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Dogs Need To Be Prepared For Baby, Too
Shawnee Mission Medical Center Offers 'Dog & Storks' Class
Families preparing for a new baby may also want to consider preparing the family pet for the new addition, too.
When Stacia and Gabe Mitchell were preparing for the birth of their son, Carter, they also knew their two canine "babies" would have to adapt and they wanted to be prepared.
"We just didn't want them to feel neglected and wanted them to remain part of the family. But we knew they would, kind of, be stepping down out of first place so we wanted to make that a smooth transition for all of us," said Stacia Mitchell.
The Mitchells took a class at Shawnee Mission Medical Center called Dogs and Storks.
"Sometimes these dogs have been in the home for a number of years and they're practicing behavior that was OK before the baby came home and once the baby came home, they're not so OK. So we talk about attention-seeking behaviors, nudging people to get attention or barking for attention," said Suezanne Thibodeau.
In the Dogs and Storks class, Thibodeau helped the Mitchells decide where to put baby gates, where to place the dog food bowls and behavior and discipline techniques for the dogs.
"Primarily, I wanted to make sure everyone was meshing together and just really wanted to have a safe environment for Carter when he arrived," Gabe Mitchell said.
"We really do feel like a family. Carter seems to really enjoy having the dogs around and he's learning how to be respectful of the animals and he seems to really enjoy them as well. So it seems like we all are doing really great," Stacia Mitchell said.
KMBC's Kelly Eckerman reported that it is recommended that families take the Dogs and Storks class no later than the second trimester so there is time to train the dogs. The cost is $29.
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Film 83 in C4 Top 100 War Films
When young William Wallace's father and older brother are killed fighting the hated English, he is taken to live with his uncle, a nationalist. When he grows up, he returns to his old village, where he falls in love with Murron, his childheart sweetheart.
They marry in secret, but days later she is attacked and murdered by English soldiers. He finds and slaughters them all, then raises an army of local clans to force all the English forces to leave Scotland.
English king, Edward Longshanks, isn't very keen on that idea, and knows he needs to lure Wallace in, to break his power with the clans. He uses his weakly son's French wife to bargain, which leads to betrayal on both sides.
It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, though its historical accuracy is somewhat suspect. It's overly long and rather silly at times. Not a bad film, but I do wonder what the Oscar judges were thinking when it won so many awards.


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Sources: Timberwolves' Jimmy Butler expected to have surgery to repair torn meniscus, could return in 4-6 weeks
Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Jimmy Butler is expected to undergo surgery in the coming days to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee and could return in four-to-six weeks, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
A final timetable will be set after the procedure, league sources said.
An MRI on Saturday revealed the injury after X-rays were taken on Butler's knee Friday night and returned negative. Butler's non-contact injury early in the third quarter of Friday night's loss to the Houston Rockets brought concerns about a possible ACL tear, but there was optimism around Butler regarding the final diagnosis.
Minnesota is 36-26 and holds the fourth seed in the Western Conference but now faces an extended absence for Butler.
Butler, a four-time All-Star, has led the Timberwolves to a resurgent season, averaging 22.4 points, 5.5 rebounds and five assists in 55 games. As a two-way player and stalwart for coach Tom Thibodeau, Butler is also is averaging a league-high 37.3 minutes per game.
Butler joined the Timberwolves as part of a trade from the Chicago Bulls on draft night last June.
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Silencing pro Palestine activism on UK campuses
British universities have been accused of undermining freedom of speech on campuses after cancelling events organized by students as part of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). Almost 250 academics, including 100 professors, have signed a letter condemning attempts to silence campus discussion about Israel and its treatment of Palestinians.
The letter criticizes the universities minister, Jo Johnson, who recently wrote to Universities UK, the umbrella organisation for the higher education sector, demanding a crackdown on antisemitism, mentioning Israel Apartheid Week as a cause for concern.
The signatories also express concern about the government's adoption and dissemination of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which it says seeks to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
A spokesperson for Exeter's Friends of Palestine Society accused the university of censoring students. "They are not allowing freedom of speech – by cancelling an event that was in support of Palestinian activism and for Palestinian rights, they are directly censoring us."


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A few months ago, I flew up to Oregon to style a guest house for Country Living. Trina, and her husband Mike of A Country Farmhouse, had restored a space over their garage into a charming retreat. It was a joy to work on this project...they have the most adorable twins and live in a magical, beautiful, part of Oregon.
To compliment the white space and warm woods, I kept the styling natural with simple flowers, wicker baskets, brass candlesticks, my own boots, and a welcoming breakfast table.
The story is in our current Feb 2013 White Issue...one of my favs! James Baigrie is the amazing photographer who worked with me on this shoot...his portfolio is stunning.
Trina will be sharing more about the work they did to the guest house on her blog in the near future, so be sure to pop on over to see more behind the scenes.
The dreamy white, fluffy bedding was from a wonderful local store:
105 Oak Street
Hood River, OR 97031
Stop by if you're in the area. Their downtown is absolutely charming!
I still need to do a recap of my NYC trip (which was awesome!)...hopefully soon. I was in 4 states in Dec and I leave for Phoenix tomorrow so my life hasn't been in front of the computer much.
I have been on Instagram a lot. It just seems so much easier and I love seeing candid moments of peoples lives and the beauty that surrounds them. I hope to make a book of my IG's at the end of this year so I need to keep up with it...so it doesn't turn out to be a pamphlet! :)
You can find me on Instagram here. Username is heatherbullard.


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Critique of Imran Hosein's 'An Islamic View of
Gog and Magog in the Modern World' – Waiting
for Allah is anything but Islamic!
Gog and Magog in the Modern World' – Waiting
for Allah is anything but Islamic!
The phrase "Waiting for Allah" is the title of roving Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times, Christina Lamb's 1992 book on Pakistan. Revealingly, the title captures in one short phrase the entire state of the Muslim polity worldwide, and not just in Pakistan. Evidently, no one is able to escape that state in which the public mind voluntarily accepts what it really ought not to accept if one were to look at the situation objectively. "Waiting for Allah" is just one of the many methods and techniques of inducing voluntary servitude in the public mind. Its overarching purpose in modernity, of getting people to love their own servitude, was explained most eloquently by essayist Aldous Huxley in his short talk at the University of California, Berkeley. [A] The specific technique of "Waiting for Allah" towards the same general purpose outlined by Aldous Huxley, has been in use from time immemorial. In fact, since the very invention of the clergy and the notions of god, karma, destiny, and the like to explain away all injustices in the world. Pakistan today is captured in its web little differently from the ancient man, and evidently even more so than the rest of the Muslims worldwide. [B] Un-strangely enough (if one understands social engineering that is), despite the bright information age of the twenty-first century with smart phones, facebook and twitter, the entire world is more and more beholden to some technique of behavior control as is best suited to the respective cultural and social genius of its diverse peoples. Few can escape its web of control as is captured in the report on The Mighty Wurlitzer. [C] Islam's singular directive for liberating oneself from its clutches is in the oft recited but evidently most poorly understood Surah Al-Asr. [D] Fourteen centuries into its existence, and the public mind is still beholden to the gods of tyranny who alone benefit from the people Waiting for Allah! Those given to reflection and not satisfied attributing tyranny to God, sometimes meander from Waiting for Allah to questioning the justice and mercy of Allah. [E] We however begin with surely the most diabolical idea ever invented for inducing voluntary servitude in mankind in the realm of religion: Waiting for Allah; and it is for the common man to help Allah shorten that Waiting – Eschatology, the Last Days, and what is metaphorically labeled 'Gog and Magog' in the Christian tradition, and 'Hajuj and Mahjuj' in the Holy Qur'an.
The Muslims, most of us drowning in a surfeit of faith from ear to ear, are simply "waiting for Allah" thinking it is the "Last Days of Gog and Magog" that no mere mortals may withstand. So why bother? For, it is argued before them, an "indestructible power" the almighty creator hath himself calculatingly fashioned to fulfill his own (murderous) prophesies in order to finally rain divine justice upon the Earth – right after he hath rained phosphorous bombs upon children, women, men, the elderly, and destroyed their innocent civilizations at the very hands of his own "indestructible" hectoring hegemons to bring all that planned divine justice to fruition!
What an idiotic and cruel god whose imagination only extends from genesis to genocide in order to fashion creation. And while that is merely immanent, far more grotesque is the idiotic imbecilic mass of followers who malign their own Almighty Creator whom they daily aver to believe in, Who repeatedly describes Itself in the very Book they hold most sacred as "the Beneficent, the Merciful"! How can both be true simultaneously – create evil to accomplish his agenda while proclaiming to be merciful – unless it is a Zeus like fickle-minded god who enjoys games of cruel self-indulgence at the expense of his creation?
Can learned people not think with some rational logic, even when they be spiritually inclined, that any earthly devil couldn't wish for a better neutralization of any impediment emanating from the masses for its own "imperial mobilization" agendas? Give people their opiate in their right hand, while enslaving them with the left! Give them what they believe is divinely ordained – the majority will remain occupied in their pious and pecuniary pursuits believing it is all the 'will' of their god(s)! And more apropos to modernity, inculcate a trust in so called "experts" so that one may be convinced to suspend one's own commonsense and rational judgment. Witness the events of 911 where the catastrophic mode of failure of the tall buildings preclude all and sundry from even thinking that it could have been an "inside job"! Why? because the "experts" say 19 jihadis did it!
Woe be to them all who manufacture pretexts and justifications to not side with the truth, who lead people astray to make it appear that the helpless screaming victims is god's own work as destined, which none may alter; woe be to them all who remain busy in pious interlocution in their mosques, churches, temples while cataclysmic 'Shock and Awe' is continually visited upon innocent civilian populations. There is none on planet earth who can claim they haven't witnessed the preying of the vultures and vampires for which, surely, the Creator too must curse its own creation for their apathy despite plentiful guidance to every peoples!
What will thee, Oh people of the cloth, take to thine grave – a barrel full of gold and a ledger full of piety while God's creation was burned and starved at the hands of the hectoring hegemons right before thy twirling rosaries? Many an atheist show far greater moral acumen and disquiet in their actions when they rush to the aid of suffering humanity – for indeed, a moral compass appears to be built into us human beings, we who can reason, and we who can reflect, all killed by the eschatological gibberish fashioned by priests shilling for the enemies of mankind! While the misanthropes remain busy building corrupting institutions and instruments of co-option to create 'one-world' government, the sheeples are kept busy chasing absurdities.
We begin with surely the most diabolical idea ever invented for inducing voluntary servitude in mankind in the realm of religion: Waiting for Allah; and it is for the common man to help Allah shorten that Waiting – Eschatology, the Last Days, and what is metaphorically labeled 'Gog and Magog' in the Christian tradition, and 'Hajuj and Mahjuj' in the Holy Qur'an. For the latter, we go to the contemporary domain expert in Islamic Eschatology, Sheikh Imran N. Hosein, whose interpretation of 'Gog and Magog', imaginative and intriguing though it may be, lends new meaning to 'opiate of the peoples'.
By the yardstick of rational faculty of which the human mind is amply endowed and enjoined to be used by the Holy Qur'an, Imran Hosein's Eschatological viewpoint whose broad contours are quite prevalent among pious Muslims, reduces the religion of Islam to an absurdity. Of course, this assessment is only from the mind of a humble student, a common man, and not a scholar. One of course hastens to thank one's Creator that the tools of rational logic are also made available to the common man, albeit in different measures, and not given in monopoly to anyone.
Letter: 'Gog and Magog' lend new meaning to 'opiate of the peoples' as Pakistan is destroyed in its name!
April 23, 2009 | Last Updated March 17, 2019
If you are a Pakistani, this letter is addressed to you. If you are a Muslim sitting on the fence, this letter is still addressed to you. I hope it reaches you some how through the unfathomable magic of the internet. Anyone just a 100 years ago would surely have thought this instant communication system as magic, of divine origin, and some fulfillment of the signs of the 'Last Days'. I assure you that I have some tiny role in making it happen as the proverbial cog in the giant wheel of Silicon Valley (see my patents), like tens of thousands of my other fellow engineers and scientists who have slogged day and night in the pursuit of 'American Dream' for so many years and have made many things happen – from telephone to television to cellphone to the Four galloping Horsemen of the Apocalypse – all instruments of instant communication, and also cataclysmic destruction.
And none of us builders of modernity are really divine, trust me, except perhaps that occasional gorgeous unapproachable ... so moving right along. Can a fallible creation, us, human beings, construct, or orchestrate, something that is divine in its purpose? Something useful: maybe. Something destructive: always. Evil: surely. But divine?
Caption An Islamic View of Gog and magog in the Modern World By Imran N. Hosein ( PDF )
Imran Hosein, the scholar-preacher extraordinaire of Pakistani origin and the enigmatic author of Last Days of Gog and Magog, is on the mark on his analysis of 9/11 as an inside job and part of a long running conspiracy by the international banking cabal to take over the world. His advocacy however based on his gog and magog gibberish, to disengage completely from this world like the 'people of the cave' of Surah Al Kahf, to do nothing until the promised salvation of the 'Last Days' arrives, puts him squarely in the camp of supporters of tyranny by inaction. What a shame!
Surah Al Kahf, Chapter 18 of the Holy Qur'an, is likely the most allegorical, metaphorical, and speculation-rife Chapter in the entire Good Book whose meaning can only be known to the Author of the Holy Qur'an, or to those designated in the Good Book as "rasikhoon-fil-ilm", as in verse 3:7.
The rest, each in our own time, can speciously expend futile energies deciphering the precise identification of Hajuj and Mahjuj beyond the obvious reference in Surah Al Kahf to a metaphorical potent force of evil that pillaged and plundered without mercy, and which was effectively blocked with an unscalable iron wall by the force of good called Zulqernain.
Surah Al Kahf 18:83-100 narrates of this as an event in an indeterminate time long past, in an indeterminate geography, and also asserting of an indeterminate future time when the iron wall shall be turned to dust and the terror of Hajuj and Mahjuj shall be unleashed on (or before) the Day of Judgment: "On that day We shall leave them to surge like waves on one another: the trumpet will be blown, and We shall collect them all together."
Surah Al Anbiya 21:95-109 continues that narrative of what shall transpire on or before the Day of Judgment: "Until the Hajuj and Mahjuj (people) are let through (their barrier), and they swiftly swarm from every hill.", while asserting the indeterminacy of when: "Say: I have proclaimed the Message to you all alike and in truth; but I know not whether that which ye are promised is near or far ".
While the Holy Qur'an is categorical in its warning of the existence of the Day of Judgment and Resurrection when all Accounts shall be settled, there is no mention of eschatological matters of 'Last Days'! There is no prophecy of an 'Awaited Savior', nor of creation being filled with evil needing Divine Intervention. The Day of Reckoning is coming for all mankind who have ever lived, and were ever born, and who shall all be gathered together, but no one knows when that will be, nor who, or what, is meant by Hajuj and Mahjuj, except that this strange force of evil shall be extremely terrifying, but not to those who did good in their life: "The Great Terror will bring them no grief: but the angels will meet them (with mutual greetings): "This is your Day,- (the Day) that ye were promised.""
So, commonsense dares one to ask: why speculate when one has no firm knowledge of Divine matters and misguide others with idiotic advocacy of disengagement from this world waiting for Allah?
The Holy Qur'an is pretty clear on the immense burden of scholars. In Surah An-Nahl verse 16:25, the warning to scholars of Islam unguided by the Divine Hand is stark: "Let them bear, on the Day of Judgment, their own burdens in full, and also (something) of the burdens of those without knowledge, whom they misled. Alas, how grievous the burdens they will bear!" See The Divine Guidance System of Wasilah.
The Holy Qur'an is also pretty clear on categorical imperatives offered to man as his choice of free will, with Accountability for making whatever choices on the Day of Judgment: to expend productive energies on interdicting and damming the evils in one's own epoch like Zulqernain did –– evil metaphored by Iblis, the Devil, and metaphored by Hajuj and Mahjuj –– in order to not be in a state of loss on that Day of Accountability as per Surah Al-Asr.
Perhaps that ought to be capitalized as Divine, as it is speaking of the idea of man being the instrument of God. But I'll continue to use the lower case form because the notion can hardly be imputed to God. It is man made and traces to all the mythical gods of antiquity who played their divine games at the expense of man, from Ram and Vishnu et. al. in the ancient Indian civilization which still informs the cultural and religious ethos of modern India, to Zeus and Apollo on Mount Olympus in the Hellenic civilization of the ancient Greeks and Romans whose legacy of intellectual thought informs the West.
Simple logic reveals the absurdity of this notion which is why I persist in the lower case usage of divinity to reflect my analysis of its human origins. If a divine needs evil mortals to do its dirty work to fulfill its divine plan, then the creation must possesses powers greater than its creator! The creator can't do its own dirty work and relies on us to do it – then on what basis of justice would it hold the creation accountable for fulfilling its own divine plan? Never mind that why should we worship it if we have greater powers. And therein lies a logical conundrum as old as mankind for all the divinely-learned on the planet who have had people do god's evil work in the name of their gods. Today these divinely-learned pulpits continue their absurdity by announcing the final unleashing of 'Gog and Magog' and the 'Last Days' based on how humanity has progressed into abject corruption and slavery to money and power in this Technetronic age, that in fact, it is all god's work. See "Last Days of Gog and Magog" ( http://imranhosein.org/media/books/ivgmmw.pdf ).
Yes, I too think it is gods', and not God's.
When the dogmatic, more interested in the immanent metaphors of eschatology than the more mundane matters of the here and the now – such as the empirical, to be dealt with today, with perhaps the straightforward Commandments like that expressed in Surah Al-Asr (Chapter 103 in the Holy Qur'an), or the straightforward Biblical Golden Rule expressed in the New and Old Testaments (Do unto others as you have them do unto you, The Holy Bible: Matthew 7:12, Luke 6:31; Old Testament Mosaic Law;) – preach to their faithful choir that the corruption on earth is in fulfillment of some divine prophesy so that god can finally bring justice to a suffering humanity at the End of Time, then they are effectively arguing that the corrupters are really doing the divine's work! And the public should not interfere with it, that if anything, as some religious fanatics among all three Abrahamic religions proclaim, they should be aided and abetted to hasten that outcome. How convenient for the hectoring hegemons that they are now doing "divine work" with the pulpits' blessings from two of the largest religions of man!
Furthermore, imagine being sold on the idea that all those wonderful Platitudes and Commandments in all those treasured Holy Books which none could enforce because the hectoring hegemons throughout the ages usurped peoples' rights and enslaved them, could in fact only be implemented by some awaited savior to be sent down by god. For indeed, it is but a truism, as Aldous Huxley had put it, that "nothing is easier than to formulate high ideals, but few things are more difficult than to discover the means for by those ideals might be implemented, and the categorical imperatives which spring from them can be a pain. This is the real problem". Thus imagine this problem of impracticality being solved eschatologically, in a self-perpetuating, self-fulfilling prophecy:
(1) don't even bother resisting evil because you will fail, since it's all happening by divine decree ;
(2) thus don't challenge your rulers and their oppressions even while you recognize them as oppressors, they rule as god's vicegerent on earth ;
(3) it's all written in the Good Book ("Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those charged with authority among you" – Qur'an Surah An-Nisa, Chapter 4, verse 59) , can't you read you heathens, that Muslim tyrants are a mercy from god as they hasten mankind towards the 'Last Days' when justice will finally reign supreme, and so we must not resist ; not to ignore the pious Christians' Holy Book ("I am free to submit to authority. I am free to make myself a slave. My friends, you are free, you are free to respect and appreciate the authority of the government that god gives to you - Honor the King! The way you talk about your government, it's so easy to complain isn't it? It is so easy to criticize, it is so easy to find fault. Honor the King. Do it anyway, whether the king deserves it or not. All authority, all authority is an extension of god's authority!" – from the bizarre Biblical sermon [Romans 13] outlining the New American Theology of Civil Submission, April 14, 2008) ;
(4) for the 'Last Days' prophesy to be fulfilled, the whole world must become filled with injustice and oppression, and only then will the Mahdi, and/or the Messiah, shall be made to return by the Will of God to fashion a new righteous world army which will fight tyranny to end all injustice on earth once and for all ;
(5) until then, since any battle with tyrants is futile, just work on saving your imaan (beliefs) ; focus on personal piety ; go back to the basics to being 'good Muslims' ; spiritually prepare to be eligible to join the Army of the Mahdi/Messiah in the unknown tomorrow whose numbers will be limited and only those of the highest spiritual merit will be accepted ; for today be content with purifying your hearts and controlling your carnal desires as you continue to "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" (New Testament, Matthew 22:21) ; etceteras.
(6) It would be a travesty to neglect to mention the most remarkable gibberish among that set, what the newest preacher to burst onto the internet-scene preaches in polished English vernacular : disengage from this world entirely like the 'people of the cave' of Surah Al Kahf until the promised salvation of the 'Last Days' arrives.
I have heard this convoluted logic in several variations since 911 when the mosques in the United States suddenly became full of the pious trying to be 'good Muslims' who 'United We Stand' with empire as heathens like me took to the streets protesting the impending destruction of innocent civilians in Iraq. (See Chapter 8 of Prisoners of the Cave, my 2003 book)
The logic method known as Reductio ad absurdum (Latin, literally: reduction to the absurd; a method of disproving a proposition by showing that its inevitable consequences would be absurd, or lead to self-contradiction; conversely, also a method of indirectly proving a proposition by assuming its negation to be true and showing that this leads to an absurdity), applied rigorously to the above observations demonstrates all these to be based on the absurd premise of "God's Will" for some "Divine Plan" which requires tyranny to become ubiquitous before God Shall intervene to end it.
Let's dissect this premise and see what happens if it is presumed to be true:
(1) If God needs evil men and women to implement its divine plan, then creation becomes more enabled than the creator and the creator depends on its own creation, and thus the key abstract philosophical attribute of God being Self-sustaining; Self-sufficient; Self-consistent; Free from contradiction; Free from defects; Not dependent on anyone or anything; Omnipotent, "kun fa-ya-kun" (Be, and it is); etc., is thrown out the window ; the question is akin to the logical fallacy "can God create a stone which he cannot lift", meaning, if God can do anything, if God is defined as Omnipotent, then can God limit himself to become dependent on its own creation to do its bidding, similarly, can God put the unjust in heaven and the just ones in hell contrary to his own prime directive on supreme justice and his own attribute of being the Most Just, etceteras., all these creating irreconcilable contradictions among the attributes themselves thus making for a defective God who is not free from contradictions --- So, either the God premise is false, the attributes ascribed to God are false, or the premise being tested is false, and for those who accept the God premise on faith (as it is un-falsifiable and therefore in the realm of faith), and accept by way of reasoning the philosophical attribute that a God must be free from all defects and perfect in all his attributes without contradictions among them or else He is not Divine, the only remaining choice is to reject the premise in question ;
(2) failure of the lofty moral platitudes in the Holy Books, the Bible, the Qur'an, the Ten Commandments, not to neglect other moral scriptures sacred to man in other civilizations, in accomplishing man's spiritual guidance for a moral existence, thus necessitating Divine Intervention in the form of the Eschatology of the Last Days, a Mahdi, a Messiah, to finally bring justice to mankind by breaking its bonds of servitude to fellow man as man couldn't live up to the Divine Guidance himself to accomplish it himself ; the very concept of Divine Intervention of the Last Days presupposes that Divine Guidance failed in its Categorical Imperative to reform man by giving him the choice to establish justice among themselves but man failed to live up to the Divine Guidance and it will be forced onto man by Divine Intervention of the Mahdi, the Messiah in the Last Days ---- so what was the point of that entire exercise of Divine Guidance? So either the Guidance is Divine in which case it cannot fail not only because God understands both the Guidance and the target of that Guidance since He created them both and coupled them together, but also because of the fact that God is free from defects and cannot fail, and therefore the presupposition is false; or it was not divine and failed because it did not understand the nature of man and its primacy as well as its sheep instincts, in which case the outcome is already predictable ; but it cannot be both Divine and fail in its own stated purpose (see the Dialog on the Creation of Adam in Surah Al-Baqara) ;
(3) evil triumphing becoming the pre-requisite for justice and peace among mankind pushes the Mephistophelian end justify the means dogma of expediency and military style "objectivity" to achieve any target as morally legitimate, which is antithetical to the moral codes of not just all three Abrahamic religions, but all theistic moral philosophies and traditions creating a self-contradiction of monumental proportions if then God Himself indulges in it to achieve His Divine Plan ; and
(4) a catch-22 in Accountability on the Day of Judgment is created for the religions which proclaim Heaven and Hell in an Afterlife as reward or punishment --- what punishment if the evil was necessary part of the Divine plan and consequently its vile purveyors the Divine instruments?
As we see, absurdities pile up upon each other very quickly with even a modicum of analytical thought if we accept the premise underlying the Eschatology being taught mankind from virtually all Abrahamic pulpits, of all sectarian flavors. By the logical reasoning method of reductio ad absurdum, the premise stands rejected because it leads to absurdities if presumed true.
It is reasonable to inquire whether there is any explicit reference to such "savior cometh", or to such an absurd Eschatology, in the categorical and foundational verses of the Holy Qur'an? Admittedly, I am not a scholar of the scriptures, let alone of the most profound world religion. Nevertheless, as a thinking student of scriptures interested in uncovering what the Good Book itself says rather than what the pen of man says it says, a diligent non-expert study of the singular scripture of Islam, the Holy Qur'an, reveals that all the "Mahdi and Messiah returning to free mankind from its bondage" type beatitudinous concepts of Eschatology appear to be entirely from pages outside the Holy Qur'an itself.
It is noteworthy that: (1) these ideas are prevalent in the Biblical literature, and arguably, somehow their tenor crept into the Muslim literature of antiquity penned by the Muslim holy scribes and narrators of Islamic history; and (2) that these ideas are, at best, based on wholly speculative interpretations of the metaphorical and allegorical verses of the Holy Qur'an, and the supposed Prophetic sayings (Hadiths) to suit one's own fancy, ethos, inclination, and socialization bias in which one can impute pretty much any meaning to these metaphorical verses based on how much one believes in one's own holy books outside the pages of the Holy Qur'an.
In other words, apart from any subversive agenda to wittingly put religion in the service of empire, innocent confirmation bias and unwitting incestuous self-reinforcement appears to have led to interpreting the speculative verses of the Holy Qur'an on these Eschatological matters! Who is to say who has got the right interpretation? The right ijtihad? Are the verses of the Holy Qur'an poetry that one can imagine them to mean whatever one fancies? Or are the verses of the Holy Qur'an a specific guidance unto mankind from its Author? Witness the unequivocal warning in the Holy Qur'an to refrain from such gratuitous interpretations, and who specifically have the right to interpret the metaphorical verses of the Holy Qur'an, in verse 3:7 of Surah Aal-'Imran.
"He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: In it are verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical.
هُوَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ عَلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ مِنْهُ آيَاتٌ مُحْكَمَاتٌ هُنَّ أُمُّ الْكِتَابِ وَأُخَرُ مُتَشَابِهَاتٌ ۖ
But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings,
فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمْ زَيْغٌ فَيَتَّبِعُونَ مَا تَشَابَهَ مِنْهُ ابْتِغَاءَ الْفِتْنَةِ وَابْتِغَاءَ تَأْوِيلِهِ ۗ
but no one knows its hidden meanings except Allah[,] and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge[;]
وَمَا يَعْلَمُ تَأْوِيلَهُ إِلَّا اللَّهُ ۗ وَالرَّاسِخُونَ فِي الْعِلْمِ
يَقُولُونَ آمَنَّا بِهِ كُلٌّ مِنْ عِنْدِ رَبِّنَا ۗ وَمَا يَذَّكَّرُ إِلَّا أُولُو الْأَلْبَابِ
For the Shia Muslims for instance, Imam Mahdi is as fundamental a construct of faith as the Prophet of Islam is, but unfortunately derives virtually its entire body of beliefs exclusively from pages outside the Holy Qur'an. The many Sunni Muslim sects share the same eschatology as well, all drawn from pages outside the Holy Qur'an most favored by the holy sects. However, among all the Muslim sects, the Shia Muslims, like the early Christians, are most profoundly awaiting the return of the Savior, Imam Mahdi, to whom allegiance and obedience is pledged in daily ritual prayers, and in all religious gatherings. Iran has extended that obedience to the valih-e-faqih, an ayatollah who rules the public in Imam Mahdi's name in his absence as his self-proclaimed temporal lieutenant (wali), imam, under the rubric of yet another religious dogma of obedience to authority prevalent among the Shia Muslims called "taqlid". Iran of course presents itself as the greatest antagonist of the oppressive West today. But even as she boldly articulates Ayatollah Khomeini's conception of the "Great Satan" in her national and international proclamations, her religious and political leadership under the valih-e-faqih remain rather timid in calling 9/11 the 'operation canned goods' that it is. One can only imagine that they are also waiting for Imam Mahdi to call out that assessment.
Whatever the actual religious reality of the return of Imam Mahdi and Messiah may be in the religion of Islam (a point which is orthogonal to the one being made here), the empirical and unarguable fact of the matter is that the concept of "Waiting for Allah" (which includes waiting for any Savior, Mahdi, Messiah when such beliefs defer mobilizing resistance against systems of tyranny and oppression until their arrival in the 'Last Days') forms a most powerful opiate for inducing voluntary servitude as "karma" (as among the Hindu caste system): a bold and voluntary resignation to fate as divinely ordained inevitability. What a powerful opiate!
While our minds may grapple with esoteric matters to comprehend the trend of current affairs and how it might be charting the course of future human history, if such grappling concludes that matters are inevitable regardless of human will, then it makes a mockery of human will. One might as well dispense with such a religion altogether if it proclaims all of human affairs are preordained. If man cannot change himself and change future history as a consequence of it, what is the purpose of religion?
Allah enjoined mankind to reflect upon His Message with the head while believing with the heart. Of course, even in the matters of the head, even two super scientists can disagree violently on wholly empirical matters --- so what of Eschatology! As for the matters of the heart, it has been observed that one man's love can be another's trash --- so what of objectivity on spiritual matters?
The Holy Qur'an invites mankind to open both our heart and our mind in order to understand its message with ma'arifat, depth perception. And verse 3:7 Surah Aal-'Imran quoted above, cautions Muslims against arguing on matters speculative, or creating bone of contentions when matters are plain. Verse 5:48 enjoins mankind to focus on fuss-tabi-qul-khairat instead of becoming arrogant and fighting amongst one another even when one might disagree passionately with one another. Here is the verse of wise counsel from the Book of Divine Guidance:
If Allah had so willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you in what He hath given you: so strive as in a race in all virtues. The goal of you all is to Allah; it is He that will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute. (Surah Al-Maeda 5:48 )
وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً وَلَٰكِنْ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِي مَا آتَاكُمْ ۖ فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرَاتِ ۚ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ
As verse 3:7 avers, Allah and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge know the metaphorical binding of 'Hajuj and Mahjuj' best. The rest is mere speculation. And as verse 5:48 avers, the Divine Counsel is to focus on fuss-tabi-qul-khairat, to strive as in a race in all virtues. The foundation of the said race in all virtues is laid out in Surah Al-Asr. Its most surprising conclusion is examined in The Noble Path: Denying to Caesar what is not Caesar's – Surah Al-Asr of the Holy Qur'an.
Why metaphorical allusions like 'Hajuj and Mahjuj' that defy the common man's understanding exist in the Holy Qur'an, and indeed, why does verse 3:7 testify to only a select people who are firmly grounded in knowledge ever understanding it --- isn't the Holy Qur'an a Guidance to All mankind, including hoi polloi --- is beyond a common man's imagination to comprehend.
It is a categorical fact that any imputation to fatalism, to predestination of human affairs, to the need for supra-natural interventions as End Times, to human-will unable to alter its human conditions, is neither present in the Holy Qur'an in its categorical verses, nor is it a logical final conclusion for a religion that postures itself as an empowering Divine Guidance to mankind. A religion that categorically avers to empower man to alter his condition by his own strivings; a religion which avers that it is entirely up to man to be thankful or unthankful for the Divine Guidance; that whomsoever, or whatsoever, mankind follow as their imams (guides, paths) will take each man and his civilization to their natural and logical outcome; that human affairs will not be altered by magical interventions after the Divine Guidance is completed and perfected:
Lo! Allah changeth not the condition of a folk until they (first) change that which is in their hearts; (Surah Ar-Raad verse fragment 13:11 )
إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ ۗ
Surely We have shown him the way: he may be thankful or unthankful. (Surah Al-insaan 76:3 )
إِنَّا هَدَيْنَاهُ السَّبِيلَ إِمَّا شَاكِرًا وَإِمَّا كَفُورًا
"One day We shall call together all human beings with their (respective) Imams" (Surah al-Israa' 17:71 )
يَوْمَ نَدْعُو كُلَّ أُنَاسٍ بِإِمَامِهِمْ
That which is left you by Allah is best for you, if ye (but) believed! but I am not set over you to keep watch! (Surah Hud, 11:86 )
بَقِيَّتُ ٱللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ ۚ وَمَآ أَنَا۠ عَلَيْكُم بِحَفِيظٍ
This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion." (Surah Al-Maeda verse fragment 5:3 )
الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا
This overt and categorical Guidance in the Holy Qur'an is just too straightforward and empowering to think of Islam as a medieval fatalistic religion in need of Biblical End Times and absurd irrational Eschatology for man's salvation! Which is why there is no mention of such idiocy in the Holy Qur'an.
Mankind is still in mere infancy despite its myriad civilizations, and despite its immense growth in knowledge and awareness of the external world. Man's access to his inner higher states of consciousness still remains undeveloped like that of a child – and yet to experience its growth spurt. Without developing higher states of consciousness, the religion of Islam shall remain a ritualistic shell and its followers shall remain deprived of its fruit which, as its final cause, is intended to liberate the mind of man from the shackles of servitude to fellow man, in complete submission to one God.
You either believe in it all, or you reject it all --- cannot pick and choose to make khichri (hodge-podge) of the teachings of the Holy Qur'an, the singular Scripture of the religion of Islam. It is absurd for Muslims to base their beliefs on anything other than their singular Scripture which itself proclaims to be the perfected and completed Word of God for the Divine Guidance of all mankind; for each individual to follow or reject, for his collectives to follow or reject, as per man's own free will. "Surely We have shown him the way: he may be thankful or unthankful."
Now imagine layering upon this socialized belief system of inducing voluntary servitude waiting for Allah, an even more diabolical system in which a new type of slavery is created for which Goethe, the German philosopher, stated:
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."
Modernity is run by superman intellectuals; they are its principal architects ahead of politicians who merely serve their interests. Both work for the same unaccountable powers behind the scenes who harvest man's discontent, his suffering, at times inducing it with systems of oppression, at times aiding and abetting it by imposing proxy situations, for an onslaught on all social and moral order for their agenda of world government. This is done by creating "revolutionary times" of one type or another, sometimes as bloody revolutions, like the French and Russian revolutions, other times as crises, catastrophes, world wars, pestilences, and the new "democracy revolutions" we are experiencing today, to create the conditions which enable enacting that which is greater than the temporal human conditions which gave birth to these "revolutionary times". This is how all the global police-state laws, greater and greater powers invested with supra-national governing bodies like the UN, BIS, WB, IMF, come about.
Those who control these supra national institutions from the dark shadows as the root godhead of the financial oligarchy, control the world. But despite the past two centuries of development to first systematically destroy existing world order through revolutions and world wars, surely there hasn't been in the history of thought a more diabolical and multi-faceted Hegelian Dialectic enacted on the world stage than is being enacted today between the Waiting for Allah and Helping Allah. At times goaded on by crafty slogans of "liberation" with "God is on your side" and at other times by actively engaging in empire's own creation of the trifecta of "militant Islam" vs. "moderate Islam" vs. "revolutionary Islam" to serve the same "imperial mobilization" agenda for world government. Religion in the hands of superman remains the ultimate tool of primacy for mass behavior control. The superman can make ordinary man enthused with spirit fight for or against anything, for or against any ideology, and he can make the rest of the spectating bystanders quietly accept the frightful conditions imposed upon them while patiently "Waiting for Allah" to rescue them. And I include in that group all believers of all faiths and religions who are fed on hope of a better future by getting them to accept the tortuous present with quiet resignation. This condition of voluntary servitude Aldous Huxley termed the "Ultimate Revolution":
"Well, it seems to me that the nature of the Ultimate Revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: that we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably always will exist, to get people actually to love their servitude! This is the, it seems to me the ultimate in malevolent revolution shall we say."
Their new age religion on the horizon intended to replace all religions that are based on ancient Holy Books, is called Secular Humanism, the religion of reason of the superman, and underwritten entirely in modern Orwellian Newspeak whereby morality is relative, expediency is law, and state is supreme. The state no longer exists on the will of man to serve his interests, but man exists on the will of the state to serve its interests. A world constitution is being underwritten by default by the fiat of global laws already in the making with these underlying premises. To officially layer platitudinous wording over it once the structures are in place has been in draft-mode for a while. As for instance, in his 1940 book "New World Order", H. G. Wells even outlined a manifesto, the "Declaration of the Rights of Man", which when I first read it I also thought was a most sensible 10-point seeding Articles for drafting a planetary level equitable 'social contract' for all the peoples of the planet. Wells wrote in 1940 just as Nazi victories were piling up at the onset of World War II:
"And if we, the virtuous democracies, are not fighting for these common human rights, then what in the name of the nobility and gentry, the Crown and the Established Church, the City, The Times and the Army and Navy Club, are we common British peoples fighting for?"
And Wells most artfully extended that "virtue" in the Tenth Article of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man". Its wording is so damn sharp that it even had me perplexed whether it was a noble vision for "universal law" like Lord Tennyson's in his 1842 poem "Locksley Hall", or vile propaganda for imposing tyranny as can be seen in my report: The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy For World Government, where I had observed:
"If H. G. Wells was a devious Orwellian character, there really would have been no reason for creating the inordinately commonsensical, rational, fair, and very moral Declaration of the Rights of Man which immensely empower breaking all bonds of voluntary servitude!"
Here is the brilliant verbiage of H. G. Wells' Tenth Article of Universal Declaration of Human Rights for you to examine yourself:
"No treaty and no law affecting these primary rights shall be binding upon any man or province or administrative division of the community, that has not been made openly, by and with the active or tacit acquiescence of every adult citizen concerned, either given by a direct majority vote of the community affected or through the majority vote of his publicly elected representatives. In matters of collective behaviour it is by the majority decision men must abide. No administration, under a pretext of urgency, convenience or the like, shall be entrusted with powers to create or further define offences or set up by-laws, which will in any way infringe the rights and liberties here asserted. All legislation must be public and definite. No secret treaties shall be binding on individuals, organisations or communities. No orders in council or the like, which extend the application of a law, shall be permitted. There is no source of law but the people, and since life flows on constantly to new citizens, no generation of the people can in whole or in part surrender or delegate the legislative power inherent in mankind."
Lovely verbiage? While searching to resolve that irksome question, it occurred to me that perhaps like the lofty US Constitution, built upon the systematic genocide of ten million native inhabitants of that land without shedding a tear, which gave the wonderful Declaration of its Bill of Rights to only those of the right race and heritage who were deemed "legitimate" human beings to have natural "inalienable rights", and so are these lovely platitudes for only those who survive the pious culling of the untermensch in the New World Order (this concept of semantics of words having narrower or different meanings from what they are deceptively made to appear to the public mind, George Orwell termed "Newspeak").
As per the United States' National Security Strategy Memorandum NSSM-200 written by the then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1974 and presented to president Gerald Ford for his signature which the president signed as the National Security Decision Memorandum NSDM 314 in 1975, agreeing to the population control agenda for world's most populous Least Developed Countries outlined by Kissinger. See a brief examination of the section titled "An Alternative View" in NSSM-200, in this scribe's report on Capitalist Conspiracy for World Government.
This culling of the untermensch for population reduction is to be variously blamed upon nature, and/or upon the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the "revolutionary times" so to speak, that is necessary in order execute on the genocidal agenda. A glimpse into that underlying twisted villainy of the Ubermensch mindset in which the people of the right race and heritage are permitted all the rights of man, including to procreate at will, to go forth and multiply, while the untermensch as the useless eaters are to be population controlled and/or reduced for the threat of the have-nots to the national security of the haves in a global police-state is afforded in Bertrand Russell's 1952 book: Impact of Science on Society. A book which few people appear to have read but must read. In addition to advocating birth-control of the lesser humanity who haven't contributed anything to world civilization while permitting the white races to procreate at will, Lord Bertrand Russell philosophically reasoned for global police-state being the only effective and practical means of maintaining world government:
"There is, it must be confessed, a psychological difficulty about a single world government. The chief source of social cohesion in the past, I repeat, has been war: the passions that inspire feeling of unity are hate and fear. These depend upon the existence of an enemy, actual or potential. It seems to follow that a world government could only be kept in being by force, not by the spontaneous loyalty that now inspires a nation at war."
And world police-state is what we have today, driving global governance in stages towards the fait accompli of one world. Well, evidently, it is easier to maintain police-state with Newspeak under Orwellian cover in which people are brought to love their own servitude than just at the point of the hard bayonet as in vanilla military dictatorships. One can witness the platitudinous wordsmithing in the UN docs, in the EU constitution, etc., which underwrite the nihilist world order all of which are layered upon the premises outlined above. All are connivings to take away real individual rights in practice under the pretense of giving some abstract universal rights to man, while the superman will always retain all the real rights because he defines what those are. The superman exercises those rights through its control of the state and its legal authority to legislate any abhorrence and call that law. The superman increasingly exudes that power through the supra-national world governing bodies who today implement those laws with the acquiescing of all nations in the name of international law. The superman declares wars whenever he wants, makes peace whenever he wants, imprisons whomsoever he wants, makes heroes and villains of whomsoever he wants and labels all that justice. He weaves a web of deceit and calls it truth. And he gets the common mind to accept his brilliant arithmetic of two plus two make five as he inches the world rapidly towards global police-state with incremental body of oppressive laws in the name of national and world security. While all can see the heinous acts of the superman conducted in the name of security, the common herd, like the three wise monkeys, almost always hears no evil, speaks no evil, and sees no evil.
Despite Orwell's attempt to explain the use of language for oppression with the Newspeak dictionary in his fable Nineteen eighty-four, and Huxley's attempt to explain the same in his fable A Brave New World in which the real knowledge in possession of the elite is carefully segregated from what is taught to the public mind, even intelligent well-read people don't seem to realize that language is the first weapon of conquest and remain caught in its sophisticated multifaceted trappings. Newspeak is the very foundation of the new age religion of Secular Humanism for the New World Order.
Is courage so cheap, and shame so rare, that we forsake one and gather the other as we build lies upon lies and create apathy upon apathy? If only scholars had instead forsaken their pen and taken up the sword – their crimes could have been [relatively] trivially dealt with. They have completely changed night into day and day into night, just like the controllers in Plato's Myth of the Cave. Each of those 'prisoners of the cave', from time immemorial, feeling the whip on their back and the sword on their neck, must surely have thought the 'Last Days' is at hand, that resistance today is futile, that to save their souls for the morrow when the savior cometh is their only way out! Sounds like it could be a remarkable scene in the remake of 1984! I copyright that Idea! Hollywood/Bollywood if you read this, make sure you send me a check – for I am rather broke as layoffs and industry shutdowns are taking over as America's new paymasters while the gog and magog du jour laugh their way to the bank!!
The following illustrative passages of what's to come and how it might be unveiled to the public mind are excerpted from my report: Financial Terrorism April 2009 – Financial News Analysis in Context.
Please do share this letter with your own circle of friends if you find any merit in it. If it only wins me scorn from the 'uber pious', the 'uber intellectuals', and hemlock be the only wages of my sins, that hemlock is more tasteful to me as my prize than all the riches and ego inflation the native-informants accumulate as their prize.
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"The Day After – American Agenda for Pakistan" is so palpably visible that only fools and shills among the Westerners, and native-informants among the victims, will continue to bleat Alice's 'War On Terror' instead of getting the prime-movers behind the 'merchants of death'!
And many, drowning in a surfeit of faith from ear to ear, are simply "waiting for Allah" thinking it is the "Last Days of Gog and Magog" that no mere mortals may withstand. For, it is argued before them, an "indestructible power" the almighty creator hath himself calculatingly fashioned to fulfill his own (murderous) prophesies in order to finally rain divine justice upon the Earth – right after he hath rained phosphorous bombs upon children, women, men, the elderly, and destroyed their innocent civilizations at the very hands of his own "indestructible" hectoring hegemons to bring all that planned divine justice to fruition! What an idiotic and cruel god whose imagination only extends from genesis to genocide in order to fashion creation. And while that is merely immanent, far more grotesque is the idiotic imbecilic mass of followers who malign their own Almighty Creator whom they daily aver to believe in, Who repeatedly describes Itself in the very Book they hold most sacred as "the Beneficent, the Merciful"! How can both be true simultaneously – unless it is a Zeus like fickle-minded god who enjoys games of cruel self-indulgence at the expense of his creation?
Can learned people not think with some rational logic, even when they be spiritually inclined, that any earthly devil couldn't wish for a better neutralization of any impediment emanating from the masses for its own "imperial mobilization" agendas? Give people their opiate in their right hand, while enslaving them with the left! Give them what they believe is divinely ordained – the majority will remain occupied in their pious and pecuniary pursuits believing it is all the 'will' of their god(s)! And more apropos to modernity, inculcate a trust in so called "experts" so that one may be convinced to suspend one's own commonsense and rational judgment. Witness the events of 911 where the catastrophic mode of failure of the tall buildings preclude all and sundry from even thinking that it could have been an "inside job"! Why? because the "experts" say 19 jihadis did it!
Woe be to them all who manufacture pretexts and justifications to not side with the truth, who lead people astray to make it appear that the helpless screaming victims is god's own work as destined which none may alter, who remain busy in pious interlocution in their mosques, churches, temples while cataclysmic 'Shock and Awe' is continually visited upon innocent civilian populations. There is none on planet earth who can claim they haven't witnessed the preying of the vultures and vampires for which, surely, the Creator too must curse its own creation for their apathy despite plentiful guidance to every peoples! What will thee, Oh people of the cloth, take to thine grave – a barrel full of gold and a ledger full of piety while God's creation was burned and starved at the hands of the hectoring hegemons right before thy twirling rosaries? Many an atheist show far greater moral acumen and disquiet in their actions when they rush to the aid of suffering humanity – for indeed, a moral compass appears to be built into us human beings, we who can reason, and we who can reflect, all killed by the eschatological gibberish fashioned by priests shilling for the enemies of mankind! While the misanthropes remain busy building corrupting institutions and instruments of co-option to create 'one-world' government, the sheeples are kept busy chasing absurdities.
At the intersection of political science and religion, whereby the latter is used in the most sophisticated and devilish of ways to server the former (as in client-server computing), such as, for example: (1) to both subvert and incapacitate political activism in its most efficacious dimension while simultaneously promulgating "imperial mobilization" by fashioning the perpetual enemy of "Islamofascism" ; (2) to devilishly fashion 'freedom fighters' with "God is on your side" ; (3) to return the Jews to Zion by killing off god and selling the 'ubermensch' concept of the Jewish peoples themselves being their own Messiah (see Letter to Editor: Dalit Voice's 'Which god?' February 08, 2009) ; etc., 'religion' is today as much a part of the Machiavellian instrument of hegemony, as it was in antiquity when the rather banal 'divine sanction' was invoked for imperial legitimacy!
Muslims today, being among the most intellectually challenged peoples on the face of the earth, are even encouraged to once again dream of 'khilafat', as that strain conveniently adds to the phobia of the "Triumphalism of Islam" (see Bernard Lewis, Crisis of Islam – Holy War and Unholy Terror, 2001).
Between the sedation of Aldous Huxley's ethereal 'Soma' and the fatigue of the treadmill of the 'American Dream', the plebeians are led to the slaughter – all throughout the ages, since time immemorial. Latter day modernity is no different, only more Machiavellian! With a deception so Technetronic, and mind manipulation so ubiquitous, that it should not surprise anyone if they see their god's names spelled in the sky and 'Jesus' descend on the 'wings of angels' at the respective GPS coordinates of each peoples' holy predictions! Coming soon to the pious neighborhoods of the (Abrahamic) world. Thousands of visitors have been nightly entertained in Disneyland by holographic image projection's progressive development for at least two decades, and it must surely be ready by now for introducing new convoluted twists to "imperial mobilization"!
And Pakistan is next! A "Kosovo" is being orchestrated in Pakistan and matters have maddeningly been brought right on the verge of fait accompli. All for the meager want of a handful of courageous men and women of national prominence to simply have called 'a spade a spade'! Unlike Palestine, Pakistan was destroyed, first and foremost, by her own treasonous mercenary peoples! The United States to follow suit, for the exact same reason!
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Zahir Ebrahim
April 23, 2009
March 17, 2019
[A] Aldous Huxley's 1962 talk given to the students at the University of California, Berkeley on the Ultimate in Malevolent Revolution, titled: The Ultimate Revolution, http://archive.org/download/AldousHuxley-TheUltimateRevolution/AldousHuxley-TheUltimateRevolution_64kb.m3u
[1] An inquiry into the concept of Imam Mahdi as understood from the verses of the Holy Qur'an is in Zahir Ebrahim, What does the Holy Qur'an say about The Mahdi - The Awaited Savior of Mankind? http://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-mahdi-letter-to-young-muslim-scholar.html
[2] Judeo-Christian multivariant conceptions of The Last Days, End Times, and Gog & Magog, along with Zahir's comments on the patent absurdity of any so called divine prophecy in any religion that disempowers mankind to alter its condition as it "makes altering the outcome of the 'prophecy' impossible. It is a prophecy after all — especially if it is in divine books — so how can it be altered without falsifying the claims to divine origin and hence its infallible correctness?", are in Lila Rajiva's Mind-Body Politic series of articles, March 30, 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20190221204918/https://lilarajiva.com/2014/03/30/rabbi-shternbuch-we-have-begun-messianic-times/ ;
July 23, 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20190221210803/https://lilarajiva.com/2014/07/23/is-gog-of-magog-russia-or-the-west/ ;
Cached PDF: https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/Cacheof-Zahirs-comments-on-Messianic-Times-lilarajiva-mindbodypolitic-March-31-2014.pdf
July 23, 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20190221210803/https://lilarajiva.com/2014/07/23/is-gog-of-magog-russia-or-the-west/ ;
Cached PDF: https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/Cacheof-Zahirs-comments-on-Messianic-Times-lilarajiva-mindbodypolitic-March-31-2014.pdf
Zahir's Comments
1. Project Humanbeingsfirst.org March 31, 2014 at 10:53 am
Hi Lila,
Just a quick correction, if I may be permitted to offer one. You stated:
"Update 1: An Islamic interpretation of Gog and Magog. It doesn't identify Russia with Gog and Magog, but identifies it with militant Zionism"
Slight correction: The source you cite is NOT an Islamic interpretation of Gog and Magog, but one Muslim's personal interpretation.
Just as it is for the Christians interpreting the Bible and imputing their understanding to "Christianity" the religion.
Fortunately, unlike Christianity and Christians which share the same root word, the religion of Islam has separate names for what is the prescribed religion: called Islam, and its followers: called Muslims.
In the prescribed religion itself, Chapter 18, Surah Al-Kahf, deals with this topic as allegorical, metaphorical, and like the variables of an algebraic expression, these allegories can take on any value the beholder wishes to impute to them. Unlike the algebraic equation however, the speculative value cannot be verified, confirmed, and virtually any plausible value fits in.
Some allegories of the Holy Qur'an are relatively easy to understand as their meaning is plain. Others, only the Author of the Holy Qur'an knows. No one knows what these latter allegories really mean for sure, they can mean anything the mind fancies, which is why, from the time of advent of Islam, varying interpretations of these allegories have abounded and been imputed as "Islamic" interpretations.
Those with nothing better to do in every era have wasted both their and their flock's time pursuing what the Good Book itself describes as "mutashabihat", meaning, allegorical, and not knowable for sure.
The Good Book itself categorizes its own verses in two types: a) foundational verses each of which have a unique categorical meaning requiring no interpretation. And b) allegorical verses whose understanding and interpretation requires a different protocol for understanding them, with the acquired understanding always being, at best, subjective, and in some cases not achievable by ordinary peoples. This is specified in verse 3:7 of the Holy Qur;an (and it is examined in my book Hijacking the Holy Qur'an and Its Religion Islam, as a bizarre paradox – why have statements which no ordinary mortal may know and understand?).
My take on all this gibberish of Apocalyptic Last Days Eschatology, for any religion and every religion which prescribes Apocalypse, pestilence, and other evils, is generally this: ( excerpted from https://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/04/god-is-running-theworld-let-him-run-it.html ):
On the other side of the spectrum from the 'secular humanists', we have the many good and kindly peoples, drowning in a surfeit of faith from ear to ear, simply "waiting for Allah" thinking it is the "Last Days of Gog and Magog" that no mortals may withstand. For, it is argued before them, an "indestructible power" the almighty creator hath himself calculatingly fashioned to fulfill his own (murderous) prophesies in order to finally rain divine justice upon the Earth – right after he hath rained phosphorous bombs upon children, women, men, the elderly, and destroyed their innocent civilizations at the very hands of his own "indestructible" hectoring hegemons to bring all that planned divine justice to fruition! What an idiotic and cruel god whose imagination only extends from genesis to genocide in order to fashion creation. And while that is merely immanent, far more grotesque is the idiotic imbecilic mass of followers who malign their own Almighty Creator whom they daily aver to believe in, Who repeatedly describes Itself in the very Book Muslims hold most sacred as "the Beneficent, the Merciful"! How can both be true simultaneously – unless it is a Zeus like fickle-minded god who enjoys games of cruel self-indulgence at the expense of his creation? Therefore, the former must stand rejected by the sheer force of argument, unless some people choose to believe in Zeus for their spiritual ascendance! —- Read More in The Achilles heel of Pakistan – Its Intellectuals ( https://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-achilles-heel-of-pakistan.html )
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The above passage refers to Imran Hosein's book in which he speculates what Surah Al-Kahf may be referring to. That is his own opinion. And he is welcome to it. That book I have read completely. As far as I am concerned, it is gibberish — but many Muslims, like Christians and Jews, are fascinated by this subject and continually seek signs that the Last Days are at hand. Muslim history, like Christian history, is full of savants believing in such apocalyptic eschatology.
Interestingly, for the religion of Islam, almost all apocalyptic eschatology which is imputed to Islam is not to be found in the pages of the Holy Qur'an itself, but in outside books written by the hand of man.
Ability to reason outside the boundaries of faith has never been a strong suite for Muslims, or any people imbued with faith.
Some call it indoctrination. Others call it belief.
It may surprise one to discover that much of what one ends up believing as faith is in fact written by the hand of man.
As a Muslim who likes to think, I distinguish between what is in the Holy Qur'an itself, and what is in other Muslim books.
I call what is in the Holy Qur'an as the religion of Islam given by the Author of the Holy Qur'an. What is not in the Holy Qur'an but passes as Islam, I call it the religion of Muslims given by the authors of those books.
As for faith, well, faith is subjective anyway.
Even atheists have faith.
Only the all-left-brained Mr. Spock of Star-Trek has no faith.
All humans who possess some measure right-half brain in non-zero quantity have faith.
Dogmatic religions are merely different points on that axis of faith.
Which is why many people end up believing anything which passes as faith, no matter how illogical, non-sequitorish, and irrational. And it is empirically observed that anything which induces complacency, or the spirit of la mission civilisatrice, is the path most taken by the followers of any religion, including the religion of the New World Order, Secular Humanism. For Muslims, it is typically to Wait for Allah as God is running the world!
As such, in my opinion, all this Last Days stories which you have noted, are the invention of tyrants and their apprentices to ensure that during any epoch, the masses do nothing to interdict the dystopia that is thrust upon the peoples by the rulers in the name of religion, leaving the public mind brimming with hope and expectations of the Last days as the panacea for their ills and dehumanization.
My 0.02 anyway. I could be wrong of course.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
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4. Project Humanbeingsfirst.org April 1, 2014 at 3:47 am
[ Lila stated in her followup response:
I enjoy apocalyptic ruminations, although it's from the point of view of what the globalists are up to, as I noted above:
"You wonder if these discredited interpretations that surface in popular newspapers have something to do with the intelligence agencies of different countries stirring up the masses to support violent confrontations…"
However, I think it's equally incorrect to dismiss prophetic literature as rubbish. In the Christian and Jewish faiths, as well as in Hinduism, prophecy is an integral part of the teaching.
"No man may know" is not the same as "No man may wonder" or "No man may interpret."
People study the writings of Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce for predictions of the future; they comb the works of Jules Verne for artistic predictions.
Nothing wrong with it.
Nor is it indoctrination. I certainly reserve judgment about a number of things said either by true believers or skeptics – but that's the point – I reserve judgment. I don't take it as infallible nor do I dismiss it entirely.
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Hi Lila,
If I might suggest: 1) There is prediction, based on trend and trajectory, as well as the exercise of imagination and anticipation of singularity points. This is to the credit of man.
2) Then there is prophecy. This is to the credit of Mephistopheles and its apprentices.
The difference, in my view at least, is that the latter makes altering the outcome of the "prophecy" impossible. It is a prophecy after all — especially if it is in divine books — so how can it be altered without falsifying the claims to divine origin and hence its infallible correctness?
I invite you, in return to your invitation to study: "People study the writings of Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce for predictions of the future; they comb the works of Jules Verne for artistic predictions.", which I have done plenty and continue to do so, to actually critically examine what is considered in the divine books of man as "prophecy".
If you can cite one instance, just one, which empowers man to change his condition today, I will be much informed. And that's the point of these fatalistic, apocalyptical prophecies.
I will generalize both the Biblical and Hindu, as well as Muslim "prophecies" —- all are, virtually, as far as I have been able to ascertain, dis empowering to man, giving people the hope to live in the future in order to alleviate their present suffering and miserable lot. The Hindu Karma does, however, empower man to be good today in order to be reborn better in the future. That is not prophecy, but the dogma of karma and Hinduism. Islam's prescription to be good today, as explained here: , is also not prophecy, but empowerment. Christianity's prescription to give your brother your coat, to turn the other cheek, is also not prophecy, but empowerment to be better in so far as its dogma is concerned.
Whereas, for all these, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and Jew, wherever the notion of prophecy occurs, show me, not be speculation and general statements to go study this and that, but by your examination here of something specific, which is empowering to man today rather than having him enjoy his complacency waiting for Allah, karma, the last days, mahdi return, Christ's return, and the apocalypse, in the aftermath of all of which, justice will be made to prevail by divine intervention.
As a social scientist, that drama tells me that this can only be the invention of rulers throughout the ages to neutralize hoi polloi's dissent for their discontents by getting them to accept the present in exchange for a better future in some distant future which no one gets to see.
As a con job on the sheepish masses imbued with faith through natural propensity and the cult of socialization into respective beliefs from birth, this selling of heaven and nirvana at the expense of accepting and acquiescing to the hell on earth remains unsurpassed!
Both Christianity and Hinduism as religions, in their own most sacred sources, push this resignation to faith. Based on my study, and I can't claim it to be complete, but continually evolving, I claim that it is only Islam which prescribes in its own singular scripture, the Holy Qur'an, the altering of the present forcibly as its article of faith. The religion of Islam surpasses all other religions on that scale. Which is why its subversion has been of paramount necessity. I have explained it here in a language which both left-half and right-half dominant brains can surely most easily understand:
Islam: Surah Al-Asr of the Holy Qur'an: What does the Holy Qur'an say about Haq – Truth and Justice?
The Noble Path: Denying to Caesar what is not Caesar's – Surah Al-Asr of the Holy Qur'an
I have read all religions as comparative study. My first introduction was Houston Smith as an undergrad. Greatly inspired by his generous treatment of all religions in his seminal work The Religions of Man, I have continued to respectfully remain interested in expanding my comprehension ever since. I even study Islam not as a my religion, but as I might study electrical engineering: examining what does its book actually prescribe? I may have missed something in other religions of similar empowerment of man to alter tyranny in the moment of the present life as the religion of Islam does. Please advise by specifics if you haven't missed it.
But you are right of course in that reading the crystal ball can be a fun exercise — only at dinner parties in my view.
And you may also well be right on the uncanny divine origins of "prophecies" (in the distinction drawn above). Just that, if you are indeed right again, then I think that divinity which proclaims abhorrence, and prophecies abhorrence, is at best captured by Zeus-like mythical deity, and not a Deity Who claims to be the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful, the Most Just, as the religion of Islam does. But the philosophical conception of deity is no different, and traces at least as far back as Plato and his Philosopher-king conception which is based upon it. And if the Deity is not that, then why worship it? It is only manmade, or Zeus (or aliens genetically engineering man if Zecharia Sitchin is to be believed, and many new-age babies do), but in either case only worthy of utmost contempt for inflicting abhorrence on mankind and even prophesying it, rather than guiding mankind to strive out of it.
Surely, you might concur with this sensible rubric to examine any claims of any divine origin? It at least lends a strong rejection criterion.
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
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April 1, 2014
Followup Comment for: http://mindbodypolitic.org/2014/03/30/rabbi-shternbuch-we-have-begun-messianic-times/
Followup Comment for: http://mindbodypolitic.org/2014/03/30/rabbi-shternbuch-we-have-begun-messianic-times/
[3] The Shia mind and Imam Mahdi, in Ayatollah Khamenei, Dear youth, prepare yourselves for the era of Imam Mahdi, May 22, 2016. http://english.khamenei.ir/news/3828/Dear-youth-prepare-yourselves-for-the-era-of-Imam-Mahdi-Ayatollah#c6
Zahir's comment May 28, 2016
Waiting for Allah - why? Where does Allah say to wait? See http://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2014/03/waiting-for-allah-by-zahir-ebrahim.html While countering nihilism by theism is an obvious antidote guidance not just for the youth but for all ages, "awaiting the savior" does not necessarily follow from the pages of the holy Qur'an. It appears to be at best an interpreted viewpoint drawn largely by fixing Qur'anic beatitudes (example 9:33, 28:5. 58:21, 21:105, etc) with eschatological material drawn from outside the Qur'an. Similar to the Biblical Beatitude: "the meek shall inherit the earth" (Matthew 5:5 Holy Bible KJV). The topic is opened up in a student's journey in the Holy Qur'an in http://islam-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2015/08/what-does-quran-say-about-rulership.html . Would Ayatollah Khamenei kindly falsify that analysis if he finds it misperceived. Thankyou. Zahir Ebrahim.
[4] The concept of "taqlid" as understood from the verses of the Holy Qur'an is in Zahir Ebrahim, What does the Holy Qur'an say about Taqlid - Blind Following the Non-Infallible? http://islam-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-does-quran-say-about-taqlid.html
[5] The concept of "Indeterminate" in the Holy Qur'an (vs. "Determinate") is defined in Zahir Ebrahim, Islam: Why is the Holy Qur'an so easy to hijack? Part-II, http://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/08/islam-why-is-quran-easy-to-hijack-pt2.html#Definitions
[6] The concept of "imam" (any leader) vs "Imam" (Leader, capitalized, which the scripture asserts is only appointed by God) as understood from the verses of the Holy Qur'an, and the empirically observed natural inclinations borne of many different types of unconscious biases that predispose one towards incestuous self-reinforcement of presuppositions and confirmation bias, are explained in Zahir Ebrahim, Islam: Why is the Holy Qur'an so easy to hijack? Part-III, http://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/08/islam-why-is-quran-easy-to-hijack-pt3.html
[7] The concept of Rejection Criterion vs Acceptance Criterion vis a vis the Prophetic Hadith literature as understood from mathematical closure is explained in Zahir Ebrahim, Islam: Why is the Holy Qur'an so easy to hijack? Part-IV, http://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/08/islam-why-is-quran-easy-to-hijack-pt4.html
[8] The concept of "valih-e-faqih" is expounded in Ayatollah (imam) Khomeini's series of sermons given in Najaf during his exile years and compiled in his book after the Revolution: Islam and Revolution (translated in English by Hamid Algar, 1981), https://web.archive.org/web/20130616014122/http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/cacheof-islam-and-revolution-writings-and-declarations-of-imam-khomeini-translated-by-hamid-algar-1981-mizan-press.pdf
[9] The concept of Divine Rule by Valih-e-Faqih as understood from the verses of the Holy Qur'an is examined in Zahir Ebrahim, What does the Holy Qur'an say about Vilayat-i Faqih? http://islam-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2015/03/what-does-quran-say-about-vilayat-faqih.html
[10] The concept of infancy of civilizations unable to deal with man's most formidable predators from among their own kind due to mankind's stunted growth in consciousness, is examined in Zahir Ebrahim, The Road to No Where: The Journey of Voluntary Servitude, https://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-road-to-no-where-by-zahir-ebrahim.html
[11] The use of language for colonization is best illustrated by Lord Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education presented to the British Parliament in 1835 ( http://columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/macaulay/txt_minute_education_1835.html ) cached at http://pakistan-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/p/macaulay-minute-on-indian-education-2nd.html
Begin Excerpt Lord Macaulay, Feb 02, 1835, Minute on Indian Education:
"What then shall that language be? One-half of the committee maintain that it should be the English. The other half strongly recommend the Arabic and Sanscrit. The whole question seems to me to be-- which language is the best worth knowing?
I have no knowledge of either Sanscrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value. I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanscrit works. I have conversed, both here and at home, with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. The intrinsic superiority of the Western literature is indeed fully admitted by those members of the committee who support the oriental plan of education. ...
In one point I fully agree with the gentlemen to whose general views I am opposed. I feel with them that it is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people.
We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, --a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."
End Excerpt Lord Macaulay
Justifying the bequeathing of English language to the natives of British India and removing their own civilization's indigenous languages from the lingua franca of success in empire's favorite colony, Lord Macaulay laid out the premise for the subsequent Indian Education Policy whose impact still resonates in the British-partitioned India and Pakistan. Arguably, not as much in Bangladesh which purposefully reverted to her singular native language Bengali quite successfully nation-wide, perhaps due to her more uniform linguistic composition, and thus was able to reconnect to her intellectual and cultural history in her own native language. A feat which neither India nor Pakistan have been able to accomplish nationally. Occidentosis, the plague from the West continues to be most profoundly held as the choicest passport to modernity in most former colonies of the British empire – largely due to their education policy of grooming the "brown sahib" who have remained the elite in the post-colonial era, https://web.archive.org/web/20130603042500/http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/cacheof-occidentosis-a-plague-from-the-west-by-jalal-ali-ahmad-translated-by-rcampbell-introduction-by-hamidalgar.pdf .
[a] An example of cunning wordsmithing in superman scholarship is the Balfour Declaration which gave real political rights to the Jews while giving some abstract civil and religious rights to the Palestinians. The actual result is quite visible today. The underlying legalism which led to it is visible in the deconstruction of its diabolical wordsmithing in: The Illusion of Power and the Calculus of Palestinian Dispossession, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/07/response-to-alan-hart-by-zahir-ebrahim.html
[b] The clever wordsmithing of the EU Constitution which has cunningly caveated the loftily worded public Rights to limit them in practice by law, or by executive order, under the rubric of national security and expediency, much like the United States Constitution and its Bill of Rights have been trumped by the Patriot Acts for instance, is examined in an analysis that I once found on the web but don't have a citation for it at this time. Virtually every public Right in the EU Constitution has the caveat that it can be "lawfully" restricted! When the king makes the laws, whatever the king decides is the law. The same with the Parliament which often enact and implement laws handed them by forces unseen by the public mind. The National Security State and those controlling it are one such unseen force.
[c] The clever wordsmithing of the American Constitution which has cunningly subverted it in actual practice is examined in Cracks in the Constitution by Ferdinand Lundberg, http://amazon.com/Cracks-Constitution-Ferdinand-Lundberg/dp/0818402792
[d] The reality of "Democracy" as it actually played out while being layered upon that brilliantly worded US Constitution was also briefly analyzed by Carroll Quigley in THE MYTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, a presentation to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces on August 17, 1972, http://www.carrollquigley.net/lectures.htm
[e] See more reality of "Democracy" in Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Domination and the Theft of Human Rights By Thom Hartmann, Rodale Inc., 2002.
[f] See more reality of "Democracy" in The United States Isn't a Country — It's a Corporation! By Lisa Guliani, February 2004, at http://wariscrime.com/new/the-usa-isnt-a-country-its-a-corporation/ published Jan 15, 2009. Project Humanbeingsfirst's comment for this article extending it with additional material is archived at: https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/cacheof-wariscrime-the-usa-isnt-a-country-its-a-corporation-jan152009.pdf
Begin Project Humanbeingsfirst's comment, January 16, 2009 at 21:13
'There is a much longer history of coup d'état by central banksters to which the Congressional ACT of 1871 appears to be another pivotal link. After setting the UNITED STATES up as a 'federal corporation' in 1871, a supreme court decision was orchestrated in 1886 to give the status of 'personhood' to the entity called 'corporation'. Before 1886, "until the bizarre Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Supreme Court case in 1886 – only humans are entitled to human rights in their community." Thom Hartmann stated it this way, also in his 2002 article: "Americans Revolt in Pennsylvania – New Battle Lines Are Drawn", http://commondreams.org/views02/1219-06.htm
Begin excerpt from Thom Hartmann
The implications of this are staggering. For example:
Before 1886, it was a felony in most states for corporations to give money to politicians or otherwise try (through lobbying or advertising) to influence elections. Such activity was called "bribery and influencing," and the reason it was banned was simple: corporations can't vote, so what are they doing in politics? Their concern is making money, and they don't need clean air to breathe or fresh water to drink; leave them to making money and leave the administration of the commons to We, The People.
Before 1886, it was a crime in most states for corporations to own others of their own kind. The need to keep corporations from becoming so large that they could usurp democracy was so clear to the Founders that Jefferson and Madison proposed an 11th Amendment to the Constitution that would have banned "monopolies in commerce," restricting each company to performing a single purpose, making it responsible to its local community, and barring it from owning other corporations. The amendment didn't pass because everybody at the time knew that the states already had such laws in place.
Before 1886, only humans had full First Amendment rights of free speech, including the right to influence legislation and the right to lie when not under oath. Now corporations have claimed that they have the free speech right to influence public opinion and legislation through deceit, and a case based on a multinational corporation asserting this right is poised to go before the Supreme Court as you read these words. That corporation reserves the right to fire and even prosecute human employees who lie to it, however.
Before 1886, only humans had Fourth Amendment rights of privacy. Since then, however, corporations have claimed that EPA and OSHA surprise inspections are violations of their human right of privacy, while at the same time asserting their right to perform surprise inspections of their own employees' bodily fluids, phone conversations, and keystrokes.
Before 1886, only humans had Fifth Amendment rights against double jeopardy and the right to refuse to speak if they'd committed a crime. Since 1886, corporations have asserted these human rights for themselves: the results range from today's corporate scandals to 60 years of silence about the deadliness of tobacco and asbestos.
Before 1886, and following the Civil War, only humans had Fourteenth Amendment rights to protection from discrimination. Since then, corporations have claimed this human right and used it to stop local communities from passing laws to protect their small, local businesses and keep out predatory retailers or large corporations convicted of crimes elsewhere.
End excerpt from Thom Hartmann
The following Article-15 US Code is all revealing :
( From the US Code collection Definitions, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode28/usc_sec_28_00003002----000-.html )
( From the US Code collection Definitions, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode28/usc_sec_28_00003002----000-.html )
(15) "United States" means—
(A) a Federal corporation;
(B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or
(C) an instrumentality of the United States.
This is a set pattern, interestingly. In continuation of the scheme to take over the financial control of the United States, the 1910 Federal Reserve ACT got enacted in 1913 to create our beloved Federal Reserve System. It is as much federal, as federal express.'
End Project Humanbeingsfirst's comment, January 16, 2009 at 21:13
[g] Even the United Kingdom is not a country. It is also a Corporation, controlled by another supra-national private Corporation, the real financial capital of the world, the City of London, or just "the City" for short. It is what H. G. Wells was referring to in his rallying call: "And if we, the virtuous democracies, are not fighting for these common human rights, then what in the name of the nobility and gentry, the Crown and the Established Church, the City, The Times and the Army and Navy Club, are we common British peoples fighting for?"
[h] See the meticulous research unveiled by John Harris of the UK also being a Corporation, in the Lawful Rebellion Conference, January 24, 2009, titled: It's an illusion, http://bbc5.tv/eyeplayer/articles/john-harris-its-illusion .
These examples in [a] to [h] empirically illustrate the vast distance between pious language on lofty parchments and the actual reality of their diabolical subversion by the ruling oligarchy. The pious verbiage mainly serve the interest of perception management of the public mind so that the history's actors can carry on accomplishing their Übermensch agendas without interference, often willingly acquiring the public's consent under the right set of "doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment, and patriotic gratification" fed them by experts. This is Orwellian Newspeak at its best. This technique of mind manipulation and behavior control has advanced far beyond Lord Macaulay's imperial plan of separating a people from their civilizational heritage with the imposition of an alien culture and foreign language so that the process of colonization of the conquered people is not impeded. Newspeak is now so ubiquitous that we are unconscious of its presence like the air we breathe, but it cradles our thoughts, feelings, actions as well as inactions.
[12] See The Final Waging Global War By Way of Deception Report, DIGEST Financial and State Terrorism, November 2008 to May 2009, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/05/digst-fin-and-state-terrorism-may2009.html, Digest PDF: https://sites.google.com/site/humanbeingsfirst/download-pdf/digest-financial-and-state-terrorism-may2009i.pdf
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[i] Critique of Imran Hosein's 'An Islamic View of Gog and Magog in the Modern World' , January 24, 2019 ,https://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2019/01/critique-of-imran-hosein-gog-and-magog.html ,https://faith-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2019/01/critique-of-imran-hosein-gog-and-magog.html
[ii] The Ultimate in Malevolent Revolution , January 22, 2019 ,https://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-ultimate-in-malevolent-revolution.html
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Donegal GAA club first in Ulster to ban smoking
Convoy club makes history
A Donegal GAA club is to become the first club in Ulster to implement a complete smoking ban at its ground.
St. Mary's in Convoy will be introducing the ban as a part of a health initiative which is backed by officials at Croke Park.
The ban will mean smoking will not be allowed anywhere at Páirc Naomh Mhuire and smokers will have to go outside the gate to indulge their cravings.
Signage at the ground will inform the public of the ban.
The club will be just the second in the country to introduce the ban. St Mary's is one of 60 clubs across the country which is participating in the second phase of the healthy clubs initiative which is run by GAA headquarters.
The policy was endorsed by the club's health and well being committee and will be officially launched in November.
The club's children's officer, Lorena Barron, said there has been huge support for the new policy within the club, while adding there is not a big issue with smoking at the ground. "We are not anti-smoking in any way, we are just trying to promote a healthy lifestyle within our club."
The policy is just one of a number of initiatives that have been run at the club, including a healthy-eating policy, a drug and alcohol awareness programme for teenagers, and a good mental health awareness initiative.
"The committee were very excited about it and just want us to go ahead," Lorena added. "We are delighted to get the go ahead and are delighted that we will be just the second club in the country to ban smoking.
"It is great to be pioneering something and going for something that will support our players and the community in promoting healthy living.
"We do not want to demonise the idea of smoking at the side of the pitch, but we are trying to encourage our young players and supporters from taking it up.
"Attitudes are changing - smoking is not the norm anymore.
"We want to see that within the GAA community. We encourage our athletes to be as healthy as they can - mental health, physical health - this policy is another way to helps players and the community achieve that."