If it is up to Western politicians, the world is doomed for sure. To the man and the woman they are warmongers. Moreover, the response to the false flag/hoax attack is mindless. The morons declare that the West is attacked because it allows women to be educated. The West is attacked because of “french values and French way of life, because we dance” (Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius). In other words, the nonsense that worked for the idiot US president, George W. Bush, works for the French. “We are attacked because we are good.” All of us good people here in the West would never be attacked because we have looted and robbed the Middle East for a century and followed up the looting with 14 years of military devastation of seven countries, producing millions of deaths and displaced persons.
Really, it is a wonder that there are not round the clock REAL TERRORIST ATTACKS on Western countries, who certainly deserve them. [Update: Roberts goes overRead More »
JON RAPPOPORT writes that every television newscast is stagecraft. This is an obvious point, but it is amazing how the average viewer denies it and participates in what is fake:
Focus on the network evening news. This is where the staging is done well.
First, we have the image itself, the colors in foreground and background, the blend of restful and charged hues. The anchor and his/her smooth style.
Then we have the shifting of venue from the studio to reporters in the field, demonstrating the reach of coverage: the planet. As if this equals authenticity.
Actually, those reporters in the field rarely dig up information on location. A correspondent standing on a rooftop in Cairo could just as well be positioned in a bathroom in a Las Vegas McDonald’s. His report would be identical. Read More »
Thomas More, sketch by Jean Schoevaert-Brossault. Courtesy of Moreanum, Angers, France.
ED writes:
I recently came across this prayer written by St. Thomas More when he was a prisoner in the Tower of London:
Give me the grace, Good Lord
To set the world at naught. To set the mind firmly on You and not to hang upon the words of men’s mouths.
To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly pleasures. Little by little utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of all its business. Read More »
Last August I wrote about an old Protestant church building in south St. Louis that was no longer a church but was being used as a pizza restaurant. (“Communities in Memory Alone”, The Thinking Housewife, Aug. 5)
Recently St. Louis police closed the building and placed signs on it reading “Danger – Condemned – Keep Out.” But the problem was not in the building; it was in some of the people in the building, who are suspected of trafficking in girls. [More here.] Read More »
THE transparentlyphony Fox News personality, Geraldo Rivera, is shown here reunited with his daughter, Simone, earlier this week in Paris. Simone just happened to have been in the Stade de France for a football match when suicide bombers attacked it last Friday. (Her acting debut!!)
From the very first moments after the attack, Rivera, who is Jewish, was publicly advocating war in the Middle East and he continued to do so in Paris:
“We need to respond by declaring war on them… if we don’t kill them, they’re going to kill us.”
He offered specifics, calling for Russia, the U.S. and our Middle East Allies to join forces in a war against ISIS– even if have to drag the latter in “kicking and screaming.”
“I want a massive ground campaign to conquer ISIS once and for all,” Rivera said.
For now, he gets to hug his daughter again; a small, but maybe bigger victory for the news veteran.
PAUL McHUGH, a distinguished professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School, writes that those who suffer from sexual confusion are not helped by the pretense of sex reassignment:
But the meme—that your sex is a feeling, not a biological fact, and can change at any time—marches on through our society. In a way, it’s reminiscent of the Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes. In that tale, the Emperor, believing that he wore an outfit of special beauty imperceptible to the rude or uncultured, paraded naked through his town to the huzzahs of courtiers and citizens anxious about their reputations. Many onlookers to the contemporary transgender parade, knowing that a disfavored opinion is worse than bad taste today, similarly fear to identify it as a misapprehension. Read More »
NIGEL LAWSON writes on the case of Ursula Haverbeck, the elderly German woman sentenced to ten months in prison for stating that Auschwitz was a labor camp, not an extermination camp:
There are two possibilities: either she is right (or largely right) or she is wrong (or largely wrong). Let us assume that the latter is true. We then have a pitiful spectacle of an elderly person stubbornly and irrationally clinging to a mistaken view of historical events. Shakespeare’s King Lear is the archetypal work of art examining the ramifications of such a situation. As we watch Lear rave in misery on the heath, we feel compassion for him; but that does not stop us knowing that his disaster has been mainly self-inflicted as a result of his stubborn holding of illusions earlier in the action. None of us, however, would want to punish him for the awful threats he issues during his agon.
If Ms Haverbeck is wrong (and a formidable battery of opinion, including learned opinion, around the world maintains that she is), then what damage can her statements really do to anyone? As we say, rather rudely, in Australia: ‘You can’t fart against thunder.’
[As with every article I post here, this is not an endorsement of all views and articles at the site linked.]
OH, to be sure, there have almost always been flagrant public sinners and hypocrites in the Catholic Church. But they didn’t — they couldn’t — seek to overturn the Church itself, its doctrines, its rites and its sacred laws. That task is the distinction of the Vatican II Church, the monstrous ape of the Catholic Church. Speaking of monstrous apes, here is “Cardinal” Timothy Dolan, “Archbishop” of New York, posing with this year’s Rockettes in New York City.
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Alex writes:
It’s nice to see five women posing with camels. However, the one in the middle could lose some weight and get a new outfit.
ONE DOES not have to be Sherlock Holmes to know that the events that took place at the Comptoir Voltaire in Paris last Friday night were not as they have been reported by the French government and the media. A simple review of the news reports reveals that the story is, at least in part, a fabrication.
Does that mean that no one was murdered in attacks in Paris on Friday the 13th? No, it does not. Does that mean there are no Muslim terrorists in Paris? No, it does not. Does it mean the other Friday the 13th attacks may involve disinformation too and represent a treasonous, war-mongering psy-op against the French people and the entire Western world for the sake of attaining certain objectives in the Middle East? Yes, it does.
On Saturday, one day after the attacks, we are told that Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, detonated a suicide bomb at approximately 8:45 p.m. in the small cafe, the Comptoir Voltaire, on the Boulevard Voltaire (nice bit of advertising for the ferocious French revolutionary), in a Jewish quarter of Paris close to the Bataclan Theatre, which was also attacked during an Eagles of Death Metal concert. Abdeslam allegedly blew himself up instantly. This is the account reported in all the mainstream media, although initially it was said he blew himself up outside the cafe.
I invite readers to go to Google and query “suicide bomb restaurant Israel” and view, if you have the stomach for it, the kind of devastation a suicide bomb causes. You will see imploded windows, partially collapsed roofs, exposed beams and general havoc. You will also see what are indisputably images of people who have been maimed by an explosive device. One does not have to be an explosives expert to know that one of the characteristic consequences of explosives is chaos, not discreet damage here and there.
At the Comptoir Voltaire, however, we see something entirely different. We see a few overturned chairs and, oddly, what appear to be an unbloodied jacket and coat on the sidewalk outside the cafe, as if the bomb neatly blew off a few garments without disturbing a sidewalk sandwich board nearby. The above video shows a government forensic team in the cafe examining the body of Abdeslam, whom we are told was a pot-smoking hedonist, a disappointment to his wife and family — not exactly the stuff of a martyr for Allah. In other photos, we see a few holes and cracks in the cafe windows, but that is all. A blackboard near the bomber’s table appears untouched. Chairs on the other side of the window from where he sat are not even overturned. Pictures and signs on the walls and windows show no damage. A coffee cup and a tea cup containing a used lemon are completely undisturbed.
Forensic police search for evidences inside the Comptoir Voltaire cafe in Paris. (KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images)
When a person blows himself up, it is typically difficult to identify the body, but Abdeslam was identified by the very next day even though, judging from this video, his body remained in the cafe as late as Saturday morning. Normally, a suicide bomb strong enough to kill would destroy identifying papers too.
Was Abdeslam simply incompetent? Did he make a weak bomb? Then we must ask how he was instantly killed and why he wasn’t taken to the hospital right away. The objective of suicide bombings, by the way, is not suicide. The objective is homicide. Abdeslam killed no one at the Comptoir Voltaire. One person was reportedly injured (even though papers on the wall were not damaged).
One must seriously question the motives of this alleged terrorist. Did he wish to close the borders of France to Muslim immigrants? To launch war against Muslim countries? Then he was a suicide bomber in every sense of the word — and a blank slate upon which an ongoing fiction can be drawn.
THE French nationalist pop group, Les Brigandes, refreshingly describes some of the forces shaping France today in their song “Antifa,” which was apparently later censured. I’m not sure what was changed, but I have a good idea. Read More »
Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal on August 26, 2012 in Reading, England. (Photo by Simone Joyner/Getty Images)
JOSH writes:
First, I would like to say that I have been a fan of your site for years and that I am broadly in sympathy with your views (including agnosticism including agnosticism in interpreting various recent world events). However, I am writing to correct what I think is a misconception regarding the music group “The Eagles of Death Metal,” [the band playing at the Bataclan Hall in Paris during Friday night’s attacks.] I am not writing to defend the band as talented, wholesome, or even morally neutral. Like most modern pop music they unreflectively endorse a casual attitude toward sex, and a general (though, frankly, mildly so compared to many of their contemporaries) disposition toward hedonism. Having said that, I did want to say, for your benefit, that they are not who you think they are.
“The Eagles of Death Metal,” are not in fact a “Death Metal” band. The name is a joke of sorts. The word “Eagles” in the name, is a reference to the 1970s band, who, I gather the EODM consider to be lame. One of the band members once heard a friend describe a different band as “The Eagles of Death Metal” and he found this an amusing description. The EODM’s music is blues influenced, heavy on slide guitar, mostly melodic. The devil horns sign is more of a hipster detached irony, combined with the fact that most urban young hipsters are atheists and associate this hand symbol with “rock and roll” (though even this is viewed with a detached kind of irony). I imagine that the band and the audience find the whole idea of Satan to be provincial to the extent that they even think about it. Note that I am not saying that these symbols have no power despite the intentions of the people involved, or that on some level, this indifference between good and evil isn’t the work of the devil. Modern culture and modern rock and roll certainly unwittingly (semi-wittingly?) play into the devil’s hands. Read More »
MANY MEDIA outlets are running this gruesome photo of the inside of the Bataclan theater in Paris, where 89 people were reportedly killed by terrorists on Friday. I’m sorry to post this disturbing image, in which the dead bodies are digitally obscured, and I send my sympathies to anyone hurt in the theater and the friends and relatives of anyone killed, but I think it is important to examine this photo because it is strange. Why is no one attending to these victims? Where are the emergency responders? It’s very unusual even when only police have arrived for no one to help those who have been shot. Usually even victims who are believed to be dead are rushed to hospitals just in case they may be revived. That is standard practice. And yet these victims are left in piles. Is this the moment before any police and medics arrived? Does that mean no one stayed behind to help these poor people, some of whom may have survived if they were treated?
This photo and the absence of cell phone images from inside the theater raise troubling questions about news accounts.
While there are no images of the actual massacre taking place in an age of ubiquitous cameras, we do have this perfect portrait of the crowd (with the obligatory flashing of the devil’s horns) before the concert. Do concertgoers in the satanic rock circuit normally pose for professional-looking group shots before concerts?
A WOMAN whose baby died on his first day in day care now campaigns for the unrealistic, Capitalistic pipe dream of extended parental leave instead of an economy — and a culture — that enables many more mothers to stay home indefinitely.
THE INTERNET is abuzz with skepticism about the official details of the devastating Paris attacks. Was this more manufactured terror, another black operation intended to promote public support for war in the Middle East, divert attention from the real enemies of Europe, inflame passions for and against Muslims, and create the passive, supine herd that concedes to repressive security measures?
The death of the attackers (a familiar component of all false flag events), the drills scheduled for the same day, the seemingly instantaneous appearance of sympathetic lighting on public buildings and the reported lack of images (see first video) of events within the soccer stadium all raise suspicions. There is the troubling question of where the alleged terrorists obtained their explosives. There is also the oddity that the perpetrators of the attacks were instantly identified by the government and media. According to one blogger, Wikipedia had a detailed entry within two hours of the attacks. Michel Chossudovsky writes:
Within minutes following the attacks, which were launched simultaneously, and prior to the release of a preliminary report by the police, France’s media went into overdrive. News commentators and intelligence analysts on France’s network TV stated with authority that the attacks emanated from Syria and Iraq.
The media coverage of these tragic events was casually linked up with the war in the Middle East, highlighting France’s commitment –alongside its allies– in waging a “humanitarian war” against the terrorists.
The Islamic State was identified as the architect of the attacks.
The attacks were described without evidence as an act of revenge and retribution against France for having bombed ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq as part of Obama’s counter-terrorism air campaign.
[…]
The political discourse is in some regards reminiscent of the 9/11 attacks and the statements of George W. Bush et al.
The media immediately started comparing the November 13 attacks in Paris to 9/11, intimating that France was at war and that the alleged Islamic State attack was from abroad, i.e. the Middle East.
Police State Measures
President Hollande had ordered by decree without debate or consultation with France’s National Assembly the enactment of a State of Emergency throughout France, coupled with the closing of France’s borders allegedly to prevent terrorists from coming in, and from terror suspects from leaving the country.
The measures also included procedures which enable the police to conduct arbitrary arrests and house searches without a warrant within the Paris metropolitan area opening up the development of a potential hate campaign directed against France’s Muslim population.
Will the attacks be used to justify deploying NATO troops to Syria?
Some are sayingThe Economist magazine, a propaganda arm of the international oligarchy which holds its famous secret meetings at the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands every year, predicted the attacks on its cover earlier this year. The occult symbolism on the magazine cover is analyzed at the preceding link. The fact that the attacks occurred on Friday the 13th and that a concert hall hosting “The Eagles of Death” are similarly disturbing. A familiar feature of false flag operations is the simultaneous promotion of immoral behavior. (In the Virginia shooting, the live-in relationship between the allegedly murdered reporter with a news anchor was featured. In the Oregon shooting, the supposed hero Chris Mintz was photographed in his hospital bed with a demonic trio of friends.)
We cannot know, of course, but all official accounts of terror attacks should be treated with skepticism. We know for sure that government intelligence agencies have already engaged in massive deception and treason to achieve political goals through terror. We should be sympathetic to the dead, but withhold definite conclusions as to the perpetrators. Above all else, we should refuse to be afraid.
Rearranging these numbers, one gets the dates for the Charlie Hebdo attack and the Friday the 13th attack.
