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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Rowan Berkeley
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I think it's worth my pursuing this line of thought, since no one has yet denied my basic claim, which is that the re-energisation of the US Religious Right in the direction of seeking a new world war since the end of the cold war is to some important extent driven by religious zionism. I think that there is an initiatory process involved in joining the cliques informed by this, whether they are referred to as neocons, kool-aid drinkers, or more religious terminology.
This initiatory process could be compared to a deliberately induced bad trip, in which the inductee is forced to watch a very unsparing depiction of, shall we say, US indifference during the Holocaust. This can be used to impose a pessimistic view of human nature in general, which then proceeds to the inference that humans cannot be relied upon either individually or en masse to resist radical large scale genocidal evil when it sets up shop somewhere, whether geographically near or far but in either case quite visible to them. The process then infers from this that mass psychological engineering techniques HAVE to be used, to drive the population in the necessary direction in order to mobilise against the threat, because there is NO ALTERNATIVE.
Because the induction process works in this way, I have found that the only way to get to grips with it and challenge its pessimistic view of human nature is to do so from inside the state I described, the 'induced bad trip' state. One has to find convenient ways to increase one's own suggestibility, of which there are quite a few - it doesn't have to be literally an acid trip - and gradually immunise oneself against what the CIA called "psychic driving."
You may be right that no one who was USAian would see this aspect of the situation, but I very much doubt it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18friedman.html
typical filthy prose, but interesting - even ironic.
strictly a spoof, OK?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1xpwcFi6r4
if you can be bothered to click it. You really should grasp that your Jewish sensitivities are not as holy to the world at large, though, if you are serious about preventing nuclear catastrophe, in which the USA, which I assume you regard as "your own country," will be permanently relegated to savagery. You simply cannot have your cake and eat it too.
your sensitivities are already sufficiently obvious. Read the op-eds. Learn something about reality, which cares nothing for your sensitivities, or mine for that matter.
Incidentally, I have taken the liberty of re-punctuating the op-eds, both of them, since Jewish-American op-ed writers use far too many melodramatic full stops — I think you call them "periods."
one of them is the execrable Thomas Friedman:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18friedman.html
second up is Jeffrey Goldberg:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18goldberg.html
but most interesting, from may 16, is M.J.Rosenberg:
http://www.ipforum.org/display.cfm?id=6&Sub=15
and the first thing I got almost was this:
http://www.hmwatch.org/
tag line: "It's 1938 and Iran is Germany!"
and that's from 2006.
Now google that phrase:
Results 1 - 10 of about 2,500,000 for It's 1938 and Iran is Germany!. (0.34 seconds)
bystander says:
"I've never felt the need for mind altering substances to follow a thread before. It's a genuinely odd experience. I'm not sure it's within my comfort zone."
-- exccellent : my point about "psychic driving" is striking home.
I know I already recommended this once, but it's uniquely perceptive, and basically argues that the zionist right is stoking anti-Semitism:
http://www.ipforum.org/display.cfm?id=6&Sub=15
M.J. is not so wicked as to suggest they are doing it deliberately, but connoisseurs of Herzl will recall the infamous statement in his diaries, "Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies."
When I recommended M. J. Rosenberg's May 16 article, at
http://www.ipforum.org/display.cfm?id=6&Sub=15
which argues that the zionist right is stoking the fires of anti-Semitic hatred, I said that its author was not so wicked as to suggest they are doing it deliberately, but I remnded connoisseurs of Herzl of the infamous statement in his diaries, "Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies."
Now there are thousands of electro robot type zionist right trolls, infesting threads like this all over the world, and they all get away with what they do, because everyone assumes that they do not in fact want to stoke the fires of anti-Semitic hatred, but are being sarcastic, in the hope of shaming anti-Semites into silence.
However, if they genuinely desire to provoke the most extreme anti-Semitic hatred, not even as a means to expose the haters to the recriminations of their peers, or go tale-bearing about them to third parties (this would be the normal function of the provocateur) but instead they desire to provoke rabid anti-Semitic hatred as an end in itself, because it is the food or fuel of right zionism - because right zionism eats this hatred and becomes stronger - then their behaviour makes sense.
Every time I visit Salon.com after a restart of my computer, I get a pop-under from something called c1.zedo.com, carrying a flash advert (which may be anything, but has recently been American Express, and now is something about Darfur) on behalf of a client called UnderertoneNetworks.com. I tried adding a line to my Firefox browser's about:config page, to black flash pop-ups, which apparently used to defeat Firefox's pop-up blocker, but that hasn't affected it.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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