the scripture, “They parted my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did this.

But standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

After this Jesus, knowing that all was finished, said (to fulfil the scripture), “I thirst.” A bowl full of vinegar stood there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished”: and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Since it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him: but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth—that you also may believe. For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, “Not a bone of him shall be broken.” And again another scripture says, “They shall look on him who they have pierced.”

After this Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took away his body. Nicodemus also, who had at first come to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound’s weight. They took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb where no one had ever been laid. So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, as the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

John 18:1-19:42

So here’s a little thought experiment. If Obama played the role of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, in the passion reenactment, who would play the following roles:

Judas
Simon Peter
Malchus
Annas
Caiaphas
Pilate
Barabbas
Caesar
Mary the mother of Jesus
Mary Magdalene
Joseph of Arimathea

That’s a nice picture of Obama in the Rose Garden, don’t you think? It’s a classic.

And by the way, it was “inevitable” according to Howard Fineman, leading Jewish opinion shaper for Newsweek.

In the rose garden last Friday, Barack Obama, with a deep sense of humility and in the name of all mankind, reluctantly accepted the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision proclaiming him president of planet Earth. He will be sworn in at a glittering ceremony in Oslo in December….OK, I’m joking. Obama isn’t going to be sworn in as planetary president. But it doesn’t matter; in his mind, he already is. From the time he announced his candidacy, his appeal—and his sense of himself—has been global…For one of his first major speeches, he flew to Cairo, offering himself as a human bridge between the West and Islam in an event that had the aura of a Second Inaugural Address, this one aimed at the whole world…In office for a mere nine months, Obama is now a full-blown “ism.” And Obamaism—the idea that there must be shared global responsibility for virtually every problem we face—makes some obvious sense….But the president had better be careful…The bigger risk for Obama is personal. No one in recent decades has come into office with such high—perhaps dangerously high—expectations…To be sure, he tried to be humble in the Rose Garden.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/217096

Yeah, he’s *not* going to be sworn in as planetary president. And it doesn’t matter. He’s already there in his mind, Howard Fineman informs us.

Mind control?

Update: Oh, ha. You thought it was just *me* being wacky.

he got the prize for being a good NWO tool

Oct 9

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“I don’t want any foreigners building roads or big buildings for me when I am cleaning blood from my home.” - Haji Dawood Khan, a shopkeeper in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, explains why sending more U.S. troops to his country would not be helpful.

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Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize to mixed reviews
By Wojciech Moskwa

OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world “hope for a better future” and striving for nuclear disarmament, in a surprise award that drew both warm praise and sharp criticism.

The decision to bestow one of the world’s top accolades on a president less than nine months into his first term, who has yet to score a major foreign policy success, was greeted with gasps of astonishment from journalists at the announcement in Oslo.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” But critics — especially in parts of the Arab and Muslim world — called its decision premature.

Obama’s press secretary woke him with the news before dawn and the president felt “humbled” by the award, a senior administration official said.

When told in an email from Reuters that many people around the world were stunned by the announcement, Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, responded: “As are we.”

The first African-American to hold his country’s highest office, Obama, 48, has called for disarmament and worked to restart the stalled Middle East peace process since taking office in January.

“Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” the committee said in a citation.

While the decision won praise from statesmen like Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev, both former Nobel laureates, it was also attacked in some quarters as hasty and undeserved.

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip and opposes a peace treaty with Israel, said the award was premature at best.

“Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward,” said Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri. “Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace. And he has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes.”

“EMBARRASSING JOKE”

Issam al-Khazraji, a day laborer in Baghdad, said: “He doesn’t deserve this prize. All these problems — Iraq, Afghanistan — have not been solved…The man of ‘change’ hasn’t changed anything yet.”

Liaqat Baluch, a senior leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a conservative religious party in Pakistan, called the award an embarrassing “joke.”

But the chief Palestinian peace negotiator, Saeb Erekat, welcomed it and expressed hope that Obama “will be able to achieve peace in the Middle East.”

Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland rejected suggestions from journalists that Obama was getting the prize too early, saying it recognized what he had already done over the past year.
“We hope this can contribute a little bit to enhance what he is trying to do,” he told a news conference.

The committee said it attached “special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons,” saying he had “created a new climate in international politics.”

Without naming Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush, it highlighted the differences in America’s engagement with the rest of the world since the change of administration in January.

“Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play.

“Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts,” it said, and the United States was playing a more constructive role in tackling climate change.

Obama laid out his vision on eliminating nuclear arms in a speech in Prague in April. But he was not the first American president to set that goal, and acknowledged it might not be reached in his lifetime.

He is negotiating arms cuts with Russia, and last month dropped plans to base elements of a U.S. anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. Moscow had seen the scheme as a threat, despite U.S. assurances it was directed against Iran.

On other pressing issues, Obama is deliberating whether to send more troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan, and is still searching for breakthroughs on Iran’s disputed nuclear program and on Middle East peace.

Israel’s foreign minister said on Thursday there was no chance of a peace deal for many years. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters: “The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won ‘the Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians’.”

At home, Obama’s popularity is flagging under the pressure of rising unemployment and a divisive, sometimes bitter debate over his healthcare reform plans.

Abroad, he is still widely seen around the world as an inspirational figure.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who had been tipped as a favorite for the prize, told Reuters that Obama was a deserving candidate and an “extraordinary example.”

Obama’s uncle Said Obama told Reuters by telephone from the president’s ancestral village of Kogelo in western Kenya: “It is humbling for us as a family and we share in Barack’s honor… we congratulate him.”

Obama is the third senior U.S. Democrat to win the prize this decade after former Vice President Al Gore won in 2007 along with the U.N. climate panel and Jimmy Carter in 2002.

The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be handed over in Oslo on December 10.

(Additional reporting by Oslo newsroom, Kamran Haider in Pakistan, Mohammed Assadi, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Mark Denge in Nairobi, Jason Webb in Spain; writing by Mark Trevelyan, editing by Janet McBride)

What a joke.

In March 2009, Israel’s nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu asked that his name be removed from the list of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize because President Shimon Peres had received the award. That’s what a true peaceful man does, a man who is serious about peace and willingly pays the price for it. He tells the establishment to stick the prize up their collective ass, where it came from.

Update: See comments: This is possibly the kiss of death. Maybe Obama will play the messiah role in the big drama right to the bitter end.

is it the kiss of death?

Oct 9

Posted by A. Peasant in Injustice, Iran, Israel, NWO, Obama/Biden, Symbolism | No Comments

Obama gets a prize he clearly doesn’t deserve.

Journalists express shock.

The Nobel Committee rejects the criticism and notes that they hope the prize will “contribute a little bit to enhance what he is trying to do:” implement a globalist agenda of international cooperation and tackling climate change.

People quoted from Hamas, Iraq, Pakistan and the Taliban wryly observe that he “has not done anything to ensure justice for the sake of Arab and Muslim causes.”

His popularity at home has flagged under the bad economy and health care crisis.

But abroad, Obama is still widely regarded as inspirational.

“Foreigners” just love him. They would never do anything to hurt him. If anything happens to Obama it would *surely* be due to some angry American or Arab, the usual suspects, who resent Obama for selling them down the river. Right?

blink blink blink

Meanwhile, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize *does* make it a little harder to justify an attack on Iran. Theoretically. It leaves Israel somewhat isolated.

Winning the Nobel Prize for peace, of course, is likely to make it extremely difficult for President Obama to drop any of his new fifteen ton Grand Slam bombs on Iran.

The ball is now back in Israel’s court.

That could be problematic. Problems require solutions.

Poor Barack Obama. It’s too bad the shine has come off him just like Gideon Rachman said in the Financial Times: (via here: we are witnessing a psyops going bad)

After a little fumbling with the envelope, the head of the International Olympic Committee has just announced the venue for the 2016 Olympics – Rio de Janeiro. It all seems a confirmation of the mood of the moment – Brazil is deeply fashionable and on the way up; and the shine has come off Barack Obama, who turned up in person to lobby for Chicago – only to see his home town eliminated early.

Poor Obama, he really didn’t deserve this. I bet he now regrets going all the way to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago. His great trump-card was meant to be his global popularity. But the International Olympic Committee had no trouble in brushing him aside. I’m afraid this is all going to play into the gathering conservative narrative in the US of Obamas a naive dupe, who grovels in front of foreigners – and gets nothing back in return. It seems to be setback after setback for the US president at the moment – health-care, Iran, the Afghanistan mess, unemployment up at nearly 10%.

As for Brazil – never has the country been so fashionable. The Brazilians are hosting the World Cup in 2014 and now the Olympics, two years later. They provide the first letter of the much-touted group of emerging economic superpowers - the BRICs. They are key members of the G20. In Lula, Brazil at last has a leader who is a recognised global figure. He gave the lead-off address at the UN General Assembly last week. (Just before Obama, symbolically enough.) And Brazil has also just discovered massive reserves of offshore oil. Oh lucky country!

I mean it’s nice that he won the Nobel Peace Prize and all. Maybe it’s sort of a consolation prize or booby prize. The better to lament him with my dears, hmm?

For additional reading, see aangirfan: the security services and assassinations.

UPDATE: Bonus Reasons Why Obama Should Be Worrying Now:

“Should a majority in this country come to their senses and wake up, they could do a Kennedy on this pretend Kennedy, sparking a real race war to occupy us in a big, big way.“

From this piece here: The Conspiracy Business and All That Jazz, posted at Snippits and Snappets. This is a really good piece that says everything I was trying to say in naive or paranoid? except he did a much, much better job.

UPDATE 2: via xymphora, David Frum confirms this is Definitely Problematic in Certain Circles:

Will Peace Prize handcuff President when time comes for an air strike?

Problems require solutions. It’s the Hegelian Way.

naive or paranoid

Oct 8

Posted by A. Peasant in Bloodlines, Gatekeeping, Identities, Iran, Israel | No Comments

I feel the need to expand on this stuff I corralled over at my news place, I suppose because it really highlights the problem of perspective and audience and how truth can seem to change and be relative depending on where you stand and what you know. But in fact truth is a journey and you have to meet people where they’re at and hopefully take them along with you for a distance, and then if you’re lucky you’ll all meet some other people along the way and we will travel together and eventually get there.

So let’s talk about Ahmadinejad. How did he achieve power in the first place, and how does he remain there? One might say he’s lucky, and that could be a naive way of looking at the situation. Alternatively, one might consider that he has been co-opted into an occult drama as the price of being in power, but that might sound paranoid. And there’s always the third way split the difference kind of thinking the truth is somewhere in between, such thinking which always accrues the benefit of the doubt to liars. So I’m gutting that option here. Either Ahmadinejad is exactly who he appears to be, an Iranian leader who somehow has the nerve to challenge Israel at the risk of getting many innocent Iranians killed and triggering WW III, or he has some kind of protection to take these risks, the nature of which remains hidden.

The naive perspective: Ahmadinejad’s background doesn’t matter:

Gilad Atzmon takes the UK corporate media to task for the debate over Ahmadinejad’s roots, noting that this whole debate shifts the discussion away from Ahmadinejad’s arguments about Israel, which are solid.

One may wonder how come a Western media outlet happens to selectively engage with issues to do with the racial or ethnic origin of the Iranian president. At the end of the day, digging into peoples ethnic past and family bloodline is not a common practice you expect from the Western press. It is something you tend to leave for racists, Nazis and Rabbis. For one reason or another, no one in the so called free press tried to dwell on the close ties between multi billion swindler Bernie Maddof and his tribe. The Free Press saved itself also from dealing with Wolfowitz’s ethnicity, in spite of the fact that the Zionist war he brought on us has cost 1.5 million lives by now. If you wonder how it is that the Western free media is reverting to ‘pathology’ in order to deal with a Muslim president, the answer is simple not to say trivial:

The so called ‘liberal West’ is yet to find the answers to President Ahmadinejad within the realm of reason. It lacks the argumentative capacity to address Ahmadinejad. Instead, it insists to spin banal racially orientated ideas that cannot hold water, “By making anti-Israeli statements” says The Daily Telegraph, “he is trying to shed any suspicions about his Jewish connections.” The truth of the matter is clear. Ahmadinejad has already managed to re-direct a floodlight of reasoning and skepticism just to enlighten our darkest corner of hypocrisy. He somehow manages to remind us all what thinking is all about.

Digging into people’s ethnic past and family bloodlines is something “you tend to leave for racists, Nazis and rabbis.” Ahmadinejad’s arguments stand on their own merits, so the discussion over his background serves as a distraction. It doesn’t matter.

The paranoid perspective: Ahmadinejad is acting a role in the grand narrative, a role he was groomed for because of his secret background:

Once you progress along the road and understand how Iran fits into the broader narrative, your perspective changes and the question of Ahmadinejad’s background definitely matters, and you don’t have to be a racist, Nazi or rabbi to think so. From my perspective, Atzmon’s statement that the question of bloodlines is something left for racists, Nazis and rabbis is a gatekeeper statement. He is saying: Don’t Go There.

But why? That’s where the bodies are buried.

I mean, whose job, exactly, is it to watch the racists, Nazis, and rabbis and figure out what they’re up to? How is it that the evil always seem to outwit the good? Are good people terminally obtuse? Is there some establishment corner of the world untouched by corruption where people study such things and pronounce their authoritative findings to deliver the world from evil? Academia? The Jesuits? Slick online journals with high overhead and paid writers? Surely you jest. Please tell me where it is. The Political Ponerology manuscript disappeared once into a furnace and once into the Vatican before finally seeing the light of day decades later.

The knowledge of how to practice mass evil has been jealously guarded by powerful people, because they’re the ones who benefit from the knowledge and they must keep it secret.

As far as I’ve learned so far, every organization with any prestige whatsoever has the taint of insidious, hidden corruption. You can get bits and pieces of truth here and there, but good luck cobbling something coherent together from anyplace establishment. The thankless job of uncovering the truth has been left to a handful of unknown volunteers with no prestige who are roundly dismissed and derided as wacky conspiracy theorists but who thankfully don’t care. And those people know that bloodlines matter to the people who rule nations. Is that racist? Yes it certainly is. That’s why people should know, because they would be appalled and outraged. And that’s why the information remains hidden, and that’s why it’s not helpful for established anti-establishment people to say Don’t Go There.

But anyway, I’ll give Atzmon the benefit of the doubt and agree that people who are just now realizing, for instance, that Israel is a rogue criminal state with a hidden agenda are prone to confusion, and maybe we shouldn’t overtax them at this juncture. It would be great if they could wrap their minds around some basics:

It is pretty much impossible to deny the fact that Ahmadinejad’s take on the holocaust and Israel is coherent, consistent and valid. He seems to have three main issues with the narrative:

1. Around sixty Million died in WWII, the vast majority of them were innocent civilians. How is it, asks Ahmadinejad, that we insist to concentrate on the particularity of the suffering of one ‘very’ specific group of people i.e. the Jews?

2. The Iranian president rightly maintains that this historical chapter must be historically examined. This would mean as well that every event in the past should be subject to scrutiny, elaboration and revision. “If we allow ourselves to question God and the Prophets, we may as well allow ourselves to question the holocaust.”

3. Regardless of the truthfulness of the holocaust, it is not a trivial fact that the suffering of the Jews in Europe had nothing to do with the Palestinian people. Hence, there is no reason for the Palestinians to pay for crimes committed by others. If some Western Leaders feel guilty for crimes committed against the Jews by their ancestors, which they seem to claim, they better allocate some land for the Jews within their territories rather than expect the Palestinians to keep upholding the Zionist murderous burden.

As much as it is obviously clear that the above points raised by Ahmadinejad are totally valid, it is also painfully transparent that the West lacks the means to address those issues. Instead we seem to revert to supremacy and pseudo scientific discourse dwelling on blood, pathology and lame psychoanalysis.

For the extra-curious: Hmm, WHY DOES “The West” lack the means to address those issues? How has this happened? What is the explanation for such massive obtuseness?

Well, you know, in order to answer those questions you have to look into Conspiracy Facts like who owns the media, who owns money, who owns the politicians, who directs the NGOs and think tanks and medicine and the food supply and education and entertainment, and what goes into these things and what comes out of them. And the next thing you know you’re talking about a surprisingly small group of people who travel in certain circles and have their hands in seemingly everything: the Illuminati and their bloodlines. But be advised, attempting to follow this fascinating train-wreck might cause you to “revert to supremacy and pseudo scientific discourse dwelling on blood, pathology and lame psychoanalysis.” Oh well. We work with what we have. Truth seekers are nothing if not scrappy, especially since the “professionals” refuse to touch this stuff with a nine foot pole with a ten foot handle, because let’s face it, they might offend someone and lose their cushy jobs.

So Israel loves to hate Ahmadinejad. He is a tool. But is he a tool wittingly or unwittingly? THAT is the question.

When you realize that world leaders are being directed as actors on a stage, executing a grand agenda spread out over generations, you can not simply dismiss the importance of knowing about things like bloodlines. The fact that it *shouldn’t* matter to normal thinking people is beside the point! It *DOES* matter to the people calling the shots.

As for gate-keeping, people who fear the truth have something to hide. What is the danger for normal people to research and question the relationships of people in power? If you’re not a racist, finding out that other people *are* racists will not turn you into a racist. If you’re not a liar, finding out that other people *are* liars will not make you a liar. The truth poses no danger except to those in power. The truth is simply the truth.

let’s take our ball and go home for lunch

Oct 7

Posted by A. Peasant in Censorship, NWO, Surveillance | No Comments

TPTB use the internet to keep us busy and track what we’re doing and thinking. They use it to send us down dead end streets.

At this point we know the general outlines of what they want to do. Has the law of diminishing returns set in? Are we now giving them more information by our behavior following the bouncing psyops ball then we get in exchange?

I don’t know, but a thought occurs to me: What if we, the people paying attention, just stopped analyzing for a period of time? What if we became the silent lurkers? We would rustle them out of the bushes maybe. ?? I don’t know. It’s just an idea.

Threat of next world war may be in cyberspace: UN

The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief warned Tuesday as experts called for action to stamp out cyber attacks. “The next world war could happen in cyberspace and that would be a catastrophe. We have to make sure that all countries understand that in that war, there is no such thing as a superpower,” Hamadoun Toure said. “Loss of vital networks would quickly cripple any nation, and none is immune to cyberattack,” added the secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union during the ITU’s Telecom World 2009 fair in Geneva. Toure said countries have become “critically dependent” on technology for commerce, finance, health care, emergency services and food distribution.

“The best way to win a war is to avoid it in the first place,” he stressed. [natch]

…But one of the most prominent victims in recent years has been the small Baltic state of Estonia, which has staked some of its post Cold War development on new technology. In 2007 a spate of cyber attacks forced the closure of government websites and disrupted leading businesses. Estonian Minister for Economic Affairs and Communications Juhan Parts said in Geneva that “adequate international cooperation” was essential. “Because if something happens on cyberspace… it’s a border crossing issue. We have to have horizontal cooperation globally,” he added.

…Experts say that a major problem is that the current software and web infrastructure has the same weaknesses as those produced two decades ago. “The real problem is that we’re putting on the market software that is as vulnerable as it was 20 years ago,” said Cristine Hoepers, general manager at Brazilian National Computer Emergency Response Team. “If you see the vulnerabilities that are being exploited today, they are still the same,” she underlined. She suggested that professionals needed to be trained to “design something more resilient.” “Universities are not teaching students to think about that. We need to change the workforce, we need to go to the universities…, we need to start educating our professionals,” she said.

Pointing out the infrastructure weakness, Carlos Moreira, who founded and runs the Swiss information security firm Wisekey, said legislation is needed to bring cybersecurity up to international standards.

And this, if you can believe it:

Yesterday on October 6, 2009 several acts of war against the U.S. and the U.K. were perpetrated and very few know about it. No it was not bullets, mortars, missiles, or even IEDS in Afghanistan or Iraq…….but the blows were none less telling in the world of 3 C’s ……..Command, Control, and Communications.

Apparently, the entire National Communications Center capability to communicate went down at Andrews at least for enough of a duration to cause extreme consternation and a designation of RED. As many know, this is a vital Communications Center for the U.S. Military, Intelligence community, and the Commander In Chief. It going down caused numerous problems and no doubt many questions asked.

…The U.K. situation yesterday apparently was a massive deep hack and the resultant cyber-purloining of approx. 2000 pages of the Queen’s MI-6 deepest current secrets relating perhaps to operational details of clandestine agenteur, current INTEL operations, and future plans for a variety of target nations around the world. That these “Dirty Knickers” were spread all over the Internet throughout the Eurozone prior to a quick takedown by GCHQ and MI-6 caused great wailing and consternation in the British circles of power. Understandably so as this amounts to war.

Curiously though, yesterday also had a UN group comment that the next World War will be fought in Cyberspace………is there any linkage of these cyber generated attacks to the fact that certain UN working groups were addressing that very issue or that in nearly every country belabored Elites like Senator Rocky Oil want to take away the Internet from the people because they are losing control of the masses of sheep they have been feeding upon.

Et cetera.

I covered that Rockefeller legislation here. (Also here.)

The purpose of this language [legislation] is mind-fucking people into supporting the government takeover of the internet after a false-flag terrorist attack. You will support President Obama. You will listen to whatever he says. Turn on the teevee.

Bottom line seems to be that they plan on taking the internet away from us when it’s convenient for them. It’s a timing issue. They adjust their timing based on all the great feedback we give them. I’m just thinking hey, why don’t we just get all quiet and do our reading but not write what we think for a few days, maybe even a week. A bloggy strike kind of thing. You know put the mind fuck in reverse. That could get interesting.

Just remember: they need us we don’t need them. In any relationship, even a hellish one, only one party has to change behavior for the whole relationship to change.

here comes the bus

Oct 6

Posted by A. Peasant in Brazil, China, Hasbara, Israel, NWO, Obama/Biden, Russia | No Comments

All of a sudden I’m noticing Brazil popping up everywhere. A star is born. I think his name is Lula. He’s a major South American suck-up.

Brazil’s Leader: Holocaust Must Never Be Denied
By Associated Press, Feb 3, 2007, Haaretz.com

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva joined Jewish leaders to mark the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps, saying the Holocaust must never be denied and urging the world to prevent it from ever happening again. “In the 21st century we cannot accept the denial of the Holocaust as a historical fact…nor can we accept those who deny that six million Jews were massacred,” Silva told some 500 people at the Sao Paulo Jewish Congregation’s synagogue on Friday.“Each time we pay homage to the victims of the Holocaust, we strengthen those forces that will prevent that same horror from repeating itself,” he said after praising the United Nation’s General Assembly for last week’s approval of a resolution condemning the denial of the Holocaust. Silva’s remarks came at a ceremony held to commemorate the January 27, 1945 liberation and to mark the second International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

He did not specifically mention Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the congregation’s chief rabbi, Henry Sobel, said the Brazilian president’s presence at Friday’s event represented a repudiation of Ahmadinejad’s insistence that the Holocaust was a myth. Sobel also said he was concerned by what he called growing anti-Semitism in Venezuela. “President Hugo Chavez’s rhetoric is anti-Semitic and he is a close ally of the president of Iran, and both of them share a profound hatred of Israel,” Sobel said.

Chavez has cultivated friendly ties with Ahmadinejad and last year called Israeli attacks in Lebanon during a conflict with Hezbollah militants a new Holocaust. He has made other remarks criticized by some Jewish groups as anti-Semitic, though he said his comments were misinterpreted.

At about 130,000 strong, Brazil’s Jewish community is the second-largest in South America after Argentina, which is home to an estimated 200,000 Jews.

Fast forward two and a half years. This is Gideon Rachman writing in the Financial Times. This is the establishment speaking.

After a little fumbling with the envelope, the head of the International Olympic Committee has just announced the venue for the 2016 Olympics – Rio de Janeiro. It all seems a confirmation of the mood of the moment – Brazil is deeply fashionable and on the way up; and the shine has come off Barack Obama, who turned up in person to lobby for Chicago – only to see his home town eliminated early.

Poor Obama, he really didn’t deserve this. I bet he now regrets going all the way to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago. His great trump-card was meant to be his global popularity. But the International Olympic Committee had no trouble in brushing him aside. I’m afraid this is all going to play into the gathering conservative narrative in the US of Obamas a naive dupe, who grovels in front of foreigners – and gets nothing back in return. It seems to be setback after setback for the US president at the moment – health-care, Iran, the Afghanistan mess, unemployment up at nearly 10%.

As for Brazil – never has the country been so fashionable. The Brazilians are hosting the World Cup in 2014 and now the Olympics, two years later. They provide the first letter of the much-touted group of emerging economic superpowers - the BRICs. They are key members of the G20. In Lula, Brazil at last has a leader who is a recognised global figure. He gave the lead-off address at the UN General Assembly last week. (Just before Obama, symbolically enough.) And Brazil has also just discovered massive reserves of offshore oil. Oh lucky country!

Oh “I bet” Gideon Rachman “is afraid” how this is all going to play out badly for Obama as the naive dupe GROVELING IN FRONT OF FOREIGNERS AND GETTING NOTHING IN RETURN.

OH MY GOD GIDEON YOU DIDN’T SPECIFY WHICH “FOREIGNERS”???? DO YOU MEAN… THE ONES THAT CAN’T BE NAMED?!?!???
DO YOU THINK THE US IS BEING SET UP FOR A BIG TAKE-DOWN?

Well I guess so.

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.

The Americans, who are aware the meetings have taken place – although they have not discovered the details – are sure to fight this international cabal which will include hitherto loyal allies Japan and the Gulf Arabs. Against the background to these currency meetings, Sun Bigan, China’s former special envoy to the Middle East, has warned there is a risk of deepening divisions between China and the US over influence and oil in the Middle East. “Bilateral quarrels and clashes are unavoidable,” he told the Asia and Africa Review. “We cannot lower vigilance against hostility in the Middle East over energy interests and security.

This sounds like a dangerous prediction of a future economic war between the US and China over Middle East oil – yet again turning the region’s conflicts into a battle for great power supremacy. China uses more oil incrementally than the US because its growth is less energy efficient. The transitional currency in the move away from dollars, according to Chinese banking sources, may well be gold. An indication of the huge amounts involved can be gained from the wealth of Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar who together hold an estimated $2.1 trillion in dollar reserves.

The decline of American economic power linked to the current global recession was implicitly acknowledged by the World Bank president Robert Zoellick. “One of the legacies of this crisis may be a recognition of changed economic power relations,” he said in Istanbul ahead of meetings this week of the IMF and World Bank. But it is China’s extraordinary new financial power – along with past anger among oil-producing and oil-consuming nations at America’s power to interfere in the international financial system – which has prompted the latest discussions involving the Gulf states.

Brazil has shown interest in collaborating in non-dollar oil payments, along with India. Indeed, China appears to be the most enthusiastic of all the financial powers involved, not least because of its enormous trade with the Middle East.

Blah blah blah, not a word breathed about ISRAEL in the whole thing. Just a lot of talk about what fucking assholes AMERICANS are.

But hey, do you know who has been running our country all this time? Israel! That’s right. The Jews are very very powerful in America. We are nothing but a giant puppet and we’ve been acting like a Giant Puppet Asshole. Now everyone hates us. Hey good job! Now the puppet is about to have the strings cut and fall lifeless to the stage, blamed for everything, and the puppet master is moving on.