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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

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

“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.

source

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.

Forward the damn email….OR ELSE!

Feb 7

Posted by Marlena in Israel, Language & Meaning, Symbolism, Unreality | 5 Comments

From my email…(this deeply disturbing picture was obviously not included)

In MEMORIAM - 63 YEARS LATER

Please read the little cartoon carefully, it’s powerful. Then read the comments at the end. [The cartoon was stripped by my email software. Oh dear. I can just imagine.]

I’m doing my small part by forwarding this message. I hope you’ll consider doing the same. [What? Am I supposed to feel guilty already? I haven't even read the damn thing yet.]

In Memoriam

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. [And the Nakba. Don't forget the Nakba. That was 60 years ago, too.] This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, [Oh really? The number on the plaque at Auschwitz is 1.5 million.] 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests [Whatevs!! Please just notice the first item on the list.] who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated with the German and Russian Peoples looking the other way! [Yes, of course. The German and Russian people must be demonized, always and forever, world without end. It matters not that they themselves were suffering the depredations of war and starvation. They should have done something, just like we Americans have done so much to stop the suffering of the Iraqis and Afghanis and Palestinians. And Darfur. Right? Here we are, living in the most prosperous country in the world, not suffering the privations of war, and we have done WHAT, exactly, for these people? Oh that's right. We haven't done a damn thing except Look The Other Way, just like those damn Germans and Russians. Oopsie.]

Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others, [How mysterious. What others? Do you mean like the Israelis slaughtering the Palestinians in a vicious display of genocide? That one???] claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ [Just stay away from reading that plaque or doing any independent research, please, thanks, love ya.] it’s imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again. [Who shall remain nameless under the witness protection program of history, also known as corporate media.]

This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide! [Why's that? Is it for the 40 years in the desert? The 40 days of Lent? What's the symbolic value of 40 million? Is it just a big-ass round number to throw around to shut up all those Holocaust (TM) Deniars? "Oh yeah? Well we organized 40 million people around the world to pass on our email chain! So there!"]

Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.

Please send this e-mail to 10 people you know and ask them to continue thememorial chain.
Please don’t just delete it. [Oh! Oopsie! Too late.]

It will a only take you a minute to pass this along. Thanks! [Wrong number. Click.]

“No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.” [That's a scriptural neener neener neener.]


I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. Revelations 3:9 [And so is this.]

The Cryptic Predictions

Oct 21

Posted by Marlena in Corruption & Crime, Language & Meaning, Symbolism | No Comments

Joe Biden has made some interesting remarks about upcoming challenges certain to face a new Obama administration.

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

Not only will the next administration have to deal with foreign affairs issues, Biden warned, but also with the current economic crisis.

“Gird your loins,” Biden told the crowd. “We’re gonna win with your help, God willing, we’re gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It’s like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy.”

OK. So. I would really, really like to believe Obama is the real deal, but this has been made very difficult by his kowtowing to the usual suspects. Of course I realize the way the game works (where you have to say certain things to stay in the game); but I also realize that too many layers of subterfuge exist for any mere mortal to defend against. In the end, one cannot assume anything.

I mean, whose ass exactly is he blowing smoke into?

For instance, here someone assumes that Obama is definitely a NWO tool who cannot be trusted. They say he is blowing smoke up our asses. This is possible. One can easily find many arguments along these lines made by very intelligent people. On the other hand, many of the sites putting forth such arguments, although not all, are themselves credibly accused of being NWO-controlled sites, meaning they exist to blow smoke up asses. So take it from where it comes. It all gets very murky very quickly, and this is by design. God forbid people receive honest, clear information. They might make a good choice for themselves.

Maybe Obama is blowing smoke up their asses, making them think he will be the good little NWO puppet leader — brainwashed, MK Ultra’d, whatever it takes. That remains a distinct possibility.

I respect Les Vis, who has always been brutally honest with readers, and he has this to say:

You can find the inauguration speech that I wrote for Obama in the archives or you can google it. Here’s the sticky wicket… here’s the catch 22 (I will actually conclude with this). Obama might be for real and he might not. I don’t know… do I? No… I don’t know but… there are a few things anyone who is for real has to do. Here are those things and if you don’t do them you are a whore. You are a nasty, nasty perversion because it’s not just you getting screwed but all the people who believed in you get screwed too. That’s what it is so let’s call it what it is. Let’s not mince words. Mince is for pies. …

Here is what you have to do. You have to abolish the Federal Reserve. You have to cut Israel loose… period. Neither of these entities are your friends. In fact, they are your worst enemies and they are the same thing, so to speak. You have to double the taxes paid by the top ten per cent earners in America and you have to reduce the middle class taxes by the same degree. When I say ‘middle class’, I mean from 50 to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars…. No way have people making 250,000 got any breaks coming whatsoever. You have to put the death tax back in action. You have to tell the AMA-Pharmaceutical combine and the insurance industry to “fuck off!” and you have to grant Americans the same universal health coverage that much of the rest of the world has.

…I can understand why a candidate for the highest orifice would have to dissimulate or dissemble. You have to lie to get into office, that’s a given. However… once you get into office you are either, fearless and true or you are a whore. And if you are fearless and true it will get you shot. That is the Catch 22. Study your history and see if you can connect the dots on who got shot and why.

We all know some big things will happen in the immediate future. We know a lot of it will be bad. We do not know how much of it will be good, if any. We hope for the best.

As I read the language used by Biden, I can tell you what my heart wants to hear. Whether this is purely wishful thinking on my part or whether it touches upon some version of reality via the collective consciousness, that I cannot say. You’ve heard about the secret dog whistles that politicians use with the religious right? Biden’s remarks pass through my consciousness this way:

“Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world [which Jesus Christ was not of - IMPORTANT - just saying Obama is on the side opposing 'the world', not that he is more special than other human beings] tests Barack Obama like they [the people of the world, who do not belong to Jesus Christ] did John Kennedy [the last American president who confronted the Zionist bankers, and who was assassinated for his insubordination. You can not love both God and money.]. The world is looking. [They see that they cannot easily derail or steal the election.] We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, [an artificial, manufactured crisis] to test the mettle of this guy.”

“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate… And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you - not financially to help him [Money, the tool of the Zionist bankers, is not the tool or weapon that counts for this battle. We have to use other powers. Powers of persuasion, powers that come from being a person of good standing in your community. Powers of integrity.] - we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.” [People will be very confused, as they have been brainwashed into believing so much crap for so many years.]

“Gird your loins. [biblical allusion] We’re gonna win with your help, God willing, we’re gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It’s like cleaning the Augean stables, man. [Who refers to people as cattle? Who owns the most cattle? Who owns the American people and has left us to rot in filth? Just so. There is your answer.] This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy.”

“You literally can see what these kids are up against, our kids in that region. The place is crawling with al Qaeda. And it’s real.” [Al Qaeda = CIA; CIA = Wall St; Wall St = Zionist bankers]

“We do not have the military capacity, nor have we ever, quite frankly, in the last 20 years, to dictate outcomes. It’s so much more important than that. It’s so much more complicated than that. And Barack gets it.”

[Do you get it?]

On Memorial Day, let us actually remember

May 23

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Like many schools across America, one of my children’s schools had a Memorial Day concert today. They do this every year, and I’ve been to the last few. Usually I find these events very jingoistic, and I sort of dread them because my view of this country is, shall we say, nuanced. I love America, but in a very disappointed sort of way. It’s like having a once beautiful, intelligent and wonderful mother turn into a sleazy alcoholic or something. Watching little kids sing love songs to her? Well, it’s tough.

But I have to say, this year was a little different. The kids were the same, but the adults seemed different to me. I swear there was a grim determination underneath all the polite applause. People love this country. They understand. They know we are living tragedy on a national scale. And I think the sword, the terrible swift sword has begun to pierce them, and they feel a pain that cannot be named. But it hurts, and it hurts deeply.

I expect things to get much, much worse before they get better; but today, for the first time in a very long time, I swear I felt an undercurrent of resolve in my fellow Americans. I have to tell you, it was a beautiful thing. Maybe I imagined the whole thing, but I hope not.

I hope this Memorial Day we will remember what all the fine words we hear and read actually mean. Not the Orwellian meanings, but the true meanings.

Free Association

Mar 10

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Recently a family member sent along a chain email containing pictures of American service people and Iraqis having fun together. Many smiling faces, happy children, etc. They are very nice pictures of normal people serving in the military and treating other human beings with dignity and respect. You know, behaving the way we expect all our service members to represent America.

But as we all know, some American soldiers murder puppies, humiliate Iraqis and toy with them for sport. That’s the stuff they brag about anyway, as you’ve probably seen last week on YouTube.

Of course, right after these swell pictures comes a long scroll of text in HUGE BLUE LETTERS, suitable for a fourth grader, including the Pledge of Allegiance, demands for prayers, pass it along, pray pray pray, God bless our service people, pass it along, pray, prayer is very powerful, pass it along, etc.

But the thing that grabbed me were the accompanying juvenile graphics. Snoopy, Precious Moments, praying teddy bears, flags, Norman Rockwell praying children, and this one here.

Look at that. It’s a heart, and a circle with a candle (with ribbon), a Star of David, and a USA. Maybe you didn’t notice the Star of David because it’s colored in with the flag, but there it is, plain as day, sitting right on top of the USA.

Anyway….I guess the point is that when you think US Military, the associations that should pop into your head are these: cute, holy, precious, innocent. OK? Never you mind about those sick ones tossing puppies off cliffs and stuff like that. That’s just a few bad apples. You just keep associating the military with every good thing, and God will smile on you and on them, and all will be right in the world. Oh and by the way, Israel is a democracy. Run along now!

Government psyops, hard at work.

The ‘Memoir’ is Fiction

Mar 1

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A woman tells a story of her traumatic childhood adventures living with wolves after the Nazis killed her parents. A publisher hears the story in a synagogue and persuades the woman to write a book. She gets her a ghost writer. The book succeeds and gets translated into 18 languages and made into a movie, making the woman and her publisher rich. Whoopie!

A Jewish historian looking into the amazing story discovers that the woman made it all up. The woman was pretending to be Jewish. She pretended to be a homeless and crafty waif, but she really wasn’t homeless. Who can say how crafty she was, but it’s unlikely that even a very crafty child could survive four years and 1900 miles in a wolf pack. Just a guess. Unfortunately, the sympathy, fame and fortune she garnered along the publishing way was real. Many people were scammed out of real money to buy the book and see the movie, but they will not get their real money back. No, it’s too late for that. However, the real Jewish publisher and the pretend Jewish author are going to fight over the money. Round two. See you in court.

A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling “memoir” depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday.
Misha Defonseca’s book, “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years,” was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film in France.

Her two Brussels-based lawyers, siblings Nathalie and Marc Uyttendaele, said the author acknowledged her story was not autobiographical and that she did not trek 1,900 miles as a child across Europe with a pack of wolves in search of her deported parents during World War II.

“I ask forgiveness to all who felt betrayed,” Defonseca said, according to a written statement the lawyers gave to The Associated Press.

Defonseca, 71, now lives in Dudley, Massachusetts. Her husband, Maurice, told The Boston Globe on Thursday that she would not comment.

Defonseca wrote in her book that Nazis seized her parents when she was a child, forcing her to wander the forests and villages of Europe alone for four years. She claimed she found herself trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, killed a Nazi soldier in self-defense and was adopted by a pack of wolves that protected her.

In the statement, Defonseca acknowledged the story she wrote was a fantasy and that she never fled her home in Brussels during the war to find her parents.

Here comes her explanation.

Defonseca says her real name is Monique De Wael and that her parents were arrested and killed by Nazis as Belgian resistance fighters, the statement said.

“This story is mine. It is not actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving,” the statement said.

“I ask forgiveness to all who felt betrayed. I beg you to put yourself in my place, of a 4-year-old girl who was very lost,” the statement said.

The statement said her parents were arrested when she was 4 and she was taken care of by her grandfather and uncle. She said she was poorly treated by her adopted family, called a “daughter of a traitor” because of her parents’ role in the resistance, which she said led her to “feel Jewish.”

She said there were moments when she “found it difficult to differentiate between what was real and what was part of my imagination.”

Nathalie Uyttendaele said she and her brother contacted the author last weekend to show her material discovered by Belgian daily Le Soir, which questioned her story.

“We gave her this information and it was very difficult. She was confronted with a reality that is different from what she has been living for 70 years,” Nathalie Uyttendaele said.

Pressure on the author to defend the accuracy of her book had grown in recent weeks.

“I’m not an expert on relations between humans and wolves but I am a specialist of the persecution of Jews and they (Defonseca’s family) can’t be found in the archives,” Belgian historian Maxime Steinberg told RTL television. “The De Wael family is not Jewish nor were they registered as Jewish.”

Defonseca had been asked to write the book by U.S. publisher Jane Daniel in the 1990s, after Daniel heard the writer tell the story in a Massachusetts synagogue.

Daniel and Defonseca fell out over profits received from the best-selling book, which led to a lawsuit. In 2005, a Boston court ordered Daniel to pay Defonseca and her ghost writer Vera Lee $22.5 million.

Lee, of Newton, Massachusetts, said she was shocked to hear Defonseca made up the story.

“She always maintained that this was truth as she recalled it, and I trusted that that was the case,” Lee said.

Defonseca’s lawyers said Daniel has not yet paid the court-ordered sum.

Daniel said Friday she would try to get the judgment overturned. She said she could not fully research Defonseca’s story before it was published because the woman claimed she did not know her parents’ names, her birthday or where she was born.

“There was nothing to go on to research,” she said.

I’m sure there lies some deep psychological significance to all this. I mean, is it a crime to imitate a Jewish survivor of the holocaust so successfully or is it just personally very offensive? I do wonder how the courts will sort it all out.

Meanwhile, here’s what I think about offensive artistic license.

In the movie The Titanic, there are a many horrible scenes as the boat is sinking. Down in steerage where the people were locked in, the movie shows a mother praying with her small children before they all die. I think she was Catholic because I recall she was saying the Our Father or the Hail Mary. It also shows an elderly couple lying on their bed waiting to die. Later the movie shows mothers and babies floating in the water with their life jackets on, frozen to death.

These scenes, based on real events, made me feel that it was wrong to make the movie an entertainment blockbuster romance. Teenagers watched it over and over again to see Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and I was horrified at their ability to blithely endure those scenes as passage to the romantic excitement of Part II.

After I saw the movie once, I knew I never wanted to see it again. I don’t need to. I resent that movie and the way it made James Cameron and other people rich. I resent how it used the suffering of real people, even if the scenes are fictionalized, as a dramatic accoutrement to an essentially romantic storyline. Those scenes burned into my brain the horrible deaths and hopelessness that real people suffered. The romance can never compensate for the painful reality that innocent people were locked in the bowels of the ship to allow the wealthy a chance to survive. For me, that is the story. That’s how it always is with me. I can’t get past the injustice.

But all this time I have yet to meet another person who felt this way about that movie. People accept it for what it is: entertainment. Was it a crime for James Cameron to make The Titanic? Shall I sue him on behalf of the poor dead people who went to a watery grave, and who knew they would die trapped like rats, praying to God for mercy and holding onto each other as the ice water overcame them? Shall I sue him because he caused me emotional distress by making entertainment out of what rightfully deserves to be a solemn documentary? Of course not. He is free to do what he will, and I am free to consider him a shit for it, which I do. That’s all the power I have, but it is enough for me.

Symbolism in the wrong hands

Feb 27

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I find this very interesting. We all know how the military loves their dramatic project code names (Operation Desert Storm) and their mysterious, stern acronyms (CENTCOM, NORAD). Oh yah. It’s all very clubby, isn’t it?

I think it’s juvenile. Click through to see the secret club patches. I bet they have secret handshakes, too. Maybe it’s me, but I look at this stuff and I think it must be appealing to seventh grade boys, and of course, the grown men wearing the secret patches on their secret vests as they use US taxpayer dollars to conduct their super secret black ops.

To people who laugh at the crazy conspiracy theorists interpreting the seeing eye and the pyramid, etc. as actually symbolic, please note the devil, stars, tiger, lightning bolts, rainbows, Omega, etc. on this tiny selection of secret patches.

Is it too much to ask for some adults in charge?

Originally published 2/26/08.

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