Satan's Little Helpers

Above Church of Satan leader, Anton leVay, displaying the satanic handsign, which many in simple ignorance as to its symbolic significance use at rock concerts. So of course one can use this and not mean anything more than in the rock on, thumbs up sense. Ordinary adults don't however tend to use this gesture in normal life.
Below a few examples of others using this, sometimes in very formal, serious situations.





And even with the Queen. It is argued that this is a Texas college symbol that the Bushes' daughter attended. Even if accepting this explanation for the Bushes' rather demented use of this sign in utterly inappropriate circumstances, we are left with someone infantile to the point of brain damage, who even when meeting the British head of state as head of his own state, finds the temptation to flash the sign of his daughter's college irresistible. Bush is of course a member of the very disturbed Skull & Bones occult secret society, whose apparent nature is entirely in tandem with the more obvious explanation, that Bush is using this sign in the manner it is more famously recognised; ie a satanic symbol. "Satan who is the prince of thiss world," being a rather famous old line which should perhaps be taken much more literally than in loose allegorical manner. And Mrs Clinton. And Mr Clinton.

The Perceiver & Perceived

Does a television programme exist if there is noone there to see it?

Does a television programme exist if there is someone there to see it, but the television is turned off?

Sociopathic Murder Soaked Worldly Leaders Aphorism

They'd have to be mad not to be mad.

The Art of Reading

I must say, when I read, as I do when placed at the right angle before a book, I don't so much read as the lazy reader does, but deconstruct the book into its strategic components of significance, using a Marxist guide as a social-realist lens to defract the distorted rays of the writer's imagination into the light of real-world truth. Thus is literature raised to the art of usefulness, and a stepping stone to the future of socially enlightened mutual actuality, and indeed socially enlightened mutual activity.

Calendar Boys

In an exciting follow-up to the previous post, twelve of Britain's top intellectuals are to feature in a glossy calandar for the upmarket publication, Nouveau Conservative. The calendar shows the scantily clad intellectuals in a series of suggestive poses, generally involving provocative use of choice examples of modern weaponry.
Artin Mamis described the experience as "liberating", while Mills & Boon author Ewan MacIan said he felt stimulated in places he didn't know existed. Deep thinking Roderick "Tobacco" Scrotum, pictured draped in the Stars & Stripes, said the doing the photos made him feel "horny." He could only imagine what using the weapons in real-life situations against sub-human offal must be like. Another great of the mind said he hadn't felt this good since getting the "Friends" dvd boxset for Christmas.

Economic Aid

Some of Britain's best known writers are backing a wonderful means of economic self-improvement, which some dissenting voices claim is merely the revival of old wives' tales thinking.
The writers claim that if one assumes a grovelling position at the feet of a murderous, demon-possessed politician- preferably American- and carefully ensuring not to raise one's unworthy eyes to the face of the beloved, then with unflagging enthusiasm engage in the assiduous licking of the boot leather of said figure, this will unfailingly result in almost immediate improvement of one's bank balance.
"I know it sounds crazy," said one well known author, "but it really works!"
Some find the boot licking induces a violently nauseous reaction at first at the core of one's being, but most soon develop a real taste for it.
One famous author was asked whether the above resulted in any lacerating feelings of self-disgust, but on the contrary, he considered it a "morally superior" action, and intimate association with the boot leather of the politicians served to enhance his already powerful masculinity.
It is claimed that the relative politicians are engaged in similar activities, but with figures substantially further up the worldly food chain.

Aldous Huxley on the War on Terror

"As we know from our own experience of such secular devils as the Jews, the Commuinists, the Bourgeois Imperialists, the best way to establish a police state is to keep harping on the dangers of a Fifth Column."

From his superb Devils of Loudon. And just because....from Those Barren Leaves below:

"Gullivers Travels, with a minimun of expurgation, has become a children's book. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story."

Paul Klee- Drawn One

Humanist Progression Towards Freedom

The British Humanist Association has published what it hopes to become a truly seminal work, The Logical Pathway to Utilising Humour as a Rational Weapon Against Ignorance and Superstition.
Leading light Jonathan "Obnoxious" Meades explained that "Degraded as it is, it is essential that we add this 'comical' tool to our soul annihilating armoury. As with life in its filthy wholeness, there is no secret to humour. Its function is to puncture false pretensions to dignity in man, who is merely an eating, shitting and fucking animal machine, and who owes what merits he possesses entirely to his accidentally acquired reasoning powers."

Stefan Lochner- The Virgin and Child in a Rose Arbour

That Lochner manages to create such a beautifully naive painting without, even with those angels, lapsing into sickly sweetness is remarkable. Though I imagine some would beg to differ about the angels - and maybe it would be greater without them! One of the most charming and profoundly innocent of Western paintings.

Falsehood

The Iraqi Tourist Board has described the well known notion that there is no such thing as bad publicity as "total bullshit."
"We took on new staff and everything," said a spokesman.

Bono Wisdom

Bono, one of the world's biggest small rock stars, has declared that "Politics is the new rock n' roll." He previously said, and this can be verified in the "real world", that "I'm fond of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They are kind of the John and Paul of the global development stage, in my opinion. But the point is, Lennon and McCartney changed my interior world - Blair and Brown can change the real world." Bono said he was "sure" Lennon would approve of the changing of the real world that Blair and Brown have helped effect in their times on the political stage. "War isn't particularly nice, nor is lying one's way into war, yeah I know, but this is global development," said the leader of the shit band. "And what you have to remember is sometimes vast numbers of lives have to be ruined to aid the machinations of the spiritually diseased and materially bountiful few. That's what democracy's all about."

Intelligence Quota

It has been revealed that IQ, or Intelligence Quota, tests have genuinely been devised to devise personal intelligence, but in a somewhat contrary manner to that conceived of by the public. A nephew of the man whose brainchild was the test, said that anyone who imagined, or more to the point needed to imagine, that his intelligence could be portrayed by means of a number was "obviously an idiot," and the test was the cunning and covert means to discovering that end.

More Obsolescence

The Hypothetical World State has decreed that satire is to be completely phased out. "Satire is only appropriate within imperfect social conditions," said a spokesman. Meanwhile an EU member of the H.W.S. has stated that Ireland's No vote on the Lisbon Treaty is a clear demonstration of how, if democracy is to survive, it must be strictly limited to "irrelevant avenues of discourse."

Dramatic Art Addition

Sharing, as I annually do, the birthday, and indeed nationality of, Mr Samuel Beckett, I have decided to enter the theatrical waters of dramatic creation. The following is what has suggested itself to me, or perhaps is about to suggest itself to me, or indeed may not be about to suggest itself to me, in which case its non-suggestiveness will be manifested by its absence.

ACT 1

Evening. Two figures dressed in old and stained navy suits on a blasted heath. The sky is grey.

FIRST FIGURE: What?
SECOND FIGURE: What?
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SECOND FIGURE: What?
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SECOND FIGURE: What?
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SECOND FIGURE: What?

ACT 2

Night.

SECOND FIGURE: What?
FIRST FIGURE: What.
SECOND FIGURE: What?
FIRST FIGURE: What.
SECOND FIGURE: What?
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SECOND FIGURE: What?
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SECOND FIGURE: What?

ACT 3

Morning. Grey sky.

FIRST FIGURE: What.
SECOND FIGURE: What.
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SECOND FIGURE: What.
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SECOND FIGURE: What.
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SECOND FIGURE: What.

Yes to Lisbon, Yes to the Death Penalty

On 20th Feb 2008 a caucus meeting was held at the German Parliament in Munich to discuss the Lisbon Treaty.
At this meeting a previously unmentioned paragraph was bought to light by Professor Schachtschneider, Humanities Faulty -University of Nuremberg.
Professor Schachtschneider, explained that the undisclosed paragraph means on ratification of the Lisbon Treaty the DEATH PENALTY will be reintroduced to Europe. The Death Penalty will be applicable for the crimes of RIOTING, CIVIL UPHEAVAL and DURING WAR. (When are we not at war and who will define riot and upheaval?)

Professor Schachtschneider made the point that this clause is particularly outrageous as it had been cleverly hidden in a footnote of a footnote and would not have been detected by anyone other than an exceptional expert reader.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86592

And the actual text below:

Protocol No. 6 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms concerning the abolition of the death penalty
as amended by Protocol No. 11
Strasbourg, 28.IV.1983

Article 1 – Abolition of the death penalty

The death penalty shall be abolished. No-one shall be condemned to such penalty or executed.

Article 2 – Death penalty in time of war

A State may make provision in its law for the death penalty in respect of acts committed in time of war or of imminent threat of war; such penalty shall be applied only in the instances laid down in the law and in accordance with its provisions. The State shall communicate to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe the relevant provisions of that law.

The EU has produced an additional document entitled Explanations Relating to the Charter of Fundamental Rights (2007/c 303/02) which has full legal status. These "explanations" amount to qualifications of "fundamental " rights. The Explanations allow for executions in a number of important instances.
One is "in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection".

So that's very clear then. The Death Penalty is abolished as declared in Article 1. However Article 2 allows for the Death Penalty, during war or the imminent threat of war; ie not during war, and also in quelling riots. Just a tiny detail people are voting on in the Lisbon Treaty. Have people ever been treated with such contempt by their 'democratic' rulers? Of course. The Solidarity Clause is a beauty also. Spot the oceanic space for manipulation:

F. Solidarity Clause
This is a clause in the Treaty which states that Member States are obliged to assist each other if one is the victim of a terrorist attack or a natural or man made disaster. The precise details of this co-operation would have to be agreed unanimously by the Council.

Demand a Referendum on EU Lisbon Treaty

Demand a Referendum on EU Lisbon Treaty
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche

This presentation appears in the March 7, 2008 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Moderator Claudio Celani introduced Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the chairwoman of the German political party Civil Rights Solidarity Movement (BüSo). She spoke on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, and the need to uphold national constitutions.

Celani: Why do we have to save the constitution, Helga?

Zepp-LaRouche: I think that Europe is confronted with a much bigger danger than the average person knows. In November, French President Nicolas Sarkozy had a closed meeting in Strasbourg with some French European Parliamentarians, and said, according to the British press, that if there were a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, in every country where such a referendum would take place, it would be lost. So, on Dec. 13, the heads of state had the summit in Lisbon and signed the so-called reform treaty, the Lisbon Treaty. And there can be no doubt that the strategy was to say, "Let's ratify it as quickly as possible, through the parliaments, without public debate—neither in the media nor in the parliaments—of any significance, because if such a debate would take place, it would not go through."

So in Germany, the new text was not published, and if people wanted to find out what was agreed upon, they would have to take the old text of the European constitution, which was vetoed in France and in Holland in 2005 [and therefore did not take effect anywhere in the EU], and then look at the changes separately, alongside it, and then inject "Article 5, point 9, subsection 2—the word changes from A to B," and then inject that some 400 times. You can be sure that maybe two parliamentarians and maybe one journalist did that, but the majority, for sure, did not. Because the text is so impenetrable in the first place, that nobody can understand it, who is not a skilled state jurist.

Only after a law student in Leipzig undertook the labor to inject these changes and then publish it on some websites of one parliamentarian, was the government of Germany forced to take the unofficial version and circulate it, because they would have made a bruta figura if they had not done it. [laughter]

In the meantime, some extremely honorable law professors have written expert analyses, which I want you all to urgently look at, because they reveal what is really going on, and I'm quoting in particular Prof. Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider, who was one of the four professors who filed a lawsuit against the Maastricht Treaty and the introduction of the euro; Prof. Hans Klecatsky from Austria, who is one of the founders of the Austrian Constitution; and other professors, like Professor Hollander, and many others. I have studied the new text, from the standpoint of the expert analyses which they wrote, and I will give you a short summary of what I found.

The most important is, that it would change the relation of the European states, from an alliance of states into a single federal state, which from that point on, once it's ratified, would be ruled as an oligarchy, without the participation of the national parliaments. For example, the so-called General Clause means that the European Council and the European Commission would have to decide policies in all areas, except foreign policy and security policy. The European Parliament would be heard, but have no say, and the national parliaments have no say whatsoever. So parliamentarians, rather than fulfilling 80% of the Brussels guidelines, would fill 100% of the guidelines.

The Road to World War III
Then you have the so-called Solidarity Clause, which really is a bombshell, because it means that if there is the need to fight against terrorist actions in any country—and the notion "terrorist action" is not defined, it's a very vague notion—each country, even if it disagrees, has to participate in military action, in wars of aggression, in peace missions in third countries—so, out of area of the European Union—and it basically means there is no more veto right for those countries that do not agree. So, without public debate, or debate in national parliaments, the European Union is being transformed also into a defense alliance with the explicit obligation for rearmament and out-of-area interventions.

Now, if you look at the fact, that of the 27 European Union countries, 22 are also in NATO, where the Solidarity Clause naturally exists also, you have an intertwining of NATO and the European Union, in an almost 90% fashion, and that, if you think about the implication of that, then you understand why Russia and China have, for a while, equated NATO's eastward expansion with the European Union's eastward expansion. The Russians, I know from many discussions, look at NATO's policy of encirclement of Russia as the potential road to World War III.

Now the way this European Union transformation is sold to the Europeans, is to say, "Oh, Europe must be strong, we must unite against the aggressive American unilateralism with Bush and Cheney in the whole world, so we must have a strong Europe." But this is one of the many lies which are spread, because if you look at this interfacing of NATO and the European Union, then you actually see the danger.

If you have a Bloomberg fascist government in the United States and a Lisbon dictatorship in Europe, I have the distinct fear that we are on a road to World War III. And how quickly this can go, you not only see in the demand of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates for more troop engagement in Afghanistan in the south; you see it in the quick action of the European Union in moving on the independence of Kosovo, long before the independence of Kosovo was declared, and where you had complete disagreement among European Union members, but the European Union bureaucracy anyway deployed 1,800 soldiers and police, and therefore, they said, "We don't care what the opinion of the members is all about." The recognition of the independence of Kosovo opens a Pandora's Box: Because now you have the Basques, you have the Turks in [Cyprus], you have Ossetia, Akhazia, Taiwan—this opens a box which is very dangerous, and as one Russian statement said, it threatens to bring down the entire Peace of Westphalia order in the world.

One last point: Professor Schachtschneider pointed out that it also reintroduces the death penalty in Europe, which I think is very important, in light of the fact that, especially Italy was trying to abandon the death penalty through the United Nations, forever. And this is not in the treaty, but in a footnote, because with the European Union reform treaty, we accept also the European Union Charter, which says that there is no death penalty, and then it has a footnote, which says, "except in the case of war, riots, upheaval"—then the death penalty is possible. Schachtschneider points to the fact that this is an outrage, because they put it in a footnote of a footnote, and you have to read it, like really like a super-expert to find out!

So, I think we need to have a public debate about that. I think that this is such a grave change of the constitutions of Europe, that there must be a debate and referendum! I do not say I'm for or against, but I think it's so grave, there needs to be openness and then the people have the right to vote, do they want this or not? I want to ask you all to join me in mobilizing the European populations for such a debate and such a vote.

http://www.larouchepub.com/hzl/2008/3510referendum_lisbon.html

Protests outside Irish embassies over lack of vote for millions of Europeans

Protests were held outside Irish embassies across the EU last weekend congratulating Ireland on holding a referendum that was denied to 487 million Europeans, reports Independent.ie. The event, organised by the European Referendum Campaign (ERC), is joined by other protests being held this week by various organisations cooperating as one European family to stop the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty across the Union.

The ERC signs read: "Congratulations Ireland! You are having the referendum 486 million Europeans have been denied".
From a site I should have looked up earlier: http://euinfo.ie/
I'm off to vote no.
The very fact of Ireland being the only country given the chance to act as a democracy and vote on this issue shows how 'democracy' is envisaged in this brave new world. So will the Irish use their democratic power to give up this democratic power like all the others? Though of course in this modern world, what need have the slaves of the democratic right in this sense when they can exercise it in the so much more entertaining ways of voting for people in inane television programmes to leave rooms, win song contests and the like, and all from the comfort of their own armchairs. We're more democratic than ever before.

Obsolete

The Hypothetical World State has decreed that artistic genius is to be made illegal, on the basis of its being "undemocratic." "These people are an anachronism of an ignorant, superstitious age," said a spokesman. "We have no need for them.
"Hopefully, however, there will be no need to implement the law, as ideally the social environment will strangle at birth any inclination towards the desert areas of the mind from which the genius emerges, and also, of course, we would like to think that the populace will be so dumbed down as to be wholly unable to recognise the existence of the works of genius, even if they should exist."

The Rights of Man

"Mainstream western 'culture' is laughably stupid."
"You can't say that. You must say, "In my opinion, mainstream western 'culture' is laughably stupid."
"I'm not a democracy. Mainstream western 'culture' is laughably stupid."

Though perhaps he should have said I am not a totalitarian democracy. The above case of having to prefix one's inner world with the admission that it is but one opinion in a field of equally valid opinions a movement from the real- ie one's actual consciousness, to an unreal, abstract public sphere, which naturally is not possessed of consciousness, it being non-existent. Perhaps this is why concepts of art like The Great American Novel are guaranteed to produce anything but great novels. An excessive concern with a public sphere, rather than this collective aspect of existence emerging of its own accord through the faithfulness to the individual consciousness. Thus the spiritual and artistic poverty of current American film compared to 'world cinema' like Vodka Lemon, and The Return. Compare with the Big Subject tedium of Martin Scorcese's evolving career.

The Post 911 World

Representatives of the Hypothetical World State have decreed that in the event of the hypothetical becoming actual, the opening sentence of every article in the public domain will have to commence with the words, "In the post-911 world..." Thus, for example:

In the post 911-world, the freedom to be consoled by the exploits of Paris Hilton is a reminder of why we must be prepared to make sacrifices to defend the glorious adventure that is western civilization.

Or

In the post-911 world, where mobile phones can take wonderfully clear photographs, it is clear that peace has failed, and torture and war must be given their chance to defend the glorious adventure that is western civilization.

"Public domain" has been defined as "That which exists beyond the private dimension of the individual inner consciousness," and "article" as "succession of words existing in the public domain."

Borges, Humour- Wrong

In ‘A Note On (towards) Bernard Shaw’, Jorge Luis Borges writes,

Humour, I suspect, is an oral genre, a sudden flavour of conversation, not something written.

With the insertion of but a single word, I will provide a refutation that is the incarnate proof of itself; that being the incarnate contrary of the preceding declamation.

Humour, I suspect, is an oral genre, a sudden flavour of conversation, not something written. Not!

I have turned the significance of the phrase completely on its linguistic head, and with a blow of such simple, yet brutal, mastery that the discerning reader is helpless but to laugh. My apologies should this explosive expulsion of psychic energy from the private inner domain to the public one of shared sound prove alarming to any immediate witnesses of the action, or embarrassing to the actor.

Nabokov's Nonutilitarian Delights

In Vladimir Nabokov's Speak Memory, he writes, regarding his obsession with the somewhat creepy art of butterfly collecting:

Natural selection in the Darwininan sense could not explain the miraculous coincidence of imitative aspect and imitative behaviour nor could one appeal to the theory of "the struggle for life" when a protective device was carried to the point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance and luxury far in excess of a predator's power of appreciation. I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art.

Contrast this nonutilitarian delight with a line by Roger Scruton, where in defending the virtues of art he writes of Rembrandt:

The spectator of Rembrandt’s Night Watch learns of the pride of corporations and the benign sadness of civic life.

For an intermingling of reasons I find this about the most depressing line I have read on art, perhaps particularly because it is by someone who is convinced he is defending the citadel of art from the despoilers at the gates. Rembrandt reduced to a petty pedagogue, and this as a statement of his 'validity'. The art experience as utilitarian, as opposed to art working directly on the living structure of the individual self: "The function of art is to provide a spiritual jolt," said Andrei Tarkovsky. One could say there are very fine lines here between the deadness of art as utilitarian worth, and Tarkovsky's higher utilitarianism and the revolutionary refinement of consciousness, but in reality there are immense gulfs of separation in understanding.

On the debit side of Nabokov's nonutilitarian delights is the possibility of the fetishization of 'beauty', as could be argued is his self-confessed obsession with buutterfly collecting, where the living object of one's mania is immediately killed with poison gas and pinned in one's collection.

Another far less noticed fetishization is that of ugliness, of whom Lucian Freud could be said to be a prime example( his famous relation, Sigmund, much loathed by Nabokov). This immersion in the squalid exalted as the highest word in truth and realism. Though again it is merely an abstracting from life of what fits one biased set of aesthetic values.
I'm not sure if it's related here but Sigmund Freud's notion of the self is surely the fetishization of ugliness, where man is reduced to a set of lowest common denominators, with the emhasis very much on 'lowest'.

Perhaps The Picture of Dorian Gray is an awareness of Oscar Wilde's at whatever level of his being of the essentially squalid nature of the fetishization of beauty: the painting acquiring all the imbalances of a life unconcerned with a personal synthesis of life in its fulness, but rather the spiritually immature desire for pure pleasure.

Karl Marx and Metaphysical Rebellion

In the light of the previous post about historical rebellion having at perhaps unexpected source metaphysical rebellion, it's interesting to look at the case of Karl Marx and some of his artistic emanations. (Most of what follows taken from an article elsewhere, so dodgy prose possibly not my ownbut the quoted pieces are verified Marx produce) Here one can peruse Marx's poetry, and in one of these poems, Marx wrote: "I long to take vengeance on the One Who rules from above." Sounds a very strange thing for an atheist to write. Atheists of course have very little interest in taking vengeance on non-existent deities. Though perhaps he simply meant a higher secular throne. A deeper look may help clarify. 

The following lines are taken from "Conjuration of Falling into Despair." I'll set up my throne above, Cold and terrible will be the peak of it. Superstitious trembling is at its base, Master - most black agony. The one who will look with healthy looks, Will turn away, turn pale and deadly mute. Possessed by blind and cold deathness, will prepare a tomb with his happiness. The words "I'll set up my throne" and his confession that agony and fear will go forth from the one who is sitting upon the throne, are reminiscent of the following attributed to Lucifer: "I will ascend to heaven, higher than God's stars I will set up my throne" (Isiah 14:13). The play Oulanem contains the verse "Nidler": Hellish evaporations rise and fill my brains, Until I will go mad and my heart will not change dramatically. See this sword? The King of darkness sold it to me. 

 Appraently during the rituals of higher dedication into a satanic cult, a bewitched sword that guarantees a success is sold to the candidate. He pays for it by signing with his blood taken from his vein the contract which makes his soul belong to Satan after death. And more from Oulanem: For he is marking time and giving signs. Bolder and bolder I play the dance of death. And they too: Oulanem, Oulanem. This name sounds like death, Sounds until won't stop in miserable shapes. Halt! Now I have it. It rises from my soul, Clear as air, hard as my bones. And still, you personified mankind, I may take you by the power of my mighty hands and crush with fierce force In the meantime, as the abyss gapes before me and you in the darkness, You will fall in it and I'll follow you, Laughing and whispering into your ear: "Come down with me, friend!" The time to die has come for Oulanem. These are his words: Perished, perished. My time is over. The clock has stopped, the tiny building has fallen. Soon I'll squeeze eternity to me, and with a wild cry Will speak out a curse to all mankind. 

 Marx liked to repeat Mephistopheles' words from Goethe's "Faust": "all existing is worthy to be destroyed." Members of a Satanic cult are not materialists. They believe in life after death. Oulanem does not deny life after death, but acknowledges it as a life full of hate to the highest degree. Hah, eternity, our eternal pain, Indescribable, unmeasurable death! Disgusting, artificially conceived, To despise us - We, who ourselves, as a clock mechanism Blindly mechanical, created to be Foolish calendars of time and space, Without any purpose, Besides accidental appearance for destruction.

Funny how little emphasis is ever put on these writings of Marx, isn't it? Hah! Tortured on the burning wheel, I must happily dance in the circle of eternity: If there would be anything beyond it, I'd jump into it, even if I had to destroy the world for it. Build between it and me! It must be destroyed with curses. I'll supress stubborn existence by my hands. Embracing me, it should calmly fade out. And then - down to nowhere. Completely disappear, and not to be - that would be - the life.

Oulanem is perhaps unique for being the only drama in which all the players are so sure of their damned state and revel in it as on a holiday. There is no lightening of shade. All of its players are demonic and doomed to perish. At this stage, the young Marx's views were developing. Some mysterious things appear in his correspondence with his father. For instance, the son writes: "The cover has fallen, my Holy of Holies was emptied and there was a need to put new gods there." This was written on November 10, 1837 by the heretofore Christian. What new gods replaced Christianity's place? Marx also wrote: I have lost heaven, And know that for sure. My soul, once faithful to God, Now is destined for hell. All the quoted material can be found in the linked Marx poetry homepage above.

Camus, The Rebel, Dostoevsky, the Tower of Babel & the European Parliament

A very important and interesting work is The Rebel by Albert Camus in which he describes the great revolutions of the 19th century onwards as stemming from at source metaphysical rebellion, ie rejection of reality as being intrinsically unjust. Which of course is insane; how can one rebel against oneself, since to be alive is to be an inextricable part of reality. The metaphysical rebellion here is not against an unjust God, but simply against a concept of their own minds, necessarily limited by their own egotistical concept of themselves. God to them is merely a bigger ego.
The book is a key one, but Camus is himself not entirely free of the mindset and phenomena he analyses. For example, he fails to realise that Dostoevsky, with a character like Ivan Karamazov, isn't presenting this rebellion as a sane justified stance towards reality, but as an infection of Ivan's being by a diseased concept, and indeed as the novel progresses when Ivan finds himself pushed into an intensified immersion in reality, he finds that his personality threatens to break down under the strain of his false ideological constraints.
Camus' standpoint is a curious mix of far-sightedness and myopia; he doesn't quite seem to understand that in mythic-cultural terms with metaphysical rebellion we are clearly in the area of the satanic position regarding one's attitude to reality.

This is obviously a very brief look at Camus' great book, but in the light of Camus' easily justified, but superficially surprising, assertion of metaphysical rebellion as the great ideological mover in history of the last few centuries, it is interesting to take a look at the design of the European Parliament at Strasbourg. Its design is based on a replication of the Tower of Babel from Breughel's famous painting. The Tower of Babel where man attempted to topple God- "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven." First showing the Breughel’s painting and the Strasbourg building alongside:

And to leave one in no doubt as to the truth of this, an official poster by the EU below.Why in the world would the EU be celebrating and modelling its aspirations on a former doomed attempt, mythical or not, to overthrow the divine from the throne of reality- regardless of what one's views are of the existence of the divine.

Jim Corr on Lisbon Treaty, 911, NWO

Jim Corr of the band The Corrs appearing on mainstream Irish radio station, Today FM, a few days ago, speaking on the titled issues. Here. Very well informed and well able to speak.
He said "the EU is a stepping stone towards a world government, they will merge it with the Asia Pacific Union, the African Union and the North American Union". The Lisbon Treaty itself will introduce "a scientific technocracy" to Europe which will erode national sovereignty.
Corr claimed that The Charter of Fundamental Rights allows for the introduction of the death penalty.
"It makes provision for the introduction to law for the death penalty in times of war or imminent threat of war.
"What we are seeing is tip-toe totalitarianism in the West with 9/11 the key to understanding this.
"When you study 9/11 it becomes very apparent... it was a staged terrorist attack, what they call a false flag operation."

Corr said overwhelming evidence suggests 9/11 "was carried out by rogue elements in the Bush neo-con administration". As the constipated man said, No shit.