Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Game Changer on 0 Eligibility Manan~a?




WND EXCLUSIVE

MEDIA FINALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO ELIGIBILITY?

See which major networks plan on covering Cold Case Posse results


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PHOENIX, Ariz. – Poll after poll in recent months has indicated that Americans have a high level of concern over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president, with one poll showing fully half of the nation wants Congress to investigate the question.

But reporters for the traditional media – networks, major newspapers, major news corporations and conglomerates – mostly have giggled when talk turns to the serious question of just what the U.S. Constitution requires of presidents.

Nevertheless, media organizations from all political persuasions are seeking admittance to a news conference to be held by Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz.

The event is tomorrow at 1 p.m. Mountain Standard Time in Phoenix, 3 p.m. Eastern, and will be live-streamed by WND.

The topic of discussion will be an investigation by Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse into concerns about Obama’s eligibility. It’s the first time an official law enforcement report has addressed many of the allegations about the presumptive 2012 Democratic nominee for president.

The issues include Obama’s eligibility under the U.S. Constitution’s requirements, questions about his use of a Connecticut Social Security number and the image of his purported birth certificate from Hawaii.
In addition to the live-streaming, WND will make available to the public, the same day by email, the official report distributed to media by Arpaio’s investigators. Those interested in receiving the report can sign up for the free service.

Top national media organizations have indicated their plans to attend, and bookings for radio and television reports are in the works. Expected are reporters from the Associated Press, Reuters, Univision, the Washington Times and NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates, as well statewide radio networks, among many others.

Because of the circumstances, a decision was made to hold the press conference at the sheriff’s training center on the outskirts of Phoenix, rather than at the downtown office.

The event is expected to draw protesters who object to the sheriff’s office review of allegations that Obama may attempt to use a fraudulent document to have his name placed on the 2012 presidential election ballot in Arizona.

Without releasing any details, Arpaio has said the findings “could be a shock.”

He constituted a special five-member law enforcement posse last year to investigate allegations brought by members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party that the Obama birth certificate released to the public by the White House on April 27 might be a forgery.

The posse is made up of three former law enforcement officers and two retired attorneys with law enforcement experience. Members have been examining evidence since September concerning Obama’s eligibility to be president under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution, which requires a president to be a natural-born citizen.

Among other issues, there also have been allegations of Obama’s use of a Social Security number that corresponds to a Connecticut address, even though the president apparently had no links there.

WND earlier reported a private investigation found that the Social Security number being used by Obama does not pass a check with E-Verify, the electronic system the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has created to verify whether or not someone is authorized to work legally in the country.

Arpaio’s investigation is the first official law enforcement look at the allegations surrounding Obama’s eligibility. Many of the private investigators who have examined it contend there are too many questionable circumstances to believe that everything regarding Obama is above-board.

Arpaio previously told WND that when he launched his Cold Case Posse it was with the possibility that he would clear Obama.

He said it wasn’t an issue he could ignore, after 250 members of the tea party organization “came to me and asked their sheriff to investigate Obama and the birth certificate.”

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The WND TV live-streaming coverage of the news conference Thursday is possible through the support of the Western Center for Journalism.

The decisions in dozens of court cases over the last few years questioning Obama’s eligibility were typified by a recent decision in Georgia in which several individuals filed challenges to Obama’s name on the 2012 ballot and provided evidence to a hearing officer.

Even though Obama and his lawyer deliberately snubbed the case – the lawyer wrote the judge a letter in advance telling him Obama would not attend – the judge threw out the evidence presented by several attorneys and ruled in favor of Obama.

Similar ballot challenges are being filed in a long list of other states already.

The Arpaio investigators were given the case following a meeting held in the sheriff’s officeug. 17, 2011, with tea party representatives from Surprise, Ariz., who presented a petition signed by more than 250 Maricopa County residents. 

The petitioners expressed concern that their voting rights could be irreparably compromised if Obama uses a forged birth certificate to be placed on the 2012 presidential ballot in Arizona or otherwise is found to be ineligible.

The tea party letter formally stated the following charge: “The Surprise Tea Party is concerned that no law enforcement agency or other duly constituted government agency has conducted an investigation into the Obama birth certificate to determine if it is in fact an authentic copy of 1961 birth records on file for Barack Obama at the Hawaii Department of Health in Honolulu, or whether it, or they are forgeries.”

The posse was constituted as a 501(c)3 organization, designed to cost the people of Maricopa County nothing, while enabling people from around the country to contribute to its mission.

Those wishing to send a tax-deductible contribution directly to the Cold Case Posse may do so by mailing a check or money order to: MCSO Cold Case Posse, P.O. Box 74374, Phoenix, AZ 85087.

WND has reported that dozens of experts with varying ranges of competency who have looked at the situation believe the birth documentation image released by Obama last year is not genuine.

A flying-banner and billboard campaign to let people know about the questions regarding eligibility that was started by WND CEO and Editor Joseph Farah also has raised the public’s awareness of the situation.

Farah wrote recently that the underlying question to be determined is whether the U.S. Constitution remains the law of the land, or whether it has become “an archaic old document that needs to be amended.”

“At its core, it’s really quite simple: Does Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution dealing with who can serve as president of the United States simply mean that any citizen age 35 or older is eligible? 

If so, why did the founders use a different term altogether – ‘natural born citizen’? 

What is a ‘natural born citizen’? 

Is it anyone born in the United States? 

If so, why have candidates born outside the United States been deemed eligible? 

Do we owe it to America’s future to go back in history to determine what that term actually means?

“Until now, as hard as it may be to believe, no official vetting of Obama’s credentials has been done – not by the 50 secretaries of state who oversee elections, not by the Federal Elections Commission that administers the nation’s elections laws, not by the Electoral College, not by any judge in America, not by Congress, not by anyone,” he continued.

Even before the results become public, Farah said he’s confident there will be a significant impact.“I strongly believe it could be a game-changer,” he said.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/media-finally-paying-attention-to-eligibility/ 

                                              
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Whom to Believe: Our Own Eyes or The Monopoly Media?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fIP-ibpRYIY   2:17

                                                    
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Ron Paul to BB: Do You Do Your Own Shopping at the Grocery Store?

No one believes the Consumer Price Index and the old one shows 9+% CPI.

Where can we put our money to get a real safe return?

An ounce of silver used to buy 4 gallons of gasoline.

Now it buys 11 gallons of gasoline.

You have destroyed the value of money:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H4uL6CSiGrU 6:09
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Ron Paul: "I Run Against All 3 Because They Are Very Similar... They All Endorse Preemptive War"

CNN tries to discredit Doctor Ron Paul with nonsense story.

But at least they acknowledge his existence, unlike the RNC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jlsfxbUCsPo 9:24
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DHS reinvented itself as secret police unit to spy on political activists?

Wake up call for America:

"many of the raids on OWS camps across the country were “coordinated with help from Homeland Security,” according to a Justice Department official.":

Homeland Security Feared ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Violence

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Department of Homeland Security feared that the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations would turn violent during their height last year, according to a leaked document obtained by Rolling Stone Magazine.



Whether you support the goals of Occupy Wall Street or not, this is yet another example of how the federal agency, which was created under the auspices of protecting the United States from terrorist attacks, is primarily concerned with keeping tabs on citizens who express their First Amendment rights.

“The five-page report – contained in 5 million newly leaked documents examined by Rolling Stone in an investigative partnership with WikiLeaks – goes on to sum up the history of Occupy Wall Street and assess its “impact” on everything from financial services to government facilities,” writes Michael Hastings.

The document also details how much of DHS’ information was obtained through monitoring Twitter feeds from OWS activists, underscoring once again the fact that the federal agency is spying on social media as part of a chilling effect on free speech, belying claims made earlier this month by DHS representatives that the agency is only concerned with messages relating to natural disasters.

Homeland Security’s fear that the demonstrations could lead to violence is summarized in the final paragraph of the document.

“The growing support for the OWS movement has expanded the protests’ impact and increased the potential for violence. While the peaceful nature of the protests has served so far to mitigate their impact, larger numbers and support from groups such as Anonymous substantially increase the risk for potential incidents and enhance the potential security risk to critical infrastructure (CI).”

Not only did Homeland Security monitor the development of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, many of the raids on OWS camps across the country were “coordinated with help from Homeland Security,” according to a Justice Department official.

In addition, the Federal Protective Service, a component of the DHS that is tasked with providing security for government buildings, arrested photographers at Portland’s Terry Shrunk Plaza during an ‘Occupy’ event, illustrating how the FPS is now operating as Homeland Security’s secret police unit.

 Since 2006, the FPS has been used to spy on dozens of peaceful advocacy groups and monitor scores of lawful protests and political rallies in the name of national security. 

In 2004, the FPS arrested a veteran for the crime of complaining to his local VA office in Des Moines.

As part of its broadening mandate to crack down on free speech, the DHS is also targeting activists from the other side of the political spectrum.

In one case, the DHS hired a private Israeli security firm to spy on anti-tax protesters in Pennsylvania, characterizing the group as a terror threat.

Given the fact that the DHS has reinvented itself as a secret police force whose primary objective is to spy on political activism, it’s unsurprising that Egypt’s notorious state security service, complicit in the imprisonment and torture of anti-regime activists, last year decided to re-brand itself as “homeland security”.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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NDAA Overruled by Executive Order?

And how many promises has this President kept?


POW Senator John McCain should know better:


Obama Issues ‘Policy Directive’ Exempting American Citizens From Indefinite Detention
Skeptics fear future administration could still incarcerate US citizens under NDAA


Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Despite the fact that it was his administration that specifically demanded the controversial ‘indefinite detention’ provisions of the NDAA be applied to Americans, President Obama has issued a ‘Presidential Policy Directive’ that forbids the law from being used against US citizens.



A “fact sheet” released by the White House last night contains details of a “Presidential Policy Directive” which explains that the administration will not seek to use the so-called ‘kidnapping provision’ of the National Defense Authorization Act to incarcerate American citizens without trial.

“Section 1022 does not apply to U.S. citizens, and the President has decided to waive its application to lawful permanent residents arrested in the United States,” states the White House fact sheet (PDF).

Obama’s PDD contains a number of other circumstances in which people would be exempt from indefinite detention, but the language concerning American citizens states that to be exempt, a US citizen must be “arrested in this country or arrested by a federal agency on the basis of conduct taking place in this country,” meaning Americans arrested abroad could still be kidnapped and held without trial.

The NDAA bill, which was signed into law by President Obama under the radar on New Years Eve while he was on vacation in Kauai, hands the federal government the power to “allow the military to indefinitely detain terror suspects, including American citizens arrested in the United States, without charge.”

There’s no doubt that this represents a victory for civil libertarians on both sides of the political spectrum, but skeptics will be keen to stress that just because the Obama administration, which could be out of office by this time next year, has indicated it will not indefinitely detain Americans under the NDAA, doesn’t necessarily mean that future administrations will also refrain from doing so.

Indeed, if the administration was so concerned about the indefinite detention provisions, why did it specifically lobby for them to be applied to American citizens in the first place?.

As we documented at the time, shortly before the bill was signed into law, Senator Carl Levin revealed that it was the administration which demanded the removal of language that would have protected Americans from the ‘kidnapping’ provisions of the NDAA.

“The language which precluded the application of Section 1031 to American citizens was in the bill that we originally approved…and the administration asked us to remove the language which says that U.S. citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section,” said Levin, Chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

Don’t expect Obama’s PDD to be the end of the matter.

Senators John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) have already indicated that they will argue against exempting American citizens from indefinite detention.

“Although we have not been able to fully examine all the details of these new regulations, they raise significant concerns that will require a hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee,” they said in a joint statement.

“We are particularly concerned that some of these regulations may contradict the intent of the detainee provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress last year.”

In issuing the policy directive, Obama is attempting to head off a potential states’ rights rebellion against the federal government. 

With Virginia already having passed a bill in the House and Senate that nullifies the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA, Utah has introduced a resolution with the ultimate intention of doing the same, along with several other states.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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Conspiracy Theory?


FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The Triumph of Totalitarian Fascism In The West And The East

"despotism does not discriminate between east and west." -Warwick Ball, "Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West."2010. East & West Publishing: London. Pg. 23.

"...we are here dealing with a totalitarian state of which the philosophy included an utter contempt for the individual... any freedom of thought or action was inconceivable in the Aztec world... dependence and instability were absolute, fear reigned. Death lurked ceaselessly everywhere, and constituted the cement of the building in which the individual Aztec was prisoner... Clearly the spirituality of some aspects of Aztec life must have sprung from an old pre-Aztec tradition, later betrayed..." - Laurette Séjourné, "Burning Water: Thought and Religion in Ancient Mexico."

"High Priest: O warrior, unafraid and willing, with your blood you renew the world! From age to age! Thanks be to you." -Apocalypto, 2006. (Screenwriters Mel Gibson and Farhad Safinia).
We live in a funny world.

In Iran and the East, anti-government dissidents look to the West for news and analysis. In America and the West, anti-government dissidents look to the East for news and analysis.

Channels like Iran's Press TV and Russia's Russia Today are big hits with the truth-tellers of the West. But they're not offering their media services out of a sense of responsibility to the truth and a genuine interest in journalism. State media propagandists, whether in the West or the East, don't care about truth-telling, but protecting the interests of their state right or wrong.

The despotic governments of Iran and Russia are waging an information war against the despotic governments of America, Israel, and England, which, in turn, are waging an information war against them. All the totalitarian governments involved in the global information war are benefiting from the stupid and counter-productive war between the West and the East.

But not all sides are equally guilty. The totalitarian fascists in America, Israel, and the West are the criminal aggressors in this clash of civilizations. Their mass murder of innocent Americans on September 11, 2001, is a monstrous crime that they have gotten away with because of their vast media warfare and state propaganda operations.

There has been a planet-wide resistance movement against the mind invaders and truth destroyers in the Pentagon, CIA, Mossad, and MI6. The biggest heart of this civil society movement is in the heart of America--Austin, Texas, the Alex Jones show. But that is only one heart. There are many other hearts around the world that are pumping much-needed truth and knowledge into the global intelligence nervous system.

The global mainstream media has been blocking the flow of information and facts into the global intelligence nervous system since the September 11 state-terror attacks. But they have failed, especially in North America and the West, where most educated citizens are demanding a new investigation into the events of 9/11.

In Canada, courageous citizens have signed a petition that calls for the Canadian Parliament to review and reexamine the September 11 events. Wayne Coste has more information about this positive development in his article, "Pivotal 9/11 Petition Confronts Canadian Parliament":
"On November 11, 2011, the petition for a parliamentary review of the destruction of the three WTC skyscrapers on 9/11 was submitted to the Government of Canada by members of the Canadian 9/11 truth movement. The petition will soon be formally read in Parliament.

It was signed by 1,405 Canadians, and under long standing protocols, a formal response is required within 45 days."
This act by Canadian citizens is a great victory for the 9/11 truth and justice movement. It is further proof that the bad guys in Washington, Tel Aviv, London, and Ottawa are losing their hypnotic hold on the global public. 

Last year, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the U.S. is losing in the global infowar. Speaking in Washington on March 2nd, 2011 at the Senate Appropriations Committee, the witch of war declared: "We are in an information war, and we are losing that war." The bloodthirsty demon added:
"I'll be very blunt in my assessment. Al Jazeera is winning. The Chinese have opened up a global English language and multi-language television network. The Russians have opened up an English-language network. I’ve seen it in a few countries, and it is quite instructive."
Washington and Israel are losing the global infowar because the force of truth and justice is not on their side. They have turned their backs on reality and on democracy. They have decided to go in Satan's corner, and spit on the creations of God. These totalitarian fascists have deified the State, sacrificed innocent human beings on the mountain of war, and destroyed the creative forces of society.

First and foremost, the Totalitarian State is a mind-killer and a truth-destroyer. It spreads intellectual poison and contaminates civil society with foolish beliefs and illogical hatred towards the Other in distant and foreign lands. The totalitarian and deified states in America, Israel, and Iran should all be destroyed. These Machiavellian and devilish governments are wasting our youth, our hopes, our energy, our potential, and our future.

The totalitarian leaders of America, Israel, and Iran brainwash heroic soldiers and treat them like cannon fodder. They are all committing crimes against the rule of law and human rights. They exploit public grief and anger for their own selfish political purposes. They are spitting on the blood of our forefathers and our ancestors. They wage war in the name of our countries and our religions. They lay siege to our lands and our cultures with totalitarian ideologies, and call it freedom.

They burn our flags and destroy our cultures in the name of world government and "global harmony." They are creating a global hell, while posing as the enlightened ones who will save us from annihilation by imprisoning our nations in a fascist and despotic world government. They believe we are stupid slaves and that we will fall for their big lies, historical frauds, and grand deceptions. 

But the global 9/11 truth and justice movement is proving them wrong. We are putting our priorities in perspective.

Instead of chanting "Death to America," "Death to Israel," "Death to the West," "Death to Iran," and "Death to Islam," we should chant "Death to the Totalitarian State," "Death to Fascism," "Death to Psychopathic War Criminals," and "Death To A Despotic World Government."

May all the totalitarian fascist leaders of America, Israel, England, and Iran burn in hell. And may we all come together as one and send them there before they begin World War III and send us all to early graves.

The authoritarian and despotic leaders of America, Israel, and England want a world war. Fine. Good. I want war too. But let it be a war of ideas, information, facts, and truths against these totalitarian governments and their media puppets, not a manufactured clash of civilizations between the West and the East.

We should not stand in perpetual shock like lambs and watch America, Iran, Israel, Syria, Pakistan, Lebanon and other nations fight an unnecessary world war only to be sacrificed on the altar of world government by satanic psychopaths. That is not fate, that is spiritual madness.
POSTED BY SAMAN MOHAMMADI AT 9:11 PM

The False Charges Against Hezbollah Must Be Dropped

 Facts Show Israel Killed Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Not Hezbollah.

"On any issue, our hearts and nerves, in what we understand to be the truth, cannot be shaken even if the whole world stood against us. For this reason, let's talk logic, let's come and talk intellect, outlook, convictions, data, interests, the interests of the Ummah (nation) and the interests of the people of the region, and the interests of Palestine. But nobody intimidate us with anything." - Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, "Sayyed Nasrallah on Syria: 'We Must Look at the Greater Picture, & Not Drown in Details,'" February 18, 2012.

"On February 1, The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (“STL”) announced that it would conduct in absentia trials for those Hezbollah members accused of involvement in the February 14, 2005 Beirut bombing.  The decision was made after it was determined that every reasonable avenue had been pursued to bring the defendants before the tribunal." - Ryan Cox, Policy on Point, "Hezbollah vs. The World: The STL Announces it Will Conduct In Absentia Trials," February 7, 2012. 
On February 14, 2005, the Israeli government assassinated former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in a brutal attack that also took the lives of 77 other innocent victims. In the immediate aftermath of his murder, Israel blamed the Syrian government, but that accusation broke down, which forced Israel to be even more inventive and blame Hezbollah.

A week after Hariri's assassination, British journalist Patrick Seale explained why Syria was not responsible, writing:
If Syria killed Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister and master-mind of its revival after the 1975-90 Civil War, it must be judged an act of political suicide.

Syria is already under great international pressure from the United States, France and Israel, each for its own reasons. To kill Hariri at this critical moment would be to destroy Syria's reputation once and for all and hand its enemies a weapon with which to deliver the coup de grace -- the blow which could finally destabilise the Syrian regime, and even possibly bring it down.

So, for me at least, attributing responsibility for the murder to Syria is implausible. The murder is more likely to be the work of one or other of its many enemies. (Seale, "Who Killed Rafik Hariri?" February 21, 2005).
Hezbollah also did not profit from Hariri being murdered. My understanding is that before his assassination, Hariri promised Hezbollah that it would remain armed and included in Lebanese society. The gangsters in Israel and the United States would have us believe that Hezbollah turned around and stabbed a good friend in the back. But it makes no logical sense.

Only Israel profited from the death of Hariri. Upon his death, Lebanon, a recurrent target of Israel, was thrown into chaos, and the reputation of Hezbollah, a defender of Lebanon, was tarnished in the eyes of the international community.

The truth that Hezbollah gained nothing from Hariri's murder is evident. Let's throw off prejudice and look at reality with clear eyes. I am not defending Hezbollah and the Islamic resistance, but merely stating the truth and defending reality. I really don't care for Islam, but I do care about the truth, international law, human rights, and justice. Without these intangibles of human society, the Middle East will never see peace, freedom, tranquility, and prosperity.

It is clear that Israel committed an act of aggression and war against Lebanon on February 14, 2005, because it is the nature of Israel's leaders to shoot down leaders, throw up dust, and then play the victim in the wake of the tragedy. Israel is the ultimate trickster on the world stage. It has a pattern of deception, murder, and terrorism. It is led by the world's biggest thieves, liars, and murderers.

American journalist Christopher Bollyn explained how Israel killed Hariri in his article, "Did Israel Kill Rafik Hariri With a Precision Penetrator Bomb?":
"While Israel was briefly mentioned as a possible suspect in the bombing, the mainstream media has completely ignored that possibility. The evidence, however, indicates that the Hariri bombing may have been a guided missile attack from the air, a common method of "targeted killing" perfected by Israel.

Israel has killed an untold number of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank with precision guided bombs and missiles launched from the air. Last March, in one such targeted killing, the Israeli military used a guided missile to kill the quadriplegic and wheelchair-bound spiritual head of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin."
The world media has not even contemplated Israel's role in the assassination of Hariri. To get the facts and the truth we must trust our eyes, our hearts, and our minds.

It is obvious that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is pressing false charges against members of Hezbollah. The controllers of the STL want to connect Hezbollah to Hariri's assassination in order to divide and conquer Lebanon. It is not interested in justice. It is a sham. And it is playing a very dangerous game.

This episode is another indication of how international law and international institutions have been subverted to protect the interests of Israel and the United States. There is a deep international crisis that originates from within the dark heart of the United Nations. In its current manifestation, the UN is nothing more than an international stick wielded by the war criminals in Israel and the U.S. against their enemies and victims.  

Lebanon and Hezbollah are victims of Israeli aggression, terrorism, and duplicity. Make no mistake about it. Israel is playing a sick game against the people of Lebanon and the international community. Israel believes it can sweep away the blood of her victims on the UN floor with America's big broom. It has no sense of decency, morality, shame, and honour. It is led by a government that is hell-bent on war and terrorism.

For more information and analysis, read my two previous articles on this subject:
U.S. And Israel Were Behind Hariri Killing, But Falsely Accuse Hezbollah For The Crime
Hezbollah Framed By Israel And U.S. For Hariri Assassination
POSTED BY SAMAN MOHAMMADI AT 5:18 PM

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The CIA, FED, GOP, And MSM Are Teaming Up Against Ron Paul And The American People

"In an atmosphere of doubt about the validity of the voting process, it appears that the entire voting process is a sham, a trick to fool the American people into accepting whatever is done to them by creating the illusion that the people somehow voted for and approved of whatever is being done. That's how Batista fooled the Cuban people. That's how the USSR fooled the Soviet citizens. And that's how the American government fools us." - Michael Rivero, "Vote Fraud And The Bankruptcy of The United States."

"An archived clip of different Congressional hearings exposes the fact that the CIA directly plants stories in the media, both in the United States and the rest of the world.
Question: Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation journal?
Answer: We do have people who submit pieces to American journals.
Question: Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?
Answer: This I think gets into the details id like to get into in executive session. (so the public doesn’t hear how we control all the networks)
Considering that this was going on in the 1950s, it is highly likely that this is happening now and at a much larger extent. The CIA and other government agencies literally control the corporate controlled media." - The Intel Hub.

"splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds." - President John F. Kennedy in 1961.

"We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it." - President Harry S. Truman in 1963.

"I mean, but they're almost like they live in a different world. The military is down, the morale is down, the money isn't there, and they're going looking for a couple more wars to fight. It makes no sense whatsoever. . . There’s been a coup, have you heard? It’s the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They’re the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on these countries. It's not even the military that does that. The CIA runs this. And of course the CIA is every bit as secret as the Federal Reserve. And yet think of the harm that they have done since they were established, since World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They’re in businesses, in drug businesses, and they take out dictators. We need to take out the CIA." - Ron Paul in 2010.

"Who or what assassinated President John F. Kennedy?

In the course of experimenting in the dark truth of JFK's death, the ongoing, deepening historical hypothesis of this book has been that the CIA coordinated and carried out the president's murder. That hypothesis has been strengthened as the documents, witnesses, and converging lines of inquiry have pointed more conclusively at the CIA. Yet understanding that the CIA coordinated the assassination does not mean that we can limit the responsibility to the CIA. To tell the truth at the heart of darkness in this story, one must see and accept a responsibility that goes deeper and far beyond the Central Intelligence Agency.

The CIA was the coordinating instrument that killed the president, but the question of responsibility is more systemic, more personal, and more chilling. Thomas Merton described it rightly as the unspeakable. Let us continue to follow the story as far as we can, in the hope that the unspeakable, if not spoken, can at least be glimpsed in the shadows." - James W. Douglass,"JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters."Simon & Schuster: 2008. Pg. 305 - 306.
It is common knowledge that the CIA has been installing friendly presidents, senators, and governors in the United States for decades. When the maverick Jesse Ventura became Governor of Minnesota, he said he was visited by CIA officers who were interested in how he won without support from the two major parties. Gov. Ventura said they wanted to grab information from him in order to learn from his experience and stop other independent political candidates from repeating his victory.

Indeed, the CIA takes a great interest in U.S. elections, and directs their outcome to protect their own corrupt interests. Most well-known politicians on Capitol Hill are probably on the payroll of the CIA. It is the biggest foreign lobby in Washington, with AIPAC close behind.

Why is the CIA a foreign lobby? Because the CIA is controlled by a secret group of international banking families who gained control of America after they established the private Federal Reserve Bank in 1913 based on illegitimate grounds. These foreign, international rulers dedicated themselves to overthrowing America's system of government in the early twentieth century.

The creation of the Central Intelligence Agency after WWII was part of their long plot to destroy America's constitutional republic and free institutions. The CIA is the perfect vehicle for overthrowing a government, especially in one's own country.

It is not a coincidence that the international owners of the Federal Reserve and the CIA share the same goal as Al-Qaeda: Bankrupt the United States of America. They need America to collapse financially and politically before their New World Order/One World Government can rise out of the ashes.

They only care about the birth of their big baby to be named the new world order, not the millions of victims in America and around the world who are being sacrificed during the birthing process. One more planned world war between Islamic civilization and Western civilization, and their big dream will become a global political reality.

Obama is on board with this global conspiracy. He would have not been made President if he wasn't. Many people think of President Barack Obama as the human version of a CIA drone. He flies at 40000 feet above the brainwashed commoners, firing missiles of deception into American homes and American minds. 

On Super Bowl Sunday, Obama dropped deception bombs equivalent to nuclear warheads on the public consciousness, the biggest one being about the nature of Iran's nuclear program. Obama was asked about Israel's plan to attack Iran. He responded:
"I think they, like us, believe that Iran has to stand down on its nuclear weapons program," he said. "[Iran is] feeling the pressure, but they have not taken the step that they need to diplomatically, which is to say, 'We will pursue peaceful nuclear power. We will not pursue a nuclear weapon.' Until they do, I think Israel rightly is going to be very concerned and we are as well." (Source: The Huffington Post).
Everyone knows that Iran's nuclear program is not dedicated to building nuclear weapons. For analysis, read: U.S. Intelligence Agencies Agree: No Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program. Is President Obama reading his intelligence briefings, or not? Is the problem too many rounds of golf, and not enough reading? Let's say he is doing his homework. That means he is too big of a coward to break with Israel publicly and say that Iran's nuclear program is peaceful and restricted for civilian purposes.

Or is he being blackmailed by the Zionists and Neocons into attacking Iran?

These doubts and questions around Obama are damaging the reputation, security, and freedoms of the United States. The only man in the 2012 presidential race who can restore America's reputation, security, and freedoms is Ron Paul. But he is up against widespread, systemic election fraud.

The CIA, FED, GOP, and MSM are teaming up to take Ron Paul out of the presidential picture. So far, they have been successful. In state after state, the GOP, CIA, and MSM are working tirelessly to hide the reality on the ground and prop up puppets like Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, and Newt Gingrich who have no popular support.

Ron Paul does not want to be part of the puppet show. His heart is too big for that. His soul is not for sell. He has integrity and bravery. A man like him is too good for the state managed staged production that is the American presidential election.
POSTED BY SAMAN MOHAMMADI AT 7:16 PM

Alex Jones: Killer Bird-Flu Blueprint Released!

Global Post (February 18, 2012): Virulent bird flu research to be released after another delay. An excerpt:
22 experts met on Thursday and Friday to discuss whether the terror risk outweighed the benefits of allowing scientists to research the spread of the disease, data which could be used to help stop the spread of the deadly illness if it mutates on its own in the wild, the BBC reported.

"Most of the group felt that any theoretical risk of the virus’s being used by terrorists was far outweighed by the 'real and present danger' of similar flu viruses in the wild," the Times wrote.
"Dr. Ian Sussman: Blogging is not writing. It's just graffiti with punctuation." - From the film Contagion (2011).

POSTED BY SAMAN MOHAMMADI AT 4:07 PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

To Avoid Armageddon, Let's Open The Pages of The Hidden History Between The West And Iran

"Don't you hear the truth
as it whispers to you?
Our trust has been abused
decide if you need their fright
What do you want?

They come for our life
when we sleep" 
"History is nothing if not collective experience; the greater the 'collection', the richer the experience. I do not intend to glibly claim that 'eastern' civilisations are superior. It is simply not a question of that: it is a nonsense to think of a single, defined 'eastern' civilisation at all. But it is also a nonsense to think of a single 'western' civilisation as it is normally taken to mean. We are not exclusive culturally, and our western and European identity is not as glib as we like to think. 'A living civilization must be able not only to give but to receive and to borrow' in the words of Fernand Braudel. The central theme of history is not the domination of one civilisation over another, the momentary hegemony of one single region or group or even idea, be it European or Roman, Near Eastern or Ottoman, Communist or Islamic. Instead there is a continual, on-going ebb and flow of ideas that pass from one area to another, undergoing modifications by different cultures all the time. To force all cultures, peoples, civilisations into some preconceived 'east-west' mould is not only confrontational, it simply flies in the face of historical fact. Most of all, if we have any regard at all for our own European civilisation, we must strip aside blithe assumptions rooted in prejudice and understand it in its fullest, riches and broadest sense. Not to do this is to belittle it." - Warwick Ball, "Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West." 2010. East & West Publishing: London. Pg. 11 - 12.  
There is an official history of the conflicting relationship between America and Iran, and an unofficial one which is kept hidden from the world by the freemasonic leaders of both countries who are dedicated to an occult agenda which is Luciferian in nature.

As I documented before, Iran's Islamic revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini was put into power by the Bush-led faction in the CIA and their cousins in the MI6, who have been working to establish a tyrannical global government for over a hundred years.

For more information, analysis, and links to sources, read: The British And U.S. Governments Installed Khomeini Into Power In 1979; A Rigged Revolution: How The Shadow CIA-MI6 Network Put Khomeini And Militant Islamists in Power; Hostage To False Flag Terror: The Link Between The October Surprise And The September Surprise; and America, Persia, And Israel Are Being Sacrificed For A One World Order.

Alternative historians and researchers have laid out both hard and soft evidence that World War I and World War II were staged conflicts whose ultimate aim was a tyrannical global government. People are shocked by this historical truth because it means that American, British, and Canadian soldiers didn't die for freedom and democracy but to make the world safe for private banking usury and political domination by elite ruling families.

The occult ruling elites view heroic soldiers, and the middle class and lower class families they come from, as mindless cattle and sacrificial lambs who should be slaughtered in mass wars. As David Icke says, wars are ritual "mass sacrifices." Icke:
"When they do their terrorist events to blame on someone else, they are very ritualistic in nature. In terms of when they're done, where they're done, and how they're done. And so 9/11. What do you dial for an emergency in America? 9-1-1.

And you find this so often in these events that they engineer. The thing is that when I started researching this my bloody jaw was dropping. Not just at the ritualistic and symbolic nature of what they did, but the scale and detail of it. It's almost like someone created a computer program to give you the perfect symbolic, ritualistic background to the latest horrific event."
Since we know that World War I and World War II were ritual mass sacrifices that led to the creation of a world political union, it is natural and right for us to assume that World War III between Iran/Islam and the West/Israel is also a ritual mass sacrifice to achieve the same goal: a one wold order.

The myth of Iranian independence is sweet and heart-warming, but it is a myth. The same occult Illuminati elites that control America, the West, and Israel, also control the Islamic Republic of Iran and the fundamentalist forces of political Islam throughout the Islamic world.

Fundamentalist Islam was not a big movement in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s. It had a die-hard following and foreign support from the CIA, MI6, and other Western intelligence agencies, but it did not have middle class loyalty and political legitimacy. But that changed in the late 1970s when fundamentalist Muslims, at the behest of the CIA and MI6, dressed up as government agents of the Shah and staged false flag attacks to turn Iranian public opinion against the Shah. The plan worked.

By 1979, the Shah was a dreaded ruler who was losing public support by the day. The shadow CIA (George H. W. Bush/NWO faction) abandoned the Shah after stabbing him in the back. CIA operatives loyal to Bush and Reagan worked with Khomeini's most trusted political henchmen to raise him to the status of Iran's sole revolutionary voice with a mass following.

The MI6 helped out by offering BBC's propaganda services to Khomeini, allowing him to spread his message of political Islam into the Iranian heartland. Khomeini relationship's with the shadow MI6 and shadow CIA went back to the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1963, the Shah could have gotten rid of this plague with one bullet but he was declared an "Ayatollah" by a religious cleric who was connected to the CIA and MI6, which meant the Shah couldn't kill him. Instead, he was driven to exile and allowed to live. This was a case of history's hidden hand intervening in a sovereign country's political affairs to guarantee that one of their secret agents was not harmed.

While in exile, Khomeini was groomed to be a totalitarian religious leader of Iran by the MI6 and CIA to replace their despot the Shah when his rule had come to an end. By the time last days of the Shah came around Khomeini was ready for prime time. When he came to power, Khomeini said:
"Our people, what they have elected is an Islamic Republic. Islam is our opinion. Today there are segments that want to get rid of Islam, through writing, speaking, through gatherings. . . That a people vote in the Islamic Republic 99.5%, it means we want Islam. If it was a mere Republic there would be not such an election. If it was for a mere Democratic Republic there would not be such a turnout. . .

Our people were resurrected for Islam, and determined the path for Islam's sake. Our people gave their blood for Islam. There are segments that want to get rid of Islam and want a mere Republic. They fear Islam. . . Muslims pay attention, the political parties that do not speak of Islam but of Democracy. Segments that have nothing to do with Islam, what do they have to do with freedom? They want freedom indeed, freedom outside of Islam's realms. Our people must pay attention that they at least do not cooperate with them. . . Put aside your individual urges and cravings, it is the time for us to nurture Islam. Let all stakeholders be awakened. Workers, farmers, the Bazaari's, university students. . . Be awakened. . .

They say we want freedom, democracy, independence. What about Islam? Not Islam. Islam what has brought you freedom and to the squares. Do not rally against Islam. My sisters, my beloved ones. My brothers, my beloved ones, be awakened, conspirators are at work. Great conspirators are at work. Many conspirators are at work. Segments that have turned their backs on Islam and from the start didn't care work together now. They must change their opinions. . . The people cannot tolerate such conspiracies. We will not tolerate it. There are conspiracies against Islam, a conspiracy against the people. There is freedom but no place for conspiracies. Freedom does not mean sitting and speaking against Islam."
In this speech we can see how Khomeini positioned himself to be the cult dictator of Iran. He repeated the words "be awakened," in connection with Islam, falsely implying that those who do not accept Islam are not awakened but asleep and soulless slaves.

Khomeini also deceptively referred to democratic protests and debates in opposition to an ideological Islamic state as proof of "conspiracies." And he falsely said that these were conspiracies against the Iranian people. It is clear that Khomeini was brainwashing the Iranian nation with these ludicrous statements that were designed to divide the people of Iran and subdue them. He was not a savior, but a false prophet and an angel of death. 

But Khomeini did make one truthful comment. He said: "Many conspirators are at work." There was no doubt about that. But the biggest conspirator of all was Khomeini himself. With the help of his Illuminati friends in the shadow CIA and shadow MI6, Khomeini was waging a ruthless conspiracy against the Iranian nation, the ancient Iranian culture, and the Iranian people. This conspiracy included the politically staged and ritualistic hostage crisis that marked the ideological and political separation between America and Iran.

Iranian dissident and researcher Fara Mansoor said that Khomeini's gang of thieves and the Bush-led fascist cabal in the CIA worked together in 1979 to consolidate power by devising the Iranian hostage crisis. From the very beginning, the Bush-Reagan presidential campaign and the NWO forces in the CIA knew that the hostage crisis was a politically staged event because it was their plan to initiate it.

The hostage crisis secured political legitimacy and popular approval for Khomeini, while making President Carter appear weak on national security and allowing Reagan and Bush to take the White House.

This event was supremely important because of its symbolic nature. In the aftermath, Khomeini appeared as the great anti-Satan crusader who gave America a black eye, while Reagan appeared as the great savior of America who rescued American hostages from the hands of Islamic savages. It was a truly win-win effort for both fascist teams. The Islamic Republic of Iran's totalitarian founders and the shadow CIA beautifully played a game of deceit and treason against the people of America and Iran.

It is scary that our historical memory of fundamental world events are shaped and cultivated by totalitarian cult dictators, but it is the truth. The power of controlling a society's memories is almost god-like, and the totalitarian leaders of the West and Iran have used this state power to enslave the people and brainwash their minds for their own political motives.

How we remember the Iranian hostage crisis is important because it defines U.S.-Iranian relations in the post-Shah era. If we scratch beneath the surface of this explosive event we can see that it was staged by both sides to advance their evil political aims. Iran and America were both played, and continued to be played, by their secretive fascist totalitarian rulers who want to create a clash of civilizations and bring about World War III.

In September 2011, I wrote an article called, "The Matrix of Macro-Memory Masks The Machiavellian Murderers on 9/11: How Manufactured Memories Make Masses of Men Into Mud For The Masters of Myth" about how totalitarian regimes manufacture public memories and construct social reality with mind control techniques to direct the destiny of society. Here is an important excerpt:
"The ways in which a people remembers its founding event," says Cochran, "are vital to a regime's politics." The Iran-Iraq war was the big event that secured the Islamic regime's power over Iranian society and gave it popular legitimacy.

By comparison, the 9/11 attacks was the event that gave greater power to the U.S. shadow government and America's treacherous rulers. How we remember both events is significant because Iran and America are on a collision course with each other, and an apocalyptic war is not out of the question.
We need to radically re-examine the tensions that exist between both countries and re-open the pages of history.
I'll repeat the last sentence: We need to radically re-examine the tensions that exist between both countries and re-open the pages of history. Truth is our ticket out of this crisis.
POSTED BY SAMAN MOHAMMADI AT 8:50 PM

Martin S. Day on The Trickster Archetype in Mythology

Martin S. Day: "The High God looks like the spiritual vision of the early shaman. The Sly Trickster looks like the anti-spiritual viewpoint of the early common man. In the myths of many Amerindians the Trickster and the High God are in direct and bitter opposition. To some degree Trickster vs. High God is individuality vs. conformity, unconventionality vs. conventionality, disorder vs. order, destruction vs. creation, chaos vs. cosmos. Since man apparently asked "How did the world become its present self?" before asking "How did the world first begin?", the trickster-transformer may have preceded the High God and may be one of the oldest figures of all mythology. Jung describes the Trickster as "a faithful copy of an absolutely undifferentiated human consciousness, corresponding to a psyche that has hardly left the animal level." The Trickster is a completely amoral character who lives by his wits and enjoys perpetrating coarse and cruel jokes against anyone. In many African and Amerindian myths the Sly Trickster is an animal; perhaps the idea originated from seeing animals steal food or otherwise succeed by stealth.

No chicanery is beyond the Trickster and his cleverness is unbounded, but there seem to be two basic feats of the Trickster: theft of valuable objects and defeat of a "cannibal monster" by wits and duplicity. The stealing may be of fire, water, sun, fish, game animals, cereal grains, human or divine property, maidenheads, and anything else within his knavish grasp. Autolycus is an obvious example in Greek myth. Odin in the Norse mythology stole mead from the dwarfs and giants and triumphantly bore it to the gods. The "cannibal monster" seems metaphoric for famine, disease, enemies, and other dire perils. Heracles would overpower such obstacles by brute strength, but the Trickster conquers by duplicity, as Odysseus outwits Polyphemus. Amerindians of Northwest USA often depict Trickster luring animals by stratagem to a precipice and then tricking them or forcing them to leap to death; unknown among Amerindians of this area in historic times, the practice suggests primitive driving of animals over cliffs.

Though apparently the product of a vulgar and earthly populace, Trickster is far from a simple character. He seems to fulfill the following human needs:

(1) Sheer entertainment. All men need escape from the mundane world. The shaman's escape is an eerie and perilous flight out of this world. Perhaps the Trickster tales were the very early release of the common man, tricking him with the deucedly clever and the outrageously ludicrous in this world.

(2) Satire. Much of the Trickster material seems parody or travesty of the shaman. The self-dismemberment of Trickster is a laughable parallel to the shaman's solemn dissection. The "excrement advisors" of Trickster burlesque the shaman's spirit guides. Trickster is himself outwitted on occasion by birds and animals, again looking like a sneer of the shaman's power over the animal world.

(3) Blowing off steam. Like the medieval Feast of Fools, Boy Bishop, and similar escape valves, the Trickster accounts represent a "ritualized rebellion." Society is an unnatural imposition, and a provident society must offer means to get hostilities and frustrations out of one's system effectively, while not breaching the actual citadels of that society. Trickster lets the audience purge itself of its anarchistic and socially undesirable drives.

(4) Psychological satisfaction. Trickster institutes one of the surefire successes of all storytelling: the cheeky little chap who bests giant adversaries. Trickster offers ambivalent effects. One may enjoy one's own noble virtue by scornful disapproval of that immoral Trickster. Or one may revel deliciously in vicarious enjoyment of tabued acts. The Navajo Amerindians are most unusual in carefully discriminating between the two responses to Trickster. Navajo Coyote tales to children are very moralistic, always ending in exemplary punishment meted out to Coyote in exact proportion to his degree of tabu violations. Navajo Coyote tales to adults evoke guffaws and thigh-slapping pleasure at the wild, clever antics of that wonderful rascal.

(5) Re-evaluation. For many archaic cultures the strongest, most penetrating undercutting of society is the Trickster cycle within its madcap ridicule of sacred social practices: tribal rituals, male and female roles, sexual and religious tabus, social structure and customs, even behavior in eating and excreting. The enormity of the criticism demonstrates the rigidity of archaic societies, where change is rare and usually minute. Only the clout of the Trickster myth has much chance to effect internal change in a static society.

(6) Unification of society. Strange but psychologically true is the statement that this apparently disruptive element in society actually works as a catalyst to greater social solidarity. The regular rituals and customs of a society tend to accentuate class and role distinctions and enforce inflexible status and behavior. When social structure is bent or broken by the Trickster myth, there is actually a powerful reinforcement of the sense of community in the ungusseting and fellow merriment.

(7) Individual development. The picaresque novel from the Spanish Renaissance onwards proffers a rogue who, very much like the Trickster, lives by his wits through a series of dramatic encounters. Actually, in the individual myths about the trickster there seems little maturing of the character. Nonetheless, the emergence of Creator and Transformer from the Trickster and the ennobling of the trickster to Promethean stature suggest that the trickster cycle is the Bildungsroman or development novel in embryo.

(8) Spiritual enhancement. Paradoxically, the agent of disorder and caprice may actually compel the spiritually lackadaisical to turn to the gods. Legba is the sly trickster among the Fon of Dahomey, West Africa, who as a disruptive and destructive force causes mankind to seek divine order and harmony. Probably the sly trickster lurks behind Goethe's Mephistopheles, whose machinations and nihilism will eventuate in the greater glory of god and the firmer achievement of divine symmetry.

The earliest manifestation of Trickster seems the basically egotistical, amoral, wholly self-motivated personality, only incidentally benefiting mankind. Apparently the Amerindians gradually developed this selfish rascal into an elaborate Trickster-Creator-Transformer and Culture-Bringer (or various combinations). Amerindians usually designate Trickster as an animal--Coyote, Wolf, Fox, Raven, Crow, Raccoon, Badger, Bat, Mink, Bluejay, Hare--but Trickster is not described as an animal, and his actions and speech are altogether human.
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Just as the gods themselves seem to have originated in animal deities and from such a humble source rose to the heights of Ahura Mazda and Allah, so Trickster from amoral animal beginnings moves upwards towards the esteemed Prometheus.
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Prometheus the Fire Bearer is the supreme success story of the Trickster. Probably this notable figure began as a thieving animal. Archaic reasoning holds that all things belong to the deities: animals to the Lady or Lord of Beasts, fruits and surface edibles to Mother Earth, tubers and roots to chthonic deities. Natural forces such as fire are the jealously guarded possession of Nature's gods. Around the world archaic myth portrays the dog, kingfisher, dove, jaguar, chameleon, rat, tortoise or other animals as stealing the divine fire and giving it to man. Punishment from the wrathful gods is usually visited upon the thief: the rat is reduced to scavenger, the tortoise is slowed from earlier agility, and so on. The liver of Prometheus was pecked at by a vulture as punishment because the liver was regarded as the seat of the passions.

Consider the effrontery of mankind, even in the very pious Aeschylus, ennobling a thief, and above all, a thief stealing from the gods. A theft by the Trickster has benefited mankind, so now we laud the Trickster as a Christ figure suffering agonies for his benevolent theft, and (especially from 19th century Romantics) the defender of our species from the tyranny of the gods. The rebellious, amoral Trickster apparently appeals to all mankind and we excuse his theft and glorify his character.

Deities traditionally consecrate the old conservative society, and man feels that change and progress may produce significant benefits but certainly will generate pains of adjustment for all and perhaps severe hostility from reactionaries.
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Amerindians and most of the world have conceived of the Culture-Bringer as an intentional benefactor to man, the revered introducer of what makes and sustains human culture. Even the most backward and rigid society recognizes the contrast between animals in nature and the culture of men. Someone must have started human culture, and that one must be the Culture-Bringer. The effective technology introduced by the Culture-Bringer renders possible a degree of social coherence and individual well being, setting the human condition above that of animals. The separation of man from Nature by the Culture-Bringer is sensed, however, as a violation and often has the Trickster's taint of theft. The Culture-Bringer has advanced human society, but at the cost of our lost innocence." - Martin S. Day, The Many Meanings of Myth. 1984. University Press of America: Lanham, Maryland. Pg. 229-235.
POSTED BY SAMAN MOHAMMADI AT 5:32 PM

Tucker Carlson, The Pampered Bully, Says U.S. Should Wipe Iran Off The Map

What is it with rich guys expressing their suppressed male aggression by calling for wars that they will never fight in? If you're going to say that a country of 70 million souls should be annihilated, then step up and lead by laying your life on the line. But Tucker doesn't do that. He calls for war then steps back into the crowd like a coward.
POSTED BY SAMAN MOHAMMADI AT 3:43 PM
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